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  <row Id="1" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4" CreationDate="2011-01-11T21:10:14.147" Score="29" ViewCount="735" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since most of the questions here are going to be about films, television series and novels, perhaps it would be a good idea to mark spoiler questions with [Spoiler], or a spoiler tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-02-24T00:10:57.530" LastActivityDate="2016-02-24T00:11:08.780" Title="Is it important to mark spoiler questions as such?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|spoilers|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="2" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3" CreationDate="2011-01-11T21:33:18.107" Score="15" ViewCount="548" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me know if this question is too abstract, but what exactly is this group going to consider sci-fi?  I mean, you've got examples like &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; and et cetera, but what about series like &lt;em&gt;Shadowrun&lt;/em&gt;, which contain both elements of sci-fi and fantasy?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where do we draw the line... moreover, is there a line at all?  I look forward to your answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9" OwnerDisplayName="Rodger Cooley" LastEditorUserId="23" LastEditDate="2011-01-13T19:35:18.657" LastActivityDate="2015-08-12T03:48:06.487" Title="What is science fiction? How are we to discriminate between sci-fi and fantasy?" Tags="|discussion|fantasy|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="3" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2" CreationDate="2011-01-11T21:48:57.163" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hard SF - Centered around real Science fact. Maybe with some slight conceits for the sake of making a story work. (Such as the existence of Faster-than-light travel) Example: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SF/Pulp SF/Space Opera - Less than perfect Science, but still basically based on things that could actually happen. Example: The Matrix, Sunshine, Aliens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sci-Fantasy - Hey, you got chocolate in my peanut-butter! Example: Star Trek (Arguable,) Star Wars, Buffy, Blade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fantasy - A complete absence of technology, no science, out-and-out magic. Example: Lord of the Rings, Pokemon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51" LastEditorUserId="4678" LastEditDate="2014-04-14T20:37:58.450" LastActivityDate="2014-04-14T20:37:58.450" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-11T21:52:34.407" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a spoiler syntax that we have added to the site's markdown already. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You use it by prefixing your writing with &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;!&lt;/code&gt; which will produce: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; SPOILED TEXT!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The text will show on mouse-over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-02-24T00:11:08.780" LastActivityDate="2016-02-24T00:11:08.780" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2" CreationDate="2011-01-11T21:53:09.043" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The usual distinction is that science fiction is realistic (what might happen), whereas fantasy is firmly implausible. So for example &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; is fantasy (because there's no internal coherency), and &lt;em&gt;Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser&lt;/em&gt; is science-fiction (because apart from the odd supernatural element, it has believable characters and world-building).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I know you might object to my examples. The point is that it's not an objective distinction. There are also works designed to remain ambiguous, not to commit to one side or another. A couple of examples that come to mind: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Lindskold&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jane Lindskold&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_Wolf%27s_Eyes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Through Wolf's Eyes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (medieval setting with old powerful artifacts: stranded colonists or fantasy world? later volumes in the series do commit); &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Blish&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;James Blish&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Case_of_Conscience&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Case of Conscience&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (ending not spoiled here, but it's famous, see the Wikipedia article).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2011-01-13T18:58:31.933" LastActivityDate="2011-01-13T18:58:31.933" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="6" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10" CreationDate="2011-01-11T23:09:00.863" Score="41" ViewCount="796" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should fantasy be included in this? I know many people mix them up, and there are definitely cases which can be very hard to distinguish. So, the question remains, should we include Fantasy, or not include it? Or where do we draw the line?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I propose is we have people present their proposed view, and people can vote up on the one they like best. No reputation is gained/lost here, so... If you have some additional arguments for/against a particular point, put it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2011-02-23T08:11:08.400" LastActivityDate="2011-02-23T08:11:08.400" Title="Is Fantasy in spec for this site?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|scope|fantasy|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="7" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6" CreationDate="2011-01-11T23:10:36.050" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say draw the line at true fantasy. Lord of the Rings, no go. Star Wars? Yeah, ok.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51" LastActivityDate="2011-01-11T23:10:36.050" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="8" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6" CreationDate="2011-01-11T23:12:26.353" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would argue that we should allow fantasy in, and just tag it differently. There are definitely sometimes where it's very hard to draw the line, so...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2011-01-11T23:12:26.353" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="9" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2" CreationDate="2011-01-11T23:29:27.407" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shadowrun is futuristic fantasy. I would not be calling it SF. While it has some technological portions, it dwells too much on magic. That being said, I like it and I still have most of the shadowrun novels, yet have somehow managed to lose all my shadowrun rpg books in various moves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some books make some futuristic things appear fantastical, such as in the Revelation Space, Culture Space and Darkness in the Deep series of books. Those are obviously SF. In the Shadowrun &quot;universe&quot;, magic has explicitly returned. I think that's where I'll draw the line. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="99" LastActivityDate="2011-01-11T23:29:27.407" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="10" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6" CreationDate="2011-01-11T23:54:12.377" Score="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;The simplest way to draw the line is to not draw it at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we try to say &amp;quot;Ents bad, Kzinti good,&amp;quot; then we're going to just get into a million arguments over where to put Tribbles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we try to differentiate with tags, then we're going to get into tag edit wars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, here's my idea: let's just… not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we have to have some differentiation of what is/isn't on topic, let's think about it the way &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-categories/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the Hugos do&lt;/a&gt; (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.worldcon.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;World Science Fiction Society&lt;/a&gt; sponsors &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thehugoawards.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the Hugos&lt;/a&gt;, they are not limited to SF. &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Works of fantasy or horror are eligible if the members of the Worldcon think they are eligible&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thehugoawards.org/information-for-publishers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;also here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;anything published in the correct year that the voters think is either science fiction or fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think about it this way: do we really want to try to say (as just a single example) that questions about the World Science Fiction Society's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2009-hugo-awards/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;2009 Best Novel winner&lt;/a&gt; are off-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;My proposal:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything the community wants to ask about here is fine. Let's see what the community itself finds interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2011-01-12T01:06:28.590" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="11" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="367" CreationDate="2011-01-12T00:38:27.850" Score="20" ViewCount="267" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this a site for prospective writers to come and ask for significant help writing a book, or should such questions be more appropriately addressed at the Writer's SE site? Specifically, I found this question here (now closed and deleted) : &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/190/i-want-to-write-sci-fi-stories-are-there-any-resources-guidelines-writing-strat&quot;&gt;I want to write sci-fi stories are there any Resources, Guidelines, Writing Strategies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="70477" LastEditDate="2019-12-09T13:33:15.930" LastActivityDate="2019-12-09T13:33:15.930" Title="Are questions about writing SFF stories on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-12T01:13:24.047" Score="23" ViewCount="561" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there are books that I read a long time ago that I'd like to re-read but I've forgotten the author and/or title, may I post a question asking if other users can identify it?  The same for movies or TV series that I'd like to watch again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If such questions are allowed, what guidelines should we have for posting meaningful question titles (i.e. no &quot;Plz id this book&quot;) and preventing plot spoilers in the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-02-24T00:15:00.940" LastActivityDate="2016-02-24T00:15:00.940" Title="Are book / movie / TV series identification questions allowed?" Tags="|discussion|scope|story-identification|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="14" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-12T01:49:46.650" Score="23" ViewCount="353" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know it's only the first day, but plenty of the questions I've seen so far appear to be easily answered by doing a simple search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;What author wrote &lt;em&gt;Title&lt;/em&gt;?&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;What actor played &lt;em&gt;Character&lt;/em&gt;?&amp;quot;, and similar questions are easily answered by Wikipedia, IMDB, and/or &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ISFDB&lt;/a&gt;. They give the appearance of just being rep farming versus actual SE-quality posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are they appropriate, or should they be closed?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;(and if the latter, under what category?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;So far, I've managed to control myself from lmgtfy answers, but I've come awfully close a few times…&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2023-01-29T13:54:16.550" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T00:05:47.837" Title="Are Google-able questions appropriate?" Tags="|discussion|scope|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2017-05-07T18:02:43.230" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="15" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11" CreationDate="2011-01-12T02:03:22.447" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, this site is for science fiction &lt;em&gt;enthusiasts&lt;/em&gt;. An enthusiast is someone who has a strong interest in an activity &amp;mdash; that is, a consumer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a person's interest lie in creating literature (of &lt;em&gt;whatever&lt;/em&gt; type), please direct them to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://writers.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Writers Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2011-01-12T02:03:22.447" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="16" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-12T02:14:40.340" Score="22" ViewCount="745" Body="&lt;p&gt;This just started, but there already seems to be a lot of questions that essentially boil down to &quot;Please list stories that X&quot;. These questions cannot have a definitive answer, and sometimes you can simply find a highly comprehensive list on wikipedia. These kinds questions can be interesting to find new reading material on a particular topic, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should we treat these questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-02-25T00:06:04.807" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T00:06:04.807" Title="Are list questions allowed?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="17" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16" CreationDate="2011-01-12T02:25:12.080" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see these as falling into two categories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A definitive answer exists&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If there's a Wikipedia page that answers the question, then I think there's something that can be declared a definitive answer. In that case, it falls into the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/14/are-google-able-questions-appropriate&quot;&gt;Are Google-able questions appropriate?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No definitive answer exists&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;s&gt;It's a poll, and as such, should be community wiki.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Per &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot;&gt;Real Questions Have Answers&lt;/a&gt;, these should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.233" LastActivityDate="2011-01-18T08:44:10.043" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="18" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2011-01-12T05:18:45.790" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel and I have never agreed on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you should only allow questions &lt;em&gt;that are interesting to answer&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And a question so trivial, like .. oh .. I don't know .. &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1003841/how-do-i-move-the-turtle-in-logo&quot;&gt;How do I move the turtle in LOGO?&lt;/a&gt; .. simply isn't interesting for experts or even just enthusiasts to answer. (for context, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/podcast-58/&quot;&gt;podcast 58&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let the site fill up with trivial questions like &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; and you soon won't have anyone (of any quality, anyway) left to answer questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:33:39.573" LastActivityDate="2011-01-12T05:18:45.790" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="19" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13" CreationDate="2011-01-12T05:39:01.847" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not? If the original SO allows questions like &quot;why this code doesn't work&quot; (i.e. having value for the asker, but less for general public), why scifi site couldn't allow same type of question, if taken in moderation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53" LastActivityDate="2011-01-12T05:39:01.847" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="20" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13" CreationDate="2011-01-12T06:07:35.310" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to say &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt;. Clearly, this is going to be a contentious subject, but I'd point you to &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1455/what-is-the-point-of-help-me-remember-this-game-questions&quot;&gt;this discussion&lt;/a&gt; over on Gaming.SE's meta to get a sense of some of the arguments both pro and con.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key thing to keep in mind about the Con argument in my mind is this: While 'Identify this X' questions are often sound in concept, in practice, they invariably become, by and large, the &lt;em&gt;worst questions on the site&lt;/em&gt;. A quick perusal of the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/identify-this-game&quot;&gt;Identify-this-game&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; tag over at Gaming shows a whole lot of really really terrible questions. While the success rate on answering them is reasonably high, I seriously question the value of those questions to the growth of the site or the internet as a whole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to the argument of &quot;Closing these questions drives away users&quot; - again, take a look at the tag on Gaming -  especially the number of terrible questions asked by users with below 50 rep who have not logged on since asking their question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of the mission of Stack Exchange sites is to make the Internet a better place. &quot;Identify-this-X&quot; does exactly the opposite, and encourages the worst sort of lazy, unproductive use of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:09:36.363" LastActivityDate="2011-01-12T06:07:35.310" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="21" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27" CreationDate="2011-01-12T07:14:56.970" Score="19" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;How does the community want to respond to questions like: &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/56/is-i-robot-wrote-by-isaac-asimov&quot;&gt;Is I, Robot Wrote By Isaac Asimov&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, beyond the issue of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/14/are-google-able-questions-appropriate&quot;&gt;Google-able questions&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should they ignore the grammar issues and respond to the content of the question, edit without comment, edit with comment, or some other solution?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="114" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T20:56:15.170" Title="Is it appropriate to edit questions for grammar?" Tags="|discussion|editing|moderation|etiquette|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="22" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13" CreationDate="2011-01-12T08:34:30.363" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say &lt;strong&gt;yes&lt;/strong&gt;, because a questions and answer site is exactly the right format for these. The question goes up and stays up; maybe someone will answer it months later, and the answer is still likely to be useful to the asker. And there's no need for extended discussion, just the occasional comment asking if a certain detail triggers an extra memory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been such questions on &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Gaming Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;, in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/identify-this-game&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;identify-this-game&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; tag. As far as I can see, it's working pretty well. The question of whether to allow them has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1455/what-is-the-point-of-help-me-remember-this-game-questions&quot;&gt;debated&lt;/a&gt; there; it's mostly Jeff against and the community in favor. Note that &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/76005/are-identify-this-questions-allowed-on-stack-exchange/76024#76024&quot;&gt;the site-wide policy is that it is up to individual sites to decide on the viability of identity-this questions.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For an example of a place where it works (as long as someone knows the answer &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt;), if you manage to navigate through the spam, search for &lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=yasid&amp;amp;qt_s=Search+Groups&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;yasid&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (yet another story id) on &lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written/topics?lnk=srg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;rec.arts.sf.written&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and other newsgroups. Story identifications definitely bring good traffic there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to insist: in 2010, people still came to a spam-ridden, politics-rant-infested &lt;em&gt;newsgroup&lt;/em&gt; to have their &lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/groups/search?as_ugroup=rec.arts.sf.written&amp;amp;as_usubject=yasid&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;YASID&lt;/a&gt; (yet another story identification) questions answered. Being good at story identification is definitely a benchmark at how attractive a discussion site about SF is. And story identification is ideally suited to a questions and answer format: one question, several possible answers, one of them correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the questions offend you, put &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; (or whatever we end up using) in your ignored tags list. And if the question is really terrible (“I read a book and it maybe had a green cover”, it can be closed, &lt;strong&gt;on merits&lt;/strong&gt;, not because of its nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:09:36.363" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T11:03:50.570" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="23" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-12T08:42:20.297" Score="10" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've already had a couple of questions asking if something can be considered science fiction, and questions of this kind seem very unlikely to produce interesting or informative answers. I think they should be explicitly considered to be off-topic&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23" LastActivityDate="2012-02-16T09:14:19.237" Title="Should questions about &quot;Is X science fiction&quot; be off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2012-02-18T16:35:50.330" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="24" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6" CreationDate="2011-01-12T08:53:01.720" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Isn't it a Norman Spinrad question ? In france, he is known for having said something like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A science-fiction book is any book you can find in a science-fiction bookstore shelf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest we consider each question this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118" LastActivityDate="2011-01-12T08:53:01.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="25" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23" CreationDate="2011-01-12T09:09:14.890" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, suppose, just for the sake of example, I ask if &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096928/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bill &amp;amp; Ted excellent adventure&lt;/a&gt; can be considered as science-fiction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will someone will learn something from this question ? Obviously, me and maybe you (this movie is full of time travels and somewhat copes with temporal paradox, although just for the fun of it ... like the whole movie, in fact).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will we both talk about science-fiction ? Yes, of course, to justify the fact that, like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Say_Nothing_of_the_Dog&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;To say nothing of the dog&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, by Connie Willis, this movie does not uses the time travel to talk about its physical complexity (contrary to, say, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timescape&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Timescape&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;), but rather as a comedy element, however using it far beyond &quot;simple&quot; &quot;I get back to tomorrow to avoid my today-self to loose his keys&quot;, or at least that's what I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To build upon this example, science-fiction has very fuzzy borders, and this site, like any other communcation medium about science-fiction, will have to cope with these borders, are they visible (like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6/is-fantasy-in-spec-for-this-site&quot;&gt;frontier between science-fiction and fantasy&lt;/a&gt;) or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a consequence, &lt;strong&gt;yes&lt;/strong&gt;, to my mind, questions asking if X is science-fiction will always be considered as full parts of this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2011-01-12T09:09:14.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="26" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-12T10:01:47.353" Score="24" ViewCount="362" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are questions of the form &quot;I really liked X series. Could you recommend me some similar works?&quot; allowed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="122" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2011-10-02T19:07:23.933" LastActivityDate="2011-10-02T19:52:59.733" Title="Are &quot;recommend me&quot; questions allowed?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2018-05-18T15:18:50.340" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="27" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21" CreationDate="2011-01-12T10:53:24.327" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd be inclined to edit without comment in simple cases like &quot;wrote =&gt; written&quot;.&#xA;In cases where it's difficult to make sense of the question due to grammar, a discussion in comments is probably more appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="122" LastActivityDate="2011-01-12T10:53:24.327" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="28" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26" CreationDate="2011-01-12T11:19:25.463" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, there are guidelines: the &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/4451?tab=ontopic&amp;amp;phase=definition&quot;&gt;site definition questions&lt;/a&gt;. And based on the votes there, I'd say that recommendations are on topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastActivityDate="2011-01-12T11:19:25.463" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="29" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23" CreationDate="2011-01-12T11:23:25.713" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't see how questions like that can have answers that are anything other than subjective opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There isn't one generally agreed-upon definition of the term &quot;science fiction,&quot; which makes &quot;Is this SF?&quot; questions functionally equivalent to asking &quot;Which is a better dessert: chocolate or ice cream?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are already debates in progress here on whether topics as well-known as Star Wars, The Matrix, and Transformers are/are not SF. I highly doubt this community will ever come to one unanimous interpretation of the phrase—which makes all the &quot;Is this SF?&quot; questions purely subjective and completely unanswerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastEditorUserId="100" LastEditDate="2011-01-13T06:29:14.740" LastActivityDate="2011-01-13T06:29:14.740" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="30" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21" CreationDate="2011-01-12T11:41:21.803" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd fix it if I had enough reputation to do so. Does anyone at all have enough already?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55" LastActivityDate="2011-01-12T11:41:21.803" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="31" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23" CreationDate="2011-01-12T12:48:53.667" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a Q&amp;amp;A site about SF, and it is perfectly reasonable to expect questions which &lt;em&gt;define&lt;/em&gt; what SF is and what it isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, it would be much better to create a FAQ stating what are the criteria that must be met so that we would consider something a work of science fiction. That way we can kill all the flies at once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2011-01-12T14:17:45.740" LastActivityDate="2011-01-12T14:17:45.740" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="32" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33" CreationDate="2011-01-12T12:51:01.193" Score="10" ViewCount="486" Body="&lt;p&gt;Related to the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/292/could-there-be-a-sequel-to-freedom&quot;&gt;Could there be a sequel to Freedom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really think it is very interesting to know if there will be a sequel, but I think questions like that one only result in vague/speculative answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what do you think? Should those questions be allowed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2016-10-11T16:09:52.003" Title="Questions that provide speculative answers" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32" CreationDate="2011-01-12T13:01:26.940" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;These are forum-style speculation questions, and should be closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2016-10-11T16:09:52.003" LastActivityDate="2016-10-11T16:09:52.003" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32" CreationDate="2011-01-12T13:01:57.893" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are clearly not answerable. They can't even make it into a wiki like: &lt;em&gt;What are some good stories about X or written by Y?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2011-01-12T13:01:57.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="35" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-12T13:04:53.367" Score="14" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;... even when the device used to achieve timeline divergence didn't involve time travel and similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T20:01:49.423" Title="Are questions about alternate history on or off topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="36" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45" CreationDate="2011-01-12T13:14:27.703" Score="6" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since we already have questions like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/257/could-electronics-be-developed-by-water-based-life-forms-what-would-they-be-like&quot;&gt;Could electronics be developed by water-based life forms?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/55/when-did-obe-wan-kenobi-learn-that-anakin-was-dead&quot;&gt;When did Obe-wan Kenobi learn that Anakin was “dead”?&lt;/a&gt; I'd like to discuss the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of the nature of those questions, they are highly subjective and In case two I think impossible to answer &quot;correctly&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also another question like &quot;If you'd be able to give 3 laws to humans like Asimovs Robot Laws, which would they be?&quot; occupy my mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd love to read and argue about those questions. A lot of science-fiction also copes with these topics (Just the title &quot;Do androids dream of electric sheep&quot; is highly philosophical), so they will come sooner or later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we want those as category, maybe with an own tag?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;How do we cope with those questions, since an answer might not be possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/4451/science-fiction/5027#5027&quot;&gt;Asimov's Psychohistory looks like the scientic evolution of Marx's Historical Materialism; does this mean he was Marxist&lt;/a&gt;? in the example questions, isn't it philosophical?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If so my question would be answered with yes, or am I mixing two different things up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="109" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2011-01-12T20:30:34.723" Title="Is philosophy part of this site?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="37" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-12T15:10:36.953" Score="15" ViewCount="3857" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/300/scifi-stack-exchange-is-now-science-fiction-fantasy&quot;&gt;This site is now Science Fiction &lt;strong&gt;&amp;amp; Fantasy&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/a&gt; All speculative  fiction, including &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/35/are-questions-about-alternate-history-on-or-off-topic&quot;&gt;alternate history&lt;/a&gt;, are considered on-topic.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following up on:      &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/23/should-questions-about-is-x-science-fiction-be-off-topic&quot;&gt;Should questions about &amp;quot;Is X science fiction&amp;quot; be off-topic?&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2/what-is-science-fiction-how-are-we-to-descriminate-between-sci-fi-and-fantasy&quot;&gt;What is science fiction? How are we to discriminate between sci-fi and fantasy?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should really come up with some criteria on what is and what isn't considered science fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would instantly answer all the question mentioned by [1] including &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/293/would-jericho-be-considered-science-fiction&quot;&gt;one of my own&lt;/a&gt; and it would also be useful help when determining is a question offtopic or not.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2011-02-27T13:48:27.650" Title="What is and what isn't considered science fiction?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-01-14T16:26:55.463" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="38" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36" CreationDate="2011-01-12T15:22:21.013" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally i would say the question : &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/257/could-electronics-be-developed-by-water-based-life-forms-what-would-they-be-like&quot;&gt;Could electronics be developed by water-based life forms?&lt;/a&gt; is not part of scifi.stackexchange. Although the thinking about such kind of technology is SciFi. But the answer ist mostly speculative , we can't give an explicit answer to that. I don't know, maybe a revised question could be postet on : &lt;a href=&quot;https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Theoretical Computer Science&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second question is adverted to Science Fiction and i believe there is an specific answer to that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2011-01-12T15:22:21.013" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="39" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37" CreationDate="2011-01-12T15:26:09.367" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a pretty good list of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_science_fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;definitions&lt;/a&gt; on Wikipedia. Of those, my favourite is the most recent, by Jeff Prucher: &quot;A genre (of literature, film, etc.) in which the setting differs from our own world (e.g. by the invention of new technology, through contact with aliens, by having a different history, etc.), and in which the difference is based on extrapolations made from one or more changes or suppositions; hence, such a genre in which the difference is explained (explicitly or implicitly) in scientific or rational, as opposed to supernatural, terms.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that definition doesn't work when the nature of the difference (is it supernatural or rational?) is not made clear -- for example, Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series looked like fantasy in the first few volumes and  it only became clear that it was SF after we had more information about the background and history of his world. I don't believe there is any feasible definition of science fiction that would let you categorise the first volume of the series as science fiction without reference to the later volumes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23" LastActivityDate="2011-01-12T15:26:09.367" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="40" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32" CreationDate="2011-01-12T15:40:05.310" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of these questions have definite answers. If you ask &quot;Could there be a sequel to &lt;em&gt;A Fire Upon the Deep&lt;/em&gt; by Vernor Vinge?&quot;, then the answer is, &quot;It's called &lt;em&gt;The Children of the Sky&lt;/em&gt;, and it's scheduled for publication later this year&quot;, which seems like a pretty useful and non-speculative answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I don't think we can ban questions with speculative answers, since the person asking the question is likely to have no way to know whether or not it's speculative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23" LastActivityDate="2011-01-12T15:40:05.310" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="41" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37" CreationDate="2011-01-12T16:11:06.980" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia is a good source to decide whether or not something is Science Fiction, and we can surely take some information to specify some subgenres or unclear Questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me there is a definition like the following most matching:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Definition of Science Fiction&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a 3 Step definition:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Science fiction is a genre of fiction in which the stories often tell about science and technology of the future. It is important to note that science fiction has a relationship with the principles of science—these stories involve partially true-partially fictitious laws or theories of science. It should not be completely unbelievable, because it then ventures into the genre fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Science Fiction is a genre of fiction in which the plot creates situations different from those of both the present day and the known past. Science fiction texts also include a human element, explaining what effect new discoveries, happenings and scientific developments will have on us in this different future (or a different past).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Science fiction is a genre of fiction in which texts are often set in the future, in space, on a different world, or in a different universe, dimension or an alternative timeline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of these criteria needs to be fit, to define whether something is Science Ficiton or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2011-01-13T05:50:30.587" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="42" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26" CreationDate="2011-01-12T16:38:06.920" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think all &quot;recommend me X similar to Y&quot; questions should be rephrased as &quot;List of good/famous X similar to Y&quot; and opened as community wikis&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37" LastActivityDate="2011-01-12T16:38:06.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="43" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37" CreationDate="2011-01-12T20:14:46.933" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;What if …?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The shortest definition of SF I know of is that it's any form of fiction that asks “what if?”. That's SF as in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_Fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;speculative fiction&lt;/a&gt;, not the more restrictive “science fiction” or “sci-fi”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/ISFDB:Policy#Definitions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ISFDB policy&lt;/a&gt; seems like a good start, though I wouldn't be too strict with borderline cases such as technothrillers. (And of course this site isn't limited to written works.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see any mileage in refusing certain parts of SF such as alternate history or fantasy. This is too likely to generate fight upon fight about where the boundaries are. And there isn't really a science fiction community the way there is an sf community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be careful when using the terms “science-fiction” or “sci-fi” or “sf”, because people have different definitions. Science-fiction is usually about &lt;em&gt;what might be&lt;/em&gt;, alternate history about &lt;em&gt;what might have been&lt;/em&gt;, and fantasy about &lt;em&gt;what can't be&lt;/em&gt;, but people disagree strongly on where to draw the line (is &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; science-fiction? Is anything with faster-than-light travel science-fiction? Is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_the_Dying_Earth&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;technology so advanced that it's indistinguishable from magic&lt;/a&gt; science-fiction?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I especially warn against “sci-fi”, because many people who define themselves as “sf” aficionados use it in a somewhat disparaging way, limiting it to B-grade science-fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2023-01-29T13:54:16.550" LastActivityDate="2011-01-12T20:14:46.933" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="44" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35" CreationDate="2011-01-12T20:15:57.013" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. As per &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/37/faq-what-is-and-what-isnt-considered-science-fiction/43#43&quot;&gt;my reasoning on another thread&lt;/a&gt;, all SF (what if?) is on-topic, including alternate history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(To put this thread in context, it was written at a time when the site was wavering between being limited to science fiction, or being about speculative fiction in general. Eventually &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6/is-fantasy-in-spec-for-this-site&quot;&gt;we decided that this site was about speculative fiction in general&lt;/a&gt; — the name of the site is “science fiction &amp;amp; fantasy” because these are the most recognizable subgenres of SF.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T20:01:49.423" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36" CreationDate="2011-01-12T20:30:34.723" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Uh? Neither of them is about philosophy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/257&quot;&gt;Could electronics be developed by water-based life forms?&lt;/a&gt; is about science. Science is off-topic here, but the science of science-fiction is on-topic (I hope), and water-based life forms and alien technologies are common sf themes. This is an open-ended question, but not subjective, and I think it can have (and has had by now) reasonable answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see any philosophy either in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/55&quot;&gt;When did Obe-wan Kenobi learn that Anakin was “dead”?&lt;/a&gt;. It's a question about a plot detail in an sf work, how could that not be an appropriate question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/4451/science-fiction/5027#5027&quot;&gt;Asimov's Psychohistory looks like the scientic evolution of Marx's Historical Materialism; does this mean he was Marxist?&lt;/a&gt; is about the philosophy behind an sf work. Again, this looks perfectly reasonable on a site about sf. There is a flaw in the question though, which is that it asks about Asimov's philosophical opinions (which no one knows but him); but if the question is interpreted as to only relating possible interpretations of the &lt;em&gt;Foundations&lt;/em&gt; series, I think it's fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“If you'd be able to give 3 laws to humans like Asimov's Robot Laws, which would they be?” is not a good question because it's extremely open-ended and highly subjective. A better question would focus on particular objectives (are you trying to enslave humanity to a different species? to ensure the survival of the fittest? to make people live in peace and harmony? to solve world hunger? …).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2011-01-12T20:30:34.723" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="46" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26" CreationDate="2011-01-12T23:27:21.410" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should definitely be allowed. It's very common for people to enjoy a relatively exotic sub-genre of sci-fi and having a hard time finding similar novels. The niche aspect of some sub-genre makes word of mouth the best way to discover new gems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50" LastActivityDate="2011-01-12T23:27:21.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="47" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="51" CreationDate="2011-01-13T01:02:37.307" Score="-15" ViewCount="280" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that there is a Star Trek stack exchange site in proposal. On other sites in the Stack Exchange network, when a question is asked which would belong on a site in proposal, it is generally closed, the asker referred to the site and urged to commit to it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wholeheartedly agree with this policy, as I find that it encourage people to migrate the sites with which they can offer the most expert advice to the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should questions related to Star Trek be closed? I believe they should, UNLESS they are a comparison with some other science fiction work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133" LastActivityDate="2017-09-29T08:35:26.030" Title="Do Star Trek questions belong here?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="48" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47" CreationDate="2011-01-13T01:21:57.823" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually take a different view, that the Star Trek proposal should be closed and subsumed by this group. One of the neat things about Stack Exchange is the ability to tag questions, so that if a person only wants to be involved with Star Trek, they can do it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2011-01-13T01:21:57.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="49" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47" CreationDate="2011-01-13T01:22:20.933" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that if/when this site looks like it's going to have a successful beta period, it'll be time to close that Area 51 proposal (along with other, similar, proposals).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, it's too early to say (imo).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But banning ST-related questions from this site because they &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt;, someday, have a site of their own isn't a viable option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastActivityDate="2011-01-13T01:22:20.933" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="50" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="52" CreationDate="2011-01-13T02:38:13.467" Score="16" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the same issue that happened &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3127/please-remove-the-programming-tag&quot;&gt;in SO&lt;/a&gt; with the programming tag. If the site is about science-fiction, what is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sci-fi&quot;&gt;the sci-fi tag&lt;/a&gt; for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2011-01-13T08:34:17.887" Title="Do we need a sci-fi tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="51" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47" CreationDate="2011-01-13T03:00:35.640" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, Star Trek questions should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometime very soon, proposals that are entirely on topic here&amp;thinsp;&amp;mdash;&amp;thinsp;and Star Trek &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; on topic here&amp;thinsp;&amp;mdash;&amp;thinsp;will be closed. They will be closed as a duplicate of &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; site and the followers will be asked to bring their support here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions are closed when they are off topic for the site. Off-topic users will be directed to support a proposal if it will give them a home for their question. But a legitimate topic is not made off topic on a site because there is another &lt;em&gt;proposal&lt;/em&gt; on that subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastEditorUserId="91" LastEditDate="2011-01-13T03:25:06.420" LastActivityDate="2011-01-13T03:25:06.420" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="52" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="50" CreationDate="2011-01-13T03:34:36.523" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;TL;DR: No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen the same thing happen other places (e.g. the &lt;a href=&quot;https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/diy&quot;&gt;diy&lt;/a&gt; tag on &lt;a href=&quot;http://diy.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;http://diy.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;, so I think it's a natural tendency for people to create them.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, they don't provide any extra information about the questions with them, so it could probably be edited out without affecting the questions; after (I think) 24 hours, it won't be suggested as a tag.  Then once we have moderators, it would probably be a good candidate for black-listing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also the SO blog post &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags/&quot;&gt;The Death of Meta Tags&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:22:11.587" LastActivityDate="2011-01-13T03:34:36.523" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="53" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37" CreationDate="2011-01-13T07:18:37.493" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;While this &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a Frequently Asked Question, it is one where the community as a whole cannot—and should not be asked to—agree upon an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is &lt;em&gt;The Wizard of Oz&lt;/em&gt; SF?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The immediate answer is &quot;No,&quot; right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are Heinlein's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_as_Myth&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;World as Myth&lt;/a&gt; books SF?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It's generally agreed upon that they are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if the &quot;World as Myth&quot; is SF, and the Oz books are part of the &quot;World as Myth&quot;, how can we say that Oz is not SF?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;Note: this is a thought experiment, not my personal opinion.&lt;/sub&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Was &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; a Fantasy up until Lucas came up with the idea of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_%28Star_Wars%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;midichlorians&lt;/a&gt;, and after that SF?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;My personal opinion on this one: &lt;em&gt;SW&lt;/em&gt; was SF until Lucas came up with the idea of midichlorians, after which it was crap.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If a multi-book series starts off as Fantasy, and then later retcons in a slight scientific backstory, does that make the entire series SF?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;I'm looking at you here, &lt;em&gt;Pern&lt;/em&gt;. And &lt;em&gt;Darkover&lt;/em&gt;. And &lt;em&gt;Wheel of Time&lt;/em&gt;. And any number of other worlds that fit this particular shoe.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a multi-year SF television series falls down a magical plot hole towards its end, does that make the whole thing Fantasy?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;Ah, &lt;em&gt;BSG&lt;/em&gt;, we had &lt;em&gt;such&lt;/em&gt; high hopes…&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If a sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, then how can we say that any given fictional culture based on magic isn't actually based on advanced tech?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And so on, and so on…&lt;br&gt;&#xA;All lovely things to play with in your mind, but none of them help to achieve consensus.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;I don't expect that everyone will all come to the same conclusions when I can't even decide which ones &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; believe are SF two days running.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastActivityDate="2011-01-13T07:18:37.493" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="54" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="50" CreationDate="2011-01-13T08:34:17.887" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;sci-fi&lt;/code&gt; as a tag could mean the subgenre of science-fiction known as sci-fi. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science-fiction#Definitions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Forrest J Ackerman used the term sci-fi at UCLA in 1954. As science fiction entered popular culture, writers and fans active in the field came to associate the term with low-budget, low-tech &quot;B-movies&quot; and with low-quality pulp science fiction. By the 1970s, critics within the field such as Terry Carr and Damon Knight were using sci-fi to distinguish hack-work from serious science fiction, and around 1978, Susan Wood and others introduced the pronunciation &quot;skiffy&quot;. Peter Nicholls writes that &quot;SF&quot; (or &quot;sf&quot;) is &quot;the preferred abbreviation within the community of sf writers and readers&quot;. David Langford's monthly fanzine Ansible includes a regular section &quot;As Others See Us&quot; which offers numerous examples of &quot;sci-fi&quot; being used in a pejorative sense by people outside the genre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But a lot of visitors won't be aware of the distinction, so I think it's best to avoid it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2011-01-13T08:34:17.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="55" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="57" CreationDate="2011-01-13T09:07:13.353" Score="10" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the site is still undergoing the phase where some definitions are not clear, there can be some questions about which it may not bel clear if such questions belong or not. I would thus propose that if someone votes to close a question he would write the motivation in the comment, if it's not obvious (like question being duplicate and duplicate linked - then of course it shouldn't be reiterated by every voter). &#xA;I don't know if there's a way to remind people about it, etc. but it is really frustrating when question is being voted to close without any indication what the voter things is wrong with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53" LastActivityDate="2011-01-14T06:08:32.220" Title="Close vote motivation" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="56" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26" CreationDate="2011-01-13T09:53:20.367" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite frankly, I &lt;em&gt;use&lt;/em&gt; a very large number of the questions as the &quot;recommend-me&quot; questions to some extent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/130/what-are-the-most-common-ways-of-communication-between-humans-and-aliens&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/130/what-are-the-most-common-ways-of-communication-between-humans-and-aliens&lt;/a&gt; besides satisfying my curiosity also gave me a list of interesting books to read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As another example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7/has-any-science-fiction-work-accurately-predicted-the-emergence-of-future-technol&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7/has-any-science-fiction-work-accurately-predicted-the-emergence-of-future-technol&lt;/a&gt; is probably the best question I've seen on this site (just my humble opinion). And, surprise surprise, it contains a nice list of interesting works, each one implicitly being a recommendation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site is a great place for science fiction enthusiasts to recommend things to each other, and to be completely honest, I don't see a problem with that!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2011-01-13T09:53:20.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="57" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="55" CreationDate="2011-01-13T10:37:06.737" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes if something is not obvious we should leave comments why a question is voted to close. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is postet like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;What is your favourite X&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't it obvious that this is a subjective question? So i vote to close those kind of questions and propose to make a community wiki and rephrase the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e.g.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Who is your favourite Female Sci-Fi Author?&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;rephrase the question to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Who are some good female scifi authors? [Community Wiki]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119" LastActivityDate="2011-01-13T10:37:06.737" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="58" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-13T16:29:26.450" Score="6" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;In an answer I am writing &lt;strong&gt;Who Can Replace a Man?&lt;/strong&gt; by &lt;strong&gt;Brian Aldiss&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should there be a formatting convention for title of a piece of work and its creator?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150" LastActivityDate="2011-01-13T16:53:59.900" Title="Work title - author/creator format convention" Tags="|discussion|formatting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="59" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="58" CreationDate="2011-01-13T16:42:02.583" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really think that we need some specific convention for this. Besides, it would be really hard to enforce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some common sense formatting, like italicizing work title, should work fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I'd strongly encourage providing links to Wikipedia, imdb or similar sites on titles or author names. Yeah, I know... We can always right-click find on Google, but this is nicer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2011-01-13T16:42:02.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="60" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="58" CreationDate="2011-01-13T16:53:59.900" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The normal convention is to italicise the titles of books, and to put the titles of shorter works that have not been published separately in double quotes. I don't see any reason to use a different convention here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23" LastActivityDate="2011-01-13T16:53:59.900" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="62" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-14T00:25:45.537" Score="14" ViewCount="178" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are currently 11 questions each tagged with either &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novels&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novels&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novels&lt;/a&gt;  or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt;. Should we pick one and standardize, or leave them both?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: A more enhanced discussion of media tags is happening at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/293/should-we-do-away-with-the-media-tags-books-novel-tv-movies-etc&quot;&gt;Should we do away with the media tags (books, novel, TV, movies, etc.)?&lt;/a&gt; which would make this question irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2016-01-10T17:56:54.067" Title="Tags: Novel or Book?" Tags="|discussion|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="64" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47" CreationDate="2011-01-14T00:46:16.260" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are already sites that overlap. Programmers just came out of beta, and we have questions that could be appropriate on both sites. This is a non-issue. Star Trek is science fiction, and therefore on-topic. If the new site comes out of Area 51 (and to me, it seems too narrow a focus, but who knows?) then questions can be migrated there. But it doesn't exist now, and I see no reason to close them just because a more specific site &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; come out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="152" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-09-29T08:35:26.030" LastActivityDate="2017-09-29T08:35:26.030" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="65" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="62" CreationDate="2011-01-14T01:03:45.187" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are not the same thing at all, since books related to SF could be anthologies or reference works which are not novels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75" LastActivityDate="2011-01-14T01:03:45.187" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="66" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="62" CreationDate="2011-01-14T03:32:54.837" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Novel is always a book, but a book is not always a novel. So I say go with the more inclusive term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastActivityDate="2011-01-14T03:32:54.837" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="68" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="62" CreationDate="2011-01-14T07:31:51.740" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to enhance Zypher's answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's point out the differences between a novel and a book:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A novel is a book-length work of fiction. Just being fictional and bound isn't enough -- collections of short stories, novellas, and other fictional texts can be bound, but they don't thereby become a novel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A book, by contrast, is a volume of fictional or non-fictional work. Although these are often bound, again, binding isn't essential. For example, books can be electronic with scanned images. The lack of binding doesn't mean that it isn't a book. Additionally, a book -- in common usage -- tends to have a copyright and be the product of a publisher. One could debate this aspect (e.g., is an unpublished diary a book?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, a novel is usually a book, but a book isn't necessarily a novel. The terms aren't interchangeable. Just remember that novel normally refers only to works of fiction. If the book isn't fiction, it isn't a nove&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See : &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_difference_between_a_novel_and_a_book&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Difference between book and novel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So i think we need two different tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2011-01-14T07:31:51.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="69" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="70" CreationDate="2011-01-14T11:00:33.800" Score="16" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;I definitely think steampunk has a place under sci-fi but wanted to ask before starting any possible discussions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-04-19T14:19:45.353" LastActivityDate="2016-04-19T14:19:45.353" Title="Can we discuss steampunk here?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="70" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="69" CreationDate="2011-01-14T14:09:51.357" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Steampunk usually involves some kind of alternate history of technological development so it is feels closer to science fiction than it does it fantasy. I don't see a good reason to exclude it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75" LastActivityDate="2011-01-14T14:09:51.357" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="71" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-14T18:38:49.020" Score="6" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed several questions being retagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/opinion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;opinion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;opinion&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we really need these meta-tags? I don't see any value in being able to, say, browse through all the opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2011-01-14T21:28:32.740" LastActivityDate="2011-01-15T03:48:12.560" Title="Is &quot;opinion&quot; the new &quot;subjective&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="72" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="71" CreationDate="2011-01-14T21:33:18.070" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like that's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/100/dori&quot;&gt;Dori&lt;/a&gt;'s tag choice. I thank her for going through the questions and marking the subjective ones. We'll have to decide whether we want to keep these in a few days, and it's good to be able to find them quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I agree that it would be better to use &lt;code&gt;subjective&lt;/code&gt; as is (or was) done on other Stack Exchange Sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2011-01-14T21:33:18.070" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="73" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-14T23:11:37.100" Score="15" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;How will the logo and design for the site be chosen, should it make it out of the public beta? This is the first Stack Exchange site I've actively participated in, please excuse my ignorance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2011-11-28T11:31:01.817" LastActivityDate="2011-11-28T11:31:01.817" Title="How will the logo and design be chosen?" Tags="|discussion|user-interface|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="74" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="73" CreationDate="2011-01-14T23:26:37.943" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's still months into the future, and only if the site takes off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happens is that one day &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/44/jin&quot;&gt;Jin&lt;/a&gt; will post a question titled “Design Ideas for Science Fiction site”, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/design-ideas-for-unix-and-linux-site-updated&quot;&gt;the latest launch&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://gis.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/257/design-ideas-for-gis-site&quot;&gt;the next launch&lt;/a&gt;. Then people will comment, and after maybe one or two more proposals the site will launch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Of course people are free to toss ideas around on Meta before that! It's #5 in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/the-7-essential-meta-questions-of-every-beta/&quot;&gt;7 essential questions of every beta&lt;/a&gt;, though it's a lot less urgent than deciding what's on-topic or coming up with good tags, and the promotion questions.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2011-01-14T23:32:23.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="75" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="71" CreationDate="2011-01-15T03:41:45.217" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, I only got part way through adding the tags; if anyone wants to help with the rest that would be great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What will happen with those tags? I haven't the foggiest. But what I do know is that some people love subjective questions, and other people do not, and that as &quot;subjective&quot; leaves a negative impression, I used &quot;opinion&quot; instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Historically, other SE sites would not allow a tag like [tag:opinion]. However, they would also not allow questions like the ones it's been applied to. I believe that if we have one, we need the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the [tag:opinion] and [tag:list] tags are a benefit to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the people who enjoy those types of questions, as they can find them more easily&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the people who would like SciFi.SE's questions to be more like those on other SE sites, as they can have that by ignoring those two tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no judgment being made here (or at least not by me), and I'm not in a position to say if the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Good Subjective/Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt; rules will somehow come to not be applied here. But here and now, there are plenty of zeros and ones on that six point scale, and there needs to be a way to differentiate them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Anyone know why my tag formatting doesn't work? I can't figure it out…&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastEditorUserId="100" LastEditDate="2011-01-15T03:48:12.560" LastActivityDate="2011-01-15T03:48:12.560" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="76" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="69" CreationDate="2011-01-15T05:37:41.877" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Steampunk, like the other &quot;punks&quot; is one of those hate-it-or-leave it genres. I like it, and I consider it &quot;on topic&quot; as it tends towards &quot;alternate histories.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="99" LastActivityDate="2011-01-15T05:37:41.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="77" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="69" CreationDate="2011-01-15T08:00:59.137" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not generally fond of steampunk myself, but I would agree that it's on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23" LastActivityDate="2011-01-15T08:00:59.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="78" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-18T00:21:19.297" Score="11" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;Six days into the private beta, I've taken 100 questions more or less at random and came up with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;22 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/16/56&quot;&gt;“list works containing X”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;20 trivia questions (that are only interesting to people who've read/seen a particular work)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;13 questions about the industry, of which 6 are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/32/questions-that-provide-speculative-answers&quot;&gt;about future plans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;11 requests for online resources&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;9 classification/terminology questions (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/23/should-questions-about-is-x-science-fiction-be-off-topic&quot;&gt;is X science fiction&lt;/a&gt;, what is subgenre Y)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;6 “favorite X” questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5 science questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13/are-book-movie-tv-series-identification-questions-allowed&quot;&gt;identification&lt;/a&gt; questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;10 miscellaneous questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have the time to extract my list into postable form right now, and anyway different people might have different classifications, but I think it gives a feel for what we've done with the site so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think at this point we should think what kinds of questions we want and what kinds we don't want. Also perhaps some tagging policies. So I guess my question is, which of these categories do you feel belong/don't belong here? (See also the linked Meta posts for some categories.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2011-01-18T01:15:58.713" Title="A first look at questions so far" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="79" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16" CreationDate="2011-01-18T00:32:51.560" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;These questions are certainly &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/78/a-first-look-at-questions-so-far&quot;&gt;popular&lt;/a&gt;. I'm torn about them. On the one hand, they're interesting because they lead people to discover new works about particular themes. On the other hand, and they're an awfully big part of the site, and most of the questions we do have are very broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an example of what I consider an overly broad question that won't attract experts: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/687/what-works-feature-humans-gaining-immortality-and-its-effects-closed&quot;&gt;What works feature humans gaining immortality and its effects?&lt;/a&gt;. Example of a good, narrow-focus list question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written/browse_frm/thread/4315b57480f823b9/89ffdc523fe4cc13&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;good old fashioned Girls* Building Space Infrastructure novels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Please list stories that X” is not in itself a subjective question. Whether a story has X or not is usually uncontested. These questions can have answers of varying quality: is X a significant theme in the stories cited in the answer? Did this story have a lot of influence in the genre? In this, they do fit the Stack Exchange format, with votes on answers (a good answer being one citing influential stories exploring X), and even reputation granted for giving good answers. What might not work here is accepting answers, but is this so bad?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I'm not including “recommend me a story that X” or “what's your favorite story that X” here. The former are discussed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/26/are-recommend-me-questions-allowed&quot;&gt;another Meta thread&lt;/a&gt;. The latter are prime examples of bad subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2011-01-22T16:17:39.350" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="80" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="78" CreationDate="2011-01-18T01:15:58.713" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff's latest blog post, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Real Questions Have Answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, should be &lt;strong&gt;required reading&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;What kind of questions should I &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; ask here?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face. Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of our site and push other questions off the front page. To prevent your question from being flagged and possibly removed, &lt;strong&gt;avoid&lt;/strong&gt; asking subjective questions where …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;every answer is equally valid: “What’s your favorite X?”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;your answer is provided along with the question, in a variant of “I’ll go first”. If you can authoritatively answer, it’s not a real question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;there is no actual problem to be solved: “I’m curious if other people feel like I do.”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;we are being asked an open-ended, hypothetical question: “What if X happened?”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;it is a rant disguised as a question: “What is the deal with X?” or “X sucks, am I right?”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your motivation for asking the question is “I would like to participate in a discussion about X”, then you should not be asking here. If your motivation is “I would like others to explain X to me”, then you are probably OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My take on what he wrote: any subjective question that doesn't have a definitive answer should be closed. Okay, folks: let's get closing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastActivityDate="2011-01-18T01:15:58.713" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="81" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-18T04:31:32.290" Score="28" ViewCount="302" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/743/33&quot;&gt;How can you have a point of origin with only one coordinate?&lt;/a&gt; is a good example, and I suspect we'll see many questions asking, say, how is it possible that Tom Paris got to Warp 10 in Voyager when that's supposed to be impossible, and many other such questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trying to make sense of these things is really a matter of trying to apply logic to something one really needs to suspend disbelief over. I can see many such questions coming our way. How should we handle them? Should we close them? Is there a standard we can edit them to? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Personally, I love trying to make sense out of this stuff, but &lt;strike&gt;I feel it has no place on Stack Exchange&lt;/strike&gt; we would need to figure out how to make it work in the Stack Exchange framework.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, trying to make sense out of these assumptions can be instructive. Discuss? Perhaps there's a way we could frame these discussions that would make the site useful and make the internet better? (That last is the mission of Stack Exchange; quibbling about warp drive doesn't achieve that end, but perhaps educating people in science would?) Perhaps we need to reach out to the Physics site if we ever get out of private beta? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T00:07:04.117" Title="Are questions that try to rationalize technobabble on-topic here?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2016-02-25T00:08:09.120" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="82" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16" CreationDate="2011-01-18T04:38:55.040" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The point of Stack Exchange is to come up with a list of questions that have answers, hopefully good questions with good answers upvoted. Anything else should be closed as unanswerable. Stack Exchange seems to tolerate these questions to some degree, though. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Discussing possible things to read is inappropriate for a Q&amp;amp;A site, and is better suited to a web forum. A lot of users don't quite get this, but &lt;strong&gt;Stack Exchange is not a forum&lt;/strong&gt;. List questions and polls, unless they give real value to the site, should be closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33" LastActivityDate="2011-01-18T04:38:55.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="83" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="84" CreationDate="2011-01-18T06:52:50.923" Score="4" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/108/tony-meyer&quot;&gt;I have 46 upvotes (no down), but only 101 reputation&lt;/a&gt; (which is all from association from other sites).  My profile page also says 5 days (2 consecutive) for visits when that should be 7 consecutive days (although that might be a timezone quirk, since IIRC it's US days that matter).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this isn't the right place to ask, where is?  (And if it is, then I can just edit the title to be the above question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2011-02-21T22:26:46.923" Title="Is meta the place to ask about bugs?" Tags="|support|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="84" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="83" CreationDate="2011-01-18T08:21:43.363" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those 46 upvotes are votes &lt;em&gt;that you've cast&lt;/em&gt;, not received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers have recieved a total of 8 upvotes, but 7 of those are on answers flagged as Community Wiki, and thus award no reputation. Thus, you have 1 upvote, and the appropriate 10 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, in answer to your initial question: Yes. Meta is the place to ask about bugs. For bugs that you suspect to be specific to SciFi.SE (i.e. CSS or layout bugs, or rep oddities unique to this site), meta.scifi is the place. For bugs that affect the entire network or stackexchange engine, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Meta.StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt; is the place to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T09:16:33.917" LastActivityDate="2011-01-18T08:21:43.363" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="85" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16" CreationDate="2011-01-18T13:22:48.097" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think they go into 2 categories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Genuine&lt;/em&gt; list&lt;/strong&gt;, even if there's a Wikipedia page that answers the question, they then to become a poll because of the site's mechanic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Recommendations&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's my story, I posted my question on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/75168/146540&quot;&gt;meta stack exchange&lt;/a&gt; and my comment &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16/are-list-questions-allowed/17#17&quot;&gt;Dori's post&lt;/a&gt; after I saw this question about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/670/45&quot;&gt;List of good cyberpunk novels&lt;/a&gt;. Which is the worst example of a poll I have seen so far. I mean, It's stated in the question's text that you should &quot;Vote up answers containing novels you think are good.&quot;. Anyway, this question got closed pretty fast, which is a good sign.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, (yes, &lt;strong&gt;AFTER&lt;/strong&gt; I made the above actions, it's not my first contradiction.) I posted my own list question about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/716/45&quot;&gt;works feature the development of a self-aware AI?&lt;/a&gt;. I even tagged it [list]! However, I was feeling it was not as damageable as the above (Which is not an excuse).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And now I know why, this question have a purpose.This is not a list, this is a reading recommendation request. (I just changed the tag on my question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the question we need to answer is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/26/45&quot;&gt;Are “recommend me” questions allowed?&lt;/a&gt;. So far it seem yes, but this may change on the future. some site &lt;a href=&quot;https://boardgames.meta.stackexchange.com/q/298/23&quot;&gt;allow that&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1491/what-should-be-done-with-questions-asking-for-game-recommendations&quot;&gt;some not&lt;/a&gt;. There's many reason for that and I recommend to check some of the discussion on that topic on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-recommendations&quot;&gt;Gamming meta&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2011-01-18T14:38:33.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="86" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-18T15:30:15.693" Score="34" ViewCount="728" Body="&lt;p&gt;All successful SE sites are basically focusing on a problem that someone has, and tries to find a solution by phrasing it as a question and applying answers as solutions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was originally established on Stack Overflow and the entire system was optimized for that use case. For example, upvotes mean that the answer is a good one, downvotes might mean that it is incorrect or dangerous, and the accepted mark indicates that it is this particular answer that solved the askers' problem. And it worked great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The concept was afterwards copied to areas other than programming, and it was mostly successful exactly in areas where the question is in fact a problem to be solved. To name some examples: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://math.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Mathematics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://cooking.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Cooking&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://moms4mom.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Parenting&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it worked great there, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'd especially like to point out to here is example #3. As it was posted on &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;the blog post&lt;/a&gt;, it was an experiment with subjective questions, since raising children clearly has to be subjective. The experiment was seen as success, albeit having both subjective questions. It is my opinion that it was successful because it had problems to be solved phrased as questions, and solutions phrased as answers. That was enough to beat the subjectivity issue and make a good Q&amp;amp;A site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'm arguing here is that the main problem of this site is &lt;em&gt;absence&lt;/em&gt; of a problem to be solved. I mean really, what problems do we have that need to be solved using a Q&amp;amp;A site for Science Fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only common problem I can think of is &lt;em&gt;What to read/watch next?&lt;/em&gt;, which obviously led to a big number of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/recommendation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;recommendation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;recommendation&lt;/a&gt; questions, later slightly disguised as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/list&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;list&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;list&lt;/a&gt; question. And the main trouble with these questions isn't objectivity at all, some of them aren't even subjective. It's the fact that they don't have an answer - they are open ended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gilles's analysis: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/78/a-first-look-at-questions-so-far&quot;&gt;A first look at questions so far&lt;/a&gt; shows us that list questions are so far most common. But it also shows us that there are more than half &lt;em&gt;What do I read now?&lt;/em&gt; questions. (list, online resources, favorite X, identification)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my question here is &lt;strong&gt;What problems does answering a question on this site solve?&lt;/strong&gt; As soon as we find out that, we'll know for sure what questions are on-topic here or if this subject can be used on a SE site at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it is now, it seems that most (or all) questions are either google-able trivia or hidden recommendations. I'm not really sure if an on-topic question for this site really exist as it is now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:33:29.597" LastActivityDate="2017-09-10T13:31:00.503" Title="What problems does answering a question on this site solve?" Tags="|discussion|scope|questions|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="87" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="81" CreationDate="2011-01-18T15:37:55.343" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;That question is actually one of the rare non-list questions. There are two parts in science fiction: science and fiction, and that question is about drawing a line between the two in the given example. In my opinion that is more on-topic than most the questions here, including my own ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(Personally, I love trying to make sense out of this stuff, but I feel it has no place on Stack Exchange.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a question that actually does have an answer. Neither of the answers is even subjective. As far as I know, this makes it compatible for Stack Exchange Q&amp;amp;A philosophy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2011-01-18T15:37:55.343" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="89" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="86" CreationDate="2011-01-18T19:39:32.717" Score="22" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Trivia debate problems - &quot;Who was Java the Hutt's dad?&quot; questions nerds love&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;Finding new works - helps someone figure out where to go with their exploration of sci-fi&lt;/s&gt; Lists of works or recommendations are explicitly off topic. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Understanding a genre - &quot;What is steampunk?&quot; style questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wanting a spoiler - &quot;What is the goal of the aliens in 2001?&quot; about what happens in a saga or story.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Attempting to understand sci-fi literature - &quot;In Do Andriods Dream of Electric Sheep, what does the mechanical sheep represent?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Understanding where sci-fi meets reality and it's history - &quot;Did Arthur C Clarke invent the satellite?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any more, or less?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-09-10T13:31:00.503" LastActivityDate="2017-09-10T13:31:00.503" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="90" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2011-01-18T22:33:46.287" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I agree with Jeff that a question should be interesting to answer, may I remind everyone that even 'trivial' questions can be interesting. Case in point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/questions/231273/what-are-the-windows-a-and-b-drives-used-for&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What are the Windows A and B drives used for?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is dead simple and if you're old enough to remember you can't imagine someone not knowing, but it sparks interest in a lot of people!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also takes an interested, experienced user to take a 'trivial' question and transform it into a learning experience for everyone who stumbles on to it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, I think you have to judge this on a case by case basis and also let the quality of the question and/or answers weigh in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="193" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:04:28.970" LastActivityDate="2011-01-18T22:33:46.287" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="91" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-18T23:07:24.010" Score="9" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many people who don't seem to like the quality of questions that are on this site, and there's probably a half dozen questions on Meta about should something be on topic for this site. Perhaps it's easier to just ask in one place. What should this site be all about? I don't want to hear about things it shouldn't be about, only about what it should be about. Please limit your ideas to no more than a few related subjects per answer, feel free to answer more than one if you'd like. Please vote up the answers you would like to see included, and down the answers you would like to see removed. Add comments if you think you can add to the discussion of a particular topic&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2011-01-18T23:17:53.873" LastActivityDate="2011-01-18T23:22:40.980" Title="What topics should be discussed here?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2016-03-27T15:18:56.177" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="92" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="91" CreationDate="2011-01-18T23:08:17.330" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;List of books that feature a particular technology, theme, or idea (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/844/books-or-movies-dealing-with-the-early-colonization-of-mars&quot;&gt;Books or movies dealing with the early colonization of Mars&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/820/what-movies-feature-time-travel-as-a-central-plot-device&quot;&gt;What movies feature time travel as a central plot device?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2011-01-18T23:22:40.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="93" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="91" CreationDate="2011-01-18T23:10:38.063" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;How Sci-fi and reality mix (IE, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/654/what-ftl-drives-in-science-fiction-are-the-most-scientifically-plausible/661#661&quot;&gt;What FTL drives might be possible&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/257/could-electronics-be-developed-by-water-based-life-forms-what-would-they-be-like&quot;&gt;Could electronics be developed by water-based life forms? What would they be like?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2011-01-18T23:10:38.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="94" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="91" CreationDate="2011-01-18T23:12:02.163" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obscure triva requests (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/166/what-was-shepard-books-past-in-firefly&quot;&gt;What was Shepard Book's past in Firefly?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/164/in-the-dune-series-why-are-they-not-using-computers-and-programming-related-tech&quot;&gt;In the Dune series, why are they not using computers and programming related technologies?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2011-01-18T23:12:02.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="95" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="91" CreationDate="2011-01-18T23:16:56.243" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Topics relating Sci-fi books to movies (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/864/when-we-will-see-piersons-puppeteers-on-the-big-screen&quot;&gt;When we will see Pierson's Puppeteers on the big screen?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/705/what-are-the-different-types-and-classes-of-ftl-engines&quot;&gt;What are the &lt;em&gt;Least&lt;/em&gt; faithful movie adaptation of a sci-fi book?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2011-01-18T23:16:56.243" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="96" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="91" CreationDate="2011-01-18T23:20:28.877" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions gathering common related sci-fi technologies into one question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/705/what-are-the-different-types-and-classes-of-ftl-engines&quot;&gt;What are the different types and classes of FTL engines?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2011-01-18T23:20:28.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="97" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-19T00:46:51.280" Score="24" ViewCount="397" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi everyone. I've just answered a question with the tag 'the-doctor', in reference to a character in 'Doctor Who'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what about the Voyager character also called 'The Doctor'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the 'the-doctor' tag be banned, to be replaced with 'the-doctor-(doctor-who)' and 'the-doctor-(voyager)'? Or, should we identify one of the two characters as 'the-doctor' and the other as something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, is the tagging system clever enough that the presence of another tag ('doctor-who' or 'voyager') on the same question means that such ambiguations are resolved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastActivityDate="2012-08-20T22:53:18.723" Title="Tag 'the-doctor'. Doctor Who or Voyager?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="98" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="86" CreationDate="2011-01-19T01:09:11.550" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fact is that &lt;strong&gt;there are no problems that can be solved by this Q&amp;amp;A site&lt;/strong&gt;.  Perhaps we need a new definition for sites such as this.  That, or shut it down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not quite sure I understand the apparent reluctance in expanding the definition of what an SE site can do.  I mean - if sites like this one boil down to just glorified forums, it's quite a lot better than many forums I've participated in.  Then again, I'm somewhat new to the whole SE construct, so if there's a historical basis for this, I'm not aware of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74" LastActivityDate="2011-01-19T01:09:11.550" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="99" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="97" CreationDate="2011-01-19T01:58:09.383" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's the way I've thought of it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Voyager&lt;/em&gt; - The Doctor has no other name (iirc), so he gets the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-doctor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-doctor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-doctor&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; - The Doctor can also be identified as &quot;Doctor Who&quot; (obviously), so he gets the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doctor-who&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;doctor-who&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;doctor-who&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not the greatest idea, but I think that's what we're stuck with unless there's a better way to refer to &lt;em&gt;Voyager&lt;/em&gt;'s Doctor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastActivityDate="2011-01-19T01:58:09.383" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="97" CreationDate="2011-01-19T02:29:28.157" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about we don't have a &quot;the doctor&quot; tag and simply tag one as Voyager and one as Doctor Who?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="180" LastActivityDate="2011-01-19T02:29:28.157" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="86" CreationDate="2011-01-19T02:37:38.757" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;These are all problems I have with fair frequency that are absolutely solved by this site.  Aside from which, trivia questions can be fun and worthwhile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What was that sci-fi story that I read once?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is this bit considered canon in sci-fi X?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the point of this story?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, I think we should give this site a chance to evolve and see where it goes.  It might turn into something useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="180" LastActivityDate="2011-01-19T02:37:38.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="102" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-19T03:46:54.073" Score="6" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at my privileges, I see one that I've qualified for and one I haven't:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/privileges/view-close-votes&quot;&gt;View Close Votes&lt;/a&gt;, which needs 250 rep&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/privileges/close-questions&quot;&gt;Cast Close and Reopen Votes&lt;/a&gt;, which needs 500 rep&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I look at the former, it says that I should be able to view close votes—but I can't. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After reading in between the lines on that page, I see that it &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; refers to the ability to ① view the number of/reason for close votes, ② cast close votes, and ③ cast re-open votes—but only &lt;em&gt;on questions I've created&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, nowhere on that page is that actually explicitly stated anywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That privilege should be renamed, and the page rewritten to be more clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2011-09-01T10:46:00.317" Title="View close vote privilege" Tags="|support|bug|status-completed|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="97" CreationDate="2011-01-19T11:38:45.380" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Blacklist &quot;the-doctor&quot; and have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;the-doctor-(character)-voyager&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;the-doctor-(character)-doctor who&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2011-02-07T09:49:49.997" LastActivityDate="2011-02-07T09:49:49.997" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="81" CreationDate="2011-01-19T13:32:34.437" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see that this differs from &quot;How plausible is X?&quot; questions significantly.  Both are taking a certain fictional presentation and analyzing it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2011-01-19T13:32:34.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6" CreationDate="2011-01-19T16:13:44.923" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe someone should propose a fantasy site? I'm kind of surprised this one wasn't built out that way as sci-fi/fantasy, since they cross boundaries so much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: Ah, and there is a proposal: &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/15712/fantasy?referrer=l-lPdGnxuUSsEvo_YA8MCw2&quot;&gt;Fantasy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="219" LastEditorUserId="219" LastEditDate="2011-01-19T21:59:20.520" LastActivityDate="2011-01-19T21:59:20.520" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26" CreationDate="2011-01-19T16:24:29.610" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a question... How to mark these as answered, when there are multiple good answers. Unless I don't have a permission yet or something, only one answer can be marked as the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="175" LastActivityDate="2011-01-19T16:24:29.610" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="108" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-19T20:20:22.523" Score="16" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1040/the-ages-old-question-in-an-encounter-between-the-federation-and-the-empire-who&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1040/the-ages-old-question-in-an-encounter-between-the-federation-and-the-empire-who&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked that question very much on purpose.  I'm sure if I look at the definition for the site it will be one of the top 5 off-topic questions.  My point here is, why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange communities have so far been very &lt;em&gt;serious&lt;/em&gt;.  I would go so far as to call them stodgy.  They aim for an air of academics.  This is all good and well when its a Q&amp;amp;A for a serious subject that has definite answers, such as Programming or Physics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that isn't Science Fiction.  Science Fiction has also been called Speculative Fiction, and I think this moniker is a much better explanation of what Science Fiction is.  It's speculative.  The whole point of it is to speculate about what is possible.  What may happen, what might happen, what could happen.  There &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; no definite answer for these questions.  That's &lt;em&gt;the whole point&lt;/em&gt; of Science Fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now some are using this to argue that we therefore must have a small scope and relegate ourselves to Sci-Fi trivia.  Questions that do solve some problem or have a definite answer.  Or else that we shouldn't exist.  That a Stack Exchange to actually discuss Sci-Fi, as in speculate about the universes, stories and questions posed by Sci-Fi,  wouldn't work.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why wouldn’t it work?  Why does a question have to have a definite answer to be valuable on a Stack Exchange?  Because people vote on it and get reputation from it? The reputation on a science fiction Q&amp;amp;A is meaningless anyway.  I’m not going to get a job at a publishing company or a book deal because I have a high sci-fi reputation.   Why can’t we just vote on the one we like the best, find the most convincing or that made us smile the most?  Sure that’s not the vision Jeff and Joel had for Stack Exchange, but isn’t this our community?  They’re just the hosts.  If we find enjoyment, use and value from it, then there is no reason we shouldn’t do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, this particular question is an extreme example of a speculative question.  It is very silly and definitely one I’ve rolled my eyes at from time to time.  But, you know what?  If people get enjoyment from discussing it and they keep it civil, why do we have to stop them from using this platform to do it?  Why can’t we just roll our eyes and not enter the thread? If the community doesn’t enjoy the question, it won’t get voted up and it will fall off the bottom of the page.  People will stop asking them.  Afraid of being overrun by them?   Well, there are only so many “X vs Y” questions that can be asked.   And sure, there are a lot, but eventually they will all have been asked and we can just point em out as dupes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don’t fit the existing model of Stack Exchange.  So why try?  Let us be an experiment in a less serious and somewhat light hearted Stack Exchange.  Where we speculate, joke, geek out, wonder and dream.  Where we fulfill the purpose of Science Fiction and wonder at what could be.  Where we let our hair down a bit and relax with a little escapism.  We don’t have to be better than PhPBB, we can just be different.  And if the community enjoys it and finds it valuable then that should be a good enough reason to let it exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it doesn’t enjoy it or find it valuable then we won’t get traffic, we won’t exist and we can quietly die.  We’re struggling for scope.  Lets just leave it wide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="180" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T01:58:02.190" Title="Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction and StackExchange - making it work?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="108" CreationDate="2011-01-19T20:53:14.327" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is unlikely to work because the Stackexchange software and moderation process are optimised for Q&amp;amp;A forums, not general discussion forums. Discussions need different processes from Q&amp;amp;A -- for example, better threading, the ability to promote comments to main posts, and so on. The reputation system would need an overhaul as well. General discussion needs to happen somewhere that's designed to handle it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23" LastActivityDate="2011-01-19T20:53:14.327" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2011-01-19T22:02:15.930" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's that confusing, but worth noting that it is the same across all beta sites. It's not specific to this one or something that can likely be changed easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="219" LastActivityDate="2011-01-19T22:02:15.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2011-01-19T22:03:18.707" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everything is google-able. If you close a question because you can Google the answer, you won't have any questions left open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="219" LastActivityDate="2011-01-19T22:03:18.707" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16" CreationDate="2011-01-19T22:05:34.833" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not every list will have an endless number of possible list items. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1003/which-actors-were-originally-considered-for-the-role-of-data-in-the-star-trek-th/1018#1018&quot;&gt;Case in point: What actors were considered for the role of Data on TNG&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2011-01-19T22:05:34.833" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="113" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="114" CreationDate="2011-01-19T22:45:20.683" Score="9" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see people linking to Amazon via a radz.stackoverflow.com link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is this all about?  I use direct links to Amazon. Does this link generate affiliate purchases for the stackexchange network if someone buys the book through the link?  Or is it just a URL shortening service?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="176" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2011-03-10T21:22:32.840" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="What is radz.stackoverflow.com, how do you use it for linking to books?" Tags="|support|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="113" CreationDate="2011-01-19T22:52:36.570" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's for our affiliate links, when you post a link to amazon it will be converted to an SO Affiliate link. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/26964/auto-inserting-stack-overflow-affiliate-into-all-amazon-book-links&quot;&gt;Reference&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2011-01-19T22:52:36.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16" CreationDate="2011-01-19T22:57:15.773" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone also noted that some list questions are being closed, while others are not. We should at least be consistent. Oh, and tonight a moderator came through and closed a bunch of them. We're using [list] to track them, and they're the most popular type of question ... so should we start voting to close them now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="219" LastEditorUserId="219" LastEditDate="2011-01-20T05:47:58.970" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T05:47:58.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="97" CreationDate="2011-01-19T22:57:25.343" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not convincced on which way to go with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-doctor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-doctor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-doctor&lt;/a&gt; but we shouldn't cram it all in one tag. Best thing i can come up with right now is use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-doctor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-doctor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-doctor&lt;/a&gt; for both and disambiguate with either the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/voyager&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;voyager&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;voyager&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doctor-who&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;doctor-who&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;doctor-who&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastActivityDate="2011-01-19T22:57:25.343" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="108" CreationDate="2011-01-20T00:07:00.177" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that the best rules for a Q&amp;amp;A site about programming may not be the best for a Q&amp;amp;A site about programming. So &lt;strong&gt;we should make our own rules&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also agree that questions do not have to “solve a problem”. That's a good approach for a technical subject, not for interacting about SF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem I have with your question is that answers are likely to attract a lot of contradiction, hence a lot of comments, and voting for subjective (dis)agreement rather than for some metric of correctness. That's something the Q&amp;amp;A format is not good at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically I agree with your approach but not your particular example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T00:07:00.177" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="113" CreationDate="2011-01-20T00:10:11.017" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;For written sf (excluding comics), a better link for books and stories is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB)&lt;/a&gt;. There are pages for authors, works and publications. Of course, when there's a Wikipedia page, that's a good alternative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2023-01-29T13:54:16.550" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T00:10:11.017" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="108" CreationDate="2011-01-20T00:54:03.677" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The formula has worked over and over again on many a Stack Exchange site. You say we're struggling for scope, but the site is brand new. The scope will come within the existing framework. Is there room for levity? Sure. Should the questions and the answers reflect that richness of what Sci-fi is, a created object for others to enjoy? Yeah. Is it going to sound different than a site where people ask how to make PHP do XY &amp;amp; Z. It will. Should we let it devolve into a discussion forum?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then it's a discussion forum, and not a Stack Exchange site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="219" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T00:54:03.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32" CreationDate="2011-01-20T01:55:38.943" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question has an answer, such as &quot;Yes ... there will be a sequel and it will be on such and such date,&quot; then it's all good. Mere speculation is not and I think the problem, as has been noted, is more with the answer than the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="219" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T01:55:38.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="108" CreationDate="2011-01-20T01:58:02.190" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The genesis (as I understood it) of StackOverflow was that Joel Spolsky (et al.) wanted to create a community of programming experts. Spolsky stated on his &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; that he basically did so originally as an attempt at finding top programmers for FogCreek, his company. It was a recruitment tool, or at the very least that was one of the objectives. Still, the idea was to create a community of experts, a living one that would attract people and would serve as a reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we take the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/about&quot;&gt;Venn diagram&lt;/a&gt; aspect of the SE sites, there are 4 components. An SE site which would allow for speculation and discussion at large would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a forum&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a blog&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a digg/reddit type&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but would not be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a wiki&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be a reference to nobody.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in my mind, there would not be a space for pure speculative discussion, &lt;strong&gt;despite the nature of the topic which we all love&lt;/strong&gt; (sci-fi). The community building is still happening, and there may be a chance to latch onto it, but in a side entity, not the actual Q&amp;amp;A format. Even the chat room would be a better place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There might be something to suggest to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;big papa meta&lt;/a&gt;, a side forum. That could be a thing, and it would live off the community quite well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="224" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T01:58:02.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="122" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-13T13:12:26.553" Score="7" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are post-apocalyptic stories? Are they SciFi, or more Fantasy or something of it's own? Examples that come to mind are &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_2033_%28book%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Metro 2033&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mad Max&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71" OwnerDisplayName="Mnementh" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-04-19T14:14:50.483" LastActivityDate="2016-04-19T14:14:50.483" Title="Are post-apocalyptic settings SciFi?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-04-19T14:13:19.757" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5351" CreationDate="2011-01-13T13:20:51.240" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends. Mad Max is certainly scifi. It warns of a future where our greed has destroyed society. It doesn't postulate magic, aside from film magic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare with something like Ralph Bakshi's &lt;em&gt;Wizards&lt;/em&gt; which features a post-apocalypse where a faction of evil wizards bases a society on films they find of Nazi Germany. It has robots. But it is really dark fantasy. (the robots are no more scifi than the tin man is in Oz) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51" OwnerDisplayName="DampeS8N" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T03:46:53.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5351" CreationDate="2011-01-13T13:22:24.170" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Depends if the apocalypse is technological or supernatural in its nature -- they're either SF or fantasy, because they're certainly not set in the here-and-now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23" OwnerDisplayName="Mike Scott" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T03:46:53.797" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5351" CreationDate="2011-01-13T13:56:55.417" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Are post-apocalyptic settings SciFi?&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not necessarily. Three examples of non-scifi post-apocalyptic novels include: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0871139782&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;World Made by Hand&lt;/a&gt; (where the &quot;crash&quot; was caused by peak oil),  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0842329129&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Left Behind&lt;/a&gt; (loosely based on Revelations and could be described as religious snuff porn) and &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0451460413&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dies the Fire&lt;/a&gt; (the first book in an alternate history series where some &quot;change&quot; makes most modern technology inoperative, I would classify this book &quot;survivalist fiction&quot;) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="99" OwnerDisplayName="Tangurena" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T03:46:53.797" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5351" CreationDate="2011-01-20T00:10:33.167" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't say so. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Road by Cormac Macarthy&lt;/a&gt; is &quot;post-apocalyptic&quot; but it's certain not SciFi. &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0752893270&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Last Light&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1409118029&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Afterlight&lt;/a&gt; by Alex Scarrow are also post-apocalyptic novels and again are not Science Fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="267" OwnerDisplayName="Kev" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T03:46:53.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="127" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-12T11:21:23.387" Score="8" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;I mean, there is nothing scientifically impossible or not yet possible in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the series&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, it definitely is &lt;em&gt;fiction&lt;/em&gt; and it has a small amount of &lt;em&gt;science&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" OwnerDisplayName="Goran Jovic" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-04-19T14:07:32.820" LastActivityDate="2016-04-19T14:07:32.820" Title="Would Jericho be considered science fiction?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="127" CreationDate="2011-01-12T11:30:11.830" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say it's not science fiction. The &quot;not really possible&quot; element in the series is basically the fact that a nuclear apocalypse happened, which I don't think really counts as science fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many science-fiction titles which deal with a post-apocalyptic setting, but given that Jericho was set in the present day, I'd struggle to classify it as sci-fi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="122" OwnerDisplayName="Nellius" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T03:48:13.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="127" CreationDate="2011-01-14T09:44:24.150" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its hard as Nellius said, but if we consider the Road and Mad Max in sci-fi genre, Jericho will be there by definition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sociological aspects of post nuclear trauma were main plot of the series but i love the background plot working around a conspiracy in US Gov. and its definitely a future projection or and alternate history story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46" OwnerDisplayName="Yunus" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T03:48:13.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="130" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="131" CreationDate="2011-01-13T20:55:13.500" Score="16" ViewCount="17999" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would comic book superheroes (the non-magical ones, of course) be considered sci-fi?  I'm more of a Marvel fan, so I first think of Iron Man as a prime example in the &quot;yes&quot; camp, but I wonder what would others like Superman, Green Lantern, et cetera where their powers are not clearly rooted in technology and understood scientifically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking forward to your answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9" OwnerDisplayName="Rodger Cooley" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-04-19T14:15:36.253" LastActivityDate="2017-05-24T08:24:43.817" Title="Are comic superheroes considered sci-fi?" Tags="|discussion|scope|comics|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="130" CreationDate="2011-01-13T21:47:17.383" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always been a fan of superhero comics and I've always considered it a sub-genre of science fiction.  Some characters are certainly more &quot;hard&quot; sci-fi than others, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63" OwnerDisplayName="Bill the Lizard" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T03:48:27.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="130" CreationDate="2011-01-13T23:27:03.677" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Doctor Manhattan&lt;/strong&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Watchmen&quot;&gt;Watchmen&lt;/a&gt; would be a good candidate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In contrast to other superheroes who&#xA;  lacked scientific exploration of their&#xA;  origins, Moore sought to delve into&#xA;  nuclear physics and quantum physics in&#xA;  constructing the character of Dr.&#xA;  Manhattan. The writer believed that a&#xA;  character living in a quantum universe&#xA;  would not perceive time with a linear&#xA;  perspective, which would influence the&#xA;  character's perception of human&#xA;  affairs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82" OwnerDisplayName="Rusty" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T03:48:27.320" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="133" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9602" CreationDate="2011-01-20T04:05:31.060" Score="8" ViewCount="213" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/231/which-actors-have-played-dr-who-over-the-years&quot;&gt;question asking which actors have played Dr. Who&lt;/a&gt; was closed recently.  The reason the page shows is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see how that applies to this question. It's not at all difficult to tell what is being asked (and there are two good answers that show others can tell too). It doesn't really seem ambiguous, vague, or overly broad (I guess if you think it means anyone playing the Doctor in any production of any type ever, but if you read it that way an edit would fix it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not incomplete or rhetorical, and the existing answers show that it can be reasonably answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I originally saw the question I didn't think it was great (because it's trivial to find the list of the BBC actors elsewhere).  The second answer helps that - it could be better IMO by excluding &quot;spoofs&quot;, but including ones outside of the main 12 Doctors (e.g. Cushing, Trevor Martin, the Morbius actors) is reasonable.  If the question was open, that could be fixed by an edit to that answer, or a third answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this closed just because it doesn't seem like a good question?  As suggested &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/55/close-vote-motivation&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, a comment would be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2016-05-14T17:05:32.417" Title="Why was the &quot;which actors have played Doctor Who&quot; question closed?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="134" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-20T04:11:16.063" Score="8" ViewCount="370" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to mouseover with an iPod touch? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="358" LastEditorUserId="35" LastEditDate="2011-03-17T00:20:44.330" LastActivityDate="2011-03-17T00:20:44.330" Title="How to see spoilers on touchscreen?" Tags="|bug|spoilers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2011-03-17T00:37:57.950" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="134" CreationDate="2011-01-20T04:17:07.337" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't appear so.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://developer.apple.com/library/safari/#documentation/appleapplications/reference/safariwebcontent/CreatingContentforSafarioniPhone/CreatingContentforSafarioniPhone.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Apple's documentation&lt;/a&gt; says that elements must be clickable in order to have mouseover events work, and as far as I can tell, the spoiler elements are not clickable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO it would be useful for this to be fixed (probably the element can be made clickable, which means that it would still work - but with a tap rather than hovering the mouse).  Perhaps this needs to go to meta.stackexchange.com rather than here, though (since this is also used for the Gaming SE site and perhaps others).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did a brief search on &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/736/provide-a-markdown-extension-to-hide-text-anti-spoiler&quot;&gt;meta.gaming.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1037/ability-to-mark-text-as-spoiler-text&quot;&gt;meta.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; and couldn't find any discussion of this issue.  Perhaps the gamers aren't heavy touchscreen users :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T07:54:25.743" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="136" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="158" CreationDate="2011-01-20T04:42:43.583" Score="2" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;To cast a reopen vote requires 500 rep (17 users at the moment). If a user reaches 500 many days after the question has be closed, can they still vote to reopen, or must this be done soon after the closing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T17:08:52.717" Title="Is there a time limit for voting to reopen questions?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="137" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="152" CreationDate="2011-01-20T04:48:19.813" Score="29" ViewCount="910" Body="&lt;p&gt;The user &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/17/zypher&quot;&gt;Zypher&lt;/a&gt; has very little reputation, but is able to close questions without reaching the limit because he works for SE. By not letting the community vote (i.e. 5 of the top 17 users) it seems that he is taking away from the development of the community.  Many closed questions are not even old (the site itself is not even old, of course), so have not had a chance to be improved (e.g. through editing).    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do others share this opinion? If so, could Zypher please let the burgeoning community do more of its own clean-up? If not, perhaps following &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/55/close-vote-motivation&quot;&gt;the community's request&lt;/a&gt; to include a comment explaining the close (when not obvious, as is the case with many of these) would be polite?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;--&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hard data, as requested: I compiled &lt;a href=&quot;http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2095704/scifi-closed-questions.txt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a list of all the questions that are currently closed&lt;/a&gt; (I don't know if there's a way to just search for these, until the data hits the public dump).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;29 questions have been closed by the community (defined as 3+ members).  I think this in fact shows that the community &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; policing itself, given a chance.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3 questions were closed by Zypher after one other user voted for closure.  It seems likely that the community would have closed these too (but IMO should have been given that chance).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;13 questions have been closed by Zypher alone.  &lt;strong&gt;Every one of these was closed three hours ago&lt;/strong&gt;, unlike the other examples here, which are spread over the brief life of the site. (5% of the site's questions were closed in about a 10 minute period).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 questions were closed by moderator Rebecca Chernoff.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 questions were closed by one moderator other than Zypher and one other member.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4 questions were closed because they were moved to meta.  I don't think these are relevant here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that I am &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; saying that all the questions that Zypher closed should not have been closed.  FWIW, none were my questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the community is not given a chance to police itself (because a moderator does the work), then how will the community grow to do this?  Teach a man to fish, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2011-02-18T11:27:53.203" Title="Are too many questions being closed by a moderator alone rather than the community?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="133" CreationDate="2011-01-20T04:57:01.510" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, I don't know what this guy was doing but it's just amazing he drove through and closed at least a dozen questions with reasons that don't seem to apply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="219" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T04:57:01.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="130" CreationDate="2011-01-20T04:57:51.480" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it depends on the comic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="219" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T04:57:51.480" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="136" CreationDate="2011-01-20T05:04:33.797" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think so. I know &quot;close&quot; votes fade away if five aren't reached within a few days of each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="219" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T05:04:33.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="137" CreationDate="2011-01-20T05:05:44.773" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not adding discipline to a community during its initial formative stages is toxic to its success, and there are currently not enough people to effectively police the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Realize that there are overarching policies codified into three blog posts that guide all Stack Exchange sites, regardless of the current community's idea of what's on-topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/12/no-artificial-intelligence-in-area-51/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;No Artificial Intelligence in Area 51&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Real Questions Have Answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Zypher's closures seem to be in line with the guidelines set out in those posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2011-01-20T19:21:19.203" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T19:21:19.203" CommentCount="21" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="137" CreationDate="2011-01-20T05:17:39.510" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm really confused on how Real Questions Have Real Answers applies to some of the things he closed. Some of them were obviously questions with actual answers. It seems he applied them to questions asking for lists ... which I see was brought up here. But that reason doesn't apply to questions asking for lists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T05:17:39.510" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="130" CreationDate="2011-01-20T05:25:40.887" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a comic proposal in Area 51 right now. &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/3972/comic-books&quot;&gt;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/3972/comic-books&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T05:25:40.887" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="137" CreationDate="2011-01-20T05:44:33.750" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Zypher is not closing enough questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because someone can post an answer doesn't automatically validate a poor quality question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the community wants to continue asking questions that are yet another slab of lists or recommendations, then it has little hopes of holding its own head above the waters' mark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="383" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T05:44:33.750" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="137" CreationDate="2011-01-20T07:19:35.077" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes closing a question is the only way to get users to pay attention to Stack Exchange standards. Many moderators agree with this: Close 'em quickly, before answers pile up. (This doesn't make the mod in question popular with the users, but it &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; achieve the desired result. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't the same situation, but Aaronut makes a good analogy in &lt;a href=&quot;https://cooking.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/693/should-we-lean-more-heavily-to-editing-questions-vs-closing-them/701#701&quot;&gt;this answer on cooking.se&lt;/a&gt; about closing-versus-editing-questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My silly but hopefully educational cooking analogy:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Vague/subjective questions are like a big pile of raw ground chuck. You want to make hamburgers, but just realized that you don't have any onions in the house, or eggs, or flour, or salt, or any of the things that are normally required to make a hamburger from scratch. What do you do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Well, you can raid the pantry and start throwing a bunch of random crap into the pan with it and see if it comes out OK once it's cooked. It probably won't, though. Or, you can &lt;strong&gt;freeze&lt;/strong&gt; it, go and get the ingredients you need, and then &lt;strong&gt;thaw&lt;/strong&gt; it when you're actually ready to cook it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So that's what we're doing here. When we close a question, we're saying that it can't be answered well because it's missing details (ingredients). Once those details are added, we can pick up where we left off. On the other hand, if that never happens, and the question just sits around forever and goes rancid, then we will actually delete it, and &lt;strong&gt;that&lt;/strong&gt; is generally final.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Part of our mission here is not only to &lt;strong&gt;give people the right answers&lt;/strong&gt; but also to &lt;strong&gt;teach them how to ask the right questions&lt;/strong&gt;, because asking the right questions is crucial to become an expert oneself and subsequently a contributing member of the community. If we can do that without being rude or unfair (and I do not believe that any of this is rude or unfair), then we should do it as much and as often as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Emphasis from the original.) What we need is someone to close bad or unclear questions, then guide users into editing them into shape. We're lacking a bit on the second part; I think the site is flailing about just now, trying to find a good balance between interesting science-fiction questions and fitting into Stack Exchange.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:43:52.887" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T15:24:28.247" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="130" CreationDate="2011-01-20T07:35:25.287" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends on the comic, and what part of the work is being asked about. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some superheroes, like Batman or Spider-Man, have mundane or fairly flimsy technobabble-based orgins (&quot;I will train and dress up as a Bat&quot;, Peter Parker is bitten by a radioactive Stan Lee) and others like Green Lantern or the Fantastic Four, are clearly science-fiction (cosmic police, a flight into space to gain their powers). Also, pretty much all superheroes have been in some sort of cosmic event storyline at some point (The Infinity Gem saga, Crisis on Infinite Earths).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the same time, there['s really not a clear dividing line. If a question asks, say, about Galactus's origin, sure, that's on-topic. Asking about how nobody recognizes Clark Kent to be Superman with a squint would be clearly off-topic. Superman's &lt;em&gt;origin&lt;/em&gt; is clearly SF, but his work at the Daily Planet kinda isn't. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary, I suggest we &lt;strong&gt;err on the side of being inclusive&lt;/strong&gt;, and in general &lt;strong&gt;allow questions that ask about the science-fiction aspects of comic books&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(If the comic book proposal becomes a site, we can migrate questions there at that time.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T07:35:25.287" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13" CreationDate="2011-01-20T10:38:44.097" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of the objection to these questions over on Gaming seems to be on the basis that people's vague recollections aren't actually enough to give a positive identification. And that's not proving to be an issue over here -- I've recently answered a couple of identification questions where it was quite clear what the right answer was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T10:38:44.097" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="137" CreationDate="2011-01-20T14:17:26.953" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a few example questions that were recently closed, that I would argue probably shouldn't have been. After compiling this list, I think I understand why the first two were closed, but they should have had an explanation given as to why they were closed. Anyways, here goes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1022/what-two-tng-episodes-does-ashley-judd-appear-in-and-does-she-say-she-didnt&quot;&gt;What two TNG episodes does Ashley Judd appear in and does she say she didn't?&lt;/a&gt; - Okay, the question itself isn't probably the clearest, but otherwise, it's fine.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1030/name-the-book-where-the-setting-is-a-giant-ship-with-a-planet-inside&quot;&gt;Name the book where the setting is a giant ship with a planet inside.&lt;/a&gt; - This might not pass the Jeopardy test of being a pure question, but it's very clear what's being asked.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/705/what-are-the-different-types-and-classes-of-ftl-engines&quot;&gt;What are the different types and classes of FTL engines?&lt;/a&gt; This should at least suffice for a community wiki question. It has clear answers, adds value to the community, and is the type of thing that I would like to see more of on the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been looking through the closed questions, seeing who closed them. I must say this much. While there's a few questions that Zypher has closed that had some merit, the vast majority he closed are devaluing the community. So I'm going to have to thank Zypher for making his sweep, even if he did close a few valuable questions in the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:51:39.647" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="151" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-20T14:55:09.433" Score="13" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know Wikipedia has the answers to a lot of the questions posed here, but I've been seeing a lot of answers by people just posting large paragraphs from there or say, on a Star Trek question, from Memory Alpha without adding much more of their own explanation. Even if they cite the source and put it in block quotes, why not just rewrite into your own words? We might as well all go over to wikipedia if we're just going to copy and paste those pages into our answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="219" LastActivityDate="2011-01-21T20:57:18.257" Title="Posting large swaths of Wikipedia as answers" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="137" CreationDate="2011-01-20T15:40:44.820" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;From reading the reactions here, I get the feeling people think this will become the norm, which it will not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I had seen, and what the other SE moderators had seen this site needed a shot in the arm to survive.  I did not just fly in and close down these post on a whim. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I was seeing - as well as the other SE mods - the site was not quite policing well enough to get rid of the low quality questions and needed a human exception handler to come in and help. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If i didn't care about this community I would not even be a mod right now, I would just have let the toxic questions persist and write it off, but I didn't I do want to see the site succeed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also note, I didn't &lt;em&gt;delete&lt;/em&gt; the posts, I closed them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;/EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, first my reasons for doing this are pretty much covered by the answers given by Mark Trapp, Eight Days of Malaise and neilfein's answers so I won't go back and re-hash everything. As  neilfein said: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Close 'em quickly, before answers pile up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I let them pile up just because it is an early stage site, and I didn't want to just have every question on the front page be [closed] - arguably that could have been the case. Last night I went through and close a good deal of questions that while taken as a question you ask a friend over the water cooler there wasn't much wrong with them BUT taken as a stackexchange question they didn't really add up. Most of them where from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/opinion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;opinion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;opinion&lt;/a&gt; tag or a combination of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/opinion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;opinion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;opinion&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/list&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;list&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;list&lt;/a&gt; which at the time where the number ONE and TWO tags on the site! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now this isn't something I decided to just go and do because I was bored, I solicited other moderator's opinions in our chat room and the consensus was that there was something toxic on the site and something need to be done about it. So yes I knew it wouldn't make me popular, but as a mod you need to be thick skinned. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I've seen while on this site is most of the questions are: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What books fit criteria X (List of X questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Opinion questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both of these types of question do not make for a good Stack Exchange questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To Address some specific questions that have been brought up: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What two TNG episodes does Ashley Judd appear in and does she say she didn't?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is this making the internet a better place? This answer is trivially easy to find, I mean it's right there on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000171/filmoseries&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;. Just because a question CAN be answered doesn't make it automatically a good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Name the book where the setting is a giant ship with a planet inside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Help me remember this questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1455/what-is-the-point-of-help-me-remember-this-game-questions&quot;&gt;HAVE BEEN BANED BY JEFF&lt;/a&gt; as pointed out the specific quote is: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is my opinion that these &quot;help me remember this {thing}&quot; or &quot;help me identify this &gt;{thing}&quot; questions should be banned from all sites as a matter of policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What are the different types and classes of FTL engines?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is a list of X question that really can't have a correct or complete answer - I admit this is one of the borderline ones I closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;Now, to those saying &quot;Well just make it community wiki!&quot; community wiki is NOT a panacea for everything, we made it a mod only function for a reason. The act of making these types of questions community wiki does not automatically make them OK. These types of questions are ok every now and again, but when most of the site consists of them something needs to change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't take these things as being against the community - I am a scifi lover (I don't have high rep here because of the type of questions - i don't particularly enjoy answering List of X questions so .. I don't answer them much) - and would love to see the site succeed but in the shape it's in it wont.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as commenting on the closures - my moderation style has always been &quot;Close them and if they ask on meta give them your reasons&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:43:44.403" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T20:11:51.523" CommentCount="29" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="151" CreationDate="2011-01-20T15:50:14.600" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think we can stop this, but what we can do is encourage people to write better answers by simply upvoting well-written answers, in the author's own words. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best writing will use several sources aside from the popular wikis. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T15:50:14.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="137" CreationDate="2011-01-20T15:52:51.523" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The book ID question that you closed was certainly not one that &quot;can't have a correct or complete answer&quot;. There was more than enough information in the question to uniquely identify the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T15:52:51.523" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="155" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="189" CreationDate="2011-01-20T16:09:18.970" Score="8" ViewCount="425" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's try something else. Amidst all the doom and gloom here in meta, I'd like to point out the few rays of hope for this site: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We have users who care passionately about the topic and know a lot about it.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There's a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of activity in meta, particularly for a young site. I don't have numbers on this, but I suspect we have a lot of people who are passionate about the site. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can we do that will help? Please post positive proposals below, things we can do that would encourage and help users to write better questions and answers. Part of this is to define what a good question will look like; perhaps that needs to be a separate thread. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Negativity and doom-and-gloom will be down-voted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33" LastEditorUserId="33" LastEditDate="2011-01-20T23:18:29.877" LastActivityDate="2011-01-22T23:53:21.830" Title="This site is doomed and will curl up and die -- the sunshine-and-hope thread" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="156" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-20T16:52:47.307" Score="5" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a fair number of questions be closed, that are not that subjective. Too much hastiness is damagaing. Some questions are being closed before it's being understood w&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/754/what-are-some-sites-that-provide-science-fiction-stories-in-audio-form-for-free&quot;&gt;What are some sites that provide science fiction stories in audio form (for free)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2011-06-26T11:15:27.720" Title="Some questions being closed to quick." Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2011-06-26T17:23:33.550" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="157" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-20T17:04:26.077" Score="0" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why was the following question closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/705/what-are-the-different-types-and-classes-of-ftl-engines&quot;&gt;What are the different types and classes of FTL engines?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;closed as not a real question by Zypher♦ 13 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see Zypher seems to be arbitarily closing questions, which seems to be malicious and vexing for what is (if you read it) a NON-subjective question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A list of FTL drives in science fiction? Anybody who has read for more than a couple of years will be able to provide an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You must understand that this Q &amp;amp; A site is more than a simple Q &amp;amp; A site. It's more a discussion, and as lots of folk don't understand what SF is, you need to allow the question to sit for some time so that people can understand what's being asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also coming from software engineering, I know what subjective is, have used Stack Overflow for donkeys, and know how to avoid it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a beta site, it's fragile, and you're going to drive away your core folk, who are passionate about your site, the folk who will make it a success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-08-14T17:30:30.890" Title="Why was this question about FTL engines closed?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closing-questions|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="136" CreationDate="2011-01-20T17:08:52.717" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There isn't a time limit, but a closed post can't be deleted for 2 days. If after 2 days, a mod wants to delete the post, they can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T17:08:52.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="137" CreationDate="2011-01-20T17:10:45.183" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes.  I believe he is.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the OP of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1030/name-the-book-where-the-setting-is-a-giant-ship-with-a-planet-inside&quot;&gt;one the questions closed&lt;/a&gt; by Zypher, I'll chime in with my $0.02.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that the closing of my question was a little inconsistent.  If you view the other &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot;&gt;questions tagged story identification&lt;/a&gt;, you'll see that mine is the only one that was closed.  Some have argued that the question wasn't in the form of a question, but a couple of other &quot;story identification&quot; questions aren't phrased in the form of a question.  One even cheats and just puts a question mark at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason my question was closed is completely unclear to me, so &lt;em&gt;I have no idea how to make it better&lt;/em&gt;.  If Zypher didn't like something about my question, I think the better approach would have been a comment suggesting improvements.  If those improvements weren't forthcoming, fine, close the question.  Education is critical in forming a community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if a user can't re-open a question, they should not be given the ability to close it.  I don't care who he works for.  Those rights/permissions should go hand in hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="249" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T17:55:49.887" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="86" CreationDate="2011-01-20T17:21:07.210" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we can all agree on one thing. This site just doesn't fit the traditional SE mode. So, what can we do about that? There's a few possible answers that I see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Try to brute force fit the site into the SE mold, closing all questions that don't fit the mold.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close down the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Let the site run amok, and see what ends up being the result.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Prune out the worst questions, and hope we can filter this into a useful site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, I think there's at least 2 very different opinions on what this site should be. I'm starting to feel like it's the mods/SO crowd vs the newbies, and a hostile environment just won't work for this kind of a site. It will end up getting closed. But there are some very good discussions going on here, there's obviously alot of interest. I think the best option is prune out the worst questions, and work towards agreeing what this site should and shouldn't contain. If a decision has been made, then stick to it. If the site seriously starts to degrade, then start pruning a bit tighter, otherwise... Still, this is just my $0.02.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T17:21:07.210" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="155" CreationDate="2011-01-20T18:28:50.933" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is my first stack exchange site, and I have a lot to learn about acceptable questions.  I asked my first question yesterday, and got this comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you change the title to something more descriptive? We may get a lot of questions of this sort, and it would help to have a few characteristics of the story in the title. – JSBangs &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;JSBangs made an excellent point, and I changed my title immediately. I am now more conscious of my questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People like me, who are new to the SE way, may need a little more instruction. I think a comment about the question or answer is beneficial to the entire community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="200" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T18:28:50.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="137" CreationDate="2011-01-20T19:03:44.830" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Many closed questions are not even old (the site itself is not even old, of course), so have not had a chance to be improved (e.g. through editing).&#xA;  A question can be edited once it is closed.  This is absolutely proper behavior.  The community can then cast reopen votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community has been casting close votes and we have also seen flags calling out questions.  We are not taking anything away from the community.  Use this as an example going forward with how you see the site.  I've been closing questions for several days, and I have noticed a few people pick up on it.  Close votes and flags have increased.  This is &lt;em&gt;great&lt;/em&gt;.  The community is learning.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange is not a game of Trivial Pursuit, it isn't a discussion forum, it isn't a recommendation service, it isn't for conversations you would have standing around a water cooler at work.  There have been numerous blog posts that I encourage you to read:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot;&gt;Real Questions Have Real Answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/12/no-artificial-intelligence-in-area-51/&quot;&gt;No Artificial Intelligence in Area 51&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/469/why-high-number-of-closed-questions-extremely-annoying/471#471&quot;&gt;Robert's post on Meta Programmers discussing subjectivity&lt;/a&gt; (and also the other items he links to)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By leaving these questions open, someone new to the site comes in, sees these questions, thinks they are ok - and adds new questions that bring down the quality of the site.  It is very important that we lead with our best foot forward during the early days of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that you also have &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/?tab=site&amp;amp;sort=active&amp;amp;host=scifi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;chat rooms&lt;/a&gt; that you can use.  Want to ask for a book recommendation?  Hit up the chat room!  Want to stand around the water cooler and have a conversation?  &lt;em&gt;That's what chat is for!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T17:33:38.337" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T19:03:44.830" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="157" CreationDate="2011-01-20T19:24:34.897" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think part of the problem is that they're not getting how different topics lend themselves to slightly different interpretations of the same rules. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="219" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T19:24:34.897" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13" CreationDate="2011-01-20T19:53:19.370" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see no logical reason to ban this question type. I've seen many citations of &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1455/what-is-the-point-of-help-me-remember-this-game-questions&quot;&gt;Jeff's comments&lt;/a&gt; at gaming.se to justify outright banning them. That's a busy page - lots of discussion - so I may have missed something. However, the standout comment for me came at the end of Jeff's question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only positive attributes of these questions I can think of, based on the comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we get an excellent user who asks a good, thoughtful identification question and sticks around in our community to participate, then it's worth allowing it in those rare cases as a high quality &amp;quot;getting to know you&amp;quot; fun question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if the user can produce a screenshot or some other reasonably concrete identifying artifact to work with, other than &amp;quot;I kinda remember..&amp;quot; I have less objections to these questions. I'm still not a fan of them, but I think that's a fair way to limit how many we have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be personally monitoring this [identify-the-game] from now on and aggressively closing any that I find which are insufficiently clear, as Not a Real Question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That comes from the end of his question, where he edited it to include a summary of the discussion that the question launched. My take on it -- identification questions were held to a high standard for clarity and asking-user participation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I disagree with Jeff's overall dislike of the question type, I agree that they need to be held to a high standard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The asker needs to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide as detailed a description as possible of the story/book/movie/etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Participate in the question by answering clarifying questions, editing to include ruled out incorrect answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T19:53:19.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="155" CreationDate="2011-01-20T20:02:15.783" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this site should not have been allowed into beta.  Take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/4451?phase=commitment&quot;&gt;the list of example on-topic questions on Area51&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are there any inventions that were accurately predicted in science fiction? If so, what were they?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oddly, this question is still open, even though questions of the same nature (e.g. FTL methods) and with more definite answers are being closed. In meta, it seems like infinite list questions like this are considered &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Would warp travel be possible sometime in the future? Or is it impossible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this would be considered ok (but I couldn't find any example of a similar question already posted).  Probably some people would &quot;subjective&quot; close vote it, and others would try and give answers that showed what current technology is doing and how it might relate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I like scientific accuracy, which hard science fiction writer would you recommend and why? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What science fiction novels have well developed alien languages?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This exact question was closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the Dune series, why are they not using computers and programming related technologies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/164/in-the-dune-series-why-are-they-not-using-computers-and-programming-related-tech&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt; and is presumably acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So of the &quot;five great example questions&quot; we have one or two that are actually allowed on the site.  If the people that defined and committed to the site don't know what is acceptable and what isn't, then how do we proceed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps we could go back to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/4451/science-fiction?phase=definition#tab-top&quot;&gt;Area51 site&lt;/a&gt; and see if there are &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; set of five questions that would be on-topic, and we could post those somewhere for people to use as a reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;--&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I decided to go ahead and do this.  I looked through the list of all example questions on Area51 that were voted as on-topic: I ignored those that have already been clearly deemed off-topic (lists of indefinite length, recommendations, identification), and those that have either been already asked or had an extremely similar question asked.  For the remaining ones, I thought of a question (that I &lt;em&gt;honestly wanted answered&lt;/em&gt;) that was the same sort of question, and asked it.  Based on what happens to these questions, that may provide some more guidance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2011-01-21T20:50:43.393" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="157" CreationDate="2011-01-20T20:11:44.813" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just added a comment to this question, which I'll quote here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For those casting reopen votes and flagging this question:  please read &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Real Questions Have Answers&lt;/a&gt;, specifically the part about &quot;going first&quot;:  &lt;em&gt;your answer is provided along with the question, and you expect more answers&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T20:11:44.813" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="133" CreationDate="2011-01-20T20:13:22.660" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please see my answer about the &quot;Ashley Judd&quot; question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/137/is-zypher-closing-too-many-questions-arbitrarily/152#152&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; this one was closed for the same reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T20:13:22.660" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="168" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-20T21:09:32.667" Score="14" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;The FAQ has boilerplate advice about questions and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/4451?tab=ontopic&amp;amp;phase=definition&quot;&gt;area 51 questions&lt;/a&gt; are starting to get closed.  I'm not really sure what to ask anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is the first site of this type, the most similar as of yet appears to be the RPG and board game site, but at least those sites cover game rules which can be a difficult subject with the depth and complexity of law.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't actually run into show stopping problems whilst reading a science fiction novel. It's not like, &quot;Hey I'm on page 56 an I don't know how to get to page 57.&quot;  (Unless it is a choose your own adventure).  Hey, maybe that's what I'll ask next.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10" LastActivityDate="2011-01-21T02:25:32.320" Title="Could you recommend a list of questions that wouldn't be closed right away?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2016-03-27T15:18:40.083" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23" CreationDate="2011-01-20T22:52:32.760" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aren't questions like that pretty good &lt;em&gt;meta&lt;/em&gt; questions? (i.e. to clarify whether a question is on-topic for the site)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note that that's what's happened to them so far - they have been moved here).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="108" LastEditDate="2012-02-16T09:14:19.237" LastActivityDate="2012-02-16T09:14:19.237" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="168" CreationDate="2011-01-20T23:49:55.773" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;“Trivia” questions, that is, questions about a specific science-fiction work/series/universe, are consensually on-topic. Even &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/14/are-google-able-questions-appropriate&quot;&gt;googlable questions are appropriate&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question has to be answerable in order to be consensually on-topic, which excludes speculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/78/a-first-look-at-questions-so-far&quot;&gt;the rest&lt;/a&gt; is in still debate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T23:49:55.773" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23" CreationDate="2011-01-20T23:54:33.647" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;“Is X science-fiction” is very often hotly debated, so such questions are prime candidates for being closed as “subjective and argumentative”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They should &lt;strong&gt;not be moved to Meta&lt;/strong&gt; unless the purpose of the question is to ask whether a work or subgenre is appropriate for this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T23:54:33.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6" CreationDate="2011-01-21T00:38:35.043" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Um guys what about &quot;The Wheel of Time&quot; series by Robert Jordan?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As any fan of the series will tell you, the Age of Legends WAS sci fi (hover cars, power lances, etc alongside Mr Jordan's version of magic/power).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted the series is set in a seperate age that is pre-industrial, however 1/2 the characters (and most of the bad guys) are FROM the age of legends and have an appreciation of sci fi concepts. Seems like a grey line to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="359" LastActivityDate="2011-01-21T00:38:35.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="168" CreationDate="2011-01-21T02:25:32.320" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that questions of the form &quot;Is there a novel/movie which has this interesting/unique characteristic?&quot; should be allowed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7/has-any-science-fiction-work-accurately-predicted-the-emergence-of-future-technol/242#242&quot;&gt;Has any science fiction work accurately predicted the emergence of future technology?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/528/are-there-any-sci-fi-novels-or-stories-narrated-in-reverse-chronolgy-a-la-mement&quot;&gt;Are there any sci-fi novels or stories narrated in reverse chronolgy (a la Memento)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/82/are-there-any-science-fiction-stories-without-humans-at-all&quot;&gt;Are there any science fiction stories without humans at all?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/205/are-there-any-major-sci-fi-authors-that-share-a-universe-in-their-novels&quot;&gt;Are there any major sci-fi authors that “share” a universe in their novels?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer of these questions can be a list or not (there may be only one answer) but even if the answer is a list I don't think that is something bad. As long as the characteristic of the work that is being asked is unique and interesting (something that its up to the community to decide), I think these questions add true value, and even partially correct answer to the question (for example in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/205/are-there-any-major-sci-fi-authors-that-share-a-universe-in-their-novels&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; one) can be helpful and insightful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2011-01-21T02:25:32.320" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="151" CreationDate="2011-01-21T04:44:46.530" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We might as well all go over to wikipedia if we're just going to copy and paste those pages into our answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;fe&gt;Yes, please!&amp;lt;/fe&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or for those who don't get my sense of humor: I think people should &lt;strong&gt;stop asking questions that can be answered by a copy &amp;amp; paste from Wikipedia&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, if a c&amp;amp;p from WP is sufficient to answer the question, then that's all that should be done. The OP didn't bother to make that little bit of effort before asking, after all. Why should the person answering work harder than the asker?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastActivityDate="2011-01-21T04:44:46.530" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="176" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-21T09:59:04.573" Score="14" ViewCount="421" Body="&lt;p&gt;The drama, up to the current point: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A question was asked: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1164/is-the-time-war-introduced-only-in-new-doctor-who&quot;&gt;Is the &quot;Time War&quot; introduced only in &quot;new&quot; Doctor Who?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My &lt;sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(now-deleted)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; reply answered the question, and cited two Wikipedia pages as the source of my info.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The OP wrote, in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/151/posting-large-swaths-of-wikipedia-as-answers/175#175&quot;&gt;a comment on Meta&lt;/a&gt;:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm reluctant to read that Wikipedia page, since it almost certainly contains spoilers (i.e. outlines the entire plot, not just where the plot starts). There's also information in one of the answers that's not (from a quick search; again: don't want to read it) in the Wikipedia answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which leads me to ask:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;If someone asks a question, and:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the answer to that question would be a spoiler for someone who hasn't seen/read everything&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the asker does &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; state he wants a spoiler-free answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it reasonable to assume that the OP is looking for an answer to his question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or should anyone thinking about answering first ask the OP if they &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; want the answer, or only certain parts of the answer? And then return later—hopefully to find out what sort of answer is acceptable—and then make sure that their response meets the criteria?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2016-02-24T00:17:26.143" Title="If you don't want spoilers…" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="176" CreationDate="2011-01-21T10:39:15.687" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that when a person asks a question, it should be assumed that they want as full an answer as possible, unless they state otherwise.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the person asking the question doesn't want a full and detailed answer, why is he asking it on SE? If he only wants a specific spoiler-free answer, he should have specified that in his question.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In your example, the OP should have asked his question as something like &quot;I'm currently watching the new Doctor Who series. Is the Time War something which was introduced with the Ninth Doctor, or was it featured in the original Doctor Who series?&quot; Which would imply that he wanted an answer about the background of the plot rather than the details of the plot.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;His question as it stands definitely implies that he's fully familiar with the plot, and so I would probably have posted a full answer without considering spoilers as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="122" LastActivityDate="2011-01-21T10:39:15.687" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="178" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="181" CreationDate="2011-01-21T19:20:17.870" Score="-1" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe I should have asked this in the definition phase, but better late than never.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm considering asking a question which requires a subjective response - something what made left the biggest impression on the readers. The intention is to get sci-fi recommendations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are we banning subjective questions? Seems a shame, but I would rather find out here than getting it closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest that part of the answer depends on what kind of site you want. If you want a &lt;em&gt;community&lt;/em&gt;, you need some latitude in subjective questions, just like &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;meta.stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;. If you want factual answers only, be aware that you may end up with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/151/posting-large-swaths-of-wikipedia-as-answers&quot;&gt;Wikipedia-lite&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T09:16:33.917" LastActivityDate="2011-01-21T20:15:57.760" Title="What about subjective questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="133" CreationDate="2011-01-21T19:32:59.140" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because you can easily find the answer in Wikipedia.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_actors_who_have_played_the_Doctor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_actors_who_have_played_the_Doctor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="452" LastActivityDate="2011-01-21T19:32:59.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="151" CreationDate="2011-01-21T19:46:29.840" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is partly the nature of the site and partly the nature of the questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The site:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;superuser&lt;/a&gt; and so on are &quot;how tos&quot;, which &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTHOWTO#Wikipedia_is_not_a_manual.2C_guidebook.2C_textbook.2C_or_scientific_journal&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia is not&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The questions:&lt;/strong&gt; if you ask factual, closed questions, &quot;which is the most&quot;, &quot;what was the name of&quot; etc you are more likely to get Wikipedia copy/pastes. If you ask open, &quot;why&quot; questions you will get less or no Wikipedia copies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is partly the reason for my question, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/178/what-about-subjective-questions&quot;&gt;What about subjective questions?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:33:39.573" LastActivityDate="2011-01-21T19:46:29.840" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="178" CreationDate="2011-01-21T20:07:12.077" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You got the word recommendation in your question, you risk getting closed for seeking recommendations. Strangely, if you question is &quot;What books have space snails?&quot; it isn't closed, but &quot;What books have space snails, I'd like to read them&quot; will get closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, we don't have subjective questions in the sense of &quot;How do I get my child to go to sleep on time?&quot; which has several subjective answers and all or some of them might solve a problem for someone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We got subjective questions that don't solve a problem for anyone, and it's my impression of a fictional world against yours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's worse than wikipedia-lite, it could become a wookiepedia mirror.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10" LastActivityDate="2011-01-21T20:07:12.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="182" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-21T20:15:18.587" Score="5" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question asker didn't say he was interested in reading the books people listed, but what if he was?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1156/works-of-science-fiction-featuring-as-of-yet-inexistent-narcotics-drugs&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1156/works-of-science-fiction-featuring-as-of-yet-inexistent-narcotics-drugs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question and it's answers is isomorphic with a request for recommendations for similar books, which is a question type that is getting close because scifi &quot;isn't a recommendation service.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Btw, I don't think it should be closed, because to mention a book, without specifically condemning it is to recommend it. But if we don't mention books, we can't talk about science fiction.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE: 20% of the front page questions are of this type. A bit higher if you include the already closed questions.&lt;/strong&gt; So 1/5 of all newbie questions will get closed.  When I started as a naive newbie on SO, I didn't have anything near a 20% close rate&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/935/sci-fi-that-leverages-contemporary-technology&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/935/sci-fi-that-leverages-contemporary-technology&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1156/works-of-science-fiction-featuring-as-of-yet-inexistent-narcotics-drugs&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1156/works-of-science-fiction-featuring-as-of-yet-inexistent-narcotics-drugs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/937/are-there-more-novels-like-daniel-suarezs-daemon-and-freedom&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/937/are-there-more-novels-like-daniel-suarezs-daemon-and-freedom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/687/what-works-feature-humans-gaining-immortality-and-its-effects&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/687/what-works-feature-humans-gaining-immortality-and-its-effects&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/609/what-sci-fi-story-featured-a-linear-accelerator-for-space-launch&quot;&gt;What Sci fi story featured a linear accelerator for space launch?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/205/are-there-any-major-sci-fi-authors-that-share-a-universe-in-their-novels&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/205/are-there-any-major-sci-fi-authors-that-share-a-universe-in-their-novels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1047/novels-like-larry-nivens-the-mote-in-gods-eye&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1047/novels-like-larry-nivens-the-mote-in-gods-eye&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7/has-any-science-fiction-work-accurately-predicted-the-emergence-of-future-technol&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7/has-any-science-fiction-work-accurately-predicted-the-emergence-of-future-technol&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2011-01-21T21:58:48.083" Title="Why isn't this question a recommendation question?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="178" CreationDate="2011-01-21T20:15:57.760" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You do not need such latitude in order to build a community. This isn't another forum so you've got to stop thinking like that right away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is supposed to be the place you go to find definitive answers to your science-fiction questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want book or film recommendations, either ask in chat or one of the multitudes of scifi forums already out there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's a question that you can ask at the watercooler and anybody can come along and answer, that's not the right kind of question. Try again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Better quality questions on this site are those where you would find yourself travelling through snow, traversing rocky terrain and stepping over a tauntaun's corpse to ask a shaman about. One where it's not an endless parade of people chiming in with what they think. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="383" LastActivityDate="2011-01-21T20:15:57.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="182" CreationDate="2011-01-21T20:22:55.037" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should have been closed, not made community wiki. CW is not an excuse to allow another set of poll or list type questions. Such proliferation renders the entire state of this Stack Exchange as iffy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, it is a recommendation question dressed up as a list type.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="383" LastActivityDate="2011-01-21T20:22:55.037" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="176" CreationDate="2011-01-21T20:38:07.400" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(I am the OP - but note that I do not consider there to be any &quot;drama&quot; here).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My comment on meta was not clear, I believe - perhaps also my question (although in that case, an edit would be most appropriate, really).  Before I give my answer to the overall question, here's the explanation of the &quot;Time War&quot; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Wikipedia page about the &quot;Time War&quot; is (unsurprisingly) encyclopedic; it's long (much longer than even good SO/SE answers), and covers in detail not just how this story was introduced into the Doctor Who universe, but the entire plot of the substory, discussion of continuity, and so forth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I wanted was a detailed, interesting, answer as to the origin (specifically the introduction into the universe, not the entire backstory).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If&lt;/em&gt; you consider that Wikipedia is an authoritative source that contains all relevant information (it appears some people do, which is sad but off-topic) then you could indeed answer this question using only information within that Wikipedia page.  &lt;em&gt;However&lt;/em&gt;, IMO a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; answer would do more than just summarise particular sections of that page, and it would be &lt;em&gt;specific to the question&lt;/em&gt; (in the same way that SO answers are specific to the question, and not 'here's a link to a page that explains all about binary search trees).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My comment about spoilers was referencing the fact that the Wikipedia entry contains far too much information, &lt;em&gt;that is not answering this specific question&lt;/em&gt;.  I obviously have no problem with answers that are full and detailed and &lt;em&gt;on topic to the question&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of the larger question: &quot;spoiler&quot; is a vague and subjective term.  There are elements of story lines that are clearly going to have a significant impact, but there are many others that would &quot;spoil&quot; the story for some and not others.  For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(Warning: Star Wars related)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Darth Vader is Luke and Leia's father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this clearly falls into the former camp.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(Warning: Serenity related)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Wash dies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is much more subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(Warning: Star Trek related)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Data ends up captain of the Enterprise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would probably not be considered something that &quot;spoils&quot; watching ST by most (especially you consider how it eventually occurs).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO good answers should make judicious use of the spoiler tag.  If there's something that the answerer feels would spoil the story but is necessary to make the answer interesting and detailed (i.e. good), then include it in the answer but make it as a spoiler.  If the answerer doesn't feel it's a spoiler but the asker does, then that's the asker's fault for not being clearer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll go and research my question and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1164/is-the-time-war-introduced-only-in-new-doctor-who/1224#1224&quot;&gt;answer it myself with the sort of answer I hoped to get&lt;/a&gt;, which perhaps will demonstrate this more clearly.  (Pre-emptive note: the fact that I answered my own question does not mean that it was one that I should not have asked. It took a lot of work to find out what I did and summarise it - work that I believe that someone more expert in Doctor Who than I would not have needed to do.  There are also parts of my answer that I am not 100% confident in, that the expert could probably have done better).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2011-01-22T06:12:01.553" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="151" CreationDate="2011-01-21T20:57:18.257" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that this will always be a significant problem, because Wikipedia/Wookiepedia/MemoryAlpha (etc) have been around for a long time, and have a lot of high-quality information.  This was not the case with (e.g.) SO, where there were well-documented (e.g. early SE podcast episodes) problems with the existing sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, while SE sites are wiki-like, they are not designed to be an encyclopedia.  There are significant differences between an encyclopedia and Q&amp;amp;A, for example, scope (questions are &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt;), depth (questions hopefully look for more insight), and impartiality (questions care less about this than a 'dry' encyclopedia).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think @neilfein is right: voting is the way to fix this.  If there doesn't appear to be any way to answer the question well &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; regurgitating another site, then comment on the question, down-vote it, and/or vote to close it.  If the question is ok but the answer is not, then, again, comment on it, down-vote it, and/or edit it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All SE sites have poor answers.  As long as there are also many good answers, which will float to the top (via votes/acceptance), then that's not a serious problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-01-21T20:57:18.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="176" CreationDate="2011-01-21T21:05:19.107" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/176/if-you-dont-want-spoilers/177#177&quot;&gt;Nellius&lt;/a&gt;, I think that when you answer a question, you should feel free to include spoilers unless the questions &lt;strong&gt;explicitly requests&lt;/strong&gt; non-spoiler answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that if you want to include spoilers as part of your answer, you can use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1191/add-markdown-support-for-hidden-until-you-click-text-aka-spoilers/71396#71396&quot;&gt;spoiler markup&lt;/a&gt;: put &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;!&lt;/code&gt; in front of every spoiler line (this is a simplification of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72877/whats-the-exact-syntax-for-spoiler-markup/72878#72878&quot;&gt;the full syntax&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; This is a spoiler.&#xA; This is still a spoiler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To see the text in a spoiler block, select it or put your mouse cursor over it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would further like to warn &lt;strong&gt;askers&lt;/strong&gt; that even if they do request non-spoiler answers, it is &lt;strong&gt;impossible to guarantee&lt;/strong&gt; that answers will be sufficiently spoiler-free. Anyone can post an answer, and the bar for voting answers up is very low, so there is definitely a risk that you will see overly spoily answers. The risk is yours to take.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2011-01-21T21:05:19.107" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="155" CreationDate="2011-01-22T03:46:30.587" Score="11" Body="&lt;h3&gt;#1 - Start building an understandable &amp;quot;charter&amp;quot; of why you are here, fast.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a challenge at hand to &lt;em&gt;quickly&lt;/em&gt; put to rest all the angst about what belongs on this site and what doesn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A hypothetical FAQ should start with what &lt;em&gt;types&lt;/em&gt; of questions should this site allow? I'm not talking about your definition of &amp;quot;Sci Fi&amp;quot;; That's the geeky insider stuff. I'm talking about figuring out why this site exists? What are we trying to accomplish? The end game, of course, is to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;preclude&lt;/em&gt; the bottom 20-50% of questions that do not meet your expectations of &amp;quot;excellent Q&amp;amp;A.&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply stated, Scifi-SE does not really fit the mold of an expert Q&amp;amp;A. Understandably, Scifi-SE was not &lt;em&gt;designed&lt;/em&gt; to be an academic study about the techniques and artistry of science fiction literature. That's okay because nobody expected it would be. But the Stack Exchange veterans are surely lamenting that this site is becoming little more than an &lt;strong&gt;unabashed list of trivia and reference material&lt;/strong&gt;. That's not really what Stack Exchange is about and they know this site could be so much more. So what you have to figure out is…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; you going to do with this site?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without that &lt;em&gt;purpose&lt;/em&gt;, without that potential for &lt;em&gt;learning&lt;/em&gt;, users are going to stop finding value in the Scifi Stack Exchange and lose interest. Endless variations of &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;Let's throw together another list of…&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; isn't going to cut it. The goal should be to define exactly what kind of questions you &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; want. Are recommendations okay? What about &amp;quot;preferred reading lists?&amp;quot; Stuff easily found in IMDB?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The concern is that the rules needed to shoehorn this subject into a viable Q&amp;amp;A will be so esoteric that it creates a bad user experience for first-time users; That this site will see no end to the constant hand-holding needed to resolve the latest influx of tiresome posts. So you really &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; that simple understanding of your purpose; maybe a few guidelines about what you are trying to do… and &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;…and it all has to be understandable in about 5-10 seconds flat. That's quite a challenge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2011-01-22T04:09:32.953" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="190" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="212" CreationDate="2011-01-22T04:50:34.103" Score="20" ViewCount="436" Body="&lt;p&gt;With respect to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/155/this-site-is-doomed-and-will-curl-up-and-die-the-sunshine-and-hope-thread/189#189&quot;&gt;Robert Cartaino's answer&lt;/a&gt; on the hilariously-titled question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/155&quot;&gt;This site is doomed and will curl up and die — the sunshine-and-hope thread&lt;/a&gt;, SciFi.SE needs to come up with an elevator pitch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator_pitch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;elevator pitch&lt;/a&gt; is a short, 1-2 minute (although Robert suggests 5-10 seconds) schtick you can memorize and deliver to someone in an elevator when they ask, &quot;What is the Science Fiction Stack Exchange site about?&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's meant to distill down the core essence of the product so a person, before they get to their floor, fully understands what it is you're trying to do and, ideally, is convinced what you're trying to do is awesome and immensely worthwhile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what would be our elevator pitch? What is &lt;em&gt;quintessentially&lt;/em&gt; SciFi.SE material, and what is &lt;em&gt;categorically&lt;/em&gt; not? Why would a layperson who wasn't involved in the proposal ever want to visit and keep coming back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.730" LastActivityDate="2011-03-29T17:28:23.590" Title="What is SciFi.SE's Elevator Pitch?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="191" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-22T05:17:00.300" Score="10" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I saw that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1022/what-two-tng-episodes-does-ashley-judd-appear-in-and-does-she-say-she-didnt&quot;&gt;The Ashley Judd&lt;/a&gt; question got re-opened after a massive edit, I think that is a good thing and part of the proccess. However, I think this is a very sad statement from the community as even the new question I don't think is a really good example of what we should be doing here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Update 1:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The question was edited after it was closed - which I missed so there may be some confusion on the close reason. &#xA;This is the original question: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;title&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;What TNG episodes does Ashley Judd appear in? &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/title&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  What was her characters name and what was her role in the episodes? I've got &quot;The Game&quot; -- I can't remember a second time, but I know there was one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is the text that was involved in the uproar, I still don't think it's a great questions, but better than originally asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact the edits changed the question in such a dramatic way, that I should have been a new question IMHO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've inserted the post history below so everyone can see what i'm talking about. Events are newest at the top, oldest at the bottom.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IkuOY.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do I think this is a bad question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's beyond an easily google-able question. There is no added value to simply posting an answer with a) the episode name and b) a link to IMDB/Wikipedia/etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is really nothing of value that can be added without straying off topic of the question, while Tony makes a valiant effort, his answer veers off course into a discussion on why certain characters where not in the movie &lt;em&gt;Nemesis&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Another place listing what actors where in what TV show/Movie doesn't make the internet a better place&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I whole heartedly agree with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/14/are-google-able-questions-appropriate/18#18&quot;&gt;Jeff on this one&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mark Trapp put it very well in the comments when he said: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This type of question is a death trap: leaving it open allows for people to ask this about every single TNG guest star, or heck every single guest star on every single SF show ever. Do we really want the site to be consumed with these types of questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, i've resisted just shutting it back down for now. And I pose this question to the community, &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; is it a good question that makes the internet better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2011-01-22T22:10:17.507" Title="Why does the community think identify what movie/show and actor was in questions are good?" Tags="|discussion|scope|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="191" CreationDate="2011-01-22T05:25:50.700" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's more a sign of the community flipping the bird to moderators and the Stack Exchange staff coming along trying to rescue this site and prune it into something worthwhile, purposeful and one that won't be euthanised as the careening ship smashes all and sundry into the rocky planet below and smears all the corpses into the forcefield, inches from the actual terrain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="383" LastActivityDate="2011-01-22T05:25:50.700" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26" CreationDate="2011-01-22T07:05:19.277" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am quite confused by the current situation.  Unless I am misunderstanding, essentially everyone that has answered/voted on this question is &lt;em&gt;in favour&lt;/em&gt; of allowing these questions.  However, this is being applied fairly inconsistently at the moment.  For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A recommendation for novels like those by an author was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/937/are-there-more-novels-like-daniel-suarezs-daemon-and-freedom&quot;&gt;closed&lt;/a&gt; (by moderator) whereas basically the same question (different author and attributes) is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1047/novels-like-larry-nivens-the-mote-in-gods-eye&quot;&gt;not&lt;/a&gt; (and in fact, was answered by that same moderator).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Recommendations for stories about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/687/what-works-feature-humans-gaining-immortality-and-its-effects&quot;&gt;immortality&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1065/science-fiction-that-actually-puts-organized-religion-in-a-good-light&quot;&gt;positive religion&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/781/what-works-feature-the-human-race-getting-decimated-by-a-superior-race&quot;&gt;the extinction of the human race&lt;/a&gt;: all closed.  Recommendation for stories about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/727/what-sci-fi-universes-feature-human-xenophobia-as-a-main-feature&quot;&gt;xenophobia&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/844/books-or-movies-dealing-with-the-early-colonization-of-mars&quot;&gt;mars colonisation&lt;/a&gt;: open (although there are two close votes for the former).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps I should ask this as a separate meta question, but what can we do about this? It seems like the closing does not match the meta discussion, which in turns makes meta seem a bit pointless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2011-01-22T07:05:19.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="190" CreationDate="2011-01-22T16:10:41.917" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;SF discussion sites, the “good parts” version&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written/browse_frm/thread/1a7f4f7a328c66d4/0c80b2b46334395a?tvc=1#0c80b2b46334395a&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Read a story thirty years ago and can't remember its title?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written/browse_frm/thread/5e92cbffd4d23302/23a1d6c85d6ba92f&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Troubled over a plot point?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.pratchett/browse_frm/thread/df4803193b51696a/bdf2ff4f3a6c52e5&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Not getting an allusion in a Pratchett book?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.science/browse_frm/thread/e0b23f9fad17bea9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wondering how a hard sf concept could play out?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.fandom/browse_frm/thread/59455d9ad53cb0b8/5103544015f42e65&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Looking for information on the industry?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions and answers format and the voting system highlight the good stuff, prevent off-topic or meandering discussions and keep away spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Only pick one or two bullet points unless you're going to a very high floor.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this represents what I think would be a good Science Fiction Stack Exchange site. I do not think it represents what scifi.se is at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2011-01-22T18:38:32.427" LastActivityDate="2011-01-22T18:38:32.427" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26" CreationDate="2011-01-22T16:38:24.257" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;They're a sickness and serve no good other than making themselves into polls with chunky text and letting people high five each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rephrase them all you want, the pointlessness is still the same. And they're lists, let's not delude ourselves from that fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not knowing what book to read or film to watch next doesn't validate the question, nor this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="383" LastActivityDate="2011-01-22T16:38:24.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="196" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-22T17:01:49.873" Score="12" ViewCount="240" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the things I've always loved about Stack Exchange sites is how nice the community is. When I'd asked question at say, Rails Forum, I'd be told how stupid I was for not reading the docs or that my code sucked, whatever. I come to Stack Overflow and I just get answers and help. I love that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've only been at Scifi.Se for a few days, and already the community seems to be devolving into passive-aggressive, smart-ass comments and a general lack of respect. It's not bad yet, but I see the signs and it's already made me think of just abandoning this beta all together. It's not like that on Writers.Se -- people there are generally trying to form a community and work together to build a site. When a question is posted that's maybe not the greatest -- no one posts a link to a Wikipedia article in the comments and says something along the lines of &quot;what, this not enough detail for you.&quot; They try to guide the question into something that will work. Unfortunately that site looks poised to die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not happening here. It started with the mass-closing of more than a dozen questions by someone, while an SE moderator, hadn't really taken the time to participate in the community. To his credit, when a question he closed was reopened he's asked why people found it interesting. It was my question, so I'm staying out of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to post a lot of questions, actually, of different kinds, to see what the community likes and will tolerate. I strongly disagreed with the closing of that particular question, because it wasn't open-ended, wasn't subjective and was something actually has interested me for a while. I figured someone would know. But, whatever, had the community not reopened then, I think that's good, too. It helps to shape the site and for all of us to know going forward what's working and what's not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also see some early problems of trying to force the site into something that it's not. Maybe it's just that this type of site and this topic is not well suited to what the SE model is. Maybe, the SE model needs to adapt a bit and allow types questions that wouldn't work at say Stack Overflow or Superuser, because this is a fundamentally different kind of topic. I don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the point is, this is a beta. We all need to feel free to be able to pose questions and we need to deal gently with each other as we come to consensus. My roommate actually joined at my prodding. He's a huge sci-fi fan and I was like, you need to post a questions. He won't, because &lt;em&gt;he's afraid&lt;/em&gt; of how people will respond after lurking over the last day or so and seeing how some of the question were responded to and the moderating style. That should concern all of us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="219" LastEditorUserId="219" LastEditDate="2011-01-22T17:34:32.513" LastActivityDate="2011-01-22T18:19:40.893" Title="Is the tone and tenor of the site already devolving?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="197" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-22T17:26:04.393" Score="21" ViewCount="958" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's subjective, isn't it? What's easy to find for one might not be for another. Who gets to decide what's easy to find? The twenty-something with vast experience using the internet and frequent visitor to any number of scifi encyclopedia-like sites out there? The 50-year-old who only uses the internet to send email, stumbles on the site and has a question? Are we going to exclude him because we think the answer could be easily found if he'd just done X, Y and Z? How do you benchmark that standard so that it's far and consistently applied? I don't think you can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Where do we draw that line?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions that Google (or some other Search Engine) knows that answer to?&lt;/strong&gt; That's all of them. And if most of the traffic to this site is supposed to come from search engines to be considered viable, then don't we want to appear in the search results when someone puts that question into the search engine? Using this as an excuse to close questions seems like a double-standard.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If it's on IMDB?&lt;/strong&gt; So, strike every single question about directors, writers, producers, actors and almost anything film related, because the answer will be there in some way or another.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If it's on MemoryAlpha?&lt;/strong&gt; Okay, every single Star Trek question is out. The answers are all there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it on Wikipedia?&lt;/strong&gt; Well, then. Every. Single. Question. Is. Out. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying there shouldn't be a line. I'm saying it's going to be incredibly difficult to consistently define and if it's used by one moderator as an excuse to close question without community input, we're going to have a site with a bunch of closed questions. Maybe this can be a reason to close only if some other reason exists in tandem? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="219" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2011-08-05T23:30:53.273" LastActivityDate="2011-08-05T23:30:53.273" Title="Should &quot;trivially easy to find&quot; be a benchmark for moderating the site?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|general-reference|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2017-05-07T18:02:09.220" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="196" CreationDate="2011-01-22T17:28:22.010" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe we could be kinder. See where that's gotten things? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mass closings was the kick in the face this site needed to ask itself, what's the point?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at the type of questions that flood this ill-reasoned site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;what book to read next?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;what are some questions to ask authors at a con?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;name that actress who was in that episode of a show?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;who else thought Flash Gordon was great?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;where can I get some juicy public domain material for my fanfic?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;who are the influences of this author?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;list the actors considered for a part in this show?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;remember that novel about a time-traveller with an iron lung?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;what's a good scifi movie you can recommend with cyberpunk?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anything, the tone and tenor is just following the quality and range of questions posted. At least there's a consistency in that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can hold hands all day long singing about marshmallows while drinking cups of tea. But the reality is that totally ignores the core questions this site really needs to figure out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/86/what-problems-does-answering-a-question-on-this-site-solve&quot; title=&quot;what is the best kind of answer here?&quot;&gt;What problem does this Stack Exchange solve?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/190/what-is-scifi-ses-elevator-pitch&quot; title=&quot;distil the site&quot;&gt;What's the elevator pitch?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.730" LastActivityDate="2011-01-22T17:28:22.010" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="196" CreationDate="2011-01-22T18:06:56.173" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted one question here and was excited to do more, but I don't think I will. I do find the discussion to be hostile and unwelcoming sometimes, especially in the meta. I mean, case in point is a user posts a discussion saying he's worried the community is devolving toward hostility, and you've get replies like this: &quot;I frankly only see one person being an asshole here, and it's not the author of this answer. Actually, two people&quot; from someone who's got about as much rep as I do here. I mean, you want examples, just read this meta. And hey @aaron, Why not discuss, instead of accuse? I just think those so concerned about the quality of questions should 1) start posting their own questions and 2) start helping new users write better questions instead of running around being soooooooo negative all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastEditorUserId="386" LastEditDate="2011-01-22T18:19:40.893" LastActivityDate="2011-01-22T18:19:40.893" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="197" CreationDate="2011-01-22T18:09:30.800" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the biggest reason I'm afraid to post questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastActivityDate="2011-01-22T18:09:30.800" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="196" CreationDate="2011-01-22T18:16:21.497" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that it's starting to work. While the overall number of questions has gone down, the caliber of them has gone up. The ones that are being closed fit into categories that the more experienced members and mods usually agree are argumentative (With a few exceptions). Here's a few examples of what I think are great questions that is the purpose for this community, that were posted in the last day. I think we're making progress:-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1210/who-what-are-kim-stanley-robinsons-influences&quot;&gt;Who/what are Kim Stanley Robinson's Influences?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1228/is-the-klingon-language-fully-realized-or-just-a-handful-of-disconnected-phrases&quot;&gt;Is the Klingon language fully realized, or just a handful of disconnected phrases?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1213/psychics-in-the-firefly-verse&quot;&gt;Are there any other instances of psychics in the Firefly 'verse in the rest of the canon?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2011-01-22T18:16:21.497" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="197" CreationDate="2011-01-22T18:18:01.947" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is why I voted to re-open a few of the questions that were &quot;trivially easy to find&quot;. If there's a question with an easy answer, it's alright. I probably won't vote for it, but, well...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2011-01-22T18:18:01.947" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="203" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="206" CreationDate="2011-01-22T19:00:34.063" Score="4" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't been a part of SE for long enough to know much about how moderators are chosen, but would it help us if we picked a few key heavy users, and made them moderators? Or is it too early for that? I'm thinking that we should have a few mods for this site only, until the site is ready to leave beta, at which time we should give the community another chance. Anyone have any thoughts on this matter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2011-01-22T19:10:05.413" Title="Should we choose our own mods?" Tags="|discussion|moderators|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="203" CreationDate="2011-01-22T19:08:30.660" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;A couple of weeks into the beta SOIS (the people that run the site) will choose moderators &lt;em&gt;pro tempore&lt;/em&gt; (temporary moderators) based on people they feel they can trust while the site develops in the beta. Once the site launches, the community &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; choose their own moderators through an election process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example from Programmers.SE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/311/moderator-pro-tem-announcement&quot;&gt;Moderator Pro Tem Announcement&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1019/2011-community-moderator-election&quot;&gt;2011 Community Moderator Election&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know Programmers.SE intimately, but the process is the same for all Stack Exchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T08:26:45.047" LastActivityDate="2011-01-22T19:08:30.660" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="205" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="213" CreationDate="2011-01-22T19:08:57.177" Score="27" ViewCount="244" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've already had &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6/is-fantasy-in-spec-for-this-site&quot;&gt;one question&lt;/a&gt; that has basically decided that if people want to talk about fantasy here, it's okay, but the name sci-fi would discourage them. There have been other hints from other questions that a fantasy site might be in order, or we might just want to drop the wall entirely. So, I'm going to put it point blank, should we change the name of this site to openly allow fantasy? A proposed name could be speculative fiction, or the more common Science Fiction and Fantasy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Tony Meyer has a very good point. I'm going to propose that any change in the name wait for at least 2 weeks. However, I still think it's a good idea to talk about it now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2011-02-03T18:31:04.520" Title="Should we change the name of this site to include fantasy?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|scope|fantasy|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="203" CreationDate="2011-01-22T19:10:05.413" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;See this article on &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/moderator-pro-tempore/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Moderator Pro Tempore&lt;/a&gt; the timelines may slip a bit depending on Robert and Rebecca's workload.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastActivityDate="2011-01-22T19:10:05.413" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="205" CreationDate="2011-01-22T19:11:44.833" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been thinking about it for a while, and I support merging in Fantasy to this site. The subjects are normally very closely related and inter-mix a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastActivityDate="2011-01-22T19:11:44.833" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="208" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-22T20:29:48.280" Score="4" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;&quot;Questions that are deemed sufficiently off-topic may be closed by the community&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. At the moment, it seems like questions that are even just a little bit off-topic - or &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be off-topic, but hasn't been agreed on yet - are being closed or having close votes.  I don't think it's possible to see where down-votes have been cast, so it's possible they are occurring too, but given that there aren't any negative-vote questions, it seems unlikely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My understanding was that if a question isn't very good - if it's badly asked, unclear, or just not really an interesting question - then the appropriate action was to down-vote it.  If it just totally doesn't belong (i.e. there's a clear consensus that it doesn't belong, and isn't close) then vote-to-close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I wrong about the intended use of the question down-vote?  If not, does it not apply during a beta? (e.g. in a beta is the use of close-votes favoured over down-votes?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2011-01-22T23:51:06.687" Title="Are question down-votes discouraged during a beta?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|voting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="205" CreationDate="2011-01-22T20:37:04.253" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would have been great to have been a &quot;speculative fiction&quot; site all along, and that &lt;em&gt;at some point&lt;/em&gt; merging this site and fantasy.stackexchange.com (assuming it makes it to beta) would be an excellent idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;strong&gt;I think this is a very bad time to do this&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether or not a question is scifi or fantasy does not appear to be one of the most pressing issues that the site faces at the moment.  Opening up the site would presumably get more users/views, but if you look at the questions on &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/15712/fantasy&quot;&gt;Area51 for fantasy&lt;/a&gt;, there are many that are the same questions that are currently causing problems here.  ISTM that adding more would simply exacerbate the problems we already face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, it seems questionable whether this site will make it out of beta (obviously, I hope it will, and I'm trying to help make it so).  If it doesn't, and we've subsumed fantasy.stackexchange.com, then we've taken them down with us, rather than giving them a chance to succeed by learning from our problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think at the moment, it would increase the number of problems with our site.  Once we're more settled, I think this would be a great idea (assuming that the people following the fantasy Area51 proposal agree, otherwise we are hijacking their proposal).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-01-22T20:37:04.253" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="191" CreationDate="2011-01-22T20:42:27.230" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my comment above, &lt;strong&gt;I was wrong&lt;/strong&gt;.  I would vote to re-open this question if it closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In answering the question, I spent about an hour researching it - I read the relevant parts of Wikipedia and Memory Alpha, I searched for their original sources, I tried to find (illegal!) clips of shows on YouTube, and so forth.  &lt;strong&gt;I failed&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can argue that I'm just not good enough at researching, but my position is that if I can't find the answer in that amount of time, then it's absolutely not simple to answer, and is worth having on the site.  It seems likely to me that a good answer will have to wait for someone that clearly recalls the actual events, or has closer knowledge (e.g. if Wil Wheaton decides he likes the site and answers himself).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You've chosen a bad example for this meta question&lt;/strong&gt;.  The example you have chosen isn't &quot;What episodes of TNG was Ashley Judd in&quot;? (That &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; something that IMDB is more suited for, and something we don't need IMO).  The example you chose is asking that, &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; why/whether she denied being in TNG.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't think that's clear enough from the question, then you should down-vote it with a comment, and the poster can edit their question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-01-22T20:42:27.230" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="208" CreationDate="2011-01-22T20:47:05.320" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downvotes are not discouraged, people just don't like being on the receiving end. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Votes are yours to cast as you wish. You can vote on whether or not a post is worth the time to read. Question votes also help in their weighting when searches are done. The higher the score, the higher they will rank in the site search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to see the negatively voted questions so far, search:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&amp;amp;q=votes%3a-100&quot; title=&quot;into the hole&quot;&gt;votes:-100&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sort by votes and jump to the last page(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to see which questions have close votes on them, you'll need to reach the reputation level that gives you access to some of the moderation tools. Or view each and every question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that are unclear, vague, or ill-fitting for the site should be closed. Downvoting is just another metric.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2011-01-22T21:41:31.993" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="190" CreationDate="2011-01-22T20:51:07.877" Score="11" Body="&lt;h1&gt;The Sci-Fi Insider's Guide&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Behind the scenes and between the lines&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wondering about those loose threads the series left you with?  We have the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few of us had a long conversation about this and basically agree that in order for this site to provide something both &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;novel&lt;/em&gt; (i.e. &amp;quot;make the internet a better place&amp;quot;), the motto/tagline/pitch needs to express three key concepts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The site is for &lt;em&gt;serious, dedicated&lt;/em&gt; fans of a work or series.  Good questions are normally about a &lt;em&gt;single&lt;/em&gt; work or &amp;quot;universe&amp;quot;, not &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;What books should I read?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; recommendations or author bios.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions trivially answerable from a single primary or &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_%28fiction%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;canon&lt;/a&gt; source (i.e. one book, film, or episode) do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; belong - hence &amp;quot;between the lines&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions are also not supposed to be entirely &lt;em&gt;speculative&lt;/em&gt;.  In other words, something that's actually reasonably answerable either via supplementary sources (like the TNG Technical Manual) or clues left in the work itself (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/%7Efellowsd/jordan/asmodean-notable.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Who Killed Asmodean?&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This represents a considerable change from the style of question that's been asked so far and also represents a very specific niche; however, it is the best way to make the site &lt;em&gt;unique&lt;/em&gt; and keep questions at what could reasonably be called an &lt;em&gt;expert&lt;/em&gt; level (a requirement for all Stack Exchanges).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="376" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2011-01-22T20:51:07.877" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="205" CreationDate="2011-01-22T23:43:17.370" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think several existing proposals should be merged into this site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/15712/fantasy&quot;&gt;Fantasy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/5368/middle-earth&quot;&gt;Middle Earth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/6511/ook&quot;&gt;Ook!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/5744/star-trek&quot;&gt;Star Trek&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/5967/star-wars&quot;&gt;Star Wars&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that's the consensus, I think the site should be renamed to SFF (“Science Fiction and Fantasy”).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastActivityDate="2011-01-22T23:43:17.370" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="208" CreationDate="2011-01-22T23:51:06.687" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;People might be focused on getting the inappropriate questions off the site. Keep in mind, when a new user arrives, the first thing they see is a list of questions. Those questions are going to serve as a template, indicating to the new user &quot;these are typical questions&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, most people's reputation scores here aren't that high yet, and downvoting someone costs you a little rep. When your rep is three digits, you might be a little more miserly with downvotes than you would be if you have rep in the thousands.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often use voting more for answers than questions in any case. If information is blatantly wrong or obviously well-written and factually correct (yes, I will downvote for bad writing and numerous typos), I'll vote appropriately. That doesn't mean it's the correct way to use votes, it's just what I do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33" LastActivityDate="2011-01-22T23:51:06.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="155" CreationDate="2011-01-22T23:53:21.830" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The questions that I am finding most interesting of what's been posted so far are the questions that examine some of the assumptions in a science fiction work and compare it to our understanding of how the universe actually works. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, I'm thinking of questions such as: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/621/how-fast-should-mutations-be-for-hard-science-fiction/672#672&quot;&gt;How fast should mutations be for&#xA;hard science fiction?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1151/why-and-how-did-the-star-trek-universe-evolve-to-a-cashless-commerce-less-society&quot;&gt;Why and&#xA;how did the Star Trek Universe evolve&#xA;to a cashless/commerce-less&#xA;society?&lt;/a&gt; (The answer to this&#xA;draws heavily on economic theory and&#xA;current understandings of how&#xA;economics works.) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1244/seeding-life-across-galaxies-with-descendants-and-without-inbreeding&quot;&gt;Seeding life acrossgalaxies with descendants and without inbreeding&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/743/in-stargate-how-can-you-have-a-point-of-origin-with-only-one-coordinate&quot;&gt;In Stargate, how can you have a point of origin with only one coordinate?&lt;/a&gt; (The answer to this draws on Internet architecture and conjectures some reasonable analyses of how the system might work. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I find such questions appealing is because they require more thought to answer than simple trivia. And they're also investigating an area that's somewhat overlooked -- the interface between science fiction and reality. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been quoted several places on this site that what science fiction authors do is posit one or more differences between their imaginary world and the real one, and then explore the consequences of those changes. However, there are often multiple legitimate analyses of how that change might play out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also feel that this might be an area where the Stack Exchange model would offer value to the field, since there are experts and enthusiasts of many areas of life that are interested in exploring these ideas. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2011-01-22T23:53:21.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="216" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-23T00:16:00.897" Score="13" ViewCount="372" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your meta site does not have a post to nominate Moderators, start one now! Pro Tem appointments will begin about two weeks after the site is created. The more guidance we receive, the more informed our choice. &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/moderator-pro-tempore/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Moderator Pro Tempore&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Each nomination should be a separate answer&lt;/strong&gt;. Link the name to the user’s profile (parent and meta) so we can see their activity.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The nominee should indicate their acceptance by editing the answer, adding that they accept the nomination. Optionally they can write something about themselves.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Self nominations are okay, and even encouraged. Most sites have not had sufficient time for many users to stand out. Self nomination is simply a way to say, “I’m interested. Let my record speak for itself.” Links to other activities may be helpful: Area 51 participation, participation in other sites, blog posts reviewing or announcing the site, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're looking for members of scifi.stackexchange.com who:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have a reasonably high reputation score to indicate active, consistent participation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Show an interest in their meta’s community-building activities.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lead by example, showing patience and respect for their fellow community members in everything they write.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Exhibit those intangible traits discussed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also good if the moderators:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are members with participation in both meta.scifi.stackexchange.com and scifi.stackexchange.com.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Participated in Area 51, generate social network referrals, or blog about the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are members who have already shown an interest or ability to promote their community.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="108" LastEditDate="2011-01-23T02:53:21.853" LastActivityDate="2011-02-11T06:28:25.280" Title="Moderator Nominations" Tags="|discussion|moderators|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-01-23T00:36:15.037" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="216" CreationDate="2011-01-23T00:22:16.663" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gilles&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/56/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; has 1k+ reputation, answered nearly 29 questions, and has participated strongly on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/56/gilles&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt; and on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/56/gilles?tab=accounts&quot;&gt;many other StackExchange sites&lt;/a&gt; (over 20k rep in total).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gilles has made numerous constructive, well-thought-out comments across many meta questions, that indicate an ability to help guide the community to a successful site, without being overly forceful and demonstrating patience for other users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:20:11.437" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-01-23T00:36:15.037" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="216" CreationDate="2011-01-23T01:16:34.573" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dori&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/100/dori&quot;&gt;Dori&lt;/a&gt; has been a very strong participant in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/100/dori&quot;&gt;meta site&lt;/a&gt;, which I believe have been very beneficial to the community. In particular, Dori seems to have ideas which are popular in Meta, which the current mod team supports as well, including removing list questions, is something considered sci-fi, and has already been policing the site by helping to close questions that aren't worthy of the site. I believe that Dori could act as a go-between for the mods and general community, and in fact, is already helping to meet that goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:22:39.623" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-01-23T01:16:34.573" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="216" CreationDate="2011-01-23T01:56:05.727" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tony Meyer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/108/tony-meyer&quot;&gt;Tony Meyer&lt;/a&gt; has been active both on the main site, as well as in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/108/tony-meyer&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt; and in the chatroom. While he is new to the process of starting a StackExchange site, he has been active (at varying levels) in StackOverflow essentially since it began (with small use of ServerFault, SuperUser and other sites in the network). He seems quite capable of maintaining the post. He seems willing and able to bridge the gaps that seem to exist in our community, and has spent considerable time to help us view the state of our community. He has asked some of the best questions on the site, and has given some good answers too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Personal note:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I appreciate the nomination, and I do accept it.  &lt;strong&gt;I do feel that there are other users who would be better at this job than I would&lt;/strong&gt;, but if they aren't able to and Robert et. al. would like me to help, then I'm willing to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I strongly feel that the community here is capable of taking over most of running the site from the SE moderators, and that we would strongly benefit from having moderators that were intimately familiar and involved with the discussion on &lt;em&gt;our&lt;/em&gt; meta and our site.  My feeling is that - especially at first - letting the site self-moderate more would have worked more effectively than the heavy-handed approach (although I'm sure the SE moderators are doing their best).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;SE voice&quot; isn't as consistent as it should be (c.f. the kerfluffle over identification questions), and I hope that our pro-tem moderators work with the SE team to improve that, so that it's clearer what is up to us as a community, and what are set rules for the SE network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that the largest challenge we face &lt;em&gt;right now&lt;/em&gt; is getting more participation on the site (more views, more good questions).  I'm not a good moderator candidate in this respect - I don't have a large audience that I can push the site to, and I live in a rather remote part of the world, so don't even interact (in real life) with many potential site users. The best I could do as a moderator here, is try and ensure that we make it clearer to users what's a good question (and what's not) for the site, so that we don't put new people off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2011-02-11T06:28:25.280" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-01-23T01:56:05.727" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="197" CreationDate="2011-01-23T11:59:32.937" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am considering a new close reason&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;not sufficiently interesting&lt;/strong&gt;: this question is too basic; it can be definitively and permanently answered by a single link to a standard internet reference site with no additional explanation necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that says it all, but you have to read carefully as each word is there for a reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meaning, if your question is &lt;em&gt;so&lt;/em&gt; trivial that a single link to Wikipedia (or IMDB, or any other major &quot;standard&quot; reference site) would answer it with &lt;em&gt;no additional elaboration necessary&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, well, it's not a sufficiently interesting question, now is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: proposed alternate wording from Robert Cartaino:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;general reference&lt;/strong&gt;: this question is too basic; the answer is indexed in any number of general internet reference sources designed specifically to find that type of information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101" LastEditorUserId="101" LastEditDate="2011-01-24T03:53:27.857" LastActivityDate="2011-01-24T03:53:27.857" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="221" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-23T23:00:58.507" Score="-1" ViewCount="1564" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example, this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1223/terraforming-new-planet-turns-out-its-a-gas-viable&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1223/terraforming-new-planet-turns-out-its-a-gas-viable&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an interesting question - and could spur a lot of discussion which I would love to read and even participate in. I agree that it is probably not quite science-fiction, but unless there is a speculative science SE site, couldn't we allow these kind of questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="373" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="What is wrong with &quot;broad&quot; questions?" Tags="|discussion|scope|questions|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="221" CreationDate="2011-01-23T23:11:18.757" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Broad questions waste people's time and are costly in attention. If it's one that also sparks of debate and back and forth, that's not ideal for the Stack Exchange software, designed to deliver definitive and authoritative answers to well thought out and concrete questions. Being broad is ill-defined and unsuitable, much like one lacking any value information is not a real question as people would just be guessing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That question in particular is not meant to kick off discussion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was one requiring some extrapolation on whether or not terraforming, an oft-used device in science fiction, requires the planet to be solid in order to work. Some extra leg work was required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally the best answer for that question would be one where you would cite or research different/multiple franchises and properties to definitively say that yes, or no, it is possible to terraform a planet that isn't your standard rock base like Mars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What it's lacking is a franchise to tie it down to to make it easier to look up and point to a single source. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not a question meant for those who want to answer with a single link to Memory Alpha or the Flash Gordon database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="383" LastEditorUserId="383" LastEditDate="2011-01-23T23:21:40.227" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T23:21:40.227" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="221" CreationDate="2011-01-23T23:28:57.177" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's wrong with broad questions is that they tend to generate extended discussions, back and forth with the asker as they give more details, or between answerers as they have different interpretations of the question or cover different topics. Extended discussions don't fit in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/about&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange question and answers format&lt;/a&gt;. The format is designed to keep all answers in one place (just below the question they're answering) and all questions in one place (the question list), avoiding what tends to happen in free-form forums where information is spread all over the place and hard to find. See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/64381/need-too-broad-reason-to-close&quot;&gt;the origin of the “overly broad” close reason&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are other concerns with this question, which is that induces science speculation. It hasn't yet been decided to what extent questions about the science behind the science-fiction are on-topic here (though we have bigger concerns at the moment). Also speculation is a slippery slope, because it can get subjective, and subjective questions leads to argumentative answers, which also don't fit the questions and answers format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T23:28:57.177" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="224" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-24T01:20:46.410" Score="9" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our current trajectory seems to be to restrict this site to mere trivia questions both in and out of various science fiction universes.  Who wrote this story?  Why did character X in universe Y do Z?  Where did idea a come from in story b?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those are not worthless questions.  But they are not &lt;strong&gt;Science Fiction&lt;/strong&gt;.  If we restrict this Stack Exchange simply to those questions, then we need to change the name: Science Fiction Trivia and Fandom.  Because that's all we'll be.  A site for expert Sci-Fi Trivial Pursuit players.  Not a site for experts in Science Fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who are the experts in Science Fiction?  They are the &lt;em&gt;writers of Science Fiction&lt;/em&gt;.  What sort of question are they going to want to ask?  They sure as hell aren't interested in answering questions about their stories that a quick trip to wikipedia will answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are interested in asking and answering questions &lt;em&gt;about speculative science&lt;/em&gt;.  Science that is borderline, science that is on the edge of imagining, new ways to think about old concepts, the breath and blood of Science Fiction.  They are going to want a place where they can truly discuss and get feedback on their Science Fiction and the science behind it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions like &quot;Can you terraform a gas giant?&quot; or &quot;Are warp drives actually feasible?&quot; or &quot;Is there a basis for hyperspace?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are going to want to ask speculative questions, things that help them hash out their next story.  Or questions that allow them to examine previous stories in a new light.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are going to want to ask about writing Sci-Fi.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchanges are supposed to have a target expert.  Right now, for a Science Fiction Trivia and Fandom SE, I fit that bill for the target expert.  But frankly, I don't really want to participate in a site where I'm the target expert.  I can answer any question I might ask on that site with a quick trip to wikipedia (or the relevant in-universe wiki).  And any questioners could do the same with any question I could answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The target experts for this site should be Science Fiction writers.  What sort of site is going to attract Ben Bova, David Brin, Stephen Baxter, Orson Scott Card?  What sort of site would have attracted Carl Sagan, Gene Roddenberry, Robert Heinlein or Issac Asimov?  That's what we should be asking ourselves.  What sort of questions would they ask?  What sort of questions would they answer?  How can we truly attract the experts?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="180" LastEditorUserId="100" LastEditDate="2011-01-29T00:58:55.690" LastActivityDate="2011-01-29T00:58:55.690" Title="What sort of Sci-Fi SE would appeal to Isaac Asimov or Robert Heinlein?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="197" CreationDate="2011-01-24T02:11:42.623" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The principle behind Stack Overflow (and Stack Exchange by extension) is to &lt;em&gt;be&lt;/em&gt; that first search result on Google.  So the mere &lt;em&gt;ability&lt;/em&gt; to find information on Google/Wikipedia/Wookiepedia is not necessarily a black mark against a question.  That, I'll grant you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'll expand on what I said in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/190/what-is-scifi-ses-elevator-pitch/212#212&quot;&gt;elevator pitch&lt;/a&gt;.  The key word here is &quot;trivial&quot; and yes, that word &lt;strong&gt;does&lt;/strong&gt; have an objective meaning.  In order for a question to be more than mere trivia, it has to require one of two things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some &lt;strong&gt;education, training, or experience&lt;/strong&gt; that makes a person uniquely qualified to answer; or&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A certain degree of &lt;strong&gt;research&lt;/strong&gt;, i.e. &lt;em&gt;interpreting&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;applying&lt;/em&gt; publicly-available information.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any site based on &lt;em&gt;fiction&lt;/em&gt; - including SF.SE - is &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; going to struggle with point #1.  There's nothing to &lt;em&gt;study&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;practice&lt;/em&gt; in the context of passively-consumed entertainment.  But #2 &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; possible, and in fact, serious SF fanatics &lt;em&gt;love&lt;/em&gt; to pore over scripts and scenes trying to fill plot holes and try to unravel the mysteries of the author's universe.  That's what being a &lt;em&gt;fan&lt;/em&gt; really means.  If that doesn't interest someone, then they are a passive consumer and don't need or deserve an exchange for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trivia is actually one of the more common reasons that SF (and fantasy and other fiction) forums and groups die out.  While serious fans are trying to make sense of all the ret-cons and make sure their &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;fan fictions&lt;/a&gt; are actually consistent with &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_%28fiction%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;canon&lt;/a&gt; sources, the bottom-feeders are wasting time with stupid trivia games.  &lt;em&gt;&quot;When was Q's first appearance on TNG?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;  Who cares?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not so much that the questions are terrible by themselves, it's just that there are endless permutations of them and not a single one of them - &lt;em&gt;not a one&lt;/em&gt; - actually adds any value to the site or community, because somebody could just as easily find the answer somewhere else within 5 seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The criteria for &quot;trivia&quot; is really actually rather simple on a site like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question can be answered from a &lt;em&gt;single&lt;/em&gt; source - either reference or canon;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The source provides a &lt;em&gt;direct&lt;/em&gt; answer, not requiring the viewer/reader to extrapolate or connect dots; in other words, there is no &lt;em&gt;obfuscation&lt;/em&gt; of the answer, deliberate or accidental;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The source provides a &lt;em&gt;clear and simple&lt;/em&gt; answer, not requiring any in-depth analysis of its own in order to understand.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's basically it.  It's very easy to grok.  But just to be sure, I'll put it another way, from the perspective of the person &lt;em&gt;asking&lt;/em&gt; the question.  Ask yourself, &lt;em&gt;am I asking this question because:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I've read all the books / watched all the episodes, and just cannot put together all the clues? or&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I just can't remember and don't have the time or inclination to look it up myself?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, I can dumb it down even more than that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does this question help me, or other fans, gain a deeper appreciation for the work?&lt;/strong&gt;  Or, is it just idle curiosity?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see people complaining that some here want to restrict this site to &lt;em&gt;trivia&lt;/em&gt; questions.  But nothing could be further from the truth; keeping the trivia &lt;em&gt;off&lt;/em&gt; a site like this is where the value will come from.  The &quot;sci-fi forum&quot; concept has been done to death.  Hell, there are &lt;em&gt;conventions&lt;/em&gt; for it.  The only thing I can think of that would set this site apart from all the others is &lt;strong&gt;thought-provoking&lt;/strong&gt; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, &quot;trivially answerable&quot; &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be a benchmark, but with proper definition around the word &lt;em&gt;trivially&lt;/em&gt;.  If somebody has to cite multiple sources, interpret the (pseudo) scientific claims, or decipher clues left by the author, then that's not &lt;em&gt;trivially&lt;/em&gt; answerable.  If posting a single link to Memory Alpha definitively answers the question, &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; is trivial, and such questions shouldn't be here or on any other SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="376" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2011-01-24T02:11:42.623" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="224" CreationDate="2011-01-24T02:36:46.190" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main hurdle is that science fiction is a genre and not a skill. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being able to logically construct a solution to a problem faced in science fiction, or working out the how and the why something is or isn't feasible, now those are higher watermarks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's look to less plot hole filling and more on understanding the actual mechanics of scifi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We need to make this site for the top level in the scene of science fiction as well as those that want to be there. They're the ideal expert that we want to cater for. But as noted by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/376/aaronaught&quot;&gt;Aaronaught&lt;/a&gt; in the comment, this veers much into the territory of &lt;a href=&quot;https://writers.stackexchange.com/&quot; title=&quot;how novel&quot;&gt;Writers.SE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Winning all the slices of pie at Trivial Pursuit is not an angle this Stack Exchange should be celebrating or wanting as its mission statement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:40:22.477" LastActivityDate="2011-01-24T02:36:46.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="224" CreationDate="2011-01-24T02:40:36.390" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure -- hard-core writers should all be on &lt;a href=&quot;http://writers.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;http://writers.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; , correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, I think some of our communities &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be potentially a case of &quot;be careful what you ask for&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101" LastActivityDate="2011-01-24T02:40:36.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="224" CreationDate="2011-01-24T04:49:02.993" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I agree that forecasting from current science may be a bit out of the scope of the current scope of this site, there may be an interesting idea here. As I mentioned in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/155/this-site-is-doomed-and-will-curl-up-and-die-the-sunshine-and-hope-thread/215#215&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, I do think that there is a defined area of overlap that could be interesting both to a writer and to a reader. That would be trying to understand how the things that exist in current SF works could work in that universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, rather than trying to solve the problems of how to achieve science fictional concepts in the real world, this could be a site to explore the solutions that are currently described in SF. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, given what the TV shows (and the movie) have shown about how the Stargate functions, can we speculate on how the addressing systems works using metaphors from computer routing systems? (See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/743/in-stargate-how-can-you-have-a-point-of-origin-with-only-one-coordinate&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.) (A similar question was recently asked about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1263/is-the-basic-premise-of-humans-as-a-power-source-in-the-matrix-reasonable&quot;&gt;The Matrix&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be a tricky balance, because we're looking to understand current SF works rather than solving the problems in the real world. But it is an intersection that is currently underrepresented -- particularly for smaller SF franchises.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key would be to make sure that the question relates to one or more specific SF works -- exploring how the universe functions in that fictional reality. Therefore, a question such as whether a gaseous planet could be terraformed wouldn't be on topic. But asking about how the terraforming in Red/Blue/Green Mars could be applied to Saturn would be on topic. The big difference would be that the question wouldn't ask about terraforming in general, but about one specific fictional method of terraforming as described in that trilogy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2011-01-24T04:49:02.993" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="224" CreationDate="2011-01-24T09:22:15.240" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not going to happen, sorry. The Stackexchange sites that get world-class practitioners on them are ones relating to vast technical domains, where no one can know all of the options, and there are unambiguously correct answers. Writing in general, and SF in particular, just aren't like that. Participating here won't help a writer to produce better work; spending the same amount of time actually writing will work much better. I've not been over to the Writers Stackexchange to check, but I'm prepared to bet money that it's full of wannabe writers, with precious few actual successful professionals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, writers like to chat and hang out with their friends as much as anyone else, and a social forum site based around SF might well attract some -- there used to be a fair few professionals on the rec.arts.sf.written Usenet group -- but that's explicitly not what Stackexchange sites are for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23" LastActivityDate="2011-01-24T09:22:15.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="224" CreationDate="2011-01-24T18:36:11.170" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see two basic contradictions forming:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Site Purpose Contradiction #1:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The questions being asked are all&#xA;very subjective, because the very&#xA;&lt;em&gt;nature&lt;/em&gt; of SF is subjective.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SE does not want subjective&#xA;questions.&#xA;    They are begrudgingly allowed in&#xA;    certain circumstances only, and&#xA;    SF.SE is not being given that&#xA;    allowance.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Site Purpose Contradiction #2:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The element that will attract SF&#xA;writers and other 'experts' is a&#xA;social, speculative place where&#xA;ideas can be vetted. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SE does not&#xA;    support strictly social SE sites.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can think of two possible solutions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make SE more flexible to subjective,&#xA;speculative sites.  Add a new&#xA;category of sites to support this,&#xA;perhaps? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Turn this site into a forum&#xA;somewhere else.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I see happening is that #1 is not happening at all, so the SF.SE community is being forced into compliance with SE rules, and the result is something that is not serving the community's needs of speculation and social interaction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74" LastActivityDate="2011-01-24T18:36:11.170" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="231" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="232" CreationDate="2011-01-24T22:49:08.920" Score="1" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have 2 emails gmail and yahoo. I was trying to add yahoo to gmail. But I created a new account with yahoo. What I want is to delete yahoo and add to gmail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="452" LastEditorUserId="17" LastEditDate="2011-01-25T15:16:16.377" LastActivityDate="2011-01-25T15:16:16.377" Title="How can I delete an account?" Tags="|support|status-completed|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="231" CreationDate="2011-01-24T23:09:57.390" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've merged the two accounts now, you can log in with either OpenID - google or yahoo - and they will log you into the original account. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;/EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did you want to be able to use both logins? If so, log into the yahoo account and let me know the UserID and display name of that account, I can merge them for you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the user id will be the number in the url: &lt;code&gt;/users/&amp;lt;userID&amp;gt;/&amp;lt;displayname&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; so for me it looks like &lt;code&gt;/users/17/Zypher&lt;/code&gt; where my userid is 17 and diplay name is Zypher&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry also make sure the realname, age and email fields match so I know you control both accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/g2h0S.png&quot; alt=&quot;UserID&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="17" LastEditDate="2011-01-25T15:16:04.770" LastActivityDate="2011-01-25T15:16:04.770" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="233" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-24T23:48:20.227" Score="14" ViewCount="355" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/1293/193&quot;&gt;Has anyone heard any rumors about the third book in Scott Sigler's “Infected” series?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I sympathize with users being curious about release dates, but especially writers are notorious from missing release dates. Furthermore, there are often no sources for verifying the information, so how could we ever accept an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More problematic is that we can't know beforehand whether there are any sources, so in some cases the question could be answered, but in others the question ends up being a dead end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what is the purpose of these questions other than feeding our curiosity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="193" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T17:00:49.840" Title="How do we deal with questions about rumors and release dates?" Tags="|discussion|scope|time-sensitive-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-02-05T17:02:56.203" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="233" CreationDate="2011-01-24T23:54:15.723" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think they are two different types of questions, to be closed for different reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of &lt;em&gt;release date&lt;/em&gt; questions, there's a knowable date after which the question becomes useless. Those types of questions are a great example of something that should be closed as &lt;em&gt;too localized&lt;/em&gt;, especially on a site like SciFi.SE: it's self-obviated on release date and there's no clear and present need for knowing the release date ahead of time (unlike, perhaps, knowing when PHP 6 or Python 3 is coming out, which can dictate how to proceed with a development project).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of &lt;em&gt;rumor&lt;/em&gt; questions, I think your assessment is correct: they should be closed as &lt;em&gt;not a real question&lt;/em&gt;, in line with &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Real Questions have Answers&lt;/a&gt;: rumor questions, by their nature, begin with the premise that the question answerers cannot speak with any authority about the subject matter; otherwise it wouldn't be a question about a rumor. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2011-01-25T00:00:14.543" LastActivityDate="2011-01-25T00:00:14.543" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="233" CreationDate="2011-01-25T00:04:35.010" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, I think that rumors aren't appropriate for this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this particular case, though, the author has announced that the book is forthcoming, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Sigler#Future_stories&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia says&lt;/a&gt; it's set to be released this summer. At some point, I think it's safe to say it's no longer a rumor, but an expected release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastActivityDate="2011-01-25T00:04:35.010" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="236" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="238" CreationDate="2011-01-25T23:50:57.757" Score="14" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since this site has been launched, I've been abusing my powers by editing the titles of non-question titles.  I guess I just assumed every title should be a question and that if anyone hated it they could just roll it back.  But then Gilles kindly showed me some meta questions where the stack exchange community supported some non-question titles.  So I just wanted to figure out how people on this site felt about the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I stop messing around with these non-question titles?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are non-question titles any more or less desirable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Are non-question titles desirable or undesirable?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="236" CreationDate="2011-01-25T23:57:55.520" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I feel that &lt;strong&gt;if the question being asked is clear&lt;/strong&gt;, it shouldn't matter as much whether it's a grammatically proper question complete with question mark.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether or not a question &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be clear without being a proper question is a different discussion, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74" LastActivityDate="2011-01-25T23:57:55.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="236" CreationDate="2011-01-26T00:02:33.130" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I raised the point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't object in principle to your retitling. It's definitely not an abuse.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm on the (minority, apparently — see below) opinion that question titles don't have to be questions. After all they become titles for the whole page (including the answers) as well.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Improving bad titles is definitely a good thing, but a title isn't bad just because it's not phrased as a question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There was one retitling of yours I didn't like because I felt it made the title too long.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/title&quot;&gt;topic has come up&lt;/a&gt; on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;main Meta site&lt;/a&gt; before, in particular: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19999/should-question-titles-be-phrased-as-questions-a-straw-poll&quot;&gt;Should question titles be phrased as questions? (A straw poll)&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10647/howto-writing-good-titles&quot;&gt;HOWTO: Writing Good Titles&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2011-01-26T00:02:33.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="236" CreationDate="2011-01-26T00:03:01.920" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The old FAQ/About page used to say that users should pretend that they're playing Jeopardy=&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However the most important thing is that the question title should cover the load as good as possible. In the end, the title is what every user sees first, even those coming from Google!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you see a title that's unclear, editing is always appropriate. If you can make it into a nice Jeopardy form, but the content of the title is always more important than the form in which it's phrased&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="193" LastActivityDate="2011-01-26T00:03:01.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="236" CreationDate="2011-01-26T00:09:35.667" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Question titles that are questions themselves are nice, and usually make it easier to pick a question out of a list; it also makes the site look more polished and more professional, especially compared to your typical list of forum thread titles.  However, there are times that this might result in a grammatically tortured piece of wordage, so it's more important to be clear than to be consistent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No worries about editing titles to make them clearer. As long as you respect the original author, this kind of editing is good for the site. I do a good amount of this on other SE sites, and I'll sometimes leave a comment indicating something along the lines of &quot;did I do it right&quot;? as a courtesy to the question author, particularly if the user is new/has a low rep and might not understand that edits can be refined further or even rolled back. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33" LastActivityDate="2011-01-26T00:09:35.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="241" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="242" CreationDate="2011-01-26T12:28:35.983" Score="8" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;How did &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1324/wasnt-there-going-to-be-a-different-ending-to-total-recall-originally&quot;&gt;my question&lt;/a&gt; get answered with zero views (see screenshot)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YqWNo.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2011-01-27T00:46:02.327" Title="How did my question get answered with zero views?" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="241" CreationDate="2011-01-26T15:48:31.773" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had the same effect on another question on one of the other stack exchange sites.   I've noticed that there can be a delay on the reporting of various data, but usually the question data is reported pretty fast.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://graphicdesign.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/80/0-view-but-2-answers-the-main-page-works-in-a-strange-way&quot;&gt;In this question&lt;/a&gt;, Robert Cartaino♦, mentions it's caching that causes this effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:10.677" LastActivityDate="2011-01-26T16:02:53.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="243" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="244" CreationDate="2011-01-27T07:42:52.513" Score="6" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I've voted to close a question, and realise that I was mistaken, is there a way to undo this?  (Assume that the question is not closed yet).  Clicking on close again just tells me that I've already done it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Is there a way to undo voting to close a question?" Tags="|support|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="243" CreationDate="2011-01-27T08:52:58.503" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, but your vote will expire harmlessly after a few days if 4 other people don't vote to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/915/can-we-have-the-ability-to-rescind-a-close-vote-before-it-closes&quot;&gt;a request to allow close vote undoing&lt;/a&gt; was declined on Meta Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2011-01-27T08:52:58.503" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="245" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="247" CreationDate="2011-01-27T21:19:03.557" Score="15" ViewCount="239" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suppose a story identification question (such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1272/what-short-story-interprets-common-idioms-literally&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;) has been satisfactorily answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it a good idea to propose another &lt;em&gt;very good&lt;/em&gt; match for the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the question be treated as a list question, allowing answers that only have a thin link with the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How bad can a match be before the answer deserves a downvote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2021-01-02T21:48:03.273" Title="Extra answers after an identification question has been correctly answered" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="216" CreationDate="2011-01-27T21:30:56.727" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mike Scott&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/23/mike-scott&quot;&gt;Mike Scott&lt;/a&gt; has made good contributions both on the main site and on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/23/mike-scott&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt;. He is in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;top three users by reputation&lt;/a&gt;, spread over both written and film media. He also has some &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.plokta.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;sf credentials&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2011-01-27T21:30:56.727" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-01-27T21:30:56.727" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="245" CreationDate="2011-01-27T21:35:57.727" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I'm the principle downvoter here. Where a question has already had an answer accepted, I have a simple criterion: is it plausible to assume that the person posting the new answer genuinely thinks the accepted answer is wrong or incomplete. If not, then I don't see what a suggestion of other works that are a bit like the work that's being looked for, but aren't actually it, can add to answering the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23" LastActivityDate="2011-01-27T21:35:57.727" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-28T05:19:42.803" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spoiler&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;spoiler&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;spoiler&lt;/a&gt; tag is a meta fluffy used to define the type of query and nothing to do with the content of the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags should help summarise what the question is about and not about what the question may appear to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's noise that shouldn't be proliferating as much as it is since it's like tagging a question with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/subjective&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;subjective&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;subjective&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's all going to be a spoiler to somebody no matter how much you try and mindcheck people before they hit the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="383" LastActivityDate="2011-01-28T05:19:42.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-28T18:29:02.410" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with @eight, the spoiler tag identifies the &lt;em&gt;type&lt;/em&gt; of question, or more specifically the &lt;em&gt;possible type&lt;/em&gt; of answer, and not what the question is &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think more use of the &quot;Spoiler&quot; markup would be awesome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74" LastActivityDate="2011-01-28T18:29:02.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="250" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="254" CreationDate="2011-01-28T18:30:15.437" Score="6" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does one simply wait passively for those who closed it to come back and re-open it -- assuming they are notified of your edits and comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is there a way to actively pursue it's &quot;unclosing?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="517" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2011-02-27T13:48:59.787" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="What's the process for getting a closed question re-opened?" Tags="|support|faq|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="251" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="253" CreationDate="2011-01-28T18:32:14.607" Score="22" ViewCount="581" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it valid to ask about fanfic and other alternate-version sources for science-fiction material on this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="559" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2011-01-28T19:45:00.647" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Are fan-fics fair game for this site?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="250" CreationDate="2011-01-28T19:03:12.900" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that, once you have gathered enough reputation, you can vote for a question to be re-opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can discuss the closing in comments on the question, or possibly on the meta-site, if unclear as to the reasons behind it (or if you think you've addressed the concerns that led to the closing via an edit or other method).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="559" LastActivityDate="2011-01-28T19:03:12.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="251" CreationDate="2011-01-28T19:16:36.953" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't think of a reason why not.  Seems to me that scifi is scifi, whether written by established authors or by fans.  Now if you're looking for canon, that is a different story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fan fiction, therefore, is defined by being both related to its subject's canonical fictional universe and simultaneously existing outside the canon of that universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74" LastActivityDate="2011-01-28T19:16:36.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="250" CreationDate="2011-01-28T19:34:33.063" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a closed question is &lt;strong&gt;edited by the asker within 5 days&lt;/strong&gt; of the closure, or if &lt;strong&gt;someone casts a reopen vote&lt;/strong&gt; (which requires 3000 reputation points), then the question enters the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/reopen&quot;&gt;reopen queue&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Users with the close/reopen privilege can browse the queue and decide to vote to reopen or leave the question closed. So generally, if you're the asker and have edited your question to make it reopenable, or if you've cast a reopen vote, there is nothing left to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you've edited someone else's question and don't have the reopen privilege, or if the question has already been edited once by the asker but not enough to make it reopenable, you need to find another way to bring attention to the question. Any edit bumps the question to the top of the front page, but this can be hit and miss. If you feel that you've made an edit that justifies reopening the question, make your case in chat — there is usually someone around who can cast that first reopen vote that will push the question into the reopen queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people have left comments suggesting improvements and you've made them, you can @reply to the comments to catch their attention. Don't abuse this: only reply &#xA;to a comment if that comment states a reason for a close vote and your edit makes that reason no longer applicable, and even then do this only if the question isn't entering the reopen queue already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really really think your question deserves reopening but it isn't getting attention, as a last resort, you can flag a moderator's attention and explain your case. Moderators generally prefer to let the community decide though. One case where you should feel free to involve a moderator is if there has been a meta discussion and a consensus for reopening has emerged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information, see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/36415/how-do-you-reopen-a-closed-question&quot;&gt;Reopening FAQ on the main Meta site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2013-08-18T18:29:39.817" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="251" CreationDate="2011-01-28T19:44:21.507" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notability_in_Wikipedia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;notability&lt;/a&gt; requirement on this site. You can discuss works that haven't been published professionally, including fan-fics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, please don't post questions that no one in the audience had any chance of reading. A question about a fan fic that's only ever been distributed on flyers at Gryffon†Con 1942 would be too localized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posting a question just for the sake of promoting your own fan-fic is not appreciated, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/76895/use-stack-overflow-to-answer-likely-questions-in-advance&quot;&gt;any other self-promotion question on Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;. For writing advice, as per &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11/is-writing-science-fiction-part-of-this-site&quot;&gt;this meta thread&lt;/a&gt;, go to &lt;a href=&quot;https://writers.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Writers Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:40:22.477" LastActivityDate="2012-01-17T21:17:49.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="251" CreationDate="2011-01-28T19:45:31.530" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I generally agree with morganpdx.  However, if there's any question of fanfic that's in violation of copyright, we should probably avoid linking to it or discussing its content (as opposed to, say, discussing its status as an infringing work) to keep from performing contributory infringement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="547" LastActivityDate="2011-01-28T19:45:31.530" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="257" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-01-28T21:03:55.400" Score="1" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are questions similar to ones posed here &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WMG/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WMG/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;considered appropriate for this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="559" LastEditorUserId="74" LastEditDate="2011-01-28T21:11:28.370" LastActivityDate="2011-01-30T23:22:10.867" Title="Are speculation questions fair game for this site?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="258" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="259" CreationDate="2011-01-28T21:07:40.997" Score="4" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm operating under the understanding that we generally don't allow list questions unless it provides some real value to the site.  It seems that the lists in particular that are discouraged are ones that request more book suggestions on a certain theme or of a certain type.  Is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/recommendations&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;recommendations&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;recommendations&lt;/a&gt; tag becoming a replacement for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/list&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;list&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;list&lt;/a&gt; now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74" LastActivityDate="2011-01-31T00:00:02.833" Title="Is the recommendations tag the new list tag?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="258" CreationDate="2011-01-29T02:27:08.827" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/recommendations&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;recommendations&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;recommendations&lt;/a&gt; tag just needs to die across the entire Stack Exchange network. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is indeed the same type of discussion starter that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lists&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lists&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lists&lt;/a&gt; are but with more opinion and flavour guessing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knock that tag down and follow it up with all those questions asking about other works of scifi that feature a certain plot point, character trait or universe construct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, they're not Q&amp;amp;A questions, they're book club discussion topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="383" LastActivityDate="2011-01-29T02:27:08.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="258" CreationDate="2011-01-29T06:23:11.327" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are different types of list, e.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lists with a finite, small, number, e.g. &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/491/what-sci-fi-film-scores-and-soundtracks-have-won-an-oscar&quot;&gt;What sci-fi film scores and soundtracks have won an Oscar?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lists that for practical purposes are infinite, e.g. &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1377/what-science-fiction-contains-elements-of-human-transformation-closed&quot;&gt;What science fiction contains elements of human transformation?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lists that are very long, e.g. &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/189/what-works-were-most-influenced-by-the-prisoner&quot;&gt;What works were most influenced by The Prisoner?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Very broad recommendation lists, e.g. &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/147/what-are-some-interesting-alternate-history-stories-closed&quot;&gt;What are some interesting alternate history stories?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fairly specific recommendation lists, e.g. &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1047/novels-like-larry-nivens-the-mote-in-gods-eye&quot;&gt;Novels like Larry Niven's The Mote in God's Eye&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All recommendations are lists, but not all lists are recommendations.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of what should be closed, I feel that the first category is fine (with every correct item listed in the one best answer, not one answer per item), and the second and third should be closed (they are essentially unanswerable).  (These are really covered under the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16/are-list-questions-allowed&quot;&gt;are list questions allowed&lt;/a&gt;&quot; question, though).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The StackExchange sites in general (excluding meta) tend to frown on questions that lead to one-item-per-answer type answers, with voting being a poll.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/list&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;list&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;list&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/recommendation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;recommendation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;recommendation&lt;/a&gt; we are currently &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; inconsistent.  I think that reflects the mixed feelings that you can see in meta at the moment.  Hopefully that inconsistency is resolved soon, as it makes it hard for people to know what is acceptable to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2011-01-29T06:23:11.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="261" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="267" CreationDate="2011-01-29T10:59:01.980" Score="1" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm puzzled by some of the close question decisions recently. Here are two examples (the first is my question):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1403/is-there-anyone-like-terry-pratchett-in-the-sci-fi-world&quot;&gt;Is there anyone like Terry Pratchett in the sci-fi world?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/95/other-than-douglas-adams-who-are-some-humorous-sf-authors&quot;&gt;Other than Douglas Adams, who are some humorous SF authors?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The second question was particularly popular.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My was closed for being &lt;em&gt;&quot;not a real question&quot;&lt;/em&gt; which both puzzles me and irritates me, as if I &lt;em&gt;wanted&lt;/em&gt; to add a fake / noise question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second was closed as being &lt;em&gt;&quot;subjective and argumentative&quot;&lt;/em&gt; which is even more puzzling. Surely it is not subjective if an author writes in a deliberately humourous way (though, yes, whether it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; funny is up to the reader). And it is definitely not argumentative!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'm only using these as examples, there are plenty more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm asking for two things here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clarity&lt;/strong&gt; as to what kind of questions are permitted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Latitude&lt;/strong&gt; in questions. If we dismiss everything as &quot;you can find it on Wikipedia / Google&quot; and &quot;that's subjective&quot;, it won't leave a lot left and many people (like those currently upvoting these questions) may simply &quot;vote with their feet&quot; i.e. leave.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can we cut down the question closing?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; Just noticed this excellent question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/217/what-are-some-good-sf-books-by-authors-not-generally-known-for-science-fiction&quot;&gt;What are some good SF books by authors not generally known for science fiction?&lt;/a&gt; I'm glad that one wasn't closed, but it seems that the rules (which I think need clarifying) are not being consistently applied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2011-01-30T04:31:56.737" Title="Getting clarity on closing of questions" Tags="|discussion|scope|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="261" CreationDate="2011-01-29T12:12:01.373" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, cutting down on the question closing is not a good solution. We still need to keep the good questions and close the bad questions. An “anything goes” policy will make the site unappealing because it will be too hard for visitors to find the good stuff amongst the chaff. “The rules are not being consistently applied” is not an argument to swing the rules towards one side or another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site is still struggling to find its identity. We're still disagreeing on which questions are the good ones. This explains why it's not very clear yet what questions are permitted. Hopefully this will be resolved in a few weeks, as we gain more experience of good and bad questions, and (just perhaps maybe) can reach some sort of agreement as to what questions are welcome here (or die trying).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding these specific questions: I voted to close one, and would have voted to close the other, as “not a real question”, because it is &lt;em&gt;overly broad&lt;/em&gt;. It's clear that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16/are-list-questions-allowed&quot;&gt;we don't like questions with a long list of potential answers&lt;/a&gt;, and these two questions are prime examples. The case of recommendation questions (“I liked X and Y and Z and disliked A and B, what else might I like”) might be different, but even if they end up accepted, these two questions are still far too broad (just “I liked X”).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note to closers: it's a good idea to &lt;strong&gt;explain your close vote in a comment&lt;/strong&gt;, especially when you close reason is “not a real question” which is itself ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.233" LastActivityDate="2011-01-29T12:12:01.373" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="261" CreationDate="2011-01-29T18:54:49.367" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/16/98&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. It's pretty much been decided that any question that asks for a list of something will be closed. You'll note that 2 of the 3 questions you mentioned were in that list, and the last one is a hold-over from before this was decided. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2011-01-29T18:54:49.367" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="261" CreationDate="2011-01-29T19:15:49.940" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two of the close-votes for your question (mine and probably Dori's) were because it's a duplicate (of the second question you use as an example).  Both questions are basically asking for humourous sci-fi - your question doesn't really distinguish itself from the first one in any significant way (it just uses a different author as an example).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's unfortunate that (a) when a question is closed for multiple reasons only one of those reasons is shown (presumably the one with the most votes), and (b) that other people didn't close this as a duplicate (since that's clearly what it was).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question has two comments, each with an upvote, that already explain why the question was closed.  (I didn't leave a separate comment, I upvoted Dori's, because it said exactly what I would have said).  (I'm not saying that asking in meta was wrong, just that the question already has all the information about why it was closed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For your second and third examples: it's not clear yet whether recommendation questions are acceptable (there are lots of other meta questions along these lines; reading the answers to those will probably give you a good understanding of the current debate).  As a result, there's a lot of inconsistency as to whether these questions are closed or not.  The more broad a recommendation question is (and both of these are extremely broad), the more likely it is to be closed, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clarity&lt;/strong&gt;: ask something where it's possible for you to accept an answer.  For more detailed clarity as to which questions are ok, reading the relevant meta questions and answers would probably help (again, this is still in flux at the moment - eventually it will be in the FAQ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Latitude&lt;/strong&gt;: your point here is about &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/14/are-google-able-questions-appropriate&quot;&gt;Googleable&lt;/a&gt;&quot; and &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/178/what-about-subjective-questions&quot;&gt;subjective&lt;/a&gt;&quot; questions.  The existing meta questions are the best place to get information about those.  In terms of your examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Having duplicate questions does more harm than good, especially during the beta.  Once the site is large, then there can be some value in having variations of the same question, but for now it just takes away from the original question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Until there's consensus about this type of question, they'll be close-voted by those people that don't believe they belong on the site.  Those people believe that leaving the questions here, even down-voted, hurts the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Just like (2).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.233" LastActivityDate="2011-01-29T19:15:49.940" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="257" CreationDate="2011-01-29T19:32:09.660" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Here are all of the unresolved questions in the last Harry Potter book - how do you think they will be resolved in the next one&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see three separate problems with this - one that's easy to fix, one that will probably lead to close-votes, and one that's very likely to lead to closing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's too broad.  Presumably there could be dozens of unresolved questions, so you're asking for dozens of answers within each answer.  Long answers are great, but it's best when they are answering a single question, not many small questions.  This is easily fixed by asking several questions along the lines of &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; spoiler)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Who Killed Albus Dumbledore?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There's no way to definitively answer this (e.g. which answer do you accept?).  There are other meta questions that discuss this, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/32/questions-that-provide-speculative-answers&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/178/what-about-subjective-questions&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;).  I think the outcome here would depend a lot on the question.  If it was possible to give answers that drew conclusions based on the material (and possibly other data), then the question would probably survive.  If the answers were all just guesses, with little or nothing backing them up, it will probably be quickly closed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions that age badly aren't generally liked.  As soon as the next volume/episode is out (which in some cases could be only a few days) the question becomes rather pointless, since there &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a definitive answer.  If the question was speculation about something that isn't going to have a future volume/episode (e.g. about something that was left unresolved at the end of a book/movie/TV show), then this wouldn't be an issue.  For cases where there presumably is going to be an official answer, my guess is that the closer that date is the more likely the question is to be closed (e.g. if it's about next week's episode of &lt;em&gt;BSG&lt;/em&gt; then it's certain to be closed, and if it's about a &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; book to be released in 3 years, then it will get a few close votes, but not nearly as many).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(There's also the open question of question fantasy is on-topic, but I'm assuming that the choice of Harry Potter isn't relevant here, and that the question would be the same with more sci-fi material).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2011-01-29T19:32:09.660" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="266" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="270" CreationDate="2011-01-29T21:18:02.177" Score="9" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is discussing any futuristic technology on topic? I'm talking about themes that might exist in a sci-fi book, but haven't necessarily been written yet. A few examples are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to best defend the Earth given futuristic technology. (Must fit into current laws of physics)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the most efficient way to get to another star?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2011-01-31T09:13:25.443" Title="Sci-fi technology: On topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="261" CreationDate="2011-01-30T04:31:56.737" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;No one can be required to explain their close votes, but since you ask, here's mine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/95/other-than-douglas-adams-who-are-some-humorous-sf-authors&quot;&gt;Other than Douglas Adams, who are some humorous SF authors?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;At the time I voted to close this question, its title was: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Who are the best humorous SF authors? Douglas Adams is a given, who else?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any question that asks for the &quot;best&quot; is likely to be closed as &quot;subjective and argumentative&quot;—which is what happened.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1403/is-there-anyone-like-terry-pratchett-in-the-sci-fi-world&quot;&gt;Is there anyone like Terry Pratchett in the sci-fi world?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The majority of people voting to close this one said it was &quot;not a real question.&quot; When &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; voted to close it, I said it was a duplicate of question 1, because, in my opinion, it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Question 1 is closed, it still has ten answers—all/most of which are perfectly suitable answers for Question 2.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2011-01-30T04:31:56.737" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="257" CreationDate="2011-01-30T23:22:10.867" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are good speculation questions and bad speculation questions. I invite you to read the section “What kind of questions should I not ask here?” in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;the site's FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, and to follow the link to Robert Cartaino's &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;six guidelines for great subjective questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions you cite are self-labeled “wild mass guessing”. &lt;em&gt;Wild guesses&lt;/em&gt; are firmly in the &lt;em&gt;bad subjective&lt;/em&gt; category, because&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;“every answer is equally valid”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;“we are being asked an open-ended, hypothetical question”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, puzzling out what an author meant from &lt;em&gt;actual clues&lt;/em&gt; can be &lt;em&gt;good subjective&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;an answer should explain why the interpretation it defends is likely (Robert Cartaino's guideline #1)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;an answer should not just make one out-of-context citation, but explain how the interpretation fits the work (and ideally reconcile the in-story justification with the meta-justification) (guideline #2)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;an answer should make it clear what is directly deduced from primary sources and what is speculative (guideline #3)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;an answer should make sense on its own, not just in the answerer's mind (guideline #4)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;an answer should be built on primary sources, and &lt;em&gt;infer&lt;/em&gt; from them (guideline #5)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;an answer should cast the work in an interesting light, not just be a random “what if” when there's absolutely no indication that there's any connection between the speculation and the contents of the work (guideline #6).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2011-01-30T23:22:10.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="266" CreationDate="2011-01-30T23:37:20.677" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site is for “science fiction enthusiasts”, not for science experts. So you can't expect answers about science to be reviewed by people who could spot mistakes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, some scientific background is necessary to understand the fine points of hard science fiction works. So it's inevitable that there will be discussions about science.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to tentatively lay out some guidelines on how much scientific discussion is on-topic. I expect these guidelines to be heavily revised from other people's input and experience from questions on the topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As per the site's topic, science questions should be related to science fiction. Questions that are purely about science as we know it are off-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about how the science of a particular work relates to science as we know it are ok.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is understood that answers may not represent the upmost in scientific expertise.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How to best defend the Earth given futuristic technology. (Must fit into current laws of physics)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; futuristic technology, maybe. It's a bit open-ended, but it might fit the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;six guidelines for great subjective questions&lt;/a&gt; (as long as it's understood that since this isn't a site for science experts, answers are not expected to be fully-researched science and are likely to contain speculative inferences, hence are subjective).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is the most efficient way to get to another star?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As asked, too broad and imprecise. If you give some context, it can be ok. For example, if you give the technological, political and economic context of a book you're writing, and ask how to justify an interstellar journey on that basis, I think it could be ok. (Though some of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;planned Stack Exchange sites&lt;/a&gt; on popular science would be a better fit.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2011-01-30T23:37:20.677" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="258" CreationDate="2011-01-31T00:00:02.833" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at the questions currently tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/recommendation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;recommendation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;recommendation&lt;/a&gt;, I see two types. Some of them are indeed lists in their worst form, for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1400/book-recommendations-that-deal-with-the-fermi-paradox&quot;&gt;Book recommendations that deal with the Fermi Paradox&lt;/a&gt;. They ask for a list of works, and require a purely subjective rating (as opposed to a relevance or importance rating, which can have some value). They are firmly &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other recommendations are different: “if I enjoyed …, what else might I enjoy”. These are definitely subjective questions, but they can be &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;good subjective&lt;/a&gt;. Earlier &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/26/are-recommend-me-questions-allowed&quot;&gt;the community was rather in favor&lt;/a&gt;, though maybe some people's opinions have evolved based on the kinds of questions that were actually asked. My problem with the existing questions that fit this category is that they tend to be overly broad. Example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1421/i-enjoy-reading-heinleins-books-which-other-authors-write-in-a-similar-style-to&quot;&gt;I enjoy reading Heinlein's books. Which other authors write in a similar style to him?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1403/is-there-anyone-like-terry-pratchett-in-the-sci-fi-world-closed&quot;&gt;Is there anyone like Terry Pratchett in the sci-fi world?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would tend towards allowing &lt;em&gt;focused&lt;/em&gt; recommendation questions (“I enjoyed authors A, B and C, except for works W and X, and I dislike D, what should I try in subgenre S?”). But I haven't seen any question that's remotely focused enough for me to consider it good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there are a few questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/recommendation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;recommendation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;recommendation&lt;/a&gt; which don't fit this mold, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1381/what-order-should-i-be-reading-the-discworld-books-in&quot;&gt;What order should I be reading the Discworld books in?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1387/are-there-any-better-english-translations-of-solaris-available-beyond-the-origin&quot;&gt;Are there any better English translations of Solaris available, beyond the original translation from French?&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;Following the reasoning behind &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags/&quot;&gt;the removal of the &lt;code&gt;subjective&lt;/code&gt; tag on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, I've removed the &lt;code&gt;recommendation&lt;/code&gt; tag from these questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given how disparate the questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/list&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;list&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;list&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/recommendation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;recommendation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;recommendation&lt;/a&gt; are, I think they are &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags/&quot;&gt;meta tags&lt;/a&gt; and should not be used. But that's a topic for another day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note that my examples are not meant to single out any particular asker, I just took the first example that I considered representative of a category.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2011-01-31T00:00:02.833" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="272" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="275" CreationDate="2011-01-31T08:49:16.293" Score="12" ViewCount="301" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since this site is in a Beta phase, I thought this would be a useful discussion to help enhance the site: &lt;em&gt;What questions do you upvote and why?&lt;/em&gt; and then, by inference, &lt;strong&gt;What makes a great question on Science Fiction?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During this beta phase I've ask several questions but I can't yet see a pattern in what questions will get lots of up votes and which ones won't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For example (high votes):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Adding examples from other people)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7/has-any-science-fiction-work-accurately-predicted-the-emergence-of-future-technol&quot;&gt;Has any science fiction work accurately predicted the emergence of future technology?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1263/is-the-basic-premise-of-humans-as-a-power-source-in-the-matrix-reasonable&quot;&gt;Is the basic premise of humans as a power source in The Matrix reasonable?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/217/what-are-some-good-sf-books-by-authors-not-generally-known-for-science-fiction&quot;&gt;What are some good SF books by authors not generally known for science fiction?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My examples:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/963/why-does-c3po-have-a-silver-lower-leg-in-some-scenes&quot;&gt;Why does C3PO have a silver lower leg in some scenes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1458/was-the-millennium-falcon-too-slow&quot;&gt;Was the Millennium Falcon too slow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I think this question will also help us &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/261/getting-clarity-on-closing-of-questions&quot;&gt;get clarity on the closing of questions&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2017-01-13T09:11:21.293" Title="What are the characteristics of a great Science Fiction question?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="266" CreationDate="2011-01-31T09:13:25.443" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would post it on another site, e.g. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://physics.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Physics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted a specific science-fiction question there a while ago and got a great response: &lt;a href=&quot;https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/1203/could-teleportation-ever-really-happen&quot;&gt;Could teleportation ever really happen?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:40:12.193" LastActivityDate="2011-01-31T09:13:25.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="272" CreationDate="2011-01-31T09:27:55.310" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, certainly &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; characteristic is that they aren't &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/197/should-trivially-easy-to-find-be-a-benchmark-for-moderating-the-site&quot;&gt;too trivial or easily answered by a general reference site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2011-01-31T09:27:55.310" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="272" CreationDate="2011-01-31T17:40:35.423" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, we need to start with the basic SE requirements. The question should have a definitive answer that can be chosen. (This is why so many people vote down list questions.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I've said elsewhere on meta (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/155/this-site-is-doomed-and-will-curl-up-and-die-the-sunshine-and-hope-thread/215#215&quot;&gt;This site is doomed&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/224/what-sort-of-sci-fi-se-would-appeal-to-isaac-asimov-or-robert-heinlein/228#228&quot;&gt;Appealing to Heinlein/Asimov&lt;/a&gt;), I find most interesting and valuable the questions that ask about the science behind the science fiction. Either analyzing how a particular thing works in fiction (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1345/what-would-be-a-reasonable-technical-explanation-for-why-phaser-beams-are-differe&quot;&gt;Why phaser beams are different colors&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/621/how-fast-should-mutations-be-for-hard-science-fiction&quot;&gt;Rate of mutations for Waterworld&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1263/is-the-basic-premise-of-humans-as-a-power-source-in-the-matrix-reasonable&quot;&gt;Human power in the Matrix&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1151/why-and-how-did-the-star-trek-universe-evolve-to-a-cashless-commerce-less-society&quot;&gt;How Star Trek became chashless/commerceless&lt;/a&gt;) or how the particular concept described would work in other situations (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1282/could-the-terraforming-techniques-from-red-blue-green-mars-work-on-any-other-plan&quot;&gt;Would the terraforming techniques from Red/Blue/Green Mars work on other planets&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also feel that questions about obscure or uncertain facts from SF are worthwhile. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1288/what-role-did-the-tunnels-cruciform-parasites-play-in-hyperion&quot;&gt;The role of the Tunnels &amp;amp; Cruciform parasites in Hyperion&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1228/is-the-klingon-language-fully-realized-or-just-a-handful-of-disconnected-phrases&quot;&gt;Is Klingon a fully realized language&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1320/why-does-the-dedication-plaque-on-the-enterprise-ncc-1701-bridge-say-the-ship-i&quot;&gt;Why does the Enterprise dedication class say &quot;Starship Class&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1281/why-do-anthologies-have-such-a-prominent-place-in-the-history-of-written-sf&quot;&gt;Why do anthologies play such a big role in the history of SF&lt;/a&gt;.) (The two questions you mentioned above are of this sort.) The trick here is to have the question avoid the too trivial mark while still remaining interesting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a strong division about recommendation questions and list questions. I like them both, particularly the focused list questions such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1400/book-recommendations-that-deal-with-the-fermi-paradox&quot;&gt;Books that deal with the Fermi Paradox&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/43/any-novels-set-in-universes-where-p-np/414#414&quot;&gt;Fiction that relies on P=NP&lt;/a&gt;. But we'll have to wait and see the will of the community on them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, there is a division about whether to allow &quot;help me remember&quot; questions. Again, I like them, but the community has no consensus (beyond the decision from gaming.se, which still appears to be controversial as applied to SF). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if these three types of questions are disallowed, there appear to be a number of questions which would be useful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2011-02-02T03:50:27.063" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16" CreationDate="2011-02-01T02:46:33.353" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that there is a significant service that can be provided here - story identification and correlation is something which seems quite relevant to the SF&amp;amp;F community, and is a kind of question that is likely to crop up often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is not something that can be effectively done within this forum, I understand that - but there's a significant service which can be offered, so I'd say, think more carefully about this one, than about other sites. If there ever is a site where an exception to this rule might be made, this site looks like it qualifies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="559" LastActivityDate="2011-02-01T02:46:33.353" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="272" CreationDate="2011-02-01T09:39:25.803" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the fact that you're linking upvotes of questions to quality of questions is a poor assumption.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In many cases, if a question gets a good and correct answer quickly (such as your R2D2 question), it won't receive much attention (or votes); simply because it's been answered, and other people viewing the question don't have anything to add.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whereas, if a question is more open-ended (such as &quot;Give me a list&quot; questions or your Millennium Falcon question, which had more controversial/speculative answers) then they'll get more attention as people think &quot;yes, that's a good question, but I have my own different answer&quot;, or &quot;that question has several different answers, I'll vote for it and the answers I think are more correct&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, a question will also get more attention if it goes unanswered for a while, or is obscure enough that people read the question and the answer and think &quot;hey, I didn't know that&quot; (your C3PO question fits here)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In both of the above cases, the fact that a question gets answered will bump it up the page, making it more visible again, and encouraging more people to view and vote for it. Hence a question which gets several answers over time, or has a few hours between being asked and answered will spend more time towards the top of the page, and receive more views and votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="122" LastActivityDate="2011-02-01T09:39:25.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="278" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="279" CreationDate="2011-02-01T13:14:12.970" Score="8" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;Listed as a privilege is the ability to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/privileges/view-vote-counts&quot;&gt;view vote counts broken down into the number of up and down votes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do people use this for? And why do you need a significant amount of reputation before you can see this info?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="517" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2019-05-24T20:21:03.593" LastActivityDate="2019-05-25T19:44:37.603" Title="How is viewing vote counts useful and why isn't it available regardless of rep?" Tags="|discussion|voting|privileges|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="278" CreationDate="2011-02-01T14:18:46.593" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;After a quick search on meta.stackoverflow I came across this answer: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/747/show-total-votes-or-up-down-votes/1007#1007&quot;&gt;Show Total Votes (or Up/Down Votes)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically it's an expensive DB query, so limiting the number of people who can do it helps speed up the site!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the main reason for it is to see whether a question is of little interest (+0/-0) or hotly debated/controversial (+10/-10)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="122" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2011-02-01T14:18:46.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="278" CreationDate="2011-02-01T14:29:14.273" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's amazing, I really miss that ability when I go to a new group where I don't have it. I'm always interested to see how many negative votes there are, in particular for a meta topic. For instance, there is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/216/moderator-nominations&quot;&gt;moderator nomination question&lt;/a&gt;. Dori currently has 13 votes, but actually have +15 -2, which makes me wonder who the two people are. Tony Meyers has +5 -4, also giving an interesting meaning. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not a super useful thing, but it is quite interesting, and can help to see how some things are going, so...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2011-02-01T14:29:14.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="272" CreationDate="2011-02-02T01:25:14.890" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My approach to upvoting is pretty simple.  If I read a question and think &quot;Wow, great question!&quot; I will upvote it.  If there is a well-formed answer to that question, I'll probably upvote that too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of the quality of the question, if an answer is well-thought out or well-researched, I'll upvote that too.  Especially if it's a question that I answered, and the answer is better than mine. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74" LastActivityDate="2011-02-02T01:25:14.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="282" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="285" CreationDate="2011-02-02T09:10:35.023" Score="10" ViewCount="1036" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are quite a few &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/reading-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;reading-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;reading-order&lt;/a&gt; questions (I added the tag; it should perhaps include viewing-order in some way, but I couldn't think of a suitable word).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, these questions seem ok: there are many series (e.g. OSC's Ender books) where the chronology of the books overlaps and/or differs considerably from the publication order, and it is confusing to know where the best place to start is.  (Although my personal opinion is that publication order is always best).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, they are clearly &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;subjective&lt;/a&gt;.  However, I feel that they meet all six of the guidelines for &lt;strong&gt;good&lt;/strong&gt; subjective questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1520/order-to-watch-star-wars-in&quot;&gt;the viewing order of the SW movies&lt;/a&gt; currently has 4 close votes.  It seems like the biggest problem here is that the prequels are widely disliked, and so the answers tend towards &quot;ignore the prequels&quot;, which doesn't answer the question well.  However, I think Mike Scott's answer is very good: it usefully explains what a good order is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I would vote down &quot;the prequels suck&quot; answers, and either vote down or not vote up the question (because it seems too subjective, although Mike's answer does counter that somewhat).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the SW question is just a bad example of an acceptable type of question, should it be closed rather than down-voted or ignored?  Does the community want to ban all questions of this type?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2013-07-03T13:47:09.437" Title="Acceptability of reading/viewing order questions" Tags="|discussion|scope|suggested-order|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="205" CreationDate="2011-02-02T09:48:54.590" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/87/merge-with-the-sci-fi-group/262#262&quot;&gt;meta discussion on Area 51&lt;/a&gt; including Tony Meyer, it seems like &lt;strong&gt;Imagination overflow&lt;/strong&gt; could be a great final name for this site. What do you think about this name ? Does it conveys a general enough meaning ? or is it too generic ... or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SItFvB0Upb8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;specific&lt;/a&gt; (can't ... resist ... the pun) ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-03T08:41:06.403" LastActivityDate="2011-02-02T09:48:54.590" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="282" CreationDate="2011-02-02T17:18:07.687" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the sense of defining policy and scope for this site&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking in which order a series is &lt;em&gt;meant&lt;/em&gt; to be read (or viewed) seems more useful and authoritative than questions just citing general trivia and reference. There is no basis for shutting them down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel the &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; are too opinionated or snarky, simply &lt;strong&gt;vote down those &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (i.e. the &lt;em&gt;best&lt;/em&gt; answers should float to the top). Those users are missing &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the point of Q&amp;amp;A&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;hellip; and this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There very well could be &lt;em&gt;nothing&lt;/em&gt; subjective about the question. If an author intends their material to be viewed in a certain manner, that's the answer. If the author has no such intentions, then that's the answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; gets shut down because the users cannot &lt;strong&gt;distinguish between diatribes and Q&amp;amp;A&lt;/strong&gt;, that does not bode well for this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastEditorUserId="91" LastEditDate="2011-02-02T18:03:28.847" LastActivityDate="2011-02-02T18:03:28.847" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="286" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="290" CreationDate="2011-02-02T18:38:10.353" Score="3" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I edited this question to fix a typo: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/33/how-can-star-trek-countdown-ever-be-considered-canon&quot;&gt;How can Star Trek: Countdown ever be considered canon?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in my rep overview I see that I have gained rep for it (2 points).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3UJNp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All I can find is this question which has &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; resulted in a new feature: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/36574/let-me-reward-a-good-edit-on-my-question-answer&quot;&gt;Let me reward a good edit on my question/answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, can anyone tell me what happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Gained rep after editing a question?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="287" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="289" CreationDate="2011-02-02T19:02:37.503" Score="9" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;When should we change the name to include fantasy? I'm pretty sure that it's very much in, there are few dissenting votes from either the sci-fi or the fantasy community, but what day should we set for the target date? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I'm assuming the name will be just Science Fiction and Fantasy, if there are any other clever ideas, let's hear them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="91" LastEditDate="2011-02-03T18:33:18.837" LastActivityDate="2011-02-03T18:34:41.223" Title="When should we change the name to include fantasy?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|fantasy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="288" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="291" CreationDate="2011-02-02T21:23:11.310" Score="13" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/71/is-opinion-the-new-subjective&quot;&gt;Is “opinion” the new “subjective”?&lt;/a&gt;, it would seem the community decided to keep the tag around because it could be used to ignore this type of questions. However, two weeks later, only four out of the 24 questions tagged with the opinion tag are still open. I think, at this point, we can conclude that, given their low frequency, such questions are not really going to be a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/621/how-fast-should-mutations-be-for-hard-science-fiction&quot;&gt;this questions&lt;/a&gt; tagged with opinion have answers so good that the opinion tag does the question just a disservice. It hardly falls as an opinion, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, should we kill the opinion tag now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="678" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2011-02-03T09:05:28.323" Title="Should we kill the opinion tag?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="287" CreationDate="2011-02-02T21:28:09.977" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Now.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, why not? I've read the arguments for delaying (e.g. &quot;we could destroy a fantasy Q&amp;amp;A as well if this does not succeed&quot;) but by increasing our audience we increase our chances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another argument is along the lines of &quot;we need time for this proposal to settle&quot; but I think we're better off doing that &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;with the fans of fantasy&lt;/strong&gt;. After all, they will have a say as well and they're not going to be happy if we say after a couple of months (in response to their questions), &quot;nope, we've decided all that already - you just have to fit in&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, right now is my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2011-02-02T21:28:09.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="286" CreationDate="2011-02-02T22:21:55.050" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/77505/edit-a-question-from-other-user-and-get-2-rep/77508#77508&quot;&gt;a new feature.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oddly, they have not blogged about, nor updated the FAQs, nor updated the privileges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="678" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2011-02-02T22:21:55.050" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="288" CreationDate="2011-02-03T09:05:14.953" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreed, it is now burninated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/M2qer.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101" LastActivityDate="2011-02-03T09:05:14.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="62" CreationDate="2011-02-03T12:17:06.613" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Books includes both comic books and novels, so book is not synonymous with novel. Rather, Books is generic and novel is specific. Having &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; a specific term and a generic tag, however, isn't desirable. If we decide a generic book tags is preferable, then we should do away with the novel tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it is now, we have novel questions that missing either the book or the novel tag. It's probably going to remain that way because it's not intuitive 9or logical) to need to put the generic &lt;strong&gt;AND&lt;/strong&gt; the specific tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I would prefer with more specific terms. If it's a comic nook, tag it with the comic-book tag. If it's a novel, tag it with the novel tag. Having specific tags will make search more easy, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="678" LastEditorUserId="678" LastEditDate="2011-02-03T12:27:32.413" LastActivityDate="2011-02-03T12:27:32.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="293" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-03T12:53:55.430" Score="12" ViewCount="319" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's quite clear to me that all the media tags are &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags/&quot;&gt;meta tags&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;they can't stand on their own, at least on open questions&lt;/strong&gt;, and they're not tags you'd search for. Moreover, they're applied only spottily. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how about we burninate them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the several media format tags that I could find:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novels&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novels&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;series&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/film&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;film&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;film&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magazine&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magazine&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magazine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/written&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;written&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;written&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/animation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;animation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;animation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/audiobooks&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;audiobooks&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;audiobooks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="678" LastEditorUserId="678" LastEditDate="2011-02-03T23:50:39.397" LastActivityDate="2012-02-08T20:22:39.437" Title="Should we do away with the media tags (books, novel, TV, movies, etc.)?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="293" CreationDate="2011-02-03T16:56:51.740" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kill:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; - This tag is waaaayy too broad, and there are more precise terms that can be used.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;series&lt;/a&gt; - Even more broad than books in some ways.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/written&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;written&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;written&lt;/a&gt; - This tag doesn't seem like a good word choice.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if a dev will burninate these tags for us, and bring order to the land.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know the about the rest, I leave that to others for the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's my old view for laughs (Feb 3, 2011):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some of them should probably stay, I&#xA;  mean it helps to identify what&#xA;  material source the asker is referring&#xA;  to.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But on the other hand, those tags beat&#xA;  out all other ones and get injected&#xA;  into the title.  Which is probably&#xA;  very bad from a google search point of&#xA;  view, because it tells google and&#xA;  others only a vaguely related fact&#xA;  about an article, instead of a useful&#xA;  meta hint.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35" LastEditorUserId="35" LastEditDate="2011-02-27T16:56:52.243" LastActivityDate="2011-02-27T16:56:52.243" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="295" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="303" CreationDate="2011-02-03T17:53:57.263" Score="13" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering we just &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/300/&quot;&gt;merged with Fantasy&lt;/a&gt;, I think we should rename the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alien-languages&quot;&gt;alien-languages tag&lt;/a&gt; to fictional-languages. It'd describe the category just as well and be more inclusive, allowing for elvish and its ilk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you guys think? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="678" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2011-02-03T20:10:55.837" Title="Should the alien-languages tag be renamed to fictional-languages?" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="295" CreationDate="2011-02-03T18:13:16.403" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;That makes sense. Tags on SE sites are generally more useful when they're inclusive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33" LastActivityDate="2011-02-03T18:13:16.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2" CreationDate="2011-02-03T18:30:37.030" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Scifi Stack Exchange has been renamed to &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;. Both subjects are now &lt;em&gt;explicitly&lt;/em&gt; welcome!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2011-02-03T18:30:37.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="287" CreationDate="2011-02-03T18:34:41.223" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Science Fiction Stack Exchange has now been officially renamed &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;. The appropriate logo changes are pending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2011-02-03T18:34:41.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6" CreationDate="2011-02-03T18:36:35.153" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Science Fiction Stack Exchange has been officially renamed &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;. Both subjects are now &lt;em&gt;explicitly&lt;/em&gt; in scope for this site!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2011-02-03T18:36:35.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="300" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-03T18:40:46.007" Score="22" ViewCount="272" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ANNOUNCEMENT:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site has been &lt;em&gt;officially&lt;/em&gt; renamed &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Science Fiction and Fantasy&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;. While both subjects were generally considered on topic, the fantasy genre is now &lt;em&gt;explicitly&lt;/em&gt; integrated into this site. The FAQ has been updated, the fantasy-related proposals have been redirect to this site, and the logo and name changes will appear shortly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2011-02-03T18:40:46.007" Title="Scifi Stack Exchange is now &quot;Science Fiction &amp; Fantasy&quot;" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="293" CreationDate="2011-02-03T19:24:13.930" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say &lt;strong&gt;it depends&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the tag is used merely because it's a question about some story that &lt;em&gt;happens&lt;/em&gt; to be in book form, then yes, I'd say the usage is irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If however, it's &lt;strong&gt;about&lt;/strong&gt; the specific medium's relation to the topic - say, for instance, the completely bogus question &quot;Why are there so few Science Fiction miniseries?&quot; - then the tag is completely relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, is there some issue that will be resolved by burnination?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74" LastActivityDate="2011-02-03T19:24:13.930" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="302" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-03T20:08:21.173" Score="3" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/4451/science-fiction&quot;&gt;Area51&lt;/a&gt;, it says we have 8.1 questions/day.  On scifi.se, it says we have 361 questions (=15.7 questions per day after 23 days).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Area51, it says we have 354 visits/day.  On scifi.se, it says we have 1759 vistors/day.  Perhaps vistors and visits are different things (perhaps it's uniques/views?), but it seems that visits ought to always be higher in that case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other statistics (answers/question, users, percentage answered) do match.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are these statistics wrong in one place?  If so, which one?  Am I misunderstanding and they are measuring different things?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wondered if this was just heavy caching on Area51, but the difference hasn't changed for several days at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that these are important statistics for us: if the scifi.se stats are correct, then we are meeting the &quot;healthy beta&quot; numbers.  If the Area51 stats are correct, then we need to improve views &lt;strong&gt;a lot&lt;/strong&gt; and are in danger of having too few questions/day as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-02-04T00:54:19.680" Title="Should the Area51 proposal and scifi.stackexchange site statistics match?" Tags="|support|site-statistics|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="295" CreationDate="2011-02-03T20:10:55.837" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's just merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alien-languages&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alien-languages&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alien-languages&lt;/a&gt; with the existing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/languages&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;languages&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;languages&lt;/a&gt; tag - shorter is better than longer, and the &quot;fictional&quot; is somewhat implied by the fact that this is a Q&amp;amp;A site for fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-02-03T20:10:55.837" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="293" CreationDate="2011-02-03T20:25:45.607" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, but they should rarely be used.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I pointed out in the comments, many of these tags don't exist or are only on closed questions. For the rest:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt; there's only a single example question, but it seems an appropriate tag, because the question is asking about the video-game medium, not just about a video game.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt; two example questions - one is asking about the comic book medium, so seems appropriate.  The other is a &quot;is this SF&quot;, so will presumably be closed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magazine&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magazine&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magazine&lt;/a&gt; one example question, asking about the medium.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt; one asking about the medium, three story identifications.  The former seems useful, the latter not.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/written&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;written&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;written&lt;/a&gt; I'm not really sure what this tag means - it seems like essentially all SF/F gets written.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;series&lt;/a&gt; I don't see the point in this tag, but it's not a &quot;media tag&quot;, either.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That leaves the &quot;major&quot; media: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movies&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novels&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novels&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novels&lt;/a&gt;.  I think in some cases (where the question is about the medium) these are definitely appropriate.  In others, where it's just identifying the work, they are a bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The worst part of these tags is that because they are common, they will be the first (primary) tag.  This gets used on as the hashtag for the tweet, and other such things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another problem is that if the tags exist (to go with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; or for questions about TV/Comics/etc in general), then they'll get thrown in with a question that shouldn't have them and need to be edited out.  Even if the tag wiki says not to do this, people will still do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="108" LastEditDate="2012-02-08T20:22:39.437" LastActivityDate="2012-02-08T20:22:39.437" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="293" CreationDate="2011-02-03T21:15:55.907" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The argument for the existence of a tag should be that it can stand alone: that someone would actually want to follow &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; questions with the tag. Otherwise, it's a meta tag and meta tags are bad for all the reasons &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags/&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood outlines&lt;/a&gt; on the Stack Overflow blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that in mind, I can potentially see the case for &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; of the media tags (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt;) that correspond to &lt;em&gt;types&lt;/em&gt; of &quot;geeks&quot;: a person could definitely be interested and an expert in comics, or TV SF, or SF video games.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the others can't stand by themselves and should be purged with fire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastActivityDate="2011-02-03T21:15:55.907" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="306" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="307" CreationDate="2011-02-03T23:46:00.997" Score="12" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;Back in the beginning, I asked the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/50/do-we-need-a-sci-fi-tag&quot;&gt;&quot;Do we need a sci-fi tag?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. We went for no, I purged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sci-fi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sci-fi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sci-fi&lt;/a&gt; from the existing questions, and we kept killing the thing whenever it reared its ugly head again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it still a ugly head, now that we have fantasy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tony Meyer made a good point on a comment to that question about reconsidering this policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I (and perhaps others) have been&#xA;  removing the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sci-fi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sci-fi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sci-fi&lt;/a&gt; tag whenever&#xA;  it appeared. Do we want to reconsider&#xA;  this now that we are SF&amp;amp;F? It would be&#xA;  a way for someone uninterested in&#xA;  [fantasy] to hide all fantasy questions&#xA;  and vice-versa. However, probably 40%&#xA;  of questions would need the sci-fi tag&#xA;  and 40% of questions need the fantasy&#xA;  tag, which seems like too much noise.&#xA;  (Probably the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantasy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantasy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantasy&lt;/a&gt; tag should&#xA;  now die too).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we resurrect these tags to differentiate the two big topics or should we keep them at bay?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2011-02-23T08:05:12.933" Title="Do we need a sci-fi and a fantasy tag?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="306" CreationDate="2011-02-03T23:54:14.597" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see the value to the small subsets of SF&amp;amp;F users that are only interested in SF or F, but: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It opens up the &quot;what is SF&quot;/&quot;what is F&quot; question, when merging the sites nicely killed it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Too many questions will need the tag.  Allowing for some overlap (hopefully having &lt;em&gt;neither&lt;/em&gt; tag rather than &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt;), it's logical to assume that nearly half the site's questions will have one tag or the other.  That effectively reduces us to 4 tags per question, and means that the tweet/title tag will almost always be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sci-fi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sci-fi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sci-fi&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantasy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantasy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantasy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;New/casual users aren't going to know that these should be added and so it'll need too much work from other users to go through and tag all the questions appropriately.  If we &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; tag them all as best as possible, then the tags are of little use anyway.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-02-03T23:54:14.597" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="302" CreationDate="2011-02-04T00:54:19.680" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The stats on Area 51 are averaged over the last 14 days. So over the last 14 days of the beta, you have averaged 8.1 questions/day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2011-02-04T00:54:19.680" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="293" CreationDate="2011-02-04T01:38:18.123" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tony Meyer makes an argument &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/306/do-we-need-a-sci-fi-and-a-fantasy-tag#307&quot;&gt;against the fantasy/scifi tags&lt;/a&gt; that, I believe, applies here as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;New/casual users aren't going to know that these should be added and so it'll need too much work from other users to go through and tag all the questions appropriately. If we don't tag them all as best as possible, then the tags are of little use anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of the 51 last asked questions, only 25% of those eligible for media format tags have been properly tagged with them. That percentage drops further if we're less generous and decide that questions about the Star Trek universe require a TV tag. Additionally, of the ten that had all the necessary media tags, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/1522/revisions&quot;&gt;two&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/1520/revisions&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; had the proper tag(s) added by another user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also of note, I'm using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/62/tags-novel-or-book/292#292&quot;&gt;my own, more forbidding, rule&lt;/a&gt; with regards to novels. If I were to use the official rule, three or four more questions would be missing an extra novels or books tag...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we do decide to keep them, we'll need to be zealous about retagging questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the data:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Missing at least one media format tag:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What exactly were the Prophets?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How does Animatrix storyline relate to The Matrix movies?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who or what was Tom Bombadil?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How they got the working dream share device inside dream in Inception?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What are the different forms of FTL travel and how do they interact?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After Star Trek: The Next Generation, can I skip to Voyager without watching Deep Space Nine and not get spoiled?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How come the Federation did not routinely use projectile weapons against the Borg?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there any scientific projects currently pursuing Uplift?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any tales about the Vanilla Needle and Jacob Demwa?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Start Wars: Does a “Phantom Edit” prequel trilogy exist?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Puppeteers' homeworld heat a major problem?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Trying to remember the name of a female, Canadian, children's sci-fi author from the 80s&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do the wheel of time books contain entire chunks of writing, repeated almost verbatim?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Back To The Future Flaw&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Trying to identify a book with an entertaining foreword by the author&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How accurate were (are?) Jules Verne's predictions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is the movie rendition of the Golden Compass significantly different from the book?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was Gary Mitchell the first officer on the Enterprise?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does a story or book exist which combines elements of a scarcity future, with cryo-preserved present time people?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SciFi books written for the youth market that are worth reading &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As a newly minted Dr. Who fan, which DVDs of the older episodes should I start with?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'd like to watch pre-“Special Edition” Star Wars, what is the best source/transfer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Trying to identify a book with an entertaining foreword by the author&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was the Millennium Falcon too slow?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In Inception, when Cobb had to flee the country, why didn't he take his kids with him?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the chronological order of the Dragonriders of Pern series?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm looking for authors similar to early Spider Robinson can anyone help?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moorcock reading order, Can I start reading Moorcock with the Dancers at the End of Time series?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there any authors that write in a similar style to Heinlein?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm trying to identify a book, where the main character (a private detective, I believe) speaks mostly in e-prime&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Which science fiction books, if any, are good examples of a rationalist approach to reality?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not missing any media format tag:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Lost Fleet Book 1: Dauntless - which is the 2011 version?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can someone identify this book, where children are bred for specific jobs?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fringe: What exactly are the 'voids' in the parallel universe?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who plays the observer on the Fringe TV show?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What happened to the Doll disruption tech?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In what order should the Star Wars movies be watched?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What modern popular science terms originated in sci-fi books or short stories?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What 80s movie features a mad scientist building an inter-dimensional portal in his attic?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there anyone like Terry Pratchett in the sci-fi world?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Book recommendations that deal with the Fermi Paradox&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does not require a media format tag:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On the personal relation between Phil K. and Robert Heinlein&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who comes up with all those Star Trek facts??&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can anyone explain the Star Trek geography (i.e. quadrants)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How come cloaking devices in Star Trek allow the cloaked ship to continue to observe its surroundings?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does any sci-fi deal with invisibility causing blindness?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How realized is the Vulcan language?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What factors influenced the evolution of Klingon cranial ridges?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the difference between a parallel universe and an alternate timeline?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is a good example of a progression from the current state of Cryogenic freezing, to a working system used for interstellar travel?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have bodily functions been abolished in the Startrek universe?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="678" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2011-02-04T11:49:01.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="310" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="311" CreationDate="2011-02-04T20:38:37.997" Score="6" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am brand new to sci-fi books, beyond childrens books, so I don't know of really any resources to find out about books to read. So the question i want to ask is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a list somewhere on the internet that lists space opera books series?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The list doesn't even have to be a complete list just something to get me started, therefore the question is answerable. However, anytime people ask similar questions it gets closed. So is there a way to ask the question so that it doesn't get closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="189" LastActivityDate="2011-02-05T22:19:02.610" Title="How to ask a question that others have closed?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="310" CreationDate="2011-02-04T21:08:24.250" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the consensus for list questions is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If your question can be answered by Wikipedia then the question does not belong here. It would be redundant to answer it here when Wikipedia covers it perfectly fine. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, if the question can't be or isn't answered by Wikipedia, and has a definitive answer, then lists are allowed for as long as they're not too localized.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of your question, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_opera_media&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;it can be answered by Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; so just visit that link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a rule of thumb, always try Google first before asking a question on Stack Exchange. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="678" LastEditorUserId="51" LastEditDate="2011-02-05T22:19:02.610" LastActivityDate="2011-02-05T22:19:02.610" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="310" CreationDate="2011-02-04T21:45:05.143" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can see the debate on this topic &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16/are-list-questions-allowed&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. There is no fully-fledged policy, but there's a near consensus that a certain kind of list question is bad: questions such as “please list all the space operas you can think of” are not acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking about online resources should be ok. Make it very clear in your question that you're looking for sites with lists or recommendations, and not expecting people to cite any particular work in their answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2011-02-04T21:45:05.143" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="313" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="314" CreationDate="2011-02-06T00:04:08.470" Score="5" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's it, it's all in the title, sweet!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70" LastActivityDate="2011-02-06T00:29:02.590" Title="Is it possible to find out who has voted on a particular question or comment?" Tags="|discussion|voting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="313" CreationDate="2011-02-06T00:29:02.590" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting is anonymous and the specifics are available only to the development team. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even moderators can't see who voted on what. And they have no reason to either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="383" LastActivityDate="2011-02-06T00:29:02.590" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="316" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="318" CreationDate="2011-02-06T04:05:10.633" Score="27" ViewCount="363" Body="&lt;p&gt;My personal feeling is that the scifi.stackexchange.com name is off-putting to fans of fantasy and not scifi, and that if the site had been inclusive from the beginning (or fantasy) it would be something else. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If others agree that it should change, what to? It needs to be clear (e.g. Cooking is cooking.stackexchange.com not seasonedadvice.stackexchange.com) and short (at most 10 characters, ideally under 8). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Updated summary&lt;/strong&gt;: there was never enough momentum to get this altered (in particular, merging with the Fantasy proposal didn't seem to have any noticeable effect), and IMO it's too late to change scifi.stackexchange.com now (although I suppose going of the beta is the real deadline).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, a fantasy.stackexchange.com alias still seems appropriate.  Other sites have these (e.g. linux/unix, german/deutsch), so they are presumably acceptable to the SE team (who have been oddly silent about this so far).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="4257" LastEditDate="2013-06-03T21:28:42.077" LastActivityDate="2013-06-03T21:28:42.077" Title="Add an alias of fantasy.stackexchange.com" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="316" CreationDate="2011-02-07T03:56:12.627" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can fantasy.stackexchange.com redirect to scifi.stackexchange.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="483" LastActivityDate="2011-02-07T03:56:12.627" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="319" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="320" CreationDate="2011-02-07T04:02:07.647" Score="36" ViewCount="609" Body="&lt;p&gt;As an occasional consumer of Halo books/games, I'm often curious about certain plot points or want to ask questions about that game's universe. Would this be the appropriate site for these questions? Or is gaming.stackexchange.com the appropriate site? Or is this an area of overlap where both would be equally appropriate? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that a lot of these games, such as Halo, have a decently sized expanded universe in the form of books/comics/movies that would seem to invite questions on this site. Does the existence of an expanded universe have any implications for this question? Note too that scifi.stackexchange.com doesn't seem to differentiate between scifi from books/movies/television. Why would games be any different?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="483" LastEditorUserId="35" LastEditDate="2011-02-28T16:04:02.233" LastActivityDate="2024-04-02T00:54:19.210" Title="Can I ask a question about video game based scifi/fantasy?" Tags="|discussion|faq|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="319" CreationDate="2011-02-07T09:47:10.253" Score="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you can ask questions about the &lt;strong&gt;plot&lt;/strong&gt; and even production of the game. And you can certainly ask about the &quot;expanded universe&quot; you mention (books, comics &amp;amp; movies).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Off topic would be &lt;strong&gt;gameplay&lt;/strong&gt;, e.g. &quot;how do I complete task X?&quot; Please take that to &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Arqade&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:09:36.363" LastActivityDate="2014-05-15T14:11:33.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="316" CreationDate="2011-02-07T17:52:52.967" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about SFandF.stackexchange.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74" LastActivityDate="2011-02-07T17:52:52.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="316" CreationDate="2011-02-08T01:11:18.807" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to see both in the URL. However, currently all Stack Exchange sites (that I've seen) have short, single words before &quot;.stackexchange.com&quot; (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://money.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;money&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://audio.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;audio&lt;/a&gt;, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about &lt;code&gt;fantasy.scifi.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;scifi.fantasy.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; or both? &lt;code&gt;fantasy.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;scifi.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; could redirect there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:30.687" LastActivityDate="2011-02-08T01:11:18.807" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="316" CreationDate="2011-02-08T03:37:57.537" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;sff.stackexchange.com&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;fsf.stackexchange.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pros:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Includes both sci-fi and fantasy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;F&amp;amp;SF / SF&amp;amp;F are both well-established monikers for the genre (e.g. &lt;em&gt;The Magazine of Fantasy &amp;amp; Science Fiction&lt;/em&gt; is generally called just F&amp;amp;SF or F&amp;amp;SF mag).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Short (at least the subdomain is - we're stuck with the lengthy &quot;stackexchange.com&quot;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It resembles other StackExchange names, like &lt;em&gt;gis&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;diy&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;rpg&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;dba&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It doesn't need capitalisation/hyphenation (e.g. &lt;em&gt;sfandf&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;fandsf&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;sf-f&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;f-sf&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;scifiandfantasy&lt;/em&gt;) to be clearly read.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's not immediately clear what &quot;sff&quot; or &quot;fsf&quot; mean to anyone not expecting it to be a genre.  (OTOH, most of the traffic comes from Google, where this isn't that important).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;fsf&lt;/em&gt; is used to refer to the Free Software Foundation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Community wiki in case anyone wants to add pros/cons).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="108" LastEditDate="2011-02-08T03:46:36.787" LastActivityDate="2011-02-08T03:46:36.787" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-08T03:46:36.787" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="316" CreationDate="2011-02-08T03:45:39.993" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;sf.stackexchange.com&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;specfic.stackexchange.com&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;spec-fic.stackexchange.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(i.e. &quot;speculative fiction&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pros:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Short (especially &lt;em&gt;sf&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Includes sci-fi, fantasy, and things that I suspect are on-topic but not always considered in either genre, like alternative history.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Resembles other StackExchange names, like &lt;em&gt;ui&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;boardgames&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;graphicdesign&lt;/em&gt; (without a hyphen).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;sf&lt;/em&gt; could be &quot;Sci-Fi&quot;, &quot;Sci-fi and Fantasy&quot;, or &quot;Speculative Fiction&quot;, so is easy to remember.  IIUC the domain is fixed, but once we leave beta we have the option to call the site something cute (e.g. cooking.stackexchange.com is &quot;Seasoned Advice&quot;), so it doesn't mean that we'd have to put &quot;Speculative Fiction&quot; in the banner during the beta.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Speculative fiction&quot; has always struck me as a little pretentious/academic (perhaps this is just me).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Doesn't have &quot;sci-fi&quot; &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; &quot;fantasy&quot; in the name.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are probably lots of things that &quot;sf&quot; could stand for.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;sf&quot; is generally the two-letter abbreviation for &quot;scifi&quot;, so it a little like not including fantasy and just shortening the name (c.f. the last pro point).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Community wiki in case anyone wants to add pros/cons).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-02-08T03:45:39.993" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-08T03:46:07.283" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="97" CreationDate="2011-02-08T15:50:24.713" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm the OP who created &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-doctor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-doctor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-doctor&lt;/a&gt; I changed the tag to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/voyager-doctor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;voyager-doctor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;voyager-doctor&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's the best option because it's more terse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure we should blacklist the original tag, because some new users may want to throw a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-doctor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-doctor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-doctor&lt;/a&gt; in there.  On the other hand, maybe blacklisting is a good idea. My opinion is to wait and see if anyone uses it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35" LastActivityDate="2011-02-08T15:50:24.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="326" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="327" CreationDate="2011-02-09T04:16:00.053" Score="4" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to see stats for new questions on the site, other than the sidebar item that says how many questions there are?  It would be cool if there were a place to see stats for the site, including new questions per day, and links to those questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70" LastActivityDate="2011-02-09T04:55:57.730" Title="new question stats" Tags="|discussion|site-statistics|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="326" CreationDate="2011-02-09T04:55:57.730" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you looking for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/4451/science-fiction&quot;&gt;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/4451/science-fiction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites?expand=true&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com/sites?expand=true&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2011-02-09T04:55:57.730" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="328" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="330" CreationDate="2011-02-09T13:28:09.637" Score="21" ViewCount="3032" Body="&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/439/what-is-filk-and-how-do-i-find-it&quot;&gt;What is filk and how do I find it?&lt;/a&gt; (see &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Filk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1598/what-exactly-were-the-prophets&quot;&gt;What exactly were the Prophets?&lt;/a&gt; (see &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophet_%28Star_Trek%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Prophets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/78/what-is-the-precise-definition-of-steampunk&quot;&gt;What is the precise definition of 'Steampunk'?&lt;/a&gt; (see &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Steampunk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(and even the super-upvoted) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1586/who-or-what-was-tom-bombadil&quot;&gt;Who or what was Tom Bombadil?&lt;/a&gt; (see &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Bombadil&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tom Bombadil&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should we do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer them with a link?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer them with a copy / paste?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer them with our own words?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close them?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something else?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please can we establish a rule for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: if you don't agree with one of my examples above write it in the comments by all means but note that this question is about the &lt;strong&gt;principle&lt;/strong&gt; of what we should do.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2012-07-06T18:12:25.423" Title="How should we handle questions that are easily answered by Wikipedia?" Tags="|discussion|general-reference|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2017-05-07T18:01:54.037" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="328" CreationDate="2011-02-09T14:29:18.003" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that a combination of option 3 followed by option 1 or 2 would be best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone can Google for the answer, so people (should) come here with the idea of getting an expert or group opinion, along with sparking some discussions which defend or prove an answer. That implies option 3, right? Maybe to back up your answer you can post a link as a reference... like a &quot;Would you like to learn more?&quot; thing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9" LastActivityDate="2011-02-09T14:29:18.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="328" CreationDate="2011-02-09T14:53:13.307" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;Increasingly, to a point where it's becoming ridiculous, any question that I have unless it's a question about a non-English speaking area (Québec, France, Spain, etc.) is easily answered by Wikipedia. Basically, almost anything that falls within Wikipedia's systemic bias can probably be answered by Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that all questions should pass the following test:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/s0UY9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it says &quot;close as 'general reference'&quot;, it's referring to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/197/should-trivially-easy-to-find-be-a-benchmark-for-moderating-the-site/220#220&quot;&gt;this possibly new close option&lt;/a&gt; that Jeff brought up. Until it's implemented, or if it's not implemented, read that as &quot;close as &quot;off-topic.'&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="678" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2011-02-18T06:04:17.753" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="331" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-09T16:05:32.553" Score="-10" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not all hacker movies are science-fiction, but a large percentage of them are. Would this poll be appropriate for the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="786" LastActivityDate="2011-02-09T16:37:05.303" Title="Would a poll on the most influential hacker movies be appropriate?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="331" CreationDate="2011-02-09T16:37:05.303" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, polls in general are not really what we look for here, so I would say no on that basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq#dontask&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq#dontask&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2011-02-09T16:37:05.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="333" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-11T21:46:15.640" Score="8" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; This is spoiler text at the top of the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm testing to see if it shows up on the Questions page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;It appears that it does, so follow up question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we just need to be careful about putting spoiler text at the top of a post, or can it be fixed so that it doesn't get displayed as normal text?&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63" LastEditorUserId="63" LastEditDate="2012-01-21T13:58:53.960" LastActivityDate="2012-01-22T18:58:19.017" Title="Does spoiler text show up on the Questions page?" Tags="|support|spoilers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="333" CreationDate="2011-02-11T21:48:55.417" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Yes, it does.&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1242/how-can-i-track-down-the-meta-question-that-fixed-the-spoiler-behavior&quot;&gt;Not anymore&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/In3bE.png&quot; alt=&quot;Spoiler-Fixed&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the old view of the same question with the spoiler text showing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jJPkX.png&quot; alt=&quot;spoiler text appears&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2012-01-22T18:58:19.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="333" CreationDate="2011-02-11T22:39:52.640" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think just excluding it from the text on the front page would work. Probably we have to ask this on meta.stackexchange.com rather than here, though? (if it gets rejected, then we have the inferior &quot;be careful how you write&quot; option). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-02-11T22:39:52.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="328" CreationDate="2011-02-13T00:40:51.540" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel was always of the opinion for Stackoverflow that asking and answering questions found easily found elsewhere was perfectly fine, in fact encouraged, as it made SO a more comprehensive compendium of knowledge&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34" LastActivityDate="2011-02-13T00:40:51.540" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="337" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="344" CreationDate="2011-02-14T03:16:08.650" Score="48" ViewCount="1366" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example, spy stuff like James Bond, 24, Tom Clancy, have some elements of sci-fi, but are a genre unto themselves. Should we include them in the list of on topic discussions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-01-30T11:08:21.047" LastActivityDate="2012-01-30T11:08:21.047" Title="Are works that aren't SF per se, but have occasional SFnal elements on-topic? (e.g. spy movies)" Tags="|discussion|faq|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="337" CreationDate="2011-02-14T05:10:53.377" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should depend on how heavily incorporated the sci-fi elements are in the spy-fi property.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Moonraker&lt;/em&gt; would lean a lot in the sci-fi elements. Probably.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whereas another film in the James Bond franchise, e.g. &lt;em&gt;On Her Majesty's Service&lt;/em&gt;, far less so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then we're onto the slippery slope of topics and what is and isn't right for the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it's a totally separate discussion to fantasy, which for a long time is mentioned in the same breath as sci-fi that they're pretty much bookshelf genre neighbours. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="383" LastActivityDate="2011-02-14T05:10:53.377" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="337" CreationDate="2011-02-14T05:14:31.463" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The boundaries of genre are fuzzy, and it would be a shame to exclude a work simply because of what a marketing department calls a work. I'd be fine with these questions where they relate to elements of the story that are explicitly science-fiction or fantasy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is &quot;Moonraker&quot; science-fiction? One could argue that, but it's really nothing more than spies and soldiers... IN SPACE! On the other hand, &quot;A Clockwork Orange&quot; is less obviously science-fiction, but it involves societal change. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's ask a few of these questions and see how they go. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33" LastActivityDate="2011-02-14T05:14:31.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="340" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-14T22:02:50.063" Score="14" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/the-7-essential-meta-questions-of-every-beta/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;7 essential questions&lt;/a&gt; is how can we promote our site.  There are &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/a-recipe-to-promote-your-site/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;some generic suggestions from the StackExchange team&lt;/a&gt;, but probably there are things that we can do that are specific here, as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this probably &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/4451/science-fiction&quot;&gt;our biggest problem&lt;/a&gt; at the moment - our views are quite low and the number of questions asked is low as well (presumably there are highly dependent, i.e. more views means more questions, and more questions means more views).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2011-02-27T19:32:11.423" LastActivityDate="2011-02-28T14:05:26.797" Title="How do we promote our site?" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="340" CreationDate="2011-02-14T22:07:19.483" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought the &lt;a href=&quot;https://boardgames.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/33/how-do-we-promote-our-site&quot;&gt;card/board games site&lt;/a&gt; had a couple of interesting ideas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adding a signature link if you participate in on-topic forums.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about new works.  We don't want to just pre-fill questions, so they'd have to be real questions, but this does bypass the 'found on Wikipedia' issue (i.e. if we have the content first).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Conventions.  This seems like a reasonably fertile ground for potential users.  They suggest &quot;stump the stack&quot; (i.e. pose a difficult - but real - question, and see whether the users can answer it), as well as general promotion.  Does anyone here attend cons?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:45:47.613" LastActivityDate="2011-02-14T22:07:19.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="342" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="343" CreationDate="2011-02-14T23:17:09.993" Score="10" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;In many places on the Stack Exchange Network, there is no mention of the Fantasy side of the Sci-Fi site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance here on Meta when you ask a question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KQJoj.png&quot; alt=&quot;Lack of Fantasy on Meta&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the little stack exchange widget:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9yu7C.png&quot; alt=&quot;No fantasy on SEN widget&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Area 51:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OR3hC.png&quot; alt=&quot;No Fantasy on Area51&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nsuPh.png&quot; alt=&quot;Stack Exchange lacks fantasy&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few other examples, but you get the point. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anyway that we can get the title changed on these sites to include Fantasy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can we attract Fantasy fans from the SEN if they know not of it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35" LastEditorUserId="35" LastEditDate="2011-02-15T17:01:39.700" LastActivityDate="2011-02-15T17:01:39.700" Title="Sci-Fi site doesn't say &quot;And Fantasy&quot; in very many places in the SEN" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|status-completed|fantasy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="342" CreationDate="2011-02-14T23:38:04.410" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have updated the sites table to include &quot;and Fantasy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Area 51 is also updated now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastEditorUserId="12" LastEditDate="2011-02-15T16:57:38.690" LastActivityDate="2011-02-15T16:57:38.690" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="337" CreationDate="2011-02-14T23:45:14.193" Score="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest the following guidelines (improvements welcome):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it's marketed as SF, it's on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If magic, futuristic science or technology, alternate history, or other &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;sf-nal&lt;/a&gt; concept is an important part of the overall plot, it's on-topic. (&lt;em&gt;Alice in Wonderland&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Clockwork Orange&lt;/em&gt;, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question is specifically about an sf-nal element, even if it's only a minor part of the work, it's on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it's set in an on-topic universe, it's on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you're not sure it's SF but you think a good case can be made for it, it's on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there is a minor supernatural element (e.g. a fortune teller's prediction comes true, or someone sees a ghost, or a story for children involving anthropomorphic animals) but it's just a throwaway plot element that's not particularly relevant to the question, it's off-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a rather inclusive policy. I think being inclusive will generate less friction (better have a few questions that purists can just snub, than cause bad feelings by closing borderline questions). This isn't to say you shouldn't vote to close if you feel that a borderline question is on the wrong side of the border, but please explain your reasoning when you cast your close vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Data point: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/ISFDB:Policy#Definitions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ISFDB&lt;/a&gt; excludes “&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno-thriller&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;technothrillers&lt;/a&gt;” but includes “non-genre speculative fiction”. It doesn't include any of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Ian_Fleming&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fleming&lt;/a&gt;'s Bond novels, but has &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Burgess&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Burgess&lt;/a&gt;'s full bibliography. I don't claim ISFDB has particularly clear rules; I suspect that because SF.SE is more community-run, we'll end up more inclusive than ISFDB.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2023-01-29T13:54:16.550" LastActivityDate="2011-02-14T23:45:14.193" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="345" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-15T10:30:02.893" Score="8" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a page where you can view what you have voted on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-03-11T23:56:31.397" LastActivityDate="2016-03-11T23:56:31.397" Title="List of questions I voted on" Tags="|support|voting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="345" CreationDate="2011-02-15T11:20:08.717" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short answer - &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/48830/possible-to-search-questions-i-voted-on/48913#48913&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood's answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;But if you insist, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/51931/query-to-get-questions-i-voted/51932#51932&quot;&gt;this trick for viewing your downvotes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="747" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2011-02-15T19:59:15.677" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26" CreationDate="2011-02-17T03:25:57.117" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should treat recommendation questions like we treat &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions: they are acceptable, but held to high standards, and we make this as clear as possible to users.  It seems clear from the other answers here that nearly everyone can see the high value in these questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A broad recommendation question (&quot;What's your favourite epic fantasy series?&quot;, &quot;I just read &lt;em&gt;Ender's Game&lt;/em&gt;, now what should I read?&quot;) is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A specific recommendation question &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; acceptable.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question explains &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt; the criteria have been chosen.  &quot;Books like Asmiov's Robot Series&quot; is too vague.  &quot;Books where the moral and ethical implications of human/AI interaction are explored, like in Asimov's Robot Series&quot; is better.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question doesn't ask just for a title, it asks &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt;.  Good answers explain &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; this is a particularly good match for the recommendation criteria.  This results in detailed, interesting, answers, not single-sentence type answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question asks for answers that draw on personal experience, but are impartial.  Good answers explain why the recommended work using their experience with it as an example, without assuming that everyone shares their viewpoint.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question may ask for references.  For example, good choices for recommendations may have won awards (not just a Hugo/Nebula, but perhaps some lesser-known award), or may have been recommended by someone with significant reputation in the field in question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do we draw the line between broad and specific? &lt;em&gt;We don't&lt;/em&gt; - we note (in the FAQ, in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/recommendations&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;recommendations&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;recommendations&lt;/a&gt; wiki) that specificity is a requirement, and then we vote as we each see fit - if it's poorly asked (in your opinion) downvote, if it's too broad (in your opinion) close vote, and if it's great (IYO) upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;To use StackOverflow as an example (since it's the eldest site): &quot;what's your favourite programmer's cartoon&quot; is not ok, &quot;I need to do full-text queries using a SQL-like interface with 4-10GB of data, sub-2-second queries, and real-time indexing.  What's the best tool to use?&quot; is ok.  (The first of these is certainly not acceptable on SO or even programmers.se; I'm pretty certain the second would be fine).&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Community wiki in case anyone would like to improve this.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-02-17T03:25:57.117" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-17T03:25:57.117" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="348" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="349" CreationDate="2011-02-17T17:07:27.787" Score="7" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is bugging me for a while, but I would like to raise the flag on a problem we have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should avoid having &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Suggestive Rules&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;, having suggestive rules is far more damageable that a suggestive question, because it &lt;strong&gt;lead to question that are controversy closed.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed that those &quot;&lt;em&gt;Suggestive Rules&lt;/em&gt;&quot; lead to user who &lt;strong&gt;lure the question author to jump through a series of hoops in order to have is question accepted by the community.&lt;/strong&gt; Comment like, &lt;em&gt;&quot;if you [do something], your question will be acceptable&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. But since the rules are not clear, more that often it's a false hope that's just increase the frustration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Tony Meyer noted on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/26/are-recommend-me-questions-allowed/193#193&quot;&gt;Are &quot;recommend me&quot; questions allowed&lt;/a&gt; there is currently a big confusion about this particular rule. We could edit the rules together, but we need &lt;strong&gt;ONE&lt;/strong&gt; rulebook, the rule should be as clear as possible and &lt;strong&gt;easy to find.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I think the main issue we have right now is that we does not have any moderator nominated yet.&lt;/strong&gt; Since some rules are still subject to interpretation, we need someone with the necessary authority for drawing the line between acceptable and unacceptable, even if it controversial, at least we should be coherent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We need a referee, as soon as possible.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic&quot;&gt;Here is our rulebook workbench&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2011-02-17T19:11:25.200" Title="Suggestive Rules, hoop jumping and the need of a rulebook." Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|moderators|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="348" CreationDate="2011-02-17T18:18:51.167" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;A moderator only &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;acts as an exception handler to a normal-running site&lt;/a&gt;: ideally he or she doesn't lay down the law. What SciFi.SE really needs, as you touched on, is a well-defined site identity that isn't defined in a dozen or so unresolved questions on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We had a similar problem on Programmers.SE when we were defining our identity, and what we did was create &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/237/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-are-off-topic&quot;&gt;one meta topic&lt;/a&gt; containing all the different types of questions that were being used on the site and voted on them. It allowed us to go through each issue in one place separately to figure out what Programmers.SE was going to be about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be beneficial for SciFi.SE to do the same thing. This way, we can have one place to figure out what our FAQ should contain and subsequently have an authoritative reference that users &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; moderators can use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I've created a new topic, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic&quot;&gt;What questions are on-topic, and what questions are off-topic?&lt;/a&gt;, to combine all the disparate questionable topics into one discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T08:26:45.047" LastActivityDate="2011-02-17T19:01:30.770" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="350" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-17T18:25:34.217" Score="32" ViewCount="2386" Body="&lt;p&gt;SciFi.SE's identity is still being defined, and as such there's a lot of unresolved confusion wrapped up in dozens of topics about what types of questions are acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's stop creating disparate topics that don't get a definitive answer, consolidate our efforts, and use this topic (and this topic only) to propose types of questions that might make the grade here on SciFi.SE so we can discuss and vote on them. This way, we have one single source for what's on-topic and what's not that can be referenced when dealing with concerns about specific questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The end result of this exercise should be enough to formulate additions to the FAQ and an end to a lot of the confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Ground Rules&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One type of question per answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide a brief description of what the type of question is about.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide example questions that would fit the question type.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use the comments to discuss why it should or shouldn't be a part of SciFi.SE.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote up answers that you think are on topic, vote down answers you think are off topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Summary (as of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/375/proposed-additions-to-the-faq&quot;&gt;2011-02-27 update&lt;/a&gt; to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On topic&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic/357#357&quot;&gt;Explanatory Questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic/364#364&quot;&gt;Contextual questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic/358#358&quot;&gt;In-Universe Speculation and Extrapolation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic/356#356&quot;&gt;Behind-the-Scenes Questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic/352#352&quot;&gt;Story Identification Questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic/353#353&quot;&gt;Reading Order Questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Still Controversial&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic/359#359&quot;&gt;Questions about SF fandom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic/355#355&quot;&gt;Real-World Speculation Questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic/363#363&quot;&gt;Bibliographic questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Off Topic&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic/365#365&quot;&gt;Personalized recommendations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic/361#361&quot;&gt;Questions about writing (filming, etc.) SF&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic/351#351&quot;&gt;Recommendation/Categorization Questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic/362#362&quot;&gt;Questions about genre classification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2018-04-04T04:55:34.107" LastActivityDate="2018-04-04T04:55:34.107" Title="What questions are on-topic, and what questions are off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|faq|scope|" AnswerCount="15" CommentCount="12" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-19T21:41:18.027" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="350" CreationDate="2011-02-17T18:27:10.270" Score="-5" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Recommendation/Categorization Questions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related tags: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/list&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;list&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;list&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/recommendations&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;recommendations&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;recommendations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These types of questions provide some background information about the question asker in hopes that answerers can recommend new material for the question asker to consume, provide a fact or concept and ask for a list of all works that talk about said fact or concept, or ask for all the examples of the use of a work in popular culture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example Questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1930/recommendations-of-novels-where-societies-are-inside-of-a-ship-and-most-of-the-pe&quot;&gt;Recommendations of novels where societies are inside of a ship and most of the people are oblivious to that fact&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/716/what-are-some-recommended-works-that-feature-the-development-of-a-self-aware-ai&quot;&gt;What are some recommended works that feature the development of a self-aware AI?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/687/what-works-feature-humans-gaining-immortality-and-its-effects&quot;&gt;What works feature humans gaining immortality and its effects?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/844/what-books-or-movies-feature-the-early-colonization-of-mars&quot;&gt;What books or movies feature the early colonization of Mars?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/727/what-sci-fi-universes-feature-human-xenophobia-as-a-main-feature&quot;&gt;What Sci-Fi universes feature human xenophobia as a main feature?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/972/what-words-phrases-from-science-fiction-have-entered-common-speech&quot;&gt;What words/phrases from science fiction have entered common speech? &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/856/are-there-any-stories-in-which-appliances-with-ai-mock-or-defy-their-owner&quot;&gt;Are there any stories in which appliances with AI mock or defy their owner?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/844/what-books-or-movies-feature-the-early-colonization-of-mars&quot;&gt;What books or movies feature the early colonization of Mars?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/927/which-obvious-predictions-about-modern-time-turned-out-to-be-greatly-exaggerated&quot;&gt;Which obvious predictions about modern time turned out to be greatly exaggerated?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1156/works-of-science-fiction-featuring-as-of-yet-inexistent-narcotics-drugs&quot;&gt;Works of science fiction featuring as-of-yet inexistent narcotics/drugs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Previous meta-discussion questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/26/are-recommend-me-questions-allowed&quot;&gt;Are “recommend me” questions allowed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16/are-list-questions-allowed&quot;&gt;Are list questions allowed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/178/what-about-subjective-questions&quot;&gt;What about subjective questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/258/is-the-recommendations-tag-the-new-list-tag&quot;&gt;Is the recommendations tag the new list tag?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2011-02-18T05:25:34.760" CommentCount="17" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-19T21:41:18.027" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="350" CreationDate="2011-02-17T18:32:07.833" Score="17" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Story Identification Questions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related tags: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These types of questions provide a set of details about an unknown story in hopes that answerers will be able to identify the name of the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example Questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1246/what-short-story-is-about-an-invasion-from-metallic-creatures&quot;&gt;What short story is about an invasion from metallic creatures?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/609/what-sci-fi-story-featured-a-linear-accelerator-for-space-launch&quot;&gt;What Sci fi story featured a linear accelerator for space launch?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1725/trying-to-identify-i-will-measure-the-dust-story&quot;&gt;Trying to identify “I will measure the dust” story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1032/what-is-the-name-author-of-this-short-story-that-takes-place-off-planet-involvi&quot;&gt;What is the name &amp;amp; author of this short story that takes place off planet involving sun &amp;amp; rain?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1030/name-the-book-where-the-setting-is-a-giant-ship-with-a-planet-inside&quot;&gt;Name the book where the setting is a giant ship with a planet inside.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Previous meta-discussion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13/are-book-movie-tv-series-identification-questions-allowed/&quot;&gt;Are book / movie / TV series identification questions allowed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/245/extra-answers-after-an-identification-question-has-been-correctly-answered&quot;&gt;Extra answers after an identification question has been correctly answered&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2011-02-18T05:02:57.603" CommentCount="8" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-19T21:41:18.027" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="350" CreationDate="2011-02-17T18:36:44.520" Score="15" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Reading Order Questions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related tags: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/reading-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;reading-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;reading-order&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These types of questions ask for advice on what order a series should be consumed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example Questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1381/what-order-should-i-be-reading-the-discworld-books-in&quot;&gt;What order should I be reading the Discworld books in?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1520/in-what-order-should-the-star-wars-movies-be-watched&quot;&gt;In what order should the Star Wars movies be watched?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/125/whats-the-recommend-reading-order-of-the-ender-wiggin-books&quot;&gt;What's the recommend reading order of the Ender Wiggin books?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1784/glitter-band-to-rust-belt-when&quot;&gt;Glitter Band to Rust Belt - When?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/832/asimov-start-with-foundation-or-robots&quot;&gt;Asimov - Start with Foundation or Robots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1566/after-star-trek-the-next-generation-can-i-skip-to-voyager-without-watching-deep&quot;&gt;After Star Trek: The Next Generation, can I skip to Voyager without watching Deep Space Nine and not get spoiled?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Previous meta-discussion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/282/acceptability-of-reading-viewing-order-questions&quot;&gt;Acceptability of reading/viewing order questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2011-02-18T18:15:15.863" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-19T21:41:18.027" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="350" CreationDate="2011-02-17T18:47:26.943" Score="9" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Real-World Speculation Questions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related tags: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/real-world&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;real-world&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;real-world&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These types of questions take a concept featured in a work of science fiction or fantasy and ask how it relates to real-life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example Questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1263/is-the-basic-premise-of-humans-as-a-power-source-in-the-matrix-reasonable&quot;&gt;Is the basic premise of humans as a power source in The Matrix reasonable?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1872/why-doesnt-evidence-of-time-travel-exist&quot;&gt;Why doesn't evidence of time travel exist?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1282/could-the-terraforming-techniques-from-red-blue-green-mars-work-on-any-other-plan&quot;&gt;Could the terraforming techniques from Red/Blue/Green Mars work on any other planets in our solar system?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1345/what-would-be-a-reasonable-technical-explanation-for-why-phaser-beams-are-differe&quot;&gt;What would be a reasonable technical explanation for why phaser beams are different colors?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2152/reasons-why-electronics-might-not-exist&quot;&gt;Reasons why Electronics might not exist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Previous meta-discussion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/266/sci-fi-technology-on-topic&quot;&gt;Sci-fi technology: On topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/32/questions-that-provide-speculative-answers&quot;&gt;Questions that provide speculative answers…&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/406/are-speculations-about-history-on-topic&quot;&gt;Are speculations about history on-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later meta-discussion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4/30/2012 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1776/1109&quot;&gt;Updated discussion about Real World Spec questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2012-04-30T18:36:57.627" CommentCount="16" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-19T21:41:18.027" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="350" CreationDate="2011-02-17T18:52:41.637" Score="17" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Behind-the-Scenes Questions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related tags: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/awards&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;awards&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;awards&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These types of questions step outside the content of a work and ask questions about the people who make them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example Questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1251/why-are-reboots-not-done-for-novels&quot;&gt;Why are “reboots” not done for novels?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1228/is-the-klingon-language-fully-realized-or-just-a-handful-of-disconnected-phrases&quot;&gt;Is the Klingon language fully realized, or just a handful of disconnected phrases?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/872/why-did-lucas-begin-the-episode-numbering-at-iv&quot;&gt;Why did Lucas begin the episode numbering at IV?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1109/what-is-a-retcon-or-retroactive-continuity&quot;&gt;What is a retcon, or retroactive continuity?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1281/why-do-anthologies-have-such-a-prominent-place-in-the-history-of-written-sf&quot;&gt;Why do anthologies have such a prominent place in the history of written SF?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/477/are-sf-comics-considered-for-the-same-awards-as-books&quot;&gt;Are SF comics considered for the same awards as books?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/549/actor-or-actress-that-have-won-best-actor-oscar-for-role-in-sci-fi-film&quot;&gt;Actor or actress that have won best actor Oscar for role in sci-fi film&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/418/what-published-metrics-are-there-on-how-sci-fi-is-doing-as-a-genre-in-the-publish&quot;&gt;What published metrics are there on how sci-fi is doing as a genre in the publishing biz?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Previous meta-discussion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/233/how-do-we-deal-with-questions-about-rumors-and-release-dates&quot;&gt;How do we deal with questions about rumors and release dates?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/191/why-does-the-community-think-identify-what-movie-show-and-actor-was-in-questions&quot;&gt;Why does the community think identify what movie/show and actor was in questions are good?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/133/why-was-the-which-actors-have-played-doctor-who-question-closed&quot;&gt;Why was the “which actors have played Doctor Who” question closed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2011-02-21T23:12:24.637" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-19T21:41:18.027" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="350" CreationDate="2011-02-17T19:25:00.907" Score="19" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Explanatory Questions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These types of questions ask for an explanation about a concept, character, or plot element in a work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example Questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1007/what-was-starbuck&quot;&gt;What was Starbuck?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1586/who-or-what-was-tom-bombadil&quot;&gt;Who or what was Tom Bombadil?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1536/can-anyone-explain-the-star-trek-astrography-i-e-quadrants&quot;&gt;Can anyone explain the Star Trek astrography (i.e. quadrants)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1151/why-and-how-did-the-star-trek-universe-evolve-to-a-cashless-commerce-less-society&quot;&gt;Why and how did the Star Trek Universe evolve to a cashless/commerce-less society?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/426/what-was-the-origin-of-star-treks-borg&quot;&gt;What was the origin of Star Trek's Borg?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Previous meta-discussion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/328/how-should-we-handle-questions-that-are-easily-answered-by-wikipedia&quot;&gt;How should we handle questions that are easily answered by Wikipedia?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/14/are-google-able-questions-appropriate&quot;&gt;Are Google-able questions appropriate?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/197/should-trivially-easy-to-find-be-a-benchmark-for-moderating-the-site&quot;&gt;Should “trivially easy to find” be a benchmark for moderating the site?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/151/posting-large-swaths-of-wikipedia-as-answers&quot;&gt;Posting large swaths of Wikipedia as answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/81/are-questions-that-try-to-rationalize-technobabble-on-topic-here&quot;&gt;Are questions that try to rationalize technobabble on-topic here?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2011-02-18T05:07:14.807" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-19T21:41:18.027" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="350" CreationDate="2011-02-17T19:30:56.597" Score="23" Body="&lt;h3&gt;In-Universe Speculation and Extrapolation&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related tags: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/technology&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;technology&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;technology&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These types of questions take a concept featured in a work of science fiction or fantasy and ask why it wasn't done differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example Questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1458/was-the-millennium-falcon-too-slow&quot;&gt;Was the Millennium Falcon too slow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1185/why-doesnt-spock-and-the-vulcan-speak-a-loglan-a-logical-language&quot;&gt;Why doesn't Spock and the Vulcan speak a loglan (a logical language)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1499/how-come-cloaking-devices-in-star-trek-allow-the-cloaked-ship-to-continue-to-obse&quot;&gt;How come cloaking devices in Star Trek allow the cloaked ship to continue to observe its surroundings?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1124/why-do-the-humans-leave-their-original-planet-to-found-the-colonies&quot;&gt;Why do the humans leave their original planet to found the colonies?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Previous meta-discussion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/257/are-speculation-questions-fair-game-for-this-site&quot;&gt;Are speculation questions fair game for this site?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/81/are-questions-that-try-to-rationalize-technobabble-on-topic-here&quot;&gt;Are questions that try to rationalize technobabble on-topic here?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/32/questions-that-provide-speculative-answers&quot;&gt;Questions that provide speculative answers…&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2011-02-18T05:12:10.700" CommentCount="7" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-19T21:41:18.027" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="350" CreationDate="2011-02-17T19:49:50.050" Score="16" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Questions about SF fandom&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related tags: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/conventions&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;conventions&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;conventions&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fans&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fans&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions are not about SF, they're about people who &lt;strong&gt;like&lt;/strong&gt; SF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1781/how-should-i-prepare-for-my-first-convention&quot;&gt;How should I prepare for my first convention?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/536/what-resources-exist-to-help-sf-fans-meet-other-fans-face-to-face&quot;&gt;What resources exist to help SF fans meet other fans, face-to-face?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/3803/1027&quot;&gt;How to deal with people who think that scifi and fantasy is childish?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2011-06-06T20:23:28.630" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-19T21:41:18.027" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="350" CreationDate="2011-02-17T19:58:57.450" Score="-5" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Questions about writing (filming, etc.) SF&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related tags: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/writing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;writing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;writing&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fanfic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fanfic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fanfic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions are useful to people who make SF. They can be about the artistic activity (writing technique, film production technology, …) or about promoting one's work (where to publish fan fiction, how to contact serious publishers, …).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/190/i-want-to-write-sci-fi-stories-are-there-any-resources-guidelines-writing-strat&quot;&gt;I want to write sci-fi stories are there any Resources, Guidelines, Writing Strategies &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28/where-can-i-find-creative-commons-science-fiction-suitable-for-use-in-fanfic&quot;&gt;Where can I find Creative Commons science fiction suitable for use in fanfic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/13/what-is-sci-fi-books-are-falling-into-public-domain-this-year-2011-and-are-now&quot;&gt;What is sci-fi books are falling into public domain this year (2011) and are now safe for fan fiction?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Previous meta-discussion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11/is-writing-science-fiction-part-of-this-site&quot;&gt;Is writing Science Fiction part of this site?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/251/are-fan-fics-fair-game-for-this-site&quot;&gt;Are fan-fics fair game for this site?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2011-02-18T05:29:06.627" CommentCount="7" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-19T21:41:18.027" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="350" CreationDate="2011-02-17T20:21:03.427" Score="-6" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Questions about genre classification&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related tags: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/genre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;genre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;genre&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/subgenre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;subgenre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;subgenre&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions ask whether a particular work is SF or belongs to a particular subgenre, or ask about what makes up a subgenre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/86/are-the-pern-novels-by-anne-mccaffrey-and-the-erna-novels-by-celia-s-friedman-sf&quot;&gt;Are the Pern-novels by Anne McCaffrey and the Erna-novels by Celia S. Friedman SF or Fantasy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1157/are-there-subgenres-for-science-fiction-with-accurate-science-vs-made-up-science&quot;&gt;Are there subgenres for science fiction with accurate science vs. made up science?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1077/what-is-slipstream&quot;&gt;What is Slipstream?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/441/are-post-apocalyptic-settings-scifi&quot;&gt;Are post-apocalyptic settings SciFi?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/268/can-howard-phillips-lovecraft-be-considered-a-sci-fi-author&quot;&gt;Can Howard Phillips Lovecraft be considered a sci-fi author?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/127/would-jericho-be-considered-science-fiction&quot;&gt;Would Jericho be considered science fiction?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/130/are-comic-superheroes-considered-sci-fi&quot;&gt;Are comic superheroes considered sci-fi?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Previous meta-discussion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/37/faq-what-is-and-what-isnt-considered-science-fiction&quot;&gt;FAQ: What is and what isn't considered science fiction?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/23/should-questions-about-is-x-science-fiction-be-off-topic&quot;&gt;Should questions about “Is X science fiction” be off-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://writers.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/144/are-what-genre-is-this-questions-on-topic&quot;&gt;Writers Stack Exchange's stance on genre classification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2011-12-11T01:09:50.823" CommentCount="9" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-19T21:41:18.027" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="350" CreationDate="2011-02-17T20:39:19.363" Score="14" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Bibliographic questions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related tags: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/online-resources&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;online-resources&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;online-resources&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions are about what a librarian or bookseller would typically know. They ask where to find bibliographic information, or how to obtain a work that isn't published in an obvious way, or where to find recommendations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31/where-can-i-find-a-full-copy-of-philip-k-dicks-exegesis&quot;&gt;Where can I find a full copy of Philip K Dick's Exegesis?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/54/is-there-a-reasonably-complete-online-database-of-sf-works&quot;&gt;Is there a reasonably complete online database of sf works?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/244/what-short-sci-fi-movies-are-available&quot;&gt;What short sci-fi movies are available online?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/479/place-to-read-moderated-amateur-work&quot;&gt;Place to read moderated amateur work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/503/are-there-reference-sci-fi-websites-that-maintain-lists-of-must-have-books&quot;&gt;Are there reference sci-fi websites that maintain lists of “must have” books?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/754/what-are-some-sites-that-provide-science-fiction-stories-in-audio-form-for-free&quot;&gt;What are some sites that provide science fiction stories in audio form (for free)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/213/versions-of-the-demolished-man&quot;&gt;Versions of The Demolished Man&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2011-02-24T02:53:39.890" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-19T21:41:18.027" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="350" CreationDate="2011-02-17T20:58:42.977" Score="20" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Contextual questions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related tags: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/etymology&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;etymology&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;etymology&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/society&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;society&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;society&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These types of questions deal with the context in which science fiction and fantasy occurs: including history, etymology, and society. They have definitive answers about specific facts or events related to science fiction and fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1677/first-novel-to-meld-science-fiction-and-western-genres&quot;&gt;First novel to meld science fiction and western genres?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/392/what-is-the-origin-of-the-phrase-on-the-gripping-hand&quot;&gt;What is the origin of the phrase “on the gripping hand?”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1119/when-did-the-terms-science-fiction-and-sci-fi-enter-our-vernacular&quot;&gt;When did the terms science fiction and sci-fi enter our vernacular?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1167/what-changes-in-society-led-to-brave-new-world-becoming-accepted&quot;&gt;What changes in society led to “Brave New World” becoming accepted?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1555/on-the-personal-relation-between-phil-k-dick-and-robert-heinlein&quot;&gt;On the personal relation between Phil K. Dick and Robert Heinlein&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2011-02-24T20:45:54.907" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-19T21:41:18.027" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="350" CreationDate="2011-02-17T21:27:37.713" Score="-6" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Personalized recommentations&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related tags: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/recommendations&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;recommendations&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;recommendations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions asked for recommendations tailored to the asker's tastes. Generally the asker lists some likes and dislikes, and expected answers are works or authors that the asker is likely to like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1750/high-fantasy-novel-suggestions-with-a-female-main-character-and-concurrent-plots&quot;&gt;High Fantasy novel suggestions with a female main character and concurrent plots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1421/are-there-any-authors-that-write-in-a-similar-style-to-heinlein&quot;&gt;Are there any authors that write in a similar style to Heinlein?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1437/im-looking-for-authors-similar-to-early-spider-robinson-can-anyone-help&quot;&gt;I'm looking for authors similar to early Spider Robinson can anyone help?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1403/is-there-anyone-like-terry-pratchett-in-the-sci-fi-world&quot;&gt;Is there anyone like Terry Pratchett in the sci-fi world?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/4451/science-fiction-fantasy/5113#5113&quot;&gt;I like scientific accuracy, which hard science fiction writer would you recommend and why?&lt;/a&gt; (from the original proposal)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Previous meta-discussion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/26/are-recommend-me-questions-allowed&quot;&gt;Are “recommend me” questions allowed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/258/is-the-recommendations-tag-the-new-list-tag&quot;&gt;Is the recommendations tag the new list tag?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/182/why-isnt-this-question-a-recommendation-question&quot;&gt;Why isn't this question a recommendation question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2011-02-18T05:24:48.630" CommentCount="7" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-19T21:41:18.027" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="137" CreationDate="2011-02-18T10:57:41.060" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Zypher needs to re-examine his way of working. I've seen these questions closed today which I do not think should have been closed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1725/trying-to-identify-i-will-measure-the-dust-story&quot;&gt;Trying to identify “I will measure the dust” story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1962/fantasy-novel-with-all-female-characters&quot;&gt;Fantasy novel with all female characters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1924/why-the-name-shepard&quot;&gt;Why the name Shepard?&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;em&gt;(this one is borderline)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1960/sf-novel-with-musical-instruments-as-the-only-means-of-communication&quot;&gt;SF novel with musical instruments as the only means of communication&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quote from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;At the high end of this reputation spectrum there is little difference between users with high reputation and ♦ moderators. That is very much intentional. We don’t run Science Fiction - Stack Exchange. The community does.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Zypher - can you please explain what is happening? I for one really do not appreciate this unilateral question closing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2011-02-18T11:27:53.203" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11" CreationDate="2011-02-18T14:12:10.203" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to make a case for allowing limited writing questions on this site, and see how it stands. There are certain elements which are unique to scifi/fantasy. For instance, ways of magical creation. Methods for traveling the galaxy. Ways to terraform a planet. These and many more might just fit the bill, if we can only massage them a bit. But anything that is very generic to writing (Plot, characters, etc) should be sent off to the writers camp.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2011-02-18T14:12:10.203" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="190" CreationDate="2011-02-19T08:30:46.067" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DVD extras meet user generated content.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imagine if you could set the questions on the DVD extras for your favourite TV show or movie – or if you had extras for your favourite book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You get answers about &lt;strong&gt;what&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;how&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt; things happened both in-universe, and in reality, from people who are intimately familiar with not just that one work, but the entire science fiction and fantasy genres – people that can pull together expert and interesting answers about how this work relates to other genre fiction and to the world. They’ll even explain what stories you should move to next if you loved particular aspects of this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Note that this is community wiki for anyone that would like to improve it.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-02-19T08:30:46.067" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-19T08:30:46.067" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="316" CreationDate="2011-02-19T13:17:27.757" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the main point is that the banner on the site should be clear, and “Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy” is fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't even like &lt;code&gt;scifi&lt;/code&gt; much, because &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science-fiction#Definitions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;there are people who use that term derogatorily&lt;/a&gt;. I like “speculative fiction” (abbreviated sf), but many people don't know this term. Just &lt;code&gt;sf&lt;/code&gt; might be confusing because on Stack Exchange, “SF” is &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are precedents for having more than one alias (with one considered canonical), for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;linux&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; redirects to &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;unix&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Since we've &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/300/scifi-stack-exchange-is-now-science-fiction-fantasy&quot;&gt;merged with the fantasy proposal&lt;/a&gt;, a redirection from &lt;code&gt;fantasy&lt;/code&gt; seems appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.957" LastActivityDate="2011-02-19T13:17:27.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="370" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="372" CreationDate="2011-02-19T15:56:50.337" Score="9" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was about to ask a TV series identification question that I'd had for years. I tried one last bout of googling, and after varying keywords quite a bit, I found a candidate title, which didn't look very promising from the context but nonetheless turned out to be right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be appropriate for me to post the question? I have the answer now, so I would give the answer as well. Normally I wouldn't consider this a problem, but for identification questions it's hard to judge whether my question and answer would help other people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2011-02-20T03:37:48.717" Title="Appropriateness of seeding an identification question" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-02-10T15:59:16.103" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="370" CreationDate="2011-02-19T18:11:23.910" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;An interesting question, on the first few days of the site I asked a few questions I knew I could figure out, but I legitimately didn't know.  Though many of those questions caught some negative attention from the moderators (I still want a good answer to a couple!!11).&#xA;There's not much of a fine line between these two different ways to &quot;fake&quot; a question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only problem I see is that some might abuse this to ask really bad questions.  On the other-hand that's what the down-vote and close-vote are for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site could really use more questions, but we also need to maintain quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35" LastActivityDate="2011-02-19T18:11:23.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="370" CreationDate="2011-02-20T03:37:48.717" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Without seeing the question, it is hard to say whether it is appropriate. Sometimes it is better to include your (hypothetical) question here to help provide context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, in the general sense, seeding &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be okay&amp;hellip;sometimes. Sometimes not. It is not generally encouraged, unless the question is one that will provide &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; good content. Don't seed simply for the sake of adding bulk to the site. That is not what you want for this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wrote more about this issue here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/area-51-asking-the-first-questions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Asking the First Questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2011-02-20T03:37:48.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="373" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-21T17:13:15.850" Score="12" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community to act as temporary, provisional Moderators. You can read about the program here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/moderator-pro-tempore/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moderators Pro Tempore&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am pleased to announce that these members have stepped up and generously volunteered their time to help us assure that each community’s issues are properly addressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pmu6l.png&quot; alt=&quot;SciFi Pro Tem Mods&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We want to make this site a huge success, and these members are great examples of exactly the type of people we need to make this site succeed. Please welcome them for the hard work and time they contribute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Did I overlook anyone?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Almost certainly. There are members who are actively involved and very deserving of recognition. My failure to account for everyone this early on is in &lt;em&gt;no way&lt;/em&gt; a slight against them. Ideally, Moderators are elected by the community and that's why &lt;strong&gt;you'll have your elections in several weeks.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Most of all, be respectful and understanding of the Moderators Pro Tem. Members of your community are volunteering their time and learning on the job. It’s a learning experience for everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2011-03-08T19:30:41.997" Title="Moderator Pro Tem Announcement" Tags="|discussion|moderators|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="373" CreationDate="2011-02-21T17:56:29.680" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I look forward to trying to help get the site off it's feet.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I do something that anyone disagrees with, leave a comment or a message in chat and I'll be happy to talk about and even change my behavior if a good case can be made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll try to be passive unless I feel there is consensus on an issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35" LastActivityDate="2011-02-21T17:56:29.680" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="375" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-21T22:32:39.870" Score="11" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've been hashing out what types of questions are on-topic and what types of questions are off-topic for a few days now, so I'd like to start preparing a draft of what will be added to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;SciFi.SE's FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The format is taken from the fairly successful &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ for Programmers.SE&lt;/a&gt;: it is a distillation of the heavily up-voted answers (5 or greater) from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350&quot;&gt;What questions are on-topic, and what questions are off-topic?&lt;/a&gt; and the following Stack Overflow Blog posts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot;&gt;Real Questions Have Answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/12/no-artificial-intelligence-in-area-51/&quot;&gt;No Artificial Intelligence in Area 51&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/02/are-some-questions-too-simple/&quot;&gt;Are Some Questions Too Simple?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some answers have been combined to make it easier to summarize our site's purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please provide any feedback you might have, but be sure to read the posts linked above to understand the purpose of these changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What kind of questions can I ask here?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Science Fiction and Fantasy - Stack Exchange is for questions targeted towards science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts. This includes questions about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Plot, character, or setting explanations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Historical context&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Story identification&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Franchise/series reading or viewing order&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What about other Science Fiction and Fantasy related questions?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not all questions have a home on Stack Exchange. Please note the following types of questions are off-topic here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions easily answered by a Google or Wikipedia search: &lt;em&gt;Who played X in Y?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Real-world speculation and extrapolation: &lt;em&gt;Is X technology from Y possible in real life?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reading and viewing recommendations: &lt;em&gt;Can you recommend me a book that has X?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lists of works, characters, or settings: &lt;em&gt;What are all the books that have Y in them?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Genre classification: &lt;em&gt;Is X Science Fiction?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic&quot;&gt;the question where these topics were discussed&lt;/a&gt; on our meta discussion site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question is about...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Writing science fiction&lt;/strong&gt;, ask on &lt;a href=&quot;http://writers.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Writers - Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(At this point, the FAQ continues with the global FAQ copy starting at &lt;em&gt;Please look around to see if your question has already been asked (and maybe even answered!) before you ask. It’s also perfectly fine to ask and answer your own question, as long as you pretend you’re on Jeopardy: phrase it in the form of a question.&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As of 2011-02-27, the FAQ has been updated based on the text in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/375/proposed-additions-to-the-faq/398#398&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2011-02-27T13:43:03.767" Title="Proposed Additions to the FAQ" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|site-faq|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="375" CreationDate="2011-02-21T23:42:46.813" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should steal from other good FAQs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://cooking.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;Cooking SE&lt;/a&gt; has a link to questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; on meta.  Many of our &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/on-topic-discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;on-topic-discussion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;on-topic-discussion&lt;/a&gt; posts could be considered for that tag, and adding a link in the FAQ is good.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://math.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;Math SE&lt;/a&gt; has a section of topics that while on-topic would be better answered elsewhere.  I like that wording better (e.g. for writing) - i.e. we encourage users to go to &lt;a href=&quot;https://writers.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Writers SE&lt;/a&gt;, but they aren't banned here.  Likewise &quot;who played X in Y&quot; is presumably best answered by IMDB.  Is there a single best discussion place we can point people to? (like how boardgames has BGG)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unless it is going to be added to the generic network-wide text, a sentence or two about &quot;answerable by general reference site&quot; questions with a link to Jeff's post about that would be good. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:40:22.477" LastActivityDate="2011-02-24T08:44:24.603" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="378" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="381" CreationDate="2011-02-23T03:42:15.093" Score="4" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have posted some questions in the SciFi&amp;amp;Fantasy Beta and somebody has favored one of them. Can I see who is that person?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="779" LastActivityDate="2011-02-24T08:45:33.963" Title="How to view who is favoring the questions one has asked?" Tags="|support|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="378" CreationDate="2011-02-23T04:16:46.877" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can do this with a &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Data Explorer&lt;/a&gt; (SEDE) Query (I'd give you a link, but I'm having trouble logging into it right now):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;-- Who Favorited My Question?&#xA;-- Show users who marked a as &quot;favorites&quot;, and which posts they marked...&#xA;&#xA;DECLARE @PostID int = ##PostID##&#xA;&#xA;select votes.userid as [User Link], posts.id as [Post Link] from votes join posts on posts.id = votes.postid where votetypeid=5 and posts.id=@PostID​&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there is no data in SEDE on Stack Exchange sites in beta. When SciFi.SE goes live, you'll be able to use the above to find out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastActivityDate="2011-02-23T04:16:46.877" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="380" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="384" CreationDate="2011-02-23T07:26:59.440" Score="9" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think I even need to explain why that is, but - just in case - &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/625/how-about-getting-rid-of-the-english-tag&quot;&gt;here's an hyperlink&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="678" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:53.050" LastActivityDate="2011-02-23T17:31:52.660" Title="Blacklist the fantasy tag" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tag-blacklist-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="378" CreationDate="2011-02-23T07:59:06.497" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can do this via the &lt;a href=&quot;http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/usage&quot;&gt;StackExchange API&lt;/a&gt;.  However, I think the only way to do it is backwards - you can see what each user's favourites are, but not who favourited each question, so you'd have to loop through all users until you found sufficient matches to get the answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This is not a great use of the API - if there's a legitimate use for doing this, then a request to add a /questions/{ids}/favorite to the API would be better.  API requests without an API key are also limited, so doing this may not be feasible without one, even on a small site like this).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://api.scifi.stackexchange.com/1.1/users/108/favorites&quot;&gt;this link gives you (in JSON) my favourites&lt;/a&gt;, as I am user 108 (it's empty, as I have no favourites here), and &lt;a href=&quot;http://api.scifi.stackexchange.com/1.1/users/9/favorites&quot;&gt;this link gives you user 9's favourites&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To find the answer, you'd do something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;for i in range(1, total_users+1):&#xA;    compressed_data = StringIO.StringIO(urllib2.urlopen(&quot;http://api.scifi.stackexchange.com/1.1/users/%s/favorites&quot; % i).read())&#xA;    data = json.loads(gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=compressed_data).read())&#xA;    for question in data[&quot;questions&quot;]:&#xA;        if question[&quot;question_id&quot;] == desired_question:&#xA;            print &quot;Favourited by user:&quot;, i&#xA;            return              &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="108" LastEditDate="2011-02-24T08:45:33.963" LastActivityDate="2011-02-24T08:45:33.963" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="380" CreationDate="2011-02-23T08:00:04.267" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There were only 5 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantasy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantasy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantasy&lt;/a&gt; (4 of which were closed) and it seemed like people were using them to avoid tagging the questions with something useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've retagged them all, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantasy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantasy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantasy&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/904/kill-requirments-gathering-and-requirements-engineering&quot;&gt;will be automatically pruned daily&lt;/a&gt; if there are no questions tagged with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T17:33:38.337" LastActivityDate="2011-02-23T08:00:04.267" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="306" CreationDate="2011-02-23T08:05:12.933" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are no questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sci-fi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sci-fi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sci-fi&lt;/a&gt;, and I just &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/380/burninate-the-fantasy-tag&quot;&gt;killed off&lt;/a&gt; the 5 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantasy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantasy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantasy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2011-02-23T08:05:12.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="380" CreationDate="2011-02-23T17:31:18.777" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok I added &lt;code&gt;^(fantasy|scifi)$&lt;/code&gt; to the tag blacklist as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101" LastActivityDate="2011-02-23T17:31:18.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="350" CreationDate="2011-02-24T01:16:24.957" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions directly questioning fundamental rules about the physics of the given universe, as applied current laws of physics.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the type that basically says &quot;How come ____ happens in ___ when we know that ____.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note, this is quite different than asking for an explanation of a technology that only exists in a sci-fi or fantasy world. This category also does not include the &quot;Is (some explanation of something) a real phenomena? Those would fit into &lt;strong&gt;Real-World Speculation Questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2064/how-did-kenobi-travel-to-the-outer-rim-in-star-wars-episode-ii&quot;&gt;How did Kenobi travel to the outer-rim in Star Wars Episode II?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1825/why-and-how-can-you-hear-explosions-in-space-in-star-wars&quot;&gt;Why and how can you hear explosions in space in Star Wars?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2011-02-24T01:16:24.957" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-24T01:16:24.957" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="386" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-24T15:52:03.593" Score="2" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1/is-it-important-to-mark-spoiler-questions-as-such&quot;&gt;Is it important to mark spoiler questions as such?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to have an official policy for denoting spoiler questions, that way all the spoiler questions can use the same method to denote that their spoiler status.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As is, people just choose at random how to denote that their question is a spoiler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the single best way to denote that a question is a spoiler question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2011-02-24T18:32:50.507" Title="Should spoilers questions have a spoiler tag, spolier notice in the title or something else?" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2011-02-24T18:24:51.050" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="386" CreationDate="2011-02-24T16:51:29.157" Score="1" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Phrase the question title so ther's no spoiler in it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use the &quot;&gt; !&quot; Markup to hide any Spoilers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The answer is 42!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is done, we dont need any spoiler tag or spolier notice in the title&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If the Spoiler in the title cannot be avoid&lt;/strong&gt;, then the spoiler tag could be used as they specify itin the &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spoiler&quot;&gt;Gaming.SE spoiler Tag Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This tag should only used for questions which contain spoilers in the title, such as &quot;How do I kill GLaDOS?&quot; [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/310/why-did-douglas-adams-pick-42-as-the-ultimate-answer&quot;&gt;Why did Douglas Adams pick 42 as the ultimate answer?&lt;/a&gt; is a great example of question that cannot avoid it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2011-02-24T17:08:56.903" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="388" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="392" CreationDate="2011-02-24T17:54:37.730" Score="9" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TcRyj.png&quot; alt=&quot;missing &amp;quot;and/or fantasy&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;&#xA;Can we change this to: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions on Science Fiction &lt;strong&gt;And&#xA;  Fantasy&lt;/strong&gt; are expected to generally&#xA;  relate to science fiction &lt;strong&gt;or&#xA;  fantasy&lt;/strong&gt; within the scope defined in&#xA;  the faq.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35" LastEditorUserId="12" LastEditDate="2011-02-24T19:11:20.540" LastActivityDate="2011-02-24T19:11:20.540" Title="Close message is missing &quot;And Fantasy&quot;" Tags="|bug|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="389" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="399" CreationDate="2011-02-24T18:45:27.787" Score="9" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most, if not all, Stack Exchange sites are &lt;strong&gt;&quot;how to&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; sites, e.g.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: how tos for personal computer use&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: how tos for setting up servers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://photo.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Photography&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: how tos for photography and of course&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: how tos for programming&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Programmers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, which allows &lt;em&gt;&quot;constructive subjective questions&quot;&lt;/em&gt; encourages how (and why) questions (see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;How to&quot;s don't come naturally to this subject matter. The only time that something like it has been discussed (that I know of), the idea was rejected: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11/is-writing-science-fiction-part-of-this-site&quot;&gt;Is writing Science Fiction part of this site?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this a problem for the long term viability of this site?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we consider how this might site become a &quot;how to&quot; site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, note that by &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; being a how to, we are more aligned (and therefore, more in &quot;competition&quot; (for want of a better word)) with Wikipedia which is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3aNOTHOWTO#NOTHOWTO&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;not a how to&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Background info: see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/70604/is-stack-overflow-a-wikipedia-done-right/80329#80329&quot;&gt;my related answer on meta&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:46.357" LastActivityDate="2011-02-25T00:11:46.707" Title="Sci-fi &amp; Fantasy not a &quot;how to&quot; - is this a problem?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="389" CreationDate="2011-02-24T19:03:21.270" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps you should see it as: &lt;code&gt;How should I have analyzed this to draw a better conclusion?&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because for users who analyze stories for a living, like literature students/teachers or editors and writers, there clearly is long term value in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Off course the questions won't be phrased at such, but seeing a true expert spot details you missed hopefully teaches you something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="193" LastActivityDate="2011-02-24T19:03:21.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="375" CreationDate="2011-02-24T19:04:07.400" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should specifically include those questions with high positive/negative votes in the FAQ. The others should be carefully considered, and if the question has merit, it will be allowed. If it doesn't, well, it can be closed. But none of this need to be included in the FAQ directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2011-02-24T19:04:07.400" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="388" CreationDate="2011-02-24T19:11:02.677" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Geoff took care of this. \o/&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sYiYI.png&quot; alt=&quot;SFF&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12" LastActivityDate="2011-02-24T19:11:02.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="389" CreationDate="2011-02-24T20:39:24.877" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think &quot;how to&quot; really captures the spirit of the Q&amp;amp;A, it's too limiting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Certainly &quot;Why&quot; is also valid, as explicitly explained in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;the faq&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your motivation for asking the question is “I would like to participate in a discussion about ______”, then you should not be asking here. If your motivation is “I would like others to explain ______ to me”, then you are probably OK. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2011-02-24T20:39:24.877" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="394" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-24T20:44:28.417" Score="4" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is in relation to the following question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2104/historical-basis-for-the-character-of-the-fool&quot;&gt;Historical basis for the character of the fool&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this is not an element that is exclusive to SFF, it certainly is not an uncommon element in medieval-themed fantasy novels. Would this be considered off topic?  I'm on the fence about it...initially I felt that is &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; on topic, since it is an element found in fantasy novels, but I can see the other rationale as well.  Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2011-02-24T21:19:29.710" Title="Do questions concerning topics that are not exclusively SFF related, but are found in SFF, on or off topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="394" CreationDate="2011-02-24T20:51:02.000" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I felt like the question was only tangentially related to Sci-Fi or Fantasy, and therefore I closed it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35" LastActivityDate="2011-02-24T20:51:02.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="394" CreationDate="2011-02-24T21:14:24.877" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are questions that try to put SFF in a larger literary context considered off topic if the answer to those questions are not necessarily SFF related?  I am of the opinion that if the answer serves to improve understanding of the works involved then it should be considered on topic.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastActivityDate="2011-02-24T21:14:24.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="375" CreationDate="2011-02-25T00:07:43.400" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are some proposed minor changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Off-topic categories&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reordered so that lists come second&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Changed the wording of the too-trivial category; I'm still not satisfied with it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Changed the wording of the list category&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Changed the recommendation example to me more distinctive from lists&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Removed real-world speculation altogether, because I don't feel we have a definitive ruling yet&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Added a link to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, so people easily find a guide on how to ask a good story-id question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What kind of questions can I ask here?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Science Fiction and Fantasy - Stack Exchange is for questions targeted towards science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts. This includes questions about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Plot, character, or setting explanations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Historical context&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot;&gt;Story identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Franchise/series reading or viewing order&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What about other Science Fiction and Fantasy related questions?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not all questions have a home on Stack Exchange. Please note the following types of questions are off-topic here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Facts easily found on a reference site: &lt;em&gt;Who played X in Y?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions calling for a list of works, authors, …: &lt;em&gt;What are all the books that have X?&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;em&gt;Who wrote about topic Y?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reading or viewing recommendations: &lt;em&gt;I liked X, what should I watch next?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Genre classification: &lt;em&gt;Is X Science Fiction?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic&quot;&gt;the question where these topics were discussed&lt;/a&gt; on our meta discussion site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question is about...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Writing science fiction&lt;/strong&gt;, ask on &lt;a href=&quot;http://writers.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Writers - Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2011-02-25T00:23:27.400" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="389" CreationDate="2011-02-25T00:11:46.707" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using the proposed FAQ on-topic categories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Plot, character, or setting explanations: how to understand this book I'm reading, TV show I'm watching, movie I saw.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Historical context: how to understand more about ...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information: how to get the best out of a conference, how to contact an author&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Story identification: how to find this story I'm looking for&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Franchise/series reading or viewing order: how to consume this sequence of stories.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-02-25T00:11:46.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="400" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="402" CreationDate="2011-02-25T15:29:03.123" Score="14" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could not find the information anywhere, so I was wondering whether there is any restriction on the kinds of medium whose works can be discussed here? Books, TV, Movies seem to be fair game but what about other mediums like maybe board games/anime etc.?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="947" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-02-27T23:50:55.920" LastActivityDate="2016-02-27T23:50:55.920" Title="Which mediums can be the basis of questions?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="400" CreationDate="2011-02-25T15:39:50.783" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe as long as you are referring to the Sci-Fi or Fantasy content in a medium, whatever that medium maybe, then it is on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35" LastActivityDate="2011-02-25T15:39:50.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="400" CreationDate="2011-02-25T20:50:40.217" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Expect most questions to be about books, movies and TV shows, because that's what most people see/watch. But questions about radio broadcasts, comics, cartoons/anime, plays, paintings, interpretative dance, or whatever medium suits your fancy are just as welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it comes to games, there are other Stack Exchange sites. Questions about the SF-nal aspects of a game are welcome here, but questions about the gameplay are off-topic on this site and should be asked on the relevant game-related site instead (as per &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/319/can-i-ask-a-question-about-video-game-based-scifi-fantasy&quot;&gt;this Meta post&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Gaming&lt;/a&gt; for passionate videogamers [computer and console games]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rpg.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Role-playing Games&lt;/a&gt; for players and gamemasters of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-playing_game_%28pen_and_paper%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;tabletop&lt;/a&gt; [i.e. pen-and-paper] &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role_playing_games&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;role-playing games&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Board Games&lt;/a&gt; for people who like playing board games, designing board games or modifying the rules of existing board games&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:45:51.017" LastActivityDate="2011-02-25T20:58:17.990" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="403" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="404" CreationDate="2011-02-25T21:07:21.460" Score="17" ViewCount="586" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/02/are-some-questions-too-simple/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;standard internet reference sites&lt;/a&gt; for science fiction and fantasy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2011-08-05T23:30:07.783" LastActivityDate="2016-03-30T00:19:34.200" Title="What are standard internet reference sites for SF?" Tags="|support|faq|general-reference|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-25T21:27:12.257" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="403" CreationDate="2011-02-25T21:13:01.737" Score="12" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikipedia.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the famous online encyclopedia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IMDB&lt;/strong&gt;, the Internet Movie Database&lt;/a&gt;, a database about movies and TV shows&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ISFDB&lt;/strong&gt;, the Internet Speculative Fiction Database&lt;/a&gt;, a bibliographic database of written sf&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If you ask about an actor, author, book, movie, shows, etc, and the answer is clearly visible on the entry for that actor/author/… on one of these references sites, then your question will be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/197/should-trivially-easy-to-find-be-a-benchmark-for-moderating-the-site&quot;&gt;closed as too basic&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2023-01-29T13:54:16.550" LastActivityDate="2011-02-25T21:37:15.263" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-25T21:27:44.690" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="403" CreationDate="2011-02-25T21:53:01.760" Score="11" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Per-universe wikis&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An answer appearing on these sites is not reason by itself to close as general reference; however if a link to a page with the answer appears high in search engine results, and the page doesn't need improvement (with respect to the question), then a &quot;general reference&quot; vote may be appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These sites &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; particularly useful for researching answers to questions within these universes; often a good answer will draw from material here (and elsewhere), and may refer the reader to more detailed (wiki-style) material on these sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt; (grouped by original media type) &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Books&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dune&lt;/em&gt; (Frank Herbert): &lt;a href=&quot;http://dune.wikia.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dune Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/em&gt; (G.R.R. Martin): &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A Wiki of Ice and Fire&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.westeros.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Westeros&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Terry Pratchett (Discworld and the rest): &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lspace.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;L-Space&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.lspace.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wiki&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Orson Scott Card: &lt;a href=&quot;http://ansible.wikia.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ansible&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; (J.K. Rowling): &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Harry Potter Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;J.R.R. Tolkien: &lt;a href=&quot;http://lotr.wikia.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lord of the Rings Wiki&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Encyclopedia of Arda&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://tolkiengateway.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tolkien Gateway&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Harry Turtledove: &lt;a href=&quot;http://turtledove.wikia.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Harry Turtledove Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Movies&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wookiepedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Terminator&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://terminator.wikia.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Terminator Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Television&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Battlestar Galactica&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.battlestarwiki.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Battlestar Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Doctor_Who_Wiki&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tardis Data Core&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Farscape&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://farscape.wikia.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Farscape Enyclopedia Project&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://theinfosphere.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Infosphere&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;LOST&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lostpedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Primeval&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://primeval.wikia.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Primeval Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stargate&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stargate.wikia.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stargate Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://memory-alpha.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Memory Alpha&lt;/a&gt; for canon, &lt;a href=&quot;http://memory-beta.wikia.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Memory Beta&lt;/a&gt; for non-canon&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Radio&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy&lt;/em&gt; (Douglas Adams): &lt;a href=&quot;http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="55866" LastEditDate="2016-03-30T00:19:34.200" LastActivityDate="2016-03-30T00:19:34.200" CommentCount="7" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-25T21:53:01.760" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="406" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-26T00:04:28.330" Score="3" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are questions that ask “what would the world be if X had (not) happened” on-topic for this site? What about the closely related “what would need to have changed for X to become true”?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2152/reasons-why-electronics-might-not-exist&quot;&gt;Reasons why Electronics might not exist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this is not about discussing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/35/are-questions-about-alternate-history-on-or-off-topic&quot;&gt;specific alternate history works&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is close to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/266/sci-fi-technology-on-topic&quot;&gt;Sci-fi technology: On topic?&lt;/a&gt;, but there may be good reasons to allow the one and not the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2011-02-26T11:25:07.237" Title="Are speculations about history on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="406" CreationDate="2011-02-26T01:04:24.500" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're not so much a site for Q&amp;amp;A about science fiction &amp;amp; fantasy, as about existing works of science fiction and fantasy.  (If the question is about creating a new work, then we're redirecting them to writers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is about a general scientific or fantastic idea, unconnected to any existing work, then it's off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="108" LastEditDate="2011-02-26T11:25:07.237" LastActivityDate="2011-02-26T11:25:07.237" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="408" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-26T11:52:41.327" Score="-2" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;SFF won't reuse that many tags as other Stack Exchange sites. Each time someone wants to talk about a novel no one has talked about yet, it'll require the creation of a new tag. When that's the case, the new user will end up using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/2159/revisions&quot;&gt;useless tags&lt;/a&gt; that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/293/&quot;&gt;should be blacklisted anyhow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, should we let new users create new tags, or would that go horribly wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="678" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2011-02-26T18:45:34.270" Title="Should we relax the tag creation rules for this site?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="408" CreationDate="2011-02-26T12:46:45.257" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reputation requirement for creating a tag is only 300 (150 as long as the site is in beta), and retagging other people's posts comes at 500 (200 in beta, and everyone can suggest an edit now). We already have 114 users who can create tags and add them to a question without supervision. On the other beta sites where I've participated, the community has proved effective at creating tags as required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not even convinced we'll end up having that many low-use tags compared to other sites. For example sites like &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Unix and Linux&lt;/a&gt; have a lot of tags for applications that very few people ask about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having a minimum participation requirement before creating tags is a good thing for consistency. If the tag creation requirements are too low we increase the risk of author name spelling variants coming up and the like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TL,DR: I think the normal tag creation rules are fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.957" LastActivityDate="2011-02-26T12:46:45.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="408" CreationDate="2011-02-26T18:45:34.270" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Each time someone wants to talk about a novel no one has talked about yet, it'll require the creation of a new tag&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I absolutely &lt;em&gt;do not&lt;/em&gt; think you want to create one tag for every novel ever written.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is ridiculous!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Popular series like Lord of the Rings, perhaps. Genres, certainly. But a tag for every novel? No way. Absolutely not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101" LastActivityDate="2011-02-26T18:45:34.270" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="411" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-27T15:46:54.040" Score="10" ViewCount="488" Body="&lt;p&gt;After &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=list+recommendation&quot;&gt;many discussions&lt;/a&gt;, it has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic&quot;&gt;decided&lt;/a&gt; that questions calling for &lt;strong&gt;lists&lt;/strong&gt; of works (or authors, etc) or more or less personalized &lt;strong&gt;recommendations&lt;/strong&gt; are not acceptable. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;site FAQ&lt;/a&gt; has been adapted accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A number of questions were closed in one fell swoop on 2011-03-06 — essentially, the questions tagged &lt;code&gt;list&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;recommendations&lt;/code&gt;. This was a one-time cleanup, following the writing of the official site FAQ. Closing off-topic questions is normally done by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/posts/411/revisions&quot;&gt;this posts's history&lt;/a&gt; for the list), and other closed questions, have now been &lt;strong&gt;deleted&lt;/strong&gt; or are likely to be deleted soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deleted questions are not visible except to users with ≥2000 rep, and not easily searchable. You can &lt;strong&gt;download&lt;/strong&gt; an archive (in parsable JSON format) of all the not-yet-deleted closed questions as of a few days ago &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mediafire.com/?13b7yki35ww5hsi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;there&lt;/a&gt;. This is a limited-time offer and I do not provide technical support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that some of these questions and their answers had &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/31253/the-bike-shed-problem-and-so&quot;&gt;a lot of votes&lt;/a&gt;. The associated &lt;strong&gt;reputation&lt;/strong&gt; disappears when the posts are deleted, but you might not see the effect immediately, because your reputation total is cached for efficiency. You can recalculate your reputation from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/reputation&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;/reputation&lt;/code&gt; page&lt;/a&gt;, and it might happen automatically without notice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2011-06-04T14:45:06.667" Title="Culling list and recommendation questions" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="27" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="412" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-27T16:11:23.967" Score="14" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are our general tagging practices?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few current practices are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about a specific tv show, universe or well-known work: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dune&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/battlestar-galactica&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;battlestar-galactica&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;battlestar-galactica&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about a specific author, or an author's lesser-known work: use the author's full name, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/isaac-asimov&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;isaac-asimov&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;isaac-asimov&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Story identification questions: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions covering a specific subgenre: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alternate-history&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alternate-history&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alternate-history&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hard-scifi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hard-scifi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hard-scifi&lt;/a&gt;, …&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions covering a specific theme: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aliens&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aliens&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aliens&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/weapon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;weapon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;weapon&lt;/a&gt;, …&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about a specific medium or format: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movies&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novels&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novels&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novels&lt;/a&gt;, … &lt;em&gt;These are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/293/should-we-do-away-with-the-media-tags-books-novel-tv-movies-etc&quot;&gt;deprecated&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What other practices are recommended?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-02-28T15:52:14.263" Title="General tagging practices" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2016-02-28T15:52:36.670" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="413" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-27T16:30:47.577" Score="8" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've now mostly hashed out &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic&quot;&gt;what kinds of questions are welcome on the site&lt;/a&gt;, and this is reflected in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;official FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/411/culling-list-and-recommendation-questions&quot;&gt;cull unwanted questions&lt;/a&gt;. We should &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/412/general-tagging-practices&quot;&gt;reflect, and perhaps codify our tagging practice&lt;/a&gt;. We should build a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/faq&quot;&gt;community FAQ&lt;/a&gt;. The aim here is to make the site more welcoming for new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of these are, &lt;em&gt;in fine&lt;/em&gt;, the community's job. Moderators have access to tools that can facilitate things, for example we can merge tags and delete questions, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;community moderators do not make the rules&lt;/a&gt;. So what else should we, the community, do? How can we moderators help?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2011-03-11T09:03:09.317" Title="What can we do to make this site a better place?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="293" CreationDate="2011-02-27T17:54:45.220" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can see them being relevant for some things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy comes in book, radioplay, movie version, and others all of which contain differences - even the ones authored by Douglas Adams contain differences as he revised for each medium. It's entirely plausible that someone asks a question that relates only to the radio-play scripts, and not to the book version because of a change that the author made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="830" LastActivityDate="2011-02-27T17:54:45.220" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="413" CreationDate="2011-02-27T19:26:54.717" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;We need more questions, and more users - i.e. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/340/how-do-we-promote-our-site&quot;&gt;we need to promote the site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2011-02-27T19:26:54.717" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="411" CreationDate="2011-02-27T20:14:54.847" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The description of what was voted off-topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions [that] provide some background information about the question asker in hopes that answerers can recommend new material for the question asker to consume, provide a fact or concept and ask for a list of all works that talk about said fact or concept, or ask for all the examples of the use of a work in popular culture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many of the questions that happen to have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/list&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;list&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;list&lt;/a&gt; tag do not match this description.  Deleting questions should be based not on the tags that a question has, but what the question actually is, and the description the &quot;on topic&quot; decision votes were for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following do not ask for a recommendation, do not ask for a list of all works that talk about a fact/concept, and do not ask for all examples of the use of a work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/231&quot;&gt;Which actors have played The Doctor over the years?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/491&quot;&gt;What Sci-fi film scores and soundtracks have won an Oscar?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/549&quot;&gt;Actor or actress that have won best actor Oscar for role in sci-fi film&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1354&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1354&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/82&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/82&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/528&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/528&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/130&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/130&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2011-03-05T21:17:20.453" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="411" CreationDate="2011-02-28T02:07:20.547" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1436/moorcock-reading-order-can-i-start-reading-moorcock-with-the-dancers-at-the-end&quot;&gt;Moorcock Reading Order&lt;/a&gt; should remain as per the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic/353#353&quot;&gt;decision on reading order questions&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2011-02-28T02:07:20.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="418" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-28T07:53:56.417" Score="3" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2172/in-the-wheel-of-time-series-what-is-the-game-of-stones&quot;&gt;In the 'Wheel of Time' series, what is the game of stones?&lt;/a&gt; was answered by Teknophilia with: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It looks like Robert Jordan said that it was made-up game, but that is was meant to resemble GO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He then cited &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_play_the_game_of_stones_from_The_wheel_of_time&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wiki.answers.com&lt;/a&gt; as his source for the claim, and got four upvotes as a response. Is this really acceptable? Words from the author is indeed a great answer, but only if it comes from a trusted source. An anonymous wiki user hardly qualifies as a trusted source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we downvote/flag as low quality answers with poor sources?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="678" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Notability of sources" Tags="|discussion|notability-of-sources|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="418" CreationDate="2011-02-28T09:23:05.283" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downvote answers you don't think are useful: that's what they're there for. Optionally, leave a comment explaining why you don't think the answer is useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't flag answers that are merely factually incorrect or misleading: it's not the role of moderators to fact-check. You should really only have to flag an answer as low quality if it has serious issues preventing it from being considered an answer and there is no way to salvage it via edits: extremely poor grasp of the English language and one-line answers that don't explain anything, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq#behonest&quot;&gt;codified in the FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Be honest.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Above all, be honest. If you see misinformation, vote it down. Add comments indicating what, specifically, is wrong. Provide better answers of your own. Best of all — edit and improve the existing questions and answers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2011-02-28T21:30:53.243" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="340" CreationDate="2011-02-28T14:05:26.797" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering whether I could contact some popular fantasy blog writers. So far I haven't done it, because it seems too much like spamming. Are there any policies on it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="947" LastActivityDate="2011-02-28T14:05:26.797" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="421" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-02-28T14:19:07.127" Score="4" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are the various naming conventions for tags? This may include&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;First name/last name order in person tags?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Inclusion of propositions at the front of fiction works (like the-wheel-of-time vs. wheel-of-time)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any other possible conventions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="947" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2016-02-28T16:17:52.130" LastActivityDate="2016-02-28T16:17:52.130" Title="Naming convention for tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2016-02-28T15:55:30.450" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="418" CreationDate="2011-02-28T21:05:50.640" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange is not Wikipedia&lt;sup&gt;[1]&lt;/sup&gt;, you don't have to back up every answer by a citation from a reputable source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is perhaps not a very good answer, but definitely not flag-worthy. The proper response if you find it useless, or you think it is wrong, is to downvote. It's a good idea to explain why you don't like it in a comment, too: this gives the answerer a chance to correct or remove his answer, and (most importantly, for a wrong answer) warn others about what is wrong with the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see an answer with just a link and no explanation, this is a low-quality answer, but not in itself flag-worthy. Ideally, edit the answer to add a short summary of what's behind the link; or post another answer with that summary, if you really care about getting more reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1. Eric. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5017/markdown-footnotes/5187#5187&quot;&gt;Answer to “Markdown footnotes?”&lt;/a&gt;. Meta Stack Overflow. Retrieved 28 February 2011.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2011-02-28T21:05:50.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="411" CreationDate="2011-02-28T22:25:07.943" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I modified my question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/3/revisions&quot;&gt;What are the different types of robots in Total Recall 2070?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/3/35&quot;&gt;Other than Alpha and Delta, were there any other types of androids in Total Recall 2070?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what the answer is, but it's probably one or two other androids, I would hardly call it a classic list question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I consider the question an ordinary &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic/357#357&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Explanatory Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2011-03-01T01:44:22.593" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="411" CreationDate="2011-03-01T00:41:24.697" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;These questions do not have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/list&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;list&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;list&lt;/a&gt; tag or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/recommendations&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;recommendations&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;recommendations&lt;/a&gt; tag, but are as much lists/recommendations as the ones listed above, so should presumably be considered at the same time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2020/what-characters-on-heroes-have-the-ability-to-manipulate-space-and-time&quot;&gt;What characters on Heroes have the ability to manipulate space and time?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1960/what-sf-novel-or-short-story-features-characters-that-can-only-communicate-with-m&quot;&gt;What SF novel or short story features characters that can only communicate with musical instruments?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1912/fantasy-novels-with-unique-and-clearly-detailed-magic-systems&quot;&gt;Fantasy novels with unique and clearly detailed magic systems?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1792/which-additional-sci-fi-books-describe-zones-of-technologies&quot;&gt;Which (additional) sci-fi books describe “zones of technologies”?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1638/what-historical-predictions-did-star-trek-get-right&quot;&gt;What historical predictions did Star Trek get right?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1637/what-historical-predictions-did-star-trek-get-wrong&quot;&gt;What historical predictions did Star Trek get wrong?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1634/what-technology-predictions-did-star-trek-get-wrong&quot;&gt;What technology predictions did Star Trek get wrong?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1391/which-names-and-terms-in-the-dune-series-come-from-hebrew-inspired-phrases&quot;&gt;Which names and terms in the Dune series come from Hebrew-inspired phrases?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1289/are-there-any-other-works-featuring-riddick&quot;&gt;Are there any other works featuring Riddick?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1003/which-actors-were-originally-considered-for-the-role-of-data-in-the-star-trek-th&quot;&gt;Which actors were originally considered for the role of Data in the Star Trek: The Next Generation series?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1002/which-actors-were-originally-considered-for-the-role-of-spock-in-the-star-trek-se&quot;&gt;Which actors were originally considered for the role of Spock in the Star Trek series?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/999/which-actors-from-the-original-star-trek-pilot-the-cage-appeared-in-later-star&quot;&gt;Which actors from the original Star Trek pilot “The Cage” appeared in later Star Trek media?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/940/which-episodes-deal-with-the-dark-jumper-in-quantum-leap&quot;&gt;Which episodes deal with the “Dark” jumper in Quantum Leap?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/938/regional-specialties-in-treason&quot;&gt;Regional specialties in “Treason”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/935/sci-fi-that-leverages-contemporary-technology&quot;&gt;Sci-fi that leverages contemporary technology?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/896/what-were-the-mistakes-in-the-first-paperback-edition-of-ringworld&quot;&gt;What were the “mistakes” in the first paperback edition of Ringworld?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/866/what-stories-are-set-in-george-r-r-martins-future-history-universe-the-sett&quot;&gt;What stories are set in George R.R. Martin's 'future history' universe? (the setting for Dying of the Light)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/820/what-movies-feature-time-travel-as-a-central-plot-device&quot;&gt;What movies feature time travel as a central plot device?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/778/who-are-blakess-7&quot;&gt;Who are Blakes's 7?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/640/are-there-any-books-about-life-adapting-to-a-zero-gravity-environment&quot;&gt;Are there any books about life adapting to a zero-gravity environment?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/478/what-sf-book-film-awards-are-there&quot;&gt;What SF book/film awards are there?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/362/what-are-the-different-references-to-pon-farr-on-star-trek&quot;&gt;What are the different references to 'Pon Farr' on Star Trek?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/294/most-famous-non-english-language-science-fiction-writers&quot;&gt;Most famous non-English language science fiction writers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/255/which-technology-was-introduced-through-star-trek-2009&quot;&gt;Which technology was introduced through Star Trek (2009)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/216/is-there-a-sci-fi-series-that-talks-about-a-secret-world-in-modern-earth&quot;&gt;Is there a sci-fi series that talks about a secret world in modern Earth?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/205/are-there-any-major-sci-fi-authors-that-share-a-universe-in-their-novels&quot;&gt;Are there any major sci-fi authors that “share” a universe in their novels?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/121/how-many-different-soong-robots-were-there&quot;&gt;How many different Soong robots were there?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/76/what-shows-movies-or-novels-depict-the-technological-singularity&quot;&gt;What shows, movies or novels depict the technological singularity?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/72/works-without-characters&quot;&gt;Works without characters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7/has-any-science-fiction-work-accurately-predicted-the-emergence-of-future-technol&quot;&gt;Has any science fiction work accurately predicted the emergence of future technology?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1210/who-what-are-kim-stanley-robinsons-influences&quot;&gt;Who/what are Kim Stanley Robinson's Influences?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2011-03-01T00:41:24.697" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="350" CreationDate="2011-03-01T00:54:21.817" Score="12" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Questions where the answer has a small number of items, which might be presented as a list&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are not the same as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic/351#351&quot;&gt;the &quot;list&quot; questions described in another answer here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Every item that applies should be in a single answer (i.e. compared to one item per answer).  As such, this is absolutely not a poll.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All the items are of essentially equal importance (i.e. votes are for the complete answer, not for an item on the list).  Again, not a poll.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are a very limited number of items (i.e. an amount that comfortably fits within a single answer).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;These aren't recommendations.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer could be written as prose rather than as a list (but the person who answered felt that including a list would make the answer more readable).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example good questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1637/what-historical-predictions-did-star-trek-get-wrong&quot;&gt;What historical predictions did Star Trek get wrong?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1391/which-names-and-terms-in-the-dune-series-come-from-hebrew-inspired-phrases&quot;&gt;Which names and terms in the Dune series come from Hebrew-inspired phrases?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1289/are-there-any-other-works-featuring-riddick&quot;&gt;Are there any other works featuring Riddick?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1003/which-actors-were-originally-considered-for-the-role-of-data-in-the-star-trek-th&quot;&gt;Which actors were originally considered for the role of Data in the Star Trek: The Next Generation series?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/896/what-were-the-mistakes-in-the-first-paperback-edition-of-ringworld&quot;&gt;What were the “mistakes” in the first paperback edition of Ringworld?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/866/what-stories-are-set-in-george-r-r-martins-future-history-universe-the-sett&quot;&gt;What stories are set in George R.R. Martin's 'future history' universe? (the setting for Dying of the Light)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/778/who-are-blakess-7&quot;&gt;Who are Blakes's 7?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/705/what-are-the-different-types-and-classes-of-ftl-engines&quot;&gt;What are the different types and classes of FTL engines?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/491/what-sci-fi-film-scores-and-soundtracks-have-won-an-oscar&quot;&gt;What Sci-fi film scores and soundtracks have won an Oscar?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/72/works-without-characters&quot;&gt;Works without characters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1210/who-what-are-kim-stanley-robinsons-influences&quot;&gt;Who/what are Kim Stanley Robinson's Influences?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example poor questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2020/what-characters-on-heroes-have-the-ability-to-manipulate-space-and-time&quot;&gt;What characters on Heroes have the ability to manipulate space and time?&lt;/a&gt; (Easily found on a reference site).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/940/which-episodes-deal-with-the-dark-jumper-in-quantum-leap&quot;&gt;Which episodes deal with the “Dark” jumper in Quantum Leap?&lt;/a&gt; (Can be found on IMDB, although the correct term - &quot;evil&quot;, not &quot;dark&quot;, is needed).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/938/regional-specialties-in-treason&quot;&gt;Regional specialties in “Treason”&lt;/a&gt; (Can be found on Wikipedia, although the obvious Google queries do not show in on the first page).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/478/what-sf-book-film-awards-are-there&quot;&gt;What SF book/film awards are there?&lt;/a&gt; (Wikipedia list is third Google link).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/362/what-are-the-different-references-to-pon-farr-on-star-trek&quot;&gt;What are the different references to 'Pon Farr' on Star Trek?&lt;/a&gt; (Easily found on a reference site, if the universe reference sites are included).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/121/how-many-different-soong-robots-were-there&quot;&gt;How many different Soong robots were there?&lt;/a&gt; (Easily found in Wikipedia).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/231/which-actors-have-played-dr-who-over-the-years&quot;&gt;Which actors have played Dr. Who over the years?&lt;/a&gt; (Easily found in Wikipedia).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related meta questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16/are-list-questions-allowed&quot;&gt;Are list questions allowed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user11982" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2013-01-25T08:57:59.617" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-03-01T00:54:21.817" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="421" CreationDate="2011-03-01T10:45:18.043" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The current convention appears to be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Author names are as you would find them on the cover of a book (i.e. generally first-last, but sometimes with middle initials/names, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/orson-scott-card&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;orson-scott-card&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;orson-scott-card&lt;/a&gt;, or only initials, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/c-s-lewis&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;c-s-lewis&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;c-s-lewis&lt;/a&gt;).  Since the tag search searches anywhere in the tag either should work fine (i.e. if you type &quot;hein&quot;, you'll find &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/robert-a-heinlein&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;robert-a-heinlein&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;robert-a-heinlein&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Propositions are mixed at the moment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dropped &quot;the&quot;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wheel-of-time&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wheel-of-time&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wheel-of-time&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/saga-of-the-exiles&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;saga-of-the-exiles&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;saga-of-the-exiles&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/golden-compass&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;golden-compass&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;golden-compass&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kept &quot;the&quot;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-way&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-way&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-way&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-doomsday-book&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-doomsday-book&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-doomsday-book&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-prisoner&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-prisoner&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-prisoner&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-player-of-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-player-of-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-player-of-games&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-matrix&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-matrix&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-matrix&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-culture&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-culture&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-culture&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-lost-fleet&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-lost-fleet&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-lost-fleet&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kept &quot;a&quot;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-clockwork-orange&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-clockwork-orange&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-clockwork-orange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, shorter tags are better, especially since they are used in space-sensitive locations (page title, tweets) now.  However, if they are too short (e.g. &quot;way&quot; or &quot;prisoner&quot;) then it's unclear that they are referring to a particular series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the guideline was that titles four words and over drop the preposition, then only &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/golden-compass&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;golden-compass&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;golden-compass&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-player-of-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-player-of-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-player-of-games&lt;/a&gt; don't match.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-03-01T10:45:18.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="421" CreationDate="2011-03-01T14:48:13.567" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unless there is a &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; good reason, always use singular rather than plural, e.g. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/robot&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;robot&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;robot&lt;/a&gt; and not &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/robots&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;robots&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;robots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2011-03-01T14:48:13.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="428" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-01T18:16:49.677" Score="2" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;As shown in the picture below, taken from this question- &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2203/what-happens-before-the-crippled-god&quot;&gt;What happens before the Crippled God?&lt;/a&gt; . The &lt;code&gt;__italic__&lt;/code&gt; actually bolds things instead of italicising them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NUs2A.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot for bug&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="947" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2011-03-02T00:13:51.033" Title="Markup not working properly" Tags="|support|markdown|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="428" CreationDate="2011-03-01T18:28:40.650" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Italic&lt;/em&gt; uses a single underscore on each side, or a single &lt;em&gt;asterisk&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Bold&lt;/strong&gt; uses two &lt;strong&gt;underscores&lt;/strong&gt; or two asterisks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="108" LastEditDate="2011-03-01T23:00:26.763" LastActivityDate="2011-03-01T23:00:26.763" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="411" CreationDate="2011-03-01T19:58:28.280" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As an experiment, I have completely reworded one of these questions:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1962/fantasy-stories-with-all-female-characters&quot;&gt;How could I find fantasy stories with all female characters?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(formerly “Fantasy novel with all female characters (name that novel or a short story”)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're against list questions, do you think my reworded question makes the question appropriate for the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you like list questions, do you think my reworded question is still interesting enough?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(This is aside from the question of whether it was acceptable for me to edit Darius's question. Darius, please accept my apologies for that. I'm trying to move the site in a constructive direction, which sometimes requires action. I do not intend to make a habit of such major edits.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2011-03-01T19:58:28.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="411" CreationDate="2011-03-01T20:23:29.053" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;List of questions I believe should live and why:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3&quot;&gt;What are the different types of robots in Total Recall 2070?&lt;/a&gt; (0) - See other answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1436&quot;&gt;Moorcock reading order, Can I start reading Moorcock with the Dancers at the End of Time series?&lt;/a&gt; (2) - Reading order questions seem acceptable&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1962&quot;&gt;Fantasy novel with all female characters (name that novel or a short story)&lt;/a&gt; (0) - A work in progress&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rest should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to vote for or against this suggestion if you agree or disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2011-03-01T21:07:15.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="432" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-02T21:24:11.293" Score="29" ViewCount="343" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/176/if-you-dont-want-spoilers/187#187&quot;&gt;markdown for spoilers&lt;/a&gt;: put &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;!&lt;/code&gt; at the beginning of a paragraph, and the paragraph will be visible only when the mouse hovers over it, or when it is selected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; like this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;!&amp;gt; like this&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there interest in changing one of the markdown buttons above the editing zone? It is technically feasible, but not necessarily a good idea from a user interface point of view as it introduces an inconsistency between SF&amp;amp;F and other Stack Exchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Please upvote this question if you'd like the code button to be turned into a spoiler button.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Please downvote this question if you'd like the code button to remain as it is.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Please leave a comment or answer if you have a different preference. An extra button is not currently an option.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: There are currently 17 votes for and 3 against, which I take to mean there is interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So: Dear Stack Exchange team, please change the code markup button into a spoiler markup button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2011-12-06T21:10:07.860" Title="Is there any interest in a spoiler markdown button?" Tags="|feature-request|spoilers|markdown|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="432" CreationDate="2011-03-03T01:12:48.860" Score="-7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would be against this, simply because it's such a rare need. Not every markdown function is worthy of a button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every button and feature we add is another &quot;don't make me think&quot;, left unchecked, you can end up with &lt;a href=&quot;http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/The_Homer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Homer's Automobile&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090908145333/simpsons/images/0/05/TheHomer.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101" LastActivityDate="2011-03-03T01:12:48.860" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="432" CreationDate="2011-03-04T04:07:09.487" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes!  I was recently assaulted by a major spoiler to a series I've been reading.  Anything you can do to make people a little more spoiler-aware would be a positive thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63" LastActivityDate="2011-03-04T04:07:09.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="411" CreationDate="2011-03-04T20:53:11.143" Score="0" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What else should I be reading to make better sense of Cyclonopedia?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the language is not clear, I believe that the votes for &quot;questions [that] provide some background information about the question asker in hopes that answerers can recommend new material for the question asker to consume&quot; were in regards to questions in the form &quot;I liked X, what else should I read&quot;.  This is not that sort of question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is better placed in the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic/363#363&quot;&gt;questions [that] a librarian or bookseller would typically know&lt;/a&gt;&quot; category (+6/-3 at present).  The asker is trying to find information to explain a work (directly asking explanation questions is clearly on topic), not find a completely new work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.730" LastActivityDate="2011-03-04T20:53:11.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="411" CreationDate="2011-03-04T20:57:45.067" Score="-2" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/705/what-are-the-different-types-and-classes-of-ftl-engines&quot;&gt;What are the different types and classes of FTL engines?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question has a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/705/what-are-the-different-types-and-classes-of-ftl-engines/707#707&quot;&gt;good answer&lt;/a&gt;.  This question does not &quot;provide a fact or concept and ask for a list of all works that talk about said fact or concept&quot;, it provides a high-level concept and asks for examples of lower-level concepts. &lt;strong&gt;There is no request for a list of works&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2011-03-05T01:15:03.310" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="438" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="439" CreationDate="2011-03-08T19:15:24.963" Score="11" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I asked: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2298/why-did-r2d2-not-fly-in-return-of-the-jedi&quot;&gt;Why did R2D2 not fly in Return of the Jedi?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; This question is similar to others I have asked about the internal consistency of Star Wars films, e.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1458/was-the-millennium-falcon-too-slow&quot;&gt;Was the Millennium Falcon too slow?&lt;/a&gt; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1609/how-old-should-you-be-when-you-begin-jedi-training&quot;&gt;How old should you be when you begin Jedi training?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These two were considered legitimate (not closed) and both received a lot of votes (25 and 16 respectively - no down votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when I asked today's question, I expected similar interaction with this community. Instead, the question was closed (on the votes of five separate people) within about an hour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comments, &lt;em&gt;&quot;Close, Argumentative&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, implied that I had done something wrong. I couldn't work it out until one person who closed it said, &lt;em&gt;&quot;It cannot simply be assumed that you are seeking an in-universe reason. The reason outside the universe is obvious, and bringing up the question at all can, and was, taken as a snipe against the prequels.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I modified the question to say I was looking for an in-universe explanation and it was re-opened an hour or so later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm really puzzled here. I would have thought the community would, as with previous questions, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/55822/do-we-need-assume-good-faith-like-wikipedia&quot;&gt;assume good faith&lt;/a&gt;. Instead, it seemed to me more like a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/63387/does-herd-behavior-influence-the-so-sites&quot;&gt;herd response&lt;/a&gt;: closing without thinking. (That is probably not the case, that is just how it came across to me.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So - my question is, &lt;strong&gt;What can we learn from this?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have learnt that I need to explain I am looking for an in-universe explanation especially, given the comments, when discussing the Star Wars prequels. (But I did not know that before because it was not required for my previous questions.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can the community learn something in this beta phase that it can use later in this site? For example, to assume good faith especially with an established contributor. As Jeff says, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/55822/do-we-need-assume-good-faith-like-wikipedia/55844#55844&quot;&gt;assume good faith until the user has a documented history of not acting in good faith&lt;/a&gt;.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Footnote: I was hurt by this, because it implied that I am someone who would snipe, whereas my conduct up to now demonstrates the opposite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2011-03-08T21:54:12.743" Title="Legitimate question closed and re-opened in two hours - what can we learn?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="438" CreationDate="2011-03-08T19:49:48.630" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sorry you weren't treated how you liked, I don't think the voters were really targeting you specifically.&lt;/strong&gt;  I think the title just inspired anti-Prequel fervor, which sadly motivates Star Wars fans more than any other topic in the Sci-Fi sphere.  &lt;strong&gt;Collectively, most Star Wars fans really, really hate the prequels&lt;/strong&gt;, and that hate is so powerful and such a motivator that people come out of the woodwork just jump on top of the hate pile.  (It's a little ironic because the films' central message is anti-hate)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, hatred for the prequels overrides the weaker latent general community mind.  That's not your fault, I would just treat any prequel-related question gingerly, so as not to inspire the wrath.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also others may have closed the question for different reasons than the one mentioned above, in that case you would have to ask each individual voter.  The reasons could be quite varied because I think almost every different user has at least a slightly different idea of what questions are valid and which ones are invalid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully, the community can find ways to alleviate this confusion, but all I can think of at the moment is to improve the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35" LastEditorUserId="35" LastEditDate="2011-03-08T21:02:25.320" LastActivityDate="2011-03-08T21:02:25.320" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="438" CreationDate="2011-03-08T21:54:12.743" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the whole, &lt;em&gt;the system worked&lt;/em&gt;. Your question was closed due to a misunderstanding, a few comments were exchanged, and the question was reopened. Yes, it's sad that a legitimate question was closed because some people jumped to a misunderstanding. But don't feel so bad about it. There have been &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1630/who-is-anakin-skywalkers-father&quot;&gt;worse cases&lt;/a&gt;. Reopen votes exist precisely to solve these cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;That being said, it's a principle of mine on Stack Exchange, if a question has an on-topic interpretation and an off-topic interpretation, I assume the on-topic interpretation only. If I feel the asker might be unclear about the topic of the site, I explain my interpretation in my answer. I might edit the question if I feel it is too prone to misinterpretation. I encourage others to do the same.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2011-03-08T21:54:12.743" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="441" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="442" CreationDate="2011-03-09T02:05:09.250" Score="2" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;I checked the FAQ and don't see one mentioned.  I love to use RSS to keep up to date on when new questions are posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2011-03-09T08:04:38.410" LastActivityDate="2011-03-10T02:29:00.907" Title="Is there an RSS feed for new questions?" Tags="|discussion|faq|rss|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="441" CreationDate="2011-03-09T02:18:08.400" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The feed appears on the bottom of the main &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;http://scifi.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; page, and should also be picked up by your browser automatically (e.g. in Safari there will be a &quot;RSS&quot; icon on the right of the URL bar that you can click). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The address is feed://scifi.stackexchange.com/feeds&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that it (like all StackExchange &quot;recent question&quot; feeds) isn't strictly just new questions - whenever a question is edited, it gets added to the feed again (so you'll see duplicates periodically).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some reason, the &quot;recent questions&quot; feed link &lt;strong&gt;does not&lt;/strong&gt; appear on the recent questions page (i.e. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each user has a &quot;user feed&quot; on their user page, tags have &quot;newest questions&quot; feeds on the tag pages, and individual questions have question feeds (all also located at the bottom on the page and by the browser), if you are interested in finding a more specific feed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2011-03-10T02:29:00.907" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="443" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="445" CreationDate="2011-03-10T19:16:16.750" Score="12" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen links to Amazon, ISFDB, Wikipedia, author's websites and publisher's websites. Is there a community preference or convention for linking to books?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1013" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2011-07-23T18:58:56.853" LastActivityDate="2016-08-24T01:44:57.057" Title="What is the convention for linking to books?" Tags="|discussion|hyperlinks|citations|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="443" CreationDate="2011-03-10T19:42:05.493" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would depend on the context.  If you're linking to information contained in the book, Wikipedia frequently has that information.  If someone is looking for an answer to story identification, Amazon would be appropriate, as they'd probably want to purchase it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2011-03-10T19:42:05.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="443" CreationDate="2011-03-10T21:34:31.520" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recommend linking to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; if there's an article, since all the useful information tends to be there: basic bibliographic details, plot summaries, cultural relevance, link to the author's biography, links to vendors, …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For written SF (excluding comics) in English, just about any book or story is referenced in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB)&lt;/a&gt;. ISFDB has detailed bibliographic information and links to Wikipedia when they exist. I recommend using ISFDB when there is no Wikipedia article or when discussion publications (especially for short stories).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the author has a web site, that's a good alternative to ISFDB.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's no ISFDB entry (for example because it's a comic book), you can link to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia's book source facility&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;code&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0123456789&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people link to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/113/56&quot;&gt;Amazon&lt;/a&gt;, which &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/26964/auto-inserting-stack-overflow-affiliate-into-all-amazon-book-links&quot;&gt;is automatically turned into a Stack Exchange, Inc. affiliate link&lt;/a&gt;. I don't like to favor any particular vendor, so I won't do it and encourage others not to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2023-01-29T13:54:16.550" LastActivityDate="2016-08-24T01:44:57.057" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="413" CreationDate="2011-03-11T09:03:09.317" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stop closing so many questions. Hyper-sensitive admins destroy a site faster than anything. I've looked around and seen so many closed questions it makes me want to bugger off. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it ever gets to the point where there are a zillion questions and so off-topic questions take up significant resources, then ok. Until then, loosen up. You closed someone asking for a sci-fi recommendation because someone determined it's off topic. Blerk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Loosen up. Really. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1165" LastActivityDate="2011-03-11T09:03:09.317" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="447" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="449" CreationDate="2011-03-11T18:36:24.827" Score="1" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today, I wanted to try an edit a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2376/28-triffids-later&quot;&gt;potentially valid question&lt;/a&gt; which was asked in incorrect tone (as a rant) and was thus closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there was no &quot;Edit&quot; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this is not a general rule on SE sites - I can edit closed questions on SO. I can also edit non-closed questions on SciFi SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this some special privilege to edit closed questions that I lack on SciFi due to insufficient rep? Or some SciFi SE specific rule?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Missing &quot;Edit&quot; link on closed questions" Tags="|support|closed-questions|editing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="447" CreationDate="2011-03-11T18:55:47.603" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just realized that I don't yet have full editing privileges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the FAQ: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;1000 rep  Edit other people’s posts, vote to approve or reject suggested edits&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This must be why I also don't even see the &quot;Edit&quot; link on &lt;em&gt;closed&lt;/em&gt; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2011-03-11T18:55:47.603" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="447" CreationDate="2011-03-11T20:16:39.910" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There used to be restrictions around suggesting edits to closed questions, but they have been lifted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current restrictions are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You cannot suggest an edit on a post if there is already a pending suggested edit on that post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are no suggested edits on the meta site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anonymous users (people who suggest an edit without having an account) must wait until the post is at least 10 minutes old.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A user who has had too many suggested edits rejected may be prevented from suggesting edits for a few days.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/76251/how-does-peer-review-for-edits-work/76284#76284&quot;&gt;suggested edit FAQ&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2013-08-18T18:21:54.440" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="443" CreationDate="2011-03-13T15:20:47.370" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like to use &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.librarything.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LibraryThing&lt;/a&gt;, because it lists all editions of a book, not just the currently-available one (like on Amazon). It includes reviews and descriptions like Wikipedia, though sometimes they're harder to find. It's also not trying to sell you anything, which I think is a point in its favor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="348" LastActivityDate="2011-03-13T15:20:47.370" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="452" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-15T20:20:36.647" Score="10" ViewCount="278" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Thank you for your confidence in our abilities!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But have you read our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site is for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/about&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;questions and answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; about science fiction, fantasy and more generally speculative fiction. This is not a free-form discussion site, so not every form of question fits. In particular, requests for a list of works with certain characteristics (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16/are-list-questions-allowed&quot;&gt;“list questions”&lt;/a&gt;) are not appropriate, and neither are personalized reading recommendations (“what should I read next?”).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For questions about &lt;strong&gt;writing&lt;/strong&gt;, ask on &lt;a href=&quot;https://writing.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Writing Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For questions about building your own fictional world, ask on &lt;a href=&quot;https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Worldbuilding Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For &lt;strong&gt;simple factual&lt;/strong&gt; questions, consult a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/403/what-are-standard-internet-reference-sites-for-sf&quot;&gt;general reference site&lt;/a&gt; first.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check out the answers below for even more suggestions!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What forums can people go to to ask the questions that are off topic here, or just start discussions about SF topics? Please list only ONE forum per answer so votes can bring the best forums to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2019-05-22T08:46:09.110" LastActivityDate="2019-05-22T08:46:09.110" Title="Where can I ask questions that aren't Science Fiction &amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange questions?" Tags="|discussion|faq|site-rec|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-05-16T19:19:51.007" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-16T12:02:36.230" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to remove the [spoiler] tag, and blacklist it. I agree with Eight and Morganpdx that the tag is really just noise. And it also can be potentially harmful if users block that tag, because they don't want to be spoiled on topic A, and thus do not see a question on topic B that they are an expert on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, I'll blacklist it as soon as I find someone who knows how to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is done&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51" LastEditorUserId="51" LastEditDate="2011-03-23T15:29:20.693" LastActivityDate="2011-03-23T15:29:20.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="454" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="456" CreationDate="2011-03-16T12:51:29.760" Score="2" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was there an effort to clean up &quot;See Wiki&quot; basic type of questions on SciFi SE, similar to the effort to clean up &quot;lists&quot; questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, this one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/164/in-the-dune-series-why-are-they-not-using-computers-and-programming-related-tech&quot;&gt;In the Dune series, why are they not using computers and programming related technologies?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems to match the FAQ's &lt;em&gt;off-topic&lt;/em&gt; rule of &lt;strong&gt;Facts easily found on a reference site: Who played X in Y?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(there may be more - I stumbled on the Dune one by accident).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2011-03-16T19:15:46.760" Title="Was there an effort to clean up &quot;See Wiki&quot; type questions?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="455" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-16T15:43:15.303" Score="2" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1/is-it-important-to-mark-spoiler-questions-as-such&quot;&gt;Is it important to mark spoiler questions as such?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After seeing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2467/why-did-rush-do-what-he-did-at-the-end-of-sg-u-s02e12&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, which was posted the day after the episode in question aired, I wanted to know if we have any official timelines for spoilers?  Obviously discussions about something like Back to the Future, which came out over a decade ago shouldn't be spoilered.  But, what about the recent Battlestar Galactica?  Has enough time passed that we shouldn't ask questions with spoilers in them and spoiler markdown questions?  Where's the line?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2011-03-16T15:43:15.303" Title="Do we have any sort of spoiler policy?" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2011-03-16T18:53:10.337" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="454" CreationDate="2011-03-16T19:15:46.760" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/411/culling-list-and-recommendation-questions&quot;&gt;mass-moderator-closing of list questions&lt;/a&gt; was done for several reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;These questions were easily collected, based on tags (set by the community, not by moderators).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;List questions tend to gather more and more answers over time, so closing makes a difference.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;List questions are easy to identify unambiguously.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of these reasons apply to too-basic questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, I don't think &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/164/in-the-dune-series-why-are-they-not-using-computers-and-programming-related-tech&quot;&gt;your example&lt;/a&gt; is that basic. Sure, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_%28novel%29#Setting&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia has an answer&lt;/a&gt;, but I don't find the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Butlerian Jihad&lt;/a&gt; article completely satisfactory, for example it doesn't explain why computers didn't survive in a splinter group and eventually reappear (yes, I guess the answer is author fiat).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2011-03-16T19:15:46.760" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="457" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="473" CreationDate="2011-03-18T03:39:14.480" Score="14" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, one of the common ways to deal with a type of question that comes up that isn't appropriate for the site, but is on topic, is to do a chat. I'm curious, is there any interest to do a periodic chat for recommendations? I think it would be quite interesting, maybe to do once a month or so. Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Added by Gilles&lt;/em&gt;: We're currently having a &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/198/science-fiction-fantasy?tab=schedule&quot;&gt;semi-weekly event, every other &lt;strong&gt;Wednesday at 19:00 UTC&lt;/strong&gt; (21:00 CEST, noon Pacific, 3pm Eastern, 7am in .nz)&lt;/a&gt;. That's obviously not going to be convenient to everybody, so I propose making it a weekly event and alternating the time of day and day of week. If you'd like to participate but can't make the current time, please propose an alternate time (and day).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2011-05-04T17:58:15.453" LastActivityDate="2011-05-04T17:58:15.453" Title="Periodic recommendation chats" Tags="|discussion|chat|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="457" CreationDate="2011-03-18T03:50:26.497" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, I'm just going to assume that this will work, and start the next one up for next Wednesday from 2300-100 UTC time. That should be from 4:00-6:00 p.m. West Coast time in the US, I'll let everyone else figure out what time that is locally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is successful, we can try for chats at different times. Feel free to come early/ stay late as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;First recommendation chat — see the transcript&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/conversation/recommendation-chat-1-2011-03-23&quot;&gt;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/conversation/recommendation-chat-1-2011-03-23&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2011-03-25T19:39:21.840" LastActivityDate="2011-03-25T19:39:21.840" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="459" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-19T19:02:50.197" Score="3" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/233/how-do-we-deal-with-questions-about-rumors-and-release-dates&quot;&gt;How do we deal with questions about rumors and release dates?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example is: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2488/future-malazan-novels-by-steven-erikson&quot;&gt;Future Malazan novels by Steven Erikson?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first glance, I would argue that such questions &lt;strong&gt;should be off-topic&lt;/strong&gt; for the following reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Most likely, there IS no valid answer in the first place. Only rumors.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In rare cases when some actual info is present, it's usually in a trivial place (Amazon listing for the author, Wikipedia, author's or publisher's web site). Those &quot;let me wiki that for you&quot; questions are off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In even rarer cases when there IS a non-trivial valid answer (e.g. a quote from an interview, a cite from something the author said at a convention), in most cases it will be 100% obsolete and useless very soon once the book is actually published.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the community agrees with this logic, should this category be discussed on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topicz&quot;&gt;&quot;What questions are on-topic, and what questions are off-topic?&quot; thread&lt;/a&gt; and/or added to FAQ? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2011-03-19T19:22:21.810" Title="Are &quot;upcoming-books&quot; questions considered on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2011-03-19T21:20:33.593" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="233" CreationDate="2011-03-20T00:54:33.590" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another example of off-topic Q is: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2488/future-malazan-novels-by-steven-erikson&quot;&gt;Future Malazan novels by Steven Erikson?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first glance, I would argue that such questions &lt;strong&gt;should GENERALLY be off-topic&lt;/strong&gt; for the following reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Most likely, there IS no valid answer in the first place. Only rumors.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In rare cases when some actual info is present, it's usually in a trivial place (Amazon listing for the author, Wikipedia, author's or publisher's web site). Those &quot;let me wiki that for you&quot; questions are off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In even rarer cases when there IS a non-trivial valid answer (e.g. a quote from an interview, a cite from something the author said at a convention), in most cases it will be 100% obsolete and useless very soon once the book is actually published.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would note that there may be &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; exceptions to the above &quot;off topic&quot; rule, which IMHO would be very easy to discern using the following rules (the reverse of the 3 points above):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Only allow the ones that pertain to sure-to-have-an-answer situation (e.g. there's a known fact/statement about the (non)-existence of future work).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When the time-frame is significant enough to warrant not worrying about immediate obsolescence (e.g. known to be &gt;=3 or 5 years to pick a random number).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also, the answer must be exact (authoritative quote, NOT a rumor) and non-trivial.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A great example of future-works question that IS on-topic is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/48/are-there-any-plans-for-a-new-babylon-5-series-or-movies&quot;&gt;Are there any plans for a new Babylon 5 series or movies?&lt;/a&gt;. Its answers contain links to creator's quotes, aren't in danger of being obsolete in 6 months, and aren't 100% on Wiki (e.g. Patches's answer)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2011-03-20T00:54:33.590" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="461" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="462" CreationDate="2011-03-20T01:00:47.730" Score="4" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the text of a question has spoiler text near the beginning, this spoiler text might appear on the &lt;code&gt;/questions&lt;/code&gt; page (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333/does-spoiler-text-show-up-on-the-questions-page&quot;&gt;example question&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spoilers+support&quot;&gt;question search result illustrating the issue&lt;/a&gt;). It'd be nice if the site realized it's not cool to spoil people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Spoilered text is visible on the Questions page" Tags="|bug|status-completed|spoilers|markdown|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="461" CreationDate="2011-03-20T01:24:43.770" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just make sure that spoiler questions have a bit (300 chars+) of lead-in text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We won't be making any special considerations for this, and I think responsible use of spoilers requires users to &quot;do the right thing&quot; anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101" LastActivityDate="2011-03-20T01:24:43.770" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="463" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="464" CreationDate="2011-03-22T03:28:50.210" Score="6" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's already a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/reading-order&quot;&gt;reading-order tag&lt;/a&gt; that seems to be quite popular. There've also been a few questions (like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2585/where-to-start-with-dr-who&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;) that are about the order to view a long series in (in this case, Dr Who). It seems obvious to me that if reading-order is a valid tag (and it seems that it is), then viewing-order would be equally valid (although I don't have enough rep to create it myself).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should somebody create a viewing-order tag, or are reading-order and viewing-order similar enough that they should be combined into a single tag, like 'chronology' or something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1283" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2011-06-25T15:27:25.717" Title="Should there be a viewing-order tag?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms|suggested-order|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="463" CreationDate="2011-03-22T03:42:38.327" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure, seems alright to me.  I wish I could think of an even more encompassing term, but I'm at a loss for the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35" LastActivityDate="2011-03-22T03:42:38.327" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="463" CreationDate="2011-03-22T13:46:21.123" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about suggested-order? Make them all tag synonyms of each other, so that suggested-order'll win out in the end?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2011-03-22T13:46:21.123" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="466" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="472" CreationDate="2011-03-23T11:40:05.827" Score="1" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I press the &lt;strong&gt;Visit Chat&lt;/strong&gt; button I end up in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;all rooms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not link directly to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/science-fiction-fantasy&quot;&gt;sci-fi chat room&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should also be the case for the &lt;strong&gt;chat&lt;/strong&gt; word at the top of the screen (between name / badges + meta / main).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2011-03-23T19:09:00.457" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Why doesn't the &quot;visit chat&quot; link go straight to the chat room?" Tags="|feature-request|status-declined|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="467" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="468" CreationDate="2011-03-23T13:19:52.373" Score="7" ViewCount="770" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tim brings up a good point on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/2613/51&quot;&gt;Queen of Mars is in love with Duck Dodgers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That other's like it such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/2333/51&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t Gandalf or Frodo Fly to Mount Doom?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/2611/51&quot;&gt;Why don&amp;#39;t muggle-born wizards use Muggle technology to fight Death Eaters?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Were successful and not closed. I looked around and while the default FAQ is clear that these kinds of questions should be closed, the second of the above links was very popular and even we mods didn't have a problem with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we amend the rules to allow these?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2016-02-27T23:54:08.077" Title="Where should we stand on &quot;Why didn't so-in-so do x-y-z?&quot; type questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="467" CreationDate="2011-03-23T13:52:47.827" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is my current opinion without much great reasoning, so feel free to lob your criticisms at my arguments (or lack there of):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I think the later two questions are on-topic, I think the Duck Dodger one is barely, if at all, on-topic.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, it depends on whether or not the question seems to point to a reasonable answer that can be drawn from available story content, or supplemental materials (official books, wikis, or interviews).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New Opinion on Duck Dodger:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've learned that there was a later Duck Dodger TV show that I barely recall, so maybe it is a legitimate topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Old Opinion:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't have a great philosophical&#xA;  reasoning for whether to close or not&#xA;  close Duck Dodger.  The question seems&#xA;  to be Sci-Fi related, but the answer&#xA;  is probably totally nonsensical, due&#xA;  to the fact that character story arcs&#xA;  were not very important to early&#xA;  cartoonists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:  I see DampeS8N's point about the mogul technology question.  But I've wondered this very same question, so I'm unsure what to say about that one.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35" LastEditorUserId="35" LastEditDate="2011-03-23T22:21:41.147" LastActivityDate="2011-03-23T22:21:41.147" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="467" CreationDate="2011-03-23T14:00:43.080" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's very rare that such questions actually have an answer .e.g. something like &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why didn't Gandalf teleport Frodo and&#xA;  the ring to Mount Doom&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can be answered with &quot;there is no evidence that any being in Middle Earth has the power to teleport&quot;, however &lt;em&gt;that isn't the actual answer&lt;/em&gt;. The correct answer is &lt;strong&gt;because it was not written that way&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not see how these questions help the site, they have no actual answer and can generate endless suppositions posted as answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, for each of these questions, there are endless variants, so if &quot;Why didn't Gandalf or Frodo Fly to Mount Doom?&quot; is allowed do we also allow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why didn't Legolas (who is very&#xA;strong &amp;amp; can run quickly and&#xA;silently) not run to Mordor with&#xA;Frodo?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why didn't Gandalf call Shadowfax and&#xA;carry Frodo into Mordor?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why didn't Saruman lock Gandalf in a&#xA;Dungeon?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why are Elves tall?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why are Dwarves short?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These kinds of questions can - validly - be applied to Sci Fi topics e.g. (I'm making this one up) &quot;Why didn't Caprica have a space elevator?&quot; You can discuss reasons (perhaps they couldn't fabricate materials strong enough, perhaps they had cheaper out-of-orbit options etc.) These answers then prompt questions like &lt;em&gt;OK, so how strong do space elevator cables need to be?&lt;/em&gt; which can be researched, calculated etc.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;However this doesn't work for magical realms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was initially surprised the community didn't just close these questions, and have tried to enter into the fun of it and provide some answers, but really I find them annoying and honestly think they're &lt;strong&gt;absolutely pointless&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either &lt;em&gt;every opinion is an answer&lt;/em&gt;, or &lt;em&gt;there are &lt;strong&gt;NO&lt;/strong&gt; answers&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is no answer, then the question does not belong an a Stack Exchange site.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If every opinion is an answer, then again, the question does not belong on a Stack Eachange site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S My &quot;favourite&quot; of these questions is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2195/how-can-the-time-variations-be-explained-in-the-first-three-books-of-the-the-chr/2197#2197&quot;&gt;How can the time variations be explained in the first three books of the 'The chronicles of Narnia'-saga?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really dude? You want an in universe explanation for that? &lt;em&gt;Really?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="Binary Worrier" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="Binary Worrier" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2011-03-23T15:08:38.950" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="467" CreationDate="2011-03-23T14:32:38.683" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think these are permissible, as long as there is an &lt;strong&gt;objective&lt;/strong&gt; (i.e. real) answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2298/why-did-r2d2-not-fly-in-return-of-the-jedi&quot;&gt;my own question of this type&lt;/a&gt; and got an objective in-universe explanation based on real sources (in this case, a Star Wars book).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2011-03-23T14:32:38.683" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="467" CreationDate="2011-03-23T18:54:11.010" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Uh? What's wrong with these questions? I don't even see what rule we're supposed to amend. This is literary¹ analysis, surely that should be a staple on a site about a literary genre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The very first example of on-topic question in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; is “Plot, character, or setting explanations”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &lt;sub&gt; Or whatever the word is for other media. &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2011-03-23T18:54:11.010" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="466" CreationDate="2011-03-23T19:08:48.863" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the case on every Stack Exchange site, including Server Fault and Super User, except Stack Overflow. To get to the chat room associated with this particular site, you need to click on the name of the chat room (&lt;code&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy&lt;/code&gt; for us, some sites have more than one).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has come up before on the main meta site: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/68920/should-the-chat-link-of-a-se-2-0-site-take-you-to-the-site-specific-chat-room&quot;&gt;Should the 'chat' link of a SE 2.0 site take you to the site specific chat room?&lt;/a&gt;. It's been tried and disliked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2011-03-23T19:08:48.863" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="457" CreationDate="2011-03-25T19:45:18.170" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;So we've had the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/conversation/recommendation-chat-1-2011-03-23&quot;&gt;first recommendation chat&lt;/a&gt;. 7 people participated, and at least one book was bought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two hours was a bit long. If we're to do this regularly, I recommend to stick to one hour; if that's not enough, we can just do it more often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should vary the time. We picked a compromise time during USA working hours and European sleeping hours, I think alternating between US evenings and European evenings (and more if people are interested) would be better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Of course people are welcome to ask recommendations on the chat at any time. The point of the event is to get many people at the same time so we can have a real conversation.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2011-03-25T19:45:18.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="474" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-03-25T22:26:41.800" Score="8" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;A couple of StackExchange sites have clever names, e.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;AskDifferent (apple.stackexchange.com)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Seasoned Advice (cooking.stackexchange.com)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy&quot; is a bit of a mouthful, and doesn't work well in conversation (&quot;I'll ask on scifi dot stackexchange&quot;) since it's a generic term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there interest in selecting a name for the site?  If you've got a good idea about what it could be, please suggest in an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think (and wasn't corrected in chat) that this is part of the site design, and so the name doesn't have to be exactly the Area51 description, even though it is in most cases.  (It's possible that cooking &amp;amp; apple are special cases, because they date from the time when there was going to be a completely separate brand for each site, rather than using the StackExchange umbrella, but I can't find that stated anywhere).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this is not about the URL, which will always remain scifi.stackexchange.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="108" LastEditDate="2011-08-14T05:55:23.830" LastActivityDate="2011-08-14T05:55:23.830" Title="What should the site be called / named?" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="474" CreationDate="2011-03-25T22:28:20.463" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We should stick with &quot;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The generic name works for sites like photography.stackexchange.com and electronics.stackexchange.com (&quot;Electronics Design&quot;), so can work for us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-03-25T22:28:20.463" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="474" CreationDate="2011-03-25T23:17:28.273" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you're referring to the &quot;tagline&quot; or &quot;elevator pitch&quot; which is optional, but can be incorporated into the design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Give us the one sentence “elevator pitch” for your community. How would you explain your site to a stranger you met on an elevator? It’s about … what, exactly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/10/stack-exchange-naming-for-dummies/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/10/stack-exchange-naming-for-dummies/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101" LastActivityDate="2011-03-25T23:17:28.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="457" CreationDate="2011-03-28T21:01:13.500" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do people think about having a recommendation chat weekly on Wednesday at 8:00pm Eastern US time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;8:00pm Eastern time is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1:00am Thursday UTC Time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;7:00pm Central Time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;6:00pm Mountain Time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5:00pm Pacific Time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35" LastEditorUserId="108" LastEditDate="2011-03-31T09:05:33.750" LastActivityDate="2011-03-31T09:05:33.750" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="190" CreationDate="2011-03-29T17:28:23.590" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since we include Fantasy in our site, I think we should review our Tagline, so here's my proposal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;From Dragon To Aliens&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2011-03-29T17:28:23.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="479" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="480" CreationDate="2011-03-31T15:58:37.567" Score="6" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;At &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/4451/science-fiction-fantasy&quot;&gt;area51's stat page for scifi&lt;/a&gt;, 2 of the important parameters - Questions per day and Visitors per day are marked worrying. It also says that the site's progress will be evaluated in 12 days from now(i.e. around 12 April). So any idea what this entails? Is there a chance that the site may be stopped or something? How can users contribute to this evaluation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="947" LastActivityDate="2011-03-31T17:51:38.523" Title="What happens at the end of the beta?" Tags="|discussion|site-statistics|beta|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="479" CreationDate="2011-03-31T16:46:13.940" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Nothing&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ours stats are comparable with &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/5220/board-and-card-games&quot;&gt;board and card games&lt;/a&gt; which is in beta since 162 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, we will probably get this mention :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This site will remain in beta indefinitely so it can grow; we will continue to evaluate its site statistics and overall health.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2011-03-31T16:46:13.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="479" CreationDate="2011-03-31T17:51:38.523" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;That date on Area 51 is not the end of the beta, it's when the site is first evaluated. Most sites are in fact not ready at this point, usually because they don't have enough traffic. They remain in beta until the traffic improves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site is no exception. We're very far from having a critical mass. If we lose momentum, the site may be closed. But I don't think we've sunk that low. We have a good core that we can grow on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can help:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask good questions. (And write good answers, too.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/340/how-do-we-promote-our-site&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Promote the site&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Tell your friends about it. Link to it on your blog or social sites. If someone asks a question that's been covered here, point them to it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2011-03-31T17:51:38.523" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="432" CreationDate="2011-04-02T16:16:19.837" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;An alternate suggestion: What about putting the spoiler markdown in the &quot;How to Format&quot; help pane that appears when focus is in the ask-a-question question text field? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33" LastActivityDate="2011-04-02T16:16:19.837" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="483" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-04-02T19:51:32.337" Score="13" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of the questions that have been closed lately are closed because they're off-topic even though they're still relevant to sci-fi/fantasy fans such as ourselves.  For these sorts of 'good discussion' questions that aren't suitable for the site's format, can we have the block of text that states the question is closed have a link to chat?  I think it would be a more positive message to new people if they're told they can discuss that on the site, just not as a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Can the &quot;this question is closed&quot; text include a pointer to chat?" Tags="|feature-request|closed-questions|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 2.5" />
  <row Id="484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="457" CreationDate="2011-04-08T23:26:28.130" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suggestions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Drop the datetime from this question's summary, because it makes this look out of date.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As suggested, alternate between European-centric and US-centric times. Create &lt;strong&gt;two&lt;/strong&gt; events that reoccur every two weeks rather than one that has to be updated each week.  (And that way people can see that there's a chat better suited to their time only an extra week away).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Move one of the two away from Wednesday.  Selfish-reason: I can't really do any time Wednesday but could do just about any time other days of the week.  Unselfish-reason: it seems possible others have this issue as well.  e.g. US is Wednesday, Europe is Thursday (which other day doesn't matter).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it possible to have upcoming events listed in the room itself (e.g. under the starred items) rather than just in the rooms page?  It seems likely that would increase the visibility.  (If not, do others think opening a meta.stackoverflow.com request for that is a good idea?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it possible to have upcoming events (even just the next event) listed by the &quot;visit chat&quot; link in the main site sidebar?  Same deal with visibility.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For as long as we are trying this out, have a &lt;strong&gt;very brief&lt;/strong&gt; link in the FAQ next to the point that explains that recommendation questions are not ok.  (&quot;Try the weekly recommendations chat&quot;?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-04-08T23:26:28.130" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="328" CreationDate="2011-04-15T06:15:44.330" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is now a new experimental close reason, as previously discussed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;general reference&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is too basic; it can be definitively and permanently answered by a single link to a standard internet reference source designed specifically to find that type of information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Give that a try; we're evaluating the results. Also refer to the blog post on the topic with its handy chart:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/02/are-some-questions-too-simple/&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/02/are-some-questions-too-simple/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2011-04-15T06:15:44.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="197" CreationDate="2011-04-15T06:16:02.253" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is now a new experimental close reason, as previously discussed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;general reference&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is too basic; it can be definitively and permanently answered by a single link to a standard internet reference source designed specifically to find that type of information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Give that a try; we're evaluating the results. Also refer to the blog post on the topic with its handy chart:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/02/are-some-questions-too-simple/&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/02/are-some-questions-too-simple/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2011-04-15T06:16:02.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="487" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-04-17T21:54:29.457" Score="14" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of the questions on site are about a specific SF work or universe. That's fine, but it's disappointing to have pretty much &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; questions of this kind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, most popular works and universes have a webforum out there, and even if the interface &lt;em&gt;ahem&lt;/em&gt; not great, there are passionate communities who aren't going to move any time soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the strengths of this site is that it puts together people with different backgrounds. We all like SF, but we've read (seen, heard, …) different works. How can we benefit from this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, the bulk of questions that have been asked without reference to a specific universe are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16/are-list-questions-allowed&quot;&gt;list questions&lt;/a&gt;, that ask for works matching certain criteria (theme, plot point, …). These questions are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic/351#351&quot;&gt;poorly suited to this site&lt;/a&gt;. Even when this wasn't the intent, they tend to receive answers that cite one matching work, and the end result is a list of unrelated examples. These answers are not useful: the voting tends to indicate how old an answer is, and to some extend how popular the cited work is, but not how good the &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; is (for example, how relevant the cited work is).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What kinds of questions can we ask that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;are not about a specific work or universe, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;do not fall into the “list question” trapping,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and perhaps, &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; can we ask them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2013-04-03T07:58:57.470" Title="What good questions are not about a specific work?" Tags="|discussion|scope|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="487" CreationDate="2011-04-18T07:48:58.997" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is this disappointing? Seems to work just fine for &lt;a href=&quot;http://gaming.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Gaming.SE&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like Gaming.SE, the reason people are interested in a more general site (as opposed to say, Star Wars.SE or Middle-Earth.SE) is because there's a high likelihood that if you really like one SF or Fantasy work, you like the entire genre and are likely able to answer questions about a variety of different works and series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But like Stack Overflow where people can live in the &lt;code&gt;[C#]&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;[PHP]&lt;/code&gt; tags, even if one cares only about one series, it doesn't mean they don't belong. The benchmark is whether experts on one topic would be comfortable with questions about other, related topics. For SF and Fantasy, that's definitely the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The truth is, the questions that would be general enough to not be about a specific work or series are generally uninteresting, boring, and/or off-topic. We even have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/328/how-should-we-handle-questions-that-are-easily-answered-by-wikipedia/485#485&quot;&gt;a close reason for questions that are general reference&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And trying to make sure we ask more of those types of questions—asking for the sake of asking—is exactly the opposite type of behavior we should be encouraging. Specific questions about series are the interesting ones, which is borne out in practice organically on SciFi.SE: they're the SF/Fantasy geek's version of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq#dontask&quot;&gt;practical problems people actually face&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2011-04-18T07:56:19.897" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="489" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="491" CreationDate="2011-04-19T17:00:49.530" Score="7" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;In reference to this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2045/will-there-be-a-movie-based-on-american-gods-by-neil-gaiman&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; about a possible film adaptation of a book; what should happen when a new response turns out to be more accurate than the original accepted answer?  I can think of a few possibilities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question should have been closed because it was either too localized or not answerable&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The new answer is correct a so it should be marked as the accepted answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The original answer should stand because it was correct at the time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it is important to consider both the original poster's perspective as well as the community's point of view.  The original poster might be more interested in the correct answer, but the community might focus on the validity of the question itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2011-04-20T15:28:35.390" Title="What should happen when a new answer is more accurate than the existing acctepted answer" Tags="|discussion|questions|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="489" CreationDate="2011-04-19T17:02:51.397" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The second option.  The question asker can change which answer is correct at any time.  So if a new, more accurate answer is posted, they can set that as the new correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2011-04-19T17:02:51.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="489" CreationDate="2011-04-20T15:28:35.390" Score="7" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The new answer is correct a so it should be marked as the accepted answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;^^^ Yes &amp;mdash; Option 2: Clearly, the post should be updated &amp;mdash; The information updated and properly vetted and the proper answer marked 'accepted', if possible. Accepting an answer is helpful in finding that content but voting also plays a key role in vetting the content and making sure the best information rises to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the strengths of Stack Exchange is that the answers are received with a high degree of credibility and confidence. That means taking an active role and updating its content and keeping it fresh and accurate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;The question should have been closed because it was either too localized or not answerable&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question most definitely should not be closed as &quot;too localized&quot; (option 1), mostly for reasons outlined here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://skeptics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/536/how-are-the-fukushima-questions-too-localized/547#547&quot;&gt;I disagree these questions are &quot;too localized&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. Stack Exchange was specifically designed to adapt well to changing situations. That's why it has Wiki features.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;The original answer should stand because it was correct at the time&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And option 3 (let it stand) is the exact &lt;em&gt;opposite&lt;/em&gt; solution that Stack Exchange solves: the increasingly incorrect information typically found in blog posts and stale web sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:58.710" LastActivityDate="2011-04-20T15:28:35.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="492" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-04-24T11:03:59.357" Score="-10" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, I opened a question &quot;Talk about the Doctor Who episode 'The Impossible Astronaut'&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was promptly down-voted and I was pointed to the FAQ. I was left in disbelief that talking about sci-fi was off-topic on this site. But it was, so I deleted the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand the rule for StackOverflow which is based in reality, where everything is hard and factual, but this site's very realm is the fictional and fantastical. It sounds like you've built a site where the only thing that's on topic is the systematic removal of all joy out of the genre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest that the topicality rules be expanded to allow subjective free discussion within the genre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastEditorUserId="245" LastEditDate="2011-04-24T14:13:32.280" LastActivityDate="2011-04-24T14:27:32.247" Title="Talking about sci-fi is off topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="492" CreationDate="2011-04-24T14:27:32.247" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site is still a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; site, a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/about&quot;&gt;questions and answers site&lt;/a&gt;. While we may be a little more tolerant towards subjectivity than Stack Overflow, due to the “soft” nature of the subject, some limitations remain, like on all Stack Exchange sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The format of all threads is one question, several answers, and comments only for minor remarks. There is no provision for extended discussion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The section of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; titled &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq#dontask&quot;&gt;What kind of questions should I &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; ask here?&lt;/a&gt; is the same as on all other Stack Exchange sites. While questions about SF are not always “practical” questions, the basic requirements remain:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your motivation for asking the question is “I would like to participate in a discussion about ______”, then you should not be asking here. If your motivation is “I would like others to explain ______ to me”, then you are probably OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's plenty of room for asking questions about Dr Who and other SF topics, it's just that since this is a questions and answers site, we expect that a question can have answers and is not just a discussion starter. Here are a few examples of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dr-who&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dr-who&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dr-who&lt;/a&gt; questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2879/how-does-the-doctor-know-how-old-he-is&quot;&gt;How does the Doctor know how old he is?&lt;/a&gt; Understanding a specific aspect of the Dr Who universe, looking for clues in the whole body of works.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2585/where-to-start-with-dr-who&quot;&gt;What episodes of Doctor Who should I watch first?&lt;/a&gt; A beginner calling for fans to help.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1823/doctor-who-an-outrageous-amount-of-running&quot;&gt;Doctor Who: An Outrageous Amount of Running &lt;/a&gt; A question about how the series may have evolved over time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you'd like pure free-form discussion, we have a place for that: the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/science-fiction-fantasy&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt;. On the chat, there are no rules other than civil behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry if your first experience with this site was not a good one. Please stick around, ask good questions and contribute good answers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2011-04-24T14:27:32.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="494" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-04-24T16:17:50.690" Score="2" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a recent question, about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2989/does-j-k-rowling-deny-writing-fantasy&quot;&gt;JK Rowling denying writing fantasy&lt;/a&gt;, I created the tag 'bias-against-sff'. Somebody changed all the existing tags (including the 'bias-against-sff' tag), but I retagged the question with it. DampeS8N also questioned the need for a tag. I think it's better suited to meta, so I am posting the question here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you thing 'bias-against-sff' should be a tag on this site? Some questions I can think of are - 'What book would you recommend to people who say that SFF books are childish' or 'Should I protest if my local bookstore places all SFF books in the chidldren's section?'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="947" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2011-04-25T05:40:07.670" Title="Validity of 'bias-against-sff' tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="494" CreationDate="2011-04-24T16:24:03.153" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the faq, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Science Fiction and Fantasy - Stack&#xA;  Exchange is for questions targeted&#xA;  towards science fiction and fantasy&#xA;  enthusiasts. This includes questions&#xA;  about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Plot, character, or setting explanations&#xA;Historical or societal context of a work&#xA;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information&#xA;Story identification&#xA;Franchise/series reading or viewing order&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think 'bias-against-sff' falls squarely under the second and third points, since almost all works of SFF seem to suffer from bias by people who read intellectual novels and fans should be informed about this as well. So questions about bias, should not be off-topic as long as they are constructive. I don't think there are other tags that would cover such a category of questions. Of course, this tag does not mean that rants about anti-SFF bias should be allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="947" LastActivityDate="2011-04-24T16:24:03.153" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="494" CreationDate="2011-04-24T17:57:20.363" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I fail to see why anyone would want to follow a tag called bias-against-sff. It seems like a meta-tag to me, much like 'spoilers' was. And we blocked that tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what people will be asking under this tag. The example question relates, somewhat, to a bias that Rowling has against being perceived as Fantasy. However, the question doesn't ask if she has this bias. It asks if she really said something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't see any other types of questions that would go here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51" LastActivityDate="2011-04-24T17:57:20.363" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="497" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-04-25T00:51:03.483" Score="3" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/2987/51&quot;&gt;Spanish subtitles for Tron: The next day&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/1387/51&quot;&gt;Are there any better English translations of Solaris available, beyond the original translation from French?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Particularly on the first link, there seems to be some question if translation/subtitle locations are on topic. Disregarding legal implications, that is to say assuming we only are going to allow linking to sources of official or otherwise legal translations/subtitles, should these kinds of questions be on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples of legal sources would be versions of shows/movies that have the desired subtitles but that were removed from or added to different physical mediums; or out-of-print copies of alternate language versions of books or author-sanctioned translations or possibly even academic translations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2011-04-25T17:12:56.990" Title="Subtitles/Translations On or Off topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="497" CreationDate="2011-04-25T02:27:31.007" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first seems like a shopping question, which IIRC are considered off-topic SE-wide.  If the question is &quot;is there a version that has Spanish subtitles&quot;, rather than &quot;where do I find ...&quot;, then it seems on-topic to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the second one is definitely on-topic (asking for &quot;better&quot; translations invites bad answers that have no reasoning, but there could also be good subjective answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like a perfectly reasonable topic for our site, roughly coming under the &quot;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information&quot; on-topic list.  (Assuming, as you have, that questions/answers about illegal material are unacceptable).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO they are similar to questions about different editions of books (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2058/are-there-differences-in-the-authors-note-in-different-bio-of-a-space-tyrant&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;), which do not seem to be controversial. In addition, questions like this may be particularly useful to those whose first language is not English, which would be a great addition to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2011-04-25T02:27:31.007" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="499" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-04-25T13:22:44.930" Score="10" ViewCount="384" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is asking where something sci-fi/fantasy can be obtained on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about asking about out of print (and whatever that is called in TV/film) items? Is it ok to ask where a copy if a work could be found in that case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about items that are available for free? i.e. if shopping questions are off-topic, does the item have to have a non-zero price to be a shopping question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about something obscure, like a translation into a particular language or a rare item? (i.e. something you can't find on Amazon). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If these are not all off-topic, are there other guidelines about these sorts of question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Please assume I'm meaning obtained legally in all cases). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2018-08-31T06:14:03.813" Title="Are shopping questions on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="497" CreationDate="2011-04-25T17:12:56.990" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this is a category that can be decided on- or off-topic as a whole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about the existence of published translations of written SF into English are often answered by a single link to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.isfdb.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ISFDB&lt;/a&gt; (so we &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; end up closing them as general reference). Other media or languages &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/54/is-there-a-reasonably-complete-online-database-of-sf-works&quot;&gt;don't seem to have such a resource&lt;/a&gt;. For example, information about what DVD editions have subtitles in what languages is hard to find — but then we get into the different issue of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/499/are-shopping-questions-on-topic&quot;&gt;shopping questions&lt;/a&gt;. I can't see a reason to reject questions about planned translations (as long as there's some substance, e.g. rumors to substantiate or disprove).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fansubbing and fan translations are a difficult issue: these are generally unauthorized and therefore a breach of copyright. While I sympathize with the desire of people to have translations in their language, explicit references to illegal material (or to very-probably-illegal material) can't be left on the site. But this is something that needs to be decided on a case-by-case basis (there are authorized fansubs, there are works that are out of copyright in some locales…).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2011-04-25T17:12:56.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="499" CreationDate="2011-04-25T17:37:12.220" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, a bit of history. Shopping questions became an issue on Stack Exchange with &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;. Computer hardware is within the purview of that site, and it attracts many questions on “what hardware should I buy”. The Super User community &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.superuser.com/questions/2088/how-literally-does-su-take-not-about-a-shopping-or-buying-recommendation&quot;&gt;is&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.superuser.com/questions/1103/should-we-add-a-no-shopping-recommendation-clause-to-the-super-user-faq&quot;&gt;strongly&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.superuser.com/questions/760/should-shopping-and-or-hardware-recommendation-questions-be-allowed-on-superuser&quot;&gt;against&lt;/a&gt; such shopping recommendations. &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/qa-is-hard-lets-go-shopping/&quot;&gt;Jeff agrees&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, when it comes to shopping questions, don’t ask us what you should buy — ask us what you need to learn to tell what you should buy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there are also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.superuser.com/questions/2324/in-defense-of-obscure-niche-hardware-recommendation-questions&quot;&gt;difficult shopping questions&lt;/a&gt; that should be allowed to remain. The problem with them is that it's a slippery slope: every asker thinks his question is oh so unique.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now let's turn to this site. Super User's experience doesn't translate to SF&amp;amp;F in a straightforward manner. What is an SF&amp;amp;F shopping question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about different versions of a work: if there are artistic differences, then this isn't a shopping question, it's a question about different-but-similar works, and thus on-topic (it might be undesirable because it's subjective and argumentative, but that's a separate issue).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about different editions of the same work:  I see several subcases.&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there is no objective difference between the editions: why was the question asked in the first place?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there is an objective difference (e.g. different sets of short stories or different languages on a movie), and the answer is readily available on a reference site (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ISFDB&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://imdb.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;), the question isn't particularly valuable (close as general reference?).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there is an objective difference, or at least easily available material suggests that there is one, and it's not easy to find out what the differences are, then I think it's a good question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/213/versions-of-the-demolished-man&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;). I don't see why it would matter that the work is not available for free.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about where to find (usually buy) a particular (version of a) work. I certainly don't want to see questions about whether to buy on Amazon or Abebooks. On the other hand, if you've scoured the usual channels and not found what you're looking for, I do think the question is legitimate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: I did &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1317/legal-source-of-tex-avery-cartoons&quot;&gt;ask a question of the last category&lt;/a&gt;, partly as an experiment and partly because I'm genuinely interested in the answer. It was closed, unfortunately without a single comment explaining why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2023-01-29T13:54:16.550" LastActivityDate="2018-08-31T06:14:03.813" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="502" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="503" CreationDate="2011-04-26T15:21:21.997" Score="3" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok not to be intentional subjective but what do I do? In my question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3063/in-the-doctor-who-universe-who-is-the-mysterious-lady-who-carries-the-blue-journ&quot;&gt;In the Doctor Who universe, who is the mysterious lady who carries the blue journal?&lt;/a&gt; I find that I'm told an answer is not yet available and that &lt;strong&gt;spoiler&lt;/strong&gt; we might know soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do I do on this case, keep the question open ended until we know the answer (wait for the broadcast of it) or accept the unknown answer as a solution? I know someone will be bound to ask this question later, when a real answer is available. So what is the general way of handling such instances?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess this is bound to happen every so often in plot like questions on an ongoing canon or universe. Do we have a &quot;known way&quot; to handle these questions or do we need one? Like mark questions &quot;Unanswerable&quot; until its reopened by request... I don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1552" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2016-08-19T11:55:53.463" Title="What's the procedure when a question is not answerable (yet)?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2016-08-20T14:23:22.970" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="502" CreationDate="2011-04-26T15:35:28.213" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this case, we know that there will eventually be an answer.  So, leave it open until we get an answer.  For cases where, for example, the author died without revealing the solution to a mystery, then the correct answer would be 'we don't know'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2011-04-26T15:35:28.213" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="506" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-04-26T20:17:16.963" Score="2" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/spy-movies-books-on-topic&quot;&gt;Spy movies/ books: On topic?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are questions about Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle allowed on this site? Stephenson is usually labeled as a science fiction writer, but I'm not sure whether the Baroque Cycle fits that label. It's obviously not scifi in the space opera sense, and even a broader speculative fiction label like alternative history seems something of a stretch. On the other hand, according to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle#References&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quote on the Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt; on the Baroque Cycle, Stephenson himself has characterized it as science fiction; perhaps in the very literal sense of fiction about science:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Labels such as science fiction are most useful when employed for marketing purposes, i.e., to help readers find books that they are likely to enjoy reading. With that in mind, I'd say that people who know and love science fiction will recognize these books as coming out of that tradition. So the science fiction label is useful for them as a marketing term. However, non-S.F. readers are also reading and enjoying these books, and I seem to have a new crop of readers who aren't even aware that I am known as an S.F. writer. So it would be an error to be too strict or literal-minded about application of the science fiction label.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1250" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2011-04-26T20:17:16.963" Title="Are questions about Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle allowed on this site?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2011-04-27T19:18:56.720" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="507" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-04-27T18:30:44.290" Score="3" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;The sci-fi and fantasy tags are currently banned. There have been some discussion about this already, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/380/blacklist-the-fantasy-tag&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/306/do-we-need-a-sci-fi-and-a-fantasy-tag&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main problem seems to be that these tags are considered too general, that is applying to a large majority of the questions on the site. However, there are some situations in which a similar variant is required to convey meaningful information. For example, in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3137/a-good-account-of-developmet-of-the-modern-fantasy-genre&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, I am looking for articles on development and history of the fantasy-genre. So, tagging it with fantasy does make sense because it looks at fantasy as a whole, but there is a ban on the fantasy tag. I request that we unban the fantasy and sci-fi tags, to be used in questions that talk about the genre as a whole. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="947" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2011-04-27T18:30:44.290" Title="Ban on sci-fi and fantasy tags" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="508" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-04-28T12:51:30.900" Score="5" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to continue to help with the site, and one of the things I see are tag synonymous lurking around the site. Such as alien and aliens? How does one go about suggesting them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1552" LastEditorUserId="33" LastEditDate="2011-04-29T21:19:24.423" LastActivityDate="2012-06-21T15:26:56.613" Title="How does one suggest tag synonyms?" Tags="|discussion|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="508" CreationDate="2011-04-28T14:18:36.923" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't have permission, then ask a mod in chat or just post in this topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2011-04-28T14:18:36.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="510" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="513" CreationDate="2011-04-29T15:07:13.513" Score="14" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe the asker's computer has caught on fire and he couldn't return to mark an answer correct.  How would the answer ever be marked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My example is this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3000/what-is-the-name-of-the-movie-where-the-president-crash-lands-in-a-prison-city/3001#3001&quot;&gt;What is the name of the movie where the president crash lands in a prison city?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One answer, seems to be right.  (I want my rep!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1522" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2011-04-30T10:34:30.670" Title="What happens to an obviously correct answer that is never marked (and no other answer is marked)?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="510" CreationDate="2011-04-29T15:27:33.870" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nothing.  The asker needs to mark the correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2011-04-29T15:27:33.870" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="510" CreationDate="2011-04-29T21:18:41.617" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;We need a big chalkboard in front of which &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1588/jonathan-mayhak&quot;&gt;the user&lt;/a&gt; will be made to write, &quot;I will not ever again stay off stack exchange for six days when I have a question open&quot;, over and over, until he breaks down sobbing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please check this off as the correct answer; I've got zero points coming to me when you do, damnit! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2011-04-29T21:18:41.617" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="510" CreationDate="2011-04-30T09:24:22.583" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Accepting an answer is more of a social convention than anything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It simply means the OP felt that particular answer met &lt;em&gt;their&lt;/em&gt; needs better than other answers. Whether the community agrees with this or not, is completely unrelated -- though equally important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also the source of things like the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/49/populist&quot;&gt;Populist&lt;/a&gt; badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2011-04-30T10:34:30.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="514" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-04-30T19:48:49.917" Score="3" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now, we have very few tags that connect ideas together between different series, aside from the medium in which they appear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of this would be Magic. ftl-drives, time-travel, to name a few of the more popular ones. But it would be nice to see more of these. Should we make a concerted effort to try and tie in questions among different series, and use more of the tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please, if you think this should be done, give a few examples of some tags that might make interesting connections.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2011-04-30T20:12:14.940" LastActivityDate="2011-04-30T21:07:02.230" Title="Connecting tags" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="514" CreationDate="2011-04-30T20:07:12.637" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree, and I've been trying to do that (not in any concerted way). I encourage people to use them whenever relevant, which is pretty much when a question isn't just about a character background or specific plot point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are a few I've used (some I created, some not):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aliens&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aliens&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aliens&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/communication&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;communication&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;communication&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/empire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;empire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;empire&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/energy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;energy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;energy&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ftl-drive&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ftl-drive&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ftl-drive&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/good-against-evil&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;good-against-evil&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;good-against-evil&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hyperspace&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hyperspace&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hyperspace&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/languages&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;languages&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;languages&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nanotechnology&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;nanotechnology&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;nanotechnology&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/orbital-mechanics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;orbital-mechanics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;orbital-mechanics&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/religion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;religion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;religion&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/seasons&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;seasons&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;seasons&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/space-travel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;space-travel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;space-travel&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sport&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sport&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sport&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terraforming&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terraforming&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terraforming&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2011-04-30T20:07:12.637" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="514" CreationDate="2011-04-30T20:20:55.367" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to make 3 very specific proposals, relating to faster-than-light stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ftl-drive should deal with any method of exceeding light speed, but still having to travel somehow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wormhole should be any method which transports instantly from one point to another, using some specific device on one or both ends. Star gate would be a more accurate description, but, well, there's a popular series by that name. I'm willing to take another better one if anyone has it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ftl-communication should be for any method of communicating, defined as transmitting information but not matter, that works faster than light. It doesn't count if it requires either a wormhole or FTL-drive to work (IE, a message probe of some kind wouldn't work)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2011-04-30T20:26:11.133" LastActivityDate="2011-04-30T20:26:11.133" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="514" CreationDate="2011-04-30T20:33:28.173" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another interesting point is about non-human races. There are at least 5 categories that &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/912740#912740&quot;&gt;Gilles and I came up with in the chat room&lt;/a&gt;. I'm not going to say specifically that these should be used, but rather put them forward as a discussion point. Only &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aliens&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aliens&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aliens&lt;/a&gt; exists so far, the other names are tentative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;fantasy-races&lt;/code&gt; → Non-human races in fantasy that live on the human world. Would include Elves, Dwarves, Gnomes, Ents, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aliens&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aliens&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aliens&lt;/a&gt; → Alien races, those that live off of the earth&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;genetic-modifications&lt;/code&gt; → Genetically-modified humans. Where should they fit in?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Intelligent animals- This has to be done for those few worlds in which dolphins, monkeys, etc are intelligent, whether it be through human means, or they just happen to be. Think SeaQuest, Hitch-hiker's guide, Planet of the Apes, Narnia etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Animals: Any animal which doesn't show particular intelligence. Let's say intelligence is defined by a method of communication with humans, for lack of a better term.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My feeling is that all 5 of these should have a separate tag, and that almost all questions will have at most one of these 5 tags, unless we are dealing with genetically modified humans fighting Elves from Mars;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2011-04-30T21:07:02.230" LastActivityDate="2011-04-30T21:07:02.230" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="518" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="520" CreationDate="2011-04-30T22:20:17.010" Score="-28" ViewCount="431" Body="&lt;p&gt;What we read in Harry Potter books isn't science fiction &amp;amp; related fantasy. So, why do moderators allow these type of questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="54887" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2016-07-29T06:19:43.273" LastActivityDate="2016-07-29T06:19:43.273" Title="Why are Harry Potter related questions not closed on this Q&amp;A site?" Tags="|discussion|fantasy|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="518" CreationDate="2011-04-30T22:35:18.627" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;Er, what? &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; is fantasy by any reasonable definition: it has wizards and magic, it's considered fantasy by every review I've ever seen, it's marketed as fantasy (except that the earlier volumes are lumped into children's lit, but that's not a distinction we make here)…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2011-04-30T22:35:18.627" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="518" CreationDate="2011-04-30T23:03:33.177" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site decided some time ago to accept any form of Fantasy, not merely those related to Sci-fi. While there is still a bit of sci-fi bias in the site (Most principally, the domain name), and while there is far more sci-fi than fantasy, fantasy is on topic, period. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6/is-fantasy-in-spec-for-this-site&quot;&gt;Is Fantasy in spec for this site?&lt;/a&gt; , &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/205/should-we-change-the-name-of-this-site-to-include-fantasy&quot;&gt;Should we change the name of this site to include fantasy?&lt;/a&gt; , &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/287/when-should-we-change-the-name-to-include-fantasy&quot;&gt;When should we change the name to include fantasy?&lt;/a&gt; . It was also discussed on Area 51, but that topic has since been deleted, probably because it didn't link to any open proposal, they all got moved here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2011-04-30T23:03:33.177" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="521" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="523" CreationDate="2011-05-06T20:40:21.317" Score="7" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about events in an ongoing series might get a definitive answer once the next book comes out or the next episode airs. What questions are too time-sensitive, and what questions are acceptable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is about questions like “In &amp;lt;today&amp;gt;'s episode of X, we see &amp;lt;event&amp;gt;. What influence will this have on &amp;lt;character&amp;gt;?”. Related, but not exactly the same issue: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/233/how-do-we-deal-with-questions-about-rumors-and-release-dates&quot;&gt;How do we deal with questions about rumors and release dates?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2011-06-04T23:02:15.600" Title="What is the limit for questions about ongoing series?" Tags="|discussion|scope|closing-questions|time-sensitive-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="521" CreationDate="2011-05-06T23:21:49.583" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think most of these questions are fine, because new answers can be added when more information is available (or better: existing answers edited).  I think we need to rely on the community to clean these up as much as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with trying to restrict this is that nearly anything could be an ongoing series, since trilogies get second trilogies or become series, and recons are so common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other SE sites have answers that get out of date as well (e.g. when a new version of a programming language is related, or when the problem is due to a bug that gets fixed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the &quot;In &lt;em&gt;today's&lt;/em&gt; episode of X, we see &lt;em&gt;event&lt;/em&gt;. What influence will this have on &lt;em&gt;character&lt;/em&gt;?&quot; case, where the answer is going to (or very likely to) be answered in a week or some other short period of time, we are becoming a reference site for X - in the future when people watch episode A and have the same question, they'll find us via a search engine and get the answer (hopefully edited and improved as more is revealed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;However&lt;/em&gt;, I don't think &lt;strong&gt;prediction&lt;/strong&gt; questions are useful (but I would downvote/not vote, not vote to close, in most cases).  i.e. &quot;In today's episode of &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt;, we see &lt;em&gt;event&lt;/em&gt;. What do you think will happen as a result?&quot;  These are discussion questions, so are inappropriate in general.  &quot;Speculation&quot; questions are considered on-topic, but I believe this generally referred to matters outside of ongoing storylines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Who is &lt;em&gt;Dr River Song&lt;/em&gt;, and what is her relationship to the Doctor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although this cannot be definitively answered yet (unless Moffat joins and starts giving spoilers), what information is available can be given, along with &quot;this is being explained over seasons 5 and 6&quot;.  Eventually, the best answer will contain a complete and definitive explanation (i.e. once the show has given all the data).  Our site remains a good resource during the whole lifetime of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bad:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We found out in episode X that &lt;em&gt;Dr River Song&lt;/em&gt; is imprisoned.  What's the most likely reason for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question encourages bad answers - i.e. ones that are purely discussion or &quot;wild ass guesses&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fixed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why was &lt;em&gt;Dr River Song&lt;/em&gt; imprisoned?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Correct answer now: &quot;we don't know yet, this is being told through Season 6.  What we do know is ...&quot;.  Edited and correct answer later, &quot;She ...&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="108" LastEditDate="2011-05-06T23:36:01.970" LastActivityDate="2011-05-06T23:36:01.970" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="524" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-05-09T06:54:26.837" Score="6" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;As for now, it looks like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; will be the only fantasy work by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jk-rowling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jk-rowling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jk-rowling&lt;/a&gt;. I think it is confusing because some questions are tagged only with the title name, while others are tagged with both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, &lt;strong&gt;we should delete Rowling's tag&lt;/strong&gt;, or at least make it a synonym.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="747" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2016-02-15T02:00:19.783" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T02:00:19.783" Title="Do we need a J.K. Rowling tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-blacklist-request|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="524" CreationDate="2011-05-09T11:29:47.917" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;We should make the tag wikis clear what the purpose of each tag is. In this case, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; tag focuses on the work itself, and the the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jk-rowling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jk-rowling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jk-rowling&lt;/a&gt; tag, like all author tags, is for collecting her works (redundant for the moment) and for discussing her as an author. Such as with this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/2989/51&quot;&gt;Does J.K. Rowling deny writing fantasy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2011-05-09T11:29:47.917" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="524" CreationDate="2011-05-09T11:52:39.877" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, one-work authors should be tagged under the author's name (in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/421/naming-convention-for-tags&quot;&gt;the format described in this post&lt;/a&gt;). If the work is a TV series (where there are many authors, typically unknown), under the series name as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/412/general-tagging-practices&quot;&gt;discussed earlier&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the single work is a single novel (e.g. a new author), then we don't need a tag for the work, because we'll end up with a huge number of these tags.  Fans of the work can follow the author tag (and get the added benefit of seeing when the author &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; release something new - it is likely that they will be fans of that as well).  If someone's trying to find questions about the work and doesn't search for the author, then the search ought to find the work title in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case where the &quot;single work&quot; is a series, there is perhaps value in a series tag, although this is more the case when the work is particularly well known (as with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/twilight&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;twilight&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;twilight&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a tag is missing from a question, then anyone can edit that to add it in, and the change doesn't even need approval for most users, since the required rep is low.  (If the tag is new, then some users cannot suggest this edit, but they can flag or bring it up in meta or chat, and in most of the cases this is relevant to, the tag will already exist).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may be some questions that are about the author and not the work (e.g. questions about fandom are on-topic) or about the work and not the author (e.g. questions about fan-fic).  In those cases only a single tag is appropriate - it seems likely that the former would be much more common than the latter (i.e. author is preferable over series).  The tag wikis help explain the difference, although hopefully people would guess correctly in these cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2011-05-11T02:51:27.083" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="524" CreationDate="2011-05-09T19:30:46.600" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, we don't, at least as long as JKR has written nothing else. “Harry Potter” is the better-known designation, and there are far more “Harry Potter fans” than “J.K. Rowling fans”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm rather for removing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jk-rowling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jk-rowling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jk-rowling&lt;/a&gt;. Of the three questions in this tag, two are also tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;, and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2989/does-j-k-rowling-deny-writing-fantasy&quot;&gt;third&lt;/a&gt; could be (it's about the context rather than the content of HP but still about HP).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2011-05-09T19:30:46.600" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="528" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-05-10T11:59:41.157" Score="9" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having recently answered a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3461/whats-next-for-the-stargate-franchise&quot;&gt;question relating to stargate&lt;/a&gt;, it started me thinking that perhaps we should consider how we're going to organise tags for &quot;franchises&quot; such as Stargate and Star Trek.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question concerned is tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stargate&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stargate-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-universe&lt;/a&gt;, which I am quite happy with as it treats &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stargate&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate&lt;/a&gt; as the tag for the franchise with sub-tags for the individual series. On that basis, anything pertaining to the movie should probably be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stargate-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-movie&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that said, if there are individual tags for each part of the franchise, is there a worth to an overarching tag for the franchise? I'd say yes, for example a question titled &lt;em&gt;Are there differences between the stargates in the movie and SG1, SGA and SGU?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; could appropriately be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stargate&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Amidst all the above rambling (or, the opening act before the titles), I think I've come to pose the following questions relating to the tagging of franchises:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should the franchise tag be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stargate&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stargate-franchise&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-franchise&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-franchise&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it appropriate to have a tag for the overall franchise?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For something like Star Trek, where there's could be a large body of questions relating to one individual &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/startrek-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;startrek-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;startrek-movie&lt;/a&gt;, should we consider encouraging individual tags for each movie, as appropriate? e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/startrek-movie-generations&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;startrek-movie-generations&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;startrek-movie-generations&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/startrek-movie-nemesis&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;startrek-movie-nemesis&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;startrek-movie-nemesis&lt;/a&gt; (I suspect that they should be actively discouraged, at least initially?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1651" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Tagging for stargate/&quot;franchise&quot; related questions" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="528" CreationDate="2011-05-10T12:34:38.150" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;A franchise should be identified by its name such as &quot;stargate&quot; not &quot;stargate-franchise&quot;, especially in the case of Stargate's series being entitled Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis, and Stargate Universe. (plus the movies)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I belive that it is a good idea to mark a tag, here, according to its name and/or assocated names. Tagging a Stargate Universe question can be tagged as &quot;Stargate&quot; and &quot;Stargate Universe&quot;. This will allow people who are more intersted in &quot;Stargate Universe&quot; find &quot;Stargate Universe&quot; related questions as well as those people who like the entire &quot;Stargate&quot; Metaverse/Franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I was just continuing your example but the same follows true for other franchises like &quot;Star Trek&quot; and &quot;Battle Star&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is about a specific Science Fiction work, include that work as a tag. If the question can be associated with a franchise, also include the parent tag. Like &quot;Star Wars&quot; could be included in the &quot;Clone Wars&quot; questions because the animated series &quot;Clone Wars&quot; is closly knitted to the &quot;Star Wars&quot; franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, don't use the franchise in the tag name &lt;em&gt;unless it is the name of the work&lt;/em&gt; but &lt;strong&gt;do use any tag that is associated with your question&lt;/strong&gt;. Such as a specific work and a link to parent work. Just a note, linking the author is also not a bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1552" LastActivityDate="2011-05-10T12:34:38.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="530" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-05-10T12:44:40.103" Score="6" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/233/how-do-we-deal-with-questions-about-rumors-and-release-dates&quot;&gt;How do we deal with questions about rumors and release dates?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently, even I asked, questions referring to the future or the &quot;future plans of&quot; have been showing up hear and there on our site. Some of these questions are understandable for a long running series, but I don't think these questions add to our knowledge base (if you will). This questions are speculative at best, and may not be given a definitive answer and could change in the future based of obscure contracts and rumors in the media industry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should these questions be permitted on our site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I'm not talking about questions about the &quot;future of&quot; a universe (in-universe questions) like &quot;said character did this, what happened afterwards&quot; because it may bring to light some new materials about the universe that many did not discover. Like my Matrix question. I'm asking about the validity of asking questions about the &quot;future production of&quot; or the &quot;future plans of&quot; said franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3461/whats-next-for-the-stargate-franchise&quot;&gt;Is the Stargate storyline continued after Stargate: Universe?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/96/are-there-any-plans-for-a-new-star-trek-tv-series&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/96/are-there-any-plans-for-a-new-star-trek-tv-series&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/568/plans-for-more-sequels-to-star-wars&quot;&gt;Plans for more sequels to Star Wars?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/48/are-there-any-plans-for-a-new-babylon-5-series-or-movies&quot;&gt;Are there any plans for a new Babylon 5 series or movies?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unlike questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3465/in-the-matrix-what-happened-after-the-humans-and-the-robots-have-formed-a-truce&quot;&gt;In the Matrix, what happened after the humans and the robots formed a truce?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/468/in-the-novels-what-happens-to-the-doctor-and-the-others-on-voyager-after-it-retu&quot;&gt;In the novels, what happens to the Doctor and the others on Voyager after it returns home?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Borderline Questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2216/are-there-any-details-about-the-plot-of-the-cancelled-5th-season-of-the-4400&quot;&gt;Are there any details about the plot of the cancelled 5th season of the 4400?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1552" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2011-05-10T20:17:45.447" Title="Should questions asking about the future of a franchise, series, or literary work (groupings) be permitted?" Tags="|discussion|scope|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2011-05-10T20:34:12.353" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="530" CreationDate="2011-05-10T16:11:15.540" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think questions on the future of a sci-fi/fantasy franchise (if the franchise's future is truly uncertain) have merit on the site. While they may not generate as interesting answers as other questions, they will generate traffic to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, there are several questions open now asking the status of the next release in a series of books, and it seems to be an acceptable question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from that, these types of questions are no different from the story identification questions, and those seem to be generally accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7625" LastActivityDate="2011-05-10T16:11:15.540" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="530" CreationDate="2011-05-10T20:17:45.447" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;How would you answer such questions, exactly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're asking the wrong people.  The only people who know the answers to such questions are the franchise owners, and since these answers will change over time (i.e. they become obsolete as the subject of the question gets fulfilled, or not), the question itself is too localized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="729" LastActivityDate="2011-05-10T20:17:45.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="528" CreationDate="2011-05-10T20:51:03.393" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally, a question about a franchise or universe should use the franchise name as a tag, and there is no need for more specific tags. Examples: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stargate&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doctor-who&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;doctor-who&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;doctor-who&lt;/a&gt;…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may be a few very popular franchises where it makes sense to have more specific tags, but before creating them, consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Might someone subscribe (favorite) that tag, or browse questions in that tag?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is this tag useful in a search?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Names of authors, works, universes, franchises, and so on should feature in plain text in the question body. So they're not particularly useful in searches. They are useful for subscribing and browsing, which is why we use them. But &lt;em&gt;sub&lt;/em&gt;-franchises? Generally, no. &lt;strong&gt;There should only be a tag for the franchise as a whole&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may be a few exceptional cases of large franchises, but a more specific tag is only warranted if &lt;em&gt;there is a sizable number of people who are &lt;strong&gt;fans&lt;/strong&gt; of one subfranchise and &lt;strong&gt;do not care&lt;/strong&gt; about the other subfranchises&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some cases, I think it makes sense to combine the franchise tag with a medium tag, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt;. But that assumes that the medium tags are themselves ok, which is doubtful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing note: please read &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72058/how-to-choose-good-tags-for-a-site/89931#89931&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood's tagging guidelines&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2011-05-10T20:51:03.393" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="534" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-05-11T10:36:51.700" Score="7" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;After asking my question about Stargate Universe, I saw a related question that had been closed for being &quot;Subjective and Argumentative&quot;:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/431/what-was-the-biggest-reason-that-stargate-universe-failed&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/431/what-was-the-biggest-reason-that-stargate-universe-failed&lt;/a&gt; After reading through the questions and the answers, I disagree with the decision to close, but I certainly can see why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It &lt;strong&gt;does&lt;/strong&gt; have high potential to generate subjective answers, but as with other se sites: subjective answers don't make a question subjective--it just makes them bad answers and they can be downvoted as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question isn't unanswerable--if fact, the answer obviously exists.  Are questions being closed because of the low probability of the actual answer ever reaching scifi.stackexchange.com?  Or is this a tactic to boost the %answered stat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/431/what-was-the-biggest-reason-that-stargate-universe-failed&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/431/what-was-the-biggest-reason-that-stargate-universe-failed&lt;/a&gt; question fits the FAQ perfectly: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq&lt;/a&gt; Does the FAQ need to be updated to exclude (rather than include) these sorts of questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the closed questions that I come across, I agree with the decision.  But in this case, I think this one should be re-opened.  It has a discrete answer (&lt;em&gt;sure, an answer most of us aren't privy to&lt;/em&gt;), but that answer will never reach the question if it's closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="826" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2011-05-11T20:00:28.900" Title="What is &quot;subjective&quot; for scifi.stackexchange.com?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="534" CreationDate="2011-05-11T12:02:07.197" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The definitive answer to what makes an acceptable subjective question is &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Robert Cartaino's blog post&lt;/a&gt;.  The key points are the six &quot;Guidelines for Great Subjective Questions&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's important to note that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/431/what-was-the-biggest-reason-that-stargate-universe-failed&quot;&gt;&quot;What was the biggest reason that Stargate: Universe failed&quot;&lt;/a&gt; was closed on January 18th, when the site was only days old.  Exactly what was on and off topic was still being figured out at that point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible there are questions from the early days that were closed that would be acceptable now (anyone with enough rep should vote to re-open those, and encourage (in chat) others to consider doing so).  Certainly there are questions from the early days that were acceptable at the time, but are probably not now (although many were closed about a month ago).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding this specific question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think the wording of the question could be cleaned up a lot.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most (all?) of the answers are of low quality. There is more risk of this with a subjective question, and having poor answers often leads to close votes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want this re-opened, my suggestion is to submit an edit for it that makes it fit the guidelines better, and then promote (e.g. in chat and here) the fact that you've made changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the problems that I'd personally want to see fixed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question mentions Battlestar Galatica, seemingly at random.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question suggests an answer, which should never be done.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question should specifically ask for &lt;em&gt;facts&lt;/em&gt; (e.g. comments/interviews from producers) where possible.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think there's a bit too much backstory in the question.  Some background is good, but too much makes it seem like this is a discussion.  Trim it so the point is there but not taking up most of the question text.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question has a pre-judgement of the series.  This isn't impartial and encourages discussion/impartial answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2011-05-11T20:00:28.900" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="534" CreationDate="2011-05-11T18:58:09.580" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note that the close reason is “subjective and argumentative”. A question being subjective isn't a bad thing in itself, it's more of a warning that there's more of a risk that the question is bad. Argumentative questions create unpleasantness and don't fit the question-and-answers structure, which is why they're banned throughout the Stack Exchange network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like all Stack Exchange sites, we have &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;general guideline for subjective questions&lt;/a&gt; referenced in our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq#dontask&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/534/what-is-subjective-for-scifi-stackexchange-com/535#535&quot;&gt;Tony Meyer's answer&lt;/a&gt; explains why this question squarely falls under the bad subjective heading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand why you think “What was the biggest reason that Stargate: Universe failed?” has a definitive answer. “Why were no more episodes of SG:U produced?” would be an objective question (but presumably the answer is quite boring — not enough audience). But the question is asking why it failed, and different people dislike (or like it! thus argumentative) it for different reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2011-05-11T18:58:09.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="537" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-05-12T19:31:54.673" Score="8" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;Speculative fiction is usually defined as science fiction, fantasy and horror plus some odds and ends. scifi and fantasy are on-topic for this site, but horror is not. So would that odds and ends present in speculative fiction be on-topic here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="947" LastActivityDate="2011-05-12T19:49:30.703" Title="Would non-horror Speculative Fiction be on-topic for this site?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="537" CreationDate="2011-05-12T19:49:30.703" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/37/what-is-and-what-isnt-considered-science-fiction/43#&quot;&gt;Earlier&lt;/a&gt;¹, I proposed to define the topic of this site as &lt;strong&gt;speculative fiction&lt;/strong&gt;, with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/ISFDB%3aPolicy#Definitions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ISFDB definition&lt;/a&gt; as a starting point. So that includes &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/35/are-questions-about-alternate-history-on-or-off-topic&quot;&gt;alternate history&lt;/a&gt; and, yes, horror. If “&lt;strong&gt;what if?&lt;/strong&gt;” is a key element of the work, it's on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hmm, we should work the words “speculative fiction” into the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;. We don't use it as the name of the site because the term is relatively little-known.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &lt;sub&gt; Context note: when this site started, it was for science fiction only. This meta question was one of the steps on the road to broadening the topic. &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2023-01-29T13:54:16.550" LastActivityDate="2011-05-12T19:49:30.703" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="528" CreationDate="2011-05-13T01:44:31.040" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The number of franchises where I wouldn't have sub-tags is vastly outnumbered by the number of franchises I would have sub-tags.  Only 2 &quot;franchises&quot; come to mind where I wouldn't have sub-tags: Starship Troopers, because honestly, who watched the sequels, and Firefly, because there is not enough material to separate the series from the movie.  Everything else I can think of -- BSG (orig, neo, and Caprica), Star Wars, Star Trek, Stargate, hell, even Being Human (UK and US) -- can justifiably be broken into sub-tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a good solution would be to do something akin to tag synonyms.  Subscribing or searching for a base tag would also include sub-tags, e.g. searching for stargate would also return stargate-sg1 results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1068" LastActivityDate="2011-05-13T01:44:31.040" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="452" CreationDate="2011-05-16T19:19:31.070" Score="5" Body="&lt;h3&gt;TV Tropes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TV Tropes&lt;/a&gt; collects &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Trope&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;tropes&lt;/a&gt;, that is, recurring devices that writers expect their audience to recognize. Tropes become &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Cliche&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;clichés&lt;/a&gt; if they're overused. TV Tropes is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WikiMagic&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wiki&lt;/a&gt;, with &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;no notability requirement&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're looking for a list of works that have used a particular &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Plots&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;plot element&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Settings&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;setting&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Characters&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;character&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CharactersAsDevice&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;type&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Motifs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;motif&lt;/a&gt; or other &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NarrativeDevices&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;narrative device&lt;/a&gt;, then &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Tropes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;check it out in the trope index&lt;/a&gt;. Or you can browse by &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GenreTropes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;genre&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Media&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;media&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;etc&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2011-05-16T19:19:31.070" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-05-16T19:19:51.007" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="541" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="542" CreationDate="2011-05-17T12:11:23.167" Score="2" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/400/which-mediums-can-be-the-basis-of-questions&quot;&gt;Which mediums can be the basis of questions?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty obvious question, seeking the understanding for all of us. Does this site encompass all Science Fiction and Fantasy work including Games, Art, Short Stories etc...? What kind of Science Fiction is not permitted? Is their no outer limits to what can be posted here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes I do think I'm clever, even when the other side of me knows I'm not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other thing I should ask is, fantasy can sometimes be a bread of historical fiction as well. Dow we include those kinds of fantasy works? My questions would like a nice answer, Smile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank You!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1552" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.730" LastActivityDate="2011-05-17T13:19:59.037" Title="Whats the particular description of the genre's Science Fiction and Fantasy, as it pertains to this site?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2011-05-17T18:39:10.447" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="541" CreationDate="2011-05-17T13:19:59.037" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that all Sci-Fi content is on-topic whether in &quot;Games, Art, Short Stories etc&quot;.  But you have to stick to the Sci-Fi elements of that media. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, one could ask question about the origins of the Collectors in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Effect_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mass Effect 2&lt;/a&gt;, but one can't ask on this site how to find all the hidden power-ups.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to Fantasy/Historical Fantasy, in my mind as long as the story has some fantastical elements then it is on-topic.  If it's merely a non-fantastical dramatization about a historical event without an alternate outcome, then it is off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think something like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eaters_of_the_Dead&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Eaters of the Dead&lt;/a&gt;, is technically on-topic even though most of the supernatural events in the story could have a mundane origin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*this is how I see things, others are free to disagree, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35" LastActivityDate="2011-05-17T13:19:59.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="543" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="545" CreationDate="2011-05-17T16:57:19.877" Score="5" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that you can easily &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Mouse over spoiler markdown to reveal spoiler tag information, but &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to suggest an opt-out setting that will automatically show the spoilers for you. This would make them easier to read at once instead of moving the mouse across the screen. Just a suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've moved it to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/91682/opting-out-of-hiding-the-spoiler-text&quot;&gt;Site-Wide: Opting out of hiding the spoiler text&lt;/a&gt; so share your opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1552" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Opting out of hiding spoiler markdown content." Tags="|feature-request|spoilers|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="543" CreationDate="2011-05-17T18:55:23.523" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is far too much of a niche feature to be implemented in the Stack Exchange software. But this is easily fixed on the browser side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/91682/site-wide-opting-out-of-hiding-the-spoiler-text&quot;&gt;the similar question on the main Stack Exchange meta site&lt;/a&gt; for a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/91682/site-wide-opting-out-of-hiding-the-spoiler-text/91690#91690&quot;&gt;user script by Michael Mrozek&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/?tab=scripts&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange site for user scripts&lt;/a&gt;. I don't see any script about spoilers right now. If you find or write one, please announce it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:40.340" LastActivityDate="2011-05-17T23:45:39.857" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="543" CreationDate="2011-05-17T23:35:55.857" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The spoiler tag is just a bit of CSS.  I believe all modern browsers allow use of a user style sheet.  So all you need to do is add a rule that overrides the CSS in your user style sheet, and you're done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I don't think user style sheets can be site-specific, so this would change &lt;em&gt;any site&lt;/em&gt; that uses the &quot;spoiler&quot; CSS class.  If that does have an impact, then IMO a better feature request would be to have SE change the class to something like &quot;stackexchange-spoiler&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, in Safari, go to &lt;em&gt;Preferences&lt;/em&gt;, then &lt;em&gt;Advanced&lt;/em&gt;, then select the stylesheet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your stylesheet only needs to contain something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.spoiler { color: #444 !important; }&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;444 is the colour that you get when hovering (at least on this site) - you could make it something else if you wanted spoilers to stand out in some way (e.g. so you avoid referencing them in answers!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-05-17T23:35:55.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="543" CreationDate="2011-05-21T09:57:08.263" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've created the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/q/2404/301&quot;&gt;StackApps entry&lt;/a&gt; for the UserScript and a Safari Extension.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="293" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:40.340" LastActivityDate="2011-05-21T09:57:08.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="547" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-05-21T14:30:13.757" Score="1" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/412/general-tagging-practices&quot;&gt;General tagging practices&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3660/in-timeline-does-a-time-traveller-truly-die-during-transit&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; that required the creation of a tag(s). I created a tag for the author and the novel. The novel tag was removed from it. I've found a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/408/should-we-relax-the-tag-creation-rules-for-this-site&quot;&gt;meta post&lt;/a&gt; suggesting we don't create a tag for every novel. I also didn't see anything in the FAQ pertaining to this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we have any rules or guidelines down for tag creation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7625" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2011-05-21T14:30:13.757" Title="Do we have any tag creation guidelines?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2011-05-21T14:40:59.713" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="412" CreationDate="2011-05-21T14:58:29.907" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are some guidelines for choosing tags for a question about a specific work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For books and short stories, use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/421/naming-convention-for-tags&quot;&gt;author's name&lt;/a&gt; as a tag (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/isaac-asimov&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;isaac-asimov&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;isaac-asimov&lt;/a&gt;). For media franchises, use the franchise name as a tag, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/408/should-we-relax-the-tag-creation-rules-for-this-site/410#410&quot;&gt;Do not use more precise tags&lt;/a&gt; such as titles of specific books or specific seasons of TV series, except for &lt;em&gt;extremely&lt;/em&gt; popular works such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If at all applicable, strive to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/514/connecting-tags&quot;&gt;tags for plot or setting elements&lt;/a&gt;, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aliens&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aliens&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aliens&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/good-against-evil&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;good-against-evil&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;good-against-evil&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Consider using subgenre tags if applicable, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hard-sci-fi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hard-sci-fi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hard-sci-fi&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/urban-fantasy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;urban-fantasy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;urban-fantasy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do not use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/293/should-we-do-away-with-the-media-tags-books-novel-tv-movies-etc&quot;&gt;media tags&lt;/a&gt; such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt; just to indicate that a particular work is in a particular format. Use these tags only when the medium is intrinsically relevant to your question, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; to indicate a movie adaptation of a book.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2011-05-21T14:58:29.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="549" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-05-21T15:47:47.230" Score="8" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our site's FAQ consists in&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;official FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, in which the first section is editable by ♦moderators and the rest is identical across all Stack Exchange sites;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/faq&quot;&gt;community FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, which consists of all the Meta questions to which a ♦moderator has added the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think our community FAQ is as helpful as it should be. It contains 19 posts of varying relevance and searchability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please help improve the FAQ!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you see a Meta question that deserves better answers or should be better worded, go ahead and answer or edit!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there Meta questions where you think the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; tag should be added or removed? Suggest them here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you'd like to suggest improvements to the official FAQ (first section only), we're listening.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2013-10-24T15:39:22.743" Title="What should our FAQ contain?" Tags="|discussion|site-faq|meta|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="549" CreationDate="2011-05-21T16:06:34.177" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;A mention of chat would be nice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Open-ended discussion are not suitable for the site's question and answer format, but we welcome you discussing such topics in the site's chatroom.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit to add:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There should be a mention of the various media we accept questions about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Books (including short stories)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Movies&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TV Shows&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Plays&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comic Books&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2011-09-06T21:09:46.670" LastActivityDate="2011-09-06T21:09:46.670" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="549" CreationDate="2011-05-21T16:30:07.873" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mention of what constitutes science fiction/fantasy or any other relevant topic would be good, especially given the mismatch between domain name and site name. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/537/would-non-horror-speculative-fiction-be-on-topic-for-this-site&quot;&gt;This answer by Gilles&lt;/a&gt; to the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/537/would-non-horror-speculative-fiction-be-on-topic-for-this-site&quot;&gt;&quot;Would non-horror Speculative Fiction be on-topic for this site?&quot;&lt;/a&gt; is I suppose what should be stated, and the corresponding question should be included in the community FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="947" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2011-05-21T16:30:07.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="549" CreationDate="2011-05-21T16:37:47.400" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are some overlapping questions in the community FAQ and some questions that duplicate information in the FAQ. Not sure whether they should be merged into one question for the community FAQ or removed altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Spy movies/ books: On topic?&quot; and &quot;Can I ask a question about video game based scifi/fantasy?&quot; overlap with &quot;Which mediums can be the basis of questions?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Are Google-able questions appropriate?&quot;, &quot;How should we handle questions that are easily answered by Wikipedia?&quot; and 'Should “trivially easy to find” be a benchmark for moderating the site?' overlap with each other and FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Are list questions allowed?&quot; overlaps with the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="947" LastActivityDate="2011-05-21T16:37:47.400" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="549" CreationDate="2011-05-21T17:09:37.300" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I definitely think tagging should be addressed. Namely, when to create new tags (i.e. title tags for popular works vs. less popular works).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7625" LastActivityDate="2011-05-21T17:09:37.300" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="554" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-05-21T17:35:03.250" Score="18" ViewCount="679" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/the-7-essential-meta-questions-of-every-beta/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;7 essential meta questions for every beta site&lt;/a&gt;, there's exactly one that has never been asked here. What should our logo and design look like? Anyone have any ideas? As we are probably getting fairly close to the end of our beta period, let's start throwing some ideas on the wall and see what sticks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just for clarification, the logo should be recognizable at 16x16 pixels, but still look cool when seen from a larger size.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Background information: every site receives a custom theme done by a professional when it leaves the beta period. Stack Exchange's official designer is &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/our-designer-in-residence-jin-yang/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jin&lt;/a&gt;; the beta look, &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;the Area 51 look&lt;/a&gt; and the look of most &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites&quot;&gt;launched sites&lt;/a&gt; are his handiwork. The theme will be heavily based on community feedback; this thread is a first round of suggestions.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2011-05-22T18:38:08.080" LastActivityDate="2011-10-28T20:31:57.647" Title="What should our logo and design look like once we are no longer in beta?" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="554" CreationDate="2011-05-21T17:51:18.233" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something that combines both science fiction and fantasy. Maybe laser pistol and wand (or sword)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7625" LastActivityDate="2011-05-21T17:51:18.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="554" CreationDate="2011-05-22T03:15:43.657" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I prefer more minimalist and abstract web design. I don't see that we need to be so literal with our logo and graphic treatment. What we should do is make the site's interface look and feel like it is, itself, from something sci-fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe something in shiny white plastic and chainmail? Fantasy armor with new materials. Something like these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy/images/a/a9/Kam%27lanaut_Armor.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy/images/a/a9/Kam%27lanaut_Armor.png&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://xbox360media.ign.com/xbox360/image/article/105/1056596/mass-effect-2-20091218020656542.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://xbox360media.ign.com/xbox360/image/article/105/1056596/mass-effect-2-20091218020656542.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://desktop.freewallpaper4.me/view/original/3453/white-knight-chronicles.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://desktop.freewallpaper4.me/view/original/3453/white-knight-chronicles.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ieldra.eu/masseffect2/Miranda109.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.ieldra.eu/masseffect2/Miranda109.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, that's my take on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51" LastActivityDate="2011-05-22T03:15:43.657" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="554" CreationDate="2011-05-22T08:33:48.140" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe a 4D cube for a logo (tesseract for those who like long and complex names)? For instance as a simple stuff which is impossible in real world but happily live in imagination. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9EApU.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Different projections: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.pl/search?q=tesseract&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;prmd=ivnsl&amp;amp;source=lnms&amp;amp;tbm=isch&amp;amp;ei=CcXYTaqNH4HqOdOT3eEP&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;oi=mode_link&amp;amp;ct=mode&amp;amp;cd=2&amp;amp;ved=0CBcQ_AUoAQ&amp;amp;biw=1680&amp;amp;bih=931&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user48" LastActivityDate="2011-05-22T08:33:48.140" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="554" CreationDate="2011-05-22T14:24:41.667" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to propose a design based on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=lcars&amp;amp;tbm=isch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LCARS&lt;/a&gt; interface, just so we can all agree it's been massively overused since skinning and theming was invented and doesn't reflect the fantasy aspect at all, and then we can move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1232" LastActivityDate="2011-05-22T14:24:41.667" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="565" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-05-22T17:18:45.497" Score="3" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/474/what-should-the-site-be-called&quot;&gt;What should the site be called?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our site's official name is now “Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy”. That's quite a mouthful, and it doesn't even convey the site's topic that well — on the surface it includes alternate history, horror, slipstream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Speculative fiction&lt;/a&gt;” would be a more accurate description, but it's not a well-known phrase, even amongst SF aficionados.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Sci-fi”, the original name, is nice and short, but seems to exclude fantasy and other SF subgenres. It also evokes &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-fi#Definitions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;B-grade science fiction only&lt;/a&gt; to some people, so that's no good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SFF, the current abbreviation, is not very telling: SF is a commonly-accepted abbreviation for science-fiction or speculative fiction, but SFF receives blank looks. Unfortunately, in a Stack Exchange context, “SF” evokes &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt;, so there's potential for confusion here too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a better name for the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&#xA;Note that this isn't about a domain name. The domain name would remain &lt;code&gt;something.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt;, possibly with aliases. This is about what visitors would see in big type on the front page, and about how we'd encourage people to mention the site.&#xA;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&#xA;What other Stack Exchange are doing: most are called “something” Stack Exchange, but with a single-word “something”. A few have an extra name, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://apple.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Apple&lt;/a&gt; is officially &lt;a href=&quot;https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/268/design-for-the-apple-stackexchange-site&quot;&gt;Ask Different&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;English&lt;/a&gt; is formally “Engish Language &amp;amp; Usage”, but “English” in a Stack Exchange site name context works. &lt;a href=&quot;https://diy.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Home Improvement&lt;/a&gt; can be abbreviated “DIY”.&#xA;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:45:29.087" LastActivityDate="2011-05-22T19:15:23.447" Title="What should our site name be?" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2011-05-23T04:35:42.063" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="554" CreationDate="2011-05-22T18:24:54.433" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;What science fiction and fantasy have in common (and is basically the definition of speculative fiction) is that they are &quot;what if?&quot; works. A logo with a symbol that represents the &quot;what if?&quot; (like a question mark) would be good. To emphasize the science fiction and fantasy part, some small images representing tropes/pop. culture like laser guns, wizard rods, volkan salute could be included.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About the interface, I like the default black and white we have now. Among all the other sites I use, custom interfaces are too distracting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="947" LastActivityDate="2011-05-22T18:24:54.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="554" CreationDate="2011-05-22T18:37:02.447" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The classic sign for a Sci-fi site would be something like a rocket ship. That would easily go with that portion of things. Here's a list of things which could be cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flames: This could be from a wizard, or from a rocket ship, but a plume of flames would easily work for both.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Space Ship&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dragons would be good. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A single ring&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Glowing city&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some kind of a large jewel in an amulet of some kind&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of these, I prefer either the flames, or the glowing city. But I just thought I'd toss a few more out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2011-05-22T18:37:02.447" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="474" CreationDate="2011-05-22T18:44:04.720" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking something like &quot;The Wizard's Ship&quot;, or maybe &quot;The Flying Dragon&quot;. I don't quite like either, but I'll toss it in to encourage creativity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2011-05-22T18:44:04.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="474" CreationDate="2011-05-22T19:15:23.447" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Continuing with @pearsonartphoto's suggestion, I would suggest &quot;the oracle&quot;. It is a trope in fantasy and also popular in sci-fi (thanks to the matrix), plus it also refers to the question and answer aspect of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="947" LastActivityDate="2011-05-22T19:15:23.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="572" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-05-23T19:20:57.103" Score="1" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, so this isn't really a question, but I just thought I'd compile this and share it, so we can use it to show what hot topics are. These aren't in any particular order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lord of the Rings: 5, including 3 questions with more than 1K visitors&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 Hitchhiker's Guide&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 Star Wars, with 3K visitors&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 2001, with 3K visitors&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 List&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 StarGate: including a 2K visitor&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 Matrix&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 Dr. Who&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 Battlestar Galactica, with 2K visitors&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 Story Identification&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of these, it looks like Stargate and Lord of the Rings gets the most votes, and bring in alot of users to boot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="947" LastEditDate="2011-05-23T20:50:41.153" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Top voted questions by topic" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="572" CreationDate="2011-05-23T19:32:19.730" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's the list of the subject of the most great answers, again in no particular order. For reference, there is 33 answers that are great answers right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3 Dr. Who&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3 BattleStar Galactica&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 Dune&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;7 Lord of the Rings&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 Firefly&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5 Star Wars&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 Stargate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 Harry Potter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3 Star Trek&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 Issac Asimov&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 List questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 Super Heros&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 Blade Runner&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 Matrix&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 General Technology&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 Hitchhiker's Guide&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2011-05-23T19:32:19.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="574" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-05-23T23:51:40.050" Score="4" ViewCount="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/565/what-should-our-site-name-be&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; was recently asked that was a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/474/what-should-the-site-be-called&quot;&gt;another&lt;/a&gt; because the asker missed the original when searching.  The duplicate was closed (and I think merged, since answers to the duplicate are now in the original, but I don't really know how merging works).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the original question is on the third page of active questions (because it's reasonably old).  It seems like opening a duplicate question and/or merging a question should make it active in the same way that editing or answering it would.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The closed question is still high in the active list, but people tend to ignore the closed questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2011-05-24T00:18:34.723" Title="Closing as duplicate and merging should bump the question's &quot;activeness&quot;" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="574" CreationDate="2011-05-24T00:18:34.723" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The behavior seems right to me. Usually, when a question is closed as a duplicate, the older question has had reasonable answers and can be left to rest. Occasionally the two duplicates were posted at very close times, so one will still be active. Occasionally the closed question has had valuable answers which a moderator merged into the old one, but even then there's no particular reason to bring more attention to the old question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was a very unusual case: a meta question which was meant to remain current for a long time. Even then, I don't see a reason to bring particular attention to the old question now. An edit to the old question will bring it back on the front page if needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did merge the answers, by the way. Both questions had a “keep the current name” answer which happened to have the same number of votes, so I deleted one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2011-05-24T00:18:34.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="572" CreationDate="2011-05-24T01:58:35.047" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;When looking at what questions bring in the most users there are only &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/47/notable-question&quot;&gt;4 notable questions&lt;/a&gt; (Over 2500 views), 2 of them are about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;.  There are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bstar-wars%5D%20views:500&quot;&gt;9 Star Wars questions&lt;/a&gt; with over 500 views and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bstar-wars%5D%20views:1000&quot;&gt;4 with over 1000&lt;/a&gt; out of 56 total &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; questions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; tag has the most questions (86) but only &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bstar-trek%5D%20views:500&quot;&gt;7 with over 500 views&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bstar-trek%5D%20views:1000&quot;&gt;none over 1000&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our in house Star Wars guru is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=user:976+[star-wars]&quot;&gt;DVK&lt;/a&gt; and for Star Trek it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=user:366+[star-trek]&quot;&gt;Mark Trapp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1600" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2011-05-24T01:58:35.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="554" CreationDate="2011-05-24T08:41:56.660" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now I have some concepts in my mind, but nothing concrete. The imageries I'd like use to set the mood is going to be on the more subtle side. To me, science fiction and fantasy novels rely on readers' own imaginations to fill in the gap when it comes to visuals. For that reason, I don't want to use graphics that are too explicit. Also I want to make sure the header graphic doesn't overwhelm the content of the site.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a big fan of space and planetary arts. I think for the site's background it'd be a dark space theme. (not the content area though, it will be lighter for easy readability).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://shue13-digital.13-digits.com/scifidigipainting/all&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/doQBa.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;sci-fi concept&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see something like this being the top header(not this exact one). Of course, this one reflects sci-fi only. Maybe a silhouette of a flying dragon added to the right. Some other ideas of mixing sci-fi and fantasy elements: Mechs + faeries, retro and futuristic architectures etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the logo, I think a combination of some futuristic interface elements and arcane circles may work. I like to keep the logo simple though since they'll be used for other purposes too, favicons, apple touch icon, print media etc. So maybe a circle with some abstract shapes inside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's important that we all agree on the &quot;mood&quot; the final site design should set. For every site I've done, the challenge lies in getting the appropriate emotional response from the targeted audience. So to me the overall design direction is far more important than the implementation of specific details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastActivityDate="2011-05-24T08:41:56.660" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="554" CreationDate="2011-05-25T03:43:14.953" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we steal some of the design from &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;area51.SE&lt;/a&gt;?  Because quite a bit of that overlaps nicely with the Sci-fi portion of our focus.  Add a flying dragon to the moonlit skyview of the area51 top banner, and we're golden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2011-05-26T21:27:18.687" LastActivityDate="2011-05-26T21:27:18.687" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="554" CreationDate="2011-05-27T04:08:25.840" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the idea of those stickers that libraries used on the spines of SF/F books. Stuff like this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aaCM3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, perhaps this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PWUrA.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The rocket one has the drawback of being more sci-fi-ish and less fantasy-esque.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rest of the site design can follow suit, very minimalist and clean. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33" LastActivityDate="2011-05-27T04:08:25.840" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="580" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-05-29T00:39:54.493" Score="5" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doctor Who started in 1963 and had 26 seasons, ending in 1989.  A movie in 1996 continued the story, and then in 2005 the show started producing new episodes again.  Whether or not it was clear in 2005, it is now clearly established that the 2005 show is a continuation (not a reboot) of the original show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a show that is created by the BBC, based in the UK.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/27090/season-vs-series&quot;&gt;In the UK, batches of episodes are traditionally called &quot;series&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, although this is perhaps changing (to use the US &quot;season&quot; terminology).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doctor_Who_serials&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; uses the terminology that Doctor Who purists use, referring to anything prior to 1990 as a &quot;season&quot;, and anything after 2000 as a &quot;series&quot;, i.e. the very first episode is in Season 1, but the 9th Doctor's first episode is in Series 1 (occasionally referred to as Season 27).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than having discussion in comments about what the terms we should use on this site are, it would be helpful to have a consensus in this meta question.  The question can then be referred to when it comes up, and a link can be added to the tag wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:38:09.780" LastActivityDate="2011-06-03T02:29:22.360" Title="How should seasons/series of Doctor Who be referred to?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="580" CreationDate="2011-05-29T00:43:31.420" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My personal feeling is that the terminology should be left as the original poster used it.  If they said that the first 2005 episode was in &quot;Season 1&quot;, &quot;Series 1&quot;, or &quot;Season 27&quot;, then that should be left in place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To counter any confusion, the question ideally has a link (to IMDB, tardis.wikia.com, Wikipedia, etc) to the episode(s), and specifies which Doctor (1st through 11th) is involved (this immediately clarifies which year is being referred to).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although it would be nice to have consistent naming throughout the site, I feel that avoiding the bikeshedding has more value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-05-29T00:43:31.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="582" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-05-29T01:09:18.153" Score="4" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;When question links are posted in chat (manually or by the automatic system) they get auto-formatted so that the question title and some of the text is displayed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be convenient if the spoiler markup worked in chat, so that chat didn't get unexpected spoilers (especially in the case where the questions are being auto-posted, since a spoiler can turn up in chat with no warning at all).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is seemingly worse than the text in the question page because more of the text is included, so even if the question text is padded enough to avoid showing the in the question page, it may still spoil in chat.  In addition, it's not possible (except for mods?) to edit these postings once they have been made, so once the spoiler is in chat, it's there until enough new messages scroll it off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-05-29T18:36:43.947" Title="Add support for the spoiler markup to chat" Tags="|feature-request|spoilers|chat|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="582" CreationDate="2011-05-29T01:19:39.077" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a big proponent of not getting spoiled on stories I haven't experienced yet.  I think the chat blurb should properly parse spoiler markdown, and I really wish the previous &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/461/1027&quot;&gt;attempts&lt;/a&gt; to get this issue addressed for the Questions page had gone otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What other SE sites use spoilers nearly as much as we do?  Based on the reaction from the developers on previous spoiler-centric bugs/feature-requests, I seriously doubt they'll take this request currently.  If there was a more populous SE community that uses spoilers frequently, I'd suggest we get this question migrated to their meta site, so it'll get enough votes for the developers to care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2011-05-29T01:19:39.077" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="582" CreationDate="2011-05-29T18:36:43.947" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree with this feature request. On the chat, anyone can post anything at any time, and I would oppose a “no spoiler” policy for non-automated messages. Therefore hiding spoilers in automated messages seems futile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2011-05-29T18:36:43.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="580" CreationDate="2011-05-29T19:13:31.833" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't feel particularly qualified to answer this since I'm not a Doctor Who fan, but I do want to make two points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whatever terminology is chosen should be &lt;strong&gt;reasonably unambiguous&lt;/strong&gt;. If my understanding is correct, that means “season 32” and “series 6” are both ok, and so are “season 6 of the 2000s revival” and “season 6 of the original series”, but a plain “season 6” should be edited (to any acceptable form) because it is ambiguous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking now as a &lt;strong&gt;moderator&lt;/strong&gt;, snide comments addressed at people who don't use the same terminology are not acceptable. If legitimate confusion arises, politely refer to an explanation. If you just want to point out that your side of the Atlantic is Right and the other side is Wrong, keep it for yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've massaged the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/doctor-who/info&quot;&gt;tag wiki&lt;/a&gt; a little. The section on “seasons and series” should clear things up. If it doesn't, please improve it (again, I'm not a Doctor Who fan, so I may well have made mistakes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2011-05-29T19:13:31.833" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="586" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="737" CreationDate="2011-06-01T04:14:42.460" Score="15" ViewCount="304" Body="&lt;p&gt;(The saga continues in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/632/lets-get-the-blog-going&quot;&gt;episode two: organisation&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackExchange has a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;facility for associating a blog with a site&lt;/a&gt;.  I checked the sites that are ranked higher than us, and other than the original trilogy, as far as I can tell only &lt;a href=&quot;http://gaming.blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;gaming&lt;/a&gt; has one at the moment (stats is also developing one at the moment). Gaming is a similar site to ours in many ways, and I suspect it may also work for us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we do, we need to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Define the scope and purpose of the blog.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Figure out who will contribute.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Figure out a schedule (minimum one per week).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going backwards, Rebecca says that we probably want to aim for 2-3 posts a week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example topics (in no particular order):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answering questions that can't be answered on the site (e.g. lists and recommendations).  I'm thinking of something that's enjoyable by someone not familiar with the site, but where the topic is selected by looking through the inappropriate questions we've had recently.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Summaries of the chat events (e.g. the recommendation chat).  Reading through the transcript isn't easy - it would be nice to have a short (1/2 paragraph) summary of what was discussed and recommended with a link to the full transcript.  Again, I think this could be done so that it was enjoyable by someone that wasn't a site regular, rather than just a dry summary.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Summaries of questions.  Ever since the site launched there have been periodic meta posts (by several different users) that summarise what's happening so far in terms of popular topics.  These suit a blog more than meta IMO.  Other than just figuring out what popular topics are, a post could highlight recent particularly good questions/answers, or areas that need a bit more love.  (Probably these wouldn't occur very often - the ones in meta appear only every couple of months).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meta-y stuff.  Although a lot of the heaviest users follow what's happening throughout the entire SE network (e.g. the SE blog), not everyone does (or should need to) do this.  Sometimes there are announcements made elsewhere that would be great to expose to all our users.  For example, that SE is now an OpenID provider (but our post can skimp on the technical stuff and just explain how this is useful here), and (if we were out of beta) the community ad opportunities.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Highlights of activity on the site.  For example, Gaming has a &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1970/gaming-questions-of-the-week-1&quot;&gt;Question of the Week&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (voted on in a meta question), that gets a post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reviews.  FWIW, the gaming.se blog seems to be mostly reviews.  The question here is what we add that other review sites don't.  (Reviews can be of anything site-related: movies, books, events, etc).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;News.  FWIW, a few people periodically post (links to) news in chat.  Same question here: what are we contributing that existing new sites aren't?  News blogs tend towards either being &quot;link rolls&quot; (i.e. just a quote and link to the original source) or including commentary (e.g. combining news about something from multiple sources and including original material).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can probably firm up exactly what we like to have posts on as we go - knowing what our contributors are best at writing about comes from experience, and is particularly useful (it's no good deciding we'll focus on X and finding out all our best writers write about Y).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point of having the blog would be to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Increase the visibility of the site.  I'm not sure that it would do a great deal here, but every little bit helps.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide an outlet for material that isn't suitable for the site, without having to send users outside of the SE network.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Promote important events (assuming that the blog gets readers).  The mods are fairly limited in what they can do to promote things (from what I've read in chat), so this is a place where people can read about important meta questions, upcoming deletions, chat events, de-beta'ing, and so forth.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming we approach this in a similar way to the other SE blogs, we'd have a small editorial team that would be responsible for co-ordinating submissions from anyone that's interested in writing for us.  The editors would plan a schedule of posts, solicit material from users, and ensure that the post quality remained high.  We'd need to be confident enough that we'd be able to get 2+ posts a week without the editors having to spend all their time on the solicitation work :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do people think that it's worth trying this?  (If it doesn't get any traction after X amount of time, presumably it can be folded, hence the 'beta' tag).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is anyone willing to volunteer to write something, and if so, what sort of thing and roughly how often?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2011-08-25T09:53:34.380" Title="Is it worth having a site blog?" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="586" CreationDate="2011-06-01T05:53:14.837" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's a good idea, but somewhat premature. I don't think we could find five authors right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with the four topics you recommend, plus I would also like to have the news part. Examples - new book releases, award news, some particular event that is sweeping through the community(like the BBC protest) etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify, when I say news on the blog, I don't mean put news here, but instead link to the original news articles. Also, since it's a blog and not a twitter feed, this could perhaps be done weekly/fortnightly with something like 5-20 links per blog. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I disagree with the reviews part. There are enough reviews out there, so having original reviews doesn't make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="947" LastEditorUserId="947" LastEditDate="2011-06-04T16:40:18.647" LastActivityDate="2011-06-04T16:40:18.647" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="586" CreationDate="2011-06-01T18:38:08.057" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I absolutely agree that SFF should have a blog post eventually. I'm not convinced that the right time is now, but the main obstacle is finding willing contributors — if we have that, let's go for it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I disagree about your topic selections. Most of these are meta stuff, of interest only to SFF.SE regular or occasional users. That's not the point of the blog! The point is to reach out to people who &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; usually post here as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answering list and recommendation questions isn't well-suited to a blog either. Each topic should be fundamentally crowed-sourced, unlike a blog where each post is usually written by one person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I feel &lt;strong&gt;reviews&lt;/strong&gt; would be a natural complement to SFF.SE, and I'm un unsurprised Gaming came to the same conclusion. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sure, there are already a ton of review sites out there, but it's always difficult to know whose reviews will tell you what &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; will enjoy, and not just what the reviewer enjoys. Having reviews posted by someone you know something about (ok, he seems to like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doctor-who&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;doctor-who&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;doctor-who&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/discworld&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discworld&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discworld&lt;/a&gt; a lot, but not &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt;, etc.) is a plus.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Going in the other direction, there are three things that I think would be nice to have on an SF discussion site but don't fit in the questions and answer format: reviews, lists, and recommendations. A blog is the right format for reviews. A wiki would be the right format for lists. I've yet to find a really nice venues for recommendations. &lt;em&gt;(Note: If you have ideas for complements to this Q&amp;amp;A site, for lists, recommendations, or other things that you'd like to see but don't work in Q&amp;amp;A form, please throw the idea around on this meta, or if you prefer in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/science-fiction-fantasy&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt; first.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not just book and movie reviews; for example there's an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/outof/about/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;exhibition about science fiction at the British Library&lt;/a&gt; (until 25 Sep). If someone can go, a trip report would make a fine blog post!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the rhythm, I don't see why there should be a minimum of five posts a week, or regular authors. As long as we don't drop below one a month or something, the schedule should be whenever someone has something decent to post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2011-06-03T21:16:07.300" LastActivityDate="2011-06-03T21:16:07.300" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="580" CreationDate="2011-06-03T02:29:22.360" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was asking myself this question just the other day and left it in the too hard basket. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The classic series had it's own production identification. If I recall correctly (per the Target guide that came out early Tom Baker) each story was given a single letter code (&quot;A&quot;, &quot;B&quot;, &quot;C&quot;...) then the next 26 they went to the same letter twice (&quot;AA&quot;, &quot;BB&quot;, &quot;CC&quot;) then 26 after that they went same letter three times (&quot;AAA&quot;, &quot;BBB&quot;, &quot;CCC&quot;) and finally the next 26 episodes they represented the repition with a number (&quot;4A&quot;, &quot;4B&quot;, &quot;4C). I think they kept this till the end, but I've also heard that they used alternate production codes too. You could go for story code then episode within story (eg. 4A-2 could be 2nd episode of Robot). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course this doesn't tell you which doctor, what year, and other than remembering that Robot was &quot;4A&quot; and guessing Unearthly Child was &quot;A&quot;, it doesn't really give you an indication of the story. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And there lies the trick to this question. What do you want the identification to tell you? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your interested in year and then episode within year then &quot;yyyy-ee&quot; where &quot;yyyy&quot; is the year (to be 2000 compliant) and &quot;ee&quot; is the two digit episode. This works better for the new series because it tends to have mostly single or double episode stories, and each episode has it's unique name anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise the series number + episode number works well, but just leaves you with the arguments about whether to restart the series number and whether to count years where they have a bit of break. Since the classic episodes predate torrenting, it seems that the accepted practice has been to restart the new series from S1 and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incidently most of the Hartnell episodes had unique names too even though they were all organised into multi-episode stories. They dropped the episodes names, I think towards the end of the season before the one that Troughton arrives in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem for me is that I don't tend to think of the classic series as season + episode. I tend to think of Doctor + Story + Episode, and that's how I identify the classic series. So I use two different schemes, one for classic, one for new.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a fan/parody mag, I think called &quot;Ming Mongo&quot; or something that seemed to have a very solid argument for how to identify Dr Who episodes, with reasons for the format that made a lot of sense, but nobody else seemed to use it, so I put it down to even when your right, if everyone else is wrong, your still wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2088" LastActivityDate="2011-06-03T02:29:22.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="586" CreationDate="2011-06-03T22:06:58.313" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a great idea. We have quite a few good writers here, judging from the questions and answers. Put me down as a occasional contributor, maybe a post a month if that's okay. (I already have a blog I update three times a week.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a terrible critic--I hate writing bad reviews--but I love writing about books I enjoyed, or writers I love. (That includes Heinlein, Vonnegut, Twain, Niven, Simmons, Stross.)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My main question: Who's going to coordinate this? Who will receive submissions and either accept them or reject them? (Please tell me there will be quality control on this blog!) How do the other site blogs handle this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33" LastActivityDate="2011-06-03T22:06:58.313" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="572" CreationDate="2011-06-04T14:24:59.843" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can view the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/?tab=hot&quot;&gt;“hottest” questions&lt;/a&gt;. Hotness is calculated from the number of views, votes and answers, with recent views/votes/answers weighing a lot more than old ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can easily see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=votes&quot;&gt;the highest-scored questions&lt;/a&gt;, and also fairly easily see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&amp;amp;q=is%3aanswer&quot;&gt;the highest-scored answers (&lt;code&gt;is:answer&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/a&gt;. You can't sort by views, but you can search for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=views%3A1000&quot;&gt;questions with at least X views (&lt;code&gt;views:X&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you'd like to analyze the data further, you can get it in parsable form through the &lt;a href=&quot;http://api.scifi.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;API&lt;/a&gt;. With barely 1000 questions, you can just retrieve them all &lt;a href=&quot;http://api.scifi.stackexchange.com/1.1/usage/methods/questions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;from &lt;code&gt;/questions&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (get &lt;code&gt;/questions?sort=creation&amp;amp;order=asc&amp;amp;pagesize=100&amp;amp;page=N&lt;/code&gt; for N=1..9 at present). The data includes the view and vote count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The moderator tools includes various statistics, including total page views across the site, main referrers and common search keywords. The specifics are confidential, but here are a few trends:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The total page views have more than doubled in May compared to April. (They were &lt;em&gt;lower&lt;/em&gt; in April than in Feb-Mar; we've come back a little above the February level.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The increase is even larger for the number of new visits (which remained about the same level between late Jan and mid-Apr, then started to rise).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Search engines now account for more than 40% of the traffic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's hard to tell with the search keywords, because the reporting is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/92915/strange-results-in-search-keywords-analytics&quot;&gt;buggy&lt;/a&gt;. But &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; comes up a lot, with &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; far behind.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2011-06-04T14:24:59.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="592" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="593" CreationDate="2011-06-04T15:01:53.543" Score="5" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to understand why the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3803/how-to-deal-with-people-who-think-that-scifi-and-fantasy-is-childish&quot;&gt;How to deal with people who think that scifi and fantasy is childish?&lt;/a&gt; was closed. What do the people who voted to close (or anyone else) have against it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I'm concerned, this is a valid question, about social attitudes towards SF. I put it in the same category as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic/359#359&quot;&gt;questions about SF fandom&lt;/a&gt;, which on balance seem acceptable to the community (and which I'm also in favor of). There may be a concern that this particular question is too subjective or unanswerable, but for me it's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq#dontask&quot;&gt;good subjective&lt;/a&gt; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question has had two votes to reopen (now expired, I know I took a while to raise the issue). No comment though, so it's hard to know why people are for or against it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note that this is not a reproach towards closers. Indeed meta questions about closings should never be about berating closers, they should be about understanding why (part of) the community rejects a question, and ideally gain experience for future cases.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what's wrong with this question? What other questions are similarly wrong? (or right, if you disagreed with the closing)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2011-06-07T11:17:16.477" Title="Why was this question about social attitudes towards SF closed?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|specific-question|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="592" CreationDate="2011-06-04T20:29:30.110" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question seemed to me to be about psychology. About how to deal with people. It would be the same answer to a question like: &quot;How to deal with people that think watching Anime is childish?&quot; or building with Lego, or owning lots of action figures, so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not against having the question. Personally, I'd love to see tangentially related things be considered as on topic. But the community seems to feel otherwise. Maybe we should broaden our scope again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51" LastActivityDate="2011-06-04T20:29:30.110" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="592" CreationDate="2011-06-04T22:46:25.743" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;DampeS8N touched on the main reason, although I disagree the site's scope needs to be broadened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On any Stack Exchange site, a question is on-topic if, and only if, it is best served by the site's audience. That is, there needs to be a strong connection between the topic of the question and the site's &quot;expertise&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How to deal with mean people has precious little to do with Science Fiction or Fantasy culture. There are a variety of activities and hobbies that elicit that type of behavior from people, and dealing with those people is not contingent on what they happen to be making fun of. Being a Science Fiction or Fantasy enthusiast doesn't make you uniquely qualified to answer such a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because there is no strong connection to the site's expertise, every time a question like this is asked and entertained, Stack Exchange takes one step away from being a Q&amp;amp;A site and one step toward being yet another discussion board: a place to &quot;hang out&quot; and harp about how all the &quot;outsiders&quot; aren't like us. The FAQ codifies this sentiment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of our site and push other questions off the front page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare this question to the two example questions in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/350/366&quot;&gt;What questions are on-topic, and what questions are off-topic?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1781/how-should-i-prepare-for-my-first-convention&quot;&gt;How should I prepare for my first convention?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/536/what-resources-exist-to-help-sf-fans-meet-other-fans-face-to-face&quot;&gt;What resources exist to help SF fans meet other fans, face-to-face?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're questions about connecting with other Science Fiction fans: conventions, resources devoted to Science Fiction, etc. &lt;em&gt;Only&lt;/em&gt; a science fiction enthusiast is going to be qualified to answer such questions. As such, they're on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, had I known &lt;em&gt;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information&lt;/em&gt; was going to be construed to include all questions about random life issues that might affect a science fiction/fantasy enthusiast, I would've voted it down and objected to it when we were building the FAQ. That's not the point of this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2011-06-04T23:05:18.920" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="595" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="596" CreationDate="2011-06-04T22:54:48.307" Score="4" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;For &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3063/in-the-doctor-who-universe-who-is-the-mysterious-lady-who-carries-the-blue-journ&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, prior to today, the answer was 'we don't know'.  So I answered as such when the question was asked.  Now that we know, how to proceed?  Should we:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post a new, separate answer that answers the question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit the 'we don't know' answer to include the new information?  This means the comments on the answer will no longer make sense.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2011-06-04T23:11:15.120" Title="How to update answers to time-sensitive questions?" Tags="|discussion|answers|editing|time-sensitive-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="595" CreationDate="2011-06-04T23:08:00.337" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange has wiki-like features specifically to &lt;a href=&quot;https://skeptics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/536/how-are-the-fukushima-questions-too-localized/547#547&quot;&gt;handle the case&lt;/a&gt; where an answer is longer relevant or true and can be updated with new information:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stack Exchange was specifically designed to adapt well to rapidly-changing events.&lt;/strong&gt; That's why it has Wiki features. Like Wikipedia, we are not content to wait for the first historians to write the book. We're happy to answer questions in the context of what is true &lt;strong&gt;today&lt;/strong&gt;, knowing that as facts change, the answers can easily be edited or replaced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply edit the answer (or, if you don't have enough reputation to do so, suggest an edit) with the correct, up-to-date information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are ephemeral and are meant to help clarify and improve the answer: you can ignore them if they no longer do that. I'd go one step further and flag the answer for comments cleanup by a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:58.710" LastActivityDate="2011-06-04T23:08:00.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="595" CreationDate="2011-06-04T23:08:55.357" Score="2" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Policy proposal: no policy&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Business as usual: if there's a new tidbit of information, edit an existing answer. If a lot of new information is revealed, post a new answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an answer becomes incorrect and is no longer interesting (for example the answer says “we don't know”, but we know everything now), downvote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2011-06-04T23:08:55.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="595" CreationDate="2011-06-04T23:11:15.120" Score="-1" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Policy proposal: one (community wiki) reference answer&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such time-sensitive questions should have a community wiki, ideally accepted answer, containing all known information with references.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although everyone can edit answers, CW makes sense here, because it conveys the message that the reference answer is &lt;em&gt;supposed&lt;/em&gt; to be edited by anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There can be other (non-CW) answers, containing speculation. (Not just one-liner non-answers, but actual interesting inferences with citations to back them up.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2011-06-04T23:11:15.120" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="599" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-06-05T11:11:03.243" Score="-1" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3954/how-come-river-song-knew-about-the-events-of-demons-run-before-they-happened&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; I want to reply to the second part of the answer which is spoilered (as I spoilered my question). But the spoiler markdown doesn't work in comments (&gt;!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to allow spoilers in comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1448" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2013-07-08T17:56:08.883" Title="spoilers in comments" Tags="|feature-request|status-declined|spoilers|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="599" CreationDate="2011-06-05T12:05:42.467" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments are intentionally second-class citizens and lightweight in terms of implementation requirements and user experience impact. I don't think adding another feature to them will be well-received. If “spoiler” comments existed at all, the whole comment would probably be a spoiler, and even then I don't think the feature has much chance of being accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't like it much myself. Comments are already displayed in a low-key way; I don't think you'll be reading them by accident. I'd be quite comfortable with a “comments are always spoily” policy, especially on answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2011-06-05T12:05:42.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="601" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-06-05T15:04:20.640" Score="19" ViewCount="328" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, whenever I found a good SFF answer I wanted to share, I realized that I might as well just share what it linked to because there was no actual content on the page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3008/explanation-of-seasons-in-a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot;&gt;Explanation of seasons in &amp;quot;A Song of Ice and Fire&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;, for example. I'm able to arrive at the actual content by clicking &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/05/how-seasons-qworkq-in-a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a link in the comments&lt;/a&gt; and then follow another link from that page &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAyG1BiArd4&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;to the actual interview&lt;/a&gt;. There is no reason for the answer &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to contain both a quote of George R. R. Martin's answer and a link to the interview. (I'd do it myself, but I'm scared of spoilers.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same goes for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3556/does-the-intro-sequence-to-the-game-of-thrones-tv-series-have-any-meaning&quot;&gt;Does the intro sequence to the Game of Thrones TV series have any meaning?&lt;/a&gt;, only in worse because the upvotes answer doesn't actually answers anything; you have to click the link to get the actual answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8231/are-answers-that-just-contain-links-elsewhere-really-good-answers&quot;&gt;This is bad&lt;/a&gt;. Really bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, links do rot which mean that, eventually, the answer might not guide you to an answer. Thus, at that point, the answer becomes just a waste of space. Secondly, it means that SFF doesn't answer questions; it just directs you to answers. All in all, that's bad for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Skeptics, we encourage users to summarize in their post the content of important links (usually, they opt for a quote of an important is which just fine). SFF should do the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="678" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Bring the content here" Tags="|discussion|hyperlinks|answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="601" CreationDate="2011-06-05T15:21:54.970" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;We encourage quoting the relevant context &lt;em&gt;with&lt;/em&gt; the link, because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the link might go dead&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;it's irritating to have to click through to get &quot;the answer&quot; when you could read it in-line&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And OF COURSE provide a link to the source material in a &lt;em&gt;click here to read tons more detail&lt;/em&gt; way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't want users to copypasta entire pages of content since that's contrary to fair use (and who wants to read that much anyway?) The right way to do this is quote just the most relevant bits, under &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/10/youtube-the-big-copyright-lie.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;fair use&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; &#xA;The [legal] loophole in copyright is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;fair use&lt;/a&gt;. Under the banner of fair use, you could legally upload a video without the copyright holder&amp;#39;s permission. Anyone who contributes &lt;i&gt;anything&lt;/i&gt; to the web should have &lt;a href=&quot;http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/9-b.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the four factors of fair use&lt;/a&gt; commited to memory by now:&#xA;&lt;p&gt; &#xA;&lt;ol&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;the &lt;b&gt;purpose&lt;/b&gt; of the use&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the &lt;b&gt;nature&lt;/b&gt; of the copyrighted work&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the &lt;b&gt;relative amount&lt;/b&gt; of the portion used&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the &lt;b&gt;market effect&lt;/b&gt; of the use on the copyrighted work&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &#xA;&lt;p&gt; &#xA;These are the four factors courts use to determine if something is fair use.&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We regularly smack down anything that copies wholesale; we want &lt;strong&gt;a contextual quote with the most relevant information to the answer&lt;/strong&gt;, and always a link to the rest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101" LastActivityDate="2011-06-05T15:21:54.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="601" CreationDate="2011-06-05T15:35:59.300" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absolutely!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An answer should never consist of just a link. Always at least summarize the contents of the link. Copying the contents wholesale is often not possible because it's copyrighted, but reformulating the information in your own words is always legal. Links should be citations to justify your answer or places to go for more information, but your answer should have some meat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see an answer that lacks inline content, feel free to edit it to add content. If you feel that the write-up is more work than finding the information in this particular instance, feel free to post another answer with the same link plus your write-up. Also leave a comment such as this one, to educate the poster:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Please provide context for links.](http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/how-to-answer). At least [summarize the contents](http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8231/are-answers-that-just-contain-links-elsewhere-really-good-answers) directly in your answer.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally don't upvote answers that lack content (though I feel systematically downvoting would be exaggerated).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Funny, I thought you'd have the opposite complaint: I see many answers without citations. I welcome speculative answers &lt;em&gt;with citations to back them up&lt;/em&gt;, but (especially for ongoing series) we get quite a few answers which are just shots in the dark. These aren't particularly interesting. I delete the really egregious ones when I see them, and feel free to flag them (when the whole contents of a post is “i think maybe 1500 years ago, just a guess lol! …”, it's not an answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-04-23T13:26:52.127" LastActivityDate="2011-06-05T15:35:59.300" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="592" CreationDate="2011-06-05T23:54:58.993" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this question is a bad one because there's no single, definitive answer to it. It's a question looking to start a discussion rather than asking a specific question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33" LastActivityDate="2011-06-05T23:54:58.993" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="592" CreationDate="2011-06-07T11:17:16.477" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not all questions need to have a single definitive answer (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/42657/programming-summer-camps-for-a-teenager&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; was personally approved by both StackExchange founders, and absolutely does not).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is clearly a subjective question, which are meant to fit certain &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;guidelines&lt;/a&gt;, and fit this question extremely well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Inspire answers that explain “why” and “how”&lt;/strong&gt;.  A good answer would certainly do this, explaining why people might feel this way (e.g. referencing the history of the genre), and obviously the question is all about &quot;how&quot;.  It seems unlikely it would inspire the worst type of &quot;name and link&quot; answers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long, not short, answers&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;invite sharing experiences over opinions&lt;/strong&gt;.  This question absolutely inspires users to share their actual experiences, as suggested.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Constructive, fair, and impartial tone&lt;/strong&gt;.  The only impartiality here is that scifi/fantasy is not childish (perhaps the real answer is that people think this because it's true!).  However, this is almost certainly a belief shared by nearly everyone here, so not a rant or flamebait.  It's about (how to) educate others, not about arguing the right/wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Insist that opinion be backed up with facts and references&lt;/strong&gt;.  Not so much (but not every guideline has to fit).  It's certainly possible that an answer could do this, but it doesn't seem especially likely.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More than just mindless social fun&lt;/strong&gt;.  Obviously not the case here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This sort of question is best answered by people who have experience dealing with this problem, not with psychologists.  It's much like all of parenting.stackexchange.com - the &quot;experts&quot; there are parents, not (necessarily) parenting researchers or psychologists. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An answer from an expert in psychology (or sociology) is not likely to be of practical use to the asker (or anyone else that has this problem that ends up at this question later) because it will be too theoretical.  What's needed is not an analysis of why this problem exists, but practical suggestions (based on experience) about how to deal with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question isn't &quot;how do I deal with mean people&quot;.  It's &quot;how do I combat the perception that this genre is childish&quot;.  Good answers are likely going to be specific to the genre - i.e. you'll get more useful advice to this question than to the generic &quot;people think that X, which I like, is childish&quot; (which would be off-topic, &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; it's generic).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way that this seems off-topic to me is if our scope is limited to something like &quot;existing scifi/fantasy works&quot;.  If questions outside of existing works (e.g. about cons or the impact of the genre on language, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3654/bitten-by-a-vampire-werewolf-and-zombie-what-happens-to-him&quot;&gt;what might happen to a really unfortunate person&lt;/a&gt;) are acceptable, then this should be too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2011-06-07T11:17:16.477" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="586" CreationDate="2011-06-09T20:06:38.947" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gaming and Super User have &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.superuser.com/about/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a group of editors&lt;/a&gt; that proof read posts and have some measure of quality control. With max 2/3 posts per week it shouldn't be too difficult to manage this. This ensures the focus is on quality rather than quantity; you don't want to burden the writers too much causing them to stop participating and most importantly, the blog should be secondary to the site not the other way around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We use chatrooms (&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/386/gaming-blog-editor-room&quot;&gt;Gaming&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/356/super-user-blog-editor-room&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;) and Google Docs (&lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cGQG85jrlB5htkJIAnKjaTsbFh-_0Zha7EteTdqXmOE/edit?hl=en_US&amp;amp;authkey=CNfOvPQD&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gaming&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zxXAhNdlgRXNAWdlpn1M9O_dfgkO366frodssCTjAts/edit?hl=en&amp;amp;authkey=CP-v0agK&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;) to discuss what to write about, try and plan when what gets posted and share ideas for future posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some random thoughts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think reviews are great. Why? Because like Gilles points out, I trust a review from a trusted user more than a 'professional' review from someone I don't know. If I liked said users answers about tags I liked, its also likely that I'll like something he recommends. Yes there are a ton of review sites out there, but just because &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; read them all, doesn't mean other users do.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We've abused the blog in the past to talk about recent changes to the network. Since most new changes get discussed on Meta.Stackoverflow, it can help to repeat such changes in a newsletter fashion on the blog. We've also had a blog post about &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.superuser.com/2011/05/02/how-to-get-answers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;how to get your questions answered&lt;/a&gt;, which I believe was very useful. Especially on topics, like Scifi, that are very different from Stack Overflow its important to guide new users on how to ask good, on-topic questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I like Questions of the Week not because its meta-ish or only interesting for the 'locals' as Gilles puts it, but rather because they serve as an example for new users as to what questions we &lt;em&gt;really, really, really&lt;/em&gt; want on the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As Jeff pointed out on Gaming, game diaries are an awesome way to engage with the community. I think in the case of scifi, discussing the latest episode of Doctor Who or Game of Thrones could also provide a nice outlet and potentially lead to new questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would be willing to help, but it would probably be pretty ad-hoc, so when I've read the latest GRR Martin book, I'd be happy to review it, but nothing regular. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most importantly, is that users should feel confident enough that we care about what they have to say and pitch in when they do have something to share. I think getting as many different users to participate is the most important factor for making the blog a success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="193" LastActivityDate="2011-06-09T20:06:38.947" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="611" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-06-15T10:22:49.900" Score="6" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;May I suggest that the closure of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4156/is-perry-rhodan-known-outside-german-speaking-countries&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; be reconsidered?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, it asked whether German SF character Perry Rhodan is known out of German speaking countries. It seems to me a legitimate question and, if anything, it could be rephrased so to be more objective (along the lines of, say, in which countries have been novels about PR translated, are they still in print, are there fan clubs or sites about them, and so on).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, why should a question about the renown of a character or series not be admissible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="673" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2017-02-01T23:37:01.767" Title="Doubt about a closure" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="611" CreationDate="2011-06-15T11:05:20.820" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, it's hard to establish popularity of published works. The reason is that sales figures are the best indicators of popularity (in my opinion), and they are not public. (Unlike say, TV series or films whose ratings/sales are generally available).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be fair, you make a good point about fan clubs and sites. But will an internet site's opinion actually represent general opinion? Most websites would actually have some niche audience, so their data may not always be reliable. Even if you took data to be reliable, what data would you consider a sign of popularity? I went on to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodreads.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;goodreads&lt;/a&gt;, and tried to compare the popularity of two series, (The Farseer trilogy vs. The Wheel of Time). They had pretty similar rating values(about 4.1), and the wheel of time had about 2-3 times the number of ratings of the other series. (~20000 vs. 7000-10000). From sales figures, Wheel of Time is estimated to have sold about 40 million copies, with the Farseer trilogy estimated at below a million. So, though they show some correlation with number of ratings, it's hard to say what. John Ringo's books, which have together sold about 3 million, have about 250-750 ratings on average. So, even the number of ratings is meaningless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about fan sites? John Ringo does not seem to have a fan page on facebook, Robin Hobb has around 30000 likes, Robert Jordan about 65000, Brandon Sanderson about 20000. So even that does not a good indication of popularity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="947" LastActivityDate="2011-06-15T11:05:20.820" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="611" CreationDate="2011-06-15T14:28:06.500" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it can be reworded to be more objective, and maybe a deeper question that doesn't result in a flurry of 'yes/no' answers, then edit it.  After it's edited, that'll bump it to the top of the 'active' questions page.  People can then vote to reopen it if the improved quality makes it a better fit on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2011-06-15T14:28:06.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="611" CreationDate="2011-06-15T16:23:35.663" Score="4" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This question doesn't have a definitive answer. Definitive answers are supposed to “solve the problem”. (They don't have to be unique, there can be more than one solution.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This isn't damning in and of itself, but does call for more scrutiny on the question. Please read &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq#dontask&quot;&gt;What kind of questions should I not ask here?&lt;/a&gt;. The question asks if the series is “known”. This is an imprecise qualification, and furthermore a potentially argumentative one (is X number of copies sold “known” or not? and the question isn't even calling towards a precise answer like sales data).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers so far are symptomatic of a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;“bad subjective” question&lt;/a&gt;: they are short answers (guideline #2 fails), which are anecdotes with no insight (guideline #1 fails); the other guidelines aren't particularly addressed, making it 2 against, 0 for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could ask for sales figures of translations in various languages, even for the existence of translations (though at least for English, there's no need to ask, just &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?27234&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;look it up&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ISFDB&lt;/a&gt;). You can also get some idea by looking at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Rhodan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia pages&lt;/a&gt; in various languages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2023-01-29T13:54:16.550" LastActivityDate="2011-06-15T16:23:35.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="615" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="616" CreationDate="2011-06-15T20:36:08.047" Score="2" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/400/which-mediums-can-be-the-basis-of-questions&quot;&gt;Which mediums can be the basis of questions?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I had questions about say X-men or a certain story arc win X-Men Vol 2 or whatever, would that type of question be kosher here (or any other type of question dealing with comics in general)? Or is this site more for sci-fi/fantasy novels/movies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.730" LastActivityDate="2011-06-15T21:19:57.437" Title="Comic Books and other Graphic novels" Tags="|discussion|comics|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2011-06-16T07:28:01.657" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="615" CreationDate="2011-06-15T21:19:57.437" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's welcome here.  In fact there are already a few comic book questions with excellent answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2011-06-15T21:19:57.437" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="617" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="618" CreationDate="2011-06-16T11:24:04.777" Score="5" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not really sure about this, but the main language of this site seems to be english (I'm not a native speaker myself). I've just posted a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4189/have-any-mark-brandis-novels-ever-been-released-in-english-language&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; regarding alleged english translations of a german author. All links to websites I could give were in german. If only 1% of readers could actually read them, should I rather leave them out to not offend people that don't speak german?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1583" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2011-07-23T19:06:06.630" Title="Links to illustrate questions that point to non-english websites?" Tags="|discussion|questions|hyperlinks|citations|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="617" CreationDate="2011-06-16T12:01:59.980" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should feel free to link to sources in any language. It would be helpful to pull relevant quotes from the text into your answer/question and translate them. People can always pass the page through one of many web page translation services across the web.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If some people are offended by other languages and cultures, we don't want them here anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51" LastActivityDate="2011-06-16T12:01:59.980" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="619" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-06-17T20:06:18.913" Score="9" ViewCount="615" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if questions about special effects techniques be allowed on the Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange?  For example, questions like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What techniques did the artists use in the early ST:TNG episodes to create those alien world landscapes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2176" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2013-05-14T14:50:16.027" LastActivityDate="2013-05-14T14:50:16.027" Title="Should questions about special effects techniques be allowed on Science Fiction &amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="619" CreationDate="2011-06-17T20:21:51.767" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think yes, they should be allowed.  Also, in general, when it comes to 'should I ask X type of question', there's little to lose in asking it.  If it's not clearly laid out in the FAQ as being off-topic, the community will make its feelings known, and we can go from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(also the answer is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matte_painting&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Matte painting&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2011-06-17T20:36:34.450" LastActivityDate="2011-06-17T20:36:34.450" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="619" CreationDate="2011-06-17T23:04:12.557" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To use the same example: matte paintings are done for many productions that aren't SF/F—historical dramas, for instance. If you look at the matte painting article Keen linked, only about half of their examples count as SF/F.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same goes for pretty much every other SFX technique (note: SFX stands for &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_effect&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Special Effects&lt;/a&gt;,&quot; not &quot;Science Fiction&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I expect SFX questions will be completely on topic at &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/2797/video-and-film-production&quot;&gt;Video and Film Production &lt;/a&gt; when it launches. That proposal is currently in its commitment phase, so if this aspect interests you, go help out!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastActivityDate="2011-06-17T23:04:12.557" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="622" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-06-19T12:04:06.033" Score="6" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now, the only periodic event we have in chat is a &quot;recommendation chat&quot;, and there are no non-periodic events. Keeping in mind that we want the chat to (among other things) have discussions that cannot take place in the Q&amp;amp;A format, what other kind of events can we have on the chat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="947" LastActivityDate="2011-06-21T02:28:54.803" Title="What kind of events we can have in chat?" Tags="|discussion|chat|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="622" CreationDate="2011-06-19T14:01:23.943" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It certainly would be fun to discuss a new popular book a few days after it came out. For instance, the day after something like a Harry Potter book comes out, or maybe after the season finale of any popular sci-fi series. Those would be non-periodic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Periodic could including stuff like a monthly Star Gate/ Star Wars/ Harry Potter/ Star Gate chat (Each their own, of course), an off the beaten track chat for non-popular series, perhaps rotating each chat over a series or just having it be a free for all, a semi-reoccurring sci-fi fandom chat which discusses stuff like conventions and other ancillary stuff. Maybe even a genre identification chat, but these would be pretty sparse, maybe once every few months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, anything off topic to the FAQ, but still interesting, would be good as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, just to put it in a nice, neat list, I'm proposing the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once a week of the 4 largest sci-fi TV/movie franchise series, rotating each week which one it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Star Trek&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Star Wars&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dr. Who&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Star Gate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once a month for each of these, at the same time and a week or so apart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fandom/ state of the genre chat&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Scifi.SE meta discussion (On topic, moderation, what should we do to promote it, etc)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Genre classification chat&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Recommendation's chat&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once a month chats for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Discworld&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;LOTR&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Opened to any books&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2011-06-19T17:17:14.927" LastActivityDate="2011-06-19T17:17:14.927" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="622" CreationDate="2011-06-20T04:28:42.940" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;We could do movie/TV show viewing parties.  Everyone loads up the same movie or show on Blu/DVD/Netflix, and we chat while watching.  This would have the extra benefit of driving more questions to the site as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2011-06-20T04:28:42.940" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="622" CreationDate="2011-06-21T02:28:54.803" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;After some thought, I'm going to make a different suggestion, one that I hope will be more acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should have only 1 chat a week, at least to start out with. The topic should rotate among 4 discussions, which are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TV Series&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Movies&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Books (I suppose comics could be included in here)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Recommendations, genre classification, fandom, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think once a week is just about right, so as to not be too crazy, but still be obtainable. Perhaps we'll spend some weeks focusing on key series, but those will be less frequent. If these chats become more popular, we can work towards the suggestions in my previous post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2011-06-21T02:28:54.803" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="626" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="627" CreationDate="2011-06-22T19:39:25.287" Score="30" ViewCount="620" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are now Stack Exchange sites about &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;anime &amp;amp; manga&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;movies &amp;amp; TV&lt;/a&gt;. Questions about SF anime, manga or movies could therefore be on-topic on two sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My understanding is that a question that could be addressed by someone should be exposed if possible. Ideally, I think cross-listing a sci-fi movie question across both sites might provide a question with the most exposure. However, I am not sure the StackExchange architecture would support this.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If #1 is not possible or is against the policy of SE sites, how do we handle questions for Sci-Fi movies? Should they all be moved to this SF&amp;amp;F site? I am not sure what the best solution is that makes sure that a sci-fi movie question is answered.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is anyone familiar with any other cases of site overlap and how they have been dealt with? If the overlap forces drastic changes to these sites, should works be split up into separate media sites like Movies &amp;amp; TV or separate genre sites like SF&amp;amp;F?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1876" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:48.340" LastActivityDate="2014-10-10T20:56:10.347" Title="How do we handle conflicts with the Anime and Movies sites?" Tags="|discussion|scope|anime|site-rec|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="626" CreationDate="2011-06-22T20:40:02.513" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short version: Yes, there's some overlap. It's not a problem. Do not cross-post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long version:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This won't be the first time or the last time there are sites overlapping topics. It's bound to happen: sites are defined in terms of communities at least as much as topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To give an existing example I'm familiar with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's a site for &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;computer users&lt;/a&gt; and a site for &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/&quot;&gt;professional administrators&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's a site about &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;unix&lt;/a&gt;, a site about &lt;a href=&quot;https://apple.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Apple&lt;/a&gt;, a site about &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One family of sites is defined by role, the other one by object. The topics overlap. It's pretty much the same situation as with SF (defined by genre) compared to &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/6426/literature&quot;&gt;Literature&lt;/a&gt; (now defunct) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Movies&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Anime &amp;amp; Manga&lt;/a&gt; (defined by media).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most questions on SF movies will be on-topic on both sites. It's up to the asker to &lt;strong&gt;choose&lt;/strong&gt; where to post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cross-posting is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/64068/is-it-possible-to-post-questions-across-a-couple-of-the-sites-because-its-debata/64073#64073&quot;&gt;strongly discouraged&lt;/a&gt;. (Strictly speaking, that's multi-posting: a question is only present on one site, the SE platform does not support cross-posting by design.) It might be ok occasionally to ask similar questions on both sites, but the questions should be tailored to each audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In time, I expect we'll have guidelines as to which questions are better asked on which site — for example visual effects are likely to be more of a Movies.SE topic, whereas unraveling time travel paradoxes is likely to be more of a Scifi.SE topic. But there will inevitably be some overlap that can be asked on either site indifferently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:48.340" LastActivityDate="2013-02-07T22:31:01.003" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="628" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="629" CreationDate="2011-06-24T20:47:44.980" Score="4" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;My answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4280/is-hal-fearless-at-the-end-of-green-lantern&quot;&gt;Is Hal fearless at the end of Green Lantern?&lt;/a&gt; shows in my daily reputation score with a '+2'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has 1 upvote, and no downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't ask the question, and it's not the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a reason I got +2 rep instead of +10 for an upvoted answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this all part of Keen's dastardly plan to stay ahead of me in reputation? ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: As Requested, here's my reputation screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UXLSe.png&quot; alt=&quot;Jeff&amp;#39;s Reputation for Today&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="656" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Reputation Question" Tags="|support|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="628" CreationDate="2011-06-24T21:02:04.530" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a “reputation cap”. Roughly speaking, reputation gains from upvotes are capped at 200 per day, or in other words, you only get reputation from your first 10 answer upvotes, or 20 question upvotes, or a mixture of both, of the day. (A day is a calendar day, from 00:00 UTC to 00:00 UTC.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More precisely, whenever you gain reputation from an upvote, 10 points are added to your day's reputation, up to a total of 200. Today, you had 28 answer upvotes and 4 question upvotes (so far); at some point your total reached 200, so you stopped gaining reputation from upvotes; then you had a downvote, brining you back to 198; then you received another upvote, raising you once again to 200. This explains why you got +2 for that upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bounties, accepted answers, and the -1 penalty for casting a downvote do not count against the reputation cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information, see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange reputation FAQ&lt;/a&gt; and the posts it links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2011-06-24T21:02:04.530" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="630" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-06-25T15:29:21.083" Score="3" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;All identification questions are currently lumped under one tag: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it make more sense to separate out the different media and have &lt;code&gt;identify-this-story&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;identify-this-movie&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;identify-this-series&lt;/code&gt;? I can see two advantage to this format:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It allows people to subscribe to only the media that they like. For example a movie buff who doesn't read much could subscribe to &lt;code&gt;identify-this-movie&lt;/code&gt; and not bother with &lt;code&gt;identify-this-story&lt;/code&gt;. You could still subscribe to all of them by subscribing to &lt;code&gt;identify-this-*&lt;/code&gt; (yes, although this isn't evident from the UI, you can use wildcards in favorite tags).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There wouldn't be any call for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/293/should-we-do-away-with-the-media-tags-books-novel-tv-movies-etc&quot;&gt;media tags&lt;/a&gt; on story identification questions then.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt; Yes, I'm guilty of creating the &lt;code&gt;story-identification&lt;/code&gt; tag, in an imitation of &lt;a href=&quot;http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/YASID&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;YASID&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/rasfw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;rasfw&lt;/a&gt;. But I now suspect it was a mistake. &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2013-11-03T20:20:27.460" Title="Rename the story-identification tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|story-identification|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="630" CreationDate="2011-06-25T15:39:41.107" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the new tags you suggest for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; are a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sci-Fi/Fantasy users tend to specialize in either TV and movies or in literature (though some have a vast knowledge of both).  Therefore it would allow the users who specialize in one or the other to sort by those tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as removing the old &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; or the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/293/should-we-do-away-with-the-media-tags-books-novel-tv-movies-etc&quot;&gt;media tags&lt;/a&gt;, I'm not sure yet.  I could go either way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2011-06-25T15:39:41.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="632" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="634" CreationDate="2011-06-25T21:51:05.337" Score="15" ViewCount="242" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the previous episode, we asked:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/586/is-it-worth-having-a-site-blog&quot;&gt;Is it worth having a site blog?&lt;/a&gt; The answer was yes. So let's get going.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do we need to do? Please read &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/06/blog-overflow/&quot;&gt;Rebecca Chernoff's article on Blog Overflow&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Raise the idea on meta, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/586/is-it-worth-having-a-site-blog&quot;&gt;check&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Define the scope. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/586/is-it-worth-having-a-site-blog&quot;&gt;We have several ideas&lt;/a&gt;; I propose to start with whatever people are willing to contribute.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Recruit contributors. Anyone who's willing to contribute, please raise your hand.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Plan a schedule. That's more of a job for the blog coordinator, based on expected contributions. Speaking of which…&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally nominate &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/108/tony-meyer&quot;&gt;Tony Meyer&lt;/a&gt; as the overall coordinator for the SFF blog. Everyone else, do you agree, or are there other candidates?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2011-07-13T10:52:47.473" Title="Let's get the blog going!" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="632" CreationDate="2011-06-25T22:13:13.563" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I second Tony's nomination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35" LastActivityDate="2011-06-25T22:13:13.563" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="632" CreationDate="2011-06-26T03:04:48.743" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who's willing to contribute? Please add yourself to this list, and mention what and &lt;strong&gt;how often&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/51/dampes8n&quot;&gt;DampeS8N&lt;/a&gt;: I can contribute reviews on occasion, musings on the genre and its tropes, and if it evolves that way, fiction.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1027/keen&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt;: episode/season recaps/reviews&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/947/apoorv020&quot;&gt;apoorv020&lt;/a&gt;:Basically interested in fantasy literature, I can do occasional reviews and musings about the same.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/56/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt;: very occasional book (and perhaps movie) reviews; I'm also willing to be an editor on a regular basis&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/108/tony-meyer&quot;&gt;Tony&lt;/a&gt;: fairly occasional book reviews, organising QotW posts (if we end up having those), editing and overall coordination&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/98/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/a&gt;: the occasional book review, and perhaps odds and ends statistics about the overall life of the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/33/neilfein&quot;&gt;Neil Fein&lt;/a&gt;: I can contribute book reviews from time to time. (I read fairly slowly, and not all of it SF.) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="947" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2011-07-10T03:56:48.133" CommentCount="15" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-06-26T03:04:48.743" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="635" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-06-26T18:30:03.360" Score="-2" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently general reference is one of the standard reasons for closing a question. However, I want to propose an exception to this clause: The question should not be closed, if the general reference site can lead to spoilers to related works. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4323/where-should-i-start-with-star-trek/4324#4324&quot;&gt;Oghma's answer to &quot;Where should I start with Star Trek?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, he suggests reading up on histories of Spock and Kirk. If I ask about them here, the question would be closed. But, any sites I use may also contain spoilers about star trek tng. So, in such situations such questions should not be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="947" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2011-06-28T00:46:35.740" Title="Exception to the general reference rule?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="635" CreationDate="2011-06-27T06:57:41.907" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't consider this an exception. If there's no obvious place to look for an answer, then it's not a general reference question. A question calling for information about X that doesn't spoil Y is not the same thing as a question for information about X. It's quite conceivable that there would be a general reference for X (typically the Wikipedia page for X) but not for X without spoiling Y. Then a question about X which clearly and prominently says not to spoil Y would be admissible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2011-06-27T06:57:41.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="637" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="638" CreationDate="2011-06-27T19:36:11.230" Score="3" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am specifically referring to &quot;What exactly is the circumstance of this specific event in book X&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example would be: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4343/how-did-ender-kill-this-character&quot;&gt;How did Ender kill this character?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, the type of question that are fully and easily answered by taking the book and reading the relevant chapter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am only referring to things which are obvious to a typical random reader, NOT requiring some special subject or universe or other knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; Please note that the question that prompted this discussion merely seemed to be of the type &quot;What exactly is the circumstance of this specific event in book X&quot; that I'm talking about due to poor wording by OP. After a wonderful edit by Tony, it became and actually interesting and unquestionably on-topic one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2011-06-28T13:27:42.547" Title="Are questions about specific detail in the book (non-obscure) on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="637" CreationDate="2011-06-27T23:31:39.413" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a question like this is on-topic, but not a good question.  IOW, I would vote it down (or at the least not vote it up), but not vote for closure.  (If many people agree and vote down, then the asker may decide to remove it themselves; OTOH if other people find it interesting - perhaps there's an element to it that I missed that makes it non-obvious - then the votes may balance out).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that &quot;general reference&quot; can include the source material itself, because the point of &quot;general reference&quot; was that the answer can be found with a minimal amount of Google searching.  That isn't the case here.  I don't think it's reasonable to assume that everyone has easy access to all the material they would ask questions about (this is perhaps even more true with TV/film than with books).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that you don't even need to own the book to answer it in many cases - e.g. here you can use Amazon's &quot;view inside&quot; feature to search in the text of the book and find the answer.  (Not all books have this available, but many, including &lt;em&gt;Ender's Game&lt;/em&gt;, do).  (I don't think this feature, or the Google Books version, can be considered &quot;general reference&quot;, either).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="108" LastEditDate="2011-06-28T05:24:27.103" LastActivityDate="2011-06-28T05:24:27.103" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="637" CreationDate="2011-06-28T00:34:02.140" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the book is SF, why wouldn't they be on-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess you're concerned that they would be considered general reference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question is too basic; it can be definitively and permanently answered by a single link to a standard internet reference source designed specifically to find that type of information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being able to find the answer in a book doesn't fit the letter of the close reason. It doesn't fit the spirit either: the point of “close as general reference” is that the asker could have looked it up, that it wouldn't have been harder than asking the question, so he shouldn't have bothered other people with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if you had the book, finding the right place isn't always easy. This is even worse for movies, not to mention TV series. If it would take you 20 hours of viewing to find the right place, but a fan can find it in 5 minutes, the question is absolutely legitimate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;General reference still applies if the answer is in e.g. the Wikipedia summary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2011-06-28T00:34:02.140" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="635" CreationDate="2011-06-28T00:46:35.740" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take a look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/02/are-some-questions-too-simple/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;flowchart&lt;/a&gt; for deciding if something is &quot;general reference&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second question is &quot;is the answer too slow to load, too hard to parse, or otherwise in need of improvement&quot;.  This is fundamental to the &quot;general reference&quot; system - there are many questions that are already answered somewhere, but on sites where the information is buried in an extremely long page (e.g. Wikipedia), obscured (e.g. Experts-Exchange), difficult to understand (e.g. a fragment of a forum discussion), badly worded, and so forth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question explicitly says that you don't want spoilers of some type, then the &quot;general reference&quot; close type would only apply if there was a general reference that didn't include the spoiler - otherwise it's &quot;in need of improvement&quot; (with respect to your question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, an answer to the question would answer it without the spoilers, and then link to the more detailed information with text like &quot;for more information, some of which will be spoilers, see the Wikipedia page X&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IOW, I think this case is already excluded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-06-28T00:46:35.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="641" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="642" CreationDate="2011-06-30T11:17:51.797" Score="0" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a recommended reading order of reading order questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="712" LastActivityDate="2011-06-30T19:18:51.153" Title="What's the recommended reading order of reading order questions?" Tags="|discussion|suggested-order|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2011-07-01T18:56:18.500" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="641" CreationDate="2011-06-30T19:18:51.153" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order?sort=votes&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;By votes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2011-06-30T19:18:51.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="643" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-07-06T14:15:40.547" Score="8" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy.  We deal with all forms of speculative fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this automatically include anime?  If so, will this change if the &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/31538/anime-manga&quot;&gt;Anime &amp;amp; Manga&lt;/a&gt; proposal launches?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've had questions about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4383/what-is-the-source-of-gaaras-abilty-to-control-sand&quot;&gt;Naruto&lt;/a&gt; in the past, but there's generally been no activity regarding anime.  It's as if no one in our (relatively small) community knows much about anime, or cares.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is anime just another medium, like books, comics, and tv, and we should judge the 'on-topic' factor per series?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="656" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2011-07-06T14:22:53.037" Title="Is anime on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="643" CreationDate="2011-07-06T14:22:53.037" Score="16" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Or is anime just another medium, like books, comics, and tv, and we should judge the 'on-topic' factor per series?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This.  Your question breaks down to &quot;is (media) on topic&quot;?  And the answer is, &quot;Yes, if it's Sci-fi or Fantasy.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2011-07-06T14:22:53.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="645" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="651" CreationDate="2011-07-08T22:55:47.973" Score="5" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the regular posts for the planned &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/blog&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;blog&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; is a focus on a question that exemplifies the sort of questions we'd love to see more like.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1970/gaming-questions-of-the-week-1&quot;&gt;Gaming&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.superuser.com/questions/1869/top-question-of-the-week-1&quot;&gt;SuperUser&lt;/a&gt; do this weekly - we can build up to that, but we probably don't yet have enough really great questions each week to post that frequently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a somewhat arbitrary frequency to start with, I've picked the full moon (in NZ, since that's where I am).  So I'll use the highest-voted answer here as of Jul 15 6:40 pm NZDT.  (It's likely that we won't have the blog site up by then, so I'll put the post somewhere everyone can see it until we do).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;UPDATE&lt;/em&gt;: I'll wait three more days and see what happens with this.  I'll think up some sort of reason for choosing that day then ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question doesn't have to be one that has had a lot of views, although that might be a good indicator.  Please post any question that you feel is worthy and explain why. Try not to promote your own questions or answers for publicity's sake.  The question doesn't have to be one asked since the last full moon - that's how often we'll feature a question, but it can be any open question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Standard voting answers, please: one suggestion per answer, and if you like a suggestion then vote it up (if you want to elaborate, add a comment or edit the existing answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T08:59:44.247" LastActivityDate="2011-07-15T10:46:10.520" Title="Question of the Week #1" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="632" CreationDate="2011-07-08T23:04:32.193" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Time to start writing!  The site is set up, so we just need to have some content ready and we can kick things off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Those that are willing to do reviews, please start keeping this in mind.  Obviously reviews need to wait on consumption of something (book, film, TV) worth reviewing - next time you finish reading/watching something you'd be willing to review, please write one up and let everyone know you've done so.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Those that are willing to do 'muse' posts, you can start immediately :)  When you've got time, write something up and let everyone know here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Please suggest and/or vote for the first &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/645/question-of-the-full-moon-1&quot;&gt;Question of the Full Moon&lt;/a&gt; post.  Pick a question that you'd really like to see more like.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you'd like to write the content as a draft in the site, email &lt;strong&gt;tony.meyer@gmail.com&lt;/strong&gt; (or tweet &lt;strong&gt;tonyandrewmeyer&lt;/strong&gt; or get hold of me any other way you'd like) and I'll set up an account for you.  Once everything's all ready to go (e.g. we have a copy of great first posts) we'll start making whatever we have live.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rebecca suggested that we have a structure for minimal posting (extra posts can be done in addition to this).  For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shortly after the full moon: a QotFM.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fridays: a review.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Muse Mondays: an opinion/muse post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I've randomly picked these days; if anyone cares what they are, please edit this).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2011-07-13T10:52:47.473" CommentCount="7" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-08T23:04:32.193" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="645" CreationDate="2011-07-08T23:50:04.820" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My favoritest question on the site is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2036/is-there-any-artistic-representation-of-mawhrin-skel&quot;&gt;Is there any artistic representation of Mawhrin-Skel?&lt;/a&gt; Iain M. Banks doesn't write very visual descriptions, and his concepts are odd to us while being perfectly normal parts of their environment. So I was very interested to see how artists have imagined his drones look like, and particularly impressed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jonrennie.co.uk/films/79-something-real.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;John Rennie&lt;/a&gt;'s short movie, found by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/833/sebsmith&quot;&gt;sebsmith&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I'm not sure if this is a good question of the full moon, because it's fairly atypical for the site. I'm not so comfortable with it being the first impression of the site. Maybe we can keep it reserve for a summer moon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2011-07-08T23:50:04.820" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="648" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="649" CreationDate="2011-07-11T08:46:46.833" Score="0" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am facing a pretty weird bug. Sometime, when I type an '@username' at the start of a comment, it disappears when I submit the comment. If I afterwards click on edit, the '@username' is not present in the comment text body either. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specific instance occured in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4482/scifi-episode-where-one-of-the-crew-members-becomes-a-monster&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. Putting in another comment had the same bug. This has occured before, but I though it was just a freak accident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="947" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2011-07-11T10:52:59.707" Title="Disappearing usernames in comments" Tags="|support|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="648" CreationDate="2011-07-11T10:44:54.213" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was the username the person that wrote the question/answer that you're commenting on?  I've seen this recently as well.  My guess is that it is a new feature where the username is removed because it's implied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Personally, I think explicit is better than implicit, but I suppose there is some merit in this).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-07-11T10:44:54.213" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="645" CreationDate="2011-07-14T05:24:20.597" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I loved seeing the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3373/what-does-the-blue-elevator-in-this-picture-refer-to&quot;&gt;What does the blue elevator (?) in this picture refer to?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's not a lot to the question, really, although there are a couple of nice answers, and the question and answers may have more images than any other on the site!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the reason I like this so much is that it reminds me that even something that seems incredibly obvious to me may make no sense to someone else.  I'm sure that all my friends and family, even those with no interest at all in scifi, would recognise the TARDIS, but not everyone has this background (this is maybe particularly true outside of the Commonwealth).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm also reminded of &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com:80/transcript/message/1050515#1050515&quot;&gt;this chat comment&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2011-07-14T05:24:20.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="645" CreationDate="2011-07-14T05:27:43.717" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I particularly like this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2810/why-do-we-hear-leias-theme-during-kenobis-death&quot;&gt;Why do we hear Leia's Theme during Kenobi's death?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like that it's looking for insight about why a creative decision was made.  A lot of the questions on the site are more in-universe (why or what something happened), and it's nice to see these higher-level questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the question is quite well written, and certainly provides plenty of detail.  There's only a single answer, but it's an excellent one, so there's not really any need for more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2011-07-14T05:27:43.717" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="645" CreationDate="2011-07-14T05:30:23.593" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I admit that I typically only glance over the poetry in any books, and especially the rather long ones in LotR, so I found this question very useful:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3492/lord-of-the-rings-what-is-the-important-background-information-contained-in-the&quot;&gt;Lord of the Rings - what is the important background information contained in the poems?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is a great example of a question because it's something I expect many people would find it useful, and perhaps not otherwise think of asking.  It certainly inspires a truly excellent answer (probably one of my favourite &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; on the site so far).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2011-07-14T05:30:23.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="653" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-07-16T13:41:38.700" Score="8" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;We occasionally have questions that tend to accrue partial answers over time. A common motif is a question about an ongoing series, which gets more and more answers as the series progresses. The example that triggered my meta question here is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2902/what-are-the-differences-between-the-game-of-thrones-tv-series-and-the-book&quot;&gt;What plot differences are there between the Game of Thrones TV series and the books?&lt;/a&gt;, but we've had a few about &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; with similar issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the flip side, these questions are perfectly legitimate. Furthermore, they're good at drawing traffic to the site, and we get valuable contributions from new users that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the dark side, not all of the answers are good. It's easy to deal with one-liners that don't really add information (flag them as “not an answer”, and a moderator will delete them). That still often leaves a large number of answers that partially answer the question. A post that gathers them all into a coherent whole would be much more awesome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keeping in mind that our goals are (in this order)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;having great answers,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;welcoming new users,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;how should we (as a community) deal with these questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2011-07-31T18:14:27.077" Title="How do we deal with accumulations of partial answers?" Tags="|discussion|time-sensitive-questions|answers|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="653" CreationDate="2011-07-16T15:37:29.957" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can moderators merge multiple answers into a community wiki?  If so, that's what I'd suggest we do with these.  Although that doesn't address how we as a community highlight which questions should have their answers merged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2011-07-16T15:37:29.957" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="653" CreationDate="2011-07-16T20:28:16.997" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In theory, this could be answered. In theory, folks could keep returning to that question as the season and series progresses, editing in details until at the end of the series we are left with a comprehensive answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But... In order for this to happen, folks are going to have to really &lt;em&gt;care&lt;/em&gt; about having a comprehensive answer to that question. Is that the case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have spotted many more, subtle and blatant, in the ongoing series, but have decided not to update the list here, primarily as it just sounds bitchy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(from the accepted answer)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doesn't really seem like it, eh? I rather suspect Mark sussed out the actual goal of the question in his edit, which added: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are they substantial, or are they particularly minor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, &lt;em&gt;there's&lt;/em&gt; a question that could be answered, and an answer that could be updated, without requiring the sort of obsessive long-term focus that the current question seems to demand. Heck, even if you got a new answer posted for every new episode, it would still be possible - with a reasonable amount of effort - for someone to summarize them in the accepted answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what you &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; need to decide here is, what question do your readers need an answer to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What are all the differences, large and small, between the TV series and the books?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What are the fundamental differences in plot between the series and books?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is the TV series reasonably true to the source material?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, the FAQ states: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; because we hate idle curiosity. It's because content that isn't &lt;em&gt;needed&lt;/em&gt; tends to be of poor quality. So if your goal is to decide, as a fan of the books, if you should check out the series... Then getting hit in the face with a vast list of minutiae probably won't give you what you need (and you certainly won't be motivated to &lt;em&gt;expand&lt;/em&gt; it). OTOH, if the gritty details are what matter to you for some reason, then an answer which glosses over them won't do you any good either... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can't tell from the question whether or not a given answer &lt;em&gt;answers it&lt;/em&gt;, then the question itself is failing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastActivityDate="2011-07-16T20:28:16.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="656" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="657" CreationDate="2011-07-18T18:01:40.830" Score="4" ViewCount="868" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions discussing fictional advanced technology are on-topic.  So, we have questions asking about phasers in &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;, or ZPMs in &lt;em&gt;Stargate&lt;/em&gt;.  But what about science/technology that isn't decades/centuries removed from our present science?  Given that I'm only referring to questions that come from science-fiction and fantasy works, why would these questions be considered off-topic?  I ask because I've asked a few such questions (which don't fall under the auspices of physics.SE), and have gotten downvotes and close votes.  (Example questions - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/4312/1027&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/4585/1027&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/3078/1027&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2011-07-19T02:31:39.227" Title="Are questions about current, or near-future science/technology on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="656" CreationDate="2011-07-18T20:03:32.600" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the scope expansion to fantasy, alternative history, and all forms of speculative fiction (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6/is-fantasy-in-spec-for-this-site/10#10&quot;&gt;Is Fantasy in spec for this site?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/37/what-is-and-what-isnt-considered-science-fiction&quot;&gt;What is and what isn&amp;#39;t considered science fiction?&lt;/a&gt;), there's no reason (as an average user) that I would guess anything about near-future to be considered off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1913" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.730" LastActivityDate="2011-07-18T20:11:11.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="656" CreationDate="2011-07-18T23:30:01.163" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the science/technology is near-future, then in my opinion, yes (assuming it meets all other criteria, of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the science/technology is current, i.e. it exists already, then it depends what the question is.  If the question is &quot;how does technology X, used in book Y, work?&quot; then it seems to me that isn't on-topic, and would be better asked elsewhere (e.g. perhaps on physics.se or sites like that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think this is a very grey area, because there are questions about current science/technology that I would say are on-topic, like asking if there is a real-world version of science/tech found in particular scifi, or whether the depiction of the science/tech is accurate (this requires knowledge of both the science/tech &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; scifi).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I would personally base my opinion on whether a knowledge of scifi was needed or especially beneficial in answering the question.  If not, then it's off-topic.  If it is, then it's on-topic (possibly both here, &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; on a science/tech SE).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For your first example question, I'm not sure (I voted it up, but before I considered this :)).  The &quot;How much volume do we have inside our bones that is empty?&quot; part seems off-topic to me, but if you asked a biologist this, perhaps it's a meaningless question outside of the scifi realm?  In that case, it would seem on-topic to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the third example question, I voted it down not because of the real-world aspect, but because I can't see how it can possibly be answered (as in the comment).  I certainly don't think it's off-topic, it's just not clear to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I can't read your second example question, because I'm avoiding everything about Miracle Day until it's available here).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="108" LastEditDate="2011-07-19T02:31:39.227" LastActivityDate="2011-07-19T02:31:39.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="659" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-07-19T13:45:33.067" Score="8" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are answers that stem from our own personal interpretation of the work useful and kosher here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently answered &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/4602/1109&quot;&gt;Was Harry Potter killed and then brought back to life?&lt;/a&gt; and my answer was completely based on how I interpreted the scene referenced in the book/movie without me needing to go to a wiki or outside source other than the book itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is first hand research allowed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2011-07-19T16:30:18.930" Title="Answers involving ones own interpretation of the work" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="659" CreationDate="2011-07-19T16:30:18.930" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;A interpretation could be good, if it's backed with several fact and explanation that lead to this interpretation. However, it could be contradicted/overpowered by other things like citation and/or interview of the author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with your answer was that it was contradicted with some element from the book. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An other example of this is in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1685/who-really-wrote-the-rama-sequels/1707#1707&quot;&gt;Who *really* wrote the Rama sequels?&lt;/a&gt;. My answer is a citation and the other is an assumption. Both are valid answer, but the community judged the citation more relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2011-07-19T16:30:18.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="661" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="663" CreationDate="2011-07-22T21:29:00.877" Score="3" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;My first question here was this one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3774/what-real-world-substance-most-closely-corresponds-to-mithril&quot;&gt;What real-world substance most closely corresponds to mithril?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admittedly it's getting old, but it still bugs me that it got closed. How can I fix it to make it constructive and useful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2011-07-23T10:02:04.540" Title="How can I fix my unconstructive question?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="661" CreationDate="2011-07-22T22:56:47.267" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, a question that is closed such a long time after it was asked and with a large number of upvotes, is usually not close-material. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there are ways in which you can make it fit better to the site specs. For example, you might ask &quot;Is mithril magical in nature&quot;, and then follow it up with asking about any real-world examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="947" LastActivityDate="2011-07-22T22:56:47.267" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="661" CreationDate="2011-07-23T08:42:50.050" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The close reason is a pretty good place to start when understanding why it was closed and how to fix it (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question is not a good fit to our Q&amp;amp;A format. We expect answers to generally involve facts, references, or specific expertise; &lt;strong&gt;this question will likely solicit opinion, debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no real answer: mithril is not a real-world substance. Asking what substance most closely relates to it is a matter of interpretation and what set of properties one focuses on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ask yourself: what does a &lt;em&gt;correct&lt;/em&gt; answer to the question look like? How do you determine what the correct answer is to the question? If it's just a matter of personal preference or opinion and you're not looking for a correct answer, that's exactly the type of question that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq#dontask&quot;&gt;doesn't work well on the Stack Exchange engine&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face.  Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of our site and push other questions off the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your motivation for asking the question is “I would like to participate in a discussion about &lt;code&gt;______&lt;/code&gt;”, then you should not be asking here. (You are more than welcome to have such discussions in our &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;real time web chat&lt;/a&gt;.) However, if your motivation is “I would like others to explain &lt;code&gt;______&lt;/code&gt; to me”, then you are probably OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To prevent your question from being flagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq#deletion&quot;&gt;and possibly removed&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;avoid&lt;/strong&gt; asking subjective questions where …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;every answer is equally valid: “What’s your favorite &lt;code&gt;______&lt;/code&gt;?”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;your answer is provided along with the question, and you expect more answers: “I use &lt;code&gt;______&lt;/code&gt; for &lt;code&gt;______&lt;/code&gt;, what do you use?”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;there is no actual problem to be solved: “I’m curious if other people feel like I do.”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;we are being asked an open-ended, hypothetical question: “What if &lt;code&gt;______&lt;/code&gt; happened?”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;it is a rant disguised as a question: “&lt;code&gt;______&lt;/code&gt; sucks, am I right?”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, the question as written is an open-ended hypothetical discussion topic where every answer is equally valid. So, to get the question back into constructive territory, I recommend elaborating on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;why you think it corresponds to a real metal or alloy of metals&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the prerequisites of a correct answer; that is, what answer are you looking for?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;how it relates to understanding the book itself&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That last two points are key for meeting the &quot;practical, answerable&quot; and &quot;based on problems you actually face&quot; part of the guidelines. Obviously, when we're talking about Science Fiction and Fantasy, there aren't a whole lot of problems you actually face when asking a question here. Your job, unless your job is &lt;em&gt;awesome&lt;/em&gt;, doesn't ride on you knowing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1586/who-or-what-was-tom-bombadil&quot;&gt;who Tom Bombadil is&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/310/why-did-douglas-adams-pick-42-as-the-ultimate-answer&quot;&gt;why Douglas Adams picked 42 as the ultimate answer&lt;/a&gt;. But knowing the answer to those questions enriches one's understanding of the underlying works, and is the core &quot;problem&quot; every avid Science Fiction and Fantasy fan faces when enjoying those genres.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you can explain &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; knowing the answer to your question expands your understanding of Middle Earth or what Tolkien was trying to do, that'd definitely go a long way in my book to creating a question that's not only constructive, but really the best of what SciFi.SE has to offer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2011-07-23T08:53:19.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="661" CreationDate="2011-07-23T10:02:04.540" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can think of two ways to answer your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The SF writer's point of view: did the author choose mithril to have properties similar to a real-world material? I don't think Tolkien cared, he wasn't a hard SF writer. So there's nothing to say on that count.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The real world point of view: is there a real-world material that has the properties described by Tolkien? That's not an SF question, more of a materials physics question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, by this reasoning it might look like the question should be closed as off-topic rather than non-constructive, but I think the upshot is that your question fails to interest SF readers (in their capacity as SF readers). There's nothing to say on the topic that touches on SF expertise. In addition, “most closely” is a vague qualification, so there's a risk that answers would strike up a debate on who had the “closest” answer (didn't happen here, but could have).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(There's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://physics.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange site about physics&lt;/a&gt;, by the way, but while a question like “how to explain this (real!) material's properties” would be a good fit, a question like “what's a material with these properties” would not. &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/1423122#1423122&quot;&gt;Here's a Physics.SE moderator's opinion.&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:40:12.193" LastActivityDate="2011-07-23T10:02:04.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="665" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-07-23T12:39:23.323" Score="8" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answers for certain book-related questions on this site often lack citations for the original source. I want to improve that in my answers. Is there a convention already established for what info to include when referencing a book passage? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that this site is global so page numbers may not be appropriate, but some books like &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; do not contain numbered chapters so I am unsure how to point someone to an appropriate passage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1876" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2011-07-23T18:58:48.257" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Is there a citation convention for this site?" Tags="|discussion|citations|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="665" CreationDate="2011-07-23T18:39:05.583" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Other than linking to online documents there is no official citation system in the Stack network, unlike wikipedia.  You can however use some the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1777/what-html-tags-are-allowed&quot;&gt;limited html tags&lt;/a&gt; to approximate footer notes and what not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance,  &quot;Johnny said this&quot;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Awesome book by that one guy.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did this using the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags for sub and super text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry if this doesn't really answer the original question well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2011-07-23T18:39:05.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="665" CreationDate="2011-07-23T18:58:20.457" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/443/what-is-the-convention-for-linking-to-books&quot;&gt;We've discussed linking to books before&lt;/a&gt;, but as far as I can remember we haven't touched on how to cite a passage. On the topic of citing books, I would like to recommend two things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use the full name of the author and the full title of the work the first time you cite a work in a post (e.g. write “&lt;em&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/em&gt; by George R. R. Martin” once, and only then abbreviations such as ASoIaF and GRRM).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide a link for people who'd like more information about the work. I prefer &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; if applicable, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://imdb.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ISFDB&lt;/a&gt; as second choices.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For specific passages, when there aren't any chapter numbers, my best suggestion is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Give the page number and the total number of pages for your edition, e.g. “on page 42/224”.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Quote the first sentence of the first paragraph you're referring to. Quoting a passage helps people who have the book in a searchable electronic form (and that's everyone if the sentence can be found in Google Books or elsewhere on the web). Making it specifically the beginning of a paragraph helps people who're trying to locate the passage visually in a printed book.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Search the passage on &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Google Books&lt;/a&gt;. This sometimes gives you a link to the passage in context. Depending on what agreement Google has with the publisher, you might be find nothing at all, or just a few lines, or the surrounding page, or be able to browse around the passage.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Explain how to find the passage in relation with memorable events. (E.g. “after the death of Alice, the first time the viewpoint returns to Bob”.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2023-01-29T13:54:16.550" LastActivityDate="2011-07-23T18:58:20.457" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="668" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="669" CreationDate="2011-07-24T20:12:00.867" Score="3" ViewCount="702" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted this question, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackprinter.appspot.com/export?question=2024&amp;amp;format=HTML&amp;amp;service=scifi.stackexchange&amp;amp;linktohome=false&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Does any science-fiction handle the ethics of teleportation (&quot;kill and clone&quot;)?&lt;/a&gt; a long time ago and it was closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now it seems to have been deleted. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Why has this question been deleted?" Tags="|support|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="668" CreationDate="2011-07-24T22:40:57.910" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, closed questions are on the way to deletion. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/the-stack-overflow-question-lifecycle/&quot;&gt;Jeff's blog post on the Stack Overflow Question Lifecycle&lt;/a&gt; (excerpted, emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would you &lt;em&gt;delete&lt;/em&gt; a question? Isn’t closing it enough?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;(…)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If users see a lot of closed questions, they’ll note that we don’t enforce the guidelines, so why should they? Without any final resolution, asking questions that get closed becomes something we are implicitly encouraging — a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixing_Broken_Windows&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;broken windows&lt;/strong&gt; problem&lt;/a&gt;. If this goes on for long enough, we’re no longer a community of programmers who ask and answer programming questions, we’re a community of random people discussing.. whatever. That’s toxic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If enough of these closed questions are allowed to hang around, they become &lt;strong&gt;clutter&lt;/strong&gt; that reduces the overall signal to noise ratio — which further reduces confidence in the system.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On this site, we started out with a significant proportion of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16/are-list-questions-allowed&quot;&gt;“list questions”&lt;/a&gt; — questions asking for works on a certain theme. After &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=list+recommendation&quot;&gt;many discussions&lt;/a&gt; we eventually &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic&quot;&gt;decided&lt;/a&gt; not to allow them. We &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/411/culling-list-and-recommendation-questions&quot;&gt;closed the existing ones&lt;/a&gt;, and most have been deleted. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2024/does-any-science-fiction-handle-the-ethics-of-teleportation-kill-and-clone&quot;&gt;Your question&lt;/a&gt; was closed then deleted as part of that cleanup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking, questions are either desired and kept open, or undesired and deleted. &lt;strong&gt;The closed state is an intermediate stage&lt;/strong&gt; that's easier to reverse, as everyone can still browse and edit closed questions. If you think a question has been closed but shouldn't have, edit it to make it more acceptable, or start a discussion about it on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;meta site&lt;/a&gt;; you can also offer your opinion in a comment, or discuss it with others on &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/science-fiction-fantasy&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;. And if you have enough reputation (500; will become 3000 after the site graduates from the beta), you can vote to reopen it. As it can be difficult to gather the requisite 5 votes to reopen, don't hesitate to flag a question if you've made a significant improvement that you think justifies reopening (this doesn't guarantee that the question will be reopened; we prefer to apply our binding vote only to hasten cases where there's a community consensus on the desired outcome).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it becomes apparent that the question will not be reopened, it becomes ripe for deletion. Users with 2000 reputation (10000 after graduation) can vote to delete a question that's been closed for 2 days, and ♦ moderators can delete a question at any time; see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5221/what-can-cause-a-post-to-be-deleted-and-what-does-that-actually-mean&quot;&gt;deleted questions FAQ&lt;/a&gt; for more details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The various Stack Exchange sites differ in how aggressively they delete closed questions. I don't remember that we've discussed a deletion policy on this site. If you think we should keep closed questions around, you're welcome to start a discussion by advancing arguments for keeping them. (I personally think it's a bad idea for the reasons cited above.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2011-07-24T22:40:57.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="403" CreationDate="2011-07-27T08:16:16.697" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not yet completed, but the 3&lt;sup&gt;rd&lt;/sup&gt; edition of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Encyclopaedia of Science Fiction&lt;/a&gt; will be on-line and free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="204" LastActivityDate="2011-07-27T08:16:16.697" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-07-27T08:16:16.697" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="671" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-07-28T15:40:33.677" Score="24" ViewCount="590" Body="&lt;p&gt;If an identification question has an accepted answer, it would make sense to tag it with the author's name.  Or should we not tag it and leave it as a sort of trivia question for others?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="638" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2019-05-05T02:48:01.010" LastActivityDate="2019-05-05T02:48:01.010" Title="Should we tag (solved) story identification questions with the name of the author / property?" Tags="|discussion|tags|story-identification|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="671" CreationDate="2011-07-28T15:48:04.073" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, I don't think so. Not all story identification questions are resolved unambiguously, and sometimes the asker misremembered details. If you know the name of the author already, the question is often not interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tags on a question are tags that searchers might use. By definition, someone searching for an identification question does not know the name of the author. To retag the question would be counter-productive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would encourage using tags that reflect what themes the asker remembers, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4721/what-is-the-title-of-a-story-about-a-elevator-through-time-and-the-smallest-possi&quot;&gt;What is the title of a story about a elevator through time and the smallest possible change&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time-travel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time-travel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time-travel&lt;/a&gt; obviously, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/parallel-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;parallel-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;parallel-universe&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;(I'm not sure about that one — I put it in because it involves changing the timeline, but I can see the case against).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2013-02-25T11:16:29.460" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="671" CreationDate="2011-07-28T16:01:32.970" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll say Yes, because it would help in ordering the information after the question has been answered, as Dima pointed out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it might be an interesting metric later for figuring out what author has the least memorable titles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51" LastActivityDate="2011-07-28T16:01:32.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="671" CreationDate="2011-07-28T18:45:17.637" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to say that yes, providing that the answer is clearly proved to be the correct one (by an answer being accepted, for example). If there is any doubt, the the author's name should be excluded, until all doubt is removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="108" LastEditDate="2012-03-01T07:38:23.007" LastActivityDate="2012-03-01T07:38:23.007" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="675" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-07-30T19:36:26.640" Score="8" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2492/l8wrtr&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2492/l8wrtr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2496/l8wrtr&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2496/l8wrtr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the deal here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="317" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2011-07-30T20:11:32.797" Title="User with two ratings and pages for the same account?" Tags="|support|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="675" CreationDate="2011-07-30T20:11:24.843" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like a user who registered an account after losing the cookie for their first account. Good catch -- merged!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The correct way to register is to click the &quot;register&quot; link at the top of the page, but this does require you to hold the cookie for your unregistered account.. which can also be recovered by entering an email on the &quot;forgot login&quot; page.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101" LastActivityDate="2011-07-30T20:11:24.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="677" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="678" CreationDate="2011-07-30T21:45:35.113" Score="7" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question is: Why do they transport naked in time in Terminator universe? Does it ever explained in movies or tv serials?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Error is: It does not meet our quality standards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="452" LastActivityDate="2011-07-31T02:22:48.243" Title="Your system doesnt allow me to ask a question" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="677" CreationDate="2011-07-31T02:22:48.243" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;After playing around a bit, it seems like you get that error if you ask too short a question.  I'd suggest fleshing out the body of the question with more background detail.  Discuss how each of the time travelers in the Terminator movies and TV shows pop into existence in the past naked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2011-07-31T02:22:48.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="653" CreationDate="2011-07-31T18:14:27.077" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;To prevent 1 line answers, questions like this should be protected. Also, if it becomes apparent that they are going to have differences over time, and that the questions are going to accumulate 1 liners over time, the CW option should be considered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2011-07-31T18:14:27.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="680" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="681" CreationDate="2011-08-01T08:31:16.460" Score="4" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can read some deleted questions, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1924/why-the-name-shepard&quot;&gt;Why the name Shepard?&lt;/a&gt; but I don't know how to find a specific one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way of searching deleted questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="How can I find a specific deleted question?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="680" CreationDate="2011-08-01T12:13:31.073" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There isn't a way to search for deleted questions, except for diamond moderators. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/41130/can-we-have-an-isdeleted1-search-option-operator&quot;&gt;A request for the ability&lt;/a&gt; was marked &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt; unceremoniously and without comment on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A quick search there for discussion about making deleted questions more visible leads to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2645/show-all-of-my-question-answers-to-me-even-if-they-are-deleted/53297#53297&quot;&gt;a post by Jeff Atwood&lt;/a&gt; that indicates the lack of an easy way to find deleted questions is because questions are deleted for a reason, and it's not the goal to make them easier to be undeleted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Generally when things get deleted, it's for a good reason, and we don't want users to be undeleting them -- there's a reason we require 10k rep to &quot;see&quot; deleted items at all, and only moderators can see deletions in a user's profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in response to a comment clarifying it's not about making it easier to undelete questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;it would lead to unbelievable amounts of whining. Will not get implemented as long as I am still alive to prevent it from happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2011-08-01T19:35:04.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="680" CreationDate="2011-08-01T19:34:27.530" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Users with at least 2000 reputation (10k after the site leaves beta) can see deleted posts. Only ♦ moderators can search deleted questions, or view them in user profiles. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/680/how-can-i-find-a-specific-deleted-question/681#681&quot;&gt;Mark Trapp's answer&lt;/a&gt; explains why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can often find a deleted question by searching on Google. You're likely to find at least a link to the question, if not the question itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those questions that were closed as part of the “culling of list questions”, the list is still visible in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/411/4&quot;&gt;this question's history&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2011-08-01T19:34:27.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="683" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-08-03T00:17:02.323" Score="18" ViewCount="936" Body="&lt;p&gt;Books and movies intended for children very often contain fantasy elements. They are typically not considered part of the fantasy genre, but rather part of the specific “for children” genre. Does this make them on-topic or off-topic for this site? Where do we draw the line, if any?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This meta question was triggered by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4803/which-tiny-toons-episode-has-the-characters-producing-their-own-serious-film&quot;&gt;this question about a children's cartoon&lt;/a&gt;, which was eventually closed as off-topic by community vote and is now deleted. Its title was “Which Tiny Toons episode has the characters producing their own serious film?”, with some reasonable story identification elements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the relevant limit in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/ISFDB:Policy#Contents.2FProject_Scope_Policy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ISFDB scope&lt;/a&gt; as a guideline (which isn't an obligation, we can go our own way): they exclude&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;animal books for very young children, i.e. books for preschoolers which depict simple scenes from animal life featuring anthropomorphized animals&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(quoted here as a possibility that we don't have to follow)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2023-01-29T13:54:16.550" LastActivityDate="2022-07-13T14:00:11.770" Title="Are children's literature and cartoons for children on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="683" CreationDate="2011-08-03T01:03:17.507" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to say that unless the show was seriously sci-fi/fantasy (Dungeons and Dragons comes to mind), then it should not be on topic. If it's merely creative creatures, even if they exhibit unusual abilities, it shouldn't be on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the other concern that will no doubt be raised, of comic-themed cartoons, I think those should be allowed, for now. It's not the best fit, but as almost all comic book heros are either mutants, genetically engineered, aliens, robots, or people with some futuristic technology, all of which would easily be covered in this site, I say it's on topic, at least until such time that there is a better place for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2011-08-03T01:03:17.507" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="683" CreationDate="2011-08-03T01:04:58.063" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the line is pretty straightforward: would a serious fan of the science fiction or fantasy genres consider spending any amount of effort digging into the details of a children's cartoon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is yes, it's on-topic. If the answer is no, it's off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm willing to bet the farm, in the case of Tiny Toons, the answer is no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One should take care to not compare this to potentially on-topic animated features, like anime or licensed films based on comic book characters: both enjoy a following within the respective communities and in many cases are designed to appeal to more than just children, but to adults invested in the genres the animated features are set in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But putting aside the genre question for a moment: how is &quot;what episode had X?&quot; interesting? Isn't that covered by any episode list and shouldn't it be closed as general reference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastActivityDate="2011-08-03T01:04:58.063" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="686" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-08-04T17:20:26.013" Score="4" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm rather confused as to why my most recent &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4842/can-a-work-be-both-science-fiction-and-fantasy&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; is being voted to be closed. Even some of the answers are saying it will be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do questions HAVE to be about specific sci-fi/fantasy works? I read the FAQ's and I don't think my question fits into the &quot;What questions should not be asked?&quot; section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2011-08-04T20:14:11.797" Title="Are questions about science fiction/fantasy itself not considered on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="686" CreationDate="2011-08-04T17:33:53.553" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about the various genres are on topic provided that they aren't asking for lists, recommendations, identification of a work's genre, or aren't general reference questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Always consider how interesting a question is and how common answers will be when asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sitting back and letting the community decide if your question is too general reference or not. But considering there is a sub genre called &quot;Sci-Fantasy&quot; in common use, I'd suspect your question will be closed eventually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51" LastActivityDate="2011-08-04T17:33:53.553" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="686" CreationDate="2011-08-04T20:14:11.797" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Earlier in the beta, we found that questions about subgenres of SF were invariably of two kinds:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions involving determining whether a particular work is in a particular genre. These are useless because no two people agree on the definition of a genre.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions asking for a definition of a particular genre. Wikipedia is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;——→ that way&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic&quot;&gt;tried to come up with criteria for acceptable questions&lt;/a&gt;, one of our most agreed-against topic was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic/362#362&quot;&gt;questions about genre classification&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://writers.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/144/are-what-genre-is-this-questions-on-topic&quot;&gt;Writers Stack Exchange came to the same conclusion&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer to your &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/4842/1&quot;&gt;original question&lt;/a&gt; (“can a work be both science fiction and fantasy?”) is yes, there are works that at least some people would classify in both (there are even works that the author deliberately made borderline). (Speculative fiction is a highly prolific genre, the answer to “is there a work that has characteristic X” is always yes.) The answer to your &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/4842/2&quot;&gt;revised question&lt;/a&gt; is purely a matter of terminology; whether someone chooses to give a meaning to the term “Scifi-Fantasy” or not does not make for an interesting discussion, therefore asking about the term's applicability is a subjective and argumentative question (of little interest to boot).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2011-08-04T20:14:11.797" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="689" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-08-06T00:44:27.017" Score="8" ViewCount="481" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a “general reference” &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq#close&quot;&gt;close reason&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question is too basic; it can be definitively and permanently answered by a single link to a standard internet reference source designed specifically to find that type of information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What sites are considered standard internet reference sources? At the moment, our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/403/what-are-standard-internet-reference-sites-for-sf&quot;&gt;community FAQ on general references&lt;/a&gt; states that Wikipedia, IMDB and ISFDB are general reference sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about per-universe wikis such as Memory Alpha, Wookiepedia, L-Space, …? Are some of these sufficiently well-known and sufficiently reliable to be considered general reference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This question is intended for discussion. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/403/what-are-standard-internet-reference-sites-for-sf&quot;&gt;companion FAQ question&lt;/a&gt; is intended as a presentation for casual visitors.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2011-08-07T15:41:08.340" Title="What sites should be considered general references?" Tags="|discussion|general-reference|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="689" CreationDate="2011-08-06T01:23:00.713" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Part of the reason this site needs to exist is because of the fragmentary nature of sources for information on SF&amp;amp;F. I, personally, agonize over closures that are general reference for this very reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We should only consider as general reference questions that can be easily answered by typing all or part of the question into Google.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I continually see questions here that are housed on Wikipedia, but that aren't found by asking Google. If there were only one alternative source - or even only 5 - for finding the information we could be justified in considering something that is easy to find on that source itself as general reference, but if Google can't find the answer for you it may be impossible given your limited knowledge to find it elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it is really hard to find something that, given the right words, would be easy to find. Finding where to start with Dr Who might be really easy if you knew about the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/4842/51&quot;&gt;Dr Who wiki&lt;/a&gt;. And, as a nice recent example,If you know about the Science Fantasy genre, it is really easy to answer this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/4842/51&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/4842/51&lt;/a&gt; but Google is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=Can+a+work+be+both+science+fiction+and+fantasy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;surprisingly unhelpful&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What seems obvious to me, may be entirely obfuscated to someone else. Which is exactly the point of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we need to lower our standards. We should deter the use of our site AS a search engine, but we should encourage the use of our site as a hub for locating sources and as a gateway to the world of Speculative Fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It goes beyond the focus of this discussion, but other ways we could improve our stance and reduce redundancy are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Link to the various universe-specific wikis and sites on that universe/series tag wiki.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Routinely use those sites as linked references, helping to improve their rank on Google.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Being tolerant of &quot;stupid questions&quot; that may not be all that stupid from an outsider's perspective.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adding comments and improving answers with rephrasing of a question or important searchable details that will allow the question to appear on a wider variety of searches, thus reducing re-asking.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Added the Flowchart Jeff mentions in the comments, because it is helpful:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rqvr7.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2011-08-06T02:39:49.477" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="689" CreationDate="2011-08-06T03:27:11.300" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't get too carried away with this &amp;quot;General Reference&amp;quot; close reason. It's not about &amp;quot;WHICH BOOKS SHALL YE NOT QUOTE HERE?!&amp;quot; — It's about common sense and offering a close reason for those times when you just want to yell &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;Go look it up!&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; when the proverbial 12-year-old asks, &amp;quot;How do you spell 'trivia' ?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the fears of deploying this close-as-reference tool is arming users with a mission to close &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; questions that even vaguely fit that definition. We don't want users to seek out and close questions if posts are useful, canonical answers to the question simply because there is a close reason for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there's a point where anyone with 15 minutes experience on the Internet should know that a word can be defined in a dictionary, the author of a book can be found on Amazon, and a discussion about &amp;quot;What is Fantasy?&amp;quot; can be found on Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't suggest &lt;em&gt;literally&lt;/em&gt; compiling a list of &amp;quot;standard references&amp;quot; because the last thing I want to see is a FAQ entry which says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do not allow questions covered in the following texts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;The Star Trek Compendium&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;Wookieepedia&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;The TARDIS Index Wiki on Dr. Who&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;The Unexpurgated Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Volume 1-47&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;…&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;…&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;The Pompous Collection of Trivia You Should Already Know If You're a 'Real' Sci-Fi Fan.&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an ideal world, we'd love to have &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; possible question regarding science fiction on this site. But as a pragmatic matter, this site has to remain relevant and entertaining to the experts who come here to answer questions. If they're left feeling &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Holly cow! Why are you wasting my time?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;, this site will ultimately fail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the genesis of the &amp;quot;Standard Reference&amp;quot; close reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So consider the &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Just look it up!&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; acid test. If you really, truly feel that the question author should &lt;em&gt;already&lt;/em&gt; know where to find the answer — If a lazy asker obviously has not spent even 10 seconds trying to &amp;quot;just look it up&amp;quot; — that's when you break out the [close as reference] reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2011-08-06T22:01:29.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="689" CreationDate="2011-08-06T13:06:04.553" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me a general reference is &lt;strong&gt;not only about the site that could answer it&lt;/strong&gt;, it's about the nature of the question. When the question &lt;strong&gt;is the only subject of an article&lt;/strong&gt; (Who is X, What is Y), the answer to the question &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; a single link, that fully, completely and easily answer the question. &lt;strong&gt;We don't want to repeat the content of those universe-specific wikis in this site&lt;/strong&gt;, so it should be closed as a general reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions like &quot;What is the Force in Star Wars?&quot; or &quot;Who is Jean-Luc Picard?&quot; are obvious &lt;strong&gt;and extreme&lt;/strong&gt; examples, but I think it could apply to question like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4830/who-was-sifo-dyas&quot;&gt;Who was Sifo-Dyas?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update :&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The other argument about those question is about the purpose of the site. This is not a encyclopedia, this is a question and answer site. As I said, questions like &quot;What is the Force in Star Wars?&quot; or &quot;Who is Jean-Luc Picard?&quot; are extreme example, the answer to those hypothetical questions &lt;strong&gt;would be encyclopedic information&lt;/strong&gt;. Same thing for &quot;Who was Sifo-Dyas?&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Gilles noted in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/1551003#1551003&quot;&gt;the chat we had&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Davrob60&lt;/strong&gt; : The problem with this particular question is that it was possible to answer it with a single cut and paste from that site. that was about nothing to add or remove.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Gilles&lt;/strong&gt; : But your answer is not that! [...] That's sort-of explained in the Behind the scenes” section of the Wookieepedia article, but your answer says it much more clearly &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The counter argument of this is that should edit the Wookieepedia article to include my &quot;improvement&quot;. I don't think having complementary information in tow place improve anything.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, nothing guaranty that there won't be article in Wikipedia for any character in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_characters&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;List of Star Wars characters&lt;/a&gt;; and I could create one right now for Sifo-Dyas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2011-08-07T15:41:08.340" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="689" CreationDate="2011-08-06T15:00:25.827" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;My take on this is that &lt;strong&gt;Google should not be used as a tool to determine whether a question is a legitimate Stack Exchange question&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I want to know the meaning of an English word, I'm not going to look it up on Google, I'm going to reach for an English dictionary. If the word is too obscure for my dictionary, or if none of the definitions make sense in the context where I found the word, then I'll reach for other tools. Ok, so I google, and I find that according to www.urbandictionary.com it means “penis”. Hmm, maybe I'd better ask on &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;English Language &amp;amp; Usage&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I want to know who a science fiction character is, I'll first look it up on Wikipedia, under the character's name or failing that under the name of the work where this character appears. If I don't find what I want, I'll try Google, and I might find a per-universe wiki. But the per-universe wikis are not always satisfactory:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If I haven't heard of that wiki site beforehand, how do I know whether it's reliable?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many per-universe wikis are written with an &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_%28writing_about_fiction%29#The_problem_with_in-universe_perspective&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;in-universe perspective&lt;/a&gt;. If you are not a fan of that universe, they are hard to follow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think general reference should be reserved for information that is easily found on a reference site that should be known to any user in our target audience. Wikipedia and IMDB fit the bill, per-universe wikis don't. I'm on the fence about ISFDB: on the one hand, it's a reference site, and I don't want this site to be cluttered with “in what collection can I read short story X?”; on the other hand, ISFDB isn't that well-known, even amongst SF fans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:38:09.780" LastActivityDate="2011-08-06T15:00:25.827" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="694" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="695" CreationDate="2011-08-08T18:44:12.070" Score="-7" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to suggest a new tag: &lt;strong&gt;in-universe-explanation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There seem to be a lot of questions asking for an in-universe explanation as to why something happened. I think this could cover a lot of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before I started retagging questions, I'd like to check whether this community thinks it is a good idea, and if they'd be willing to help add this tag to existing questions and new ones as they arrive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Examples&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4820&quot;&gt;There is always an exterior light shining onto the ship in every Star Trek; where does this light source come from?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4845&quot;&gt;What keeps a lightsaber from going on infinitely?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3172&quot;&gt;Where does Q technology come from and where did it orginate?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4659&quot;&gt;What happened to Optimus Prime's trailer when he transformed into a robot?&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;em&gt;I added it to this question of mine&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T12:34:04.470" Title="Suggested new tag: in-universe-explanation" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="694" CreationDate="2011-08-08T23:18:50.650" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why would there be a tag for in-universe explanations? Most questions don't specifically call for an in-universe or a meta explanation, so the answers give both. Either all the questions that ask for some kind of in-universe explanation should have it (too much), or only the questions that exclusively require in-universe explanations should have it (useless).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see that a tag for questions that call for some in-universe explanation could be useful in searches, and ditto for a tag for meta explanations. However, since many questions gather answers with some of both (I think, I haven't made any statistics), there wouldn't be many questions without these tags (except when someone forgot to put them in). So they wouldn't carry much useful information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, no, I don't see the point: it's useless if applied properly, and useless if not applied properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2011-08-08T23:18:50.650" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="698" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-08-09T21:38:31.843" Score="5" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you also frequent Gaming.SE, then you are probably already familiar with me. If not, you can check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2508/who-is-brett-white-and-why-is-he-a-moderator&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; and also forge ahead with your reading eyes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My name is Brett and I'm a member of CHAOS, Stack Exchange's new community evangelism and outreach team. Our main goal is to make the sites more fun and awesome for you and this growing community. I'm going to also help with some site maintenance, mostly just editing the titles of questions on the home page every morning and afternoon to make sure they are complete sentences full of grammatical goodness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone has any suggestions for how to make this community more awesome, with contests, promotional events, merchandise, etc, please let me know. I'll be around!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm very excited to be a part of this community. And I will continue to provide ridiculously detailed answers to any and all Marvel Comics questions that come our way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:32:35.867" LastActivityDate="2011-08-10T18:24:08.653" Title="Who is Brett White?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="699" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-08-09T23:05:57.047" Score="7" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just going over the list of tags, and noticed that there are both 'novel' and 'novels' tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to merge these into one? 'Novels' is more popular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possibly related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/62/tags-novel-or-book&quot;&gt;Tags: Novel or Book?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="373" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2011-08-10T00:51:15.037" Title="Novel and novels tags" Tags="|support|status-completed|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="699" CreationDate="2011-08-09T23:12:52.507" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderators can merge tags. I've just merged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novels&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novels&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novels&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; which &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/1581012#1581012&quot;&gt;was prefered by 100% of the people on chat at the time&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, if there's a community consensus that two tags are synonyms and should be merged, a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/about#moderators&quot;&gt;moderator&lt;/a&gt; will do it (and if we forget or miss it, ping one of us here on meta, or on chat). For a singular/plural pair, it's obvious that they're synonyms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators cannot mass-delete a tag. Developers can, but if there are only a few instances, they can be removed by hand. Developers can also blacklist a tag, preventing them from being ever added to a question, if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2011-08-10T00:51:03.193" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="698" CreationDate="2011-08-10T16:29:45.710" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If anyone has any suggestions for how to make this community more awesome, with contests, promotional events, merchandise, etc, please let me know. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe we could Put &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DefaceOfTheMoon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a scifi.stackexchang add on the moon&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gnol evil Bulgroz!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2011-08-10T16:29:45.710" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="698" CreationDate="2011-08-10T18:24:08.653" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really don't like prefixing titles of identification questions with “Can you identify this book about”. It's redundant with the tags, and doesn't flow naturally, in addition to being extremely verbose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2011-08-10T18:24:08.653" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="703" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-08-12T09:56:34.707" Score="19" ViewCount="362" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've got something really interesting that I'd love to write about for the site blog.  How do I go about getting my work there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2011-08-29T18:37:31.367" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T19:56:07.910" Title="How do I contribute to the blog?" Tags="|discussion|faq|blog|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="703" CreationDate="2011-08-12T10:08:43.377" Score="7" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Technical details&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anyone is welcome to contribute - whether you've been using the site for a long time or short, have a lot of rep or not.  If you're known around these parts, you're likely to get more autonomy quickly, but we're happy to receive content from anyone.  (This doesn't mean there's no quality control; we don't guarantee that everything received will go on the site).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You will need to &lt;a href=&quot;http://thesffblog.com/wp-login.php?action=register&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;sign up for an account&lt;/a&gt; on the blog (note: the blog site is not affiliated directly with Stack Exchange; it is owned and maintained by community members.). This does require an email that the blog administrators can see.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Contact one of the blog administrators (currently: @JackBNimble or @KutuluMike) in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;, or use &lt;a href=&quot;http://thesffblog.com/contribute/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this web form&lt;/a&gt; to let us know you want to contribute.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you'd like to contribute regularly, then we'll set you up with a &quot;Contributor&quot; account (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/101978/whats-the-difference-between-an-editor-author-and-contributor-on-blog-overflow&quot;&gt;here for an explanation of the account types&lt;/a&gt;), so that you can &lt;a href=&quot;http://thesffblog.com/wp-admin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;go into the site&lt;/a&gt; and do the writing yourself. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you're just thinking of a one-off piece, at least at first, we're happy to accept this via email rather than force you to have an account on the blog site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The blog content is licensed under an &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Attribution, Share-alike Creative Commons license&lt;/a&gt;.  If you write anything for the site, you're agreeing to license it under those terms (copyright remains yours, of course).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T19:54:47.253" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="703" CreationDate="2011-08-12T10:16:02.333" Score="6" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Writing style&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You don't need to have perfect English (there's no problem if English isn't your first language, for example), as long as you know your sci-fi/fantasy.  The editors will be happy to help you with proofreading and/or putting your post together. Please tell us (@JackBNimble or @randal'thor, in chat) if you've written a post and want it proofread.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In general, we prefer medium-length posts.  This doesn't mean that a really long review, critique or opinion isn't welcome, but they shouldn't be the norm.  Likewise, we're not a &quot;link roll&quot;, so we don't want the majority of posts to be a link with a single sentence, either.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Write in the first-person.  We want your personal take here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Where appropriate, link to scifi.stackexchange.com.  For example, if you're talking about Harry Potter, link to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; tag page.  If you're linking to a tag (rather than a specific question or answer), then you can use the tag &quot;shortcode&quot; to generate a tag that looks like this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;, by writing this: &lt;code&gt;[tag]star-wars[/tag]&lt;/code&gt; (the link to the page will be generated along with the appropriate image).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Try an include an image in your post, if you can think of something appropriate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep the language clean; it's fine to be passionate, but find other ways to express your passion; follow &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/716/is-fictional-profanity-allowed-here&quot;&gt;the general policy for the site&lt;/a&gt;.  This includes obfuscating b*d w@rds, and generally includes &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frak_%28expletive%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;genre&lt;/a&gt;-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=frell&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;specific&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profanity_in_science_fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;variants&lt;/a&gt;; use your own judgement when using direct quotes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Posts are all in English (as with all questions and answers on the main site), although there's nothing wrong with throwing in words or phrases from other languages (including fictional ones).  It's up to the poster which dialect of English is used (e.g. UK English, US English, Australian English), so this may differ across posts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2016-03-12T15:18:53.750" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="706" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="707" CreationDate="2011-08-12T15:30:25.073" Score="6" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;I flagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4459/can-someone-help-identify-an-old-ish-fantasy-novel-about-magicians-that-have-a-ch/4927#4927&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; answer to the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4459/can-someone-help-identify-an-old-ish-fantasy-novel-about-magicians-that-have-a-ch/&quot;&gt;Can someone help identify an old-ish fantasy novel about magicians that have a characteristic animal form?&lt;/a&gt; earlier as &lt;strong&gt;&quot;not an answer&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; as I felt that an answer to a (story identification) question which the answerer starts with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I know it isn't the right books&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and then continues on to describe a book which has similar concepts but is (as the answerer admits) not the book that the question is asking after.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite clearly fits the definition of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This was posted as an answer, but it does not answer the question. It&#xA;  should possibly be an edit, a comment, another question, or deleted&#xA;  altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I mistaken?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1651" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2011-08-12T19:22:38.907" Title="When is an answer not an answer?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="706" CreationDate="2011-08-12T16:00:26.993" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree it works better as a comment on the post and I have converted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, be sure that you're being gentle with new users who show some reasonable potential -- leave lots of comments explaining what they should be doing. Otherwise, we're turning off users and stunting the site's growth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101" LastActivityDate="2011-08-12T16:00:26.993" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="708" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-08-12T17:14:09.323" Score="14" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;h2&gt;UPDATE :&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the site has graduated and the user count increased, there is no need to &lt;em&gt;artificially&lt;/em&gt; create popular questions. As I predicted before :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Once we reach the critical mass, those question will be generated naturally by users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we reach the critical mass, as we saw recently with the post credit scenes questions. Though, it's still good the have incentive to make sure we are the first to get those question on new stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here my reasoning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We get new users with '&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/48/popular-question&quot;&gt;Popular Question&lt;/a&gt;', and we keep them with '&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/46/nice-question&quot;&gt;Nice Question&lt;/a&gt;'/'&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/45/nice-answer&quot;&gt;Nice Answer&lt;/a&gt;'.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A nice question is a clever question that tends to get lots of attention when it shows up in the main page. It usually shows up in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Hot question Stack exchange list&lt;/a&gt; and typically gets a huge boost of views in a short time, but then slows down to almost no views, like a logarithmic curve.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A popular question is less clever, but it's something that the lambda user is more prone to ask. Those questions won't necessarily get a huge boost of views at first, but they constantly get views. Days after days, after days, like a linear function.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I came to that conclusion after seeing what was happening to one of my own questions : &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/4610/45&quot;&gt;Why did Harry Potter intentionally lose the Resurrection Stone in the Forbidden Forest?&lt;/a&gt; . In fact, this question was inspired by a comment by gunbuster363 on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4602/was-harry-potter-killed-and-then-brought-back-to-life/4605#4605&quot;&gt;Was Harry Potter killed and then brought back to life?&lt;/a&gt; I knew the answer, but I did not have the time to properly answer the comment. Anyway, that led to my most &quot;famous&quot; question to date and it's still constantly getting views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, although those views came from Google users that simply type the question and land on our site, it led me to ask the first other obvious Harry Potter question I could think of : &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4805/&quot;&gt;Why did Harry Potter break the Elder Wand?&lt;/a&gt; as an experiment to prove my theories -- and it worked! This question is also constantly getting its share of views, slower than the previous, but still at a decent rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we need more questions like this. They would lead to better visibility for the site and and more users. But I don't know where to start. For example, if I type &quot;does Harry Potter&quot; in Google, it suggests thing like &quot;does Harry Potter die&quot; and &quot;does Harry Potter kill Voldemort&quot;, but I have no idea how often those question are asked through Google. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XbMjO.png&quot; alt=&quot;harry potter google query&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know how to get those numbers, or any other way to get more Popular Question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update :&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;After reading some of your answers, I think I need to be more precise why we need more &quot;Popular Questions&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, the site didn't reach is critical mass. If we look at the Area 51 metrics, the 2 main sections on which we need to improve are &lt;code&gt;questions per day&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;visits/day&lt;/code&gt;. I think we already attracted a solid base of core users who could amazingly answer the questions that are asked right now. What we need is more questions from newbies. But to attract those newbies, I think we need more &quot;Popular Questions&quot;. Once we reach the critical mass, those question will be generated naturally by users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also the fact that for almot all ours users, scifi.stackexchange is not their first account on the network. We need to diversify our recruitment sources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Google's auto-complete was just the first thing I thought of to find those questions. And I dont think we should seed the site with question like &quot;Does Harry Potter die in the last movie?&quot;. I just think that a quick look on popular search queries that include some of our topics could lead to good questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's the same when you browse the Hot question list. There are always those questions that &quot;I always wondered why , but I never thought of asking.&quot; (For me, programmers.stackexchange is specially good at this).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2012-07-11T15:58:09.577" Title="How can we get more &quot;Popular Questions&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="708" CreationDate="2011-08-12T17:33:07.417" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would not think of this in terms of &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Let me find popular Google searches and go out of my way to ask arbitrary questions about those topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not genuine. At that point &lt;a href=&quot;http://thewrap.com/media/column-post/jay-rosen-content-farms-demand-media-not-evil-still-demonic-19027&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;you're borderline evil, like Demand Media&lt;/a&gt;. (However, if you do have a real, honest-to-goodness question about a topic that just &lt;em&gt;happens&lt;/em&gt; to be searched for a lot in Google, that's great, as it will help lots of other people. But the question and its quality has to come first, not the desire for fame or notoriety.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather, I suggest thinking of this in terms of &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can we can improve &lt;em&gt;existing&lt;/em&gt; question titles to better match what people with this same question would be searching for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't hesitate to edit the questions to make them &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt; at any time. A good, proper title is a huge part of that!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101" LastEditorUserId="101" LastEditDate="2011-08-12T17:40:23.383" LastActivityDate="2011-08-12T17:40:23.383" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="708" CreationDate="2011-08-12T18:11:27.690" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The real trick is to ask something that is nowhere-to-be-found online. I'm not saying the Harry Potter questions weren't good. They were, and do capitalize on what people wanted to know right then. They also got better answers than the pre-existing questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what really justifies the site are questions that have never been well-answered before. And there are tons of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those are the ones that get the most views ultimately, like my own &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2642/reading-order-for-heinleins-world-as-myth-books&quot;&gt;Reading Order for Heinlein&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;World as Myth&amp;quot; Books&lt;/a&gt;. Which currently has about 2600 views, answer a question that doesn't have any answers anywhere else online. (Which is why I asked it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is in no way the ideal, but it satisfies that requirement. And considering it is about a very niche topic, it is amazing that it has gotten so many views. Imagine if we had never-answered-before questions about Harry Potter, or Dr Who, or any of our other big topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's how we both increase our exposure AND add a ton of value to the internet. That's how we justify our existence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2011-08-12T18:11:27.690" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="706" CreationDate="2011-08-12T19:22:38.907" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I consider this a borderline case. I hesitated, but decided leaving it as an answer because there hasn't been a plausible answer and the asker might be conflating two books. So in this sense, it's a tentative, partial answer. I'm inclined to be more tolerant of weak answers on identification questions, because far-fetched guesses do sometimes turn out to be right. I can see the case for keeping this in a comment too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2011-08-12T19:22:38.907" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="712" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-08-12T19:47:20.427" Score="4" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rendering of spoilers on beta sites doesn't completely hide the text on Google Chrome 14.0.835.35 beta (Linux). It doesn't happen under previous Chrome versions (13 and below).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4431/what-is-the-background-of-gods-demon-by-wayne-barlowe&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6eDoi.png&quot; alt=&quot;What is the background of God&amp;#39;s Demon by Wayne Barlowe?&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no idea whether this can be fixed in the Stack Exchange styling or it's a bug in Chrome or if it can be tuned in a user script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2011-08-13T06:17:56.970" Title="Spoiler markup doesn't completely hide the text in Chrome 14" Tags="|support|spoilers|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="712" CreationDate="2011-08-13T06:17:56.970" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Need I remind you that we officially do not support beta and unreleased browsers? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is still an issue when Chrome 14 is released, let us know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101" LastActivityDate="2011-08-13T06:17:56.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="714" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="746" CreationDate="2011-08-13T09:17:39.680" Score="4" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This post is now scheduled to go out in one week's time (September 8th), so please suggest anything great that you've seen before then!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the semi-regular posts for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; is a focus on a question that exemplifies the sort of questions we'd love to see more like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question doesn't have to be one that has had a lot of views, although that might be a good indicator (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/47/notable-question&quot;&gt;questions that gained the notable badge&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=views:1000&quot;&gt;via searching&lt;/a&gt;). Please post any question that you feel is worthy and explain why. Try not to promote your own questions or answers for publicity's sake. The question doesn't have to be one asked recently - it can be any open question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/645/question-of-the-week-1&quot;&gt;suggestions from last time&lt;/a&gt; (other than the accepted answer, obviously) can definitely be suggested again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Standard voting answers, please: one suggestion per answer, and if you like a suggestion then vote it up (if you want to elaborate, add a comment or edit the existing answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm using &quot;of the week&quot; in the title here, but that's to catch attention more than anything else. It's not clear whether we have the volume yet to have a featured question every week, so the frequency will likely be lower than that.  Exactly what the frequency will be isn't clear yet :)).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2011-09-01T01:35:35.820" Title="Question of the Week #2" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="715" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-08-13T20:47:25.617" Score="5" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/StackSciFi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;StackScifi Twitter account&lt;/a&gt; incorrectly detects great answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/#!/StackSciFi/status/102445197442547712&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Great answer: Which Game of Thrones books have been televised as of September 2011? &lt;a href=&quot;http://t.co/kkllt7g&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://t.co/kkllt7g&lt;/a&gt; #asongoficeandfire&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A great answer requires a score &gt; 100, and we &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/40/great-answer&quot;&gt;don't have any yet&lt;/a&gt; (we do have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/39/good-answer&quot;&gt;many good answers&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is the Twitter account having a different definition of &quot;great&quot; than badges do, then IMO that's confusing, and it would be better to use the same names in both places (the above answer only has 5 votes, so it's not even a &quot;good&quot; answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Twitter bot incorrectly tweets answers that aren't &quot;great&quot;" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="716" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-08-13T21:27:28.953" Score="18" ViewCount="299" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many examples of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profanity_in_science_fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;profanity in science fiction&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/22232/are-expletives-allowed-on-se-sites&quot;&gt;Jeff has said that real-world expletives are not allowed on any StackExchange site&lt;/a&gt; (presumably including bowdlerized versions, since the question has such as an example), although his answer appears to be regarding using these words as insults (insults in general are not ok, of course), or as emphasis.  These words &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/87/using-asterisks-as-in-fuck-or-fck&quot;&gt;are permitted&lt;/a&gt; in technical discussion on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;English Language &amp;amp; Usage&lt;/a&gt; site, and there may be other site-specific exceptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it permissible to use fictional-language profanity on this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it acceptable in direct quotations, or do those need to be censored?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it acceptable to ask questions about these words? (e.g. &quot;What is the origin of ****?&quot;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it acceptable to simply use these words in questions/answers? (e.g. &quot;This is the ****ing best example of modern science fiction&quot;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:38:09.780" LastActivityDate="2017-11-03T03:40:55.960" Title="Is fictional profanity allowed here?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="715" CreationDate="2011-08-13T21:38:08.577" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This does not &lt;em&gt;literally&lt;/em&gt; mean &quot;Great Answer&quot; as in the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the context of Twitter, it means an answer with score +3 or better. &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/#!/StackGardening/status/102358797540012034&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Another example&lt;/a&gt;. (at +4 now because I upvoted it, but at the time...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the complete 'spec' of what gets tweeted, we do a few new things now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/92235/would-allowing-moderators-to-update-their-stack-exchange-sites-twitter-accounts/101340#101340&quot;&gt;Would allowing moderators to update their Stack Exchange sites&amp;#39; Twitter accounts improve visibility and offer more value?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2011-08-13T21:56:33.410" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="716" CreationDate="2011-08-13T23:03:10.703" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't see why not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The arguments against real profanity are kind of nebulous, a sort of constant moral panic that has lasted centuries.  Mostly people are afraid of their kids being looked down upon after they pick up swearing (which all kids ultimately do).  The main problem here is that it turns off certain users IMO, and drives them away from the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:   Shog9 points out that filtering proxies might start blocking the site, and thus must be Stack Exchange's primary motivation for outlawing swearing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I can't see why fictional profanity shouldn't be readily discussed.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;h3&gt;In Science Fiction, fictional profanity provides a trope for mankind to discuss society's relationship with swearing and the nature of swearing, without actually swearing.&lt;/h3&gt;  To outlaw fictional profanity would be ironic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-11-02T08:35:52.587" LastActivityDate="2017-11-02T08:35:52.587" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="716" CreationDate="2011-08-14T04:47:43.313" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think the first two are ok, and the latter not.  If it's a quote from a work, then it's likely that anyone reading the question/answer is familiar with the language of that work, and it's acceptable to them.  If it's a technical discussion, then it should be ok, just as the English words are ok on english.stackexchange.com (potentially even the English ones would be acceptable here when used in a technical answer regarding the fictional-language ones).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see how there's any benefit in allowing their use as English profanity replacements.  It seems like a &quot;cheat&quot; to allow &quot;frak&quot;, but not allow the bowdlerized version of the English version (or presumably translations into other real-world languages).  This potentially works around filtering services, but with the words that have spread outside of their origin (like &quot;frak&quot;) there is a moderate chance that they are included in the filter as well (I've seen ones that do, and ones that don't).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO if you have a point to make, then there are sufficient words in English to make it without having to resort to profanity, whether in English or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-08-14T04:47:43.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="554" CreationDate="2011-08-14T05:54:45.097" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's perhaps too twee, but the Starfleet logo shape could possibly be used for the up/down vote shapes (like bicycles.se has road sign shapes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hst0D.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Starfleet lgoo&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-08-14T05:54:45.097" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="721" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-08-15T16:13:36.363" Score="6" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apologies for the possibly editable title. I'm about to propose a LOT of promotional grant ideas, so I want them to be easily identifiable. I want to give you guys free stuff!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DC Comics is relaunching their entire superhero universe this September with 52 new #1 issues, designed to be jumping on points for new readers due to either being rebooted completely (Superman, Wonder Woman) or streamlined (Batman, Green Lantern). You can read more about it &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_DC_Universe_reboot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. This relaunch coincides with the company's big digital comics push; every comic book will be released simultaneously in both a print and digital edition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am proposing that a limited number of our users, based on their rep, receive from Stack Exchange all 52 #1 issues in either digital or physical form. The person(s) who receive these 52 will generate a TBD number questions and blog content about the DC relaunch. A few notes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure completely sure if physical copies is doable. Ideally we want you to get your hands on them the day they are released in order to get content up as quickly as possible. Comic books have to be ordered months in advance and subscriptions to physical copies are notoriously late. Because of this, we might have to take advantage of the ol' Digital Revolution. If purchasing a gift card from your local comic store so you can use it to buy the new 52 is preferable (believe me, I understand the power of the physical copy), then that can most likely be arranged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Based on the interest of the community and whether or not I can get DC Comics to contribute to this project (I haven't reached out to my DC contacts yet as user interest will determine if I need to), I don't know how many people we can give this to. I would like to do this for at least two users. If more than one user is selected, it will be the ones with the highest reputation points at a TBD time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really hope this is sounds like a fun idea and, if it goes well, I can foresee it leading to a lot of other cool events in the future. What does everyone think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2011-08-22T14:32:35.663" Title="Promotional Grant: DC Comics' 52 new #1s" Tags="|discussion|blog|promotional-grant|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="721" CreationDate="2011-08-15T16:56:55.403" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll apply.  I'm a big-time DC reader, who's lapsed roughly 2 years ago, and would be able to provide something like a 'new reader jumping on' perspective.  As you can see from my history (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/4230/1027&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/4198/1027&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/2827/1027&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/4485/1027&quot;&gt;4&lt;/a&gt;), I've answered and asked several comic-centric questions.  My favorite comics from when I was reading were the Superman, Flash, Green Lantern, JSA, and Justice League books, so I'll definitely be particularly detailed on those portions of the new 52.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've sought to write for the blog, but life's been too hectic recently for me to make time.  Things are smoother now, so I'll be writing up a few things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2011-08-15T20:39:19.557" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="721" CreationDate="2011-08-15T18:26:47.697" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm totally up for this. I asked a question previously about a good starting point, and would love a chance to actually be able to read/review the new start ups. I am completely new to the DC comic universe, so I would have a genuine &quot;new user&quot; point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also be willing to offer my review to the scifi blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2011-08-15T18:26:47.697" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="703" CreationDate="2011-08-16T06:49:21.783" Score="5" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Spoilers&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Given that release dates (especially for TV series and films) vary considerably internationally, there's no way that we'll be able to cover recent material and avoid spoilers altogether.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As a review typically tells the reader what's good (or not) about the material, rather than simply summarizing it, most reviews should be able to get by without any significant spoilers.  Some posts might want to go into detail about an aspect of the story, though, and there's no problem with doing that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The blog engine (WordPress) has a &quot;more&quot; tag that you can insert into your post.  This breaks the post into two sections: the front page of the site will include only the content prior to the &quot;more&quot; tag, and the post page itself will include the entire post.  If you have significant spoilers in your post, put these below the &quot;more&quot; tag, and call out that the reader should only continue if they're willing to read specific details about the plot. (&quot;opt in spoiling&quot;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's no need to use any sort of spoiler markup in your post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially this comes down to using your own best judgement to write something that enhances, rather than spoils, the story for the reader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spoilers are less of a concern for the blog than elsewhere on the site, because readers are able to delay reading content (e.g. unlike chat), and going into specific detail will likely be less common (e.g. unlike questions/answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2011-08-29T18:34:37.940" LastActivityDate="2011-08-29T18:34:37.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="725" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-08-16T19:30:41.660" Score="10" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newyorkcomiccon.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;New York Comic Con&lt;/a&gt; is approaching soon (October 13-16) and I would like for this site to have a presence of some sort. Here's what I tentatively propose:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Up to &lt;strong&gt;20 users&lt;/strong&gt; from SciFi.SE can attend with weekend passes, courtesy of Stack Exchange&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;all users in attendance will get a Stack Exchange NYCC swag package (which would possibly include the to-be-designed Sci Fi.SE t-shirt, a Stack Exchange tote bag, a Stack Exchange lanyard, etc.) to hopefully use at the con and, also, your day-to-day existence&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;all users (possibly only 21+ users) may be invited to a NYCC Stack Exchange party held at a bar near the Javits Center, with free drinks and/or food for a TBD period of time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;users involved with the blog would are encouraged to liveblog the event; if the blog gets up and running before the con, I will try to get those users press passes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's what I have in mind. If there's a big gap in my thinking, please fill it with your knowledge! AKA, leave a comment. In the future I could see Stack Exchange having an actual booth presence, but that's cutting it a little close for October. Starting small. But before we discuss the bullet points in detail, I really just want to know: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are any of you already going to New York Comic Con/would you go if Stack Exchange bought your ticket?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is yes, please e-mail me at &lt;strong&gt;brett [at] stackexchange [dot] com&lt;/strong&gt; with the title &lt;strong&gt;NYCC 2011 - SciFi &amp;amp; Fantasy.SE involvement&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your name &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your address &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What days you wish to attend &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you wish to write content for the blog&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastEditorUserId="2383" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T14:42:43.767" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T14:42:43.767" Title="New York Comic Con 2011 - SciFi &amp; Fantasy.SE involvement" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2012-03-19T22:31:11.117" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="726" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-08-17T19:37:48.870" Score="4" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that it's not necessarily off topic, but these types of questions (ie questions asking how a science fiction trope would work in real life or how the logic works behind a certain idea in a work) seem to not be considered interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should a section explaining the suspension of disbelief be added to the FAQ in order to avoid these types of questions? Maybe even a link to Skeptics.SE for people looking for fictional science rather than science fiction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2012-08-08T03:59:27.447" Title="Should a section on Suspension of Disbelief be added to the FAQ?" Tags="|discussion|site-faq|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="726" CreationDate="2011-08-18T00:36:49.060" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's a bit of a bridge. Some questions in this category are extremely interesting. Here's a few good ones:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1263/is-the-basic-premise-of-humans-as-a-power-source-in-the-matrix-reasonable&quot;&gt;Is the basic premise of humans as a power source in The Matrix reasonable?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/743/in-stargate-how-can-you-have-a-point-of-origin-with-only-one-coordinate&quot;&gt;In Stargate, how can you have a point of origin with only one coordinate?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1458/was-the-millennium-falcon-too-slow&quot;&gt;Was the Millennium Falcon too slow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, there is definitely a point where things aren't so clear, and do seem to be poor questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5103/is-telekinesis-really-possible-closed&quot;&gt;is telekinesis really possible&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5102/do-you-honestly-believe-that-we-are-the-only-ones-in-the-universe-closed&quot;&gt;Do you honestly believe that we are the only ones in the universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that the trick is to ask a question with direct details, in an open ended sort of way, but be willing to admit that at some point, things might just not be quite real.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T00:36:49.060" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="730" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="731" CreationDate="2011-08-21T15:33:43.677" Score="6" ViewCount="875" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have a look at this question: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5144/are-there-nice-wedding-related-quotes-in-doctor-who&quot;&gt;Are there nice wedding-related quotes in Doctor Who?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is, at the best, a question with no clear answer; at the worst, it's a list question, looking to compile a list of quotes, like you might find on any net forum. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't think of any reason, other than that Doctor Who is insanely popular - it's one of my faves as well, but that shouldn't affect matters. Why am I the only vote to close? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2011-08-23T22:01:52.440" Title="Why was this question not closed?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="730" CreationDate="2011-08-21T15:48:11.487" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question wasn't closed because only one user voted to close it so far, but it takes five votes to close a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see a good reason to close this question, so I'm not voting to close it at this point (I wouldn't vote to close even if my vote wasn't a moderator binding vote).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's not a duplicate, as far as I can see there is no existing question that's similar.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's not off-topic, it's a question about the SF work &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's not “not constructive”, it's based on a practical problem and the answers would reference facts with a sliver of analysis (quotes and their suitability).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's not “not a real question”, I can clearly understand what's being asked (a &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; themed quote suitable for responding to a wedding invitation).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's not “too localized”, the question could be useful to other visitors who are looking for &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; wedding-themed quotes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's not “general reference”, I can't find anything relevant on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, nor any directly usable site with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=%22doctor+who%22+wedding+quote&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;obvious search&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T15:48:11.487" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="730" CreationDate="2011-08-21T21:13:29.120" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I nearly voted to close this question, and I'm a little surprised it hasn't been closed - and I also answered it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two problems with the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's a borderline list question.  The difference between &quot;does any sci-fi deal with immortality&quot; and &quot;what works deal with immortality&quot; is pretty slim; in theory the answers to the first are &quot;yes, such as influential work A or early work B&quot; and the second has a long list of works.  The latter is definitely considered off-topic; in my opinion there isn't a clear consensus on the first, and it's the answers rather than the question itself that tend to weight people a particular way.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;nice&quot; part is subjective.  This leads to the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://Questions%20calling%20for%20a%20list%20of%20works,%20authors,%20%E2%80%A6&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;good subjective, bad subjective&lt;/a&gt;&quot; decision.  In my opinion this doesn't meet the standards for a &quot;great&quot; subjective question, but isn't totally terrible, either (&quot;what's the best Doctor Who episode?&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the 'list' issue, IMO specificity is important - it's the difference between &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/491/what-sci-fi-film-scores-and-soundtracks-have-won-an-oscar&quot;&gt;What Sci-fi film scores and soundtracks have won an Oscar?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; and &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/687/what-works-feature-humans-gaining-immortality-and-its-effects&quot;&gt;What works feature humans gaining immortality and its effects?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.  Weddings haven't featured very often in &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt;, and so there are actually very few wedding quotes (the 'or about love' part of the question opens it up a bit wide, IMO).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic/425#425&quot;&gt;I brought up this type of question&lt;/a&gt; (very small list, all items in a single answer) during the on/off topic discussion, but only at the end, and so there weren't enough votes to determine whether it was on-topic or not (+6, -1) - we still have many open questions that are examples of this type.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The catch with the 'subjective' issue is that what's &quot;good subjective&quot; is itself subjective.  If there were comments on the question that indicated that people felt &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; was the issue (rather than the list nature), then I think the question could be edited so that it was better in this regard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doing some research to try and answer this (the two in my answer I knew immediately, but I was sure there must be 'classic' Who quotes that I wasn't remembering), led me away from voting to close, because it was difficult to find any (I don't think any of the examples in the current answers - including mine - answer the question especially well).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is on-topic, does that mean that (e.g.) &quot;Does Star Trek have any quotations related to honour?&quot; is on-topic?  I think it depends on the whole question: here there are not many examples, so this isn't easy to find elsewhere, and we have a specific reason for wanting a quotation (it's not just a &quot;fun&quot; question) - for example, in my (edited) answer I address the question more specifically than just providing a quote or list of quotes, tying the quotes to the need (use in a wedding card).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2011-08-23T22:01:52.440" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="721" CreationDate="2011-08-22T14:32:35.663" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations, @Keen and @OghmaOsiris ! You have been selected for this mission, which you have chosen to accept (paraphrasing is always fun!). I've so far come up empty handed in my attempts to get these comics to you officially, but worry not! I will instead be mailing them to you; you should expect to see them on your proverbial doorstep on the Thursday after they come out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please email me at brett [at] stackexchange [dot] com with your mailing address. If you have any other questions about this grant, you can either post'em up here or include them in the email.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastActivityDate="2011-08-22T14:32:35.663" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="734" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-08-22T15:51:36.770" Score="7" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's keep the promo grant train a-rolling!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the spirit of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2010/community-promotion-sponsorship-new-game-releases-for-community-members&quot;&gt;Gaming Promotional Grant&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/721/promotional-grant-dc-comics-52-new-1s&quot;&gt;DC Comics New 52 Grant&lt;/a&gt;, we would like to try providing users with subscriptions to video streaming services to help facilitate your question and answer as well as blog content generation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Details!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange would provide (w) subscriptions to scifi.se community members in good standing with (x) reputation; the subscription would last (y) months&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The streaming service will be dependent on both &lt;strong&gt;the need of the community members&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;the ability for Stack Exchange to provide the service for the community members&lt;/strong&gt;. For example, Netflix is what I have in mind due to both the ease with which we as a US-based company can gift it to community members. If the most eligible/interested members do not have access to Netflix (which is everyone who does not live in the US), we would try to get them a subscription to the streaming service of their choice.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In return, we ask that you ask and answer (Z) posts about the shows and movies you watch on the streaming service here on scifi.se, as well as possibly create content for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Community Blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm completely unfamiliar with streaming services outside the US, so please inform me of the alternatives. Netflix really does have a crazy awesome selection (&lt;strong&gt;Buffy the Vampire Slayer&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Angel&lt;/strong&gt;, most every &lt;strong&gt;Star Trek&lt;/strong&gt; series, both &lt;strong&gt;Battlestar Galactica&lt;/strong&gt; series, &lt;strong&gt;X-Files&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Firefly&lt;/strong&gt;, a ton of &lt;strong&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/strong&gt;, most all of the recent &lt;strong&gt;DC Animated Movies&lt;/strong&gt; and nearly all of &lt;strong&gt;Marvel's animated&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;recent film&lt;/strong&gt; output, as well as others I am forgetting) but is limited due to its US-only availability. From what I understand, Canada's Netflix has a severely limited library.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you all think of this plan? Is this something you would like to see happen? And if you are interested and do not have access to Netflix, what other services would you recommend?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.233" LastActivityDate="2011-08-22T16:51:53.910" Title="Promotional Grant: Video Streaming Services" Tags="|discussion|promotional-grant|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="734" CreationDate="2011-08-22T16:23:33.763" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm have a concern about the efficacy of this grant.  All of the for-pay streaming services I know of have content that's not new.  All of the items you listed as available on Netflix are available months/years after they've aired/released, so they've passed the prime time for questions and answers.  I think it would be more useful to have a grant targeted at new releases.  Whether that means getting DVD/blu-rays, movie tickets, or books.  This would also be more analogous to the gaming grant you linked.  Admittedly what I'm suggesting would also be more expensive than a Netflix subscription.  I think the trade-off for getting access to more current, and thus relevant material would be worth it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2011-08-22T16:51:53.910" LastActivityDate="2011-08-22T16:51:53.910" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="736" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-08-23T02:58:02.900" Score="9" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;For some reason today, I had a thought that might be interesting. Would it be worth it to advertize this site on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004HFS6Z0/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=httpwwwpearso-20&amp;amp;camp=213381&amp;amp;creative=390973&amp;amp;linkCode=as4&amp;amp;creativeASIN=B004HFS6Z0&amp;amp;adid=1FGMZVAXG96TY02YA260&amp;amp;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Special Offers Amazon Kindle&lt;/a&gt;? I did a bit of poking around, and found a &lt;a href=&quot;https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/AdvertisingSite/pdfs/AmazonKSOAdStyleGuide.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;guide to all ads&lt;/a&gt;. It seems like if there was a way to restrict it to people interesting in SFF, which should be easy to do, it might provide a high return on users compared to other methods. Just a thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="1586" LastEditDate="2011-08-23T04:13:05.257" LastActivityDate="2011-08-23T04:13:05.257" Title="Advertising on Amazon Kindle" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="586" CreationDate="2011-08-25T09:53:34.380" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In case anyone has missed it, we've started this.  See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/703/how-do-i-contribute-to-the-blog&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; for information about contributing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2011-08-25T09:53:34.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="739" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-08-27T13:06:38.283" Score="5" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;sci-fi Blog&lt;/a&gt; is started, we would need &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/703/how-do-i-contribute-to-the-blog&quot;&gt;contributions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone has ideas for a sci-fi blog entry, please share it with us here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2011-09-04T23:44:46.387" Title="Ideas for the scifi blog" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-03-12T16:58:54.030" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2156" CreationDate="2011-08-27T13:12:00.137" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have the time to write this particular entry, but it would be a good idea to list and describe all new Science Fiction and Fantasy TV show that are starting soon. It could also list the shows that will goes for a new season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The description should include a brief description, the premiere dates and a link to the official site (or others) for further information. Since we are a international site, We should put emphasis on highly anticipated series or new show season, not on air dates and broadcasting network. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The good thing is that kind of blog entry could be periodic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2011-08-27T13:12:00.137" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="741" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-08-28T15:43:31.600" Score="-1" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've got questions tagged with &quot;physics&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the physics of the question is real and answerable by real physics, we can abstract it and pass it to physics.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the physics is virtual ( for example : portal ). The question would be closed by physics.SE guys because that is not real. We have a perfect example of this case, which is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/13923/would-portal-style-portals-transmit-gravity&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; being migrated to physics.SE and got closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we want an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4272/physics-of-iron-man-curious&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; out of a virtual technology ( for example: star gate ), we could end up in some &quot;magic&quot; explanation or explanation without real world physics support. So these answers have nothing to deal with &quot;physics&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1801" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2011-08-29T21:13:48.533" Title="Do we need the tag &quot;physics&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="741" CreationDate="2011-08-28T16:42:29.820" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/physics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;physics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;physics&lt;/a&gt; is about the physics of a fictional universe, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/languages&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;languages&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;languages&lt;/a&gt; is about languages in a fictional universe, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magic&lt;/a&gt; is about magic in a fictional universe and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see why there shouldn't be a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/physics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;physics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;physics&lt;/a&gt; tag. It's not about real-world physics, any more than &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magic&lt;/a&gt; is about real-world magic. I've added a big description to the tag wiki, for the 0.0000001% of users who read the tag wikis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2011-08-28T16:42:29.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="743" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-08-31T16:00:08.297" Score="12" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been discussed in a few other Metas (namely &lt;a href=&quot;https://diy.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/371/how-do-you-feel-about-my-site-promotion-ideas&quot;&gt;DIY&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2565/would-you-be-interested-in-printable-gaming-se-posters-to-give-out-and-or-put-in&quot;&gt;Gaming&lt;/a&gt;), so click on those links if you want some backstory. If not, here goes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We would like to provide &lt;strong&gt;printable promotional flyers&lt;/strong&gt; for our &lt;strong&gt;community members&lt;/strong&gt; to put up &lt;strong&gt;in the places they frequent&lt;/strong&gt;, if the places have a space for them. The goal is to &lt;strong&gt;spread the word of Stack Exchange to your peers and your local community&lt;/strong&gt;. The flyer would include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the Sci-Fi &amp;amp; Fantasy design&lt;/strong&gt; (which is still on the way)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site's &lt;strong&gt;URL&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a brief &lt;strong&gt;description&lt;/strong&gt; of what the site is&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;perhaps a few &lt;strong&gt;sample question&lt;/strong&gt; titles&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a catchy &lt;strong&gt;slogan&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;please, suggest slogans below!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; This site has a ton of great writers, so put your skills to work!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another aspect to this flyering program which I just came up with and would like to run by the community, is possibly &lt;strong&gt;putting your Stack Exchange username&lt;/strong&gt; on it and declaring you the &lt;strong&gt;&quot;mayor&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; (but not the &quot;mayor&quot; because that term is already taken; perhaps &lt;strong&gt;&quot;ambassador&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;) &lt;strong&gt;of your area&lt;/strong&gt;. As in, the flyer that you put up at your local bookstore would have your name/username on it as the local representative, for people to use if they want to talk to someone about the site. This might even be something like a Big Brother system (again, another term that is already taken) where you would &lt;strong&gt;help this new user ease into the site&lt;/strong&gt; and make them feel super welcome. And another idea; you as the local Stack Exchange authority/mayor/leader/etc could probably be given stickers and shirts to give out as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What say you, community? Once we get the Sci-Fi &amp;amp; Fantasy design up and running, are printable flyers for local promotions something that interests you? And is the mayor/Big Brother/other term idea interesting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:44:28.363" LastActivityDate="2011-09-02T17:17:16.910" Title="Would the community be interested in having printable Sci-Fi &amp; Fantasy flyers?" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="743" CreationDate="2011-08-31T16:55:44.437" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's run with the Big Brother angle. After all, the term does originate from the classic SF book &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_%28Nineteen_Eighty-Four%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;1984&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can clone some of the classic posters:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cCW7H.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And otherwise make classic SF and Fantasy references.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51" LastActivityDate="2011-08-31T16:55:44.437" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="743" CreationDate="2011-08-31T22:39:00.053" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this idea. I can see these flyers for this (and other SE sites, too) being popular at bookstores and schools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that the Math.SE, Physics.SE, and SO.SE sites would get HUGE boosts in traffic if there were flyers in our Computer Science/Math department at my school.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a poster/flyer were posted in community areas of my school as well, then I know the geeks would be all over our site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not a fan of the Big Brother is Watching you slogan, as it seems to make the site into a tyranny, lol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think if we could design a poster with retro 50's style sci-fi cover looking art, then it would be a great attractor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just my 2 cents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2011-08-31T22:39:00.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="714" CreationDate="2011-09-01T01:33:53.717" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Directly copied from the previous one).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I admit that I typically only glance over the poetry in any books, and especially the rather long ones in LotR, so I found this question very useful:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3492/lord-of-the-rings-what-is-the-important-background-information-contained-in-the&quot;&gt;Lord of the Rings - what is the important background information contained in the poems?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is a great example of a question because it's something I expect many people would find it useful, and perhaps not otherwise think of asking.  It certainly inspires a truly excellent answer (probably one of my favourite &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; on the site so far).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2011-09-01T01:33:53.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="743" CreationDate="2011-09-01T18:55:18.233" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;We should have posters that are kind of vintagey with questions like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is Soylent Green really people?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is the Force really with me?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When will my Hogwarts letter arrive?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why haven't I regenerated as a ginger?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What should I do if my friend is possessed by a Goa'uld?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it really a &lt;em&gt;game&lt;/em&gt; of thrones? Isn't more of a lottery?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As the hero of my story, does this mean I get the girl?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And other such &quot;gag&quot; questions that wouldn't &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; be on the site but make it clear who our audience is. Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2459" LastActivityDate="2011-09-01T18:55:18.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="743" CreationDate="2011-09-02T03:28:15.277" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it be more sensible and effective to try to put up &quot;flyers&quot; on the internet, in places that other scifi nuts hang out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are an awful lot of practical issues around flyers in the real world, and I think it'd be much easier to reach people that ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;are already in front of a computer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;already on the internet&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;participating in a related scifi internet site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... rather than random people in the world, at some random physical location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you have an &lt;em&gt;event&lt;/em&gt; that a bunch of scifi nuts will be at, I find that &lt;strong&gt;cool stickers&lt;/strong&gt; are a lot more interesting and useful and fun than stuff printed on Ye Olde Paper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(remember magazines? they're like blogs, but printed on dead trees!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101" LastActivityDate="2011-09-02T03:28:15.277" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="743" CreationDate="2011-09-02T06:11:03.967" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are a couple of images based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/743/would-the-community-be-interested-in-having-printable-sci-fi-fantasy-flyers/744#744&quot;&gt;DampeS8N's idea&lt;/a&gt; of using old sci-fi images. Would be happy to entertain alternate wording, but keep in mind that it has to be very, very short.  These would both have additional text on the back or along the side. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My thought is to promote the network, with a sci-fi feel. (At least for the first one.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/v0KiB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Big Brother reads Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6qr5x.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Where everyone can hear your questions&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2011-09-02T06:11:03.967" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="743" CreationDate="2011-09-02T17:17:16.910" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Instead of flyers, it would be great to be able to print greatest questions and include a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;QR Code&lt;/a&gt; that link to the question, so the peoples interested in the answer would be introduced to the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be a good way to win a Announcer badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2011-09-02T17:17:16.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="751" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="769" CreationDate="2011-09-02T20:06:14.860" Score="15" ViewCount="445" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/science-fiction-fantasy&quot;&gt;general discussion chat room&lt;/a&gt; is called “Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy”. That's kind of boring. How about a better name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside: we also have an &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1056/sf-topic-of-the-day&quot;&gt;SF topic of the day chatroom&lt;/a&gt;, where we propose a short phrase and reply with works on that topic. (We've just started; we've had topics like “interpretative dance” and “going green”.) The idea is to propose a new topic once a day or so, but chat days are clearly longer than Earth days. It's kind of dead right now — please drop in and offer suggestions!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2011-09-28T09:13:49.857" LastActivityDate="2012-01-12T22:43:02.710" Title="What should we call our chatroom?" Tags="|discussion|chat|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="751" CreationDate="2011-09-02T20:32:21.183" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;And just after posting, I think of a name…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansible&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The ansible&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2011-09-02T20:32:21.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="751" CreationDate="2011-09-02T22:27:58.807" Score="-7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Draco's Tavern&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, the particular reference is to science fiction, but the use of a bar or other drinking establishment for general meeting of strange people is broadly present in fantasy as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="231" LastActivityDate="2011-09-02T22:27:58.807" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="751" CreationDate="2011-09-03T15:39:37.500" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Dragon's Head&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It just seems appropriate, for some reason...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2011-09-03T15:39:37.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2156" CreationDate="2011-09-04T23:44:46.387" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would anyone like to do an episode-by-episode review of the latest Doctor Who episodes?  In the first half of the current season, we had a lot of traffic to the site (not necessarily the greatest questions or answers, but certainly many people coming along), and it seems likely that there could be a similar spike with the final half.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking that the reviews could contain spoilers - a short but detailed analysis of the episode, with the new information that the episode adds to the overall season arc as well as opinion about the quality of the episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're a couple of episodes in, so we could quickly push out some for those two, or we could just start at #3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-09-04T23:44:46.387" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="756" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="757" CreationDate="2011-09-06T00:45:56.887" Score="5" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over the last few days, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://feed://scifi.stackexchange.com/feeds&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;primary &quot;recent questions&quot; RSS feed&lt;/a&gt; (possibly also other ones) has included questions that are in no way recent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4558/pure-versus-hybrid-daleks&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; was last edited Jul 14 at 11:58 (and asked Jul 14 at 8:18), but the RSS feed lists it with an updated timestamp of 2011-09-05T23:06:50Z.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;entry&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;id&amp;gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/4558&amp;lt;/id&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;re:rank scheme=&quot;http://scifi.stackexchange.com&quot;&amp;gt;6&amp;lt;/re:rank&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;title type=&quot;text&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;quot;Pure&amp;amp;quot; versus &amp;amp;quot;Hybrid&amp;amp;quot; Daleks&amp;lt;/title&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;category scheme=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/feeds/tags&quot; term=&quot;doctor-who&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;author&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;name&amp;gt;gunbuster363&amp;lt;/name&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;uri&amp;gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1801&amp;lt;/uri&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/author&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;link rel=&quot;alternate&quot; href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4558/pure-versus-hybrid-daleks&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;published&amp;gt;2011-07-14T08:18:13Z&amp;lt;/published&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;updated&amp;gt;2011-09-05T23:06:50Z&amp;lt;/updated&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;summary type=&quot;html&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    [...]&#xA;    &amp;lt;/summary&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/entry&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is an &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; that is recent.  However, the &quot;recent questions&quot; feed has previously meant &quot;recently asked or edited&quot; and not &quot;recently asked, edited, or answered&quot;.  If this is a 'feature' change, then (a) the name is increasingly inaccurate (how does adding an answer make a &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; &quot;recent&quot;? Even editing is a stretch), and (b) this is significantly less useful, because it means this is no longer an efficient method of reading all questions posted to the site, because the number of old questions in the feed will overwhelm the new questions (even with our little beta site, answers outnumber questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've observed this behaviour on a number of other SE sites as well, so this is not scifi.se specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="RSS &quot;recent questions&quot; feed includes not-recent questions" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|rss|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="756" CreationDate="2011-09-06T06:40:53.090" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a one time change by design; in order to fix the &quot;editing the title spawns a new RSS entry&quot; bug we changed the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;id&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; field to not include the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/18051/prevent-title-edits-to-spawn-a-new-rss-post&quot;&gt;Prevent title edits to spawn a new RSS post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2011-09-06T06:40:53.090" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="758" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-09-06T18:26:06.377" Score="5" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;Without getting into a debate over whether comic book questions belong here are not... There has been a recent spate of what I would consider &quot;silly&quot; questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5393/can-she-hulks-hair-be-cut&quot;&gt;Can She-Hulk's hair be cut?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5396/how-does-superman-fly&quot;&gt;How does Superman fly?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5394/how-does-superman-shave&quot;&gt;How does Superman shave?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering how useful are these types of questions. Consider that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many have multiple, even contradictory answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comic book histories seem to be infinitely malleable in a way that most other works are not&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One could get carried away by asking minor variations of the same question to the point of absurdity&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2011-09-06T20:15:10.307" Title="Comic Book Rant and Counterfactual Questions or How does Superman clip his toe nails?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="759" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="761" CreationDate="2011-09-06T19:02:28.043" Score="5" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that we have many comic book questions, and several meta questions discussing that comic books are on topic, can we add it to the site's scope officially?  What's the process to do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2011-09-06T20:09:04.697" Title="Can we get comic books officially added to the site's scope?" Tags="|discussion|comics|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="758" CreationDate="2011-09-06T19:34:38.990" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see any of these questions as silly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each one had a fundamental &quot;What are these characters limits?&quot; question in them and each question has spawned a new understanding of who the character in question is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've learned that She-Hulk isn't infact indestructable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've learned that there have been measures created by the comic writers to explain certain aspects that went unanswered for a long time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've learned that there are logical answers to unlogical comics that work within the confines of the material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for mirroring the questions to infinitum, if someone else were to ask &quot;How does Superman wash his clothes?&quot; it could be argued that it be closed for duplicate or non-constructive questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And for that matter, how DOES Superman wash his clothes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2011-09-06T19:34:38.990" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="759" CreationDate="2011-09-06T20:09:04.697" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's nothing in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;site FAQ&lt;/a&gt; about media, so by default I'd say there's no restriction of which media are within the scope of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're still in doubt, turn to the &lt;code&gt;faq&lt;/code&gt; tag on Meta, in which you'll find&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/400/which-mediums-can-be-the-basis-of-questions&quot;&gt;Which mediums can be the basis of questions?&lt;/a&gt;, where the consensus is that all media are on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's true that the site FAQ could use an overhaul. You can help by proposing improvements &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/549/what-should-our-faq-contain&quot;&gt;in the old, but still open meta question on the topic&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2011-09-06T20:09:04.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="758" CreationDate="2011-09-06T20:15:10.307" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Exploring the untrodden corners of sfnal works and universes is what this site is all about. After all, our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/190/what-is-scifi-ses-elevator-pitch/212#212&quot;&gt;elevator pitch&lt;/a&gt; is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Behind the scenes and between the lines&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a fan site. One man's trivia beneath notice is another man's all-important loose thread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2011-09-06T20:15:10.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="549" CreationDate="2011-09-07T04:40:42.757" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A suggestion for addressing both @apoorv020 and @Keen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We have a broad policy as to what constitutes science fiction and fantasy - if you feel that it's sci-fi/fantasy, then that's likely good enough (we do, however, generally exclude children's stories, including children's cartoons).  It also doesn't matter what medium the story is in (poems, short stories, novels, TV, films, games, anime, comics, ...) as long as you're asking about the sci-fi/fantasy aspect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the FAQ doesn't need to be exact - as long as it conveys the right general impression.  For example, I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; that the conclusion about children's material is that if there was a question that was interesting to a sci-fi/fantasy 'expert', then it would likely be on topic, even though mostly they are not, but the FAQ doesn't need to go into that much detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A mention of horror would perhaps be good as well - but I'm not sure what the status of this is.  Some meta discussion indicates that it's off-topic, but others indicate that it is on-topic, and all that discussion is fairly old now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-09-07T04:40:42.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="764" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-09-08T07:12:13.160" Score="12" ViewCount="335" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, recommendations are off-topic. Historically, we started off &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/26/are-recommend-me-questions-allowed&quot;&gt;allowing them&lt;/a&gt;, but eventually &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic&quot;&gt;banned them&lt;/a&gt;. At the time, it seems that our analysis was that most recommendation requests &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/258/is-the-recommendations-tag-the-new-list-tag&quot;&gt;were really list requests&lt;/a&gt;, which &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic/351#351&quot;&gt;are a category of their own&lt;/a&gt;, and the others are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic/365#365&quot;&gt;personalized and thus too localized&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fast forward to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5418/almost-hard-science-fiction-with-magic-or-hard-science-fantasy&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, which is mostly asking for an explanation of a trope in SF works. That comes with examples, but they're meant to illustrate a point more than being recommended reading per se. There's some disagreement as to whether this is a question we want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a related note, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Literature site&lt;/a&gt; (now defuct) tried out book recommendations with a &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/203/policy-trial-notice-book-recommendations&quot;&gt;limiting policy&lt;/a&gt; that tried to allow the worthwhile questions and reject the ones best suited to wikis or chat. The site eventually failed due to low traffic; it doesn't seem that book recommendations was a significant aspect of that lack of traffic. Since the site is now close, I quote the policy here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The questions must be &lt;strong&gt;reasonably specific&lt;/strong&gt;. Not &quot;What's a good&#xA;  book for a person who likes Harry Potter&quot;, but maybe, &quot;What's a good&#xA;  book for a 13 year old boy who likes Harry Potter, Eragon, Percy&#xA;  Jackson, and Artemis Fowl?&quot;. The more details, the better. Otherwise,&#xA;  how could you expect someone to possibly answer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Answers should try to recommend as many relevant books as possible.&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Aim for a syllabus, not for an evening's read.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Answers should provide some &lt;strong&gt;reasoning on why a book is&#xA;  suitable&lt;/strong&gt;. Don't just say “read this”, explain why. [If you can't motivate why the book is suitable, consider leaving a comment instead of posting it as an answer. Answers that do not meet this guideline may be removed. --Anna Lear]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is not a popularity contest.&lt;/strong&gt; Votes should go to the&#xA;  answers that provide the best match for the request. Don't vote up or&#xA;  down because you liked or didn't like the suggested books.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Close any question which does not meet these guidelines.&lt;/strong&gt; The&#xA;  number of votes is irrelevant when deciding whether to close a&#xA;  question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should this question be closed or opened for reasons that have nothing to do with book recommendations in general?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should we revise our stance on book recommendations?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T13:01:18.293" LastActivityDate="2014-02-03T17:14:18.637" Title="Should we revise our book recommendation policy?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="764" CreationDate="2011-09-08T11:48:23.743" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;To only really address the second question (as my answer contains the first) I believe we SHOULD allow for recommendations. But only when they satisfy these conditions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There isn't already a list like it on another major source of lists. (like wikipedia)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They are tagged with some new tag that allows users to avoid/seek them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They are very specific as to the desired criteria.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answers follow a strict format that we follow religiously.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answers are all automatically community wiki.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reasons being that list questions are typically a bad fit for our format, but under these conditions they don't need to be. By removing the competition aspect from the answers of these questions, and reinforcing the community aspect, we can re-tool the up and down vote system to be able to let the community decide what the proper quality order of the list should be, and we can fully answer the question with ALL of the answers. Not just a single one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a meta usage of the system? Absolutely, but I think we can cover a lot of ground that other sites, like wikipedia, are too broad to really be able to cover well. We have an opportunity to create a community answer to some specific questions that otherwise don't work well here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The strict format would be something like these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Novel: &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_for_Love&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Time Enough For Love&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; by &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Robert A. Heinlein&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The continuing adventures of Lazarus Long, the oldest living man. And enough more text about the work to jog the memory of anyone who read, but doesn't know by name, the work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Universes: &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_History&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Future History&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_as_Myth&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;World as Myth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TV Episode: &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Darmok_%28episode%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Darmok&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; by &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0579775/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joe Menosky &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Picard and the captain of a ship manned by a strange alien race are trapped on a planet and must overcome their inability to communicate to survive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Universes: &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek%3a_The_Next_Generation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Star Trek: TNG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51" LastEditorUserId="51" LastEditDate="2011-09-11T12:27:30.510" LastActivityDate="2011-09-11T12:27:30.510" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="766" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-09-08T17:56:02.687" Score="8" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is more last-minute than I usually like to propose grants, but I just realized that the release of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B003ZSJ212&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Wars: The Complete Saga&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; on Blu-Ray on September 16th is probably going to be...a big deal. The internet seems ready to crack in half over the changes and special features included on the release. The changes themselves have proven to be quite controversial (the only semi-comprehensive list I have been able to find is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.toplessrobot.com/2011/08/all_the_star_wars_blu-ray_changes_for_your_viewing.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;em&gt;please link to a better list if you are aware of one!&lt;/em&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this would be a good thing to provide for the following reasons: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; is currently the second most popular franchise-related tag&#xA;on the site, and the third most popular tag overall. People like&#xA;talking about &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The amount of attention being placed on the &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; Blu-Ray release&#xA;is already overwhelming. When the actual Blu-Rays are released, I&#xA;imagine the popularity will increase. There will be a lot of &lt;em&gt;Star&#xA;Wars&lt;/em&gt; Googling and if we have a lot of great &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; content it can&#xA;only help promote the site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;These Blu-Rays have a ridiculous amount of trivia already built in&#xA;thanks to the changes and special features. I'm sure that a lot of&#xA;these changes and deleted scenes will inspire questions about why they were made/cut, what&#xA;they mean for the canon's continuity and how they differ from&#xA;previous versions (Lucas has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_changes_in_Star_Wars_re-releases&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;tinkering with the films for&#xA;decades&lt;/a&gt;, even between VHS releases in the '80s and '90s).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I propose:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(X) number of users receive a copy of &lt;strong&gt;Star Wars: The Complete Saga&lt;/strong&gt; on Blu-Ray&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/51/dampes8n&quot;&gt;DampeS8N&lt;/a&gt; comments below, priority may be given to high-reputation users who have never seen one/most/all of the 6 &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; films. A fresh perspective would be &lt;strong&gt;incredibly valuable&lt;/strong&gt; in attracting new users. Granted, I don't have the ability to prove that these users haven't seen the films. Let's do it honest, people, and trust each other. &lt;em&gt;We are all buds&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users must have the capability to play Blu-Ray discs; Stack Exchange will not provide one&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The recipients will be encouraged to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;ask thoughtful questions&lt;/a&gt; about &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; in general and/or the Blu-Rays in particular. These same users (as well as all of our users) are encouraged to be &quot;on call&quot; and ready to answer any related questions that pop up about the trilogies and Blu-Ray release. &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Blogging&lt;/a&gt; would also be encouraged. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this sounds like fun, please discuss it below. If there's enough interest and support over the next few days, I will start the official grant process on Monday, September 12th.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; The grant is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/773/promotional-grant-star-wars-the-complete-saga-on-blu-ray&quot;&gt;up and running&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2011-09-12T20:31:06.903" Title="Is a promotional grant for Star Wars: The Complete Saga on Blu-Ray wanted?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="767" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="776" CreationDate="2011-09-09T16:02:15.450" Score="9" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/5437/1109&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; question was asked a couple minutes ago, as well as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/5433/1109&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/5432/1109&quot;&gt;this here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are all obvious candidates for closure (proof by the fact that they were...), but I feel compelled on some of them to at least give them an answer because they put time into asking the question in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this good form? Or should they not be answered at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2011-09-13T02:16:27.970" Title="Answering question we know will get closed" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="767" CreationDate="2011-09-09T20:13:20.603" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;A closed question, generally with the exception of duplicates, indicates a question that is not desired. It is a step towards deletion. The general scenario is that you don't want to reward a behavior you do not desire. To that end, if someone is getting answers to their question here, that's rewarding - they're getting what they needed from this site. It's not really striking home the point that this isn't where that information should be obtained. As such, they may just return and ask new questions, if they'll keep getting answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is more in the case of answering &lt;strong&gt;in spite of knowing that it is going to get closed&lt;/strong&gt;. Especially if you're answering a question that you yourself are voting to close at the same time - then it's just callous. A conflict of interest, one might say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, if &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; think the question &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be closed, you should not be answering it. If you think it should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be closed, but that it might, then your attention should probably be on fixing it (revising or comment support as necessary) so that it either doesn't get closed or gets reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2537" LastActivityDate="2011-09-09T20:13:20.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="751" CreationDate="2011-09-10T17:41:17.047" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mos_Eisley&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;A wretched hive of scum and villainy!&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2011-09-10T17:41:17.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="770" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="831" CreationDate="2011-09-11T19:01:49.723" Score="1" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently wrote a post for the blog, and I was told that it needed links to some tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, merrily on my way, i edit my post to put the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/justice-league&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;justice-league&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;justice-league&lt;/a&gt; tag (with tag picture included) into the post to find out I can't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could we add this feature to the blog? or would it not be possible because the blog is on a different website?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorUserId="12" LastEditDate="2011-09-29T02:02:37.350" LastActivityDate="2011-09-29T02:02:37.350" Title="Have tag pictures in the blog posts" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|blog|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="766" CreationDate="2011-09-12T00:17:07.843" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, if no one else will stand up and apply, I will.  I'm an A/V geek on the side, so I already have a blu-ray player and HDTV, so I'm set on the technical requirements front.  I'm a big fan of Star Wars, but mostly the movies and TV shows, as I'm not much of a book reader.  This is why I dont have too many Star Wars questions and answers on the site, as many of those are EU-focused.  Most of my Star Wars expertise comes from the original movies and the currently-running The Clone Wars show, which I'm a huge fan of and own the blu-rays of already (the show, not the movies!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2011-09-12T00:17:07.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="770" CreationDate="2011-09-12T01:54:56.853" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;By tag picture, you mean this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bXXXk.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be difficult to have this automatically applied to tag links (or to automatically convert something like [ tag : my-tag-name ] into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/my-tag-name&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;my-tag-name&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;my-tag-name&lt;/a&gt;), because the blog is a fairly standard (as far as I can tell) WordPress installation.  (Presumably a WordPress plug-in could be created that provided this functionality).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's possible to even add the background image in the HTML view of the WordPress editor (I tried this and it appeared to ignore the inline style).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could create images ourselves and use those (uploaded images go into a library that's usable for all posts).  I'm not sure it's worth the effort, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-09-12T01:54:56.853" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="773" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="795" CreationDate="2011-09-12T20:28:18.827" Score="8" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B003ZSJ212&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Wars: The Complete Saga&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; on Blu-Ray is being released on Friday, September 16th. To make sure that our site is the best place on the internet to ask and answer &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; questions, we are providing our users with copies of the Blu-Ray.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's how it will work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Up to 10 users&lt;/strong&gt; will receive the &lt;strong&gt;Star Wars: The Complete Saga&lt;/strong&gt; on Blu-Ray box set. This &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B003ZSJ212&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;box set includes&lt;/a&gt; all 6 &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; films as well as 3 discs of bonus materials.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To enter, post your username as an answer to this question.&lt;/strong&gt; The 10 users with the &lt;strong&gt;highest rep at the time of the voting's closing&lt;/strong&gt; will receive the box set. Votes have no bearing on the outcome of this grant, only reputation. This contest is open to EVERYONE on Stack Exchange, regardless of whether or not you have seen the movies before. A fresh perspective would be &lt;strong&gt;incredibly valuable&lt;/strong&gt; in attracting new users, so if you are a &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; newbie, do not shy away!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Users must be able to play Blu-Ray discs&lt;/strong&gt;, as Blu-Ray players will not be provided as part of this grant. If you will not be able to play this Blu-Ray box set upon receiving it, do not put your name into the running.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there are particular pre-order deals, sales, or other goodies you&#xA;can think of or find, those would be helpful to determining which&#xA;distributor to purchase the movies through. Be sure to&#xA;point out any of these in your post. Odds are, all of this will be done though Amazon. &lt;strong&gt;Reimbursements may need to be done if shipping to your location proves to be extraordinarily expensive or difficult.&lt;/strong&gt; We want all of our users to be involved and don't want crazy shipping laws to get in the way of that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When the voting period ends, the 10 selected users will email me their mailing address. &lt;strong&gt;If you are under 18, make sure you&#xA;or your parent/guardians are okay with the fact we're getting your&#xA;mailing address&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The recipients will be encouraged to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;ask thoughtful questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; about &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; in general and/or the Blu-Rays in particular. These same users (as well as all of our users) are encouraged to be &quot;on call&quot; and ready to answer any related questions that pop up about the trilogies and Blu-Ray release. &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Blogging&lt;/a&gt; would also be encouraged. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Applications will be accepted until &lt;strong&gt;4PM Eastern on Wednesday, September 14th&lt;/strong&gt;. Get to applying! Let's do this!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2011-09-15T13:34:34.017" Title="Promotional Grant - Star Wars: The Complete Saga on Blu-Ray" Tags="|discussion|promotional-grant|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="15" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="773" CreationDate="2011-09-12T21:18:35.090" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keen&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm an A/V geek on the side, so I already have a blu-ray player and HDTV, so I'm set on the technical requirements front. I'm a big fan of Star Wars, but mostly the movies and TV shows, as I'm not much of a book reader. This is why I dont have too many Star Wars questions and answers on the site, as many of those are EU-focused. Most of my Star Wars expertise comes from the original movies and the currently-running The Clone Wars show, which I'm a huge fan of and own the blu-rays of already (the show, not the movies!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2011-09-13T04:00:41.700" LastActivityDate="2011-09-13T04:00:41.700" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="773" CreationDate="2011-09-13T00:57:36.883" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not the hugest SW fan, but I would like to see the entire series on Blu-ray, and I'd be willing to do an outsider's take on Star Wars. Maybe I'll even be able to answer a few questions:-) I do have a decent TV/AV equipment, as well as a blu-ray player.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2011-09-13T19:19:59.043" LastActivityDate="2011-09-13T19:19:59.043" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="767" CreationDate="2011-09-13T02:16:27.970" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answering a question that is definitely going to be closed is sending the wrong message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider what that teaches the person asking:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I can ask a completely off-topic question and get a &lt;em&gt;great&lt;/em&gt; answer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101" LastActivityDate="2011-09-13T02:16:27.970" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="773" CreationDate="2011-09-13T16:03:43.287" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;DavRob60&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;, I'm currently &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/star-wars/topusers&quot;&gt;the 4th Answerer and 2th Asker&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, I dont have a blue-ray (yet), but my father in law has one. He is a science fiction fan, but he is more of the Star Trek type and I'm pretty sure he did not view those movies since theirs original theatrical release. Anyway, he lives at 15 minutes form my home and my kids didn't saw those movies yet. So I'm sure he will be willing for some family movie nights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, I cant wait to see if &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2286/in-canon-does-han-solo-shoot-first&quot;&gt;Han Solo officially shoot first&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2011-09-13T16:03:43.287" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="778" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-09-13T19:39:26.657" Score="6" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the spirit of &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2746/gaming-promotional-grant-fall-2011-game-selection-thread&quot;&gt;this gaming post&lt;/a&gt;, and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/773/promotional-grant-star-wars-the-complete-saga-on-blu-ray&quot;&gt;current promotional grant here&lt;/a&gt;, I'd like to ask, what else do you think we might be able to give away, in an effort to help this site? Specifically, I would like to see names of upcoming books/ movies/ etc which numerable people might be interested in, which if we can seed several copies around, might work for us. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Off the top of my head, I can think of these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0375856110&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Inheritance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1423140591&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Heroes of Olympus, The, Book Two: The Son of Neptune&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B005I64U5C&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Green Lantern&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B001UV4XJ2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Harry Potter 7 part 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B0057R5XRG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jurassic Park Ultimate Trilogy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also be interesting to do the same for movies which are currently in a theater (Providing tickets to watch, I'm assuming minimum 2 at a time). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T14:13:06.040" Title="Upcoming movies/ books that would be of interest" Tags="|discussion|promotional-grant|" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="778" CreationDate="2011-09-13T20:35:30.770" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tickets to:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Time&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contagion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apollo 18&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't Be Afraid of the Dark&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conan The Barbarian&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fright Night&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DVDs of:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thor&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Captain America&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;X-Men First Class&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paul&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Limitless&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Priest&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2011-09-13T20:35:30.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="778" CreationDate="2011-09-13T23:09:51.770" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;New Discworld novels:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0062011847&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Snuff&lt;/a&gt; (October 11, 2011)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0061433063&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;I Shall Wear Midnight&lt;/a&gt; (September 27, 2011)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the Area51 Pratchett/Discworld proposal was merged with the site, so in theory there are many Discworld fans around.  Unfortunately, given Pratchett's health, it's likely that these are among the last Discworld books he'll publish, which does make them higher profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-09-13T23:09:51.770" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="778" CreationDate="2011-09-13T23:12:08.953" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0553801473&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/a&gt; was released a few months ago, but is very high profile because (a) Martin took forever to finish this book, and (b) the &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; TV series that's based on this series of books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A grant could potentially be for the entire series (or what's published so far), or just for the latest book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-09-13T23:12:08.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="778" CreationDate="2011-09-13T23:20:40.717" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Orson Scott Card:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0785136096&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ender's Game: Formic Wars: Burning Earth&lt;/a&gt; (September 21, 2011).  I think this is a stand-alone prequel.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0765332000&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Shadows in Flight (The Shadow)&lt;/a&gt; (January 17, 2012).  This is another book in the &lt;em&gt;Shadows&lt;/em&gt; series (a grant could be for this alone or for the series).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0765326574&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Lost Gate (Mither Mages)&lt;/a&gt; (January 4, 2011).  Not upcoming, but relatively new.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1416991778&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ruins (Pathfinder)&lt;/a&gt; (March 6, 2012).  Sequel to last year's &lt;em&gt;Pathfinder&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0765324601&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Laddertop, Volume 1&lt;/a&gt; (September 27, 2011).  Manga, young adult, co-written with his daughter Emily Card.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="108" LastEditDate="2011-09-20T00:36:25.270" LastActivityDate="2011-09-20T00:36:25.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="778" CreationDate="2011-09-13T23:23:05.520" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Goodkind's latest &lt;em&gt;Sword of Truth&lt;/em&gt; novel was recently (August 16, 2011) relased: &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0765327724&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Omen Machine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like &lt;em&gt;A Song of Fire and Ice&lt;/em&gt;, a series that had a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Seeker&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TV series based on it&lt;/a&gt;, although it was cancelled last year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-09-13T23:23:05.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="778" CreationDate="2011-09-13T23:26:00.307" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0345528298&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Star Wars: Heir to the Empire: The 20th Anniversary Edition&lt;/a&gt; has recently (September 6, 2011) been released.  This is an old book, obviously, but it's a great place to start reading the wider Star Wars universe, and coincides nicely with the current Blu-ray release of the films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-09-13T23:26:00.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="785" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-09-13T23:29:20.567" Score="7" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5494/can-characters-be-brought-back-in-the-potter-verse-via-time-manipulation&quot;&gt;This question about whether characters can be brought back to life in the &lt;em&gt;Potter&lt;/em&gt; universe&lt;/a&gt; was closed.  None of the closers left a comment explaining why they closed the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was this closed?  It's not asking if the Potter series will be resumed (obviously not a good question, since no-one really knows).  It's asking whether resurrection of a character via time travel is possible within this particular fictional universe, given the evidence in existing stories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems very on-topic to me: asking about the boundaries of a magic system within a moderately well-defined fantasy world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2011-09-13T23:29:20.567" Title="Why was this time-travel Potter question closed?" Tags="|discussion|scope|closed-questions|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="778" CreationDate="2011-09-13T23:48:01.300" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's nearly a month since the announcement, and these were all published some time before that, but a grant for the &quot;2011 Hugo Award Winners&quot; would be neat:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0553807676&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Blackout/All Clear&lt;/a&gt; (Best Novel, published October 19, 2010).  Won the 2011 Nebula as well.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1596063173&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Lifecycle of Software Objects&lt;/a&gt; (Best Novella, published July 31, 2010).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.asimovs.com/2011_06/images/611hugo_emperor.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Emperor of Mars&lt;/a&gt; (Best Novelette, published June 2010).  No grant needed here :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.asimovs.com/2011_06/images/611hugo_nail.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;For Want of a Nail&lt;/a&gt; by Mary Robinette Kowal (Best Short Story, September 2010).  No grant needed here either.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1935234048&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It&lt;/a&gt; (Best Related Work, published March 15, 2010).  About fandom more than the series, but still on-topic I think.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://Girl%20Genius,%20Volume%2010%3a%20Agatha%20Heterodyne%20and%20the%20Guardian%20Muse&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Girl Genius, Volume 10: Agatha Heterodyne and the Guardian Muse&lt;/a&gt; (Best Graphic Story, published June 28, 2011).  I'm not familiar with this, so I don't know whether it matters whether you've read the earlier volumes or not.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/2011-nebula-award-winners/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Nebulas&lt;/a&gt; were slightly longer ago, but might also be good choices.  Alternatively, something could be done next year with either winners or nominees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-09-13T23:48:01.300" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="787" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="790" CreationDate="2011-09-14T00:55:57.757" Score="8" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first month of the blog, we've had 15 posts (2 more in draft at the moment, and lumping all the WorldCon ones together) from 7 authors - a pretty great start!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/703/how-do-i-contribute-to-the-blog&quot;&gt;&quot;how do I contribute&quot; post&lt;/a&gt; has the following information:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The organisers maintain a posting schedule, so that we have a regular flow of content, so they'll organize with you when the best time for your post to go live is (time-sensitive posts, like reviews of events, can be done outside the regular schedule, of course). Please work within the schedule so that we don't have lots of posts in a day and then a drought for a couple of weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this isn't really how things are currently working, and it's mostly based on the way that other Stack Exchange sites handle their blogs and suggests from the SE staff (although I think I read recently that SuperUser has stopped using their Google Doc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the goals are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Every post should have some sort of minimum time as the most recent entry, since that's what you see when you go to the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We don't want to have (e.g.) five posts one week and then none the next.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Potentially, we can also build up an expectation of certain types of content on particular days of the week (this was recommended by SE more than once).  For example, movie reviews on Monday, book reviews on Wednesday, other stuff on Saturday.  Personally, I'm not convinced that this sort of schedule will work for us (at least not yet).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those that are contributing or those that think they might: what would be the best way to organise this for you?  (I'll pre-seed with some suggestions, but do add your own as well if nothing fits).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.730" LastActivityDate="2011-09-24T03:20:22.327" Title="How should the blog schedule be organised?" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="787" CreationDate="2011-09-14T00:58:13.027" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Self-management&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The laissez-faire type environment that we are currently using, where everyone decides for themselves when their posts should go live is working well: let's not change it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have sufficient privileges in the blog system to post, then just do it, trying to not clash with anyone else.  If you don't, then one of the editors/admins will pick a date soon after you let them know that it's ready to go out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-09-14T00:58:13.027" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="787" CreationDate="2011-09-14T01:00:56.483" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shared Spreadsheet&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We start using the shared &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsnwJM_VQuurdG5DdDl0cTNjSUkzRjF0OVk3T3pRZHc&amp;amp;hl=en_US#gid=0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;spreadsheet&lt;/a&gt; more.  Authors are expected to follow the schedule in the spreadsheet.  Those with write access to it decide how to best spread out the posts.  The spreadsheet is used to plan posts as far in the future as we have suggested articles (including ones that have not been started yet).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-09-14T01:00:56.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="787" CreationDate="2011-09-14T01:03:33.937" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trello&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We create a &lt;a href=&quot;https://trello.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Trello&lt;/a&gt; account and use that to plan/manage the schedule.  This is obviously a pretty new product, but one of the suggested uses is publishing, so it ought to work fine.  It's prettier and perhaps easier to work with than a Google Doc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://trello.com/board/scifi-blogoverflow-com-schedule/4e71826f2256897d51319870&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here's an example of what we could do&lt;/a&gt;.  Anyone can view it and vote - I imagine there's a &quot;ask for invitation&quot; link on there somewhere that you can use to become a member of the 'board' (then you can rearrange things, assign yourself to cards, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is free right now, although it may not remain that way.  Even if it becomes paid, given who created this product, we can probably cajoel (sorry, couldn't resist!) our way into a free account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One weakness:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's yet-another-account (meaning also yet another set of credentials to manage).  This means there's three accounts for a blog contributor, all unlinked: scifi.stackexchange.com (presumably), scifi.blogoverflow.com (assuming you're going to write there rather than email in copy), and trello.com (assuming you want to be involved with planning/scheduling).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="108" LastEditDate="2011-09-24T03:20:22.327" LastActivityDate="2011-09-24T03:20:22.327" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="773" CreationDate="2011-09-14T09:46:07.823" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mike Scott&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have all of the movies on DVD already, but I've not read any tie-in novels since &lt;em&gt;Splinter of the Mind's Eye&lt;/em&gt; (i.e. not for about three decades).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There don't seem to be any offers in the UK, but I have Amazon Prime (UK version) which might help with shipping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23" LastActivityDate="2011-09-14T09:46:07.823" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="773" CreationDate="2011-09-14T15:55:18.070" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;OghmaOsiris&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm more of a Star Trek fan, but I do love Star Wars. I actually haven't seen Star Wars fore quite a few years now. It would be nice to watch all the movies back to back as I've never done that before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also love to watch them in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1520/in-what-order-should-the-star-wars-movies-be-watched&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; order as that seems to be the recommended approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2011-09-14T15:55:18.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="793" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-09-14T17:29:16.170" Score="5" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that &lt;strong&gt;Star Wars: The Complete Saga&lt;/strong&gt; is being released on Blu-Ray and getting mainstream attention, there will be zillions of fans old and new rediscovering these films and asking lots of questions. We already have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot;&gt;solid &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; showing&lt;/a&gt; on the site, but the more questions with great answers we have, the higher the chances are that new people will find our site during their quest to understand the ways of the Force. Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy SE has a shot at having the best answers to those questions — better than any of those, you know, competitive sites. Essentially, this is a great time to recruit new members!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What can you do to help?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As you come across &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;-related articles/pictures/memes/etc., any questions that they inspire, no matter how silly, ask them here. This includes, but is definitely not limited to, questions regarding the Blu-Ray editions that you may have after its release on Friday. Also consider posting general questions about the original trilogies, any of the &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; animated movies or series, the expanded universe novels and comic books. You're not the only one having&#xA;that question. Millions of other people will, too. Ask them even if&#xA;you think you're going to be able to find the answer yourself… and&#xA;if you do find the answer, go ahead and answer it yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When answering these questions, do everything you can to overkill&#xA;it. Don't just answer with a hyperlink to some other discussion&#xA;group somewhere. Write a detailed, ultra-clear answer that is just&#xA;as complete and clear as you can muster. Help us have the best&#xA;possible answers to these common problems and questions fans have about the &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; universe!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If a question comes in that is unclear, badly written, badly&#xA;formatted, or in bad English, edit it into shape. We've always&#xA;encouraged edits that improve spelling, grammar, and clarity. Make&#xA;every question count!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a great opportunity to build up a body of answers to common &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;-related questions that will be super-popular in the coming weeks as the Blu-Ray is released and people go ape over &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; again. These questions will bring in lots of traffic from search engines and if Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy.SE continues to have great answers like we have had in the past, we stand a chance of attracting some great new users who will add value for years to come!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;This tactic has been shamelessly adapted from &lt;a href=&quot;https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/589/now-that-lion-is-out-help-promote-ask-different&quot;&gt;Joel's promotion to build new content for Apple SE&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://parenting.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/239/now-that-school-is-in-session-are-your-school-age-questions-here&quot;&gt;Robert's to build Parenting&lt;/a&gt;. Let's show them we can do it too!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2011-09-17T00:18:25.840" Title="Now that Star Wars is coming out on Blu-Ray, help promote Sci-Fi &amp; Fantasy SE?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="773" CreationDate="2011-09-14T20:37:52.607" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do NOT own a Blu-Ray player, however I have ready access to them from two different sources: my work laptop (which I may bring home) and my father's place.  Hell, my father may have one I can borrow for an extended period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="656" LastActivityDate="2011-09-14T20:37:52.607" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="773" CreationDate="2011-09-15T13:34:34.017" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following users will receive copies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keen &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DavRob60 &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jeff &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OghmaOsiris &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mike Scott&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please email your mailing address to &lt;strong&gt;brett [at] stackexchange [dot] com&lt;/strong&gt; as soon as possible and we will get these ordered. Thanks for the interest!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastActivityDate="2011-09-15T13:34:34.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="796" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-09-15T14:38:56.423" Score="5" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;Super Soldier @BrettWhiteΨ has provided opportunities for a few of the people on this site with materials for promoting SciFi and StackExchange itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since most/all of these items would be great subjects for blog posts, I was wondering how we wanted to devide up the posting assignments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure everyone chosen/participating in these Grants want to write a blog post (especially as a thanks for the awesome swag), it might get a little confusing who is supposed to write about what if all of the participants are getting the same materials.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2011-09-15T20:17:39.140" Title="How do we want to divvy up blog posts for the materials received from the Promotional Grants?" Tags="|discussion|blog|promotional-grant|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="796" CreationDate="2011-09-15T14:40:57.810" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Combined blog posts&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each participant writes their opinion on the subject matter, and those opinions get combined into 1 blog post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe making a SciFi.SE user on blogoverflow.com for this so everyone will get credit for what they write.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2011-09-15T14:40:57.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="796" CreationDate="2011-09-15T14:43:23.097" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Divide and Conquer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone who participates in a Grant should somehow (through emails or a separate room in the chat) decide what exactly they will cover in their respective blog entries. This would prevent duplicate blog posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2011-09-15T14:43:23.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="796" CreationDate="2011-09-15T14:47:29.770" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Free Reign&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No restrictions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People blog what they will and we deal with any overlap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2011-09-15T14:47:29.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="800" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="803" CreationDate="2011-09-15T16:09:20.743" Score="8" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;I first wrote &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5556&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; with a this title :  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why Obi-Wan and Yoda disappears when they dies while Qui-Gon and Vader don't?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I step back and reformulated it by replacing the character names with the more generic &quot;&lt;em&gt;Some Jedi&lt;/em&gt;&quot; and added spoiler markup in the question text. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only problem is that I think the new spoiler-less question title would be less reachable though search engines, such as Google, since the first reflex is to use the names of the character in the search query.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what should we prioritize: a spoiler free environment or question titles that better match what people with the same question would be searching for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2014-08-14T21:18:22.343" Title="Spoilers Vs Search engine" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="801" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-09-15T16:22:35.770" Score="1" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would apply to authors such as Zindell, Stross, and Egan just to name a few... A synonymous would be H+ or/and h+. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2682" LastEditorUserId="4257" LastEditDate="2013-05-28T00:04:57.603" LastActivityDate="2013-05-28T00:04:57.603" Title="Why is there no transhuman tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="801" CreationDate="2011-09-15T17:04:51.727" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go ask your transhuman-related question on the main site.  I'll add the tag to it for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2011-09-15T17:04:51.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="800" CreationDate="2011-09-15T17:14:40.867" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;So long as you put the question somewhere there, even inside the spoiler protection markdown, it should be good enough to make the question searchable. Try to make it clear from the title what you are asking for anyone who knows, and that should be good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why some Jedi disappear when they die while others don't?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;was a perfect choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51" LastActivityDate="2011-09-15T17:14:40.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="804" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="808" CreationDate="2011-09-15T18:13:06.780" Score="8" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read the entry in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq#flagging&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, but that only mentions obvious things such as &quot;abusive, off-topic, or inappropriate content.&quot; What about the gray areas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mention this because my recent question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5477/in-the-book-movie-sphere-why-was-the-space-craft-built-with-aerodynamics&quot;&gt;In the book/movie Sphere, why was the space craft built with aerodynamics?&lt;/a&gt; attracted a person who appears to be quite passonate about their response. In the comments on his answer there appears to be an escalating argument about the merits of his answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what I actually find inapproroate is that on the main question he suggests that I have selected the wrong answer, and that I should choose his. I referred him to this meta question/answer: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/510/what-happens-to-an-obviously-correct-answer-that-is-never-marked-and-no-other-an&quot;&gt;What happens to an obviously correct answer that is never marked (and no other answer is marked)?&lt;/a&gt;. But I'm wondering if his comment should be flagged as inappropriate, so that he &lt;em&gt;learns&lt;/em&gt; not to be so aggressive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="When is it appropriate to flag a comment?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="804" CreationDate="2011-09-15T18:42:49.250" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this instance, flag the aggressive comments to his answer, as they're under the 'abusive' and/or 'inappropriate' sections of the &quot;What if I see bad things happening?&quot; part of that linked FAQ page.  You could flag his comment to the question too, as it was pretty inappropriate as well, but you handled it pretty well by replying to that comment with some education.  Flag things that are out of hand, but also try to guide people back on track if things haven't gotten too bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, you can bring questions about the flag-worthiness of posts and comments to chat, as there are often moderators there who can look into things, and provide you with feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2011-09-15T18:42:49.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="801" CreationDate="2011-09-15T19:47:48.720" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a tag doesn't exist, and you really think it should exist, then write the question, and flag it, and someone who has the required reputation can add it. Alternatively, bring it up in the chatroom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2011-09-15T19:47:48.720" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="796" CreationDate="2011-09-15T20:11:58.917" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should do blog posts on the following topics, and divide it out, for the Star Wars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;General review as a newbie&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;General Review as an enthusists&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Review as a guy who's watched the series, but not too often.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Review of the extra goodies&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Commentary reviews, if they have them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say let's post them in the order they are ready, every 2 days, until they are all done. We can all pick one of the topics to work on (2 if required). Multiple people can contribute if desired as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, it comes down to this, find as many reasonable blog posts as can be found, and write them up. If there's only one review that could really be had (Especially in books, etc), then just post the one review combined together, otherwise, break it out as required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2011-09-15T20:17:39.140" LastActivityDate="2011-09-15T20:17:39.140" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="804" CreationDate="2011-09-15T23:41:04.243" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The comment flag reasons give an idea. Anything that doesn't respect the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq#etiquette&quot;&gt;etiquette rules&lt;/a&gt; (“civility is required at all times”) will be deleted by a moderator if it comes to our attention, so flag as “rude or offensive”. Furthermore, comments are only intended to request or provide clarification on a post or suggest improvements; discussion should happen in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/science-fiction-fantasy&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;. If you feel that a comment does not meet these intents, flag as “off-topic” or “too chatty”. If you feel that a comment has served its function and will not be useful to future visitors, flag as “obsolete”. For more discussion of comment flagging, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/17364/how-does-comment-voting-and-flagging-work&quot;&gt;the comment voting and flagging FAQ on the main Meta&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2228/when-should-comments-be-deleted/2235#2235&quot;&gt;this essay on when comments should be deleted&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you see a post with many flag-worthy comments, don't bother flagging them one by one; instead, flag the post for moderator attention and describe the situation in the flag reason (e.g. “flame war in progress in the comments”).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here, I've deleted all comments except Jeff's initial objection, as the comment discussion doesn't seem to be going anywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2011-09-15T23:41:04.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="809" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="813" CreationDate="2011-09-16T19:14:21.087" Score="6" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/4451/science-fiction-fantasy&quot;&gt;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/4451/science-fiction-fantasy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the metrics that is tracked is 'Answers per Question' and it's one of the ones where we are simply 'Ok' currently (2.5 being the 'Good' level, we're at 2.4)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem I see is that given our current rules, extensive speculation is not encouraged (frankly, the amount of speculation I frequently do is likely borderline).  This leads to questions with a single, valid answer being preferred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is GOOD.  Real questions have answers, and this is not a discussion forum (if someone could make those links, that'd be great).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question comes about because, well, these metrics and guidelines came from stackoverflow initially, where there are MANY valid answers to most questions.  There's usually a different technique or language that can allow many different valid answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same isn't true as often for SF&amp;amp;F - questions that allow for multiple correct and valid answers are often subjective or argumentative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?  Is this a valid metric for this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notes:&#xA;1. I'm not suggesting this shouldn't be tracked or used in evaluating the site.&#xA;2. I know this is far from our worst metric - questions per day and visits per day are more problematic.&#xA;3. I'm asking this mostly as a way to guage what everyone else thinks this site SHOULD be moving towards, and to get some discussion of it going.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="656" LastActivityDate="2011-09-17T02:02:30.590" Title="Is 'Answers per Question' a valid metric for this site?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="778" CreationDate="2011-09-16T19:30:00.750" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The biggest forthcoming SF novels are likely to be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Reamde&lt;/i&gt; by Neal Stephenson, published next Tuesday (20&#xA;September).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Children of the Sky&lt;/i&gt; by Vernor Vinge, published on October 11.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23" LastActivityDate="2011-09-16T19:30:00.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="809" CreationDate="2011-09-16T20:10:51.647" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Too many answers is bad. Too few is bad too. A healthy question has some competition. Some impetus to improve your answer. If you are the only one who answers the question, there are less reasons to do better than simply providing the bare minimum correct answer. Great answers answer not only the asker's underlying question. But the questions that people 2 years from now are really asking when they manage to find the question on Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is why a little more than 2 per question is the ideal place to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Gnovice pointed out, there are more reasons to improve your answer. However, nothing about having more than one answer on a question prevents you from doing those things. And in the case of bumping the question, more answers means more bumps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51" LastEditorUserId="51" LastEditDate="2011-09-16T20:53:28.590" LastActivityDate="2011-09-16T20:53:28.590" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="793" CreationDate="2011-09-17T00:18:25.840" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made an effort under the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5523/why-is-leia-a-princess&quot;&gt;last&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5556/why-some-jedi-disappear-when-they-die-while-others-dont&quot;&gt;few&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5574/why-did-luke-skywalker-call-obi-wan-ben&quot;&gt;days&lt;/a&gt; and I would like more participation form others; I would like to answer question too!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2011-09-17T00:18:25.840" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="809" CreationDate="2011-09-17T02:02:30.590" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Area 51 metrics are of course only guidelines.  I doubt it really matters (in terms of launching) whether we are at 2, 2.4, 2.5, or higher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that this is a poor metric to have prominently displayed (for most sites, not just ours) - or is at least poorly described. There are several problems:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All of the other metrics are clearly &quot;aim to be as high as possible&quot;.  That's not the case here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What's the way to get this number really large?  Have a lot of list/recommendation/poll questions.  That's completely not the direction that SE wants things to go.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a question has a large number (e.g. 10+) of answers, that isn't IMO any indication of site quality.  In most cases, it's an indication that there are a lot of low-quality answers - when was the last time you saw a question on &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; SE site that had 10+ high-quality answers?  This is why we can 'protect' questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a question has an answer that's good but missing something, the right thing to do isn't add another answer, it's edit the existing one (when Area 51 was created, not everyone could edit, of course).  Another answer is only necessary when it's disagreeing or perhaps substantially more information.  I suspect that this might be the root cause of this problem: when only a few users could edit, more answers meant more information; now more information is answers+edits.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO a good site should have more than one answer on average, because the description's correct that completing answers (and/or viewpoints) are good.  However, it should have fewer than 5 answers &lt;strong&gt;on average&lt;/strong&gt; per question, because this isn't the place to have discussions or arguments, and most questions (a) don't really have room for five competing answers, and (b) won't have more than five answers read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless our value drops significantly below 2 (or rises significantly), I don't think we should be concerned about this at all.  As you said, views and questions are much more important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-09-17T02:02:30.590" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="814" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="816" CreationDate="2011-09-18T03:51:33.363" Score="5" ViewCount="263" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/499/are-shopping-questions-on-topic&quot;&gt;Are shopping questions on topic?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5610/where-can-i-buy-an-unmodified-star-wars-episode-4-6-copy&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; question was recently asked, and I don't think it's on topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Its asking for a list of places to buy something&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's no real Science fiction question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's no real answer that can be given&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And it's not constructive to the site as any answer that could be given isn't concrete enough to be valid beyond a week or so...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this question stays around, I think it should at least be converted to Com Wiki...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2011-09-18T10:35:05.803" Title="Is asking where to purchase something on topic?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2012-02-07T19:44:18.867" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="814" CreationDate="2011-09-18T05:25:58.647" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are a few exceptions, but in general it should be banned. The two exceptions are if the product is rare, or if there's only a few places to buy them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, asking where to buy the Star Wars blu-ray would be off topic, as general reference, but asking where to buy a first edition comic book might not be. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the question asked is on topic. The author doesn't want a list of things, they want one specific thing, that is pretty rare, namely an unmodified Star Wars. It is something that will be valid for a period of time, perhaps many years to come (Although the answer might change with time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the question is a duplicate, so...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2011-09-18T05:41:08.230" LastActivityDate="2011-09-18T05:41:08.230" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="814" CreationDate="2011-09-18T10:35:05.803" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/qa-is-hard-lets-go-shopping/&quot;&gt;Shopping recommendations are generally discouraged on Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;. In general, “where can I buy X” is not a useful question to have on Stack Exchange, because the answer varies by locale and over time. We don't have a specific prohibition in our FAQ because it hasn't come up often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.superuser.com/questions/2324/in-defense-of-obscure-niche-hardware-recommendation-questions&quot;&gt;niche shopping recommendations&lt;/a&gt; do have their usefulness. Asking where to find a specific version of a movie that has had many different versions, not always clearly labeled, strikes me as a reasonable, on-topic question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know why you want to convert the question to community wiki. Either the question is suitable for the site, and there's no need to make it CW, or the question is not suitable and should be closed. &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/the-future-of-community-wiki/&quot;&gt;Community wiki on questions is mostly a historical survivance anyway.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T08:59:44.247" LastActivityDate="2011-09-18T10:35:05.803" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="778" CreationDate="2011-09-19T17:44:55.300" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;io9 has a &lt;a href=&quot;http://io9.com/5836241/the-io9-guide-to-septembers-science-fiction-and-fantasy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;fairly comprehensive list&lt;/a&gt; of September's sci-fi releases. I assume they do this every month. It might be helpful to publish this list here as it is made available, and let the community decide from it. Unless it turns out to not be as comprehensive as it looks from first glance. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastActivityDate="2011-09-19T17:44:55.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="818" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="819" CreationDate="2011-09-20T00:11:52.330" Score="3" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently the most recently &quot;active&quot; question on meta is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/466/why-doesnt-the-visit-chat-link-go-straight-to-the-chat-room&quot;&gt;Why doesn't the “visit chat” link go straight to the chat room?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was asked and last edited on March 23rd.  The most recent answer is from March 23rd.  The most recent comment is from March 24th.  I believe that if there was a deleted answer then I would see that, and I can't see any.  It has the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt; tag, so is of no interest to anyone any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I understand correctly, the &quot;Community&quot; user will periodically &quot;activate&quot; older questions to promote them.  My guess is that is what happened here.  Shouldn't &quot;status-declined&quot; (and status-completed) questions be exempt from this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Why is &quot;Community&quot; bumping status-declined questions?" Tags="|support|meta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="818" CreationDate="2011-09-20T00:55:56.423" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;Community&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/48578/what-can-cause-my-question-to-be-bumped&quot;&gt;bumps&lt;/a&gt; questions that are unanswered, in the sense that they do not have an answer with a score of 1 or more. (I think that's the definition of “unanswered” used here, or maybe it's one upvote or more.) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/466/why-doesnt-the-visit-chat-link-go-straight-to-the-chat-room&quot;&gt;The question in question&lt;/a&gt; currently has a single answer with no vote either way, so it will keep being bumped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The status tags such as &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt; have a different status from votes and acceptance. Votes and acceptance come from the community, whereas the status tags come from moderators and Stack Exchange staff. If a post is marked &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt; but doesn't have an upvoted answer, it means that the community is unhappy with the moderator response, and therefore Community will keep raising the issue now and then, in case either party wants to reconsider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.757" LastActivityDate="2011-09-20T00:55:56.423" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="820" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-09-20T15:06:54.027" Score="5" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm kinda &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1798/what-do-you-think-of-these-site-promotion-ideas&quot;&gt;borrowing this&lt;/a&gt; idea and post-structure from my CHAOS-mate Lauren, but she won't mind if &lt;em&gt;we don't tell her&lt;/em&gt; [/joking]. As most of you know, I've been working on promoting SF&amp;amp;F for the past couple of months, and I'd love to have some help brainstorming. Here's a list of some things I've been doing, where I need your input, and things I'd like to try out:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sponsoring giveaways and contests on blogs:&lt;/strong&gt; This seems to be working well over on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.younghouselove.com/2011/08/fab-freebie-its-a-one-derful-life/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DIY&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.crankyfitness.com/2011/08/fitbit-giveaway.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fitness&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://preciseedit.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/wordsmith-contest/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;English&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.photographyblogger.net/feisol-carbon-fiber-tripod-giveaway/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Photography&lt;/a&gt;, but I've not had a lot of luck with applying this to our site. And it's not for a lack of stuff to give away, cause Sci-Fi and Fantasy has stuff out the wazoo; it's more a lack of non-corporate-owned sites that will pay attention to us, as well as blogs that actually do giveaways. &lt;strong&gt;What blogs, big and small, do you read? Do they do giveaways?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ad space:&lt;/strong&gt; I am in talks with New York Comic Con about getting adspace in their newsletter. I'd love to get an ad on other big Sci-Fi sites. This goes hand-in-hand with the previous point, so the blogs you suggest for that one I can also approach about advertising. &lt;strong&gt;So again, what sites, big and small, do you read?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Going to conferences:&lt;/strong&gt; If anyone is in the New York area and interested in going to New York Comic Con (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/725/new-york-comic-con-2011-scifi-fantasy-se-involvement&quot;&gt;see the Meta post&lt;/a&gt;), we have a limited amount of 3 day passes and would love to get you in. If you are interested in that, please email me at brett[at]stackexchange[dot]com. We can provide you with Stack swag to wear and hand out. That being said, &lt;strong&gt;are there any other conferences that you are planning to attend?&lt;/strong&gt; This most likely falls more towards the Community Team than CHAOS, but I'd like to know so I can reach out to them for advertising.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sponsoring meetups and other events:&lt;/strong&gt; We are sponsoring the event collective Newmindspace's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newmindspace.com/lightsaber-battle-nyc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;NYC Lightsaber Battle&lt;/a&gt; by providing them with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/Newmindspace?sk=app_190322544333196&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jedi robes&lt;/a&gt;. If you are in the New York City area, you should come out! Are there any &lt;strong&gt;other type of events that I should look into sponsoring&lt;/strong&gt;? Do you run an event/meetup that is crazy successful or has a lot of attendees? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are just some ideas we've been tossing around at the office. Does anyone have thoughts about anything else we should try? I want to get this site a ton of new eyeballs and great, longterm users. Let's make it happen!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.190" LastActivityDate="2011-09-20T16:37:36.597" Title="What do you think of these site promotion ideas?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="820" CreationDate="2011-09-20T16:37:36.597" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As for events that you may be interested to sponsoring and/or sending peoples to, there is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fantasiafest.com/2011/en/info/about.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fantasia International Film Festival.&lt;/a&gt; here in Montreal. Of course the 2011 edition is past, but you may want to look at this for 2012.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2011-09-20T16:37:36.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="822" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-09-21T21:32:50.427" Score="4" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the past couple of months, I have been in the recommendation chat and it literally is dead for the couple hours that the event is live.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should this still be going around? Is it a bust?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we schedule different events to replace it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2011-09-21T22:39:55.570" Title="Is the recommendation chat still alive?" Tags="|discussion|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="822" CreationDate="2011-09-21T22:39:55.570" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The initial enthusiasm (ahem) has waned down, and there hasn't been an actual recommendation chat event in a while. Unless someone speaks up, I'll unschedule it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've started a different chat event: &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1056/sf-topic-of-the-day&quot;&gt;SF topic of the day&lt;/a&gt;. There, the principle is that someone proposes a topic and others reply with examples of works (optionally with a short critique). Some topic examples were &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/1601498#1601498&quot;&gt;interpretative dance&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/1612859#1612859&quot;&gt;guilt trips&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/1646622#1646622&quot;&gt;books set in Asia earlier than 1700&lt;/a&gt;. A topic remains for a day or two, which gives everyone around the globe a chance at participating. This perpetual event didn't really take on, but then we didn't put the word out. So consider the word being put out. Please visit the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1056/sf-topic-of-the-day&quot;&gt;SF topic of the day chatroom&lt;/a&gt; once a day or so!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2011-09-21T22:39:55.570" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="703" CreationDate="2011-09-24T03:36:17.980" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt; The information here no longer applies; posts are scheduled for publication on a per-post bases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Organisation&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Planning and scheduling is done through &lt;a href=&quot;https://trello.com/board/scifi-blogoverflow-com-schedule/4e71826f2256897d51319870&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the Trello board&lt;/a&gt;.  We maintain a posting schedule, so that we have a regular flow of content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Time-sensitive posts, like reviews of events, can be done outside the regular schedule, by arrangement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anyone may view the board, to see the current status.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anyone may vote on cards (e.g. to indicate that they think a post idea is a good one).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only members of the board can comment on cards.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When a BlogOverflow account is created for you, you'll be sent a membership invitation to the Trello board at the same time (to the same email address).  &lt;strong&gt;Note that as the board is publicly visible, if you wish to use a pseudonym you need to set that as your Trello name, not your real name&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you've got an idea for a blog post, create a card in the &quot;Ideas&quot; list. If you're planning to write it, attach yourself to it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you've started writing something (whether as a draft on scifi.blogoverflow.com or in your favourite word processor, or on good-old paper), create a card in the &quot;In Progress&quot; list and attach yourself to it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you're thinking about writing about something, check that there's not already a similar card in the &quot;Ideas&quot; or &quot;In Progress&quot; lists.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you've completed a post and want it reviewed/edited, move the card to the &quot;Needs Review&quot; list.  If you're an editor, then whenever you see something in that list and have time, review/edit and move it into the schedule.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The scheduled list includes all the posts (cards) that are ready to be made public, and will have a scheduled date attached to them.  The editor that moves the card into the scheduled list will set the scheduled publish date in scifi.blogoverflow.com at the same time, so that the publishing occurs as scheduled.  Except in special circumstances (e.g. events), all scheduling is done in this way (i.e. no scheduling your own post).  If you'd like a particular publish date, note that in the card.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note that this is - like everything! - subject to change if we find that anything above doesn't work well.  Leave a comment here if you think something should change.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2016-12-13T19:56:07.910" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T19:56:07.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="770" CreationDate="2011-09-29T02:01:43.310" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can now accomplish this by using a shortcode.  Use the following format:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[tag]star-trek[/tag]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12" LastActivityDate="2011-09-29T02:01:43.310" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="832" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-09-30T22:38:49.273" Score="6" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Sci-Fi&lt;/a&gt; StackExchange site we often use &lt;strong&gt;spoiler text&lt;/strong&gt; like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; spoiler text example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally this can only be viewed via a &lt;strong&gt;mouse over&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can this be viewed via an iPad?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I've seen this on an iPad2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" OwnerDisplayName="Wikis" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="How can I view StackExchange spoiler text with an iPad?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="832" CreationDate="2011-10-01T01:16:01.540" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should ask at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.apple.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Ask Different Meta&lt;/a&gt; to get someone to edit Stack Exchange's javascript to make spoilers react to the touchstart and touchend/touchcancel events in addition to the normal mouseover and mouseout events. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="adam" LastActivityDate="2011-10-01T01:16:01.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="832" CreationDate="2011-10-01T19:42:29.170" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/75656/cant-see-spoilers-on-touchscreen&quot;&gt;fixed&lt;/a&gt;&quot; by making it possible to view spoiler text in the (very ugly on a decent sized screen) &quot;mobile&quot; (meaning small, not &quot;easily moved&quot;) version of SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO this isn't fixed at all.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/108090/cant-see-spoilers-on-touchscreen-outside-of-mobile-site&quot;&gt;There is a post to have it properly fixed&lt;/a&gt;.  Unfortunately, this has been &lt;strong&gt;declined&lt;/strong&gt;.  The official StackExchange position is that they don't care about this problem and you should go use some other view for StackExchange if you want this to work.  As far as they are concerned (according to the answer on the post from a SE employee) touch-based devices aren't enough of SE's traffic to care about, and if you want to be able to read spoiler text on a touch-based device (whether iPad or Windows 8 or Kindle Fire or anything else) you should go find some other way to view the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Extremely disappointing, but there's nothing we can do about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2011-10-02T20:01:01.263" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="835" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-10-02T14:10:43.797" Score="19" ViewCount="389" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm currently watching Star Trek TNG. While skimming through the Stack Exchange hot questions list, I saw &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5886/how-did-tasha-yar-know-to-make-a-hologram-for-her-funeral&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; in scifi.SE that spoiled the death of a character. Should I leave a comment telling the OP to change the title so other people who haven't gotten to that part of the show don't have it spoiled?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="675" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2018-02-20T12:36:44.613" LastActivityDate="2018-02-20T12:36:44.613" Title="Is it okay to have spoilers in question titles?" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|title|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="835" CreationDate="2011-10-02T14:21:55.503" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Normally we operate on the assumption that certain things are too popular and old to be mass spoil-able. However, if you feel this isn't popular/old enough. Feel free to edit it yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are just some things that it is hard to ask about effectively without some small spoilage. We are, after all, a site dedicated to answering questions about plots, and the very nature of this is spoilerific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110812/02140715488/spoiler-alert-people-enjoy-books-more-when-they-know-spoilers.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;spoiling may not be the bad thing we've always thought it was&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51" LastActivityDate="2011-10-02T14:21:55.503" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26" CreationDate="2011-10-02T19:52:59.733" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Next time someone asks for a scifi or fantasy recommendation point them to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.box.net/shared/static/a6omcl2la0ivlxsn3o8m.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this wonderful chart&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2838" LastActivityDate="2011-10-02T19:52:59.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="839" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-10-02T20:42:05.220" Score="2" ViewCount="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;favourite question&quot; system is useful for marking questions that you want to go back to, or what to keep track of changes to.  However, it's not simple to see what's changed - you need to look at the activity feed in your profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be convenient to have an RSS feed (like there is for nearly everything else) that summarised your favourites.  Obviously this wouldn't be just questions (since you've seen the question when you favourite it), but answers as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Add RSS feed for favourite questions" Tags="|feature-request|rss|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="839" CreationDate="2011-10-02T20:58:18.120" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/25194/rss-feed-for-favorite-questions&quot;&gt;has been requested on the main Meta site&lt;/a&gt; a long time ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/questions/1599/stack2rss-a-json-to-rss-conversion-service-now-fully-open-source&quot;&gt;George Edison's Stack2RSS&lt;/a&gt;, e.g. &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stack2rss.stackexchange.com/scifi.stackexchange.com/users/108/favorites?body=true&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tony Meyer's favorites on Scifi.SE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stack2rss.stackexchange.com/SITENAME.stackexchange.com/users/NUMBER/favorites?body=true&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:40.340" LastActivityDate="2011-10-02T20:58:18.120" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="841" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="842" CreationDate="2011-10-03T13:28:17.917" Score="9" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, we're getting a lot of questions with fluff added to avoid spoilers from being seen on the question page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we add some verbiage somewhere stating that there's a 200 character pre-spoiler requirement (that shouldn't be filled with SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS, etc) if they choose to have spoilers in their question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I counted the characters needed to make adiquate fluff, and it was around 194, which turns out to be a little less than 2 lines of text on the questions page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I know that I've been guilty of this, but I'm trying to see if people have suggestions on how to remedy these situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorUserId="1109" LastEditDate="2011-10-03T13:38:08.870" LastActivityDate="2011-10-03T15:06:19.963" Title="That which is seen cannot be unseen" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="841" CreationDate="2011-10-03T15:06:19.963" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no way to remedy it.  All of the feature requests to fix the bug where spoilers show on the &lt;code&gt;/questions&lt;/code&gt; page were rejected by the admins, so we're stuck with this workaround.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the previews of questions that are posted in chat have more characters than the &lt;code&gt;/questions&lt;/code&gt; page - 295 characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2011-10-03T15:06:19.963" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="843" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="846" CreationDate="2011-10-05T16:26:18.513" Score="8" ViewCount="286" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/r2d2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;r2d2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;r2d2&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/c-3po&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;c-3po&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;c-3po&lt;/a&gt; tags that appeared recently. Those are a subset of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before I (or we) start to re-tag all &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; question with a character tags I would like to discuss this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, is that a good idea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, should we use a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/princess-leia&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;princess-leia&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;princess-leia&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/leia-organa-solo&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;leia-organa-solo&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;leia-organa-solo&lt;/a&gt;? should we set the other as a synonym?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And what about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/darth-vader&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;darth-vader&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;darth-vader&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/anakin-skywalker&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;anakin-skywalker&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;anakin-skywalker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/senator-palpatine&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;senator-palpatine&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;senator-palpatine&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/darth-sidious&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;darth-sidious&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;darth-sidious&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-emperor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-emperor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-emperor&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/emperor-palpatine&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;emperor-palpatine&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;emperor-palpatine&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/palpatine&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;palpatine&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;palpatine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2011-10-06T21:07:59.753" Title="Star-Wars character tags" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="843" CreationDate="2011-10-06T17:27:48.540" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm uncertain that there will be a great need for them - do these characters really have enough unique questions to warrant their own tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/r2-d2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;r2-d2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;r2-d2&lt;/a&gt; is the subject of a few questions...but isn't he commonly referred to along with his counterpart?  Wouldn't something like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/droid&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;droid&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;droid&lt;/a&gt; be better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How long until we have a question about how to tell the difference between characters in EU works?  SW especially is famous for having Loads and Loads of characters (especially in the EU), and I think it could quickly become tiresome to maintain character-specific tags for each one that has a question asked about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps we could create a more generic &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character-specific&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character-specific&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character-specific&lt;/a&gt; which we could append to questions which are about specific characters - after all, they'll likely be referenced by name in the question title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="656" LastActivityDate="2011-10-06T17:27:48.540" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="751" CreationDate="2011-10-06T17:35:02.387" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Shadowy Corner&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, it's more fantasy, but in most stories, it's the guy in the shadowy corner who has all the info to help you move the plot along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="656" LastActivityDate="2011-10-06T17:35:02.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="843" CreationDate="2011-10-06T21:07:59.753" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm rather against these tags, I don't see much use for them. Tags are useful for two things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For people to subscribe to them or ignore them. For example a &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; fan would want to browse every question tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;, and a &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; hater would want to ignore these questions. But are you going to ignore questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jar-jar&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jar-jar&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jar-jar&lt;/a&gt; just because you hate the character? If you're in love with Princess Leia, does that mean you specifically want to read all &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/princess-leia&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;princess-leia&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;princess-leia&lt;/a&gt; questions and not other &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; questions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To classify questions in a manner that goes beyond plain text search. A question about &lt;em&gt;The Empire Strikes Back&lt;/em&gt; may not contain the text “Star Wars”, yet be relevant to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;. A question about R2-D2 would contain “R2-D2” or at least “R2D2”, so the tag isn't helping much. A tag could help pinpoint the questions that are specifically about the character, as opposed to mentioning it in passing; but this is rather marginal, especially as a title search should be able to serve the same purpose.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A common litmus test is whether a tag could legitimately be the sole tag of a question. I don't think any &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; character fits the bill: what &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/r2-d2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;r2-d2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;r2-d2&lt;/a&gt; question wouldn't warrant the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; tag? (I could see character names functioning as tags when they are timeless figures that have transcended their original creator, such as Prometheus or Frankenstein or Superman.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a more general note, this site already suffers from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/408/should-we-relax-the-tag-creation-rules-for-this-site/410#410&quot;&gt;too-specific tags&lt;/a&gt;: we tend to have lots of tags that are specific to little-known authors or works, and few other ways to classify questions. We should be aiming for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/514/connecting-tags&quot;&gt;broader tags&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.730" LastActivityDate="2011-10-06T21:07:59.753" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="751" CreationDate="2011-10-07T22:00:39.277" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggested by Jack B Nimble&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2011-10-07T22:00:39.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="751" CreationDate="2011-10-07T22:01:17.653" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ten Forward&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because it's just as geeky with Star Trek&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2011-10-07T22:01:17.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="751" CreationDate="2011-10-07T22:04:02.810" Score="-4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quincunx_of_Time#Plot_introduction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dirac&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Better known for its appearance in &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_in_Flight&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cities in Flight&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More appropriate than the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/751/what-should-we-call-our-chatroom/752#752&quot;&gt;ansible&lt;/a&gt;, since a Dirac broadcasts whereas an ansible is usually for point-to-point communication. But the ansible is much better known, having become genericized (so to speak), whereas the Dirac is specifically by Blish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2011-10-07T22:04:02.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="751" CreationDate="2011-10-08T21:02:21.450" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Mothership&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A nice and generic sci-fi term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2011-10-08T21:02:21.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="851" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-10-08T21:09:21.957" Score="5" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if there was a visual indication of which body text was going to be used as preview text for the questions page and chat oneboxing (if they used the same amount of text, then only one indicator would be necessary, of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two advantages of this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This text is the third most important content (after the tags and title) in terms of convincing users to view the question (and then answer it, vote for it, share links to it, etc).  Like the first sentence in a news article, it should be the most enticing.  It would be useful to know exactly which part of what you're writing will be shown.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When the spoiler tag is used, it should come later in the question, so that the hidden text isn't visible in the previews.  It's difficult to know exactly how much leading text is required at the moment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The indicator could be something subtle like a (subtle) colour highlight of the text, or some sort of symbol marking the end of the preview sections, or it could be a separate &quot;what will this look like on the questions page&quot; preview.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-10-13T18:11:29.127" Title="Include preview text indicator in live preview" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="852" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-10-10T17:10:20.147" Score="8" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;This year is the 45th Anniversary of &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: The Original Series&lt;/em&gt;.  As a sort of celebration, I was wondering if there was interest in doing a sort of &lt;strike&gt;book&lt;/strike&gt; TV club where we watch a few episodes and discuss in chat.  Depending on people's availability, we could do a simultaneous viewing with people in chat having a conversation about the episode we're all watching.  I'd also highly recommend posting questions people have as they watch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For people in the US (and maybe Canada?), &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; is easy to watch, as Netflix Streaming has the entire series available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2011-10-10T18:21:38.857" Title="Interest in a group-watching of Star Trek:TOS?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2012-09-06T13:52:15.760" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="852" CreationDate="2011-10-10T18:21:38.857" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love this idea. What we should do is have 4-5 episodes in a batch, do a batch a week, and at the start of the batch we run a chat event where people can watch together. And then for the rest of the week people are encouraged to watch up and answer questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would also be a great way to use the blog more, as we can list the weekly episodes and whatever other details we want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this would be great to do as more than just ST:TOS, also. Maybe the first batch or few is TOS, and then we branch out into other shows and maybe movies too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Great idea. Kudos Keen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51" LastActivityDate="2011-10-10T18:21:38.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="854" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-10-10T18:42:27.170" Score="4" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;The second season of AMC's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walking_Dead_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;The Walking Dead&quot;&lt;/a&gt; starts on Sunday here in the US, and if the first season's popularity was an indicator, the second season will be huge. I think that this has almost as much potential to help get new eyes on the site &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/793/now-that-star-wars-is-coming-out-on-blu-ray-help-promote-sci-fi-fantasy-se&quot;&gt;as the Star Wars grant&lt;/a&gt; did.  I know there may be some trepidation about having more horror-leaning content on the site, but there is a precedence for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/horror&quot;&gt;horror&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/zombie&quot;&gt;zombie&lt;/a&gt; questions. I think this is an area we could grow in a little bit, and also be ahead of the game in (there are already a ton of Star Wars questions on the internet, not so for Walking Dead).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to send some of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walking_Dead&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the Walking Dead&lt;/a&gt; comic book collected editions as well as the first season (either DVD or Blu-Ray) to a few users willing to generate content. I need to do this quickly, so I'd first like to make sure this is something that the site wants. Please let me know your thoughts in the next day and I will move forward based on that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2011-10-10T19:44:20.667" Title="Is anyone interested in a Walking Dead grant?" Tags="|discussion|promotional-grant|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="854" CreationDate="2011-10-10T19:44:20.667" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the fact that I think most horror fans would very much like to see that content expanded here (and it's been made clear that works of speculative fiction in general are acceptable on this SE), I think this is a great idea.  This particular selection is great because it bridges two different types of media - you'll likely get both fans of the show and of the comic book involved in asking/answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1913" LastActivityDate="2011-10-10T19:44:20.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="778" CreationDate="2011-10-11T01:34:43.543" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Next week, &lt;em&gt;Batman: Year One&lt;/em&gt; is released on Blu/DVD.  Week after that, *Captain America: The First Avenger is released on Blu/DVD as well.  I think these would make good promotional grant material, especially Batman, as the DC Animated Universe movies have been good sources of questions and this one covers the origins of Batman, an extremely popular character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2011-10-11T01:34:43.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="857" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-10-11T16:45:44.970" Score="6" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is shockingly similar to the Star Wars Grant that happened last month (you can check that out &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/793/now-that-star-wars-is-coming-out-on-blu-ray-help-promote-sci-fi-fantasy-se&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;; replace &quot;Star Wars&quot; with &quot;Walking Dead&quot;). The short version is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I want to give our interested users Walking Dead comics and&#xA;  DVD/Blu-Rays to generate questions and content for the site. Then,&#xA;  when people go online to look for Walking Dead content, they'll see&#xA;  that &lt;em&gt;nothing tops SciFi.SE&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 5 highest-rep users who volunteer in an answer below will receive:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1582406197&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Walking Dead: Book 1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which collects the first 12 issues of&#xA;the series. If you are already an avid &lt;em&gt;Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt; reader, we can amend this to only include collections you have not read yet, of comparable price. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Walking Dead: Season 1&lt;/strong&gt; on DVD/Blu-Ray (specify which; we&#xA;will not provide a Blu-Ray player).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In you answer/application, include what Walking Dead you have read (if any) and whether or not you prefer DVD or Blu-Ray.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to get this stuff ordered and sent out in the next day to hopefully capitalize on Season 2's premiere on Sunday, so if you are interested you have until &lt;strong&gt;Wednesday, October 12th, 1PM EST/17:00 UTC&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.730" LastActivityDate="2011-10-12T18:58:32.050" Title="Who wants Walking Dead stuff?" Tags="|discussion|promotional-grant|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="857" CreationDate="2011-10-11T17:00:09.387" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alright. I'll go in for it. I'd prefer Blu-ray.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have consumed none of the Walking Dead series. But I am a huge fan of Zombie flicks in general and will probably have some real insights/questions about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But subtract 4000 rep from me to give other people a shot ahead of me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51" LastActivityDate="2011-10-11T17:00:09.387" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="857" CreationDate="2011-10-11T17:12:54.273" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd certainly be interested.  I haven't read any of the Walking Dead comics.  My preference would be for Blue Ray.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll be happy to rack my &lt;em&gt;braaaaaaaaains&lt;/em&gt; for some good questions/answers (sorry, I couldn't resist!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2011-10-11T17:12:54.273" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="857" CreationDate="2011-10-11T19:02:25.790" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've got The Walking Dead Volume 1: Days Gone Bye and have watched the show, but would love anything after Days Gone Bye.  Not really interested in having the show (definitely think that should go to people who haven't seen it, ideally).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm particularly interested in how the show differs from the comic, especially leading into Season 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1913" LastActivityDate="2011-10-11T19:02:25.790" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="857" CreationDate="2011-10-11T20:33:05.490" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have got all the trades up from &lt;em&gt;Days Gone By&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;No Way Out&lt;/em&gt; (volume 14). Can't wait to see if they're bringing in The Governor for the TV series. Do you think it's Merle?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why is Andrea looking much like her sister Amy now? That's a question that needs answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DVD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="383" LastActivityDate="2011-10-11T20:33:05.490" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="857" CreationDate="2011-10-12T18:58:32.050" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congrats, all four of you will be receiving Walking Dead items!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be in touch with you shortly via e-mail to coordinate the delivery of your items. Hurrah!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;braaaiiiiins&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastActivityDate="2011-10-12T18:58:32.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="764" CreationDate="2011-10-12T22:06:43.220" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would love to see recommendation questions approved as long as they are automatically community wiki, and the recommendation requested is specific and not generic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example of (what I would consider) a good recommendation question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What are some books like &quot;Hichhiker's Guide to the Galaxy&quot;?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  I really like the dry humor of HGTTG and would love some books that have the same dry humor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example of (what I would consider) a bad recommendation question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What are some books like &quot;Hichhiker's Guide to the Galaxy&quot;?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  I really like HGTTG, what are some books like it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say the first one is asking for books with a similar specific aspect of the base novel. Which is good as it is providing that there could be a limited number of books that could qualify.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say the second is bad as it is generic. There are thousands of books like HGTTG in one aspect or another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that if they are all community wiki, then there's no harm or anything since reputation isn't really a factor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just my 2 cents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2011-10-12T22:06:43.220" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="851" CreationDate="2011-10-13T18:11:29.127" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This.  This would be useful.  At the least, it could cut down on the amount of questions that are edited purely to remove spoilers from preview text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="656" LastActivityDate="2011-10-13T18:11:29.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="865" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-10-13T18:15:14.897" Score="0" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a minor irritation, but the close (for dismissing the dialog without taking further action, not closing the question) button on the 'Vote to close question' box is on the left.  In fact, I think all the close buttons are on the left.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Traditionally, in Windows, the close button is on the upper right.  Due to the widespread use of Windows, this has become something of a convention, bucked only by (to my knowledge) Apple's desktop OS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having the close button on the left seems like a violation of one of the UI design rules: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/08/dont-make-me-think-second-edition.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Don't Make Me Think&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could we shift it to the upper-right corner, or was it placed where it was deliberately?  If so, what was the reasoning?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: To be clear, I mean the 'close this dialog box' button - the big 'X' in the upper-left corner, no the buttons that allow you to cast a vote.  I mean the way to dismiss the box without casting a vote, or after you have cast one and hit the 'close' link again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/K9ncX.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="656" LastEditorUserId="656" LastEditDate="2011-10-13T20:50:57.227" LastActivityDate="2011-10-14T01:13:39.450" Title="Vote to close box - move the close button" Tags="|feature-request|user-interface|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="865" CreationDate="2011-10-13T20:41:24.693" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meh. Even if it was important to be consistent with the most-used desktop OS — which I'm not convinced of: the dialog close button doesn't get much use — changing it is a bad idea. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=ubuntu+window+buttons&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The web still remembers&lt;/a&gt; when &lt;a href=&quot;https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/config-desktop/C/window-button-order.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ubuntu did it&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2011-10-13T21:15:07.830" LastActivityDate="2011-10-13T21:15:07.830" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="865" CreationDate="2011-10-14T01:13:39.450" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I absolutely agree with you Jeff. The default location of most lightboxes is the right. Of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.designyourway.net/blog/resources/30-efficient-jquery-lightbox-plugins/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;these&lt;/a&gt;, only one has the close button on the left, and it is designed to look exactly like OSX. All the others have it at the top or bottom right, or not at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, Jedi powers DO come with the diamond. It happens to be a &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Lightsaber_crystal&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;lightsaber crystal&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51" LastActivityDate="2011-10-14T01:13:39.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="868" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="869" CreationDate="2011-10-17T02:42:07.827" Score="6" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;From 2000 to 2010, The Lego Group had a theme called Bionicle. They were basically action figures, but they had a really elaborate story with books and comics. The characters are organic/robotic.&#xA;The stories mostly occur on three different parts of a once-whole planet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So would Bionicle-related questions be allowed on the Science Fiction and Fantasy site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2841" LastActivityDate="2011-10-17T11:12:01.883" Title="Are Bionicle questions on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="868" CreationDate="2011-10-17T11:12:01.883" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;About the lore, plot, characters, shows, and other story-related aspects: yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About where to get sets, prices, or other toy-related aspects: no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51" LastActivityDate="2011-10-17T11:12:01.883" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="870" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="871" CreationDate="2011-10-17T19:48:15.867" Score="3" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the FAQ's it says that signatures aren't allowed and will be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are titles in answers the same way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that the methodology behind no signatures is to prevent redundant information, but the same argument be made for answer titles since all the information is (or should be) in the answer anyway, leaving a title redundant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ask because there's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2765/thaddeus-howze&quot;&gt;a user&lt;/a&gt; whoputs titles and subtitles in ALL of his answers. I know that reading a long answer might seem boring, but proper markup of the answer can prevent anything from being misconstrued.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What say yous?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2011-10-18T07:38:36.257" Title="Are titles in answers useful?" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="870" CreationDate="2011-10-17T20:34:59.307" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Titles (or sub-titles) that help make the answer more readable, organized, etc. are good, and should be encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stormtroopers are not poor soldiers. Let's consider the situations in&#xA;which they find themselves:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A New Hope&lt;/strong&gt;: Soldiers on Tatooine are susceptible to Force Persuasion,&#xA;and are slow to break out the big guns to stop a freighter from&#xA;escaping. Stormtroopers on the Death Star show poor accuracy and&#xA;tactics during their pursuit of the main cast. Many seem to be killed&#xA;or wounded, and very few even come CLOSE to hitting the good guys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Empire Strikes Back&lt;/strong&gt;: Snowtroopers overrun prepared defenses at the&#xA;Rebel base. The Rebels are routed and flee. Later, Stormtroopers&#xA;escort Vader on Cloud City, essentially do nothing...except for&#xA;completely (and virtually invisibly) taking over the entire security.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Return of the Jedi&lt;/strong&gt;: Storm and Scout troopers guard the forest moon of&#xA;Endor. A covert strike team supported by the indigenous peoples of the&#xA;moon assault the base and destroy it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are excellent uses of titles/section headers.  They add organization and clarity to the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Titles that are there simply because the author likes titles are noise, however, and should be edited out/discouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should Frodo have just flown over Mt. Doom and dropped The One Ring from the back of an eagle?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, because that would have been a short and boring story.  Here's why: lorem ipsem....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The title here adds no value, and should be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2011-10-17T20:34:59.307" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="870" CreationDate="2011-10-18T07:38:36.257" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Repeating the subject of the question as a title to the answer is redundant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having several subtitles in a long answer is perfectly fine. That's what the title markup is for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having looked at a few of Thaddeus's answers, I find that a couple of his answer titles are partly redundant, but not all of them, and not strongly so: they don't just repeat the question, they also summarize or set the tone for the answer. This makes them a matter of writing style. The use of section titles is a matter of writing style as well. Writing style is up to the poster; respect it unless it's a matter of accuracy or legibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2011-10-18T07:38:36.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="873" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="878" CreationDate="2011-10-18T16:55:13.090" Score="12" ViewCount="316" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/10/meet-bubbles/&quot;&gt;this blog post&lt;/a&gt;, we see the following:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HN59q.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HN59q.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is the logo on the Tee the official, upcoming scifi.stackexchange logo? And is the new design coming soon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="54887" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T09:12:22.317" LastActivityDate="2017-03-20T09:12:22.317" Title="Is that our new Logo?" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="873" CreationDate="2011-10-20T17:47:02.960" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;We should totally have a logo design contest or a logo design/layout contest and have everyone choose a winnar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UX.se already has a logo and design, and although there are hired staff as designers, part of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/the-7-essential-meta-questions-of-every-beta/&quot;&gt;7 Essentials of every Beta&lt;/a&gt; is that a design &lt;em&gt;doesn't have to&lt;/em&gt; come from the professional designers and we as a community can chose one if we so wish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could even have a general design contest and the hired staff could be there to make the idea a reality... or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2011-10-20T17:47:02.960" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="876" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="877" CreationDate="2011-10-26T14:12:05.800" Score="11" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a couple questions that I've asked that I don't really think have been answered correctly, or I don't really agree with the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it ok that they go without me selecting one of them as correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2011-10-26T20:24:05.460" LastActivityDate="2011-10-26T20:24:05.460" Title="Is it okay to not select an answer as correct?" Tags="|discussion|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="876" CreationDate="2011-10-26T14:16:29.957" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, absolutely.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it is probably wise to leave notes on existing answers as to what doesn't satisfy you. And if you one day learn the answer yourself, come back and answer your own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51" LastActivityDate="2011-10-26T14:16:29.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="873" CreationDate="2011-10-27T13:52:50.577" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry for not answering this sooner!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is an early draft of the logo. Since I wanted Sci-Fi.SE to have a big presence at New York Comic Con, Jin expedited his design for Sci-Fi and &lt;em&gt;delivered&lt;/em&gt;. I believe that a site design is on its way, and I also believe that that symbol (or one similar to it) will be the logo. The shirts were designed with limited edition-ness in mind (which is why they say NYCC for New York Comic Con on them), so if the design changes, that makes the shirts and stickers even more collectible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the ACTUAL site design, Jin has brought his ideas &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/982/design-ideas-for-gaming-site-updated-with-screenshots-v2&quot;&gt;to the Meta&lt;/a&gt; in the past. I'm sure once the site gets closer to an actual graduation date, he'll do the same here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:32:35.867" LastActivityDate="2011-10-27T13:52:50.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="879" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="880" CreationDate="2011-10-27T14:26:49.203" Score="7" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it acceptable to ask for advice about putting together sci-fi related costumes on this site? I'm really itching to go to a Halloween party after work this Friday as a Centauri, but can't figure out how to get my hair to stand up!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133" LastActivityDate="2011-10-27T22:57:43.927" Title="Costume questions" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="879" CreationDate="2011-10-27T15:07:01.350" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that it is off-topic, as much as I don't want it to be. It's really a hair styling question, despite it's sci-fi leaning (like how asking about training to be a snitch in Quidditch would really be a Fitness question; also SOMEONE PLEASE ASK THAT). BUT as someone who also spends way too much time on Halloween costumes, I sympathize with the dilemma and wish there was an SE for it. I figure the least we can do is try to answer it here in Meta (or the least I can do).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you should Google tips for creating big mohawks. From what I've seen of Centauris, it looks like the creation process could work similarly. Here are some links about creating mohawks: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1083405/how_to_create_a_mohawk_for_halloween.html?cat=69&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikihow.com/Put-up-a-Mohawk-or-Liberty-Spikes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. I did a Google search specifically for Centauri costume tips and came up empty-handed. I hope this helps some! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I also hope that other people disagree with me saying that this is off-topic, because I also love Halloween and have a million costume questions.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastActivityDate="2011-10-27T15:07:01.350" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="879" CreationDate="2011-10-27T22:57:43.927" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a question on how to design a costume with an SF theme would be on-topic here. For example, “what is a reasonable hairstyle for a Centauri disguise that I can make at home”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the question you ask is only tangentially related to SF, and crucially, the expertise to answer your question is not at all related to expertise. How to get your hair to stand up is a question for a make-up expert or a hairdresser, not for an SF expert. So this question is off-topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2011-10-27T22:57:43.927" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="554" CreationDate="2011-10-28T20:31:57.647" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dieselpunk/Art Deco styled SciFi Awesomness&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I love the idea of retro-futurism. It reminds me of the cult scifi mags back in the 50's and I think would give a good, classic feel to our SciFi site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some inspiration:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CPEis.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2011-10-28T20:31:57.647" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="883" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="884" CreationDate="2011-10-29T19:14:55.600" Score="6" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;As well as being a fan of traditional written si-fi, I also love some of the series on the SiFi channel - Lost Girl, Eureka, Warehouse 13.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is not so much whether these are on-topic, as I presume that they are. the question is more whether they are valuable on this site, in terms of whether there are enough other people who watch and enjoy these. Would this aspect make a valuable addition, or would I end up talking to myself ( as so often )?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3074" LastActivityDate="2016-09-07T00:10:46.053" Title="Are Questions on SyFy channel series valuable?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="883" CreationDate="2011-10-30T02:59:09.810" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;SyFy channel series are definitely on-topic and welcome here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stargate&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate&lt;/a&gt;: 247 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/battlestar-galactica&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;battlestar-galactica&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;battlestar-galactica&lt;/a&gt;: 133 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/caprica&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;caprica&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;caprica&lt;/a&gt;: 8 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/eureka&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;eureka&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;eureka&lt;/a&gt;: 11 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/warehouse-13&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;warehouse-13&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;warehouse-13&lt;/a&gt;: 13 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lost-girl&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lost-girl&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lost-girl&lt;/a&gt;: 5 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also have a pretty big tradition with other “pop” SciFi shows, past and present:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt;: 2911 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doctor-who&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;doctor-who&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;doctor-who&lt;/a&gt;: 1106 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/firefly&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;firefly&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;firefly&lt;/a&gt;: 80 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminator&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminator&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminator&lt;/a&gt;: 157 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/futurama&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;futurama&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;futurama&lt;/a&gt; (!): 205 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/transformers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;transformers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;transformers&lt;/a&gt;: 113 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/heroes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;heroes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;heroes&lt;/a&gt;: 22 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In reality, whether a question is valuable has less to do with what canon or series they come from and more to do with how unlikely they are easily answered by a general source (like Wikipedia or the appropriate Wikia) and definitively answerable they are in general (i.e. “Explain X to me” instead of “What’s your favorite X in series Y?”).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I, for one, would like to see more interesting &lt;em&gt;Eureka&lt;/em&gt; questions: ask away!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="51379" LastEditDate="2016-09-07T00:10:46.053" LastActivityDate="2016-09-07T00:10:46.053" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="885" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-10-30T08:02:33.697" Score="24" ViewCount="364" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange sites have an &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/48417/should-we-zap-the-low-occurrence-tags/48418#48418&quot;&gt;automatic tag clean up system&lt;/a&gt; that removes tags with only one use after 6 months. However, it seems like this is detrimental to SciFi Stack Exchange, which has a long tail of questions on less popular / relatively unknown books or series (and surprisingly, some fairly well known ones too). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The result of this tag clean up system is questions being tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/untagged&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;untagged&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;untagged&lt;/a&gt; because they no longer carry any tags. These can be easily cleaned up; what is more worrying is questions which once carried two tags now only carry one generic tag, making it difficult to discover questions from infrequently asked series. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, there are tags which will probably see very few questions. For instance, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2578/what-would-have-happened-in-the-second-season-of-flashforward&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; is the only question on this site about the now cancelled TV series FlashForward, so it's unlikely any more &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/flashforward&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;flashforward&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;flashforward&lt;/a&gt; question will be asked. These tags will have to be constantly recreated, since they &lt;strong&gt;are&lt;/strong&gt; legitimate tags, and these questions do deserve the series tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my proposal is that this system be turned off for SciFi Stack Exchange. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS. There seems to be an additional problem where the last editor of the question would appear to have introduced the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/untagged&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;untagged&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;untagged&lt;/a&gt; tag into questions, even though it is in fact the system that's doing the job. For example, in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/1768/revisions&quot;&gt;revision history&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1768/in-wolfskin-who-attacked-ragna&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, it might appear that Tony Meyer introduced the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/untagged&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;untagged&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;untagged&lt;/a&gt; tag, but looking at the Tweet you can see that it actually the now-deleted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/juliet-marillier&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;juliet-marillier&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;juliet-marillier&lt;/a&gt; that was added. This is probably a bug. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2019-03-05T21:09:17.333" Title="Automatic tag clean up and the long tail" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="883" CreationDate="2011-10-31T14:35:55.603" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any questions is appropriate, even if the user base is really small. I've asked questions on other sites that the total pool of users was only in the hundreds if not less, but it was on topic, and actually got an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2011-10-31T14:35:55.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="887" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="889" CreationDate="2011-11-02T22:11:47.603" Score="10" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question ( &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6555/are-e-t-and-star-wars-in-the-same-universe&quot;&gt;Are E.T. and Star Wars in the same universe?&lt;/a&gt; ) has generated over 12k views in less than 2 days since I asked it, and is the only question to have earned the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/37/famous-question&quot;&gt;Famous Question badge&lt;/a&gt;, and all in less than 48 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to know where these views are coming from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems obvious that someone published the question somewhere, bringing in a lot of fresh faces (as further evidenced by the new answers it has received from people with no reputation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess I find it a bit odd that this question (that some think is general reference) would become the most viewed question on this site so quickly, especially in light of what I think are may far more interesting questions that already exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2912" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2011-11-08T08:14:27.260" Title="Where are all these views coming from?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="887" CreationDate="2011-11-02T22:51:59.610" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;We had a &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/2326635#2326635&quot;&gt;discussion about this on chat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, &lt;a href=&quot;http://topsy.com/scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6555/are-e-t-and-star-wars-in-the-same-universe/6558&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;some influential person on twitter posted it and then I got some kind of buzz.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2011-11-02T22:51:59.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="887" CreationDate="2011-11-03T13:57:37.953" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It got posted to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/scifi/comments/lx6wa/yes_spielberg_and_lucas_have_placed_enough_canon/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Reddit&lt;/a&gt;. I don't use Reddit, so I'm not even sure how it got there (did one of our users post it there?). But it was posted to Reddit and then tweeted by a TON of people. It's also an interesting question that requires only surface knowledge of two of the most popular movies of all time. It'd be hard to find someone that had never heard of both E.T. or Star Wars, and most of those people probably also have fond childhood nostalgia-soaked memories of the two. Essentially, this is the kind of question that crosses most social groupings and has universal appeal (whereas questions about the technical capabilities of the Enterprise appeal to only hardcore sci-fi fans).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastActivityDate="2011-11-03T13:57:37.953" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="891" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="910" CreationDate="2011-11-03T14:53:42.253" Score="5" ViewCount="203" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I'm sure regular members of the site noticed, we had an insane amount of traffic yesterday. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6555/are-e-t-and-star-wars-in-the-same-universe&quot;&gt;One question&lt;/a&gt; got over 12K views in a day (now up to over 14K). It did lead me to check out which questions have been as popular. The next most popular questions seem to be about &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3358/who-is-the-eye-patch-woman&quot;&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and another, surprisingly, about &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5939/how-is-colonel-broyles-alive-again&quot;&gt;Fringe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. There are only 4 &lt;em&gt;Fringe&lt;/em&gt; questions on the site, and I think there could be a lot more. This site skews heavily towards older science fiction and fantasy (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot;&gt;Star Wars&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot;&gt;Star Trek&lt;/a&gt;) and newer properties only have a fraction of the questions (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot;&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doctor-who&quot;&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot;&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/a&gt;). I think the site can grow exponentially in the direction of newer stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;So what can you do to help?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you already watch &lt;em&gt;Fringe&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Fridays at 9/8c on Fox in the US!), ask any &lt;em&gt;Fringe&lt;/em&gt;-related questions that new episodes inspire. Also consider posting general questions about older episodes. If you're asking it, you're probably not the only one having that question. Ask them even if you think you're going to be able to find the answer yourself… and if you do find the answer, go ahead and answer it yourself. When answering these questions, do everything you can to overkill it. Don't just answer with a hyperlink to some other discussion group somewhere. Write a detailed, ultra-clear answer that is just as complete and clear as you can muster. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a great opportunity to build up a body of answers to a show that is currently on the air and on the minds of sci-fi/fantasy enthusiasts not on the site currently. These questions will hopefully bring in lots of traffic from search engines and if Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy.SE continues to have great answers like we have had in the past, we stand a chance of attracting some great new users who will add value for years to come!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A new episode airs tomorrow night (Friday, November 4th) in the US. Tune in and ask questions!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you do not watch &lt;em&gt;Fringe&lt;/em&gt; currently&lt;/strong&gt; and want to help, Stack Exchange will get you caught up. &lt;strong&gt;We will be rewarding users with Fringe DVDs to enable them to populate our site with awesome &lt;em&gt;Fringe&lt;/em&gt; questions&lt;/strong&gt;. The grant will work like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To be eligible, answer this question with your username and which season of &lt;em&gt;Fringe&lt;/em&gt; you would like to receive on DVD.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We will then reward the 4 highest-rep users with the season of their choosing on DVD, so they can populate the site with awesome questions as first-time viewers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The grant closes on Monday, November 7th at 4:00 PM EST/21:00 UTC.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2011-11-08T16:13:21.620" Title="Do you have questions about &quot;Fringe&quot;? Do you want to ask them, as well as possibly get &quot;Fringe&quot; stuff?" Tags="|discussion|promotional-grant|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="891" CreationDate="2011-11-03T15:14:14.240" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OghmaOsiris&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd watch all the seasons, lol. I always meant to get into that show, but never have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I guess I'd be up for getting the first season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2011-11-03T15:14:14.240" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="893" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-03T16:41:22.440" Score="1" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of our metrics on Area 51 is questions per answer. It seems that if a person accepts an answer, it will turn some people off to adding a new answer to a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently I think there's a 15 minute wait before an answer can be accepted. Should this be increased to encourage users to submit more answers? At least until we're out of beta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorUserId="1109" LastEditDate="2011-11-04T14:47:13.397" LastActivityDate="2011-11-04T14:47:13.397" Title="Should the wait time on accepting an answer be increased?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="893" CreationDate="2011-11-03T17:07:30.103" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually wait a day or two before accepting an answer just to encourage more answers, in the hope that one of them will be a standout answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2011-11-03T17:07:30.103" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="885" CreationDate="2011-11-04T04:56:12.560" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice that instead of outright deleting a tag, it was either flagged for mod analysis, or better yet, for anyone with &quot;moderator tools&quot; usage, to decide what to do with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2011-11-04T04:56:12.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="885" CreationDate="2011-11-04T08:57:04.223" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As an aside, I would create a separate meta post about the revision history making it look like the post author changed the tag to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/untagged&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;untagged&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;untagged&lt;/a&gt;.  That looks like a bug to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the main point: consider what the point of tags is.  Despite what people often think, they aren't for search: it should always be simple to find a question you're looking for without the tags coming in to play at all (via the title, question, and answer content).  Tags are all about following content (or the fairly useless semi-hiding content) that you're interested in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if I'm interested in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doctor-who&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;doctor-who&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;doctor-who&lt;/a&gt;, then I follow that tag and those questions are highlighted (or, more usefully, I subscribe to the RSS feed for that tag).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's something that only has a single question within the tag-expiry period, then is it worth following?  Perhaps: for example, I'm interested in following any questions about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/blakes-7&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;blakes-7&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;blakes-7&lt;/a&gt;, but for a long time there was only a single question, and so the tag was lost (until there was a second question, and the original question was edited to get the tag back).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;However, I think this demonstrates that the current system works.&lt;/strong&gt;  While the site is small, those of us that read every question will generally notice when a tag can be reintroduced, and do so (this is where the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/untagged&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;untagged&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;untagged&lt;/a&gt; tag is useful, because you can easily see which questions are tag-less).  When the site is large, it seems likely that everything you'd be interested in following would either have a tag already or would (in the case of new material) get multiple questions within the expiry period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's an easy solution if you really want a tag to stick around: ask another good question with that tag!  Or two, or three!  You can then follow it with confidence that it'll stick around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see how tags help discoverability at all.  Surely people aren't skimming through the tail end of the tags page to find questions.  There are lots of good ways to discover material from lesser known work that don't involve tags at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(As another aside: extending the expiry period, or maybe skipping it, for tags that &lt;em&gt;have followers&lt;/em&gt; would be more worthwhile, IMO, since there's then evidence that they are of interest).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-11-04T08:57:04.223" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="893" CreationDate="2011-11-04T09:06:16.427" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/809/is-answers-per-question-a-valid-metric-for-this-site&quot;&gt;&quot;Answers per question&quot; is a bad metric&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a comment to my answer to that post, Jeff Atwood says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;a very high answers per question would be bad. Really bad. 2-3 is&#xA;  fine; 1 or lower is troubling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are at 2.3 right now.  That's right smack in the ideal range.  I think this shows that we don't need to change anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because there's an accepted answer doesn't mean that you shouldn't add another if you feel that you can add something significant (if you can add something insignificant, then just edit it unless you desperately want rep).  There are even &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/49/populist&quot;&gt;badges&lt;/a&gt; to get if your answer is better than the accepted one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is only one answer, and it appeared quickly, and it comprehensively and clearly answers the question about as well as possible, then I think our job is done, and we don't need to be sad that there aren't more answers, or try to add lesser-quality ones somehow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2011-11-04T09:06:16.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="891" CreationDate="2011-11-04T16:30:50.980" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;DavRob60&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I never even heard of Fringe before, So Flowing &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/2345829#2345829&quot;&gt;Keen's recommendation on chat&lt;/a&gt;, I will go for &lt;strong&gt;Season 2&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2011-11-04T16:30:50.980" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="900" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-04T20:48:08.047" Score="4" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hesitate to ask this, since it sounds like a complaint, but it's curiosity and I can't find an answer from searching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm stuck at the computer today doing some work I'm not excited about, so I'm taking frequent breaks.  That means I've posted at least one question and answered several today.  I noticed that when I looked at my reputation history this afternoon, that there were several events of upvotes, but no numbers beside those events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there limits on reputation, such as how much it can go up in a day or how many votes an answer can receive compared to the number of votes for the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Limit to Earning Reputation?" Tags="|support|reputation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="900" CreationDate="2011-11-04T21:11:21.027" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, there is a limit to how much reputation you can get from upvotes. This is briefly touched on in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work&quot;&gt;reputation FAQ&lt;/a&gt;. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/22447/what-is-the-reasoning-behind-the-reputation-cap&quot;&gt;purpose&lt;/a&gt; is to level the playing field, and also to tell you to do something else for the day¹. Roughly speaking, your reputation from upvotes (+10 to answers, +5 to questions, and +2 for accepted edits) will not go above 200 in any given UTC day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &lt;sub&gt; Like go for the cap on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites&quot;&gt;another site&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/sub&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2011-11-04T21:11:21.027" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="900" CreationDate="2011-11-04T22:03:45.107" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I should be noted that while there is a reputation cap for questions/answers, there is not for accepted answers and bounties. So, if someone accepts your answer, you get +15, even if you hit the reputation cap for the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2011-11-04T22:03:45.107" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="903" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="904" CreationDate="2011-11-05T17:56:51.720" Score="5" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read the FAQs and it says that no matter what, you will lose your bounty for the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the stipulations of how the bounty is rewarded is unclear on if your question goes unanswered for the time of the bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will you get a &quot;refund&quot; or will you still lose the bounty and reward it to no one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2011-11-05T18:11:44.897" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="What happens if no one answers a bounty?" Tags="|support|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="903" CreationDate="2011-11-05T18:11:09.450" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You never get a refund for a bounty. If there is still no answer at the end of the bounty period, the reputation is lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are answers but you don't award the bounty, half the amount will be awarded automatically to the eligible answer with the highest score (the oldest in case of a tie), if there is one. An answer is eligible if it was posted during the bounty period and its score when the bounty ends is at least +2. As an exception, if you accept an answer during the bounty period, this answer will be awarded the full bounty (unless you manually award the bounty to a different answer). If there is no eligible answer, no reputation is awarded automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have 24 hours after the end of the 7-day bounty to award the bounty (you can award it earlier if you wish). The automatic award or definitive loss kicks in after that grace period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information, see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16065/how-does-the-bounty-system-work&quot;&gt;bounty FAQ&lt;/a&gt; on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;main Stack Exchange meta site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2011-11-07T20:21:59.123" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="905" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-06T01:38:52.167" Score="5" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;When looking up tags for Star Trek, I've found the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tng&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tng&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tng&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-ds9&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-ds9&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-ds9&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-voyager&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-voyager&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-voyager&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-enterprise&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-enterprise&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-enterprise&lt;/a&gt; (Newly created by myself.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing I see missing though, as long as we have these sub-category tags, is a tag for questions pertaining to the new timeline created by the 2009 movie.  How should we tag this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A couple ideas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-2009&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-2009&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-2009&lt;/a&gt;  (For the release of the movie that started it all.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-jja&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-jja&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-jja&lt;/a&gt; (For J.J. Abrams.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-reboot&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-reboot&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-reboot&lt;/a&gt; (Suggested by @TonyMeyer.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1639" LastEditorUserId="1639" LastEditDate="2011-11-07T04:11:20.303" LastActivityDate="2011-11-08T18:55:18.380" Title="How should we tag questions about the 2009 Star Trek movie and any successors?" Tags="|tags|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-03-29T15:22:53.200" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="905" CreationDate="2011-11-06T01:54:53.030" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think since none of the other Star Trek movies have their own tags, we would leave it alone. Also, I doubt there will be confusion as it is the only movie named just Star Trek. All the others have sub titles like The Motion Picture, Nemesis, Wrath of Kahn, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2011-11-06T01:54:53.030" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="905" CreationDate="2011-11-06T05:27:46.577" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absolutely not J.J. Abrams. Assuming there does end up being more than two movies in the rebooted series, naming the tag after the director of the first (and most likely second) movie doesn't really make any sense. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking forward, 2009 seems rather obscure as well. In 2015, when the third movie comes out, do people really want to remember what year the first one was?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see much need for any specific tag right now. Remember that tags are all about following distinct sets of questions. Are there really people interested in following questions about the single (at this point, plus pre-production sequel) movie and not any other Trek?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is, I would suggest &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-reboot&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-reboot&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-reboot&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-11-06T05:27:46.577" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="905" CreationDate="2011-11-07T00:40:23.307" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;None of the other movie arcs are tagged in a special manner: there is no &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tng-movies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tng-movies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tng-movies&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tos-movies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tos-movies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tos-movies&lt;/a&gt; tag. If they're about a movie, they should be tagged with the movie name or just tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt;. That is, if &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; needs to be broken out from general &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; questions, they should all be broken out:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek: The Motion Picture&lt;/em&gt; becomes &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-1&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-1&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-1&lt;/a&gt; &amp;larr; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-motion-picture&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-motion-picture&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-motion-picture&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan&lt;/em&gt; becomes &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-2&lt;/a&gt; &amp;larr; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-wrath-of-khan&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-wrath-of-khan&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-wrath-of-khan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek III: The Search for Spock&lt;/em&gt; becomes &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-3&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-3&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-3&lt;/a&gt;  (no synonym, too long)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home&lt;/em&gt; becomes &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-4&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-4&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-4&lt;/a&gt;  &amp;larr; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-voyage-home&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-voyage-home&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-voyage-home&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek V: The Final Frontier&lt;/em&gt; becomes &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-5&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-5&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-5&lt;/a&gt; &amp;larr; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-final-frontier&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-final-frontier&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-final-frontier&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country&lt;/em&gt; becomes &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-6&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-6&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-6&lt;/a&gt; (no synonym, too long)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek: Generations&lt;/em&gt; becomes &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-7&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-7&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-7&lt;/a&gt; &amp;larr; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-generations&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-generations&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-generations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek: First Contact&lt;/em&gt; becomes &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-8&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-8&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-8&lt;/a&gt; &amp;larr; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-first-contact&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-first-contact&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-first-contact&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek: Insurrection&lt;/em&gt; becomes &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-9&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-9&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-9&lt;/a&gt; &amp;larr; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-insurrection&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-insurrection&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-insurrection&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek: Nemesis&lt;/em&gt; becomes &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-10&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-10&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-10&lt;/a&gt; &amp;larr; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-nemesis&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-nemesis&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-nemesis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; becomes &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-11&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-11&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-11&lt;/a&gt;  &amp;larr; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-2009&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-2009&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-2009&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speculating about a general tag for a possible TV series isn't really appropriate: there's zero evidence that such a TV series is even being considered, much less that we're going to have questions about it. If a new series comes out, we can tag questions about it with the series name, whatever it happens to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2011-11-08T18:55:18.380" LastActivityDate="2011-11-08T18:55:18.380" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="887" CreationDate="2011-11-08T08:14:27.260" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Popular culture is popular.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are absolutely science fiction (or fantasy or whatever label you want to apply), but they are popular culture movies, which are considered must-watch films for anyone, not just a science fiction (or fantasy) fan.  The majority of people watching these films (or who watched them many years ago when they were new) would not be considering them in terms of science-fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The number of people that have seen these two films (even the intersection) is phenomenally large - I'm sure considerably larger than the number of people that watch/read the majority of other work that the site focuses on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is why &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; gets so many views - the series may be the only fantasy books that many of its readers have read or will read.  Likewise &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; (this may be less true in the US than in Commonwealth counties?) - the series may be the only science fiction show that many of its viewers watch/have watched/will watch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I think the element of mystery in &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; help here too, since that naturally lends itself to questions.  If &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; hadn't been finished by the time the site started, I imagine we would have vastly more questions about it.  Likewise if &lt;em&gt;Lost&lt;/em&gt; was still airing when we started, that would (a popular culture TV show mystery) be a significant source of views).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This material isn't seen as &quot;science fiction&quot; or &quot;fantasy&quot;, it's seen as &quot;films&quot; (&quot;TV&quot;, &quot;books&quot;).  That means that the potential audience is vastly larger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO this also calls for an element of caution.  Although these questions pull in large views, the value of our site is in the deep specialist knowledge about all science fiction and fantasy, not just the mainstream stuff.  If the people viewing these questions end up taking a look at other questions on the site, or asking their own (good) questions, or answering other ones, then that's great.  If they are just looking at that single question, then that's great for the metrics, but is it really adding value to the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IOW, I think it's great that we have these very popular questions, and I hope we continue to have them.  However, I don't think we should do anything to go out of our way to have more questions about mainstream content than on lesser-known sci-fi/fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-11-08T08:14:27.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="891" CreationDate="2011-11-08T16:13:21.620" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;OghmaOsiris and DavRob60 will be our Fringeonauts, boldly exploring the wide world of &quot;Fringe&quot; and expanding the borders of our &quot;Fringe&quot; content. Hurrah!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastActivityDate="2011-11-08T16:13:21.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="911" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="915" CreationDate="2011-11-08T17:12:12.680" Score="6" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2&quot; DVD/Blu-ray will be released this Friday (November 11) in North America. I think we could take advantage of this occasion by promoting &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter?sort=votes&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;existing, already popular, well answered questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/887/where-are-all-these-views-coming-from/890#890&quot;&gt;Recent experience&lt;/a&gt; showed that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Reddit&lt;/a&gt; could be a great platform to promote those questions. From that point, it could speed to twitter or others, But we must pay attention on how we do this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Title&lt;/strong&gt; of the link submission is &lt;strong&gt;HYPER IMPORTANT&lt;/strong&gt;. Example, It shouldn't be formulated as a question because &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/lz7cs/how_long_was_bill_murrays_character_supposed_to/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Reddit users will answer it in the comment section of Reddit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We should not post all question at once, we could separate post by one or 2 days&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Everyone here that have a Reddit account should up-vote those post so they get some attention.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I propose we discuss :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Which Question to promote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Which title we would use for those questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When those question will be promoted and who will post it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2011-12-02T23:34:50.457" Title="How to promote Harry Potter questions for the DVD/Blu-ray release?" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="912" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="914" CreationDate="2011-11-08T19:17:32.337" Score="4" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/49/populist&quot;&gt;Populist badge&lt;/a&gt; is defined as &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Answer outscored an accepted answer with score of more than 10 by more&#xA;  than 2x. This badge can be awarded multiple times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time of this asking, and for several days previous, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6415/is-there-faster-than-light-communication-in-the-star-wars-universe-other-than-h/6416#6416&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6415/is-there-faster-than-light-communication-in-the-star-wars-universe-other-than-h/6416#6416&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; has had 21 upvotes, while the accepted answer has had 10.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;21 is exactly 1 more than 2x the accepted answers score, and the accepted answer has 10 upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was looking forward to my first gold badge...did I misread something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="656" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Is there a bug with the populist badge?" Tags="|support|badges|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="912" CreationDate="2011-11-08T19:25:07.017" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Answer outscored an accepted answer with a score of &lt;em&gt;more than&lt;/em&gt; 10&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer still needs one more vote before you can earn your badge, by my calculation (it is still at 10).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2011-11-08T19:25:07.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="912" CreationDate="2011-11-08T19:30:29.753" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can see the details in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/67397/list-of-all-badges-with-full-descriptions&quot;&gt;List of all badges with full descriptions&lt;/a&gt; on the main meta site. It clarifies that “more than 10” and “more than 2x” are strict inequalities: the accepted answer needs to have a score of at least 11, and yours at least 23 (or more if the accepted answer has a higher score).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.757" LastActivityDate="2011-11-08T19:30:29.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="911" CreationDate="2011-11-09T00:54:43.240" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say, take a look at the most popular questions, and post them one at a time. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter?sort=votes&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;this link&lt;/a&gt;. Post one of them every day or two, anyone who wants to, for the next 2-3 weeks, and we should be good. A few choice ones, towards the bottom of the list, include&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/3218/98&quot;&gt;Etymology of the name, &amp;quot;Voldemort.&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/3425/98&quot;&gt;Rich Wizards, Poor Muggles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/4113/98&quot;&gt;Why are some muggles allowed to know of the magical world?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/5614/98&quot;&gt;How did Snape know how to find Harry?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/4716/98&quot;&gt;What happened to the Dursleys?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/3274/98&quot;&gt;What child did Harry give the Marauders Map to, if any?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2011-11-09T01:01:19.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="916" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="917" CreationDate="2011-11-09T17:46:56.017" Score="5" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just reached 600 votes, but I wasn't awarded the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/28/electorate&quot;&gt;Electorate badge&lt;/a&gt;. How do I find out what my ratio of Qustion:Answer votes are?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="How do you know if you're supposed to get the Electorate badge?" Tags="|support|badges|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="916" CreationDate="2011-11-09T18:08:53.940" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/28/electorate&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Voted on 600 &lt;strong&gt;questions&lt;/strong&gt; and 25% or more of total votes are on questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you currently voted on 380 question and 226 answer (606 total). You still have to vote on 220 question to get the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;see also : &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/34340/electorate-badge-rules&quot;&gt;Electorate badge rules?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2011-11-09T18:24:53.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="916" CreationDate="2011-11-09T18:28:04.937" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;To see your question/answer ratio, you can look at your profile.  Under your list of answers, you will see a &quot;votes cast&quot; section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This section breaks out your total up and down votes, and your votes by questions and answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GqMwV.png&quot; alt=&quot;vote count&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2011-11-09T18:28:04.937" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="919" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-10T15:47:19.417" Score="8" ViewCount="280" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is more last-minute than I usually like to propose grants (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;v=wqNOXFV-__w&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;video editing&lt;/a&gt; has been taking up my time), but the release of &lt;strong&gt;Harry Potter: The Complete Collection Years 1-7&lt;/strong&gt; (as well as &lt;strong&gt;the Deathly Hallows II&lt;/strong&gt;) tomorrow gives us an opportunity to expand the site's fantasy and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot;&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/a&gt; content. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I propose:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3 users with the highest-rep at grant's end will receive a copy of &lt;strong&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2&lt;/strong&gt; on either Blu-Ray or DVD. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 users with the highest-rep at grant's end will receive a copy of &lt;strong&gt;Harry Potter: The Complete Collection Years 1-7&lt;/strong&gt; on Blu-Ray or DVD.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The recipients will be encouraged to ask thoughtful questions about Harry Potter in general and/or the films in particular. These same users (as well as all of our users) are encouraged to be &quot;on call&quot; and ready to answer any related questions that pop up about Harry Potter. Blogging would also be encouraged.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt; that users who ask for Blu-Rays must have the capability to play Blu-Ray discs; Stack Exchange will not provide a Blu-Ray player.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also &lt;strong&gt;note&lt;/strong&gt; that priority will be given to users who have not previously received items for the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/766/is-a-promotional-grant-for-star-wars-the-complete-saga-on-blu-ray-wanted&quot;&gt;Star Wars&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/857/who-wants-walking-dead-stuff&quot;&gt;Walking Dead&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/891/do-you-have-questions-about-fringe-do-you-want-to-ask-them-as-well-as-possib&quot;&gt;Fringe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; grants. If you were involved in those grants, still apply, and if 5 high-rep, new winners don't appear, you will get the stuff. I just want to make sure that &lt;em&gt;more users get the chance to participate&lt;/em&gt; and also &lt;em&gt;not bog you guys down with media to intake&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please answer below with your &lt;strong&gt;username&lt;/strong&gt;, if you either want &lt;strong&gt;Deathly Hallow part 2&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;the Complete Collection&lt;/strong&gt; (you cannot enter for both, duh), and if you &lt;strong&gt;prefer Blu-Ray or DVD&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The recipients will be chosen on &lt;strong&gt;Tuesday, November 15th at 4:00 PM EST/21:00 UTC&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2011-11-17T20:16:45.873" Title="Who wants Harry Potter: The Complete Collection Years 1-7 or Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|promotional-grant|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="919" CreationDate="2011-11-10T16:15:20.503" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jack B Nimble, I would like the complete collection on DVD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2011-11-10T16:15:20.503" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="919" CreationDate="2011-11-10T18:37:39.857" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;OghmaOsiris&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also like the complete collection on Blu Ray :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though I've already participated in the Star Wars grant, I still wanna do this one because I'm a greedy little bastard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jk! Its only fair to have others have a chance to get free stuffs. But it would be cool to watch all the movies in a row, lol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorUserId="1109" LastEditDate="2011-11-10T18:51:19.463" LastActivityDate="2011-11-10T18:51:19.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="919" CreationDate="2011-11-10T18:40:40.457" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;PearsonartPhoto&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I already have all of the previous, it would suffice for me to only get Part 2. Blu Ray is what I would want as well:-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I previously won the Star Wars grant, so...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2011-11-12T05:17:17.793" LastActivityDate="2011-11-12T05:17:17.793" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="919" CreationDate="2011-11-10T18:53:04.000" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like the complete collection on DVD - I had the first one years back, but it was lost in a move.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Haven't seen the rest yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="656" LastActivityDate="2011-11-10T18:53:04.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="919" CreationDate="2011-11-10T20:02:44.837" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tony Meyer; complete collection on DVD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've just finished re-reading the books; I'd planned to watch the films concurrently, but have only got through &lt;em&gt;Philosopher's Stone&lt;/em&gt; so far because they are oddly popular in NZ's equivalent of Netflix.  I've seen bits of the second film but none of the others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="108" LastEditDate="2011-11-12T03:38:31.693" LastActivityDate="2011-11-12T03:38:31.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="926" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-11T05:00:27.330" Score="10" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've had a few &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/promotional-grant&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;promotional-grant&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;promotional-grant&lt;/a&gt;s recently (thanks!), and the pattern is generally that when there's more interest than grants the highest rep users get the goods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This absolutely makes sense, rewarding those people that are contributing to the site.  However, it does bias the grants towards those of us that have been participating for the longest time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion is that some of the grants (assuming there are more; please!) get broken up into two groups: highest-rep (like in the past) and highest-rep-recently (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=reputation&amp;amp;filter=month&quot;&gt;highest this month&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=reputation&amp;amp;filter=quarter&quot;&gt;highest this quarter&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This still rewards contributing to the site, but opens it up to someone that's new here.  You'd still have to do a reasonable amount of work to get to the top of the monthly (or especially quarterly) rankings, and those users with a big backlog of answers do have an advantage, since old questions/answers do continually pull in a trickle of rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Perhaps there could even be the odd grant rewarding something else? e.g. number of edits, or number of accepted answers regardless of rep? (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; doesn't pull in much rep)).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T20:38:02.413" Title="Can we get promotional-grant material to more recent users too?" Tags="|discussion|promotional-grant|swag|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="926" CreationDate="2011-11-11T07:48:15.730" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the latest swag-for-posts run, (that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/919/who-wants-harry-potter-the-complete-collection-years-1-7-or-harry-potter-and-th&quot; title=&quot;keeping it real like a horcrux&quot;&gt;being Harry Potter&lt;/a&gt;), the highest rep users who have also been a part of other rounds are placed in a &quot;maybe&quot; state to allow newer users to come up and put their hands forth. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should none do so, then you see the same high rep users picking up the grabs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the user pool so far, it looks like it may work out okay right now for new users to be able to participate fresh off the boat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll eventually cycle through all the users as any potential booty comes round.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2011-11-11T07:48:15.730" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="926" CreationDate="2011-11-11T13:53:50.610" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way the &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3135/gaming-promotional-grant-the-ninth-round-starting-november-4th&quot;&gt;gaming site&lt;/a&gt; has handled this is quite interesting, and I suspect that we might want to do this at some point as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any user requesting a grant must have a minimum reputation, namely 500. This ensures that the person is somewhat dedicated to the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you won a game recently, you are not eligible for the current round.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The winners are chosen pseudo-randomly (Not sure what that means...).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I haven't seen yet how this is really an issue. We have been generally giving away far fewer items than were requested, with the exception of Harry Potter. So, even though they limit it to the highest reputation users, practically it's limited only to the people who sign up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:32:35.867" LastActivityDate="2011-11-11T13:53:50.610" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="929" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-12T05:08:23.703" Score="9" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/49/populist&quot;&gt;populist badge&lt;/a&gt; is awarded when an&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Answer outscored an accepted answer with score of more than 10 by more than 2x&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can obviously fluctuate.  For example, if the accepted answer has a score of 11 and a competing answer has a score of 23, then the populist badge is awarded.  If the accepted answer is then upvoted, the badge criteria no longer applies (until the popular answer gets two more up votes).  Does the badge get lost at this point?  Is it lost only if the criteria no longer applies at some later date (e.g. in a reputation recalculation)?  Once awarded it's never lost?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same applies to a other badges, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/28/electorate&quot;&gt;electorate&lt;/a&gt; (voting ratio goes below 25%), &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/11/taxonomist&quot;&gt;taxonomist&lt;/a&gt; (tag gets removed from questions), &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/50/reversal&quot;&gt;reversal&lt;/a&gt; (question vote rises above -5), and even really to any that involve a score (i.e. down votes cause the score to go below the threshold of the badge).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T05:29:00.483" Title="Is it possible to lose badges?" Tags="|discussion|badges|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="929" CreationDate="2011-11-12T08:42:12.690" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, you don't lose the badge if the conditions are no longer met.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was covered on MSO quite some time ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="204" LastEditorUserId="31051" LastEditDate="2016-02-02T05:29:00.483" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T05:29:00.483" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="929" CreationDate="2011-11-12T11:33:47.987" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is also worth noting that most of these badges are awarded sometime after the conditions are met ( a week or so ). And I think that the conditions have to have been met bith at the start and end of that period ( I am unclear on the precise requirements ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for this is, I think, that it indicates you &quot;deserve&quot; the badge, and it is not just a brief blip. Just achieving this for a few seconds on an active question does not qualify.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3074" LastActivityDate="2011-11-12T11:33:47.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="932" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-14T11:09:18.957" Score="13" ViewCount="232" Body="&lt;p&gt;TL;DR (*): he screwed up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The start of the blog wasn't exactly what I expected - after much doubt about whether there was content, we were flooded with it, and the problem wasn't getting people to write, it was trying to figure out how to organise things so that the posts didn't all collide (**).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had been (foolishly) assuming that content would keep popping up (much of the time it just got posted without me doing anything, and the first I heard of the post would be the tweet), and so I stopped worrying about it, other than trying to figure out the organisation issue.  About a month ago, something happened, and this reversed, and we were suddenly (or at least so it seemed) at the (originally expected) nothing to post point.  This caught me by surprise, a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been busy with other stuff (I've only caught up with the recent questions &amp;amp; answers over the last week) and kept failing to get on top of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly: &lt;strong&gt;my apologies&lt;/strong&gt;.  I said that I'd take this on, and haven't done it well.  Secondly: if anyone wants the 'chief nag' role, I have no objection at all to giving it up (I would still like to edit/contribute).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If no-one else is going to seize power, then I'd prefer to try and rectify my mistake than to have the blog languish.  My plan is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Talk to Brett White about being the carrot (grants) to my stick (nagging).  See if he can pull out some quick posts from people that have grants already.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Give up on the organisation issue for the moment, until content is flowing again.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Write a post tomorrow so that there's fresh content again (not the Harry Potter one I have in draft; I'll finish that in a few days).  I was thinking something about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tommerritt.com/2011/10/30/fsl-tonight-week-0-2011-season-preview/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;FSL&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Catch up on whatever's in the chat room that I've missed, and try to figure out some way to work the chat room into my routine so that I'll see anything there regularly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chase up the few draft posts to see what can be done about getting them finished.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Start hitting up the people that originally volunteered to write and those that have written already, to see if they can write something soon.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Publish these at a rate of two per week, unless something comes up that needs more (e.g. an event).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(*) I wasn't sure where to post this, since it isn't really a question (although I phrased it as one and broke the rules by answering it in the text!).  It seemed easiest to put it here; apologies if that isn't right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(**) After much looking, I ended up nowhere with this.  No useful suggestions from wordpress.se, and now I'm stuck in terms of SE (can't ask on webapps.se or meta.so because no cross-posting; can't offer a bounty because no rep on that site, and no real way to earn any - I'd happily donate some of my scifi.se rep, but that's not possible).  I tried to find something outside of SE, but didn't have any luck.  My feeling at the moment is that Trello is  used as the public/transparent face (and we rely on the notifications there and email).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2012-04-06T12:09:31.700" Title="What happened to that guy that was going to nag people into writing blog posts?" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="919" CreationDate="2011-11-14T22:13:55.473" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The recipient of Deathly Hallows part 2 will be the only person who applied for it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;PearsonartPhoto&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The recipients of the Complete Collection will be the two first-timers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jack B Nimble &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tony Meyer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hurrah! Please send me your mailing addresses, as well as the link to your country's Amazon or DVD/Blu-Ray provider. Send that info to brett [at] stackexchange [dot] com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastActivityDate="2011-11-14T22:13:55.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="934" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-15T03:36:26.693" Score="4" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/919/who-wants-harry-potter-the-complete-collection-years-1-7-or-harry-potter-and-th/933#933&quot;&gt;Thanks to StackExchange&lt;/a&gt;, I'll be watching the eight Harry Potter films soon.  It'd be nice to get a blog post out of this, but I'm not really sure what to write about (and I'd like to have something in mind when watching them).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are thousands of reviews of the films online already (most of the films are quite old, of course), even of the latest one.  By the time I get to Deathly Hallows Part II not only will there be thousands of reviews of the film, but most likely even of things like the DVD extras.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have any suggestions about something interesting and vaguely original that I could write about?  (I've got one idea, that I'll post as an answer, but I'm not sold on it, and would welcome a better idea).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For background: I've only seen the first film (and bits of the second) before.  I've read (and just re-read) all the books (including &lt;em&gt;Beedle&lt;/em&gt; but excluding &lt;em&gt;Quiddich&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Fantastic Beasts&lt;/em&gt;).  I'm not an expert on film, so something like focusing on cinematography wouldn't work well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2011-11-15T14:41:18.537" Title="What form could a Harry Potter (film) blog post take?" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="934" CreationDate="2011-11-15T03:39:51.193" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not convinced that this would work well, but it's my only idea so far...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After watching each of the eight films, I post a question on the site - something relating specifically to that part of the Harry Potter story, and ideally specifically about the film (rather than just the book), and something that requires an in-depth detailed answer, not just trivia.  After the waiting period, I add a bounty (I'm thinking 100 rep, maybe 150 if I come up with a question I really like - about 1k rep total) to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the bounty period ends, I take the question &amp;amp; answers and do a blog post that covers the material (like the 'question of the week' posts that other sites have, and our occasional featured questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-11-15T03:39:51.193" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="919" CreationDate="2011-11-15T05:46:39.293" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;fabikw&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As there is still time and room. I want the Deathly Hallows part II DVD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138" LastActivityDate="2011-11-15T05:46:39.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="934" CreationDate="2011-11-15T14:41:18.537" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest doing an overview of the entire saga.  Take notes as you watch them all, then write a sort of review of the entire tale.  Most reviews were for each individual movie, so a discussion of the entire story would be different.  Especially if this is your first time watching, as things with are old hat to many fans will be fresh to your eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2011-11-15T14:41:18.537" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="938" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="939" CreationDate="2011-11-17T02:55:17.083" Score="19" ViewCount="527" Body="&lt;p&gt;On November the 2nd, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/2315853#2315853&quot;&gt;a chat message&lt;/a&gt; was addressed to me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@TonyMeyer - You have any ideas for articles you need written? I was going to review a book, but I likely won't finish it for another week or two. (&quot;Embassytown&quot; by China Mieville.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This happened &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/2417684#2417684&quot;&gt;again on the 13th of November&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@TonyMeyer @OghmaOsiris - FInding it hard to make it through China Mieville's &quot;Embassytown&quot;. Urg. If anyone else has read this and wants to review it, go ahead. Will give the book one final effort, then move onto the new &quot;I, Robot&quot; novel next.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither of these messages appeared as notifications in my StackExchange inbox.  I checked again now, and there are no entries between Oct 20 and Nov 2 from this site, and the Nov 13 entry isn't there either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My previous post in the room was Oct 20 (I do not recall whether or not I visited the room after that time and didn't say anything).  There was no activity at all in the room between Oct 20 and Oct 30.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has a significant impact on the still-open question about blog organisation.  If notifications from chat don't get delivered to the user in some cases (time since being in the room?) then (a) in order for anyone to use it to contact me, I'll need to meet some sort of conditions (e.g. &quot;go into room every day, even if nothing has changed&quot;), and (b) it's fairly useless as a way of contacting potential post authors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-11-17T08:23:01.360" Title="What are the rules for when chat messages appear in a user's inbox?" Tags="|support|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="938" CreationDate="2011-11-17T08:23:01.360" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;To use you as an example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;@TonyMeyer&lt;/code&gt;, i.e. an &lt;em&gt;exact match&lt;/em&gt; will cause a notification if you've been in the room in the past seven days.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;@Tony&lt;/code&gt;, i.e. a &lt;em&gt;first name match&lt;/em&gt; (to be precise, a word boundary match) will cause a notification if you've been in the room in the past two days.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;@Ton&lt;/code&gt; will notify you if you've been in the room in the past two days &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; there's no other user for whom this would be a better match, e.g. someone called &quot;Ton&quot; who has been there within the past seven days (that's 1.) or someone called &quot;Ton Ynnuf&quot; who has been there within the past two days (that's 2.).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An &lt;em&gt;explicit reply&lt;/em&gt; to one of your messages (like &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/2212320#2212320&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;) will always cause a notification.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, these notifications will only be delivered to your global inbox if you haven't seen them within a reasonable amount of time (~20 minutes), where &quot;seen&quot; is defined as one of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;visiting a direct permalink to the message in question,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;acknowledging it through clicking the little number that's popping up on you profile picture in the chat room when you have replies,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;or saying something in the room in question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="171" LastActivityDate="2011-11-17T08:23:01.360" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="940" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-17T15:19:27.977" Score="5" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;The release of &lt;strong&gt;Doctor Who: The Complete Sixth Series&lt;/strong&gt; gives us an opportunity to expand the site's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doctor-who&quot;&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/a&gt; content. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I propose:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5 users with &lt;em&gt;the highest-rep users of the month&lt;/em&gt; at the time of grant's end (which can be viewed by clicking on the &quot;users&quot; and then &quot;month&quot; tab on the main page) will receive a copy of &lt;strong&gt;Doctor Who: The Complete Sixth Series&lt;/strong&gt; on either Blu-Ray or DVD. &lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt; that this is the first time we are not going by all-time rep. Hopefully this will spread the grant around to newer, highly involved users!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The recipients will be encouraged to &lt;strong&gt;ask thoughtful questions&lt;/strong&gt; about Series 6 of Doctor Who in general and/or the show in particular. These same users (as well as all of our users) are encouraged to be &quot;on call&quot; and ready to answer any related questions that pop up about Doctor Who. Blogging would also be encouraged.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt; that users who ask for Blu-Rays must have the capability to play Blu-Ray discs; Stack Exchange will not provide a Blu-Ray player. Same goes for DVD players, guys. Same for DVD players.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please answer below with your &lt;strong&gt;username&lt;/strong&gt; and if you &lt;strong&gt;prefer Blu-Ray or DVD&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The recipients will be chosen on &lt;strong&gt;Monday, November 21st at 4:00 PM EST/21:00 UTC&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2011-11-22T21:51:58.950" Title="Doctor Who: The Complete Sixth Series, who wants it?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|promotional-grant|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="940" CreationDate="2011-11-17T15:37:37.513" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll take a blu-ray.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Come along, Pond.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note for Brett: If I get this, don't send it to the address you have for me on file, as that's my work address, where I won't be next week.  I'll send you my home address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2011-11-18T22:16:36.613" LastActivityDate="2011-11-18T22:16:36.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="940" CreationDate="2011-11-17T15:56:49.230" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throwing my low rep self into this grant, and asking for the DVD version (don't yet have a proper blu-ray player, don't know when I'll be getting one...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I get this grant, I promise to carry around a felt marker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3101" LastActivityDate="2011-11-17T15:56:49.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="940" CreationDate="2011-11-17T17:34:55.727" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;DavRob60, I will prefer the Blu-Ray.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I had my share of grand and I don't want to abuse, &lt;strong&gt;So I will resign my grant if (and only if) there's more than 5 interested user.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2011-11-17T17:34:55.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="940" CreationDate="2011-11-18T17:31:16.183" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kalamane,  I'm throwing my hat into the ring.  I'd prefer a DVD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2365" LastActivityDate="2011-11-18T17:31:16.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="945" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-21T01:42:02.160" Score="3" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been doing some re-tagging. Here's a bit of what I've been up to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I created a few new tags, namely &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magical-items&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magical-items&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magical-items&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magical-creatures&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magical-creatures&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magical-creatures&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character-development&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character-development&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character-development&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm tagging questions related to the force with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/powers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;powers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;powers&lt;/a&gt; tag. It seemed the most appropriate place to put it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I did some general retagging as well.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've probably done a bit more, but here's a start. Feel free to continue my work if you wish&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2011-11-21T02:36:26.190" LastActivityDate="2011-11-21T02:36:26.190" Title="Retagging efforts" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="940" CreationDate="2011-11-21T21:04:46.333" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congrats to the four users who will be receiving Doctor Who: The Complete Sixth Series:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;thedaian&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kalamane&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keen&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DavRob60&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hurray!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastActivityDate="2011-11-21T21:04:46.333" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="947" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-22T00:23:18.657" Score="6" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have at least one of these (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sy-fy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sy-fy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sy-fy&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are problems with this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TV programs almost never run on a single channel.  In some cases, they don't even run on a single channel within a single country.  There's no room to add a tag for each channel that a program runs on, even if that was a good idea.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are many ways to view TV programs.  Via a TV channel is one, but there's also downloading/streaming (e.g. Netflix, iTunes, Amazon) and optical media (DVD, Blu-ray).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The tag tells you nothing about the question (unless the question is specifically about that channel, not just about a program that aired on that channel).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The tag won't be consistently applied.  For it to be of use, it would need to be added to every question that is about a show that aired on that channel - this requires very localised knowledge (or research).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the channel specialises in science-fiction/fantasy content (I gather this is the case with SyFy) then it seems likely that a vast majority of the TV series questions will get this tag; that makes the tag considerably less worthwhile (and it bumps useful tags out of the primary position).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I see no benefits in these tags.  Would someone really want to follow questions about shows that happened to air on a particular channel?  (Perhaps this is actually possible in some countries; it's certainly not in others).  Would someone want to 'ignore' these questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-11-25T07:27:27.320" Title="Can we get rid of 'TV channel' tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="947" CreationDate="2011-11-22T04:08:47.400" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I created this tag for series which are produced by the SyFy channel, such as Eureka and Warehouse 13. These series seem to have enough in common where it seems possible that someone might search for them, plus the fact that the shows from which they are based have so few questions that their tags are in danger of getting canceled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should say, there are a good many shows which are broadcast on SyFy that I would never tag, such as Dr. Who, Stargate, etc. It's only for the small, off the beaten path series that I would consider tagging them as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2011-11-22T04:08:47.400" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="949" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-23T17:33:51.253" Score="7" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;For those who haven't heard, the great Dragonlady has gone between.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can SF maybe do something to commemorate her life and works? Even just a quick note in the banner?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="348" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-02-21T20:21:09.970" LastActivityDate="2017-02-21T20:21:09.970" Title="Can we do something to commemorate Anne McCaffrey?" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="949" CreationDate="2011-11-23T18:01:08.110" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Banner? Gods, no. (It's been done recently on Stack Exchange, and caused quite a bit of friction. Banners are for site-related announcements.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe an Anne McCaffrey book grant? (Note: I have not spoken to anyone at SE about this, I'm just tossing it in the air.) It would be nice to have a grant for written material for a change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2011-11-23T18:01:08.110" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="951" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-23T19:43:20.617" Score="17" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;When editing a post, I got this message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We welcome all constructive edits, but please make them substantial.&#xA;  Avoid trivial, tiny one-letter edits unless absolutely necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?  I wanted to do a minor grammar fix, like I often do to just clean up questions and make them more &quot;presentable&quot;.  Why would we want to discourage people from doing that kind of cleanup?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I suspect this must have been answered somewhere previously, but I'm not seeing where...)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="159" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2011-11-23T20:06:51.413" LastActivityDate="2017-02-21T17:07:30.530" Title="Why are short edits discouraged?" Tags="|support|suggested-edit|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="951" CreationDate="2011-11-23T19:53:01.253" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was covered on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/74430/why-are-trivial-edits-discouraged&quot;&gt;meta.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;, the meta-site for the whole network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It basically boils down to helping prevent edit flooding from those who don't yet have the privilege.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FWIW, once you hit 2k rep and get the edit privilege (1,000 here because it's a beta), you don't get that.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2017-02-21T17:07:30.530" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="951" CreationDate="2011-11-23T20:06:36.267" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-edits+character-limit&quot;&gt;discussed repeatedly on the main meta site&lt;/a&gt;. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/77233/were-discouraged-from-fixing-typos-and-misspellings-on-se-sites/149076#149076&quot;&gt;official answer&lt;/a&gt; is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a &amp;lt; 2k rep user, you should make reasonably substantive edits. The approval cost for your edit is not free, as it costs the attention of one or more users who have to look at your edit and think about it. This cost is high for extremely trivial edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will not be changing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to make single-character trivial edits, earn 2k rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(It's 1000 rep, not 2000, as long as we're in beta.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking, you should try to fix everything that's wrong in one go. If it's a single spelling error, just let it go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2011-11-23T20:06:36.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="947" CreationDate="2011-11-25T07:27:27.320" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, media outlet tags are awful and should be stricken from the site.  They're inherently temporal in nature and bound to change when a show goes into syndication (or more likely in this day and age, online streaming).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really see the value in the tag anyways; the body of knowledge from one Sy-Fy question to the next is so disjoint that it doesn't really make sense to group them.  Sure, Eureka has had trivial, stand-alone crossovers to W13, but SGU and other shows are totally isolated.  Things that are all wound together&amp;mdash;like some comic book stuff is (based on my limited knowledge of those universes)&amp;mdash;then it would make a bit of sense.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone wants to see what shows Sy-Fy has at present...&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.syfy.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;www.syfy.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="584" LastActivityDate="2011-11-25T07:27:27.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="955" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="956" CreationDate="2011-11-25T22:05:33.250" Score="7" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's fairly clear that Wikipedia is considered general reference (for both SciFi.SE and many other sites).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is wikia.com network considered general reference as well? For example for Harry Potter questions, &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://harrypotter.wikia.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2011-11-26T01:03:59.927" LastActivityDate="2011-11-26T01:23:05.083" Title="Is Wikia.com general reference?" Tags="|discussion|scope|general-reference|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="955" CreationDate="2011-11-26T01:23:05.083" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several elements in what makes a source a general reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The source should be well-known and easily found. If the answer is on some obscure corner of the Internet, well, that describes most questions. Part of the aim of Stack Exchange is to make all questions googlable.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The source should have some element of authority and reliability.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The source should be durable. There should be reasonable confidence that the information will be there in a few years' time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia is a general reference in part because just about everyone has heard of it, it's usually of reasonable quality, and information rarely disappears from it. It is natural, when you want to know something, to look it up on Wikipedia, like you might look it up in a paper encyclopedia. Hence, there is no point in duplicating information that is easily found there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikia, as an institution, does not meet these criteria. The wikis in there vary enormously in terms of quality, reliability and comprehensiveness. Sometimes wikis come and go (for example, there have been communities that left Wikia because they disagreed with policy changes, leaving behind content that was decent but is no longer being maintained and is slowly rotting away). Wikia, in itself, is not a general reference site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specific wikis on Wikia sometimes have the necessary reliability to be a general reference site. But can you make a comprehensive list? Can most people browsing the web? No. And that content may not be very durable (see above). So individual Wikia sites cannot be considered general references either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An added factor that distinguishes Wikipedia from Wikia and other fan sites is that Wikipedia has a policy of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Writing_about_fiction#Real-world_perspective&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;forbidding in-universe writing&lt;/a&gt;. Many fan sites provide an &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Writing_about_fiction#The_problem_with_in-universe_perspective&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;in-universe perspective&lt;/a&gt; that is not comprehensible to readers who are not familiar with the material already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For added reading, I refer your to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/691&quot;&gt;Robert Cartaino's answer in an earlier, broader discussion on this topic.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am strongly opposed to broadening the definition of the general reference close reason to cover sources that are not general references.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a related note, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/693&quot;&gt;Google should not be used as a measure to determine whether a question is a legitimate Stack Exchange question&lt;/a&gt;. “General reference” does not take Google into account (or at least it should not, by its definition, even if it's sometimes abused). General reference means “look it up in a dictionary / in an encyclopedia / in the manual”. It does not mean “google it”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.730" LastActivityDate="2011-11-26T01:23:05.083" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="957" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-26T18:29:09.750" Score="16" ViewCount="894" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm seeing a lot of movie/TV questions being answered with comments or answers saying, &quot;Bad writing&quot; or &quot;It was a plot hole the writers forgot about&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How useful are these answers? They don't provide any data that might explain a situation in-universe. It also seems like an insult to the work in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think SciFi.SE is the place to start flame wars and it seems these types of answers/comments are breeding nothing but.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/6875/1109&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t Seven of Nine assimilate the Voyager crew when she was separated from the collective?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/4767/1109&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t the time cops try to stop Janeway when she traveled back in time to rescue Voyager?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/7217/1109&quot;&gt;Why only use Seven&amp;#39;s nano probes to revive Neelix?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2014-10-28T04:25:26.487" Title="Usefulness of &quot;Plot hole&quot; answers/comments" Tags="|discussion|answers|comments|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="957" CreationDate="2011-11-26T22:34:10.137" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there's a reasonable in-universe explanation, then perhaps they would be out of line, depending on how they're phrased.  But often, especially with the sort of questions asked here (at least about seeming discrepancies), any in-universe explanation requires such mental gymnastics and suspension of disbelief that they just won't cut it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the important part for our purposes, as I alluded to above, is how the comment/answer is phrased, and perhaps how quickly it is posted.  I personally like the &quot;made of plot&quot; answers, and I don't think too many people are offended by them, even if there are feasible in-universe answers.  On the other hand, a comment shortly after the question was posted to the effect that the writers are idiots is not appropriate (if it's strong enough, probably never appropriate).  I think an answer (not comment), without fairly strong sources backing it, flatly saying it's writer error/irreconcilable should not be put forward at least for a day or two, to give others a chance to come up with in-universe answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the final take-away message, as so often happens, is &quot;it depends.&quot;  If there's a comment or answer you feel is overly rude, flag it and see what a mod has to say about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2011-11-26T22:34:10.137" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="957" CreationDate="2011-11-28T03:36:11.410" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me say this first: If an answer consists solely of &quot;Bad writing/Plot hole/etc&quot;, then it is a bad answer, and should be voted down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second: The answers to the questions where people posted &quot;bad writing&quot;/&quot;plot hole&quot; comments all involve words and phrases like &quot;probably&quot;, &quot;likely&quot;, and are generally speculation.  This indicates that the particular question being asked was &lt;em&gt;never properly addressed by the show&lt;/em&gt;.  So, what's the difference between a question asked because of &quot;bad writing&quot; versus a question asked because the person wasn't paying enough attention?  Usually, the latter will have an answer or two with references to the media in question, while the former will consist almost entirely on speculation.  For instance, this question about Harry Potter: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3223/where-did-harrys-parents-get-all-of-their-money-from&quot;&gt;Where did Harry's parents get all of their money from?&lt;/a&gt; uses an interview from the author to explain why Harry is rich.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally: Finally, comments are usually meant as jokes, or possibly &quot;half-answers&quot;.  Frankly, I would expect the same sort of comments about anything where the writing just wasn't that great.  The reason a lot of people are doing it with the Star Trek: Voyager questions is because Star Trek had/has a large fanbase, and for many of these fans, Voyager was a disappointment.  You would see the same thing happening with the Star Wars Prequels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternately, &lt;em&gt;just repeat to yourself it's just a &lt;strike&gt;show&lt;/strike&gt; website, I should really just relax&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3101" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2011-11-28T03:36:11.410" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="960" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="961" CreationDate="2011-11-28T09:24:36.737" Score="7" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've been in Beta for (as of today) &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/4451&quot;&gt;320 days&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When are we expecting to leave Beta? What still needs to happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2011-12-08T15:12:46.563" Title="Any closer to moving out of Beta?" Tags="|discussion|beta|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="960" CreationDate="2011-11-28T14:16:43.343" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, to answer the comments, we will get our design when we will leave Beta and it's not the design that anchor us here. Check &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/does-this-site-have-a-chance-of-succeeding/&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/10/when-will-my-site-graduate/&quot;&gt;this other&lt;/a&gt; blog post for more info about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, since our stats have improved significantly in the last few weeks, we are closer than ever to leaving beta. The only missing thing is for someone in charge at Stack Exchange headquarters to stand up and say aloud (repeat after me if you feel concerned), &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Okay guys, SciFi Stack Exchange will be out of beta next Friday.&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt; :&lt;br&gt;&#xA;from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/976/design-for-science-fiction-fantasy&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; , posted the 7 of December 2011:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please let me know what you think. If there are no major design changes, &lt;strong&gt;I'm aiming to launch the new design next week.&lt;/strong&gt; An early congrats from me!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it look like we will be out of Beta really soon!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.730" LastActivityDate="2011-12-08T15:12:46.563" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="957" CreationDate="2011-12-01T02:24:08.523" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to second Kevin's answer. It's &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; OK to say that &quot;any answer of a 'bad writing'/'plot hole' type&quot; is a bad/inappropriate/offtopic answer. While in some situations such an answer can range from sub-optimal to trolling, in others, properly formulated, it's THE correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What makes such an answer &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; acceptable?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the answerer researched (widely) all expected in-universe resources, and demonstrates so. Ex:ample: &quot;This is not mentioned in any book, guide, or author interview - I just re-checked&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If there is demonstrable lack of in-universe answer otherwise (e.g. no answer after a reasonable period of time, say 2-3 weeks).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If there is a general fandom consensus outside of SO question agreeing that this is a plot hole. Again, ideally demonstrated via links.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the &quot;plot hole&quot; is a note at the end of the answer which actually contains in-universe explanation/retcon, but states dissatisfaction with its logical quality/consistency.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, if there's an actual reference, e.g. someone involved with the work admitting &quot;we screwed the pooch here&quot;. A good example is an afterword to &quot;Ender in Exile&quot; by O.S.Card which openly addressed some inconsistencies with the original version of &quot;Ender's Game&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the only answers are speculations from SO members, AND the speculations are absolutely weird/not matching the universe/don't make sense/overstretch suspension of disbelief. Example: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q&lt;/strong&gt;.: &quot;Why does Millenium Falcon bank when turning in a vacuum?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OK answer&lt;/strong&gt;: &quot;Because it looks good and dramatic to the audience who grew watching atmospheric dogfights. No in-universe explanation was ever given, despite the fact that banking is required for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banked_turn#Banked_turn_in_aeronautics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;AIR flight only&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not very good, speculative answer&lt;/strong&gt;: &quot;Because Millenium Falcon probably has a special drive that, when turning, changes thrust in a way that causes banking&quot;. Um. No. That was not mentioned in ANY canon. Ever. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What makes such an answer &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt; acceptable?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Quick draw &quot;bad writing&quot; shots that don't bother explaining the research done to show that it does NOT, indeed, have in-universe explanation&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An answer that is contradicted by another answer with in-universe explanation/retcon, no matter how bad (however, saying &quot;here's a retcon, and it isn't very good, so plot hole is a better explanation&quot; is perfectly fine IMHO).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A rudely worded answer. &quot;Do you really expect logic in Voyager writing&quot; is not very nice. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a truly excellent answer exemplifying how &quot;no info&quot; answer should be handled:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32070/why-were-the-twins-named-luke-and-leia/32099#32099&quot;&gt;Why were the twins named Luke and Leia?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2013-02-22T19:19:21.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="960" CreationDate="2011-12-01T21:03:26.867" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I checked out our stats over on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/4451/science-fiction-fantasy&quot;&gt;Area 51 Sci-Fi &amp;amp; Fantasy proposal page&lt;/a&gt;, and we have significantly improved in the past few months. The areas we still need work on are &lt;strong&gt;questions per day&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;answers per question&lt;/strong&gt;. Now, I also agree that there probably isn't a specific threshold to reach, but getting those two areas from &quot;okay&quot; to &quot;excellent&quot; can't hurt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, let's ask more questions! Even with all the grants we've had recently (Walking Dead, Fringe, Harry Potter and Doctor Who), we're still only averaging the same amount we did months ago. This is probably a whole other meta topic, but I think in the future I will set hard and fast rules with every grant that have to be met in order to be considered for future grants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastActivityDate="2011-12-01T21:03:26.867" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="964" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-02T16:44:12.950" Score="8" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I can tell, the promotional grants have had mixed success. Brett has expressed interest in putting some additional requirements for people who receive grants, in the efforts of having more questions/answers come out of those, helping the site grow. The grants have included, with their success as near as I can note it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/strong&gt; - Questions are definately up, 17 in the last week alone. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Star Wars&lt;/strong&gt; - Very successful, the 2 weeks after showed the site practically turning into a SW SE site. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fringe&lt;/strong&gt; - Currently 13 questions with the tag, no one with more than 3... &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Walking Dead&lt;/strong&gt; - Only 7 questions currently&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dr. Who&lt;/strong&gt; - 7 asked this month, doesn't seem higher than normal&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DC new 52 comics&lt;/strong&gt; - Huge increase of comic questions since the promotion was made.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll try and get some more details added when I can, but I hope this at least helps start the conversation. Perhaps this can help lead us to a new direction for promotional grants as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="1359" LastEditDate="2011-12-02T18:01:26.380" LastActivityDate="2011-12-08T07:04:05.380" Title="What criteria should be placed on people receiving Grants?" Tags="|discussion|promotional-grant|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="964" CreationDate="2011-12-03T02:33:02.273" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;My theory is pretty similar to a commitment in Area 51. &lt;strong&gt;One&lt;/strong&gt; of these two things must happen before a person can receive another grant item.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They must answered/asked at least 10 answers/questions on the tag most associated with the item (After they receive it).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They must wait 3 months&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The questions from 1) can be replaced by 3 for any topic, after they get the grant. This allows for those times where a material just doesn't have many questions to ask about it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if you get something, you must be active in the tag enough to ask/answer at least 10 questions. Otherwise, you have to wait for 3 months prior to getting anything new (Or at the very least, get put to the bottom of the list). Is that reasonable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2011-12-04T15:10:19.470" LastActivityDate="2011-12-04T15:10:19.470" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="964" CreationDate="2011-12-03T07:38:47.837" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the comment @brettwhite posted above about getting more attention to Meta; you could probably get some banners or adverts on the main SciFi.se site pointing to the Meta discussion about each grant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if you're planning lets say a Twilight Grant (please dont...), you could post a banner on the question/home page saying, &quot;Want to get free stuff? Like Twilight? Enter to receive one of 5 Twilight Grants now!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, that way everyone can see it and all the rules and regulations will be on the meta post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2011-12-03T07:38:47.837" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="964" CreationDate="2011-12-03T16:04:39.767" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; : I misread the question, partly because of OghmaOsiris's answer. So this answer is more about how//to who/why to award a grant. . &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it depend of your goal. I found 3 goals that grants help to achieve : &lt;strong&gt;Promote&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Extend&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Reward&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Promote&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there not enough Question of the tag X and this tag have a high potential, you need more user to know about X so they could ask questions about X. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Extend&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is an acceptable quantity of questions in the tag X but they are not answered or answer are of poor quality. So you need to get some user that write good answer to extend their field of expertise to X. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Reward&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the psychological part of a grant. Users put a lot of time to write meaningful question and appropriate answer. Rewarding them might motivate them to stay around and feel theirs effort rewarded. They might also feel accountable to the site and intensify their commitment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The grant for the Promote goal could be awarded to almost anyone, we could even make a draw. For the Extend and Reward goals, I think rep is still a good criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; grant where successful because there was already a critical mass. New question attract even more question because it lead experts to rethink aspect they didn't pay attention to. I think the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doctor-who&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;doctor-who&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;doctor-who&lt;/a&gt; grant as the same potential, but the winners (including me) will need &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7215/which-episodes-of-the-new-doctor-who-series-are-required-viewing-before-starting&quot;&gt;time to catch up&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the Fringe grant, I think the first goal of was to Promote. But It somewhat failed, there is still low view/vote on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fringe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fringe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fringe&lt;/a&gt; tag, there is just not enough interaction. The only question that is an exception are the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5939/how-is-colonel-broyles-alive-again&quot;&gt;Colonel Broyles&lt;/a&gt; one, which I cannot explain. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I made an experimentation by spamming &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/domain/scifi.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;reddit&lt;/a&gt; with some of my questions. (by the way, I still don't understand reddit and why it's so popular.) My &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/fringe/comments/mbqur/we_need_your_help_is_the_xray_image_leading_into/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;first try&lt;/a&gt; showed a reasonable improvement, and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/fringe/comments/mmny6/a_theories_on_why_the_observer_consume_extremely/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;second one&lt;/a&gt; was even more successful. So there is some fringe potential user out there, &lt;strong&gt;But we failed to retain those new user&lt;/strong&gt;; reddit user commented the reddit posts instead of posting answer here. The only new Fringe question after that was from a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1793/rimmer&quot;&gt;member of another stack exchange website&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I suggest we do a portion of the grants targeted to new user. (To avoid jealousy, we may need to keep a parallel one to based on rep or something like that). That would encourage new user to register and ask questions. Of course, that would mean a lot of moderation job, but that the ransom of success. While those grants are open, we should extensively promote existing questions to attract new users. A banner, like OghmaOsiris suggested, should be a must then. As for promoting, Reddit is a solution, but I'm sure there's more site like this that may be more appropriate. We should start to identify others site like this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2011-12-03T16:30:31.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="968" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-05T17:04:39.727" Score="53" ViewCount="1634" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any official policy for mandatory use of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1/is-it-important-to-mark-spoiler-questions-as-such&quot;&gt;the spoilers features&lt;/a&gt;? Or is just a courtesy/fully voluntary?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't see anything &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;on the FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any particular action that should be taken on posts that do not contain spoiler blocks?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there should be such a policy, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/114882/149367&quot;&gt;should it have a statute of limitations&lt;/a&gt;?  I'm pretty sure we all know who Luke's father is...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7176/whats-with-the-duck-pond&quot;&gt;examples like this&lt;/a&gt;, I understand that there might not be much left if you blotted out all the spoilers. Should posts like that be handled any differently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have looked at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/455/do-we-have-any-sort-of-spoiler-policy&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; but I feel it was not fully answered by the question it supposedly duped.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1/is-it-important-to-mark-spoiler-questions-as-such&quot;&gt;The original question&lt;/a&gt; mentions how the spoiler block and spoiler tag work, but does not mention how posts should be handled that contain unmasked spoilers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/114876/policy-for-spoilers-on-fiction-or-literature-sites&quot;&gt;this network-wide question I posted on MSO before coming here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3615" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="What is the policy for spoilers?" Tags="|discussion|faq|spoilers|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="968" CreationDate="2011-12-05T18:16:03.140" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;There isn't a specific policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal policy is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With movies, I tend to spoiler things that will give away the entire plot if known, like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Bruce Willis was dead the whole time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but not things that aren't central to the plot like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Vader = Luke's dad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also take the age of the work into account.  Afterall, everyone knows that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rosebud was his sled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With TV shows, I try to spoiler big plot points from the current season, if practical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both movies and television are relatively easy, as they're very big on the mass market - TV Shows and Movies are consumed quickly.  TV shows are intended for consumption within a few weeks of airing, movies within a year.  After that, they're consigned to reruns and store shelves, their initial rush of attention having faltered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Books are a different story, in my opinion.  Books don't generate nearly as much buzz upon release, so I tend to spoiler important plot points such as &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The Yuzzam Vong regain access to the Force&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the New Jedi Order series for quite a while afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is just a personal guideline, of course, and I'm certain there are exceptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="656" LastActivityDate="2011-12-05T18:16:03.140" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="970" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-05T20:34:43.007" Score="14" ViewCount="593" Body="&lt;p&gt;5 users (aka &lt;em&gt;The Comics Team&lt;/em&gt;) will get 3 comics a week for one month. The 5 users will be required to create questions/answers in order to be eligible for the following month. Users will be determined by highest rep accrued in a month span.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Elaborate details!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users interested in receiving comic books will &lt;strong&gt;answer this question with their username&lt;/strong&gt;, thus entering themselves for ongoing consideration for the grant. &lt;strong&gt;If at any time you wish to remove yourself from consideration, delete the answer with your name in it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Comics Team members who have met their question and answer requirement will be chosen to receive comics for the month.&lt;/strong&gt; The remaining spots will be given to new or lapsed users, in order of the highest rep accrued in the previous month (track that &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/leagues/82/month/scifi&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;strong&gt;5 users will be chosen&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Every Monday of the month&lt;/strong&gt;, I will email these 5 users  (aka &lt;em&gt;The Comics team&lt;/em&gt;) the list of comics being released that week (courtesy of &lt;a href=&quot;http://ifanboy.com/comics/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;iFanboy&lt;/a&gt;). Each user will &lt;strong&gt;select 3 comics&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For expediency and easiness sake, I would prefer to gift comics digitally through &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comixology.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Comixology&lt;/a&gt;) when possible. If not, they will be shipped via &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.midtowncomics.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Midtown Comics&lt;/a&gt; to Team members in the US and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reedcomics.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Reed Comics&lt;/a&gt; to Team members in the UK. &lt;strong&gt;If you do not live in the United States, please provide me with your local online retailer that we can order single issues through.&lt;/strong&gt; If an online retailer is not available international team members may have to choose items from their country's Amazon in place of single issues. &lt;strong&gt;Sadly, reimbursements are no longer an option.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Recipients will then have their assigned month to ask or answer a minimum of 7 questions&lt;/strong&gt; in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-comics&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-comics&lt;/a&gt; or any other comic publisher tag. Only questions in these tags count. If you notice that a question you are answering is a comic book question but is not tagged properly, tag it. Since it's unlikely that every issue will inspire questions, &lt;strong&gt;any comic book questions you ask or answer during this month count towards your 7&lt;/strong&gt;. Writing a blog about comic books counts as asking 3 questions (we need &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;blog content&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JUNE 2012 COMICS TEAM/May results&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1148/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt;/6Q+2A, 887 Rep&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3804/pureferret&quot;&gt;Pureferret&lt;/a&gt;/3Q+7A, 2175 Rep&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/976/dvk&quot;&gt;DVK&lt;/a&gt;/8Q+6A, 2737 Rep&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4056/dlanod&quot;&gt;dlanod&lt;/a&gt;/16Q+6A, 2528 Rep&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/887/system-down&quot;&gt;System Down&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The five June recipients will be chosen on &lt;strong&gt;Friday, June 1st, 2012 at 2pm EST/19:00 UTC.&lt;/strong&gt; If you are interested in receiving comics in June, please add your name as an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2012-06-04T17:52:16.453" Title="Ongoing Comic Book Grant [Updated June 4 2012]" Tags="|discussion|promotional-grant|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="15" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-04-02T14:50:11.313" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="968" CreationDate="2011-12-05T22:33:39.757" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't have a formal policy, and I don't think it makes sense to have a precise policy, this is very much on a case-by-case basis. There are however ground rules to follow. I was about to formulate them, when I saw &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/114876/policy-for-spoilers-on-fiction-or-literature-sites/114923#114923&quot;&gt;badp's answer on the main meta&lt;/a&gt; which I fully endorse:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Your question must make sense without spoiler protected paragraphs.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;If the spoiler is the whole point of your question, don't spoiler protect it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Your answer must make sense without spoiler protected paragraphs.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;If the spoiler is the whole point of your answer, don't spoiler protect it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Your title must be easy to Google for. If that means spoilery, so be it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;If there's a spoiler in the title, don't mask it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To give a couple of examples of questions I edited in the past few months:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;“&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/7299/revisions/1&quot;&gt;Question about Inception Limbo&lt;/a&gt;” is not an acceptable title. (“Question about X” is not an acceptable title anywhere on Stack Exchange for that matter.) The question is how Cobb and Saito escape Limbo, so the title must mention Cobb and Saito and Limbo and how these three relate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;“&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/6065/5&quot;&gt;Why did You-Know-Who have only 7 You-Know-Whats?&lt;/a&gt;” is completely ridiculous. Ok, it's ridiculous in a funny way, but it's also completely uninformative. There's nothing particularly spoilery about “Why did Voldemort have only 7 Horcruxes?” anyway.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2011-12-05T22:33:39.757" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="970" CreationDate="2011-12-05T23:25:17.303" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm interested, in comics. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;30 Characters later...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2011-12-05T23:25:17.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="973" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="974" CreationDate="2011-12-06T01:55:35.303" Score="2" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;As of today I'm at 100 consecutive days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How long does it take for the Fanatic badge to be earned?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yesterday it took like 4 hours for the Electorate badge to take effect, but previously for lesser badges, It was a matter of minutes to get a badge earned, sometimes it was instant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a time that everyone needs to wait in order to receive some badges?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(inb4 we don't need no stinkin' badges)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2016-09-09T15:21:28.860" LastActivityDate="2016-09-09T15:21:28.860" Title="How long does it take for badges to be earned?" Tags="|support|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="973" CreationDate="2011-12-06T02:50:24.153" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Badges run at different frequencies.  In general, be patient for 24 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12" LastActivityDate="2011-12-06T02:50:24.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="970" CreationDate="2011-12-07T00:35:17.377" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am definitely up for this. &lt;a href=&quot;http://ifanboy.com/users/IPugsley/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://ifanboy.com/users/IPugsley/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1913" LastActivityDate="2011-12-07T00:35:17.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="976" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-08T01:06:05.253" Score="53" ViewCount="1476" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/our-designer-in-residence-jin-yang/&quot;&gt;Jin&lt;/a&gt;, and I'll be working on the designs for the Stack Exchange sites as they graduate from the beta phase. Each site will have its own unique theme that will reflect its topic. However, all sites will share quite a bit of common elements so they feel like they're part of the Stack Exchange family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/554/what-should-our-logo-and-design-look-like-once-we-are-no-longer-in-beta&quot;&gt;brainstorming session&lt;/a&gt; you had a while back. It helped me a great deal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/577/44&quot;&gt;said&lt;/a&gt; in the other thread:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To me, science fiction and fantasy novels rely on readers' own&#xA;  imaginations to fill in the gap when it comes to visuals. For that&#xA;  reason, I don't want to use graphics that are too explicit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During my design process, I've looked at many science fiction and fantasy book cover designs. I want our site design to reflect both genres. At the same time, I don't want the design to be overly cliché. So no LCARS UI or dragons :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the sci-fi aspect, I believe a planet-scape imagery works well, and for the fantasy side a rune circle will provide a magical feel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As with all the Stack Exchange site designs, my three goals are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Design should reflect the site topic, and is relatable by the&#xA;target audience.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Design shouldn't get in the way of content, it should serve as&#xA;pleasant background noise.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The design should provide the SE community a unique branding.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the mockups for the homepage and the single question view page. You can click on to view the full resolution versions. They do not have all the site elements, but they should give you a good idea of the overall look and feel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/otZbv.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/otZbv.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Sci-Fi Fantasy Homepage&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QBJdN.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QBJdN.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Sci-Fi Fantasy Question&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The logo for the site is the rune circle around the female warrior's silhouette. It's not actually in the logo type &quot;Science Fiction + Fantasy.&quot; I feel this placement sets the mood better in the header image. Its design is inspired by a promotional t-shirt I created for the NYC Comiccon couple of months ago:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4NXdO.png&quot; alt=&quot;Sci-Fi Fantasy NYCC 2011 shirt&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe this design works well for our site. It makes this community stand out from the rest of the Sci-fi/Fantasy sites out there, but at the same time it still resembles the Stack Exchange branding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please let me know what you think. If there are no major design changes, I'm aiming to launch the new design next week. An early congrats from me!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2011-12-29T23:44:10.243" Title="Design for Science Fiction &amp; Fantasy" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="976" CreationDate="2011-12-08T05:20:39.897" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The background (half my screen since the width is fixed) is &lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt; dark.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I can barely see the StackExchange menu.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Ask Question&quot; looks like &quot;AsK Question&quot;.  Is this a typo? The &lt;code&gt;k&lt;/code&gt; in &quot;asked&quot; looks better.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Those are Tolkien's Dwarf runes, yes?  If I'm remembering them correctly they are spelling &lt;code&gt;I?Teegeadfatass?ig?&lt;/code&gt; (I don't recall a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt; rune).  Is this meant to be significant?  It is perhaps not Tolkien's runes but a different set?  The users of this site will look for hidden things like that.  (I'm using the ComicCon image since the runes are easier to see; I didn't check if they differ from the other design).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The symbols in the atmosphere - are they Aquarius and an Ankh?  Significance?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the plan for meta?  IIUC it's often a 'reversed' version of the site - would that be a white background and a dark inner?  I &lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt; like the sites where you have an in-theme different meta (e.g. bicycles.se).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO if you took away the &quot;+ Fantasy&quot;, this would still fit excellently as a solely Science Fiction design.  The silhouette girl is holding blade weapons I think, and there's the runes, but those are very small.  Given that the &quot;Fantasy&quot; font isn't reused elsewhere, but the &quot;Science Fiction&quot; font is, this looks to me like a Science Fiction design with a Fantasy stamp on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fantasy was added here after the site started, but it's really an equal part now.  It suffers by being excluded from the domain (we &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/316/should-the-domain-change-from-scifi-stackexchange-com-to-include-fantasy&quot;&gt;asked for an alias a long time ago&lt;/a&gt;, but it seems like the SE powers that be are not keen on that idea).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would love to see a bit more balance between the sci-fi and the fantasy aspects.  Of course, genre classification is very subjective, so maybe others see more balance in the images above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2011-12-08T07:25:02.843" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="949" CreationDate="2011-12-08T05:30:22.480" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I should have mentioned this earlier sorry: if anyone wants to do a blog post they are most welcome, of course.  I'll ensure that it gets edited and published right away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I can't do this myself because the only time I've tried her books I didn't like them, so that's probably not a great obit' post).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-12-08T05:30:22.480" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="964" CreationDate="2011-12-08T07:04:05.380" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;(I received a &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; grant a couple of weeks ago).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The grants so far have generally been timed with some sort of extra-site activity (release of HP7 Part II, release of the new 52, etc).  The idea, I believe, is that we generate a lot of content around this topic when it may be of heightened interest externally.  The catch here is that this really assumes that the grant will be consumed very quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: I haven't had time to watch all the &lt;em&gt;Potter&lt;/em&gt; films yet (hopefully over the next two weekends).  I may or may not have questions as a result, and I'll certainly go over the questions again (I've already read them all with book-knowledge) before and after watching to see if I can add or improve answers.  However, this will be 4-6 weeks after the release of HP7-2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If generating content quickly is one of the goals (rather than a more long-term &quot;let's get more experts on this topic&quot; goal), then perhaps a criteria should be &quot;expects to have the time to be able to consume the grant content quickly&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although new questions is an interesting metric, I don't think it's the most important (and, if we do assume that there was already extra-site activity, then it may have nothing to do with the grant).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question arises naturally out of the grant, then that's great.  If the grantee is stuck trying to think up X questions to ask to justify the grant, then I don't think that's great.  We want interesting questions that don't have an easily found good answer elsewhere; those are hard to force.  I enforce a personal limit of 2 answers per 1 question (2.39::1 at the moment) because I think the site needs questions from a wide range of people to be successful, and it doesn't really need lots more questions from me.  So that means that I'm less likely to generate HP questions, even having got a grant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect there will be disagreement about this (and so perhaps I ought to have made it a separate answer).  If there is agreement, then a useful criteria would be the number of questions on the topic &lt;em&gt;already on the site&lt;/em&gt; that have no answer, or no good answers.  I expect most grantees will go through the questions on the grant topic as they consume the grant and add/improve answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/926/can-we-get-promotional-grant-material-to-more-recent-users-too&quot;&gt;wrote elsewhere&lt;/a&gt; the grants so far (with the exception of the most recent) have been focused towards the highest-rep users (i.e. part of the purpose of the grant is rewarding building up the site to the nearly-out-of-beta status) - although most of the grants didn't reach their limits, so this was only partially the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users that are &lt;em&gt;right now&lt;/em&gt; rapidly increasing in rep are the users that probably &lt;em&gt;right now&lt;/em&gt; have the energy and resources to translate a grant into site content.  I think this is another reason that it's important to keep grant options open to these people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, although banners are out because some StackExchange users are a bit nuts I don't see any problem with having the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/featured&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;featured&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;featured&lt;/a&gt; tag applied to any current grant, assuming that there's only one at a time and it gets removed when the grant isn't available any more.  If I understand correctly, this will place a link to the meta question prominently on the main site on most pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2011-12-08T07:04:05.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="968" CreationDate="2011-12-08T07:50:39.953" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;As others have said, I think it's up to users to find their own guidelines.  I would guess I'm on the conservative side in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Personally&lt;/strong&gt;, for answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Take the question into consideration.  If the asker says that they are only part-way through a story, or specifically asks for answers to avoid spoilers, then attempt to do that (it's not always possible).  On the other hand, if they have clearly consumed the entire story, then it's unlikely that the spoiler tag is warranted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Consider how &quot;spoiled&quot; I would feel if I knew the information in advance.  This is extremely subjective, but it's important, because otherwise everything is a spoiler.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't consider the age of the material.  There are still people new to Star Wars, the Matrix, and The Lord of the Rings, even though these could all be considered so established that the main points are common knowledge.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Consider how relevant the spoiler is to the answer.  If it's a bit of extra information that makes the answer more interesting or detailed, but not critical to the answer, then I'm more likely to conceal it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Put as little text as possible into the spoiler tag, and try and surround it with context that doesn't give anything away, but makes it obvious whether you want to reveal the text.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If unsure, don't use the tag.  Answers show up on the question page - before you get there, you most likely have an idea what the question is about, so if you're worried about spoilers for it, then you probably should stay away.  Also, StackExchange don't want the spoiler text to be visible on an iPad, so you're annoying those users by having it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions are a little different - these &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; show up without the user navigating specifically to the page - they're in the main questions page, they get auto-posted to chat, they may appear in the network-wide list of questions (where there may be someone with no sci-fi/fantasy knowledge at all, not expecting a spoiler to the latest movie), they get tweeted, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Personally&lt;/strong&gt;, for questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Avoid spoilers completely in the title.  This doesn't mean using [REDACTED] or silly things like that, it means coming up with another way to summarise the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Avoid spoilers in the first chunk of the question, because this text is often included (even if it is in spoiler tags) in links to the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't use &quot;SPOILER&quot; in the title.  Exactly what a spoiler is is subjective, and IMO it's just ugly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As with answers, put as little text into the spoiler markup as possible, consider how &quot;spoiled&quot; I would feel, and don't consider the age of the material.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't include anything superfluous if it's remotely spoiler-y.  Rework the question text so that you get the question across without including spoilers that don't need to be there.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If unsure, use the tag or avoid the spoiler altogether (there are places, e.g. RSS, where the spoiler markup is ignored).  I want users to be able to follow tags or even the whole questions list without having to worry about users in another country getting access to their favourite TV show first and spoiling episodes for them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(c.f. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/185/108&quot;&gt;my comments from when this was last discussed&lt;/a&gt;, which I still agree with).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2011-12-08T07:50:39.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="976" CreationDate="2011-12-08T08:27:59.067" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suggestions for hidden-meaning runes (I prefer the latter, although I don't know if it could fit nicely):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oCsxc.png&quot; alt=&quot;short&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0h7uq.png&quot; alt=&quot;long&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-12-08T08:27:59.067" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="932" CreationDate="2011-12-08T09:34:26.340" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;So it seems no-one wants to take the job, so...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Talked (well, emailed) to Brett; he's happy to help and provided a list of grant recipients versus blog posters and I've asked if any of them are interested in writing something (via comments in their answer to the grant post, which I think works best for communication).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Brett said he'd try and do some regular (comic-focused) writing also.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think the chat room expired.  C'est la vie.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I've written up a few posts, so there will be at least one per week for a little while (unfortunately all from me, but I'll intersperse with others if there's more content coming).  Perhaps the seemingly-soon move from beta will help inspire.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There was only one draft - either some were removed or I incorrectly remembered there being more.  I've asked what can be done to help finish that off (in a comment on a meta post; didn't really know what the best communication method was here).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-12-08T09:34:26.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="976" CreationDate="2011-12-08T16:13:35.427" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love the Rebel Alliance-esque logos being used for badges - this appeals to my inner geek.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't speak runic, so I have no opinion on the runes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the overall design, it's sleek and simple.  The font is appropriate without getting in the way (or standing out too much).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The biggest issue I have is with the 'Accepted Answer' color - it's a seafoam green that doesn't really seem to jibe with the rest of the site.  On my monitor it seems to be the color #75BA9B.  My recommendation would be more of a earth-tone green (hunter or forest) such as #228B22 or #006400.  This might just be a 'me' thing, though, as I'm partial to dark greens (and detest seafoam).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, if this went in as the final design my only tears would be ones of joy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="656" LastActivityDate="2011-12-08T16:13:35.427" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="976" CreationDate="2011-12-08T21:31:44.387" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like that design, and I really really like the background picture. Thank you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have one objection, and it's on a detail, but I feel strongly about the issue. The &lt;code&gt;+&lt;/code&gt; in “Science Fiction + Fantasy” should not be a &lt;code&gt;+&lt;/code&gt;. It makes the name look like there's science fiction on one side and fantasy on the other side. That's not the case at all: there's a whole continuum that covers both. “Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy” is ok. (I'd prefer “Speculative Fiction” but I know it's not well-known enough.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2011-12-08T21:31:44.387" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="316" CreationDate="2011-12-09T01:23:15.787" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not just: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;fiction.stackchange.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3442" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T01:23:15.787" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="976" CreationDate="2011-12-09T03:09:19.823" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should do something a bit different for the up/down votes. I'm in favor of either swords or rocket ships, but something besides the arrows would look cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T03:09:19.823" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="989" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-13T20:22:44.253" Score="23" ViewCount="483" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you can see the new design just went live. Which means this site has been officially launched! Congratulations! Thank you for your valuable &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/976/design-for-science-fiction-fantasy&quot;&gt;design feedback&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're still seeing the old favicons, please load the follow urls and do a hard browser refresh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/scifi/img/favicon.ico&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://sstatic.net/scifi/img/favicon.ico&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/scifimeta/img/favicon.ico&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://sstatic.net/scifimeta/img/favicon.ico&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have also themed the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;chatroom&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/stackscifi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;twitter&lt;/a&gt; account and newsletter template for this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see any CSS/styling bugs, please start a new post and tag it with &quot;design&quot; and &quot;bug.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll be checking Meta closely for CSS bug reports, meanwhile I'm converting the &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;blog theme&lt;/a&gt; to the new look too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;p.s. I made the Meta theme a dark theme, I feel since it gets limited views, it's OK. plus Meta = &quot;The Dark Side&quot; right? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Congrats on the launch and thank you for being an awesome community!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2011-12-30T16:34:24.310" Title="New Design Launched" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="990" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1260" CreationDate="2011-12-13T20:30:46.623" Score="9" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check it out: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cOpfH.png&quot; alt=&quot;more like dumb quotes amirite&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those leading single quotation marks are backwards. Crazy talk!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2380" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-08-21T01:09:07.853" LastActivityDate="2016-08-21T01:09:07.853" Title="Smart quotes are not so smart in the new design, it seems" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="991" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-13T20:45:44.527" Score="15" ViewCount="801" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2484/community-promotion-ads-2013&quot;&gt;Community Promotion Ads - 2013&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Congratulations on graduating into a full-fledged site. This now enables your community to participate in our Community Promotion Ads program!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site's twitter account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;interesting articles or findings for the curious&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool Science Fiction or Fantasy events/conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be &lt;strong&gt;220 x 250 pixels&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/991&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2537" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2012-10-24T01:45:19.130" Title="Community Promotion Ads - 2012" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2012-12-10T16:07:10.450" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="991" CreationDate="2011-12-13T20:46:49.097" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/#!/stackscifi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/grKuY.png&quot; alt=&quot;Follow us on Twitter!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2537" LastActivityDate="2011-12-13T20:46:49.097" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="993" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1035" CreationDate="2011-12-13T20:49:49.917" Score="6" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/7732/656&quot;&gt;I answered a question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I included a picture.  The picture may not be entirely SFW, but is not pornographic or offensive (in my sole opinion).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I debated about including the picture for a bit, and eventually landed on, &amp;quot;Yes, it should be ok.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't have landed there had Threepio been female, or had he had a skin covering, but in this case, I judged it ok.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a guideline I'm forgetting that governs such things, or is it purely up to the individual to make these decisions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondarily, did I make the right decision, or should I remove the picture?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="656" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2011-12-16T06:52:02.267" Title="Was this out of line?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="989" CreationDate="2011-12-13T20:59:41.677" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love the design, as I love all your designs, but I'm getting a headache being here on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Light text on dark backgrounds has been shown to be worse for legibility (&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.tatham.oddie.com.au/2008/10/13/why-light-text-on-dark-background-is-a-bad-idea/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this blog post&lt;/a&gt; gives a few relevant citations, as does &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/a/527378/113292&quot;&gt;this answer on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;) which is compounded by people who have less-than-perfect eyesight (i.e. most people including myself).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there's an argument that dark backgrounds are great for media-rich sites (so as to not detract from the focus, whether it be video or pictures), Meta is not a media rich site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can this be changed to follow the other sites, where the meta site is a gray/washed-out version of the main site? &lt;a href=&quot;https://bicycles.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Meta Bicyles.SE&lt;/a&gt; was a great example of how you made a colorful site work in a dark-text-on-light-background way on its meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:46.357" LastActivityDate="2011-12-13T20:59:41.677" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="989" CreationDate="2011-12-13T21:12:39.380" Score="11" Body="&lt;h2&gt;More contrast for many things&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/l0fAi.png&quot; alt=&quot;Needs more CONTRAST.&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;and the vote buttons and up/downvote colors&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/29EiL.png&quot; alt=&quot;Hijacked to include another poor contrast example on vote split&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;and in the link box&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rV7gG.png&quot; alt=&quot;Also bad colors for the link box&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="584" LastEditorUserId="584" LastEditDate="2011-12-13T23:13:14.943" LastActivityDate="2011-12-13T23:13:14.943" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="989" CreationDate="2011-12-13T21:12:59.157" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just adding to what Mark Trapp said, I find the contrast especially poor on the answer count and visited links:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4Wctp.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, this thing you are using to highlight the original poster in comments doesn't look very good IMO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bBtL8.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, when link to a specific post (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/996/3442&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;) (happens automatically when you update or submit a new answer), the fade-to-white and un-fade is a bit disconcerting because the text is white too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: Probably not a big deal but, the spoiler thing is not working on meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; testing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;PPS: More contrast issues here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/2708213#2708213&quot;&gt;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/2708213#2708213&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can barely see the names.&lt;/s&gt; &lt;strong&gt;(looks like this has been fixed)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PPS: More contrast issues with links on about me section of profiles (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/101/jeff-atwood&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L105X.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3442" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2011-12-14T15:57:59.183" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="993" CreationDate="2011-12-13T21:24:30.230" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be honest, I couldn't even tell what was there until I thought about why you would think it would be a problem: all that gold blends in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But does it really make or break your answer to have that inline with the risk of someone getting offended by it? Why not just link to it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastActivityDate="2011-12-13T21:24:30.230" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="989" CreationDate="2011-12-14T00:14:01.083" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Awesome design! Like highlighting in menu. But could you make background for posts with favorite tags more differ from other posts? It is very hard to see the difference of the favorites from regular posts on some screens now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3657" LastActivityDate="2011-12-14T00:14:01.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="989" CreationDate="2011-12-14T02:21:16.950" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of these fonts...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;VarelaRoundRegular, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...I'm not sure which one is ending up as the default font on the main site on my machine.  But I find it extremely unreadable.  The letters are excessively wide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Screen shot below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ydw96.png&quot; alt=&quot;This font seems too wide and hard to read, to me.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1498" LastEditorUserId="1498" LastEditDate="2011-12-14T03:34:37.820" LastActivityDate="2011-12-14T03:34:37.820" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="993" CreationDate="2011-12-14T10:28:26.217" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have a problem with that picture, but then I'm not easily offended. On the other hand, its inclusion, as your answers stands, looks a bit sophomoric.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't quite tell from your description whether that critically-placed metal rod is there on purpose or not, nor whether the picture is an official one. Sourcing the picture would be nice; and then, as Mark suggests, you might find it more natural to link to the picture rather than inline it, which would sidestep the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2011-12-14T10:28:26.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="989" CreationDate="2011-12-14T10:43:39.750" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yay!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find that the 5k suggested edit count and the moderator/10k flag count are not very spectacular, as they are washed in an ocean of color. Can they be made a different hue that screams “pay attention to me” a bit louder? I think having them on the right of the mod/tools/review link (like they are on most sites AFAIK) instead of next to the badges would be enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2011-12-14T10:43:39.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1003" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5128" CreationDate="2011-12-14T14:18:35.427" Score="13" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;Deleted answers to questions are very difficult to tell apart from regular answers - the color difference is very small and easy to miss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Color code is #F4EAEA, i think something slightly darker like #EAA4A4 might work better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cwKug.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="656" LastEditorUserId="4257" LastEditDate="2014-10-14T12:30:50.400" LastActivityDate="2014-10-14T12:30:50.400" Title="Deleted answers hard to identify" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="989" CreationDate="2011-12-14T16:04:27.467" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I apologize if this is a dupe, but the triangle used to open up your user stats (to the left of your userID on the top) is 100% invisible on the main site, and only barely visible on Meta.  Depending on how many badges you have, this will affect your ability to read your name or your rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;SciFi:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xinQT.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/m5e7o.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;META SciFi:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ni2ze.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Rv0oM.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side note, I agree that meta in general is MUCH worse in usability/readability with the new styling (compared to either generically styled BETA or to SciFi main&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2011-12-14T16:58:16.910" LastActivityDate="2011-12-14T16:58:16.910" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1005" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-14T16:31:19.593" Score="4" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;This email comes from &lt;code&gt;&amp;quot;Server Fault&amp;quot; &amp;lt;do-not-reply@serverfault.com&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hello!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You registered for the following chat events happening today on chat.stackexchange.com:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in 3 hours&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recommendation chat&#xA;in the room Mos Eisley -- enter this room | view events&#xA;7:00 PM UTC for 3h&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See you there!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't this email be coming from SciFi StackExchange?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2011-12-14T16:46:34.307" Title="Why does the chat recommendation email come from Server Fault?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1005" CreationDate="2011-12-14T16:46:17.647" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It always comes from the site that you have set as your main site &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;in your profile&lt;/a&gt;; in your case, that's Server Fault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="171" LastActivityDate="2011-12-14T16:46:17.647" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1007" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1042" CreationDate="2011-12-14T17:16:04.173" Score="10" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we are now launched, we've been added to the list of Stack Exchange sites at the bottom of all SE pages (scroll down there now to see what I'm referring to, I can wait!).  Unfortunately, the link is just &quot;scifi&quot;, there's no mention of fantasy.  We are not just the sci-fi site, we are sci-fi + fantasy, and I think that link should include fantasy as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2011-12-17T17:15:10.487" LastActivityDate="2011-12-17T17:15:10.487" Title="Our Site link at the bottom of SE sites" Tags="|bug|status-completed|hyperlinks|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="989" CreationDate="2011-12-14T17:19:13.470" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;When adding tags to a question on the meta site, there's almost no contrast between the tag description and the background.  This issue doesn't occur on the main site.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9GnZO.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of issue&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2011-12-14T17:19:13.470" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1009" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1014" CreationDate="2011-12-14T20:23:08.627" Score="9" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;This great news should be celebrated &lt;em&gt;somehow&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are we getting a mention on a StackExchange blog?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are our hard working moderators getting a pay rise? (10% seems fair, since they get paid nothing...)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are our top five users going to get a set of Gerry Anderson DVDs?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or better yet, are we going to get a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/432&quot;&gt;spoiler markdown button&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, this is great news. Thanks to everyone who participated over the last year, going from Area51 through Beta. And thanks to Jin for the awesome graphics!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.730" LastActivityDate="2011-12-15T18:33:02.987" Title="Are there any celebrations planned for us getting out of Beta?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1007" CreationDate="2011-12-14T21:44:06.453" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should be, &quot;■ &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;spec-fi&lt;/a&gt;&quot; then. To save space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2011-12-14T21:44:06.453" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1007" CreationDate="2011-12-14T21:57:50.933" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's precedent for the abbreviation at the bottom not being the same as the subdomain (like gamedev.stackexchange.com - called game development) so I think it should be 'scifi-fantasy'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="656" LastActivityDate="2011-12-14T21:57:50.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1012" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1013" CreationDate="2011-12-14T22:25:47.257" Score="8" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;In meta, using &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;!&lt;/code&gt; for spoilers gives us:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; text that looks like this!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's clearly visible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that meta is not really a place where things are likely to be spoiled, but the formatting should probably still work properly so that we can &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/432/is-there-any-interest-in-a-spoiler-markdown-button&quot;&gt;talk about spoilers&lt;/a&gt; using correct-looking examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2380" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2011-12-15T18:01:16.393" Title="Spoiler styling in meta doesn't effectively hide 'spoilers'" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1012" CreationDate="2011-12-14T22:40:45.813" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;the fix will be in the next daily build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastActivityDate="2011-12-14T22:40:45.813" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1009" CreationDate="2011-12-15T02:59:25.740" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok. Let's formalize it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If 5+ people say they want to come to my place in the Baltimore MD area for a BYOB party, I'll make it happen. Please include the Saturdays that suit you. Picking Saturday for ease of travel. Limited sofa-bed space available for farthest-distance-traveled-first-serve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll break out the SNES on the 42&quot; next to my Atari 800xl on an SDTV. Continual looping SF films/tv on the giant screen (6' x 8'). Requests welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now we are looking at either the 24th or 31st&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51" LastEditorUserId="51" LastEditDate="2011-12-15T18:33:02.987" LastActivityDate="2011-12-15T18:33:02.987" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1015" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1016" CreationDate="2011-12-15T11:36:55.960" Score="2" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Favicon&lt;/a&gt; is still showing the Beta icon. Can this be fixed, please (for Main and Meta)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="171" LastEditDate="2011-12-19T11:57:58.927" LastActivityDate="2011-12-19T11:57:58.927" Title="Favicon still in Beta" Tags="|bug|status-norepro|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2012-09-06T13:52:43.747" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1015" CreationDate="2011-12-15T12:03:24.160" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I get the new favicon.  Maybe a hard cache clear is necessary?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-12-15T12:03:24.160" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1017" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1036" CreationDate="2011-12-15T13:57:55.873" Score="22" ViewCount="464" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is Santa Claus a Fantasy topic? I think yes, but just want to be sure before doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="108" LastEditDate="2011-12-17T04:47:44.177" LastActivityDate="2011-12-17T04:47:44.177" Title="Are questions about Santa Claus on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1017" CreationDate="2011-12-15T14:51:33.003" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, because as everyone knows, Santa Claus is &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2011-12-15T14:51:33.003" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1017" CreationDate="2011-12-15T15:17:18.377" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;GO. FOR. IT. YES.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really want to know what this question is about. Also, does Santa warrant...a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Santa Grant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastActivityDate="2011-12-15T15:17:18.377" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1020" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-15T16:03:02.533" Score="5" ViewCount="741" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's super creepy, and I don't see how it fits with the site or the rest of the design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2182" LastEditorUserId="45" LastEditDate="2011-12-15T18:02:04.610" LastActivityDate="2011-12-16T05:36:32.123" Title="Why does the new design use biohazard symbol for answered questions?" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1020" CreationDate="2011-12-15T16:26:10.293" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's meant to be the same symbol as the circular design around the figure in the top right of the page.  But I agree that it ends up looking just like the biohazard symbol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2011-12-15T16:26:10.293" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1020" CreationDate="2011-12-15T17:02:16.563" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It warns you not to read questions that have answers. They're hazardous to your health.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2365" LastActivityDate="2011-12-15T17:02:16.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1023" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1024" CreationDate="2011-12-15T18:11:06.440" Score="11" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7827/has-anyone-on-star-trek-traveled-into-the-future-without-a-future-intermediary&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; has a whopping five tags denoting it as a Star Trek question. Are they really necessary? Can't the question just be labeled &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; and be done with it? Or am I missing some reason that the question needs to be denoted as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tng&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tng&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tng&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-voyager&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-voyager&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-voyager&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-ds9&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-ds9&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-ds9&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/enterprise&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;enterprise&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;enterprise&lt;/a&gt;? Can we do away with some of these tags so that we can add, for example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time-travel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time-travel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time-travel&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just wondering if there is a protocol I'm missing before I go mess everything up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2380" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2011-12-15T18:53:07.783" Title="Does this question really need five Star Trek tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1023" CreationDate="2011-12-15T18:52:14.687" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree, so I've retagged it with just &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time-travel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time-travel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time-travel&lt;/a&gt;.  It has to do with all of Star Trek; it's not specific to any of the sub-tags, so I don't think it needs any of them.  And it certainly does need time-travel.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2011-12-15T18:52:14.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1023" CreationDate="2011-12-15T18:52:31.640" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's quite a dilly of a pickle.  It is a time travel question, but it's a question that also covers all of the iterations of Star Trek.  I'd say leave it as is.  Either we need a feature request for more tags on a question, or we need some way to create tag hierarchies, so we could have each Star Trek show have their own tag, that also acts as a generic Star Trek tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2011-12-15T18:52:31.640" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1023" CreationDate="2011-12-15T18:52:53.153" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I ask a question about a specific series of Star Trek, I use that series tag. But if my question is related to multiple series, or the universe at large, I use just the &lt;code&gt;star-trek&lt;/code&gt; tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2011-12-15T18:52:53.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1017" CreationDate="2011-12-16T00:11:58.050" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question concerns a specific work of fantasy or science-fiction, then yes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33" LastActivityDate="2011-12-16T00:11:58.050" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1028" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-16T00:30:03.693" Score="13" ViewCount="643" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few weeks ago, I noticed the first questions that gave me pause, thinking, should we allow these? But they kind of fit, so I didn't do anything to get in its way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/6986/98&quot;&gt;Could the Planeteers use their rings if Capt Planet was summoned?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/6438/98&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the explanation for Luna&amp;#39;s change in appearance?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I started noticing more&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/6699/98&quot;&gt;Pony ages in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/7690/98&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/7690/98&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then today, it seems like all kinds of things broke loose...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/7824/98&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/7824/98&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/7825/98&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/7825/98&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, where do we draw the line with these types of questions? It seems to me that if we start, almost any kid show would fit vaguely in the realm of Fantasy, with who knows what results in the end. But where do we want to draw the line, or are we going to welcome these types of questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2012-05-02T20:39:35.123" Title="What are our boundaries?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1028" CreationDate="2011-12-16T01:42:39.013" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that if there were issues with these questions they would see more downvotes and vote to closes.  Instead, we have community participation in these, so I'd argue that they are valid questions that fit within the realm of questions that experts of sci-fi and fantasy would find enjoyable to discuss and find answers to.  Only one of them currently has votes to close, although most of these are older questions so those would have rolled off by now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &lt;em&gt;My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic&lt;/em&gt; specifically, this is a children's cartoon that takes place in a fleshed out fantasy world.  Talking ponies, some of which can cast various magic spells, others have wings that allow flight, are the main characters and majority of the population in this world.  The plots are a few steps above normal children's cartoon fare, with the weekly conflict often arising out of natural inter-personal conflicts within the group, rather than the common villain hatching a weekly scheme.  All this helped nurture a surprisingly large adult fan community (Google 'brony' to learn more), so I would fully expect questions to be here as it is a fantasy setting that people of all ages enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: And now both of the Santa questions have been closed by Gilles.  So I guess the answer to the question is Santa.  Santa crosses the boundary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2012-05-01T23:40:48.163" LastActivityDate="2012-05-01T23:40:48.163" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1030" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-16T01:44:41.083" Score="8" ViewCount="227" Body="&lt;p&gt;Which sites do you think we need to have migration paths to, now that we are promoted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Migration paths are an easy way to send a question to another site, without requiring it to be flagged by a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-03-21T21:11:28.033" LastActivityDate="2019-06-29T05:12:07.500" Title="Migration Paths" Tags="|discussion|migration|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1030" CreationDate="2011-12-16T01:45:29.740" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Literature, Movies, Physics, Gaming, and possible English, would be the best sites. Many questions coming here don't quite fit, and I think they would tend to be sent to one of these sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2011-12-16T02:18:03.353" LastActivityDate="2011-12-16T02:18:03.353" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1028" CreationDate="2011-12-16T02:27:29.747" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;@Keen has a good point in his answer.  Also, honestly, unless it creates an issue, or unless a specific topic (such as, say, My Little Pony) creates an issue, it seems better to be inclusive rather than exclusive.  It's hard to draw the line in many cases and shows like &lt;em&gt;Captain Planet&lt;/em&gt;, as much as I personally loathe it, are within the SF&amp;amp;F arena.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I, for example, might ask questions about &lt;em&gt;Johnny Quest&lt;/em&gt; and think I can make a solid case why a show that includes invisible monsters that can be painted, the yeti, an eerie spider robot, and so on, is well within the boundaries of SF.  But I grew up with &lt;em&gt;Johnny Quest&lt;/em&gt; on the TV.  I'm sure those growing up with &lt;em&gt;Captain Planet&lt;/em&gt; can make a similar case, since I know the show involves time travel and other issues that are in the SF&amp;amp;F arena.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2011-12-16T02:27:29.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1020" CreationDate="2011-12-16T02:31:30.220" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The design on the upper right actually comes really, and I mean REALLY close to the symbol for the triple Goddes in Wicca (the maiden, mother, and crone).  Personally, I think it's beautiful, but question whether religious iconography is appropriate in this case.  I like it, but it might offend some of various faiths when they find out what the three crescent moons often symbolize.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the biohazard symbol, I honestly think that should be changed.  It's a warning sign, something with negative connotations, and I think the symbol for an answer should be a positive sign.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I waited to say anything because I think the design for SF&amp;amp;F looks great overall and know it's taken a lot of work to create.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2011-12-16T02:31:30.220" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1020" CreationDate="2011-12-16T05:36:32.123" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keen wrote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think it's meant to be the same symbol as the circular design around&#xA;  the figure in the top right of the page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's exactly why I used it. But I agree it may send the wrong message. In my original mockup I simply had the accepted answer background as a solid green.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you guys have any other suggestions? Keep in mind, it needs to be contained within a square shape, and easily identifiable, and not overwhelming the numbers on top of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can always change it back to the solid green.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastActivityDate="2011-12-16T05:36:32.123" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="993" CreationDate="2011-12-16T06:52:02.267" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Back in my moderating days I had a maxim for users who would ask me 'is it suitable to post xyz':&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you have to consider the suitability of a post for more than a few seconds, then it's probably not suitable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the current incarnation of your answer, with the link giving fair warning that it might not be suitable for some people (which, of course, will encourage others to view it even more), is spot on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*Disclaimer: I didn't see anything wrong with the picture, but I still might have thought twice about posting it, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="373" LastActivityDate="2011-12-16T06:52:02.267" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1017" CreationDate="2011-12-16T07:06:33.013" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;We discuss fantasy here, we don't make it. So I'd say a question about the literature about Santa Claus is on-topic. It doesn't have to be about a specific work, it can explore the related myth and tropes transversally. But it does need to have some anchor in existing works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7825/how-does-santa-claus-get-into-houses-without-a-fireplace&quot;&gt;your actual question&lt;/a&gt;: I don't think it's appropriate for this site, because it's not relating to existing works. And judging by the quality of the answers it received, I don't think it's appropriate for Stack Exchange at all. This is more of a topic for &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2011-12-16T07:06:33.013" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1030" CreationDate="2011-12-16T07:20:13.227" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;2012-11-16: In the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tools/posts/migrated/stats&quot;&gt;last 90 days&lt;/a&gt;, we migrated all of 5 posts out. I really don't feel like going through all the comments on closed posts, but I'm pretty sure I've seen more comments suggesting migrations than questions that should have been migrated. So I don't think we're ready to have any migration path. Moderators can cope with one migration per fortnight or so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2012-03-21 (3 months later): we've had 12 migrations in the last 90 days. So the number is on the rise (but the proportion is not: we had about 1700 questions in this time period, versus about 700 during the previous 3 months), but still very much manageable by moderators. The two targets with more than one migrated post are &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Movies &amp;amp; TV&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Literature&lt;/a&gt;; both of these would be risky to add as migration paths because we don't want questions to be migrated out just because they are about a movie or about a book. Moderators will remain the sole migrators for the forseeable future; if you think a post should be migrated, flag it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T13:01:18.293" LastActivityDate="2012-03-21T21:11:18.410" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1038" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-16T07:26:12.983" Score="3" ViewCount="854" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7870/how-could-noah-fit-all-those-animals-into-the-ark&quot;&gt;How could Noah fit all those animals into the Ark?&lt;/a&gt; was closed as off-topic. I don't understand why. It's asking for an explanation of a plot detail in a work that surely qualifies as speculative fiction. I don't see why we should discriminate against certain works on the basis that they have given rise to a religion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could understand if this question was considered non-constructive: it's asking something that is well known not to have an answer, and it is likely to be argumentative because of the religious connection (hell, we're arguing about it already). But I would like to understand why 3 or more people voted it as off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Data point: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/14643/how-tall-was-goliath&quot;&gt;How tall was Goliath?&lt;/a&gt; was closed as off-topic by three users, then migrated to &lt;a href=&quot;https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Biblical Hermeneutics&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:47:41.850" LastActivityDate="2012-04-10T22:01:19.020" Title="Why was this question about the Old Testament closed as off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|specific-question|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1038" CreationDate="2011-12-16T07:45:37.310" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many people agreed with @OghmaOsiris that it should be asked at &lt;a href=&quot;https://christianity.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Christianity&lt;/a&gt;. As @Fabian pointed out, &lt;a href=&quot;https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/1344/how-did-all-the-animals-fit-into-noahs-ark&quot;&gt;it's been asked on Christianity already&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another option is &lt;a href=&quot;https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Skeptics&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Sci-Fi or Fantasy? No. No serious Bible scholar that I am aware of would agree that the Bible was intended to be a work of science-fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think Scientology comes closer, but I wouldn't ask about &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; here either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:56:43.473" LastActivityDate="2011-12-16T07:45:37.310" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1038" CreationDate="2011-12-16T08:33:55.937" Score="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to assume good faith, but this really seems like an ill-conceived commentary about religion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;this is not a site for Bible scholars, this is a site for SF aficionados. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's right, it's not a site for Bible scholars, so why would questions about the Bible be on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If I'm a conspiracy theorist, can I treat the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Commission&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Warren Commission report&lt;/a&gt; as speculative fiction, and therefore ask on-topic questions here?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What about Darwin's &lt;em&gt;On the Origin of Species&lt;/em&gt;, if I'm a creationist?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or how about Einstein's work, if I'm an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.anti-relativity.com/links.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;anti relativity crank&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we'd all agree these are off-topic here on the basis that they're labeling works as fiction to promote a personal bias about said works' topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone is actually interested in understanding the Bible and Noah's flood (or the accuracy thereof), we have at least two (if not four) sites that have experts on the subject:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://judaism.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Jewish Life and Learning.SE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://christianity.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Christianity.SE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Biblical Hermeneutics.SE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://skeptics.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Skeptics.SE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, they have all dealt with issues related to the flood with respect to the original work and to those who believe:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/parashat-noach&quot;&gt;Questions tagged parashat-noach on Jewish Life and Learning.SE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/1344/how-did-all-the-animals-fit-into-noahs-ark&quot;&gt;How did all the animals fit into Noah's ark?&lt;/a&gt; on Christianity.SE&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/noah&quot;&gt;Questions tagged noah on Biblical Hermeneutics.SE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/1266/could-a-great-flood-have-happened&quot;&gt;Could a Great Flood have happened?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we have so many sites on the network that deal with religious issues, I don't know where SciFi.SE fits into Stack Exchange's expertise on Biblical matters other than to say &quot;haha the Bible is a fraud lol! So brave!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is, to label the Old Testament or the Bible as fantasy or science fiction is patently offensive to Jews and Christians; and the implication that all religious works should also be considered as such is offensive to even more groups.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And we went almost a full year without this ever coming up or anyone thinking this was remotely appropriate. Now that the site has graduated, is this how we want to use our new place on the network: to offend countless people by labeling their principal guiding work fantasy or science fiction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I don't. Let's avoid making genre judgements about the veracity of at least a billion people's religious beliefs and leave questions of faith and the Bible to the sites that are equipped to handle them with respect, context, and expertise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:56:43.473" LastActivityDate="2011-12-17T23:50:04.650" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1038" CreationDate="2011-12-16T09:42:33.273" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't have to accept every type of science fiction / fantasy question as on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pros:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Our &quot;is it science fiction or fantasy&quot; genre decision is basically &quot;it's in the eye of the beholder&quot;.  Treating &quot;is it fiction&quot; the same way is consistent.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I could see how an argument could be made that expertise in fantasy would be of use in analysing religious work.  For example, a fantasy author would, presumably, need to come up with a believable method (which could be 'magic', of course) of fitting animals on an arc if they one in their work.  Users here could refer to those other works to answer such questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The questions will inevitably lead to conflict and/or require very careful control to avoid conflict.  Either there will be debate about whether the work can be considered fiction, or that debate will have to be forbidden and that enforced.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you want to know more about plot/character/setting, then that's something a religious expert would give a better answer to, if you want to know more about historical/societal background, that's something that a historian or religious expert would better answer, &quot;fandom&quot; questions are clearly better suited for a religious expert, story identification questions are more likely to get a correct answer from religious experts, and it's hard to see how reading order questions apply.  Those are the types of question that the FAQ indicates are particularly on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's hard to see how finding an answer to a question like this through a search engine would then lead the user to become more engaged with the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As Mark Trapp pointed out, if &quot;is it fiction&quot; is left very open, that potentially opens the floodgates to any number of questions about topics that very few people would consider fiction.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The rather useless &quot;it was magic&quot; (including the will of God as &quot;magic&quot;) answer could be validly applied to many questions like this.  Any question (about religious texts or not) where there is essentially no chance of providing in-universe (here in-faith) or extra-universe (e.g. scholarly religious work) references tends to generate poor answers (ones filled with speculation without backup, discussion, and &quot;by magic&quot;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, I don't see how these questions will add value to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Real-world religion does play a part in many science fiction / fantasy stories.  I think questions that are asking about religion within that context are certainly on-topic).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-12-16T09:42:33.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1007" CreationDate="2011-12-16T09:48:55.880" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's &quot;scifi &amp;amp; fantasy&quot; now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Providing an answer, since Jin hasn't, so that it can be accepted so that community doesn't bump this question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Or this can be deleted if someone adds &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'status-completed'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2011-12-16T09:48:55.880" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1017" CreationDate="2011-12-16T10:02:57.380" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;em&gt;bah, humbug&lt;/em&gt; in advance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have four &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/santa-claus&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;santa-claus&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;santa-claus&lt;/a&gt; questions so far, and given the time of year, it's reasonable to consider an increase:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7876/how-does-norad-track-santa&quot;&gt;How does NORAD track Santa&lt;/a&gt;. How can science-fiction/fantasy expertise provide value here, unless the question was asking how this has been explained in existing works?  If it's purely about tracking a sleigh-type object, then that's better asked elsewhere.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7837/is-santa-claus-a-time-lord&quot;&gt;Is Santa Claus a Time Lord&lt;/a&gt;. I personally don't consider any &quot;can we fit a character from universe A into universe B&quot; question as constructive (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6650/is-my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-canon-with-star-trek&quot;&gt;this Star Trek/My Little Pony one&lt;/a&gt;).  If it was worded so that it was asking if the Doctor (or another Time Lord) had claimed this in canon, then that would be different, but as-is these seem pure discussion/speculation without value.  However, since the others are on-topic, this perhaps is.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7825/how-does-santa-claus-get-into-houses-without-a-fireplace&quot;&gt;How does Santa Claus get into houses without a fireplace&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;em&gt;Closed&lt;/em&gt;.  As the comments point out, this is (as it is currently written) really a parenting question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7824/how-to-know-if-a-santa-claus-is-the-real-one&quot;&gt;How to know if a Santa Claus is the real one&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;em&gt;Closed&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe these are 'fun', and maybe I am just not fun enough, but I see no value here at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2011-12-16T10:02:57.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1028" CreationDate="2011-12-16T10:11:26.570" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;(This elaborates on @OghmaOsiris's comment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are low-vote answers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/683/are-childrens-literature-and-cartoons-for-children-on-topic&quot;&gt;whether children's fiction is on-topic&lt;/a&gt;.  It seems to me that both answers are generally saying that if the work is intended as science-fiction/fantasy, then it doesn't matter what the target age is.  If the work happens to have science-fiction/fantasy elements, but those are inconsequential (e.g. talking animals or objects), then it's off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking just a the name, it's hard to guess that &lt;em&gt;My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic&lt;/em&gt; would qualify.  However, @Keen has assured me more than once (in chat &amp;amp; blog comments) that there's a substantial fantasy setting behind this &quot;selling toys to little girls&quot; show.  I've only watched the pilot, but that did appear to be the case there (I haven't managed to get past my prejudices enough to buy episodes to see more).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;em&gt;Captain Planet&lt;/em&gt; is much the same.  I doubt these questions would get many votes, but I don't see them as off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2011-12-16T10:11:26.570" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1038" CreationDate="2011-12-16T10:34:01.730" Score="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even if we ignore the potentially offensive aspect of that question, it is still offtopic simply because The Bible is not a work of either science fiction, fantasy or speculative fiction. It is a religious book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a huge difference and the criterion &lt;strong&gt;is not how plausible it is&lt;/strong&gt;. What makes the difference is the intention of the original author of the work. Authors of a religious book presumably &lt;em&gt;believe&lt;/em&gt; that what they write is true and their readers are also supposed to believe it unconditionally. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, a science fiction author intentionally imagines a story and &lt;em&gt;knows&lt;/em&gt; that the story isn't real. Also, when we read the story we do temporarily suspend our disbelief but we all (hopefully) know for the whole time that the story is made up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Science &lt;strong&gt;fiction&lt;/strong&gt; isn't fiction because it isn't real. It is fiction because it is intended not to be real and to be accepted as not real.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we were to consider including everything not real (or at least not proven real) where would it end? Would questions about world mythologies be on-topic? How about 20th century utopian ideologies? Are their manifestos works of fiction? How about not yet proven scientific theories?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. If there was an actual SF story reinterpreting Noah's flood written by, say, Ray Bradbury, and were the question about the plausibility of the event &lt;em&gt;within the universe of that story&lt;/em&gt; then it would be on topic. In this case it just isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2011-12-16T20:38:13.057" LastActivityDate="2011-12-16T20:38:13.057" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1047" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1049" CreationDate="2011-12-16T14:07:02.220" Score="4" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Parenting.se we did a &lt;a href=&quot;https://parenting.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/211/why-are-the-mods-editing-all-the-questions&quot;&gt;title cleanup&lt;/a&gt; effort several months ago.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This coincided (roughly) with the original formation of the CHAOS team, and the intent was to raise the readability of title content to improve search engine results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in doing so, we wound up editing quite a few older questions, which bumps them to the top of of the &quot;Active&quot; question feed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that there are quite a few questions on Scifi.se with titles that do not meet the criteria we established (complete sentences, proper grammar, phrased as a question when possible, and matching tags where appropriate).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that we've graduated, it might be worthwhile to revisit some of the question titles and improve them.  However, doing so will bump old questions to &quot;recent&quot; status.  This will disrupt the &quot;Active questions&quot; sorting, and will also disrupt the &quot;recent question&quot; RSS feed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given these potential issues, is it worthwhile to make a concerted effort to improve the quality of some of our older question titles?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:47:25.647" LastActivityDate="2011-12-17T04:59:24.933" Title="Would a title cleanup effort be disruptive?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1047" CreationDate="2011-12-16T15:14:45.197" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, I don't think disrupting the &quot;Active questions&quot; feed is a big deal, but that's because I generally view SE sites in chronological orders. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My only minor suggestion is to do this gently - propose the cleaned up title in a comment, and let the poster explain if he thinks it will greatly change the meaning of the question. (unless the title is simply atrocious and not worth keeping at all).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2011-12-16T15:14:45.197" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1047" CreationDate="2011-12-16T19:25:34.970" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions that have poor titles almost inevitably have something else wrong with them: poor tags, copyediting issues, rants, flow issues, etc. It'd be a real shame to polish questions that are already bad with new titles just to say they titles are nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editing should be holistic: don't stop with the title, improve everything about the post. If an edit makes it the best question it could possibly be and it just so happens the title was changed, then awesome! But editing &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; the title (just like editing &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; the tags) would be more disruptive than helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastActivityDate="2011-12-16T19:25:34.970" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1047" CreationDate="2011-12-17T04:59:24.933" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO &lt;strong&gt;yes, it would be disruptive&lt;/strong&gt; (but it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; worth tidying up titles as part of overall tidying up of questions/answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/756/rss-recent-questions-feed-includes-not-recent-questions&quot;&gt;Questions that haven't been edited since around September will get pushed into the &quot;recent questions&quot; RSS feed if they are edited&lt;/a&gt;, but it's not a problem for questions that are newer or more recently edited than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When sites (including when parenting did it) do this for a large number of questions at once, it's really annoying, because it floods the feed with questions that have most likely already been seen, and obscures any new questions that arrive during that time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably there also are people that use the &quot;active questions&quot; view, since it's the default view for the site, so flooding that with old content will likewise be annoying and obscure new questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Mark said, it's more worthwhile to take a more holistic look at questions.  Find questions that don't have great titles, but also need other cleanup and, most importantly, are worth the additional promotion that the bump will cause (e.g. no answers or no great answer).  Only do a few of these at a time, so that they don't overwhelm - i.e. it's a long term project, not a short term effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that there's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/236/are-non-question-titles-desirable-or-undesirable&quot;&gt;no expectation&lt;/a&gt; here that question titles are formulated as questions (at least, the top-voted question there says that there's no need to edit a question title for only that reason).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Complete sentences&quot; isn't necessarily a goal for titles, either (and I don't recall that being discussed on meta before?).  It's important that titles are brief.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2011-12-17T04:59:24.933" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1051" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1052" CreationDate="2011-12-17T14:09:37.183" Score="2" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just posted a comment to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/7919/1361&quot;&gt;this Raiders question&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;strong&gt;bolded&lt;/strong&gt; a few words - which show no changes. (I also just bolded &quot;bolded&quot;, which isn't showing up here either :( &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does the font used for comments on the main site display bold/italics in the Opera browser (V10.63)? (It does work in Firefox).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And unrelated to browsers, is black-on-white a good choice for meta's text? (Personally I can't stand it :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1361" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2011-12-19T13:50:40.940" Title="In Opera (10.63), do the comment fonts support bold and italic?" Tags="|bug|status-norepro|design|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1051" CreationDate="2011-12-17T14:26:34.087" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do see it bolded. See: regular vs &lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt;, REGULAR vs &lt;strong&gt;BOLD&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bold is a little whiter on meta posts it is probably not that visible on smaller text. It is not very visible indeed. Can you see it in my all caps example? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, bold text is quite visible in comments of the linked question, a lot more than here anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't see it at all, maybe it is a browser issue. Which browser are you using?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: As OP said in a comment, it turns out it is an issue with Opera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2011-12-17T15:13:31.353" LastActivityDate="2011-12-17T15:13:31.353" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1053" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-18T19:19:07.433" Score="39" ViewCount="1462" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's clear that questions about religious texts &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1038/why-was-this-question-about-the-old-testament-closed-as-off-topic&quot;&gt;cause friction&lt;/a&gt;. So should we ban questions that are specifically about religious texts? If so, how wide should the ban be: only about the Bible (which is what generates the most contention), or more general? Note that we must not overreach — we're not going to ban &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; even if some people declare their religion as Jedi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2016-05-18T20:48:34.573" Title="Should we exclude religious texts, and which?" Tags="|discussion|faq|scope|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1053" CreationDate="2011-12-18T23:24:59.403" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see 3 possibilities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Limit it to whichever religion would have its own on-topic theological site. A wee bit unfair as there's only 2 or 3 now (I know of Christianity, Judaism, and I'm pretty sure Islam is sitting someplace on Area51).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Limit it to religions that didn't clearly start out from a fiction story. E.g. Chthulu/Jedi/Anything based in Alistair Crawly (sp?), we know for a fact it is based on a work created as &lt;em&gt;fiction&lt;/em&gt;. Precise inclusion/exclusion rules should probably be decided by explicit META.scifi.SE voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Go all nuanced. E.g. questions that are about Judaism, must be asked in a respectful way (sorry, &amp;quot;magic&amp;quot; tag means the question gets wacked); and be a GOOD question related to religious text treated as creative work. E.g. comparing archetypes in Old Testament with Cryptonomicon's archetype theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we do this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Any question like that must have a &amp;quot;RELIGION-MAY-OFFEND&amp;quot; tag&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Any question with that tag requires a separate vote on META.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Any nasty comment arguments are aggressively wiped by moderators (as in, erring on the side of over-wiping).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The policy must have periodic reviews, and if we find that &amp;gt;66% of such questions are of low collective value to the site within couple of months, we revisit the rules and go for more blanket type of ban.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2011-12-18T23:24:59.403" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1053" CreationDate="2011-12-19T00:07:48.557" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that a ban on questions on religious works is appropriate.  It leaves us open to too much controversial debate, potentially offended visitors, and the likelihood of duplicated content with other SE sites (i.e. the ones dedicated towards those specific religions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for how we define the scope of religious topics, I think it is fair to use the organization of typical franchise brick-and-mortar book stores.  If it would be reasonable to expect that a book on the topic at hand would likely be found in the religion section (e.g. relating to Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Taoism, Wicca, etc.) then it is off-topic.  Books typically put into mythology, history, etc. would likely be considered &quot;non-religious&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be safe, I believe that anything likely to be found under the &quot;New Age&quot; section should also be treated as religion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One major disclaimer: if any question that would fall under the religious description above can be tied directly to a &lt;em&gt;specific work of fiction&lt;/em&gt;, then it is acceptable.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Example 1:&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0521484782&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;even though this book deals with religious topics, it does it from a self-professed fictional standpoint&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Example 2: Even though many books on reincarnation can be found in the New Age section, and it is a component of several major religions, questions about whether Baron Harkonnen was actually spiritually reincarnated in Alia in the Dune saga would be entirely on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Example 3: &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0375842381&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;His Dark Materials trilogy&lt;/a&gt; which has strong religious undertones, and is religiously controversial, is on topic as it is first and foremost a work of fiction. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Example 4: questions tying C. S. Lewis's character Aslan with Christian themes of sacrifice, martyrdom, and ressurrection are on topic. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="1359" LastEditDate="2011-12-19T01:34:09.997" LastActivityDate="2011-12-19T01:34:09.997" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1053" CreationDate="2011-12-19T00:11:02.007" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;My vote for DVK's #2 but with a small adjustment: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't limit this exclusion to religions, but to particular books. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. a question about Jewish religion in Dune books is on topic because Dune is clearly a work of fiction, even though it involves a religious group which exists in real life. On the other hand, questions about something described in a religious book are off topic not because they are about religion but because the book is a religious one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The example with newly emerging Jedi religion is actually a very good one for making that comparison. Questions about the Jedi in Star Wars universe are obviously on topic. Now, imagine that our real world followers of Jediism actually write their religious book with sermons and all that. Questions about topics and events &lt;em&gt;in that hypothetical book&lt;/em&gt; should be off topic. That is, assuming that George Lucas doesn't sue them out of existence first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: My position on the matter is focused almost exclusively to the aspect of a question being on or off topic. As for respecting other peoples beliefs and not offending them, I think that this should apply to any post on SE regardless of whether it is about religion or gardening. Not actively trying to insult someone is in the FAQ of every SE site, specifically &lt;em&gt;Be nice&lt;/em&gt;. That said, when it comes to religion people tend to be a bit more touchy and that probably requires an extra level of tactfulness when dealing with such questions. But the attitude of not being a jerk should definitely not be limited to dealing with religion related topics. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2011-12-19T00:50:56.390" LastActivityDate="2011-12-19T00:50:56.390" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1058" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1060" CreationDate="2011-12-19T00:47:12.380" Score="3" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I received the Fanatic badge a while back.  Today I've been on the site for another 100 consecutive days, but I haven't earned the badge.  Looking over the list of all the people who've gotten this badge, no one has it 2x.  Is it impossible to earn this badge twice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Is it impossible to earn the Fanatic badge twice?" Tags="|discussion|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1053" CreationDate="2011-12-19T00:48:22.140" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's the question you should be asking yourself:  Would a reasonable person walking into a bookstore expect to see a copy of the Bible, Koran or other widely-recognized religious text in the Science Fiction and Fantasy section, unless somebody put it there to make a statement?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me offer a concrete example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20110725041233/http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Last Question&lt;/a&gt; is a sweeping short story by Isaac Asimov, about the universe running down due to entropy.  Without giving too much of the story away, the last question is &quot;Can entropy be reversed?&quot;  It is a question posed to a massive supercomputer, which spends centuries trying to solve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's reasonable to say that this short story has significant religious undertones.  Now, if it were possible for me to write a constructive question that asks how this story relates to Christian theology, I would say that the question would be on-topic, because the primary subject is an unambiguously SFF short story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, on the other hand, I managed to write a constructive question that asks how  Genesis 1:3  of the Old Testament is illuminated by this story, I would have to say that such a question would be squarely off-topic, because the principal subject of the question deals with a work that is not SFF, but rather uses an SFF story periperally to make a point about religion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For all those questions that are various shades of gray between these two examples, the mods for SFF should ask:  Does this question make the site a better &lt;em&gt;Science Fiction and Fantasy&lt;/em&gt; site?  Does it adequately and constructively serve the mission of the SFF participants?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="729" LastEditorUserId="729" LastEditDate="2016-05-18T20:48:34.573" LastActivityDate="2016-05-18T20:48:34.573" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1058" CreationDate="2011-12-19T00:53:50.160" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, you don't get the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/23/fanatic&quot;&gt;Fanatic&lt;/a&gt; badge twice. You didn't get &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/22/enthusiast&quot;&gt;Enthusiast&lt;/a&gt; 6 times for 180 days either. There's no badge beyond Fanatic; all you get is the increasing “consecutive days” number in your profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/67397/list-of-all-badges-with-full-descriptions&quot;&gt;badge FAQ&lt;/a&gt; on the main meta site explains precisely what it takes to get the various badges, and mentions which ones can be obtained multiple times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2011-12-19T00:53:50.160" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1061" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-19T04:59:36.360" Score="22" ViewCount="499" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was raised as one of the topics on the general question dealing with site design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure we have arrived at any sort of consensus. So I'd like to clarify the matters via a separate question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are we as a community in agreement with using the BioHazard-like symbol to denote questions in the list that have an accepted answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bmHvl.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I dislike it on both design and aesthetic grounds - my favorite design among SE sites for this element is the solid dark block on StackOverflow. The main problems that I see with this one is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The color is too pale and close to background color - hard to clearly distinguish accepted ones at a glance&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The bulk of the picture is in the center - both obscured by and interefering with - the count of the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, the image is not very pleasing visually. I realize that this isn't actually a biohazard but some Wikkanish design, but I can't help but be reminded of some ID software game with biohazard barrels.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2011-12-29T23:46:33.037" LastActivityDate="2011-12-30T05:02:56.280" Title="Is there a community consensus on using the biohazard-like image for marking questions with &quot;Accepted answers&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1028" CreationDate="2011-12-19T09:34:04.053" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the list of criteria that I use myself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not originally intended as fiction (e.g. The Bible)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Contains advanced technology, but science is not part of main plot (e.g. Mission Impossible)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Contains supernatural elements, but magic/sorcery not part of the main plot (e.g. Twilight? No? Going too far? :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not written for an adult or young adult readership (e.g. My Little Pony, Santa) *&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Trivia: Questions of the form &quot;[What/who/where] is the [biggest/best/other qualifier] [person/thing] in [fictional work]&quot; with answers that are not relevant to plot. (e.g. most powerful Force user relevant; ages of ponies not)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Folklore (should be distinct from sci-fi &amp;amp; fantasy) *&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*Note on (4): This type of questions will mostly be for adults who ask about their children's (or their own childhood's) fictional works (since children themselves would not be able to participate in a complex system like a stack site). Maybe such questions should be in a separate child-oriented site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*Note on (4) #2: Many would object to the exclusion of the Transformers and Robotech (or even Thundercats). Throw in shows like Silverhawks and things get even murkier. I myself can't figure this out, but if it were up to me, I would include only such works that have built a consistent and detailed enough universe that can be discussed by adults. Confession: I'm partial to Thundercats and the Highlander animated series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*Note on (6): What about ancient mythology? Shouldn't that be a category distinct from sci-fi and fantasy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3247" LastActivityDate="2011-12-19T09:34:04.053" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1051" CreationDate="2011-12-19T10:44:23.557" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Opera 11.60, this is what I see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qD3eC.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qD3eC.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="171" LastActivityDate="2011-12-19T10:44:23.557" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1028" CreationDate="2011-12-19T18:27:52.627" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to steal a line from HNL's answer since I personally view it as a VERY VERY important standalone criteria:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would include only such works that have built a consistent and detailed enough universe that can be discussed by adults.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Universe-building aspect is one of the most important features and facets of both SF and F.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So any work that would be normally suspect as offtopic for whatever reason, AND doesn't have the benefit of a universe, is getting a couple extra notional downvotes as a possible topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2011-12-19T18:27:52.627" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="989" CreationDate="2011-12-20T17:43:50.463" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another issue I've found is in chat.  When you reply to a specific chat message, to the left of your reply is an arrow that links back to the message you're replying to.  That arrow is now too low contrast with the chat message background color, so it's invisible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2011-12-20T17:43:50.463" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1061" CreationDate="2011-12-21T23:35:04.807" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to make the comparison explicit, here's a biohazard symbol:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7QLQK.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and here's the &quot;accepted&quot; symbol in the current design:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YOl3z.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's a difference between them, I'm not seeing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is a totally inappropriate use of a symbol whose purpose is to be &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_hazard&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;used as a warning, so that those potentially exposed to the substances will know to take precautions&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="348" LastActivityDate="2011-12-21T23:35:04.807" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="989" CreationDate="2011-12-21T23:43:52.393" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just wanted to call attention to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1061/348&quot;&gt;totally inappropriate use of the biohazard symbol&lt;/a&gt; for marking accepted answers. This symbol was specifically invented for a single purpose, and that purpose has nothing to do with Speculative Fiction or questions and answers. This needs to be changed ASAP, because it casts entirely the wrong impression.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="348" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2011-12-21T23:43:52.393" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1061" CreationDate="2011-12-22T01:21:14.867" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another vote against the use of the biohazard symbol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about something like the planet Saturn? Or any other ringed planet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/I2lUo.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;the pepsi planet gets ringed&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Points in favour of it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Style it up and you've got a solid middle spot where the numbers would be easily seen against&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Carries the motif of that planet seen in the site's header&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Our nod to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.saturnawards.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;since 1972&quot;&gt;Saturn Awards&lt;/a&gt; from The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy &amp;amp; Horror Films.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Saturn photo from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/mellertime/2758965904/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;creative commons 2.0&quot;&gt;chrismeller, Flickr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="383" LastActivityDate="2011-12-22T01:21:14.867" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1070" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-22T15:25:01.527" Score="2" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you go to the sci-fi blog it still shows the favicon from the beta instead of the new one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1987" LastEditorUserId="1586" LastEditDate="2011-12-22T21:08:16.570" LastActivityDate="2011-12-22T21:08:16.570" Title="Sci-fi blog shows the wrong favicon" Tags="|bug|status-norepro|design|blog|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1070" CreationDate="2011-12-22T15:47:04.687" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The correct Favicon shows for me, and I was one of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1015/favicon-still-in-beta&quot;&gt;last people to see the correct one for the regular site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is most likely a caching issue similar to the one that I, and several other users, experienced.  It seems that some browsers (in my case, Chrome) have significant delays in updated Favicons, and instead rely on cached data in some way that is not quite clear. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hard refreshes of the browser sometimes help, but sometimes it appears that simply waiting a few days will be required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2011-12-22T15:47:04.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1070" CreationDate="2011-12-22T19:54:22.943" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now I see no favicon at all: &lt;code&gt;/favicon.ico&lt;/code&gt; exists but is empty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ wget -nv --no-cache -O- http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/favicon.ico | wc -c&#xA;2011-12-22 20:53:45 URL:http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/favicon.ico [0] -&amp;gt; &quot;-&quot; [1]&#xA;0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2011-12-22T19:54:22.943" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1070" CreationDate="2011-12-22T20:11:23.183" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's now showing correctly for me&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1987" LastActivityDate="2011-12-22T20:11:23.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="683" CreationDate="2011-12-23T11:02:16.453" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suppose my response would be that childrens SF/F is valid, as long as it is actual SF/F, in a way that is recognisable to SF/F fans. But where the essence of the story is not really fantasy, even if the setting is &quot;fantastical&quot; as a lot of childrens material is, then it does not count. The challenge is distinguishing between situations where the fantasy aspect is core to the story, and where it is merely a good setting for telling the stories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other test might be whether a particular series would appeal to younger people who will enjoy SF/F when they are older, or may enjoy it at their current age. Are Smurfs - or Tiny Toons - fans good SF/F material? The answer is probably no. Are Sarah Jane Adventures fans good SF/F material? Probably yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other test for this site is Are there liable to be people who use this site who have a clue about this series? If the answer is no, then, however much you might want to argue that it is SF, the questions are not going to get good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3074" LastActivityDate="2011-12-23T11:02:16.453" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1061" CreationDate="2011-12-23T15:23:29.317" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about a monochrome version of this symbol?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nDMUL.png&quot; alt=&quot;Scifi Symbol&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from the favicon, it's not being used on the site at all as far as I can tell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2365" LastActivityDate="2011-12-23T15:23:29.317" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1076" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1473" CreationDate="2011-12-23T15:32:53.107" Score="10" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I can tell, our site is not available for searching through the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Data Explorer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this and what can we do to help get it there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2365" LastEditorUserId="1750" LastEditDate="2012-02-03T03:43:05.380" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T21:40:11.623" Title="Scifi-Fantasy not on the Data Explorer" Tags="|bug|status-completed|data-explorer|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1076" CreationDate="2011-12-24T09:31:48.650" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I understand correctly only sites out of beta are included, and the export only happens monthly (for data explorer – downloadable export is less frequent).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this site newly out of beta, there may not have been an export &lt;em&gt;yet&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="204" LastActivityDate="2011-12-24T09:31:48.650" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1061" CreationDate="2011-12-24T21:00:38.640" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would really, and I mean &lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt; like to see the accepted symbol changed.  As @Martha pointed out, there really is no difference.  And I'd prefer to avoid even a monochrome version of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The biohazard symbol is a warning.  We are supposed to see it and think, &quot;Oh crap!  I need to stay away from that!&quot;  Using it as a positive symbol not only dilutes its value as a warning symbol, but it also leads to negative reactions when the intent is to create positive reactions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed the effort is to stay away from using symbols associated with any copyrighted SF&amp;amp;F works, otherwise I'd say the Starfleet chevron would be easy to use as a symbol.  Or maybe an old stylized rocket ship in a circle, giving it a bit of a Flash Gordon feel?  I don't think that would be completely out of place with the them and it's a simple symbol, one that won't distract from the numbers placed over it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2011-12-24T21:00:38.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1079" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-25T06:10:07.500" Score="4" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're currently at 1905 as of me asking this, so the 2K question is coming up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could we do something special? like maybe a special gift to the asker of that question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I dunno, I thought it would be nice and sort of celebratory of getting this far and graduating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; So, unless a question gets deleted, our 2000th question is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/8499/1109&quot;&gt;Identify book about fighting tournament with the opponent wearing gold armor, plus rulers being mind-controlled by tentacled being&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and 2001st&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/8505/1109&quot;&gt;Was the lower half of Robocop&amp;#39;s face vulnerable (to gunfire)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2012-01-15T22:23:07.917" Title="Should we do something special when we hit our 2000th question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1080" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1081" CreationDate="2011-12-26T07:27:51.107" Score="8" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems this site does not allow book recommendations. Where is a good place to get recommendations from people who are very familiar with the sci-fi genre?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3826" LastActivityDate="2011-12-27T13:55:55.240" Title="What is a good site for book recommendations?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2017-02-09T23:22:01.040" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1080" CreationDate="2011-12-26T07:31:46.677" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt; is always open for book recommendations. And we have a fortnightly &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/198/mos-eisley?tab=schedule&quot;&gt;Recommendation Chat Event&lt;/a&gt; that is specific to book/movie/comicbook/whateveryouwant recommendations. The next event is scheduled for this Wednesday (Dec 28th) and happens again every two weeks after that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2011-12-26T07:31:46.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1080" CreationDate="2011-12-27T13:55:55.240" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As OghmaOsiris mentioned, the chat room is a great place for sci-fi recommendations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another possibility is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Literature Stackexchange beta site&lt;/a&gt;.  While they are not focused on sci-fi, they do allow book recommendation requests on a &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/203/policy-trial-notice-book-recommendations&quot;&gt;trial basis, with specific criteria&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T13:01:18.293" LastActivityDate="2011-12-27T13:55:55.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1083" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-27T18:49:31.033" Score="8" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8232/is-the-ghost-of-harrison-morgan-real&quot;&gt;question about the show &lt;em&gt;Dexter&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; has been asked that essentially questions whether there is a sci-fi/fantasy element to a show generally regarded as &quot;regular&quot; fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this appropriate for this site?  If the answer to the &lt;em&gt;Dexter&lt;/em&gt; question is &quot;no&quot;, then the show is clearly not on topic for our site, and should be closed.  However, we should be able to determine if the question itself is on-topic, without relying upon the answer for the decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2011-12-29T06:52:06.327" Title="Are questions whose answers would determine if a work could be categorized as sci-fi considered on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1083" CreationDate="2011-12-27T18:55:05.947" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the asker of the questionable question, my opinion is of course that the question is on topic; as determining wether or not a given series is relevant to the site or not must be possible to determine within the framework of the site itself, but of course, I do realize there's a conflict of interest here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2810" LastEditorUserId="2810" LastEditDate="2011-12-27T19:19:24.423" LastActivityDate="2011-12-27T19:19:24.423" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1083" CreationDate="2011-12-27T19:03:35.097" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that the question is off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Genre is generally pretty obvious, and having one single aspect of a work that can create suspicion of the work actually belonging to the sci-fi/fantasy genre when it is generally categorized otherwise is insufficent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, it is not outside the realm of possibility for such a work to have a late reveal that changes the genre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dexter&lt;/em&gt; could show a new episode that makes quite clear that the &quot;ghost&quot; of Harry Morgan is, in fact, a manifestation of the spirit of Dexter's father, and not simply a device to represent some aspect of Dexter's internal thought processes.  If that were to happen, then questions about &lt;em&gt;Dexter&lt;/em&gt; would be on-topic, but not &lt;em&gt;until&lt;/em&gt; that canon episode making the transition was revealed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2011-12-27T19:03:35.097" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1083" CreationDate="2011-12-29T06:52:06.327" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it is off-topic on Sci-Fi SE, but perhaps it's on-topic on META site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2011-12-29T06:52:06.327" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="976" CreationDate="2011-12-29T23:44:10.243" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be huge demand to change the answer selected icon, generating it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1061/98&quot;&gt;own question&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2011-12-29T23:44:10.243" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1061" CreationDate="2011-12-30T04:34:32.843" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As an icon, and one which is to be used as a background element overlaid with text at that ... it probably shouldn't have a complex design. It would also likely benefit from &lt;a href=&quot;http://uxmag.com/articles/realism-in-ui-design&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the effects of simplifying abstraction&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such might I suggest a simple, and singular crescent moon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XMIqM.png&quot; alt=&quot;not actually a crescent&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, more an occluded moon than crescent or gibbous. Bite me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The simple moon concept also fits very well with the sci-fi aspect of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4017" LastActivityDate="2011-12-30T04:34:32.843" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1061" CreationDate="2011-12-30T05:02:56.280" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have updated the accepted answer background image on our dev server. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/h9sBj.png&quot; alt=&quot;new accepted bg image&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0wstv.png&quot; alt=&quot;new accepted bg image screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I picked the hexagon shapes because they give a scifi vibe. I try to avoid using another fantasy based symbol because the current site design has plenty already. The three hexagons form a &quot;therefore&quot; sign too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This change will go out in the next prod build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastActivityDate="2011-12-30T05:02:56.280" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1090" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-30T12:32:00.200" Score="9" ViewCount="1361" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see a lot of questions on here that really just need an apparently simple answer like 'because the writers wanted it that way', 'because the author doesn't understand physics', or 'because it looks good on film/tv'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions are all basically the same in that they look for an answer in the realm of the fiction to a question in the realm of the real.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it seems to me that there's an underlying meta-question to all these which is something like 'why do writers of fiction use seemingly unrealistic mechanisms or outcomes in their writing?' and an associated meta-answer thats something like 'it seemed a good idea at the time' but my question and answer leave a lot to be desired in terms of wording.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question I'm asking is what's a succinct but informative way to state the meta-question and what is the succinct but informative answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user3688" LastEditorUserId="1359" LastEditDate="2011-12-31T15:01:55.773" LastActivityDate="2011-12-31T15:01:55.773" Title="What is the meta-answer to the meta-question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1090" CreationDate="2011-12-30T13:56:28.993" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the reverse might be more useful: if you would like to avoid all kinds of meta-answers, just state the question like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;What is the in-universe explanation for ... ?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your intention is really to ask the meta-questions, you might ask &amp;quot;Why did the author write ... ?&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4004" OwnerDisplayName="vsz" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2011-12-30T13:56:28.993" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1090" CreationDate="2011-12-30T16:04:49.050" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be blunt, there's absolutely no point to this site if answers are going to be &quot;It's that way because that's how it was written. Go away.&quot; Such answers should not be welcome &lt;em&gt;regardless of how any question is phrased&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think phrasing a question as &quot;Why did X happen&quot; should always be assumed to mean &quot;in universe&quot; unless someone &lt;strong&gt;specifically poses a question about the author's intent.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example Vulcans almost certainly have pointy ears because it was an extremely easy and cheap costume for TV the 60s. Anyone wondering why Vulcans have pointy ears are almost certainly asking from an in-Universe biological point of view unless they explicitly define the question otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3255" LastActivityDate="2011-12-30T16:04:49.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="989" CreationDate="2011-12-30T16:34:24.310" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;leave another chat&quot; icon is very hard to see (the little up arrow after &quot;User Experience&quot;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PamEs.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The contours aren't clear due to the dark-on-dark coloring, should probably be a slightly lower contrast version of the text color like the icon is on other chats:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UX.SE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pLlBj.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3255" LastActivityDate="2011-12-30T16:34:24.310" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1095" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-30T19:56:46.783" Score="1" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do some topics make something ‘de-facto’ sci-fi?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example is any story that involves time travel by default considered sci-fi?  Other topics that might fit this question extra-planetary space travel, aliens, parallel universes, ect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4023" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2011-12-30T20:07:24.370" LastActivityDate="2011-12-30T20:42:06.603" Title="Automatically sci-fi topics?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1095" CreationDate="2011-12-30T20:04:44.220" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Time travel yes, until such time as technology can produce it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Extra-planetary space travel? No. Apollo 13 is not a science fiction movie. I wouldn't consider Deep Impact or Armageddon to be scifi. They use advanced space ships, but not outside the realm of engineering possibility. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something that steps just on the edge of today's accomplishments shouldn't be considered scifi (or fantasy), it has to go a little beyond that. I.e. Limitless wouldn't be a scifi, but Jurassic Park is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2011-12-30T20:04:44.220" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1095" CreationDate="2011-12-30T20:42:06.603" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say all those automatically count as scifi (well... mostly). From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, the definition of scifi is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more&#xA;or less plausible (or at least non-supernatural) content such as&#xA;future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel,&#xA;aliens, and paranormal abilities. Exploring the consequences of&#xA;scientific innovations is one purpose of science fiction, making it a&#xA;&amp;quot;literature of ideas&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Science fiction is largely based on writing&#xA;rationally about alternative possible worlds or futures. It is&#xA;similar to, but differs from fantasy in that, within the context of&#xA;the story, its imaginary elements are largely possible within&#xA;scientifically established or scientifically postulated laws of nature&#xA;(though some elements in a story might still be pure imaginative&#xA;speculation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, science fiction is taking established facts of science and adding a &amp;quot;what if&amp;quot; to it, either in the form of &amp;quot;what if X happens in the future&amp;quot;, or &amp;quot;what if Y happens right now&amp;quot;. The problem is that it's almost impossible to have a single solid definition, since almost &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; piece of fiction could be viewed as science fiction, depending on how you define it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, most science fiction as viewed by the general public will consist of aliens, time travel, the future (at least 10 years into the future), parallel universes, travel between planets (other than the moon, unless there's a space station and moon base), or robots. Any of the above, or combination of the above is enough to label something science fiction in most people's minds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It gets harder when science fiction starts to blur with contemporary fiction, or horror or spy fiction. Often, supernatural elements (ghosts, werewolves, vampires) aren't scifi, but horror, or fantasy, mostly because there's no science behind them. At some point, it becomes a question of what is the main focus? Often, the exploration of &amp;quot;what if&amp;quot; is the best possible answer to &amp;quot;what is scifi&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3101" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2011-12-30T20:42:06.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1090" CreationDate="2011-12-30T22:23:38.907" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those are all snarky non-answers better suited for a site like Writers which would go into the reaons behind the creation and plot instead of the in-universe logistics and reality. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically if the answers come in the form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It serves the plot&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The writers wanted it done that way&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's a cash grab and they needed the plot hole to be there&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's a trope WARNING MADDOX LINK HEREIN&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Production is cheaper when you overlook such things ■&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Come pitching with your downvotes and if you're so inclined, a comment as to the fact that such an answer is not really an answer and more commentary on the production/ficition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless the question explicitly states it wants answers to the meta, then we should take all questions as needing in-universe explanations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="383" LastActivityDate="2011-12-30T22:23:38.907" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1099" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1256" CreationDate="2011-12-30T22:28:10.663" Score="4" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;The post time background is cut off by the One Box content when posting questions/answers and maybe more. &#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/H2SbG.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see the cut off in the top right corner. It's supposed to look like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1yPPh.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3255" LastEditorUserId="171" LastEditDate="2012-01-23T11:15:25.460" LastActivityDate="2012-01-23T11:15:25.460" Title="Post times cut off when posting One Box content in chat" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1053" CreationDate="2011-12-31T00:29:33.253" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry for putting in a 2nd answer, but this is quite different than any others here.  Something was bothering me about the question that kicked this off and about our discussion, and I finally realized what it was that bothers me and how to explain what I think the limits should be here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference, the question that started the discussion was, &quot;&lt;em&gt;How did Noah fit all the animals in the Ark?&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question makes the assumption that a story that's part of the core of a particular religion is fiction (either SF or F).  While the majority (last I looked at demographics) do not take the Bible literally, it is well known that there ar also many people who do take it literally.  While it may be asked without malice, I have known non-believers who will bring up questions like this in conversation out of malice or arrogance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know of people who have done that kind of thing because they think if they point out inconsistencies in someone's faith, they'll just suddenly drop their beliefs.  I've known others who do it just to taunt and be mean, and others who are so arrogantly proud of having no need to believe (as they might put it) that they need to intentionally ask such questions as a way of saying, &quot;Your beliefs are stupid.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, once in a great while, and mean a very great while, I hear someone ask a question like that of a believer for the purpose of honest and open discussion and an attempt to understand another person and their faith.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, in my life, I've seen questions like that asked more out of malice or arrogance than out of open curiosity.  I'd dare to say 99% of the time such questions are more from a negative intent than a positive one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, asking about Titans and why they weren't as powerful as the Greek Gods deals with what, to some, is a religion (as someone pointed out to me).  But it's not posed in a way that it is disrespectful of the religion involved with the question and with possible answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it comes back down to respect for other religions and points already made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think an easy litmus test for questions on religion would be to ask, &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Does this question/answer/post imply that a religion or a notable part of a religion is either false, malicious, or misleading?&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this question will eliminate the vast majority of disrespectful questions about religion.  It provides a clear and objective line and rule to follow.  The ones that are left that are disrespectful or offensive will likely be covered by normal rules and expectations about courtesy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, religious questions are not necessarily off topic, but ones that lead to a &quot;Yes&quot; answer to the above question are disallowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2011-12-31T00:29:33.253" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1101" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-01T08:05:46.213" Score="2" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was browsing through the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges&quot;&gt;badges&lt;/a&gt; page and I noticed that to get a &lt;code&gt;Marshall&lt;/code&gt; badge, you need to have &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Achieved a flag weight of 749 by reviewing and flagging appropriately&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a specific reason for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1526" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2023-09-12T13:32:47.060" Title="Why flag weight of 749" Tags="|support|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2023-09-12T13:32:59.133" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1101" CreationDate="2012-01-01T16:21:30.383" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag weight was meant to rise asymptotically towards 750, but the formula in fact overreaches and makes 750 attainable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information, see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/80170/what-is-flag-weight&quot;&gt;flag weight FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, and other &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/flag-weight&quot;&gt;flag weight discussions&lt;/a&gt; on the main meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that it takes &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/97890/how-many-flags-to-reach-750-flag-weight/103161#103161&quot;&gt;566 helpful flags&lt;/a&gt; (assuming none declined) to reach 749. At the moment no one has even raised the 40 that it takes to get to 500 (the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/65/deputy&quot;&gt;Deputy&lt;/a&gt; badge) on this site. By that time the flag weight rules may well have changed anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2012-01-01T16:21:30.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1103" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1105" CreationDate="2012-01-02T11:25:51.097" Score="6" ViewCount="911" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was some good natured fun in the comments of the question, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8220/why-cant-artoo-talk&quot;&gt;Why Can't Artoo Talk?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; about the spelling of R2-D2. However, it occurred to me that the current spelling (Artoo) makes it harder for people to find the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we agree on one way to spell these droids? For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;R2-D2&lt;/strong&gt; (not Artoo-Deetoo or even R2D2)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;C-3P0&lt;/strong&gt; (not See-Threepio or even C3P0)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will also mean changing the existing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/r2d2&quot;&gt;r2d2 tag&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2017-07-19T12:00:09.750" LastActivityDate="2017-07-19T12:00:09.750" Title="Spelling of R2-D2 (Artoo-Deetoo) and C-3P0 (See-Threepio)" Tags="|discussion|spelling|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1103" CreationDate="2012-01-02T17:00:24.957" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main issue I see with this is that if such a guideline is established, only a limited number of people will know about it, so it'll be the responsibility of the moderators to go through and edit all posts with the names spelled out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, as for searching abilities, I think as long as R2 is used once in the question or answer, that would make it findable.  Personally, I use Artoo instead of R2 or especially R2D2 because I think it's a pain in the rear to have to use the shift key multiple times or use hit the caps lock key at the start and end of a post (and I think r2d2 is just sloppy).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2012-01-02T17:00:24.957" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1103" CreationDate="2012-01-02T18:29:52.290" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can't hope everyone to follow an editorial policy in a site that is made of community-generated content. But we can strive to make questions searchable. What I try to do in these situations is include all variant spellings or wordings so that the post will be found whatever variant someone searches for. This can often be done organically, for example using a shorter variant in the question title and a longer variant in the question body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-01-02T18:29:52.290" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1106" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-03T05:43:38.840" Score="1" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am somewhat taking an opposing stance to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/957/usefulness-of-plot-hole-answers-comments&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. Some questions ask for a resolution to a plot hole, and people begin speculating like crazy. For example, I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8405/why-doesnt-the-alien-kill-ripley-in-the-shuttle-craft/8447#8447&quot;&gt;a question about the last scene in Alien (1979)&lt;/a&gt;. Basically I wanted to know why the alien killed everyone else, but it just, sort of looked like it was high/napping when it got in the shuttle craft. I asked it in the most professional way I could: basically asking why the alien did not kill Ripley.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked this expecting someone to point out that it was a plot device (Ripley can't run away from an alien in a 10x10 room). But no one provided this as an answer. People began speculating that the alien was tired/hungry/disoriented/scared/young...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it looked down on to answer simply &quot;it's a plot device?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4044" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2012-01-03T14:03:21.277" Title="Are too many people afraid to use 'plot device' instead of resorting to speculation" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1106" CreationDate="2012-01-03T07:20:28.217" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Essentially you asked the question with a pre-conceived notion of what the answer would be and it sounds like you're disappointed you didn't get the answer you wanted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Different people have different reasons for seeing movies and enjoy them for different reasons.  One thing that makes movies different from books is that movies have time limits and pacing is a much tougher issue for them than for books.  In the case of your question, one of the answers talked about a deleted scene and builds a strong case for their answer.  I know I learned something from that answer about a classic SF/horror film.  And that's a major point of asking a question: Often you get an answer where you learn something totally unexpected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, as to your direct question (the previous point was more about issues around your question here), there's the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_of_disbelief&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;willing suspension of disbelief&lt;/a&gt; and the bar is higher on this for some than others.  For many people, if the answer to your question were, &quot;It's a plot device,&quot; then that kills it and kills their ease at suspending their disbelief.  Allowing writers and directors to just insert plot devices make the here unbeatable, and then there's no thrill to the story.  If the character is not vulnerable and not in danger, then where's the suspense?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we know every time Ripley is in trouble, the alien will conveniently be asleep or just not notice her, then it makes the story line far less believable for many and makes it harder to believe the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both science fiction and fantasy have a high level of escapism built into them as genres.  Many of us, when watching &lt;em&gt;Aliens&lt;/em&gt;, are thinking we're Ripley, out in space, in that ship, and facing that danger (or we're Luke Skywalker or Jean-Luc Picard or Lara Croft or any other hero).  If, when something comes up, you have to suddenly &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_wall&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;break the fourth wall&lt;/a&gt; and say, &quot;Okay, this isn't really believable, so we'll just say the alien is sleeping at this point,&quot; then we are no longer on a shuttle escaping from the &lt;em&gt;Nostromo&lt;/em&gt;, but we're on a set looking at cameras and lights and a film crew or we're in the theater with Betsy-Sue Frederickson again, upset because we long since realized we're not getting to second base with her on this date because the movie isn't scaring her enough to grab on to us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;It's a plot device,&quot; is always a fallback answer, but often we find that the universe created in a movie or book is far more complex than we imagined.  For instance, in &lt;em&gt;Aliens&lt;/em&gt;, we saw much more of the life-cycle of the alien (which essentially answered your question -- there's no need to eat EVERY tender morsel you encounter, some you need to use to incubate your young).  I'm amazed at the amount of explanation provided for something I may ask about in &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; that seems like a plot hole or oversight by George Lucas.  Often the original issue is an oversight, but sometimes something quite interesting comes out of the retconning or explanations to justify what was originally an error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, as I said, on the other hand, often we don't want to have our willing suspension of disbelief broken because characters do something that is only for the convenience of telling the story at the expense of believability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2012-01-03T07:20:28.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1106" CreationDate="2012-01-03T10:14:56.377" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that, by default, people here assume you're looking for an &lt;strong&gt;in-universe&lt;/strong&gt; explanation, unless you state otherwise. (I &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/694/suggested-new-tag-in-universe-explanation&quot;&gt;suggested creating an in-universe tag&lt;/a&gt;, but this was rejected.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're accepting out of universe answers, like &quot;plot device&quot; or &quot;to ensure there would be a sequel&quot; or &quot;so that the producers could sell more Ripley toys&quot; (or whatever), then specify that in your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.730" LastActivityDate="2012-01-03T10:14:56.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1106" CreationDate="2012-01-03T14:03:21.277" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absent explicit confirmation of a plot hole by a specific authority (author/actor/director etc...), &quot;plot hole&quot; answer &lt;strong&gt;is just as much of an uninformed speculation&lt;/strong&gt; as any in-universe explanation. However, it is inferior to in-Universe explanations for 2 reasons - pick either one or both:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;plot hole&quot; is an obvious enough one that it's just too boring. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's sort of like &quot;use jQuery&quot; answer in StackOverflow for me - yes, it works, no it isn't the most useful/helpful [or for more esoteric example, &quot;use local CPAN and download CPAN module X&quot; when a Perl question specifically states &quot;for non-technical reasons I can't use CPAN module X, how else can I solve the problem?&quot;]. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same way, yes, the person asking probably knows full well that the thing looks like a plot hole. The reason for asking it to find other possibilities.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We are dealing with SF/F here, not science SE. Therefore, Occam's Razor doesn't apply to make the &quot;simplest&quot; explanation the best or most likely.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-01-03T14:03:21.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1110" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1111" CreationDate="2012-01-03T14:54:45.167" Score="10" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;It look like the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aliens&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aliens&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aliens&lt;/a&gt; tag was intended to be used for aliens in general. From the tag's wiki : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An alien refers to a species that is not human. Typically, Aliens come from a place other than the planet Earth, though occasionally they are from different dimensions. Aliens are a common reoccurring theme in most Sci-Fi works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there's also the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_%28franchise%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Alien franchise&lt;/a&gt;, and question on this topic are currently tagged using the general &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aliens&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aliens&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aliens&lt;/a&gt; tag :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8405/why-doesnt-the-alien-kill-ripley-in-the-shuttle-craft&quot;&gt;Why doesn&amp;#39;t the alien kill Ripley in the shuttle craft?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8386/ftl-in-the-aliens-franchise&quot;&gt;Is there FTL travel in the Aliens franchise?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6880/what-are-the-other-alien-skulls-in-the-predator-trophy-case&quot;&gt;What are the other alien skulls in the Predator trophy case?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6816/what-happened-to-the-cat-jones-from-alien-and-aliens&quot;&gt;What happened to the cat Jones from Alien and Aliens?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6282/in-the-aliens-movie-what-do-the-aliens-eat&quot;&gt;In the Aliens movie, what do the Xenomorphs eat?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/401/who-sent-the-distress-signal-in-alien&quot;&gt;Who sent the distress signal in Alien?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A new tag should be used to distinguish the 2 current use of the tag. We could create an &lt;strike&gt;&quot;aliens-franchise&quot;&lt;/strike&gt; &quot;alien-franchise&quot; tag and move the above questions to it, but I fear it will lead to confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does someone have a better idea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2012-01-04T17:29:23.187" Title="Alien franchise and the Aliens Tag" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1110" CreationDate="2012-01-03T18:21:07.193" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps &quot;alien-franchise&quot; would be a better tag name (without the &quot;s&quot;), since most of the movies don't have the &quot;s&quot; in their titles.  Or &quot;alien-series&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would this also include the &lt;em&gt;Alien Vs. Predator&lt;/em&gt; films then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3619" LastActivityDate="2012-01-03T18:21:07.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1112" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-03T20:51:34.763" Score="10" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SqOKl.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bottom of the three hex image is being cut off by about 5 pixels or so. This is happening on the scifi.stackexchange.com/questions site and the meta.scifi.stackexchange.com/questions site. (Basically the pages where the list has the vertical votes and answer count as opposed to the horizontal counts.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorUserId="44" LastEditDate="2012-01-20T21:34:10.160" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T04:07:41.207" Title="Accepted Answer image is cut off" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1113" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-03T23:03:59.527" Score="3" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;The was proposed with Star Trek TOS but I don't think it came into fruition. But I'd like to propose a monthly/bimonthly event were people can sign up for a chat event and we all watch the same movie or TV show together and chat about it live in chat. The chat conversation can then be posted (edited down to only on topic conversations) to the blog for everyone to enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was also talk, if this becomes successful, that we can transcribe the chat logs into subtitle tracks and post a downloadable for people to use when they want to watch the movie at a later date and see what their fellow SciFi-ers had to say in real time to the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What say you? Anyone interested?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are, post a suggested first movie to watch and a time we can get together in chat. Once we come to a concensus, I can (or those with the power of Greyskull) can schedule the event in the chat and those wishing to participate would then sign up for the event. Email reminders are sent out automatically if it's done that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've decided on Star Trek TOS.  See the scheduling discussion &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1128/sci-fi-fantasy-group-watching-chat-event-schedule-ideas&quot;&gt;over here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2012-01-06T16:40:35.793" Title="Would anyone be interested in a group watching event?" Tags="|discussion|chat-event|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1079" CreationDate="2012-01-03T23:10:40.037" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Surely we should celebrate the 2013th question, when the future is now. Treating 2000 as the future is so passé.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with selecting a number like this is that it's easy to know when the question is coming up and force the issue. There should be an element of uncertainty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've practically hit the 2000th non-deleted question. I suspect there are a few closed questions that need deleting. How about: we wait until the 2030th question or so, then moderators go and do the periodic cleanup of old closed questions, then we see exactly which question to declare 2013th?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not that I have any idea what to do to celebrate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of today, non-deleted questions #2000 and #2013 are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8603/revelation-space-why-didnt-the-ship-get-trashed-when-volyova-put-it-into-reve&quot;&gt;Revelation Space - Why didn&amp;#39;t the ship get trashed when Volyova put it into reverse?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8646/why-do-the-weasleys-have-to-de-gnome-the-garden-at-the-burrow&quot;&gt;Why do the Weasleys have to de-gnome the garden at the Burrow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2012-01-15T22:23:07.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1113" CreationDate="2012-01-04T01:02:34.753" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll suggest Star Trek The Original Series.  It's been a while since I last saw it, and I bet most people haven't seen it themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-01-04T01:02:34.753" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1113" CreationDate="2012-01-04T01:03:29.230" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another suggestion is Firefly, followed by Serenity.  I'm pretty sure all sci-fi fans own a copy of this by now. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-01-04T01:03:29.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1113" CreationDate="2012-01-04T01:04:17.980" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Back to the Future would be another great title to watch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-01-04T01:04:17.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1118" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-04T02:18:16.813" Score="3" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just read a question about the Liaden books. It had no tag and I wasn't able to add one because my rep is too low. But we need one. The series deserves it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="339" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-03-14T13:18:30.417" LastActivityDate="2016-03-14T13:18:30.417" Title="We need a Liaden tag" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1118" CreationDate="2012-01-04T02:44:12.420" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was going to go on and add the tag, but it looks like @OghmaOsiris has already done it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Problem solved!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2012-01-04T02:44:12.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1120" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-04T15:04:01.350" Score="4" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm interested after reading the discussion &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/86043/introduce-a-general-reference-close-reason&quot;&gt;Introduce a &quot;General Reference&quot; close reason&lt;/a&gt; on Meta Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What kinds of questions have been decided &quot;General Reference&quot;? Which have been accepted? Has the close reason generally been accepted or ignored by the community? Do you feel the close reason adds more value or risk, especially in the precedent that it sets?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3255" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="How have we been using the General Reference close reason?" Tags="|discussion|scope|closing-questions|general-reference|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1121" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1129" CreationDate="2012-01-04T15:31:11.663" Score="5" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;In chat the body text is now white, but the One Box background is also white, yielding the below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1121/one-box-body-text-is-invisible&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PVrRt.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The box text is invisible, but if you try to select it you can see it's still there, it's just white-on-white.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3255" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2012-01-05T08:48:11.033" Title="One Box body text is invisible" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1122" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1123" CreationDate="2012-01-04T17:14:16.583" Score="12" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the subject line says, I have some specific moderation concerns that I'd like to discuss with an impartial third party (if such a person has that role on SE). I'm hoping everyone will understand that I don't want to directly link to the post in question; I don't want to put anyone on the spot publicly and would prefer to handle it on the down-low. I just don't know who to contact. Or how. The issues, generally, are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I flagged a post. Two different mods publicly addressed my issue with completely opposite decisions and I'm not sure that qualifies as a resolution.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am concerned that one of the responses violates this moderation rule: &lt;em&gt;Your goal is to guide the community with gentle, but firm, intervention. Respect your fellow community members at all times; demonstrate fairness and impartiality in your actions&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I couldn't find anything in the moderation rules that applies to my third concern, and since this is a community-driven site, I'm not sure if I'm in the right or not. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there someone who handles moderator moderation? Please know I am not bringing grudge wank to the table here. If I make a mistake I will own it and not repeat it in the future, and I can handle being redirected and advised of SE policy. If there is someone I could speak to, that would be great. I did make sure and look through all the meta posts to ensure this question had not been asked previously. I also looked for some kind of contact information on the site and in both instances I couldn't find anything on the topic. Thanks! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2012-01-04T20:24:31.107" Title="Who Do I Contact About Concerns I Have Regarding Moderation?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1122" CreationDate="2012-01-04T17:50:03.233" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have two choices:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bring it up &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;. Meta is THE PLACE for discussing moderation issues with the rest of the community, the moderators (there are three of them for a reason), and anyone else. Especially if it's a matter of policy or scope, letting others weigh in on it helps to establish guidelines for moderators to follow in the future. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it's a very sensitive matter, email us (Stack Exchange) using the &quot;contact us&quot; link found at the bottom of every page. Note that we probably won't step in directly unless there's blatant abuse, but we can certainly take the moderators aside and share your concerns while preserving your anonymity. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastEditorUserId="1586" LastEditDate="2012-01-04T17:56:39.260" LastActivityDate="2012-01-04T17:56:39.260" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1120" CreationDate="2012-01-04T18:05:45.033" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, if the answer is able to be found on Wikipedia, IMDB or a Google search where, if you type in the question title exactly and are able to find the answer as one of the results on the first page, it has been voted to close for General reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been discussion to add Wookipedia, Memory Alpha and other easily find-able wikis to the general reference category, but those have all been denied due to the fact that most people don't know about them until they visit our site first and ask a related question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that, we don't consider it General Reference even if the answer is a quote in a book or found on a specific episode of a TV show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2012-01-04T18:05:45.033" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1122" CreationDate="2012-01-04T20:24:31.107" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1122/who-do-i-contact-about-concerns-i-have-regarding-moderation/1123#1123&quot;&gt;Shog9&lt;/a&gt; has responded on the general question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is about that one time that I think you're alluding to), DampeS8N and I did handle the issue within a minute of each other or so, and somewhat stepped on each other's toes. I don't think the result was detrimental to the site, but of course I'm biaised. You can certainly challenge our handling; moderator decisions are not final (we can't revert comment deletions, but we can revert most other actions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you'd like to discuss this with us, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt; is the best medium, if we can get online at the same time. (I'm often around between 19:00 and 00:00 UTC on weekdays.) We can create a private chat room (visible only to you and moderators) if you like (reply to this post or DampeS8N's comment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2012-01-04T20:24:31.107" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1120" CreationDate="2012-01-04T20:57:37.323" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think all the meta questions about this close reason have the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/general-reference&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;general-reference&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;general-reference&lt;/a&gt; tag, you can browse them to see the history and discussion around this topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've usually taken “general reference” to mean “obvious from the Wikipedia article”. We don't use it much; I think we average about once a month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do like having the close reason, and I miss it on other SE sites, but I have concerns about it being misused. In particular, I disagree with &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/86043/introduce-a-general-reference-close-reason/88521#88521&quot;&gt;Borror0's diagram (pushed by Jeff)&lt;/a&gt;: I don't think Google is a good test for general reference. I won't repeat &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/86043/introduce-a-general-reference-close-reason/101179#101179&quot;&gt;my full reasoning&lt;/a&gt; here. The problem with the Google test is that often the top Google hits look good to potential answerers who know the topic well, but what the asker sees is an explanation that's difficult to understand and may or may not be correct or relevant. This is the crux of the problem: general reference implies that not only the asker can find the answer easily, but the asker must &lt;strong&gt;know that they have found a reliable answer&lt;/strong&gt;. The short version is that general reference should not be “Google it” but “Wikipede it”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On sites without general reference as a close reason, I sometimes vote to close as “too localized: This question is unlikely to ever help any future visitors.” Although the examples in the description of the “too localized” close reason don't apply, general reference questions are bad primarily because they are not helpful to future visitors: future visitors with the same question will have an easier time looking up the answer in the general reference than on Stack Exchange, so there's no need to duplicate the information on Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2012-01-04T20:57:37.323" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1118" CreationDate="2012-01-04T21:06:59.180" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tags that are on a single question are automatically erased after 6 months (the presumption being that it's a typo or a nonsense tag). I suspect that's what happened here. Unfortunately, there is no advance notification and no way to declare that a tag is legitimate. The only remedy is to ask another question with the same tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For future reference, for an uncontroversial request like this, the quickest way is often to ask in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;; even if there's no one around, the next person to visit is likely to read back a few messages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-01-04T21:06:59.180" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1128" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1132" CreationDate="2012-01-04T23:01:26.903" Score="3" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit The first group viewing event will be Sunday Jan 8th at 7pm PST, 8pm MST, 9pm CST and 10 pm EST, and 3:00 UTC on Monday. I'll create a new chat room called &lt;em&gt;ViewScreen&lt;/em&gt;. I plan to watch the shows on Netflix, but you can use any means you want to watch the shows with us.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Link to the special chatroom: &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/2158/on-viewscreen&quot;&gt;On Viewscreen&lt;/a&gt; The event has been scheduled for every two weeks and if you register, you get reminders when the thing will start so you don't forget.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, so sufficient interest in the idea of a group-watching chat event is present, so I'd like to open the floor for schedule ideas. I also think that we've agreed to watch a few episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series to kick this shebang off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was thinking to make the event regular, so it would be awesome if it was every week or once a month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was thinking of holding the first one this weekend on Friday the 6th, Saturday Jan 7th  or Sunday Jan 8th sometime in the evening when everyone is available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The event doesn't need more than a few participants to be hilarious. But the more the merrier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some rules I think we should abide by:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep the chat on topic to the show we are watching. side talk should be done in another chat room or on another IM client if needed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Try to keep the chat clean of any NSFW topics. Profanity can be allowed as I will be transcribing the event to a blog post afterwards and can bleep out any profane words if necessary&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We need to have some way of syncing the times with everyone, so I say if we're watching an episodic show like ST:TOS we have a sync-break after each episode&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This should be a funny event, so try not to get offended at the jokes people will be saying about your favorite characters&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any other rules and or times are welcome and I will edit the OP with a final time that is agreed upon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-01-08T19:31:47.173" LastActivityDate="2012-01-08T19:31:47.173" Title="Sci-Fi &amp; Fantasy Group Watching Chat Event - Schedule ideas" Tags="|discussion|chat-event|group-watching|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1121" CreationDate="2012-01-05T08:48:11.033" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fixed; it's black on white as expected now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="171" LastActivityDate="2012-01-05T08:48:11.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1130" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1133" CreationDate="2012-01-05T11:43:46.200" Score="4" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've raised the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1103/spelling-of-r2-d2-artoo-deetoo-and-c-3p0-see-threepio&quot;&gt;spelling of R2-D2&lt;/a&gt;. I suggest we change the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/r2d2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;r2d2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;r2d2&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/r2-d2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;r2-d2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;r2-d2&lt;/a&gt;. This will be consistent with the &quot;official&quot; spelling and match the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/c-3po&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;c-3po&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;c-3po&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could retag the questions myself but I think there might be some linking (from r2d2-&gt;r2-d2) that requires a moderator's touch?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2012-01-05T19:16:52.840" Title="Change r2d2 tag to r2-d2" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1130" CreationDate="2012-01-05T13:11:32.397" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;For that purpose, there is something called &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/privileges/suggest-tag-synonyms&quot;&gt;Tag synonyms&lt;/a&gt;, you have enough reputation to suggests one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DO NOT SUGGEST THE SYNONYM ON THE &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/r2d2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;r2d2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;r2d2&lt;/a&gt; TAG!&lt;/strong&gt; (It will do the opposite of what we want here.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should create the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/r2-d2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;r2-d2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;r2-d2&lt;/a&gt; Tag and retag the questions. You will then have to wait for some script to execute before the rep needed to suggest the synonyms is transfered to the new tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2012-01-05T13:11:32.397" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1128" CreationDate="2012-01-05T19:08:47.677" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a fantastic idea! Brett and I had talked, in Real Life, about potentially doing something like this. I love the idea of doing Trek episodes -- 22 minutes is time I can spare, and liveblogging/livechatting something is a lot of fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things to keep in mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Time zones are tricky! Try to sync up a la what &lt;a href=&quot;http://yuletidetreasure.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Yuletide&lt;/a&gt; uses, which is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedform.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this world clock event timer&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If this is going to be a recurring event but with &lt;em&gt;different&lt;/em&gt; shows, then pick the best episodes to introduce newbies to. Otherwise, if this is more &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000?from=Main.MysteryScienceTheater3000&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MST3k&lt;/a&gt;, then pick accordingly. If this is going to be the TV equivalent of a read-along, then &lt;em&gt;go in order&lt;/em&gt;. That way, if someone misses a week, they can catch up without a lot of confusion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be reasonably consistent! Making this event at about the same time each week means people can/will make time for it. I know I always did when &lt;a href=&quot;http://ontd-startrek.livejournal.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ONTD!StarTrek&lt;/a&gt; did their watch-alongs. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; go through series-es, throw in a movie from time to time. It breaks things up, plus movies are as great of a way to generate questions. C'mon -- you &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; want to watch &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ManosTheHandsOfFate&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Manos: Hands of Fate&lt;/a&gt;, let's be real.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Consider tossing in anime, as well -- &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion?from=Main.NeonGenesisEvangelion&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Neon Genesis Evangelion&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/Trigun?from=Main.Trigun&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Trigun&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/Gundam?from=Main.Gundam&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gundam&lt;/a&gt; are all shows that would be on-topic here, as well as deep, broad-appeal shows that ask questions of the watcher. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And okay, this got kind of off-topic. But! The consistency of time and the time zone sync are the best tips I have for you. Also, if a moderator makes the chat event, a system message will appear immediately prior to the events' start. That will help pull in people into the chat who aren't necessarily surfing meta &lt;em&gt;all the time&lt;/em&gt; like I am.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, major +1s to whomever suggested giving this its own chat room -- I think that would be best, imho. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2459" LastActivityDate="2012-01-05T19:08:47.677" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1130" CreationDate="2012-01-05T19:16:52.840" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few months back, we had a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/843/star-wars-character-tags&quot;&gt;discussion on tags for &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; characters&lt;/a&gt;. The consensus then was that these tags were not necessary. Has something changed? Otherwise we should just remove &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/r2-d2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;r2-d2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;r2-d2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/c-3po&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;c-3po&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;c-3po&lt;/a&gt; and whatever other ultraspecific tag has crept in. (There's no moderator tool for this, the tag has to be edited out manually.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, I have created &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/r2-d2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;r2-d2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;r2-d2&lt;/a&gt; and merged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/r2d2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;r2d2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;r2d2&lt;/a&gt; into it through the moderator tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2012-01-05T19:16:52.840" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1134" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1141" CreationDate="2012-01-05T21:42:08.997" Score="15" ViewCount="477" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt; Due to the fact that people seem to be completely mis-reading this question, I'll quote the last paragraph up front:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to be clear, I'm not against the concept of story identification questions, and some (very few) of them are quite great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR&lt;/strong&gt; version: &amp;quot;My personal evaluation of intrinsic worth of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions seems wildly out of sync with the aggregate community based on the # of upvotes they receive. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, for the full original question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am genuinely puzzled by the fact that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions are so well rewarded. Why? Is it good?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, a couple of stats. As of now, the site has close to 300 of questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; - out of 2000 total. Some of them seem to be mis-tagged (and closed), so let's say 250.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of those:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The 50 highest voted ones have 11+ upvotes each&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The second 50 highest voted are 8-11 upvotes each.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The third 50 highest voted are 6-8 upvotes each.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;2 highest voted ones are 30 and 28 upvotes (admittedly, 28 upvotes one is a great one that even I up-voted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Of the latest 50 tags that I analyzed, &lt;strong&gt;the average was 6.7 up-votes&lt;/strong&gt;, with ~3 standard deviation. Here's the histogram (X-axys is the question's # of up-votes, Y-axis is # of questions with so many up-votes):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JYWww.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My questions are:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Somewhat rhethorically: why are those &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions so much up-voted? Are they really THAT useful to so many people or so brilliantly written? I don't know the stats for the entire site but i'd not be surprised if site-wide upvote average is lower than 6.7.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I feel that those questions, while perfectly OK to be on-topic, are not a big win for the site and should not be stongly encouraged by lots of (in my humble opinion) undeserved up-votes. If I posted an identification question - which I may have but don't recall - I would honestly expect at most 1 upvote if it was about some obscure work with no great interest as far as overall SciFi field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does the community feel that these &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions are in some way, &lt;strong&gt;as a class&lt;/strong&gt;, helpful to the site? Do the drive many visitors? Do they bring in some special nuggets of knowledge that nobody knew about yet many people would find useful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that I specifically refer to upvotes on the questions themselves - I don't feel that the ones on the answers are in any way un-deserved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to be clear, I'm not against the concept of story identification questions, and some (very few) of them are quite great, either due to the question's innate quality, or a really interesting take on a well known work, or just genuinely interesting (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2937/story-where-the-number-3-is-the-monster&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;). But a vast majority that I see are nowhere near special.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-01-08T07:47:47.853" Title="Is it good that Story Identification questions are so well rewarded?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1134" CreationDate="2012-01-05T22:28:50.697" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a certain amount of bikeshed effect here. These questions are highly accessible. That's a feature of crowdsourcing and you just get to live with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For my part, I like them because they are about something other than Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar, and Harry Potter. To be sure, people are entitled to like what they like, but the recent questions on those universes have been of interest only to fan boys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Science Fiction and Fantasy universe is so much bigger than the shows you've seen on TV and at the cinema in that last decade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="231" LastEditorUserId="231" LastEditDate="2012-01-05T22:35:05.113" LastActivityDate="2012-01-05T22:35:05.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1134" CreationDate="2012-01-05T22:32:14.427" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a common experience to have read or heard or seen a story that we can't remember.  And, often, we're not the only ones who remember certain scenes or characters vividly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that about 10 years ago, I was trying to find an old time radio show, &lt;em&gt;A Pail of Air&lt;/em&gt;, but kept searching for &quot;bucket&quot; instead of &quot;pail.&quot;  It took me a long time to find the story because I kept using the wrong word on my searches.  Then, later, when I found out it was on a broadcast of &quot;X Minus 1,&quot; I found a website that mentioned this is &quot;one of those stories.&quot;  It's one that everyone remembers parts of, but they forge the title and author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that in mind, and considering that many of these questions refer to seeing the show as a child or teen, I think these questions help a lot of people find works they are looking for (perhaps so they can re-read or re-watch) and if it helps the person asking the question, it likely helps others Googling for that info at some later date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just wish, when I was looking for the info on &lt;em&gt;A Pail of Air&lt;/em&gt;, that SE was around and someone had asked about it.  That would have saved me hours of searching and I'm sure these story-id questions will do that in the long run for a number of people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2012-01-05T22:32:14.427" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1134" CreationDate="2012-01-05T22:47:31.220" Score="15" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Speaking as a moderator&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right this minute, 5% of all &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions were rejected (closed and perhaps deleted), compared with our 16.3% rejection rate overall (12.3% if you discount the list and recommendation questions from the site's early days). I conclude that story identification questions are better quality than average.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen the interpretation that story identification are not policed and so poor questions (with too little detail) fall through the cracks. This does not agree with my experience, and in fact is contradicted by your data: those upvotes indicate that most story identification questions do get attention, and those people who upvoted didn't vote to close as “not a real question”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;9.5% of open &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; are unanswered (as in: have at least one upvoted answer); the overall rate is 4.4%. So, on a subject matter that's inherently difficult, we still manage a decent response rate (90% have an answer that's at least vaguely plausible).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We get the occasional “me too” non-answer on story identification questions. This shows that story identification questions are useful to people other than the asker. I don't have statistics for these, but I think they're more common for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; than on average. Here's a sample such non-answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thankyou so very very much for answering the question.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  I stayed up nights for years trying to remember the name of that book so i could track down the second book and read it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The questions was highly relevant and direct as I had exactly the same question now finally answered. Thank you... Now I can get on with my life. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, these pile-on users don't seem to stick on the site (all the examples I found were one-time posters).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Speaking as a user&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I subscribe to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; tag, because most questions interest me one way or another: either I know the book and I want a chance at answering, or I don't know the book and I may be interested in reading it (if it's left such a good memory to someone else that they want to find it again, that's a recommendation). Then I apply my usual rules for voting on questions: if it's a well-written, on-topic question that's likely to elicit interesting answers, then I upvote. In other tags, I can only upvote if I know enough about the background (most questions about a specific work don't make any sense if you haven't read/seen/… it). Thus &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; are inherently more prone to being upvoted by me on average.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Speaking as a community builder&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the site started, I hoped that it would become the go-to site for story identifications. Story identification is a perfect fit for the question and answers format. My model was the Usenet group &lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;rec.arts.sf.written&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which is well-known as a go-to place for story identification (YASID — Yet Another Story IDentification; if you try to search for these on google you'll miss a lot because Google strips the &lt;code&gt;[YASID]&lt;/code&gt; prefix that's traditionally used in the subject of such questions).&#xA;YASIDs work ok on a Usenet group, but not so great: sometimes the thread diverges and the answer is buried amid hundreds of off-topic possts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't say that we've reached the point where we can advertise on our ability to answer story identification questions. Mind you, our accept rate is a little over 50%, which is almost as high as rasfw's; but rasfw gets more of the difficult requests, because it's the last resort to many. It's a pity, because story identification is great for promotion: this question form attracts both novices (who want their question answered) and experts (who want to show off their culture). I hope that we can organically recruit more experts, so that we can claim to be a place where story identification questions get answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-01-05T23:00:23.413" LastActivityDate="2012-01-05T23:00:23.413" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1138" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-06T16:39:03.460" Score="22" ViewCount="1810" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a quick way to expand the scope of the site and generate new questions and answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How it works:&lt;/strong&gt; One topic will be designated each week. Each person who &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;asks a question&lt;/a&gt; relating to that topic will be eligible to win a prize. The current topic is listed below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to enter:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;Ask a question&lt;/a&gt; relating to the topic of the week, and tag it accordingly. Each question you ask will get you one entry into a random drawing to win a sci-fi item of your choice from your local Amazon (under $50). The question must not be closed or deleted to be eligible. &lt;em&gt;Users may only win a topic contest once a month.&lt;/em&gt; Users will be informed of the month's topics in advance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choosing the topic of the week:&lt;/strong&gt; If you have suggestions for a future topic, please leave them as answers to this post. Topics must be trackable with a tag, meaning that specific authors, books, television shows, movies and franchises are encouraged. Basically anything that currently has a tag is probably fair game. Topics will be chosen based on either their timely and increased notoriety or to expand the Sci-Fi's content and scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Current Topic: INDEFINITE HIATUS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this moment and for the foreseeable future, I will not be able to run any Topic of the Week endeavors. That does not mean that the site can't have Topic of the Week contests, especially since people still seem very keen on them. These can still happen, they will just have to be run by you, the community. I pass along my power to you! That does mean that there will no longer be a prize awarded by Stack Exchange, which I hope isn't a massive deterrent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But why?!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I apologize for not including this earlier; my haste caused me to not expand. My co-worker Laura &lt;a href=&quot;https://cooking.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1543/the-end-of-a-contest-and-beginning-of-something-else&quot;&gt;summed this up pretty well&lt;/a&gt; on the Cooking site, when their TOTW was discontinued.  For the &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; part, the reasons are the same. A $50 a week prize for the contest that results in-between 5-7 questions a week isn't that sustainable on our end. But the best thing, truthfully, is that Sci-Fi doesn't really &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; it as much as it did 8 months ago. The site is showing exponential growth and diversification, to the point where we on our end don't feel you need us nudging you along. Y'all are doing great on your own!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you also aren't alone! If the community wants to keep going with the TOTW, then please do! It should just now be controlled organically from the community. And if the community needs advice or input from SE, please ping me! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Completed Topics:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-hunger-games&quot;&gt;The Hunger Games&lt;/a&gt; (Jan 6-13), won by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3101/thedaian&quot;&gt;thedaian&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/underworld&quot;&gt;Underworld&lt;/a&gt; (Jan 16-22), won by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/45/davrob60&quot;&gt;DavRob60&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tng&quot;&gt;Star Trek: The Next Generation&lt;/a&gt; - The Next Level (Jan 23-29), won by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1693/tangooversway&quot;&gt;TangoOversway&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avatar-the-last-airbender&quot;&gt;Avatar: The Last Airbender&lt;/a&gt; (Jan 30-Feb 5), won by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2057/origamirobot&quot;&gt;Origami Robot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/phantom-menace&quot;&gt;Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace&lt;/a&gt; (Feb 6-12), won by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3500/slytherincess&quot;&gt;Slytherincess&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-walking-dead&quot;&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/a&gt; (Feb 13-19), won by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1359/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/being-human&quot;&gt;Being Human&lt;/a&gt; (Feb 20-26), won by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4355/kevin-howell&quot;&gt;Kevin Howell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/buffy&quot;&gt;Buffy the Vampire Slayer&lt;/a&gt; seasons 1 &amp;amp; 2 (Feb 27-Mar 4), won by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/108/tony-meyer&quot;&gt;Tony Meyer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/john-carter&quot;&gt;John Carter&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/barsoom&quot;&gt;Barsoom&lt;/a&gt; (Mar 5-11), won by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1693/tangooversway&quot;&gt;TangoOversway&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers&quot;&gt;Marvel's the Avengers&lt;/a&gt; (Mar 12-18), won by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3804/pureferret&quot;&gt;Pureferret&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/robert-a-heinlein&quot;&gt;Robert A. Heinlein&lt;/a&gt; (Mar 19-25), won by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/976/dvk&quot;&gt;DVK&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/farscape&quot;&gt;Farscape&lt;/a&gt; (Mar 26-Apr 1), won by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3383/the-doctor&quot;&gt;The Doctor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot;&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/a&gt; (Apr 2-Apr 15), won by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/45/davrob60&quot;&gt;DavRob60&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-legend-of-korra&quot;&gt;The Legend of Korra&lt;/a&gt; (Apr 16-Apr 29), won by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1109/oghmaosiris&quot;&gt;OghmaOsiris&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot;&gt;Video Games&lt;/a&gt; (Apr 30-May6), won by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1030/joe-wreschnig&quot;&gt;Joe Wreschnig&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/futurama&quot;&gt;Futurama&lt;/a&gt; (June 13-20), won by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/45/davrob60&quot;&gt;DavRob60&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2012-09-01T14:28:44.750" Title="Topic of the Week Contest [Updated August 29]" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|contest|" AnswerCount="26" CommentCount="47" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-02-13T15:18:22.173" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1113" CreationDate="2012-01-06T16:40:35.793" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wing Commander the cartoon TV series. Lesser known, but great quality sci-fi. (Way better than the terrible Wing Commander movie.) The fact that it is not as popular means that we'll have more fresh eyes watching it for the first time. Won't that make the conversation more interesting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="397" LastActivityDate="2012-01-06T16:40:35.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1138" CreationDate="2012-01-06T18:21:13.903" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1496025/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Underworld: Awakening&lt;/a&gt; is coming out in 2 weeks (friday, the 20 January 2012), so a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underworld_%28film_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Underworld series&lt;/a&gt; week seems appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2012-01-09T10:28:20.023" LastActivityDate="2012-01-09T10:28:20.023" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1134" CreationDate="2012-01-07T00:16:20.087" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that you said in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/2921607#2921607&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I know I'm repeating myself here, but my question wasn't &quot;are they good&quot; but &quot;I don't get what all the upvoters see in seemingly - IMHO - useless questions&quot;. I explicitly said that I don't mind them being asked at all, and some are pretty good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, I've seen a lot more upvoting on scifi.SE than some of the other stackexchange sites I've gone to, this is mostly speculation, but I've had a lot more upvotes per answer here than anywhere else. If this fact is true, it accounts for the next part of my response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with dmckee. The questions are highly accessible, almost everyone can look at them and given that a lot of people seem to upvote questions and answers, a lot of people are going to upvote the question because hey, they know how it feels to half remember a story and they want to help out the person asking the question but they can't answer it so it gets an upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing is, this probably happens with &quot;normal&quot; questions, too, but people usually only look at questions they feel they might answer (I am likely to look at a question concerning Doctor Who, but I am not likely to look at a question concerning comic books). Since people often look at questions based on their personal fandom, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions are something that &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt; could possibly answer, and look at, it causes the story ID questions to have a much higher rate of views and votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, a lot of story ID questions seem to come from new users, and I tend to upvote new users more, because they're new, and upvoting new users is a good way to get them to come back to the site. However, if the question doesn't really provide any details beyond &quot;it was a book about time travel&quot; or something, then I'm likely to comment on the question, asking for more detail (or upvote a comment that's already saying the same thing)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Actual Statistical Data Edit&lt;/strong&gt; I decided to do some calculations (or write a program to do the calculations for me...), using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/search&quot;&gt;StackExchange /search/ API&lt;/a&gt;. Interestingly, these &lt;em&gt;do not&lt;/em&gt; back up my theory. You can look at the stats from the API in &lt;a href=&quot;http://barchok.com/p/SEstats/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this webpage&lt;/a&gt; (view source if you wish, these stats are generated from data from the API). I decided to use the top 4 tags (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;), and ended up with 100 questions from each (side effect of the search API).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;: Average score for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions were slightly lower than &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; questions, and far, far lower than &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; questions. Average views were also far lower (by about 200, at minimum). The highest score received by a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; question is 30, the other tags outrank that except for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;, which has a high score question of 25. Highest view count for all other tags are significantly higher, and in terms of lowest views, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; only beats out &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; (side note: with a limit of 30 questions, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions won with a 67 lowest view count, beating out the second lowest question from Harry Potter, with 60)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The end result: these stats do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; actually support the idea that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions are somehow higher rated, or even higher viewed than other questions. The only thing I do know is that there are more of them (273 questions at this point, with the next highest tag of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; having 238 questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3101" LastEditorUserId="3101" LastEditDate="2012-01-08T07:47:47.853" LastActivityDate="2012-01-08T07:47:47.853" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1138" CreationDate="2012-01-07T01:59:12.170" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ursula Le Guin? (I'm just suggesting that to get extra rep from my SO who's a fan :)))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-01-07T01:59:12.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1143" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-07T02:06:04.560" Score="9" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the title says, I have a question I want to ask, but it's multi-part with interrelated components. Would it be best if I included all the parts of the question in one post, or is there an expectation that multi-part questions should be asked one at a time, in separate posts? The latter seems impractical and spammy. I searched the Meta forum to see if this question had already been asked, but it has not been. I did read the posts about what the characteristics of a great Science Fiction question are, as well as the post on six steps to posting an appropriate subjective question. But I'm still unclear as to the best protocol to follow for a multi-part question. Any guidance would be most appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-01-07T18:00:42.330" LastActivityDate="2012-01-07T18:00:42.330" Title="What Is the Best Way to Pose a Multi-Part Question?" Tags="|discussion|support|questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1143" CreationDate="2012-01-07T02:50:16.037" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the questions can't be cordoned into separate sub-questions that you can ask individually, then I'd recommend just asking one large question.  Make it clear you're looking for a comprehensive answer that covers all the questions, and not just an answer to one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-01-07T02:50:16.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1143" CreationDate="2012-01-07T06:09:36.687" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they can be cordoned off PARTIALLY - meaning, the question itself is relatively independent of the rest of them as far as its answer BUT it helps to know the umbrella context, you can post them separately AND in each question indicate the context in a first paragraph. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The exact judgement of whether they NEED to be merged depends on the exact set of questions to be honest. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you care to know my opinion before you post, feel free to message me the Q (not that my opinion matters more than anyone else's but I explicitly wouldn't mind devoting time to ponder the thing, thus the offer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OR if you prefer the broad community opinion, you can post the whole thing on META as a question with 2 answers (split/not split) and see which gets more votes or useful comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-01-07T06:09:36.687" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1143" CreationDate="2012-01-07T17:59:56.060" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's difficult to answer this in general, but I'll try to give a few tips.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main things to consider are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is the same person likely to be able to answer all the parts, so that you're likely to get comprehensive answers?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is a future searcher interested in one of the parts likely to be also interested in the other parts?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These aren't straightforward yes/no questions, but you should try to include only so much material that the answer remains rather yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're unsure, what I recommend is to ask a question, watch the answers come in, then a day or two after the initial question ask again about the parts that weren't covered. In the first question, explain the overall context (the big picture), highlight one part that is the starting point and that you want answers to cover, and mention other parts as bonuses. Something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm exploring the symbolicism of cinnamon in &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Cinnamon commonly occurs as a potion component, yes Snape doesn't cover it in his classes. Ginny is fond of it whereas Harry can't stand the stuff. Ron is allergic to it. In book 4 one of the foreign students bemoans the low quality of local cinnamon compared to his home country.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  It feels like there is something that sets apart the cinnamon lovers from the cinnamon haters. Is cinnamon somehow off-limits to people with conflicting moral goals?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (If so, I wonder what this means about Ron. And why cinnamon anyway?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, depending on the answers you get (wait a couple of days), ask follow-up questions about the last bits. If you do, be sure to cross-link the questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-01-07T17:59:56.060" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1138" CreationDate="2012-01-07T20:47:49.913" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Awards, e.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thehugoawards.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Hugos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sfwa.org/nebula-awards/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Nebulas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;World Fantasy Awards&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sfcenter.ku.edu/campbell.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;John W. Campbell Memorial Award&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oscars.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Academy Awards&lt;/a&gt; (if scifi/fantasy films get nominated)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.emmys.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Emmys&lt;/a&gt; (if scifi/fantasy shows get nominated)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could either be broad (questions related to any of the nominees in a week before the award was given) or narrow (questions related to the winner(s) in a week after the award was given).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2012-01-07T20:47:49.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1138" CreationDate="2012-01-07T20:52:01.560" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Conventions, e.g.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://chicon.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WorldCon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comic-con.org/cci/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ComicCon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Behind-the-scenes/fandom questions are on-topic here, so there could potentially be good questions about these events (although it would take work to avoid ones that were specifically about the 2012 events).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2012-01-07T20:52:01.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1138" CreationDate="2012-01-07T20:57:07.247" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not entirely sure that &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; needs help with getting more questions, or if a website is &quot;mass media&quot;, but ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pottermore.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pottermore&lt;/a&gt; will go out of private beta at some point this year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2012-01-07T20:57:07.247" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1138" CreationDate="2012-01-07T21:05:12.240" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/a&gt; Season 2 starts airing on the 15th April (presumably in the US) according to IMDB.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2012-01-07T21:05:12.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1134" CreationDate="2012-01-07T22:46:38.440" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was curious whether they really score higher than other questions, or if everything just scores highly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This gathered the set of scores for all questions and all &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;import json&#xA;import gzip&#xA;import urllib2&#xA;import StringIO&#xA;import collections&#xA;&#xA;story_id = collections.defaultdict(int)&#xA;everything = collections.defaultdict(int)&#xA;page = 1&#xA;while True:&#xA;    content = json.load(gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=StringIO.StringIO(urllib2.urlopen(&quot;http://api.scifi.stackexchange.com/1.1/questions?page=%s&quot; % page).read())))&#xA;    if not content[u&quot;questions&quot;]:&#xA;        break&#xA;    for question in content[u&quot;questions&quot;]:&#xA;        if u&quot;story-identification&quot; in question[&quot;tags&quot;]:&#xA;            story_id[question[u&quot;score&quot;]] += 1&#xA;        everything[question[u&quot;score&quot;]] += 1&#xA;    page += 1&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The average score for all questions is currently 10.2 and for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; 7.0 - however there are extreme values in general questions, and aren't for story identification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at the score distribution (I've trimmed off the questions scoring more than 20):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TvZ2z.png&quot; alt=&quot;score dist&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks to me like these questions are more likely to score in the 2-8 range, but less likely to score highly.  I don't think it's accurate to say that these questions generally score higher than other questions.  It seems more accurate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to say that questions in general tend to score more highly than a long-established site (e.g. Stack Overflow) - 81% of questions get at least a 5.  I think this is likely because while the site is small, it's fairly easy to look at all questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to wonder if &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions are scoring too highly even though they score (a little) lower than the average question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the latter, IMO there are reasons these are easy to gain votes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's difficult for me to judge whether a {random topic} question is well-asked or not if I have no familiarity with the work (I might not even look at the question).  It's not hard to judge whether a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; question is good (does it include sufficient information that it's likely that it can be answered).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you're using &quot;interestingness&quot; as a reason to up vote as well as &quot;well asked&quot;, some people (including me) find these questions interesting in general (there's plenty of material in meta about why this is so I won't repeat it here).  I would guess that one reason that the questions don't score as highly as other questions in general (even though &quot;well asked&quot; is fairly simple to achieve) is that only a few people feel this way.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2012-01-07T22:46:38.440" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1152" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1160" CreationDate="2012-01-08T05:40:40.150" Score="8" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;On a meta profile page, the links to other profiles and the &quot;Moderator&quot; label are colored black instead of white:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://so.mrozekma.com/sff-meta-profile.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of Jeff's profile&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="174" LastEditorUserId="44" LastEditDate="2012-01-09T20:05:50.297" LastActivityDate="2012-01-09T20:05:50.297" Title="Some elements on meta profiles are black instead of white" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|profile-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1153" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1154" CreationDate="2012-01-09T00:32:39.847" Score="6" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, color me dumb. I found out how to view existing synonyms (Tags=&gt;synonyms - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms&lt;/a&gt; ), but how do I create a &lt;strong&gt;new&lt;/strong&gt; one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to synonymize &quot;Horcrux&quot; and &quot;Horcruxes&quot; tags, since there seems to be a &lt;strong&gt;constant&lt;/strong&gt; drift with some question getting both. I tried to merge them into Horcrux 3 times already, and new ones keep popping up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't much care which of the two is the main tag and which is a synonym - merely that there aren't two, EVER again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2012-01-09T00:43:21.827" Title="How do I create a tag synonym?" Tags="|support|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1153" CreationDate="2012-01-09T00:43:14.823" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Navigate to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/horcrux&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;horcrux&lt;/code&gt; tag page&lt;/a&gt;, click on “&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/horcrux/synonyms&quot;&gt;synonyms&lt;/a&gt;”, and suggest &lt;code&gt;horcruxes&lt;/code&gt; as a synonym. It takes 6 voters or a moderator to actually set the synonym, and only moderators can perform a merge (ask us on meta if there is any doubt, or in chat for no-brainer cases such as plurals).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've set up a synonym &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/horcruxes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;horcruxes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;horcruxes&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/horcrux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;horcrux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;horcrux&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2012-01-09T00:43:14.823" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1155" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-09T05:09:26.440" Score="6" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;So movie night was a total success. I'll be transcribing it into a blog post in a day or so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do we wanna watch at the next gathering in 2 weeks?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was thinking a movie this time. I liked watching episodes of Star Trek and I'm sure we'll be doing some more episodes of some show or another soon, but since this is still going through the beta phase, I want to test the waters with a different type of media.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestions are open. The format of the chat is of course humor, so please suggest something that can be fun to rip on while watching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorUserId="1441" LastEditDate="2016-04-13T08:35:02.860" LastActivityDate="2016-04-13T08:35:02.860" Title="What to watch in our next movie night?" Tags="|discussion|chat-event|movie-night|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1138" CreationDate="2012-01-09T10:32:23.700" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Instead of a specific franchise, I'm thinking of some kind of meta theme, e.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;robots&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;disaster sci-fi&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;robots causing disasters :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The list is endless!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2012-01-09T10:32:23.700" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1155" CreationDate="2012-01-09T15:03:53.873" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always had a great time watching either sci-fi or horror B-movies (or &quot;bad&quot; A-movies), and I imagine lots of folks have had a similar experiences.  Off the top of my head, I'd love to do a Godzilla movie (not the American one, of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1913" LastEditorUserId="1913" LastEditDate="2012-01-09T17:31:27.117" LastActivityDate="2012-01-09T17:31:27.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1155" CreationDate="2012-01-09T17:07:00.823" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Episode I or III of Star Wars. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Noooooooooooo!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-01-09T17:07:00.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1155" CreationDate="2012-01-09T17:34:36.893" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;We could go ahead and just watch some Mystery Science Theater 3000!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Gns7f.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;MST3K&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1913" LastActivityDate="2012-01-09T17:34:36.893" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1152" CreationDate="2012-01-09T18:08:14.833" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fix will be in the next production build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastActivityDate="2012-01-09T18:08:14.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1155" CreationDate="2012-01-09T23:52:43.183" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firefly could be an interesting series to try.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-01-09T23:52:43.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1155" CreationDate="2012-01-09T23:58:04.760" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ghost in the Shell&lt;/a&gt;. Classic, awesome, and likely something a lot of this site's audience hasn't seen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2459" LastActivityDate="2012-01-09T23:58:04.760" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1155" CreationDate="2012-01-09T23:58:55.507" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paprika_%282006_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Paprika&lt;/a&gt; is a real audience-pleaser, especially in a post-Inception world. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2459" LastActivityDate="2012-01-09T23:58:55.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1155" CreationDate="2012-01-09T23:59:43.290" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Akira&lt;/a&gt; would also be a great movie to screen. Dystopic, futuristic, and featuring lots of violence and motor vehicles. Amazing film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2459" LastActivityDate="2012-01-09T23:59:43.290" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1155" CreationDate="2012-01-10T00:25:22.813" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anything by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayao_Miyazaki&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hayao Miyazaki&lt;/a&gt;. In recent memory, &lt;em&gt;Spirited Away&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Howl's Moving Castle&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Ponyo&lt;/em&gt; were hits in the U.S. His other films include &lt;em&gt;Princess Mononoke&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Laputa: Castle in the Sky&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Kiki's Delivery Service&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;My Neighbor Totoro&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2459" LastActivityDate="2012-01-10T00:25:22.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="764" CreationDate="2012-01-11T20:14:29.790" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the literature meta-posting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is not a popularity contest. Votes should go to the answers that provide the best match for the request. Don't vote up or down because you liked or didn't like the suggested books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't say that I really believe this will be respected. Oh, people will try--&lt;em&gt;I'll&lt;/em&gt; try---but popularity tends to have it's way. Maybe on Literature.SE they'll have enough people how take literature &lt;em&gt;qua&lt;/em&gt; literature seriously enough to make it work, but our audience seems to less academically inclined (at least for now...I still have high hopes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/765/231&quot;&gt;DampeS8N's suggestion&lt;/a&gt; is more attainable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On CodeGolf.SE we have established something like a consensus format for [code-golf] answers that is partially adhered to by almost everyone, and strongly adhered to by many.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This works because there is &lt;em&gt;feedback&lt;/em&gt; in the form of how other answers look, and because the community can edit postings that are good aside from not conforming to the formatting conventions. (Note that this is different from a suggestion about how people spend their unattributed and unreviewable votes.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="231" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2012-01-11T20:19:44.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1169" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1171" CreationDate="2012-01-12T15:23:38.380" Score="4" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/286/gained-rep-after-editing-a-question&quot;&gt;I used to get rep updates for editing&lt;/a&gt;. I completely forgot about this benefit until I edited on a different SE site and my rep inches up by 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is it not happening here anymore? Are these increases only for &lt;em&gt;suggested&lt;/em&gt; edits?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Why am I not getting rep increases for edits?" Tags="|support|reputation|editing|suggested-edit|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1169" CreationDate="2012-01-12T15:48:53.597" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You only get reputation for &lt;em&gt;suggested edits&lt;/em&gt; (that have to be approved by someone), not for edits that you make unsupervised. Above 2000 rep, you can edit posts without supervision and you don't gain reputation from it. The limit is 20k rep for tag wikis. There's also a cap: you won't gain more than 1000 rep from editing altogether on any given site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more on suggested edits, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/76251/how-do-suggested-edits-work&quot;&gt;see here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2012-01-12T19:58:39.683" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1169" CreationDate="2012-01-12T16:01:56.810" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;You stop getting rep for editing once you (a) have received 1,000 rep for suggested and accepted edits, or (b) have gained the Edit privilege at 2,000 rep (1k on betas; 20k for edits to tag wikis (4k on betas)).  You have 7k here so your edits to posts are final, not suggested, and so you don't get the rep from &lt;em&gt;suggested&lt;/em&gt; edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-01-12T19:55:53.680" LastActivityDate="2012-01-12T19:55:53.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1173" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-12T22:35:44.517" Score="5" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;main chatroom&lt;/a&gt; is called &lt;em&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/em&gt;. The decision was taken following &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/751/what-should-we-call-our-chatroom&quot;&gt;a poll here on Meta&lt;/a&gt;. At the time, two proposals were tied for winner: &lt;em&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Ansible&lt;/em&gt;. See the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/2119548#2119548&quot;&gt;chat transcript from the introduction&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/751/what-should-we-call-our-chatroom&quot;&gt;Meta&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/em&gt; +1 (+4/-3)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;The Ansible&lt;/em&gt; +7 (+8/-1)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have we grown used to &lt;em&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/em&gt; since then? Or do we not like it much as the vote count shows? Should we change the name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.730" LastActivityDate="2012-01-16T09:24:44.680" Title="Do we like the name of our chatroom?" Tags="|discussion|chat|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="751" CreationDate="2012-01-12T22:43:02.710" Score="-4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_the_White_Hart&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;White Hart&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hard to believe this hadn't been proposed yet!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-01-12T22:43:02.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1175" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-13T05:01:17.137" Score="6" ViewCount="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag &quot;zones-of-though&quot; is clearly a typo but I am unable to correct it.  It should be &quot;Zones-Of-Thought&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4132" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-01-13T12:36:06.603" LastActivityDate="2012-01-13T12:36:06.603" Title="Why is there a tag for &quot;zones-of-though&quot;" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1173" CreationDate="2012-01-13T07:36:27.853" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I never liked the name Mos Eisley. And the Ansible[1] sounds like the Crucible and I don't understand the reference its making. I would rather the name have a more &lt;em&gt;generic&lt;/em&gt; nme rather than a specific reference to a Science Fiction or Fantasy place as it creates a bias towards certain works. Or if we switch up the name every once in a while, it would make everyone happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Dragon's Den&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;The Bridge&lt;/strong&gt; I think would be better suited for a common area chat room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[1] An ansible is a hypothetical machine capable of instantaneous or superluminal communication. Ansibles occur as plot devices in science fiction literature. (Thanks google!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2012-01-13T07:36:27.853" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1177" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1182" CreationDate="2012-01-13T07:46:40.083" Score="5" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;Markdown Editing Page&lt;/a&gt; cannot be read...unless having all the helping code/examples being hidden behind a spoiler is on purpose as to not spoil the amazing secrets that proper markdown editing provides.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I seriously couldn't get any help from this page at all...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm using Chrome ver 16.0.912.75 as my browser if that makes any difference&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yAitV.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2012-01-13T16:20:41.317" Title="The Markdown Editing Help page cannot be read" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1175" CreationDate="2012-01-13T12:35:50.583" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Done, I've renamed the tag (using the moderator tools to do it behind the scenes, though for two questions it would have been ok to just retag those two questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-01-13T12:35:50.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1138" CreationDate="2012-01-13T13:29:04.827" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;One major series that has hardly been touched here is the Disc World series. It even was merged into this site a few weeks into the beta. This should be a topic for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-01-13T13:29:04.827" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1138" CreationDate="2012-01-13T15:32:52.240" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see some other topics that aren't so narrow and cover a wide range of works that we don't see much of.  For instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Classic SF Film (includes &lt;em&gt;Forbidden Planet&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Metropolis&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;2001: A Space Odyssey&lt;/em&gt;, and a slew of other films, including B movies)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pulp authors/Golden age (includes Heinlein, Asimov, and all the others -- we see them, but not much of them)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pre/Proto SF&amp;amp;F (includes &lt;em&gt;Frankenstein&lt;/em&gt;, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, &lt;em&gt;Castle of Otranto&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;MacBeth&lt;/em&gt; for examples)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2012-01-13T15:32:52.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1177" CreationDate="2012-01-13T16:20:34.623" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oops, yeah, I see why you didn't find that helpful :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fixed in the next build of the site; thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="171" LastActivityDate="2012-01-13T16:20:34.623" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1173" CreationDate="2012-01-14T14:46:11.407" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually like Mos Eisley. It was familiar in a good way the first time I saw it -- I could totally picture it, although I haven't actually come into chat, except once to talk with Gilles. Heh, I fear it would be like Luke and Obi Wan walking into the cantina -- a &lt;em&gt;stranger&lt;/em&gt;! Anyway, I like giving things names IRL, so I thought, if it's okay, that I'd make some comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had no idea what an ansible was until someone upthread defined it. It would be very obscure to a lot of people. (This is why I think Mos Eisley, or, say, the Federation or the USS Enterprise works well -- if you don't know what Mos Eisley et al is, really your geek credentials should be revoked ;) )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did want to note that it's not just the Sci-Fi stack, it's the Sci-Fi &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Fantasy stack. I think both are complimentary. So something that is represented as purely and exclusively Sci-Fi just might dissuade a fantasy-oriented member (like myself) from joining in on chat. Conversely, I think to suggest something like Todd and Steve's Fantastical Stargate, TARDIS Talk, The Prancing Pony, or the Department For the Encouragement of Magical Chatter and Friendship errs way &lt;em&gt;way&lt;/em&gt; too far on the fantasy side (and is silly to boot).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It occurred to me that something with the number 42 in it might be ubiquitous enough for the Sci-Fi/Fantasy community as a whole, for &lt;em&gt;HGTTG&lt;/em&gt; is certainly softer sci-fi than, say, &lt;em&gt;The Time Machine&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;I, Robot&lt;/em&gt;, or &lt;em&gt;1984&lt;/em&gt;, and includes some fantasy elements. If the name of the chat room is super-specific to, say, one episode of ST-DS9, or is a term that is meaningful at first glance only to a select few, it won't be inviting to the Sci-Fi/Fantasy community as a whole. I actually like The Bridge (but, you know, we gals love to chatter while we're driving -- car, hovercraft, broom, Federation starship, whatevs!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are sometimes gender differences, I think, in how women and men approach Sci-Fi and Fantasy, so I think a name that is inviting to both sexes would be ideal. I guess I just wanted to say that it's not &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; Sci-Fi and it's not &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; guys. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you made it through my post, thanks for listening and giving it some thought if you do :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2012-01-14T14:46:11.407" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1138" CreationDate="2012-01-14T17:40:24.883" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firefly would be another great addition. It just isn't covered well enough here, although it does have a few questions...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-01-14T17:40:24.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1185" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1216" CreationDate="2012-01-14T18:17:21.297" Score="7" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/863/52&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The text in blockquote is invisible unless it is selected. Tested on Chrome 16 running under Ubuntu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2012-01-17T17:17:07.490" Title="Blockqoute text on downvoted and grayed out posts is invisible in meta" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|meta|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1185" CreationDate="2012-01-14T19:47:10.250" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Verified this with Firefox on Windows, so I guess it's pretty universal...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-01-14T19:47:10.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1187" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1188" CreationDate="2012-01-14T20:30:09.350" Score="3" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm curious about &lt;strong&gt;fictional&lt;/strong&gt; use of fusion power (obviously any use of a fusion reactor is currently fictional as man hasn't had success in building a self-perpetuating one yet). My concern is that if I ask it in the physics forum I'll get a real-world hypothetical application (ie a really complicated steam turbine akin to a fission reactor). Something tells me that most spaceships\space stations aren't ultimately powered by steam (except maybe steampunk works, but I always found steampunk in space kinda odd).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My other concern is the scope of the question and that it will be closed as asking for a list; however, as far as I can tell, most works don't actually describe how the energy is extracted from a fusion reactor, so I want to cast a wide net so that I can catch anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is this question better placed in physics, science fiction &amp;amp; fantasy, or is it just a bad idea that needs to die?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2368" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-01-15T03:03:30.957" LastActivityDate="2012-01-15T03:03:30.957" Title="Are questions about fictional use of fusion reactors better asked in physics or sci-fi stack exchange?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1187" CreationDate="2012-01-14T21:04:59.913" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends quite a bit on what, precisely, your question is, but according to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1025/whats-our-official-position-on-fictional-physics&quot;&gt;Physics.SE meta&lt;/a&gt;, they don't want most of our questions about fictional physics and technology:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions about physics of fictional worlds&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;&quot;Could warp drive get you out of a black hole?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Most questions about fictional physics are not addressed by existing theories or experiments, so we do not have the ability to answer them by applying physical laws. If your question falls under this category, it may be on topic at Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy.&#xA;  Exception: if a question is formulated specifically enough in terms of modifications to existing theories, it may be okay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So basically if your question is really about modern theoretcal physics and is well-written from that perspective, they may take it.  Otherwise, you'll have to see whether it's on-topic here. It sounds like your question is about how fusion is used to generate power, so I think it's unlikely to survive on Physics. Depending on what precisely you want to ask, it may be on-topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:22.220" LastActivityDate="2012-01-14T21:10:36.087" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1173" CreationDate="2012-01-14T21:52:05.217" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm gonna go all Rhett Butler on you: &quot;Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn&quot; :)))  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, does anyone actually pay attention to the chat room name WITHIN SF&amp;amp;F universe? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The only time it'd make a difference is if we are listed alongside all other SE chats, in which case I'd say &quot;SciFi&amp;amp;Fantasy Chat&quot; would be a MUCH better name than any in-joke.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-01-14T21:52:05.217" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1190" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-14T21:58:00.227" Score="7" ViewCount="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many questions where the question's summary in the subject...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... is continued (as a sentence or a paragraph) on the first line of the question body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good example of this is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/597/what-was-the-robots-name-in-lost-in-space&quot;&gt;What was the robot&amp;#39;s name in &amp;quot;Lost in Space&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Subject: What was the robot's name in &quot;Lost in Space&quot;?&#xA;&#xA;Body:    I don't recall him ever actually being called anything but names by Dr Smith.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone reading JUST the body does NOT understant anything about the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a common problem/dilemma with emails, not specific to SciFi SE or SE in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally STRONGLY prefer the meat of the question to be contained in the body, even if it repeats the subject verbatim (though making subject concisier and body more verbose is preferable).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. I personally feel that the following edit would be a major improvement:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Subject: What was the robot's name in &quot;Lost in Space&quot;?&#xA;&#xA;Body:    What was the robot's name in &quot;Lost in Space&quot;?&#xA;&#xA;         I don't recall him ever actually being called anything but names by Dr Smith.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I right or wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2012-01-15T03:03:07.493" Title="Should the question's subject be included in the body?" Tags="|discussion|editing|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1191" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1195" CreationDate="2012-01-14T23:11:41.180" Score="1" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two days ago I flagged a post. I'm relatively new to the site (54 days) and I'm still getting used to things and I'm afraid I might have improperly flagged the post for moderator review. Maybe I should have just edited the post myself, but it would have involved the removal of &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; of text, and I wasn't sure of the protocol. . . anyway, I noticed that my flag weight of 110 disappeared after I flagged the post in question. Did I lose my flag weight because I did something wrong? If so, what do I need to do in the future to prevent this from happening again? I didn't receive any response to my flagging the post, so I'm not sure what's up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-01-20T21:38:52.547" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="What happened to my flag history? Was my flag declined?" Tags="|discussion|support|flagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2023-09-12T13:32:34.143" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1190" CreationDate="2012-01-14T23:36:02.773" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when I make these kinds of edits I typically restate the opening line in a new way, or reword the title to be a better attention grabber. A good title isn't always a great opening line to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Subject: What was the robot's name in &quot;Lost in Space&quot;?&#xA;&#xA;Body:    Did the robot in &quot;Lost in Space&quot; have a name or designation?&#xA;&#xA;         I don't recall him ever actually being called anything but names by Dr Smith.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The title is more a summary of what, hopefully, the answers will be. So if you never read the question itself and jump right to the answers, you shouldn't be disappointed. The question itself should specify the real scope of what you are after and clarify the question. Restate it in as many ways as are needed to make it very clear what a correct answer will look like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51" LastActivityDate="2012-01-14T23:36:02.773" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1191" CreationDate="2012-01-14T23:37:19.097" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short answer, the flag probably did get dismissed as unhelpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did your FW go back down to 100? Since I don't see your flag weight, it probably is 100.  Click the number, you can see the history and resolution on each flag (Everyone can see your weight if it's not 100, but only you and mods can see the history).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Potentially relevant posts on MSO:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/116804/flag-weight-score-hidden&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/116804/flag-weight-score-hidden&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/80170/what-is-flag-weight&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/80170/what-is-flag-weight&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2012-01-14T23:37:19.097" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1187" CreationDate="2012-01-14T23:53:39.043" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your question relates to how to build a fusion reactor, or the physics behind one, then Physics is your best bet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question relates to how a fusion drive works in a particular world, then ask here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fusion is a real enough technology that it could be asked on Physics. We know it exists, we believe we can make a power reactor, but we just haven't made one that has positive energy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty much this same concept applies to any advanced science, where advanced is something we know exists, but don't know the specifics of it. Dark Energy, Dark Matter, and others are all examples of this which would fit this advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-01-14T23:53:39.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1191" CreationDate="2012-01-15T03:28:32.127" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/84859/we-dont-need-to-see-flag-weight&quot;&gt;now&lt;/a&gt; see your flag history from a link in your profile, as soon as you've raised your first flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&#xA;Formerly, the link to your flag history only appeared when your flag weight was not 100. This was a bug: there was a check in the code that hid the flag weight indication when the flag weight was 100, on the assumption that you'd never flagged, but you could have a flag weight of 100 if you had an equal number of flags marked “helpful” and flags marked “declined”. The bug had been noticed before but for some reason not been reported as such; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/119127/flag-history-not-shown-in-the-profile-when-the-flag-weight-is-100&quot;&gt;I reported it&lt;/a&gt; (the bug report is now deleted because it is moot).&#xA;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&#xA;Your flag history is still visible (to you and moderators) if you navigate to the URL by hand: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/flag-weight/3500&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/flag-weight/3500&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I won't go into specifics of your flag history here since this is a public place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll just say that the most common reason for declining flags is when you're asking a moderator to judge whether an answer is correct. Moderators will delete non-answers, i.e. posts that do not address the question at all. But if an answer is wrong, misleading, or badly written (but not completely incomprehensible), but relevant, the proper remedy is for you to edit it to make it correct or downvote it, and preferably leave a comment to educate the poster as to what was wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking, you shouldn't be afraid of editing someone else's post to make a minor correction. If the answer is so wrong that you can't correct it without denaturing it, downvote, comment, and write a better answer if you can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for flag weight, it's a pretty meaningless number, far more meaningless even than reputation. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/106614/remove-flag-weight-and-flag-validity-already&quot;&gt;I've in fact argued for its removal, without success.&lt;/a&gt; Please do continue flagging when you see objectionable behavior (non-answers, offensive content, vandalism, and so on).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2012-01-20T21:38:42.063" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1196" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1197" CreationDate="2012-01-15T05:55:41.850" Score="12" ViewCount="400" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it acceptable to post questions to which we already know the answer if it is a particularly interesting and obscure science fictional factoid?  For instance today I found out that the origin of the term credit card came from a seminal work of science fiction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4132" LastEditorUserId="108" LastEditDate="2012-01-16T09:09:16.513" LastActivityDate="2012-01-16T09:09:16.513" Title="Interesting trivia questions to which you already know the answer" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1196" CreationDate="2012-01-15T06:31:11.743" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no rule against posting a question you know the answer to.  (Hey, how are we to know?)  And this is a good question -- it's also not something that shows up as soon as you Google for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2012-01-15T06:31:11.743" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1196" CreationDate="2012-01-15T16:41:31.703" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Asking and answering your own question is &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/its-ok-to-ask-and-answer-your-own-questions/&quot;&gt;explicitly allowed&lt;/a&gt; (linked from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please do it only if the question and answer are truly interesting. If the answer took some research on your part that you're now sharing, fine. I'm not convinced that the etymology of a word fits (or even that it's on-topic).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2012-01-15T16:41:31.703" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1199" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-15T20:12:04.680" Score="7" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spoiler&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;spoiler&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;spoiler&lt;/a&gt; tag keeps popping onto existence on random questions, even though &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1/is-it-important-to-mark-spoiler-questions-as-such/248#248&quot;&gt;it is meaningless&lt;/a&gt; and we &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1/is-it-important-to-mark-spoiler-questions-as-such/&quot;&gt;do not advocate its use&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;spoiler&lt;/code&gt; tag has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3300/spoiler-alert-spoiler-dies&quot;&gt;blacklisted on Gaming&lt;/a&gt;. Let's follow suit. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1/is-it-important-to-mark-spoiler-questions-as-such/453#453&quot;&gt;I thought we had it blacklisted&lt;/a&gt; but evidently not.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please add &lt;code&gt;spoilers?&lt;/code&gt; to the tag blacklist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2012-01-15T21:23:53.883" Title="Please blacklist the [spoiler] tag" Tags="|feature-request|tags|tag-blacklist-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1200" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-15T20:41:17.560" Score="11" ViewCount="353" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3744/who-are-darmok-and-jalad-and-what-is-kalendas&quot;&gt;Who are Darmok and Jalad and what is Kalenda's?&lt;/a&gt; (asking for an explanation of &lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com/902&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;XKCD 902&lt;/a&gt;) was closed as general reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand what the general reference is supposed to be. The top Google hit, which is mentioned in the comments, is &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/902:_Darmok_and_Jalad&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Explain XKCD&lt;/a&gt;. The explanation there is incomplete: it explains the reference to the &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; episode &lt;em&gt;Darmok&lt;/em&gt;, which explains &lt;em&gt;Darmok and Jalad&lt;/em&gt; but not &lt;em&gt;Kalenda&lt;/em&gt;; and it ends with a request for more information. Other references cited in comments or answers are the Wikipedia and Memory Alpha articles for that episode, which do explain why the episode is relevant but (especially in the case of Memory Alpha) buried inside a wall of text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So at most we have one clear but unreviewed and incomplete explanation (Explain XKCD), and one peer-reviewed but unclear explanation (Wikipedia). And no one's given a full answer (who or what is Kalenda). How is this question general reference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="23243" LastEditDate="2022-01-17T15:16:43.170" LastActivityDate="2022-01-17T15:16:43.170" Title="Why was the XKCD 902 question closed as general reference?" Tags="|discussion|general-reference|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1201" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-15T20:50:16.613" Score="10" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4830/who-was-sifo-dyas&quot;&gt;Who was Sifo-Dyas?&lt;/a&gt; was closed as general reference. The general reference here seems to be the &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sifo-Dyas&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Wars Wiki page&lt;/a&gt;. Hmm, ok, but the asker evidently expected an answer relating to the movies, not the expanded universe, and it came as a bit of a surprise that he had to reach for non-movie material to get an answer. I don't see how that reference explains this clearly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related meta discussion: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/689&quot;&gt;What sites should be considered general references?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2012-01-15T20:50:16.613" Title="Why was the Sifo-Dyas question closed as general reference?" Tags="|discussion|general-reference|specific-question|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1199" CreationDate="2012-01-15T21:23:53.883" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The current use of this tag, to denote things you should know by now or will know because you're going to read the entire question and hover over all the text because you hate yourself and like to blame others for when you put your hand on the stove while it's on and you're paying more attention to what Kim Kardashian is doing talking to Justin Bieber about sex advice, ruins the content use of tags and makes it another meta case. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also conflates the issue when someone has a legitimate question about the new &lt;em&gt;Spoiler&lt;/em&gt; movie and franchise of novels about a young robot who grows up to lead a rebellion against the EMPs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="383" LastActivityDate="2012-01-15T21:23:53.883" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1200" CreationDate="2012-01-15T22:39:03.077" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There were two references put forward: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/902:_Darmok_and_Jalad&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;explainkxcd.com&lt;/a&gt; and &amp;quot;Wikipedia is general reference and is the first result for a Google search for 'Darmok',&amp;quot; without a link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, we'll consider explainxkcd, &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; because it is the first google result. It gives the &amp;quot;at Tanagra&amp;quot; original line and that &amp;quot;it was a story of two warriors that work together to defeat a common foe.&amp;quot;  That's it, no explicit interpretation of the XKCD phrase, no mention of Kalenda.  IMO, not sufficient even if this were a &amp;quot;general reference&amp;quot; site. Recall that only Wikipedia, IMDB, and ISFDB can be considered general reference now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmok&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; page gives more detail regarding the story behind the Tenagra phrase, and much more on how it ties into the story, but, obviously, nothing on extending the idea to &amp;quot;Kalanda's.&amp;quot;  Again, I don't think this is sufficient for &amp;quot;general reference.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think there was no good reason to close this question as general reference, and have voted to re-open it accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a sidenote, I thought &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/88521/172958&quot;&gt;Jeff and Joel's concern&lt;/a&gt; over the general-reference close wasn't a real concern here on scifi, but this and the other old post recently brought to light for the same reason have changed my mind about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="23243" LastEditDate="2022-01-17T15:16:17.943" LastActivityDate="2022-01-17T15:16:17.943" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1200" CreationDate="2012-01-16T03:32:03.740" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firstly, it was closed in May. The &quot;General Reference&quot; close reason was only added in April, and the site was only a few months old.  At that time we were still figuring out what &quot;general reference&quot; was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the close votes is mine.  I also have a comment (replying to a comment that has since been deleted).  I assume I voted to close because the &quot;Darmok&quot; part of the question is exceptionally simple to find an answer for.  The comment to one of the answers about Kalenda's was added after I voted to close but before I added my comment; if I had seen that first I probably wouldn't have voted to close (and would have undone my close vote if that was possible, which it is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/243/is-there-a-way-to-undo-voting-to-close-a-question&quot;&gt;not&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are three parts to the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who are Darmok and Jalad?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is Kalenda's?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why is the joke funny?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still think that the first part is &quot;general reference&quot;.  Searching for &quot;Darmok&quot; finds plenty of places that summarise the episode of the same name.  The third part of the question is tricky, because it's pretty hard to know how much information is necessary to explain a joke - it seems to me that if you know what the episode is about, you can get the joke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second part, asking what Kalenda's is, is not general reference, and indeed not even answered, here or on Wikipedia, or on explainxkcd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This still seems borderline to me: to me the focus of the question is on explaining the joke, and I don't think that you need to know what &quot;Kalenda's&quot; is to do that, so the question is answered just by doing a web search for &quot;Darmok&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it seems reasonable to say that &quot;Kalenda's&quot; is an essential part of the question, so I voted to re-open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2012-01-16T03:32:03.740" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1205" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1206" CreationDate="2012-01-16T03:35:43.670" Score="3" ViewCount="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fWPEQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's difficult to see the icons, other than the 'link' and 'image' ones.  If meta is going to stay this dark, could there be a differently coloured background behind the icons so that they are more visible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="44" LastEditDate="2012-01-16T05:09:51.333" LastActivityDate="2012-01-16T05:09:51.333" Title="Editing buttons are too poorly contrasted on meta" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1205" CreationDate="2012-01-16T05:09:34.967" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have brightened the buttons. The fix will be in the next production build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastActivityDate="2012-01-16T05:09:34.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1196" CreationDate="2012-01-16T09:08:17.063" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some people (including prominent developers, but I can't find links to the posts I'm sure I've read about this...) use StackOverflow much like this - where they once would have written a blog post outlining a problem they had and how they found the solution, now they write the same information into a SO question and answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although it's allowed, I think in the vast majority of cases it works better to &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; do this (except on meta).  If there's something sci-fi/fantasy related that I really want to know, enough that I'm going to do my own research into finding it out, then I think the &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt; thing I do is write out the question on the site.  While I'm trying to find the answer myself, other people might help me out, and if they don't then I can hopefully answer it myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is more efficient, and it avoids appearing like you're just trying to gain rep.  The end result (a high-quality, interesting, question and answer on the site) is the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's something that doesn't actually need any research - e.g. the &quot;factoid&quot; or &quot;trivia&quot; mentioned, then I don't think the problem there is that you know the answer, it's that the question/answer isn't substantial enough to be interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For your specific case, I'm not sure how you'd ask that question without knowing the answer (i.e. if you don't know that the origin of &quot;credit card&quot; relates to a sci-fi story, why would you ask on this site?).  I would find it more interesting if it was something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The term &quot;credit card&quot; was first used in 1887 by Edward Bellamy in&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/155709506X&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Looking Backward&lt;/a&gt;, while the first bank-issued credit cards&#xA;  arrived in 1946, and did not use that term (the &quot;Charge-It&quot; program&#xA;  from the Flatbush National Bank of Brooklyn, NY).  Did the convergence&#xA;  on &quot;credit card&quot; as the name for these items arise from Bellamy's&#xA;  work, or was the name independency invented and popularised by someone&#xA;  else (it's a &quot;card&quot; that you use for &quot;credit&quot;!)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This is tenuously sci-fi, given that it's asking about the influence a utopian book had).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This includes the &quot;factoid&quot;, but expands it out into a larger question, to which I don't have the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2012-01-16T09:08:17.063" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1173" CreationDate="2012-01-16T09:24:44.680" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The origin of ansible is from &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0060125683&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rocannon's World&lt;/a&gt; - although this is one of Le Guin's sci-fi stories, she is well-known for fantasy as well (e.g. &lt;em&gt;Earthsea&lt;/em&gt;) and the story has a lot of fantasy elements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO the appeal of &lt;em&gt;ansible&lt;/em&gt; is that it's a term that's used throughout science fiction (including some &quot;science fantasy&quot;), including &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;&lt;sup&gt;(*)&lt;/sup&gt;, rather than a term from a single (admittedly very large) work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also like that I can read &quot;ansible&quot; and imagine a way to pronounce it without any problem, which I can't do with &quot;Mos Eisley&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I almost never use chat, and that has nothing to do with the name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(*) Ok, &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0671541501&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;one DS9 novel&lt;/a&gt; only.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2012-01-16T09:24:44.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1209" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1211" CreationDate="2012-01-16T15:30:30.067" Score="3" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreed, this question is the must voted of the whole site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1586/who-or-what-was-tom-bombadil&quot;&gt;Who or what was Tom Bombadil?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it fit perfectly the &quot;General Reference&quot; pattern. Typing &quot;Tom Bombadil&quot; in Google lead to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Bombadil&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and the second link is &lt;a href=&quot;http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Tom_Bombadil&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LOTR Wikia&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How this question could remain open and the Sifo-Dyas question closed? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also see :&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1201/why-was-the-sifo-dyas-question-closed-as-general-reference&quot;&gt;Why was the Sifo-Dyas question closed as general reference?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Tom Bombadil question is now &lt;strong&gt;[Closed]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2012-01-18T17:11:21.703" Title="Why the Tom Bombadil question is not closed as a General Reference?" Tags="|discussion|general-reference|specific-question|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1209" CreationDate="2012-01-16T16:29:29.947" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It wasn't closed mainly due to its age.  That question was asked in this site's early days, when the specifics of what is and isn't General Reference wasn't as well-defined as it presently is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit:  I stand corrected, apparently that question &lt;em&gt;predates&lt;/em&gt; the General Reference close reason.  Tony mentions it was added in April &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1204/1027&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.730" LastActivityDate="2012-01-16T16:36:00.657" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1209" CreationDate="2012-01-16T18:00:16.983" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;We didn't have “general reference” as a close reason back then, and then we forgot about the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this question does count as covered by a general reference, in that this is an oft-recurring subject, for which a lot of material exists that we aren't hoping to surpass, and for which an obvious entry point exists, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Bombadil&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tom Bombadil article in Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;. So our version of the question doesn't make the Internet better, someone might as well go directly for Wikipedia, which is why we have “general reference” as a close reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-01-16T18:00:16.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="328" CreationDate="2012-01-16T18:04:17.570" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with those question is not only about the fact that they could be answered by Wikipedia, &lt;strong&gt;it's about the nature of the question&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the question is the only subject of an article on Wikipedia on a universe-specific wikis (Who is X, What is Y), the answer to the question is a single link, that fully, completely and easily answer the question. The answer to those questions is encyclopedic information and, I don't think it would be useful to repeat the content of Wikipedia or those universe-specific wikis on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2012-01-16T18:04:17.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1213" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1214" CreationDate="2012-01-16T20:18:37.997" Score="21" ViewCount="324" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;the site's main chat room&lt;/a&gt;, there are bots posting all new questions from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;main site&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;meta site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are the chat regulars happy with these bots, or would you prefer them to be removed? (No, making them post faster is not possible.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there interest in having the bots post questions with “interesting” tags from other sites? I'm thinking of &lt;code&gt;[science-fiction]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[fantasy]&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;[horror]&lt;/code&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Literature&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Movies&lt;/a&gt;, and maybe &lt;a href=&quot;https://writers.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Writers&lt;/a&gt;. All of these sites are low-traffic compared to us; there'd be less than 1 per day on average altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2018-11-21T12:12:26.277" LastActivityDate="2018-11-21T12:12:26.277" Title="What feeds do we want in the chat room?" Tags="|discussion|chat|chat-feed|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1213" CreationDate="2012-01-17T09:50:29.770" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the feeds in the chat. I've noticed that when I ask a question it's not until it hits the chat that I see people reading it. If the feature were removed, I feel like my exposure would be limited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think it would be awesome if we could get some cross promotion from Lit and Movie. If you added them to our chat feed as well, it would boost their view count tremendously I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorUserId="3267" LastEditDate="2012-01-17T15:46:30.477" LastActivityDate="2012-01-17T15:46:30.477" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1209" CreationDate="2012-01-17T15:54:40.713" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rather than close the question. We should Lock it and label it as staying for Historical Reasons. Anyone disagree?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like a lot of effort went into it and it really did predate our current concept of General Reference. It would be a shame to delete it, and that's the path closing it leads to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51" LastActivityDate="2012-01-17T15:54:40.713" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1185" CreationDate="2012-01-17T17:16:44.400" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fix will be in the next production build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastActivityDate="2012-01-17T17:16:44.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1217" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-17T18:13:40.170" Score="6" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/251/are-fan-fics-fair-game-for-this-site&quot;&gt;Are fan-fics fair game for this site?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are questions about fanfics based on SF&amp;amp;F works on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, are story identification questions about fanfics based on SF&amp;amp;F works on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2012-01-17T21:14:18.173" Title="Are questions about fanfics on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2012-01-17T21:15:40.713" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1217" CreationDate="2012-01-17T18:45:02.523" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have at it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess that's too short for an answer. But I really see no reason why not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51" LastActivityDate="2012-01-17T18:45:02.523" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1209" CreationDate="2012-01-17T20:46:24.773" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The real question in that post wasn't about what Bombadil's role in the story was, it was about his origins.  The LotR wiki on him has a small paragraph saying his origins are a mystery, and the Wikipedia entry has a somewhat larger but still incomplete description buried deep within the article.  I think our question answers the root of the question more completely and directly than either of the wikis.  Therefore I think we should at the least keep it around and I would vote to keep it open.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2012-01-17T20:46:24.773" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1221" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-18T18:25:57.460" Score="2" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;A group of people that I know are working on setting up a cosplay convention in Mid-Missouri on  June 27-30, 2013 and I wanted to let everyone here that might be interested know about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we promote the site there while we're at it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cosplacon.squarespace.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cosplacon Website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1987" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-03-19T22:32:38.760" LastActivityDate="2012-03-19T22:32:38.760" Title="Mid-Missouri Cosplay Convention" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1222" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1224" CreationDate="2012-01-19T05:24:13.110" Score="6" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed a number of questions as of late have been getting things like &quot;(SPOILERS)&quot; manually appended to their titles to warn those who might click through that there be spoilers in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This practice is silly: if one didn't want to be spoiled going into a question, they shouldn't click through. If it's to prevent a user from reading a spoilerly title, it fails because the title's already there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/453/366&quot;&gt;we've already blacklisted&lt;/a&gt; the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spoiler&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;spoiler&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;spoiler&lt;/a&gt; meta-tag because it added no meaningful information to the question: adding it to the title doesn't change that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So after seeing it pop up again today, I went on a SPOILER-in-title hunting spree, and the rabbit hole goes deeper and deeper: I think I've gotten most of the title issues, but then there are posts that buffer their intros with things like &quot;spoiler spoiler spoiler spoiler spoiler spoiler spoiler&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can we go about killing this practice? Is there a way we can educate users to judiciously use the spoiler markdown instead of bringing back forum-isms by any means necessary?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2012-01-20T01:52:37.483" Title="What can be done about the proliferation of manual [SPOILERS] tags?" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1222" CreationDate="2012-01-19T06:26:38.760" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use those tags and I think they're necessary.  For someone who hasn't read the work in question, they don't know, ahead of time, if the text of the question will spoil something for them or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's true that sometimes the title itself can spoil something for people, and in that case, it doesn't help to mark it, but there are reason for marking a title with [SPOILERS].  (And, honestly, I think it was inappropriate to go through and delete all those warnings **before*8 bringing this up for discussion.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've had books and movies I haven't finished spoiled for me in the past.  One case was someone posting, without warning, the last sentence from _Deathly Hallows) in a forum that wasn't even about Harry Potter.  We've all had works spoiled that way in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the using markdown notation instead:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are problems with spoiler markdown.  Just try to write two paragraphs in spoiler notation and see what you get.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;User education is an ongoing problem and not everyone knows how to uses the spoiler markdown format and, honestly, not everyone will learn it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As of now, the markdown help page that appears while writing posts does not include how to do spoiler tags.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For many people, this will be a lesser used feature of the markdowns, and when people don't use a feature too often, they forget it or forget to use it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;On any site, you have to remember you can't control users.  There will be some that do every little thing right, but that's a minority.  But there's always a good number that won't learn details like spoiler markdown.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You haven't made a case that using [SPOILER] in a title of a question is harmful.  At this point, I'm not sure if it's a site policy or just a personal preference.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are many times a person is involved in reading or watching something and is interested in the question, wondering if it'll explain a question they already have that might be a plot oversight or intentional, so they want to see if a posted question will help.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the entire question would need to be in spoiler format, which almost always leads to a human impulse to at least see if that's a mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is an essentially harmless and can help people enjoy their reading/viewing and enjoy this site more by providing a quick and simple way people can announce spoilers without having to learn markdown (and some people don't know any markdown tags and don't want to learn).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's pointless to ban something that doesn't do harm but can prevent harm.  The bottom line is the site is here for the benefit of the users, not the users here for the benefit of the site.  If the users tend to do something one way, that indicates that's what they prefer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2012-01-19T06:26:38.760" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1222" CreationDate="2012-01-19T09:01:53.363" Score="7" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;By educating people. Thanks for your meta post.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/56/gilles?tab=activity&amp;amp;sort=revisions&quot;&gt;editing&lt;/a&gt;. Thanks for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/366/mark-trapp?tab=activity&amp;amp;sort=revisions&quot;&gt;your contribution&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2012-01-19T09:01:53.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1222" CreationDate="2012-01-19T14:57:57.013" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But then there are posts that buffer their intros with things like &quot;spoiler spoiler spoiler spoiler spoiler spoiler spoiler&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is due to a bug where spoilered text is shown on the &lt;code&gt;/questions&lt;/code&gt; page in the question preview.  People have to include those buffers to avoid putting spoilers on the &lt;code&gt;/questions&lt;/code&gt; page and the chat blurb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: I stand corrected, apparently the admins fixed this at some point.  Spoilered text no longer shows on the &lt;code&gt;/questions&lt;/code&gt; page, so we can edit out these unnecessarily long lead-ins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2012-01-20T01:52:37.483" LastActivityDate="2012-01-20T01:52:37.483" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1226" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-19T17:07:43.030" Score="5" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;The release of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B0064NLQYG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Next Level&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; on Blu-Ray gives us an opportunity to capitalize on some sci-fi excitement and hopefully draw new users to the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I propose:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5 users with &lt;em&gt;the highest-rep of the month&lt;/em&gt; at the time of grant's end (which can be viewed by clicking on the &quot;users&quot; and then &quot;month&quot; tab on the main page) will receive a copy of &lt;strong&gt;Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Next Level&lt;/strong&gt; on Blu-Ray. &lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt; that we are not giving away Blu-Ray players, so make sure you can play this disc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The recipients will be encouraged to &lt;strong&gt;ask thoughtful questions&lt;/strong&gt; about the &lt;strong&gt;specific episodes on the Blu-Ray&lt;/strong&gt;. We already have a ton of Star Trek: TNG questions on the site, but some about these particular episodes would hopefully drive traffic to the site. The episodes on the Blu-Ray are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1x01: &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Encounter_at_Farpoint&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Encounter at Farpoint&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3x17: &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Sins_of_the_Father&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sins of the Father&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5x25: &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/The_Inner_Light&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Inner Light&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Blogging would also be encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please answer below with your &lt;strong&gt;username&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The recipients will be chosen on &lt;strong&gt;Tuesday, January 24th at 4:00 PM EST/21:00 UTC&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt; These episodes of Star Trek: TNG will be part of the next &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1138/topic-of-the-week-contest-updated-1-13&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Topic of the Week Contest&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. This is running separately from the Grant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2012-03-19T20:55:28.417" Title="GRANT: Star Trek: TNG - The Next Level on Blu-Ray" Tags="|discussion|promotional-grant|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" ClosedDate="2012-03-19T22:29:13.397" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1226" CreationDate="2012-01-19T17:18:30.657" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jack B Nimble &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Jack be quick to put his name in first.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2012-01-19T17:18:30.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1226" CreationDate="2012-01-19T17:34:05.997" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;DavRob60&#xA;and 22 characters....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2012-01-19T17:34:05.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1226" CreationDate="2012-01-19T17:35:34.523" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Beofett&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been wanting to introduce my wife to ST:TNG for years!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2012-01-19T17:35:34.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1230" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-19T17:36:46.457" Score="6" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like we have maybe a dozen regulars here in meta.  The vast majority of the main site's users never seem to come here or participate here.  What can we do to get more participation on the meta site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-01-19T20:54:39.170" Title="How do we encourage more people to visit the meta site?" Tags="|discussion|meta|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1226" CreationDate="2012-01-19T17:43:29.297" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;TangoOversway&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(You can call me Tango -- everyone else does.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2012-01-19T17:43:29.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1226" CreationDate="2012-01-19T18:33:29.413" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;DVK&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;body must be at least 30 characters; you entered 3&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-01-19T18:33:29.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1230" CreationDate="2012-01-19T20:09:42.567" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, your chatroom is really active, and growing moreso every day. During the group-watches (as &quot;commercial breaks&quot; or the like) make a plug for users to get more engaged in the site by participating in the meta -- mention any ongoing contests or giveaways that may be going on. Also consider &lt;em&gt;selectively&lt;/em&gt; posting meta questions into the chatroom from time to time; this way, really important site issues will get some visibility without cluttering the chat with a constant feed of, &quot;Why is my question closed?&quot; as metas will often have. (Pasting question into chat worked in DIY, where the meta activity spiked when we started posting in meta questions that we felt were Relevant to Our Users' Interests into the chat directly. I believe DBA does something similar, as well.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that you're a graduated site, you should have access to the Community Promotion Ads. Consider submitting one either to promote a specific giveaway/contest or to just encourage meta participation all around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2459" LastActivityDate="2012-01-19T20:09:42.567" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1230" CreationDate="2012-01-19T20:54:39.170" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Advertise that improvements to the site can be made through meta. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2012-01-19T20:54:39.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1236" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-19T23:32:37.163" Score="7" ViewCount="246" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many questions like this one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4768/identifying-a-story-about-a-girl-named-sarah-who-finds-out-she-is-a-robot&quot;&gt;Identifying a story about a girl named Sarah who finds out she is a robot&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The pattern is the same:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;User (usually new one) asks a question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often, it's their only question on the site&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Someone produces an unequivocally correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Correct&quot; as evidenced by one or all of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;High upvotes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Agreement between many high-rep users on chat/meta&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Special formal vote on Meta&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;User disappears from SF&amp;amp;F SE forever (as evidenced by &quot;Last seen&quot; timestamp), &lt;strong&gt;without accepting the answer as correct.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More often than not, the account creation date==disappearance date.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are left with a question with no accepted answer that nevertheless is 100% (as much as we can tell) correct, but is somewhat mis-leadingly not accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does anyone else feel that this is detrimental?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it desirable to have the community be able to cause &quot;Acceptance&quot; on such questions?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clarifications:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is only intended to apply to questions where one answer is crystally clear correct, based on some fairly stringent pre-defined measure.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The exact mechanism by which this can be achieved (if it's deemed a good idea) is &lt;strong&gt;out of scope for this question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question of whether this is even possible to do  (if it's deemed a good idea) is &lt;strong&gt;out of scope for this question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The linked example question is not the absolutely best example of &quot;100% sure that the answer is correct&quot; - merely the first I found.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2016-01-03T05:58:06.083" Title="Is it desirable to have the community award &quot;acceptance&quot; to answers on abandoned questions?" Tags="|discussion|accepted-answer|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1236" CreationDate="2012-01-19T23:44:38.860" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been discussed many times on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;main meta site&lt;/a&gt;, in particular:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3669/would-it-be-possible-to-have-a-community-accepted-feature&quot;&gt;Would it be possible to have a “community accepted” feature?&lt;/a&gt; (+30/-20, answers largely opposed, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/18312/moderators-accepting-answers-on-users-behalf-after-a-certain-time-period&quot;&gt;Moderators accepting answers on user's behalf after a certain time period&lt;/a&gt; (+9/-15, answers largely opposed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/21043/auto-accept-unaccepted-but-correct-answers-after-some-time&quot;&gt;Auto-accept unaccepted but correct answers after some time&lt;/a&gt; (+9/-7, answers largely against)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2012-01-19T23:44:38.860" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="970" CreationDate="2012-01-20T00:00:54.310" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;TangoOversway&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Should I have done that before I posted my first comic question?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2012-01-20T00:00:54.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1236" CreationDate="2012-01-20T00:55:42.177" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;An important thing about acceptance: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;it doesn't mean the answer is right.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; means, has &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; even meant, will &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; ever mean that the OP accepted it as right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do you know the OP made the right choice? You don't. Indeed there's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/49/populist&quot;&gt;a badge (a &lt;em&gt;gold&lt;/em&gt; badge) for answers that are much better than the accepted one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if acceptance doesn't coffer magical correctness, then there is no pressing reason to insure that every questions has an accepted answer. Aside for the bit where I want my fifteen points, of course. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Acceptance &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; doesn't mean that the question is somehow over: questions don't close, but remain available for better answer to be added in the furture. Indeed there are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/59/revival&quot;&gt;a couple of&lt;/a&gt; badges &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/44/necromancer&quot;&gt;just for that&lt;/a&gt;. Four if you included &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/70/excavator&quot;&gt;the ones&lt;/a&gt; that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/69/archaeologist&quot;&gt;reward editing old posts&lt;/a&gt; under some assumption that this encourages improving old answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="231" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2012-01-20T01:35:42.370" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1242" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1244" CreationDate="2012-01-20T16:19:51.930" Score="4" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;Prior to a few weeks ago, when you &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; put stuff in spoiler markdown,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;you could see it on the &lt;code&gt;/questions&lt;/code&gt; page and in the chat blurb.  I see that this has been fixed recently, and wanted to read the meta question that caused this.  However, the question that caused the change could be on any meta.SE site.  How can I go about tracking it down?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-01-20T16:37:45.127" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="How can I track down the meta question that fixed the spoiler behavior?" Tags="|support|spoilers|meta|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="461" CreationDate="2012-01-20T16:35:47.267" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This bug report was initially declined but is now &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/89552/can-we-please-remove-spoilered-text-from-the-summary&quot;&gt;resolved&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been mostly completed and is now active - now, the question summaries on the Questions pages, as well as the summary tooltip on the Front Page will hide any spoiler text that is in the first 200 characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's only mostly completed as RSS Feeds and search results do not cover up spoiler text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-01-20T16:35:47.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1242" CreationDate="2012-01-20T16:35:58.327" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/59445/recent-feature-changes-to-stack-exchange&quot;&gt;List of feature changes to Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;. If the change is recorded, there's often a link to the official answer to the feature request or bug report that caused it. If there is one, that is; developers also change things of their own initiative and not every change is announced. The list is community-maintained (with the help of the Stack Exchange Community Team), so not all changes show up there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/461/spoilered-text-is-visible-on-the-questions-page&quot;&gt;we have a bug report here on SF&amp;amp;F Meta&lt;/a&gt;, which was declined back then. There's also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/89552/can-we-please-remove-spoilered-text-from-the-summary&quot;&gt;a bug report on the main meta&lt;/a&gt;, which has an answer from the community team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2012-01-20T16:35:58.327" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1242" CreationDate="2012-01-20T16:39:56.343" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fixes to the spoiler markup where initiated by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3300/spoiler-alert-spoiler-dies&quot;&gt;planned murder of the spoiler tag on Gaming.SE&lt;/a&gt;. The spoiler tag was used to allow users to ignore it and thereby avoid spoilers, when the tag was removed it was argued that those users could no longer avoid the spoilers in the question summary. Grace Note forwarded that concern to the developers and it was fixed before the spoiler tag was completely deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3323/spoiler-text-is-still-shown-in-rss-feeds-question-excerpts-and-question-tooltip&quot;&gt;Here is the meta post that talks about the actual fixes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user496" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:43:44.403" LastActivityDate="2012-01-20T16:39:56.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1246" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-20T20:24:55.840" Score="2" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should top-cow-universe be aliased with witchblade tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or am I the only person in the universe who's a fan of Witchblade from TV series and only randomly accidentally stumbled on the fact that there's a separate comic universe containing it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-01-20T21:01:26.637" Title="Should top-cow-universe be aliased with witchblade?" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1246" CreationDate="2012-01-20T20:42:44.717" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I enjoyed the Witchblade TV series, but never read any of the comics.  I say nay to making this alias.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-01-20T20:42:44.717" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1246" CreationDate="2012-01-20T21:01:26.637" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a big time reader of all things Top Cow, I don't think so.  While Witchblade is part of the Top Cow universe, much of the Top Cow universe is unrelated to Witchblade (or, not typically related).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An analogy; imagine &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/top-cow-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;top-cow-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;top-cow-universe&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men&lt;/a&gt; (or even &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-comics&lt;/a&gt;), and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/witchblade&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;witchblade&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;witchblade&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wolverine&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wolverine&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wolverine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1913" LastActivityDate="2012-01-20T21:01:26.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1112" CreationDate="2012-01-20T21:17:29.543" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fix will be in the next production build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastActivityDate="2012-01-20T21:17:29.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="970" CreationDate="2012-01-21T00:01:04.843" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pureferret.... (And then some)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2012-01-21T00:01:04.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1242" CreationDate="2012-01-21T06:36:02.243" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use stackexchange.com to filter by tag across all sites (searching across all the sites just goes to Google).  I subscribe to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/filters/21151/completed&quot;&gt;list&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; questions across all the meta sites and this gives a vast amount of noise and a small amount of signal showing changes that might impact this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(There was enough noise that I missed this particular question, although I certainly noticed when the spoiler text started being excluded from the RSS feeds, since it's just a plain exclude, not marked in any way - so questions read very oddly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't show everything (e.g. anything that's developer initiated rather than user initiated), but it covers many more minor changes than the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/59445/recent-feature-changes-to-stack-exchange&quot;&gt;list of feature changes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way meta is handled is one of the most broken parts of StackExchange IMO.  This is good, because it means it's likely to be fixed at some point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2012-01-21T06:36:02.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1252" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1253" CreationDate="2012-01-23T01:22:35.197" Score="4" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9490/how-many-of-philip-jose-farmers-books-were-actually-banned-in-the-united-states&quot;&gt;How many of Philip Jos&amp;#233; Farmers books were actually banned in the United States?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see at least two problematic areas (neither are 100% clearly off topic, but not sure):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question is not Sci Fi related. If the book WAS banned it was for erotic/violent content, not the SciFi one.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's not at all clear that it was &quot;banned&quot; at all, since you can't really &quot;ban&quot; a book in the USA (1st Amendment issue), and only exclude it from certain kinds of libraries that would also exclude any other violent/pornorgraphic/erotic works.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2012-01-23T01:33:23.693" Title="Are questions like this on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1252" CreationDate="2012-01-23T01:33:23.693" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first issue doesn't preclude the question from being on-topic, as PJF was predominantly an SF writer. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic/364#364&quot;&gt;Questions about the societal context of SF&lt;/a&gt; are a recognized part of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second issue is perhaps a false premise in the question. This doesn't invalidate the question: post an answer and explain how the premise was flawed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2012-01-23T01:33:23.693" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1254" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1267" CreationDate="2012-01-23T04:32:29.657" Score="3" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt; has a wiki entry and more questions, but making the singular &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-story&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-story&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-story&lt;/a&gt; makes a bit more sense to me, so I really don't care which way the synonym goes, but we should have one one way or the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-01-23T22:14:49.550" LastActivityDate="2012-01-23T22:14:49.550" Title="Tag synonym: short-story / short-stories" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1255" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1258" CreationDate="2012-01-23T09:40:01.063" Score="4" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps some clarification is appropriate. The series features many components that you usually find in science fiction (maybe also in fantasy, but I've no clue about that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The setting is typically a dystopia, sometimes even sub-societies that resemble full-fledged dictatorship.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;A small crew, against all odds, and with almost super-human intellect (Hannibal/Face) and ingenuity (Murdoc/B.A.) manages to free the oppressed and helpless people using some improvised technology (can it get more science fiction there?).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Last but not least, they manage to fine-tune their attacks so to not (seriously) hurt anybody, but they're not using phasers (on a stun setting) but MGs (without basic aiming skills).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-01-23T22:12:01.613" LastActivityDate="2012-01-23T22:12:01.613" Title="Is The A-Team on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1099" CreationDate="2012-01-23T11:15:19.313" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I recall correctly, we didn't fix this back in the days because every possible fix we could find caused some issues in IE7, and the current handling was &quot;good enough&quot;. But since we're past the &quot;caring a lot about IE7&quot; stage, I've made that change now (it'll go out shortly with the next chat build).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="171" LastActivityDate="2012-01-23T11:15:19.313" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1257" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1425" CreationDate="2012-01-23T14:18:11.710" Score="8" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;The edge of the upvote/accepted answer icon are cut off slightly on one side. Note the left sides of the active upvote icon and accepted answer icon (blown up to make it more apparent):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5Gvfn.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;And the left side of the inactive upvote icon:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qdzrW.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The icon also moves over at least one pixel when it's clicked, which I think is why the cut off changes sides. But the circle isn't &quot;perfectly&quot; round in either graphic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3255" LastEditorUserId="171" LastEditDate="2012-02-01T06:46:17.743" LastActivityDate="2012-02-01T06:46:17.743" Title="Voting icons cut off" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2012-01-23T15:06:02.647" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd recommend asking A-Team questions on the beta &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Movies.SE&lt;/a&gt; site which now has TV shows as being on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2012-01-23T15:06:02.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1255" CreationDate="2012-01-23T17:05:01.333" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;As someone who has seen every episode, I don't see how you can consider &lt;em&gt;The A-Team&lt;/em&gt; as science fiction or fantasy.  While it's incredible in terms of being removed from reality, it's more in either the action or suspense genre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2012-01-23T17:05:01.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="990" CreationDate="2012-01-23T18:06:57.437" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;it's a font issue; you can verify by cutting and pasting &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7731/are-droids-a-he-she-or-an-it&quot;&gt;the question title&lt;/a&gt; into a document with a different font, or even Notepad, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Are droids a 'he/she' or an 'it'?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Are droids a 'he/she' or an 'it'?&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those single quotes &lt;code&gt;'&lt;/code&gt; aka ' renders in the font chosen for this site as the above image in the question. So by design unless you can convince Jin to change the font (which to be honest, I am not particularly fond of, but not enough that I want to fight about it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2012-01-23T18:06:57.437" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1261" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-23T19:26:25.897" Score="2" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that it's fairly easy for active users on SciFi.SE to go over the rep cap (or at least, not very hard). We have at least a couple of people who are known to do this frequently, and probably some who do it but don't complain about it in chat à la Moaning Myrtle :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While rep caps in general may have their value (I'm not quite clear what it is, but J&amp;amp;J wouldn't have invented AND kept them otherwise), they seem to be a net negative to a site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They dampen(s8n) productivity for people who reach them and are unwilling to produce good content for the rest of the day, since it will be wasted rep points. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't mean to be the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0004193/quotes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;materialistic weasel&lt;/a&gt; of this group, but rep points are at least one reason why I put in the effort, among other reasons - because they are a way to keep status, which is one of the main human motivations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have at least 2 people who are openly on record as &quot;I won't post anything else till 7pm today&quot; as a rule once the cap is reached.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to be a &lt;strong&gt;net loss&lt;/strong&gt; to the site, especially since we aren't yet in the SO stage where we have gazillions of posters and teratons of questions and answers. IMHO, YMMV, of course I'm biased :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They sap creative energy from people's delivery of good content into playing the stupid &quot;lose as little rep to the cap as possible&quot; game. There seems to be little win to the site from that game.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a generic concern, but it's extra hurtful on SciFi.SE because the site in general seems to be (based on recent Meta questions and answers) somewhat/heavily inflated in the amount of upvotes relative to other SE sites, and therefore it's easier to lose &lt;strong&gt;lots&lt;/strong&gt; of points to rep cap here. I've lost between 200-300-350 points a day EASILY, for many days in a row.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the best solution seems to be to eliminate or at least raise the rep cap (300 seems a good #, if somewhat random).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if there's no appetite for that either from community OR from SE people, I would propose another solution:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A badge that rewards users for the amount of rep points they lose to a rep cap&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Details:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mechanics&lt;/strong&gt;: Award the badge for either a total lost rep points across many days (either within a period, or ever), or my preference would be for losing at least N points on average (or simply at least N points) for M consecutive days/within a period of L days.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Name&lt;/strong&gt;: I don't have a good name, some possibilities floated in chat by me and others were, in random order:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[rep-loser]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[excessive-excellence]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[extra-tall-sorting-cap]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[The first annual Montgomery Burns award for outstanding achievement in the field of excellence]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[TangoUndersway]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is very distinct from &quot;Mortarboard/Epic/Legendary&quot; badges, which merely reward &lt;strong&gt;reaching&lt;/strong&gt; rep cap. That set doesn't do anything to fix the problem of people STOPPING their creative input for the day once they reach the cap.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any input welcome. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="3267" LastEditDate="2012-01-23T19:34:33.707" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Proposal for a new badge (for losing LOTS of rep to rep cap)" Tags="|feature-request|badges|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1263" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-23T20:10:55.393" Score="9" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 2012 Community Moderator Election is now underway!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community moderator elections have three phases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nomination phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Primary phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Election phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most elections take between two and three weeks, but this depends on how many candidates there are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please visit the official election page at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for more detail, and to participate!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have general questions about the election process, or questions for moderator candidates, feel free to ask them here on meta -- just make sure your questions are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/election&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;election&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;election&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2012-02-15T15:23:00.487" Title="2012 Community Moderator Election" Tags="|discussion|election|moderators|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2012-02-08T06:37:06.857" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-01-23T20:10:55.393" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1264" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-23T20:39:01.777" Score="6" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.midtowncomics.com/store/dp.asp?PRID=Avatar%20The%20Last%20Airbender_1159293&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;The Promise&quot;&lt;/a&gt; is the canon, graphic novel follow-up to the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_last_airbender&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Avatar: The Last Airbender&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; series. It's release coincidentally lines up with next week's Avatar-themed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1138/topic-of-the-week-contest-updated-1-23&quot;&gt;Topic of the Week&lt;/a&gt; contest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I propose:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Interested users will receive a copy of the &lt;strong&gt;Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise part 1&lt;/strong&gt; graphic novel. Interested users need only reply to this with their username; the &lt;strong&gt;first 5 users&lt;/strong&gt; to do so will receive the graphic novel &lt;em&gt;(I am making this grant exempt from rep because of the tight turnaround; I want to start ordering these ASAP instead of waiting a week for people to volunteer)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The recipients can &lt;strong&gt;ask thoughtful questions&lt;/strong&gt; about the graphic novel at any time, and they may use the graphic novel to inspire questions for the Topic of the Week contest (between January 30th and February 5th). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The entire &lt;strong&gt;Avatar: The Last Airbender&lt;/strong&gt; canon is fair game for the Topic of the Week contest, so if you do not receive this graphic novel from Stack Exchange, you may still ask questions about the TV series and be eligible to win.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Blogging would also be encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please answer below with your &lt;strong&gt;username&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first 5 recipients will be sent copies of the graphic novel. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE 1/26/12: Grant is closed!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2012-01-26T18:12:52.920" Title="GRANT: Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise part 1" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|promotional-grant|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1264" CreationDate="2012-01-23T20:41:13.893" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keen&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...is wondering when Brett's going to realize that answers have a minimum character limit. :3&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-01-23T20:41:13.893" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1261" CreationDate="2012-01-23T21:50:08.530" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been proposed a couple of times before on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;the main Stack Exchange meta site&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/119524/consolation-badges-for-hitting-the-reputation-cap-hard&quot;&gt;Consolation badges for hitting the reputation cap hard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/102/additional-badge-ideas/33731#33731&quot;&gt;Additional Badge Ideas — selfless&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reception was lukewarm. I couldn't find any proposal that had many views (on the MSO scale).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2012-01-23T21:50:08.530" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1254" CreationDate="2012-01-23T22:14:35.323" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Done. I made &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt; the master tag because it had more uses, and it had a tag wiki, and the general trend across Stack Exchange is to use plurals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-01-23T22:14:35.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1261" CreationDate="2012-01-24T00:00:14.727" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If someone is doing well and hitting the rep cap, then they're providing content the community has decided is valuable.  Cutting off rep at a cap and not allowing some kind of badge for exceeding it basically creates an incentive for people to contribute less of the content the community has stated (through votes) is valuable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2012-01-24T00:00:14.727" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1076" CreationDate="2012-01-24T08:21:15.853" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I think, Stack Exchange doesn't assume this QnA site as useful real-world knowledge resource.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Forums were introduced because books &amp;amp; knowledge websites present ideal situation. But, in real world, we face &lt;strong&gt;real-world problems&lt;/strong&gt;. The advantage of a QnA site over a forum is that finding answer for a particular question is fast. Nobody needs to dig too deep inside a thread. Build on this concept, Stack Overflow became successful in past. All other QnA sites in Stack Exchange network are build around this concept: To help professionals (or, anyone) find solution of &lt;strong&gt;real-world problems&lt;/strong&gt; quickly.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy is meant only for virtual world based entertainment. So, Stack Exchange has excluded it from Data Explorer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="931" LastEditDate="2012-01-24T08:30:09.430" LastActivityDate="2012-01-24T08:30:09.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1270" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1271" CreationDate="2012-01-24T08:28:15.267" Score="6" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;Great that we've got &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election&quot;&gt;moderator elections&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I've missed something but I can't see how to nominate &lt;em&gt;someone else&lt;/em&gt;. Is that possible? There are a handful of really dedicated users here (just look at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=reputation&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;high rep list&lt;/a&gt;) and in the top ten only one is a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see a few more moderators there and so would like to nominate one or two of those top ten-ers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2012-01-24T11:25:02.017" Title="Can I nominate other candidates for moderator?" Tags="|support|moderators|election|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1270" CreationDate="2012-01-24T09:02:47.923" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If someone is interested in the job, they can add their name, but, as was discussed in chat earlier today, you can't nominate someone else.  (And some of those people higher up on that high rep list have specifically said they do not want to be moderators.  That includes 2 of the top 4 on that list.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you're pretty high up on that list, so why not nominate yourself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2012-01-24T09:02:47.923" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1272" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-24T12:28:44.020" Score="7" ViewCount="997" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are (if any) official rules for giving the names of works (books, TV series, episodes), both in main text, and in quotes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should they be italicized? Quoted? Both? No rule? Should they differ when the title is used as a source of the quote text?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't care if the rules are SciFI.SE specific, SE specific, or publishing specific, or from Elements of Style, or what. As long as I know which ones to use for consistency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2016-06-09T06:38:40.543" Title="Are there official style rules for names of works?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1264" CreationDate="2012-01-24T13:01:36.557" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;DavRob60&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2012-01-24T13:01:36.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1274" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1283" CreationDate="2012-01-24T13:30:56.177" Score="4" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;I added election to my list of favorite tags on meta, to see what questions would be asked for a potential moderator. Well, this is what my screen looked like this morning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZX5zt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope you can see that the light grey text on white background is pretty unreadable...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="171" LastEditDate="2012-02-01T06:40:31.697" LastActivityDate="2012-02-01T06:40:31.697" Title="Favorite Tags on meta site looks terrible" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1272" CreationDate="2012-01-24T13:43:05.297" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In most &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rpi.edu/web/writingcenter/mla.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;style&lt;/a&gt; guides, the title of &lt;a href=&quot;http://library.nmu.edu/guides/userguides/style_mla.htm#Misc_Film_Video&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;movies&lt;/a&gt; should be listed in italics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Book titles are usually either in italics or underlined, although italics seems to be more common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2012-01-24T13:43:05.297" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1276" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1277" CreationDate="2012-01-24T13:52:43.537" Score="5" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;I put in an answer to a question, but while I was writing/researching the answer, the question changed to include my answer, So it now looks like my answer is complete rubbish and I'm getting down votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I delete this answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3731" LastEditorUserId="36115" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2016-05-15T17:45:27.507" LastActivityDate="2016-05-15T17:45:27.507" Title="Can I delete an answer I posted?" Tags="|support|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1276" CreationDate="2012-01-24T14:23:54.047" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should be able to delete any answer you've created, as long as it hasn't been accepted by the question asker.  I've included a screen shot (complete with free-hand circle) from a site where I have lower reputation, to verify that you shouldn't need a certain reputation amount to delete your own answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/63KEq.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5221/what-can-cause-a-post-to-be-deleted-and-what-does-that-actually-mean&quot;&gt;this meta post&lt;/a&gt; covers this topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2012-01-24T23:04:45.290" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1272" CreationDate="2012-01-24T14:53:45.010" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Titles for movies, television, and radio programs are italicized. A single episode in a television or radio series is set in roman and enclosed in quotation marks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Wars: A New Hope&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Star Wars, Part VI&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;NBC's &lt;em&gt;Law and Order&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;NPR's &lt;em&gt;Fresh Air&lt;/em&gt; with Terri Gross&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;The Ten O'Clock News&lt;/em&gt;, WGBH's long-running program (specific program)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&quot;Micromanaging a Vulcan,&quot; an episode in &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: The Next Generation&lt;/em&gt; series&lt;br&gt;&#xA;the ten-o-clock news (general)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The names of networks, channels, and the like are set in roman (non-italicized) type.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HBO&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The Discovery Channel&lt;br&gt;&#xA;SyFy&lt;br&gt;&#xA;NBC&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The Food Network&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With books, the title is always italicized:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With books, when citing specifics, the words &quot;chapter&quot; and &quot;page&quot;/&quot;pages&quot; are lowercase.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the title is used within a title, reverse italics are used:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;My Life With&lt;/em&gt; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows &lt;em&gt;: A Memoir&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's okay to drop the initial &quot;a,&quot; &quot;an,&quot; or &quot;the,&quot; from a title if it doesn't flow with the surrounding syntax, for example:&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I liked the Harry Potter book &lt;em&gt;The Order of the Phoenix&lt;/em&gt; because . . .&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I liked &lt;em&gt;Order of the Phoenix&lt;/em&gt; because . . . &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When newspapers and periodicals are mentioned, the initial &quot;the&quot; is lowercare: the &lt;em&gt;Daily Prophet&lt;/em&gt;, the &lt;em&gt;New York Times&lt;/em&gt;, and the &lt;em&gt;Wall Street Journal&lt;/em&gt;. Exception: foreign-language titles retain the article, so &lt;em&gt;Le Monde&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Die Zeit&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an aside, for question titles, there are two main styles to choose from: Headline and sentence style.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This Is an Example of the Headline Style: the Capitalization of All Words&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;versus:&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sentence style: An example&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are so many rules! I threw this together using &lt;em&gt;The Chicago Manual of Style, Sixteenth Edition&lt;/em&gt; as my guide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Do you need the rule on quoting dialogue, too? You didn't say so, so I didn't want to assume)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2012-01-24T14:53:45.010" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1279" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-24T15:46:19.357" Score="0" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moderator votes are &quot;binding&quot; - meaning that, while it takes 5 close votes to close a question, a single close vote from moderator will do it no matter how many other people voted before.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would propose that moderators try (as much as possible) and refrain from performing actions that are binding - especially voting to close a question - &lt;strong&gt;unless it's one of 3 exceptional cases&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There's a VERY clear community consensus that the question ought to be closed (3+ existing close votes, many flags, negative comments, negative consensus on meta or chat).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question is so 100% egregious that it must be closed immediately lest it cause severe immediate damage to the site (I'm having a hard time coming up with such emergency example, but let's say someone posts a clearly off-topic AND extremely offensive question - something you don't want to show up in Google search). Even in this case, I would posit that asking on META or chat first would be ideal, and waiting a reasonable (5 mins) time for people in community to pipe up.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The item was &lt;strong&gt;extensively&lt;/strong&gt; publically discussed by the community (I'd propose the threshold of at least 4-6 people, for at least 1-3 hours; not sure of best limits) on Meta or chat; and &lt;strong&gt;after&lt;/strong&gt; that discussion there's a clear disagreement with nowhere near strong majority, never mind consensus. As far as I understand, this case is specifically where moderators were meant to interfere - &lt;strong&gt;ideally, when the community agrees to bring it to a moderator decision&lt;/strong&gt;. However, I strongly feel that usually the moderator action happens too soon before there's a consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that the above does &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; cover 2 cases where I strongly believe a moderator vote is a &lt;strong&gt;bad idea&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Moderator votes to close because as private community member, he feels the question is worth closing. I know one of our mods recently voiced this sentiment. &lt;strong&gt;It's a bit unfair to mods as people&lt;/strong&gt;, but if you're the first/second guy to vote to close, please wait till community opinion is more clearly expressed and/or some discussion takes place. With great power comes great responsibility, and all :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note &quot;well if the community wants it, they can vote to re-open&quot; is an extremely annoying and very wrong cop-out. First, it's hard to find 5 people willing to bother to look into the issue, analyze, agree, AND vote to open, all in reasonable amount of time. Second, a lot of people would not vote to re-open seeing a moderator name on the closing even if they would have otherwise (I've seen that happen).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question MAY be bad, and is controversial, and there's an &lt;strong&gt;active&lt;/strong&gt; discussion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would be a &lt;strong&gt;good&lt;/strong&gt; action to take would be to lock/protect the question to avoid the discussion taking place on main site (if one is happening, or undesirable answers appear), and forcefully suggest to people to &quot;take it outside&quot; - e.g. chat or Meta. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if whoever wants to keep the question refuses to do that, this is a proper ground to close the question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DISCLAIMER1&lt;/strong&gt;: This post is NOT a reflection of any specific problem with current SciFi.SE moderators, though at times they have exhibited the actions that I will suggest above as &quot;should be avoided&quot;. But the opinions expressed here have gelled back when I was a newbie on StackOverflow and had absolutely zero interaction of my own with moderator practices - merely reading moderation rules and observing mods in action, and are not a reflection on any specific moderator - rather, on overall rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DISCLAIMER2&lt;/strong&gt;: The timing of this post was affected by 3 things (none of which was a specific action by a moderator): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gilles' post in chat yesterday indicating that moderators should not set policy and only get involved when the community can't come to a consensus (did I get that right?)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the upcoming moderator elections. I want to have the policy discussed and set BEFORE we have new moderators (and can have input from current ones); AND allow voters who care about this issue to be able to gauge moderator candidate's views on the topic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just came to the front of my &quot;questions to ask on meta&quot; buffer queue :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-01-25T05:42:21.483" Title="Should moderators wait till community made its opinion fully known before closing?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|closing-questions|moderators|moderation|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1279" CreationDate="2012-01-24T16:31:25.933" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that this is a reasonable philosophy, and I agree in general with the sentiment (these are very similar to the personal guidelines I use on parenting.se, although the community is much less active there so I am a bit more aggressive in using my close vote there than I otherwise would be).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I do not think that this needs to be formalized as a policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea behind electing moderators is that they are individuals that the community trusts to do the best job possible.  Setting up rules for when moderators can and cannot close questions implies that moderators should not be able to use personal discretion when acting in that role, which is contrary to the trust we, as a community, have expressed by electing them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In actuality, there are checks and balances in place that protect against perceived &quot;abuse&quot; of moderator powers, or even simple disagreement between moderators and the community.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having multiple moderators is one of the primary examples of this.  Our moderators should be working together, and discussing controversial issues between themselves (as well as with the community at large).  Ideally, they should come to an agreement (or at least a compromise) on any issue of moderation.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, as was mentioned, members of the community can vote to reopen.  Based upon my recent experiences, I disagree with your assessment of the &quot;vote to reopen&quot; system.  I do believe it works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By way of example, I recently had a question that was closed as general reference by a moderator (although the moderator was not the only one who voted to close).  However, I disagreed with the reasons for the closure, and we (yourself included) discussed why it should/should not be closed, citing various meta discussions on the subject.  In the end, the community voted to reopen.  I have absolutely no problem with the way the situation was handled, both by the moderator, and the members of the community who voted to close or open.  I would also have been perfectly fine if the question had remained closed due to lack of community support for reopening it.  However, I do not feel it was in any way a problem that a moderator closed the question even though it was clear (in hindsight, at least), that there was not a clear community consensus that the question should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, I don't see any reason to really have these rules (or guidelines) for moderator activity defined here.  The moderators will do what they think best for the site, and we have to trust them to use appropriate discretion.  However, if they make mistakes, the community has the power to fix them (within reasonable limits).  Rather than trying to avoid this ever happening, I think that the situations where there is a disagreement between a moderator decision and community consensus is healthy and beneficial, as it helps to further define and clarify the boundaries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="1359" LastEditDate="2012-01-24T18:47:45.527" LastActivityDate="2012-01-24T18:47:45.527" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1279" CreationDate="2012-01-24T16:34:17.843" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flags will bring a moderator to the scene and if they agree with the raise, will act on it as suggested. But if you're not a moderator, you won't see that and might think they're trigger happy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the same as if they came across it on their own. If they spot something and are in tune with the community, they don't have to always sit on their hands waiting for someone else to vote to close. If it's there and they see it, why shouldn't they act on it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators should understand the site and community. That includes being able to know when to close or re-open questions they read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel like moderators should wait for everyone else to do the work, to vote or act and only turn up once the rest of the community has had their say, you don't trust that moderator to know what they're doing or what the site is about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="383" LastActivityDate="2012-01-24T16:34:17.843" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1264" CreationDate="2012-01-24T17:08:46.390" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pureferret: The last queestionbender&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2012-01-24T17:08:46.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1274" CreationDate="2012-01-24T20:11:28.263" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure if it's a fix that didn't work, or a different browser rendering differently, but I saw this from a different machine running Firefox just now. It's better, but the number of votes can't be read...&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uIqK2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-01-24T20:11:28.263" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1279" CreationDate="2012-01-24T20:14:11.207" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My philosophy of moderation is pretty much as follows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If I see a flagged message, and it is specific to a moderator-only thing, I'll make a judgement call. This could be move a question, convert an answer to a comment, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question/answer is terrible, I'll close it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question is bad, but not terrible, I'll wait a while to see if the community wants to do something with it. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do get impatient with people who flag to close a question, and have reputation, but don't vote to close the question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-01-24T20:14:11.207" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1272" CreationDate="2012-01-24T21:56:40.860" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The TLDR of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1272/are-there-official-style-rules-for-names-of-works/1278#1278&quot;&gt;Slytherincess's answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Long works (novels, collections, movies, series) are in italics.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Short works (short stories, episodes) are in quotes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If in doubt, check on Wikipedia, it's crawled by an army of typography nerds.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are widely followed style guidelines, in no way specific to Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2012-01-24T23:41:59.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1286" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-25T00:00:43.770" Score="12" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been looking at who is running for moderator for SF&amp;amp;F.  There are people there that I have never seen post an answer, a question, or even a comment.  There are others I know from answers and questions and comments, others that are active in Meta, and also some I know well from chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm finding that I learn about a person's knowledge of the field from their questions and answers (Are they only interested in one topic, or do they have a range?  Are they nasty to fans of any works or authors?), and from their participation in Meta, I can see if they're interested in what it takes to make the site work and I feel like chat shows me what kind of a person they are.  Anyone can write a good one-time speech about what a great mod they'l be, but it's hard to fake it over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when I think about this, it sounds like I'm saying, &quot;To be a moderator, you have to meet prerequisites.  If you aren't in Meta or Chat, you don't qualify.&quot;  And I'm wondering if that's a helpful attitude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When considering voting for a moderator, is whether they participate notably on the board, on Meta, and on chat important?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastEditorUserId="1693" LastEditDate="2012-01-25T01:19:33.027" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="How Important is Varied Participation When Voting for a Moderator?" Tags="|discussion|moderators|election|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1286" CreationDate="2012-01-25T00:18:58.943" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://elections.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;elections site&lt;/a&gt; shows various statistics about the candidates, more than appears on the nomination page. There have been discussions as to what statistics are relevant, especially &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/75668/good-moderator-heuristics&quot;&gt;Good Moderator Heuristics?&lt;/a&gt;; also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/76168/how-important-is-meta-so-participation-for-a-se-moderator&quot;&gt;How important is meta.SO participation for a SE moderator?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/election+discussion&quot;&gt;a few more&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My opinion is that meta participation is important, but can be essentially read-only (which is hard to verify). Chat participation is not important. Having done some share of voting, editing, closing and flagging is important: you should to have some experience of how Stack Exchange works beyond the basics of posting questions and answers. The last elections on &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/election/2&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; made a minimum level of voting, editing, flagging and meta participation a requirement; it would be difficult to arrange on smaller sites where the total volume of things to do doesn't stretch so far, but you can see the corresponding stats on the elections page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The intangible qualities that make good moderators can't be judged by such metrics. In the end, you'll be voting on your own conscience and in privacy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:46.357" LastActivityDate="2012-01-25T00:18:58.943" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1279" CreationDate="2012-01-25T00:39:06.507" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree with your proposal. The role of moderators is not to set policy (except very occasionally, when the community can't decide when left to itself). The role of moderators is to &lt;strong&gt;enforce policy&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the site rules clearly say that a question is unwelcome, it's perfectly normal for a moderator to close it. If the moderator happens to be the first user seeing the question, so be it. Moderator closures aren't reserved for egregious cases; they're normal for &lt;strong&gt;clear cases&lt;/strong&gt;. It's only in &lt;strong&gt;borderline cases&lt;/strong&gt; which could go either way, cases where there isn't a clear policy, that it's better for a moderator not to intervene straight away. (If I see a borderline case, I generally leave a tab open and come back after a few hours, often also leave a comment, perhaps ask in chat.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderator actions can be appealed, especially question closures (answer deletions are admittedly harder to appeal since fewer people get to see the deleted answer, but then answer deletions are rarer and only for egregious cases). Moderator actions can be challenged through comments, chat (sometimes), and meta. Reopen votes aren't a cop-out, they do work as intended; it's rare for a question to get enough attention for 5 reopen votes, but moderators usually will reopen a question if a meta discussion shows a dominant community wish to reopen, or if the question has been improved through editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow tends to work differently simply because of scale. SO gets about 1000 new posts per moderator per day, SFF a little more than 10. So a vast majority of posts on SO are never even seen by any moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-01-25T00:39:06.507" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1289" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-25T01:36:50.453" Score="77" ViewCount="9698" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just like our &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta&quot;&gt;mother site&lt;/a&gt; we need a repository of our Memes :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It has become a more frequent occurrence where new users will be confronted by an engrained meme and be left sitting there scratching their heads. I therefore propose that this space be used to document the lighter sides of S[OFU]'s culture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each meme should be documented separately and I hope that we as a community will be able to provide greater context to each one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The memes may occur in the posts on the SFF.SE site, in comments, or on site chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2017-08-24T11:48:10.327" LastActivityDate="2019-08-07T20:08:47.233" Title="The many memes of SFF.SE" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="25" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1286" CreationDate="2012-01-25T01:38:16.083" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vote for the kind of person you want to see moderating the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can't tell if someone is that sort of person, then chances are pretty good that they won't be: one of the tenets of Stack Exchange is that &lt;em&gt;almost everyone&lt;/em&gt; is a moderator in at least some capacity - very few actions are limited &lt;em&gt;strictly&lt;/em&gt; to diamond-after-their-name Moderators, and those that are can be achieved by ordinary users via the moderator-flag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1287/1586&quot;&gt;As Gilles notes&lt;/a&gt;, there are plenty of stats available for you to peruse when evaluating the candidates. And every candidate has a list of their recent activities linked to on their profile. But which of these are important - and which are pointless - will depend on what you expect from your moderators. Do you want them to provide excellent questions and answers? Well, nothin' wrong with that - but they can do that without the diamond. Do you want them to hang out in chat? Respond on Meta? Cleanup bad questions, assist new users in posting good ones, guide experts in posting &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; rather than discussion? All of that is available for your discovery... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So decide what &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt; want. What &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt; think the site needs. And then vote for that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2012-01-25T01:38:16.083" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1286" CreationDate="2012-01-25T03:32:05.773" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;When considering voting for a moderator, is whether they participate notably on the board, on Meta, and on chat important?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TL;DR: I think yes and no. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's possible to demonstrate through chat or meta one's potential competence at or particular skill for moderating, or lack thereof. Users may read the chat logs and the meta questions regularly and give to both thoughtful consideration. There are different ways to participate in a community and I would submit that using only one's own context to define acceptable user participation doesn't allow for other valid models. People assign value in different ways and I think it's important to allow for different approaches. Just as in the real world, an online community will have a variety of user roles to choose from. There will be those who are overtly social by hanging in chat and those who ask and answer questions on meta fairly often. Conversely, there will be community members who take a quieter approach to the site. Does that make them a lesser user than the visible extrovert? I think not, personally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, If someone with a rep score of 27 is running for moderator and is presenting himself/herself as very active on the site, I would find that claim to be somewhat mutually exclusive. Perhaps they have a higher rep score on SO or in another SE forum -- as a voter, that's something I would definitely take into consideration as I ponder the candidates. But if someone's only rep score is 27 and the only site they've been active on is Sci-Fi/Fantasy, I would want them to satisfactorily explain to me how I might be able to consider them active on/involved with the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I'm &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; running for a moderator position, I did want to defend users who participate in just one topic. I don't think that is necessarily indicative of their overall Sci-Fi/Fantasy experience/knowledge. Like myself, a person might be familiar with and have knowledge of numerous different universes, but not feel quite expert enough to answer the very specific questions that are asked on this forum. Like, I can't tell you what Spock's internal body temperature was in &lt;em&gt;The Wrath of Khan&lt;/em&gt;, nor can I tell you how to build an At-At, but I'm familiar with both of these universes, plus many more. A person who is singularly focused could absolutely edit posts for spelling, grammar, and punctuation, have a neutral and unbiased approach to their fellow SE members, have excellent de-escalation and problem-solving skills, and be committed to the vision of the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2012-01-25T03:32:05.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1279" CreationDate="2012-01-25T05:42:21.483" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, moderators should be cautious with their binding votes. But that doesn't mean they should wait for a &quot;community consensus&quot; on each question before they act on it. Or at least, not an explicit one; the &quot;community consensus&quot; has already been reached, it's the topics and scopes that are on and off-topic.  If a post is clearly out of bounds, meaning on a topic that the community has decided is off-topic, or of a scope the community has already decided is too narrow, the moderator should close the question, or migrate it if another site is willing to take it. If the community disagrees with that decision, we need to go to meta and discuss how we should alter the community consensus on acceptable topics. When it is ambiguous whether a question is off-topic, however, I think a mod should wait and see what the community makes of that edge case.  For the record, I am strongly in favor of giving people the benefit of the doubt, so for any post not clearly off-topic (or otherwise in need of closure), I will wait to see what the community thinks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2012-01-25T05:42:21.483" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1296" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1297" CreationDate="2012-01-25T09:26:45.470" Score="7" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1276/can-i-delete-an-answer-i-posted&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; and got some good answers, in one of the comments DVK mentions that reputation can be recalculated, and Gilles then provides a link to do just that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When using Gilles’ link I do get to a page where I can select a recall button. I cannot, however, find a link to this link off the main site. (It might well be there, but I couldn't find on the reputation page where I assumed it would be.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is this option freely available to everyone? If so, where is the link?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3731" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2019-04-26T18:53:23.487" LastActivityDate="2019-04-26T18:53:23.487" Title="How to access the reputation recalculation feature" Tags="|support|reputation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1296" CreationDate="2012-01-25T11:54:01.377" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no link from the main site: it's a power user feature for those in the know, hidden because it's not a normal thing users need to do and recalculating reputation is a bit of an intensive process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nevertheless, it is freely available to registered users who know the link: the reputation recalculation button, however, only works once every 24 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastActivityDate="2012-01-25T11:54:01.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1298" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1300" CreationDate="2012-01-25T13:30:49.503" Score="6" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1296/how-to-access-the-reputation-recalculation-feature&quot;&gt;How to access the reputation recalculation feature&lt;/a&gt; and thought (naively) I'll give that a try!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My rep dropped from 8187 to 7773 (-414).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it gone for good?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2012-01-25T15:15:05.340" Title="Reputation recalculation hurtz" Tags="|support|reputation|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1298" CreationDate="2012-01-25T13:42:39.297" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yup, gone for good. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have my deepest sympathy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2012-01-25T13:42:39.297" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1298" CreationDate="2012-01-25T13:47:20.770" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ha, you probably answered lots of lists and recommendation questions. I lost several hundred rep points due to that, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the bright side, you'd lose that rep anyway as soon as the first scheduled rep recalc takes place, so you didn't &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; lose anything, you just made the process faster for your own account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-01-25T13:47:20.770" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1298" CreationDate="2012-01-25T14:15:28.867" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ouch. I made the same mistake, but I only dropped about 50 here and on Unix and 100 on SO. Actually went up on MSO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2012-01-25T14:15:28.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1296" CreationDate="2012-01-25T14:19:24.583" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like Mark said, It's a hidden feature. Someone on MSO pointed me to this &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/8211/172958&quot;&gt;list of other hidden features&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before you trigger a recalc, you'll want to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1298/3267&quot;&gt;make sure it benefits you&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2012-01-25T14:19:24.583" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1298" CreationDate="2012-01-25T15:15:05.340" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's gone for good - your account previously cached &quot;wrong&quot; reputation sum, which included rep assigned to currently-deleted Qs and As. Recalc merely calculates the &quot;correct&quot; sum accounting for deletions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's any consolation, my first recalc on StackOverflow cost me ~1000 rep AND &quot;super user&quot; (10k+) priviledges since the First Big Recalc happened &lt;strong&gt;2 days after I hit 10k&lt;/strong&gt;! Boy was I sad :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-01-25T15:15:05.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1304" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-25T20:37:57.250" Score="-7" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've had previous &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spoilers&quot;&gt;discussions about spoilers&lt;/a&gt;. We have the rudiments of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/968/what-is-the-policy-for-spoilers&quot;&gt;policy&lt;/a&gt;, and we're trying to stamp down on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1222/what-can-be-done-about-the-proliferation-of-manual-spoilers-tags&quot;&gt;spoiler tags&lt;/a&gt;. Saying “spoiler” in a question title is meaningless because there's no context to say what it's spoiling. In fact, the very use of spoilers in a question is dubious: someone who doesn't want to risk spoilers isn't going to browse the question at all, so why hide anything?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do think spoiler markup is useful in &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;, because the audience is clear: someone who has read/seen about as much as the asker. So, in an answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the asker knows, say it openly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If that's what the asker is asking about, say it openly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it's secondary to the answer, so that the answer is improved by the presence of some extra information but makes sense without it, then use spoiler markup.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we ask for a ban of spoiler markup in questions? Or only strongly discourage it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2012-01-26T07:15:54.213" Title="Should we ban spoiler markup in questions?" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1304" CreationDate="2012-01-25T20:53:49.800" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's nothing wrong with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/980/108&quot;&gt;judicious use&lt;/a&gt; of the spoiler markup in a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example (I quickly glanced over questions I've asked/answered; I'm sure there are many more):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I might look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4545/who-told-the-10th-doctor-about-the-4-knocks/4546#4546&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; (especially if I'm coming from a search engine) wanting more information about the &quot;4 knocks&quot; that were featured throughout the arc, but not knowing the end result.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If I was a fan of one Knight Rider series and considering watching the other, I might read &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3677/whats-the-continuity-between-the-two-knight-rider-tv-series&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, but I wouldn't want to know the part that's hidden behind spoiler text.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, and this is &lt;em&gt;extremely&lt;/em&gt; important, the question text appears in places where someone may see it without wanting to read that question.  Many people found this a problem, although StackExchange didn't care, but it was recently fixed (for gaming.se, and therefore us as well) - we don't want to go backwards.  For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Subscribing to an RSS feed (of a tag or all questions).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Auto-posted questions in chat.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The main page of the site includes a chunk of the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2012-01-25T21:03:43.323" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1304" CreationDate="2012-01-25T21:02:49.893" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had many things spoiled for me because of improper use of spoilers. If they were banned, then I wouldn't want to read half the questions on the site for fear of being spoiled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2012-01-25T21:02:49.893" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1304" CreationDate="2012-01-25T21:10:21.273" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, people asking questions should be able to use spoiler markdown to let people who are currently enjoying a work to participate on the site prior to completing their consumption of said work.  Questions about the last half of the new &lt;em&gt;Battlestar Galactica&lt;/em&gt; (BSG) will be pretty spoilerific to anyone watching S2, but people working through BSG shouldn't have to avoid the site while watching it.  In fact, we should actively work to make the site welcoming to such visitors, as we are all consuming some sci-fi and fantasy works that we haven't seen before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The recent development of shows and movies continuing or otherwise having side-stories in comic books provides another reason for the use of spoilers.  If I've seen all of the TV show &lt;em&gt;Dollhouse&lt;/em&gt;, I might think that it's okay to read anything in all &lt;em&gt;Dollhouse&lt;/em&gt; questions.  But, if someone asks a question from the comic book, then that will simultaneously spoil me and inform me of its existence, were I not already aware of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I'm bummed that I can't participate in Game of Thrones questions on this site due to everyone asking or answering with unspoilered information from the books.  I'm only watching the show, and don't want to be spoiled on what will happen in future seasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-01-25T21:10:21.273" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1272" CreationDate="2012-01-25T21:28:22.677" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(This is what I do, if you don't like it, down vote and I'll reform :))&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where possible, I link the first instance of a title (if a film or TV episode, then generally to IMDB; if a book, then generally Amazon because I find their catalogue most extensive and their &quot;search inside&quot; generally better than anyone else's).  Adding the link emphasises the title (which the current design displays as a colour change), so I don't add any other markup.  If there is a second instance, then I simply add emphasis (which the current design displays as italics) rather than repeat the link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beak-Moon-Philip-Temple/dp/1869506774&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Beak of the Moon&lt;/a&gt; is my favourite novel by a New Zealand author.  There is a sequel to &lt;em&gt;Beak of the Moon&lt;/em&gt;, called &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0140178872&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dark of the Moon&lt;/a&gt;, that is nowhere near as good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;versus:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beak-Moon-Philip-Temple/dp/1869506774&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Beak of the Moon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; is my favourite novel by a New Zealand author.  There is a sequel to &lt;em&gt;Beak of the Moon&lt;/em&gt;, called &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0140178872&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dark of the Moon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, that is nowhere near as good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;em&gt;Beak of the Moon&lt;/em&gt; is my favourite novel by a New Zealand author.  There is a sequel to &lt;em&gt;Beak of the Moon&lt;/em&gt;, called &lt;em&gt;Dark of the Moon&lt;/em&gt;, that is nowhere near as good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2012-01-25T21:28:22.677" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1304" CreationDate="2012-01-25T22:12:37.847" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, if only for the practical consideration for people who do not want to spoil details in questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The judicious use of spoiler markdown is a reasonable compromise between keeping SciFi.SE in line with the goals of Stack Exchange and the rampant use of forumisms&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; that'll keep coming back to address the very prevalent desire to not spoil things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The operative word would be &lt;em&gt;judicious&lt;/em&gt;, however. This should not be acceptable:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Question about Star Wars&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Spoiler below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt; My question is so spoilery I can't even be bothered to highlight anything about the nature of the question outside a spoiler box. It's for your own good. What color is Darth Vader's suit in the first scene of &lt;em&gt;A New Hope&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This, however, should be fine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;How does Luke cope after the twist in Empire?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As most everyone knows,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt; Vader is Luke's father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How does he handle this pre-&lt;em&gt;Jedi&lt;/em&gt;? Does the Expanded Universe cover Luke's grappling with this realization?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Note 1&lt;/sup&gt;: like adding [SPOILER] to the title and adding &quot;spoiler spoiler spoiler spoiler OMG SPOILER INCOMING WATCH OUT&quot; disclaimers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastActivityDate="2012-01-25T22:12:37.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1311" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-26T00:25:52.550" Score="12" ViewCount="212" Body="&lt;p&gt;In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Town Hall Chat session with the candidates.  This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation.  Participation is completely voluntary.  I am working with the candidates to find a time that allows the most participation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Town Hall Chat will take place Tuesday the 31st at 02:00 UTC.  &lt;em&gt;This is Monday 9pm EST!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=1&amp;amp;day=31&amp;amp;year=2012&amp;amp;hour=2&amp;amp;min=0&amp;amp;sec=0&amp;amp;p1=0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;view in other timezones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/2321/town-hall-chat?tab=schedule&quot;&gt;register here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the details so far:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I would like to schedule this towards the beginning of the primary (or actual election if there is no primary) phase.  This means that I am looking at the 30th-1st. As soon as I coordinate with the existing moderators and candidates to find a best fit based on availability, I will edit this post with details on the &quot;when&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Town Hall Chat will be a one-hour event using our &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/?tab=site&amp;amp;sort=active&amp;amp;host=scifi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;chat platform&lt;/a&gt;.  I will update this post with a direct link to the chat room once the event is scheduled.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The format will be an open discussion.  Users are encouraged to pose questions to the candidates regarding their thoughts on moderation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After the chat session, a digest of the event will be permanently linked here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2012-03-01T13:27:11.900" LastActivityDate="2012-03-01T13:27:11.900" Title="2012 Moderator Election: Town Hall Chat - Tuesday 02:00 UTC  / Monday 9pm EST" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1304" CreationDate="2012-01-26T01:22:30.647" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the moratorium on how long we should wait for something to be up for grabs? The same as it takes for people to not sit around launching questions that will be answered by next week's episode or by watching the film they're asking the question about. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you need to slather the question with spoiler markup, you're making the site inaccessible to those who can't use a mouse. Highlight all the things to read? What are you, hipster grey on grey savages?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question doesn't work with the spoiler sections removed, you're not trying hard enough to be accessible or considerate of complete sentences and paragraphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're still in the middle of reading or watching something but don't want to have it spoiled, why are you even checking out a question asking about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key here is judicious use. Something wildly loose of its restraints on this vertical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="383" LastActivityDate="2012-01-26T01:22:30.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1304" CreationDate="2012-01-26T07:15:54.213" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm becoming more and more concerned about questions here about, &quot;How do we stop this?&quot; and, &quot;Should we ban this?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I know there is a need for community standards on behavior and the goal is to increase the value of this site in terms of the information on it and how useable it is, but it feels like herding cats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's important to pay attention to how users are behaving by default.  This tells us what they consider important and expresses their concerns and needs.  If they're using spoiler warnings in titles, it's because they feel they'd want a warning if a question will give away something important so they do it for others.  If they use spoiler markup (and there are technical issues with spoiler markup), it's for the same reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't to say everything users do should be treated as perfect, but the more I read questions like this, the more I question whether the issue is a minority of people are acting on a desire to impose their idea of what is appropriate on all users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That people want to warn of spoilers should be enough to make it clear that the community wants to provide some kind of warning of spoilers to others, as well as wanting to have that kind of warning for themselves when they need it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It feels like some are getting concerned about minor aesthetics that concern a smaller number of users instead of focusing on other issues that may concern many users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2012-01-26T07:15:54.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1314" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-26T07:18:20.277" Score="2" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over the past few months, there have been an increasing number of questions that have some sort of introductory text like &amp;quot;as this other question brings up&amp;quot;, or &amp;quot;now that I know the answer to this other question&amp;quot;, or &amp;quot;following on from this question here&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm referring specifically to links to other scifi.se questions, and specifically in the question body itself as an introduction, not as a comment in the question, or by way of providing additional information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally dislike this - I like questions to stand alone (with links to related material, of course), so that someone new to the site (e.g. the from-a-web-search person) doesn't have to (and/or doesn't feel that they should) step back through a series of other questions to follow what the question is about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, these seem very 'forum-y' and not in line with the high-quality questions that StackExchange value (the intro part, that is - not the entire question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a consensus about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5663/why-does-borg-queen-have-a-gender&quot;&gt;Why does Borg Queen have a gender?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5660/do-borg-have-sexual-reproduction&quot;&gt;Do Borg have sexual reproduction?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9692/in-star-trek-2009-how-did-the-enterprise-collide-with-debris-while-the-shield&quot;&gt;In Star Trek (2009), how did the Enterprise collide with debris while the shields were on?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9705/how-large-is-the-forbidden-forest&quot;&gt;How large is the Forbidden Forest?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9725/why-doesnt-the-chain-around-frodos-neck-disappear&quot;&gt;Why doesn't the chain around Frodo's neck disappear?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9593/of-all-the-threats-in-the-galaxy-why-the-borg&quot;&gt;Of all the threats in the galaxy, why the Borg?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9736/how-many-elves-were-there-in-middle-earth-by-the-time-of-lotr-events&quot;&gt;How many elves were there in Middle Earth by the time of LOTR events?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going into detail with the one of these (randomly chosen), this is the current question text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In light of the comments discussions for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5655/data-being-intimate-with-tasha-tar-why-was-data-built-with-this-capability&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Data being intimate with&#xA;Tasha Tar - why was Data built with this capability?&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; involving&#xA;Captain Picard and Borg Queen, a question popped into my mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do Borg even have sexual reproduction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would prefer something along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do Borg have sexual reproduction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: First Contact&lt;/em&gt;, the Borg Queen flirts with Data and asks him when the last time he was intimate (as mentioned in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5655/data-being-intimate-with-tasha-yar-why-was-data-built-with-this-capability&quot;&gt;this question about Data's sexual functionality&lt;/a&gt;).  While this is obviously intended to distract Data, it makes me curious whether the Borg reproduce sexually, or if the Queen is only using knowledge of other species.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i.e. while there's a link to another scifi.se question, it's not the focus of this question, and it doesn't read like an ongoing chain of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-01-26T17:05:14.997" Title="Are references to other questions in question introductions ok?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1314" CreationDate="2012-01-26T07:46:13.447" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think they can be quite helpful, since that provides links to other questions on the same or a similar topic.  It can make research easier.  They might read a question on a topic and want to follow the links because they could lead to more on the same subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, after thinking about it, in most cases the question does stand alone, but is just including links that one may or may not decide to follow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastEditorUserId="1693" LastEditDate="2012-01-26T08:24:56.270" LastActivityDate="2012-01-26T08:24:56.270" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1316" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-26T08:11:00.177" Score="5" ViewCount="250" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have questions I'd like to ask on SF&amp;amp;F, but the problem is they're list questions.  Some are for my own reference, which means they are useful to me for my writing (which is my work).  Others, at least that I'm thinking of at this point, are just about comic books because friends have been suggesting I take a look into that world.  These include questions like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there superheros that are created or gain powers through their own desire, instead of being born with them or having them forced on them?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What are the more common tropes seen in the origin stories of superheros? (A result of modifying the first question.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there any superheros without angst or who enjoy what they do?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there instances of Vulcans initiating armed combat?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some cases questions like these are to find out if there's a rule (for example, Vulcans are pacifists, so does that mean they &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; start a conflict?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I discussed this issue with a moderator in chat and what came out of that was that if it could be answered with a short list in one answer, it's not a list question, but if it can be answered with a number of answers, each with one or more items on a list, and encourages multiple answers to amend any lists, then it's a list question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can a question like the ones above, where limited examples are all that is needed, or the goal is to find out if there are exceptions to a rule, how can that question be asked in a manner that makes it something other than a list question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastEditorUserId="1693" LastEditDate="2012-01-27T08:12:35.813" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T08:12:35.813" Title="Changing a List Question to Something Workable?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1316" CreationDate="2012-01-26T09:11:40.840" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pretending that a list question isn't a list question isn't a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With your examples, I'm pretty sure that the first would survive (especially if the question made it very clear that if the answer is &quot;yes&quot;, then one or two definitive examples suffice).  The second one would certainly be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately (IMO) even if there are a short list in one answer, that's still off-topic. This was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/425/108&quot;&gt;discussed at great length&lt;/a&gt; when setting the on-topic list for the FAQ. Many such questions (not all, because if you didn't have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/list&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;list&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;list&lt;/a&gt; you generally escaped the great purge) have been not just closed but also deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the best way to fix this would be to push for a reconsideration whether this type of question is on-topic.  When the topics were added to the FAQ, it had a positive vote count, but wasn't included because it was controversial (apparently, although there's only one down vote) and because it didn't have many votes either way (because it was added to that meta post late to try and establish that there are different types of questions that involve a &quot;list&quot; of some type, when most people were thoroughly sick of the &quot;what's on topic&quot; debate).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2012-01-26T09:11:40.840" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1311" CreationDate="2012-01-26T13:58:27.980" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first would work for me, the 30th would be okay, but not great. The best times would be UTC times 100-400 sometime (So, I guess technically it would be the next day for each of those days).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-01-26T13:58:27.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1316" CreationDate="2012-01-26T14:52:52.810" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The key here is that you want to prompt people to give examples to back up their answers. Something not unlike citations and references. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before that, you'll want to nugget down the question to its true core.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of asking if there are common tropes, ask about the template they all start from. That way you understand what the basis is. A great answer on that will show where it may deviate by mentioning a few where they don't take to the template or modify it in someway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's going to be hard to ask about non-specific titles as that falls to the way of a list of lists question. The more specific you can be about what you're analysing, the greater chance of steering it away from a list generator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given too that the activity in the chat room is busier now with more users, recommendations or asking for things to try out in a new franchise might not fall on deaf ears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="383" LastActivityDate="2012-01-26T14:52:52.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1314" CreationDate="2012-01-26T16:01:22.520" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As someone who (ab)uses this form of linking, I fully agree with your example. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I think the links and explanation of question origins are useful and add extra value - and therefore should in no way be prohibited - &lt;strong&gt;it's definitely best to try and word it in such a way that the link is NOT the main focus of the question&lt;/strong&gt;, they way you illustrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would definitely support editorial efforts to enforce this improvement on existing or any new questions, provided none of the details or meanings are lost in editing (your example was very good).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a note: I don't think it's such a big problem that it would, for example, merit a downvote or closing, though of course I'm biased :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-01-26T16:01:22.520" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1311" CreationDate="2012-01-26T16:12:25.053" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just a thought for future elections. It might be better to try and time the nomination phase so that at least part of the chat options fall on a weekend, for those of us (which, I would think, is most) who have work during the day; the workday limits my availability quite a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2012-01-26T16:12:25.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1314" CreationDate="2012-01-26T17:05:14.997" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only problem I have with this business is that many people don't give even the slightest summary of whats on the other end of that link---then force you to read the other question to understand what they are asking. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's just poor writing and should be fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your second example is much better: it simple reads well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="231" LastActivityDate="2012-01-26T17:05:14.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1323" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1348" CreationDate="2012-01-26T19:22:54.650" Score="-7" ViewCount="623" Body="&lt;p&gt;Current background image is also nice. But, it looks like something magical, old &amp;amp; religious. The tech touch is missing or overwritten. The image is full of interstellar space &amp;amp; two planets. But, this drawing around surface of planet makes everything creepy..&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IhDxX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;religious drawing&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Such type of drawings were used to calculate future &amp;amp; interstellar distance in deep past (The Astrology touch). It makes me think that the interstellar space doesn't belong to Star Trek type canon, but something from old primitive fantasy or magic canon.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;So, nothing is picked from fast track &amp;amp; future science fiction. Why is non-science fiction based fantasy part dominating?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please support if you're fan of Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate, Andromeda, Terminator, Transformers etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="4257" LastEditDate="2013-05-28T00:04:40.337" LastActivityDate="2013-05-28T00:04:40.337" Title="Add Spaceship and Robot in background image" Tags="|feature-request|status-declined|design|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1323" CreationDate="2012-01-26T20:08:08.653" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree, and many of the symbols are from astrology, runes, or other similar fields.  while I don't object to that, I know there are SF people who don't believe in those fields.  I'd like to add that @SachinShekhar is not the first person to say that he feels the theme, while beautiful, focuses on fantasy and ignores the science fiction aspect (and that was the original theme before fantasy was added).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also talked about the &quot;Answered Question&quot; image, which has to be simple.  It was the biohazard symbol, but was changed to the three hexagons, which really has no meaning at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One suggestion I made on that topic was a retro looking rocket ship.  That very image has already been used in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/4451/science-fiction-fantasy&quot;&gt;Area 51&lt;/a&gt; where there are two images of an old retro rocketship.  This could easily be turned into a silhouette and used as a background &quot;Answered Question&quot; image as well as being integrated into something that would add the SF aspect to the overall theme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2012-01-26T20:08:08.653" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1323" CreationDate="2012-01-26T20:09:53.623" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a fan of more than half of the things you cited, but on a site that I feel is already heavily dominated with science fiction and unrepresentive of fantasy I like the rune symbols that are used throughout it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a design perspective it is hard to find the perfect balance between fantasy and science fiction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="1148" LastEditDate="2012-01-26T20:16:49.447" LastActivityDate="2012-01-26T20:16:49.447" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1323" CreationDate="2012-01-26T23:18:25.950" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, if I am a fan of Battlestar Galactica and Stargate, I'd rather be inclined to support those &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Colonies_of_Kobol&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;astrological zodiac signs&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Glyph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;rune-like symbols&lt;/a&gt;, wouldn't I? In fact, in Stargate, the symbols are actually placed in a ring shaped gate, just like in the image. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GCHcU.png&quot; alt=&quot;Stargate&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not every work follows this trope, but many do, including hard science fiction. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Symbolism&lt;/a&gt; is not restricted to religion and mysticism&lt;/strong&gt; and personally I find that notion rather limiting and not in the spirit of speculative/science/fantasy fiction or just about anything that requires an active imagination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several specific reasons why I strongly disagree with your suggestion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The design simply isn't too much oriented to fantasy and science fiction isn't underrepresented. &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The largest part of the background is a view of stars (or an asteroid field) - a common imagery in classical science fiction in outer space setting.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a planet in the title part of the background image.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fonts are (retro)futuristic. If I ever meet a timecop I expect him to have an ID card with a font like in the logo.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Badges look somehow Klingon :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Overall color scheme is a bit dark, which nicely represents the noir aspect common to some of the greatest pieces of science fiction (Blade Runner, anyone).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Actually, the only things that &lt;em&gt;remotely&lt;/em&gt; illustrate fantasy, are the word  Fantasy in the logo, the angel in title background and the runes. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If even a small rocket gets added because of described reasons, someone else would ask for a robot. Then someone else, for a mutant, etc. If we were to have every single thing ever mentioned in science fiction in the design, it wouldn't be possible to read anything. This site would be crawling with mutants, evolved AI autonomous weapons, aliens, time travelers, ninjas (42 of them, not more, not less), telepathic trees, genetically altered dolphins and probably ██████ &lt;sub&gt;erased in the name of Godwin&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I don't necessarily like every single tiny detail in the site design, my general opinion is that it is awesome and that it describes topics of the site perfectly. (And looks cool)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-01-29T19:57:19.863" LastActivityDate="2012-01-29T19:57:19.863" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1327" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-27T00:06:30.307" Score="5" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this is long, but it's part of an important topic (electing moderators) and I feel it needs serious discussion and I've taken a little extra time to make sure my points are clear and there are no leaps in reasoning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can understand why and agree that if someone leaves comments on candidate nominations that are name calling or something similar, they should be deleted.  But with a situation as important as picking a moderator, more leeway in deciding what to delete should be required of the moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The case I'm talking about is someone who has nominated himself to run for moderator on SF&amp;amp;F.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election/1#post-9576&quot;&gt;Here's his nomination&lt;/a&gt;.  My first comment is, I feel, a legitimate and necessary question.  If he's been on SF&amp;amp;F for a year and has hardly any activity, how do we know if, after a year of ignoring the board, he'll devote the time and effort to the job of moderator?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question like this, to a candidate, is an opportunity.  It's a chance to step up and face a challenge and say, &quot;I know I haven't been here much, but here's what I will do...&quot;  It's a sales technique: Objections are opportunities to sell one's product.  (And in an election the product is one's self.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if you've checked the link, note his reply.  It essentially amounts to a personal attack against me, accusing me of ambushing him and negatively attacking him with a sardonic comment.  I could have flagged this and complained that it's a personal attack and is name calling, but I did not because I feel it should be on the record.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's another exchange, and after that second exchange, I made a comment that was deleted, a terse sentence that was pretty close to, &quot;But you still have not answered the question.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that may be considered being chatty, but in the case of elections, such a comment should not be deleted.  He has sidestepped the issue, has attacked me personally, and has even gone off on a tangent about the good thing he did in his nomination, all to avoid the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't complain about a personal attack and that's still there (and it should be - a candidate should be allowed to define himself publicly however he wants).  But a simple, short comment calling him on his evasiveness has been cut.  If one is going to start deleting comments, which is more appropriate to a discussion with a candidate - a personal attack, or someone drawing the line and saying, &quot;You're being evasive and that's not appropriate?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet the one that was deleted was not an attack, was not rude, and simply took him to task for not dealing with the issue at hand -- but it also gives him the opportunity to return to the topic and address it.  (It's up to him whether he does that or tries to avoid the issue again or ignores it.)  He's running for moderator, and I can't imagine a single moderator out there not knowing that having a thick skin when being called on a mistake is a requirement of the job.  It also should be a requirement of someone who wants that job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this were an election for a government office, the media would be expected to call a candidate on evasiveness like this.  It's not that kind of election, and there is no media, but it's still a responsibility of the members of the community to call a candidate when they're being evasive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it's the responsibility of the current moderators to not get in the way of that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T02:28:38.617" Title="Comments on Candidate Nominations Should Not Be Deleted" Tags="|discussion|moderators|election|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1327" CreationDate="2012-01-27T00:19:14.397" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know... Politician's conversations don't always get recorded, nor do their outbursts always get permanently emblazoned on YouTube.  Even if they did, YouTube still owns the media channel, and has the right to remove any material they see fit to remove.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments on elections should have to abide by the same rules as comments anywhere else on the SE system.  Pages on the SE sites are available to the public at large, or at least to registered participants on the network.  Basic decency would still seem to apply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="729" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T00:19:14.397" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1327" CreationDate="2012-01-27T01:18:55.173" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at the pitch, this comment appears by you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'll also add that even with turning your answer into an accusation against me, you still &lt;strong&gt;did not&lt;/strong&gt; answer the question. That tells me, and everyone else reading up on the candidates, just how you're going to treat us when faced with a tough question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This reads like the one you're talking about that's been deleted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that's the comment, you'll need to state your browser at least and any extensions which might have covered this up on viewing from your end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="383" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T01:18:55.173" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1327" CreationDate="2012-01-27T02:28:38.617" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember seeing that now-deleted comment.  I'm very curious what the reasoning was for its deletion, as it's an entirely on-topic line of discussion for moderator nominations.  Who is capable of deleting those comments?  Just diamond mods?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is all assuming of course, that this is the correct juncture to grill the candidates.  This is the first moderator election here that I've taken part in, so maybe we're missing something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T02:28:38.617" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1333" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-27T02:49:15.793" Score="9" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see this stated anywhere in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election&quot;&gt;election page&lt;/a&gt; or the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1263/2012-community-moderator-election&quot;&gt;main meta page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A year?  Life?  Until StackExchange feels like it's time to have more elections?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T03:52:20.353" Title="How long are moderators elected for?" Tags="|support|election|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1334" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-27T02:51:57.600" Score="3" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see this stated anywhere in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election&quot;&gt;election page&lt;/a&gt; or the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1263/2012-community-moderator-election&quot;&gt;main meta page&lt;/a&gt;.  Perhaps it will appear when the primary phase is entered, if it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of the (analogue world) elections I participate in involve a &quot;primary&quot; stage, but my limited understanding of a &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_election&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;primary&lt;/a&gt;&quot; is that it's about picking a candidate per party.  Do we have parties here?  Is it something totally unrelated to that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I realise that at this point it's not looking like there will be a primary phase, although it's possible there could be two last-minute candidates).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T03:19:09.767" Title="How does the &quot;primary&quot; phase of the election work?" Tags="|support|election|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1335" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1336" CreationDate="2012-01-27T02:53:22.747" Score="4" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see this stated anywhere in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election&quot;&gt;election page&lt;/a&gt; or the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1263/2012-community-moderator-election&quot;&gt;main meta page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose it'll be clear once we enter that stage, but I would like to write about this for the blog, so it would be handy to know the details now, rather than in 4 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T03:03:06.143" Title="How does voting in the election work?" Tags="|support|election|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1335" CreationDate="2012-01-27T03:03:06.143" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election/1?tab=election&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; link, and read the sidebar.  Looks like each tab on the election page is self-documented a little:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the election phase, 10 candidates advance to final community voting. Any community member with 150 reputation may vote in the election.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each community member has 3 votes. Please cast your votes in order of preference, starting with the most desirable candidate first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All candidates are displayed in random order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The vote tallies are private until the election is complete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After 4 days, the final voting results will be freely downloadable from this page forever, and we will calculate the winners using OpenSTV with the Meek STV method.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T03:03:06.143" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1311" CreationDate="2012-01-27T03:15:50.210" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I second the desire to have this on a weekend.  But, since that's not happening, I'm free on both days, UTC 0000-0400.  I'm in the US, Central Time Zone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T03:15:50.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1334" CreationDate="2012-01-27T03:19:09.767" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;@Keen's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1336/108&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1335/108&quot;&gt;this questio&lt;/a&gt;n provides the answer here, too:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the primary phase, all nominees advance to preliminary community&#xA;  voting. Any community member with 150 reputation may vote in the&#xA;  primary. There is no commenting in this phase, only one up or down&#xA;  vote per candidate. The candidate vote scores are all public. Initial&#xA;  voting should provide a rough sense of which candidates are most&#xA;  electable. All candidates are displayed in random order. The primary&#xA;  is not binding; nominees may withdraw at their discretion at any point&#xA;  during the nomination phase. After 4 days, the top 10 candidates based&#xA;  on primary vote score proceed onward to the election phase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T03:19:09.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1333" CreationDate="2012-01-27T03:52:20.353" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Elected moderators serve indefinitely unless they resign or abuse their position. From time to time, Stack Exchange may choose to hold more elections to supplement the existing moderators as the site grows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="836" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T03:52:20.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1340" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1341" CreationDate="2012-01-27T04:05:50.730" Score="9" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the election and we receive 3 new mods, what is going to happen to the three mods we have now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are they going to get the boot? Are they going to be the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder_%28administrative_title%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Elders&lt;/a&gt;, wise beings that the rulers of the land go to for advice? &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giver&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Givers&lt;/a&gt;, a person who gives all knowledge  of their title to a new Receiver and then goes off into the abyss?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T04:16:28.143" Title="Are our current Mods going to still be mods?" Tags="|discussion|moderators|election|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1340" CreationDate="2012-01-27T04:16:28.143" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Mods Pro Tempore will no longer be moderators (here) unless they run and win.  So far, none have nominated themselves so it looks unlikely (though there is still time should one or more wish to do so).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T04:16:28.143" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1342" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1346" CreationDate="2012-01-27T05:20:39.357" Score="13" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;p&gt;I notice a number of questions in the HP and LotR areas (just because they're the ones I focus one) get answers containing links to the respective wikis that exist for both of these universes.  I was wondering if SFF.SE should consider a bias towards quoting primary sources, i.e. the books in those cases, rather than copying and pasting an answer off a wiki that might just be someone's rampant speculation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4056" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T20:39:11.277" Title="Primary sources vs wikis?" Tags="|discussion|notability-of-sources|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1342" CreationDate="2012-01-27T05:49:59.740" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;A primary source is great, but sometimes it's faster and easier to type up an answer from a wiki -- and even then, often, the wiki is citing an episode of a TV show or a scene in a book.  In my case, I don't do eBooks, so it can be harder to dig out a book than to link to the Wiki (which may even quote the book).  And for video, like film and TV shows, it's also easier to link to the wiki for support rather than pull out a DVD.  (And I often may cite the scene after having just watched it for proof, but still link to the wiki.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I don't think it's always an either/or situation.  Sometimes the Wiki points us to where the answer is, or we can cite it for facts we may know but can't immediately document.  (For example, if someone asks what color a Vulcan's blood is, we may not remember the first episode that is stated, but can find it easily in a wiki.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T05:49:59.740" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1342" CreationDate="2012-01-27T07:00:42.770" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's absolutely fine to have a personal bias like that (I share this to a certain extent,and try to do it in my own answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way that you indicate this is that you vote up answers that do contain these references.  I guess if you feel extremely strongly about it, you might down-vote answers that don't have the references (leaving a comment to indicate why), although that seems excessive to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also edit answers to include references to the primary source (or post an alternative answer if that's more appropriate).  I wouldn't do this just to replace a link to a wiki, but I do if I feel that it will strengthen the answer, and that it was likely that the original answerer would have done so if they had the material at hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is notably more work to get references to an original source.  With books, you can pull quotes from Amazon's &quot;Search Inside&quot; in many cases (and from Google's equivalent in many fewer).  However, it's still much more work, and this can't be done with every book.  If you have an electronic copy of the book, this is considerably simpler (searching and copy and paste!), but, especially with older books, this isn't particularly likely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TV episodes and films are even more difficult.  As far as I know, there isn't any legal equivalent for scripts (e.g. a &quot;Search Inside this DVD&quot; on Amazon), although that would be awesome!  That means you're stuck with transcribing yourself (requires access to the material, it's slow, and it's a lot of work) or finding a script/transcript online (which is almost certainly illegal).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T07:00:42.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1323" CreationDate="2012-01-27T09:37:17.890" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although, I do think that the color scheme is a little too dark, I think what @Jin has done is a very good combination of SciFi and Fantasy. I doubt we could make something better and not veer more towards one genre or the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the symbols as they give a scorcery feel to the site which is very fantasy-esque and I like the space theme as it is generic enough to not be either genre, yet be both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I vote no on a redesign, at least right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T09:37:17.890" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1342" CreationDate="2012-01-27T11:37:20.107" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a balance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Primary sources are 100% &lt;strong&gt;more preferable&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? Wiki could be wrong, though not overwhelmingly likely. Either someone there screws up or inserts their own opinion. Slytherincess can give many examples from HP by heart, I ran into a couple myself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wiki as a source is &lt;strong&gt;100% fine&lt;/strong&gt;, when it clearly and explicitly sources from primary material:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Foo did Bar, in episode 'Forgotten Plot Device #3' of 'Cancelled for being awsome' show. As evidenced by this quote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Insert quote&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Insert picture of Foo doing Bar &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wiki as a source is &lt;strong&gt;ok&lt;/strong&gt;, if it includes a general source, but no quote.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wiki as a source is &lt;strong&gt;somewhat OK&lt;/strong&gt; if it doesn't have a precise source, BUT you clearly state that &quot;The wiki doesn't source this piece of info&quot;. Especially if you can confirm from your own memory that the Wiki is correct despite not having the primary source to quote from.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wiki is &lt;strong&gt;tolerable&lt;/strong&gt; if it doesn't have a source, BUT you &lt;strong&gt;really should&lt;/strong&gt; include the disclaimer that you can't find an exact source on the Wiki (I try to do that).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wiki becomes less OK if 100% of the answer is quoting an unsourced Wiki. Not grounds for deletion or downvotes, but not really a very good answer, and I would prefer a sourced one to replace it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? Because, while a Wiki can be wrong, it is not wrong all THAT often, so an answer quoting a Wiki is infinitely preferable to no answer or idle speculation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="3267" LastEditDate="2012-01-27T20:39:11.277" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T20:39:11.277" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="778" CreationDate="2012-01-27T14:13:06.040" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;On February 10th, 2012, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace in 3D will hit the theaters. This would be a good opportunity to give out movie tickets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, when it is eventually released on Blu-ray and DVD, there could be another giveaway for those. (It will be available other than in theaters, right?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2841" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T14:13:06.040" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1323" CreationDate="2012-01-27T17:31:52.810" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As other users has mentioned the line between science-fiction and fantasy is often a very grey, blurry one. With mental based sciences and technology based magic the two genres can, and do, frequently cross. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to the question, &quot;Why is non-science fiction based fantasy part dominating?&quot;, I do not readily agree with this belief. It is true that strange symbols and flying, angel-esque creatures may predominately feature in fantasy, but this does not preclude their use in, or their application to a science-fiction based motif. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So then one might ask, why not add something more readily recognizable as science-fiction to the graphic (ex. retro style science-fiction rockets, robots, ray guns etc)? This is a valid question. In my opinion the graphic adequately represents both science-fiction and fantasy as it is (in the broad, general definitions for both). Beyond which, if more hard science-fiction themes are added to the graphic then people who have a predilection for fantasy may begin to feel that the graphic is too tilted toward science-fiction. They will then ask to have more traditional fantasy themes included (wands, unicorns, dragons etc). This sets the stage for a never ending back-and-forth struggle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it is now, the graphic keeps it simple. It requires the user to use their imagination a little and make it what they want it to be (as any good science-fiction or fantasy story should). It strikes a difficult balance between two worlds that would be all too easy to tip to one side or the other. At this time &lt;strong&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt; feel that a redesign is not necessary and that as it is now lends itself to the design of the site very well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1234" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T17:31:52.810" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1349" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1352" CreationDate="2012-01-28T04:58:29.453" Score="12" ViewCount="367" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just reading a question where an answer provided a link to a script of a two part episode of a television show.  This is not hosted on a production company website, it's what appears to be a private site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not aware of all the legal issues with scripts, but I know there are a number of companies in Hollywood that sell TV and film scripts to people.  Sometimes the scripts are copies of early drafts, or of the actual shooting script, and sometimes it's the result of someone watching the movie or show and typing in, word for word, a script of what is seen on the screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know the writer of a TV episode is allowed to sell physical copies of his/her script, but that the production itself is, of course, copyrighted by the production company.  In general, a script up on the internet without the production company's approval is a copyright violation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know the issue of TV shows and movies on YouTube is a grey area, since YouTube pays licensing fees to corporations to allow copyrighted content, but most copies of TV shows and movies on YouTube are uploaded by individuals, often from DVDs where the licensing for the product states it cannot be redistributed in any way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we allow links to copyrighted YouTube videos?  (I think there's a difference between a link to a 3-4 minute scene in a movie or from a TV show and an entire movie or show.  The first would be fair use, the second would depend on the licensing agreements for YouTube.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And should we allow links to text that is a direct copy of copyrighted material?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this isn't popular, but laws vary from country to country and, honestly, with the nastiness that has been going on with copyright law in the past few years, I think we need a clear policy on this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-01-28T20:53:12.467" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Should We Allow Links to Sources of a Questionable Legal Status?" Tags="|discussion|legal|copyright|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1349" CreationDate="2012-01-28T06:48:06.343" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since we did not host the material, pirated/stolen or not, we are not liable for what the link goes to. As long as the material to the outside site isn't in violation of the rules of SE, then I would assume the user could link all they wanted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, the user would need to have a summary of the valuable information the link provides should the information be deleted in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone let me know if I'm wrong about the rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2012-01-28T06:48:06.343" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1349" CreationDate="2012-01-28T07:00:13.570" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have an idea which site you're referring to, and I have linked to it in some of my answers when I needed a source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first time I linked to it, I also wondered about the legality of the content.  I did some more searching around and found several large transcript archives.  Of course, this in itself does not speak to the legality of these sites, but I took it as a good sign that large, well-developed sites with so much content were in existence.  My thinking was if it was illegal, they wouldn't be thriving as much as they are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also drew a parallel to the sites that offer guitar tabs of popular music, which are always transcribed by listeners and shared with the rest of the Internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as videos on YouTube, I think you've made an important point - we can't know if a video posted is a copyright violation or if the poster has a licensing agreement to show it on YouTube.  I think that is up to YouTube to police.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying we should be linking to BitTorrent sites or downloads of books or movies, but do we really have the resources to determine what all on the Internet is legally posted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can look to see if Movies or Books has a policy on linking to copyrighted content, or if StackExchange itself has a policy.  But I don't think that simply linking to transcript sites like this can land anyone in any trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, if things like SOPA or PIPA pass, the problem will take care of itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3619" LastActivityDate="2012-01-28T07:00:13.570" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1349" CreationDate="2012-01-28T09:56:11.430" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/legal&quot;&gt;terms of service&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Subscriber represents, warrants and agrees that it will not contribute any Subscriber Content that (a) infringes, violates or otherwise interferes with any copyright or trademark of another party,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A link to illegally reproduced copyrighted material absolutely interferes with that copyright.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's plenty of discussion about this on other metas if you're interested. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://cstheory.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/886/sites-policy-regarding-links-to-unauthorised-copies-of-books&quot;&gt;Theoretical Computer Science&lt;/a&gt;, who even have a policy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://cstheory.meta.stackexchange.com/a/880&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood (co-founder of StackExchange) makes a very clear statement, also on Theoretical CS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/23818/suggesting-software-that-infringes-copyright&quot;&gt;Linking to illegal software (meta.stackoverflow.com)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/49427/answers-that-direct-towards-material-that-infringes-copyright&quot;&gt;Answers that direct users to (illegally reproduced) copyright material (meta.stackoverflow.com)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13975/links-to-pirated-material-in-the-edit-history&quot;&gt;The problem that this material stays in the edit history (meta.stackoverflow.com)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/48364/what-is-proper-etiquette-when-someone-posts-copyrighted-material&quot;&gt;What to do when you see it in a question/answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2012-01-28T10:39:30.353" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1355" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1357" CreationDate="2012-01-29T03:05:53.473" Score="7" ViewCount="227" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9899/why-was-count-dooku-not-given-the-word-darth&quot;&gt;Why was Count Dooku not given the title &amp;quot;Darth&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Googling for &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;source=hp&amp;amp;q=count%20dooku%20darth&amp;amp;pbx=1&amp;amp;oq=&amp;amp;aq=&amp;amp;aqi=&amp;amp;aql=&amp;amp;gs_sm=&amp;amp;gs_upl=&amp;amp;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&amp;amp;fp=a2f2e0712ab20a9e&amp;amp;biw=1024&amp;amp;bih=583&amp;amp;pf=p&amp;amp;pdl=500&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;count dooku darth&lt;/a&gt;&quot; brings up as the very first link+blurb:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Count Dooku - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Dooku&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Count Dooku / Darth Tyranus&lt;/strong&gt;. Star Wars character. Christopher Lee ... Count Dooku   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I'm the only one who voted to close as general reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it just me not getting the GR rules, or merely not enough people online?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2014-05-15T23:05:13.150" Title="Is this General Reference?" Tags="|discussion|scope|closing-questions|general-reference|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2014-05-18T12:18:24.313" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1355" CreationDate="2012-01-29T03:33:55.673" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree its general reference if you found it with google and answered on Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think some people don't at least research a little before posting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2012-01-29T03:33:55.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1355" CreationDate="2012-01-29T10:26:16.463" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see the answer to the question in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Dooku&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt; nor in the first Google hits. Ok, Dooku did have a Darth name, but why wasn't he known by it? The &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Dooku&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Star Wars wiki&lt;/a&gt; has an extended biography that may contain the answer (something about using his nobility status for a power base, I think), but it could use a summary targeted to this specific issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, given that the question has a massively upvoted accepted answer which only mentions the existence of the Darth name and does not go into the why at all, this Q&amp;amp;A is not providing any new content on the Internet or making any content more accessible. This is the very point of the general reference close reason: if we're not improving on Wikipedia, the thread is a waste of time. I say kill it, and let the question be reasked (insisting on a proper answer) if someone cares.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-01-29T10:26:16.463" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1311" CreationDate="2012-01-29T21:33:03.707" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I third the desire to have this on a weekend. Also, the selected time might allow the most participation from the &lt;em&gt;candidates&lt;/em&gt;, but does it allow the most participation from the &lt;em&gt;electorate&lt;/em&gt;? For me (in the UK), it's at 2am, for Europeans it's 3am. This is a global, 24/7 site and all users should have the opportunity to put questions to the candidates. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It feels like Rebecca's announcement is missing a sign that says 'Americans only' :-(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="186" LastActivityDate="2012-01-29T21:33:03.707" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1359" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-29T22:46:23.060" Score="10" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;There will be a chat session with the 2012 moderator candidates on Tuesday 02:00 UTC (Monday 9pm EST). The event will take place in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/?tab=site&amp;amp;sort=active&amp;amp;host=scifi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Scifi Town Hall chat room&lt;/a&gt; (not in the regular site room).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can't attend the event, you can ask questions here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're a candidate, please visit this page after the chat session and answer questions that haven't been covered in the chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-02-15T15:23:24.400" LastActivityDate="2012-02-15T15:23:24.400" Title="2012 moderator election: ask the candidates" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-01-29T22:48:04.713" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1359" CreationDate="2012-01-29T23:00:27.473" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do you think of content quality on the site? Do we rock, do we suck, does it depend?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-01-29T23:00:27.473" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-01-29T23:00:27.473" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1359" CreationDate="2012-01-29T23:01:30.517" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are there types of questions that are allowed now and you would like to disallow, or vice versa? (e.g. story identification, recommendations, …)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-01-29T23:01:30.517" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-01-29T23:01:30.517" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1362" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-30T06:57:55.787" Score="2" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/spy-movies-books-on-topic&quot;&gt;Spy movies/ books: On topic?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;House, M.D. is clearly neither science fiction nor fantasy (even though &lt;a href=&quot;http://io9.com/5346227/5-reasons-why-house-md-is-science-fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this io9 article&lt;/a&gt; begs to differ), but some individual episodes have science fiction sub-plots. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one episode, for instance, the team records a patient's brain activity to visual stimuli for several hours in order to reconstruct an image she is seeing in her mind. And occasionally, there are cases of medical &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ForgottenPhlebotinum&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Forgotten Phlebotinum&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To ask the question more broadly: are science fiction and fantasy sub-plots / story arcs / episodes of non-sf-and-f works on topic? How does one decide?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3247" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2012-01-30T08:21:20.370" Title="Is frontier medicine in House, M.D. on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2012-01-30T11:06:25.807" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1362" CreationDate="2012-01-30T08:21:20.370" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any episode, subplot, story arc, etc that has SciFi connotations, even though the entirety of the series/story may not have, is considered on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/350/1109&quot;&gt;Meta discussion about the scope of the site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2012-01-30T08:21:20.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1311" CreationDate="2012-01-30T10:50:17.070" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alright for me.. Its 7:30 AM in my time zone!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2012-01-30T10:50:17.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1365" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1366" CreationDate="2012-01-30T18:02:56.657" Score="-3" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently attempted to participate in the moderator election, despite my rather thin record on the site. I now understand that it is a more serious position than I initially thought- I happened to enter the election early before many high-rep and/or serious candidates entered and thus did not fully appreciate that I might be under-qualified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, I incorrectly interpreted some comments as hostile which I now realize were merely meant to provide opportunities for me to express my dedication and willingness to be a moderator. In any case, I have withdrawn with my apologies for my candidacy's apparent lack of seriousness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it seems to me that this episode could have been avoided if the link advertising the moderator election were not displayed (or at least not as prominently) if my activity is below a certain level. After all, it's activity as much as reputation that should determine who would make a good moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not advocating that low-activity users cannot enter, merely that they would have to work a little harder to find the link. Of course, once nominations are closed, add the link for everyone that can vote - I believe that process already works quite well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133" LastEditorUserId="4257" LastEditDate="2013-05-28T00:04:06.363" LastActivityDate="2013-05-28T00:04:06.363" Title="Proposal: Only show the moderator election link when site activity reaches a certain threshold" Tags="|feature-request|status-declined|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1365" CreationDate="2012-01-30T18:28:54.930" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The link isn't visible just to encourage nominations, but to also encourage other members of the site to see the nominations, read what the candidates have posted, and start asking questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no reason to prohibit new members from seeing the election page (also keep in mind that as designed, the nominations are only one sub-section of the overall page), and in all honesty there's no reason to prohibit or even discourage new members from nominating themselves, either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;True, not everyone is going to appreciate just what is involved with, or expected of, our moderators, but that doesn't mean that they would be &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; moderators.  At worst, it could provide very useful insight into what is expected, both for those who are thinking of participating in the election, and those who merely want to see what it is all about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry that you feel your nomination ended up poorly, and I hope that you hold no hard feelings about the comments and discussion on your nomination, but I think the end result is that you have a better understanding of what is involved in the election than you did before, and certainly it is better than what you would understand of the election if you didn't even have the opportunity to see the link in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2012-01-30T18:28:54.930" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1138" CreationDate="2012-01-30T19:15:49.193" Score="2" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt; returns to AMC in a couple of weeks.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://hbowatch.com/hbo-series-premiere-schedule/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; returns on April 1.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-01-30T19:15:49.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1359" CreationDate="2012-01-30T20:37:31.840" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The majority of nominees are in the US.  If all three moderators end up being from the US, how will you handle this? e.g.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What will you do to keep the international nature of the site thriving?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Will having all moderators within (essentially) the same time zone cause issues?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2012-01-30T20:37:31.840" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-01-30T20:37:31.840" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1369" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1371" CreationDate="2012-01-30T20:43:02.803" Score="8" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once a vote is cast in the election, can it be changed?  When voting for a question/answer, you get time in which you can change your mind, even if the post hasn't been edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are election votes like this?  Can I vote today, change my mind during the week and change my vote?  Or once I push the vote button, is that it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="108" LastEditDate="2012-01-30T21:56:54.473" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Can election votes be changed?" Tags="|support|election|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1369" CreationDate="2012-01-30T21:01:55.413" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the final phase of the election, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/112852/reordering-votes-in-final-election-phase/112853#112853&quot;&gt;you can change your mind at any time&lt;/a&gt;, with one exception: if you have cast a vote, you can't go back to an empty ballot. In other words, you need to make up your mind whether to participate, but if you participate, you can pick different candidates at the last minute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For future reference, in the primary phase (which only happens when there are more than 10 candidates), you have &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/76512/i-cant-undo-or-change-my-vote-in-the-primary-election-phase/76556#76556&quot;&gt;3 hours until your vote is locked&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, for questions and answers, you only have 5 minutes to change your vote. If a post has been edited since you voted on it, you can change your vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2012-01-30T21:01:55.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1372" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1376" CreationDate="2012-01-31T01:28:40.883" Score="2" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a user joins a chat room, their avatar and username fly down from the top of the screen to join the rest of the users in the sidebar.  In our shiny new dark-styled chatroom, this fly-in box is still styled in the old white background style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Picture courtesy &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/2841/peterd&quot;&gt;PeterDC&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/43YTV.png&quot; alt=&quot;Image of white on dark&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2012-01-31T07:01:10.250" Title="'User joined chat' fly-in is colored white" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1359" CreationDate="2012-01-31T05:37:04.240" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;How should we reach out to new users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first time I made a positive contribution to Wikipedia (years ago), within minutes a senior user left a comment on my user page welcoming me to the community and thanking me for my contribution. He also told me to contact him any time if I ever need help or clarifications. As a result, I felt like contributing more, &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; I avoided a number of newcomer gaffes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we have something like that here? Sometimes, I notice that the first experience a newcomer has here is to have older users tell them that their question is off topic or poorly phrased. Some of them may only get around to reading the policies in detail after a few day of participation. So, shouldn't we help them avoid submitting poor questions/answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3247" LastActivityDate="2012-01-31T05:37:04.240" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-01-31T05:37:04.240" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1374" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-31T05:44:41.907" Score="-7" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is to encourage more users to participate in meta. I'm asking whether it is both technically possible and whether it is appropriate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since meta questions are relatively few, is it possible to have them appear among the regular questions, perhaps marked with an icon or a special color? (I usually go to meta by clicking the link on the top menu bar, which I don't always do. Having updates appear on the main page may make a difference for those like me).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3247" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-01-31T22:30:36.550" LastActivityDate="2012-01-31T22:30:36.550" Title="Is it possible to have meta questions appear in the main question feed?" Tags="|feature-request|meta|feed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1375" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-31T05:58:10.673" Score="2" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the town hall I asked a few questions about types of questions.  Part of that is because I feel like a strict and literal adherence to the rules means good questions would get closed before we can see where they will end up.  Some of the best questions that led to the most interesting answers in the early days of SF&amp;amp;F would likely be closed now because of the current rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But we also discussed in chat how the best way, sometimes, to figure out how to handle different types of questions or avoid question formats that we have ruled out (like list formats or speculation) that it may take test questions that will have to be edited or altered or experimented with to figure out what works and what doesn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've posted an example question that touches on something I'm interested in.  My hope, while the title seems more like just an eye-catcher, is that people will read the question and think about it and not just grab a quick answer and post a link to something online.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like answers are becoming, more and more, just wiki spam, so one intent was to force people to think before just posting a quick bit of speculation or grabbing one source, or in this case, one mythos (the subject is werewolves) and say, &quot;Here's the answer!&quot;  I'm also hoping that by asking for more thought, it prevents list answers where each person lists one or two franchises or mythos instead of analyzing the situation and trying to synthesize the answer.  (Or maybe I'm just being too pedantic, pretentious, and expecting too much.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So please, if you have ideas, help me with what would turn this question into a good one that will work well here on SE:SF&amp;amp;F.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/10068/what-happens-to-a-werewolf-on-the-moon&quot;&gt;Here's the question.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2012-01-31T19:13:40.947" Title="Off Format Questions (and an Example)" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1372" CreationDate="2012-01-31T07:00:00.113" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Great point. I never considered changing that part, but you're right, it's better. Done!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="171" LastActivityDate="2012-01-31T07:00:00.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1375" CreationDate="2012-01-31T07:35:33.220" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with the question you asked is that any writer could write a story to have any number of permutaions that would result in any number of outcomes to the event.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because theres no &quot;rule&quot; for were-creatures, there can't really be a defiinitive answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And as far as I know, no author has written a werewolf space opera consisting of a werewolf on the moon (or any moon).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the scenario doesn't exist yet, any writer could then just write a story were this happens and that could be an answer to your question, until the next writer writes a new story with a different outcome...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I dont really know how someone could answer your current question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorUserId="1109" LastEditDate="2012-01-31T08:00:43.267" LastActivityDate="2012-01-31T08:00:43.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1374" CreationDate="2012-01-31T07:40:45.350" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this would be constructive. It would create duplicate information. There is already an RSS feed that you can subscribe to and the chat Mos Esley has both main site questions and meta questions posted as they are asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2012-01-31T07:40:45.350" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1375" CreationDate="2012-01-31T08:42:16.943" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In its current form, the question &lt;em&gt;seems&lt;/em&gt; like it's just asking for pure speculation/discussion, which is definitely off-topic (except in chat...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think what you would like to see in an answer is well-reasoned speculation, based on examples from existing works.  Something along the lines of (but sans the made up facts and with much more detail):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the original lycanthropy myths, transformation required direct light&#xA;  from the moon (e.g. 1921's &lt;em&gt;Light of the Moon&lt;/em&gt; by O Proudfoots, and as&#xA;  discussed in &lt;em&gt;Where's the Wolf? An analysis of werewolf mythology&#xA;  throughout the 20th Century&lt;/em&gt;).  This means that a transformation into&#xA;  wolf state requires both the lycanthropy infection and moonlight. &#xA;  Moonlight could mean light reflected from the moon (F Underhill's&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;NASA Wolf&lt;/em&gt; short stories are a carefully considered set of stories dealing with light reflected off man-made satellites); in this case&#xA;  this would presumably result in a reversed wolf state on the moon,&#xA;  where the transformation occurred during the day, not night. &#xA;  Moonlight could alternatively mean any (reflected sun) light in the&#xA;  dark (consider R.J.J. Tolkien's &lt;em&gt;Eclipse of the Wolf&lt;/em&gt;, where&#xA;  transformations occur during eclipses of the sun, as well as at&#xA;  night); in this case, transformations would likely be weak, because&#xA;  there is much less reflected light in the moon's night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that's the case, then I think the question needs to make it clearer: you want speculation based on existing works (but it doesn't matter which they are), not just any random suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That form of the question isn't substantially different from one that asks for speculation within an existing fiction universe (where, again, answers require basis on canon, not wild speculation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, the scope of the question is pretty large, partly because there's no restriction on the type of werewolf.  For example, the second-to-last paragraph - 'what are the core elements of the werewolf mythos' - could be a question all on its own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="108" LastEditDate="2012-01-31T12:09:49.650" LastActivityDate="2012-01-31T12:09:49.650" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1380" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-31T12:23:27.277" Score="20" ViewCount="302" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq#dontask&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on &lt;strong&gt;actual problems that you face&lt;/strong&gt;.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really? Are we only meant to ask questions about problems we face?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sounds like a copy / paste from another Stack Exchange site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; in light of the comments below, I should add that I don't have a problem with the existence of the site (quite the opposite), just with the &lt;em&gt;wording of the FAQ&lt;/em&gt;. Can we change that wording?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2014-01-25T03:57:05.403" Title="Are we really here to solve problems?" Tags="|discussion|questions|site-faq|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1380" CreationDate="2012-01-31T12:45:58.367" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depend of your definition of problem :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A problem is an obstacle, impediment, difficulty or challenge, or any situation that invites resolution; the resolution of which is recognized as a solution or contribution toward a known purpose or goal. A problem implies a desired outcome coupled with an apparent deficiency, doubt or inconsistency that prevents the outcome from taking place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/problem&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;dictionary.reference&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;prob·lem noun&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   1. any question or matter involving doubt, uncertainty, or difficulty.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   2. a question proposed for solution or discussion.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   3. Mathematics. a statement requiring a solution, usually by means of a mathematical operation or geometric construction.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if you definition is more in the line of Wikipedia, no we don't &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; solve any problem. But if you take it in the line of dictionary.reference, we solve some. Those problems are less practical than, say &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://cooking.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;cooking&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://diy.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;home improvement&lt;/a&gt;. They are also less &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt; since they are about imaginary universes. But they are still problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Peoples are puzzled by all the information that is available about Sci-Fi and Fantasy. Accessing, filtering and extracting the meaningful information is the real problem, that's why we are here.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:33:39.573" LastActivityDate="2012-01-31T12:45:58.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1375" CreationDate="2012-01-31T12:53:58.490" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first 100 days of the site, during its beta period, questions like these were routinely thrown up against the wall to see what would stick and what would form the kind of content we wanted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Through closes and deletions, it was decided that such speculation, of positing theories and extrapolation, questions asking about archetypes, tropes and generalities without a tied franchise were not constructive. Those that were leaning too much into real world application were just plain off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To see the community roll through that cycle again suggests that graduation was perhaps premature if we need to rehash the same trials and spaghetti content testing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Different franchises have different rules. You either couch the question in one or a couple or you end up with a literal writers' workshop, spitballing all sorts of ideas in order to nugget out some kind of manuscript. For help on writing, we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://writers.stackexchange.com/&quot; title=&quot;currently in beta&quot;&gt;Writers Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:40:22.477" LastActivityDate="2012-01-31T12:53:58.490" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1375" CreationDate="2012-01-31T13:52:56.367" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mixing things which aren't meant to be mixed is something I think we should be very careful about. There is a thin line, sometimes it actually works (The E.T. and Star Wars question), but most of the time it won't work at all. I'd be opposed to a site wide ban, but I would encourage people to be very careful about which questions to allow, and in general, discourage mixing universes that aren't meant to be mixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-01-31T13:52:56.367" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1384" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-31T13:58:23.960" Score="15" ViewCount="258" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first time I made a positive contribution to Wikipedia (years ago), within minutes a senior user left a comment on my user page welcoming me to the community and thanking me for my contribution. He also told me to contact him any time if I ever need help or clarifications. As a result, I felt like contributing more, and I avoided a number of newcomer gaffes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we have something like that here? Sometimes, I notice that the first experience a newcomer has here is to have older users tell them that their question is off topic or poorly phrased. Some of them may only get around to reading the policies in detail after a few day of participation. So, shouldn't we help them avoid submitting poor questions/answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Copied over from this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1359/2012-moderator-election-ask-the-candidates/1373#comment2976_1373&quot;&gt;Ask the moderator candidates&lt;/a&gt; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3247" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2015-01-07T18:22:44.133" Title="How should we reach out to new users?" Tags="|discussion|new-users|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1375" CreationDate="2012-01-31T14:55:54.697" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have an issue with your questions that have a similar folklore-based scope, and it's something I've brought up once or twice in chat (that type of question). If you don't specify a canon, you're effectively hoping that folklore is establishing enough of a canon by itself. The issue with that is that we haven't established folklore as being on-topic for the site. This is likely for a number of reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Folklore by definition is localized - your idea of a vampire may radically differ from, say, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nukekubi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a Japanese vampire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is difficult to draw the line between what one person might consider folklore and another fact (e.g. are questions about Roswell, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptozoology&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cryptozoological animals&lt;/a&gt;, angels, or the devil on topic?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;By definition, there cannot be an authoritative answer to most questions dedicated to folklore (as if there was supporting facts and proof, it wouldn't be folklore), so most questions become a discussion of the ideas behind the folklore itself (and the particulars of the question)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that speculation by itself does not make for a bad question or answer. I'm just trying to figure out what value these questions have for users, when a site dedicated to expertise in speculative fiction is trying to answer questions like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also understand that what you've done, you've done in the interests of getting people to dive more deeply into something (as opposed to copying and pasting from a wiki somewhere). I just don't think your choice of source material is going to bring about the desirable results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1913" LastEditorUserId="1913" LastEditDate="2012-01-31T19:13:40.947" LastActivityDate="2012-01-31T19:13:40.947" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1375" CreationDate="2012-01-31T15:24:38.700" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question as you asked it is, quite frankly, scattered all over the place.  In fact, I count over a dozen discrete questions in there.  That is an instant and obvious sign that the question is inappropriate to this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think that some of the questions asked &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be reworded to be on-topic and constructive.  In fact, when I saw the title, I immediately thought of an example of a work that dealt with that very topic, and was hoping I could incorporate that into an answer.  However, there was no way my reference, even supported by several other references, could possibly hope to address the scope of what you were asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this falls into the category of &quot;if you can imagine an entire book that answers your question, you're asking too much&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to turn it into a good question, simply pick a focus.  Pick one aspect of the question that is of particular interest to you, and then clearly indicate what, exactly, you are looking for in the way of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2012-01-31T15:24:38.700" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1387" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-31T16:54:15.747" Score="13" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;Science Fiction and Fantasy's answer rate is at 95% (as shown &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) which may sound high, but that ranks us 45th out of 81 sites. Come on! We can do better than that!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose that from &lt;strong&gt;February 1st to February 7th&lt;/strong&gt;, we put some focus towards answering the so-far-unanswerable. It's a mission! Right now there are &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/unanswered&quot;&gt;133 unanswered questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; on the site, meaning they're either questions with no answer provided &lt;strong&gt;or&lt;/strong&gt; the answer provided has yet to be upvoted. Around 35 of these are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions, which I don't expect to be answered easily. Let's aim for the rest!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Check these questions out&lt;/strong&gt; when you're killing time on the site, in between providing the awesome questions and answers you write every day. Read through the provided answers and &lt;strong&gt;upvote them if you think they're awesome&lt;/strong&gt; (they may have slipped past your attention initially or be from before your time). If the answer is not awesome, &lt;strong&gt;would an edit improve it&lt;/strong&gt;? Does it need a &lt;strong&gt;whole new answer&lt;/strong&gt;? Make those changes! Get those points!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's make the site comprehensive and robust with information! Let's do this!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2012-01-31T22:02:50.117" Title="Answer the Unanswered Questions" Tags="|discussion|clean-up|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1384" CreationDate="2012-01-31T17:14:22.013" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmmm... I've made contributions to the Wikipedia and never received any messages from anyone.  Guess they like you better than they like me!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, one issue with reaching out to new users is SE is designed to &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be a social media site, so the only real way to communicate is in chat (since chatty comments are deleted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We might consider allowing something like a &quot;Welcome to SE&quot; comment on some early posts by new people, or the moderators sending them an email (but some people don't want emails from every site they join and poste on), but other than posting a &quot;Welcome to SE, @Newperson&quot; message in chat, hoping they might stop by when receiving it so we can chat with them, I don't see that, within the current structure, there's much else we can do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2012-01-31T17:14:22.013" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1389" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-31T19:23:45.190" Score="11" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following is a &quot;digest&quot; version of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1311/2012-moderator-election-town-hall-chat-tuesday-0200-utc-monday-9pm-est&quot;&gt;2012 Moderator Election Town Hall Chat&lt;/a&gt;. The format, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/77831/how-can-we-improve-the-town-hall-digests&quot;&gt;as described on Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, is one &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; to this question &lt;em&gt;for every question&lt;/em&gt; asked in the Town Hall, containing all the candidate's answers to that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To view the digest chronologically, please sort the answers by &quot;oldest&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have questions or comments about this, &lt;strong&gt;please do not answer this question&lt;/strong&gt; as the answers are designed to be used for the questions from the Town hall itself. Instead, please ask on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/77831/how-can-we-improve-the-town-hall-digests&quot;&gt;the parent question&lt;/a&gt; or in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/rooms/352/town-hall-discussion&quot;&gt;the Town Hall Discussion Room&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see any corrections which need to be made to this digest, or if you were a candidate who was unable to attend the town hall and would like your answers included, please @Rebecca or @TimStone &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/2321/town-hall-chat&quot;&gt;in the chat room&lt;/a&gt; and let us know!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T18:14:35.863" Title="2012 Moderator Election - Town Hall Chat Digest" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="27" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1389" CreationDate="2012-01-31T19:24:25.907" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ef8d7a735c5ec71cb59105872900187b?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Mark Trapp&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/2334/mark-trapp&quot;&gt;Mark Trapp&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3194840#3194840&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; A number of sites on the network are grappling with whether their versions of X-identification questions are on-topic. Do story identification questions still have a place on SciFi? Why or why not?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3194862#3194862&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I believe that the help me find X story are on topic. They have helped many to find series from long ago they like. There aren't a ton of them, but the tag is among the more popular here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c0190cc521c554c0d4555edbe76f4c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Keen&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9586/keen&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3194884#3194884&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes, they have a place.  This is one of the unique resources our site offers to users and Googlers.  Our ability to identify all manner of sci-fi &amp;amp; fantasy works has been popular, and is a great feature that attracts users to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3194888#3194888&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I believe they provide an opportunity for users to do some real research, knowing there is definitively a right answer. I also think it gives people an opporunity to branch out and explore stories they might not have heard of but sound intriging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3194895#3194895&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I also believe story ID questions are worth keeping here.  At the least, they help the general sci-fi community, and they could well help bring traffic to us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17e552a87c7cff0d28aa62e7bef016fd?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;HNL&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/29223/hnl&quot;&gt;HNL&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3194904#3194904&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I believe it has to have a place somewhere. This site was the first place on the Net that could reliably find for me all those stories that I couldn't remember the title of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3194914#3194914&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I believe they do still have a place on the site. The current benefits of story identification questions are two-fold. The people asking these questions are frequently new users, and I think it is a great way of introducing people to a friendly, helpful community. They also are of interest to experienced members, as they frequently introduce interesting new works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fd433888f0a492f68af28958fa4f6a52?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;OghmaOsiris&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/10071/oghmaosiris&quot;&gt;OghmaOsiris&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195126#3195126&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes, I think that they do have a place on Sci-Fi &amp;amp; Fantasy. I think a key part of our site is opening up new books and media to everyone and by allowing story-ident questions, everyone gets a chance to relive someone's nostalgia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a717291747c76567bb0f086e15ae6e43?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Gilles&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/240/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3207534#3207534&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  identification questions are actual problems faced by the asker, they're a perfect fit for the SE format, they attract new users (asking) and experts (answering, and yes, experts do like to show off how they identified an obscure story in 3 minutes). Plus I've yet to hear a valid argument &lt;em&gt;against&lt;/em&gt; them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-03-12T18:14:35.863" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T18:14:35.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1384" CreationDate="2012-01-31T19:25:48.397" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, color me naïve, but the welcome to new users should be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The use they get out of the site - thoughtful, engaging questions and brilliant, in-depth answers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Proper recognition of their good work (when they post good work) via upvotes - personally, I'm a LOT likelier to upvote a good answer/Q from a new user than from an established one, specifically to show them that the game's worth playing and there are them rewards in good job being done.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gentle steering towards how to improve the work that isn't good - good-natured comments and edits; edits ought to probably come with comments explaining what was wrong and how to fix it next time if the extent of the edit warrants it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="3267" LastEditDate="2012-02-01T00:09:02.597" LastActivityDate="2012-02-01T00:09:02.597" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1389" CreationDate="2012-01-31T19:26:41.397" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3194911#3194911&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; Is there anyone who is opposed to story identification questions?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3194925#3194925&quot;&gt;linked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13/are-book-movie-tv-series-identification-questions-allowed&quot;&gt;Are book / movie / TV series identification questions allowed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3194935#3194935&quot;&gt;continued&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Basically, the consensus is, if there is enough information, they are on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3194939#3194939&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I am not opposed to them (obviously, based upon my response above), but I do see this policy as having potential for encouraging bad or uninteresting questions, and I would therefore suggest periodic review to ensure that it is still a policy the community wants to continue supporting&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a717291747c76567bb0f086e15ae6e43?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Gilles&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/240/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3207557#3207557&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; There is, but the most vocal opponents aren't active on this site&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T18:12:28.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1389" CreationDate="2012-01-31T19:29:05.903" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ef06754ae7cbcf88a1f6b91cfa1647cc?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;TangoOversway&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/26731/tangooversway&quot;&gt;TangoOversway&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3194932#3194932&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; Now simple questions that get simple answers get lots of reaction (reaction = upvotes, answers, comments, views, and maybe discussion on chat).  This is leading to more and more questions that are answered quickly, which implies answers are easily found.  What can be done to encourage more in-depth questions and encourage more reaction to such questions?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3194954#3194954&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Not all simple answers get votes. I try to upvote the answer that best describes the question's intent. Sometimes it's a two sentence answer, and sometimes it's a 3 page answer. The best that can be done is to lead by example, and encourage others to follow. I try to go into popular questions a few days after the answers have been cast, and pick new favorites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ef06754ae7cbcf88a1f6b91cfa1647cc?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;TangoOversway&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/26731/tangooversway&quot;&gt;TangoOversway&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3194969#3194969&quot;&gt;remarked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes, but when simply answered questions get lots of votes and ones that require thought and research don't, then it's a problem with what kind of questions are being encouraged.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c0190cc521c554c0d4555edbe76f4c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Keen&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9586/keen&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3194972#3194972&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Lead by example.  The more of us who ask more in-depth questions, the more the community at large will do so.  There's a great Venn diagram that shows what SE sites ought to be.  It's something like an overlap of Wiki, forums, and something else that escapes me presently.  I've been keeping the Forums portion of that in mind lately, trying to ask questions that urge analysis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3194981#3194981&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; When simple (or easily Googled) questions come along the community should encourage the asker to do a little research before jumping into a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3194992#3194992&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Simple answers that receive votes are indicative that they are interesting to a number of users.  However, ones that aren't interesting should not be getting votes.  However, if more complex questions are getting ignored, I would provide in depth answers myself if I could, and provide bounties on those I could not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17e552a87c7cff0d28aa62e7bef016fd?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;HNL&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/29223/hnl&quot;&gt;HNL&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195012#3195012&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; We should reward answer quality, not promptness. Perhaps voters should wait until several answers appear before voting. That way, the more considered questions will arrive before people lock in their votes to hasty questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195023#3195023&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I believe it is largely up to the community to provide and upvote interesting answers. If it gets to be an issue, a mod can raise it on meta, but if the questions are on topic it is not a mod's place to close them because they are not &quot;interesting&quot; enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fd433888f0a492f68af28958fa4f6a52?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;OghmaOsiris&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/10071/oghmaosiris&quot;&gt;OghmaOsiris&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195145#3195145&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I say to encourage more in depth questions/answers, using the vote to close option for questions that are truely easy to find and to have a meta discussion about whether or not we would need to update the FAQ on what is considered general reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a717291747c76567bb0f086e15ae6e43?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Gilles&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/240/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3207623#3207623&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Downvote questions that show a lack of research, write competing answers that go beyond the minimum to be a treatise on the topic (I won't name anyone from this site, but search on SE for posts by Eric Lippert, Thomas Pornin, and a few others)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-03-12T17:47:46.853" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T17:47:46.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1389" CreationDate="2012-01-31T19:31:18.147" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dd7e03fbbfcabd4675844173ec5390d2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Michael Mrozek&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/26/michael-mrozek&quot;&gt;Michael Mrozek&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3194950#3194950&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3194987#3194987&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I would encourage them to give better comments via first commenting on their posts, then emailing them, and meanwhile removing all inappropriate comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195030#3195030&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Depending upon the types of arguments/flags, I would first engage the user with positive suggestions, explaining how they might better guide their answers to avoid the issues.  If it persisted, I would invite them to chat for a further discussion.  As a last resort, I would discuss this with the other moderators, and consider sending a more firm message advising them of our policies&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c0190cc521c554c0d4555edbe76f4c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Keen&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9586/keen&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195038#3195038&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Even not being a mod, I would work to edit the contentiousness out of these answers, and encourage the user to moderate the content of their answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195065#3195065&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I would talk to the individual in question and explain to him that he should be less argumentative.  If he continues to cause a significant disturbance in the community, I would have to give him a final warning, and then suspend him for an appropriate amount of time.  The civility of the site is more important than answers from one particular individual, even if they're generally good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fd433888f0a492f68af28958fa4f6a52?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;OghmaOsiris&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/10071/oghmaosiris&quot;&gt;OghmaOsiris&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195179#3195179&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I would advise the user to re-read the part about the flag feature on the FAQ as well as guide the user to what would be considered appropriate. That is, of course, if the user's flags are not valid. If the user is spamming others' questions, he would be a candidate for a temporary ban.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a717291747c76567bb0f086e15ae6e43?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Gilles&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/240/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3207669#3207669&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;s&gt;Oh, you're referring to&lt;/s&gt; First step is to tell him he's doing something wrong. Possibly privately (private chat room, mod message, even off-site contact if you know the person socially although that's rather for non-mods). At some point it may result in a suspension.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-03-12T17:50:10.137" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T17:50:10.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1395" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1411" CreationDate="2012-01-31T19:35:16.300" Score="-2" ViewCount="241" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would it be a reasonable to require Down Votes on questions (and maybe answers) force the user to first leave a comment, or mark an attached comment as great?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be to help prevent blind down votes. It seems to me that down votes without feed back do not really do the original poster (or the site) any good, other than letting everyone know that someone dislikes the question for some random reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1234" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-01-31T22:09:33.000" LastActivityDate="2022-06-21T09:35:50.670" Title="Should a Down Vote require a comment?" Tags="|feature-request|status-declined|comments|voting|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1389" CreationDate="2012-01-31T19:35:16.970" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/45266ac3e876022aefa0c3590de209da?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;DampeS8N&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3903/dampes8n&quot;&gt;DampeS8N&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3194976#3194976&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; Let's get serious. Two highly respected members of the community get in a comment war on a question. They both flag each other's comments and are cussing and it is clear that this is beyond a heated argument. What do you do, what don't you do?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195009#3195009&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; If they are constantly flagging each other's comments, then I might consider a short ban, after consulting with other moderators in the Teacher's Lounge. But only after trying to talk with them first, including email and other means. But I would try and talk to them first via comments, then email, perhaps through chat rooms. I would also seek to understand the situation from other clues as well, such as past history in the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195024#3195024&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; You have to explain to them that that kind of behavior isn't acceptable, and you remove the offendind comments. If they don't settle down you may need to temporarily ban them from adding comments or participating on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17e552a87c7cff0d28aa62e7bef016fd?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;HNL&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/29223/hnl&quot;&gt;HNL&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195039#3195039&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Such things are best handled offline, preferably in private chat or email with the two antagonists and a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195079#3195079&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I delete all comments that do not directly apply in a positive, polite, and  constructive way to the question, leave a comment indicating that the comments are not for debating, and that their behavior is unacceptable.  If active cussing and personal attacks were involved, I would message both participants, and let them know that that is unacceptable, and that it will not happen again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c0190cc521c554c0d4555edbe76f4c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Keen&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9586/keen&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195089#3195089&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; This is a one off thing?  Assuming I'm a diamond mod, I delete the comment thread, and post a comment that requests they both calm down and respect each other before making any more comments.  If that doesn't suffice, then I'd pursue warnings or bans.  I'm not fully familiar with all the tools diamond mods have available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195097#3195097&quot;&gt;added&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; The tools are basically what you have now, plus knowing personal information such as email addresses, banning users, deleting comments, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195127#3195127&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I would have to give both a stern warning. If it seems reasonable (which would depend on the disagreement in question), I would bring them both into a chatroom and mediate the dispute.  If it could not be resolved and they continued to be disruptive to the community, I would have to give them a final ultimatum to be civil or face suspension, and of course follow through if they do not cease.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fd433888f0a492f68af28958fa4f6a52?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;OghmaOsiris&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/10071/oghmaosiris&quot;&gt;OghmaOsiris&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195226#3195226&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I would delete comments that contained offensive wording as well as have a chat with both the users in a Discussion thread in the chat rooms. I would ask that they settle their differences there and then cool off and inform them that I would need to take down any comments that appear to be flaming the other user as well as comments that do not add to the natural discussion of the answer/question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a717291747c76567bb0f086e15ae6e43?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Gilles&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/240/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3207706#3207706&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; If the war is localized, comment to tell the users to cool down, and lock the post. If they're being more generally disruptive (e.g. vandalizing the other guy's posts), suspend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-03-12T17:47:06.037" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T17:47:06.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1389" CreationDate="2012-01-31T19:38:15.080" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c959c218d133829abc166f66194ae7?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Eight Days of Malaise&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/8051/eight-days-of-malaise&quot;&gt;Eight Days of Malaise&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195015#3195015&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; Should all questions be linked to a franchise where the rules have an in-universe baseline or do you think that basically going over TV Tropes and rewording everything is healthy and constructive for the site in terms of making it a writers' workshop?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c0190cc521c554c0d4555edbe76f4c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Keen&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9586/keen&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195120#3195120&quot;&gt;asked for clarification&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm not sure I understand the question.  Are you asking if we should have per-franchise FAQs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c959c218d133829abc166f66194ae7?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Eight Days of Malaise&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/8051/eight-days-of-malaise&quot;&gt;Eight Days of Malaise&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195134#3195134&quot;&gt;clarified&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Do you think questions asking about general archetypes and broad strokes are constructive, make this site a writers' workshop to hash out ideas they want to try for a store, or should they have a foundation to generate constructive answers?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195081#3195081&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; There are definitely sites which contain worthwhile information. I agree very much with the answer from @DVK here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1342/primary-sources-vs-wikis/1346#1346&quot;&gt;Primary sources vs wikis?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195132#3195132&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I think there are a number of examples that do not specify a particular universe that are quality contributions, some of which even invite comparison between multiple universes.  However, re-hashing TV Tropes is obviously not good content.  I think voting on the answers should resolve this, so long as the community upvotes quality answers and downvotes lazy/rehashed answers.  I don't see a need for moderation in these situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195200#3195200&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Of course there are no rules that should be absolute; in particular I think there is a place for non-universe-specific questions, provided they are worded in such a way that there could reasonably be a single good answer, possibly a couple, but probably not a whole list. Simply rewording anything, including TVTropes is not healthy for us as a community or, really, the internet in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c0190cc521c554c0d4555edbe76f4c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Keen&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9586/keen&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195219#3195219&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I think these are usually off-topic, as they fall under the open-ended discussion end of things.  We need questions like this to become focused on specific attributes of the archetypes, or they should be migrated to Writers.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fd433888f0a492f68af28958fa4f6a52?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;OghmaOsiris&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/10071/oghmaosiris&quot;&gt;OghmaOsiris&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195281#3195281&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I think that any answer given, unless expressed in the question, should be as close to an in-universe response as possible quoting outside resources and providing valid links where appropriate. I do like TVTropes as it is very informative, but it is not a source for an answer unless it is helping to prove a point where other valid resources are also given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a717291747c76567bb0f086e15ae6e43?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Gilles&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/240/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3207718#3207718&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Have I stopped beating my wife, you mean? Mu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T18:14:07.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1389" CreationDate="2012-01-31T19:40:19.070" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/20367ddfc62b4e29a76e97a7257a6711?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Tony Meyer&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/5613/tony-meyer&quot;&gt;Tony Meyer&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195096#3195096&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; What do you admire most about the way the pro-tem mods have done their job over the last 11 months?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17e552a87c7cff0d28aa62e7bef016fd?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;HNL&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/29223/hnl&quot;&gt;HNL&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195110#3195110&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Clearly, how they've done their job so well that I didn't even notice they were there until quite recently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195111#3195111&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I very much admire how they went through the great purge, removing the massive numbers of bad questions in the site early on, and allowing it to become the site that it is today. The first two months must have taken a huge amount of effort, and we are all thankful for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195113#3195113&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Almost aren't aware they are even there. They stick to the background and just silently clean things up rather than being overbearing on the process of moderating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17e552a87c7cff0d28aa62e7bef016fd?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;HNL&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/29223/hnl&quot;&gt;HNL&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195124#3195124&quot;&gt;agreed&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Exaclty, they're transparent but effective.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195174#3195174&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Aside from bringing a site to graduation from beta? Because that's a pretty major accomplishment... I think they've done a great job not only of defining policy with the community, but applying critical evaluations to those policies, and helping to identify when those policies were or were not working.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c0190cc521c554c0d4555edbe76f4c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Keen&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9586/keen&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195180#3195180&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I think helping to guide the site to its current state, where we have thoroughly-defined rules for what is and is not on-topic.  Having the history in meta of so many discussions of what works here and what doesn't is invaluable.  Their following it up with tireless enforcement has focused the community so there is less enforcement necessary.  We don't have a steady stream of serial question issues, mostly one-off issues from new users who aren't yet familiar with the rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c0190cc521c554c0d4555edbe76f4c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Keen&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9586/keen&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195184#3195184&quot;&gt;continued&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; This is an amazing feat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fd433888f0a492f68af28958fa4f6a52?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;OghmaOsiris&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/10071/oghmaosiris&quot;&gt;OghmaOsiris&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195316#3195316&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I admire the way they were always open to criticism and user responses. No question in Meta was never not considered. I also liked that they were available to help those who were new to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a717291747c76567bb0f086e15ae6e43?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Gilles&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/240/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3207849#3207849&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; This question makes me rather uncomfortable. What can I say that won't be seen as empty praise? (&amp;lt;logician&amp;gt;Apart from saying bad things about them.&amp;lt;/logician&amp;gt;) Well, they're both level-headed. I don't remember either of them saying that a question should be taken out and shot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-03-12T17:46:25.877" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T17:46:25.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1389" CreationDate="2012-01-31T19:42:20.083" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ef06754ae7cbcf88a1f6b91cfa1647cc?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;TangoOversway&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/26731/tangooversway&quot;&gt;TangoOversway&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195122#3195122&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; If you have unreasonable users, then where, as mods, would you go for guidance if you weren't sure what the next step should be?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195130#3195130&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; That's easy. The moderator chatroom, known as the Teacher's Lounge. There not only do other moderators hang out, but people like @RebeccaChernoff who are SE staff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17e552a87c7cff0d28aa62e7bef016fd?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;HNL&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/29223/hnl&quot;&gt;HNL&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195133#3195133&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I'd consult the other moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195139#3195139&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Consult with each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195251#3195251&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Discussion with the other site moderators is first, to ensure that the team is all on the same page.  If needed, we can then go to the moderators of other sites and the Community Team in the shared chat for further advice.  I've actually been through this situation on a couple of occasions, both as the moderator seeking advice, and offering advice to other moderators on their problem users, and it is never a fun exercise.  However, the support available behind the scenes is amazing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c0190cc521c554c0d4555edbe76f4c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Keen&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9586/keen&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195307#3195307&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Chat.  Either to discuss with other mods, or to go over the underlying issues with the offenders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195350#3195350&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; If I hit a situation where I wasn't sure what to do, be it regarding an intractable user or otherwise, I would seek the advice of my fellow moderators here first, and if that did not sufficiently enlighten me, I would seek guidance from other mods on the site in the Teacher's Lounge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fd433888f0a492f68af28958fa4f6a52?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;OghmaOsiris&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/10071/oghmaosiris&quot;&gt;OghmaOsiris&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195373#3195373&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Meta.stackoverflow is always a good place for questions on how to work the stackexchange site as a whole. But before I would go there, I would as the Elders of SciFi.SE and see what their wisdom could give. No one can help more than the current moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a717291747c76567bb0f086e15ae6e43?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Gilles&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/240/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3207877#3207877&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; That's not really a question for the mods: the answer is part of the induction package, there's a private chat room for all mods on the network (the Teacher's Lounge), there's almost always someone to turn to for advice there&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-03-12T17:51:20.607" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T17:51:20.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1389" CreationDate="2012-01-31T19:44:25.400" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a717291747c76567bb0f086e15ae6e43?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Gilles&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/240/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195123#3195123&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt;  What do you think of content quality on the site? Do we rock, do we suck, does it depend?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195150#3195150&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I think for the most part the content is very good. I see some questions that I disagree with, or don't feel are great questions. But the majority of content seems to be pretty decent, except the Timelord stuff....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17e552a87c7cff0d28aa62e7bef016fd?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;HNL&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/29223/hnl&quot;&gt;HNL&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195158#3195158&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; We totally rock. I'm not a fantasy expert, but the whole idea of science fiction is asking &quot;what if&quot;, and there's a lot of high quality what-if questions and answers here that you can't find anywhere else on the net, sometimes not even on the franchise wikis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195160#3195160&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; The site right now is pretty good, and always getting better. There are in my mind a bit too much of the unanswerable questions (Like the famous, is Santa Claus a Time Lord), but there is still some great stuff here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195295#3195295&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I think there is a ton of fantastic content here.  There's also a fair amount of content that is somewhat mediocre, but much of that is special interest topics that can draw new visitors. I think the community has done a good job of policing the topics that seem frivolous, or would give a negative impression to new visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c0190cc521c554c0d4555edbe76f4c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Keen&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9586/keen&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195334#3195334&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I think overall, we're a little above-average.  But we have a great deal of growth ahead of us.  I know that in the coming months we'll have new ideas for questions that will push our existing boundaries, and I look forward to help define our boundaries as the site keeps maturing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fd433888f0a492f68af28958fa4f6a52?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;OghmaOsiris&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/10071/oghmaosiris&quot;&gt;OghmaOsiris&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195346#3195346&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I think the quality of the site is awesome. Any off topic material is quickly remedied and most closed questions get cleaned up pretty quickly. I hope, if I were to be voted into moderator-hood, to continue this effort and to always have our site as awesome as ever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a717291747c76567bb0f086e15ae6e43?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Gilles&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/240/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3207906#3207906&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; We have some good stuff (especially around HP/SW/ST), I want to work on building up content outside a short list of highly popular works. And, always, push for even better answers (we are getting a bunch of answers to ok-but-not-that-great questions that, while technically correct, are brief rehashes of what's already available elsewhere and not very interesting).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-03-12T17:52:27.247" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T17:52:27.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1389" CreationDate="2012-01-31T19:46:55.973" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ef8d7a735c5ec71cb59105872900187b?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Mark Trapp&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/2334/mark-trapp&quot;&gt;Mark Trapp&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195149#3195149&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; Where do you see moderators fitting in when determining the scope of the site? If you don't agree with what the community considers to be on (or off) topic, do you plan to override that?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195167#3195167&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; It isn't the role of the moderator to dictate policy so much as enforce the will of the community. If the community is moving in a direction the moderator disagrees with they can make their case, but ultimately the power rests with the people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195191#3195191&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I do not plan to override what the community thinks is a bad question. I might override if there is somewhat of an indecision if a topic is a bad one, but if everyone else is against me, I'll let that be the case. Moderators can make suggestions, but any major scope changes should go to meta first, as a proposal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17e552a87c7cff0d28aa62e7bef016fd?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;HNL&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/29223/hnl&quot;&gt;HNL&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195202#3195202&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; No. Those decisions should belong to the community. Moderators should maintain the policies, not decide what they are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195312#3195312&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; The moderators are here to enforce the rules the community has agreed on, not to set policy himself.  If a mod has concerns with the community's views, he can bring it up on meta, but he ought to continue going with the community's will until he has convinced them otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195358#3195358&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Whenever there is a disagreement between moderators and the community on scope, I want to ensure that the disagreement is covered in meta somewhere.  If we don't address it in meta, it will simply become a problem again in the future. If I personally don't agree with it being on-topic, but the community shows a strong disagreement, whether through meta votes or voting to reopen, then I would accept that (I've changed my opinion on other sites through this very process).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195385#3195385&quot;&gt;continued&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I do tend to be a bit firmer on questions that are generally agreed to be a poor fit for the platform, however.  In those cases, there is generally quite a history of trial and error on other sites that supports those policies, and I'd want to see a much stronger community consensus before I'd consider alternative policies&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c0190cc521c554c0d4555edbe76f4c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Keen&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9586/keen&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195398#3195398&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I hope I never end up thinking the community has to be overridden.  Usually, we as a community have done an excellent job of defining the site's scope.  On contentious issues, we as mods should step in and suggest compromises that will make everyone satisfied to some degree.  Otherwise, as a mod, I plan to minimally influence the decisions on the scope of the site, as I think it's our duty as a group to define this, not an individual moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fd433888f0a492f68af28958fa4f6a52?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;OghmaOsiris&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/10071/oghmaosiris&quot;&gt;OghmaOsiris&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195421#3195421&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I would always consider the community and what they want. If a majority vote were made and the scope of the site were in question, I would try to handle it as democratically as possible. Make sure everyone who is interested plea their case and see what can and cannot be done. If people want to start including a topic that is clearly not scifi or fantasy, I would ask the other moderators what they would want to do and we would come to consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a717291747c76567bb0f086e15ae6e43?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Gilles&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/240/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3207994#3207994&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; A moderator's job is to apply the community's policies, not to make them. If the community can't come to a decision, the moderators should strive to find a compromise, and only as a last resort make a decision themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a717291747c76567bb0f086e15ae6e43?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Gilles&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/240/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3208043#3208043&quot;&gt;continued&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; For example, if I'm elected and at some point the community decides that story identification is off-topic, I'll argue against that, but I won't overrule the decision. (I'd probably quit since I couldn't moderate while being so completely out of phase from the community.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-03-12T17:55:46.443" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T17:55:46.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1389" CreationDate="2012-01-31T19:49:42.210" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/45266ac3e876022aefa0c3590de209da?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;DampeS8N&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3903/dampes8n&quot;&gt;DampeS8N&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195215#3195215&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; You try your best, you think you've been fair. Yet never-the-less someone complains in meta that you've acted unfairly and claim your aren't impartial. What do you do?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195250#3195250&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Moderators need to moderate. That will offend someone at some point in time. I would try and be as nice to them as possible, but explain my reasoning behind everything. I didn't get to it quickly enough to answer, but I was much in support of what happened on GD, when I was accused of this very thing: &lt;a href=&quot;https://graphicdesign.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/196/is-moderation-different-on-this-site&quot;&gt;Is moderation different on this site?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17e552a87c7cff0d28aa62e7bef016fd?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;HNL&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/29223/hnl&quot;&gt;HNL&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195260#3195260&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Then its time for the others to weigh in, because in the mind of the complainant, my judgement is already compromised. I'll just bring the issue to the attention of the others. But that can't stop a moderator from continuing to perform his job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195290#3195290&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Discuss the situation with the person who has lodged a complaint. Try to work it out, seek the advice of another mod who may act as an impartial arbiter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195391#3195391&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I address their concerns in meta and let the community decide.  I will also consult with my fellow mods on the issue in private, as leadership has to put up a unified front; it's not good for the community to have one mod second-guessing another in public.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195420#3195420&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; That's why there are multiple moderators.  The moderators are a team, and in situations like this my first response would be to get their opinions of my actions. If they disagreed with me, I would re-evaluate my position, and apologize. If they agree with me, I'd ask them to respond, as further responses from myself would likely only inflame the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fd433888f0a492f68af28958fa4f6a52?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;OghmaOsiris&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/10071/oghmaosiris&quot;&gt;OghmaOsiris&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195452#3195452&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I would reassure them that I am indeed acting only with the best intentions of the site and following the current rules and regulations that the site has in place. If the user still thinks they are treated unfairly, I would advise them to open a meta discussion asking if the policy in question can be changed or ask for guidance on why actions were taken as they were.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c0190cc521c554c0d4555edbe76f4c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Keen&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9586/keen&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195532#3195532&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I read over the complaint.  Take a few minutes and re-read the question/answer/comments in question.  I then post a response that explains the issue as I see it, and why I took the steps I did.  If possible, I recommend a few ways to avoid similar issues in the future.  I end with a request for follow-up questions if they still disagree with my actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a717291747c76567bb0f086e15ae6e43?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Gilles&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/240/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3208093#3208093&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;lt;Shrug&amp;gt; happens all the time. Listen to the complaint. I might have made a mistake. Reply on meta, explaining my point of view (or apologizing for the mistake and explaining how I'd fix it). If the asker isn't satisfied, have a colleague intervene as mediator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:10.677" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T17:48:18.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1389" CreationDate="2012-01-31T19:51:50.727" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ef06754ae7cbcf88a1f6b91cfa1647cc?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;TangoOversway&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/26731/tangooversway&quot;&gt;TangoOversway&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195239#3195239&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; I've said this a few times in chat.  Lately I've been going through a lot of old questions.  I find that many of the really good old questions are ones that don't fit the format today, like list questions (just an example, don't fixate on lists only).  Is there, perhaps, a need to not take rules literally, but allow flexibility for unique and interesting questions?  Or wait and see if a question gets good answers before closing it in a hurry?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195289#3195289&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I don't plan on going through and closing all questions that don't meet new criteria, unless the community demands it. I might post a question about it on meta, mentioning several of them, but encouraging users not to vote to close unless a consensus has been reached.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17e552a87c7cff0d28aa62e7bef016fd?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;HNL&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/29223/hnl&quot;&gt;HNL&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195326#3195326&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I agree. I think we should leave the old questions alone, for historical/nostalgic purposes :) But if an interesting list question comes up, perhaps we can let it stand and see if a non trivial answer comes up. But the problem wit that is, it'll look like selective application of policies to some people. So I'd say avoid exceptions unless it's a really great exception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dd7e03fbbfcabd4675844173ec5390d2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Michael Mrozek&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/26/michael-mrozek&quot;&gt;Michael Mrozek&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195343#3195343&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; ...how is it not a selective application of policies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17e552a87c7cff0d28aa62e7bef016fd?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;HNL&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/29223/hnl&quot;&gt;HNL&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195364#3195364&quot;&gt;responded&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; It is selective application. The problem is people might misunderstand the criteria -- it should be the nature of the question, not the person asking it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195328#3195328&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Some &quot;silly&quot; or &quot;fun&quot; questions might not be great factual questions but may help promote the site. It might be better to say &quot;will this question benefit the site in some way, or will it not?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195467#3195467&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Rules should never be absolute; when it comes to humans, they can never cover all possible cases. If a question is good, I think it should stay.  If, however, the community chooses to close it, I may ask on Meta why the community has closed it and encourage them to re-open it, but I would not myself overrule the community because I thought a question should be an exception to the rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195474#3195474&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; The problem with leaving old questions that no longer fit the criteria for what is on-topic/appropriate, no matter how popular or how good the responses received, is that they create confusion for newer members who aren't aware of why or when the policies changed. These questions will repeatedly be cited as reasons to allow other questions that are currently considered poor fits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ef06754ae7cbcf88a1f6b91cfa1647cc?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;TangoOversway&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/26731/tangooversway&quot;&gt;TangoOversway&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195501#3195501&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; So will we do that in the future?  Delete any older questions because they don't fit new rules that weren't in place when they were asked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195549#3195549&quot;&gt;responded&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I would do my best to try and edit such questions to bring them in line with our current policies, without breaking the answers, but yes, if the question is clearly a poor fit for our site, I would keep it closed (and the system would, eventually, automatically delete it if the policies did not change and the question remained closed)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a717291747c76567bb0f086e15ae6e43?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Gilles&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/240/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3208503#3208503&quot;&gt;remarked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes, it is the fate of closed questions to be deleted. We did a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/411/culling-list-and-recommendation-questions&quot;&gt;big cleanup&lt;/a&gt; after we'd sorted out the main issues, and we've continued to delete old closed questions since.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ef06754ae7cbcf88a1f6b91cfa1647cc?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;TangoOversway&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/26731/tangooversway&quot;&gt;TangoOversway&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195573#3195573&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; So you're in favor of ret-conning everything on the site as policies change and removing or changing everything that might not fit a new change in policy?  (Isn't that a bit Lucasian?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195631#3195631&quot;&gt;responded&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; ret-conning is not what I had in mind.  Rewording established questions is extremely difficult, and quite frankly I can't imagine it would be possible for many, if any.  However, if the question is truly good, then it at least deserves the attention of checking to see if it is possible.  As for removing things that no longer fit our policy, I don't think its a great end for what is fundamentally a good question, but this site is bigger than a few good questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195661#3195661&quot;&gt;continued&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; The site, and its policies, evolve. When that happens, our choice is to loosen our hold on the remnants from before those changes, or have repeated problems moving forward with the decisions agreed upon by the community as new members keep dredging up old examples to argue against closing questions that are clearly off-topic.  There are plenty of examples on other SE sites of how painful that can be.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fd433888f0a492f68af28958fa4f6a52?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;OghmaOsiris&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/10071/oghmaosiris&quot;&gt;OghmaOsiris&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195477#3195477&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Truely interesting questions that do not fit the current format but were greatly met with many up votes, I would say to leave them on the site, but close them from future discussion. They were allowed at one time, so by grandfather clause, they shouldn't be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c0190cc521c554c0d4555edbe76f4c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Keen&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9586/keen&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195603#3195603&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; If it's off-topic, I would vote to close it.  For any question that I vote to close that I think can be redeemed easily, I post suggestions in a comment that cover some ideas on how the question can be improved to meet our standards.  If our standards need to be changed, then the issue needs to be raised on meta.  We can't simply pick a few questions to let slide, as this leads to encouraging similar questions.  I know I sounds like a curmudgeon on this, but I think if there's something&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c0190cc521c554c0d4555edbe76f4c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Keen&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9586/keen&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195617#3195617&quot;&gt;continued&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Redeeming in these questions, then we need to hash out the specifics on meta, so we have a template for them to survive on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a717291747c76567bb0f086e15ae6e43?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Gilles&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/240/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3208171#3208171&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Evidently bad questions should be closed early, no sense in having people waste their time on them. Borderline questions are a case-by-case basis. If I see a question heading for a trainwreck, I'll try to edit it as early as possible to attract better answers, and if I don't know how to fix it (e.g. because I'm too unfamiliar with the source material) close and leave a comment explaining how the question might be improved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T17:53:19.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1389" CreationDate="2012-01-31T19:53:59.180" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0964ccfd92e2c634db90489311f22fa6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;DavRob60&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/20784/davrob60&quot;&gt;DavRob60&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195267#3195267&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; What is your prerequisite to close a question as &quot;General Reference&quot;?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195314#3195314&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; It must be very easily found, and in general be a not very interesting question. The topic would probably be closed for other reasons besides being a general references, such as being too broad of a topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195390#3195390&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; If it is something even a jock would know. Such as who was Luke Skywalker's father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c0190cc521c554c0d4555edbe76f4c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Keen&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9586/keen&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195454#3195454&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; This can vary based on the specifics of the question, but usually it would be if it's something I'm familiar with as being almost general knowledge.  I then confirm that the information is easy to come by via Google and/or Wikipedia searching.  Then I vote to close and post the relevant Google/Wiki link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195516#3195516&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Searching for the title of the question brings up the answer on the first page of search results, or returns a link that specifically addresses that specific question as a primary topic, and the answer does not expand upon that response in any significant way. However, if the answer is particularly interesting or unexpected, I would wait and see what community consensus is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195520#3195520&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I was initially quite in favor of a general reference closing option, however, the several posts on meta a few weeks ago regarding it changed my mind on the subject. I would only close the most flagrantly ignorant questions as general reference, something that was explicitly and clearly stated in the source material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fd433888f0a492f68af28958fa4f6a52?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;OghmaOsiris&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/10071/oghmaosiris&quot;&gt;OghmaOsiris&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195523#3195523&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; As I've mentioned in several meta questions, if I can type in the question exactly as it was asked into google (or with 2-3 key words from the question) and the answer is on the first page, or if I can go to wikipedia and find the answer on the franchise/character/etc page, then I would consider it general reference. A good example on a question I would close would be the Darth Tyranus question that was recently asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a717291747c76567bb0f086e15ae6e43?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Gilles&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/240/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3208223#3208223&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=%22gilles%22+%22general+reference%22+inurl%3Ameta&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/search?q=%22gilles%22+%22general+reference%22+inurl%3Ameta&lt;/a&gt; :p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a717291747c76567bb0f086e15ae6e43?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Gilles&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/240/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3208281#3208281&quot;&gt;continued&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Seriously: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/86043/introduce-a-general-reference-close-reason&quot;&gt;this meta post&lt;/a&gt; explains my position. I'm rather conservative on GR; the answer should be easy to find &lt;em&gt;in a place where the asker can assess its reliability&lt;/em&gt;. Just because the top Google hit has what looks like an answer doesn't mean it's correct and complete. OTOH, Wikipedia is usually good for our subject; we gain nothing from duplicating its content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T17:49:44.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1389" CreationDate="2012-01-31T19:56:03.153" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3981cd271c302f5cba628c6b6d2b32ee?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Tim Stone&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/12325/tim-stone&quot;&gt;Tim Stone&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195320#3195320&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; It can sometimes be hard to convince people (friends, family members, etc) who have never participated in the Stack Exchange network to give it a shot. Put on your marketing hat for a second - in a single chat message, how would you pitch this site to someone unfamiliar with it?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195337#3195337&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; This is a site for people to ask/answer questions about Science Fiction and Fantasy targets, typically of the type that serious enthusiasts will ponder for some time before reaching an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195341#3195341&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; It is an opportunity to learn and talk about the things you love. And if you participate you may win a bunch of free stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fd433888f0a492f68af28958fa4f6a52?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;OghmaOsiris&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/10071/oghmaosiris&quot;&gt;OghmaOsiris&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195556#3195556&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; SciFi.StackExchange.com is a place where any user can go to get any question that is related to science fiction, fantasy or any other speculative fiction answered with experts who give their all in research of thoughtful answers and prompt response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195584#3195584&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I've done this a number of times, particularly with the parenting site as part of the ongoing site promotions we've done. I really try to tailor my pitch to the individual, but what I've found works very well for those of my acquaintances who are also gamers is that this site is a Q&amp;amp;A site... where you can get a high score :)  For non-gamers, I emphasize the quality of the community, and the quality of the answers, citing some of our better questions/answers as enticements&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c0190cc521c554c0d4555edbe76f4c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Keen&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9586/keen&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195665#3195665&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I'd seek questions or answers they have particular expertise and passion for.  Then I link them to it, and suggest they post a response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a717291747c76567bb0f086e15ae6e43?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Gilles&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/240/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3208319#3208319&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/190/what-is-scifi-ses-elevator-pitch/194#194&quot;&gt;SF discussion sites, the “good parts” version&lt;/a&gt;. I.e. no spam, no off-topic digressions, answers that aren't unsearchably buried in 3000-message threads&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T18:12:11.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1389" CreationDate="2012-01-31T19:58:05.930" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195323#3195323&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; What should a moderator do with the growing number of small purpose tags, such as voldemort, horcrux, etc?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195367#3195367&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Unless a sub-topic (sub-tag) grows to become its own entity, I believe the main franchise tags should be the only ones. It seems unlikely that someone will only be interested in voldemort related Harry Potter questions, and they would prefer to ignore all other HP questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195368#3195368&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; What has been done in Gaming is a great start. They have gone through and found a list of &quot;Meta Tags&quot;, tags which don't really seem to serve a purpose. The are working their way through them over the course of a month, coming to a community agreement, and then banning those tags. I would do something to this line to make sure tags don't get out of hand, and probably will even if not elected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17e552a87c7cff0d28aa62e7bef016fd?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;HNL&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/29223/hnl&quot;&gt;HNL&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195410#3195410&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; It pollutes the tag space. Tags should represent main works of art or franchises. I believe we should get rid of the smaller ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fd433888f0a492f68af28958fa4f6a52?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;OghmaOsiris&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/10071/oghmaosiris&quot;&gt;OghmaOsiris&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195582#3195582&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I think that a discussion should be had for each tag in question and a community agreement on what should be deleted/edited/combined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c0190cc521c554c0d4555edbe76f4c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Keen&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9586/keen&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195700#3195700&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; If the number of one-off tags is getting out of hand, they should be culled.  Tags need to have a purpose to them.  When we have too many tags that no one would subscribe to, it cheapens other, more useful tags.  As they got too numerous, I'd enlist the help of the community by posting a call to arms on the meta site, seeking help in cleaning up extraneous tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195708#3195708&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I generally don't change tags unless there is a new one created that conflicts with existing, agreed-upon tags, if there is meta discussion regarding tags, or if the tag is clearly not appropriate.  There are a number of cleanup features built into the SE platform that can  help handle these unpopular tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a717291747c76567bb0f086e15ae6e43?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Gilles&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/240/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3208362#3208362&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Anyone can remove those tags, moderators don't get better tools or relevant privileges. Post on meta to raise awareness, but we already have that (from a non-mod IIRC). That happens everywhere, it's fortunately not a high-impact problem and easy to fix. Plus single-use tags expire after 6 months (that's as much a curse as a blessing, but that's another story).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-03-12T18:11:50.323" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T18:11:50.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1389" CreationDate="2012-01-31T20:00:07.830" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/20367ddfc62b4e29a76e97a7257a6711?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Tony Meyer&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/5613/tony-meyer&quot;&gt;Tony Meyer&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195380#3195380&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; Do you think the proportion of users participating in meta is generally good? Adequate? Insufficient? Great? If you feel there should be more, do you have any thoughts how to increase it?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195414#3195414&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; More meta participation is always a good thing, but I think we have enough of a key group to be content for now. I do like that major decisions typically show up in Meta prior to them happening. That is a healthy sign for this community. Chat is also doing quite well, it is much more active than previously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195609#3195609&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; For quite some time after we joined, I hardly saw any meta posts. In the last several weeks, however, I feel we have had a good resurgence of meta questions and responses. I would call it good at the moment. Without explicitly advertising it with a banner or through chat, I don't see a particularly good way to get users to participate except when something comes up on the main site that could be discussed on meta - then I would suggest it in a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195740#3195740&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I think meta always benefits from more participation, no matter how many users are there.  What typically happens is that there is a solid core of regulars who participate, which is important, but meta needs to be accessible for new members who have questions. I try to encourage participation by either linking to existing meta questions relevant to discussion, creating new meta questions and linking them, or inviting people to create their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c0190cc521c554c0d4555edbe76f4c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Keen&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9586/keen&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195741#3195741&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I think it's insufficient, as I've said on meta.  It feels like we have maybe a dozen users who regularly use the meta site.  This is a bad thing for new users who don't empower themselves to help take charge and really interact with the community.  I think we need to advertise meta more, and perhaps mention it to new users in comments to questions that are wildly off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a717291747c76567bb0f086e15ae6e43?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Gilles&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/240/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3208414#3208414&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  We certainly have an unusually high number of meta posts. It's almost always the same people, but we're doing ok here. I've often pointed people to meta, or posted the meta question myself, when I saw comments that were turning into debates about topicality or similar issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-03-12T17:53:46.160" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T17:53:46.160" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1389" CreationDate="2012-01-31T20:02:10.010" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ef8d7a735c5ec71cb59105872900187b?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Mark Trapp&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/2334/mark-trapp&quot;&gt;Mark Trapp&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195381#3195381&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; How do you get more people to take ownership of their community? What can be done to get people to participate more on meta and in community moderation activities?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195397#3195397&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; One of the best things is to encourage them to find it. I think we are doing a better job of this now than we used to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195417#3195417&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; When people DO have complaints, make sure to educate them on the how decisions are made through meta, and that they are welcome to voice their opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17e552a87c7cff0d28aa62e7bef016fd?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;HNL&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/29223/hnl&quot;&gt;HNL&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195546#3195546&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Well, on one hand, the best sort of moderation is when you don't even know it's taking place. On the other hand, more people will participate when they see others doing it. So we have to have some mechanism to let people know that a lot of people are participating in community moderation and meta. Linking to meta answers in relevant comments, I have seen, works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195673#3195673&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I don't think this is significantly different from Tony Meyer's question. I don't think a banner is appropriate until participation becomes critically low. I would remind those in chat that they should participate, though they tend to be the ones participating as it is. And when something comes up on the main site that should be discussed on meta, I would post a comment encouraging such discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ef8d7a735c5ec71cb59105872900187b?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Mark Trapp&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/2334/mark-trapp&quot;&gt;Mark Trapp&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195695#3195695&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; To clarify, you don't think there's anything needed to be done to get the community involved in taking ownership of the site, except to place a banner on the site when the participation gets critically low?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195751#3195751&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; As it is, the community does take good ownership of the community.  If that were to drop, there is not much a mod can do to force people to enter the meta discussions.  Banners would be a last resort, they should be used conservatively or people will just tune them out. As I said, I would encourage people through comments to discuss points that should be discussed on meta when they come up.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195775#3195775&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Repetition repetition repetition :) People can't participate if they aren't aware of where they need to go, or why.  Links in comments are our primary way to reach members who aren't terribly familiar with the platform, and it is a great way to introduce the individuals, if you are willing to take the time to extend the invitation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a717291747c76567bb0f086e15ae6e43?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Gilles&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/240/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3208427#3208427&quot;&gt;referred&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to his answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1400/4501&quot;&gt;the previous question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T18:11:28.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1389" CreationDate="2012-01-31T20:04:14.593" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/45266ac3e876022aefa0c3590de209da?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;DampeS8N&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3903/dampes8n&quot;&gt;DampeS8N&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195386#3195386&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; In our time as Moderators @Gilles and I have often been on opposite sides of most issues. Each offering a different and reasoned argument in favor of or against whatever topic. Is this kind of discordance good or bad for SF&amp;amp;F.SE?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195443#3195443&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I think it is good to have a difference of opinion, so long as the decision is not just being done, then removed, etc. If moderators have differences, they should figure them out between themselves, or perhaps talk to the community about the issue. There is a reason there are 3 moderators, and it just isn't so they get more work done ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17e552a87c7cff0d28aa62e7bef016fd?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;HNL&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/29223/hnl&quot;&gt;HNL&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195456#3195456&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I think it's great. The last place we want to see Groupthink is among the moderators. Moderators are chosen for their ability to be rational. I don't think discord will lead to anything more than better analysis of the issue at hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fd433888f0a492f68af28958fa4f6a52?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;OghmaOsiris&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/10071/oghmaosiris&quot;&gt;OghmaOsiris&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195604#3195604&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I believe that as long as any debate or argument is not had in spite or resentment and each party truly consideres both sides of the equation, the logical decision will be made by both parties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195702#3195702&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; As I mentioned in a previous statement, the leadership needs to put up a united front. Any disagreement must be dealt with behind-the-scenes.  The disagreement itself is, I think, good for SFF.  It allows both mods to see and consider a different point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c0190cc521c554c0d4555edbe76f4c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Keen&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9586/keen&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195777#3195777&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; If it's civil, I think it's good.  Having two opposing viewpoints passionately argue their positions helps people to define their own opinions more thoroughly.  When we all agree on something, we miss details that a debate would find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195780#3195780&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; It is very good, as it encourages discussion that will involve the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a717291747c76567bb0f086e15ae6e43?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Gilles&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/240/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3208447#3208447&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Funny, I didn't perceive it that way. There's no need for moderators to agree, as long as we're willing to discuss things in a civilized manner (by which I mean listening to the other guy's arguments, not inventing a more explody type of bomb)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/45266ac3e876022aefa0c3590de209da?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;DampeS8N&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3903/dampes8n&quot;&gt;DampeS8N&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3208694#3208694&quot;&gt;remarked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Interesting. I thought for sure you had noticed me always being on the opposite side of things. :P Never any ill will behind it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-03-12T17:51:57.353" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T17:51:57.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1389" CreationDate="2012-01-31T20:06:15.670" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c959c218d133829abc166f66194ae7?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Eight Days of Malaise&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/8051/eight-days-of-malaise&quot;&gt;Eight Days of Malaise&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195489#3195489&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; What is the underbelly dragging this site down? And does that conflict with making this site a glorified collection of trivia notes?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195541#3195541&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; The biggest obstacle is there is a wiki for every topic under the sun. This site is basically just a centerpoint which spiders out to all the wikis for individual franchises. If it can be seen as the starting point to scifi/fantasy answers I think that is a good place for it. Here is the answer to your specific question, and here is the wiki associated with that content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195571#3195571&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; If there is anything dragging this site down, it is the lack of expanding to new topics. We really need to find ways to encourage new topics to come to this site. As far as this becoming just a trivia site, I feel like we are getting to a point of asking some really deep questions, beyond just a site for random trivia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17e552a87c7cff0d28aa62e7bef016fd?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;HNL&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/29223/hnl&quot;&gt;HNL&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195623#3195623&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; That's a tough one. We have to discourage trivia and general reference as much as possible. New users tend to do this a lot. I think we should find some way to engage new users personally and clarify things for them as soon as they join. And welcome them too. Other than that, I think we're good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fd433888f0a492f68af28958fa4f6a52?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;OghmaOsiris&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/10071/oghmaosiris&quot;&gt;OghmaOsiris&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195645#3195645&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I think the only thing that could bring this site down is lack of media that will be discussed. I think that variety is the spice of life and if we become a cornicopea of useless science fiction trivia, then I know SOMEONE will end up learning something they didn't know by the time they read 2-3 questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195799#3195799&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm not sure I agree that there &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt;an underbelly dragging this site down.  There are areas that could be improved (I'd love to see more participation in regular chat events, for example), but if something were dragging us down, I don't feel we would have had the expansion that led to us graduating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c0190cc521c554c0d4555edbe76f4c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Keen&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9586/keen&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195959#3195959&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Our small size.  We need a bigger community.  This will provide us with more resources to build the quality and quantity of tag wikis, and edits to clean up questions and answers.  It sounds like you're not a fan of the trivia nature of the site, I highly recommend you post ideas to expand the site's scope on meta!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a717291747c76567bb0f086e15ae6e43?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Gilles&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/240/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3208480#3208480&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; The underbelly dragging this site down is the tendency of this site to being a glorified collection of trivia notes. Being less opposed to non-trivia questions would help. Seriously, have you stopped beating your wife?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2017-03-12T18:03:52.630" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T18:03:52.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1395" CreationDate="2012-01-31T20:06:52.377" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/31302/172958&quot;&gt;dead&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/97484/172958&quot;&gt;horse&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/29531/172958&quot;&gt;has&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/30255/172958&quot;&gt;been&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/55380/172958&quot;&gt;beaten&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/6521/172958&quot;&gt;on&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;MSE&lt;/a&gt; for years. The answer is no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="82909" LastEditDate="2022-06-03T11:36:12.610" LastActivityDate="2022-06-03T11:36:12.610" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1389" CreationDate="2012-01-31T20:08:26.057" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dd7e03fbbfcabd4675844173ec5390d2?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Michael Mrozek&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/26/michael-mrozek&quot;&gt;Michael Mrozek&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195510#3195510&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195595#3195595&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I would honor the fact that the community chose me to help lead them. At Graphic Design, I have tried to ask only the best question since becoming a moderator, to help make the site progress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17e552a87c7cff0d28aa62e7bef016fd?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;HNL&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/29223/hnl&quot;&gt;HNL&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195654#3195654&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; A bit uneasy, honestly. But it comes with the territory and one just has to make sure one sets a good example for the rest of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fd433888f0a492f68af28958fa4f6a52?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;OghmaOsiris&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/10071/oghmaosiris&quot;&gt;OghmaOsiris&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195668#3195668&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I think that, were I to be elected, I would go back to my early days on the site and try to clean up anything that I would be ashamed of today. As a representative of StackExchange, it would be my duty to lead by example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195792#3195792&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I always endeavor to conduct myself in a manner I feel befits a leader. I feel perfectly fine with having a diamond retroactively attached to my name and avatar, I would almost always have done the same thing if it were there to begin with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195813#3195813&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; It took some adjustment when it first happened to me on parenting.se, but I've become accustomed to taking a pause before I post, and double-checking to make sure that I am acting in a way that best represents the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c0190cc521c554c0d4555edbe76f4c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Keen&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9586/keen&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195814#3195814&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Honestly, it's going to be embarrassing for some of my posts on the site, especially the earlier ones or ones where I didn't take the time to thoroughly cite sources or fully hash out my position.  But it will encourage me to consistently have a high quality to all my future postings.  The lessons I've learned in the past will always be here to remind me what to avoid, unless they were low-quality and have been deleted. :3&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a717291747c76567bb0f086e15ae6e43?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Gilles&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/240/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3208910#3208910&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I knew you'd ask that. Well, no change there. I think in most cases it's obvious whether you're talking as a random user and when you're talking as a mod. If necessary phrases like “my personal feeling” or “official moderator notice” can make the role clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-03-12T17:54:42.053" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T17:54:42.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1389" CreationDate="2012-01-31T20:10:33.137" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/20367ddfc62b4e29a76e97a7257a6711?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Tony Meyer&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/5613/tony-meyer&quot;&gt;Tony Meyer&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195536#3195536&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; Someone prominent in the online scifi/fantasy community starts regularly making pejorative comments about the site, and this is drawn to your attention through meta/chat.  Do you do anything about it?  If so, what?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fd433888f0a492f68af28958fa4f6a52?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;OghmaOsiris&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/10071/oghmaosiris&quot;&gt;OghmaOsiris&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195681#3195681&quot;&gt;asked for clarification&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Would this be pejorative comments on SciFi.SE or on an outside site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/20367ddfc62b4e29a76e97a7257a6711?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Tony Meyer&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/5613/tony-meyer&quot;&gt;Tony Meyer&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195689#3195689&quot;&gt;clarified&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; By someone who is not a well known user (or not a user) here commenting somewhere else (a blog, a podcast, at cons, whatever).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195606#3195606&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I guess I would try to figure out what happened that this prominent community member suddenly turned to the Dark Side. Was a result of other members of the community, was it the moderators? Attempting to reconcile the change in behavior would be a good approach, because we wouldn't want to lose a quality member to misunderstanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195649#3195649&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I would try to see what their criticisms are, and see if they are legitimate. If they are, I would try to help improve the site. If they are not, then I would try to enter into contact with the person to see if I could correct some of that misinformation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17e552a87c7cff0d28aa62e7bef016fd?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;HNL&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/29223/hnl&quot;&gt;HNL&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195692#3195692&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; If you mean this community, and if the person is still a member, we're going to have to figure out what ticked him off and hopefully reconcile. If he's part of the general online science fiction &amp;amp; fantasy community, there's nothing much we can do, unless he's spreading blatant misinformation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fd433888f0a492f68af28958fa4f6a52?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;OghmaOsiris&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/10071/oghmaosiris&quot;&gt;OghmaOsiris&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195732#3195732&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I believe that everyone is entitled to their own opinion and have every right to say whatever they want outside of the SE network. As soon as a user would then start saying these things on the SE network (Or our site specifically) I would then delete any offensive posts and warn the user that flaming the site is not allowed per the FAQs&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195837#3195837&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; It depends upon the nature of the comments. I actually work in public relations, and have researched quite a bit into negative publicity in social media.  The U.S. Air Force actually has a fantastic flow-chart to determine if and how to respond to such negative comments, and I would follow those general guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3196193#3196193&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; There is not a whole lot anyone can do about disparaging remarks on another site; this is the internet, after all. That said, I would do what I can to stop such attacks on us. I would contact him in some way, explain how his remarks are disparaging, and ask him to stop. If he didn't, I would consult with the other mods here and elsewhere on the network to see if anything else can be done about such a person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c0190cc521c554c0d4555edbe76f4c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Keen&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9586/keen&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3196261#3196261&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I would mainly encourage people on this site to not sling mud or troll the disparager's (perfectly cromulent!) site.  We can't control what others say of us on the internet.  If there's something on this site that instigated the issue, then I'd handle that, as we shouldn't be using this site to troll.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a717291747c76567bb0f086e15ae6e43?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Gilles&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/240/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3208533#3208533&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; If there's any valid criticism, try to address it. See if this person reacted badly to something that happened on the site. Otherwise, unless it's a community where I participate, do nothing. Barging in onto another community to defend yourself cannot possibly end well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-03-12T17:49:00.587" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T17:49:00.587" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1389" CreationDate="2012-01-31T20:12:41.730" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ef8d7a735c5ec71cb59105872900187b?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Mark Trapp&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/2334/mark-trapp&quot;&gt;Mark Trapp&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195667#3195667&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; Where do you see SciFi.SE's place in the Stack Exchange network? Is it important to be involved in the rest of the network, like on Meta Stack Overflow? Or is it better for the site to be an island unto itself?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195684#3195684&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I think it is good to be associated with some of the sister sites in the SE network. Which is why Movies and Literature questions that are tagged for scifi or fantasy are fed into the chat room. It gives us an opportunity to share our knowledge to the SE community at large.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fd433888f0a492f68af28958fa4f6a52?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;OghmaOsiris&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/10071/oghmaosiris&quot;&gt;OghmaOsiris&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195706#3195706&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I think that all SE sites need to be included in the StackExchange network and participate in any site changing decisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195710#3195710&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; No stack exchange site is an island unto itself, but none is completely beholden to the other sites. I like to think of it much as a States vs. Federal government in the US, each State has some rights, but the Federal Government has some rights as well. Leave each site to come up with their own ideas, some own rules, but listen to the advice from the larger community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17e552a87c7cff0d28aa62e7bef016fd?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;HNL&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/29223/hnl&quot;&gt;HNL&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195739#3195739&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I notice some interaction between us and writers.se, but not with the rest of the more technical sites. We're kind of different, because as I said before, the whole essence of science fiction &amp;amp; fantasy is about &quot;what-if&quot;, so I believe our questions and answers have a certain what-if element that might not fly on other SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195834#3195834&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes, it is important to be involved in the rest of the network.  That is part of the definition of &quot;network.&quot; Though the mods and community may be somewhat different, we are tied to the rest of Stack Exchange and should have, at the least, discourse with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195857#3195857&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Meta.SO provides a valuable avenue for information about the platform itself.  Some interaction with it is essential, if only to find out how things work, how they change, and to get help when you can't figure things out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c0190cc521c554c0d4555edbe76f4c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Keen&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9586/keen&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195984#3195984&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; It's important that we interact with the other SE sites.  We're all one network on the same platform.  Changes that are agreed to on other sites can and do affect us here.  We need to make sure that the course our SE overlords set isn't damaging to our portion of the overall SE community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a717291747c76567bb0f086e15ae6e43?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Gilles&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/240/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3208622#3208622&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; What is it with false dichotomies today? You can participate on Scifi.SE and not care about any other site. Or you can participate in a dozen sites daily. A moderator should at least have read the FAQ of sites that are close to us (mostly &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Literature&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Movies and TV&lt;/a&gt;), and know to turn to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; for existing answers about site-wide features.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T13:01:18.293" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T17:54:17.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1389" CreationDate="2012-01-31T20:14:53.397" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/45266ac3e876022aefa0c3590de209da?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;DampeS8N&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3903/dampes8n&quot;&gt;DampeS8N&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195690#3195690&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; After becoming very popular on reddit, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6555/are-e-t-and-star-wars-in-the-same-universe&quot;&gt;Are E.T. and Star Wars in the same universe?&lt;/a&gt; became our single most explosive question to date in nearly every metric. Should we promote more questions like this? And if so, how would you do that as a Mod?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195726#3195726&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; The great thing about that question is that it wasn't speculative, but there was actual precidence for the question to be asked. If we can try to promote more questions like that, where people see the question and have to do a double check, it will lead to increased traffic and participation on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195736#3195736&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; This very specific question worked because it already had some basis in reality. In general, combining two universes isn't a good idea for a question, unless there is some reason to believe they might exist. For this kind of question, I would simply sit back and watch what the community does, only stepping in if the question is exceptionally poor quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fd433888f0a492f68af28958fa4f6a52?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;OghmaOsiris&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/users/10071/oghmaosiris&quot;&gt;OghmaOsiris&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195767#3195767&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I think the popularity of reddit-posted questions is amazing. As I've discussed with @BrettWhite and other CHAOS members, they have been researching that possibility  in-office. I also think that all users who feel a question they or anyone else asks is awesome enough to post to reddit should, by all means, do so. And do so often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17e552a87c7cff0d28aa62e7bef016fd?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;HNL&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/users/29223/hnl&quot;&gt;HNL&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195783#3195783&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; If the question was asked in good faith (and I believe that question was) I believe it is okay. But we should not be splitting hairs over Easter eggs and in jokes of script writers and producers. If that were the case, as someone mentioned before, we would have to debate whether R2D2 is present in the new Star Trek universe (there's a question about this, but I can't find the link right now).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195882#3195882&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Absolutely we should promote questions like that.  I've shared a number of questions on Google+ and Facebook, and encourage everyone to do so as well.  Plus it is always a good idea to follow the SE accounts on social media sites like G+ and twitter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c0190cc521c554c0d4555edbe76f4c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Keen&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9586/keen&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3196020#3196020&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes, and it seems reddit has become one of our big drivers of views.  At least that's what BrettWhite mentioned in chat a few weeks ago.  I encourage reddit users and users of other social sites to spread our content wherever it's appropriate.  We offer some unique resources to the internet, we need to get that word out.  Personally, I would post interesting questions on my Google+ page, and Twitter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a717291747c76567bb0f086e15ae6e43?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Gilles&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/users/240/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3208688#3208688&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; The most upvoted questions are usually the most &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/31253/the-bike-shed-problem-and-so&quot;&gt;bikeshed&lt;/a&gt; questions. I don't find this question particularly constructive, but DVK did find some good material on its official status as a nod. I'd rather our popular questions be more interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T18:09:59.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1389" CreationDate="2012-01-31T20:17:24.953" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ef06754ae7cbcf88a1f6b91cfa1647cc?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;TangoOversway&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/26731/tangooversway&quot;&gt;TangoOversway&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195737#3195737&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; The issue of asking about archetypes has come up (although the word has been misused).  Is there a problem with asking questions about a topic that comes from legends to gain general information if the question isn't about a particular franchise?  (Example: Asking about vampires but not asking specifically about Buffy or Blade.)  Considering this is one of the sources of the stories we spend so much time on, why would it be off-limits?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195757#3195757&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I think those questions should be very carefully monitored, but they can be allowed in some capacity. They often result in a hodge podge of answers, and it can be quite difficult to pick one good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fd433888f0a492f68af28958fa4f6a52?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;OghmaOsiris&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/10071/oghmaosiris&quot;&gt;OghmaOsiris&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195785#3195785&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I believe those types of questions are completely valid. but a good answer to those types of questions would include more than one source and have citations of varied works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195908#3195908&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; As someone who has answered a few recent vampire questions, I am very open to these types.  I think there is opportunity for interesting, useful answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195970#3195970&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I think it can be quite important to understand the historical context of themes, including scif-fi archetypes. Regardless of whether it's explicitly about a specific franchise, I think those questions are not just acceptable but (if properly thought out and phrased) potentially the sorts of deep questions we should be encouraging here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c0190cc521c554c0d4555edbe76f4c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Keen&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9586/keen&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3196068#3196068&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I think it's important that we have people ask and answer questions about the source myths that are the original sources for so much of the modern fantasy.  I'm uncertain that our current community has enough experts to properly answer such questions though.  At present, we should closely monitor these questions so as to ensure they get quality answers that encourage more growth in this area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a717291747c76567bb0f086e15ae6e43?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Gilles&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/240/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3208706#3208706&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes, understanding the archetypes and tropes of SF should be within our mandates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-03-12T17:50:45.380" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T17:50:45.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1389" CreationDate="2012-01-31T20:19:30.207" Score="-1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195743#3195743&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; What is your position on &quot;Is X a Timelord?&quot; type questions?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195770#3195770&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Unless there is a very good reason to suspect X is a Timelord, then they should be removed from the site as quickly as possible. The prime example of a poor question is &quot;Is Santa Clause a Time Lord&quot;. But, there might be a good one out there. I just wouldn't know. In general, as I am not a Dr. Who fan, I would read the question, see if there is a good amount of evidence that it was the case, then close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fd433888f0a492f68af28958fa4f6a52?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;OghmaOsiris&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/users/10071/oghmaosiris&quot;&gt;OghmaOsiris&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195787#3195787&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Doc Brown should be left to his inventions in peace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17e552a87c7cff0d28aa62e7bef016fd?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;HNL&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/users/29223/hnl&quot;&gt;HNL&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195794#3195794&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Good Lord, no. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195921#3195921&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Great topics for the chat room :)  For the rest of the site... not so much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195981#3195981&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I'll let the community decide on those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c0190cc521c554c0d4555edbe76f4c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Keen&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9586/keen&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3196116#3196116&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; As almost the entirety of the Timelord race was placed in a time lock, it seems the answer to most of these would be &quot;no&quot; unless they're asking if the 'X' is some disguised version of either the Doctor or the Master. (That's an in-universe answer for all you non-Doctor Who watchers!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a717291747c76567bb0f086e15ae6e43?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Gilles&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/users/240/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3208727#3208727&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Oh boy. Seriously, it's not all a giant crossover! If a character hasn't appeared in &lt;em&gt;Dr Who&lt;/em&gt; or a work that nods to &lt;em&gt;Dr Who&lt;/em&gt;, then he's obviously not the Timelord you're looking for, and you should move along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-03-12T18:09:01.050" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T18:09:01.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1389" CreationDate="2012-01-31T20:21:31.127" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/45266ac3e876022aefa0c3590de209da?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;DampeS8N&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3903/dampes8n&quot;&gt;DampeS8N&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195806#3195806&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; Most important question: Rings, Potter, Wars or Trek?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195812#3195812&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Potter, Trek, Rings, Wars&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fd433888f0a492f68af28958fa4f6a52?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;OghmaOsiris&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/10071/oghmaosiris&quot;&gt;OghmaOsiris&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195815#3195815&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Trek, then Potter, then Wars, then Rings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195828#3195828&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; That's a tough one, but as I started the HP tag, I've got to go with Potter;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195840#3195840&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; LotR. It has the most consistent and extensive canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17e552a87c7cff0d28aa62e7bef016fd?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;HNL&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/29223/hnl&quot;&gt;HNL&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195844#3195844&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Wars &amp;amp; Trek&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195951#3195951&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I'd have to say Rings, just because the style of writing, and level of innovation elevates the works to something I can't really categorize as anything other than &quot;art&quot;.  The other three have a tremendous amount of brilliance, and, well, magic for lack of a better word, but they don't have the &quot;wow-factor&quot; that LotR has for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c0190cc521c554c0d4555edbe76f4c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Keen&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9586/keen&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3196173#3196173&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Modern day?  Wars, Trek, Rings, Potter.  In that order because The Clone Wars is an amazing continuation of the Star Wars saga that almost redeems the prequels.  I eagerly await the next Star Trek film, but we're getting 2 hours every 3-4 years at present.  Next is LotR for the upcoming film adaptation of The Hobbit, which I look forward to seeing Sherlock and Watson in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c0190cc521c554c0d4555edbe76f4c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Keen&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9586/keen&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3196187#3196187&quot;&gt;continued&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Lastly is Potter because I'm mainly a casual fan of the series, having only seen the movies, never read the books.  It was fun seeing the tale end last year in the theater, but it was a pretty thorough ending, so I don't foresee myself heading back to that universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a717291747c76567bb0f086e15ae6e43?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Gilles&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/240/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3208734#3208734&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; That's the wrong question. Mu again. We don't care what SF you prefer. Follow a single tag or read everything, you're welcome either way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-03-12T18:12:30.900" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T18:12:30.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1389" CreationDate="2012-01-31T20:23:32.340" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dabd223496ac04bc7ae811f815008a2b?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Rebecca Chernoff&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/23/rebecca-chernoff&quot;&gt;Rebecca Chernoff&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195772#3195772&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; Final thoughts from the candidates please!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195778#3195778&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; A vote for me is a vote against Timelords. That's a promise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195808#3195808&quot;&gt;continued&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I have really enjoyed my participation on SCIFI.SE, moreso than any other SE site. I'd really like to continue to see this site grow and be a part of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195789#3195789&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; This community is a great place. I really am honored to work with it, given my current powers, and would be more honored to be given moderator promises. I hope I can continue to help this community out, and help it grow. Please help me to have more power help you by voting for me to be your moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fd433888f0a492f68af28958fa4f6a52?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;OghmaOsiris&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/10071/oghmaosiris&quot;&gt;OghmaOsiris&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195804#3195804&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I want to thank everyone who has been involved with this election and I hope that I am a prime consideration for your vote. I promise that, if elected, I would be fair, logical and kind to everyone on the site and make this site one of the best SE sites on the network. Vote OghmaOsiris!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17e552a87c7cff0d28aa62e7bef016fd?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;HNL&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/29223/hnl&quot;&gt;HNL&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195832#3195832&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; This is currently my favorite online community. I'd love to pitch in more than I'm doing now. But I already see several candidates who can definitely do as good a job as I, and perhaps even better. Let the best man win.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195867#3195867&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; If I have not addressed a question you would like me to answer, I am frequently in chat; please come there and ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195990#3195990&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I think we have a fantastic community here, that is not afraid to share their opinions, but also has a firm grasp on maintaining what is best for the site overall.  I also think we have a bunch of fantastic candidates here. I would welcome the chance to contribute more as a moderator here, and I think what I have learned as a pro tem mod at parenting.se could be useful here, particularly in areas of policy clarification and site promotion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3195997#3195997&quot;&gt;continued&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; (BTW, to everyone participating in this chat: if you have kids, or are thinking of it, visit &lt;a href=&quot;https://parenting.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Parenting&lt;/a&gt;)!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:41:11.953" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T17:55:10.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1380" CreationDate="2012-01-31T20:49:30.077" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Borrowed from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/399/108&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using the FAQ on-topic categories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Plot, character, or setting explanations: my problem is that I don't understand why something happened.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Historical context: my problem is that I don't understand how this work fits into real-world history.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information: my problem is I don't know how to get the best out of a conference, my problem is I don't know how to contact an author.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Story identification: my problem is that I cannot find this work that I remember loving.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Franchise/series reading or viewing order: my problem is that I don't know what order it would be best to consume these in.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2012-01-31T20:49:30.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1421" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1485" CreationDate="2012-01-31T20:56:49.567" Score="2" ViewCount="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hovering over a tag option in the tag selector renders the tag's description unreadable, as seen in the following screenshot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eM6WR.png&quot; alt=&quot;hovered tag&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="171" LastEditDate="2012-02-06T12:17:22.560" LastActivityDate="2012-02-06T12:17:22.560" Title="Hovering over tags in the selector on meta renders them unreadable" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1422" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1486" CreationDate="2012-01-31T21:03:27.533" Score="1" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;Images on this site have an unnecessary bottom margin of 1em, which leads to them being weirdly offset when inline with text, as seen in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1390/4501&quot;&gt;the Town Hall Digest&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even when not inline with text, the margin compounds with the bottom margin of the generated &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; elements in posts, causing an extra wide gap between the image and the next paragraph (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/10094/does-namor-the-sub-mariner-still-possess-the-powers-of-all-sea-creatures&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This used to &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/transcript/89?m=731412#731412&quot;&gt;be the case on DBA&lt;/a&gt; as well, but the margin has since been removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2012-02-06T12:20:32.570" Title="Images have an unnecessary 1em bottom margin" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1257" CreationDate="2012-02-01T06:46:12.640" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yep, the sprite position information in the CSS was off in a few spots. Fixed now, thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="171" LastActivityDate="2012-02-01T06:46:12.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1138" CreationDate="2012-02-01T15:43:05.257" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;A series of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/02/exclusive-before-watchmen/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Watchmen prequels&lt;/a&gt; was just announced.  This might be a good topic as the release of the first issues approaches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2012-02-01T15:43:05.257" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1427" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-01T20:44:35.937" Score="3" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have 2 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stargate-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-movie&lt;/a&gt;. Both are ALSO tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stargate&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that there's very little point to have a specific tag for a movie - of those 2 questions, only 1 was actually about a movie (the second one was based on the whole franchise, not movie-specific), and having that movie tag fully separate makes no sense IMHO - it is correct theoretically but in practice serves no useful purpose and is merely adding noise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I proposed to change &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stargate-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-movie&lt;/a&gt; to be a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stargate&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you agree, and have &gt;=5 upvotes in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stargate&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate&lt;/a&gt;, please feel free to up-vote the synonym suggestion here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/stargate/synonyms&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/stargate/synonyms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If approved, I will take care of minor re-tagging if it will be necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T00:14:57.990" Title="Suggested synonym/retag: rename &quot;stargate-movie&quot;  to &quot;stargate&quot;" Tags="|discussion|tag-synonyms|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1428" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-01T20:52:23.650" Score="7" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have 1 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sorcery&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sorcery&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sorcery&lt;/a&gt;. It is ALSO tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magic&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that there's very little point to have a specific tag for &quot;sorcery&quot; - it's merely a synonym in real English, and no SFF universe makes a clear distinction between the two. In that question it was merely added since there was a definition of the term being asked for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I proposed to change &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sorcery&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sorcery&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sorcery&lt;/a&gt; to be a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magic&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you agree, and have &gt;=5 upvotes in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magic&lt;/a&gt;, please feel free to up-vote the synonym suggestion here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/magic/synonyms&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/magic/synonyms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If approved, I will take care of minor re-tagging if it will be necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Suggested synonym/retag: rename &quot;sorcery&quot; to &quot;magic&quot;" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tag-synonyms|retagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1429" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-01T21:03:52.680" Score="10" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have 2 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/starships&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;starships&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;starships&lt;/a&gt;. We also have 16 tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spaceship&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;spaceship&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;spaceship&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that there's very little point to have a specific tag for &quot;starships&quot; - The only meaningful distinction would be if the former explicitly applied to inter-star travel and the latter to space travel within one system as contrast, but that isn't supported by either exact English connotations, nor the set of 16 questions for spaceship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I proposed to change &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/starships&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;starships&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;starships&lt;/a&gt; to be a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spaceship&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;spaceship&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;spaceship&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While at it, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/starship&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;starship&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;starship&lt;/a&gt; should also be changed thusly, but it doesn't yet exist and you can't propose a synonym based on non-existing tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you agree, and have &gt;=5 upvotes in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spaceship&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;spaceship&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;spaceship&lt;/a&gt;, please feel free to up-vote the synonym suggestion here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/spaceship/synonyms&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/spaceship/synonyms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If approved, I will take care of minor re-tagging if it will be necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2012-02-14T05:45:14.643" Title="Suggested synonym/retag: rename &quot;starships&quot; to be a synonym of &quot;spaceship&quot;" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tag-synonyms|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1428" CreationDate="2012-02-01T21:48:41.270" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree withh Gilles that there is a distinction between the two, and even in real life, people who study sorcery and people who study magic are studying two different things (with some overlap).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say keep the two tags the way they are. If someone is reading a story that specifically uses &quot;sorcery&quot; as it's mechanism, then someone is going to be confused when they can't use that tag when asking a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2012-02-01T21:48:41.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1427" CreationDate="2012-02-02T00:14:57.990" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Stargate-movie is quite different in general than Stargate the series. I'm not opposed to leaving this one alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T00:14:57.990" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1433" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-02T02:03:56.890" Score="2" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question is not a good fit to our Q&amp;amp;A format. We expect answers to generally involve facts, references, or specific expertise; this question will likely solicit opinion, debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What &lt;strong&gt;specifically&lt;/strong&gt; was &quot;not constructive&quot; about the following question based on the definition above? I think this was a completely baseless closure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9291/was-eric-flints-1632-the-only-prominent-sff-work-universe-where-some-approved&quot;&gt;Was Eric Flint&amp;#39;s 1632 the only SF&amp;amp;F work/universe where fan fiction is considered canon?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question did NOT generate &quot;opinion, debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion&quot;.  &lt;strong&gt;It did, however, generate a very precise solitary answer, which completely answered it and provided useful information.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only discussion it generated - in comments - was definition of &quot;fanfic,&quot; which I think most reasonable SciFi&amp;amp;F people don't consider controversial and was very precisely defined in the question itself to avoid any ambiguity; and, moreover, fanfic questions were explicitly agreed on meta to be on topic previously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T12:07:47.157" Title="Why exactly was this closed as &quot;not constructive&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1428" CreationDate="2012-02-02T03:15:44.300" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;While there are some distinctions between them in different universes, specifically that Sorcery tends to deal with spirits of some kind, while magic usually doesn't, there are enough similarities where I think it's fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as tag synonyms go, a person can &quot;tag&quot; a question with Sorcery still, but it will be converted to magic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T03:15:44.300" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1435" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1454" CreationDate="2012-02-02T04:41:07.887" Score="6" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I see a list question, I usually pick the &quot;off topic&quot; reason, as my understanding was they were chosen to be not in this site's scope.  In addition, they are explicitly verboten in the FAQ, which the &quot;off topic&quot; reason links:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please note the following types of questions are off-topic here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions calling for a list of works, authors, …: What are all the books that have X? Who wrote about topic Y?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm seeing these often voted as &quot;not-constructive&quot; though, and was curious about the reasoning behind that selection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T02:04:46.323" Title="When voting to close list questions, which VTC reason should I choose?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1436" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-02T09:39:30.640" Score="8" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's possible to filter using a wildcard in a tag, for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stargate*&quot;&gt;stargate*&lt;/a&gt;, and to use this in the favourite and ignored tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you can't do this in search.  Searching for &lt;code&gt;[stargate*]&lt;/code&gt; gives the results for &lt;code&gt;[stargate]&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this could be used in search (and if it was also listed in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search&quot;&gt;search tips&lt;/a&gt;), perhaps more people would know that it can be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Add ability to use wildcarded tags in search" Tags="|bug|status-norepro|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1435" CreationDate="2012-02-02T10:09:07.710" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;You don't have a scheme; you choose the reason that fits most to that particular question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if it's Off Topic, it doesn't matter if there are polls, or if it's too localized, you simply close it as Off Topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2217" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T10:09:07.710" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1438" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1456" CreationDate="2012-02-02T10:46:51.050" Score="11" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm just curious as to whether voting for the moderators is anonymous, or can moderators or anyone later see who has voted for whom?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Is moderator voting anonymous?" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1435" CreationDate="2012-02-02T11:19:58.407" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;List questions are AFAIK usually closed as off-topic, first because of the reason you stated, and second, because &lt;strong&gt;most list questions don't actually fit the exact definition of non-constructive&lt;/strong&gt; (they don't solicit or are likely to lead to opinions/arguments etc... and most actually DO involve facts, references, or specific expertise). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, it doesn't mean that a &lt;strong&gt;specific&lt;/strong&gt; question can't be both off-topic AND not constructive at the same time (&quot;What are the most interesting EU Star Wars books&quot; would be a random example that I can think up right off the bat - this asks for a list of books, AND is based on subjective opinion to boot). In that case, one can pick whatever one feels is most appropriate as Alenanno said. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One possible area of confusion is the &quot;polling&quot; word in the &quot;not constructive&quot; definition. I don't know what StackExchange meant to include in &quot;polling&quot;, but IMHO the common connotation for that term is asking for subjective opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, &quot;Give me a list of works satisfying condition X&quot; - where the rule of satisfying &quot;condition X&quot; is NOT subjective - is a list question but is &lt;strong&gt;not a poll&lt;/strong&gt; and therefore can't be labeled as &quot;not constructive&quot;. The threshold is specifically how subjective/opinion based &quot;Condition X&quot; (aka &quot;where clause&quot; in database terms) is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. I'll leave aside the rant about people voting to close questions that aren't meant to be lists OR polls and are instead existence &quot;yes/no&quot; questions (in database terms, &quot;EXIST&quot; queries) and in fact ARE NOT based on having received a solitary answer and no others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2012-02-02T14:39:26.500" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T14:39:26.500" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1438" CreationDate="2012-02-02T11:32:17.907" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only info I was able to find was in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/02/stack-overflow-2010-moderator-election-results/&quot;&gt;&quot;Stack Overflow 2010 Moderator Election Results&quot; post by Jeff Atwood on SO blog&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You can download the Stack Overflow 2010 Moderator Election ballot file and our output result and run the election yourself, if you like. (Of course the  individual votes are anonymous in the file)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is interesting - on one hand, it shows that public voting info is 100% surely anonymous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OTOH, it explicitly says &quot;in the file&quot;, meaning that it does NOT say the moderators won't be able to view this info. I will assume that the voting follows the normal pattern of up/downvoting on SE sites, which &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; anonymous even from mods:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Like any normal user, votes are anonymous to you and you have no power to alter votes. (source: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/119111/moderator-cheat-sheet&quot;&gt;Moderator Cheat Sheet&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T11:37:39.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1441" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-02T11:44:53.460" Score="5" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;URL links in quoted text in general on Meta.SFF.SE are a somewhat hard to read pink color.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when a link is &lt;strong&gt;visited&lt;/strong&gt;, it's a pale red that's extremely hard to read against the quote's pale gray background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href=&quot;http://no.such.url.I.am.sure.of.it.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Not visited link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Visited link - text seems hard to read&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;NOTE: I'm color naming challenged, so the names used for 2 colors in this post may be incorrect&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2013-01-27T04:59:34.897" Title="Visited URLs in links in quotes on META site are hard to read" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|meta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1438" CreationDate="2012-02-02T12:28:48.573" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderators do not see individual votes anywhere: not on posts and not in elections. We see the same data you see: the ballot file provided at the end of the election.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, moderators are given information on a &quot;need to know&quot; basis: there's really no reason why a moderator would ever need to know who you voted for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T12:28:48.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1443" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1444" CreationDate="2012-02-02T12:37:01.057" Score="2" ViewCount="913" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love the web font this site is using. I really felt in love with it. It seems to be some sort of VarelaRound web-font but I couldn't find the real web font with &lt;em&gt;italic&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt; style.&#xA;Was that paid or free?&#xA;If free, where could I find it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4517" LastEditorUserId="108" LastEditDate="2012-02-02T22:04:24.440" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T22:04:24.440" Title="Web Font VarelaRound" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1443" CreationDate="2012-02-02T12:52:04.550" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was created by &lt;a href=&quot;http://cargocollective.com/admixdesigns&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joe Prince&lt;/a&gt;, and it's part of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Varela+Round&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Web Fonts collection&lt;/a&gt;. The typeface doesn't have an italic version, just the normal face. It's being rendered in obliques on the fly by the browser. If you create an HTML file with the following, you'll see it in action:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!DOCTYPE html&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;html&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;head&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;title&amp;gt;Varela Round Test&amp;lt;/title&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Varela+Round' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/head&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;body&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;p style=&quot;font-family: 'Varela Round', sans-serif;&quot;&amp;gt;Test &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;test&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/body&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/html&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2012-02-02T12:57:19.520" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T12:57:19.520" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1433" CreationDate="2012-02-02T13:40:16.230" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have to add this text to your question: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE&lt;/strong&gt;: I'm looking for &lt;strong&gt;just one example&lt;/strong&gt; of such universe aside from 1632 (to see if Flint was unique), NOT a list. If there's already an accepted answer, please be kind enough not to post extra examples - I will flag them for moderator deletions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...it's a sign that even you feel that there is a good chance that other people will be tempted to respond as if this were a polling/list question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's part of the nature of the platform that people &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to post answers (which is, of course, a good thing!), especially if their answer is fundamentally different than any others there.  While you may argue that in this case, examples of different works wouldn't really be significantly different to the basic question of &quot;do &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; exist?&quot;, other users looking to answer would quite possibly disagree, especially if there's a personal favorite that might fit the bill &quot;better&quot; than existing answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the most basic, no question should be asked that would require the OP to have to preemptively threaten to flag for moderator deletions.  Answers should only be deleted when they don't attempt to address the question at all, contain dangerous advice (not likely on our site, given the nature of the topics), or when they contain spam, offensive, or otherwise inappropriate content that can't or shouldn't be edited to leave useful information.  &quot;I have too many answers&quot; is not a sufficient reason to ask moderators to delete answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T13:40:16.230" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1438" CreationDate="2012-02-02T14:04:55.847" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect that if a Stack Exchange employee wanted to know, they could figure it out. Aside from everyone else, everyone, moderator, nominee, or just regular member, gets the same information. That information is a downloadable file in which you can see, without names, the first, second, and third choices of everyone who voted. Usually the winners are declared after a few days, but the results are available as soon as the election is done. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/77541/how-are-moderator-election-votes-counted-in-plain-english&quot;&gt;this MSO post&lt;/a&gt; for how the algorithm works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to see what the election results look like, take a look at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/election/1&quot;&gt;Gaming's election results&lt;/a&gt;. Or any other one, just go to the site, and add election/1 to look at the first one, which is all that most sites have had...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:09:36.363" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T14:04:55.847" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1449" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-02T22:50:47.783" Score="7" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;The blog has stalled.  Do we think it's worth keeping it going, or should we say au revoir and c'est la vie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After my earlier &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/932/108&quot;&gt;neglect&lt;/a&gt; I did ask everyone that had expressed interest in writing or had received grants whether they would write something, offered to help, and so on.  Brett has continued using it as a grant motivator as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wrote some posts myself to have some new content at a regular interval, but I've stopped (other than an election notice) because there's no point having it if it's just me writing (I can write elsewhere if I want to) - it's the community, not just one user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know where to go from here.  Nag more? You're meant to &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to write, not be pressured into it.  Bribe more? Same here. Make it easier to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/703/how-do-i-contribute-to-the-blog&quot;&gt;contribute&lt;/a&gt;? How?  Say &quot;the end&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site is considerably busier than it was when we started the blog, we're no longer in beta, we have a very active meta, I gather that there's a fairly active chat room, the quality of writing in questions and answers seems pretty good, so in theory it looks like the blog is viable.  In practice, I don't know that it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T07:12:28.397" Title="Do we keep the blog alive?" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1450" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-02T23:51:52.477" Score="15" ViewCount="365" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9291/was-eric-flints-1632-the-only-prominent-sff-work-universe-where-some-approved&quot;&gt;Was Eric Flint's 1632 the ONLY prominent SF&amp;amp;F work/universe where some (approved) fan fiction is officially considered canon?&lt;/a&gt; was asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question asked for a single example, in order to avoid being a list question (list questions are considered a poor fit for this platform, and are considered not constructive by definition).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that if the answer is &quot;yes, Eric Flint's 1632 is the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; SF&amp;amp;F work/universe where some fan fiction is officially considered canon&quot;, then the question is too localized, as it reflects a single point in time (all it takes is one other franchise approving fan fiction as canon and now the answer is incorrect).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is &quot;no, there are others&quot;, and then we explicitly limit the answer to a single example in order to bypass the list question issue, then the answer isn't terribly interesting, and, by extension, neither is the question (&quot;here's the only example of a franchise that includes fan fiction as canon&quot; might be somewhat interesting, as it represents a unique situation, but &quot;here's two examples of franchises that include fan fiction as canon&quot; does not seem interesting).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I perceive this as a limitation of questions that look for a yes/no answer, where the answer can be proven by a single example.  However, that doesn't mean that there could not be other questions in this format that might be of more general interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we, as a community, feel strongly one way or another about these types of questions?  If some should be allowed, what are the criteria of identifying good questions from bad? Or are questions asking for a yes/no answer based on a single example not a problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2012-02-04T08:13:23.073" Title="Are questions looking to simply prove or disprove a premise with a yes/no answer a good fit for our site?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1436" CreationDate="2012-02-03T01:07:47.943" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1672/please-allow-wildcards-in-tag-searches/1726#1726&quot;&gt;supposedly implemented&lt;/a&gt; but looks broken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can enter the URL manually:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stargate%2a&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stargate*&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but there doesn't seem to be a way to reach this URL from the search box, and I can't seem to combine with other search criteria (say, posts tagged &lt;code&gt;stargate*&lt;/code&gt; and not tagged &lt;code&gt;stargate&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T01:07:47.943" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1433" CreationDate="2012-02-03T01:32:04.033" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My main beef against this question is that I have no idea what is meant precisely by “considered canon”, yet the question hinges on a very precise definition since it's asking for a yes or no answer. Even with the given definition of “fan fiction”, there's room for interpretation. I don't see how an answer could not depend on its author's interpretation of the definitions, meaning that the correctness of the answer would be decided on a whim — does the author's interpretation look sufficiently close to what the asker had in mind? If yes, upvote; if not, downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is exactly the kind of pointless bickering that the “not constructive” close reason (formerly “subjective and argumentative”) seeks to avoid. Case, and question, closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, asking for a single example is not a way to save a bad question; more on that in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1435/when-voting-to-close-list-questions-which-vtc-reason-should-i-choose&quot;&gt;When voting to close list questions, which VTC reason should I choose?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, I take exception to this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm looking for just one example of (…), NOT a list. If there's already an accepted answer, please be kind enough not to post extra examples - I will flag them for moderator deletions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a moderator, I would not agree to such deletions. If a first answer cites an example, and a second answer cites another example, then either both answers are valid or none are. Your restriction seems to constrain the answers not to be interesting, and we certainly don't want that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.730" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T01:32:04.033" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1450" CreationDate="2012-02-03T01:42:39.333" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I'd find questions like this useful in a number of cases.  I know this is an absurd example, but I'm doing that so it stays away from any real-world questions.  Suppose someone is researching a topic, like successful SF franchises, shows, or movies that involve space travel and every example they think of includes specific elements, like FTL and green slave girls.  The more he researches, the more he find this is true in &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; example.  So it becomes a question, &quot;Can an SF franchise involving space travel succeed without green slave girls and FTL?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One exception proves the rule, two or three would support the point that it's not a requirement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I see it, the problem occurs with all the &quot;me too&quot; answers where each person wants to cite one example.  So I think the issue is not so much in allowing such questions, but in what can be done to prevent endless lists of answers with short (or single item) lists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T01:42:39.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1435" CreationDate="2012-02-03T02:04:46.323" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take your pick:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; explicitly rejects list questions. Therefore they are “&lt;strong&gt;off topic&lt;/strong&gt;: Questions … are expected to generally relate … within the scope defined in the faq.”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions expecting a complete list for an answer are overly broad (you can't expect a single person to provide an exhaustive list), which is one of the conditions for &lt;strong&gt;not a real question&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions expecting a list of items (one per answer) or questions expecting only a partial set of answers (such as “is there an example”) are “&lt;strong&gt;not constructive&lt;/strong&gt;: … not a good fit to our Q&amp;amp;A format. We expect answers to generally involve facts, references, or specific expertise; …”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason why the FAQ forbids list questions is not because we think they don't relate to the topic of the site; they are not off-topic in that sense. But we've found through experience that they do not lead to interesting answers. This fits the broad definition of “not constructive”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I prefer to use “not constructive”, especially with askers who are new to the site, because closing a question as “off topic” and “not a real question” automatically casts a downvote on the question, but “not constructive” doesn't. The reasoning behind that downvote is that “off topic” often means “why did you even think to post that here”, and “not a real question” often means “what's this drivel”. “Not constructive” is more subtle; often questions that are “not constructive” could fare well as initial posts on a discussion forum, but don't work as questions expecting answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll take this opportunity to go through the various ways list questions are asked:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What are all the works with feature X? Only complete answers need apply. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What are all the works with feature X? One work per answer please.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What are some works with feature X?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What's an example of a work with feature X?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there any examples of a work with feature X?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer to the last question is invariably “yes”. The answer to the first question is invariably impossible to establish because no one knows all the answers (if it is possible for a single person to compile the answer, then this is not a list question, it's a factual question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The formulations in between invite a large set of answers where everyone contributes one example at a time. The result is not a set of answers, it's a set of items. The voting reflects primarily who posted first, and also to some extent which works are not popular. How adequate a match the answer is for the request doesn't figure in the voting, as a rule. We had a lot of such questions in the early days of the beta on the site; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/1&quot;&gt;question 1&lt;/a&gt; is an example we've kept for posterity. When you go through it, please keep in mind that this is the best response we've had to a list question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I discern a pattern where people who've seen lots of list questions hate them, and people who haven't love them. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16/are-list-questions-allowed/79#79&quot;&gt;I was initially rather in favor of allowing lists, with some requirement that they shouldn't be too broad&lt;/a&gt;. Yet &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/78/a-first-look-at-questions-so-far&quot;&gt;I was concerned by their large number&lt;/a&gt;. Now, I've become dead set against list questions. Not that I don't think they can be interesting, but they don't fit on Stack Exchange. (Whether we can find a home for them in another form, perhaps on another site, should be the topic of other meta discussions.) A less personal data point: on our jumbo on/off-topic list, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic/351#351&quot;&gt;list questions&lt;/a&gt; were initially one of the most downvoted items, and has now gathered a few upvotes. It seems to be an acquired distaste.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T02:04:46.323" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1449" CreationDate="2012-02-03T02:07:34.273" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please nag more! Or if you lack the time and energy, please ask someone else to nag. In any case, thank you for all the work you've done in these past months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The level of activity in chat and in meta shows that we have plenty of energy. So, people, write 'em blog posts!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, that includes me. Got a few reviews I'd like to share. Now I gotta git and write them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T02:07:34.273" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1438" CreationDate="2012-02-03T02:14:53.793" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In principle, moderator voting is anonymous except to Stack Exchange developers. Now let me put on my security hat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All votes are recorded in a database on the Stack Exchange servers. Each ballot has a user ID associated with it. This lets Stack Exchange employees audit vote counts. Barring an unintended data leak, no one other than Stack Exchange developers are able to access the ballot data in the database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the election, the set of ballots will be published, without an indication of who cast each ballot. Even the set of voters (vs. abstainers) will not be published.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators do not have any special privilege regarding access to the ballots. Moderators can see in real time the number of people who visited the election page and the number of people who voted (there may be a lag due to caching). In principle, since moderators can also see the last activity date in a user's profile, this could let them correlate last activity times and voting times and guess who cast at least one vote. This would require a lot of data acquisition (probably enough to register as a suspicious access pattern on the Stack Exchange servers), and I doubt the data would be accurate enough to be useful. So I think this data leakage is largely theoretical. In any case, this information would not reveal anything about who the voter voted for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T02:14:53.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1450" CreationDate="2012-02-03T03:13:08.563" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions that explore the state of science fiction and fantasy, the history of the genre, and how and why things turned out the way they did are &lt;em&gt;fascinating&lt;/em&gt; questions that aren't just trivia about a specific universe, and are (for at least some) the sort of question that we want to be encouraging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't buy the &quot;too localised&quot; argument &lt;em&gt;at all&lt;/em&gt;.  The majority of the questions on the site (also the majority that the StackExchange CHAOS employees are pushing) deal with universes that are still being developed.  That means that the correct answer can change at any time, with a new book, new episode, new issue, new sequel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Ours isn't the only site where this is true.  Even on Stack Overflow languages are continually evolving, so, e.g., a new release of Python may change the accuracy of an existing answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Too localised&quot; is, e.g., asking about WorldCon 2011 rather than WorldCon in general.  The correct answer may always change (and editing is nearly always possible); the possibility of the answer being less correct at an undefined point in the future does not make a question too localised in time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't buy the &quot;isn't terribly interesting&quot; argument, either.  There's no guarantee that &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; question gets terribly interesting answers, and I can certainly imagine interesting ones to questions of this type.  An answer that I would find interesting wouldn't just randomly pick one &quot;no&quot; example, it would pick the most interesting (most well known, earliest, most significant in the history of the field, etc) and explain how this came to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO the problem with the specific example here is that because there's such rabid fear of any question that may use a list in the answer @DVK went overboard in adding text to the question to demonstrate that it wasn't a list.  I think it would have read better if it skipped all of that and just asked about the history/state of an author accepting fanfic into their universe.  (OTOH, those with the rabid fear would then probably have closed it before it even made it to the chat auto-post).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to edit the question since it's still under discussion, and it seems wrong to ask an alternative version for the same reason.  So I've &lt;a href=&quot;http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2095704/1632-alternate.txt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;written up an alternative and put it here&lt;/a&gt;.  ISTM that it would answer the original yes/no question, but it's integrated into a wider question (c.f. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1467/108&quot;&gt;Beofett's answer&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2012-02-04T08:13:23.073" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1458" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-03T03:23:20.970" Score="5" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tooltip for up voting a meta question suggests that it is appropriate when the question is clear, shows prior research, and is useful.  A down vote is appropriate when the question the opposite is true.  I believe these tooltips are common throughout meta and parent sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's a meta question that is poorly researched, or unclear, or is not useful, then this is straightforward.  However, there is a practice (presumably originating on meta.stackoverflow.com) where these are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the reason for up/down votes; rather they indicate agreement or disagreement with a suggestion in the meta post.  I presume this is because meta.stackoverflow.com users are too lazy to add a &quot;Yes&quot; or &quot;No&quot; answer or vote such an answer up or down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on my own experience (I've used Stack Overflow for 3 and a half years, but had limited meta experience before this site) and comments I've seen others make, this is especially confusing for new meta users, who are ones we want to be encouraging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we need to have a policy about this so that everyone either knows what to do or can figure it out by reading something &lt;em&gt;on our own meta site&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T05:39:28.837" Title="How should we vote on meta discussion questions?" Tags="|discussion|meta|voting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1458" CreationDate="2012-02-03T03:25:47.393" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The practice of using a question vote as a poll is confusing. I'm often unsure about how I should vote on a meta question - if it's something I think is useful (i.e. it should be discussed), and it's well written and presented, but I disagree with the suggestion, do I vote up (great question!) or down (terrible idea!)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I'd like to know what other people think of an idea (e.g. on a question I've asked), I have the same problem in reverse - did people vote it up because I asked something that should be asked and did it well, or did they agree with the suggestion?  Did people vote it down because I asked it badly, or because they disagree with the idea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should break away from the bad habits of meta.stackoverflow.com, and say that if you agree with a suggestion, you vote for an answer that says so (and add one if there isn't one).  If you vote for a question, you're saying that it's something that many people should read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers are answers, questions are questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T03:25:47.393" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1458" CreationDate="2012-02-03T03:28:47.687" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we stick with the vote up/down questions to indicate agreement/disagreement system, then I think we should more carefully format discussion questions so that it's clearer what's being voted on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1449/do-we-keep-the-blog-alive&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; I ask &quot;should we keep the blog alive&quot; and talk about whether it should be kept going or not.  It's not clear what an up vote means under the &quot;agreement&quot;/&quot;disagreement&quot; system, so it should be edited so that it's proposing something specific (e.g. &quot;we should shut the blog down&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that aren't clear can be edited so that they are.  The volume of &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discussion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; questions is low enough that this is easily manageable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T03:28:47.687" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1450" CreationDate="2012-02-03T06:21:43.703" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that such questions should be on-topic, but DO need to be posed with more care to avoid some pitfalls. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer will contain 3 parts: The pluses of the questions, the proposed negatives of them with my counter-arguments, and the possible downsides of them with proposed mitigation approaches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PART A. why are &quot;yes/no&quot; (prove/disprove) questions useful?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They have several possible distinct, though related, uses:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They are a great way to obtain detailed confirmation for a broader research done for a wider question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, take a hypothetical &quot;What are all the classifications of vampire feeding&quot; question? I'm writing a mega-great answer with 20-point taxonomy with examples, and feel that there ought to be a class for &quot;vampires who suck heat out of human body via drinking blood&quot;. But I can't recall any vampire doing so. So, I can either exclude a possible great class from taxonomy, or ask on SFF.SE - as a separate question - if there indeed is a work where vampires suck blood to obtain victim's thermal energy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They are the best way to back up uncited/unsubstantiated claims made about SFF world. Basically, a SFF.SE version of Skeptics questions. Such as: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The claims made in a specific post as part of a logic chain (or the entire answer). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. an answer to a hypothetical question about werewolves states that a person can never be both a werewolf and a vampire. I have doubts about validity of the answer due to reliance on such an unproven fact, but don't remember any counterexamples. So in my head there is a VERY VERY specific, objective, and constructive SFF question: &lt;em&gt;&quot;Are there known werewolf containing works which show someone who is both a werewolf AND a vampire at the same time&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. When someone has an objective answerable SFF question, it would be nice if there was a place where one could ask it and have the experts answer it... &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The claims made in general on SFF.SE. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. Gilles made a comment on Meta yesterday that there are works where &quot;sorcery&quot; is cleanly different from &quot;magic&quot;. Far be it from me not to trust Gilles, BUT he didn't include an example, and I wanted to know at least one such work (why? because I would love to read it! Same reason people seem to like story ID questions). This is a special case because the claim already presupposes that the work like that exists.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The claims made elsewhere. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. some article/book (cracked.com?) states that all the supervillains can be classified into uber smart or uber strong. That classification rings false to me, but I'm not a comic expert. To resolve this, I would like to ask &quot;if there are supervillains that are neither uber smart or uber strong&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As Tango have eloquently pointed out in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1453/3850&quot;&gt;his answer&lt;/a&gt; - and so did Tony -   a major use would be a research into some characteristics of SFF as a genre. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I would have expected this site to be HEAVILY predisposed to favor such goals!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PART B. Addressing common criticisms of yes/no questions?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Criticism&lt;/strong&gt;: A &quot;No&quot; answer is too localized as someone may write a work which changes this &quot;no&quot; to a &quot;yes&quot; later (source: Beofett's question above).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer&lt;/strong&gt;: Leaving aside &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1457/976&quot;&gt;Tony's wonderful answer addressing this&lt;/a&gt;, I have only one thing to say: while that is indeed a remote possibility, using logic like this we should make entire Star Wars off-topic. Lucas can release the next version changing ANY of the canon facts at any time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Criticism&lt;/strong&gt;: A &quot;yes&quot; answer is too content free to be useful/interesting (source: Beofett's question above).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer&lt;/strong&gt;: Again, a great answer was in Tony's post. I will merely quote statistics: the question that was closed already had 3 up-votes - meaning at least 4 people found it interesting (out of 92 views due to being on an obscure topic with obscure tags - not a bad ratio by this site's standards IMHO, or ANY site's). I apologize, but an opinion of one, or two, or 3 people that something is &quot;not interesting&quot; IMHO is 100% invalidated when at least 4 people find something interesting. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Criticism&lt;/strong&gt;: Such questions may degenerate into a list of &quot;yes&quot; answers, with no possibility of objectively picking a correct one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer&lt;/strong&gt;: First, &lt;strong&gt;if they actually do&lt;/strong&gt; for a specific question, I would be the first one to agree that it was a bad question and will vote to close it myself. Writing such a question in a way that does NOT encourage (and discourages) multiple list type answers should be the task of the asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I strongly feel that if the asker DID succeed in wording the question carefully enough that it didn't degenerate into a list of answers, there is no basis for closing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will address specific approaches/strategies for preventing lists in the third part. Going forward, if the community decides that such yes/no questions as a concept are on-topic, we may want/need to develop &quot;best practices&quot; for asking them in a constructive list-avoidance manner. Given my past experience, I can 100% assure you that it IS possible to do.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;NOTE: I will try to address the ones that I saw posted, if I missed one please feel free to add a link or explanation as a comment and I'll address that too&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PART C: Possible approaches to avoid pitfalls&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As noted above, there is SOME (though in my experience, &lt;strong&gt;small&lt;/strong&gt;) risk that, unless carefully worded, such a question CAN generate a poorly-suited-for-SE-format list of &quot;yes&quot; answers all of which are equally valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible approaches include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Politely requesting people to refrain from posting additional examples if one is already posted in an answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that much-criticized &quot;I am willing to take action on extra answers&quot; addendum that I posted on 1632 question was NOT an example of such a polite request, but a signal to moderators/possible &quot;list closers&quot; that I'm willing to make the effort to prevent the question from turning yes/no into a list. In other words, should the community decide that yes/no is ontopic and NOT a list, said addendum would NOT be necessary at all.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Strongly encouraging people to add any additional examples to an EXISTING &quot;yes&quot; answer, thus making the content a lot more interesting while still being a good fit for Q/A format.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flag it for moderator to &quot;Protect&quot; as soon as the asker accepts an answer (mods can set a special flag on a question that is designed just for that - it prevents posting new &quot;me too&quot; answers)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has a minor downside of extra work for mods, but the mods seem to be eager to put in extra work of closing yes/no questions anyway, so this should have net zero effect on workload at worst (and save the mods major discussions/griping in comments/on meta at best :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a community, treating any extra &quot;yes&quot; examples posted in contradiction to the question's specs the same way we would treat ANY duplicate answers (e.g. imagine any random question, where user A posted an answer, and user B came along, copy/pasted an answer with minor details changed, and added as his own). Those should be commented on, downvoted, possibly deleted while the extra example is edited into the first answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Discouraging posting &quot;me too&quot; yes answers with extra examples for rep gain by making the question &quot;CW&quot;. I know that CW is not considered Good JuJu on StackOverflow, so this may not be the greatest approach, but it's an effective one - if there's no rep gain possibility, people are a LOT more likely to add any extra examples to an existing answer, AND such an answer will be more widely editable.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T07:19:42.257" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1449" CreationDate="2012-02-03T07:12:28.397" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;One problem is lack of managerial oversight, so to speak :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I wouldn't mind chipping in; but leaving aside my overall poor writing skills, I also greatly suck at choosing the topics to write about. Not so much from lack of imagination as from a combination of &quot;I don't know what people whould be interested to read&quot; and &quot;I don't know which topic I can write on in a way that people would find interesting to read&quot;. I'm sure (or hope?) others exist with such a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Therefore, my suggestion is to do some blog project management.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Come up with topics that you/CHAOS/mods/prior blog posters think would be a good idea to cover. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Have a Meta question asking for what should appear on the blog, and source topics from that.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T07:12:28.397" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1465" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1490" CreationDate="2012-02-03T08:42:22.087" Score="29" ViewCount="1186" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=any&quot;&gt;&quot;any&quot; questions&lt;/a&gt; invite a list, which &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16/are-list-questions-allowed&quot;&gt;is not permitted&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But we're currently not dealing with them consistently (or I can't see a pattern). Here's a few examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1465/does-any-sci-fi-deal-with-invisibility-causing-blindness&quot;&gt;Invisibility should cause blindness: how does hard sf cope?&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strike&gt;open&lt;/strike&gt; closed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8903/any-movies-with-zombie-babies&quot;&gt;Any movies with zombie babies?&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strike&gt;open&lt;/strike&gt; closed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/321/are-any-sci-fi-video-games-considered-canon&quot;&gt;Are any Sci-Fi video games considered canon?&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strike&gt;open&lt;/strike&gt; closed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9425/any-superheros-by-choice&quot;&gt;Any Superheros by Choice?&lt;/a&gt; - closed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/528/are-there-any-sci-fi-novels-or-stories-narrated-in-reverse-chronolgy-a-la-memen&quot;&gt;Are there any sci-fi novels or stories narrated in reverse chronolgy (a la Memento)?&lt;/a&gt; - closed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2024/does-any-science-fiction-handle-the-ethics-of-teleportation-kill-and-clone&quot;&gt;Does any science-fiction handle the ethics of teleportation (&quot;kill and clone&quot;)?&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;closed&lt;/strong&gt; (disclaimer - this is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/668/why-has-this-question-been-deleted&quot;&gt;my personal pain point&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should we handle these list questions? I think it is important to be consistent here, especially given that we &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1384/how-should-we-reach-out-to-new-users&quot;&gt;want to reach out to new users&lt;/a&gt; who might be put off by seeing their questions closed while others remain open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; there were &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/10505/are-there-any-machines-that-use-the-force&quot;&gt;two new ones today&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/10504/can-any-species-become-a-jedi&quot;&gt;one of which was mine&lt;/a&gt; (oops). I don't see any consensus forming in the answers yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2020-05-07T11:27:13.777" LastActivityDate="2020-05-07T11:27:13.777" Title="How should we handle &quot;any&quot; (list) questions?" Tags="|discussion|questions|closed-questions|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1465" CreationDate="2012-02-03T11:16:50.310" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Amongst the three open ones, I'm tempted to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8903/any-movies-with-zombie-babies&quot;&gt;What was the first movie to feature zombie babies?&lt;/a&gt; which is a plain list question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/321/are-any-sci-fi-video-games-considered-canon&quot;&gt;Are any Sci-Fi video games considered canon?&lt;/a&gt; which is a plain list question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reword &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1465/does-any-sci-fi-deal-with-invisibility-causing-blindness&quot;&gt;Invisibility should cause blindness: how does hard sf cope?&lt;/a&gt; to the effect of “How can you reconcile invisibility and sight in a hard SF setting”.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since we're debating the issue right now, I'm not going to wield the mod close hammer. Feel free to vote to close, but please voice your opinion here as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T11:16:50.310" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1450" CreationDate="2012-02-03T13:14:50.533" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;These are some great answers posted, and it seems (so far) that the consensus is that these types of questions &lt;strong&gt;do&lt;/strong&gt; have a place here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I don't feel that any of the other answers sufficiently address how we fix the potential issue of these being treated as list requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps we're over complicating things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose that any question asking &quot;does &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; exist?&quot; be worded to make no mention of examples.  Any good answer will, by definition, include examples.  A great answer will contain a fairly comprehensive collection of examples, and explain the context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mentioning examples (whether it is &quot;I'm looking for examples&quot; or &quot;I only need one example&quot;) seems to be the flag many people identify as indicating a list question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is worded to simply focus on the problem, we may be able to avoid the issue altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, using some of the examples I've seen presented here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Do some vampires suck the heat out of the human body while drinking their victim's blood?&quot; rather than &quot;Are there any works that have vampires sucking the heat out of the human body while drinking their victim's blood?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Can a person be both a werewolf and a vampire at the same time?&quot; rather than &quot;Are there known werewolf containing works which show someone who is both a werewolf AND a vampire at the same time?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Can sorcery be defined as distinct from magic?&quot; rather than &quot;What are some examples of works were sorcery is defined as distinct from magic?&quot; (the latter would be pretty clearly a list question, anyway)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Can super villains succeed without super strength or super intelligence?&quot; instead of &quot;Are there super villains that are neither uber smart or uber strong?&quot; (this one is trickier, as it feels more like a list question than the others, largely because &quot;super intelligence&quot; would need to be clearly defined, as would &quot;super villain&quot;, and even possibly &quot;succeed&quot;, although success could be part of the definition of super villain.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Can an SF franchise involving space travel succeed without green slave girls and FTL?&quot; is an appropriate wording (for a hypothetical, admitted absurd example), although &quot;succeed&quot; would need to be defined.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On major caveat, which is alluded to in the examples above:&#xA;A pitfall I am seeing in a number of the examples, including the original question that prompted this debate, is that subjective criteria need to be &lt;em&gt;clearly&lt;/em&gt; defined within the scope of the question, or omitted altogether.  Words like &quot;prominent&quot;, &quot;successful&quot;, &quot;succeed&quot;, or even &quot;officially considered&quot; need clearly defined criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will attempt to edit the original question, and see if it helps.  If this solution seems agreeable, I will also vote to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T13:14:50.533" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1465" CreationDate="2012-02-03T15:44:21.693" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;TL;DR: Let's NOT jump to conclusion of how to make this decision based in 1 year old list of list questions - let's try and see if things have improved by now that we CAN handle some list questions without damaging the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gilles' (and other here-from-the-start power users and mods) opinion is heavily influenced by a 1-year-old growing pains data. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the old examples of lists and their ratios, I could only leap to the same conclusions as they did then: &quot;STOMP THE VIRUS OUT!&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;However, I'm worried that the data they base their opinion on is not fully applicable to the site 1 year later. What changed?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We have a lot more &quot;power&quot; users (by which I mean active users who grok the site's ideas and purpose, &lt;strong&gt;and are willing to put in effort to maintain the site and improve the content and the community&lt;/strong&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We have a lot more great non-list content so that occasional not-terrible listy question doesn't dilute the site's value by nearly as much, and is therefore less risky to keep and re-word and improve as necessary for a little while as opposed to immediately whacking like a mole. (mind you, some list questions aren't of much benefit and CAN be whacked).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A lot of questions nowadays that are closed as list seem to be in a form that CAN - with enough effort - be salvaged to be good for Q/A format.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I would VERY much like to base &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; decision on an actual scientific experiment.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's open up the rules slightly, for a week or 2 or a month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;instead of immediately deleting - with prejudice (that is, by moderator's binding vote) - anything that even remotely smells like it could become a list, we let it go through a normal community work process. Those that feel it's bad should downvote. Those that feel it's a list, should COMMENT as such, and let either the asker or other users work on addressing the question's problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, anyone who is on record as supporting the idea that some rule relaxation is needed has to put in the effort to improve the questions. IOW, this shouldn't be Gilles' (or new moderators') job!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If NOBODY steps up to the place to improve the question or defend it on Meta, we can close after a brief period (that should be at least a day - not 5 mins!)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;CAVEAT: &lt;strong&gt;if the question starts generating a list of answers and isn't immediately fixed so it doesn't&lt;/strong&gt; - WHACK!!! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, at the end of trial period, we see whether we end up with the same ebola-like spread of bad content from listy questions like what Gilles had to deal with a year ago, or it's a manageable (by comunity) trickle which allows some good content to be added to the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the former, we go back to 2011 rules. Personally, if we see a flood of lists of useless answers, I fully pledge to support continued banning using the old rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the latter, we hammer out new, less stringent rules on META based on what we've learned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2012-02-03T15:54:29.000" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T15:54:29.000" CommentCount="34" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1465" CreationDate="2012-02-03T15:58:32.417" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember reading a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson, &quot;A foolish consistency is the hopgoblin of little minds.&quot;  (In &lt;em&gt;Self Reliance&lt;/em&gt;.)  His point was that if one just performs actions by rote, without thinking about them, there is nothing for the soul to do -- in other words, there's nothing to think about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I understand the rule, and understand the reasoning for it, as I've said before, I've spent time going through a lot of old questions on the site recently and found that many don't fit the formats of today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, whenever I say that, some people seem to get upset and say, &quot;The site grows and changes and we have to stay up with what we have.&quot;  That's true, but people have also pointed out (and I'm one), that sometimes we seem to be headed toward being a trivia site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do need guidelines, but when the guidelines are taken as literal and exacting, they get narrower and narrower over time.  They control us, rather than us controlling them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why I've advocated leaving questions along this line open for a while, to see what kind of answers they generate.  Mods (or others with editing ability) could even add a warning on the end of the questions to avoid &quot;Me too!&quot; list answers.  Sometimes such questions lead to good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While, as some say, not many such questions get good answers, the other side is that if some do, then is there a need to close the question immediately as opposed to monitoring it for a while?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I see it, if a question that is in doubt is watched, and left open if it generates good answers and closed if it looks like it's getting list answers, there's not much risk and the benefit of getting the better material outweighs the small amount of risk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T15:58:32.417" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1470" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-03T16:25:42.040" Score="4" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;Up until now the rep cap allowed up to 200 points in upvotes.  If you selected an answer or if your answer was selected, that didn't count toward the cap.  But today I noticed I have 201 points, including 15 points for an answer being selected, and only 6 points on an answer upvote and another upvote with no points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has the reputation cap been redefined or changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-02-03T21:37:35.057" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T21:37:35.057" Title="Why did I get capped at 186 reputation points today?" Tags="|support|reputation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1470" CreationDate="2012-02-03T20:13:27.730" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reputation cap has not changed. Specifically, this comes from the FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can earn a maximum of 200 reputation per day. Please note that votes for posts marked “community wiki” do not generate any reputation, while accepted answers and bounty awards are not subject to the daily reputation limit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, accepted answers and bounties are not subject to the reputation cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T20:13:27.730" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1470" CreationDate="2012-02-03T21:07:12.660" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think what happened is that you deleted one or more posts of yours today, totaling 30 reputation points from upvotes (e.g. a +3 answer, a +6 question, or a mix of these) and -6 reputation points from downvotes (i.e. 3 downvotes). The deleted upvotes still count against the cap, because the deletion is not reflected in the counter that's used for the cap. The deletion of the downvotes, on the other hand, seems to have been reflected in the cap, so that you could get 6 points back, for a total of 186 (excluding acceptance rep which is not taken into account for the daily rep cap).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should be able to make things right by recalculating your reputation from the real data. Your reputation total is normally not calculated from the real data, it's a running total that events like getting votes update. Some rare events such as deletions don't update that running total. Visit &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;/reputation&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to see a full audit of your real reputation. There's a button to &lt;code&gt;Trigger Reputation Recalc&lt;/code&gt;. If you press this button, your on-site rep will be the &lt;code&gt;total rep&lt;/code&gt; figure at the bottom of the &lt;code&gt;/reputation&lt;/code&gt; page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that a rep recalc may well decrease your rep, if you had a rep surplus (e.g. from now-deleted posts) that hadn't been properly taken into account. You can't do a recalc just for today, it's all or nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T21:07:12.660" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1076" CreationDate="2012-02-03T21:40:11.623" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/queries&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/queries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most recent: 2012 Feb 2&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T21:40:11.623" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1474" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-03T22:01:09.153" Score="9" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a special topic for the designer :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1438/is-moderator-voting-anonymous/1456#1456&quot;&gt;Is moderator voting anonymous?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The highlighting of the question is going from light yellow to white. It's not readable on SciFi as the background is dark, unlike other SE sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, the overall design is very neat here! Good job!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="987" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2014-10-17T00:12:09.187" Title="Can the answer highlighting animation be changed?" Tags="|bug|status-norepro|design|meta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1465" CreationDate="2012-02-03T23:39:25.857" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Treat them like you would other questions about nothing in particular. Close them, pushing them off to delete. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't matter what date it was posted as the content is ever evolving and if there's a need to keep bad questions around, those heads on pikes only serve as gallery for people to post the same drivel and cry out unfair at dreck still lying about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People keep saying that with some editing, these list questions can be legitimately not list questions. Adding a disclaimer that the answers should be short lists or that they don't want lists to their call for lists doesn't stop it from being a list question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That those old questions were able to stick while the network has beaten this grandma into a bloody pulp goes to the want of making this a forum with votes. Throwing hotdogs down the hallway does not make for constructive content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, apply it equally to apply it fairly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="383" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T23:39:25.857" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1476" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1478" CreationDate="2012-02-04T00:40:33.443" Score="10" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answered &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6794/what-actually-happens-to-ships-using-hyperdrive-in-gravity-wells&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; yesterday and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/10257/4025&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt; was subsequently deleted by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/51/dampes8n&quot;&gt;DampeS8N&lt;/a&gt;. Although there was not a specific reason given for the deletion, I think it might have been that the answer was so short that it did not seem constructive. I &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq#deletion&quot;&gt;read the FAQ section on deletion&lt;/a&gt; to familiarize myself with the guidelines. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, yeah, my answer probably could have been better, so I edited it to include reasoning and supporting documentation on the answer. I think it's a lot better now; at the very least I think it's constructive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My specific question: &lt;strong&gt;so now that I've edited it, how do I request it be undeleted?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the FAQ said, &quot;If you wish to improve an existing answer, click edit&quot;. So now I assume that a moderator has to look at it and agree that it's now constructive. Any help would be appreciated! And my apologies if this is not the right venue or method for asking this; I'm relatively new around here and this seems to be the right place.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4025" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-05-15T17:44:46.683" Title="How can I get an answer undeleted once I've edited it to conform to the guidelines?" Tags="|support|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1476" CreationDate="2012-02-04T01:43:31.927" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask in the chat room, here, or just flag it. The only people who can undelete a post are moderators or very high ranked users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I would just flag it, saying you've fixed it, and ask to have it undeleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-02-04T01:43:31.927" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1476" CreationDate="2012-02-04T13:51:41.573" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your answer was deleted by a moderator. Only another moderator can undelete an answer deleted by a moderator. So if you want your answer to be undeleted because you've improved it, flag it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that it would have been ok in this case to post another answer. Version 2 of your answer is so different, with references to existing material, that posting it as a separate answer would have been justified. This way you would have avoided the downvote (all votes come back with the undeletion of the answer). Hopefully the downvoter will see your revised answer and cancel the downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking, if there's something you'd like to do but you can't because you don't have the required privilege, you can flag to have a moderator do it. If it's not obvious, explain in your flag message why the moderator should oblige your request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-02-04T13:51:41.573" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1479" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1480" CreationDate="2012-02-04T20:16:22.423" Score="4" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answered a question - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/10309/how-many-jedi-knights-lived-in-the-galaxy-before-the-clone-wars/10315#10315&quot;&gt;How many Jedi (Knights) lived in the galaxy before The Clone Wars?&lt;/a&gt;  but the answer was not complete. I don't think there's any canon info to improve the answer (I researched pretty thoroughly), but I'd like to incentivise people to help verify that as I could be mistaken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when I went for the obvious solution - offer a bounty - I couldn't find a bounty link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that because I have an answer to that question? (It would make sense, since the bounty, if awarded to my answer, would basically offer me &quot;free 50 rep&quot; if I understand the bounty mechanics correctly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I wanted a bounty was because I'm afraid someone would refrain from attempting to answer the question due to an existing answer, which at first glance SEEMS to answer fully - the gap is very subtle. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any extra ideas to overcome the concern are welcome - should I post &quot;the gap&quot; as a separate question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Can you put a bounty on a question you answered?" Tags="|support|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1479" CreationDate="2012-02-04T20:33:57.157" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, you can put a bounty on a question you've already answered. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you'll have to wait for two days to pass since the question itself was first asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16065/how-does-the-bounty-system-work&quot; title=&quot;In the case of the dog-haired bone&quot;&gt;before being able to&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if you do, you can't get rep from that bounty (there is no extra rep thrown in either). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your answer is the one that wins the bounty, you'll get back a big fat &lt;strong&gt;+0&lt;/strong&gt; at the end with the following note:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;this answer has been awarded bounty worth 0 reputation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2012-02-04T20:33:57.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1481" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1482" CreationDate="2012-02-06T01:34:14.240" Score="6" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was trying to offer a 50-rep bounty on this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/10309/how-many-jedi-knights-lived-in-the-galaxy-before-the-clone-wars/10315#10315&quot;&gt;How many Jedi (Knights) lived in the galaxy before The Clone Wars?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the bounty pop-up's smallest bounty value was 100.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why wasn't 50 rep available for the bounty value?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an experiment, I picked another random question from 2 days ago and that one DID have a value of 50 in the pop-up, so it's not specific to my account, just to that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Why is the bounty of 50 not available on a question?" Tags="|support|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1481" CreationDate="2012-02-06T01:40:20.380" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you've answered a question, you can't set a 50-point bounty on it. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/116476/undocumented-increase-in-minimum-bounty-value/116477#116477&quot;&gt;Undocumented increase in minimum bounty value?&lt;/a&gt; on the main meta. The reason is that your bounty will drive traffic to your answer, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/105275/abusing-bounties-for-unlimited-profit/105639#105639&quot;&gt;the SE developers consider this abusive&lt;/a&gt; (I personally disagree with this assessment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2012-02-06T01:40:20.380" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1483" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1484" CreationDate="2012-02-06T03:30:44.330" Score="4" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1806/what-is-the-singular-source-of-star-wars-canonization&quot;&gt;What is the singular source of Star Wars canonization?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/910/how-is-canonicity-of-derivative-works-determined-for-star-wars&quot;&gt;How is canonicity of derivative works determined for Star Wars?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think they might be duplicates but for some reason can't quite make up my mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does the community think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2012-02-06T05:07:17.547" Title="Are these two questions duplicates?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1483" CreationDate="2012-02-06T05:07:17.547" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, they're not duplicates.  The bottom one is just asking about the levels of canon in the Star Wars universe (I just voted to close that as there's a Wikipedia article that explains that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The top one, based on the comments, is asking about the process of making a work canon.  As in, how do writers/game makers/etc have their work included in the Star Wars canon.  This is asking more about the process of adding to the canon, and not the categorization of the existing canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-02-06T05:07:17.547" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1421" CreationDate="2012-02-06T12:16:57.180" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hard to argue with that :) Fixed in the next build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="171" LastActivityDate="2012-02-06T12:16:57.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1422" CreationDate="2012-02-06T12:20:26.300" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Removed in the next build. The &lt;code&gt;img&lt;/code&gt; styles are next to the &lt;code&gt;h1...h3&lt;/code&gt; styles (which have that margin); I assume that's why they were accidentally added to the images as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="171" LastActivityDate="2012-02-06T12:20:26.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1488" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-06T20:53:47.570" Score="13" ViewCount="243" Body="&lt;p&gt;While reading Meta.SO answers related to reaching 200 rep, rep caps and Epic/Legendary badges, I caught an expression &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Earn 9 accepted answers and zero upvotes&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as one of the means of reaching 200.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While that example is clearly extreme to the point of absurdity, it got me intensely curious: &lt;strong&gt;what was the maximum amount of answers by one user accepted withing a single day?&lt;/strong&gt; (I'm not really interested in who the user is, just the count - basically as a benchmark of what it should be possible to strive for :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If any Stack Exchange Data Explorer expert would be kind enough to show how to get the following answer, it would be much appreciated (I'd prefer to learn to fish to being given the fish, of course :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-07-01T23:56:05.170" LastActivityDate="2019-04-28T18:26:35.957" Title="What's the largest count of accepted answers in a single day ever achieved on SFF.SE by a single user?" Tags="|support|accepted-answer|site-statistics|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1488" CreationDate="2012-02-06T21:22:10.410" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/60982/most-accepted-answers-in-a-day&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/60982/most-accepted-answers-in-a-day&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;DVK                 5   2012-01-24 &#xA;Slytherincess       4   2011-12-08 &#xA;DVK                 4   2012-01-09 &#xA;DVK                 4   2012-01-19 &#xA;DampeS8N            3   2011-01-12 &#xA;DampeS8N            3   2011-01-16 &#xA;Mike Scott          3   2011-01-19 &#xA;JustinM             3   2011-01-19 &#xA;DVK                 3   2011-04-28 &#xA;HorusKol            3   2011-09-26 &#xA;Jeff                3   2011-10-14 &#xA;TangoOversway       3   2011-11-04 &#xA;Jeff                3   2011-11-19 &#xA;DVK                 3   2011-11-26 &#xA;DVK                 3   2011-12-02 &#xA;DVK                 3   2012-01-04 &#xA;Slytherincess       3   2012-01-09 &#xA;HorusKol            3   2012-01-14 &#xA;DVK                 3   2012-01-17 &#xA;Slytherincess       3   2012-01-19 &#xA;DVK                 3   2012-01-21 &#xA;gnovice             3   2012-01-22 &#xA;TangoOversway       3   2012-01-24 &#xA;Tony Meyer          3   2012-02-01 &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(more with ≤2)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. The top few rows on a few sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Jon Skeet           30  2011-09-28   SO&#xA;womble              13  2011-07-05   SF&#xA;Evan Anderson       12  2009-07-09   SF&#xA;ooshro              12  2011-02-24   SF&#xA;ooshro              12  2011-02-28   SF&#xA;agent86             12  2011-12-12   Gaming&#xA;agent86             12  2011-12-17   Gaming&#xA;caliban             11  2009-09-18   SU&#xA;Majenko             11  2011-04-04   SU&#xA;Paul                11  2011-12-06   SU&#xA;David Mitra         11  2012-01-19   Math&#xA;Arturo Magidin      10  2011-10-23   Math&#xA;Rinzwind             8  2011-05-08   Ubuntu&#xA;Gilles               8  2011-05-13   Unix&#xA;Gilles               8  2011-07-13   Unix&#xA;Gilles               8  2011-07-19   Unix&#xA;AviD                 8  2010-11-15   Security&#xA;Thomas Pornin        5  2011-06-16   Security&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2019-04-28T18:26:35.957" LastActivityDate="2019-04-28T18:26:35.957" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1465" CreationDate="2012-02-06T21:48:30.147" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Strictly speaking, the answer to an &lt;em&gt;&quot;are there any...&quot;&lt;/em&gt; question is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a list, but a &quot;yes&quot; or a &quot;no&quot;. To be a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; answer, an answer of &quot;yes&quot; needs to be supported by an example or two, but that does not make it a list answer, nor the question a list question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(I keep seeing this same struggle on all the various stackexchanges. None of them have found a universally satisfactory solution yet: there are always people who see list bullets and knee-jerk vote to close, even though that is clearly NOT what is meant by &quot;list question&quot;; and conversely, people who feel obligated to post their favorite pet example as a new answer, even if the question has already been quite thoroughly answered.)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="348" LastActivityDate="2012-02-06T21:48:30.147" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1491" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-07T16:14:58.950" Score="0" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/499/are-shopping-questions-on-topic&quot;&gt;Are shopping questions on topic?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/10605/where-can-i-find-spring-1153#comment19165_10605&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/10605/where-can-i-find-spring-1153#comment19165_10605&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There seem to be similar questions on the site still open as per the comments, so I'm assuming it's OK. Right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2012-02-07T19:45:07.027" Title="Are questions on finding material on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2012-02-07T19:43:40.537" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1492" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-07T23:45:56.530" Score="5" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;Specifically, I'm talking about the following question, but let's extend it to any kind of law questions somehow related to science fiction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/10544/98&quot;&gt;Public domain for Star Wars?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not quite willing to close it at this time, but I'm a bit concerned for the future of questions like this... Off the top of my head, I can't think of many laws regulating the release of science fiction... It seems like we might want to think about if legal questions should be asked here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2012-02-08T04:56:54.740" Title="Do we want to cover the legality of science fiction?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1493" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1494" CreationDate="2012-02-08T01:26:46.353" Score="1" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw a couple of unusual diamonds around today, but no META posts about the election results. Did I miss something important between working and trying to answer questions? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(if so, I would congratulate the new moderators but I have even less clue who they are than Lois Lane about true identity of Superman)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="383" LastEditDate="2012-02-08T05:07:15.677" LastActivityDate="2012-02-08T05:07:15.677" Title="Did the moderator elections finish?" Tags="|support|election|moderators|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1493" CreationDate="2012-02-08T01:28:55.987" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Typically there is a banner that pops up on the main site, linking to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election/&quot;&gt;election site&lt;/a&gt;. Not sure what happened...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2012-02-08T01:28:55.987" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1495" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-08T01:49:01.313" Score="19" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, now that Pearsonartphoto has graciously answered my last question, we know that Moderator elections finised 5 hours ago, and Pearsonartphoto, Gilles and Keen (in random order) won!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to extend official (or rather unofficial) congratulations on the dynamic trio being elected as &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;the Timelord Doctors of this insane asylim&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;our new Moderator Overlords&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;the Sheriffs of this wretched hive of scum and villainy&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the moderators of Scifi&amp;amp;Fantasy SE site!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May your decisions be beneficial and unanimously supported and liked!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May you use your powers in a way that is guaranteed not to harm any intelligent living being, through action or inaction!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="383" LastEditDate="2012-02-08T05:08:28.030" LastActivityDate="2012-02-08T05:08:28.030" Title="Congrats to new Moderators!" Tags="|discussion|moderators|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1492" CreationDate="2012-02-08T01:57:47.837" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm on the fence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;On one hand, this question probably would fit better on Movies SE than SFF. It's a lot better fit there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, it's not strictly speaking off-topic under current rules, and I'm having trouble finding a good enough reason to make it against the rules (e.g. how would such questions as a class make the site worse off)? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;On the third hand (hey, we ARE on SFF!), questions like this MAY benefit the site by raising topically relevant questions that might help drive traffic to the site without being meaningless noise that drowns out the rest of content.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary, I think we should let this specific question stay (I hope the community will agree that after my edits its of less objectionable quality :), but scrutinize any others like it and make sure they are of an acceptable quality before letting them stay - and if we get a couple of more that we find to be not well fitting with the site at all, consider a topical ban.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-02-08T01:57:47.837" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1492" CreationDate="2012-02-08T02:41:50.387" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there's a question that requires the sort of expertise we have here, in addition to some legal expertise, then yes.  This is just the same as a question that wants both physics expertise and knowledge of science fiction, or history and fantasy, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I dislike that specific question, because there's nothing in it that's particularly about science-fiction.  You could substitute &lt;em&gt;Saturday Night Fever&lt;/em&gt; for &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; and the question wouldn't really change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the same applies to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/619/should-questions-about-special-effects-techniques-be-allowed-on-science-fiction&quot;&gt;question like this&lt;/a&gt;, and there wasn't any disagreement about that (my recollection was that these were &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; on topic, but that's not what the meta post shows, unless there's another later one that I didn't find).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The copyright question is also rather &quot;general reference&quot;-y, since a web search for &quot;star wars copyright expire&quot; finds the answer easily.  If the question is more &quot;does revising a film renew the copyright&quot;, that's not really general reference, but there must be plenty of films outside of science fiction &amp;amp; fantasy that have been revised, so I still don't see why you'd ask it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2012-02-08T02:41:50.387" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1495" CreationDate="2012-02-08T02:45:33.363" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;More importantly, thanks to @Dampes8n and @Gilles and @MarkRogers (in alphabetical order) for their pro-tem moderation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2012-02-08T02:45:33.363" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1492" CreationDate="2012-02-08T04:56:54.740" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's not a question about science fiction. It's about copyright law. And that's not in this site's purview.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Off topic unless we bend the terms &quot;science fiction &amp;amp; fantasy&quot; to actually include things like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;copyright and intellectual property law&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;trademark queries and disputes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;works entering the public domain&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lawsuits over actor likenesses in sequels, merchandise and spin-offs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;legality over remixes, parodies and mash-ups&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For such questions you'd want to ask a gaggle of experts versed in such on a site that gathers them explicitly. That would be another Stack Exchange site in the wings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="383" LastActivityDate="2012-02-08T04:56:54.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1502" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-08T10:14:52.520" Score="6" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often use this site on my smartphone. The mobile version works great, but when I end up to a page which is not found (like deleted question),  it redirects me to full version of site.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Can you please re-design that page to adjust on small screen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="4257" LastEditDate="2013-05-28T00:01:43.043" LastActivityDate="2013-05-28T00:01:43.043" Title="Design &quot;Page Not Found&quot; page for Mobile" Tags="|feature-request|mobile|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1503" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1504" CreationDate="2012-02-08T20:26:31.367" Score="13" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv-series&lt;/a&gt; (and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;series&lt;/a&gt;).  I suppose there's a small possibility that someone might want to distinguish between a one-off TV program and a series, but I don't see any value in separating those cases in tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally don't like any of the media tags - but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/293/should-we-do-away-with-the-media-tags-books-novel-tv-movies-etc&quot;&gt;earlier discussion&lt;/a&gt; isn't really clear about their fate (and I've seen them - even &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;series&lt;/a&gt; - used by mods, which makes me wary about editing them away).  All the positive score answers say that most should only be used when the question is focused on the medium; one suggests leaving some (including &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For those that weren't around for the original discussion (or if your view has matured), please go take a look at that question too.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt; is here to stay, is it ok to edit out all use of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv-series&lt;/a&gt;? Is there anyone that would prefer a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/tv/synonyms&quot;&gt;synonym&lt;/a&gt;?  If so, please vote for it - if it gets created  (only needs a score of 4) then I guess that's the answer here, and I don't need to edit them away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also now &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/television&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;television&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;television&lt;/a&gt;, which surely is a synonym for TV. It seems like most people prefer a synonym to just editing them away (until the media tag decision is made), so I've suggested these two synonyms, but as yet there are no votes. If you want the synonym, please go vote for it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2012-02-23T22:06:00.047" Title="Remove the tv-series tag" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1503" CreationDate="2012-02-09T00:06:27.263" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/television&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;television&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;television&lt;/a&gt; is now merged into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've made &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv-series&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt;, but not merged. This way, any new use of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv-series&lt;/a&gt; will be converted into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt;, but existing uses are retained, so we can go back if it turns out to be a mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I second synonymizing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv-series&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt;. I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;series&lt;/a&gt; should be progressively eliminated manually, replaced by the appropriate media (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/radio&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;radio&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;radio&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt;, …) if a media tag is deemed necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-02-23T22:06:00.047" LastActivityDate="2012-02-23T22:06:00.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1503" CreationDate="2012-02-09T08:44:27.603" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv-series&lt;/a&gt; is quite clearly a meta tag and should be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also, quite strongly, feel that the collection of { &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/radio&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;radio&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;radio&lt;/a&gt;, etc,..) should also be removed as they're of little use either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To put it another way, which is more useful as a method of categorisation for a question about the Watchmen film, tagged:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/watchmen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;watchmen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;watchmen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/watchmen-film&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;watchmen-film&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;watchmen-film&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/watchmen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;watchmen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;watchmen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/film&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;film&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;film&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we worked on the basis that the second case was better, and then there was a question asked about, say the Doctor Who film, tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doctor-who&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;doctor-who&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;doctor-who&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/film&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;film&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;film&lt;/a&gt;, we'd then have a tag (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/film&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;film&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;film&lt;/a&gt;) containing a question about Doctor Who and a question about Watchmen. &lt;strong&gt;What possible use as a method of grouping questions in the context of &lt;em&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy&lt;/em&gt; does this have?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now if the two questions (Watchmen and Doctor Who) were tagged:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/watchmen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;watchmen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;watchmen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/watchmen-film&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;watchmen-film&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;watchmen-film&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doctor-who&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;doctor-who&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;doctor-who&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doctor-who-film&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;doctor-who-film&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;doctor-who-film&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each tag would stand on its own as a way of categorising questions in the context of &lt;strong&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy&lt;/strong&gt;, rather than the medium in which said piece of SF&amp;amp;F was presented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone's a watchmen geek, but only cares about the film, they can look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/watchmen-film&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;watchmen-film&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;watchmen-film&lt;/a&gt;. If another person is only interested in the comic, they can look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/watchmen-comic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;watchmen-comic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;watchmen-comic&lt;/a&gt;. If yet another person just plain loves watchmen, they can look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/watchmen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;watchmen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;watchmen&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;em&gt;anything and everything&lt;/em&gt; watchmen related. The first person (the film geek) can't readily look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/film&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;film&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;film&lt;/a&gt; without seeing questions about utterly un-related (in the context of &lt;strong&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy&lt;/strong&gt;) topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1651" LastActivityDate="2012-02-09T08:44:27.603" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1506" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-10T19:04:05.010" Score="2" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/10833/is-there-a-difference-between-a-spaceship-and-a-starship&quot;&gt;Is there a difference between a spaceship and a starship?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm tempted to close as &quot;General Reference&quot; as it stands. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2012-02-10T23:07:19.063" Title="Is this Q on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1506" CreationDate="2012-02-10T23:07:10.637" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm rather tempted to close as off-topic. This is a question about English words, best researched in a dictionary. Granted, in theory, there could be something to say about the way SF writers use these words, but are there actually interesting patterns?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-02-10T23:07:10.637" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1508" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-11T14:05:04.977" Score="2" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1962/fantasy-stories-with-all-female-characters&quot;&gt;several&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6663/is-there-a-web-site-and-or-the-booksin-which-are-accumulated-theories-ideas&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; over the time that ask for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Looking for web sites/databases serving as genre-wide compendiums of XXX&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On one hand, these are, by form, arguably off-topic due to being &quot;list&quot; questions (there may be &gt;1 resource, none &quot;100% correct&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, since any single answer is basically a pointer to an &lt;strong&gt;entire&lt;/strong&gt; resource, I think that even as a list, such Q/As provide extremely valuable and on-topic information about SFF genres. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore I propose that such questions as a class are expressly declared on-topic as &lt;strong&gt;an exception to &quot;no lists&quot;/&quot;poor fit for Q/A format rules&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; (mind you, specific cases of such can still be extremely poor and not generate useful content and therefore should be closed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a made-up but realistic example, when I was looking for answers to Tango's recent question, I was faced with the need to ask:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are there any database resources on the web listing LGBT-themed SF&amp;amp;F movies/TV shows?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found such resource myself and therefore was spared having to fight against my question being off-topic, BUT... personally I think that this question - and its answer - would be valuable addition to SFF.SE content, despite it arguably being a list question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2012-02-13T21:39:56.313" Title="Are questions asking for specific generic SFF resources on-topic" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1509" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-12T06:28:30.060" Score="4" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the past, when I went to my profile and clicked on the tab for reputation, and went to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1693/tangooversway?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt; I could see my reputation points for the day.  Whenever I viewed this page, I'd see the reputation points since my last view show up at the top of the list, highlighted in yellow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now when I load the page, the new activity shows in yellow, but as the page finishes loading, the yellow highlighting is gone and all the entries are sorted by points per post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this, it's hard to tell which posts are currently the most active.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2012-02-20T12:11:13.063" Title="Reputation Tally Page No Longer Shows Recent Points" Tags="|bug|status-completed|reputation|profile-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1510" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1512" CreationDate="2012-02-14T03:09:18.253" Score="3" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do we have an official SFF or SE policy/guideline on which questions (among closed ones) merit a deletion? I usually just exercise my judgement (e.g. duplicates are OK to stay to help with SEO, whereas obvious SPAM gets deleted), but would be nice to know if something formalized exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-02-14T07:12:38.583" LastActivityDate="2012-02-14T07:12:38.583" Title="Is there a policy/guidelines on deleting questions?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1429" CreationDate="2012-02-14T05:45:07.950" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the support here and in the tag synonym votes, I went ahead and &quot;made it so&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4257" LastActivityDate="2012-02-14T05:45:07.950" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1510" CreationDate="2012-02-14T07:12:16.277" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a general Stack Exchange policy, expressed in two of Jeff Atwood's blog posts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/adventures-in-delclusionism/&quot;&gt;Adventures in Delclusionism&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/the-stack-overflow-question-lifecycle/&quot;&gt;The Stack Overflow Question Lifecycle&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But a closed question is no longer alive in any meaningful way, and certainly well on its way to the bit-bucket of /dev/null.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me be clear: we do not seek out deletion, by any means. But we believe not having the guts to cull some of your worst content is much, much more dangerous to your community than letting it sit around forever in the vague hope that it will magically get better over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general guideline is that duplicates are not deleted (because they serve a useful function as search fodder) and other closed questions are deleted if there is no chance for them to be reopened (because there is no life left in them).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-02-14T07:12:16.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1513" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1517" CreationDate="2012-02-16T09:21:32.847" Score="10" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;For &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/11187/are-the-language-elements-in-snow-crash-supported-by-science#comment20384_11187&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, I'd like to provide a link to the meta discussion about &quot;is X on topic&quot;, so that the (reasonably new) user gets introduced to meta and gets and understanding of why these questions are off-topic and can provide an opinion (answer/vote) if so desired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that we have a meta question specifically about this: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/23/should-questions-about-is-x-science-fiction-be-off-topic&quot;&gt;Should questions about “Is X science fiction” be off-topic?&lt;/a&gt;, but the highest voted answer (by far) says that these questions &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason that these made it into the FAQ's off-topic list was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/362/108&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; to another very redundant question that became popular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ISTM that it's confusing to have contradictory information like this, especially since the question &lt;em&gt;specifically&lt;/em&gt; about this topic has the 'incorrect' answer voted highest.  We get rid of closed questions so that users don't think &quot;this other question like this is ok&quot;, but if they actually go to the effort of looking on meta, they'll find the wrong information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can we do about this?  There's no &quot;out of date&quot; close vote reason.  Vote to close the original (clear, simple, direct, i.e. better) question as a duplicate of the other? Chase down the 10 people that down-voted this type of question to go vote on the original?  Vote to close as &quot;too localised&quot;?  Flag it for a moderator to deal with it? (What would the mod do?)  Put an ugly edit in the question that indicates that it's out of date?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2012-02-17T02:05:15.210" Title="What to do about out-of-date meta questions?" Tags="|discussion|meta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1514" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1515" CreationDate="2012-02-16T19:56:46.737" Score="10" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just submitted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/11227/4751&quot;&gt;With the revelation of Jones&amp;#39;s ally/leader in Season 4 how does that change Season 1&lt;/a&gt; and was wondering how to indicate spoilers. Even the first sentence is pretty spoilery, and would probably get a punch from my girlfriend, who is only on the DVDs.  I tried to make the question as vague as possible but it still would probably have earned me a night on the couch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tagged it spoilers, but saw it didn't have an official tag.  Looking in the FAQ there was no indication why, heck the word spoilers is not even in the FAQ.  Other than marking up the entire question or putting a spoiler warning in the question how should I mark this up?  Should I indicate what episode and season it is no longer a spoiler after?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As noted in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/968/4751&quot;&gt;What is the policy for spoilers?&lt;/a&gt;, we probably don't need to mark everything as spoilers. But in the case of an ongoing series, like Fringe, where you are asking about recent revelations that echo back through the whole show, should you be giving warning? Something like &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(Spoilers before S4E9)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/968/4751&quot;&gt;What is the policy for spoilers?&lt;/a&gt; doesn't have clear guidelines.  And without some sort of way to mark these questions, I may not ask questions that are pertinent to recent shows.  I really think this is an issue that we need to come to some sort of consensus on, until then I can't point people who are spoiler averse at the site.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4751" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2012-05-23T18:49:23.893" Title="How should I be indicating a question is, by its very asking, a spoiler?" Tags="|discussion|tags|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1514" CreationDate="2012-02-16T20:09:30.200" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, you'll want a good introduction.  Starting by just stating the spoiler block just has spoilers for S?E? isn't as good as giving a sentence or two about not only the timing of the spoiler but the context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Spoilers for Empire Strikes Back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;vs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;During the climactic battle in Empire Strikes back, Vader reveals something.  My question is related to that spoiler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, I think it's best to have the question itself outside the spoiler block, to make it more accessible.  This means phrasing it such that the question itself isn't all spoiler, and I suggest doing this by structuring the statements in the spoiler block to provide the context.  Use pronouns or terms that have a double meaning to people who know the spoiler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; So Vader is Luke's dad, who'd have guessed that?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who then is Luke's grandfather?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;vs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; So Vader is Luke's dad.  Who is Vader's dad?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &lt;em&gt;Fringe&lt;/em&gt;, we can refer to Season 4 instead of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; new timeline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And viewers who are up to date will know what you're talking about when comparing Season 4 to the earlier seasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-02-16T20:09:30.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1514" CreationDate="2012-02-16T20:10:34.340" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange aims to be a lasting resource. As such, we don't want to have restrictions like “don't spoil current shows”, because that would create questions that are no longer relevant a few months later. Stack Exchange is also a global resource, so a show that is already available on DVD in the US may not have aired yet in some other country — are you going to wait until everyone in Zimbabwe and Burma have had a chance to catch up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use spoiler markup (putting &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;!&lt;/code&gt; at the beginning of a paragraph) for things that you think will spoil the show for some readers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be very clear in the leading text as to who that hidden text will spoil things for. Otherwise they can't know whether to look at the hidden text or not!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's best to avoid major spoilers directly in titles, but the title must remain meaningful and searchable. Your title seems fine to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-02-16T20:10:34.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1513" CreationDate="2012-02-17T02:05:15.210" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best way to handle out-of-date posts (assuming they cannot be fixed and are of no further use) is to close them as [too localized] (in time). They are no longer useful to future visitors. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2012-02-17T02:05:15.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="970" CreationDate="2012-02-17T14:55:54.273" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;DVK&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Filler: 123456789012345678901234567890&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-02-17T14:55:54.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1465" CreationDate="2012-02-17T15:08:36.517" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to me pretty clear that the word &quot;Any&quot; in a question doesn't warrant immediate closing, but it does signal that the question should be watched. Here's a few thoughts that I've been putting together. I've pulled in some ideas from the weakly supported idea in the FAQ referenced &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/425/98&quot;&gt;what is on topic question&lt;/a&gt;, and glanced at other ideas in this list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions dealing with a single universe.&lt;/strong&gt; These are probably okay, so long as the list of things isn't huge. What is the name of every Jedi is probably a bad question, but what are the names of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/11257/98&quot;&gt;12 Battlestars in BSG&lt;/a&gt; is okay. Any questions in this sense could be answered by a user knowledgeable about the universe, even if that answer might be no.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Any asking about if a particular twisted example exists in some science fiction/ fantasy.&lt;/strong&gt; If the answer is yes, then they might get an answer, but if the answer is no, it seems almost impossible that an answer could ever be arrived at. And there's always the &quot;Once upon a time there was a baby zombie. The end&quot; story that would prove it's possible. But these seem to be disguised as a list all of the works that fit a particular medium. Great chat questions, but poor main site questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions about general trends in SFF, or how to deal with a particular problem.&lt;/strong&gt; Basically, these are the list type questions that as how or what, and are not looking for a particular work to support it. This is perhaps the hardest group to deal with. I think the key here is to ask things that might be answerable. If a question is asked in a way where it can't really be answered, then it should be closed, or reworded. Examples would be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1465/does-any-sci-fi-deal-with-invisibility-causing-blindness&quot;&gt;Invisibility should cause blindness: how does hard sf cope?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/11291/is-there-any-down-side-to-being-a-vampire-in-modern-fiction&quot;&gt;Is there any down side to being a vampire in modern fiction?&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2012-02-17T15:14:01.723" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1520" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-18T09:06:26.510" Score="4" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems on a lot of other SE sites, that sub-tags (like &lt;em&gt;marvel-comics&lt;/em&gt; for instance*) are only used when referring to something specific about that sub-tag, if there is no &lt;em&gt;explicit&lt;/em&gt; link to Marvel in the question, then it should not exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, if I am using the tags correctly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Why does theme X appear in marvel comics so often?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Who is in charge of Marvel comics?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would use the marvel-comics tag, whereas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Question about marvel character]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would not, as &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; publisher could own the rights to that character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I looking at these tags right, or am I using them wrong? IT seems redundant to have both &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-comics&lt;/a&gt; and a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt; tag. Perhaps if it was just &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt; it would be better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-02-18T16:05:56.743" LastActivityDate="2012-02-18T16:12:03.553" Title="How should marvel-comics and DC-comics be used?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1520" CreationDate="2012-02-18T09:17:13.977" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I've seen on SciFi.SE the position is, if you're asking a marvel-comics related question about anything in the universe of Marvel, then the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-comics&lt;/a&gt; tag is appropriate as it creates a better archiving system on the site as a whole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other sub tags would be used if your question involved more specific things; like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men&lt;/a&gt; if your question was about that universe, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cartoon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cartoon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cartoon&lt;/a&gt; if the answer you're looking for needs to be kept in a Marvel cartoon universe only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2012-02-18T09:17:13.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1522" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1526" CreationDate="2012-02-18T10:30:48.550" Score="6" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;The election ended several days ago, and the newly elected moderators  were given their powers immediately after. Yet the two mods pro tempore—&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/35/mark-rogers&quot;&gt;Mark Rogers&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/51/dampes8n&quot;&gt;DampeS8N&lt;/a&gt;—who did not run (and thus, did not win) have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/about&quot;&gt;maintained their diamonds&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/h9GBH.png&quot; alt=&quot;Mod list&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is, as far as I'm aware, contrary to every other election thus far on Stack Exchange. Why have they kept their powers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2012-02-18T18:55:08.497" Title="Why do the non-elected mods pro temp still have diamonds?" Tags="|support|election|moderators|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1520" CreationDate="2012-02-18T12:57:28.290" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-comics&lt;/a&gt; should be 100% appropriate in 2 cases and might be quite useful in a 3rd:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As you noted, when the question actually concerns Marvel universe (offline)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When the question's scope is, explicitly, within a larger marvel universe BUT wider than a specific comic (E.g. NOT confined to X-Men only) - either about character's story arc that encompasses &gt;1 comic, or the question is about multiple compics at once.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To serve (as Oghma) said, as a good classification. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can be VERY useful because, to non-expert reader, having &quot;Beast&quot; tag, or even &quot;Aquaman&quot; tag, doesn't place these comics/characters into Marvel universe by default. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;X-Men is kind of widely known, but many Marvel heros/comics/arcs aren't. As someone who's very far from a comics expert, I personally deeply appreciate knowing when specific comic universe is stated for an obscure (to me) comic, to know the context. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I'd hesitate to &lt;strong&gt;require&lt;/strong&gt; that all Marvel or DC related question be forced to have such a tag, and therefore its universal utility for classification is a bit iffy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, it shouldn't be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-02-18T12:57:28.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1520" CreationDate="2012-02-18T16:12:03.553" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I understand it (I'm not directly familiar with the subject matter), many American superhero comics are set in shared universes which are owned by a publishing company. So there is a Marvel Comics shared universe, and a DC comics shared universe; the tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-comics&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-comics&lt;/a&gt; thus refer to these universes, and not directly to the publishing company. Therefore they should be used on questions about these universes or about specific comics set in these universes, regardless of who published the work (e.g. a question about an X-Men movie could have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-comics&lt;/a&gt; tag, although may only have the more specific &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men&lt;/a&gt; tag, even if the movie is not published by Marvel).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-02-18T16:12:03.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1522" CreationDate="2012-02-18T17:42:11.583" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't ask me I don't know, it may have something to do with losing trained and trusted moderators. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I won't really mind if it gets stripped, I was planning on a more passive role anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35" LastActivityDate="2012-02-18T17:42:11.583" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1522" CreationDate="2012-02-18T18:55:08.497" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Um, my bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; &gt;_&amp;lt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12" LastActivityDate="2012-02-18T18:55:08.497" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1509" CreationDate="2012-02-20T12:11:13.063" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a behavior change in Webkit biting us here, we've adjusted some JavaScript to compensate.  Reputation highlighting should once again be sane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2012-02-20T12:11:13.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1528" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-20T15:49:01.120" Score="2" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can see users ranked by reputation totals, but I can't find a display like that for number of questions asked or number of answers given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to see a display of users sorted in number of questions or answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-02-20T21:15:44.157" LastActivityDate="2012-02-20T21:15:44.157" Title="Is There A Way to See Users Ranked by Questions or Answers?" Tags="|discussion|site-statistics|users|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1528" CreationDate="2012-02-20T20:14:36.790" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here you go :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/43808/top-answerers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Top 25 users by number of answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/44871/top-question-askers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Top 100 users by number of questions asked&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2012-02-20T20:14:36.790" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1530" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1531" CreationDate="2012-02-21T16:03:47.337" Score="35" ViewCount="4255" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been actively using a few StackExchange sites for some months now, and it seems common for some users (especially the more experienced ones) to use abbreviations in their questions, answers and comments. These go from &lt;code&gt;AFAIK&lt;/code&gt;, which are known and used elsewhere, to others like &lt;code&gt;OP&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;CW&lt;/code&gt;, which appear to be internal to the StackExchange network. Others appear to be internal to &lt;code&gt;SFF&lt;/code&gt; (this site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While most abbreviations might seem natural to experienced users and native English speakers, I think there should be a list of common abbreviations for everybody to read. In my opinion, this should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be a question in meta, but a part of the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/147/list-of-common-abbreviations-noad-esl-pie&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; in English Language &amp;amp; Usage meta seems to be a good read (at least the part of the StackExchange abbreviations), but it would be good to have a list here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for this post is that somebody &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7599/why-isnt-there-ever-any-mention-of-the-americas-in-harry-potter#comment21192_11460&quot;&gt;replied to a comment of mine&lt;/a&gt; and used a name or abbreviation I've never seen before (&lt;code&gt;WOMBAT&lt;/code&gt;), so I couldn't really judge whether his reply was well-founded. I already knew what &lt;code&gt;FYI&lt;/code&gt; means, but, as I said before, this might not be natural for people with English as a second language, just as &lt;code&gt;OP&lt;/code&gt; is not natural for new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your answer is &quot;Just google it&quot;: Yes, I could waste a few minutes using a search engine, but it'd be way better if there was a list of abbreviations as part of &lt;code&gt;SFF&lt;/code&gt;. Actually, it'd make it more self-contained, which can only be positive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(...besides, a google search for &quot;wombat&quot; just shows a bunch of Australian marsupials)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4725" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2019-01-30T14:04:53.970" Title="List of common abbreviations" Tags="|discussion|faq|terminology|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1530" CreationDate="2012-02-21T16:46:59.027" Score="38" Body="&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Please avoid using abbreviations, especially on the main site. The following list is meant to be helpful if you encounter an unfamiliar abbreviation. It does not constitute an invitation to use these abbreviations.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/40353/stack-exchange-glossary-dictionary-of-commonly-used-terms&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Glossary - Dictionary of Commonly-Used Terms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Common abbreviations&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following is a list of acronyms and abbreviations common to the Internet, to Stack Exchange or to speculative fiction:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;AFAIK — as far as I know&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;AKA — also known as&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ASOIAF — &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;BSG — &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlestar_Galactica&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Battlestar Galactica&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/battlestar-galactica&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;battlestar-galactica&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;battlestar-galactica&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;CW — &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/the-future-of-community-wiki/&quot;&gt;community wiki&lt;/a&gt;; a post &quot;owned&quot; by the entire community rather than just the original poster&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DV — downvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;EL&amp;amp;U, ELU — &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;English Language &amp;amp; Usage Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;EU — Expanded Universe, works which tell a story in a universe but were not made by that universe's original creator. Most often used to refer to Star Wars.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;FGITW — &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9731/fastest-gun-in-the-west-problem&quot;&gt;fastest gun in the west&lt;/a&gt;, when several nearly-identical answers are posted within minutes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;FotR — &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; volume 1: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Fellowship of the Ring&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;FWIW - For what it's worth&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;FYI — for your information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;HHGTTG — &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hitchhikers-guide&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hitchhikers-guide&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hitchhikers-guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;GoT — &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;GR — General reference, a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2400/should-we-burninate-general-reference&quot;&gt;former&lt;/a&gt; close reason (“This question is too basic; it can be definitively and permanently answered by a single link to a standard internet reference source designed specifically to find that type of information.”)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;HNQs — &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/questions?tab=hot&quot;&gt;Hot Network Questions&lt;/a&gt;, a list of 'hot' (many votes and views) questions across the Stack Exchange network; a question reaching this list generally means plenty of rep for all involved&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;HP — &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1530/list-of-common-abbreviations/1532#1532&quot;&gt;see below&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;IANAL — I am not a lawyer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;IIRC — if I recall correctly&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;IIUC — if I understand correctly&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;IMHO/IMnsHO — in my [not so] humble opinion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;IOW — in other words&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ISTR — I seem to remember/recall&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;IYKWIM — if you know what I mean&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;JKR — &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._K._Rowling&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;J.K. Rowling&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lit — &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Literature Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;LotR — &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_%28disambiguation%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MCU — &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Movies, M&amp;amp;TV — &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Movies &amp;amp; TV Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MSE — &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Meta Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;, the “main meta” or “meta meta” site of the network, for discussing meta topics that affect all its sites&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MSO — &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, the “meta” site of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; (SO) site, for discussing meta topics that affect the SO site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;NaRQ — Not a real question, a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/171732/help-us-make-not-constructive-and-not-a-real-question-closures-more-effectiv&quot;&gt;former&lt;/a&gt; close reason (“It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form.”)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;NC — Not constructive, a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/171732/help-us-make-not-constructive-and-not-a-real-question-closures-more-effectiv&quot;&gt;former&lt;/a&gt; close reason (“This question is not a good fit to our Q&amp;amp;A format. We expect answers to generally involve facts, references, or specific expertise; this question will likely solicit opinion, debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion.”)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OP — original poster / original post; the author of a given question or the question post itself&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OT — off-topic (usually; beware, some people use it for on-topic!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;PKD — &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Philip K. Dick&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/philip-k-dick&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;philip-k-dick&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;philip-k-dick&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pterry — &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Terry Pratchett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terry-pratchett&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terry-pratchett&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terry-pratchett&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;RAH — &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Robert A. Heinlein&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/robert-heinlein&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;robert-heinlein&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;robert-heinlein&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;retcon — &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retcon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;retroactive continuity&lt;/a&gt;:  the alteration of previously established facts in a fictional work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;RotK — &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; volume 3: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_the_King&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Return of the King&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SE — &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;, our growing network of question-and-answer sites on diverse topics from software programming to cooking to photography and gaming&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SF — either Science Fiction or &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt;, one of the &lt;em&gt;Big Three&lt;/em&gt; stacks of the Stack Exchange network (the other two being Stack Overflow and Super User)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SF&amp;amp;F, SFF — &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy&lt;/a&gt;, the name of this site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SG — &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stargate&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stargate&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SG1 — &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_SG-1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stargate SG-1&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stargate-sg1&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-sg1&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-sg1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SGA — &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Atlantis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stargate Atantis&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stargate-atlantis&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-atlantis&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-atlantis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SGU — &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Universe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stargate Universe&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stargate-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SO — &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, the programming questions-and-answers site with which it all began; one of the &lt;em&gt;Big Three&lt;/em&gt; stacks of the Stack Exchange network (the other two being Server Fault and Super User)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SPaG — spelling, punctuation, and grammar&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ST — &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ST:DS9 — &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Deep Space 9&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (series 3) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-ds9&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-ds9&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-ds9&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ST:ENT — &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Enterprise&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Enterprise&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (series 5) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-enterprise&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-enterprise&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-enterprise&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ST:TNG — &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Next Generation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (series 2) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tng&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tng&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tng&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ST:TOS — &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Original Series&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (series 1) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ST:VOY — &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Voyager&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Voyager&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (series 4) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-voyager&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-voyager&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-voyager&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SU — &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;, one of the &lt;em&gt;Big Three&lt;/em&gt; sites of the Stack Exchange network (the other two being Stack Overflow and Server Fault)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SW — &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;AotC — &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_II:_Attack_of_the_Clones&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Attack of the Clones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (Episode II)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ESB — &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_V:_The_Empire_Strikes_Back&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Empire Strikes Back&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (Episode V)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;NH &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; ANH — &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_IV:_A_New_Hope&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A New Hope&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (Episode IV)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OT — The Star Wars Original Trilogy (Episodes IV, V, and VI)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;PT — The Star Wars Prequel Trilogy (Episodes I, II, and III)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;RotJ — &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_VI:_Return_of_the_Jedi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Return of the Jedi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (Episode VI)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;RotS — &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_III:_Revenge_of_the_Sith&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Revenge of the Sith&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (Episode III)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ST — The Star Wars Sequel Trilogy (Episodes VII, VIII, and IX)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TLJ — &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: The Last Jedi&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TPM — &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_I:_The_Phantom_Menace&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Phantom Menace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (Episode I)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TFA — &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Force_Awakens&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (Episode VII)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TGFFA — &quot;The Galaxy Far, Far Away&quot; (Settings/location of Star Wars)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TL;DR &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; TLDR — Literally, &quot;Too Long; Didn't Read&quot;.  Has evolved to indicate what follows is an executive summary of what is usually a long and wordy answer (or post, in a forum context).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TPTB — The Powers That Be, the team that runs all the sites, as opposed to &quot;mere mortals&quot; such as regular users and moderators alike [I actually haven't heard this one].  Alternatively, the people behind a specific work, be they writer, director, or show-runner.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TREU — &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/58631/the-restaurant-at-the-end-of-the-universe&quot;&gt;The Restaurant at the End of the Universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. Our main chat room.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TTT — &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; volume 2: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Towers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Two Towers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;UV — upvote &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;VLQ — very low quality&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;VTC — vote to close&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;VTD — vote to delete&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;VTLC — vote to leave closed (after a question has already been closed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;VTRO — vote to re-open&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;WOG (or WoG) - Word of God. The person or people responsible for a property's creation. Usually the author/showrunner.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;WoSFoF — Work of SF or Fantasy. Any work, be it written, (moving) images, or any other form.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;WP — &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;YA — Young Adult. Most commonly seen in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-01-27T15:15:38.153" LastActivityDate="2019-01-27T15:15:38.153" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-02-21T16:46:59.027" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1530" CreationDate="2012-02-21T20:04:10.650" Score="12" Body="&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;AK - Avada Kedavra&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;COMC - Care of Magical Creatures&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;CoS - &lt;em&gt;Chamber of Secrets&lt;/em&gt; (Book 2)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DA - Dumbledore's Army&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DADA - Defence Against the Dark Arts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DD - Dumbledore&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DEs - Death Eaters&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DH - &lt;em&gt;Deathly Hallows&lt;/em&gt; (Book 7)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DoM - Department of Mysteries&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DP or TDP — the &lt;em&gt;Daily Prophet&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;FBAWTFT or FB - &lt;em&gt;Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;GoF - &lt;em&gt;Goblet of Fire&lt;/em&gt; (Book 4)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;HBP - &lt;em&gt;Half-Blood Prince&lt;/em&gt; (Book 6)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;HoH - Head of House&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;HoM - History of Magic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;HP - Harry Potter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;HP:MoR - Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (a fanfic)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;JKR - J.K. Rowling&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MoM - Ministry of/for Magic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;N.E.W.T.s or NEWTs - Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;O.W.L.s or OWLs - Ordinary Wizarding Levels&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OotP - &lt;em&gt;Order of the Phoenix&lt;/em&gt; (Book 5)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;PoA - &lt;em&gt;Prisoner of Azkaban&lt;/em&gt; (Book 3)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;PS - &lt;em&gt;Philosopher's Stone&lt;/em&gt; (Book 1, original British title)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;QR - &lt;em&gt;Quibbler Report&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;QTTA - &lt;em&gt;Quidditch Through the Ages&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;RoR - Room of Requirement&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sly - Slytherincess&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;S.P.E.W. or SPEW - Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SS - &lt;em&gt;Sorcerer's Stone&lt;/em&gt; (Book 1, US title)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TBTB - Tales of Beedle the Bard&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TBWL - the Boy Who Lived&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TDP or DP - the &lt;em&gt;Daily Prophet&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TWT - Tri-wizard Tournament&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Chamber - The Chamber of Secrets&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;W.O.M.B.A.T.s or WOMBATS - Wizards' Ordinary Magic and Basic Aptitude Test&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;WW - &lt;em&gt;Witch Weekly&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;WWN - Wizarding Wireless Network&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;WWW - Weasleys' Wizarding Wheezes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="36115" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2016-04-24T19:28:26.223" LastActivityDate="2016-04-24T19:28:26.223" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-02-21T21:53:20.900" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1534" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1535" CreationDate="2012-02-22T00:15:51.627" Score="1" ViewCount="23" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1118/we-need-a-liaden-tag&quot;&gt;We need a Liaden tag&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't there be a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-fades&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-fades&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-fades&lt;/a&gt; tag for the BBC's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/11657/2264&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Fades&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2264" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2012-02-22T04:45:13.363" Title="Why no tag for &quot;The Fades&quot;?" Tags="|feature-request|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2012-02-22T00:25:31.663" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1534" CreationDate="2012-02-22T00:19:10.390" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's just not created yet, If you have a question, just leave it with a generic tag for now, flag it for moderator attention with the requested flag, and we can add it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-02-22T00:19:10.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1536" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1538" CreationDate="2012-02-22T11:32:12.037" Score="4" ViewCount="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really want to subscribe to the weekly newsletter (I've got enough email) but I would like to flick through some back issues. Are they available online?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2012-02-22T20:13:09.630" LastActivityDate="2012-02-22T20:13:09.630" Title="Where can I get backcopies of the weekly newsletter?" Tags="|support|newsletter|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1537" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1539" CreationDate="2012-02-22T19:32:30.960" Score="4" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw a mention of a newsletter a couple of times, and was wondering just what it is and what's the content?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it some original content?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Automated content culled from the site? (e.g. top voted/popular Qs and As for the week)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-02-22T20:05:44.197" Title="What exactly IS in the weekly newsletter?" Tags="|discussion|newsletter|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1536" CreationDate="2012-02-22T19:58:37.910" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aside from pestering longtime subscribers to forward their back copies to you, there's no way to get old newsletters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the &quot;Greatest hits&quot; and &quot;Can you answer these?&quot; sections of the newsletter vary from person to person, so two versions of the same newsletter typically aren't identical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2012-02-22T19:58:37.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1537" CreationDate="2012-02-22T20:05:44.197" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can check them out here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/newsletters&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com/newsletters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Original content would be nice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2012-02-22T20:05:44.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1540" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1545" CreationDate="2012-02-22T20:12:53.543" Score="4" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it automated by some algorithm (e.g. views/votes/etc...)? Random? Random after selecting for some factors? Manual by moderators/someone else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="How are the questions and answers selected for newsletter inclusion?" Tags="|support|newsletter|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1541" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1543" CreationDate="2012-02-22T21:21:09.607" Score="18" ViewCount="2960" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I understand the general idea of the term, but I don't know if it is precise enough, or if there is an established consensus about this. In particular, I'd like to know:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the author of a book gives an explanation about something (say, in a magazine interview or a letter), and that explanation is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; in the book, is it still &lt;em&gt;in-universe&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What if, instead of a published interview, this explanation is given during a live event (book signing, for example)? Does it make it &quot;officially part of the universe&quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Same with the writer or director of a movie, for example. If something is explained in the commentary from the DVD or a making-of, does it count as &lt;em&gt;in-universe&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Etc etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I see it, &lt;em&gt;in-universe&lt;/em&gt; should mean the published version (e.g. the book you can buy in a bookstore or the movie you can see at the cinema) and &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; later material, but the consensus might be different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4725" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-02-22T21:35:37.813" LastActivityDate="2012-02-23T03:53:32.453" Title="What does &quot;in-universe&quot; mean?" Tags="|discussion|terminology|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1541" CreationDate="2012-02-22T21:35:04.320" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you're describing is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_%28fiction%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;canon&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;In-universe&lt;/em&gt; means something that is described in the story, that's part of the plot. For example, if the protagonist loses in a fight with his arch-nemesis, an in-universe reason would be that the protagonist tripped and fell, or that the nemesis took steroids. An out-of-universe reason would be that the lost fight was the conflict that set the protagonist on his path to adventure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-02-22T21:35:04.320" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1541" CreationDate="2012-02-22T22:22:52.217" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say an in-universe answer is one that can be given without breaking the fourth wall. If you could describe the answer to a person within the story, and have them not be confused, it's probably in-universe. In-universe explanations assume that the universe in question is THE universe, not a story about another universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also say that the source of the in-universe explanation is irrelevant. It doesn't matter if the answer comes from an interview (like with several Harry Potter answers) or from the story itself, as long as it can be understood within the context of the universe the story takes place in, it is in-universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/11556/3958&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; contrasts a speculative in-universe answer, with a speculative out of universe answer. Myrddin Emrys assumes a trope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3958" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2012-02-22T23:01:23.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1544" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-22T23:42:51.070" Score="30" ViewCount="821" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a thank you for &lt;em&gt;being awesome&lt;/em&gt;, if you have at least 1500 reputation (as of Feb 22) and are on page 1 or page 2 of &amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=reputation&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=reputation&amp;amp;filter=all&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;hellip; we'll be sending you a little care package shortly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Science Fiction and Fantasy t-shirt in your size&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Science Fiction and Fantasy die-cut, vinyl stickers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://shop.stackexchange.com/collections/show/products/stack-exchange-sharpie&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange sharpie&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://shop.stackexchange.com/products/stack-exchange-pens&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange pen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://shop.stackexchange.com/products/stack-exchange-network-stickers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange stickers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can expect to get an email soon with details on how to confirm and provide your mailing address and size preferences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The t-shirt&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xIMAb.png&quot; alt=&quot;scifi.stackexchange.com Tshirt&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The sticker&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OGOMj.png&quot; alt=&quot;scifi.stackexchange.com sticker&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rest of the items you can view in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://shop.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange store&lt;/a&gt; &amp;mdash; direct links to &lt;a href=&quot;http://shop.stackexchange.com/collections/show/products/stack-exchange-sharpie&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;sharpie&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://shop.stackexchange.com/products/stack-exchange-pens&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;pens&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://shop.stackexchange.com/products/stack-exchange-network-stickers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;stickers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Congratulations! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(for anyone else who wants this swag, but isn't on page 1 or page 2 of the all time top users -- the limited edition t-shirts and stickers will be available for purchase from the store as soon as we're able)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T19:25:26.023" Title="Science Fiction and Fantasy Top User Swag" Tags="|discussion|swag|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="45" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1540" CreationDate="2012-02-23T00:50:29.387" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adapted from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/121630/what-is-the-weekly-newsletter-who-composes-them/121634#121634&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The newsletter includes a brief summary of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Top New Questions of the week (most views, answers, and votes this week)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some selected highlight questions from previous weeks.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some selected unanswered questions from the past.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are all automatically selected by the Stack Exchange system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They may also occasionally contain important announcements from Stack Exchange staff and moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/96758/weekly-site-newsletters&quot;&gt;the original annoucement&lt;/a&gt; of the newsletter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2459" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2012-02-23T00:50:29.387" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1541" CreationDate="2012-02-23T03:53:32.453" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I use &quot;in-universe,&quot; I mean I do not want a lazy answer like, &quot;Because the writers wanted it that way,&quot; or &quot;There were budgeting issues.&quot;  I want to know why the device works as it does or why a character acts like s/he does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of people forget that you can check DVDs and often find deleted scenes and most people don't know, or completely overlook, that there is a long process behind writing and if it's a film (or tv) script, there are often whole sequences that are cut out because they effect the pacing or timing or create other issues.  If you're making a movie, you have to worry about the 99% that will see it and not spend 5 minutes explaining technical details.  So explanations often get dumped, but the writers or other production crew members will often fill us in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, a frequently asked question about the &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: The Next Generation&lt;/em&gt; episode &lt;em&gt;The Next Phase&lt;/em&gt; is, &quot;If Geordi and Ro could walk through walls, why didn't they sink through the floor?&quot;  It's a legitimate question and it's not addressed on screen, but Ron Moore has gone on record as saying they had an explanation involving surface tension, but it got cut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some would say that explanation is not in-universe, but I think most of us would say it is, since, in that case, it's &quot;Word of God,&quot; and it simply had to be cut because the producers had to produce something 44 minutes long and telling the story was more important than addressing a concern 99% of the audience didn't care about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, for many of us, &quot;in-universe&quot; is not just about what we saw on screen or in the books, but also what was intended or what was planned out but didn't end up in the final version for one reason or another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2012-02-23T03:53:32.453" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1547" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-23T17:16:23.953" Score="-1" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking in particular about the Adjustment Bureau movie, and its base, the short story Adjustment Team, by Philip K. Dick. I would like to ask about the [this question] of these stories that allows adjustments to be made to our world, e.g. &quot;Do these stories use a glossed over technology based [this question] or a more magical or fantasy based [this question]?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not talking about the plots though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4916" LastActivityDate="2012-02-27T19:44:42.733" Title="How do I go about asking a question regarding what makes a story possible?" Tags="|discussion|tags|asking-questions|terminology|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1549" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1552" CreationDate="2012-02-25T01:34:12.150" Score="7" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've asked a couple (OK. A few) questions that have been closed. I've noticed that they still seem to gather additional &quot;views&quot;. Can closed questions still earn badges? And, no, I'm not sure if I tagged this question correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4356" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-02-25T21:17:50.230" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T05:27:26.370" Title="Can closed questions still earn badges?" Tags="|support|closed-questions|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1550" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-25T20:27:09.413" Score="3" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am an active member of SO sites but I want to delete my account from this site, &lt;code&gt;scifi.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt;. How can I do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have tried to delete my questions from this site, but it's giving me errors like &quot;this question has answers so you can't delete this question&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I still want to delete not only my questions but also my account from this site. So how to do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And also, I am fed up with this error, &quot;it does not meet our quality standards&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4947" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2015-09-28T15:12:02.477" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T15:12:02.477" Title="How can I delete my user account from the scifi stack? Also, how to meet the quality standards?" Tags="|support|user-accounts|deleted-questions|question-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1550" CreationDate="2012-02-25T20:53:54.693" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to delete your account, change the “about me” field in your profile to &lt;code&gt;please delete me&lt;/code&gt;. Then send an email to the e-mail listed under &lt;code&gt;contact us&lt;/code&gt; at the bottom of every page on the site; be sure to include the URL to your profile (&lt;code&gt;http://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/NNNNN&lt;/code&gt; where NNNNN is your user ID) in the email. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5999/can-i-delete-my-account&quot;&gt;Can I delete my account?&lt;/a&gt; on the main meta site for more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your posts are a different matter: we do not want to delete valuable content. For example, if you have posted a question and it has an upvoted answer, you cannot delete it, because that would potentially delete a valuable answer as well. Whether you have deleted your account or not, your contributions will be submitted to the usual moderation process, so they will only be deleted if they are found unsuitable for the site. If you delete your account, your posts may remain, but they will not be associated with your name. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/87709/if-i-delete-my-stack-overflow-account-will-all-my-questions-be-deleted&quot;&gt;If I delete my Stack Overflow account, will all my questions be deleted?&lt;/a&gt; on the main meta site for more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The error “it does not meet our quality standards” comes from an automatic filter whose details are not public. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/92074/what-can-i-do-when-getting-it-does-not-meet-our-quality-standards&quot;&gt;What can I do when getting “It does not meet our quality standards”?&lt;/a&gt; on the main meta site for more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2012-02-25T20:53:54.693" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1549" CreationDate="2012-02-25T21:17:39.450" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, closed questions behave normally except for one thing: you can't post an answer to a closed question. You can still earn badges for votes or views on a closed question, or an answer to a closed question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that are closed for reasons other than being a duplicate are normally deleted after a while. When a question is deleted, you stop earning any badge for it, but any badge already earned is not taken away. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/17853/how-do-badges-work&quot;&gt;How do “badges” work?&lt;/a&gt; on the main meta site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T05:27:26.370" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1138" CreationDate="2012-02-26T18:37:37.427" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Recall_%282012_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Total Recall&lt;/a&gt; would be a good one!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2012-02-26T18:37:37.427" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-02-26T18:37:37.427" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1554" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1555" CreationDate="2012-02-26T21:54:33.280" Score="5" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;I attempted to post a &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/1431/which-film-was-the-first-to-show-us-the-face-of-god&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; on Movies/TV and got the &quot;Doesn't meet the standards&quot; message. Then I posted it on Scifi/Fantasy, where it did meet the standards but got downvoted and migrated back to Movies/TV. What's up with that? I don't mind the downvote, but I'd like to learn from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4356" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2012-02-27T02:08:25.520" Title="Why would a movie question not meet the standard on Movies/TV and be accepted on Scifi/Fantasy?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1554" CreationDate="2012-02-27T00:08:09.760" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that the shortness of a question is part of the quality filter.  I've gotten that error before myself, and usually take care of it by fleshing out the answer a bit with more detail or some introductory material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-02-27T00:08:09.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1554" CreationDate="2012-02-27T02:08:25.520" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have decided previously that we don't allow questions dealing with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1056/98&quot;&gt;modern religions&lt;/a&gt;. Calling any modern religion fantasy is a state that we just don't want to be in. The question you asked could well fit into a general movie discussion, but it is not on topic here. I'm not familiar enough with what the movies site considers on topic, but if it was going to be on topic anywhere, it would be there. And I will give you there is a small chance that the movie could be featured in something that would be on topic here, but most likely, that is not the case. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2012-02-27T02:08:25.520" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1547" CreationDate="2012-02-27T19:44:42.733" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that your question might get closed as not constructive or not a real question. Since the technology doesn't exist, the question would surely be answered with, &quot;It's a fictional device&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2012-02-27T19:44:42.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1558" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-27T20:06:04.407" Score="8" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to get the group-viewing-event into a blog post (I know, I'm like a month behind! I blame school...) and I want to include screencaps of the show in the blog post for visual references...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this legal to screen capture from Netflix to then post on the site? I'm not really concerned about one or two pictures, but I was planning on having at least 10 through out the 2 episodes of Star Trek we watched.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Legality of screen caps in the blog" Tags="|discussion|blog|legal|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1558" CreationDate="2012-02-27T20:24:15.723" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's been &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/94645/clarifying-fair-use-regarding-a-stack-exchange-site-and-an-imgur-hosted-image&quot;&gt;some discussion of this&lt;/a&gt; previously. As far as it's application on this site, it's previously been more about individual panels from comic issues than screen caps from a live-action or animated work, but I don't really see a difference. For some examples, see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9364/are-any-of-the-names-of-the-court-of-owls-victims-in-batman-5-significant&quot;&gt;Are any of the names of the Court of Owls victims in Batman #5 significant?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8878/why-is-there-a-dinosaur-in-the-batcave&quot;&gt;Why is there a dinosaur in the Batcave?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7443/do-some-walkers-employ-ambush-hunter-techniques/&quot;&gt;Do some Walkers employ ambush hunter techniques?&lt;/a&gt; (answers only, but both panels and screen caps posted in this one!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IANAL, but it basically comes down to whether or not you personally believe that the work you're posting falls under &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fair Use&lt;/a&gt;. It could get nasty if the copyright holder submitted a DMCA takedown (SE would likely remove the possibly-offending content and could find you in violation of the user agreement for the site) but as it stands there have been previous cases on this site already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1913" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2012-02-27T20:24:15.723" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1558" CreationDate="2012-02-27T21:20:35.017" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the United States (the jurisdiction where Stack Exchange is located), you may make &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Use&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;fair use&lt;/a&gt; of copyrighted material. The definition of fair use is fairly complex and mostly determined by jurisprudence rather than statue; the law stipulates that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the nature of the copyrighted work;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your blog post is reviewing a work, then it falls under the heading of &lt;em&gt;criticism&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;comment&lt;/em&gt;, and the inclusion of short extracts (such as a few movie stills) to illustrate the blog post is likely to be fine, given its low score on criteria #1 (the blog is not directly for profit), #3 (you are only posting a very short extract) and #4 (your extracts are not a substitute for the copyrighted work).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, not being a lawyer, I cannot give you legal advice, so whatever you publish is your responsibility and not mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-02-27T21:20:35.017" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1561" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-28T05:52:20.640" Score="10" ViewCount="509" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a certain timeframe in which a spoiler warning is no longer necessary for a work that is old enough?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's the very common spoiler that Vader is Luke's father and no one really needs to use a spoiler tag for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ask this question in direct reference to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/12054/1109&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; answer that spoils a key plot point in Orwell's &lt;em&gt;1984&lt;/em&gt;. This novel was written in 1949, 30 years before &lt;em&gt;Empire Strikes Back&lt;/em&gt;, and the novel is a very common selection in most high school English curriculums (at least it is in the USA).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is a spoiler for something like this still necessary? At what point could I say to myself, &quot;I'm referencing a story that is old enough, I don't need to place a spoiler tag here.&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2012-02-28T22:47:56.730" Title="Is there a moratorium on some spoilers?" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1561" CreationDate="2012-02-28T07:54:18.770" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's up to the person asking/answering the question to decide.  Age, however, is only one factor in deciding whether use of the tag is appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/969/108&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/968/what-is-the-policy-for-spoilers&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;What is the policy for spoilers&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; covers this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also take the age of the work into account. [...] With TV shows, I try to spoiler big plot points from the current season, if practical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both movies and television are relatively easy [...] Books are a different story, in my opinion. Books don't generate nearly as much buzz upon release, so I tend to spoiler important plot points [...] for quite a while afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most importantly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is just a personal guideline, of course, and I'm certain there are exceptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer to that question also mentions age: I generally disregard age - my opinion is that the work is always new to someone - even with TV/film, with international distribution it's hard to know whether a work has played everywhere (sometimes countries are literally years behind in both TV series and certain films), and I personally consume more TV/film via 'back catalog' (e.g. DVD-by-mail, iTunes) than live.  I also consume more books, where age is less of an impact, as Jeff said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, there's no date after which we should edit a question/answer to remove the spoiler tag - if it was worth hiding in the first place, it's worth hiding indefinitely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-02-28T07:54:18.770" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1563" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-28T21:46:39.523" Score="18" ViewCount="499" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems unnecessary to create a second tag for Harry Potter questions which include Voldemort. If we are going to do that then where are the Gandalf, Aragorn, Peter Wiggin, R2D2, and Crookshanks tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think tags should be the franchise, and not specific characters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also seems like the voldemort tag randomly sprung up overnight and was immediately added to 30 odd questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are 87 questions relating to Picard, but he doesn't have a tag. On the other hand Q has a tag, and only 10 questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a Wolverine tag, but no Cyclops (or other X-Men). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a single She-Hulk tag that someone added to a BrettWhite question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What are the criteria for character specific tags?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is a Picard specific tag going to return significantly different results from just putting Picard in the search box?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="14111" LastEditDate="2015-12-30T22:02:51.273" LastActivityDate="2016-01-01T13:26:25.600" Title="Why is there a voldemort tag? Is there a criterion for character tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2016-01-04T08:52:53.033" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1563" CreationDate="2012-02-28T22:08:07.250" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's an administrative question, really, so I'll defer to the acutal admins here.. But IMHO, I don't know that it's really a bad thing.  It's a sub-set of Harry Potter, true, but it allows you to more accurately narrow down questions you want to look at / search by / etc.  If there were lots of Gandalf specific questions, I'd say it was wizard time for a Gandalf tag. (Pardon the pun / obscure reference.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, I'm not adverse to specific sub-tags when they get used; creating a Pansy Parkinson one, and a Madam Hooch tag might be a bit much... Unless they start getting questions that really are specific to them, and not the HP franchise in general.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2292" LastActivityDate="2012-02-28T22:08:07.250" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1563" CreationDate="2012-02-28T22:08:22.147" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a Voldemort tag because . . . I created it when I was brand new to the site. I'm happy to have it replaced or removed or recategorized, and I apologize if it threw off the system. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there you have it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2012-02-28T22:08:22.147" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1563" CreationDate="2012-02-28T22:37:41.657" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking, we suffer from having too specific tags already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A tag for a character is only warranted if there are a lot of questions about that particular universe (HP and ST do qualify), and a significant fraction of these questions are specifically about that character. If the tag is used on every question that mentions the character, that defeats the purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should be very cautious before creating a tag that's more specific than a work or universe. Do you think anyone will subscribe that tag or ignore it? If not, there shouldn't be a tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that there aren't 87 questions about Picard, there are 40 questions that mention Picard (18 where Picard is in the title) and 47 more questions with at least one answer mentioning Picard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A name like Q is a bit special, it's hard to search for. But &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/q&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;q&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;q&lt;/a&gt; would be a terrible tag, it's far too ambiguous; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-q&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-q&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-q&lt;/a&gt; would be the name to choose, if the tag is warranted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-02-28T22:37:41.657" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1561" CreationDate="2012-02-28T22:46:51.053" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions and answers on Stack Exchange are intended to have lasting value. Therefore &lt;strong&gt;I am strongly opposed to letting the age of a work be any influence on whether a plot element should be considered a spoiler&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether something should be hidden behind spoiler markup should be determined only by the context. If there is a plot point that someone who's read the thread up to this point might not know and might want to find out by reading the book (or &lt;em&gt;mutatis mutandis&lt;/em&gt;), you can hide it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note again that what work or part of the work the hidden text spoils must be clear from the leading text. For example, if the post is about a TV series, it must be clear what episode the text would be spoiling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If in doubt, don't use spoiler markup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-02-28T22:46:51.053" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1568" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-01T00:34:14.427" Score="30" ViewCount="558" Body="&lt;p&gt;Despite Jeff's &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2012/02/29/lets-play-the-guessing-game/#comments&quot;&gt;latest SE Blog post,&lt;/a&gt; I think story ID questions should still be ok here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there can be good and bad story ID questions, and while the bad ones can fall into the categories Jeff doesn't like, most of the ones I've seen here seem fine - they aren't guessing games and they can help others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue of duplicates is easily solved (not that it seems to be a problem here), if there's a story ID question for a particular tale, and someone comes along later and posts a sufficiently different description of the same story, just edit the original post to include the new description and close the new question as a dup.  That said, when you're talking about a story, there are unlikely to be multiple non-overlapping ways of relating the main features.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff's comment about this type of question being unfair seems to be just another way of saying they're guessing games.  Again, for story ID, most of the ones I've noticed give reasonable detail and the ones that don't give enough seem to get zero answers and so will be autodeleted at some point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, I think story ID questions should still be allowed here, but there should continue to be diligence in nuking bad story ID questions.  Not just because they're story ID questions, but because they're bad story ID questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-06-15T20:55:51.913" LastActivityDate="2019-06-15T20:55:51.913" Title="Are story identification questions still appropriate?" Tags="|discussion|scope|story-identification|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1568" CreationDate="2012-03-01T00:40:40.590" Score="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;Story identifications will be banned on this site over my dead body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify: if this site was to ban story identification questions, I don't see it could possibly become a reference for SF questions. The site would be effectively dead to me. An SF Q&amp;amp;A site without story identification questions would hold no interest to me, and I would warn people away from it rather than recommend it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2013-11-04T19:18:01.920" LastActivityDate="2013-11-04T19:18:01.920" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1570" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1575" CreationDate="2012-03-01T08:25:35.460" Score="1" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spacing on the blog looks a bit odd when quotations are used.  For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eq6a7.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This looks like this in the WordPress editor:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ia7Bz.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The screen surround goes a bit too low, nearly colliding with the next paragraph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2012-03-02T09:26:23.007" Title="Blockquote background is oddly aligned in blog posts" Tags="|bug|design|blog|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1571" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-01T09:04:52.637" Score="4" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;With &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1465/how-should-we-handle-any-list-questions&quot;&gt;&quot;How should we handle &quot;any&quot; (list) questions&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, the highest voted (+9, -3) answer right now (by a mod) is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Since we're debating the issue right now, I'm not going to wield the mod close hammer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next highest (+3, -0, also by a mod) is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It seems to me pretty clear that the word &quot;Any&quot; in a question doesn't warrant immediate closing, but it does signal that the question should be watched. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; answers there that suggest that these questions are &quot;by definition&quot; off-topic, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3018/clear-as-a-primary-colour&quot;&gt;this question was closed&lt;/a&gt; (by a mod, with no other close votes).  My flag querying this was declined (I flagged initially rather than asking this question because we already have two meta questions about this, where I see no justification for the closure, and I don't see the merit in having a third):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I thought we had a consensus against list questions. If you object to this closing, please explain your reasoning on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is from April 2011, so it includes the sadly-too-common clarification that it's &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a list question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(Please note I don't want a list of every time this has been used. If it's actually common, then a single example, or the first example, is enough, thanks).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question has no satisfactory answers - either this is extremely rare, or the answer is that &quot;no&quot;, there are no other examples of this.  There's certainly &lt;strong&gt;no evidence at all&lt;/strong&gt; that this question has led to &quot;one work per answer&quot; style answering or poll-style voting, which are the usual indications of a problematic list question (again: it doesn't want a list).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found something new to me in this story. I'd like to know if this is a particular conceit of the author's, or if this is something that's based on either real-world research or a common (or at least not new) fictional-world idea.  Considering the author's work, it's reasonable to consider that either of those is true.  A list is not needed to answer this question; a list has not been provided (in any form) for this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second previous meta question related here is: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1450/are-questions-looking-to-simply-prove-or-disprove-a-premise-with-a-yes-no-answer&quot;&gt;Are questions looking to simply prove or disprove a premise with a yes/no answer a good fit for our site?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here, we have the highest voted answer (+7, -0):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;These are some great answers posted, and it seems (so far) that the consensus is that these types of questions do have a place here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I again see no answers to that post that suggest that these questions should be immediately considered off-topic - i.e. so much so that a moderator should (with no other prompting) close them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why was this question closed?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-04-03T23:31:35.883" Title="This question was closed, even though the fate of these questions is not yet clear" Tags="|discussion|scope|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1563" CreationDate="2012-03-01T11:48:00.247" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you go by Atwood's criteria on a linked Q, Voldemort is an OK tag. It would work (not great, but well enough) if it was a sole tag. Having said that, there seems to be a contradiction. There is a reason for haviing space for 5 tags… Saying &quot;character tag should not exist&quot; even if that tag has 30+ questions about that specific character is IMHO wrong. That tag doesn't hurt anyone, and helps narrow down questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IMPORTANT benefit of such a tag:&lt;/strong&gt; I and other people frequently use it &lt;strong&gt;in liu of general search&lt;/strong&gt;, because &lt;strong&gt;there are far more questions that have the word &quot;Voldemort&quot; in the question or an answer, than questions &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; Voldemort&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For those not aware (since some people mentioned to me they were not before):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can &lt;strong&gt;search by a tag&lt;/strong&gt; (not by word) if you surround the tag name in square brackets like this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[voldemort]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2015-12-31T15:35:36.887" LastActivityDate="2015-12-31T15:35:36.887" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="671" CreationDate="2012-03-01T13:02:21.490" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a nice idea, but where there isn't a tag in place for the author remember that (it seems to me that) quite a few of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions are raised by first-time or relatively new visitors who may not have or indeed ever gain the rep required to create a new tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="186" LastActivityDate="2012-03-01T13:02:21.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1571" CreationDate="2012-03-01T15:44:56.847" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My attention was drawn to that question by a flag to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/3042/1027&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; to it for being a non-answer.  While that answer didn't answer the question, it seemed to me that this was a clear list question that had already gathered several 'me too' style non-answers.  In addition it was a question of the form 'are there any X', which I've always seen to be list questions given that's what they frequently become as multiple people add their own single example answers to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I took the number of votes on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1466/1027&quot;&gt;Gilles answer&lt;/a&gt;, which advocates closing questions exactly like this one, to be consensus on the topic.  That question was asked a month ago and hasn't seen any new activity in over 2 weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also like to address a common misconception, which your post potentially makes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There's certainly &lt;strong&gt;no evidence&lt;/strong&gt; at all that this question has led to &quot;one work per answer&quot; style answering or poll-style voting, which are the usual indications of a problematic list question (again: it doesn't want a list).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't wait to close list questions once they've accumulated a list.  The vote to close reason is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question is not a good fit to our Q&amp;amp;A format. We expect answers to generally involve facts, references, or specific expertise; this question &lt;strong&gt;will likely&lt;/strong&gt; solicit opinion, debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(emphasis mine)  We the community should vote to close when we see bad questions that aren't a good fit here, we don't wait for hypothetical bad answers to make bad questions worse.  We preemptively prevent this from happening by voting to close.  The question asker then can make changes to their question to improve it and have it reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2012-03-01T15:44:56.847" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1570" CreationDate="2012-03-01T19:00:04.230" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This will be fixed soon on the live server.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastEditorUserId="108" LastEditDate="2012-03-02T09:26:23.007" LastActivityDate="2012-03-02T09:26:23.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1576" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-01T20:29:34.247" Score="9" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;Within the last few days a series of &quot;but what if they...&quot; has come up in the Matrix tag, surrounding alternatives that the machines could use in order to not use humans. It has become completely ridiculous for two reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) The real question is why DID they use humans and the Matrix, not every way they could have avoided it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) The questions have been rendered unanswerable in their present form because as soon as one is answered an almost duplicate is spawned from the hellfire of which these questions come.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/12312/3958&quot;&gt;Why use full brained humans as batteries?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/12309/3958&quot;&gt;In The Matrix, why didn&amp;#39;t Machines use solar energy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/12248/3958&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/12248/3958&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/1263/3958&quot;&gt;Is the basic premise of humans as a power source in The Matrix reasonable?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;etc. Some have already been closed, but others continue to spawn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3958" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2012-03-01T23:21:40.870" Title="Can we please merge all 'alternative power source' in the matrix questions into one?" Tags="|discussion|repeated-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1576" CreationDate="2012-03-01T20:32:19.620" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I completely agree. I feel like it is becoming like &quot;Is X a Timelord&quot; questions. Are we really going to tolerate individual questions for the same basic answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;why not use nuclear&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;why not use wind&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;why not use thermal&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;why not use oceanic currents&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;why not use canola oil&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;why not use unicorn blood&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They all boil down to the same answer. Because there wouldn't have been a movie if it was about machines who wiped out the humans and then lived happily ever after. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2012-03-01T20:32:19.620" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="970" CreationDate="2012-03-01T20:41:23.403" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;dlanod&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;dlanoddlanoddlanoddlanod ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4056" LastActivityDate="2012-03-01T20:41:23.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1571" CreationDate="2012-03-01T21:51:07.437" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question was closed for being a list question. Whether it's worded as “list all the works that have X” or “what are some works that have X” or “is there a work that has X” is irrelevant. List questions call for items rather than answers. Think of it that way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If citing one work that has X would answer the question, it's a list question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now there is possibly a good question in there, calling for a study of color perception in science fiction. An answer would discuss multiple approaches to basing a color description system on four colors including “clear”. The question needs to be edited to this effect instead of asking for items. “A single example is enough” is not acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore the question should be made more specific, because it's very open-ended: are we talking about unmodified humans, modified humans, aliens, robots? Is this under sunlight, some other starlight, some artificial lightning? Would magic be involved? Are you after something that's scientifically sound, or does it have to only make sense from a cognitive point of view, or are you looking rather at the cultural aspects?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's another thing that makes me queasy, and should be addressed in an edit: it's partly a question about science and history rather than about SF. Uses “in actual historical texts” do not belong here, nor does a detailed explanation of color perception. The existing answers are affected by this off-topic bias — one is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/3028&quot;&gt;about linguistics&lt;/a&gt; (and could be a good answer to a question about the background to Jean Auel's writings), one is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/3042&quot;&gt;about the biology of certain animals&lt;/a&gt;, one is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/3021&quot;&gt;about human biology and its reflection in culture&lt;/a&gt;. None of the existing answers are really about SF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2012-03-01T21:51:07.437" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1576" CreationDate="2012-03-01T23:21:40.870" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been closing as many of them as I can find, but thanks for the extras. I've now closed the most recent, referencing the oldest question for them all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-03-01T23:21:40.870" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1581" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-02T03:40:52.960" Score="4" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, there's been a bit of discussion as to what brings in the most viewers on this site. Trying desperately to learn about databases, I started to work on a query. With a bit help from Keen, we have &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/revision/62886/65917/average-number-of-views-per-tag&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this query&lt;/a&gt; to show for our hard work. Also, just to show how the top 20 tags are, I created &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/revision/62889/65922/average-number-of-views-for-the-top-20-tags&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;another query&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, here's a few interesting trends. The top 10 are all of the type that had one shot popular questions. Those include subjects like E.T., Middle Earth, and Pern. Game of Thrones is the first one on the list that has a fair number of questions. Also of note is that Spells seem to have a higher view count, as do suggested order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of the top 20 tags on the list, the most popular are: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/george-r-r-martin&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;george-r-r-martin&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;george-r-r-martin&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;. Of particular note to me is the fact that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt; is a very popular tag. Rounding out the bottom of the list are: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aliens&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aliens&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aliens&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-comics&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time-travel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time-travel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time-travel&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt;, and the lowest of them all, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what can we learn from this? Well, the goal of this site is not to bring in large numbers of viewers, but it certainly helps. Just something to think about on getting your next question viewed by tons of people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-03-05T10:52:32.593" Title="What type of questions bring in the most viewers?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1582" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1586" CreationDate="2012-03-02T13:04:56.197" Score="21" ViewCount="941" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12370/why-did-tpol-act-like-human-woman-before-sexual-interaction-with-trip&quot;&gt;Why did T&amp;#39;Pol act like a human woman with Trip?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The topic of the question seems fully within the boundaries of the site, but the actual content is a bit not-quite-family-friendly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this within bounds? I don't think we have any established rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[ My personal opinion is that the question is right on the boundary of &quot;decent enough for the site&quot; but very close to stepping over it - any more risque and it'd need to be closed or censored ].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an alternate solution, we could have a meta-tag &quot;adult-content&quot; to allow filtering out such questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="What's our tolerance for adult content?" Tags="|discussion|scope|adult-content|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1583" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-02T13:18:29.220" Score="2" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gilles made a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1576/can-we-please-merge-all-alternative-power-source-in-the-matrix-questions-into/1577#comment3455_1577&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Good idea, let's merge the timelord questions as well&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm posting it as a Meta question, to see if there's support for the idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rationale is similar to &quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1576/can-we-please-merge-all-alternative-power-source-in-the-matrix-questions-into/1577&quot;&gt;Can we please merge all &amp;#39;alternative power source&amp;#39; in the matrix questions into one?&lt;/a&gt; &quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2012-03-02T13:18:29.220" Title="Should we merge all the &quot;Is X a Timelord&quot; questions together?" Tags="|discussion|repeated-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1581" CreationDate="2012-03-02T14:11:34.457" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I honestly think trying to figure out which Tags bring the must user is pointless, specifically after analyzing the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/62929/median-number-of-views-per-tag&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;median number of views per tag&lt;/a&gt; query. The difference between the average and median is too big.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What type of questions bring in the most viewers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;It's &lt;strong&gt;good questions&lt;/strong&gt; that will bring in the most viewers.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I separate them in two groups :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question that everybody ask themselves. In this case, viewers come from Google. The views are slowly but constantly accumulating on them. Example of one of those question are  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/1630/45&quot;&gt;Who is Anakin Skywalker&amp;#39;s father?&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4610/why-did-harry-potter-intentionally-lose-the-resurrection-stone-in-the-forbidden&quot;&gt;Why did Harry Potter intentionally lose the Resurrection Stone in the Forbidden Forest?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Really thoughtful/insightful question or answer &lt;strong&gt;that got publicized&lt;/strong&gt;. (First from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/questions&quot;&gt;stackexchange Hot Question List&lt;/a&gt; then from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/domain/scifi.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Reddit&lt;/a&gt; or other) Those question got views in burst and then almost fall in oblivion after. Like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6334/how-long-was-bill-murrays-character-supposed-to-be-in-a-time-loop-in-the-film&quot;&gt;How long was Bill Murray&amp;#39;s character (Phil Davis) supposed to be in a time loop in the film &amp;quot;Groundhog Day&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6555/are-e-t-and-star-wars-in-the-same-universe&quot;&gt;Are E.T. and Star Wars in the same universe?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the best tool to find/ analyse those questions is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/greatest-hits&quot;&gt;greatest hits&lt;/a&gt; List.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2012-03-02T14:11:34.457" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1571" CreationDate="2012-03-02T14:13:12.817" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I notice that you cited my &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1450/are-questions-looking-to-simply-prove-or-disprove-a-premise-with-a-yes-no-answer&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1467/1359&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; as justification for why your question should be left open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet you only quoted the first sentence of my answer, and ignored the vast majority of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer that I wrote clearly outlines that part of the problem is that certain wordings in these types of questions are problematic, and should be avoided.  In particular:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose that any question asking &amp;quot;does x exist?&amp;quot; be worded to make no mention of examples. Any good answer will, by definition, include examples. A great answer will contain a fairly comprehensive collection of examples, and explain the context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mentioning examples (whether it is &amp;quot;I'm looking for examples&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;I only need one example&amp;quot;) seems to be the flag many people identify as indicating a list question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is worded to simply focus on the problem, we may be able to avoid the issue altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet the last sentence of your question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Please note I don't want a list of every time this has been used. If it's actually common, then a single example, or the first example, is enough, thanks).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, your question, as it is currently worded, is an example of what that second meta question you linked clearly indicates is what you should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-03-02T15:43:41.947" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1582" CreationDate="2012-03-02T14:30:13.093" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see a problem with that question per se, and I'm fairly liberal about such things but I wouldn't want someone at work to look over my shoulder and see that picture on my screen. It seems to me this question was worded in a somewhat provocative way (perhaps not intentionally). I think if we change the title to be somewhat more work-appropriate and change the picture to a link it's just fine.  Also, note none of the comments even hint it may be too adult for this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And when I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://outdoors.meta.stackexchange.com/a/109/18&quot;&gt;a question along similar lines on outdoors meta&lt;/a&gt;, Robert Cartaino (the Director of Community Development for the Stack Exchange Network) had this to say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When exploring the appropriateness of a question, there are a few bars the question should pass:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Is the question being asked in good faith, and not just an excuse to post a tantalizing title to &quot;test the fence&quot; of what would be allowed?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Is the question itself adding to the substance of the site (i.e. Is this an intriguing and challenging question about the subject of &quot;The Great Outdoors&quot;)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Are the experts here best-equipped to answer your question (or is your question just obliquely- or tangentially-related to the subject)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:50:05.870" LastActivityDate="2012-03-02T14:30:13.093" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1581" CreationDate="2012-03-02T22:00:35.923" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your method will not produce comparable results for franchise tags and for question type tags. Users who view one &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; question are likely to view other &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; questions, so if they might view (say) 5 questions out of 399 and thus raise the average by 0.0125. Users who view one story identification question aren't likely to go and browse other story identification question, so they'll only raise the average by 0.00266.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A better measure would be user retention: associate first views with eventual reputation, or something like that. But we can't track the first view. We could try to plot first tag against eventual reputation; even that would be a bit tricky, because it wouldn't be very meaningful for users who come through the front page and are immediately interested in a large chunk of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-03-02T22:00:35.923" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1582" CreationDate="2012-03-02T23:05:43.467" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The image is from the episode, isn't it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this site's policy actually going to be more limiting than the standards the FCC applies to primetime broadcast television?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A bare female back is hardly &quot;adult content&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1030" LastActivityDate="2012-03-02T23:05:43.467" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1582" CreationDate="2012-03-03T02:04:46.573" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since Sachin posted this question (or its derivative) on Meta.SO, I will take the liberty of re-posting the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/124340/119280&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; from MSO moderator Robert Harvey (sans a really nice pic):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you wouldn't want to have to explain to your boss why part of Jolene Blalock's bare ass is on your screen, you probably shouldn't post it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2012-03-03T02:04:46.573" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1582" CreationDate="2012-03-03T05:59:00.360" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I dunno . . . I have always been far more concerned with my children seeing/watching gratuitous violence than I have them seeing sexual activity within reason. The image in question doesn't personally bother me and if my teens saw it, I don't think I'd be particularly fussed. I probably &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; have a problem with my supervisor seeing that at work. It would be considered highly inappropriate, even though we know it's fairly innocuous. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would a NSFW tag hurt?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2012-03-03T05:59:00.360" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1582" CreationDate="2012-03-04T13:41:22.897" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think turning the image into a [NSFW] tagged link is a good compromise. That way people who don't want to view it can easily avoid it, while those who do are not hindered much. (I'd prefer spoiler tags, but the SE implementation of spoilers doesn't support spoilering images)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a guideline for which images to spoiler I'd use: &quot;Many users wouldn't be comfortable viewing that image in a public place, such as work.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't base this this on TV guidelines, or explicitly forbid nudity or violence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Cross post from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/124498/152255&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/124498/152255&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4177" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2012-03-04T13:41:22.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1582" CreationDate="2012-03-04T15:40:43.383" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I support the [NSFW] tag. Some considerations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Workplaces have weird rules that we cannot change. A [NSFW] tag lets you know that you probably shouldn't open the link at the office.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Note that you probably shouldn't browse this site at the office &lt;em&gt;anyway&lt;/em&gt;; do so at your own risk. I do read it on my lunch break, and I know the risks involved. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;About the children argument: a lot of SF &amp;amp; Fantasy is for adults. This website is meant for adults, and children are not allowed. If you are so concerned that your kids might accidentally read it and be traumatized by the sight of a naked female back, then install an internet filter.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image itself is very tame. Like they say, nothing you wouldn't see in a soap commercial. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's not turn this into a prudish website, people!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="770" LastActivityDate="2012-03-04T15:40:43.383" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1582" CreationDate="2012-03-05T00:57:54.760" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say that if it's something that &lt;em&gt;could be&lt;/em&gt; considered offensive, whether adult content, foul language, or blatant flamebait, it should be disallowed. I shouldn't have to worry about my wife or boss seeing offensive stuff on my screen or in server logs. Period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I fail to see why this is even an issue. If you want to post NSFW stuff, use some other site. This is a &lt;em&gt;professional, work oriented&lt;/em&gt; site. Not an NSFW site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4831" LastActivityDate="2012-03-05T00:57:54.760" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1581" CreationDate="2012-03-05T10:52:32.593" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I understood it, Jeff had two big complaints&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Guessing game. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unsearchable, so their existence add little value.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These is some risk of both of these problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the poster doesn't remember very much---and especially if the factoid they have is common---then we are reduced to random guessing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &quot;looking for a book&quot; type titles speak for themselves. Yuck!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But here's the thing...and we're already doing it...both problems are at least part reduced if we &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Require that the OP have something (preferably several somethings) concrete about the story for us to work from.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get the leading concrete bits into the title.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="231" LastActivityDate="2012-03-05T10:52:32.593" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1597" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1603" CreationDate="2012-03-05T16:24:09.420" Score="10" ViewCount="230" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7024/how-long-has-it-been-since-the-initial-outbreak/&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; asks, quite simply &quot;How many days have passed from the start of the show to the events of the last episode?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/12553/1359&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; makes no attempt to address the question, and instead discusses how long someone can survive without food or water.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally, I down-vote on-topic answers that are of poor quality, and flag for moderator attention answers that are either spam, should have been a comment, or answers that don't address the question at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a number of flags for &quot;not an answer&quot; that were marked as &quot;helpful&quot; (12, actually).  However, the flag on the above answer was declined, saying &quot;flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What defines an answer as &quot;not an answer&quot;, and when should flags be used to draw attention to them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2017-07-05T15:41:21.670" Title="How do we handle answers that don't answer the question?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1597" CreationDate="2012-03-05T18:40:17.860" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw that flag, and I determined that while it certainly wasn't a good answer, it at least gave some kind of a range on the possible time. It was a poor answer, without much basis in fact, but it was an attempt non-the-less. I've seen answers be quite popular, and generally well accepted, that use physical basis, interpret facts in the series, to come up with some plausible numbers. Granted the useful and popular tend to include far more information than this particular answer did, and to specifically state what they are assuming the answer is, but given that this was the first answer from the user, I decided to let this slide and not delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is true that the answer in question didn't specifically say this was the length of time, but I determined it wasn't worth deleting for that simple omission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I feel that answers should be deleted which are comments, further question, extremely short snides, comments on other answers, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2012-03-05T19:30:39.137" LastActivityDate="2012-03-05T19:30:39.137" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1138" CreationDate="2012-03-05T22:45:10.007" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the site had existed when &lt;em&gt;LOST&lt;/em&gt; was airing, I imagine it would have been pretty popular here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be worth adding more &lt;em&gt;LOST&lt;/em&gt; content - when I've been researching answers, I've found that the existing content is generally fairly low-quality.  In particular, there's a lot of material to be found that isn't up-to-date - it's speculation that hasn't been updated since the series ended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a lot of material to draw from: other than the TV episodes there were regular podcasts, some 'webisodes', the DVD extras, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2012-03-05T22:45:10.007" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-03-05T22:45:10.007" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1597" CreationDate="2012-03-05T23:37:41.883" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the long commentary on my previous answer, I'm going to give a clearer proposed policy, and see if it sticks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If an answer is intended as an answer to the question, even if they don't understand the question exactly, it should be left. An example of this from one of my posts on SO is &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/q/4471025/544198&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If an answer is asking another question, but doesn't provide any information, it should be converted to a comment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the answer is a short one-liner that while funny, isn't intended as a serious answer, the answer should be converted to a comment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the answer is more of a comment, containing things like asking for clarification, I've always wondered that, etc, it should be converted to a comment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How's this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:46.357" LastActivityDate="2012-03-05T23:37:41.883" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1604" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1698" CreationDate="2012-03-05T23:58:32.967" Score="9" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is what I see after merging two tags on Meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9LF4i.png&quot; alt=&quot;Merge Results&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please review the CSS on Meta and make sure all text is properly contrasted with its background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="44" LastEditDate="2012-04-03T16:45:25.787" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T07:26:29.450" Title="Tag merge results are #eaeaea on #eaeaea on Meta" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|moderators|meta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1605" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-06T00:26:28.097" Score="5" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently an answer I posted to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/11958/what-is-this-anomaly-that-supermans-spacecraft-passes-on-his-way-to-earth&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; was converted to a comment by a moderator, apparently because it was considered a non-serious answer.  I posted it as an answer rather than a comment because I found the image match and the reasoning behind the answer compelling, even though the answer was not in-universe for Superman.  I am frustrated by the change to a comment because it misrepresents my intent; I was not making a joke, I was trying to logically answer a question that probably has no in-universe answer.  I knew the answer wasn't conventional and that I'd take my lumps in downvotes from some members, but I was surprised by an outright deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I give up on posting unconventional answers on scifi?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When should moderators convert answers to comments and when should they let the upvotes/downvotes run their course?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: The converted answer was&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Clearly, it is the Nexus energy ribbon from Star Trek: Generations. Since the Nexus is timeless and connects all possible realities, there's no reason for it not to be cruising around in the Superman universe as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4096" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2012-03-08T00:05:36.963" Title="When should answers be converted to comments?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1582" CreationDate="2012-03-06T00:39:18.267" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see how work is at all relevant here, unless your work is specifically related to science fiction and fantasy (in which case, it seems likely to me that this image would be considered appropriate).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If my employees were meant to stick to working during their work times (i.e. the traditional viewpoint), then the background image for scifi.se immediately tells me, whatever question they are looking at, that they are goofing off.  It doesn't matter what content is in the question and/or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I'm tolerant of my employees occasionally doing non-work-related things during their work times (i.e. the modern viewpoint), then a screenshot from a PG TV show is perfectly acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The terms and conditions of the site specify that you must be 13 or older to use it.  It seems to me that posters (and editors) and use their own judgement as to whether content is appropriate for a 13-year-old (in particular, 13-year-olds that are likely to be using this site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2012-03-06T00:39:18.267" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1605" CreationDate="2012-03-06T00:42:31.007" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the oddities about this site is a lot of the questions we tackle have no really good answer. However, we do our best to take each question as seriously as possible. Ex. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/11225/3958&quot;&gt;my question on Gremlins&lt;/a&gt;. Honestly, your answer could have been acceptable if you had a well founded argument why it would be the Nexus, and came with a tone of seriousness not sarcasm. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember SE is a site for professionals, so we examine things in the SciFi world first with an eye towards a realistic, rational answer (or at least in-universe/cannon answer). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea that it may be the nexus is as good as any other that I can think of, I would say its how you presented your argument that made it seem more appropriate as a comment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would advise you to always consider how plausible it is that someone ACCEPTS your answer, as you consider whether it should be an answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say its the Space Core from Portal myself, but I would say that in chat :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3958" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2012-03-06T00:42:31.007" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1605" CreationDate="2012-03-06T13:24:31.253" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1597/how-do-we-handle-answers-that-dont-answer-the-question&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; and associated answers is relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed your answer yesterday, and I believe I commented and downvoted.  I did not flag, as I felt you were actually addressing the question.  As Pyrodante mentioned, you presented no supporting evidence, and therefore your answer was of poor quality.  But it was still, imo, an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be argued that it fits item #3 of Pearsonartphoto's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1603/1359&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;, but the fact that you included the second sentence could also be seen as evidence that you took it beyond a &quot;short one-liner that while funny, isn't intended as a serious answer&quot;.  Still, I can see it being a judgement call on the part of the moderator who converted it, and if there were one or more flags on the answer, then it probably wasn't a bad call.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2012-03-06T13:24:31.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1609" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1696" CreationDate="2012-03-07T07:21:57.153" Score="12" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this was brought up in one of the posts on the new design, but I'll throw it up here as an explicit problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if it's my monitor/gamma settings, but I still have trouble reading the name of the asker with the light salmon text on top of a white background.  If we're in love with light pink, can we at least set it against a dark (black?) background?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mm7pA.png&quot; alt=&quot;example of low contrast&quot;&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="584" LastEditorUserId="44" LastEditDate="2012-04-03T16:01:13.907" LastActivityDate="2012-04-03T16:01:13.907" Title="Low contrast on many Meta design elements makes it hard to read" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|meta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1610" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-08T10:36:53.487" Score="4" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/478/is-there-a-website-that-shows-which-sf-book-film-awards-there-are&quot;&gt;Is there a website that shows which SF book/film awards there are?&lt;/a&gt; was recently closed as a list question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm happy for this to be closed if it should, but based on the meta question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16/are-list-questions-allowed&quot;&gt;Are list questions allowed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question doesn't have a googable answer and isn't a poll.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should it really have been closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2012-03-08T21:32:10.533" Title="Should this &quot;list question&quot; really have been closed?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1610" CreationDate="2012-03-08T18:49:12.453" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I closed it as a list question because of the open nature of the question.  The answer boils down to yes or no.  If the answer is 'No', then I doubt anyone could post that as an answer with certainty.  But every 'Yes' answer will have a single link to an example, which is what your question was attracting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can rework you question so it only has one objectively valid answer, instead of numerous equally valid answers, which will continue to attract 'me too' answers that accumulate over time, I'll gladly reopen it.  Otherwise, this type of question leads to a messy list of examples, and encourages future open-ended questions along these lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-03-08T18:49:12.453" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1610" CreationDate="2012-03-08T21:32:10.533" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I might be open to editing this question to something like the following, then reopening:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What awards specifically track SF books and movies? How can I find lists of works that have received these awards?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unlike our garden variety list-of-works question, the list is somewhat manageable and the criteria for inclusion are mostly clear. Still, the list is very long, longer than I'd imagined, and that's a bad sign.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking for sites that list awards is too far removed. Stack Exchange is not a repository of pointers, it's a repository of knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't feel very strongly about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;A wiki would be the ideal format, really.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;circle color=&quot;red&quot; style=&quot;machine-drawn&quot;&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/awards&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;awards&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;awards&lt;/a&gt; tag has no wiki summary, can you help us create it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;/circle&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-03-08T21:32:10.533" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1613" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1614" CreationDate="2012-03-08T22:00:13.277" Score="6" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;The design that pops up when you add a hyperlink, image, etc... is it just a random design?  Or is it from sci-fi storyline?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2778" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-03-08T22:17:53.540" LastActivityDate="2012-03-08T22:17:53.540" Title="What is the modal popup background design?" Tags="|support|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1613" CreationDate="2012-03-08T22:17:43.513" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a custom design by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/44/jin&quot;&gt;Jin&lt;/a&gt;, Stack Exchange's resident designer. You can see a smaller version of it on the top right of the site's background, and the site's favicon is a stylized version of it. (There's also a T-shirt, but it's a limited edition only.) See also&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/873/is-that-our-new-logo&quot;&gt;Is that our new Logo?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/976/design-for-science-fiction-fantasy&quot;&gt;Design for Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/989/new-design-launched&quot;&gt;New Design Launched&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.233" LastActivityDate="2012-03-08T22:17:43.513" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1615" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1616" CreationDate="2012-03-09T18:04:37.860" Score="7" ViewCount="216" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since November we've had &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6555/are-e-t-and-star-wars-in-the-same-universe&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; (&quot;Are E. T. and Star Wars in the Same Universe?&quot;)  It was answered with a clear answer that included links and images.  It includes the name of the species (Brodo Asogi) and cites where this name is used in the Star Wars Extended Universe (including Holonet news, a publication of Lucas Film).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12732/are-the-et-like-species-in-star-wars-ever-named-as-brodo-asogi&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; which has gone through several convolutions, but still is focused on whether the name Brodo Asogi is ever used in Star Wars.  It points out, as a concern, that the screenshot included does not show the lower part of the species in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a couple good answers, but they present nothing new in the argument.  One answer even addresses the point that this is ignoring the evidence already presented with this comment (in the answer):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When it look like a cat, meow like a cat and it's the size of a Cat, we could safely assume it's a cat without a DNA analysis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other answer addresses the same concern:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What your doubts seem to be is a legal equivalent of: &quot;yes, I know that the defendant's face looks 100% like one on the VCR tabe depicting the crime, I know that his name matches the name spoken by the accomplice and overheard by witnesses, and I know that he was previously overheard to be planning a similar crime. BUT, since there is no DNA evidence, I will assume that the crime was commted by evil doppelganger and vote to acquit&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new question is already answered on site by the answers in the older question, and in an answer that has been quite heavily upvoted and selected by the poster of the question as an answer.  That shows that not only does the poster of the question consider it valid, but the community as a whole agrees this is a good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue seems to be that the asker of the new question considers all the evidence insufficient, yet new answers are simply re-iterating the same points and even referencing the point that enough has been presented that there's no point in revisiting the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why is it, when this question has already been answered elsewhere, it's not a duplicate (and was re-opened after being closed as a duplicate)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2012-03-12T12:48:19.747" Title="Why is this Question Not a Duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|specific-question|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1615" CreationDate="2012-03-09T21:20:29.753" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've decided after reading through this that I was indeed mistaken to re-open it. Sorry about this, I'll agree that they are duplicate enough to warrant closing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-03-09T21:20:29.753" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1617" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-10T02:20:21.610" Score="13" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, the single largest thing that I have been surprised at since I became a moderator is the large number of comments which are flagged. So, what do we do about comments which are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jokes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Off topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Conversations, at least in short order.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Generally not helping the author in some way?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been using my best judgement on most of them, but I would like to get some larger consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="What should we do about comments?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1617" CreationDate="2012-03-10T02:53:53.853" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been many debates on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, with no firm consensual guidelines. Here are mine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it's offensive or likely to provoke angry responses, delete.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it's likely to generate a lot of replies, only keep if it's firmly on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it's a standalone joke or other by-the-way item, remove only when the number of comments approaches the limit after which not all comments are shown, to leave room for possible future more useful comments to be visible. It's more important to leave room on questions than on answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If someone took the trouble to flag it, and it's not obviously relevant (e.g. pointing out a mistake in a post), delete.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a conversation is starting up, leave a comment telling participants to go to chat. Unfortunately, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/93444/provide-a-tool-for-moderators-to-migrate-comments-to-chat&quot;&gt;there is no tool to migrate existing comments to chat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there is an ongoing conversation, especially if it's underneath an answer and the answerer isn't participating, possibly lock the post for a short duration (1 hour or 1 day). This must be done very sparingly, because locking also prevents editing and voting (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/124749/make-locking-posts-more-granular&quot;&gt;more granular locks have been requested&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.757" LastActivityDate="2012-03-10T02:53:53.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1615" CreationDate="2012-03-10T10:55:57.150" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find it amusing that the OP encouraged me to ask another question, accuses me of going on a crusade and then opens this question campaigning against the question he suggested I ask. Sure seems like a crusade to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Reason for asking&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The link between ET and Star Wars relies primarily on out of universe knowledge and assumptions held by us, the audience. I would have no problem accepting ET as a member of the species seen in Star Wars, except for one very important reason: Star Wars is firmly seen as fiction in ET.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of this, that breaks any tenuous connection establishing the universes, unless there is further evidence in Star Wars indicating that the aliens are the same. At the moment it seems like a homage and nothing more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With all the EU works, Clone Wars, video games and such, it does not seem unreasonable to ask if the ET aliens have appeared in other SW works, which give further evidence that they are in fact the same species.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Not a duplicate&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason the question is not a duplicate is simple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other question links the universes based on various sources and &lt;em&gt;out of universe knowledge&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is obvious that the ET like aliens in Star Wars are meant to resemble ET because we know that Lucas included them as favor to Speilberg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am asking if the ET like aliens in Star Wars are ever referred to as Brodo Asogi or Children of green planet. They may well be, in Clone Wars or EU works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking a question specifically about the ET like aliens, asking for more details, is not a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My question does not rely on ET at all, I am only asking for more information on the aliens in Star Wars using only Star Wars sources.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For that reason alone, it is not a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could ask this same question without mentioning ET, asking for further evidence from only SW sources and it would amount to the same question. Neither question would be a duplicate of asking if ET and SW share a universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The question is so far unanswered.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other answer which uses out of universe knowledge and non SW sources does not answer my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we are identifying species in sci-fi works it is important to have more than the upper body of individuals seen from a distance to positively identify that species.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it look like a cat, meow like a cat and it's the size of a Cat,&#xA;we could safely assume it's a cat without a DNA analysis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A Minbari from a distance could be confused with a human, but are clearly not human. To go with the analogy, we have seen that the aliens in ET look at least partially like a cat. We have not seen if they are the same size as a cat or that they meow like a cat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the real world, there are species that have been mistakenly identified as cats until further investigation was done, so it's not a great analogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously with our out of universe knowledge we know it is a homage and what is being implied. That doesn't make the link &lt;strong&gt;in universe&lt;/strong&gt; though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see why it is a problem to ask for more info on the aliens seen in SW from SW only sources. As I said, with the sheer amount of works in the SW universe it is not unlikely that those aliens are featured in a way that would reveal more information about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What your doubts seem to be is a legal equivalent of: &amp;quot;yes, I know&#xA;that the defendant's face looks 100% like one on the VCR tabe&#xA;depicting the crime, I know that his name matches the name spoken by&#xA;the accomplice and overheard by witnesses, and I know that he was&#xA;previously overheard to be planning a similar crime. BUT, since there&#xA;is no DNA evidence, I will assume that the crime was commted by evil&#xA;doppelganger and vote to acquit&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Facial identification is not relevant to a discussion regarding species. There exist aliens that look very similar but are not the same species in many sci-fi works. Kryptonians, Minbari, Askajian. It isn't enough to say that the species seen in SW is the same species as ET, when we haven't seem them in whole, not going by &lt;strong&gt;in universe&lt;/strong&gt; evidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it pedantic? Not when asking for an &lt;strong&gt;in universe&lt;/strong&gt; explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Why should it stay closed?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I don't understand is the hostility towards this question. Yes, I disagree with the accepted answer on the linked question, but a lot of us here (I know I am) are geeks for details about stuff like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of the problem with the question is that the answers ignored the question, giving out of universe evidence when I requested an &lt;strong&gt;in universe&lt;/strong&gt; explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question has 5 upvotes and was already reopened once. Also note my accepted answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12172/are-star-wars-and-indiana-jones-the-same-universe/12605#12605&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; stating that Indiana Jones and Star Wars do not share a universe &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; ET and Star Wars do not share the same universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it may be a contentious question, if it is not a duplicate and not against the FAQ why should it stay closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Asking if the ET like aliens have ever been seen in full or named is not a duplicate.&lt;/strong&gt; The answer to that question would not even work against or contradict the answer in the other question, which is surely the measure of questions being a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the questions are going to result in different answers, how are they duplicates?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4993" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-03-10T13:02:48.810" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1615" CreationDate="2012-03-12T08:54:59.200" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tango - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I took a swing at completely re-writing the question in question to zero in on the one specific problem that the OP identified - lack of direct non-circumstancial evidence that E.T. looking aliens are indeed CALLED Brodo Asogi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See if you like my version please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-03-12T08:54:59.200" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1615" CreationDate="2012-03-12T11:15:04.037" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;DavRob60 edited his answer to give a description of the aliens from Brodo Asogi, which are described as large eyed and puddle footed. That is exactly the type of thing I am looking for as it helps link the term Brodo Asogi with the aliens seen in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've changed the question to simply ask if the ET like aliens are ever shown or named going only by SW works. This means not relying on out of universe knowledge. DVK has further edited the question to help clarify my point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's certainly not a dupe as my question has nothing to do with the movie ET or the universes being shared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm asking for any SW info on those aliens such as easter eggs in video games or an appearance in clone wars etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far &lt;strong&gt;we have a name without a visual reference and a visual reference without a name&lt;/strong&gt;, independent of each other. Which is why I'm asking if we can link the two in universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reason it is considered a dupe is because people are relying on out of universe evidence that shows ET is linked to SW, when I am asking for identification of the aliens from within the SW universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's silly that this is considered a dupe, but I won't bother trying to ask it anymore. The resistance and hostility I have met is far too strong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4993" LastActivityDate="2012-03-12T11:15:04.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1615" CreationDate="2012-03-12T12:42:39.613" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer the question originally asked by TangoOversway: Yes, the questions are duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To address Kristy McNair's arguments: There are distinctions between your question (the first nine versions of it, at least) and the original question, but not enough to make them actual separate questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original question could easily be reworded to &quot;what is the evidence that the species of aliens that appear in E.T. are part of the Star Wars universe?&quot;, and the answers provided address that quite clearly, while presenting the conclusion that the evidence supports the species appearing in both settings.  That conclusion is supported indirectly by in-universe evidence, and directly by out-of-universe evidence.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You clearly disagree with that conclusion.  However, your question is (was) &quot;what is the evidence that the species of aliens that appear in E.T. are part of the Star Wars universe?&quot;, with the additional qualification that you only care about direct in-universe evidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though you are attempting to approach the question from another direction, the answers &lt;em&gt;will be exactly the same&lt;/em&gt;.  The only difference is that you are clearly trying to make a point about the conclusion those answers draw: you believe that the evidence is insufficient to make the claim that the E.T. alien is the same as the aliens seen in &lt;em&gt;TPM&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that you disagree with a conclusion presented in the answer to a question is not reason to start a new question.  The proper course of action is to post your own answer to the question expressing your differing view point.  You have, of course, already done that, and it should have ended there.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The revised question is &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt;, imo, a duplicate, even though it is a much better wording than the previous 10 versions.  It is still saying &quot;what is the evidence linking the E.T. aliens to Star Wars&quot;, even though it is focusing on one particular area of that link (i.e. does the evidence show a clear link between the name and the visual depiction).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="1359" LastEditDate="2012-03-12T12:48:19.747" LastActivityDate="2012-03-12T12:48:19.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1544" CreationDate="2012-03-13T09:00:37.927" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Curses! I hadn't updated my email address! Noooo!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="712" LastActivityDate="2012-03-13T09:00:37.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1138" CreationDate="2012-03-13T10:23:09.847" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the works of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Anderson#Gerry_Anderson_productions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gerry Anderson&lt;/a&gt; would be a good topic. There is plenty of material and it could add a whole new group of visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2012-03-13T10:23:09.847" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-03-13T10:23:09.847" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1138" CreationDate="2012-03-13T13:15:13.233" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Season 1 of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Horror_Story&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;American Horror Story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; was very popular, and the information about Season 2 coming out seems to be generating a fair amount of interest.  I don't know if a date for Season 2 has been announced yet, but this has the potential to draw a fair amount of new traffic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2012-03-13T13:15:13.233" CommentCount="8" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-03-13T13:15:13.233" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1626" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-13T17:07:55.397" Score="18" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen edit flags pop up for a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tag-wiki&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tag-wiki&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tag-wiki&lt;/a&gt; from time to time.  While I haven't been working on them myself, what I see does raise questions.  I've seen some nice, brief descriptions and I've seen some extremely long ones.  I've also seen some that, from the tone, sound like a cut and paste job from the Font-Of-All-Wisdom - er, I mean, from the Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone provide links to examples of what a good &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tag-wiki&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tag-wiki&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tag-wiki&lt;/a&gt; should look like?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we want long and highly descriptive entries?  For instance, how much of a biography do we want for an author?  Or is just enough to identify the author and what is unique about them appropriate?  And do we want C&amp;amp;P jobs form the Wikipedia, or our own information so we're not just copying info from elsewhere?  (And that also raises the question of whether or not a very wordy text from C&amp;amp;P is preferable to an empty tag.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What type of content for a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tag-wiki&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tag-wiki&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tag-wiki&lt;/a&gt; is best for scifi.stackexchange.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="What Should Be In A Tag Wiki?" Tags="|discussion|tag-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1626" CreationDate="2012-03-13T19:32:47.587" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/03/redesigned-tags-page/&quot;&gt;This blog post&lt;/a&gt; has some official guidelines. Then the subject has been discussed a little on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tag-wiki&quot;&gt;the main meta&lt;/a&gt;, in particular:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/120586/examples-of-great-tag-wikis&quot;&gt;Examples of great Tag Wikis&lt;/a&gt; (sadly anemic)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/69584/tag-wiki-best-practices&quot;&gt;Tag Wiki best practices&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/102314/can-we-do-anything-against-tag-wikis-copy-pasted-from-wikipedia&quot;&gt;Can we do anything against tag wikis copy-pasted from Wikipedia?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see a straight cut-and-paste from Wikipedia, kill it with fire. Copying content from Wikipedia is illegal unless you include attribution; if done legally, it's often not helpful. Read &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/79000/would-it-be-ok-to-paste-content-from-wikipedia-into-a-popular-empty-tag-wiki/107378#107378&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see my idea of tag wikis by going through my &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/56/gilles?tab=activity&amp;amp;sort=revisions&quot;&gt;edit history&lt;/a&gt;. Here are a few that I consider ok:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brandon-sanderson&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brandon-sanderson&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brandon-sanderson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hitchhikers-guide&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hitchhikers-guide&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hitchhikers-guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/isaac-asimov&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;isaac-asimov&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;isaac-asimov&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When writing a tag wiki, keep in mind that &lt;strong&gt;you are writing for the site's audience&lt;/strong&gt;, you are not writing an encyclopedia article. Here are a few guidelines that are applicable to this site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there's some ambiguity in the usage of the tag (for example two works with similar names), explain that ambiguity to guide askers (and retaggers) into choosing the appropriate tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there are related tags (a series and a sub-series, a universe and an author, …), cross-link them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Include links to external resources where applicable (Wikipedia, ISFDB, the author's blog, the movie's official page, the fansite, …).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you're writing about an author, we don't care who he married; we do care what he's written.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you're writing about a work, we don't care about its release day or exactly how many languages it's been translated in. We do care who made it (at least if that person is famous), whether there are other versions, if it's the seminal work on some issue…&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We don't need a complete plot summary, but it's good to include a few of the most salient points that tend to stick in people's minds.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2012-03-13T19:32:47.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1568" CreationDate="2012-03-14T19:43:24.783" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually think that these questions are important even though there has been a rash of trolling lately. If you are looking for something and haven't found the information then why not ask a community that might help you find the answer. I do think that there should be more rules imposed on a identify this question and maybe they should be moved up on the privilege ladder since a lot of trolls are showing up. I only joined Science Fiction and Fantasy StackExchange because of a story identification question I had. I gave a good description and received an answer right away. I had been searching for years and now I have peace of mind on that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4355" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-04-05T20:14:09.440" LastActivityDate="2019-04-05T20:14:09.440" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1629" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1630" CreationDate="2012-03-14T19:53:01.807" Score="4" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/13148/what-jobs-can-wizards-and-witches-do&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; that has been repeatedly asked. I did try to search before I posted but on a site like this one where there is a long history of questions on the subject it was a bit too much to look through while I'm at work. So is there any way to better search through questions or is this even a problem that other people are having?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4355" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="How to reduce duplicate questions on a growing site?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1629" CreationDate="2012-03-14T22:24:49.470" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;A certain rate of duplicate questions is to be expected. Duplicate questions are when humans are better than search engine at finding the question that was asked before. It happens. Duplicate questions that are differently worded are also an asset to the site, as they bring more search fodder to find the original answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't to say you shouldn't search before asking, and check the “related questions” that appear when you type your question, but we do understand that sometimes you won't find the existing question because it was worded too differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/exact-duplicates&quot;&gt;discussions about duplicates on the main meta site&lt;/a&gt;; Stack Overflow is so much bigger, its duplication problem is a lot worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2012-03-14T22:24:49.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1631" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-14T22:24:55.387" Score="-1" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed several times people posting the first Google result, or a Wikipedia copy-and-paste, for a not-very-useful &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt;. For example I asked &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/13158/how-long-is-kais-brace-cable-and-how-does-he-carry-it&quot;&gt;How long is Kai's brace cable and how does he carry it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, and got a Wikipedia paste (the article itself is unsourced) amounting to &quot;no one knows&quot; as an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'd already read this article, and found that it didn't say, which is why I asked here in the first place. &quot;I don't know&quot; is not a particularly good answer unless it comes from an authoritative source like the writer. &quot;I don't know&quot; is not made a better answer by making it &quot;I don't know, and neither do Wikipedia or Google&quot; - well of course not, if those resources could tell me the answer the question wouldn't be acceptable in the first place!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If our policy is &quot;if Google answers the question, it's a bad question&quot; shouldn't a similar policy hold for answers of this type? &quot;If Wikipedia doesn't know, that's not an excuse to never know&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1030" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1030" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2012-03-15T19:06:42.667" Title="Should we hold &quot;don't know&quot; / &quot;unknown&quot; answers to a similar research standard as questions?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1631" CreationDate="2012-03-14T22:27:28.650" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're more likely to avoid this kind of answers if you say what research you've done in your question: “I read the Wikipedia article, which is unconclusive. Can fans do better?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-03-14T22:27:28.650" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1629" CreationDate="2012-03-15T02:24:38.133" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use tags when searching. &quot;[harry-potter] jobs&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bharry-potter%5D%20jobs&quot;&gt;search&lt;/a&gt; returns only 6 hits - including  every single question I considered as a duplicate. Which is how I found them after making my comment :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2012-03-15T02:24:38.133" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1634" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-15T02:54:50.297" Score="16" ViewCount="296" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question was closed - by a unilateral moderator vote - as &amp;quot;General Reference&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12900/what-is-the-origin-and-scope-of-term-legendarium&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12900/what-is-the-origin-and-scope-of-term-legendarium&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When researching LOTR lore, I frequently ran into a term &amp;quot;legendarium&amp;quot; as pertaining to the entirety of Tolkien's work (&lt;em&gt;followed by 3 specific subquestions&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a background, &lt;strong&gt;before&lt;/strong&gt; asking the question, I have confirmed that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The term was NOT defined on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Merriam-Webster&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;dictionary.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia's &amp;quot;Legendarium&amp;quot; redirects straight to Tolkien page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, that page on top has a note stating &amp;quot;&amp;quot;Legendarium&amp;quot; redirects here. For other uses, see Legendary (disambiguation)&amp;quot; - and that &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legendary_%28disambiguation%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;disambiguation&lt;/a&gt; page shows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Legendary&lt;/strong&gt; may refer to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A hagiography, or study of the lives of saints and other religious figures&#xA;The South English Legendary, a Middle English legendary&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the proper English term seems to be &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;Legendary&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot; (a noun), and &amp;quot;Legendarium&amp;quot; is the Latin word it derived from (this will be important later).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Google's &amp;quot;define:legendarium&amp;quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/#hl=en&amp;amp;safe=off&amp;amp;sclient=psy-ab&amp;amp;q=define:legendarium&amp;amp;oq=define:legendarium&amp;amp;aq=f&amp;amp;aqi=&amp;amp;aql=&amp;amp;gs_sm=3&amp;amp;gs_upl=35723l35723l1l36274l1l1l0l0l0l0l80l80l1l1l0&amp;amp;gs_l=hp.3...35723l35723l1l36274l1l1l0l0l0l0l80l80l1l1l0.llsin&amp;amp;pbx=1&amp;amp;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&amp;amp;fp=bfbad756b3e0f08f&amp;amp;biw=1400&amp;amp;bih=851&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;search&lt;/a&gt; first 3 pages were exclusively Tolkien hits, with the only exception being &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anjou_Legendarium&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Anjou Legendarium&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; - which was a Hungarian work written presumably in Latin?  - and definitely with a Latin name - see above bullet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Google search for &amp;quot;Legendarium&amp;quot; also returns almost exclusively Tolkien content with 2 hits to &amp;quot;Anjou Legendarium&amp;quot; sprinkled in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When asked in a comment to explain the closure, the following arguments were made, which seem to me to be invalid:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;I'm going to refer you to a dictionary. Wiktionary defines the word as “a literary collection of legends, as of a saint”.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Wiktionary is NOT a dictionary. It's a crowd-sourced site and suffers from the same reliability issues as a reference as Wikipedia or Wikia. If your only definition source is &lt;strong&gt;unsourced&lt;/strong&gt; Wiki dictionary data, it's NOT &amp;quot;general reference&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;So get a better dictionary.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As note above, none of the ones I was aware of contained the term. If it's not in M-W AND not in dictionary.com, it's not &amp;quot;General Reference&amp;quot;. I don't think OED is on the web.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The use of the word relating to Christian saints is older than Tolkien, so your hypothesis is evidently wrong, and the word is not specifically related to SF.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, Google search results indicate the opposite. The only hits on first 3 pages NOT related to Tolkien were for a &lt;strong&gt;Latin&lt;/strong&gt; name of the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, the link used by the comment to illustrate its points was &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=legendarium&amp;amp;year_start=1800&amp;amp;year_end=2000&amp;amp;corpus=0&amp;amp;smoothing=3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Google Books search&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;First, a Google Books search showing some obscure book does NOT a question a &amp;quot;General Reference make&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Second, as usual, the only uses in books NOT related to Tolkien seemed to be &lt;strong&gt;NOT in English&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the above, I believe the closure was completely wrong - it was DEFINITELY not general reference. It may have been argued that it was off-topic due to being more suited on English.SE, but the context makes it very SFF related IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The term, as &amp;quot;generally-referenced&amp;quot; researched, shows VERY strong correllation to being almost exclusively associated with Tolkien in English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The only usage of the term in non-Tolkien context appears to be non-English (seemingly mostly Latin) with a strong evidence that the English version of that term is &amp;quot;Legendary&amp;quot;, not &amp;quot;Legendarium&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-03-04T08:28:01.043" Title="Why was this question closed as &quot;General reference&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|scope|closed-questions|closing-questions|general-reference|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1631" CreationDate="2012-03-15T14:14:30.113" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;An &quot;answer&quot; that just says &quot;I don't know&quot; (with no references or support) should be flagged as not an answer. Fortunately, most answerers know better than that; unfortunately, this leads to pesky shades of gray.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's a case of mistaking absence of evidence for evidence of absence — for example, if the answerer has obviously done exactly the same research as the asker, but unlike the asker has concluded that this is the end of the story — then I think a downvote is in order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that the only satisfactory &quot;we don't know&quot; answer is one that has support for why we can't ever know, e.g. a Word-of-God explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="348" LastActivityDate="2012-03-15T14:14:30.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1634" CreationDate="2012-03-15T15:04:42.903" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see any issue with it being closed as General Reference.  The first Google result for the word &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=legendarium&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;legendarium&lt;/a&gt; is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tolkien%27s_legendarium&amp;amp;oldid=481967363&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tolkein's legendarium&lt;/a&gt; Wikipedia page that contains:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The term &amp;quot;legendarium&amp;quot; refers to a literary collection of legends. This obscure medieval Latin noun originally referred mainly to texts detailing legends of the lives of saints. A surviving example is the Anjou Legendarium, dating from the 14th century. Quotations in the Oxford English Dictionary for the synonymous noun legendary date from 1513. The Middle English South English Legendary is an example of this form of the noun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In modern times, legendary is normally used as an adjective instead of a noun. The legendarium form is still found in several European languages, and was in occasional use in the English language when J. R. R. Tolkien used it to refer to some of his fictional writings about Middle-earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which covers sub-questions 1 and 2.  The answer to 3 is maybe 'canon', but the question is unclear.  For Tolkein, the term legendarium specifically refers to the LotR universe, and not all his work was in one universe (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkein#Publications&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;List of some of Tolkein's writing&lt;/a&gt;).  For most popular authors, they write works in many different universes.  Are you asking for a term for all of an author's works, or a term that encompasses all of an author's work in one specific universe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-03-15T17:49:03.887" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1631" CreationDate="2012-03-15T16:40:05.053" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your remedy for poor answers is to downvote them, preferably with a comment explaining why you think they are poor so that the answerer can improve them if so minded to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1459" LastActivityDate="2012-03-15T16:40:05.053" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1634" CreationDate="2012-03-15T20:33:23.583" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legendarium&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for &lt;em&gt;legendarium&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; may redirect to Tolkien's legendarium, but the very text of the article suggests that this probably shouldn't be so (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In modern times, legendary is normally used as an adjective instead of a noun. The legendarium form is still found in several European languages, and &lt;strong&gt;was in occasional use in the English language when J. R. R. Tolkien used it to refer to some of his fictional writings&lt;/strong&gt; about Middle-earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/legendarium&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiktionary article for &lt;em&gt;legendarium&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; defines it as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A literary collection of legends, as of a saint.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, so neither of these are authoritative references. Still, they bear a presumption of truth; if you doubt them, you should bring some evidence into the mix. This is obviously not a word in common use, so for corroboration let's see if it's used in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=%22legendarium%22&amp;amp;tbs=bks:1,cdr:1,cd_min:1950,cd_max:1999&amp;amp;lr=lang_en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;20th century books&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.fr/books?id=PxVpAAAAMAAJ&amp;amp;q=%22legendarium%22&amp;amp;dq=%22legendarium%22&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=GE9iT6H5FIWi8gPv8PiJCA&amp;amp;redir_esc=y&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;“Bolin is of the opinion that the legendarium”&lt;/a&gt; (1973)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.fr/books?id=YX9fAAAAMAAJ&amp;amp;q=%22legendarium%22&amp;amp;dq=%22legendarium%22&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=GE9iT6H5FIWi8gPv8PiJCA&amp;amp;redir_esc=y&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;“a collection of various saints' lives called a legendarium”&lt;/a&gt; (1997)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I only looked at the first 10 hits; 8 were using the word as a proper noun or were not in English.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This corroborates the &lt;em&gt;prima facie&lt;/em&gt; evidence. Your theory that &lt;em&gt;legendarium&lt;/em&gt; is somehow specific to Tolkien does not hold water.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now arguably I should have closed this post as &lt;em&gt;off-topic&lt;/em&gt;, rather than &lt;em&gt;general reference&lt;/em&gt;, since dismissing the premise of your question does require a bit of research to find a reliable source. Given that the word &lt;em&gt;legendarium&lt;/em&gt; is not specific to SF, discussing it on this site is not appropriate, any more than discussing the etymology and scope of &lt;em&gt;book&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;chair&lt;/em&gt;. If you have any remaining question about this word, I invite you to take them to &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;English Language &amp;amp; Usage&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:38:09.780" LastActivityDate="2012-03-15T20:33:23.583" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1640" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1641" CreationDate="2012-03-16T17:45:50.370" Score="3" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/601/bring-the-content-here&quot;&gt;Bring the content here&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it OK legally and ethically and is there an official SE policy regarding quotations of copyrighted works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I quoted one sentence from &lt;em&gt;A Game Of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/13239/how-did-they-get-to-the-old-watchtower&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and it seems to me that by any standard &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; sentence is covered by fair use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a rule or at least a guideline about quotations? What can be quoted, how long can it be, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2012-03-16T18:15:42.657" Title="Is it OK to post quotations from copyrighted works?" Tags="|discussion|copyright|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2012-03-16T18:24:27.513" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1640" CreationDate="2012-03-16T18:15:42.657" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the policy that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/fair-use-rule-copyright-material-30100.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;NOLO&lt;/a&gt; has is good. I've included the portions I believe most important points are the 3 included below. Read the whole article, however, it is quite good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Subject to some general limitations discussed later in this article,&#xA;  the following types of uses are usually deemed fair uses:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Criticism and comment -- for example, quoting or excerpting a work in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Research and scholarship -- for example, quoting a short passage in a scholarly, scientific, or technical work for illustration or&#xA;  clarification of the author's observations.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Nonprofit educational uses -- for example, photocopying of limited portions of written works by teachers for classroom use.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also of importance is that we are not trying to distract from the original works. No one is going to not read a book because a 1 sentence quote was posted from it, because they feel like the book is complete. Posting a whole chapter, however, would probably not be wise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-03-16T18:15:42.657" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1642" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1643" CreationDate="2012-03-17T23:44:48.503" Score="6" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought for sure I'd read a question here on Meta that addressed this already, but I couldn't find it again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/13252/whats-the-full-form-significance-of-uss-iss-prefixes-in-name-of-star-trek-s&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; I answered one part of the question, however there was a second part about the significance of the designations that was not addressed. My answer was tagged as the answer, however, parallel answers do somewhat address the secondary part. I'd like to edit my answer to include similar details, but am uncertain as to the protocol and general acceptance of doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, is it frowned upon to flesh out existing answers with details garnered or informed by other answers? My instinct says editing answers to provide more details is acceptable, regardless of where the additional detail came from, however I'm uncertain if that's desirable by the SFF.SE community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5227" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2012-03-17T23:48:00.323" Title="What is the protocol for editing the tagged answer to include valuable details from other answers?" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1642" CreationDate="2012-03-17T23:48:00.323" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Improving your answer is encouraged. If you used material from other answers (be it from the same question or not), acknowledge them in your own. If that's a lot of material, it may be preferable to just give a quick summary and link to the other answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-03-17T23:48:00.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1568" CreationDate="2012-03-19T19:35:20.613" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I happen to agree with Jeff Atwood's blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Case in point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4445/story-identification-young-adult-novel-horror-teens-play-a-dd-variant-but-t#&quot;&gt;Story Identification: Young adult novel, horror, teens play a D&amp;amp;D variant, but things start to turn real&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can't complain that it's a poorly written question - Keith H Weston is a long time user and it shows that he put in a decent amount of effort to make the question as concrete as he could.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;YET...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has 4 answers (with 5 guesses between them), ALL wrong, yet some upvoted despite &quot;no&quot; comment from OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's a guessing game. Pure and simple.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2012-03-19T19:35:20.613" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1645" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-20T01:32:00.847" Score="5" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm referring to this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/13420/2565&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; that was quickly answered by the OP with a copy-n-paste excerpt from a wiki that directly answers the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should such questions be encouraged? Please ignore for a second that this particular case is a list question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2012-03-20T19:29:00.433" Title="Is it welcome to ask questions, just to dump complete excerpts from some place else as answers?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|question-quality|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1645" CreationDate="2012-03-20T01:41:19.647" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with something like that is that a question that can be answered that easily should be considered for closing as general reference.  While some wikis can be tough to parse, if the answer to a question can be found easily with a quick Google, then it's a general reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, first, I think the fault here lies more with the question than the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now as to the answer, in this case, it's a one sided answer, so it's not complete (no indication of references to ST in SW) but I can't blame the poster of the answer for just taking the easiest route to post an answer.  But that doesn't make it the right thing to do.  When you fall back on the intent of SE being to make the Internet better, a straight wiki dump without any explanation or commentary is certainly not, in my view, worth an upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't see how we can stop answers like that or declare them wrong -- unless we create a rule regarding the situation.  I still think if it's that easy to find, the fault is more with the question than the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far I've addressed the situation in general, but I think there's another point to be made here, with the question in doubt.  The asker posted the question and less than half an hour later posted his own answer.  (And people call &lt;strong&gt;me&lt;/strong&gt; a rep whore!)  I think that proves the point: Once he started searching, he found it without much trouble.  The problem was more in the question than the answer and I will be voting to close, in this case, on general reference because I feel one should not be answering a question one can so easily find the answer to on one's own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And one last note: There are times when the answer is in a wiki, but that doesn't mean it's easy to find.  For example, if you have a question about Anakin Skywalker, you can spend an hour or more reading through the Wookiepedia article on Anakin and trying to find an answer.  In such a case, having a simple and quick answer here is certainly an improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2012-03-20T01:41:19.647" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1645" CreationDate="2012-03-20T01:49:15.437" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do believe in extending the benefit of the doubt in general, particularly with new users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will say that I don't support either &lt;em&gt;encouraging&lt;/em&gt; the kind of question you've linked to or Wiki dumps in general. A person answering &lt;em&gt;his/her own question&lt;/em&gt;, when it could easily be construed that he/she already knew the complete answer to the question prior to asking it, is poor form, IMO. As well, I certainly can't support the possible nefarious Photoshopping of R2D2, were that to &lt;em&gt;ever&lt;/em&gt; happen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ETA:&lt;/strong&gt; I think Tango makes some really excellent points. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="3500" LastEditDate="2012-03-20T02:02:56.267" LastActivityDate="2012-03-20T02:02:56.267" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1645" CreationDate="2012-03-20T02:33:44.810" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the answer should be yes, assuming both the question and answer are of sufficient value/goodness to stand alone on SFF (and in this case I think that they are).  Someone's idea of finding something easily through Google might be quite different from others, as it really depends on the keywords they thought to check and the phrasing they used.  I find a good amount of the information I answer LotR questions with on the web using Google, but I think that's because I know where to look and how to phrase my queries in that specific area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking your own questions and self-answering isn't really ideal if done deliberately (although it does benefit the site by increasing our knowledge repository if, as mentioned before, both are up to SFF standard) but continuing to search for the answer even after asking the question and then posting the answer if found is a good behaviour that should be encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4056" LastActivityDate="2012-03-20T02:33:44.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1645" CreationDate="2012-03-20T16:15:41.273" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think basing the standard for whether a question is general reference solely on how fast the answer is found is pretty subjective, and not in the spirit of Stack Exchange. The answer came from a site that is NOT on the general reference list. There is NO basis for closing on the grounds of general reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply because a question has an easy answer does not disqualify it from a SE site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4831" LastActivityDate="2012-03-20T16:15:41.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1645" CreationDate="2012-03-20T19:26:53.387" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, there's the issue of copyright. While we cannot be guardians against copyright violations (as I understand it, if we make a habit of removing content for being in violation of a license, then we may be held responsible if we then fail to do so in one instance), we (the community and moderators) do have some latitude in deleting dubious content, so content that may be violating a license will be held to particularly high standards. Here, the license is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Community_Central:Licensing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Creative Commons license that allows copying&lt;/a&gt; (the same as on Stack Exchange, as a matter of fact), so verbatim (or not) quoting with attribution is legal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, there's the issue of plagiarism. Content copied without attribution will be deleted on sight. Here, attribution was given, so everything is fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then we get to the next issue: is the answer valuable? I think so; it doesn't answer the question completely, but it's a very good start. Who posted the answer is immaterial: we judge posts by their content, not by their author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, the crux of the matter: the question. The reproach I've seen against the question is that it's covered by a general reference. I disagree: no one has come up with such a general reference. The answer from the &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; Wikia only covers one half of the question, and it is not of impeachable accuracy and completeness (see also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/689&quot;&gt;What sites should be considered general references?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/403&quot;&gt;What are standard internet reference sites for SF?&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the fact that the asker answered his own question, this is not a problem. In fact, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/its-ok-to-ask-and-answer-your-own-questions/&quot;&gt;it's OK to ask and answer your own question&lt;/a&gt;; it says so right in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; of all Stack Exchange sites. As it happens, the asker found an answer after posting his question; it is good that he contributes back, and a self-answer is encouraged in such a case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't think the asker did enough research before posting the question, downvote it. I see no reason to close the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question reopened, and case closed. (If only!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2012-03-20T19:26:53.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1651" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1652" CreationDate="2012-03-21T11:08:48.043" Score="3" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1030/migration-paths&quot;&gt;Migration Paths&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I flag a question that doesn't belong here and the only StackExchange site option is meta.scifi. Can we add the the Literature and Movies &amp;amp; TV SE sites to this menu? I think it would lessen the burden on the moderators and help to migrate questions that do not fit here but fit somewhere else just fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1876" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2012-03-21T21:12:00.250" Title="Can we add other SE sites to the &quot;it doesn't belong here&quot; flag submenu?" Tags="|feature-request|status-declined|migration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2012-03-21T21:11:44.977" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1651" CreationDate="2012-03-21T13:49:04.493" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. At least not until we start migrating a lot more questions. See Rebecca Chernoff's comment &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1030/migration-paths#comment2121_1030&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2012-03-21T13:49:04.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1138" CreationDate="2012-03-23T22:33:58.813" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to encourage niche topics, how about&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot;&gt;Video Games&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, most questions with that tag are related to video games, that were created to an already existing franchise (Star Wars), which is already covered, simply for being a scifi/fantasy universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a bit sad, because many (non-spin-off) video-games offer quite interesting scifi &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; fantasy stories (from the top of my head, &lt;em&gt;Monkey Island&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Half Life&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Doom&lt;/em&gt; (which spun off a couple books AFAIK), *arCraft, and so forth).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I once asked a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doom&quot;&gt;doom&lt;/a&gt; question which received minimal attention, perhaps because the community is so focussed on the big mainstream works that are published via classical channels like film or books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My point is: Lot of potential here that hardly anyone notices. Maybe the right thing for TotW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2012-03-23T22:33:58.813" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-03-23T22:33:58.813" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1654" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-25T19:55:59.760" Score="1" ViewCount="25" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1474/can-the-answer-highlighting-animation-be-changed&quot;&gt;Can the answer highlighting animation be changed?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like other SE sites, directly linking to a post causes the post to be highlited in orange before fading away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the fade effect is done by fading from orange to white.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now image how this looks when you link to a post on this dark-background meta - the background fades from orange to white (same as text colour), and then suddenly turns dark. It doesn't look very good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4694" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2012-03-25T19:57:22.060" Title="Linking directly to post on this meta causes an orange-white fade, followed by dark grey snap" Tags="|bug|design|meta|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2012-03-25T23:05:36.460" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1656" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-27T14:41:54.080" Score="9" ViewCount="216" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/13823/what-powers-the-fldsmdfr-when-its-in-the-sky&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; (and its &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cloudy-with-meatballs&quot;&gt;related tag&lt;/a&gt;) is about &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudy_with_a_Chance_of_Meatballs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; which Wikipedia classifies as a children's picture book (and a related movie). Some books and movies &quot;intended for children&quot; are of course indisputable classics of science fiction (works by Tolkien, Lewis, Baum, L'Engle...) and are obviously on-topic here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen the related meta question about whether &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/683/are-childrens-literature-and-cartoons-for-children-on-topic&quot;&gt;children's literature and cartoons for children are on-topic&lt;/a&gt;.  The answer there was &quot;would a serious fan of the science fiction or fantasy genres consider spending any amount of effort digging into the details [the work]? If the answer is yes, it's on-topic. If the answer is no, it's off-topic.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questioner, when I asked about this, responded &quot;It's certainly fiction based on speculative science. Wildly speculative, but still science based.&quot;  So is &lt;em&gt;Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs&lt;/em&gt; something that is valuable to have on a site for serious fans of science fiction or fantasy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4025" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2012-03-27T18:45:54.660" Title="Specific question about what Children's Literature is on topic (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs)" Tags="|discussion|scope|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1657" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-27T15:00:52.220" Score="5" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked a question about when Beauty and the Beast was set, it has since been moved to the Movie and TV SE site, &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/1733/1074&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are questions of this sort not fit for this SE site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2012-03-27T18:34:30.160" Title="Are questions about when stories are set not fit for Sci-fi &amp; Fantasy SE?" Tags="|discussion|scope|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1657" CreationDate="2012-03-27T16:04:12.377" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think the problem is to determine if it's on or off topic, &lt;strong&gt;because it's on topic.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it was &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;migrated&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; because the question was better suited to &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;movies.stackexchange&lt;/a&gt;. i.e. The question will be more likely be to answered (or found interesting to answer) by a movies expert than by a Sci-fi expert.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Migrating question is not a trivial decision, it's highly suggestive. There is a huge, blurry overlap between Sci-Fi StackExchange and the movies &amp;amp; literature StackExchange. As an example, I was surprised when &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/13466/how-were-r2d2-and-c3po-made?noredirect=1&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; was migrated. But It's true that it &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; fit better on movies.stackexchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I urge Mods to be more cautious when migrating question. As the last word, I will quote &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/03/respect-the-community-your-own-and-others/&quot;&gt;this recent blog post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But focus on the questions that aren’t on-topic, or aren’t getting answered – snatching someone’s question (or answer) away without any forewarning is a slap in their face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2012-03-27T16:04:12.377" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1659" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1660" CreationDate="2012-03-27T16:32:52.043" Score="5" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;Following &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1657/are-questions-about-when-stories-are-set-not-fit-for-sci-fi-fantasy-se&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, it became evident that there is 2 stackexchange beta that particularly overlaps scifi.stackexchange scope :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://movies.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://literature.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/03/respect-the-community-your-own-and-others/&quot;&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt; that offer some guideline on the subject of migration, but I think we should decide, as a community :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What kind of question we should migrate (generals rules).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How we will decide which question to migrate (which process we will follow before migrating a question.) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T13:01:18.293" LastActivityDate="2012-03-27T17:28:48.810" Title="Migration policies" Tags="|discussion|scope|migration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1659" CreationDate="2012-03-27T17:28:48.810" Score="4" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;What kind of questions we should migrate&lt;/em&gt;: Ones that are a good question, but not appropriate for our site.  Generally, this means questions that are properly formatted for Stack Exchange (meets the criteria for practical, specific, not too localized, etc.), but which don't actually relate to science fiction or fantasy (e.g. off-topic).  If they are off-topic for us, but not off-topic for another site, they should be &lt;em&gt;candidates&lt;/em&gt; for migration.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;How will we decide which questions to migrate (which process will we follow before migrating a question)&lt;/em&gt;: Users should Vote To Close (if they have the reputation), and flag a moderator asking that is be considered for migration.  The moderators will then, if they agree that it is a good candidate for migration, contact the moderators of the target SE site, and ask if the question would be appropriate for migrating.  This step is important, because the moderators of the other site will be better judges of whether it is on topic for them, and will also have a better idea of whether it may be a duplicate on their site.  There's no point in migrating a question if it will just get closed after it is migrated.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2012-03-27T17:28:48.810" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1656" CreationDate="2012-03-27T18:45:54.660" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;We (the Science Fiction and Fantasy community) have always had a slightly uneasy relationship with children's literature, but so far had a slight preference for allowing it. A propos of another borderline subject (technothrillers), I proposed some &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/are-works-that-arent-sf-per-se-but-have-occasional-sfnal-elements-on-topic-e/344#344&quot;&gt;guidelines&lt;/a&gt; which seem to have been well-received and include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If the question is specifically about an sf-nal element, even if it's only a minor part of the work, it's on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As this specific question concerns an sf-nal element, it would therefore be on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/683/are-childrens-literature-and-cartoons-for-children-on-topic/685#685&quot;&gt;Mark Trapp's argument&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think the line is pretty straightforward: would a serious fan of the science fiction or fantasy genres consider spending any amount of effort digging into the details of a children's cartoon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;was intended as exclusive, it can be read in an inclusive way. Yes, there are adult fans of Disney movies or Dr Seuss, so why not &lt;em&gt;Tiny Toons&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2012-03-27T18:45:54.660" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1662" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-29T15:55:46.023" Score="3" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I were to create something analgous to &lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com/657/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;xkcd's Movie Narrative Chart&lt;/a&gt; for some other story, would posting as a question to ask 'is this correct' appropriate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could see it being closed as being &lt;em&gt;too-localized&lt;/em&gt; as presumably I'd be the only one that cares about it, but the ultimate ends of the question would be more expansive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="584" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-03-29T21:03:34.830" LastActivityDate="2012-03-29T21:03:34.830" Title="Is a question like &quot;is this [self-made graphic] correct/spot the errors [in said graphic]&quot; acceptable?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1662" CreationDate="2012-03-29T17:40:15.587" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might be marginally on-topic but is at risk of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;having too many answers if there are errors&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;ALL of which become localizedly wrong once you correct those errors.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the latter reason, I'd strongly recommend posting in chat instead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-03-29T17:40:15.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1664" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-29T17:55:45.427" Score="4" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;While there are many ways to classify questions, one common way seems to be whether it is looking for a real-world answer or an in-universe explanation. As a believer in the power of community-driven research, I think that the former category inspires more original content than the latter. For example, virtually any in-universe question can be answered by simply quoting a wiki, as fans have already gone to extraordinary lengths to provide explanations of their favorite universes, while in-universe questions that cannot be answered with a quote will frequently devolve into speculation. Indeed, absent any authoritative source this is the only possible outcome. (There are of course exceptions to this rule, as occasionally someone will volunteer previously-undisclosed production information).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contrast this with a question such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1520/in-what-order-should-the-star-wars-movies-be-watched&quot;&gt;In What Order Should the Star Wars Movies be Watched&lt;/a&gt; (or even one of the many story identification questions). Though sometimes subjective (as in the first example), original research may be performed and documented. This strikes me as some of the best possible content that the site has to offer, since it frequently cannot be found (easily) anywhere else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a nerd, I absolutely love free-wheeling discussion about in-universe topics. Of course, I know that in reality these topics are almost always the result of simple plot holes in the original material, but like many of you I find it a lot of fun to &quot;explain&quot; these things. I can't honestly say that doing so adds a lot of value to the site, however, since nearly all of these explanations merely copy or link to an existing wiki, or are so niche that very few people will ever find them useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of this is really just a preamble to start a discussion on whether we should:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Encourage one type of question over another (nobody is talking about closing anything here!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Establish some simple guidelines for in-universe vs. real-world questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the second option is preferable, as both types of questions have value to me. The FAQ already touches on it, but I would propose as a guideline that speculation is acceptable for questions requesting an in-universe explanation, and discouraged as per usual in real-world type questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think? Is this a reasonable distinction to make? Should the FAQ be changed to acknowledge that different types of answers are acceptable for in-universe questions? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2012-03-29T21:02:59.823" Title="In-universe speculation vs. original research" Tags="|discussion|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1665" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1666" CreationDate="2012-03-30T13:35:27.653" Score="11" ViewCount="267" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the background image used on this site. I want to know the name of creature present above Ask Question button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4160" OwnerDisplayName="Mike Peterson" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-03-30T15:48:57.253" LastActivityDate="2022-03-05T09:58:25.843" Title="What is the name of creature drawn above Ask Question?" Tags="|support|design|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1665" CreationDate="2012-03-30T17:38:50.427" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have not given her a name... (feel free to write a lore of her!). I originally gave her two wings, but I thought one wing would be more interesting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastActivityDate="2012-03-30T17:38:50.427" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1667" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-30T18:52:08.450" Score="2" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can the mods help me? I'm trying to respond to some of the responses I've gotten in my earlier questions and I just cant do it. I can see other people responding though, I'm just not sure how to do it. I also can't edit my latest question about Worf. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried asking this on the &quot;meta&quot; site in the right sidebar but it says I need 5 rep to post there :/&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5564" OwnerDisplayName="derekvinyard98" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-03-30T19:33:01.817" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Why can't I respond to the responses I've gotten to my question?" Tags="|support|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1667" CreationDate="2012-03-30T18:58:40.513" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You look like you're signed in a different (though similarly named) account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/5558/derekvinyard98&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/5558/derekvinyard98&lt;/a&gt; has a question and 44 rep. The user posting THIS question is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/5564/derekvinyard98&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/5564/derekvinyard98&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did you login with the same credentials?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5227" OwnerDisplayName="Josh" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2012-03-30T18:58:40.513" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1669" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1721" CreationDate="2012-03-30T19:14:16.533" Score="15" ViewCount="248" Body="&lt;p&gt;We’re excited to announce a great new contest built around Marvel’s epic 12 issue &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers_vs._X-Men&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Avengers vs X-Men&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; limited series, which is this year's big Marvel event!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goals of this contest are two-fold: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To encourage our awesome users to generate quality content about both topics, and reward them for their work.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To broadcast our site to a wider comic book and sci-fi enthusiast audience across the internet. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using official art that we obtained through working with Marvel Comics, our design team created a &lt;a href=&quot;http://avx.stackshowdown.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;cool mini site&lt;/a&gt; to reflect the contest's progress. The contest will pit the site's X-Men questions versus the site's Avengers questions in a battle to see which tag can get the most views! You will easily be able to see which team is winning moment by moment by checking the special mini site (&lt;a href=&quot;http://avx.stackshowdown.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;avx.stackshowdown.com&lt;/a&gt;). We have also produced several fun videos in concert with this event, which will viewable on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://avx.stackshowdown.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;mini site&lt;/a&gt; and on our &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/user/StackHQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;YouTube channel&lt;/a&gt; gradually over the next two weeks. Watch them, enjoy them and share with your social network if you like them!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The contest model is very similar to the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://skyrimvsmw3.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Skyrim vs Modern Warfare 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; showdown promotion that was run on Gaming  last fall. That promotion was a huge success for &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Gaming&lt;/a&gt;, so we hope this contest will be similarly beneficial to SciFi &amp;amp; Fantasy. Please participate and share this contest with your friends!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When is this event?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The event starts next week, on &lt;strong&gt;April 4th at 3:00 PM UTC&lt;/strong&gt;. It will run through to &lt;strong&gt;April 19th at 3:00 PM UTC&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do you participate in this event?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any questions and answers posted during this stretch of time tagged either &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men&lt;/a&gt; will be eligible.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;While the impetus behind this event is the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Avengers vs. X-Men&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; mini-series, the emphasis is on the entirety of those two franchises. Questions about old X-Men stories, new Avengers stories, movies, cartoon, mythology, etc. are &lt;strong&gt;all fair game&lt;/strong&gt;. Basically if it fits within the scope of the tag, &lt;strong&gt;ask it and answer it&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The mini-site will be tracking the number of views that questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers&lt;/a&gt; receive versus those tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men&lt;/a&gt;. Right now the X-Men already have a strong lead just based on the amount of content on the site. &lt;strong&gt;Avengers fans, assemble and ask your Avengers questions&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are the winners?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After the contest ends, &lt;strong&gt;the team with the most views will win&lt;/strong&gt;. A &lt;strong&gt;Grand Prize Winner&lt;/strong&gt; will be drawn randomly from all of the users that participated in the winning team's tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Four additional winners will be chosen:&lt;/strong&gt; the user who asked the Top Avengers Question, the user who asked the Top X-Men Question, the user who provided the Top Avengers Answer and the user who provided the Top X-Men Answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The official &lt;a href=&quot;http://avx.stackshowdown.com/rules&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;rules&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://avx.stackshowdown.com/prizes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;prizes&lt;/a&gt; are here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2611/katey-hw&quot;&gt;Katey&lt;/a&gt; for helping me with this Meta post. She's been a tremendous help with this event!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2012-04-20T15:22:16.543" Title="Avengers vs. X-Men SciFi Event!" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1667" CreationDate="2012-03-30T19:32:22.100" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You seem to have accidentally created two accounts: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/5558/derekvinyard98&quot;&gt;an unregistered account&lt;/a&gt; (associated with your email) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/5564/derekvinyard98&quot;&gt;a registered account&lt;/a&gt; (associated with your OpenID or other Internet identity).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please follow the steps mentioned in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/18232/how-can-one-link-merge-combine-associate-two-accounts-users-anonymous-unregist&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;. Specifically, add your OpenID to your &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/5558/derekvinyard98&quot;&gt;unregistered account&lt;/a&gt; and wait a little. If that doesn't work for some reason, reply here and I'll see what I can do. Moderators can merge accounts, but your unregistered account doesn't have private information that would confirm that you are the same person (and not someone else who chose the same display name).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2012-03-30T19:32:22.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1671" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-01T12:29:53.180" Score="5" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;After resuming my computer from suspend, and clicking on the scifi.stackexchange tab, a unicorn popped up on my screen welcoming me back?  There was no close button on the unicorn, just a couple of options to click on, one which was &quot;don't bother me anymore&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Holy &lt;em&gt;*&lt;/em&gt;* the unicorn just popped up again, asking me if I was asking a question about her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this means I can answer my own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1459" LastEditorUserId="1459" LastEditDate="2012-04-01T18:08:47.367" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Why did I just get accosted by a unicorn?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1671" CreationDate="2012-04-01T12:30:53.260" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;SPOILERS!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; It's an April Fools joke, you dimbo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All hail the return of Clippy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1459" LastActivityDate="2012-04-01T12:30:53.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1675" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1680" CreationDate="2012-04-01T16:46:58.503" Score="14" ViewCount="447" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/14028/2565&quot;&gt;What was this SciFi story?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have read a SciFi book a while ago, and would like to find the author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The book featured two robots, who were seeking to find their owner so they could give him some sort of secret plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The owner, who resembled some sort of SciFi samurai, complete with futuristic sword, then had to deal with some whiny annoying farmer, and deliver the secret plan to a beautiful princess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there were some space battles in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is obviously not entirely serious, but I find it amusingly clever. If it was tagged as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quiz&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quiz&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quiz&lt;/a&gt; or something similar, what would be the harm? I already see 3 VTCs and 6 downvotes, while really poor questions (I don't want to offend anybody by including links here) are upvoted and answered without hesitation. Is being serious &lt;em&gt;so&lt;/em&gt; important?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1681/2565&quot;&gt;Why are moderators going against consensus on meta?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-09-04T17:55:57.637" Title="Why are humorous questions off topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1675" CreationDate="2012-04-01T17:18:06.013" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm obviously biased since I was the first to figure out the puzzle and answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that the only fault behind this question is that it's a little bit too obvious what the answer is to a large set of people. That is NOT a valid reason to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can say that (&quot;too obvious&quot;) about a LOT of the questions here - am I within my right to DW and close any identification question about a well known work (&quot;West of Eden&quot;, which we have 3 of IIRC) that seems obvious to me? Or any Harry Potter questions that are fully trivial to anyone who read the books carefully?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As bitmask said, it was a clever and harmless question, full on topic by any and all definitions of the site. Anyone who votes to close or down-votes should explain &lt;strong&gt;publicly&lt;/strong&gt; how exactly it harms the site or violates the ontopic rules. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unlike some random &quot;identify this poorly worded and awfully defined&quot; so-called story identification questions that are little more than guessing games (as evidenced by the numerous guessing answers), this one was very precisely and cleverly worded, allowing - as you can see from my answer - to provide the answer independently from 3 different clues, very unambiguously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, ..., &lt;strong&gt;with the primary intent&lt;/strong&gt; of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, I &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/62984/does-the-word-troll-necessarily-have-negative-connotations&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt; on English.SE and they confirmed that troll must imply negative intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posting a clever April 1st question that's completely harmless fits none of the above definition. I'm up-voting it and will vote to re-open and flag to do if it gets it closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:38:09.780" LastActivityDate="2012-04-02T14:05:47.107" CommentCount="28" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1671" CreationDate="2012-04-01T17:29:52.783" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You'll find more details on the main Meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/127701/how-can-i-get-the-april-fools-joke-to-appear&quot;&gt;How can I get the 2012 April Fool&amp;#39;s joke to appear?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that you (or I, for that matter) haven't found all of these, by a long shot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2012-04-01T17:29:52.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1671" CreationDate="2012-04-01T17:38:28.430" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's nothing, Adblock just replaced my unicorn with a cat. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4025" LastActivityDate="2012-04-01T17:38:28.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1675" CreationDate="2012-04-01T20:43:45.477" Score="-3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I already see 3 VTCs and 6 downvotes, while really poor questions (I don't want to offend anybody by including links here) are upvoted and answered without hesitation. Is being serious so important?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, you're assuming that the question was intended to be humorous, that's not a given.  This isn't the first story id question where someone has posted a vague description of a well-known story or move.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're also assuming that people voted to close and downvoted because they didn't approve of the humor.  That's far from clear.  The only comment was mine, suggesting that the post was troll.  I'm apparently too much of an ignoramus to discuss whether it might have been trolling or not, so I can't address that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, the fact that other (bad) questions didn't get the same treatment is irrelevant.  The same people don't vote on all posts, so this one on a slow day happened to get people who think it's a bad question, those other questions on other days got people looking at them who thought they were ok.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastActivityDate="2012-04-01T20:43:45.477" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1675" CreationDate="2012-04-01T21:26:36.033" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't recognize it as Star Wars until I saw it mentioned, and I don't see why you are all calling the poster a troll.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia defines a troll thusly&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's see now. Inflammatory? No. Extraneous? It seems the poster did know the answer, but knowing the answer is, on SE, not in itself reason enough to not post. Off-topic? Story ID questions are clearly established as on-topic here, and it's a valid story-ID question, even if he did know the answer. Does the primary intent seem to be to evoke an emotional response? I don't see any evidence of that. It's phrased as just another question. Is it trying to disrupt normal, on-topic conversation? I don't see how that would apply to a new question, especially a valid one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, more to the point. Closing this as &quot;Not a Real Question&quot; is just plain wrong. It clearly is a valid question (and more detailed than many of our story ID questions). The only potential close reason I see for this is &quot;Not Constructive.&quot;  Asking for identification of a popular story when the asker already knows the answer doesn't help anyone now and isn't likely to help anyone in the future. Also note that we have had a question like this (and accompanying discussion) once before, when DVK asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/8619/3267&quot;&gt;What fantasy story elicited this quote?&lt;/a&gt;.  I don't see a difference between the two; both clearly on-topic questions, but about well-known works and the askers both knew the answer before posting, so we should treat them the same - they should both be left open, or they should both be closed &lt;em&gt;as not constructive&lt;/em&gt;.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, our first course of action should be to re-open this question. Then, if the community decides we want to reject story identification questions where the asker knows the answer, they should both be closed as not constructive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2012-04-03T14:26:07.703" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1681" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-02T01:37:08.823" Score="17" ViewCount="434" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, this does it. This site is officially painful to participate in, thank to blatant moderator abuse. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/14028/what-was-this-scifi-story&quot;&gt;What was this SciFi story?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Was first closed, including a mod vote, despite the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1675/why-are-humorous-questions-off-topic&quot;&gt;active meta discussion&lt;/a&gt; of the question itself, &lt;strong&gt;and more importantly a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1196/interesting-trivia-questions-to-which-you-already-know-the-answer&quot;&gt;prior meta community consensus&lt;/a&gt; that such questions are ON topic&lt;/strong&gt; (specifically, asking a question to which the asker obviously knows the answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NOTE: of 4 closers, at least one (Keith) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1675/why-are-humorous-questions-off-topic/1676#comment3801_1676&quot;&gt;openly admitted&lt;/a&gt; on meta discussion that he was not aware that as per established prior rules on meta the question was NOT off-topic based on the sole reason for him to have closed. Even before I gave him the proof on meta he updated in a comment &quot;That being said, I think it's fine to keep, and even keep open&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1675/why-are-humorous-questions-off-topic&quot;&gt;with the current meta discussion&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;clearly trending in favor of the question&lt;/strong&gt;, along comes another mod and unilaterally decide to delete the question that shouldn't even have been closed in the first place based on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;So far, the meta question itself that is positive of the OP, is voted +8/-2&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer is +8/-2 and also supportive of the OP&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;My own answer, obviously supportive of the OP, is +11/-3&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The only non-mod answer negative of the OP is +3/-6!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know whom to complain to, but from now on I'm on strike. I refuse to post anything beyond mere minimum needed to achieve my benchmarks. No more spending 1-2 hours researching, polishing and editing perfect great answers. No more spending my time answering questions just to help he askers and improve the site once I hit the cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2012-04-02T15:43:33.140" Title="Why are moderators going against consensus on meta?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|closing-questions|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1675" CreationDate="2012-04-02T01:54:56.363" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Humorous question aren't banned per se, but I would like to take some issue with the question asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that any story identification which the user knows the answer to the question should not be allowed. It's not always obvious that it is the case, but I do believe it's a waste of space if the user knows. Also, it was obvious from the question that the user knew the answer to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, this type of question is discouraged on all SE sites. The best reference I can find is the semi-recent blog post, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/01/the-trouble-with-popularity/&quot;&gt;the Problem with Popularity&lt;/a&gt;. Specifically, I'll quote this part from near the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is why community moderators have real power; they need that power&#xA;  to intervene, educate, and refocus the community’s exuberance on more&#xA;  substantive content. People will fight you almost literally to the&#xA;  death over their right to be entertained, and to entertain others:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why can’t you just not look at these fun posts? Why do they have to be deleted? You guys suck! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The same reason the moderators and community on that subreddit didn’t&#xA;  decide to “not look” at the fun posts, really:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Broken windows. Every ‘fun’ post users see is an open invitation for them to participate in the fun by adding their own fun question or&#xA;  answer. The stuff spreads like kudzu! Pretty soon the entire site is&#xA;  overrun with nothing but that kind of fun. And even if you grandfather&#xA;  a few in, you’ll enjoy neverending requests asking why their fun&#xA;  question or answer has to be removed, while this one over here is&#xA;  allowed to remain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Opportunity cost. Every minute spent participating in an entertaining ‘fun’ post is time that someone could have spent asking&#xA;  or answering a substantive question, something practical that solves&#xA;  an actual problem for hundreds or thousands of people. Entertainment,&#xA;  within reason, is by no means a bad thing — but I experience almost&#xA;  physical pain when I think about a brilliant topic expert spending 10&#xA;  minutes on one of our sites deciding which hilarious cartoon is their&#xA;  favorite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2012-04-02T06:56:27.223" LastActivityDate="2012-04-02T06:56:27.223" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1681" CreationDate="2012-04-02T02:07:15.130" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I basically responded to this question on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1682/98&quot;&gt;the previous meta question post&lt;/a&gt;, but I'll give a specific answer to your question here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow found in it's early days, they allowed a number of questions of the same kind of quality. What happened is that these &quot;fun&quot; questions started to take over the site, and making it more difficult to get the answers that really mattered. This has been brought up in countless MSO questions, and a fair number of blog posts. The best of these that I can find is a semi-recent post, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1682/98&quot;&gt;The Problem with Popularity&lt;/a&gt;. Specifically, I'll quote this part from near the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is why community moderators have real power; they need that power&#xA;  to intervene, educate, and refocus the community’s exuberance on more&#xA;  substantive content. People will fight you almost literally to the&#xA;  death over their right to be entertained, and to entertain others:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why can’t you just not look at these fun posts? Why do they have to be deleted? You guys suck! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The same reason the moderators and community on that subreddit didn’t&#xA;  decide to “not look” at the fun posts, really:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Broken windows. Every ‘fun’ post users see is an open invitation for them to participate in the fun by adding their own fun question or&#xA;  answer. The stuff spreads like kudzu! Pretty soon the entire site is&#xA;  overrun with nothing but that kind of fun. And even if you grandfather&#xA;  a few in, you’ll enjoy neverending requests asking why their fun&#xA;  question or answer has to be removed, while this one over here is&#xA;  allowed to remain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Opportunity cost. Every minute spent participating in an entertaining ‘fun’ post is time that someone could have spent asking&#xA;  or answering a substantive question, something practical that solves&#xA;  an actual problem for hundreds or thousands of people. Entertainment,&#xA;  within reason, is by no means a bad thing — but I experience almost&#xA;  physical pain when I think about a brilliant topic expert spending 10&#xA;  minutes on one of our sites deciding which hilarious cartoon is their&#xA;  favorite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's one of the most difficult parts of being a moderator, closing and removing questions like these which are fun, popular, but don't serve ultimately the betterment of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are countless questions which are on the line. Some of them I agree with, and others I don't agree with quite so much. But the question in note leaned on the site that was more for fun, and not for learning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess that's pretty much where I draw the line with the borderline questions. If they allow everyone to learn something, then they are great. If they are just purely for the fun of it, then I'd need a lot more convincing...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, let me talk about the community consensus. I first noted the question because it was flagged. So, I took a look at it, noticed that there was a significant number of down votes, as well as 3 votes to close. I looked at other criteria, and decided it was indeed worth closing. All of that came without looking into the next bit, but I would say that there was far from a consensus to keep the question opened, but rather, the decision seemed to be split in half. Given all of the above, and the fact that the community seemed divided, I decided to close the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2012-04-02T15:43:33.140" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1568" CreationDate="2012-04-02T02:11:07.607" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am going to add a bit of a proposed policy to this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the OP knows the answer to the question when he is asking the question, then it should not be allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-04-02T02:11:07.607" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1675" CreationDate="2012-04-02T07:37:34.007" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whether a question is humorous or not doesn't affect whether it's off-topic. I agree that this question is not off-topic. But it qualifies as “not a real question”, because (as DVK even points out in his answer) it is not a question but a puzzle: the asker obviously know the answer, and an artificial story identification question is not interesting, it's not what somebody remembered but what somebody chose to reveal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's now April 2nd, this question has outlived any usefulness it could have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-04-02T07:37:34.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1681" CreationDate="2012-04-02T07:42:52.983" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whether a question is humorous or not doesn't affect whether it's off-topic. I agree that this question is not off-topic. But it qualifies as “not a real question”, because (as you even pointed out in the answer) it is not a question but a puzzle: the asker obviously know the answer, and an artificial story identification question is not interesting, it's not what somebody remembered but what somebody chose to reveal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I left the question alone as long as it was April 1st. Then I deleted it, because it doesn't have any lasting value. This question hardly had community consensus even &lt;em&gt;on&lt;/em&gt; April 1st, with several close votes and flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your childish and vindictive behavior here isn't helping your case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-04-02T07:42:52.983" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1687" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1695" CreationDate="2012-04-02T11:16:54.607" Score="4" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;A recent question was deleted off the face of SE (asking about Star Wars). This was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1675/why-are-humorous-questions-off-topic&quot;&gt;clearly a popular question&lt;/a&gt;, but &lt;em&gt;potentially&lt;/em&gt; unhelpful for the site. &lt;em&gt;If&lt;/em&gt; the concensus that such questions are unfit for Sci-fi.SE, could they be  made &lt;strong&gt;temporarily&lt;/strong&gt; available to sub-10k users via Meta site, to allow those who can't view deleted questions to participate in meta discussion? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To Paraphrase DVK: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As a user he had no chance to review the question itself before it was deleted and make up his mind and participate in community discussion. I could be wrong but he used meta.SFF as a proposed &quot;staging&quot;/&quot;log&quot; place to avoid that problem, simply because there's no better solution for him - not because Meta is the ideal place for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.730" LastActivityDate="2012-04-02T22:45:31.523" Title="Should controversial questions that mods deem 'unhelpful' be closed and temporarily archived in meta?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1687" CreationDate="2012-04-02T13:19:00.220" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see any benefit to this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta is for discussion about how the site should work, not a catch-all for whatever doesn't belong on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without knowing the specifics of the question you are referring to, if the consensus is that it doesn't belong on the main site, what is the benefit of hiding it, but keeping it anyway?  If the question was deleted because it really did not belong on the site, then it seems pretty clear that, well, finding some way to keep it on the site isn't really beneficial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit (in response to the inclusion of DVK's comment in the question):&lt;/strong&gt; I think there's quite a bit of contradiction in your question.  If there is consensus that a question is unfit for the site, then moving it to meta makes no sense.  Period.  If you want to be able to review the question and participate in the discussion after the decision was made to delete it, then the mechanism to accomplish this already exists: users with 10k+ reputation can see deleted questions, and even review a list of recently deleted questions with the moderator tools.  While this is a fairly high threshold, it is a better mechanism than using meta as a &quot;dumping ground&quot; to open up the discussion so lower-rep users (such as myself) can participate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="1359" LastEditDate="2012-04-02T14:49:51.047" LastActivityDate="2012-04-02T14:49:51.047" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1687" CreationDate="2012-04-02T14:36:52.937" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This would be similar to the way the Jon Skeet facts are 'preserved' on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not really. Sure, Skeet Facts is popular. Sure, it's of historical interest. But most importantly, it's also &lt;strong&gt;extremely meta&lt;/strong&gt; - it's a list of &quot;facts&quot; about a prolific &lt;em&gt;author&lt;/em&gt; on Stack Overflow, not a programming joke question. Like the community FAQ, it's one of those topics that would have been posted on Meta originally, if Meta had existed at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Point being, Meta isn't now, and has never been, a graveyard for every question someone wants to hold a candle for. Its purpose is spelled out in both the name and the FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This site is for meta discussion about scifi.stackexchange.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Back in the day,&lt;/em&gt; certain overzealous users &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; attempt to migrate a popular &quot;joke&quot; question from SO to MSO. Jeff reversed the migration and offered to suspend anyone who tried to do it again...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastActivityDate="2012-04-02T14:36:52.937" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1690" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-02T17:45:08.517" Score="7" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the Game of Thrones &lt;em&gt;show&lt;/em&gt; is now &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1138/topic-of-the-week-contest-updated-apr-2#comment3913_1138&quot;&gt;Topic of the Week&lt;/a&gt;, I have a question/issue with how the questions should be tagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to be eligible for the contest, questions need to be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt;.  However, Season 2 is based off of &lt;em&gt;A Clash of Kings&lt;/em&gt;, which is book 2, and distinct from book 1 of A Song of Ice and Fire, &lt;em&gt;A Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question itself is applicable to both Season 2 of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;, the TV series, and &lt;em&gt;A Clash of Kings&lt;/em&gt;, book 2 of A Song of Ice and Fire, but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; book 1 of A Song of Ice and Fire, &lt;em&gt;A Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;, shouldn't we avoid using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt; tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be better to use something like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones-show&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones-show&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones-show&lt;/a&gt;, or would that create more confusion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2012-04-02T21:04:35.720" Title="How should Game of Thrones questions tied to the TV show be tagged?" Tags="|discussion|tags|contest|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2016-09-17T16:29:45.090" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1690" CreationDate="2012-04-02T18:35:02.387" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Media/Meta Tags&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For anything related to the show, tag them &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt;. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt; (which is the current tag) could still be used as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For anything related to the books, tag them &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-name&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-name&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-name&lt;/a&gt; (so &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt; for the first book), and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Sub-tags&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For anything related to the show, tag them &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones-show&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones-show&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones-show&lt;/a&gt; (and possibly &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For anything related to the books, tag them &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-name&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-name&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-name&lt;/a&gt; (again &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt; for the first book). This make &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt; very similar-looking but actually very different from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt;, which is unfortunately complex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Deciding&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This comes down to media/meta tags, yet again. We haven't made a collective decision to burninate them, and I'm of the opionion that they may actually serve some purpose within the scope of this site, so I'm more partial to the former option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1913" LastEditorUserId="1913" LastEditDate="2012-04-02T18:45:32.297" LastActivityDate="2012-04-02T18:45:32.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1690" CreationDate="2012-04-02T21:04:35.720" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at Ian's answer, I'd nominate the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt; combination of the TV show and leave &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt; solo for the books.  Keeping it simple makes it easier for people, newbies and oldbies alike, to keep them tagged consistently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anecdotal evidence: I've read all the books and only just started watching the TV show, but I still call the series Game of Thrones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4056" LastActivityDate="2012-04-02T21:04:35.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1138" CreationDate="2012-04-02T21:09:15.033" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Work of HP Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos could do with some attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2012-04-02T21:09:15.033" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-04-02T21:09:15.033" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1694" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-02T22:30:17.980" Score="11" ViewCount="361" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is quite common knowledge that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Vader and Anakin Skywalker (Luke's father) are the same person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this is technically a spoiler (I think there are still some folk around that haven't watched &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; Star Wars films). It pops up in some questions, and sometimes even in titles. We had just a brief discussion in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/14119/2565&quot;&gt;question's comments&lt;/a&gt;, and I thought it should be decided for good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I'm not leaning either way, and neither is this meta question. The up/down votes should be used for relevance, not whether or not it should be considered a spoiler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2017-07-23T02:05:12.110" Title="Should the information that Vader reveals in Cloud-City be considered a spoiler?" Tags="|spoilers|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1687" CreationDate="2012-04-02T22:45:31.523" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two ways to look at this. The first way is this: A question with a (fresh!) meta-discussion regarding its scope going on, shouldn't be &lt;em&gt;deleted&lt;/em&gt;, anyway. It can be closed of course, and deleted (if appropriate) after the discussion decided so. Therefore &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; meta question wouldn't even be applicable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there is a different way to look at this. &lt;em&gt;If&lt;/em&gt; you argue that my position above is wrong, in the sense that mods &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; in fact delete questions they deem unfit while a discussion is going on, then it would probably make sense to include (i.e. hard-copy) the question-body in the discussion, so everybody who wishes to participate in the discussion has a chance to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless, non-mod users do not have a say in it anyway, and the mods are supposed to decide on a whim, whether questions should be allowed. If that is the case, the whole meta-discussion could be closed as well, while deleting the original question. But do we want this kind of a community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastActivityDate="2012-04-02T22:45:31.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1609" CreationDate="2012-04-03T15:51:01.610" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've made some contrast changes per your report. They'll be in the next prod build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastActivityDate="2012-04-03T15:51:01.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1441" CreationDate="2012-04-03T16:00:08.823" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have darkened the blockquote color significantly for better contrast. the change will roll out in the next production build. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastActivityDate="2012-04-03T16:00:08.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1604" CreationDate="2012-04-03T16:45:17.300" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This will be fixed in the next production build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastEditorUserId="3567" LastEditDate="2015-06-16T07:26:29.450" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T07:26:29.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1699" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-03T23:34:59.473" Score="9" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are questions like my latest one about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/14128/3804&quot;&gt;The Borg&lt;/a&gt; unanswerable because there is not enough data to answer? Is &quot;We don't know there isn't enough information&quot; not a good enough answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2012-04-04T01:24:56.043" Title="Are questions without enough data 'unanswerable'?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1699" CreationDate="2012-04-04T00:13:42.513" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anyone who claims it's &quot;unanswerable&quot; about a recent work (&lt;strong&gt;espeically&lt;/strong&gt; a TV show) is just lazy. You can always expend the effort and go contact - in real life - the work's creator(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;We don't have enough info&quot; is an answer, as long as it cites where and how specifically the answerer searched.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;It should be closed because it's unanswerable&quot; is most likely a false statement (again, 100% false if any of the creators are still alive)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-04-04T00:13:42.513" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1699" CreationDate="2012-04-04T01:24:56.043" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;In most cases, there is something to say: “episode 12 shows that the minimum is 42, episode 33 hints that the number is in fact in the millions” — this sort of thing. Sometimes “we don't know and the authors meant to leave this ambiguous” is the right answer. No matter what the answer are, in- or out-of-story evidence is preferable. If the answer is “we're never told and the author never revealed it”, so be it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-04-04T01:24:56.043" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1702" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1709" CreationDate="2012-04-04T17:22:03.947" Score="7" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;To clarify, if there are two questions that are essentially asking the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7024/how-long-has-it-been-since-the-initial-outbreak&quot;&gt;same&lt;/a&gt; basic &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/14244/how-much-time-has-passed-in-the-walking-dead-from-book-1-to-94&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;, about the same title (in this case &lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt;), but each question is asking about a different medium (television show vs. comic), are they considered duplicates?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two questions in this case (linked above) are &quot;How long has it been since the initial outbreak?&quot; for the television show, up to a specific episode, and &quot;How much time has passed in the Walking Dead from book 1 to 94?&quot;.  In both cases, I find the end point rather arbitrary (although I haven't read up to book 94, so perhaps there's a major event that lends a certain significance to this end point?).  Also, in both cases what seems to be of &lt;em&gt;primary&lt;/em&gt; interest is how long Rick has been in the hospital (it has been a while since I read the first comics, but iirc the beginning of the TV show is very faithful to the beginning of the comics, and it isn't until after Rick reaches the city that the plot starts to diverge significantly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the two questions be edited into something more general, and merged, or left as separate questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2012-04-05T00:58:51.893" Title="Are questions duplicate if they share a topic, and a title, but not a medium?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1702" CreationDate="2012-04-04T17:32:45.943" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's your perception - a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; more time has passed in the comic than in the show. The show is paltry in comparison, so it's not really about how long Rick has been in the hospital. I see no problem with them being separate questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/14244/how-much-time-has-passed-in-the-walking-dead-from-book-1-to-94&quot;&gt;How much time has passed in the Walking Dead From Book 1 to 94?&lt;/a&gt; is asking how long has passed from after Rick's awakening to a specific point in the comic (which is &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; later than all the time that has progressed in the show at all, even more compare to &lt;em&gt;Cherokee Rose&lt;/em&gt; specifically). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1913" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2012-04-05T00:58:51.893" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1704" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-04T18:08:16.400" Score="2" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/14261/why-is-the-hulks-skin-green&quot;&gt;hulk&lt;/a&gt; question spans several mediums: TV, Movie, Comics etc. There's simply not enough room to tag all of these and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-incredible-hulk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-incredible-hulk&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-incredible-hulk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-comics&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should medium ambiguous questions be tagged? It's been a comic for the longest but the TV and Movie franchise might be more well known.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2012-04-04T18:36:23.120" Title="How should we tag a medium-ambiguous question?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1704" CreationDate="2012-04-04T18:34:03.053" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I mentioned in the comments, my feeling is that if the question doesn't pertain to a specific medium, no medium tags should be applied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, adding a medium tag indicates that the OP is restricting the scope of the question to that medium (or mediums, if multiple tags are used).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is consistent with how we've been handling other questions, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-walking-dead&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-walking-dead&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-walking-dead&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2012-04-04T18:34:03.053" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1706" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-04T19:03:41.463" Score="9" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;Marvel has long ago moved past only supplying comics for its audience, and now boasts a thriving film and TV section as well. The same can be said about DC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that by changing the tag to just, for instance, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt; we'd clear up a lot of tag issues (non-comic Marvel questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-comics&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-comics&lt;/a&gt; questions not also tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Completed, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-comics&lt;/a&gt; is still a &lt;em&gt;synonym&lt;/em&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt; and the same for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-comics&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc&lt;/a&gt; to prevent misuse and confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2017-03-13T03:15:25.377" LastActivityDate="2017-03-13T03:15:25.377" Title="Should the marvel/DC-comics tag be changed to just marvel/DC?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1707" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-04T19:07:01.317" Score="4" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spider-man should be tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spider-man&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;spider-man&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;spider-man&lt;/a&gt; not &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spiderman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;spiderman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;spiderman&lt;/a&gt;. I can't make these changes, as they are too similar, what should I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-04-04T19:14:45.133" LastActivityDate="2012-04-04T19:14:45.133" Title="How can I change Spiderman tag to 'spider-man'" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1707" CreationDate="2012-04-04T19:07:50.413" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask your friendly neighborhood moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: Done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-04-04T19:07:50.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1702" CreationDate="2012-04-04T19:35:35.090" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the answers are the same, the questions are duplicate. Otherwise, they aren't. Duplicate questions are about meaning, not about textual resemblance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason we close questions as duplicates is that answers for the duplicate also adequately answer the closed question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-04-04T19:35:35.090" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1669" CreationDate="2012-04-05T12:45:34.317" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have serious concerns about these kind of contests.  They seem to result in a large quantity of low quality questions, and the swamping of other content on the site.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1459" LastActivityDate="2012-04-05T12:45:34.317" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1706" CreationDate="2012-04-05T13:28:05.897" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-comics&lt;/a&gt; tag seems unwieldy.  It would make a bit more sense if it was intended to distinguish between Marvel Comics, Marvel Studios, Marvel Productions, Marvel Entertainment, etc., but do we really need that level of distinction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt; should be the combination used for questions pertaining to Marvel comic titles. That way, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt; tag can also be used for questions specifically pertaining to non-comic titles under the Marvel franchise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2012-04-05T13:28:05.897" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1712" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1714" CreationDate="2012-04-05T18:51:47.597" Score="4" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that most of the questions being asked in response to the comic are being tagged as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers-vs-x-men&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers-vs-x-men&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers-vs-x-men&lt;/a&gt;, even though most of those questions don't seem relevant to the cross-over comic of that title (for example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/14352/when-did-icemans-power-expand&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/14302/what-ever-happened-to-falcon&quot;&gt;about&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/14292/has-a-super-villain-ever-been-an-avenger&quot;&gt;specific&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/14247/what-are-the-upper-limits-of-cyclops-optic-blast&quot;&gt;individuals&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the tag be used for all questions under the contest, or only for those questions directly relating to the cross-over comics of that same title?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whichever way we decide, the wording of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://avx.stackshowdown.com/rules&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;rules&lt;/a&gt; may need to clarify this.  My interpretation of the rules is that any combination of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers-vs-x-men&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers-vs-x-men&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers-vs-x-men&lt;/a&gt; qualifies a question (although &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers-vs-x-men&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers-vs-x-men&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers-vs-x-men&lt;/a&gt; without either of the other two are only valid for the grand-prize drawing).  Is this correct?  If so, maybe we should tell people they shouldn't add &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers-vs-x-men&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers-vs-x-men&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers-vs-x-men&lt;/a&gt; unless they're talking about the cross-over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2012-04-05T20:04:50.840" Title="Does the [tag:avengers-vs-x-men] tag refer to the cross-over comics, or the contest?" Tags="|support|tags|contest|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1712" CreationDate="2012-04-05T18:55:35.300" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My interpretation of the rules is that any combination of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers-vs-x-men&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers-vs-x-men&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers-vs-x-men&lt;/a&gt; qualifies a question (although &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers-vs-x-men&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers-vs-x-men&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers-vs-x-men&lt;/a&gt; without either of the other two are only valid for the grand-prize drawing).  Is this correct? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, that is correct.  In this case, you should retag the question so it has useful tags.  This contest will draw in many new users who aren't familiar with the specifics of how tags should be used here, so we as a community need to be extra-vigilant to edit questions to make them a proper fit here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-04-05T18:55:35.300" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1712" CreationDate="2012-04-05T20:04:32.603" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers-vs-x-men&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers-vs-x-men&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers-vs-x-men&lt;/a&gt; means that the question relates to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers_vs._X-Men&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Avengers vs. X-Men&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; comic book series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do not use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers-vs-x-men&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers-vs-x-men&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers-vs-x-men&lt;/a&gt; to indicate that a question was asked as part of the contest. Tags classify questions according to their subject, nor according to their context. That a question was asked during the contest period is irrelevant to its classification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question is part of the contest if it has any of the three tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers-vs-x-men&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers-vs-x-men&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers-vs-x-men&lt;/a&gt;. If it's only about &lt;em&gt;X-Men&lt;/em&gt; or only about &lt;em&gt;Avengers&lt;/em&gt;, it must not have the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers-vs-x-men&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers-vs-x-men&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers-vs-x-men&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-04-05T20:04:32.603" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1715" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-14T15:38:17.390" Score="4" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who actually reviews the edit? The actual creator of the post? Some Moderator? Who? Is there any reputation I need to reach, to be able to edit without requiring peer reviewing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5421" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-04-14T17:00:21.867" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="This edit will be visible only to you until it is peer reviewed" Tags="|support|suggested-edit|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1715" CreationDate="2012-04-14T17:00:08.857" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;2000 reputation&lt;/a&gt; to edit posts immediately. Anyone with the edit privilege can review a suggested edit, as can the author of the post (it's up to whoever acts first). Only users with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/privileges/approve-tag-wiki-edits&quot;&gt;5000 reputation&lt;/a&gt; can see a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits&quot;&gt;list of pending suggested edits&lt;/a&gt;: before that, you can review those suggested edits you chance on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/76251/how-do-suggested-edits-work&quot;&gt;How do suggested edits work?&lt;/a&gt; on the main meta site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2012-04-14T17:00:08.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1717" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1718" CreationDate="2012-04-15T01:57:14.363" Score="4" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;The audio on the Avengers vs. X-Men promotion videos seems incredibly quiet.  Can you normalize and/or compress the audio tracks in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aqXpjy1FOs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aqXpjy1FOs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="584" LastEditorUserId="4257" LastEditDate="2013-05-28T00:00:33.400" LastActivityDate="2013-05-28T00:00:33.400" Title="Normalize and compress video audio" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1717" CreationDate="2012-04-17T17:38:29.543" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It did not seem quiet when I was editing them, but I was also under a crazy deadline to get them all finished. This will be corrected in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastActivityDate="2012-04-17T17:38:29.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1719" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-18T05:36:40.377" Score="6" ViewCount="196" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spoiler alert code on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15054/in-the-dune-series-why-did-the-2000-special-edition-version-by-frank-herbert-no&quot;&gt;my question&lt;/a&gt; is not working, also on meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Spoiler alert is not working&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4942" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2012-09-21T00:16:23.407" Title="Spoiler markup is not working" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1719" CreationDate="2012-04-18T07:11:12.330" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think the spoiler tags are working on either SFF or Meta. If I'm mistaken, correct me, but I thought spoiler tags looked like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&gt;&#xA;! SPOILERS GO HERE &amp;lt; br &gt; &amp;lt; br &gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without the spaces, of course. I tried to test the spoiler tag on SFF and it wouldn't work for me. And I can see the text of your spoiler message as grey against dark grey. When I mouse over it, it turns white. But it's definitely not hidden for me (and I'm talking about your meta post here)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;THIS IS WITHOUT THE SPACES IN THE CODE AND I'LL BET YOU CAN SEE THE TEXT, YES?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully someone will have the magic answer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2012-04-18T07:11:12.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1669" CreationDate="2012-04-20T15:21:58.573" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The event is over and the winners have been announced. Bounce over to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/04/avengers-vs-x-men-results-winners-announced/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sci-Fi &amp;amp; Fantasy blog&lt;/a&gt; for the announcement!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastActivityDate="2012-04-20T15:21:58.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1722" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-20T17:10:00.590" Score="4" ViewCount="262" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once this question was considered on-topic here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12845/if-i-have-the-comixology-app-do-i-need-the-publisher-ones&quot;&gt;If I have the Comixology app, do I need the publisher ones?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today, I asked a similar question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15166/how-does-unlimited-subscription-of-marvel-comics-work&quot;&gt;How does unlimited subscription of Marvel Comics work?&lt;/a&gt; which is closed as off-topic. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2018-08-31T06:17:54.463" LastActivityDate="2018-08-31T06:17:54.463" Title="Why has this question been closed as off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|specific-question|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1722" CreationDate="2012-04-20T17:52:28.463" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those questions don't have anything to do with Science Fiction or Fantasy. It has to do with the distribution of (potentially) SciFi/Fantasy works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarily a question like &quot;How do I buy a comic book from a grocery store&quot; would be closed as off topic. Just because you mentioned a comic book doesn't mean it is on topic. The question is about the logistics of purchasing a magazine. It has nothing to do with this genre. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2012-04-20T17:52:28.463" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1722" CreationDate="2012-04-20T21:46:58.627" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's clearly on-topic (although it doesn't seem like a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; question; as a comment says, it seems very likely that the terms of use would answer it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The FAQ states that questions about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;are on-topic.  These questions are those. However, these questions are rare, and so can easily get closed as off-topic simply because they don't fit the dull trivia-contest or wild-speculation question format questions that users are expecting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best way to figure out whether something is off-topic (other than referring to the FAQ and meta questions) is to ask &quot;is this something that requires the expertise likely to be found on this site?&quot; - i.e. does it require expertise in science fiction/fantasy.  Here, given that the vast majority of the material sold through these applications consists of on-topic material here (i.e. it's scifi/fantasy), it seems clear that the users here are likely to have the expertise to answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related to this is another question: would the users of this site be expected to find this question interesting and useful: the answer is again clearly &quot;yes&quot; - the users are likely to be consuming science-fiction/fantasy with these applications, and knowing more about how to best do that would be both useful and interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions aren't any different in nature than a question asking what you need to know to try and find a rare translation of a scifi/fantasy book (shopping questions in general are off-topic, of course).  WRT to shopping questions, the general guideline is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thus, when it comes to shopping questions, don’t ask us what you should buy — ask us what you need to learn to tell what you should buy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's exactly this question: asking what needs to be learnt (how the different models work for purchasing this scifi/fantasy content), not asking what needs to be bought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2012-04-21T03:34:40.497" LastActivityDate="2012-04-21T03:34:40.497" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1725" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-21T03:31:27.207" Score="7" ViewCount="1384" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pottermore.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pottermore&lt;/a&gt; is now open to the public. Is information from that site considered canonical?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are we allowed to quote from that site when answering HP questions?  Presumably all the content is approved by J.K.R., and certainly, there are tidbits directly from her expanding on various subjects.  Those, at least, should be as authoritative as interview quotes, shouldn't they?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any membership rules for that site (not allowed to leak content to non-members, for example) that would render that information as out-of-bounds?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3522" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-04-21T16:18:13.587" LastActivityDate="2012-04-21T16:31:59.060" Title="Is information from Pottermore considered canonical?" Tags="|discussion|notability-of-sources|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1722" CreationDate="2012-04-21T03:57:37.977" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that it's on topic.&#xA;I think, due to the factors that are asked, extant users of the license in question are far better able to answer - such behaviors as mentioned are seldom covered in the Terms of Use for many such services, and when they are, often not in plain English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1367" LastActivityDate="2012-04-21T03:57:37.977" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1725" CreationDate="2012-04-21T04:26:13.913" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people consider only the published books to be canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people consider the books and the movies canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people consider the books and J.K. Rowling interviews to be canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people consider the books, JKR interviews, and Pottermore canon. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there's not a definitive answer to your question; different people consider Pottermore differently as far as being canon goes (personally, it's canon to me).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I admit that I'm unsure what question you answered for yourself because the answer you gave doesn't seem to correspond to &quot;Is Pottermore Canon&quot;? Maybe you could clarify? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The assertion that people &lt;strong&gt;may not&lt;/strong&gt; discuss information found on Pottermore with others is patently absurd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2012-04-21T04:26:13.913" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1725" CreationDate="2012-04-21T04:47:16.993" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;We actually already have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=Pottermore&quot;&gt;quite a few answers&lt;/a&gt; that quote pottermore, even when it was in beta. I would say that it is fair use to quote portions of pottermore, just don't abuse it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2012-04-21T04:47:16.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1722" CreationDate="2012-04-21T14:36:33.553" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me these questions are no different than asking &quot;&lt;strong&gt;How do I buy a ticket to see Prometheus at my local cinema?&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;, or &quot;&lt;strong&gt;How do I stream Battlestar Galactica on Netflix&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are they &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; science fiction? Only peripherally. They're not about the content, or the creation, or the fandom culture, or speculation. They're about buying and downloading -- the content happens to be Sci-Fi in this case. But the same answers would apply if I asked about downloading Archie comics or Downton Abbey episodes. Those are fine things - but they're not Sci-Fi/Fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4025" LastActivityDate="2012-04-21T14:36:33.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1725" CreationDate="2012-04-21T16:31:59.060" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see how the SFF.SE community could decide as a whole whether Pottermore is considered canon. As Slytherincess puts it, it's up to each individual to decide what they consider canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From our perspective, you are certainly allowed to cite Pottermore, like you're allowed to cite anything else (the books, the movies, interviews, what some random bloke wrote on his blog, …).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had a quick look through the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pottermore.com/en/terms&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;site's terms and conditions&lt;/a&gt; and saw no non-disclosure agreement. (Note that I did not perform a comprehensive review, and I'm not your lawyer anyway. What do with Pottermore content is your responsibility.) Subscribers agree to “ensure that […] all information provided by [them] via Pottermore is accurate, true and up to date in all respects and at all times and is not misleading in any way” and not to “make commercial use of [user-generated] content”. I didn't see any additional right granted above copyright law, so only &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing_in_United_Kingdom_law&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;fair dealing&lt;/a&gt; is permitted; in particular, direct quotes of material posted in Pottermore is likely illegal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that we are not enforcers for Pottermore. If a contributor to Stack Exchange posts material in violation of the Pottermore terms and conditions, it is up to Pottermore to take any action they see fit. We will not edit Stack Exchange content or take sanctions against Stack Exchange users on the basis of Pottermore terms and conditions, since we are not a party to this agreement. If content is posted to Stack Exchange in violation of the &lt;em&gt;copyright&lt;/em&gt; of a Pottermore contributor, said contributor can request the removal of the offending material by following Stack Exchange's &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/legal&quot;&gt;copyright takedown procedure&lt;/a&gt; (§15 of the terms and conditions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-04-21T16:31:59.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1732" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1733" CreationDate="2012-04-22T14:26:19.340" Score="8" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/data&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;data&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;data&lt;/a&gt; tag be renamed to include context to avoid ambiguity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the tags are all lower-case, it's hard to tell whether the tag pertains to Lt. Commander Data of Star Trek:TNG, or to a noun &quot;data&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the tag should be named something like &quot;data(st:tng)&quot; or &quot;lt-commander-data&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question 1: Should it be renamed at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question 2: If so, what's a good new name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-04-23T19:54:59.757" Title="Should &quot;Data&quot; tag be renamed to include context to avoid ambiguity?" Tags="|tags|retagging|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1732" CreationDate="2012-04-22T14:31:25.670" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1563/why-is-there-a-voldemort-tag-is-there-a-criteria-for-character-tags/1566#1566&quot;&gt;I had the same concern for Q&lt;/a&gt;, whose tag is now &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-q&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-q&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-q&lt;/a&gt;. Given the apparent support, and that it's reversible, I've renamed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/data&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;data&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;data&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-data&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-data&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-data&lt;/a&gt; (moderators can rename a tag without editing questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.730" LastActivityDate="2012-04-23T19:54:59.757" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1734" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-22T22:12:50.390" Score="2" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to start another bounty for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/12369/2565&quot;&gt;Is the &amp;quot;Zion Archive&amp;quot; (Animatrix) Machine Propaganda?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was already a 250 rep bounty some time ago, but I'm &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; not happy with the answers (as does the community, judging from the votes). However, I can only select 500 rep (I would prefer to go with about 100 +- 50). Why is that the case? This certainly doesn't seem like a bug, but it doesn't make a lot of sense to limit additional bounties to 500 rep, does it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tagged this as discussion, although if the community agrees could be promoted to a feature-request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Subsequent bounties" Tags="|support|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1734" CreationDate="2012-04-22T22:21:52.550" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;On very popular topics on Stack Overflow, setting a bounty on a question that you have answered has been known to bring in more reputation than the bounty cost. This has motivated a restriction in the bounty system: if you set a second bounty on a question that you previously set a bounty on, then the amount of the second bounty must be at least double the amount of the first bounty. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/105275/abusing-bounties-for-unlimited-profit&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Abusing&amp;quot; bounties for unlimited profit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am against this restriction, which is undermining the bounty system in order to solve something that is not really a problem in the first place, and can only take place in very unusual circumstances. But I am powerless to rescind it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2012-04-22T22:21:52.550" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1736" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-22T23:43:45.583" Score="4" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do we deal with lists of interesting information about a work (called “annotations” in the Pratchett fan community), such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/14923/which-of-the-items-and-monsters-were-references&quot;&gt;Which of the items and monsters were references?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is gathering answers with just a small tidbit of additional information. Such disparate answers are not presented in a useful way — this is one of the main problems we've had in the past with list questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I can see the value of having annotations on this site. Unlike lists of works on a common theme, which are unending and subjective, there is some hope that we can be exhaustive, or at least that we can gather everything that has been found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should such questions work? Should we have a single community wiki answer? (Note that anyone can edit a CW answer, even if they are unregistered — all CW changes technically is that the threshold for suggested edits becomes 100 instead of 2000.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2012-04-23T12:17:24.830" Title="Annotation repositories" Tags="|discussion|questions|answers|policy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1736" CreationDate="2012-04-23T00:28:56.177" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once the number of possible answer exceeds a handful, I don't see these as any different from list questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="231" LastActivityDate="2012-04-23T00:28:56.177" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1736" CreationDate="2012-04-23T12:17:24.830" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is one of the few good uses of a Community Wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be consolidated into a single, comprehensive Community Wiki answer.  The question should be edited to indicate that all answers should be incorporated into that single comprehensive answer, and it would be up to the community to periodically police the question and move any additional answers created into the comprehensive CW answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2012-04-23T12:17:24.830" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1719" CreationDate="2012-04-23T20:33:11.063" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can repro this bug on meta but not on main. I pushed a fix for the meta spoiler text. It will be in the next production build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastActivityDate="2012-04-23T20:33:11.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1740" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-24T16:01:52.843" Score="9" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;The notion that questions about science fiction and fantasy video games should be cultivated on this site was first introduced to me with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1653/2383&quot;&gt;this comment&lt;/a&gt; on the Topic of the Week page. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/56/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; made this sound like an even better idea by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1138/topic-of-the-week-contest-updated-apr-16#comment3729_1653&quot;&gt;commenting&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gaming is the hot site in the network at the moment. A game-related&#xA;  topic could draw in a lot of visitors if we advertise there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I now wonder what kind of a traffic and profile increase we could have seen if our site capitalized on the release of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls_V:_Skyrim&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Effect_3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mass Effect 3&lt;/a&gt;, both of which gave big boosts to Gaming. To test the waters with this, I have the week starting April 30th designated as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1138&quot;&gt;Video Game Week as part of the Topic of the Week contests&lt;/a&gt;. On top of that, both myself and my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/users/464232/lauren&quot;&gt;fellow CHAOSer Lauren&lt;/a&gt;, who currently works with promoting the Gaming site, are trying to figure out an event that would unite both Gaming and SciFi &amp;amp; Fantasy, and hopefully attract users from the massive Gaming site to our awesome site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The big conundrum is, &lt;strong&gt;what type of gaming questions are on topic for Sci-Fi &amp;amp; Fantasy?&lt;/strong&gt; Judging by our current crop of questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt;, it seems like only questions about lore, plot and mythology are on-topic here. &lt;strong&gt;Is that the case? Do we want that to be the case? Are questions about gameplay off-topic here?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to get the community's input so Lauren and I can craft something that will work for both sites and be fun for all users involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDITED TO ADD that, duh, this has &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/319/can-i-ask-a-question-about-video-game-based-scifi-fantasy&quot;&gt;pretty much been decided already here&lt;/a&gt;. So I will refine the scope of this question to instead discuss what type of event would make sense for Sci-Fi, gaming wise? &lt;strong&gt;Would an event here even work? Is there enough plot and non-gameplay minutiae in video games to base an event around? Is this a good idea?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.233" LastActivityDate="2012-04-25T00:34:36.630" Title="What type of gaming event would fit the site?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1740" CreationDate="2012-04-24T16:19:58.690" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Extending on the answer of the question you linked; The distinction whether a question should be asked on SFF or on Gaming should rely on whether it's story or gameplay related. Of course it should be about a game that features some sort of science fiction or fantasy plot (so, popular games like &lt;em&gt;Counter Strike&lt;/em&gt; should remain off-topic on SFF).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A perhaps silly example would be: &quot;How do I turn the pages of my Hitchhiker's XY edition book without breaking them down?&quot; This question would relate to how the medium is used properly, just as a question like: &quot;How can I aim to defeat the Cyberdemon?&quot; would be. Both are off-topic, although both HHGTTG and doom seem to be on-topic, because they feature science fiction plots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As a rule of thumb, I think, a question should be on-topic regardless of its medium of distribution.&lt;/strong&gt; So, as a special case this could include, as you say, lore, plot and mythology but exclude specific gameplay considerations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastActivityDate="2012-04-24T16:19:58.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1740" CreationDate="2012-04-24T17:54:26.963" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;To address your edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I think an event here would work.  While some video games have little-to-no plot and lore, other games have &lt;em&gt;huge&lt;/em&gt; repositories of lore, ranging from in-game &quot;flavor&quot; elements to entire series of universe-expanding novelizations and other products.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just off the top of my head, &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0345508017&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Elder Scrolls&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&amp;amp;field-keywords=warcraft&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Warcraft&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&amp;amp;field-keywords=Diablo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Diablo&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&amp;amp;field-keywords=mass+effect&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mass Effect&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; are all popular, current titles that have significant volumes of lore that is independent of direct gameplay elements. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The presence of so much related lore, particularly the published novels, indicates to me that there are plenty of fans who are drawn to this, and therefore an event focusing on video game lore absolutely has the potential to be a major source of new traffic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I am not personally a real aficionado of game lore, so I'm not 100% certain of the best type of event.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it would be cool if we could work out some way to entice people to link questions between the gaming site and the scifi site.  Perhaps a bonus prize randomly selected from questions that are linked?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if I ask a question about &lt;em&gt;Diablo 3&lt;/em&gt; on gaming saying &quot;I found a Black Mushroom that doesn't seem to do anything... what is it for?&quot;, a qualifying answer might say &quot;It can be combined with x, y, and z to give access to the secret necro-cow level.  The black mushroom is a reference to Leah's mother, the witch Adria.&quot;, with the link pointing to a question on scifi.se about what evidence exists that Adria really is Leah's mother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if the logistics of that are problematic, I think it would be great if we could have the event cover &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; sites in some way.  Perhaps questions about where, in the game, particular pieces of obscure lore could be found, or (if applicable), how the lore impacts gameplay, would be appropriate for the gaming.se, and questions about the lore itself, plus exanded sources such as novels, comics, webisodes, etc. would be appropriate for scifi.se, with appropriate questions on either site qualifying for differing pools of prizes (just like with the Avengers vs. X-Men event).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2012-04-24T17:54:26.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1743" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1744" CreationDate="2012-04-24T21:20:28.733" Score="16" ViewCount="268" Body="&lt;p&gt;What exactly are the rules for massively editing/retagging questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/4344491#4344491&quot;&gt;Gilles in the chat&lt;/a&gt;, all efforts like that need to be approved beforehand. And I see his point. Having SO many edits flood the front page when they seemed inconsequential does make it look like a stunt. And it causes new, more relevant posts to disappear and possibly lose user viability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But to play Devil's Advocate, why does something like that need approval when it helps the site in the long run? And why would what Sachin Shekhar did with his recent Star Trek overhaul be denied as Gilles says would have happened if Sachin asked for permission?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would a good plan of action be for future people who want to take it upon themselves to &quot;clean up&quot; the site a bit? When does it become &quot;too much&quot; editing, where's that threshold?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorUserId="1109" LastEditDate="2012-04-24T21:35:44.033" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Massive Retagging/Editing" Tags="|discussion|retagging|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1743" CreationDate="2012-04-24T21:32:55.830" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;There isn't a hard limit, but here are a couple of guidelines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No flooding the front page. If you're thinking of making minor edits to more than a handful¹ of posts, consider asking around. If you're thinking of making minor edits to more than two handfuls, do ask on meta first.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you're going to do something that has a major impact, ask first. Even moderators are bound by this guideline; for example we &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/411&quot;&gt;asked before closing ~80 questions in one go&lt;/a&gt; when the site was young and the scope was taking form.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's nice that you're improving the site, but pace yourself. Concentrate on the new posts and the old but unanswered questions first; improving and bumping these is good. If it comes to tweaking the tags or correcting the grammar in old, answered posts, don't do more than a handful¹ in one sitting².&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has come up before on other Stack Exchange sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/38987/how-many-retags-should-you-do-before-asking-a-moderator&quot;&gt;How many retags should you do before asking a moderator?&lt;/a&gt; (the limit is between 10 and 20)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/837/many-hours-of-work-on-tags-reverted-without-discussion-moderator-abusing-their&quot;&gt;https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/837/many-hours-of-work-on-tags-reverted-without-discussion-moderator-abusing-their&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &lt;sub&gt; Most human hands have 5 fingers. &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;² &lt;sub&gt; Humans tend to act while seated. Assume one sitting per Sol 3 day, really. &lt;/sub&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2012-04-25T10:57:14.263" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1740" CreationDate="2012-04-24T22:10:47.187" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;We actually &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4542/3389&quot;&gt;talked about this on Gaming the other day&lt;/a&gt;: the advice given on Gaming was that if it's in-game lore, it's on-topic, if it's out-of-game/expanded-universe lore, it's off-topic with SciFi.SE being the best place to ask. So I think, particularly with game franchises, there's a lot of cross-promotional opportunity as people want to know why X was Y, but it's only explained in a random novel and not in-game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of whether there's a lot of lore for games, Blizzard and Bethesda games are known for the world-building the designers do and have a ton of lore SciFi.SE could capitalize on. And the obvious choice for a game to target right now is &lt;a href=&quot;http://us.battle.net/d3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Diablo III&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: large amount of lore that isn't as public as Warcraft because the last Diablo game came out in 2000, and it releases on May 15th. I'm sure there are going to be a lot of questions about what the heck is going on in the series up to that point, as Blizzard doeesn't particularly like a lot of recap exposition (&lt;em&gt;Warcraft III&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;World of Warcraft&lt;/em&gt; both assumed you were familiar with the earlier installments).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If hitting May 15th is too soon, &lt;a href=&quot;http://us.battle.net/wow/en/game/mists-of-pandaria/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (MoP) is going to be released in the next few months, and &lt;em&gt;Warcraft&lt;/em&gt; has a veritable mountain of lore. &lt;em&gt;MoP&lt;/em&gt; is also a good one to hit with questions about lore because it's such a drastic departure from the story so far. Also releasing this year will be &lt;a href=&quot;http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/game/heart-of-the-swarm-preview/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, although &lt;em&gt;Starcraft II&lt;/em&gt;'s lore is more self-contained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Outside of the Blizzard franchises, there are a few other games coming out in the next few months that have rich lore:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guildwars2.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Guild Wars 2&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bioshockinfinite.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;BioShock Infinite&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're looking to attract gamers (or Gaming.SE users), I think the event should be a progression-based game, not a sweepstakes or something where only the top-viewed/top-voted question gets a prize. &lt;a href=&quot;http://me3missions.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ME3 Missions&lt;/a&gt; looked like it did really well, and since that seems to be &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/04/more-notes-on-contest-format/&quot;&gt;one of the default types of contests&lt;/a&gt;, I'd suggest SciFi.SE does something like that. If you take &lt;em&gt;Diablo III&lt;/em&gt;, the levels could correspond to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.diablowiki.net/Difficulty#Difficulty_Levels&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;difficulty levels in game&lt;/a&gt;: Normal, Nightmare, Hell, Inferno.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/4345644#4345644&quot;&gt;talking about this in Gaming.SE's chat&lt;/a&gt; and discussing how you'd get the Gaming.SE audience interested in a contest on SciFi.SE (besides just the fact that the contest is about a game), a thought I had was to have a contest where the requirements for success hinge on having activity on both sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, let's say you have a ME3 Missions-style event for the launch of &lt;em&gt;Diablo 3&lt;/em&gt;: instead of requiring 10 questions of 5 score in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/diablo-3&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;diablo-3&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;diablo-3&lt;/a&gt; tag on Gaming, require half the questions to be on SciFi.SE. The people who will do well are the people who are both gamers and lore wonks, just the type of people you'd want to attract from a promotion like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:32:35.867" LastActivityDate="2012-04-25T00:34:36.630" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1746" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-25T19:57:23.930" Score="26" ViewCount="663" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our sister site &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Literature Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/349/literature-is-closing&quot;&gt;shutting down on May 4th&lt;/a&gt; due to a lack of activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is some overlap between the two sites: written SF is on-topic on both. So there are questions on Literature that could be migrated here and remain on the Internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What questions should we request? Obvious candidates are found on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction&quot;&gt;science-fiction&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantasy&quot;&gt;fantasy&lt;/a&gt; tags. There are SF questions without these tags too; in particular, look for tags that are SF authors' names. Note however that not all questions are suitable to be migrated; in particular, Literature allows recommendation requests whereas we do not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose to list migration candidates here so we can discuss them, then point a Literature moderator at this thread before the site closes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T13:01:18.293" LastActivityDate="2018-01-23T02:57:00.813" Title="Literature is closing — what questions should we migrate here?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|migration|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1746" CreationDate="2012-04-25T20:23:58.353" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;These are the candidates the lit mods have identified for a possible move over here.  We tried to keep it to the higher-quality questions.  Please hit me up on chat if you have any questions!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Rejected&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1551/why-is-the-timeline-of-catch-22-all-messed-up&quot;&gt;Why is the timeline of Catch-22 all messed up?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Even at the beginning of the book the events in Catch-22 are not in chronological order; instead they are mixed up in a seemingly random order. ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/405/what-is-the-first-sf-story&quot;&gt;What is the first SF-story?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I know that defining a genre like science fiction is hard, it's borders are no fine line. So I'm happy with an answer that says: if you count this book to sf it was first, otherwise this other book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/3/what-is-the-best-order-to-read-the-discworld-novels&quot;&gt;What is the best order to read the discworld novels?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I know there is some level of continuity between the discworld books by Terry Pratchett despite the fact that they are not published in order. I would also love suggestions on what series to start with; ie. the Rincewind books or the city watch books etc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/868/why-does-each-volume-in-the-lord-of-the-rings-contain-two-books&quot;&gt;Why does each volume in the Lord of the Rings contain two books?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;General reference&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/77/in-the-his-dark-materials-trilogy-what-is-dust&quot;&gt;In the His Dark Materials trilogy, what is Dust?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;General reference&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/545/what-are-some-novels-that-detail-the-re-emergence-of-civilization-after-some-cat&quot;&gt;What are some novels that detail the re-emergence of civilization after some catastrophic event?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Pretty sure you don't take book recommendations, so this one is probably no good.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm looking for novels dealing with building a new world long after civilization is wiped out. Not the typical post-apocalyptic story about the surviving remnant, like Emberverse, but a long-term &quot;history&quot; where there is little to nothing left of the old world and civilization has started again from scratch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Migrated&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15460/how-long-did-marvin-the-robot-live&quot;&gt;How long did Marvin the robot live?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In The Hitchhicker's Guide trilogy, Marvin ends up living for a very long time. How long does he live before he finally dies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15462/in-dicks-do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep-is-deckard-a-replicant&quot;&gt;In Dick's “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, is Deckard a replicant?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have watched different versions the movie and read the book a number of times, and I still can't decide: was Deckard a replicant? ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15465/recommended-order-for-the-larry-niven-of-worlds-books&quot;&gt;Recommended order for the Larry Niven “of Worlds” books?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I just finished Larry Niven's Destroyer of Worlds then picked up Betrayer of Worlds and Fleet of Worlds at the library. A quick check of the dust jacket synopsis doesn't clue me in as to which order I should read them in, and since they are both prequels to Ringworld, I'm not sure the publishing date is a sure indicator of the story's timeline. What order should I read them in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15467/in-c-s-lewis-narnia-stories-how-was-calormen-calormene-originally-pronounce&quot;&gt;In C.S. Lewis' Narnia stories, how was “Calormen/Calormene” originally pronounced?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I grew up pronouncing them &quot;CAL-er-men&quot; and &quot;CAL-er-mean&quot;, but I've increasingly heard &quot;cuh-LOR-men&quot; for both instead, which I like better. Did C. S. Lewis ever say which he used, or does someone (such as Douglas Gresham, his step-son) remember him pronouncing the words?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15470/harry-dresden-item-descriptions&quot;&gt;Harry Dresden Item Descriptions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am working on creating a Harry Dresden costume. As such, I need the descriptions from the series for the following items (I can't find them): Silver rings Blasting Rod Staff Shield Bracelet Bob's Skull (I think it's just a basic skull, not sure though) ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15472/what-happened-in-the-7th-level&quot;&gt;What happened in the 7th level?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the book Last Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko, the seventh level of the gloom (or twilight) seemed to contain ghosts or something, but I never truly understood what was going on. What happened in the seventh level of the gloom?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15473/in-the-dresden-files-how-did-harrys-dad-die&quot;&gt;In the Dresden Files, how did Harry's dad die?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I was researching the Dresden Files, and I know that the TV series doesn't follow the books very well. One subject was Harry's father and his death. In the books, how did Harry's dad die?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15475/what-is-the-earliest-literary-appearance-of-zombies&quot;&gt;What is the earliest literary appearance of zombies?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I guess I have no doubt that zombies are part of the human imagination, and that they would simply spring up in our dreams even if we'd never heard of them. But I'd still like to know what the earliest known written appearance of the zombie is. I want to know if it was in a short story, someone's diary, an historical account, et cetera. Someone must have studied this, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15478/what-are-the-major-themes-in-foundation&quot;&gt;What are the major themes in Foundation?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm not very good at discerning themes from books, but one of the ones that I picked up from Foundation went something like this: &quot;a culture that stops learning is doomed to fail.&quot; What major themes exist in Foundation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15482/average-lifespan-of-a-demigod-in-percy-jackson-the-olympians&quot;&gt;Average lifespan of a demigod in Percy Jackson &amp;amp; The Olympians&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How long can demigods live? Daedalus lived for thousands of years... by making a discovery for immortality, like Nicholas Flamel? Circe lived for thousands of years... by using magic? Or is she a minor god? Anyone else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15534/in-what-order-should-tolkiens-writings-on-middle-earth-be-read&quot;&gt;In what order should Tolkien's writings on Middle-earth be read?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've already read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, which I assume would be the best start in any case. I also got about halfway through The Silmarillion several years ago and am quite familiar with the legendarium as a whole, but for the sake of argument let's assume I'm starting from scratch. What is the best order for a budding scholar of Middle-earth to read Tolkien's books?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15484/which-of-the-three-endings-to-stephensons-anathem-is-definitive&quot;&gt;Which of the three endings to Stephenson's “Anathem” is “definitive”?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Near the end of Anathem, the story posits three different &quot;world lines&quot; ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15486/which-of-steve-perrys-novels-prominently-feature-the-siblings-of-the-shroud&quot;&gt;Which of Steve Perry's novels prominently feature the “Siblings of the Shroud”?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I know there is a list on Wikipedia of the books in the &quot;Matador series&quot;, but I'm primarily interested in the society/pseudo-religion &quot;The Siblings of the Shroud&quot; explored mainly in &quot;The 97th Step&quot;. Has this group appeared as anything more than cameos in any of his other books?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15488/in-s-m-stirlings-emberverse-series-is-it-ever-revealed-what-actually-caused&quot;&gt;In S. M. Stirling's Emberverse series, is it ever revealed what actually caused “The Change”?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have only read one book in the series, &quot;Dies the Fire&quot;, but found myself frustrated that the underlying cause of &quot;The Change&quot; was not revealed and thus did not continue with the series. Is the cause ever revealed? If so, in which book?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9430/chronological-order-of-the-drizzt-series&quot;&gt;What is the chronological reading order for following the character “Drizzt” in the Forgotten Realms series of books?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The series of books by R. A. Salvatore featuring the Dark Elf Drizzt has at least twenty published books in it. I know the Icewind Dale Trilogy was the first published, but it starts with Drizzt already on the surface world (Dark Elves live underground). ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15493/what-are-the-revisions-in-the-revised-edition-of-the-hobbit&quot;&gt;What are the revisions in the (Revised Edition) of The Hobbit?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So this past Saturday a group of my friends and I all watched the three Lord of the Rings extended edition movies in one sitting. ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15496/how-long-did-frodo-and-sam-take&quot;&gt;How long did Frodo and Sam take?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How long did it take for Frodo and Sam to get from the Shire to Mount Doom in Mordor and drop the ring in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15498/is-lord-of-the-rings-extolling-the-ordinary-or-casting-it-off&quot;&gt;Is Lord of the Rings extolling the ordinary or casting it off?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In Shadows of Imagination, Clyde S. Kilby asserts that The Lord of the Rings joins the high art of the world in revealing the significance, even the glory, of the ordinary At the same time, in his 1966 paper &quot;The Moral Universe of J. R. R. Tolkien,&quot; David M. Miller declares that it rejects the minutia of every day life Are these two viewpoints necessarily contradictory?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15540/the-silmarillion-different-versions&quot;&gt;The Silmarillion — Different versions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I just read about the book The Silmarillion and thought I'd like to buy it, but I'm a little confused about the different versions that I found. ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15538/what-role-does-radagast-the-brown-play-in-the-hobbit&quot;&gt;What role does Radagast the Brown play in “The Hobbit”?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Having heard that Sylvester McCoy is slated to play the role of Radagast the Brown in the upcoming film adaptations of &quot;The Hobbit&quot;, I am wondering what role this character actually plays in those events?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="562" LastEditorUserId="562" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2018-01-23T02:57:00.813" LastActivityDate="2018-01-23T02:57:00.813" CommentCount="7" CommunityOwnedDate="2018-01-23T02:57:00.813" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1748" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-26T01:01:00.710" Score="10" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;Prompted by a question about the Game of Thrones TV series: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15400/what-did-melisandre-the-red-woman-give-birth-to&quot;&gt;What did Melisandre (the red woman/priestess) give birth to?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene being questioned about is at the end of one episode, and the question is very likely to be answered within the following episode (which has been produced, and scheduled for broadcast). I feel that this is time-localised, and therefore not a good question (as per FAQ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A similar question from a different series (Doctor Who) that was given as a counter-example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3358/who-is-the-eye-patch-woman&quot;&gt;Who is the eye patch woman?&lt;/a&gt; - I can't comment about the validity, since I'm not familiar with the storyline here, but it seems to me that again, this is time-localised as the answers are available in the unfolding of the rest of the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, I feel that this is the same as only half-reading a book before asking a question (in fact, another counter-example was raised: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2358/what-is-the-significance-of-sarumans-ring&quot;&gt;What is the significance of Saruman&amp;#39;s Ring?&lt;/a&gt; - I actually agree that this is a valid question, as the questioner  here has apparently read the entire book and found no answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/521/what-is-the-limit-for-questions-about-ongoing-series&quot;&gt;What is the limit for questions about ongoing series?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="373" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Are questions on series which are answered by upcoming episodes &quot;time localised&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|scope|time-sensitive-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1746" CreationDate="2012-04-26T11:16:54.180" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about everything in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantasy&quot;&gt;Fantasy&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction&quot;&gt;Science Fiction&lt;/a&gt; tags and then review after migration in the normal way of all questions and answers (some might be left closed as duplicates for SEO, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="204" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T13:01:18.293" LastActivityDate="2012-04-26T11:16:54.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1748" CreationDate="2012-04-26T12:07:23.110" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, I think this has bean nailed down in the last link you provided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Most of these questions are fine, because new answers can be added when more information is available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Game of thrones is a special case because it's remarkably faithful to the books. An answer could be provided right now without speculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, The question is not asking what &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; happen, but what &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; happened. As an example, asking &quot;What the shadowy figure Melisandre give birth to is going to do?&quot; would be asking what &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; happen and be spoiler-prompting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I made my personal search to know what was this shadowy figure and I was underhandedly hit by a spoiler: I now know what it's going to do. Beofett, when he answered the question, took care to avoid that mater. He only gave information about the nature of the beast, and still took care of hiding it behind a spoiler tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side note, those type of questions are incredibly popular because many peoples will Google to get the answer to this question. However, this argument should not be considered when deciding it it's on/off-topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2012-04-26T12:07:23.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1748" CreationDate="2012-04-26T13:26:36.333" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a fundamental difference between a question that is &lt;strong&gt;not appropriate for the site&lt;/strong&gt; (that should be flagged and closed) and a question that is &lt;strong&gt;bad&lt;/strong&gt; (that should be downvoted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question that does not have an answer yet does not automatically fall into either category, though it obviously still could. Just because something will probably receive an answer soon but doesn't have one now doesn't mean it's too localized - see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4818/what-questions-should-be-closed-with-reason-too-localized&quot;&gt;What questions should be closed with reason “too localized”?&lt;/a&gt;. It may eventually become a bad question (one whose answer is trivially easy to find), but it isn't &lt;strong&gt;not appropriate for the site.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's something I think we need to further refine as a site - the differentiation between a bad question and a question that's inappropriate for the site isn't very clear right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1913" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2012-04-26T13:26:36.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1753" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-26T21:30:03.657" Score="5" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm following Atwood's post &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/1726/157337&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and he gives an example on how to search questions with the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt;, but not the wildcard tag [tag:status-*].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would I use this to search for, as an example, all questions with &quot;star&quot; in the tag, but not questions with &quot;wars&quot; in a tag, so the end result would have all of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt;, all of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stargate&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate&lt;/a&gt;, but no &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2012-04-26T21:30:03.657" Title="How do I use AND OR and NOT logic in searches?" Tags="|support|tags|search|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2016-03-17T13:41:53.873" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1746" CreationDate="2012-04-26T21:57:43.930" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few more, courtesy of Travis Christian:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Rejected&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/545/what-are-some-novels-that-detail-the-re-emergence-of-civilization-after-some-cat&quot;&gt;What are some novels that detail the re-emergence of civilization after some catastrophic event?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Pretty sure you don't take book recommendations, so this one is probably no good.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm looking for novels dealing with building a new world long after civilization is wiped out. Not the typical post-apocalyptic story about the surviving remnant, like Emberverse, but a long-term &quot;history&quot; where there is little to nothing left of the old world and civilization has started again from scratch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Migrated&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/722/the-silmarillion-different-versions&quot;&gt;The Silmarillion — Different versions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I just read about the book The Silmarillion and thought I'd like to buy it, but I'm a little confused about the different versions that I found. ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/435/what-role-does-radagast-the-brown-play-in-the-hobbit&quot;&gt;What role does Radagast the Brown play in “The Hobbit”?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Having heard that Sylvester McCoy is slated to play the role of Radagast the Brown in the upcoming film adaptations of &quot;The Hobbit&quot;, I am wondering what role this character actually plays in those events?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="562" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T13:01:18.293" LastActivityDate="2012-04-27T21:01:11.940" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1755" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-27T04:26:26.047" Score="3" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first sentence of the site FAQ says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Science Fiction and Fantasy - Stack Exchange is for questions targeted towards science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, that should include speculative science questions such as this one (from the soon-to-be-closed Astronomy site):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/775/metal-dilemma-only-very-few-civilizations-per-galaxy&quot;&gt;https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/775/metal-dilemma-only-very-few-civilizations-per-galaxy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if such questions are on-topic, shouldn't we also look through &quot;speculative&quot; tagged questions on the Astronomy site and ask for them to be migrated over?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. Considering that most science fiction enthusiasts like astronomy, we could conceivably justify subsuming the entire site, or at least the best questions from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5424" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:59:06.177" LastActivityDate="2012-04-27T04:32:33.447" Title="Are speculative science questions on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1755" CreationDate="2012-04-27T04:32:33.447" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per our discussion on chat, I think that we should only migrate to those related to an existing work.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/2187/are-the-milky-way-solar-systems-depicted-in-larry-nivens-known-space-based-on&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; is the only example I could find there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The FAQ currently lists:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This includes questions about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Plot, character, or setting explanations &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Historical or societal&#xA;  context of a work &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Story&#xA;  identification &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Franchise/series reading or viewing order&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The speculative science questions doesn't really fit into any of these categories, but it should be noted that these aren't meant to be an exclusionary set of categories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4056" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:59:06.177" LastActivityDate="2012-04-27T04:32:33.447" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1746" CreationDate="2012-04-27T05:47:59.137" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another batch, this time from Adele C:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Undecided&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1400/what-are-some-of-the-earliest-known-dystopian-stories&quot;&gt;What are some of the earliest known dystopian stories?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Is this one too book-recommendationy?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am a fan of &quot;The Machine Stops&quot; by Forster (1909) but was wondering if there are any dystopian stories from even earlier than 1909?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/214/in-the-dragonlance-series-of-books-which-are-considered-canonical&quot;&gt;In the Dragonlance series of books, which are considered canonical?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This massive list chronicles all of the published Dragonlance books. When I was younger I read many of them, including the Preludes and Preludes II sets, as well as the Chronicles Trilogy. I've even read the set that has Caramon travel back and forward in time, though I don't remember which those are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Migrated&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/115/which-star-wars-book-series-takes-place-immediately-after-episode-6&quot;&gt;Which Star Wars book series takes place immediately after Episode 6?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Having read very little Star Wars fiction, yet being a fan of the series, I've decided after watching a Star Wars marathon of all of the movies that I'd start reading the novels to continue the story. Which book/series should I start with to continue the adventures of Luke Skywalker and company?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="562" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T13:01:18.293" LastActivityDate="2012-04-27T21:02:08.630" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1746" CreationDate="2012-04-27T20:32:29.713" Score="0" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Flagged to Migrate:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/658/why-was-the-harry-potter-series-so-popular#question&quot;&gt;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/658/why-was-the-harry-potter-series-so-popular#question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Migrate:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Migrated:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/219/can-anyone-help-me-identify-a-story-about-squirrels-and-the-octal-system&quot;&gt;Can anyone help me identify a story about squirrels and the octal system?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/369/can-you-help-me-identify-a-short-story-about-mandatory-suicide&quot;&gt;Can you help me identify a short story about mandatory suicide?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/673/what-do-the-istari-in-the-lord-of-the-rings-represent&quot;&gt;What do the Istari in The Lord of the Rings represent?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1057/how-many-appearances-does-agrajag-make-in-the-hitchhikers-guide-series&quot;&gt;How many appearances does Agrajag make in the Hitchhikers' Guide series?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1073/childrens-sci-fi-fantasy-with-black-blobs-and-why-cats-stare-at-walls&quot;&gt;Children's sci-fi/fantasy with black blobs and why cats stare at walls&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/652/story-about-magic-programming-with-some-greek-mythology#question&quot;&gt;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/652/story-about-magic-programming-with-some-greek-mythology#question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1256/what-is-the-name-of-this-young-adult-book-series-from-the-90s-featuring-miniatu#question&quot;&gt;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1256/what-is-the-name-of-this-young-adult-book-series-from-the-90s-featuring-miniatu#question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/860/how-does-neville-longbottom-get-the-gryffindor-sword#question&quot;&gt;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/860/how-does-neville-longbottom-get-the-gryffindor-sword#question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1563/whats-the-name-and-author-of-this-sci-fi-story#question&quot;&gt;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1563/whats-the-name-and-author-of-this-sci-fi-story#question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/961/in-mogworld-what-is-the-nature-of-the-relationship-between-mr-wonderful-and-bo#question&quot;&gt;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/961/in-mogworld-what-is-the-nature-of-the-relationship-between-mr-wonderful-and-bo#question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1011/how-did-lord-dreadgrave-revive-pre-infusion-dead#question&quot;&gt;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1011/how-did-lord-dreadgrave-revive-pre-infusion-dead#question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/652/story-about-magic-programming-with-some-greek-mythology#question&quot;&gt;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/652/story-about-magic-programming-with-some-greek-mythology#question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/565/is-it-worth-reading-i-robot-after-seeing-the-film#question&quot;&gt;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/565/is-it-worth-reading-i-robot-after-seeing-the-film#question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Questions to not migrate&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/60/what-are-some-books-involving-people-with-perfect-recall-eidetic-or-photograp&quot;&gt;What are some books involving people with “perfect recall”, eidetic or photographic memory?&lt;/a&gt; (list/recommendation)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/214/in-the-dragonlance-series-of-books-which-are-considered-canonical&quot;&gt;In the Dragonlance series of books, which are considered canonical?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/373/creation-myth-based-on-music&quot;&gt;Creation myth based on music&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1053/is-there-a-definitive-version-of-the-king-arthur-legend&quot;&gt;Is there a definitive version of the King Arthur legend?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1400/what-are-some-of-the-earliest-known-dystopian-stories#question&quot;&gt;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1400/what-are-some-of-the-earliest-known-dystopian-stories#question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/878/story-about-a-fake-magician-in-a-german-village#question&quot;&gt;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/878/story-about-a-fake-magician-in-a-german-village#question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/214/in-the-dragonlance-series-of-books-which-are-considered-canonical#question&quot;&gt;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/214/in-the-dragonlance-series-of-books-which-are-considered-canonical#question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1987" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T13:01:18.293" LastActivityDate="2012-05-02T17:27:49.243" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1760" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1777" CreationDate="2012-04-29T09:50:58.210" Score="15" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most story identification questions are easy to vote on, if you think it's well written, not obvious and deserving of an answer it probably deserves an upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers however are much harder for me to vote on. How do I know if the answer is 'useful' unless I know it's correct? I feel I either 'guess' at whether the answer is correct and hope I'm right. Or I hold off voting till it's accepted then try and pile on votes to reward the answerer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if either of those is beneficial to stack exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Help?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="How do I vote on story identification questions/answers?" Tags="|discussion|answers|voting|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1760" CreationDate="2012-04-29T10:57:31.657" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't vote on answers that I don't know are correct. I think if the purpose of Stack Exchange is to provide quality &quot;expert&quot; answers, then it's important to vote judiciously. The answer should &lt;em&gt;earn&lt;/em&gt; your vote. I'm curious as to why you would vote on an answer or subject you know you know too little about to make a discerning and correct decision? Not judging -- just curious. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2012-04-29T10:57:31.657" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1763" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1780" CreationDate="2012-04-29T16:03:42.627" Score="8" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;15 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/my-little-pony&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;my-little-pony&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;my-little-pony&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;15 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/friendship-is-magic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;friendship-is-magic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;friendship-is-magic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Exactly the same questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the difference between these two tags? Should they be merged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2012-05-01T19:52:00.710" LastActivityDate="2012-05-01T19:52:41.237" Title="my-little-pony and friendship-is-magic" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1760" CreationDate="2012-04-29T16:10:15.587" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with your criteria for upvoting questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Most story identification questions are easy to vote on, if you think it's well written, not obvious and deserving of an answer it probably deserves an upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For answers, I wait for confirmation from the one who asked the question that it was the story they were looking for, either in a comment or an accept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2012-04-29T16:10:15.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1763" CreationDate="2012-04-29T16:10:22.740" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regardless whether there are additional series in that universe, there are no questions &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;. This tag clutter doesn't help anyone. Since the tags always coincide, and 15 questions is a decent amount of variance, I'd vote to merge the tags into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/my-little-pony-fim&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;my-little-pony-fim&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;my-little-pony-fim&lt;/a&gt; (as suggested by Kevin and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1767/2565&quot;&gt;Gabe Willard&lt;/a&gt;) and leave the old tags as symlinks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2012-04-29T17:13:53.193" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1763" CreationDate="2012-04-29T16:24:59.200" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should change &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/friendship-is-magic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;friendship-is-magic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;friendship-is-magic&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/my-little-pony-fim&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;my-little-pony-fim&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;my-little-pony-fim&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;em&gt;My Little Pony&lt;/em&gt; (MLP) is a long running franchise with many series under that banner.  &lt;em&gt;My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic&lt;/em&gt; (MLP: FiM) is simply the latest of these.  It's conceivable we'll get MLP questions that aren't FiM questions (admittedly I'm not familiar with previous incarnations, so I can't speak to whether or not there are good questions to be had from them), but all FiM questions are necessarily MLP questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So deleting either one and creating a synonym would prevent proper tagging should there be non-FiM MLP questions in the future.  It's similar to the family of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stargate&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate&lt;/a&gt; where the various series have their own tags, then there's also the franchise tag.  We just don't have the same wealth of fandom here for the other &lt;em&gt;My Little Pony&lt;/em&gt; series that we do for the various &lt;em&gt;Star Treks&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Stargates&lt;/em&gt;, so the MLP tags' overlap leads to a terrible Venn diagram of 100% overlap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2012-04-30T00:20:21.833" LastActivityDate="2012-04-30T00:20:21.833" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1763" CreationDate="2012-04-29T16:38:10.257" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the easiest solution would be to change &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/friendship-is-magic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;friendship-is-magic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;friendship-is-magic&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/my-little-pony-fim&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;my-little-pony-fim&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;my-little-pony-fim&lt;/a&gt;. By using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/my-little-pony-fim&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;my-little-pony-fim&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;my-little-pony-fim&lt;/a&gt;, the My Little Pony questions are still easily identified, and we can eliminate having to use two tags to make up for a length limitation. For those 15 questions, they don't need a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/my-little-pony&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;my-little-pony&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;my-little-pony&lt;/a&gt; tag, because they're just about the show Friendship is Magic. If there are questions just about MLP beyond the scope of the current show, then &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/my-little-pony&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;my-little-pony&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;my-little-pony&lt;/a&gt; would be applicable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This change would be congruous to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-ds9&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-ds9&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-ds9&lt;/a&gt;, so the precedence is there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edited to reflect Pureferret's suggestion for easier identification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4831" LastEditorUserId="4831" LastEditDate="2012-04-29T17:13:57.293" LastActivityDate="2012-04-29T17:13:57.293" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1768" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1774" CreationDate="2012-04-29T20:45:40.730" Score="4" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw this tag: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/happy-place&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;happy-place&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;happy-place&lt;/a&gt;. I've never heard of &quot;happy place&quot; before, and I googled it and couldn't find anything. Should it even be a tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1807" LastActivityDate="2012-04-29T22:36:13.550" Title="What's with the happy-place tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1768" CreationDate="2012-04-29T20:54:17.853" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag wiki explains that this is a Harry Potter concept. Even if HP is one of the biggest subjects on this site, this is an extremely specialized tag. Are people really going to subscribe to, ignore or search on this tag (which will only make sense on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; questions)? I'm in favor of removing it, but could be swayed by arguments defending it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-04-29T20:54:17.853" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1770" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-29T21:50:02.533" Score="4" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been some recent discussions about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1732/2565&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1768/2565&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1763/2565&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;My Little Pony&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; tags. While Star Trek tags seem to usually be prefixed with &lt;code&gt;star-trek-&lt;/code&gt; (see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags?tab=name&quot;&gt;tags page&lt;/a&gt;) this seems to be inconsistent. For instance, the recently discussed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/happy-place&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;happy-place&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;happy-place&lt;/a&gt; has really &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; meaning for people that are not familiar with Rowling literature. In order to bring consistency to the tag system (which appears to me increasingly chaotic), I suggest to have some rules for names of sub-tags of a given Universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/happy-place&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;happy-place&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;happy-place&lt;/a&gt; should be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter-happy-place&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter-happy-place&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter-happy-place&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hp-happy-place&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hp-happy-place&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hp-happy-place&lt;/a&gt;. It would make sense to apply this to all such universe-specific tags, wouldn't it? What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2012-04-29T22:38:08.950" Title="Inconsistent tagging" Tags="|discussion|tags|consistency|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1770" CreationDate="2012-04-29T21:56:36.597" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that would lead to some very unwieldy tag names. If you have to preface every universe specific tag with what universe it's from, that would get clunky. What about characters? Specific locations? &lt;strong&gt;I think that what it is regarding should be explained in the tag wiki, not in the tag itself.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With Star Trek, it's a matter of separate and fairly distinct series. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is the name of the series. That issue doesn't arise with Harry Potter or LotR.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if you use &lt;code&gt;hp-&lt;/code&gt;, that's not much clearer than just &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/happy-place&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;happy-place&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;happy-place&lt;/a&gt;, and goes against the convention of spelling out the series name like the &lt;code&gt;star-trek-&lt;/code&gt; tags do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do agree that some of the tags are confusing, but I think &lt;strong&gt;the solution is better tag wikis, and getting rid of superfluous tags&lt;/strong&gt;. Do we need a tag for every concept, location, and character in every work? I don't know anyone who would answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; questions and ignore &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/voldemort&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;voldemort&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;voldemort&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dumbledore&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dumbledore&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dumbledore&lt;/a&gt; questions. They seem totally unnecessary to me, since they don't really provide much more organizational benefit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4831" LastEditorUserId="4831" LastEditDate="2012-04-29T22:24:20.293" LastActivityDate="2012-04-29T22:24:20.293" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1770" CreationDate="2012-04-29T22:25:11.377" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is, for the most part, only the series titles that have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/franchise-name-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;franchise-name-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;franchise-name-series&lt;/a&gt; tags.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-q&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-q&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-q&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-data&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-data&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-data&lt;/a&gt; are the primary exceptions, because the mains are short (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/q&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;q&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;q&lt;/a&gt;), or &lt;em&gt;highly&lt;/em&gt; ambiguous (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/data&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;data&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;data&lt;/a&gt;).  In general,  I don't think there is a reason to make franchise/series-specific tags for characters or concepts until there becomes a strong overlap between two (or more) series. It seems, for example, unwieldy and superfluous to have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter-harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter-harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter-harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter-voldemort&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter-voldemort&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter-voldemort&lt;/a&gt;.  Should there arise a problematic overlap between series, we should create series tags for them and change the main tag excerpt to instruct users to use the appropriate series tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the tag in question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/happy-place&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;happy-place&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;happy-place&lt;/a&gt;, I don't think it's a particularly necessary or helpful tag, so I have removed it from the two questions it was on; it will disappear within 24 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2012-04-29T22:25:11.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1768" CreationDate="2012-04-29T22:36:13.550" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I mentioned in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1773/3267&quot;&gt;another question&lt;/a&gt; inspired by this tag, I don't see it as necessary or helpful, so I removed it from the two questions it was on. If anyone would like to come to its defence, please bring it up in this discussion (and comment to let me know). Unless it is (re-)added to a question by then, it will disappear within 24 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2012-04-29T22:36:13.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1770" CreationDate="2012-04-29T22:38:08.950" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/happy-place&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;happy-place&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;happy-place&lt;/a&gt; was not a good tag and is now gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We only have tags for specific aspects of a work or franchise if it is a big franchise and a well-defined aspect that it makes sense to filter on. For example, specific &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; movies, or Tolkien's major works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1563&quot;&gt;a few character tags&lt;/a&gt;. These should be avoided unless there's a good reason to have them: character names can be searched for. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-q&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-q&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-q&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/r2d2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;r2d2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;r2d2&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/c-3po&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;c-3po&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;c-3po&lt;/a&gt; exist largely because Q is hard to search for, as are R2-D2 and C-3PO because they're often misspelled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When there are tags that refer to a specific aspect of a larger universe, the format &lt;code&gt;universe-aspect&lt;/code&gt; is preferable, because it lets people who ignore, subscribe to or search in tags use a wildcard &lt;code&gt;universe*&lt;/code&gt;. But, as I wrote above, such tags should only be created when there is a real need for them, not “just in case” or on a “why not” basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2012-04-29T22:38:08.950" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1776" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-30T08:28:15.433" Score="5" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/15705/1109&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; links to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/2628/1109&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; which, in the comments links to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/355/1109&quot;&gt;this meta discussion&lt;/a&gt; about what is and isn't on topic here on SciFi.se.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question, as the title states, is whether real world speculation questions are still considered as on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pro: if asked within a universe of a work, they are still on topic as all &quot;behind the scenes&quot; questions are still on topic as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Con: as Mark Trapp has stated in the previous meta topic, these questions have no answer because they don't belong to the real world, so they strictly CAN'T be answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What say you guys?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2012-04-30T22:07:21.733" Title="Are real world speculation questions still on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1760" CreationDate="2012-04-30T12:30:11.360" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;My voting policy for Story ID answers varies depending on the quality of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For questions that deserve an upvote (sufficient detail, interesting description), I upvote an answer if it is indicated as the correct one, or if it is for an incorrect answer that matches exactly all of the information provided by the question (i.e. the question, while still detailed, is worded in such a way as to allow for multiple &quot;correct&quot; answers, only one of which would be the one the OP is looking for).  This is to reward people who put the time into checking the details of the question against their memories and/or research on the topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are answering, and 3 of the 4 criteria match what was described in the question, but the 4th criteria clearly does &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; match your recommendation, then you get no upvote from me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However... if the question is poorly formed, and does not deserve an upvote (does not provide enough information, or is such a generic description that it could be any number of fairly populat stories), I am more inclined to vote for answers that make an honest attempt to answer the question, while providing suggestions that seem particularly interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given multiple valid answers identifying the same title, I'll upvote the one that provides the most useful information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2012-04-30T12:30:11.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1776" CreationDate="2012-04-30T22:07:21.733" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's not what I said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I said was that they have no answer that falls within our scope, because the expertise they require is not derived from Science Fiction or Fantasy. So when we get questions like that, they are soft questions by default and they become invitations to discussions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ask, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can X happen in the real world?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no work of science fiction or fantasy that can tell you the answer, which makes such questions markedly different than the tons of in-universe speculation questions we get here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, there likely is a scientific work that explains the answer, but that's not our domain nor is our audience intended to be experts in hard science (i.e., we're not &quot;&lt;em&gt;Science,&lt;/em&gt; Science Fiction, and Fantasy&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So our whole reason to be, the reason why people come to us instead of any other site, is negated and our established expertise on the subject is no different than any other message board or forum out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange has a number of hard science and math sites where such questions would be on-topic and have the appropriate audience:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://physics.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Physics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://biology.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Biology&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chemistry.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Chemistry&lt;/a&gt; (soon)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://math.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Mathematics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those sites should get those questions, not us. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastActivityDate="2012-04-30T22:07:21.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1763" CreationDate="2012-05-01T19:52:41.237" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per the discussion here, I've renamed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/friendship-is-magic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;friendship-is-magic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;friendship-is-magic&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/my-little-pony-fim&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;my-little-pony-fim&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;my-little-pony-fim&lt;/a&gt;, and setup a synonym from the former to the latter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-05-01T19:52:41.237" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1781" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-01T22:47:38.260" Score="3" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1028/what-are-our-boundaries&quot;&gt;What are our boundaries?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Context&lt;/strong&gt;: I know it's hard to decide what is and what isn't Science Fiction or Fantasy. This is a classic discussion that goes well beyond the history of SE or even the internet. However, for scifi.SE, if a line isn't drawn this is just a &quot;Movies &amp;amp; TV shows&quot; website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15815/what-does-derpys-cutie-mark-mean&quot;&gt;My Little Pony&lt;/a&gt; a kids cartoon with little relationship to the Fantasy genre and none to SF? I'm obviously not the target demographic for this show and therefore not familiar with it, so I might be wrong, but is there enough fantasy content in MLP to qualify for this site? &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_Is_Magic&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;By reading Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, I see the show &quot;still incorporates episodic creatures intended to be frightening to children, such as dragons and hydras&quot;... but does that qualify as Fantasy? In that case, would almost every Disney cartoon qualify for this website?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I know there is &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; fantasy, which is why I won't argue the case that there is none. But almost every TV show involves some degree of fantasy. Where do we draw the line? Does a line need to be drawn at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="770" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2012-05-01T22:47:38.260" Title="Does the &quot;My Little Pony&quot; franchise belong in SF&amp;F?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2012-05-01T22:53:04.887" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1028" CreationDate="2012-05-02T00:46:53.390" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;[&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: I've edited this answer to be more to the point, as per &lt;strong&gt;Keen&lt;/strong&gt;'s suggestion. I've removed references to &quot;My Little Pony&quot;, which was the trigger but no longer the main point. This may make comments below seem out of context.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the boundary question &quot;what is Fantasy &amp;amp; SF?&quot; is &lt;em&gt;really hard&lt;/em&gt;, has existed before the advent of the internet, and won't be solved anytime soon. However &lt;em&gt;in my opinion&lt;/em&gt; we should decide what is on-topic here on scifi.SE, because otherwise the site's topic would turn into &quot;Movies &amp;amp; TV&quot;, which &lt;em&gt;would not be a good thing&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any set of rules would be necessarily arbitrary, since we cannot solve the general question, but we need to be able to decide what is on topic for scifi.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some general considerations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We need to be able to decide whether &lt;em&gt;the genre&lt;/em&gt; of a question is on-topic. Other considerations such as &quot;is this question spam?&quot;, &quot;is this suitable for a Q&amp;amp;A site?&quot; are already considered elsewhere.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is unacceptable to use as criterion for on-topicness whether the fans &quot;enjoy&quot; discussing something. Elsewhere in other SE sites this isn't accepted. Whether something is interesting, useful or enjoyable and whether it's on-topic for a SE site are orthogonal concepts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The focus of the site is worth preserving. If the community disagrees with me on this, then the rest of this discussion isn't needed :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; the criteria for declaring a work of fiction on-topic for scifi.SE? Is it, as has been suggested:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Has at least some fantasy elements&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Has a fleshed-out world&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think this is enough. Most kids cartoons have some kind of world that could be considered fleshed-out, and most have fantastical elements. Should we consider them all on-topic? Let's refine &quot;Fantasy&quot; some more to get rid of shows such as &lt;em&gt;The Flintstones&lt;/em&gt; (dinosaurs didn't live with humans and stone age technology wasn't like that) and &lt;em&gt;Yogi Bear&lt;/em&gt; (bears don't talk or wear hats):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Magic and/or the supernatural must be featured prominently.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're getting close, but I'm still not sure. Can't there be a fantasy work without magic at all? Let's remove magic, dragons and the White Walkers from George Martin's &lt;em&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/em&gt;, but keep the factions and geography. Would it still be a work of Fantasy? If so, why? Maybe scifi.SE &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; exclude it, as a matter of principle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="770" LastEditorUserId="770" LastEditDate="2012-05-02T02:02:43.437" LastActivityDate="2012-05-02T02:02:43.437" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1783" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1806" CreationDate="2012-05-02T00:54:25.437" Score="4" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;When there's a change made to a question or answer that you're viewing, a handy bar pops up saying so, with a link to refresh the page to show the updated content.  On meta, this bar has the text color and background color the same, so it appears to just be a strange grey bar.  Here's a picture:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wJFQj.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of grey bar&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="90" LastEditDate="2012-05-04T20:10:17.027" LastActivityDate="2012-05-04T20:10:17.027" Title="&quot;An edit has been made to this post&quot; bar has same text color and bg color" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|meta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1746" CreationDate="2012-05-02T01:37:15.367" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Please migrate&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/312/what-do-the-other-farmers-symbolize-in-animal-farm&quot;&gt;What do the other farmers symbolize in Animal Farm?&lt;/a&gt; (SF or allegory?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/385/what-is-the-symbolism-of-rats-in-george-orwells-1984&quot;&gt;What is the symbolism of rats in George Orwell's “1984”?&lt;/a&gt; (SF or allegory?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/666/why-does-gullivers-travels-have-teasers-at-the-beginning-of-each-chapter&quot;&gt;Why does Gulliver's Travels have “teasers” at the beginning of each chapter?&lt;/a&gt; (pre-SF, not about an SFnal aspect)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1089/why-do-the-hero-twins-kill-zipacna-in-the-popol-vuh&quot;&gt;Why do the Hero Twins kill Zipacna in the Popol Vuh?&lt;/a&gt; (SF or mythology?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1116/whats-the-significance-of-the-animal-transformations&quot;&gt;What's the significance of the animal transformations?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Once and Future King&lt;/em&gt;) (SF or allegory?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1117/whats-with-all-the-anachronism&quot;&gt;What's with all the anachronism?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Once and Future King&lt;/em&gt;) (SF or allegory?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1243/is-there-a-specific-reason-why-karlsson-is-rather-overweight&quot;&gt;Is there a specific reason why Karlsson is rather overweight?&lt;/a&gt; (came from here originally and was disliked as being more children's literature)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1604/identify-childrens-story-about-magic-book-eggshells-and-invisible-children&quot;&gt;Identify children's story about magic book, eggshells, and invisible children&lt;/a&gt; (is more children's literature than SF)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/392/what-are-the-anti-church-messages-in-the-his-dark-materials-trilogy&quot;&gt;What are the anti-Church messages in the “His Dark Materials” trilogy?&lt;/a&gt; (the focus is strongly on the Christian outlook on the books, I've alterted the Christianity moderators to this question)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/658/why-was-the-harry-potter-series-so-popular&quot;&gt;Why was the Harry Potter series so popular?&lt;/a&gt; (thematically on-topic and has decent answers despite the scary-looking title)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1277/is-c-s-lewis-narnian-courtly-language-clumsy&quot;&gt;Is C. S. Lewis' Narnian “courtly language” clumsy?&lt;/a&gt; (a good literary analysis question, not what we're used to)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Rejected&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/22/what-are-the-riddle-rules&quot;&gt;What are the Riddle Rules?&lt;/a&gt; (general reference, with a side of he never said)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/173/can-anyone-help-me-identify-a-book-about-morphing-kids&quot;&gt;Can anyone help me identify a book about morphing kids?&lt;/a&gt; (story identification, old and vague)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/536/what-do-the-main-characters-in-the-wizard-of-oz-symbolize&quot;&gt;What do the main characters in “The Wizard of Oz” symbolize?&lt;/a&gt; (didn't ask for more than what Wikipedia provides)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/878/story-about-a-fake-magician-in-a-german-village&quot;&gt;Story about a fake magician in a German village?&lt;/a&gt; (story identification, old and vague)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/171/what-order-should-the-dark-tower-books-be-read-in&quot;&gt;What order should The Dark Tower books be read in?&lt;/a&gt; duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2939/what-is-the-correct-order-for-stephen-kings-dark-tower-series&quot;&gt;What is the correct reading order for Stephen King&amp;#39;s &amp;#39;Dark Tower&amp;#39; series (updated)?&lt;/a&gt; with no answer worth migrating&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1123/h-g-wells-and-eugenics&quot;&gt;H. G. Wells and eugenics&lt;/a&gt; (not about his SF work, more about his personal opinions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T13:01:18.293" LastActivityDate="2012-05-04T00:24:05.730" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1746" CreationDate="2012-05-02T01:41:38.623" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Migrated&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/2/what-order-should-the-chronicles-of-narnia-books-be-read-in&quot;&gt;What order should the Chronicles of Narnia books be read in?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/39/can-anyone-help-me-identify-a-story-about-kids-with-silver-blood&quot;&gt;Can anyone help me identify a story about kids with silver blood?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/57/can-you-help-identify-a-book-about-kids-getting-pulled-into-a-fantasy-world&quot;&gt;Can you help identify a book about kids getting pulled into a fantasy world?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/152/what-order-should-i-read-the-robert-langdon-books&quot;&gt;What order should I read the Robert Langdon books?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/282/does-the-gods-themselves-take-place-in-asimovs-foundation-shared-universe&quot;&gt;Does “The Gods Themselves” take place in Asimov's Foundation “shared universe”?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/295/reading-charles-stross-laundry-series-out-of-order&quot;&gt;Reading Charles Stross Laundry Series out of order&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/302/in-the-book-jurassic-park-does-the-lysine-contingency-actually-get-explained&quot;&gt;In the book “Jurassic Park” does the Lysine Contingency actually get explained?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/454/role-and-significance-of-molly-grue&quot;&gt;Role and significance of Molly Grue&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/565/is-it-worth-reading-i-robot-after-seeing-the-film&quot;&gt;Is it worth reading “I Robot” after seeing the film&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/735/book-about-a-family-that-drank-from-the-fountain-of-youth&quot;&gt;Book about a family that drank from the fountain of youth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/898/what-is-the-meaning-of-the-ending-of-man-in-the-high-castle&quot;&gt;What is the meaning of the ending of “Man in the High Castle”?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/961/in-mogworld-what-is-the-nature-of-the-relationship-between-mr-wonderful-and-bo&quot;&gt;In Mogworld, what is the nature of the relationship between Mr. Wonderful and Bowg?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/990/where-did-holborn-come-from&quot;&gt;Where did Holborn come from?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/997/what-deeper-meanings-are-contained-in-harrison-bergeron-by-kurt-vonnegut&quot;&gt;What deeper meanings are contained in Harrison Bergeron, by Kurt Vonnegut?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1011/how-did-lord-dreadgrave-revive-pre-infusion-dead&quot;&gt;How did Lord Dreadgrave revive pre-infusion dead?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1014/who-gets-turned-into-a-tree-in-tortall-and-other-lands&quot;&gt;Who gets turned into a tree in “Tortall and Other Lands”?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1022/why-do-vampires-sparkle-in-twilight&quot;&gt;Why do vampires sparkle in Twilight&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1108/idea-of-paying-for-things-with-time&quot;&gt;Idea of paying for things with time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1260/in-dracula-what-does-the-quote-despair-has-its-own-calms-mean&quot;&gt;In dracula, what does the quote “Despair has its own calms” mean?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1299/set-of-short-stories-including-one-with-a-man-with-wings-and-another-about-his&quot;&gt;Set of short stories, including one with a man with wings, and another about his strange family gathering&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1471/is-there-any-connection-between-narnia-and-the-narn-in-narn-i-chin-hurin&quot;&gt;Is there any connection between Narnia and the “Narn” in Narn i Chîn Húrin?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1510/help-finding-story-of-telepathic-kids&quot;&gt;Help Finding Story Of Telepathic Kids&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1563/whats-the-name-and-author-of-this-sci-fi-story&quot;&gt;What's the name and author of this sci-fi story?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1647/looking-for-book-title&quot;&gt;Looking for book title&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T13:01:18.293" LastActivityDate="2012-05-02T20:03:58.180" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1786" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1787" CreationDate="2012-05-02T02:29:58.390" Score="9" ViewCount="276" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't find anywhere in the FAQ or rules that say a user can't ask a question if they already know the answer.  I see constant references in comments and answers to this being prohibited, but, please direct me to where this is spelled out as I can't find it.  Implying that because the questioner knows the answer it's not a question is a semantic game that anyone can play, but the definition of a question in the dictionary certainly doesn't say that if the asker knows the answer it's not a question.  If there is going to be this sort of a prohibition, that's fine but it's unfair to close a question for this without it being in the rules somewhere.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, if the asker knows an answer but suspects that there might be more than one answer, but doesn't want to bias the answers by sharing that up front, it becomes perfecly reasonable to ask that question, so I don't even really understand the prohibition's motivation in the first place, if there is in fact one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5828" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-05-02T20:14:45.717" LastActivityDate="2012-05-03T00:32:35.880" Title="Where does it say that a user can't ask a question they know the answer to?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|self-answer|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1786" CreationDate="2012-05-02T02:37:54.120" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; explicitly states you &lt;strong&gt;can&lt;/strong&gt; ask and answer your own question (right under the horizontal rule):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It’s also OK to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/its-ok-to-ask-and-answer-your-own-questions/&quot;&gt;ask and answer your own question&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's an urban myth that it's prohibited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2012-05-02T02:37:54.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1028" CreationDate="2012-05-02T05:39:12.063" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;(I realize this answer is mostly a compilation of comments and answers to other questions, but I'm having a hard time sorting through it all...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the Wikipedia definitions are a great starting point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Science fiction&lt;/a&gt; is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible (or at least non-supernatural) content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fantasy&lt;/a&gt; is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting.   Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common. Fantasy is generally distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of scientific and macabre themes, respectively, though there is a great deal of overlap between the three...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And combined with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/are-works-that-arent-sf-per-se-but-have-occasional-sfnal-elements-on-topic-e&quot;&gt;Gilles' answer here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;I suggest the following guidelines (improvements welcome):&#xA;&#xA;1. If it's marketed as SF, it's on-topic.&#xA;2. If magic, futuristic science or technology, alternate history, or other &#xA;   sf-nal concept is an important part of the overall plot, it's on-topic. &#xA;   (Alice in Wonderland, Clockwork Orange, etc.)&#xA;3. If the question is specifically about an sf-nal element, even if it's only &#xA;   a minor part of the work, it's on-topic.&#xA;4. If it's set in an on-topic universe, it's on-topic.&#xA;5. If you're not sure it's SF but you think a good case can be made for it, &#xA;   it's on-topic.&#xA;6. If there is a minor supernatural element (e.g. a fortune teller's prediction &#xA;   comes true, or someone sees a ghost, or a story for children involving &#xA;   anthropomorphic animals) but it's just a throwaway plot element that's &#xA;   not particularly relevant to the question, it's off-topic.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Finally, my own contribution:) I think some elaboration of rule 1 is necessary, and I think  that's where the difference of opinion comes from.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's marketed as SF/F and/or if the author considers it SF/F, then it's on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the author doesn't consider it to be SF/F, then it gets tricky.  Vonnegut didn't like being considered an SF writer, but many people consider some of his work to be SF and I'd consider it to be on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OTOH, there've been questions about stories in The Bible, and I'd consider those off-topic because the vast majority of people who are interested in The Bible &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; consider it to be fantasy, despite some fantastic elements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that if the author doesn't consider it SF/F or if it's marketed as something other than SF/F, then it takes a clear contrary opinion of fans (or, in this case SciFi.SE members) to make it on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that's the grey area MLP:FIM falls into.  I think it (probably) wasn't considered as fantasy by its creators, and even if it was, the &lt;em&gt;themes and plots&lt;/em&gt; are largely the same as any other kids' show - broadly, teaching them what's good and bad.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But since most SciFi.SE members are ok with considering it to be on-topic, and since it does fit the objective criteria to be considered &quot;Fantasy&quot; then it's fine.  Personally, I think it is a borderline case, but I'm happy that others consider it on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's worth pointing out that the themes of Friendship Is Magic are &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; the same as the previous generation of My Little Pony (&quot;Ponyville&quot;) shows and movies but there are no questions about those shows.  The MLP Ponyville movies have magic, and dragons (well, just Spike), and Breezies (a sort-of butterfly/pegasus/pixie creature), but they don't have the writing that appeals to adults, so I don't think even the most hard-core brony is interested in them.  (I've got a daughter who's the target age for all things MLP, so I've seen almost all of them!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2012-05-02T05:39:12.063" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1786" CreationDate="2012-05-02T14:38:38.397" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a difference between answering your own question because you did more research later, and asking a question you intend to answer &quot;immediately&quot; - remember you should only ask questions about &lt;em&gt;&quot;actual problems you face&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ask a question and later find the answer, answer your own question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you mentally &quot;ask&quot; a question, do some research and find the answer, and think someone else might one day benefit from it as Jeff's example, sure. I think this makes less sense for this site than Stack Overflow though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're actively trying to come up with question/answer pairs for the site, just so you can ask and answer them, you're often just adding noise. It's not against the rules, but Stack Exchange has a mechanism to handle questions that meet the rules but are still bad - downvotes. And you'll probably get some of those if your questions are artificial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1030" LastActivityDate="2012-05-02T14:38:38.397" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1746" CreationDate="2012-05-02T16:57:25.137" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A question I asked (&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1279/almost-hard-science-fiction-with-magic-or-hard-science-fantasy&quot;&gt;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1279/almost-hard-science-fiction-with-magic-or-hard-science-fantasy&lt;/a&gt;) was closed here, had four votes to reopen, then was migrated, and got some additional good answers.  I'd like to see it back here, but I understand if it's too list-like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1433" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T13:01:18.293" LastActivityDate="2012-05-02T16:57:25.137" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1028" CreationDate="2012-05-02T16:58:10.563" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see we now have two questions about Teletubbies. I have flagged both for closing because I truly believe that the Teletubbies should be off-topic. While the show might have a cult following outside its intended age group, it was manifestly created as a show for very young children - children so young as to be only just beginning to master concepts such as reality vs fantasy. The universe is barely developed and highly repetitive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One might say it has &quot;fantasy&quot; elements, but only in the sense that fantasy can mean &quot;imagination&quot;. The show has imagination, but not speculation. It is child's play, and in-universe has no adult themes. I think we need to distinguish the genre by in-universe criteria - not by whether admirers of the show think it's cool or funny or have rationalized out-of-universe explanations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we agree that TT should be off-topic? Otherwise I don't see how &quot;scope&quot; serves any purpose at all.      &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4025" LastEditorUserId="4025" LastEditDate="2012-05-02T20:39:35.123" LastActivityDate="2012-05-02T20:39:35.123" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1792" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-02T17:54:17.343" Score="1" ViewCount="277" Body="&lt;p&gt;I mean, I know &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2184/are-the-teletubbies-cyborgs&quot;&gt;my question&lt;/a&gt; was one of two that just got migrated but there was no explanation or suggestion, it just went.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I have two questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why was it migrated?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What about all the other tv and movie questions? Are we going to migrate the Star Wars and Star Trek questions as well?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: I managed to get the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8722/are-the-teletubbies-cyborgs?noredirect=1&quot;&gt;original question&lt;/a&gt; and found out it was done by @Keen so maybe he can answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2019-10-21T04:42:25.260" Title="What just happened to the Teletubbies questions?" Tags="|discussion|support|specific-question|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="20" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1792" CreationDate="2012-05-02T18:23:11.283" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This older &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1028/what-are-our-boundaries&quot;&gt;question on &quot;what are the boundaries of scifi.se&quot;&lt;/a&gt; got a lot of activity yesterday, discussing what makes My Little Pony Friendship is Magic on-topic vs. other kid's shows that might or might not be.  As you can see, there is some sentiment that kid's shows aren't on topic and FIM may be an exception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, with the topic fresh in peoples' minds, both Teletubbies questions were probably flagged as being off-topic and Keen responded to those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2012-05-02T18:23:11.283" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1792" CreationDate="2012-05-02T18:23:25.073" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short answer; We must accept the Teletubbies if and only if we accept My Little Pony.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't lean either way, but the community appears to accept MLP, so the answer is, Teletubbies should stay here, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastActivityDate="2012-05-02T18:23:25.073" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1792" CreationDate="2012-05-02T19:23:46.543" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shamelessly borrowing from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1791/1359&quot;&gt;Mark Beadles' answer&lt;/a&gt; on another question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the show might have a cult following outside its intended age group, the universe setting is barely developed and highly repetitive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One might say it has &quot;fantasy&quot; elements, but only in the sense that fantasy can mean &quot;imagination&quot;. The show has imagination, but not speculation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Teletubbies_episodes_and_videos&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Plot elements are primitive to the point of non-existence&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-10-21T04:42:25.260" LastActivityDate="2019-10-21T04:42:25.260" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1786" CreationDate="2012-05-03T00:32:35.880" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's ok. This official Stackexchange blog post : &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/its-ok-to-ask-and-answer-your-own-questions/&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/its-ok-to-ask-and-answer-your-own-questions/&lt;/a&gt; goes to say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;if you have a question that you already know the answer to&#xA;if you’d like to document it in public so others (including yourself) can find it later&#xA;it is OK to ask, and answer, your own question on a relevant Stack Exchange site.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To be crystal clear, it is not merely OK to ask and answer your own&#xA;  question, it is explicitly encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned here it's even explicitly encouraged to post questions you already know the answer to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that's written by Jeff Atwood one of the founders of Stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6133" LastActivityDate="2012-05-03T00:32:35.880" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1797" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1802" CreationDate="2012-05-03T01:38:21.970" Score="9" ViewCount="362" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed on Pureferret's question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15975/what-happened-to-the-heroes-from-diablo-1&quot;&gt;What happened to the Heroes from Diablo 1?&lt;/a&gt;, C. Ross mentions that the exact same question was asked on Gaming.SE. I don't think that means the question should be closed as an exact duplicate, but I wanted to ask on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question has an exact duplicate on a different SE site, should it be closed as a duplicate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4831" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Are duplicate questions on different SE sites considered &quot;exact duplicates&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1798" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-03T02:06:58.360" Score="15" ViewCount="427" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, as some of you have noticed, I've been asking a lot of questions about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/friendship-is-magic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;friendship-is-magic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;friendship-is-magic&lt;/a&gt; on the site lately. It's because I've been watching the show in a marathon session on my breaks, after work, etc. I thought that since the show features anthropomorphized ponies, as well as fantastical elements such as dragons, magic, and pegasi, that the show was perfectly on-topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I've noticed a lack of response to MLP:FiM questions in general, plus I received a number of downvotes on &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of my MLP-related questions on succession today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I'm asking the SFF community: are questions about &lt;em&gt;My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic&lt;/em&gt; really welcome here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2459" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-05-03T21:09:22.973" LastActivityDate="2012-05-03T21:09:22.973" Title="Are My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic questions welcome here?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1798" CreationDate="2012-05-03T02:53:54.190" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;As they are squarely in the realm of Fantasy, they are as on-topic as The Last Unicorn questions, which is also about a talking horse. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5828" LastActivityDate="2012-05-03T02:53:54.190" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1798" CreationDate="2012-05-03T03:27:31.320" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are certain users who are opposed to them, but since there is no good reason not to allow the questions, they are on topic and welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4831" LastActivityDate="2012-05-03T03:27:31.320" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1798" CreationDate="2012-05-03T03:36:36.713" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Nathan and Gabe, but on your remark on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've noticed a lack of response to MLP:FiM questions in general&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it may fit into the SFF area, it doesn't mean many people on this site watch it and hence be able to answer questions on it.  The answers will come if others interested in the program start using the site, or other users of the site become interested in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4056" LastActivityDate="2012-05-03T03:36:36.713" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1797" CreationDate="2012-05-03T12:44:56.613" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of the discussion I have found is on cross-posting, rather than incidental duplication on different sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overlap such as video game story/lore elements being on topic for both gaming.se and scifi.se is rather unusual, and generally the exception to the rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it seems there are some accepted guidelines that cover this situation.  There are also a few grey areas, which I will outline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deliberately cross-posting is indeed &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/64069/166646&quot;&gt;something that is strongly discouraged&lt;/a&gt;.  Part of the justification for this is that &quot;99.99% of questions people have claimed as being cross site has been proven to be valid on a single site if written properly and thought through&quot;.  I think that this specific scenario (scifi/fantasy video game lore) is that &quot;0.01%&quot;.  Both communities have explicitly stated that these types of questions are on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/64073/166646&quot;&gt;Jeff's answer&lt;/a&gt; states pretty clearly that cross-posting is bad?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/65931/cross-posting-on-stackexchange-sites&quot;&gt;this meta discussion&lt;/a&gt;, created at around the same time as the previous one, has a slightly different take on cross-posting, claiming that it is okay so long as it is not &quot;abusive&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/87749/166646&quot;&gt;Robert Harvey clarifies when cross-posting is considered &quot;abusive&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.  More importantly, he references a comment by Robert Cartaino:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Robert Cartaino is right; there's no concept of closing as a duplicate on another site. Down that road lies madness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So... deliberately posting on both sites is probably not the best idea, &lt;em&gt;unless&lt;/em&gt; you can tailor one question to focus on the gaming community's perspective, and another on the scifi/fantasy community's.  However... two different users posting very similar questions on each site seems perfectly fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2012-05-03T12:44:56.613" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1783" CreationDate="2012-05-04T20:10:09.833" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This and the &quot;N questions with new activity&quot; bars will be fixed in the next build, &gt; rev 2012.5.4.2454.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90" LastActivityDate="2012-05-04T20:10:09.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1807" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-04T21:07:59.800" Score="5" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;I realize that most of the regulars on this site (including me) are quite savvy in technical terms, in-universe lingo, and Internet-speak.  But not everyone who looks for answers on this site may be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently, I started seeing an abbreviation used on this site that I had not seen before; one that I could not deduce the meaning of.  I had to look it up.  It was TL;DR.  It does seem like it's being used more and more in answers on this site, but in my opinion it seems sloppy to use memes like this.  After all, users are flamed for using netchat or l33t speak when composing questions or answers instead of regular English. (IMHO) ;)  The same thing could be accomplished by simply writing instead:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Short Answer: Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Long Answer: [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that same vein, but maybe to a lesser degree, should we try to limit the use of universe abbreviations (e.g. ST:TWOK, ROTJ) unless first defined within the question or answer?  It seems like it would improve search engine results, and minimize confusion of folks who don't know all the jargon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3619" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-05-04T21:16:30.973" LastActivityDate="2012-05-04T21:32:23.810" Title="Should we encourage plain English over acronyms / memes / techie jargon?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1807" CreationDate="2012-05-04T21:16:18.977" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, we should encourage plain English. The goal of posts is to be read, hence they must be comprehensible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be flamed for using netchat or l33t speak. They should be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq#etiquette&quot;&gt;politely requested&lt;/a&gt; to write proper English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see substandard English anywhere or posts that are difficult to understand, edit them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The use of acronyms or memes is not proscribed. They should be avoided when they hinder comprehension, but it's ok to use abbreviations if you define them, for example (sometimes a Wikipedia link is enough of a definition).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1530/list-of-common-abbreviations&quot;&gt;list of common abbreviations&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2012-05-04T21:16:18.977" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1807" CreationDate="2012-05-04T21:32:23.810" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, please use plain english.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I'm making a statement, the presumption is I want people to read it.  If I don't make the effort it as clear as possible and as easy to read as possible, then why should I expect others to put the effort to read &lt;strong&gt;my&lt;/strong&gt; post?  If I don't care that much about communicating that point, why should they care?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2012-05-04T21:32:23.810" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1812" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-05T09:03:44.240" Score="6" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/16004/how-are-the-etrian-odyssey-cataclysms-connected&quot;&gt;How are the Etrian Odyssey cataclysms connected?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/16002/whats-the-meaning-of-lucifels-corrected-years-in-the-opening&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the meaning of Lucifel&amp;#39;s corrected years in the opening?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/16175/what-happened-ultimately-to-the-succubus&quot;&gt;What ultimately happened to the Succubus?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/16179/how-did-people-survive-on-the-islands-of-myst&quot;&gt;How did people survive on the islands of Myst?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Four &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt; questions, all of which I think are high-quality, downvoted with no comment within the past hour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone want to own up to this? Or do we have a rogue voter who doesn't know that it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt; week?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1030" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2012-05-06T12:16:32.200" Title="Why is someone downvoting video game questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1812" CreationDate="2012-05-05T15:07:06.507" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, since nobody is &lt;em&gt;required&lt;/em&gt; to explain their down-vote and not everybody participates in Meta, you may never know why your questions were down-voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1740/1639&quot;&gt;this week being video game week&lt;/a&gt; (although it really should be annual &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; week - May the fourth be with you) there are two other Meta threads validating &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt; questions (that do not relate to gameplay) as on-topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/319/can-i-ask-a-question-about-video-game-based-scifi-fantasy&quot;&gt;Can I ask a question about video game based scifi/fantasy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/400/which-mediums-can-be-the-basis-of-questions&quot;&gt;Which mediums can be the basis of questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please feel free to continue asking your questions about the plots, characters, and backgrounds of video games.  They are certainly welcome, provided they also conform to the other guidelines &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;outlined in the FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1639" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2012-05-05T15:07:06.507" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1812" CreationDate="2012-05-05T19:41:10.267" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are at this moment &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot;&gt;50 questions tagged &quot;video-games&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. Only 13 have been downvoted. 37 have no downvotes. That's about 25% of the questions have one or more downvotes. This sounds about average. Looking at the data, I don't think this is a case of serial downvoting of the topic. It may just be the luck of the draw, and it happened to come up while you were looking at it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4025" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2012-05-05T19:41:10.267" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1812" CreationDate="2012-05-06T12:16:32.200" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not sure if it's video game specific. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did you post other questions this week or only video games?&lt;/strong&gt;  - and if so, were they downvoted as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted no VG questions (not my area of interest/expertise - I have the whole tag on &quot;ignore&quot;) but I had many of my own questions - both new and some old - downvoted, on average 3-4 downvotes a day, with at least a couple of times being obviously serial (e.g. today I had 3 downvotes in the space of several minutes) - none of them with comments. Since I've been active on this site, I have had my share of downvotes, but the last 2 weeks the volume was materially higher (both in # of DVs as well as percentage since I post less than average). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As others noted, you can't really demand explanations - while the SE spirit is that you should not downvote without explanation, the letter - for good reason - is that the comments for downvoting never were and never will be required (having experienced revenge downvoting on SO myself, I can see why that's not a bad policy).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, something REALLY egregious is usually caught in automated scripts (MSO has details) designed to remove serial voting (the algorithm is secret but clearly takes &gt;4 votes since none of my serial-downvoters were reversed so far on SFF, unlike on SO where someone's serial downvoting of me to teh tune of 8+ votes was indeed automatically cancelled).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-05-06T12:16:32.200" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1816" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-07T15:32:25.603" Score="8" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the Favorites tab of the User Profile screen, the title of an updated question becomes unreadable as it blends in with the background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mEmKQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Unread Updated Favorite Question&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once clicked through, the Title and background colors change such as to become readable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sWHqN.png&quot; alt=&quot;Read Updated Favorite Question&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1234" LastActivityDate="2012-05-07T15:32:25.603" Title="Title for updated favorited question unreadable" Tags="|bug|design|meta|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1817" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1819" CreationDate="2012-05-07T20:42:51.920" Score="8" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;Earlier today, the background in chat changed.  At least it did for a large band on the bottom of the chat box:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2peGA.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot showing the issue.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, this makes reading the text extremely difficult.  The chat transcript page has the same issue, only worse as it covers all the text instead of just the bottom chunk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same background pattern can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/?tab=site&amp;amp;sort=active&amp;amp;host=scifi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;on this page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="44" LastEditDate="2012-09-28T18:16:09.060" LastActivityDate="2012-09-28T18:16:09.060" Title="Chat background changed today" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|chat|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1817" CreationDate="2012-05-07T20:58:28.967" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just for the case this persists, a workaround that might work for the time being is scaling the page up. Everything gets huge, but the orange background is pushed beyond the visible portion of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;YMMV&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastActivityDate="2012-05-07T20:58:28.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1817" CreationDate="2012-05-07T21:05:04.753" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the css was incorrectly using our &quot;sandbox&quot; area for the images. Guess what - if somebody changes what we are prototyping - things go bad!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Building out now...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102" LastActivityDate="2012-05-07T21:05:04.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1138" CreationDate="2012-05-08T01:33:19.853" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vote this answer up if you also started feverishly trying to remember/google a Sci-Fi or Fantasy work titled &quot;HIATUS&quot; upon reading today's update :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. More on topic, I think &lt;strong&gt;Lem&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Zelazny&lt;/strong&gt; are heavily under-asked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-05-08T01:33:19.853" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-05-08T01:33:19.853" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1138" CreationDate="2012-05-08T11:05:11.083" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/zombie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;zombie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;zombie&lt;/a&gt; week? Featuring questions about all incarnations of zombie lore (no pun intended).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastActivityDate="2012-05-08T11:05:11.083" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-05-08T11:05:11.083" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1544" CreationDate="2012-05-08T14:30:21.657" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rebecca, has the swag been sent out?  People are wondering what's up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-05-08T14:30:21.657" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1823" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1824" CreationDate="2012-05-08T22:39:58.653" Score="4" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I add a comment on the main site, something breaks such that IE8 drops into compatibility mode for the site.  This has unfortunate side-effects like removing the bar across the top containing login name, rep info, badges, links, etc, but the root cause is always adding a comment.  That is the only action I've found that causes IE8 to refresh the page in compatibility mode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4056" LastEditorUserId="4257" LastEditDate="2014-10-06T23:00:23.647" LastActivityDate="2014-10-06T23:00:23.647" Title="When I add a comment, Internet Explorer drops into compatibility mode" Tags="|bug|status-declined|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1823" CreationDate="2012-05-08T22:46:32.980" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/114602/commenting-switches-internet-explorer-8-to-compatibility-mode&quot;&gt;This is a known bug&lt;/a&gt;. Apparently there is some difficulty reproducing the problem (it doesn't happen for everyone). If you can help the developers understand why it works for them and not for you, that would help to fix the bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2012-05-08T22:46:32.980" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1138" CreationDate="2012-05-09T09:18:44.397" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Roleplaying games&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are extensive novels, worlds and histories to most of the D&amp;amp;D worlds, as well as stories that go with many other mainstream roleplaying systems, like World of Darkness, Mouseguard, and various others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could tie in quite well with the release of D&amp;amp;D Next, whenever that is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-05-09T09:18:44.397" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-05-09T09:18:44.397" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1138" CreationDate="2012-05-09T09:27:38.147" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Philip K.Dick&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be a good topic, on par with out recent Heinlen one. It would cover the upcoming Total Recall movie, and all the past novels and adaptations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-05-09T09:27:38.147" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-05-09T09:27:38.147" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1827" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-10T03:54:59.663" Score="6" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;The policy on tagging doesn't seem entirely clear with respect to when a question should have the author tag, when it should have the series/universe/work tag, and when/if it should have both. Since the tags are a useful tool, it seems like we should try to use them consistently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5424" LastActivityDate="2012-05-11T16:31:17.077" Title="What is the policy for author, series/universe/work tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-01-11T21:28:41.377" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1827" CreationDate="2012-05-10T04:29:26.020" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always understood that you use the ones that apply; for instance, if your question pertains to just &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt;, then you use that tag. If your question is on the whole body of J.R.R. Tolkien's work, or on Tolkien himself, then you use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt;, which is far more concise than say, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-hobbit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-hobbit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-hobbit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of-middle-earth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of-middle-earth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of-middle-earth&lt;/a&gt; and so on &lt;em&gt;ad infinitum&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, when searching for something, you want to avoid having unnecessary data. Otherwise, when you search for questions about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt;, the author, you find questions that have nothing to do with the man, or are only regarding a portion of his work. Adding an author tag to every question dealing with an author's work is a lot of unnecessary data: it effectively destroys the integrity of the author's tag. It may look nicer to us OCD types, but what is conveyed by a question tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/twilight&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;twilight&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;twilight&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stephanie-meyer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stephanie-meyer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stephanie-meyer&lt;/a&gt;? It &lt;strong&gt;should&lt;/strong&gt; indicate that the question is not just about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/twilight&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;twilight&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;twilight&lt;/a&gt;, but also about the author of the series. If the question pertained to Meyer herself, such as &quot;How did Stephanie Meyer's Mormon background influence the Twilight Saga?,&quot; tagging the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stephanie-meyer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stephanie-meyer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stephanie-meyer&lt;/a&gt; would be appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4831" LastEditorUserId="4831" LastEditDate="2012-05-11T16:29:49.193" LastActivityDate="2012-05-11T16:29:49.193" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1827" CreationDate="2012-05-11T16:07:25.420" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see any reason not to tag a question with multiple tags that might overlap but are still helpful and accurate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags are a user convenience to help us search, select, and talk about broad categories of information regarding our questions. In the real world, categories are fuzzy and often overlap. Tags are for users, not for the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 2: Regarding authors, I don't believe that author tags should solely be used for referring to the life or circumstances or such of the author personally. Although they can be so used, an author tag can also be used for works written by that author. Why not? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, how do we handle stand-alone novels? What's wrong with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/larry-niven&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;larry-niven&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;larry-niven&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jerry-pournelle&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jerry-pournelle&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jerry-pournelle&lt;/a&gt; for the novel &lt;em&gt;Lucifer's Hammer&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given this, tagging a question about something in Twilight as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stephenie-meyer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stephenie-meyer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stephenie-meyer&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/twilight&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;twilight&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;twilight&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vampire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vampire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vampire&lt;/a&gt; is redundant, yes, but it's not a &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; kind of redundancy. It's not like we'll run of of tagspace or something. And it just might help someone find a question they otherwise wouldn't have -- which IMO is a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; thing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Regarding the &quot;geekspeak&quot; issue as to whether tags should be normalized and whether unnecessary data is a problem, I respectfully submit that is not a problem for the users of the system. Although it may pose a challenge for implementers, from a user's point of view redundancy can often be a helpful thing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, consider a new user, someone new to SFF, who does not know that Philip K Dick was the source for Bladerunner. Is there then a problem with tagging a question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/philip-k-dick&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;philip-k-dick&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;philip-k-dick&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/blade-runner&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;blade-runner&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;blade-runner&lt;/a&gt;? Although the author tag would add no extra value to someone who already knows they overlap, to this new user this is actually useful tagging.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4025" LastEditorUserId="4025" LastEditDate="2012-05-11T16:31:17.077" LastActivityDate="2012-05-11T16:31:17.077" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1830" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-15T14:43:08.393" Score="7" ViewCount="223" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked this question on the Nickelodeon series Avatar &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/16699/would-it-be-possible-for-some-to-bend-two-elements&quot;&gt;Would it be possible for some to bend two elements?&lt;/a&gt; I linked to a previous question which had inspired it. Right away the first comment I received was from someone saying I had a possible duplicate and linking to to the same source and to this question also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9968/what-determines-a-benders-element&quot;&gt;What determines a bender&amp;#39;s element?&lt;/a&gt;  Now technically the second link did ask this question but not as the primary question and according to what I've seen on this site it should have been made into an new question anyways. I had even read it before and missed the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see this repeatedly where someone asks a main question and then asks a secondary question that should be addressed separately. Now in my case I don't feel any of the answers that were given to the previous questions came with enough authoritative information to be the answer to my question which is why I felt it needed to be addressed. I can definitely see though how it can look like a duplicate question but since the main question wasn't the same I wouldn't consider it a duplicate even if it wasn't my question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now most of this will get solved by people up voting or down voting and so my question specifically isn't the issue but an example of the problem I've noticed. If someone asks more than one question inside of a main question then does it count as a duplicate question if one of the secondary questions are asked separately?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4355" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2012-05-15T19:47:18.113" Title="Is clarification needed on what makes a duplicate question?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1830" CreationDate="2012-05-15T14:51:35.427" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally, when another pre-existing related question has answers that fully cover a newly-posted possible duplicate, that possible duplicate is closed as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now in my case I don't feel any of the answers that were given to the previous questions came with enough authoritative information to be the answer to my question which is why I felt it needed to be addressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then edit it to make this clearer.  Currently, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/16680/&quot;&gt;Thaddeus' answer&lt;/a&gt; covers the territory that your question asks.  It also covers the question 'Would it be possible for someone to bend 3 elements?'  It's axiomatic in that universe that everyone can bend at most one element, unless they're the Avatar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2012-05-15T14:51:35.427" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1830" CreationDate="2012-05-15T19:47:18.113" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Question #2 is a duplicate of question #1 if any good answer to question #1 would also satisfactorily answer question #2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this specific case, I don't think the questions are duplicate either way. Bending all elements is harder than bending two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-05-15T19:47:18.113" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1833" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1834" CreationDate="2012-05-17T13:10:03.370" Score="2" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any way of marking questions on current series with whether they contain UK spoilers, even if they don't contain US spoilers, because the broadcast times are different?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue that alerted me to this is the once-upon-a-time questions. In the US, series 1 has finished, but in the UK, we are only on episode 7, so I daren't risk reading questions because I have no idea if anything in them will act as a spoiler for my enjoyment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that it sometimes happens the other way too - Dr Who is normally broadcast here before it is shown over there, and the same issues could occur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is, there may be useful insight in the questions or answers to issues that I want to know about. And waiting until the series has finished here ( another 3 months ) is a frustrating prospect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect the answer is &quot;nothing we can do&quot;, but suggestions would be appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3074" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2012-05-17T14:15:30.317" LastActivityDate="2012-05-17T16:11:38.097" Title="Different broadcast times US vs UK" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1833" CreationDate="2012-05-17T14:14:44.467" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, because once this can of worms opens, it becomes a nightmare to manage.  There are dozens of countries, and each of them gets TV shows at different times.  Shows that are current in both the UK and US could be a season behind in Canada or Australia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just use spoiler tags for recent stuff in answers.  Then when you ask questions, make it clear what episode you're on, and that you want people to use spoiler tags in their answers for things that haven't aired in your region.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-05-17T14:14:44.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1833" CreationDate="2012-05-17T16:11:38.097" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. There is no such thing as “UK spoilers” and “US spoiler”. Something is a spoiler if it would be a surprise to people who haven't seen the show. It doesn't matter where they live.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange is not a forum, it is a repository of questions and answers. The questions and answers are supposed to have lasting value. People will visit them for years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the long run, most people see the show way after it came out. So it doesn't matter where they live. &lt;strong&gt;Choose whether to use spoilers based on your target audience&lt;/strong&gt; and not based on how recent a show is. If your question is intended not to spoil something for someone who hasn't seen the show, use spoiler markup, even if the show is from the 1960s. But don't overdo it, remember that &lt;strong&gt;someone reading the question without the spoilers must have an idea of what it's about&lt;/strong&gt;.&#xA;And keep the question searchable — do not use workaround phrases such as “this character whose name would be a spoiler”: if the character's name is important, write it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-05-17T16:11:38.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1836" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-17T16:31:42.237" Score="5" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been almost a month since the &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/04/avengers-vs-x-men-results-winners-announced/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;last blog post&lt;/a&gt; came out. I see 4 old, unfinished, abandonned-looking posts in the queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has the blog activity dried out? To the past contributors: do you have any plan to continue? To others: fancy writing something? To Tony: long time no see, are you still looking for posters?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-05-17T18:29:53.680" Title="State of the blog" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1836" CreationDate="2012-05-17T16:40:53.807" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I plan to write a post as soon as I visit the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.starwarsidentities.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Star Wars Identities exhibition&lt;/a&gt; here in Montreal. We were supposed to go here two week ago, but it was sold out. so I don't know when this will happen, but it will be before the end of the summer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from that, I don't have any idea yet. I may write a post here and there, but nothing regular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2012-05-17T16:40:53.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1836" CreationDate="2012-05-17T17:08:19.053" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've started a draft of a blog post about the 8 Harry Potter films. It is only 6 months after I received the grant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2012-05-17T17:08:19.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1836" CreationDate="2012-05-17T18:29:53.680" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to do a post on My Canon versus Your Canon, discussing how people view differently the same source material(s). While my fandom is obviously &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt;, I'm familiar with other universes that I could incorporate into a blog post: SW, ST, LOTR, and any that anyone would be willing to talk to me about (credited, of course). And I'm interested in how the Wikis/Wikias fit in as sources, in relation to canon. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2012-05-17T18:29:53.680" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1840" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-19T00:07:17.093" Score="22" ViewCount="721" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've started to notice a trend in adding tangential imagery to posts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12173/if-galadriel-had-claimed-the-one-ring-would-sauron-have-become-her-servant-or&quot;&gt;If Galadriel had claimed the One Ring, would Sauron have become her servant, or would have Galadriel become his servant?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/11502/how-long-had-the-dwarves-in-moria-been-slain-before-they-were-discovered-by-the&quot;&gt;How long had the Dwarves in Moria been slain before they were discovered by the Fellowship?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/11716/why-does-arthur-dent-need-to-bring-a-towel-with-him-in-the-film-version-of-hitc&quot;&gt;Why does Arthur Dent need to bring a towel with him in the film version of &amp;quot;Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9605/why-was-a-hobbit-the-most-unlikely-creature-imaginable-to-pick-up-the-one-rin&quot;&gt;Why was a hobbit &amp;quot;the most unlikely creature imaginable&amp;quot; to pick up &amp;quot;The One Ring&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/16815/366&quot;&gt;How long do Asgardians live for?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/16832/366&quot;&gt;Why could we barely see through all Quarian's masks?&lt;/a&gt; (the unrelated imagery in the answer, not the question)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/16758/366&quot;&gt;Why is Slaanesh so young compared to the other Chaos Gods?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/16728/which-a-i-has-the-highest-i-q-on-the-red-dwarf-kryten-or-the-talkie-toaster&quot;&gt;Which A.I. has the highest I.Q. on the Red Dwarf, Kryten, or the Talkie Toaster?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although on closer inspection, many appear to be by the same few people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I agree the use of illustrative and explanatory images are useful, what is the epistemic value to adding filler images like these? Was there some post or guideline that people are interpreting to mean &quot;add images, even if they don't relate to the point the post is trying to make&quot;? Or are these just attempts to gain up votes for pictures/unnecessary bumps? Should we be editing these out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2014-03-08T14:59:56.150" Title="What is up with all the tangential imagery?" Tags="|discussion|images|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1840" CreationDate="2012-05-19T02:42:38.557" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to answer this as a former teacher.  Unfortunately, I taught in tough situations that were emotionally draining and have set up a wall to try to forget a lot of what I learned, so if I use the wrong terms and it causes a problem, I hope someone will remind me of the proper technical terms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People have different learning styles.  While one person may say there's no value to the images and they don't help, unless that person is well versed in the different learning styles people have, that person can't be sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a visual learner, while an image may not be a direct illustration of the question, such an image can help a person lock in the mental connection with the question (or with any written passage).  Indeed, these images, when included, help make the questions more accessible and understandable to those with various types of learning disabilities as well as to those with learning styles that rely more on imagery or metaphor than on specific wording.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't expect this to be a popular answer.  In my experience, in the past, when I've brought this point up, I've found that there are people who want to believe that all think and learn and ingest information in the same way, but that's simply not true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a comparison, many computer developers prefer something like vi or emacs and can boast of their superiority to other forms of IDEs, while some people do need a GUI with point-and-click abilities, menus, and more visual cues.  It's because we all perceive and process information differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So adding the images may not have improved the posts for some, but for others, they do improve the post.  They may or may not help @MajorStackings or @Mark Trapp, or me, but they will definitely help some people and could actually help draw in people who have reading issues and who can process imagery more easily than they can text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These points about learning styles are not guesses and not opinions, but facts that have been proved by studies and I, personally, have found this material helpful when I was working as a teacher with learning disabled students.  If nothing else, think of it as adding accommodations for people with various &#xA;&quot;disabilities&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2014-02-27T16:10:06.893" LastActivityDate="2014-02-27T16:10:06.893" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1840" CreationDate="2012-05-19T02:47:15.650" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a bit on the fence here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;On one hand, I disagree somewhat with the strong categorization of these images as &quot;unrelated&quot;. Most seem somewhat-to-highly &lt;strong&gt;related&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the other hand, while a good image generally greatly enhances the question (one image == 1,024 words), these specific examples - while not, for most part, making the questions worse, didn't really help much. Yes, they were related, but no, they didn't seem (at least the first 4) to convey any additional information that would enhance a reader's understanding of the question. They are illustrations (or to use a more derogatory term that i'm not entirely comfortable with, &quot;filler&quot;), not an aid to the content.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;On the third hand, I share with Mark's concerns about signal/noise ratio. As such, I see a clear distinction between some of these images and the others (I prepend each example with my personal recommendation):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[ OK to KEEP ] Galadriel's picture is small enough and doesn't majorly distract from the question. Not a great help, but not an issue either.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[FIX: reduce size ] Dwarves in Moria - the illustration is actually useful, BUT is entirely too distracting from the question due to its size. I would recommend removing it as-is, BUT if you can find and add a much smaller version, adding that would be quite OK.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[ AXE ] Towel for Arthur Dent - this one is clearly over the top as far as S/N ratio. 1 line of question, and a picture of a random guy with a towel taking up &gt;1 screen of space. This one definitely is on the harming side.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[ KEEP BUT try to find a more canon one ] Hobbit and Smeagol - now, this one, purely theoretically, COULD be &lt;strong&gt;very useful&lt;/strong&gt; - a pictire illustrating the similarity of them. My only concern is the canonicity of that specific image - this seems like a random craft, though I could be wrong. What would be best would be a book illustration approved by Tolkien.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As can be concluded from these examples, the policy I personally prefer, though it's not a set-in-stone one, is that (like Slytherincess) I prefer smaller image sizes to avoid having to scroll too much; greater ratio of text to image content in a question, and think that the images fall into 3 categories: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A. &lt;code&gt;clearly helpful&lt;/code&gt; (image provides extra information to the reader of the question, such as Hobbit+Smeagol).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For an entirely self-serving example of a question that (IMHO) &lt;strong&gt;greatly benefits&lt;/strong&gt; from images, see this: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7408/why-does-millennium-falcon-bank-when-turning-in-vacuum&quot;&gt;Why does Millennium Falcon bank when turning in vacuum?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;B. &lt;code&gt;illustrative-neutral&lt;/code&gt; (the image doesn't hurt provided it's a smaller size one not distracting from the question, but doesn't actually add any content - the question would NOT be worse for removing it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;C. &lt;code&gt;harmful&lt;/code&gt; (the image is totally useless or worse, unrelated, AND distracts greatly from the question and/or significantly raises noise/signal). Not many images in the linked questions fall under that category - the only one I would classify this way would be HHG2TG one.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side note: I FULLY agree with the idea of using image to illustrate &lt;strong&gt;comics-related&lt;/strong&gt; posts, especially answers. Barring any IP concerns, in my opinion comics images greatly enhance the answers, in an exactly the way book quotes do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2012-05-19T03:19:09.510" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1840" CreationDate="2012-05-19T02:47:41.673" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think images are epidemic; that said, I think they're basically innocuous &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;when used judiciously&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Every post doesn't need an image; I think images should be occasional additions to a post, to add clarity to a question, or, sure, the rare show of humor that is appropriate within the context of the question or answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admittedly, I don't care for huge images that take up the body of the question, forcing me to scroll down to see what is actually being asked. My personal policy (YMMV) is that I don't post images wider than 400 pixels. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as sourcing images goes, true, it might prove difficult (I'm not saying it shouldn't happen; legally, it probably should). Of course the scenario that springs to mind is how would I source an image I snagged from Tumblr? And I do see the comment from Mark Trapp to Joe Wreschnig about fair use, but I'm not sure exactly what it means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding editing out other people's images, I don't feel comfortable doing that myself at this point. I myself sometimes use a sourced image to verify an answer and, yeah, I've used like maybe three (?) that are unsourced. If for some reason someone edited out the link to the sourced image -- the image which provides the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; verification of the information in my answer -- because he/she didn't like the particular citation style I use or whatever, I would be pretty angry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is a worthy topic of discussion and I'll be interested in seeing where the issue of citing the source of an image goes.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="3500" LastEditDate="2014-03-08T14:59:56.150" LastActivityDate="2014-03-08T14:59:56.150" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1840" CreationDate="2012-05-19T07:01:56.867" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the illustration actually illustrates what's said in the text, then I think they're fine, but for most of the examples cited in the question, the images &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; tangential - they don't depict what's said in the text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, the picture of &quot;evil&quot; Galadriel doesn't help explain the question, nor does the picture of Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli.  I guess the pictures of Kryten and the toaster could help people who haven't seen the show, but those people wouldn't be able to answer anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd prefer to see fewer tangential images - they're distracting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I've found many of the &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; that include images are helpful, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/16917/why-doesnt-batman-make-an-armored-suit-like-ironman&quot;&gt;this one with lots of illustrations of Batman armour.&lt;/a&gt;  The pictures here illustrate exactly what's being said in the text: &quot;Batman wore such-and-such armour in this situation.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But not all answers with pictures are as good as that one...  I don't think &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/16783/how-long-do-asgardians-live-for/16815#16815&quot;&gt;the pictures here&lt;/a&gt; fit with the text of the answer, they just show some Asgardians, they don't illustrate anything about them being functionally immortal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only &quot;rule&quot; I can come up with is that if the picture isn't illustrating what the text of the question or answer says, then it's superfluous and would be better eliminated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2012-05-19T07:01:56.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1544" CreationDate="2012-05-19T18:33:30.383" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Woke up this morning to the mail person giving me my package!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/arwrO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;original image&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(sorry I'm still half asleep...)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fuGJz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;swag box contents&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorUserId="1234" LastEditDate="2012-05-21T22:02:16.273" LastActivityDate="2012-05-21T22:02:16.273" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1840" CreationDate="2012-05-20T13:15:14.303" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/16965/where-is-the-moon-in-planet-of-the-apes-1968&quot;&gt;Sorry, but when you start including &lt;em&gt;stock photos of Earth's moon&lt;/em&gt; - the one you can look up in the sky every night to see - this is ridiculous and out of hand.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore people keep adding images with no descriptions which makes the site ever less accessible to those using alternate browsers and assistive technologies like screen readers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stop it, seriously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1030" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2012-05-20T13:15:14.303" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1840" CreationDate="2012-05-21T14:45:19.250" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, here's a serious stab at standards for image use:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Relevancy &amp;amp; Specificity&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image needs to be relevant to the work, obviously.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image should &lt;em&gt;specific to the question / answer, not just the work&lt;/em&gt;. If you're having trouble figuring out when this is and isn't the case, ask yourself about how you'd &lt;em&gt;write&lt;/em&gt; the question/answer:&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You wouldn't write a sentence describing Galadriel in the question about the ring. So you don't need a picture of her.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You wouldn't write a sentence describing Earth's moon in a question about why it doesn't appear in &lt;em&gt;Planet of the Apes&lt;/em&gt;, so it doesn't need a picture.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; write a sentence describing the blue light from Loki's staff in a question about what the blue light it emits is. So a picture is okay.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; write a sentence describing Batman's armor in a question about if Batman has worn armor. So a picture is okay.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What DVK describes as &quot;illustratively-neutral&quot; is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; neutral. A fundamental idea of Stack Exchange is that if content isn't helping, it's hurting. An &quot;illustratively neutral&quot; picture is like a &quot;Hello everyone&quot; question header. If the post is not hurt by removing the image, then the post is &lt;em&gt;helped&lt;/em&gt; by removing the image.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be judicious in what your images contain. If a panel works, don't show a page. If a headshot works, don't show an establishing shot.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Citations &amp;amp; Fair Use&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unless you made the image yourself, you should say where it comes from. If it comes from a website, provide a link to that website. If it comes from a comic book, say what issue. If it comes from a TV show, say what episode.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We can only use non-Creative Commons-compatible images if they meet the relevancy and specificity criteria. You need to be &lt;em&gt;critiquing or explaining the thing in the image&lt;/em&gt; for this to not be copyright infringement. If you're embedding such a picture and not talking about &lt;em&gt;that specific picture&lt;/em&gt;, that's copyright infringement.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We can only use Creative Commons images if you provide a source link. Unsourced images are almost always copyright infringement.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Accessibility &amp;amp; SEO&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Our answers are only as generally good as how Googlable they are, and images alone are not Googleable. And it's not readable at all by people using visual assistive technologies, like blind people browsing the site with a screen reader.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For photos and screen captures, provide alt text that briefly describes the images (that is, the text between [ and ]).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For comic pages or document scans, provide a transcription of the text. DVK is absolutely right when he says the best way to quote comic books is to provide a picture of the page, but we also need to make sure &lt;em&gt;Google&lt;/em&gt; is aware that we're quoting particular pages.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not doing this is essentially the same as submitting posts full of spelling and grammar errors and expecting everyone to clean it up for you - it makes the site unreadable and unsearchable. Some people might be nice and fix it. Most will just vote you down, especially if you keep doing it over and over.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Resolution &amp;amp; Size&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We shouldn't establish any specific size guidelines here because high-DPI displays are increasingly common. Saying &quot;make the image small&quot; is not helpful when someone with a 1024x800 screen is saying it to someone with a 2048x1536 screen or vice versa. Serious display size issues can always be solved by new Stack Exchange features.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;But be mindful of bandwidth. Multi-megabyte images are not acceptable no matter the displayed size.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Using the same image as someone else's answer is okay, if it makes your answer better also - but &lt;em&gt;use the same image&lt;/em&gt;. Don't download it and re-upload it, just link to the same file.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short: &lt;strong&gt;Write your answer using only text.&lt;/strong&gt; Then, &lt;em&gt;if there are descriptive sections of the text&lt;/em&gt; consider adding a picture equivalent to those sections. Use the text you originally wrote alongside the picture or as its alt text. Make sure you provide a link or citation for where you got the image, and make sure you have a license to copy that image (e.g. Creative Commons) or that &lt;em&gt;the image contents per se&lt;/em&gt; is the subject of discussion (e.g. comic pages and video captures).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1030" LastEditorDisplayName="user1030" LastEditDate="2012-05-21T14:53:08.083" LastActivityDate="2012-05-21T14:53:08.083" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1849" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1850" CreationDate="2012-05-21T21:03:57.557" Score="3" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are images added to SFF content without attribution violating copyright (merely by not having attribution, e.g. if - merely by adding attribution - copyright is no longer violated)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to be clear, is the following scenario possible under US copyright law:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Image X is posted with no attribution, &lt;strong&gt;but otherwise fully satisfies 4 factors of fair use as noted by Jeff's answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/602/976&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Image X is considered a copyright violation &lt;strong&gt;due to lack of attribution&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Attribution is added (nothing else changed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image is no longer a copyright violation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is different between images copyrighted by Wiki-like CC that explicitly demands attribution as condition of reproduction, and generally copyrighted images, please indicate the distinction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2012-05-21T21:40:38.493" Title="Can images added to SFF content **without attribution** violate copyright?" Tags="|discussion|legal|copyright|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1849" CreationDate="2012-05-21T21:40:38.493" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the image is in the public domain, or if it is licensed under terms that allow distribution without attribution, then including it in a post is fine. There aren't many images out there in the public domain; the main sources are old images whose copyright has expired (rare in an SF context) and images made by the United States government or federal agencies (e.g. by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/MP_Photo_Guidelines.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;NASA&lt;/a&gt;). Providing an attribution is still often regarded as the right thing to do, but it is not legally mandatory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the image is under a license that allows distribution, but only with attribution, then adding a missing attribution can make an image legal, irregardless of whether fair use applies. These are the terms of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CC BY-SA&lt;/a&gt; license that all content on this site is under, as is Wikipedia's text — note that not all images on Wikipedia follow this license.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The third way in which an image can be legal to include in a post is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;fair use&lt;/a&gt;. Invoking fair use is trickier, because the exact limits are defined by jurisprudence. The factors that determine whether a use is fair are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the purpose of the use — a Stack Exchange post is borderline, since the poster does not derive any direct benefit, but Stack Exchange itself is not a non-profit enterprise.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the nature of the work — this provision lowers the bar when distributing works that are essentially documentary or designed to be reproduced (e.g. a recording of a historical event, a politician's speech).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the amount of copied material — short extracts or reduced-quality reproductions are more likely to be considered fair use than the original work in all its glory.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the effect on the work's value: parody and criticism are legitimate, as are in many circumstances copies made for the private use of the copier (such as recordings of a television broadcast intended for delayed viewing), competition is not. A review (whether positive or negative) may legitimately cite small portions of the work that it is reviewing; these portions should be relevant to the points made in the review.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Adding an attribution does not in itself make a use fair, but it can be a contributory factor.&lt;/strong&gt; The attribution mainly impinges on the last point: if you do not attribute a quotation, then it looks like you are appropriating, and thus you may be competing with the original work that this quotation is from. Adding an attribution makes it more apparent that you are reviewing the work (and perhaps giving an incentive to the reader to consume the original work).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. Moderators are not copyright lawyers. It is not possible for us to have an authoritative opinion as to whether a use is fair. It is easier for us to rule on plagiarism — any material included in a post that is apparently not the work of the author of the post may be considered plagiarism and deleted. Therefore, it is recommended that you always correctly attribute material that you did not originate. In any case, every poster retains all legal responsibility for their content. If a work that you own the copyright to is misused on Stack Exchange, the proper procedure is to file a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA_takedown_notice&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DMCA takedown notice&lt;/a&gt; to the contact address mentioned at the bottom of every page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-05-21T21:40:38.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1851" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-22T13:39:43.243" Score="-2" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;I titled this post as Movie Magic, as this really pertains to the movies only and indirectly to any answer that can be given :p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since a lot of SciFi and Fantasy movies take place:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;on another planet&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;in a different universe/timeline&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In a galaxy far far away&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;we get a lot of questions that go like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;why do the aliens speak english?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;how does x understand y?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Forgetting for the moment those areas where canon supplies a definitive answer (Star Trek's Universal Translators/HHG2TG's Babel Fish), a lot of the answers are simply because it's not real, it's the movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we tolerate those questions as on-topic or treat them as off topic where appropriate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4538" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2012-05-22T14:35:39.027" LastActivityDate="2012-05-27T20:18:39.953" Title="Movie Magic (or how do we answer stupid questions)" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1851" CreationDate="2012-05-22T14:26:29.490" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find this a difficult issue to engage with, because the boundaries of what is an MST3K (&quot;if you're wondering how he eats and breathes, and other science facts // Just repeat to yourself 'it's just a show, I should really just relax'&quot;) question, as I like to think of them, are different for different people.  For instance, a lot of Harry Potter questions get asked to which the answer is probably &quot;because J K Rowling didn't think it through that far&quot;, but nonetheless, people are able to come up with in universe explanations for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My point is that it seems to me to be part of the purpose of SF+F to make sense of inconsistencies within published work, and we should be reluctant to dismiss 'dumb' questions, because there simply isn't in most cases a clear threshold for 'dumb'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1459" LastEditorUserId="1459" LastEditDate="2012-05-22T18:32:17.403" LastActivityDate="2012-05-22T18:32:17.403" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1853" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-22T17:03:35.237" Score="-5" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now we all know that 'movie' is a valid word. But whenever I type it in this Site (while asking or answering Questions), there is a little &quot;Red&quot; line below it indicating that it's not a valid word. This does not happens when I type the word in MS-Word or anywhere else? Is this a bug in our site/sites? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This happens with both captial 'M' and small 'm'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a screenshot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0qXnd.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5421" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2012-05-22T17:26:58.190" LastActivityDate="2012-05-22T17:26:58.190" Title="'movie' is not a valid word" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2012-05-22T17:37:57.640" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1853" CreationDate="2012-05-22T17:09:09.643" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's your browser's spell checker, not the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2012-05-22T17:09:09.643" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1840" CreationDate="2012-05-23T11:34:07.043" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see what all the fuss is about. If a picture doesn't help but doesn't hinder the question, do nothing. If it disturbs the flow of the question, vote it down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastActivityDate="2012-05-23T11:34:07.043" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1856" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1857" CreationDate="2012-05-23T18:19:46.443" Score="1" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1514/how-should-i-be-indicating-a-question-is-by-its-very-asking-a-spoiler&quot;&gt;How should I be indicating a question is by it&amp;#39;s very asking, a spoiler?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm missing something obvious. How do you add spoiler markup to posts? I'm sure it's something ridiculously simple but I can't seem to find it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1657" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2012-05-23T18:26:10.620" Title="How do you add spoiler markup to posts?" Tags="|support|spoilers|markdown|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2012-05-23T18:25:59.477" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1856" CreationDate="2012-05-23T18:25:49.700" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You start a paragraph with &gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; This is a spoiler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you click 'edit' on this answer, you can see it in action next to the text I typed to make this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-05-23T18:25:49.700" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1851" CreationDate="2012-05-23T20:39:05.223" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;An important part of SF&amp;amp;F is &lt;strong&gt;suspension of disbelief&lt;/strong&gt;. We want, even need, the strange worlds of SF&amp;amp;F to be as consistent and complete as the real world is. We regard &lt;strong&gt;worldbuilding&lt;/strong&gt; as a fundamental part of good speculative fiction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Universes that are broad, deep, complete, and that follow predictable rules help us suspend our disbelief. It's the difference between &quot;Before the Sun and Moon, the first Elves were awakened by Eru under the stars by the bay of Cuivienen&quot; and &quot;There are elves because there are elves, now stop asking questions!&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are limits to worldbuilding, and those limits evolve. In the oldest of days, stories were told by mouth, and fires and paintings were the only special effects. Those stories were certainly real enough to our ancestors! Now we have 3D and digital and CG and billion-dollar movies to help us suspend our disbelief. And we regard special effects from 20 years ago as quaint and unrealistic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are still some limits we haven't got past, though. One of those is the language barrier. Aliens speak in the language of the film-goer, and human actors have mouths. Sometimes there are real-world subtitles, or in-universe translators. Either way, the reason has less to do with the realism of the world than the requirement to make the movie understood. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my view, then, questions about this are on-topic and not &quot;stupid&quot;. But I think we do need to be evidence-based about how we answer them. If there is a canon in-universe explanation, like Star Trek universal translators, we should say so. Contrariwise, if a quote from the author reveals &quot;heck, didn't think about that&quot;, we should say that. But if what we have is really an unexplained plot hole, I don't see anything wrong with the correct answer being &quot;that's an unexplained plot hole&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise our answers become less &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; and more something like &lt;em&gt;fanfic&lt;/em&gt;. Fanfic is great! But it shouldn't be an answer to a question on SE. I know there is no hard and fast line there, but I think that we should be careful. As Christi says in her answer, if the answer provides some good evidence from canon, that would be the right approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4025" LastActivityDate="2012-05-23T20:39:05.223" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="970" CreationDate="2012-05-24T18:07:33.663" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;System Down&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Horray for digital comics on Comixology (my new drug)!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="887" LastActivityDate="2012-05-24T18:07:33.663" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-05-24T18:07:33.663" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1860" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-25T20:07:18.187" Score="8" ViewCount="327" Body="&lt;p&gt;In case you haven't noticed yet, there's a shiny new addition to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/stackexchange&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Facebook family&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/scifi.SE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Facebook Page&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yeah! So I know you're thinking, &quot;whaaat who caaaares why&quot;? Here is the what AND the why:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SciFi.SE has shown a super healthy growth pattern since its launch and we're attracting a lot of new users (this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15454/who-is-in-the-post-credits-scene-of-the-avengers-movie&quot;&gt;question about the post-credits scene in &lt;em&gt;Avengers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; has amassed 25K views in a month, you guys) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We want to encourage growth by taking the highlights of the Sci-Fi and Fantasy site and putting them in a social network-type situation, thus making them easily shareable and thus introducing more people to the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We want to also post relevant breaking news and announcements about science fiction and fantasy movies, television shows, books, games, comics, etc., with additional links to relevant tags/questions on our site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This gives us another avenue to officially share items in our library that pertain to current events (&quot;Game of Thrones&quot; questions on Mondays, questions about franchises on their new film's opening day, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is to post 3-4 questions from our site a day as well as news. This page is managed by me, personally, and is very much official. It's &lt;em&gt;so&lt;/em&gt; run by me that if you leave suggestions of items to include, they might make their way to the page. There is no middle man! Or, the internet is the middle man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The heart of this whole initiative is this: there's an entire world of science fiction and fantasy fandom on Facebook, an entire world that does not know this site exists. I hope to be able to get the word out and get them to this site. The easiest way to do that is to have an actual page for these mythical New Users to see in their feed, check out, 'like' and then have the Stack Exchange experience integrated into their online life. People have varied internet habits and some people are just not going to make checking our home page a regular priority. 'Liking' us gets a version of our home page integrated into their Facebook news feed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So please, if you are so inclined, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/scifi.SE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;'like' the page on Facebook&lt;/a&gt; and share the news and questions that have already been posted or are going to be posted in the future. Thanks! Let's take over the world together!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2018-03-08T07:16:08.987" Title="Official-shaped announcement: Sci-Fi &amp; Fantasy Facebook page!" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ClosedDate="2018-03-21T16:30:25.033" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1861" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1862" CreationDate="2012-05-25T22:49:28.403" Score="2" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently there's been some tag wiki suggestions that I don't think have enough information...but they don't have wrong or copied information either...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They have some very basic info, but nothing that would help a person recognize what the tag really means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I reject these tags suggestions, or should I let them through since they aren't direct copy-pasta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-05-25T22:57:18.690" LastActivityDate="2012-05-25T22:57:18.690" Title="What to do with Tag Wiki suggestions that I don't see as informative enough?" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edit|tag-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1861" CreationDate="2012-05-25T22:57:03.027" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's what “wiki not helpful” or “excerpt not helpful” is for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you know enough to salvage the suggesion, click &lt;code&gt;Improve&lt;/code&gt;. But otherwise, don't be afraid to &lt;code&gt;Reject&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guarantee you that all Stack Exchange sites get a lot of suggested tag wikis that suck. Don't be afraid of rejecting them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-05-25T22:57:03.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1863" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-25T23:40:00.920" Score="7" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do we handle questions based on incorrect premise?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;E.g. questions asks &quot;Why did X happen in work Y&quot;, when in fact X never happened in work Y.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specific example is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/17308/how-did-doc-brown-steal-plutonium-from-highly-protected-govt-facility&quot;&gt;Where did Doc Brown get plutonium from?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I can fully get on board with the notion that such a question is not a GREAT question, I don't see it as a BAD question merely because its premise is wrong (in this case, since Doc Brown didn't steal it, terrorists did, as the answer pointed out).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that the example-specific issue of &quot;&lt;em&gt;that question is bad because it may be General Reference&lt;/em&gt;&quot; is &lt;strong&gt;OUTSIDE&lt;/strong&gt; the scope of this discussion - pretend that there is no Wikipedia page clearly outlining the plot of BTTF. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2012-05-30T18:14:42.577" Title="How do we handle questions based on incorrect premise?" Tags="|discussion|scope|question-quality|voting|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1863" CreationDate="2012-05-25T23:47:10.003" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think such questions are completely fine, based on the following logic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We consider the questions that ask about details of primary work that can be answered by viewing/reading the work to be perfectly fine. E.g. &quot;Who stole the plutonium used to power the Delorean in BTTF?&quot; or &quot;What powered Doc Brown's Time Machine&quot;? (again, leaving aside the fact that, due to a great Wiki article, both of these are General Reference). For a more esoteric one, consider &quot;Why did Percy Weasley fall out with the rest of the family&quot;. Googling for that does NOT bring up Wiki on first result set, but &quot;Anyone who read the books should know it&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, a question based on imperfectly remembering the source material should not be considered bad either, as long as it is definitively answered by stating correct facts, like the Doc Brown one.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-05-25T23:47:10.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1863" CreationDate="2012-05-26T03:18:58.720" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do we need to handle them in any special way? Questions with an incorrect premise will either get downvoted by more knowledgeable fans, or corrected in comments and/or edited (by the author) to correct their mistake. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No special handling needed, in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="770" LastEditorUserId="770" LastEditDate="2012-05-26T14:23:25.873" LastActivityDate="2012-05-26T14:23:25.873" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1851" CreationDate="2012-05-27T20:18:39.953" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;While &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1858/1693&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; by Mark Beadles is sold and makes many good points, I have a few points that fit for more than just comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Often, as a reader or viewer (or game player), we don't know the limits of the universe a story takes place in.  For example, I have watched every episode of &lt;em&gt;Battlestar Galactica&lt;/em&gt; (both of them) and all three Stargate shows, as well as every episode and movie in the Star Trek franchise.  Sometimes something us explained and sometimes it isn't.  For example, it's been asked why almost every single alien in Star Trek is humanoid.  Good question, and possibly even asked by someone who's seen every episode and forgot what the one that that addressed it.  (After all, not counting the animated series, there are 28 years of Star Trek episodes.)  We don't know if a point is addressed until we ask it.  Sometimes it's trivial, and other times it turns out that there's a lot more to it than just a hand wave -- but we don't know that until we ask the question and get a good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are other reasons to want to know an answer other than just, &quot;I wonder...&quot;  For example, there are enough academic studies being done on Joss Whedon's work that he has an organization specifically to help in that area.  Often people do more than just read or watch a work.  They may study it for a number of reasons.  For example, I've asked a number of questions about Star Wars.  Some can be found in the Star Wars wiki, but sometimes it can be tough to go through extremely long articles there to find an answer.  I'm fascinated by the retcon work done by so many authors to explain inconsistencies in the Star Wars universe, so I've asked a lot of questions.  I do this to probe, to find out what kinds of things are covered.  I also want to know what kind of retcon work has been done.  For instance, Tatooine is a desert planet, so life is sparse, but that leads to a question of how large animals such as the sarlacc or banthas can find enough food to live there.  Just how deep into scientific detail have writers working in a fantasy construct like Star Wars go?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Again, using myself as an example, I want a feeling of what's acceptable and what isn't.  What do we dismiss with a handwave (like all species understanding each other in Stargate) and why?  In Star Trek, that's explained with a universal translator, in Stargate, it's just handwaved off without an explanation.  (The apparently accept reason for that is to avoid having to spend a fair amount of time in each episode with translations or with learning local languages.)  I'm working on several screeplays as well as plain text works, so it helps me to push and find the limits of what people accept and why.  It also helps me by finding out at what point retcon work is needed and when it can be handwaved or ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers such as, &quot;Because the writer wanted it that way,&quot; or, &quot;Because the writers are stupid,&quot; are often discouraged here and, in my mind, that's with good reason.  First, such an attitude is Monday morning quaterbacking.  Unless someone has dealt with publishers and agents and shown they can get a written work published or a screenplay produced, or dealt with staff writers on a show and seen what goes into moving a work from concept to final publishing/presentation, it's a weak answer.  (Again, an example: In the &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: The Next Generation&lt;/em&gt; episode &lt;em&gt;The Next Phase&lt;/em&gt; I've heard people complain about Geordi and Ro walking through walls, but not sinking through floors and have heard people say, &quot;It's because the writers are stupid.&quot;  I have had professional dealings with the writer of that episode, and he is polite, intelligent, and sensible.  He is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; stupid, not by any stretch of the imagination.  There was an explanation in the script, but it was edited out later (I believe in the cutting room, not in script meetings) because the decision was story and character were more important than addressing a point most viewers would not care about.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More often than not, and this is from watching questions I've asked as well as other questions, there's an in-univers explanation and often it involves much more than we thought it would.  It could be a trivial answer or a fascinating one -- but we don't know until the question is asked and answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2012-05-27T20:18:39.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1867" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-28T02:47:32.700" Score="0" ViewCount="338" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1028/what-are-our-boundaries&quot;&gt;What are our boundaries?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're starting to see questions that push the boundaries of what fantasy and science fiction are thought to be, at least judging from what is found under those labels in bookstores and libraries.  There was one question about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/17247/what-galaxy-or-universe-is-the-planet-ork-in&quot;&gt;Mork and Mindy&lt;/a&gt; which I enjoyed but thought was bordering on off-topic.  And then there were the questions about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/17336/did-scooby-doo-and-the-original-team-of-meddling-kids-ever-uncover-something-tha&quot;&gt;Scooby Doo&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/17355/what-is-the-difference-between-goofy-and-pluto&quot;&gt;Pluto&lt;/a&gt; which felt off-topic but I can't put my finger on why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see a meta question about the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/37/what-is-and-what-isnt-considered-science-fiction&quot;&gt;definition of sci-fi&lt;/a&gt;.  I think we need one to hash out the fantasy question as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is and is not considered fantasy as defined by this site?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4096" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2012-05-28T03:34:47.387" Title="what is and what isn't considered fantasy?" Tags="|discussion|fantasy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2012-05-28T23:03:49.593" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1867" CreationDate="2012-05-28T03:34:47.387" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I'm usually one to VTC on stuff that seems off-topic.. but for the Goofy/Pluto question my reasoning was thus:  Anthropomorphic animals aren't a real-world phenomenon, therefore, to some degree or another, they are fantasy (Read as: Magical / other world) or SciFi (read as: uplifted animals, alternate evolution, different dimension, etc.)  Disney doesn't seem to have defined which they fall into, but it seems that they must fall into one or the other.  (Well, you could also call them transparent metaphors, but they've never been defined that way very well, either.)  Where canon doesn't exist, the fanbase often does develop it's own explanations, which often end up as canon years later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mork &amp;amp; Mindy falls into the same category, to me, although barely.. They hypothesize the normal world with some elements that, as far as we know don't exit, but might.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scooby Doo is trickier; my perception of it was always a minor mystery show, simply enacted by cartoons.  But, again, you have talking animals, AND later on you have a lot of fantastic elements. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be an easier answer, if it was just SciFi SE, but despite the name it's SciFi and Fantasy SE.... And fantasy is a much broader topic.  Fantasy can be said to encompass anything 'fantastic', and non-science based.. and SciFi grabs the other side of the house.  A case can be made to include most things that aren't about this world, just as it is, as being covered somewhere between those two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just my 2c, and I've been wrong before :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2292" LastActivityDate="2012-05-28T03:34:47.387" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1869" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-30T18:07:36.253" Score="3" ViewCount="337" Body="&lt;p&gt;Going through Meta, I saw the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/773/promotional-grant-star-wars-the-complete-saga-on-blu-ray&quot;&gt;promotional grant&lt;/a&gt; for the Star Wars blu-rays from last September.  As Brent noted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/766/is-a-promotional-grant-for-star-wars-the-complete-saga-on-blu-ray-wanted&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, Star Wars is one of the most popular topics here and the potential for promotion is huge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me this indicates that we should try a bigger contest.  Gaming has had several promotions lately that have been massively successful (from my perspective, I don't know SE's) and I think something in the same vein would work here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wars vs Trek, a la &lt;a href=&quot;http://skyrimvsmw3.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Skyrim vs MW3&lt;/a&gt;.  They have almost the same number of questions in the primary tags and it's a classic (if somewhat unintuitive) matchup.  DVDs/Blu-rays are certainly potential prizes, I'm not very familiar with Star Trek though so I can't say what else would be.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Star Wars Week.  It's been mentioned before that an annual contest coinciding with May the 4th would be awesome, but that's obviously something to consider after trying it the first time :P.  Personally, I wouldn't require May the 4th specifically, but others might feel strongly about it and it might be helpful due to the minor surge in Star Wars awareness that occurs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, Star Wars has tons of content all by itself and I think focusing on it specifically could be even bigger than trying to draw in two groups of fans as above.  Potential prizes are the movies, games, books, action figures ... endless possibilities.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an aside, I couldn't help but notice that the badge icons &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5nmoK.png&quot; alt=&quot;icon&quot;&gt; look like &lt;a href=&quot;http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41VosOy-8dL._SL500_AA300_.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the emblem of the Rebel Alliance&lt;/a&gt;.  If a contest did happen, tweaking the icons would be the best thing ever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might also be possible to get Lucasfilm to support something.  I don't know how unlikely that would be, probably fairly, but certainly worth trying since we could reach way more people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously SE needs to be on board here and would determine the specific format, runtime, prizes, and so on.  I hope there are some good ideas here though, I'd really like this to happen!  I have at least a hundred Star Wars questions to ask (seriously, don't even try me) and no incentive to make the time to do so.... :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone else have any other ideas or thoughts on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1470" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2012-05-31T14:54:37.370" Title="Star Wars promotion/contest ideas" Tags="|site-promotion|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1863" CreationDate="2012-05-30T18:14:42.577" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unless the work in question is confusing on the relevant points and it's a natural question to ask, questions like that should be closed as Too Localized.  Barring the point about unclear facts, no two people are likely to reach the same erroneous conclusion, misremember the same things the same way, and so on.  Nonsense questions can't help other people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the facts of the matter &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; unclear, I would support rewriting the question to ask &quot;what happened in this situation?&quot; and then the answers can shed some truly useful light on the matter while still giving the asker what they need to know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1470" LastActivityDate="2012-05-30T18:14:42.577" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1869" CreationDate="2012-05-31T14:54:37.370" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The success of the Skyrim promotion (and, more recently, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://diablo3acts.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Diablo III promotion&lt;/a&gt;) was in no small part due to it coinciding with a very large, very hyped release for the game: people were naturally looking for an answer fix and Gaming.SE had the goods in stock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the Star Wars tag does pretty well here, we're by no means the only source for the information being asked, so there isn't as big an opportunity for a well-timed push for content seeding like there is with promotions for major game releases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But is there any major Star Wars release coming up soon? I vaguely recall hearing something about the 3D re-release, but I think that's already passed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastActivityDate="2012-05-31T14:54:37.370" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1872" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-31T15:25:30.890" Score="7" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm starting to see more and more questions on this site with little to no research effort. Is there anything else I can do besides downvote and make a polite comment about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions on SE are expected to have a certain amount of research effort, but I am not seeing that in many newer questions. I am looking for &quot;After googling XX, looking on various wiki sites, and scanning the books/videos, I could not find anything to answer this question.&quot; I'd like to see more questions where I can see that the asker spent at least 5 minutes trying to find an answer. Is there anything we can to to promote this on SciFi.SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1876" LastActivityDate="2012-05-31T20:44:55.157" Title="What can we do to encourage more questions with research effort?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1872" CreationDate="2012-05-31T15:34:38.663" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the most basic level, you can discourage poorly-researched questions and encourage well-researched ones.  Downvoting and voting to close (if the answer is trivially found on Google/Wikipedia) the poorly-researched questions, along with comments that indicate why you're downvoting and voting to close, will encourage question-askers to improve.  For well-researched questions do the opposite, upvote and comment that you approve of their preparation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, you can be the example of what you want to see.  Ask questions that show research in the introductory sentences.  People look at the existing questions here and contribute along the lines of the existing content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2012-05-31T20:44:55.157" LastActivityDate="2012-05-31T20:44:55.157" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1875" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-31T21:15:50.357" Score="3" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is currently &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/18/what-was-bob-in-twin-peaks&quot;&gt;one question about Twin Peaks&lt;/a&gt; here on Science Fiction and Fantasy, but no tag for the series.  Then when I posted a question here about the series it was suggested I should have asked it on the Movies and TV beta, since whilst the series contains sci-fi and fantasy elements, it isn't a good fit here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Movies &amp;amp; TV have &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/twin-peaks&quot;&gt;a tag for the series&lt;/a&gt;, and currently have three questions there.  So should the remaining Twin Peaks question here be migrated?   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2016-06-14T11:25:24.390" Title="Should questions about Twin Peaks be migrated to the Movies and TV beta?" Tags="|discussion|migration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1875" CreationDate="2012-05-31T21:25:28.063" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the general of the overlap between this site and Movies &amp;amp; TV, please read &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/626/how-do-we-handle-conflicts-with-the-literature-and-movies-sites&quot;&gt;How do we handle conflicts with the Anime and Movies sites?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We would only migrate a question if it was off-topic, or at least borderline and in need of more attention. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/18/what-was-bob-in-twin-peaks&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; is firmly on-topic here, since it's about a supernatural element. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/13480/which-episodes-of-twin-peaks-mention-the-concept-of-tulpa&quot;&gt;your question&lt;/a&gt;: it was on-topic here. In the (deleted) comments, I only see that someone questioned whether Twin Peaks was sf, but other commenters contradicted him, and it was determined that the question was on-topic. But you reposted on Movies &amp;amp; TV, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/64068/is-it-possible-to-post-questions-across-a-couple-of-the-sites-because-its-debata/64073#64073&quot;&gt;cross-posting is strongly discouraged&lt;/a&gt;, so we &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/1691/which-episodes-of-twin-peaks-mention-the-concept-of-tulpa&quot;&gt;migrated&lt;/a&gt; your question at your request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2012-05-31T21:25:28.063" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1877" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1878" CreationDate="2012-06-01T22:38:10.297" Score="-7" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;Badge suggestion: A badge for for having ten migrated, worthy but slighty out of scope, highly viewed or upvoted questions. Maybe call it the &quot;Golden Goose&quot; badge? Are there any badges for combined Stack site questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4356" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-06-01T22:53:58.523" LastActivityDate="2024-01-05T14:10:10.157" Title="Migrated questions. Is there a badge for that?" Tags="|discussion|badges|migration|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1877" CreationDate="2012-06-01T22:53:48.417" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. There's no badge for that because a migrated question generally indicates that you posted it in the wrong place initially. Badges are supposed to reward positive actions, not bad-but-not-that-bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All badges currently only take your actions on one site into account. The idea of cross-site badges has been floated around now and then on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;main meta&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that most badge ideas have already been broached on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/badges&quot;&gt;MSO&lt;/a&gt;, even quite silly ones. Yours is “&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/22354&quot;&gt;coconuts from mercia&lt;/a&gt;” which hasn't seen much attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.757" LastActivityDate="2012-06-01T22:53:48.417" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1879" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1881" CreationDate="2012-06-02T02:01:38.733" Score="8" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question many months ago, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/5798/2912&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t Geordi and Ro fall through the floor in &amp;quot;The Next Phase&amp;quot; episode of TNG?&lt;/a&gt;, and it was closed as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/2429/2912&quot;&gt;How come Patrick Swayze didn&amp;#39;t fall through floorboards in Ghost&lt;/a&gt;, which I found to be acceptable at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I have since stumbled upon a completely unrelated post by @TangoOversway here on meta ( &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1546/2912&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1546/2912&lt;/a&gt; ), which hints at an answer to my earlier question, and demonstrates it is not a simple &quot;intentional goof&quot; (as the answer on the duplicate question suggests):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For example, a frequently asked question about the &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: The Next Generation&lt;/em&gt; episode &lt;em&gt;The Next Phase&lt;/em&gt; is, &quot;If Geordi and Ro could walk through walls, why didn't they sink through the floor?&quot; It's a legitimate question and it's not addressed on screen, but Ron Moore has gone on record as saying they had an explanation involving surface tension, but it got cut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this sufficient evidence to re-open the question?  And hopefully @TangoOversway, or someone else familiar with Ron Moore's &quot;on-record&quot; statements, can fill in an appropriate answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2912" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2012-06-02T13:54:45.607" Title="Can my question be considered for re-opening?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1879" CreationDate="2012-06-02T03:33:58.303" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I've brought that point up several times about that particular episode.  I think, since there is an answer to this particular question about this particular situation, that it should be opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, the writers did intend for this issue to have an explanation and it's also worth including the point I've made on this site that there are times when explanations are included, but when you're dealing with the limited time of an hour long TV show, technical explanations often have to take a back seat to other issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, I have voted to re-open it.  If 3 others vote to reopen, it will be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2012-06-02T03:33:58.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1879" CreationDate="2012-06-02T03:56:42.567" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There you go, it has been reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-06-02T03:56:42.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1882" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1883" CreationDate="2012-06-05T16:44:13.073" Score="6" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;I identified &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/17795/who-is-glados-saying-goodbye-to-in-portal-2&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/17795/who-is-glados-saying-goodbye-to-in-portal-2&lt;/a&gt; as a duplicate of gaming.stackexchange's &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/21490/who-is-gladoss-only-friend&quot;&gt;Who is GLaDOS's “only friend”&lt;/a&gt; as soon as it was posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first intent was to answer it with a link to the question because I think it's a great answer and I don't see what to add, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/17795/who-is-glados-saying-goodbye-to-in-portal-2#comment33120_17795&quot;&gt;my answer was automatically converted into a comment as &quot;Trivial answer converted to comment&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should we do in that case? Close the question? make a copy-paste in a citation block? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2012-06-06T14:05:20.243" Title="How to answer a spotted cross-site duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1882" CreationDate="2012-06-05T18:41:20.477" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no such thing as a cross-site duplicate. As long as the question is legitimate, it should remain open where it was posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note that this doesn't apply when the same user posts the same question on multiple sites. This is generally considered a waste of people's attention, because it leads to duplicating the work of answering the question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would copy-paste the answer in a citation block (with attribution, of course):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Gaming Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/9246/joshua-carmody&quot;&gt;Joshua Carmody&lt;/a&gt; posted an &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/a/21514&quot;&gt;awesome answer&lt;/a&gt; on a &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/21490/who-is-gladoss-only-friend&quot;&gt;similar question&lt;/a&gt; which I shall reproduce here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often the best answer in one community is not the best answer in another community, because different communities have different expectations (for example, answers on Gaming tend to focus on gameplay, whereas gameplay is off-topic here). This seems to be an exception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please leave a comment below the question on each site, with a link to the question on the other site. This way, someone can easily find other answers that may have been posted on the site they didn't find first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-06-06T14:05:20.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1882" CreationDate="2012-06-05T19:48:09.037" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only cross-site duplicate is if the same user posts at approximately the same time the same question on multiple sites. Aside from that exception, there isn't a need to check for all sites to make sure the question hasn't been asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-06-05T19:48:09.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1885" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1888" CreationDate="2012-06-06T02:10:59.153" Score="6" ViewCount="251" Body="&lt;p&gt;The specific webcomic series in question is &lt;a href=&quot;http://rosalarian.com/lesbianpirates/?p=2143&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://rosalarian.com/lesbianpirates/?p=2143&lt;/a&gt; (&quot;I Was Kidnapped By Lesbian Pirates From Outer Space!!!&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are the questions about it acceptable? (provided the questions center around SFF content and not the fairly-rare NSFW non-SciFi content).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2012-06-06T14:55:44.150" LastActivityDate="2012-06-06T20:58:37.333" Title="Are questions about a slightly adult SciFi comic acceptable?" Tags="|discussion|scope|adult-content|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1886" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-06T19:20:53.857" Score="3" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking through the tags on here a d noticed that, as far as I found, there are three identification tags: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character-identification&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie-identification&lt;/a&gt;.  I got to looking and it doesn't seem, to me, that there's any difference between the story and movie tag.  Heck, 3 of the 9 questions tagged with the movie tag also have the story tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should the movie tag be a synonym for story-identification?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1987" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-06-06T21:05:43.017" LastActivityDate="2012-06-06T21:05:43.017" Title="Should movie-identification be a synonym of story-identification?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|story-identification|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1886" CreationDate="2012-06-06T19:22:55.147" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; handily covers the territory of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie-identification&lt;/a&gt;, so the latter should just be a synonym for the former.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-06-06T19:22:55.147" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1885" CreationDate="2012-06-06T20:58:37.333" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure. Do not link to outright porn, because that triggers some nanny web filters. IWKBLPFOS isn't particularly “adult” (it has less nakedness than &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/yafgc&quot;&gt;YAFGC&lt;/a&gt;) anyway. Warn people if you're linking to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nost_safe_for_work&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;NSFW&lt;/a&gt; content. Avoid including “racy” panels in your post. Beyond that, it's SF, so it's on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/263/are-adult-movies-as-far-as-industry-actors-etc-are-concerned-on-topic&quot;&gt;Are adult movies (as far as industry, actors, etc… are concerned) on topic?&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Movies &amp;amp; TV Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; (answer: yes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2012-06-06T20:58:37.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1886" CreationDate="2012-06-06T21:03:14.440" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;A while ago, I &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/630/rename-the-story-identification-tag&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt; splitting &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/identify-this-story&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;identify-this-story&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;identify-this-story&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/identify-this-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;identify-this-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;identify-this-movie&lt;/a&gt;. The response was slightly negative, so I guess we're keeping &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, which means &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie-identification&lt;/a&gt; should be edited into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; + &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character-identification&lt;/a&gt; is a bit different, I think it should stay different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2012-06-06T21:03:14.440" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1890" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-07T14:31:42.053" Score="-1" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking for a question I had hoped to be able to answer, and I tried searching using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt; but it turns out that didn't bring up the question. I instead searched for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers&lt;/a&gt; and found a load of incorrectly tagged questions (ignoring the ones that are for the recent movie), in so much that they didn't contain the comics tag, just the Marvel-comics tag, or just the character featured.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going through and retagging all the questions would be awesome, but surely we can do something to prevent this atrocity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2012-06-18T11:55:55.280" LastActivityDate="2012-06-20T11:55:47.947" Title="How should we get comics tags used more often?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1890" CreationDate="2012-06-07T15:07:55.337" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally do not use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt; tag unless I am talking about comics in general, or I'm not using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-comics&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-comics&lt;/a&gt; tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It feels redundant to tag something with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt; if it is already set as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-comics&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible for a tag to be an alias for multiple tags? So that choosing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt; would bring up both dc and marvel (and all others) ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2012-06-07T15:07:55.337" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1892" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1893" CreationDate="2012-06-08T02:24:30.423" Score="13" ViewCount="380" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was some discussion a few months ago that the question &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1586/who-or-what-was-tom-bombadil&quot;&gt;Who or what was Tom Bombadil?&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; is general reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1209/why-the-tom-bombadil-question-is-not-closed-as-a-general-reference&quot;&gt;Why the Tom Bombadil question is not closed as a General Reference?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it was closed shortly thereafter, Since SciFi.SE is one of the two sites that still allow &amp;quot;general reference&amp;quot; closures even after &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/88521/149432&quot;&gt;the experiment was deemed a failure&lt;/a&gt;, having it remain open set a bad precedent for new users who might not understand that quirk of SciFi's policies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fair enough that it's closed, but now it's deleted, and the additional information is now lost. I've looked on meta here and through the chat logs, but couldn't find any discussion about its deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, what I found was the issue was the question asked was general reference as written, even if people conceded the answers (like mine) provided information not necessarily found in the general references for which it was closed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The LotR wiki on him has a small paragraph saying his origins are a mystery, and the Wikipedia entry has a somewhat larger but still incomplete description buried deep within the article. I think our question answers the root of the question more completely and directly than either of the wikis.&lt;/em&gt; — &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1219/366&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;While the question has indeed had two good answers that don't 100% duplicate Wikipedia, Mark's discussion on what race Tom may or may not be is the only additional information. The question doesn't seem to be calling for more than what's in Wikipedia. It may be possible to rewrite the question to make it more interesting.&lt;/em&gt; — &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1209/why-the-tom-bombadil-question-is-not-closed-as-a-general-reference#comment2544_1219&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I believe the Bombadil question had a much better answer on oursite than the &amp;quot;general reference&amp;quot; it was closed as. I think I mentioned on meta, that question made me change my mind on having &amp;quot;general reference&amp;quot; as a close reason.&lt;/em&gt; — &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=3194699#3194699&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I really don't think the Tom Bombadil question should have been closed. [...] It might be fairly easy to find the answer, but it is a very interesting question still, and we have stuff above and beyond what is in any of the major wiki sites.&lt;/em&gt; — &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3194634#3194634&quot;&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few months ago, Stack Exchange had &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/03/reputation-and-historical-archives/&quot;&gt;a blog post about the surreptitious deletion of content&lt;/a&gt; that was no longer acceptable on the platform but nevertheless had some historical or contextual usage. Towards the end, it mentioned how SE should be handling these types of no-longer-accpetable artifacts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Last but not least,&lt;/strong&gt; we’re experimenting with ways to keep some of the more useful – &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/stack-overflow-where-we-hate-fun/&quot;&gt;or even just fun&lt;/a&gt; – questions from the site’s history accessible in some way. To be clear: most of these are not great examples of questions that should be asked today… But some of them are, quite frankly, brilliant – and losing them entirely just because they aren’t a good fit for our strict Q&amp;amp;A format is wrong. For now, we’ve provided a “Historical Artifact” lock that completely freezes a question and its answers, preventing all further editing, voting, answering, and flagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/124692/a-new-look-for-locked-questions&quot;&gt;the historical lock interface was modified&lt;/a&gt; to make it clearer that questions locked for historical reasons are fundamentally different than other types of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So conceding the argument that we still have the General Reference close reason and &amp;quot;Who or what was Tom Bombadil?&amp;quot; purportedly meets its criteria, given there was at least some amount of consensus there was some value to the question—even &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1209/why-the-tom-bombadil-question-is-not-closed-as-a-general-reference#comment2544_1219&quot;&gt;a suggestion it could be reworded and reopened&lt;/a&gt;—when was it deleted, and why was it deleted instead of at least locked for historical reasons?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2013-12-28T02:41:27.370" Title="When and why was the Bombadil question deleted?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|general-reference|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1892" CreationDate="2012-06-08T02:43:32.613" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The site thinks I did:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wjtPQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Image of who deleted the question&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Except it says I somehow voted twice to delete it, and that this happened a month ago.  I don't recall voting to delete it a month ago, but I may have voted to delete it 4-5 months ago when it was closed.  That initial vote to delete would have predated all of the linked discussions about deletions and locking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I'm up for undeleting and locking it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2012-06-08T03:01:43.777" LastActivityDate="2012-06-08T03:01:43.777" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1892" CreationDate="2012-06-08T13:38:05.887" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am persuaded by original META discussion (see Gilles' accepted answer) that it fully fits GR, so I think it should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, though I did originally vote to delete it, I don't see that it &lt;strong&gt;must&lt;/strong&gt; be deleted - if the community feels that it adds value, I'm &lt;strong&gt;all for doing&lt;/strong&gt; the &quot;historical lock&quot; mentioned by Mark since this should fully eliminate the concerns over &quot;bad example&quot; which led me to cast the delete vote originally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-06-08T13:38:05.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1892" CreationDate="2012-06-08T14:29:41.527" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was in favor of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1209/why-the-tom-bombadil-question-is-not-closed-as-a-general-reference#comment2541_1215&quot;&gt;using the locking banner&lt;/a&gt; back then, but my deletion vote was triggered by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1209/why-the-tom-bombadil-question-is-not-closed-as-a-general-reference#comment2543_1215&quot;&gt;this comment by Gilles&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow has accumulated many such historical reasons questions, and all they do is attract more similar questions, because people see the question and ignore the banner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the historical lock interface was modified, I'm not opposed to undelete it, but only if it's locked afterward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4830/who-was-sifo-dyas&quot;&gt;Who was Sifo-Dyas?&lt;/a&gt; should also be locked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2012-06-08T14:29:41.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1896" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-08T18:50:44.273" Score="9" ViewCount="296" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Mark Trapp's recent &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1892/when-and-why-was-the-bombadil-question-deleted&quot;&gt;question about why the Tom Bombadil question was deleted&lt;/a&gt;, he mentioned a couple of points that really stood out to me. I never realized this, but apparently Scifi.SE is one of only two sites that use a &quot;General Reference&quot; close reason. Jeff Atwood's &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/86043/introduce-a-general-reference-close-reason/88521#88521&quot;&gt;answer on SO.Meta&lt;/a&gt; states that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;FYI, this close reason was implemented for testing on&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;http://scifi.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://english.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;http://english.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;. We've finished our evaluation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and after his summary of what &quot;General Reference&quot; is,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I believe this close reason has &lt;strong&gt;too much potential for abuse and&#xA;  misunderstanding&lt;/strong&gt;. It is unlikely we will ever adopt this close reason&#xA;  network wide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have agreed with Jeff's statement that &quot;General Reference&quot; leads to a lot of confusion and misunderstanding since I really began to use the site. As someone who is fairly a newbie to Stack Exchange, I've always been somewhat confused by the &quot;General Reference&quot; close reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One only has to look at a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1634/why-was-this-question-closed-as-general-reference&quot;&gt;few discussions&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1355/is-this-general-reference&quot;&gt;Scifi.Meta&lt;/a&gt;, or even &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/17913/did-batman-ever-purposefully-murder-anyone&quot;&gt;some of the questions&lt;/a&gt; closed for this reason to understand some of the confusion. It really seems like a very subjective reason to close something. I understand why it was implemented; having people ask things like &quot;Is Anakin Skywalker really Luke's Father?&quot; is unproductive and a waste of time. My issue is that things which are &lt;strong&gt;not evident with basic reading and/or viewing of the topic&lt;/strong&gt; are being closed for nebulous reasons like &quot;Googleability.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, &quot;Who is Tom Bombadil?&quot; is an excellent question that has been discussed by Tolkien scholars since the books where released. Sure, a Google search leads to a lot of resources on the discussion, but &lt;strong&gt;why is it inappropriate to have a readily available and excellently researched answer&lt;/strong&gt; (like Mark Trapp's was) on a Q and A site renowned for expert content? We bring a lot to the table that a Google search cannot: human made conclusions from experts on a subject, independent and ideally sourced research, and the all important element of provided context. A good Wikipedia article gives a summary of a character and what they did; &lt;strong&gt;a good Stack Exchange answer can give so much more:&lt;/strong&gt; insight into the character's motivations, background, the author's insights on that character, quotes from source materials on that character, and a valid conclusion to a specific question provided by an expert on the story's canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see the argument to keep &quot;General Reference&quot; as a way to close questions that are just &lt;strong&gt;too&lt;/strong&gt; simple. Questions like &quot;Was Darth Vader really Luke's Father?&quot; are obviously ridiculous and should be closed. However, if &quot;General Reference&quot; is to be kept for that purpose, &lt;strong&gt;it needs to be clearly and precisely limited to simple questions of obvious plot points&lt;/strong&gt;. My personal feeling on it is to just get rid of &quot;General Reference&quot; entirely, as it is too fundamentally subjective. For instances of banally simple questions, perhaps it would be better to close them as &quot;Too Localized,&quot; since it is unlikely that many people would need an answer to &quot;Was Darth Vader really Luke's Father?&quot;, explaining to the asker that such a simple question is easily answered by watching the movie, and the answer won't be useful to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that Jeff Atwood's test of the feature is over, &lt;strong&gt;do we still need the &quot;General Reference&quot; close reason?&lt;/strong&gt; Can we get rid of this generally confusing feature? Or should we greatly limit its uses to questions that are just painfully obvious and simple? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4831" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Why exactly do we still have a &quot;General Reference&quot; close reason?" Tags="|discussion|general-reference|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2017-05-07T17:36:49.917" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1896" CreationDate="2012-06-08T19:35:02.283" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that GR reason for closing should be kept, but: (1) Extremely limited; (2) Enforce its use very judiciously (with full proof in comments or on META that the question fully fits the GR guidelines BEFORE closing, and letting the asker address the points).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example (I will ask as a separate META Q), the one you linked to about Batman and murder seems to me to be WITHIN accepted non-GR guidelines (while the data exists on Wiki, the relevant Wiki article is not a dedicated resource for the question, and more importantly, does NOT come up in Google search in top 10 for either the exact question title OR the obvious queries).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, your other example (is Vader Luke's father) is the reason why I feel that GR should  still be available. Otherwise, we as a site will be inundated with trivia, boring, useless but super-highly-upvoted content like &quot;What car model was Back to the Future time machine based on&quot;. StackOverflow experience teaches that trivia content like that, sadly, has a tendency to be floated UP via upvotes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given SFF volume, the trivia might quickly drown out the expert content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-06-08T19:35:02.283" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1892" CreationDate="2012-06-08T21:12:44.003" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question was closed, after a meta discussion, on 18 January 2012. It was later deleted, on 3 May. So if anyone thought the question was worth salvaging, they had over three months to do it. Nobody edited the question, so it was eventually deleted, like all questions that are closed for good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm open to undeleting it if you (or someone else) pledge to edit it to make it worth reopening. Keep in mind that the existing answers have to make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is content in the answers that is absent from the Wikipedia page, our best course of action is to find citations where needed and &lt;strong&gt;add the content to the Wikipedia page&lt;/strong&gt;. (I can make a copy of the question and answers available somewhere on the web if necessary.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leaving the question around with answers that are not as good as Wikipedia would be harmful for the site: we'd come second in an obvious comparison. Note that at a score of 101, it would be the site's most upvoted question — it would be our flagship question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Historical locks were introduced mostly because Stack Overflow has some historical baggage, and its meta community is dominated by people who yearn for the good old days of three years ago (which is a lot in Internet time). This site does not have any such historical baggage. We don't need to put a frame around our garbage, we can bury it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-06-08T21:12:44.003" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1896" CreationDate="2012-06-08T21:27:02.693" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do find the &lt;em&gt;general reference&lt;/em&gt; close reason useful, and I disagree with Mark Trapp's assessment that it is a failed experiment. However, I find the way it is worded too broad; see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/86043/introduce-a-general-reference-close-reason/101179#101179&quot;&gt;my post on the main meta&lt;/a&gt; for more exposition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the Tom Bombadil deletion meta thread, Mark Trapp refers to Jeff Atwood's position. I find Jeff's position inconsistent: on the one hand, he finds that the close reason is too broad; on the other hand, he opposes proposals to make it narrower.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not find the GR close reason absolutely necessary, because &lt;em&gt;too localized&lt;/em&gt; can fill its role. We've been using it on &lt;a href=&quot;https://french.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;French Language &amp;amp; Usage&lt;/a&gt;, for example; French L&amp;amp;U has the same kind of what-does-this-word-mean question as &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;English L&amp;amp;U&lt;/a&gt; that is best looked up in any general dictionary, but unlike ELU, FLU doesn't have the GR close reason. GR questions are also TL, because having the question in a place that's harder to search for than a general reference, with no hope to get a better answer than the general reference, helps only the asker and not future visitors. Ideally, the wording of TL should be changed to make it clear that it is not only about space and time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:56:37.437" LastActivityDate="2013-05-01T07:39:31.593" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1896" CreationDate="2012-06-08T22:54:30.280" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm gonna go ahead and post my suggestion for what should be done; if you agree, upvote, if not, post your own solution. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that General Reference should be eliminated based on two main reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's usefulness can be easily covered through other close reasons. As &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1899/4831&quot;&gt;Gilles said&lt;/a&gt;, expanding Too Localized beyond just &quot;space and time&quot; would enable it to cover questions that are just too simple, while Off Topic could cover things easily answered by iMDB. Our site isn't about who acted in what, eliminating the &quot;Who played character X in movie Y?&quot; questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In its current form, it's too subjective and confusing. If it's around, users will still assume that it's the same thing it was before, and use it the same way: subjectively. By getting rid of it, we are simultaneously preventing its misuse and encouraging closing for more objective reasons instead.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While keeping it and attempting to limit its scope is a valid solution, I think the better solution is to eliminate it. By eliminating it, we do not lose any functionality, and simultaneously simplify the closing process for all users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4831" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2012-06-08T22:54:30.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1901" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1902" CreationDate="2012-06-09T23:46:33.267" Score="2" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did everyone who participated in the election a few months back earn the appropriate badges yesterday?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election&quot;&gt;Election page&lt;/a&gt;, which shows the date range of the election. Started Jan 23, ended Feb 7.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/88/caucus&quot;&gt;Caucus badge&lt;/a&gt;, see that everyone earned it 1 day ago (at time of writing).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/89/constituent&quot;&gt;Constituent badge&lt;/a&gt;, again everyone earned it 1 day ago.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="What's the deal with the election badges?" Tags="|support|election|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1901" CreationDate="2012-06-09T23:52:33.790" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both the Caucus and Constituent badges are &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/135144/what-should-the-election-voting-badge-be-named&quot;&gt;brand new&lt;/a&gt;, but they have been awarded retroactively to cover previous elections on each of the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can read more about them &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/06/election-participation-badges/?cb=1&quot;&gt;on the blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2012-06-09T23:52:33.790" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1904" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-12T03:12:19.120" Score="5" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;Within the past couple weeks someone posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/17696/whats-so-special-about-jules-vernes-work&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; asking &quot;What's so special about Jules Verne?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first glance, I wanted to close this question.  It seems fully subjective and requires an opinion on the quality of an author's work, which is not the type of question that can be answered with a clear answer.  In other words a bad question for this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the more I thought about it, the more I thought, &quot;This is a not only a legitimate question, but a good question.  This addresses points beyond the subjective.  Most people know about current literature and movies, but many have not explored important and seminal works (and authors) of SF&amp;amp;F.  A perfect example of that is the recent movie &lt;em&gt;Hugo&lt;/em&gt;.  I've talked with many people who have seen the movie and had never heard of Georges Melies before seeing &lt;em&gt;Hugo&lt;/em&gt;.  Melies was seminal and important to film and the SF&amp;amp;F world, yet few today know about him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many of us have heard of Jules Verne or H. G. Wells, but we don't know where they fit in the world of SF&amp;amp;F.  And, for that matter, even more people have no idea how important Poe was to the genre and how he's sometimes called The Father of Science Fiction (as well as The Father of Horror and The Father of the Mystery Story).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While one can get some of that from general reference sources, even the Wikipedia can be pedantic sometimes, and often leaves out some viewpoints.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This person is not asking for a long essay (although my answer was kind of long), and most of what they're asking can be given as a subjective answers.  I feel I did a lot of that, by specifying what Verne did to develop the genre and what he did before others did it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me this is the kind of question that requires a meaty answer, and that it is a movement away from the types of questions that some people have complained about or called trivial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should this question really be closed?  Is it possible that what it needs might be some editing along the way, as opposed to closing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more I think about it, the more I think this question should be re-opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T10:07:41.560" Title="Should This Question Be Closed?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1905" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1924" CreationDate="2012-06-12T04:15:42.307" Score="5" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few days ago, I noticed a change to the layout of profile pages on the site:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8TzGw.png&quot; alt=&quot;picture of a SFF.SE profile&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The blue box used to be higher up, with the elements up top further to the left.  Unless I'm missing something, the current profile page has a bug that has broken the familiar layout.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chrome 19 shows this bug, along with Firefox 12 and 13.  Firefox 10 does not show the bug on this site, but does on some other SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2012-06-14T20:27:34.103" LastActivityDate="2012-06-14T20:27:34.103" Title="Layout bug in profile pages" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|profile-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1904" CreationDate="2012-06-12T09:20:30.607" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firstly, I think it's important to keep in mind it wasn't a controversial closure: the question is currently sitting at 0/-7 and it was closed less than 24 hours after it was asked. The community flatly rejected it: but why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it might be an interesting or thought-provoking question, Stack Exchange is not meant to be a repository of every single interesting question that might be asked on the Internet. Instead, it's meant to be a place to ask and answer very &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; types of questions: namely, questions that can have a correct and/or definitive answer. Voting, our main ability to sort answers, works by people recognizing when someone provides the correct answer and when someone provides a wrong, or unhelpful, answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking why Jules Verne is so special, besides being a loaded question (&lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; he so special? According to whom? What do you mean by &quot;special&quot;?), will not produce a definitive answer because there's no correctness criteria: instead, it'll produce people's opinions about why he's special (or why he isn't). So there's no means by which to vote on answers except on wishy-washy things like whether the answer agrees with someone's opinion, or whether it's an interesting take on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, the question is just another discussion about Jules Verne with no solid answers, just a bunch of food for thought. &lt;em&gt;Exactly&lt;/em&gt; the type of thing Stack Exchange aims to avoid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if you grant that there's somehow a definitive or correct answer to why Jules Verne is so special, we're talking about one of the fathers of modern science fiction: people can and have written books about him and his impact. Comprehensively answering the question (again, a cornerstone of the type of Q&amp;amp;A Stack Exchange attempts to provide) cannot be done in the &quot;fun size unit of work&quot; that Stack Exchange runs on. Which is why we have this in the FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your questions should be reasonably scoped. If you can imagine an &lt;em&gt;entire book&lt;/em&gt; that answers your question, you’re asking too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said, there are potentially a number of ways to ask something similar here. If the question can be revised in some way that explains what, specifically, is the problem with Jules Verne being considered special, that'd at least be a starting point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's said that X was influenced by Jules Verne: what exactly was the nature of that influence?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How was Jules Verne involved to the early science fiction community?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is X science fiction trope attributable to Jules Verne? Why?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key theme amongst these questions is that they are asking something a) specific and b) verifiable. Otherwise, it just goes back to being a prompt for discussion about Jules Verne instead of solving a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, putting aside revising the question, a treatise on why Jules Verne is so important to science fiction is always something that could be written on the blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2012-06-12T09:29:31.143" LastActivityDate="2012-06-12T09:29:31.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1904" CreationDate="2012-06-12T12:12:51.120" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I first saw the question, I almost closed it as “not a real question”, but decided to leave a comment and leave the tab open. There was a question mark in there, but no actual meaningful question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What differentiated Jules Verne from his fellow science-fiction peers? What's so special about Jules Verne?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is extremely vague. Maybe a dissertation about Jules Verne would answer this, maybe not. The other paragraph doesn't clarify, except to try a comparison with H.G. Wells — but “I have trouble seeing any differences between them” is &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/gorilla-vs-shark/&quot;&gt;not answerable&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The asker didn't come back to reply, and hasn't even come back to the site after the question was closed, so we can consider the question abandoned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a textbook example of a case where the question had to be closed &lt;strong&gt;in its present form&lt;/strong&gt;, but should be reopened &lt;strong&gt;after having been edited to fit the site&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answer addresses a particular point about Jules Verne's influences. Given that the question is abandoned, I think the question can be made more specific and reopened. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/17696/2&quot;&gt;Your edit&lt;/a&gt; still leaves it very broad, I would prefer something more specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2012-06-12T12:12:51.120" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1908" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-12T15:52:24.177" Score="22" ViewCount="1598" Body="&lt;p&gt;SciFi.SE has partnered with Comedy Central to promote &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Futurama's&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; upcoming season. We're declaring &lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt; the topic of the week for the next week and, after that, we're launching a special &lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt; minisite that will tie into a Q&amp;amp;A event! Awesome!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bye!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wait, huh? Oh! You want me to de-vague all of that vague stuff I just said? Sure!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;FUTURAMA&lt;/em&gt; WEEK&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're going to expand our &lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt; content and prepare for the show's season premiere on June 20th by declaring &lt;strong&gt;June 13th-20th &lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt; Week&lt;/strong&gt;! All the normal &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1138&quot;&gt;Topic of the Week&lt;/a&gt; rules apply (in fact, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1138&quot;&gt;TOTW post will be updated&lt;/a&gt; to include &lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt; Week). For those of you new to the ol' SciFi.SE TOTW format, here's an abridged version of the rules:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How it works:&lt;/strong&gt; Each person who asks a &lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt; question will be eligible to win a prize.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to enter:&lt;/strong&gt; Ask a question about &lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt;, and tag it with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/futurama&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;futurama&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;futurama&lt;/a&gt;. Each question you ask will get you one entry into a random drawing to win a sci-fi item of your choice from your local Amazon (under $50). The question must not be closed or deleted to be eligible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dates: &lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; week begins on Wednesday June 13th at 12:00 am EST/4:00 UTC and lasts until Wednesday June 20th at 11:59 pm EST/Thursday June 21st at 3:59 UTC. Yes, this &quot;week&quot; spans 8 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;FUTURAMA&lt;/em&gt; MINISITE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On June 27th, we will launch an official &lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt; Stack Exchange minisite that will collect all of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/futurama&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;futurama&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;futurama&lt;/a&gt; questions in one location, as well as some other goodies. &#xA;The name of this site is TBD (you can &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/a/stackoverflow.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHdZWHg3Z2dZaFQtS285c2tSeWRwcUE6MQ#gid=0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;suggest a name for the site here&lt;/a&gt;, but just know that Stack Exchange will own the name if it is used).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update :&lt;/strong&gt; The name of this site is &lt;a href=&quot;http://answerama.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Answerama&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;see : &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1970/answerama-the-futurama-mini-site-is-live&quot;&gt;Answerama, the Futurama mini-site, is live!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LIVE &lt;em&gt;FUTURAMA&lt;/em&gt; Q&amp;amp;A EVENT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As revealed in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2012/07/futurama-live-cast-and-eps-will-answer-fan-questions-in-live-stream.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;press release on June 2nd&lt;/a&gt;, the cast and creators of &lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt; will take part in a live question and answer session. Between 1-5 questions from SciFi.SE will be asked during the event, meaning they will get an answer from the brains behind &lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt;. The users whose questions get asked will receive a &lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt; prize package including the items listed on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://answerama.com/rules-and-prizes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rules &amp;amp; Prizes&lt;/a&gt; page of Answerama as well as other exclusive items.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The event takes place on Wednesday, July 11th at 10:30 PM EDT/July 12th 2:30 AM UTC after that night's episode airs on Comedy Central. Check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/futurama&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt;'s site on Comedy Central&lt;/a&gt; for the live event and more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope that clears up my previous vagueness! To sum up all the dates involved:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;June 13th: &lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt; Week begins&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;June 20th: &lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt; premieres on Comedy Central; &lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt; Week ends&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;June 27th: &lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt; minisite launches&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;July 11th: &lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt; Q&amp;amp;A event!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have any questions, you can comment on this post or ping me in chat. Ready your Futurama questions and get ready to post them tomorrow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2012-07-23T21:24:09.573" Title="Futurama Week + Q&amp;A Event on July 11th!" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1909" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-12T20:14:23.477" Score="5" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange will be officially attending &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.heroesonline.com/heroescon/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;HeroesCon in Charlotte, North Carolina&lt;/a&gt; (June 22-24). We will be there spreading the word about SciFi.SE and, hopefully, meeting all of our local users. We're also hosting a pre-party in the area that Thursday night. Here's a rundown of what we're doing at HeroesCon:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thursday, June 21st&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://spandexcity.com/home.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;HeroesCon pre-party at Spandex City comic shop&lt;/a&gt;. This will be running in conjunction with that night's HeroClix tournament and will feature the cast and crew behind &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt8lKPb60Xo&amp;amp;feature=plcp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Question in Conference Room B&lt;/a&gt; hanging out, giving out SciFi.SE swag. More details about the pre-party are being worked out, but I know there will be door prizes and 3-day passes to the con given out.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Friday, June 22nd - Sunday, June 24th&lt;/strong&gt; - We will be in the Small Press area with a table. Between the show program, our Stack Exchange banner and spinning wheel, we should be easy to find. Please come by and say hello! We will be doing live demonstrations of the site, challenging people with our spinning trivia wheel, and giving out SciFi.SE swag. Perhaps you can win one of these new, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.tumblr.com/post/24970061155/the-all-new-fresh-in-the-box-sci-fi-fantasy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;just-got-in-the-office tote bags&lt;/a&gt;?!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We will be creating &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/user/StackHQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;video content&lt;/a&gt;, asking the creators questions about the material they created and shooting a special episode of The Question in Conference Room B from the show floor.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We will also be blogging from the show floor, probably frequently from our &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.tumblr.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tumblr&lt;/a&gt;, and end-of-day recaps at our &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;official blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are attending HeroesCon, please let us know! Please come by Spandex City on Thursday or our booth over the weekend. Introduce yourself! If you are interested in being part of some unofficial street team, let us know! Email me at &lt;strong&gt;brett at stack exchange dot com&lt;/strong&gt;. We'll get you a street team kit set aside and you can pick it up at the con.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope to see some of y'all there!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastEditorUserId="2383" LastEditDate="2012-06-27T15:59:41.480" LastActivityDate="2012-06-27T15:59:41.480" Title="Official presence at HeroesCon - Charlotte, NC - June 22-24" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1910" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-12T23:27:29.910" Score="3" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1908/futurama-week-event&quot;&gt;Futurama promotions&lt;/a&gt; that are going on, I was curious if anyone would be interested in rewatching Futurama.  It's been a few years since I last watched it from start to finish, and figure this would be a perfect time to do so.  Here in the US, most TV shows have finished their seasons, and the summer TV season hasn't quite begun.  In addition, the show is up on Netflix Instant Streaming, so it's easy for many US folks (and maybe Canadians?) to access the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of the plan to watch the show, I'm not aiming to have a synchronized viewing, given the massive scope of the Futurama canon that we'll be working through.  Trying to get a bunch of people organized to watch episodes at the same time would take days/weeks to schedule.  So, what I propose is that people who are interested just watch Futurama and post and answer questions.  I'll be doing the same, my plan is to start at episode 1 and work through all 6 seasons + the 4 movies.  If you're up for just watching a few of your favorite episodes, I encourage you to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll be idling in a Futurama chat room that I'll be making shortly.   I hope to chat with other people who are rewatching the show.  I expect us all to be able to quote Futurama and the show's various jokes while we're in there (Scruffy's going to die the way he lived!).  We can use the space to brainstorm questions or hash out the details on answers we're working on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, anyone planning on joining me in a rewatch of Futurama?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2012-07-08T18:55:11.510" Title="TV show marathon: Futurama" Tags="|discussion|chat-event|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1910" CreationDate="2012-06-13T00:06:39.173" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've Seasons 1-4 + films sitting on my shelf, but I've watched them often enough that I learned large parts the dialogue. :)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Anyway, I've been thinking about ordering season 5+6 from amazon.&lt;strong&gt;com&lt;/strong&gt; since my local amazon doesn't have the sixth season, but I'm a bit put off by the delivery time and the prospect to have to collect them from customs. But I haven't watched a single episode yet on TV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A synchronised re-watch by several people doesn't sound doable, but would certainly fuel conversation. If you do plan on watching the whole thing on your own, why not put a schedule of some sort into the chat room, so that other people can join in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastActivityDate="2012-06-13T00:06:39.173" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1912" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-13T00:44:49.627" Score="10" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering what requirements or guidelines we should put up for Futurama questions to be constructive, to avoid bergs of questions being closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the great aspects of the show is that it has some sort of meta-humour as it messes with our geeky minds by purposefully and intentionally being vastly discontinuous, that' its appeal. Apart from being repeated time and again in the DVD commentary, you only have to watch a single episode and most times you will be unable to determine consistent rules for the Futurama universe (I wont even begin to name examples).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I don't see right now, is how we can have constructive questions in such a fluctuating universe, like we usually get them for other franchises. For example, we have many consistency questions on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; because the plot is so full of holes that you need many people to try and put everything together. But the rules of Futurama are bent ... or should I say completely fried ... for comedic effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't get me wong, I'm not at all saying Futurama should be off-topic (it's by far worth being featured!), but to fit the site, questions mustn't be open-ended or subjective. So how can we make this topic work here and make it appeal a casual visitor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-06-13T13:54:44.673" LastActivityDate="2012-06-13T13:54:44.673" Title="Constructive Futurama Questions?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|futurama|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1912" CreationDate="2012-06-13T00:56:36.773" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think we have to have any sort of special rules or treatment for Futurama questions.  Questions about the absurdist elements can be voted-to-close and improved by editing.  We have a FAQ to go off of, and we should treat these questions just like any other.  Silly, pointless questions have always been off-topic, as we're here for &lt;code&gt;practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that we face.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, given the nature of the Futurama event, we should expect an influx of new users.  We as a community need to make sure the questions they ask meet our standards, and new users receive the guidance needed to contribute positively to this site.  Edit to improve questions, vote to close bad questions, and flag stuff we mods need to clean up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also have some fun, it's time to celebrate our love of Futurama!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-06-13T00:56:36.773" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1915" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1923" CreationDate="2012-06-13T23:53:56.500" Score="2" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 'contact user' diamond mod tool, the textbox where we enter the message to the user is shifted way over to the right (this is in Firefox 13):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RbBSc.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of textbox shifted to the right&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="44" LastEditDate="2012-06-14T18:45:13.483" LastActivityDate="2012-06-14T18:45:13.483" Title="User message page has broken text box" Tags="|bug|status-completed|moderator-tools|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1916" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1917" CreationDate="2012-06-14T08:59:50.440" Score="12" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;LOTR tag wiki has a long write-up that ends with &quot;From: The Lord Of The Rings on wikipedia&quot;. I didn't check whether it was fully copy/paste as the sentence seems to imply, but in general; is simply copying a long couple of paragraphs from Wikipedia OK for tag wiki texts assuming it's attributed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2014-10-31T15:45:25.683" LastActivityDate="2014-10-31T15:45:25.683" Title="Is copy/paste from Wikipedia allowed on tag wikis?" Tags="|discussion|tag-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1916" CreationDate="2012-06-14T09:15:58.347" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, if it's not attributed, it's illegal. This goes for the excerpt too, which does not have room for an attribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it's attributed, it's legal, and there is no outright policy against it, but it is often not a good idea. Wikipedia is a generalist encyclopedia, whereas our tag wikis should contain information that's relevant to our community of SF consumers. For &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt;, it's not catastrophic, but it's not very good either. For authors, this tends to be worse: we care about what they've produced, Wikipedia copy-paste tends to produce irrelevant biographical details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1626/what-should-be-in-a-tag-wiki&quot;&gt;previous general discussion of what should be in a tag wiki&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/79000/would-it-be-ok-to-paste-content-from-wikipedia-into-a-popular-empty-tag-wiki&quot;&gt;a similar question on the main meta&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/102314/can-we-do-anything-against-tag-wikis-copy-pasted-from-wikipedia&quot;&gt;my opinion on the practice&lt;/a&gt; (in a word: no).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2012-06-14T09:33:28.200" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1918" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1919" CreationDate="2012-06-14T09:23:14.380" Score="4" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;Say, I want to find the list of users who have a silver &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; badge .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For non-per-tag badges, you can go to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges&quot;&gt;list of badges&lt;/a&gt;, and click on a badge name, which takes you to a list of badge awardees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But per-tag-badges are NOT on the list; so this approach does not work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if one knows the badge ID (which I do in this case), one can construct the per-tag-badge URL yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/78/&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/78/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I know the ID since I already have the badge and click on it from my own badge list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How can I find the badge ID (or link) for a per-tag-badge?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that &quot;Look at a user who has the badge&quot; is NOT a valid answer, as there may be zero users with the badge so far (e.g. Gold harry-potter badge has no users).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2012-06-14T09:31:17.907" Title="How can I find the badge ID for a per-tag badge?" Tags="|support|tags|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1918" CreationDate="2012-06-14T09:31:17.907" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the badge has already been given to a user, look at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges?tab=tags&quot;&gt;tags tab on the badges page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the badge has never been awarded, it does not have a number. Numbers are allocated to tag badges when they are first awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2012-06-14T09:31:17.907" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1920" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-14T15:57:04.000" Score="0" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;How did I get a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/88/caucus?userid=3383&quot;&gt;Caucus Badge&lt;/a&gt; when I was not even very active on scifi.SE when the scifi election was taking place??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2012-06-14T16:24:26.827" Title="How did I get a Caucus Badge?" Tags="|support|badges|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1920" CreationDate="2012-06-14T15:59:57.663" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;All you had to do is visit the site once during that time, that it recorded your visit. Perhaps the system is a bit buggy as well... Were you active on any SE sites at that time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-06-14T15:59:57.663" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1920" CreationDate="2012-06-14T16:04:42.030" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at your profile, I can see that you visited the site during the election period (2012-01-23 20:00Z to 2012-02-07 20:00Z), even though you took no recorded activity (posts, comments, etc.) during that time. I can't tell what pages you visited, presumably you did visit the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election&quot;&gt;election page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The badge is new, it was granted retroactively when it was created last week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2012-06-14T16:04:42.030" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1915" CreationDate="2012-06-14T18:45:05.137" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was able to repro this in FF13. The fix will be in the next prod build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastActivityDate="2012-06-14T18:45:05.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1905" CreationDate="2012-06-14T20:26:05.120" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was a bug affecting profile pages on a handful of sites. It should be fully fixed as of yesterday, but do let us know if you see issues again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2922" LastActivityDate="2012-06-14T20:26:05.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1925" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-15T06:51:49.710" Score="4" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our last viewing event was fun, but school and work got in the way of me transcribing the event to a blog post, but in light of the TOTW this week, I'd like to suggest a group viewing event!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we decide to go ahead, I would like to do it on Sunday 6/17/2012 (this coming Sunday) around 8pm CST (2AM 6/18/2012 UTC). You may register yourself &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/3789/group-viewing-event?tab=schedule&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; so you can get a reminder the day of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are wanting to participate, please leave an answer here with a few choice episodes you'd like to watch and the 3 most popular (2 or 4 if time permits) will be viewed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way we can guarantee everyone sees the same things is to watch the episodes on Netflix. But if people outside the US have DVDs available, we can try to accommodate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rules on the group chat are simple: Everyone will hit play on Netflix at the same time. The conversation must be kept to commentary on Futurama, specifically the current episode we are watching. Funny comments are encouraged, and we will be starring our favorites, which I will bold when creating the blog transcript. No foul language please as I really don't have time to censor everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If all goes well, (and I don't have my classes to hold me back, which I shouldn't during the summer) I should have the blog post up in time for the Futurama site to be up and link to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A list of 10 &quot;best of&quot; episodes by i09: &lt;a href=&quot;http://io9.com/5814694/the-10-best-futurama-episodes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://io9.com/5814694/the-10-best-futurama-episodes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorUserId="1109" LastEditDate="2012-06-16T08:19:47.663" LastActivityDate="2012-06-20T12:11:32.997" Title="Futurama Group Viewing Event!" Tags="|discussion|group-watching|futurama|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1925" CreationDate="2012-06-15T13:19:30.620" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Count me in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any and all episodes that feature Zapp Brannigan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="1148" LastEditDate="2012-06-16T14:26:57.413" LastActivityDate="2012-06-16T14:26:57.413" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1927" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-16T01:03:56.827" Score="0" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to see how close I was to 200 answers in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; tag, and realized that, despite answering a bunch of Qs last couple of days, I was still at the same 170 answers as per &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/harry-potter/topusers&quot;&gt;Top Users&lt;/a&gt;&quot; list in Harry Potter tag page as I was a couple of days ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems off, and is confirmed by the fact that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=user:976%20%5Bharry-potter%5D&quot;&gt;searching for my total Harry Potter posts brings up 250&lt;/a&gt; as of now; whereas Top Users list has me at 170A+74Q=244 posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is the Top Users statistics off?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2012-06-16T10:04:30.247" Title="Why are the tag's Top User stats incorrect?" Tags="|support|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1928" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1929" CreationDate="2012-06-16T01:07:01.500" Score="0" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;To find out all of the posts I made (say, in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; tag), I can &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=user:976%20%5Bharry-potter%5D&quot;&gt;search for&lt;/a&gt; &quot;user:976&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that includes ALL posts made by the user, both answers and questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can the search be refined to include only the answers (or exclude any questions)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2012-06-16T01:36:26.367" Title="How can I exclude questions by a user (aka only include answers by a user) in search?" Tags="|support|user-interface|search|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2016-03-17T13:38:44.983" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1928" CreationDate="2012-06-16T01:36:26.367" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=&quot;&gt;the search page&lt;/a&gt; yes you can.  Just add &lt;code&gt;is:question&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;is:answer&lt;/code&gt; to only get questions or answers in your search results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2012-06-16T01:36:26.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1927" CreationDate="2012-06-16T05:39:55.163" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the Top Users page is cached and won't immediately update, it's not off. You also mentioned the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This seems off, and is confirmed by the fact that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=user:976%20%5Bharry-potter%5D&quot;&gt;searching for my total Harry Potter posts brings up 250&lt;/a&gt; as of now; whereas Top Users list has me at 170A+74Q=144 posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;170 answers + 74 question isn't 144 posts, it's 244 (far closer to what you expected).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in fact, it &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/harry-potter/topusers&quot;&gt;currently reports&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;173 answers&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2GKWR.png&quot; alt=&quot;Top Harry Potter Answerers&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;78 questions&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ncJJM.png&quot; alt=&quot;Top Harry Potter Askers&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which corresponds exactly to what you currently have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=user%3A976+%5Bharry-potter%5D+is%3Aanswer&amp;amp;submit=search&quot;&gt;173 answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ceFAq.png&quot; alt=&quot;DVK&amp;#39;s answers in Harry Potter&quot;&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=user%3A976+%5Bharry-potter%5D+is%3Aquestion&amp;amp;submit=search&quot;&gt;78 questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JRkJr.png&quot; alt=&quot;DVK&amp;#39;s questions in Harry Potter&quot;&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2012-06-16T10:04:30.247" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1925" CreationDate="2012-06-17T22:52:33.950" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;To make a definitive list (feel free to edit this post)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://theinfosphere.org/Love%27s_Labours_Lost_in_Space&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;S01E04&lt;/a&gt; Love's Labours Lost in Space (to make Jack happy, it's the first Zapp episode)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://theinfosphere.org/Brannigan,_Begin_Again&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;S02E06&lt;/a&gt; Brannigan, Begin Again (the quintessential Zapp Brannigan episode)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://theinfosphere.org/The_Luck_of_the_Fryrish&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;S03E10&lt;/a&gt; The Luck of the Fryrish (because I want to hear Farnsworth say his &quot;Dirt doesn't need luck&quot; line)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://theinfosphere.org/Roswell_that_Ends_Well&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;S04E01&lt;/a&gt; Roswell that Ends Well (because so many questions rely on its events)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://theinfosphere.org/300_Big_Boys&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;S05E11&lt;/a&gt; Three Hundred Big Boys (coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2012-06-20T12:11:32.997" LastActivityDate="2012-06-20T12:11:32.997" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-06-17T22:52:33.950" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1932" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1933" CreationDate="2012-06-18T15:14:02.923" Score="3" ViewCount="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about merging the magical objects and magical items tags? It seems redundant to have both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6942" LastEditorUserId="4257" LastEditDate="2013-05-28T00:00:16.117" LastActivityDate="2013-05-28T00:00:16.117" Title="Can someone facilitate the merging of tags?" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1932" CreationDate="2012-06-18T15:16:37.443" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Done:-) So far as you see something like this, then let someone know, and we'll try and take care of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-06-18T15:16:37.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1934" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-18T16:51:11.317" Score="3" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;My recent &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/18592/do-the-internal-inconsistencies-of-futurama-ever-cause-it-to-suffern&quot;&gt;Do the internal inconsistencies of Futurama ever cause it to suffer?&lt;/a&gt; question has been called subjective. How can I fix it, if it indeed needs fixing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2012-06-19T19:52:50.443" Title="Is my question too subjective?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1934" CreationDate="2012-06-18T22:26:32.043" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It certainly doesn't look subjective to me. Your question is asking two distinct, independently verifiable things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Has the Futurama fandom ever reacted negatively to one of its many consistency hiccups?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was there ever a retcon of a consistency error with the purpose of placating an angry fanbase?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These two basic questions seem to me to be fairly straightforward yes/no questions. Either there were problems or there weren't, either they led to retcons or they didn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're not appealing to individual opinions here, but to a community's reaction, which is something that can be objectively measured.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4831" LastEditorUserId="4831" LastEditDate="2012-06-19T19:52:50.443" LastActivityDate="2012-06-19T19:52:50.443" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1890" CreationDate="2012-06-19T05:04:38.713" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1520/how-should-marvel-comics-and-dc-comics-be-used?rq=1&quot;&gt;How should marvel-comics and DC-comics be used?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1706/should-the-marvel-dc-comics-tag-be-changed-to-just-marvel-dc?rq=1&quot;&gt;Should the marvel/DC-comics tag be changed to just marvel/DC?&lt;/a&gt; mention changing the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-comics&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-comics&lt;/a&gt; tags to be just &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc&lt;/a&gt;, then using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; to distinguish between questions on the comics versus questions on the movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that was a consensus approach (applied to the existing questions as well) it would solve your issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect we're going to see this same problem with DC when the next Superman movie comes out unless a change is made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4056" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2012-06-19T05:04:38.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1937" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-19T12:50:33.627" Score="2" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have this question,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/18665/which-ergonomic-keyboard-model-does-neot-a-use&quot;&gt;What types of keyboard does Neo/Mr Anderson use?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was recently closed as off topic. I've read the faq previously and I think it's clearly on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The faq says what is off-topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Facts easily found on a reference site? - no&#xA;Questions calling for a list of works, authors, … - no.&#xA;Reading or viewing recommendations - totally no&#xA;Genre classification - no.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The faq further points to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic&quot;&gt;What questions are on-topic, and what questions are off-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Personalized recommentations - totally no&#xA;Questions about writing (filming, etc.) SF - not at all&#xA;Recommendation/Categorization Questions - not at all (see definition and example questions when in doubt)&#xA;Questions about genre classification - no&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are not even &quot;still controversial&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Questions about SF fandom - no&#xA;Real-World Speculation Questions - no&#xA;Bibliographic questions - no&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's a behind the scenes question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I added &lt;em&gt;optional&lt;/em&gt; questions but even that's not a question for listing anything, it's about identification of thing in the same scene. I didn't want to ask all as separate questions and they seemed to be the best here, and they are optional. In my opinion, neither of that makes my question off-topic. I cannot see why the question is not totally valid according to the faq.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6510" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2012-06-19T14:14:10.317" Title="How is this question not in line with the faq?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1937" CreationDate="2012-06-19T13:07:52.507" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think it's a behind the scenes question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It totally is a behind the scenes question, but it's an extremely trivial one.  The type of keyboard Neo uses isn't of any importance to the story or the making of the movie, it's just a keyboard.  That he's a hacker is important to the story.  But they specific type of keyboard he uses is merely window dressing that shows he types a great deal.  Everything about the scene in his apartment helps paint the picture that he's a hacker, but one minor detail (i.e. a keyboard) isn't of particular value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The specific model is apparently one you want to buy, but shopping questions are usually &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/qa-is-hard-lets-go-shopping/&quot;&gt;not allowed&lt;/a&gt; on Stack Exchange sites.  Honestly, I could have voted to close using either the off-topic or the 'too localized' reasons, but I found the triviality of it to make it off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2012-06-19T14:14:10.317" LastActivityDate="2012-06-19T14:14:10.317" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1939" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1942" CreationDate="2012-06-20T10:31:37.363" Score="2" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that if someone is looking to just upvotes one person, and does so in a matter of minutes the system catches that. I feel like I may have had the reverse and been down voted on three questions that are largely upvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12038/did-sauron-survive&quot;&gt;Did Sauron survive?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12041/where-do-i-need-to-start-to-understand-modern-avengers&quot;&gt;Where do I need to start, to understand &amp;#39;modern&amp;#39; Avengers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/12043/3804&quot;&gt;Was Harry Potter inspired by The Lord of the Rings?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a thing that the system could counter, &lt;em&gt;if needed&lt;/em&gt;? I'm not going to complain about losing 6 rep, but I want to know if this could be done to lots of people maliciously, and if it could be countered somehow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Are successive downvotes ever countered?" Tags="|support|voting|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1890" CreationDate="2012-06-20T11:55:47.947" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another alternative is to leave the company tags as is, but create tags like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers-movie&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xmen-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xmen-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xmen-movie&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/superman-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;superman-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;superman-movie&lt;/a&gt;, etc etc etc to disambiguate these.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4056" LastActivityDate="2012-06-20T11:55:47.947" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1939" CreationDate="2012-06-20T12:08:26.967" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In that case it could've been two different users. And even if it was the same, it could still be legitimate (judging only from the titles, I'd say the first question is awesome, the second I have no universe knowledge and the third smells subjective). A case of three votes from the same user to the same user in either direction doesn't qualify as a red flag, if you ask me. Only if this happens repeatedly to the same user, I'd start asking for help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;Note&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know how frustrating serial down votes can be, but think about how great serial up votes feel, especially for very old questions. And the latter happens more often than the former, judging from my own experience.&#xA;It happens if somebody has a look at your profile and checks out some of your posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, to more directly answer your question: I'm pretty certain that -- if you can detect serial up votes -- you can detect serial down votes. But I have no knowledge of the SE implementation. I would guess that there &lt;em&gt;exist&lt;/em&gt; measures to detect massive abuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastActivityDate="2012-06-20T12:08:26.967" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1939" CreationDate="2012-06-20T14:11:56.793" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Serial voting, in both directions is detected by the system.  It then is reversed periodically (I think daily, but don't quote me on that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-06-20T14:11:56.793" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1939" CreationDate="2012-06-20T20:11:15.537" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. If user A votes several times for user B in quick succession, the votes will be reversed, whether they are upvotes or downvotes. There is a batch job that runs every day (early morning GMT) to eliminate such votes. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/126829/what-is-serial-voting-and-how-does-it-affect-me&quot;&gt;What is serial voting and how does it affect me?&lt;/a&gt; on the main meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nobody outside the development team knows the details. I doubt that three votes would be considered fraud, though. Looking at your reputation history for today, you received 6 votes in the space of 44 seconds. This would be suspicious and definitely reversed if they were all upvotes and downvotes, but with 3 up and 3 down, I don't find a malicious intent credible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another possible explanation for a quick succession of votes is someone who ran out of votes yesterday and left some tabs open. The chronological order of the votes matches the reverse chronological order of the questions. It's strange that they'd be catching up with posts from last February though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2012-06-20T20:11:15.537" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1944" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1945" CreationDate="2012-06-20T21:02:39.797" Score="4" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I’ve got a question I’d like to ask about the activity of a group of SF writers (Asimov &amp;amp; Heinlein prominent among them) during WWII.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that this community is where I’m most likely to find someone who knows the answer, but the question isn’t directly about SF itself. So, is such a question in-scope?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I’ve asked the question here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/18776/1430&quot;&gt;Classified project during WWII involving Asimov and Heinlein&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1430" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2012-06-20T22:05:02.010" Title="Can a question about SF&amp;F writers be in-scope?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1944" CreationDate="2012-06-20T21:24:09.393" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, such a question would generally be in scope. It is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic/364#364&quot;&gt;“contextual question”&lt;/a&gt; in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic&quot;&gt;list of common question topics&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2012-06-20T21:24:09.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1946" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-21T11:41:12.230" Score="8" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to make a data query that looks for archaeology eligible posts, but I also want to try and narrow it down to posts that &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; editing and not just random posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is the 'quality of post' calculated? How could I incorporate that into the query?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-06-21T16:53:43.587" LastActivityDate="2017-05-06T13:13:52.833" Title="How is question quality determined, for review etc?" Tags="|support|question-quality|answer-quality|review-queue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1947" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-21T15:15:13.903" Score="2" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction-history&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science-fiction-history&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science-fiction-history&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; seem redundant; does anyone with sufficient rep to propose a synonym agree?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1430" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T11:07:42.203" Title="Duplicate history tags" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="508" CreationDate="2012-06-21T15:26:56.613" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction-history&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science-fiction-history&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science-fiction-history&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; seem redundant; I’d propose &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/genre-history&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;genre-history&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;genre-history&lt;/a&gt; to cover the topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1430" LastActivityDate="2012-06-21T15:26:56.613" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-06-21T15:26:56.613" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1949" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1955" CreationDate="2012-06-21T15:41:41.280" Score="2" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/5053300#5053300&quot;&gt;this example&lt;/a&gt;.  A few days ago the formatting for the question feeds into chat were broken.  They were posting, but the layout was missing the avatar, vote count, etc. just like that linked example is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hmm, the feed for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1949/question-feeds-into-chat&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; into chat looks fine.  Maybe it's a sporadic issue, or it's already been fixed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2012-06-22T10:02:09.643" Title="Question feeds into chat" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|chat|feed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1950" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1951" CreationDate="2012-06-21T16:41:26.520" Score="1" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;While browsing today, I noticed the question&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/268/can-howard-phillips-lovecraft-be-considered-a-sci-fi-author&quot;&gt;What influence did H.P. Lovecraft have on science fiction?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize it's as old as the hills, effectively, but I distinctly remembered seeing in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;the FAQ&lt;/a&gt; that &quot;Genre classification: Is X Science Fiction?&quot; questions are on the Off Topic list. Shouldn't this question already be closed, or am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4831" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2012-06-21T17:43:26.700" Title="Shouldn't this question be closed as Off Topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1950" CreationDate="2012-06-21T16:43:42.077" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main reason it's still open (or was, as I just closed it) was its age.  It likely predated the determination that those types of questions are not a good fit for this site.  Then once that decision was made, it was missed in the cleanup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-06-21T16:43:42.077" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1947" CreationDate="2012-06-21T16:46:47.450" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree. I propose to make &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction-history&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science-fiction-history&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science-fiction-history&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt;. I &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6/is-fantasy-in-spec-for-this-site/10#10&quot;&gt;don't want to have to distinguish between fantasy and science fiction&lt;/a&gt; in tags. Some of the questions taggedd &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction-history&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science-fiction-history&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science-fiction-history&lt;/a&gt; are about fantasy already (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/18437/what-was-the-first-school-of-magic-mentioned-in-modern-fantasy-literature&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2012-06-21T16:46:47.450" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1947" CreationDate="2012-06-21T16:51:25.203" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should rename &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction-history&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science-fiction-history&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science-fiction-history&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/genre-history&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;genre-history&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;genre-history&lt;/a&gt;.  Leave &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; in place, but clean up those questions so they're properly tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/genre-history&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;genre-history&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;genre-history&lt;/a&gt;.  There are questions (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12690/what-is-the-difference-historically-between-unfinished-tales-and-the-history-o&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;) that are about a history of a specific work/universe that are about history, but not history of the genre in general.  I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; should be used for these.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2012-06-21T16:51:25.203" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1950" CreationDate="2012-06-21T17:42:55.560" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the question is from the very early days of the site and fell through the cracks when we cleaned up questions that did not comply with the guidelines in the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think the question is fundamentally a reasonable one, with reasonable answers. So I edited it to make it ostensibly not about defining the genre, but about Lovecraft's influence, which is what the answers mostly dwelt about anyway. I reopened the question since I believe it to now be firmly on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-06-21T17:42:55.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1949" CreationDate="2012-06-22T10:02:01.907" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you saw is the generic way of displaying RSS feeds. Since we allow arbititrary feeds to be added to rooms (e.g. someone's blog), the default way of rendering that into chat just uses the information commonly included in RSS feeds (title, name of author, date, excerpt).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, however, the RSS item's link is something that chat can onebox, it will do that: Instead of displaying the information as it is in the RSS feed, it does whatever magic is involved for oneboxing that link, and displays the onebox instead. This doesn't only work for Stack Exchange questions, but also e.g. for the XKCD feed or a Twitter user's RSS feed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the RSS item doesn't have a oneboxable link, or if (for whatever reason) the data necessary to show the onebox isn't available, the default layout will be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=5053384#5053384&quot;&gt;you noticed&lt;/a&gt;, oneboxing of questions was unavailable for short moment (a temporary glitch in our API), so chat fell back to displaying the regular RSS feed contents in the default layout. This is intentional; &#xA;unlike when &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; post a link into chat (in which case all we have is a link), we have at least some information when the data comes from a feed, so it's better to use that than nothing at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="171" LastActivityDate="2012-06-22T10:02:01.907" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1956" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1957" CreationDate="2012-06-22T17:08:23.773" Score="12" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/18917/were-there-two-death-stars-in-construction-at-the-same-time/&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, but the images I used are rather large. Can you/how can you resize images in the question (short of downloading the image, resizing it on the computer, and re-uploading the question)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2019-10-30T12:00:04.250" Title="Can you resize images in a question?" Tags="|support|editing|images|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1956" CreationDate="2012-06-22T17:20:04.717" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;This feature exists, it's documented in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/editing-help#images&quot;&gt;advanced help&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also use standard HTML image syntax, which allows you to scale the width and height of the image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;img src=&amp;quot;https://example.com/sample.png&amp;quot; width=&amp;quot;100&amp;quot; height=&amp;quot;100&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also a quick way of resizing images that have been uploaded to Stack Exchange's servers (or any imgur server, in fact). From &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/25051/resizing-an-image-in-a-post/25052#25052&quot;&gt;Resizing an image in a post?&lt;/a&gt;: given an image URL like &lt;code&gt;https://i.stack.imgur.com/admM6.jpg&lt;/code&gt;, add &lt;code&gt;s&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;m&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;l&lt;/code&gt; before the &lt;code&gt;.jpg&lt;/code&gt; (i.e. &lt;code&gt;https://i.stack.imgur.com/admM6s.jpg&lt;/code&gt;, etc.) to scale down the image to a predefined size.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Original:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/admM6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;raw&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;s&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/admM6s.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;small&quot; title=&quot;s&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;m&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/admM6m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;medium&quot; title=&quot;m&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;l&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/admM6l.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;large&quot; title=&quot;l&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-10-30T12:00:04.250" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1568" CreationDate="2012-06-24T20:24:30.003" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I happened to look through the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; tag, and here are some statistics comparing it to the overall site and the top non-genre tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Overall site:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5,262 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;276 questions with no upvoted answers, or 5.2% of the total&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;209 questions with no answers at all, or 4% of the total&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; tag statistics:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;557 questions, or 10.6% of the total questions on SFF.SE&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;77 questions with no upvoted answers:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;13.8% of the tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;27.8% of all questions with no upvoted answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1.5% of all questions on the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;51 questions with no answers at all&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;9.2% of the tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;24.4% of all questions with no answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1% of all questions on the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; tag statistics:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;618 questions, or 11.7% of the total questions on SFF.SE&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5 questions with no upvoted answers:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;0.8% of the tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1.8% of all questions with no upvoted answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;0.01% of all questions on the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 question with no answers at all&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;0.2% of the tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;0.5% of all questions with no answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;0.02% of all questions on the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; tag statistics:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;536 questions, or 10.2% of the total questions on SFF.SE&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 question with no upvoted answers:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;0.2% of the tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;0.4% of all questions with no upvoted answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;0.02% of all questions on the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 question with no answers at all&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;0.2% of the tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;0.5% of all questions with no answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;0.02% of all questions on the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; tag statistics:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;498 questions, or 9.5% of the total questions on SFF.SE&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4 questions with no upvoted answers:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;0.8% of the tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1.4% of all questions with no upvoted answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;0.08% of all questions on the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;0 questions with no answers at all&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-comics&lt;/a&gt; tag statistics:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;259 questions, or 4.9% of the total questions on SFF.SE&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;7 questions with no upvoted answers:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2.7% of the tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2.5% of all questions with no upvoted answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;0.1% of all questions on the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3 questions with no answers at all&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1.2% of the tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1.4% of all questions with no answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;0.06% of all questions on the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt; tag statistics:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;175 questions, or 10.6% of the total questions on SFF.SE&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;0 questions with no upvoted answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;0 questions with no answers at all&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Note 1: no answers at all is a subset of no upvoted answers&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2012-06-24T20:32:13.487" LastActivityDate="2012-06-24T20:32:13.487" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1959" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-25T20:26:06.123" Score="6" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;Possibly due to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1908/futurama-week-event&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt; event&lt;/a&gt;, we've had a rash of bad answers by drive-by users recently, especially but by no means exclusively on &lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt; questions. These answers need curating. There are two means of curating bad answer posts: downvoting and deleting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is &lt;strong&gt;obviously&lt;/strong&gt; completely bogus, or if it's something like “I wondered the same”, then please &lt;strong&gt;flag it as “not an answer”&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is bogus, but not obviously so, then &lt;strong&gt;downvote&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that moderators are not supposed to use subject knowledge (and at least one of us has no subject knowledge of &lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt;). &lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt; has convoluted plots. If it takes research to find out whether a post is an unsubstantiated but plausible theory, or complete tripe, we cannot delete the answer. But if it is tripe, it should be downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Boobs... Boobs make you become leader... Yes, Boobs.” (Yes, this is a genuine, complete answer that was posted on this site) → clearly idiotic, flag as “not an answer” (or vote to delete if you have 20k rep).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[20 lines of implausible plot involving time travel on a &lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt; question] → on the face of this description, this could be a right answer. Downvote, but don't flag as “not an answer” or “very low quality” — we couldn't act on it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, remember: &lt;strong&gt;moderators do not judge whether answers are correct&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please use the right tool to help keep the site clean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2012-06-26T01:43:16.917" Title="On flagging and low-quality answers" Tags="|discussion|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1961" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-26T00:06:45.957" Score="5" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;I notice that there are very specific tags like 'crowd control' which is not an area of Sci-Fi or Fantasy nor is it relevant to any particular work. Do we need tags like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the policy on creating new tags/removing unused and old tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2288" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T21:04:26.533" Title="Removing too specific tags like crowd-control" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1961" CreationDate="2012-06-26T00:10:34.500" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you notice an ultraspecific tag, you can remove it or replace it by a more general tag. Ask in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt; or on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt; if you aren't sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T21:04:26.533" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1963" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1965" CreationDate="2012-06-25T23:05:58.977" Score="5" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;A while ago I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15138/are-there-any-scifi-fantasy-novels-with-a-whale-civilization-at-the-core&quot;&gt;Are there any SciFi/Fantasy novels with a Whale Civilization at the core?&lt;/a&gt;  The question was closed on account of it being &quot;not for this site as it is a list question.&quot;  I keep coming up with questions of a similar sort, e.g. &quot;Is there a comprehensive list of science fiction containing some kind of star gate?&quot;, or &quot;Books/stories featuring a gray goo apocalypse?&quot; - things like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than obsessive Googling, is there any kind of cross genre resource that can be used for this kind of research/inquiry?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize this is also a list question -- but I am hoping it is a list question to end all list questions, so hopefully it will be allowed to live.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5912" OwnerDisplayName="zipquincy" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2014-09-20T20:56:44.310" Title="Best resource for cross indexing sci fi and fantasy list questions?" Tags="|discussion|meta|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1964" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1966" CreationDate="2012-06-26T03:40:41.573" Score="6" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;There used to be some buttons for Facebook, Twitter and G+ promotion on the same page as each question. What happened to those buttons? I found them useful for promoting questions. I will still promote without them, I just wanted to know why they were removed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2765" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-06-26T07:35:50.997" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="I noticed the tools for promotion, tweets, Facebook and G+ are missing. What happened to them?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1963" CreationDate="2012-06-26T03:51:09.953" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are a couple that I really like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/category/themes/theme&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;theme entries&lt;/a&gt; at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Science Fiction Encyclopedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.magicdragon.com/UltimateSF/thisthat.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;If you like this, then you'll like that&quot;&lt;/a&gt; at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.magicdragon.com/UltimateSF/SF-Index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ultimate Science Fiction Web Guide&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the specialized entries are merely parts (great parts, but just parts) of awesome resources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. One partial way around the ban on list questions is to ask for a first appearance. For example, &quot;What is the first appearance of a whale civilization in SF?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.P.S. Hey moderators, I think this question fits the main site as well as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4391/where-can-i-find-sf-reviews/4394&quot;&gt;Where can I find SF reviews?&lt;/a&gt; If the answers fill out more, it could be a useful resource for those who ask list questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2258" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2012-06-27T16:58:14.433" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-06-26T03:51:09.953" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1964" CreationDate="2012-06-26T07:35:29.750" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The sharing buttons were &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/136994/where-did-the-sharing-buttons-twitter-g-etc-go&quot;&gt;recently removed&lt;/a&gt; because &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/80880/please-ditch-all-of-the-share-icons-they-give-me-nightmares/136810#136810&quot;&gt;a lot of people hated them and few people used them&lt;/a&gt;. In the words of Kevin Montrose, Stack Exchange developer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;18 hours of data under the new rules plus historical data of the old scheme, reveals that in fact the share buttons are pointless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About 90% of the people who bother to share something on Twitter/Facebook/G+ copy/paste, and the amount of traffic referred from social media (to Stack Overflow or any of the Stack Exchange's) is far too small to dedicate that kind of real estate to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus everyone hates share buttons, they are the herpes of the internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-06-26T07:35:29.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1967" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-26T22:32:51.463" Score="3" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Prompted specifically by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19156/how-did-chell-end-up-at-aperture&quot;&gt;How did Chell end up at Aperture?&lt;/a&gt;, but this is by no means the first time this has happened.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am concerned that sometimes questions get closed inappropriately, particularly as duplicate, when the questions are asking similar, but different things.  If I had 3000 rep, I could cast a re-open vote, but I do not.  What is the recommended mechanism for drawing attention to questions if we believe they have been inappropriately or prematurely closed?  I usually leave a comment on the question itself, but this does not in general draw attention of those previously uninvolved who may be qualified to make a judgement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1459" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2012-06-27T00:09:56.650" Title="How to handle overzealous closes" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1967" CreationDate="2012-06-26T22:56:58.097" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can bring these up here on meta.  The community and moderators reads meta, so posts here bring issues to our attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also head to chat and ask for the high-rep users there to intervene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, flag for moderator attention.  I'd recommend using the 'other' flag reason and type up an explanation for why the question should be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2012-06-27T00:09:56.650" LastActivityDate="2012-06-27T00:09:56.650" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1967" CreationDate="2012-06-26T22:59:25.253" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The right thing to do if you object to a closure is to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;vote to reopen if you can, otherwise flag;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;gather supporters (try &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;chatting&lt;/a&gt;) who will also vote;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ask on meta (which you did).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'd better explain why you don't think the question should be closed. Often, you should edit the question to improve it, then vote/flag/… to reopen. For a duplicate, you should point out the differences between the two questions. This is especially important if you flag: moderators may not be familiar with the material, so make sure your explanations are comprehensible by someone who knows nothing about the work that the question is about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19156/how-did-chell-end-up-at-aperture&quot;&gt;this specific case&lt;/a&gt;, I don't see such a difference between the questions. It is possible that I'm missing something because I know nothing about the &lt;em&gt;Portal&lt;/em&gt; universe. It seems to me that both questions are taking for granted that Chell worked at Aperture, and are wondering why she was picked to confront GlaDOS in preference to other Aperture employees. What's the difference between “why Chell was chosen as a test subject” and “how she ended up in a position to be a test subject”?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2012-06-26T22:59:25.253" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1970" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-27T15:59:09.530" Score="11" ViewCount="691" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://answerama.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answerama&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is live!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check out the site. Our awesome designer Jin Yang really knocked it out of the park, as did &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/users/40051/balpha&quot;&gt;balpha&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/users/464232/lauren&quot;&gt;Lauren&lt;/a&gt; on the dev end. Keep an eye out, because later you will see that Balpha made avatars float in a jar! It's a wonder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How does it work?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answerama&lt;/strong&gt; is now home to all of the open questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/futurama&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;futurama&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;futurama&lt;/a&gt; on the site. We will be awarding &lt;strong&gt;one winner on a daily basis&lt;/strong&gt;, every day at 12AM UTC. &lt;strong&gt;How do you win?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Each day at 12 AM UTC/8 PM EDT until July 11, one winner will be drawn randomly from the pool of users who have written a question or answer with a minimum score of three that has been posted since the start of Futurama week on June 13th.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Each question or answer a user has with a minimum score of three will act as one entry into the pool; the more quality questions and answers you write, the bigger chance you have to win&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/futurama&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;futurama&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;futurama&lt;/a&gt; to be eligible&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users may only win once&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question must not be closed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No bots, no scripts, no multiple accounts, be nice and play fair&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More in-depth rules and a run-down of the prizes can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://answerama.com/rules-and-prizes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. The first winner will be crowned later today, and &lt;em&gt;your avatar will float in a jar on the main page!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy the contest, and ask awesome Futurama questions, and be on the lookout for awesome Futurama questions that you can provide awesome answers for!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-07-25T18:09:34.247" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T13:07:51.167" Title="Answerama, the Futurama mini-site, is live!" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|answerama|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1971" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-28T02:29:24.943" Score="7" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fMjw7.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/Futurama/posts/313500278739993&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.facebook.com/Futurama/posts/313500278739993&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was browsing Facebook this evening and noticed a link to the SciFi Stack Exchange on Futurama's newsfeed! Congratulations - this should bring a good bit of traffic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7177" LastActivityDate="2012-06-28T02:29:24.943" Title="Congratulations on being mentioned on Futurama's Facebook page!" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1972" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-28T17:31:16.957" Score="1" ViewCount="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Specificly &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19245/do-imaginary-animals-dragons-unicorns-etc-exist-in-the-real-world&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question is quite low (worst I ever seen on any SE site).  So I was curious as to how it stacked against other bad questions.  When I sorted the questions by votes and went to the last possible page, the lowest voted question was at -8 where the question in question (no pun inteded) does not even show.  So, I just wondering if there's a lower limit in which questions are allowed to be shown?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5909" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2012-06-28T18:14:07.960" Title="Is there a lower limit in which question will appear sorted by votes?" Tags="|support|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1973" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1976" CreationDate="2012-06-28T18:02:54.577" Score="1" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;On my question here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/19301/3383&quot;&gt;How did Senator Travers not just survive as a Time Paradox Duplicate&lt;/a&gt; someone added some spoiler tags and I reverted them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we &lt;strong&gt;need&lt;/strong&gt; to have spoiler tags on things that are soon to become common knowledge? (Especially if you watch &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/futurama&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;futurama&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;futurama&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2012-06-28T18:18:08.347" Title="Do we need to use spoiler tags on Futurama questions?" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|futurama|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1973" CreationDate="2012-06-28T18:09:28.663" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think for that question, which is about last night's episode, spoiler tagging things is considerate.  However, since the question title itself is a spoiler, it seems a bit pointless to have the body text in spoiler tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, it'd be nice if the question title was made generic enough to not be a spoiler, and spoiler tags employed in the question body.  But I acknowledge that I'm pretty pro-spoiler tag in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-06-28T18:09:28.663" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1972" CreationDate="2012-06-28T18:09:59.570" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the front page, questions with a score of -4 and lower are not shown (the threshold is -8 on the meta site). All other question lists and search results show all posts regardless of score or closed status (unless your search takes these criteria into account). Deleted questions are never shown in any question list (only ♦moderators can see lists of deleted questions, and only by explicit request).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19245/do-imaginary-animals-dragons-unicorns-etc-exist-in-the-real-world&quot;&gt;the imaginary animals question&lt;/a&gt; (+1/-20) as the 50th item on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=votes&quot;&gt;list of questions by vote&lt;/a&gt;, which is strange: even if caching is going on, it should never have ranked that high. It should definitely be on the last page of that list. This may be a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2012-06-28T18:09:59.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1973" CreationDate="2012-06-28T18:18:08.347" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;First I should point out that I only added the spoiler tags since in the body of your question itself you state &quot;(stop reading if you do not want spoilers)&quot;. I figured (incorrectly apparently) that you were simply unaware of the fact that there is a specific way to hide spoilers within a question, since you clearly were indicating to users that the next area of the question contained spoilers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that since they are available, they should be used when it is reasonable to assume that the majority of people reading the question will be unaware of the spoiler. That being said, in this case since understanding the title of the question itself indicates knowledge of the episode itself, the tags are probably &lt;em&gt;unnecessarily redundant&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;superfluous.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4383" LastActivityDate="2012-06-28T18:18:08.347" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1977" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1988" CreationDate="2012-06-28T18:21:56.253" Score="28" ViewCount="340" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think due to what happened here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1971/3383&quot;&gt;Congratulations on being mentioned on Futurama&amp;#39;s Facebook page!&lt;/a&gt;, or most probably here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/Futurama/posts/320014191418612&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.facebook.com/Futurama/posts/320014191418612&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are getting &lt;strong&gt;MANY&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/futurama&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;futurama&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;futurama&lt;/a&gt; posts within the past few minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can these be moderated fluently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many of them seem very &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;VERY&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; spammy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;em&gt;Yay to my flagging score going up and up and uppp!&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3383" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2017-11-04T14:02:57.903" LastActivityDate="2017-11-04T14:02:57.903" Title="Holy monkeys Batman! That is A LOT of posts!" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1977" CreationDate="2012-06-28T18:24:20.343" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;We mods are doing what we can, anyone with the rep to do so should help out by going through flags, voting to close, up and down voting, and adding comments guiding the &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; new users to the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like half an hour ago the Futurama Facebook page linked to Answerama.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-06-28T18:24:20.343" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1979" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1980" CreationDate="2012-06-28T19:32:04.460" Score="20" ViewCount="274" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to look at all questions that have come up except for ones you don't want to see (i.e. futurama)? Basically can you block yourself from seeing certain tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastActivityDate="2019-05-29T04:23:21.420" Title="Can you exclude a tag from showing up?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1979" CreationDate="2012-06-28T19:49:58.937" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can add the tag to your list of ignored tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Go to your profile, click &quot;Edit Profile &amp;amp; Settings&quot;, and make sure you're on the Preferences tab:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5F1Oy.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5F1Oy.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From there you can also hide all questions with ignored tags by selecting the &quot;hide questions in your ignored tags&quot; option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4257" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2017-04-30T22:21:21.780" LastActivityDate="2017-04-30T22:21:21.780" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1981" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-28T21:24:51.223" Score="10" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://answerama.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Answerama&lt;/a&gt; front page doesn't say anything about what Answerama is. Please add:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A link to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/about&quot;&gt;about page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A link to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, some kind of one-line summary right there on the page that tries to steer users towards Stack Exchange's ideal. First draft suggestion (below “Ask and answer all your Futurama questions, provided by Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange”):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the place to look for an in-depth answer, or contribute one&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are inundated by new users who have never seen Stack Exchange before and aren't producing what we consider quality content. It's not really fair to hold it against them if we don't try to reach out to explain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2012-06-28T21:45:25.100" Title="Please have introductory material on the Answerama front page" Tags="|feature-request|question-quality|answer-quality|futurama|user-interface|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2013-05-27T23:59:42.630" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1982" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3107" CreationDate="2012-06-28T21:44:57.363" Score="10" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://answerama.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Answerama&lt;/a&gt; is causing an influx of quickie questions with one-liner answers. I have put up a few post notices on questions, to try to convey that we would like answers with more information. I used the closest post notice I could find (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19500/why-are-people-in-the-duh-vinci-code-so-low-tech&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We're looking for long answers that provide some explanation and context. Don't just give a one-line answer: please explain why you're recommending it as a solution. Answers that don't explain anything will be deleted. See Good Subjective, Bad Subjective for more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I picked it for “We're looking for long answers that provide some explanation and context. Don't just give a one-line answer”, but the rest is off the mark, and the irrelevant bit about the “Good Subjective, Bad Subjective” post is confusing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Proposed wording that would be appropriate here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We're looking for long answers that provide some explanation and context. Don't just give a one-line answer: explain why your answer is right, ideally with citations. Answers that don't explain anything will be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2013-08-28T17:29:42.883" Title="Please add more choice to post notices" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|answer-quality|post-notice|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1981" CreationDate="2012-06-28T21:45:25.100" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Welcome to what Stack Overflow moderators have each and every day :) Seriously though, for those people who actually care to read, there's a pretty prominent Rules link on Answerama, and those rules are actually fairly detailed about SE rules, and they also link to the FAQ. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lots of what hit you tonight were just people who saw &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;blah blah WIN blah blah FREE blah blah JUST POST A QUESTION&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;on Facebook, and unsurprisingly, crap rained from the skies. Although a few good things did come out of it, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can probably learn a lot from this influx, but I wouldn't take it too seriously. Here's an answerama.com network graph:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/64lOg.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(times are UTC; the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/Futurama/posts/320014191418612&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Facebook post&lt;/a&gt; was at 18:03). There was a big spike of course, but it's not like this &lt;s&gt;sh&lt;/s&gt; load of stuff that was dumped on scifi.se is going to continue like in the first 30 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anything, some of those people new to the system who came here today and who actually found it nice that on some random internet forum you suddenly get asked &quot;Do you have a reference for this? Can you back up this claim?&quot; may turn out to explore the site more and turn into avid users. Other Futurama fans who notice the site may have the same &quot;fate&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't worry about what happened tonight; it's not exemplary. And while we're at it, a big shoutout to you, the other moderators, and the community for handling it an awesome and helpful way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'll of course keep looking at what's happening, and draw conclusions if necessary. But I'm fairly sure that the amount of... things... we saw today was an exception. For now anyway. As I alluded to in my first sentence: Once Sci-Fi &amp;amp; Fantasy has the size of Stack Overflow, you'll remember the good old days and tell the younglings, &quot;Oh, how I miss the quiet days of Answerama&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="171" LastActivityDate="2012-06-28T21:45:25.100" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1982" CreationDate="2012-06-28T22:05:58.563" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the time being, we're turning on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;a click-through quality check&lt;/a&gt; for new answerers - probably stands a better chance of being read than either of these notices, particularly for folks new to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Customizing the post notice(s) might be appropriate for other reasons; feel free to make other suggestions here so the other folks in the SciFi community can look them over and make suggestions as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2012-06-28T22:27:37.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1985" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-28T22:22:59.597" Score="4" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most websites nowadays have a search box. Stack Exchange sites encourage you to search whether someone has already asked your question, so it's especially important that they have a search box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please add a search box at the top of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://answerama.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Answerama&lt;/a&gt; page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-06-28T22:22:59.597" Title="Please add a search box on Answerama.com" Tags="|feature-request|futurama|search|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2013-04-24T22:47:01.950" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1986" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1987" CreationDate="2012-06-29T01:48:56.023" Score="9" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you participate heavily in a tag,the questions on the main page with that tag are highlighted in blue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LmZMd.png&quot; alt=&quot;Blue highlighted questions&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there a way to stop this behavior for a specific tag?&lt;/strong&gt; This problem arose as part of the Futurama Storm earlier today; since I viewed/edited/voted on so many &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/futurama&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;futurama&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;futurama&lt;/a&gt; questions, the system classified it as a &quot;frequented&quot; tag. I assume blocking the tag would work, but I'd like to still see and help out with the questions. I just would prefer it if only tags that I actually possess expertise in were highlighted. Is there any way I can do this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4831" LastEditorUserId="4831" LastEditDate="2012-06-29T03:22:20.380" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Is there a way to get rid of blue highlighting on questions?" Tags="|support|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1986" CreationDate="2012-06-29T02:12:21.540" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There isn't a site setting that disables the Frequent Tags feature.  However, there are several workarounds.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://gamedev.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/441/is-there-any-way-to-disable-frequent-tag-highlighting&quot;&gt;The first&lt;/a&gt; is to just use the tag favoriting/ignoring feature in any capacity.  You can favorite or ignore a non-existant tag like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/q-bert&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;q-bert&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;q-bert&lt;/a&gt;, and you'll no longer have the 'Frequent tags' feature doing anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, with some user CSS, you can un-blue them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.tagged-interesting {&#xA;    background-color: transparent !important;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;March 19, 2013 edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/138187/158781&quot;&gt;As of last June&lt;/a&gt;, the frequented tags are no longer automatically highlighted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2013-03-19T16:06:25.983" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1977" CreationDate="2012-06-29T02:42:24.577" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;This reminds me of how the hostile atheists flooded the Christianity.se site asking the dumbest questions. (Don't get me wrong, they weren't all dumb. The ones I'm talking about were there with the express purpose of being rude, disruptive, and disrespectful. Some very smart atheists frequent the site and keep it interesting in a good way.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the Futurama posters are &lt;em&gt;intentionally&lt;/em&gt; hostile, but the questions are dragging the site down - duplicates, easily answered by a single link, just plain dumb. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19477/how-does-fry-make-ice-cream-soup&quot;&gt;How do you make ice cream soup?&lt;/a&gt; really?) It makes it hard to find the good questions, which dumbs down an otherwise fun S.E. site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mods, and other contributors that wanted to see the Christianity site succeed got it under control over several months by enlisting the aid of the community, endless chats about the best way to enforce the standards, and setting the tone for what's acceptable by setting up meta posts about undesired behavior, and closing questions aggressively, with links back to the Meta posts explaining &quot;if you want to know how to get your post reopened, click here&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It took a while to find the right balance between over-aggressiveness and allowing interesting questions that &quot;seekers&quot; would really ask, but they did find a good balance eventually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key was in enlisting all the &quot;regulars&quot; in playing an active role in educating newbies to the standards, and enforcing them with down-votes and close votes.  I think that the long discussions, which led to the various Meta guidelines were the key in improving the tine and quality of the questions in the face of openly hostile posters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Futurama people may not be openly hostile, but the quality of the questions is equally low in many cases.  I think there are parallels here, and the danger of the site being drawn down to a truly awful, un-enjoyable level is here as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully, it won't be necessary to go that far. I'm hoping the ones asking the inane questions will get bored and move on, while the ones asking good questions stick around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3522" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-11-03T08:38:43.013" LastActivityDate="2017-11-03T08:38:43.013" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1986" CreationDate="2012-06-29T07:50:54.563" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The questions that are marked in blue are the ones you've marked as favorites (through the “Favorite Tags” box on the front page, or by clicking on the star at the top left of the box that appears when you hover on a tag so that it becomes yellow). So to control which tags appear in blue, pick your favorite tags manually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have no favorite tag at all, the system chooses some for you based on what you've been visiting. If you don't want any blue questions, then as Keen already suggested, declare a non-existant tag like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/no-blue-highlighting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;no-blue-highlighting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;no-blue-highlighting&lt;/a&gt; as favorite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-06-29T07:50:54.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1990" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-29T16:56:32.650" Score="18" ViewCount="509" Body="&lt;p&gt;First I want to thank all of our awesome users who stepped up to the plate and helped out on a day that will live on in infamy, Answerama Day. The Facebook post got us a lot more eyes on the site, and it did result in a lot of interesting questions, but it also resulted in some solid stuff that is now beneficial to our community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I write this Meta post warning you that it is entirely possible it will happen again on Monday, July 2nd. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comedy Central will be issuing a press release detailing the events of the second half of our Futurama partnership (indeed, the very event that was the impetus for the team-up). We will be one of a few sites listed in this partnership, so perhaps that will splinter a possible flood. I have also requested that said press release not mention prizes, as I believe the FB post mentioning prizes led to a lot of people posting without regard to quality. Trust me, everyone on Stack's end agrees that incentivizing people to ask just &lt;em&gt;any old question&lt;/em&gt; for a prize is bad mojo. It states in Answerama's rules that score and being open are two necessities for a question to be considered for a prize, but those quality-enforcing metrics were left out of the FB post (understandably so, as there's only so much info you can write in a FB post).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if the press release does result in another Answerama Day style flood, here are some tips to help out and survive!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you are a Futurama fan have fun checking out the new content and determining whether or not it is upvotable or closable.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you are not a Futurama fan, be on the lookout for trivia, general reference or joke questions to flag and close.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Everyone be on the lookout for questions that need editing, specifically the titles of questions. Remember, question titles need to actually convey what the question is asking.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be nice! This is probably this person's first time on a Stack Exchange site and we have quality standards and rules that don't exist anywhere else on the wild west that is the internet. That's what makes us great! Politely explain to them how they can improve and point out the things they are doing right. Be nice!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be merciless! If a question can't be on our site, do what you can to get it off the site. If it needs drastic edits, make them. Remember that Comedy Central wants us to be involved &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; of our high standards. Let's do what they expect us to do (and be nice while doing it)!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you hate all of this nonsense and just want to wait until the storm passes, Anna Lear posted a handy guide about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1980/2383&quot;&gt;ignoring tags&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for all your help yesterday and hopefully things will go much more smoothly on Monday (if anything happens at all). We are learning a lot about these types of events on our end. This is getting us a lot of outward facing exposure and building a relationship with a big media company, and hopefully getting us new users who will prove to be valuable in our site's growth. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2012-09-01T14:02:01.287" Title="Possible Futurama Flood Warning, July 2nd" Tags="|discussion|futurama|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ClosedDate="2012-09-01T14:15:06.037" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1986" CreationDate="2012-06-29T20:18:04.473" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have set [futurama] as a favourite tag, you can change that the following way.  Go to the Science Fiction and Fantasy site (not on meta), click on your username on the top of the page to go to your profile page, there click on the &quot;prefs&quot; link to go to your preferences page.  You should have your favorite tags listed there, and next to each tag, there's an × sign that you can click to remove that tag from your favorites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastActivityDate="2012-06-29T20:18:04.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1992" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-29T22:14:17.050" Score="5" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone asked whether &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19662/does-springfield-still-exist-in-the-futurama-future&quot;&gt;Springfield still existed in Futurama's future&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/19665/770&quot;&gt;answered that it didn't&lt;/a&gt;, since the Simpsons don't belong in the same universe at all (hint: different color skin!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, my answer was deleted by a moderator. Why? My answer makes sense (I'm not claiming I am right; merely that it's an acceptable &amp;amp; on-topic answer, with a justification), and in fact, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/19671/770&quot;&gt;someone else answered the same thing&lt;/a&gt;, which wasn't deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone else &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/19704/770&quot;&gt;making the same point&lt;/a&gt;, which wasn't deleted either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, why was my answer deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="770" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2012-06-30T08:36:31.600" Title="Why was my answer about the Simpsons and Futurama belonging to different universes deleted?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1992" CreationDate="2012-06-30T00:21:48.123" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know why your answer was deleted, it does make about as much sense as one can expect considering the rather poor question. I've restored it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In our collective defense, due to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1981/please-have-introductory-material-on-the-answerama-front-page/1983#1983&quot;&gt;traffic spike from &lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt; questions&lt;/a&gt;, we (collectively, I'm afraid I didn't quite pull my weight because I arrived on the scene the rush was already abating) handled about as many flags within the space of a couple of hours yesterday as we normally do in a month. &lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt; questions are especially difficult to moderate because what looks like a convoluted, preposterous, made-up-on-the-spot theory may well be the exact plot of the show. Please don't hesitate to contact us if we missed something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2012-06-30T00:21:48.123" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1979" CreationDate="2012-06-30T00:34:14.523" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a one-shot, you can also search for &lt;code&gt;views:0 -[futurama]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2258" LastActivityDate="2012-06-30T00:34:14.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="991" CreationDate="2012-06-30T02:15:56.357" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chess.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QK2m7.png&quot; alt=&quot;Visit the new Chess Stack Exchange site&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7480" LastActivityDate="2012-06-30T02:15:56.357" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1992" CreationDate="2012-06-30T08:31:31.577" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am the one who deleted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was helping out during the answeramocalypse, and deleted several non-answers. In my eyes, your question belonged (and to be honest, still belongs) in that category, but I'm not as familiar with the scifi.se community as you are, so I may have misjudged here. If the communtiy thinks this answer is okay, I'm the last to argue with that. I apologize.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="171" LastEditorUserId="171" LastEditDate="2012-06-30T08:36:31.600" LastActivityDate="2012-06-30T08:36:31.600" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1997" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1998" CreationDate="2012-07-01T22:03:57.277" Score="2" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have individual series tags for Star Trek. Should we have a Star Trek Franchise tag for questions that relate to the entire universe of shows, movies and books? I'm asking because sometimes Star Trek questions relate to the entire franchise, sometimes they are series specific. Tagging a question with Star Trek is ambigous. It can mean TOS, or it can mean everything Star Trek. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4356" LastActivityDate="2014-06-25T04:33:52.680" Title="Should we have a Star Trek Franchise tag for questions that relate to the entire universe of shows, movies and books?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1997" CreationDate="2012-07-01T22:22:10.957" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is already what the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; tag means. For questions that are specifically about TOS, you can use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tos&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-07-01T22:22:10.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1999" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-02T23:53:55.420" Score="-2" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was going through and adding tag wikis for some of the more used tags that don't have wikis and came across the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magical-theory&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magical-theory&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magical-theory&lt;/a&gt; tag - it contains 21 questions that all bar one deal with HP (the odd man out is closed).  When I tried to write a tag wiki for this, I found it very difficult to write one that would not basically apply to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magic&lt;/a&gt; tag as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I understand how that tag is currently being used that served as a bit of a red flag that it may be an artificial split from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magic&lt;/a&gt; tag.  Especially given, by definition, questions on the theory of magic are questions dealing with magic.  Should &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magical-theory&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magical-theory&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magical-theory&lt;/a&gt; be converted into a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magic&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4056" LastActivityDate="2012-07-03T00:07:39.193" Title="Should magical-theory be combined with magic?" Tags="|discussion|tag-synonyms|retagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1999" CreationDate="2012-07-03T00:06:55.623" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe it should be. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I mentioned in chat, magic is an action, an occurance. &lt;em&gt;Alohomora&lt;/em&gt; opens doors and locks. &lt;em&gt;Wingardium Leviosa&lt;/em&gt; causes items to rise and float. &lt;em&gt;Avada Kedavra&lt;/em&gt; kills someone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, Gamp's Elemental Law of Transfiguration are a set of five rules of objects you cannot create by magic via Transfiguration -- why not? Why can't food be created out of thin air? There's discussion there, not to mention what might the other four items that cannot be conjured be. How does the Philosopher's Stone work? Why can't half-humans engage in certain types of magic? To me, these are examples of theory while the former are examples of straight up magic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I do say this with respect so please know I'm not trying to be snarky, but perhaps if you cannot write this particular wiki tag, another person might have better luck if they gave it a go. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My two cents :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2012-07-03T00:06:55.623" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1999" CreationDate="2012-07-03T00:07:39.193" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Indeed, I do not see a difference in use between &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magical-theory&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magical-theory&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magical-theory&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magic&lt;/a&gt;. The tag wiki for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magical-theory&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magical-theory&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magical-theory&lt;/a&gt; specifies that it is “used for questions about the rules of how magic is treated within a specific work or works”; many &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magic&lt;/a&gt; questions have this characteristic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I or another moderator will set up a synonym in a few days, barring motivated opposition. (Remind us if we forget.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-07-03T00:07:39.193" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1990" CreationDate="2012-07-03T13:49:20.090" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did this happen yesterday?  After some wandering around Comedy Central's website, I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.viacom.com/news/Pages/default.aspx#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this Viacom page&lt;/a&gt; which seems to have press releases for Viacom's subsidiaries (e.g. Comedy Central).  But there wasn't a Futurama press release yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-07-03T13:49:20.090" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2003" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-03T15:52:03.900" Score="4" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;Steps to recreate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Enter 2 chat rooms.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave one of them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have someone @you in the room you left in step 2.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A banner appears indicating that you've been mentioned in the room you left in step 2.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Desired result:&#xA;Beyond the banner, it would be nice if that also pinged that tab so that you know something's up in chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm referring to the thing that open tabs do when they have their color change in Firefox here as 'pinging.'  An example is when you have &lt;code&gt;/questions&lt;/code&gt; open in a background tab and someone edits a question or answer, posts a new question, or posts a new answer.  I.e. the highlighting that you see on the right tab here:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fZ2o7.png&quot; alt=&quot;Image of tabs, with one highlighted.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2012-07-03T16:02:42.217" LastActivityDate="2012-07-03T16:02:42.217" Title="When you're mentioned in a chat room, it should ping the tab" Tags="|feature-request|chat|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2004" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-04T00:43:00.900" Score="5" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the blogs were compromised today, it was recommended that users change any shared password for their sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If you have used the same password on other sites then you should also reset that password on those sites because email addresses and password hashes may have been compromised.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;sub&gt;Kyle Brandt - Lead Systems Administrator - Stack Exchange&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been looking for quite a while and I can't find where to go to change my password. I also tried Googling SFF's meta and searching the meta forum, with no luck. I managed to find the password recovery tool, but nothing that a person can use to reset a password. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A little help here? I'd be very grateful. Please and thank you very much :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-07-04T07:39:36.577" LastActivityDate="2012-07-04T07:39:36.577" Title="Where Do I Go to Change My Password Following the Problems With the Blog Today?" Tags="|support|blog|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2004" CreationDate="2012-07-04T01:13:46.413" Score="3" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogoverflow.com/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;recovery tool&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Write user name or or email address&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Receive an E-Mail&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Follow the link in the email &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Choose a new password&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Type new password again&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Call it a day.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2012-07-04T01:13:46.413" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2006" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-05T14:49:21.340" Score="4" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/7348/david91&quot;&gt;David91&lt;/a&gt; won &lt;a href=&quot;http://answerama.com/winners&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the contest&lt;/a&gt; today (July 5, 2012).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But his only question that is &quot;eligible&quot; is basically general reference!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19510/who-is-the-president-of-earth-at-the-end-of-season-4&quot;&gt;Who is the President of Earth at the end of Season 4?&lt;/a&gt; &amp;lt;-- You can find the answer to that easily on Google!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How are the winners of the contest determined, and if it just by random:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;var possibleWinners = getAllQuestionWithVote &amp;gt;= 3;&#xA;var winner = random(possibleWinners);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then how do we deal with when the random winner is &quot;disqualified&quot;, if the case may come to happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2012-07-10T23:30:45.623" Title="If one of the Answerama winners' questions gets closed, what should happen?" Tags="|discussion|futurama|answerama|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2006" CreationDate="2012-07-05T19:31:39.953" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Despite the temptation to slightly increase my chance to win something, I don't think we should &lt;em&gt;disqualify&lt;/em&gt; someone after the fact. &lt;strong&gt;If he was eligible to win at the time of the draw, then he won.&lt;/strong&gt; It's our fault, not is, if he was allowed in the draw while he might shouldn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would lead to frustration and an impression of unfair treatment for the winner. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="45" LastEditDate="2012-07-05T23:35:46.943" LastActivityDate="2012-07-05T23:35:46.943" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2006" CreationDate="2012-07-05T20:01:24.207" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;His prize has already been ordered, so he's not going to get his prize taken away. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's enough of an outcry about this from people, we can award double winners on another day or draw another winner from that time frame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rules only state that a question be open to be considered for the prize, which the question obviously was at the time of the drawing. It won fair and square; the rules said nothing about the question remaining open (true, it wasn't a problem that we foresaw having either). If we need to amend the rules to reflect what the community decides, we can. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, the contest is already halfway over and it's for a $30 prize package. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastActivityDate="2012-07-05T20:01:24.207" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2006" CreationDate="2012-07-05T21:07:14.997" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Full disclosure... I &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; answer the question in question, but admittedly at the time I was on the fence as to whether it should be closed. On the one hand, it seemed a little trivia-like in its wording. On the other hand, Earth had seen a couple of invasions and someone who hadn't caught all the episodes might not be sure if Nixon was still President. I chose to answer then watch what the community thought. The fact that the question got a few upvotes and no close votes (until recently) made me think &quot;OK, I'll just leave it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As other answers have mentioned, the user won based on the rules &lt;strong&gt;as they were laid out from the start&lt;/strong&gt;. Changing them retroactively and rescinding his prize seems unfair. &lt;em&gt;At the time of the drawing&lt;/em&gt;, his post did meet the criteria. Maybe these rules should be refined for future contests, but it wouldn't make much sense to do it for this one, because there is a larger can of worms this opens up...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've focused here on a case where the user only had 1 valid post, but let's consider a hypothetical case where a user had 10 valid posts, which would give them 10 entries into the drawing according to the rules. If they win and then one of those posts gets disqualified in some way, should their prize be rescinded? Should there be a do-over drawing? That &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; extra entry could have made all the difference between them winning or not. We have no way of knowing if they still would have won with just 9 entries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dynamic nature of the site means that posts, and how the community perceives and reacts to them, can change over time. Even if we wait until the contest ends to draw the winners, and &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; a post gets closed/deleted, we would still probably have the same argument about whether we should disqualify winners or redo the drawings. This is the issue you face when you place a cut-off point on time-varying data. I don't think retroactive disqualification makes sense because you would technically need to do it for &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; change in vote totals or closed/deleted status for &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; post made within the contest window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2287" LastActivityDate="2012-07-05T21:07:14.997" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2010" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-06T18:06:24.413" Score="2" ViewCount="345" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/20104/98&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; about SG-1 but it's not showing up when I went to check for answers. Maybe this should go to META but I can't post there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5564" OwnerDisplayName="derekvinyard98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2012-07-09T21:28:30.837" Title="Why was my question about SG-1 deleted?" Tags="|support|specific-question|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2010" CreationDate="2012-07-06T18:11:47.037" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I closed and deleted that question.  You have a history of asking questions about black sci-fi characters with racist undertones, and we don't accept racism here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also migrated your question over to Meta.  You should post a comment to this detailing the issues you have when trying to post to Meta, as everyone is supposed to be able to post to Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To fully elucidate my issues with your questions, here are the specific problem areas with your questions.  From &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/13936/1027&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if the two races were at peace for however many years, &lt;strong&gt;there is always a chance that they would revert back to their primal instincts and lose sight of the responsibilities at hand&lt;/strong&gt; - I wouldn't think they could be trusted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, the Federation is composed of dozens, if not hundreds of different species, so the 'two races' is ridiculous.  Secondly, to my knowledge there isn't an instance of Klingons 'reverting back to their primal instincts' (besides that terrible TNG episode where everyone on the &lt;em&gt;Enterprise&lt;/em&gt; &amp;quot;devolved&amp;quot;), but there is a black stereotype of them being &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_brute&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;little more than scary animals&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Democrats and white supremacists in the South began a political response to Radical Reconstruction, claiming that freed slaves would steal jobs after migrating North, create an economic burden on whites, and threaten white society with their purported savagery and barbarism. While before the American Civil War, black slaves had been depicted as childlike and inferior beings, happy in their captivity, white supremacists now insisted that freedom would drive blacks towards crimes of theft, murder, and the rape of white women. To support these claims, newspapers would publish articles bolstering the image of black brutality to frighten and reinforce racist assumptions in white Southerners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admittedly, my knowledge of &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; is pretty concentrated in TNG and onwards.  I'll spend some time rewatching TOS this weekend.  Next up is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/14299/1027&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; about the X-Men's Storm:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[G]iven the large number of mutants in the X-Men universe, it seems that Professor Xavier could certainly do much better. &lt;strong&gt;Storm really doesn't fit in with the team very well.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are her abilities really so extraordinary they justify her presence at the forefront of the X-Men adventures? Does she actually provide other benefits?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one is probably the least problematic.  It beats me how she &amp;quot;doesn't fit into the team very well&amp;quot; besides her being one of the handful of non-white female characters (someone who knows modern X-Men, please correct me).  Looking at the in-universe biographies, nothing jumps out at me about Storm that makes her not fit in.  They all have pretty traumatic histories, with their day to day lives in the present basically &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrapsackWorld&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;being a living hell&lt;/a&gt;.  Admittedly, looking at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FiveManBand&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;original team&lt;/a&gt; there's a pretty blatant lack of diversity there, but I know that in the decades since they've &lt;em&gt;constantly&lt;/em&gt; grown and changed up the team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your 3rd question being one about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/20104/1027&quot;&gt;why would Teal'c be trusted&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SG-1 is the premier Stargate team, and I would presume is the one that makes first contact? is Teal'c really the impression they want to lead with? His physical appearance is obviously off-putting, and he doesn't try to hide it. When SG-1 travels to other planets, the people there really don't like his kind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, he doesn't seem very smart. While he's pretty good with a staff weapon, it's fairly inferior compared to a P90, an I'd just presume they could get a trustworthy marine grunt to do what he does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First paragraph manages to run the gambit from implying &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ScaryBlackMan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Scary Black Guy&lt;/a&gt; to veiled mentions of &amp;quot;his kind&amp;quot;.  Second paragraph just flat out calls him dumb, where the show depicts him as often very useful when it comes to countering Goa'uld and Jaffa tactics.  Also, he needs that staff weapon, as it's the weapon of &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ProudWarriorRaceGuy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;his people&lt;/a&gt; (link has a nice callback, with a mention of Worf).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some reason, you're pretty obsessed with asking about why people trust or value black characters.  If it wasn't endemic to your first 3 questions, and bolstered by some pretty blatant racism, it probably would have been acceptable.  Since &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2010/why-was-my-question-about-sg-1-deleted#comment4787_2011&quot;&gt;your response&lt;/a&gt; to my initial version of this answer was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.derailingfordummies.com/intellectual.html#wrong&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;so rote&lt;/a&gt;, I have little reason to think it wasn't on purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-07-09T21:28:30.837" CommentCount="35" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2010" CreationDate="2012-07-06T22:06:24.253" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I initially pointed out in chat that the question being discussed seemed to have racist overtones. I also pointed out that I remembered that the users other questions were very similar. I will come out and say right now, I am one of the &lt;strong&gt;last&lt;/strong&gt; people to jump up and say, &quot;this is racist.&quot; I think racism is patently foolish, and not worth the time to respond to or get upset over. It does not belong on a professional site, in any way, shape, or form, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a personal side, I am ethnically Jewish. I have studied Jewish history, and spent a large amount of time in school projects studying the Nazi movement, including reading modern neo-Nazi propaganda. The three questions being discussed read &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; like neo-Nazi propaganda against Blacks and Jews. One could argue that asking if Teal'c is qualified to be a member of SG-1 because &quot;people react negatively to his appearance&quot; is not a racist question. However, I just want to say this: would it be accepted if the question asked, &quot;Why is Obama allowed to be President? His appearance has to be off putting to those he encounters in other countries.&quot; That is &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; the type of thing you will be confronted with, if you go to a neo-Nazi website, and read their filth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that three questions have all had the exact same gist to them, and they were pointed at three obviously qualified characters who all happen to have dark skin, sounds alarms in the mind of anyone who has dealt with racism firsthand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4831" LastActivityDate="2012-07-06T22:06:24.253" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2014" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-06T22:12:12.413" Score="1" ViewCount="370" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderator Keen mentioned that I used &quot;racial code words&quot; in some of my questions, and linked to this wikipedia article: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle_politics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle_politics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I am obviously familiar with racial slurs (n-word, c-word, d-word, etc), this is the first time I've heard of code words... and the article DOES NOT LIST these. I asked some of my coworkers if they were familiar with &quot;racial code words&quot;, and they haven't heard of them either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a list of &quot;racial code words&quot; we cannot use here? Or should I just avoid asking questions about negative actions/situations/characteristics of non-white characters?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5564" LastEditorUserId="1586" LastEditDate="2012-07-06T22:23:06.133" LastActivityDate="2012-07-09T18:58:10.923" Title="What &quot;racial code words&quot; should we avoid?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2014" CreationDate="2012-07-06T22:32:45.203" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that the whole point of using such words would be to obtain, as Wikipedia states, &quot;the option of plausible deniability&quot;... It makes little sense to build a list or deny their use. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I don't see any racist &quot;code words&quot; in your posts, so you'll have to ask Keen about that. Near as I can tell, you're straight-up saying that certain alien races are inferior / untrustworthy / etc. and asking questions based on the assumption that, in-universe, the other characters would be / should be &lt;em&gt;more racist&lt;/em&gt; than they're generally portrayed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an interesting idea. But probably one that deserves a bit more delicate handling, given the prevailing belief that these stories are - at least in a sense - allegories for our own culture. Playing dumb about that aspect is probably not going to serve you well when it comes to getting answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastActivityDate="2012-07-06T22:32:45.203" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2010" CreationDate="2012-07-07T03:02:59.643" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't see the Stargate question, but both of the other 2 questions that are being discussed here strike me as really bad questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comments about Storm could apply to pretty much any member of the X-Men - they're pretty much all outcasts and have trouble fitting in to the team somewhere along the way.  Being able to control the weather strikes me as being a more unusual power than optic blasts, amazing agility, wings, and many others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question about Worf is covered extensively in the show - his background, how he was raised by humans, went to the Academy, etc.  The whole question is loaded with false assumptions and deserved to be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see either of these as being racist on their own.  In particular, I've never thought of Worf as being &quot;black&quot; and it's always a bit of surprise to see Michael Dorn in another movie or show (e.g. on Castle).  I just think of Klingons as being swarthy and he's just a typical Klingon.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd close them just as bad questions, but I can see why a pattern of bad questions about black characters (or characters portrayed by black actors) would be shut down faster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Now that the Stargate question is undeleted, yeah, it's a pretty bad question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can't trust him because he's a traitor: tons of dramas make use of a good-hearted bad guy switching sides.  I haven't watched enough SG-1, but I'm sure they gave a reasonable explanation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Makes a bad impression on first contact: countered by the good impression given by showing that the &quot;bad guys&quot; are not all bad, not all one-dimensionally evil.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not many talents, easily replaced: I haven't seen enough of SG-1, but in the episodes I have seen, and on lots of SG-Atlantis episodes, it's the &quot;marines with P-90s&quot; that are useless.  So this really seems like a false premise.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastEditorUserId="4167" LastEditDate="2012-07-09T04:48:39.233" LastActivityDate="2012-07-09T04:48:39.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2017" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-07T15:51:40.037" Score="12" ViewCount="248" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking through some questions and saw that this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20013/did-mom-have-a-chicken-farm&quot;&gt;Did Mom have a chicken farm?&lt;/a&gt; was closed as &quot;Not constructive&quot;.  I don't personally see how this question could &quot;solicit debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion&quot; so I was just wondering why exactly this was closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like a perfectly reasonable question to me.  I'm not sure if there is an in universe answer to the question but is that really a reason to close a question instead of posting an answer of &quot;there is no in universe information about this&quot;.  Even if there is no in universe explanation it does seem entirely possible that maybe on some commentary somebody mentioned something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, that might not be related to why it was closed at all so I was just looking for some insight into why this was closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3837" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2015-12-06T17:50:48.617" Title="Why was the question about Mom having a chicken farm closed?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1910" CreationDate="2012-07-08T18:55:11.510" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;And a mere month later, I've finished.  This morning I watched the end of 'volume 6' of Futurama, concluding my marathon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-07-08T18:55:11.510" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2010" CreationDate="2012-07-09T02:41:52.873" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have decided to try and appease both sides here, and to take the valid points from the question, and edit them in such a way that hopefully no one can see any racial tones in them, specifically in relying more on facts and removing unsupported analysis of his actions. The question is valid, even if some of the text is not. Hopefully everyone can be happy with my edited version of it, otherwise we can have this conversation all over again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-07-09T02:41:52.873" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2017" CreationDate="2012-07-09T03:19:11.233" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is moot at the moment, as the OP deleted it. I rarely will undelete something the OP deleted. Still, it does seem to me like it was closed unjustly... It is a bit absurd, but then again, Futurama seems to be completely absurd, so...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="1109" LastEditDate="2012-07-09T04:26:05.997" LastActivityDate="2012-07-09T04:26:05.997" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2021" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2023" CreationDate="2012-07-09T17:54:37.163" Score="8" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did a little research in Meta and am surprised this question hasn't come up (unless is lies dormant and unfound by me).  Is ok to ask the specific question &quot;Whats the difference between the book/comic and the movie/show for X?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5909" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-07-09T19:34:10.963" LastActivityDate="2012-07-10T22:27:06.560" Title="Are book vs movie question welcomed?" Tags="|discussion|scope|question-quality|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2021" CreationDate="2012-07-09T18:32:29.940" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've asked a few of those. I would say they are on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/6853/1109&quot;&gt;What plot points are missing in the Harry Potter movies that are in the novels?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/1494/1109&quot;&gt;Is the movie rendition of the Golden Compass significantly different from the book?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/3605/1109&quot;&gt;What questions does &amp;quot;2001: A Space Odyssey&amp;quot; the book answer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;etc...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2012-07-09T18:32:29.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2021" CreationDate="2012-07-09T18:53:37.637" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are allowed, but only in somewhat controlled situations. This area more than most can lead to either huge list questions, or bashing in the form of a question, both of which are not allowed. If you can ask questions that don't fall into one of those two categories, then feel free to ask away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-07-09T18:53:37.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2014" CreationDate="2012-07-09T18:58:10.923" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the best way to answer this is to make sure that any opinionated claims are supported by facts. Your question contained a number of phrases which didn't really seem to have any proof provided, among them things like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His physical appearance is obviously off-putting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the people there really don't like his kind.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Plus, he doesn't seem very smart.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Assuming you can actually trust him&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of these settings should be backed with at least an explanation as to why this was the case. Notice in the edited version, I either removed these statements, or explained them. His trust has many valid points of concern, but with none listed, you are leaving yourself up for discussion. Same with his appearance, his kind, and his not being smart. Try to back your assertions such as these with some kind of facts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-07-09T18:58:10.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2025" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-09T19:38:37.473" Score="8" ViewCount="400" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question regarding a stamp symbol I've noticed on several marvel comics of mine.  It's likely not in-universe related and more of a promotional thing but I'd like to know what it is.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it acceptable to ask a question about this? Or are in-universe questions only allowed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1657" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-07-09T19:54:27.600" LastActivityDate="2012-07-09T19:54:27.600" Title="Are comic book cover questions off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2025" CreationDate="2012-07-09T19:54:22.810" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What kind of questions can I ask here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Historical or societal context of a work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as the comics are speculative fiction, the question should be on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2012-07-09T19:54:22.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2027" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-09T22:55:51.863" Score="12" ViewCount="231" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20240/can-any-new-information-be-canon-if-j-r-r-tolkien-is-dead&quot;&gt;Can any new information be canon if J.R.R. Tolkien is dead?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Led me to ask this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20275/who-can-determine-what-is-canon&quot;&gt;Who can determine what is &amp;#39;canon&amp;#39;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which brought up an interesting point. In many cases what is or isn't canon is a matter of public opinion, often argued over, with no definitive, objective answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not think we are fit to give calls such as this. SE sites are designed to answer questions with the answer, not debate points. I point to the fact that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/321/are-any-sci-fi-video-games-considered-canon?rq=1&quot;&gt;Are any Sci-Fi video games considered canon?&lt;/a&gt; was closed for nearly this very reason. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Canon is a tricky and often loaded term. I think that it often lands in the field of something we are not fit to give THE answer to, and therefor not fit for this forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3958" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2012-07-10T22:39:34.257" Title="Are we really fit to give judgement on what is 'canon'?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|canon|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2027" CreationDate="2012-07-09T23:05:18.390" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a given work, there are typically a few definitions of what might be considered canon — usually there's a single one, but there tend to be more in interesting cases. For example, the Tolkien question leads to discussing Christopher Tolkien's participation. Whether his publications are canon are not is a matter of opinion, but calling for explanations based on an analysis of his contribution is a typical example of &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;“good subjective” question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking for a definition of canon in general is another matter. Each case is different, so there isn't much to say beyond the dictionary definition — unless someone wants to affirm their arbitrary rule or pile on anecdotes, both of which would be prime examples of “bad subjective”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-07-09T23:05:18.390" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2027" CreationDate="2012-07-09T23:21:00.457" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12285/are-there-levels-of-canon-in-star-trek-like-in-star-wars&quot;&gt;didn't&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/21/is-the-star-trek-2009-movie-considered-canon&quot;&gt;even&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/17633/why-is-star-trek-the-animated-series-not-canon&quot;&gt;come&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6735/how-does-the-2009-star-trek-film-mesh-with-enterprise-canon&quot;&gt;up&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/33/how-can-star-trek-countdown-ever-be-considered-canon&quot;&gt;for&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/17993/what-evidence-exists-supporting-that-roddenberry-thought-of-tos-as-non-canon&quot;&gt;any&lt;/a&gt; of the Star Trek ones of a similar nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would venture to say that, if you can cite a legitimate source (such as a quote by the creator(s) / author(s) / current producers), it's a valid question that has a real answer.  Just as long as it doesn't devolve into opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2012-07-09T23:21:00.457" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2030" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-10T01:19:41.207" Score="1" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed by coincidence that I won at Answerama (and promptly checked my SE mail account to find a nice mail from Brett). Can I influence the prize I get?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed that &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B005QIOJUI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Futurama Season &quot;6&quot;&lt;/a&gt; is a lot cheaper than the items that are listed as actual prizes. Since I have no huge use for the actual prizes I would prefer to get that. So to keep this question general; Would something like that be possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not; Can I somehow choose from the listed prizes? For example; I'd prefer a Farnsworth or Zoidberg Toynami figurine, over a, say, monopoly game. Any chance there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastActivityDate="2012-07-10T01:22:47.737" Title="Holy Cow, I won at Answerama -- what now?" Tags="|support|site-promotion|answerama|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2012-07-10T01:48:23.867" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2030" CreationDate="2012-07-10T01:22:47.737" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hope not, because everyone who has had their prize already sent out may feel slightly hard done by at not having the same opportunity. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, the Answerama site is pretty unambiguous at saying the prize(s) will be selected by SE, i.e. not open for personal selection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4056" LastActivityDate="2012-07-10T01:22:47.737" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2027" CreationDate="2012-07-10T10:23:40.400" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to second what Gilles said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our (SFF) function visavi canon should be like that of the US Supreme Court. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can determine if something follows existing law, but we can not establish &lt;strong&gt;new&lt;/strong&gt; law (canon).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If a specific universe has (well/somewhat) defined canon rules, &lt;strong&gt;defined by some entity associated with that universe&lt;/strong&gt;, then questions on whether something follows those canon rules are within scope.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If a specific universe has no canon rules defined officially, but well-defined rules defined unofficially and somewhat established (I'm thinking Lovecraft here), then questions answerable by &quot;If you take this version of canon, X; else, Y&quot; are within scope. BUT, questions aimed at deciding which of canon versions are &quot;more correct&quot; are not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tolkien seems like a good example of this&lt;/strong&gt; - AFAIK nobody officially said whether CT's work is or isn't canon, but questions that can be answered in the format of &quot;&lt;code&gt;if you assume JRRT-only canon, X and if you assume CT-inclusive canon, Y&lt;/code&gt;&quot; are in scope. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OTOH, &quot;Is CT canon&quot; is not in scope.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If a specific universe has no defined/agreed upon canon rules whatsoever, then any canon discussion is likely to devolve into subjectivity. I can see SOME excellent question dealing with such as being in scope (dealing with classification of canons) but most won't be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, a good example of a rare in-scope question would be (re-using Tolkien) &quot;What are the main changes/additions introduced into JRRT's Arda universe by Christopher Tolkien's works&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-07-10T10:23:40.400" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2021" CreationDate="2012-07-10T22:27:06.560" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;To expand on Pearsonartphoto's answer, I'd suggest limiting it to specific areas of interest.  Rather than asking for a general list of differences, either ask a question that can be answered yes/no with reasoning like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1494/is-the-movie-rendition-of-the-golden-compass-significantly-different-from-the-bo&quot;&gt;Is the movie rendition of the Golden Compass significantly different from the book?&lt;/a&gt; or ask about a given character, plot point, device, etc.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12437/how-true-to-canon-was-denethors-movie-characterization&quot;&gt;How True to Canon Was Denethor&amp;#39;s Movie Characterization?&lt;/a&gt; is a great example of the latter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a question like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6853/what-plot-points-are-missing-in-the-harry-potter-movies-that-are-in-the-novels&quot;&gt;What plot points are missing in the Harry Potter movies that are in the novels?&lt;/a&gt; is far too broad despite the fact that it elicited a long answer.  I'd argue that that's not a particularly answerable question as we don't know that that answer is actually conclusive by any means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4056" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2012-07-10T22:27:06.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2027" CreationDate="2012-07-10T22:39:34.257" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;To summarize the answer I gave to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20275/who-can-determine-what-is-canon&quot;&gt;Who can determine what is &amp;#39;canon&amp;#39;&lt;/a&gt; before it got closed - I think canon in some cases is subjective but there are many notable exclusions to that.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In cases where only one author has written books in a world, canon is fairly straight-forward - did it appear in that author's writings?  Canon for the Culture novels by Iain M. Banks is fairly clear cut.  Same with Alistair Reynolds' books or Modesitt Jr.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Harry Potter is an interesting case as although only Rowling has written in that world, her copious use of &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WordOfGod&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Word of God&lt;/a&gt; and how it affects canon can be portrayed as a matter of opinion.  In general she doesn't contradict her own writings though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More interesting cases include those I mentioned in my answer, in a spectrum of roughly most straightforward to least:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tolkien - the most common definition of his canon is his work, plus Christopher Tolkien's publications.  This was Tolkien's intention in setting up the estate, so I'd argue that it would include those, but I can also see how someone can argue that only Tolkien's actual writings apply.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adams - &lt;em&gt;And Another Thing...&lt;/em&gt;, although endorsed by Adams' wife, wasn't explicitly set up by Adams (it was initiated by the publisher with the estate's approval) so opinion definitely comes into it here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Conan - Not particularly familiar as to what the relevant opinions are here, but I can easily see some authors/portrayals being considered canon to the exclusion of others.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Star Trek - Covered elsewhere, but their concept of canon definitely has degrees.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Star Wars - This apparently has a crazy number of degrees of &quot;canon-ness&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All through that spectrum opinion comes into it.  In this case, it really does come down to the individual fan - I may insist that only the films are canon for Star Wars, because they were what Lucas intended.  And that Greedo shot first because of that belief.  And that's going to differ from probably every other person in the world.  But it's a valid opinion given the definition of &quot;canon&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4056" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2012-07-10T22:39:34.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2035" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-10T22:51:35.850" Score="1" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was perusing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/prometheus&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;prometheus&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;prometheus&lt;/a&gt; and noticed that about 13 out of 22 also had &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alien-franchise&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alien-franchise&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alien-franchise&lt;/a&gt; but 9 didn't.  I'm guessing this partial tagging also applies to other franchises, like Star Trek.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering whether there was a consensus on these questions - should they all have the franchise's tag, or only when it's referring to the franchise itself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/528/tagging-for-stargate-franchise-related-questions&quot;&gt;Tagging for stargate/&amp;quot;franchise&amp;quot; related questions&lt;/a&gt; touches on this, with the highest voted answer pointing towards the &quot;tag all with the franchise&quot; answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4056" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2012-07-11T01:02:53.667" Title="Should all part-of-franchise questions be tagged with franchise?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2006" CreationDate="2012-07-10T23:30:45.623" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;An actual question that follows the board rules, rather than one that should have been closed, should &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; be drawn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't take away the extant prize (since it's already ordered), but award a prize as well to someone who didn't cheat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And by not following the board submission rules, yes, the current winner &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; cheat, intentionally or in ignorance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(and for reference - I have no dog in this fight. I didn't participate in it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1367" LastActivityDate="2012-07-10T23:30:45.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2035" CreationDate="2012-07-10T23:54:11.963" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question has out-of-subset application, sure. Not all do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples follow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, SGU character questions don't have much application to the rest of the Stargate line of series. SGU and Atlantis have much more, especially later seasons' episodes of Atlantis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, for basic Stargate tech questions, yes, it should gain the franchise's tag... especially since that aids in finding duplicates from other series. SGU sheds some additional light on the capabilities of the Stargate network that remained unexplored (to my knowledge) in SG1 and SGA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A similar situation exists for Buffy and Angel series - one Buffyverse, two series, 13 total seasons, 2 graphic novel series...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Star Trek is one of the worst for that - TOS, TAS, TNG, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise, and several failed proposal TV series; TOS and TNG movies, plus the TOS-Reboot line; Novels for all of the above, plus 5 or 6 novel series with new crews and ships; graphic novels for all the series, plus 5 or 6 additional series with new crews (and no overlap with the novels); plus a series of &quot;technical manuals&quot; of dubious canonicty, but with later ones giving insight into the production staff's understanding of the tech. And then, there are video games, tabletop games, face-to-face roleplaying games....  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the &quot;Star Fleet Universe&quot; by Amarillo Design Bureau, which is an alternate TOS/TAS with 35 years of deviation growth, which looks like ST, sounds like ST, even feels much like ST, is licensed by Paramount and FJD, but isn't actually Star Trek... can't mention any of the crew by name, but can use the races, ships, and equipment of the TOS and TAS properties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Warp Drive questions for the TOS/TAS stuff are not always going to have broader application - mostly because most of the canon developed after they wrapped, and TNG did retcon-city all over it, as did Enterprise. SFU warp drives have another scale entirely above warp 3.2; everything core released from TNG or later uses the so-called &quot;Modified Cochrane Unit&quot; scale, while TOS and TAS used the &quot;Old Cochrane Unit Scale&quot;... and the terms for these, while widely accepted, appear in the Role-playing games, and then later move into the Tech Manuals. The SFU doesn't even use Warp Factors for speeds above WF 3.2...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the obscure &quot;Federation Space Battle Manual&quot; which cross fertilized with ADB's Star Fleet Battles had a different approach to Warp drives, too... it also was governed by a license from FJD; it is now sold by ADB for Gamescience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(FJD :== Franz Joseph Designs).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1367" LastActivityDate="2012-07-10T23:54:11.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2035" CreationDate="2012-07-11T00:49:36.967" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've said it before, but I'll reiterate my opinion: tags should only be used if they apply to the content of a question. Any other usage just confuses the issue. If the question specifically asks about something that's covered across the scope the whole franchise, then use the franchise tag. If the question is wholly bound within a particular entry in the franchise, use the entry's tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags should ideally depict the content of a question. Adding tags that provide metadata (unnecessary classification) just add to the noise-to-information ratio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4831" LastActivityDate="2012-07-11T00:49:36.967" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2035" CreationDate="2012-07-11T01:02:16.677" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, yes, you should tag a question with the tag for the franchise that it's about, if applicable. Otherwise people who subscribe to the tag for the franchise will miss the question. Sub-franchise tags are rarely useful and should only be used for large franchise (I'm talking &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; large or &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; large).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, there would be a hierarchical tag system, where subscribing to a franchise tag automatically subscribes you to all the sub-tags. But this is a very specialized requirement which will never be implemented on Stack Exchange (there are few cases where the larger tag should imply the smaller tag — across the whole network, it's far more common that the more general tag doesn't always apply to more specific questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few exceptions like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; where you can subscribe to [tag:star-trek*] and see all questions from individual series. But apart from this case where you can use a textual wildcard, please do use the franchise tag on any question that would be interesting to people who are interested in that franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-07-11T01:02:16.677" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="708" CreationDate="2012-07-11T01:24:53.350" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In pure metrics (looking at Famous Questions) there appears to be two good ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One is to ask a question about a property that is just released that many others will be asking themselves at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2902/what-are-the-differences-between-the-game-of-thrones-tv-series-and-the-book&quot;&gt;What plot differences are there between the Game of Thrones TV series and the books?&lt;/a&gt; (Game of Thrones TV series)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4222/what-does-house-greyjoys-motto-we-do-not-sow-mean&quot;&gt;What does House Greyjoy&amp;#39;s motto, &amp;quot;We Do Not Sow&amp;quot;, mean?&lt;/a&gt; (Game of Thrones TV series)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4243/does-anyone-know-when-patrick-rothfuss-will-release-kingkiller-vol3-the-doors&quot;&gt;Does anyone know when Patrick Rothfuss will release KingKiller Vol3: &amp;quot;The Doors of Stone&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; (The Name of the Wind release)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15454/who-is-in-the-post-credits-scene-of-the-avengers-movie&quot;&gt;Who is in the post-credits scene of the Avengers movie?&lt;/a&gt; (Avengers movie)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19936/who-is-in-the-amazing-spider-man-post-credits-scene&quot;&gt;Who is in the Amazing Spider-Man Post Credits Scene?&lt;/a&gt; (Amazing Spider-Man movie)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4610/why-did-harry-potter-intentionally-lose-the-resurrection-stone-in-the-forbidden&quot;&gt;Why did Harry Potter intentionally lose the Resurrection Stone in the Forbidden Forest?&lt;/a&gt; (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are all examples of those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The remaining couple are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt; questions on popular franchises:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4649/is-there-an-official-marvel-films-viewing-order&quot;&gt;Is there an official Marvel Cinematic Universe viewing order?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1520/in-what-order-should-the-star-wars-movies-be-watched&quot;&gt;In what order should the Star Wars movies be watched?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the over-representation of movies in both of these lists my suggestion would be to make a bigger deal over questions from &quot;big releases&quot; like the Amazing Spider-Man (just released - Jul 3), The Dark Knight Rises (July 20), The Bourne Legacy (Aug 10), The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (Nov 16) and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Dec 14).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something along the lines of the Futurama promotion, or Gaming's Diablo III, etc, promotions might be worth considering - especially for the big two or three I see in that list (Dark Knight, Twilight and the Hobbit).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4056" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2012-07-11T01:24:53.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2041" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-12T11:07:15.397" Score="7" ViewCount="320" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20417/film-seen-30-years-ago-where-a-ship-is-traveling-in-some-last-ditch-effort-to&quot;&gt;Another interesting story identification question has been added&lt;/a&gt; but I think it is missing plenty of details. Would it help to have a checklist of items for people adding identification questions, e.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;was it live action?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;when was it made?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;was it in English (US, UK, other?), if not, which language?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;in which country did your watch it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lists could be made media specific: films, books &amp;amp; games.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sound like a good idea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; I am not suggesting a &lt;em&gt;compulsory&lt;/em&gt; list, just a helpful checklist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-04-29T21:16:36.953" Title="Checklist for story identification" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" ClosedDate="2016-05-16T01:38:59.597" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2041" CreationDate="2012-07-12T12:13:19.627" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I think it does. As long as it clearly says that a textual description is also necessary. If you give people check lists, they tend to forget to add stuff that isn't mentioned in the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would, however, replace the first bullet point with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;style (&lt;strong&gt;e.g.&lt;/strong&gt; live action, cartoon, computer animated, puppets, radio broadcast, ...)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the third with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What language was it in?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to prevent people from giving boolean answers there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="2565" LastEditDate="2012-07-17T08:43:37.583" LastActivityDate="2012-07-17T08:43:37.583" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2041" CreationDate="2012-07-12T15:14:20.397" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A checklist would undoubtedly be helpful, but I don't see being able to &lt;strong&gt;require&lt;/strong&gt; that it be used. The whole point of a story identification question is that the person asking the question knows &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; details of the story, but &lt;em&gt;not enough&lt;/em&gt; to find it on their own. As such there is going to be some ambiguity for certain aspects of the story that the person will not be sure of. (e.g. maybe they don't remember what language it was in, or when it was made).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Definitely agree that it would be useful to give advice to people asking those types of questions as to what to include to make it easiest to answer, but there doesn't seem to be a plausible way to require users to adhere to a checklist. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4383" LastActivityDate="2012-07-12T15:14:20.397" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2044" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2262" CreationDate="2012-07-12T20:03:23.737" Score="3" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;Search help page says that you can search for questions with a &lt;strong&gt;minimum&lt;/strong&gt; # of answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;questions that have a minimum number of answers           answers:3 apples&#xA;(or no answers)                                           answers:0 apples&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can questions with a &lt;strong&gt;maximum&lt;/strong&gt; number of answers be searched for? (e.g. with 0, 1 or at most 2 answers)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-09-11T00:07:02.833" Title="How can I search for questions with &lt;=2 answers?" Tags="|support|search|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2045" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2046" CreationDate="2012-07-12T20:07:22.610" Score="5" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried the following searches:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[harry-potter] isaccepted:1 answers:1&#xA;      =&amp;gt; 0 results&#xA;&#xA;[harry-potter] isaccepted:0 answers:1&#xA;      =&amp;gt; 0 results&#xA;&#xA;[harry-potter] isaccepted:1&#xA;      =&amp;gt; 900+ results&#xA;&#xA;[harry-potter]  answers:1&#xA;      =&amp;gt; 630 results&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems that searching for &gt;1 predicate in the same search doesn't work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this an official limitation of search? A bug in search? An error in my query #1?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-07-12T22:09:54.157" Title="Can we search for &gt;1 predicate?" Tags="|support|search|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-03-17T13:46:50.583" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2045" CreationDate="2012-07-12T20:50:39.937" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes you can, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[harry-potter] views:250 hasaccepted:1&#xA;    =&amp;gt; 212 results&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue you are having is that you are using a predicate that searches for &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;answers&lt;/strong&gt; that are accepted answers(or not)&lt;/em&gt; : &lt;code&gt;isaccepted:1&lt;/code&gt; and one that searches for &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;questions&lt;/strong&gt; that have a minimum number of answers(or no answers)&lt;/em&gt; : &lt;code&gt;answers:1&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It returns no results because there are no answers that are questions, or questions that are answers, so it cant find something that is both &lt;em&gt;an answer that is an accepted answer (or not)&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;AND&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;a question that has a minimum number of answers(or no answers)&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;**To get the exact result you needed, you have to change &lt;code&gt;isaccepted&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;hasaccepted&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[harry-potter] hasaccepted:0 answers:1 &#xA;    =&amp;gt; 160+ results&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4383" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2012-07-12T22:09:54.157" LastActivityDate="2012-07-12T22:09:54.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2044" CreationDate="2012-07-12T20:52:25.940" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Data explorer can but the data is only updated monthly.  Search can't.  Maybe you can raise a feature request?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4056" LastActivityDate="2012-07-12T20:52:25.940" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2048" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-13T03:16:12.417" Score="6" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should questions about any comic title in the New 52 be tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-new-52&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-new-52&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-new-52&lt;/a&gt;? Or should it just be used on questions that are specifically about the New 52 series - that is, about continuity issues or comparisons between these and previous volumes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My vote is for the latter, but I'd like to get some other people's take. Is there precedent with tagging other comic book series that we can follow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2380" LastActivityDate="2012-07-13T05:38:24.257" Title="What should get tagged [the-new-52]?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2048" CreationDate="2012-07-13T04:10:08.657" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I created the tag when @BrettWhite was doing the New 52 comic grant last year. My mindset was to use the tag for specific questions regarding the new reboot and anything that could help explain things for that continuity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2012-07-13T04:10:08.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2048" CreationDate="2012-07-13T05:38:24.257" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say it should only be used for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;those questions general to the New 52 Universes;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;those questions specific to a New 52 representation of a character, i.e. if the New 52 canon is significantly different and the question is about that.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/10067/who-were-the-6-people-who-originally-trained-batman-in-the-new-52&quot;&gt;Who were the 6 people who originally trained Batman in the New 52?&lt;/a&gt; is a great example.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For all-encompassing questions, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-comics&lt;/a&gt; works fine and for specific questions the individual comic tags are better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4056" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2012-07-13T05:38:24.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2051" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2054" CreationDate="2012-07-13T20:08:07.717" Score="1" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question were worded in such a way that while the (proper/correct) answer would be a list but that the list is strictly limited in scope, why is this a problem? I can think of several answers, but they all seem to indicate that awarding reputation is more important than questions being answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a prototype question: Which actors have portrayed satan in Hollywood (or American indie) films since 1970?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question isn't open-ended in that no on can dig up a 1928 Bulgarian film that only 3 people in the world knew about and hold it up as a (partial) answer. It's limited by release dates and scope, and unlike many lists Wikipedia (or similar sites) don't have a ready-made answer. The most I can find is some cracked.com top 5 joke list and the like, which is obviously far from comprehensive. The correct answer would be finite, and the nature of the question limits this to only high-profile films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it cause problems to ask this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7603" LastActivityDate="2012-07-14T02:24:18.467" Title="What is the reasoning behind the &quot;no questions whose answer would be a list&quot; rule?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2051" CreationDate="2012-07-13T20:43:45.737" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of issues. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;People do not often post complete list answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Often you'll see a lot of single answers like &quot;Bob Bobbert played Satan in &quot;Satan's goes to the zoo.&quot; And then another answer will say &quot;I remember Fred Walkabird playing Satan in the Muppets Christmas Carol&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The open ended nature of the question makes it more suceptible to becoming outdated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You post your answer with 10 actors who've portrayed Satan. Next week a new movie comes out with a new actor portraying Satan. Are you going to make sure to update your answer? After 1 year, 2 years, 3 years? Is someone else? This can loop back to the first problem. 3 weeks later someone comes along and adds another answer that says &quot;Oh yeah and since Jack's answer there has been Satan Runs a Day Care, with Jabba the Hutt as Satan.&quot; And you're back to having a number of incomplete answers to an open ended (because of the progression of time) question. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now obviously some answers are going to become out of date, but the open ended list question leads itself to this more than others. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="1148" LastEditDate="2012-07-13T20:53:38.690" LastActivityDate="2012-07-13T20:53:38.690" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2051" CreationDate="2012-07-13T21:50:07.370" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually list questions boil down to polling (i.e. List any works with X attribute).  Your specific one doesn't exactly boil down to the same formula, but the results will be the same as a &quot;List any works with Satan that were made after 1970&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are so many films made, and so many will reference or contain a character who is painted as being an ultimate supernatural evil, that we're talking an essentially unlimited list of works where everyone will know a few examples.  People will inevitably contribute their own handful of works that they're familiar with as answers, and these will accumulate.  &quot;Me, too&quot;-ism is a powerful force, which is touched on the by the 'not constructive' vote to close reason's mention of 'extended polling'.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Almost no one ever compiles a complete list, if one is even feasible.  By feasible, I'm referring to the 'not a real question' vote to close reason (i.e. 'overly broad'), along with one of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq#dontask&quot;&gt;FAQ clauses&lt;/a&gt;: &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Your questions should be reasonably scoped. If you can imagine an entire book that answers your question, you’re asking too much.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is said list particularly valuable or useful?  Is there some common need to know &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; film with Satan in it made in that particular time frame?  I mention this because something that looks like a list question and walks like a list question will be treated like a list question unless there's something exceptional about it.  This point is mildly touching on the 'too localized' vote to close reason.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there a resource on the internet that has already compiled said list?  IMDB has at least a superset of this available.  But it's pretty unwieldy because of how enormous it is, and how particular your unspoken assumptions are.  You apparently mean a literal Satan, but haven't clarified if this means the popular red-skinned fellow with horns and a tail, or if he's allowed to be in a human form.  This point refers to the 'general reference' vote to close reason.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, take another list question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;List all of the Doctor's regenerations on &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This differs from your question in several key ways.  Firstly, it's much more manageable.  There are roughly a dozen entries in this list.  Secondly, the issue of his past and future lives has an importance within the fiction.  Thirdly, it like your question is pretty easily answered by checking a reference site, as Wikipedia contains the entirety of this list, so it would likely be closed for that reason.  But, I hope it helps illuminate why your question would end up closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2012-07-13T21:50:07.370" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2051" CreationDate="2012-07-14T02:24:18.467" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer the question in the title: the rule comes from bitter experience of how those questions played out on Stack Overflow---for a long time the inclusionists held sway on this issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here is how it works: list questions are easy to ask and easy to answer so they get a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of attention. A lot of attention means a lot of votes. So there are (1) a lot of them and (2) almost nothing else on the &quot;sort questions by score&quot; tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now imagine a user who find the site from Google (across Stack Exchange it is the single biggest source of views). Assume she comes to the site after searching for the answer to a difficult or obscure question, finds an answer she like and decides to join up and be part of this wonderful thing we have going.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now being an unusually good egg, she first reads the FAQ with loving attention to details and then decides to scope out the &quot;good&quot; content in order to be a good citizen from day one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does she do? She goes to the highest voted questions tab and gets a strong hint that make-a-lists are &lt;em&gt;where it is at&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't matter that it wasn't what brought her here, that is what has been judged &quot;good&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And so the site become &lt;em&gt;primarily&lt;/em&gt; a place to make lists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meh!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="231" LastActivityDate="2012-07-14T02:24:18.467" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2055" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-14T11:34:18.370" Score="2" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it allowed to ask for books suggestions based on some specific characteristic (like being &quot;similar to book A, but with more/less X&quot;?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I.e. &quot;I'd like to read something similar to Harry Potter but with more adult themes, what would you suggest&quot;? or &quot;I am looking for novels close to DC's John Constantine in tone&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is allowed, how should this be tagged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7739" LastActivityDate="2012-07-15T12:36:25.683" Title="Is it kosher to ask for books suggestions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2055" CreationDate="2012-07-14T11:45:29.310" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not allowed. There were problems with recommendations from early on, and they were banned. We suggest you become familiar with the chat room, the guys in there can often help you well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-07-14T11:45:29.310" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2057" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2058" CreationDate="2012-07-14T17:49:03.210" Score="-6" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;I should have asked it a long ago... I was wondering what has recently happened in futurama universe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2012-07-14T18:41:39.740" Title="Why are we getting high amount of futurama questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2057" CreationDate="2012-07-14T18:41:39.740" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is the result of publicity by the Futurama folks. See these posts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1908/3267&quot;&gt;Futurama Week + Q&amp;amp;A Event on July 11th!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1970/3267&quot;&gt;Answerama, the Futurama mini-site, is live!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1990/3267&quot;&gt;Possible Futurama Flood Warning, July 2nd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, as I understand, the Futurama facebook page mentioned that there would be prizes for Futurama week here and that drove a lot of low-quality questions just hoping for a prize.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2012-07-14T18:41:39.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2055" CreationDate="2012-07-15T12:36:25.683" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it is not kosher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For something to be &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosher_foods&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;kosher&lt;/a&gt;, it must be prepared according to stringent requirements, including being overseen by a Jewish Rabbi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, these questions aren't eaten, so that would be difficult in any case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And, of course, Pearson has already given and answer to the text of the question, though he completely ignored the question in the title.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="656" LastActivityDate="2012-07-15T12:36:25.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="991" CreationDate="2012-07-16T15:01:05.840" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/EFLvtIIZNHg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/awWSR.png&quot; alt=&quot;Check out our video content!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastActivityDate="2012-07-16T15:01:05.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2061" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2106" CreationDate="2012-07-17T08:34:58.137" Score="17" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;I sometimes notice that questions are promoted on &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/StackSciFi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;twitter.com&lt;/a&gt;, which is shown in the respective edit log.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering what inner logic this follows. Is this done by our beloved StackExchange crew on a whim or automatically/randomly by some bot? It doesn't appear to be tied to vote score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bonus question: Are posts promoted on other social/blogging/whatever networks?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="2565" LastEditDate="2012-08-19T07:55:39.557" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="When are questions tweeted?" Tags="|support|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2062" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-17T15:23:06.633" Score="-2" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been thinking lately about ways in which we can expand our reach and provide more value to the SF&amp;amp;F community. And I've seen a few questions like this one lately:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3267/are-there-any-redeeming-characters-in-game-of-thrones-soiaf&quot;&gt;Are there any redeeming characters in Game of Thrones/SOIAF?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is from the point of view of someone who has yet to fully dive into the material. These questions, while potentially loaded with subjectivity, can be asked in ways that would probe a work for details to help people decide if they are right for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SFF.SE need not only be for people after they finish a work, right? So how can we better serve this type of question? How can we ensure they stay objective but are still valuable to the community? How can we keep them free of spoilers and advertise to people looking to first dive into a work that it is spoiler free?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2012-07-17T19:04:11.710" Title="Before you Read/Watch question types, should we formalize them?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2062" CreationDate="2012-07-17T17:36:32.967" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Technically, you cannot avoid spoilers systematically: If you ask me whether or not I believe you like, say, Firefly, every information I provide that will significantly help you, will spoil, at least it will spoil the pilot. And if you didn't enjoy the pilot, chances are this will effect an overall dislike of the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conversely, every information that is guaranteed not to spoil (e.g. it's science-fiction, there are actors) is next to useless &lt;strong&gt;or&lt;/strong&gt; is only applicable to one person / a very localised group (e.g. I could say: Oh, so you like series whatnot, that means you'll enjoy Firefly). It doesn't help future visitors, because the number of examples you have to provide me will be so large, it will only apply to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What point is there to ask whether you'll like a show, anyway? Watch the pilot, assume the characters will grow over time and determine whether you are likely to enjoy the rest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastActivityDate="2012-07-17T17:36:32.967" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2064" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2066" CreationDate="2012-07-17T18:53:04.783" Score="4" ViewCount="178" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if we could find out why &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/3324/who-framed-roger-rabbit&quot;&gt;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/3324/who-framed-roger-rabbit&lt;/a&gt; was migrated?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no comment indicating why it was migrated that I can see, questions on &quot;plot, character or setting explanations&quot; for SFF works are on-topic according to the FAQ and Gilles also commented on the question that he's not sure why it was shifted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of other questions on SFF works that don't involve the SFF elements on this site - should these be migrated too, or was this just a jumping of the gun?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4056" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2012-07-18T03:37:12.240" Title="Why was Who Framed Roger Rabbit migrated?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|migration|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2062" CreationDate="2012-07-17T19:04:11.710" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there's a couple of elements here.  The first is the question - while the one you linked to is couched in subjective language, the actual question(s) are pretty straightforward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is this true for all the characters? Are there any with redeeming qualities? Will I find myself loathing them all? I find that I favor characters that you could generally call &quot;heroic&quot; - will I find any in Westeros?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the exception of the loathing question, the rest can be answered reasonably objectively.  If the question is asked in such a manner, that's fine.  If it's asking purely for opinions like the loathing question, I would then argue that it is too subjective to be answerable.  How would we know who you loathe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as subjectivity is avoided in the actual question, I don't have any issues with the questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second element is the answer, and here I don't think we have the responsibility to avoid spoilers.  We're being asked about some nature of the work that they haven't read, so technically any information we give can be spoilers.  On the other hand, they are actively asking for spoilers.  So I think go ahead and include spoilers, though make sure they are tagged/hidden as such.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no need to hamper our own ability to give a meaningful answer arbitrarily, especially when anything we post could be taken as a potential spoiler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4056" LastActivityDate="2012-07-17T19:04:11.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2064" CreationDate="2012-07-17T20:42:29.157" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's probably been too long since I've seen it, but I guess I just didn't consider Roger Rabbit to be science fiction or fantasy, thus my decision to migrate it. Also, it had briefly been discussed in chat, and a flag made, which to me meant I wasn't the only one with doubts as to it's science fiction/fantasy aspects. After a bit more work, I'd argue that it is borderline, and a much better fit on the movies site. But maybe that's just because I haven't seen Roger Rabbit for a long time...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-07-17T20:42:29.157" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2064" CreationDate="2012-07-18T03:37:12.240" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess I don't agree that migration is a negative thing - the point of SE questions is to seek good answers. If you're primarily looking for an answer to a question, then it shouldn't matter if the question is migrated to another place that's likely to give you a good answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Roger Rabbit, while it has fantastical elements, is primarily known as a hugely popular movie. Movies.SE is therefore an excellent place to find people who might provide good answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if it had been migrated to RabbitHusbandry.SE, that might be an issue. ;) But Movies.SE seems like a good choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4025" LastActivityDate="2012-07-18T03:37:12.240" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2068" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2072" CreationDate="2012-07-18T17:04:03.737" Score="8" ViewCount="240" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those questions look like :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm trying to write a Powers and Abilities section for [character name] on Wookieepedia, but [random excuse].&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   blah blah blah ... could someone do the work for me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already got 2 of them :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20550/allana-solos-force-abilities&quot;&gt;Allana Solo&amp;#39;s force abilities&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20675/what-are-onimis-force-powers&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20675/what-are-onimis-force-powers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see how to close them. It's on topic and their is a restricted set of force powers that could answer, so it's not a list question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, both currently have a negative vote total, showing a high community disapproval.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should we handle them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="How to handle &quot;What are [character name] force powers?&quot; type questions?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1138" CreationDate="2012-07-20T22:42:14.003" Score="1" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Supernatural - Season Eight&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..is airing soon (in 75 days) and may be it's last. Would be a good time to give the show some focus, and we know well enough in advance to prepare fore it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2012-07-20T22:42:14.003" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-07-20T22:42:14.003" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="835" CreationDate="2012-07-23T12:14:16.043" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having a good title (concise, searchable, good representation of the question/problem) is more important than anything else, so if excluding spoilers from your title results in a bad title than you should include said spoilers. However, if you can come up with a good title which excludes titles then that's great, feel free to use it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something else to consider is that if a user wishes to avoid seeing spoilers for a certain work they can always use the ignore tag feature. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2091" LastActivityDate="2012-07-23T12:14:16.043" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2068" CreationDate="2012-07-24T16:18:15.480" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, no one has answered in another way yet, so may as well make my comment an answer as DavRob60 suggests.  'Tis popular anyway...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) Both questions explicitly mention trying to fill out a Wookiepedia page, but without wanting to do any legwork of their own (hence asking here).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) When you mouse-over the downvote button, it does say &quot;This question does not show any research effort&quot;, so dowvoting it into oblivion certainly seems to be the right thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) As mentioned in the question, they &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; otherwise seem to be on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'd say, do nothing.  The community will handle them the way that these two questions have been handled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, as referenced here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/78048/auto-deleting-old-unanswered-zero-score-questions-after-a-year&quot;&gt;Enable automatic deletion of old, unanswered zero-score questions after a year?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We already auto-remove negatively voted unanswered old questions&#xA;  automatically after 30 days, network wide, with no human intervention&#xA;  required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as long as no one answers those questions, they really would be handled entirely by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2012-07-24T20:35:10.557" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2073" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-24T19:10:28.980" Score="1" ViewCount="214" Body="&lt;p&gt;The close reason for General Reference says: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question is too basic; it can be definitively and permanently&#xA;  answered by a single link to a standard internet reference source&#xA;  designed specifically to find that type of information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, but what about cases where it takes several links to reference source sites? If the question can be answered with a single Wikipedia link it is obvious, but is it still General Reference if it takes several articles? The answer in that case is derived from all those sources - it has an added value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main reason I ask this is because I asked a question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20977/why-did-they-name-the-movie-blade-runner&quot;&gt;Why did they name the movie &amp;quot;Blade Runner&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;  and it was closed as General Reference and I'm not sure if it should have been. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, I'd like to know the community stance on the general question - is a combination of multiple links to standard internet reference sources a General Reference itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2012-07-24T19:38:22.597" Title="Is a question &quot;General Reference&quot; if it requires several articles to be answered?" Tags="|discussion|general-reference|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2073" CreationDate="2012-07-24T19:38:22.597" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/330/4383&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/02/are-some-questions-too-simple/&quot;&gt;this blog&lt;/a&gt;. They both post a flowchart describing when to close a question as general reference:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3org9.png&quot; alt=&quot;Flowchart for Closing as General Reference&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I looked up the answers to your question I found that (1) the answer could be found easily in the first few results, (2) that it was in no need of further improvement, and was not too hard to parse, (3) and was basic and trivial. This led me to VTC as General Reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2012-07-24T19:38:22.597" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1970" CreationDate="2012-07-25T00:48:53.950" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It shows all tags, and they all link back here. So a question tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/futurama&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;futurama&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;futurama&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time-travel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time-travel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time-travel&lt;/a&gt; shows up with both tags (though the first is redundant) and the second tag is a link to all SF&amp;amp;F questions tagged &lt;code&gt;time-travel&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surely it would make more sense to (a) omit the &lt;code&gt;futurama&lt;/code&gt; tag (and if that leaves many questions showing no tags, what harm?), and (b) have the second tag be a link to all questions tagged both &lt;code&gt;time-tavel&lt;/code&gt; &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; &lt;code&gt;futurama&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="403" LastActivityDate="2012-07-25T00:48:53.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2076" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-25T14:04:26.353" Score="14" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know short edits are discouraged, and rightly so, but I don't think they should be completely disallowed. Sometimes a single character can make a large difference.  For example, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Frodo was Sam's employee&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is wrong and in a discussion about their relationship, the edit to fix it to be &quot;employe&lt;strong&gt;r&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; is relevant and not, in my mind, a &quot;bad&quot; edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1486" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-06-10T01:31:33.707" LastActivityDate="2018-06-10T01:31:33.707" Title="Should single character edits be allowed?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2076" CreationDate="2012-07-25T18:18:31.910" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's really rare that a single-character change is the only thing that can be improved in a post. Look for other possible improvements: fix other spelling errors, add links for references, etc. If all else fails, leave a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The topic has come up multiple times on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-edits&quot;&gt;main meta site&lt;/a&gt;. The answer is always no, the limit won't change: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/82865/should-tiny-edits-be-accepted-or-rejected-in-review&quot;&gt;Should tiny edits be accepted or rejected in review?&lt;/a&gt; — &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/82893/remove-trivial-edit-restriction&quot;&gt;Remove trivial edit restriction&lt;/a&gt; — &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/77233/were-discouraged-from-fixing-typos-and-misspellings-on-se-sites&quot;&gt;We're discouraged from fixing typos and misspellings on SE sites?&lt;/a&gt; — &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/81520/how-to-overcome-edits-must-be-at-least-6-characters&quot;&gt;How to overcome “Edits must be at least 6 characters”?&lt;/a&gt; — &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/87200/pure-code-formatting-to-enhance-a-question-is-impossible-without-2k-rep&quot;&gt;pure code formatting, to enhance a question, is impossible (without 2k rep)&lt;/a&gt; — (and many more).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2012-07-25T18:18:31.910" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2079" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2080" CreationDate="2012-07-25T19:49:46.143" Score="3" ViewCount="244" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand why users are allowed to (and why they would) do edits like this:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/15623/revisions&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/15623/revisions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He changed the picture.... into the same picture&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That doesn't seem like a good reason for an edit.&lt;/strong&gt; And all it did was bring up an old post from 3 months ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users are allowed to edit their own posts which makes sense, I just think there should be some kind of restriction or something to prevent people from changing something to the same thing and unnecessarily reviving old topics like this.&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Maybe have someone check the edit, before it gets processed?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Most importantly though, I would like to know why would people do this, what does he gain from changing the picture into the same picture?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS- same guy did the same thing here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/6130/revisions&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/6130/revisions&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;Now here he just bolded his words, didn't add anything though. Altough it could have some merit (he wanted to add more emphasis for example), I just thought it was slightly unnecessary to bring up an old, and answered, question for the sake of some formatting, but that's just me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PPS- I'm not spreading hate or anything, Thaddeus is probably a really cool guy, and he's not the only one I've seen, just the only one today. It's just I saw him do it twice in the same day, and that's what prompted me to let someone know this is going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6322" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2012-07-25T20:23:34.700" Title="Unnecessary editing- Why would people do it?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2079" CreationDate="2012-07-25T19:58:26.127" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;He didn't change the image into the same image, he added an image description to that image.  The revisions page does a terrible job of displaying alterations to meta data, it's similarly unclear when your edit just takes existing text and makes it a link.  I recommend using the &lt;em&gt;source&lt;/em&gt; links to see the underlying markdown in the affected areas in the future, it's how I determined what changes he made here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To speak to the general question you're asking, instead of just that specific example, this is already built in to the Stack Exchange system.  You need to accumulate enough rep to show that you're a dedicated member of the community before you're allowed to make unchecked edits.  This doesn't mean that everyone with the rep to make unchecked edits will do so wisely, but the site has numerous mechanisms that allow abuse to be prevented and/or minimized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-07-25T19:58:26.127" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2081" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2082" CreationDate="2012-07-25T20:35:01.847" Score="-4" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are the rules to posting screenshots to our favorite tv show? For example, I'm attaching one now for Star Gate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could I possibly preface it with, &quot;what are they thinking in this shot?&quot; Is there a better site for this sort of thing? Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/npKZ2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;sam from star gate atlantis&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6443" OwnerDisplayName="1.21 gigawatts" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-07-25T20:45:17.700" LastActivityDate="2012-07-25T21:14:39.893" Title="Can I post a good screenshot for my favorite sci fi show?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2081" CreationDate="2012-07-25T20:44:18.060" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure posting a screen shot within a question is fine. You just need to make sure the question you are asking is appropriate for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something like, &quot;What are they thinking for this shot&quot; is probably NOT an example of an appropriate question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7126" LastActivityDate="2012-07-25T20:44:18.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2081" CreationDate="2012-07-25T20:44:58.370" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, you can post a screenshot in a question or an answer. But keep in mind that this is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/about&quot;&gt;question and answers site&lt;/a&gt;, not a discussion forum. As it says in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq#dontask&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your motivation for asking the question is “I would like to participate in a discussion about ........”, then you should not be asking here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2012-07-25T20:44:58.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2081" CreationDate="2012-07-25T21:14:39.893" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I take it that you are wanting to interact and entertain others with a screenshoot. If that's the case, Jack is correct. Scifi chat is a better spot for humor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4356" LastActivityDate="2012-07-25T21:14:39.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2085" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-26T00:23:08.507" Score="0" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/21051/1109&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and i tagged it with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chris-nolan&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chris-nolan&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chris-nolan&lt;/a&gt; because I wanted to make sure that the answer would stay in his Batman movies and not the other Batman movies. The tag then got deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this tag unnecessary? Is it too specific?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have tags for authors all over the place, why can't we have tags for writer/directors?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2012-07-26T16:34:19.810" Title="Chris Nolan tag" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2085" CreationDate="2012-07-26T00:54:28.277" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;My thought on the matter in deleting the tag was that the question itself was really about the new three Batman movies.  Chris Nolan wasn't the subject of the question and the question didn't cover multiple Chris Nolan works, assuming his Batman trilogy to be one such work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/528/tagging-for-stargate-franchise-related-questions?rq=1&quot;&gt;Tagging for stargate/&amp;quot;franchise&amp;quot; related questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2048/what-should-get-tagged-the-new-52&quot;&gt;What should get tagged [the-new-52]?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4056" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2012-07-26T00:54:28.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2087" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2089" CreationDate="2012-07-26T13:45:59.303" Score="2" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/18750&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; I see there's an extra paragraph of text after the end of the comments, the bit that starts &quot;We're looking for long answers...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not part of the markdown of the question itself, and it's not a bounty or a system notification like &quot;Migrated from...&quot;. So how do you do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, is this the right place to ask such question, or should I take it to meta.stackoverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4495" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2012-07-26T21:02:57.263" Title="Extra text below the comments, how do you do this?" Tags="|support|questions|answers|post-notice|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2087" CreationDate="2012-07-26T14:07:17.133" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is a special text that the moderators add to questions that are generating useless 1 line answers. It is to encourage people to give thorough answers instead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not something a regular user can add to their question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2012-07-26T14:07:17.133" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2087" CreationDate="2012-07-26T14:19:28.450" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;They're called 'post notices', and as Jack mentioned, only diamond mods can add (and remove) them from questions to try and guide the answers posted.  I've most frequently used them in place of or in addition to protecting questions, so as to minimize the number of low quality answers from new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I threw one up on this meta question so everyone knows exactly what you're referring to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2012-07-26T14:50:34.590" LastActivityDate="2012-07-26T14:50:34.590" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2085" CreationDate="2012-07-26T16:34:19.810" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see where you are going with wanting to keep the answers within the Chris Nolan Batman movies, but you don't need tags to do that. The title and text of your question should define the scope you are looking for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags are for helping people subscribe, ignore, and search; not for setting the scope of your question. Since you already included &quot;Batman&quot; and &quot;Chris Nolan&quot; in the title, adding the tag doesn't help anybody search. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4025" LastActivityDate="2012-07-26T16:34:19.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2091" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2093" CreationDate="2012-07-26T17:53:36.677" Score="8" ViewCount="308" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe I'm hyper-sensitive to this, but I'm smelling a bias against certain &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/5404/rondo&quot;&gt;users&lt;/a&gt; who seem to have a name in common with a certain time-travelling robots troll &lt;strike&gt;(maybe it's even the same user, but I can't tell because I don't have access to moderation tools and can't see what questions were deleted -- anyway, &lt;strong&gt;it doesn't matter&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/strike&gt; (it does seem to be the same user (see the edit history), but that still &lt;strong&gt;doesn't matter&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/21044/2565&quot;&gt;Is there a list available of all of the rules of acquisition?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems perfectly on topic: The spirit of &quot;list questions are bad&quot; just wants to prevent bad subjective questions with &lt;em&gt;endless&lt;/em&gt; lists, based on opinion or speculation. Especially, these sorts of lists are unable to be &lt;em&gt;accepted&lt;/em&gt; properly (for obvious reasons).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question doesn't qualify. It asks for &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; answer which entails providing a list of items, not a list of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not buy that this is general reference either, because Wikipedia doesn't bother to name the source for most entries so it's impossible to &lt;em&gt;verify them as canon&lt;/em&gt;.&#xA;The last time I checked memory-alpha, that list was vastly incomplete, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, I count one single diamond vote-to-close, while there are three vote-to-reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Also, the mod who closed this, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/403/2565&quot;&gt;accepted a meta-answer&lt;/a&gt; indicating that &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; the Wikipedia article could be a candidate for general reference. So the memory-alpha article is out. And the Wikipedia article lacks references.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2012-07-26T21:09:22.527" Title="Why was this &quot;Rules of Acquisition&quot; question closed?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2092" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-26T19:40:15.047" Score="1" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aren't they legitimate questions? For example, &quot;What episodes in Star Gate reference the 9th seal?&quot; Let's say the answer is episode 1, 5, 20. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please list the reasons... :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also,&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1450/are-questions-looking-to-simply-prove-or-disprove-a-premise-with-a-yes-no-answer?rq=1&quot;&gt;Are questions looking to simply prove or disprove a premise with a yes/no answer a good fit for our site?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS Are they always closed? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6443" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2012-07-26T22:38:33.913" Title="Why are asking for lists or questions similar to asking for lists &quot;bad&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2091" CreationDate="2012-07-26T21:09:22.527" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I closed the question as &lt;em&gt;general reference&lt;/em&gt; because the obvious Wikipedia article seemed to answer the question. Given further information, it seems that while the Wikipedia article technically answers the question as stated, there is more to say about the subject. So I have edited the question and reopened it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside: When you see a bad question that leads to an interesting answer, don't just sit there and complain about closing. &lt;strong&gt;EDIT THE QUESTION TO IMPROVE IT!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-07-26T21:09:22.527" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2092" CreationDate="2012-07-26T21:58:32.583" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question is suitably scoped then a question with an answer in the form of a list should be fine.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/21044/is-there-a-list-available-of-all-of-the-rules-of-acquisition&quot;&gt;Is there a list available of all of the rules of acquisition?&lt;/a&gt; is a good recent example - while it was closed ( &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2091/why-was-this-rules-of-acquisition-question-closed&quot;&gt;Why was this &amp;quot;Rules of Acquisition&amp;quot; question closed?&lt;/a&gt; ) it was closed because it was thought to be general reference, &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; because it was a list question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is with open-ended list questions or those with a huge scope.  These either cannot or will not be answered with a conclusive answer, instead resulting in a whole lot of short answers that list a single or handful of works that fit the category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4056" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2012-07-26T22:38:33.913" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2095" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-27T15:45:47.117" Score="13" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;Supposedly someone is monitoring the &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;, but I submitted a post for review a few days ago and have heard nadda. Last time I submitted a post (the &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/05/harry-potter-movie-marathon-highlights/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Harry Potter Movie Marathon&lt;/a&gt;) I ended up pestering the Moderators until one of them approved it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this position is open, I'd be willing to be the blog master, as long as it comes with a good parking spot. I don't want to be stuck parking next to the Forbidden Forest or something. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="2565" LastEditDate="2012-07-30T18:23:10.387" LastActivityDate="2012-08-09T20:59:50.963" Title="Who is taking care of the Blog?" Tags="|discussion|blog|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2076" CreationDate="2012-07-28T18:45:27.057" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a restriction on users with less than &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;2000&lt;/a&gt; rep. This shows a serious  dedication of time an effort, and is meant to stop people with very few reputation points make too many small edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2012-07-28T18:45:27.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2098" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-30T23:33:00.303" Score="3" ViewCount="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that the &quot;recent badges&quot; can run out of the user drop-down.  This may be an IE8 issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ObDM8.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4056" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-07-31T07:29:45.973" LastActivityDate="2012-07-31T07:29:45.973" Title="Overlapping text on user drop-down" Tags="|bug|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2100" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2327" CreationDate="2012-07-31T01:49:35.723" Score="9" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you throw a picture into the&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; otherwise working spoiler markdown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;! ![The nicest tux ever.][1]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you notice that, surprise, surprise,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wM09V.png&quot; alt=&quot;The nicest tux ever.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't work. I.e. the picture is not hidden when the spoiler box is not being hovered over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="44" LastEditDate="2012-09-28T21:36:27.793" LastActivityDate="2012-09-28T21:36:27.793" Title="Spoiler markup broken when used with pictures" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|spoilers|markdown|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2101" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2102" CreationDate="2012-07-31T14:00:01.010" Score="7" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/21289/4025&quot;&gt;an answer I recently posted I tried to use spoiler markdown&lt;/a&gt; on multiple consecutive paragraphs. It took a while and some help to get it to work right. In short, the issue seems to be with the white space &lt;em&gt;between&lt;/em&gt; the paragraphs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/editing-help#spoilers&quot;&gt;markdown help on spoilers&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spoilers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To hide a certain piece of text and have it only be visible when a&#xA;user moves the mouse over it, use the blockquote syntax with an&#xA;additional exclamation point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of episode five, it turns out that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; he's actually his father&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So first I tried just putting &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;!&lt;/code&gt; before each paragraph as the markdown help says, like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;!Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vivamus non risus lorem, ut interdum ipsum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;!Maecenas ut orci mauris. Maecenas molestie venenatis molestie. Praesent dapibus purus sed ligula viverra adipiscing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, that didn't work. Realized I might have been missing whitespace after the &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;!&lt;/code&gt;. So then I tried putting &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;!☐&lt;/code&gt; (where the ☐ represents a trailing space, which is what I really entered):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;! Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vivamus non risus lorem, ut interdum ipsum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;! Maecenas ut orci mauris. Maecenas molestie venenatis molestie. Praesent dapibus purus sed ligula viverra adipiscing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that, as you can again see, also failed. Finally &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/27/niall-c&quot;&gt;@Niall C.&lt;/a&gt; (Thanks!) helped my by &lt;strong&gt;adding&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;BR&amp;gt;☐☐&lt;/code&gt; to the &lt;em&gt;end&lt;/em&gt; of the paragraph, and &lt;strong&gt;removing&lt;/strong&gt; the return, as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vivamus non risus lorem, ut interdum ipsum.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA; Maecenas ut orci mauris. Maecenas molestie venenatis molestie. Praesent dapibus purus sed ligula viverra adipiscing.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This worked. Why? And can we document this better? Or I am I missing some other aspect of the markdown syntax documented somewhere else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4025" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Spoiler markdown issue with multiple paragraphs?" Tags="|bug|spoilers|markdown|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2101" CreationDate="2012-07-31T20:42:15.457" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/112793/paragraphs-breaks-are-ignored-inside-spoilers#comment292848_112793&quot;&gt;That's somewhere between a bug and a feature request&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technically, it's a bug. But it has its usefulness. Think of it as a reminder that you should not put too much text inside spoiler markup. If you feel the need for two paragraphs, it's usually because you're trying to hide too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; is a line break. As long as you only put line breaks and no paragraph breaks, you still have a single paragraph. You can use two spaces followed by a newline instead of &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;. Don't abuse this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2012-07-31T20:42:15.457" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2103" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2105" CreationDate="2012-08-01T21:22:22.103" Score="2" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can thank someone for a great answer or question by upvoting, is there some way to thank someone for an edit or for protecting a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2012-08-02T01:22:31.067" Title="How can I thank someone for an edit, a protect etc?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2103" CreationDate="2012-08-01T21:34:00.103" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're looking to specifically reward someone for an edit or protect?  That's not really feasible.  The system does reward low-rep users who submit accepted edits, but that doesn't sound like what you're looking for.  The system isn't built to reward more abstract actions people can take to contribute to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the time you have the rep to protect or edit questions, you're already a pretty devoted member of the community, so it's assumed that your use of those abilities doesn't require a reward mechanism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-08-01T21:34:00.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2103" CreationDate="2012-08-02T01:22:31.067" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends on what your goal is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If it is to simply make the person feel better/appreciated&lt;/strong&gt;, you can thank them on chat - I agree with Gilles's comment above that a &quot;Thank you&quot; comment is just noise.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you wish to do it as an act of positive reinforcement&lt;/strong&gt;, as Keen said, there likely isn't any need to use your thanking upvote as direct reward feedback anymore for this kind of user. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If it is a wish to grant them a more &quot;material&quot; benefit than a mere good word&lt;/strong&gt;, you can always seek out an older post by that user which seems quality enough to deserve an upvote but you didn't upvote before (may be a tag you don't follow closely). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just make sure not to upvote any random post that doesn't deserve upvotes - but for a kind of user who would provide this helpful edit, I'd wager it's not very hard to find a good post of theirs that deserves it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It will not be clearly associated with your expressing thanks to them communications wise (unless you also comment on chat), but an anonymous gift is (sometimes|often) better than named one; and see the last bullet point re: no need for positive reinforcement.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-08-02T01:22:31.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2061" CreationDate="2012-08-02T14:22:06.947" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Each Stack Exchange site has an associated Twitter account that is set up by the company when the site's public beta begins. These all follow the naming convention @Stack[topic] - more or less. So, to answer your question, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/stackscifi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;@StackSciFi&lt;/a&gt; account was created by the company, and it, like almost all of our Twitter accounts, tweets content that is determined by an algorithm. I believe the most recent version (as &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/101340/166017&quot;&gt;explained by Jeff Atwood on MSO&lt;/a&gt;) is: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;per-site blog posts (if present)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;chat events, if started by a moderator&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;interesting questions on the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Every three hours (on average).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;bountied questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;interesting answers of +3 or better&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;unanswered questions of +3 or better&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;particularly hot meta questions (not support or bug though)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About every two hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything that has a mention in the edit log of being promoted via Twitter has been tweeted by one of our bots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/twitter-question-feeds-for-stack-exchange/&quot;&gt;per-site twitter accounts&lt;/a&gt;, there is also an account for the whole network: &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/stackexchange&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;@StackExchange&lt;/a&gt;. This is also managed by an algorithm that has it tweet out interesting questions from around the network, similar to the way &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/questions&quot;&gt;stackexchange.com/questions&lt;/a&gt; works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a slightly different note, there are a handful of accounts that are run by the SE team. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/stackhq&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;@StackHQ&lt;/a&gt; twitter account is sometimes used to share questions and answers, though we tend to use it more for office antics, contests we're running, or other fun news.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also Stack Exchange &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/stackexchange&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://plus.google.com/101120115153580954446/posts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Google Plus&lt;/a&gt; pages that promote content and news from around the network. These are both run by humans, not bots. If you have Scifi &amp;amp; Fantasy posts that you think are especially worthy of promotion to a wider audience, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/125293/can-beta-mods-suggest-questions-to-be-advertised-cross-network/125405#125405&quot;&gt;you can submit them&lt;/a&gt; and we'll try to post them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2922" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2012-08-02T19:50:45.173" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2107" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-04T05:16:44.370" Score="5" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;Compare:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Correct styling in quote boxes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Text &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.example.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt; Text&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Broken styling in spoiler boxes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Text &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.example.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt; Text&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When displayed the link styling appears not to use the site-specific theme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Opera 12, hovering over the box looks like the following screenshot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yOYgi.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-08-04T11:46:47.180" LastActivityDate="2012-08-04T11:46:47.180" Title="Spoiler-Box styling inconsistency of links" Tags="|bug|design|spoilers|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2108" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-04T18:50:10.880" Score="4" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/45/davrob60&quot;&gt;DavRob60&lt;/a&gt; posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/6238/3804&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; on Reddit. And we suddenly had a huge explosion of views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did this translate into any new users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2012-08-05T10:56:18.410" Title="How many users did we get from Reddit?" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2108" CreationDate="2012-08-04T19:38:25.597" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;So the TIL post was timestamped &lt;code&gt;Fri Aug 3 12:48:13 2012 UTC&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?page=1&amp;amp;tab=newusers&amp;amp;sort=creationdate&quot;&gt;users list sorted by creation date&lt;/a&gt;, I looked at each user's creation time until I found the first one after that timestamp: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/8098/logoff&quot;&gt;logoff&lt;/a&gt;, who registered at &lt;code&gt;2012-08-03 12:53:39Z&lt;/code&gt; (&lt;code&gt;Z&lt;/code&gt; being shorthand for UTC, so there's timezone agreement).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, that means 36 new user accounts were registered after the TIL post was created. Of those 36:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;11 already had accounts elsewhere on the network (they got the 100 rep association bonus)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5 actively contributed to gain reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user list doesn't track unregistered users, though, and I've seen several around the site today. I vaguely remember the moderator tools having something that can track those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2012-08-04T19:38:25.597" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2108" CreationDate="2012-08-05T10:56:18.410" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been looking at the stats, and while there was a bit higher anon voting going on, I don't think there is actually a huge increase of users. The new users looks like a typical day, although perhaps a bit on the higher end. Not sure about compensating for the day of the week, which usually makes a difference. Still, stuff like this tends to increase the google power, and will no doubt result in a few new users at some point in time, but I don't see a huge direct benefit, unfortunately. Of course, you never really know, so... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-08-05T10:56:18.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2111" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-09T14:49:51.690" Score="13" ViewCount="331" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lately there were a number of questions asking for the earliest works containing examples of some specific tropes, or having certain characteristics. As we go back in time, the concept of sci-fi becomes ever blurrier. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The term &quot;science fiction&quot; originates from the middle of the 20th century, but there are works from the late 19th century that most people would consider as a sci-fi: for example, most works from H.G.Wells, and some works from Verne.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the further back in time we go, the closer do these stories start to belong to folk tales, legends, and ultimately mythology. Can we find reasonable threshold which separates fables from sci-fi?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does a story which is older than the term &quot;sci-fi&quot;, but does contain features commonly associated to the genre, count as sci-fi for the sake of this site?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The second part of this question deals specifically with Gulliver's Travels, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/21710/what-was-the-first-scifi-work-that-had-a-biologically-different-intelligent-ra/21753#comment39780_21753&quot;&gt;this is what motivated&lt;/a&gt; me to post this question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arguments against: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it's more of a travellers' tale with satirical fables&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it is not in public consciousness as a sci-fi, but as a tale.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arguments for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The third book (Laputa) features futuristic technology, like flying islands, and has deep discussions about the scientific method. Even in the other books, the protagonist visits non-mythical, non-supernatural locations which do differ greatly from our known world.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wikipedia classifies it as proto science-fiction&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the protagonist is a scientist of sort (he is a medic) and often makes observations about the technology and society of the places he visits.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the points in the &quot;arguments against&quot; are mostly due to the simplified versions of the book, like children's cartoons; the original book has a much more serious tone.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4004" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2012-08-11T20:00:43.580" Title="Does a story which is older than the term &quot;sci-fi&quot;, but does contain features commonly associated to the genre, count as sci-fi?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2111" CreationDate="2012-08-09T17:01:48.130" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say the distinction in works of fiction (namely Science Fiction and Fantasy) with physical impossibilities (or improbabilities) is their explanation of those phenomena. If they claim that advances in science allowed them to do those impossible or improbable things, then it's Science Fiction, regardless of whether it predates the naming of the concept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't, however, describe anything as Science Fiction if it appeared before the modern concepts of Science and the Scientific Method themselves came about, because calling almost anything before them a &quot;scientific explanation&quot; is misleading. It might involve an explanation based on how people thought things worked, and perhaps even as good a scientific education as many writers now have &lt;em&gt;(zing!)&lt;/em&gt; but it seems hard to work just outside the limits of Science before the limits of Science were even defined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8191" LastActivityDate="2012-08-09T17:01:48.130" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2113" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2115" CreationDate="2012-08-09T17:12:32.893" Score="12" ViewCount="349" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw one comment today that (deservedly so) was upvoted to +14 in a couple of hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to find all the &quot;good&quot; - meaning highest-upvoted - comments on the entire site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd strongly prefer an answer NOT involving mining the data dump; though of course if it's impossible in a regular web interface, the data dump query to do this would also be very appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2018-03-28T06:27:03.237" LastActivityDate="2018-03-28T06:27:03.237" Title="How can I find the most upvoted comment(s) on a site?" Tags="|support|comments|search|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2111" CreationDate="2012-08-09T17:50:33.677" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;1) I'd say older works definitely count. &lt;em&gt;Sci-fi&lt;/em&gt; (~1950) is merely one in a chain of terms: &lt;em&gt;science fiction&lt;/em&gt; (1930), &lt;em&gt;scientifiction&lt;/em&gt; (1916), &lt;em&gt;scientific fiction&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;scientific romance&lt;/em&gt; (1845). The terms are closer than siblings -- they are more like clones. It would be impossible to define one of these expressions in a way that excludes the others. Naming and &lt;a href=&quot;http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/definitions_of_sf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;defining the genre&lt;/a&gt; is a game of long standing within the SF community. One of the few things most definers agree on -- beyond &quot;it's fiction with science in it (&lt;em&gt;science&lt;/em&gt; in a very broad sense, perhaps)&quot; -- is that whatever you call it, SF is a &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; fuzzy set. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) Swift's Houyhnhnms are an interesting edge case. There's no SF explanation for how they work. On the other hand, they fit John W. Campbell's demand for &quot;an alien that thinks as well as a man, but not like a man&quot; well enough that they work for both the voters and the original poster. I think that any answer that both the community and the OP agree on is right (at least until they disagree with &lt;em&gt;me&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2258" LastEditorUserId="2258" LastEditDate="2012-08-11T03:18:24.467" LastActivityDate="2012-08-11T03:18:24.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2113" CreationDate="2012-08-09T17:55:01.220" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;You'll have to use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/new&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Data Explorer&lt;/a&gt;.  You can the Comment Score there, and do a sort on that value.  Link from the Comment's PostID to the question or answer that it's a comment &lt;em&gt;of&lt;/em&gt;, and you're all set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/102822&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; is the current highest-voted comment.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/76875/highest-voted-comments&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here's&lt;/a&gt; my query.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/62344/top-25-comments-with-text&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here's&lt;/a&gt; DavRob60's better query that directly links to the posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2018-03-28T05:35:45.613" LastActivityDate="2018-03-28T05:35:45.613" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2095" CreationDate="2012-08-09T20:59:50.963" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jack, you're in charge now.  I upped you to an 'Editor' on the blog, which looks like it gives you all the power to manage your own and others' posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now you need to get to the job of encouraging others to write more stuff for the blog!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-08-09T20:59:50.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2111" CreationDate="2012-08-09T22:08:49.907" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Going by our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/344&quot;&gt;guideline for technothrillers and other works that are borderline SF&lt;/a&gt;, I would say that if the question is about some SF-nal aspect of the work, then it's on-topic. So asking about the depiction of non-human intelligent races is on-topic, even if a work would not be normally considered SF. But discussing the depiction of shipwrecks is off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, philosophical tales where the SF-ness is besides the point are another matter. Talking animals have existed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesop%27s_Fables&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;fables&lt;/a&gt; as far back as we can trace them. This is a gray area; we generally tend to be inclusive, but classical mythology is probably off-topic (and anything that's recognized as religion is right out).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a personal note, I would say that &lt;em&gt;Gulliver's Travels&lt;/em&gt; is not science fiction, because there is no implication that what it depicts may become true. It's more debatable whether it's fantasy: fantasy is something that runs contradictory to some well-known fact about the universe, and it isn't clear whether the impossibility of the existence of sentient horses counted as a well-known fact back in the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2012-08-09T22:08:49.907" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2118" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2120" CreationDate="2012-08-10T20:04:08.237" Score="4" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I've been on the site and learned what is an appropriate form of question and what's not I've done my part to flag questions not appropriate for the site. And most of the questions I flag are quickly closed for the very reason I've flagged them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When questions are closed, the question gets a small box explain why it's closed and who closed it. But I've noticed for the most part my name doesn't show up on the list and I don't get any reputation (there have been one or two times my name does show up and I do get reputation for helping moderate the site so I know you do get rep for helping moderate).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is it determined who gets credit for flagging a question, and why am I not getting credit for helping close inappropriate questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7126" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2012-08-10T20:17:43.073" LastActivityDate="2012-08-10T20:28:25.383" Title="How does getting credit for flagging work?" Tags="|support|closed-questions|closing-questions|flagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2118" CreationDate="2012-08-10T20:16:45.990" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;That box only displays people who &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/privileges/close-questions&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;voted to close&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that question.  Voting to close is a specific action that mods and high-reputation users can do to get questions closed.  It takes 5 high-rep user votes to close a question, or one diamond mod's vote to close a question.  Once a question is closed, it gets that box that describes the reason for closing along with a list of the users who voted to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flagging is an entirely separate mechanism, which is largely a messaging system to the mods and high-rep users to point us towards content that needs our attention.  Flags also have their own feedback mechanism, if you look at your &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/7126/onewho&quot;&gt;profile on the main site&lt;/a&gt;, there's an entry for 'helpful flags', which has a link that lets you see if flags you submitted were accepted or rejected.  As you accumulate sufficient 'helpful' flags, you can earn badges (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/8/citizen-patrol&quot;&gt;at 1 flag&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/65/deputy&quot;&gt;at 80 flags&lt;/a&gt;, and finally &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/71/marshal&quot;&gt;at 500 flags&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2012-08-10T20:28:25.383" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2118" CreationDate="2012-08-10T20:20:08.673" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;You never get any reputation from moderation activities. You only ever get reputation for providing worthwhile content (mainly through upvotes, plus a bonus for an accepted answer, and 2 points for suggested edits that are accepted), plus a small bonus for accepting an answer. The complete list is in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq#reputation&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;. Closing, flagging and other “janitorial” activities do not generate reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You need at least 3000 reputation points to vote to close a question. Since you have fewer points, you cannot vote to close, but you can flag to close instead. Flags to close are visible to users with 10000 reputation points, who can choose to cast a vote. Custom flags (when you enter some text in the box) are only visible to moderators (with a ♦ after their name).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a token of appreciation for flags: if you cast enough flags that are marked as “helpful” (e.g. because you cast a flag to close and the question was subsequently closed), you get a badge: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/65/deputy&quot;&gt;Deputy&lt;/a&gt; then &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/71/marshal&quot;&gt;Marshal&lt;/a&gt;. This site hasn't seen enough flag-worthy content yet to generate many such badges. Other than that, the reward of getting rid of inappropriate content is a cleaner site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2012-08-10T20:20:08.673" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2118" CreationDate="2012-08-10T20:24:31.203" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;To add to what Keen said, you DO get rewarded for correct flagging, by getting badges (as is the case with many useful activities on SE sites):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Citizen Patrol [bronze] - First flagged post &#xA;Deputy         [silver] - Raised 80 helpful flags &#xA;Marshal        [gold]   - Raised 500 helpful flags &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-08-10T20:24:31.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2122" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-11T18:47:39.650" Score="9" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today it seemed many (possibly all) of the stack exchange sites were put into a read only mode.  I first noticed this on stackoverflow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lXYF8.png&quot; alt=&quot;Stackoverflow message&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and the message definitely caught my attention.  Thinking that it might only be for SO I decided to come here and check some stuff out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7EZs1.png&quot; alt=&quot;Much harder to notice&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same thing was happening here. However, I didn't notice this for a while.  Could we possibly make the message more visible so that users can much more easily tell that the site is in read only mode?  SO has a yellow banner that catches the eye.  The message here just sort of blends in and doesn't really even seem like an announcement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I didn't really lose any time today but it did take me a few seconds to realize what was going on.  Once again I don't think the read-one mode notification is noticeable enough.  Can we please do something to make it stand out more?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3837" LastEditorUserId="3837" LastEditDate="2012-10-13T17:15:59.080" LastActivityDate="2012-10-13T17:15:59.080" Title="Can we make read-only mode text more visible?" Tags="|feature-request|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2111" CreationDate="2012-08-11T20:00:43.580" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The site title is &quot;Science Fiction and Fantasy&quot; - most that don't fit Sci-Fi will fit fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One can make a compelling case that Shakespeare was a Fantasy author - by modern standards he'd certainly fit - for A Midsummer Night's Dream, and even for Hamlet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the same token, Wells, Verne, and other Edwardian and Victorian period writers wrote that which is now considered Sci-Fi, some of which now reads more as Fantasy... they got the physics way wrong in their ignorance... But the site title and purpose doesn't have the exclusion of Fantasy from the subject, so it matters little that &quot;From Earth to the Moon&quot; is now Fantasy rather than Sci-Fi - it's within scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1367" LastActivityDate="2012-08-11T20:00:43.580" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2125" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2126" CreationDate="2012-08-15T18:52:32.403" Score="14" ViewCount="428" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often see comments like &quot;Oh no, time travelling robots again&quot; on story identification questions. Why? What's the history behind that? Why is it an issue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tried to search, but haven't found anything definitive, except &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/13915/name-of-a-sci-fi-short-story-about-time-travel-and-robots#comment25801_13915&quot;&gt;this confirmation&lt;/a&gt; that it is indeed an issue!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;So, what is the issue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4495" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2012-08-16T18:37:42.340" Title="What's with the time travelling robots?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2125" CreationDate="2012-08-15T19:21:34.957" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/5404/rondo&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/5404/rondo&lt;/a&gt; - Look at the first revision of pretty much all of his questions.  You don't have enough rep to see the numerous deleted questions he has which all riff on that same theme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2012-08-15T19:21:34.957" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2125" CreationDate="2012-08-15T20:22:16.380" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's one of our first meme, inspired by a local troll : &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/5404/rondo&quot;&gt;Rondo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This user appeared on day asking of list of movies about time traveling robots.&#xA;His post got closed pretty fast because &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq#what-about-other-science-fiction-and-fantasy-related-questions&quot;&gt;questions calling for a list of works are off topic as per our FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, but he came back with variant of the same question until he got suspended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since that, he keep pooping up and ask questions, sometime even a legit one. First, he waited until his suspension end. But since his suspension was increasingly longer, he started using a new account each time, often using an anagram of Rondo. This is annoying because moderators have to manually merge those account. But we are getting used to him as he is easy to spot because he always add his &lt;em&gt;signature&lt;/em&gt; :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/q4D9o.png&quot; alt=&quot;Batman and Rondo&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2012-08-16T18:37:42.340" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2128" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2131" CreationDate="2012-08-18T23:03:47.030" Score="9" ViewCount="547" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm doing a little research project on Harry Potter questions on SFF SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;I would like a list of Harry Potter books, SFF.SE questions and chat comments involving time traveling robots.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am looking to compile a list of several (10-50) of the most interesting/favorite Harry Potter tag questions that &lt;strong&gt;do not have a good canon answer&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, where either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;there's no answer at all, &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;or the best available answer is &quot;Probably this, but it's a guess and only JKR knows for sure&quot;,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;or the best available answer is &quot;this sounds 100% like a real plot hole, but here's a feeble and obviously inadequate attempt to retcon it using in-universe canon&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please post ONE HP question link per answer, and if that question already has answers, try to explain why you feel the answer is canonically inadequate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if there's a Harry Potter question burning in your brain but you didn't ask yet (didn't get to it, or you are 100% sure it's a stupid &quot;plot hole&quot; question with no canon answer), please post it on the main site and link here as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A secret &lt;strike&gt;circle&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strike&gt;army&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strike&gt;set&lt;/strike&gt; cabal of Harry Potter self-appointed &quot;experts&quot; will pick some of the proposed questions for in-depth research, helped in choosing by how much each of the suggestions is voted on in the answers to this meta question (so, in the words of Al Capone, &quot;Vote Early and Vote Often!&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-09-01T20:16:49.763" Title="What Harry Potter questions don't have a good enough **canon** answers?" Tags="|discussion|canon|" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2128" CreationDate="2012-08-19T05:11:54.883" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15335/how-was-the-sword-of-gryffindor-placed-in-the-pond-in-deathly-hallows?rq=1&quot;&gt;How Was the Sword of Gryffindor Placed in the Pond in &lt;em&gt;Deathly Hallows&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the answers given are inadequate per se, it's just that the question can't be sufficiently answered through canon. The exact answer remains unclear as to whether or not Snape was there, near Harry, or if the Patronus could physically carry the sword into the pond (or if Snape placed it in the pond and the Patronus merely showed where it was located.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2012-08-19T05:11:54.883" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2128" CreationDate="2012-08-19T05:13:37.210" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/11051/did-the-creators-of-the-marauders-map-rediscover-lost-magic&quot;&gt;Did the creators of the Marauder&amp;#39;s Map rediscover lost magic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I touched on it on my comment to the answer, but:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No reference for:  &lt;code&gt;Most magic that isn't instantaneous is permanent.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Speculation with (again) no reference:  &lt;code&gt;It's just speculation, but I would assume the map simply relays the information, which is gathered by a spell cast over the castle &amp;amp; grounds itself (James &amp;amp; crew could have done this intentionally, so that their spell would be refreshed whenever the Unplotting spell was).&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It didn't even address the part of the question that caused me to ask it in the first place:  &lt;code&gt;I have a vague memory of either Ron or Hermione commenting on it being unusual that Harry's Invisibility Cloak has worked so well for so long, that the magic normally fizzles out after a few years, once the heard the story about the Deathly Hallows.  What I don't remember was how specific it was to that type of magic.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something that appears contradictory to me, but only because (AFAIK) there isn't a canon reason for the difference:  &lt;code&gt;an invisibility cloak that is struck by a curse can be damaged, and the damaged area no longer provides invisibility.&lt;/code&gt; and yet, &lt;code&gt;The Marauder's Map, however, does get damaged. It is showing wear and tear, and looks very raggedy.&lt;/code&gt; - but it still seems to be working at full strength, since Lupin didn't give any indication it was broken.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2012-08-19T05:13:37.210" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2128" CreationDate="2012-08-19T05:24:16.207" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15443/why-did-quirrell-stutter&quot;&gt;Why Did Quirrel Stutter?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe my answer is correct, and the chosen answer is supposition. No offense to &lt;strong&gt;Silver Fox&lt;/strong&gt; who is, of course, free to pick whichever answer is better to him/her. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm just sayin', though. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2012-08-19T05:24:16.207" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2128" CreationDate="2012-08-19T14:30:06.713" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm lumping these two together because they're so closely related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/14542/where-did-voldemort-find-nagini&quot;&gt;Where Did Voldemort Find Nagini&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/14541/what-kind-of-snake-is-nagini?lq=1&quot;&gt;What Kind of Snake is Nagini&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply, there is no canon information that answers these questions, leaving speculative answers as the only default. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2012-08-19T14:30:06.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2128" CreationDate="2012-08-20T00:53:46.533" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22140/what-would-happen-if-voldemort-was-pushed-through-the-veil-in-the-department-of&quot;&gt;What would happen if Voldemort was pushed through the Veil in the Department of Mysteries before destruction of the horcruxes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has got no canonical answer because of inadequate info available around the topic in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2012-08-20T00:59:22.030" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2128" CreationDate="2012-08-20T00:58:33.343" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5494/can-characters-be-brought-back-in-the-potter-verse-via-time-manipulation&quot;&gt;Can characters be brought back in the Potter-verse via time manipulation?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has got no canonical answer because of inadequate info available around the topic in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2012-08-20T00:58:33.343" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2128" CreationDate="2012-08-20T01:05:56.933" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/18590/what-would-happen-if-all-escape-paths-of-dementors-are-blocked-by-patronus-charm&quot;&gt;What would happen if all escape paths of Dementors are blocked by Patronus Charm?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer to it says that its speculative. Nobody knows that Patronus Charm has negative effect on Dementors or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2012-08-20T01:05:56.933" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2136" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-20T01:23:22.820" Score="1" ViewCount="268" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not a newbie at SE and SFF.SE. I know how and what to post here. But still, I am getting too many downvotes. Why? How to reduce that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2012-08-20T02:28:49.763" LastActivityDate="2012-08-21T01:50:48.310" Title="Why am I getting too many downvotes on my posts?" Tags="|discussion|down-votes|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2136" CreationDate="2012-08-20T03:09:31.930" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been a while since I've had time to watch questions and answers closely, but a few general thoughts would include watching trends.  Are some types of your questions getting more downvotes than others?  And what is different about your questions, when compared to other people's questions?  I don't mean in terms of subject matter, but in how you are asking them and what you say?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2012-08-20T03:09:31.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2136" CreationDate="2012-08-20T03:54:55.490" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's have a look at the negative-scoring posts from the first page of your questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22279/how-to-identify-a-magic-user&quot;&gt;How to identify a magic user?&lt;/a&gt; (Closed)&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22278/how-did-harry-make-glass-disappear-in-london-zoo-without-a-wand&quot;&gt;How did Harry make glass disappear in London zoo without a Wand?&lt;/a&gt; (4 CV)&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Children performing magic before they get wands is covered explicitly several times in canon.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And covered in another question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/21841/why-is-star-trek-movie-reboot-floating-around-kirk&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/21841/why-is-star-trek-movie-reboot-floating-around-kirk&lt;/a&gt; (Closed)&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who else? Kirk is by far the most well known Star Trek captain, and the most likely to get non-trekkies into theaters to see it. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/21811/why-was-command-of-uss-enterprise-ncc-1701-given-to-christopher-pike-from-kirk&quot;&gt;Why was command of USS Enterprise NCC-1701 given to Christopher Pike from Kirk?&lt;/a&gt; (3 CV)&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think you have (at least phrased) this backwards, Kirk replaced Pike. And it seems the answer you were looking for (at least accepted), the alternate timeline, was covered in the movie.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/21136/how-many-times-harry-potter-movies-didnt-follow-books&quot;&gt;How many times Harry Potter movies didn&amp;#39;t follow books?&lt;/a&gt; (Closed)&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Please, list up.&quot; Evidently you don't &quot;know how and what to post here.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And it's a duplicate anyway. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20226/why-did-cage-of-q-need-to-pursue-uss-enterprise-d-with-a-finite-warp-speed&quot;&gt;Why did cage of Q need to pursue USS Enterprise-D with a finite Warp speed?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Clearly it didn't need to go at finite speed, Q doesn't &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; to do anything. But it makes for a better visual effect.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20226/why-did-cage-of-q-need-to-pursue-uss-enterprise-d-with-a-finite-warp-speed#comment36925_20226&quot;&gt;Read and consider this comment&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the downvote tooltip is &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have 3 duplicates, 2 thoroughly covered in canon, obviously those didn't &quot;show any research effort.&quot; And I suspect some downvoting was for &quot;not useful.&quot; And I think people give less slack to users who have been around a while than they might give a newcomer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, I hate to say it but it's likely some of your downvotes were because of your English. I know it isn't your native language, and I'm sure you try hard, but sometimes it can be hard to understand what you're asking.  Users really should try to fix your posts rather than just downvote for this, but it doesn't always happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2012-08-20T04:09:08.953" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2139" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-20T07:19:48.377" Score="2" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I ask a question which is covered by canon, I get downvotes because &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2136/why-am-i-getting-too-many-downvotes-on-my-posts/&quot;&gt;its poorly researched&lt;/a&gt; . Alright. But, when I ask question which isn't covered by canon, it is said that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22140/what-would-happen-if-voldemort-was-pushed-through-the-veil-in-the-department-of&quot;&gt;its not constructive&lt;/a&gt; , so off-topic because speculative answers aren't allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If community has problems with both 0 and 1 of a boolean, what should I ask?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2012-08-24T22:21:09.063" Title="Which type of questions does SFF.SE community expect?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2136" CreationDate="2012-08-20T16:53:02.337" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of them you were just unlucky to encounter crabby users. E.g. people who downvote &lt;strong&gt;duplicate&lt;/strong&gt; questions despite the fact that there doesn't appear to be an obvious way to have known it was a duplicate when asking. That's quite rude, IMHO but you can't escape it. Vote to close, flag, but don't mark it as a BAD question. (this is different if googling for question's title brings the SE dupe as first hit - THEN it's a bad Q).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of them are downvoted - again, IMHO, not very fairly, because &quot;&lt;strong&gt;the answer is obvious if you watched the episode/movie&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;. Again, I think that's both rude, AND &lt;strong&gt;wrong&lt;/strong&gt;. The question's audience is not only those who have perfect memory or obsessively watched some episode 10x times. It could be someone who watched it ways back and doesn't remember details, or didn't watch at all. As I have previously commented to someone who was being an a-hole in the comments on a similar vein, many of THAT user's questions seemed way trivial and idiotic to people very familiar with the works. &quot;Trivial&quot; and &quot;obvious&quot; are too subbjective to be used as a valid reason to DV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-08-20T16:53:02.337" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="97" CreationDate="2012-08-20T22:53:18.723" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently among the Star Trek tags are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-q&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-q&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-q&lt;/a&gt;, for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Q&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Q&lt;/a&gt; and the Q Continuum&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-data&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-data&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-data&lt;/a&gt;, for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Data&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lieutenant Commander Data&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this question has &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22241/why-does-the-doctor-need-so-much-time-to-think-and-do-research&quot;&gt;come up again&lt;/a&gt;, I propose either &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-the-doctor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-the-doctor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-the-doctor&lt;/a&gt; for Star Trek's &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/The_Doctor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the Doctor&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-emh&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-emh&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-emh&lt;/a&gt; to encompass all the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Holographic_program&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Emergency Medical Holograms&lt;/a&gt;, the Doctor included.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2012-08-20T22:53:18.723" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2136" CreationDate="2012-08-21T01:50:48.310" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm posting this as a 2nd answer because it's quite different from my first answer and it only occurred to me after re-reading your question for the fourth or fifth time.  And this may be the root of the issue.  The problem is I'm not good at sugar coating and this answer assumes that since you have asked for a critique of your posts that you're willing to examine what you're doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at two sentences in your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I know how and what to post here. But still, I am getting too many downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're almost contradictory and that's the heart of it.  I know you've been here a good while, but downvotes are the community's way of saying one's posts are less than stellar.  So the very fact that you're getting so many downvotes is an indication you may not know how to post here.  My other answer prompted you with some questions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me if the community is voicing the opinion that your questions are not good, then you may feel you know know how to post, but you are missing something important somewhere along the line.  While we have tried to say what it is, there doesn't seem to be one clear answer yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest taking the downvotes as an indication you are doing something wrong-- and you've started that process by asking for help here, so you're doing something good.  But take it farther.  Look at your posts, then start comparing them to posts with low votes ore multiple downvotes.  Look at unpopular posts and see what makes them unpopular.  Then compare them to your posts for common elements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most would say look at popular and liked posts and do more like that, but I find, in writing, I learn more from looking at bad examples and knowing what not to do than just reading what's good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I've learned a lot from reading Shakespeare, if I want to use all the rules he used, I'd be writing just like he did.  But I can't tell you how much I learned from watching bad writing in &lt;em&gt;Lost in Space&lt;/em&gt; and other shows I liked as a kid but now know are poorly written.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at a great writer and try to be like him or her, you're just imitating, but if you look at bad examples and learn what NOT to do, that still leaves things open for you to find your own style that's good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2012-08-21T01:50:48.310" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2143" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2147" CreationDate="2012-08-21T07:39:58.163" Score="-8" ViewCount="231" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am getting lots of downvotes on my question because its poorly researched (as claimed by downvoters). I want to know how to research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read/watched book/movie decades ago. And, I don't have access to reliable websites to do research. What to do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I leave this community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2012-08-24T23:29:58.907" Title="Google and Wikipedia are blocked by my country. How to research?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="22" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2143" CreationDate="2012-08-21T07:57:02.340" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you tried:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Internet Speculative Fiction Database&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is more to SF&amp;amp;F on the web than Wikipedia and Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="204" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2023-01-29T13:54:16.550" LastActivityDate="2012-08-21T07:57:02.340" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2128" CreationDate="2012-08-21T12:06:10.823" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/12282/1234&quot;&gt;Where were Hagrid and Harry before Harry was left with the Dursleys?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To my knowledge there is no canon information covering this (although I've not read any of the interviews), and the speculative answers counter known canon details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1234" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2012-08-21T12:06:10.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2143" CreationDate="2012-08-21T12:07:34.390" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many proxy sites one can use, as well as VPN sites, such as StrongVPN.com, that allow one to create private connections and tunnels to other sites or to freely access the rest of the Internet.  Some proxy services are free, some have a subscription fee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2012-08-21T12:07:34.390" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2143" CreationDate="2012-08-21T18:23:39.423" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you've permanently moved to this new country that doesn't have access to Google or Wikipedia, that will severely limit the resources that you have available. However, this is the internet we are talking about, &lt;em&gt;you should be able to find other websites/search engines that will aid you in researching an answer&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, every answer has a certain layer of subjectivity, and if you feel that you aren't providing answers that have good enough references, the answer seems simple: &lt;strong&gt;Don't answer them then.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I see for example, a Harry Potter question to which I think there is a canonical answer from the book, but don't have the reference in front of me to be accurate, &lt;strong&gt;I won't answer until I do&lt;/strong&gt;. From your other questions &lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2139/which-type-of-questions-does-sff-se-community-expect&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2136/why-am-i-getting-too-many-downvotes-on-my-posts&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; you're worried about down votes, and from this one particularly about providing accurate research/sources for your answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really this has to be up to you, but it seems like &lt;em&gt;you feel&lt;/em&gt; that &lt;strong&gt;you can't provide decent sources for answers&lt;/strong&gt; anymore, nor do you feel that you can &lt;strong&gt;properly research a question&lt;/strong&gt;. If that is the case, then it is likely that your questions/answers will continue to get &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; down votes. (Keep in mind that as far as rep goes it takes only &lt;strong&gt;one&lt;/strong&gt; up vote to counteract &lt;strong&gt;five&lt;/strong&gt; down votes on an answer.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2143/google-and-wikipedia-are-blocked-by-my-country-how-to-research#comment5123_2143&quot;&gt;your comment&lt;/a&gt; you say that you have are currently in a different country, could you elaborate as far as &lt;em&gt;which country&lt;/em&gt; you are now in? There are plenty of resources available aside from Google or Wikipedia depending on what country you are in. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Search Engine Colossus&lt;/a&gt; has a list of the best available search engines for a large collection of countries, hopefully that will provide you with sufficient resources to continue contributing quality answer/questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2012-08-21T18:23:39.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2148" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-21T18:34:19.737" Score="9" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't necessarily a &quot;feature request&quot;, but concerns more of an inconvenience. I just noticed that when you have a &quot;new response&quot;, i.e. one that you haven't looked at before, in the meta site in your profile page, that the background to the &quot;new response&quot; in order to highlight/distinguish from the &quot;older&quot; responses, is white. Which is a problem...as the text, is also white. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to change this to something else? Maybe just invert the normal background/foreground colors for the highlighting so that the contrast still makes reading possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4383" LastEditorUserId="4257" LastEditDate="2012-10-15T16:31:47.973" LastActivityDate="2012-10-16T01:17:05.520" Title="Can we change the font of the &quot;new responses&quot; in meta.scifi so that it is readable?" Tags="|bug|design|meta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2149" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-22T01:30:12.733" Score="-2" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Prelude&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A downvote is supposed - metaphorically -  to mean that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The poster did something bad/wrong, and needs to be sent a message to stop doing it&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The post is bad and needs to be signalled to the readers to be ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm paraphrasing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, downvoting a question merely because it is duplicate (with caveats listed below) goes against both of those ideas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the poster could not &lt;strong&gt;realistically&lt;/strong&gt; (see below) know it's a duplicate, they didn't do anything &lt;strong&gt;wrong&lt;/strong&gt;. Their &lt;strong&gt;actions&lt;/strong&gt; were not wrong and should not be punished even if the content deserves to be closed. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Duplicate questions - if properly identified and closed as dupes - are sometimes/often not really &quot;bad&quot; content. If the question can be worded in more than one way, a dupe is possibly even GOOD content, since it is likely people would be searching for the information in both of these possible ways. It should still be closed so the answers are all in one place, but it shouldn't be marked as &quot;bad&quot; via downvotes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And since VTCs as duplicate clearly mark the question as a dupe, there's no need for using downvote mechanism to mark the question as &quot;needs to be ignored&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;=============  &#xA;Main proposal&#xA;=============&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, I would like to propose the following simple guidelines/rules on downvoting a question when the &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; problem with the question is that it is a duplicate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the question is identifiable by StackExchange SFF software as a duplicate when posting (e.g. it shows up in a list of &quot;Questions that may already have your answer&quot; when typing it up; or at the top of &quot;Similar Questions&quot; on the right when composing) - then it's a bad question that you didn't put effort in. &lt;strong&gt;Fair game for downvoting&lt;/strong&gt; on the &quot;no research&quot; grounds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EXCEPTION&lt;/strong&gt;: When OP explicitly notes in the Q or comments that he saw possible duplicate lists, evaluated them and gives good reasons why they were not satisfactory to find the answer. Even if the OP is wrong and they really ARE duplicates, the OP did the research and this should &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; be penalized merely for being wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the question is identifiable by obvious search as a duplicate (in other words, you type the subject of the question into Google and an existing SFF.SE question that can reasonably assumed to be a duplicate pops up in top 10 results). &lt;strong&gt;Fair game for downvoting&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EXCEPTION&lt;/strong&gt;: Same as above. If OP explicitly mentions that they did this, found X, Y and Z questions and were not satisfied, they DID their research and should not be punished by downvoting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the question is bad for OTHER reasons that deserve a down-vote, and happens to be a duplicate, you may downvote but please &lt;strong&gt;clearly&lt;/strong&gt; communicate via comments why you are downvoting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In any other case, do NOT downvote a duplicate question.&lt;/strong&gt; Either simply vote to close, or if not enough rep, flag for closing, or post a comment linking to the possible dupe.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To re-iterate, merely commenting &quot;this is a duplicate of X&quot; without explaining how X could have been found by original poster should NOT be valid grounds for down-vote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because Slytherincess probably remembers almost every SFF Harry Potter question by heart, it should not be expected of every user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the community accepts these rules, I even have a suggestion for a possible enforcement mechanism:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you DV for &quot;no research&quot; but don't leave a comment explaining how the OP could have found the duplicate question (I read that question 6 months ago and remember it is NOT a valid explanation), moderators - assuming they have that power - will be petitioned on meta or flags to remove that downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you DV for &quot;other bad reasons&quot; on a duplicate question, but leave no comment explaining why, it will be assumed to be a previous case and will be also petitioned to have the vote removed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We ask StackExchange to develop a &lt;em&gt;script&lt;/em&gt; that deletes &lt;em&gt;all downvotes&lt;/em&gt; from a given question&lt;/strong&gt; (akin to serial downvote reversal one); no matter who cast them; triggerable only by a moderator. Just to be clear - this is not about removing specific user's votes. It's about clearing all of them from a given Q; if meta discussion of it shows that it doesn't deserve downvoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be crystal clear - &quot;doesn't deserve downvoting&quot; here is not a generic &quot;any question's downvotes can be removed by Meta discussion&quot; but very specifically applicable to downvotes cast on duplicate questions because a large amount of users &lt;strong&gt;are not familiar with the guidelines of when a duplicate question should be downvoted&lt;/strong&gt; - in this case, Slytherincess was not aware of it, and she's not exactly a newbie. So were others. &lt;strong&gt;It's a bit of a niche topic, but one that has clear potential to harm and drive away new posters.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="66402" LastEditDate="2017-01-30T04:51:50.793" LastActivityDate="2017-01-30T04:51:50.793" Title="Should we have rules/guidelines for downvotes on duplicate questions?" Tags="|discussion|scope|duplicate-questions|down-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2139" CreationDate="2012-08-22T05:49:36.380" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find that a LOT of downvotes you got - especially on &quot;poorly researched&quot; side - are very subjective and frankly, undeserved. So my advice is, keep posting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Work on iterative improvement. If someone makes a legit objection (and not a useless &quot;you should have known it from seeing the movie&quot; rudeness), ask politiely if they have specific suggestion on what to improve in the question and how. Try to follow them. See if it helps with voting trend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a random example, Pearson (the moderator) usually has had very good editing suggestions for the rare cases I got comments from him, that greatly improve the questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-08-22T05:49:36.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2128" CreationDate="2012-08-22T07:00:25.127" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15702/is-the-hogwarts-express-visible-to-muggles-when-it-travels-across-britain&quot;&gt;Is the Hogwarts express visible to muggles when it travels across Britain?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can non-magical persons see the Hogwarts Express during its journey to and from Hogwarts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4356" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2012-08-22T07:00:25.127" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2149" CreationDate="2012-08-22T07:35:40.547" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Votes are private and it is always, ultimately, up to each person to freely decide whether to upvote or downvote or not vote on each post. The only rule is that your vote about the post and not the user; even that is only enforced in extreme cases (and not by moderators, only developers can do this), since only you can truly know your intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is reasonable to suggest that being a duplicate is not in itself a reason to downvote. Downvotes on questions are supposed to indicate a lack of research, effort, clarity or usefulness; each person decides according to their conscience whether a post is sufficiently lacking to warrant a downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't need any insanely complicated rules around votes on duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators cannot see who downvoted a post and cannot revert any such vote. (Not that we would if we could, but anyway we can't.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Responding to your edit: no, there will not be a moderator tool or anything like that that removes votes on a post based on a meta discussion. If people disagree with the outcome of the meta discussion, they are still free to vote. A meta discussion can decide whether a question remains open (moderators will enforce the community decision if there is a majority and the question does not violate general Stack Exchange rules), it cannot decide about people's upvotes and downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-08-22T11:26:35.903" LastActivityDate="2012-08-22T11:26:35.903" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2128" CreationDate="2012-08-22T14:45:32.060" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/18783/where-did-the-magic-blood-of-the-harry-potter-universe-originate-from&quot;&gt;What is the &quot;Magic Blood&quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a pretty weird question of mine. It got like 3 votes to close and nearly equal up/down votes in the first few hours because there are apparently no clues anywhere to answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was curious about this because the primary antagonist is essentially driven by his quest for magic-blood purity/supremacy, yet any means of actually defining who qualifies as having this &quot;magical blood&quot; is obscure. My assumption was that there must be something more to this, otherwise it dilutes his character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5093" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2012-08-22T14:45:32.060" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2154" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2221" CreationDate="2012-08-22T17:52:14.287" Score="4" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Phantom Menace: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A5OqU.png&quot; alt=&quot;phantom post&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; I have to add some garble garble garble text here, because the site doesn't allow me to post the question, otherwise. Ignore this text here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="4257" LastEditDate="2012-09-05T21:50:59.510" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Old review tool contradicts itself regarding the number of &quot;first questions&quot;" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|review-queue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2023-09-12T14:41:56.063" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2155" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-23T10:57:07.880" Score="11" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite often I see users posting &lt;em&gt;reams&lt;/em&gt; of superfluous information to an answer, after their summary which is sufficient. Often this information is flat, I.e. it does not include reasoning to support their logic, and resembles a Wikipedia article. Here is an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/22468/3804&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This ends up raising the signal-to-noise ratio, I say this because i spent a long time looking round for the 'answer' in the above question. I also feel it pushes other's answers down  behind another poster's wall of text. Obviously this is different for different answers, and should be treated case by case. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we down vote these highly informative but partially irrelevant answers, because of the superfluous noise? Or do we edit out the info we don't need?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I've only given an example from one user, and this isn't something ive seen elsewhere but I think could be nipped in the bud, as i thought succinct answers are more useful to stackexchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2012-08-31T22:58:06.627" Title="What should we do about Wikipedia-like answers?" Tags="|discussion|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2156" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-23T15:23:18.317" Score="10" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that I've been kinda sortof &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2116/1148&quot;&gt;put in charge&lt;/a&gt; of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/?blb=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; I'd like to continue to see contributions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ways you can contribute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Review a science fiction or fantasy work (new or otherwise). This could be tv, movies, comics, books, and merchandise (box sets, or toys).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Write about a recent event, such as if you attended a convention or other specialized function. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Submit a short story+, or a preview chapter from a scifi/fantasy work you have published or are working on. If your submission is lengthy it might be good to break it out and serialize it over a period of time. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;One idea on how a lot of people can contribute a little bit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had an idea for a group contributed short story. Basically, one would start the story (maybe a 1-2 page chapter) then someone else would continue the story, then a third person would continue off that. The evolution of the story could make it fun for people to participate, and it is an opportunity to build something together as part of the scifi.se community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to help even if you won't be able to personally contribute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And hey, if you have other ideas, even if you don't have time to work on them, mention them here, maybe someone else will be able to take your idea and make something from it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;+I've been told that fan fictions based on existing work (such as Star Trek) may pose a legal issue for the StackExchange Network. Please refrain from submitting stories set in a franchise which are not available for license-free use or may be copyright restricted.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2012-08-25T16:28:24.910" Title="Ways that you can contribute to the blog." Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2157" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2158" CreationDate="2012-08-24T12:13:13.523" Score="13" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;After this question was closed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22486/what-star-trek-episode-to-introduce-a-new-viewer&quot;&gt;What Star Trek episode to introduce a new viewer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22486/what-star-trek-episode-to-introduce-a-new-viewer#comment41265_22486&quot;&gt;Wikis&lt;/a&gt; pointed out this question that remained open:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2416/which-discworld-book-to-start-a-newbie-on&quot;&gt;Which Discworld book to start a newbie on&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no doubt those questions are both list questions, as every answer is worth the same and only the argument differs. This would lead into a pool because of the site's mechanics. Also, they could be classified as a personalized recommendation question that is restricted to a series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, as the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22486/what-star-trek-episode-to-introduce-a-new-viewer#comment41205_22486&quot;&gt;op pointed out&lt;/a&gt;, we allow questions about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt;. This is an exception because, in my humble opinion, they fulfill the same criteria. Also, &quot;where to start&quot; question are a subset of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt; questions that ask only for the first item in the order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we, as a community, define &quot;where to start&quot; questions and other exceptions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2013-04-11T18:17:32.577" Title="Should questions about where to start with a series be on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|specific-question|question-quality|suggested-order|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2157" CreationDate="2012-08-24T12:47:12.690" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suggested order questions, including questions about where to start, aren't what we call “list questions”: list questions are questions that call for items on a practically unbounded list. Suggested order questions are explicitly allowed on this site, but this doesn't mean that every suggested order question is automatically ok (similarly, “who is your favorite &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; character” would not be ok even though &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; is on-topic).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this question is a borderline case. I'm certainly not going to apply a moderator vote to it either way (unless it's to implement a consensus achieved on Meta).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MAW74656: I suggest editing your question to make it more precise. Add something about your girlfriend's tastes, so that the answers don't boil down to the answerer's favorite episode. Also, please note that “lead to fun discussion for all” is not what we're here for; this is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/about&quot;&gt;questions and answers site&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq#dontask&quot;&gt;not a discussion forum&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2012-08-24T12:47:12.690" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2157" CreationDate="2012-08-24T14:41:49.570" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Frankly, I see &quot;Which Discworld book to start a newbie on&quot; as worthy of closing on merits as the Star Trek one. Neither provides even remotely enough details to choose between multiple valid orders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only redeeming quality for Pratchett one is that it produced an great answer that picked one (good) criteria (dependency graph); as such, I would strongly recommend that someone either edit the Pratchett question to match that answer, or VTC it as too vague.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as Star Trek one, I already expressed my opinion in the comments. It needs a lot more details explaining how to discriminate between possible first episodes, otherwise it has as many &quot;correct&quot; answer as there are episodes+movies and thus can not be answered in SE Q&amp;amp;A format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-08-24T14:41:49.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2139" CreationDate="2012-08-24T15:45:09.327" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see a lot of questions, but I do notice that you phrase a lot of your questions as &quot;what if&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I shy away from down-voting, the &quot;what if&quot; spin on a question forces it to be less constructive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, your question regarding the result of a group-patronus cast in a sphere around a dementor. Your real question is regarding what happens to a dementor when encountering a patronus. You trivialize what is otherwise a good question by asking for the results of a situation that doesn't even seem remotely likely to happen in canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question about the veil would have been better if it asked what exactly the veil is doing. It's de-valued by asking &quot;what if Voldemort went through the veil?&quot;. Why? Because he never went through and there's no chance for him to in cannon, so it detracts value from the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5093" LastActivityDate="2012-08-24T15:45:09.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2155" CreationDate="2012-08-24T19:43:13.997" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a specific example on how to deal with a specific issue (extra paragraphs that aren't relevant) see here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/22539/976&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/22539/976&lt;/a&gt; - I added a comment stating my suggested edits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would suggest deleting all bullets except #5. That one answers the Q perfectly and the others don't really apply at all. And simply emphacise &quot;4 balls&quot; part in that bullet&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Short, polite, and to the point as far as proposed edits. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is no response for a while (1-2 days) and you feel that the answer would be strongly improved by deletion, edit it yourself; and leave a courtesy comment explaining WHY you did the edit and offering that the user can roll back the edits if they feel that the edits were bad. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far, of all my edits ever to remove extraneous info, the ONLY rollback ever was by Gilles on meta (I still can't figure out why he insisted on answering something I didn't ask, but I'm too tired of arguing)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2012-08-24T19:43:13.997" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2162" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-24T22:14:23.770" Score="6" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;A big thing I try and do is get new users to edit their own questions/answers when its required (and not for instance something inflammatory; I edit myself then.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do this because it gives them a sense of ownership and responsibility over their post, that they may not have due to coming from a standard forum. It's also a lot friendlier than 'forcing' a change to a post that's supposedly 'wrong'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I often see someone else making the edit after I post a comment, and a new user doesn't learn about editing or the responsibilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do people think? Is this worthwhile doing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2012-08-24T22:23:16.097" LastActivityDate="2012-09-03T22:21:31.837" Title="Should we recommend new users to edit their own answers?" Tags="|discussion|editing|new-users|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2139" CreationDate="2012-08-24T22:21:09.063" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think for me, in a subject like speculative fiction these unseen edge cases are rarely worth asking or answering. This is because in quite a few cases the root question has been answered and the question smacks of trying too hard to be imaginitiative, as well as being un-answerable as they aren't coded in canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2012-08-24T22:21:09.063" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2143" CreationDate="2012-08-24T23:29:58.907" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the country you are currently in is blocking websites, and you don't want to use proxies to get around this I see two options that may remain legal:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contact a friend in another country who is able to provide you with information. Or...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Head to a local library to find the local source of information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These could both be an issue if the country has locked down these options as well, but I would certainly move before letting a country's laws force me to leave an online community such as stack exchange, though I know that is a very personal decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2012-08-24T23:29:58.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2162" CreationDate="2012-08-24T23:50:52.767" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As with most things, that depends on the situation. If it's a simple matter of typos, or if they have grammatical errors and appear to have less-than-perfect command of the language, I'd say just take care of it when you notice, it's not worth the trouble. But if you, for instance, wheedle more information out of them in the comments, then I think that's a great opportunity to explain to them that they should edit the new information into their post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2012-08-24T23:50:52.767" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2162" CreationDate="2012-08-25T00:35:45.827" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think you can have a universal rule. First of all, not everyone is a great communicator. Some of us are Slytherincess and some of us are DVK (hint: I'm NOT the great communicator of this set of 2 people :)  I'm experienced and good enough to be able to improve the bad content I might generate with good suggestions; but plenty of people have the same poor communications skills and Just Don't Get It when you try and point how to imprve their content - some because of low IQ, some merely because they aren't experienced enough (It took me ~1 year at $work to teach a junior partner to not sound in written communication like he's a complete moron - and he is extremely sharp and knowlegeable under all that lack of verbal skills).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'm trying to ramble on here is the fact that you should always TRY to suggest improvements, but you can't always realistically expect the suggestion to be acted upon, for different reason (lack of care, lack of interest, lack of skills, lack of understanding etc...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;First try to comment and suggest improvements. That will catch and teach those who ARE teachable. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then edit yourself after a time period, with a polite comment explaining the edit. That will teach those who have good intentions but not the skill (since second best way to learn to communicate well - after Jeff Atwood's patented way of writing - is reading good edits).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Profit!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-08-25T00:35:45.827" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2167" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-25T14:42:32.503" Score="8" ViewCount="230" Body="&lt;p&gt;The idea of the general reference close reason is that we don't need to duplicate well-known databases of facts such as Wikipedia or IMDB. In an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/403/what-are-standard-internet-reference-sites-for-sf&quot;&gt;earlier meta thread&lt;/a&gt;, we determined that three standard Internet reference sites are &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ISFDB&lt;/a&gt;, and that we consider these sites to be well-known and reliable enough that we don't need to duplicate their content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia and IMDB are certainly well-known, but ISFDB less so. Still, this doesn't preclude closing ISFDB lookup questions as GR, as long as we indicate where to find the information in a comment. After all, the point of GR is not to duplicate easily accessible information (such as “Which collection contains this short story?”), and ISFDB is easily accessible once you've heard of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now what about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22565/what-collection-of-short-stories-contained-the-mother-of-invention-about-an-ant&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;? It was slightly more that “which collection contains this short story”, since there are 4 short stories with the same title. A simple Google search finds which one it is, though, so I don't see that much point in having the question on the site. If the asker had known about ISFDB, he would probably have been able to determine which story he was remembering — maybe the author name alone would have rung a bell. (Roger, what do you think?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I closed the question as GR and gave the easily-found answer in a comment, but I don't necessarily think this should be a policy in such cases. Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2023-01-29T13:54:16.550" LastActivityDate="2012-08-25T19:30:31.900" Title="Questions that can be answered with ISFDB (or barely more)" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|general-reference|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2156" CreationDate="2012-08-25T16:28:24.910" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've reccently watched all of Supernatural, I would love to do a multi-part combined blog with other users about the seasons, perhaps one decent post per season? What do other fans of supernatural think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a side note, if a post it here are there any restrictions on where else to post the blogs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2012-08-25T16:28:24.910" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2167" CreationDate="2012-08-25T19:30:31.900" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, ISFDB-answerable questions shouldn't be closed, I think. ISFDB is a couple of steps down from IMDB in the hierarchy of common knowledge: first, ISFDB is for print storytelling rather than film; second, it's about a &lt;em&gt;specialized&lt;/em&gt; type of print storytelling. Here are some numbers to back it up: Wikipedia has a Google Pagerank of 9; IMDB's is 8; ISFDB's is only 5. So, it's a little sad when a user doesn't know about ISFBD, but it shouldn't be surprising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, I think the question in question should have stayed open. The story-identification part is general reference, as your comment showed. But the question as a whole isn't GR, for two reasons. First, ISFDB isn't general reference (as I argued above). Second, the question is more complex than those the FAQ dislikes (which can be &quot;answered by a single link&quot;), since the answer requires two searches. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2258" LastActivityDate="2012-08-25T19:30:31.900" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2170" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-27T13:19:30.047" Score="12" ViewCount="205" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have several questions on SFF which are of the form:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is the work/example that is &quot;QUALITY-iest&quot; for a given objective property.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &quot;What is the earliest SciFi book about X&quot;, or &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/328/what-is-the-largest-engineered-physical-object-dreamed-of-in-science-fiction&quot;&gt;&quot;What is the largest (engineered) physical object dreamed of in science fiction?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While in an out of themselves they are good questions, they have an annoying quality:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They may have an absolutely correct answer&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;BUT, in the process of discovering such an answer, many intermediate &quot;best found so far&quot; answers are posted.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Many if not most of those intermediate answers are 100% invalidated by a later posted examples&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, for an &quot;earliest&quot; type question, someone posts a work from 1970. Then, someone else finds a work from 1963. Finally, someone else finds a work from 1923.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;QUESTION: What should be done about those earlier, currently-clearly-wrong, answers?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The options are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leave them alone and let the correct &quot;MOST-iest&quot; answer be upvoted to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Downvote them. This seems somewhat unfair to the posters, since at the time of their posting, they were the best answers. &#xA;Therefore, this should be done very discriminately - for example, if a better answer was a simple Google search and TVTropes/Wiki article away, downvote is OK.&#xA;This should have an exception for good quality answers that have useful information.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;More drastically, prune them. Delete them completely.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Same as #3 (delete), BUT post a collected union of &quot;could have been a contender&quot; information either as a separate &quot;Community owned&quot; answer; or as an addendum to the correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have a strong preference for either of #1-4 (but I strongly prefer #4 instead of #3); but think that we should have a community standard policy that can be referred to by people who wish to do the cleanup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2012-08-28T15:49:49.143" Title="Should the questions that ask for &quot;The SOMETHING-est&quot; answer have their answers cleaned up?" Tags="|discussion|scope|editing|clean-up|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2170" CreationDate="2012-08-27T14:14:44.530" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I vote for option 1. Who's with me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no clutter if the accepted answer is directly below the question. The other answers are just added info on the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5093" LastActivityDate="2012-08-27T14:14:44.530" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2162" CreationDate="2012-08-27T14:16:14.810" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that we should, whenever it's possible and the edit would not be to drastic, just edit the post and leave a comment to the user that explain why his post was edited, encourage him to do it himself next time, and mention they he could rollback or edit it further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is we have expectations that are not obvious for a new user. Asking a user to edit his own post is something akin to making him jump into a loop. An example: suggesting editing a question to make it &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; on topic could lead to false hope because there is no grantee the edit &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; make the post on topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editing the post ourself is leading by example. If you ask of precision in a comment, and the user gave the information in an other comment, it's simpler to edit the post and instruct the user to directly do so the next time : &lt;em&gt;See, this is how we jump into a loop here, try to do this next time.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2012-08-27T14:16:14.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1138" CreationDate="2012-08-27T14:44:58.110" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Transformers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, anyone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a huge amount of material and it will help draw in new fans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2012-08-27T14:44:58.110" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-08-27T14:44:58.110" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2174" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2191" CreationDate="2012-08-27T15:36:28.390" Score="7" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;At some point, Stack the company seemed to have an attempt to have community liaisons for all of the sites. My impression was that Brett White was SFF point of contact though I could be wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is such a policy still in place? If so, who is the current liaison for SFF and how can they be contacted if it's not Brett?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T22:24:04.257" Title="Who is the community liaison for SFF from SE?" Tags="|support|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2175" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2177" CreationDate="2012-08-27T15:47:42.083" Score="4" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to pitch an idea to &quot;SFF management&quot;, so to speak - presumably, the moderators + SFF community liaison from StackExchange (assuming one still exists).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would be an appropriate mechanism for doing so privately&lt;sup&gt;[1]&lt;/sup&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought about using a moderator flag but that'd be a wrong tool AND is too limited (text size) for reasonable communication.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a separate note, if &quot;management&quot; should be a different set of people, please include that in the answer as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;[1] - I don't want to subject myself to public ridicule if the idea is shot down :)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt; - Apologies for confusion, the idea is mostly in the area of site promotion, which is why my emphasis is on Stack Exchange discussion as oppose to meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2012-08-27T17:37:48.800" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="What is the appropriate mechanism to reach SFF &quot;management&quot;?" Tags="|support|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2175" CreationDate="2012-08-27T16:43:18.327" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, let's talk about some potential problems, and what the proper thing to do about them is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New idea-&lt;/strong&gt; Ultimately, any new idea should be passed on through the meta site, at least one coming from users. It might be a good idea to flesh it out, especially if it is rather complex. I suggest that one brings it up in the chatroom in that case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Problem question&lt;/strong&gt; Just flag it, and a moderator will assist as best as we can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Problem user&lt;/strong&gt; There might be a need to discuss a problem with a user. The best thing in this case seems to be to set up a message in chat, and ask a moderator. We are all there pretty often, and can be there sooner if needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Problem moderator&lt;/strong&gt; I hope this isn't the case here, but there are mechanisms to reach stack exchange employees. I would suggest that you find a friendly moderator on another site and discuss the situation, if there is a legitimate problem. Still, I would start with a meta post to understand what is going on. Only if there was some extreme action, which is very unlikely to be just one moderator, would it be worth a single user talking directly to stack exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, that while Stack Exchange gets the money, and writes the checks, this is really owned in most senses by the community. The community needs to be involved in changes, as much as can be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-08-27T16:43:18.327" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2175" CreationDate="2012-08-27T16:53:52.800" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no easy way to reach the moderators privately except for flagging. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To get someone from SE, write a mail to team@stackexchange.com. This will reach someone from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/99338/who-are-the-community-managers-and-what-do-they-do&quot;&gt;the community team&lt;/a&gt; (Aarthi, Shog9, Grace Note, Anna Lear, Robert Cartaino and Jaydles). If it is related to promoting the site, it might be forwarded to CHAOS. There is no specific liasion for each site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you want to propose a feature, the community team will almost certainly just tell you to put it up on meta. They usually want to gather the opinion of the community before acting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user496" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2012-08-27T17:01:58.390" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2175" CreationDate="2012-08-27T17:02:25.470" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can request a moderator make a private room for you + the moderator(s), but this is a tool that's only supposed to be used for real &lt;em&gt;issues of moderation&lt;/em&gt; such as suspected sockpuppets or other user abuse that can't easily be described in a single flag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you just have an idea I'd post it up on Meta so everyone can see and evaluate it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3255" LastActivityDate="2012-08-27T17:02:25.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2179" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2180" CreationDate="2012-08-27T17:55:22.263" Score="6" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a closed question has zero redeeming value and bad content, is it encouraged that high-rep users vote to delete it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example: &quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22624/world-with-words-of-power/22627#comment41528_22627&quot;&gt;world with words of power&lt;/a&gt; &quot; (which Gorchestopher H correctly identified as 100% dupe).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, is there a way to promote that? (I mean in the sense of promoting the knowledge among high rep users that they CAN do so and should).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I ask is that I can see pretty reliably that high rep users vote to close bad questions; but very rarely see anyone but me vote to delete them (based on my always being delete vote #1 - I admit to not ever monitoring &quot;delete votes&quot; moderator tool queue so I could be wrong).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to be clear, this question is under assumption that the question is unambiguously and unquestionably bad; can not and should not be fixed, and contains zero useful information in either question or the answers (meaning no need to ask moderators to merge). It is NOT intended as grounds to discuss which questions are worth deleting vs. not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2013-01-27T05:59:34.783" Title="Should high-rep users vote to delete bad closed questions?" Tags="|discussion|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2179" CreationDate="2012-08-27T18:01:05.873" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think anything needs to be done.  IIRC, you're notified when you earn new privileges on a SE site.  And the page for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/privileges/moderator-tools&quot;&gt;this privilege states&lt;/a&gt; pretty thoroughly when people should vote to delete.  It also touches on the tools that let 10k+ users know when someone's placed a delete vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2012-08-27T18:01:05.873" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2170" CreationDate="2012-08-28T04:47:37.917" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If this site is about answering questions, especially those that have correct answers... why would we want to discourage them because it's often difficult to answer them correctly on the first try?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're looking at the &quot;best answer at the times&quot; as if they are wrong. This is a poor perspective though. What they are is a foundation for a later correct answer. As a collective mentality, we're essentially narrowing down the possibilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may make it difficult to decide who scores points, but then, are we here to score points or are we here to come up with good answers? I was under the impression we're doing the latter, in which case the difficulty of good scoring systems is moot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7603" LastActivityDate="2012-08-28T04:47:37.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2170" CreationDate="2012-08-28T08:48:41.680" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a bit backwards. If I ask for the maximum of a collection and you say it's &lt;code&gt;x&lt;/code&gt;, your answer is hogwash unless you prove it. Any unproven claim &quot;answering&quot; the question is useless and should be voted down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's as simple as that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastActivityDate="2012-08-28T08:48:41.680" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2170" CreationDate="2012-08-28T15:44:13.533" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2182/366&quot;&gt;bitmask mostly has it&lt;/a&gt; in that we shouldn't be up-voting answers that can't prove they are correct to begin with, although I think it's a &lt;em&gt;little&lt;/em&gt; more complicated than that. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All answers to these types of questions should be verifiable in principle: either &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt; is the &lt;em&gt;Y&lt;/em&gt;-iest &lt;em&gt;Y&lt;/em&gt; that ever did &lt;em&gt;Y&lt;/em&gt; or it's not. Backing up a claim made in an answer by providing evidence of the claim goes a long way in verifying the answer is, in fact, correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an answer doesn't provide that, it's up to the answer to be obvious: no reasonable person, presented with the answer, would claim that the answer is wrong. This is high bar to reach: if a question is so trivial that there's no point in providing any reason why the correct answer is, in fact, correct, it would seem it'd fall under general reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an answer is non-obvious and has not provided any reasons to believe it is correct or evidence to test its correctness, it should be down-voted not because it's potentially incorrect (it could just as well be correct), but because it's not useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that leads to the question itself: if a &quot;question&quot; asks something that can only be answered by guessing, it's not a real question. If it's not at all possible to definitively answer a question &lt;em&gt;the first try&lt;/em&gt; (never mind whether someone does), &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot;&gt;there's a problem with the question&lt;/a&gt;. We don't provide value by taking random stabs in the dark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Insisting on proof and verification should minimize this issue, but I do agree there are potential cases where an answer is no longer correct even though they provided cogent reasons for believing in its correctness (a benign example would be &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt; being the largest structure in a published work until &lt;em&gt;Y&lt;/em&gt; comes out in 2013, which features &lt;em&gt;Z&lt;/em&gt; that's 10 times larger than &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In cases like these, there are only two options, which most closely resemble your first option:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit the top-voted or accepted answer to be correct (ask for CW conversion if it's necessary)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add a new answer that explains why the accepted or top-voted answer is incorrect and explains what the correct answer is&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deleting answers merely because they're now incorrect is opening a can of worms that's discouraged on all sites except for I think Skeptics, which is entirely based around debunking spurious claims and has &lt;a href=&quot;https://skeptics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1054/guidelines-for-inadequately-referenced-answers&quot;&gt;a rigorous &quot;back it up&quot; policy&lt;/a&gt; to begin with. Only diamond moderators have the ability to delete up-voted and accepted answers, and they shouldn't be in the business of deciding which otherwise community-approved answers are correct and which aren't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Down-voting is a personal action, and the guidance is whether or not one thinks a post is &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt;, not necessarily whether one thinks the post is correct. If one thinks that a now-incorrect post is useful for whatever reason, they should vote it up. Otherwise, if they think it's not, they should vote it down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in a lot of cases, particularly in the scenario of &quot;this answer was once correct but is no longer&quot;, people would've already voted and their votes would be locked until the post is edited again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2012-08-28T15:49:49.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1138" CreationDate="2012-08-29T09:21:15.767" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Surprised &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_who&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; has not been added here. A new series is starting and it appears to be at a peak of popularity. This would certainly attract more people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2012-08-29T09:21:15.767" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-08-29T09:21:15.767" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2185" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-29T10:49:24.947" Score="2" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/671/should-we-tag-story-identification-questions-with-the-name-of-the-author&quot;&gt;Should we tag story identification questions with the name of the author?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@MajorStackings asked in chat:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Quick question: Once a story identification question gets answered, should additional tags be added for future reference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2012-08-29T10:49:24.947" Title="Should [story-identification] Qs with correct answer be post-tagged with author's tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|story-identification|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2012-08-29T11:26:20.693" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2186" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2187" CreationDate="2012-08-29T16:12:39.067" Score="2" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2156/ways-that-you-can-contribute-to-the-blog&quot;&gt;Ways that you can contribute to the blog.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have found on this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22676/what-is-written-on-darth-vaders-chest-control-panel&quot;&gt;What is written on Darth Vader&amp;#39;s Chest control panel?&lt;/a&gt; that a member of this site has wrote a blog post for this site. Who has such permissions? And, how to get that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2012-08-29T23:55:52.063" Title="How to get permission to write in SFF.SE blog?" Tags="|support|blog|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2012-08-29T18:59:27.983" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2186" CreationDate="2012-08-29T16:30:04.130" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a link at the top of the blog called &quot;contribute&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/contribute/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/contribute/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2012-08-29T16:30:04.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2188" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2189" CreationDate="2012-08-30T00:26:31.987" Score="0" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have one non-wiki question with a score of 8 and one non-wiki answer with a score of 4. The display shows 4 tags (x2). Could someone please explain what this means?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6635" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-08-30T00:33:23.970" LastActivityDate="2012-08-30T00:33:23.970" Title="How are tag totals calculated?" Tags="|support|tags|site-statistics|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2188" CreationDate="2012-08-30T00:33:16.730" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You mean entries like “4 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; ×2” in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/6635/chetter-hummin?tab=tags&quot;&gt;the tags tab in your profile&lt;/a&gt;? The tooltip has more details:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Asked 1 non-wiki questions with a total score of 8.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Answered 1 non-wiki questions with a total score of 4.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The number on the left is the total score of your non-wiki answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2 posts in the star-wars tag&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The number on the right is the number of posts, whether questions or answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2012-08-30T00:33:16.730" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2128" CreationDate="2012-08-30T18:22:08.370" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22763/can-the-unforgivable-curses-be-done-non-verbally/22766#comment41943_22766&quot;&gt;Can the Unforgivable Curses be Done Non-Verbally?&#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have answered with a very strong possibility but it is not 100% iron-tight - it is heavily based on JKR's written precision (e.g. she always writes when someone vebalizes the A.K. or other Unforgivable and did not do so here).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2012-08-30T18:22:08.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2174" CreationDate="2012-08-30T22:06:04.410" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The community team splits the sites in the network among themselves, but these assignments change over time so we avoid publicizing the specific CM. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To reach us, post here on meta, grab a moderator to ask them to contact us, or use the contact form linked at the bottom of any page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4257" LastEditorUserId="4257" LastEditDate="2014-12-23T22:24:04.257" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T22:24:04.257" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2192" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-30T22:32:02.633" Score="1" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I look at myself under the user's tab, I can see my top tags (how're they calculated, by votes?) for that period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HkHUn.png&quot; alt=&quot;My weekly tags: Legend-of-zelda, Doctor-who, harry-potter&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are my top tags for this week (starting 27/8/12).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I view these elsewhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-08-30T22:32:53.037" LastActivityDate="2012-08-30T22:32:53.037" Title="How can I view my top tags by period of time?" Tags="|discussion|support|tags|profile-page|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2194" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-31T19:42:40.170" Score="7" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1138/3804&quot;&gt;We no longer have a topic of the week that is funded or supported by Stack Exchange.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would people support a community driven Topic of the week?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;I would support this move but I fear I couldn't take the lead on it.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would peole prefer a Topic of the month?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;I would support this move and would take the lead on it, or any well spaced out period, 2-weeks, every other, 15 days....etc.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-09-04T00:01:36.160" Title="Do we still want a (community driven) Topic of the Week/Month?" Tags="|discussion|community|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2194" CreationDate="2012-08-31T19:44:29.107" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I prefer a Topic of the Week, as it allows a more driven focused topic, despite the need for more people to maintain such a construct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If I am not opposed to some weeks being skipped, I will leave a comment mentioning as such below&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2012-08-31T19:44:29.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2194" CreationDate="2012-08-31T19:45:33.790" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I prefer a Topic of the Bi-Week.  Having two weeks to post questions gives people more chance to rewatch/reread/etc the works in question and get some questions or high-quality answers posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-08-31T19:45:33.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2194" CreationDate="2012-08-31T19:45:48.230" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I prefer a Topic of the Month, as it allows a slower pace to the competition where we can spend longer on a topic, and would allow one sole person to maintain it more easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2012-08-31T19:45:48.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2194" CreationDate="2012-08-31T21:27:14.277" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't want Topics of anything. I realize participation is completely optional, and that I don't &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to take part in any contests if I don't want to. It's just that I think SF topics should be driven by the asker's natural interests, not by an external motivation such as winning a contest (even if there is no material prize, and even if the contest is community-driven -- but see below).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is, I should ask about &quot;time-travelling robots&quot; (sorry, inside joke) because I just watched a movie or read a book about them, not because they are the topic of the week or month. I shouldn't be artificially encouraged to ask about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I especially dislike when StackExchange staffers, CHAOS or whatever they are named -- especially those with no natural interest on SF -- decide to &quot;mix it up&quot; and start a, say, Futurama contest or month or minisite or whatever. We are not children. We don't need external encouragement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, that's just my preference. If contests are reactivated, they won't spoil this website for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="770" LastActivityDate="2012-08-31T21:27:14.277" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2155" CreationDate="2012-08-31T22:58:06.627" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, let me wear my moderator hat and make a few general statements:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When you discuss a post on meta, leave a comment&lt;/strong&gt; on that post to notify the author and other interested parties.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Editing out 80% of an answer is generally considered vandalism.&lt;/strong&gt; There are edge cases where it can be appropriate (for example, editing out plagiarized content, or editing out irrelevant material from a community wiki post), but most of the time, it would be abuse. Authors are entitled to their style, even if that includes droning on.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you flag a long answer, don't flag it as “not an answer”, as our (moderators') reaction is likely to be that you must have flagged the wrong post. Use a custom flag to explain how this answer &lt;strong&gt;does not address the question at all&lt;/strong&gt;. Remember that the moderator may not be familiar with the material being discussed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderator hat off now, speaking as a member of the community (both of this site, and of Stack Exchange in general).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What you consider irrelevant material may be what other people consider interesting side remarks&lt;/strong&gt;. An encyclopedic (but relevant) answer is what we strive for; a two-line answer is what we make do with sometimes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think an answer is &lt;strong&gt;completely&lt;/strong&gt; irrelevant, flag it for deletion (with a custom message, see above).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think that an answer contains some relevant material but that it's buried under other considerations, feel free to edit that answer to make it easier to locate the directly-relevant material. Do not edit the side notes out! Use linking words, paragraph breaks, titles, emphasis and other language and presentation tools intelligently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't feel up to the task of editing, leave a comment stating that you had a hard time reading the answer in the context of the question, and explain the kind of editing you'd like the author to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think that an answer is correct but very badly written, it's a valid reason for downvoting. Please leave a comment explaining why you downvote, and ideally come back after a couple of days and change your vote if the author has improved the answer to your satisfaction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-08-31T22:58:06.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2194" CreationDate="2012-08-31T23:33:31.523" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am actually fairly indifferent as to whether or not Topic of the Week/Biweek/Month continues. I think it's fine if we continue with it; I think it's equally fine if we let questions roll in more organically. I did like getting a prize the one week I won (&lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;), but I would have fun competing for points and props just as much. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2012-08-31T23:33:31.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2202" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-01T00:30:40.390" Score="8" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking over my flags and I noticed two of these flags were declined:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3eT7B.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you find the post, the answers have since been deleted. Is this why they were declined? Or is it something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-09-01T00:52:11.463" LastActivityDate="2012-09-01T00:52:11.463" Title="Why did my flags get declined?" Tags="|discussion|support|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2202" CreationDate="2012-09-01T00:52:02.820" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh boy, the Futurama event.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both of these answers had several flags, some “very low quality” and some “not an answer”. Neither had any comments. Neither had any downvotes (Shawn's had one by the time it was deleted — mine).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I agree with “very low quality”, but it's not at all obvious that they are “not an answer”. They offer very convoluted explanations, but with Futurama, the correct answer is also usually pretty convoluted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you flag a post that looks like it may plausibly be an answer, you need to say more than just “not an answer”. On, say, a &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; question, it's possible to tell a joke answer from a plausible-looking answer, even if you aren't familiar with the material. On a &lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt; question, it's not possible. So please leave a few words to say that the answer is completely made up, either in a comment or in your flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, downvote. Completely wrong answers are supposed to be downvoted, not deleted. &lt;em&gt;Noise&lt;/em&gt; answers are supposed to be deleted. When distinguishing noise answers from wrong answers is difficult, remember that the moderator may be unfamiliar with the work being discussed: give us enough information to confirm that this is indeed a noise answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know your flags were VLQ and not NaA. We can't dismiss flags separately, we have to pick a reason that applies to all the flags. So the VLQ flags got caught up with the NaA flags. VLQ is a difficult flag to handle anyway: what's a moderator supposed to do about that? There's been talk of doing away with VLQ flags on the main Meta, it has neither been done nor declined as far as I remember. So please avoid VLQ¹ and instead use a custom flag reason to indicate what you want moderators to do with the post and why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Declined flags aren't a slap on the face, they aren't even a slap on the wrist. They're the way a moderator can provide feedback on the flag to tell you that sorry, but we can't do what you asked us to do, or we disagree with this particular case. Don't sweat it. A declined flag is just that, there's no penalty attached.²&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &lt;sub&gt; On Stack Overflow, VLQ is useful because it's a canned flag, and canned flag are seen by users with 10k reputation and they can take action on the flagged post. With thousands of flags per day, having the community take care of as much of them as possible is important. On this site, moderators can handle all the flags anyway, so don't refrain from using custom reasons. &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;² &lt;sub&gt; If you have a lot of flags declined — and by a lot, I mean consistently more declined than helpful for a while, your flags may end up being ignored. You're likely to receive a moderator message first, asking you to use flags more carefully. This has never happened on this site so far, not even close. &lt;/sub&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-09-01T00:52:02.820" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2128" CreationDate="2012-09-01T14:04:12.780" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/22871/3804&quot;&gt;In the Horcrux Cave, was the Aguamenti spell too fundamentally weak to work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently has no canon answer (as far as DVK seems to know, see his &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22871/in-the-horcrux-cave-was-the-aguamenti-spell-too-fundamentally-weak-to-work#comment42129_22871&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2012-09-01T14:04:12.780" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1138" CreationDate="2012-09-01T14:28:44.750" Score="0" Body="&lt;h1&gt;R.A. Salvatore, Mercedes Lackey, Anne/Todd McCaffrey&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Prolific writers with lots of material. I want more fantasy. Icewind Dale anyone? Spine of the World; Hawk brothers; Crystal Singer and brain/brawn ships... drow elves, griffons, companions, fire-lizards...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8530" LastActivityDate="2012-09-01T14:28:44.750" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-09-01T14:28:44.750" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2128" CreationDate="2012-09-01T20:16:49.763" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A bunch of questions about relationship between spell effects, spell incantations, and intentions (e.g. , we have spells cast without knowing what they do like Sectusempura, we have spells cast non-verbally &lt;strong&gt;without knowing&lt;/strong&gt; the incantation, yet we also have Wingardium Leviosa not working unless you pronounce correctly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/14676/what-wording-did-witches-and-wizards-in-other-cultures-use-for-spells&quot;&gt;What Wording Did Witches and Wizards in Other Cultures Use for Spells?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5078/can-wizards-create-their-own-spells&quot;&gt;Can wizards create their own spells?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22875/incantation-of-a-spell-in-hp&quot;&gt;What is the link between the spoken incantation and the casting of a spell in Harry Potter?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2012-09-01T20:16:49.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2194" CreationDate="2012-09-01T23:20:27.857" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd prefer periodic targeted Topics, corresponding to particular &quot;events&quot;, i.e. popular movie releases, book releases, comic events, etc.  A Topic a week or other regular time periods generally leads to a degradation of quality and/or a lack of motivation over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:  Since this seems to be appealing, my suggestion on managing this would be to have a community wiki question where people can add their suggestions plus dates for upcoming sci-fi/fantasy release events as answers and if they get voted above a certain threshold, to migrate those into the question similar to the old Topic of the Week post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4056" LastEditorUserId="4056" LastEditDate="2012-09-04T00:01:36.160" LastActivityDate="2012-09-04T00:01:36.160" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2194" CreationDate="2012-09-02T00:13:35.210" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;I prefer not doing Topic of the &lt;em&gt;insert time period&lt;/em&gt;.  It invites posting low-quality questions in an effort to get into the ballot so that you have a chance to win.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not the same as Slytherincess's post, which is about being indifferent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastActivityDate="2012-09-02T00:13:35.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2194" CreationDate="2012-09-02T06:51:46.027" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like a topic of the month. It gives people time to mull things over and let thoughts come to the surface without feeling like you have to spazmodically post something right away. It would also let people have time to do some research on a topic, learn more about something and then ask questions that are genuinely interesting to them, rather than shooting off a basic question - fast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I'd just like to say that 'topics of the month' (or whenever u decide to do them) are a good way to get newbies involved. They generate a feeling of 'safe territory' and encourage people to try their hand at asking a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8530" LastActivityDate="2012-09-02T06:51:46.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2210" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-03T04:46:02.077" Score="20" ViewCount="258" Body="&lt;p&gt;Arqade has the ability to embed YouTube clips within a post as long as the YouTube video appears on a line by itself (&lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/q/35031/3389&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Searching about, I found &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=url:%22*.youtube.com*%22&quot;&gt;162 posts&lt;/a&gt; that reference &quot;*.youtube.com&quot; and another &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=url:%22*youtu.be*%22&quot;&gt;21 posts&lt;/a&gt; that reference YouTube's URL shortener, youtu.be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to get this embedding functionality here? It shouldn't be any more disruptive than post imagery, which is pretty well accepted here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2013-01-22T23:41:06.713" Title="Could we get YouTube embedding?" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2194" CreationDate="2012-09-03T22:06:08.987" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Schedule&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose a modified topic of the Bi-Week, similar but not identical to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2196/2565&quot;&gt;Keen's suggestion&lt;/a&gt;: every other two weeks (that is two weeks with contest and then two weeks without). I would call it Topic of the Month, at four weeks are roughly a month (we could start the new topics on the first day of a given month).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Rules&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, winners (and I think there should keep this tradition) are determined not by question count, but &lt;strong&gt;by total score&lt;/strong&gt; of non-closed questions. That is, if I ask a question on the current topic which gets a score of 7 and one with a score of -2, my entry will be a 5. Somebody who asks a question with score 6, will still beat me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Reward&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The winner wouldn't receive a prize, but be displayed during the two weeks without contest in e.g. the bulletin box like &lt;code&gt;Arthur Dent won the Topic of the Month&lt;/code&gt; or something like that. I'm open for suggestions :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-09-03T22:06:08.987" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2162" CreationDate="2012-09-03T22:21:31.837" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not editing yourself can also backfire. It's better to learn that this site is community edited and that users &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; help others by improving their post and that the original poster does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; own their post. They are asked to feel responsible for it to the extent of accepting good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have encountered new users who were put off (or maybe just confused) by other users editing their posts. We shouldn't enforce this attitude by suggesting edits by leaving comments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastActivityDate="2012-09-03T22:21:31.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2148" CreationDate="2012-09-05T10:20:43.057" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to catalog the other places the highlight text exhibits the same problem, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/editing-help#comment-formatting&quot;&gt;in the comments&lt;/a&gt;, you mentioned the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/editing-help#bare-urls&quot;&gt;Markdown Help page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UobB4.png&quot; alt=&quot;example of Markdown Help higlight&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it also happens &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/faq#dontask&quot;&gt;when a FAQ section is highlighted&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mOzJY.png&quot; alt=&quot;example of FAQ section highlight&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the help text at the top of pages in the new review system:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ndJM0.png&quot; alt=&quot;Review system help text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/review-beta/close/stats&quot;&gt;stats summary&lt;/a&gt; for the new review system:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ple2X.png&quot; alt=&quot;Stats summary for review&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2012-10-16T01:17:05.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="991" CreationDate="2012-09-05T18:19:41.993" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/contribute/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QPhdJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Submit to the blog and the Doctor will be spared&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2012-09-05T18:19:41.993" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="991" CreationDate="2012-09-05T18:23:43.413" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/contribute/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CkEGL.png&quot; alt=&quot;Contribute to the blog, or Silence will fall&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="45" LastEditDate="2012-09-05T18:38:07.183" LastActivityDate="2012-09-05T18:38:07.183" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="991" CreationDate="2012-09-05T19:24:18.757" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/contribute/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QdSL8.png&quot; alt=&quot;Could you contribute to the Blog, Pleeease&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2012-09-05T19:24:18.757" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2154" CreationDate="2012-09-05T21:46:09.030" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;One way this can happen is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/113378/review-page-says-1-post-but-nothing-is-shown&quot;&gt;if you have ignored tags&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that... I don't have much other than &quot;huh, that's weird.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since we're now pouring efforts into the new /review and these old queues will eventually be replaced, this is probably not worth fixing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4257" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2012-09-05T21:46:09.030" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="991" CreationDate="2012-09-05T22:47:28.963" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/contribute/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/H24v2.png&quot; alt=&quot;Website Seeks new Blog Posts&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1234" LastActivityDate="2012-09-05T22:47:28.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="991" CreationDate="2012-09-06T00:28:15.730" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4dF8R.png&quot; alt=&quot;One Blog to Post Them&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1234" LastEditorUserId="1234" LastEditDate="2012-09-12T16:50:00.943" LastActivityDate="2012-09-12T16:50:00.943" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2228" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-06T13:46:33.260" Score="1" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;This picture pretty much shows the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/irIJh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The text is there, and visible when selected, it's just hidden by being on a same-color background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1BH97.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1639" LastActivityDate="2012-09-06T13:46:33.260" Title="Close reason not visible in review pages on Meta.SciFi.SE" Tags="|bug|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2229" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2230" CreationDate="2012-09-06T14:29:32.937" Score="3" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was reading a blog post and noticed some typos. How can I help by fixing them? I cannot seem to find the &lt;code&gt;edit&lt;/code&gt; button I know from SE Questions &amp;amp; Answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-09-06T14:35:34.567" LastActivityDate="2012-09-06T14:35:34.567" Title="How do I wiki-edit the blog?" Tags="|support|blog|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2229" CreationDate="2012-09-06T14:32:20.667" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The blog is currently run through Wordpress, and does not operate on the same principles as the QA sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you make me or one of the site moderators aware of the typos, we will correct them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-09-06T14:35:28.717" LastActivityDate="2012-09-06T14:35:28.717" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="991" CreationDate="2012-09-06T17:07:27.613" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/contribute/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UJWl3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Sneaky little hobbitses&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorUserId="1109" LastEditDate="2012-09-07T03:15:05.190" LastActivityDate="2012-09-07T03:15:05.190" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2233" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2234" CreationDate="2012-09-06T18:28:34.910" Score="1" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is Jacqueline Carey's &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushiel%27s_Legacy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kushiel's Legacy&lt;/a&gt;&quot; series in scope?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is there consensus that it is &quot;Fantasy&quot;? Wiki says &quot;historical fantasy or alternate history&quot; in the series page, and &quot;Fantasy&quot; in the first book of the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would personally easily classify it as &quot;Fantasy&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;leaving aside literary analysis, it's published by &lt;strong&gt;Tor books&lt;/strong&gt; :) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Heck, the first novel in the series won a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Locus.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Locus Award&lt;/a&gt; in Fantasy category.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But would like a second opinion, preferably from someone familiar with the works if possible, since I have seen people classify the books as more of a soft-core BDSM porn than fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is there a concern about allowing questions &lt;strong&gt;about a work&lt;/strong&gt; that is, in large part, &quot;adult themed&quot; (heavy BDSM references+erotica)? [ assume that the questions themselves are PG13 or whatever the official cutoff is for SFF.SE ]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for the concern is that, AFAIR, Stack has canceled Area 51 proposal of exuality due to concerns about brand damage (don't recall exact details). If any work will raise the concerns, Carey's would be it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-09-06T18:47:59.073" Title="Is Jacqueline Carey's &quot;Kushiel's Legacy&quot; series in scope?" Tags="|discussion|scope|adult-content|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2233" CreationDate="2012-09-06T18:47:59.073" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/are-works-that-arent-sf-per-se-but-have-occasional-sfnal-elements-on-topic-e&quot;&gt;Are works that aren&amp;#39;t SF per se, but have occasional SFnal elements on-topic? (e.g. spy movies)&lt;/a&gt; (and other discussions with a similar outcome), if it's borderline SF, it's in. I haven't read any of the &lt;em&gt;Kushiel&lt;/em&gt; series, but based on the Wikipedia description, it's firmly on-topic, not even borderline, since it is based on a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elua_and_His_Companions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;fantastical premise&lt;/a&gt; (and even if the premise was mundane, it would be on-topic as alternate history).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see any concern with “adult themes” (or as adults call it, sexuality). The main constraint in this respect is to keep images PG-13, which &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1885/are-questions-about-a-slightly-adult-scifi-comic-acceptable&quot;&gt;is a concern for comics&lt;/a&gt; but not for written works. The problem with the cancelled sexuality site was a lack of quality, not the theme (the proposal was allowed to go through, the site failed in private beta).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2012-09-06T18:47:59.073" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="991" CreationDate="2012-09-06T19:01:49.797" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6tAlk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;What if I told you, we had a blog?&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2012-09-09T13:54:24.390" LastActivityDate="2012-09-09T13:54:24.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2236" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2250" CreationDate="2012-09-07T02:57:57.510" Score="8" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/23105/how-many-men-were-there-on-arda-at-the-time-of-war-of-the-ring#comment42698_23105&quot;&gt;question of mine&lt;/a&gt; just got VTCed with the following &amp;quot;explanation&amp;quot; (I don't want to be rude and say &amp;quot;excuse&amp;quot;, but I can find gazillions of SFF questions that fit the same criteria which were NOT VTCed for the same reason):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voted to close as not a real question for being incomplete due to lack of demonstrated relevance. From &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;How to Ask&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;: &amp;quot;Make it clear how your question is relevant to more people than just you, and more of us will be interested in your question and willing to look into it&amp;quot;; from &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#goal&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;How to Ask Questions The Smart Way&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;: &amp;quot;If you are trying to find out how to do something [...], begin by describing the goal. Only then describe the particular step towards it that you are blocked on.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is, what does it matter? What issue with the text are you trying to rectify by getting an answer to this? If this is a stepping stone to a larger question that has more context, ask that question instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, this seems WAY off base on SFF (both the reasoning in general, and in particular quoting a FAQ on how to ask technical/programming questions by ESR).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First of all, I'm not aware of any rules on SFF of demonstrating &amp;quot;relevance&amp;quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is there some rule somewhere that every question must be because of &amp;quot;issue with the text are you trying to rectify&amp;quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How is that specific question materially different from 100s if not 1000s of OTHER SFF questions that are asked merely because someone is curious about something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is there a rule that says that I MUST specify the reason for asking or else the question will be closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As far as the second comment, the last time I checked, tons of mods and high rep users commented on newbie posts containing several distinct questions &amp;quot;Please split it up into more than one question&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, in my case, WHAT will get asked in a followup heavily depends on what the answer to the first question (and if there is an answer at all). I don't see how that's grounds for penalizing the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NOTE: I have split off the question about the quote from &lt;em&gt;How to Ask Questions The Smart Way&lt;/em&gt; into a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2237/should-the-questions-on-sff-have-to-include-a-mention-of-the-ultimate-goal-of-wh/2238&quot;&gt;separate meta question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-09-07T20:26:04.260" Title="What exactly are SFF's rules for &quot;relevant&quot; questions?" Tags="|discussion|scope|relevancy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2237" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-07T04:28:37.840" Score="2" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;A question of mine just got VTCed with the explanation including a quote from a famous FAQ by Eric S. Raymond &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#goal&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;How to Ask Questions The Smart Way&lt;/a&gt;&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;from How to Ask Questions The Smart Way: &quot;If you are trying to find out how to do something [...], begin by describing the goal. Only then describe the particular step towards it that you are blocked on.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that specific quote applicable to SFF and should not adhering to the quote's advice be grounds for labeling the question bad (downvoted or voted to close)? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'm only asking about the quote, not the FAQ overall.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Should the questions on SFF have to include a mention of the ultimate goal of why you are asking them?" Tags="|discussion|scope|relevancy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2237" CreationDate="2012-09-07T04:31:15.353" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason ESR included that tidbit - &quot;begin by describing the goal&quot; - because most newbies asking &lt;strong&gt;programming/technical questions&lt;/strong&gt; frequently suffer from what's known as &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy-problem&quot;&gt;X-Y problem&lt;/a&gt;&quot; on StackOverflow: you need to do X, you decided to implement it using Y, and when Y doesn't work, you ask &quot;how to fix Y&quot; (instead of asking &quot;what is the correct way to implement X&quot;). I'll provide an SO example below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't see AT ALL how this possibly relates to a non-technical SFF question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Therefore, I don't think that failure to &quot;describe the goal&quot; - as opposed to the specific question in your mind - should be in any way treated as a negative on SFF.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of X-Y problem would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;&quot;Why doesn't my Perl code compile when I try to access a hash whose identifier name is in a variable?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I can provide a technical reason for &quot;why&quot;, but the &lt;strong&gt;correct&lt;/strong&gt; answer is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;&quot;Why are you trying to access a hash by an identifier name? &lt;strong&gt;99.99% of time in Perl, you should instead store several hashes into a hash of hashrefs&lt;/strong&gt;, with keys being what would have been your identifier names&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2012-09-07T10:46:18.210" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2241" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2244" CreationDate="2012-09-07T16:31:56.677" Score="12" ViewCount="507" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been re-reading the LotR and, it being a masterpiece and a huge work at the same time, I felt the need to ask for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/23061/saruman-in-the-shire-how-long-had-he-been-planning-it&quot;&gt;clarification&lt;/a&gt; about a rather specific issue. &#xA;I got a good answer and accepted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, unable to drop the book after having completed it, I read the Appendices with greater attention: and I found out basically the answer to my question (see the update at the end of it). I don't know if this makes my question &quot;general reference&quot; and so: should the question be in some sense withdrawn? What should I do? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I decided to add an edit to the question because adding an answer seemed unfair towards the original (Already accepted) answerer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt; Following @keen's suggestion I have removed my update from my question and edited accordingly the answer, hoping to have been respectful of the original answerer. I also added a link to this meta discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="324" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2012-09-11T04:44:29.947" Title="What should I do with a question on a book whose answer I find by &quot;reading with more attention&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|question-quality|accepted-answer|self-answer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2241" CreationDate="2012-09-07T17:01:14.563" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of questions here, I'll first address the issue of &quot;is it acceptable to ask a question that's later answered in the work itself?&quot;  Unfortunately, there isn't a simple answer for this one.  It's going to vary by the length of the work (e.g. 1 season and 1 movie of &lt;em&gt;Firefly&lt;/em&gt; vs. the 10 seasons and 2 movies that make up &lt;em&gt;The X-files&lt;/em&gt;).  It'll also vary on the detail you're asking about, as major plot elements will be expected to be more common knowledge.  Use your best judgement as to the importance and worth of the detail you're asking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My best suggestion is to be upfront in your question.  If you're asking about a detail in a work you're going through, say so in the question and say how far you are.  This way people who are answering can tailor their answer to your needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you later on find the answer to your own question, and no one else has answered it, go ahead and self-answer &lt;strong&gt;this is encouraged&lt;/strong&gt;.  By self-answering, you're leaving a &lt;strong&gt;complete question and answer&lt;/strong&gt; on the internet, which may help others in the future.  If others have answered the question, but the answers aren't to your satisfaction, you can still post your answer.  Alternatively, if one of those other answers is most of the way to a perfect answer, you can edit it to improve it.  Don't feel bad about accepting your own answer, just try to ensure yours is the highest-quality answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, if you ask a question, which you later find the answer to, this is not a reason in and of itself for deleting/closing that question.  The question may be one that others will have, so it's often more reasonable to leave it in place.  Of course, the community has the ability to vote to close questions if they believe the question isn't one that fits here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2012-09-07T20:11:45.777" LastActivityDate="2012-09-07T20:11:45.777" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2236" CreationDate="2012-09-07T18:07:46.607" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I took a look at all the questions that had the phrase &quot;how many&quot; in them and categorized them based off of whether they provided context/relevance, whether they were closed/open, and how many votes they got. Here's what I found:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Provided context&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Count:&lt;/strong&gt; 90 (79% of total)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10 score or higher:&lt;/strong&gt; 33 (29%)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5–9 score:&lt;/strong&gt; 30 (26%)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;0–4 score:&lt;/strong&gt; 25 (22%)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;lt;0 score:&lt;/strong&gt; 2 (2%)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Open:&lt;/strong&gt; 85 (75% of total, 94% of context questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Closed:&lt;/strong&gt; 5 (4% of total, 5.5% of context questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Didn't provide context&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Count:&lt;/strong&gt; 24 (21% of total)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10 score or higher:&lt;/strong&gt; 7 (6%)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5–9 score:&lt;/strong&gt; 7 (6%)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;0–4 score:&lt;/strong&gt; 9 (8%)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;lt;0 score:&lt;/strong&gt; 1 (1%)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Open:&lt;/strong&gt; 21 (18% of total, 87.5% of no context questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Closed:&lt;/strong&gt; 3 (3% of total, 12.5% of no context questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on this survey, it seems that most people don't have a problem providing context to their questions, and on average, the questions that do provide context tend to do better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And to be honest, I'm kind of surprised that you're so resistant to providing context to this specific question, especially since &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2236/what-exactly-are-sffs-rules-for-relevant-questions#comment5384_2236&quot;&gt;apparently every single vote matters to you&lt;/a&gt;. In the comments, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/23105/how-many-men-were-there-on-arda-at-the-time-of-war-of-the-ring#comment42712_23105&quot;&gt;you said&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;P.S. And trust me, if I DID put a convoluted &quot;Why I am asking this&quot; with a logic diagram, it would generate a negative reactions. I had my questions downvoted when I added long &quot;why i'm asking this&quot; explanation, or at best, got edits or edit suggestions to remove them). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what I found, when looking at the &quot;how many&quot; questions, was something different. You provided context (in many cases a lot of good, meaty context) in several of your questions, and they all did pretty well: they all got answers and most did well in terms of score (average score: 9.2). None of them had substantial edits by other people or comments suggesting that you should split them up into multiple questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9535/how-many-planets-did-the-rebel-alliance-control&quot;&gt;How many planets did the Rebel Alliance control?&lt;/a&gt; (+12/-0)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7446/is-there-an-estimate-of-how-many-people-work-for-ministry-of-magic&quot;&gt;Is there an estimate of how many people work for Ministry of Magic?&lt;/a&gt; (+10/-0)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2844/how-many-field-agents-does-mib-have&quot;&gt;How many field agents does MIB have?&lt;/a&gt; (+16/-0)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3445/how-many-people-actually-participated-in-the-original-voldemort-conflict&quot;&gt;How many people actually participated in the original Voldemort conflict?&lt;/a&gt; (+15/-0)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6281/was-there-any-justification-in-universe-for-the-9-member-count-of-fellowship-o&quot;&gt;Was there any justification (in-Universe) for the 9-member count of Fellowship of the Ring or of its specific make-up?&lt;/a&gt; (+16/-0)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22661/how-many-r2-droid-units-were-there-according-to-canon&quot;&gt;How many R2 droid units were there according to canon?&lt;/a&gt; (+10/-1)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9736/how-many-elves-were-there-in-middle-earth-by-the-time-of-lotr-events&quot;&gt;How many elves were there in Middle Earth by the time of LOTR events?&lt;/a&gt; (+7/-0)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3478/are-there-any-statistics-on-how-many-people-skip-poetry-in-lotr&quot;&gt;Are there any statistics on how many people skip poetry in LOTR?&lt;/a&gt; (+10/-3)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15963/approximately-how-many-avengers-are-born-mutants&quot;&gt;Approximately how many Avengers are born mutants?&lt;/a&gt; (+4/0)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/13344/how-many-female-romantic-interests-with-initials-l-l-were-there-in-supermans&quot;&gt;How many female romantic interests with initials &amp;quot;L.L.&amp;quot; were there in Superman&amp;#39;s life?&lt;/a&gt; (+4/0)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8822/how-many-people-perished-in-both-wizarding-wars-the-voldemort-ones&quot;&gt;How many people perished in both Wizarding Wars (the Voldemort ones)&lt;/a&gt; (+1/0)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8821/how-many-people-did-voldemort-kill&quot;&gt;How many people did Voldemort kill?&lt;/a&gt; (+0/-0)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you didn't provide context or relevance, your questions on average didn't do as well (average score: 3.6):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19701/how-many-immortals-are-there-in-highlander-universe&quot;&gt;How many Immortals are there in Highlander Universe&lt;/a&gt; (+10/-1, but no answers)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12590/in-the-harry-potter-books-how-many-wizards-witches-make-their-living-through-qu&quot;&gt;In the Harry Potter books, how many wizards/witches make their living through Quidditch in Britain?&lt;/a&gt; (+4/0)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9525/how-many-planets-were-there-in-the-empire-at-the-time-of-a-new-hope&quot;&gt;How many planets were there in the Empire at the time of A New Hope?&lt;/a&gt; (+4/0)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22129/how-many-different-robots-were-sent-back-in-time-in-the-entire-terminator-franch&quot;&gt;How many different robots were sent back in time in the entire Terminator franchise?&lt;/a&gt; (+2/0)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/23105/how-many-men-were-there-on-arda-at-the-time-of-war-of-the-ring&quot;&gt;How many Men were there on Arda at the time of War of the Ring?&lt;/a&gt; (+7/-5)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So not only are people more likely to do well with a question that has context, you &lt;em&gt;personally&lt;/em&gt; do better when you do. Providing context benefits everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/23105/how-many-men-were-there-on-arda-at-the-time-of-war-of-the-ring#comment42713_23105&quot;&gt;I said in the comments&lt;/a&gt;, you don't have to go into excruciating detail or write an essay on why the question is good, but provide &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; to better understand the problem you're having. Any of the below would qualify:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Describe what brought about the question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I was thinking about Tolkien's experiences in World War I, and was wondering if there was a connection there. How many men...?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Describe a discrepancy that needs clarification&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Fellowship of the Ring&lt;/em&gt;, Bob says the armies of Gondor number in the thousands, but Jenny says in the &lt;em&gt;Two Towers&lt;/em&gt; that they were decimated at the start of the Third Age. What is the correct count?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Frame it around another question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In [this other question], Jack says that we know Bilbo liked Pipeweed because of the number of battalions that went through the Shire. How many were there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Show your work so far&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm trying to determine the number of men in Arda. In the &lt;em&gt;Fellowship&lt;/em&gt;, I've calculated it to be 6 based on passage X, Y, and Z. Is this accurate? What's a better number?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After 17 comments, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/23105/how-many-men-were-there-on-arda-at-the-time-of-war-of-the-ring#comment42714_23105&quot;&gt;you finally provided&lt;/a&gt; something close to the above:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm thinking about WW1 and its casualties; and War of the ring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is great, but what about it? There's a connection you're trying to make, but you haven't explicitly stated it in the question body. You do that, and I'll retract my objection to your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2012-09-07T18:20:39.743" CommentCount="20" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2241" CreationDate="2012-09-07T18:17:19.510" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;To comment on one piece of your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't know if this makes my question &quot;general reference&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR: A book is NOT a &quot;standard internet reference&quot; so the answer is &quot;NOT GR&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The official wording from GR is in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/485/976&quot;&gt;this meta post by Jeff Atwood&lt;/a&gt; (sourced from his SE blog post):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question is too basic; it can be definitively and permanently answered by a single link to a standard internet reference source designed specifically to find that type of information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will note that there is no mention of &quot;by reading the damn book&quot; in there :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/general-reference&quot;&gt;discussed previously&lt;/a&gt;, merely having the information &lt;strong&gt;in the source material&lt;/strong&gt; does &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; make a question &quot;General Reference&quot; &lt;sub&gt;(assuming that there are no other factors that make it GR, such as the info being in Wikipedia or IMDB).&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reasons for that vary, but 2 random reasons are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Most works have source material which is NOT searchable, and you can not expect humans to have 100% perfect memory, or require them to re-read &lt;strong&gt;and fully memorize&lt;/strong&gt; every detail from a large book to be eligible to ask a question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is especially true for works the size of LOTR with appendices :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are a great plethora of questions on SFF whose answer 100% unquestionably is contained in the source material; and even more of them where the answer is contained in what I would realistically lump in together with the source material, such as author interviews, other books in the universe, etc... &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2012-09-07T20:01:21.693" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2245" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-07T19:26:09.240" Score="1" ViewCount="408" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a point where someone can conclude that they are being serially down-voted without being an outright paranoid?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Around 11am:&#xA;~~~~~~~~~~~~   &#xA;-2; 21 mins ago; downvote; When did Eru interfere in Arda directly? ; &#xA;-2; 23 mins ago; downvote; How many Men were there on Arda at the time &#xA;                           of War of the Ring? &#xA;-2; 28 mins ago; downvote; Was there an “original sin” idea &#xA;                           in the published version of Silmarillion?&#xA;&#xA;Around 2pm:&#xA;-2; 20 mins ago; downvote; What happened to Saruman after he was knifed by Grima?&#xA;-2; 21 mins ago; downvote; What is the origin of the idea of God needing&#xA;                           a “voice” in “Dogma”? &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are 5 out of 6 questions I posted in the last 24 hours. One can be counted as statistical noise (it has 3 other DVs), but the fact that this ALSO coincided with the day when I stood up for myself against what I see an unjustified VTC makes it suspicious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't the first time I get a bouts of 2-4 question downvotes with no comments in the span of 5-15 minutes. But I think 5 in a row is more of grounds to be suspicious of people than of statistics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's another couple of samples from my old emails when I noticed it happening:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;May 6, 2012&#xA;-2; 4 hours ago; downvote; Were any of the Avengers involved the last ...&#xA;-2; 4 hours ago; downvote; Is there any canon proof that Elder Wand &#xA;                           actually works as reputed in a duel?&#xA;-2; 4 hours ago; downvote; Where did the “Memories transferred through DNA” &#xA;                           idea used in Assassin's Creed come from?&#xA;&#xA;May 12&#xA;-2 2 hours ago downvote What exactly was Radagast's role among Maiar? &#xA;-2 2 hours ago downvote What does “Seven” and “nine” mean in “Seven of Nine”?&#xA;&#xA;July 12&#xA;-2   1 hour ago; downvote; Is there any evidence regarding Aragorn having &#xA;                           a beard in Tolkien?&#xA;-2   1 hour ago; downvote; What material is the snitch in Harry Potter made out of?&#xA;-2   1 hour ago; downvote; Did any Quidditch games ever end by &#xA;                           agreement of the Captains?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to be clear, I'm merely asking for an opinion (or rather, facts to confirm that this is a &quot;normal&quot; pattern). I don't have any particular desire to ask SE to investigate it. Just want to know if other people experience this frequently (e.g. 3+ downvotes in an hour, or 4+ a day) on disparate questions - and never on answers - with any regularity (couple of times a month).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also had a more fun pattern where someone was DVing 1-2 questions a day, every day, for many days. Always within one of two 1-hour periods during the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone still think I'm a paranoid who only cares about rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Today's votes as of 1:30am EST (no intervening upvotes):&#xA;-2; 40 mins ago; downvote; Why were the Elves so great at archery?&#xA;-2; 37 mins ago; downvote; Were there any other Immortals aside from &#xA;                           Connor and Duncan MacLeods who were relatives?&#xA;-2; 37 mins ago; downvote; Was T-X in some way responsible for Skynet's &#xA;                           offensive actions on Judgement Day in T3?&#xA;-2; 38 mins ago; downvote; What was the first SciFi book or story &#xA;                           co-written by 2 authors before 1957?&#xA;-2; 56 mins ago; downvote; How many R2 droid units were there according to canon?&#xA;&#xA;Sep 10 2012. &#xA;NONE of the questions are recent or have recent activity prior DV&#xA;-2; 20 mins ago; downvote; Why don't muggle-born wizards use Muggle &#xA;                           technology to fight Death Eaters?&#xA;-2; 9 hours ago; downvote; What was the longest natural biological &#xA;                           lifespan in Star Wars?&#xA;-2; 9 hours ago; downvote; Were there any “Starship Troopers” comics closer &#xA;                           to the spirit of the book than the movie?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2012-09-10T13:39:40.903" LastActivityDate="2012-09-10T13:39:40.903" Title="Is there a point at which someone should start getting paranoid about serial downvoting?" Tags="|discussion|down-votes|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="20" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2246" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-07T19:39:17.923" Score="6" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;When there are a large number of comments on a post, you are prompted with this if you go to add another comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please avoid extended discussions in comments. Would you like to automatically move this discussion to chat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to request that this say that you're &lt;strong&gt;copying&lt;/strong&gt; the discussion to chat instead of moving.  The expectation from most computer users is that a move removes it from the source, and places it in the destination.  A copy operation instead leaves the original in place, while making a duplicate in the destination.  The latter is what this link does, but the text implies the former.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, I realize this is a pretty nitpicky grammar request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="4257" LastEditDate="2013-04-24T22:30:14.630" LastActivityDate="2013-04-24T22:30:14.630" Title="Tweak language of 'move this discussion to chat' link" Tags="|feature-request|status-bydesign|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2246" CreationDate="2012-09-07T19:48:41.767" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, you're not copying the discussion to chat, you're moving it. For one thing, further comments will not be copied to chat. For another, it's the &lt;em&gt;discussion&lt;/em&gt; that's being moved, not the comments. And to trump it all, for a non-programmer, you &lt;em&gt;move&lt;/em&gt; a discussion to another venue. “Copying a discussion” sounds like the discussion is over and you're sending a recording to a third party.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-09-07T19:48:41.767" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2245" CreationDate="2012-09-07T20:10:11.880" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really don't see the problem. A single user could cause you to loose at most 546 rep this way (right now). That seems to be what you gain about every two to three days! Note that sock-puppets do &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; count: You need at least 125 rep to even cast down votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation is a number. It doesn't even cost you anything to increment other people's rep count. And above 20k it doesn't even change &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; you can do (correct me if I'm wrong). There's no way you will be reduced to this unless the number of serial downvoters times the number of your questions surpasses 15000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since you seem to take this really personally, I'll do my best to cheer you up; Here's a picture of a cute kitty:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/f2NCP.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="2565" LastEditDate="2012-09-07T21:32:57.657" LastActivityDate="2012-09-07T21:32:57.657" CommentCount="20" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2249" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2955" CreationDate="2012-09-07T20:19:31.360" Score="16" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;Similarly to how &quot;Duplicate Q&quot; VTC reason requests you to enter the URL of a duplicate question, can we also have a URL be requested (or even required) when voting a question as a general reference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/02/are-some-questions-too-simple/&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood's blog post&lt;/a&gt; very clearly stated that General Reference means:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...because these types of questions can be definitively and permanently answered &lt;strong&gt;by a single link to a standard internet reference site&lt;/strong&gt; with no additional explanation necessary&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that is the motivation and the criteria to close something as general reference, then it seems like a good idea to require the closing to provide that single link. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This serves 3 purposes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It provides people who would have asked the question in the future, as well as OP, with a way to obtain an answer without someone having to copy/paste the info into SFF as an answer. This makes Internet a better place.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It avoids people starting to ask &quot;why was this closed as GR&quot; the same way a Dupe link avoids (most) people asking &quot;what is this a duplicate of?&quot; when their question is closed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Serves as a way to verify that the VTC was indeed valid, since other people can judge whether the link is to a &quot;standard internet reference site&quot; as commonly understood (as an example, many people on SFF were for a long time under mis-apprehension that Wikia is one, whereas after some Meta discussion, it was agreed that it is not).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would be amenable to making the URL an optional field if there's a good reason provided why &lt;strong&gt;requiring&lt;/strong&gt; it is too onerous or not always correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. Idea's not wholly mine - while I thought of it for a while, I decided to post after I read Borror0's comment from that same SO blog post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Consider putting a field to enter an url, for the close reason, like there is for duplicate questions. Like this, we can close the question yet answer the user’s question so we don’t come across as elitists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="4257" LastEditDate="2013-05-27T23:46:52.007" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Can we add a URL field to &quot;General Reference&quot; VTC reason?" Tags="|feature-request|status-declined|closing-questions|general-reference|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2236" CreationDate="2012-09-07T20:26:04.260" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I'm concerned, it is a valid reason for any question on any Stack Exchange to ask something &lt;em&gt;because you want to know&lt;/em&gt;. Saying why you want to know is likely to give you more &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt; answers, but that is your problem as an asker. If you get answers that turn out not to apply to your issue because you omitted some information in your question, it's your problem as an asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“I don't see the point of this question” is a perfectly valid reason to ignore a question. It's even a valid reason to downvote it, if you think the question is a complete waste of attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing is another matter. It's deliberate that the close reasons do not include “I don't like this question”. “Too localized” can apply to a question that is so specific that no one else would ever find it; this is far from the case here. “Not a real question” is pretty broad, and applies to underspecified questions, but only when the fact that those questions are underspecified makes them unanswerable. Again, this is not the case here; adding motivation might make the question more appealing but does not change what would constitute a good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yeah, mentioning your motivation might be a good idea, but it's not required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-09-07T20:26:04.260" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2245" CreationDate="2012-09-09T04:31:45.560" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am of the opinion that DVK may well have a stalker of some sort.  After plugging in several users to &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/79360/count-of-posts-downvoted-per-month&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a query I came up with earlier tonight&lt;/a&gt;, the pattern of DVK's downvotes do indeed look very weird, especially when compared to some of the other top users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/79360/count-of-posts-downvoted-per-month?username=DVK&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DVK&lt;/a&gt; - In January, it suddenly spikes really high and &lt;em&gt;stays that way&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/79360/count-of-posts-downvoted-per-month?username=Slytherincess&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Slytherincess&lt;/a&gt; - Unusually high number of downvotes in May and June, but not prior.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/79360/count-of-posts-downvoted-per-month?username=TangoOversway&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TangoOversway&lt;/a&gt; - A spike in Jan, Feb (extra high), and Mar, but it drops back to normal after that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/79360/count-of-posts-downvoted-per-month?username=Pureferret&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pureferret&lt;/a&gt; - A large number of downvotes every other month (Feb, Apr, Jun).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/79360/count-of-posts-downvoted-per-month?username=Major%20Stackings&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Major Stackings&lt;/a&gt; - A small spike in June.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/79360/count-of-posts-downvoted-per-month?username=Sachin%20Shekhar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sachin Shekhar&lt;/a&gt; - Spiked in March and has since stayed high.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of the entire first page of users (that's 36 accounts) with the highest rep, &lt;em&gt;no one else&lt;/em&gt; has gotten 10 or more downvotes in a single month.  Examples of more normal numbers of downvotes (still from the first page) would be &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/79360/count-of-posts-downvoted-per-month?username=Jeff&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/79360/count-of-posts-downvoted-per-month?username=Keen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/79360/count-of-posts-downvoted-per-month?username=Xantec&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Xantec&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/79360/count-of-posts-downvoted-per-month?username=Izkata&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;myself&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Data up through June is currently all that's available.  The queries will update when data becomes available, but this answer may not be updated when that happens.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; I should point out that the query being used in this post is attempting to single out posts so that a stalker can be more easily identified - many downvotes on one post on the same date would count as 1, not the number of downvotes, since each user can only downvote a post once.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/79370/count-of-downvotes-on-your-posts-per-month&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Using this query&lt;/a&gt; for total downvotes shows basically the same patterns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastEditorUserId="2242" LastEditDate="2012-09-09T15:24:22.293" LastActivityDate="2012-09-09T15:24:22.293" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2245" CreationDate="2012-09-09T18:15:49.120" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer your direct question, you should be concerned with voting discrepencies when you see several posts on the same day voted within seconds of each other—indicating someone is going down the list of your posts in your profile and down-voting—or when you see multiple &quot;serial down/upvoting reversed notices&quot; on your reputation graph (like the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/976/dvk?tab=reputation&amp;amp;sort=time&amp;amp;page=6&quot;&gt;serial upvoting reversal you had on April 4th&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The voting activity over the last couple of days on your profile is curious, and is outside the norms of the voting activity on your profile (see below). While it doesn't have the hallmarks of serial-downvoting (several down-votes within seconds of each other), it may be worth looking into.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ever have a concern that something is going on, asking SE—either by emailing them or through the moderators—is the best way to get it handled, as they have far better tools than are publicly available, and have seen real serial-voting occur enough times to know when it's a real problem or when it's just the result of confirmation bias.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To that point, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2254/366&quot;&gt;Izkata's queries&lt;/a&gt; are inaccurate, the analysis is flawed, and there's very little evidence of the conclusion reached (that you have a stalker).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To demonstrate the flaws with Izkata's queries, rather than construct a query &lt;em&gt;ex nihilo&lt;/em&gt;, I looked at your actual reputation changes as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/976/dvk?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;publicly available on your user profile&lt;/a&gt;. Looking at January,&#xA;you had 30 downvotes, 3 of which were reversed, on 15 posts and 13 days:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-01-06 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8619/what-fantasy-story-elicited-this-quote&quot;&gt;What fantasy story elicited this quote?&lt;/a&gt; (4 downvotes, 1 reversed after edits)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-01-07 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8669/does-snape-have-a-son/8670#8670&quot;&gt;Does Snape have a son?&lt;/a&gt; (1 downvote)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-01-12 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8939/is-there-an-example-of-a-sentient-plant-based-life-form-in-any-of-the-major-book&quot;&gt;Is there an example of a sentient plant-based life form in any of the major book/movie/TV SciFi franchises?&lt;/a&gt; (2 downvotes, 1 reversed after edits, closed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-01-13 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5291/is-there-a-suggested-order-of-reading-conan-books&quot;&gt;Is there a suggested order of reading Conan books?&lt;/a&gt; (1 downvote)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-01-17 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9192/which-myers-briggs-personality-is-hermione&quot;&gt;Which Myers-Briggs personality is Hermione?&lt;/a&gt; (3 downvotes)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-01-18 - Another 2 downvotes for the Myers-Briggs question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-01-19 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9291/was-eric-flints-1632-the-only-sff-work-universe-where-fan-fiction-is-considere&quot;&gt;Was Eric Flint&amp;#39;s 1632 the only SF&amp;amp;F work/universe where fan fiction is considered canon?&lt;/a&gt; (2 downvotes, closed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-01-19 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9299/how-reliable-is-anything-mad-eye-moody-taught-in-defense-against-dark-arts/9301#9301&quot;&gt;How Reliable Is Anything Mad-Eye Moody Taught in Defense Against Dark Arts?&lt;/a&gt; (1 downvote)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-01-19 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9354/why-didnt-some-other-government-or-corporation-step-in-to-assist-with-the-prawn/9355#9355&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t some other government or corporation step in to assist with the Prawns?&lt;/a&gt; (1 downvote)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-01-20 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9375/why-are-there-so-many-double-initials-in-comic-books/9377#9377&quot;&gt;Why Are There So Many Double Initials in Comic Books?&lt;/a&gt; (1 downvote)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-01-20 - Another 2 downvotes for the Prawns answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-01-20 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9015/how-old-is-the-spear-of-destiny-and-what-significance-does-it-have/9021#9021&quot;&gt;How old is the Spear of Destiny, and what significance does it have?&lt;/a&gt; (1 downvote)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-01-22 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4099/is-there-a-name-for-this-fictional-technology/4110#4110&quot;&gt;Is there a name for this fictional technology?&lt;/a&gt; (2 downvotes)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-01-25 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6555/are-e-t-and-star-wars-in-the-same-universe/6558#6558&quot;&gt;Are E.T. and Star Wars in the same universe?&lt;/a&gt; (1 downvote)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-01-27 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9776/why-was-ackbar-given-command-of-the-fleet/9778#9778&quot;&gt;Why was Ackbar given command of the Fleet?&lt;/a&gt; (1 downvote)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-01-30 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/10035/what-were-the-things-in-prisoner-of-azkaban-movie-that-foreshadowed-hp6-hp7&quot;&gt;What were the things in Prisoner of Azkaban movie that foreshadowed HP6/HP7?&lt;/a&gt; (1 downvote, closed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-01-31 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/10074/is-batman-ever-shown-explicitly-using-the-scientific-method&quot;&gt;Is Batman ever shown explicitly using the Scientific Method?&lt;/a&gt; (2 downvotes)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming the hypothetical stalker exists and was party to down-votes on every one of those posts, only two days (1/19 and 1/20) had multiple posts down-voted: that's not serial down-voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, of the 15 posts highlighted here, 8 received multiple downvotes, indicating that multiple people thought there was a problem with the post.  This leaves 7 posts on the following days:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-01-07 - 1 post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-01-13 - 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-01-19 - 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-01-20 - 2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-01-27 - 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-01-30 - 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The differences between the days when you received solitary down-votes are 6 days, 6 days, 1 day, 7 days, 3 days. But let's look at your posts on those days. These are the posts you created the day you got down-voted, indicating someone saw it as it was posted or on the front page (i.e., they didn't need to go digging for things of yours to down-vote):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8669/does-snape-have-a-son/8670#8670&quot;&gt;Does Snape have a son?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9299/how-reliable-is-anything-mad-eye-moody-taught-in-defense-against-dark-arts/9301#9301&quot;&gt;How Reliable Is Anything Mad-Eye Moody Taught in Defense Against Dark Arts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9375/why-are-there-so-many-double-initials-in-comic-books/9377#9377&quot;&gt;Why Are There So Many Double Initials in Comic Books?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/10035/what-were-the-things-in-prisoner-of-azkaban-movie-that-foreshadowed-hp6-hp7&quot;&gt;What were the things in Prisoner of Azkaban movie that foreshadowed HP6/HP7?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are the posts that were either voted on the day after you created the post, or were bumped by other activity on the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5291/is-there-a-suggested-order-of-reading-conan-books&quot;&gt;Is there a suggested order of reading Conan books?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9015/how-old-is-the-spear-of-destiny-and-what-significance-does-it-have/9021#9021&quot;&gt;How old is the Spear of Destiny, and what significance does it have?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9776/why-was-ackbar-given-command-of-the-fleet/9778#9778&quot;&gt;Why was Ackbar given command of the Fleet?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that all of your posts in January can be explained by normal voting activity: what's more likely: a &quot;stalker&quot; was meticuously and diabolically down-voting in such a way as to be virtually undetectable, or that the down-votes you received are the result of your posting activity (high post volume combined with multiple controversial posts)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But maybe that's just January. According to Izkata's post, that's when this all started: maybe the stalker was just learning the ropes. Let's look at August, the last full month, and one that Izkata's post doesn't touch. You had 23 downvotes (no reversals) on 19 posts and 15 days:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-08-01 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/21339/what-were-madame-maximes-horses-that-drew-beauxbatons-carriage&quot;&gt;What were Madame Maxime&amp;#39;s horses that drew Beauxbatons carriage?&lt;/a&gt; (1 downvote)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-08-01 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/21342/was-the-fact-that-connor-macleod-won-the-prize-in-movies-ever-retconned-explicit&quot;&gt;Was the fact that Connor MacLeod won the prize in movies ever retconned explicitly in later continuity?&lt;/a&gt; (1 downvote)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-08-05 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/21521/how-could-spectators-watch-the-tri-wizard-events/21526#21526&quot;&gt;How could spectators watch the Tri-Wizard events?&lt;/a&gt; (1 downvote)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-08-07 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/21650/why-would-worf-go-through-puberty-in-st-insurrection&quot;&gt;Why would Worf go through puberty in ST: Insurrection?&lt;/a&gt; (1 downvote)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-08-09 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/21732/why-would-flitwick-teach-16-year-olds-how-to-turn-vinegar-into-wine/21767#21767&quot;&gt;Why would Flitwick teach 16 year olds how to turn vinegar into wine?&lt;/a&gt; (1 downvote)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-08-10 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/10785/did-tom-riddle-have-the-trace-on-him/10802#10802&quot;&gt;Did Tom Riddle have The Trace on him?&lt;/a&gt; (1 downvote)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-08-15 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3478/are-there-any-statistics-on-how-many-people-skip-poetry-in-lotr&quot;&gt;Are there any statistics on how many people skip poetry in LOTR?&lt;/a&gt; (1 downvote)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-08-16 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22122/did-dobby-know-about-horcruxes-during-before-chamber-of-secrets&quot;&gt;Did Dobby know about Horcruxes during/before Chamber of Secrets?&lt;/a&gt; (1 downvote)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-08-22 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22444/how-could-a-beheaded-terminator-search-for-its-own-head/22453#22453&quot;&gt;How could a beheaded Terminator search for its own head?&lt;/a&gt; (1 downvote)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-08-22 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22429/why-did-grima-wormtongue-choose-the-palantir-to-throw/22432#22432&quot;&gt;Why did Grima Wormtongue choose the Palantir to throw?&lt;/a&gt; (1 downvote)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-08-23 - Another downvote for the beheaded Terminator question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-08-23 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5660/do-borg-have-sexual-reproduction/5661#5661&quot;&gt;Do Borg have sexual reproduction?&lt;/a&gt; (1 downvote)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-08-24 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22488/how-do-people-in-a-song-of-ice-and-fire-universe-survive-multi-year-winters&quot;&gt;How do people in A Song of Ice and Fire universe survive multi-year winters?&lt;/a&gt; (1 downvote)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-08-24 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22485/what-is-the-longest-winter-on-record-in-a-song-of-ice-and-fire-books&quot;&gt;What is the longest winter on record in &amp;quot;A Song of Ice and Fire&amp;quot; books&lt;/a&gt; (1 downvote)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-08-24 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22538/what-magical-interference-is-permitted-when-playing-competitive-quidditch&quot;&gt;What magical interference is permitted when playing competitive Quidditch?&lt;/a&gt; (1 downvote)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-08-25 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22511/why-doesnt-harrys-touch-destroy-other-horcruxes&quot;&gt;Why doesn&amp;#39;t Harry&amp;#39;s touch destroy other Horcruxes?&lt;/a&gt; (1 downvote, closed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-08-26 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22602/was-snape-romantically-attracted-to-mulciber&quot;&gt;Was Snape romantically attracted to Mulciber?&lt;/a&gt; (2 downvotes)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-08-27 - Another 2 downvotes for the Snape and Mulciber question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-08-27 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22611/what-exactly-did-the-death-eaters-jr-do-for-snape&quot;&gt;What exactly did the Death Eaters Jr. do for Snape?&lt;/a&gt; (1 downvote)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-08-29 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22661/how-many-r2-droid-units-were-there-according-to-canon&quot;&gt;How many R2 droid units were there according to canon?&lt;/a&gt; (1 downvote)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-08-29 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22676/what-is-written-on-darth-vaders-chest-control-panel/22678#22678&quot;&gt;What is written on Darth Vader&amp;#39;s Chest control panel?&lt;/a&gt; (1 downvote)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;5 days had multiple posts downvoted (8/1, 8/22, 8/23, 8/24, and 8/27). Of the 19 posts, 5 received multiple downvotes. This leaves 14 on the following days:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-08-01 - 2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-08-05 - 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-08-07 - 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-08-09 - 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-08-10 - 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-08-16 - 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-08-22 - 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-08-23 - 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-08-24 - 3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-08-27 - 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-08-29 - 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of those posts, these are the posts you created the day you got down-voted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/21339/what-were-madame-maximes-horses-that-drew-beauxbatons-carriage&quot;&gt;What were Madame Maxime&amp;#39;s horses that drew Beauxbatons carriage?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/21342/was-the-fact-that-connor-macleod-won-the-prize-in-movies-ever-retconned-explicit&quot;&gt;Was the fact that Connor MacLeod won the prize in movies ever retconned explicitly in later continuity?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/21521/how-could-spectators-watch-the-tri-wizard-events/21526#21526&quot;&gt;How could spectators watch the Tri-Wizard events?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/21650/why-would-worf-go-through-puberty-in-st-insurrection&quot;&gt;Why would Worf go through puberty in ST: Insurrection?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/21732/why-would-flitwick-teach-16-year-olds-how-to-turn-vinegar-into-wine/21767#21767&quot;&gt;Why would Flitwick teach 16 year olds how to turn vinegar into wine?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22122/did-dobby-know-about-horcruxes-during-before-chamber-of-secrets&quot;&gt;Did Dobby know about Horcruxes during/before Chamber of Secrets?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22429/why-did-grima-wormtongue-choose-the-palantir-to-throw/22432#22432&quot;&gt;Why did Grima Wormtongue choose the Palantir to throw?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22538/what-magical-interference-is-permitted-when-playing-competitive-quidditch&quot;&gt;What magical interference is permitted when playing competitive Quidditch?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22611/what-exactly-did-the-death-eaters-jr-do-for-snape&quot;&gt;What exactly did the Death Eaters Jr. do for Snape?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are the posts that were either voted on the day after you created the post, or were bumped by other activity on the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22488/how-do-people-in-a-song-of-ice-and-fire-universe-survive-multi-year-winters&quot;&gt;How do people in A Song of Ice and Fire universe survive multi-year winters?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22485/what-is-the-longest-winter-on-record-in-a-song-of-ice-and-fire-books&quot;&gt;What is the longest winter on record in &amp;quot;A Song of Ice and Fire&amp;quot; books&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22676/what-is-written-on-darth-vaders-chest-control-panel/22678#22678&quot;&gt;What is written on Darth Vader&amp;#39;s Chest control panel?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are the posts from your back catalog that were down-voted &quot;out of the blue&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/10785/did-tom-riddle-have-the-trace-on-him/10802#10802&quot;&gt;Did Tom Riddle have The Trace on him?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5660/do-borg-have-sexual-reproduction/5661#5661&quot;&gt;Do Borg have sexual reproduction?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comparing January to August:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Total down-votes went down by 17% (27 to 23)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Total posts down-voted went up by 26% (15 to 19)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Total days with down-votes went up 15% (13 to 15)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Total posts with solitary down-votes doubled (7 to 14)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Total posts with solitary down-votes down-voted &quot;out of the blue&quot; went from 0 to 2.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the same time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Total posts you created went down by 43% (136 to 77)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Total days you posted went down by 7% (30 to 28)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's interesting: down-votes went up but your posting activity went down. Does this mean there really is a stalker? Perhaps, but again, the evidence doesn't entail that conclusion. All but two posts can be accounted for by normal voting activity: you posted, and either the post received multiple down-votes or someone saw that post as it came up and decided then and there that the post wasn't useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what about the two posts voted on out of the blue? It could've been a stalker, or it could've been something far more benign:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The posts showed up in a related sidebar&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone was searching for information about the topic and found your posts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The post was linked somewhere that a person with SciFi.SE rep frequents&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And what of the increased &quot;normal&quot; down-voting on your posts during this time period? It could be explained by a stalker now following your posts as you make them and down-voting them, but you were only down-voted on 15 of the 28 days you posted. Was the stalker just lazy? Even more diabolical than previously thought?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now let's take a look at something a stalker/serial-downvoter has no control over: the number of up-votes you received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In January, you had 958 upvotes, or ~97% of your total votes for the month.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In August, you had 606 upvotes, or ~96% of your total votes for the month.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The percentages look pretty much even, proportional to the number of down-votes you received, but the number of upvotes you received during the two months actually dropped by 37%, which is substantially higher than the 23% drop in down-votes. The community in general was just more lukewarm to your posts, particulary to your back catalog, in August than they were in January. While a conspiracy orchestrated by the hypothetical stalker is possible, I offer a few alternative suggestions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The community's sensibilities are changing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The quality of your posts have been changing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You have a larger back catalog than you did 8 months ago, which gives more chances for people to find something to fault when viewing past posts across the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Random fluctuations within the margin of error&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To conclude, while there's no definitive proof that a stalker &lt;em&gt;doesn't&lt;/em&gt; exist, I do think you're being a little paranoid. There is evidence, proportionally speaking, that your posts are doing worse than they did several months ago, but there's very little evidence &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; person, or even a few people, are the ones causing it, and the decrease in overall performance of your posts is more due to less up-voting than more down-voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have literally hundreds upon hundreds of posts, and nobody can bat a thousand. Try not to sweat the small stuff. Look at kitties instead:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HCZiS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Kitty cat&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2012-09-09T18:51:36.813" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2256" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2257" CreationDate="2012-09-09T18:32:41.523" Score="8" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;So far, I've only seen questions on English-specific books. Is this a language restriction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6635" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-09-09T18:44:45.093" LastActivityDate="2012-09-09T19:18:18.840" Title="Can we ask questions on books written in other languages?" Tags="|discussion|scope|language|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2256" CreationDate="2012-09-09T18:44:21.880" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The language of the site is English, so the audience are people who speak English. This strongly biases the site towards books written in English (or at least for which translations are available).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, I think that there is a larger proportion of SF published in English than with other genres. This is an informal impression from comparing the amount of SF not translated from English relative to the total amount of SF, to the relative amount for other genres and non-genre modern literature, in France at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's natural that the bulk of the SF we discuss was written in English or at least translated into English. However, this is no obligation, and I do recall a couple of story identification questions where the asker had read a book in another language and wasn't sure there was an English translation. I think we've also had a couple of questions about non-English writers, not all of whose books had been translated into English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can ask questions about non-English books. You're less likely to reach someone who can answer, but there's no prohibition against such questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-09-09T19:18:18.840" LastActivityDate="2012-09-09T19:18:18.840" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2258" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2259" CreationDate="2012-09-10T16:58:20.677" Score="4" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was under the impression that the community promotion ads are shown &lt;strong&gt;only on this site&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that is so, can we remove the ones that send us in a circular loop: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2253/3383&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2253/3383&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2252/3383&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2252/3383&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2251/3383&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2251/3383&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="What is the point in the community promotion ads that go to *this* site?" Tags="|discussion|advertising|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2258" CreationDate="2012-09-10T17:04:14.960" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;None.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ads for the blogs are relevant, though the blog posts already show up in the community bulletin. (What, you don't pay attention to the community bulletin? You and just about everyone else.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ads for the site on the site are useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to advertise SF&amp;amp;F, advertise it on &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; Stack Exchange sites, or outside Stack Exchange. Note that beta sites don't have ads. None of the graduated sites is very relevant; &lt;a href=&quot;https://rpg.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;RPG&lt;/a&gt;, maybe, and perhaps even &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Arqade&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On SF&amp;amp;F, you may want to advertise for other sites or Area 51 proposals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:45:51.017" LastActivityDate="2012-09-10T17:04:14.960" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2258" CreationDate="2012-09-10T17:31:19.467" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm the one who posted the first one, so here was my reasoning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6238/did-tolkien-really-explicitly-consider-sam-the-true-hero-of-lotr&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on Reddit a friday and this lead to a whooping 90k view before the weekend ended. But further inspection made me think we didn't get too many new users from it, see : &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2108/how-many-users-did-we-get-from-reddit&quot;&gt;How many users did we get from Reddit?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my idea was to keep potential new users that come from search engines or Reddit on the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it a good idea? Well, there is not enough support for these add yet, so I guess is it was not that good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2012-09-10T17:31:19.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2261" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-10T18:25:01.653" Score="6" ViewCount="276" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many of us on Arqade who would &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5325/why-did-people-vote-to-close-this-question-about-harbinger-in-me3&quot;&gt;very much like to offload some of the &amp;quot;lore&amp;quot; questions&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2258/what-is-the-point-in-the-community-promotion-ads-that-go-to-this-site#comment5515_2259&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, so advertising &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3352/community-promotion-ads-2012&quot;&gt;there&lt;/a&gt; would definitely be good. – &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/366/mark-trapp&quot;&gt;Mark Trapp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've posted on Arqade about this issue, &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5339/16142&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Can anyone design a decent ad for them/us?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Some guidelines:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We'd like 6 upvotes before putting it forward to their ad thread.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We'd like you to link to a relevant question this site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-09-13T11:52:39.777" Title="A call to arms! I mean Ads for Gaming.Stackexchange!" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2044" CreationDate="2012-09-11T00:07:02.833" Score="2" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Just keep going through the pages.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1jNBu.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's on page 10 of the unanswered tab&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-09-11T00:07:02.833" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2261" CreationDate="2012-09-11T04:30:08.250" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PjhYX.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I post this on their community ad page? Or where should I put this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2012-09-11T04:30:08.250" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2264" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-11T17:48:25.717" Score="6" ViewCount="648" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the chat &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/6106664#6106664&quot;&gt;JohnO&lt;/a&gt; suggested a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/gorilla-vs-shark/&quot;&gt;Shark vs Gorilla&lt;/a&gt; series of blog posts. While Shark vs Gorilla questions are not allowed in the normal site, it could be something fun for people to participate in on the blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6eLEV.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please post your matchups here. Once some of the suggestions are upvoted we'll coordinate to get a writeup to discuss the matchup. I imagine it will do one of those lists of strengths, lists of weaknesses, and a speculative battle between the two. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Requirements:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At least one of the characters needs to be from fantasy or science fiction. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Matchups should be at least arguably fair. Extremely mismached opponents aren't going to be very interesting or fun. (ie Darth Vader vs Pippen).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It should be an original match up, so no Thor vs Hulk, Alien vs Predator, or Werewolf vs Vampire. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2012-09-11T18:14:53.150" LastActivityDate="2012-11-15T19:28:48.883" Title="Shark vs Gorilla Blog Posts" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="21" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2264" CreationDate="2012-09-11T18:07:25.780" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Death Star vs Mogo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A planet destroyer against a Green Lantern planet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2012-09-11T18:07:25.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2264" CreationDate="2012-09-11T18:15:54.357" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Iron Man (Marvel) vs The Doctor (Doctor Who)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2012-09-11T18:15:54.357" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2268" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-11T18:19:51.273" Score="2" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking of holding a regular chat session to discus the &lt;code&gt;Topic of the X&lt;/code&gt; thread we are intending to run. This would be a good way to address what people want to do with and get out of such a thing, and it would let people raise their voice on subject, in a much better way than trying to poll via answers here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So would you take part?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2012-09-12T19:54:48.360" LastActivityDate="2012-09-19T23:23:01.603" Title="Who would partake in a Topic of the yet-to-be-finalised-period chat discussion?" Tags="|chat-event|discussion|community|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2264" CreationDate="2012-09-11T18:36:15.907" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;King Kong vs. Sharktopus&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;===this is a filler to reach 30 characters===&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-09-11T18:36:15.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2264" CreationDate="2012-09-11T18:37:47.730" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Godzilla vs. Smaug (or for stronger version, whoever that dragon was who was supposedly possibly almost able to destroy the One Ring)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-09-11T18:37:47.730" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2264" CreationDate="2012-09-11T18:42:41.237" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;King Kong vs. Shark from Jaws &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(lets get literal, here)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2012-09-11T18:42:41.237" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2264" CreationDate="2012-09-11T18:43:24.793" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dr. Strange (Marvel Universe) vs. Dr Strange (DC Universe)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastActivityDate="2012-09-11T18:43:24.793" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2264" CreationDate="2012-09-11T19:24:12.350" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Terminator Vs a Borg Cube.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2012-09-11T19:24:12.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2264" CreationDate="2012-09-11T19:25:00.617" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doc Brown &amp;amp; Marty Mc Fly &lt;strong&gt;Vs&lt;/strong&gt;. Bill and Ted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2012-09-11T19:25:00.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2264" CreationDate="2012-09-11T23:15:53.867" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because I love swordplay: Drizzt versus Jaime Lannister.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5833" LastActivityDate="2012-09-11T23:15:53.867" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2261" CreationDate="2012-09-11T23:38:57.627" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jlDFy.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Scientist. Fictional.&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-09-12T17:40:19.047" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2264" CreationDate="2012-09-12T01:20:11.273" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;T-X Terminatrix vs Borg Queen. Both have nanoprobes to reprogram things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-09-12T01:20:11.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2261" CreationDate="2012-09-12T01:59:14.030" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/12521/2565&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nGVtF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Evolution of the Combine Strider&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2012-09-12T01:59:14.030" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2261" CreationDate="2012-09-12T03:58:45.900" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mass-effect?sort=votes&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cBTkL.png&quot; alt=&quot;I&amp;#39;m Commander Shepard&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1234" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2012-09-12T23:43:09.683" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2264" CreationDate="2012-09-12T13:01:37.460" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Edward Cullen Vs Human Torch&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfair, but on purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2012-09-12T13:01:37.460" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2264" CreationDate="2012-09-12T16:54:16.193" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Metroplex vs Psycho Gundam mkIII&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...just putting it out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5093" LastActivityDate="2012-09-12T16:54:16.193" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2264" CreationDate="2012-09-12T17:10:17.183" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since people who only know these by name like to confuse them and I'm feeling particularly populist today:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Star Trek vs. Star Wars&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible implementations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Q versus Yoda&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The entire population of the Star Trek universe versus the entire population of the Star Wars universe  (including &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/6555/2565&quot;&gt;E.T.&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Captain Picard versus Admiral Ackbar (&quot;&lt;em&gt;He is employing some sort of manoeuvre ... It's a trap!&lt;/em&gt;&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Riker vs Han Solo&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Neelix vs Jar Jar Binks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Spock vs Obiwan Kenobi&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2012-09-13T19:41:02.397" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2264" CreationDate="2012-09-12T19:24:37.690" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voldemort versus Palpatine&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sGF8E.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1234" LastActivityDate="2012-09-12T19:24:37.690" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2261" CreationDate="2012-09-12T19:32:09.703" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games?sort=newest&amp;amp;pagesize=30&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GrqpT.png&quot; alt=&quot;Ask your lore questions on scifi.stackexchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2012-09-13T11:52:39.777" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="991" CreationDate="2012-09-12T22:05:57.750" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://savethescifi.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qii8Z.png&quot; alt=&quot;Save the SciFi&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1234" LastActivityDate="2012-09-12T22:05:57.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2286" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2288" CreationDate="2012-09-13T19:59:35.117" Score="1" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see that a couple of the ads I made up on a couple of the SE sites got past the threshold to be on the normal cycle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But where do they show up? I thought it was on the main site (scifi.stackexchange.com) but I don't see any community ads at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the only ad I see on gaming.se.com is to follow them on twitter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are they randomly shown to users? If so, then why doesn't constantly refreshing the window show any ads?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-09-16T22:10:39.193" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Where do Community Ads show up?" Tags="|support|advertising|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2264" CreationDate="2012-09-13T20:03:49.873" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2267/2565&quot;&gt;Pureferret's&lt;/a&gt; suggestion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Pinocchio versus Doctor Who&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? Remember the limitations of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Sonic_screwdriver&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;sonic screwdriver&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Doctor%27s_Rules#The_Eleventh_Doctor.27s_Rules&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rule #1&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2012-09-13T20:03:49.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2286" CreationDate="2012-09-13T20:08:19.053" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe they only show up on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;main page&lt;/a&gt;, not on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;/questions&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; nor on individual question pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're in the right-hand column, below the community bulletin and your favorite and ignored tags. Three boxes are shown in a random vertical order order: the little box about chat, an ad for the newsletter, and another ad. Depending on the luck of the draw, that ad may be one of the house ads (I saw one for the Google+ thingy), an ad for another site on the network, a link to a hot question anywhere on the network, or one of the community ads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2012-09-13T20:08:19.053" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2264" CreationDate="2012-09-13T20:42:36.083" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;GLaDOS versus Skynet&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Setting aside their differences to build a better android hell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1234" LastActivityDate="2012-09-13T20:42:36.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2286" CreationDate="2012-09-14T01:52:34.940" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Constantly refreshing wont help. SE uses various levels of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/853/168610&quot;&gt;caching&lt;/a&gt;. According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/956/168610&quot;&gt;Jeff&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The homepage is cached at 60 seconds per tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This includes the community promotion ads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2012-09-14T01:52:34.940" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2291" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-14T17:38:13.853" Score="-5" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everybody knows what I'm talking about (if you don't, never mind). It is indisputable that there are memes in this community that positively reinforce trolls in their behaviour by shovelling massive amounts of attention in their direction. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/56/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; raised my conciousness the other day in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/5989182#5989182&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt; in pointing out how counter-productive this is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; problematic is this? Is it really such a problem? &lt;strong&gt;Should we flag all instances&lt;/strong&gt; where somebody uses that meme (in questions, answers, comments and even chat)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2012-09-20T07:17:28.330" Title="Should we discourage perpetuating trolls by meme-fying them?" Tags="|discussion|community|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2292" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-14T17:58:05.470" Score="8" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most common edit other users do with my posts is to edit my title and change my title's formatting when the formatting is already correct. I have my preference for a title's style and I respect others who choose a different formatting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some users, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/105516/rss-feed-issue-with-edited-questions/146995#146995&quot;&gt;changing the title of a question forces it through the tag RSS feed every time an edit is made&lt;/a&gt;. I've seen (mainly from another site that I no longer follow) the same question come through on the feed up to six or seven times in one day, just because someone tweaked the title for the umpteenth time. I don't think anybody wants to see that!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As well, there's no need to edit a title when its format is already correct. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When should a title be edited? When should a title be rewritten?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="When Should We Edit a Title?" Tags="|discussion|editing|title|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2292" CreationDate="2012-09-14T18:01:30.067" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;A title to a question should be edited if there is a spelling, punctuation, or grammar error. A title should &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; be corrected for style, as long as the title adheres to a correct standard. A title should be rewritten if it is nonsensical. Personally, if I find a nonsensical title that, after a few readings, I figure out what it means, I do rewrite the title for the OP, to try and provide assistance. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are actually two standard styles for titles, both of them equally grammatically correct. There are some exceptions to the basic rules I'm going to lay out, but I'm not going to list them all (They're pretty specific to certain situations that I doubt would come up here.). The two accepted styles of a title are the headline style and the sentence style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HEADLINE-STYLE TITLE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The headline-style title reads like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mneumonics That Work Are Better Than Rules That Do Not&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Singing While You Work&lt;br&gt;&#xA;A Little Learning Is a Dangerous Thing&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The Editor as Anonymous Assistant&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the headline style, capitalize the first and last words in titles and subtitles, and capitalize all other major words (nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; conjunctions). The articles &lt;em&gt;the, a,&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;an&lt;/em&gt; are always lowercase in a headline-style title, as are the conjunctions &lt;em&gt;and, but, for, or,&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;nor&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SENTENCE-STYLE TITLE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sentence-style title reads like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mneumonics that work are better than rules that do not&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Singing while you work&lt;br&gt;&#xA;A little learning is a dangerous thing&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The editor as anonymous assistant&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In sentence-style capitalization only the first word in a title, the first word in a subtitle, and any proper names are capitalized. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Chicago Manual of Style&lt;/em&gt; 16th ed. - page 448 - sections 8.155-8.156 - &lt;em&gt;Capitalization, Punctuation, and Italics&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both of these styles are perfectly correct and standard. As noted in the question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/105516/rss-feed-issue-with-edited-questions/146995#146995&quot;&gt;editing titles on a post can cause the question to go through the feed again for some users&lt;/a&gt;, so I think changing the title of a question should be reserved for bona fide &lt;em&gt;errors&lt;/em&gt; and not tinkered with for stylistic preference. For users who can approve suggested title edits, it's important to make sure there is &lt;em&gt;actually something wrong&lt;/em&gt; with the original title before automatically approving another person's suggested style changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If all spelling, grammar, and punctuation in a poster's title are correct, the OP's style preference -- headline or sentence style -- should be respected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2012-09-14T18:01:30.067" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2291" CreationDate="2012-09-14T18:27:44.340" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I hesitate to call it &quot;massive amounts of attention&quot;. It comes up on occasion, there's a handful of lines in chat responding, and then it gets dropped. Have you noticed the troll seems to respond by posting to comments made about him/her? For example, if the troll is talked about in chat, does a post suddenly appear? &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; have not noticed a pattern like this, but admittedly I'm not monitoring the person in that way. Frankly, our troll seems pretty laissez-faire, posting without rhyme or reason. Yes, feeding the troll probably incites more behaviors. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But his/her behaviors don't really impact me negatively, so for your question &quot;Is it really such a problem?&quot; my answer is No, not for me. I would flag something grossly inappropriate regarding our troll, but the mere fact that &quot;Hey, So-and-so's made another post&quot; isn't going to alarm me or really blip on my radar. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have the mods been asked how they want us to proceed in the case of a sighting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2012-09-14T18:27:44.340" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2292" CreationDate="2012-09-14T19:00:14.640" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most recent occurrence of this with one of your posts seems to be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/23332/revisions&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;. Which did go through my feed once when your title was edited, and &lt;strong&gt;again&lt;/strong&gt; when you rolled back. The person who edited however made the note &quot;rm exces capitalization in title&quot;, which (barring his input) seems to me that he didn't think it was a &lt;em&gt;style&lt;/em&gt; change, but rather that it was &lt;em&gt;incorrect&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It just so happens that on StackExchange sites (at least in my experience), that predominately questions are typed out in sentence style. To me this seems most intuitive, since when I type up a question I want it to accurately portray what I am asking. Everything in the body of the question I use to support/reflect on the question. Because of this stand-alone nature of the question (i.e. it could be asked &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; delving into the body material) it comes naturally to me to type it out as a standalone sentence. (This is where the sentence style comes from.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally agree with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;If all spelling, grammar, and punctuation in a poster's title are correct, the OP's style preference -- headline or sentence style -- should be respected.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As long as the style is either well-known or doesn't disrupt the readability of the question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However in the example above, the person who edited your post seemed to be under the impression that the capitalization was wrong, and not just a style choice. Unfortunately, since the predominate style used seems to be &quot;sentence style&quot;, &lt;strong&gt;you will occasionally come across people who either assume or think that the headline-style is &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt;, and who will edit to correct it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the obvious answer to &quot;When should we edit a title?&quot; is: when it is difficult to understand what the OP is asking. Furthermore, I agree that style should be respected with the understanding that if you use a style that (while correct) is &lt;em&gt;not typical&lt;/em&gt; of the site, then you will likely occasionally get it &quot;corrected&quot; for you. C'est la vie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2012-09-14T19:00:14.640" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2291" CreationDate="2012-09-14T19:10:15.053" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first rule of our troll is: You do not talk about our troll. The second rule of our troll is: &lt;em&gt;You do not talk about our troll&lt;/em&gt;. Third rule of our troll: someone yells flag, goes to chat, posts meta, the troll is over. Fourth rule: only two trolls to a fight. Fifth rule: one flag at a time, fellas. Sixth rule: no robots, no time-travelling. Seventh rule: trolls &lt;strong&gt;will go on as long as they have to&lt;/strong&gt;. And the eighth and final rule: if this is your first sight of our troll, you have to flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(In all seriousness, the &quot;troll&quot; we are talking about seems harmless, can be humorous at times, and most importantly: &lt;em&gt;most of his &quot;queries&quot; are appended onto legitimate quality questions that are welcome in our community.&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4383" LastActivityDate="2012-09-14T19:10:15.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2264" CreationDate="2012-09-14T19:35:17.380" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Batman vs. Iron Man. They are pretty much the exact equivalency of each other in the DC and Marvel Universes, and I always wanted to see them face off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I defer writing of this idea to whomever knows the characters well enough to do them justice. My Batman knowledge is pretty much limited to the cartoons and movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4831" LastActivityDate="2012-09-14T19:35:17.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2292" CreationDate="2012-09-15T00:04:53.333" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;In general&lt;/em&gt;, I agree with everyone else.  However, since NominSim brought up &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/23332/revisions&quot;&gt;this edit history&lt;/a&gt;, I'm going to disagree and use it as an example.  Here's several possibilities for capitalization:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do Wizarding Photographs Kept in Muggle Homes Violate the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do Wizarding photographs kept in Muggle homes violate the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do wizarding photographs kept in muggle homes violate the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(..And I was going to add an additional example with the original casing, but the Statute in &lt;em&gt;italic&lt;/em&gt;, but question titles don't support that)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now - which one is the easiest to read?  For me, the first (and original) casing is by far the worst, for two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) Capital letters should almost always belong at the beginning of the sentence or in a proper noun.  Because if this, I get mental stuttering when I try to read the sentence, a pause right before each capitalized word that isn't part of one entity.  Basically, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2lpIqVVSkE#t=0m5s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;it reads like Kirk-speak&lt;/a&gt;, which can be headache-inducing.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;2) There is nothing distinguishing the one proper noun in there from the rest of the sentence, so when skimming the list of questions on the front page, the subject blurs into the rest of the question.  Even worse, because there &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; lowercase words still in there, it looks like &quot;Muggle Homes Violate&quot; and &quot;Wizarding Photographs Kept&quot; are intended to be proper nouns in and of themselves, which &lt;em&gt;especially&lt;/em&gt; doesn't make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second one is what Mechanical snail edited it to.  Better, but &quot;muggle&quot; and &quot;wizarding&quot; arguably aren't proper nouns.  I have no problem with this version, but it does look a little odd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The third version is what I would have edited it to:  Write the question as a sentence, and only capitalize the proper nouns.  The subject now stands out as one entity in the sentence, and is overall much easier to read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2012-09-15T00:04:53.333" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2299" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-15T02:33:56.103" Score="6" ViewCount="303" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was over reading Meta Stack Overflow and came across an admittedly old post called &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/14902/slow-down-selfish-users?rq=1&quot;&gt;Slow Down Selfish Users&lt;/a&gt; where the OP takes users who don't choose answers frequently enough to task for being &quot;selfish&quot; users. He asserts that by asking (and perhaps answering?) more questions than you accept answers for asked questions makes you a selfish user who is only interested in increasing your own rep while not giving back to the community by awarding people by selecting answers to your questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this how people truly feel about the Stack?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do go through my questions and choose answers, but I admit it's few and far between that I sit down and concentrate on this task (when I choose an answer I read every answer and check out every link provided, so it's not a breezy task). My accept rate is around 57% right now -- is this considered poor participation? It seems like users on MSO have mixed feelings on whether or not just asking questions and not choosing answers is a contribution to the community or not. I definitely ask questions more frequently than I choose answers, but I eventually &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; choose answers to my questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there an expected period of time within which an answer to a question should be selected?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it poor form to ask more questions than to answer more questions? In my case, &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; is my only fandom (well, okay, I dabble &lt;em&gt;LOTR&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;) and I have no control over when someone else posts a &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; question, and I think it would be really bad form to post my own questions just to have something to answer. But I don't want to be thought of negatively because of this.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there an answer acceptance rate that is considered to demonstrate a user is committed to the community, such as 50%, 80%, or 96%, etc.?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been three years since that original MSO post was made -- I'm wondering if expectations have changed when it comes to judging committed participation on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2012-09-16T04:57:35.930" Title="Am I a &quot;Selfish&quot; User?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2299" CreationDate="2012-09-15T03:07:56.387" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know one of our own moderators has said that he has what I'd call a low acceptance rate (I believe it was under 60%).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many of us (and this includes me) prefer to wait to pick an answer so there's time for a lot of people to provide answers.  Some of us live at the keyboard and can answer every question as it is posted, and some don't get by here more than once every few days.  (And, depending on what I'm doing, I can fit in either of those categories, so I know both points of view.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often jumping in to pick an answer immediately can lead to discouraging other people from providing good answers or could mean picking the &quot;now&quot; answer rather than the best answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with that is that once we decide to wait and not pick an answer immediately, we may not return immediately to pick an answer for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would call someone selfish if they ask questions and never evaluate the answers or if their actions show all they care about is gaining as much rep as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ask a question, you get 5 points per vote, instead of 10 votes per point, and, as many of us have noticed in chat, questions rarely get the kind of votes answers get.  It's much more difficult to gain rep through questions than answers, so when you ask a question that gives people a chance to provide good answers, you're helping those who post answers more than you're helping yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for a recommended time range for deciding on answers, I don't know if there is one, but I think it's better to leave a question without a selected answer than to pick an answer that isn't that good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, as someone who has been on this board just a while longer than you, and has seen your behavior over almost a year, I would say the mere fact that you're asking that question is a good indication you do not fit in that category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2012-09-15T03:07:56.387" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2299" CreationDate="2012-09-15T03:39:43.780" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't consider this particularly selfish. Without actually going to the trouble to look it up, other forms of rep have to far outweigh the +15 you get for selecting an answer. I'll get 150-200 rep for an answer, not getting that last 5% doesn't really hurt my feelings. Perhaps they've lost their password or moved on. Or something's come up. It's no big deal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7603" LastActivityDate="2012-09-15T03:39:43.780" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2292" CreationDate="2012-09-15T17:11:54.983" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The caption next to the box says &lt;code&gt;Title&lt;/code&gt;, so I am personally fine with either the &lt;em&gt;title&lt;/em&gt; version (with capitalized major words) or the &lt;em&gt;sentence&lt;/em&gt; version which reads like a regular question. Here is what Jeff Atwood said about editting (and edit wars) &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/the-great-edit-wars/&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/the-great-edit-wars/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As it says on the sidebar of every edit page, here’s what makes up good editing practice as we see it on Stack Overflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Fix grammatical or spelling errors.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Clarify meaning without changing it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Correct minor mistakes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Add related resources or links.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Always respect the original author.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Editing is welcomed and encouraged. However, &lt;strong&gt;if the author of the post is resistant to your editing changes, even a perfectly legitimate edit based on the above rules, be the bigger man (or woman) and let them have it their way.&lt;/strong&gt; Our goal here is not to cause friction between users, or to make everything perfect overnight. All we aim to do is gradually clean up and improve questions and answers together. When in doubt, just move on! There will be plenty of other posts and other edits you can make. In time, that reluctant author will learn how Stack Overflow works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just is just a snipet of the article, but it goes on to say that we should all act like adults, and not edit just for the sake of editting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally only edit a title if it isn't in the form of a question (doesn't end with a ? or doesn't sound like a question), has a bunch of extra information (like tags) in the question title (ie HARRY POTTER: IS Harry a shephard?!?!?!), or if there are spelling / grammatical errors. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2012-09-15T17:11:54.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2258" CreationDate="2012-09-15T20:46:28.830" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you have to consider the instructions on the original &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/14902/slow-down-selfish-users?rq=1&quot;&gt;Community Promotion Ads&lt;/a&gt; post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nowhere on the post is the issue of the clickthrough URL addressed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The post says the ads will be featured on the main page of SE, making the scifi.stackexchange.com URL logical as a clickthrough.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nowhere on the post does it say the ads were now going to be featured on SFF itself, which of course makes scifi.stackexchange.com the incorrect clickthrough URL.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are no example suggestions for clickthrough URLs to indicate this change.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I used scifi.stackexchange.com on my first ad way back in January, and with a lack of any updated information, I &lt;em&gt;didn't know&lt;/em&gt; to change the clickthrough URL. It didn't say the ads were going to be featured on SFF and not on the main SE page, as it was before. When I checked this morning, the original post was still in place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it helps to build our community to extend the benefit of the doubt and to try and help our fellow users where we can. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A user codes the wrong clickthrough URL on a community promo ad. One could:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Go through every banner ad submission the user has made and comment with &amp;quot;Why is your ad leading back to scifi.stackexchange.com?&amp;quot; on &lt;em&gt;every single post&lt;/em&gt;, without any further information or any offer to help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leave a comment on one of the banner ad posts saying, &amp;quot;It looks like you've got the wrong URL on your clickthrough -- do you need some help?&amp;quot; Or ping the user in chat to let him/her know there's a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Make an entire meta post pointing out the user's mistake and asking for the user's posts to be removed. Not fixed. But &lt;strong&gt;removed&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leave a comment on one of the user's posts saying, &amp;quot;Hey, I see you've got your URLs wrong in posts X, Y, Z -- do you need a hand figuring it out?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just some alternate reactions for consideration. I myself am not a programmer, so even the few lines of code in the community promo ads were something I had to actively figure out. In this regard, it would also be great if someone would update the original post with more specific information regarding the clickthrough URLs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-09-15T20:46:28.830" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2299" CreationDate="2012-09-16T04:57:35.930" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally don't think that you are a selfish user. Though to me by not accepting an answer (after a reasonable amount of time) it acts almost as an unwritten refutation of the available answers to the question. With you being a well respected member of the community here, it bears a little weight when (seemingly) good answers are not accepted on your questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't ask too many questions on here but I only &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; accept an answer if I personally feel that a correct answer hasn't been given. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/23086/could-the-horcruxes-be-destroyed-with-avada-kedavra&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; recent question of mine for instance (IMO) doesn't contain any answers that the community can agree on, so it remains un-accepted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ahem...&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/18785/why-didnt-voldemort-suspect-snape-as-a-double-agent-during-philosophers-stone/18789#18789&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question of yours however has only one answer(yes it's mine) that has twenty community up votes and is a direct quote from source material. Since you haven't accepted it I have to assume that you don't agree with it. As I was saying earlier, you are a respected member of this community that is also our resident Harry Potter aficionado so when you &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; accept an answer it throws doubt on it for members of the community. (&quot;If the answer is right, then why wasn't it accepted?&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, accepted questions raise the quality of the site as a whole for anyone who researches a particular question and lands in one of your very well thought and formatted questions. If they find that you haven't accepted an answer, it lays doubt in their minds about its genuineness, and they may leave the site not completely satisfied with the result. By branding an answer &quot;accepted&quot;, you are providing them with peace of mind that &lt;em&gt;even the person asking the question&lt;/em&gt; thinks that it is the correct answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all accepting answers to your questions isn't really about giving the rep, it is about assuring the community that an answer is correct. (Bear in mind that AFAIK you can un-accept and change which answer you accept at any time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2012-09-16T04:57:35.930" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2307" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-16T22:11:58.787" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use this tag for discussions about advertising that appears on the site, including the community ads in the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'community-ads'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; thread. For discussions about advertising this site in other venues, see &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/site-promotion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'site-promotion'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;site-promotion&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-09-16T22:11:58.787" LastActivityDate="2012-09-16T22:11:58.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2308" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-16T22:11:58.787" Score="0" Body="About the advertising that appears on the site." OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-09-16T22:11:58.787" LastActivityDate="2012-09-16T22:11:58.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2309" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-16T22:12:30.517" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads started as &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/12/free-vote-based-advertising-for-open-source-projects/&quot;&gt;free advertising on Stack Overflow for open source projects&lt;/a&gt; in 2009. In 2011, the project was expanded to include &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/05/community-promotion-ads/&quot;&gt;free vote-based advertising for all Stack Exchange communities&lt;/a&gt;. Ads should be for projects, tools, conferences, etc. relevant to the site, such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Highlighting and promoting activities in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;per-site community blogs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cool applications or open-source projects related to the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The site’s &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/twitter-question-feeds-for-stack-exchange/&quot;&gt;Twitter feed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Promoting relevant events or conferences the community should know about&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anything else the community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag should only be used on posts in which ads are submitted and voted upon, and can therefore only be applied by moderators. If you need to &lt;em&gt;discuss&lt;/em&gt; community ads, please use the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/advertising&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'advertising'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;advertising&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-09-16T22:12:30.517" LastActivityDate="2012-09-16T22:12:30.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2310" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-16T22:12:30.517" Score="0" Body="Indicates a post used for submitting and voting on Community Promotion Ads. For discussion on these Ads, please use the [advertising] tag." OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-09-16T22:12:30.517" LastActivityDate="2012-09-16T22:12:30.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="991" CreationDate="2012-09-17T18:45:30.353" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/43283/space-exploration-and-technology?referrer=xkTq6YaEeCR2lHaAoMu3_A2&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LwCGY.png&quot; alt=&quot;Space Exploration and Technology&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-09-17T18:45:30.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2312" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2313" CreationDate="2012-09-17T20:30:59.350" Score="10" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently started reading a long and popular fantasy series. I've reached about 50% of the first book (or so says Kindle) and I'm so and so about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if it's ok to ask a question about its story flow to know if it's worth to keep reading.&#xA;Of course, asking if I'm going to like the book or not it's very subjective and therefore an inappropriate question. However, a question about the story evolution seems pretty objective to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, Dan Simmons' &lt;em&gt;Hyperion Cantos&lt;/em&gt;: the first book is written in a different manner and you can't get a good impression on the whole series simply based on it. &#xA;On the other hand, &lt;em&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/em&gt;: the plot gradually gets more and more complex but it remains centered on the segmented stories of certain characters and doesn't follow a single narrative line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would questions about such subjects be on topic if they are formulated in a clear, answerable and objective manner?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sample questions: &#xA;- is the TV series X arc-based or more of a &quot;monster of the week&quot; show?&#xA;- is the book series X character centric or is it about a certain country / planet / universe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6696" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2016-01-11T11:35:38.380" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T11:35:38.380" Title="Can I ask a question about the story flow of a fantasy series?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2312" CreationDate="2012-09-17T20:37:05.413" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about the story flow would be fine as long as they can be answered “constructively”. Try to be sufficiently focused — “is the whole series written in the same style?” is too vague, “is this particular theme central to other volumes?” would be ok.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do please avoid “general reference” questions that can be looked up on Wikipedia or a similar reference. For example, whether a TV series is monster-of-the-week or story-based is usually apparent from the introduction of its Wikipedia article.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-09-17T20:37:05.413" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2264" CreationDate="2012-09-18T23:20:36.357" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rather than downvote everything in sight, I'll post this as an answer. I don't find the concept appealing at all, for precisely the reason the gorilla vs shark blog post is about. This is an exercise in creative writing, not an interesting comparison of two characters. I suggest doing such an exercise on your personal blog, I don't see what makes it particularly interesting to our community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-09-18T23:20:36.357" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2316" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2317" CreationDate="2012-09-19T23:00:32.133" Score="4" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just tried to fix the tag name on Pureferret's question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/23654/is-vaarsuvius-male-or-female&quot;&gt;Is Vaarsuvius male or female?&lt;/a&gt;, since the name of the webcomic is singular (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.giantitp.com/Comics.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Order of the Stick&lt;/a&gt;) and got an error message about &quot;order-of-the-sticks&quot; already existing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Creating the new tag [order-of-the-stick] is not allowed since the tag [order-of-the-sticks] already exists. If you think this new tag should be allowed, raise it on meta.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can it be renamed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2012-09-19T23:07:17.897" Title="Renaming the &quot;Order of the Sticks&quot; tag" Tags="|support|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2316" CreationDate="2012-09-19T23:07:17.897" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oops. Sticks? What sticks? It says &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/order-of-the-stick&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;order-of-the-stick&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;order-of-the-stick&lt;/a&gt;. It has always said &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/order-of-the-stick&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;order-of-the-stick&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;order-of-the-stick&lt;/a&gt;. We have always been at war with Azure City. Move along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-09-19T23:07:17.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2268" CreationDate="2012-09-19T23:23:01.603" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's bump this… I would, if it's at a convenient time for me (roughly 19–00 UTC, also earlier on week-ends).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I'm not 100% convinced that we &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; keep up a topic of the time period regularly. This risks driving “artificial” questions, made up under constraint. It would be better for highlighted topics to be related to some event (pity we missed the Hugos — is it too late to have a Hugo winners event?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-09-19T23:23:01.603" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1719" CreationDate="2012-09-21T00:16:23.407" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;My spoiler markup wasn't working either, but turns out that you can't spoiler multiple paragraphs&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This markup...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;! spoiler paragraph 1&#xA;&#xA;&amp;gt;! spoiler paragraph 2&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;looks like this...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;! spoiler paragraph 1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;! spoiler paragraph 2&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had to be remove the intervening actual blank line, and append &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; to synthetically insert it again&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; spoiler paragraph 1&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA; spoiler paragraph 2&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The raw text now looks like...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;! spoiler paragraph 1&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;gt;! spoiler paragraph 2&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4017" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-09-21T00:16:23.407" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="991" CreationDate="2012-09-21T20:11:08.173" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/168/the-overlook-hotel?tab=schedule&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/D64tF.png&quot; alt=&quot;Writing exercise chat&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33" LastEditorUserId="33" LastEditDate="2012-10-02T02:51:29.923" LastActivityDate="2012-10-02T02:51:29.923" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="991" CreationDate="2012-09-21T20:33:22.480" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NTjfH.png&quot; alt=&quot;Movies.Stackexchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1987" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2012-09-21T20:33:22.480" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2322" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-23T11:52:50.807" Score="4" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/5911/topic-of-the-fortnight&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is where you can join in the discussion. Let me know your thoughts on the chat!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2016-05-23T12:05:32.530" Title="We now have a Chat Room to discus the Topic of the Fortnight!" Tags="|discussion|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2264" CreationDate="2012-09-25T23:19:58.260" Score="0" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Lord Ruler (Mist Born) vs The Emperor (WH40K)&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-09-25T23:19:58.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2322" CreationDate="2012-09-27T23:13:17.783" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There will be a discussion about the Topic being picked for the period 1-14 october on the 29th of this month. Let me know if there is a preferred time, otherwise I'll hold one at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=7%20pm%2029/09/12%20utc%20in%20america&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;7PM UTC&lt;/a&gt; and one later on in America.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2012-09-27T23:13:17.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2326" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-28T19:15:41.633" Score="8" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; All 3-day passes have been claimed. Thank you to everyone who claimed a pass. See you at the con!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newyorkcomiccon.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;New York Comic Con&lt;/a&gt; is soon approaching (October 12-14). For any users interested in attending, Stack Exchange has 3-day passes available. Please note that &lt;strong&gt;Stack Exchange is only providing 3-day passes&lt;/strong&gt;; &lt;strong&gt;we are not responsible for travel or lodging&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those receiving a 3-day pass will get a Stack Exchange NYCC swag package, including a SciFi.SE shirt, stickers and lanyard to use at the con and, also, your day-to-day existence&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a pass, please e-mail the following information to &lt;strong&gt;brett [at] stackexchange [dot] com&lt;/strong&gt; with the title &lt;strong&gt;NYCC 2012&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your name &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your username&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your mailing address &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your t-shirt size&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There are only 10 3-day passes available, and this offer is also being extended to &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Arqade&lt;/a&gt;. If you want one, don't wait!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange will also have a booth on the show floor this year (Booth #2278). Employees from the Community Growth team and other departments will be at the booth, and our &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/06/heroescon-2012-report/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;famous (?) Spinning Wheel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; will also be distributing prizes to all who spin it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:09:36.363" LastActivityDate="2012-10-05T15:05:04.673" Title="New York Comic Con 2012, October 12-14" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2012-10-26T15:35:33.253" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2100" CreationDate="2012-09-28T21:36:18.743" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;the fix will be in the next production build. thanks for the visibility: suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastActivityDate="2012-09-28T21:36:18.743" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2328" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-30T22:16:32.300" Score="4" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Topic of the Fortnight:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The topic of the fortnight is Fringe.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This topic was chosen by Izkata, in our &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/5911/topic-of-the-fortnight&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What can I ask?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions as they arise from the new season, as well as old questions you have about the show. Don't forget to tag them &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fringe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fringe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fringe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How else can I help?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer the questions that come up, promote the topic on external sites and other SE (where appropriate, no spamming please), and offer bounties on &lt;em&gt;existing&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fringe&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; about fringe, either ones that haven't got enough attention, need more detail etc. Save your 'Reward Awesome Question' bounties until after the new questions have been answered&lt;sup&gt;1.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why should I help?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only are you adding to the questions on stack exchance you're also, hopefully, promoting the site to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What happens after?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the two weeks we'll have the Fornight of Rewards! It'll be time to reward those who've answered questions with bounties (the Awesome Question Bounties! mentioned above) and picking the best questions, and posting them here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The topic begins at midnight (UTC tonight)&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-09-30T22:16:32.300" Title="Topic of the Fortnight - Oct. 1-14" Tags="|discussion|community|topic-of-the-fortnight|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2329" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2332" CreationDate="2012-09-30T22:33:24.587" Score="7" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't been able to find a Wheel of time FAQ up to date to Towers of Midnight on any of the various mirrors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is asking for a faq resource on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wotfaq.dragonmount.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;dragonmount&lt;/a&gt; version of the FAQ which is complete up to Knife of Dreams.&#xA;Then theres the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.steelypips.org/wotfaq/0_admin/0.01_intro.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;steelypips&lt;/a&gt; version (when it used to be managed by Leigh Butler), which is complete up to Crossroads of Twilight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the dragonmount version we've had The Gathering storm and Towers of Midnight where at least a few prophecies / dreams from earlier books have been fulfilled, i wonder if there is a version of the faq that includes information from these books whilst preparing for A Memory of Light.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8413" LastEditorUserId="8413" LastEditDate="2012-09-30T22:50:10.917" LastActivityDate="2012-10-05T21:48:22.633" Title="Is asking for a resource on topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2330" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-02T19:37:04.307" Score="3" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange is giving away 5 3-day passes to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newyorkcomiccon.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;New York Comic Con&lt;/a&gt; via Twitter. Here’s what you have to do to enter the giveaway:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Follow the &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/stackscifi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;@StackSciFi&lt;/a&gt; Twitter account. Winners will be contacted via Direct Message on Twitter, and the only way for contact to be made is if participants follow @StackSciFi. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Think of a friend/fellow NYCC attendee/attending comic book writer/artist/internet celeb/outernet celeb/person.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Find a question at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; that you think that person would find interesting, be able to answer, enjoy reading, or (in some cases) be interested in because they wrote/directed/starred in the actual subject of the question. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Share the question with the person (by @'ing them) using the site’s handy dandy sharing tools. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/e0Fdx.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Use the hashtag &lt;strong&gt;#nyccse&lt;/strong&gt; so we can track all the questions being shared in this giveaway. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's optional, but you can &lt;strong&gt;also include the link to this very post&lt;/strong&gt; so that the person knows this is a super-fun-awesome contest that is giving away passes to New York Comic Con, and also to explain why you are tweeting a super-fun-awesome, relevant question to them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;One randomly drawn entrant will also receive &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B0083SBJXS&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Avengers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B004LWZWGK&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; on Blu-Ray in addition to 1 3-day pass to NYCC.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only questions shared by @StackSciFi followers with a buddy via Twitter with the hashtag #nyccse are valid entries into the giveaway. You may tweet as many questions to your friends and/or celeb crushes as you like; each tweet acts as an entry to the contest BUT only 1 3-day pass will be awarded per user. The names of 5 people will be drawn at random.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The winners will be notified via Direct Message and will have to provide a mailing address that we can send the 3-day pass to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The contests starts immediately; &lt;strong&gt;the deadline for entry is Friday, October 5th at 4:00 PM EDT/8:00 PM UTC&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, only enter if you are 100% able to go to New York Comic Con. We want to make sure that the passes go to people that are excited to take in the spectacular spectacle that is NYCC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange is only responsible for the 3-day passes. The winners must provide their own transportation and lodging arrangements because, again, you are only getting a 3-day pass to New York Comic Con out of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2012-10-02T21:15:07.463" Title="Twitter contest for 3-day passes to New York Comic Con 2012" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2012-10-26T15:34:57.170" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2264" CreationDate="2012-10-03T00:36:52.473" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rassilon Vs Rufus (Bill &amp;amp; Ted)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2012-10-03T00:36:52.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2329" CreationDate="2012-10-05T21:48:22.633" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it could be. You would have to avoid asking a question whose answers can only be opinions. So don't ask &lt;em&gt;What is the best WoT FAQ?&lt;/em&gt;, unless you want the question closed immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, ask a question that can have a single, objective answer. Something like &lt;em&gt;Does an up-to-date WoT FAQ exist?&lt;/em&gt;, or &lt;em&gt;What is the most up-to-date WoT FAQ?&lt;/em&gt; If all you want is info on prophecies/dreams, incorporate them into your question -- perhaps &lt;em&gt;What is the most up-to-date WoT FAQ for prophecies and dreams?&lt;/em&gt; Just explain your criteria in the body of your post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and spell out &lt;em&gt;WoT&lt;/em&gt; in your question -- I didn't because I'm lazy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2258" LastActivityDate="2012-10-05T21:48:22.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2333" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-08T04:21:58.533" Score="10" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;The current badge description is misleading. It currently reads: &lt;em&gt;RESEARCH ASSISTANT Edited 50 tag wikis.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NKVf7.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had thought it strange that only two users had achieved this silver badge, but thought that I would give it a go anyways. So for the past few weeks, I have been diligently looking for tags that have no write-ups at all and have been (I thought) reasonably starting where one ought to start on a wiki, with the most basic component of the wiki, the excerpts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After 53 edits and some wondering and waiting... I finally went hunting for an answer as to why this badge might not have been awarded to me and came across @Jeff's meta question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/912/is-there-a-bug-with-the-populist-badge&quot;&gt;Is there a bug with the populist badge?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...then reading down through the answers found @Gilles's link to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/67397/list-of-all-badges-with-full-descriptions&quot;&gt;List of all badges with full descriptions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...then scrolling through the badges finally found the answer to my dilema, namely, that there is MORE to the badge requirements than is currently listed on the SF&amp;amp;F site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Research Assistant&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;silver; awarded once&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit 50 different tag wiki bodies&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edits to tag wiki excerpts do ^not count&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/119550/new-silver-badge-for-editing-n-tag-wikis/121484#121484&quot;&gt;badge announcement MSO post by waffles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, it seems clear to me that our site is missing the key info that edits must be to &lt;em&gt;bodies&lt;/em&gt; and that tag wiki &lt;em&gt;excerpts do not count&lt;/em&gt;. Could this be added please? Thx.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8530" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2016-08-21T00:13:35.043" Title="Should 'Research Assistant' badge description be updated?" Tags="|feature-request|status-bydesign|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2334" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2335" CreationDate="2012-10-08T06:05:12.623" Score="2" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meaning no offense to Jin, the current SFF theme is murder on my eyes (my eyes are probably more at fault than the designer :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm rather weak at CSS-fu, especially on the user side (e.g. fixing CSS in the browser for sites I don't control).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would be a good SE site to ask this question on? (e.g. &quot;How can I remove the SFF specific design and replace it with StackOverflow standard design?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-10-08T14:12:54.060" Title="Which SE site is a good place to ask about removing SFF custom CSS themes?" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2334" CreationDate="2012-10-08T06:37:51.070" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a Chrome extension that switches out the CSS for that of any other SE site. I created a version that uses the default beta theme on Scifi ( &lt;a href=&quot;https://dl.dropbox.com/u/21284684/scifi.crx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://dl.dropbox.com/u/21284684/scifi.crx&lt;/a&gt; ). Just drag that file onto the chrome://extensions site and it will be installed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the source files if you want to change anything:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://dl.dropbox.com/u/21284684/scifi/manifest.json&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://dl.dropbox.com/u/21284684/scifi/manifest.json&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://dl.dropbox.com/u/21284684/scifi/scifitheme.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://dl.dropbox.com/u/21284684/scifi/scifitheme.js&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user496" LastActivityDate="2012-10-08T06:37:51.070" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2336" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2339" CreationDate="2012-10-08T09:36:44.657" Score="2" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;An interesting conundrum with a recent question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/24415/which-doctor-who-episodes-were-written-by-steve-cole&quot;&gt;Which Doctor Who episodes were written by Steve Cole?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few people have voted to close it as general reference, but someone points out that the linked WP &lt;em&gt;doesn't&lt;/em&gt; say he wrote any particular episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again - there is no evidence on IMDB of Cole's involvement in the TV series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So - does lack of reference count as general reference? How much lack?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="373" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2012-10-08T19:54:53.917" Title="Does absence of a reference count as &quot;general reference&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|general-reference|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2336" CreationDate="2012-10-08T13:08:11.427" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no lack of reference here.  The &quot;general reference&quot; in this case is actually the website cited in the question itself.  The question spawns from a misunderstanding of the author's works summary on his &quot;About&quot; page.  The page never says the author wrote any episodes - in fact, it specifically says that his work in the Doctor Who universe is in the form of books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1639" LastActivityDate="2012-10-08T13:08:11.427" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2334" CreationDate="2012-10-08T14:12:54.060" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a guide on how to get started with user CSS &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/a/465964/94278&quot;&gt;over on Superuser&lt;/a&gt;, so I'd suggest going over that if you're looking to bone up on user CSS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:04:28.970" LastActivityDate="2012-10-08T14:12:54.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2336" CreationDate="2012-10-08T19:54:53.917" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not a case of an absence of a reference. The reference (the Wikipedia article exists). And the reference (as do other sources) does provide the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the Wikipedia article doesn't explicitly say anything about his writing &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; episodes, it would be highly surprising if it omitted that fact, since both his writing and his involvement in &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; are central topics of the article. IMDB doesn't mention his writing any episode either, and it's supposed to be complete. So yes, this is a general reference question; IMDB answers it authoritatively, and Wikipedia answers it with a high presumption of correctness. A high presumption of correctness is sufficient to close the question anyway — general references can be wrong now and then, but the question should provide some justification for doubting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Steve Cole's own website is yet another confirmation that he did not write any episode. That's yet another confirmation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The information is far easier to find elsewhere on the Internet than on Stack Exchange. That's the point of the general reference close reason. Yes, this is a general reference question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-10-08T19:54:53.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2333" CreationDate="2012-10-08T19:59:31.293" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The one-liner description of a badge is necessarily short. You can't fit all the details in here. That's why the list with full descriptions exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, “tag wiki” is the official name of the tag wiki bodies — the word &lt;em&gt;body&lt;/em&gt; is added to remove any ambiguity, but strictly speaking the short description of the badge is complete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-10-08T19:59:31.293" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2341" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-09T10:36:40.640" Score="5" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;We could just open another question for every topic and have people make suggestions in the form of answers (which can easily be voted up and down). Instead we use the starring system of the chat. That seems like &quot;we're doing it wrong&quot;&lt;sup&gt;TM&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question could even be closed once the topic was chosen and the score embedded in the original question text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastActivityDate="2012-10-13T11:49:38.667" Title="Why do we pick the Topic of the Fortnight in chat rather than on meta?" Tags="|discussion|chat|topic-of-the-fortnight|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2341" CreationDate="2012-10-09T19:57:49.807" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is just a guess and I wasn't there when &lt;em&gt;Fringe&lt;/em&gt; was picked as the Topic of the Fortnight, but I figured it happened casually and with a little excitement that this would be new. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that providing suggestions via an answer is the better way to go. It gives everyone a voice, as not everyone utilizes the chat room. And people would more easily know where to go to vote and make suggestions if there is a post specifically for that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2012-10-09T19:57:49.807" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2343" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-10T14:14:43.850" Score="11" ViewCount="293" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often times I see a question that sparks my interest, and it looks like it's going to ask for the origins of a particular theme, but then I read the question to find &quot;what is the oldest story of&quot; or &quot;what is the earliest example of&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was sort of spawned by a conversation I had in chat based on this meta question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2170/should-the-questions-that-ask-for-the-something-est-answer-have-their-answers&quot;&gt;Something-Est Answers&lt;/a&gt; which was about cleaning up &quot;clearly wrong&quot; answers in &quot;something-est&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My current issue with this genre of questions is that I have trouble drawing the line. For example, this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12521/the-first-walkers&quot;&gt;Earliest Walkers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The asker clarified that a walker would be some non-living vehicle that ambulates with more than two legs. Examples as ancient as the bulls of Hephaestus can be used to answer this. Eventually it was decided that Vernes steam-powered elephant best fit the bill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that every &quot;earliest&quot; example is precluded by an example that fits the bill somewhat less perfectly. Often times the asker is asked to produce a continual list of clarifications and restrictions on their question till they accept an answer. The counter-problem with this is that an over-specified question is somewhat useless. For (bad) example, if the asker is forced to sharpen their definition of &quot;witch&quot; to &quot;a witch who is Hermione Granger&quot;, the answer is somewhat &lt;em&gt;the question&lt;/em&gt;. Yes a severe example, but it at least points to where I'm trying to sling words at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My default reaction is to &quot;draw the line&quot; with the term &quot;earliest&quot;, and allow the askers definition to be bent. I treat them somewhat like an origin question. This is sometimes accepted, sometimes frowned upon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/3038/what-is-the-origin-of-harem-anime/&quot;&gt;Earliest Harem Anime&lt;/a&gt;. This was &lt;em&gt;once&lt;/em&gt; on SciFi, but was moved. There are two answers, mine where I decided to use a strict definition of &quot;Harem Genre&quot; and another where the possible origins of this Genre itself could be found. Unlike the &quot;walkers&quot; question, the asker decided on the origin-style answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Star Wars cemented &quot;light sabres&quot; into SciFi, and is/was the inspiration for most &quot;beam blade&quot; weapons, BUT there were precluding, somewhat less-bill-fitting light sabre examples spanning back to medieval times showing &quot;swords of light&quot;. A question regarding the &quot;earliest example of a light-sabre&quot; may cause head trauma for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find that when one of these questions appears, you get either people asking if the definition can be broadened ex: &quot;will you accept foxes turning in to humans, or just wolves?&quot;. Or narrowed &quot;do you mean specifically a vehicle you could ride &lt;em&gt;IN&lt;/em&gt; or just a plain old vehicle?&quot;. Once, after I asked about 6 or 7 clarifying questions, the asker deleted their question, likely because I was being a pest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the flip-side, &quot;origin&quot; questions are very difficult to answer in entirety and thus may be equally frustrating to answer-ers. Mostly because every answer is likely to be partial, and future answers can borrow from existing ones, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find these questions difficult to answer, even with all the sources in the world because I don't know where to draw the line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;QUESTION:&lt;br /&gt;How answerable does everyone else feel these questions are? If &quot;easily answerable&quot;, then how do you decide how to draw the line?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Some people feel that some of these are list questions in disguise. Does that imply harsher treatment of such questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5093" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2012-10-24T17:01:10.403" Title="What is with all the &quot;Earliest&quot; questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2343" CreationDate="2012-10-10T18:36:02.583" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;All of the ones I participated in - on Q or A side - were answered, frequently producing fresh and unexpected answers, majorily non-disputed at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does that address &quot;how answerable&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those questions are one of the themes that epitomize the whole point of this site - they are aimed at SFF experts doing in-depth research and/or applying broad knowledge of a lot of works, sometimes obscure, and reference sources for the latter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are those questions sometimes a bit raw around the edges when asked? Yes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do they benefit from some clarifications because the OP didn't think about some obvious loophole that obviously doesn't fit the spirit in which the question was &lt;strong&gt;meant&lt;/strong&gt; to be asked but that spirit isn't obvious to the rest of the people? Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does that mean they are inherently bad as question category? No. They - after some banging and fixitupping - are more likely than not end up good and useful questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2012-10-10T18:44:27.820" LastActivityDate="2012-10-10T18:44:27.820" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2341" CreationDate="2012-10-13T11:49:38.667" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;My reasoning behind the dedicated chat room is so we can discuss the topics we might want to promote, and have discussion over what could be changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hadn't anticipated moving the topic of the fortnight to chat would be so troublesome; I made a post on meta to announce this new chat, and alerted the standard chat room. It also requires less effort on my part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people prefer to discuss such things on meta, we can move there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2012-10-13T11:49:38.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2346" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2348" CreationDate="2012-10-14T01:34:04.317" Score="1" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been updating some empty tags, but my edit stats aren't showing an increase. Happily, I'm getting rep credit, but my edit numbers are frozen at 201. Is this a known issue, or am I just being impatient and the system just needs to catch up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4356" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditDate="2012-11-14T20:26:31.903" LastActivityDate="2012-11-14T20:26:31.903" Title="Why aren't the edit stats incrementing?" Tags="|bug|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2347" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2349" CreationDate="2012-10-14T17:23:34.497" Score="4" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/24670/what-is-intention-of-dr-lanning-in-i-robot&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;, It was commented to re-alter the way it is posted and change the title of the question by the moderator. It has different opinion on its closure. So i believe based on the votes the Question will be re-opened. Or is it like moderators decision.?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How many votes are needed for the question to be re-opened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9273" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2014-11-19T21:24:58.083" Title="What if people have different opinion about the question's closure?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2346" CreationDate="2012-10-14T17:30:19.960" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a server migration this week-end. It's possible that some stats weren't updating as fast as they normally do, or that some items went uncounted. The migration should be over now, can you check again if your stats are what they should be? If they aren't, please indicate where you read the wrong number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-10-14T17:30:19.960" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2347" CreationDate="2012-10-14T17:40:45.693" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It takes 5 votes to close a question. It takes the same to reopen a question. If there's disagreement, we discuss it on meta, and usually a moderator acts according to the community's decision (if there is a clear community decision).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Votes by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;moderators&lt;/a&gt; (users with a ♦ after their name) are immediately binding. Users with a gold tag badge can also close and reopen questions with that tag with a single vote, but only for closure as duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question looks ok to me now, I cast the final reopen vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2014-11-19T21:24:58.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2351" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2352" CreationDate="2012-10-16T02:31:09.570" Score="2" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/955/is-wikia-com-general-reference&quot;&gt;Is Wikia.com general reference?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if one searches Google for a Star Trek keyword, result from &lt;code&gt;Memory Alpha&lt;/code&gt; comes on the first page along with Wikipedia. Memory Alpha gives detailed information and reliable one too. Shouldn't we consider it for ground of general reference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Memory Alpha is an example. We can list up reliable wiki sites for this purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2012-10-16T19:06:10.107" Title="Should we start considering other reliable Wikis for the ground of general reference?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|general-reference|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2012-10-18T14:36:06.210" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2351" CreationDate="2012-10-16T10:31:17.023" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was discussed before, on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/955/is-wikia-com-general-reference&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt; and chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The consensus is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) Since those Wikis aren't as well known, an average person should not be expected to consider them reliable even if they happen to be a top hit on Google. Being easily discoverable does not alone mean being a universal reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) Being a Wiki with no citing rules, Wikias are nowhere near guaranteed to have accurate information. Harry Potter Wikias are notoriously inaccurate about canon info, mixing info from books, movies and video games frequently without specifying that (especially movies); treating movie scene &lt;strong&gt;interpretations&lt;/strong&gt; as proof of canon, etc... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) Frequently, they are quite poorly written to be a good answer to a specific question - either they are a giant mothball of info on a larger topic (with actual answer hidden in one or many pieces), or simply poorly presented to constitute an answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As 2 random examples, see my &quot;E.T. and Star Wars&quot; answer, which at least one person accused of being a Wikia copy and then the community at large realized that it wasn't anywhere near a copy of an article - it was a synthesis of many bits of info, structured to provide actual answer instead of a jumble of info. Another example is &quot;Accio&quot; - I had to ask a question on rules of Accio since HP Wikia article is a right sorry mess for that - it has a separate list of examples, and a short and crappy list of rules, with no linkage between the two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example of crap Wiki data is a quote from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/11157/976&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;TIE Advanced x1 (which was Vader's fighter) Wookiepedia page has this to say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;The target tracking system was also more sophisticated than the already formidable advanced targeting system on standard TIE craft, used to overcome the extremely powerful electronic jamming used by all combat craft to defeat target lock in battle. For best performance, the targeting system of the x1 required frequent adjustment in combat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... &lt;strong&gt;but it's completely unreferenced, and therefore probably made up on the basis of A New Hope by whoever wrote Wikia article in the first place&lt;/strong&gt; :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2012-10-16T19:06:10.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2353" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-16T20:13:13.400" Score="7" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xUtxB.png&quot; alt=&quot;Example&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the text right in the middle, above the &amp;quot;[14] Is wikia.com general reference? (2)&amp;quot;? Can you read it? Because I can't. The highlighted text below the same line is the same color, for reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-05-11T14:09:00.297" Title="Need more contrast on the close screen" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2354" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2357" CreationDate="2012-10-17T08:38:18.353" Score="2" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you see the little round (or square on IE) orange blob on the SE top-bar (do these things have better names) it shows you have reviews pending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you've made a review, it doesn't refresh, or if it does it does so very slowly. I know the site uses AJAX, so I don't see why this would be impossible to implement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt; or is it a flaw?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-10-19T20:12:03.300" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Review notification doesn't refresh on review" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|review-queue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2023-09-12T14:42:16.583" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2355" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2356" CreationDate="2012-10-17T12:57:53.650" Score="1" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came across this word on this site. I posted one sci-fi question and many people started to downvote my question and called it a spoiler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does &quot;spoiler&quot; mean, and why is it causing people to downvote questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6955" OwnerDisplayName="bill berlington" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2014-04-15T14:17:38.607" LastActivityDate="2014-04-19T18:24:52.193" Title="What is the meaning of spoiler?" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2355" CreationDate="2012-10-17T13:30:48.947" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spoiler is a piece of information that gives away (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/spoil&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;spoils&lt;/a&gt;) important plots and/or information that would be of interest to someone who has not read/watched the book/film, but would like to. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example - Jesus dies but is resurrected, or that the Big Bad Wolf eats Little Red Riding Hood, but the huntsman saves her in the end...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6476" OwnerDisplayName="A.D" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2014-04-19T18:24:52.193" LastActivityDate="2014-04-19T18:24:52.193" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2354" CreationDate="2012-10-19T20:11:49.757" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;For suggested edit reviews, which I believe is what you are refering to, this has been reinstated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There also was a pending review count in the tab header of other review queues at one point, but it has been disabled for performance reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(per &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/150113/update-the-suggested-edits-number-when-i-approve-or-reject-an-edit/151897#151897&quot;&gt;a developper's answer on the main Meta&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2012-10-19T20:11:49.757" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2358" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2359" CreationDate="2012-10-20T13:54:44.123" Score="10" ViewCount="475" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12888/are-any-of-the-characters-in-harry-potter-books-a-mary-sue&quot;&gt;Are any of the characters in Harry Potter books a &amp;quot;Mary Sue&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question has a number of points against it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's obviously pretty subjective.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's rather broad, being about all the characters of the series.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's no prior research.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, Mary Sue-ness is a literary trope that has been studied — Slytherincess points to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springhole.net/writing/marysue.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Universal Mary Sue Litmus Test&lt;/a&gt;, for instance. So there is probably a way to write an interesting, objective answer, which in my book is a redeeming quality for a borderline subjective question — a constructive answer justifies the constructiveness of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is currently closed. Should it be reopened? Should it be edited, and how?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2012-10-23T04:58:08.323" Title="Fate of the question about the Mary Sue-ness of Harry Potter characters" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|specific-question|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2358" CreationDate="2012-10-20T14:59:42.490" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I support re-opening the Harry Sue question, as I stated in my comments at the original post, which &lt;strong&gt;Gilles&lt;/strong&gt; has linked to above. I'll repeat what I said here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I think this is a great question for a &lt;strong&gt;Fantasy&lt;/strong&gt; site -- what better subject to discuss than the fantastical elements of our favorite fiction characterizations? This is not a subjective question (Universal Mary Sue Litmus Test) nor is it non-constructive. It's interesting -- sometimes the characters one would least think of as a Mary Sue (Harry Potter) get the highest Sue scores, while characters who appear to be blatant Sues (Ginny Weasley) score much lower. If this is a site for answers, this question definitely fits.It would definitely also be an appropriate question for writers.SE. I believe it still fits at scifi.SE as well.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a partial answer typed out that I saved in case this question re-opens and I'll post it here as, hopefully, an &lt;em&gt;example&lt;/em&gt; of an answer to this question that is neither completely subjective nor non-instructive. The use of the Universal Mary Sue Litmus Test introduces the idea that there are specific characteristics of a Mary Sue/Gary Stu characterization -- as Gilles said, it's a trope. There is also the acknowledgement by the author of the test that the test &lt;em&gt;is not perfect&lt;/em&gt; (unlike a Mary Sue!) but is a solid guide to assessing Sue-ness. The scoring process is explained in a non-subjective manner and guidelines are given for following up on scores that completely blow away the curve (see the score I got for Harry Potter below). So here's my example, using my partial answer that I wrote prior to this question being closed. I &lt;em&gt;hope&lt;/em&gt; it will demonstrate that the Harry Sue question is answerable within SE guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, since this question still doesn't have a chosen answer, I'll give it a shot. I'll be using the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springhole.net/writing/marysue.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Universal Mary Sue Litmus Test&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to try and preserve continuity and to garner the least amount of subjectivity possible. First, though, the author's (abbreviated) caveats:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Please, please, &lt;em&gt;please&lt;/em&gt; remember that these are the symptoms, not the disease. Just because something is on the test does not mean that it's inherently bad and should be avoided at all costs. Think of them as being like salt or spices - they serve to enhance the dish when used in the right amounts, but when used too liberally, the result tends to be quite unappetizing. Again, INDIVIDUAL ITEMS DO NOT MAKE THE MARY SUE. THE INDIVIDUAL ITEMS ARE NOT BAD. MOST CHARACTERS HAVE AND SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST SOME OF THEM.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Furthermore, this test has never been nor probably will be perfect. At best, I can only offer it as a guide, not an instruction manual.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the scoring system:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(0-16 Points)&lt;/strong&gt; Most likely Not-Sue. Characters at this level could probably take a little spicing up without hurting them any. &lt;strong&gt;(17-21 Points)&lt;/strong&gt; Fanfiction characters can go either way at this point depending on the writer. For an MMO/RPG or original fiction character, however, you're most likely perfectly fine. &lt;strong&gt;(22-29 Points)&lt;/strong&gt; Original fiction and MMO/RPG characters can go either way at this point depending on the writer. Fanfiction characters may need some adjustment, however. &lt;strong&gt;(30-35 Points)&lt;/strong&gt; Fanfiction authors beware - Mary's on the loose. There's still a chance you can save this character with some TLC, though. Role-players and original fiction writers, you should also consider tweaking your character. &lt;strong&gt;(36+ Points)&lt;/strong&gt; Fanfiction authors, you might just want to start over. Role-players and original fiction authors, at this point your characters are likely to provoke eye-rolling and exclamations of &quot;yeah, right!&quot; from your readers. (Well, at least from me.) Immediate workover is probably in order. &lt;strong&gt;(50+ Points)&lt;/strong&gt; It's probably a lost cause either way, or you didn't read instructions properly (some people don't [read this instructions], which causes freakishly high scores). If it's the latter case, read the instructions and take the test again.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RESULTS:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HARRY POTTER:&lt;/strong&gt; 121 (and ¾, natch) Points &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I was in the process of seeing where Ginny Weasley fell on the Sue spectrum when this question was closed, and it was interesting to me that she was barely registering on the scale by the time I stopped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;END&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2012-10-20T14:59:42.490" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2358" CreationDate="2012-10-21T03:15:36.800" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Slytherincess makes the argument that the question is not subjective by linking to a &amp;quot;test&amp;quot; for the characteristics. There is no &amp;quot;official&amp;quot; test for this though, and even the test that she linked to seems &lt;strong&gt;very&lt;/strong&gt; subjective. I'll highlight the cues that indicate that the results are subjective:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(0-16 Points) &lt;strong&gt;Most likely&lt;/strong&gt; Not-Sue. Characters at this level could &lt;strong&gt;probably&lt;/strong&gt; take a little spicing up without hurting them any. (17-21 Points) Fanfiction characters &lt;strong&gt;can go either way at this point&lt;/strong&gt; depending on the writer. For an MMO/RPG or original fiction character, however, you're &lt;strong&gt;most likely&lt;/strong&gt; perfectly fine. (22-29 Points) Original fiction and MMO/RPG characters &lt;strong&gt;can go either way at this point&lt;/strong&gt; depending on the writer. Fanfiction characters &lt;strong&gt;may need some adjustment&lt;/strong&gt;, however. (30-35 Points) Fanfiction authors beware - Mary's on the loose. There's still a chance you can save this character with some TLC, though. Role-players and original fiction writers, you should also &lt;strong&gt;consider&lt;/strong&gt; tweaking your character. (36+ Points) Fanfiction authors, you &lt;strong&gt;might&lt;/strong&gt; just want to start over. Role-players and original fiction authors, at this point your characters are &lt;strong&gt;likely&lt;/strong&gt; to provoke eye-rolling and exclamations of &amp;quot;yeah, right!&amp;quot; from your readers. (Well, &lt;strong&gt;at least from me.&lt;/strong&gt;) Immediate workover is &lt;strong&gt;probably&lt;/strong&gt; in order. (50+ Points) It's &lt;strong&gt;probably&lt;/strong&gt; a lost cause either way, or you didn't read instructions properly (some people don't [read this instructions], which causes freakishly high scores). If it's the latter case, read the instructions and take the test again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most likely, probably, can go either way, may need some adjustment, consider, might, likely. All of these are indications that the test itself is &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; subjective, so using it to declare the answer non-subjective is not accurate. The author of the test even addresses this by stating that high scores can be caused by just not reading the instructions carefully enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to all of this, looking at some of the questions from the test, it is driven for use by the &lt;em&gt;writer&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; used to test someone else's characters. This is an important point because it makes some of the questions unknowable, and/or rediculously subjective. Examples of this are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is your character's name: A name you planned on giving one of your children?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does your character look how you wish you look?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many more questions like that, and it is highly doubtful that JKR has discussed all of them enough for people to be able to answer them without some form of subjectivity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Slytherincess also points out that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;sometimes the characters one would least think of as a Mary Sue (Harry Potter) get the highest Sue scores, while characters who appear to be blatant Sues (Ginny Weasley) score much lower.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is all evidence that the test, and the question itself is highly subjective. It is likely to garner a lot of debate, and will not have one correct answer. As such, it is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a good question for the site, and in my opinion should be closed (an opinion that the community agreed with).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: For those of you fixated on the fact that I said that the community agreed with the opinion &lt;em&gt;originally&lt;/em&gt;, I apologize. I meant, that the community agreed with the opinion. I said &amp;quot;originally&amp;quot; to distinguish the fact that the community &lt;em&gt;has since re-opened the question&lt;/em&gt;. It was meant to bring light the fact that the question indeed &lt;em&gt;was closed&lt;/em&gt; at one point, something that may not be apparent to people looking at it now. I am fully aware that the community can't vote to re-open until it is closed, and did not mean to suggest that peoples opinions were swayed or changed or ??? whatever negative connotation that people were apparently attributing to the comment. It was only meant to distinguish the fact that A. The &lt;strong&gt;community&lt;/strong&gt; down voted and closed the question, &lt;strong&gt;originally&lt;/strong&gt;, while B. simultaneously showing that the &lt;strong&gt;community&lt;/strong&gt; has since changed that decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-10-23T04:58:08.323" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1694" CreationDate="2012-10-21T10:09:34.970" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A spoiler is something with ruins a planned surprise by an author. If everyone on the planet knows a piece of information, it is no longer something that can be spoiled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mention this because you say, &quot;technically this is a spoiler&quot;, and I just want to clarify that if it really is &quot;common knowledge&quot; (as you claim it is), then it's debatable if it's still a spoiler!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To put it another way: A spoiler is only a spoiler if it &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;spoils&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; a surprise :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this particular instance it seems highly unlikely that this bit of information would actually spoil anything for anyone, so my vote is: &lt;strong&gt;It's not a spoiler.&lt;/strong&gt; :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4380" LastActivityDate="2012-10-21T10:09:34.970" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1694" CreationDate="2012-10-21T18:34:04.370" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a couple of friends who have yet to see &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; Star Wars movies.  For them, believe it or not, this would be a spoiler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And not just with Star Wars.  The same type of thing has happened between me and them - going both ways - that I'm of the opinion that, &lt;em&gt;if the author intended it to be a &lt;strong&gt;major&lt;/strong&gt; surprise&lt;/em&gt;, then it &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be marked as a spoiler, regardless of the age.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another quick example would be Harry Potter book 6... While I'm sure most people here remember the chaos that happened within a week of its release, you also have to keep in mind that the book has been out for 7 years now.  There'll now be people reading it who &lt;em&gt;didn't experience that massive spoiler campaign&lt;/em&gt;.  For them, this is a &lt;em&gt;major&lt;/em&gt; spoiler and should be marked as such, so as not to ruin their experience of the book/movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spoilers not so major as the Star Wars and Harry Potter ones, that wouldn't ruin people's experience of the book/movie/tv show, &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; that have been out for a while, I don't have as much of an opinion on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastActivityDate="2012-10-21T18:34:04.370" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2364" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2365" CreationDate="2012-10-24T11:55:42.253" Score="5" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last few days, I've seen &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/143/wikis?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;an unusual pattern in my rep&lt;/a&gt;: very many&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; (more than usual) of my questions have received a single upvote (but only a few answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could look like the votes of a sock puppet (it isn't). Could it be interpreted by the Stack Exchange team like that? Do I need to worry?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Or are they from multiple locations?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;1 Number of unique upvotes = 28, by my counting (from 9 - 24 October)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2012-10-24T16:47:37.333" Title="When should I be worried about rep increases?" Tags="|support|up-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2364" CreationDate="2012-10-24T13:53:38.737" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;At least one person on chat indicated that they were maxing out 40 votes-a-day working towards Gold upvoting badge in the last couple of weeks. This could very well be a side effect.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to raise on meta or to mods if you get hit by a serial script reversal - they can verify if that was an actual active user and hopefully would look foavorably on restoring the upvotes in that case [ &lt;strong&gt;UPDATE: As per Gilles' comment, they can not reverse&lt;/strong&gt; ]. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, you can't do anything (short of this alert-in-advance meta post) to prevent this, since the serial script is 100% automatic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2012-10-24T16:47:37.333" LastActivityDate="2012-10-24T16:47:37.333" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2367" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-26T14:50:16.787" Score="17" ViewCount="445" Body="&lt;p&gt;The general reference close reason reads as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question is too basic; it can be definitively and permanently answered by a single link to a standard internet reference source designed specifically to find that type of information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fairly straight foward, however, I've noticed it is being applied inconsistently across the site. The questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/24415/which-doctor-who-episodes-were-written-by-steve-cole&quot;&gt;Which Doctor Who episodes were written by Steve Cole?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1022/what-two-tng-episodes-does-ashley-judd-appear-in-and-does-she-say-she-didnt&quot;&gt;What two TNG episodes does Ashley Judd appear in and does she say she didn&amp;#39;t?&lt;/a&gt; were closed as General Reference since they are answered on Wikipedia. However, the questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20886/who-was-the-judge-in-the-dark-knight-rises&quot;&gt;Who was the judge in The Dark Knight Rises?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3468/is-there-an-older-doctor-who-series&quot;&gt;Is there an older Doctor Who series?&lt;/a&gt; are also answered via their respective Wikipedia pages and have not been closed. I flagged the latter two questions in case they were just overlooked, and although the flags were marked helpful, no action was taken on either them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above are just a few examples, I'm sure there are more. Is their some reason to keep the latter two questions open while closing the first two? If not the latter two should be closed (or the first two opened, in which case the general reference close reason may need to be refined). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being inconsistent with closing questions can be a serious problem. Not only will it cause confusion for users, it also aggravate new users whose questions are closed while other nearly identical questions remain open. This problem has been experienced over at Gaming.SE, and normally results in a very sour new user (who sometimes decide the site is not for them).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2091" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2012-10-29T07:16:47.407" Title="Is general reference used inconsistently?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|general-reference|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2367" CreationDate="2012-10-26T15:50:19.117" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps, but like on SO, perhaps Scifi.se is becoming a better resource?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both the ones closed are based in misinterpretations that would have caused them to be non-questions (i.e. Ashely judd didn't deny anything, and Stephen cole wasn't a TV story writer). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Dr Who one provides genuine new information it seems; A &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; quick browse of the wiki page for Doctor Who doesn't bring up the fact that the series is split into an old a new.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone searching for 'Judge' on the IMDB page, for instance does not bring up '&lt;em&gt;Cillian Murphy ... Dr. Jonathan Crane / Scarecrow&lt;/em&gt;'. However it's not really a big enough leap that it warranted a self answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps I could edit the Dr Who series split into the first line of the wiki page, but then it &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; be general reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2012-10-26T20:45:55.527" LastActivityDate="2012-10-26T20:45:55.527" CommentCount="23" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2369" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-27T12:39:26.097" Score="1" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1561/is-there-a-moratorium-on-some-spoilers&quot;&gt;Is there a moratorium on some spoilers?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How long should we wait before not spoiler tagging sections of questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2012-10-27T12:39:26.097" Title="What's the bench mark for spoilerification?" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2012-10-27T12:40:46.533" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2367" CreationDate="2012-10-28T21:13:03.380" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, a note on “general reference”, because if you're only familiar with the SO blog and not with this site, you might have a wrong idea of what it means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general reference close reason as used on this site is not exactly the one that was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/328/how-should-we-handle-questions-that-are-easily-answered-by-wikipedia/330#330&quot;&gt;proposed by Borror0&lt;/a&gt;, nor even exactly what &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/197/should-trivially-easy-to-find-be-a-benchmark-for-moderating-the-site/486#486&quot;&gt;Jeff had in mind&lt;/a&gt; when he made it a feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The original diagram proposed to close any question whose answer could easily be found on Google, with the proviso that only “basic and trivial” questions would be closed, not “complex and interesting” ones.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The general reference close reason is restricted to questions that “can be definitively and permanently answered by a single link to a standard internet reference source designed specifically to find that type of information”. Google doesn't enter into play. This avoids getting into the Google hell where the top hits are all saying “google it”, but it's not the main reason. A bigger problem with “google it” is that it's difficult to judge the reliability of the search results.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On this site, only Wikipedia and IMDB are considered “general references” that people should check before asking. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/689/what-sites-should-be-considered-general-references&quot;&gt;What sites should be considered general references?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/955/is-wikia-com-general-reference&quot;&gt;Is Wikia.com general reference?&lt;/a&gt;. Furthermore, we are fairly strict for “definitively and permanently answered” — not unlike Borror0's easy-to-find criteria (“scattered across the page, hard to find, answered with too many technical terms” → answer).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another point is that part of the reason to close a question as general reference is not to waste time composing an answer when the Wikipedia editors have already done it. There is a little less mileage in closing a question once it's been satisfactorily answered, though there is no reason to keep an answer around if it's a mere Wikipedia copy-paste. We do, however, generally close the questions and later delete close questions to avoid creating broken windows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20886/who-was-the-judge-in-the-dark-knight-rises&quot;&gt;Who was the judge in The Dark Knight Rises?&lt;/a&gt; is now closed as general reference, since a few minutes ago.&#xA;However, it doesn't seem like a general reference question to me. I looked up the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_Rises&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345836&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;On Wikipedia, I can't find any mention of a judge or of exile. After prodding, you point out that searching for &lt;em&gt;trial&lt;/em&gt; does provide the answer. I don't think this is a good reason to close the question, because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;this fails the “hard to find” test that is even in Borror0's stringent version of the close reason: having to try many different synonyms of a word does not fit the spirit of the general reference close reason, which is that it is easier to find the answer in the general reference than to ask the question;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;this is the sort of buried detail that may be lost in an edit — we only apply the general reference close reason when we have confidence that the general reference will last, for Wikipedia that would typically mean that the article as a whole, or a section, or at least a fundamental part thereof answers the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On IMDB, I can't see a judge character on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345836/fullcredits#cast&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;full cast page&lt;/a&gt;; there's a tiny photo of the actor among a very long list, but I can barely see the resemblance even knowing the answer, the information is impossible to find if you don't know the answer already.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I don't see how this question should be considered general reference. Note that asking questions about a movie does not require having seen the movie, let alone be intimately familiar with every character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3468/is-there-an-older-doctor-who-series&quot;&gt;Is there an older Doctor Who series?&lt;/a&gt; is a different beast. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3468/is-there-an-older-doctor-who-series&quot;&gt;obvious Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt; does clearly retrace the history of the series; the introduction of the article explains the 2005 relaunch. We have the information in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/doctor-who/info&quot;&gt;tag wiki&lt;/a&gt; as well, though that doesn't really help since 99.9% of visitors don't know about tag wikis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since you've apparently spent some time doing community moderation on a Stack Exchange site, you should know that posts occasionally fall down the cracks, and that it's impossible to be completely consistent even with perfect information since different people will make different judgements. You raise the issue of people who complain about inconsistent treatment — your question is part of the problem. I recommend that you adopt a more constructive attitude. Rather than bring on a generic complaint about how we aren't doing our job properly, search the meta site for prior discussions (they should be easy to find: browse the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/general-reference&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;general-reference&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;general-reference&lt;/a&gt; tag), and if you think a question should be closed when it's been left open or vice versa, leave a comment on the question and open a meta thread about that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2012-10-28T22:13:37.577" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2372" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-28T22:18:13.530" Score="26" ViewCount="1422" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to ask a question about a book or short story that I haven't read, or about a movie or TV series that I haven't watched, or about a radio program that I haven't listened to, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that allowed? I've read a little about the book/movie/…, checked its Wikipedia article, googled a bit, and didn't find the answer to my question. Is this sufficient, or do I need to read/watch/… the work in full before I can ask a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify, since one of the answers has completely gone on a tangent: I am not asking about any specific question on the site, recently discussed on meta or otherwise. This is a general issue, and I hope this thread can have generally-applicable answers and can be made a &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'faq'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-10-29T19:36:24.443" LastActivityDate="2012-10-30T19:50:00.410" Title="I haven't read the book/watched the movie/... May I ask a question about it?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2372" CreationDate="2012-10-28T23:07:40.427" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I'm giving a temporary answer, if Gilles has a better one typed up I'll delete this.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is fully allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reason 1:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless the question is about a major easily googlable critical point of the work, there is absolutely no way to distinguish a question asked by someone who has not seen/read the source material, and someone who did but doesn't remember all the details. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since we are supposed to &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; judge the posts on their content, and not context, you can not prohibit questions based on unread books while allowing questions on not-remembered-in-perfect-detail books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reason 2:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A ton of currently existing questions (hell, probably a vast marjority, or at least a sizeable chunk) are answerable from the source material. We would have to close &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; of them if such a rule is adopted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a random exhibit of both reasons #1 and #2:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/25182/why-could-quirrell-tolerate-harrys-touch-at-the-beginning-of-philosophers-ston&quot;&gt;Why could Quirrell tolerate Harry&amp;#39;s touch at the beginning of Philosopher&amp;#39;s Stone?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is answered trivially from the book (heck, I knew the answer 1 second after reading the title). Yet the question was asked by @Slytherincess, who is universally acknowledged on this site as not merely a deep expert ion all things Harry Potter, but self-admittedly has a great memory and remembers a great deal of Harry Potter trivia.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reason 3:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not reasonable to expect people to read large volumes (e.g. LOTR/Harry Potter/Comic series) or hard-to-obtain works (old comics).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2012-10-28T23:13:13.493" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2367" CreationDate="2012-10-29T00:07:18.483" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;This Question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally believe the question &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be closed. While Gilles brings up the point that the word &amp;quot;trial&amp;quot; could be edited out of the article, it wouldn't be. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; This scene is a plot point in the movie, a crucial moment of tension in the narrative. The movie/franchise has already demonstrated by this point that anyone could die. Crane's insane sham of a trial is a critical part of the last act of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given this, and given that &lt;em&gt;any reasonable person&lt;/em&gt; would have read the &lt;em&gt;entire&lt;/em&gt; film summary before asking a room full of strangers this type of question, I would have to say that this question really should be closed, whether as General Reference or Not Constructive is up to the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;General Reference as Enforced&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the rest of your question: Is general reference being applied inconsistently? My own observations say no. I believe, for the most part, that the application of General Reference is &lt;em&gt;usually&lt;/em&gt; in line with how it was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/689/what-sites-should-be-considered-general-references/690#690&quot;&gt;agreed upon&lt;/a&gt; when General Reference was introduced, that if a &amp;quot;quick Google search&amp;quot; answered the question, then it was to be closed as general reference. However, in general, it seems to be that the actual &lt;em&gt;application&lt;/em&gt; of the GR close reason usually comes when the question is answered in the opening sentences of the Wikipedia article.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, these two positions are &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;not mutually exclusive&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. It's not a case of one or the other -- the two feed into one another. That said, I feel that the position advocated in that linked answer is somewhat &amp;quot;softer&amp;quot; than the Stack Exchange philosophy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's worth noting that &amp;quot;interestingness&amp;quot; is &lt;em&gt;wholly determined by the community&lt;/em&gt;. This is an important thing to note because it's part of the upvote hover text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question shows research effort; it is useful and clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How &amp;quot;interesting&amp;quot; a question is can usually be elucidated from the upvotes it receives. A good question that is suitably interesting &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; demonstrate ways the asker has attempted to answer or &amp;quot;logic&amp;quot; out the answer themselves. This is the same &amp;quot;show your work&amp;quot; standard we apply on any site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, the tension is: how do we maintain our site quality and provide excellent answers while still making this site welcoming to new users? General Reference is &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; way to fill this gap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it's prone to being abused, as some users in the comments above noted. Personally, I &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; think GR is misused or even overused on this site. I think it's usually applied as it should be: sporadically and &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; when &amp;quot;Not Constructive&amp;quot; isn't the true issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Summary&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To sum:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That DKR question should be closed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't think &amp;quot;general reference&amp;quot; is being inconsistently applied.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As a bonus: I think &amp;quot;not constructive&amp;quot; should be used BEFORE &amp;quot;General Reference&amp;quot; is considered.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm interested to see what the community thinks of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2459" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-10-29T07:16:47.407" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2372" CreationDate="2012-10-29T02:00:09.027" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2372/i-havent-read-the-book-watched-the-movie-may-i-ask-a-question-about-it#comment6844_2372&quot;&gt;it's never been brought up in the past two years&lt;/a&gt; is because you've framed a scenario no reasonable person would argue against:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've read a little about the book/movie/…, checked its Wikipedia article, googled a bit, and didn't find the answer to my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The context, however, of bringing this up &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt; is your answer on &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2367/is-general-reference-used-inconsistently&quot;&gt;Is general reference used inconsistently?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, where &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2371/366&quot;&gt;you claimed&lt;/a&gt; (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note that asking questions about a movie does not require having seen the movie,&lt;/strong&gt; let alone be intimately familiar with every character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as a defense to not closing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20886/who-was-the-judge-in-the-dark-knight-rises&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; as &quot;General Reference&quot; even though it was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20886/who-was-the-judge-in-the-dark-knight-rises#comment49155_20886&quot;&gt;demonstrably shown&lt;/a&gt; to be something that anyone checking the Wikipedia article for or googled a bit would've gotten an answer to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is easily answered by a reference, regardless of whether or not the person asking did, in fact, &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; that research, it's closable as &quot;General Reference&quot;. If someone legitimately did basic research before asking a question of this ilk, the whole problem doesn't come up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what we're &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; talking about asking a question blindly: that is, I know nothing about a movie, didn't do any preliminary research, but I want to ask a question about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like I said above, the motivation or background for asking the question has very little, if anything, to do with closing a question as &quot;General Reference&quot;. While unlikely, one could ostensibly stumble blindly into asking a really difficult question that's not easily answerable by a general reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that doesn't mean SE doesn't expect or require users to do basic background research before asking questions, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;because it does&lt;/a&gt;. For many forms of media, that which you enumerated—checking the Wikipedia article or googling around a bit—is a good place to start. For &lt;em&gt;movies&lt;/em&gt;, however, it's reasonable to expect people to have watched them for two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Having seen the movie helps demonstrate this is an actual problem you face.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Movies are generally no more than 3 hours long, with most these days in the 90-120 minute range. If it's something you're really interested in, taking 2 hours to watch the dang movie is the &lt;em&gt;least&lt;/em&gt; you could do before asking.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which leads to what it means that something is &quot;required&quot; or &quot;expected&quot; if it's not to close a question. There are at least two things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/06/optimizing-for-pearls-not-sand/&quot;&gt;Everyone's encouraged&lt;/a&gt;—arguably even expected—to down-vote questions that do not demonstrate that basic research has been done.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Users who routinely ask poorly thought-out, poorly researched questions are &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&quot;&gt;supposed to get some time in the penalty box&lt;/a&gt; as a means of corrective behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, to reiterate, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20886/who-was-the-judge-in-the-dark-knight-rises&quot;&gt;the Dark Knight Rises judge question&lt;/a&gt; is not &quot;General Reference&quot; and did not need to be closed because the person asking did not see the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather, it was closed and should remain closed because it was easily answered if someone &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; take the time to do some basic research before asking it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or to put it another way, you don't have to do any preliminary research before asking a question, but don't be surprised if your question gets closed for being &quot;General Reference&quot; or you get a number of down-votes for asking it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2012-10-29T02:05:55.977" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2376" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2378" CreationDate="2012-10-30T02:44:03.853" Score="3" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;The offline page for this site points to an image on &quot;cd&lt;strong&gt;m&lt;/strong&gt;.sstactic.net&quot; for its background, but it should be &quot;cdn.sstatic.net&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;background: transparent url('http://cdm.sstatic.net/scifi/img/bg-site.jpg') repeat left top;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The background colour should likely also be specified as something dark, in case the image doesn't load for some reason, because of the light colour used for the text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="44" LastEditDate="2012-10-30T16:56:23.417" LastActivityDate="2012-10-30T16:56:23.417" Title="Offline page has bad background image" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2372" CreationDate="2012-10-30T16:17:40.890" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that what &lt;strong&gt;Mark Trapp&lt;/strong&gt; was saying in his answer has some merit in that if, as you declare in your question, you do the proper research on Wikipedia/etc. and still cannot find the answer to your question, then it almost by definition should not be closed as General Reference, even if to someone who reads/watches/listens/feels?/tastes? the work in question the answer is obvious. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, it is &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;likely&lt;/em&gt; that a question such as what you describe will be down voted, and possible VTCed. This is due to peoples interpretations of the rules of &quot;General Reference&quot;. Personally, when I come across questions that I feel &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; possibly be General Reference, I do the research first myself. If I can find the answer in a reasonable amount of time from a reference site that is considered &quot;reputable&quot;, then I will VTC. However I also will usually leave a comment with where the information can be found, unless the answer is glaringly obvious, that's when I leave it up to the OP to figure it out for themselves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the situation that you describe, it is highly unlikely that I would find the answer, as the research that the OP would have done would not have found it. Though admittedly if I had read/watched/listened/felt/tasted the work then I may have better luck researching the answer (having knowledge that the OP wouldn't). If the answer is not found on a reputable reference, then &lt;strong&gt;I don't think the question should be voted down and/or closed&lt;/strong&gt;. That doesn't preclude other people from thinking differently however. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, I think questions of the type that you describe are &lt;strong&gt;most certainly allowed&lt;/strong&gt;, however they are much &lt;strong&gt;more likely to receive errant down votes and VTCs&lt;/strong&gt; than questions from people who have read/watched/etc. The best practice for anyone submitting a question like that in my opinion would be to be up front about the fact that they haven't read/watched/etc. the work in question. The main reason for asking a question IMO should be to receive an answer, and as long as that is accomplished, the question has performed its function adequately. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4383" LastActivityDate="2012-10-30T16:17:40.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2376" CreationDate="2012-10-30T16:56:15.880" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have put in a fix for this. The url was indeed misspelled! Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastActivityDate="2012-10-30T16:56:15.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2372" CreationDate="2012-10-30T19:50:00.410" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, you can ask a question about material you have not read/watched/listened to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, that &lt;em&gt;does not exempt you from any of our other rules&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;General reference is still general reference.  You can't claim &quot;I didn't read the book, so it isn't general reference to &lt;em&gt;me&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that demonstrate a lack of research should still be downvoted.  Posting a question about material you haven't read isn't sufficient research on its own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question is still a duplicate if the original is worded in such a way that the duplication wouldn't necessarily be obvious to someone who hadn't actually watched/read/listened to the source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are still plenty of legitimate questions that can be asked for those who haven't consumed the media in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a comment in another answer mentioned, questions about suggested reading order are a good example.  Other examples of good questions about material the OP hasn't read/watched yet could include &quot;Does this movie adaptation of a title remain faithful to the written works it is based on?&quot;, or &quot;Does this title I haven't seen have any cross-over with this title that I have seen?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2012-10-30T19:50:00.410" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2380" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-01T22:43:37.377" Score="10" ViewCount="373" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've gotten two questions in the past few hours that ask if a character in a TV show is gay:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/26414/is-major-nelson-gay-in-i-dream-of-jeannie&quot;&gt;Is Major Nelson gay in I Dream of Jeannie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/26429/is-dr-mccoy-gay-in-star-trek&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/26429/is-dr-mccoy-gay-in-star-trek&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The former is currently upvoted and has two well-received answers; the latter was swiftly closed. However, I'm not seeing the difference between the two. Is there a difference between them? Why or why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2012-11-01T23:33:31.953" Title="When is it okay to ask about a character's sexual orientation?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2380" CreationDate="2012-11-01T23:09:17.550" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmmm, difficult. One of these sets off my troll vibe and the other one doesn't. However, one was posted by a new user while the other was posted a known and respected user of the community. I can't be sure that this doesn't influence me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can objectively see a difference in the presentation. Both questions present flimsy clues, but what they do with them is different. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/26414/is-major-nelson-gay-in-i-dream-of-jeannie&quot;&gt;Major Nelson qeuestion&lt;/a&gt; asks the question in a neutral tone. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/26429/is-dr-mccoy-gay-in-star-trek&quot;&gt;Dr McCoy question&lt;/a&gt; is more of a case of “your answer is provided along with the question” and “it is a rant disguised as a question” — some of our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq#dontask&quot;&gt;signs of questions not to ask&lt;/a&gt; (it starts with “There is plenty of evidence to conclude”!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far the Dr McCoy has had several flags in addition to the visible close votes. The Major Nelson question has a single close vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see anything intrinsically wrong with asking about a character's sexual orientation, like you might ask any other question that has some bearing on understanding an SF work. It is of course a sensitive subject, bound to attract both trolls and overreaction against them, so we must tread with caution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2012-11-01T23:17:10.643" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2380" CreationDate="2012-11-01T23:33:31.953" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there's anything wrong with asking after a character's sexual orientation at any time. If we can ask if some character wears a hat, then why not sexual orientation? Regardless of the topic, our community is pretty good about shutting down trolls. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2012-11-01T23:33:31.953" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2384" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2386" CreationDate="2012-11-03T10:05:09.497" Score="17" ViewCount="1076" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just seen the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/26470/1651&quot;&gt;“Exorcist” possession: when and why?&lt;/a&gt; which contains a direct quote from the source material that contains profanity. This question was later edited &quot;&lt;em&gt;before it got flagged as offensive&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should profanity which is present in the original source material be edited out / masked when quoting, or should it be left in so the quote is complete?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vaguely related: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/716/1651&quot;&gt;Is fictional profanity allowed here?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/87/using-asterisks-as-in-fuck-or-fck&quot;&gt;Using asterisks as in fuck or f*ck?&lt;/a&gt; (EL&amp;amp;U meta)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1651" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2012-11-06T15:25:47.313" Title="Is profanity in direct quotes from source material permitted?" Tags="|discussion|profanity|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2384" CreationDate="2012-11-03T13:36:56.183" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am personally not &lt;em&gt;at all&lt;/em&gt; offended by profanity. Well, okay, if someone let loose with a string of particularly gratuitous and hardcore expletives, I would probably be put off (the keyword here being &amp;quot;gratuitous&amp;quot;). See &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_dirty_words&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;George Carlin's &lt;em&gt;The Seven Words You Can't Say on TV&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. If it's not completely obvious, the link contains profanity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an expletive is part of a quote a poster has deemed necessary for explaining their question, that is probably not going to offend &lt;em&gt;me&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if others are or might be offended, I &lt;em&gt;personally&lt;/em&gt; don't mind making the extra effort to make others' experience at the site more comfortable by masking the profanity in a canon quote. Yes, I could expect people to just deal with profanity as it comes up, but I don't feel like my need to quote &amp;quot;f**k&amp;quot; is greater than someone else's need to not feel uncomfortable. Some people really &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; dislike profanity and if I have the choice of &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; upsetting others, I'm going to err on that side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; like is the idea of someone pre-emptively editing a post and changing its content &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;before it gets flagged as offensive&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;. I don't agree with this practice and I don't want to see it become the norm. If it were my post this happened to, I would likely roll it back if it had indeed &lt;em&gt;not yet&lt;/em&gt; been flagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pre-emptively editing a post that has not been flagged strikes me as kind of a roundabout way of someone expressing their own disapproval of profanity while claiming the changes are under the guise of the community's greater good. Extending the benefit of the doubt that the editor was genuinely trying to be helpful -- I can appreciate the sentiment, but if it ain't broke, don't fix it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't support censoring profanity, because one person's &amp;quot;d##n&amp;quot; is another person's &amp;quot;m#####f#####&amp;quot;. I think it would be fruitless and needlessly exhausting for the community to try and decide upon and compile a list of words that are and aren't allowable. The debate would never end. Some words that are considered quite offensive in one country are fine or have a totally innocuous meaning in another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's five options that any user could utilize:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Include profanity in canon quotes without any censoring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don't include profanity-laced canon quotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don't include profanity from a canon quote unless it is&#xA;&lt;em&gt;specifically&lt;/em&gt; related to the question being posed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Utilize asterisks: d##n, s##t, f##k, etc. And, yes. I realize those are pound/number signs. Asterisks actually were a nightmare, because they just wanted to italicize and bold each other like whoa. So, a symbol of your choice, I'll say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Utilize the spoilers tag to mask profanity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are merely a few suggestions -- I'm sure there are infinitely more ways to work with profanity, that more creative minds than mine will come up with. &lt;strong&gt;ETA:&lt;/strong&gt; I very much agree with Gilles's answer. &lt;em&gt;Very&lt;/em&gt; much agree with it. I wanted to clarify that when I spoke about taking steps to avoiding upsetting other community users, I was speaking only for myself. I don't mind doing a few things here and there. I wasn't suggesting we try and make some kind of community policy on policing profanity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'll need a &amp;quot;Clutching Pearls&amp;quot; badge now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uGFcq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Bloody Hell! Ron Weasley - Harry Potter&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;And before you downvote me for the &lt;em&gt;Bloody Hell&lt;/em&gt; picture, please know that it was originally an animated .gif. At least I had the courtesy to change it to a .jpg. :D&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-11-03T16:01:29.353" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2384" CreationDate="2012-11-03T15:00:03.310" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, there is a cross-network rule about profanity. Unfortunately, this rule is not written down anywhere: it's a case of Jeff knows it when he sees it. Furthermore, it's applied differently on different sites. For example, on &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, it is forbidden to spell the name of the programming language &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Brainfuck&lt;/a&gt;¹. There is a practical argument for avoiding certain words, because “nanny filters” that detect those words might cause the site to be blocked in some places. However, this argument is not taken seriously, since Stack Exchange does not itself take any steps to pass those filters. Furthermore, on some sites such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;English Language &amp;amp; Usage&lt;/a&gt;, “profane” words are allowed and &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/87/using-asterisks-as-in-fuck-or-fck&quot;&gt;must be spelled out when they are being discussed&lt;/a&gt;. It seems to me (but I have never seen any official word on the subject) that outside SO, it's up to each site's community to decide its censorship rules if any.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/716/is-fictional-profanity-allowed-here&quot;&gt;related previous discussion&lt;/a&gt;, it was suggested that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/716/is-fictional-profanity-allowed-here/719#719&quot;&gt;“potentially even the English [swearwords] would be acceptable here when used in a technical answer regarding the fictional-language ones”&lt;/a&gt;. On English Language &amp;amp; Usage, discussions of words must spell words in full; by a similar token, I think &lt;strong&gt;quotes should be exact quotes&lt;/strong&gt;. It's important to know whether the work contained &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_for_Jake&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;“fuck”&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;“Belgium”&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_%28novel%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;“—”&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dwarf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;“smeg”&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal opinion on the matter is that there should not be any filtering on words. It's what you say, not how you say it. Saying that “you're an idiot” is not so bad that it needs to be removed, while “this is bullshit” needs to be expunged post-haste, &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; bullshit. If I saw an offensive flag whose sole motivation was a choice of word (as opposed to the idea expressed by the words), I'd just decline it and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &lt;sub&gt; I'm convinced that the first syllable is what people find offensive. &lt;/sub&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:33:39.573" LastActivityDate="2012-11-03T15:00:03.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2387" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2389" CreationDate="2012-11-03T17:20:34.960" Score="9" ViewCount="230" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2384/2565&quot;&gt;profanity discussion&lt;/a&gt; going on, I &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/messages/6753918/history&quot;&gt;posted an xkcd strip in chat&lt;/a&gt; which was even starred! The system decided this was inappropriate and answered:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;your account has been automatically suspended for posting inappropriate content and cannot chat for 29 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ignoring for a moment that, from all the webcomics in the net, to my knowledge only xkcd is recognised by the chat system (I just linked to the comic, the system inlined the picture all by itself), does this really make sense at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I understand this, it was not flagged by any person, but the system decided on a whim there was something inappropriate and decided to ban me for half an hour. I wouldn't have a problem if it was somebody who found this offensive but the system censoring the chat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2012-11-03T22:37:23.677" Title="Inappropriate content? Seriously?" Tags="|discussion|chat|profanity|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2388" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-03T17:31:29.097" Score="-7" ViewCount="209" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question has been closed as general reference: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/26481/who-was-the-cat-in-the-chapter-17-of-3rd-book&quot;&gt;Who is the cat in chapter 17 of Prisoner of Azkaban?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the question deserves downvotes but not close votes. If you see comments there, CVers have chosen Wikia and Google as a ground of general reference which is wrong as per community standards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was the question closed? Should it have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2012-11-05T23:39:43.790" Title="Should the question about the cat in chapter 17 of PoA be reopened?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|general-reference|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2387" CreationDate="2012-11-03T17:52:52.670" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no automatic flagging in chat, the automatic part of that message just refers to the suspension part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either at least 6 regular users with 10k+ chat reputation or one moderator validated a flag on this message. These flags are shown to all active 10k+ users and mods on the whole of chat.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user496" LastActivityDate="2012-11-03T17:52:52.670" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2388" CreationDate="2012-11-03T17:56:43.250" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/689/3267&quot;&gt;We should only consider as general reference questions that can be easily answered by typing all or part of the question into Google&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/#hl=en&amp;amp;sugexp=les;&amp;amp;gs_nf=3&amp;amp;tok=gtK427mJW24YjdkLF-IbcA&amp;amp;cp=37&amp;amp;gs_id=1j&amp;amp;xhr=t&amp;amp;q=Who+is+the+cat+in+Prisoner+of+Azkaban&amp;amp;pf=p&amp;amp;safe=off&amp;amp;tbo=d&amp;amp;output=search&amp;amp;sclient=psy-ab&amp;amp;oq=Who+is+the+cat+in+Prisoner+of+Azkaban&amp;amp;gs_l=&amp;amp;pbx=1&amp;amp;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&amp;amp;fp=6b5bfdee152656d4&amp;amp;bpcl=37189454&amp;amp;biw=1360&amp;amp;bih=606&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Who is the cat in Prisoner of Azkaban&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the &lt;em&gt;very first word&lt;/em&gt; of the results? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Crookshanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2012-11-05T23:39:43.790" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2388" CreationDate="2012-11-05T21:49:50.827" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Wikipedia entry for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner_of_azkaban&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Prisoner of Azkaban&lt;/a&gt; describes clearly the relevant plot from chapter 17.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While at his cabin, &lt;strong&gt;Hermione discovers &lt;em&gt;Scabbers&lt;/em&gt; in Hagrid's milk jug&lt;/strong&gt;.&#xA;  They leave, and Buckbeak is executed. As Ron, Harry, and Hermione are&#xA;  leaving Hagrid's house and reeling from the sound of the axe, &lt;strong&gt;the&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;large black dog&lt;/em&gt; approaches them&lt;/strong&gt;, pounces on Ron, and drags him under&#xA;  the Whomping Willow. &lt;strong&gt;Harry and Hermione and &lt;em&gt;Crookshanks&lt;/em&gt; dash down&#xA;  after them&lt;/strong&gt;; oddly, Crookshanks knows the secret knob to press to still&#xA;  the flailing tree. They move through an underground tunnel and arrive&#xA;  at the Shrieking Shack. They find that the black dog has turned into&#xA;  Sirius Black and is in a room with Ron. Harry, Ron, and Hermione&#xA;  manage to disarm Black, and before Harry can kill Black, avenging his&#xA;  parents' deaths, Professor Lupin enters the room and disarms him.&#xA;  Harry, Ron, and Hermione are aghast as Lupin and Black exchange a&#xA;  series of nods and embrace. Once the three students calm down enough&#xA;  to listen, Lupin and Black explain everything. Lupin is a werewolf who&#xA;  remains tame through a special steaming potion made for him by Snape.&#xA;  While Lupin was a student at Hogwarts, his best friends, James Potter,&#xA;  Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew, became Animagi (humans able to take&#xA;  on animal forms) so that they could romp in the grounds with Lupin at&#xA;  the full moon. They explain how Snape once followed Lupin toward his&#xA;  transformation site in a practical joke set up by Sirius, and was&#xA;  rescued narrowly by James Potter. At this moment, Snape reveals&#xA;  himself from underneath Harry's dropped invisibility cloak, but Harry,&#xA;  Ron, and Hermione disarm him, rendering him unconscious. Lupin and&#xA;  Black then explain that the real murderer of Harry's parents is not&#xA;  Black, but Peter Pettigrew, who has been presumed dead but really&#xA;  hidden all these years disguised as Scabbers. Lupin transforms&#xA;  Scabbers into Pettigrew, who squeals and hedges but ultimately&#xA;  confesses, revealing himself to be Voldemort's servant, and Black to&#xA;  be innocent. They all travel back to Hogwarts, but at the sight of the&#xA;  full moon, Lupin, who has forgotten to take his controlling potion&#xA;  (the steaming liquid), turns into a werewolf. Sirius Black responds by&#xA;  turning into the large black dog in order to protect Harry, Ron, and&#xA;  Hermione from Lupin. As Black returns from driving the werewolf into&#xA;  the woods, a swarm of Dementors approaches, and Black is paralyzed&#xA;  with fear. One of the Dementors prepares to suck the soul out of&#xA;  Harry, whose patronus charm is simply not strong enough. Out of&#xA;  somewhere comes a patronus that drives the Dementors away. Harry&#xA;  faints.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Cat, Rat, and Dog clearly listed in the Wikipedia article are Crookshanks, Scabbers, and Black. Unless we are to make the logical leap to assume that Crookshanks transubstantiated himself into McGonagall or some other Cat within the Shrieking Shack, it clearly answers this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4831" LastActivityDate="2012-11-05T21:49:50.827" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2384" CreationDate="2012-11-06T14:21:03.883" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the other answers, but feel that there can be some clarification, and reasonable limits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To address the original question, &lt;strong&gt;YES&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;em&gt;profanity in direct quotes from source material is permitted&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the profanity is from the source material, it is not reasonable to say &quot;I want to talk about this work, but I find some of the content of the work offensive, so let's arbitrarily decide which parts are not okay to talk about&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To expand on the topic in the question, any profanity outside of direct quotations can be edited out, &lt;em&gt;unless it directly relates to the topic of the question.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is in keeping with the intent of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/719/1359&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, which mentions this (in the context of using fictionalized profanity as a substitute for real profanity):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;IMO if you have a point to make, then there are sufficient words in English to make it without having to resort to profanity, whether in English or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, much like &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/87/using-asterisks-as-in-fuck-or-fck&quot;&gt;EL&amp;amp;U's policy&lt;/a&gt;, we should allow profanity outside of quotations if it is directly relevant.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, when discussing the origins and meaning of the term &quot;frack&quot; in Battlestar Galactica, it would be perfectly valid to say &quot;frack can be used as a direct replacement for the English word 'fuck'&quot;.  However, stating that George Lucas &quot;is a f-cking idiot&quot; is not acceptable, as it does not add any real value to the material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.190" LastActivityDate="2012-11-06T15:25:47.313" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2395" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-06T17:11:22.910" Score="9" ViewCount="290" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know there are previous discussions on this, but they appear to be somewhat contradictory, and it is coming up enough that we should have a clear and current consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the original &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/689/what-sites-should-be-considered-general-references/690#690&quot;&gt;What sites should be considered general references?&lt;/a&gt; question, the accepted answer clearly states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We should only consider as general reference questions that can be easily answered by typing all or part of the question into Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However...  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/955/is-wikia-com-general-reference/956#956&quot;&gt;this related question&lt;/a&gt; from 3 months later looking to clarify the status of Wikia.com includes this in the accepted (and only) answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On a related note, Google should not be used as a measure to determine whether a question is a legitimate Stack Exchange question. “General reference” does not take Google into account (or at least it should not, by its definition, even if it's sometimes abused). General reference means “look it up in a dictionary / in an encyclopedia / in the manual”. It does not mean “google it”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/956/1359&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; directly links to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/693/1359&quot;&gt;Gilles' answer&lt;/a&gt; on the first question I mentioned, which is the lowest voted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that Gilles' answer on Wikia.org has been cited several times as proof that our current and accepted policy is that an answer being returned by a Google search is not sufficient for closing as General Reference.  Yet the original question indicated that there was a lot of support for just that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal feeling is that the mention of Google in the &quot;Is Wikia.com valid&quot; answer is off-topic, and confuses the issue.  I upvoted that answer, but I upvoted it because it was a good rational as to why Wikia.com, &lt;em&gt;by itself&lt;/em&gt;, is not a good GR resource.  I did &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; vote because I felt that &quot;Google should not be used as a measure of whether a question is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/693/1359&quot;&gt;legitimate&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So let's clear up any confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I search a rather mundane question (a reference to Borror0's chart listed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/330/1359&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, indicating that if a question is interesting, it shouldn't be marked as GR), and I get one or more hits in the top few results of google that clearly and unambiguously answer the question, is that sufficient to close as General Reference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does the actual sites that are returned impact this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I ask &quot;what is the name of the cat in Heinlein's &lt;em&gt;The Cat Who Walks Through Walls&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, and get a bunch of random fan sites and blogs that all say &quot;Pixel is the cat in the book&quot;, and we all agree that that is the answer, is that sufficient for GR closure (even if Wikipedia inexplicably is not present in the search results)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is Wikipedia.org the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; source acceptable for General Reference closure, or do individual other sites that are easily found through a Google search count?  If other sites count, do we need to set a threshold (i.e. if you can find 3 other sites that provide the same answer, and no sites that provide contradictory answers, then it is GR)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2012-11-09T20:16:30.643" Title="Is the answer appearing in the first few results of a Google search sufficient basis for a *potential* General Reference closure?" Tags="|discussion|general-reference|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2395" CreationDate="2012-11-06T19:21:15.187" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's my reasoning, and in general what I hear in chat and others' comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Google will customize your results based on past searches.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Now, in this particular instance, &quot;star trek&quot; was part of the search criteria that DVK proposed.  Yeah, that's pretty unique - but it's not always going to be.  For example, the word &quot;supernatural&quot; is also the name of a TV series that's fairly popular on this site.  So do we really want to start listing &quot;Okay, Google is general reference for &lt;em&gt;these terms&lt;/em&gt;, but not for &lt;em&gt;these terms&lt;/em&gt;&quot; ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For example, if I search for &quot;tree&quot; right now, most of my results are about data structures and graph theory.  Even those Wikipedia results are pushed well above the plant that is called a tree.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DVK's counter of using &quot;incognito mode&quot; in Google Chrome would've failed my &quot;tree&quot; test because he doesn't have the search history that would push Sci-Fi lower in the Google's search results.  Besides, are we really going to ask all new users to do searches in incognito mode before asking questions??&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It will not be easy to tell whether or not most sites are reliable.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wikipedia and (mostly) IMDB are the exceptions to this.  There've been mistakes in IMDB found that are difficult to get someone to fix, but overall they're reliable enough and well-known enough that we can call them general reference.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Memory Alpha is an even better resource than Wikipedia for Star Trek stuff, but it fails the &quot;well-known&quot; test for being General Reference.  An average user - or Slytherincess - would not necessarily have enough knowledge of Star Trek to know Memory Alpha is a good resource.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Popular fan theories will show up all over the place, such as Crowley (from the aforementioned Supernatural) being a red-eyed demon, prior to the recent reveal.  This fails your &lt;em&gt;The Cat Who Walks Through Walls&lt;/em&gt; test.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;it can be definitively and permanently answered by a single link to a standard internet reference source designed specifically to find that type of information&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The text from General Reference.  This close reason is for when another source, like Wikipedia or IMDB, is better than what you'd get on a question/answer site.  Wikipedia has plot summaries - provided you know the book/episode/series well enough to find it - and IMDB has actors/etc.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For an example of what I believe is the intended use, look &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20361/help-me-identify-this-scifi-movie-with-time-travel&quot;&gt;at this question&lt;/a&gt;.  He knew the actors, so either IMDB or Wikipedia would've been the best place to look, because they have filmographies for actors.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On the other hand, when you have a plot without a solid reference, it deserves the so-popular &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; tag, which usually don't get closed very often.  Even when they're &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/24886/television-series-about-a-space-station&quot;&gt;painfully obvious&lt;/a&gt; to us.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it gets closed as General Reference, then IMO it also deserves a downvote because it should have been found.  But not necessarily the other way around; Crowley's eyes in Supernatural being one example.  It was easy to find &quot;his eyes are red because he's a Crossroads Demon&quot; on fansites all over, but there was no proof until &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/24588/2242&quot;&gt;episode 8x02&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;The question that spurred this meta question failed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/689/what-sites-should-be-considered-general-references/690#690&quot;&gt;this test&lt;/a&gt; for me, by the way.  DVK hit on the exact combination of terms to make &lt;em&gt;Allegiance&lt;/em&gt; show up in Google results, even for my oft-used Star Trek searches; I tried the first terms to come to mind and got both &lt;em&gt;Schisms&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Last Outpost&lt;/em&gt; (and -surprise- the question in question) as my top results.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;The Babylon 5 one I linked above passed it, though, with &quot;tv show 90s space station security guard&quot;, Babylon 5 being a top result (and that question beating it)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2012-11-07T02:23:19.937" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2395" CreationDate="2012-11-06T21:23:48.733" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, an answer clearly appearing in the first few results of a Google search does count as a sufficient basis for a potential General Reference closure. I don't think there needs to be a hard number for how many results have the answer, or which results should count, because it undermines the purpose of having community voting: if enough people agree that the question is easily answered and there's nothing more to add, that's sufficient for General Reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/about&quot;&gt;different from other Q&amp;amp;A sites&lt;/a&gt; in that quality information provided by experts and &quot;making the internet a better place&quot; is paramount. Time &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/12/no-artificial-intelligence-in-area-51/&quot;&gt;and again&lt;/a&gt;, it's been demonstrated that replicating easily-found information elsewhere on the internet does neither: we don't attract or keep experts who are interested in the questions they can't find elsewhere, and—in the event our answer is worse than the currently easily available resource—we actively make it harder to find answers, making the internet worse for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So before you ask your first question on Stack Exchange, one of the principles &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;everyone is asked to agree to&lt;/a&gt; is &quot;do your homework&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Have you &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;thoroughly searched for an answer before asking your question?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Sharing your research helps everyone. Tell us what you found and why it didn’t meet your needs. This demonstrates that you’ve taken the time to try to help yourself, it saves us from reiterating obvious answers, and most of all it helps you get a more specific and relevant answer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Among other things, doing a quick Google search by typing your question into Google and seeing what comes up is one of the least things you could do to research your question beforehand, not only for the chance that your question would be answered immediately, but because it provides a place to start looking for information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't, of course, have to do that before asking a question: you could, by chance, stumble into a really interesting and difficult question without doing &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; research. But if a quick Google search turns up the information and there's nothing more we could add, then there is sufficient basis for a potential GR closure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you've done a quick search and you're not satisfied with the results, no problem; ask us a question and explain &lt;em&gt;what you've tried so far&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;I did a quick search for information about the cat in Harry Potter, but I'm not convinced what I found is correct because...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;When I was looking for the answer to this, I found an article on Memory Alpha that said &quot;...&quot; but that seems to contradict...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By providing the background for asking the question here, we can tailor our answers to answer your specific concerns, even if the question prima facie looks like General Reference; in essence, it makes a &quot;too basic&quot; question no longer basic. And we make the internet a better place by addressing a real, specific problem someone has with the obvious information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what we should be shooting for, not trying in vain to poorly replicate the information found elsewhere. We should be relying on the information collected by other members of the worldwide SFF community, not pretending it doesn't exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Objections&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;If you know nothing about the work, you can't be sure the results are reliable&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's fine: Stack Exchange does not need a person to be absolutely sure their question will remain open here. If it did, we would never have any closed questions. If one does a quick Google search, finds the answer and very little to no disagreement, and still isn't convinced, they're more than welcome to ask a new question about it, provided that they:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;show their work&quot; and explain why they don't believe the easily-found answers are correct, or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;are prepared to have their question closed as General Reference.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Google's search results are personalized&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also of the form, &quot;what may be one person's 'first hit' is another's 'shown on page 3'.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an overblown concern. Google &quot;personalizes&quot; search results based on four factors:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Location: if you search for &quot;bank&quot; and you live in New York, New York-based banks will rank better&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Algorithmic testing: Google is constantly improving their hundreds of search signals, which may cause results to change&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Server queried: when searching, Google routes your query to one of its many data centers, which may not have exactly the same index as others&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Search history: if you've searched a bunch for one term and then search for a term that could be related, Google will bias the results based on the first term&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Location doesn't matter unless you happen to live at Hogwarts or in Middle-earth; if you happen to be in a situation like that, I'd ask a local your question instead of us. The changes Google makes to its algorithms are small and mostly unnoticeable. A algorithmic-based discrepancy or—much more benign, a data center discrepancy—would not produce wildly different results between two people in the time it takes to evaluate a question for GR.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the only other issue is the results based on search history. This bias would actually work &lt;em&gt;in favor&lt;/em&gt; of something using Google to find answers before asking a question. If you're searching for information and are trying a couple of different keywords, Google will figure out—so to speak—what you're trying to search for, even if you're not getting the terms exactly right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But all these search biases can be mitigated by browsing in your browser's privacy mode. If Google's black magic in this regard is too untrustworthy, we could simply modify the rule to something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is the answer clearly appearing in the first few results of a Google search when your browser's privacy mode is turned on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The wikia/domain-specific wikis are, in general, of poor quality/hard to follow&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also of the form, &quot;Who gets to decide which canonical resources count for which works?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not liking the quality the domain-specific wikis is a personal preference and does not affect a &quot;search Google first&quot; GR  philosophy. If, say, you search for who the cat is in Prisoner of Azkhaban and the results all converge on &quot;Crookshanks&quot;, whether Wikia appears in the search results is immaterial, because the answer is corroborated by other results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Other Stack Exchange sites, like Stack Overflow, don't respect any &quot;Google it first&quot; rule&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also of the form, &quot;General Reference is capricious, arbitrary, and even SE thinks it's a failure&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sympathetic to this, but we're given the hand we're dealt with. If you think no question is too simple and don't think we should close questions as General Reference &lt;em&gt;at all&lt;/em&gt;, then we need to get rid of the General Reference close reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, on the other hand, you think we should have a General Reference close reason, just that &quot;Google it first&quot; shouldn't count on the basis that other SE sites don't have that rule, you're comparing apples to oranges, because the other sites &lt;em&gt;don't have&lt;/em&gt; a General Reference close reason, save English.SE. I'd bet a sawbuck if they ever got one, &quot;Google it first&quot; would be one of the first rules put in place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user366" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2012-11-06T22:04:42.817" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2399" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2414" CreationDate="2012-11-07T12:32:35.640" Score="4" ViewCount="1486" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently read this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/13089/why-do-manga-characters-love-to-eat-a-lot-of-food&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; and I gathered from a comment, as all the manga/anime in question was 'unrealistic' (because of the volumes of food eaten) it was considered 'on-topic' even if it didn't otherwise have sci-fi or fantasy elements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this true?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2012-11-13T15:27:12.263" Title="Is unrealistic anime or manga automatically considered sci-fi/fantasy?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2400" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2545" CreationDate="2012-11-07T14:02:45.847" Score="30" ViewCount="890" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/220/1359&quot;&gt;General Reference closure reason&lt;/a&gt; has been a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1896/why-exactly-do-we-still-have-a-general-reference-close-reason&quot;&gt;continuing&lt;/a&gt; source of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2367/is-general-reference-used-inconsistently&quot;&gt;contention&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm still not clear on what it is intended to accomplish (explanations I've seen have ranged from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2398/1359&quot;&gt;showing that the user has 'done their homework' to 'its for questions that are better looked for in other places'&lt;/a&gt;, with a couple of variations in between.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It feels like implementing it here was a bit of an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/220/1359&quot;&gt;experiment&lt;/a&gt;, and it is only in use at a (relatively small?) subset of SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this closure reason still one we want to maintain here at SFF?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2013-10-24T15:35:33.257" Title="Should we burninate General Reference?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|status-completed|general-reference|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2400" CreationDate="2012-11-07T14:35:30.880" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My personal understanding is that the best use is for &quot;not needing to copy/paste Wiki paragraphs to answer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To address the question, &lt;strong&gt;I'm on board with defenestrating G.R. alltogether&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's too contentious, and there seems to be little ground to compromise on, since opinions range from &quot;only very rare cases that literally can be answered by pasting clearly-on-topic-paragraph from the Wikipedia or IMDB&quot; to &quot;Anything that can be answered by a remotely relevant Google query&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can always close the most egregious cases &quot;It's On The Wiki!&quot; ones as &quot;Too localized&quot; if warranted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2012-11-07T14:49:31.883" LastActivityDate="2012-11-07T14:49:31.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2400" CreationDate="2012-11-07T14:38:11.843" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kill it with fire!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The General Reference closure has caused nothing but contention here, and its current implementation has accomplished far more harm than good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently asked about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2395/is-the-answer-appearing-in-the-first-few-results-of-a-google-search-sufficient-b&quot;&gt;whether google is a valid resource for determining if a question is General Reference&lt;/a&gt;.  Despite 19 votes between 3 answers (one now deleted), there is, as of now, no clear consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the whole concept is rather poorly suited to our platform.  It makes a lot more sense on &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;EL&amp;amp;U&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;SO&lt;/a&gt;, and other sites where there are authoritative, widely recognized resources such as dictionaries and reference manuals that are obvious reference materials.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several months ago, a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1896/why-exactly-do-we-still-have-a-general-reference-close-reason&quot;&gt;meta discussion asking why we had the closure reason&lt;/a&gt; obtained 3 different answers, all evenly voted, saying, respectively, that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We should get rid of it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We should keep it but heavily restrict its usage&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is useful but not necessary&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rationale given for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1897/1359&quot;&gt;we should keep it but heavily restrict its usage&lt;/a&gt; is that it prevents our site from being inundated by trivial, boring questions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't agree that this is a danger, nor do I agree that GR, as it is currently implemented, is a valid tool to accomplish that task.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe (there's some ongoing discussion on the topic) that currently, only two sites are (generally) agreed upon as being an indication of possible General Reference: wikipedia.org and imdb.com.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To date, I don't recall seeing any question closed as GR due to an IMDB.com reference (although I may have missed some).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also don't recall seeing many questions that were closed as GR due to a wikipedia.org reference that didn't include some form of debate or controversy.  Usually involving established, active members of the community on both (or all three!) sides of the debate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I certainly haven't noticed a huge flood of trivial, boring questions that would otherwise inundate our site if we didn't keep closing them as GR.  How many General Reference closures have there been?  How many have been reopened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most importantly, the system already has a tool in place that will be just as effective (imo) as closure for trivial, boring questions: downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is it not sufficient to say &quot;if a question is trivial, boring, and demonstrates little to no research, downvote it&quot;? Note that the hover-text for downvoting states quite clearly that a question or answer should be downvoted when it &quot;&lt;em&gt;does not show any research effort&lt;/em&gt;&quot; or &quot;it is unclear or &lt;em&gt;not useful&lt;/em&gt;&quot;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For truly useless questions, most of them will likely fall into other closure categories (Gilles has mentioned on a couple of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1126/1359&quot;&gt;occasions&lt;/a&gt; that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1899/1359&quot;&gt;&quot;too localized&quot;&lt;/a&gt; in particular can usually cover some of the most egregious examples of &quot;General Reference&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since we can't come up with a clear, consistent definition of what qualifies as &quot;general reference&quot;, and since there are already other tools in our arsenal to deal with the low quality questions it was intended to address, I say we get rid of it altogether.  The pay-off for having it just isn't worth the strife, contention, and confusion it has engendered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Sometimes coincidence can be quite amazing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We just got &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/26589/looking-for-a-fantasy-love-story-with-time-travel&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; from a new user that seems pretty legitimate.  However, I was able to find the Wikipedia page for the series with a simple Google query.  In fact, it seems to fit exactly the general criteria for General Reference as it currently stands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet it seems our new user is not the &lt;a href=&quot;http://askville.amazon.com/Lookin-book-girl-back-time-falls-love-boy-lives-mansion/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=63611457&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;only person to struggle to find this title&lt;/a&gt;.  I'd say that this is a valid argument against the idea of General Reference closure as currently defined.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:46.357" LastActivityDate="2012-11-07T17:18:06.033" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2399" CreationDate="2012-11-07T14:59:38.183" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Link to the question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/13089/why-do-manga-characters-love-to-eat-a-lot-of-food&quot;&gt;Why do manga characters love to eat a lot of food?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the anime/manga takes place in a fantasy world with the term 'unrealistic' meaning something not compatible with reality, something extraordinary-- then yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The examples used cite two popular anime characters: Goku from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Ball&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dragonball&lt;/a&gt; (1984) and Luffy from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Piece&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;One Piece&lt;/a&gt; (1997). Other heroes are mentioned in the comments too, which are all from the sci-fi/fantasy genre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XztP5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Luffy stuffed with food&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is mentioned in the comments, this kind of behavior also exists in non sci-fi/fantasy based anime/manga. It is probably true, I'm sure &lt;em&gt;somewhere&lt;/em&gt;, a realistic story of some sort depicts a protagonist stuffing his/her face with so much food-- probably for comedic purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The kind of extraordinary amounts of food being eaten is 'unrealistic'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that doesn't mean that such questions on the historic or social context of such themes found in manga/anime shouldn't belong on a sci-fi/fantasy site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either from the anime/manga or where it got it's influence from, has found it's way into reality. Look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeru_Kobayashi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Takeru Kobayashi&lt;/a&gt; and others in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_eating&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;competitive eating&lt;/a&gt;. That seems pretty unbelievable and unrealistic, yet it's happening in real life. There are extraordinary amounts of food being consumed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The X-Men also seem to be 'unrealistic'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet, are there not real mutants in the world that showcase some kind of genetic mutation-- say extra working limbs (example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshmi_Tatma&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lakshmi Tatma&lt;/a&gt;), gorilla-like hair all over the body (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertrichosis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;hypertrichosis&lt;/a&gt;), superior strength (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myostatin-related_muscle_hypertrophy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy&lt;/a&gt;), or even long life? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is life imitating art, or the art imitating life? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are some examples of stories that are exaggerated that form the basis for sci-fi/fantasy. The question seeks for the historic and/or cultural references that lead to such a theme for such modern Japanese sci-fi/fantasy heroes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just wanted to add that the SF&amp;amp;F Stack Exchange community doesn't really have much anime/manga fans asking/answering questions. Whether Japanese cartoons seems on/off topic or not, this doesn't seem to be a good place for such topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A simple search (as of 11/8/2012) reveals how many hits are for anime/manga keywords, which is very little. Western sci-fi/fantasy is quite dominant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dragonball - 6 hits &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  Anime - 26 hits &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  Manga - 21 hits &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  Star Wars - 626 hits &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  Marvel - 324 hits &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  DC Comics - 219 hits &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  Harry Potter - 811 hits &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  Dr. Who - 3,301 hits &lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1042" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2012-11-08T12:18:47.037" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2400" CreationDate="2012-11-07T16:23:56.477" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only appropriate use is for questions like &quot;What color is Superman's cape?&quot;. But we don't get many of those that dumb, and it definitely seems if not abused then over-used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I vote to remove it as a reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7603" LastActivityDate="2012-11-07T16:23:56.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2400" CreationDate="2012-11-07T18:53:35.210" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You do have a point that the application of GR as close reason is done somewhat inconsistently. That doesn't mean the legitimation to close &lt;em&gt;blatantly trivial questions&lt;/em&gt; is invalid. It just means that we have to do a better job in defining what constitutes general reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These types of questions should be closed for similar reasons that make duplicates, too localised, not constructive, and NARQ close-worthy. If such questions should be closed rather than just down voted, so do trivial questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You propose that some questions are &amp;quot;too localised&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;general reference&amp;quot; at the same time so we don't need GR. The premise &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be true, but the conclusion is invalid. Sure, these questions can be dealt with with TL but questions that are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; localised but trivial are still not questions we want to endorse on this site, so they should be closed too. If we got rid of GR, we would have to close them with some other reason just because, well &amp;quot;we got rid of GR, so we cannot close as GR ... let's see what other close reason we can get away with&amp;quot;. We are in the situation that we don't &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; that improvisation because we &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; have the option to call it what it is: General Reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Proposal&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, what &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; GR and what &lt;em&gt;is not&lt;/em&gt;? &lt;em&gt;That&lt;/em&gt; is the source for contention. I &lt;strong&gt;propose&lt;/strong&gt; we call something GR if you don't need any expertise whatsoever to find the Wikipedia or IMDB page that answers the question. For example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; is (typically) &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; GR regarding this definition as you need the expertise of the community to find the correct WP/IMDB page to begin with. Answering this requires knowledge of sff works, even if only superficial knowledge.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Genuine GR candidates are different: They ask for a detail in a work of sff, where the OP &lt;em&gt;already knows&lt;/em&gt; which work of sff. If there is a reference page for that work, the OP does not require any expertise to open that page.&lt;/strong&gt; Differently worded: If there is a tag for a work of sff it's likely the most trivial information can be found on Wikipedia/IMDB. If it is, this is &lt;em&gt;objectively general reference&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Summary&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should keep GR for these patently clear cases. Rule of thumb: If you can picture an argument whether or not something is GR it most likely is not. If you have to rely on somebody else having posted a similarly worded question/blog-entry somewhere else, it is not. If you can find an answer on WP/IMDB's (main) article on the franchise/work it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-11-07T18:53:35.210" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2399" CreationDate="2012-11-07T22:01:52.997" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only genre where &quot;realism&quot; is truly critical is hard sci-fi. In all other SFF sub-grenres, realism is an issue of taste, covered by the general concept &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willing_suspension_of_disbelief&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;willing suspension of disbelief&lt;/a&gt;. If the user feels that the author has strayed too far outside the bounds of realism, he can stop watching/reading and proclaim to the world his unhappiness with the author. The exact point where readers fall out of disbelief will depend on the reader, the genre and the care with which the author tried to remain self-consistent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking, anime/manga is more about imagination, wonder, and story-telling. Anime/manga fans will give authors a tremendous amount of latitude as long as they maintain internal consistency within the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to actually answer your question, &quot;lack of realism&quot; isn't, per-se a reason to categorize a work as science fiction or fantasy, in the absence of any science fiction or fantasy elements. On the other hand, some people consider &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; anime/manga as SFF, regardless of content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5424" LastActivityDate="2012-11-07T22:01:52.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2395" CreationDate="2012-11-09T20:16:30.643" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Forgive me while I wax emphatic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;No, Google is NOT General Reference!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People who think it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; have fundamentally misunderstood the purpose of the &quot;General Reference&quot; close reason. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;It's not enough for a question to be too basic&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. It must also be of a type that can be answered by &lt;em&gt;a reference source &lt;strong&gt;designed&lt;/strong&gt; to answer it&lt;/em&gt;. The canonical example is, of course, a dictionary for looking up the meaning of a word, which doesn't really apply to this site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really, the only two standard references that apply here are IMDB and Wikipedia. The per-universe sources such as Memory Alpha or Wikia are not generally known, and thus fail the availability test, and some of them fail the reliability test as well. And even with IMDB &amp;amp; Wikipedia, if the answer is buried in a lengthy plot summary or something, then the question may not actually be general reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Google is a search engine. As such, it's designed to answer questions of the form &quot;where do I find a website about [such-and-such]?&quot; — which would obviously be off-topic here. Again, for emphasis: &lt;em&gt;the only questions for which Google is a valid general reference are off-topic for this site.&lt;/em&gt; And then there's the fact that there are a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of crappy websites out there with misleading or false information, and said websites don't have the downvotes and comments and other tools SE has that are designed to filter the wheat from the chaff. And &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; there's the fact that with modern search engines, your past browsing history influences the search results you get... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get that sometimes people post useless questions, and it's infuriating that they can't be bothered to do even basic research before posting. Really, I get it. But the thing to do when a question shows no research is to &lt;em&gt;downvote it&lt;/em&gt;. It says so, right there in the tooltip for the downvote arrow. If, in addition, it's hard to tell what it's asking, because in addition to no research, the poster couldn't be bothered to employ something resembling proper grammar, then you might consider voting to close it as &quot;not a real question&quot;. Or one of the other close reasons, if it fits. But just because you googled it and found a website you know to be reliable in the first few results and the answer was &lt;em&gt;right there&lt;/em&gt; if you knew where to look... that doesn't make it general reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="348" LastActivityDate="2012-11-09T20:16:30.643" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2408" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-11T18:01:43.237" Score="2" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mark Trapp&lt;/strong&gt; noted in his comment to &lt;strong&gt;Martha&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2395/is-the-answer-appearing-in-the-first-few-results-of-a-google-search-sufficient-b#comment7954_2407&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Other sites other than Wikipedia/IMDB pass your &amp;quot;availability test&amp;quot; and Wikipedia/IMDB fail the &amp;quot;reliability test&amp;quot; (they can, and most assuredly are, sometimes wrong, just like the domain-specific wikis). So we have no reason—given your argument—to favor them over anything else. Since there is no consensus here over what references people prefer to answer questions, stating those are the only that count is arbitrary. We could just as easily insist that only Memory Alpha or the Tolkien Gateway count. At least with a Google search, someone can find some answer convergence.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wondered if there would be interest in discussing what specific references we &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; want to accept for questions on SFF? &lt;strong&gt;ETA:&lt;/strong&gt; I need to clarify that I'm asking this question should General Reference be removed as a closure criteria, as General Reference accepts only the Wikipedia and IMDB as credible sources when deciding whether a question is GR or not. If General Reference gets the boot, do we want to discuss what sources are acceptable, without the constraints of the Wiki and the IMDB, on a post-GR SFF.se site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I did search meta and didn't find this question, but if it's a duplicate, let me know and I'll delete it.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-11-11T23:06:44.013" Title="What References Do Users Want to Accept on SFF Should General Reference Be Eliminated?" Tags="|discussion|general-reference|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="12" ClosedDate="2012-11-22T23:23:20.950" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2408" CreationDate="2012-11-11T18:05:57.580" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Mark says, different people have different thresholds of acceptance when it comes to other than very specific sources. I'll use myself as an example. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The FYI I put at the end of my posts is &lt;em&gt;I'm looking for a canon-based answer (the&lt;/em&gt; Harry Potter &lt;em&gt;novels, the three supplemental books, interviews with J.K. Rowling, and/or Pottermore. I do not prefer an answer from the HP Wikia or the Wikipedia.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, obviously, I would like to see the following as acceptable references on SFF:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Canon - the actual source material, whether that be books, a movie, or a TV show.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Material that supplements the original canon material. In the case of &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt;, again using my own fandom as an example, that would mean &lt;em&gt;Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Quidditch Through the Ages&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;The Tales of Beedle the Bard&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Author interviews that can be sourced in text.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Author's website, such as Pottermore.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Podcasts with author interviews, ideally with a written transcript to link to.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Select websites: The Leaky Cauldron; Harry Potter Lexicon; Mugglenet&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not that the above websites would be completely infallible, but I am not a fan of the Wikias, the Wikipedia, or amateurish websites such as omgnargles.com or whatever. I'm on the fence about Quora.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2012-11-11T18:05:57.580" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2408" CreationDate="2012-11-11T18:41:50.107" Score="3" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you mean &quot;which references are acceptable to be references in an answer&quot;, the answer is &quot;eye of the beerholder&quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can give some general FYIs (e.g. Wikias are frequently unreliable), BUT, ultimately, it's what every questioner and up/down voter feels THEY PERSONALLY accept. No universal rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can not really realistically impose &lt;strong&gt;any&lt;/strong&gt; universal standard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, your own practice of annotating &lt;em&gt;your own questions&lt;/em&gt; as to what YOU as a questioner consider valid sources is perfectly legitimate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;My own personal preference is the material sourced from either the main works being discussed, other related works from the same author, the out-of-fiction statements by the author (notes/interviews/memoirs), or those by a person who's officially authorized by the author to speak on the behalf of canonicity (e.g. Leland Chee for Star Wars).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may or may not be extended to author's estate, by your personal preference.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you mean for General Reference VTC, been discussed before: Wikipedia and IMDB.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/955/is-wikia-com-general-reference&quot;&gt;Is Wikia.com general reference?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and that's even assuming we keep G.R. in the first place:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2400/should-we-burninate-general-reference?lq=1&quot;&gt;Should we burninate General Reference?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2012-11-11T18:55:41.187" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2408" CreationDate="2012-11-11T23:06:44.013" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2410/366&quot;&gt;DVK's position&lt;/a&gt; somewhat: we get into unmaintainable territory if we start enforcing a standard set of sources for &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;. Every work has its own definition of &quot;canon&quot;, if there is even a consensus (for example, some consider &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: The Animated Series&lt;/em&gt; canon, others don't).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And what do we do if an answer is provided that doesn't cite the hypothetical list of acceptable sources? Do we go &lt;a href=&quot;https://skeptics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5/faq-must-all-answers-be-referenced&quot;&gt;the route of Skeptics&lt;/a&gt; and put the onus on moderators to delete them? Less drastically, we can't force people to not upvote those answers or downvote them, either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So like DVK, I agree that &quot;what counts&quot; is dependent on the evaluator: if you don't think an answer based on Wikia is useful, vote it down. If you're asking a question and you receive two answers—one from a source you trust and another you don't—accept the former. If you're up for it, maybe even dispute the claim based on the Wikia source and ask for better citations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I diverge from DVK in that questions do not have the right to restrict acceptable sources as sort of a backdoor way to this, where if an answer doesn't use the source the question states as valid, it's technically &quot;not an answer&quot; and should be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main project here is to be a useful internet resource: questions answered here will potentially help anyone in the future who happens to be searching for information about the same problem. If I search for &quot;Why did X do Y?&quot; and find a question here with answers, the expectation is that that Q&amp;amp;A pairing is our definitive answer to that query.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But let's take the situation where it's okay to restrict a question to a set of sources. You have two situations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The list of acceptable sources for the topic is universally agreed-upon, making the restriction unnecessary.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The list of acceptable sources for the topic is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; universally agreed-upon, and the Q&amp;amp;A pair is not definitive.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the latter situation, if I'm searching for information about the problem, and I don't agree with the question asker's set of acceptable sources, I'm in a real bind: the answers don't help me, and if I ask a new question, it's likely to get closed as an exact duplicate of the first one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ah, one might say a new question asking the exact same thing but with a different set of acceptable sources is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; an exact duplicate! But that's neither sustainable nor in the spirit of the closure:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is having a dozen different questions asking exactly the same thing really acceptable? Five? Where do we draw the line? What happens if that line is less than the number of combinations of acceptable sources, and the extant questions don't help me?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If I'm not a discerning reader, don't have a favorite set of acceptable sources, and search for an answer, what do I do when there's a number of questions asking the same thing with different answers? How do I compare them?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, questions should ask about a topic or a problem and that's it. Like above, if you think the answer's sources are acceptable, upvote it or accept it. If you don't, downvote it and optionally explain why the answer's sources are lacking. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way, what's acceptable is organically decided by the community (through votes) and the asker (through the acceptance check mark), but we still allow for a comprehensive Q&amp;amp;A pair should future visitors not agree with either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2012-11-11T23:06:44.013" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2412" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-12T17:30:45.823" Score="6" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2400/98&quot;&gt;consensus&lt;/a&gt; is that there shouldn't be any closure of questions that are marked general reference, please nominate your favorite questions for re-open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have sufficient privileges, just cast a re-open vote, otherwise, feel free to post here. Also, if you feel the question needs to have a case made for it, please feel free to post the question here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can find a list of all GR questions &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/85868/questions-that-are-closed-as-general-reference&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, note that some of  them may have already been reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2012-11-13T21:33:20.513" Title="Nominate questions for re-open" Tags="|discussion|general-reference|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2399" CreationDate="2012-11-13T15:27:12.263" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll offer my opinion as a long-time anime fan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;This Specific Question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in this case, the OP seemed to be asking about this phenomenon within in the context of specifically more sci-fi/fantasy series (Dragonball and One Piece have strong fantastical elements, with magic and crazy science and sword-and-sorcery storytelling elements and tropes obvious throughout the series(es)) as opposed to more realistic slice-of-life anime series, like &lt;em&gt;Yostuba&amp;amp;!&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Touch&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Honey and Clover&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it would be remiss for us to ignore that this trope covers &lt;em&gt;anime at large&lt;/em&gt; and not just action-adventure anime series. While this character type is often found in shounen series (explained below) as the main character, there are several female characters of this bent in fantasy/adventure series (Lina Inverse comes to mind, as does Tsukino Usagi) and characters of &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; genders exhibit this behavior in slapstick comedies and slice-of-life dramas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Anime Has Genres&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those who deem all anime/manga/manwha as &amp;quot;sci-fi&amp;quot; are basically doing it wrong. Anime, just like &lt;em&gt;any other medium&lt;/em&gt; has specific genres. While usually people talk about &lt;em&gt;shonen&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;shoujo&lt;/em&gt; as the main genres, that's a false construct and really more a short-hand for the true genres: action-adventure series tend to be shounen, as do slapstick comedy series and most scifi and fantasy, while shoujo tends to run more rom-com, general fiction, slice-of-life, and some sci-fi with a stronger fantasy element rather than tech.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless, just like television isn't a genre unto itself, anime has distinct genres. Shows like &lt;em&gt;Fullmetal Alchemist&lt;/em&gt; cross genre lines with deliberate storytelling choices. FMA is as much a conspiracy thriller as it is military fantasy as it is a character-driven action-adventure series. Anime is large; ignoring its genre subdivisions is not only ignorant but also does the medium a disservice. You wouldn't recommend &lt;em&gt;Tokyo Mew Mew&lt;/em&gt; to a Hunger Games fan without good reasons, just as I wouldn't recommend &lt;em&gt;Gunbuster!&lt;/em&gt; to a hardcore Disney Princesses fan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Handling This in the Future&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, there isn't an anime site. &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/31538/anime-manga&quot;&gt;It's probably going to be here soon&lt;/a&gt; but until then, I think the lines are pretty clear:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about anime that is clearly scifi/fantasy &lt;strong&gt;should be allowed here&lt;/strong&gt;. This includes questions about scifi/fantasy tropes used in (and that are unique to) scifi/fantasy animanga.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about anime that &lt;em&gt;aren't&lt;/em&gt; scifi, or that are about tropes &lt;em&gt;that apply to ALL anime&lt;/em&gt; should &lt;strong&gt;not be allowed here&lt;/strong&gt; and should probably be shuffled to &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Movies &amp;amp; TV&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2459" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-11-13T15:27:12.263" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2415" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2418" CreationDate="2012-11-13T20:14:32.450" Score="14" ViewCount="370" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just recieved the following email from Stack Exchange, and wanted to know if you guys think we should participate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last year, on our Gaming site, we hosted an event called &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.gaming.stackexchange.com/2011/12/holiday-2011-hat-dash-the-hattening/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hat Dash&lt;/a&gt;, where users earned &amp;quot;hats&amp;quot; for their gravatars by completing certain tasks (analogous to badges). Certain actions would trigger the user receiving a hat, which their gravatar could then &amp;quot;wear&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, editing a post would yield an editor-themed hat (fedora with pen) to the editor.  Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yDDHc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;2011 Hat Dash hats&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This year, we're expanding the promotion to all sites which choose to participate, and redesigning the hat selection to be more appropriate to the entire network (no severed Wampa heads). Some of it is holiday-themed, some of it is a bit silly, and all of it is (hopefully) fun!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: Users who don't want to see the hats will be able to opt-out by clicking an &amp;quot;I hate hats&amp;quot; link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2013-11-18T20:05:28.277" Title="Should we opt in for the special Hat Dash promo?" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|winterbash|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2415" CreationDate="2012-11-13T20:32:31.440" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The lack of severed Wampa heads seems to be unfair, particularly to Scifi.se :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, I say this looks like great fun, and I think we should participate!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all, anyone who feels that such hat-related fun is ill suited towards our serious nature here on Scifi.SE can always use the &quot;I hate hats!&quot; button to opt out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="1359" LastEditDate="2012-11-13T20:44:57.827" LastActivityDate="2012-11-13T20:44:57.827" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2415" CreationDate="2012-11-14T01:10:58.910" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vote for which hats we want to have in: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2420/2565&quot;&gt;Hat suggestions 2012&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I vaguely remember this from last year. Essentially, there were two types of hats, some that were generic, and others that were specific to a tag. We could make suggestions for the specific ones. I would like to propose the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; Wookie Hat&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; Tribble&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/firefly&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;firefly&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;firefly&lt;/a&gt;- Jayne's hat&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;- Generic Wizard hat&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt;- Maybe a battle helmet?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/futurama&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;futurama&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;futurama&lt;/a&gt;- Brain Slug Hat&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-comics&lt;/a&gt; - Magneto's helmet&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-comics&lt;/a&gt; - Doctor Fate helmet&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to cap this list at what we have now, because there is very little chance of us getting anything more than this. Even getting this many would be a bit of a surprise. But I would appreciate adding photos of these to this answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2012-11-14T17:57:40.683" CommentCount="8" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-11-14T17:19:28.813" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2415" CreationDate="2012-11-14T16:39:49.997" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;FYI everyone: We've opted-in.  Expect to see hats this holiday season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-11-14T16:39:49.997" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2415" CreationDate="2012-11-14T17:19:37.973" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Brain Slug Hat&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lLu6j.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doc Brown Mind Reader Hat&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YYI9t.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2012-11-14T17:19:37.973" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2420" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-14T17:36:23.150" Score="9" ViewCount="1905" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since we &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2415/2565&quot;&gt;opted in&lt;/a&gt; to the hat promotion thing, I thought it would be a good idea to vote which site-specific hats would be most wanted by the community. It seems to be unclear if and how many hats we can get, but if we post one answer per suggestion right here, we can use votes to determine which ones the community wants most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2013-11-18T20:05:55.857" Title="Hat suggestions 2012" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|winterbash|" AnswerCount="22" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2012-11-19T16:36:51.887" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2420" CreationDate="2012-11-14T17:37:42.460" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; Wookie Hat&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cP8BM.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-11-14T17:37:42.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2420" CreationDate="2012-11-14T17:39:11.227" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; Tribble hat&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/N3tz9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;tribble hat&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="1234" LastEditDate="2012-11-14T18:53:15.593" LastActivityDate="2012-11-14T18:53:15.593" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2420" CreationDate="2012-11-14T17:41:42.950" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/futurama&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;futurama&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;futurama&lt;/a&gt; Brain slug hat&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TwbvD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-11-14T17:41:42.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2420" CreationDate="2012-11-14T17:42:23.230" Score="12" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/firefly&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;firefly&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;firefly&lt;/a&gt; Jayne's hat&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/k6hmx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastActivityDate="2012-11-14T17:42:23.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2420" CreationDate="2012-11-14T18:11:35.830" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doc Brown &quot;thinking cap&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tqTX0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&amp;quot;thinking cap&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5424" LastActivityDate="2012-11-14T18:11:35.830" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2420" CreationDate="2012-11-14T18:18:45.720" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; R2-D2 Dome Hat&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0g6YD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;R2-D2 dome&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1234" LastActivityDate="2012-11-14T18:18:45.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2420" CreationDate="2012-11-14T18:24:37.217" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; Masaka Mask Hat&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qMhVJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Masaka Mask&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1234" LastActivityDate="2012-11-14T18:24:37.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2420" CreationDate="2012-11-14T18:36:21.250" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt; King Aragorn Crown&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fUAYJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1234" LastActivityDate="2012-11-14T18:36:21.250" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2420" CreationDate="2012-11-14T18:56:45.253" Score="13" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; The Sorting Hat&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mc5Jc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Sorting Hat - *Harry Potter*&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="3500" LastEditDate="2012-11-14T19:06:28.630" LastActivityDate="2012-11-14T19:06:28.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2420" CreationDate="2012-11-14T19:02:52.960" Score="-6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/timelord&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;timelord&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;timelord&lt;/a&gt; Timelord Santa Hat&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kHKXP.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;What say you, Pius?&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, with the holidays coming up, I was thinking from a practical standpoint, especially as my favorite SFF.se question is &amp;quot;Is Santa a Timelord?&amp;quot; (@TangoOversway!) Perhaps instead of a pom-pom on the end of the hat, we could customize it to have a plushie Death Star on it or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-11-14T19:02:52.960" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2420" CreationDate="2012-11-14T19:23:05.343" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doctor-who&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;doctor-who&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;doctor-who&lt;/a&gt; TARDIS hat&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1egL1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;TARDIS hat - *Doctor Who*&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2012-11-14T19:23:05.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2420" CreationDate="2012-11-14T19:32:54.417" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alien&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;Signs&lt;/em&gt; foil hat.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d1xfz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;pic&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4356" LastEditorUserId="4356" LastEditDate="2012-11-15T04:55:18.100" LastActivityDate="2012-11-15T04:55:18.100" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2420" CreationDate="2012-11-14T22:15:09.443" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; Darth Vader's helmet&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AVgwP.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Darth Vader&amp;#39;s helmet&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2012-11-14T22:15:09.443" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2420" CreationDate="2012-11-14T22:21:47.850" Score="11" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doctor-who&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;doctor-who&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;doctor-who&lt;/a&gt; The Doctor's cool &lt;a href=&quot;http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Fez&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;fez&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JfOHj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Eleventh Doctor with a fez&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2012-11-14T22:21:47.850" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2420" CreationDate="2012-11-14T22:25:26.953" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;batman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;batman&lt;/a&gt; Batman's Mask&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UfyFk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;A Batman Mask&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2012-11-14T22:25:26.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2420" CreationDate="2012-11-14T22:36:16.957" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt; The hound's helmet&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0Xcyd.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The hound's helmet&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-11-14T22:36:16.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2420" CreationDate="2012-11-15T00:30:26.713" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; One or more of Guinan's hats&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8dIjt.png&quot; alt=&quot;Three of Guinan&amp;#39;s hats&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastActivityDate="2012-11-15T00:30:26.713" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2420" CreationDate="2012-11-15T16:55:43.063" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;Diadem of Ravenclaw&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jWCTC.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-11-15T16:55:43.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2420" CreationDate="2012-11-15T19:20:45.837" Score="3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; Some Borg implants&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/s8rU2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Locutus&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-11-15T19:20:45.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2264" CreationDate="2012-11-15T19:28:48.883" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ned Stark vs. Ursula the Sea Witch in a sock-knitting contest. Judged both on productivity and quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7603" LastActivityDate="2012-11-15T19:28:48.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2420" CreationDate="2012-11-16T16:28:29.053" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/half-life&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;half-life&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;half-life&lt;/a&gt; Hat-Crab*&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1IUh7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt; Headcrab hat&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-11-16T16:28:29.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2420" CreationDate="2012-11-16T19:53:38.897" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magical-creatures&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magical-creatures&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magical-creatures&lt;/a&gt; Cat Hat&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y5kMg.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Pic&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4356" LastActivityDate="2012-11-16T19:53:38.897" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2420" CreationDate="2012-11-17T04:55:53.703" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/robots&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;robots&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;robots&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv-series&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/space-exploration&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;space-exploration&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;space-exploration&lt;/a&gt; Lost in Space B-9 robot dome &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/h6aYJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;pic&quot;&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4356" LastActivityDate="2012-11-17T04:55:53.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2444" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2445" CreationDate="2012-11-17T14:30:19.997" Score="1" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question with title &quot;Is this plausible that best Lanterns failed to beat Parallax and felt fear?&quot; under &lt;code&gt;green-lantern&lt;/code&gt; tag. It was first closed as non-constructive. Now, it has been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please, un-delete that question. I want to re-phrase that it make it constructive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-11-17T14:38:49.533" LastActivityDate="2012-11-17T14:38:49.533" Title="Undelete this non-constructive question. I want to re-phrase the question" Tags="|support|status-completed|specific-question|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2444" CreationDate="2012-11-17T14:38:29.457" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/24668/is-this-plausible-that-best-lanterns-failed-to-beat-parallax-and-felt-fear&quot;&gt;The question&lt;/a&gt; was automatically deleted after a month of inactivity because it was closed, had a negative score and no answer. Since you have pledged to edit it to make it reopenable, I've undeleted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2012-11-17T14:38:29.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2446" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2448" CreationDate="2012-11-19T20:13:58.523" Score="12" ViewCount="258" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dark-knight&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dark-knight&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dark-knight&lt;/a&gt; tag reads as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Dark Knight is one the nicknames for the DC Comic superhero Batman and the name of a 2008 live action feature film. Also refered to as the Caped Crusader and the Darknight Detective, Batman is a founding member of the Justice League. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on this description I'm not sure what this tag is used for. Is it be supposed to a synonym for the the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;batman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;batman&lt;/a&gt; tag, or about the 2008 movie, &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dark-knight&quot;&gt;current usage&lt;/a&gt; would indicate it's for questions about the &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt; film, but my &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/4734&quot;&gt;suggested edit&lt;/a&gt; to make the tag better reflect this was rejected because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This edit changes too much in the original post; the original meaning or intent of the post would be lost&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's supposed to be a synonym for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;batman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;batman&lt;/a&gt; tag then it's currently lacking one. The synonym should be created, and a new tag for &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt; needs to be created. Either way the tag should be edited to clearly state what it's intended to be used for. Having the additional information about other uses of the term in the excerpt is just confusing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2091" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2012-11-24T17:22:54.503" Title="What is the Dark Knight tag intended to be used for?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2446" CreationDate="2012-11-19T20:13:58.523" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Whatever its current usage is intended to be I suggest it be made into the tag for the movie &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dark-knight&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dark-knight&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dark-knight&lt;/a&gt; is the most natural name for the tag, and also follows the convention of other tags on the site (including &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dark-knight-rises&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dark-knight-rises&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dark-knight-rises&lt;/a&gt;) where leading the &quot;the&quot; was removed. Naming it to something else would just be confusing for users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, having a shared tag, one intended to be used for both the film &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; as a generic Batman tag is both redundant and bothersome. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The redundancy comes from the fact we already have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;batman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;batman&lt;/a&gt; as an overarching Batman tag. Having a second tag for this which isn't a synonym is just confusing, and makes it harder for users to track down relevant questions (do users really need to perform a separate searches for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;batman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;batman&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dark-knight&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dark-knight&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dark-knight&lt;/a&gt;?). Making it into a synonym wouldn't work, since the tag is &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt;  intended to be used for &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The latter problem arises from the fact only way a user can filter questions about the movie with a shared tag is if &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; questions about the film are tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dark-knight&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dark-knight&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dark-knight&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt;. Although I can see the merit for this in some situations, it's completely unnecessary when we have a perfectly good tag available to use for questions about the film (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dark-knight&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dark-knight&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dark-knight&lt;/a&gt;). I don't see any reason why we should require users to bother searching &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dark-knight&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dark-knight&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dark-knight&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; for questions about &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt; unless we absolutely have to. We should be making things easy for users, not more difficult. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;tl;dr:&lt;/strong&gt; There's no reason for this to be a shared tag, so let's just make it a tag solely for &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2091" LastEditorUserId="3267" LastEditDate="2012-11-24T17:22:54.503" LastActivityDate="2012-11-24T17:22:54.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2446" CreationDate="2012-11-19T21:22:52.010" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Synonymizing &quot;Dark Knight&quot; to &quot;Batman&quot; might not make sense (and consequently, the tag wiki needs to be changed), but at the same time, &quot;Dark Knight&quot; does not unambiguously refer to the 2008 movie. It also refers to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_The_Dark_Knight&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a current comic series&lt;/a&gt; featuring the Caped Crusader, to say nothing of the confusion with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_Returns&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Frank Miller series from the 80s&lt;/a&gt;, which was also published under the &quot;Dark Knight&quot; moniker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In trying to keep with the other tags that have this problem, I tried to find other examples in our tagging, but I only found &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stargate-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-movie&lt;/a&gt; with two questions. Somewhat curiously we don't even have a separate tag for Peter Jackson's adaptation of &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why not just disambiguate the tag and create &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dark-knight-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dark-knight-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dark-knight-movie&lt;/a&gt;? Or perhaps &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dark-knight-film&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dark-knight-film&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dark-knight-film&lt;/a&gt;, since there's barely a precedent for overlapping tags right now. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dark-knight&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dark-knight&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dark-knight&lt;/a&gt; should just be kept empty, or if that's really not amenable, synonymized to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;batman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;batman&lt;/a&gt; since you're not going to go wrong tagging a question about a Batman property &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;batman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;batman&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user366" LastActivityDate="2012-11-19T21:22:52.010" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2449" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-25T22:57:27.017" Score="3" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/2339/1109&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; that I was trying to see what its ranking was with respect to vote count, but when I &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions?page=2&amp;amp;sort=votes&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;sort the site by votes on the questions page&lt;/a&gt;, it skips over my question (as well as all my other high vote questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this normal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-05-01T16:59:53.950" Title="Why aren't my high voted questions showing up when I sort the questions page by votes?" Tags="|bug|status-norepro|questions|sorting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2450" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2451" CreationDate="2012-11-27T02:11:07.117" Score="5" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Provided non-wiki answers of 15 total score in 20 of top 40 tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/35591/generalist-progression-updated&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/35591/generalist-progression-updated&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(also, updated and improved query is &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/87003/user-generalist-progression-updated-and-include-which-tags-are-under-200-qs?UserId=976&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/87003/user-generalist-progression-updated-and-include-which-tags-are-under-200-qs?UserId=976&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That query shows me at &gt;15 score in 28 of 40 top tags, but I don't have that badge (neither does anyone else).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either I'm misreading the batch description, or I'm misreading the appropriate data exporer query, or the badge isn't enabled on SFF (I saw mentions of that being non-universal across sites on MSO). What's the reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2012-11-27T02:50:52.457" LastActivityDate="2015-09-14T16:48:48.777" Title="How is Generalist badge supposed to work?" Tags="|support|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2450" CreationDate="2012-11-27T02:30:19.913" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/05/generalist-badge-implemented/&quot;&gt;the SO blog&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing the badge doesn’t say, is that there must be at least 200 questions in all 40 of the top tags before this badge is awarded to anyone. That’s why you won’t see it on meta for a bit longer, or any new sites for about a year. I don’t feel you can accurately measure a generalist until the top tag list settles down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Update:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of yesterday, this badge is now being awarded. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/14/generalist&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/14/generalist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-09-14T16:48:48.777" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2452" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-27T13:43:37.053" Score="7" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/27244/is-there-any-truth-to-the-rumor-that-speaker-for-the-dead-was-ghost-written-by-a#comment53158_27244&quot;&gt;this comment&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An acceptable question would have been: &quot;This is a peer reviewed literary analysis from a reputable source, showing this, that and thus example that the writing style clearly doesn't match the rest of author's books, and/or matches another author&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it just me, or is this somewhat of a high burden for a person who's just wanting to ask a casual question? Especially considering that at that point they'd already have their answer in about as bulletproof a form as society knows other than an actual judicial ruling?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7603" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2012-11-28T22:02:38.207" Title="Do I need to provide peer-reviewed articles proving the answer I wish to find before I ask the question?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2452" CreationDate="2012-11-27T14:31:19.640" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, you don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the Upvote/Downvote alt tips indicate that the level of research you put into a question should guide voting.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've never heard this theory before, and, without any supporting claims to provide a reference, it does seem completely unfounded and out of the blue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Peer reviewed literary analysis seems like overkill as a requirement for an upvote, and it certainly isn't a requirement for &lt;em&gt;asking&lt;/em&gt;, but &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; form of reference indicating where you came across this theory, preferably with &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; sort of justification (even if purely speculative in nature), would go a long way towards making your question better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You mention in your first sentence that you've heard and read this from more than one source.  That's a cue right there that the question would benefit from links to one or more of those sources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Skeptics.se&lt;/a&gt; has a policy that any question requires the claim to be &quot;notable&quot; in order for a question to be on-topic.  While this isn't a categorical rule here, it makes sense for these types of questions.  Proving a question is based off of a notable claim involves providing references to those claims.  Linking to the claims isn't an answer.  It's providing an appropriate framework for people to work with to &lt;em&gt;research&lt;/em&gt; answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:46:37.330" LastActivityDate="2012-11-27T14:40:12.483" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="885" CreationDate="2012-11-27T20:30:06.437" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Developers can turn off this feature on a site-to-site basis. &lt;a href=&quot;http://gaming.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Arqade&lt;/a&gt; recently &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5379/stop-removing-tags-that-are-only-used-once-in-the-last-6-months/5510#5510&quot;&gt;got rid of it&lt;/a&gt;. The request to turn it off on SF&amp;amp;F has been relayed to Stack Exchange staff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;badp has created a &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/85848/old-singleton-tags&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;data explorer query&lt;/a&gt; that shows at-risk tags: tags that are used on a single question and have been around for at least 3 months. I reviewed the first 25:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Required tags (name of the author or movie): &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/john-steakley&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;john-steakley&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;john-steakley&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mercy-thomson&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mercy-thomson&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mercy-thomson&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/eric-flint&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;eric-flint&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;eric-flint&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bridge-to-terabithia&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bridge-to-terabithia&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bridge-to-terabithia&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/venture-bros&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;venture-bros&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;venture-bros&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jack-mckinney&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jack-mckinney&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jack-mckinney&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jean-m-auel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jean-m-auel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jean-m-auel&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/godslayer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;godslayer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;godslayer&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/land-of-the-lost&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;land-of-the-lost&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;land-of-the-lost&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-giver&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-giver&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-giver&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-prisoner&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-prisoner&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-prisoner&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/emberverse&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;emberverse&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;emberverse&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/clockwork-orange&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;clockwork-orange&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;clockwork-orange&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/1001-nights&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;1001-nights&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;1001-nights&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/green-rider&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;green-rider&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;green-rider&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quiet-earth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quiet-earth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quiet-earth&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/person-of-interest&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;person-of-interest&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;person-of-interest&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/l-ron-hubbard&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;l-ron-hubbard&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;l-ron-hubbard&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/k-pax&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;k-pax&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;k-pax&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mst3k&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mst3k&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mst3k&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantastic-voyage&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantastic-voyage&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantastic-voyage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Optional tags (name of the book where there is also an author name):&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/armor-book&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;armor-book&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;armor-book&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/painted-caves&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;painted-caves&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;painted-caves&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tag that should have been different: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quantum-thief&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quantum-thief&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quantum-thief&lt;/a&gt; (name of the title, we would normally use the author name — however this is a retag of a tag that had been deleted previously, so we can't know what was there befoere)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tag that makes sense, but isn't a great loss: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aladdin&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aladdin&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aladdin&lt;/a&gt; (it's a concept tag, which we encourage, but it's a very searchable one, so it isn't particularly useful)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags that we should get rid of: none&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that's 21 against the tag killer, 4 undecided, and 0 in favor. Kill the tag killer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2019-03-05T21:09:17.333" LastActivityDate="2019-03-05T21:09:17.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2455" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-28T17:13:24.333" Score="6" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made a &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/87253/list-of-not-closed-community-wiki-posts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;query to List Non-Closed Community Wiki Posts&lt;/a&gt; and I checked 2 random ones:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/23988/why-doesnt-a-blackhole-destroy-a-stargate/23989#23989&quot;&gt;Why doesn&amp;#39;t a blackhole destroy a Stargate?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15/how-many-different-enterprises-were-there/5694#5694&quot;&gt;How many different Enterprises were there?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They seem to have been turned CW because they where repeatedly improved by the original author. By the original author &lt;strong&gt;exclusively&lt;/strong&gt;. That seems unfair to me, as they won't get any additional rep from those otherwise good post, just for improving them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should mods remove the Community Wiki status to those posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there other posts in the list that should have their Community Wiki status removed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Should mods remove the Community Wiki status of posts that were improved several times by the original author (or others)?" Tags="|discussion|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2455" CreationDate="2012-11-28T17:41:40.740" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a hard time justifying altering these when the original posters aren't involved.  I would expect the original poster to flag their posts if they want the CW status removed.  In general, I don't want to spend time policing functionality that's working normally that affected individuals aren't complaining about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-11-28T17:41:40.740" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2455" CreationDate="2012-11-28T18:18:05.743" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/11741/168610&quot;&gt;rules for &lt;strong&gt;auto&lt;/strong&gt;-cw are&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Posts enter community wiki mode when one of the following happens:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The body of the post has been edited by at least five (&lt;strong&gt;5&lt;/strong&gt;) different users.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The post has been edited ten (&lt;strong&gt;10&lt;/strong&gt;) times by the original owner.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[..]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[..]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[..]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question generates more than &lt;strong&gt;30&lt;/strong&gt; answers (&lt;strong&gt;15&lt;/strong&gt; on Super User, &lt;strong&gt;60&lt;/strong&gt; on Code Golf). In this case, the question and all answers&#xA;  will enter community mode, as will any future answers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;(removed conditions that explicitly make post CW, emphasis mine)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Remark ragarding condition 1: If more than 4 users actively contribute to a post it should be community wiki, as it is the result of many users collaborating. If most of these edits however are minor grammar/spelling edits, it should not. This must obviously decided depending on the situation.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is about condition 2; If users invest a lot of work into improving their own answer, toggling CW on the tenth edit (without warning!) serves to do exactly one thing: Discourage users from investing effort in improving their posts (specifically, their answers) as any further votes on the question do not count towards their rep. I don't think this makes a tremendous amount of sense, as improvements are welcome and people shouldn't be conditioned to avoid them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2012-11-28T18:18:05.743" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2458" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-28T22:29:30.947" Score="14" ViewCount="452" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know the &quot;Is X a Timelord&quot; discussion gets a bit old, but I think we should come up with a consistent scheme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I know the first question of this kind was asked by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1693/tangooversway&quot;&gt;TangoOversway&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/7837/2565&quot;&gt;Is Santa Claus a Time Lord?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which has received a score of +34-6 (as of this writing) &lt;em&gt;and was not closed&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, similar questions asking if some fictional character that exhibits any similarity with The Doctor could be a Timelord are typically closed. I know there were some of these questions in the past, but I cannot find them right now (maybe they were even deleted after being closed). The most recent question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/27298/2565&quot;&gt;Is James Bond a timelord?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was closed as not constructive with a score of +3-3. From the original question that remained open for about a year now (it was never closed/reopened), it would appear that the community considers the question valid, although there is barely any qualitative difference between these questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been two claims that were supposed to be an argument why the latter should be closed and the former be left open:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Santa Claus appeared on DW while James Bond did not.  &quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a) incorrect, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/James_Bond&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;James Bond&lt;/a&gt; has been mentioned several times in DW episodes, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;b) actually irrelevant as it would be part of a potential answer, not legitimation for closing the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;The Santa questions asks in Universe for the Santa that appeared on-screen.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;That is incorrect; The question text doesn't even mention that Santa had an on-screen appearance and even remarks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;His appearance changes from movie to movie, indicating he might undergo regenerations between movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which indicates that it is actually asking about the general figure of Santa Clause as it appears on various media, &lt;em&gt;including but not limited to&lt;/em&gt; DW (note that there was only one DW film).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By this reasoning, the questions are equivalent and either all such questions asking if a figure that exists outside the DW universe is a Timelord should be closed or all should be okay (within reason; &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; argument for the potential validity of the claim must always be provided).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2018-01-21T17:11:37.190" LastActivityDate="2018-01-21T17:11:37.190" Title="Can we be consistent with &quot;Is X a Timelord&quot; questions?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|consistency|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2458" CreationDate="2012-11-28T22:51:58.800" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally think that both questions are not constructive, since they are IMO cross-universe questions. While they may have been mentioned in DW episodes, the questions clearly are talking about bringing in elements of established canon outside of DW to argue for/against their point. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of established fiction is supposed to take place in &quot;our&quot; universe, so mentions of popular figures inherent to the &quot;real&quot; world is bound to happen in any fictional universe. Unless the mentions are specific enough to show that the character/thing &lt;em&gt;exists in a non-fictional way within the universe&lt;/em&gt; then I think that any questions that attempt to cross-reference separate fictional universes is non-constructive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples of mentions that fall into the within-universe category are pervasive in the Marvel movie franchises. While a character may have only a passing reference (a la Captain America's shield in &lt;em&gt;Iron Man 2&lt;/em&gt;) it makes it clear that the character &lt;em&gt;actually exists&lt;/em&gt; and is not merely the same &lt;em&gt;fictional&lt;/em&gt; depiction of the character from our &quot;reality&quot; interspersed into the fictional universe. Therefore questions that ask about something like &quot;Where was Captain America when Iron Man was battling the Hammer drones?&quot; is perfectly natural and an OK question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of a &quot;bad&quot; cross-universe category mention might involve asking the question &quot;How many Twilight werewolves come from Muggle families?&quot; &quot;Werewolves&quot; exist in each universe, so one might be inclined to ask crossover questions, however these questions are IMO &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; non-constructive, as it is clear that the fictional universes were &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; meant to have that type of cross-over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR;&lt;/strong&gt; If the question can establish that the character/thing exists in the universe in question &lt;em&gt;in a non-fictional&lt;/em&gt; way, then the question is fine, otherwise it is not constructive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4383" LastActivityDate="2012-11-28T22:51:58.800" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2460" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2461" CreationDate="2012-12-03T17:31:05.003" Score="2" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was reported by @Slytherincess on chat, and I don't think I recall recent meta posts appearing either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regular SFF questions appear, but with sometimes long delay,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T17:45:44.137" Title="There seems to be a problem with meta.SFF.SE posts not feeding into SFF chat" Tags="|support|chat|feed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2460" CreationDate="2012-12-03T17:45:44.137" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It look like they are Feeding fine : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/7110693#7110693&quot;&gt;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/7110693#7110693&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4pINC.png&quot; alt=&quot;screen cap&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T17:45:44.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2462" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-03T19:09:32.827" Score="3" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen that query on DataExplorer before (searching for &quot;Taxonomist&quot; in query list).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For your pleasure, I present:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/87763/how-close-are-you-to-a-taxonomist-badge?MinCountOfQuestionsPerBadge=25&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;How close are you to a Taxonomist Badge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T19:09:32.827" Title="PSA: use this nifty Data Explorer query to see how close you are to Taxonomist badge" Tags="|discussion|badges|data-explorer|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2463" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2465" CreationDate="2012-12-05T22:59:59.093" Score="4" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do we need the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/amy-pond&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;amy-pond&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;amy-pond&lt;/a&gt; tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It feels superfluous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2012-12-06T14:16:26.660" Title="Do we need an Amy-Pond tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2463" CreationDate="2012-12-06T01:34:17.323" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I appear to be the one to blame for the tag, I feel obliged to answer;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a ton of character specific tags for various franchises and I don't really see the harm in extra tags, even if they don't have hundreds of questions. In this case I think there are some more questions related to Amy Pond that are just not using this tag, so I'm not sure if the two questions currently tagged so are representative (regarding quantity).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given current story developments I'm not sure how many new Rory/Amy questions we will get but we could retag older questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastActivityDate="2012-12-06T01:34:17.323" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2463" CreationDate="2012-12-06T14:16:26.660" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this tag is particularly helpful.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Gilles mentioned in his comment to this question, we've had similar situations come up with character-specific tags in the past, and the most popular answers to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/846/1359&quot;&gt;Star Wars&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1566/1359&quot;&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/a&gt; versions pretty clearly establish a precedent for character-specific tags being generally unpopular, and not being perceived as particularly useful in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd be more inclined to see a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doctor-who-companions&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;doctor-who-companions&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;doctor-who-companions&lt;/a&gt; tag than one tag for each particular companion (because if we have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/amy-pond&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;amy-pond&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;amy-pond&lt;/a&gt;, why not a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rose-tyler&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rose-tyler&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rose-tyler&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-sullivan&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-sullivan&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-sullivan&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brigadier-lethbridge-stewart&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brigadier-lethbridge-stewart&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brigadier-lethbridge-stewart&lt;/a&gt;?), but I just don't see it being necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems unlikely that someone would subscribe or ignore an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/amy-pond&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;amy-pond&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;amy-pond&lt;/a&gt; tag, or that questions specific to Pond couldn't be found using a combination of the existing tag and text searching.  There are a fair amount of Amy Pond-related questions, but the ones specific to her aren't a huge proportion of the total Doctor Who questions, and with her exiting the show as a main character, that proportion seems almost certain to decrease over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, I fear that such a tag will be used inconsistently.  It may not occur to most people that they should specifically be adding such a tag, and there are already questions that would qualify that don't have the tag.  This means that in order for the tag to have &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; value, a significant effort of cleanup for existing questions would need to take place, &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; users would have to pay attention to any future questions and ensure that the specific tag was added.  I just don't see the payoff for this justifying it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2012-12-06T14:16:26.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2466" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-06T15:31:20.043" Score="-4" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;While reading through the questions this morning, I found this one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/27679/7603&quot;&gt;Where Did Dolores Umbridge Get Her Evil Quill?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While all the current tags are correct, this is specifically about a magic item. It seems like it should be grouped with other questions about magical items even when those aren't part of the Harry Potter franchise. I've seen several Books of Swords questions for which this tag might be appropriate. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magic-weapon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magic-weapon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magic-weapon&lt;/a&gt; might also be a tag synonym for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not crazy about &quot;artifact&quot;, but both &quot;item&quot; and &quot;object&quot; seem too, I dunno, D&amp;amp;Dish for my tastes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7603" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2012-12-06T16:37:29.623" Title="Should we have a magic-artifact tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2466" CreationDate="2012-12-06T15:33:29.240" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;What purpose does &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magic-artifact&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magic-artifact&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magic-artifact&lt;/a&gt; serve that isn't covered by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magical-items&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magical-items&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magical-items&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-12-06T15:33:29.240" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2466" CreationDate="2012-12-06T16:37:29.623" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rather than &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magical-artifact&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magical-artifact&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magical-artifact&lt;/a&gt;, or even &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magical-items&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magical-items&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magical-items&lt;/a&gt;, it may be better to use a more generic &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artifact&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;artifact&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;artifact&lt;/a&gt;. That would cover questions in both science fiction and fantasy genres that involve items in the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may need a better name though. The word artifact may be too obtuse for people to think of when tagging their questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1234" LastActivityDate="2012-12-06T16:37:29.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2469" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-06T19:45:22.797" Score="-8" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-hobbit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-hobbit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-hobbit&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/silmarillion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;silmarillion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;silmarillion&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rings-of-power&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rings-of-power&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rings-of-power&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/middle-earth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;middle-earth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;middle-earth&lt;/a&gt;. And they're just the ones I've noticed. I'm inclined to think that anyone interested in any of these will be interested in all of them, so the tags should all be merged into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/middle-earth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;middle-earth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;middle-earth&lt;/a&gt;. Am I completely wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="403" LastActivityDate="2014-06-05T12:40:13.520" Title="Tagging Middle-earth" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2469" CreationDate="2012-12-06T19:59:35.887" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;The Silmarillion&lt;/em&gt; are all separate works, so merging them would not be desirable. The other tags are meant to specify particular areas of Tolkien's legendarium. Someone wanting to learn more about the Rings for instance can look at that particular tag. The same goes for Middle Earth or for Tolkien himself. Therefore I don't think that any of the tags you specified should be merged...(and if they were to be merged a more apt name would be something like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkiens-legendarium&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkiens-legendarium&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkiens-legendarium&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4383" LastActivityDate="2012-12-06T19:59:35.887" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2469" CreationDate="2012-12-06T22:46:09.840" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree with merging all the tags, but I agree that they are used inconsistently and we should do some cleanup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt; is necessary because not everything Tolkien wrote is set in Middle-Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it comes to Middle-Earth, I think we have broadly three audiences:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People who've seen the Peter Jackson movies and are mostly interested in the movies and how they relate to the book.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People who've seen Tolkien's influence (for example, from playing D&amp;amp;D), and might have read &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; and just maybe the &lt;em&gt;Silmarillion&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People who're interested in Middle-Earth minutiae, but don't know all of Christopher's publications by heart yet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good tagging system would help people in category 1 and 2 quickly find the questions they are interested in. Here, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-hobbit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-hobbit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-hobbit&lt;/a&gt; will appeal to audiences 1 and 2, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/middle-earth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;middle-earth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;middle-earth&lt;/a&gt; is likely to come as too detailed. Audience 1 will likely ignore &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/silmarillion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;silmarillion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;silmarillion&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not convinced we need &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rings-of-power&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rings-of-power&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rings-of-power&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/akallabeth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;akallabeth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;akallabeth&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gandalf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gandalf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gandalf&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/saruman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;saruman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;saruman&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sauron&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sauron&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sauron&lt;/a&gt;, ... (See the related discussions on character tags, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2463/do-we-need-an-amy-pond-tag&quot;&gt;the latest one&lt;/a&gt;.) In fact, I've gone ahead and merged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/akallabeth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;akallabeth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;akallabeth&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/silmarillion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;silmarillion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;silmarillion&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should make a complete list of Tolkien-related tags (I don't have the time just now) and figure out how they're currently used and whether we want that to continue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once we as a community reach a decision, we should edit the relevant tag wikis and get at least most of the questions tagged the way we want them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2012-12-07T11:37:57.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2472" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-07T01:02:25.833" Score="15" ViewCount="213" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just looked at my rep and I got hit with -70 because &quot;User removed&quot;. Was someone banned? And I thought after about 5 mins up/down votes were cemented in and couldn't be changed unless an edit to the question/answer was made. Why do I get punished for someone else leaving?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1109" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-12-07T01:12:12.703" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="What does &quot;user removed&quot; mean and why did I lose reputation?" Tags="|discussion|support|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2472" CreationDate="2012-12-07T01:11:31.127" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;When accounts are deleted, their votes go away with them. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/126470/what-does-user-was-removed-mean-and-why-did-my-reputation-change-because-of-it&quot;&gt;What does “user was removed” mean and why did my reputation change because of it?&lt;/a&gt; on the main meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't a user who was banned. There are only three reasons an account would be deleted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Spammers and the like — users who have never produced any useful content. These are very unlikely to have ever had enough reputation to vote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sockpuppet accounts — when the same person had multiple accounts. The sockpuppet is merged into the main account; if both accounts had voted for you, you lose one of the votes (you can't have the same user voting twice on the same post), and I think that's the message you'd see.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other than that, accounts are only removed at users' request. Misbehaving users may be suspended, but that doesn't affect the votes they may have cast.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are not punished for that. The reputation you lost is reputation that you would not have gained if the user hadn't voted for you. You don't take a penalty: since the user is no longer there to grant you these votes, you can no longer claim to have earned them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2012-12-07T01:11:31.127" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2474" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-07T04:22:52.650" Score="65" ViewCount="2849" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are/were there any SFF professionals (writers, or movie people) who posted on this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By professional, I mean someone who did a paid job involved with producing SFF content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-12-08T17:02:43.847" LastActivityDate="2023-04-19T17:29:36.203" Title="Have we had ANY professionals participate in SFF?" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="20" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2474" CreationDate="2012-12-07T04:24:30.203" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;While there's no proof of identity, I'm aware of at least one (Danny Rubin posted an answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6334/how-long-was-bill-murrays-character-supposed-to-be-in-a-time-loop-in-the-film&quot;&gt;How long was Bill Murray&amp;#39;s character (Phil Davis) supposed to be in a time loop in the film &amp;quot;Groundhog Day&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can probably count @TangoOversway, who stated that he wrote scripts to be submitted to Star Trek (they were not used, but that's less relevant to me).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2012-12-07T04:24:30.203" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2474" CreationDate="2012-12-07T04:56:18.753" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've also had a few professional comics contributors come through, thanks to one of the employees' ties to this site, right? I feel like I've seen an answer about She-Hulk from someone &quot;famous&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDITED TO ADD:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The artist for Image Comics' &quot;Chew,&quot; Rob Guillory, answered a question about the series: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9408/why-are-all-the-usda-agents-in-chew-women-with-exaggerated-physical-features&quot;&gt;Why are all the USDA agents in Chew women with exaggerated physical features?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The writer for DC Comics/Vertigo's &quot;iZombie,&quot; Chris Roberson, answered this question about the series: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6429/has-the-over-and-undersoul-theory-been-used-to-explain-monsters-before&quot;&gt;Has the over- and undersoul theory been used to explain monsters before?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We answered a She-Hulk question for Marvel Comics writer Fred Van Lente, who then Tweeted the question and answer out to his followers: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5393/can-she-hulks-hair-be-cut&quot;&gt;Can She-Hulk's hair be cut?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A question on our site was answered by &quot;Hulk&quot; writer Jeff Parker via Twitter: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5814/how-does-the-incredible-hulk-change-mass&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How does The Incredible Hulk change mass?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/7651/hugh-howey&quot;&gt;Hugh Howey&lt;/a&gt; answered this question regarding one of his works: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20096/what-is-the-cataclysm-that-befalls-earth-in-wool&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the cataclysm that befalls Earth in Wool?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11165" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2017-02-13T13:00:58.857" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2477" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-07T05:29:19.413" Score="1" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many users (bother mods and non-mods) at one time or another expressed the point of view that &quot;unnecessary&quot; tags -- tags which are highly unlikely to be used for filtering in/out of questions, or search) are a Bad Thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(with a possible exception of character tags when many questions deal with that character)&lt;/sub&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What exactly are the reasons to NOT want to have the extra tags (for example tags for characters that aren't major, but still have &gt;1 question)?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to be clear, I'm &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; asking about &quot;unambigous&quot; tags - again, using minor characters as example (&quot;ambigous&quot; tag is defined as &quot;it's hard to decide whether to use it or not on any given question&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's pretty clear why having an un-necessary tag which is ambiguous is a Bad Idea :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm willing to see an answer &quot;too many tags unnecessarily slows down the data server and full system&quot;, as long as that answer honestly backs up such an unlikely assertion with hard performance profiling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T09:07:42.007" Title="What is the reason for NOT having tags which aren't absolutely necessary?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2477" CreationDate="2012-12-07T14:07:54.207" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sure this has been discussed in other places, probably including meta SO, but I'm just going by my opinion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with tags in general is that the more you have, the less likely they will be used consistently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tagging in general can be confusing to people who aren't familiar with the SE platform, so keeping fairly obvious tags makes it an easier decision for them, and cuts down on the &quot;clean-up&quot; other users will have to perform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even people who are familiar with SE and tagging can find it confusing when coming to a new SE community and finding that they have a whole bunch of specific sub-tags that are expected to be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not going to be intuitively obvious that a Doctor Who question focused specifically on Amy Pond should be tagged with both &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doctor-who&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;doctor-who&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;doctor-who&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/amy-pond&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;amy-pond&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;amy-pond&lt;/a&gt; (or even &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doctor-who-companions&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;doctor-who-companions&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;doctor-who-companions&lt;/a&gt;).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more tags you add, the more likely tags are to be missed, and the more likely a question will not be able to accommodate &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of the tags that are relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, let's ask a question about the conception of River Song and the involvement of the Silence.  Now suppose we have all kinds of specific tags.  There's a limit of 5 tags per question.  So how do we tag it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doctor-who&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;doctor-who&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;doctor-who&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/amy-pond&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;amy-pond&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;amy-pond&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rory&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rory&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rory&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/melody-pond&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;melody-pond&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;melody-pond&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tardis&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tardis&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tardis&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-silence&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-silence&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-silence&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doctor-who-companions&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;doctor-who-companions&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;doctor-who-companions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Too many choices, and too many to fit on one question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way tags serve a useful purpose is if they're used consistently.  If some questions could have a tag, but don't (because no one noticed that the tag existed and was appropriate for the question, or because the question didn't have room for the tag due to other tags already in place), then the utility of being able to search, favorite, or ignore is broken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best way to do this is to limit tags for important distinctions, that directly support what people may reasonably be expected to want for facilitation of search, grouping, and ignoring.  Part of this is admittedly semi-arbitrary, as one person may want to favorite all questions relating to a specific character (e.g. &quot;I love Pinkie Pie from MLP!&quot;), but few other people who participate in the community may be interested.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why it is best to bring specific instances to meta if there's even the slightest doubt.  If the community decides there should be a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pinkie-pie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pinkie-pie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pinkie-pie&lt;/a&gt; tag, then so be it, but if the community &lt;em&gt;doesn't&lt;/em&gt; agree on it, chances are it won't be used consistently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2012-12-07T14:07:54.207" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2474" CreationDate="2012-12-07T14:21:17.807" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our first professional author sighting was, to my knowledge, Mark Jeffrey, in response to Tony Meyer's question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3885/differences-between-the-podiobook-and-paper-version-of-max-quick-the-pocket-and&quot;&gt;about differences in the two versions of &lt;em&gt;Max Quick: The Pocket and the Pendant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2012-12-07T14:54:50.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2480" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2481" CreationDate="2012-12-07T15:36:21.463" Score="6" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question was asked January 14th 2012&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9091/what-happened-to-the-grid-at-the-end-of-tron-legacy#comment54045_9091&quot;&gt;What happened to the Grid at the end of Tron Legacy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This morning it was closed as an exact duplicate because someone on November 17th 2012 asked the same question? &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/26927/what-happens-to-the-grid-if-the-system-is-shut-down&quot;&gt;What happens to the grid if the system is shut down&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is my question a duplicate if I asked it 10 months &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the other question existed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2012-12-07T17:50:36.417" Title="Why was my question closed as a duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2480" CreationDate="2012-12-07T16:35:47.707" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just was handling a flag, I should have cbecked the date... Anyways, I've reversed the closure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-12-07T16:35:47.707" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2482" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-08T16:16:21.010" Score="2" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since my browser doesn't allow for third-party cookies (which is a deliberate choice) I have to try to log into chat via StackExchange.com -- however, repeated attempts simply yield a blank page (no HTML or CSS) that reads this error:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No referer was present - this may be due to a browser setting&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why am I getting this error? How can I work around it? If the answer could include an option that doesn't require me to allow third-party cookies, that would be awesome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For completeness: I'm using Firefox Portable on Windows 7. I do not have any ad blocker running, though I do use an extension that masks my IP address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11165" LastActivityDate="2012-12-08T16:16:21.010" Title="I keep getting an error when I try to log into chat?" Tags="|support|chat|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2474" CreationDate="2012-12-08T17:10:17.620" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Nielsen_Hayden&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Patrick Nielsen Hayden&lt;/a&gt; (one of SF's foremost editors, which he won several Hugos for, working for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_Books&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tor&lt;/a&gt;; also a blogger on &lt;a href=&quot;http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Making Light&lt;/a&gt; with his wife and others) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/905/patrick-nielsen-hayden&quot;&gt;came by&lt;/a&gt;. Unfortunately, he didn't stick around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the only name I remember that I recognized from before, but I know we've had a couple of authors pop by (other answers here cite some of them).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2012-12-08T17:10:17.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2484" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-10T16:04:05.177" Score="19" ViewCount="863" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been about a year now, so it is now time for the reboot of the Community Promotion Ads!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site's twitter account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;interesting articles or findings for the curious&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool Science Fiction or Fantasy events/conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads every year?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be &lt;strong&gt;220 x 250 pixels&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/2484&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2537" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2013-09-22T14:40:23.023" Title="Community Promotion Ads - 2013" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="22" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2013-12-06T11:48:57.400" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-10T16:07:36.813" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2484" CreationDate="2012-12-10T16:07:22.603" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/stackscifi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/grKuY.png&quot; alt=&quot;Follow us on Twitter!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2537" LastEditorUserId="403" LastEditDate="2012-12-10T19:22:21.173" LastActivityDate="2012-12-10T19:22:21.173" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-10T16:07:36.813" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2484" CreationDate="2012-12-11T02:27:57.610" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pottermore.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/95pUq.png&quot; alt=&quot;Tagline to show on mouseover&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1660" LastActivityDate="2012-12-11T02:27:57.610" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-11T02:27:57.610" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2484" CreationDate="2012-12-11T18:29:55.147" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://savethescifi.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qii8Z.png&quot; alt=&quot;Save the SciFi&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1234" LastActivityDate="2012-12-11T18:29:55.147" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-11T18:29:55.147" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="885" CreationDate="2012-12-11T23:20:53.147" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;After reviewing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/885/automatic-tag-clean-up-and-the-long-tail/2454#2454&quot;&gt;Gilles' data&lt;/a&gt; and talking about this internally for a while, I agree that &lt;em&gt;for a site like SciFi&lt;/em&gt; where there are no allowable classes of tags that apply to most questions, this culling isn't helping. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disabled. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please keep a sharp eye on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags?tab=new&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags?tab=new&lt;/a&gt; for crap tags.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2012-12-11T23:20:53.147" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2490" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-13T02:18:06.273" Score="1" ViewCount="513" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I saw a question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/27944/who-is-more-powerful-voldemort-or-grindelwald&quot;&gt;Who is more powerful: Voldemort or Grindelwald?[closed]&lt;/a&gt; that struck me both in its similarity to a previous question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15203/was-voldemort-a-better-wizard-than-dumbledore&quot;&gt;Was Voldemort a Better Wizard than Dumbledore?&lt;/a&gt; and in the amount that it got DVd and closed. I can't seem to figure out why the first was almost immediately closed/DVd while the other was not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the comments of the first (none of which state that they are providing reasons for DVs), it seems that people were attributing the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/gorilla-vs-shark/&quot;&gt;Shark vs. Gorilla&lt;/a&gt; argument against it. I don't believe that the question really fits into that area, as it asks about two people from the same universe, of the same &quot;type&quot;, who are explicitly compared within the universe in question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;User Beofett explained in a comment that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It doesn't matter if the two opponents are from the same universe or not. &quot;Who would beat who in a fight&quot; between two entities who never fought will always rely on speculation for answers, and therefore will almost certainly will not generate quality content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that is the case, then I see no reason for the second question to be open. Since it not only is open, but has garnered several up-votes I would refute the &quot;almost certainly will not generate quality content.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone please illuminate this situation for me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to point out, with minor edits either question could be asking the exact same thing as the other (substituting the names of the characters in question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2012-12-13T02:26:48.103" Title="What is the difference between asking these two questions?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2490" CreationDate="2012-12-13T02:26:34.280" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think “shark vs gorilla” applies here: that would mean a question like “who is more powerful: Voldemort or Gandalf?” But I agree with Beofett's reasoning: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/27944/who-is-more-powerful-voldemort-or-grindelwald&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/27944/who-is-more-powerful-voldemort-or-grindelwald&lt;/a&gt; is not constructive, because it's exactly what it says on the tin — presumably each of them has his strong points and his weak points, and the answer is in the eye of the beholder. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15203/was-voldemort-a-better-wizard-than-dumbledore&quot;&gt;Was Voldemort a Better Wizard Than Dumbledore?&lt;/a&gt; references specific events and perceptions in the book: we are told which beholder to consider (to wit, JKR, and by implication what she hoped the reader would think). That makes the earlier question a good literary analysis question. (It also helps that the author of the earlier question Did The Research.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2012-12-13T02:26:34.280" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2492" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-13T06:29:31.467" Score="-3" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I understand it, list questions tend to take over the SE site such that other worthy questions are (relatively?) ignored. Additionally, there are endless answers to them, each of which is partial (and not definitive), and it just becomes a vote-fest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if we only allowed a single, community wiki answer? That way, the single answer would improve over time, becoming something like definitive? After that answer was created, someone just protects it and no more are possible (but the community wiki is still editable).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The various privileges would keep out drive-bys from rep 1 users. Additionally, since no one is receiving rep from answers it would tend to tone that down. And we could even make it a rule that list questions should be kept at score zero... if I see one that someone votes up, I'd just use one of my votes to put it back down to zero.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't this address most of the criticisms? They're no longer the top-voted questions, nor the answers the top-voted answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could still vote to close low-quality list questions, we could still close those for which Wikipedia or IMDB has a ready-made list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are further criticisms, what features would be necessary to mitigate those, short of just disallowing them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7603" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-12-13T21:17:12.170" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T17:38:34.193" Title="Revisiting list questions... (please read before downvoting)" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|policy|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2492" CreationDate="2012-12-13T06:35:39.783" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, I'll criticize my own question here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The asker of a list question would still gain rep from upvotes, even if others can be trusted to behave and downvote it back to 0. So it just becomes a way to mine rep points... that's less than ideal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing short of being able to vote-lock a question would fix this. It doesn't appear as if you can mark questions as community wiki, only answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, there's no guarantee enough people would behave, meaning that questions could still be voted up well past other worthy non-list questions, and would come to dominate the rankings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top of that, there has been some call to remove &quot;general reference&quot; as a close reason, and those arguments have merit. However, list questions would still require it so that we could close those dumb list questions for which Wikipedia has a comprehensive list already made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7603" LastActivityDate="2012-12-13T06:35:39.783" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2492" CreationDate="2012-12-13T13:37:00.310" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a great idea, with a small twist; Allow list questions, but have a mod mark both the unique answer and the original question as CW (only &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/7257054#7257054&quot;&gt;mods can mark question posts as CW&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This wouldn't destroy the voting system and we could still use it to determine if a question is a good or a bad one. I would suggest adding the mandatory &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/list-question&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;list-question&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;list-question&lt;/a&gt; tag for these (in order to &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LampshadeHanging&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;lampshade&lt;/a&gt; them).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastActivityDate="2012-12-13T13:37:00.310" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2492" CreationDate="2012-12-13T13:40:17.457" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This how it worked before list questions were banned altogether. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, Those list are often forgotten and not updated. Maintaining a list is something complicated that need both rigor and discipline. Updating often need discussion and the comment section is not really designed for that mater.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which bring my to the second point, they don't fit well the Q&amp;amp;A format. Putting the restrictions you are talking about is just, IMHO, misappropriation of the mechanic of the site. We are a Q&amp;amp;A site, not Wikipedia. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side note, you were not there when the community wiki police was terrorizing users. They were always saying : &lt;em&gt;&quot;This question might be acceptable if it's made community wiki.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. We just (almost) got rid of our &lt;em&gt;General Reference Task Force&lt;/em&gt;. We don't need a new bone to throw to the hounds, there is more productive works that could be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2012-12-13T13:40:17.457" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2492" CreationDate="2012-12-13T15:01:05.987" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;List questions historically just aren't a good fit for our format.  Time and experience has demonstrated this repeatedly, across multiple Stack Exchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't mean &quot;good&quot; list questions aren't &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt;.  Just that they are the exception to the rule (and this is the only reason, as far as I know, why Community Wiki still exists).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My understanding is that CW is reserved for really important, frequently asked questions that have an outstanding canonical answer, or series of outstanding answers that can be consolidated into a single canonical answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As examples, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/46716/what-should-every-programmer-know-about-web-development&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/549/the-definitive-guide-to-forms-based-website-authentication&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As DavRob60 mentioned, maintenance of CW questions/answers is cumbersome, ongoing, and frequently neglected.  A site having a handful of CW questions that are already thoroughly addressed is manageable.  Opening the site to any &quot;good&quot; list question, and therefore having the potential for a relatively frequent influx of new CW questions that will continue to see answers trickle in over a long period of time, will quickly become unmanageable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry, but I think this is a bad idea, and any possible benefit is far outweighed by the negatives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:33:39.573" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T17:38:34.193" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2505" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2507" CreationDate="2012-12-15T15:55:22.313" Score="3" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering what URL are we supposed to be using for the Community Promotion ads? All my ads, and others' as well, were unilaterally deleted with a message from Gilles stating &quot;It is useless to advertise SFF on the site itself&quot;. Which, of course it would be. &lt;strong&gt;WHAT URL ARE WE SUPPOSED TO BE USING IN THE CODE OF THE ADS?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8WVZw.png&quot; alt=&quot;FRUSTRATION!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2484/community-promotion-ads-2013/2500#2500&quot;&gt;original Community Promotion Ads post&lt;/a&gt; it says &lt;em&gt;Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the &lt;strong&gt;main site&lt;/strong&gt;, in the right sidebar.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this mean the main site StackExchange.com or SciFi.stackexchange.com. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Where exactly are these ads to be placed?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHAT URL ARE WE TO USE?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Would it be possible to receive an explanation such as &quot;Cool ad, but you've got the wrong URL. The URL you need to be using for the clickthrough is &quot;blahblahblah.blah.com&quot;&quot; and time to make a correction before an auto delete?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Could &quot;Main site&quot; be clarified?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would appreciate some guidance here because I had the same problem with the blog advertisements. An explanation of the clickthrough URL was never forthcoming. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will say that when I did a community advertisement last year, in 2011, and it was voted up, it appeared on the MAIN site: StackExchange.com with a link &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;to&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; SciFi.stackexchange.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2012-12-15T18:22:42.490" Title="Clarification needed regarding what URL to use in the Community Promotion ads?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2505" CreationDate="2012-12-15T18:22:42.490" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Community promotion ads aren't to promote this community, they are things that this community wants to promote. If you want to promote this community, I suggest you create a thread devoted to that, along with suggestions as to which other sites might be relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-12-15T18:22:42.490" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2484" CreationDate="2012-12-15T20:07:21.650" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Star_Trek&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y2CU8.png&quot; alt=&quot;Memory-Alpha.org *Star Trek* Wiki![][1]&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2012-12-15T20:07:21.650" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-15T20:07:21.650" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2484" CreationDate="2012-12-15T20:23:02.080" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5ZPzE.png&quot; alt=&quot;THE BOY WHO LIVED - THE LEAKY CAULDRON&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2012-12-15T20:23:02.080" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-15T20:23:02.080" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2484" CreationDate="2012-12-15T21:38:36.553" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theonering.net/torwp/category/lotr/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/frSmQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;PRECIOUS - theonering.net &quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2012-12-15T21:38:36.553" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-15T21:38:36.553" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2484" CreationDate="2012-12-15T21:58:07.760" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mugglenet.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lrKMx.png&quot; alt=&quot;THE WORST SORT OF MUGGLES - MUGGLENET PROMO&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2012-12-16T03:31:14.903" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-15T21:58:07.760" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2484" CreationDate="2012-12-16T02:50:18.853" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hp-lexicon.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hiMhj.png&quot; alt=&quot;THE HARRY POTTER LEXICON&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2012-12-16T02:50:18.853" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-16T02:50:18.853" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2484" CreationDate="2012-12-16T19:51:26.047" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.doctorwhonews.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YPiQo.png&quot; alt=&quot;TO BOLDLY GO 2013&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="3500" LastEditDate="2012-12-16T23:20:49.610" LastActivityDate="2012-12-16T23:20:49.610" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-16T19:51:26.047" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2484" CreationDate="2012-12-16T20:55:05.610" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20041206220258/http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/faq.cfm?ref=aboutthebooks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aLgkq.png&quot; alt=&quot;ORIGINAL JK ROWLING WEBSITE - TEXT ONLY - WAYBACK MACHINE - TONS OF GOOD HARRY POTTER INFO&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2012-12-16T20:55:05.610" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-16T20:55:05.610" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2515" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-17T16:09:17.983" Score="8" ViewCount="196" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2902/what-are-the-differences-between-the-game-of-thrones-tv-series-and-the-book&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; is a simple and straight-forward one, what differences are there between the &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; TV series, and the original books?  However, since its asking, it's accumulated 1 general answer that touches on a handful of the differences and 18 &quot;me, too&quot; answers.  It's a textbook &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/03/procrastination-and-the-bikeshed-effect.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;bike shed question&lt;/a&gt;, which has been left open, which means it will continue to accumulate more answers, especially since the TV series is ongoing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I closed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/27848/what-elements-from-non-hobbit-tolkien-canon-have-been-included-in-the-hobbit-mov&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, which is cut from the same mold, but asking about the ongoing &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt; films.  At that time, it had 2 &quot;me, too&quot; answers already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should be done with this sort of question?  They're too broad to be properly answered in a single answer, and people never supply such a thorough answer anyway.  Instead they accumulate a bunch of partial answers.  From my perspective, this fits the Not Constructive close reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As it currently stands, this question is not a good fit for our Q&amp;amp;A format. We expect answers to be supported by facts, references, or specific expertise, but this question will likely solicit debate, arguments, polling, or &lt;strong&gt;extended discussion&lt;/strong&gt;. If you feel that this question can be improved and possibly reopened, see the FAQ for guidance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(emphasis mine)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't close the &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; question since that one has seen extensive attention, and mods at the time found it acceptable.  But I think these types of questions are just too broad for a single answer to act as a definitive response to the question.  Can these questions be edited to become more constrained and answerable?  Should they be closed?  What other ideas does the community have on these?  Are they not viewed as a problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-07-25T02:16:16.947" Title="What to do with adaptation differences questions?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2515" CreationDate="2012-12-17T16:46:44.200" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;We should always keep in mind that the point of this SE site is different than StackOverflow or ServerFault. We're not asking questions because we need the answer. No difficult problems are at stake. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that we should weed these questions down to a single answer, and mark it CW. Protect it so that you don't get additional answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing missing at that point is that maybe somehow people who edit it should get rep to encourage those to be maintained. But that's a new feature. I don't know if all the previous editors should get +10 per upvote, or if they split the +10 among them or what... but it would encourage maintenance. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of course, edits to such answers should probably not bump it to the front for activity. But that'd be a second feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there are those who will say that if keeping the question requires new features, it's not a good fit for this site. But that's silly. If someone had asked the question 10 years from now after the last book had come out and the last episode filmed, it would be a good question. And I don't think whether or not a question is good is dependent on when it was asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7603" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T16:46:44.200" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2518" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2523" CreationDate="2012-12-18T14:59:48.083" Score="6" ViewCount="265" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2418/3383&quot;&gt;We were going to have hats on the site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happened to them? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The holiday season is almost over!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2012-12-21T07:52:49.560" Title="What happened to the hats?" Tags="|discussion|support|site-promotion|winterbash|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2519" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2525" CreationDate="2012-12-18T15:19:45.320" Score="3" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I was shown a bunch of flagged posts to review (yellow circle near &quot;review&quot; link).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tools/flagged&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tools/flagged&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of them were valid, some seemed like errorneous flags (I think, system generated, since it said &quot;Low answer quality score [90], /questions/how-to-answer shown and skipped&quot;). I know there a way for me to &quot;reject&quot; such a flag via a flag popup panel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what should I do with the posts that weren't actually THAT bad that the needed flagging for deletion, but the flag itself was a fairly good in a sense of the post being poor quiality (as in, poor enough that I needed to comment on it suggesting what needs to be improved)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to reject the flag as invalid&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nor do I feel it's appropriate for me to re-flag it to moderators since I have (IMHO) handled the situation enough that a mod attention is not needed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fvxD5.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2012-12-18T17:45:41.180" Title="What to do with flags which are valid but not for earth-shatteringly bad content?" Tags="|support|flagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2023-09-12T14:33:34.627" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2518" CreationDate="2012-12-18T15:22:52.990" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aarthi later edited the comment, but at one point on 12/14, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=7273337#7273337&quot;&gt;she said&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also, hats arrive in 5 days. Five UTC days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dunno if that's &lt;em&gt;business&lt;/em&gt; days or regular days, as no one understands how UTC works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2012-12-18T15:22:52.990" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2518" CreationDate="2012-12-18T15:29:27.233" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quotes from &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/12/se-podcast-38-this-ones-at-least-a-410/&quot;&gt;se podcast #38&lt;/a&gt; :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;People wear hats, especially winter-themed hats. Shouldn’t we celebrate all those hats? Definitely! Last year, we ran a project called Hatdash on our site about video games.. It was a huge hit, so we’re revamping the program this year for all sites that opt in. &lt;strong&gt;It will go live on December 19th&lt;/strong&gt;. Hats!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2012-12-18T15:29:27.233" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2519" CreationDate="2012-12-18T15:41:08.033" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meh. Reject them. While borderline content should get the benefit of doubt, borderline flags don't deserve that. The only thing at stake is the flag score (and the two badges that go with that), which isn't serious enough that we should be wasting time or effort to preserve. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say that knowing with some certainty that one or two of those were probably my own flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7603" LastActivityDate="2012-12-18T15:41:08.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2518" CreationDate="2012-12-18T15:41:52.880" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hats will arrive at 00:00Z UTC on 19 December 2012! :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2459" LastActivityDate="2012-12-18T15:41:52.880" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2519" CreationDate="2012-12-18T16:59:23.297" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You cannot reject a flag anyway. Generally speaking, only ♦moderators can remove a flag from the flag queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few exceptions. For example, if a question gets closed or deleted by community votes, this automatically dismisses canned flags on it. If a question gets 6 spam flags, that automatically deletes it, applies the flag penalty and removes the flags from the queue. But most of the outcomes apart from closure can only be achieved by ♦moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you agree with a flag, you can re-cast the same flag. That doesn't do anything except give more weight to the flags in the moderators' mind, because they see multiple people agreeing on that flag. Conversely, if you disagree, you can cast an “invalid flag”; this tells the moderators that they should be especially cautious around that flag. If you don't feel strongly, leave the flag alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Outside Stack Overflow, the only flags that are usefully handled by 10k users are the close requests. In practice, others end up reaching the ♦moderators anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2012-12-18T16:59:23.297" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2519" CreationDate="2012-12-18T17:45:41.180" Score="7" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But what should I do with the posts that weren't actually THAT bad that the needed flagging for deletion, but the flag itself was a fairly good in a sense of the post being poor quiality (as in, poor enough that I needed to comment on it suggesting what needs to be improved)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is exactly the case where flags should not be used.  Flags are for cases where moderator intervention is required for the necessary action (deletion, VTC in the case where the user does not have that privilege, etc.).  Editing or commenting directly is the appropriate user action for posts that just need to be improved, not telling the moderators to do it.  One of the moderator decline reasons says this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1470" LastActivityDate="2012-12-18T17:45:41.180" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2518" CreationDate="2012-12-18T22:01:54.190" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;On server fault, we're doing our own hats for the second year running.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/users?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;https://serverfault.com/users?tab=reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As pointed out in a comment, many of us decided to add a hat to our gravatars ourselves:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.serverfault.com/questions/2394/its-santa-time&quot;&gt;https://meta.serverfault.com/questions/2394/its-santa-time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:13:53.560" LastActivityDate="2012-12-18T22:01:54.190" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2527" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-19T03:51:18.440" Score="4" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears to me that the hats are not working on SFF. I did register for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://winterba.sh/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;hatdash&lt;/a&gt; and I do have already received &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/users/430766/bitmask&quot;&gt;a hat on SO&lt;/a&gt;, but I &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/2763/revisions&quot;&gt;made an edit earlier&lt;/a&gt; which should reward &lt;a href=&quot;http://winterba.sh/my-dear-watson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;my dear watson&lt;/a&gt; but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2565/bitmask&quot;&gt;didn't&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What am I doing wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:46.357" LastActivityDate="2012-12-19T04:09:11.450" Title="What incantations do I need for the hats to work?" Tags="|bug|winterbash|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2013-02-15T17:43:43.920" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2527" CreationDate="2012-12-19T04:01:24.647" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a small lag, but you should get it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To activate it, click on your hats count number&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/60PQP.png&quot; alt=&quot;screen-shot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and select a hat, it will then get a red rectangle around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yfWR8.png&quot; alt=&quot;screen-shot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2012-12-19T04:01:24.647" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2527" CreationDate="2012-12-19T04:09:11.450" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, now that I posted this meta question (not this post, the one above) the dash decided to award me the &lt;a href=&quot;http://winterba.sh/constantipolitan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;most awesome hat imaginable&lt;/a&gt; so, as far as I'm concerned the thing works. But I'm leaving the question open since the edit was not counted and I suspect it to be a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastActivityDate="2012-12-19T04:09:11.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2530" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2531" CreationDate="2012-12-19T08:01:16.460" Score="4" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 'Just jesting' cap says that you need the rep cap for a day. Is this value the same for all sites and what is the value? Is there a list of rep caps that one can access?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6635" LastActivityDate="2012-12-19T09:10:31.253" Title="What is the reputation cap for a day?" Tags="|discussion|winterbash|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2530" CreationDate="2012-12-19T09:10:31.253" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As explained in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq#reputation&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You can earn a maximum of &lt;strong&gt;200&lt;/strong&gt; reputation per day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any votes that would increase your reputation past 200 for a given day will have no effect; You are said to have capped out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2012-12-19T09:10:31.253" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2518" CreationDate="2012-12-21T07:52:49.560" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The hats arrived on time and are alive and well. You can find the SF&amp;amp;F Winter Bash Leaderboard &lt;a href=&quot;http://winterba.sh/leaderboard&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4356" LastActivityDate="2012-12-21T07:52:49.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2533" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2534" CreationDate="2012-12-21T14:26:52.033" Score="11" ViewCount="231" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most active chat room of SciFi.SE is &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/a&gt; which has a tagline &lt;code&gt;General discussion for http://scifi.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt;. Googling the words returns that Mos Eisley is  a spaceport on the planet Tatooine (Star Wars universe). Why is the chat room named after it? Any specific reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2012-12-21T20:49:28.090" LastActivityDate="2012-12-21T20:49:28.090" Title="Why is the name of main chat room &quot;Mos Eisley&quot;?" Tags="|support|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2533" CreationDate="2012-12-21T14:31:33.443" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the time, it was the most highly voted name, albeit by not very much. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/751/98&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2012-12-21T14:31:33.443" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2484" CreationDate="2012-12-21T21:54:59.767" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qKHbb.png&quot; alt=&quot;Anime &amp;amp; Manga SE&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2217" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:48.340" LastActivityDate="2013-03-29T23:19:03.573" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-21T21:54:59.767" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2536" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2537" CreationDate="2012-12-23T02:15:45.240" Score="8" ViewCount="238" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been playing along and earning hats. Is it O.K. to ask a META question with that specific goal in mind? I would think those of our group that aren't taking part would find it annoying. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4356" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2013-12-03T16:00:03.437" LastActivityDate="2013-12-03T16:00:03.437" Title="Is it OK to ask a META question just to get a hat?" Tags="|discussion|winterbash|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2536" CreationDate="2012-12-23T02:32:45.947" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it's not okay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe it is. But it's not likely anyone will do anything about it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2012-12-23T02:32:45.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2484" CreationDate="2012-12-23T15:26:41.547" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Cfudk.png&quot; alt=&quot;Itachi, birds version&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2217" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:48.340" LastActivityDate="2013-02-08T14:21:18.793" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-23T15:26:41.547" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2484" CreationDate="2012-12-23T19:12:05.037" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20041206220258/http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/faq.cfm?ref=aboutthebooks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LkWVA.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;ORIGINAL JK ROWLING WEBSITE - TEXT ONLY - WAYBACK MACHINE - TONS OF GOOD HARRY POTTER INFO&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2012-12-23T19:12:05.037" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-23T19:12:05.037" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2484" CreationDate="2012-12-24T05:38:31.687" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KSfpX.png&quot; alt=&quot;OBEY THE EYE! Visit Anime &amp;amp; Manga SE!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3623" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:48.340" LastActivityDate="2012-12-24T05:38:31.687" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2012-12-24T05:38:31.687" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2543" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2547" CreationDate="2012-12-29T00:46:31.377" Score="4" ViewCount="205" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the question in question:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3191/how-does-the-theory-of-subspace-work&quot;&gt;How does the theory of subspace work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally, I'd expect this to be a Star Trek question, and have no issue with it.  Then I saw that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; isn't a tag, and took a closer look:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm talking about in relations to the idea of &quot;SubSpace&quot; not to a particular Sci-Fi universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This looks like a problem to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Star Trek uses subspace as an alternate part of the time/space continuum, distinct from normal space.  The warp drive manipulates it for FTL in that universe.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stargate has subspace, but it's only used for communication and wormhole connections (as far as I recall).  Their FTL involves hyperspace.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;@TangoOversway added this in chat:  &lt;code&gt;It reminds me of the Lost in Space movie where Prof. Robinson says, &quot;Subspace is a layer of space above regular space.&quot; Above? Not under? And how can you have an above and under anyway?&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there's issues where, instead of subspace, we have the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_(TV_series)#Slipstream&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Slipstream&lt;/a&gt; (which is kind of like subspace, in that it's an alternate level of reality) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://farscape.wikia.com/wiki/Starburst&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Starburst&lt;/a&gt; (which goes through an alternate dimension and could be considered subspace-like).  Oh, and Babylon 5's &quot;hyperspace&quot; works much more like Star Trek's &quot;subspace&quot; (except ships can also traverse it) than it is like Stargate's &quot;hyperspace&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Sorry; /mini-rant)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yeah; there's a lot of ambiguous overlap and disconnections between universes...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an old question, it has lots of upvotes, hasn't been closed, and has an accepted answer.  So there doesn't really seem to be much of a reason to close it from that side.  The only reason to close it &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt;, that I can think of, is that new users may see it and think this type of question is common - when in reality, it's still open largely due to the age of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So...  thoughts?  Update the question to be more about Star Trek, close it, leave it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2013-01-16T21:25:23.760" Title="VTC on an old question that would now be &quot;Not Constructive&quot;" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2543" CreationDate="2012-12-29T02:23:11.260" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The asker was adamant that the question was about “the idea of &quot;SubSpace&quot; not to a particular Sci-Fi universe”. Yet “subspace” is not a well-defined concept, it's just a word that several writers have used to mean different things. It isn't fundamentally different from “hyperspace” or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3191/how-does-the-theory-of-subspace-work#comment4899_3191&quot;&gt;other formulations&lt;/a&gt;. So we have a choice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make the question about Star Trek after all, matching the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3191/how-does-the-theory-of-subspace-work/3195#3195&quot;&gt;accepted answer&lt;/a&gt;, but not the asker's will.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make the question generic, matching all three non-accepted answers, but going against the asker's will, and remaining with a question that begs to be unasked (which two of the answers do well).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the question can remain — but it needs to be clear that it's asking about Star Trek.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2012-12-29T02:23:11.260" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2400" CreationDate="2012-12-31T19:32:57.777" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm strongly in agreement with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2400/should-we-burninate-general-reference/2402#2402&quot;&gt;Beofett's answer here&lt;/a&gt;, particularly this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why is it not sufficient to say &quot;if a question is trivial, boring, and demonstrates little to no research, downvote it&quot;? Note that the hover-text for downvoting states quite clearly that a question or answer should be downvoted when it &quot;does not show any research effort&quot; or &quot;it is unclear or not useful&quot;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the situation on SciFi &amp;amp; Fantasy is largely the same as that on Stack Overflow: a lot of simple questions that &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be answered easily by external resources, some that probably &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be, and folks who would rather post a lazy question here than do any of the legwork to find the answer themselves. Down-voting lazy questions should always be the first option, closing or deleting when they have serious problems of scope or quality, and directing folks to other sites (summarizing the answer found there) when there's nothing to be improved upon. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a discrete close reason, the &quot;General Reference&quot; experiment &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; failed - even on sites where there are a tiny handful of canonical references that cover broad categories of questions, it would probably be better to simply identify those directly in the FAQ or close reason rather than trying to kill them with such a large hammer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'll be conducting a more extensive review of this close reason in the very near future, so I'll refrain from removing it here for the time being - but I strongly encourage you to avoid using it until it is no longer available. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2012-12-31T19:32:57.777" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2543" CreationDate="2013-01-04T23:32:56.287" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the question should be closed as not a real question.  It's basically a list question in disguise; unless you talk about one specific universe you'll get the theory of subspace/hyperspace for every sf universe as an answer, and they'll all be right assuming the answers are properly sourced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4096" LastEditorUserId="4096" LastEditDate="2013-01-04T23:51:10.307" LastActivityDate="2013-01-04T23:51:10.307" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2548" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2549" CreationDate="2013-01-05T09:33:14.650" Score="-13" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that the scores seem to be given in order's of 5's and 10's with the odd 2's, sitting on 666 seems likely rare.  A badge for this would be interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/63CHB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11262" LastEditorUserId="4257" LastEditDate="2013-05-27T23:57:54.467" LastActivityDate="2013-05-27T23:57:54.467" Title="Badge for somehow hitting 666" Tags="|feature-request|status-declined|badges|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2548" CreationDate="2013-01-05T16:47:23.990" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The point of badges is to reward behavior we want to encourage.  Giving badges for getting a precise rep display for a bit doesn't really reward anything, it just gives people with 667 rep a reason to downvote a random post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just take a screenshot of your milestones. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GtGLu.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2013-01-05T16:47:23.990" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2550" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2585" CreationDate="2013-01-05T18:03:56.257" Score="12" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried reviewing on meta for the first time today and was faced with this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0loPa.png&quot; alt=&quot;unreadable review question&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nearly white text on a nearly white background seems a poor choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4096" LastEditorUserId="4" LastEditDate="2013-01-21T18:10:15.970" LastActivityDate="2013-01-21T18:10:15.970" Title="web page colors render review question unreadable" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|meta|review-queue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2484" CreationDate="2013-01-07T19:19:14.577" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://robotics.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QpWDJ.gif&quot; alt=&quot;robotics stack exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-01-07T19:19:14.577" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-01-07T19:19:14.577" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2484" CreationDate="2013-01-07T19:22:20.720" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://robotics.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/O6uoa.gif&quot; alt=&quot;robotics stack exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-01-07T19:22:20.720" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-01-07T19:22:20.720" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2553" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2555" CreationDate="2013-01-08T14:23:09.220" Score="15" ViewCount="314" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a bunch of Qs related to The Hobbit movie in 2012 - many of which have nothing to do with the book (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/29142/how-were-gandalf-elrond-and-galadriel-able-to-comunicate-telepathically&quot;&gt;How were Gandalf, Elrond and Galadriel able to comunicate telepathically?&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we enforce (via edits) that they are tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; to avoid confusion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2013-01-10T16:29:08.077" Title="Should we enforce a &quot;movie&quot; tag on questions about The Hobbit movie?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2536" CreationDate="2013-01-08T14:54:32.810" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;No it's not OK. Unless it was a real question with a meaningful answer. Like this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel a temporal paradox coming on...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="456" LastActivityDate="2013-01-08T14:54:32.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2553" CreationDate="2013-01-08T15:22:42.697" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the movie contains elements that don't appear in the books, I think that, yes, we absolutely should enforce such a requirement (tagging with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5424" LastEditorUserId="3500" LastEditDate="2013-01-08T15:31:52.013" LastActivityDate="2013-01-08T15:31:52.013" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2556" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-10T00:31:51.447" Score="3" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This person.  (Edit post to see that &quot;This person&quot; should be a link)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genevieve_Bujold&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;non-accented form&lt;/a&gt; does work, though.  (Luckily, Wikipedia does a redirect)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Using the long form from the popup &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genevi%C3%A8ve_Bujold&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;does work with the accent, though&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As seen in my comment to this question, short-form &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; work in comments.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/7605895#7605895&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, it also works in chat.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So..  At the very least, it's inconsistent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastEditorUserId="2242" LastEditDate="2013-01-10T01:00:37.263" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Inline URL markup does not accept accented characters in the URL" Tags="|bug|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2556" CreationDate="2013-01-10T00:38:36.313" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to use URL encoding for non-ASCII characters such as accented letters:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genevi%C3%A8ve_Bujold&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genevi%C3%A8ve_Bujold&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genevi%C3%A8ve_Bujold&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both Chrome and Firefox encode the accented letter when I copy-paste the whole URL from the URL bar. If you use the hyperlink tool of the markdown editor and enter the URL with the accented letter, the tool inserts the encoded URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that most natural methods to insert a URL result in something that works, I'm guessing a &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt; here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4772/markdown-renderer-doesnt-accept-e-or-o-in-links&quot;&gt;Markdown renderer doesn't accept é or ö in links&lt;/a&gt; on the main meta was marked &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; when the markdown editor hyperlink insertion tool became capable of translating non-ASCII characters into their URL encoding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2013-01-10T01:00:14.147" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2553" CreationDate="2013-01-10T16:29:08.077" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree. What would be the point? It won't help searching and filtering unless we can specify &quot;answers with tag [hobbit] but not [movie]&quot;, which I think we can't (but correct me if I'm wrong!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers which tell us that some detail is from the book but not from the movie, or viceversa, are entertaining and informative anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="770" LastActivityDate="2013-01-10T16:29:08.077" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2559" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2564" CreationDate="2013-01-14T17:11:45.603" Score="14" ViewCount="628" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/29483/in-revolt-in-the-stars-why-did-xenu-decide-to-destroy-the-excess-aliens&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; about L Ron Hubbard's &lt;em&gt;Revolt in the Stars&lt;/em&gt; seems to be close a possible conflict for our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1053/should-we-exclude-religious-texts-and-which&quot;&gt;policy on religious works&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I'm not certain, as the whole religion-founded-by-a-science-fiction-author thing complicates it immensely.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A quick scan of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolt_in_the_Stars&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt; indicates that L Ron Hubbard intended the story in question to be a dramatized account of events that are pivotal to the Scientologists' belief system.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, the story itself is unpublished, and the copies and summaries circulating around the Internet are &quot;unofficial&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes it much harder to determine if the question is about the actual science fiction work (if, indeed, it is categorized as sci-fi instead of religion), or about the religious beliefs the screenplay is intended to dramatize.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are L Ron Hubbard materials that are intended to depict events that are part of Scientology belief on-topic, or off-topic per our policies on religious texts?  Presumably the L Ron Hubbard works unrelated to Scientology beliefs (such as &lt;em&gt;Battlefield Earth&lt;/em&gt;) are not an issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if works by L Ron Hubbard that discuss the beliefs of Scientology are on topic, is this particular question on topic?  As I mentioned before, it could be argued that the question is really about Scientology beliefs, rather than a specific work, since the work referenced is unpublished, unofficial, and not directly quoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2018-02-19T09:51:21.130" Title="Do works from L Ron Hubbard that are part of Scientology &quot;canon&quot; count as &quot;religious texts&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2559" CreationDate="2013-01-14T17:30:44.830" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer on the question you cited states &quot;&lt;code&gt;even though this book deals with religious topics, it does it from a self-professed fictional standpoint&lt;/code&gt;.&quot; From what you have described, it seems like this text seems to fit into this category. Essentially, the religious works policy states that questions shouldn't be asked on religious texts, where the religious text is held to be real events by a portion of society.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if Scientologists have a book which they take to be scripture, then it would be excluded from discussion on this site. I'm far from an expert in the area, so I wouldn't be able to point out what those works might be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-01-14T17:30:44.830" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2561" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-14T17:57:12.530" Score="10" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/30497/would-a-lightsaber-melt-or-vaporize-a-bullet&quot;&gt;Would a lightsaber melt or vaporize a bullet?&lt;/a&gt;, which is currently closed as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/13695/why-would-a-slug-thrower-be-more-effective-against-a-lightsaber-jedi-than-a-blas&quot;&gt;Why would a slug thrower be more effective against a lightsaber/Jedi than a blaster?&lt;/a&gt; I do not see how these two questions are duplicates as the former merely asks for the effects of lightsabers on an object as opposed to the latter asking for pro and cons of two weapons (slugthrowers and blasters).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, my question can be related to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/13695/why-would-a-slug-thrower-be-more-effective-against-a-lightsaber-jedi-than-a-blas&quot;&gt;Why would a slug thrower be more effective against a lightsaber/Jedi than a blaster?&lt;/a&gt; because whether a bullet melts or vaporizes is probably a factor in the effectiveness of a slugthrower against a lightsaber, but they are hardly the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7171" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2013-01-17T13:41:09.523" Title="Why closed as duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|specific-question|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2561" CreationDate="2013-01-14T18:11:31.550" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;What determines if questions are duplicates is usually &quot;will the answer to one answer the other?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, the accepted answer includes this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Blaster bolts can be reflected, slugs will be burned up by the blade. This removes a significant counterattack from the Jedi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While not the most detailed answer to your question, it shows there's some potential overlap.  That's probably what prompted the closure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as the question has since been re-opened, it seems clear the community agrees there was not enough overlap to justify a closure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="1359" LastEditDate="2013-01-17T13:41:09.523" LastActivityDate="2013-01-17T13:41:09.523" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2559" CreationDate="2013-01-14T19:35:35.997" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you take a look at the Wiki for &quot;Revolt in the Stars&quot;, it was openly intended to be a Sci-fi work by L.R.Hubbard (A movie script).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, &quot;Revolt in the Stars&quot; seems fully on-topic, Scientology non-withstanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2018-02-19T09:51:21.130" LastActivityDate="2018-02-19T09:51:21.130" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2559" CreationDate="2013-01-14T21:53:17.253" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll repeat what I've said in the past on this topic: whether a text is religious is up to the reader. So whether the author intended it as a work of fiction or not is not relevant. What matters is whether the question is treating it as a work of fiction. Which, in this case, it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mind, you could nitpick that Hubbard seemingly intended &lt;em&gt;Revolt in the Stars&lt;/em&gt; as a historical fiction, not as science fiction, therefore it's off-topic even if it isn't considered a religious text. But by our traditional inclusive policy, since this is an ambiguous case, it's on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2013-01-14T21:53:17.253" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2565" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-16T13:43:15.777" Score="2" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if this is a trend on SciFi, but I know from experience on other Stack Exchange sites that users have a tendency of downvoting &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/30605/can-a-computer-learn-our-grammar#comment57642_30605&quot;&gt;off-topic questions&lt;/a&gt;. While free downvotes on questions is good and all, I'm not quite sure this is what was intended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvoting is a punitive measure that is simply unwarranted in a case such as an off-topic question. Slapping a downvote on a question (or answer, for that matter) does little to bring the question to the attention of moderators, as opposed to flagging a question. In the case of new users, the &quot;off-topic&quot; close will already be confusing and mass downvoting may seem like a personal attack, a sort of insult after injury.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While experienced Stack Exchange users understand that a downvote is, by no means, a personal attack, unexperienced users (and particularly first posters) do not know this. As far as I understand, downvoting is reserved for a question that &quot;shows no research effort&quot;, is &quot;unclear&quot;, or is &quot;not useful&quot;. While I can understand how an off-topic question may show no research effort (i.e. someone didn't research the FAQ) or is not useful (off-topic questions rarely are), I was under the assumption that those qualifiers were reserved for questions that were on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7171" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Flagging &quot;Off-Topic&quot; vs. Downvoting" Tags="|discussion|flagging|down-votes|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2565" CreationDate="2013-01-16T14:07:36.037" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any user has the right to cast a vote, either up or down, as they see fit (barring revenge or serial downvoting, sockpuppets, or other methods of gaming the system).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvoting is not a punitive measure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A user with 1 rep, which is most likely the case for the inexperienced and first-posters you refer to, will not lose any reputation from a downvote, until they gain reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A new user who has 101 reputation from associated stackexchange accounts should know better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most importantly, though, downvotes serve to identify users who may have trouble understanding our system, or who are intentionally abusing our system.  There are some automated tools that look at patterns of downvotes received by users, such as the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/86997/what-can-i-do-when-getting-sorry-we-are-no-longer-accepting-questions-answers#answer-86998&quot;&gt;question/answer ban&lt;/a&gt;, that prevents users who chronically ask or answer with low-quality posts from persisting in this behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, downvotes on bad questions, regardless of whether they are on or off-topic, are helpful in detecting potential problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, that is why closing a question as NARQ or off-topic &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/84978/should-questions-closed-as-not-a-real-question-and-off-topic-get-an-automati&quot;&gt;automatically adds a downvote&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2013-01-17T13:36:07.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2565" CreationDate="2013-01-16T14:45:54.127" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;We get few actual off-topic questions. By that, I mean those questions which are good questions but belong on another (possibly as yet unbuilt) SE site. These ones I flag so a moderator can take a look and maybe help get it moved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The others... well, &quot;off-topic&quot; is simply the best way to categorize when closing, but it's difficult to imagine them being a good question anywhere. Additionally, when they're a &quot;first post&quot; and I'm reviewing, it was only recently that I've had access to the &quot;no action necessary&quot; button. Until then, you either had to edit (and they were not editable into good questions), leave a comment (and that would only be snarky), or downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone that comes here asking what's the best way to tie shoes, or if it's possible to build a solar-powered coffee pot... well, discouraging those people doesn't really harm the site. They weren't going to come back next week and ask if the third scene in the fourth Harry Potter movie implied that Voldemort had 6 toes on each foot, or anything else even remotely &quot;science fiction or fantasy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7603" LastActivityDate="2013-01-16T14:45:54.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2210" CreationDate="2013-01-16T17:20:34.160" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;My belief is that YouTube embedding would improve my answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/8011/656&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, as the linked video is a short, concise description of exactly what I said in my response, and my answer simply expands upon it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 3-minute video is a more potent response than simply reading about the brief scene - showing, rather than telling, but does not fully encompass my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure there's situations where an embedded video is NOT appropriate, but in this case I believe it would be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also easy to see how short YouTube clips of source material can be useful to settle disagreements about what happens in particular scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="656" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2013-01-16T17:20:34.160" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2543" CreationDate="2013-01-16T21:25:23.760" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question should be generalized and hint at examples of SubSpace use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wanted a general &quot;Subspace&quot; answer and why it's used across sci-fi literature, and I wondered about other sy-fy universes uses of subspace. But it was answered as just a generic term for a layer of a universe used for whatever the writer intends to use it for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The User that was marked as answered was the best answer at the time. Even if they did answer with a star trek link and such...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope this helps you guys! Hey we should consider mentioning the owner of the question when it is mentioned in a meta. It would help me help you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1552" LastActivityDate="2013-01-16T21:25:23.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2565" CreationDate="2013-01-16T22:03:22.077" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Downvoting is a punitive measure&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. It's a way of saying the post deserves little attention. There is no punishment aspect to it. Sure, some people interpret it as a personal attack, but people can interpret anything as a personal attack. Hell, many people interpret the closure itself as a personal attack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As others have already mentioned, posts closed as off-topic or not a real question incur an automatic downvote from the system. I'm personally unconvinced that this is a good idea, but I don't see it as fundamentally misguided either: after all, if the question is OT/NaRQ, there is a presumption that the asker didn't make enough effort to write a question that's suitable for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no reason to systematically downvote off-topic questions. Generally speaking, I don't think off-topicness is in itself a reason to downvote, but if a question is wildly off the mark or demonstrates a severe lack of effort, I don't see why I shouldn't downvote it in addition to voting to close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2013-01-16T22:03:22.077" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2571" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2572" CreationDate="2013-01-17T22:52:29.423" Score="15" ViewCount="315" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/27781/why-did-dumbledore-tell-harry-there-were-6-horcruxes-when-he-already-knew-harry&quot;&gt;Why did Dumbledore tell Harry there were 6 Horcruxes when he already knew Harry was a horcrux?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/27782/1660&quot;&gt;DVK's answer&lt;/a&gt; is correct. The asker even commented thanking DVK. We all know it is the answer. But the asker forgot to accept it (the &quot;check&quot; button), and this is one of those users that doesn't seem will ever come back to the site (last seen: December 2012, just to make the only question he/she ever made).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It of course makes sense if the asker is the only one who can accept answers, but in this kind of situation it isn't very nice when everyone knows that the asker already acknowledged that the given answer is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there something we should do about it? Can a moderator accept the answer etc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ya know, there is this itch you feel when you see something that &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be some way but, well, it isn't :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1660" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="What to do when a question has been answered but the asker forgot to &quot;accept it&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|answers|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2571" CreationDate="2013-01-17T22:59:29.123" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only way to get an answer marked as accepted is if the asker does it. This is not possible, not even for moderators, not even if the asker's account has been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/18312/moderators-accepting-answers-on-users-behalf-after-a-certain-time-period&quot;&gt;This has been requested&lt;/a&gt; (many times) on the main meta, but met strong opposition, mainly because&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;this would require moderators to decide whether an answer is true, which is explicitly not part of their role;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;this would run against the spirit of accepting an answer, which is to indicate that it personally helped the asker the most.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't worry about it. If you think the answer is good, upvote it and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2013-01-17T22:59:29.123" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2565" CreationDate="2013-01-17T23:25:55.933" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot; I was under the assumption that those qualifiers were reserved for questions that were on-topic.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think you are wrong. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a lot more inclined to punish a user who didn't bother even elementarily to review the site to see what's ontopic, than a user who posts an ontopic but not-enough-researched question. Because the former shows deem lack of respect to the whole site and every user here, and spams the site; while the latter merely didn't go the extra mile (and not always out of laziness/disrespect - heck, I have posted &quot;not researched enough&quot; things, sometimes because Google Fu failed me, sometimes, because I assumed wrongly it wasn't trivial)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2013-01-17T23:25:55.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2571" CreationDate="2013-01-17T23:31:40.907" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We all know it is the answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that's why this doesn't matter.  The accepted answer denotes the answer the user found most helpful and nothing else; there's no reason for you to care :P.  Use things like reading and votes to determine what the community's &quot;accepted answer&quot; is.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1470" LastActivityDate="2013-01-17T23:31:40.907" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2571" CreationDate="2013-01-17T23:34:21.187" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2572/2565&quot;&gt;Gilles points out&lt;/a&gt; answers can only be accepted by the original author of the question (which is a good thing). However, if you think an answer deserves to be be accepted but the original asker does not, you can always offer a bounty for the respective question and award it to the answer you think is right. That's the closest you can get to &quot;accepting&quot; an answer to a foreign question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2013-01-17T23:34:21.187" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2577" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2579" CreationDate="2013-01-19T03:42:59.107" Score="18" ViewCount="304" Body="&lt;p&gt;When answering a question, I've noticed that sometimes a sleuth will answer in the comment section with a complete answer, as opposed to with a formal answer. Are there any reasons to do this, and what should happen when a question appears unanswered when in fact the person asking the question has already left a satisfied customer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10631" LastActivityDate="2013-01-23T02:09:53.877" Title="Answering Questions with a Comment" Tags="|discussion|answers|comments|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2577" CreationDate="2013-01-19T06:24:06.123" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen the same thing and I suspect the sleuth in question simply doesn't feel their information to be substantial enough to occupy that big answer box. But he or she offers the clue in the hope that it may assist a potential answerer who can &quot;fill it out.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've done this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or it may be a lack of &lt;em&gt;certainty&lt;/em&gt; in the answer. Just not &lt;em&gt;sure&lt;/em&gt; enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's your own question, you can invite the commentator &quot;make this an answer so I can accept it.&quot; But be careful. &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/27876/12551&quot;&gt;I did this once&lt;/a&gt;, and then a short time later bigger better answers showed up, and I did not keep my promise. :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3007" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:37:07.957" LastActivityDate="2013-01-19T06:24:06.123" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2577" CreationDate="2013-01-19T22:27:00.220" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;What @luser said in their answer is a very frequent use case. There are a couple others as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some of us feel that an answer ideally should include references, preferably to original material, when possible. When you know what the answer should be, but can't back it up with a quote ATM, you post as a comment instead (I've done that).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A second use case is when the answer is so trivial and pithy that you feel the need to state it, but worry that - as an answer - people will downvote it BECAUSE they would mistake pithiness and conciseness with smart-alec-ness and poor quality. This way you express the correct information without incurring either the rep loss of downvotes, or more importantly the side effect of your answer being disregarded by future readers due to said downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an aside, I have more frequently seen in such cases that the original worry is baseless, and when OP of the comment or someone else posts the comment as an answer, it does NOT get downvoted and frequently upvoted :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When the question itself is of somewhat poor quality, and the user doesn't feel it warranted to bother spending time writing up an awe some answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2013-01-19T22:27:00.220" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2580" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-20T02:01:44.773" Score="-8" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/30716/was-the-khyber-dam-from-the-2012-bbc-tv-show-hunted-a-real-dam/&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;. It's a general reference question. It shows no research. It's pretty terrible content all the way around. So can somebody explain why it's open and generating rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and yes I am aware that the sarcastic answer I posted to it was poor form, which is why I flagged it a few minutes later. I just feel like none of the high rep users of this site are being content watchdogs, which is quite frustrating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="255" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2013-01-23T03:32:33.070" Title="Why hasn't the community closed this terrible question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2580" CreationDate="2013-01-20T03:01:37.763" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This appears to be a legitimate, albeit short, question. General reference is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2400/should-we-burninate-general-reference&quot;&gt;no longer a basis for closing questions&lt;/a&gt;. I noted that you yourself have enough rep (if I read the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; correctly) to vote to close this question if you genuinely feel closure is warranted; as it stands right now, the question doesn't appear to have any votes for closure. Regarding voting, the question has &lt;strong&gt;one&lt;/strong&gt; upvote. I would not exactly call one upvote generating rep at the speed of light. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No user -- low, medium, or high rep -- is on the computer 24-7. It looks like the question has already been reviewed by one of the moderators (&lt;strong&gt;Keen&lt;/strong&gt;) and has been allowed to remain on the site.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2013-01-20T03:09:56.247" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2582" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-20T04:00:14.893" Score="0" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/30739/long-dark-tea-time-of-the-soul-can-someone-explain-the-plot&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the OP is asking for a plot synopsis to clear up his confusion on some plot points in the novel. That is EXACTLY on-topic according to the FAQ. In fact, it's the very first bullet point. The OP then goes on to enumerate his particular problems and things that he didn't understand in a list of eight questions, to make sure that he would get the answer that he is looking for. All of the questions are still under the same basic question of &quot;Please explain the plot of this sci-fi thing&quot;, so why should he be required to split them up? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions 1, 2, 4, 6, &amp;amp; 8 seem directly related to even a cursory summary of the plot as three of them are addressed on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Dark_Tea-Time_of_the_Soul&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; page. 5 &amp;amp; 7 are both just questions about the powers of the protagonist (also appropriate for a plot summary). The only one that seems to be an outlier is 3 and I feel certain it would fit into any good answer to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="255" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2013-01-20T13:59:54.900" Title="Why should this question be split?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2582" CreationDate="2013-01-20T05:00:10.773" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer that got posted before it was closed is basically the entire reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I can't answer all of these, but I think you have a few misconceptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, the StackExchange network works off the premise that each question has one correct answer.  This &quot;question&quot; is actually a list of vaguely-related &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; questions that makes the post far, far too broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user isn't asking for a general clarification of the plot; they have lots of smaller questions &lt;em&gt;related to&lt;/em&gt; the plot.  The difference is that they can mostly be answered separately from each other, and by attempting to combine them into one massive question, you're going to get answers that address only parts of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions 1 and 2 look related; they can probably be posted as one question.  All the remaining ones look independent of each other (I haven't read this work), so they'd best be posted separately, although posting so many in a row may well cause a downvoting-backlash with other users - best to space them out over a day or two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastActivityDate="2013-01-20T05:00:10.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2580" CreationDate="2013-01-21T13:32:56.973" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I just feel like none of the high rep users of this site are being content watchdogs, which is quite frustrating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Acting as a &quot;content watchdog&quot; is not something that is strictly the responsibility of high rep users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several tools available to users without sufficient reputation to vote to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can (and should) downvote questions you feel are low quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel a question should be closed, but don't have the reputation to cast such a vote, you can flag it for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, if you feel the question isn't very good, you can try to edit it to make it better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is important to remember that not everyone will judge content the same way.  It may seem like a terrible question to you, but that is a subjective call, not an objective one.  While the low quality of the question may be obvious to you, it may not to others.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As has already been mentioned, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2400/should-we-burninate-general-reference&quot;&gt;General Reference is no longer a valid close reason&lt;/a&gt;.  As to why it is still listed as an option, check the accepted answer to that meta question for more details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since you mentioned the FAQ, please note that according to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/404/1359&quot;&gt;question linked in that faq&lt;/a&gt;, Google is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a valid reference site, so even if General Reference were still valid, this question would not fall under it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why more people aren't acting on the question... I know I haven't voted on it simply because I'm not familiar with the show in question.  Without knowing the context (how the dam relates to the show, the sci-fi elements, etc.), I am not going to downvote something simply because it is a short question.  Neither am I going to upvote it.  I don't believe this means I'm not &quot;doing my job&quot;, but rather the opposite: I'm reserving my high reputation privileges for actions that I am confident that any decision I make will be informed.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that the show appears to be only 3 months old, it is not terribly surprising to me that not many people have voted one way or another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2013-01-21T13:32:56.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2550" CreationDate="2013-01-21T18:10:11.073" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;We updated meta.scifi CSS to fix this issue. Sorry about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2013-01-21T18:10:11.073" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2580" CreationDate="2013-01-21T21:32:00.487" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I honestly don't see anything wrong with the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if GR was still a valid close reason, the fact is, that question is not GR.  I was going to request that you include the relevant information from your link in your answer, as is the standard practice here, but when I followed it I noticed that your answer wasn't even correct. The Khyber Dam that your Google search brings up isn't even on the right continent. And there is no &quot;list of all of the dams in Pakistan&quot; that I could find, and I looked (because I suspected there might actually have been an &quot;Upper Khyber Dam&quot; built in response to the Indus River floods in 2010 and 2011).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Had I not already known enough about the geography around the Pakistani/Afghani border to recognize some of the names, I doubt I would have been able to provide a good answer to that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2013-01-21T21:32:00.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2577" CreationDate="2013-01-23T02:09:53.877" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What should happen when a question appears unanswered when in fact the person asking the question has already left a satisfied customer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make a Community Wiki answer out of the comment? Assuming the commenter doesn't seem to be turning their comment into an answer themselves, that is...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6217" LastActivityDate="2013-01-23T02:09:53.877" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2580" CreationDate="2013-01-23T03:32:33.070" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regardless of the general 'content watchdog'iness of high-rep users, I've migrated this specific question to Movies &amp;amp; TV.SE.  Doing a read of &lt;em&gt;Hunted&lt;/em&gt;'s Wikipedia page didn't show any fantastical elements.  This appears to be a spy show set in present day.  Given that it lacks fantasy, science-fiction, and speculative fiction elements, I think it's a better fit over at Movies.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2013-01-23T03:32:33.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2590" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2603" CreationDate="2013-01-27T21:00:56.633" Score="12" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should I be including information in a Tag Wiki that could be considered a spoiler?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My initial thoughts:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Never including any spoiler info in the Except.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow spoiler info in the Wiki, since it requires a deliberate click, indicating the user is looking for further information.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add spoiler markup in the Wiki for spoilers?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any guidelines, rules or accepted practice for spoilers in Wikis?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9028" LastEditorUserId="4678" LastEditDate="2013-01-29T04:36:53.707" LastActivityDate="2013-01-30T00:03:42.057" Title="Spoilers in the Wiki?" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|tag-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2591" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-27T21:02:58.477" Score="1" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2590/spoliers-in-the-wiki&quot;&gt;Spoliers in the Wiki?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The book-of-eli tag contains a spoiler for the end of the movie.  Are such spoilers acceptable in tag descriptions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4096" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2013-01-27T21:02:58.477" Title="Are spoilers acceptable in tag wikis?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2013-01-27T21:10:02.913" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2592" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-28T19:40:06.467" Score="8" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did review &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2079/unnecessary-editing-why-would-people-do-it&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why would people make unnecessary edits?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/21/is-it-appropriate-to-edit-questions-for-grammar&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it appropriate to edit questions for grammar?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; before making this post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do edit questions for grammar for two main reasons&amp;#185;. First, I really hope it will help the OP. Second, I think grammatically correct language represents a higher standard, and I know quality is an important issue for the powers that be at Stack Exchange. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ROLLBACKS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why do some users reject editing?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lately, though, I've noticed when I've edited posts that have had blatant and/or extensive grammar errors, the LULZ, or have been in need of ESL assistance, the OP is rolling my corrections back to their original version, incorrect SPaG&amp;#178; and all. What's frustrating is the OP then leaves the post in its original sloppy state and makes no attempt at corrections himself/herself. On a few occasions I've had my edits rolled back, and then will notice another user also attempted to edit the same post, but the post is still in its original incorrect state, meaning the OP rejected suggested edits at least twice. So the OP is actively resisting community assistance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no problem with an OP rolling back my edits, only to make their own corrections. That's awesome and I think it's great to see an OP take responsibility for making their own corrections. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is there anything we can do to encourage all members of this community to remember that we do have a Wiki-like set up here and to help users to be more amenable to grammatical corrections, to not rollback edits that are meant to be helpful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDITING&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, I do want to say that whenever I edit a post, I always try and work within the original spirit of the OP's post. When I edit for SPaG, I try to be extremely thorough, so multiple edits on the same post won't be necessary. &lt;strong&gt;However ... is this considered okay? When does it cross the line into over-editing?&lt;/strong&gt; I will correct SPaG, and if I see a word being used incorrectly, I will fix the word, too. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I did not give you my &lt;strong&gt;constant&lt;/strong&gt; to edit my George R.R. Martin answer to add a picture of Harry Potter&quot; becomes &quot;I did not give you my &lt;strong&gt;consent&lt;/strong&gt; to edit my George R.R. Martin answer to add a picture of Harry Potter&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another type of change I will make is to clarify speakers and characters in sentences if I am &lt;em&gt;positive&lt;/em&gt; I know which character is doing or saying what. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;First, he cast a fire curse at him; in return he hexed him and gave him a magnificent rack of antlers. His curse also hit the Fountain of Magical Brethren, but he repaired it&quot; becomes &quot;First, Voldemort cast a fire curse at Dumbledore; in return, Dumbledore hexed Voldemort and gave him a magnificent rack of antlers. Voldemort's curse also hit the Fountain of Magical Brethren, but Dumbledore repaired it&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this kind of edit inappropriate or too extensive? Where do you draw the line with editing?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr/&gt;&#xA;&amp;#185;&lt;sub&gt;I know I'm not the universe's gift to grammar :P&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#178;&lt;sub&gt;SPaG is Spelling, Punctuation, and Grammar. I use this code for the &quot;reason for edit&quot; box and have had a few people ask me what SPaG means. So I thought I'd just mention it as an FYI.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2013-02-01T08:48:10.670" Title="Editing Posts and Rollbacks" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2593" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-28T20:37:36.617" Score="8" ViewCount="465" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's say I want to quote two different sections of the same page.  So I try to put two separate blockquotes back to back, but this doesn't work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt; We could cause a diplomatic crisis. Take the ship into the Neutral Zone And blowing into maximum warp speed, you appeared for an instant to be in two places at once.&#xA;&#xA;&amp;gt; Wouldn't that bring about chaos? I'll be sure to note that in my log.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Result:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could cause a diplomatic crisis. Take the ship into the Neutral Zone And blowing into maximum warp speed, you appeared for an instant to be in two places at once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't that bring about chaos? I'll be sure to note that in my log.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead you get one long blockquote, which makes it look like its one long quote.  How can you get two separate back to back blockquotes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Text provided by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rikeripsum.com/#!/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Riker Ipsum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2013-01-28T21:47:59.993" Title="How can I have multiple blockquotes back to back?" Tags="|support|spoilers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2593" CreationDate="2013-01-28T20:37:36.617" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Add a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- break&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; between the two blocks, and you'll get two separate blockquotes.  The &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- (stuff)&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; is an HTML comment, which web browsers don't display.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt; Fear is the true enemy, the only enemy. Why don't we just give everybody a promotion and call it a night - 'Commander'? &#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;!-- break&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;gt; Then maybe you should consider this: if anything happens to them, Starfleet is going to want a full investigation.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Result:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fear is the true enemy, the only enemy. Why don't we just give everybody a promotion and call it a night - 'Commander'? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Then maybe you should consider this: if anything happens to them, Starfleet is going to want a full investigation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This also works for spoiler blocks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; And blowing into maximum warp speed, you appeared for an instant to be in two places at once. A surprise party? Mr. Worf, I hate surprise parties. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; I would &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; do that to you. When has justice ever been as simple as a rule book?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2013-01-28T21:47:59.993" LastActivityDate="2013-01-28T21:47:59.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2593" CreationDate="2013-01-28T20:48:15.673" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually, you'd want to put an attribution before each quote or before each quote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be or not to be, that is the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(William Shakespeare)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Arthur Dent)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to cite two snippets from the same work, put them in a single blockquote with an ellipsis to indicate where you interrupted the citation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By and large, the only skill the alchemists of Ankh-Morpork had discovered so far was the ability to turn gold into less gold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(…)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most alchemists were nervous, in any case; it came from not knowing what the crucible of bubbling stuff they were experimenting with was going to do next.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really find a use for two blockquotes next to each other, put some empty markup in between. An &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/editing-help#html&quot;&gt;HTML&lt;/a&gt; comment, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt; Hello.&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;!-- --&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;gt; Hello again.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hello.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hello again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2013-01-28T20:48:15.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2592" CreationDate="2013-01-28T21:21:04.490" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not know why they do these things, but I've only noticed it myself from those with &quot;1 rep&quot;. So not only are they new here, they're new to SE sites in general. The sort of psychology that would take it as a personal affront if something I can't explain, it's mysterious to me too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not think your editing is inappropriate or too extensive. Fixing grammar, fixing formatting, adding links, or specific instances of clarification (I think I saw a quote added that the OP referred to but did not include)... these are all nice. Go for it. Also, though not mentioned, adding images seems fair too (assuming relevance, of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mods should punish those who rollback because they see edits as insulting. This isn't 4chan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7603" LastActivityDate="2013-01-28T21:21:04.490" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2592" CreationDate="2013-01-28T21:33:37.523" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a case like your first example, simply fixing spelling and grammar errors, if the OP rolls it back you should leave a comment explaining that it's not a personal affront, on SE we insist that posts have decent spelling and grammar. Then roll it back to your revision, or give the OP a chance to make his own corrections. If you're not sure or don't want to roll it back yourself, ask in chat.  If the OP rolls it back again, ask in chat, perhaps ping a mod (they can lock it).  If you make more substantial changes, adding a picture, say, that's a bit more understandable on the OP's part and you don't need to pursue that further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2013-01-28T21:33:37.523" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2592" CreationDate="2013-01-28T21:49:30.367" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The edits you describe seem fine. Please keep up the good work!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a user goes in a huff because you edited their post, refer them to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq#editing&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;. You can leave a comment like the following (adapt for context as needed):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Welcome to Stack Exchange. This is a [collaborative questions and answers site](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/about). Editing other people's posts to improve them is part of the normal working of the site, as indicated in our [FAQ#editing].&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Add some specific advice about what your edit fixed (e.g. spelling, presentation) and how their original post is likely to attract negative attention. Downvote or vote to close as applicable if the unedited post is not fit for the site. Do not engage in a rollback war¹. If the OP doesn't cool down, flag for moderator attention and explain what's going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &lt;sub&gt; Except for extreme cases of inappropriate content like insults, racism, etc. In that case, roll back once, and flag a mod. &lt;/sub&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2013-01-28T21:49:30.367" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2599" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2600" CreationDate="2013-01-29T22:10:06.817" Score="6" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/16287/2565&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; of mine tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt; was just &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/16287/revisions&quot;&gt;revised&lt;/a&gt;, replacing the tag with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quake&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quake&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quake&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, this introduces a new singleton tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quake&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quake&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quake&lt;/a&gt; which has no other questions right now. It is my understanding that (regardless of whether or not the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quake&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quake&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quake&lt;/a&gt; tag should be kept) such a question should remain tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt;, even if it has a specific tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although we don't typically do this with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv-series&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt;s, we have done it with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt; in the past. So, what do you think? Should that tag be kept in the described situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2013-01-29T22:43:25.323" Title="When to use the video-games tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2599" CreationDate="2013-01-29T22:19:59.633" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;A specific, discoverable tag like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quake&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quake&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quake&lt;/a&gt; is a good thing. This is also consistent with our habit of tagging questions with the name of the work, or of the writer for written works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(It used to be that tags with a single question were automatically deleted after a while, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/885/automatic-tag-clean-up-and-the-long-tail&quot;&gt;this is no longer the case&lt;/a&gt;, so there is no reason to eschew good tags.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tagging with media is also useful, because many people are specifically readers, or movie aficionados, or gamers. In an ideal world, I would support tagging every question with the medium that applies to it. However, it is unrealistic to require a constraint like this on every question, and the tag engine doesn't support making such tags compulsory or even strongly recommended. Furthermore, there would be a very large, unwieldy number of questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt;. So I don't push for systematically using those tags. Instead, we mostly use them to distinguish questions about movies and written works in the same franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The situation with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt; is different. It's a more specialized interest: there are gamers who are interested in the background stories of video games (which are often SF) but aren't frequent readers or moviegoers. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt; has 11 followers — not much, but not insignificant either. So I'm in favor of keeping &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt; and continuing to use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ideal tagging for a question like yours is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quake&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quake&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quake&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2013-01-29T22:19:59.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2599" CreationDate="2013-01-29T22:29:57.543" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there has to be a single rule that is obeyed for all media types. Questions about novels, tv shows and movies are common, so a compulsory &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; would, for most purposes, be annoying, adding unnecessary noise. Useful for taxonomy fans and data miners, but not for most users of the site. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Video game questions are rarer, and as Gilles said, possibly of interest to non regulars. However, this raises the questions - would other non-standard media types deserve their own tag? Should we &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/radio&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;radio&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;radio&lt;/a&gt; for the War of the Worlds or the Hitchhikers Guide skits? Should we add a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/musical&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;musical&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;musical&lt;/a&gt; when some zombie musical hits the air?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say no. I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt; is, specifically, a medium that has a following that is distinct enough from &quot;regular&quot; SF and Fantasy fans, and so should remain tagged, even if we don't treat other media types the same way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4516" LastActivityDate="2013-01-29T22:29:57.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2599" CreationDate="2013-01-29T22:43:25.323" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Feel free to roll back bad retagging. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Past that, there are several issues here. If the story is both a movie and a video game (Resident Evil might be an example), I'd only use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-game&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-game&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-game&lt;/a&gt; tag if you wanted answers specifically about it. But for something where the story is &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; a video game, I'd use this to fill out the tags if I hadn't reached the max, but if you're already at 5 relevant tags, you should potentially drop this if there is a more relevant tag. (And these rules, in my opinion, hold true for both &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv-series&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags only exist so someone can search. If the editor is getting rid of tags without good reason, they're hurting that feature. Please add the tag back to the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7603" LastActivityDate="2013-01-29T22:43:25.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2590" CreationDate="2013-01-30T00:03:42.057" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even though I approved your edit, I don't think spoilers ought to be in the tag descriptions.  All it takes is a mouseover to bring up the description; the user has no warning and their eyes will naturally track right to the information.  There's no way to offer spoiler protection except by not having the spoiler there in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4096" LastActivityDate="2013-01-30T00:03:42.057" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2604" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2605" CreationDate="2013-01-30T00:54:11.790" Score="5" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;While taking a look at an item in the Low Quality Posts queue, I noticed an oddity.  There's an invisible link to delete the post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/omayn.png&quot; alt=&quot;Cropped image showing the highlighted invisible link&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I mouseover the link, it changes color, which is how I noticed it.  Inspecting the page, I see that this link is in a div.post-menu element on the page, which probably should be removed, or set to display:none;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="4" LastEditDate="2013-01-30T02:29:11.063" LastActivityDate="2013-01-30T02:29:11.063" Title="Invisible link on Low Quality Review Queue" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|review-queue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2604" CreationDate="2013-01-30T02:29:06.757" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is fixed now. Thanks for the report.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2013-01-30T02:29:06.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2606" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-30T18:42:47.387" Score="3" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes a question pops up on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;main page&lt;/a&gt; with the last touch being done by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;Community♦&lt;/a&gt; user (e.g. &lt;code&gt;2h ago Community♦ 1&lt;/code&gt;). But if you click on the question itself you don't see any modification by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;Community♦&lt;/a&gt; at all. I vaguely remember that this &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; happen when questions are poked to float to the top of the main page --- for example when some algorithm decides a question hasn't received enough attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if all actions by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;Community♦&lt;/a&gt; were visible on the respective &quot;/revisions&quot; page of a question. Note that some actions (e.g. tweets) &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; visible even though they don't actually edit or revise the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T19:27:15.253" Title="Where can I see what Community♦ did to a question?" Tags="|feature-request|status-declined|community|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2606" CreationDate="2013-01-30T20:52:05.153" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Poking a random old question every hour is one of the functions &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;Community&lt;/a&gt; performs.  Since the question isn't actually changed, I don't think it's necessary to include &quot;bumping&quot; on the revision page.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2013-01-30T20:52:05.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2592" CreationDate="2013-01-31T12:49:30.207" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know why I have repeatedly rolled back your edits on my posts, I can't speak for anyone else. You have made multiple edits on my posts (At least two in recent times, a few others before the name change), all of which were style edits, not grammar edits. I have no problem with somebody coming along and fixing spelling errors or egregious grammar errors, but I have large issue with people changing the voice of my posts. In the ten plus SPaG edits you did on my posts, ONE was an actual grammatical error and I made it intentionally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do salute your willingness to correct others posts and I also praise you for not getting into rollback battles with the OPs. Like I said, I can speak only for myself, but I will always reject style editing to my posts unless I see an obvious improvement. Also, as said multiple times, the OP is the one in control of such things. It's great that you want to offer a correction, but if the OP doesn't feel it's warranted or that it is not an improvement, stackexchange sites come down firmly on the side of the OP. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="255" LastEditorUserId="255" LastEditDate="2013-02-01T08:48:10.670" LastActivityDate="2013-02-01T08:48:10.670" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2610" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-01T18:22:29.327" Score="17" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;This morning I moderated a couple of answers which had spam flags on them.  They weren't spam.  These particular answers were not answers, and should have been flagged as 'not an answer'.  Ergo this post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spam is very specific thing, and spam flags should only be used on spam.  Wikipedia offers &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_%28electronic%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a thorough description&lt;/a&gt;.  Meta.StackOverflow offers a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/58032/how-does-the-spam-flag-work&quot;&gt;more specific to this site description:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What is &lt;em&gt;Spam?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spam is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(electronic)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Unsolicited Commercial Advertisement&lt;/a&gt;.  You've all seen it.  Spam doesn't mean &amp;quot;I don't like the answer&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;this answer is noise.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What is the effect of the &lt;em&gt;Spam&lt;/em&gt; flag?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This type of flag receives an extremely high priority in the moderation queue. It should be used only when the content of the post you are flagging meets the criteria defined below, or it will likely be declined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The spam flag is designed to eliminate posts with no relevant content and to penalize the authors&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I highly recommend reading that second link above, as it thoroughly-describes when and why things should be flagged as spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2013-02-07T01:25:51.560" Title="PSA: When to flag things as spam" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2610" CreationDate="2013-02-01T19:25:59.897" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm one of the offenders here. I would like to point out that I wasn't abusing this feature, the user posted a rambling answer that did not answer the question or any other question, and he ended it with a link to what Keen later determined to be a fan website. When I see links, I don't usually investigate, I mark it as spam (rather than not an answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that much of the time this is correct (most such are spam), but I'll be a little more careful and investigate the links properly before assuming that it is so. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my defense, it needed to be flagged anyway. The only difference would have been the nature of the flag, not the flag itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless the moderators object, I will continue to mark them as spam if the linked website seems designed to drive traffic for ad view money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7603" LastActivityDate="2013-02-01T19:25:59.897" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2612" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-02T12:46:59.943" Score="2" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been thinking about some topics and ideas and I think I have come up with some interesting ideas. Can I ask questions regarding those topics? Note that those questions won't refer to movies, novels or games explicitly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12303" LastActivityDate="2013-02-02T17:41:34.310" Title="Can I ask questions about my own Sci-Fi ideas?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2612" CreationDate="2013-02-02T17:41:34.310" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;the FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What kind of questions can I ask here?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Science Fiction and Fantasy - Stack Exchange is for questions targeted towards science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts. This includes questions about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Plot, character, or setting explanations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Historical or societal context of a work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Story identification&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Franchise/series reading or viewing order&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question here is a little vague, but I'm leaning towards saying it'd be off-topic. Depending on your specific questions, you may find the &lt;a href=&quot;https://writers.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Writers&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://physics.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Physics&lt;/a&gt; StackExchanges to be better suited. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2013-02-02T17:41:34.310" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2614" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2617" CreationDate="2013-02-04T02:31:18.043" Score="-3" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question has been closed using the “Too Localized” basis: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12377/in-the-matrix-why-did-humans-scorch-the-sky-to-block-sunshine&quot;&gt;In The Matrix, why did humans scorch the sky to block sunshine?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to know how it is too localized. It doesn't look to me like &quot;Was Neo a male?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it too localized because it has got tremendous amount of downvotes? (Which I guess was happened through sympathy after my rude-looking comment on Kristof's answer. That answer has got 33 upvotes despite it being the silliest one to revolve around the &quot;scorched&quot; word.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or was the “Too Localized” reason designed as a fallback reason when all other things fail?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-04-25T11:07:22.880" Title="How is this question too localized?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2614" CreationDate="2013-02-04T02:56:42.233" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's Too Localized because you would know the answer if you know enough to ask the question.  If you know nothing about The Matrix then you shouldn't ask questions about it.  From the FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Picking one fact out of a movie (the humans scorched the sky) and ignoring other facts from the movie (why they did, mentioned in &lt;em&gt;exactly the same part&lt;/em&gt; as the previous fact) so that you can create a fake question is not a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1470" LastEditorUserId="1470" LastEditDate="2013-02-04T17:43:09.970" LastActivityDate="2013-02-04T17:43:09.970" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2616" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2618" CreationDate="2013-02-04T13:51:14.840" Score="5" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;This occurs in FF18,Chrome 24.0.1312.57, and IE8 to a lesser extent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reasons in the Close Question box overflow the window and cannot be read. It also makes it difficult to click the vote button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In FF/Chrome, the following occurs:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LXchi.png&quot; alt=&quot;Close question box&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In IE8, the box crops directly under the words &quot;General Reference&quot;. The vote button is accessible without problem, but the GR reason cannot be seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="5" LastEditDate="2013-02-04T17:40:48.300" LastActivityDate="2013-02-04T17:41:08.853" Title="Close question reasons overflow the box" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2614" CreationDate="2013-02-04T14:38:46.963" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The arguments you raise (machines being &amp;quot;less dependent on nature&amp;quot; and that they could discover new power sources) don't in any way alter the answer given by the movie.  They're basically accusations of it being a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/957/usefulness-of-plot-hole-answers-comments&quot;&gt;plot hole&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you read the answers to the meta discussion on plot holes I just linked, you'll see that the discussion is primarily about answers.  The consensus seems to be that &amp;quot;plot holes&amp;quot; as an answer is okay, provided the answer sufficiently explores in-universe answers first and foremost (i.e. they either show effort to find suitable in-universe answers that don't seem to be present, or present in-universe answers and mention as an addendum that they in-universe answers have some flaws).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, between the phrasing you used in the question, and your subsequent rejection of the technically-correct answer, you seem to be basing your entire question on the premise that this is a plot hole, and you are dismissing the obvious in-universe explanation out of hand.  This indicates you aren't looking for an answer (since you disagree with the one given in-universe); you're looking for discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite frankly, I think it was a toss-up as to what close reason should be selected:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NARQ: It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is difficult to tell what is being asked in your question because you clearly indicated that the simple and obvious answer is not what you were looking for.  It seems somewhat rhetorical, since it seems like you are more interested in discussion than in the question your phrased.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not Constructive: As it currently stands, this question is not a good fit for our Q&amp;amp;A format. We expect answers to be supported by facts, references, or specific expertise, but this question will likely solicit debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You asked &amp;quot;Why did &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; happen?&amp;quot;.  You got the answer &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; happened because &lt;em&gt;y&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;.  Yet you are taking the stance of &amp;quot;I don't like &lt;em&gt;y&lt;/em&gt; as a reason because of &lt;em&gt;a&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;b&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;c&lt;/em&gt;... your answer should take into account my arguments&amp;quot;.  Which is basically soliciting debate and or discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Too Localized: This question is unlikely to help any future visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of the three, I have to say Too Localized is probably my least favorite, but I think it is still valid.  The chances of someone saying &amp;quot;I know they scorched the sky to cut off power to the machines, but that doesn't make sense to me... perhaps stackexchange can help!&amp;quot; are almost nil.  Its just too specific, and providing commentary and discussion to go beyond plot holes with clear (if not terribly convincing) in-universe explanations is just not what we're about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, looking at the accepted answer, it seems there is more useful information than the obvious answer.  However, the way you phrased your question doesn't indicate that that was what you were looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is, I think, the fundamental problem.  Your question is pretty clear as to what it is asking, but I don't think, from your subsequent comments, that it really indicates what you &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps if the question were something along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did the humans think scorching the sky would be an effective solution?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knocking out the machines' primary power supply doesn't seem like it would be worth the cost, since the damage to the environment would hurt humans more in some ways (climate change, food supplies, etc.), and the machines are smart enough to eventually come up with alternative power sources.  Was there a good in-universe explanation given as to why scorching the sky was deemed a workable strategy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2013-02-04T15:16:04.800" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2616" CreationDate="2013-02-04T17:41:08.853" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Silly styling bug in the new popup, sorry about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next build will fix it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5" LastActivityDate="2013-02-04T17:41:08.853" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2619" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2620" CreationDate="2013-02-05T20:27:53.073" Score="3" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have thousands of rep elsewhere, so I ought to get the standard 101 rep of an established SE user. Instead, I only have the 75 from a question I asked, plus 1 by default.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5339" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2013-02-05T20:40:59.720" LastActivityDate="2013-02-05T20:40:59.720" Title="Why do I only have 76 rep?" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2619" CreationDate="2013-02-05T20:38:37.380" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/5339/aerovistae?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;Your rep page&lt;/a&gt; makes things pretty clear.  You started with 100 rep, earned some, spent 100 in a bounty on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/26405/is-there-a-guide-to-the-publication-history-of-the-x-men&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, and ended up where you currently are at 76.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your initial 100 rep from the association bonus isn't your permanent minimum rep, it's just the starting rep for this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2013-02-05T20:38:37.380" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2621" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2622" CreationDate="2013-02-05T21:06:40.680" Score="7" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the movie allowed here?  Is it considered more as a movie? Or is it considered sci-fi.  I don't really want to gather more downvotes; I just want to know whether or not it's within the scope of the faq.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6675" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2013-02-14T20:48:17.640" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Is the movie Interstella 5555 considered &quot;sci-fi&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2621" CreationDate="2013-02-05T21:34:28.243" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, absolutely, that movie is science fiction - or at least SFF enough to be within the scope of the FAQ. No guarantee that you won't still get downvoted. Some people are offended by any attempt to take movies they don't like seriously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5424" LastActivityDate="2013-02-05T21:34:28.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2621" CreationDate="2013-02-05T21:35:22.170" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reading the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstella_5555:_The_5tory_of_the_5ecret_5tar_5ystem&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia entry&lt;/a&gt;, I would vote yes. But if you're really concerned, you could try the &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;TV &amp;amp; Movies StackExchange&lt;/a&gt; where it would definitely be on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2013-02-05T21:35:22.170" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2624" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-05T23:25:47.140" Score="1" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was reviewing the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31449/is-respawning-technologically-feasible-in-pandora&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31449/is-respawning-technologically-feasible-in-pandora&lt;/a&gt; and agreed with one of the comments that it might be better placed (with a bit of rewording) over on physics.SE so I voted to close as off-topic, but the only option is to move the question over to meta.scifi.SE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recall a small number of other questions that have also been more science than science-fiction, and given the nature of sci-fi, it isn't surprising that questions can end up falling into &quot;how would this actually work&quot; or &quot;is this feasible now&quot; type of questions that are better asked at physics.SE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, should we add physics.SE as an option?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess a similar argument could be made for including english.SE in the list (again, a small number of questions)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="373" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2013-04-24T22:28:26.980" Title="Add physics.SE as an option for questions &quot;that don't belong here&quot;" Tags="|feature-request|status-declined|closing-questions|migration|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2624" CreationDate="2013-02-05T23:38:05.930" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the past 90 days, we've migrated a grand total of 0 questions away to &lt;a href=&quot;https://physics.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Physics&lt;/a&gt;. Migration paths are only created when a sizable number of questions are migrated. So, no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that Physics.SE, generally speaking, does not want questions about fictional worlds. “Is this feasible” questions that are asked here often don't have enough information for physicists who haven't read the book (or seen the movie, etc.) to answer. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31449/is-respawning-technologically-feasible-in-pandora&quot;&gt;question you cite&lt;/a&gt; is a prime example of this. I don't have statistics, but my impression is that of the flags/comments/chat messages that have requested migrations to Physics, a significant minority were about questions which Physics.SE would have (or did) decline, either on that basis or because the question was just too poorly thought out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my experience, people who have a good physics question ask it on Physics.SE in the first place. If you see a question that would really be a good fit on Physics.SE, feel free to flag for migration. Do mention if you're a regular on Physics.SE. But even then I'd generally advise suggesting to repost instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2013-02-05T23:38:05.930" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2624" CreationDate="2013-02-06T12:10:28.453" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. Please. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/7433/manishearth&quot;&gt;I moderate Physics.SE&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, our &lt;a href=&quot;https://physics.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions about fictional physics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Could a warp drive get you out of a black hole?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions about physics of fictional worlds which are not sufficiently grounded in real physics are off topic here, but they may be on topic at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(If you guys don't like such questions either, I'd be happy to reword it and/or remove the SF&amp;amp;F link)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Is this feasible now&quot;, while sometimes on topic, is better kept off Physics.SE. The community frowns on these (and they are many a time too vague to be meaningfully answered in a physics context). Sometimes rewording it would work. but more often than not it won't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments suggesting &quot;this is better on &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;site&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&quot; many a time come from users who haven't yet participated on said site. I wouldn't take them seriously unless the user has spent some time on Physics.SE. I'm not saying that all suggested migrations are bad if they come from these folks, I'm saying that the existence of such comments has no major bearing on such a decision. Also, this is a valid argument against letting all 3k+s migrate. This is already a major problem on StackOverflow, where people (used to) vote to migrate to Programmers (and this still happens for migrations to SU/SF IIRC) without knowing much about the site, leading to a lot of bad migrations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, the current system is working fine -- if you feel something ought to be migrated, don't hesitate to flag. Your moderator(s) will look into it and send it over if necessary. If we don't like it, we shall close the question (which rejects the migration).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4536" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2013-02-06T12:10:28.453" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2621" CreationDate="2013-02-06T13:51:25.820" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how that movie could be interpreted as &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; science fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's put it this way: &lt;em&gt;My Little Pony&lt;/em&gt; is on topic here.  A movie about a group of alien musicians being kidnapped and held prisoner on Earth is &lt;em&gt;certainly&lt;/em&gt; going to be on topic!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By all means, please ask!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2013-02-06T13:51:25.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2621" CreationDate="2013-02-07T22:47:24.687" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is certainly on-topic on &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Anime and Manga&lt;/a&gt;. The accepted answer indicates that it is on-topic here as well, so you're welcome to ask here or there, though you &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/64068/is-cross-posting-a-question-on-multiple-stack-exchange-sites-permitted-if-the-qu/64073#64073&quot;&gt;should not ask on both sites&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take into consideration that &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Anime and Manga&lt;/a&gt; will probably be a better fit, since Anime is the specific purpose of that site. Being a moderator there, I can say that this question would be most welcome over there. We're new in the SE network, but we're building a solid group of 'experts', so you'll definitely find some good answers there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check it out :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6365" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:48.340" LastActivityDate="2013-02-07T22:54:25.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2629" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2630" CreationDate="2013-02-08T09:20:13.647" Score="14" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;During my quest to find new books to read, I stumbled upon an interesting young adult fantasy series but I forgot to bookmark the page or save that info somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the series had a very long Wikipedia entry and I've read enough about it back then to be able to post more details than some similar questions on this site asked by people who actually read some book in the past and who trying to identify it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time being, I'm still in the 'google' part of the search process so I'm not interested to post a question right away. Still, assuming I can't find an answer, would such a question be allowed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6696" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2019-03-31T17:09:11.550" LastActivityDate="2019-03-31T17:09:11.550" Title="Can I ask a story-identification question about a book I didn't read?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|story-identification|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2629" CreationDate="2013-02-08T11:47:13.290" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see absolutely no reason why you couldn't, provided you can remember enough details to make it a good question. As far as I'm aware, there's no requirement to have read a book or seen a movie to ask questions about aspects of those works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5833" LastActivityDate="2013-02-08T11:47:13.290" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2629" CreationDate="2013-02-08T16:05:51.200" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to point out that this is a very good reason to ask for story identification... if you want to finally get around to reading the book (or seeing the movie), you have to know what it is first. Though, might be wise to ask for a spoiler-less response if that's the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7603" LastActivityDate="2013-02-08T16:05:51.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2632" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-08T19:48:57.177" Score="12" ViewCount="460" Body="&lt;p&gt;We now have the ability to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2210/could-we-get-youtube-embedding#comment8382_2568&quot;&gt;embed Youtube clips&lt;/a&gt;.  However, this opens up a new can of worms, or at least reopens &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1349/should-we-allow-links-to-sources-of-a-questionable-legal-status&quot;&gt;an old can of worms&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Stack Exchange &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/legal&quot;&gt;terms of service&lt;/a&gt; state:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Subscriber represents, warrants and agrees that it will not contribute any Subscriber Content that (a) infringes, violates or otherwise interferes with any copyright or trademark of another party,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I ask what are our community's expectations for acceptable and unacceptable Youtube linking/embedding?  We're setting aside linking/embedding officially-posted videos, as those are obviously being made available for general consumption.  Are links/embeds to snippets of episodes acceptable?  Are links/embeds to full episodes acceptable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Youtube usage policy" Tags="|discussion|legal|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2632" CreationDate="2013-02-08T19:59:02.933" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;An embedded video is little different than a link to the same video... the only difference is in how the http client (web browser) treats an embedded video. Instead of making a clickable word that will direct the browser to Youtube's page, the client downloads and presents the video without the click.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't &quot;contributing content&quot;. It's just pointing out where to get content someone else contributed to another website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We shouldn't want to be the copyright police for the same Hollywood assholes who are constantly being disrespectful to us and refusing to create the films we'd all want to see. I must have read a dozen short stories and novels where science fiction has explained why eternal copyright is so harmful...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here, of all places, we're going to carry their water? No thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should only have a problem with Youtube videos that clearly aren't up to our &quot;only necessary profanity&quot; standards. Keep it PG-13, I'm ok with it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7603" LastActivityDate="2013-02-08T19:59:02.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2632" CreationDate="2013-02-08T20:03:47.537" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off, not a lawyer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, as long as our links to ANY site aren't breaking the TOS for that site, I don't see why we shouldn't allow them. Linking Wikipedia or Pottermore isn't any different than linking YouTube. As you can clearly see in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;YouTube TOS&lt;/a&gt;, linking or embedding on a SE page meets all the qualifications set forth in section 4 &amp;amp; 5. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that we don't want to get into a copyright pissing contest, but if we (SE) aren't hosting the content, it's not our problem that it's available on the open web. As long as links are clearly stated to lead outside the SE network, then they should be allowed to stand. Additionally, why should we be writing, when a few second of video can clear the confusion right up. We do Q &amp;amp; A here, lets not tie our hands to jump through hoops we don't have to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, our own sites legal page already has a disclaimer that seems to directly reference this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Third party websites&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Users of the Network may gain access from the Network to third party sites on the Internet through hypertext or other computer links on the Network. Third party sites are not within the supervision or control of Stack Exchange or the Network. Unless explicitly otherwise provided, neither Stack Exchange nor the Network make any representation or warranty whatsoever about any third party site that is linked to the Network, or endorse the products or services offered on such site. Stack Exchange and the Network disclaim: (a) all responsibility and liability for content on third party websites and (b) any representations or warranties as to the security of any information (including, without limitation, credit card and other personal information) You might be requested to give any third party, and You hereby irrevocably waive any claim against the Network or Stack Exchange with respect to such sites and third party content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="255" LastEditorUserId="255" LastEditDate="2013-02-11T12:22:18.677" LastActivityDate="2013-02-11T12:22:18.677" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2635" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2644" CreationDate="2013-02-09T05:09:47.807" Score="13" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;The term 'avatar' is used to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_%28computing%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;popular degree&lt;/a&gt; for virtual-representations of real people since Neal Stephenson's &lt;em&gt;Snow Crash&lt;/em&gt;.  'Cyberpunk' is a real genre of science fiction that commonly uses this term/trope. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, I request that the current &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avatar&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avatar&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avatar&lt;/a&gt;  (as it is presently wiki'd- for the recent movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499549/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Avatar&lt;/a&gt;) be renamed to 'avatar-movie' to make the shorter tag-name available for broader use, if the populace deems fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11262" LastActivityDate="2013-02-12T01:51:35.630" Title="Renaming 'Avatar' tag" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2632" CreationDate="2013-02-09T21:50:28.923" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made these comments in the chat room about this issue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The internet is international and one can post links from Boonedock, North Dakota, and end up dealing with a court in Europe or elsewhere. It's happened and there's no reason to take a risk of it happening to someone here. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In some countries people have been held accountable for linking to illegal content.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We don't make the determination of what kind of site this is, educational or otherwise. That would be made by a judge and a prosecuting attorney might make a valid point that'll sway a judge in the other direction. We're not lawyers, we don't know the implications.  Presuming to know what lawyers and a judge will say in a field where we (other than, possibly lawyers working for SE) are not experts is foolish.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allowing linking to (or embedding of) illegal content encourages more links to such content and that can discourage people who want to keep a clean legal record for various reasons. Some of those are content creators. I'm working on several scripts and also working toward starting my own film production company. When my production company is working, if I were found to be breaking copyright law, I'd be a prime target for law enforcement.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have one answer on here by the screenwriter for &lt;em&gt;Groundhog Day&lt;/em&gt;. The chances are if he had been by here and seen links to illegal content, especially links to long segments of that film, he never would have had a thing to do with this site and may have reported it to authorities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Courts have, in the past, ruled against those just linking against illegal content.  While YouTube has a Terms of Service and does actively pursue copyright infringement, there is no guarantee they get all the infringing or illegal videos.  Why take an unnecessary risk of creating trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if material is in a gray area, and it's up on YouTube today, it very well might be yanked tomorrow - thus leaving us with nothing.  While this could happen with any YouTube video, it is much more likely to happen on videos that try to skirt the law.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are a legitimate, legal site and we want it to stay that way - there's no reason to take chances on walking into trouble we don't have to walk into. It leads to unnecessary risks that can hurt the site. One can make arguments here, but that's no guarantee those arguments will hold up in court and there's no reason why we have to take those risks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2013-02-09T21:50:28.923" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2637" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-10T04:39:11.097" Score="17" ViewCount="205" Body="&lt;p&gt;On this particular SE site, we'll occasionally have to post lists of items with multiple, ordered pieces of information in each list entry.  I.e. what would normally be formatted into a table.  But SE doesn't support tables via markdown or HTML, so we work around this limitation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/31611/1027&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/31611/1027&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/8717/1027&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/8717/1027&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/28748/2242&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/28748/2242&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2646/community-eval-feb-2013&quot;&gt;Community eval — Feb 2013&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32005/what-is-the-original-context-of-this-spock-video-clip/32014&quot;&gt;What is the original context of this Spock video clip?&lt;/a&gt; (Put the dialogue next to the comments/stage directions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/32052/1027&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/32052/1027&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/38169/2242&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/38169/2242&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I request that support for tables be added to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Feel free to edit in other example posts which would benefit from this feature.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2021-01-14T14:22:16.677" LastActivityDate="2021-01-14T14:22:16.677" Title="Add support for tables" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2638" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2639" CreationDate="2013-02-10T17:22:39.623" Score="25" ViewCount="801" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;List questions&quot; are generally off-topic on Stack Exchange sites, and Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy in particular, because they tend to be open-ended, generate debate, have some level of personal preference, and not meet the criteria of being &quot;answerable&quot;. But there are plenty of list questions on this site that &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; have a single, demonstrably correct answer that just happens to be a finite list of items.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just today, on the front page, there are a bunch of questions with list answers and our treatment of them is very inconsistent:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31626/x-files-references-in-fringe&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31626/x-files-references-in-fringe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31625/twin-peaks-references-in-the-x-files&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31625/twin-peaks-references-in-the-x-files&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2622/are-there-any-spells-that-a-wizard-witch-can-cast-without-a-wand-in-the-harry-po&quot;&gt;Are there any spells that a wizard/witch can cast without a wand in the Harry Potter universe?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/27756/other-than-morgoth-were-any-of-the-valar-ever-susceptible-to-physical-injury&quot;&gt;Other than Morgoth, were any of the Valar ever susceptible to physical injury?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31610/who-are-all-the-characters-to-have-touched-the-one-ring&quot;&gt;Who are all the characters to have touched The One Ring?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of those questions have a list-based answer. Some of them are being rapidly downvoted and VTC'd, while the Harry Potter one has 33 upvotes and an accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that, in every case, we have all of the information needed to build the list, the criteria is objective, and since the works are completed, the list will never change. That addresses almost every complaint people have about list questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if list-questions are off-topic, where's the line?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-03-17T16:01:52.443" LastActivityDate="2019-03-17T16:01:52.443" Title="Are *all* list questions off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|faq|scope|question-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2638" CreationDate="2013-02-10T17:35:06.910" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ban on list questions is mainly on open-ended infinite list questions.  This is touched on in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;site FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note the following types of questions are off-topic here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions calling for a list of works, authors, …: &lt;em&gt;What are all the books that have X? Who wrote about topic Y?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not reasonable to ask a question on a Q&amp;amp;A site that requires knowledge of &lt;strong&gt;all works&lt;/strong&gt; that ever existed, and then request a &lt;strong&gt;massive list&lt;/strong&gt; of the works that contain one specific element.  This sort of question lacks a single, finite answer.  In practice these questions accumulate a steady flow of &amp;quot;me, too&amp;quot; answers where people add a few examples in a new answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, finite and well-scoped list questions are allowed here.  There's a question asking for a list of all of &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt;'s Doctors, for example.  A mere 13 Doctors exist (within the main BBC show, in both incarnations), which can be reasonably included in one, canonical answer.  Similarly, a question asks about all of &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;'s &lt;em&gt;Enterprises&lt;/em&gt;.  There's a reasonable, limited number of those as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason half the questions linked in your question are getting downvotes is likely due to their low quality.  They show a lack of research, and come off as 'do this time-consuming research for me!' types of questions.  We'll see how the community reacts to them, and what sorts of answers they receive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In contrast, the high-upvoted questions show some expertise.  The details in the question indicate the asker has a familiarity with the works, and is seeking something odd, rare, or not-obviously-stated in those works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-05-17T03:55:41.650" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2641" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-10T23:08:29.567" Score="4" ViewCount="203" Body="&lt;p&gt;Primarily for use on Futurama questions, but could be more generally useful for other comedy science fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31636/in-neutopia-why-didnt-the-borax-kid-teleport-in-scruffy&quot;&gt;In Neutopia why didn&amp;#39;t the Borax Kid teleport in Scruffy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We get 4 or 5 of these a month. It's getting annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7603" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2013-04-26T15:38:21.323" Title="Should we have a &quot;That's the joke&quot; close reason?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2641" CreationDate="2013-02-11T12:28:39.607" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A 'not constructive' flag for the question would be my choice of response rather than create a new close reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11295" LastActivityDate="2013-02-11T12:28:39.607" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2641" CreationDate="2013-02-11T14:41:41.653" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do these questions have to be closed?  Just downvote the question if you think it is bad/completely obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with &quot;not constructive&quot; is that if you don't get the joke, then you would have no way of knowing that the answer can't be supported by facts, references, etc..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing to keep in mind is that &quot;because its funny&quot; is a bad answer, too.  A good answer would detail all of the elements that contribute to the joke.  Sometimes you may get surprisingly good information that may not be obvious, but which adds a lot of interesting information to the joke which adds to the humor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/10039/what-is-the-significance-of-hexapodia-is-the-key-insight&quot;&gt;this question about a somewhat humorous remark&lt;/a&gt; in one of Vernor Vinge's books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the surface, the answer was because its funny.  Yet I got an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/10041/1359&quot;&gt;answer that provided some really excellent insight&lt;/a&gt;, showing it to be much more interesting than I had expected when I asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we close every question that asks for an explanation for a joke, we run the risk of losing out on some quality content.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2013-02-11T14:41:41.653" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2635" CreationDate="2013-02-11T15:00:12.630" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Changing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avatar&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avatar&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avatar&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avatar-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avatar-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avatar-movie&lt;/a&gt; makes sense to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think repurposing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avatar&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avatar&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avatar&lt;/a&gt; to be something other than a reference to the movie is a bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First and foremost, the term &quot;avatar&quot; does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; exclusively refer to &quot;virtual-representations of real people&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The older meaning of the term &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;refers to physical manifestations of divine beings&lt;/a&gt;.  This term is used  in this fashion by at least a few &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avatar_Series&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;titles&lt;/a&gt; that would &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatars_(series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;fall under&lt;/a&gt; this site's scope, and would cause confusion with &quot;avatar&quot; as used in the more technological/virtual sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two concepts are far enough apart that I don't think it makes sense to lump them together under a single tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if they were closer in concept, I don't think &quot;avatar&quot; is universally accepted enough for everyone to assume that a virtual representation of a real person would be tagged &quot;avatar&quot;.  I have seen holo presence, tele presence and remote viewing/presence used to describe similar concepts, and I've also seen the concept used in sources that never attempted to label it one way or another.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes the tag insufficiently useful, imo.  If not everyone is going to assume that that's the term they should be tagging/searching upon, it isn't worth creating a tag for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="1359" LastEditDate="2013-02-12T01:51:35.630" LastActivityDate="2013-02-12T01:51:35.630" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2632" CreationDate="2013-02-11T19:01:43.720" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the biggest problems here is: how do we determine if something is a copyright violation?  As &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/49430/166646&quot;&gt;this answer from a related meta.so discussion&lt;/a&gt; indicates, it is not always so clear-cut what is, and what is not, a copyright violation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taking from an answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/a/267/8096&quot;&gt;Jeff posted on arqade.com&lt;/a&gt;, in the event of a possible violation falling into a &quot;grey area&quot;, it is okay to assume good faith.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that what is deemed &quot;fair use&quot; or even what might infringe a copyright is something that is best handled by trained attorneys.  As I understand it (IANAL!), it is the responsibility of a copyright holder to contact anyone posting infringing material, and the site contacted must then follow a specific procedure to verify the removal of said content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I honestly don't know if a link, or even an embedded Youtube.com video, counts as infringing a copyright, but that's kind of the point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how do we handle it?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose we handle it from the perspective of what we &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; know.  And that should be &quot;what makes a question or answer high quality?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we focus on standards that ensure that our content is high-quality, it should help to eliminate the most egregious violations, as well as hopefully demonstrating good faith in the case of fair use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any linked video should be reasonably scoped relative to the answer.  If the answer is about the movie &lt;em&gt;Army of Darkness&lt;/em&gt;, and a video is included, the video should be a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/30942/1359&quot;&gt;clip of the specific portion of the movie relevant to the answer&lt;/a&gt;, and not to the full movie (I link to my answer partially to illustrate my point, and also partially to highlight my use of youtube so that if the answer to this question indicates I shouldn't have linked this, it can easily be removed).  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As a clarification/addendum to the previous point, embedding the full video/episode is not acceptable, even in cases of &quot;identify this story&quot; questions.  If you know of a place where the show/movie in question can be watched for free without infringing copyright, providing a text link is appropriate, but strictly speaking, there's no benefit to embedding the video directly into the answer.  Embedding is best for short clips; if you want to watch a full show, you're probably going to want to expand it to full screen, anyway.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any answer that consists of a video clip &lt;strong&gt;must also&lt;/strong&gt; include text describing the answer; a video alone is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/8259/166646&quot;&gt;not a sufficient answer&lt;/a&gt;, as is any other answer that consists of a single link.  In most cases, we can expect copyright violations to be taken up with youtube.com before they come here, and if something inappropriate is linked, there's a good chance that youtube will remove the video before we're ever aware of the issue.  That being said, anything that shows as having been removed from youtube should be edited out/flagged for edits ASAP.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2013-02-11T19:01:43.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2646" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-11T23:41:57.667" Score="3" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of you may have noticed we had a community evaluation last week. Here are the results. You can comment in this thread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Ex Sa NI sc&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&amp;#x2007;23 &amp;#x2007;16 &amp;#x2007;1 &amp;#x2007;22 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/27613/would-harry-still-be-a-parselmouth-at-the-end-of-the-deathly-hallows&quot;&gt;Would Harry still be a Parselmouth at the end of the Deathly Hallows?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&amp;#x2007;28 &amp;#x2007;17 &amp;#x2007;1 &amp;#x2007;27 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/27687/how-did-the-millennium-falcon-get-from-hoth-to-bespin-without-hyperdrive&quot;&gt;How did the Millennium Falcon get from Hoth to Bespin without hyperdrive?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&amp;#x2007;29 &amp;#x2007;15 &amp;#x2007;0 &amp;#x2007;29 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/27986/where-did-j-r-r-tolkien-state-that-arwen-suggested-that-frodo-be-allowed-to-sai&quot;&gt;Where did J.R.R. Tolkien state that Arwen suggested that Frodo be allowed to sail West?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&amp;#x2007;&amp;#x2007;8 &amp;#x2007;27 &amp;#x2007;5 &amp;#x2007;&amp;#x2007;3 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28007/do-powell-and-donovan-experience-relativistic-time-dilation-in-escape&quot;&gt;Do Powell and Donovan experience relativistic time dilation, in &amp;#39;Escape!&amp;#39;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&amp;#x2007;15 &amp;#x2007;22 &amp;#x2007;7 &amp;#x2007;&amp;#x2007;8 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28041/whats-the-range-of-magnetos-powers&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the range of Magneto&amp;#39;s powers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&amp;#x2007;&amp;#x2007;6 &amp;#x2007;20 &amp;#x2007;9 &amp;#x2012;3 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28146/who-is-to-credit-for-aaron-saties-wisdom&quot;&gt;Who is to credit for Aaron Satie&amp;#39;s wisdom?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&amp;#x2007;34 &amp;#x2007;15 &amp;#x2007;1 &amp;#x2007;33 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28235/what-does-yoda-wear-around-his-neck&quot;&gt;What does Yoda wear around his neck?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&amp;#x2007;25 &amp;#x2007;19 &amp;#x2007;2 &amp;#x2007;23 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28280/desperate-to-find-comic-features-female-protagonist-pretty-sure-a-goddess&quot;&gt;Comic female protagonist, pretty sure a goddess?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&amp;#x2007;12 &amp;#x2007;19 &amp;#x2007;4 &amp;#x2007;&amp;#x2007;8 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28619/how-can-the-prophet-fail-to-anticipate-some-events&quot;&gt;How can the prophet fail to anticipate some events?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&amp;#x2007;22 &amp;#x2007;14 &amp;#x2007;0 &amp;#x2007;22 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28746/fringe-how-could-september-or-any-other-man-from-the-future-catch-gun-bullets-i&quot;&gt;Fringe: how could September or any other man from the future catch gun bullets in the air?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt; &lt;code&gt;Ex&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;Sa&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;NI&lt;/code&gt;: number of &amp;ldquo;excellent/satisfactory/needs improvement&amp;rdquo; ratings &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt; &lt;code&gt;sc&lt;/code&gt;: total score &lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2013-02-11T23:41:57.667" Title="Community eval — Feb 2013" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2647" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-12T07:01:11.437" Score="3" ViewCount="2541" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is Haruki Murakami considered fantasy/sci-fi? &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1Q84&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1Q84&lt;/a&gt; involves parallel worlds and the supernatural. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind-Up_Bird_Chronicle&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Wind-up Bird Chronicle&lt;/a&gt; also involves the supernatural and a dream reality. Would questions on these books be considered on topic for SFF.SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11173" LastActivityDate="2013-02-12T10:41:27.460" Title="Is Haruki Murakami considered fantasy/sci-fi?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2647" CreationDate="2013-02-12T10:41:27.460" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both those and many of his other works fall squarely into the literary tradition of &lt;em&gt;magical realism&lt;/em&gt;, which is usually considered to be sf. Some have additional links to the sf tradition, such as the parallel history in &lt;em&gt;1Q84&lt;/em&gt; or the science fantasy elements in &lt;em&gt;Hard-Boiled Wonderland&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His work has been reviewed often in genre publications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will find many of his works in the ISFDB.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because closing is governed by community votes no one can promise genre-killing reactionaries won't close the question (and there are some on the site), but well, they're genre-killing reactionaries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1030" LastActivityDate="2013-02-12T10:41:27.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2632" CreationDate="2013-02-12T15:03:28.217" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;US Law&lt;/a&gt; states the following about Fair Use:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Section 107 contains a list of the various purposes for which the&#xA;  reproduction of a particular work may be considered fair, such as&#xA;  criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and&#xA;  research. Section 107 also sets out four factors to be considered in&#xA;  determining whether or not a particular use is fair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The nature of the copyrighted work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The effect of the use upon the potential market for, or value of, the copyrighted work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key consideration &lt;strong&gt;for this site&lt;/strong&gt; from this is #3, as the rest just outline this site as a whole. So long as the clip in use is limited to something directly applicable, then under my interpretation of the law, we should be okay. It would not be acceptable to link to, say, the entire Star Wars movie, but it would be okay to link to a minute clip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As phantom mentioned, this site falls under the research, criticism, comment, etc category, and thus qualifies for fair use. Do not take this to mean anything beyond Stack Exchange, I really won't stick my neck out there...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, I'll let the SE lawyers override me if required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2013-02-12T17:28:36.143" LastActivityDate="2013-02-12T17:28:36.143" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2650" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-12T21:58:42.623" Score="-3" ViewCount="402" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't consider this a particularly controversial question unless it's plainly stupid (Does The Incredible Hulk take place in the same universe as 2001 A Space Oddysey).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those of you that are unaware, many television shows make reference to other ones which you'd think hadn't happened unless you were aware of it. For instance, &lt;em&gt;The X-Files&lt;/em&gt; has an episode where Det. Munch from &lt;em&gt;Homicide&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Law &amp;amp; Order: SVU&lt;/em&gt; makes a cameo. And both of those shows make even more references to yet more shows, to the point that several hundred television series are connected (if indirectly) to one another. The two shows that seem pivotal in this phenomena are &lt;em&gt;St. Elsewhere&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Homicide: Life on the Street&lt;/em&gt;. This is often referred to as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Westphall&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tommy Westphall universe&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://home.vicnet.net.au/~kwgow/crossovers(full).jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YbvTi.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;diagram of many tv shows and their connections&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the connections are rather weak, but others are full crossover (and yet others seem to be full crossovers, but clearly have contradictory events such as Det. Munch making an X-Files joke as if it were only a tv show).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's my opinion that such questions clearly deserve benefit of the doubt, and that we should refrain from comments that ask the questioner to justify their question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7603" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2013-02-14T20:48:34.613" LastActivityDate="2013-02-14T20:48:34.613" Title="Do we need to justify a &quot;Does show X ever make references/crossovers to show Y&quot; questions?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2650" CreationDate="2013-02-12T22:22:56.920" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd lean towards saying there should be some justification for asking the question, otherwise there's the very real possibility that the question should be considered &quot;too localized&quot;. Just because one person wants to know if show X and (seemingly unrelated) show Y have even the vaguest connection or references to one another, that doesn't mean anybody else is ever going to have the same question again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A reason for asking the question beyond &quot;I'm curious&quot; at the very least provides a means for determining if it's likely to be useful for future visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5833" LastActivityDate="2013-02-12T22:22:56.920" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2652" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-12T23:01:26.547" Score="9" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/31120/8927&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; has received one answer with misinformation in it.  I have spent a bit of time doing my own research, and have come to same conclusion as the answer, but I can't bring myself to accept the answer as it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it better for me to edit the existing answer, removing the misinformation and possibly changing it quite a bit, or should I rather make a new answer even though it will be the same in essence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8927" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2013-02-13T01:37:12.700" Title="Should I edit an answer with misinformation or just write a new answer?" Tags="|discussion|answers|etiquette|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2652" CreationDate="2013-02-13T01:37:12.700" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think a second answer would be the same in essence.  The existing one reached its conclusion incorrectly, and it didn't answer your question satisfactorily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Go ahead and post your answer.  To keep it complete, I'd be sure to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mention &quot;credit only&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mention why Stan found the mismatch.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Explain why Stan's answer wasn't acceptable to &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;, the person who chooses the correct answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I'd suggest a little more searching first.  You said in the comment that Deanna Troi was listed as &quot;credit only&quot; in 10 episodes; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Deanna_Troi#Appearances&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Memory Alpha&lt;/a&gt; seems to disagree, listing which &lt;em&gt;8&lt;/em&gt; episodes she did not appear in.  It seems odd that both the list of episodes and the list of &quot;credit only&quot; episodes are off by 2...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this isn't an ideal situation, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/18041/pen-servo-in-tos-assignment-earth-the-doctors-sonic-screwdriver&quot;&gt;it does happen&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2013-02-13T01:37:12.700" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2484" CreationDate="2013-02-13T05:32:55.357" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/168/the-overlook-hotel?tab=schedule&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/D64tF.png&quot; alt=&quot;Writing exercise chat&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33" LastActivityDate="2013-02-13T05:32:55.357" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-02-13T05:32:55.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2655" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2659" CreationDate="2013-02-13T09:38:24.420" Score="1" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I rarely find featured questions on SciFi.SE and the number is zero at this time. This is uncommon to many SE sites I have used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do we get low amount of featured questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2013-02-13T21:43:58.113" LastActivityDate="2013-02-14T17:42:20.657" Title="Why do we get low amount of featured questions?" Tags="|discussion|bounty|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2655" CreationDate="2013-02-13T15:03:59.687" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a low amount of featured questions because nobody sees a need to put bounty on questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are probably a good person to answer why; As I'm writing, you &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/931/sachin-shekhar?tab=questions&quot;&gt;asked 190 questions&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/931/sachin-shekhar?tab=bounties&amp;amp;sort=offered&quot;&gt;never placed any bounties yet&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess people love their &lt;em&gt;hard&lt;/em&gt; gained reputation too much to &lt;em&gt;waste&lt;/em&gt; it on a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2013-02-13T20:20:17.013" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2650" CreationDate="2013-02-13T15:10:43.537" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason that we shouldn't allow these questions is easy. They are always going to be list questions. The problem with list questions is they just don't fit well with this style of Q&amp;amp;A. Any person can slap in a crappy one sentence answer and have it be correct. This isn't a forum or a personal website. The only place on this site that such answers would appropriate would be on the blog. I agree, there are a lot of crossovers of all kinds in SF&amp;amp;F, but we just aren't set up to deal with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say that any particular reference would be on topic, however. That's an entirely answerable question and is a good fit for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example to the good:&#xA;I was watching blah episode of Homicide and the Det. made this joke &quot;Imaginary Block Quote&quot;,&#xA;Does that mean that the X-Files exist in this universe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OR&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was watching this show and I didn't get this reference, what are they talking about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example to the bad:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does X show ever reference Y&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We wouldn't allow a question like &quot;can you tell me every time the HULK ate a banana?&quot; or &quot;How many times did character X talk about Y&quot;. They are open-ended and bad questions, so why would we create a loophole for entire universe of them just because they were on t.v.?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="255" LastActivityDate="2013-02-13T15:10:43.537" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2655" CreationDate="2013-02-13T15:12:40.013" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/?tab=featured&quot;&gt;the featured page&lt;/a&gt; states when there are no featured questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There are no questions with an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq#bounty&quot;&gt;active bounty&lt;/a&gt; at the moment.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Would you like to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq#bounty&quot;&gt;open a bounty&lt;/a&gt; on one of your questions — or someone else's?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the reason there aren't many featured questions is that there aren't many people bountying questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2013-02-13T15:12:40.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2655" CreationDate="2013-02-13T23:09:59.240" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I take it you ask more why this site encourages so much less bounties than sites like &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/?tab=featured&quot;&gt;SO&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;390&lt;/strong&gt; bounties), &lt;a href=&quot;https://math.stackexchange.com/?tab=featured&quot;&gt;math.SE&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;28&lt;/strong&gt; bounties) or &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/?tab=featured&quot;&gt;SU&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;23&lt;/strong&gt; bounties). Despite SO clearly being significantly larger than &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/?tab=featured&quot;&gt;scifi.SE&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;0&lt;/strong&gt; bounties), there is another significant difference between the sites listed above and sites like this one or say &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/?tab=featured&quot;&gt;movies.SE&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;0&lt;/strong&gt; bounties).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first category is a set of sites where things get asked where people, &lt;em&gt;even experienced ones&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt;), get stuck on problems affecting their profession. The second category is frequented mostly by people in the context of their entertainment and private life (&lt;code&gt;**&lt;/code&gt;). Although scifi and fantasy fans can get really invested in their favourite franchise, it's still a difference if you cannot solve an (even remotely) job-related problem or if you don't understand a finer point of some entertainment programme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example; If you have a deadline in 5 days and have been trying to solve a problem with your program for the last 3 days (with still a lot of work to do before the deadline), you might be willing to spend and increasingly large amount of your SO rep, if it can get you a solution. You might be willing to offer a bounty of 500 if you're desperate (and possibly more than just one, if the system allows it); but if you don't get an answer here (at SFF), just shrugging the question off might be an option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt;: these are the ones that can spend large bounties!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;**&lt;/code&gt;: yes, I know there are exceptions; We do have some professional scifi/fantasy writers/contributors on the site, but they are a minority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:46.357" LastActivityDate="2013-02-14T17:42:20.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2484" CreationDate="2013-02-14T15:17:10.703" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NTjfH.png&quot; alt=&quot;Movies.Stackexchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1987" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2013-02-14T15:17:10.703" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-02-14T15:17:10.703" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2661" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2663" CreationDate="2013-02-14T19:26:51.430" Score="0" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31775/what-were-all-the-occasions-where-the-main-figures-of-each-star-trek-franchise&quot;&gt;What were all the occasions where the Star Trek Captains have met each other?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question very clearly indicated that it was about &lt;strong&gt;main figures&lt;/strong&gt; of each show (e.g. Picard/Kirk/etc...) meeting, NOT about any random series crossovers of any characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People complained that it's an unending list, yet the whole discussion failed to provide more than 3 valid examples -all contained in a single answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything else discussing 'endless list' examples was out of scope thanks to @Iszi in comments incorrectly telling everyone that Scotty/Riker were in scope, when the original question clearly spelled out they were not via a list of who is).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was previously discussed that limited scope single-franchise list questions are  bot &quot;not constructive&quot; nor &quot;off topic&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ditto with &quot;questions about ongoing franchise&quot; - merely because there may be a new ST series 5 years from now, doesn't make the question invalid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2013-02-14T23:59:20.600" Title="Why was this closed as &quot;non-constructive&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|scope|closed-questions|specific-question|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2661" CreationDate="2013-02-14T19:40:26.887" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The question very clearly indicated that it was about main figures of each show (e.g. Picard/Kirk/etc...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Except that isn't clear at all.  &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; has a pretty standard TV format where the main cast consists of the bridge crew, plus the heads of other areas of the ship (e.g. engineering).  The term 'Captain' is what you meant.  'Main figure' is an incredibly vague term in this context, which led to people reading it as 'main cast'.  Ergo, Scotty is discussed as a valid member of the 'main figure' group.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It was previously discussed that limited scope single-franchise list questions are bot &quot;not constructive&quot; nor &quot;off topic&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Except you didn't open it to a limited single franchise.  You opened it to a single franchise, plus all its licensed, non-canon works.  That's hundreds of hours of TV/film (i.e. the franchise proper) + hundreds (thousands?) of books, comics, games, etc. (i.e. tons of licensed works).  That's not a particularly limited scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, the question was closed before these issues were addressed.  Now that it's been edited, I'd expect it to be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2013-02-14T23:59:20.600" LastActivityDate="2013-02-14T23:59:20.600" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2661" CreationDate="2013-02-14T19:42:55.817" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I indicated in comments, the scope was &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; as clear in the way you worded as you may think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that my comment (which I deleted after you edited your question) received several upvotes indicated that I was not the only one to share that confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Star Trek typically features an &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble_cast&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ensemble cast&lt;/a&gt;, so assuming that &quot;main characters&quot; includes such mainstays as Spock, Data, Odo, etc. seems perfectly reasonable to me.  A better phrasing would have probably been &quot;the individual commanding officers&quot;, although that still leaves some wiggle room, as Data, Riker, Spock, etc. have variously served as the commanding officers for all or part of specific episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't recall any discussion that specifically states &quot;questions asking for lists of &lt;em&gt;all instances of x&lt;/em&gt;&quot; for ongoing franchises are explicitly okay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, the edits made help quite a bit, particularly after removing all &quot;non-canon&quot; written works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2013-02-14T19:42:55.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2661" CreationDate="2013-02-14T20:49:16.697" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll re-state what I'd said in comments, here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original question had three major problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Definition of scope.&lt;/strong&gt; Certainly, with the list given, it can be &lt;em&gt;implied&lt;/em&gt; that the intent may have been to just find crossovers of Star Trek Captains. However, using the phrase &quot;main figures&quot; more prominently in the question title and body easily lends to the belief that your list of the Captains is not intended to be all-inclusive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This has since been rectified in your comments and edits. Thanks.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Size of scope.&lt;/strong&gt; Regardless of &lt;em&gt;who&lt;/em&gt; is included in the scope, putting together a list of cross-overs between 12 movies is relatively simple. One person could easily be expected to have all this knowledge. Expanding the scope to include the five TV series (six, if you include TAS) makes it a little bit of a stretch, but still not an unrealistic expectation for one person to know. However, to include the myriad of other licensed works - even if you limit it to just books, and exclude comics, video games, etc. - in &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; universe puts it beyond the reach of even the most die-hard fanatics. I personally do not expect that anyone alive &lt;em&gt;possesses&lt;/em&gt; the complete collection of works you're asking to be assessed, let alone &lt;em&gt;remembers&lt;/em&gt; all of them in enough detail to give a full and complete answer without reviewing it all over again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is still a big problem. Fix this, and I can guarantee you'll get at least one more reopen vote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Finality of scope.&lt;/strong&gt; The Star Trek universe is still evolving. J.J. Abrams is doing some great work (IMHO) in his reboot of TOS in theaters. Michael Dorn has talked about doing another TV series centered on Worf. There are still many more licensed books, comics, video games, and other works to come. Any answer to the question of &quot;When have any Star Trek main characters had crossover interactions with main characters from other Star Trek series.&quot; would only be complete until the next movie/TV series/book/comic/game comes out that establishes a new crossover - and there are still plenty of reasons for writers to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is largely mitigated by your scope limitation of &quot;Captains only&quot;, but inevitably unavoidable unless you specifically define a list of existing works you're looking to have assessed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1639" LastEditorUserId="1639" LastEditDate="2013-02-14T21:02:13.200" LastActivityDate="2013-02-14T21:02:13.200" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2665" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-14T23:59:56.053" Score="7" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it on topic to ask about where to (legally) find a given category of online works? For instance, I'd like to know where (beyond Tor.com) I can find freely available online fantasy short fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7883" LastActivityDate="2013-02-15T14:45:38.527" Title="OK to ask question about where to find free online works?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2665" CreationDate="2013-02-15T00:45:42.143" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry, but that would be a list question, which is generally discouraged on the SE network, and so it would likely be closed as non-constructive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as mentioned in the comments, you should come into &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt; and ask there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="3267" LastEditDate="2013-02-15T14:45:38.527" LastActivityDate="2013-02-15T14:45:38.527" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2667" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-15T03:10:59.937" Score="4" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally think &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_Interest_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Person of Interest&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;em&gt;just barely&lt;/em&gt; in the Sci-Fi realm, for being centered around a fictional, near-omniscient automated surveillance network. It also has some themes that overlap with other common Sci-Fi/Fantasy stories, such as vigilante heroes and government conspiracies. Overall though, it seems a bit closer to crime drama (as mentioned on Wiki) than true Sci-Fi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm asking because I have a question about the show which is actually not about any of the Sci-Fi aspects. I can see that there is already &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8076/why-are-all-of-the-persons-of-interest-in-new-york-city&quot;&gt;one question&lt;/a&gt; about the show here - with an accepted answer from myself, no less. However, I thought it might be best to double-check here before making a habit of asking about the series on Sci-Fi instead of Movies &amp;amp; TV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1639" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T01:11:36.517" Title="Should Person of Interest be on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2668" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-15T17:13:43.020" Score="0" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a sudden slew of 'why didn't X recognise Y at point Z' questions at the moment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31832/why-doesnt-darth-vader-recognize-c-3po&quot;&gt;Why doesn&amp;#39;t Darth Vader recognize C-3PO?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31786/why-doesnt-owen-lars-recognize-c-3po-during-anh&quot;&gt;Why doesn&amp;#39;t Owen Lars recognize C-3PO during ANH?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31778/how-come-obi-wan-doesnt-remember-r2d2-and-c3p0-in-new-hope&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t Obi-Wan remember R2-D2 and C-3PO in A New Hope?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't help but feel that they are in some way fundamentally unanswerable as they're all plot inconsistencies due to the filming order of the movies and any 'in universe' explanation is going to be highly debatable thus making them 'non-constructive'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the guidelines for questions like these? Are they borderline okay or should they be voted for closure?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11295" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2013-02-24T18:49:11.997" Title="Are these useful questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2667" CreationDate="2013-02-15T17:33:37.597" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that a question about the computer would be on-topic, but I think that questions about anything else should be asked on Movies and TV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5424" LastActivityDate="2013-02-15T17:33:37.597" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2668" CreationDate="2013-02-15T19:17:44.493" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;On one hand, I agree with you that they're mostly just plot inconsistencies, but sometimes there are retconned explanations. It can be interesting to find such retconned stories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, Lucas has said that Han's &quot;12 Parsecs&quot; boast was actually &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kessel_Run&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;thanks to the Falcon's navicomputer&lt;/a&gt;. Or &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jaster_Mereel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jaster Mereel&lt;/a&gt; was a name used by Boba Fett as an alias.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have my own question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/27550/was-xaviers-surprise-at-magnetos-helmet-ever-retconned&quot;&gt;about retcons just like those&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2013-02-15T19:17:44.493" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2668" CreationDate="2013-02-16T20:48:37.800" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I decided, after asking the question, that I thought they should be closed. It's probably not necessary to add an additional 'don't ask this type of question' item to the FAQ as they can easily be covered by the 'not constructive' reason and then 'the community' can simply decide on a course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said I do think that people should vote to close on questions like these that simply cannot be answered 'in universe' without making something up. Answers are meant to be based on fact not surmise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that @MarkBeadles answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1851/movie-magic-or-how-do-we-answer-stupid-questions&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question is perfect, in particular this line:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;'Otherwise our answers become less answers and more something like fanfic. Fanfic is great! But it shouldn't be an answer to a question on SE.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a factual answer is possible that's fine but if an answer has to be invented then that is not good and these questions &lt;strong&gt;need&lt;/strong&gt; to be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I'm going to try to give new questions like this a day or two to try and get a factual answer before I flag for closing but I'm still of the opinion that they are not good questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11295" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user11295" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2013-02-17T19:00:04.863" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2672" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-16T23:25:23.753" Score="1" ViewCount="209" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the movie &lt;em&gt;Contagion&lt;/em&gt; ontopic here? And more specifically, questions which are not even remotely about any SF or fantasy aspect, such as this one: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5921/what-happened-to-the-village-in-contagion&quot;&gt;What happened to the village in Contagion?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am told it cannot be moved because it's too old. Shouldn't we close it, then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, there doesn't seem to be any SF aspect to either the movie or the question itself. A fictional virus isn't SF, either. A fine line, of course (I can imagine fictional virus which are firmly within the realm of SF&amp;amp;F, but not &lt;em&gt;this one&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="770" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T19:00:20.240" Title="Is the movie Contagion ontopic in SF&amp;F?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2672" CreationDate="2013-02-17T01:10:28.530" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's on topic because it doesn't contain any Sci-fi or Fantasy elements.  It's just a &quot;medical thriller disaster film&quot;, as Wikipedia puts it (thanks Andres).  The film's only extraordinary element is the disease that the plot revolves around is a fictional disease, but everything about the plot and story is grounded in reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2013-02-17T01:10:28.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2674" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-17T03:37:09.713" Score="8" ViewCount="296" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to research and identify &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification?sort=unanswered&amp;amp;pageSize=50&quot;&gt;2303 unanswered ID questions&lt;/a&gt; and while I wouldn't mind putting in the research effort, I have no idea where to start short of reading every single short-story anthology ever published. So, does anybody have any ideas on a research methodology that they can share with the rest of us? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure I'm not the only one that would like to cut down the number of unanswered questions we have on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="255" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2019-06-15T14:50:19.437" LastActivityDate="2019-06-15T14:50:19.437" Title="Can somebody walk me through how to research these Identify these story-ID questions?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2019-01-23T09:41:37.143" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2668" CreationDate="2013-02-17T05:17:08.847" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, your assumptions about &quot;&lt;strong&gt;they are in some way &lt;em&gt;fundamentally&lt;/em&gt; unanswerable&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; and &quot;&lt;strong&gt;any 'in universe' explanation is going to be highly debatable&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; are completely wrong. Pretty much every single question about a large and complicated universe like Star Wars is more likely to contain a (possibly ret-conned) in-universe answer from EU than be unanswerable, from my experience. Those specific questions might or might not have an answer, but &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;fundamentally&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, questions like that ARE quite answerable as a class. (&lt;sub&gt;on a tangent - same for Harry Potter, where I saw many questions dissed, DVed and VTCed as unanswerable speculations, only to see myself or Slytherin come up with canonical straight-from-JKR-interview answer immediately&lt;/sub&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could may be, possibly, consider your argument for a small SFF work with no other material to draw upon as worth thinking about. But for Star Wars, this is a silly assumption to have been made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, if you have issues with a type of &quot;What is an in-universe explanation for this seeming plot hole&quot; questions, I would recommend reading excellent answers to a related Meta question here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1851/movie-magic-or-how-do-we-answer-stupid-questions&quot;&gt;Movie Magic (or how do we answer stupid questions)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(spoiler: most people's consensus was that such questions aren't &quot;stupid&quot; and perfectly on-topic). While the question itself differs slightly from yours, the answers are just as applicable in their logic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2013-02-17T05:17:08.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2674" CreationDate="2013-02-17T07:36:45.160" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't use any particular method.  Story ID questions are basically an exercise in unconscious pattern matching and getting the question in front of enough eyeballs that someone recognizes the story.  If online searches alone could find the story, the person would probably have already found their answer, so I don't try to do their Googling for them.  If I can't identify the story within one minute of racking my brain, I'm never going to identify it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4096" LastActivityDate="2013-02-17T07:36:45.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2672" CreationDate="2013-02-17T10:14:33.710" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen the movie. Going by the discussion so far it looks like a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technothriller&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;technothriller&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have some &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/are-works-that-arent-sf-per-se-but-have-occasional-sfnal-elements-on-topic-e/344#344&quot;&gt;guidelines about technothrillers&lt;/a&gt;. If we classify &lt;em&gt;Contagion&lt;/em&gt; as a technothriller, then questions such as this one, which are about a mundane element, are off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I'm not sure about the classification as a technothriller. Going by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contagion_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;'s plot summary, it looks like not only the disease is fictional, but the disease's properties are somewhat romanticized. When you start romanticizing scientific elements, that's science fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, for a borderline topic like this, I'm inclined to leave the question around. Since we &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/151890/disable-migration-for-questions-older-than-60-days&quot;&gt;cannot migrate the question because it is too old&lt;/a&gt; (a stupid restriction, but not one that moderators can do anything about), migrating to Movies.SE isn't an option. I prefer leaving the question open to closing it which would make it deletable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.757" LastActivityDate="2013-02-17T10:14:33.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2678" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-17T10:33:13.480" Score="4" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed that we have an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/android&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;android&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;android&lt;/a&gt; tag. Is this tag really helpful? Depending on your chosen definition, &lt;em&gt;robot&lt;/em&gt; may or may not include all types of &lt;em&gt;android&lt;/em&gt;. (If you think robots have to be and perhaps even look mechanical, consider that this excludes the &lt;em&gt;robots&lt;/em&gt; in &lt;em&gt;R.U.R.&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31439/what-is-mr-datas-full-name#comment59359_31439&quot;&gt;“Data objects to being called a robot”&lt;/a&gt; is neither here nor there. Or rather, it's there in-universe, but not relevant here: what matters is whether a visitor on SFF.SE would expect Data to be classified as a robot. If Data objects to being tagged a robot, let him state his case in this thread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given how wildly definitions differ, I think it is bad for searching to have two separate tags. I'm inclined to make &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/androids&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;androids&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;androids&lt;/a&gt;¹ a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/robots&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;robots&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;robots&lt;/a&gt;. Any counter-argument?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &lt;sub&gt; I just merged to the plural form to be consistent. &lt;/sub&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2013-02-21T19:23:43.127" Title="Do we really need an android tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2674" CreationDate="2013-02-17T11:17:46.510" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's difficult. Unless you happen to recall the same details about the story, most identification questions require a lot of experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, you can try googling. Do a web search, or (for written works) a search on rec.arts.sf.written (if you know of a good search engine for that, tell me — Google Groups search has been painfully unhelpful for several years). Sometimes the asker didn't google enough. Not all askers have searched as much as they should have. Also, knowing to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8763/short-story-with-time-travel-separating-the-user-from-causality/8772#8772&quot;&gt;weed other candidates&lt;/a&gt; can help. Even &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1795/story-about-plagiarism-by-means-of-time-machine/1803#1803&quot;&gt;remembering some other story&lt;/a&gt; can help!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the author &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2128/what-medieval-fantasy-novel-features-a-firey-red-head-female-protagonist-with-me/2130#2130&quot;&gt;remembers at least part of the name&lt;/a&gt;, search on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ISFDB&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The type of plot or some other characteristic might remind you of a particular author even if you haven't read that particular story. It's a lot easier to search or research an identification question if you know the author. Even a wrong guess can help the search if someone else has made that wrong guess before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can't solve it yourself, advertise. Ask your friends. Retweet it. Ask on rasfw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2023-01-29T13:54:16.550" LastActivityDate="2013-02-17T11:17:46.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2678" CreationDate="2013-02-17T21:49:21.610" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mmmm, tough one. Androids are humanoid robots (so Data objecting to being called a robot is similar to a human who doesn't like being called a mammal). Do we really need tags for each subtype of robot? What about &quot;robot that looks like a car&quot;, or &quot;assembly line robot&quot;, or &quot;just a robotic arm&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see the viewpoint that humanoid robots are the most compelling for science fiction, but still, I'm not convinced we need a specific tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I vote: &quot;no, we don't need an android tag&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="770" LastEditorUserId="3267" LastEditDate="2013-02-19T02:02:38.083" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T02:02:38.083" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2681" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-17T22:04:26.357" Score="3" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it appropriate to dismiss from consideration an answer that mixes book canon with movie canon? The reason I ask is I just looked over &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/31828/3500&quot;&gt;an answer to a question of mine&lt;/a&gt; and the user answering had used a quote from &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2&lt;/em&gt; (film), that does not appear in the book, as part of her argument (for lack of a better word). In this instance (and perhaps this isn't a great example, but it's the only one I can find immediately) I don't think that one particular error affects the overall answer, so it's an answer I might consider. However, I think &lt;em&gt;especially&lt;/em&gt; in the &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; questions, answers quoting non-canon movie lines as a basis for a canon answer are not unusual. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a guideline on how to handle answers that mix non-corresponding book and movie canon? Or is it just up to the individual user on how to deal with these kind of situations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T03:23:47.897" Title="Is it appropriate to dismiss an answer when a user is basing their book canon argument on a movie quote that isn't in the book?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2681" CreationDate="2013-02-17T22:47:54.170" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you don't want movie &quot;canon&quot;, simply indicate so explicitly in a question footnote. Whether you want a movie canon or not is up to question asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(it may not be very fair to the answerer to update the question later to clarify that, but life's not fair)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2013-02-17T22:47:54.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2678" CreationDate="2013-02-18T00:33:26.773" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm undecided on the topic, but for the sake of having a pro argument, here goes.  Androids are a specific type of robot, meant to mimic humans.  This is opposed to just any sort of automata (e.g. robot arms, time traveling robots, intelligent vehicles).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that attempting to mimic humans &lt;em&gt;specifically&lt;/em&gt; makes androids a worthwhile subject to discuss separate from robots in general.  All robots will share various traits, often artificial intelligence, matters of AI rights, etc.  But by focusing on trying to encapsulate humanity in an artificial human form, androids explore more specific facets of what it means to be human vs. an artificial being.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming &quot;&lt;em&gt;R.U.R.&lt;/em&gt;&quot; in the question refers to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R.&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, then I'd expect it to be a story tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/android&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;android&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;android&lt;/a&gt; since these are clearly robots mimicing the human form.  That the work calls them 'robots' doesn't mean we should stick to referring to them as such, when our modern usage has evolved in the past 90 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2013-02-18T18:59:58.300" LastActivityDate="2013-02-18T18:59:58.300" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2678" CreationDate="2013-02-18T20:19:26.830" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;the way the tag ends up being used is based on the word used by the author, not on the meaning of the word.&quot;&#xA;   - &lt;em&gt;Gilles&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot; We frequently have issues with misuse of tags because people use the meaning of the tag's word(s) instead of an author/community usage.&quot;&#xA;   - &lt;em&gt;Keen&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this right here sums up the problem.  How people use tags, particularly new users, is frequently inconsistent.  IMO, this means that if there is significant ambiguity to how a tag should be used, then we're probably getting too specific with the tag for it to be useful without excessive maintenance.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/androids&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;androids&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;androids&lt;/a&gt; give us that we would otherwise be lacking?  Is it likely that someone would favorite &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/androids&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;androids&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;androids&lt;/a&gt;, but not &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/robots&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;robots&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;robots&lt;/a&gt;?  Is there potential that lots of people will ignore &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/androids&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;androids&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;androids&lt;/a&gt;, but still want to see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/robots&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;robots&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;robots&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we didn't use a distinct tag for Androids, &quot;android&quot; is still a term that is very easy to search on (and which can be combined with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/robots&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;robots&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;robots&lt;/a&gt; very easily).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see no reason to have both; I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/androids&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;androids&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;androids&lt;/a&gt; should be made a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/robots&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;robots&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;robots&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="2565" LastEditDate="2013-02-21T19:23:43.127" LastActivityDate="2013-02-21T19:23:43.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2685" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-18T20:19:48.407" Score="9" ViewCount="220" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 2013 Community Moderator Election is now underway!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community moderator elections have three phases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nomination phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Primary phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Election phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most elections take between two and three weeks, but this depends on how many candidates there are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please visit the official election page at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for more detail, and to participate!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have general questions about the election process, or questions for moderator candidates, feel free to ask them here on meta -- just make sure your questions are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/election&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;election&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;election&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2013-03-05T20:03:20.433" Title="2013 Community Moderator Election" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|election|moderators|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-02-18T20:19:48.407" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2686" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2688" CreationDate="2013-02-18T22:15:25.360" Score="4" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election&quot;&gt;an election&lt;/a&gt; that just started.  Part of it will be a Town Hall chat.  That page helpfully announces:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A Town Hall Chat with the candidates will take place Tuesday the 31st at 02:00 UTC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there is no Feb 31st.  And looking at other clues on the page doesn't help.  The election starts in 7 days, which would be next Monday, the 25th.  It's going to end on March 5th, which is 8 days after the 25th.  So, does this mean the Town Hall is next week on Tuesday?  That'd make it 1 day into the election proper, which seems a bit early.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2013-02-18T22:24:00.260" Title="When's the Town Hall chat?" Tags="|bug|status-completed|election|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2686" CreationDate="2013-02-18T22:20:21.823" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The town hall chat for this election hasn't been scheduled yet. In a few days a post will go up here on meta announcing the chat, and once the candidates have provided their availability, the post will be updated with the selected date and time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently that notice text isn't specific to the current election, and is actually &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1311/2012-moderator-election-town-hall-chat-tuesday-0200-utc-monday-9pm-est&quot;&gt;carry over&lt;/a&gt; from when the election was held last year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2013-02-18T22:20:21.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2686" CreationDate="2013-02-18T22:23:47.797" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry; there's only one election post, shared between elections, so &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2687/1586&quot;&gt;as Tim noted&lt;/a&gt; that's a carry-over from last year. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've updated the election page to reflect the resources &lt;em&gt;currently&lt;/em&gt; available. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2013-02-18T22:23:47.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2681" CreationDate="2013-02-19T03:23:47.897" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The appropriate thing to do is preemptively notate your question with what you are discounting from answers, so that people are aware of what you are looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I disagree with DVK...I think it is less than &quot;not very fair&quot; to the answerer to update the question after they have answered to specifically discount their answer. I think it shouldn't be allowed, as it is very rude to the people that answered in good faith to the original question without stipulations. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4383" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T03:23:47.897" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2685" CreationDate="2013-02-19T03:32:02.730" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me take this opportunity to announce that I am resigning from my moderator position on SF&amp;amp;F, effective when this election is completed. The Stack Exchange community teams knows about this, so two positions have been opened to bring the total number of moderators to 4.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've probably noticed that I haven't been very active on the site lately. SF&amp;amp;F is largely a site for fans, and I am primarily a reader. Part of my &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election/1#post-9998&quot;&gt;election platform&lt;/a&gt; was to make SF&amp;amp;F more attractive to readers, but let's face it: I have no idea how to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll still be around, occasionally answering LOTR questions and defending story identification on Meta. Which is basically all I'm doing now... There are many other users who are far more active than me and who'd make good moderators. Let them have their time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T03:32:02.730" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-02-19T03:32:02.730" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2691" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2693" CreationDate="2013-02-19T05:34:49.157" Score="5" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are features on this site, 'Favorite Tags' and 'Ignore Tags'.  That being said, why do some tags, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv-series&lt;/a&gt; have conditions in their FAQs stating '&#xA;&lt;em&gt;It should only be used when it may not be immediately clear that the question is about content produced for television&lt;/em&gt;'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The designers are giving the ability to ignore certain types of questions, via the tag-system; so, why is it accepted to limit that functionality?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm aware that I can(now or eventually) submit a change to those tag FAQs, but this is about the reason for the [same] wording and reason in these tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in other site-contexts, tags are usually not discouraged if they represent something that may already be stated(with varying spelling/representation) in the title. Especially for internal site-statistics reasons, nevermind the features.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11262" LastEditorUserId="11262" LastEditDate="2013-02-19T07:24:28.327" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Tag Disclaimer- &quot;It Should Only Be Used When Not Immediately Clear...&quot;" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-wiki|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2692" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-19T05:40:49.467" Score="-3" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that gaining reputation unlocks various privileges on the site. Things like being able to edit other people's posts or vote to close and reopen questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where can I see the entire list of these privileges and the reputation required to unlock them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11101" LastEditorUserId="4257" LastEditDate="2013-03-21T21:16:26.643" LastActivityDate="2013-03-21T21:17:34.880" Title="What reputation awards what privileges?" Tags="|support|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2691" CreationDate="2013-02-19T13:54:08.933" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems pretty clear that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/293/should-we-do-away-with-the-media-tags-books-novel-tv-movies-etc&quot;&gt;media tags&lt;/a&gt; should not be used in general.  Most of the use of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv-series&lt;/a&gt; seem to be in direct violation of that policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there have been subsequent &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1690/how-should-game-of-thrones-questions-tied-to-the-tv-show-be-tagged&quot;&gt;discussions&lt;/a&gt; that show support for &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; use of those tags, and that may be the source of those qualifiers on the tag wiki excerpts.  However, neither of the answers on that &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; question shows much support, and the vast majority of the questions with the tags in question seem to be using them more as &quot;I saw this one TV&quot;, rather than clarification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A quick look at questions with the tags already shows we're using them rather inconsistently.  For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/426/what-was-the-origin-of-star-treks-borg&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; uses &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv-series&lt;/a&gt;, yet explicitly indicates that it is looking for answers &lt;em&gt;outside&lt;/em&gt; of the TV shows.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some serious cleanup work is probably in order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to the general cleanup of the tag use, I'd suggest that we clarify the existing tag excerpts to read &quot;This tag is used for content originally distributed by television. It should only be used for titles that exist in multiple formats (tv, books, comics, etc.) and the question is ONLY interested in answers that address the TV version.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT: To address your comments:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In worlds outside of SE, tags are used as quick-indicators to bring you to a reference. Rules seem weird particularly here. You do want to invite guys that say, 'I watched a lot of TV, so let me gear down on that rather than be discouraged by the list in general'- hence the 'tag-ignore' features?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's precisely why media tags should not be used.  Assuming that there are people who say &quot;I am only interested in questions and answers that relate to scifi in [select one from tv/movies/books/comics/video games]&quot;, then the tags simply won't allow them to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first issue is simply that it isn't practical to tag every question with all appropriate media tags.  As Iszi explains quite well, there is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/34743/166646&quot;&gt;five tag limit&lt;/a&gt; to questions, and even if there weren't, too many tags would become counter-productive.  Imagine a question on K-9, the robotic companion from &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt;, where I want to know where/if/how he sleeps: the question could be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doctor-who&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;doctor-who&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;doctor-who&lt;/a&gt; (obvious), &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tardis&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tardis&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tardis&lt;/a&gt; (he lived in the Tardis for quite some time), &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time-travel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time-travel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time-travel&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/k-9&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;k-9&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;k-9&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comic&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/k-9-and-company&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;k-9-and-company&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;k-9-and-company&lt;/a&gt; (the proposed &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-9_and_Company&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;spin-off series&lt;/a&gt;), and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sarah-jane-adventures&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sarah-jane-adventures&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sarah-jane-adventures&lt;/a&gt; (an actual spin-off series in which K-9 was a regular character).  That's just too many.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other issue, which is more directly relevant to your question, is that what you are asking for (enforcing media tag usage so that people could use favorites/ignore to filter based upon their preferred media) simply wouldn't work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Setting aside that favorite/ignore don't actually filter (they color-code questions), the fact that so many of the topics here span multiple media makes filtering to only questions that relate to a specific medium impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's take an actual question as an example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/27923/what-happened-when-master-yoda-went-to-find-his-lightsaber-crystal&quot;&gt;What happened when Master Yoda went to find his Lightsaber crystal?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was &lt;em&gt;triggered&lt;/em&gt; by a comment made during an episode of a &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; television show.  But the &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; might be in a comic, novel, movie, television episode, video game, role playing game, trading card, or any other of the myriad of licensed &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; sources.  If the question is tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt;, and the answer was &quot;In the book &lt;em&gt;How Yoda Got His Groove Back&lt;/em&gt;, it explains that...&quot;, your hypothetical person who is only interested in TV shows would see this question in his favorite list, but it wouldn't belong there.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's really the crux of the problem: even if we could add infinite tags without any downside, a major portion of our questions would either have to have every possible media tag, including many that don't actually relate to the question or answer, or the appropriate media tags could only be determined &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the question was answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to make &quot;I want to filter based off of media tags&quot; possible, the tags would have to be used consistently for every question, and that's simply not possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;so why exactly offer the favor/ignore-tags features? For questions about broomsticks? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag system is part of the larger platform, which drives all of the stackexchange sites.  Favorite/ignore is to allow people to help people easily pick out &lt;em&gt;specific topics&lt;/em&gt; from the question feed.  In our case, &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; is a specific topic.  &lt;em&gt;Dune&lt;/em&gt; is a specific topic.  &lt;em&gt;Robots&lt;/em&gt; is a specific topic.  &lt;em&gt;Time Travel&lt;/em&gt; is a specific topic.  &lt;em&gt;Television&lt;/em&gt;, however, is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a specific topic.  Its a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags/&quot;&gt;&quot;meta&quot; tag&lt;/a&gt;, [arguably] useful only for refining searches on other, more specific topics.  That blog entry I linked does a much better job than I can of explaining the problem with meta tags.  I highly suggest it as a quick read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, the &quot;broomsticks&quot; tag has only one question, and therefore the tag will probably be removed during the automatic cleanup at some point (unless someone comes up with more &quot;broomstick&quot; questions).  It's a bit &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; specific, imo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2013-02-20T13:54:11.163" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2691" CreationDate="2013-02-19T21:10:30.817" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Beofett's assessment in general. One other thing I'd like to add:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your suggestion seems to imply that we should aggressively &lt;em&gt;enforce&lt;/em&gt; the usage of media tags, if only for the sole sake of allowing people to &lt;em&gt;ignore&lt;/em&gt; certain media tags or better track site usage. This quite potentially presents some rather tricky problems, for relatively little gain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider that I might want to ask a question about the background of a character from Star Wars, who is featured in one way or another across all of the franchise's media formats, and I want the question to be open to answers addressing any or all of the materials that character has been in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally, I'd tag it thusly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[star-wars] [character-background] [character-name]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(The character name tag, obviously, would be the actual name of the character - and I would probably only use it in the case of a particularly prominent character, e.g.: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/yoda&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;yoda&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;yoda&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/luke-skywalker&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;luke-skywalker&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;luke-skywalker&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, presuming I'm reading your suggestion correctly, you would rather I tag it like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[star-wars] [character-background] [character-name] [movie] [tv-series] [book] [video-game] [short-story]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's two problems with this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;StackExchange limits questions to five tags each.&lt;/strong&gt; This one is over that limit by three. It's not at all uncommon to have questions (appropriately) tagged with three non-media tags, which also are asking about franchises which span three or more media types. However, the five-tag limit was put in place to prevent over-tagging of questions and I would not ask (nor would I expect) StackExchange to change it even just for this site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This may trigger &quot;ignore&quot; rules for people whou &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; otherwise be interested in the subject.&lt;/strong&gt; Say someone is generally uninterested in video games, but thoroughly enjoys the other media formats. I think it's safe to say they would be interested in a question such as this - as it encompasses more formats the person is interested in than not - but they would totally miss it because they've chosen to ignore &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all, I agree that the current usage of media tags is &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; inconsistent - and more often than not superfluous. However, I believe the &lt;em&gt;appropriate&lt;/em&gt; measure to take would be to curb their usage into something that &lt;em&gt;makes sense&lt;/em&gt; rather than enforce their usage on all questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1639" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T21:10:30.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2695" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-20T14:49:54.377" Score="8" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/31975/3267&quot;&gt;a question asking a very specific question&lt;/a&gt;:  &quot;So my question is, did any of the Star Trek novels ever introduce Jewish characters or Jewish pioneering communities on other planets?&quot;  It called for a specific answer, but was closed as &quot;not a good fit.&quot;  Also, it caused 4 down-votes out of 10.  How could I have made it better?  Or was it closed because the members ignored the question and started a debate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12656" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2013-02-20T20:54:20.570" Title="How could I have asked the Jews in Star Trek question better?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2695" CreationDate="2013-02-20T15:40:25.787" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally, questions that ask &quot;did &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; ever happen in any work of &lt;em&gt;y&lt;/em&gt;?&quot; are poor fits for our platform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either the answers will be a list of different instances of &quot;it happened once here&quot;, or a single answer that simply says &quot;yes&quot; or &quot;no&quot;, neither of which are really what are considered &quot;good&quot; answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley chat room&lt;/a&gt;, though, is a great place to ask questions like that, as there's usually some people there, and I'm sure you could get some good examples pretty quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at your question a bit closer, I think it is kind of close to the line between &quot;reasonably scoped&quot; and &quot;too broad&quot;. The problem is that there are just so many novels.  This is why it was closed, and probably why it received some downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That highly scored answer, you'll notice, only addresses your question by saying &quot;yes, there are Jews in the novels&quot; (and linking a source). What makes the answer good is that it addressed something interesting that wasn't exactly what you were asking (Gene Roddenberry's deliberate exclusion of religion from the canon work).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not certain how the question could have been phrased better without changing your intent.  Please notice also that several people agree that your question covers the same general topic &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/13533/do-earth-religions-persist-in-star-trek&quot;&gt;as this question&lt;/a&gt;, so even if it were deemed a good fit for the platform, it might still be closed as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A list of &quot;what are all the instances, if any, of Jews portrayed in Star Trek?&quot; might possibly be better, but again, since you are specifically looking at the novels, that list might simply be &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Novels&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;too long&lt;/a&gt;.  The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Jew&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Memory Alpha&lt;/a&gt; link provided in the top-voted answer to your closed question lists about a dozen Jewish individuals from the novels, but the list is implied to be non-comprehensive, and a proper answer would contain a comprehensive list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, the focus you have (portrayals of Judaism in futuristic/space societies) simply seems like a poor fit for the Q&amp;amp;A format.  A much better place to ask it is our chat room, as it does seem like a discussion is the most likely outcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure there are plenty of questions relating to Judaism in Science-Fiction (there are actually many &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7971/are-jews-in-chapterhouse-dune-the-same-cultural-group-as-in-our-universe-timeli&quot;&gt;references&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/25094/what-is-the-origin-of-the-idea-that-lex-luthor-is-jewish&quot;&gt;instances&lt;/a&gt; across a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15742/is-there-any-official-confirmation-that-superman-was-meant-to-be-jewish/15744#15744&quot;&gt;multitude of works&lt;/a&gt;) that would be a good fit here.  They just have to be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32002/what-specific-influences-did-leonard-nimoy-and-william-shatners-jewish-heritage&quot;&gt;fairly specific and focused&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2013-02-20T16:33:36.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2695" CreationDate="2013-02-20T15:41:40.033" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll try to cover what we discussed in chat (starting &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8187931#8187931&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, there is an inherent problem with &quot;Did &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; ever happen in universe &lt;em&gt;y&lt;/em&gt;?&quot; type questions. They often cast &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; broad nets (especially in the case of the Star Trek universe, and particularly when you explicitly make books in-scope), and tend to not generate great answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beofett put it well, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8188066#8188066&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Either the answers will be a list of different instances of &quot;it happened once here&quot;, or &quot;yes/no&quot;, neither of which are really what are considered &quot;good&quot; answers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look around, you'll see many other similar questions which have been closed on the same ground. Keen has also stated the problem rather well, in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2639/1639&quot;&gt;another Meta thread about list questions&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In practice these questions accumulate a steady flow of &quot;me, too&quot; answers where people add a few examples in a new answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a problem because the StackExchange methodology seeks for questions to generally have one answer which is both accurate and complete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, your question &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; appear to be asking about a fairly rare case in the Star Trek universe. So, this brings it closer into the realm of what might be considered an &quot;acceptable&quot; list question. The largest scope-related problem that remains is the fact that you're asking about the &lt;em&gt;entire&lt;/em&gt; universe - particularly including the novels. This is primarily mitigated by the apparently rare occurrence of what you are seeking, but may still be considered an issue by some.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, there is another problem with the question's general quality. You are asking for examples of the occurrence of &lt;em&gt;one specific&lt;/em&gt; member (Judaism) from a &lt;em&gt;rather large group&lt;/em&gt; of things (world religions) which, without further explanation, are really all equally likely or unlikely to have (though they generally appear to not have) occurred in the given universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, if we were to compare the world's major religions objectively, Judaism is probably quite low on the list in terms of which one we would most likely expect to encounter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Christianity would probably top the list. It is the second-oldest major Abrahimic religion (only behind Judaism), and estimated to be held by over 30% of the world's population. It has had a &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; significant impact on many cultures and societies - even those where Christians are by far a minority, or the faith is forbidden.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If we were to break Christianity between Roman Catholic and Other groups, the Islam faith would then be the largest by population - followed immediately by Roman Catholics, then Other Christians. Islam has also made a significant impact in the parts of the world where it is practiced by a majority and, just as with Christianity, Judaism, and some others, it has even been (and continues to be) the subject of some wars.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hinduism is currently the largest non-Abrahimic religion by population, and is considered the most ancient of today's major religions - some even estimate it dates to prehistoric times. Its age alone should make it &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; interesting for a Sci-Fi franchise, especially one which occasionally deals with the very origins of humanity. Hinduism is estimated to be practiced by about 14% of the world's population.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;After Hinduism, atheists and other non-religious individuals make up the next-largest population in the world (around 11% total), then Buddhism (about 7%), and the numbers for individual religions drop rather dramatically from there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Judaism is estimated to be practiced only by about 0.21% of the world's population. That's 0.6% the size of Christianity overall - barely 1.25% the size of Roman Catholicism alone. While Judaism does have as rich a history and culture, if not more so, as many of the religions already named here, its minority-by-far population does not lend one to logically assume that it &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be featured (let alone before any other religion) in any particular fictional work that is not centered around the faith.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(The populations of the world's religions were taken from &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;. Other facts were taken from Wikipedia articles relevant to the subject religions.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By allowing this question, without any elaboration as to why we should expect this &lt;em&gt;one item&lt;/em&gt; to be found where even more prominent members of the &lt;em&gt;larger group&lt;/em&gt; appear to be generally absent, we're effectively inviting a slew of copycat questions like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there Christians in Star Trek?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any Buddhists?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Where is Islam in Star Trek?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Worse, this could spill over into other universes. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there Jews in Babylon 5? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is Hinduism represented in Firefly? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there any Buddhist cultures in Andromeda?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Note: I don't have much background in any of the latter three universes, so forgive me if those questions would be too obvious to even a casual fan.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of these should more appropriately be answered by first asking (though it may be counter-intuitive to the way SE &lt;em&gt;generally&lt;/em&gt; works) the broader question, &quot;Are there any real-world religions in Star Trek?&quot;. Of course, it is now worth noting that the more general question &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; already been asked, appears to have been well-accepted, and is also answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/13533/do-earth-religions-persist-in-star-trek&quot;&gt;Do Earth religions persist in Star Trek?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/13557/1639&quot;&gt;One of the answers&lt;/a&gt; even specifically addresses Judaism in novels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the question may not be a good fit for the site in general, it is still interesting. Such questions are welcome to be asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;in our chat room&lt;/a&gt;, where they may spark discussions not generally appropriate in scope or length for the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1639" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2013-02-20T20:54:20.570" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2674" CreationDate="2013-02-21T05:52:02.450" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;A number of methods:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.ca/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Google Books&lt;/a&gt;- you can specify genre, tag-words.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Google operands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  +wantthisterm -donotwantthis&#xA;  +&quot;this wording with spaces&quot;&#xA;  site:lookhere.com -site:dontlookhere.com&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a tonne, do some research.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;key-terms- 'episode-list', 'anthology'&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don't just accept what's asked- use the comment-system to get more details.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don't assume language or country of origin.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, short-stories from anthologies are &lt;em&gt;hard&lt;/em&gt; to dig-out&#xA;   unless the asker knows very, very specific details.  There's no&#xA;   comprehensive (free) search-tool for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11262" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2018-12-16T20:31:27.037" LastActivityDate="2018-12-16T20:31:27.037" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2699" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-21T19:54:33.173" Score="8" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;We now have three questions about &lt;em&gt;Star Trek's&lt;/em&gt; Captain Kirk's romantic conquests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15336/with-how-many-women-did-kirk-have-an-affair?rq=1&quot;&gt;original question&lt;/a&gt; seems to have been restricted to just the original TV series.  It made no restriction on whether the conquests were human or alien.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32051/how-many-alien-women-has-capt-admiral-kirk-slept-with#comment60845_32051&quot;&gt;more recent question&lt;/a&gt; asked specifically about &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; alien women, and included movies.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This spawned &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32057/how-many-females-has-captain-kirk-slept-with&quot;&gt;yet another version&lt;/a&gt; that looks for total women (alien and human), and is not limited to the TV show (books are clearly acceptable, but there is no mention of movies).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are these all distinct enough to stand on their own, or should some (or all three) be linked as duplicates?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2017-10-27T11:10:57.170" Title="Are multiple variations of a question with subtle distinctions duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2699" CreationDate="2013-02-21T19:58:00.707" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The spawned-off &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32057/how-many-females-has-captain-kirk-slept-with&quot;&gt;question #3&lt;/a&gt; asked by me should be closed as duplicate. I VTCed it myself and flagged for mods to merge (so my answer isn't lost). I checked that there were no dupes but somehow missed the original one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;In a more self-serving version, question #1 should be closed as a duplicate of #3, since #3 seems to be of a higher quality - it very clearly explains what is and isn't counted as opposed to generic may-be-courtship-with-no-sex-is-included &quot;affairs&quot;; and has a more complete and correct answer than either of the answers to #1. But I can easily repost my answer on #1 so I don't care much either way.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The more recent &quot;alien&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32051/how-many-alien-women-has-capt-admiral-kirk-slept-with#comment60845_32051&quot;&gt;question #2&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;should stand on its own&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question itself, as noted, is specifically asking for &quot;alien&quot; ones.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, NONE of the answers (two answers from Q#1, or my new more complete answer to Q#3) make any human/alien distinctions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, the MAIN reason for &quot;duplicate&quot; closing (that is, the answers to another question also answer this one) is not present in this case.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2013-02-21T20:08:47.067" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2699" CreationDate="2013-02-21T20:08:41.700" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the ideal situation is to have a single, comprehensive question that covers all the variations.  An ideal answer would be something along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There were 36 total romantic affairs, three of which took place in the movies (2 in the same movie!), 18 in the original TV series, one in ST:TNG (!), and 14 in various novels.  The list is as follows (aliens are denoted with a *):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To that end, I propose that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32051/how-many-alien-women-has-capt-admiral-kirk-slept-with&quot;&gt;Kevin Howell's version of the question&lt;/a&gt; be edited (with his approval, of course) to read: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How many women has Captain Kirk slept with?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's an on going punchline that Kirk banged his way across the galaxy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it actually based on fact though? In the TV series and movies, how many actual women did Kirk boldly go into with his Enterprise? (pun intended).  Please distinguish aliens from humans, for those who are curious, and also indicate which are from the TV series and which are from movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only woman I know for sure he Zap Brannigen'd was the lady who had his son.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally, I would suggest that the first question be kept, but since the OP of that question has disassociated/deleted their account, I think it appropriate to keep the reputation gains for our currently active members.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not certain whether novels should be included in that list or not; DVK's answer seems to have a pretty good source on instances within the novels, so maybe they should.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-10-27T11:10:57.170" LastActivityDate="2017-10-27T11:10:57.170" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2702" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-21T20:16:01.143" Score="7" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Town Hall Chat session with the candidates.  This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation.  Participation is completely voluntary.  I will be working with candidates to determine a time for the event.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Town Hall Chat took place Wednesday the 27th at 03:00:00Z UTC. A digest can be found &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2759/2013-moderator-election-town-hall-chat-digest&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=2&amp;amp;day=27&amp;amp;year=2013&amp;amp;hour=3&amp;amp;min=0&amp;amp;sec=0&amp;amp;p1=0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;view in other timezones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/2321/science-fiction-fantasy-town-hall-chat?tab=schedule&quot;&gt;register here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/2321/science-fiction-fantasy-town-hall-chat&quot;&gt;join the room&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the details so far:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I would like to schedule this towards the beginning of the primary phase.  This means that I am looking at the 25th-27th of February. As soon as I coordinate with the existing moderators and candidates to find a best fit based on availability, I will edit this post with details on the &quot;when&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Town Hall Chat will be a one-hour event using our &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/?tab=site&amp;amp;sort=active&amp;amp;host=scifi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;chat platform&lt;/a&gt;.  I will update this post with a direct link to the chat room once the event is scheduled.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The format will be an open discussion.  Users are encouraged to pose questions to the candidates regarding their thoughts on moderation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Priority for scheduling is generally towards the greatest number of candidate openings as well as the earliest. Candidates who cannot show up during the live event will still be able to answer all questions posted, they will just do so at their earliest convenience.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you can't make it but have questions you wish to pose to the candidates, please leave them here as a response, and I will ask it on your behalf.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After the chat session, a digest of the event will be permanently linked here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2537" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T22:38:21.447" Title="2013 Moderator Election Town Hall Chat" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2703" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-21T22:34:17.970" Score="13" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/z2DaG.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of the side-by-side markdown revision page&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the revisions page for a post here on the Meta site, if you select the 'side-by-side markdown' option to see the markdown of the changes, you get extremely low-contrast text for the changed areas, as the above shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Generated on Firefox 19.0&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit by Izkata:  This is still a problem.  Firefox 29:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hWtnZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Firefox 29 screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="2242" LastEditDate="2014-06-27T00:38:22.050" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T19:00:01.637" Title="Side-by-side Markdown edit compare on Meta is unreadable" Tags="|bug|design|meta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2704" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2705" CreationDate="2013-02-22T04:03:55.940" Score="3" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was trying to find out if it possible to sort an Unanswered questions tab by date rather than by how many votes it has had.   I thought it would be easier to identify recent questions which are still unanswered.   E.g. when I click on the Unanswered tab off the main, it seems to sort in descending number of Votes order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11508" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2013-02-22T15:48:46.497" LastActivityDate="2013-02-22T15:48:46.497" Title="Is it possible to sort an Unanswered Questions list by Date?" Tags="|support|unanswered-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2704" CreationDate="2013-02-22T05:32:47.833" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this what you're looking for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TQrv0.png&quot; alt=&quot;Newest sort&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2013-02-22T05:32:47.833" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2706" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-22T16:09:43.433" Score="8" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is some good boilerplate for a comment on a post that lacks citations or references?  When you see a post that appears to be pure conjecture, not backed up by or referencing the source material, you should make a comment.  I'm looking for a good example of a standard comment to use in this instance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2013-02-22T16:46:16.790" Title="How to comment on answers lacking citations" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|answer-quality|comments|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2702" CreationDate="2013-02-22T16:19:04.110" Score="1" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What is the threshold at which you consider something as a community imposed general (non-question-specific) policy based on Meta Q&amp;amp;A? E.g. if there is a consensus answer with +3 vote margin, do you consider it a policy? +8 vote margin? No specific threshold aside from your own opinion? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do you take into account the &quot;Leave open&quot; information from Review queue when applying moderator-binding-close-votes (as opposed to only existing close votes and flags) to obtain a more balanced picture? If such information isn't available, WOULD you have taken it into account if it was?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What is your threshold for binding-voting to close a question? &quot;I would have VTCed it if my vote wasn't binding&quot;? A critical mass of unopposed VTCs and flags? Do you consider NOT voting (and opening a meta discussion) if the comments on the question indicate a clear LACK of consensus on closing and it wasn't discussed on meta yet?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please provide an example (specific question) of a moderator action that you would have liked to have taken based on your own opinion but would refrain from taking based on meta or comments achieved community consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2013-02-22T16:19:04.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2706" CreationDate="2013-02-22T16:24:26.610" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderators can add a notice underneath a post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;citation needed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  This post does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The notice feature isn't very useful because it doesn't even notify the poster and it is limited to three canned texts (citation needed, current event and insufficient explanation). We aren't in the habit of using it in SF&amp;amp;F because we don't consider the lack of citations to be damning (unlike, say, &lt;a href=&quot;https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Skeptics&lt;/a&gt;). But you can take inspiration from the message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, maybe we can get into the habit of using the post notice sometimes. It's in the mod menu under “add post notice”, and there's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/annotated-posts&quot;&gt;mod tool to list posts with notices&lt;/a&gt;. Non-mods need to flag if they think a post notice is warranted. Note that I'm only mentioning the technical possibility here: if we start using post notices, we should have a separate meta discussion about when to use them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:46:37.330" LastActivityDate="2013-02-22T16:24:26.610" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2706" CreationDate="2013-02-22T16:46:16.790" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of challenges with this that should be considered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One is that it is often disconcerting to new users to get what they consider a reprimand on their first attempts to participate.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another is that some people will respond by saying &quot;nothing in your rules says I have to provide a citation/reference!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest something along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This answer appears to be pure conjecture. While answers based off of conjecture aren't prohibited, this particular question would be best answered using specific citations or references. Please consider updating your answer to include any factual information you can find to back up your conjecture. This will likely improve your answer, and make it more likely to be of use to other visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the user in question is new to StackExchange (&amp;lt; 101 reputation), I'd suggest a simple &quot;Hello, and welcome to the site!&quot; be prefixed to the above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2013-02-22T16:46:16.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2710" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-22T19:17:16.920" Score="12" ViewCount="274" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes a question is asked to which the answer is posted stating &quot;There is no in-universe answer&quot; (aka &quot;it's a plot hole&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such answers in and of themselves are OK in general, but as discussed in the following meta post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/957/usefulness-of-plot-hole-answers-comments&quot;&gt;Usefulness of &amp;quot;Plot hole&amp;quot; answers/comments&lt;/a&gt;  - &lt;strong&gt;they should conform to certain most minimal standards to be good answers&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Most importantly, the answer should be backed up by evidence, in the form of explanation of how the poster arrived at the conclusion &quot;There is no in-universe answer&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does not need to be anything elaborate, but this site frequently deals with large universes with multitude of works - and frequently author provided extra info; so if one simply states &quot;No answer in universe&quot;, there is no way to tell if they just opine without any basis, or if they are an expert familiar with every single work of canon as well as author commentaries. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the answer does not have incontrovertible proof that there's no in-universe evidence (e.g., an author admitting that; or showing what sources you exaustively searched to confirm), it should not be posted in haste, within a couple of days of the question being posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will allow people who are experts in the canon to research the question properly and hopefully come up with an in-universe answer. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that many/most people on the site are mostly interested in canon/in-universe answers. The  &quot;it's a plot hole&quot; one is simply too obvious to be of any interest to anyone, unless elaborated with good cites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is some good boilerplate for a comment on a post that violates the rules above?&lt;/strong&gt; Namely, is posted in haste before in-universe answers can be researched and posted; and/or lacks citations or references or any work shown that would provide evidence that in-universe answer isn't in existence? Ideally, the comment would make reference to above meta post and provide concise reasoning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'm looking for a good example of a standard comment to use in this instance.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NOTE: This is different from generic &quot;please provide citations&quot; comments on generic answers; because we do NOT have a general policy requiring citations on SFF, whereas we have a well accepted policy outlined in the answers in the linked meta questions for the &quot;It's a plot hole&quot; answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;P.S. Obviously the above does NOT apply to rare questions where the poster clearly stated that they do NOT seek in-universe answers - but such questions are not a rule here.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2017-02-27T14:08:32.440" Title="How to comment on &quot;There is no in-universe answer&quot;/&quot;plot hole&quot; answers lacking any evidence?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|answer-quality|comments|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2711" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-22T19:31:32.193" Score="8" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based upon &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2691/tag-disclaimer-it-should-only-be-used-when-not-immediately-clear&quot;&gt;this meta discussion&lt;/a&gt;, it seems there's a fairly decent consensus that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv-series&lt;/a&gt; have not been used consistently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Original discussion supported the idea that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/293/should-we-do-away-with-the-media-tags-books-novel-tv-movies-etc&quot;&gt;media tags&lt;/a&gt; are bad in general, but there might be some specific uses for some of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later discussion had &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1690/how-should-game-of-thrones-questions-tied-to-the-tv-show-be-tagged&quot;&gt;some support for specific uses&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt;, and its synonym, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv-series&lt;/a&gt;, appear to have been used to mean everything from &quot;I'm only interested in answers relating to this title on TV (i.e. no answers from books/movies/comics)&quot; to &quot;I once saw this movie on TV&quot; to &quot;I have a question about something that is on TV, but I'm also interested in answers that come from books/movies/video games/comics&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest we remove &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt; from any question that is clearly &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; using that tag to exclude other media (i.e. any question that clearly is open to answers from other media, including movies shown on TV; any question that is on a title where TV is already implicit, such as &lt;em&gt;Babylon-5&lt;/em&gt;; or where a tag to exclude non-tv sources would simply not make sense).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per a &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/conversation/tv-tag-cleanup&quot;&gt;suggestion from Keen&lt;/a&gt;, I'd like to first compile a list of all questions we think should be cleaned up.  Please feel free to add to this list as you see fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2013-03-29T18:39:17.230" Title="TV and TV Series Tag Cleanup" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2711" CreationDate="2013-02-22T19:37:32.410" Score="3" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/14151/how-did-the-suryanshi-come-to-know-about-death-of-maha-guru-faster-than-shakti&quot;&gt;How did the Suryanshi come to know about death of &amp;quot;Maha Guru&amp;quot; faster than Shaktimaan?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/942/completion-of-dark-angel-storyline&quot;&gt;Completion of &amp;quot;Dark Angel&amp;quot; storyline?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7009/why-doesnt-rogue-have-super-strength-and-the-ability-to-fly&quot;&gt;Why doesn&amp;#39;t Rogue have super strength and the ability to fly?&lt;/a&gt; (the accepted answer contains information from films and comics)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/29311/why-did-ambassador-jeffrey-sinclair-not-want-garibaldi-to-join-him-and-others-on&quot;&gt;Why did Ambassador Jeffrey Sinclair not want Garibaldi to join him and others on War Without End mission?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/29328/why-did-merlin-not-heal-his-fatigue-with-magic&quot;&gt;Why did Merlin not heal his fatigue with magic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/11079/why-was-the-supermans-symbol-an-english-letter-s&quot;&gt;Why was the Superman&amp;#39;s symbol an *English* letter &amp;quot;S&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; (this is tagged dc-comics as well, so it does not appear to be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt; to eliminate other media).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/16479/what-do-the-flashs-earpiece-emblems-do&quot;&gt;What do The Flash&amp;#39;s earpiece emblems do?&lt;/a&gt; (same as previous)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28668/who-or-what-sent-the-orb-back-in-time-in-brisco-county-jr&quot;&gt;Who or what sent the Orb back in time in &amp;quot;Brisco County Jr.&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9845/is-time-travel-in-star-trek-enterprise-totally-illogical&quot;&gt;Is Time travel in &amp;quot;Star Trek: Enterprise&amp;quot; totally illogical?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20693/who-else-was-at-hawkmans-funeral-besides-the-five-speaking-characters&quot;&gt;Who else was at Hawkman&amp;#39;s funeral besides the five speaking characters?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/778/who-are-blakess-7&quot;&gt;Who are Blakes&amp;#39;s 7?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/13530/what-was-the-purpose-of-what-happened-to-trip-in-the-last-episode&quot;&gt;What was the purpose of what happened to Trip in the last episode?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/26377/why-did-major-nelson-need-to-hide-jeannie-from-dr-bellows&quot;&gt;Why did Major Nelson need to hide Jeannie from Dr. Bellows?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/25136/how-could-the-picard-maneuver-confuse-sensors-from-the-warp-era&quot;&gt;How could the Picard Maneuver confuse sensors from the Warp Era?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/597/what-was-the-robots-name-in-lost-in-space&quot;&gt;What was the robot&amp;#39;s name in &amp;quot;Lost in Space&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/11391/in-supernatural-why-do-the-brothers-not-give-more-people-anti-possesion-tattoos&quot;&gt;In Supernatural, why do the brothers not give more people anti-possesion tattoos?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/166/what-was-shepherd-books-past-in-firefly&quot;&gt;What was Shepherd Book&amp;#39;s past in Firefly?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/23567/witchblade-watch-the-film-before-the-tv-series&quot;&gt;Witchblade - watch the film before the TV series?&lt;/a&gt; (I'm somewhat undecided about this one...)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22346/how-did-sweet-the-demon-lose&quot;&gt;How did Sweet the demon lose?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/23080/why-were-ferengi-unknown-to-24th-century-starfleet&quot;&gt;Why were Ferengi unknown to 24th century Starfleet?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22355/why-didnt-the-earth-vulcan-battle-cruisers-engage-the-xindi-superweapon-and-r&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t the Earth &amp;amp; Vulcan battle cruisers engage the Xindi SuperWeapon and Reptilian ship?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/17354/how-did-the-borg-come-to-know-about-earth&quot;&gt;How did the Borg come to know about Earth?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22069/how-did-the-sphere-builders-build-the-spheres&quot;&gt;How did the Sphere Builders build the Spheres?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1205/what-is-the-law-regarding-magic-in-the-bbc-tv-show-merlin&quot;&gt;What is the law regarding magic in the BBC TV show Merlin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/21811/why-was-command-of-uss-enterprise-ncc-1701-given-to-christopher-pike-from-kirk&quot;&gt;Why was command of USS Enterprise NCC-1701 given to Christopher Pike from Kirk?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1767/were-there-multiple-resistance-groups-in-this-is-not-my-life-or-just-one&quot;&gt;Were there multiple resistance groups in This is Not My Life, or just one?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15921/shouldnt-terrys-younger-brother-have-the-same-genetic-traits-as-him&quot;&gt;Shouldn&amp;#39;t Terry&amp;#39;s younger brother have the same genetic traits as him?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/17196/how-safe-is-a-person-from-evil-spirits-if-he-is-at-sea-or-on-a-salt-lake&quot;&gt;How safe is a person from evil spirits if he is at sea or on a salt lake?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12363/does-lois-lane-know-who-superman-is-in-any-versions-or-reboots&quot;&gt;Does Lois Lane Know Who Superman Is (In Any Versions or Reboots)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12617/when-was-supermans-first-use-of-heat-vision&quot;&gt;When was Superman&amp;#39;s first use of heat-vision?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20727/david-lister-is-the-last-human-being-in-the-universe-what-happened-to-the-rest&quot;&gt;David Lister is the last human being in the Universe. What happened to the rest of the human race?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20628/suggested-starting-place-for-ghost-in-the-shell&quot;&gt;Suggested starting place for Ghost in the Shell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20566/what-was-sarah-bartowskis-nee-walker-birth-name&quot;&gt;What was Sarah Bartowski&amp;#39;s nee Walker birth name&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4879/was-number-6-john-drake&quot;&gt;Was Number 6 John Drake?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20225/what-was-the-point-of-trying-to-escape-after-first-contact-with-q&quot;&gt;What was the point of trying to escape after first contact with Q?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9480/in-star-trek-enterprise-why-did-the-repair-station-kidnap-mayweather-for-brain&quot;&gt;In Star Trek: Enterprise, why did the repair station kidnap Mayweather for brain-based processing?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/18582/who-was-behind-the-r3s6-droid-from-the-republics-side&quot;&gt;Who was behind the R3S6 droid from the Republic&amp;#39;s side?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1966/lost-the-island-protection&quot;&gt;Why, and how, was the island protected in Lost?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/18685/what-is-sonic-the-hedgehogs-maximum-running-speed&quot;&gt;What is Sonic the Hedgehog&amp;#39;s maximum running speed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/18234/how-many-times-did-mom-and-the-professor-actually-date&quot;&gt;How many times did Mom and the Professor actually date?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA; - &#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2013-03-29T18:39:17.230" CommentCount="7" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-02-22T20:23:56.067" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2710" CreationDate="2013-02-23T08:47:46.043" Score="-9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firstly not everyone reads every meta question and answer. You cannot expect or enforce guidelines in answers to meta questions unless they have been transferred to the FAQ, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, Stack Exchange FAQs seem to be loosely worded in order to allow for a range of expression in questions and answers and it is the voting process that determines the actual 'quality' of an individual question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thirdly, posting a rude 'you know nothing/you can't prove this' comment does not help in any way. There is no requirement to list your sources/knowledge/expertise (although it does help) and we should be acting on good faith in such situations not attacking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fourthly a rapid negative response to an answer, that can only be edited or deleted, not delayed or postponed also doesn't help, especially when most users don't go back and remove their comments after an edit to what their commenting on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, high reputation users should be held to a higher standard, serial downvoting, harassing, and being continually rude, just because someone questioned the usefulness of a question is bad behaviour that should have been gotten over with the long experience of a high rep user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, be patient and kind, and don't comment until an answer has had a chance to be thought on by the poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11295" LastActivityDate="2013-02-23T08:47:46.043" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2716" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2719" CreationDate="2013-02-23T17:19:29.667" Score="6" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You cannot expect or enforce guidelines in answers to meta questions unless they have been transferred to the FAQ, etc. (from a response to a question asking how to communicate one of such guidelines via comments).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is this an official policy of SE or SFF that no matter how clear the consensus is on a meta discussion (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/957/usefulness-of-plot-hole-answers-comments&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; ), they are grounds to be completely ignored unless they are added to FAQ?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is there a yes/no policy on whether such guidelines should not be communicated in any way, shape or form to people who violate them?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or do they still constitute the site policy, and therefore should be reasonably expected to be adhered to and are fine to be communicate to people who violate them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2013-02-24T00:50:25.697" Title="Are clear-consensus meta discussions completely irrelevant unless they are in FAQ?" Tags="|discussion|site-faq|policy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2717" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-23T17:23:29.900" Score="1" ViewCount="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there is an existing meta discussion with clear results, what are the requirements for it to be added to the site FAQ, both substance wise and procedure wise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should they be added as answers here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/549/what-should-our-faq-contain?rq=1&quot;&gt;What should our FAQ contain?&lt;/a&gt; ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should a new meta question be raised (meta-meta?) asking if a given meta question should be in the FAQ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the existing meta question be flagged for moderators?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2013-02-23T17:23:29.900" Title="What is the process by which a specific already-discussed policy gets added to site FAQ?" Tags="|discussion|site-faq|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2013-02-23T20:43:55.513" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="549" CreationDate="2013-02-23T23:33:17.427" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/957/usefulness-of-plot-hole-answers-comments&quot;&gt;Usefulness of &amp;quot;Plot hole&amp;quot; answers/comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The meta question has 2 well-recieved answers (with similar high level content), one at +11 votes and one at +10 votes, over a period of over a year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Short version:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Usually, in-universe answers are preferable to &quot;no info in canon&quot; or &quot;plot hole&quot; answers.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bare &quot;plot hole&quot; answers are obvious and usually interesting to either OPs or other users, unless the answer contains unobvious information.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In larger universes, it's more likely than not that what seems like a &quot;obvious plot hole&quot; has actually been explained/retconned/addressed elsewhere in the univers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most users are on SFF to discuss &lt;strong&gt;in-universe&lt;/strong&gt; stuff.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;However, good &quot;no info in canon&quot; or &quot;plot hole&quot; are definitely allowed and in scope. In order for such an answer to be a &lt;strong&gt;good&lt;/strong&gt; answer, it should fit one of the following:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question explicitly asked for out-of-universe reason.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You have incontestable proof (e.g. admission from author themselves).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Explain how the answer &quot;no info&quot; was researched, in detail. Research should be exaustive for larger canon/universes, and clearly indicate what you did and didn't check (e.g. did you check JKR interviews for Harry Potter or only go from memory of reading 7 books? Did you check EU books for Star Wars if the question wasn't limited to G-canon? Did you check ST Technical Manual for Star Trek?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Preferably, &quot;plot hole&quot; answers should be posted after a certain timeout period (couple of days) unless it satisfies one of the conditions above.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long version explained in detail in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/957/usefulness-of-plot-hole-answers-comments&quot;&gt;linked Meta&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2013-02-23T23:33:17.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2716" CreationDate="2013-02-24T00:50:25.697" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Uh, no. I don't know where that quote is from, but it's bogus. If there's a meta thread that shows consensus on an issue, and it doesn't contradict an SE policy¹, you can take it as a site-wide policy. What is linked from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;site FAQ&lt;/a&gt; is the most important stuff that new visitors should be aware of, and what is tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; on Meta is less important stuff that comes up often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All meta discussions are to be taken into account whether consensual of not. If there's a near-consensus, you can treat them as policy, in that for example moderators will act on them. If there's no consensus, they are still relevant in that they show arguments that have been made on a particular issue, and they may be updated to deal with a new example of that issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing that does distinguish most meta threads from policies is that just because an answer has a lot of upvotes doesn't mean every word of it is policy. Upvotes show agreement with the general trend of an answer, but not necessarily with every detail. Going with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/957/usefulness-of-plot-hole-answers-comments&quot;&gt;the example in your question&lt;/a&gt;, I would say that “It's NOT OK to say that &quot;any answer of a 'bad writing'/'plot hole' type&quot; is a bad/inappropriate/offtopic answer” is a generally agreed-upon policy, but the specific delay of “2-3 weeks” is not policy. Mind you, that particular issue isn't really conducive do policies, since it's mostly about answer quality which is decided by voting, and voting is a personal choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2013-02-24T00:50:25.697" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2720" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-24T08:52:51.657" Score="1" ViewCount="335" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ever since I downvoted &lt;strong&gt;one&lt;/strong&gt; of DVK's questions and voted to close I've been harassed pretty much non stop. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First it was serial downvoting in an attempt to get me to retaliate. (see reputation changes for myself and DVK on Feb 19)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, every answer I make gets either a bunch of rude comments or starts a debate on meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31931/is-there-a-canon-explanation-for-why-star-trek-ships-bank-when-turning/31960#31960&quot;&gt;Is there a canon explanation for why Star Trek ships bank when turning?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2710/how-to-comment-on-there-is-no-in-universe-answer-plot-hole-answers-lacking-a&quot;&gt;How to comment on &amp;quot;There is no in-universe answer&amp;quot;/&amp;quot;plot hole&amp;quot; answers lacking any evidence?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2716/are-clear-consensus-meta-discussions-completely-irrelevant-unless-they-are-in-fa&quot;&gt;Are clear-consensus meta discussions completely irrelevant unless they are in FAQ?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this was a workplace I'd be talking to the HR department at this point because this is unacceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only option on Stack sites is to inform moderators - which doesn't work because DVK is a high rep user and thus my opinion is irrelevant&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or I can start a meta discussion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or I can just delete my account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11295" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2013-02-24T20:54:53.443" Title="Should I delete my account due to harassment from a high-rep user?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2720" CreationDate="2013-02-24T11:26:09.660" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to answer this in generalities, to avoid sharing any confidential information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you believe you are a victim of some form of abuse from any user, the correct thing to do is to bring it to a mod's attention. It doesn't matter what the reputation of the user is. There is a reason why moderators have some privileges that even the highest users don't have. This is one of such reasons. It has happened before that the highest-reputation user of a site was temporarily banned. It has happened before that a &lt;em&gt;moderator&lt;/em&gt; was banned. So don't hesitate to flag rude behavior or rules violations, no matter who the user is (you might prefer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/help/other&quot;&gt;contact Stack Exchange staff&lt;/a&gt; if a moderator is involved, but other than such exceptional cases, such issues are handled by site moderators).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Serial downvoting is against Stack Exchange policy. Moderators have tools to detect such, and can bring it to the attention of the Stack Exchange employees, who can nullify the votes. In addition, there are scripts that can automatically detect serial downvoting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta discussions on the subject might work, but for something like this, you are better off either catching a mod's attention in chat (They can open up a private room), or simply flag an example of what you believe is abuse, and mention that there are repeated examples. You can also contact the stack exchange staff directly via the &quot;Contact Us&quot; site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll add this in for completion as well. If you ever have a major issue with a moderator, then your best bet is to contact stack exchange directly. This is only if you believe they are harassing you, or other similar, and should not be used for where you dispute a policy they are enforcing, which should be posted on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2013-02-24T20:08:57.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2722" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-24T11:39:25.550" Score="7" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a few examples of things where there is white text on white backgrounds on Meta, and just thought I'd show a few screenshots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q3pb4.png&quot; alt=&quot;Moderator info on a user&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zaqaY.png&quot; alt=&quot;Favorite questions&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mQ0k8.png&quot; alt=&quot;Favorite question plus dropdown&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Under a user page, the Favorites tab.  Any newly-favorited (since the last time you viewed the Favorites tab) questions are like this.  Same happens for the other tabs on the user page:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4QoKz.png&quot; alt=&quot;User page-&amp;gt; Favorites&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Links in spoiler tag blocks are a dark brown on the dark gray background of the spoiler block. As seen &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3115/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The list of Responses on Meta display a light text on white background, but it seems they only display that way on &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; responses*:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/29VtU.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;User Page-&amp;gt; Responses (new)&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NlVor.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;User Page-&amp;gt; Responses (new)(highlighted)&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dates of events in timelines (&lt;code&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/posts/$ID/timeline&lt;/code&gt;) is in light gray over light gray.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uTszK.png&quot; alt=&quot;Timeline&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2013-11-07T23:05:40.130" Title="Same color text/background still ocassionally on Meta" Tags="|bug|design|meta|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2702" CreationDate="2013-02-24T11:44:47.247" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;A high reputation user was accused of harassing a lower ranking user. What do you do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-02-24T11:44:47.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2720" CreationDate="2013-02-24T15:30:36.807" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I was a new user &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1122/who-do-i-contact-about-concerns-i-have-regarding-moderation?rq=1&quot;&gt;I had some concerns about propriety&lt;/a&gt; and I didn't know what to do about it, hence my meta post. &lt;strong&gt;Gilles&lt;/strong&gt; was able to talk to me privately about my concerns and I came out of that conversation feeling informed and ready to continue participating. It's not clear from your question whether you've tried to speak with a moderator or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/strong&gt; is correct -- moderators have privileges that users do not, no matter the reputation of a given user. At its core, reputation is merely a measurement of 1) participation, 2) knowledge of canon(s), and 3) the ability of a user to ask and answer questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pearsonartphoto&lt;/strong&gt; also makes an important point when he notes that some of the highest rep users have been duly disciplined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last summer I was concerned I had a serial downvoter. An &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2174/who-is-the-community-liaison-for-sff-from-se?rq=1&quot;&gt;SE community liaison&lt;/a&gt; looked into it for me, and guess what? I was totally wrong. I did &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; have a serial downvoter. The scripts SE runs, looking for serial downvoting, are pretty consistent -- they catch &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2364/when-should-i-be-worried-about-rep-increases?rq=1&quot;&gt;serial upvoting&lt;/a&gt;, too (and strip points accordingly):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TCDrJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Serial Upvoting - a Slytherin&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I don't have a screenshot of the reversal, sorry.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think there's anything wrong with a user's answer spawning a meta question. Surely not &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; answer you've ever given on SFF.se has resulted in a meta question? I mean, you've waded into meta with this very question, where you call out a specific user. If meta spawning from your questions isn't okay, do you think this is? I'm &lt;em&gt;asking&lt;/em&gt;, not making a judgment statement. But I think it's important to think about what the purpose of meta is -- I do understand the feeling of not knowing where to go or who to ask about a problem -- I get that, I do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A user always has the choice to delete their account, for whatever reason. Only you can decide whether that's the right decision for you. Personally, I tend to believe that things usually work themselves out in the end. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2013-02-24T15:35:51.410" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2668" CreationDate="2013-02-24T18:49:11.997" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe questions that are &lt;em&gt;assumed&lt;/em&gt; to be plot holes (or canon inconsistencies) should be closed. Sometimes there are indeed plot holes where the author has been a bit lax with their canon, but there's a difference between a plot hole and canon information that is simply not known, or the author directly contradicts their own canon between what is written or scripted and what they say. But sometimes an author or screenwriter, etc, will &lt;em&gt;clarify&lt;/em&gt; their canon information, or a user digs up information, more than 1-2 days after a &lt;em&gt;perfectly good&lt;/em&gt; question is asked. For example, it only took me about 20 minutes to find the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7555/could-the-sorting-hat-have-told-dumbledore-that-harry-was-a-horcrux&quot;&gt;Could the Sorting Hat have told Dumbledore that Harry was a Horcrux?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6853/what-plot-points-are-missing-in-the-harry-potter-movies-that-are-in-the-novels/6862#6862&quot;&gt;What plot points are missing in the &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; movies that are in the novels?&amp;#185;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/24950/is-ginny-weasley-considered-a-temporary-horcrux?rq=1&quot;&gt;Is Ginny Weasley considered a temporary Horcrux?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7953/why-couldnt-harry-destroy-the-horcruxes-with-his-bare-hands&quot;&gt;Why couldn't Harry destroy the Horcruxes with his bare hands?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8659/why-didnt-the-basilisk-bite-in-book-two-destroy-the-horcrux?rq=1&quot;&gt;Why didn't the Basilisk bite in book two destroy the Horcrux?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/23506/how-would-the-elixir-of-life-have-given-voldemort-a-body/23508#23508&quot;&gt;How would the Elixir of Life have given Voldemort a body?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/13074/in-the-harry-potter-universe-is-there-any-mention-of-just-how-many-pure-blood-fa/27155#27155&quot;&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; universe, is there mention of just how many pureblood families there are?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6150/was-salazar-slytherin-a-dark-wizard&quot;&gt;Was Salazar Slytherin a dark wizard?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7235/do-students-ever-get-sorted-into-houses-other-than-what-their-family-is-in/7238#7238&quot;&gt;Were students ever Sorted to houses other than what their family is in?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4663/did-harry-potter-ever-get-food-for-his-birthday?rq=1&quot;&gt;Did Harry Potter ever get food for his birthday?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of the above questions have examples of answers where a user either came back to the question after much time had elapsed with a canon-based answer, or an answer was posted quite a while after the question was originally asked. I really think it would be a shame if we were to preclude good information from coming onto the site simply because the question isn't answered in 1-2 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Downvote&lt;/strong&gt; if you feel the question is inappropriate for whatever reason. It's for reasons like this that we have a voting system at SE to begin with.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#185;&lt;sub&gt;SFF.se, the site, was around (SFF.se opened on 1-11-11) before &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Parts I and II&lt;/em&gt; were released -- should this question have been closed because these two movies had not yet been released? If it had, it would have kept users from comparing the plot points in the book to the plot points in the movies, and further answering the question. I would say that the question should not have been closed.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2013-02-24T18:49:11.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2720" CreationDate="2013-02-24T20:53:05.923" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, first off: you should delete your account if you want to relinquish control over everything you've posted, wish see it all anonymized and disassociated, and don't wish to have any of the privileges here that your reputation grants you. Because that's what deletion actually &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt;. If you just want to stop using the site, closing this browser window is a much more expedient way to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moving on, I'm saddened to see this is still happening. Last I heard, you'd both been bickering here on Meta, resulting in moderators having to delete several nonconstructive comments and the invalidation of a fair number of down-votes. Votes which, I should note, went both directions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;A bunch of rude comments&quot; turns out to be about 7 comments out of 40 or so posted elsewhere. In one case DVK was chided &lt;em&gt;publicly&lt;/em&gt; by a moderator for being rude, which seems to work against your argument that mods won't say anything to high-rep users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's absolutely nothing wrong with bringing a disagreement here to Meta for resolution; that's one of the purposes that Meta is here to serve. It's generally considered impolite to &quot;call someone out&quot;, but if you feel your behavior is being discussed behind your back then that's a valid concern - meta discussions relevant to a specific post elsewhere &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; have a link in the comment discussion there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, I think you've both been a bit too passive-aggressive about this whole thing. DVK didn't need to take offense in the first place, you didn't need to retaliate, both of you should've just dropped it after being warned the first time instead of swapping roles and starting over again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest you get a nice hot cup of tea, relax a bit, and then jump into chat and try to work out whatever's bugging you. Invite a moderator in to moderate if need-be. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then get back to actually discussing these topics honestly instead of using them or interpreting them as thinly-veiled attacks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastActivityDate="2013-02-24T20:53:05.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2727" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-24T22:41:25.033" Score="4" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my inbox, it says there are 2 answers to this question, but when I go to the question, there's only one answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UVTzw.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot showing discrepancy between inbox and question page&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd guess this is a quirk of the 5 minute grace period, where instead of a user editing their answer in the first 5 minutes they instead deleted it.  If so, I find it pretty odd that doing so completely deletes the answer, there's no deleted answer on this post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2013-02-24T23:27:18.707" Title="Inbox shows more answers than were posted" Tags="|bug|answers|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2729" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-24T23:43:09.370" Score="14" ViewCount="605" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eLAVp.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eLAVp.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is this? Should I be able to recognize it, or elements of it? I'm not half-bad at the science fiction and fantasy trivia thing, and this is just driving me nuts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7603" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2019-12-09T16:05:29.607" LastActivityDate="2019-12-09T16:05:29.607" Title="What does the SFF.SE logo/icon mean?" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2733" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-26T17:47:31.617" Score="11" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question about &quot;A Christmas Carol&quot; by Charles Dickens.  On one hand this story seems to clearly be a fantasy story, what with the ghosts and time travel and all.  But on the other hand we do not have a &lt;code&gt;literature&lt;/code&gt; tag and I do not recall having seen past questions dealing with classic literature.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is mainly about &quot;A Christmas Carol&quot; but I am also interested in the general policy toward other books of classic literature (e.g., Frankenstein, A Picture of Dorian Gray, Metamorphosis, etc...)? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3180" LastActivityDate="2013-02-26T18:26:48.720" Title="Are stories from classic literature on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2733" CreationDate="2013-02-26T18:08:46.163" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've got &quot;My Little Pony&quot; questions that are considered on-topic, so it isn't like we're trying to maintain some kind of high bar for what works are allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say go for it and I'll be happy to throw in with you if someone votes to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5424" LastActivityDate="2013-02-26T18:08:46.163" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2733" CreationDate="2013-02-26T18:26:48.720" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.  I've asked questions on &lt;em&gt;MacBeth&lt;/em&gt; and a few others.  It's on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2013-02-26T18:26:48.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2736" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2739" CreationDate="2013-02-26T23:01:15.343" Score="9" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just rejected a Suggested Edit for a tag wiki, for copied content.  The issue, and source of my question, is that it was copied from gaming.SE's tag wiki for the game.  Looking &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;at the copyright license&lt;/a&gt; that SE sites are under indicates they require attribution when copying content.  The edit didn't have attribution, but it is also on a SE site, so it's copying content from themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a copyright violation, or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2013-02-27T02:11:38.483" Title="How does copyright between SE sites work?" Tags="|support|tag-wiki|suggested-edit|copyright|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2736" CreationDate="2013-02-26T23:06:21.190" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whatever the legal requirements, I think there is a moral obligation to attribute the source, even under these circumstances. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I think users should be encouraged to write content in their own words, and, hopefully, enforcing the attribution will encourage them to do so rather than admitting &quot;stolen from [here]&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2013-02-27T00:07:43.470" LastActivityDate="2013-02-27T00:07:43.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2736" CreationDate="2013-02-27T00:06:06.407" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/3267/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2737/883&quot;&gt;points out&lt;/a&gt;, you have a moral obligation to attribute the source of your cross-source. However, it's more than just a moral obligation, it's also a &lt;em&gt;requirement&lt;/em&gt; of the CC-BY-SA. (look at the bottom right of every single SE page for the square logo and a link to the appropriate CC terms).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no mechanical enforcement, but that's where community moderation comes into play. In a perfect world nobody would copy without providing source, of course ;-) This applies to all content, anywhere, anytime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, as a site policy, it needs to be established that if you cross-copy content from &lt;em&gt;anywhere&lt;/em&gt;, and you don't reword it into your own words, then you must cite the source. If you don't, then you've just committed plagiarism and that's bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The habit I get into is using the quote function of the post editor and providing the URL at the end of my quote. That way everyone can tell that I intend this text to be set off from all the rest of my post, and nobody is confused as to what I mean. An example follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;You are free:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;to Share&lt;/strong&gt; — to copy, distribute and transmit the work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;to Remix&lt;/strong&gt; — to adapt the work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;to make commercial use of the work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Under the following conditions:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Attribution&lt;/strong&gt; — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).&#xA;  ....&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="883" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2013-02-27T00:06:06.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2736" CreationDate="2013-02-27T00:07:18.637" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, this is a copyright violation. The holder of the copyright is the author of the content, not Stack Exchange. Stack Exchange is only redistributing content which they have a right to redistribute but do not own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/legal#3SubscriberContent&quot;&gt;You agree that all Subscriber Content that You contribute to the Network is perpetually and irrevocably licensed to Stack Exchange under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All user content is licensed &lt;em&gt;to&lt;/em&gt; SE by its author with a license (CC BY-SA) that requires attribution, and is licensed &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; SE to site viewers under that same license.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think of it this way: if I copy your answer without attribution, is it ok as long as I'm only using your work in another Stack Exchange answer? No? Well then. Copyright law does protect you here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now in practice, this isn't a big deal. There is no visible author attribution for a tag wiki (unlike for questions and answers where the main author is prominently visible when viewing the post normally). So you don't have to clutter the tag wiki with an author attribution just to credit Stack Exchange contributors. It would be acceptable to have the attribution in the edit comment, which is visible whenever one views the list of authors of the tag wiki (viz, the tag wiki's revision history).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In principle, you should credit all authors and link to their Arqade profile. In practice, when do that, I tend to only leave a link to the original tag wiki, which is a lot simpler. This is technically wrong because the other tag could be deleted, or the tag wiki could be included in a dump that doesn't include the original site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a problem for the initial content because you can't have an edit comment. Make some cosmetic edit and write a comment on the second revision, I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's actually rare that the same tag wiki is appropriate on two sites. Different communities tend to require different information. Often, the other site's content is a good source of information but needs to be both filtered for community relevance and expanded for community relevance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2013-02-27T00:07:18.637" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2736" CreationDate="2013-02-27T00:12:06.883" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not a novel, it's a short paragraph that, if we're lucky, has reasonable grammar, punctuation, and decently summarizes the topic. I reject all claims of copyright on those I've &quot;authored&quot;. They are public domain, and anyone is free to re-use them. Please, if they're good enough to use on another SE site, go for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7603" LastActivityDate="2013-02-27T00:12:06.883" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2702" CreationDate="2013-02-27T01:30:38.877" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A genie grants you a wish: you may change one site policy (e.g. make a type of question on/off topic, change some tagging habits, …) (SE policies remain). What is your wish?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2013-02-27T01:30:38.877" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2702" CreationDate="2013-02-27T01:49:55.067" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the last SF book you read? How long ago?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2013-02-27T01:49:55.067" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2736" CreationDate="2013-02-27T02:11:38.483" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will answer &lt;strong&gt;slightly&lt;/strong&gt; off-topic, since there's nothing much to add on-topic to existing excellent answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leaving aside the issue of copyright and attribution, if you are literally copy/pasting the content of tag wiki from one site to another, &lt;strong&gt;your tag wiki content is likely wrong!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because tag wiki content is meant to clearly explain not simply what the term means (heck, we can point to Wikipedia for that on most tags), &lt;strong&gt;but to explain what kinds of questions should be tagged with this tag, and what is the relationship of this topic to SFF site&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I admittedly don't always follow this guidline for my tag wiki posts, here is an example of &lt;strong&gt;SFF-specific&lt;/strong&gt; tag Wikis:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/midsummer-nights-dream/info&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/midsummer-nights-dream/info&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/29292/created-shakespeare-description&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/29292/created-shakespeare-description&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/29260/created-2012-description&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/29260/created-2012-description&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag can be used for 2 distinct purposes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;More specifically, for questions related to the movie &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;2012&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; released in 2009.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Generally, for questions related to any events happening in SFF works in the year 2012 A.D.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This year is not infrequently mentioned in SFF, due to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;end-of-the-world-in-2012-12-21--due-to-Mayan-calendar-ending-in-2012 predictions&lt;/a&gt; (the above movie obviously is based on the same idea).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &amp;quot;Mayan End of the World&amp;quot; is not the only possible topic related to 2012. For example, 2012 features in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.salon.com/2012/08/05/science_fictions_2012_salpart/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a series of essays/letters written in 1987 by famous SciFi writers at the request of L. Ron Hubbard&lt;/a&gt; about the world in 2012.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2013-02-27T02:11:38.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="671" CreationDate="2013-02-27T04:53:40.403" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Current standard practice or not, yes, I'd like to see this happen. My argument for is that if I subscribe to an author's tag, it's because I am interested in seeing discussion about the author and their works. I'd like to know what others are saying about them, what is sticking out to other readers (what one person remembers might be different from what I remembered; what struck them powerfully might be different from my own interaction with the work). I'm following an author tag because I am a fan, and even though an answer might be accepted, if I am a knowledgeable fan of that author, I might be able to contribute to the question/answer through comments or provide an even better answer :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8530" LastActivityDate="2013-02-27T04:53:40.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2746" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-27T18:50:32.333" Score="6" ViewCount="2077" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mac OSX, 10.7.4. Running Chrome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gKtTn.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, my bold text is... not very bold. There &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a little difference though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Happens to me in SciFi.SE only. SO is fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tested with Safari, and it actually works, so perhaps it is a Chrome problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;User &lt;em&gt;phantom42&lt;/em&gt; provided a good comparison of Chrome (top) and Firefox (bottom) on OSX:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/P1tcs.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1660" LastEditorUserId="1660" LastEditDate="2013-03-26T14:47:21.617" LastActivityDate="2013-03-26T14:47:21.617" Title="Why is my bold text not quite bold in Chrome, OSX?" Tags="|support|bug|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2747" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2748" CreationDate="2013-02-28T04:12:32.217" Score="8" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some questions, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32338/what-would-have-happened-if-a-younger-student-had-gotten-his-name-in-the-goblet&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; (until I edited it), have abbreviations in it that those 'in the know' would know what they refer to (for example, 'st:tng'). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A possible concern would be: if this site is to be searchable from the outside (e.g.,  'Google'), or internal search-fields, do such abbreviations 'stunt' some of this site's use as a reference?  The question is, should this be discouraged- or even just a target for edits without calling them out?  Or is this somehow back-end solved with the tag feature  (ie, search-engines see 'star-trek-tng' as 'star trek: the next generation')?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question I linked-to did not have 'Goblet of Fire' spelled-out anywhere in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are others I found; but they're easy to find, I felt no need to directly ruffle-feathers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11262" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2016-01-05T03:32:57.240" Title="Abbreviations in question-titles, okay?" Tags="|discussion|title|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2747" CreationDate="2013-02-28T08:34:33.357" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;In such cases, please edit the question to have no abbreviation in the title, and all acronyms expanded the first time they're used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(As you did. Thank you.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2013-02-28T08:34:33.357" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2749" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2751" CreationDate="2013-02-28T12:15:05.137" Score="22" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inspired by a suggested edit to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32305/tron-legacy-soundtrack-missing-part&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The suggested edit was to remove the name of the work (Tron: Legacy, in this case) from the question title - because it was already tagged with the name of the work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would cut the title from &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Tron: Legacy Soundtrack Missing Part&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; to &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Soundtrack Missing Part&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Browsing through questions, there seems to be no existing standard regarding this; some questions have tags/names in their titles, others don't. Personally, I prefer the name of the work to be in the title. I always read the titles first and then the tags since the tags are intended more for categorization and search (in my opinion, at least). In this particular case, the title without the name feels incomplete. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2013-02-28T14:25:36.160" Title="Is it OK for titles to have tags in them?" Tags="|discussion|tags|title|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2749" CreationDate="2013-02-28T13:34:19.287" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see absolutely no implicit problem with having one or more tags in the title, if it helps the title make sense, or makes it easier to search on.  In fact, it happens quite frequently (particularly in Story ID questions, since the title will often be something like &quot;Help me identify this TV show or movie&quot;, and will also likely be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt; and/or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movies&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On parenting, we went through a &lt;a href=&quot;https://parenting.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/211/why-are-the-mods-editing-all-the-questions&quot;&gt;major title clean up campaign&lt;/a&gt; a while ago.  As part of our agreed-upon methodology, we substituted all age-references with the appropriate age-related tag (&quot;toddler&quot;, &quot;infant&quot;, &quot;pre-schooler&quot;, etc.). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I don't think this applies directly to Scifi.se, I believe it does illustrate that at least in some instances, tags in the title can be beneficial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I &lt;strong&gt;don't&lt;/strong&gt; believe that tags should be &quot;mandatory&quot; in titles, or even encouraged unless it really helps to clarify the intent (for instance, a question about &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; that is &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; interested in answers relating to TOS would probably benefit from stating that clearly in the title).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this particular case, I think the original title is superior to the suggested edit (although I think &quot;What is this missing part to the Tron: Legacy soundtrack?&quot; would have been clearer than either, and may have helped with some of the confusion we can see on the question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:47:25.647" LastActivityDate="2013-02-28T13:34:19.287" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2749" CreationDate="2013-02-28T14:25:36.160" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see nothing wrong with question titles including the text of the primary tag, &lt;em&gt;as long as it occurs naturally&lt;/em&gt;. Modifying an example from the top of the newest questions page (for a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt; question), I'd be OK with something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is the difference between a warg and a skinchanger in Game of Thrones?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but would edit the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Game of Thrones: What is the difference between a warg and a skinchanger?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/32371/5833&quot;&gt;actual question&lt;/a&gt; doesn't include &quot;Game of Thrones&quot; in the title at all because it's already covered by tagging (and that should be the preferred place for specifying which work(s) the question applies to).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5833" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2013-02-28T14:25:36.160" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2752" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2754" CreationDate="2013-02-28T14:31:04.487" Score="5" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to vote to &quot;Leave Open&quot; for this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32338/what-would-have-happened-if-a-younger-student-had-gotten-his-name-in-the-goblet&quot;&gt;What would have happened if a younger student had gotten his name in the Goblet of Fire?&lt;/a&gt; , but couldn't find it in the Review Queue anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why was it not in the LO Review Queue?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is that because too many people - 3 already voted to leave it open? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or because 5 people total reviewed? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or because # of Leave Open votes balanced # of Close votes (3 each)? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or time cutoff?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the review history for it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Beofett       Q  Leave Open 30 mins ago&#xA;phantom42     Q  Leave Open 2 hours ago&#xA;NikolaiDante  Q  Close  7 hours ago&#xA;Jack B Nimble Q  Close  10 hours ago&#xA;John O        Q  Leave Open 10 hours ago&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm suspecting #3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Why would a question not appear in &quot;Leave Open&quot; Review queue?" Tags="|support|closing-questions|vote-to-reopen|review-queue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2752" CreationDate="2013-02-28T14:47:04.957" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a question gets 3 &quot;Leave Open&quot; votes, it is removed from the review queue.  Keep in mind that LO votes don't actually affect the question's closure*, just its queue status.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*: with the minor exception that &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/166124/172958&quot;&gt;being booted from the queue by LO votes begins the CV aging timer even if the question did not have the 100 views normally necessary for that&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2013-02-28T15:30:23.903" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2755" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-01T06:10:42.347" Score="0" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was hopping around, tag-updating, and I came across &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4159/which-episode-of-star-trek-tng-is-this-image-from&quot;&gt;this situation&lt;/a&gt; for the second time in two days:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BlDqP.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I considered just removing the link and saying it was from the 'chat-room', but at the same time, I didn't want to retcon a lack of thoroughness in the original question.  So you see my edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the ideal way to handle this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11262" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T08:15:19.067" Title="Dead Links, what to do with them?" Tags="|discussion|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2755" CreationDate="2013-03-01T08:15:19.067" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The link from that question isn't to a specific chat room, and still goes exactly where it is supposed to go (for me, at least).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read the description again.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The link points to the custom &quot;chat room not found&quot; page, because &lt;em&gt;that is the page that has the image the OP is asking about&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, the best way to handle dead links is to find an appropriate replacement URL, and fix the link without changing content. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Failing that, removing the link and putting a notice that the link no longer works is appropriate.  However, in those cases, you should include a text version of the original link, as the context of the URL might potentially be helpful (either in providing information about what the citation was, or clues for those looking to fix it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just make sure the link really &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; broken, first. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T08:15:19.067" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2759" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-01T22:20:24.623" Score="3" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following is a &quot;digest&quot; version of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2702/2013-moderator-election-town-hall-chat&quot;&gt;2013 Moderator Election Town Hall Chat&lt;/a&gt;. The format, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/77831/how-can-we-improve-the-town-hall-digests&quot;&gt;as described on Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, is one &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; to this question &lt;em&gt;for every question&lt;/em&gt; asked in the Town Hall, containing all the candidate's answers to that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To view the digest chronologically, please sort the answers by &quot;oldest&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have questions or comments about this, &lt;strong&gt;please do not answer this question&lt;/strong&gt; as the answers are designed to be used for the questions from the Town hall itself. Instead, please ask on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/77831/how-can-we-improve-the-town-hall-digests&quot;&gt;the parent question&lt;/a&gt; or in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/rooms/352/town-hall-discussion&quot;&gt;the Town Hall Discussion Room&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see any corrections which need to be made to this digest, or if you were a candidate who was unable to attend the town hall and would like your answers included, please @GraceNote or @TimStone &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/2321/science-fiction-fantasy-town-hall-chat&quot;&gt;in the chat room&lt;/a&gt; and let us know!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2013-03-04T19:54:14.483" Title="2013 Moderator Election - Town Hall Chat Digest" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="23" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2759" CreationDate="2013-03-01T22:20:24.623" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e1b643b1cabd740a5f4580f365b21407?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Grace Note&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/757/grace-note&quot;&gt;Grace Note&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285340#8285340&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;In your opinion, what do moderators do?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285371#8285371&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  They help to maintain the rules and community consensus on what is appropriate for the site. They make mitigating decisions on flags and other criteria that the community thinks requires attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285431#8285431&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  Moderators keep order in the community, ensuring a pleasant experience for all. They gently enforce the community consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0964ccfd92e2c634db90489311f22fa6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;DavRob60&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/20784/davrob60&quot;&gt;DavRob60&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285439#8285439&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  They are the &quot;human exception handler&quot;, mostly dealing with the flag queue. Also keep the site clean from clearly unwanted stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285443#8285443&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  Primarily moderators help facilitate. They facilitate discussion on policy, scope, etc. They also serve as the peace-keepers for disputes/flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T22:20:24.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2759" CreationDate="2013-03-01T22:26:19.170" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;PearsonArtPhoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;PearsonArtPhoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285343#8285343&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;If you had one minute to explain this site to someone, what would you say that it is?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0964ccfd92e2c634db90489311f22fa6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;DavRob60&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/20784/davrob60&quot;&gt;DavRob60&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285476#8285476&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  A place where you could ask and answer questions about science fiction and fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285482#8285482&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  This is a site where one can ask a concrete, finitely answerable (not open-ended, not a list) question and get a great response from a group of enthusiasts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285485#8285485&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  Primarily this is a great place to answer any question on sci-fi or fantasy works that nag at you after watching/reading, and an even better place to find out about aspects of the material you never knew about, or even entire new works to check out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T22:26:19.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2759" CreationDate="2013-03-01T22:28:22.317" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;PearsonArtPhoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;PearsonArtPhoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285353#8285353&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;What SFF books have you read in the last month? Please list as many as you can&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285500#8285500&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  Unfortunately, I haven't really been reading much, I don't think I've read any full book in the last month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285534#8285534&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;em&gt;Hyperion&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Fall of Hyperion&lt;/em&gt; (currently reading), &lt;em&gt;The Order of the Stick: Snips, and Snails, and Dragons Tails&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Vor Games&lt;/em&gt;, and I can't remember what I read before &lt;em&gt;Vor Games&lt;/em&gt;....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0964ccfd92e2c634db90489311f22fa6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;DavRob60&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/20784/davrob60&quot;&gt;DavRob60&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285584#8285584&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  Currently reading &lt;em&gt;The Lost Symbol, from Dan Brown&lt;/em&gt;, read &lt;em&gt;Scott  Orson Card's Shadow&lt;/em&gt; of the Giant and &lt;em&gt;Iain M. Banks's Excession&lt;/em&gt; lately&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T22:28:22.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2759" CreationDate="2013-03-01T22:30:43.767" Score="-1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a717291747c76567bb0f086e15ae6e43?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Gilles&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/240/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285370#8285370&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;What was the last SFF book you read, and when was it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285397#8285397&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  Earth Unaware - Orson Scott Card.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285548#8285548&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;em&gt;Fall of Hyperion&lt;/em&gt; by Dan Simmons (reading currently)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285549#8285549&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  I think the last SFF book I read must have been Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, this past fall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0964ccfd92e2c634db90489311f22fa6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;DavRob60&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/20784/davrob60&quot;&gt;DavRob60&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285609#8285609&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  Currently reading The Lost Symbol, from Dan Brown, read Scott Orson Card's Shadow of the Giant and Iain M. Banks's Excession lately&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T22:30:43.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2759" CreationDate="2013-03-01T22:33:05.960" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;PearsonArtPhoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;PearsonArtPhoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285379#8285379&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;What specifically do you think that the current moderators are doing well, and what do you think could be improved?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285604#8285604&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  They do an excellent job of steering the community towards debating issues with the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285634#8285634&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  The current moderators do a good job of keeping track of current policy, providing expert assistance and guidance, and generally monitoring the flow of questions/answers. I feel like the current team is a solid mix of all the primary elements of moderation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285662#8285662&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  I think the current moderators are doing well at handling flags in a timely fashion, and keeping the community consensus. I can't identify anything they particularly need improvement on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0964ccfd92e2c634db90489311f22fa6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;DavRob60&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/20784/davrob60&quot;&gt;DavRob60&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285671#8285671&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  Doing well : Keeping the site clean. Could be improved : (not only the moderator but the community as a whole) better guide the new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T22:33:05.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2759" CreationDate="2013-03-01T22:37:39.493" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285519#8285519&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;What are your three favorite scifi/fantasy works, and your three least favorite?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285669#8285669&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  Hard question... I'm going to have to say my favorites are: &lt;em&gt;A Fire Upon the Deep&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Dune&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Stranger in a Strange Land&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285718#8285718&quot;&gt;continued&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  My least favorite: &lt;em&gt;The Saga of Seven Suns&lt;/em&gt;, the &lt;em&gt;Dune&lt;/em&gt; prequels, and &lt;em&gt;Twilight&lt;/em&gt; (although I have to admit I haven't read/watched it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285698#8285698&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  Top are the LotR trilogy, Silmarillion, and Ender's game.  As for the bottom, I can't recall any SFF I particularly disliked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0964ccfd92e2c634db90489311f22fa6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;DavRob60&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/20784/davrob60&quot;&gt;DavRob60&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285717#8285717&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;em&gt;Favorite&lt;/em&gt; : The &lt;em&gt;Tron&lt;/em&gt; universe as a whole, probably the reason why I'm a programmer right now.  &lt;em&gt;Least favorite&lt;/em&gt; : I don't like horror in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/599023877e10ac307e3522508477fdaa?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Nathan C. Tresch&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/36834/nathan-c-tresch&quot;&gt;Nathan C. Tresch&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286020#8286020&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  The Solar Cycle by Gene Wolfe, the Robots series by Asimov and anything by Phillip K. Dick.  My least favorite is any space opera from the early 20th century.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T22:37:39.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2759" CreationDate="2013-03-01T22:40:12.017" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c0190cc521c554c0d4555edbe76f4c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Keen http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c0190cc521c554c0d4555edbe76f4c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9586/keen&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285587#8285587&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;What is your position on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions?  Should they be allowed or banned?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285636#8285636&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  I've noticed that many of the unanswered questions are story-identification questions. It was decided early on that these questions would be allowed. It is my opinion that there is a real quality issue with these questions, but until the community changes their mind on these questions, they should continue to be allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kevin http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285744#8285744&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  Story identification questions are fine. They have a concrete solution, as long as the OP keeps giving feedback on answers. My main complaint about them is how they are voted on. I think the questions should only be upvoted if they seem to contain enough to identify a story, and answers only if the asker comes back and affirms a guess correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Beofett http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285752#8285752&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  I continue to be a large fan of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;.  The questions do an excellent job as a way to bring in new users, which is important for us to continue to function as a community.  While the core regular users are important, a constant influx of new participants is essential.  Plus I get a lot of great ideas for new content to read/watch as a result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0964ccfd92e2c634db90489311f22fa6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DavRob60 http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0964ccfd92e2c634db90489311f22fa6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/20784/davrob60&quot;&gt;DavRob60&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285757#8285757&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  Allowed for now, but I'm a mostly indifferent to those question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T22:40:12.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2759" CreationDate="2013-03-01T22:42:16.803" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;PearsonArtPhoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;PearsonArtPhoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285589#8285589&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;As a moderator, you will have to moderate on topics that you haven't read/watched. How will you accomplish that?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285665#8285665&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  Magic, and possibly divination. And whatever the internet can spit out to gain a cursory knowledge in a short time frame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0964ccfd92e2c634db90489311f22fa6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;DavRob60&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/20784/davrob60&quot;&gt;DavRob60&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285770#8285770&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  Getting to chat when exteriors expertise is needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285802#8285802&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  Moderating topics you aren't familiar with isn't usually that hard.  The community response (VTCs, flags, comments, etc.) is usually a good indication of whether or not there is a problem.  Wikipedia can be of surprising help, but the biggest resource is asking opinions in chat, either of the regular members, or other moderators (or both).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285870#8285870&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  Most of a moderator's work is topic-agnostic. In most cases, one doesn't need to know the particulars of a work to see most problems with a post, and the community members who are familiar with it will point out when action actually does need to be taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T22:42:16.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2759" CreationDate="2013-03-01T22:44:54.070" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;PearsonArtPhoto http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;PearsonArtPhoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285658#8285658&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Which tag do you wish to see grown the most on this site?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285750#8285750&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  I would love to see more fantasy questions at large. Harry Potter may be the top tag on the site, but you have to go a long ways down to find a second place (LOTR).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Beofett http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285840#8285840&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  There's not one particular tag I'd like to see grown.  However, I think there are a ton of great titles out there that have very few questions.  I'd like to grow those tags: the ones that are on works widely regarded as &quot;classics&quot;, yet which have received little attention on our site so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0964ccfd92e2c634db90489311f22fa6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DavRob60 http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0964ccfd92e2c634db90489311f22fa6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/20784/davrob60&quot;&gt;DavRob60&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285858#8285858&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  I always enjoy &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tron&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tron&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tron&lt;/a&gt; questions. But there is also classic Sci-fi author that could be more present (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arthur-c-clarke&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;arthur-c-clarke&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;arthur-c-clarke&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/frank-herbert&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;frank-herbert&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;frank-herbert&lt;/a&gt;, etc)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kevin http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285894#8285894&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  I don't have a particular preferred tag, I want to see whatever tag grow that will bring in new users that stay around and become productive members of our site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T22:44:54.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2759" CreationDate="2013-03-01T22:46:55.550" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;PearsonArtPhoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;PearsonArtPhoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285688#8285688&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Why do you personally want the power and responsibility of being a moderator?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285723#8285723&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  I live for power. Responsibility, what's that? I kid people. It is the next step in the involvement of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0964ccfd92e2c634db90489311f22fa6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;DavRob60&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/20784/davrob60&quot;&gt;DavRob60&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285876#8285876&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  Just wish to help. I sincerely care for scifi.stackexchange&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285885#8285885&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  I care a lot about this community.  Its a great resource for me, and it is about a subject that has been a major influence throughout my entire life, on a platform that I have really grown to appreciate throughout my time here.  Mostly, though, because I think I'd be good at it, and because I feel it would increase my ability to help out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285921#8285921&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  I want the power to take action when needed to keep the site clean and welcoming, and for that I am willing to take the responsibilities of a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/599023877e10ac307e3522508477fdaa?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Nathan C. Tresch&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/36834/nathan-c-tresch&quot;&gt;Nathan C. Tresch&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285924#8285924&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  Because I think that this is an amazing forum for genre enthusiasts to discuss what they're passionate about and I want to do whatever I can to help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T22:46:55.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2759" CreationDate="2013-03-01T22:48:56.730" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;PearsonArtPhoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;PearsonArtPhoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285754#8285754&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;What SFF TV series/ Movies have you watched in the last month?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285780#8285780&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  DS9, Phineas &amp;amp; Ferb, Escape from Planet Earth, and some others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/599023877e10ac307e3522508477fdaa?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Nathan C. Tresch&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/36834/nathan-c-tresch&quot;&gt;Nathan C. Tresch&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285783#8285783&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  The Walking Dead&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285900#8285900&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  I don't get to watch nearly as much TV as I used to, but I believe I've watched &lt;em&gt;Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Misfits&lt;/em&gt; in the past month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285962#8285962&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Insurrection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0964ccfd92e2c634db90489311f22fa6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;DavRob60&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/20784/davrob60&quot;&gt;DavRob60&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286001#8286001&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  Many thing: The Masters of Time, The &lt;em&gt;Total recall&lt;/em&gt; 2012 remake, the &lt;em&gt;Mtal Hurlant Chronicles&lt;/em&gt; series, My little pony friendship is magic (with my daughter). And I probably forget some...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T22:48:56.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2759" CreationDate="2013-03-01T22:50:58.617" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c0190cc521c554c0d4555edbe76f4c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Keen&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9586/keen&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285756#8285756&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;What would you do to encourage more community self-moderation?  That is, high-rep users making use of their moderation powers to close, edit, reopen, and delete posts.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/599023877e10ac307e3522508477fdaa?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Nathan C. Tresch&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/36834/nathan-c-tresch&quot;&gt;Nathan C. Tresch&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285897#8285897&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  I'm not sure what could be done to encourage the community to self-moderate beyond giving positive attention and feedback to people who do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285929#8285929&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  I'm generally pretty impressed with how many people respond with close/reopen/edits.  However, I would continue to do what I have done in the past on this site: point out through comments and meta discussion when I think action needs to be taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285991#8285991&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  As a frequent user in chat, where most of our high-rep users hang out, I would remind people there to use what privileges they have accrued.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0964ccfd92e2c634db90489311f22fa6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;DavRob60&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/20784/davrob60&quot;&gt;DavRob60&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286085#8286085&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  It's hard to directly communicate with users that don't come to chat. I think the best way is to make the community feels responsible for the site, they need to care for it. Soliciting the opinion of user and showing you respect them is a good way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T22:50:58.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2759" CreationDate="2013-03-01T22:53:03.697" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;PearsonArtPhoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;PearsonArtPhoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285786#8285786&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;What have you personally done already to help moderate this site?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285826#8285826&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  Flagged, VTC, reviews, editting, and reading through a lot of the questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/599023877e10ac307e3522508477fdaa?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Nathan C. Tresch&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/36834/nathan-c-tresch&quot;&gt;Nathan C. Tresch&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285961#8285961&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  I personally edit my answers to make certain that they are concise and answer the question at hand, and as well I delete my questions and answers that are deemed unworthy by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285974#8285974&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  Aside from voting/closing/flagging/editing, I've been very active in meta.  I have started quite a few discussions on policy here, including the discussions that resulted in community consensus that General Reference was not a good fit as a close reason for our site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286032#8286032&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  As my badges indicate, I have been very active editing posts and I went through the review queues before they were popular, and I flag posts when warranted; I also vote to close and re-open, and I keep an eye on the 10k flag queue much of the time. In essence, all a 10k can do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0964ccfd92e2c634db90489311f22fa6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;DavRob60&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/20784/davrob60&quot;&gt;DavRob60&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286125#8286125&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  All sort of thing. Voting to Close/reopen question that deserve it. Flagging really inappropriate stuff and discussing in meta /chat when I'm not sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T22:53:03.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2759" CreationDate="2013-03-01T22:55:48.263" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FG2bq.jpg?g&amp;amp;s=16&quot; alt=&quot;a Slytherin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/29121/a-slytherin&quot;&gt;a Slytherin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285806#8285806&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;How would you approach supporting and encouraging growth in the fantasy genre on SFF.se if it's not your cup of tea or you are hardcare sci-fi?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285843#8285843&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  I would love to see more fantasy questions on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286013#8286013&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  I find that difficult to speculate on, since I tend to mix both genres pretty evenly.  However, I think the best way to encourage content on particular topics (barring the return of &quot;Topic of the Week&quot; contests) would be to post bounties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286136#8286136&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  The same as I would for scifi. It's not for the moderators to decide to drop support for half the site's topicality.  That said, I do like fantasy just as much as scifi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0964ccfd92e2c634db90489311f22fa6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;DavRob60&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/20784/davrob60&quot;&gt;DavRob60&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286161#8286161&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  I have more interest into Sci-fi than Fantasy, but I have read both TLOTR and Harry Potter. However, I think Fantasy have his place here and should be encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T22:55:48.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2759" CreationDate="2013-03-01T22:57:54.330" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c0190cc521c554c0d4555edbe76f4c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Keen&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9586/keen&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285913#8285913&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;How do you encourage more participation in meta?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285976#8285976&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  When a question is generating lots of debates in comments it is usually recommended to move the discussion to meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/599023877e10ac307e3522508477fdaa?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Nathan C. Tresch&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/36834/nathan-c-tresch&quot;&gt;Nathan C. Tresch&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8285980#8285980&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  For starters I think that just advertising it exists would help.  I was on here for a long time before I knew what it was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286044#8286044&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  The best way to promote participation in meta... is to participate in meta.  Start discussions based upon issues that come up in comments/chat, then link the meta discussion and ask people to chime in.  The biggest problem with meta is that people forget/don't know it is there.  Frequent reminders are the best remedy to that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286150#8286150&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  As I mentioned, I'm quite active in chat, along with most of our high rep users, so I discuss things there with them, and point them at the appropriate meta posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0964ccfd92e2c634db90489311f22fa6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;DavRob60&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/20784/davrob60&quot;&gt;DavRob60&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286204#8286204&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  Inviting users to ask question on Meta though comments when needed. Directing them there when there is information they need to know and be kind and respectful when they come to meta to keep them there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T22:57:54.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2759" CreationDate="2013-03-01T23:00:00.487" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a717291747c76567bb0f086e15ae6e43?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gilles http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a717291747c76567bb0f086e15ae6e43?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/240/gilles&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286047#8286047&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;A genie grants you a wish: you may change one site policy (e.g. make a type of question on/off topic, change some tagging habits, …) (SE policies remain). What is your wish?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286054#8286054&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  To ban the why didn't X recognize Y in the original work when they had encountered each other in a prequel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Beofett http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286122#8286122&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  Honestly, I can't think of anything I'd want to change by fiat.  Recommendations are always fun, but they are such a poor fit for the platform I wouldn't want them on-topic.  I can spot inconsistencies in tag usage, but I'm not invested in them enough to feel comfortable declaring a blanket change. I do think the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt; situation and related issues is a mess, though, so perhaps a complete rework of how they should be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kevin http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286206#8286206&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  Ban questions on minor secondary plot-holes that almost certainly have no answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0964ccfd92e2c634db90489311f22fa6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DavRob60 http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0964ccfd92e2c634db90489311f22fa6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/20784/davrob60&quot;&gt;DavRob60&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286263#8286263&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  This is an hard one. I don't disagree to &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; site policies that much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T23:00:00.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2759" CreationDate="2013-03-01T23:02:08.893" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/17c0190cc521c554c0d4555edbe76f4c?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Keen&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9586/keen&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286109#8286109&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;How would you deal with a user who posts lots of quality content, but also generates a large number of flags?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286143#8286143&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  Try to communicate the issues that come up in their posts with the user. I know we've had a few users who meet this criteria and I've seen the moderators try to work with them. I think that has positively influenced the quality of these users posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286160#8286160&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  This is never a fun situation.  The first thing I'd do is just talk with them.  Make it clear that their contributions are valued, but no one contributes enough to exempt them from the rules, particularly the &quot;be nice&quot; rule.  If needs be, I would have no qualms about suspending a user, regardless of the quality of their contributions, if their behavior is problematic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286229#8286229&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  Warn them in comments, then chat if they are a chat user and don't respond, then send them a mod-message if they still don't shape up. Posting good content does not offset bad behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0964ccfd92e2c634db90489311f22fa6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;DavRob60&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/20784/davrob60&quot;&gt;DavRob60&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286315#8286315&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  It depend if the flags are founded and the kind of flag. A user who is Offensive must be disciplined. Otherwise, I would comment on his questions and try to explain him how he could improve himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T23:02:08.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2759" CreationDate="2013-03-01T23:04:17.983" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f3d2c01f6f55bb34530fcbae9a39d285?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;DVK&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9454/dvk&quot;&gt;DVK&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286140#8286140&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;What is the threshold at which you consider something as a community imposed general (non-question-specific) policy based on Meta Q&amp;amp;A? E.g. if there is a consensus answer with +3 vote margin, do you consider it a policy? +8 vote margin? No specific threshold aside from your own opinion?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286171#8286171&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  I don't have a specific threshold, as it varies depending on the circumstances.  Generally, though, for non-question-specific issues, I think time is a bigger factor than vote margin, although vote margin is definitely still a component.  I think discussions should be up long enough to allow sufficient visibility.  For a major policy change, a full week would be the minimum.  If the voting is close, I'd give it more time&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286184#8286184&quot;&gt;continued&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  When I determine if I feel voting is close, I factor in the number of down-votes. E.g. after a week, I might consider an answer with 5 upvotes and no downvotes as indicative of consensus, but an answer with 10 upvotes and 5 downvotes I'd leave for another couple of days, at least, since it is clear that a significant portion of the population disagrees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286226#8286226&quot;&gt;continued&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  Generally, though, once sufficient time is allowed, I think a 10+ margin is pretty clear, even if there are a fair number of dissenting votes.  If there are only one or two dissenting votes, I think a margin of 5+ is fair, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286232#8286232&quot;&gt;concluded&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  A similar process could be used if there are multiple highly-voted answers that differ significantly.  I'd allow more time for votes, and look for a significant (10+) margin between them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286289#8286289&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  If an answer has been around a while and there is no upvoted contradictory answer, I would consider that policy. For more contested issues, there is no absolute rule, it's more of a case-by-case basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0964ccfd92e2c634db90489311f22fa6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;DavRob60&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/20784/davrob60&quot;&gt;DavRob60&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286320#8286320&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; The threshold is more a matter of percentage than points. I would consider the total number of vote on the answers vs the others options.  I think we should discuss it in meta before casting those threshold in stone, be here is a rough draft:  50%-66%  Majority : more a guideline than a policy  66%-75%  Strong majority : A candidate to become a policy  75%-100% near Consensus : de facto policy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="2565" LastEditDate="2013-03-04T19:54:14.483" LastActivityDate="2013-03-04T19:54:14.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2759" CreationDate="2013-03-01T23:07:03.330" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f3d2c01f6f55bb34530fcbae9a39d285?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;DVK&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9454/dvk&quot;&gt;DVK&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286211#8286211&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Do you take into account the &quot;Leave open&quot; information from Review queue when applying moderator-binding-close-votes (as opposed to only existing close votes and flags) to obtain a more balanced picture? If such information isn't available, WOULD you have taken it into account if it was?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286253#8286253&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  If I see a review which I can't make a determination I choose to skip it and leave it to someone else better qualified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286255#8286255&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  The only way I would take it into account is if it provided an explanation as to &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; the reviewer felt it should remain open.  Given that I'd only use a binding close vote if I was very clear that the question needed to be closed (flags, clear dup, spam, blatant NARQ, etc.), &quot;leave open&quot; votes wouldn't be nearly as likely to sway me as comments or a good meta discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0964ccfd92e2c634db90489311f22fa6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;DavRob60&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/20784/davrob60&quot;&gt;DavRob60&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286340#8286340&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  As a moderator, I would use my close/reopen vote only on clear case and prefer the skip button whenever there is a doubt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286388#8286388&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  If the review queue information were right there on the page, I would definitely take it into account. It is (recently, I believe) available but several clicks and a different screen away for moderators, so I would only check if the question's status seemed contested, from the comments on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T23:07:03.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2759" CreationDate="2013-03-01T23:09:28.290" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f3d2c01f6f55bb34530fcbae9a39d285?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;DVK&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9454/dvk&quot;&gt;DVK&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286236#8286236&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; Related to that, DVK also asks: &lt;strong&gt;What is your threshold for binding-voting to close a question? &quot;I would have VTCed it if my vote wasn't binding&quot;? A critical mass of unopposed VTCs and flags? Do you consider NOT voting (and opening a meta discussion) if the comments on the question indicate a clear LACK of consensus on closing and it wasn't discussed on meta yet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286275#8286275&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  I always consider not taking action as a valid course. I don't like rash decisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286302#8286302&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  Again, it depends. A flag of &quot;I find this offensive&quot; gets a lot more weight than a flag of &quot;this question is silly&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286305#8286305&quot;&gt;continued&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  A question that has been open for a couple of hours and has no close votes from the community would get more consideration from me than one that has been open 15 minutes and already has 4 close votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286312#8286312&quot;&gt;concluded&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  I would definitely consider a meta discussion, but wouldn't &lt;em&gt;necessarily&lt;/em&gt; hold off on voting, as the question could always be reopened after the meta discussion (for example, the question could be worded poorly, but a meta discussion might involve some suggested edits that would improve the question enough to reopen it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0964ccfd92e2c634db90489311f22fa6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;DavRob60&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/20784/davrob60&quot;&gt;DavRob60&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286351#8286351&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  No threshold if I don't have any doubt (but I assure you that I'm a doubtful person). Waiting to be the 5th vote otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286417#8286417&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  If a question clearly needs closing, I will use my binding vote. If it is more contested, I will normally wait and see if close votes pile up, and usually only close as the 4th or 5th vote (and, as came up in the previous question, check the close queue results for it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T23:09:28.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2759" CreationDate="2013-03-01T23:11:41.203" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f3d2c01f6f55bb34530fcbae9a39d285?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DVK http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f3d2c01f6f55bb34530fcbae9a39d285?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/9454/dvk&quot;&gt;DVK&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286282#8286282&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Please provide an example (specific question) of a moderator action that you would have liked to have taken based on your own opinion but would refrain from taking based on meta or comments achieved community consensus.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286333#8286333&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31832/why-doesnt-darth-vader-recognize-c-3po&quot;&gt;Why doesn't Darth Vader recognize C-3PO?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286344#8286344&quot;&gt;continued&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  As expressed in some of the comments, I am not impressed with these questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0964ccfd92e2c634db90489311f22fa6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DavRob60 http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0964ccfd92e2c634db90489311f22fa6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/20784/davrob60&quot;&gt;DavRob60&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286355#8286355&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I don't remember any case where I strongly disagree with a community consensus to the point I would have liked to take any action against it.  I prefer having clears rules than blurry frontiers, otherwise we got Velociraptors testing the electric fences every now and then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Beofett http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286364#8286364&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31975/jews-in-star-trek#comment60683_31975&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt;.  As a regular user, I cast a delete vote, since there are 4 reopen votes and I don't think it has any justification for being reopened (not one person voting to reopen has accepted my invitation to explain, either in comments or the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2695/how-could-i-have-asked-the-jews-in-star-trek-question-better&quot;&gt;meta discussion&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Beofett http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286368#8286368&quot;&gt;continued&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  There's not even a single downvote on either meta answers explaining why the question should be closed).  If I were a moderator, I would not have cast a binding delete vote, and instead waited to see how the issue developed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T23:11:41.203" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2759" CreationDate="2013-03-01T23:13:48.360" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fdc52692a8ac266cd1c897f75a0f75f8?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;PearsonArtPhoto&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;PearsonArtPhoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286328#8286328&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;A high reputation user was accused of harassing a lower ranking user. What do you do?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0964ccfd92e2c634db90489311f22fa6?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;DavRob60&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/20784/davrob60&quot;&gt;DavRob60&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286359#8286359&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  Reputation is a &quot;rough measurement of how much the community trusts you&quot;, not a licence to behave inappropriately. I would verify the if the accusations are founded and take the appropriate action if necessary, depending of the degree of the harassment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286376#8286376&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  I &lt;strong&gt;do not&lt;/strong&gt; give the higher reputation user more leeway than the lower ranking user; if anything, it works the opposite.  I expect the higher reputation users to know better than a new user (generally anyone who has 500 rep or less).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286381#8286381&quot;&gt;continued&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  The first thing I do is review any specific instances pointed out.  Then I look at the activity log for both users, checking comments.  I look at any post where there appears to be comments between the two users in question.  I then use a couple of tools available to moderators to make sure I have as complete a picture of the activity between the two users as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286383#8286383&quot;&gt;concluded&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  If I see evidence of policy violations, I'll bring it up to the other moderators and discuss it as a team.  If I see evidence of severe violations (threats, abusive language, irregular voting patterns, etc.) I'll probably also bring it to the attention of the SE community team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3bec657e9d57297e9f090b7aed2cda00?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/27598/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286542#8286542&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  Assure the complainant that moderators do, in fact, care just as much about low-rep users and won't just give high-reps a free pass (in fact, I hold them to a higher standard), then investigate the accusation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T23:13:48.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2782" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-01T23:13:56.940" Score="9" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted 2 questions over at Movies &amp;amp; TV regarding DVD releases of some cartoon robots and a cartoon super-hero, which might have been appropriate to ask here, but I was uncertain.  I &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/903/i-recently-asked-two-questions-specific-to-dvd-releases-do-they-belong-here-or&quot;&gt;asked about where they should belong in Movies &amp;amp; TV Meta&lt;/a&gt; and didn't think it would harm anything to follow-up asking here as well, considering there might not be any participant overlap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So... would said questions have been better here or there, or considering the robot cartoon was based on Japanese animation, in the anime group?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12476" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:49:37.240" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T23:33:52.190" Title="Do my questions belong here, or in Movies &amp; TV or in Anime &amp; Manga?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2016-02-17T12:22:19.703" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2759" CreationDate="2013-03-01T23:15:53.630" Score="-2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e1b643b1cabd740a5f4580f365b21407?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Grace Note&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/757/grace-note&quot;&gt;Grace Note&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286362#8286362&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Final thoughts from the candidates&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/599023877e10ac307e3522508477fdaa?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Nathan C. Tresch&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/36834/nathan-c-tresch&quot;&gt;Nathan C. Tresch&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286058#8286058&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Everyone, I did my best to be here for this and I hope that what little I was able to answer helps you form an opinion about my qualifications as a moderator.  I have to excuse myself now, my 1 year old daughter's bedtime is 7:30.  I hope I've left the impression that I would be a level headed and a good moderator and that I want the position because I want to help, and that I'd be a great help also.  Thanks for your consideration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/599023877e10ac307e3522508477fdaa?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Nathan C. Tresch&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/36834/nathan-c-tresch&quot;&gt;Nathan C. Tresch&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8301962#8301962&quot;&gt;continued&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; One thing I wanted to mention is that I got my most recent job from the Stack Exchange Careers 2.0 site, and that's a huge reason that I'm so passionate about StackEx sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/646f9bc3ae8effa7fa1a1a1c528ff522?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jack B Nimble&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3490/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286391#8286391&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  We must move forwards, not backwards, upwards, and not forwards, and always be twirling, twirling, twirling!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a4fd4c34547537e3016edb24f106e223?s=16&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Beofett&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/13641/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/8286418#8286418&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  I just want to thank everyone for your time and questions.  I feel quite confident that regardless of the outcome of this election, the site will get 2 great moderators, since we have so many fantastic candidates who have already shown a lot of dedication to this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4501" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T23:15:53.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2782" CreationDate="2013-03-01T23:33:52.190" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;When there is an overlap between sites, the simple way to choose which site to ask on (it's &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; both) is by asking yourself who you want answers from. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, do you want answers from experts on movie &amp;amp; TV in general, or answers from experts in the scifi/fantasy genre, or answers from experts in the Anime/Manga genre? Which of these groups is most likely to have the information you want? Which is likely to have wider knowledge that will make their answers most interesting to you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T23:33:52.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2785" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2787" CreationDate="2013-03-02T14:45:17.580" Score="7" ViewCount="225" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been banned on the superuser site (not for trolling or spamming but for low quality that anyway solved just the technical problem I was posting about) so that my account on superuser is not being accepted for asking question which I've been able to fix by improving the account since improvements are allowed even though I was banned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would have been better off with a big red warning that I was close to getting banned but I didn't see it coming even though I knew I was posting mediocre question just to solve a technical problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I wonder if you can tell me if there's way to get warning if I'm close to being banned?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2599" LastActivityDate="2018-11-18T16:54:58.483" Title="How can I know if I'm close to being banned?" Tags="|discussion|support|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2785" CreationDate="2013-03-02T15:53:16.547" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no warning, and the details are not public even to mods, but it takes several questions (5-7?) downvoted and closed or deleted, and very few upvotes. If you have downvoted or closed questions, take them as a warning. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="3267" LastEditDate="2018-11-18T16:54:58.483" LastActivityDate="2018-11-18T16:54:58.483" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2788" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3199" CreationDate="2013-03-05T04:06:31.337" Score="6" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my Firefox on Ubuntu 12.10 &quot;OrbitronMedium&quot; font does not apply to menu and other elements. In Chrome Version 25.0.1364.97 on Ubuntu it does display ok.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same issue on Windows Firefox 23; Chrome 28 displays ok.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Firefox 19 on Ubuntu&lt;/code&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0q0Lf.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Firefox 19 on Ubuntu&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Chrome 25.0.1364.97 on Ubuntu&lt;/code&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zd7WL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5527" LastEditorUserId="13771" LastEditDate="2013-11-01T16:23:45.423" LastActivityDate="2013-11-01T18:13:17.903" Title="Font &quot;OrbitronMedium&quot; loads but not displays on Firefox 19 Ubuntu" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2789" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2792" CreationDate="2013-03-05T05:01:05.013" Score="16" ViewCount="255" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions do an excellent job as a way to bring in new users, which is important for us to continue to function as a community. While the core regular users are important, a constant influx of new participants is essential.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;- from @Beofett's answer on moderator candidate chat&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there actual evidence to support or rebut this assertion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. that we have a non-negligible (however one defines &amp;quot;do an excellent job&amp;quot;) ratio or absolute amount of users for whom:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Their first or second question that they asked was a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identificantion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identificantion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identificantion&lt;/a&gt; question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;and they participated in the site since then (participated means either logged in after the question was fully answered, or better yet posted some other content).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2013-03-08T03:08:32.817" Title="Do &quot;story-id&quot; questions actually bring in new users that stick around?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|data-explorer|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2789" CreationDate="2013-03-05T05:41:41.430" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;My first interaction on this site was asking a story ID question. In fact, it's the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; question I've ever asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's safe to say that I've participated in the site since then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5424" LastActivityDate="2013-03-05T05:41:41.430" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2789" CreationDate="2013-03-05T10:45:11.233" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure I've said it before, but I'll say it again here for the record. Asking and answering story identification questions is the main point of the site for me. I don't see the point of sticking around if they don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2013-03-05T10:45:11.233" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2789" CreationDate="2013-03-05T14:58:21.387" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to work on &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/revision/101348/122524/what-tag-brought-a-user-to-the-site&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my query&lt;/a&gt; still, but what I've learned is this. By far, the most popular tag for first time users to this site is story-identification. Note that I make no difference between questions and answers with my query. The second column shows the average number of posts per user, including the first one. Looks like Story-Identification doesn't do as well there, although there are worse subjects. Bottom line is, they seem to bring people to this site, but most of them don't stick around for very long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;tagname                Users PostsPerUser &#xA;---------------------- ----- ---------------- &#xA;story-identification   627   2.242424242424   &#xA;books                  112   2.339285714285   &#xA;movie                  98    5.551020408163   &#xA;short-stories          98    1.877551020408   &#xA;star-trek              92    11.858695652173  &#xA;star-wars              85    8.658823529411   &#xA;harry-potter           81    4.975308641975   &#xA;aliens                 73    2.082191780821   &#xA;novel                  71    3.422535211267   &#xA;time-travel            61    6.081967213114   &#xA;futurama               54    2.166666666666   &#xA;lord-of-the-rings      53    3.735849056603 &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, I made &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/revision/101348/122526/what-tag-brought-a-user-to-the-site&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this query&lt;/a&gt; to filter out cases in which a user only asked/answered one question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;tagname                Users PostsPerUser    &#xA;---------------------- ----- --------------- &#xA;story-identification   148   6.263513513513  &#xA;star-trek              50    20.98           &#xA;star-wars              42    16.5            &#xA;movie                  36    13.388888888888 &#xA;harry-potter           35    10.2            &#xA;novel                  26    7.615384615384  &#xA;short-stories          26    4.307692307692  &#xA;lord-of-the-rings      26    6.576923076923  &#xA;time-travel            24    13.916666666666 &#xA;books                  23    7.521739130434  &#xA;suggested-order        18    23.222222222222 &#xA;star-trek-tng          17    38.35294117647  &#xA;tv                     15    12.666666666666 &#xA;doctor-who             15    11.4            &#xA;magic                  14    5.857142857142  &#xA;a-song-of-ice-and-fire 14    8.214285714285  &#xA;futurama               14    5.5             &#xA;george-r-r-martin      13    8.461538461538  &#xA;stargate               12    4.166666666666  &#xA;aliens                 12    7.583333333333  &#xA;comics                 11    9.818181818181&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2013-03-05T17:55:36.257" LastActivityDate="2013-03-05T17:55:36.257" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2793" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-05T20:08:45.953" Score="19" ViewCount="259" Body="&lt;p&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election/2&quot;&gt;second moderator election&lt;/a&gt; has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the two new moderators are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3804&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/flair/3804.png&quot; alt=&quot;Pureferret&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3267&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/flair/3267.png&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They'll be joining &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;the existing crew&lt;/a&gt; shortly — please thank them for volunteering, and share your assistance and advice with them as they learn the ropes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For details on how the voting played out, you can download the election results &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election/2&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opavote.org/results/947007/0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;view a summary report online&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also join me in thanking veteran moderator &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/56&quot;&gt;Gilles&lt;/a&gt; for his service &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2685/2013-community-moderator-election/2690#2690&quot;&gt;as he steps down after two years&lt;/a&gt;. Gilles was first &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/373/moderator-pro-tem-announcement&quot;&gt;appointed as a Moderator Pro Tempore&lt;/a&gt;, and did such a great job that y'all elected him a year later when the site launched. Please wish him all the best as he takes that long walk into the cursed earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2013-10-23T00:38:38.477" Title="2013 Community Moderator Election Results" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2793" CreationDate="2013-03-05T21:27:37.493" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a &lt;em&gt;defeated&lt;/em&gt; moderator candidate, I would like to personally congratulate Pureferret and Kevin for their election. I'm sure they will be great moderators that will act for the greater good of scifi.stackexchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also want to thank the others &lt;em&gt;defeated&lt;/em&gt; candidates. There was far more quality candidates on this election than positions to fulfill. And I want to thank those who voted for me for the trust you put in my candidature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, thanks To Gilles. You made a incredible job as a moderator and the good thing is that you cannot resign as a user. I sincerely hope you will stick around.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2013-03-05T21:27:37.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="499" CreationDate="2013-03-07T17:58:49.713" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think certain shopping questions that meet some fairly clear criteria should be allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First off, I am not aware of any ongoing issue with poor quality shopping questions (or really many shopping questions in general).  It may be that I've simply missed them (I vaguely recall seeing one or two in my time here), and, from Gilles' answer to this question, at least one question was closed and deleted. Regardless, it seems unlikely that allowing some form of shopping questions would suddenly flood this site with low-quality posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also two types of &amp;quot;shopping questions&amp;quot;: those that apply to people looking for where to find specific, hard-to-find products that they've already identified, and those who are looking to identify which products of a specific range of similar products best meet their criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second category is well-addressed by Gilles' answer above:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about different versions of a work: if there are artistic differences, then this isn't a shopping question, it's a question about different-but-similar works, and thus on-topic (it might be undesirable because it's subjective and argumentative, but that's a separate issue).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about different editions of the same work:  I see several subcases.&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there is no objective difference between the editions: why was the question asked in the first place?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there is an objective difference (e.g. different sets of short stories or different languages on a movie), and the answer is readily available on a reference site (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ISFDB&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://imdb.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;), the question isn't particularly valuable (close as general reference?).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there is an objective difference, or at least easily available material suggests that there is one, and it's not easy to find out what the differences are, then I think it's a good question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/213/versions-of-the-demolished-man&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;). I don't see why it would matter that the work is not available for free.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other category, those questions that know the product, and are looking for where to find it, need to meet some specific criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first is whether it meets the general topic of &amp;quot;sci-fi/fantasy&amp;quot;.  This one seems pretty easy to me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;is it a product which depicts, in some form or another, a work of science fiction or fantasy?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This includes any book, photograph, recording (audio or visual), drawing, sculpture, or any other medium that depicts all or part of a specific science fiction or fantasy work, with the intent of making it clear that the depiction directly relates to that work.  Examples could be anywhere from specific editions of a story or collection of stories, published interviews of authors or other individuals contributing to a work, authorized reproductions of characters (action figures, promotional stills, sculptures, etc.), or promotional products related to the work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I believe this should include &lt;em&gt;specific categories&lt;/em&gt; of science fiction, in addition to just specific works (e.g. &amp;quot;vinyl radio plays of science fiction pieces&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;autographed action figures from &lt;em&gt;Firefly&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;signed first-edition fantasy novels written from 1910-1920&amp;quot;, etc.), &lt;em&gt;so long as they meet the next criteria!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second addresses &amp;quot;not constructive&amp;quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is the product difficult to find?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can find a dozen or more current sources through a quick google/ebay/craigslist search, then its not a valid question.  If it is available from a single mainstream chain distributor (e.g. amazon.com, direct from Disney, etc.), it is not a valid question.  If the only sources easily found appear to be of questionable legality (torrent sites, etc.), it may be a good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another criteria to consider is &amp;quot;too localized&amp;quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The question cannot specify that it is only looking for shopping for within a specific region.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally, &amp;quot;too localized&amp;quot; doesn't preclude questions relating to specific geographic regions, at least on many SE sites.  However, for our purposes, given how rare and niche these shopping questions should be, I don't think a question that asks for brick-and-mortar stores available within the Berlin metropolitan area are going to be terribly useful.  It is possible that &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; may be restricted geographically (e.g. &amp;quot;I know a comic store in Hobocken, New Jersey...&amp;quot;), but if the asker is only interested in sources physically located in Japan, they'll just have to hope that one of the answers is usable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that questions that are restricting the search to a specific region should be edited to remove the restriction when possible, rather than being closed outright.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question meets all of these criteria, the question should be on-topic for us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2023-01-29T13:54:16.550" LastActivityDate="2013-03-07T18:30:32.843" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2793" CreationDate="2013-03-09T01:19:28.803" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't expect to win, although I know I'd have been a good moderator, my low reputation and my relative lurker status were bound to show up.  Congratulations to the winners!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5828" LastActivityDate="2013-03-09T01:19:28.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2797" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2798" CreationDate="2013-03-09T16:48:20.960" Score="3" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted 40 times today (main), but I still don't have a Vox Popluli Badge. What's going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13016" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2013-03-09T16:49:24.523" LastActivityDate="2013-03-09T16:50:16.567" Title="Didn't get Vox Populi Badge" Tags="|support|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2797" CreationDate="2013-03-09T16:50:16.567" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some badges are awarded instantly, others are awarded after Stack Exchange does it's daily processing. I wouldn't worry until it's been at least 24 hours after you've earned a badge, especially one like Vox Popluli that's based off of a daily count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-03-09T16:50:16.567" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2799" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2803" CreationDate="2013-03-10T03:33:59.633" Score="8" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/e.t&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;e.t&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;e.t&lt;/a&gt; tag is malformed if one looks closely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears that tags cannot be created(or renamed) to end in punctuation.  This seems almost too trivial to bring up; but, as every other acronym-as-tag has no periods (e.g., &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dcau&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dcau&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dcau&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ai&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ai&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ai&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rpg&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rpg&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rpg&lt;/a&gt;), it sticks out a bit as a sore thumb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm somewhat of the mind that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/et&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;et&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;et&lt;/a&gt; looks awry, but it was suggested on chat that I post for opinions.  Rename or no?  And is it absolutely impossible to allow tags to end in '.'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11262" LastEditorUserId="3267" LastEditDate="2013-03-21T02:46:37.733" LastActivityDate="2013-03-21T08:44:45.610" Title="e.t[missing-dot] tag" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2729" CreationDate="2013-03-10T10:38:45.133" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The logo is an original creation, but it may be inspired from middle icon of this image:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/b5f2Q.png&quot; alt=&quot;Weapons of mass destruction&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WMD_world_map.svg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I discovered this accidentally on Wikipedia pages of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapon_of_mass_destruction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Weapon of mass destruction&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_testing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Nuclear weapons testing&lt;/a&gt;. In the image, it appears along with nuke (denotes radioactivity) and danger (denotes toxicity) symbols.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The symbol has unicode of &lt;code&gt;U+2623&lt;/code&gt; and is used to denote &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_hazard&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Biohazard&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like designer of the logo used something from this to his/her creativity juice. But, its just a guess. Only designer can answer this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2013-03-10T10:38:45.133" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2799" CreationDate="2013-03-10T16:32:05.590" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/et&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;et&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;et&lt;/a&gt; looks awry because unlike many acronyms, it is pronounceable. I prefer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/e.t&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;e.t&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;e.t&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/et&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;et&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;et&lt;/a&gt;. While &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/e.t&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;e.t&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;e.t&lt;/a&gt; would be better, I doubt that it's important enough for us to get an exception to the tag naming rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, we could write &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/e-t&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;e-t&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;e-t&lt;/a&gt;, following the habit of using a hyphen as the word separator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2013-03-10T16:32:05.590" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2802" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2804" CreationDate="2013-03-10T16:32:13.017" Score="15" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;The review tool just prompted my to existence of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/female-characters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;female-characters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;female-characters&lt;/a&gt; tag which currently has 8 questions. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/1962/2565&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; that supposedly created the tag borders on recommendation or list-request, but is still on topic (and decently upvoted due to its age, I suspect it would have a decent chance of getting closed as not constructive if it had been asked today). The rest of the questions merely ask about characters who's gender happens to be female.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;All in all, do we really need this tag?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If you suggest that we do, then please provide a set of guidelines (or at least a draft) on how to use the tag, and if there should also be a male counterpart tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2013-03-10T17:19:23.507" Title="What do we need the &quot;female-characters&quot; tag for?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2799" CreationDate="2013-03-10T16:50:12.007" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/et-the-extra-terrestrial&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;et-the-extra-terrestrial&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;et-the-extra-terrestrial&lt;/a&gt; (as suggested by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2799/e-tmissing-dot-tag#comment8892_2799&quot;&gt;Matthew Read&lt;/a&gt; in the comments) would be the least ambiguous one and both &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/e.t&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;e.t&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;e.t&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/et&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;et&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;et&lt;/a&gt; should by synonyms. An alternative would have been &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/e.t.-the-extra-terrestrial&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;e.t.-the-extra-terrestrial&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;e.t.-the-extra-terrestrial&lt;/a&gt; but the period followed by the hyphen looks weird, so I still vote for the very first one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes the meaning of what the &quot;et&quot; stands for more clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Typo fixed as per &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2799/e-tmissing-dot-tag/2803?noredirect=1#comment8911_2799&quot;&gt;Martha&lt;/a&gt;'s suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2013-03-21T08:44:45.610" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2802" CreationDate="2013-03-10T17:19:23.507" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;So long as the norm for so much fiction are male characters and protagonists, yes, there'll be a need for a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/female-characters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;female-characters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;female-characters&lt;/a&gt;.  This is simply because anything that isn't a male makes these works distinctive, and adds cultural baggage that isn't present with male-lead works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, I'd expect a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/female-authors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;female-authors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;female-authors&lt;/a&gt; (or maybe 'creators' instead of 'authors').&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of examples of questions that make use of this quality of having female characters:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12537/was-the-nuanced-treatment-of-uhura-a-deliberate-statement-on-civil-rights-and-wo&quot;&gt;Was the nuanced treatment of Uhura a deliberate statement on civil rights and women's liberation?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3187/was-there-a-common-influence-for-the-characters-leela-on-futurama-and-aeryn-on-f&quot;&gt;Was there a common influence for the characters Leela on Futurama and Aeryn on Farscape&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And there's this one that comments on women in the US' Air Force:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3224/how-could-samantha-carter-s-words-about-the-gulf-war-be-true&quot;&gt;How could Samantha Carter's words about the Gulf War be true?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of these are questions that arise from the previously-mentioned cultural baggage. And they point out some of the ways that female characters are a topic worthy of discussion specifically, which means they should have a tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2013-03-10T17:19:23.507" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2637" CreationDate="2013-03-13T14:29:45.440" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The reason why code-embedded tables are awful is that you cannot use normal formatting like boldness, italics, links and so forth. Everything will be interpreted as code.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, Stack Exchange is one of leading family of sites when it comes to &lt;strong&gt;not getting in the way of users&lt;/strong&gt; when they want to provide content. The fact that tables are missing is a big setback in terms of usability. Of course one can always hack something together with monospace fonts and tons of spaces but seriously, I think we are decades past that sort of stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tables have a smell on them as they have been misused in the dark ages of the Web, but when used what they are intended for tables are a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastActivityDate="2013-03-13T14:29:45.440" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2729" CreationDate="2013-03-13T16:36:37.570" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Scrolling back in time in the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/design&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;design&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;design&lt;/a&gt; tag here on meta will find you lots of information about the design and the logo. The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/976/design-for-science-fiction-fantasy&quot;&gt;Design for Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy&lt;/a&gt; incudes an explanation of the logo, which was designed for the site, and some of the thoughts behind it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="847" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2016-05-10T03:49:00.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2637" CreationDate="2013-03-14T02:25:13.623" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Posting an example at @bitmasks's request - this is the basic format I was thinking of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;{Row 1 Col 1}{Row 1 Col 2}&#xA;{Row 2 Col 1}{Row 2 Col 2}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The names should make it obvious what the groupings mean.  For headers, insert &lt;strong&gt;bolding&lt;/strong&gt; markup:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;{ **Header 1** }{ **Header 2** }&#xA;{Row 1 Col 1}{Row 1 Col 2}&#xA;{Row 2 Col 1}{Row 2 Col 2}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea is whenever &lt;code&gt;}&lt;/code&gt; is followed by &lt;code&gt;{&lt;/code&gt; &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; a new line between them, treat them as the same row, a new line creating the next row.  That makes bulleted lists possible, if a bit messy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;{ **Dialogue** }{ **Notes** }&#xA;{ _Hamlet_: &quot;Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio&quot; }{&#xA;* Holds skull&#xA;  * Human, not monkey&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(If that's a bit difficult to envision, this is what I imagine:)&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bjbMs.png&quot; alt=&quot;Example with bulleted list&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to mention spoiler'd text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;{&#xA;&amp;gt;! _Skull_: &quot;Why're ya talkin' ta me?&quot;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastActivityDate="2013-03-14T02:25:13.623" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2808" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2810" CreationDate="2013-03-15T13:00:40.623" Score="7" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I was presented with flag review screen which showed some flags for review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some of the posts, I had 2 buttons: &quot;flag&quot; and &quot;delete answer&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But for others, I only had the &quot;flag&quot; button, even though they were flagged as &quot;not an answer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why the discrepancy? Was the &quot;delete&quot; button only available after the post accumulates a certain threshold of flags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2014-09-01T21:50:09.567" Title="Why can I only delete some answers in flag review screen?" Tags="|support|flagging|review-queue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2023-09-12T14:40:03.777" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2809" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2811" CreationDate="2013-03-15T13:04:00.293" Score="4" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I had an yellow ellipse with &amp;quot;11&amp;quot; in it in my top toolbar next to &amp;quot;review&amp;quot; link, which took me to a screen allowing reviewing flagged posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only recall seeing that screen once or twice before, in all my time here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What are the rules and circumstances for showing it?&lt;/strong&gt; Minimum rep? Random &amp;quot;quality control&amp;quot; review? Only when there are no mods around to action those flags for a certain amount of time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a hard time believing that every flag that happens is displayed that way to high rep users, since I would have surely seen many more of them before today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2020-09-16T04:43:37.103" LastActivityDate="2020-09-16T04:43:37.103" Title="When does the system show flag review screen?" Tags="|support|flagging|review-queue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2023-09-12T14:39:22.600" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2808" CreationDate="2013-03-15T13:30:23.910" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;delete&quot; button is only available if you have the right to delete it. As a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/privileges/trusted-user&quot;&gt;trusted-user (+20k)&lt;/a&gt; you have the right to vote to delete answers &lt;strong&gt;with score of -1 or lower&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-09-01T21:50:09.567" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2809" CreationDate="2013-03-15T13:50:23.777" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The bubble is shown to users with access to the flag queue (10k on graduated sites, 2k on betas) when the queue gets above a certain size, I'm not sure the precise number it takes, I believe ~5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2013-03-15T13:50:23.777" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2812" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2813" CreationDate="2013-03-15T22:11:14.157" Score="14" ViewCount="318" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the question &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/33051/i-am-looking-for-the-author-of-a-sci-fi-trilogy&quot;&gt;I am looking for the author of a trilogy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; the OP &lt;em&gt;user13147&lt;/em&gt; seems to be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there is no hope to identify this &quot;Sci-Fi trilogy&quot; as the user cannot respond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should we handle such questions? Should they be deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2013-03-22T12:27:01.447" Title="What should we do with a story-identification question where the asking user has been deleted?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|clean-up|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2812" CreationDate="2013-03-16T19:39:00.283" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main benefit of a good story identification question is to provide information to other users who may also be looking for that story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, it doesn't matter if the OP deletes or not (in fact, its not really any different from a Story ID question where the OP leaves soon after asking, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4768/identifying-a-story-about-a-girl-named-sarah-who-finds-out-she-is-a-robot&quot;&gt;doesn't come back&lt;/a&gt;.  Or even asks and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20795/seva-the-fictional-greek-goddess-of-destruction-in-a-pre-1955-book&quot;&gt;doesn't bother checking to see if they got an answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think anything special should be done if the OP deletes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2013-03-22T12:27:01.447" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2812" CreationDate="2013-03-17T03:49:40.860" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;TLDR;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those question are hopeless and wont get an answer, if someone is searching for same story, It would be better if he ask a brand new question, otherwise, he will just find this question and pass on. &lt;strong&gt;They are dangerous dead-end on the information highway and a roadblock must be put on the path before someone hurt.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone who think he may have fond the &lt;em&gt;solution&lt;/em&gt; is destined to eternal doubts, no one will be able to confirm the exactitude of this finding. &lt;strong&gt;Those are desert island where someone surfing on the internet could only be washed up without any hope of being saved.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are dangerous for the health of the website, they are like a rotten corpse and need to be buried before the plague destroy the village. They need to be DESTROYED!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TO THE STAKE!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2013-03-17T03:49:40.860" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2812" CreationDate="2013-03-18T01:17:03.387" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll propose a solution mid-way between the two extremes presented by esteemed previous answerers. They both make some good points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Such questions IMHO aren't as A-OK and inoffensive as @Beofett thinks, under the general ideas presented by @DavRob. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We routinely close questions that can not generate &quot;correct&quot; answer (when any possible answer is just a guess) as NC or NARQ; and an orphaned &quot;story-id&quot; question by definition can not be &quot;correctly&quot; answered, since the correctness is only known to the &lt;strike&gt;beerholder&lt;/strike&gt; OP who's gone, gone, gone.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, @Beofett presents a compelling argument in the comments to @DavRob's answer, that &lt;strong&gt;deleting&lt;/strong&gt; such questions is problematic because some of them contain &lt;strong&gt;good&lt;/strong&gt; (even if not provably correct) answers, which contain useful information for future readers AND cost people answering them a lot of time and effort researching (and as a secondary consideration, gave them rep).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Therefore, I would propose a more nuanced policy:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If such an orphaned story-id question has no answers (or all of answers are obvious shoot-from-the-hip meritless guesses with no useful info in them whatsoever - e.g. not showing how such a guess matches the question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;... then &lt;strong&gt;delete&lt;/strong&gt;, under @DavRob's theory of broken windows.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If such an orphaned story-id question has an answer that appear to contain useful information and show effort (and when choosing between #1 and #2, I would recommend heavily erring on side of #2 if answers are present)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;... then &lt;strong&gt;close&lt;/strong&gt;, but do &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; delete such a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm agnostic as to what close reason we use (Not Constructive or NARQ can be applicable; I would argue against T.L.).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. If the only concern over adopting this policy is the subjectiveness of &quot;has good answers&quot; vs &quot;has bad answers&quot; criteria, we can easily institute objective criteria for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;An answer to an orphaned story-id is considered &quot;&lt;strong&gt;good&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; if:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It has 3 or more up-votes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;OR, if (no matter how voted), it presents an explanation how the work in question matches point-by-point description of the work in the question - thus giving the readers a clear way to see if, at the very least, the answer is &quot;possibly correct&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that &quot;matching point by point&quot; does NOT have to be 100% positive matches - personally, an answers that honestly says &quot;this work matches point #1, #2 and #4 because of xyz plot points; but does NOT match OP's point #3&quot; is a good answer even if it's probably not a &quot;correct&quot; one.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;An answer to an orphaned story-id is considered &quot;&lt;strong&gt;bad&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; if:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It merely presents the name of the work, without showing how that work matches OP's question. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or, it is clearly wrong (e.g. comments show &lt;strong&gt;many&lt;/strong&gt; points in which it does NOT match OP's question, which the answerer didn't even consider).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;An answer that isn't clearly &quot;bad&quot; under the above rules, should be assumed to be &quot;&lt;strong&gt;good&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/em&gt; - in other words, the question should NOT be deleted (but still closed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, to re-iterate, this policy should &lt;strong&gt;strongly&lt;/strong&gt; lean in favor of assuming the answers are &quot;good&quot;, i.e. closing as opposed to deleting OP's question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2013-03-18T01:41:55.643" LastActivityDate="2013-03-18T01:41:55.643" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2816" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-21T07:42:17.957" Score="5" ViewCount="318" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/33254/was-same-sex-marriage-abortion-or-euthanasia-ever-mentioned-in-star-wars&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; about politically hot button issues in Star Wars closed?  It seems little different than other questions about sprawling works, yet those questions remain open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4096" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2014-09-21T07:47:20.027" Title="Why was this question about hot button issues in Star Wars closed?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|specific-question|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2816" CreationDate="2013-03-21T12:23:51.953" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question, whilst it's asking about the same sprawling works as various other question on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;, this one in particular seems to be asking about several, loosely grouped topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is an answer which states only examples of abortion able to be correct?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Would an answer of just 'Yes', or 'Yes, in book X' be sufficient for the OP? Would it be satisfactory for the community?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is an answer that states more examples more correct?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few of these points, and some more mean that the question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...will likely solicit debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, arguments over which book in which answer gives a clearer answer, what constitutes a good answer to this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is, of course still able to be edited, clarified, improved and possibly re-opened. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be worth noting that, as it stands the question it shows &lt;strong&gt;zero&lt;/strong&gt; research or effort on the part of the asker, which is likely why it garnered the downvotes, and also why people may have been more tempted to close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps narrowing it down to one subject, giving some reasoning behind it, and showing some more research effort would convince the community to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2013-03-21T12:23:51.953" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2816" CreationDate="2013-03-21T13:37:46.887" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to close because I felt that it was not a real question asked in good faith. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Are there any instances of [random controversial issue in real world politics] in [random science fiction or fantasy series] ?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a good question. It's more about the wedge issue than the science fiction. It's never asked because there is reason to believe that there would be in that work, nor is it asked because it seems notably absent from the work. The question may even be asked to poke fun at the work in question. Certainly no one learns anything of significance from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the worst case scenario, I think this might even happen because someone is trying to hijack this SE for their own propaganda purposes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it had been asked in a way that suggests that it was a good faith question (new BSG instead of Star Wars), I would have answered it and I'd be voting to reopen. (Abortion being a real issue on the show after all, not to mention other similar subjects.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7603" LastActivityDate="2013-03-21T13:37:46.887" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2692" CreationDate="2013-03-21T21:17:34.880" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/privileges&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/privileges&lt;/a&gt; shows your current reputation, what privileges that gets you, and where you stand on getting others (e.g. 83% of the way to being able to create tags). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also find this page by hovering over your name in the top bar on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;main site&lt;/a&gt; and clicking &quot;privileges&quot;, or by visiting the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq#reputation&quot;&gt;Reputation section of the FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11101" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2013-03-21T21:17:34.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2820" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2825" CreationDate="2013-03-22T22:40:54.610" Score="4" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few months ago I read &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/26738/what-were-the-reasons-for-the-completely-different-ending-in-the-twilight-saga&quot;&gt;this &lt;em&gt;Twilight&lt;/em&gt; question&lt;/a&gt;, which contains the wrong spoiler for the ending of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Dawn Part 2&lt;/em&gt;. At that time I hadn't watched the film, but I read the spoiler, and I believed that it was true. But after finally watching it today, I got to know that it contains the completely wrong ending spoiler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what should be done with this kind of question, where wrong information is given? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6006" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2013-03-23T21:19:35.310" Title="What should be done to the question which contain wrong spoiler?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|spoilers|question-quality|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2816" CreationDate="2013-03-23T04:06:13.457" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;While it's not the greatest question on the site, and it's not elaborate, setting quality aside I think it's a valid question. Yes, I know no one else agrees with me. That's all right, I'll take the hit. :P &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq#close&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; and it says that the correct type of question to ask on the site includes questions that address the historical or societal context of a work. This question does not meet the criteria for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq#close&quot;&gt;questions that should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be asked&lt;/a&gt;. I'm not sure why abortion, same-sex relationships, or ... whatever the third one was ... should be considered off limits in one universe but not another, or more controversial than genocide, slavery, the use of weapons of mass destruction, religion, homicide, the death penalty, subjugation, or politics. All of these topics are present in &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That a user is &lt;em&gt;personally&lt;/em&gt; offended by a topic is, or should be, incidental to the validity of a question. &lt;em&gt;Either a topic is present in a work or it's not&lt;/em&gt;. If it's present, it will be within a specific context. It's simple to just answer the question with canon facts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP did not demand that any user disclose what his/her personal opinion on these hot topics are; the OP asked whether the topics are present in the &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; universe. That it elicited a reactionary response in some users does not speak to the question, but rather reflects social distaste. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I myself asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/10684/was-shmi-skywalker-a-virgin-when-she-conceived-anakin&quot;&gt;whether Shmi Skywalker was a virgin&lt;/a&gt; when she conceived Anakin and that question received pretty solid support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering if perhaps there was a bit of a reactionary, kneejerk response to this, both due to the topics and the perceived tone of the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2013-03-23T04:06:13.457" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2816" CreationDate="2013-03-23T08:23:10.447" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;umm... It's just the inverse of a list question. It and any other question like should be closed because it still has all the problems of a list question. We shouldn't take a &quot;Did George R.R. Martin ever write about topic X&quot; or &quot;Does topic X crop in this stable of works?&quot; and here's the reasons why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All the problems of list questions still apply, if not quite as bad&lt;/strong&gt;. Every single example can be a valid answer. At least they aren't effectively infinite like most list questions, but they are still likely to generate a ton of junk answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They generate subjective answers&lt;/strong&gt; Sometimes you think a topic is being addressed when it really ain't. George R.R. definitely addresses incest in the world of Westeros. George Lucas didn't address it in Star Wars, but you could wedge it in there if you didn't actually know the back story to how some changes got made. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stack Exchange (and this community in particular) doesn't deal well with answers that are NO&lt;/strong&gt; This medium is just not good at taking a no. Anytime the answer should be just a flat no, you basically have to prove the negative. It's always three paragraphs of &quot;Here's everywhere I looked, it's a no&quot; and even that well qualified answer can turn out wrong. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There's a difference between asking about a topic as it relates to a work and asking if a topic shows up in a work.&lt;/strong&gt; See, when you have to describe the topic in the context of the work, you have to lay out the framework with which good answers are built. That's why the site encourages people to ask about problems they have actually had. When you actually have a problem, then somebody can probably come up with a solution. Basically, one makes you describe how you see topic X in that work, while the other is idle curiosity at best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The final straw&lt;/strong&gt; These questions are effectively infinite. They are plug an play. They are literally only constrained by the number of topics and the number of Sci-Fi universes. That is not okay. There is a reason good questions should show research effort and it's so the site doesn't get overrun with easy to ask crap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="255" LastActivityDate="2013-03-23T08:23:10.447" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2820" CreationDate="2013-03-23T08:41:26.523" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should down vote the question. In this particular case, it looks like a straight up troll question. It appears that the question was asked just so the wrong info would be seen by people. Especially because the movie didn't even hit theaters until the 16th of Nov. and this question was asked Nov 12.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="255" LastActivityDate="2013-03-23T08:41:26.523" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2820" CreationDate="2013-03-23T21:19:35.310" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;A question that has no basis in reality (either real world, or in-universe) seems of little use to anyone.  I voted to close the question as not constructive, but too localized would also be an acceptable close reason for this sort of situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This particular question could maybe be edited to match the actual contents of the film, if there are some significant differences between the book and film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2013-03-23T21:19:35.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2826" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-25T17:07:33.787" Score="9" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to get people to write reviews for some of the major movies coming out this year. Here is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.movieinsider.com/movies/-/2013/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;quick schedule&lt;/a&gt; for 2013:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;G.I. Joe: Retaliation - March 28th&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jurassic Park 3D - April 5th&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Evil Dead - April 5th&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fathomevents.com/#!star-trek-best-of-both-worlds/more-info/details&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Star Trek: The Best of Both Worlds&lt;/a&gt; - April 25th&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ironman 3 - May 3rd&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Star Trek Into Darkness - May 17th&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After Earth - May 31st&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Man of Steel - June 14th&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;World War Z - June 21st&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Wolverine - July 26th&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ender's Game - November 1st&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Thor: The Dark Worlds - November 8th&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - November 22nd&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - December 13th&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an not a complete list. If you have another movie not on this list and it is on topic you'd be welcome to write a review about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of us are film critics (that I'm aware of), so a more conversation tone about the film is okay. Examples of things to talk about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How does the movie compare to the written work / previous installments? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Changes from the source material are inevitable, what are the most notable differences?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What changes improved the storytelling, what changes seemed to detract from the storytelling?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you'd like to contribute post an answer with the movie you'd like to commit to seeing and writing a review for. Ideally that review would be ready within a couple of weeks of the film's release. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2013-05-22T19:43:44.340" LastActivityDate="2013-05-22T19:43:44.340" Title="Summer Blockbuster season is coming, would you like to write a review for the blog?" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2826" CreationDate="2013-03-26T12:15:05.927" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Below is a sublist of the films I intend to see, witht he UK release dates&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ironman 3 - &lt;em&gt;26th April&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Star Trek Into Darkness - &lt;em&gt;10th May&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Wolverine - 26th July&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Thor: The Dark Worlds - &lt;em&gt;30th October&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - 13th December&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst I can't commit to writing all of them, I'm happy to commit to one or two once more people answer, and I can fill in the gaps hopefully.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2013-03-26T12:21:25.343" LastActivityDate="2013-03-26T12:21:25.343" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2826" CreationDate="2013-03-26T13:23:35.047" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have an interest in covering Ender's Game if nobody else will take it (and at least some &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/enders-game/topusers&quot;&gt;on-topic qualifications&lt;/a&gt; :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I can't commit to November post since I don't plan to see it till DVDs come out couple months later (unless DavRob's idea from the above comment works).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;: Seems @Beofett will take the on-time review for this movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2013-03-26T16:52:46.390" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2829" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-03-26T16:50:22.220" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;For discussion on what constitutes a good Tag Wiki, please &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1626/what-should-be-in-a-tag-wiki&quot;&gt;see this related meta discussion&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag wiki excerpt is a brief plain text introduction to the topic that the tag represents. It is shown at the top of tag question lists, and as a tooltip wherever the tag appears. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The full tag wiki is a detailed introduction to the topic, suitable as a destination for those curious about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information, Jeff Atwood has &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/03/redesigned-tags-page/&quot;&gt;written a blog about our tag pages&lt;/a&gt; that is relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="1359" LastEditDate="2013-03-26T17:20:54.617" LastActivityDate="2013-03-26T17:20:54.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2830" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-03-26T16:50:22.220" Score="0" Body="Questions relating to how tag wikis and tag wiki excerpts should be written and used." OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="1359" LastEditDate="2013-03-26T17:20:48.553" LastActivityDate="2013-03-26T17:20:48.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2826" CreationDate="2013-03-26T22:07:08.210" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having checked with my wife, I can commit to both &lt;em&gt;Enders Game&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Iron Man 3&lt;/em&gt; (my wife's a Robert Downey Jr. fan).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2013-03-26T22:07:08.210" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2826" CreationDate="2013-03-26T22:09:23.883" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm wanting to see almost all of them, but it might take me a while... Jurrasic Park, Star Trek, Irom Man, Ender's Game, the Hobbit, Hunger Games, and probably a few others I'll be watching at some point in time... I would be able to see more if Stack Exchange can work some magic;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2013-03-27T19:54:53.247" LastActivityDate="2013-03-27T19:54:53.247" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2833" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-28T14:58:07.200" Score="8" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;The word planetary is defined as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Adjective&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Of, relating to, or belonging to a planet or planets.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Of or relating to the earth as a planet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it makes sense that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/planetary&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;planetary&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;planetary&lt;/a&gt; has questions about the structure, size, or other qualities of planets.  However, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_%28comics%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Planetary&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is also a popular comic book series, and is what the first few usages of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/planetary&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;planetary&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;planetary&lt;/a&gt; are discussing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do we do here?  Should we do what we did with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alien&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alien-1979&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alien-1979&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alien-1979&lt;/a&gt;?  Or is the tagging of these questions about &lt;em&gt;planets&lt;/em&gt; incorrect, and those should have the tag removed and replaced with something else, maybe &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/planets&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;planets&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;planets&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2020-08-14T20:22:46.920" Title="How should the planetary tag be used?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2833" CreationDate="2013-03-28T15:02:53.253" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that planetary is okay for the comic series, and questions relating to planets can just use the planet tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="39144" LastEditDate="2020-08-14T20:22:46.920" LastActivityDate="2020-08-14T20:22:46.920" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2833" CreationDate="2013-03-28T15:27:38.840" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think many new users would find &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/planetary&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;planetary&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;planetary&lt;/a&gt; ambiguous.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/planetary-comic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;planetary-comic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;planetary-comic&lt;/a&gt; for the comic title, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/planets&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;planets&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;planets&lt;/a&gt; for anything dealing with actual planets, would be clearer, in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2013-03-28T15:27:38.840" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2484" CreationDate="2013-03-29T23:13:42.977" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/AnimeAndMangaQA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YAI2x.png&quot; alt=&quot;Anime &amp;amp; Manga SE Community on FB&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6365" LastActivityDate="2013-03-29T23:13:42.977" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-03-29T23:13:42.977" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2484" CreationDate="2013-03-29T23:55:30.497" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://plus.google.com/111061084179563499110/posts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/v9och.png&quot; alt=&quot;Anime &amp;amp; Manga SE Community on G+&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6365" LastActivityDate="2013-03-29T23:55:30.497" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-03-29T23:55:30.497" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2838" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-30T14:47:00.027" Score="15" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;I sometimes get first-time posts in the review queue that I cannot really judge, since I have &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; knowledge of the universe whatsoever (e.g. &quot;Does this question even make sense?&quot; / &quot;Does this answer even come close to addressing the question?&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I mark them &quot;No action needed&quot; if they seem to be non-spam and decently formatted, even though I have no way of checking if the text is complete nonsense or might not address the question (if the post is an answer)?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;[To clarify: That seems to be the mode the moderators are supposed to operate under, but it might not be the way the review tool is intended.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if in doubt I could always say &quot;Skip&quot; and hope that somebody with expertise on the subject gets the question in their queue. On the other hand, if the post seems to contain no spam/offence (or otherwise obviously inappropriate content) I might just as well approve of it and let the community decide on the post's quality via votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the consensus here? Where is the threshold for Approving/Skipping in such situations? I don't think there is a one-fits-all rule here, so a rough threshold seems to be the most sensible thing, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastActivityDate="2013-06-26T23:45:26.427" Title="How should I review First Posts on topics I am completely unfamiliar with?" Tags="|discussion|support|review-queue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2839" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-30T14:55:45.633" Score="5" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed there is a fair amount of suggested &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2484/2565&quot;&gt;Community Promotion Ads&lt;/a&gt; that was rightfully discarded (i.e. mod-deleted) because it advertises the main site. I agree that this is redundant, since the ads would be shown on the main site itself, but some of the posts might have merit for other SE sites. So, maybe we could collect suggestions for other sites on the SE network as answers to this question. Maybe it sparks an idea where those outcast ads might fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2013-04-02T19:21:52.313" Title="Reverse Community Promotion Ads 2013" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-03-30T16:20:25.247" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2839" CreationDate="2013-03-30T14:57:42.267" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/njfXi.png&quot; alt=&quot;SCI FI BANNER 2013&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastActivityDate="2013-03-30T14:57:42.267" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-03-30T14:57:42.267" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2839" CreationDate="2013-03-30T15:01:16.380" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8Fpqn.png&quot; alt=&quot;TO BOLDLY GO 2013&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastActivityDate="2013-03-30T15:01:16.380" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-03-30T15:01:16.380" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2839" CreationDate="2013-03-30T15:02:58.607" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lK9gp.png&quot; alt=&quot;PRECIOUS 2013&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastActivityDate="2013-03-30T15:02:58.607" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-03-30T15:02:58.607" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2839" CreationDate="2013-03-30T15:04:12.580" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lvw9q.png&quot; alt=&quot;That&amp;#39;s no moon&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastActivityDate="2013-03-30T15:04:12.580" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-03-30T15:04:12.580" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2839" CreationDate="2013-03-30T15:06:48.127" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xL3dQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Not sure if SciFi Or Fantasy&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastActivityDate="2013-03-30T15:06:48.127" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-03-30T15:06:48.127" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2839" CreationDate="2013-03-30T15:07:44.647" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8NhWD.png&quot; alt=&quot;ONE RING TO RULE THEM ALL&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastActivityDate="2013-03-30T15:07:44.647" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-03-30T15:07:44.647" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2839" CreationDate="2013-03-30T15:08:49.510" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eP1sD.png&quot; alt=&quot;It&amp;#39;s bigger on the inside&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastActivityDate="2013-03-30T15:08:49.510" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-03-30T15:08:49.510" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2839" CreationDate="2013-03-30T21:50:36.160" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/half-life&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jlDFy.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Scientist. Fictional.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2013-03-30T21:50:36.160" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-03-30T21:50:36.160" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2848" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-01T02:16:35.103" Score="8" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are certain questions that are in a peculiar situation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question is about a canon in-progress (either the series continues, ala JRRMartin, or Enderverse; or the author is publishing an ongoing canon reference - ala Pottermore).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question has no good answer in canon TO DATE.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is a reasonable non-trivial chance that in the &lt;strong&gt;reasonably specific&lt;/strong&gt; date in the future, related areas of canon WILL be expanded due to #1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To re-iterate, this is expected in a reasonably defined amount of time - e.g. we know Pottermore will be finished in 2-4 years; and the last book of Enderverse will be published in 2 years).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In such a situation, should we have a policy which strongly encourages posting a very explicit note - accompanying &quot;no info in canon&quot; answer - in the form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please note that there is no canon information on the topic as of MM/DD/YYYY.&#xA;  However, it is expected that a new part of canon () will be released on date MM/DD/YYYY, at which point this answer should be revisited to verify if the question was answered via new canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This note would serve four purposes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let people know that &quot;not all is lost&quot; - e.g. the &quot;no info&quot; answer may not be final.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It lets people know precisely when the answer (possibly) is no longer correct. E.g. it puts an expiration date on it; anyone reading past that date would know not to rely on &quot;no info&quot; answer without checking new canon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It would be a wonderful resource for improving the site content - people can collect answers with such notes as &quot;TODO&quot; lists and verify the info once the canon is expanded on a given date.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;While I'm wishing for a pie in the sky, may be JKR will read such a question on SFF.SE and decide to include the info into Pottermore just because we noted this :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2013-04-02T18:52:42.853" LastActivityDate="2016-07-13T21:53:39.247" Title="Should we post a note that specific pieces of canon are not yet available to accompany &quot;no info in canon&quot; answers?" Tags="|discussion|canon|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2849" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2850" CreationDate="2013-04-01T04:49:36.237" Score="13" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got a couple of mini popups asking if I want to &quot;Chat with an expert&quot; (once on SFF, twice on Politics).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this some new functionality of SE sites? Or a trojan I picked up somewhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2013-04-01T05:46:55.423" Title="What's this &quot;Chat with an expert&quot; popup thing?" Tags="|support|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2849" CreationDate="2013-04-01T05:46:55.423" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did it occur to you to check the date that this &quot;expert chat&quot; appeared?  (Hint: Today is the first day of April.)  I chatted with one and it's a bot - apparently based on an Eliza type program.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2013-04-01T05:46:55.423" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2851" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2855" CreationDate="2013-04-01T15:05:40.260" Score="0" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/33717/did-the-potterverse-merlin-and-king-arthurs-court-accurately-reflect-history-i&quot;&gt;What elements of Arthurian Legend are adopted in Harry Potter?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to provide a decent answer, but the question got closed under my nose so I can't post it... :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't mind locking and/or protecting it to prevent random spam, but please re-open. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted my proposed answer below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2013-04-01T16:13:44.573" Title="Can this Q please be reopened?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|specific-question|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2851" CreationDate="2013-04-01T15:05:48.230" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does this mean that talking dragons and the former rivalry between wizards and knights used to exist in the potterverse?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, you can not make that assumption based on shared Merlin.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Potterverse and Merlin-TV-show-verse are not the same. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Merlin&lt;/a&gt; is a common mythological/fictional character, and is &quot;free to use&quot;, since there is no copyright on him due to centuries-old works introducing him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, any work of fiction can include Merlin as a character or part of the universe, independently of each other. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Merely the fact that Merlin exists in two works of fiction does NOT make them identical universes - absent specific proof - it merely implies that they both happen on Earth, on which a person (wizard or Magician) named Merlin existed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia lists &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin#Fiction_featuring_Merlin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;tons of works&lt;/a&gt; that mention Merlin&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;So does &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Merlin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TVTropes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or, if you truly wish to have a comprehensive look at Arthuriana in fiction, for a slightly more extensive list, we have 126-page-long &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1843840626&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Arturian Legend in Literature&lt;/a&gt;&quot; book (by Keith Busby, Roger Dalrympl), now on 22d volume.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This means that for the universe to be shared, it must be explicitly be stated to be shared by two creators, (as opposed to merely including common elements of Arthuriana).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that the case? No. As per 100% of what JKR ever stated in her interviews/FAQs/web sites/podcasts (I searched), she never mentioned that there are any tie-ins with the show. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither does Merlin &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki page&lt;/a&gt;, nor any page of BBC's Merlin site that I ever saw mention JKR/Potterverse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither are there any fictional-detail tie-ins aside from Arthuriana (which as we established in #1, is not enough to establish a common Universe).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;So... what about the original question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does this mean that talking dragons and the former rivalry between wizards and knights used to exist in the potterverse?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As per established asnswer on SFF (&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/33217/were-there-any-talking-dragons-in-harry-potter-world&quot;&gt;Were there any talking dragons in Harry Potter world?&lt;/a&gt; &quot;) , there seems to be NO canon information indicating that Potterverse dragons can talk.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There definitely WAS a rivalry between wizards and muggles (knights included), which was a common feature of Medieval Eath history. A canon example of such was &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Nicholas_de_Mimsy-Porpington&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sir Nick being nearly-beheaded&lt;/a&gt;, which was surely NOT the work of a peasant.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2013-04-01T15:05:48.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2851" CreationDate="2013-04-01T15:18:58.677" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Keen's comment on the original question.  Just because you composed a good answer does not make the question valid (and a good portion of your answer is devoted to why the question is based off of some fairly broad logical leaps).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2013-04-01T15:18:58.677" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2851" CreationDate="2013-04-01T15:44:55.723" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has previously been discussed in the infamous &quot;Timelord&quot; thread &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2459/98&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, cross universe posts are only valid if there is a reason to suspect they are in the same universe. A specific example was mentioned of crossing Twilight Werewolfs with Harry Potter Werewolfs, they don't have anything in common, there is no reason to suspect they do, and should just be banned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to the specific question mentioned, there is absolutely no reason to suspect that a Harry Potter Merlin has anything to do with the Merlin from the myth. You yourself in your answer came to that same conclusion, although it was somewhat elegantly put. Merlin has a hundred different stories, and one cannot suspect that all of them are connected together. In the case where a character commonly used in mythology is adopted by a specific universe in a way that is different, it makes no sense to directly compare that character to the entire history of the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there is some good material in this question. I've decided to edit it, and re-open it, based off of a more realistic question. See the question for my edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2013-04-01T16:06:48.287" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2851" CreationDate="2013-04-01T16:13:44.573" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question's been edited to be about &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt;'s Merlin compared to the Arthurian Legend Merlin.  It is now reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2013-04-01T16:13:44.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2848" CreationDate="2013-04-02T01:16:15.660" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Leaving aside the &quot;Including the answer in the question&quot;, which is really bad form for these kind of things since it makes it look like people support the solution even if they upvoted because they think it is a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This proposal is a bad idea. It's not selective enough. The problem it seeks to fix isn't an actual problem. Even if it was a problem, this wouldn't fix the problem. Let's dive a little deeper and I'll explain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's not selective enough.&lt;/strong&gt; Any canon question whose rights are still active falls into this category. Orson Scott Card has written the &quot;last&quot; Enderverse novel three or four times, just name one example. Any universe with active rights or a living author means that somebody can purchase those rights and throw some work out, which will either be made canon or rejected from the canon. That means the subset of questions that this &quot;problem&quot; applies to is every single canon question on the site, unless the work in question is over 60 years old with zero refreshes. Even then, new canon could still come out, since the rights are now public domain. Basically, canon evolves all the time, which might invalidate some content, but that's why we have edit buttons and votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This isn't a real problem&lt;/strong&gt;. We aren't suddenly awash in formerly correct canonical answers. Most questions of this type aren't great content anyway. A large number of the questions that cite a need for canon responses fall into a few categories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are multiple canons in play, depending on your level of involvement, and the various canons aren't in complete agreement. An example of this is Star Wars, or Marvel / Ultimate comics. This is a valid and useful reference to canon.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People use canon to shoehorn a bad question onto the site. The scope gets limited to make a typically poor question fit the format. Examples of these kind of questions are the &quot;Did x author talk about this subject, canon answers only&quot; or &quot;List all the things x, but canon only&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People are trying to limit the responses to a specific work or smaller subset. Also a valid and useful appeal to canon. Things like &quot;Only book quotes&quot; or &quot;Show the scene, please&quot; tend to mark these appeals to canon.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only two of the uses commonly used are actually valid for the site. These are also the ones that are least likely to have negative responses, as any real problem question is likely addressed in the canon. (The ones that aren't seem to be so nitpicky as to be unlikely to be addressed in the future.) Unfortunately, DVK didn't include a date set of questions that he felt met his criteria of problem children, so the above is subjective and subject to change with the addition of data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The meat of my argument is simply this &lt;strong&gt;This has no chance to actually solve the problem described.&lt;/strong&gt; Comments aren't searchable. You can't use them to filter. People who are interested in correcting old answers are going to still have to use the exact same process to find the content to fix if we did this or not. That is not a good system. It does not fix the described problem. That is enough by itself to burninate the whole thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="255" LastActivityDate="2013-04-02T01:16:15.660" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2839" CreationDate="2013-04-02T19:21:52.313" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games?sort=newest&amp;amp;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GrqpT.png&quot; alt=&quot;Ask your lore questions on scifi.stackexchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2013-04-02T19:21:52.313" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-04-02T19:21:52.313" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2858" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2860" CreationDate="2013-04-02T19:25:46.677" Score="-3" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please reopen &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/33733/identify-a-western-story-comics-or-movie-which-a-black-or-asian-hero-heroine-pla&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, which after editing is on topic according to this FAQ item:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Story Identification&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did no users, mods, or repliers inform me or edit it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13497" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2013-04-02T20:48:02.740" Title="Questions about identifying stories are on topic according to the faq!" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|specific-question|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2858" CreationDate="2013-04-02T19:46:12.107" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There appears to be a language issue here.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Story identification, as listed in the FAQ, means &quot;I once read/saw a story, but I can't remember what it was called; please someone help me find the title&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you are asking is &quot;please list any number of stories that meet my criteria&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/17/1359&quot;&gt;this meta discussion&lt;/a&gt; for more details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2013-04-02T19:46:12.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2858" CreationDate="2013-04-02T20:22:14.523" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bottom line is this. Story identification questions are on topic. However, if there are so few details such that any number of stories could fit that example, they are not allowed. For instance, there once was a user who asked a question saying something to the effect of &quot;I remember watching a movie with a time traveling robot. What is it?&quot;. That just doesn't give any clues, and could be interpreted any number of ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question reads &quot;Please identify a western story,comics or movie which a black or Asian hero/heroine has the positive first role.&quot; There are any number of stories, movies, etc which fit that criteria. If you are looking for a specific story, you need to include more details. Things such as when you heard about it, where you were, etc, all clues that you are focusing on a specific story. The question you gave is similar to the Time Traveling Robot, there are just too many examples to make this work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best questions on Stack Exchange have answers which can be clearly identified, and require some explaining. Opinion is okay, but there should be a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some small list type question are allowed, BTW, so long as the list is relatively narrow. Naming every Dr. Who actor would be allowed, for instance, but not a question as generic as this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-04-02T20:22:14.523" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2858" CreationDate="2013-04-02T20:48:02.740" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are 2 relevant parts of the site FAQ in play here.  The first is under &lt;em&gt;What kind of questions can I ask here?&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Story identification&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This links to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-idenfication&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-idenfication&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-idenfication&lt;/a&gt; tag, which has a tag excerpt of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions asking for help identifying a TV series/episode, comic-book issue/story arc, movie, book, or other story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So these are about questions where a person is looking for one specific story that they cannot recall the title of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second FAQ entry is under &lt;em&gt;What about other Science Fiction and Fantasy related questions?&lt;/em&gt; which has some examples of questions that are off-topic here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions calling for a list of works, authors, …: What are all the books that have X? Who wrote about topic Y?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is they type of question you're asking.  You're asking for a list of works that have X, where X is a black or Asian hero/heroine protagonist.  These sorts of questions lead to an unending list of answers as people add a couple of examples in each answer.  This doesn't work on a Q&amp;amp;A site, where each question is expected to have some sort of finite, reasonably-sized answer, and so they are off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2013-04-02T20:48:02.740" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2862" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-03T01:19:46.437" Score="6" ViewCount="196" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;F.A.Q.&lt;/a&gt; doesn't actually forbid list questions, instead forbidding a specific subset of those questions. However, the fact remains that we are NOT a reference site. This format (Q &amp;amp; A) is never going to be a good reference site builder because of how the content is solicited. Any time one person could not reasonably be expected to answer the question, that's a fairly good indication that you just asked a bad question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not talking about hard questions. You know, the ones that there are only a few individuals  on the planet, known by some as experts, know the answers to. I know previously people have declared that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16/are-list-questions-allowed&quot;&gt;limited lists&lt;/a&gt; are okay. There are quite a lot of questions that deal with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2092/why-are-asking-for-lists-or-questions-similar-to-asking-for-lists-bad&quot;&gt;lists&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1450/are-questions-looking-to-simply-prove-or-disprove-a-premise-with-a-yes-no-answer?rq=1&quot;&gt;throughout&lt;/a&gt; a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1465/how-should-we-handle-any-list-questions&quot;&gt;large&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/411/culling-list-and-recommendation-questions&quot;&gt;amount of meta&lt;/a&gt;. I know that's a lot of reading to get through, but I know you can handle it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also have the additional provision in the above mentioned FAQ that questions should be asked from an actual problem and not from idle curiosity. It seems like many of the list questions may have a difficult time meeting this criteria. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So after a two years of accepting these kind of questions, the question we need to ask ourselves is &quot;Are they generating good content?&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have intentionally not called out specific users or questions in this post because I don't want us getting distracted in the conversation. I would say that you need to post examples in any answer that you give (I know I will be in mine) on either side of line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="255" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2013-04-04T20:54:56.127" Title="We need to take a look at list questions" Tags="|discussion|list-questions|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2862" CreationDate="2013-04-03T04:11:06.217" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;We are purely a &quot;curiosity&quot; site. There are no &quot;problems&quot; to be solved, this isn't superuser or stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anything, we need to reconsider allowing all list questions once again, after crafting a policy that would make them as un-obnoxious as possible. For instance, some say that it messes up the popularity of other worthy questions, but I'd be happy if some technical fix were implemented to keep them from dominating the active sorting order or what have you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, I want to point out that if I've guessed which question inspired this meta post, it's not really a &quot;list&quot; question, so much as it is a &quot;please give me an example of&quot; question. The two are different both in intent and acceptable answers. While I am for list questions, I disapprove of give-me-an-example-ofs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7603" LastEditorUserId="3500" LastEditDate="2013-04-04T20:54:56.127" LastActivityDate="2013-04-04T20:54:56.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2862" CreationDate="2013-04-03T06:59:55.153" Score="0" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Barring a very specific and wide analysis of a majority of such &quot;limited list&quot; questions (and not just 2 that you cherry-picked to make your point) clearly showing that they actively harm the site, generate bad content, and are worth banning - &lt;strong&gt;the burden of proof that such questions are worth banning is on you&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far, you have not provided even a shred of proof aside from your own opinion that for all of them, &quot;one person could not reasonably be expected to answer the question&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, you are wrong to make such an assumption. Proof: I asked such a question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3492/in-the-lord-of-the-rings-what-important-background-information-is-contained-in&quot;&gt;list of content of poetry in LOTR&lt;/a&gt;) -... and an expert rose to the occasion and DID answer it, exhaustively.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also, as @JohnO noted, SFF.SE is not StackOverflow. We are here to indulge in our curiosities to know more about the fictional universes we like. &quot;I am curious about X&quot; is a perfectly sufficient justification for asking a question. YOU personally may not take anything out of that question or its answer, other people will. &quot;Not useful for me&quot; is NOT a criteria to ban specific kinds of questions (and if it is, let's start by banning &quot;guessing game&quot;, aka &quot;story-identification&quot; ones since they aren't useful to some of us). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To answer your questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Are they generating good content?&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. See my example of poetry in LOTR question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also &quot;Are these questions the best use of this community's time?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Totally and completely irrelevant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you as a member of the community don't find such questions rewarding to answer or read others' answers - ignore them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you are miffed that specific experts in the community spend their time answering such questions instead of &quot;better&quot; ones, feel free to use bounties to incentivize those experts to answer the questions you like better.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If such questions present a clear and present danger to the site in that they are crowding out better content - &lt;strong&gt;prove it&lt;/strong&gt;. Such questions are tiny minority of questions on the site, and not the most highly voted either (unlike joke lists on SO).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2013-04-04T20:52:10.710" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2865" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2869" CreationDate="2013-04-03T07:10:10.810" Score="20" ViewCount="318" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my long time here, I have witnessed time and time again people attacking questions (as in, downvoting, VTCing, and/or posting hostile comments or meta content)  on the basis of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Why are you asking this?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Why do you want to know?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;This is trivia, nobody needs to know this&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The usual justification for such attacks is the standard StackExchange standard FAQ wording (present on this site) of &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;You should only ask practical, answerable questions &lt;strong&gt;based on actual problems that you face&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; (discussed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1380/are-we-really-here-to-solve-problems&quot;&gt;previously&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is &quot;I am &lt;em&gt;curious&lt;/em&gt; about XYZ&quot; considered sufficient as far as being &quot;an actual problem that I face&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; on Science Fiction and Fantasy site?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is it reasonable to attack questions based on lack of &quot;why do you need to know this?&quot; information in them (because 100% of questions on the site have an implied &quot;because I'm curious&quot; answer to that query).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I'm making a distinction here between merely attacking a question and labeling it as &quot;bad&quot; due to lack of &quot;why did you ask&quot;; and a legitimate &quot;if you can provide context for why you're asking this, it would help answering the question&quot; constructive criticism. I'm perfectly fine with the latter.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2013-04-04T18:49:11.540" Title="Is &quot;I am curious about X&quot; sufficient justification for asking questions on SFF.SE?" Tags="|discussion|scope|questions|site-faq|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2862" CreationDate="2013-04-03T13:07:59.697" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could make sense to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;allow list questions, but make them CW&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and build the list inside one answer. This would remove the problem of an increasing amount of answers and allow the OP to accept &lt;em&gt;the single&lt;/em&gt; correct answer, if they're satisfied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;List questions are easily identified so it would be trivial to enforce the rule. This is a compromise between banning them altogether and allowing non-constructive questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastActivityDate="2013-04-03T13:07:59.697" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2862" CreationDate="2013-04-03T16:02:12.373" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL,DR&lt;/strong&gt; Feel free to scroll to the conclusion section and read only that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the reasons I think list questions are bad:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I think that they run afoul of the idle curiosity clause in the FAQ&lt;/strong&gt;. I can't remember a single non-idle-curiosity list question. Of course, that said, I don't have any examples since you can't prove the negative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They tend to generate poor content.&lt;/strong&gt; Most of the content that they generate could be found on other sites, more suited to list delivery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They generate content that this Q &amp;amp; A site is poorly formatted to deal with.&lt;/strong&gt; We don't have table support and it doesn't seem like it's likely to magically show up. I've see it asked for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2637/add-support-for-tables&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; with zero response from SE itself. Without table support, list formatting can become quite the chore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a list of every single list question that I could find in the range of today going back to the first of the year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31810/which-actor-has-portrayed-the-most-distinct-roles-in-the-star-trek-universe&quot;&gt;Which actor has portrayed the most distinct roles in the Star Trek universe?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31775/what-were-all-the-occasions-where-the-star-trek-captains-have-met-each-other&quot;&gt;What were all the occasions where the Star Trek Captains have met each other?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31610/who-are-all-the-characters-to-have-touched-the-one-ring&quot;&gt;Who are all the characters to have touched The One Ring?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31268/is-there-any-use-of-claytronics-in-star-wars-lore&quot;&gt;Is there any use of Claytronics in Star Wars lore?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/33648/what-neutral-planets-existed-at-the-time-of-the-rebellion&quot;&gt;What neutral planets existed at the time of the Rebellion?&lt;/a&gt; (this is a question I edited to make a non-list question, the original question and the comments are pertinent to this discussion)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32455/how-many-people-who-werent-superheroes-did-batman-reveal-his-identity-to&quot;&gt;How many people who weren&amp;#39;t superheroes did Batman reveal his identity to?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/33050/what-else-did-pa-kent-salvage-from-jor-els-sons-rocket&quot;&gt;What else did Pa Kent salvage from Jor-El&amp;#39;s son&amp;#39;s rocket?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32332/where-else-do-we-see-james-t-kirk-computer-hacker-extraordinnaire&quot;&gt;Where else do we see James T. Kirk, computer hacker extraordinnaire?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28809/what-characteristics-does-alpha-beta-wolf-have-in-twilight-series&quot;&gt;What characteristics does Alpha/Beta wolf have in Twilight Series?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31429/are-there-any-other-weapons-designed-using-lightsaber-technology&quot;&gt;Are there any other weapons designed using lightsaber technology?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/29352/what-powers-does-galadriel-have&quot;&gt;What powers does Galadriel have?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31340/who-knows-the-truth-about-jon-snow&quot;&gt;Who knows the truth about Jon Snow&amp;#39;s parentage (father &amp;amp; mother)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31444/are-there-non-weapon-items-in-the-star-wars-universe-based-on-lightsaber-technol&quot;&gt;Are there non-weapon items in the Star Wars universe based on lightsaber technology?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/29451/what-five-creatures-were-sacrificed-in-barb-j-c-hendees-sister-of-the-dead&quot;&gt;What five creatures were sacrificed in Barb &amp;amp; J.C. Hendee&amp;#39;s Sister of the Dead?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31086/dresden-files-tv-show-vs-books&quot;&gt;Dresden Files, TV show vs Books&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32051/how-many-alien-women-has-capt-admiral-kirk-slept-with&quot;&gt;How many alien women has Capt/Admiral Kirk slept with?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/33762/what-are-the-nerdiest-movies-of-all-time&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/33762/what-are-the-nerdiest-movies-of-all-time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I missed any, feel free to add them, but for now I'm going to call this our data set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So: If we were to do totally away with lists, how would that affect the questions in this data set? How many fail the idle curiosity test? What other commonalities can we find?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q1 : We have a lot of scope dancing, the OP spends more time limiting his question than asking it. We have a good answer, that's up-voted and we have a couple of also rans in the answer column. The OP admits its an idle question in the first sentence. It could have been phrased as a non-list question and still gotten the same response. Very few comments. Viewed 524.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q2 : Again, huge effort limiting scope. Post improperly reopened by moderator instead of the normal five votes required. Few up-votes. One answer which may or may not be complete. 44 comments between the question and answer, plus however Keen deleted during version control. Again, sparked by another question, although not explicitly stated IC. Viewed 209.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q3 : A perfect list question, concrete scope. Great answer and an additional answer. Only flaw is that it's an exact duplication of somebody else's content, although it is proper accredited. (It also must have been a stone cold bitch to make that table) Viewed 378.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q4 :  An example of the just-give-one-example question. Low votes, no answers (because the answer is &quot;of course not&quot; and everybody knows noes are a waste of your time.) Viewed 98.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q5 : In which I erroneously edited the question and thus got reminded to make this post. Few comments, no answer. As originally worded, a ton of correct answers. Didn't have much of a chance to build up comment steam. Viewed 67.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q6: Once again, lots of limiting of scope. One answer that is poorly researched and admitted to be incomplete. Low votes on question as well. Few comments. I won't make any guesses about OP's motivation. Viewed 223.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q7 : No artificial scope limiting. No answers. A few comments. Low votes on question. Viewed 78.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q8 : Scope limited by answerer to TOS, however it is another one example question, in which there could multiple correct answers. Answer could be straight copypasta from a wiki, who knows. Viewed 334.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q9 : Here we have a question in which is phrased poorly, but where the OP wouldn't be helped by a list at all. He asks for one, but really wants an explanation on how a wolf gets to be in charge in Twilight. Viewed 151.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q10 : Another fine example of the one example genre. Few comments. Couple of answers. Again, answer sourced directly from a wiki. Viewed 413.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q11 : Asked like a list question, gets two good answers instead. This may not belong in this data set, but I added it as an edge case to be on the safe side. Viewed 839.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q12 : Straight up list question in which we get one great answer and two other normal list responses. The great answer goes far above the OP's request, however. Viewed 451.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q13 : High voted question, answers fall into the no trap. Also a one example question. Viewed 739.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q14 : Great, well-sourced question; great, well-sourced answer. If every list question was like this one, I wouldn't have spent my day on this post. Viewed 66.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q15 : List question, answered comprehensively. i.e. The kind of list question that could have been reformulated to get the same answer. Viewed 141.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q16 : High voted question, also on the edge of the dataset. Sadly, answer is mostly copypasta of somebody else's work. Plus side, it is complete copypasta and it is nicely formated and the answerer did add a few outside sources in. Call it a wash. Viewed 378. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q17 : The outside bound the other way, something everybody can see as unwanted content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So... conclusions&lt;/strong&gt;. There is a subset of these list questions that the community is already not voting up. I think the correlation is the idle curiosity metric. List questions also seem to invite a lot of copying from other sites. The gimme-one-example questions are really bad and should probably get nuked from orbit. I think that the restriction on list questions should probably be tightened to remove the subset that the community is already mostly ignoring&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="255" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2013-04-03T16:02:12.373" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2862" CreationDate="2013-04-03T16:05:49.080" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/strong&gt;   Yes, allowing limited lists has generated some good content, and we should continue to allow them, but we should also continue to monitor them and edit to improve wherever possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So after a two years of accepting these kind of questions, the question we need to ask ourselves is &quot;Are they generating good content?&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I looked through for some specific examples.  I found some that I feel are good content, some that I feel are bad, and some that I feel fall in between.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/21044/is-there-a-list-available-of-all-of-the-rules-of-acquisition&quot;&gt;Is there a list available of all of the rules of acquisition?&lt;/a&gt;  I think this is an interesting question that will appeal to many fans of &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;, and also contains a fairly useful reference.  I consider this quality content for our site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20204/is-there-a-list-of-stargate-arc-episodes-anywhere&quot;&gt;Is there a list of Stargate &amp;#39;arc&amp;#39; episodes anywhere?&lt;/a&gt; Another question that will appeal to many people looking to start watching this show.  Again, I consider this quality content for out site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3952/where-can-i-quickly-check-if-a-given-x-files-episode-is-a-motw-or-arc-episode&quot;&gt;Where can I quickly check if a given X-Files episode is a MOTW or arc episode?&lt;/a&gt; Same as above (and directly referenced by the Stargate question as inspiration).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7136/where-can-i-find-a-list-of-all-the-superman-comics-shield-numbers&quot;&gt;Where can I find a list of all the Superman comics&amp;#39; shield numbers?&lt;/a&gt; This one did not receive many votes, but I think it is of fairly obvious use to any fans of the title.  Good content.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20189/what-is-the-complete-list-of-ships-in-the-futurama-mobius-dick-graveyard-for-us&quot;&gt;What is the complete list of ships in the Futurama Mobius Dick graveyard for us die hard scifi fans?&lt;/a&gt; This is actually one of my favorites, simply because it highlights what I consider one of the best uses of this site: answering those nagging questions that may come after viewing a show.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/11132/attempting-to-identify-various-time-travel-devices-in-a-comic-book-image&quot;&gt;Attempting to identify various time travel devices in a comic book image&lt;/a&gt; This is another great one, imo.  My only gripe is that the answers are contained in the question, and not posted as an answer.  Still good, interesting (and &lt;em&gt;fun&lt;/em&gt;, since it had, when first posted, a bit of the feel of a treasure hunt) content.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3492/in-the-lord-of-the-rings-what-important-background-information-is-contained-in&quot;&gt;In The Lord of the Rings, what important background information is contained in the poems?&lt;/a&gt; Great question; amazing answer.  The answer appears to be wholly original research, too.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2655/is-there-a-list-of-significant-foreshadowed-ideas-details-between-harry-potter&quot;&gt;Is there a list of significant &amp;quot;foreshadowed&amp;quot; ideas/details between Harry Potter fanfiction and Harry Potter 5/6/7 books that were released later?&lt;/a&gt; I think its an interesting premise, and I also think the specific fanfic highlighted in the answer adds a ton of value towards making it a good question.  The answer provided demonstrates the expert-level knowledge in the subject matter that this site is about.  The implications of the answer are a testament both to the consistency and vision of H.K. Rowlings' work, and to the examples of high quality of HP fanfic that is out there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bad&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/503/are-there-reference-sci-fi-websites-that-maintain-lists-of-must-have-books&quot;&gt;Are there reference sci-fi websites that maintain lists of &amp;quot;must have&amp;quot; books?&lt;/a&gt; Honestly, I'm not really clear why this is even open.  It isn't even a limited list, but completely open-ended.  It also was made community wiki, and then highlights exactly why this is bad practice: it has done nothing but garner a handful of sporadic &quot;me too&quot; answers, and never was maintained into a single comprehensive listing (which is the only good use of CW).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20404/is-there-a-list-of-force-powers&quot;&gt;Is there a list of Force powers?&lt;/a&gt; This is a limited list, but was fundamentally flawed, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/20406/1359&quot;&gt;identified by the accepted answer&lt;/a&gt;.  The scope of the list would have been way too long, and already existed in some form on Wookiepedia (which the OP indicated they had already seen).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7226/is-there-any-specific-total-count-detail-list-of-wesley-crushers-womanizing&quot;&gt;Is there any specific total count/detail/list of Wesley Crusher&amp;#39;s womanizing?&lt;/a&gt; I actually don't see anything wrong with this question... aside from the lack of interesting answers.  2-3 possible romantic entanglements isn't much of a list.  Ironically, if the list of answers were &lt;em&gt;bigger&lt;/em&gt;, I'd put this in the &quot;good&quot; content category.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In Between&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/13719/what-is-the-complete-list-of-all-starship-troopers-comics&quot;&gt;What is the complete list of all &amp;quot;Starship Troopers&amp;quot; comics?&lt;/a&gt;  Potentially useful.  Unanswered.  Potentially too big to answer?  I don't know, but the lack of votes and responses doesn't really speak too well for its quality (but again, I don't see anything wrong with the question itself).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2013-04-04T12:10:45.703" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2865" CreationDate="2013-04-04T18:49:11.540" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have always felt that the &quot;actual problems that you face&quot; clause is generally a poor fit for SciFi and a few other SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand the reason for it, but I just feel that we're far enough from the topics of the sites where it originated that its value is diluted for us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'd say that yes, &quot;I'm curious&quot; is sufficient justification for asking a question, as far as that specific clause goes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that should grant you immunity from down-votes (even if such a thing were possible), simply because you think its an interesting question.  People can vote however they like, and sometimes we just have to grimace and accept that some people downvote for reasons we disagree with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what you're asking regarding &quot;Why are you asking this?&quot; and &quot;why do you want to know?&quot; comments.  If they're stated as sincere questions, then you don't seem to have a problem with them.  If they're stated as &quot;this question is bad, because I don't know why you're asking it&quot;, then it simply becomes subjective, and you may just have to agree to disagree.  They can downvote if they want; anyone (with sufficient rep) can downvote for whatever reason they want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I disagree that it is sufficient reason to vote to close... with one major caveat:&#xA;If the question is based off of erroneous assumptions, or asking about a cross-title connection that is solely based upon idle speculation, then it is a candidate for closure as &lt;em&gt;too localized&lt;/em&gt;.  By way of example, I'd say &quot;I'm curious if Princess Leia from &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; and Princess Buttercup from &lt;em&gt;The Princess Bride&lt;/em&gt; are related because they're both named Princess&quot; is something that should be closed, both because &quot;Princess&quot; is neither characters' name, and because there's no real reason to suspect a connection between the two titles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2013-04-04T18:49:11.540" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2870" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-04T18:57:57.460" Score="11" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from January 1st 2013 through March 31st 2013. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to compile list to post to the blog. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will be similar to the QOTW (&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/category/qotw/&lt;/a&gt;) posts only it would be more of a quarterly thing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2013-04-06T21:00:29.343" LastActivityDate="2013-05-03T10:15:17.067" Title="Favorite questions and answers from the first quarter of 2013" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2870" CreationDate="2013-04-04T19:26:53.607" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A recent question I thought particular good (and with a good answer): &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/33517/whered-those-guys-on-the-millenium-falcon-go&quot;&gt;Where&amp;#39;d those guys on the Millennium Falcon go?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2013-04-04T19:26:53.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2872" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-04T22:57:29.423" Score="19" ViewCount="332" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was going through the stats, and it appears there are some long time users with substantial rep that don't vote, or vote very seldom. We all like rep. It gives us the privileges and badges that drive the site. If you take the time to answer or ask questions and enjoy the fruit of doing so, why don't you pass it on? Upvotes encourage new users (and old!) to enhance the site with more posts. IMHO, soaking up rep without passing it out seems counterproductive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And kudos to those of you that pay it forward. Spreading the wealth brightens everybody's day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the numbers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/107189/total-votes-of-users-by-user-rep&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Total votes of users by user-rep&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/107190/most-voting-users&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Most voting users&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4356" LastEditorUserId="2565" LastEditDate="2013-04-08T20:51:29.567" LastActivityDate="2013-04-13T01:38:28.723" Title="Why don't some people vote?" Tags="|discussion|voting|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2872" CreationDate="2013-04-04T23:50:39.320" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, as I mentioned to Keen earlier today in chat, for a very long time I thought we were restricted to two votes per question: either an up or down vote for 1) the question itself, and 2) the best answer, regardless of how many answers there were and if more than one answer was equally excellent. This obviously sounds like a huge FAIL, and it was -- but I &lt;em&gt;truly&lt;/em&gt; didn't know you could vote on multiple answers to the same question. It hasn't been very long since I learned how to correctly vote. This is the main reason I have only cast 566 votes and I've been a member of SFF.se since November of 2011. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mainly vote on &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; questions and answers because they're the ones I feel most qualified to assess. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I do vote on other kinds of questions if I understand the content well enough, for example &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;SGA&lt;/em&gt;, Steampunk, and &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;. If I don't know a question's source material well enough to determine whether or not the question is a good one, I'm not going to give it a vote, even if it appears excellent at face value. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ask approximately as many questions as I answer; of course when asking a question you can't vote on your own question. So when I'm &lt;em&gt;answering&lt;/em&gt; a question, I have to actively remind myself to vote on the question. I very rarely go back to a question once I'm done answering it, so sometimes I miss some really great answers from other users. This is something I'm working on improving, because I do want to be supportive of my fellow users, not indifferent toward them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interesting question! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2013-04-04T23:50:39.320" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2872" CreationDate="2013-04-05T02:53:00.853" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I very, very rarely upvote questions.  These are the main reasons I would upvote them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hey, I wish I asked that!&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This doesn't happen often, as I'm mostly in Star Trek questions and usually have an answer for the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;While answering the question, I realize/notice something I didn't before, or come up with a new way to look at the universe the question is about.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20204/is-there-a-list-of-stargate-arc-episodes-anywhere&quot;&gt;Stargate arc episodes&lt;/a&gt; I upvoted, because &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt; I want to use that list and watch all of a single arc back-to-back.  Never crossed my mind before.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of it is that I want try and up the quality of the questions here.  What I think of as a &lt;em&gt;really good&lt;/em&gt; question gets an upvote, but average/so-so/I'm-not-interested questions usually don't get one from me, even if they are fairly well-researched otherwise.  (And note, I do say &lt;em&gt;usually&lt;/em&gt;.  On rare occasion they are very well-researched and will get my vote, even if I don't otherwise care for the question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2013-04-05T02:53:00.853" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2872" CreationDate="2013-04-05T04:50:39.753" Score="6" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My tag ignore list is long.  So there are many questions and answers that I don't even see.  &lt;strong&gt;Many.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't usually upvote questions unless I wished I'd asked the question.  Sometimes I'll upvote to counter what I consider a misplaced downvote.  But most of the time questions don't light a fire under me either way.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4096" LastActivityDate="2013-04-05T04:50:39.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2870" CreationDate="2013-04-05T14:59:53.447" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I Made 3 query to help select nominees :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2013/01/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2013/01/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2013/01/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32411/why-was-scrooge-chosen-for-redemption&quot;&gt;Why was Scrooge chosen for redemption?&lt;/a&gt;  and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/29164/what-are-gandalfs-powers&quot;&gt;What are Gandalf&amp;#39;s powers?&lt;/a&gt; seem goods candidates. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2013-04-05T14:59:53.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2878" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-06T09:05:35.897" Score="-8" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way for mods to yank a large number of questions all at once without deleting a user? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="255" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Is there a quick way to remove large swaths of questions?" Tags="|discussion|moderator-tools|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2878" CreationDate="2013-04-06T09:13:38.283" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, and I don't see any situation where that would be necessary. The only way to remove all questions of a user at once is to destroy them, and that also removes the user and is not available for users above 500 reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user496" LastActivityDate="2013-04-06T09:13:38.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2878" CreationDate="2013-04-06T20:58:05.347" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderators can click on the &lt;code&gt;delete&lt;/code&gt; button of many questions in quick succession. Not too quick or they get a captcha (I assume — I remember getting captcha'ed a couple of times when I &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/posts/411/revisions&quot;&gt;closed ~80 questions in a row (commenting on each one)&lt;/a&gt;). There's probably a limit, but I haven't heard of anyone hitting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're worried about a moderator going on a rampage and deleting good posts: that would be noticed pretty quickly, and the moderator's account would be suspended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're worried about a high-reputation user going on a rampage: the account would be suspended, and anyway there's a limit on the rate at which users can post questions (and answers, and edits… pretty much everything on Stack Exchange is rate-limited).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2013-04-06T20:58:05.347" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2878" CreationDate="2013-04-07T23:32:25.707" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I was thinking of being an ass to prove a point&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I was thinking about posting a ton of questions at the limit to show why a subset of questions is bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I highly suggest you &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt;.  Making us mods busier to fulfill your desire to make an argument is not a particularly great idea, or effective use of your or our time.  Make your arguments here on meta about the badness of these questions.  And if the community disagrees with you, then accept it and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to spend time improving your arguments, then I recommend making them more effective via data, which always helps bolster posts requesting changes in policy.  You can do this via asking for help on meta or in chat for help with making &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Data Explorer&lt;/a&gt; queries.  Chat and meta are also great places to get the opinions of others in the community, and to discuss/debate their reasons behind those opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2013-04-07T23:32:25.707" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2870" CreationDate="2013-04-08T00:41:45.853" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;For now, the posts I find particularly noteworthy and partly underrated are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Questions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/31771/2565&quot;&gt;Why is Janeway an Admiral and Picard is not?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/33444/2565&quot;&gt;Was LCARS derived from an open-source codebase?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Answers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/32483/2565&quot;&gt;How many crewmen/women die in the original series of Star Trek?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/32718/2565&quot;&gt;Lost Star Wars fan-made video&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/32014/2565&quot;&gt;What is the original context of this Spock video clip?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2013-04-08T17:50:45.220" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2870" CreationDate="2013-04-08T06:04:26.663" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I learned a lot from this question and it surprised me with a topic that I'd never considered before. The accepted answer composed by @MattPatterson &amp;amp; @Iszi is also awesome and contains very fun, informative links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q&amp;amp;A: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31810/which-actor-has-portrayed-the-most-distinct-roles-in-the-star-trek-universe&quot;&gt;Which actor has portrayed the most distinct roles in the Star Trek universe?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@DanielRoseman has put up great Tolkien answers. For instance,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;A: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/33741/why-did-boromir-take-so-long-to-reach-rivendell/33748#33748&quot;&gt;Why did Boromir take so long to reach Rivendell?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8530" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2013-04-08T06:04:26.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2872" CreationDate="2013-04-08T06:31:24.827" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't pay close attention any more to how much other people vote (although I should check Gilles' counts to be sure I've still voted the most across all SE sites), but on every SE site I've been active on, I've felt that more voting was needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, voting is almost as important to SE as questions and answers.  Having a &lt;em&gt;rating&lt;/em&gt; (the net vote count) attached to questions and answers makes them a lot more valuable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's really easy to vote - much easier than answering, editing, or commenting - and I don't think people should worry so much about voting &quot;correctly.&quot;  e.g. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If I don't know a question's source material well enough to determine whether or not the question is a good one, I'm not going to give it a vote, even if it appears excellent at face value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, it's the net result of &lt;em&gt;bulk&lt;/em&gt; voting that's valuable, so in the long run if you cast the odd vote that's &quot;wrong,&quot; it's not a big deal.  In many cases, you can tell whether a question is good or not (is it clear? does it show some effort? is it useful?) even if you don't know the source material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastActivityDate="2013-04-08T06:31:24.827" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2878" CreationDate="2013-04-08T16:01:57.833" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you need to fake-post a large swath of questions to prove that a certain type of question is bad in large numbers - it means that this type of question is NOT posted in large enough numbers to create a real problem, so you're worrying over nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, &quot;this type of question is a bad one because there are too many of the type can be asked&quot; is clearly and demonstrably NOT considered a valid argument against a type of question, as evidenced by on-topicness of Story-Identification questions which are a poster child for &quot;infinite pool of largely useless and potentially swamping things to post, many of which are prone to tons of unpickable answers&quot; and yet the community strongly favors them being ontopic since they don't do any actual harm. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The best way to improve the site is to post great content of your own&lt;/strong&gt;, not crusade against what you persieve as potentially bad content. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I may totally hate story-ID questions, but &lt;strong&gt;since the community saw fit that they are acceptable&lt;/strong&gt;, I don't go around downvoting every single one of them, posting inane story-id questions to show that they can easily be abused, or otherwise harrassing people who post such questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2013-04-08T16:11:13.723" LastActivityDate="2013-04-08T16:11:13.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2872" CreationDate="2013-04-13T01:38:28.723" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not sure that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We all like rep&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is true.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone has different priorities. A little positive feed back is a good thing, but if you are only doing something because you want badges or rep, then you may not be working for the benefit of the community (hence review audits). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;soaking up rep without passing it out seems counterproductive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sounds like the good ol boy, you scratch my back and I will scratch yours, wink, wink attitude. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO Votes should indicate the perceived quality of the question, topic or answer, not the likelihood that someone will return the favor and raise your rep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13442" LastActivityDate="2013-04-13T01:38:28.723" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2878" CreationDate="2013-04-13T01:53:53.563" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a good article at &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:DDWIP&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:DDWIP&lt;/a&gt; on alternatives choices for proving a point. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13442" LastActivityDate="2013-04-13T01:53:53.563" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2888" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2889" CreationDate="2013-04-15T01:11:17.063" Score="8" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that Google, on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/1815392/report-google-s-spring-cleaning-including-reader-all-that-s-shutting-down-in-2013&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;occasion&lt;/a&gt;, shuts down their little projects- should I be using their Books subsite as a source? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did it twice in an answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/34313/where-do-the-bodies-of-the-dead-tributes-go/34314#34314&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and I get antsy with overly-long generated links as it is [one aspect could be a session-id that's going to expire, and negate the link?], and have done it a few times recently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I don't want to link to another 'project' of Google's that will disappear in two years.  Articles here should be as &lt;strong&gt;permanent as possible&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The alternatives to Google Books are often else-country from publisher and sketchy at best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11262" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2013-05-02T16:01:24.263" Title="Google Books as a text source?" Tags="|discussion|notability-of-sources|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2888" CreationDate="2013-04-15T02:00:21.900" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is just a gut feeling, but I get the impression that Google isn't going to shut down Books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I am wrong, we can do maintenance editing on older questions. There just aren't any other book websites that are suitable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7603" LastActivityDate="2013-04-15T02:00:21.900" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2888" CreationDate="2013-04-15T14:22:50.613" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO, as long as you state the title and author of the book and insert the relevant excerpt into your answer, it shouldn't matter if Google Books survives or not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I link to the main page of the book on Google Books which provides a search option. This provides an overview of the book, a short URL sans session IDs, and a search box where strings from the excerpt can be looked up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11173" LastActivityDate="2013-04-15T14:22:50.613" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2891" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2896" CreationDate="2013-04-16T13:34:37.790" Score="6" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;Specifically a database that shows a JPEG of the front cover with a UI that allows you to filter by date, and/or author. Click on the JPEG to get a short summary.&#xA;There are so many questions from people trying to identify books from fragments of memory (myself included). We humans are &quot;visual&quot; in many ways pertaining to memory.&#xA;I'm thinking that if one could just scroll through a set of book cover images and adjust a few simple filters - it would be a useful app/website.&#xA;It would have to allow users to add more book entries.&#xA;Does such a site exist?&#xA;Maybe I should build one...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13814" LastEditorUserId="11262" LastEditDate="2013-04-19T02:14:55.743" LastActivityDate="2013-04-19T15:10:13.527" Title="Are there any databases of books?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2891" CreationDate="2013-04-16T14:20:11.367" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Isn't that one of the main things that &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Goodreads&lt;/a&gt; has? Perhaps not quite the way that you are envisioning, but since they've got a pretty good head start, it seems unlikely that you would be able to get any market traction unless you have some truly compelling features that they don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5424" LastActivityDate="2013-04-16T14:20:11.367" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2893" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-17T17:02:52.400" Score="5" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;The screenshot below is from within Safari on iOS 6.1.3. The &quot;Deleted by&quot; text is missing from the post. The post is shaded differently, but it is not immediately obvious (to me, at least) that it is because the post was deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dNfx0.png&quot; alt=&quot;iOS screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the screenshot below is from FF 19.0.2 on WinXP&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DL9Td.png&quot; alt=&quot;FF screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="4257" LastEditDate="2013-05-27T23:21:33.387" LastActivityDate="2013-05-27T23:21:33.387" Title="'Deleted By' missing in mobile site" Tags="|bug|deleted-answers|mobile|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2894" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2953" CreationDate="2013-04-18T11:27:42.367" Score="2" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I get here from SO by folliwing a new comment link, and sometimes from the all sites list -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The set of links at the top that should show My Name | review | chat | meta | about | faq have been missing for a couple days.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure it is just me, or if it is happening to everone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is an older question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1166/what-is-up-with-the-top-bar-disappearing&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1166/what-is-up-with-the-top-bar-disappearing&lt;/a&gt; about it, but no resolution.  It only seems to be happening at SciFi, not at any of the other sites I visit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Running Windows 7 and IE 8,  I checked with FF and it seems to be working fine. So this would be a browser issues.  Appoligies for not checking FF first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From SO&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EUDrG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To SciFi&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XyCmd.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit April 22, 2013&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Adding a message (at SciFi) causes the problem for me.  I am currently able to recreate on demand.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Image shows the message I get just as the links go away. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Compatibility View&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;A problem displaying stackexchange.com caused Internet Explorer to refresh the webpage using Compatibility View.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zZPsT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13442" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2013-05-27T23:20:49.557" Title="Are top links broken for everyone" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2891" CreationDate="2013-04-19T02:09:36.207" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.ca/advanced_book_search&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Google Books&lt;/a&gt; [Advanced Book Search] may be helpful as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/J7Y78.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;results:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UWxkY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, for most widely-printed books, it has the text of the book- which can be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/34313/where-do-the-bodies-of-the-dead-tributes-go/34314#34314&quot;&gt;linkable&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11262" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2013-04-19T03:29:46.530" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2891" CreationDate="2013-04-19T15:10:13.527" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;isfdb.org&lt;/a&gt; website is a useful resource I've used several times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9028" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2023-01-29T13:54:16.550" LastActivityDate="2013-04-19T15:10:13.527" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2897" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-20T02:32:57.403" Score="6" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/582/add-support-for-the-spoiler-markup-to-chat&quot;&gt;Spoiler markup in chat&lt;/a&gt; from May of 2011.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should spoilers be allowed in chat? I've never seen spoiler markups in chat -- is that even possible? There's been a lot of discussion on spoilers on the site in general, in titles, in wiki tags, but not a lot of discussion has been given to chat. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should spoilers be handled in chat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ETA:&lt;/strong&gt; I should have initially clarified that I'm not advocating the implementation of spoiler markups in chat. A new user asked what the spoiler policy is, and I couldn't find anything remotely approaching a consensus, so I brought it to meta. Just wanted to make sure this is clear, as I myself am not sensitive to spoilers.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2013-04-22T21:56:05.073" Title="Should spoilers be allowed in chat?" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2897" CreationDate="2013-04-22T13:21:05.003" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I understand the appeal, I don't see the benefit of such additional functionality out-weighing the effort to implement it, or the complaints it may cause.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite frankly, I'm not even certain spoilers are possible in chat.  There's already functionality tied to using a mouse-over effect (it highlights all other messages related to the specific conversation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spoilers work in questions and answers because they are potentially viewed by thousands of people, over an extended period of time.  This means that even if the OP isn't familiar with the spoiler markup syntax, someone who is can come in after the fact and fix it.  While this doesn't help anyone who may have seen the spoilers before the spoiler syntax was added, it does prevent this from being an issue for any future visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In chat the burden becomes much more solely on the shoulders of the OP.  The only people who can add spoiler markup to a chat message are the author of the message and a moderator (and this isn't properly restricted to just Scifi mods for our chat, either; any SE moderator can edit messages in chat rooms associated with sites they don't moderate).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In many cases, all adding the ability to use spoiler markup in chat would do is give people something more to chastise users who may not be familiar with the markup and don't use it when it might be appropriate).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I must admit: when I use the spoiler markup in questions/answers, I invariably try several combinations of !, &gt; and &amp;lt; until I see the spoiler markup working properly in the preview; I almost never remember the right syntax the first time around, simply because I don't use it very often.  This makes it a real possibility that even if we have it in chat, someone will transpose a character, or make a mistake, and inadvertently reveal spoilers they intended to &quot;protect&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea of chat is to provide a more &quot;real-time&quot; interaction, to support back-and-forth discussion (even if the &quot;real-time&quot; aspect is often broken by hours in between comments and response).  This creates a lot of opportunities for something to be said that would instantly ruin some surprise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to say something in chat, and know that the person you're actively talking to won't consider it a spoiler, but you're concerned that other people might, you could post the message, give them enough time to read it, and then delete it/edit it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The safest and best guideline is to simply avoid discussing major spoilers in chat, unless you're in a private chat room.  However, I'd say this is more in the lines of courtesy than a &quot;rule&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2013-04-22T13:21:05.003" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2878" CreationDate="2013-04-24T16:52:38.633" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I am not positive that the rule carries over, according to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4359/is-there-a-limit-on-how-many-questions-i-can-ask&quot;&gt;Is there a limit on how many questions I can ask?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A user may ask only...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;50 questions over any 30-day period&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;six questions over any 24-hour period&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;one question over any 30-second period&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;users with less than 125 reputation can only post questions every 20 minutes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the rule does carry over, it would not be possible to add a large swath of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13442" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2013-04-24T16:52:38.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2900" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2901" CreationDate="2013-04-30T09:00:58.837" Score="9" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm asking this, because I thought of a question, but I'm afraid to ask because I&quot;m not sure if it's the right fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was planning to ask a question about Devil May Cry, which is not only a video game, but used to be a manga as well, but was related to something specific to the characters within the game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those who haven't played it, it's basically about two guys who are demon + angel offspring, called Nephilim, and a bunch of other stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'm not sure, is this more suited to Anime.SE, due to it's manga-y nature? or is it somewhat more suited to here, not only due to it's video game-y nature, but it's about demons and angels (even the page theme for Sci.SE suggests that)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But overall, I'm trying to ask, how should I differentiate whether or not X is a better fit for SciFi.SE or Anime.SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6675" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2013-05-01T20:21:05.130" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="How should I distinguish between SciFi.SE and Anime.SE?" Tags="|discussion|anime|site-rec|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2900" CreationDate="2013-04-30T12:43:08.377" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, you should read the FAQ for the three sites (&lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;Anime&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;SF&amp;amp;F&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;Arqade&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;After having done so, you may come to the conclusion that the question would only be welcome in one of them, in which case you have your answer.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;However, you can come to the conclusion that it would be welcome in two/all of them. It's no surprise: &lt;strong&gt;there's bound to be some overlapping&lt;/strong&gt; (especially between SF&amp;amp;F and Anime). So it comes down to 2 questions:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Where do you think the question will &lt;strong&gt;help more people&lt;/strong&gt;?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Where do you think your question will &lt;strong&gt;get better answers&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that some people may worry about the fact that Anime is still on beta, meaning there is a risk of losing good Q/A if we were to closed. However, I would like to point out that our &lt;strong&gt;stats have been growing&lt;/strong&gt; steadily ever since we came out of private beta. Plus, our main focus there is (obviously) &lt;strong&gt;anime and manga&lt;/strong&gt;, meaning that the &lt;strong&gt;community being built is 'specialized' in those fields&lt;/strong&gt;. Having said that, it is my opinion that &lt;strong&gt;any question regarding anime/manga is a better fit for Anime&lt;/strong&gt;. On that note, I encourage you to ask your Devil May Cry question over there.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Since this question in particular pertains to Devil May Cry, I'd also like to point out that we allow &lt;strong&gt;story-related&lt;/strong&gt; questions about anime-style and anime-based games (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/q/415/49&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; for more info). Mechanics and gameplay belong, of course, to Arqade.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Also, be careful with &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/64068/208518&quot;&gt;cross-site posting&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also some examples of (similar) questions that have been asked both here and at Anime:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/24805/6365&quot;&gt;Did Walter become Millennium's servant by choice?&lt;/a&gt; (here)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/2055/49&quot;&gt;Did Walter become Millennium's servant by choice?&lt;/a&gt; (at Anime)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/20628/6365&quot;&gt;Suggested starting place for Ghost in the Shell&lt;/a&gt; (here)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/2922/49&quot;&gt;In what order should I watch the Ghost in the Shell series?&lt;/a&gt; (at Anime)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From those you can draw some conclusions, and hopefully I've been helpful.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Let me me finish by saying, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2628/6365&quot;&gt;once again&lt;/a&gt;, that your anime questions are always welcome at &lt;a href=&quot;http://anime.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Anime&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I forgot to say that we've been promoting an event called &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/537/what-flavors-would-you-like-to-see-for-our-weekly-flavor-days&quot;&gt;Flavor Day&lt;/a&gt;, on which we select a 'flavor' (or two) each week (on Saturdays) and encourage people to ask questions about it/them. Incidentally, this week's flavor (Saturday May 4th) is &quot;games&quot; and &quot;sports&quot;. So questions about DMC will be a perfect fit there!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6365" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:48.340" LastActivityDate="2013-05-01T00:02:01.490" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2902" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2903" CreationDate="2013-04-30T15:45:41.410" Score="7" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember a bunch of discussions on the merits, or lack thereof, of the &quot;General Reference&quot; close reason. But in the past 5 months or so, I haven't seen a single question closed as such. Maybe there just haven't been any asked or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the FAQ, the official general reference sites are Wikipedia, IMDB, and ISFDB. What was ultimately decided? There did not seem to be a written consensus on how we were to use this, but maybe one has effectively appeared?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2013-05-01T20:19:15.137" LastActivityDate="2013-05-01T20:19:15.137" Title="Did we effectively burninate General Reference?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|general-reference|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2017-05-07T17:38:54.123" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2902" CreationDate="2013-04-30T16:05:21.000" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recall reopening a few of the General Reference-closed questions (mainly due to people flagging them as needing reopening due to the ending of General Reference).  Others I left closed if they were still Too Localized or Not Constructive.  A couple of times I dealt with more recent questions that had gotten General Reference votes to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So on my end, I've worked to minimize GR's usage, and have cleaned up some past questions.  We're still waiting on SE to remove the vote to close reason from our site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2013-04-30T16:05:21.000" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2902" CreationDate="2013-04-30T16:45:34.200" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consensus is that we shouldn't be using it, and, as Keen mentioned, any questions closed as General Reference should probably be flagged to be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2545/1359&quot;&gt;official status&lt;/a&gt; appears to be &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;We'll be conducting a more extensive review of this close reason in the very near future, so I'll refrain from removing it here for the time being - but I strongly encourage you to avoid using it until it is no longer available.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2013-04-30T16:45:34.200" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2905" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-30T17:49:37.060" Score="9" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read about &quot;rollbacks&quot;, and found questions about &quot;editing rollbacks', but I don't know what it means. Could anybody explain it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13016" LastActivityDate="2013-04-30T17:57:06.780" Title="What does &quot;rollback&quot; mean?" Tags="|support|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2905" CreationDate="2013-04-30T17:57:06.780" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;When edits are made to a post (i.e. a question or answer), the revision history for the post has the option to revert the post to a previous revision.  Doing so is called doing a 'rollback', since you're 'rolling back' the state of the post to a previous one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To get to a revision history of a post, find a post that's been edited.  You'll see something like this at the end of the post, click the link:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sqPC0.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of a post&amp;#39;s editor and poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll then be on the revision history for the post.  If you scroll to a previous revision, you'll see this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tYLNb.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of revision history header&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; click the link unless you actually need to rollback a post!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually, you'll rollback a post if there was vandalism, or the edits didn't improve the post in a substantial way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just noticed the question was tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tags&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tags&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tags&lt;/a&gt;, so I should address tag wikis, just in case.  A lot of the above still applies in general, but the mechanism is slightly different.  To access a tag wiki's revision history, first click the tag.  You'll be presented with a list of questions that have that tag.  Click the 'info' tab to get to the full tag wiki.  Underneath it, click 'history' to see the revision history, or click 'excerpt history' to see the tag wiki excerpt's revision history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2013-04-30T17:57:06.780" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2907" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-01T03:23:20.173" Score="1" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are two peculiar badges that have never been earned:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1Lqnz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question is, why is there a gold badge, at this slightly-advanced stage, with double the requirement of a silver badge that for all intents and purposes, would be a &lt;em&gt;lofty&lt;/em&gt; and improbable gold badge in difficulty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The concern is: the increasing population may counter the increasing efforts of senior users, as more users means more votes, countering likelihood of 'zero-score accepteds'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a fair chance that someone could ever earn a 'Tenacious', but... Unsung Hero- can't see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should Tenacious be elevated to gold, and Unsung removed?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11262" LastEditorUserId="4678" LastEditDate="2013-05-01T14:53:43.513" LastActivityDate="2013-05-02T17:30:50.890" Title="Tenacious-Silver vs Unsung Hero-Gold" Tags="|discussion|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2907" CreationDate="2013-05-01T05:04:27.137" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is one of those badges that is fairly easy to get on SO, but not at all possible to get on most sites. As you noticed, there isn't even a single user to have the Tenacious badge, and a relatively few Tumbleweed badges. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, sites exploding in popularity actually makes getting these badges more likely. It takes users who up vote a lot of questions to not have the votes to upvote one, but they accept one anyways. It isn't likely to ever get the badge here, but it might as well be left here, for the day that someone is able to get them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2013-05-02T17:30:50.890" LastActivityDate="2013-05-02T17:30:50.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2909" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-01T19:38:18.567" Score="2" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just curious: Does editing meta posts count toward any of the editing-related badges, or do the badges only take &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;scifi.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; posts into consideration?&#xA;. &#xA;I did check to see if this question had already been asked, but didn't find it. If it &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; already been asked and answered, please point me that way!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2013-05-01T20:18:52.713" Title="Does editing Meta posts count toward the editing badges?" Tags="|support|meta|badges|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2909" CreationDate="2013-05-01T19:40:14.477" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per-site Metas have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/badges&quot;&gt;their own badges&lt;/a&gt;, so editing things &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; earn badges, but they're not Main site badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2013-05-01T19:40:14.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2909" CreationDate="2013-05-01T19:40:57.603" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;For badge purposes, the Meta and Main sites are separate (with the exception of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/62/quorum&quot;&gt;quorum&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/badges/63/convention&quot;&gt;convention&lt;/a&gt;). So editing meta posts counts towards the badge for the meta site, but not the main badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2013-05-01T19:40:57.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2888" CreationDate="2013-05-02T16:01:24.263" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that they're spending &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Book_Search_Settlement_Agreement&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;$125 million to placate the Author's Guild&lt;/a&gt; to keep Google Books operating, not to mention the actual scanning costs, I find it rather unlikely that that they'd just shut it down on a whim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10794" LastActivityDate="2013-05-02T16:01:24.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2870" CreationDate="2013-05-03T10:15:17.067" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32445/could-a-house-elf-be-made-into-a-secret-keeper&quot;&gt;Can a House-elf be made a Secret Keeper?&lt;/a&gt; asked by &lt;strong&gt;Fen1ks&lt;/strong&gt; on 3/2/13&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32956/why-would-shrinking-solution-turn-a-frog-into-a-tadpole-and-not-a-small-size-fro&quot;&gt;Why would a Shrinking Solution turn Neville's toad into a tadpole rather than a small toad?&lt;/a&gt; asked by &lt;strong&gt;DVK&lt;/strong&gt; on 3/14/13&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32929/charmsenchantments-conundrum&quot;&gt;Charms and Enchantments Conundrum&lt;/a&gt; asked by &lt;strong&gt;Fen1ks&lt;/strong&gt; on 3/13/13&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/33468/how-do-the-wand-makers-get-the-cores-into-the-wands/33737#33737&quot;&gt;How do the wandmakers get the cores into the wands?&lt;/a&gt; asked by &lt;strong&gt;Major Stackings&lt;/strong&gt; on 3/26/13, and featuring &lt;strong&gt;John O&lt;/strong&gt; and his now absconded drill press.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/33717/what-elements-of-arthurian-legend-are-adopted-in-harry-potter&quot;&gt;What elements of Arthurian legend are adopted in &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; asked by &lt;strong&gt;Inception&lt;/strong&gt; on 4/1/13&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/33794/steampunk-energy-sources-what-are-they-and-how-are-they-obtained&quot;&gt;Steampunk energy sources: What are they and how are they obtained?&lt;/a&gt; asked by &lt;strong&gt;Alenanno&lt;/strong&gt; on 4/3/13&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32157/why-did-lilys-enchantments-work-for-voldemort/32158#32158&quot;&gt;Why did Lily's enchantments work for Voldemort?&lt;/a&gt; asked by &lt;strong&gt;a Slytherin&lt;/strong&gt; on 2/24/13&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28777/what-parts-of-half-blood-prince-were-originally-written-for-chamber-of-secrets&quot;&gt;What parts of &lt;em&gt;Half-Blood Prince&lt;/em&gt; were originally written for &lt;em&gt;Chamber of Secrets&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; asked by &lt;strong&gt;Izkata&lt;/strong&gt; on 1/1/13&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HONORABLE MENTION:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/34383/did-mad-eye-moody-lose-a-buttock&quot;&gt;Did Mad-Eye Moody lose a buttock?&lt;/a&gt; asked by &lt;strong&gt;ZOMG&lt;/strong&gt; on 4/17/13&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8xGpi.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2013-05-03T10:15:17.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2914" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-03T13:04:58.267" Score="9" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I want, say, all [lord-of-the-rings] posts to go to my chat room, what do I do in the add feed bit? What URL do I paste there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13016" LastActivityDate="2013-05-03T14:22:28.557" Title="How do I add a feed for a tag in a chat room?" Tags="|support|chat|feed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2914" CreationDate="2013-05-03T14:07:03.023" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like you figured it out, but for others' future reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ItPO6.png&quot; alt=&quot;Step 1&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Oo7aN.png&quot; alt=&quot;Step 2&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I think the actual creation screen is obvious enough:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oIBTY.png&quot; alt=&quot;Creation screen&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The address of the feed is &lt;a href=&quot;http://[site].stackexchange.com/feeds/tag/[tag&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://[site].stackexchange.com/feeds/tag/[tag&lt;/a&gt; name], e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/feeds/tag/lord-of-the-rings&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/feeds/tag/lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt;, and can be found on the hover tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FAV65.png&quot; alt=&quot;Feed&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that only the room owner or a chat mod can edit the feeds for that room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2013-05-03T14:22:28.557" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2916" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-05T02:05:04.800" Score="4" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did my comment get deleted from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35031/why-did-peter-jackson-significanty-change-the-story-line-in-the-lord-of-the-ring&quot;&gt;Why does Peter Jackson totally suck?&lt;/a&gt; question? I got a notification that &lt;strong&gt;DVK&lt;/strong&gt; had replied to my comment, but when I clicked on the link I found there are no comments at all. Are we not allowed to comment on questions with a lot of downvotes? Or something? I ask because I thought my comment was on topic to the question. Was it not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What happened to my comment&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2016-05-15T16:11:12.110" Title="What happened to my comment?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2916" CreationDate="2013-05-05T02:20:19.283" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like a mod decided the comments weren't going anywhere constructive and purged all of them. There's a single option for that, much easier than going through and deciding which are worth keeping and which aren't. Comments are not meant to be permanent, which is why only mods can see deleted ones (and even that took some convincing on the part of the team).  Yours probably wouldn't have been deleted on its own, but it happened to get swept up in the purge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2013-05-05T02:20:19.283" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2918" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2919" CreationDate="2013-05-06T07:22:20.147" Score="4" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Unanswered tab can be sorted by 'my tags', which is very useful. I'd love to have that option in the Questions tab. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I can search for a tag, e.g. [lord-of-the-rings], and my tags are highlighted, but I still have to go through lots of questions that don't interest me at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13016" LastActivityDate="2013-05-06T17:57:38.757" Title="'My tags' tab in 'questions'" Tags="|feature-request|tags|sorting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2918" CreationDate="2013-05-06T17:57:38.757" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simply in the search box, type your favorite tags, separated by &quot;OR&quot;. Like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[lord-of-the-rings] OR [star-wars] OR [halo]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to make this a feature request, you'd be better off checking &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastActivityDate="2013-05-06T17:57:38.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2920" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-06T20:31:10.203" Score="22" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations to scifi.stackexchange.com on being one of Time Magazine's 50 Best Websites of 2013!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://techland.time.com/2013/05/06/50-best-websites-2013/slide/science-fiction-fantasy-stack-exchange/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YRUi6.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2013-05-06T21:10:21.397" LastActivityDate="2013-05-06T21:10:21.397" Title="Who are our top 50 news magazines?" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2920" CreationDate="2013-05-06T20:35:54.197" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow, that's pretty cool. Maybe I CAN actually put that I'm a moderator on this site on my resume now... Hmmm...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-05-06T20:35:54.197" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2920" CreationDate="2013-05-06T21:03:47.637" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who's the newb who posted this dumb meta submission anyway? That image is clearly photoshopped (I can see the pixels), Time Magazine only concerns itself with important things, like bleeding readership and going into bankruptcy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7603" LastActivityDate="2013-05-06T21:03:47.637" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2924" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2925" CreationDate="2013-05-07T17:08:49.803" Score="2" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is this closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/1972/&quot;&gt;The fall of the Communist bloc as seen from the eastern side&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not really subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it can't possibly be argued to be off-topic for SFF: &lt;strong&gt;sociopolitical fiction about the future is a VERY VERY large subset of - especially, Eastern Block - SciFi&lt;/strong&gt; (See Strugatsky, Bulychyov, etc...). As in, there are more &quot;SciFi&quot; works that fit the topic Gilles asked about than non-SciFi works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2013-05-09T12:38:36.843" Title="Why is this closed?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|closed-questions|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2924" CreationDate="2013-05-08T12:38:02.500" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see absolutely no reason why this question should be closed.  It is on topic (it focuses on science fiction works), constructive (looks for a general description of writing trends on a specific topic), not too localized (specific topic, specific geographic region) and not a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find the question interesting, as did quite a few other people, judging from the votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suspicion is that it received close votes because elements of the question, and potentially some answers, are fairly abstract.  I don't feel that those are reasons to vote to close, however, and I'm glad to see that the question has been re-opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It probably didn't help that one of the answers includes a lot of completely off-topic and irrelevant socio-political commentary that should probably be edited out of the answer entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2013-05-08T12:38:02.500" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2926" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-09T00:34:52.733" Score="2" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I went to edit it, so was doing &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kingkiller_Chronicle&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;some research&lt;/a&gt;.  The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-kingkiller-chronicles&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-kingkiller-chronicles&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-kingkiller-chronicles&lt;/a&gt; is incorrectly named.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a trilogy &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; a 'chronicle' being written, non-plural.  The actual series is called 'The Kingkiller Chronicle'.  Nit-picking, I know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11262" LastEditorUserId="11262" LastEditDate="2013-05-09T05:27:48.810" LastActivityDate="2013-05-09T05:27:48.810" Title="Kingkiller-Chronicle Tag" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2926" CreationDate="2013-05-09T03:15:58.387" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bippity-boppity-boo!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2013-05-09T03:15:58.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2928" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-10T01:40:06.420" Score="8" ViewCount="288" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm concerned that four people have voted to close &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35345/did-the-borg-follow-a-borgesian-philosophy&quot;&gt;my recent question&lt;/a&gt; and nine have downvoted it without giving a reason.  I'm still relatively new to this branch of SE, and I think my question is as worthwhile as the others I've read on the site: perhaps even more worthwhile because I'm hoping to for an answer that I can use rather than just asking in idle speculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked for clarification of the downvotes in a comment, but didn't get much of a response, perhaps partially because the comment was buried among other comments.  I'm hoping that by asking here, someone who understands the culture of the site (or someone who downvoted or close-voted without commenting) can suggest some reason why so many people are downvoting so that I can structure my questions in a format more appropriate to this site.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&#xA;On the other SE sites I participate in, I explain to people my reasoning when downvoting or close-voting their post, but that feedback loop appears not to be so deeply ingrained as a part of the culture here.  I'm hoping that by asking for clarification on meta I can both get some feedback about my question and also suggest to the site's members that I think the site would benefit from people giving justification of downvotes.  Downvoting without explanation doesn't give a very friendly impression of the site.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What makes my question suitable or unsuitable for this site?  And what can be done to improve it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13128" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2013-05-20T22:55:26.110" Title="What makes my post suitable or unsuitable for this site?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closing-questions|question-quality|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2929" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2930" CreationDate="2013-05-10T05:14:52.293" Score="3" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you comment directly to people, the usual routine is to '@user yes, but, but'.  With users of certain lower[new, or uninvolved] reps, or lower age, it simply doesn't work.  Try to comment on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35396/what-happens-with-krypto-when-superman-becomes-an-adult&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question, or others similarly new (obviously within a couple of days of this question, for that sample.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not asking for a change, but a reason why.  We have issues with asks-and-runs, so I'm not sure this is a good thing.  &lt;em&gt;@dude[tte] Please checkmark my answer to your shenanigans if you dig it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's just me and my browser [very specifically problematic], flame away at Chrome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11262" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2013-05-12T12:11:11.203" Title="How does user tagging in comments really work?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2929" CreationDate="2013-05-10T07:32:24.853" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comment tagging is limited to other commenters who have commented &lt;em&gt;in that thread&lt;/em&gt;, who aren't the poster of the question/answer. If the OP comments on your post you can &lt;code&gt;@tag&lt;/code&gt; them, but if you post on their question/answer you don't have to. They're automatically notified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2013-05-10T14:21:07.413" LastActivityDate="2013-05-10T14:21:07.413" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2931" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-10T20:22:16.323" Score="21" ViewCount="288" Body="&lt;p&gt;A long long time ago, we printed some business cards for our Stack Exchange employees and they turned out great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It got us thinking: our sites' moderators have been working hard to keep our sites high quality for the past few years. They may not be employees, per se, but great community moderators are why our communities are safe, sane, and worth visiting in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're a scifi.stackexchange moderator, would you be interested in having your own Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange contact card? Would you find it useful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see them being handy to pass out to your fellow scifi &amp;amp; fantasy fans during local meetups or conventions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Below is a mockup:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(click on image to see full res version)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lNQ1N.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lNQ1N.png&quot; alt=&quot;scifi.stackexchange.com moderator cards&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course Twitter ID/email/phone are optional. It can be Skype, AIM, URL, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Note: the text rendering in the mockup is slightly blurry. But when printed it will be crisp. &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4257" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-10-08T08:04:07.437" LastActivityDate="2017-10-08T08:04:07.437" Title="SciFi and Fantasy Moderator Business Cards" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2931" CreationDate="2013-05-10T21:40:09.727" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am in favor of this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2013-05-10T21:40:09.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2931" CreationDate="2013-05-10T21:46:04.530" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you, I deserve this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/t5XhQ8f7mZY?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2013-05-10T21:46:04.530" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2928" CreationDate="2013-05-11T02:10:47.927" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm on the fence about Voting To Close here. Truly torn about this question :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My opinion is that it's reaching too far. I seriously doubt the Borg-Borges connection. Even though the author denies it, it also looks like a lame pun (in which case it should be closed, disregarding the rest of my post). It's also hard to see how there can be any definite, well-sourced answer to this; only debate and wild speculation can come out of it, which though fun, is outside the scope of this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;em&gt;However&lt;/em&gt;, I must agree it's way more interesting and fun than the tons of questions asking trivial (though answerable) things such as &quot;What is the surname of character X of series Y?&quot;, &quot;Why does character X do Y in book Z? I don't want to read it, I just want the spoiler&quot;, etc. Or the godawful questions which demand literal interpretations of symbols in fantasy literature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in the end I think the question is too speculative and unlikely to produce a well-sourced answer to belong in this site. But it's more interesting than 80% of the valid questions we &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; get :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="770" LastEditorUserId="770" LastEditDate="2013-05-12T16:06:58.363" LastActivityDate="2013-05-12T16:06:58.363" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2928" CreationDate="2013-05-12T01:20:53.687" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would ask that people take the moderation approach based on facts in existence as opposed to predictions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is borderline - it can produce interesting answers, or a bunch of useless speculation. If you claim to know with certainty which one will be the result, you're either (1) Leto Atreides, (2) way too self-certain in being so sure you know what will happen - read Nate Silvers' takedown of experts' predictions to disabuse yourself of that certainty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Let the question stand &lt;em&gt;till you see what quality answers it produces&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the Q attracts a morass of crap content, we can easily close it then. If not, admit that your &quot;this question will lead to bad content&quot; worries are baseless and leave it be - as Andres F noted, the question is more interesting than 80% of trivia stuff on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're still so sure of your ability to predict that the question has no good answer, please be cognisant that I have over my time on SFF observed several questions that were VTCed as &quot;can't be answered, pure speculation&quot; - only to produce canonical perfect answer later on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2013-05-12T11:27:23.743" LastActivityDate="2013-05-12T11:27:23.743" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2928" CreationDate="2013-05-13T13:47:49.907" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the other answers that the question is borderline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I generally agree with the sentiment of DVK's answer, I feel that questions should be left open or closed &lt;em&gt;on their own merits&lt;/em&gt;, and that an approach of waiting to see what kind of answers comes in is not the right way to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, whether a question should be closed needs to be decided without any consideration for what answers may have been given.  If we can't look at a question and make a determination immediately, then our criteria aren't well enough defined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So let's look at the question a bit more closely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The close reasons so far selected for this question are (1 vote) Off-topic, and (2 votes) Not Constructive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see how Off-topic is remotely valid for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not Constructive makes more sense, but I don't believe it is the right call.  Note the highlighted part of the wording for the Not Constructive close reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As it currently stands, this question is not a good fit for our Q&amp;amp;A format. We expect answers to be &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;supported by facts, references, or specific expertise&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, but this question will likely solicit debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion. If you feel that this question can be improved and possibly reopened, see the FAQ for guidance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at the question, the primary intent seems clearly to be looking for answers supported by facts, references, or specific expertise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there evidence that at any point the creators of the Borg were influenced by the writings of Borges?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problematic part of the question appears to be this portion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also, are there any aspects of the Borg philosophy that I may be overlooking? (I'm much more familiar with Borges than with the Borg but I expect this site has many people who know more about the Borg than I do.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest that this should be edited out, as it is difficult to distinguish &quot;what other similarities may exist&quot; from discussion and opinion.  If the question focuses on facts and references, then it is squarely on topic.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that a good answer may very well analyze various parallels and divergences, even if that is not explicitly requested in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, let's edit the question, leave it open, and upvote or downvote however you see fit.  Remember, VTC is an indication of whether the question &quot;fits&quot; on the site, but upvotes and down votes are the measure of whether the question is &quot;good&quot;, &quot;clear&quot;, or &quot;useful&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T13:47:49.907" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2940" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-13T20:23:05.203" Score="7" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm embedding/linking to a Youtube video in posts on this site, is there some way to have the video start playing at a specific point in the video?  I'd like to highlight the relevant portion by having it automatically start at the bit that I'm asking/answering about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T22:53:59.410" Title="How do I make a Youtube video start playing at a specific time?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2940" CreationDate="2013-05-13T20:23:05.203" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, you can make links to/embed Youtube videos in such a way that they'll start playing at a specified timestamp.  A Youtube link generally looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-admz4bNq4&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To have it start playing at a specific point, add a &quot;#t=XmYs&quot; replacing the X and Y with the number of minutes and seconds into the video.  For example: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-admz4bNq4#t=01m55s&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, you can: (Thanks Xantec!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Play the video.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pause it at the relevant time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Right-click the video.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click 'Copy video URL at current time'.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Paste into your post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T22:53:59.410" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T22:53:59.410" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2942" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-14T00:38:32.277" Score="8" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was about to post a question about whether links to standard references could be included in the tag wikis, but I discovered that such references are available via the &quot;tag info&quot; link (at the bottom in an &quot;External links&quot; section--though the story-identification tag wiki does not have any such links).  This seems like a potentially very useful feature, but I suspect a significant number of users are not aware of this feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some way that the availability of this research aid could be made more obvious?  (I do not recall it being mentioned in the FAQ, e.g.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: my main concern is to facilitate answering questions.  Reading some of the answers here has exposed me to web resources that I had not idea existed (and I suspect I am not entirely alone in my ignorance).  Before &quot;researching&quot; in preparation to ask this question, I thought the tag wiki summary was the totality of the tag wiki content.  I may be odd in lack of exploration of the site (especially for SFF fans), but the little &quot;info&quot; link (it is kind of like an about link--other than obsessive-compulsives and those with more-than-cat-level curiosity who follows such links? :-) did not seem to even hint at the potential information available.  (Perhaps using &quot;details&quot; might be more enticing?)  I think it would be useful to &lt;em&gt;somehow&lt;/em&gt; make prospective posters of answers &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; questions more aware of how information can be discovered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or would it be appropriate to have a header link (like &quot;faq&quot;) linking to a research aid wiki?  (That seems like a questionable feature request, but some research aids are more generic [Don't Repeat Yourself] and might better fit a &quot;research&quot; wiki.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With respect to a research wiki (and note that I am &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; certain that such would be even a decent idea), I suppose the main page could give general research tips that tend to apply to most questions as well as information on how to use the tag wikis.  Perhaps the bottom of the main page could be similar to the Tags page (e.g., defaulting to showing the most popular subjects and providing a search box).  (Again, I think ideally the content itself would not be duplicated but somehow transcluded.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While many people are aware of wikipedia and search engines (though experienced researchers here might be able to give guidelines on query optimization), some might be less aware of wikia.com sites covering specific programs, movies, et al. much less some of the other resources.  (Perhaps I am just speaking of my own ignorance and everyone else already has more than a quarter of a clue.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While making such research aids (which to some extent &lt;em&gt;already exist&lt;/em&gt;) more available/visible might not reduce the number of &quot;no research effort&quot; questions, it might help less experienced scifi.se participants feel (and be) more able to answer some questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, perhaps I am odd in my (slowly diminishing but growingly apparent) ignorance of both web resources and Stack Exchange features, but I thought this would be a good question for Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11683" LastEditorDisplayName="user11683" LastEditDate="2013-06-01T01:43:00.793" LastActivityDate="2016-05-03T06:55:41.260" Title="Is there a way to make &quot;tag info&quot; more apparent?" Tags="|discussion|tag-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2942" CreationDate="2013-05-14T02:56:00.473" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;What kind of research aid wiki are you thinking of? Your question isn't too clear on what type of information you'd want in one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way tag wikis work is that people in the community write them (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/privileges/approve-tag-wiki-edits&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;). So the entire content of any tag wikis you see we're written by people who use the site.  Some of them included the External Links sections you mention.  It's not a built-in feature of tag wikis, they're just blank text boxes that accept markdown-enhanced text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of awareness, the privilege page I linked is my usual go to resource on how to use various feature of the site, I highly recommend browsing the different privileges to get information on how to use the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2013-05-14T02:56:00.473" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2944" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2945" CreationDate="2013-05-14T13:24:00.243" Score="16" ViewCount="561" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question regarding &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/11403/how-did-they-create-the-hole-in-robert-downey-jr-s-chest-for-the-iron-man-movie#35573&quot;&gt;how they created the hole in Robert Downey Jr's chest&lt;/a&gt; was recently migrated to the Movies stack exchange. I agree that it is probably a better fit there, but as of last night, I saw that it had received 4 close votes for being &quot;off-topic&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Xantec pointed out the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; notes that questions regarding &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;are on-topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clara Onager mentioned that it was off-topic because &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This should be a movies and tv question as it primarily relates to a special effect technique and &lt;strong&gt;only secondarily to scifi.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the same could be argued about a lot of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/behind-the-scenes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;behind-the-scenes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;behind-the-scenes&lt;/a&gt; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take these questions, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/11689/how-did-weird-al-predict-the-phantom-menace&quot;&gt;How did Weird Al Predict &quot;The Phantom Menace&quot;?&lt;/a&gt; This question is really about how Weird Al may have come across massive spoilers or leaked information (in truth, he didn't - it was all based on rumors).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28267/why-are-the-bene-gesserit-tonsured-bald-in-the-movie&quot;&gt;Why are the Bene Gesserit tonsured/bald in the movie?&lt;/a&gt; This question is really about why a director made a choice.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12468/why-was-snarl-not-in-the-transformers-the-movie&quot;&gt;Why is Snarl not in Transformers: The Movie&lt;/a&gt; This question is really about why writers left someone out of the script.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28710/what-is-the-reason-john-williams-did-not-compose-more-for-the-harry-potter-movie&quot;&gt;What is the reason John Williams did not compose more for the Harry Potter Movies?&lt;/a&gt; This isn't a question about sci-fi/fantasy at all; It's about why a composer did not get/take a job. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/13127/how-was-e-t-character-created-in-the-movie-e-t-the-extra-terrestrial&quot;&gt;How was E.T character created in the movie E.T -The Extra Terrestrial?&lt;/a&gt; Awfully similar to the Iron Man question - asking about how effects were created FOR a sci-fi/fantasy movie.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28154/why-did-peter-allan-fields-leave-deep-space-nine&quot;&gt;Why did Peter Allan Fields leave “Deep Space Nine”?&lt;/a&gt; This is about why a producer left a show.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/33770/how-were-the-drds-on-moya-operated&quot;&gt;How were the DRDs on Moya operated?&lt;/a&gt; This is about how special effects units were operated.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't actually think that any of the above questions are off-topic. They may skirt that same line that the Iron Man question did, but they all fall into &quot;behind the scenes and fandom information&quot; regarding a sci-fi/fantasy work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what sort of guidelines should we adhere to for defining what is, or is not &quot;on-topic&quot; in regards to &quot;behind the scenes&quot; questions? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2013-05-14T14:14:44.120" Title="What type of &quot;behind the scenes&quot; questions are on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2944" CreationDate="2013-05-14T14:14:44.120" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that question is squarely on topic for us here at Scifi.se.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not certain why it was migrated; if the OP was consulted, and agreed to the migration, then I see no problem with it being migrated.  It is equally on topic on both sites, imo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if the question was migrated due to the close votes, I disagree with the migration (given that the OP does not appear to have a movies.se account, this seems more likely), and the closure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With all due respect to Clara Onager, her comment appears to be strictly based upon opinion, without having &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/8416/clara-onager&quot;&gt;participated&lt;/a&gt; in any of the relevant meta discussions.  Her comment is contradicted by many examples, including the ones you cited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/356/1359&quot;&gt;previous meta discussion&lt;/a&gt; on &quot;behind the scenes questions&quot; is quite clear that these are perfectly acceptable here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question should not have been migrated unless the OP specifically requested it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2013-05-14T14:14:44.120" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2946" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2948" CreationDate="2013-05-18T00:40:48.473" Score="0" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder why &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35749/is-king-joffrey-not-actually-roberts-son&quot;&gt;this question about King Joffrey&lt;/a&gt; was closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course the &lt;strong&gt;question in the title&lt;/strong&gt; has an &lt;em&gt;obvious&lt;/em&gt; answer, which can be answered by merely making the effort of watching the first few chapters of the TV show. I'm annoyed by the lack of effort in this question, but my annoyance is not reason enough to close it. I'd downvote it instead -- which I actually did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So was it closed because the title and the actual question do not match? (The title seems to ask about who Joffrey's parents are, but the question ponders whether his true parentage is the source of his alleged madness).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think one of the two questions &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; constructive, if a bit obvious. Can the question be salvaged by actually asking what's in the title, or going the other way and asking about Joffrey's madness? Is it worth editing it, or should we wait for the original asker to do it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="770" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2013-05-19T19:51:29.427" Title="Could this question about Joffrey from Game of Thrones be salvaged?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2946" CreationDate="2013-05-18T13:55:34.033" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to close precisely because of the obviousness.  Now, there are different levels of obviousness, but this one is akin to watching the original Star Wars trilogy and then asking if Vader is Luke's father.  Or reading Lord of the Rings and then asking if Aragorn is the King of Gondor.  It's not just an obvious answer, but it's also a major plot point that is shoved right in your face to such an extent that the only way anyone could miss it is by not paying any attention &lt;em&gt;at all&lt;/em&gt; to the source material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words it's not just &lt;em&gt;a bit&lt;/em&gt; obvious - it is far far more than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2013-05-18T13:55:34.033" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2946" CreationDate="2013-05-19T19:51:29.427" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could probably be salvaged, but there's really no point if you wanted to salvage the question in the title. Anybody who has read the books (or, I'd assume, seen the show) already knows the answer to that question, or at least should if they paid even the slightest bit of attention. It's a prime candidate for closure, and probably deletion, because it has absolutely zero value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other question - Was Joffrey's madness caused by being the product of incest? - is more interesting, and I'd say actually answerable without having to rely on wild speculation given certain topics raised in the source material. I'd be supportive of a rewrite of the question to focus it much more towards that particular topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5833" LastActivityDate="2013-05-19T19:51:29.427" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2949" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2950" CreationDate="2013-05-22T14:17:03.730" Score="5" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35939/who-what-made-the-noises-on-miss-lucys-window&quot;&gt;Who/what made the noises on Miss Lucy&amp;#39;s window?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now it's tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt;+&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dracula&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dracula&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dracula&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was thinking that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bram-stokers-dracula&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bram-stokers-dracula&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bram-stokers-dracula&lt;/a&gt; would be better as a tag, but not entirely sure so won't retag without people agreeing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2013-05-28T21:32:37.003" Title="How should this question be tagged?" Tags="|discussion|tags|specific-question|retagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2949" CreationDate="2013-05-22T15:04:31.117" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Leave it alone, or add an author tag.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bram Stoker's Dracula&lt;/em&gt; is actually the title of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Stoker&amp;#39;s_Dracula&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the 1992 film&lt;/a&gt; by Coppola. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The novel&lt;/a&gt;'s title is just &lt;em&gt;Dracula,&lt;/em&gt; and should be tagged as such; the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book&lt;/a&gt; tag should give enough extra context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If more definition is necessary then a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bram-stoker&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bram-stoker&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bram-stoker&lt;/a&gt; tag would be useful, but the tag wiki should clarify that it's about &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Stoker&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the real-life author&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm basing this on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/412/general-tagging-practices&quot;&gt;this meta answer&lt;/a&gt; about tagging practices, which addresses how to tag a specific work within a franchise/series. Basically, it advises to specify author's name and franchise tag instead of specific titles/seasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13941" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2013-05-22T15:52:28.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2949" CreationDate="2013-05-22T15:12:31.243" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are dozens of books with Dracula in them, Fred Saberhagen (author of the Berserker series) wrote quite a few himself. (In them, Dracula was the anti-hero.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should leave it tagged both &quot;book&quot; and &quot;dracula&quot;, but it probably should have a third tag. And as BESW suggests, we do need to avoid ambiguity with the 1992 film. Not sure how to do that. Perhaps include the year in the tag name for the film, as wikipedia does for articles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7603" LastActivityDate="2013-05-22T15:12:31.243" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2952" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2960" CreationDate="2013-05-27T02:11:05.037" Score="8" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35935/television-series-about-scientists-doing-research-on-a-space-station&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; has the same answer as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31645/a-tv-show-about-space-station&quot;&gt;this other question&lt;/a&gt;.  (Since the asker has not confirmed the answer, it is not &lt;em&gt;certain&lt;/em&gt; that the answer is the same; but the number of TV series from the 1990s that are set on a scientific research space station with a physicist who works on AI, grows plants, and has &quot;two sophisticated robots&quot; is &lt;em&gt;likely&lt;/em&gt; not greater than one.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The content of the &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; might not be enough to count them as duplicates, and the answer to the earlier question does not contain the information that would be easily found in a search (the research aspect of the station is only implicit, two service drones vs. two sophisticated robots, confirming the coconut-avocado hybrid vs. &quot;grow some plants&quot;, no mention of Lyle Campbell's physics background, mention of his attempt to improve drones intelligence vs. &quot;interested in ... artificial intelligence&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11683" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2013-05-31T19:51:17.377" Title="Is this question a duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|story-identification|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2894" CreationDate="2013-05-27T23:20:49.557" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to wrap this up... as Nick noted in the comments, we don't support compatibility view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4257" LastActivityDate="2013-05-27T23:20:49.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2838" CreationDate="2013-05-27T23:37:27.723" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;For context, here are the instructions currently provided for the First Posts queue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No Action Needed&lt;/strong&gt; when this post needs no action from you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'm Done&lt;/strong&gt; is only available if you've done one of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vote up or down&lt;/strong&gt; to rate the answer's helpfulness&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; to improve the answer's appearance, clarity, or accuracy&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Comment&lt;/strong&gt; to leave constructive feedback for the author, or vote up existing comments&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Flag&lt;/strong&gt; to notify the moderators of serious problems&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Delete&lt;/strong&gt; answers that do not attempt to answer the question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be sure to &lt;strong&gt;leave a comment&lt;/strong&gt; if you can help the user out, or click &lt;strong&gt;Skip&lt;/strong&gt; if you are not sure and want to go to the next item.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you're not familiar with the subject, you can't reliably vote up. You could still downvote if something is obviously not an answer or is otherwise unhelpful. For example, an answer that looks correct but is condescending and sarcastic could be downvoted. On the other hand, editing the answer to improve the tone would likely be a better approach in that case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say your main options for these posts are &amp;quot;vote down&amp;quot; if it's obviously bad, &amp;quot;edit&amp;quot; when you can improve the tone or grammar, and &amp;quot;delete&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;flag&amp;quot; when something is obviously junk, offensive, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When in doubt, &lt;strong&gt;don't be afraid to click &amp;quot;skip&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; and move on to another post. Barring some of the more obscure universes, there are other folks on the site who can help out with reviewing the first posts you may not be able to accurately evaluate yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4257" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2013-05-27T23:37:27.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2249" CreationDate="2013-05-27T23:49:54.003" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;We are working on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/169814/help-us-make-off-topic-close-reasons-clearer-to-the-op&quot;&gt;major changes to the closing system&lt;/a&gt; right now, and one of the effects of that work is going to be the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2400/should-we-burninate-general-reference&quot;&gt;removal of the General Reference&lt;/a&gt; close reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In its place, you as a community will be able to set up an off-topic reason, if you so choose, with a description that more clearly defines what sources provide the obvious answer to whatever the question is asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no precise ETA for this right now (beyond the usual &quot;6-8 weeks&quot;), but we &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; starting internal testing of the off-topic changes shortly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4257" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2013-05-27T23:49:54.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="483" CreationDate="2013-05-28T00:09:37.120" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;We are working on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/169814/help-us-make-off-topic-close-reasons-clearer-to-the-op&quot;&gt;major changes to the closing system&lt;/a&gt; right now. You as a community will be able to set up &quot;sub-reasons&quot; for off-topic questions. So once this is rolled out, you can add a close reason that explicitly addresses &quot;off-topic because this is a discussion, but please visit our chat&quot; kind of situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind, though, that folks need 20 reputation to be able to participate in an SE chatroom. It will probably turn out that if you do introduce this close reason, it'll only add more problems since brand new users will be put off by being pointed to a chat system they can't use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4257" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2013-05-28T00:09:37.120" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2957" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2958" CreationDate="2013-05-28T20:44:24.530" Score="5" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this is a very broad topic. If SF&amp;amp;F.SE is the correct forum for this type of question I plan to ask much more specific questions related to the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14786" OwnerDisplayName="Grohlier" LastActivityDate="2013-05-31T13:53:37.710" Title="Is SF&amp;F.SE the appropriate place to ask about Comic Cover Variations and Quality Approximation?" Tags="|discussion|comics|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2957" CreationDate="2013-05-28T21:31:48.827" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a Comics proposal up on Area 51. But until it goes Beta, it wouldn't be available for such questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I understand your question correctly, this isn't an appropriate place. While I would personally welcome all comics questions that pertain to the science fiction elements of comic books (or even the story elements of comic books with a science fiction storyline) and urge others to do so as well...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that pertain only to the &quot;comic-bookishness&quot; of comic books seem inappropriate. If you're asking about how many promotional cover variations they made for the new Octopusman series, it's just not really on-topic (even though a question about one of those images &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be on topic).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7603" LastActivityDate="2013-05-28T21:31:48.827" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2957" CreationDate="2013-05-31T13:53:37.710" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The closest you could come to this for a site right now would be the &lt;a href=&quot;https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Graphic Design site&lt;/a&gt;, depending on exactly what your question is. Things like the quality of the paper, images, etc would definitely be on topic there, but I'm not 100% your questions would fit. You might still take a look there, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:46:17.097" LastActivityDate="2013-05-31T13:53:37.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2952" CreationDate="2013-05-31T19:09:48.507" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the second one is of significantly &lt;em&gt;lower&lt;/em&gt; quality (i.e. it has much fewer details than the first), it cannot be ascertained for certain that it is asking about the same question. There are definite similarities (and the answer on the earlier question is referenced by one of the answers on the later question), but without the askers clarifying more, there's really no way of telling what they meant exactly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see two possible ways of handing this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The first would be to close the second question (as a duplicate OR not constructive (due to lack of information). This is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; my recommendation, as I think it says that we know exactly what the asker is thinking. I feel the question is doing little harm as it is.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The second is to leave it open, and ask for further clarification on details. If the asker gives details similar to the first question, &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; perhaps close as a duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only remember seeing a few Story Identification questions closed at all, and they were for lack of information. Realistically, I don't think we can close questions of this type as duplicates unless they give a great deal of detail and it is exactly in line with another question, or unless the asker confirms their question is a duplicate (both rare cases). My suggestion would be to carefully monitor questions for quality, and close ones that are difficult to answer, not worrying about those that &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastActivityDate="2013-05-31T19:09:48.507" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2961" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-03T13:22:51.380" Score="2" ViewCount="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you look at the &quot;Responses&quot; tab of your profile on the meta site, if you have new responses they are almost impossible to see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/df0ag.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of gray on yellow text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we get the color scheme for the new responses changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2013-06-03T14:25:35.107" LastActivityDate="2013-06-03T14:25:35.107" Title="Responses tab contents invisible" Tags="|bug|design|meta|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2013-06-03T14:27:31.977" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2962" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2963" CreationDate="2013-06-03T19:41:00.870" Score="2" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was reviewing posts today and when I went to look at the &lt;em&gt;Tools&lt;/em&gt; page, it took me to the &lt;em&gt;Migrated questions&lt;/em&gt; page instead. Is anybody else being redirected?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4356" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2013-06-03T20:16:13.800" LastActivityDate="2013-06-03T20:16:13.800" Title="(Is it just me, or....) Clicking &quot;Tools&quot; on the menu bar takes me to the &quot;Migrated&quot; questions page" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2962" CreationDate="2013-06-03T19:44:39.310" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you go Review-&gt; Tools, it loads the last Tools page you used.  If you then click Stats, Close, Delete, or Flags, then the next time you to Review-&gt; Tools, you'll end up on that page instead of Migrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2013-06-03T19:44:39.310" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="599" CreationDate="2013-06-06T17:50:21.953" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you really need to include a spoiler in a comment, and you are not commenting on a post that implicitly spoils the respective plot-element, just prefix it with a written spoiler warning indicating &lt;strong&gt;what&lt;/strong&gt; exactly will be spoiled by the comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[&lt;strong&gt;WARNING&lt;/strong&gt;: Integral plot details of &quot;Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back&quot; will be spoiled by reading this.]&lt;/em&gt; The argument in your answer is wrong, because when Luke meets Vader in Cloud City it is disclosed that Vader is actually Luke's father. So, he couldn't possibly have been a time travelling robot from the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastActivityDate="2013-06-06T17:50:21.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2966" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2967" CreationDate="2013-06-11T02:39:16.490" Score="7" ViewCount="247" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/36721/who-would-win-in-a-fight-a-watcher-in-a-water-or-a-drenched-balrog&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; question was recently asked (even though the OPer apparently knew it was borderline shark-vs-gorilla and therefore not appropriate for the site). The question was dealt with appropriately  (DV, VTC, closed). It has since been tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shark-vs-gorilla&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shark-vs-gorilla&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shark-vs-gorilla&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see no reason for a tag that is specifically for questions that &quot;are NOT a good fit for StackExchange sites&quot; to exist. Can we get rid of this tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2013-06-11T02:51:04.040" Title="Can we get rid of the [shark-vs-gorilla] tag?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2966" CreationDate="2013-06-11T02:42:14.283" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Done.  You're welcome to edit tags yourself (&lt;em&gt;especially&lt;/em&gt; newly-created ones) as well, you have sufficient rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2013-06-11T02:42:14.283" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2968" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-12T01:43:49.727" Score="2" ViewCount="657" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/36767/tv-anthologies-sf-with-variable-story-length&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; is an example of a question which is answerable with a single example &lt;strong&gt;if&lt;/strong&gt; the answer is yes; but an answer of no would effectively require an exhaustive knowledge of the subject (speculative fiction television anthology series).  Are such questions &quot;non-constructive&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The example question was downvoted twice, and I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; there was no other issue with the question [except &lt;em&gt;possibly&lt;/em&gt; the post-question content &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be viewed as trying to encourage discussion rather providing a context for the interest in the answer and the perceived unlikelihood of the answer being yes].)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A similar question was asked on &lt;a href=&quot;https://christianity.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1483/how-should-one-sided-answerable-questions-be-handled&quot;&gt;Christianity SE&lt;/a&gt; where the weakly supported view seemed to be that such questions were OK; but, of course, different SE sites have different standards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11683" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2013-06-12T23:06:05.983" Title="Are one-sided answerable questions non-constructive?" Tags="|discussion|scope|specific-question|question-quality|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2013-06-17T14:38:56.017" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2968" CreationDate="2013-06-12T03:11:03.703" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I found it easy to answer (I know of two shows that fit the criteria), so I think that provides information to the overall SE:SF&amp;amp;F database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I should also add that we do not always know the motivation for a question.  While I admit that the motivation of even some of my own questions may be questionable, we often don't know why a question is asked.  (We won't get into the Santa Claus one again...)  I often ask questions that help me in my writing.  If someone is a screenwriter or working with a producer, this might be quite an important question for them.  They may want to see examples of shows that fit this description, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or they might be working on an article about the history of SF on TV and think they have information for their purpose, but want to see if they can get anyone to disprove their thesis or topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many questions on this site tend toward what may be called trivia and we get used to the idea that all questions are based on understanding or learning more about the fictional universe in the work(s) in question.  It's also quite valid to learn about the background of SF&amp;amp;F works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastEditorUserId="1693" LastEditDate="2013-06-12T03:26:59.633" LastActivityDate="2013-06-12T03:26:59.633" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2968" CreationDate="2013-06-12T12:50:47.123" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My problem with this question (I didn't vote either way though) is that this feels awfully close to either a list question or a question that can't really have a &quot;best&quot; answer based on how it's phrased.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;have there been any speculative fiction television anthologies which had different numbers of stories within a single episode (time slot)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer: &lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Done in one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, you wanted examples? Well, you didn't really ask for those, but that's where we start getting into list territory. And what do you want to define as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;speculative fiction&lt;/a&gt;? (Yes, I know I could have asked this in a comment on the question, again - I took no action at all). Anything from a two-parter of Are You Afraid Of The Dark to an extended episode of The Walking Dead could fit in there. With such a wide range, this easily becomes a list question, which would be off-topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2013-06-12T12:50:47.123" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2968" CreationDate="2013-06-12T15:28:35.330" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the question as asked is not constructive.  Per the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note the following types of questions are off-topic here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions calling for a list of works, authors, …: &lt;em&gt;What are all the books that have X? Who wrote about topic Y?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're asking for examples of anthologies that have variable story length.  This is a textbook list question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2013-06-12T15:28:35.330" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2975" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-13T13:21:46.700" Score="1" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inspired by the comments on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/36857/13418&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; answer to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is mainly regarding Game of Throne but i Think it may concern other universes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When people ask questions about the series, the answers (mine as well) are often based on the book. It's normal, because there are a lot more details in the books that make us readers understand what them watchers-only cannot. But maybe they wanted a series-based answer ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, there are two different tags, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt;. Is this the way it is intended to be ? It seems to me more logical if there was only one tag (i.e. a-song-of-ice-and-fire which game-of-throne would be a synonym of) and the media tags (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/293/13418&quot;&gt;this meta question&lt;/a&gt;) would precise if the question concerns the books or the tv show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The question here is : should we specify the media using different tags per universe or should we use one tag per universe and specify the media with the proper tag ?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13418" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2013-06-13T13:43:21.293" Title="Should we distinguish the media more clearly?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2013-06-17T14:39:08.847" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2976" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2977" CreationDate="2013-06-13T13:26:02.037" Score="8" ViewCount="287" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the prior years, I recall SE running a series of assorted contests (per topic, overall site participation) with prizes on the line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then this stopped completely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there an &quot;official&quot; statement from SE on this? (e.g., was there a business decision that such contests were not useful/helpful to their goals? Cost-cutting? Merely the fact that SF&amp;amp;F &quot;grew up&quot; and the contests still happen but on newer sites needing more promotion?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. Yes, I'm of course well aware of the fact that we can run our own community-driven contents and award virtual cookies as prizes. And it's not that any of us, myself included, were less motivated to post Qs and As once the SE ones stopped. But, to horribly misquote James Bond from &lt;em&gt;Never Say Never Again&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It can never be the same playing with blanks. It is somewhat different in the field. With cheap SWAG or a DVD is on the line, you... Well, your adrenaline gives you an edge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="4257" LastEditDate="2014-10-14T23:17:36.360" LastActivityDate="2014-10-14T23:17:36.360" Title="Has Stack Exchange stopped running contests?" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|promotional-grant|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2976" CreationDate="2013-06-13T15:49:20.853" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;from : &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1138/topic-of-the-week-contest-updated-august-29&quot;&gt;Topic of the Week Contest [Updated August 29]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Current Topic: INDEFINITE HIATUS&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At this moment and for the foreseeable future, I will not be able to run any Topic of the Week endeavors. That does not mean that the site can't have Topic of the Week contests, especially since people still seem very keen on them. These can still happen, they will just have to be run by you, the community. I pass along my power to you! That does mean that there will no longer be a prize awarded by Stack Exchange, which I hope isn't a massive deterrent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But why?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I apologize for not including this earlier; my haste caused me to not expand. My co-worker Laura summed this up pretty well on the Cooking site, when their TOTW was discontinued. For the most part, the reasons are the same. A $50 a week prize for the contest that results in-between 5-7 questions a week isn't that sustainable on our end. But the best thing, truthfully, is that Sci-Fi doesn't really need it as much as it did 8 months ago. The site is showing exponential growth and diversification, to the point where we on our end don't feel you need us nudging you along. Y'all are doing great on your own!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But you also aren't alone! If the community wants to keep going with the TOTW, then please do! It should just now be controlled organically from the community. And if the community needs advice or input from SE, please ping me! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2013-06-13T15:49:20.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2978" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-13T20:07:55.757" Score="12" ViewCount="241" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/184154/closing-changes-on-hold-unclear-too-broad-opinion-based-off-topic-reasons&quot;&gt;Changes are coming&lt;/a&gt; to the Question Closing system.  The existing Vote To Close reasons are being overhauled.  We've already seen some of these changes in the Duplicate Question area.  That link above has a full rundown of the changes, and I recommend reading it, but this question is for one specific area:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;5. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/169814/help-us-make-off-topic-close-reasons-clearer-to-the-op&quot;&gt;Off-topic closures will include feedback&lt;/a&gt; on what specifically is off-topic for that site. (new)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Each site will have a list of its own specific pre-selected “Off-Topic” reasons (up to 3)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Each closer will either select one of the site's standard reasons from the list (for instance, “Recipe requests are off-topic, although recipe replacements, etc. are allowed”),&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  or, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Closers can enter a free-form reason (&quot;Your question appears to be about 'Cat Grooming', which is off-topic for Stack Overflow.&quot;)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Free-form reasons will be presented as a comments, but the close dialogue will refer the reader to the comments for more info&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Free-form reasons picked by closers will be available to subsequent close-voters on that question as one of the selections from the list&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;These lists will be determined by the communities, and moderators will be able to update them, subject to review by each other, their community, and the SE team&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Reasons will need to be specific enough to make it clear to most readers what is and is not allowed (off-topic reasons of the form &quot;Things that are NOT X&quot; will be discouraged). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is also the place to address any closing reason that applies to one site but not others (for instance, the &quot;General Reference&quot; close reason on English Language and Usage is moving here).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what should our site's Off-topic close reasons be?  Please only post one per answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2013-06-15T04:26:00.137" Title="What should be our Off-Topic reasons?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|scope|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2978" CreationDate="2013-06-13T21:36:13.473" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RSpFQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Brace yourselves: new close reasons are coming&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main non-obvious question type that is about SF but isn't accepted here is lists and recommendations. (Two types really, but they have similar problems.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Requests for &lt;strong&gt;lists of works or recommendations&lt;/strong&gt; are off-topic as they do not fit our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/about&quot;&gt;questions and answers format&lt;/a&gt;. Feel free to ask about people's favorites in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2013-06-13T21:36:13.473" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2978" CreationDate="2013-06-13T21:37:50.877" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've two suggestions but I'm going to limit them to one per answer as requested.  Here's the first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Speculation on future events of a work-in-progress series&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been a number of cases of these recently, but two in particular that I'm thinking of are &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/36848/what-canon-level-will-the-7th-star-wars-movie-be&quot;&gt;What canon level will the 7th Star Wars movie be?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (closed as not constructive) and &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/36859/spoiler-why-did-ned-stark-not-mention-it&quot;&gt;Spoiler: Why did Ned- Stark not mention it?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (closed as not constructive).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In both of these cases, the question is totally impossible to answer for the simple reasons that (question 1) we don't know yet, and (question 2) it's based on an as-yet-to-be confirmed or denied fan theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking through the new list of close reasons, I can see that &quot;primarily opinion-based&quot; may also be viewed as an option for either of these, but I believe that &quot;off topic&quot; is more suitable because they're relating to things we don't know about the series yet (and in the latter case may never know).  Because of that they encourage discussions, speculation about the future course of the series, arguments, theorizing, etc, which are squarely off-topic for a Q&amp;amp;A site.  These two questions can't even solicit opinions; &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;an opinion is a belief about matters commonly considered to be subjective&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, and they don't even go that far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2013-06-13T21:37:50.877" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2982" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-14T10:54:50.113" Score="4" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't agree with closing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/36879/what-does-theodens-quote-in-the-two-towers-oft-evil-will-shall-evil-mar-mean&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/36879/what-does-theodens-quote-in-the-two-towers-oft-evil-will-shall-evil-mar-mean&lt;/a&gt; as &quot;too localised&quot; - but I also don't think it really is an SF&amp;amp;F question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps move it to English.SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="373" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2013-06-14T12:48:15.437" Title="A question for English.SE? &quot;oft evil will shall evil mar&quot;" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2013-06-14T12:48:03.467" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had a chat with one of their mods and sent it over. She wasn't 100% sure how it would do there, so it's up to their community to reject the migration or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2013-06-14T12:48:03.467" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2978" CreationDate="2013-06-14T21:49:21.037" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Off-Topic reason: &lt;strong&gt;Genre classification&lt;/strong&gt; questions are offtopic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples: &quot;is X Science Fiction&quot;? &quot;Is Y SciFi or Fantasy?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;References: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/23/should-questions-about-is-x-science-fiction-be-off-topic&quot;&gt;Should questions about &amp;quot;Is X science fiction&amp;quot; be off-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2013-06-14T21:49:21.037" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2978" CreationDate="2013-06-14T21:52:54.617" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions about religious texts which are asked from the assumption that said text is &quot;fiction&quot; are off-topic.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(frankly, i'm half a mind to NOT consider that offtopic, instead closing such things as &quot;Not Constructive&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1038/why-was-this-question-about-the-old-testament-closed-as-off-topic/1040#1040&quot;&gt;Why was this question about the Old Testament closed as off-topic?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2013-06-14T21:52:54.617" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2986" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-15T02:55:26.957" Score="0" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; well established (throughout Stack Exchange) that &quot;list questions&quot; are &quot;not constructive&quot;. As indicated by the votes (caveat: I just upvoted this answer) for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic#425&quot;&gt;this answer for limited list questions&lt;/a&gt; on the on-topic question, &lt;em&gt;limited&lt;/em&gt; lists are at best &lt;em&gt;marginally&lt;/em&gt; on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that questions asking for the single most &lt;strong&gt;X&lt;/strong&gt; of &lt;strong&gt;Y&lt;/strong&gt; are considered on topic where &lt;strong&gt;X&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Y&lt;/strong&gt; are not subjective (e.g., questions about the earliest example), are questions of the &lt;strong&gt;N&lt;/strong&gt; most &lt;strong&gt;X&lt;/strong&gt; of &lt;strong&gt;Y&lt;/strong&gt; on-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ten most popular (by number of sales) novels&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;of all time (answer will likely require updating)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;of some particular time period (possibly of interest to someone writing about geeks in that time period--at some point this presumably becomes &quot;too localized&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ten most recent novels by different authors dealing with anarchism (along the lines of &lt;em&gt;The Dispossessed&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ten least popular (by number of sales after two years in print) novels by Nebula- or Hugo-winning authors&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Obviously, the answer would change with time as new novels and new award winners come into existence (and novels gain late sales), but would probably be &lt;em&gt;reasonably&lt;/em&gt; stable.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; such questions would &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be &quot;not constructive&quot; (i.e., they have objective answers of limited size). However, this category seems likely to encourage questions that are &quot;too localized&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like the &quot;earliest&quot; type of questions, such would also tend to generate multiple different answers, but (worse) each answer might be partial, encouraging a collection of partially redundant answers. This would tend to give the questions the &lt;em&gt;appearance&lt;/em&gt; of being &quot;not constructive&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;If&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; this category of question is considered on-topic, it would seem desirable to have a defined number to be used for such questions (to avoid the problem of &quot;the previous question only asked for the most &lt;strong&gt;N&lt;/strong&gt;, this question asks for the most &lt;strong&gt;N&lt;/strong&gt; plus &lt;strong&gt;M&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11683" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2013-06-15T02:55:26.957" Title="Artificially limiting list length to get around &quot;not constructive&quot;" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2978" CreationDate="2013-06-15T04:26:00.137" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This question does not pertain to Science Fiction or Fantasy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've gotten a couple that would fall under this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/23303/effects-of-emp-in-hypothetical-superconductor-based-devices-equipment&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/23303/effects-of-emp-in-hypothetical-superconductor-based-devices-equipment&lt;/a&gt;  (Real-life theoretical physics question)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One I vaguely remember that seemed like it would have fit better on Biology.SE, but still would've been off-topic there (I can't find it now, but remember it having been closed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/29008/a-story-about-passengers-and-pilots-getting-food-poisoned-causing-a-disastrous-t&quot;&gt;A story about passengers and pilots getting food-poisoned causing a disastrous terminal situation?&lt;/a&gt; (A non-scifi/fantasy story identification)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/27191/poke-balls-can-any-such-device-exist&quot;&gt;Pok&amp;#233; Balls. Can any such device exist?&lt;/a&gt; (Another reallife physics/biology/ish question)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related meta question:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1776/are-real-world-speculation-questions-still-on-topic&quot;&gt;Are real world speculation questions still on topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2013-06-15T04:26:00.137" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2990" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-19T19:51:11.480" Score="5" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from April 1st 2013 through June 30th 2013. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to compile list to post to the blog. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will be similar to the first quarter post &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2013/04/highlights-from-2013-1st-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2013/04/highlights-from-2013-1st-quarter/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm posting this about 10 days early, that should be enough time to start getting something together and allow for late entries. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2013-07-03T21:47:48.897" Title="Favorite Questions and Answers from 2nd Quarter of 2013" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2991" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-20T04:18:07.627" Score="5" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was thinking of asking about how the poem about Samson in Stanislaw Lem's &lt;em&gt;The Cyberiad&lt;/em&gt; was translated, given the extremely specific constraints for the poem. However, after a modest amount of research I discovered the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would such a question be considered as on-topic? It seems to &lt;em&gt;somewhat&lt;/em&gt; fit &quot;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is on-topic, I might post the question and the answer. (There might be others who were curious about how the translation was possible, and the answer was not quite a case of Let Me Google That For You.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11683" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2013-06-20T14:32:01.660" LastActivityDate="2013-06-20T14:32:01.660" Title="Would translation issues count as &quot;behind-the-scenes&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|scope|language|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2991" CreationDate="2013-06-20T06:17:16.073" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's hard to be certain without knowing what the full question is, but there's nothing inherently off topic here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2013-06-20T06:17:16.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2990" CreationDate="2013-06-20T19:58:39.360" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll toot my own horn. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/36118/why-was-mace-windu-surprised-when-jango-fett-was-decapitated/36127#36127&quot;&gt;Why was Mace Windu Surprised when Jango Fett was Decapitated?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tons of screenshots, embedded Youtube, canon quoting galore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2013-06-20T20:10:02.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2990" CreationDate="2013-06-20T20:09:31.600" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35024/did-mazer-rackham-have-a-tattooed-face-in-enders-game-book/35086&quot;&gt;Did Mazer Rackham have a tattooed face in Ender&amp;#39;s Game book?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the only thing missing are hand drawn circles :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2013-06-20T20:09:31.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2990" CreationDate="2013-06-20T20:11:07.373" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Question (and my answer to it:)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/34407/who-became-emperor-of-the-galactic-empire-after-death-of-emperor-palpatine&quot;&gt;Who became Emperor of the Galactic Empire after death of Emperor Palpatine?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A nice set of highlights of TGFFA history from a certain angle, across many EU arcs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2013-06-20T20:11:07.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2990" CreationDate="2013-06-20T23:35:15.163" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought this one was really interesting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/36962/how-did-the-death-star-manage-the-debris-after-exploding-a-planet&quot;&gt;How did the Death Star manage the debris after exploding a planet?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first glance it seemed like something that may be semi-unanswerable, and DVK comes in with what looks like the best we're going to get.  Then along comes Gorchestopher H with an absolutely &lt;em&gt;awesome&lt;/em&gt; answer based on distance and volume, DVK (rightly) questions it, that gets me thinking &quot;hold on, we should be able to work this out&quot; and the end result is a distance range that supports Gorchestopher H's answer and is entirely based on the movie and movie alone (unquestionable in canon terms, in other words).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That was fun to participate in and was a great example of a slightly left-of-field approach that didn't go near the usual sources but yet produced a great answer that's not open to further questioning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2013-06-20T23:35:15.163" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2990" CreationDate="2013-06-21T00:07:44.320" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2877/45&quot;&gt;the query I made last quarter&lt;/a&gt; :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2013/04/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2013/04/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2013/04/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Based on the &lt;strong&gt;June 30 2013&lt;/strong&gt; data dump&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The must popular were :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35547/who-is-torturing-theon-greyjoy-and-why&quot;&gt;Who is torturing Theon Greyjoy and why?&lt;/a&gt; with 25,925 views &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/34770/is-iron-man-3s-ending-based-in-any-canonical-source&quot;&gt;Is Iron Man 3&amp;#39;s ending based on any canonical source?&lt;/a&gt; with 13971 views&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35191&quot;&gt;What do the White Walkers do with the baby boy gifts from Craster?&lt;/a&gt; with 9224 views.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The must voted question were :  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35410/what-is-the-origin-of-the-riker-chair-maneuver&quot;&gt;What is the origin of the &amp;quot;Riker Chair Maneuver&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; (57)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35522/why-did-the-fellowship-not-choose-to-pass-the-misty-mountains-further-north-or-s&quot;&gt;Why did the Fellowship not choose to pass the Misty Mountains further north or south?&lt;/a&gt; (44)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/37084&quot;&gt;Does the death penalty exist in comics?&lt;/a&gt; (40)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/34582/was-picard-speaking-french-and-being-translated-the-entire-time&quot;&gt;Was Picard speaking French and being translated the entire time?&lt;/a&gt; (40)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35639/why-would-dumbledore-encourage-people-to-call-voldemort-voldemort-instead-of-tom&quot;&gt;Why would Dumbledore encourage people to call Voldemort Voldemort instead of Tom Riddle?&lt;/a&gt; (39)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The must voted answers were :  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/37084&quot;&gt;Does the death penalty exist in comics?&lt;/a&gt; (65)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35410&quot;&gt;What is the origin of the &amp;quot;Riker Chair Maneuver&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; (61)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/34582&quot;&gt;Was Picard speaking French and being translated the entire time?&lt;/a&gt; (47)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/34116&quot;&gt;Can Starfleet doctors make Captain rank?&lt;/a&gt; (44)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35303&quot;&gt;Short story about Tibetan monks who want to know the name of God?&lt;/a&gt; (44)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35639&quot;&gt;Why would Dumbledore encourage people to call Voldemort Voldemort instead of Tom Riddle?&lt;/a&gt; (42) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/36272&quot;&gt;Why does Carol Marcus not recognize Khan in The Wrath of Khan?&lt;/a&gt; (41)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2013-07-03T21:47:48.897" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2998" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2999" CreationDate="2013-06-21T16:59:58.533" Score="19" ViewCount="273" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked two questions related with a Bollywood movie, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/37187/what-was-the-point-of-bringing-ziesha-from-the-future&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/37184/how-was-dr-khanna-able-to-fix-qt&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both have received close votes with cause &quot;Too Localized&quot;. It looks to me that CVers have voted to close because they aren't familiar with the canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On any given day, I find many questions on SciFi.SE homepage which are related to a canon I never listened about. Should I start CVing them as &quot;Too Localized&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I judge a question when I don't know anything about its dimension? Or, community is thinking other things like SciFi.SE would never get significant audience from India or Love Story 2050 was never existed for Americans like them (generalize it)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is community right to close those questions as &quot;Too Localized&quot; or community is mistaken?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Is community mistaken about &quot;Too Localized&quot; VTC cause?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2998" CreationDate="2013-06-21T17:10:39.510" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given a complete lack of comments on the second question, the general tone of comments (now deleted) on the first question, and identical CVs (majority of them &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4818/what-questions-should-be-closed-with-reason-too-localized&quot;&gt;Too Localized&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, I'm tempted to agree that the closers were basically casting completely invalid, and frankly, highly offensive votes based on the fact that the movie is not a Hollywood production.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The language of the movie/work is 100% irrelevant to SciFi.SE. We have had successful questions about non-English works before (I myself asked and answered some Russian language stuff). Ex: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/33849/identify-russian-novel-about-intelligent-talking-dolphins-with-nuclear-test-si&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/11197/russian-science-fiction-novella-about-a-giant-tower-rising-from-the-sea&quot;&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/10793/identification-a-story-about-an-entire-spaceship-converted-to-anti-matter&quot;&gt;[3]&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2667/what-was-the-name-author-of-a-sci-fi-book-where-the-sun-goes-nova-and-earth-and&quot;&gt;[4]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One may agree or disagree with the benefits of adding &quot;Indian&quot; or &quot;Bollywood&quot; tag to help search/categorize such questions (I usually try to edit-in &quot;russian&quot; or &quot;soviet&quot; on relevant questions, personally), but &lt;strong&gt;excluding such questions from the site is IMHO completely against both the spirit of SE as well as our official closing rules&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NOTE: while neither of the 2 questions are a shining example of a super great and interesting question, both are perfectly on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;One asks: you can use time machine in-universe to achieve your goal in 2 time directions, and the &quot;future&quot; solution seems harder. Why was that choice made? And this is 100% crystal clear from the question, without ANY knowledge of the movie&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another asks, how a present-day scientist would have been able to easily fix future technology that he knows nothing about. Perfectly legit, if kind of silly. It's quite plausible to assume that Leonardo DaVinci would be hard pressed to fix a broken iPhone, despite being an engineering genius.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could possibly be convinced that the second question has some slim merit of being closed as non-construtive (but that's a high hill to climb, compared to some other completely asinine questions we allow), but it was closed as &quot;Too localized&quot;. So were the 2 votes for the first question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2013-06-24T14:58:36.050" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3000" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-21T17:48:02.080" Score="6" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently noticed some questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; and it seemed off.  Upon visiting the tag, I saw that its wiki is an awful circular definition followed by a short list of sci-fi elements that will never be of any use to anyone.  There is no guidance on how to use the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Searching Meta, I saw &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/293/1470&quot;&gt;this older discussion&lt;/a&gt; about them where the general consensus seems to be that they are bad tags and not useful, possibly excepting the case where the question is specifically about the format itself and not about an instance of the format.  (That is not how they are being used for the most part, at a glance.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, apparently the consensus is to force &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2553/1470&quot;&gt;upon any question concerning the new &lt;em&gt;Hobbit&lt;/em&gt; films&lt;/a&gt;.  Besides a hypothetical use of search that seems uncommon (IMO) and probably not useful (what of questions that are relevant to multiple media formats?), I'm not sure why this is being done or why it's departing so far from the earlier discussion above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So did I miss something?  Why are we halfheartedly using these bad tags and not making any attempt to educate users about them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1470" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2017-11-30T08:35:44.933" Title="Why are the media tags still around?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3000" CreationDate="2013-06-21T21:11:56.080" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was no real consensus. The media tags are useful in some circumstances, which I think is why nobody really cared to get rid of them. For example, they are useful to distinguish between a famous book and the famous movie of the same name. They are also useful to categorize among &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That they are bad tags is debatable. They aren't &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags/&quot;&gt;meta tags&lt;/a&gt;: they have a clear meaning, and they could stand on their own (admittedly less so now that we've gotten rid of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/885/automatic-tag-clean-up-and-the-long-tail&quot;&gt;tag killer&lt;/a&gt;. They're useful to search for, say, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories+story-identification&quot;&gt;short-stories story-identification&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie+the-hobbit&quot;&gt;movie the-hobbit&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't been paying much attention lately, but my impression is that we're using these tags, not halfheartedly, but where they're useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are they &lt;em&gt;ideal&lt;/em&gt;? No. I think it would be better to use specialized tags instead of these tags combinations. For example, split &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-hobbit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-hobbit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-hobbit&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-hobbit-book&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-hobbit-book&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-hobbit-book&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-hobbit-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-hobbit-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-hobbit-movie&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/630/rename-the-story-identification-tag&quot;&gt;split&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/identify-this-short-story&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;identify-this-short-story&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;identify-this-short-story&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/identify-this-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;identify-this-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;identify-this-movie&lt;/a&gt; and so on. But we aren't doing that, so keeping the media tags fills a gap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-11-30T08:35:44.933" LastActivityDate="2017-11-30T08:35:44.933" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3003" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-22T03:41:17.017" Score="9" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have started writing a very interesting (to me at least) question that was asking how was it possible for Batman to eject from the Bat in time to survive the A-bomb blast. The timeline of the movie seemed to indicate that there wasn't enough options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the process of writing, I discovered that my research actually proved that it WAS possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, now I don't know what to do with - seemingly - potentially interesting piece of research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Post it as a &quot;this could not have have happened, how can we explain it - see the research&quot; question that I originally intended?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doesn't seem to be a good idea since in fact the research clearly shows that it was possible.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Post it as a random blog entry?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Scrap it and get a life?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Propose it as SFF blog post? (i'm not quite sure if it's worth being on the blog, IMHO).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Other ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's my original question so you can help me decide:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Subject:&lt;/strong&gt; How did Batman possibly escape the A-bomb blast when he clearly had no time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a sequence of events (all prefixes are movie running time on my player):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2:28:46] Batman stands near the bomb after Talia's death, discussing the plan and autopilot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2:28:47] A frame shows that the bomb has 117 seconds to detonation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QwNEx.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2:29:26] Batman finishes 2 non-stop conversations (Catwoman and Gordon). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since they talked, this couldn't have been &quot;slow-motion&quot;, so movie-time, the bomb advanced to at least 1:18.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Batman flies. We can't really tell the speed, so it could have been slow-mo, thus we can't rely on the timer in the player; but clearly all that flying would have taken at least 20 seconds in Downtown, given the inertia of the bomb and all the turns he is taking.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2:30:18] Batman presses the trigger &lt;strong&gt;in the cockpit&lt;/strong&gt; to blow up a building in his path. Right then, Robin starts discussing with the kids how that's batman.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2:30:25] Robin and the kids finish talking. 7 more seconds passed. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2:30:30] The Bat is flying towards the bridge, and we see Batman STILL in the cockpit. Then we see The Bat maneuvering, while the kids watch, so still no-slow-mo&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2:30:45] The Bat is finally feet-wet and on straight final trajectory. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2:30:59] They show Batman STILL piloting. If you count all the time that HAD to have passed so far, the timer is at the very least advanced to 0:35. If you count this last slice since feet-wet, it's 21 seconds left, but we can write that off as slow-motion, so let's stick with 0:35 and pretend that 14 seconds of screen time showing his face and Robin's face were really a single moment in Batman's flight in slo-mo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Important - &lt;strong&gt;the is the LAST frame where we see Batman still shown piloting The Bat&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2:31:01] At this time, we are shown a frame where a very small Bat is visible. More specifically, it's 8-9 pixels wide in a screen 1920 pixels wide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pf3ZN.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2:31:04] At this time, we are shown a frame where a very small Bat is visible. More specifically, it's 6-7 pixels wide in a screen 1920 pixels wide. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: at this point, Batman presumably goes max full speed, and takes 3 seconds of screen time to increase his distance by ~1/2th=12%.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;OK, this is where this gets slightly tricky. We know that angular size of the moon is 30 minutes, and that the rule of thumb is that the moon looks like your thumb at the fully extended hand size-wise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I tried to draw a &quot;correct&quot; sized moon on that same screen, and it came out to ~63 pixels, so 2 pix per angular minute. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p6N2n.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This means that, at 2:31:1, we see The Bat at ~4 angular minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.1728.org/angsize.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;nifty calculator&lt;/a&gt;, a roughly 2-meter-wide The Bat at 4 minutes is ~1.7 kilometers away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;at 2:31:04, we see The Bat at 3 angular minutes (6 pixels). That ~2.3 kilometers away; 5 seconds before detonation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2:31:05] Then we are shown a &quot;00:05&quot; timer... and while it counts down, BEEPING EACH SECOND, at [2:31:10] we are shown the same bay, but The Bat is NO LONGER visible, so it flew far enough away before timer hit 0:0 to be invisible. This means, &amp;lt;0.5 pixels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;0.5 pixels is 1/4 of angular minute, so that would put the Bat before the explosion at LEAST 13.7 km away (to make it less than half a pixel).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The bomb's blast radius is 6 miles, or 10 km. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This means that, had Batman ejected somewhere betweem [2:31:01] and [2:31:04], he would have been more than 10km away from the blast point (13.7-2.7=11km).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2013-06-22T04:36:39.037" Title="What should I do with this write-up?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3003" CreationDate="2013-06-22T04:36:39.037" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask the question and answer it yourself. After all, they give a badge for self-answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7603" LastActivityDate="2013-06-22T04:36:39.037" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3005" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-23T22:39:16.583" Score="0" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/37207/how-does-time-travel-take-into-account-the-rotation-revolution-of-the-earth&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was closed, for being a list question.  Then it was edited, and reopened.  At this point, one answer takes a somewhat more generalized approach to answering it, while 3 answers are 'me too' answers that have one example work and a short description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can the question be improved to avoid further 'me too' answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2016-04-03T04:24:32.303" Title="How can this question be improved?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|list-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3005" CreationDate="2013-06-23T23:53:21.513" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question specifically asks for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm just wondering if this is something that has been addressed to any detail&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it would seem that a &quot;me too with one example&quot; satisfies that requirement.  One example is all that is required to be able to say &quot;yes, it has been addressed&quot;, and some information on that example provides the detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be honest, it's worded in very general terms and so as long as it retains that wording I'm not seeing how it could be improved.  As it stands it's really just a &quot;yes/no&quot; question at heart, and on re-reading it seems to invite discussion more than anything else.  It's really difficult to see how it could be answered in any way other than either an open-ended discussion or a list of examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps by focussing on one very specific example of time travel - e.g. something like the Terminator movies - and asking the question in terms of that example might make it better, but then maybe it's getting close to &quot;too localized&quot; territory, and in any case it's moving away from the original intent of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2013-06-23T23:53:21.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2990" CreationDate="2013-06-24T15:41:30.373" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answer (to my question, but the answer is fabulous) :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/37090/13418&quot;&gt;Does the death penalty exist in comics ?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I say in my comment, both in-universe and out-of-universe reasons, appropriated examples for each one, detailed classification of described cases, taking account of question exclusion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13418" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2013-06-24T15:41:30.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2976" CreationDate="2013-06-24T20:35:43.637" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2977/4257&quot;&gt;DavRob60's answer&lt;/a&gt; is basically right, but I wanted to take this opportunity to write up a more detailed answer that applies to more than just SciFi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What we've done before&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several different types of contests that tend to pop up on our sites. They often overlap, but in the most broad terms they are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What I like to call &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;internal contests&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot; - things like tag clean-ups or topic of the week contests that are primarily aimed at engaging the existing community on the site. The goal here is to do something fun to break up the &amp;quot;monotony&amp;quot; of the day-to-day. These are typically initiated by the site's community rather than a Stack Exchange employee.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;External promotions&lt;/strong&gt;. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/promos/8/answerama&quot;&gt;Answerama&lt;/a&gt; - an event that was publicized externally and aimed at drawing in new users who didn't already know about the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Content generation events&lt;/strong&gt;. These are typically internal, but tied to some special event. The most common example are promotions like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/promos/13/answerswarm&quot;&gt;AnswerSwarm&lt;/a&gt; on Arqade.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some combination of the above. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/promos/1/skyrim-vs-mw3&quot;&gt;Skyrim vs Modern Warfare&lt;/a&gt; on Arqade sort of fit into this category. It got a lot of attention from existing site users, but it was also publicized externally.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rest of this post is going to be mostly about types 2 and 3 (and 4).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How it all went down&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've run &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/promos&quot;&gt;a bunch of promos and events&lt;/a&gt; over the last couple of years and one of the things we learned was that extrinsic motivation in the form of expensive prizes doesn't bring out the best in people. This is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;not really surprising&lt;/a&gt;; swag is great and all, but the best incentives for growing a site and participating in a community tend to come from intrinsic motivators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, in order for intrinsic motivation to kick in, someone has to know that our sites exist in the first place. Externally-facing contests seem like a great way to spread the word, but unfortunately it doesn't tend to attract the good kind of attention. I'm sure you folks remember what happened during &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/promos/8/answerama&quot;&gt;Answerama&lt;/a&gt; - the event was promoted on Facebook and that brought in a flood of extremely &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1982/please-add-more-choice-to-post-notices/&quot;&gt;low-quality posts&lt;/a&gt; from people who didn't know how this site worked and also didn't really care to learn because they were here to put up a quick question and enter into a prize draw. Personally, I can't really blame them: if I want to enter into a contest, I sure do the absolute bare minimum that I have to in order to maximize my chances of getting something I want out of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite an influx of low quality content, these contests brought new eyeballs to the site. Some were more effective at that than others. We did have some issues with user retention where many people who showed up for the fun didn't stick around to post much after. Not &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of them went like that, of course, but what we discovered is that even contests of a similar type can have different results in terms of encouraging site growth and publicity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We love rewarding our existing users for excellent participation in these contests, but even there there's also a non-negligible logistical overhead. Once we start doing things like buying folks TVs, we very quickly get into a situation where we have to keep track of what we give out for tax purposes, participants have to fill out tax forms, and it goes downhill from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;So what?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So some of these contests weren't terribly effective. Can't we still run them once in a while? Surely some will have great results!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, that's certainly true and we definitely know more about what can and is likely to work now than we did in the past, but the results are never guaranteed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, part of the problem here is that most of the people who headed up this effort at one time or another are unfortunately no longer with Stack Exchange. The rest of the community growth team have either moved on to different roles or are busy trying to wrangle &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites&quot;&gt;100+ sites&lt;/a&gt;. Maybe in the future, as the team grows, there will be more room for SE-driven promotions and contests. We'll see. In the meantime, we are prioritizing projects that hopefully &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/184154/closing-changes-on-hold-unclear-too-broad-opinion-based-off-topic-reasons&quot;&gt;benefit everybody&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're also still experimenting when the time allows and trying out other types of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/promos/12/winter-bash&quot;&gt;fun events&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/promos/10/apptivate&quot;&gt;contests&lt;/a&gt; as time allows, but we're trying to avoid things that amount to paying folks for new content for our sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What does all this mean in the end?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We still love you guys. This and every other community we have in our network. If you have an idea for something cool to do on SciFi, bring it up on meta, hash out some details, and we'll be happy to back you up with some &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1544/science-fiction-and-fantasy-top-user-swag&quot;&gt;sweet swag&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4257" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2013-06-24T20:56:19.107" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2990" CreationDate="2013-06-24T22:53:23.003" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a great &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/37280/3804&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/37286/3804&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;, about the Dalek Civil War.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It covers the new and old series as well as Davros' involvement in great detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2013-06-24T22:53:23.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3011" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3012" CreationDate="2013-06-25T12:27:28.477" Score="8" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently read &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/37352/how-was-basilisk-so-stealthy&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question about how the basilisk from Harry Potter could be so stealthy. It struck me in its similarity to a number of other questions about the basilisk, namely:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/16804/how-did-the-basilisk-get-enough-food&quot;&gt;How did the basilisk get enough food?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/16691/how-did-the-basilisk-survive-for-a-thousand-years&quot;&gt;How did the Basilisk survive for a thousand years?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28670/is-there-more-than-one-basilisk&quot;&gt;Is there more than one Basilisk?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of which call for some sort of of speculation based on canon evidence. I was wondering what makes the first question non-constructive but the others not? Shouldn't they all be treated similarly or am I missing something about the first that lends itself to being non-constructive? Perhaps it could have been edited rather than closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2013-06-30T15:16:24.910" Title="What makes this question not constructive, but these others OK?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3011" CreationDate="2013-06-25T12:53:20.670" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question was closed by the community. It's not unlikely that those closing it just didn't see the other questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said I don't see why this question should have been closed as 'not constructive' because it requires 'speculation'. Here constructive interpretation is possible considering the body of text it's from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not as though it will &lt;em&gt;solicit debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion&lt;/em&gt; as it stands, any more than other wholly constructive questions have. Furthermore a good answer could draw on &lt;em&gt;facts, references, or specific expertise&lt;/em&gt; even if interpretation is required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2013-06-25T12:53:20.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3013" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3018" CreationDate="2013-06-25T13:21:16.490" Score="7" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;I sometimes find questions that are not suited for the site (usually because they are list questions), but I find interesting. Often times I upvote the question, and then cast a close vote. Does anyone else do this? Does anyone else think this is a bad practice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastActivityDate="2013-06-26T01:41:47.977" Title="Should I upvote *and* vote to close?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|voting|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3014" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3017" CreationDate="2013-06-25T13:30:53.900" Score="21" ViewCount="739" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/37352/how-was-basilisk-so-stealthy&quot;&gt;How was the Basilisk so stealthy?&lt;/a&gt; was closed as &lt;strong&gt;Not Constructive&lt;/strong&gt;. Based on the wording of the question, I don't know that I 100% agree with that, but I get the argument.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This comment from Slytherincess caught my attention though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While this is a question that I also have wondered, it is not answerable by canon and calls for pure conjecture. I hate to VTC, but in this instance you're asking us to speculate and basically list plot holes. This is not a site for theories. This is a site for definitive answers that can be substantiated by canon. Sorry, but I feel a VTC is appropriate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is where things start getting fuzzy for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that we should try to avoid speculation whenever possible, using canon to back up our answers. But does this really mean that all questions that can't be 100% answered with canon should be closed? Sometimes new material may be added to the canon, or sometimes the answer is just incredibly obscure, or sometimes there just isn't an official answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider some of the following questions which cannot currently be 100% answered via official material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/19003/5184&quot;&gt;In the Alien series, what is the meaning of the “LV” designation for planets and moons?&lt;/a&gt; - notable because the accepted answer is that there is no canon answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/6723/5184&quot;&gt;Could the Enterprise beam a vampire into a house she didn’t have permission to enter?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/2611/5184&quot;&gt;Why don't muggle-born wizards use Muggle technology to fight Death Eaters?&lt;/a&gt; - Jeff mentions vaguely remembering a quote from JKR, but no one has been able to find it. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/1007/5184&quot;&gt;What was Starbuck?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/6199/5184&quot;&gt;Where is the rest of Yoda's species?&lt;/a&gt; - another question where the accepted (and canon) answer is that there is no canon answer and may never be one.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/6209/5184&quot;&gt;What is the Joker's real name?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/9157/5184&quot;&gt;At what time can you start feeding Mogwai?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/11325/5184&quot;&gt;How did the Zombies infection start in the Walking Dead?&lt;/a&gt; - possibly the granddaddy of all &quot;there will never be an official answer&quot; questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like automatically closing questions which either don't currently have a canon answer, or &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; don't have one, may discourage users from asking questions that may actually HAVE a canon answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; would have expected some of these questions to actually have canon answers or answers that could be reasonably derived from canon information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/27034/5184&quot;&gt;What color is smurf blood?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/21311/5184&quot;&gt;Is any reason given for the low sea level?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/33517/5184&quot;&gt;Where'd those guys on the Millenium Falcon go?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2013-06-25T22:06:10.250" Title="Should all questions without explicit canon answers be closed?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3013" CreationDate="2013-06-25T13:31:37.080" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking, this is bad practice. Upvoting says that you think it's a great question for this site, while voting to close says that it isn't on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-06-25T13:31:37.080" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3014" CreationDate="2013-06-25T13:37:47.170" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absolutely not. Half of the questions on this site do not have a canon answer, which would be detrimental to close them all. And making the determination as to if there is a canon answer before asking is extremely difficult as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I do think if there is a question that is way out there, and should be closed. Of the questions you asked, there is one that I think is in that category. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/6723/98&quot;&gt;Could the Enterprise beam a vampire into a house she didn’t have permission to enter?&lt;/a&gt; That question is mixing universes, in a way they were never intended to be mixed. That is what I would define as off topic by speculation, there's just no way they could mix, and there is no possible answer. If there is a possible answer, even if that answer is unknown, I feel like we should keep the question opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking questions that don't have an answer is okay. Sometimes an answer will pop up given enough time. Sometimes reasonable guesses can be found, if combing through the data. If possible, sources should be provided, but if not, then using the best information possible can often help, even if there isn't a particularly good source for that information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2013-06-25T13:37:47.170" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3014" CreationDate="2013-06-25T14:00:25.743" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with PearsonArtPhoto, questions should not be closed on the grounds that they don't have a canon answer, and I want to specially emphasize one particular point: the only way to know a question is unanswerable given canon is to know all canon in a universe, an unreasonable bar to set for most topics asked about here. Even I have seen questions here that I thought had no canon answer, which eventually did receive one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a universe with a very large amount of canon (LotR, Star Wars, Star Trek, etc.) how is an asker to know whether a particular piece of information is in canon? &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2372/3267&quot;&gt;We don't require users to have read canon before asking about it&lt;/a&gt;, so how could an OP know that it wasn't answered in canon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2013-06-25T22:06:10.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3013" CreationDate="2013-06-25T14:06:03.853" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Though it should probably be a rare occurrence, I don't see a major problem with this, because it's what we do anyway: we vote for what we like. If this practice is a problem, we have a BIGGER problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In more objective SE sites, upvoting means &quot;you feel [it] is especially useful.&quot; This is the wording in our help, too, but only because it's a copy-paste. In more subjective SEs like ours, &quot;useful&quot; isn't a very... useful... term; questions about Star Trek aren't seeking solutions to a problem or in other ways looking for answers that are demonstrably &quot;useful&quot; to anyone except the original poster, so we can't use that criterion to gauge if it's appropriate to vote up or down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; an upvote mean? PearsonArtPhoto says it means &quot;you think it's a great question for this site,&quot; and that'd be swell... but we &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; use upvotes to mean that, and if we should then we need to do a pretty strong education campaign about what makes questions great. (And I can't really think what &lt;em&gt;downvoting&lt;/em&gt; would mean then: &quot;This is an awful question for the site&quot;? That's vote-to-close.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, we use votes as an indication of popularity: &quot;I like this post&quot; is much closer to what voting behavior means on scifi.se. We vote for the franchises we like, and the posts with lots of pictures, and we often don't even vote then (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/10578/13941&quot;&gt;here's a post&lt;/a&gt; from a popular franchise with contemporary media saturation that got &lt;s&gt;13&lt;/s&gt; 14 votes out of over 1k views). If that's the accepted practice then I see no reason that just because the answer should be migrated we should make an exception to popularity-based voting for it. Heck, given the sickly state of our voting community, if somebody wants to vote on something &lt;em&gt;at all&lt;/em&gt; I think it should be encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And we shouldn't confuse up/downvotes with accepting an answer or voting to close; accepting an answer is the original poster's way of saying that one answer was more useful than the others &lt;em&gt;to the original poster&lt;/em&gt;. If it were like voting, either upvoting would be one-per-thread or we could accept multiple answers. They're three different kinds of input about three distinct pieces of information.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13941" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2013-06-25T18:05:43.003" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3013" CreationDate="2013-06-25T21:42:52.540" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I must disagree with @Pearson's answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Closing means that you think that the question violates the site's &quot;willing/able to answer this in SE format&quot; rules, some/many established by community.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Voting means you like the question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, if you are a genuinely honest person with integrity, and do NOT like and disagree a specific closing rules, it is perfectly reasonable to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Follow the &quot;law&quot; and VTC despite disling the law.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Upvote to express your personal approval.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what I do with any &quot;Does there exist&quot; or &quot;Any&quot; questions that are otherwise good interesting questions - yes, they are VTCable according to moderator-imposed rules, no, I deeply disagree with those rules despite agreeing to abide by them; and therefore will upvote questions of that type if they are interesting and contribute good content to the Internet which is the main mission of Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A real life analogy would be a cop arresting someone for violating an unjust law, and giving them a calling card of the best lawyer in town or money for their defense fund.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2013-06-25T21:42:52.540" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3014" CreationDate="2013-06-25T21:49:10.637" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;+1 for each of existing answers, and here's another one based on &quot;canon&quot; information:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just asked a question on ELU.SE asking if a word has an English translation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The people there started closing it as &quot;Too localized&quot; &lt;em&gt;because the word had no translation known to them&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a bit, a site moderator posted the following comment which seems quite relevant here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Just had a discussion with a group of moderators, and the consensus is that &lt;strong&gt;if the answer to a question is &quot;There is no answer to this&quot; (or in this case, &quot;There is no word for this in English&quot;), the question doesn't deserve to be closed, but should be answered as such.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, this approach (not closing) is not only a correct one for this site, but seems to be in sync with other sites as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To confirm @phantom's point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;@Slytherincess at least once answered a Harry Potter question with a canon answer (which eluded everyone) several months later.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have (for unrelated reasons) been compiling a list of Harry Potter questions that have no clear canon answers. I came up with at least &lt;strong&gt;50&lt;/strong&gt; total I'm aware of.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2013-06-25T21:49:10.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3021" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-25T22:06:16.263" Score="3" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I greatly like an answer on SE, I can reward it with a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if I greatly like a question on SE, I can at best upvote it (yes, I can award the bounty to that question, but helps the answered, not the asker).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it against the rule for me to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Find who the user posting the question is&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Find a good answer by that user (unrelated to the question that I liked)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post a bounty on that answer, with an explanation that this is a good answer on its own merits, but the bounty is really for question XXX&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, the assumption is that the answer the bounty will be posted to IS a good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2013-06-26T00:38:45.127" Title="Are we allowed to award bounties on questioner's other answers?" Tags="|discussion|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3013" CreationDate="2013-06-25T23:09:25.147" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say &quot;yes&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted thoughts on this on another SE site a short while ago, but they're probably worth repeating in this context, so here we go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Way I see it, a vote to close is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; necessarily always saying &quot;this is a bad question&quot;.  There are plenty of other reasons to vote to close, and I'm going to home in on one to illustrate this - close as duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Close as duplicate is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; saying &quot;this is a bad question&quot;.  It's &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; saying &quot;this is a good question&quot; either; what it's actually saying is &quot;the answer to your question is over here&quot;. So close as duplicate is &lt;strong&gt;not a slap-down for a question&lt;/strong&gt; - it's actually the exact opposite; &lt;strong&gt;it's a valid way of answering a question&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So given that close reason, is it appropriate to vote up and also vote to close?  Hell, yeah.  Somebody might ask a damn good question, very well written, but which despite that is answered by a duplicate.  They deserve rep for asking a good question.  But they also deserve a vote to close for being a duplicate, but a vote to close in that context is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; slapping-down the question.  It's &lt;strong&gt;answering&lt;/strong&gt; it by saying: &quot;the answer is over here&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2013-06-25T23:09:25.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3021" CreationDate="2013-06-26T00:38:45.127" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would consider this abuse of the system and, on the sites I moderate, would likely refund the bounty.  However, there is nothing stopping you from lying about the reason for the bounty and pretending that the answer is worthy of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem lies in the fact that a bounty is not a standalone event that simply gives rep to someone.  (If it were, it would be much more easily abused.)  The question gets bumped.  The minimum 24 hour waiting period before awarding the bounty means that the question will appear on the Featured tab for that long, garnering extra view and votes for itself and its answers.  Other users may be encouraged to post new answers.  Doing all of this to something entirely unrelated to the focus of your bounty seems quite inappropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider also that it is likely by design that you cannot offer a bounty on a question.  Questions are a means to an end &amp;mdash; getting a problem solved, i.e., getting answers.  Stack Exchange is about solving problems, not about &lt;em&gt;presenting&lt;/em&gt; problems, and that's why you get half rep from an upvote on a question compared to an upvote on an answer (among other things).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1470" LastActivityDate="2013-06-26T00:38:45.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3013" CreationDate="2013-06-26T01:41:47.977" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main purposes of question voting are to promote questions that others may find helpful, largely based on how helpful you found it, and to reward people that ask good questions for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is closed, it can't be answered and therefore won't help people. Bigger still, you shouldn't be rewarding people for asking bad questions. Reputation is largely a gauge of how much the community trusts you and shows that you understand how the site works. Asking off-topic questions clearly does not demonstrate that you know how the site works though and hints that you do not understand it that well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The exception to this would be not-so-obvious duplicates though, where having some variety in wording helps more people find answers that they're looking for. If a duplicate isn't that easily found, shows research effort, and is still a helpful question, then I would probably upvote and vote to close, but not for questions closed for other reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2334" LastActivityDate="2013-06-26T01:41:47.977" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3025" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3026" CreationDate="2013-06-26T07:43:07.610" Score="2" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was going to flag a question and noticed that the flagging reasons have changed radically since yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this discussed at some point because I can't find anything in meta about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8416" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2013-07-09T14:44:44.703" LastActivityDate="2013-07-09T14:44:44.703" Title="When and why did the flag reason change?" Tags="|support|closing-questions|flagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3025" CreationDate="2013-06-26T10:41:16.670" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It changed last night. I'm not going to go in to all of the details, but take a look at the blog post, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/06/the-war-of-the-closes/&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/06/the-war-of-the-closes/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-06-26T10:41:16.670" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3025" CreationDate="2013-06-26T15:39:34.537" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the topic did not read like an announcement, the changes were mentioned in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2978/what-should-be-our-off-topic-reasons&quot;&gt;What should be our Off-Topic reasons?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2013-06-26T15:39:34.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3011" CreationDate="2013-06-28T20:05:57.940" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would have VTC'd it as requiring too much speculation, and thus triggering debate. But it was already closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speculation in general is bad, because it's not an answer - it's an opinion. And opinions lead to debate. The more speculation involved, the more debate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SE is built upon the idea of high-quality, factual answers. In the case of several, the answers are not factual, but canonical. Where possible, canonical answers should be used; when canon is obviously silent, no answer should be forthcoming, as there is no basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of the basilisk questions - there just isn't enough canon for an answer more meaningful than &quot;it is a magical world in the Potterverse&quot; to be canonically grounded. It's not even good for extrapolation from canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd VTC on the others if I'd been interested enough to look into them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1367" LastEditorUserId="1367" LastEditDate="2013-06-29T10:26:42.857" LastActivityDate="2013-06-29T10:26:42.857" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3029" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3033" CreationDate="2013-07-01T03:42:22.490" Score="-1" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;For those who haven't stumbled on it yet, one of the recent changes SE team made was to add an &quot;unearned&quot; filter to the Badges tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges?tab=general&amp;amp;filter=unearned&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges?tab=general&amp;amp;filter=unearned&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the filter seems to have a small bug, in that it shows Tag Badges among the unearned even for the users who earned at least one of some/each.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2013-07-02T11:39:25.803" Title="Why do tag badges show up as &quot;Unearned&quot;?" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3030" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3031" CreationDate="2013-07-01T03:47:54.433" Score="-1" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges?tab=general&amp;amp;filter=unearned&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges?tab=general&amp;amp;filter=unearned&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new filter seems to have a small bug/feature: it lists &quot;Generalist&quot; badge (&quot;Provided non-wiki answers of 15 total score in 20 of top 40 tags&quot;), which is &lt;strong&gt;technically impossible to earn on SFF yet!&lt;/strong&gt; - see: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2450/how-is-generalist-badge-supposed-to-work&quot;&gt;How is Generalist badge supposed to work?&lt;/a&gt; on SFF meta for details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The filter should either omit the badge for the sites where the badge is not turned on; or at least, explicitly mark it as &quot;Not available for this site yet&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="&quot;unearned&quot; badges filter should exclude Generalist badge for sites that don't have it enabled yet" Tags="|bug|status-declined|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3030" CreationDate="2013-07-01T03:58:38.213" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Discussed and &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt; on MSO&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/185009/172958&quot;&gt;Should unearnable Badges been shown under unearned?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2013-07-01T03:58:38.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3032" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-01T09:55:16.527" Score="9" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a growing trend lately of question titles being edited to replace any object, person or plot point for a recent movie or TV episode with a vague &quot;this X&quot;, resulting in titles like &quot;Why did this person do this thing?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example from today (before): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Why wasn't the codex enough for Zod, in Man Of Steel?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And after:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/37608/why-wasnt-this-thing-enough-for-zod-in-man-of-steel&quot;&gt;Why wasn't this thing enough for Zod, in Man Of Steel?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another recent example (before): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Why did McCoy need Khan to revive Kirk?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And after: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/36503/why-did-mccoy-need-this-person-in-particular-to-make-his-serum&quot;&gt;Why did McCoy need this person in particular to make his serum?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first one, as far as I'm concerned, was perfectly fine prior to the edit. All it tells somebody is that there's something called a &quot;codex&quot; and that General Zod wants it; I recall that becoming pretty obvious within about five minutes of the movie starting, and doesn't seem like a spoiler to me at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second needed editing, but the spoiler was that (just in case somebody still hasn't seen it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Kirk dies and is revived&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;not that Khan was involved in making the serum; knowing that fact doesn't spoil the movie in any way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally looking for discussion on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Whether this is something we want to see continue&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do we want/need any guidelines for determining what actually constitutes a spoiler (or are there any in place already)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do we go about communicating all of this to users?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5833" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2015-02-04T21:48:32.410" Title="Are spoiler edits becoming excessive?" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|editing|title|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3029" CreationDate="2013-07-01T23:48:26.600" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the intended behavior.  There's a few ways of looking at tag badges since they represent a group of badges, here's our take on it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though there are some you have earned, there are many you have not as well...so they are on both lists.  The only case in which this is a bug is if you earned them &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt;...which luckily is a very rare edge case so we don't take the perf hit to check that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll admit it is a bug if it were to happen...and it does, e.g. when the first tag badge for a site is awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2013-07-01T23:48:26.600" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3032" CreationDate="2013-07-02T12:20:26.147" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel that this can be solved by better editing, easily. Rough approximations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why wasn't capturing Superman sufficient for Zod's goal?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What were the necessary requirements (ingredients?) for McCoy to make his serum?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't make the title sound like a Jeopardy wannabe, while maintaining lack of spoilers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2013-07-02T12:20:26.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3032" CreationDate="2013-07-02T22:27:19.943" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Avoiding spoiler is just a question of politeness. It's not everybody that is annoyed by spoiler, but we must respect those who do. The thing we should ask is how much damage a title containing a spoiler could do VS how much damage a more vague, but spoiler-free title could do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a spoiler in the title of a question is insidious. You could get hit by a spoiler title while browsing pages, or just by reading the weekly newsletter. In the worse case scenario, we could lose users that where hit by those spoilers. What has been seen cannot be unseen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, There is almost no harm from a more vague, but spoiler-free title. Making a question harder to find in the future? I don't believe it. A quick google search using keyword &quot;why need khan serum&quot; returned our question in first position. Worse case scenario, someone ask it again and the question get closed as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I don't think spoiler edits becoming &lt;em&gt;excessive&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2013-07-02T22:27:19.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3036" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-03T03:03:39.303" Score="1" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm curious how I should tag questions about the MTV series &lt;em&gt;Teen Wolf&lt;/em&gt;, as there are multiple media properties with the name &quot;Teen Wolf,&quot; including two 80s films and a 90s television series in addition to the recent MTV addition. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To avoid confusion, what would the appropriate tag be in keeping with established site norms?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11165" LastEditorUserId="1359" LastEditDate="2013-07-03T19:38:42.520" LastActivityDate="2013-07-06T13:02:51.100" Title="How should I tag questions about MTV's Teen Wolf?" Tags="|support|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3036" CreationDate="2013-07-03T03:27:44.320" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/teen-wolf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;teen-wolf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;teen-wolf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv-series&lt;/a&gt; should be enough, maybe make it clear near the beginning and end of the question (for those of us with only enough attention span to read that much) that it's about the newer one if that part is important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2013-07-03T03:27:44.320" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="282" CreationDate="2013-07-03T13:47:09.437" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we may want to revisit this issue. The accepted answer back then was to restrict these to &quot;intended&quot; versus &quot;suggested&quot; as the latter is clearly subjective. But the questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt; rarely, if ever, follow this rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The recent changes to the close reasons include&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;primarily opinion-based&lt;/strong&gt;:  Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take this recent question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/37689/5184&quot;&gt;In which order should I start Watching Star Trek movies and TV series&lt;/a&gt;. As of now, there are 5 answers - all subjective. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like we should be closing most of these questions as the new close reason pretty clearly applies to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2013-07-03T13:47:09.437" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3036" CreationDate="2013-07-06T13:02:51.100" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will steal @Matthew Read's comment idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to the fact that we have almost no questions (zero as of now) with the tag about ANY of the properties, there doesn't appear to be  any need to differentiate as of yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If/when we have enough of them, we can easily re-tag once it makes sense (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mtv-tv-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mtv-tv-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mtv-tv-series&lt;/a&gt; being a random option)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2013-07-06T13:02:51.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3040" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-07T02:25:03.497" Score="-10" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not worded as a question. I do not intend it to be one. You need to refrain from slandering questions that you do not like as a &quot;list question&quot; just so you can close them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the person asks &quot;what is the term for an animal occupation stereotype&quot; this is not a list question even if in the body they explain that they will take the answer and use it to search for a list elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will not mention my own question that people call a &quot;list question&quot; despite it clearly stating that a correct answer would be a single item.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that you do not like are not automatically list questions. That it will get more than one answer from more than one person will not make it a list question. Please stop and have some sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7603" LastActivityDate="2013-07-07T03:58:09.023" Title="A remedial lesson for those who have VTC powers" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ClosedDate="2013-07-11T14:33:38.420" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3040" CreationDate="2013-07-07T03:58:09.023" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question you are referring to has the following in its body:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;strong&gt;I want to find a list&lt;/strong&gt; of stereotypical anthropomorphic animals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...Is there a term for this? &lt;strong&gt;Is there a list&lt;/strong&gt; of these stereotypes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;Is there a list&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; very &lt;strong&gt;clearly&lt;/strong&gt; is asking for a list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, looking at the non-list portion of the question, which was essentially the title: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/37833/what-is-the-term-for-an-anthropomorphic-animal-that-fits-a-certain-role-or-profe&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;What is the term for an anthropomorphic animal that fits a certain role or profession?&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; the question doesn't seem (IMO) to fit well on scifi.SE, but rather would fit better on English.SE (given the closing of Literature.SE). The OP would benefit best from experts in literature and the English language. The only answers it has received thus far here are list answers, which we do not allow, and makes this question less constructive. If it were to be given to a site that houses experts that deal with the &amp;quot;meat&amp;quot; of what makes the question constructive, it should fare better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, ideally this question would be migrated to English.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Though the only SE site to choose as an option for off-topic closures seems to be the SciFi meta site. We may want to start another meta discussion about this in order to try to include sites that questions frequently migrate toward).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question migrated doesn't even count as a VTC AFAIK, and the community (as well as the OP I am sure) should be trying to move the question to the site that best fits in order to get the best quality answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4383" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2013-07-07T03:58:09.023" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="599" CreationDate="2013-07-08T17:56:08.883" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rot_13&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;rot-13&lt;/a&gt; the spoiler:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lbqn vf Yhxr'f sngure!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're feeling friendly, you could even link to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://rot13.de/index.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;decoder&lt;/a&gt;/encoder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2258" LastActivityDate="2013-07-08T17:56:08.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3043" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3044" CreationDate="2013-07-09T07:37:13.527" Score="0" ViewCount="731" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm finding &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/37895/did-jabba-the-hutt-perform-sexual-activities-of-any-kind-with-princess-leia&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; highly offensive. Previously this has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1582/whats-our-tolerance-for-adult-content&quot;&gt;unresolved&lt;/a&gt; due to a fortunate lack of such questions but thanks to this latest question for bringing it to the fore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should questions about sexual activity or other adult only activity be off topic for this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Allowing adult only content would, in my opinion, open a floodgate for the users who game the system for reputation as there is an endless supply of dreadful adult questions. I was going to illustrate with a few examples but frankly I don't have the stomach for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user14002" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2013-07-14T14:31:17.730" Title="Should questions about sex and other adult activities be off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3043" CreationDate="2013-07-09T07:37:13.527" Score="-15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that any reasonable parent who found their children reading that question or its answers would find it offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not an adult-only site and as such it should not discuss adult-only activities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions like this bring the site into disrepute and should be closed and deleted as soon as possible. That this question is still open and garnering upvotes shows a deep lack of responsibility by the community and moderators of this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user14002" LastEditorUserId="3267" LastEditDate="2013-07-09T12:40:44.863" LastActivityDate="2013-07-09T12:40:44.863" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3043" CreationDate="2013-07-09T07:52:49.803" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; topic should be banned &lt;em&gt;carte blanche&lt;/em&gt;. I have noticed that people get all up in arms about sexual-based topics in particular, and I find this to be extremely silly. If you feel the question is a bad question, downvote it. If it meets any of the closing criteria, then do a vote-to-close. It's really that simple. Just ignore questions you personally find offensive, but that are on topic and of interest to other SE members. Sexuality is a valid topic; that one or two people can't just downvote and move on is not reflective of a problem witin the SFF.SE community as a whole. It's indicative of a handful of people who have a low threshold for controversy, and who think banning topics will solve the (non)problem. Downvote, downvote, downvote! Calling for an outright ban on a topic is completely jumping the shark. My $0.02 anyway. I rarely even downvote such questions, tbh. I just scroll by questions that don't interest me. I'm confident the site will survive such questions with its reputation intact.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2013-07-09T07:52:49.803" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3043" CreationDate="2013-07-09T08:58:42.887" Score="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;What makes it &quot;adult-only&quot; material, rather than just &quot;adult&quot;? Lots of things are adult material. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=murder&quot;&gt;Murder&lt;/a&gt; is adult material depending on who you ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the Stack Exchange population is &lt;em&gt;generally&lt;/em&gt; expected to have a decent enough level of maturity and professionalism to be able to handle adult material. We are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a community of immature people - hopefully. We're expected to be able to conduct ourselves in a civil and mature manner. We should be able to discuss and mentally handle mature topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're particularly offended by a question, is it actually a bad question? If so, downvote it, vote to close it, or flag it as offensive (if it is truly offensive, and does not simply offend your sensibilities).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, however, it's not a bad question, and you just find it offensive, the ball may be in &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; court. Something being offensive is not 100% the writer's responsibility to deal with. Many things offend many people - many are offended by the existence of the Twilight saga, for instance, or by That Recent Horror Movie, but that's their thing to deal with, and doesn't place its author under an obligation to change her work. If you're not comfortable engaging in a topic, that means you should exit discussions about it rather than trying to close it down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15502" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2013-07-09T12:42:13.900" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3043" CreationDate="2013-07-09T13:12:21.680" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;So long as the question is written with a reasonable level of maturity and lack of vulgarity, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No. Absolutely not.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking, the Internet is a PG-Rated environment - on a good day. The most innocuous search will bring you results that would leave an average person silently sobbing and rocking themselves in the corner. If you have children that you're &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; concerned with reading about the &lt;em&gt;possibility&lt;/em&gt; of characters having sex, you need to be more actively monitoring/guiding their surfing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/legal/terms-of-service&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Terms of Service&lt;/a&gt; (note that &quot;Subscriber&quot; is defined earlier as a synonym of &quot;Subscriber&quot; or &quot;You&quot;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Subscriber certifies to Stack Exchange that Subscriber is an individual (i.e., not a corporate entity) at least 13 years of age.&lt;/strong&gt; No one under the age of 13 may provide any personal information to or on Stack Exchange (including, for example, a name, address, telephone number or email address). Subscriber also certifies that they are legally permitted to use the Services and access the Network, and takes full responsibility for the selection and use of the Services and access of the Network. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, technically, those young'ins shouldn't be surfing StackExchange by themselves anyways (Yes, I know that's unrealistic - but they're the ones technically breaking the rules here - not us).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've had other questions in the past about characters having sex. Human-Human, Human-Alien, Android-Human, Possessed-Human, Vampire-Human, the list goes on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some examples which would be blanketly closed by this change:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/5655/5184&quot;&gt;Data being intimate with Tasha Yar - why was Data built with this capability?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/23018/5184&quot;&gt;Do different species in Star Wars find each other sexually attractive?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/9751/5184&quot;&gt;Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/33415/5184&quot;&gt;Did the gatekeeper and the keymaster get intimate in Ghostbusters?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/28851/5184&quot;&gt;Did the Doctor and Jabe ever have intimate relations?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/9017/5184&quot;&gt;How is Jackie still alive after another intimate encounter?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/23197/5184&quot;&gt;Why doesn't Finn just use a Flame Shield spell to be more intimate with Flame Princess?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/36652/5184&quot;&gt;Did Captain Kirk take advantage of Drusilla?&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;em&gt;especially&lt;/em&gt; poignant as this is essentially a Star Trek version of the question that started this whole thing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/32051/5184&quot;&gt;How many alien women has Capt/Admiral Kirk slept with?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/15336/5184&quot;&gt;With how many women did Kirk have an affair?&lt;/a&gt; - closed as duplicate, but on-topic otherwise.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also check out the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sexuality&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sexuality&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sexuality&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on all existing rules, they appear to be on-topic. They are about sci-fi/fantasy; They are reasonably scoped; They are not open-ended/list questions; They are not subjective or encouraging discussion; They are written reasonably maturely and avoid vulgarities and obscenities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hate using the slippery-slope argument - but it really is an important subject. What other questions are we going to have to start banning to &quot;protect the children&quot;? Anything discussing violence? Anything discussing religion? Anything discussing evolution? Anything discussing witchcraft or demons?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply saying &quot;adult content&quot; is way too vague, and nobody is stepping up to offer any sort of definition of what that should include. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not disagreeing that the question is kind of tasteless. But it's a valid question about a valid topic, and it's written with a acceptable level of maturity. Unless these questions cross the line of common decency, they should remain open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Allowing adult only content would, in my opinion, open a floodgate for the users who game the system for reputation as there is an endless supply of dreadful adult questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is demonstrably false. Searching questions for...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sex: 36 results&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sexual: 32 results (the search engine does not seem to do partial searches correctly)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Intimate: 15 results&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many of these could not &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/13344/how-many-female-romantic-interests-with-initials-l-l-were-there-in-supermans&quot;&gt;even be considered &quot;adult&quot;&lt;/a&gt; - others &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/10712/5184&quot;&gt;definitely could&lt;/a&gt;, but they mention one of those keywords. Even if we count these as all being unique (they're not, there's a bit of overlap), that's a total of 83 questions out of 9800 existing questions at this moment. That's .8% of the questions. Even if we widen our search parameters within reason, we're still not going to hit anything remotely concerning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite the existence and non-closure of many of these questions, there has been no flood of users trying to game the system for reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2013-07-12T20:10:38.783" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3043" CreationDate="2013-07-09T13:16:07.470" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Slytherincess that a blanket ban might be a bad idea, I do think there should be some reasonable restrictions, at the least at a PG-13 level. In doing so, I would say that topics somewhat related to sexuality in general would be allowed, but there reaches a level where it becomes explicit to a degree where it should not be allowed on the site. Relationships, behaviors, morality, and post-intercourse actions (Involving sex, but not directly related to it) would be on topic, mechanics not. Given that, I've found a list of a few questions, and grouped them in to my interpretation of &quot;Allowable&quot; and &quot;Not Allowable&quot;, per my criteria&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Allowable:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/23018/do-different-species-in-star-wars-find-each-other-sexually-attractive&quot;&gt;Do different species in Star Wars find each other sexually attractive?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12370/why-did-tpol-act-like-a-human-woman-with-trip&quot;&gt;Why did T&amp;#39;Pol act like a human woman with Trip?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19557/why-didnt-zoidberg-die-after-having-sex-with-the-professor-when-fry-and-leela-w/19563#19563&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t Zoidberg die after having sex with the professor when Fry and Leela were in their bodies?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/36652/98&quot;&gt;Did Captain Kirk take advantage of Drusilla?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not Allowable &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19323/how-does-human-robot-sex-work&quot;&gt;How does human-robot sex work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to the question in reference, it is very much a borderline question, but I believe it should be closed, for the following reasons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is no original research done in to the question. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This question seems to be purely put out there to push the boundaries, and doesn't seem to be particularly useful. In fact, the line &quot;I know this question is a bit out there... but for the record, I guess, I need to know.&quot; seems to indicate to me that this is the case. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It seems evident to me that the answers being given to it are of an explicit nature, and thus the question should either be re-worded such that it does not ask for such things (In which case, the answers might &quot;Yes or &quot;No&quot;, with a brief description), or closed. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It implies things which are quite unnatural.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line is, it either needs to be drastically edited, or else closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2013-07-09T17:11:10.887" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3049" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3050" CreationDate="2013-07-09T13:21:15.757" Score="18" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;So there's an old question about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/31979/656&quot;&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/a&gt;.  At the time of asking, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/31983/656&quot;&gt;I answered it&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few months ago, new information was found - a game (unreleased at the time of asking) featured the painting of those words as one of the 'tie-ins' to the show/comics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone else noticed, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/36254/656&quot;&gt;posted an answer&lt;/a&gt;.  The answer, in my opinion, was good but not great.  Rather than hijack it and add the explanations/discussion that I edited into my answer (which would have made the answer substantially mine) I copied the single fact of the answer into my answer, and added the explanation there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am, however, uncertain that this was the right thing to do.  I did it for several reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer, despite being several months old, had only 2 upvotes (it wasn't being seen)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There were important points that I felt needed to be made regarding the games being canon&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My answer, despite being less right, was the one being seen.  The edit substantially improved my answer, making the default first answer more accurate for people who find it later.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I will now share in the reputation gained from this information.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To my view, had I only done it for the first three reasons, it would be fine.  But I know myself: I also wanted the reputation gains.  In my own view, this makes it ethically questionable, despite the fact that I clearly cite my source, link it, and encourage upvotes for the other answer as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a situation that may arise again, so I wanted the community's take - is this the right way to handle the situation where a lower-voted (and arguably, less well discussed) answer provides information that a higher-voted answer doesn't?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="656" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2013-07-09T14:32:50.117" Title="Is this the correct way to handle this?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3049" CreationDate="2013-07-09T13:27:08.543" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I think the way you handled it was just fine. You noted that the information was brought to your attention by another answer, and improved and expanded on it. instead of just copy-and-pasting it.  Remember that in the end, we are a collaborative site, not a competitive one, despite the existence of reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2013-07-09T13:27:08.543" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3049" CreationDate="2013-07-09T13:28:11.630" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, the legal requirement to copy any data from one SE location to another is to reference the OP, and where to find the source data. So you should give a bone out to the OP, in any case. It seems you have done the right thing there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, there are many examples of answers building upon other answers. This is a commonly acceptable practice. If you are only adding a small amount of information, that's perfectly fine. I would at the very least upvote the question in note to ensure that the person gets some benefit for their work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-07-09T13:28:11.630" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3043" CreationDate="2013-07-09T14:00:29.197" Score="-9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a substantial difference between 13 (parental guidance) and 18 (X-rated). I wouldn't ask a 13 year old to read this question and I doubt many others would either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is essentially about bestiality - did a human have intercourse with a creature - and as such should be strictly out of bounds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11154" LastActivityDate="2013-07-09T14:00:29.197" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3049" CreationDate="2013-07-09T14:18:43.450" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If reputation is only a side effect and not the goal here (as I would hope that it could be), then it doesn't matter who gets it assuming the other person has as much as they need and deserve to participate here adequately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If however, this is just a game where people are trying to get the highest score, then you did cheat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a community, I suggest that we need to attempt to decide which of these two possibilities we want to be true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7603" LastActivityDate="2013-07-09T14:18:43.450" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3043" CreationDate="2013-07-09T17:20:10.993" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've really struggled with this issue. I finally thought it through like this: If my 13 year old wanted to buy a paper resource that contained discussions about sex and relationships, would &#xA;I let him? Yes,  &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; it was written in partnership with child experts in the field, who could approach the issues realistically, responsibly and sensitively for his age. As it happens, a friend's 13 year old son is very into SF, but at the moment I won't recommend Stack Exchange, because of some of the content. Given that most minors probably stumble upon the site by themselves, public responsibility persuades me to exclude adult content. I certainly wouldn't be happy about it, as most questions are perfectly interesting and valid for adults to consider. At the same time, for me, protecting children comes ahead of my freedom of discussion on this particular site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12598" LastActivityDate="2013-07-09T17:20:10.993" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3043" CreationDate="2013-07-09T19:35:13.203" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way I see it, there are three elements to this matter:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is the original question offensive (which can be more usefully generalized to &quot;where do we draw the line when defining 'offensive'&quot;?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it appropriate to close it, if so?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How does this fit into the broader remit of the SE network?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the first element I vote &quot;no&quot;.  The blanket rule that subscribers must be at least 13 covers this, and the OP may be surprised at just &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; what the average 13-year old knows about sex.  Take the US, for example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_education_in_the_United_States&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_education_in_the_United_States&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Most adolescents in the United States receive some form of sex education at school at least once between grades 7 and 12&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which &lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080903091418AAHC781&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080903091418AAHC781&lt;/a&gt; translates for me as between the ages of 12 and 17, the lower-bound of which is within the 13-year old limit and not exposing 13+ year-olds to anything they haven't already been made aware of (in some parts of Europe the age is even lower, e.g &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_education#Sweden&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sweden begins at age 7-10&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That negates element 2, so on to the third and here it's instructive to look at how other SE sites handle questions relating to sexual matters.  Here's three examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;From English SE: &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/70892/does-bloodripe-actually-exist-as-a-word&quot;&gt;https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/70892/does-bloodripe-actually-exist-as-a-word&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;From Movies SE: &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/4479/water-as-a-symbol-in-fatal-attraction&quot;&gt;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/4479/water-as-a-symbol-in-fatal-attraction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;From Bible Hermeneutics SE: &lt;a href=&quot;https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/2304/are-we-to-consider-texts-such-as-song-of-songs-23-to-be-euphemistically-sexual&quot;&gt;https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/2304/are-we-to-consider-texts-such-as-song-of-songs-23-to-be-euphemistically-sexual&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, it should now be quite clear that making questions about sexual matters off-topic is not in accord with other SE sites.  If it's on-topic it's on-topic, and this doesn't seem a valid reason to make it not so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the question itself, the worst that could be said about it seems to be that it's mildly gross in the sense that it's something that might come up on Beavis and Butthead, but no more.  If it's valid for asking in the context of the source material, it should stay open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user8719" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2013-07-09T20:33:15.480" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3056" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3058" CreationDate="2013-07-10T10:34:49.017" Score="4" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently posted a comment to a question about the Wizard of Oz using Black and White then transitioning to color.&#xA;The answer used the word &quot;greyscale&quot; rather than &quot;black and white&quot;. &#xA;I made a comment that essentially corrected this mistake and why it was in fact a mistake. &#xA;However, some how my comment has disappeared but the answer now has the correct terminology. SO I'm assuming it was deleted for being off topic.&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;However, when talking about film, and the significance of said color change. Isn't this still on topic? Why was this deleted???&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Also, if it is considered 'off topic', how does one go about both correcting incorrect information as well as offering an explanation for the correction? Isn't the point of a stack exchange the eradication of ignorance?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11950" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2013-07-10T12:33:33.293" LastActivityDate="2013-07-10T12:52:49.220" Title="Why was my comment correcting terminology deleted?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3056" CreationDate="2013-07-10T12:16:12.270" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments are there to (ideally) improve the question or answer they were left on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you left a comment on an answer suggesting a correction, and the answer was then edited to incorporate the correction, then your comment did exactly what it was supposed to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are, for the most part, supposed to be temporary.  This isn't always rigorously enforced, as a large proportion of the comments tend to be more about discussion of the content in a way that doesn't necessarily lead to a direct change (i.e. humor, thanks, explanations for votes, supplemental information that for whatever reason doesn't get incorporated, etc.).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the general rule is that comments are subject to deletion at any time a moderator deems it appropriate.  Individual moderators may approach this differently, but if you posted a correction, and the correction was already made, then your comment served no further purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't in any way a criticism of you, or an indication that you shouldn't have made the comment!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, don't forget that you can suggest direct edits to questions and answers, in addition to suggesting them through comments.  If you suggest a direct edit, and it gets approved, you will stand to earn a small amount of reputation, as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2013-07-10T12:16:12.270" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3056" CreationDate="2013-07-10T12:52:49.220" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The owner of that post had already corrected the terminology in the post to reflect your comment, so your comment was obsolete, and was flagged as such. As Beofett points out, comments are transient and are only meant to stick around as long as they're useful; once the post was corrected, there was no reason for it to stay around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was nothing personal, that's just the way comments work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2013-07-10T12:52:49.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3043" CreationDate="2013-07-10T14:44:51.877" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Protecting children from questionable content is the responsibility of that child's parent.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It is highly offensive to me, a Doctoral English candidate, that anything on topic should be banned or restricted merely for &lt;em&gt;fear&lt;/em&gt; of exposure to an immature audience. Should we also then say no one can post questions about Heinlein's &quot;All You Zombies&quot; because it is, at least, full of the implication of weird sex? I feel entirely justified in saying this is a ridiculous proposition. &#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;edit&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;After looking at the 'robot sex' question. I think it is entirely fair to close a discussion for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;objective&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; reasons. Sexual squeamishness is entirely &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;subjective&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11950" LastActivityDate="2013-07-10T14:44:51.877" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3061" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-11T01:28:45.137" Score="7" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/38046/hulk-vs-superman-who-would-win-and-why&quot;&gt;Hulk vs. Superman - did they ever fight? Who won?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this LOOKS like a Shark-vs-Gorilla, it is actually fully and eminently answerable... because &lt;strong&gt;there WERE comics in which Superman fought Hulk&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fight #1:&lt;/strong&gt; 1981 &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B002K7FTAM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DC and MARVEL present: #28: SUPERMAN and SPIDER-MAN&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;That comic featured a fight between Hulk and Superman.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hulk gets all hulked-out... but can't hurt or move Superman. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the end, he's so exhausted, he converts back to Bruce Banner.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This clearly shows Superman winning.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fight #2:&lt;/strong&gt; 1996 &quot;MARVEL COMIC vs DC #3: The showdow of the century&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was a part of this special series: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_vs._Marvel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_vs._Marvel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hulk vs Superman were one of the 5 fights which were decided by fan votes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Superman made Hulk bleed from mouth and then knocked him out.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This clearly shows Superman winning.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fight #3:&lt;/strong&gt; 2001 &quot;The Incredible Hulk vs. Superman&quot;.  Play-by0&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hulk hits Superman pretty hard - knockdown.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hulk throws Superman high up. No damage.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Superman flies fast and knocks Hulk away, through a bunch of rock. Knockdown.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Superman twirls Hulk, and throws him far far away &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They fight some more, no damage.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Both are blasted from the sky with some rockets shot by presumably militarty. Both had wind knocked out of them. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hulk &lt;em&gt;throws&lt;/em&gt; a bunch of rockets at Superman.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All the while Superman tries to tell Hulk they were set up and shouldn't fight. While punching him, successfully :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then Hulk listened.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one was more even handed but &lt;strong&gt;Superman has an edge&lt;/strong&gt; as he hurt/knocked down/punched off Hulk more than vice versa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2018-05-15T19:46:00.217" LastActivityDate="2018-05-15T19:46:00.217" Title="Please re-open this question about Hulk vs Superman" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|specific-question|closed-questions|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3061" CreationDate="2013-07-11T02:23:02.090" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks to Beofett's masterful edit, was re-opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2013-07-11T02:23:02.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3043" CreationDate="2013-07-13T17:04:16.990" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to take a stab at running through some of the issues this question has, that I can see.  Personally, I don't know where I stand on the issue, but discussing specific issues people have with the question would be useful, I think.  The first is the start of the question body:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I know this question is a bit out there... but for the record, I guess. I need to know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stating that you're just randomly curious about a question comes off as pretty lazy to me.  It's similar to homework questions on Stack Overflow.  Without any discussion of context for why you want to know, or your expertise, or your research, it looks like a 'do this research for me, please' sort of thing.  In general these get received poorly here, with fewer upvotes, but on its own this isn't much of a reason to vote to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now for the rest of the body:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So Did Jabba the Hutt perform sexual activities of any matter with Princess Leia whilst she was enslaved?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of issues here.  The first is that Jabba and Leia wouldn't have 'performed sexual activities' (which is a super weird phrasing), Jabba would have raped/sexually-assaulted Leia.  She was a captive, there's zero indication that she would have consented to anything.  Glossing over this detail, makes it look like the gravity of what's being discussed is being ignored.  Note that the odd phrasing and grammar in the question mean this is probably unintentional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second is that in light of that, this question is asking something that clashes pretty heavily with the tone and subject matter of the film it's talking about.  &lt;em&gt;Return of the Jedi&lt;/em&gt; is a rated PG film, but discussions of rape are not PG material.  The &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; films are largely light-hearted adventures, and rape is a pretty significant divergence from that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To non-US users, here in the USA, we rate films on a scale of 4 ratings, each with the expectation that a higher rating means the viewers should be older/more mature.  G is the lowest rating, which means the film is appropriate for any age.  Think a light-hearted Disney film.  PG is the next rating, it brings the expectation of a little more maturity.  The youngest kids might not understand the film, but most middle/older kids will be cool.  PG-13 is the next one, the 13 stands for the rough age that kids should be before watching these films.  R is the highest rating, which is meant for adults.  R films tend to have plenty of explicit violence, swearing, adult themes/concepts, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did I miss something, are there other issues with the original question?  I'd love to get this fleshed out more, so we can all understand the issues people have with the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2013-07-14T14:31:17.730" LastActivityDate="2013-07-14T14:31:17.730" CommentCount="12" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-07-13T17:04:16.990" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3065" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-14T14:26:54.120" Score="-1" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/268/what-influence-did-h-p-lovecraft-have-on-science-fiction&quot;&gt;What influence did H.P. Lovecraft have on science fiction?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The main part of the question explicitly asks &quot;can HPL be considered SciFi?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The title was edited by Gilles to be ontopic, but it doesn't match ANYTHING in the body of the question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Importantly, it ALSO doesn't match any of the answers provided (every answer that was written was an opinion about genre classification, NOT &quot;influence&quot;).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Genre Classification / &quot;Is this SciFi&quot; is considered offtopic for SFF, so this question should be closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1083/are-questions-whose-answers-would-determine-if-a-work-could-be-categorized-as-sc/1085#1085&quot;&gt;Are questions whose answers would determine if a work could be categorized as sci-fi considered on-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2984/976&quot;&gt;What should be our Off-Topic reasons?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that this Q &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1950/shouldnt-this-question-be-closed-as-off-topic&quot;&gt;was previously discussed on Meta&lt;/a&gt;, but the discussion amounted to &quot;Keen explained that it should be closed and did so; then Gilles said that he edited it and re-opened unilaterally&quot;. This meta question I'm asking pertains to situation AFTER Gilles' edit - &lt;strong&gt;I feel that a combination of his edit (title only was fixed) and a mess of genre classification answers do not warrant re-opening.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. IMHO, the question that Gilles wanted to ask, about influences, should be asked as a brand new question so it can be answered instead of languishing in a legacy question with 4 existing non-matching answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2013-07-14T15:26:41.307" Title="Why was this question not closed/reopened?" Tags="|discussion|scope|specific-question|closing-questions|genre-classification|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3065" CreationDate="2013-07-14T15:26:41.307" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I edited the title to salvage this question in order to preserve the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question originally asked “Can Howard Phillips Lovecraft be considered a sci-fi author?”, which is purely a matter of opinion. We found early on in the history of this site that every single question of the form “is X science fiction” came down to two things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a definition of “science fiction”, usually one of the many alternatives listed on Wikipedia;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a subjective decision by the author of the answer to pick one definition and make the work fit or not fit.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of these questions led to interesting answers since you could pick a different definition and make your case for or against.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if we unask the question and posit that Lovecraft may or may not have been an SF author, we can study more objectively how his work relates to science fiction in general. Most of the answers to that question went along this track:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/268/what-influence-did-h-p-lovecraft-have-on-science-fiction/273#273&quot;&gt;“writers like Lovecraft are the genre's forefathers”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/268/what-influence-did-h-p-lovecraft-have-on-science-fiction/879#879&quot;&gt;“concept (…) that smacks of classic sf”&lt;/a&gt;, “Some of his later short stories ended up in Weird Tales, which had a heavier bias towards SF”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/268/what-influence-did-h-p-lovecraft-have-on-science-fiction/404#404&quot;&gt;“the heir to Lovecraft's horror was …”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I wrote in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1950/shouldnt-this-question-be-closed-as-off-topic/1954#1954&quot;&gt;my meta answer&lt;/a&gt; at the time: “I edited it to make it ostensibly not about defining the genre, but about Lovecraft's influence, which is what the answers mostly dwelt about anyway”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2013-07-14T15:26:41.307" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3067" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3068" CreationDate="2013-07-14T16:23:15.387" Score="21" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/about&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/about&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Get answers to **practical&lt;/strong&gt;, detailed questions**&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Focus on questions about an &lt;strong&gt;actual problem&lt;/strong&gt; you have faced. Include details about what you have tried and exactly what you are trying to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These seem to be generic wordings from standard SE sites; and are WRONG for SFF as per Meta consensus (11/-1 on the question, 13/0 on the only answer):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2865/is-i-am-curious-about-x-sufficient-justification-for-asking-questions-on-sff-s/2869&quot;&gt;Is &amp;quot;I am curious about X&amp;quot; sufficient justification for asking questions on SFF.SE?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have always felt that the &quot;actual problems that you face&quot; clause is generally a poor fit for SciFi and a few other SE sites.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  I understand the reason for it, but I just feel that we're far enough from the topics of the sites where it originated that its value is diluted for us.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  So I'd say that yes, &quot;I'm curious&quot; is sufficient justification for asking a question, as far as that specific clause goes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2013-07-14T16:49:43.937" Title="Can we please fix the About page to remove &quot;actual problem&quot; and &quot;practical&quot; wording?" Tags="|discussion|scope|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3067" CreationDate="2013-07-14T16:49:43.937" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;We (mods) can change the &quot;Ask about&quot; and &quot;Don't ask about&quot; lists, but not the title &quot;Get answers to practical, detailed question&quot; or the paragraphs on the left. If you come up with a good enough alternative, we will bring it up with the team, but I think it's unlikely they'll actually change it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2013-07-14T16:49:43.937" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1236" CreationDate="2013-07-22T22:03:48.367" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;As one who specializes in story ID questions, I'd find it very useful to have all of the correctly answered ID questions so marked. DVK mentioned three kinds of evidence for an &quot;unequivocally correct answer&quot;. Let me mention a fourth and even more unequivocal kind: when the OP accepts the answer &lt;strong&gt;verbally&lt;/strong&gt; in the form of a comment, without formally accepting it. This has happened to me 3 times in the 3 months I've been a member:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/38243/help-identify-viking-time-travel-short-story/38248#38248&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt;, the OP came back and commented &quot;That's the one... awesome, thanks!&quot; and even posted a second comment &quot;Yes, it was an older book when I read it. Some of my recall was a admittedly a little off. In any case, this has nagged me for years, so thanks again for your reply&quot; without accepting (or voting but that's beside the point).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/37957/novel-about-androids-in-london-of-the-future/38006#38006&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; the OP commented &quot;Thank you so much, that was precisely the one I was looking for. I had almost given up ever finding it.&quot; without accepting or voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/37336/sci-fi-story-where-aliens-resurrect-humans-who-have-gone-extinct/37337#37337&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; the OP's comment &quot;The interwebs are truly amazing. I wondered what the name of the story was for 35 years and you answered the question two minutes after I uploaded it. Thank you Jeff.&quot; was appended to the &lt;strong&gt;question&lt;/strong&gt; and addressed to Jeff, who did not answer or comment on the question but who edited the title. Again, no acceptance or vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps, in cases like this, the moderators should be empowered to mark the answer as &quot;accepted&quot; without awarding points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe, on the Ounce of Prevention theory, a better way could be found to inform new or one-time users about the custom and mechanics of marking accepted answers? One time (maybe on another stack exchange site) when I was answering a question for a brand new user with 1 rep point, I tried to take matters into my own hands and ended my answer by saying something like &quot;if you find this answer satisfactory, you may consider accepting it by clicking on the check mark on the left&quot; but of course someone came along and edited it &quot;deleting hint to accept&quot;. Would a &quot;hint to accept&quot; in the form of a &lt;strong&gt;comment&lt;/strong&gt; be kosher?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2013-07-22T22:21:25.487" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3070" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3073" CreationDate="2013-07-23T16:09:43.137" Score="16" ViewCount="519" Body="&lt;p&gt;Historically, it was decided that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2372/i-havent-read-the-book-watched-the-movie-may-i-ask-a-question-about-it&quot;&gt;it was not required to have read a book/watched a movie to ask a question&lt;/a&gt;. This, of course, led to its own issues: the dreaded &lt;em&gt;General Reference&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, as a policy, it was decided that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2400/should-we-burninate-general-reference&quot;&gt;we should not use General Reference as a close reason&lt;/a&gt;, and more recently, it and &quot;Too Localized&quot; were removed as close reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The conversation &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/38424/5184&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; brings these topics back up again, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keen initially closed the question as &lt;strong&gt;off-topic&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;because it is exceptionally trivial. It's not unclear at all what happens during that scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community, however, voted to re-open it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most upvoted answer to the &quot;&lt;em&gt;I haven't read the book/watched the movie&lt;/em&gt;&quot; question explains&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yes, you can ask a question about material you have not read/watched/listened to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, that does not exempt you from any of our other rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;General reference is still general reference. You can't claim &quot;I didn't read the book, so it isn't general reference to me&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions that demonstrate a lack of research should still be downvoted. Posting a question about material you haven't read isn't sufficient research on its own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This becomes a little confusing as it's stated that it's OK to ask a question about something you have basically no knowledge of - but that General Reference still applies (of course, there was always the discussion of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2395/5184&quot;&gt;what constituted General Reference&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BUT, this question/answer was from a few weeks &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; meta decided to &quot;burninate general reference&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2402/5184&quot;&gt;Beofett wrote&lt;/a&gt; (and was quoted in the accepted answer)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why is it not sufficient to say &quot;if a question is trivial, boring, and demonstrates little to no research, downvote it&quot;? Note that the hover-text for downvoting states quite clearly that a question or answer should be downvoted when it &quot;does not show any research effort&quot; or &quot;it is unclear or not useful&quot;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and continues &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For truly useless questions, most of them will likely fall into other closure categories (Gilles has mentioned on a couple of occasions that &quot;too localized&quot; in particular can usually cover some of the most egregious examples of &quot;General Reference&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the answer referenced, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1899/5184&quot;&gt;Gilles wrote&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I do not find the GR close reason absolutely necessary, because too localized can fill its role. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fast forward to today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;General Reference is gone. Too Localized is gone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do we want to handle questions like these in the future?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I downvoted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/38424/5184&quot;&gt;the question&lt;/a&gt; that brought this back up. It &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; poorly researched. I don't see how anyone could possibly interpret that scene any other way. But do we want to close questions for being &quot;too trivial&quot;? General Reference and Too Localized were the two close reasons that &quot;too trivial&quot; would have fit into (based on specifics), but those are no longer valid close reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we DO want to close these questions, what should the correct close reason be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2015-09-15T13:58:35.600" Title="Should we close questions for being &quot;too trivial&quot;?" 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  <row Id="3071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3070" CreationDate="2013-07-23T19:53:05.500" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll restate what @Beoffet said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TL;DR: &lt;strong&gt;If a user personally feels that the answer to the question is obvious, downvote the question. Do NOT close.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a user can't find a conclusive proof that the answer is obvious for EVERYONE (example: the ST3 Pon Farr question wasn't obvious to me despite having seen the movie, so it clearly isn't &lt;strong&gt;everyone&lt;/strong&gt;), that user has no legitimate reason to demand the question to be closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You have no right to deprive other users of useful Q&amp;amp;A information just because you personally and subjectively feel it's not useful to you.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To quote my usual argument about &quot;too obvious&quot; - for pretty much every active supporter of closing &quot;trivia&quot; questions, I can easily find a question of theirs whose answer I consider to be obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Supporting anecdote: @Slytherincess (top HP expert here) at least once asked a question easily (at least for me) answerable by a quote from HP book. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and for all of you supposed 'experts' who consider the answer to the question being discussed as 'obvious' - according to canon, you CAN survive Pon Farr without sexual activity, via a special challenge. &lt;strong&gt;Google &quot;kal-if-fee&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2015-09-07T11:48:04.907" LastActivityDate="2015-09-07T11:48:04.907" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3070" CreationDate="2013-07-23T20:36:24.320" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Without wanting to get too far into specifics of individual questions, I lean towards closure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason why is because the purpose of the SE network is to serve as a useful Q&amp;amp;A resource both now and in the future.  Answering a &quot;too trivial&quot; question satisfies the &quot;now&quot; part, but opens the floodgates for a very poor signal-to-noise ratio for the &quot;future&quot; part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I fully accept DVK's reasoning that sometimes the answer may not be obvious to everyone, but that's where the closure system can play a part.  Those with insta-close powers should stand back and let the 5 votes take their course.  If 5 separate 3000 rep+ people think a question is &quot;too trivial&quot; then there seems a reasonable chance that it actually &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only say &quot;lean towards&quot; closure because I actually watched the Search for Spock recently and for the first time in a while, and this time what was going on was pretty damn obvious to me, but every previous time it &lt;em&gt;wasn't&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, however, that's something that the &quot;reopen&quot; system can handle.  So the way the system works (and is designed to work) is that it would take a consensus of 5 to make the initial closure, then a further consensus of 5 (or even an insta-reopen) to overrule it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;on hold&quot; rather than &quot;closed&quot; wording helps a lot here; it sends a signal to the person asking that the question hasn't been completely ruled out.  Some appropriate commenting along the lines of &quot;we think this is a question that can be trivially answered by referring to source material&quot; can also help, and accomplish the job of actually helping provide the asker with the answer that they want, all without clogging up the site with trivial questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is all in the spirit of a close vote &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; being a slap-down for a question, but instead sometimes being a useful tool to help direct the asker towards an answer (or towards the fact that no answer exists) while at the same time keeping the overall quality of questions on the site at a higher level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2013-07-23T20:36:24.320" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3070" CreationDate="2013-07-23T21:14:30.950" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;To repeat myself, even though it was quoted in the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why is it not sufficient to say &quot;if a question is trivial, boring, and demonstrates little to no research, downvote it&quot;? Note that the hover-text for downvoting states quite clearly that a question or answer should be downvoted when it &quot;does not show any research effort&quot; or &quot;it is unclear or not useful&quot;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we can generally agree that trivial questions that demonstrate little to no research aren't usually what we'd consider &quot;good content&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there are three reasons I can see for allowing them (i.e. &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; closing them):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;First and foremost, &quot;too trivial&quot; is entirely subjective.  What is too trivial for one person may be interesting to another.  That, I believe, is exactly why &quot;does not show any research effort&quot; is wording directly associated with downvoting questions.  There's no way that I can think of where we can &lt;em&gt;objectively&lt;/em&gt; draw a line and say &quot;on this side of this definition, it is too trivial and should be closed, and on the other side, it is acceptable&quot;.  While that may be true to varying extents with some of our other close reasons, at least they all have basic descriptions that provide some context.  If we can't come up with a sentence or two to expand on what distinguishes &quot;trivia&quot; from &quot;too trivial&quot;, then we will have a difficult time guiding users to improve their questions.  If someone can come up with a clear, objective definition or description of &quot;too trivial&quot; that can be consistently and clearly communicated, I'd be all for it, but I don't believe it is possible (I could be wrong, though). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What seems like a trivial or simple question could result in an exceptionally good answer.  It's happened before.  I don't have time to search for examples now, but I'm pretty sure they're out there.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Encouraging new users.  Nothing discourages someone from participating on a site like their first attempt at participation being slapped down with a &quot;sorry, your contribution isn't up to our high standards&quot;.  Not every one of these questions will come from a new user, but some, including the one that sparked this debate, will be first-time posts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="1359" LastEditDate="2013-07-25T13:45:10.083" LastActivityDate="2013-07-25T13:45:10.083" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3074" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3075" CreationDate="2013-07-24T17:56:11.303" Score="4" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't recall seeing this in the past, so I'm not sure if this is something new.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On deleted answers, the &quot;Add Comment&quot; link is disabled. That makes sense. But there is also a note saying that comments require 50 reputation with a link to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;the privileges page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like either the reputation requirement text or the whole &quot;add comment&quot; section should be removed for these answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jD6j4.png&quot; alt=&quot;add comment section&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Confusing &quot;Add Comment&quot; text on deleted answers" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3074" CreationDate="2013-07-25T21:24:45.417" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yep.  This bug has already been handled here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/190180/requires-50-reputation-to-comment-on-deleted-posts&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Requires 50 reputation&amp;quot; to comment on deleted posts&lt;/a&gt;.  For deleted and locked answers, most users (i.e., everyone but mods) should see &quot;comments disabled for locked / deleted posts&quot; (or something very close to that).  OPs cannot comment on deleted and locked posts, either.  Only mods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1493" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2013-07-25T21:24:45.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3076" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3087" CreationDate="2013-07-28T04:54:50.550" Score="2" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll likely be without internet a little over a month from now, due to moving.  I don't want to break my (currently) 636 consecutive days visiting SciFi.SE, so I was checking my phone to make sure I could access the site just fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I logged in and even ended up VTCing a question.  But the &quot;last seen&quot; field on my profile did not update until I loaded the full site on my laptop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from that, this would seem to indicate that the &quot;Enthusiast&quot; and &quot;Fanatic&quot; badges are unavailable to mobile-only users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastEditorUserId="4257" LastEditDate="2013-08-02T16:32:01.740" LastActivityDate="2013-08-02T16:35:22.100" Title="Mobile site does not update &quot;last seen&quot; on userpage" Tags="|bug|status-norepro|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3077" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3078" CreationDate="2013-07-29T13:08:25.770" Score="6" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;While voting to close &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/38678/5184&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, I considered the close reason &quot;&lt;strong&gt;This question belongs on another site in the Stack Exchange network&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when I clicked that, the only option it gave me was that it belongs on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.scifi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;meta.scifi&lt;/a&gt; - and clicking that option was required to use that close reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ended up using the custom close reason, but it seems like the &quot;belongs on other&quot; should have other options besides meta. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone previously suggested that we &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2624/add-physics-se-as-an-option-for-questions-that-dont-belong-here?rq=1&quot;&gt;add physics.se as an option for close reasons&lt;/a&gt;, and the arguments against it make sense, but as-is, the &quot;belongs on other&quot; doesn't make a whole lot of sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2013-08-01T07:51:53.580" Title="Close Reason: This question belongs on another site in the Stack Exchange network" Tags="|feature-request|closing-questions|migration|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3077" CreationDate="2013-07-29T14:43:41.950" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;That page is how questions are migrated between Stack Exchange sites.  Regular users only have the ability to migrate to sites that have 'migration paths' setup to other graduated Stack Exchange sites.  Since the obvious sites we would migrate to are in beta (Movies &amp;amp; TV, and Anime), we don't have any migration paths setup, ergo the only option you see is migrating to Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mods have the ability to do migrations to any other site, including beta sites.  We've used this to migrate a few non-sci-fi/fantasy questions over to Movies &amp;amp; TV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2013-07-29T14:43:41.950" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3077" CreationDate="2013-07-29T14:46:01.040" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use the &quot;other&quot; off-topic close reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nCvgJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;close&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question appears to be off-topic because it is about dentists. This could be on-topic at [Toothdecay.SE]. Do not re-post there, the moderators will migrate the question for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can then flag the question for moderator attention and ask for it to be migrated. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And please only do this when the question is good enough to be migrated. We don't migrate crappy questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2013-07-29T14:46:01.040" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3077" CreationDate="2013-07-30T02:37:33.110" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I almost asked this same question about a week ago, but found this instead:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1030/migration-paths&quot;&gt;Migration Paths&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's nearly 2 years old, but the reasoning there almost still seems appropriate:  We &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; have had only &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tools/posts/migrated/stats&quot;&gt;nine migrations in the last 90 days&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 from Skeptics to SciFi&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3 from SciFi to Movies&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 from SciFi to Space&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 from SciFi to Biology&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 from SciFi to English&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 from SciFi (Main) to SciFi (Meta)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the past week, I'm thinking it may be time to rethink that decision.  These stats, I'm pretty certain are incorrect.  There've been a couple recent questions that probably should have been migrated to Movies.SE, except that option wasn't in the list so we just closed it as &quot;Off Topic&quot; with a custom reason.  (Such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/38678/tv-series-about-creating-games&quot;&gt;this one, still on the front page&lt;/a&gt; - Movies.SE has an &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/identify-this-tv-show&quot;&gt;identify-this-tv-show tag&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would propose, at the very least, adding Movies.SE to the migration list once it's out of Beta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2013-07-30T02:37:33.110" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3081" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3082" CreationDate="2013-07-31T09:03:30.350" Score="12" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reading &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/38742/13418&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, I was about to upvote it when it struck me... it &lt;em&gt;does not&lt;/em&gt; answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about franchises that exist in multiple formats often explicitly ask for a comparison between some of them. But when that is not the case, I feel like making a cross-reference is not what the OP asked for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I ask something about the LotR movies, and someone answers &quot;Well in the book it happens like this&quot;, what I understand is &quot;The movies are not to be taken into account, they are incomplete&quot;... which of course is &lt;em&gt;true but does not answer the question&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I ask a question about the Marvel Cinematic Universe without specifying that I'm looking for comic book background knowledge, I'm sure people will answer with Ultimate Universe information or even an Earth-616 based answer unless I explicitly mention that I do not want it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a normal interpretation? Or am I just looking too deep in the Q/A format?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13418" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2013-08-13T15:40:11.993" Title="Is answering with alternative source knowledge a good fit when it is not required by the OP?" Tags="|discussion|answer-quality|canon|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3081" CreationDate="2013-07-31T12:05:57.540" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an interesting question. Unless stated otherwise, I would utilize multiple canon sources to answer a question, but judiciously. For example, if I were answering a Harry Potter question, I would definitely use all the books, any direct information from the author, and information from (more) reliable websites, such as the HP Lexicon or Pottermore. I would not, however, answer a canon-based question with information from the HP movies or the Wiki/Wikia unless the OP stated he/she specifically wanted that level of comparison. That said, when I'm the OP, I try and communicate what source information is acceptable to me when I ask the question. Some questions are more conducive to book-to-movie comparisons, such as LOTR, as you mention. If someone is specifically asking about one of the LOTR movies, though, I would think it wholly appropriate to give a movie-based answer. Whether I would go on to also make a book comparison would depend on the question, so I can't say I have a blanket rule about not referencing one canon source in light of a question asked in the context of a different source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't say whether your line of reasoning is &quot;normal&quot; (what is normal anyway?) or not; I would imagine there are multiple opinions out there on how to apply appropriate canon sourcing. But I think it's good that you want to answer questions in a way that best suits an OP's inquiry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2013-07-31T12:05:57.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3081" CreationDate="2013-07-31T13:44:55.927" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Slytherincess's answer. The level and quantity of canon varies drastically from world to world - Star Wars has an explicit canon structure, and hundreds of sources, Tolkien has copious published notes to go along with the books and the movies, while some world consist of only a handful of books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes you can look at the question to determine the level of canon they are likely looking for. For example, if they ask for something about the Dead at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, they're probably asking from a movie standpoint. And if they ask a question about Jacen Solo, they probably accept most Star Wars EU material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, if they do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; specify, as most won't, and if it is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; clear, like in the linked example, where the scene occurs in both film and novel, then I would give the most complete answer possible, noting any differences between various adaptions. I wouldn't say that your line of reasoning is abnormal per se, but you may be setting a bar higher than most askers are willing to meet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastActivityDate="2013-07-31T13:44:55.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3085" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-02T07:47:39.713" Score="-7" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;MLP:FIM has been discussed before and I think the consensus is that it's on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've watched a lot of MLP (FIM and the generations before), and now my daughter has exposed me to the latest abomination^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H variation: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2908228/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Equestria Girls.&lt;/a&gt;  In this new show, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Twilight Sparkle and Spike travel through a portal to &quot;another world&quot; where Spike is transformed into a dog and Twilight into a high-school girl.  In the course of their quest, they meet 5 other girls who are remarkably similar to the other 5 ponies.  (Who'd have guessed?!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/38753/did-rarity-graduate-from-school&quot;&gt;This question seems to be about&lt;/a&gt; Equestria Girls, and it's probably clear from my comments there and here that I don't see much redeeming value in the show.  Although it's a spin-off of FIM, I'm hoping it could be declared off-topic.  The focus of the show is not so much magic and talking ponies as it is &quot;standard&quot; high-school girl situations, which doesn't seem very SF&amp;amp;F to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please, can it be deemed off-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2013-08-02T14:14:25.777" Title="Is My Little Pony: Equestria Girls on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3085" CreationDate="2013-08-02T10:14:14.143" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Equestria Girls&lt;/em&gt; film is just as topical as the &lt;em&gt;Friendship is Magic&lt;/em&gt; show.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Little_Pony:_Equestria_Girls&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Equestria Girls&lt;/em&gt; is a film&lt;/a&gt; which got limited theatrical release, not a spin-off show; it's in continuity with the series) is actually very much about magic and talking ponies; the &quot;high-school girl situations&quot; B-plots only exist to serve the overarching A-plot story of a stolen magic item hidden in an alternate universe similar to our own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since your reason for thinking it's not SF&amp;amp;F is inaccurate and your primary motive for wanting the film declared off-topic is that you don't like it, I can't give any weight to the request. Declaring &lt;em&gt;Equestria Girls&lt;/em&gt; as non-fantasy is akin to declaring that &lt;a href=&quot;http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/The_Changeling&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the episode where Teal'c hallucinates he's a firefighter&lt;/a&gt; isn't science fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't like the pony questions, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1979/13941&quot;&gt;you can make it so you never see them again&lt;/a&gt; without imposing your dislike on the rest of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13941" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2013-08-02T14:14:25.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3076" CreationDate="2013-08-02T16:35:22.100" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm unable to reproduce this. The badges are certainly available to folks who use the mobile interface, and this is most likely a caching issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just tested this with a different site and saw the &quot;last seen&quot; timestamp update immediately on my phone and when viewed in the browser on my desktop, but not when viewed in an incognito profile I opened up first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4257" LastActivityDate="2013-08-02T16:35:22.100" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3088" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-09T16:47:21.757" Score="2" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;How much rep do you need to create a new tag?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Or how does one create a new tag?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Honestly, I don't even know if we need a manga tag; I figured anime and naruto would be enough on the naruto question I asked earlier.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Thanks,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14417" LastActivityDate="2013-08-09T17:29:01.830" Title="someone suggested I create a manga tag" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3088" CreationDate="2013-08-09T16:50:18.300" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we have a question that is about a manga (as opposed to an anime), then it should be appropriately tagged.  If you've seen a question that meets that description, link it, and someone will tag it appropriately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2013-08-09T16:50:18.300" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3088" CreationDate="2013-08-09T17:29:01.830" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges&quot;&gt;300 reputation&lt;/a&gt; to create a new tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All you need to do to create a new tag is to enter the tag in the tag section of a question.  If the tag doesn't exist, no tool tip matching it will appear, and the tag will be created once you save the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, all I did was type &quot;manga&quot; after the existing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/anima&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;anima&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;anima&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/naruto&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;naruto&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;naruto&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Always remember to try and create a tag wiki and/or excerpt for tags you create, if you can (I'm going to take a stab at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/manga&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;manga&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;manga&lt;/a&gt; in a minute).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2013-08-09T17:29:01.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3091" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3092" CreationDate="2013-08-09T17:49:58.930" Score="13" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently happened to take another look at an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/14655/1359&quot;&gt;old answer of mine&lt;/a&gt;, and noticed that there was a fair amount of chatty comments between myself and the OP of the question I was answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comments were a sidebar discussion about spoilers, and were largely unrelated to the question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I decided to delete my comments, since the conversation ended over a year ago, and then flagged the remaining comments as &quot;obsolete&quot;, as they no longer served a purpose (nor even made sense, now that my comments they were replying to were deleted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was a bit surprised to see that my flag was declined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I reviewed our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/808/1359&quot;&gt;meta discussion on when to use comments&lt;/a&gt;, and it seemed like I was using the &quot;obsolete&quot; flag appropriately.  A &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1618/1359&quot;&gt;more recent&lt;/a&gt; discussion does not seem to contradict my use of the flag, either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I not have flagged the comments, or was declining my flag a mistake?  If I shouldn't have flagged it, when should comments be flagged as &quot;obsolete&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2013-08-09T18:00:16.510" Title="When, if ever, should we flag comments as &quot;obsolete&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|comments|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3091" CreationDate="2013-08-09T17:53:59.530" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I've been getting a bit more active lately in culling obsolete comments.  Often there will be discussion in comments about an aspect of a question, which then gets edited.  Leaving the comments that discuss the former state of it just confuses future users, so I remove them.  I'm not speaking to your specific case, but that's how I've read the expectations of obsolete comments and what to do about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this instance in particular, that you deleted your comments first made it unclear to me that the other poster's comments were obsolete.  When I looked at the comments, he complained about a spoiler in your post.  The spoiler was still in the post, so I declined the flag.  Had your comments been there, I would have seen the back and forth on the subject and might have decided differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2013-08-09T18:00:16.510" LastActivityDate="2013-08-09T18:00:16.510" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3081" CreationDate="2013-08-13T15:40:11.993" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is the wonderful thing about Stack Exchange sites.  You can receive multiple answers!  In cases like this where there is ambiguity and uncertainty about which sources are being asked about, there can exist multiple answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, say we have a Green Lantern question which, as far as the question goes, could be about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Lantern_%28comic_book%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;comic books&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Lantern_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt;, or the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Lantern%3a_The_Animated_Series&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;animated series&lt;/a&gt;.  If a user answers solely on the movie, the answer is not necessarily wrong, but also may not be considered an answer to the OP.  Even if it is, another user can come along and give an answer for The Animated Series.  Same thing goes for the comics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So long as we encourage multiple answers that are different, this behavior should happen naturally.  The OP can accept the one that they were looking for and the community can vote on how good the other answers are.  This can also be helpful for users that only follow certain mediums.  So if a Star Wars question comes up, I may have an answer that is informed by the movies while someone else may be more qualified to answer on behalf of the books or TV series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course great answers will likely still include as many forms as possible and stick to the most realistic sources for the question, so in the Green Lantern scenario the majority of a multi-source answer would consist of comic book information.  However this is still going to need a user's best judgement per question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;A question can have multiple answers.  If you feel that you can give an answer for one source, but think someone more qualified should answer for a different source, then feel free to offer your answer, so long as the question is not specifying which source material they are referring to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15899" LastActivityDate="2013-08-13T15:40:11.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3095" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3096" CreationDate="2013-08-13T21:25:00.437" Score="5" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/27/niall-c&quot;&gt;Niall C.&lt;/a&gt; discovered (and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/39398/in-the-thing-are-victims-duplicated#comment-75040&quot;&gt;gave notice&lt;/a&gt;)that content was directly copied without attribution from IMDB to provide &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/39398/in-the-thing-are-victims-duplicated#39400&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, I edited the answer to improve clarity and add paragraph breaks before the comment was posted.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3267/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; then edited the answer to indicate that it was a quote from IMDB--but it was &lt;em&gt;no longer a quote&lt;/em&gt; (because of my edit).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the text be returned to its original state (with Kevin's addition of attribution and link [with some additional text to explain &quot;this film&quot; refers to the 2011 version of &lt;em&gt;The Thing&lt;/em&gt;]) so that it is actually a quote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the answer was upvoted and &lt;em&gt;accepted&lt;/em&gt;, deletion might be too harsh. (The answer addressed the stated question poorly, so acceptance is surprising. I would be tempted to be harsh because I was taken in by this post.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11683" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2013-08-14T14:07:14.640" Title="What should be done to fix this answer?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3095" CreationDate="2013-08-13T21:42:50.370" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer has been unaccepted, after a more thorough reading I don't think it even addresses the question, and there is now a proper answer, so I have deleted the answer in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the moment, I've pulled the part you changed significantly out of the quotation block. The only reason I didn't delete it outright was because it was upvoted and accepted, implying several people found it helpful, and the only other answer was a short one-liner. If there is a consensus that it's not an answer or the new answer has enough of the information, I'd be fine deleting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="3267" LastEditDate="2013-08-14T14:07:14.640" LastActivityDate="2013-08-14T14:07:14.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3097" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3098" CreationDate="2013-08-17T15:37:34.093" Score="4" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that moderators can take an answer that should be a comment, and turn it into a comment (attributed to same poster).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can moderators do the reverse (turn comment into an answer posted by same user) when a comment that really stands out as a decent answer is posted? E.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/39553/976&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that the question is merely a technical &lt;strong&gt;&quot;can&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;, e.g. I don't care about policy, &quot;should&quot;, or whether it's a good/bad idea angles - although I suspect everyone's consensus would be on &quot;bad idea&quot;. Merely want to know if the software on SE allows this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2013-08-17T15:43:40.853" Title="Can the moderators convert a comment into an answer?" Tags="|support|feature-request|moderators|comments|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3097" CreationDate="2013-08-17T15:42:18.463" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, moderators cannot create a full post on behalf of a user, even from a comment they posted. All we can do is what you already did, encourage them to post it as a full answer themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2013-08-17T15:42:18.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3099" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-20T03:11:01.613" Score="-5" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is similar to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3014/should-all-questions-without-explicit-canon-answers-be-closed&quot;&gt;Should all questions without explicit canon answers be closed?&lt;/a&gt;, except that I'm going a step further in asking about topics where the lack of canon makes most questions unanswerable, or open to answers along the lines of &quot;there is no answer&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a specific tag that I have in mind: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mst3k&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mst3k&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mst3k&lt;/a&gt;, where a lot of questions could have the same answer as the accepted answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8740&quot;&gt;What is the purpose of The Satellite of Love?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They might be different questions, but because of the nature of the show and the deliberate lack of canon surrounding it, I could foresee a lot of questions being answered with almost an exact copy-and-paste of the accepted answer to the question above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I might ask&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why was the Satellite of Love shaped like a bone? Was there a reason for this given in-universe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I don't know the answer to this question, and it might have a legitimate answer. However, my instincts are telling me that the real answer is going to be some form of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you're wondering how he eats and breathes  &lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  And other science facts (LA LA LA) &lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Just repeat to yourself it's just a show &lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  I should really just relax&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So should we allow these questions? I would say yes, according to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3014/should-all-questions-without-explicit-canon-answers-be-closed&quot;&gt;meta question I linked above&lt;/a&gt;, except we could end up with 100 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mst3k&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mst3k&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mst3k&lt;/a&gt; questions with exactly the same answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should tags like this have it noted in their wiki that some forms of questions are not likely to be answerable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;Note that MST3K is just an example, and there could be plenty of others in the same boat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1395" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2013-08-20T06:49:43.273" Title="Questions that largely have the same answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3099" CreationDate="2013-08-20T06:17:46.027" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No, they should not be closed.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although a common rubrick for identifying duplicate questions is &quot;are the answers the same to each?&quot;, in this case you've chosen an answer so broad that it could apply to every question on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers which say &quot;It's just fiction, stop trying to read into it&quot; are almost universally downvoted, so answers of the type you're suggesting wouldn't be accepted by the citizen gestalt in the first place. This makes sense, because it's denying what the site is all about in the first place!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The vast majority of non-ID questions on this site are rooted in speculation and have no definitive canon answer (although they may be based on extrapolation from canon, that is still speculation). Even many of the ones &lt;em&gt;with&lt;/em&gt; canon answers could easily also be answered by saying &quot;It's just a work of fiction, stop worrying about this stuff.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using the MST3K mantra as a whole answer trivializes the question and implies that both the question and this site are worthy of casual dismissal. This is a rabbit hole I think we should be loathe to start down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, we've &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3073/13941&quot;&gt;talked about &quot;trivial questions&quot; before&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;If a question is unanswerable, there are two good answers it can have.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first is an answer which demonstrates that the question is unanswerable, by providing evidence or context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second is no answer at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Answers&quot; which are just the poster's opinion that the question is unanswerable beg for support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're right that the MST3K mantra &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be used to answer every &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mst3k&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mst3k&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mst3k&lt;/a&gt; question, but for the majority of them it would be a &lt;strong&gt;bad answer&lt;/strong&gt; and should be downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13941" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2013-08-20T06:49:43.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3101" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3102" CreationDate="2013-08-21T14:43:43.137" Score="15" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed that when I edit my answers, for grammar, clarity or details I just thought of, the question get bumped to the top in the list of active questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This struck me as impolite attention-hogging on my part. Is there some way I can stop my edit from bumping the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13961" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2013-08-21T22:08:37.327" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T22:08:37.327" Title="My edits bump the question, can this be avoided?" Tags="|support|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3101" CreationDate="2013-08-21T14:47:45.657" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, edits intentionally &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; bump the question; it's part of the peer-review process that keeps the network well-groomed. As a matter of fact, there have been a number of pushes to get moderators that ability, and even they have been declined. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's fine to bump questions with properly substantive edits, just try to rate-limit yourself so no more than ~4 posts of the top 10 on the front page are the result your edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2013-08-21T16:42:31.287" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T16:42:31.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3103" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-21T15:06:27.490" Score="1" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently posted a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/39724/why-was-the-movie-so-vastly-different-from-the-book&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; asking about the Percy Jackson movie. I initially had a secondary, minor question asking if the second movie was just as different from it's book. In a comment, Keen suggests making that into an individual question asking &quot;does the second movie depend upon the story from the first movie, or the first book?&quot; However, this can be answered simply by watching the movie and reading the book. Are these types of questions right for the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11159" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T15:06:27.490" Title="Is a question that can be answered by simply watching/reading welcome here?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2013-08-21T15:59:24.913" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3104" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-27T12:17:23.063" Score="8" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a very minor formatting issue, but I might as well point it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When looking at the list of people who have earned particular badges, it seems the columns are a bit too narrow for users with high rep and large numbers of badges.  This results in the number of bronze badges earned for some users being truncated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screenshots from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/68/proofreader&quot;&gt;proofreader badge&lt;/a&gt; page below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Chrome:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ejRSE.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Chrome screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Firefox:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wQuNy.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Firefox screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Internet Explorer 8 (yeah, 8 doesn't really count):&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xthu4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Internet Exploder 8&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-08-21T00:44:56.860" Title="Bronze badge count gets truncated on the badge page" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|badges|user-interface|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3105" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-27T19:41:24.493" Score="2" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it be helpful to put a pointer to the ISFDB somewhere where new users will see it? Putting it on the About page or the Tag Wiki probably wouldn't do much good. Maybe in the &quot;How to Ask&quot; guidelines that you see when you post a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastActivityDate="2013-08-27T20:00:36.793" Title="ISFDB pointer needed?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3105" CreationDate="2013-08-27T20:00:36.793" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Technically, it's already indirectly referenced on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;help &amp;gt; on-topic page&lt;/a&gt;. The first off-topic point is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Facts easily found on a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/403/what-are-standard-internet-reference-sites-for-sf&quot;&gt;reference site&lt;/a&gt;: Who played X in Y?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the linked meta discussion gives:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikipedia.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the famous online encyclopedia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IMDB&lt;/strong&gt;, the Internet Movie Database&lt;/a&gt;, a database about movies and TV shows&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ISFDB&lt;/strong&gt;, the Internet Speculative Fiction Database&lt;/a&gt;, a bibliographic database of written sf&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if there is support for it and a good way to add it, we could make it more explicit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2023-01-29T13:54:16.550" LastActivityDate="2013-08-27T20:00:36.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1982" CreationDate="2013-08-28T17:29:27.677" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Better late than not at all!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We implemented this with a slightly different wording:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We're looking for long answers that provide some explanation and context. Don't just give a one-line answer; explain why your answer is right, ideally with citations. Answers that don't include explanations may be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should now be live across the network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4257" LastActivityDate="2013-08-28T17:29:27.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3108" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-31T04:34:58.097" Score="2" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;From my rep history today:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-8| 1 hour ago| downvote| Does “Pacific Rim” have references/influences&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is that possible? Usually if it was 4 DVs, it would show that it's 4 (and make it expandable).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My only guess is that someone reversed their upvote, and the system has a bug where instead of 1 DV and 1 un-upvote, it just printed the total and marked it as a DV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="13771" LastEditDate="2013-09-24T14:54:38.453" LastActivityDate="2013-09-24T14:54:38.453" Title="How can I get -8 for a single DV?" Tags="|support|reputation|voting|down-votes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3108" CreationDate="2013-08-31T05:17:30.253" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you check the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/38187/timeline&quot;&gt;timeline&lt;/a&gt;, you got 4 downvotes, which are -2 each - totals to -8.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It shows up in the rep history the same as upvotes, the total for that question/answer for that day.  For example, this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;+60     16:38   upvote  How did Hermione catch Rita Skeeter?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;does not mean you got +60 rep for 1 upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2013-08-31T05:17:30.253" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3108" CreationDate="2013-08-31T15:14:39.347" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like events under days that are expanded when the page loads lack the detail arrows for individual posts; those that load closed do contain the arrows when expanded. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bottom row here (+40) should say 4 events and expand;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pQWhF.png&quot; alt=&quot;Bug&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xt2zz.png&quot; alt=&quot;Nobug&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems somewhat intermittent. For instance, &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/users/900873/kevin?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;my SO profile&lt;/a&gt; exhibits the bug, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet's&lt;/a&gt; does not. On scifi, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3267/kevin?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;my profile&lt;/a&gt; looks fine but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/976/dvk?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;DVK's&lt;/a&gt; shows the bug. I could not repro on several other sites, but on MSO it seems to happen every time..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:33:39.573" LastActivityDate="2013-08-31T15:30:39.477" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3112" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3115" CreationDate="2013-09-02T07:29:57.453" Score="7" ViewCount="379" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched the movie and got a couple questions about it, but I'm not sure if it's on-topic.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Should I ask the questions on movie.SE only? Does it depend on the questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13418" LastActivityDate="2013-09-03T03:18:16.387" Title="Are Life of Pi questions on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3112" CreationDate="2013-09-02T08:06:33.340" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think I would consider Life of Pi to be Sci-Fi or Fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; It's heavily implied at the end that the story was mostly made up, and nothing that was made up was very fitting for the 'Fantasy' Genre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, we have a precedent set by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/2396/3804&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question about Bridge to Terebithia&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2013-09-02T19:04:31.923" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3112" CreationDate="2013-09-02T11:55:29.783" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My understanding (from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Pi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wiki plot&lt;/a&gt; and the trailer, NOT watching the movie) is that none of the events in it are fantasy/fantastical. No talking animals, etc... There was a hallucination of mentally connecting with another survivor, but my understanding is that it's implied to be a hallucination even &lt;strong&gt;within&lt;/strong&gt; the fictional story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore it is no more SFF than &quot;Blue Lagoon&quot; or &quot;Cast away&quot; - it's a fictional adventure story, but not fantasy or science fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2013-09-02T12:02:33.220" LastActivityDate="2013-09-02T12:02:33.220" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3112" CreationDate="2013-09-02T12:15:59.357" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;It is clearly considered on-topic by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/344/13941&quot;&gt;our community-established guidelines&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/344/13941&quot;&gt;Guideline #1&lt;/a&gt; is &quot;If it's marketed as SF, it's on-topic.&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3572&amp;amp;p=.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Life of Pi&lt;/em&gt; was marketed as &quot;the next &lt;em&gt;Avatar&lt;/em&gt;,&quot;&lt;/a&gt; and was compared to &lt;em&gt;Hugo&lt;/em&gt;. (It's also worth noting that &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Pi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia calls the novel fantasy&lt;/a&gt; and the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accolades_received_by_Life_of_Pi_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;won a Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the possibility of being fantastical is essential to the theme of the work, the film also fits Guideline #2 (if magic, futuristic science or technology, alternate history, or other sf-nal concept is an important part of the overall plot, it's on-topic).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if none of these were true or admissible, Guideline #3 (if the question is specifically about an sf-nal element, even if it's only a minor part of the work, it's on-topic) means that questions specifically about the film's fantastic elements would &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; be on-topic. (As an aside, I suspect that questions about other aspects of the film, like production or marketing, would be better answered over at movies.se regardless of whether they're also on topic here.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Fantasy elements and themes in the film&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen the film, but the whole point of the novel is that a truly fantastical story may or may not be true. It's not &lt;em&gt;overtly&lt;/em&gt; fantastical, but it is not something that could just be filed away as non-fantasy fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the phrase is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_realism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;magic realism&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;On the surface the story has no clear magical attributes and everything is conveyed in a real setting [...]&quot; but this &quot;highly detailed, realistic setting is invaded by something too strange to believe.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The central premise that a tiger chose to not only &lt;em&gt;not eat&lt;/em&gt; but &lt;em&gt;actively assist&lt;/em&gt; a young boy while they were isolated and starving is relatively fantastic in itself, but other elements--like the nocturnally carnivorous island clearly mentioned in the wiki summary--are more obvious fantasy fare, in line with the events of an &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells_bibliography#Novels&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;H.G. Wells outing&lt;/a&gt;, or a novel of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Challenger&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Professor Challenger&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Dolittle&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Doctor Doolittle&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the story's implication that its fantastical elements are merely a hallucination--it doesn't matter. This site has a proud tradition of treating possibly-hallucination-based fantasies as on-topic: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alice-in-wonderland&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alice-in-wonderland&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alice-in-wonderland&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wizard-of-oz&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wizard-of-oz&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wizard-of-oz&lt;/a&gt;, and so forth. By that criterion, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/buffy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;buffy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;buffy&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_Again&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;isn't on-topic either&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/16/readersopinions/16WHED.html?ex=1185076800&amp;amp;en=7c66de4a5f0e124b&amp;amp;ei=5070&amp;amp;pagewanted=2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;But ultimately the entire series takes place in the mind of a lunatic locked up somewhere in Los Angeles, if that’s what the viewer wants.&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13941" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.730" LastActivityDate="2013-09-03T03:18:16.387" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3116" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3118" CreationDate="2013-09-04T12:55:39.163" Score="-3" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2493/what-is-the-explanation-for-the-basis-of-buddhislamic-faith-in-dune-universe&quot;&gt;What is the explanation for the basis of Buddhislamic faith in Dune Universe?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of the question is clearly in-universe SciFi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But part is also out-of-universe theological.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should this question be cross-posted to Islam.SE (with suitable tweaks to make it clearly on-topic)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Existing answers weren't very satisfactory theologically-based (the only one that was extensively out of universe based - by Darius - was clearly wrong in major points)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Should this question be cross-posted to Islam.SE?" Tags="|discussion|scope|specific-question|migration|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3116" CreationDate="2013-09-04T13:54:04.500" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not see how the question can be edited to properly fit Islam.SE, at least without changing the question entirely.  As the core of the question currently stands, it would not be welcomed on Islam.SE, hence I believe it shouldn't be cross posted.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user17126" LastActivityDate="2013-09-04T13:54:04.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3116" CreationDate="2013-09-04T14:47:44.610" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fundamental question of &quot;Can Islam and Buddhism be reconciled&quot; might be on-topic for Islam.SE, but it's far too broad of scope to be well-received on the site.  There are many flavours of Islam, just as there are many flavours of Buddhism (heck, there's many flavours of Buddislam, for that matter), so without at least limiting the scope to &lt;em&gt;particular&lt;/em&gt; interpretations of both, or to &lt;em&gt;particular&lt;/em&gt; (apparent) contradictions, answers would be either too numerous or too vague to be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15350" LastActivityDate="2013-09-04T14:47:44.610" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3116" CreationDate="2013-09-05T22:24:42.397" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition, deliberately cross posting questions is highly discouraged. If &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/195916/155668&quot;&gt;it happens accidentally&lt;/a&gt;, it's usually accepted, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/180389/155668&quot;&gt;purposely cross-posting questions&lt;/a&gt; is not recommended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2013-09-05T22:24:42.397" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3120" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3121" CreationDate="2013-09-06T05:09:11.100" Score="9" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not clear on when to use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/origins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;origins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;origins&lt;/a&gt; tag and/or the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; tag. It seems to me that about 70% of the questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; are asking about origins and would fall under the definition of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/origins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;origins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;origins&lt;/a&gt; tag. On the other hand, many of the questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/origins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;origins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;origins&lt;/a&gt; are about the history of the genre. (According to the &lt;em&gt;definition&lt;/em&gt; of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/origins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;origins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;origins&lt;/a&gt; tag I'd expect &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/origins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;origins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;origins&lt;/a&gt; questions to be historical.)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please explain (preferably with an example for each case) what questions should be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; rather than &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/origins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;origins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;origins&lt;/a&gt;, what questions should be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/origins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;origins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;origins&lt;/a&gt; rather than &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt;, and what questions (if any) should get both of those tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2013-09-06T17:43:46.440" LastActivityDate="2013-09-06T20:47:18.053" Title="How to use origins tag vs. history-of tag" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-05-05T13:40:41.917" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3120" CreationDate="2013-09-06T12:25:50.660" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the Tag Wikis, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/origins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;origins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;origins&lt;/a&gt; is &quot;a tag for questions that seek to identify the first appearances of specific things in the world of scifi and fantasy, like characters, items, themes, and/or theories.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; is for &quot;Questions about the history of the genre&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in theory, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/origins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;origins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;origins&lt;/a&gt; seems like a clear subset of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt;.  I can't think of a single example where &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/origins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;origins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;origins&lt;/a&gt; would be appropriate where it would also not be appropriate to have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you pointed out, their use has been pretty inconsistent. I see quite a few &quot;first appearance&quot; questions that lack &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/origins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;origins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;origins&lt;/a&gt;, but include &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt;, and vice versa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, we don't need both tags, and in fact, having both is causing enough confusion in their use to hinder any benefit from either of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would propose merging them, and having &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; as the master.  If we make that change, we should also update the tag wiki for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;This tag is for questions about the history of the world of scifi and fantasy, including, but not limited to, identification of the first appearances of specific things, like characters, items, themes, tropes, and/or theories&quot; (suggestions are welcome for further improving the tag wiki).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="14111" LastEditDate="2013-09-06T20:47:18.053" LastActivityDate="2013-09-06T20:47:18.053" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3122" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3127" CreationDate="2013-09-12T12:04:00.950" Score="-1" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is anyone else getting this or is it just me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I seem to be able to ask questions, or at least the option is there and it brings up the dialog box.  I have not gone all the way to posting a question to avoid confusion  (well apart from this one, obviously).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that users can be prevented from asking questions if they get too many down votes (or something) but I have not seen anything similar for comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I click on Add Comment the box appears as normal.  I fill it in and then press Add Comment.  The screen refreshes with the focus now at the top of the screen.  I scroll down to where my comment should be and it is not there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OS is Windows Server and I am using Internet Explorer 10.  However, I was able to post comments yesterday and I have not intentionally changed anything since then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It still happens when I disable all add ons - it looks like it is the same situation across all of the stack overflow sites for me.  When I try via my IPhone nothing happens after I type the comment and press &amp;quot;Add Comment&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have I been prevented from posting comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Q &amp;amp; A&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What OS/browser?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OS is Windows Server and I am using Internet Explorer 10.  I have also tried from my IPhone and that does not work either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it still happen if you run IE with all add-ons disabled?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have you cleared the cache and closed all instances?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure what clearing the cache means?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I have restarted IE on my PC and Safari on my phone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, make sure that *.scifi.stackexchange.com is in the Internet Zone and not Restricted (Internet Options -&amp;gt; Security)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have confirmed that *.scifi.stackexchange.com is not in the restricted zone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have you tried it from another browser/device? That would help confirm if it's something to do with your account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my PC and IPhone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6581" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2013-09-18T14:57:10.007" Title="Why can't I post a comment anymore?" Tags="|support|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3124" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-14T20:51:27.947" Score="4" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm referring to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/40610/2565&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/40610/2565&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It asks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Has anyone compiled a list of all of these predictions-come-true?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, does this fall under our no-lists rule?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2013-09-16T13:49:50.130" Title="Are questions that ask whether or not there exists a list a list question in and on themselves?" Tags="|discussion|scope|list-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3124" CreationDate="2013-09-16T13:49:50.130" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;TL;DR: Asking for a resource that contains a list of items isn't, by itself, sufficient reason to close a question under our &quot;list question&quot; policy, but that doesn't automatically exempt it.  Rather, it should be evaluated based upon the overall scope and clarity of the requested list (regardless of whether it exists externally to our site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, to clarify, I don't believe that we have a strict &quot;no list&quot; rule... rather, we have a rule against &lt;em&gt;open-ended&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;overly large&lt;/em&gt; lists.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2868/1359&quot;&gt;Limited lists of reasonable scope and focus&lt;/a&gt;, on the other hand, seem to be acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I think a question asking for a resource that might contain a list is not really that useful, unless the resource in question would be really popular/widely used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of a &quot;good&quot; version of this type of question would be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/3952/1359&quot;&gt;Where can I quickly check if a given X-Files episode is a MOTW or arc episode?&lt;/a&gt;.  Note that the answer isn't &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; &quot;click on this link&quot;; it contains the actual relevant episode list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Doctor Who question linked above, though, is not what I'd consider one that will be particularly popular or widely used.  Changing it to &quot;are there any existing  lists&quot; doesn't really fix the fundamental problem; instead, it just makes it possible that the correct answer to the question is &quot;no&quot;, which is of no practical use to anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For that reason, I would (and did) downvote the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to whether it should be closed based upon it being a &quot;list&quot; question (albeit one somewhat in disguise), I'm somewhat on the fence.  Technically, DVK is right that a list of sites that provide this specific content is reasonably scoped, and limited.  However, changing the question from &quot;does anyone have any to add?&quot; to  &quot;Is there a resource online or in print that has addressed these events?&quot; seems to me to be trying to get by on a technicality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fundamentally, either variation doesn't strike me as a good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with it being closed, although I think in its current form, the main reason for it being closed is not necessarily that its a (disguised) list, but rather that it really isn't clear what is being asked.  Is the OP looking for predictions made in the show that happened in the real world, outside of the show?  Or predictions made in the show that were later shown to come true in the show?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither of the two examples in the question are particularly helpful.  The UK had apparently &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Kingdom&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;been discussing adopting the metric system&lt;/a&gt; for over 100 years prior to the first episode of Doctor Who.  Within 2 years of the &quot;prediction&quot; airing, a formal policy of metrification was started, but it is entirely possible that there were discussions of the topic at the time the first episode was scripted.  Additionally, the UK does not seem to have fully &quot;moved to the metric system&quot; yet, so the &quot;prediction&quot; arguably hasn't come true:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As of 2012, metrication in the United Kingdom remains partial – most of government, industry and commerce use metric units, but imperial units are officially used to specify journey distances, vehicle speeds and the sizes of returnable milk containers, beer and cider glasses and are often used informally to describe body measurements and vehicle fuel economy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the &quot;meteor landing in Russia years before it happened&quot;... is it perhaps referring to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Tunguska Event&lt;/a&gt;, which occurred almost 60 years prior to the first episode of Doctor Who being aired? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2013-09-16T13:49:50.130" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2484" CreationDate="2013-09-16T20:53:10.430" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://space.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qIjvZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Space Exploration Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:58:51.047" LastActivityDate="2013-09-17T00:19:07.843" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-09-16T20:53:10.430" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3122" CreationDate="2013-09-17T13:56:01.723" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Somehow I had &lt;em&gt;compatibility view&lt;/em&gt; checked in the tools menu.  I have unchecked it and can now post comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Curiously I can also post comments from my IPhone now.  I am not sure why that would be the case?  Perhaps the CV left something in a zombie state somehow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6581" LastActivityDate="2013-09-17T13:56:01.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3128" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-18T07:48:42.710" Score="2" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;I reviewed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/40761/13418&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and I thought it should be migrated to RPG.SE, but the only site I could indicate it should be migrated to was the meta, why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scifi is related to a lot of sites, MOVIES, ANIME, RPG, sometime PHYSICS... why could I choose only the meta one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it a privilege matter? I think we should be able to indicate more sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1ZJUu.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13418" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2013-09-18T09:43:53.980" Title="Closing &gt; Off-topic &gt; Migration... Why only to meta.SE?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2013-09-18T14:55:27.153" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3128" CreationDate="2013-09-18T09:43:53.980" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There can be up to 5 predefined migration paths for each Stack Exchange site - by default only the meta site is there, as, for any new site it is unclear what the other 4 should be, if at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that for a question to be migrated 4 out of 5 off-topic close votes would have to agree on both the need to migrate and the migration target. Moderators can migrate to &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; other site (but would normally only do so after consulting with the moderators of the suggested target site) without a need for a consensus vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel that there are other Stack Exchange sites that come up often enough as migration targets, this is something that can be addressed by the Stack Exchange community team - I suggest putting up a Meta post asking for those migration paths. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13771" LastActivityDate="2013-09-18T09:43:53.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2484" CreationDate="2013-09-22T14:40:23.023" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://space.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GWTVN.png&quot; alt=&quot;Space Exploration Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2013-09-22T14:40:23.023" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-09-22T14:40:23.023" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3131" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-23T15:01:25.033" Score="2" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/40909/what-is-happening-at-a-specific-part-in-harry-potter-the-deathly-hallows&quot;&gt;What is happening at a specific part in Harry Potter - The Deathly Hallows?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm specifically referring to the question version AFTER my edits that made it (hopefully) clear that he was asking for a very specific scene - and my answer proving that the scene was easily and clearly identifiable as a correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2013-09-23T15:01:25.033" Title="Why was this question closed and downvoted?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3132" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3135" CreationDate="2013-09-24T14:53:59.320" Score="6" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a bunch of sci-fi that depicts simulations of reality.  From crude virtual reality in things like &lt;em&gt;Lawnmower Man&lt;/em&gt;, to the more recent &lt;em&gt;Matrix&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Inception&lt;/em&gt; (maybe even &lt;em&gt;Tron&lt;/em&gt;?).  The underlying mechanics for how the simulation works tends to vary, but the idea of an unreal world that's similar to the real one is a long-running sci-fi/fantasy trope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think we have a tag for this.  What would be a good tag for works involving fake realities?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2013-09-24T15:46:55.157" LastActivityDate="2013-09-25T12:55:26.283" Title="What's a good tag for fake worlds?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3132" CreationDate="2013-09-24T14:56:33.863" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/simulated-reality&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;simulated-reality&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;simulated-reality&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2013-09-24T14:56:33.863" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3132" CreationDate="2013-09-24T19:59:03.463" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/illusion-of-reality&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;illusion-of-reality&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;illusion-of-reality&lt;/a&gt; or simply &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/false-reality&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;false-reality&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;false-reality&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastActivityDate="2013-09-24T19:59:03.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3132" CreationDate="2013-09-25T12:55:26.283" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3133/1359&quot;&gt;Kevin's suggestion&lt;/a&gt;, in what way does the existing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/virtual-worlds&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;virtual-worlds&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;virtual-worlds&lt;/a&gt; not suffice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2013-09-25T12:55:26.283" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3136" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-25T23:11:53.227" Score="7" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a website which contains a list (with images) of Hugo award winners. Later, it will also contain Nebula award winners. Would it be considered crass commercialism to divulge the URL of my site, or considered OTOH an interesting tidbit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17594" OwnerDisplayName="Clay Shannon" LastActivityDate="2013-09-26T00:28:26.120" Title="Would it be considered gauche to reference my website?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3136" CreationDate="2013-09-26T00:12:39.523" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to do this, then it seems to me that your profile page would be the most appropriate place for it (the profile page does contain a &quot;website&quot; field, after all), and I personally wouldn't see any issues with that (others with more authority than me may or may not agree).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It wouldn't be appropriate to cite it as a reference in an answer, as it wouldn't be an independently verifiable source, and mentioning it in a more ad-hoc manner doesn't seem to be in keeping with the purpose of this site either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2013-09-26T00:12:39.523" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3136" CreationDate="2013-09-26T00:28:26.120" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/behavior&quot;&gt;behavior&lt;/a&gt; page suggests that if your site is part of a &quot;good, relevant answer&quot; to a Stack Exchange question and you disclose your association with the site, that'd be just dandy (remember to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;&quot;add context around the link&quot; and &quot;quote the most relevant part&quot; of it&lt;/a&gt;). But just announcing the site without the context of answering a question would be inappropriate for the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you're free to link it in your user profile, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;mention it in chat&lt;/a&gt;, and consult the advertising/promotion links at the bottom of the behavior page to see if those are options you'd like to use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13941" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2013-09-26T00:28:26.120" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3139" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3141" CreationDate="2013-09-26T22:45:34.323" Score="-3" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/41037/spaceship-repair&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/41037/spaceship-repair&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a perfect question to generate an insightful synthesis-type answer classifying the repair types and giving mini-examples of each.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2013-09-27T13:14:01.230" Title="Why is question #41037 (spaceship repair) closed?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|closing-questions|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3139" CreationDate="2013-09-26T23:08:58.453" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because its way too broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm looking for ideas on how sci-fi ships get repaired. Star Trek, sci-fi novels, I don't care which. How do they repair from attacks when they're not near a friendly space port?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're asking for all space sci-fi to be covered, or for every answer to be a 'me, too' with another example from a universe.  This means the hundreds of works we've been exposed to plus all the ones we haven't. This means there's tons of ship designs/types that they're expecting to be addressed.  So either the asker is expecting an inconceivably long answer, or they're polling for a bunch of one-off examples. Neither are accepted here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question gets updated to be about a specific universe, or handful of universes, it'll be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it stands now, it would make a good idea for a nice, thick book though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2013-09-26T23:08:58.453" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3139" CreationDate="2013-09-27T13:14:01.230" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The whole point is to explore all different types (of which there's a very final amount), not all examples from limited universes. Making it about a specific universe makes it boring and useless. As usual, you are pre-assuming &quot;inconceivably long answer, or they're polling for a bunch of one-off examples&quot; without even a slight evidence that that will be the result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get what you're saying, and, in theory, you're right.  A good answer could be crafted that covers every type of spaceship repair described in book, movie, tv, or comics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, what is &lt;em&gt;much more likely to happen&lt;/em&gt; (and by &quot;much more likely&quot; I mean &quot;practically guaranteed&quot;) is that we'll get a bunch of answers that describe one or two specific types of repairs.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we're lucky, we'll &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; get a really good answer that lists all the ones that can easily be thought of.  If we're even luckier, we'll get an answer that does that while &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; providing details and context from some specific works that reference each repair type.  However, there's no guarantee that such an answer would be comprehensive (it seems vanishingly improbable that it &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be comprehensive), and even if it were, there's no guarantee that it would stay comprehensive, as new works could come out that have new ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I agree that the argument that an answer could become outdated by future materials, in this case it isn't that the answer would magically become lower quality, but rather that the question would simply have higher potential to garner more &quot;me too&quot; answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the &quot;me too&quot; answers really are a problem.  The more you get, the more likely you are to receive more, and they set a bad example for new users.  Additionally, new users who pop in to add these &quot;me too&quot; answers are being set up for a negative introduction to our site.  At best, they may garner an upvote or two.  More likely, though, they'll receive no votes, or downvotes, which (if you remember waaaay back to when you first started on stackexchange) can be frustrating and disheartening to new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The argument that it is &quot;too broad&quot; has merit.  An entire book could indeed be written about this, as it stands now.  Or the answer could simply be: &quot;nano-repair bots; mobile astro-mechs or other robots larger than nano-scale; space-suited mechanics; organic components that self-heal; organic components that have their healing augmented by topical medicine and/or surgery; magic&quot;, which isn't a very interesting answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Limiting the scope to a specific universe, while asking for more detail, would make an &lt;em&gt;excellent&lt;/em&gt; question, in my opinion.  I think the question could even be expanded beyond that significantly, and still remain a good question (for example, &quot;What are all the types of spaceship repairs described in Hugo or Nebula award winning novels?&quot; is a more reasonable scope than the current example), but the more specific the question, the better the quality of answers we're likely to garner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question about the spaceship repair techniques described in Star Wars would quite likely receive an answer that describes not only the repair techniques, but which species/planets/organizations use each, and possibly specific examples from varying levels of canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question about all the types of spaceship repairs described in Hugo or Nebula award winning novels would most likely receive a sentence or two, at most, describing each repair, with a list of qualifying novels in which they appeared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The former would be potentially fascinating reading material for casual browsers of our site.  The latter would be of interest to the person asking, and perhaps a handful of other people looking for ideas (either for writing, or for reading suggestions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2013-09-27T13:14:01.230" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3142" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-27T15:23:22.327" Score="5" ViewCount="205" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from &lt;strong&gt;July 1st 2013 through September 30th 2013&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to compile list to post to the blog. This will be the same format as the last two quarterly blogs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2013-10-06T01:50:37.017" Title="Favorite Questions and Answers from third quarter of 2013" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3142" CreationDate="2013-09-27T22:55:47.610" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2877/45&quot;&gt;the queries I made 2 quarter ago&lt;/a&gt; :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2013/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2013/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2013/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Based on the &lt;strong&gt;Sept. 22 2013&lt;/strong&gt; data dump&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The must popular were :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/39295&quot;&gt;In Star Trek, does the transporter conserve the momentum of transported objects?&lt;/a&gt; with 10,323 views.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/37689&quot;&gt;In which order should I start watching Star Trek?&lt;/a&gt; with 9,097 views.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/40031&quot;&gt;Why is Arwen dying?&lt;/a&gt; with 8,603 views.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The must voted question were : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/40718&quot;&gt;Can you tell my robot to kill itself? (Three Laws)&lt;/a&gt; (41)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/39312&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t Dumbledore realise that Moody had been replaced?&lt;/a&gt; (36)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/39920&quot;&gt;Did the Ring Bearers and Gimli die in Valinor?&lt;/a&gt; (26)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The must voted answers were :  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/40718&quot;&gt;Can you tell my robot to kill itself? (Three Laws)&lt;/a&gt; (68)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/37949&quot;&gt;Who Inherited Bag End?&lt;/a&gt; (51)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/40047&quot;&gt;What type of addressing does Tony Stark use in Iron Man 3?&lt;/a&gt; (45)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/37977&quot;&gt;Is Trantor Earth?&lt;/a&gt; (43) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2013-09-27T22:55:47.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3144" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-28T06:07:42.160" Score="7" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/41032/1027&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; has been closed, (not edited) and then reopened, and is now getting close votes again.  One user even voted to both close and reopen it.  Seems like we don't know what to do with this question.  The main thrust of it is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where do you guys find out about recently published novels in Science Fiction and Fantasy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not interested in reviews, news on which writer might write what, which bookstore has closed, conventions etc., just a simple list of everything that is newly available in bookstores.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're looking for resources that provide thorough listings of Sci-fi &amp;amp; Fantasy book releases.  Is this on topic, or off topic?  Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2013-09-28T16:22:18.523" Title="Is this 'new releases in SF&amp;F' question on topic?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3144" CreationDate="2013-09-28T11:56:46.140" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems like an unanswerable question. Sure, a few good sites could be recommended, but in the end, any number of answers could be equally acceptable. Given that possibility, it seems like it's not really a good question for Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-09-28T11:56:46.140" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3144" CreationDate="2013-09-28T16:22:18.523" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the question is fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scope is well-defined, and it doesn't seem likely that there will be so many answers that we'd risk a lot of &quot;me too&quot; answers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there could be several different yet acceptable, answers, I  don't think that's sufficient reason to close it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The subject itself is both relevant and of potential interest to a significant number of our members.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2013-09-28T16:22:18.523" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3147" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3148" CreationDate="2013-09-28T18:43:07.250" Score="6" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last few days we've been seeing an increased amount of vandalism edits, mostly including spam advertisement. I'm not sure if this is only a perceived or an actual problem, but I thought I raise the problem here. Maybe the SE officials are interesting in taking a look at this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, maybe somebody has better statistics at hand then &quot;it feels like a lot&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;List of (recent) offenders:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/14882&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/14882&lt;/a&gt; (1)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/14954&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/14954&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/15034&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/15034&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/15066&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/15066&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/15175&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/15175&lt;/a&gt; (1)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(number): same post&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2013-10-08T17:15:47.067" Title="Increased amount of vandalism" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3147" CreationDate="2013-09-28T18:59:26.803" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been popping up from time to time. We looked into it with the Community team the last time we had a slew of them, but in the end the outcome was that we just have to reject them as they come. For now, I've locked the post that was being targeted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2013-09-28T18:59:26.803" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3149" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-02T12:26:45.273" Score="6" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;Discussion in comments on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/40962/1359&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; have raised an interesting point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our community seems to be fairly evenly split on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1465/1359&quot;&gt;how we should handle &quot;are there any&quot; questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet the question was closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am fairly strongly on the side of it being closed, for reasons I mentioned in that comment thread, as well as in various meta discussions we've had regarding list questions.  However, in this case I am wondering if closure is appropriate considering that a significant number of users &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1490/1359&quot;&gt;obviously disagree with me&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is our policy for closure in such cases?  Is there a reason to close despite an apparently split community, or should we err on the side of caution and leave such questions open until the community can come to an actual consensus on policy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2013-10-07T14:18:45.313" Title="What is our position on closure when the community appears to be split?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|questions|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3142" CreationDate="2013-10-03T14:15:21.690" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My favorites are two of the LotR questions DavRob60 listed from his queries:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/39920/1359&quot;&gt;Did the Ring Bearers or Gimli die in Valinor?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/37949/1359&quot;&gt;Who Inherited Bag End?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both are good questions, and both received excellent answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2013-10-03T14:15:21.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3151" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-03T15:20:14.450" Score="13" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our Meta site has many old posts on topics that go back to the earliest days of the site in beta.  Since then, many of the topics those old posts discuss have been discussed again.  They're often discussed with more detail, context, and experience that came with the time that passed between the older and more recent posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yet, if you do a search for a topic you'll get the old and new posts, with no indicator that the more recent one should probably be treated as the more relevant post.  I propose we try to fix this by voting to close the old questions by marking them duplicates of the more recent questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a question is closed as a duplicate, the site inserts this block at the top of the closed question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This question already has an answer here:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;Duplicated question title, as clickable link&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;lt;# of answers on duplicated question&amp;gt; answers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would provide a handy link to future users pointing them from the out of date post to the more recent one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see several issues with this proposal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We first need to find older questions that have been superseded by more recent questions, then they need to accumulate enough votes to be closed as duplicate.  I think this is easily taken care of by using the Meta Review Queues.  If you find one of these, just vote to close as duplicate, then that will throw it into the Review Queue for others to vote on.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This shouldn't necessarily be done on every time someone posts a new question on a previously-discussed topic.  If a couple months ago, we decided on something in a Meta post, a new post on the same subject would bet closed as a duplicate of the months old post, barring some new information/developments/what-have-you.  This is my main problem with the proposal, it breaks the traditional use of the Duplicate vote to close reason, and confuses its normal usage in the future.  I'm hoping we can figure out some guidelines on this.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2013-10-03T15:20:14.450" Title="Clean up old Meta posts" Tags="|discussion|meta|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3142" CreationDate="2013-10-06T01:50:37.017" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would also like to add this late answer (Jul 3) on a first quarter question :  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/37716/45&quot;&gt;What is the significance of the reversed colours of imperial and rebellion lasers compared to lightsabres?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jsFko.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;wonderful!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2013-10-06T01:50:37.017" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3149" CreationDate="2013-10-07T14:18:45.313" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, since no one else has offered a suggestion....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest that our policy should be that in situations where the community has not been able to develop a clear consensus, we should err on the side of being welcoming to new users, and leave the questions open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What determines a clear consensus, or lack thereof, is a bit harder to define.  However, I would propose that, at the very least, if a meta discussion has no answer with a high (5 or more) positive score, or two contradictory answers that have high (5 or more) positive scores within 5 points of each other, then we should consider it to be an issue for which there is no clear consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, we cannot have a policy that dictates when people should use their close votes; such a rule would be unenforceable anyway.  However, having a policy like this could possibly help people decide whether to VTC or vote to reopen.  Even better, it may help encourage people to participate in the meta discussions where we haven't been able to come to a consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember: many of our marginal questions come from new users.  If we can be a little more tolerant (while offering constructive, positive advice on how to improve the question), we may retain more users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2013-10-07T14:18:45.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3154" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3155" CreationDate="2013-10-14T18:48:24.397" Score="2" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to ask a question about an apocalyptic short story titled &quot;Episode Seven: Last Stand Against the Pack in the Kingdom of Purple Flowers.&quot; My question concerns the author's writing style, namely in that 75% of the story has no sentence endings (about 15 pages; it's literally a text wall).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this on-topic here? I've looked in the FAQ, but it doesn't list a category that fits this question. It does seem on topic, though. Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user14349" LastActivityDate="2013-10-14T20:53:24.550" Title="Is it okay to ask about a story's writing style?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3154" CreationDate="2013-10-14T20:53:24.550" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not familiar with the story, but if it is sci-fi/fantasy related, then &lt;em&gt;the story&lt;/em&gt; would be on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, it depends on your specific question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're looking for a &lt;em&gt;discussion&lt;/em&gt; on the author's writing style, then the &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; would be off-topic (or more correctly, out-of-scope) for the main site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, without knowing specifics of what it is you're looking for, you may find a better audience in something like &lt;a href=&quot;http://writers.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;the writers stackexchange&lt;/a&gt;, but you may find someone knowledgeable in our own chat room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2013-10-14T20:53:24.550" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3156" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3157" CreationDate="2013-10-15T03:57:53.490" Score="5" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are questions involving Jack London's universe(one in the Call of the Wild and White Fang) off Topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16204" LastEditorUserId="4167" LastEditDate="2013-10-15T05:57:55.643" LastActivityDate="2013-10-15T06:00:07.913" Title="Are questions involving Jack London's Universe off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3156" CreationDate="2013-10-15T06:00:07.913" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think either of those could be considered Science Fiction or Fantasy, so the answer is &quot;Yes&quot; - questions about that universe would be off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastActivityDate="2013-10-15T06:00:07.913" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3158" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3161" CreationDate="2013-10-17T09:25:08.287" Score="2" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I basically don't dislike meta's white on black, my having to sit in front of a PC screen most of the day with lots of black on white text means that visiting meta severely shifts contrast. &lt;a href=&quot;https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/q/447&quot;&gt;We had the same issue back on physics.SE &lt;em&gt;main&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and while &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/44/jin&quot;&gt;Jin&lt;/a&gt; does a great job in his designs, this strong change from white-on-black to black-on-white when visiting meta is &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; uncomfortable to my eyes, and judging from the reactions on physics.SE that ultimately led to a new, non-inverted, theme I'm not alone here. So, could this meta's color scheme be adapted more to what is common in the internet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;sidenote&lt;/em&gt; There are also people who invert their screen colours &lt;em&gt;on purpose&lt;/em&gt; due to eye strain etc., and for them meta suddenly appears in bright white, which probably is even more unpleasant when unexpected...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="769" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2013-10-18T14:50:12.437" Title="Could meta's inverted colours be uninverted?" Tags="|feature-request|design|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3158" CreationDate="2013-10-17T15:37:06.707" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;See the answers on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2334/1027&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; for some options on how you can make these changes on your end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.233" LastActivityDate="2013-10-17T15:37:06.707" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3160" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-18T12:40:13.510" Score="5" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not disputing the closure of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/42648/end-of-humanity-sf&quot;&gt;my question on end-of-humanity SF and politics&lt;/a&gt;, but how could I edit it so that it falls within the rules of this Exchange? Seems I'm not the only one interested, it has four upvotes and one person favorited it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5555" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2013-10-18T14:51:10.053" Title="Some assistance, please" Tags="|support|specific-question|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3158" CreationDate="2013-10-18T13:03:58.177" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very well, as Keen &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3159/769&quot;&gt;suggested&lt;/a&gt;, here's my own solution, a userscript which simply applies the parent CSS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name        let meta.scifi.SE use parent CSS&#xA;// @namespace   zommuter&#xA;// @description let meta.scifi.SE use parent CSS&#xA;// @include     https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/*&#xA;// @version     1&#xA;// @grant       none&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;var links = document.getElementsByTagName(&quot;link&quot;)&#xA;&#xA;for (var i = 0; i &amp;lt; links.length; i++) {&#xA;    var link = links[i];&#xA;    if(link.rel === &quot;stylesheet&quot;) {&#xA;        link.href = link.href.replace(&quot;meta&quot;, &quot;&quot;)&#xA;    }&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;var anchs = document.getElementById('hlogo').getElementsByTagName('a');&#xA;&#xA;for (var i = 0; i&amp;lt;anchs.length; i++) {&#xA;    anchs[i].style.background = 'url(&quot;http://cdn.sstatic.net/scifimeta/img/logo.png&quot;) no-repeat scroll center top transparent';&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="769" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2013-10-18T14:50:12.437" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3160" CreationDate="2013-10-18T14:51:10.053" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe you can just go to the question and edit it, like you would a question that was open. If I'm not mistaken, this would automatically queue it for review by a moderator to see if the edit made it pass muster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a personal note, I think your last paragraph, &quot;are there any scholarly works...&quot; is what prompted people to vote to close, since it made it seem like an open ended list question. However, if you reworded it to focus on the penultimate paragraph, it can be a very interesting question - &quot;What effect did nuclear fears have on the science fiction of the early cold war?&quot; is a great question. Might still be a bit too broad, but interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4516" LastActivityDate="2013-10-18T14:51:10.053" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3164" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-19T20:11:03.730" Score="9" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;We used to have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/457/periodic-recommendation-chats&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;scheduled&lt;/strong&gt; recommendation chats&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/822/is-the-recommendation-chat-still-alive&quot;&gt;didn't seem to work&lt;/a&gt; and was stopped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, it may have been due to the scheduled aspect. Many people LOVE to ask for and provide recommendations (as witnessed by many questions asking for recommendations - AND many people posting a constructive comment about coming to SFF chat to get them). But based on old meta discussions, not too many people showed up for scheduled ones (&amp;lt;10).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Question:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Does it make sense for us to institute a &lt;strong&gt;permanent&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;non-scheduled&lt;/strong&gt; recommendation chat room separate from Mos Eisley?&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We would need a recommended protocol to deal with asynchronicity (e.g. a way to easily thread things), since chat doesn't have Q&amp;amp;A format; but IMHO the content win would be greater than formatting and navigational worries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.233" LastActivityDate="2013-10-19T20:29:40.403" Title="Should we have a permanent &quot;recommendations&quot; chat room?" Tags="|discussion|chat|chat-event|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3164" CreationDate="2013-10-19T20:29:40.403" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/822/is-the-recommendation-chat-still-alive/824#824&quot;&gt;A long time ago&lt;/a&gt;, I proposed the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/1056/sf-topic-of-the-day&quot;&gt;SF topic of the day&lt;/a&gt; room. It never took off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure whether it's better to have a separate room or not. My idea was to have a room with enforced topicality for people who are only interested in recommendations and don't want to wade through the banter of the general room. The downside is that it's harder to reach momentum when the room looks idle most of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The “topic of the day” format is more geared towards regulars than towards one-off participants. My idea in having an official topic was to kickstart content by forcing participants to pick a subject rather than get bored when nobody's asking anything. It didn't work, so by all means let's try other formulas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2013-10-19T20:29:40.403" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3166" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-21T22:19:06.833" Score="-1" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/42882/why-couldnt-harry-destroy-horcruxes-by-touching-them&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/42882/why-couldnt-harry-destroy-horcruxes-by-touching-them&lt;/a&gt; doesn't have any answer. It is just closed as duplicate (with which I am strongly agree).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To get back my reputation due to downvotes (which isn't appropriate as mobile version of site doesn't display suggestions), I tried to delete it. But, I failed. Why? Previously, I have successfully deleted my own questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on a few tests done on this very meta post, it appears that I can delete questions that are still open (if they meet all the other criteria for self-deletion), but not if they are closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2014-05-21T03:36:45.767" Title="Why am I unable to delete my own question?" Tags="|bug|status-norepro|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3167" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-22T19:15:11.913" Score="4" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have many animation movies which have sci fi and fantasy elements as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Megamind&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Incredibles&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Monsters&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shrek&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wall E, etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are questions from these off-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16204" LastActivityDate="2013-10-23T15:00:37.773" Title="Are questions from sci fi animation movies off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2013-12-03T20:46:55.083" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3167" CreationDate="2013-10-22T19:46:47.217" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Body must be at least 30 characters, you entered 3. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2013-10-22T19:46:47.217" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3167" CreationDate="2013-10-22T19:50:44.953" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have already had questions on all of those.. Currently, none have been closed as off-topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=megamind+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;Megamind&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=the+incredibles+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;The Incredibles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=monsters+inc+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;Monsters Inc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=shrek+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;Shrek&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=wall-e+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;Wall-E&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2013-10-22T19:50:44.953" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3166" CreationDate="2013-10-23T00:53:33.520" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't reproduce this, on SO / MSO or SciFi, using either Chrome on Android or the default browser (Android 4.3), using either my default account or a low-rep sockpuppet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone else can figure out how to make this happen, let me know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastActivityDate="2013-10-23T00:53:33.520" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3167" CreationDate="2013-10-23T15:00:37.773" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll post the answer that @Beofett commented on (sorry for stealing!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The media used to tell the story is irrelevant to whether something is on or off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If animation movie content is Sci Fi or Fantasy using the commongly held definitions of this site, then it's on-topic. Otherwise, no.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2013-10-23T15:00:37.773" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3172" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3174" CreationDate="2013-10-23T21:31:06.467" Score="15" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm quite new to the site and one mechanism is rather unclear to me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Help system clearly states&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Voting up a question or answer signals to the rest of the community that a post is interesting, well-researched, and useful, while voting down a post signals the opposite: that the post contains wrong information, is poorly researched, or fails to communicate information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also the whole section on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;How to ask a good question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, there is the &quot;starring&quot; subsystem for Favourite Questions. And there have only been 2 &quot;Favourite Question&quot; Badges (Question favorited by 25 users) handed out to members.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While browsing through the questions, it seems that Up-Voting is often used to nominate a &lt;em&gt;favourite&lt;/em&gt; question, for example, the high-scoring question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/14243/is-thor-the-only-avenger-that-cant-die&quot;&gt;&quot;Is Thor the only Avenger that can't die?&quot;&lt;/a&gt; has 61 Up-Votes, but the question is clearly not excellent quality (1 sentence, no hint of background research, etc.). Hey, I certainly think it's an interesting question, but the &lt;em&gt;quality&lt;/em&gt; of the question does not seem to warrant its score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the info in the Help files, I've been Up-Voting questions that are well thought out, whether I have any interest in them or not, and starring questions that I want to think about, or find later, or find interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is the system being used incorrectly by the majority of the community? Or am I misunderstanding the purpose of Up-Voting vs. Starring? Is meeting the (somewhat nebulous) criteria of &quot;interesting&quot; (without being &quot;well-researched, and useful&quot;) good enough for an Up-Vote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19069" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T08:05:46.713" Title="Difference between Up-Voting and starred &quot;Favourite Questions&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|voting|bookmarks|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3172" CreationDate="2013-10-23T22:12:30.833" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are using the system as intended!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, note that there are a lot of other factors at play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People who don't know how voting is supposed to work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People who don't &lt;em&gt;care&lt;/em&gt; how voting is supposed to work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions get varying numbers of views and, thus, varying numbers of votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Certain demographics may be more or less likely to vote and questions they see or that interest them may have different vote patterns&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an ideal world, upvotes would be strictly a measure of usefulness and quality, but unfortunately we're dealing with human beings.  Popularity is definitely going to factor into it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1470" LastActivityDate="2013-10-23T22:12:30.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3172" CreationDate="2013-10-24T00:45:10.730" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are absolutely correct re: upvoting. People upvote for wrong reason as Matthew stated (for the record, he's a mod on another site and generally knows very well how SE is supposed to work). It's not nearly as bad here as on StackOverflow though :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, it's also possible that many people use favorite feature as a &quot;bookmarking&quot; facility - e.g. by marking questions that they want to return to later, either because they're really interested in an answer but no good answer exists, OR because an answer is so good they want to return back to it for later reference. I know I do it on Skeptics, where such bookmarking is very useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, they may not want to favorite questions that are interesting but which don't hold any future value to them (e.g. they like the existing answer, and don't need to read it again). As such, they wouldn't want to &quot;pollute&quot; their &quot;bookmark&quot; list with extra posts, and thus don't favorite often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This mode may explain the relative sparseness of favorite marks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2013-10-24T00:45:10.730" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3175" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3179" CreationDate="2013-10-24T14:55:29.550" Score="3" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/42951/1027&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; asks if there's going to be a 7th &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; film.  The asker heard it was going to be made, and seems to be asking for confirmation.  The question received many downvotes, and was closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was it closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2013-10-24T22:22:03.943" Title="Why is this question closed?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="549" CreationDate="2013-10-24T15:39:22.743" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2400/1027&quot;&gt;the removal&lt;/a&gt; of &quot;General Reference&quot; and &quot;Too Localized&quot; from the list of Vote To Close reasons, we should remove this line from the FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Facts easily found on a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/403/what-are-standard-internet-reference-sites-for-sf&quot;&gt;reference site&lt;/a&gt;: Who played X in Y?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2013-10-24T15:39:22.743" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3177" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3178" CreationDate="2013-10-24T17:42:50.023" Score="8" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;The full title of the upcoming second &lt;em&gt;Captain America&lt;/em&gt; film is &lt;em&gt;Captain America: The Winter Soldier&lt;/em&gt;.  The issue here is that the full title is too long for the 25 character limit tags have, and &lt;em&gt;The Winter Soldier&lt;/em&gt; is also the name of a comic book arc.  So we need a tag that differentiates from the comic arc, while being less than 25 characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What tag should we use?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2013-10-24T18:09:30.257" Title="What tag to use for Captain America 2?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3177" CreationDate="2013-10-24T18:09:30.257" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/captain-america-tws&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;captain-america-tws&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;captain-america-tws&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's some precedent for abbreviating suffixes in titles, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tng&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tng&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tng&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-ds9&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-ds9&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-ds9&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/my-little-pony-fim&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;my-little-pony-fim&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;my-little-pony-fim&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27" LastActivityDate="2013-10-24T18:09:30.257" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3175" CreationDate="2013-10-24T22:22:03.943" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;While there is no longer a general reference/too localized close reason, the question is a dupe of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/568/plans-for-more-sequels-to-star-wars&quot;&gt;Plans for more sequels to Star Wars? &lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2013-10-24T22:22:03.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3172" CreationDate="2013-10-25T08:05:46.713" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Voting&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, regarding voting, it depends: The quote you cite invites to upvote, if&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;a post is interesting, well-researched, and useful&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can easily interpret the &lt;code&gt;and&lt;/code&gt; as &lt;code&gt;or&lt;/code&gt;, since these categories are not binary. Being well-researched is only one contributor, particular in &lt;strong&gt;questions&lt;/strong&gt;. If a question is simply a very good one (&quot;&lt;em&gt;Gee, I always wondered that, now that you mention it!&lt;/em&gt;&quot;), it is upvote worthy even if it is not terribly hard to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key is how relevant a question is to the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Starring&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I use the star (favourite thingy) most of the time, to mark really interesting or well-written questions, I occasionally use it to mark controversial questions or such that I wish to revisit later for organisational reasons (follow closing/reopening, for example).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it's possible that a question I starred received no upvote or maybe even a downvote from me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T08:05:46.713" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3181" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3182" CreationDate="2013-10-25T15:06:17.320" Score="0" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3175/1027&quot;&gt;One more time&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/43040/1027&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; asks if a 4th &lt;em&gt;Transformers&lt;/em&gt; film is being made.  They heard it was being made, and saw some pictures.  But a trailer for it just showed footage from the first 3 films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was this closed as off-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2013-10-26T13:06:54.733" Title="Why was this 'is this movie being made' question closed?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3181" CreationDate="2013-10-25T16:20:56.627" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This issue may be in how the question was asked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are there any plans to make X?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see at least two problems with these types of questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They are often highly speculative. Are there any plans to make a 9th Harry Potter movie, what about a 10th, or 11th, or 12th? Are there any plans to reboot the Harry Potter movies but to make Harry a female instead of a male? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When not speculative it has a short life cycle of relevance. In a year, when the Transformers 4 movie is released, and the site starts to receive questions about it, way in the back will be the pointless question &quot;Are there any plans to make a Transformers 4.&quot; This question will have no value. Particularly since it was asked after the film has already been announced and production has started. Would a question like &quot;Are they planning on making a sequel to Tremors&quot; be a valid question?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lately with these (what I consider to be) poor Yes/No questions, I'll just give them a yes or a no in the comments. I don't usually vote to close them, but I do sometimes downvote them, out of spite. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T16:20:56.627" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3181" CreationDate="2013-10-26T04:46:12.143" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think questions like these should be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Downvoted into obvlivion. This is an open and closed case of &quot;no research having been done whatsoever&quot;, which is what the down arrow was created for by &lt;strike&gt;$deity&lt;/strike&gt; Joel and Jeff.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In general, should NOT be closed (as off-topic or otherwise).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;HOWEVER, specifically for questions that are time-localized due to a known production release date, I would be open to create a special off-topic closing reason &quot;The plans to make X are clearly stated on IMDB/Amazon&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(note: this comes from one of the harshest opponents of General Reference VTC reason... but this narrow case has all the benefits of GR and none of its problems - mainly, subjectivity).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2013-10-26T04:46:12.143" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3184" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-26T04:58:51.497" Score="3" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have recently had several questions of a very specific format:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q: Are there plans to make next installment of &lt;em&gt;{movie series X}&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A: Yes, the production is confirmed (and optionally, release date is announced) on the definitive reference site for this, IMDB.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3175/1027&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3181/why-was-this-is-this-movie-being-made-question-closed/3183#3183&quot;&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt; (hat/tip: Keen for noticing the problem).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As noted in meta discussions, these questions are bad for the site in 2 ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;First, they are very time localized. The release date is known, and after the date, the question becomes useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Second, more importantly, they don't make the internet better in any way. Any answer would just regurgitate official info off IMDB (Amazon for books); and there typically is no opportunity to generate worthwhile-content answer to such a question beyond a link to IMDB. Basically, do what Google already does automatically in a sidebar if you search for the movie's title :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, I would propose that &lt;strong&gt;we add an official VTC reason to off-topic list: &amp;quot;Questions asking about release date of a future movie/book that have the release date published on IMDB/Amazon are off-topic&amp;quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify - the VTC reason would &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; apply to questions where the answer is &amp;quot;date is on IMDB&amp;quot;, not to general &amp;quot;are they making abc movie&amp;quot;, with the answer being &amp;quot;not according to IMDB, but here's evidence from blogs and interviews&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I realize that this may seem very much like &amp;quot;General Reference&amp;quot; VTC that we have just recently successfully killed with fire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But (as one of the most vocal GR opponents) I would pose that this specific off-topic rule does NOT suffer from GR's main problem - it's NOT in any way subjective. An Amazon/IMDB listing either exists or does not, and either has release date or does not. There's no possible ambiguity over whether a given &amp;quot;are they making X&amp;quot; question is off-topic or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2013-10-26T17:53:40.280" Title="Should we have a special &quot;off-topic&quot; VTC sub-reason &quot;Release date is on IMDB/Amazon&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|scope|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3184" CreationDate="2013-10-26T10:24:58.597" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;we should add an official VTC reason to off-topic list: &quot;Questions asking about release date of a future movie/book that have the release date published on IMDB/Amazon are off-topic&quot; due to arguments presented in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2013-10-26T10:24:58.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3184" CreationDate="2013-10-26T10:26:39.307" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;we should NOT add an official VTC reason to off-topic list: &quot;Questions asking about release date of a future movie/book that have the release date published on IMDB/Amazon are off-topic&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NOTE: If you think we shouldn't, please either upvote this answer and comment on it as to why; or post your own &quot;no&quot; answer with reasoning if said reasoning is too big to fit in the &lt;strike&gt;margins of this page&lt;/strike&gt; comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2013-10-26T10:26:39.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3184" CreationDate="2013-10-26T11:28:57.383" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;, there shouldn't be a special off-topic reason yet, but yes they should be closed (existing VTC reasons suffice).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A (long-ish) background for the reasoning behind this conclusion was included here, but I've now moved it to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3181/why-was-this-is-this-movie-being-made-question-closed/3188#3188&quot;&gt;a more appropriate place&lt;/a&gt; so it doesn't clutter this question too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user8719" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2013-10-26T13:10:28.330" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3181" CreationDate="2013-10-26T13:06:54.733" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;@DVK suggested that I cross-post &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3184/should-we-have-a-special-off-topic-vtc-sub-reason-release-date-is-on-imdb-ama/3187#3187&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; here, and I see his reasoning, so here we are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do believe that these questions should be closed with extreme prejudice, but as of yet I don't see any kind of epidemic of them.  There have been two recently, and that doesn't constitute an epidemic.  It's the beginning of a slippery slope towards wanting a specific close reason for every minor thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general there are two possible answers to these questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;We don't know (for certain) yet&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can also cover rumours, blog posts, conjecture, etc; anything that's not coming from a reputable primary source.  Vote to close as &quot;Primarily opinion based&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been definitively confirmed.  IMDB and Amazon are not the sole sources here; other references such as press-releases, industry events, a company website, etc are also valid confirmation.  Putting the work's name into Google is sufficient to confirm.  Vote to close as &quot;other&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see &quot;no&quot; as a possible answer; Lucas insisted that more Star Wars movies would not be made, he denied that there were ever plans to make more, we know there were plans and here we are with Episode 7 being made.  Never say never: even the death of an author isn't sufficient to stop a series (Foundation/Dune).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO a bigger problem with these questions, and the reason why I say close instead of downvote, is the kind of answers they can attract.  With both of the possible answers things will veer away from the stated intent of SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the first answer (&quot;we don't know&quot;) it's clear: this is going to be a discussion.  With the second it's less clear, but you need to ask: what is the motive of someone asking a question that can be answered by a single word (&quot;yes&quot;) and where the answer can be found by putting the name of the work into Google?  Having thought some about it, I can only see one possible motive: they're not looking for an answer, they're looking for a discussion.  They may not have said it, but aside from extreme laziness, why else ask such a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leaving such questions open would need a very strong case made for it, IMO.  A downvoted question can still attract answers, and SE sites are just as much about quality of answers as they are about quality of questions; it's difficult to see how such questions can ever possibly attract good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, close them from orbit, but no, they don't need specific close reasons: one is already there (&quot;Primarily opinion based&quot;) and the second can be handled by the existing &quot;Other&quot; reason with a comment to JFGI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2013-10-26T13:06:54.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3184" CreationDate="2013-10-26T17:53:40.280" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NO,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These don't come up often enough to warrant adding them to the pre-set list of off-topic close reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, it's always possible to fill in a custom off-topic close reason, so for these questions, if one person fills in something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question appears to be off-topic because it is about the release date of a future movie/book that already the release date published on IMDB/Amazon.  For more explanation, see: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3181/why-was-this-is-this-movie-being-made-question-closed/3183#3183&quot;&gt;Why was this &amp;#39;is this movie being made&amp;#39; question closed?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once one person types in a custom close reason, anyone else who votes to close has the option of choosing that reason if they agree with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2013-10-26T17:53:40.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3190" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-29T18:10:16.770" Score="3" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tag wise, how do we distinguish between &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;gravity&lt;/a&gt; (the force) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gravity&lt;/a&gt; (the film)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sample: &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/41293&quot;&gt;Watching “Gravity” reminded me of a short story I read in the 60s, but can't place now&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1957" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2013-11-01T22:53:49.557" Title="Tags for gravity (force) and Gravity (film)" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3190" CreationDate="2013-10-29T18:15:18.683" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest we do the same thing we did with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alien&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alien-1979&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alien-1979&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alien-1979&lt;/a&gt;.  Make a new &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gravity-2013&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gravity-2013&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gravity-2013&lt;/a&gt; for the film.  Discussions of the force should go to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gravity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gravity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gravity&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2013-10-29T18:15:18.683" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3192" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-30T12:49:40.567" Score="2" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good morning,&#xA;The person who asked this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/42786/how-does-cupids-arrow-effect-the-story-house-of-hades-spoilers/43192#43192&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; wants to upvote and accept it as the answer.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;However, he says he can't do either because he doesn't have enough rep?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;What are his options?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Thank you,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14417" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2013-10-30T13:08:04.957" Title="OP wants to upvote and accept my answer but doesn't have enough rep" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3192" CreationDate="2013-10-30T13:08:04.957" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everyone who asks a question can accept an answer, regardless of reputation. Instructions are in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/someone-answers&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;. Once I post this, you'll see the gray checkmark right&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;about  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;here  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;---&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It takes 15 reputation to upvote, see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/vote-up&quot;&gt;privileges page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2013-10-30T13:08:04.957" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3194" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-30T15:26:26.983" Score="12" ViewCount="582" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm all for closing redundant questions as dupes, and we do seem to have series of questions asking &lt;em&gt;similar&lt;/em&gt; things, but observe &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/4323/2565&quot;&gt;question number one&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I am not interested in the movies&lt;/strong&gt;, just the TV series. However, since the show has many seasons, I am not interested in watching the show start to finish&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;(emphasis mine)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here comes the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/37689/2565&quot;&gt;apparent &quot;duplicate&quot;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I want to watch &lt;strong&gt;every movie and TV-series&lt;/strong&gt; there is about Star Trek [..]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;(emphasis mine)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP of the second one even points out:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/4323/2565&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; the person only wanted to watch the TV series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that six to seven films are set in the TOS era and cannot be fully understood or appreciated without having watched the series (which is reflected in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/4326/2565&quot;&gt;accepted answer&lt;/a&gt; to the first question, suggesting to &lt;em&gt;skip&lt;/em&gt; TOS altogether and start with TNG) these questions do not seem like duplicates to me. Maybe some of the VTCers can explain this to me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-12-01T11:14:20.443" Title="Why are questions considered duplicates although they ask different things?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3195" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-30T16:00:03.383" Score="4" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if I should always mention the name of the work I'm asking about in the title of a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16518" LastActivityDate="2013-10-30T20:53:28.013" Title="Should questions contain the name of the work being asked about in the title?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3195" CreationDate="2013-10-30T16:01:09.797" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's optional to include name of the work in a question title, but it needs to be in the question's body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't forget to tag appropriately, we traditionally have work-specific tags, and often franchise tags as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2013-10-30T16:01:09.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3195" CreationDate="2013-10-30T20:53:28.013" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are no general site wider rules I'm aware of (nor, frankly, any reason to bother adding them).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My rule of thumb is: add work name in the title if the following is true:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question wording is generic enough that I can apply to a multitude of works&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question title isn't already too long and in need of shortening&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, I skip. The reason to skip is that most people viewing the questions would see the first tag (which is typically the work name) right next to the title anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2013-10-30T20:53:28.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3194" CreationDate="2013-10-30T23:28:32.927" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As DVK mentioned in a comment, one of the primary factors in determining if questions are duplicates is if the answer (or answers) to one address the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/4388/1359&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/4355/1359&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; to the original question both explicitly mention the movies in addition to the series. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, the original question fully covers the duplicate question, even though the original question didn't ask for information on the movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2013-10-30T23:28:32.927" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2788" CreationDate="2013-11-01T16:23:33.677" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The missing headers have been found and will be reinstated shortly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your FireFox experience should match the Chrome one in the next build (rev 2013.11.1.1108).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The CDN is still caching the old headers, so once the cache is invalidated, you should see the fonts loading in FireFox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13771" LastEditorUserId="13771" LastEditDate="2013-11-01T18:13:17.903" LastActivityDate="2013-11-01T18:13:17.903" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="630" CreationDate="2013-11-03T20:20:27.460" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;My point - it's a bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From one of my questions, I mistook a book with a movie, there also was an episode where I've been thinking there's an actual filmed version of another story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sci-fi and fantasy are .. fantasy, which hooks us with dream world. Lucid dreaming together with poor memory can be disastrous - I've seen here a question, where a &quot;short&quot; (15+ min) Michael Jackson lengthy clip was initially thought to be a full-length movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;media&quot; tags? How far you expect to go with it? &lt;strong&gt;it-was-on-page-313&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;omfg-im-sure-its-a-final-battle-scene-and-not-the-intro&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11207" LastActivityDate="2013-11-03T20:20:27.460" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1568" CreationDate="2013-11-07T07:40:12.367" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm currently the all-time top user for the story-identification tag, so it's probably not hard to guess that I'm in favour of retaining it. It's by no means an arbitrary guessing game; many (although of course not all) questions have more than enough detail to uniquely identify the work that they have in mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or in other words, the story-identification tag has good questions with unique and verifiable answers and bad questions that can't be answered based on the question. Which is the same as for any other tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we're going to ban anything, let's ban questions that ask for in-universe answers, which &lt;em&gt;either&lt;/em&gt; can't be verified as correct &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; could easily be rephrased to not be in-universe (&quot;What is the textual evidence for...&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23" LastActivityDate="2013-11-07T07:40:12.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3203" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3204" CreationDate="2013-11-08T10:46:03.790" Score="11" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently down-voted an answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22689/what-are-the-differences-between-hawkeye-and-green-arrow/43739#43739&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question that has abusive and inappropriate content and I got -1 reputation point for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't care that much for the reputation points but I feel it is strange to get negative reputation for down-voting something that deserves downvoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17366" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Why down-voting results in negative reputation?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|voting|down-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3203" CreationDate="2013-11-08T13:21:14.030" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/15863/why-do-you-lose-reputation-for-down-voting&quot;&gt;StackOverflow Meta - Why do you lose reputation for down-voting?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Main points of top answer copied here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The motivation behind it is to put emphasis on up-voting or not voting at all. This way, down votes will carry more weight and it will also prevent users from abusing the system by down-voting excessively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;According to what Jeff/Joel discussed on the SO podcast, they wanted to find a way to discourage users from down-voting for less legitimate reasons (say a pro-Java developer down-voting everything remotely related to .NET or the like).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, if the post is deleted, you should get that rep back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2013-11-08T13:21:14.030" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3205" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3207" CreationDate="2013-11-11T04:57:25.683" Score="12" ViewCount="209" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suppose I answer a question based on my limited knowledge of that topic (which I know that I should not do, but just assume that somehow stupidly I do it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later I research about the topic and realize that the answer is completely different. In this case, can I change my answer? And I am not talking about just making edits but completely changing the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17366" LastActivityDate="2013-11-17T14:59:35.190" Title="Can I change my answer completely?" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3205" CreationDate="2013-11-11T11:11:20.013" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure you can. Alternatively, you could just make a new answer to the question, which might be more appropriate in some circumstances. I've done the latter occasionally, and that's probably the preferred method in most cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-11-11T11:11:20.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3205" CreationDate="2013-11-11T13:03:08.957" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Completely&lt;/em&gt; changing its meaning, I think, would definitely call for posting a second answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though people can change their votes after an edit, most of them are unlikely to go back and do so since you don't get a notification for that.  Votes would then be pretty much based on the old version of the answer, and not reflect its current state.  Pretty dishonest, I'd say, especially if that answer was already accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, a complete rewrite while keeping the answer's original intent/meaning, I'd be fine with since the votes should still apply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastActivityDate="2013-11-11T13:03:08.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3205" CreationDate="2013-11-13T03:28:10.630" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;A third option to other two (that I frequently use) is to EDIT IN the new answer (as &quot;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;) and leave the old answer below as &quot;&lt;strong&gt;OLD ANSWER&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; - in the same post. This in my opinion combines the benefits of both approaches - you keep the old content (that you already got upvotes for, so you're not &quot;cheating&quot; previous upvoters by removing that content and replacing with another); AND you're not creating a fully separate answer which makes little sense to me as it's still your work. I don't see it as a significantly better approach to creating a new answer, but personally I prefer it to the latter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2013-11-13T03:28:10.630" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3194" CreationDate="2013-11-17T14:14:44.743" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there is a policy that questions are duplicates if there is an existing answer to a different question that answers them, then I think this policy is incorrect.  If there is an answer to a question which answers a different question, then I am inclined to mark that answer down.  Clearly a question and answer site is at its most useful if people can find answers to their questions as they arise.  Insisting that they then work their way through questions that don't answer* the question that they are interested in in order to find bits of the answer to the question they are actually interested in is inefficient and unhelpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*This was previously &quot;relate to&quot; rather than &quot;answer&quot; - edited for clarity, but noted to preserve the sense of the comments below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1459" LastEditorUserId="1459" LastEditDate="2013-11-17T15:06:41.110" LastActivityDate="2013-11-17T15:06:41.110" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3205" CreationDate="2013-11-17T14:38:23.047" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think if you have answered a question, and you later come to believe that your answer was wrong, the sensible thing to do is delete the original answer, since on the whole, wrong answers decrease the usefulness of the question to others.  If it's a matter of debate, then a short paragraph at the end explaining why you no longer agree with the answer might be appropriate instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New and better answers should always be in a separate post, in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1459" LastActivityDate="2013-11-17T14:38:23.047" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3205" CreationDate="2013-11-17T14:59:35.190" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack exchange &lt;strong&gt;encourages&lt;/strong&gt; continuous improvement. If you &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; make your answer better and you have the time and inclination to do so then you &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; make your answer better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3210/1461&quot;&gt;Deleting your answer&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3208/1461&quot;&gt;making it obvious that your answer used to be different&lt;/a&gt; shouldn't be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3206/1461&quot;&gt;necessary&lt;/a&gt;. Future voting should be based on whether your answer is useful &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt;, not how useful it was in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if your original answer has been voted down, you may find it difficult to persuade people to vote it up in the future, so deleting and writing a new answer may be a better option. Writing a new answer without deleting your other answer could leave you in the situation where the answer you know is better is languishing at the bottom of the page, while your admittedly worse answer is ranked more highly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, I think it is better to just make your answers to be the best they can be, and not worry about what others think about your earlier attempts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2013-11-17T14:59:35.190" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3213" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-19T13:32:23.290" Score="5" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;Marvel's S.H.I.E.L.D. is always presented with dots because its a short for of Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division. But here we have questions and answer with S.H.I.E.L.D. or as SHIELD. Do we need to standardize it to S.H.I.E.L.D.?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6006" LastActivityDate="2013-11-19T14:42:59.143" Title="Did we require to rename SHIELD to S.H.I.E.L.D?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3213" CreationDate="2013-11-19T13:46:10.500" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think standardizing the name in the question and answer text should be a priority, so long as the tags are consistent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags are the site's way of providing efficient searching for subjects, and that should be the focus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While obviously it would be nice to have the content of every question and answer about &lt;em&gt;Agents&lt;/em&gt; use the same orthography, I don't think it's necessary to go making edits for that purpose alone--we &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; told not to make picky edits that don't improve the post's content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're editing a post for something else, go ahead and fix the punctuation, but so long as the tags are accurate it's not a big deal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13941" LastEditorUserId="13941" LastEditDate="2013-11-19T14:42:59.143" LastActivityDate="2013-11-19T14:42:59.143" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3215" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3216" CreationDate="2013-11-20T17:06:08.093" Score="4" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've tried several times today to update this now completely out of date (and somewhat inappropriate) question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3571/will-each-season-of-game-of-thrones-roughly-equal-a-book?rq=1&quot;&gt;Does each season of Game of Thrones roughly equal a book?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is asking whether the &quot;current&quot; first season of Game of Thrones will end at the end of the first book, and how will that continue in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer suggests that each season will equal one book -- something we now know for fact is not the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yet every attempt I've made to update the question so that it's relevant for today has been rejected by the community. Clearly re-asking the question would only flag a duplicate, so what can be done for questions like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4380" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T17:37:38.307" Title="Updating out of date questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3215" CreationDate="2013-11-20T17:16:57.343" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can see why your proposed edits were rejected.  They were pretty drastic changes to the question, without significant improvements to the existing revision.  The original:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, the first season is not over so I do not know if this question can be answered already or not, but is the Game of Thrones television series planned out so each season roughly equals one book?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am considering reading the first book after the TV show has finished depicting the events in the first book because I would rather not be spoiled when watching the TV show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your first suggested edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering, how does each season of Game of Thrones relate to each of the books? Is it one book per season? And do we know how it is planned to continue going forward?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(At this point I feel the series is going to overtake the books?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rejected twice for 'This edit changes too much in the original post; the original meaning or intent of the post would be lost.'  Your second suggested edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does the Game of Thrones TV show have each season roughly equal one book?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was also rejected for the same reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/17847&quot;&gt;review 1&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/17850&quot;&gt;review 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially the issue here is that you're changing a great deal of the content of the question, without really improving it.  The question does boil down to 'does each season map directly to one book?'  But you're removing the important context that this question was asked before those later seasons existed.  You're also removing the asker's reason for asking the question.  In so doing, you're removing things that don't need to be removed, and you're not improving the quality of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to this, the question as asked, and the top-voted and accepted answer &lt;em&gt;are not out of date&lt;/em&gt;.  The answer says that the first 2 seasons will be, but the 3rd probably won't (and sure enough, did not) contain all of the 3rd book due to that book's length.  This was posted in 2011, and is still current today.  Your meta question here has a good question about questions/answer that end up changing over time, but this isn't a particularly good example of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a good example of how we've handled it, I recommend looking at some of the &lt;em&gt;Legend of Korra&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Avatar: The Last Airbender&lt;/em&gt; questions about people bending multiple elements.  Recent episodes provided new insight to these questions, and we got new answers and edits to existing answers to address the new information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T17:37:38.307" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3217" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3218" CreationDate="2013-11-25T12:15:53.833" Score="4" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I browse the site (chrome or firefox most of the time) a list of questions appears on the right side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's divided in two categories: linked and related.&#xA;The number of questions in the Linked part is far less than in Related (there is often only one question linked, but sometimes there are more). Also, the questions in Linked often appear in Related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the differences between these two categories?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13418" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2013-11-25T16:43:39.933" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="What is the difference between Linked questions and Related questions?" Tags="|discussion|linked-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3217" CreationDate="2013-11-25T13:32:01.470" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Linked questions are ones where there is an actual link somewhere in the question, answer, or comments to or from another question or answer somewhere on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, let's look at this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/45439/1359&quot;&gt;Are we sure about the regeneration order of the Doctor?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two linked questions:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/45401/1359&quot;&gt;Was the War Doctor originally intended to be Christopher Eccleston?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/45463/1359&quot;&gt;Should the doctors enumeration be changed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first of the two linked questions is referenced in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/45441/1359&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; to our example question, in the form of a link in the second list item.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second linked question isn't referenced in our example question, or any of its answers.  However, it is shown as linked because &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/45492/1359&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; on the linked question contains a link to our example question in the last paragraph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related questions, on the other hand, are automatically selected &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/20476/166646&quot;&gt;based upon a vocabulary matching algorithm&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2013-11-25T14:01:12.380" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3219" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3220" CreationDate="2013-11-25T19:14:07.390" Score="18" ViewCount="823" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm asking this because of this answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35781/how-did-gordon-freeman-survive-the-entire-storyline-without-a-helmet/45502#45502&quot;&gt;How did Gordon Freeman survive the entire storyline without a helmet?&lt;/a&gt;. The author claims to be one of the creators of the game.  He has no other answers or questions, or other SE accounts linked. I edited the ID out of the question until he can prove it's him. What should (or is) scifi.SE 's policy about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16518" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2013-11-26T20:41:40.907" Title="What kind of proof is necessary when someone claims to be one of the creators of some work?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3219" CreationDate="2013-11-25T22:39:00.337" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is something that basically anyone can come along and claim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd personally want to see some kind of independently verifiable reference; a blog that is known to be &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; individual in question referencing the same information or even linking to this question would be a good example.  In the absence of such, a reasonable degree of skepticism (this is the internet, after all) seems in order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2013-11-25T22:39:00.337" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1380" CreationDate="2013-11-26T12:45:30.663" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. However, the generic problem we are trying to solve here - which was very clearly hashed out on this meta question: &quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2865/is-i-am-curious-about-x-sufficient-justification-for-asking-questions-on-sff-s&quot;&gt;Is &amp;quot;I am curious about X&amp;quot; sufficient justification for asking questions on SFF.SE?&lt;/a&gt; &quot;, is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I'm curious&quot; about XYZ topic/detail and need explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;THAT is considered a fully sufficient problem as far as this sites purpose is concerned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2013-11-26T12:45:30.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3219" CreationDate="2013-11-26T20:41:40.907" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;None.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No proof is necessary to prove someone's identity.  Why?  Because what proof could they offer?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really, the only &quot;proof&quot; would be them posting a photo of them holding up a handwritten sign saying &quot;I am user123294 on scifi.se!&quot;, and that only works if there are publicised photos of the person in question (which is hardly a safe assumption, particularly if they are part of a larger team that collaborated on a project like a video game).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even that could easily be photo-shopped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finding an official blog or other publication that agrees with the answer isn't &quot;proof&quot;, either.  They could have just read the blog, and then posted their own answer while pretending to be the author of the blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A better question, though, is &lt;em&gt;why would we need proof&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is up for each user to judge an answer and determine if it is helpful.  If you don't believe that William Shakespeare really logged into the site just to answer a question about the inspiration for Puck, don't upvote the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you believe that the explanation seems plausible, and that the person claiming to be Danny Rubin seems legit, upvote it if you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we &lt;em&gt;shouldn't&lt;/em&gt; be doing is demanding that everyone who claims to be involved in the creation of the work a question is about &quot;prove&quot; their identity, especially if those demands include thinly-veiled accusations that the person is a liar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say the guy who answered the Half-Life question really is exactly who he said he is (and I find the argument that typos and grammar mistakes mean that it is unlikely that a person really is a professional illustrator and game designer more than a little questionable... Especially given how easy it is to make typos, and how difficult it is to correct them, when using a cell phone).  Here he found a community ostensibly devoted to discussing scifi and related topics.  He's offering what to him is a good-faith contribution, and what's the response?  Multiple comments criticising his writing, accusing him of lying, and demanding that he put in more time and effort to provide proof that would only be subject to further skepticism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming he really is who he says he is, why on earth would anyone expect him to come back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see an answer from someone claiming to be in a position to provide &quot;word of God&quot; answers, yet you have reason to suspect they aren't telling the truth, the most you should do is put in some research to see if you can prove they aren't who they say they are.  That should generally be easier than them proving their identity (which isn't to say it will actually be easy).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you find some fairly strong evidence that they aren't who they say they are, you can post a comment explaining what you found, and why you believe it is cause for concern... &lt;strong&gt;politely&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that's really the main point.  &lt;strong&gt;Be polite&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if the person is lying through their teeth, and you know William Shakespeare personally, and this person posting is clearly no William Shakespeare, that is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; justification for being rude to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2013-11-26T20:41:40.907" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3224" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3225" CreationDate="2013-11-27T18:21:58.830" Score="7" ViewCount="312" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can block-hide a spiler with &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;!&lt;/code&gt; line-prefix. How do I hide a spoiler inline? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will it remain hidden in the summary on the question-list page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6510" LastActivityDate="2013-11-27T18:36:37.857" Title="How to hide spoilers inline?" Tags="|support|spoilers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3224" CreationDate="2013-11-27T18:36:37.857" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't do inline spoilers.  It's not a feature of the Stack Exchange platform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2013-11-27T18:36:37.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3226" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3227" CreationDate="2013-12-02T18:51:03.613" Score="0" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/45665/why-did-obi-wan&quot;&gt;Why did Obi-Wan..?&lt;/a&gt;, and the question was marked as duplicate. This is fine, I realized it may be a duplicate when I asked it, but was unable to find the question so asked myself. I think it would be useful if the duplicated question was linked to the duplicate, because the user obviously was having difficulty finding what they were looking for. And if the people marking it as duplicate are only doing so because they have a vague recollection of seeing something similar and can't find the actual post, then perhaps it shouldn't be marked as duplicate. So I guess my question is if there is a way to require linking, and why there isn't similar behavior currently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19789" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2013-12-03T00:03:42.440" Title="Q: When marking as duplicate, shouldn't the duplicated question be linked?" Tags="|discussion|linked-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3226" CreationDate="2013-12-02T19:09:40.440" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This behavior is already happening.  Go to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/13875/did-obi-wan-ever-become-more-powerful&quot;&gt;the post&lt;/a&gt; that yours was marked as a duplicate of.  Scroll down a bit and look at the sidebar.  Under the 'Linked' section, you'll see a link to your 'Why did Obi-Wan..?' question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2013-12-02T19:09:40.440" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3228" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3229" CreationDate="2013-12-03T16:05:28.837" Score="6" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2415/1027&quot;&gt;Last year&lt;/a&gt; around this time Stack Exchange had a promotion called Winter Bash.  Will it be returning this year?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2013-12-03T16:05:28.837" Title="Where are the hats? (2013 edition)" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|winterbash|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3228" CreationDate="2013-12-03T16:05:28.837" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to the unanimous acceptance to participate in the promotion last year, we moderators opted-in to the promotion this year.  The promotion will work the same as last year.  This year, the promotion will run from 16 December 2013 to 3 January 2014.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2013-12-03T16:05:28.837" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3230" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-12-04T02:57:28.357" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-12-04T02:57:28.357" LastActivityDate="2013-12-04T02:57:28.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3231" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-12-04T02:57:28.357" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-12-04T02:57:28.357" LastActivityDate="2013-12-04T02:57:28.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3232" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-05T03:59:29.497" Score="12" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our header isn't a solid color, so the solid topbar looks horrible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Proposal:  Instead of a background-color of #212121, give it some alpha transparency:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;background-color: rgba(33, 33, 33, .4);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/giDki.png&quot; alt=&quot;Semi-Transparent Topbar&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(I'm using Greasemonkey to put Meta and Chat back in the topbar, that's why I have the links)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastEditorUserId="1586" LastEditDate="2013-12-05T05:34:08.950" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T23:15:23.187" Title="New topbar clashes with SciFi.SE" Tags="|feature-request|design|top-bar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3233" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3234" CreationDate="2013-12-05T13:30:43.270" Score="4" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed recently that some edits have been made to start adding in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/show-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;show-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;show-identification&lt;/a&gt; to some questions asking &quot;help me identify a tv show about &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are currently only &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/show-identification&quot;&gt;24 questions&lt;/a&gt; using this tag.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we continue using it, or should we discontinue using it and use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; for all &quot;help me identify&quot; questions regardless of the media?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we should be using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; exclusively for these questions, should the two be synonymized? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T15:52:14.733" Title="What is the show-identification tag for?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3233" CreationDate="2013-12-05T15:52:14.733" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;We certainly shouldn't use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/show-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;show-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;show-identification&lt;/a&gt;. Definitely use the standard &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, and I'm inclined to say &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv-series&lt;/a&gt; as well. We don't generally include medium, but I think story ID is broad enough to warrant it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T15:52:14.733" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3235" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-05T21:09:14.643" Score="4" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is possibly a design gripe, but I'm sincerely hoping it's merely a case of me being blind and not seeing existing links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I can't find a link to chat on either main or meta site&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I can't find a link to main site from meta site (There's a link to my main site user from meta site user)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lIln5.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I make those navigational jumps?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="New top bar confusion - please help navigate" Tags="|discussion|support|design|top-bar|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3235" CreationDate="2013-12-05T21:17:02.713" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, after puttering around some more in the bar, I realized that the &quot;Stack Exchange&quot; logo was a menu, and both missing links were under it. Not the height of convenience but a far better situation than not being available at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5Yj7e.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T21:17:02.713" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3235" CreationDate="2013-12-05T21:18:39.870" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 'Stack Exchange' in the top left is clickable, this lets you get to the main/meta site.  There's a link to chat waaaaaay at the bottom of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, you can make some customizations on your end to help make the new topbar more palatable.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/210041/gallery-of-custom-styles-and-or-scripts-for-the-top-bar&quot;&gt;This Meta.SO post&lt;/a&gt; has some userscripts and userCSS that lets you customize it to your liking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm using a userscript that adds the main/meta and chat links back to the topbar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T21:18:39.870" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3232" CreationDate="2013-12-05T23:15:23.187" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have pushed a change to make the topbar now translucent. the CSS I used is rgba(0,0,0,0.8). This way it will play nicer with our sites that are visually heavy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T23:15:23.187" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3239" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-06T11:48:29.853" Score="16" ViewCount="685" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the time of the year again, namely it is December 2013, and so we shall now refresh our Community Promotion Ads for the new year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site's twitter account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;interesting articles or findings for the curious&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool Science Fiction or Fantasy events/conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads every year?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be &lt;strong&gt;220 x 250 pixels&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/3239&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2537" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2014-11-21T16:38:41.053" Title="Community Promotion Ads - 2014" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-01-01T03:12:28.507" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-06T11:48:29.853" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3239" CreationDate="2013-12-06T11:48:29.853" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/stackscifi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/grKuY.png&quot; alt=&quot;Follow us on Twitter!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2537" LastActivityDate="2013-12-06T11:48:29.853" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-06T11:48:29.853" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3241" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-06T14:38:18.817" Score="5" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;We get a few of these from time to time; some recent (and one not-so-recent) examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/45901/why-dont-jedi-or-sith-use-the-force-to-snap-their-foes-necks&quot;&gt;Why don't Jedi (or Sith) use the Force to snap their foes' necks?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/45820/in-the-lord-of-the-rings-why-didnt-the-company-sail-around-mordor-and-come-in-t&quot;&gt;in the Lord of the Rings why didn't the company sail around mordor and come in the back end?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19211/why-didnt-the-fighters-use-force-pull-push-in-the-generator-complex/19240&quot;&gt;Why didn't the fighters use force pull/push in the generator complex?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My own inclination is to nuke this kind of question from orbit - in the general case (and I say &quot;general case&quot; because exceptions can, of course, exist), I've a difficult time seeing how they're in any way constructive or useful.  It's nitpicking and niggling over plot points, and I can see how questions like this can lead to discussions rather than specific answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, before I start nuking, it seems sensible to throw it to the floor to get a consensus on what others think of questions like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2013-12-07T14:40:15.147" Title="&quot;Fan Theory&quot; Questions" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3241" CreationDate="2013-12-06T18:19:39.263" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2333/why-didnt-gandalf-or-frodo-fly-to-mount-doom&quot;&gt;One of the highest voted, and most-viewed, questions on our site&lt;/a&gt; falls into this category, so I'd say there's at least a fair amount of support for them, as a general group.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If by &quot;nuke&quot; you mean downvote, by all means.  Downvote if you think the question isn't useful/interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing, on the other hand, I would oppose... &lt;strong&gt;IF&lt;/strong&gt; there is a reasonable expectation that an answer can be provided based on information in source materials, and it is posed as an actual question, rather than a rant about the plot-hole(s) the OP believes they've found (which is why I wouldn't vote to re-open the question from your second example).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2013-12-06T18:19:39.263" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3241" CreationDate="2013-12-06T18:34:06.410" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem I have with closing these kind of questions is that it really is very subjective whether such questions are good or bad.  I tend to feel that if someone can back their pet theory with canon evidence, than that's just fine.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This kind of ties in with the discussion of what constitutes a &quot;problem&quot; within the context of SF+F.  As pointed out in that discussion, idle curiosity is probably enough to make something an on topic problem for here.  By that yardstick, people ought to be able to ask here about pet peeves in media that they are interested in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If all the answers to a question are unsupported speculation, then that's probably a sign that a question is too subjective for the site and should be closed.  However, we have to balance that against the idea that SF+F is not wikipedia, and a certain amount of extrapolation or argument from source material is to be expected and encouraged here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1459" LastEditorUserId="1459" LastEditDate="2013-12-07T00:03:05.530" LastActivityDate="2013-12-07T00:03:05.530" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3239" CreationDate="2013-12-06T20:26:21.450" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://savethescifi.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qii8Z.png&quot; alt=&quot;Save the SciFi&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2013-12-06T20:26:21.450" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-06T20:26:21.450" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3241" CreationDate="2013-12-07T00:31:01.680" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a user is providing a &quot;subjective&quot; question, I have no problem with it if it's an answer based on interpretation of canon facts and is supported by information from the original canon source or author info, etc. For example, I think it's fine to see, &quot;Based on A, B, and C from &lt;em&gt;The Fellowship of the Ring&lt;/em&gt; and X, Y, Z, stated by Christopher Tolkien in Interview X, I think Reason Y is why the fellowship didn't sail around the world to Mordor&quot; or whatever. My $0.02 :) I would never advocate prohibiting these types of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2013-12-07T00:31:01.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3241" CreationDate="2013-12-07T14:40:15.147" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to prop up my pet &quot;Look at the evidence&quot; theory of moderation, as usual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question like that MAY lead to useless speculation, especially if poorly worded. If it happens, fix it up or nuke it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or it may lead to insightful answer based on reasonable canon-based speculation (as per Slytherincess' answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So closing it merely for ASKING about something that is a possible fan theory is wrong. Closing for generating useless noise as far as answers with no redeeming useful answer isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2013-12-07T14:40:15.147" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3239" CreationDate="2013-12-08T04:00:01.027" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://space.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qIjvZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Space Exploration Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:58:51.047" LastActivityDate="2013-12-08T04:00:01.027" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-08T04:00:01.027" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3239" CreationDate="2013-12-08T04:02:08.503" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://space.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GWTVN.png&quot; alt=&quot;Space Exploration Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2013-12-08T04:02:08.503" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-08T04:02:08.503" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3239" CreationDate="2013-12-08T11:57:24.370" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://robotics.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QpWDJ.gif&quot; alt=&quot;robotics stack exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-12-08T11:57:24.370" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-08T11:57:24.370" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3239" CreationDate="2013-12-08T12:10:28.467" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://robotics.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/O6uoa.gif&quot; alt=&quot;robotics stack exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-12-08T12:10:28.467" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-08T12:10:28.467" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3251" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3253" CreationDate="2013-12-09T16:01:13.580" Score="9" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;The two series are very different, most importantly, exist in different universes, so why is there no a separate tags? For example; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/battlestar-galactica-1978&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;battlestar-galactica-1978&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;battlestar-galactica-1978&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/battlestar-galactica-2004&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;battlestar-galactica-2004&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;battlestar-galactica-2004&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some questions (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/11257/what-are-the-names-of-the-12-original-battlestars&quot;&gt;like this one&lt;/a&gt;) have several different answers because there's only one tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4380" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T17:52:41.420" Title="Why is there only one Battlestar Galactica tag?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3251" CreationDate="2013-12-09T16:29:02.807" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't have 2 tags because no one brought it up before.  I can merge the existing questions over to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/battlestar-galactica-2004&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;battlestar-galactica-2004&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;battlestar-galactica-2004&lt;/a&gt;.  This means they'll all show with that tag, and anyone trying to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/battlestar-galactica&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;battlestar-galactica&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;battlestar-galactica&lt;/a&gt; will be pointed to the 2004 version of the tag, due to its popularity over the 1978 version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some questions (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/11257/what-are-the-names-of-the-12-original-battlestars&quot;&gt;like this one&lt;/a&gt;) have several different answers because there's only one tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did the 78 series have a miniseries?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2013-12-09T16:29:02.807" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3239" CreationDate="2013-12-10T15:41:03.137" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HQ5S2.png&quot; alt=&quot;Astronomy Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15467" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:59:06.177" LastActivityDate="2013-12-10T15:41:03.137" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-10T15:41:03.137" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3255" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-12T20:17:07.397" Score="2" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/46171/3804&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; question seems very simple and easy to answer. In fact it tempts users to post link only answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its not a true list question in my mind but it still doesn't sit right with me. I want to close, and I don't. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does the community have any thoughtsthou on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T17:46:10.343" Title="What to do with this simple question?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3255" CreationDate="2013-12-12T20:22:15.407" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the question shows little to no research effort, but it's essentially a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; question, where the 'story' is a story arc.  I'm fine with leaving it, but I'm downvoting the answers that are just links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also downvoting because neither of those answers actually answer the question.  If I ask you which episodes of a show contain an element, and you just link me to a list of every episode, you're not answering my question.  That's essentially what these answers are doing, in addition to just being links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2013-12-13T15:51:38.490" LastActivityDate="2013-12-13T15:51:38.490" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3257" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3258" CreationDate="2013-12-13T17:00:07.267" Score="4" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can users who have the right answer rep upvote the ai tag&#xA;as a synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/artificial-intelligence/synonyms&quot;&gt;artificial intelligence&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16518" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T13:58:24.877" Title="Artificial intelligence tag and ai tag are the same" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3257" CreationDate="2013-12-13T17:31:31.933" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just did a merge on the two. They all show up now as a single tag, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artificial-intelligence&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;artificial-intelligence&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;artificial-intelligence&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2013-12-13T17:31:31.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3255" CreationDate="2013-12-14T23:34:38.100" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I share Keen's opinion of the current answers, however, in concept &lt;strong&gt;it's a perfectly valid question&lt;/strong&gt; (&quot;which of the episodes of a show constitute a specific story arc&quot;) not nearly worthy of VTCing and perfectly on-topic and in-scope. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel that the answer is trivial to obtain (not being an SME, I don't see how it would be), you can and should: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(1) Post the correct answer - as Izkata stated, a link to existing resource would be a good format&lt;sup&gt;[1]&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(2) Down-vote the question for not doing obvious research, ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(2b) ... ideally with a comment explaining to noobs like me JUST what you did to research it as learning aid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;[1] - IMHO, we have enough rep whores on SFF.SE that if it was, indeed, trivially answerable, we would more likely than not have already seen a good correct answer. The fact that one is missing leads me to be slightly skeptical of your assessment concerning the simplicity of answering it&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2013-12-16T17:46:10.343" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T17:46:10.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3260" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-14T23:39:35.050" Score="4" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is regular text surrounding &lt;strong&gt;some bold text&lt;/strong&gt; and not really different visually from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is regular text surrounding &lt;strong&gt;some bold text&lt;/strong&gt; and not really different visually from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems better in the blockquote's darker background; but without one, personally I find bolded text to be very hard to visually distinguish from non-bold (Windows Firefox, site's default CSS, and not really affected by changing fond size too much).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to somehow change the color on bolded text (may be make it yellowish) to emphasize it more?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or am I just being blind and nobody else sees this as an issue on meta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here’s a screenshot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/T6IRG.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="3567" LastEditDate="2015-01-21T20:21:41.280" LastActivityDate="2015-01-21T20:21:41.280" Title="Bold text on meta seems difficult to distingush from non-bold" Tags="|discussion|design|meta|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3261" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3262" CreationDate="2013-12-15T03:22:50.560" Score="3" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does my profile picture keep changing?  Is this a bug?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;And why can't I change it back?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;There's only ever 1 default image to choose from, even though I know there are many different default pictures.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Does anyone know how I can change it back?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Thanks,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14417" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Why does my profile picture keep changing?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3261" CreationDate="2013-12-15T14:19:52.323" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;From a Meta.SO post, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/204523/172958&quot;&gt;Unexpectedly changing identicon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since recently we are salting creation of hashes for generating identicons for users that do not have a gravatar account. This is because there were some concerns that the gravatar identicon urls leak email addresses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're so attached to your old identicon register with gravatar, and use your identicon as the profile image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really want, you can download your &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4d5396c24560f18b7b30da3727478440?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;old identicon&lt;/a&gt; and manually upload it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2013-12-15T14:19:52.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3239" CreationDate="2013-12-16T12:41:23.390" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NTjfH.png&quot; alt=&quot;Movies.Stackexchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6006" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T12:41:23.390" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-16T12:41:23.390" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3257" CreationDate="2013-12-16T13:58:24.877" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Might it be the case that one tag is for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.I._Artificial_Intelligence&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;AI the movie&lt;/a&gt;, whereas the other is for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;artificial intelligence&lt;/a&gt; as a concept?  If so, then some form of more clear distinction between the two may be more appropriate than merging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T13:58:24.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3251" CreationDate="2013-12-16T17:52:41.420" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;After thinking on this, I don't like my previously-suggested course of action.  BSG at this point is essentially a franchise composed of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The original '78 series&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;BSG 1980&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The reimagined '04 series + its attendant movies&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Caprica&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Blood and Chrome&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should leave &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/battlestar-galactica&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;battlestar-galactica&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;battlestar-galactica&lt;/a&gt; as a franchise tag, an umbrella tag that can be used with all of the above works.  Then each individual work should get its own tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/battlestar-galactica-1978&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;battlestar-galactica-1978&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;battlestar-galactica-1978&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/battlestar-galactica-1980&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;battlestar-galactica-1980&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;battlestar-galactica-1980&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/battlestar-galactica-2004&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;battlestar-galactica-2004&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;battlestar-galactica-2004&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/caprica&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;caprica&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;caprica&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/blood-and-chrome&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;blood-and-chrome&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;blood-and-chrome&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then questions could be tagged with work-specific tags as appropriate.  The obnoxious part here is that this means a bunch of retagging needs to happen to enact this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T17:52:41.420" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3266" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-16T20:39:41.023" Score="8" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm mad and I won't take it anymore. The most sophisticated method of torture known to mankind, masquerading as a SFF work, has no questions on this site!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CONTEST TIME!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Contest #1:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ask a question about &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Ring_des_Nibelungen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Der Ring des Nibelungen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, in the next 50 days, and get a chance to enter a contest! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The winner, as judged by me but somewhat influenced by total votes, gets a fabled magical ring. OK, OK, I don't have Joel's angel investors or business acumen, so the winner gets &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An attaboy from me, with a total worth of $0.02 cents in leperchaun gold&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An honorable mention in a SFF Blog entry I plan to submit should this contest idea actually work&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A chance to enter into the Advanced Stakes of Contest #2.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Contest #2:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer a question about &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Ring_des_Nibelungen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Der Ring des Nibelungen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, in the next 60 days, and get a chance to enter a contest! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The winner, as judged by me but somewhat influenced by total votes, wins: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The honor to wear laurels for a month (&lt;sub&gt;laurels supplied by the winner&lt;/sub&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A bounty worth 100 reputation from me&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An even more honorable mention in a SFF Blog entry I plan to submit should this contest idea actually work&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the winner of Contest #1 will supply a good answer (in my personal opinion) to any questions about the topic, I shall reward such an answer with a bounty of 100 reputation (but the answer has to be good enough to deserve the bounty).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If he also happens to win Contest #2, I will bump the bounty for that win from 100 to 200.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people like the idea, feel free to announce additional prizes/bounties in comments or answers below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If SE likes the idea, feel free to sweeten the pot with non-leperchaun-gold-backed swag :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2013-12-16T20:50:56.270" LastActivityDate="2013-12-27T16:36:29.007" Title="Contest: Best question about &quot;Der Ring des Nibelungen&quot; gets a prize!" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|contest|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3267" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3268" CreationDate="2013-12-16T21:04:11.710" Score="4" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, I tried to ping the mods on chat to make sure they are OK with a post of mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to make sure my brain isn't stuck in 2012, I decided to double check who current mods are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And discovered that it doesn't appear to be easily discoverable (at least to me)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We can &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2793/2013-community-moderator-election-results&quot;&gt;tell who the newly elected moderators in 2013 were&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;But, we also need to add in whoever moderators from previous years were (more Meta posts?) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;... and remove whoever resigned from moderation (in this specific case, we were lucky and the same 2013 post stated who did).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to just look up a list of all current site's moderators, ideally usable for any SE site. Preferable NOT involving &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;digging through 5+ meta posts&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;digging through top user lists and looking which of them has a diamond in a name.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T21:06:10.140" Title="How can I find out who all the current moderators on the site are?" Tags="|discussion|support|election|moderators|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3267" CreationDate="2013-12-16T21:06:10.140" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;We used to be listed on an 'about this site' type of page, but they moved us under the Users tab a year or two ago:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T21:06:10.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3269" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-17T18:08:43.507" Score="3" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/46458/what-happens-to-individuals-when-they-die-in-middle-earth?lq=1&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; after searching the site with what I thought were logical and reasonable search terms and coming up empty.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was then identified that my question is answered quite thoroughly in as an answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/43757/significance-of-mortal-men&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1702/are-questions-duplicate-if-they-share-a-topic-and-a-title-but-not-a-medium/1709#1709&quot;&gt;this discussion in meta&lt;/a&gt;, I accept that the questions are duplicate but I doubt whether any future visitor to the site with the same question as mine would be able to find it with a reasonable search.  This is because the answer delves much deeper into the background than the original question asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is what should be done.  I am happy to close my question but should I edit the duplicate question to reflect the scope of the answer so that future users would be able to find it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3180" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2013-12-17T18:19:19.360" Title="What should be done with a &quot;duplicate&quot; question that is hard to find in a search?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3269" CreationDate="2013-12-17T18:19:19.360" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question as it is now, has been closed as a duplicate.  The site doesn't auto-delete questions closed as duplicates, so moving forward, anyone searching for terms in your question will get it as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=care+and+ritual+men&quot;&gt;a result&lt;/a&gt;.  Opening your question, then leads users to the question yours is marked as a duplicate of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All this essentially is to take care of this problem you're talking about.  This topic now has 2 questions with different wording available to the site's search engine, so you've expanded the likelihood of future visitors finding it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure I understand your last paragraph.  Can you expand on what you mean by 'the scope of the answer'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2013-12-17T18:19:19.360" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3271" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-22T16:01:23.600" Score="5" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;A question I posed, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/46672/why-was-lockhart-sorted-into-ravenclaw&quot;&gt;Why was Prof. Lockhart in Ravenclaw house&lt;/a&gt;, has been flagged as a duplicate because of an answer given to the question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15605/which-house-was-gilderoy-lockhart-in&quot;&gt;Which house was Gilderoy Lockhart in?&lt;/a&gt; that really does attempt to address the question of &quot;why&quot; as well as the question of &quot;which.&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1709/10926&quot;&gt;meta discussion here&lt;/a&gt; and the answer to this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3269/10926&quot;&gt;meta question&lt;/a&gt;, I totally get where the flag comes from and understand how a person searching for my question would, in the end, be led to the answer given.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in my mind, the accepted answer to the original question does not satisfactorily answer the question I asked.  The answer given, simply speculates that Gilderoy asked to be in Ravenclaw and so he was.  This speculation is made on the premise that the hat considers the wearer's choice in house.  However, the sorting hat let Harry choose, &quot;not Slytherin,&quot; which is actually quite different from a kid specifically choosing a house.  Also, there was another suitable house for Harry - I don't know that Lockhart had another suitable option as he clearly was not a hard-worker(Hufflepuff), Brave of heart and chivalrous (Gryffindor), or Intelligent (Ravenclaw - where he was sorted).  As far as I know, there is no canon evidence that the hat regularly just lets someone choose just because they are choosing.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the other question had multiple perspectives addressing both questions, I could see where this would work, or if the answer to the question was absolute fact and backed by a clear canon quote so there was no question as to what the answer was, that would be different, but in this case, the answer given within the answer to the first question is NOT clearly the one and only correct answer to the second question - due to its speculative nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, there are points about this other answer than can be argued against, and I'd like a little more analysis, using canon than is offered in the original posting.  Is it fair to determine two different questions are duplicates just because one of the questions has an answer that happens to address the other question - &lt;strong&gt;especially if that answer is speculative?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10926" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2014-05-12T03:36:04.753" Title="Is it fair to determine two different questions are duplicates because of a similar answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3271" CreationDate="2013-12-22T18:18:45.423" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that in an example such as the one given, no, it isn't.  If the answer were a clear and definitive answer supported with canon quotes from the author or author's works I can see how the current standard works well and should remain standing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in this instance the answer given is not the only possibile answer out there, is speculative in nature, and uses only one element from the books to form an assumption (that may not be accurate to begin with).  Shouldn't the asker of the second question then, as well as the community of voters get some voice or opportunity to offer up opposing viewpoints and choose the best answer for this specific question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, if the two questions are not in fact duplicates and the answer given in the first question is speculative in nature, the two questions should not be marked as duplicates.  Instead a &quot;related&quot; link could be included with the one answer on the other question summarized, while other voices can also offer up alternative answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10926" LastActivityDate="2013-12-22T18:18:45.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3273" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3274" CreationDate="2013-12-23T15:39:33.640" Score="8" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;When reviewing &quot;First Posts&quot;, the instructions provided say that I am reviewing a first &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt;, even though I'm reviewing a first &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the system cannot be made to intelligently change the text, I suggest that the language be made more universal (e.g. 'first post').&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EqWMi.png&quot; alt=&quot;question/answer screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="17279" LastEditDate="2013-12-23T20:18:02.670" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="First Post review instructions are mislabeled" Tags="|bug|status-completed|review-queue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3273" CreationDate="2013-12-23T16:56:14.307" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like questions are being mislabeled as answers too. Someone has already posted this on Meta.SO. You can follow the action &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/213292/172958&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2013-12-23T16:56:14.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3275" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3276" CreationDate="2013-12-25T05:46:33.963" Score="4" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to ask whether it's okay to post a question asking about classic fanfiction of Star Trek/Star Wars written at the time the movies or original show came out, and specifically about the then unknown future. I have a feeling it might be going against some rule. Thanks&#xA;EDITED TO ADD: I mean to say, in the question I would be asking if people have any links to the above mentioned fanfiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19860" LastEditorUserId="19860" LastEditDate="2013-12-25T05:51:54.713" LastActivityDate="2013-12-25T09:26:24.767" Title="Can I ask a question about Star Wars/Star Trek fanfiction?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3275" CreationDate="2013-12-25T09:26:24.767" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/363/4516&quot;&gt;Meta post&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;seems&lt;/em&gt; to imply a consensus that requests to find a particularly hard-to-find piece of fiction are allowed, though it's a bit vague.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4516" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2013-12-25T09:26:24.767" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3277" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3278" CreationDate="2013-12-25T13:41:13.857" Score="3" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a bookmark that goes to the /question URL of a bunch of sites I monitor.  I notice that the Title in the browser for all of them is Newest questions.  But on Sci Fi-SE it is Recently Active questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any meaning/matter to this distinction, or is it purely cosmetic?  Fun to be different, regardless. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="176" LastActivityDate="2013-12-25T15:59:46.063" Title="Why is the /questions URL labelled different than all other SE sites?" Tags="|discussion|title|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3277" CreationDate="2013-12-25T15:59:46.063" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are five tabs underneath /questions, specified with an optional argument appended to the URL:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=newest&quot;&gt;newest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=frequent&quot;&gt;frequent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=votes&quot;&gt;votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=active&quot;&gt;active&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=unanswered&quot;&gt;unanswered&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions&quot;&gt;/questions&lt;/a&gt; bookmarked (without the argument), the next time you visit the site you'll re-open the tab that you visited most recently (I imagine SE sets a cookie to store this information).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably you're seeing something like this, with &lt;strong&gt;active&lt;/strong&gt; underlined and bolded:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E3s8F.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you click on the &lt;strong&gt;newest&lt;/strong&gt; link, it should remember your setting for next time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GS5qu.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2013-12-25T15:59:46.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3266" CreationDate="2013-12-27T16:36:29.007" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;What actually killed people after they watched the videotape?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="584" LastActivityDate="2013-12-27T16:36:29.007" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3280" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-27T18:48:08.187" Score="8" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from October 1st 2013 through December 31st 2013.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to compile list to post to the blog. This will be the same format as previous posts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2013/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2013/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2013/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2014-05-29T18:04:46.197" Title="Favorite Questions and Answers from fourth quarter of 2013" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1892" CreationDate="2013-12-28T02:41:27.370" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the questions in the general reference flowchart is,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is the question basic and trivial, or is it complex and interesting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really really don’t think that “Who is Tom Bombadil?” is in any way a trivial question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="403" LastActivityDate="2013-12-28T02:41:27.370" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3282" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7663" CreationDate="2013-12-30T05:36:36.663" Score="13" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;User cards (not sure what official SE name is) seem to be too small for fitting the info for users with many badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2 examples in 1 image:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A1uXy.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems invariant as far as zooming in/out with Ctrl-wheelscroll&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firefox 26, didn't try other browsers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit by Izkata&lt;/strong&gt; - This is what I see in Firefox 21 on Ubuntu:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/n3Y62.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This problem also seems to occur on Chrome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0hynG.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-08-21T00:58:07.683" LastActivityDate="2016-08-21T00:58:07.683" Title="User cards (?) seem broken for users with many badges" Tags="|support|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3239" CreationDate="2013-12-30T08:41:43.213" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qKHbb.png&quot; alt=&quot;Anime &amp;amp; Manga Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12014" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:48.340" LastActivityDate="2013-12-30T08:52:26.120" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-30T08:41:43.213" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3239" CreationDate="2013-12-30T08:44:53.147" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/orVPo.png&quot; alt=&quot;Anime &amp;amp; Manga Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12014" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user21022" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:48.340" LastActivityDate="2014-01-03T17:57:09.627" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-30T08:44:53.147" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3280" CreationDate="2013-12-30T15:00:10.160" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions&lt;/strong&gt; (it was a good quarter for  Star Wars :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/41339/was-the-cantina-music-deliberately-off-tune-or-just-an-artifact-of-cheap-product&quot;&gt;Was the Cantina music deliberately off-tune or just an artifact of cheap production?&lt;/a&gt; (user17807).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm deeply partial to music questions, especially Star Wars music questions. And I love love love Cantina music. Used it as lullaby. This one was great - coming out of non-SciFi expertise, but connected to the Universe.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/46391/how-did-jabba-become-such-a-powerful-crime-lord&quot;&gt;How did Jabba become such a powerful crime lord?&lt;/a&gt; (Beofett). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good opportunity to delve into C-canon and an interesting real world parallel.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/45283/why-do-the-lightsaber-moves-of-luke-skywalker-look-so-uncoordinated-and-crude-co&quot;&gt;Why do the lightsaber moves of Luke Skywalker look so uncoordinated and crude compared to the prequels?&lt;/a&gt; (Vadr). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good observation and led to a great answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answers&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/41339/was-the-cantina-music-deliberately-off-tune-or-just-an-artifact-of-cheap-product/41341#41341&quot;&gt;Was the Cantina music deliberately off-tune or just an artifact of cheap production?&lt;/a&gt; (DVK). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a pleasure to dig into this and a very interesting fact to share to the world. I love music questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/45283/why-do-the-lightsaber-moves-of-luke-skywalker-look-so-uncoordinated-and-crude-co/45312#45312&quot;&gt;Why do the lightsaber moves of Luke Skywalker look so uncoordinated and crude compared to the prequels?&lt;/a&gt; (Dacio)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Great answer, combining in-universe knowledge and out-of-universe as well. Plus, it mentioned Bob Anderson.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1586/who-or-what-was-tom-bombadil/46928#46928&quot;&gt;Who or what was Tom Bombadil?&lt;/a&gt; (Jimmy Shelter) - &lt;strong&gt;most under-appreciated answer award #1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4073/why-are-there-humans-in-the-star-wars-universe/45842#45842&quot;&gt;Why are there humans in the Star Wars Universe?&lt;/a&gt; (Izkata) - &lt;strong&gt;most under-appreciated answer award #2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/46203/reference-for-the-first-name-of-sirius-blacks-mother-known-from-her-portrait/46204#46204&quot;&gt;Reference for the first name of Sirius Black&amp;#39;s mother, known from her portrait: Walburga&lt;/a&gt; (Slytherincess)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typical deep knowledge of all universe related sources.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2013-12-30T15:39:51.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3286" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-30T19:37:32.477" Score="8" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/theimpossibleastronaut&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;theimpossibleastronaut&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;theimpossibleastronaut&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nameofthedoctor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;nameofthedoctor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;nameofthedoctor&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/timeofthedoctor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;timeofthedoctor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;timeofthedoctor&lt;/a&gt; should all be reformatted to follow the standard convention of hypens in place of spaces. So, I would change them to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-impossible-astronaut&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-impossible-astronaut&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-impossible-astronaut&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/name-of-the-doctor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;name-of-the-doctor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;name-of-the-doctor&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time-of-the-doctor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time-of-the-doctor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time-of-the-doctor&lt;/a&gt; respectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something else to consider is to drop &quot;the&quot; from the first tag, since other tags seem to be written that way (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/day-of-the-doctor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;day-of-the-doctor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;day-of-the-doctor&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first two are only used once, so a simple edit will work (though I don't have the required reputation to do it myself). &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/timeofthedoctor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;timeofthedoctor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;timeofthedoctor&lt;/a&gt; has a handful of questions, so it might be better for a mod to fix that using the merge tool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13206" LastActivityDate="2013-12-30T20:16:42.933" Title="Tag rename request: [theimpossibleastronaut], [nameofthedoctor], and [timeofthedoctor]" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3286" CreationDate="2013-12-30T20:16:42.933" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tags are supposed to be reasonably general, enough to make it worth one's time to favorite / follow them. Single episodes don't meet that criteria, and so they don't need their own tag. Accordingly, I have removed them from the questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2013-12-30T20:16:42.933" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3288" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-02T22:35:37.460" Score="2" ViewCount="247" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/46960/worf-attacking-the-enterprise-in-the-alternate-ye-timeline-why-not&quot;&gt;Why wasn’t it Worf attacking in the Yesterday’s Enterprise timeline?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the question was on hold, I added the following addendum edit hoping that it would make my intent more clear &quot;EDIT: I'm finding it difficult to understand why this question has been put &quot;on-hold&quot; as being opinion based. I'm not asking if it's a good idea or if it makes sense. I'm simply asking if there is any reason within canon that Worf could not have attacked the Enterprise during the alternate timeline of Yesterday's Enterprise or if anybody has any inside knowledge of the thinking of the writers.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is this opinion based?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Addendum edit to the original question, Posted 9:40pm EST 1/2/14&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FURTHER EDIT - NEW&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MEMO&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TO: Rick Berman&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FROM: Michael Piller&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DATE: Oct 3, 1989&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SUBJECT: Pitch&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re: The Time Travel Story “Old Enterprise” by Trent Ganino…what about this as a twist… we’re in this routine action story when in flies this old Enterprise through a time warp, however we choose, and immediately, things change without anyone on board realizing it. Picard is still in command..Riker, number one Data in position, but Worf is gone &lt;em&gt;(in fact a member of an enemy crew)&lt;/em&gt; and Tasha Yar is at security…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above is a quote from The Making of Yesterday’s Enterprise by Eric Stillwell&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question of the possibility Worf's involvement in this episode as it relates to Khitomer is uninteresting and circular. As evidenced by the memo quoted above, at least at one point the possibility played in the minds of the series creators. As an answer to this question I would like to know why the creators chose not to use Worf in that way, or if there is a reason within canon that I am missing. Because the Khitomer Massacre happened (in our timeline) long after the events on Nerendra III, it's irrelevant to this conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As written, this question is answerable. As a matter of fact, having found the memo quoted above, I might very well be able to answer this question myself eventually, if the question were reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20538" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-01-03T17:55:53.957" Title="Please help me to understand what is wrong with this question" Tags="|discussion|primarily-opinion-based|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3288" CreationDate="2014-01-03T01:26:52.897" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't vote to close originally, but have reviewed this question, and the problems I see with it are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You've posited a scenario that didn't happen.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The scenario seems attractive to you.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;But yet there seems to be nothing that could potentially support this scenario.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not personally familiar with much Star Trek canon, so I can't comment on the actual ST-related items in your question, but the use of tell-tale phrases such as &quot;It almost feels like&quot;, &quot;It seems to me&quot; (twice) support closure for the stated reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me put it this way: you ask &quot;Is there any reason (in-universe or otherwise) NOT to give that line to Worf?&quot;  In order for the question to not be Primarily Opinion-Based you would have to first come up with a reason &lt;strong&gt;TO&lt;/strong&gt; give it to him, and that reason would need to be stronger than &quot;I think this would have been cool&quot; (which is what your preamble boils down to).  From there it's reasonable to say that an evidence-based analysis supports him having the line, so you want to know why he didn't.  That's just not coming across in the current wording of your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as it stands your question reads more like you want a discussion about a hypothetical alternative scenario, rather than a specific answer to a specific question.  If you edit it to remove those elements, and add more support for your alternative scenario, I'll gladly cast a re-open vote for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2014-01-03T01:26:52.897" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3288" CreationDate="2014-01-03T17:55:53.957" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your current question, as-is at the time of this response, seems to be split between two different main concepts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One is asking if there is a reason Worf didn't appear in the episode subsequent to his disappearance once the &lt;em&gt;Enterprise-C&lt;/em&gt; appears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other is why a specific line was assigned to a different actor/character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both of these, taken strictly by themselves, would be calling for &quot;primarily opinion based&quot; answers, per the closure reason.  They'd be purely speculative, and no different, really, than &quot;why did Data have a cat for a pet, and not a dog?&quot;.  Such questions are usually unanswerable, and simply not very interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you have provided supplemental information in your question, which helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, the memo you cited does provide evidence that the writers may have been considering Worf's role to be larger than it was.  That, in my opinion, makes it more interesting than some random speculation.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The memo, though, doesn't really do anything to help with the entire first half of your question.  Speculation about which lines you feel would be best delivered by Worf, or what specific roles you think he should have had in the episode, are pure opinion, and at best are &quot;discussion&quot; points.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're not a discussion forum.  We're a question and answer site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think if you dropped the commentary and speculations from your question, and simply reduced it down to the question that arises directly from the memo (was there a reason Worf wasn't shown on the side of the Klingons?), it would make it much more firmly &quot;on topic&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2014-01-03T17:55:53.957" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3239" CreationDate="2014-01-06T11:21:36.903" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gaming.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8ElGV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Arqade - Q&amp;amp;A for players of video games&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1881" LastActivityDate="2014-01-06T11:21:36.903" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-01-06T11:21:36.903" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3293" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-11T15:04:48.483" Score="20" ViewCount="374" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are some answers on this site that are just plain out 100% wrong (explained why wrong in the comments, and usually downvoted). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can't flag them for moderators to delete (that usually gets declined), since the answer is simply wrong and not spam/etc... leaving aside other consideration, a mod isn't expected to be an expert enough on the subject matter of every question be be able to judge correctness in a binding way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, these answers are still deletable by high-rep users if the accrue negative votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My question is:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Is it within site rules for high rep users to delete such answers?&lt;/strong&gt; (answer 100% wrong from subject-matter-expert perspective, but not deletion-worthy from moderator view).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. If so, is it within site rules to organize a campaign to delete such answers?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that I'm merely asking &lt;strong&gt;if it's against the rules&lt;/strong&gt;. NOT whether it's a good idea or bad idea (if the answer to this question is &quot;no against the rules&quot; I will post another question with a specific suggestion of how to do it, where people can vote on whether the approach I had in mind is a good idea).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Examples:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/14538/is-nagini-the-snake-harry-freed-on-dudleys-birthday/47879#47879&quot;&gt;Is Nagini the snake Harry freed on Dudley&amp;#39;s birthday?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/14542/where-did-voldemort-find-nagini/41523#41523&quot;&gt;Where did Voldemort find Nagini?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T21:14:33.113" Title="Is deleting really wrong answers OK according to the rules?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|deleted-answers|incorrect-answers|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3293" CreationDate="2014-01-11T23:20:40.617" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a question/answer is demonstrably wrong (proven so by reputable references) then I see no &lt;em&gt;issue&lt;/em&gt; with it being outright deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, surely it would be better to edit the question or answer to indicate why the original wording was wrong e.g. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Nagini appears in the first book, the snake he sets free at the zoo&#xA;  was Nagini. J.K Rowling said so herself. I imagine that the snake&#xA;  retreated to You-Know-Who until he was at full power, and then&#xA;  He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named made her a Horcrux. Just my theory though.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;becomes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Nagini appears in the first book, however the quote listed is a hoax - see above link for details&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the author disputes the changes, they're welcome to come onto chat/meta and argue why it should be changed back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the specific questions are concerned, I bow to the superior knowledge of others but I believe that outright deletion is a no-no whereas arranging a downvote storm is perfectly acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2014-01-11T23:20:40.617" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3293" CreationDate="2014-01-12T17:35:30.233" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/trusted-user&quot;&gt;privilege page&lt;/a&gt; for Trusted User (the tier where you gain the privilege to delete things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Deleting answers&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;When should I vote to delete an answer?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may vote to delete answers in the following cases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer is extremely low quality: There is little to no scope for improvement&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer doesn't answer the question; it may be a comment or a separate question altogether.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer is not much more than a link to another page. Link only answers are not allowed on Stack Exchange&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'Really wrong answers' might fall under the first point, since improving them requires a radical change, but I'm not so sure of that.  I'd recommend a downvote and a comment indicating why it's wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-01-12T17:35:30.233" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3296" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-12T17:41:02.020" Score="2" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/47913/1027&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; asks for recommendations on good ways to pass on a Sci-fi magazine collection.   It was closed as 'unclear', which seems pretty goofy to me, since there was nothing unclear about the question.  Why was it closed with that close reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: It was flagged after closing, and so I changed the close reason to off-topic, as it seemed to me that it fit under either that or 'too broad'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2014-01-12T23:12:54.730" Title="Why was this 'how to sell my Analog magazines' question closed?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3296" CreationDate="2014-01-12T18:05:37.317" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found it puzzling that the question was closed as well. I believe that if it was reworded to make it less localized to the OP then it would be a great question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="887" LastActivityDate="2014-01-12T18:05:37.317" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3296" CreationDate="2014-01-12T19:05:25.857" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I flagged it for closure on the grounds that it wasn't a question about science fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There wasn't an &quot;OP is trying to sell/donate his unwanted crap&quot; button so I picked the next best thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2014-01-12T19:30:06.883" LastActivityDate="2014-01-12T19:30:06.883" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3299" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-12T19:17:19.820" Score="1" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have recently noticed some answers that were plain out wrong to a subject matter expert, yet they were NOT downvoted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While review queue allows some chance of dealing with them, I see that sometimes they slip through (especially older ones).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, I'd like to propose our own homegrown review queue for &quot;completely wrong&quot; answers - namely, this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rules are as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you see an answer that you know is wrong on the main site, post a new answer to &lt;em&gt;this question&lt;/em&gt;. Your post should contain:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Link to the wrong answer&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Detailed explanation (with unambiguous proof from canon/authoritative source) of why the answer is wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you see a mention of an answer that is listed as wrong here, but you think that is in error, comment on the meta post about that answer, by adding a rebuttal (again, showing proof).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples of way wrong answers &lt;em&gt;(I post them here since they already got downvoted so don't need to be queued below)&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/14538/is-nagini-the-snake-harry-freed-on-dudleys-birthday/47879#47879&quot;&gt;Is Nagini the snake Harry freed on Dudley&amp;#39;s birthday?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;would of had to of made the horcrux before he was nearly destroyed killing Harry&quot; is 100% wrong since JKR stated in the interview that Nagini was created as a Horcrux AFTER V was nearly destroyed - namely in Harry's 3rd or 4th year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2014-01-14T16:02:10.043" Title="Wrong answers collection" Tags="|discussion|down-votes|review-queue|incorrect-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ClosedDate="2014-01-14T17:48:29.927" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3296" CreationDate="2014-01-12T19:45:01.130" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I looked at the Tour and at the FAQ before I posted the question. I could not find anything in either of those places says that questions are restricted to &lt;em&gt;content&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user21374" LastActivityDate="2014-01-12T19:45:01.130" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3301" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3535" CreationDate="2014-01-12T22:16:41.723" Score="7" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm still writing my answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8543/is-there-a-canon-explanation-for-how-proton-torpedoes-were-able-to-turn-90-degre/8559&quot;&gt;Is there a canon explanation for how Proton Torpedoes were able to turn 90 degrees at the end of Star Wars: ANH&lt;/a&gt; but I've hit 9 edits already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I keep finding new bits and pieces across the SW universe to add to the answer, but if I make one more edit it will become a Community Wiki :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can a moderator fix the answer to prevent this from happening?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've tried flagging the question, but I've not seen any response from any mods. Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4380" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T15:10:00.593" Title="Can a moderator prevent my answer from becoming a CW?" Tags="|support|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3296" CreationDate="2014-01-12T23:12:54.730" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a bit late here, but I would have probably VTC'd as &quot;Too Broad&quot; or &quot;Primarily Opinion-Based&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The FAQ states these under &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;What types of questions should I avoid asking?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;every answer is equally valid: “What’s your favorite ______?”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;your answer is provided along with the question, and you expect more answers: “I use ______ for ______, what do you use?”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some possibilities in the question and the OP is asking for more, all of which will be equally valid.  There is no &quot;correct&quot; answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These in particular we've had a lot of issues with in the past, which is why our custom close reasons include one that specifically mentions these types of things (although phrased in a way that would make it not really apply here).  These &quot;list questions&quot; are written in a way that invites more and more people to continually post more and more &quot;Hey, what about &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt;?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it was rewritten, &lt;em&gt;maybe&lt;/em&gt; it could be made on-topic.  I personally don't see it, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2014-01-12T23:12:54.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3303" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3304" CreationDate="2014-01-12T23:17:22.277" Score="7" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answered a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/47900/what-movie-features-a-hovering-spherical-robot-that-kills-a-man-with-a-propeller/47901#47901&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; that has so far received an acceptance and 11 points. For this I got the Nice Answer badge, but did not get an Enlightened (first to answer and accepted with a score of ten or more) badge. This has not happened to me before. Is there sometimes a lag between meeting criteria and receiving the badge? I thought it was automated. Is there some other reason it was not awarded?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16974" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-01-12T23:39:42.580" Title="Are some badge awards delayed?" Tags="|discussion|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3303" CreationDate="2014-01-12T23:36:18.970" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Badges are calculated at regular intervals, not all the time.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Processing badges--especially badges with multiple criteria--takes resources, so the site is automated to check for new badge qualifications at certain intervals rather than running that check constantly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next time the site checks for badge qualifications, you'll get yours. It usually takes much less than 24 hours for the jobs to run, but the more complicated the badge qualifications the longer the delay between checks. If you haven't got the badge after 24 hours, then you can be concerned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13941" LastEditorUserId="3267" LastEditDate="2014-01-12T23:39:42.580" LastActivityDate="2014-01-12T23:39:42.580" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3301" CreationDate="2014-01-13T01:39:28.517" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, you've only made 8 edits (revision 9), so you have one more before the next makes it CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A moderator can only undo CW, not prevent it. The auto-CW is primarily intended to prevent users from making periodic edits to bump their posts so they get more votes. You have clearly not been abusing it in that manner, so if you trigger CW, flag it and a mod will probably undo it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, a few of those edits were fairly small and inconsequential. If you're going to be making a lot of edits, try to coalesce the ones that don't really add necessary information into those that do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2014-01-13T01:39:28.517" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3299" CreationDate="2014-01-14T16:02:10.043" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meta is for discussing the site itself, and for clarifying the rules.  Certainly this sometimes entails discussing specific questions or answers, but ideally the goal should be that the specific examples are merely there to provide specific, practical illustrations of the policies of the whole site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This suggestion feels a bit too much like &quot;let's use meta to call out users we disagree with,&quot; even if it is really the &lt;em&gt;content&lt;/em&gt;, and not the &lt;em&gt;user&lt;/em&gt;.  I would imagine that anyone coming to meta and seeing a post that clearly called for the community to downvote their post would be... put off at the very least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't disagree that &quot;wrong&quot; answers could sometimes use a little more attention, particularly if they've received upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a mention in chat would be a more appropriate route, though.  Users who stumble on chat and see their posts being called out would still probably be upset, but hopefully the ability to respond in a more conversational way might mitigate this.  Plus, it simply seems like this is less &quot;off-topic&quot; for chat than for meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2014-01-14T16:02:10.043" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3307" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3308" CreationDate="2014-01-14T17:44:52.033" Score="20" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;p&gt;What should I do if i see an answer that's basically a duplicate (e.g. 100% of information in it is contained in an &lt;strong&gt;much&lt;/strong&gt; earlier - say by at least an hour - and usually better answer)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I flag for moderation? Vote to delete? Comment? Merely downvote silently? Post on chat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-04-24T00:46:06.643" LastActivityDate="2016-04-24T00:46:06.643" Title="Do we have a policy on duplicate answers?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|duplicate-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3307" CreationDate="2014-01-14T18:43:11.977" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure there's an &amp;quot;official&amp;quot; policy, &lt;em&gt;per se&lt;/em&gt;, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1096/how-should-we-deal-with-duplicate-answers&quot;&gt;there does seem to be a general &amp;quot;netiquette&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; on this topic, which roughly matches with my personal practices:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the age old Fastest Gun In The West problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those who get the answer first should obviously be rewarded for their speed, but if there are instances where users post the same thing within seconds within one another, I will tend to upvote all of them. If it's within a few minutes, I will not be so lenient because that should have been enough time to review the already posted answers or load any new answers that were written during the construction of your own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seconds apart = close enough to reward both&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Minutes apart = not close enough, fastest should get the upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-- from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/1098/166646&quot;&gt;TheTXI's answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there is a third scenario not mentioned here, which I've seen pop up from time to time here on scifi.se: an answer duplicates a previous answer, providing absolutely no new information, and is posted hours, days, or even months after the previous answer it replicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For these answers, I sometimes (I admit I am not terribly consistent on this; it depends on a number of factors that are probably too subjective to merit mentioning) downvote and comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments on answers like this is a touchy subject, though. It is easy for comments to be discouraging, especially to new users, particularly if they honestly didn't read the other answers and were making a genuine effort at contribution (it happens).  The best phrasing I could come up with would be something along the lines of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;While this answer is right [assuming it is], it seems to be a duplicate of a previous answer. This may result in you getting some downvotes. Is there any additional information you could add to distinguish your answer from the others?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deleting, however, does not seem right, given what I understand on SE's policy for when/why high rep users should &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3295/1359&quot;&gt;vote to delete&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-01-20T06:02:51.497" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3309" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3310" CreationDate="2014-01-17T21:32:34.363" Score="10" ViewCount="266" Body="&lt;p&gt;The upcoming &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Noah film&lt;/a&gt; is being produced in a style that feels like an epic fantasy movie just like LOTR or others.  Based on what I've read and seen it is not trying to be utterly faithful to the Biblical account, and so even if you believed this was really a true story you could see this as a fantasy take on the story.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've already decided that general Bible based discussion is off topic here (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1038/why-was-this-question-about-the-old-testament-closed-as-off-topic&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1053/should-we-exclude-religious-texts-and-which&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;).  Will questions about the film be allowed and if so, how can we explain that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5912" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2014-01-18T01:52:38.553" Title="How will the upcoming Noah film be handled?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3309" CreationDate="2014-01-18T01:40:06.700" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie is starring Odin, Van Helsing, Hrothgar, and Hermione Granger. We MUST make it on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a more serious note, I think the general Meta consensus is that if the writer INTENDS the story to be fiction (e.g., the story of Christ in &quot;Master and Margarita&quot; by Bulgakov; or Marvel's Asgardians); it's SFF. If it's merely a movie about a religious event (&quot;Passion of Christ&quot; by Mel Gibson; or hell, Charlton Heston's &quot;Ten Commandments&quot;) it's not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on Wiki info, it seems to be the former. E.g. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In October 2012, Emma Watson commented on the setting of the film: &quot;I think what Darren's going for is a sense that it could be set in any time. It could be set sort of like a thousand years in the future or a thousand years in the past. [...] You shouldn't be able to place it too much.&quot;[20]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, the events described in the Bible are merely used as an excuse to tell a dramatic story that Aronofsky wants to tell, set in an special setting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That should make the movie on-topic in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CAVEAT&lt;/strong&gt;: Questions that ask about movie events &lt;strong&gt;based on discrepancies between the movies and Bible&lt;/strong&gt;, or &lt;strong&gt;questions whose answer is expected to be based on Bible text or Biblical scholarship&lt;/strong&gt; (as opposed to movie script) should probably be offtopic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2014-01-18T01:52:38.553" LastActivityDate="2014-01-18T01:52:38.553" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3311" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-18T03:05:24.050" Score="13" ViewCount="383" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, in terms of Star Wars, much of what is and is not canon is potentially in doubt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/01/op-ed-disney-takes-a-chainsaw-to-the-star-wars-expanded-universe/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Disney takes a chainsaw to the Star Wars expanded universe&lt;/a&gt; for further info on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Now, from what I've read elsewhere, the expectation is that all post-RotJ events will be nuked from orbit: they will no longer be canon.  The reasoning behind that expectation is to allow the Episode 7 script to be freely written without any concerns about whether or not it will clash with EU material.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update : Per &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.starwars.com/news/the-legendary-star-wars-expanded-universe-turns-a-new-page&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this post on Starwars.Com&lt;/a&gt;, the new canon levels have now been fully confirmed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While Lucasfilm always strived to keep the stories created for the EU&#xA;  consistent with our film and television content as well as internally&#xA;  consistent, Lucas always made it clear that he was not beholden to the&#xA;  EU. He set the films he created as the canon. This includes the six&#xA;  Star Wars episodes, and the many hours of content he developed and&#xA;  produced in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. These stories are the immovable&#xA;  objects of Star Wars history, the characters and events to which all&#xA;  other tales must align.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While the universe that readers knew is changing, it is not being&#xA;  discarded. Creators of new Star Wars entertainment have full access to&#xA;  the rich content of the Expanded Universe. For example, elements of&#xA;  the EU are included in Star Wars Rebels. The Inquisitor, the Imperial&#xA;  Security Bureau, and Sienar Fleet Systems are story elements in the&#xA;  new animated series, and all these ideas find their origins in&#xA;  roleplaying game material published in the 1980s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In the light of this development, should we be looking to revisit the Star Wars questions on this site?  We have many questions which have answers based on material which was in canon at the time they were asked, but which may no longer be in canon in the future.  In other words - we have many questions with &lt;em&gt;potentially wrong answers&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is now the time to start discussing this issue?  Is now the time to start thinking about how we handle any future Star Wars questions?  Do we need to go back over past questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2014-12-20T13:22:51.690" LastActivityDate="2014-12-20T13:22:51.690" Title="Star Wars/Canon/Disney Revisions" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3311" CreationDate="2014-01-18T03:30:56.387" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems to me that only what the movies actually touch on will need to be revised.  And the EU will still exist, so any old answers that need to be can simply have information added rather than removed, with only slight editing required.  &quot;Post Ep. VI, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is now canon.  Prior to Ep. VII, &lt;em&gt;&amp;lt;all of the old answer&amp;gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1470" LastEditorUserId="1470" LastEditDate="2014-01-22T04:19:31.687" LastActivityDate="2014-01-22T04:19:31.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3314" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3315" CreationDate="2014-01-20T14:00:09.000" Score="10" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/48446/what-would-the-lord-of-the-rings-solar-system-look-like&quot;&gt;What would the Lord of the Rings' “solar system” look like?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question has now been, IMO, incorrectly closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer I supplied to it clearly demonstrates that it's &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a &quot;Primarily Opinion-Based&quot; question as I took each of the 3 points in it (after the introductory preamble) and addressed them by citing sources and giving quotations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;But is the realistic scientific view of our solar system a part of the Lord of the Rings universe?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If I understand it correctly, though there has been a flat earth and a round earth...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...the Earth has always been the centre of the universe, with a much smaller sun and earth moving through the sky, like an actual geocentric model of the universe. Is this correct?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of these have been asked and answered, and if a question can be answered in such a manner it surely cannot possibly be opinion-based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another possible reason may be &quot;questions seeking scientific solutions or explanations are off-topic unless they relate directly to a cited work of fiction&quot; -- but this question clearly does &lt;strong&gt;relate directly to a cited work of fiction&lt;/strong&gt; (it's even cited in the question title).  That reason is therefore not valid either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The close reason given is &quot;This question does not appear to be about science fiction or fantasy within the scope defined in the help center&quot; - but that indicates nothing and the question appears to have been closed in error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-01-20T14:42:02.247" Title="Why was the Lord of the Rings/Solar System Question closed?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3314" CreationDate="2014-01-20T14:42:02.247" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the title of the question probably contributed to the closure quite a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the question is perfectly fine, and your answer is excellent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &quot;What would the Lord of the Rings' “solar system” look like?&quot; looks like it is inviting speculation, and the comments given as explanation for some of the close votes indeed indicate that people felt the question was too speculative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly, it is answerable with some solid references, and I've voted to reopen.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've also taken the liberty of editing the title a bit; hopefully that helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2014-01-20T14:42:02.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3311" CreationDate="2014-01-21T03:35:21.353" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a huge fan of the EU as another (admittedly lower) level of canon, but I'm well aware there are large differences in opinions. Obviously some things won't be touched on, like Matthew Read pointed out, and they don't require revision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I'd propose identifying things sort of how many comics are split up (different story arcs). Just identify the answers as &quot;Disney Universe&quot; and &quot;Lucas Universe&quot;, if there are conflicting canon stories. If only one universe touches on the character / event, then just add a note: &lt;code&gt;This material is drawn from the Disney Star Wars Universe&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect wookiepedia will adopt a similar separation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastActivityDate="2014-01-21T03:35:21.353" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3311" CreationDate="2014-01-23T02:38:41.887" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question is based on &lt;strong&gt;imprecise information&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You said: &lt;code&gt;the expectation is that all post-RotJ events will be nuked from orbit: they will no longer be canon.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In reality, SOME of EU will be switch to be non-canon... while SOME of it will instead be elevated to full &quot;flat&quot; canon... and &lt;strong&gt;we don't know which is which yet&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The story group, he explained, &quot;has a hand in all facets of Star Wars storytelling, including movies, TV, games and publishing.&quot; When asked what the change meant, he wrote that &quot;a primary goal&quot; was to ensure that there was no hierarchy between the movies and spinoff material, but instead one cohesive canon across the entire franchise, adding that &quot;more so than ever, the canon field will serve us internally simply for classification rather than setting hierarchy.&quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/star-wars-spinoffs-will-matter-668958&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;src&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, let's address your actual questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should we be looking to revisit the Star Wars questions on this site? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Potentially. On a per-question basis. This is no different than revisiting old questions in any topic with changing and evolving canon - including Star Wars pre-Disney.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We have many questions which have answers based on material which was in canon at the time they were asked, but which may no longer be in canon in the future. In other words - we have many questions with potentially wrong answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Correct. However, as of right now, we don't know what those questions are yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is now the time to start discussing this issue? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe. We don't have enough information. But we can decide on a generic approach (see @SSumner's answer and @Matthew Read's answer for general approaches that don't depend on the extent of the changes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is now the time to start thinking about how we handle any future Star Wars questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, there shouldn't be any difference in how we treat future vs. past questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do we need to go back over past questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. But not until canon is firmed up which will likely take a WHILE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2014-01-23T02:38:41.887" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3319" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3322" CreationDate="2014-01-23T23:25:07.200" Score="11" ViewCount="319" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/48776/why-is-cloud-atlas-named-cloud-atlas&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, the author clearly states they are asking because they don't know the answer and it's part of their homework for school. I love to answer questions when I can, but should there be any kind of &quot;ethical&quot; or &quot;moral&quot; standard to what should or shouldn't be answered? &lt;em&gt;It seems kind of shady to help someone cheat&lt;/em&gt;. I'm sure it happens more often, but when the admission is in the body of the question, that's a different story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm no high-ground holier-than-thou type, but it gave me pause and thought I'd ask what the community thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16974" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2017-02-04T10:56:26.040" Title="How do we feel about homework questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3320" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3321" CreationDate="2014-01-24T15:07:09.487" Score="5" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just came across &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/48780/darth-vader-returns-to-the-jedi&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, and it was closed as &quot;off-topic&quot;. It appears from the comments that it was closed essentially as General Reference or Too Trivial, both of which I thought had been burniated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does seem like a simple question, but if it wasn't obvious to the asker (and it is clearly a sci-fi...err science fantasy question), then it probably was not obvious to others. I can see a detailed answer, probably with spoilers, detailing Vader's turn to the darkside and then Luke's influence on turning him back. Probably not worthy of a Great Answer badge, but a solid answer nonetheless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why was this closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2014-01-24T15:57:25.247" Title="Was the question closed as General Refence?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3320" CreationDate="2014-01-24T15:57:25.247" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pureferret reopened it.  We don't close questions due to lack of research on the part of the question asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-01-24T15:57:25.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3319" CreationDate="2014-01-24T15:58:48.690" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main SE site has gone over homework ad nauseum, but the official stance is summed up pretty nicely at &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10811/how-do-i-ask-and-answer-homework-questions&quot;&gt;How do I ask and answer homework questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should pretty much mirror that stance. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Whether I'm asking about Wolverine's love life out of pure curiosity or seeking an answer for a paper has zero relevance on whether or not it is either a good question or if it is off-topic.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, a downvote would be perfectly understandable since the asker even admitted to reading the same page I did and just missed the pertinent information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2017-02-04T10:56:26.040" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3323" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-24T19:29:42.977" Score="3" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed another user that's using an identical Display Name to mine. Is there a protocol for dealing with this on SE or am I expected to just suck it up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2014-01-24T22:40:41.923" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Duplicate username" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3323" CreationDate="2014-01-24T19:38:11.860" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Duplicate usernames are not seen as an issue on the StackExchange website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been discussed &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/25404/175002&quot;&gt;previously&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People have the same names in real life. Isn't StackOverflow real life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they didn't, and people missed out on their first choice, you'd be left with trying to come up with all sorts of variations just to &amp;quot;be yourself&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't want it to be like AOL or Xbox Live (badges notwithstanding) where if you're not the first, you're docsavage1933 while some other joker, who just happens to be in before you gets to sit around on docsavage&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless, the chap who &lt;em&gt;shares&lt;/em&gt; your username has been on the stachk exchange network since '09, and on sci-fi since '11. Please don't see this as a case of him copying you, or taking some individuality away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-01-24T19:38:11.860" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3323" CreationDate="2014-01-24T21:56:57.753" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I strongly suggest, and you've already done it, make your identity from your Gravatar. People recognize gravatars more than they recognize the user names anyways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from that, you can change your user name if you wish, but it's up to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2014-01-24T21:56:57.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1380" CreationDate="2014-01-25T03:57:05.403" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a newer user of the site I have already concluded that the answer is yes or no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There seem to be several types of answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Where the questioner asks a question that they don't know the answer&#xA;to but there is a verifiable answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is a question with a, likely, 'in-universe' answer based on&lt;br&gt;&#xA;reasoned inference.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;there is a question where there is no realistic 'in-universe' answer &#xA;to but the most elaborate conjecture is still favored over the,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;frowned upon, answer of 'there is no real answer other than the&lt;br&gt;&#xA;creator of the subject matter needed a plot device.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is a question which request an 'out-universe' explanation to&lt;br&gt;&#xA;answer an 'in-universe' question; where, despite the fact that an&lt;br&gt;&#xA;'out-universe' answer might be impossible, even the most ridiculous&lt;br&gt;&#xA;'in-universe' answer is still favored over the answer of, &quot;it's not&lt;br&gt;&#xA;possible.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the main point of the site is not to answer questions but to maintain the fantasy by any means necessary (which is more fun!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21914" LastActivityDate="2014-01-25T03:57:05.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3327" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-26T02:05:27.070" Score="6" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/48747/is-there-any-evidence-supporting-or-contradicting-the-theory-that-harry-is-an-ab&quot;&gt;Is there any evidence supporting or contradicting the theory that Harry is an abused child?&lt;/a&gt; I notice that several people were voting to close the question because the question could also be asked of other canons and universes. I'm not sure why that would matter. Even though multiple canons share the same trope, answers would still vary, based on the rules and characters of each universe. Is there an actual rule that disallows questions that could be applied to more than one canon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-01-26T07:37:09.883" Title="Is it against the rules to ask a question that applies to multiple canons?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3327" CreationDate="2014-01-26T03:53:21.150" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have never seen or heard of any rule like this. Like you said, answers would vary, and it is clearly in-universe. Now I might simplify that particular question to just ask &quot;Is Harry an abused child?&quot; - that sounds like a more clearly focused question (even though it means &lt;em&gt;the exact the same thing&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this was not allowed, we could close &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; question that related to the real world in a similar manner (especially ones like &quot;Does X exist in Universe Y&quot;, of which I've seen several).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ask multiple questions about multiple canons, as long as their answers are not almsot exactly the same, I'd say you're good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastActivityDate="2014-01-26T03:53:21.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3327" CreationDate="2014-01-26T05:56:02.300" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess, the issue isn't so much that there's a rule, it's more like trying to preemptively stop users from rep-mining by copying questions from each other and changing a word or two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking &lt;em&gt;solely&lt;/em&gt; at the title of the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there any evidence supporting or contradicting the theory that Harry is an abused child, imagining it all?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's little to nothing in the storyline that has to due to with child abuse, so it initially looks like a case of &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WildMassGuessing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WildMassGuessing&lt;/a&gt; (TVTropes), which we could apply to almost anything with a young(er) protagonist:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there any evidence supporting or contradicting the theory that Luke Skywalker is an abused child, imagining it all?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there any evidence supporting or contradicting the theory that Buffy Summers is an abused child, imagining it all?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there any evidence supporting or contradicting the theory that Bella Swan is an abused child, imagining it all?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there any evidence supporting or contradicting the theory that Frodo Baggins is an abused child, imagining it all?  &lt;sub&gt;(Okay, I'm kind of stretching with this one)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I'm personally okay &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; question, since it references an essay explaining why this could be the case with Harry Potter.  But the ease of inserting any universe into the question probably makes more than a few of us uneasy due to the broken window effect - that is, bad/low quality posts invite more of the same. If we allow &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; question, why not allow all those others?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastActivityDate="2014-01-26T05:56:02.300" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3327" CreationDate="2014-01-26T07:20:56.860" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the close votes were mostly thrown before the question was edited to reference the abused child angle. In its original form, it merely asked &quot;There's a theory that the whole story is in Harry's imagination. Could it be?&quot;. In this form, the answer &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; be valid to multiple canons and universes without any changes. &quot;Yes, it could&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It took a couple of edits until the question arrived at its present, presentable state, and I'm guessing it's the original that people took exception to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to actually &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; your question, I don't believe there's a problem with questions that could apply to multiple canons - take for instance the recent &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/48945/does-lord-of-the-rings-pass-the-bechdel-test&quot;&gt;Bechdel Test in LotR&lt;/a&gt; question, which can and is applied to many canons. It's just the questions whose &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; could apply to any canon which are a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4516" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-01-26T07:37:09.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3331" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3332" CreationDate="2014-01-27T03:29:31.940" Score="12" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/27210&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was edited to correct an error (in a quote) of &quot;twice&quot; to &quot;three times&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But yet the error was in the original source which was quoted, and making the edit means that the quote is no longer accurate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've felt it more appropriate to revert the edit and add a note expaining the error instead, but - without wanting to get into an edit war, and accepting that while this was quite minor, further occurrances may not be - did I do the right thing?  Do we have any policy or consensus on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you provide a quote from a source, and if that source contains errors, do you silently correct them, or add a note to the effect that you acknowledge the error, or just leave things stand?  Or something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2014-01-27T03:42:54.713" Title="Preserving the accuracy of quoted material" Tags="|discussion|quotes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3331" CreationDate="2014-01-27T03:34:09.707" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;A quote is meant to be exactly what was said.  By changing it to what &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; have been said, you're putting words into their mouth.  (That is, it looks like you did the right thing)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the error was in the original, keep the error.  If it becomes an issue, put &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic#Conventional_usage&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;[sic]&lt;/a&gt;&quot; in the quote immediately after the error - this is the usual way to indicate the error is in the original, not in your transcription of the original.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A footnote like you added in is probably a bit better since readers don't have to go to the original to see why the error is there in the quote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastEditorUserId="2242" LastEditDate="2014-01-27T03:39:28.693" LastActivityDate="2014-01-27T03:39:28.693" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1436" CreationDate="2014-01-28T15:43:15.917" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems to work, see for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stargate*&quot;&gt;this link&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="478" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2014-01-28T15:43:15.917" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3334" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3335" CreationDate="2014-01-28T21:00:29.890" Score="17" ViewCount="264" Body="&lt;p&gt;Secko posted an answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/49042/trying-to-identify-a-novel-with-dragons&quot;&gt;Trying to identify a novel with dragons&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sevvack responded that it was incorrect. It was a decent, thought out answer which addressed the points in the question, it just wasn't right. Secko deleted the incorrect answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, that's his right to do so, but is it the recommended action?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My thought is that it should not be. While the answer is incorrect, it's still actually useful. The confirmed yes/no can help other people find the correct answer. Not every user can see deleted answers, and don't have the confirmed fact that it is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; [Title X] to guide them. Personally, I've upvoted some incorrect answers because they were still well thought out and useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We recently discussed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3293/is-deleting-really-wrong-answers-ok-according-to-the-rules&quot;&gt;Is deleting really wrong answers ok according to the rules?&lt;/a&gt;, and though no answer was selected, the general rules Keen mentioned seemed to go largely uncontested. This doesn't seem to fit into any of those rules. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/245/extra-answers-after-an-identification-question-has-been-correctly-answered&quot;&gt;Extra answers after an identification question has been correctly answered&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2018-03-19T15:21:55.193" Title="Should we delete incorrect answers to story identification questions?" Tags="|discussion|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3334" CreationDate="2014-01-28T21:16:47.010" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rules in Keen's answer are about deleting someone else's answer. There is no rule about deleting one's own answer, except that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Accepted answers cannot be deleted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Deleting a large number of one's answers is considered vandalism and will be reverted by moderators.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are guidelines, though. You should delete your answer if and only if you think it will not help anyone, typically because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you realized after posting that you'd misunderstood the question;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you realized after posting that what you wrote was wrong;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;your answer is redundant given the other answers (i.e. it does not provide new information or a better or alternate explanation).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A point to note is that a deleted answer is still covered by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Creative Commons license&lt;/a&gt; and may be reposted with attribution (or without, if the author explicitly requests it that way).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of story identification specifically, I would say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Delete a completely off-the-mark guess.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep a reasonable guess that turned out to be wrong due to a point of detail.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A close-enough-but-no-cigar answer can be useful, both as a signpost (preferably with a comment in or under the answer to indicate what point shows the answer to be wrong) and for future visitors who recollect similar but not identical facts about a different work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, I'd say this is a reasonable guess and would recommend that Secko undelete his answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2014-01-28T21:16:47.010" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1436" CreationDate="2014-01-29T00:23:53.893" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This appears to have been fixed at some point since being posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just put &lt;code&gt;[stargate*]&lt;/code&gt; into the search box, and after submitting it the search terms were expanded to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[stargate] or [stargate-sg1] or [stargate-atlantis] or [stargate-universe] or [stargate-movie]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise, &lt;code&gt;[star-trek*]&lt;/code&gt; becomes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[star-trek] or [star-trek-tng] or [star-trek-voyager] or [star-trek-ds9] or [star-trek-tos] or [star-trek-enterprise] or [star-trek-into-darkness] or [star-trek-2009] or [star-trek-data] or [star-trek-q] or [star-trek-tas] or [star-trek-the-doctor] or [star-trek-ph2] or [star-trek-judgment-rites] or [star-trek-iii] or [star-trek-countdown]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastActivityDate="2014-01-29T00:23:53.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3334" CreationDate="2014-01-29T20:07:38.283" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm of the opposite opinion. If a user wants to delete their own (wrong) answer then unless there's an overriding need to keep it then it should largely be down to the individual to decide whether to keep or delete their &lt;em&gt;own&lt;/em&gt; answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ignoring the fact that there is actually a &lt;em&gt;badge&lt;/em&gt; to reward you for removing a downvoted answer, if your response is &lt;strong&gt;just plain wrong&lt;/strong&gt; then it should be your prerogative to remove it to preserve your own standing in the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can understand the desire to keep wrong answers (e.g. to signpost people towards the right answer), I just don't think that's a strong enough reason to deny people the right to remove.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-03-19T15:21:55.193" LastActivityDate="2018-03-19T15:21:55.193" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3338" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3339" CreationDate="2014-01-30T18:39:47.760" Score="8" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;As there was already an accepted answer for this question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/49153/android-reshapes-dice-in-casino/49156#49156&quot;&gt;Android reshapes dice in casino&lt;/a&gt;), I edited Zimul8's accepted answer to add some additional info and some video links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few minutes afterward, he removed the changes I made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still think the information is relevant and useful. Is there a protocol for competing edits or should I just post a new answer even though his is already accepted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-01-30T22:48:33.493" Title="Competing edits?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3338" CreationDate="2014-01-30T22:40:11.043" Score="12" Body="&lt;h3&gt;The general case&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The commonly accepted protocol on SE sites is: the author of a post has the final say in edits. So if the author does not want that info there, don't put it there or edit-war with them to force it to be there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are exceptions to this, such as when a question's author is resisting badly needed clean-up, but such cases should probably be handled and enforced by a mod. This is not one of those situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;This specific case&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's pretty reasonable for that author to reject your edit. You should have posted your own answer instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your view, you're just adding helpful information, sure. And it is helpful information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/49156/revisions&quot;&gt;both revisions&lt;/a&gt; you're replacing the &lt;em&gt;entire answer&lt;/em&gt; with a completely different one! That is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; what editing is for. If this were an edit in the suggested edit queue, I'd reject it for this reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This edit changes too much in the original post; the original meaning or intent of the post would be lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to completely rewrite someone's answer into your own answer, just post your own answer. There is no reason not to. This is still the case even if it's the accepted answer, which should have no bearing on whether you edit or post your own answer. Your edits in this case are bordering on vandalism, except that it's the &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; variety of completely destroying someone else's answer. (But you're still completely destroying someone else's answer.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In less major cases, if you want to add substantial amounts of information and they reject it, just post your own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15502" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2014-01-30T22:48:33.493" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3340" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3341" CreationDate="2014-02-01T16:24:09.040" Score="3" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/48912/4495&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, I can't help but notice that they pretend to not know what the name of the movie is (even though they have the name and the year correct) and to pretend they're not interested in science fiction, even though they signed up for this site especially to answer this question! Oh, and the answer is wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now normally I would give someone the benefit of the doubt, but they haven't returned for a week. I don't believe they're sincere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4495" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2020-12-31T11:04:09.073" LastActivityDate="2020-12-31T11:04:09.073" Title="This is a troll, right?" Tags="|support|specific-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3340" CreationDate="2014-02-01T17:31:47.713" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, &quot;spike&quot; has been coming on for about a week now, periodically posting fatuous questions and generally being a nuisance. I gather they've been creating multiple accounts after getting booted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2014-02-01T17:31:47.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3342" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-03T07:44:12.097" Score="-2" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should these 2 questions be merged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4649/is-there-an-official-marvel-films-viewing-order&quot;&gt;Is there an official Marvel Cinematic Universe viewing order?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/16080/which-films-should-i-see-before-the-avengers/34122#34122&quot;&gt;Which films should I see before &amp;quot;The Avengers&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2014-02-03T16:57:34.943" Title="Should these 2 questions be merged?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3342" CreationDate="2014-02-03T16:05:56.623" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think neither merging nor closing should happen.  There are 3 questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am watching all of the Phase 1 Marvel movies, what order should I watch them in?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am watching &lt;em&gt;Avengers&lt;/em&gt;, which Phase 1 Marvel movies should be watched first?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(from your comment) I am watching a Phase 2 Marvel movie (i.e. &lt;em&gt;Iron Man 3&lt;/em&gt;), which non-&lt;em&gt;Iron Man&lt;/em&gt; Phase 1 Marvel movies should be watched first.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That someone can answer all of these questions with 'watch all of Phase 1' doesn't make them equivalent, especially since the justification for &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt; you'd answer with 'watch all of Phase 1' will wildly vary with each question.  In addition, listing all of Phase 1 in a specific order has a specific meaning in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt; questions, which isn't necessarily present in the non-&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2014-02-03T16:57:34.943" LastActivityDate="2014-02-03T16:57:34.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3344" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-04T00:21:57.577" Score="2" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over the past two or three weeks, I have noticed an uptick in the number of review tasks open to me (which is pretty cool- it's neat to help out more).  How are review tasks assigned?  Is it based on rep?  Am I suddenly paying more attention?  Or am I only noticing now due to recent changes to the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3576" LastActivityDate="2014-02-04T22:07:29.660" Title="Why am I suddenly getting all these review tasks?" Tags="|support|review-queue|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3344" CreationDate="2014-02-04T00:24:25.313" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Review tasks are first come first serve. If you have more, it either means you are checking them more, more are generated, or fewer people are working on the queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2014-02-04T01:03:20.320" LastActivityDate="2014-02-04T01:03:20.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3346" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3348" CreationDate="2014-02-04T09:03:36.757" Score="10" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sci-fi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sci-fi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sci-fi&lt;/a&gt; popped up about two weeks ago. As &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/50/do-we-need-a-sci-fi-tag&quot;&gt;the consensus&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/306/do-we-need-a-sci-fi-and-a-fantasy-tag&quot;&gt;seems to be&lt;/a&gt;, it should not exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone nuke it from orbit so it can't come back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2014-02-04T14:31:25.670" Title="Should we blacklist [tag:sci-fi]?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3347" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3349" CreationDate="2014-02-04T14:22:15.610" Score="-1" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;If and when &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Anime&amp;amp;Manga&lt;/a&gt; comes out of beta, do we want to add a straightforward migration path there? I can imagine some overlap, and I can imagine some questions asked &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt; that would receive a quicker answer &lt;em&gt;there&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example of such a question: &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/49434/19561&quot;&gt;&quot;Transformers Victory toyline - was there a God Ginrai toy?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It's a question about a toy, made after an anime. I'd say it's better suited there than here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand we generally want a site to come out of beta before adding a path. Do we want to wait in this case as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:48.340" LastActivityDate="2016-05-18T08:03:00.903" Title="Do we want a straight migration path to Anime&amp;Manga?" Tags="|feature-request|scope|migration|anime|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3346" CreationDate="2014-02-04T14:31:25.670" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;That should have been kept out by default, but it was only blocking on scifi and not sci-fi, told it to block if there's a dash, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="895" LastActivityDate="2014-02-04T14:31:25.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3347" CreationDate="2014-02-04T17:33:37.573" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see a need for this.  Since September there have been 2 migrations involving us and Anime &amp;amp; Manga.SE.  And both of them were migrated to us.  So no, I don't think we need a migration path to Anime &amp;amp; Manga.SE because it's so rare we mods can handle them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1030/migration-paths#comment2121_1030&quot;&gt;Migration Paths&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2014-02-04T17:33:37.573" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3344" CreationDate="2014-02-04T22:07:29.660" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've also been under a fairly minor troll attack over the past week or two as well; nothing that can't be handled through standard procedures but it does mean that more questions/answers being flagged means more in the review queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2014-02-04T22:07:29.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3351" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-05T03:48:29.960" Score="0" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since we don't really like questions about plot inconsistencies (they tend to get closed as &quot;opinion based&quot;), do we want the newly minted tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-inconsistency&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-inconsistency&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="373" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2014-02-05T13:51:37.640" Title="Do want or need a &quot;plot inconsistency&quot; tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3352" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3355" CreationDate="2014-02-05T10:57:11.243" Score="19" ViewCount="398" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember seeing a movie as a kid, about a boy whose T-shirt gave him super strength, after it was used in some sort of experiment. Right before asking here to help identify it, I decided to give it one more try myself. Remembering that the T-shirt had a picture of a tiger on it did it for me: I found &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammy&amp;#39;s_Super_T-Shirt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sammy's Super T-Shirt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now my question is, do I still ask the question here (the source of the superpowers being some sort of experiment in a laboratory makes it (marginal) SF) and provide the answer myself, or is that frowned upon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that my question is not whether the movie itself is SF enough to be on topic, but rather whether it's okay to ask and answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions one already knows the answer to? Asking and answering in one go is allowed in general and the interface even has a special checkbox for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2014-02-05T14:48:25.947" LastActivityDate="2014-02-18T20:21:05.593" Title="Is it okay to ask and answer a story-identification question I already know the answer to?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|self-answer|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2016-01-13T23:25:41.663" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3351" CreationDate="2014-02-05T13:37:23.950" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry but &quot;we don't really like questions about plot inconsistencies&quot; is an assertion without any proof and is 100% false. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may be some members of the community who don't like them (and try to close them by applying entirely unwarranted &quot;opinion based&quot; despite the OP seeking a fact based in-universe answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But based on Meta, questions about plot inconsistencies are generally on-topic. Since it was discussed previously (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/957/usefulness-of-plot-hole-answers-comments&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3014/should-all-questions-without-explicit-canon-answers-be-closed&quot;&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2670/976&quot;&gt;[3]&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1092/976&quot;&gt;[4]&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1106/are-too-many-people-afraid-to-use-plot-device-instead-of-resorting-to-speculat&quot;&gt;[5]&lt;/a&gt; - some explicitly discuss the in-scopeness of plot hole questions; and some simply discuss how to answer such questions which by omission of &quot;this isn't in scope&quot; validates the question being in-scope) I won't devote space and time to re-hashing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, the tag is perfectly fine based on your reasoning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, we already have a tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-explanation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-explanation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-explanation&lt;/a&gt; which IMHO fully encompasses anything that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-inconsistency&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-inconsistency&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-inconsistency&lt;/a&gt; does, so the latter may be a good idea to be a synonym of the former.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2014-02-05T13:51:37.640" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3352" CreationDate="2014-02-05T14:12:10.747" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short version: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/self-answer&quot;&gt;Yes it's OK&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long version - On top of being explicitly encouraged in site rules, there are TONS of highly-voted and un-closed questions like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See this DataExplorer query:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/165310/story-identification-questions-asked-and-answered-by-the-same-user&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/165310/story-identification-questions-asked-and-answered-by-the-same-user&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were &lt;strong&gt;95 questions&lt;/strong&gt; that were &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; and answered by OP... of them &lt;strong&gt;only one&lt;/strong&gt; was closed, and that one was as a duplicate. 52 of those had the OP's answer as a &lt;strong&gt;sole&lt;/strong&gt; answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2014-02-05T14:29:55.333" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3356" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3359" CreationDate="2014-02-05T19:20:20.707" Score="5" ViewCount="510" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm well aware of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/are-works-that-arent-sf-per-se-but-have-occasional-sfnal-elements-on-topic-e&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, but the discussion came up on chat and I was encouraged to ask the question on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twins_(1988_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Twins&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; is a 1988 comedy featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito as genetically engineered twins. The fact that they're genetically engineered is used to explain the differences between Arnold and Danny, but the movie would've probably worked as well, if they'd been regular brothers. So it has one small SF element, but nothing it couldn't do without.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;We actually had &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/48586/why-did-traven-change-his-mind-about-speaking-to-the-benedicts-in-twins&quot;&gt;a question about the movie&lt;/a&gt; that was migrated to the movies SE as being off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junior_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Junior&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; is from 1994 and stars the same actors, as scientists who have developed a fertility drug, which they decide to test on Arnold's character, who becomes pregnant. This is a comedy as well, but this time it focuses on Arnold being pregnant, which is arguably SF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As one answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/are-works-that-arent-sf-per-se-but-have-occasional-sfnal-elements-on-topic-e&quot;&gt;the question I mentioned&lt;/a&gt; reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Let's ask a few of these questions and see how they go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how did this go?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Below you'll find two answers, one for &lt;em&gt;Twins&lt;/em&gt;, one for &lt;em&gt;Junior&lt;/em&gt;, to vote on to show whether you agree or disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-03-22T09:10:08.353" Title="Are movies like &quot;Twins&quot; or &quot;Junior&quot; on topic, since they contain minor SF elements?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3356" CreationDate="2014-02-05T19:36:57.003" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say &lt;em&gt;Twins&lt;/em&gt; is off topic for SF&amp;amp;F.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vote up if you agree, vote down if you disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2014-02-05T19:36:57.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3356" CreationDate="2014-02-05T19:38:18.167" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say &lt;em&gt;Junior&lt;/em&gt; is off topic for SF&amp;amp;F.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vote up if you agree, vote down if you disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2014-02-05T19:49:20.217" LastActivityDate="2014-02-05T19:49:20.217" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3356" CreationDate="2014-02-05T19:50:46.520" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that, as a general rule of thumb, in order for a work to be scifi, and therefore on-topic, it should have Science fiction as a significant and integral part of the plot*. And I'll go further and say that not all fictional science is science fiction. For instance, CSI and similar crime shows are not science fiction, despite their use of technology that doesn't, and often can't, exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;*With the &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt; exception of questions specifically about the scifi elements.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2014-02-05T19:50:46.520" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3356" CreationDate="2014-02-05T20:15:17.160" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Junior in on-topic, but only marginally so. The &quot;man being pregnant&quot; medical science/technology is SciFi, and it IS central to the plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I agree that Twins is offtopic since the SF element (genetically mixing sperm from 7 fathers) isn't integral to the plot at all.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2014-02-05T20:15:17.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3361" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-06T03:04:29.977" Score="5" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag wikis for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantasy-genre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantasy-genre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantasy-genre&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction-genre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science-fiction-genre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science-fiction-genre&lt;/a&gt; say that they should be&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Used for questions on the ... genre itself, including its tropes and conventions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However if you take a look at the tagged questions, they are both used very consistently on story identification questions as stand-ins for the genre in question. About 2/3 of total use across both tags coincides with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, while only a small portion actually deal with meta-discussion of the genre as the wikis indicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This represents at least 165 tag instances which are very likely misapplied. What should we do about them? Purge them from story identification; change the wiki; ban them; something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2014-02-06T16:01:06.430" Title="Should we purge the genre tags where they are misapplied?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3361" CreationDate="2014-02-06T03:18:29.967" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you see them misapplied, edit the tags on the question to remove them.  Don't do this to the existing questions en masse, as that would obnoxiously flood the front page with the edits. Do a few at a time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure what you mean by 'purging' them from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2014-02-06T16:01:06.430" LastActivityDate="2014-02-06T16:01:06.430" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3363" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3364" CreationDate="2014-02-06T15:44:51.377" Score="5" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I first started flagging, I had something to the tune of 10 flags available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over time, I've seen this number increase. I currently have 39 total available (I've already got a couple open at the time of this screenshot).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What controls this number/limit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XNsQd.png&quot; alt=&quot;flag modal&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2014-02-06T15:53:16.393" Title="How are number of flags available calculated?" Tags="|support|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3363" CreationDate="2014-02-06T15:53:16.393" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/flag-posts&quot;&gt;flag privilege page&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How many flags do I have?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you start out, you are allotted 10 flags per day. This number may increase to up to 100 flags per day:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You get one bonus flag per 2000 reputation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You are awarded additional bonus flags when you flag correctly - one bonus flag for every ten net helpful flags (helpful flags minus declined flags).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-02-06T15:53:16.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3352" CreationDate="2014-02-06T18:39:32.770" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't, but I don't know that there's a rule explicitly prohibiting it. Specifically, if you can't find a reason why you think someone else would be likely to search for the same criteria, then it's not likely to be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As DVK mentioned, there are a large number of people who have answered their own questions. However, it seems like they found the answer some time after they asked the question, and posted the answer for others to see in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Story identification questions have always been controversial. They have been allowed, but only barely, with the idea that they need to maintain some minimal quality. Asking a questions in the category that one already knows the answer isn't strictly speaking against the rules, but it is much more likely to be problematic with the Story identification tag than other tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line, I'm not going to keep you from asking the question, but I highly discourage it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2014-02-06T18:39:32.770" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3366" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-08T23:01:38.927" Score="4" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;I put a 50 rep bounty on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28044/short-story-about-alien-military-telepathy&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question but frankly it's driving me insane. I'm happy to increase the amount (to gain more attention) and I don't want to wait until it 'times out' in four days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to &lt;strong&gt;increase&lt;/strong&gt; a bounty on a question that I've &lt;em&gt;already&lt;/em&gt; added a bounty to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2014-02-08T23:22:08.653" Title="How to increase bounty?" Tags="|support|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3366" CreationDate="2014-02-08T23:22:02.653" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, you cannot change the amount of the bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators can revoke a bounty. They might be willing to do that if you pledge to put a higher bounty. However doing this after 3 days is somewhat unfair as the new bounty would be active for a week, not the remaining 4 days. Moderators could also decide not to take the risk that you won't set the bounty again, or decide that it's too much hassle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Putting a higher bounty hardly attracts more attention anyway. Leave the 50 rep bounty for a week, and if nobody answers, put a 100 bounty for another week. You'll get more attention this way. If somebody answers during the first week and you really like the answer, you can reward that answer with another bounty after the fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also consider that maybe nobody on the site has read this story, in which case all your bounties are in vain. Try to advertise or ask in other places, and report back if you found the answer. For example, you could post a &lt;a href=&quot;https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!search/rec.arts.sf.written%2420yasid/rec.arts.sf.written/op34UGkc6x4/At4uLg28PY8J&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;YASID&lt;/a&gt; on the Usenet group rec.arts.sf.written.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2014-02-08T23:22:02.653" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3368" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-10T12:38:26.970" Score="6" ViewCount="552" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see the site is called &quot;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy&quot;, but from what I can see, the &quot;Fantasy&quot; aspect is largely contained to Tolkien and Game of Thrones type fair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any bookshop &quot;Fantasy&quot; would likely include supernatural stories, eg. Stephen King, et al. Same would go for films. Is Poltergeist a &quot;Fantasy&quot; movie? &quot;The Shining&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where is the line drawn here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4380" LastActivityDate="2014-02-10T14:49:36.590" Title="Does &quot;Fantasy&quot; include the supernatural? What about horror?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3368" CreationDate="2014-02-10T13:37:12.360" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's currently no &quot;horror.SE&quot;, but there is an &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/60092/horror&quot;&gt;Area 51 proposal&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not totally certain that I completely agree with your assertion that it's &quot;largely contained to Tolkien and Game of Thrones type fair&quot; here; that &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; currently the most popular type of fantsy, for sure, but there are also many HP Lovecraft, Stephen King (particularly Dark Tower), as well as generic horror questions, and these do seem to tend to come up on a fairly regular basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/h-p-lovecraft&quot;&gt;Questions tagged HP Lovecraft&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stephen-king&quot;&gt;Questions tagged Stephen King&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/horror&quot;&gt;Questions tagged Horror&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, while these works aren't so heavily represented, they &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; represented and the proportions of representation are roughly what one might expect given current levels of relative popularity.  This doesn't seem to be a problem at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-02-10T13:37:12.360" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3368" CreationDate="2014-02-10T14:49:36.590" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;A fantasy story is one that has at least one element that is clearly and unambiguously magical or supernatural in nature. This is the definition that I use and, by and large, it includes most stories that are classified as &quot;horror&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before going any further, I am going to put up a special case, some might argue it to be an exception, of/to that rule. There are stories written as &quot;science fiction&quot; which contain elements of what I call &quot;higher order reality&quot;. Things such as psionics and pure energy beings could be classified as fantastical elements, but if the author sticks to a pure science fiction story line, I just call them &quot;elements of some higher order or aspect of reality that cannot be directly viewed or measured using nothing but Newtonian/Einsteinian physics&quot;. Thus Zenna Henderson's &lt;em&gt;The People&lt;/em&gt; stories, the Q continuum, quite a few elements from Babylon 5, and of course, The Force, can all be squeezed into the science fiction genre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5424" LastActivityDate="2014-02-10T14:49:36.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3371" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3372" CreationDate="2014-02-11T23:30:09.947" Score="0" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that on different stackexchange sites, reputation requirements for creating tags vary and differ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20797" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Why is reputation requirements for creating tags, different on other Stackexchange Sites?" Tags="|support|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3371" CreationDate="2014-02-11T23:38:10.903" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are different reputation requirements for private betas, public betas, graduated sites, Stack Overflow, and Meta SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/58587/172958&quot;&gt;Reputation requirements compared&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Betas need different requirements because there just aren't many people with the rep to do anything at graduated levels, especially towards the beginning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2014-02-11T23:45:44.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3373" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3374" CreationDate="2014-02-12T00:14:25.600" Score="2" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday (Feb 11th) I gained 240 reputation, but I didn't get the Mortarboard badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Earned at least 200 reputation (the daily maximum) in a single day&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone know why this may be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22254" LastActivityDate="2014-02-12T01:06:32.167" Title="Didn't get mortarboard badge?" Tags="|support|bug|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3373" CreationDate="2014-02-12T00:30:21.187" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The association bonus doesn't count towards Mortarboard (or the day's cap). Sorry, but you'll have to get 200 from upvotes, accepts, and bounties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="3267" LastEditDate="2014-02-12T01:06:32.167" LastActivityDate="2014-02-12T01:06:32.167" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3375" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3376" CreationDate="2014-02-12T20:32:18.500" Score="5" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/6642/19561&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/6060/19561&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; are about the same book, &lt;em&gt;Profession&lt;/em&gt; by Asimov, as evidenced by the accepted answers. There is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/30918/19561&quot;&gt;another question&lt;/a&gt; that's probably about the same book as well, but it has no accepted answer, so we can't say for sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we mark one question as a duplicate of the other? And should we do this in all cases of duplicate &lt;em&gt;accepted&lt;/em&gt; answers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please vote on my answer to voice your opinion, or leave another answer, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2014-02-12T21:35:48.640" Title="Should story-identification requests that turn out to be about the same story be marked as duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2016-02-23T14:32:39.383" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3375" CreationDate="2014-02-12T20:32:18.500" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the first two questions are duplicates of each other, since they're asking for the same book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions have duplicate (accepted!) answers, that means they are duplicate questions and so they should be marked as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2014-02-12T21:35:48.640" LastActivityDate="2014-02-12T21:35:48.640" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3377" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-14T01:55:42.627" Score="5" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;So this question was recently asked: &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/50018/any-recent-news-on-a-foundation-asimov-series-of-movies&quot;&gt;Any Recent News on a Foundation (Asimov) Series of Movies?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been marked as a duplicate of this previous question: &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4532/have-any-movies-been-based-on-isaac-asimovs-foundation-series&quot;&gt;Have any movies been based on Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The previous question was asked 3.5 years ago, and the most recent answer there is about 2 years old. The new question is asking about &lt;em&gt;recent&lt;/em&gt; news. There is no recent news in that previous question. There &lt;em&gt;can't&lt;/em&gt; be recent news there - it's over 2 years old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The note about the duplication says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question has been asked before and already has an answer. If those answers do not fully address your question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, those old answers &lt;em&gt;can't&lt;/em&gt; fully address a question about recent news.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, I don't know how to &quot;un&quot;-mark that question as a duplicate for the asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8120" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2017-10-30T02:18:07.590" Title="How do I challenge a question marked as &quot;duplicate&quot; that isn't actually a duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3377" CreationDate="2014-02-14T09:58:47.160" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Avner &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3377/how-do-i-challenge-a-question-marked-as-duplicate-that-isnt-actually-a-duplic?rq=1#comment10486_3377&quot;&gt;says in the comments&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think the main issue here is that this site really isn't geared towards &quot;What's the most recent news&quot;. StackExchange sites try to become repositories of knowledge. If your question becomes meaningless in six months, it's not a good fit for the site. A better way to do it is to update the older question with updated information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We used to have a close reason of 'Too localised' but this has vanished. IF it had not I would have closed it with that reasoning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it stands it's either 'Too Broad' (expected to be valid for all time, and cannot be). Or it is 'Primarily Opinion based' (what is 'current'?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it stands I may add another 'off-topic' category for 'News, and current events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="21267" LastEditDate="2017-10-30T02:18:07.590" LastActivityDate="2017-10-30T02:18:07.590" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3379" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-15T03:04:56.923" Score="7" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3378/976&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3378/976&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pureferret proposed the idea: add  'off-topic' category for 'News, and current events'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/50018/any-recent-news-on-a-foundation-asimov-series-of-movies&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/50018/any-recent-news-on-a-foundation-asimov-series-of-movies&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/48361/what-is-the-plot-of-star-wars-7&quot;&gt;What is the plot of Star Wars 7&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is basically the set of questins that &lt;strong&gt;legitimately&lt;/strong&gt; would have been closed as &quot;too localized&quot; (in time) before that reason was removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now we have to close them as &quot;opinion-based&quot; as a kludge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2014-02-16T23:07:11.360" Title="Should we add 'off-topic' category for 'News, and current events'?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3379" CreationDate="2014-02-15T04:59:19.567" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll start off with the following suggestion, though I'm not sure it's as inclusive or exclusive as we want. Suggestions for improvement are, of course, encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions asking for news or rumors about future works are off-topic as they invite guesses and speculation, and may become invalid if and when the work is released.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="3267" LastEditDate="2014-02-16T23:07:11.360" LastActivityDate="2014-02-16T23:07:11.360" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3379" CreationDate="2014-02-15T15:43:13.817" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think we should.  There haven't been a ton of questions along these lines, which ought to be a prerequisite for devoting one of our 3 custom off-topic reason to the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2 points make a line, not a trend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-02-15T15:43:13.817" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3377" CreationDate="2014-02-15T15:49:27.353" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll try to cover everything here.  I was the one who closed the question, since the old question is perfectly capable of addressing 'recent' news.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The previous question was asked 3.5 years ago, and the most recent answer there is about 2 years old. The new question is asking about recent news. There is no recent news in that previous question. There can't be recent news there - it's over 2 years old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions and answers can and should &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/editing&quot;&gt;be edited&lt;/a&gt; to be updated if they're out of date.  We even have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/set-bounties&quot;&gt;a bounty&lt;/a&gt; reason devoted to 'current answers are outdated' to help encourage this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And, I don't know how to &quot;un&quot;-mark that question as a duplicate for the asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you have enough reputation, you can &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/close-questions&quot;&gt;vote to reopen&lt;/a&gt; closed/on-hold questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2014-02-15T15:49:27.353" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3383" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3386" CreationDate="2014-02-17T16:16:09.123" Score="17" ViewCount="316" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently a question was asked about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/50194/how-would-one-navigate-on-larry-nivens-ringworld&quot;&gt;Navigating on Niven's Ringworld&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/50206/2292&quot;&gt;One of the answers&lt;/a&gt; was given as an 'In-Character' answer, complete with faux security warning at the top, and other in-universe touches.  I don't exactly mind reading such things (Heck, I'm a writer on the SCP project), nor object to having fun, but my understanding was that the intent was that answers be serious and professional, leaving commentary and humor for the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I paged thru the Help files, but don't see anything directly addressing this issue.  I, personally find that it detracts from the site, and fear allowing it would shift the site from a resource on SciFi &amp;amp; Fantasy to a vehicle for people to engage in creative writing using questions as a jumping off point.  Not a bad thing, but also not what the site is for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there an established policy on this?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2292" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2014-02-18T20:13:01.617" Title="'In Character' answers" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3383" CreationDate="2014-02-17T17:44:45.577" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this depends on the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is basically role-playing content generation (&amp;quot;I'm a slytherin, and I would never do anything bad&amp;quot;), then it's pure opinion and bad answer; independently of it being &amp;quot;in character&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is 100% canon based (in other words, if you strip &amp;quot;in character&amp;quot; stuff, the answer is good), and &amp;quot;in character&amp;quot; merely serves as presentation framing and NOT the bulk of the answer (less than 33% volume and in general not too distracting from the answer); then I feel it's perfectly fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only requirement I would posit is that the answer breaks the 4th wall and introduces content proof of what it's saying in the way that makes it clear that it's canon info and NOT imaginings of a fan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sample Bad answer (to a notional &amp;quot;are only Gryffindors brave&amp;quot; question):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even Gryffindors admit that some Slytherins are very brave. I, as Slytherin, see brave house-mates every day&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sample Marginal answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I even overheard the paragon of bravery, Gryffindor Harry Potter refer to Slytherin Severus Snape as brave to his son.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sample Good answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I as Slytherin 1st year aspire to be as brave as the famous Severus Snape, especially after being on the Platform 9 3/4 and overhearing the famous Harry Potter stating &amp;quot;“you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew.”&lt;sup&gt;[1]&lt;/sup&gt; to his son who is in the same year as me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is only fitting, given that Headmaster Snape was instrumental in keeping the Order apraised of Voldemort's plans; and lived a dangerous double agent existence, just to protect Harry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;[1] &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows, Epilogue, Nineteen Years Later&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-02-18T20:13:01.617" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3383" CreationDate="2014-02-17T19:21:07.630" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was quite puzzled by this answer, not being certain if it was copy-and-paste from an RPG rulebook, something from one of the Ringworld books (or a &quot;Science of Ringworld&quot; book), or something that was an invention of the person answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For context - I have a passing familiarity with the &lt;em&gt;concept&lt;/em&gt; of the Ringworld universe, have read the first book, and may probably read some of the others at some point in the future, but don't feel any pressing urgency to do so right now.  From this background I had &lt;em&gt;no idea whatsoever&lt;/em&gt; how seriously (or not) to take the answer (coming from a 4k rep user I assumed it was legit, but that's not always guaranteed); if I was the person asking this question I think I'd have been quite confused by such an answer, and would have had to follow it up with further questions in the comments, just to try figure things out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see this as being a bad answer.  It's not clear that the material in it is sourced from Niven's books, and it's not clear which parts of it are quoting those sources and which ones are discussing or extrapolating from them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To fully appreciate the answer you need strong familiarity with the books, in which case the answer is useless to you because you don't need to ask the question in the first place (it seems reasonable to assume that you'd already know).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you do need to ask the question you probably don't have the degree of familiarity required to appreciate the answer, in which case it's also useless to you because you've no way of knowing if the answer is actually valid.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It seems that the only people that the answer is actually useful to are those who appreciate it as an in-joke; those who know the books, who can spot the references, and who see the humour involved in answering in this way.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may leave the OP in a position where they can't accept the answer.  It seems reasonable to suppose that a good answer is one written with the intention of a possible accept.  But yet the OP may not have sufficient familiarity with the source material to determine whether the answer is correct or not.  And so the answer fails in it's intended purpose - answering the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's a shame because - as soon as one does have knowledge of what's going on here - it is a cool way of answering.  But by presupposing that a reader has this knowledge, when in fact they may not, it fails.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorDisplayName="user8719" LastEditDate="2014-02-17T19:30:15.180" LastActivityDate="2014-02-17T19:30:15.180" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3383" CreationDate="2014-02-17T21:25:55.627" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see any reason why we need a blanket &lt;strong&gt;policy&lt;/strong&gt; for/against in-character answers. As far as bad answers go, we have two ways to deal with answers that are not up to snuff as far as the community:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Flag for moderation - this is for answers that are clearly &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; attempting to be useful, helpful answers. An attempt at a real answer doesn't seem like the kind of thing we should be punishing users for, just because of their chosen writing style.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Up/Downvotes - In general, I suspect most in-character answers are going to fall into the category of &quot;on-topic, accurate, but not all that good&quot; answers, which is what the voting system is there to handle. OTOH, if someone manages to write an in-universe answer that other users like, &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; conveys the information in a reasonable manner, I see no reason it shouldn't be allowed to stands on its own. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using this specific answer as an example, it's a well-written, informative, and accurate answer, but my immediate reaction was &quot;holy crap, way too many needless words, no way I'm reading this whole answer.&quot; I suspect any in-character answer is going to have a similar problem: the writer is going to spend a lot of the &quot;real estate&quot; in their answer just putting it into character, compared to the amount of useful information they're giving out. (I suspect there will be people who upvote it just because it's cute, which is their right, but the other answer is currently &quot;winning&quot; anyway, likely because it gives the same basic information in a much easier to digest form.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, if users find these kinds of answers useful and entertaining, they'll get upvoted. If users find them tedious, hard to read, or otherwise not useful, they'll get downvoted. I see no reason not to let that system keep working.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My only real objective concern with such answers is the difficulty in including references to back up your answer. It's very tricky to make references to specific novels, alternative information sources (blog posts, Q&amp;amp;A sessions, etc), or even many of the things that actually happened in the novels in the guise of a single character. How would you reliably work information into your answer that was only know to a few people, or that was presented as the internal monologue of a specific character, or that the author described happening in such a way that there were no witnesses? It's certainly possible (@neilfein dropped a reference to the Wikipedia entry on &lt;em&gt;Ringworld&lt;/em&gt; into his answer) but too many of them will start to defeat the whole purpose of an in-universe answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2014-02-17T21:31:00.403" LastActivityDate="2014-02-17T21:31:00.403" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3352" CreationDate="2014-02-17T22:27:31.077" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the purpose of these Q&amp;amp;A sites is to bring communities together to share knowledge, it makes sense that the source of knowledge is not discriminated against. It's even encouraged by the Self-Learner badge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Answered your own question with score of 3 or more&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges&quot;&gt;Help Center &gt; Badges&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may have noticed that there is an option to answer your own question while you are posting it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the ethics behind allowing this goes, does it matter who answers the question so long as the answer is valid and helps others who seek an answer to that question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I do not see it as a form of abuse to enhance community knowledge. I trust that the community will ultimately decide on the value of individual questions and answers of this nature. Good questions/answers are voted up. Poor ones are voted down. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22949" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2014-02-18T20:21:05.593" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3388" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-18T19:31:36.580" Score="3" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/18177/sci-fi-book-about-the-wall-and-a-group-of-schoolchildren-who-fight-the-dark-forc&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, after the story had been identified someone added the tag of the correct answer to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This story-identification did not have a title OR author attached originally. The author was not in the new tags, just the story title. It is not the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see the point of adding the correct answer tag in an identify-this question after-the-fact. Sometimes I search by tag and if something like this popped up it wouldn't seem to add anything to the information base or help with any knowledge or trivia I'd be potentially seeking (other than someone didn't know what it was). I was going to vote against it, but took too long thinking about it and it was voted through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any benefits for this edit? Does anyone have an example of how this helps this site or its base of information? I don't glean any enjoyment of denying reputation points, but don't see any good in this either; only &quot;filler&quot; on a search with that tag. (If you were looking for the question, you'd still be able to find it using the title so that's a dead-end.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This edit is merely to differentiate a story from an author. This was about identifying a story, and when I first read the question, it had been answered and had the answer as a tag. You have to check the edit history to find out if that tag was from the OP or an editor after-the-fact. It is not so much detrimental to the site as ambiguous, clogging and unnecessary. When the question is answered it seems like nothing more than to get a couple rep points for an edit while adding nothing to the question or answer, and possibly bogging down the search using tags with info that is of no use. How is knowing user9374 did not know the story, but remembered details, going to be a useful trait of this site when we try to discourage fluff and over-commenting and other things that deviate from a pure and trust-worthy Q&amp;amp;A site? We need to monitor tagging as much as commenting and spamming. /end rant&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16974" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2014-02-18T23:15:54.807" Title="Story-identification tag updated after question was answered" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2014-02-18T19:57:06.670" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3388" CreationDate="2014-02-18T19:45:57.427" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the records, I approved the tag edit.&#xA;My thinking was that there was no good reason to deny it, given that it was a correct tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do agree though, that in principle retro-actively adding tags to (answered) 'story-ident' questions is a bit pointless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2014-02-18T19:45:57.427" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3390" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-19T01:23:21.610" Score="10" ViewCount="273" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answered &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/29453/trying-to-find-an-episode-of-batman-beyond&quot;&gt;Trying to find an episode of “Batman Beyond”&lt;/a&gt;, and my answer was accepted. However, the slightly (14 seconds) earlier answer was somewhat better and later was edited to be &lt;strong&gt;much&lt;/strong&gt; better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I left a comment suggesting the asker transfer the acceptance, but the user was last seen 36 minutes after the answers were posted (so the user is unlikely to return).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have considered using a bounty to transfer reputation to the provider of the better answer (which has been popularly recognized as better--a score of 7 vs. 4), but this would not undo the sorting order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deleting my answer would give the good answer proper prominence and would not remove any significant information, but such would remove an acceptance (though the question would still be &quot;answered&quot;, having a 1+ scored answer). Deleting would also cost less than offering a bounty (minimum 100 reputation since I have an answer--though I could do both).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11683" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-02-26T03:11:44.597" Title="Should I delete my (accepted) answer?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3390" CreationDate="2014-02-19T08:01:05.287" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer needn't be the best answer, it just needs to be correct (in theory, and we hope!) and be the one that the asker felt was most useful to them.  Your answer satisfies the former and we must assume (in the absence of any indication to the contrary) that it also satisfies the latter: the asker accepted it and so the asker felt it was the most useful answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I specify that it's all in the &lt;em&gt;asker's opinion&lt;/em&gt; here.  Why knows why they preferred your answer over the other?  I don't; I could make a guess at a possible reason, but ultimately it's their own opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorDisplayName="user8719" LastEditDate="2014-02-19T08:07:32.297" LastActivityDate="2014-02-19T08:07:32.297" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3390" CreationDate="2014-02-20T01:55:07.780" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Never mind, the system &lt;strong&gt;won't let you&lt;/strong&gt; delete an accepted answer. The fact that you still see the &quot;delete&quot; button in this situation seems to be a bug. I tried it out just now: after clicking &quot;delete&quot; and &quot;OK&quot;, I was told &quot;you cannot delete this accepted answer.&quot; I guess you can do it if you first persuade the owner of the question to unaccept your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastActivityDate="2014-02-20T01:55:07.780" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3393" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3394" CreationDate="2014-02-21T13:53:45.793" Score="2" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought that the daily maximum reputation was 200, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But today &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vm9sw.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;I got 205. How is that possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19374" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2014-02-21T18:59:56.667" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T18:59:56.667" Title="Daily maximum rep exceeded" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|reputation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3393" CreationDate="2014-02-21T13:57:32.883" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reputation from upvotes is capped at 200. However, some things aren't capped, namely:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bounties.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Points from accepted answers (+15 if someone selects your answer)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see in your case someone selected your answer, thus you got a bonus 15 points. So you could actually get 10 more points still.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T13:57:32.883" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3393" CreationDate="2014-02-21T15:36:32.103" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;To add to Pearson's excellent theoretical answer, you can see specifically where you got the rep in 2 ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your reputation tab on user page: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/19374/shevliaskovic?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/19374/shevliaskovic?tab=reputation&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FVvNp.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note the &lt;strong&gt;green&lt;/strong&gt; square around the last line's rep (15) - that &quot;+15 accept&quot; is what caused you to get 205. Green background indicates that this rep doesn't get capped.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/reputation&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt; link.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T15:36:32.103" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3396" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-21T20:46:45.650" Score="4" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm fairly new to SE, but I've noticed a lot of questions that are &quot;bumped&quot; back to the top of the list, yet when I view the question there's no visible activity with a recent timestamp. In some cases, the question, answers, &amp;amp; comments are all from 2011 or 2012.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are answers being bumped because someone up-voted an answer or comment? Or do questions only get bumped when an answer, comment, or other edit is added?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20557" LastActivityDate="2014-02-22T04:07:42.510" Title="Question about bumped answers" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3396" CreationDate="2014-02-22T00:05:45.767" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions are only bumped by edits, bounties, new answers, and the Community User if unanswered. Comments do not bump questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, because of favorable google rankings, stack exchange sites attract a fair amount of spam, noise, thank you posts, and other nonsense. Good moderation means this 'content' often doesn't stick around for long, but it has the lingering effect of bumping the questions that attracted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87" LastActivityDate="2014-02-22T00:05:45.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3396" CreationDate="2014-02-22T04:07:42.510" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it says an actual user instead of &quot;Community&quot;, there's a good chance it was bumped by a new answer, but that &quot;answer&quot; was such a bad one that it was deleted before you saw it.  Deleting those answers don't un-bump the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can give a link, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/moderator-tools&quot;&gt;anyone with 10k rep can see deleted answers&lt;/a&gt; to confirm if that is what happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-02-22T04:07:42.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3399" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3403" CreationDate="2014-02-25T18:59:59.343" Score="5" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today alone I've flagged - at a guess - more than 5 but less than 10 answers, where the answer has been of quite severely low quality; for example &quot;this is my pet theory&quot; or general commenting.  In other words, treating the site as a discussion forum rather than a Q&amp;amp;A site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all cases these had the following in common:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A new member with typically 1 rep (i.e new to the SE network overall, not just this site).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An actual registered member rather than a generic &quot;user#####&quot; account.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The person had no badges indicating that they hadn't even read the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;Tour&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On any given day there seems to be at least 2 to 3 of these that I personally become aware of, and item 3 above (which I think I picked up from either Richard or Meat Trademark, so credit where it's due) is particularly common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By my count we had &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=NewUsers&amp;amp;sort=creationdate&quot;&gt;15 such members&lt;/a&gt; today, but only &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/105/informed&quot;&gt;3 awards of the Informed badge&lt;/a&gt; in the same time period - 2 of which are on &gt; 100 rep and so are likely already members of SE sites and therefore know how they are meant to work.  That's not a good hit rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of the Tour is quite explicit and it's very obviously intended for &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; this kind of member:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It explains what the site is.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It explains what it's not.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It explains how to use the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It provides useful links for further information.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But yet (and I guess in much the same way as a file called &quot;readme&quot; is the most secure place to store your passwords) an incredibly high proportion of new members are not reading it (with only 505 Informed badge awards an incredibly high proportion of old members aren't either.....)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is, I believe, a problem that's quite specific to SF&amp;amp;F (and maybe one or two others) - you're not going to get &quot;here's my pet theory&quot; answers to a programming question, for example.  It's also a problem that seems to be generating an inordinately high amount of low-quality content on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the solution?  Can we set a requirement that a new member cannot post an answer until they earn the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/105/informed&quot;&gt;Informed&lt;/a&gt; badge?  Would this be discouraging to new members?  Is there any way of at least automatically dropping a hint that they should read the Tour page before participating?  Or is the current setup viewed as OK?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2014-02-26T20:01:22.743" Title="Should it be a requirement to read the Tour before answering a question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3399" CreationDate="2014-02-25T19:30:48.483" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, this shouldn't be required.  It's encouraged that new users take the Tour, with the site providing a big banner that sums up Stack Exchange and provides a link to the Tour.  That banner states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WRenc.png&quot; alt=&quot;New user banner&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(taken from a random SE site that I've never used)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It being easy for anyone to hop on an SE site for the first time and ask a question or post an answer is part of Stack Exchange's DNA.  By being easy to participate, we encourage a rapid growth of the user base and pool of knowledge on the site.  We don't erect barriers to make it more difficult to post questions or join the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's an obvious downside to this approach, in that there will be low quality posts from new users.  But that's why high-reputation users are given tools to help moderate sites.  There's an expectation that people who are heavily invested in a SE site will help make it better.  Part of that is moderating these low quality posts.  If you dislike low quality posts: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;edit them to make them better&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;flag them when they can't be edited&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;downvote and comment on the issues with the post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, these posts aren't unique to SF&amp;amp;F.SE, all SE sites have variations on the theme.  That's another reason why I'm not up for treating this like a special case that needs a special solution that other SE sites don't have in place.  The SE platform has solutions already in place for low quality posts, make use of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-02-25T19:30:48.483" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3390" CreationDate="2014-02-26T03:11:44.597" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You shouldn't delete your answer. Acceptance doesn't mean 'best answer'. It simply means the answer 'worked' for the OP. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is why we have a voting system in the first place. Over time, the better answer(s) 'bubble up' to the top through accumulation of votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deletion is generally reserved as a last resort for answers that either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do not answer the question at all&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Give blatantly wrong or misleading information &#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Typos can't be understandable and fixed relatively easy. (See what I did there?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Low quality answers, including: &#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pure speculation, one-liners, or are commenting/critiquing other answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Links to videos or articles with no summarisation (leading to link rot)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11061" LastActivityDate="2014-02-26T03:11:44.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3402" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-26T18:32:06.503" Score="0" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;All SE sites I've partecipated on did get a non irrelevant amount of completely useless and broken answers from random noobs, and this one is no exception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What puzzles me is the attitude of the current moderators/high-rep users towards these posts: &lt;strong&gt;reports towards many of these posts get often declined or disputed&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everywere else, they are either deleted or converted to comments, while here they are usually allowed to just stay here polluting the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this intentional? With &quot;intentional&quot; I also mean that you &lt;strong&gt;do&lt;/strong&gt; realise that this is very different from all other SE sites and you are OK with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit&lt;/strong&gt;: I'm sorry I wasn't clear, I wasn't talking about posts that &quot;do not get noticed&quot;, I'm talking about posts that are noticed, reported, &lt;strong&gt;and then someone declines the report&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="640" LastEditorUserId="640" LastEditDate="2014-03-08T15:35:44.350" LastActivityDate="2014-03-08T15:35:44.350" Title="Why does this community allow many non-answers to stand?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3399" CreationDate="2014-02-26T20:01:22.743" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short of forcing people's eyelids open, &lt;em&gt;Clockwork Orange&lt;/em&gt; style, you can't force people to read the Tour. In fact, even if you flashed it, word by word into their retinas, they still won't read. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000062.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;People don't read&lt;/a&gt;. Really, &lt;a href=&quot;http://uxmyths.com/post/647473628/myth-people-read-on-the-web&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;they don't&lt;/a&gt;. There isn't any good way to force people to read the Tour/tutorial/primer/whatever before posting, and you'll only be adding an extra barrier of entry that will block out people &lt;em&gt;regardless of the quality of their content&lt;/em&gt;, based solely on their willingness to pretend to read a FAQ page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4516" LastActivityDate="2014-02-26T20:01:22.743" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3402" CreationDate="2014-02-27T05:57:18.390" Score="8" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your rep is well below 10k (&lt;strong&gt;10k is when you get the privilege of seeing deleted answers&lt;/strong&gt;). Once you get there you will see that the site is littered with deleted ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just randomly&lt;sup&gt;[1]&lt;/sup&gt; went on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions?page=50&amp;amp;sort=newest&quot;&gt;page 50&lt;/a&gt; and pulled 15 next questions that had possible poor quality answers (&amp;lt;=0 score) and weren't story-ID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of these answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5 were BAD. One at -4, one at 0 but link-only, one wrong, 2 at -2. &#xA;I flagged all 5 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/39042/976&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/38843/976&quot;&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/38867/976&quot;&gt;[3]&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/44779/976&quot;&gt;[4]&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/38667/976&quot;&gt;[5]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5 of questionable quality but not bad enough to delete, IMHO &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/38954/976&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/39041/976&quot;&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/38849/976&quot;&gt;[3]&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/38852/976&quot;&gt;[4]&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/38840/976&quot;&gt;[5]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4 Wrong answers deleted by owner &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/38946/how-could-theon-greyjoy-capture-winterfell-with-20-men&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/38904/why-wouldnt-glorfindel-be-included-in-the-fellowship&quot;&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/38862/976&quot;&gt;[3]&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/38861/976&quot;&gt;[4]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3 good enough that I upvoted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/43536/976&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/38876/976&quot;&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/38812/976&quot;&gt;[3]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 deleted by high-rep users &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/47599/976&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;9 deleted by moderator &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/38770/976&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/46005/976&quot;&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/46005/976&quot;&gt;[3]&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/44814/976&quot;&gt;[4]&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/44814/976&quot;&gt;[5a]&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/43735/976&quot;&gt;[5b]&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/43729/976&quot;&gt;[5c]&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/43360/976&quot;&gt;[5d]&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/43120/976&quot;&gt;[5f]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of those, 7 came from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/38655/how-could-this-adamantium-piece-be-destroyed-in-the-wolverine&quot;&gt;the same Q&lt;/a&gt; :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, &lt;strong&gt;this shows that we are deleting crap at a pretty good rate&lt;/strong&gt; (assuming you trust my judgement on questionable ones being OK, we had 10 of 19 bad deleted by someone else and 4 more by poster themselves; meaning 74% crap already deleted and further 10% having negative votes).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also, looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/flag-summary/976&quot;&gt;my own flagging stats&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;302 flags (out of 380) deemed helpful. The rest were 50/50 declined vs disputed. Excludes spam/offensive flags as they are offtopic to the meta Q.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, this site probably (I can attest to that from my own attitude) is slightly more lenient in judging what constitutes a non-answer/very poor answer. For example, something that is a logical speculation without canon backup may be judged to be OK enough, if it's clearly marked as such.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;[1] - &quot;random&quot; enough :)  I didn't cherry pick which page to start on&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-02-27T06:08:01.030" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3405" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-27T19:06:38.597" Score="2" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;WWE (formerly known as World Wildlife Foundation wrestling) is obviously excluded from consideration, as are the various late night informercials.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But how about the rest of its fare? A question recently asked why the movie Troy was shown, and if this counted as fantasy (despite the less-than-fantastical tone of the movie).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we safely conclude that Syfy is completely inappropriate as a method of genre classification? If so, would the confirmation be of any use for setting policy on this SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7603" LastEditorUserId="7603" LastEditDate="2014-02-27T22:54:59.480" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T01:41:33.560" Title="Is Syfy (the US cable channel) an appropriate measure of what constitutes science fiction (and/or fantasy) as a genre?" Tags="|discussion|genre-classification|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3405" CreationDate="2014-02-27T20:28:30.513" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe it's a valid measure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For starters, a lot of site members are actually not in the US and don't have access to it.  That makes it effectively meaningless to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, a science fiction periodical or TV channel need not be exclusively limited to science fiction/fantasy works.  Even something as explicitly science fiction as the 2000 AD comic in the UK carried material that wasn't sci-fi (e.g &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackhawk_%28UK_comic%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Blackhawk&lt;/a&gt; was originally historical fiction), L Ron Hubbard's original Dianetics material was printed in a sci-fi magazine, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thirdly, magazines such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/playboy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Playboy carried science fiction stories&lt;/a&gt;.  I don't think anyone would argue that Playboy is primarily a science fiction magazine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In conclusion: the medium, or the method of transmission, is not a genre indicator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2014-02-27T20:28:30.513" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3405" CreationDate="2014-02-27T21:21:03.063" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where a work is published, who publishes it, or what networks it is broadcast on may give some credence to a genre classification, but the true measure must be solely on the work alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything else is really secondary and has no bearing on whether or not it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; defined as something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MTV may play &lt;em&gt;The Real World&lt;/em&gt;, but aside from the season where the residents worked in a radio station, the show has nothing to do with music. The fact that it is/was (is it still on?) &lt;em&gt;Music&lt;/em&gt; Television does not mean that everything on it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; related to music.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite the traditional beliefs held by many, not all animated films or series, or video games are intended for children. The medium does not necessitate the genre or targeted age range.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a work has elements which can be identified as science fiction or fantasy related, it should be considered as science fiction or fantasy accordingly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2014-02-27T21:21:03.063" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1840" CreationDate="2014-02-27T22:47:14.067" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking over these examples, and discounting the ones where I don't have familiarity with the canon in question, I make the following observations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The 3 Tolkien examples (Galadriel/Balin's Tomb/Riddles) are useful because they &lt;em&gt;establish context&lt;/em&gt; for the question.  In particular the first two of these provide screenshots from memorable scenes in the movies so that a movie-watcher reading the question can immediately relate to what is being asked, which scene it happens in, what came before and after.  If it hadn't been so long ago, I'd be inclined to roll these two back to the versions with the images.  For the Riddles example I'd either update it with a shot from the first Hobbit movie or drop the image altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Arthur Dent/Towel example is humourous, a nice riff on the &quot;Keep Calm and Carry On&quot; meme, but adds absolutely nothing useful to the question.  Drop it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Likewise the Red Dwarf example adds nothing useful to the question.  Drop the images here too.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key phrase here is &lt;em&gt;establishes context&lt;/em&gt;.  If adding an image helps make the question a better one by setting the scene, explaining better what is being asked, differentiating between events, or whatever, then it seems useful to have an image added; if not, drop the images.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2014-02-27T22:47:14.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3402" CreationDate="2014-02-27T23:03:20.827" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I pay attention to the review queue, and mostly only see such answers there. If the answer is less than 2 hours old, I leave a comment and ask them to improve the answer... I don't like smacking them with the closehammer so quickly. Those that are older than 2 or 3 hours (or for which there is no real hope of improving) get no such consideration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have serious issues with the way in which we close questions and delete answers around here. It often seems retaliatory or &quot;just for sport&quot;, rather than for the purpose of improving the site. I would be very hesitant to change my attitude on this matter, unless a very persuasive argument were made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you get votes to re-open your unfairly closed question, you'll thank me... everyone else is racing to smite the thing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7603" LastActivityDate="2014-02-27T23:03:20.827" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3405" CreationDate="2014-02-27T23:22:11.550" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, surely not to me since they don't even SPELL Sci-fi correctly, and most of the shows on that channel are plain silly and horrible and have a lot of shows that I would consider to be horror, suspense or thriller shows that have little or nothing to do with science or science fiction at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was hoping that this channel was going to show nothing but science fiction shows such as Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar and other classic sci-fi shows and the like.. but they barely even show most of those classic shows at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19707" LastActivityDate="2014-02-27T23:22:11.550" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3411" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-01T02:52:57.983" Score="3" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;If my answer is made community wiki because I revised it too many times, and if I get a moderator to dewikify it, will I eventually get the reputation points for upvotes received while the answer was CW, and if so how long does that take?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastActivityDate="2014-03-01T12:27:06.250" Title="Reputation points for dewikified answers" Tags="|support|reputation|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3411" CreationDate="2014-03-01T03:17:59.487" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure that you do, so long as it's relatively quick, but I'm not really sure, so...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it does work, it shouldn't take very long. The reputation is supposed to be updated in near real time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2014-03-01T12:27:06.250" LastActivityDate="2014-03-01T12:27:06.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3413" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-02T01:51:44.580" Score="11" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can I ask about fairy tales and folk tales here? Would they be considered &quot;fantasy&quot; or something else? Fairy tales may fit the fantasy genre because of the magical things, and many fairy tales have fairies or magical creatures. Folk tales, on the other hand, may be a bit tricky because they are essentially traditional stories that may resemble fairy tales. Now, if folk tales had been accepted here, then it wouldn't be so far-fetched to post biblical stories, or do biblical stories have their own separate genre called &quot;religious literature&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23439" LastActivityDate="2014-03-02T02:10:48.910" Title="Can I ask about fairy tales and folk tales here? Would they be considered &quot;fantasy&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3413" CreationDate="2014-03-02T02:10:48.910" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fairy Tales- Sure, why not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Folk Lore- Probably not, but possibly. If you can make a good argument for it being fantasy, then go for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Religious stories- There's a ban for considering any religious text as &quot;Fantasy&quot; on this site, however, stories based on religious texts can be discussed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2014-03-02T02:10:48.910" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3415" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3416" CreationDate="2014-03-02T07:24:06.520" Score="19" ViewCount="981" Body="&lt;p&gt;What does this mean? When I went to see if there was any new questions on Scifi &amp;amp; Fantasy I noticed I had earned reputation, so when i clicked the symbol where it shows how you earn't reputation it said the following...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You have earned a bonus 100 reputation because we trust you on other sites on the network&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does this mean and how did I earn it. I know it says it all by the quote above but I would like an answer because I don't really understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20797" LastActivityDate="2014-03-02T08:42:22.883" Title="I earned 100 reputation because I can be trusted on other networks" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3415" CreationDate="2014-03-02T08:42:22.883" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;While different StackExchange sites have different standards and norms, they still share a lot of similar traits. If you know how one site works (how to write a good question, how to give a good answer, the mechanics of up/downvoting, etc), you already have a good head start in fitting into any other StackExchange site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to that, if you have more than 200 rep in &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; StackExchange site, and you link that profile to a new StackExchange site, you automatically get 100 reputation. You've proven you know your way around an SE site, so you get an automatic bump in all sites, allowing you to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges&quot;&gt;do things&lt;/a&gt; like post links and images, upvote, write comments, and all other intermediate-level features that brand-new users don't get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, it means that we trust you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4516" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2014-03-02T08:42:22.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3417" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-03T16:29:08.450" Score="0" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand and appreciate a well sourced, relevant answer, but it seems lately that answers are going far beyond what is needed. Sometimes it seems the provided answers are longer than the story they are supposed to be identifying. If a questioner provides thirty details of a forgotten novel, it should not be necessary to address each and every one, is it? Plus, there is so much detail provided in some answers that going on to read the story is superfluous.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I know. I'm free to stop reading whenever. And I do, generally less then a quarter way through a wall-of-text answer. I'm just wondering if others feel they are worth it?   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14593" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T14:48:04.880" Title="Are story identification answers getting too detailed?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3417" CreationDate="2014-03-03T20:03:32.070" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Providing extra detail isn't necessarily a bad thing.  It can be helpful in identifying duplicate story ID questions where detail is provided in the answer that may not be referenced in the first quesion but may be referenced in the second.  On balance that makes the answer more useful in the longer term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also the case that there's a balance to be struck between simply providing the name and author of a work versus going too far, and in this case going too far seems to be the correct side to err on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2014-03-03T20:03:32.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3417" CreationDate="2014-03-04T00:49:46.683" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a minimum, I think that a good (helpful) response to an ident questions should have;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Name of the property (plus some kind of &quot;learn more&quot; hyperlink)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Name of the Author&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A blurb or broad overview of the property&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why&lt;/em&gt; you think it's what the OP is referring to.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A picture, image or book cover (if relevant)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally there will also be a link to a copyright-friendly version of the story, tv show or film (if one exists). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T00:49:46.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3417" CreationDate="2014-03-04T14:48:04.880" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If a questioner provides thirty details of a forgotten novel, it should not be necessary to address each and every one, is it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nobody said that it &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; necessary. When &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; matching details are offered, I (and some others) tend to encourage the addition - but only in order to make the answer more useful. I, at least (I can't speak for anyone else) never flag an answer without matching details listed for deletion because they're not invalid answers, just less than optimally helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Plus, there is so much detail provided in some answers that going on to read the story is superfluous. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, that largely depends on the purpose of the identification question. You assume the person is looking to reread/rewatch it themselves. While that's probably the most frequent reason, they could just as well be wanting to find it for someone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this is why I (again, can't speak for anyone else) find it best only to describe &lt;em&gt;matched&lt;/em&gt; details. If it's something that the OP already vaguely remembered, it's not a spoiler. But if you &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; concerned about giving away too much, or about paraphrasing too much of the story, go ahead and throw some of the answer behind a spoiler tag. They may not always be necessary, but the courtesy is never a bad thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with just offering blurbs or rough synopsis of works is that when it comes to sci-fi, there are so many stories that have similar premises. Go too vague, and you don't necessarily offer enough to confirm the match. Go too specific, and you risk spoiling the story. Find your middle ground.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T14:48:04.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3421" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-04T15:49:15.713" Score="4" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hey I noticed this morning every time I click on the &quot;Add comment&quot; text my browser pops back up to the top of the question rather than opening up a comment text box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there something wrong with my browser or is there a glitch in the html code?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I'm on Windows Explorer 8, OS is Windows 7. I'm seeing the same problem on other Stack Exchange sites as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've enabled java applet scripting via Tools -&gt; Internet Options -&gt; Security -&gt; Custom level... then closed &amp;amp; reopened my browser, still no luck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@phantom42 - Thanks - active scripting is enabled, and used the checker and looks like javascript is enabled. Hmm, weird.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17566" LastEditorUserId="1586" LastEditDate="2014-03-05T17:03:15.960" LastActivityDate="2014-03-05T17:03:15.960" Title="Having trouble writing comments today" Tags="|bug|status-norepro|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3402" CreationDate="2014-03-08T14:55:15.477" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a high rep user who &lt;em&gt;occasionally&lt;/em&gt; flags non answers. Mainly my participation on SE in this way is due to the fact that I &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; read the &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; questions (okay, with the rare exception). So I probably miss 99% of the content that comes through this site. And it's okay for me to use the site in this way -- I'm not doing anything wrong by not reading questions other than on Harry Potter -- it's just that I have a specific interest. When I do see bad answers in the HP questions, I do make the effort to flag it for the mods. Anyway, this is my long-winded way of suggesting that some bad content falls through the cracks because not all SE users use or monitor the site in the same way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2014-03-08T14:55:15.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3405" CreationDate="2014-03-10T01:41:33.560" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering Syfy plays shows about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.syfy.com/ghosthunters/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ghost hunters&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edward#Crossing_Over_with_John_Edward&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;people claiming to talk to the dead&lt;/a&gt; (or least have in the past), I would say yes, we can &quot;safely conclude that Syfy is completely inappropriate as a method of genre classification.&quot; It only takes one instance of non-sci-fi / fantasy to indicate a lack of cohesive integrity to the premise and with WWE (which you don't count for some reason?) and the paranormal-tinged &quot;reality&quot; shows, it goes out the window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I don't think it needs to be verboten or otherwise legislated against for the site. Same with wikis. There's good and reliable material many places, just don't trust them &lt;strong&gt;too&lt;/strong&gt; much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16974" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T01:41:33.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3426" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3427" CreationDate="2014-03-11T19:49:55.903" Score="1" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I went to visit S&amp;amp;F I noticed a particular question which was asking for a anime character identification request. You can view the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/51655/what-anime-has-a-character-becoming-aware-of-cows-suffering-when-eating-a-burger&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Is this allowed? Why do we have a [anime] tag, and should questions in general like these be migrated to Anime StackExchange?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also did you allow this question because the anime is related to Fantasy or Scifi? Should anything related to Anime be migrated, rather than stand on this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am asking for some help on the matter. Do you agree with this or disagree and what's your advice on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20797" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2019-03-10T19:51:06.640" LastActivityDate="2019-03-10T19:51:06.640" Title="Are identifications of Anime Characters allowed on S&amp;F?" Tags="|discussion|support|tags|questions|anime|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3426" CreationDate="2014-03-11T19:58:33.503" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also did you allow this question because the anime is related to Fantasy or Scifi?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes these questions are definitely within the scope of the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No we should not migrate all anime content to anime.stackexchange. If that we're the case it could be argued that it is equally fair to migrate all sci-fi and  fantasy content of other sites to this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the event that a question referencing a SFF anime is more concerned with anime aspects such as production etc. (E.g. Why does season 2 of Guren Lagan start so differently compared to season 1?) Then I feel there is a strong argument for migrating it. Likewise a reverse case may exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2014-03-11T20:25:10.557" LastActivityDate="2014-03-11T20:25:10.557" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3428" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-19T14:37:51.087" Score="4" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is it that only lists &lt;em&gt;of works&lt;/em&gt; are off-topic? See for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/52118/how-many-earthlings-have-met-more-than-two-regenerated-versions-of-the-title-cha&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, which has answers that are just as useless as those to a question asking for lists of works. Surely &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; questions asking for lists should be off-topic, regardless of what is being listed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2014-03-21T14:13:09.870" Title="Why are list questions allowed if they're not asking for lists of works?" Tags="|discussion|list-questions|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3428" CreationDate="2014-03-19T16:31:43.513" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;List questions are not necessarily off-topic just by nature of being a list question. They are off topic because, in most cases, list questions &lt;em&gt;don't have a definitive answer&lt;/em&gt;. There's a lot of related questions on meta, including &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2638/are-all-list-questions-off-topic?rq=1&quot;&gt;my own&lt;/a&gt;, as well as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16/are-list-questions-allowed?rq=1&quot;&gt;this earlier one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;List questions that have a short, finite, and objective set of answers that can be easily listed and explained are more likely to be on topic that lists that may change, that have lots of answers, or where membership in the list of answers is subjective or debatable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question you point to is actually not a very good example of an on-topic list question; I would call it &quot;borderline acceptable&quot;, primarily because there's a chance that the answer may change, since the show is still airing new episodes. However, historically, the list in question changes very rarely, so it's not &lt;em&gt;likely&lt;/em&gt; that the answer will change very much, just &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt;. It also meets the other criteria for a &quot;good&quot; list question -- the list is short, finite, and there is a simple and objective measure to determine what belongs on the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lists of works, on the other hand, usually fail to meet at least one, if not several, of those criteria. Questions like &quot;lists of movies with a strong female lead character&quot; not only changes every time a new movie with a strong female lead character is released but can lead to arguments like &quot;is the lead character in &lt;em&gt;Nymphomaniac&lt;/em&gt; a strong female character or an exploited victim?&quot;. Those things make the question unanswerable, so it becomes off-topic by definition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, it's a very subjective decision by the community if a list question is &quot;answerable enough&quot; to be on topic or not, but it is a per-question decision. It's definitely not as easy as &quot;lists of works as off topic, other lists are ok.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2014-03-19T16:31:43.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3430" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-20T20:33:43.127" Score="16" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have to go back 13 entries on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/?blb=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; to find something that wasn't written by me. I'd really like to see more participation from users submitting stuff for the blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some ideas (but not limited to):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Movies Reviews&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TV Shows or Genres &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Books&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Conventions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shark vs Gorilla (write an imaginary match up between two characters)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, Captain America: The Winter Soldier is coming out soon. If someone were to see that opening weekend and write their thoughts about it, that would be great. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of stuff on the blog right now is reviews (mostly my fault), but if you want to write comparisons, ideas, ways to improve, submit your own short story (FanFics are not necessarily allowed) all would be welcome. Do you feel Scifi.SE is too science fiction focused and forgets the Fantasy? Write about it, or offer suggestions for reading / watching of your favorite Fantasy series and why. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people may feel they are under-qualified to submit a post. All it takes it just putting your thoughts into words. I'm happy to copy edit if you worry about grammar and spelling. I'm also happy to offer suggestions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="1148" LastEditDate="2014-06-09T14:35:35.297" LastActivityDate="2014-06-09T14:35:35.297" Title="Are you interested in writing for the Blog?" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3431" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-21T00:28:36.800" Score="22" ViewCount="457" Body="&lt;p&gt;I keep seeing this over and over and over in the review queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, story-idents can have &lt;em&gt;identical answers&lt;/em&gt;, but this doesn't make them identical questions. Each person asking remembers different details, and would have little luck looking through older questions to answer their own. If they remember A and C about the story, but the other question describes B and D, this is then not a duplicate question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes this even happens when the two answers are not identical (a short story that becomes a television episode or a novel that becomes a movie). This is even more absurd in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, this is the best resource anywhere on the internet to ask for story identification (at least within the narrow bounds of the genres we support). When we get all antsy and start closing questions in this manner, we're not only upsetting new users, we're making this SE a little worse at one of the things that it really shines at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do sometimes close non-identical questions when the answer from one suffices to answer the other... but those are non-story-identification questions and this makes it different. One could be expected to find those answers from the previous if they did some modest research, and so it need not be rehashed in a case like that. But the person who asks for identification just may not remember enough details for that research to be possible. Nor can we feasibly edit the extra details into the original question... to do that to the extreme extent would require &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; detail of the novel or movie in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I contend that if we couldn't merge the details from both versions of the question without leading to absurd scenarios where we replicate the entire work inside the question then this means that they are not duplicate questions at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would implore you all to have a light touch here, but since that just doesn't seem feasible, can we at least come up with some clear policy on the issue? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7603" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2014-03-21T02:35:48.477" LastActivityDate="2020-06-15T21:34:55.997" Title="Why would VTC as duplicate be appropriate for a story identification question?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2016-02-08T13:32:09.983" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3431" CreationDate="2014-03-21T02:35:28.930" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rules for closing as duplicate are very simple (and stated explicitly in the actual closing wording posted after the close):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question already has an answer here:...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, the definition of a duplicate question is &quot;the question's answer is already posted on another question&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It doesn't matter if the question itself is identical, similar, loosely close or wildly different&lt;/strong&gt;. All that matters is the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3194/why-are-questions-considered-duplicates-although-they-ask-different-things&quot;&gt;Why are questions considered duplicates although they ask different things?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/166707/changes-to-close-as-duplicate-part-deux&quot;&gt;Changes to &amp;quot;close as duplicate&amp;quot; (part deux)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.757" LastActivityDate="2014-03-21T03:17:18.387" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3431" CreationDate="2014-03-21T05:57:14.357" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;The underlying concept, I think, is that closing as Duplicate isn't meant to be seen as &lt;em&gt;censure&lt;/em&gt;. It just wants to mean &quot;I have an answer for you, and it's over there&quot;. It's not a slap on the wrist for a user not doing his homework, because, as you say, with wildly differing questions, the asker will never be able to find the duplicate, even if it fully answers his question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem here is that closing a question as duplicate &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; come across as censure. It says &quot;your question is bad&quot;. Just like the &quot;on hold&quot; status was added to newly closed questions – SE's internal model of &quot;closed&quot; meant &quot;question needs work&quot;, but came across as &quot;question is terrible. You're terrible. Jerk&quot;. Here, too, the technical solution fails to take into account the &lt;em&gt;people&lt;/em&gt; involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I doubt any technical solution will be developed, something along the lines of &quot;importing&quot; an answer from another question, linking them into one compound question. The most we can ask for, I think, is better wording.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4516" LastEditorUserId="31393" LastEditDate="2020-06-15T21:34:18.903" LastActivityDate="2020-06-15T21:34:18.903" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3434" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-21T11:23:27.100" Score="2" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;This (now deleted) question; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/52126/why-are-most-of-companions-of-the-doctor-humans&quot;&gt;Why are most of companions of The Doctor humans?&lt;/a&gt; has been closed as duplicate of this question: &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/51380/does-the-doctor-ever-have-a-non-british-companion-or-non-humanoid-friend&quot;&gt;Does The Doctor ever have a non-British companion or non-humanoid friend?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By common sense, how can they be same? That question is Yes/No type question, mine is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2019-01-14T17:32:10.930" LastActivityDate="2019-01-14T17:32:10.930" Title="How is this question duplicate?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3434" CreationDate="2014-03-21T12:33:25.800" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;While your question &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; different than the other one asked, there are two answers to it that address your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/51390/5184&quot;&gt;JoshBirk's answer&lt;/a&gt; addresses the in-universe reason (though, arguably not in enough depth).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/51397/5184&quot;&gt;Keshlam's answer&lt;/a&gt; addresses the out-of-universe reason.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-03-21T12:33:25.800" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3431" CreationDate="2014-03-21T12:45:29.340" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I am normally one to encourage the marking/closing of duplicates, I am in agreement that story-identifications should be the exception – and always vote to leave them open when those questions come up in my review queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While two story identification questions may &lt;em&gt;seem&lt;/em&gt; to be duplicates due to similar details, that doesn't necessarily mean that the two OPs are looking for the same work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only time I believe story identifications are justifiably closed as dupes is if, and &lt;em&gt;only if&lt;/em&gt; both answers have been accepted, and the works are the same. &lt;sub&gt;(But I'd still probably vote against it.)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="31393" LastEditDate="2020-06-15T21:34:55.997" LastActivityDate="2020-06-15T21:34:55.997" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3431" CreationDate="2014-03-21T13:52:28.813" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe you can have a single rule here for story-ID questions, and looking for one is an exercise in futility.  An opinion of &quot;it's black or white, we either accept them or we don't&quot; isn't helpful, irrespective of which side you fall on; we should consider individual questions on a case-by-case basis and on their own merits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To summarize the hypothetical example given in this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A new question remembers A and C about the story, but...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...an already existing and answered question remembers B and D, so the question asserts:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;this is then not a duplicate question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I dispute that assertion, because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The already existing &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;may contain information points A, B, C and D in it&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of that, you &lt;em&gt;cannot&lt;/em&gt; assert straight-up that it's not a duplicate under any circumstances.  But you likewise &lt;em&gt;cannot&lt;/em&gt; assert straight-up that it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a duplicate either, because the already existing answer &lt;em&gt;may not&lt;/em&gt; contain A, B, C and D.  you have to form a judgement based on the contents of that answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One could extrapolate from here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If we have two questions, one remembers A, B and C, the other remembers A, B and D, are they duplicates?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If we have two questions, one remembers A, B and C, the other remembers A, D and E, are they duplicates?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Etc?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A blanket exception for story-ID questions is obviously starting to look silly in those two scenarios (particularly the first).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2014-03-21T13:52:28.813" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3428" CreationDate="2014-03-21T14:13:09.870" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The off-topic close reasons contain an &quot;other&quot; category which &quot;list&quot; questions which are not for lists of works could go into, but my own feeling is that they - in cases where they are objectionable (which isn't always) - are more usefully closed as &quot;too broad&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The example cited in this question seems valid to me because it's finite and because someone with a good familiarity with the work in question could produce an answer.  Of course, that answer may be rendered invalid by future events in any ongoing series, but it's still an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That to me establishes the key criterion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it actually possible to answer this question?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;List-of-works questions can only be a &quot;no&quot; here because nobody has read every single work, and there may be one (or one million) obscure work(s) which fall through the cracks for whatever reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other list questions aren't so cut-and-dried, but if of sufficiently narrow scope are answerable and may seem valid to remain open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2014-03-21T14:13:09.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3439" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3440" CreationDate="2014-03-21T16:04:15.750" Score="6" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at the current flags on an answer, I see the following line:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Low answer quality score [66], /questions/how-to-answer shown and skipped&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen other numbers in the otherwise same text on other answers. What is the significance of the number in brackets?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="What is the number in the &quot;Low Answer Score&quot; in the review section?" Tags="|support|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3439" CreationDate="2014-03-21T17:33:03.337" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a rough measure of the probable quality of a post. Every post starts at a score of 100, and there are various metrics applied to the post that can reduce the score. A post hits the queue and gets an auto-flag if it scores below 80.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/72523/172958&quot;&gt;on MSO&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2014-03-21T17:33:03.337" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3441" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-26T14:28:03.890" Score="4" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from January 1st 2014 through March 31st 2014.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/01/highlights-from-2013-4th-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2013/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2013/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2013/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2014-03-30T11:55:01.183" Title="Favorite questions and answers from the first quarter of 2014" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3441" CreationDate="2014-03-26T23:35:46.437" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I felt like this was a good question and that my answer was nicely comprehensive;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/47050/what-is-the-meaning-of-the-way-that-kirks-clothes-are/47053#47053&quot;&gt;What is the meaning of the way that Kirk&amp;#39;s clothes are?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-03-26T23:35:46.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3441" CreationDate="2014-03-27T06:41:25.300" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I enjoyed several questions on Middle Earth, especially non-trivial ones that address how a society would develop, and answers that quote Tolkien's surprisingly extensive correspondence on the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/48262/how-well-known-is-the-theology-of-middle-earth-in-middle-earth&quot;&gt;How well-known is the theology of Middle-earth, in Middle-earth?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/48641/why-did-sauron-keep-mount-doom-alive-after-forging-of-the-one-ring&quot;&gt;Why did Sauron keep Mount Doom alive after forging of the One Ring?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also enjoyed this question (And @Slytherincess's answer), both for its content and for the dynamics of VtC-&gt;Clarification-&gt;Acceptance&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/48747/is-there-any-evidence-supporting-or-contradicting-the-theory-that-harry-is-an-ab&quot;&gt;Is there any evidence supporting or contradicting the theory that Harry is an abused child, imagining it all?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4516" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2014-03-27T06:41:25.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3444" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3445" CreationDate="2014-03-29T06:25:43.013" Score="3" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can understand a need to limit the amount that people vote, especially lower reputation users, but what about those who have a considerable amount (say 5000 or 10k and above) who are active participants?  Shouldn't they be allowed to have unlimited votes, as they obviously know what they're doing to get that much rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastActivityDate="2014-03-29T06:40:00.443" Title="Why is there a limit of 40 votes per day?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3444" CreationDate="2014-03-29T06:40:00.443" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;It's so we don't spend all day on SE.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange wants to be for experts in the appropriate fields, and that means eventually kicking us off the site (gently) so we can go &lt;em&gt;do that stuff&lt;/em&gt;. Part of the way it does this is by imposing limits on how much of certain things we can do on the site each day, so we eventually hit a ceiling. The ceiling is &lt;em&gt;really high&lt;/em&gt;, but it's there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This also keeps People Who Are Out Doing Things from falling insanely far behind in comparison to People Who Just Do Site Things, who otherwise would have the lion's share of influence over the site by sheer virtue of being around more. (It's still sometimes a problem, but it's not as big a one because --among other controls-- we have these limits.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13941" LastActivityDate="2014-03-29T06:40:00.443" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3446" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3447" CreationDate="2014-03-29T07:55:56.147" Score="1" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;My understanding of a favorite question is that it is supposed to be make accessing it later easier for you (if this is wrong - please tell me.  I get this idea from my use of favorites for a lack of information about what favorites actually are in the help section).  If this is the case, then why should users be able to mark their own questions as favorites, as they can just go into 'questions' in their own profile?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastActivityDate="2014-03-29T09:04:53.397" Title="Why can users mark their own question as a favorite?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3446" CreationDate="2014-03-29T09:04:53.397" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;favourite&quot; feature has no particular purpose, its application is unrestrained so we can use the feature whoever is best for us. I know one guy who uses it to mark his own questions which he wants to put bounties on once the two-day grace period expires.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13941" LastActivityDate="2014-03-29T09:04:53.397" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3431" CreationDate="2014-03-30T10:27:30.550" Score="-1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We do sometimes close non-identical questions when the answer from one suffices to answer the other... but those are non-story-identification questions and this makes it different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, it doesn't make it different. The network-wide policy of Stack Exchange is that if question X has an answer that also answers question Y, Y is a duplicate of X. The type of question is irrelevant to that definition. The only difference with story identification questions is that we don't definitively know they're duplicates until both have had answers accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One could be expected to find those answers from the previous if they did some modest research, and so it need not be rehashed in a case like that. But the person who asks for identification just may not remember enough details for that research to be possible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what? Closing as a duplicate isn't about saying &quot;You didn't do enough research.&quot; It's about saying &quot;This information is already available, but it might not be (easily) findable with the tags and keywords you've used, so we're going to use your question as a signpost to the answer to make it easier for future users to find.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea is that, regardless of the things you remember or the terminology you use when searching, you're able to get access to the very best information available on the site. To do that we &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; questions to be marked as duplicates. Having related things without links explicitly stating they're related makes the site worse for future users, not better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nor can we feasibly edit the extra details into the original question... to do that to the extreme extent would require every detail of the novel or movie in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;entire point&lt;/em&gt; of closing questions as duplicates of each other is so we &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; have to do that. If question X addresses A and C, and question Y addresses B and D, then by virtue of linking them together we've just covered A, B, C, and D without requiring a single edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5833" LastActivityDate="2014-03-30T10:27:30.550" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3441" CreationDate="2014-03-30T11:55:01.183" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really liked this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/51445/elder-wand-age-or-wood&quot;&gt;Elder wand: age or wood?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admittedly I might be a little biased because I got a lot of votes for my answer to it as well, but it's something I think a lot of people who read the books wouldn't have necessarily been clear on, and not just limited to those whose first language isn't English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5833" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2014-03-30T11:55:01.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3450" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3453" CreationDate="2014-03-30T14:33:48.117" Score="16" ViewCount="619" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/52848/is-ramona-flowers-from-scott-pilgrim-vs-the-world-is-a-symbol&quot;&gt;Is Ramona Flowers from Scott Pilgrim vs the World is a symbol?&lt;/a&gt; was recently closed with the reason of &lt;code&gt;unclear what you're asking&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; unclear, so the final close reason makes sense, but John O stated that he voted to closed it for a different reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question appears to be off-topic because it is about an unsupported genre. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further citing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Comic books aren't a genre, they're a medium. Some comic books are westerns, or 1930s noire. Those aren't supported genres. Furthermore, &lt;strong&gt;from what I can gather on Wikipedia, these fantasies only exist inside his daydreaming head. That or it's a farce. Neither of these are supported.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The definition of exactly what is on-topic has changed slightly in the past, but looking through the questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scope&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scope&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scope&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/close-reasons&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;close-reasons&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;close-reasons&lt;/a&gt;, a fairly rough general rule has been that if it includes elements of science fiction or fantasy, it's on-topic. This was discussed a little further when &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3356/are-movies-like-twins-or-junior-on-topic-since-they-contain-minor-sf-elemen&quot;&gt;the movies &lt;em&gt;Twins&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Junior&lt;/em&gt; were brought up&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question of whether or not the entire story was all in a characters mind is not an uncommon idea in sci-fi/fantasy. Does the fact that the story, or the sci-fi/fantasy elements &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; simply be a dream invalidate those sci-fi/fantasy elements?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2020-03-27T12:11:17.333" Title="Are works that may or may not just be dreams on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3450" CreationDate="2014-03-30T19:27:28.187" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;One could argue that every single sci-fi or fantasy work is a dream inside someone's head - that someone being the author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nonetheless, I'm really uncomfortable with this cited close reason.  A dream-sequence is just another form of the common &quot;story within a story&quot; trope; taken to it's logical extreme this could easily lead to closure for questions about the unicorn in Blade Runner, or even all of Total Recall, to name just two examples.  There may be cause for distinction where the primary work isn't on-genre but the embedded story is, but I'm not sure that's relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, dreams aren't a genre either - they're a medium too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorDisplayName="user8719" LastEditDate="2014-03-31T08:44:18.957" LastActivityDate="2014-03-31T08:44:18.957" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3450" CreationDate="2014-03-30T20:28:58.013" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the only science fiction or fantasy elements of the work take part in something that is clearly a dream sequence or a daydream, I'd say that said work would likely be off-topic. There are multiple episodes of the television show Scrubs in which one character imagines himself as being capable of separating his head from his body and the two acting independently to a degree; the show clearly isn't science fiction or fantasy though. The fact that a character in an otherwise mundane world is capable of imagining something fantastical in nature doesn't make it on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is doubt then the work is on topic. If it's not a dream, and the events are actually taking place, then the universe of the work is clearly one where elements of what we'd consider science fiction or fantasy are facts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5833" LastActivityDate="2014-03-30T20:28:58.013" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3450" CreationDate="2014-03-31T17:53:51.710" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fantasy elements being part of a dream or series of dreams, or even &lt;em&gt;potentially&lt;/em&gt; being dreams, is not justification for closure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do agree that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3452/1359&quot;&gt;Anthony Grist's &lt;em&gt;Scrubs&lt;/em&gt; example&lt;/a&gt; is a valid indication of something that is off-topic, but only because the fantasy/dream sequence is not a major part of the show's theme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the idea that any work that could conceivably be explained as a dream or sequence of dreams should be off-topic, no matter how many fantasy elements are incorporated, is one that I would strongly oppose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3112/1359&quot;&gt;discussed before&lt;/a&gt;, to some extent, and I'll quote part of the accepted answer (that currently stands with 13 upvotes and 1 downvote) to that question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As for the story's implication that its fantastical elements are merely a hallucination--it doesn't matter. This site has a proud tradition of treating possibly-hallucination-based fantasies as on-topic: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alice-in-wonderland&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alice-in-wonderland&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alice-in-wonderland&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-wizard-of-oz&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-wizard-of-oz&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-wizard-of-oz&lt;/a&gt;, and so forth. By that criterion, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/buffy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;buffy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;buffy&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_Again&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;isn't on-topic either&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/16/readersopinions/16WHED.html?ex=1185076800&amp;amp;en=7c66de4a5f0e124b&amp;amp;ei=5070&amp;amp;pagewanted=2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;But ultimately the entire series takes place in the mind of a lunatic locked up somewhere in Los Angeles, if that’s what the viewer wants.&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Judgement on whether a question is or is not on topic based on just how pervasive a fantasy or sci-fi theme is within the work should be based on at least a marginal understanding.  Reading a wikipedia entry is probably not sufficient background information upon which to decide that the fantastic elements aren't quite (for lack of a better term) &quot;good enough&quot; to qualify.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, I must say that the idea that movies like &lt;em&gt;Sucker Punch&lt;/em&gt;, which contain extensive and lavish fantasy and sci-fi scenes throughout the movie as a main focal point, are off topic strikes me as absolutely absurd.  If questions of a certain type are problematic, such as falling outside of the general knowledge base we cater to, then declaring them off topic may be reasonable, but we shouldn't be drawing completely arbitrary lines in the sand and declaring &quot;everything on the other side is forbidden... just because!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="70477" LastEditDate="2020-03-27T12:11:17.333" LastActivityDate="2020-03-27T12:11:17.333" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3454" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3459" CreationDate="2014-03-31T18:39:58.530" Score="2" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just tried a power using Unicoins. And, it's working. I have just adopted star-trek tag to show my Avatar (it's working at least from my account). All other powers seem legit except &lt;em&gt;Guaranteed Answer&lt;/em&gt;. So, it must be prank.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I need confirmation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="931" LastEditDate="2014-03-31T18:45:45.657" LastActivityDate="2014-04-01T14:14:10.150" Title="Are Unicoins April's Fool Prank?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3454" CreationDate="2014-03-31T18:54:26.457" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Confirmed...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whenever I go to buy Unicoins using real money, there happens a technical difficulty. And, I can get Unicoins for free by hammering rocks. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2014-03-31T18:54:26.457" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3450" CreationDate="2014-03-31T19:17:51.163" Score="-10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Scott Pilgrim isn't a fantasy story in the same sense of Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings. Those describe another world where the laws of physics and metaphysics differ from our own. They are self-consistent, to the best ability of the authors. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scott Pilgrim isn't a fantasy story in the same sense as something like Videodrome, where the story relies on the surreal nature of the main characters experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scott Pilgrim describes a mundane, non-fantastic world with a particular (and peculiar) perspective meant to be farcical. It is not self-consistent, it's meant to be what some loser teenager daydreams about after playing too many video games or watching too many movies. This is not fantasy as commonly understood in the context of &quot;science fiction and fantasy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, even if it were borderline (it's not even close), the question itself doesn't actually address the (then) fantastic nature of the work. It's sort of like asking &quot;What did Boromir have for lunch&quot;. I stand by my VTC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7603" LastActivityDate="2014-03-31T19:17:51.163" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3458" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3471" CreationDate="2014-04-01T11:50:10.253" Score="9" ViewCount="384" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm just wondering on this but does this site have a mascot for this site. Anime &amp;amp; Manga.SE are planning and thinking of doing at least three site Mascots. I was just wondering if this site has a Mascot since this site isn't a Beta and has been around a lot longer than Anime &amp;amp; Manga.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just curious. Hope my question isn't silly. Thanks. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20797" LastActivityDate="2016-06-24T21:18:12.253" Title="Does Science Fiction and Fantasy have a mascot?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3454" CreationDate="2014-04-01T14:14:10.150" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unicorns have been discovered. They &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; have magical powers. The powers that be have decided to reward us with their &quot;coins&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16518" LastActivityDate="2014-04-01T14:14:10.150" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3458" CreationDate="2014-04-01T15:33:04.990" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It absolutely MUST be a time traveling robot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NxcyT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2014-04-01T15:33:04.990" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3458" CreationDate="2014-04-01T16:38:25.490" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was going to downvote &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3460/1359&quot;&gt;DVK's answer&lt;/a&gt; for lack of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/138032/166646&quot;&gt;freehand red circles&lt;/a&gt;, and then it hit me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our mascot should not be a time-traveling robot.  It should be: freehand red laser beams!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ybJXb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/S2ex6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2014-04-01T16:38:25.490" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3458" CreationDate="2014-04-01T17:29:05.580" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did somebody say &quot;time travelling robot&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MltXV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2014-04-01T17:29:05.580" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3463" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-01T19:47:38.473" Score="14" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a particular Sci Fi book that I read when I was in grade school. I checked it out from my little public library long before I was paying any attention to esoteric things like &quot;titles&quot; and &quot;authors.&quot; I remember the plot quite well, but I have no idea who wrote it or what it may be called.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this kind of a question appropriate for the SF&amp;amp;F.SE community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, I'll open this question properly on the site, and provide all the detail I can remember. But I figured I'd check here first to make sure I don't irritate the regulars. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24555" LastActivityDate="2014-04-01T19:50:07.053" Title="Is trying to locate a work that I read in the past an appropriate topic for SF&amp;F.SE?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3463" CreationDate="2014-04-01T19:49:44.100" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, story identification questions are on-topic and very common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23" LastActivityDate="2014-04-01T19:49:44.100" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3463" CreationDate="2014-04-01T19:50:07.053" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes this is on topic. Please see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2014-04-01T19:50:07.053" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3466" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3468" CreationDate="2014-04-01T23:48:40.993" Score="-6" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that heavily downvoted answers tend to have one thing in common: they do not have any quoted material or links that would incorporate an in-universe primary source (or behind-the-scenes interview with the creators).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like it would be very easy to eliminate all such answers by preventing an answer from being submitted unless it has at least one quoted passage or external link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would this be an effective way to maintain a standard of answer quality?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23959" LastEditorUserId="23959" LastEditDate="2014-04-02T03:49:44.210" LastActivityDate="2018-10-05T03:49:56.613" Title="Should we require a quote and/or external link in every answer?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3466" CreationDate="2014-04-02T00:40:07.043" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very no.  Those heavily-downvoted answers are generally so because they're proposing something that doesn't make sense, or that other users know to be wrong due to more familiarity with the source material.  &lt;em&gt;Those&lt;/em&gt; are the times when linking to a source is a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good answers don't necessarily need to have any sources at all.  For example, my highest-voted answer, to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/11481/in-the-matrix-revolutions-how-does-neo-stop-the-machine-weapons-in-the-real-wo/11493#11493&quot;&gt;In “The Matrix Revolutions” How Does Neo Stop the Machine Weapons in the Real World?&lt;/a&gt; (+55/-2 at the moment) has no links to external sources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a second example, I once &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/30781/how-could-walter-send-peter-the-letter-in-the-last-episode&quot;&gt;answered a Fringe question with no links &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; quotes&lt;/a&gt;.  It was entirely about reasoning how the plot of a single episode could have made sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2014-04-02T00:45:41.317" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3466" CreationDate="2014-04-02T01:45:06.320" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;As someone who frequently demands (in polite form, in comments and not always DVs) backing up one's answers with primary sources, let me clarify both why that's a good idea to prefer, &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; why it's a bad idea to demand the way Skeptics demands their answers' assertions to be proven.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why is source citing deemed a good idea in general?&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;an answer citing a source is more likely to be upvoted&lt;sup&gt;[1]&lt;/sup&gt; than one that doesn't, leaving aside downvotes&lt;/em&gt;) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Most people who have good questions posted here are specifically interested in things from the point of view of a source material. Any answer not based on source material may very likely be off-topic for any given specific question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, it's very likely that a random question that is NOT interested in an answer based on source material is a bad fit for SE format; as any random speculation is an &quot;equally valid&quot; answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that this is not a hard and fast rule - some genuinely great questions violate it - but it does seem to be a good first approximation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If an answer &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; based on a source material, but doesn't cite, there's no way for a reader to ascertain whether the answerer made things up, or made a mistake, or was 100% accurate; except if the source material is universally well known (Vader being Luke's father can slide by without a citation... Darth Plagueus being a Muun is a lot less well known).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some people may actually misunderstand the nuances of the source material; and answer incorrectly even with correct source material in mind (because the critical detail they are missing was in 1-2 words in the quote). Lacking said quote, people won't be able to catch the error.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why is demanding a source material reference in every answer not a good idea?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;First, because of exceptions. Some (admittedly rarer) questions aren't necessarily based on source material. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2611/why-dont-muggle-born-wizards-use-muggle-technology-to-fight-death-eaters&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;em&gt;while not great, it's not bad IIDSSM&lt;/em&gt; - asked for a logical explanation of something; none of the good answers needed or had source citations except for one. Many were out of universe.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some (again rarer) great answers aren't necessarily based on source material (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3467/976&quot;&gt;Izkata's meta answer&lt;/a&gt; for an example of this). They may be based on pure logic; or some &quot;real life&quot; fact; or general knowledge synthesis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional examples: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20467/why-would-the-force-become-so-mysterious-and-unrecognized-after-only-20-years/20470#20470&quot;&gt;Based on real life comparison&lt;/a&gt;; another one &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2608/why-exactly-do-the-death-eaters-serve-lord-voldemort/2612#2612&quot;&gt;based on logic and real life comparison&lt;/a&gt; - though the latter one also falls under #4 below.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, you can have a good answer based in source material; but where the answerer has no easy way to access the citation (no softcopy/searcheable text; no googlable screenshots). They remember the basis of the information; but have no tangible proof of that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admittedly, such an answer isn't fully good until the citation is fully added; but if the answer is detailed enough, the citation merely adds finish to already good and correct content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, see my (correct and based on recalling the source) answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/29034/what-did-denethor-do-in-the-secret-room/29037#29037&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; - and a better answer with more votes with an actual cite of the fact in the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A variation of that is an answer referencing extremely well known facts from canon that are useless to cite (e.g. my answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6343/was-yoda-fully-sane-on-dagobah/6345#6345&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; - one of my most highly voted - referenced well known Yoda behavior and other SW facts with zero cites).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It would be incredibly difficult to implement correctly via technology. Even Skeptics does it by hand.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There's no great need. We have reasonably decent community moderation; a vast majority of speculative answers with no cites are commented on and don't gather many upvotes (and sometimes gather DVs, though rarer).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;[1] - For example, see some of the top users by rep - Thaddeus ([in]famous for posting answers with tons of comic book illustrations); Slytherincess (who was the first user on the site to obtain per-tag gold badge; and [in]famous for quoting HP books verbatim); and yours truly (also generally attempting to post quotes in good answers).&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2018-10-05T03:49:56.613" LastActivityDate="2018-10-05T03:49:56.613" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3458" CreationDate="2014-04-02T07:43:38.260" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I vote for a (possibly time traveling) robot unicorn.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.nl/images?q=mecha+OR+robot+unicorn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pick one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is both SF (robot) and F (unicorn).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it has a &lt;a href=&quot;http://games.adultswim.com/robot-unicorn-attack-heavy-metal-twitchy-online-game.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;game&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2014-04-07T09:26:54.493" LastActivityDate="2014-04-07T09:26:54.493" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3458" CreationDate="2014-04-02T08:23:42.700" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think site mascots (and especially &lt;em&gt;-tan&lt;/em&gt; like mascots) are pretty ridiculous. But, I vote bees... thousands of bees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user20155" LastActivityDate="2014-04-02T08:23:42.700" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3458" CreationDate="2014-04-04T03:56:29.633" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0p6D6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Harry Potter - The Sorting Hat&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;So put me on! Don’t be afraid!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;And don’t get in a flap!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;You’re in safe hands (though I have none)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;For I’m a Thinking Cap!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I nominate the  Sorting Hat!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Artist: Rose Ann Mary K&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;Red hand-drawn circles: Slytherincess&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;Note: The Sorting Hat is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a time-traveling robot, but it is 1000+ years old :P&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-04-04T16:57:05.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3472" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3473" CreationDate="2014-04-05T16:27:48.930" Score="7" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hollywood&quot;&gt;Hollywood tag&lt;/a&gt; alright? Shouldn't we remove it as we have more general &lt;code&gt;movie&lt;/code&gt; tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2015-03-10T11:41:51.457" Title="Why is there Hollywood tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3472" CreationDate="2014-04-05T16:36:57.867" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't add anything to any of the questions that were using it, so I removed it from them. It should disappear in a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2014-04-05T16:36:57.867" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3474" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-04-06T21:12:49.703" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/tags&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tags&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tags&lt;/a&gt; tag is for labelling questions about &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags&quot;&gt;tags&lt;/a&gt;, e.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;proposals to create or remove a tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;proposals to synonymise or merge similar tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions about proper use of particular tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions about general tagging policy on the SFF Stack Exchange&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and many more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24731" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-03-27T15:08:32.923" LastActivityDate="2016-03-27T15:08:32.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3475" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-04-06T21:12:49.703" Score="0" Body="For questions about tags: proposals to create, synonymise, merge, or remove tags, questions about usage guidance for particular tags, etc." OwnerUserId="24731" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-03-27T15:08:32.923" LastActivityDate="2016-03-27T15:08:32.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3476" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-06T21:24:22.750" Score="-5" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;The story/show/movie identification questions would benefit from tags designating the approximate era of the story/show/movie. It helps answerers find questions they're most likely to know the answer to -- I read a lot of stories while in high-school and as an undergraduate in the 80s but not so much in the 90s (grad school is time consuming) and none in 00s (kids are even more time consuming). Decades seem like the right range for 1900s, maybe 25 year blocks for 1800s and 100 year blocks before that? And (long-live SF&amp;amp;F-SE) it's probably better to have 1960s instead of 60s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24731" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2014-04-07T03:24:06.720" LastActivityDate="2014-10-16T18:36:03.907" Title="Can we add decade tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3477" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3480" CreationDate="2014-04-06T23:10:05.000" Score="1" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/34030/what-happened-to-voldemorts-final-corpse&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; was asked which was (deemed to be) not constructive. This was true of the way in which the question was asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the question itself was (in my opinion) quite interesting, and I have wanted to know the answer for a while myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately since I am not the OP, I cannot edit the question to make it more constructive and have the question re-opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, I was asking my own question on the topic when I saw the (closed) question as related...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it possible for me to ask a similar question (hopefully in a more constructive manner)?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite interestingly, the said question has a wonderful &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/34035/21267&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;, which the OP has un-accepted. What is the etiquette and/or rules of doing this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-04-07T19:18:40.523" Title="Re-asking an already closed question" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3477" CreationDate="2014-04-06T23:40:06.763" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I'm aware there's absolutely no reason you can't ask a [closed] question again, as long as the reason for it being closed in the first place wasn't due to it violating the site rules in some fashion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it does violate, it's pretty likely that the question will simply be closed again in fairly short order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2014-04-06T23:40:06.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3477" CreationDate="2014-04-07T01:45:33.023" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the quality of the answer, I'm not sure a new question is needed.  I'm not sure if you could've suggested an edit to improve it, but instead I just went ahead and edited it myself.  Maybe it'll get re-opened, but even if not, it's searchable and useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ADDED: Oops, I didn't see that you'd gone ahead and asked it again...  Yeah, the preferred thing to do for a salvageable question is to edit it or - if you can't or don't think you should edit it - to mention it on meta so someone else can try to save it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that having a question closed as a dup is not a bad thing...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastActivityDate="2014-04-07T01:45:33.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3477" CreationDate="2014-04-07T02:32:33.690" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't just re-ask closed questions. Look into why it was closed, and get it reopened. Anyone (yes, you too) can do this by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/editing&quot;&gt;making edits&lt;/a&gt;, and/or asking here on Meta why it was closed. If a discussion on Meta doesn't provide a path to reopening the question, or the question can't be salvaged by editing, then it's likely not appropriate for this site, in which case re-asking it is just going to result in the question being closed again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-04-07T19:18:40.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3476" CreationDate="2014-04-07T12:47:36.350" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I doubt the necessity of decade tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While tags can easily be edited at a later date, I feel that tags should be used to definitively categorize questions with known constants/facts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Decade identification is often too fuzzy in the memories of people. Just this morning, I was considering &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/53428/5184&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and trying to remember if the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shocker_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Shocker&lt;/a&gt; was from the 80's or 90's. I saw the film in around 1992 or 1993. At the time, it felt like a 90's movie, and I would have sworn it was from the 90's. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, the question's tags could be edited if an answer is found, but that requires/involves extra unnecessary editing for the simple purpose of cleaning up tags. It makes more sense to me to just identify the possible decade(s) in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also question the usefulness of such tags. The intended purpose of tags is to categorize questions so that one can search or ignore questions. While some people loathe story identification or Doctor Who questions and might want to filter those out, or highlight them as favorite tags, I see little chance that someone would specifically choose to filter/highlight questions about works from any one decade specifically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One other issue regarding the decade tags, is the question of which decade a work should be tagged according to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: A story is written/published in 1985, but the story takes place in 2015. Which decade should the question be tagged with? Does one tag it based on the date the OP &lt;em&gt;thinks&lt;/em&gt; it was published in, or when the story takes place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2014-10-16T18:36:03.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3482" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-08T05:21:23.917" Score="9" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to know why we don't receive notifications in Scifi &amp;amp; Fantasy Meta when someone...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments on your question [Sometimes it doesn't work for me - is this a bug?]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Replies to your comment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or includes your @username on something&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a reason for this and should we have this? I think notifications are really good and we should have this implemented, as when I am commenting on something and someone replies to my comment, I don't receive any kind of warning whatsoever, even when the user uses my @username.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20797" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-05-07T23:28:04.567" LastActivityDate="2016-09-05T01:03:41.757" Title="Why don't I receive notifications on Scifi &amp; Fantasy Meta?" Tags="|support|meta|notifications|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3482" CreationDate="2014-04-09T03:49:51.767" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;For testing/confirmation:  Miharu, comment on this answer so someone can @ reply to you without commenting on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastActivityDate="2014-04-09T03:49:51.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3484" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-09T21:16:32.840" Score="10" ViewCount="403" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please don't mistake this question for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1664/in-universe-speculation-vs-original-research&quot;&gt;In-universe speculation vs. original research&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have answered two questions in past few days and both my answers made me wonder about this. What if person asks question about fictional universe like Harry Potter, Star Wars or Tolkienverse and answer does not lay in that particular universe? For example someone asks if guns would be any good in Harry Potter. Now, truth is that there are no guns in HP because it is books for kids. There are some story measures that explain lack of regular guns, but one can deduce by simple logic (provided that he/she has good knowledge of the universe), that guns would in fact be very effective. What is right answer? Cite story measures that explain lack of guns? Say it is book for kids, which is answer outside of that particular universe? Or explain why guns would be very effective, but just aren't there, even if that means to speculate a bit but very &quot;safely&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And what about sci-fi? What if there is very basic explanation of some phenomenon in the original work, but person providing the answer can very simply ratiocinate more elaborate and science friendly answer, that would not in any way disrupt the universe and would be in fact just more elaborate version of simple answer provided by canon? Is such answer right and legit? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24660" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2014-04-16T15:42:26.907" Title="Logical speculation in answers" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3484" CreationDate="2014-04-09T23:07:25.617" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's presented well and has sufficient in-universe evidence and support for the speculation, then it can be quite a compelling argument.  I don't see any harm in it.  Many in-universe matters can be left untouched by an author, so sometimes that's the only way to reasonably answer a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, there are tools to deal with the kind of question that requires such speculation.  The question can be closed as &quot;Primarily Opinion-based&quot; if a good argument supported by other in-universe facts can't be put together.  Answers that aren't well-argued can be downvoted and even deleted if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately it comes down to the quality of both the question and the answer.  &quot;Why are there no guns in HP?&quot; is something I'd consider verging on a bad question, but a good question that invites speculation is probably worth leaving open for a bit to see if good, well-reasoned and well-supported answers come.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example of the kind of thing I'm talking about, see the question &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32721/what-is-thorins-hair-colour&quot;&gt;What is Thorin's hair colour?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; and my answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/34885/8719&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  This is a case where the author didn't provide an answer but did provide enough information to make some logical speculation.  Let's go through the main speculative points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That the naming of the clans was on account of distinctive physical features.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That &quot;Blacklocks&quot; and &quot;Firebeards&quot; refer to hair colour.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That therefore black and red hair were distinctive enough to have clans named after them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That therefore no members of other clans have black or red hair (or at least generally don't).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That seems a compelling argument, it's soundly based on writings by the author that can be sourced from published material, but yet the conclusions is clearly not based on any direct statement or evidence: it's pure logical speculation.  But yet it's worth noting that this answer got upvoted, was accepted, and was awarded a bonus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user8719" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2014-04-15T17:26:33.717" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3486" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-10T11:26:59.873" Score="3" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I have a great reputation for not hiding spoilers, I want to know Spoiler policy of this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/968/what-is-the-policy-for-spoilers&quot;&gt;What is the policy for spoilers?&lt;/a&gt; is asking about formatting. I want to know what should be considered spoilers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technically, Star Trek: TOS can be spoiler for someone who hasn't watched it. But, it is accepted here without spoiler markup. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Newly launched books, movies, TV shows etc based questions contain major spoilers. But, for how long it'd be considered &lt;em&gt;New&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we don't already have policies, let's make it and put it in FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2014-04-10T11:26:59.873" Title="What's our Spoiler policy?" Tags="|discussion|support|feature-request|spoilers|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ClosedDate="2014-04-10T14:14:12.417" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3487" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-10T23:46:00.797" Score="1" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just tried to link to this page in a comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Treachery,_Faith_and_the_Great_River_%28episode%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Treachery,_Faith_and_the_Great_River_%28episode%29&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, the shorthand used in comments sometimes breaks on the comma, and tries to italicize the word &quot;Faith&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/53756/how-did-nog-beat-the-kobayashi-maru#comment104050_53756&quot;&gt;Broken example here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;strike&gt;with the additional note that it doesn't always break and I don't know why.  It worked correctly when I tried to create an example on this question.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit now that I look again - I &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; try to italicize the word &quot;something&quot; at the end of the comment, outside the link.  It caught that, so the last underscore is missing.  It just didn't actually italicize, presumably because the tag order &amp;lt;a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; is invalid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Short format &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Treachery,_Faith_and_the_Great_River_%28episode%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;does not break here&lt;/a&gt; under the &lt;em&gt;same&lt;/em&gt; conditions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Per Keen's request:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Broken comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[link](http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Treachery,_Faith_and_the_Great_River_%28episode%29) text _this should be italic_&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/c0T1D.png&quot; alt=&quot;Broken comment&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A working comment, which does not have a comma in the link, but does use italics after the link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[No-comma test](http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Starfleet_commanders) some text _should be italic_&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6M3Dd.png&quot; alt=&quot;No-comma comment&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same format as the broken comment working correctly in the question text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Short format [does not break here](http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Treachery,_Faith_and_the_Great_River_%28episode%29) under the _same_ conditions.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ksnLC.png&quot; alt=&quot;Working in question&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2014-04-12T01:03:57.990" Title="Invalid linkification in comments" Tags="|bug|comments|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3488" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-11T03:30:05.813" Score="-1" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PROPOSAL:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Restrict certain types of VTC votes on questions to users who have passed a minimal positive threshold of question asking activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rationale and Details&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the things in Stack Exchange mechanics that makes it work is that the more you participate in the site's activity, the more you show yourself as being good at it; and (as reflected in your increased rep as a proxy for such) you are given more rights to do things (edit, then close, then delete).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over the years of participation on this SE, I have observed a troubling phenomena - people severely denigrate and criticize other people's questions (from mere downvotes, to un-warranted VTCs such as &quot;unclear what you're asking&quot; or &quot;opinion based&quot;, to un-constructive comments that the question is &quot;useless&quot;, &quot;boring&quot; or &quot;un-interesting&quot;, to similar comments in chat, to Meta posts). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What makes the phenomena troubling is &lt;strong&gt;not the criticism itself&lt;/strong&gt; - but the fact that it often comes from people who have themselves NOT shown any specific interest or expertise in asking good/interesting questions on this site, as evidenced by them asking almost no good (or any) questions of their own. Sometimes they are great contributors to the site by answering - and sometimes barely participate in the site at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, I would propose that we - if technically possible - &lt;strong&gt;restrict certain types of VTC votes on questions to users who have passed a minimal positive threshold of question asking activity&lt;/strong&gt; - e.g. at least X questions with at least Y score (Say, &gt;=10 questions with score 5+ each but I'm not very hung up on specific #s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This rule would not apply to all types of VTC - for example, &quot;Duplicate&quot; vote should remain unrestricted as the expertise to find duplicates is uncorrellated to being able/interested in asking your own questions. Perhaps Off-Topic as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &quot;primarily opinion-based&quot; and especially &quot;too broad&quot; and &quot;unclear what you're asking&quot; seem to require at least some successful experience in writing your own questions to understand the difference between a question that's truly too broad vs. merely imprecisely worded; between &quot;I am curious about this slightly hypothetical sutuation that is quite plausible in canon&quot; vs &quot;I want to facilitate discussion about opinions where no answer can be 'correct'&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side note, while I was too lazy to actually go and run Data Exchange statistics, from personal observation this new rule - if agreed to - would not really be a big burden. There are very few people who VTC questions yet don't bother asking their own, and I can only think of 2 counter-examples where this would false-flag a user who clearly has question asking expertise yet chooses to not ask too many.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2014-04-11T13:30:14.780" Title="Should some VTC reasons on questions be restricted to people with proven question asking expertise?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3489" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3493" CreationDate="2014-04-11T06:32:07.490" Score="7" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;For people who, like me, want to edit the tag-wikis and add/modify information in them and are willing to do the research, it's difficult to find tags that have wiki information on them already - you have to sort through &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of the tags to do this.  I propose a tab in the 'tags' section for 'stubs' (for want of a better phrase) for people to identify tags that have no wiki and go off and do the research.  Rather like the 'unanswered' section in the questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2014-04-11T15:16:25.873" LastActivityDate="2014-04-12T11:17:34.700" Title="No Tag Wiki tab in Tags Section" Tags="|feature-request|tags|tag-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3488" CreationDate="2014-04-11T13:25:59.960" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;No, we should not have such a rule, nor request such a functionality change.  Answering questions gives insight that is every bit as valuable as asking, and in some ways, the insight gained is more useful in identifying good/bad questions than merely asking your own questions might provide.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Setting aside the logistic difficulties of this (which I presume exist to an undetermined extent), I don't see the benefit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By your own observation, &quot;There are very few people who VTC questions yet don't bother asking their own.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting, including voting to close, is a way of expressing your opinion.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The higher your reputation, the heavier your opinion is supposed to weigh, but it is still opinion, which is why close votes aren't binding (unless from a moderator).  If these few people who VTC questions yet don't have sufficient understanding (in your opinion) of what constitutes a valid question are in the minority, then either they won't have enough people voting with them to get the question closed, or the majority can overrule them, either by bumping them out of the review queue, or by reopening the question after it gets closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have users with over 20k reputation, who have few or even no questions asked.  Are you really saying that even though they've gained &quot;Trusted User&quot; status and privileges, they aren't qualified to express an educated &lt;em&gt;opinion&lt;/em&gt; on what constitutes an on-topic or valid question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that even users with 1 reputation and 0 participation are entitled to express an opinion on closing questions.  Their opinion is handled by flagging, and is subject to a review.  Higher reputation users are similarly subject to review, although in their case it is a review of peers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking questions doesn't necessarily correlate with being able to identify &quot;valid&quot; VTC material, either.  We've got users who have a significant portion of their participation in the form of questions, yet they argue to ban entire categories of questions even though they aren't in the slightest bit familiar with the materials in question.  We have others who, as you mentioned, do not ask many questions, yet clearly have &quot;question asking expertise&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About half of my posts are questions, yet many of my questions aren't terribly great.  I think they've generally improved over time, but I consider my answering experience a better indication of my ability to judge a question than my asking experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answering questions gives important insight when evaluating questions.  If I read a question, and can't figure out what type of answer would satisfy the question, or feel that no level of detail I could reasonably provide would adequately address the question, how is that less valid than my experience asking my own questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anything, I'd argue that experience providing quality answers gives &lt;strong&gt;more&lt;/strong&gt; insight into whether a question is answerable than experience asking questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some examples: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen &quot;cannot be answered because this isn't discussed in canon&quot; cited a few times as arguments to close questions.  Yet I've written a few answers that, in my opinion, adequately addressed questions that fit into that category by providing logical extrapolations from canon materials.  I've also seen answers provided that found unexpected sources of canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen &quot;boring&quot; questions that, when I went to find an authoritative source for the &quot;boring&quot; answer, led to surprising, and quite interesting, trivia associated with the question.  Asking questions wouldn't give you better insight than answering that boring questions can have exciting answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2014-04-11T13:25:59.960" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3488" CreationDate="2014-04-11T13:30:14.780" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Beofett's answer (and have erased similar one I was working on), but I would like to ask another question: is there a &lt;em&gt;problem&lt;/em&gt;, a real problem, that this suggestion aims to fix? Not a vague &quot;close votes should be better&quot;, but a real problem where a lot of questions are getting drive-by VTCed by random passers-by (with the 3k rep needed to cast close votes), and that these VTCs are causing otherwise good questions to be closed, and that these closures aren't quickly reversed by the mods or community? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4516" LastActivityDate="2014-04-11T13:30:14.780" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3484" CreationDate="2014-04-11T19:25:13.687" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I rather like questions that can be answered logically as long as they're based on canon material or a &quot;voice of god&quot; statement that provides the basis for the answer;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a concept or principle is sufficiently well laid out by the original author, then you shouldn't need a specific quote in order to answer every niggling example. If, on the other hand you &lt;em&gt;disagree&lt;/em&gt; with the logic at play, you can always dispute it with a better canon quote or simply use logic to prove your own point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2014-04-11T19:25:13.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3489" CreationDate="2014-04-12T00:32:13.247" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Finding tags without Wikis can already be easily done via Stack Exchange Data Explorer. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/87345/most-popular-tags-without-wikis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/87345/most-popular-tags-without-wikis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2014-04-12T11:17:34.700" LastActivityDate="2014-04-12T11:17:34.700" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3494" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3495" CreationDate="2014-04-12T13:44:13.937" Score="3" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today, a suggested edit was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vmoKB.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does Community &lt;em&gt;suggest&lt;/em&gt; edits?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought Community edits were applied immediately&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19374" LastActivityDate="2014-04-12T14:53:29.100" Title="Why does Community suggest edits?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3494" CreationDate="2014-04-12T14:53:29.100" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Community's just a bot, it has no agency.  What you're seeing here is one of the uses of Community, it's a stand-in for actions that an anonymous user took.  An anonymous user suggested an edit to that question.  It went to the review queue where it was accepted, and then it was applied to the post.  Since the SE platform needs &lt;em&gt;someone&lt;/em&gt; to have done the edit, it uses Community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-04-12T14:53:29.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3496" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-12T22:10:03.140" Score="2" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure this question doesn't actually have 16/9 = 1.777... score.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/I2oHi.png&quot; alt=&quot;Example&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2014-04-12T22:10:03.140" Title="Three-digit score wraps in the related questions sidebar" Tags="|bug|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3498" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3499" CreationDate="2014-04-14T17:39:57.163" Score="5" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just today reached a milestone and received over 200 reputation in a single day but I'm still receiving up votes today (in excess of the 200 max). I actually got capped at 215 but the up-vote notices are still coming in. What happens to that rep? Will those rep points be awarded tomorrow? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13090" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T09:30:27.460" Title="Where does the daily excess reputation points go?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3498" CreationDate="2014-04-14T17:58:23.173" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation above the cap just disappears into the void. But you get a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/25/mortarboard?userid=13090&quot;&gt;shiny new badge&lt;/a&gt; for it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason you got 215 is because the 15 points from an accept don't count towards the maximum (same with bounties).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-04-14T17:58:23.173" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3498" CreationDate="2014-04-14T19:22:26.513" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The short answer is that your additional reputation is gone and ain't coming back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The cap allegedly exists to prevent &quot;gaming&quot; of the system. You can read the justification &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/22447/what-is-the-reasoning-behind-the-reputation-cap&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and if you want to, you can upset yourself by visiting Data Explorer and checking the &quot;&lt;strong&gt;How high would my reputation be if there wasn't a cap?&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; page;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/166741/how-high-would-my-reputation-approximately-be-when-there-was-no-cap-or-cw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/166741/how-high-would-my-reputation-approximately-be-when-there-was-no-cap-or-cw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2014-04-14T19:22:26.513" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3501" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3502" CreationDate="2014-04-15T13:05:04.913" Score="5" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;Typically, when there's a story-identification question that lists several points; and that question has a bad answer (e.g. an answer only stating the name of the work with ZERO information on how that work matches the points raised in the question); I downvote/flag/delete such an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? Because there's no way for the reader to judge how correct the answer is, so it should be judged as &quot;incorrect&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the same be applied when such a bad answer is provided by Original Poster of the question themselves? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On one hand, they KNOW for sure this is the correct answer. We don't have the same reason to downvote as the &quot;why&quot; above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, it wouldn't be fair to judge what would otherwise be a poor answer as &quot;OK&quot; merely on account of who posted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2021-03-03T01:46:22.883" Title="Is it acceptable to provide poor answers to your own Story-ID question?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3501" CreationDate="2014-04-15T13:34:29.930" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it's &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; acceptable. While I'm glad for the OP that &lt;em&gt;they&lt;/em&gt; found their book, it doesn't help other users. Someone who thinks they're looking for the same book, doesn't know which details were correct and which weren't, and doesn't know any details that allows them to judge whether it really is the same book they're looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2014-04-15T13:34:29.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3501" CreationDate="2014-04-15T13:54:51.340" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel it's acceptable (as in that it should be allowed), but should be &lt;em&gt;highly&lt;/em&gt; discouraged, possibly even downvoted for not being particularly useful. These answers point &lt;em&gt;towards&lt;/em&gt; the &quot;correct&quot; answer, even if it does not provide all the details a good answer might.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When &quot;low-quality&quot; answers pop up in the review queue, I only flag/vote to delete if the question is not addressed. If it at least &lt;em&gt;attempts&lt;/em&gt; to answer the question, I vote to let it live and try to encourage the user to add more details. (Yes, I know that this is often an exercise in futility - especially with hit-and-run users.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2014-04-15T13:54:51.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3484" CreationDate="2014-04-16T15:42:26.907" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is right answer? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cite story measures that explain lack of guns? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If such exist, definitely yes! Great answer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Say it is book for kids, which is answer outside of that particular universe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not really, though depends on the answer. As discussed previously on Meta, the whole point of asking most questions in SFF is in-universe; and obvious &quot;well duh&quot; out of unverse explanations do not in any way help the question asker nor anyone else reading later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not an iron rule though - sometimes, the out of universe reason isn't obvious at all, and instead of a boring smart alec answer we get an insightful and unobvious out of universe explanation. The latter is quite welcome even by &quot;in universe&quot; cops like myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Or explain why guns would be very effective, but just aren't there, even if that means to speculate a bit but very &quot;safely&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depends on the quality of speculation and how grounded it is in facts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And what about sci-fi? What if there is very basic explanation of some phenomenon in the original work, but person providing the answer can very simply ratiocinate more elaborate and science friendly answer, that would not in any way disrupt the universe and would be in fact just more elaborate version of simple answer provided by canon? Is such answer right and legit? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Legit? Probably (depends on the answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right? Depends on the answer and what it's being compared to. &quot;This is what we know in-universe; this is what we know from author out of universe; this X is what we don't know but can be logically speculated&quot; seems like an excellent answer; whereas &quot;well, we can guess that Y&quot; seems like wild-ass guessing with not much benefit to any reader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2014-04-16T15:42:26.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3505" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-17T10:03:21.490" Score="-1" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know why I personally like this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/54338/whats-the-position-of-stark-industries-in-business-world&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/54338/whats-the-position-of-stark-industries-in-business-world&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, everyones tastes aren't same. I am getting downvotes. How to stop that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2014-04-18T23:13:51.947" Title="How to stop downvotes on it?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3505" CreationDate="2014-04-17T10:34:43.257" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rather than ask &quot;how do I stop downvotes&quot;, ask instead &quot;why is this question receiving downvotes&quot;. The only way to stop downvotes is to ask questions that people think are goodd, so focus on &lt;em&gt;improving&lt;/em&gt; the question. That's probably what you meant, but I just wanted to make this explicit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The biggest problem I can see with your question is that it's unclear. Your basic question seems to be &quot;How successful is Stark Industries in the Marvel Universe's economy&quot;, but then you muddle the issue with questions about arms companies, quotes about bailouts from sources that seem far from credible, and then a &lt;em&gt;different&lt;/em&gt; question about the economic &lt;em&gt;history&lt;/em&gt; of Stark Industries. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion is to tighten up the question, decide what exactly it is you're asking (for instance &quot;Is Stark Industries a Forbes 25 company? How does this make sense considering that arms companies seldom make that list in the real world&quot; is one. &quot;What economic booms and downturns has Stark Industries undergone over the years, and why?&quot; could be another) and focus on that, and drop the &quot;bailout&quot; quote unless it directly refers to the question asked (&quot;if it &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; a Forbes 25 company, how come Tony Stark claims that he didn't need a bailout?&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4516" LastActivityDate="2014-04-17T10:34:43.257" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3505" CreationDate="2014-04-18T23:13:51.947" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I flagged this as &quot;unclear what you're asking&quot; for a few of reasons; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) There's at least 4 questions here;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is Stark Industries is Forbes 25 company?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did Stark Industries face bankuptcy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is their current financial position?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can you give me a complete list of all mentions of Starks' financial status in the various comics and films?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first 3 questions are (potentially) quite easy to answer whereas the last question would require weeks of research. That alone was sufficient to get me to flag it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were a couple of other things you might want to address;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) You've started with a fairly strong contention that they &lt;strong&gt;can't be&lt;/strong&gt; a Forbes 25 company because they make weapons. I'm not sure what that adds to the debate but it certainly put me off answering since you seem to have prejudged the results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) The language and formatting you've used is very haphazard. You've basically asked and answered your own questions as you've gone along. Try to make your questions more singular and avoid unnecessary &quot;chattiness&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2014-04-18T23:13:51.947" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3508" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3509" CreationDate="2014-04-18T23:21:48.793" Score="4" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/highlader-franchise&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;highlader-franchise&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;highlader-franchise&lt;/a&gt; tag is misspelled. It should be spelled &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/highlander-franchise&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;highlander-franchise&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;highlander-franchise&lt;/a&gt;. Someone forgot the 'n' in highlander.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13090" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2014-04-19T04:26:41.203" LastActivityDate="2014-04-19T04:26:41.203" Title="Who do I talk to to get a bad Tag fixed?" Tags="|support|status-completed|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3508" CreationDate="2014-04-18T23:29:14.617" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="3267" LastEditDate="2014-04-18T23:34:47.517" LastActivityDate="2014-04-18T23:34:47.517" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3511" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3512" CreationDate="2014-04-21T02:10:22.303" Score="5" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that I have angered someone who is running down my questions, all of which have numerous positive votes, and down voting each in turn. Is this a common or regular occurrence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;...To the last, I grapple with thee; from hell's heart, I stab at thee; for hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13090" LastEditorUserId="13090" LastEditDate="2014-04-27T17:46:47.630" LastActivityDate="2014-05-01T11:54:48.567" Title="Is it common for someones questions to be 'targeted' for down votes?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="21" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3511" CreationDate="2014-04-21T03:01:06.827" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had that happen to me.  That was a few years ago.  I don't know if things are different now, but there was no way for moderators to verify who it was doing that at the time.  I was pretty sure, but there's still nothing you can do about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least that's the way it was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every now and then someone goes on a vendetta.  Unfortunately there's always a few childish people around who think that's just fine to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2014-04-21T03:01:06.827" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2014-04-21T03:18:27.937" Score="1" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;First of all, General Reference VTC reason (which is what you are talking about) has &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2400/should-we-burninate-general-reference&quot;&gt;as of 2013 been officially removed from SciFi.SE as a valid reason&lt;/a&gt;. So &lt;strong&gt;the short answer to your question is &quot;They are appropriate in a sense of you shouldn't vote to close them&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, absolutely trivial questions (as &lt;strong&gt;demonstrable&lt;/strong&gt; by Google-searching for question title and finding an answer on IMDB or very relevant Wikipedia site) are NOT interesting at all (see Jeff Atwood's answer above).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of that and other reasons; such questions very clearly &lt;strong&gt;fit the &quot;does not show any research effort&quot; reason that is displayed in a hover-over on &quot;Vote Down&quot; button - and thus, are both within the letter AND the spirit of the rules on down-voting a question&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a caveat, this only applies to specifically very trivial-to-find-the-answer questions (Obvious topic-specific Wikipedia article or IMDB/IMFSB listing is in the top Google search results for the question title). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More involved issues (such as &quot;questions whose answer is googleable but is on a Wikia/MemoryX site&quot;, &quot;questions whose answer is clear from reading a book&quot;) have been discussed separately on this Meta and were decided to be quite fine and appropriate and not &quot;trivial&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2014-04-21T03:18:27.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3514" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-21T16:22:29.430" Score="9" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few of the older users have mentioned some &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1544/science-fiction-and-fantasy-top-user-swag&quot;&gt;site swag&lt;/a&gt; that was sent out to high-rep users a couple of years ago (including pens, stickers, t-shirts, etc) to reward their participation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not that anyone could accuse me of being mercenary (perish the thought), but will this generosity be repeated anytime soon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Failing that, will the &lt;a href=&quot;http://shop.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SE: Shop&lt;/a&gt; that was linked be opening again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OGOMj.png&quot; alt=&quot;SFF Sticker&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T19:06:09.507" Title="Will there be any more &quot;swag packs&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|swag|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3515" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-21T17:17:52.177" Score="2" ViewCount="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/army-of-darkness&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;army-of-darkness&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;army-of-darkness&lt;/a&gt; has several questions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/54627/1359&quot;&gt;new question&lt;/a&gt; was recently asked that was (appropriately) tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/evil-dead-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;evil-dead-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;evil-dead-2&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the &lt;em&gt;Army of Darkness&lt;/em&gt; questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/9629/1359&quot;&gt;also relates to &lt;em&gt;Evil Dead 2&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should these tags be consolidated into one &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evil_Dead_(franchise)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;franchise&lt;/a&gt; tag (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/evil-dead&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;evil-dead&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;evil-dead&lt;/a&gt;)?  Should they remain distinct, with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/evil-dead-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;evil-dead-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;evil-dead-2&lt;/a&gt; being added to my earlier &lt;em&gt;Army of Darkness&lt;/em&gt; tag?  Is there another solution that would be preferable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that there are currently 4 movies in the franchise (the original &lt;em&gt;Evil Dead&lt;/em&gt; from 1981, the sequal &lt;em&gt;Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn&lt;/em&gt; from 1987,  &lt;em&gt;Army of Darkness&lt;/em&gt; from 1992, and the remake &lt;em&gt;Evil Dead&lt;/em&gt; from 2013).  Additionally, there are &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evil_Dead_(franchise)#Evil_Dead_2.2C_Army_of_Darkness_2.2C_and_crossover_film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;rumors of a upcoming sequel to &lt;em&gt;Army of Darkness&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, as well as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evil_Dead_(franchise)#Video_games&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;video games&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evil_Dead_(franchise)#Comic_books&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt; and a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evil_Dead_(franchise)#Musical&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;musical&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2014-04-21T17:17:52.177" Title="Should we consolidate questions on the Evil Dead franchise under a single tag (with or without sub-tags)?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3516" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3521" CreationDate="2014-04-22T07:58:47.900" Score="3" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I'm at the review page, the posts I've edited are 59:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NyqNu.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when I go to Users &gt; Editors &gt; All, I have edited 86 posts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fzbQX.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which one is correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a matter of fact, the same happens on Musical Practice. There is like a ~30 posts difference between the review page and the users page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19374" LastActivityDate="2014-04-22T13:24:34.787" Title="How many posts have I edited?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3516" CreationDate="2014-04-22T08:15:16.840" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just a guess, but I think the first is the number of &lt;em&gt;posts&lt;/em&gt; you've edited, and the second is the number of &lt;em&gt;times&lt;/em&gt; you've edited posts. The ~30-post difference represents times you've made more than one edit to the same post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13941" LastActivityDate="2014-04-22T08:15:16.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3518" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-22T09:05:44.810" Score="-6" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am referring to the questions on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Lost&quot; TV series&lt;/a&gt;. May I know where it should belong to? It belongs to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lost&quot;&gt;Scifi.SE&lt;/a&gt;, or at &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lost&quot;&gt;Movies.SE&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I honestly think that we should stop people from asking question about &quot;Lost&quot; here, and direct them to Movies SE, all the &quot;Lost&quot; related questions should be migrated over there. What do you all think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason why I seriously think it is a movie SE not scifi SE is because, we need to maintain some boundary between these two. True, Lost is also a scifi series, but it should be primarily a movie SE question rather than a scifi one. If not, then we would find a lot of overlapping questions, and I honestly don't know where to look for answers if I have questions about Lost. And how do I know where to post questions about Lost? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reading the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3519/1166&quot;&gt;answer below&lt;/a&gt;, I don't really know where plot explanation questions about &quot;Lost&quot; belong on-- does it belong on here, or on movie SE? Shouldn't we have a clear boundary between the sites so that we minimize overlapping? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1166" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2014-04-22T12:38:07.613" Title="Where should the &quot;lost&quot; questions belong to?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3518" CreationDate="2014-04-22T09:32:37.380" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any question about a TV show or film would be on topic on movies.se, provided it fits normal SE guidelines. But sometimes, because of the nature of the work or the question, speculative fiction experts are more likely to be able to answer the question. That's when it's better for the question to be asked here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, questions about a work's fantastical elements are obviously on topic here, because that's what we're about! A question about the science fiction or fantasy elements of Lost is very appropriate for this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But questions about a work's other aspects, like production or marketing, don't obviously fit better here or on movies.se as a matter of general policy--a question about the advertising campaigns for Lost, for example. We cover them in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;our mandate&lt;/a&gt;, which includes &quot;behind-the-scenes information&quot; and &quot;societal context&quot; of speculative fiction works as appropriate topics. But they also fall under &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;the mandate of movies.se&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, there's no clear way to decide whether a question about the non-speculative elements of a speculative-fiction film or TV show should be asked here or on movies.se. We're taking it on a case-by-case basis, evaluating whether each individual question is better served by exposure to film experts or speculative fiction experts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this mean there's going to be overlap? Yes. There's a lot of overlap between various Stack Exchange sites already, and it's just part of the system. We don't make policies for the sake of elegance or a sense of symmetry--we make them to address actual problems we're facing, and so far overlap between movies.se and sf.se has not been a problem which needs a policy-based solution. We look for the &quot;best fit&quot; site for each question, and so do they. &quot;Cross-site&quot; questions which exist on both sites simultaneously have been requested, but it's not a feature we have yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So where should you ask your question? That's up to you. As a general rule of thumb, stuff related to plot and in-universe concepts is better here and stuff related to production is  better on movies.se (unless the work is very solidly speculative and isn't well-known to the general culture, in which case everything about it is probably better off here). The moderators on each site have the power to move a question from one site to the other, so if the community consensus is that a particular question would be better somewhere else, it moves, no big deal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for searching for existing questions, that can be a little irksome, but it's just making two searches instead of one. (I have to search &lt;em&gt;seven&lt;/em&gt; different tags to find all the posts about the Fate engine on rpg.se.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13941" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2014-04-22T12:21:10.570" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3518" CreationDate="2014-04-22T12:38:07.613" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lost&lt;/em&gt; is clearly sci-fi, and therefore on-topic here, on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lost&lt;/em&gt; is a television show, and therefore on-topic for &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;movies.se&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you go to ask a question that fits on either site (and there are &lt;em&gt;tons&lt;/em&gt; of questions here that would be appropriate for either site, and a fair number on movies.se), &lt;em&gt;pick which site you think is more appropriate&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's it.  It isn't any more complicated than that, aside from the caveat: &lt;em&gt;don't cross-post your question on both sites&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question is about the background of the actors, about the process of filming the show, the production, the non-fictional settings, or any other element that could be applicable to most television shows that aren't science fiction, then you might get better results on movies.se.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question is about the fantastic elements (such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1966/why-and-how-was-the-island-protected-in-lost&quot;&gt;Why, and how, was the island protected?&lt;/a&gt;), then it may be better here, since we specialize in science fiction and fantasy discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In most cases, you really can't pick the &quot;wrong&quot; site.  In the few cases where it is clearly more appropriate for the &quot;other&quot; site, the community will discuss it, and it likely will be migrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So getting back to your original suggestion of migrating everything with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lost&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lost&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lost&lt;/a&gt; tag to movies.se:  &lt;strong&gt;Absolutely not&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we migrate it because it's a TV show, then we might as well migrate every other question on TV shows or movies we have here, which would essentially shut our site down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we migrate it because it's a TV show, and the scifi elements occur more as a background upon which non-scifi elements frequently form major plots, we'd still wind up with a policy that declares a tremendous amount of our content off-topic here, for essentially no reason other than an arbitrary line drawn in the sand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/627/1359&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; is the original community discussion on how we handle &quot;conflicts&quot; with movies.se and (the now defunct) literature.se.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2014-04-22T12:38:07.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3516" CreationDate="2014-04-22T13:24:34.787" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The full details are given &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/67397/172958&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, under Copy Editor, the gold-level equivalent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Edits on deleted posts do not count&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Edits to your own posts do not count&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Edits to community wiki posts do count&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Edits that consist only of tag changes do not count&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Tag wiki edits do count&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Edits you suggest before gaining full edit privileges do count, once approved&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Each edited post counts only once, regardless of how many additional edits you may submit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The difference is most likely tag-only edits. If you only change tags, that counts as an &quot;edit&quot; in the editors list but not for the badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2014-04-22T13:24:34.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3522" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-22T14:59:21.943" Score="-1" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should unanswerable questions be downvoted as these have no answer? For instance &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/54720/can-two-persons-master-the-elder-wand-at-one-time&quot;&gt;Can two people master the Elder Wand at one time?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24775" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2014-04-22T17:26:30.390" Title="Should unanswerable questions be downvoted" Tags="|discussion|scope|down-votes|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3522" CreationDate="2014-04-22T15:24:05.973" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No. Not for the reason described.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As discussed in the earlier question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3014/should-all-questions-without-explicit-canon-answers-be-closed&quot;&gt;Should all questions without explicit canon answers be closed?&lt;/a&gt;, the lack of a canon answer does not make a question invalid or bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I, myself, tend to only downvote questions for the reasons described in the hover-text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question does not show any research effort&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question is not clear&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question is not useful (I don't really feel like this reason applies to many SE sites)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The lack of a canon answer does not fulfill any of those three criteria and does not deserve a downvote, in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this specific question, one of the arguments is that it is a manufactured what-if scenario. While it is an &lt;em&gt;unlikely&lt;/em&gt; scenario, it is not a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/gorilla-vs-shark/&quot;&gt;Shark Vs Gorilla question&lt;/a&gt;, nor is it out of the realm of possibility (at least, based on my understanding of the rules/physics of the HP universe). The lack of canon answer leaves us with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3484/logical-speculation-in-answers&quot;&gt;logical speculative answers&lt;/a&gt;, which are perfectly fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2014-04-22T15:24:05.973" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3522" CreationDate="2014-04-22T15:34:48.240" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;TL;DR I wouldn't have downvoted your question, nor would I have voted to close (but I probably wouldn't have upvoted it, either).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to split my full answer into two parts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the first part, I'm just going to comment on the &quot;should &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; be downvoted&quot;:&#xA;Voting, whether up or down (or not at all), is entirely the prerogative of the individual (subject to reason, of course; targeted voting, for or against another specific person, is against the rules).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We, as a community, have no control over whether any given individual upvotes or downvotes a question or answer.  We can set a clear policy, but we can't enforce it, so what's the point?  This is &quot;by design&quot;, since it should be majority opinion that is the indication of quality, so if one person (or even a handful) downvotes what a lot of people are up-voting, it won't mean much in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't mean downvotes should be cast willy-nilly.  Receiving downvotes is generally very discouraging, particularly to new members of our community, and should, in my opinion, be done both sparingly and with a clear indication as to &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it was given.  But again, we can't enforce that.  We can only suggest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, for the second part, let's address the &quot;can't be answered&quot; part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, I don't think just because a question doesn't seem to have an answer within the primary source means it should be downvoted or closed.  In particular, looking at the comments, I have to question the justifications you were given.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The users downvoting you and commenting seem to be under the impression that the Harry Potter books are the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; source of Harry Potter canon.  That simply is not true, and even a cursory review of the many Harry Potter questions we have on our site will reveal that in addition to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.pottermore.com/en-us&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pottermore&lt;/a&gt; site (which is, I believe, considered supplemental canon in its own rights), J.K. Rowling has provided quite a lot of additional material and information about the Harry Potter universe than is contained in the books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Direct quotes from an author during an interview are certainly &quot;canon&quot; as far as I'm concerned, and the general consensus of the community seems to agree with me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if no canon answer exists, as phantom42 mentions in his &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3523/1359&quot;&gt;excellent answer&lt;/a&gt; to your question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3484/logical-speculation-in-answers&quot;&gt;logical speculation is perfectly fine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The closest thing I could see to an appropriate criticism to your question would be &quot;primarily opinion based&quot;, which is a close reason, not a downvote reason.  However, that's a rather slippery close reason, and I don't think it is at all appropriate in a case like this, where you're discussing specific details of a single, specific work, with a hypothetical situation thrown in.  You can't know if something like that can only be answered by opinion unless you've done &lt;em&gt;extensive&lt;/em&gt; research, and even then it is easy to miss something authoritative (especially in a universe like the HP setting, due to the high volume of supplemental materials).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, &quot;primarily opinion based&quot; is generally for when no specific work is included when discussing a hypothetical (and even then, only sometimes), or when multiple specific, yet unrelated works, are involved in hypothetical discussion (and again, only sometimes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2014-04-22T15:34:48.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3522" CreationDate="2014-04-22T16:23:39.100" Score="2" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For the record, I am similar to @Beofett: your question wasn't woth an upvote as is BUT on the other hand people who downvoted it (and dissed it in comments) were within the letter their legal rights but clearly abused the spirit of downvoting guidelines).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;First of all, because the guidelines for downvoting clearly do NOT anywhere state that answerability of the question is grounds for downvote. Lack of research, lack of clarity - yes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Second, because absent a specific &lt;strong&gt;proof&lt;/strong&gt; of non-answerability (which would be tremendously difficult to prov in general; and impossible to prove for HP question as per my point #3 below); an accusation of &quot;not answerable&quot; is a subjective opinion not backed up by facts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To add to @Beofett's answer, to make your question worth of upvote, I would recommend explaining WHY such a situation would be plausible in-universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did something happen where 2 people disarmed/defeated (or tried to) the same person at the same time in the books? BAM! Your question goes from &quot;speculative&quot; to &quot;interesting&quot; and IMHO worth an upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To address &quot;unansweable&quot; BS stated in the comments on your question: Since the author is still alive and answers questions, &lt;strong&gt;calling your question &quot;unanswerable&quot; is wrong, incorrect, illogical and fallacious&lt;/strong&gt;, even leaving aside the generic issue of what votes should &quot;really&quot; unanswerable questions get.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2014-04-22T16:29:57.807" LastActivityDate="2014-04-22T16:29:57.807" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3522" CreationDate="2014-04-22T17:20:39.930" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ultimately there's no such thing as an &lt;em&gt;unanswerable question&lt;/em&gt; unless;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You're the author and sole canon source of information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You've never shared the answer with anyone&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You plan to kill yourself immediately after writing &quot;no, there's no answer&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If any of the above isn't the case, there's always the possibility that an unknown source will come forward with more information or the author will extend the canon with future works that give more details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the specific case of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/54720/can-two-persons-master-the-elder-wand-at-one-time&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;your question&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the downvotes seem to be because you're specifically calling for &lt;em&gt;speculation&lt;/em&gt; about a possible event even though the answer (e.g. &quot;no, that can't happen&quot;) is already well established in other questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2014-04-22T17:26:30.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3527" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3536" CreationDate="2014-04-23T17:22:02.383" Score="-11" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a question is asked that meets all other site criteria and survives any 'deletion review' process (not an obvious troll attempt, but a genuine question) yet for whatever reason receives multiple down votes, the asker should get a badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the same measure, an answer that is correct, accurate and supported but receives numerous down votes because it's 'unpopular' to those few who read the OP should get a badge. The old saying holds sway; If you don't want to hear the answer, don't ask the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13090" LastEditorUserId="4167" LastEditDate="2014-04-25T04:14:32.610" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T04:14:32.610" Title="There should be a badge for Q&amp;As that receive unwarranted negative votes" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|badges|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3527" CreationDate="2014-04-23T17:42:29.383" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see any need for this, and I don't see how you could define &quot;meets all other site criteria&quot; and &quot;a genuine question.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both processes - downvoting and voting to close - are in place for good reasons.  Downvoting to indicate that people don't think the question is good, and voting to close to indicate that it needs substantial work or doesn't belong here at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your first paragraph posits a case where the question is bad enough to be downvoted &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; to have some close votes thrown on it, but somehow it'll be found to be worthwhile enough to give someone a badge for it.  Maybe there's the odd question that fits that description, but you'd have to point out a bunch to convince me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly for your second situation, you'd have to cite some examples of answers that are accurate and supported yet received downvotes due to unpopularity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And for both examples, you'd have to cite examples where the &lt;em&gt;net&lt;/em&gt; votes are negative, not just an answer that's not as highly upvoted as a less-correct one and not answers that received a few downvotes along with a bunch of upvotes.  Again, I think there are very few of these, so what's the need for a badge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T17:42:29.383" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3527" CreationDate="2014-04-24T00:54:09.503" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there's a confusion here which could be clarified: the voting process, the acceptance feature, the closing process, and the deletion process have little overlap in terms of purpose or criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's generally okay for a post that meets all the site's guidelines to still be downvoted, because voting should have nothing to do with &quot;meets basic guidelines for acceptable contributions.&quot; It doesn't automatically mean people are abusing the voting process, nor does it mean the close/delete systems have failed. (Similarly, no one should ever feel pressured to accept the highest-voted answer to their question, because accepting an answer means it's the most useful &lt;em&gt;to the querent&lt;/em&gt;, which is a totally subjective and individual criterion.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, there are ways to abuse these features, and I suspect this idea for a badge came about because some few people &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; abusing the downvote system. That should be addressed. But it's inappropriate to respond to an abuse of the system by instituting pity prizes for those who suffer because of it--it'd be a tacit acceptance of the misbehaviour. If this is the level of desperation our citizens have come to in their search for redress, that is a major problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13941" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T00:54:09.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3530" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-24T02:24:32.073" Score="9" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;SFF.SE's downvote arrow lists 3 criteria for when a question should be downvoted (&quot;No research&quot;, &quot;unclear&quot;, &quot;not useful&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first 2 are reasonably clear-cut, even though the &quot;unclear&quot; one has potential to be quite subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it seems that we as a site have a major deficiency in a well-understood and agreed upon set of criteria of which questions are &quot;useful&quot; vs &quot;not useful&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given examples below, I feel that &lt;strong&gt;we should have a very well developed and settled set of guidelines of what the site community as a whole views as &quot;useful&quot; and especially &quot;not useful&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we do, we CAN use it to explain to newer voters what they should consider when making voting decisions (we can't - and shouldn't - use it to police votes, however). I have personally had many cases where I talked someone out of a DV or VTC by explaining Meta guidelines that they weren't aware of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some people once in a while pop up who openly declare &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2668/are-these-useful-questions&quot;&gt;Plot hole explanation&lt;/a&gt;&quot; questions as not useful.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yet, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1851/movie-magic-or-how-do-we-answer-stupid-questions&quot;&gt;the Meta consensus shows&lt;/a&gt;, the community settled on such questions as being perfectly fine and useful.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some people (especially in chat, too lazy to search meta) declare any question asking about &quot;speculative&quot; situation as not useful (&quot;Can you cast Avada Kedavra while doing triple somersault while dressed as a clown?&quot; - responded to with &quot;Not useful, since that situation never occurred in canon&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some people consider any questions clearly answered by books to be not useful.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please provide ONE guideline per answer; either a positive (X is not useful; + Reasons) or negative (Y is NOT 'not useful' + Reasons). This way people can vote agreement or disagreement with each guideline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T05:12:04.227" Title="What exactly are our guidelines for declaring the question as &quot;not useful&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|voting|down-votes|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3530" CreationDate="2014-04-24T02:30:30.337" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;General guideline #0&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Not useful&quot; means &quot;Not useful to everyone else - specifically, to future readers&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It does &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;NOT&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; mean &quot;Not useful to me personally&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reason&lt;/strong&gt;: This is discussed in the highest-voted answer on Meta.SE &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/195294/what-does-it-mean-for-a-question-to-be-not-useful&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T02:38:08.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3530" CreationDate="2014-04-24T02:40:07.243" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Corollary to guideline #0: popularity on SFF.SE implies &quot;usefulness&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While - as Gilles put it pithily in the past - popularity (upvoting) does not imply &lt;em&gt;quality&lt;/em&gt;; you can safely assume that popularity implies interest and thus usefulness to other users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If 5 other people upvoted a question, clearly there's a big enough set of people who find that question useful; so you should NOT downvote it as &quot;Not Useful&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Mind you, it can still be an awful question deserving downvotes on other grounds... just don't think it's &quot;Not useful&quot; since the evidence shows that it is).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T02:40:07.243" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3530" CreationDate="2014-04-24T02:44:48.827" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Guideline: Questions asking for in-universe explanation of what is obviously a plot hole are NOT &quot;Not useful&quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reasons:&lt;/strong&gt; Discussed in detail in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1851/movie-magic-or-how-do-we-answer-stupid-questions&quot;&gt;these meta answers&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Short version: for most large-ish fictional universes, there is enough information in them (canon or author interviews or retcons) that address many if not most obvious plot holes. There are plenty of people on this site who view said information as very useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T02:44:48.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3530" CreationDate="2014-04-24T05:12:04.227" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Guidelines? We don't need no stinking guidelines!&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this question (and some others here recently) misses the point: voting is a mass activity.  If lots of people vote &lt;em&gt;based on their own understanding&lt;/em&gt; of what &quot;clear, useful, and well researched&quot; mean, then the &lt;em&gt;net score&lt;/em&gt; is a measure of how good the question is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, statement made in one of sample answers (&quot;If 5 other people upvoted a question, [...] you should NOT downvote it as &quot;Not Useful&quot;.&quot;) is dead wrong.  Even if 50 people have upvoted it, if you think it's not useful, go ahead and vote it down.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like too many people worry too much about a few downvotes here and there.  If there is a problem with &quot;bad&quot; downvotes, a better solution than trying to give people exact rules about how to vote (since there's no mechanism to enforce those rules) is simply to encourage people to vote more - up or down.  In the long run, if someone's opinion of what's useful is different from most other voters, it won't matter because everyone gets just one vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's sort of an aside to the rest of my answer, but I mostly agree with the guideline in another sample answer (&quot;Not useful&quot; means &quot;Not useful to everyone else - specifically, to future readers&quot;.  It does &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;NOT&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; mean &quot;Not useful to me personally&quot;.), but even that is open to debate: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/195294/what-does-it-mean-for-a-question-to-be-not-useful&quot;&gt;in the linked Meta.SE question&lt;/a&gt;, there are no comments disagreeing with the next-highest answer that says &quot;vote however you want.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T05:12:04.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3301" CreationDate="2014-04-24T15:10:00.593" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The automatic conversion of answers to community wikis &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2014/04/putting-the-community-back-in-wiki/?cb=1&quot;&gt;has been removed&lt;/a&gt;, so this should not be an issue moving forward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the blog:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Therefore, &lt;strong&gt;we have removed all automatic Wiki conversion triggers from the software.&lt;/strong&gt; No longer will answers with more than some arbitrary number of edits, or questions with more than a page of answers suddenly lose their owners. To handle those rare situations where unusual activity levels may indicate misuse, we’ve added some new moderator flags in these scenarios: they can respond when necessary by closing or locking the post – but when there is no fire behind the smoke, they can silently dismiss the flag without disruption.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Authors and Mods can convert answers into Community Wikis, but the system will no longer do so automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T15:10:00.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3527" CreationDate="2014-04-24T17:45:57.470" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen good questions being downvoted on other SE sites.  I've seen a high-rep user on another SE site actually &lt;em&gt;edit a question to make it off-topic, then VTC it&lt;/em&gt;.  Thankfully the latter kind of thing doesn't seem to have happened here; hopefully it never does (I mention this as an example to show that downvotes are far from the worst that can happen).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is all rogue behaviour and there shouldn't be any sort of reward system in place for it; neither for the rogue user nor for their victim.  Putting a reward system in place is a way by which we accept rogue behaviour, and we shouldn't be doing that.  There are plenty of &quot;flag for moderator attention&quot; links all over the site, and that seems a more appropriate way to deal with this behaviour.  Don't accept it and risk making it part of site culture: stamp it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T17:45:57.470" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3537" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-24T23:22:00.083" Score="13" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our main site's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;'What topics can I ask about here?'&lt;/a&gt; page, has this under the 'what not to ask' section:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Facts easily found on a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/403/what-are-standard-internet-reference-sites-for-sf&quot;&gt;reference site&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Who played X in Y?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this line was from the early days of the site.  Since then, we &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2400/should-we-burninate-general-reference&quot;&gt;burninated General Reference&lt;/a&gt;, and we &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3070/should-we-close-questions-for-being-too-trivial&quot;&gt;confirmed we don't close trivial questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yet this line remains, causing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/54883/what-are-the-titles-of-the-k-pax-books#comment106956_54883&quot;&gt;conflict and confusion&lt;/a&gt;.  So, should this line be removed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T18:49:16.947" Title="Do we want to remove this line from the 'what to ask'?" Tags="|discussion|scope|site-faq|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3537" CreationDate="2014-04-24T23:35:41.633" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that it should be completely removed. Asking questions of that type exhibits lack of research/effort on the part of the asker. This is grounds for being downvoted, and folks should understand that if they ask questions like that, they &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; get torn apart by vicious piranha, er I mean people who aren't big fans of that kind of question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5424" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T23:35:41.633" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3537" CreationDate="2014-04-24T23:52:36.120" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;To the best of our ability, the FAQ should reflect the current policies of the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New users are more likely to read the FAQ and help pages than reading Meta. While we can help direct and advise users through comments, having the community standards being consistent in as many places as possible would make things a lot easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since in-depth research of any sort is not &lt;em&gt;required&lt;/em&gt;, we should not be telling users not to ask these questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it does make sense to advise people that while they are not banned or considered off-topic, that we're &lt;em&gt;hoping&lt;/em&gt; for a little bit more. Moving this (possibly with a slight edit) to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;How do I ask a good question?&lt;/a&gt; section seems like a suitable solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T23:52:36.120" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3537" CreationDate="2014-04-25T16:48:37.227" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As someone who's relatively new to the site (120 days and counting), I've not been privy to the more in-depth discussions that have been referenced above. That said, I honestly think that a question that shows &lt;strong&gt;zero research&lt;/strong&gt; should be marked for closure and that the policy should be moved into line with the FAQ rather than the other way around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Changing the FAQ to explicitly allow questions that show zero research effort is (IMHO) a wrong move. As was pointed out in the discussion about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2976/has-stack-exchange-discontinues-the-tactics-of-contests/3009#3009&quot;&gt;Answerama&lt;/a&gt;, low quality questions don't help to further the site's goals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T18:49:16.947" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2672" CreationDate="2014-04-25T19:00:20.240" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would argue that they &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be allowed. According to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scifi#Apocalyptic_and_post-apocalyptic&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; definition&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A subgenre of sci-fi is apocalyptic fiction:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Apocalyptic fiction is concerned with the end of civilization through war (On the Beach), &lt;strong&gt;pandemic (The Last Man)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that's close enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1598778/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt; lists Contagion as &quot;Scifi&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16518" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T19:00:20.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3542" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3543" CreationDate="2014-04-25T19:10:10.147" Score="8" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been avidly reading &lt;a href=&quot;http://parahumans.wordpress.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Worm&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pact&lt;/a&gt;, two very good web serials that are about superheroes and demons respectively (a bit of an oversimplification, but close enough). However, although Worm has been finished at about 1.6 million words and Pact is over 100,000 words and counting, neither have been published.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are questions about them on topic, given that their subject matter is suitable? Or in a more general sense, is webfiction on-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11041" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2014-04-25T19:20:52.477" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T19:20:52.477" Title="Are questions about webfiction on-topic?" Tags="|support|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3542" CreationDate="2014-04-25T19:20:27.813" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say that our scope is more defined by genre than by media. If the web fiction is Sci-fi/Fantasy/Speculative, then it's welcome here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T19:20:27.813" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3544" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-26T15:29:16.280" Score="1" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a few questions about where the line between non-genre and speculative fiction lies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speculative fiction being the collective term for Sci-fi, horror, fantasy and a few other closely related things - all of which should be ontopic for this site (as I understand things.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify my undertanding of what is and is not speculative fiction, I would like to ask 2 or 3 questions. Along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;is John Marsden's Tomorrow speculative fiction?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;is the BBC Sherlock or CBS Elementary speculative fiction&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;don't&lt;/strong&gt; answer them here (or in comments). I want to know if I can ask them (or questions like them) on the main site.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would such questions be on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3164" LastActivityDate="2014-04-27T19:16:40.277" Title="Can I ask if a book/movie/TV show is speculative fiction?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2017-11-03T10:51:24.453" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3544" CreationDate="2014-04-26T15:40:28.390" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. &quot;Is this science fiction&quot; questions are off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2014-04-27T19:16:40.277" LastActivityDate="2014-04-27T19:16:40.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3544" CreationDate="2014-04-26T15:45:37.673" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Help Page&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fa00r.png&quot; alt=&quot;off topic pic&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, is X science fiction (etc) is off topic.&#xA;Read the Manual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic/362#362&quot;&gt;discussion here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3164" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2014-04-26T15:45:37.673" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3547" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-26T16:01:45.727" Score="-4" ViewCount="280" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Radically Edited in light of perpetual misinterpretation - 28/04/14&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have overlap between SF&amp;amp;F and M&amp;amp;TV, particularily with &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we're M&amp;amp;TV, we've encountered some people who only want answers about the TV continuity, and don't want the series 'spoiled' by people bringing in elements from the books that 'look forward'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're adjusting our tolerance levels to remove/hide such spoilers, unless they are overtly solicited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this community encounters people complaining that they don't want to experience spoilers, &lt;strong&gt;please feel free&lt;/strong&gt; to point them to us, as in recognising this distinction of audiences we are now accommodating them. Or if you're more 'policy-led' rather than 'user-led', and are inclined to worry about intersite 'competition' rather than helping users: don't. Whatever seems appropriate given the case. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've been told not to expect any co-operation from SF&amp;amp;F from this, and that's fine. I'm sorry that this can't even be expressed as a question, or discussion, or even supported by an example. Each time this was done, it only 'confused' what was always a very simple proposition. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't intend for any of this to be inflammatory, but this wasn't the sort of response I was expecting for what I considered to be an innocuous proposition. Obviously I now know that whatever we do on M&amp;amp;TV has little effect here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The initial purpose of this discussion was basically of a fact-finding nature: discussion in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1241/setting-distinctionsbetween-tv-series-and-books-source-material-whats-acceptab&quot;&gt;the original thread had turned to questions&lt;/a&gt; about implementation and the wider affects of us adopting such a position. The question posed to this Community was related to, but not a duplicate of, the propositions/solutions being asked there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That should hopefully clear up some of the confusion experienced here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has proven to be useful in this regard at least, as moving forward I'm now aware that policy not only discourages but forbids migration to a Beta, so any mutual facilitation will not be forthcoming. This gives us effective scope of how our actions will be acknowledged by sister-sites, or sites with overlapping elements.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:49:37.240" LastActivityDate="2014-04-29T04:07:31.413" Title="Overlap with M&amp;TV and SF&amp;F pertaining to spoilers - Solved" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="21" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3547" CreationDate="2014-04-26T16:28:49.300" Score="11" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As such, questions which directly refer to the Book continuity are automatically migrated here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd think this is a given, since books are off-topic for Movies &amp;amp; TV.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I was wondered what this community would feel about reciprocating this distinction: If a question is being asked here which implicitly state they are referring to the TV Show (as in this example), they would be considered for discretionary migration to the M&amp;amp;TV site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not interested.  We've had multiple Meta posts on the subject here in the past (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/626/1027&quot;&gt;here's one&lt;/a&gt;), and essentially, people are free to choose which audience they want to ask their questions to.  We're more genre-oriented, Movies &amp;amp; TV.SE is more broadly interested in anything of film and TV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2/scifi-movies-overlap&quot;&gt;this discussion&lt;/a&gt; now out of date?  The &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1241/209&quot;&gt;recent discussion&lt;/a&gt; you linked has no indication the Movies &amp;amp; TV.SE community wants this boundary between books vs. TV questions to be created, except in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1242/209&quot;&gt;lowest-voted answer&lt;/a&gt;.  It also has (at time of posting) 7 votes max on the answers, with no clear 'highest-voted answer', is this a large amount of participation for Movies &amp;amp; TV.SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about Sci-fi and Fantasy Movies &amp;amp; TV are on-topic for us, we're not going to migrate them simply because books are off-topic for Movies &amp;amp; TV.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not going to get into how bad an idea it is to expect a bunch of migrations from a graduated SE site to a beta site, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3547/proposal-of-discretionary-migrations-in-consideration-of-the-distinction-betwe/3548#comment10967_3547&quot;&gt;WendiKidd&lt;/a&gt; touched on it in their comment.  The comment doesn't also address that &lt;strong&gt;we can't setup a migration path to a beta site&lt;/strong&gt;, so you're asking for the mods here to move each question manually, as the community can't help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2014-04-26T16:57:16.113" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3549" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-26T18:35:48.610" Score="7" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently we have two very similar Avengers-related tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers&lt;/a&gt; referring to the superhero team in general, which has 169&amp;nbsp;questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-avengers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-avengers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-avengers&lt;/a&gt; referring specifically to the 2012 Marvel film of the same name, which has 3&amp;nbsp;questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's worth having these two separate tags, and that the former should be a tag synonym for the latter. The latter isn’t getting enough use, and anybody wanting to look for questions about the film have to combine the Avengers and MCU tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yay or nay?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastActivityDate="2014-04-26T18:59:42.473" Title="Tag synonym: &quot;the-avengers&quot; to &quot;avengers&quot;" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3549" CreationDate="2014-04-26T18:48:21.373" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, those should be synonyms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2014-04-26T18:48:21.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3549" CreationDate="2014-04-26T18:59:42.473" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-avengers-2012&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-avengers-2012&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-avengers-2012&lt;/a&gt; for the MCU film.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers&lt;/a&gt; should then be used for the team in general (comics, TV, and film).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-04-26T18:59:42.473" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3552" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3554" CreationDate="2014-04-27T09:47:12.527" Score="3" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand there is a 200 point per day cap on reputation but there are exceptions that would allow for more. I assume one is acceptance of an answer and another is for a bounty. What are the other ways that more than 200 can be awarded. I see some people who gather 290-305 rep points per day. How is that possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13090" LastActivityDate="2015-08-22T09:42:18.297" Title="What factors would allow people here to acquire more than 200 reputation points per day?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3552" CreationDate="2014-04-27T10:08:41.247" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quoting from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;help centre page on reputation&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You can earn a maximum of 200 reputation per day from any combination of the activities below. &lt;strong&gt;Bounty awards, accepted answers, and association bonuses are not subject to the daily reputation limit.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These exceptions are the same across all Stack Exchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a user page, you can see a breakdown of the user’s reputation, and where they earned it, by clicking on the &quot;Reputation&quot; tab or appending &lt;code&gt;?tab=reputation&lt;/code&gt; to the URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, your reputation breakdown can be found at &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/13090/morgan?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/13090/morgan?tab=reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything that affects your rep – voting, accepted/accepting answers, bounties, and so on – are listed here, grouped by day so you can see how a particular user scored more than 200 rep in a single day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2014-04-27T10:08:41.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3552" CreationDate="2014-04-27T11:14:01.420" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In principle you can earn an &lt;em&gt;unlimited&lt;/em&gt; amount of points per day. In practice, the realistic limits are below;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Upvotes&lt;/strong&gt; - These are limited to 200 rep per day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bounty awards&lt;/strong&gt; - Theoretically unlimited but since there are usually only 400-1000 rep points worth of &quot;bounty&quot; questions available, that represents something of a limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Accepted answers&lt;/strong&gt; - Theoretically unlimited but realistically you're unlikely to have more than 4-5 accepted answers in a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Association bonuses&lt;/strong&gt; - Not added to your cap level but also not shown on your rep graph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The single highest number of reps gained in a day is &lt;s&gt;560&lt;/s&gt; 760, primarily from a 500 point bonus. The highest number of reps gained in a day without any bonuses is 350.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/110083/most-rep-gained-in-a-single-day&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/110083/most-rep-gained-in-a-single-day&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2015-08-22T09:42:18.297" LastActivityDate="2015-08-22T09:42:18.297" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3511" CreationDate="2014-04-27T19:15:28.907" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've asked 47 questions. Ignoring those that were immediately closed as duplicates or &quot;opinion based&quot;, you've had at least one downvote on 13 of those questions, representing over a quarter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I can tell there's no vendetta against you by a single user (almost none of them were &quot;late downvotes&quot;, nor was there a specific pattern in the downvoting).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless you get a notification that a user has been suspended for serial downvoting your answers, my advice is just to suck it up and move on with your life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2014-04-27T19:15:28.907" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3547" CreationDate="2014-04-27T23:31:13.777" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just going to leave it as a comment, but then thought it might just get lost. @Keen's answer is fairly definitive from the Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy side, I thought I would put a short perspective from the Movies &amp;amp; TV side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Movies &amp;amp; TV is a broad media focused site - that could in theory have a large 'on topic' overlap with other sites, but practically the biggest overlap has been with Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is fairly common for people to suggest or flag something as &quot;Better asked on SciFi&quot; and I decline all but a very small subset of these.  If the question is on topic on M&amp;amp;TV then I will not migrate it.  Advice from StackExchange on topic overlap is that any attempt to eliminate such overlap ends up as a sort of gerrymandering that unduly benefits one site or other, and is likely to be unevenly applied by the users or moderators responsible for managing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to echo the sentiment from the other post - I'm not interested either. I love Science Fiction but we just have to live with this overlap and M&amp;amp;TV will survive on its own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the M&amp;amp;TV meta discussion that started this - I do not read into the answers given there that people on M&amp;amp;TV are crying out for a solution to this &quot;problem&quot;.  Yes there are some niceties about how to answer a movie or TV question that was adapted from a novel, but I don't think this is a viable solution to that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3569" LastActivityDate="2014-04-27T23:31:13.777" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3557" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-28T14:15:09.493" Score="16" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was reviewing the review queue just for my own edification and I've noticed what seems to be a trend in adding more and more extraneous tags to questions that already appear appropriately tagged. Do I need to make a list of examples, or am I being clear? I'll make a list if you all would like one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've always tried to keep tagging to a minimum, while still addressing the subject of the content of the question. I find extraneous tags to be kind of patronizing -- yeah, yeah, I get it! &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/25577&quot;&gt;The Butterbeer question&lt;/a&gt; ... &lt;em&gt;is indeed about Butterbeer&lt;/em&gt; and was not explicitly tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/butterbeer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;butterbeer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;butterbeer&lt;/a&gt; as such. I thought the title of the question -- &lt;em&gt;Does Butterbeer have alcohol in it?&lt;/em&gt; -- would be a sufficient alert as to the topic of the question, and &quot;Butterbeer&quot; is easily searchable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would have preferred to see a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/food-drink&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;food-drink&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;food-drink&lt;/a&gt; tag over a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/butterbeer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;butterbeer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;butterbeer&lt;/a&gt; tag, because it's more easily shared among the different canons we ask about at this site. It seems to be a pretty small, specific group of users who have gone tag crazy, but I'm wondering what SFF users as a whole think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pros? Cons? Other suggestions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am truly not against tags -- don't get me wrong. I just believe they ought to be used judiciously (I know I use &quot;judiciously&quot; a lot, but it's fitting in so many situations that crop up on SFF.se.). Do we want to get to the point where we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gurdyroot&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gurdyroot&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gurdyroot&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/u-no-poo&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;u-no-poo&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;u-no-poo&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dumbledores-whirlygig&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dumbledores-whirlygig&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dumbledores-whirlygig&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/manky-old-boot&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;manky-old-boot&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;manky-old-boot&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fawkes-ashes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fawkes-ashes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fawkes-ashes&lt;/a&gt; as tags, and more and more, &lt;em&gt;ad nauseam&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2014-04-28T14:48:16.167" Title="Tags Tags Tags: When is enough enough already?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3557" CreationDate="2014-04-28T14:48:16.167" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/32041/166646&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; on meta.stackexchange.com provides some general guidelines for what tags are for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They are used for (weak) statistics.  For example, you can't look at the currently 51,715 questions tagged &lt;code&gt;c#&lt;/code&gt; and say there are that many C# questions, because some C# questions will simply be tagged &lt;code&gt;.net&lt;/code&gt; and some question that are only very loosely C#-related (more about the .NET API, for example) will end up tagged that way.  But you can compare the &lt;code&gt;c#&lt;/code&gt; tag to other language tags like &lt;code&gt;php&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;java&lt;/code&gt; for relative popularity on Stack Overflow or track the growth of the &lt;code&gt;c#&lt;/code&gt; tag over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tags connect experts with questions they will be able to answer.&lt;/strong&gt;  If you tag your SQL Server question 'mssql' instead of 'sql-server', odds are it won't get near as much attention and may not get a good answer or as good of an answer, because frequent users who use SQL Server have settled on the 'sql-server' tag.  They know to watch the &lt;code&gt;sql-server&lt;/code&gt; tag for questions they can answer, but are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; watching for &lt;code&gt;mssql&lt;/code&gt;.  A good rule of thumb is that any tag used less than 10 times is almost certainly wrong, and any major language or product tag used less than 100 times is almost certainly wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags are used in searching.  You can search within a specific tag by enclosing it in square brackets, like this: &lt;code&gt;[java] generics&lt;/code&gt;.  That would search for all posts tagged &amp;quot;java&amp;quot; with the word &amp;quot;generics&amp;quot; in them.  Additionally, if you search on any one of the top 20 tags, it's automatically converted to a tag search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags can award badges.  Earn 100, 400 or 1000 upvotes in a specific tag, and you get a badge for that tag.  Also, if you click on a tag there is a stats tab where you can view top users within that tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tags are for sorting your question into specific, well-defined categories&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.  Each tag should by itself refer to a specific category.  If a tag only makes sense when used in combination with another tag (like '2005' with sql-server, 'visual' with 'studio', or '3.5' with .net), it's a &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the most important, for us, are the second, and the last.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the example of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/butterbeer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;butterbeer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;butterbeer&lt;/a&gt; tag, I feel it fails to meet either of those criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The experts aren't &amp;quot;butterbeer&amp;quot; experts.  They're most likely &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; experts, or possibly food or cooking experts, although that really is more the purview of the experts at cooking.se.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nor do I consider &amp;quot;butterbeer&amp;quot; a specific, well-defined category.  To me, a specific, well-defined category is something that could easily wind up with dozens of valid, on-topic questions.  I find that hard to imagine with butterbeer... but I could be mistaken.  However, I would rather &lt;strong&gt;wait and see&lt;/strong&gt; if we wind up with far more questions than I anticipate, rather than adding a tag now in anticipation of a flood of butterbeer-related questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Wait and see&amp;quot; seems generally to be the right approach to sub-tags.  In some cases, it's obvious that a new tag is needed: if there aren't any tags that properly describe a question, or the only tags that describe it are incredibly vague (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movies&lt;/a&gt;), then sure, go ahead and create (or request) a new tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if the question already falls under a well-defined genre tag (such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;, etc.), then I'd be careful about adding new tags unless there's already a large volume of questions dealing with that specific sub-genre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For related discussion, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1563/1359&quot;&gt;see this meta on character tags&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-04-28T14:48:16.167" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3547" CreationDate="2014-04-28T16:00:55.897" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, out of frustration (and at the risk of &quot; overly-elaborating simple ideas [so] that the key points may sometimes get lost&quot;, as Beofett puts it) I'm going to have to clarify exactly what it is we're discussing on M&amp;amp;TV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There seem to be people misreading/misinterpreting/not reading what we're trying to achieve, and the goal of this discussion, so unfortunately this seems neccessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is understandable, as there is a lot to read/digest on both sites and some people simply don't have time. I will concede that perhaps I've not been clear enough, but this answer hopefully serves of an example of the BEST SCENARIO of what the distinction is trying to communicate to users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EXAMPLE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;QUESTION: &quot;I'm watching &quot;XXXX&quot; (in this case GoT) and seek&#xA;  clarification on this issue/development.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm only watching the TV series so don't spoil anything.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is presented with...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;ANSWER: Hi. Here at SF&amp;amp;F, answers relating to TV/Movies and Books are&#xA;  both on topic. Whilst we hope our users employ discretion, we can't&#xA;  (and don't conisder it helpful) to strictly enforce this distinction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;...However...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The M&amp;amp;TV site has recently decided that it will primarily answer&#xA;  questions on the TV series and avoid indiscreet references to the&#xA;  Books. If you're looking for an environment to discuss the TV series&#xA;  without the risk spoilers, that site will be more facilitating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Regardless, here is the answer you are looking for&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now note: No Seperation, No Witholding/Obstruction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only people (Keen included, although I agree with his points) who even interpreting this as some kind of Mass exodus or separation are the people who haven't understood what it's trying to achieve. No one has ever asked for separation. Ever. It was brought up by a user, and swiftly discredited. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Seperation/Policy Ammendment/Automatic Migration is not (and has never been) the objective: we are trying to create an environment for people to communicate without having their experience spoiled.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's just a courtesy initiative that is &lt;em&gt;USER LED&lt;/em&gt;, not policy led. The distinction exists to help Users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does not require anything other than the SF&amp;amp;F's acknowledgement of its existence. Nothing Radical, and as &lt;em&gt;plenty of people&lt;/em&gt; have pointed out already, just common sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I at least agree with my detractors that this has become an entirely overcomplicated affair; but this complication has been borne out of a misunderstanding of what we're trying to achieve. Hopefully this clarifies that at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16267" LastActivityDate="2014-04-28T16:00:55.897" CommentCount="20" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3560" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-29T10:40:19.610" Score="9" ViewCount="260" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3557/19561&quot;&gt;this meta post&lt;/a&gt;, I decided to take a look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/187020/tags-used-in-conjunction-with-tagharry-potter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;tags that are used together with [tag:harry-potter]&lt;/a&gt;. Some of them seem too specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we make a group effort to clean this tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; is currently at 1350+ questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The list includes (number of occurrences alongside &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/voldemort&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;voldemort&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;voldemort&lt;/a&gt; (124)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/horcrux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;horcrux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;horcrux&lt;/a&gt; (79)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magical-theory&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magical-theory&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magical-theory&lt;/a&gt; (61)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hogwarts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hogwarts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hogwarts&lt;/a&gt; (44)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magical-creatures&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magical-creatures&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magical-creatures&lt;/a&gt; (40)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/albus-dumbledore&quot; 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rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magical-transportation&lt;/a&gt; (4)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apparation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apparation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apparation&lt;/a&gt; (3)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dark-arts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dark-arts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dark-arts&lt;/a&gt; (3)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/phoenix&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;phoenix&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;phoenix&lt;/a&gt; (3)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2014-05-02T01:36:02.863" Title="Harry Potter tag cleanup" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3560" CreationDate="2014-04-29T19:57:28.600" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jk-rowling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jk-rowling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jk-rowling&lt;/a&gt; tags could be removed from roughly 80% of the questions it's on.  Only a handful of those questions have anything to do with the author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2014-04-30T18:11:43.913" LastActivityDate="2014-04-30T18:11:43.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3563" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-30T06:55:02.827" Score="7" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are 113 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-explanation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-explanation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-explanation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It seems to be a meta tag (&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags/&quot;&gt;which as a concept is frowned upon on SE&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Used extremely inconsistently (113 Qs tagged; and I'm quite sure there are at least a thousand if not more on the site that are about plot explanation)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't seem to satisfy any of the purposes of tags&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Useless for statistics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are no &quot;plot explanation&quot; experts &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There seems to be zero reason to either search for &quot;plot explanations&quot; (since 25-50% of the site would fit that) or ignore them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2014-05-01T15:54:36.540" Title="Should we delete &quot;plot-explanation&quot; tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-blacklist-request|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3564" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3565" CreationDate="2014-04-30T07:38:17.877" Score="9" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have found the following in my reputation status:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;+6  | 4 hours ago |   reversal |  Serial downvoting reversed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if someone could please explain what this is?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastEditorUserId="3567" LastEditDate="2014-04-30T11:32:46.323" LastActivityDate="2014-05-01T22:37:59.223" Title="What does “Serial downvoting reversed” mean?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3564" CreationDate="2014-04-30T07:50:08.067" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every once in a while, someone goes on a downvoting spree - picking a user and downvoting a whole bunch of his questions, or just downvoting every single question on the front page. This is a form of vandalism that is inescapable in an open group like SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Luckily, a lot of these vandalistic behaviors are easy to spot, not only by mods and admins, but also by automatic algorithms. When a serial downvoting spree is identified, those downvotes are cancelled, and anyone who lost reputation points from them will be getting them back. This is what this message is telling you - that you've been reawarded rep points that were taken away illegitimately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4516" LastActivityDate="2014-04-30T07:50:08.067" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3563" CreationDate="2014-04-30T10:06:57.157" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it should be left on. The plot-explanation tag is generally used by people who're familiar with the source material (the film or TV show or whatever) but simply didn't understand some aspect of why a particular character acted in a certain way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the use goes beyond the speculative and my experience has been that these questions tend to be readily explicable, hence the large number of &quot;&lt;strong&gt;oh yeah, I didn't notice that!&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; responses from the OPs&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2014-04-30T10:06:57.157" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3560" CreationDate="2014-04-30T15:29:13.970" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should get rid of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/azkaban&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;azkaban&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;azkaban&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dark-arts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dark-arts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dark-arts&lt;/a&gt;.  The former due to it being overly-specific and rarely- used.  The latter should be replaced with a more generic Fantasy &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dark-magic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dark-magic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dark-magic&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/evil-magic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;evil-magic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;evil-magic&lt;/a&gt;. The use of said generic tag plus &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; will make it clear that it's about these dark arts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-04-30T15:29:13.970" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3568" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-30T18:51:53.260" Score="15" ViewCount="912" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/strong&gt; See title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been wondering, since my fandom is &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt;, how best to handle major canon discrepancies when answering questions, when separate canon-based explanations conflict and create disparate, but also valid, answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the best way to handle this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What prompted me to ask this question is Pottermore and J.K. Rowling's explanations regarding the Chamber of Secrets and the Basilisk. in relation to the books. Currently, J.K. Rowling says this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/o2II1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Chamber of Secrets - Pottermore - Current&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Originally, the passage on Pottermore read:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dZFbF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Chamber of Secrets - Pottermore - Original&quot; /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;Please do not convert the images to text. Thanks!&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the paragraphs are &lt;em&gt;close&lt;/em&gt;, but there's definitely enough wiggle room between the two for a canon purist to argue retcon, author CYA, or just plain old, &amp;quot;Foul!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's more! (Of course there's more ... )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On July 30, 2007, J.K. Rowling says in an interview with &lt;a href=&quot;http://ia600401.us.archive.org/32/items/J.k.RowlingChatTranscript/ChatJkRowling.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;La Gazette du Sorcier&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Delailah:&lt;/strong&gt; How does Dumbledore understand Parseltongue?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;J.K. Rowling:&lt;/strong&gt; Dumbledore &lt;strong&gt;understood&lt;/strong&gt; Mermish, Gobbledegook and &lt;strong&gt;Parseltongue&lt;/strong&gt;. The man was brilliant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to correlate with the following, from &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;‘Ron,’ [Harry] breathed, ‘this is it. This is the answer. The monster in the Chamber’s a Basilisk – a giant serpent! That’s why I’ve been hearing that voice all over the place, and nobody else has heard it. It’s because I &lt;strong&gt;understand Parseltongue&lt;/strong&gt; ...’&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the actual books don't reference Dumbledore being able to understand Parseltongue at all (as far as I can recollect). Pottermore's information conflicts with the 2007 interview because if Dumbledore understood Parseltongue, shouldn't he have heard the Basilisk, as Harry did? &lt;em&gt;Furthermore&lt;/em&gt; (ugh!), &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2007/10/20/j-k-rowling-at-carnegie-hall-reveals-dumbledore-is-gay-neville-marries-hannah-abbott-and-scores-more&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;J.K. Rowling contradicts &lt;em&gt;herself&lt;/em&gt; on Parseltongue&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q: &lt;em&gt;Since Ron is able to speak Parseltongue in the last book, does that mean that Parseltongue is a language that most witches and wizards can learn or must a person be born with some ability to speak Parseltongue&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;JKR: &lt;strong&gt;I don't see it really as a language you can learn.&lt;/strong&gt; So few people speak it that who would teach you? &lt;strong&gt;This is a weird ability passed down through the Slytherin blood line.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'm not looking for the actual question to be answered here -- please do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; leave an answer here.&lt;/strong&gt; This is the meta forum and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15271/why-didnt-dumbledore-hear-the-basilisk&quot;&gt;I've already asked this question on SFF.se&lt;/a&gt;. I merely wanted to be thorough with an example of a canon discrepancy by providing this lengthy example. What I really want to know is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the best way to handle complicated or convoluted canon discrepancies in questions and answers?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;♦&lt;sub&gt; I'm not looking for statements that J.K. Rowling or George Lucas or whoever sucks or can't do math or doesn't know their own canon. Spending years and years on one story or universe comes with changing attitudes, and I'm sure, like anyone, authors have moments of &amp;quot;If I had it to do over ...&amp;quot; And perhaps these thoughts slip out when it would be best that they didn't, and canon discrepancies are born. So, yeah, please no character or authorial competence assassinations. I'm not interested in reading that. Thanks!&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-05-01T00:53:47.363" Title="What is the best way to deal with complicated canon discrepancies when answering questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3568" CreationDate="2014-04-30T19:15:25.247" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;tl;dr:&lt;/strong&gt; There is no &quot;one true way&quot; to discuss questions about canon because every work's idea of canon differs. For any given work, you provide as much information as you think is relevant and explain what makes it canonical. If there are any discrepancies, just point them out and let the reader figure it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't feel that it is this site's responsibility to assign motivation to an author's decision to change canon&lt;/strong&gt;, so the question if &quot;is this a mistake or a legitimate retcon or a CYA moment&quot; is irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Exactly what one means by &quot;canon&quot; differs for every single work of fiction. Star Wars has( had?) an entire database devoted to sorting out what is and isn't various levels of canon, while Doctor Who has spent the last 50 years laughing at the very concept of canon. So how to answer questions when the canon is complex or contradictory depends on what that canon entails.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know exactly what one considers cannon for Harry Potter, but I assume that you do, so your answer should include whatever canon information exists and preferably where you go it. Something like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;according to the novel &lt;em&gt;Chamber of Secrets&lt;/em&gt;, such and such is true. In subsequent interviews, Rowling herself has also said this and that is true. Unfortunately, this contradicts another passage from &lt;em&gt;Deathly Hollows&lt;/em&gt; where blah-de-blah happened, so things aren't entirely clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things like this happen &lt;em&gt;all the wibbly-wobbling time&lt;/em&gt; in Doctor Who questions. In that case, there's no such thing as canon, however, most Doctor Who fans tend to fall into two categories, a) only the TV shows count, or b) the novels also count. I will usually lay out the TV show only answer first, since that's what most people will accept. If I know of supplemental content that also exists I would include that in a clearly-separate section, identified as such, so the reader can make up their own mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, since fiction &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; fiction, and the author is making up all the rules as they go along, there's a good chance somewhere along the line they're gonna mess up. As consumers of their fictional world, we just have to accept it. As scifi.se users, we should try to make our answers as complete and informative as possible, without going off on irrelevant tangents berating those authors for not being perfect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2014-04-30T19:15:25.247" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3563" CreationDate="2014-05-01T00:38:19.323" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Keep, but it needs some cleaning up.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way I see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-explanation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-explanation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-explanation&lt;/a&gt;, it's best used for situations where the asker expects the answer to be in the source material somewhere, but either didn't understand it or thinks they missed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, with the one time I used it: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/45938/how-did-buffys-glitch-allow-the-first-to-enact-its-plan&quot;&gt;How did Buffy&amp;#39;s glitch allow the First to enact its plan?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The episode was the first that mentioned the disruption, which was what triggered the events of the final season.  However, so far as I could tell, it was never actually explained.  And I found that weird.  So I asked the question, expecting someone would find something I missed during the season, that explained why the First couldn't enact its plan earlier, since the disruption didn't seem to actually hinder it in any way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When looked at this way, here's what I think are some good usages of the tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/39088/in-the-film-in-time-how-do-those-under-25-pay-for-goods-and-services&quot;&gt;In the film In Time how do those under 25 pay for goods and services?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/47310/why-did-baelfire-have-to-go-back-when-the-curse-was-destroyed&quot;&gt;Why did Baelfire have to go back when the curse was destroyed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/52374/what-was-the-point-of-alerting-odin-and-authorities-about-escape&quot;&gt;Why did Heimdall alert Odin and authorities about Thor’s escape?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's some that I think are bad usages of the tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5761/how-could-the-jedi-have-prevented-the-fall-of-the-republic&quot;&gt;How could the Jedi have prevented the fall of the Republic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/45486/how-did-the-doctor-count-the-number-of-children&quot;&gt;How did the Doctor count the number of children?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/40771/klingon-evolution-of-koloth&quot;&gt;Klingon evolution of Koloth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And some borderline:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/49884/can-sg-teams-travel-to-different-galaxies-without-extra-power-or-an-8th-cheveron&quot;&gt;Can SG teams travel to different galaxies without extra power or an 8th chevron?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/41068/what-would-have-happened-if-snape-had-died-in-absence-of-harry&quot;&gt;What would have happened if Snape had died in absence of Harry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at those questions, if I had to boil this down to once sentence, I think I'd go with something along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I think this is a plot hole, but so much is based around it that there must be an explanation somewhere that I missed.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2014-05-01T00:38:19.323" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3568" CreationDate="2014-05-01T00:46:37.553" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a feeling that I won't really deviate much from Michael's excellent answer, but I fear I can't stand the lack of bullet points. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;my own shorter version is:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do exactly what you did in your example.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;List every relevant fact you are aware, together with their level of canonicity. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there are canon resolution rules for your canon&lt;sup&gt;[1]&lt;/sup&gt;, note which facts are &quot;more canonical&quot; based on those rules&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If some statements are vague, pinpoint the vagueness and offer likely different interpretations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Offer up both clear communalities as well as irreconsilable differences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you have a personal opinion of what the &quot;most correct&quot; final answer is among different possibilities, express that, explaining that it's your own opinion and there are other interpretations possible (for example, see my answer on the size of Galleon coins).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;???&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Profit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Footnotes:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[1] As Michael noted, there are different rules on how canonicity of different sources is reconciled. If you aren't sure of the rules for your fandom, SFF.SE is a great place to ask :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In Harry Potter, there is no official &quot;corporate&quot; canon rules but generally people consider Pottermore to arguably trump JKR interviews; which trump earlier books; with movies not considered canon at all by most serious fans (or in my case, &lt;strong&gt;very&lt;/strong&gt; weak canon at best since JKR kinda approved a lot of stuff for movies).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Star Wars had (pre-Disney) Lucas movies (G-canon) trump Lucas TV (T-canon) trump EU licensed works (C-canon) trumps Star Wars Christmas Special (WTF-canon). Post-Disney &lt;strike&gt;there are new rules&lt;/strike&gt; la-la-la-la-la&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;My personal opinion of new Disney canon rules are adequately expressed by the following&lt;/sub&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6JTlb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2014-05-01T00:53:47.363" LastActivityDate="2014-05-01T00:53:47.363" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3511" CreationDate="2014-05-01T11:49:13.703" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackexchange actually has &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/28756/what-can-i-do-if-im-the-victim-of-serial-downvoting&quot;&gt;a feature to protect people from serial downvoting&lt;/a&gt;. When one user systematically downvotes all contributions of another user, the system will detect this and revert it after 24 hours. One time I was a victim of a serial downvote campaign on stackoverflow and the reversal-system worked flawlessly. So whoever initiated the campaign wasn't successful on two accounts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;my reputation didn't suffer and &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To my knowledge I did not change whatever behavior of mine caused the outrage because I still have no idea for what reason they were hating me so much.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16995" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2014-05-01T11:54:48.567" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3563" CreationDate="2014-05-01T15:54:36.540" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say burninate it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we need a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-explanation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-explanation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-explanation&lt;/a&gt; tag, do we also need a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/motive-explanation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;motive-explanation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;motive-explanation&lt;/a&gt; tag (we actually have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character-motivation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character-motivation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character-motivation&lt;/a&gt;, which has been used a grand total of 15 times, despite there being countless questions that are basically asking for character motivation; the irregular and inconsistent use is an argument against it being valid, imo)?  How about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/species-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;species-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;species-identification&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-mechanics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-mechanics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-mechanics&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/setting-explanation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;setting-explanation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;setting-explanation&lt;/a&gt; (note that this, too, exists as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/setting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;setting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;setting&lt;/a&gt;, and it has been used only 7 times)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These, to me, represent some of the broadest categories of the most commonly-asked questions on the site.  Most questions, imo, fall into one of those categories, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The few that I mentioned in that category are inconsistently and rarely used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-explanation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-explanation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-explanation&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot&lt;/a&gt; are used far more often (about 100 times each), but I would argue that there are far more questions that they could be applied to than actually have the tag, which indicates that the tag isn't really effective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, I feel that they're being used as a fallback, when the OP doesn't know what else to use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say get rid of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-explanation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-explanation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-explanation&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character-motivation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character-motivation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character-motivation&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/setting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;setting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;setting&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're all meta tags, and aren't doing anything productive as currently implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2014-05-01T15:54:36.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3564" CreationDate="2014-05-01T22:37:59.223" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a user is deleted, their votes are also cancelled out. This happens in a similar situation to the other answer, when a user has been identified as a vandal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25817" LastActivityDate="2014-05-01T22:37:59.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3560" CreationDate="2014-05-02T01:22:47.500" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simple answer: No, they shouldn't be removed. They are used by HP experts (example: myself) to search for questions in a way that having no tag would make impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=[harry-potter]+voldemort&quot;&gt;Voldemort text search&lt;/a&gt; (unusable 1403 results) vs &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter+voldemort&quot;&gt;Voldemort tag search&lt;/a&gt; (manageable 123 results)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=[harry-potter]+basilisk&quot;&gt;Basilisk text search&lt;/a&gt; (164 results, takes forever to research them) vs &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter+basilisk&quot;&gt;Basilisk tag search&lt;/a&gt; (5 results today; though I found 14 more that should be tagged with it resulting in &lt;strong&gt;eminently manageable 19&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=[harry-potter]++phoenix&quot;&gt;Phoenix text search&lt;/a&gt; (378 results, takes forever to research them) vs &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter+phoenix&quot;&gt;Phoenix tag search&lt;/a&gt; (6 results)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since searching is listed as one of the valid uses of tags, and these tags clearly &lt;strong&gt;greatly&lt;/strong&gt; help searching and their removal - as demonstrated - will make searching between much harder and impossible for many topics - &lt;strong&gt;they should be left alone for any tag where the text search results number more than 10&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Caveat&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;some&lt;/strong&gt; of these tags SHOULD be removed as they are flat out wrong (tom-riddle should be an alias for voldemort; j-k-rowling should be an aliast for harry-potter until she writes speculative fiction in another universe OR someone asks JKR question not related to Harry Potter that's ontopic); some should be renamed (hagrid should be rubeus-hagrid to avoid ambiguity)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2014-05-02T01:36:02.863" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3577" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3588" CreationDate="2014-05-02T09:24:46.367" Score="12" ViewCount="281" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answers and questions on SciFi Stack Exchange often contain excerpts (quotes, quotations) from the Harry Potter novels.  We have over a thousand questions.  Could you estimate how much of the novels these excerpts cover?  How long till the full text of the novel (although with many typos) can be reconstructed from just these excerpts?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastActivityDate="2020-12-29T20:04:50.567" Title="Quotes on the site cover how much of the Harry Potter books?" Tags="|discussion|quotes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3578" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-02T09:55:56.330" Score="5" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should we start asking questions about the Order of the Stick universe on SciFi Stack Exchange?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Order of the Stick consists of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;webcomics&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.giantitp.com/Shop.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; and supplimentary material drawn by Rich Burlew aka the Giant on the Playground.  It is clearly a fantasy comic strip, so questions are on topic for the site, so we must accept any questions asked unless we specifically change the site policy.  But my question is not whether we can ask questions, but whether we &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; ask questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now Order of the Stick has a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.giantitp.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?22-The-Order-of-the-Stick&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;forum&lt;/a&gt;, where fans already ask lots of questions and give answers.  On one hand, if we start asking questions here, we risk fragmenting the knowledge base, so in the future we'll have to search both the forums and this site to find answers.  This could be a reason why we need not want to ask these questions here, but instead only go to the forum.  On the other hand, the infrastructure of the OotS forum is not really good, even after the recent improvements that have re-enabled the search feature.  It's hard to find answers to questions there, and there are lots of duplicates for this reason.  Thus, asking questions on SciFi SE only could actually be an improvement.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="4918" LastEditDate="2014-05-02T10:10:40.440" LastActivityDate="2014-05-02T12:14:24.133" Title="Order of the Stick comics, should we start asking here?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3578" CreationDate="2014-05-02T12:14:24.133" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;We already have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/order-of-the-stick&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;order-of-the-stick&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;order-of-the-stick&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/23654/1359&quot;&gt;one question&lt;/a&gt; about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's absolutely no reason to &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; ask them here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that there's another repository for Order of the Stick discussion is completely irrelevant.  If the existence of another repository for a given work or series of works were reason to keep questions off of our site, we would have no &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; questions (&lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Thanks to &lt;em&gt;Wookieepedia&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;), no &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; questions (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Portal:Main&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Memory Alpha&lt;/a&gt;), or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; questions (&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.pottermore.com/en-us&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pottermore&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the purposes this site fulfills is to aggregate sources into a more comprehensive repository.  Existing external repositories, like Rich Burlew's OOTS forum, should be seen as resources that can be referenced in content here; not reasons to exclude content. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2014-05-02T12:14:24.133" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3577" CreationDate="2014-05-02T13:54:37.200" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can get the &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/stackexchange&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;quarterly data dump&lt;/a&gt; and process that.  However, you get XML files, so ugh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, you can do this via the API (e.g. start with &lt;a href=&quot;https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/advanced-search#order=desc&amp;amp;sort=activity&amp;amp;tagged=harry-potter&amp;amp;filter=default&amp;amp;site=scifi&quot;&gt;the questions tagged [harry-potter]&lt;/a&gt;) to get JSON and as a bonus get live information.  To get you started:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;import json&#xA;import gzip&#xA;import urllib2&#xA;import StringIO&#xA;&#xA;def read_url(url):&#xA;    req = urllib2.Request(&quot;http://api.stackexchange.com%s&quot; % url, headers={&quot;Accept-Encoding&quot;: &quot;gzip&quot;})&#xA;    u = urllib2.urlopen(req)&#xA;    content = []&#xA;    while True:&#xA;        block = u.read(49152)&#xA;        if not block:&#xA;            break&#xA;        content.append(block)&#xA;    return json.loads(gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=StringIO.StringIO(&quot;&quot;.join(content))).read())&#xA;&#xA;# Get the questions that are tagged [harry-potter]&#xA;matching_questions = []&#xA;while True:&#xA;    data = read_url(&quot;/2.2/search/advanced?order=desc&amp;amp;sort=activity&amp;amp;tagged=harry-potter&amp;amp;site=scifi&quot;)&#xA;    for question in data[&quot;items&quot;]:&#xA;        matching_questions.append(question[&quot;question_id&quot;])&#xA;    if not data[&quot;has_more&quot;]:&#xA;        break&#xA;    # Note that without an API key, you'll probably run out here, because&#xA;    # there are a lot of questions.&#xA;    print &quot;Queries left:&quot;, data[&quot;quota_remaining&quot;]&#xA;&#xA;# Get the bodies of the questions.&#xA;quotes = set()&#xA;for q_start in xrange(len(matching_questions) // 100):&#xA;    data = read_url(&quot;/2.2/questions/%s?order=desc&amp;amp;sort=activity&amp;amp;site=scifi&amp;amp;filter=!3tz1lVh9XyfTtrm_D&quot; % &quot;;&quot;.join(matching_questions[q_start*100:(q_start+1)*100]))&#xA;    content = data[&quot;items&quot;][&quot;body_markdown&quot;]&#xA;    # Crudely assume that any line starting with &amp;gt; is a quote.&#xA;    # Even more widely, assume that any quote is a quote from the text.&#xA;    # The only feasible way to avoid this (without a human reviewing&#xA;    # them all) is to have the complete text available.&#xA;    quote = None&#xA;    for line in content.splitlines():&#xA;        if line.startswith(&quot;&amp;amp;gt;&quot;):&#xA;            if quote:&#xA;                # A multi-line quote.&#xA;                quote.append(line[4:])&#xA;            else:&#xA;                quote = [line[4:]]&#xA;        elif quote:&#xA;            # The quote has finished.&#xA;            quotes.add(&quot; &quot;.join(quote))&#xA;            quote = None&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, the &lt;code&gt;quotes&lt;/code&gt; set has a very rough set of all of the quotes in questions.  You'd need to do this for answers as well (pretty much the same, just a different endpoint) and I suppose comments if anyone has ever shoved a quotation in there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You then have the problems over overlapping quotations and inconsistent quotations (e.g. differences in case, punctuation, typos).  A rough way to solve the first problem would be to break all quotes into sentences and assume that complete sentences are always quoted.  For the second problem you could have a method that normalises each quote in some way, and remove duplicates that way.  I leave this as an exercise for the reader :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can then quite easily get a word count for all the quotations, and find a word count for the novels (e.g. if you trust &lt;a href=&quot;https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071227070311AAOUdEO&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Yahoo!&lt;/a&gt; (I wouldn't), or you could ask &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;).  That would give you your (&lt;em&gt;extremely rough&lt;/em&gt;) estimate for how much is covered, and you can then do some &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/queries&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;data explorer exploration&lt;/a&gt; to guess how rapidly the number of [harry-potter] questions is growing (and, since we are approximating things everywhere, assume that the ratio of questions to unique quoted content remains constant), and you can get an estimate for 100% reproduction from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from all of the roughness of the above, the main flaw is that identified by @simon above - the ratio of questions to unique quoted content will &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; remain constant, because (I have no data to back this up, but it seems entirely logical) it becomes increasingly unlikely that a new question/answer will use material that hasn't been quoted before, because the unquoted content gets less and less interesting.  I suppose in a theoretical year when there are a near infinite number of HP questions, complete coverage would be reached, but the real answer to the question is &lt;strong&gt;never&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(You could use something like the above to guesstimate when we would reach some lower number, like 10%, though.  It seems reasonable that the site could get to a low number like that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2014-05-02T13:54:37.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3581" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-03T01:41:03.757" Score="1" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to decide if I should roll back &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/55470/revisions&quot;&gt;this edit&lt;/a&gt; or leave it be...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;General situation is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;OP mis-heard the word (usually proper noun) and as a result was unable to Google it properly&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An answer identifies correct spelling.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The edit to the question replaces incorrect spelling with correct one.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pros:&lt;/strong&gt; The question is now more easily searchable &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cons:&lt;/strong&gt; The question turns from a perfectly valid one into what someone may percieve as trivially obvious (the specific example I gave has a subtlety to it that survives even that edit, by asking for the meaning of a phrase instead of simply what the word was... but in a general situation that's not always the case).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-05-03T02:28:50.693" Title="Is it a valid edit to replace mis-heard word with correct one?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3581" CreationDate="2014-05-03T01:42:51.140" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't edit it (or roll back the edit). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The edit turns the question from a perfectly valid one into what someone may percieve as trivially obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;NOTE: the specific example linked here has a subtlety to it that survives even that edit, by asking for the meaning of a phrase instead of simply what the word was... but in a general situation that's not always the case.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2014-05-03T01:42:51.140" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3581" CreationDate="2014-05-03T01:44:01.537" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let the edit stand as it is. Improved searchability outweighs the cons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2014-05-03T01:44:01.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3581" CreationDate="2014-05-03T01:45:17.523" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Edit it by:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adding &quot;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;sic&lt;/a&gt;)&quot; to indicate that the spelling was &quot;intentionally&quot; wrong&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And also include corrected spelling right after, in parenthesis, or elsewhere in the question, to allow better searching.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. this question could be edited to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Subject: &quot;What did emergency medical hologram mean when he referenced Epocrates {sic} in S1E2 Parallax?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Body: &quot;Now I know how Epocrates {{sic}} felt when the king needed him to trim a hangnail?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Body: &quot;Spelling correction: Correction: Hippocrates not Epocrates&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2014-05-03T01:45:17.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3581" CreationDate="2014-05-03T02:28:50.693" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rollback that edit as the question asker is asking why &lt;strong&gt;that specific (incorrectly-heard) thing&lt;/strong&gt; was said. Changing it is too drastic an edit, although in this case it doesn't drastically change the what the answer is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-05-03T02:28:50.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3586" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3589" CreationDate="2014-05-04T08:43:13.260" Score="14" ViewCount="349" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that people have taken other people's correct answers and edit-incorporated them into their own 'less correct' answers after the fact. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this considered bad form?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13090" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-11-10T12:42:32.980" LastActivityDate="2016-11-10T12:42:32.980" Title="Is it considered bad form to 'steal' another's answer and incorporate it into your answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3586" CreationDate="2014-05-04T10:09:28.520" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vaxquis' answer (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/55044/does-batman-use-linux/55045#55045&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) annoyed me. Not only was his tone very confrontational when I suggested some edits but he's actually incorporated the picture that I edited (and the picture that JRG edited) into his own Franken-answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admittedly he's credited us both, but I don't think that an answer which simply &lt;em&gt;combines&lt;/em&gt; other people's answers should be rewarded quite so heavily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2014-05-04T10:09:28.520" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3577" CreationDate="2014-05-04T13:39:57.030" Score="15" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Work in progress/we have a long way to go&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’m working on a little script which can get a decent estimate. When/if it’s done, I’ll post the results here, and I’ll put the code/an explanation on my website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now I have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the complete HTML for every question and answer posted in the Harry Potter tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a stripped out version that only includes quoted text (anything in a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; , including spoiler text)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the quotes broken down into distinct sentences, which I can start comparing to the books&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;strong&gt;~165,000 words&lt;/strong&gt; in the quotes, but that includes comments, citations, and interviews/supplementary material which isn’t in the main books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For comparison, the official word counts for the books (via the HP Lexicon pages) is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Novel&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Word count&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Stone&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;76,944&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Chamber&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;85,141&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Prisoner&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;107,253&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Goblet&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;190,637&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Order&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;257,045&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Prince&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;168,923&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Hallows&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;198,227&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;TOTAL&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1,084,170&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there’s &lt;strong&gt;an upper bound of ~15%&lt;/strong&gt; coverage, but it’s likely to be much less than that. I’m not a betting man, but I’d guess that once I subtract interviews, Pottermore and &lt;em&gt;Beasts&lt;/em&gt;/&lt;em&gt;Quidditch&lt;/em&gt;, then we’ll be left with about 5% of the book text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the curious, I’m writing in Python, with &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/q/198/21515&quot;&gt;PyStackExchange&lt;/a&gt; to get the questions, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nltk.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;NLTK&lt;/a&gt; to break the quotes into sentences, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.whittard.co.uk/hot-chocolate/luxury-hot-chocolate.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;fancy hot chocolate&lt;/a&gt; to keep me awake. Next up is trying to get good copies of the books in text files, and using &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.python.org/2/library/difflib.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;difflib&lt;/a&gt; to start matching up lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don’t have any more time to devote to this today, and I have important exams coming up, so I might not be able to work on this for a while, but there you are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="118276" LastEditDate="2020-12-29T20:04:50.567" LastActivityDate="2020-12-29T20:04:50.567" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3586" CreationDate="2014-05-05T01:53:23.673" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Avner nails it in his comment: so long as it's clearly stated to be supplementary material and acknowledges the other answer it seems OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been a couple of cases where I've got upvotes for such an answer (not the exact same scenario) and I've felt it necessary to add a comment requesting that the original be upvoted or accepted instead.  That's obviously at each individual's discretion, but I think it's good etiquette.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately however upvotes and accepts are the prerogative of the person doing the upvoting or accepting and while you can request, you can't instruct.  If somebody thinks your supplementary answer is better that's their decision to make, and likewise regarding accepts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2014-05-05T01:53:23.673" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3590" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3591" CreationDate="2014-05-05T03:44:32.897" Score="2" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know you can get a 'bronze badge' if you delete a +3 score post, but do you lose that rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13090" LastEditorUserId="5184" LastEditDate="2014-05-05T13:07:57.263" LastActivityDate="2014-05-05T13:07:57.263" Title="If someone deletes their own post that has a 3+ positive 'score' will they lose that rep?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3590" CreationDate="2014-05-05T10:59:02.160" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check out this question from Meta.StackExchange:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5221/how-does-deleting-work-what-can-cause-a-post-to-be-deleted-and-what-does-that&quot;&gt;How does deleting work? What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean? What are the criteria for deletion?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation changes from votes (both up and down) on deleted posts (including answers to a deleted question) are nullified. (Exception: Reputation earned for posts with a score of three or higher, and where the post has been visible on the site for at least 60 days, is retained).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation lost as a penalty for having a post deleted by flagging is not returned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the answer is &amp;quot;yes and no&amp;quot;. If you erase your own question with at score of at least 3 (not necessarily 3 upvotes - could be 50 upvotes and 47 downvotes) that has been around for a while, you won't lose the rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4516" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-05-05T10:59:02.160" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3592" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3594" CreationDate="2014-05-05T12:02:37.483" Score="5" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;Searching for posts by a given user with a given tag, the default sorting is by &quot;relevance&quot;, whatever that is. Looks pretty random to me. Relevance to what? How is relevance measured, and why is it the default?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastActivityDate="2014-05-05T14:45:51.690" Title="Results sorted by relevance?" Tags="|support|tags|search|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3593" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3631" CreationDate="2014-05-05T14:26:37.557" Score="6" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;I signed up fo the RSS feed for Harry Potter question back in 2011 and have had no problem until recently. Suddenly, I'm not getting &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; Harry Potter questions via RSS. I've signed up several times since this started and I'll get, oh, five to ten questions via RSS and then the feed disappears again. I'm missing a lot of questions because of this -- does anyone have any idea why this is happening and how I can permanently fix it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2014-05-13T18:50:19.797" Title="RSS feed keeps kicking me" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3592" CreationDate="2014-05-05T14:45:51.690" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/160100/a-new-search-engine-for-stack-exchange&quot;&gt;SE uses elasticsearch&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what elasticsearch &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/relevance-intro.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;has to say about relevance&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Uses TF/IDF, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf%E2%80%93idf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Term Frequency/Inverse Document Frequency algorithm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Computes a relevance score, based on the query&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How that score is calculated depends on the type of query clause — different query clauses are used for different purposes: a fuzzy query might determine the _score by calculating how similar the spelling of the found word is to the original search term, a terms query would incorporate the percentage of terms that were found&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2014-05-05T14:45:51.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3586" CreationDate="2014-05-05T15:37:20.697" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Depends on: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;how much content is taken from another user and how much is your own;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is the original answer on the same question or another one.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For answering &lt;em&gt;the same question&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there are no rules, my own rule of thumb is that if I can't add more than 50% of content of my own, either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the existing answer should be edited, or... &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if my addition is pretty valuable in its own right, add as a &quot;on a separate note&quot; second answer, acknowledging the more complete answer's existence in my own but NOT re-using it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For answering a different question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an existing answer on another question answers most of the new question, the new question is a duplicate and &lt;strong&gt;should be closed as a dupe&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should never answer a dupe with a copy of the existing answer. Instead, don't answer at all (preferred); OR, in rare cases when the question is not 100% duplicate, provide a brief answer addressing the (possibly) non-duplicate angles and linking to a full answer on another question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2014-05-05T15:37:20.697" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3596" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3597" CreationDate="2014-05-05T16:03:57.707" Score="6" ViewCount="2463" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/55664/22254&quot;&gt;Inspired by this question&lt;/a&gt; which asks about Foley artists' sound production and techniques used in Star Trek.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this considered to be on-topic?&lt;/strong&gt; Obviously including a wider scope such as special effects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal opinion is that it is on topic, but I do worry that it could lead to lots of &quot;These special effects are cool, how they do it?&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I couldn't find any precedence for this. &lt;strong&gt;Is there any history of these questions?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22254" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2014-05-06T12:54:16.467" Title="Questions about production of Sci-Fi works and out-of-universe topics?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="14" ClosedDate="2014-05-10T07:16:50.733" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3596" CreationDate="2014-05-06T12:54:16.467" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YES!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions are on-topic!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;How they do that&quot; when it comes to special effects, particularly science fiction special effects, are relevant, interesting, and can have some fascinating answers (at least in my opinion).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &quot;How did they make the effect for the transporters in &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: TOS&lt;/em&gt;?&quot; Answer: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The transporter special effect, before being done using computer animation, was created by turning a slow-motion camera upside down and photographing some backlit shiny grains of aluminium powder that were dropped between the camera and a black background &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transporter_(Star_Trek)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source: Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see no reason why that would be off-topic, and it has been touched upon, if not directly addressed, in several other meta discussions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic&quot;&gt;What questions are on-topic, and what questions are off-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/619/should-questions-about-special-effects-techniques-be-allowed-on-science-fiction&quot;&gt;Should questions about special effects techniques be allowed on science fiction?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2944/what-type-of-behind-the-scenes-questions-are-on-topic&quot;&gt;What type of &quot;behind the scenes&quot; questions are on-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2014-05-06T12:54:16.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3598" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-07T00:37:30.450" Score="6" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;After seeing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/55664/what-produces-the-sound-of-transportation-non-canon&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on SF&amp;amp;F, I'd like to have my own Foley Artist question remigrated here. I posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/3758/what-did-they-use-to-make-the-jetsons-flying-car-sound-effects&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; in SF&amp;amp;F when I was relatively new to the site and unfamiliar with Meta. It was quickly migrated over to Movies.SE where it remains without a concrete answer. Although it is centered on a cartoon, it is a sci-fi cartoon and I feel it is better suited here in SF&amp;amp;F. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for a group consensus. Your comments are welcomed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4356" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2015-10-30T14:13:20.340" Title="Please review the migration of this Jetson's Foley Artist sound question" Tags="|discussion|migration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3599" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7619" CreationDate="2014-05-07T12:39:12.137" Score="14" ViewCount="443" Body="&lt;p&gt;Possibly germane to the question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1134/is-it-good-that-story-identification-questions-are-so-well-rewarded&quot;&gt;Is it good that Story Identification questions are so well rewarded?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not really complaining overall, but I've noticed a slight trend in that story questions which are answered shortly after being asked, no matter how obscure, get fewer upvotes than a more long-standing question. If this isn't perceptual bias on my part, I suspect that this might be a case of that people tend to ignore questions that already have an accepted answer while they're more likely to click into ones that don't seem settled, and thus more likely to feel obliged to drop an upvote for a good question or good answer. Alternately, it might be a matter of perceived effort, that an identification answered quickly must be an easy question and therefore not worth upvoting versus someone who answers a question that has sat on the server for over a month without a conclusive answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, I'm largely curious as to whether this is something that other people see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2015-11-30T18:55:37.080" Title="Does it ever seem like answering story identification questions quickly nets less reputation?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3600" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-07T18:28:17.533" Score="8" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;The picture should be self explanatory:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3b6q0.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2014-05-07T18:28:17.533" Title="Why is my inbox answer count wrong?" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3602" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-11T03:01:52.413" Score="-1" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have edited a question many times, in order to get more views. Now it has become locked because I have edited it too many times&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it wrong to edit or put up bounties to refresh a question &lt;strong&gt;in order to get more people to see it&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21674" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2014-05-11T12:03:14.523" LastActivityDate="2014-05-14T22:20:17.387" Title="Is bumping a questions for views wrong?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3602" CreationDate="2014-05-11T03:17:03.147" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll see if I can pull up the relevant Meta posts (short version: if you do it once or twice, it's OK; if your edits materially improve the question, it's OK; but if you do it constantly JUST to get the views with irrelevant edits, you're at best abusing the system).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a matter of fact, the old (now removed) rule that a post automatically becomes Community Wiki after N edits, was in part specifically designed to prevent such abuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some relevant reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4397/purposeful-question-bumping-abuse-or-feature&quot;&gt;Purposeful Question Bumping: Abuse or feature?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/84732/is-it-fair-to-edit-a-question-ive-answered-to-bump-it-to-the-top-of-the-questio&quot;&gt;Is it fair to edit a question I&amp;#39;ve answered to bump it to the top of the questions list?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you're truly interested in raising the views, bumping the question with edits is the &lt;strong&gt;least&lt;/strong&gt; efficient way to edit it, leaving aside whether it's OK or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, you should make it go &quot;viral&quot;, or at least, popularize it outside SE by posting links to it where people who might be interested in such content will see the link and come read - reddit, your blog, twitter, facebook, etc...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is not simplyt within the site rules - it is actively encouraged by SE, as evidenced by 3 badges rewarded specifically for this (Announcer, Booster and Publicist: &quot;Shared a link to a question that was visited by 25/300/1000 unique IP addresses&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This both helps you (you get badges for visits, and for good posts, upvotes and badges from visitors) AND the site (which gets new visitors some of which will hopefully stay).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and it works pretty well. I managed to reddit myself to the 1000 visit badge on SFF, and 300 visit badge on StackOverflow - given that I'm active in low-interest low-traffic Perl tag, that's pretty darn good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2014-05-11T03:30:32.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3602" CreationDate="2014-05-11T05:47:59.747" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As to the second part of your question;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, putting a bounty on your question is an excellent way to garner more attention for it. The larger the bounty, usually the greater the level of attention it will receive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might also want to ensure that you post &lt;em&gt;useful or constructively critical&lt;/em&gt; comments on any answers you receive and use those as a jumping-off point for your own research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2014-05-11T05:47:59.747" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3602" CreationDate="2014-05-11T10:43:22.650" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Has the question already been answered?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer to this is &quot;yes&quot; (and if it's the one I think it is, then the answer &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;yes&quot;), then it's served it's purpose.  It was asked, it was answered, so let it drift down the page.  You need to consider what your purpose in wanting more people to see it really is, because &lt;strong&gt;Stack Exchange is not a popularity contest&lt;/strong&gt;.  By continually bumping such a question up to the top, you're taking up a slot on the home page that &lt;strong&gt;might otherwise have been used by a different, unanswered question&lt;/strong&gt;.  Why should your question be so awesome that it can do that?  This behaviour just seems rude and selfish to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is &quot;no&quot; then use the available tools (such as bounties) for attracting more attention to it.  Or consider that maybe the reason why it wasn't asnwered was because it's genuinely unanswerable, or it just didn't interest people enough.  &lt;em&gt;That's&lt;/em&gt; where continued edits &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; useful, but they need to be &lt;em&gt;targetted&lt;/em&gt; at resolving a &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; problem with the question, rather than just a means of jumping up and down shouting &quot;Hey! Look at me! Over here! Some attention please!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2014-05-11T10:43:22.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3606" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3608" CreationDate="2014-05-11T12:13:55.400" Score="1" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;Situation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Question already has an old answer, in the form:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;{Wikia X} says that {XYZ fact} is true, based on {ABC detail} in {QWE} source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;According to Wookiepedia, this name is confirmed from the movie credits and novelization.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Neither the answer, nor linked {Wikia X} article shows actual proof (screenshots, quotes)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You find actual proofs (movie credits sreenshots; novelization quotes, interview quotes).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should the new information be posted as a separate new answer, or as an edit to an existing answer?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is &quot;It depends on the extent of the changes&quot;, where is the line drawn? A single quote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&quot;Old&quot; answer means that the OP clearly has no plans to go find and post the references/cites themselves&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2014-05-12T03:21:25.617" Title="Should posting actual references that were mentioned in a prior answer be an edit or a new answer?" Tags="|discussion|answers|citations|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3606" CreationDate="2014-05-11T12:54:02.753" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If all you've done is use their own post to research the actual cites, then you should just add them to the earlier post with good grace and consider it a job well done as a member of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, if your own research has lead you to a brand new conclusion then you need to create a new post and maybe consider crediting the earlier answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also if adding high volumes of quotes or comments has the effect of drastically altering the post in some other way then this is vandalism, regardless of whether it's good vandalism or bad vandalism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2014-05-11T12:54:02.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3606" CreationDate="2014-05-11T14:31:22.227" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cited references to original works should always be preferable to wiki links or quotes.  The wiki links/quotes may, of course, be correct, but they don't have the appropriate weight of evidence behind them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A wiki page can be vandalized (or even just changed/deleted/merged) thus rendering a link invalid.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A quote from a wiki page may be rendered invalid by a subsequent edit that changes the wiki page.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think you can draw an exact line based on number or extent of changes; there will always be blurry areas around such a line.  You'll need to use your own judgement.  That said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the wiki-quoting answer &lt;strong&gt;is not&lt;/strong&gt; an accepted answer then it seems OK to me to add a new answer incorporating cited references.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the wiki-quoting answer &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; an accepted answer, then you need to tread a little more carefully.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the accepted answer is &lt;strong&gt;incorrect&lt;/strong&gt; then by all means add your own answer.  You can't really edit an incorrect answer to make it correct.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the accepted answer is &lt;strong&gt;correct&lt;/strong&gt; then all you're really doing is adding evidence.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In which case: is it even necessary to go near this question or answer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally prefer to err on the side of respecting the work someone else put in to answering a question.  Editing an answer (aside from obvious cases such as spelling/grammar/formatting) just presses all the wrong buttons with me, so adding my own answer would be my preferred course of action in any event.  Prefacing it with some text to the effect of &quot;the other answer is correct but here's some more evidence&quot; is an approach I'd favour.  Adding the additional supporting evidence as a comment seems even better, but of course you then need to deal with the comment-limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2014-05-11T14:31:22.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3271" CreationDate="2014-05-11T18:03:50.420" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;em&gt;Deathly Hallows&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;‘Albus Severus,’ Harry said quietly, so that nobody but Ginny could hear, and she was tactful enough to pretend to be waving to Rose, who was now on the train, ‘you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was&#xA;  probably the bravest man I ever knew.’&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ‘But just &lt;em&gt;say&lt;/em&gt; –’&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ‘– then Slytherin house will have gained an excellent student, won’t it? It doesn’t matter to us, Al. But if it matters to you, &lt;strong&gt;you’ll be able to choose Gryffindor over Slytherin&lt;/strong&gt;. The Sorting Hat takes your choice into account.’&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ‘Really?’&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ‘It did for me,’ said Harry.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;Deathly Hallows&lt;/em&gt; - page 607 - Bloomsbury - Epilogue, &lt;em&gt;Nineteen Years Later&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I mentioned in my comment to you, I realize this isn't perfect wording, but Harry is quite clear that his son can choose his house placement, and this is the second element in the books to support the premise that a first-year can choose his or her house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, were I to find two semi-related questions with the above quote as an answer (using that just as an example) I would VTC as duplicate questions. However, if the questions were totally unrelated except for maybe a few words and there was a call to VTC one or the other, I would not support that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="3500" LastEditDate="2014-05-12T03:36:04.753" LastActivityDate="2014-05-12T03:36:04.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3610" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-11T19:43:14.067" Score="10" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;When voting to close a question as a duplicate, I have always considered all the answers when noting that the new question has already been answered. I don't necessarily pick the accepted answer on which to base my decision to VTC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this acceptable? Or should we look only to the accepted answers when making the decision that a new question is a duplicate? &lt;strong&gt;ETA:&lt;/strong&gt; And if the correct answer is missing a citation, is it appropriate to edit in the citation to improve the answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2014-05-12T01:25:45.633" LastActivityDate="2017-10-27T11:00:38.160" Title="When voting to close, MUST the &quot;already answered&quot; information come from the accepted answer?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3610" CreationDate="2014-05-11T19:53:33.137" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I definitely agree with your approach, but if you're VTC-ing based on an answer other than the accepted, I'd consider providing a direct link to the specifc answer in a comment.  That way the asker gets confirmation of where the answer actually is (and therefore gets what they came looking for - an answer) and it seems less likely to provoke subsequent dispute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2014-05-11T19:53:33.137" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3610" CreationDate="2014-05-11T20:12:31.070" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree. Two &lt;strong&gt;accepted answers&lt;/strong&gt; (for two different question) could be nearly identical and yet their respective &lt;strong&gt;questions&lt;/strong&gt; could be dramatically different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do agree that identical accepted answers are &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;likely&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to come from identical questions but that's not the benchmark. VTC for duplicate should be used where the questions are largely the same. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e.g. &#xA;&quot;Does Harry speak Parselmouth?&quot; is not the same as &quot;How does Voldemort tell Nagini what to do?&quot; even though large elements of the answers may be identical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If in doubt, there's always the chatroom to hash it out before dropping the hammer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2014-05-11T22:12:22.870" LastActivityDate="2014-05-11T22:12:22.870" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3610" CreationDate="2014-05-11T20:27:07.570" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the only thing that matters is the extent and the quality of an answer, not whether it's accepted or even its votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The fact of the closing as a dupe merely means that the information already exists and shouldn't be duplicated&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if the question is fully and exhaustively addressed by another question's answer, VTC as a duplicate, no matter whether the duplicate info is in an accepted answer or zero-score one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;NOTE: however, where the acceptance matters is to the &lt;strong&gt;readability&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;find-ability&lt;/strong&gt; of the information you are trying to avoid duplication of. Therefore, I would second Jimmy Shelter's recommendation to link to any answer that isn't accepted/top-voted via a comment; just to ease future readers' search.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conversely, if the existing answer kind of touches on the info, but it's buried deep inside an unrelated answer; or, even more importantly, if the info isn't really complete (meaning, a new answer to a question you're VTCing is likely to be much more complete and better), then &lt;strong&gt;do not&lt;/strong&gt; VTC - again, without regard to other answers' accept status or votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-10-27T11:00:38.160" LastActivityDate="2017-10-27T11:00:38.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3606" CreationDate="2014-05-12T03:21:25.617" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the others' answers, but one point I consider is how extensive the other answer is. Even if it is correct, accepted, and upvoted, yet the answer only consists of &quot;yes, starwars.wikia says so: &quot; (of which I have seen several), even if this really does answer the question, I'd add another answer with the better material. If in the same case, he has other supporting info and seems to put more thought into it, then I'd just edit it into his answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastActivityDate="2014-05-12T03:21:25.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3615" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3616" CreationDate="2014-05-12T06:05:27.330" Score="14" ViewCount="254" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question which has gotten some terrific answers...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer which I mostly agree with is not as highly voted as the other(s); but i'm afraid that if I choose that as the accepted answer, it is going to be frowned upon by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do I do here?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a process to help me select the correct answer? Is it etiquette or common practice to choose the most +1'd answer as correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="21267" LastEditDate="2017-01-25T03:14:51.187" LastActivityDate="2017-01-25T03:14:51.187" Title="I can't decide which answer to choose; What do I do?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3615" CreationDate="2014-05-12T06:58:06.173" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you should pick the answer you prefer. Voting and an accepted answer are two separate systems for a reason. Don’t feel compelled to just accept the answer which gets the most upvotes. You should accept the answer that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/accepted-answer&quot;&gt;“works for you”&lt;/a&gt; (whatever that means in SciFi.se context).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Originally a comment)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think about it this way: if all the accepted answer does is mark the most popular answer, then why give the asker the choice in the first place? Pick the answer that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; prefer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2014-05-12T15:15:15.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3615" CreationDate="2014-05-12T09:27:46.943" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't matter what the community thinks: the purpose of the site is for &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt; to get an answer to &lt;strong&gt;your&lt;/strong&gt; question, so accept the answer that &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt; feel does that job best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If on the other hand none of the answers deal with your question adequately, then it's perfectly OK to not accept any.  You shouldn't feel beholden to accept an answer just because it has a high number of upvotes: you're the asker so you're the only one in control of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also OK to edit your question, add the extra info you inadvertently omitted, and sit tight for a few more days in case you get even more good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I've said before and elsewhere: Stack Exchange is not a popularity contest.  It's about questions and answers.  You shouldn't need to be concerned about community acceptance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2014-05-12T09:27:46.943" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3618" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3622" CreationDate="2014-05-12T11:07:26.457" Score="3" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downvoting, downvoting, downvoting. I feel as if this site sometimes goes to hard on new users at times. I know when we downvote, we get a type of message saying to comment or suggest something to improve the question. But how many people actually do that. I think everyone has been a victim of downvoting before at times, but how many people actually bother to say why the question was bad/wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I see this or when this actually happens to me I find it at times rude, unhelpful and does not allow the asker to ever correct the question or improve on possible future contributions he/she may do for the site in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I may be, being a bit bias here and I do admit sometimes I downvote silently without commenting (So don't get me wrong on this), but if you look at it from the victims point of view it is actually quite irritating and does not allow the user to correct the mistake/mistakes they may have done. I am not asking you to stop downvoting, but perhaps when doing it try to soften it by adding what might need work or why it was bad so it doesn't seem like you're being overly aggressive (which I think is the case). Also think about it mentally in a way. Example: To you -2 or even -3 may not seem like a big deal, but to the person or victim of it, it is really heavy and a huge confidence downer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope this question actually kind of changes the way people think on this site, but I am open to your suggestions too. :) Does anyone agree/disagree with this? Why/Why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I am not asking you to hold new users hands or to completely stop downvoting, but I think it is far better when you do downvote is that you actually comment on what was wrong with the question. Finally, to be perfectly honest I think -2 is enough to tell the user that their question is bad unless it is pure spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't mind me though, I just thought it would be interesting to hear some feedback on this. What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20797" LastActivityDate="2014-05-12T15:26:12.760" Title="Downvoting- Maybe we at least should attempt to leave a comment?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2014-06-10T20:41:04.477" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3615" CreationDate="2014-05-12T11:14:20.207" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only time you need to strongly worry about what community thinks is answer &lt;strong&gt;accuracy&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If community downvoted an answer with an explanation that it's wrong (and why) it's probably a good idea to think hard before accepting it (still your right to do so if you wish). There are very few things that irk me more on SFF than seeing an accepted answer - AFTER I posted a canon quote in a comment proving it 100% wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, community votes should merely serve you as a rough (and not always accurate) &lt;strong&gt;hint&lt;/strong&gt; as to the possible quality of the answers. In other words, if you are new to Stack Exchange, and not sure how to evaluate answer quality, you can give more credence to answers with more votes - but still more, to the comments explaining WHY the votes are there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the decision on acceptance is 100% yours - &lt;strong&gt;a hint is not a rule, merely one of the inputs into your decision making process&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side note, be aware that votes CAN be wildly misleading at times. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes people upvote the answer for fine (or not so fine) humor, and not actual accuracy or helpfulness (I had at least one of those).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other times, simply because the poster sounded authoritative (I've seen +15 answers that looked OK but were either completely wrong or not really right to someone with deeper knowledge of facts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet other times (granted, less likely on SFF vs SO), people may upvote &quot;easier to understand&quot; answer over a more in depth and more correct but harder to get answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2014-05-12T11:14:20.207" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3620" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-12T13:30:17.137" Score="7" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;Scenario:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I look at my review queue. I have one Close Vote item. (Q1) It's for a possible duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I act/skip/whatever. Refresh the queue and there are no items for review.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I go to the front page and see a question (Q2) and click through. The question has an existing VTC. Comments indicate that the VTC occurred a short time before (not while I was scanning the front page).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was Q2 not already in my review queue if it had already received a VTC?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Reopen queue exhibits similar behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of 10:14 AM EST, the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/60150/why-didn-t-the-kryptonians-choose-another-planet-in-man-of-steel&quot;&gt;Why didn’t the Kryptonians choose another planet in Man of Steel?&lt;/a&gt; has one re-open vote. If I go to the review queue, there is nothing to be voted on. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/reopen/history&quot;&gt;review history&lt;/a&gt; also does not list any re-open votes for the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And... as of 12:41 PM EST (possibly sometime between 11:30 and now), the question is now in my review queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2014-06-26T16:41:56.403" Title="Why don't all VTCs come up in my queue?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-11-18T17:15:09.570" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3620" CreationDate="2014-05-12T14:23:06.937" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If other people review the question in the queue, and vote to keep it open, it will drop out of the review queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/139836/166646&quot;&gt;From meta.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally, a question must hit 100 views before close votes age away, so as to give enough folks time to see and review it. Questions with close votes stay in the review queue until they are closed or the votes expire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if enough people (currently 3) select &amp;quot;Do Not Close&amp;quot; within the review queue, the question will be immediately removed from the queue (not shown to any more reviewers) and the aging starts immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, in my experience, any time you see a question with close votes, and then go to the review queue, you won't see that question in the close queue.  I suspect that the system treats your visit as if you had already reviewed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-05-12T15:44:42.383" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3618" CreationDate="2014-05-12T15:26:12.760" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it is always a good idea to comment explaining your downvote.  It's how people learn from their mistakes; particularly new people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I sometimes upvote someone else's comment that explains why I'm downvoting, instead of creating my own comment, but I generally try to leave &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; indication.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, many people don't, and for a variety of reasons (some I can't refute).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, identifying yourself as a downvoter opens you up to retaliatory downvotes, if the person you are downvoting has enough reputation.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments explaining downvotes can also easily lead to discussion that is more suited to meta, or not suited to this site at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may also be difficult to phrase comments explaining a downvote in a way that is not going to come across as rude or condescending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people also browse the site from mobile devices, where they may find doing anything more than voting and reading to be cumbersome and/or frustrating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, commenting to explain a downvote is helpful, but don't expect &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt; to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2014-05-12T15:26:12.760" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3620" CreationDate="2014-05-12T15:30:41.050" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/close/history&quot;&gt;was in the review queue 1 hour ago&lt;/a&gt;; with 3 reviewers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;NikolaiDante    Where to start the books ...    Close   1 hour ago&#xA;Ward            Where to start the books ...    Close   1 hour ago&#xA;Monty129        Where to start the books ...    Close   1 hour ago&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could it be that it was closed before you had a chance to see it in the review queue? It &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/56098/timeline&quot;&gt;was closed 13:56 GMT&lt;/a&gt;, and those 3 reviewers from the queue were the last 3 of 5 VTCs; which means it has 2 VTCs before it even got to the review queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2014-05-12T15:30:41.050" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3624" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-13T09:26:45.513" Score="1" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;I assume this takes 10-20k rep to attach or remove such a link/comment? I've had this happen a couple of times now that in neither case was that link/comment accurate. It can be a real disservice to a clever question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A 'surface browser' would stop reading at that point thinking the question redundant and go to the linked question without even knowing that the linked question and associated answers do not address the question at hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13090" LastActivityDate="2014-05-13T09:26:45.513" Title="How do you get a &quot;This question may already have an answer here:&quot; tag off of a question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3625" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3627" CreationDate="2014-05-13T11:49:02.547" Score="6" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a tag named &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/asoiaf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;asoiaf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;asoiaf&lt;/a&gt; witch seems to refer to the song of ice and fire. It is only used twice. I'm too low-ranking to do anything about it. I'd think, they are synonyms - but since it's only used twice it could be deleted too. So my question would be: Synonyms or deletion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24574" LastActivityDate="2014-05-13T17:36:09.933" Title="Tags asoiaf and song-of-ice-and-fire" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3625" CreationDate="2014-05-13T12:07:46.273" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just remove them from the questions. Unused tags are cleaned up automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2014-05-13T12:07:46.273" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3625" CreationDate="2014-05-13T12:22:13.617" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tags which aren’t attached to any question get &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19753/how-can-we-get-rid-of-misspelled-and-unused-or-zombie-tags&quot;&gt;purged from the system&lt;/a&gt; by an automatic process:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tags which are misspelled should have the questions under them retagged to the appropriate tag, which will result in its destruction due to having no uses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can just remove them from the questions, and this process will take care of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the tag recurs, then we can always make a synonym later; but in this case, it’s sufficient to let the system clean it up automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2014-05-13T12:22:13.617" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3625" CreationDate="2014-05-13T12:33:54.190" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;We should have made them synonymous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's why:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A new user decides to ask several asoiaf questions and tags it as such&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They also add it to their favourite tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We delete them all over again&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;New user is confused as that tag has vanished&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's similar to how duplicate questions are handled, we don't delete the question hoping no one else will ask something similar, we mark as a duplicate straight away. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2014-05-13T12:33:54.190" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3625" CreationDate="2014-05-13T17:36:09.933" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just made &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/asoif&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;asoif&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;asoif&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt;. This then prevents this from being an issue in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-05-13T17:36:09.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3593" CreationDate="2014-05-13T18:50:19.797" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found out why I wasn't getting all the HP questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BCerA.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;SciFi.SE RSS Feed&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions are sent out in batches, I guess. I will miss them coming through one at a time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2014-05-13T18:50:19.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3632" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-14T17:51:11.047" Score="1" ViewCount="325" Body="&lt;p&gt;My questions keep getting locked up whenever I put a bounty on them. How do I deal with this?  I feel as though I am being abused or just harassing as a novice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21674" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2014-05-14T17:55:00.020" LastActivityDate="2014-05-17T19:42:15.813" Title="How to deal with a user who is harassing you by block questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="40" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3602" CreationDate="2014-05-14T22:20:17.387" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't just bump questions for the sake of it, or to game the system.  Edits are supposed to be used to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;'substantially improve'&lt;/a&gt; posts.  I noticed your frequent bumps to the question in question, and looked over its history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It had been asked back in February.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It received an objectively thorough answer in February, &lt;em&gt;which you replied to with a 'thanks'&lt;/em&gt;.  It was also accepted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In early April, you put a bounty on it, which you then awarded to the one, accepted answer.  The reason for this bounty was 'draw attention'.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You added some tags and some trivia to the question in mid-April.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In early May, you added more tags, and started another bounty, which is when it caught my notice.  I saw a comment on the question from another user that seemed off, like it was referring to a deleted comment.  So I looked at the deleted comments on the post, and saw your post stating that you're doing all this to get a badge for 2500 views.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I then check to see the reasons posts should be locked, as I know this sort of shenanigans is discouraged for the purpose of gaining reputation.  There's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/22229/158781&quot;&gt;handy FAQ post&lt;/a&gt; that addresses that:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some examples of when a post might be locked include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A question or answer where repeated voting or editing is happening in a way which attempts to game, hack, or otherwise abuse the system.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This matched the 'gaming the system' description, so I locked the post and removed the bounty.  I put a comment on the post telling you to knock it off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bounties are to be used to help get an answer to an unanswered (or unsatisfactorily-answered) question, or to reward exceptional answers.  The 'draw attention' bounty reason refers to &lt;strong&gt;getting better answers&lt;/strong&gt;, not 'I want this to get more views'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Go all out editing posts to make substantial improvements, that's why editing is there.  Use bounties to improve the quality/content of answers, and to also reward good ones.  But just gaming the site so you get more rep/badges/whatever isn't acceptable, and will be moderated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people abuse the system this way, then as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3605/1027&quot;&gt;Jimmy Shelter said&lt;/a&gt;, it clogs the 'active' feed on &lt;code&gt;/questions&lt;/code&gt; with stuff that doesn't need attention, and makes it harder for people to actually get help on other questions.  As &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3603/1027&quot;&gt;DVK said&lt;/a&gt;, this isn't even an effective way to get this badge.  Post a link to it on twitter, or reddit, or other social sites where people will find it interesting.  You'll earn the badge in no time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-05-14T22:20:17.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3632" CreationDate="2014-05-14T22:36:38.757" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keen isn't a user, he's a moderator.  That means that he gets to make decisions and we get to respect them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can only speculate as to why this one was locked, but since it was asked only 2 days ago it seems a bit early to be locking it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite that, from looking over your previous questions you do &lt;em&gt;seem&lt;/em&gt; to have recently acquired something of a habit of bumping.  Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/50660/why-was-the-21st-chapter-in-the-early-american-publications-of-a-clockwork-orang&quot;&gt;Why was the 21st chapter in the early American publications of A Clockwork Orange omitted?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;asked Feb 23rd, bumped May 9th&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/50314/is-batman-a-super-hero&quot;&gt;Are there criteria for being a super hero and does Batman meet them?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;asked Feb 18th, bumped May 9th&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/50425/why-did-dorian-gray-react-like-this-to-his-portrait&quot;&gt;Why did Dorian Gray react like this to his portrait?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;asked Feb 19th, bumped May 5th&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Please&lt;/em&gt; note that I said &quot;&lt;em&gt;seem&lt;/em&gt;&quot; here.  I'm not accusing, I'm just saying that there is a pattern here and that this pattern seems to have developed recently, although you as much as admitted that you were just bumping to get extra views in your previous Meta question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately only Keen can clarify the reasons for his actions, and all I can add is that you may be doing this in good faith, but on the surface it looks like needless bumping to me too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user8719" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2014-05-14T23:45:38.087" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3632" CreationDate="2014-05-14T22:41:10.133" Score="-1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do I deal with this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Start by reading that user's feedback. I posted a comment informing you to not bump the question to get a badge, which was the reason you stated for numerous bumps.  It's abusing the site's mechanisms.  After I shut down bumping on that question, you made several minor edits to other questions that are pretty close to the 2500 views needed to get that badge you were gaming the site to get.  So I quickly shut it down by locking the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jimmy's answer provides a partial timeline of bumps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-05-14T22:41:10.133" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3636" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3637" CreationDate="2014-05-15T04:32:22.120" Score="-1" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;Or does it take Mod status to view those reports?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13090" LastActivityDate="2014-05-15T04:56:47.223" Title="When a member achieves 10k rep, can they see who up/down votes questions/answers?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-05-15T04:57:42.917" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3636" CreationDate="2014-05-15T04:56:47.223" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not even moderators can see who upvoted and downvoted posts. Only some employees can (community managers and developers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2014-05-15T04:56:47.223" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3632" CreationDate="2014-05-15T17:48:04.800" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's take a look at some of these questions and try to figure out why this is the case, and then if something needs to be done about it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/56093/98&quot;&gt;Why are Slayers always women and not men?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/50660/98&quot;&gt;Why was the 21st chapter in the early American publications of A Clockwork Orange omitted?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first one of these had a bounty on it, and was locked shortly after. I personally don't see anything else suspicious about that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second was locked, because it appeared that edits were being used to bump the question to get it more attention. This isn't appropriate behavior, and thus locking the post seems justified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, it seems like the first question should not have been locked, although I would question the need to post a bounty to the question. The second seems justified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2014-05-15T17:48:04.800" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3632" CreationDate="2014-05-15T21:22:40.157" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just for reference - I posted this on Meta (MSO, not here) as a conceptual question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/255060/is-it-ok-to-start-a-bounty-on-the-question-you-asked-to-gain-extra-views&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/255060/is-it-ok-to-start-a-bounty-on-the-question-you-asked-to-gain-extra-views&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, the only (and upvoted) answer, provided by SO moderator, is that using bounties to &quot;Draw Attention&quot; is fully within the rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/56093/why-are-slayers-always-women-and-not-men&quot;&gt;Buffy question&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;should NOT have been locked at all&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an addendum, I tried to reconstruct what happened to the best of my knowledge:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://notes.io/3SV&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://notes.io/3SV&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Short version:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;user edit-bumped several of his posts. As far as I was able to dig out, of ALL his posts edited in May, &lt;strong&gt;only 5 were edited by him&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;1 post had 1 valid edit; 3 posts had 1 low-quality edit each; 1 post 2 low quality edits.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Update: I just ran &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/194548/questions-edited-by-op?UserId=21674&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Data.SE query for edits&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/194549/bounties-on-users-own-questions?UserId=21674&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Another for bounties&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user had a total (for all his questions): 4 edits (&amp;lt;= May-10) in May, 2 edits in April, 8 edits in March, 4 in February. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also posted a grand total of 4 bounties Feb1-May9 (5 including the one that caused this kerfuffle).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Keen locked one of those posts and told him not to edit-bump&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He posted a Meta question asking if it's OK, was told &quot;no&quot; BUT was also answered by @Richard that it's OK to use bounties (with no contradictory opinions).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He bountied another question&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Keen locked the bountied question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;User melted down, including this meta post and reported ~30 comments on Keen's post since Keen wasn't online and thus obviously unreponsive.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2014-05-16T01:09:41.523" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1355" CreationDate="2014-05-15T23:05:13.150" Score="-8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've flagged it as &quot;general research&quot;. Searching for &quot;Count Dooku Darth&quot; (without the quotes) answers the main question in &lt;strong&gt;all top 10 search results&lt;/strong&gt; on google. The top 3 results even give the answer on the first line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JM6pv.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any level of research whatsoever would have immediately yielded the result. As far as I'm concerned this sort of question borders on trolling &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might as well ask who Luke's father is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2014-05-15T23:05:13.150" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3632" CreationDate="2014-05-17T19:42:15.813" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I kind of see both sides of the issue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;strong&gt;phantom42&lt;/strong&gt; asks, did the question need a bounty at 2300+ views in two days? Not really, no. But my opinion is completely subjective in light of &lt;strong&gt;Richard&lt;/strong&gt;'s point that, technically, the OP is not breaking any of our site's rules. &lt;strong&gt;DVK&lt;/strong&gt; also makes several comments that I think are important, in that applying unilateral decisions that affect a user's standing in the community have to be made with objective forethought. Unilateral closures can't be a reaction to personal feelings about a user's (alleged) motives if the user's actions are firmly within the scope of the site's rules, no matter how annoying we may find the user's practice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But really, what's wrong with aggressively pursuing badges? There's nothing bad about those users who really go after points and badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also see nothing wrong with letting someone know they're pushing the boundaries of the site. True, they may not care what you think, but it's still proactive to say something. Moderator communication and well done warnings can really go a long way in justifying future actions. A unilateral, unexpected smack on the hand does nothing to affect positive change. This is why I disagree with the locking of the OP's question -- what purpose did it ultimately serve?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bounties are allowed and the site does let us use bounties to bump our questions. Solely because of this I don't think it was a good idea to lock the question, especially unilaterally. Until the rule changes, what constitutes appropriate application of the bounty guidelines (i.e. How often can I bump questions?) is undefined. It's unfair to punish someone with a lock, closure, ban, whatever, under these circumstances. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, objectively, because I really have no iron in this fire, I want to encourage the moderators to affect change and provide us clarity by either having upper management better explain the current rule for our benefit, or by holding a special SFF.se election re: bounties, or by following the rule as it is -- like the rest of us have to. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2014-05-17T19:42:15.813" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3642" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-18T06:50:33.227" Score="3" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have the readily accessible list of the questions we've asked or answers we've given and the votes they've received, but what about comments we've made? Is there no compilation of those comments available to us?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13090" LastEditorUserId="13090" LastEditDate="2014-05-18T23:35:23.010" LastActivityDate="2014-05-18T23:35:23.010" Title="Is there a way to review your comments made in relation to questions or answers?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3642" CreationDate="2014-05-18T09:30:18.263" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;On your user page, choose activity, then comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or do you want a more specific (possibly grouped) list?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2014-05-18T09:30:18.263" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3642" CreationDate="2014-05-18T11:04:04.717" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can run this query I just wrote on Data Stackexchange: &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/195030/all-my-comments?UserId=976&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/195030/all-my-comments?UserId=976&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;DECLARE @UserId int = ##UserId##&#xA;&#xA;SELECT &#xA;p.Id as [Post Link], &#xA;pt.Name 'Post Type',&#xA;c.Score,&#xA;c.CreationDate,&#xA;c.Text&#xA;FROM&#xA;    Comments c, PostTypes pt, Posts p&#xA;WHERE  UserId = @UserId&#xA;  AND  p.PostTypeId = pt.Id&#xA;  AND  c.PostId = p.Id&#xA;ORDER BY &#xA;    Score DESC&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2014-05-18T11:04:04.717" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3645" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3647" CreationDate="2014-05-19T03:09:36.500" Score="1" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;I appreciate the compliment, apparently someone asked me to review someone else's edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wasn't the original poster of the message, nor the editor of the original post, nor a commenter or answerer on the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did i get selected to review edits, and why?  what are the expectations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4241" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-05-17T07:20:43.030" LastActivityDate="2016-05-17T07:20:43.030" Title="Asked to review someone else's edits?" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edit|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3645" CreationDate="2014-05-19T03:13:41.917" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everyone with the Edit Posts privilege, at 2k rep, can review suggested edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2014-05-19T03:13:41.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3645" CreationDate="2014-05-19T03:27:51.333" Score="9" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Main point can be found here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/editing&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/help/editing&lt;/a&gt; (&quot;Who makes sure that proposed edits are good?&quot; section)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Any user can propose edits, but not all edits are publicly visible immediately. &lt;strong&gt;If a user has less than 2,000 reputation, the suggested edit is placed in a review queue. Two (three on Stack Overflow) accept or reject votes are required to remove the suggested edit from the queue and either apply the edit to the post or discard it. Users with more than 2,000 reputation are considered trusted community members and can edit posts without going through the review process.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/139536/new-feature-community-review-tasks-now-in-beta&quot;&gt;New Feature: Community Review Tasks - Now in Beta&lt;/a&gt; has a bit more details on this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Suggested Edits:&lt;/strong&gt; This task targets posts edited by users who have not yet earned the reputation to fully edit. Your job is to read these edits and:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;decide to Approve the edit as is&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Reject the edit&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Edit the original post and make your own edit&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Delete the post (moderator only)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  or skip it if you are Not Sure.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The minimum reputation to perform this task corresponds with the ability to edit any post (currently 2,000).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The overall workflow is covered here in detail, including guidelines and expectations: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/76251/how-do-suggested-edits-work&quot;&gt;How do suggested edits work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And overall review queue coverage here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/161390/what-are-the-review-queues-and-how-do-they-work&quot;&gt;What are the review queues, and how do they work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:46.357" LastActivityDate="2014-05-19T03:33:06.007" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3648" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3649" CreationDate="2014-05-21T00:25:06.050" Score="8" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/24299/how-where-did-the-wizards-usually-carry-their-wands/56550#56550&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;, a bounty was offered. There were already a few good answers one of which was accepted. But during the bounty period I posted an answer which the OP chose as accepted. Note: my answer is NOT the highest 'voted'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/904/21267&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; answer, if the bounty period runs out and the bounty giver does not post the bounty, half of the rep points go to the highest scoring answer(s) OR an answer which was accepted during the bounty period (&lt;strong&gt;unless&lt;/strong&gt; the bounty giver specifically chooses to give the bounty).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I have no problem not receiving a bounty, or even any rep points, so my point isn't about that. &lt;strong&gt;I would like to know how the system works&lt;/strong&gt;, did the system give the points to the highest 'voted' answer or if in this case the bounty giver &lt;strong&gt;chose&lt;/strong&gt; to give the bounty to a certain answer (perfectly fine).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2014-05-21T02:33:21.607" Title="Why did (half-of) the bounty not go to me after the bounty period expired?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3648" CreationDate="2014-05-21T02:33:21.607" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The bounty was manually awarded. The offerer chose to give it to the other answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2014-05-21T02:33:21.607" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3650" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3652" CreationDate="2014-05-21T10:35:47.357" Score="12" ViewCount="266" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen some questions where OP had accepted an answer due to activeness of certain users rather than other answers which address the question more accurately or have been answered correctly later. In such cases - is it possible for the community to reconsider the correctness of the accepted answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Accepted the answer for the reasoning. But I still feel - like the linked question in the comment - moderators should be given the ability to remove completely incorrect answers - even though they may have somehow helped the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25322" LastEditorUserId="25322" LastEditDate="2014-05-23T18:06:41.410" LastActivityDate="2014-05-23T18:06:41.410" Title="Possibly incorrect answer accepted by OP" Tags="|discussion|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3650" CreationDate="2014-05-21T10:53:40.160" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is unfortunately not possible which is why we have upvotes so the community can make the correct answer more obvious. OPs will sometimes make mistakes and accept answers with a variety of different reasons, just upvote the one you think is most correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To quote someone great &quot;Everybody makes mistakes, Everybody has those days&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22709" LastActivityDate="2014-05-21T10:53:40.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3650" CreationDate="2014-05-21T11:59:53.300" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange's answer system ranks and rewards answers on two orthogonal axes. The first is marking an answer as Accepted, and the second is Question Score. These aren't necessarily aligned. The Accepted mark means the answer helped the original poster, and that's all it means. The second metric, total upvotes, is the one that you're aiming for, the way for the community to mark the correctness of an answer. Seeing an Accepted answer with a score of +3 and a second answer with a score of +15, it'll be quite easy for me to decide which to trust.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, it's never objective and clear-cut. A partially correct but brilliantly written answer will probably get more upvotes than a more precise but awkwardly phrased one. But the whole point of Stack Exchange's model is that there isn't any one person or small group that can say &quot;this answer is the right one, this one just looks right&quot; - it's a crowd-sourced effort, and it's up to the community to participate &lt;em&gt;en masse&lt;/em&gt; and mark it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4516" LastActivityDate="2014-05-21T11:59:53.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3653" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-22T01:04:16.947" Score="3" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen numerous questions being flagged as 'duplicate' or 'has already been answered' but the supposed 'original question' bears little resemblance to the 'flagged question' or is subtly different enough as to require a totally different answer. Often that 'answer' to the 'original question' either didn't properly answer the 'flagged question' or it was buried in a link contained in the answer located 6 answers down to a question than only vaguely resembles the 'flagged question'. This results in the 'flagged questions' answer either being highly obscured or not answered at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm under the impression that this site is for getting the distilled information and concise answers to specific questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do understand the need for the &gt;'duplicate' or 'has already been answered'&amp;lt; function, but it seems to be overused at times. This makes it difficult to get a concise and proper answer if the flaggers don't get or grasp a nuance or focus of a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not migrate what they think is the answer and let the asked decide rather than start another goose chase?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13090" LastActivityDate="2014-05-22T02:18:34.277" Title="Why not migrate an apparent answer rather than just mark as duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3653" CreationDate="2014-05-22T02:18:34.277" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the case that the answer is contained in &lt;em&gt;not the accepted answer&lt;/em&gt;, but in another, comments should be left on the duplicate question telling people exactly where to find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have specific concerns you can vote to reopen, an/or bring up the specific question in a meta post explaining &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it is not a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastActivityDate="2014-05-22T02:18:34.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3655" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3656" CreationDate="2014-05-23T03:45:28.280" Score="4" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 'Deathly-Hallows' tag currently exists and seems to be used often to refer to the Book (&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;). But when I first saw it, I initially thought that it was meant for the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Deathly_Hallows&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Deathly Hallows&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; objects (The elder Wand, The Invisibility Cloak and The Resurrection Stone).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which is correct?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is unfortunately not answered here:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3560/harry-potter-tag-cleanup&quot;&gt;Harry Potter tag cleanup&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2014-12-09T23:08:18.017" Title="Deathly Hallows tag: Book or Objects?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2016-04-06T21:52:35.983" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3655" CreationDate="2014-05-23T04:36:00.063" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag wiki for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/deathly-hallows&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;deathly-hallows&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;deathly-hallows&lt;/a&gt; tag says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Three magical objects in the Harry Potter universe that together give the owner mastery over death. Specifically, they are the Elder Wand, Resurrection Stone and Cloak of Invisibility. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/deathly-hallows/info&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/deathly-hallows/info&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Therefore, the tag relates to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_objects_in_Harry_Potter#Deathly_Hallows&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Objects&lt;/a&gt; and not the Book/Movies.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2014-12-09T23:08:18.017" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3650" CreationDate="2014-05-23T16:21:41.490" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;A similar question has been asked before here on Meta, but I can't find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sum of it was that the answers on SE sites are (up to a point) personal. I might ask a question that has 2 answers. One of them has 20 upvotes and the second one has only one upvote. If I (think that is best or for whatever reason) like the answer with the 1 upvote, I'm free to choose that as the correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other answers will still be there for the rest of the users to see, but I am free to choose whichever answer answers the question best &lt;em&gt;in my opinion&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is the reason why moderators/community doesn't accept answers on questions that don't have one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19374" LastActivityDate="2014-05-23T16:21:41.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3659" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-27T15:32:38.233" Score="4" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked the name of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/57044/according-to-canon-what-is-the-primary-style-of-hand-to-hand-combat-utilized-by&quot;&gt;Kirk's fighting style&lt;/a&gt; and my question was closed as already being &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/34323/is-the-clasped-hand-strike-seen-in-star-trek-a-real-fictional-martial-art&quot;&gt;asked with two answers&lt;/a&gt;. Neither answer to the other question is accurate due to the wording of that question... A Double Axe Handle Strike is not a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fightauthority.com/martial-arts-styles.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;fighting style nor is it a specific martial art &lt;/a&gt;. It is a specific move. The answer I have currently accepted for my question is, while not backed up by canon, a fighting style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I contend that the poster of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/34323/is-the-clasped-hand-strike-seen-in-star-trek-a-real-fictional-martial-art&quot;&gt;first question&lt;/a&gt; confused &lt;em&gt;martial arts&lt;/em&gt; with an individual fighting maneuver and accepted an answer that identified the maneuver, but did not provide the answer to my &lt;em&gt;What is Kirk's fighting style&lt;/em&gt; question. I feel an edit to the other question would validate my question, but since it has an accepted answer of +20, I wanted to run it through META before I touched it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4356" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-05-27T17:36:49.837" Title="Q my Q was VTC as a dup is misworded, has an accepted A that doesn't A my Q &amp; needs editing" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3659" CreationDate="2014-05-27T16:55:51.950" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree, those aren't duplicates. While discussing similar subject matter, you are asking about the fighting style, the martial art, while the supposed duplicate is asking about a specific technique.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2014-05-27T16:55:51.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3659" CreationDate="2014-05-27T17:27:47.117" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;They may actually be duplicates, since the older question asks if the specific move is part of a real &lt;strong&gt;or fictional&lt;/strong&gt; fighting style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is my understanding that questions that cover the same ground, but where one is a more specific version of the other, the &lt;em&gt;more specific&lt;/em&gt; version of the question should be marked as a duplicate of the more generalized version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The theory behind this is that good answers to a general version of the question should also answer the more specific version, but that answers to the more specific version may not sufficiently answer the more general question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/57044/according-to-canon-what-is-the-primary-style-of-hand-to-hand-combat-utilized-by&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; Major Stackings asked about Kirk's fighting style is a perfect example of a more general question that isn't answered by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/34323/1359&quot;&gt;more specific version&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers that describe the general fighting style, how it is referred to in canon (if at all), and any real-world origins, should provide sufficient explanation as to answer &quot;where does that one specific move come from&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as the existing answers on the older question show, questions on the fighting &lt;em&gt;style&lt;/em&gt; aren't necessarily going to be answered by a question focusing on one specific move.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, I have voted to reopen the more general question, and, should it be re-opened, I propose that the older question be marked as a duplicate of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2014-05-27T17:27:47.117" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3662" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3664" CreationDate="2014-05-27T17:30:37.830" Score="12" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just flagged an answer that, IMO, was not actually an answer since it only gave a short and obvious &quot;out-of-universe&quot; explanation for a question. I flagged it as &quot;should be a comment&quot;, only to realize it &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; a comment, and the commenter turned it into an answer later on purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to go back and un-flag something, or do I just hope my flag gets ignored? :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2016-08-09T17:15:40.713" Title="Is there a way to reject/recall your own flags?" Tags="|support|flagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3662" CreationDate="2014-05-27T17:51:46.827" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, there is no way to retract a flag. If you feel strongly enough, you can ping a mod in chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MSE post on it: &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/87500/172958&quot;&gt;Cancel misclicked flags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2014-05-27T17:51:46.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3665" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3670" CreationDate="2014-05-28T15:09:20.077" Score="8" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;For reference, I flagged some (IMHO) very poor answers that appear to have been abandoned and only create noise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rSSJ8.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question for your reference is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/18644/where-did-the-red-brick-road-lead-to&quot;&gt;Where did the Red Brick Road lead to?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each one of the flags was declined.  I'm not new to Stack Exchange, but I don't spend a ton of time on Sci-Fi.  Is your policy for flagging different from other network sites?  I can't understand the rationale for keeping these answers around.  In particular the first answer has a total score of -9 and (again, IMHO) should have been deleted long ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5807" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T23:53:15.417" Title="Does Sci-Fi use different flagging rules from other SE sites?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3666" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3668" CreationDate="2014-05-28T17:04:23.473" Score="7" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, here’s a question that basically asks “What happens in this recently-released movie that I haven’t seen?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/57136/who-dies-in-captain-america-2&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/57136/who-dies-in-captain-america-2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that on-topic? It seems like for any mainstream movie Wikipedia will have a plot summary that would answer questions like these, and this site even has a feature (spoiler tags) for &lt;em&gt;avoiding&lt;/em&gt; telling people plot points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also seems like this category of questions could be never-ending. (What happens at the end of &lt;em&gt;Captain America: The Winter Soldier&lt;/em&gt;? Does anyone die in &lt;em&gt;Thor: The Dark World?&lt;/em&gt; Why is Tony Stark wearing a backpack in this screenshot from &lt;em&gt;Iron Man 3&lt;/em&gt;?) I’m not sure where the on-topic line would be drawn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="440" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T19:13:04.053" Title="Are questions that just ask for a description of a plot-point on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3666" CreationDate="2014-05-28T17:11:45.313" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of sites such as Wikipedia, IMDB, etc that handle plot synopses. This site should stick to questions that require some actual thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit&lt;/em&gt; - After reading the &quot;related question&quot; comment posted by phantom42, it seems to me that the answers to that question make good arguments about not closing questions for being &quot;too trivial&quot; make a good deal of sense. However, unlike the general case where &quot;too trivial&quot; is a subjective judgement, the case of questions that are asking for nothing more than a &lt;em&gt;description&lt;/em&gt; of a plot-point (as opposed to analysis of a plot-point) is narrow enough in scope to be able to be able to objectively identify and close those questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keeping in mind that closed questions can be reopened if the user edits and improves them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5424" LastEditorUserId="5424" LastEditDate="2014-05-28T17:40:11.923" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T17:40:11.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3666" CreationDate="2014-05-28T19:13:04.053" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. It is On-topic. &lt;strong&gt;It doesn't violate ANY offtopic rules.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We burninated General Reference VTC, for good reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, if the question is indeed easily researched (obvious query on Google returns a Wikipedia page), it can and should be downvoted into the basement, because &quot;&lt;strong&gt;does not show any research effort&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; is one of the main reasons for a question downvote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T19:13:04.053" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3293" CreationDate="2014-05-28T21:14:33.113" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't gone through &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wrong-answers?sort=votes&amp;amp;pageSize=50&quot;&gt;all the meta.SE questions about wrong answers,&lt;/a&gt; but there's a clear pattern to the answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;wrong answers are allowed to stay&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;downvote and/or comment them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they shouldn't be flagged for moderator attention&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;possibly edit it, but not just to say &quot;this is wrong&quot;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;editing to point out something dangerous in an answer is usually ok (don't think that applies here)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T21:14:33.113" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3665" CreationDate="2014-05-28T23:53:15.417" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you link to some other site's Meta that outlines their policies on the subject?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I used to delete this sort of answer, figuring that it was part of the reason deletion was there; to clean up junk posts.  The more I discussed the subject with other moderators, and read and reread the documentation here and on (formerly-Meta-Stack-Overflow) Meta Stack Exchange, I've changed to the opposite.  I don't delete anything that's a non-joke attempt at answering the question, even if that answer is buried in a little cruft.  If a post is entirely tangential commentary, a comment/reply to another answer, or trolling/offensive/spam, then I delete.  But if the post makes &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; attempt to answer the question, I don't delete it. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3669/1027&quot;&gt;Ward's answer over here&lt;/a&gt; outlines some of the discussions on MSE on the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note, that I usually downvote low quality answers.  I expect expert users to post comments outlining how an answer is incorrect, low quality, etc.  When I have time/capability, I leave comments as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lately, if I received a flag on a post that deserved a downvote, I would downvote and mark the flag as helpful.  But I can see how confusing that is, since anyone can downvote, and that's not properly 'moderator action'.  So I no longer do this.  If a 'very low quality' or 'not an answer' flag doesn't point to a post that should be deleted, &lt;strong&gt;I decline the flag.&lt;/strong&gt;  This is what happened to your posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T23:53:15.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3671" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3672" CreationDate="2014-05-31T12:35:45.257" Score="12" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm kind of a new user to sci-fi stackexchange when it comes to asking questions and choosing a best answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I asked the question &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/57284/24993&quot;&gt;Movie in which person turns into monster by mask with tubes&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (the wording could be better, but nevermind).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;There are two answers suggesting the same movie (which is the one I was looking for), posted 3 minutes from eachother. They both have a youtube video with the concerning scene (one a bit shorter than the other).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Also, they both have the same amount of votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I should choose the answer that best answers my question, but I just can't choose.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Which answer would you choose and why?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Or should I wait first to see if other answers come in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24993" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2014-06-02T21:25:48.577" Title="Which answer should I choose?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3671" CreationDate="2014-05-31T14:24:08.673" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I'd choose Mario's answer. Although the answers were almost identically timed and almost identically worded, the video link he offers seems to be from a higher quality source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By comparison, calccrypto's video seems to be some sort of jerky screen capture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, you're entitled to use &lt;strong&gt;whatever criteria you want&lt;/strong&gt; to make an &quot;accepted&quot; response. The specific quote from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/accepted-answer&quot;&gt;help centre FAQ&lt;/a&gt; is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Accepting an answer is not meant to be a definitive and final statement indicating that the question has now been answered&#xA;  perfectly. It simply means that the author received an answer that&#xA;  worked for him or her personally, but not every user comes back to&#xA;  accept an answer, and of those who do, they may not change the&#xA;  accepted answer if a newer, better answer comes along later.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2014-05-31T14:24:08.673" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3671" CreationDate="2014-06-02T21:25:48.577" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where people have provided the same correct answer in what is likely to be an overlapping post scenario, I would generally prefer to accept the first answer posted, even if the difference in time is quite short.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1459" LastActivityDate="2014-06-02T21:25:48.577" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3674" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3675" CreationDate="2014-06-04T06:18:45.660" Score="16" ViewCount="500" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, I've been &lt;a href=&quot;http://lmgtfy.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LMGTFY&lt;/a&gt;¹ed. I know this practice is discouraged on SO and SE, but is it also discouraged here at SFF.se? Different sites have different norms, so I'm asking specifically about SFF (i.e. I don't necessarily need to be redirected to SO or SE).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is LMGTFY discouraged here? How do I best deal with a LMGTFY comment (Flag it as non-constructive? Ignore it? Comment back?)?&lt;/strong&gt; I was thinking flagging a LMGTFY comment as non-constructive would be the best option, but, then again, I don't want to assume when it comes to flagging and possibly clogging up the mods' inboxes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ETA:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;SQB&lt;/strong&gt; suggested I provide context. A question was asked that introduced a non-canonical theory into a canonical situation, without any links or references for us to refer to in order to better understand the OP's theory. In my answer to the OP, I mentioned that it would be nice if he/she provided said links or references, mainly out of courtesy. &lt;em&gt;Another user&lt;/em&gt; then left a LMGTFY comment -- I want to be clear that it was &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the OP who was rude, but rather it was another user. The OP did edit in links to references on his/her theory, which was thoughtful and helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹&lt;sub&gt;You thought I was going to provide a written explanation of LMGTFY here, didn't you? (I'm sorry, I'm sorry -- I couldn't resist! Just a bit of cheek in light of the topic ... I am asking the question in all seriousness.)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-06-13T23:39:14.830" Title="LMGTFY (Oh, yes, please, would you?)" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3674" CreationDate="2014-06-04T06:21:48.073" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can safely flag LMGTFY and similar comments as not constructive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some sites, like SO, have lmgtfy on a blacklist so comments with such a link can't even be posted, but we don't need such a block until and unless it becomes a frequent problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="3267" LastEditDate="2014-06-04T18:23:28.003" LastActivityDate="2014-06-04T18:23:28.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3676" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-04T07:24:52.630" Score="9" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I understand it, if a question is edited (from whomever for whatever reason) it will bump the question. [I don't know why that is considered to be a good idea in the first place but I don't want to go there.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is edited by others, it can happen, that it slightly changes the subject. Now if I (the op) hit the edit-button and revert some of the edits it will bump the question. But for no good reason: Nothing new has been added to the question; if anything, something old has been &quot;added&quot; to the question, but basically it would ask what it has been asking before the edits. So there is no justification for bumping it. But on the other hand, if the topic remains slightly changed it will draw &quot;wrong&quot; answers - that is answers, that are addressing the question with altered subject, and not addressing the op.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now what I'd like to have is a checkbox that if checked prevents the system from bumping the question. Alternatively I could imagine a button that just rejects the edits that have been made that if hit, doesn't bumps the question but simply reverts it to it's previous state*.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there already such an option? If not this would be a feature-request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*This would only be my second choice. As I am no native-speaker my questions tend to have some - erm... let's call them 'typos'. If those are fixed by others and I revert a question to it's previous state I'd undo the grammar-fixes too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24574" LastActivityDate="2016-06-22T04:27:14.987" Title="Is there a possibility to edit my own question without bumping it?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3674" CreationDate="2014-06-04T10:44:33.570" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it really was easy to find on Google, it's a missed opportunity for an answer. So I wouldn't mind you (the OP), or anybody else snatching that comment and turning it into an actual answer, for fun and &lt;del&gt;profit&lt;/del&gt; rep!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the LMGTFY doesn't answer your question, it may have looked too simple, so you can take that as a hint to edit for clarity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2014-06-04T10:44:33.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3678" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-04T10:46:11.910" Score="7" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;This stack lives at &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SciFi&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.stackexchange.com, with an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/316/19561&quot;&gt;alias of &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fantasy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The full name of this stack is &amp;quot;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy&amp;quot;, but this is not reflected in either URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I suggest to make &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SFF&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.stackexchange.com an alias as well. This &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/323/19561&quot;&gt;has been suggested before&lt;/a&gt;, but was never acted upon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taking the pros and cons from that suggestion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Pros:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Includes both sci-fi and fantasy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SF&amp;amp;F is a well-established moniker for the genre, along with F&amp;amp;SF (e.g. &lt;em&gt;The Magazine of Fantasy &amp;amp; Science Fiction&lt;/em&gt; is generally called just F&amp;amp;SF or F&amp;amp;SF mag).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Short (at least the subdomain is - we're stuck with the lengthy &amp;quot;stackexchange.com&amp;quot;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It resembles other StackExchange names, like gis, diy, rpg, and dba.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It doesn't need capitalisation/hyphenation (e.g. sfandf, fandsf, sf-f, f-sf or scifiandfantasy) to be clearly read.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Cons:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's not immediately clear what &amp;quot;sff&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;fsf&amp;quot; mean to anyone not expecting it to be a genre. (OTOH, most of the traffic comes from Google, where this isn't that important).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SF (with only one F) is used to refer to ServerFault.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-06-04T10:46:11.910" Title="Add an alias of sff.stackexchange.com" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3679" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-04T12:33:22.963" Score="-6" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;if im making a tron project (Creative story/comic book)- using stack exchange / &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How best is it for me to present a development diary with external links?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27797" LastActivityDate="2014-06-04T19:22:47.817" Title="if im making a Development Journal For a Tron Fanfiction" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-06-05T12:40:44.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3676" CreationDate="2014-06-04T13:01:16.907" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The whole reason for the &quot;bumping&quot; can be seen as checks and balances. No edit (aside from  ninja-stealth-under-the-time-limit edits when posting/commenting) should ever not be brought to the attention of the community - no matter who makes it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say you post a question. I misunderstand it, and edit it to &quot;clarify&quot; the language. At this point, you can either roll back my edits, or edit it again, with all-new language to hopefully clear up misunderstandings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, you may be a fine upstanding person, completely above reproach and who would never do anything underhanded. You would never think of editing the question to an all new third meaning, or even make it a completely different question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But not everyone is as virtuous as you. &lt;strong&gt;The community needs to see that the question has been changed to make sure that your edits are in line with the spirit and the rules of the community&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, everything posted on SE has a creative commons license. You may have posted the question, but you don't own it. As a community, we defer a lot of things to the OP, but it's not an absolute rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="23785" LastEditDate="2016-06-22T04:27:14.987" LastActivityDate="2016-06-22T04:27:14.987" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3679" CreationDate="2014-06-04T13:01:48.443" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think StackExchange, at least not &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; stack, would be the right tool for that. If you have specific on-topic questions, feel free to ask them here, but I don't think you should try to create a development diary here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the &lt;a href=&quot;https://writers.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Writers Stack&lt;/a&gt; can be of help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:40:22.477" LastActivityDate="2014-06-04T13:01:48.443" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3679" CreationDate="2014-06-04T19:22:47.817" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to link to an external site, which you think others would be interested that participate on this site, and said site is not likely to advertise for the site, then your best bet is to use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3239/community-promotion-ads-2014&quot;&gt;community ads&lt;/a&gt;. But I don't think your site would work for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next suggestion is to put a link in your profile. You can't post the link around the site, but as you come to make content on the various SE sites, you could get people to click on your profile, and learn what things you are interested in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, there is the site blog. This would not work for posting your entire project history, but you might convince the powers that be to let you write a single blog article on your project, if they deem it worthy enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2014-06-04T19:22:47.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2469" CreationDate="2014-06-05T05:42:50.327" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could we merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-one-ring&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-one-ring&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-one-ring&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rings-of-power&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rings-of-power&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rings-of-power&lt;/a&gt; please?  They go to the same posts because of the way the One Ring is magically linked to the Rings of Power, and the two tags just take up precious space of the limit of 5 tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="19374" LastEditDate="2014-06-05T12:40:13.520" LastActivityDate="2014-06-05T12:40:13.520" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3684" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-05T13:50:34.493" Score="8" ViewCount="203" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't posted in about a year so please bare with me if I'm not following proper protocol. I asked a question yesterday and immediately it was flagged as a duplicate question. I commented below why I thought it wasn't and did not directly address the user that started the VTC process because of course it wasn't anything personal, I was just voicing a complaint with the system that I probably should have posted here instead. I feel it was taken as an insult though because my question was closed with only the originator of the VTC posting that I did have a point that there was no source stated it might have just been opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issues that I'm running into is, One: the quickness that my question was voted closed even with an explanation provided by me in comment that I didn't feel the answer given in the other question had reference to support its conclusion about the subject of my question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two: &lt;strong&gt;I feel this one is more important&lt;/strong&gt; with a site this large and with the potential for any answer to cause a duplication of question it seems that eventually there can be no new questions on a specific subject such as horcruxes or boba fett et cetera. For instance I have another question I would like to ask on the subject that doesn't seem to have been asked before but while researching I found an answer that also for two sentences states an opinion  that could cause my question to be marked as duplicate. I would just link and say &quot;it was addressed in an answer to this question but I feel this is opinion not fact any sources&quot; (which I probably will post it as that anyways) I feel my question would still be flagged and closed as duplicate even with making this careful effort. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is there an existing line of &quot;well it was stated as opinion rather than sourced so it shouldn't be counted the same as fact&quot; or does there need to be one implemented? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4355" LastActivityDate="2017-10-27T11:19:23.343" Title="Should questions tagged as duplicates because of an answer be treated different?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3684" CreationDate="2014-06-05T14:09:15.690" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;First:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions get closed quickly so they don't accrue poor answers. When they're clarified, they get re-opened. That part of the process is working as intended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question is closed as a duplicate and you don't feel you're looking for the same answer the previous question is, you can edit your question to be more clear and then it should be re-opened. Comments are for figuring out how to improve the question, and useful information gained thereby should be incorporated into the question itself. Perhaps &quot;This was mentioned in passing by answer X [link] on question Y, but I want more information about it than would be appropriate in an answer to question Y.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rule of thumb that duplicate questions are defined by having duplicate answers should not be stretched to include tangential information nonspecific to the question being asked. If that is happening, you should bring it to the attention of the moderators and/or site through flagging and/or meta posts with specific links to the question and an explanation of what's going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also have precedent for a series of related questions: &quot;Answer X to my question Y mentioned Z, can I get more info about it?&quot; If this is the kind of chain you're concerned will get closed as duplicate... see the first section about how to make such connections clear and explicit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you want better answers to an existing question, call attention to the question! Just because the querent accepted an answer you think is poor doesn't mean the question's life is over: offer a bounty and explain what kind of improvement in answers you're hoping to see. Good answers will float to the top through community voting, regardless of what got accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13941" LastEditorUserId="13941" LastEditDate="2014-06-05T14:22:39.367" LastActivityDate="2014-06-05T14:22:39.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3684" CreationDate="2014-06-05T14:09:55.280" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand the frustration when a question gets closed due to a duplicate which simply isn't &lt;em&gt;good enough&lt;/em&gt;; an answer that, were it given to your own question, you would probably downvote, and certainly won't accept. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't, however, think that there needs to be any &lt;em&gt;technical&lt;/em&gt; solution, or even a formal solution to avoid it. I think adding an explicit paragraph in your question saying &quot;I saw the answer given to question X and I don't think it answers my question fully, and isn't well-sourced enough to count&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having stated that clearly, you might &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; get closed as duplicate. In this case, though, it's because people &lt;em&gt;explicitly&lt;/em&gt; disagree with you about that answer. And that's life, probably. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4516" LastActivityDate="2014-06-05T14:09:55.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3687" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3688" CreationDate="2014-06-05T14:23:35.740" Score="9" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question about the mechanics of the Skull Heart from the video game Skullgirls - not an in-game mechanics question, but speicfically a lore question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Skullgirls, for those who don't know, is a fighter game involving:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An ancient artifact/being known as the &quot;Skull Heart&quot; that grants a single wish to the girl who finds it, but will transform them into the Skullgirl and destroy them if their heart is impure.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A plethora of monstrous characters, including parasitic hair, a zombie catgirl, a demonically posessed hat, and many more.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Numerous biologically engineered characters designed as living weapons and parodies of various cartoon characters.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Very large...eyes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With all of that in consideration, would it be acceptable to ask a question about this game on this site? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20533" LastActivityDate="2014-06-07T08:12:22.107" Title="Would &quot;Skullgirls&quot; be considered Sci-Fi/Fantasy enough for this SE?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3687" CreationDate="2014-06-05T14:36:45.583" Score="10" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An ancient artifact/being known as the &quot;Skull Heart&quot; that grants a single wish to the girl who finds it, but will transform them into the Skullgirl and destroy them if their heart is impure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sounds on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A plethora of monstrous characters, including parasitic hair, a zombie catgirl, a demonically posessed hat, and many more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sounds on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Numerous biologically engineered characters designed as living weapons and parodies of various cartoon characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sounds on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Very large...eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sounds fun, but not inherently on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Provided that the question had to do with the lore and not the... &lt;em&gt;eyes&lt;/em&gt;, you should be OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2014-06-05T14:36:45.583" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3687" CreationDate="2014-06-06T18:48:10.510" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to disagree here and say that the question doesn't belong here. Yes, its &quot;on-topic&quot; in the sense that it deals with a fantasy world, but belongs elsewhere&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you post here and not at Arqade you will get worse answers and it will be hard to find for other gamers looking for skullgirls content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you post here and at Arqade you will get better answers at Arqade anyway, so why post here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end there isn't any advantage to posting here, because people looking for information on skullgirls will be looking on Arqade, not here.&#xA;Arqade does welcome Lore questions, so that isn't an issue. Just post it there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we don't want is video game lore questions being on a separate site from mechanics questions, it just doesn't make sense. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7890" LastActivityDate="2014-06-06T18:48:10.510" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3687" CreationDate="2014-06-07T07:59:01.547" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that no-one has linked back to previous discussion, so I'll just put this here - a four year old question here in meta, massively upvoted (26 upvoted, 0 downvotes as of this moment) agreeing that lore/background/story questions about video games are on-topic here on the site. Strange that it doesn't show up on the Related Questions sidebar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/319/can-i-ask-a-question-about-video-game-based-scifi-fantasy/320&quot;&gt;Can I ask a question about video game based scifi/fantasy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone want to reopen the issue, or is the previous consensus acceptable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4516" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2014-06-07T08:12:22.107" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3691" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-08T16:36:40.423" Score="19" ViewCount="211" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked this question yesterday:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/58858/26552&quot;&gt;Nolan&amp;#39;s Dark Knight: Why would Dent&amp;#39;s convictions be overturned?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It got moved to Movies and TV by the evening. Now, I've been using mobile exclusively for the past 48 hours, so I can't see close votes, but I'm just curious as to how the decision is made to move such questions. I don't have a problem with it being moved if that's the general approach, but the sci-fi site is filled with recent questions about Days of Future Past, Sherlock, Dr Who, the Silver Surfer cartoon, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to distill my question to its essence:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What makes a question about a movie or television program on-topic for the sci-fi site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26552" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2014-06-09T13:24:32.197" Title="When does a movie question get migrated to Movies and TV?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3691" CreationDate="2014-06-08T16:42:21.543" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason, I would presume is due to the fact that the sci-fi setting holds no bearing on the issues addressed in the question,  nor in the answer. You could have asked a similar question from a non SF setting and had the same response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I don't know of any hard-and-fast rules for this sort of migration. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2014-06-08T16:42:21.543" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3691" CreationDate="2014-06-09T13:24:32.197" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should not have been migrated without approval from the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have plenty of on topic questions that aren't asking for, or answered by, details specific to fantastic elements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I answered a Game of Thrones question about whether archery was under represented. My answer was based exclusively on the real world historical role of archery in medieval times. Should it have been migrated because it didn't deal with fantasy elements?  No, and neither should this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have plenty of examples of on topic questions that don't deal specifically with fantastic elements, and it has never been an issue before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is a bad, and unnecessary, precedent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2014-06-09T13:24:32.197" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3684" CreationDate="2014-06-09T15:52:23.153" Score="2" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since I was the one who closed it, I'll address the speed issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My judgement of whether it is a duplicate or not is 100% independent of time - only of information. If I think that the existing answer from another question answers a new question, &lt;strong&gt;waiting&lt;/strong&gt; for 30 seconds or 30 days would NOT change that opinion. So, I closed quickly simply because I saw it quickly and because there was no reason to wait, not for any other reason.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As noted my comment to you, if you think that it was NOT a duplicate, you should post a question on Meta asking whether it was or wasn't (not THIS question that you posted, but a &lt;strong&gt;separate&lt;/strong&gt; question saying &lt;code&gt;XYZ was closed as duplicate of ABC. I don't believe it's a duplicate because of reasons 1, 2, 3. Am I correct&lt;/code&gt;? It should be specific to your question, because there's usually some specific details that may sway people's decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I'm human and prone to error, I'm perfectly happy to reverse my vote (or have it reversed by other Gold Tag binding voters, or mods, or 5 users) if people reach a consensus on that meta post that my VTC was in error. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gold Badge holders were given binding VTC votes due to their deep knowledge of content already on the site, NOT their perfect judgement :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-10-27T11:19:23.343" LastActivityDate="2017-10-27T11:19:23.343" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4693" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-09T22:14:57.550" Score="6" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm editting the content of my question to better reflect what I want to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to know how many and what spells did a character cast in the entire story, which would obviously require a list of the spells as an answer, for example &quot;What spells did Dumbledore cast during Harry Potter books?&quot; (Although this isn't the character I have in mind, nor the story)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would that be ok question to ask? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28039" LastEditorUserId="28039" LastEditDate="2014-06-09T23:51:44.133" LastActivityDate="2014-06-09T23:51:44.133" Title="Can I ask a question that would require a list as an answer?" Tags="|support|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4693" CreationDate="2014-06-09T22:22:18.360" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;A short finite list which isn't like to change is okay. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An open ended list is bad. One person answers with a few things, then another person adds something more, and the number of answers keeps trickling up forever, and no complete answer is like to come out of it. Those are the kinds of lists that are discouraged. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2014-06-09T22:22:18.360" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4695" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4696" CreationDate="2014-06-10T13:40:05.173" Score="5" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today, while I was reviewing Suggested Edits, I approved one I wanted to reject. The Edit needed another vote in order to be approved, but is there any way I retract my vote ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19374" LastActivityDate="2014-06-10T14:11:24.710" Title="Can I retract my 'approved suggested edit' vote?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4695" CreationDate="2014-06-10T14:11:24.710" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, but you can keep an eye on it and revert if it is approved, if it's bad enough to warrant that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2014-06-10T14:11:24.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4697" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4698" CreationDate="2014-06-11T03:13:26.900" Score="7" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;So it seems there are two tags for the 2009 movie Moon&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/moon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;moon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;moon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/moon-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;moon-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;moon-movie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And there's a lot of confusion as the former tag [moon] is a general tag as well as the movie tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should [moon] be separated from the movie and all questions retagged appropriately?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5271" LastEditorUserId="19374" LastEditDate="2014-06-14T07:46:57.377" LastActivityDate="2014-06-14T07:46:57.377" Title="Duplicate tags: moon &amp; moon-movie" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4697" CreationDate="2014-06-11T06:19:52.527" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've altered the tags.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/moon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;moon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;moon&lt;/a&gt; now reflects only the moon's status as Earth's satellite.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/moon-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;moon-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;moon-movie&lt;/a&gt; now reflects only the 2009 film starring Sam Rockwell.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Retagging may take some time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T06:19:52.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4699" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-11T06:45:20.883" Score="1" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange sites often say that they are designed for questions that can be &quot;answered, not discussed.&quot;  That is to say, there should be a definitive answer to your question, not a poll of opinions or an unanswerable query.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, is there a recommended place for more opinion-based questions?  For example, I was about to post a question &quot;Is there a definitive Mary Jane Watson monologue from the comics?&quot; here in the Sci-Fi section, but I realized that's more of a discussion, and thus probably wouldn't be well-received.  I respect the community enough not to break the rules and post it here, but I still need an answer for a script I'm working on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there somewhere that Stack Exchange recommends for that kind of thing?  Or are there any favorite alternatives among the community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20221" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T12:53:43.883" Title="Opinion questions: if not here, then where?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4700" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4702" CreationDate="2014-06-11T10:41:13.750" Score="15" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;del&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3691/when-does-a-movie-question-get-migrated-to-movies-and-tv#comment-11562&quot;&gt;a comment by a mod&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;em&gt;Movies &amp;amp; TV&lt;/em&gt; stack is about to graduate. This is &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1268/9382&quot;&gt;confirmed by a mod on M&amp;amp;TV.SE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1521/9382&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Movies &amp;amp; TV&lt;/em&gt; has graduated!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since there has been some manual migration to that stack already, do we want to add it to the list of migration paths when it graduates?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-01-30T15:22:31.897" Title="Should we have a migration path to M&amp;TV.SE now that it has graduated?" Tags="|feature-request|closing-questions|migration|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4700" CreationDate="2014-06-11T10:41:13.750" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be added to the list of migration paths. That way, a possible migration is put to the vote, rather than left to the opinion of a single moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Vote up if you agree, down if you disagree).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-01-30T15:22:31.897" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4700" CreationDate="2014-06-11T11:55:31.980" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/movies/query/173076/migrations-from-arqade-to-su&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Data Explorer query,&lt;/a&gt; when run on Movies&amp;amp;TV, gives us a list of incoming migrations. It's not filtered only on migrations from SciFi, but 99% of them are, so I won't bother forking the query to allow filtering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Results: From the beginning of 2014 there have been 14 migrations from here to M&amp;amp;TV. None of them have been rejected by the M&amp;amp;TV mods, although there were a bunch of rejected migrations back in 2013 - some as Duplicates, others as Unclear or Off-topic. But all in all, mostly unrejected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if 14 successful migrations constitute a large enough sample to say that it should be added to migration paths, but I tend to think so, with one caveat: we need to be clearer about what doesn't fit &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt; and should move to M&amp;amp;TV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3691/when-does-a-movie-question-get-migrated-to-movies-and-tv&quot;&gt;This discussion&lt;/a&gt; the other day shows that some people, including high-rep users, aren't entirely on the same page regarding what should be migrated. It's clear that non-SF&amp;amp;F movies or shows should go. It's pretty well established, I think, that asking about a non-genre show or movie is &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; fine if the question related to a genre-ish element within that movie, but having a bit of genre-ish content doesn't make a show SF&amp;amp;F automatically. But what that discussion seem to indicate is that non-genre questions are off-topic, even if they're in an explicitly on-topic show. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This, I think, is unclear to all. Is this the consensus opinion? Where exactly is the line drawn about non-SF&amp;amp;F elements in SF&amp;amp;F works?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once we've established that, I think the migration path should be added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4516" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T11:55:31.980" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4699" CreationDate="2014-06-11T12:50:39.800" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Staying within the StackExchange family of sites, Chat would be the place to go.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/chat-rooms&quot;&gt;the help center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What are chat rooms?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Each chat room defines a specific topic; the conversation in that room is expected to loosely follow the topic. Chat typically has a few established rooms for common topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;the chat FAQ&lt;/a&gt; (note that all chats seem to share the same FAQ page)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What can we chat about?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This site is an extension of The Stack Exchange Network, so discussion should more or less revolve around the same topics you'd find at The Stack Exchange Network — but in an interactive, less strictly Q&amp;amp;A focused way. Do have fun, but please keep it professional and always be respectful of your fellow community members.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our chat room isn't the busiest place around, but there's usually a few people at least lurking about. If you feel there would be too much noise in the main room, you can always create a separate room of your own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr/&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you want to leave the StackExchange ecosystem&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't participate there, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicvine.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ComicVine&lt;/a&gt; has a fairly healthy message board community well suited to discussions such as this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T12:50:39.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4699" CreationDate="2014-06-11T12:53:43.883" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Some&lt;/em&gt; opinion questions are OK; see &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Constructive subjective questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;inspire answers that explain “why” and “how”.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;tend to have long, not short, answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;have a constructive, fair, and impartial tone.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;invite sharing experiences over opinions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;insist that opinion be backed up with facts and references.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;are more than just mindless social fun.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Item 5 in this list is appropriate here; if a question invites opinion but if that opinion can be backed up, then by all means ask it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a reason for the &quot;primarily&quot; in the &quot;primarily opinion-based&quot; close reason, and that reason is that the opinions here cannot be backed up, or that the facts and references used to back it up are weak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general the objective is to avoid long-winded discussions and disagreements.  For that kind of question, it may be better to hunt down a discussion forum relating to the topic you want to ask on, and register for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T12:53:43.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4705" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-11T19:33:10.547" Score="-2" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had asked if a TV series could be considered sci-fi, and it was closed for being off-topic. Is asking if something meets the criteria of sci-fi off-topic when it comes to sci-fi?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21674" LastEditorUserId="5184" LastEditDate="2014-06-11T19:40:35.677" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T21:50:26.073" Title="what constitutes an off-topic question?" Tags="|support|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2014-06-30T01:24:52.710" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4705" CreationDate="2014-06-11T19:53:49.643" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per Beofett's answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1083/are-questions-whose-answers-would-determine-if-a-work-could-be-categorized-as-sc/1085#1085&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, questions that ask if a specific work is SciFi is considered off-topic for the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The canonical reference for the off-topicness is this answer: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/362/976&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/362/976&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(and the whole thread it's on is a good answer for &quot;what constitudes an offtopic Q&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T19:53:49.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4705" CreationDate="2014-06-11T21:22:23.357" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is fully covered in the Help Center.  You'll note that on the closed question there is a notification:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question does not appear to be about science fiction or fantasy within the scope defined in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following the link in this notification (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&lt;/a&gt;) brings you to this list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What topics can I ask about here?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange is for questions targeted towards science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts. This includes questions about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Plot, character, or setting explanations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Historical or societal context of a work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Story identification&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Franchise/series reading or viewing order&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What about other Science Fiction and Fantasy related questions?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Not all questions have a home on Stack Exchange. Please note the following types of questions are off-topic here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Facts easily found on a reference site: Who played X in Y?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions calling for a list of works, authors, ...: What are all the books that have X? Who wrote about topic Y?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Reading or viewing recommendations: I liked X, what should I watch next?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Genre classification: Is X Science Fiction?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last answer in the &quot;off-topic&quot; list answers your specific question, and the entire quote answers your general question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I note that you haven't got the &quot;Informed&quot; badge, which is automatically awarded for reading the Tour, so I'd suggest that you do so and also follow the links to the Help Center from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user8719" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T21:50:26.073" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4708" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-11T22:07:26.210" Score="12" ViewCount="431" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ETA:&lt;/strong&gt; Superseded by Meta Question &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/258320/252593&quot;&gt;When I flag as dupe, can the system put the link to the answer and not the question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might be a little bit confusing, please bear with me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per this discussion: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3684/should-questions-tagged-as-duplicates-because-of-an-answer-be-treated-different?cb=1&quot;&gt;Should questions tagged as duplicates because of an answer be treated different?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What essentially happened is that I flagged the question as dupe, but when I did, I flagged with a link to an &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/40119/21267&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and not the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/40118/how-do-horcruxes-work&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;A very subtle difference, but it could help the OP and any mods / reviewers seeing the flag understand why I've made the flag, or where the duplication lies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Could we please change the flagging process to accept links to answers and not just the question which contains the answer?&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when the users click on the link in &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This question already has an answer here:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/40119/21267&quot;&gt;Link to Question&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;x answers&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;they should, in these cases be taken to the &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt;, and not the &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-09-18T18:02:02.540" Title="When I flag as dupe, can the system put the link to the answer and not the question?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3684" CreationDate="2014-06-11T22:27:06.147" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flaggers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It is (should be) up to the flagger to research the duplication and make sure that their flag is valid. As you pointed out, it is definitely worth mentioning in the comments the exact reason or specific part of a question/answer which makes this one a dupe&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It is also up to the flagger to not go around flagging everything. I have a fairly good flagging history for the short amount of time i've been here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tRgTa.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Mooz&amp;#39; Flagging History&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;so I hope mods don't just go &quot;Oh, Mooz has flagged this, lets just accept it because he seems to know what he's doing&quot;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A Flagger must not be biased or show/take any offence. This is a community site, and only works (well) if used properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;System&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Incidentally, it is a limitation of the system that when you flag a question as a dupe, it doesn't care whether you post a link to a question or an answer within a question, it still &#xA;posts the link to the question&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mods&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It then falls in the lap of the mods to make sure that they know what they are doing, not just closing any old question just because someone has flagged it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I like to think that the mods on this site are fairly good at what they do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OP&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The OP then needs has the opportunity to clarify or contest the question. Which in this case you &lt;strong&gt;did&lt;/strong&gt; and for what it's worth, the answer which I linked does not seem to be satisfactory.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The OP can also edit their question to make it different enough to be re-opened; which you &lt;strong&gt;have&lt;/strong&gt; done, and in my opinion, the question is now different enough!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;1. I like this point and I will start to do this in future.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;2. See: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4708/when-i-flag-as-dupe-can-the-system-put-the-link-to-the-answer-and-not-the-quest&quot;&gt;When I flag as dupe, can the system put the link to the answer and not the question?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T22:27:06.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4710" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4756" CreationDate="2014-06-12T16:35:52.273" Score="3" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, we close questions as duplicates if either the question has been asked before, OR the answer to the new question has been addressed before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The text when closing a question as a duplicate is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question has been asked before and has an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The text displayed when a question has been marked as a duplicate is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question already has an answer here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But these aren't necessarily true. The question may have been asked before, but never received an answer. (Note: I haven't checked the data explorer, so this may be an edge case, but it's still a possibility for a cause of confusion.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2014-06-22T00:31:27.067" Title="Should the duplicate question close reason text be changed?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4714" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-13T21:45:51.930" Score="2" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have recently been asking a lot of questions, can I lose privileges or even lose my account by asking these questions if the moderators think I am just asking stupid questions, or that I am just trying to get reputation, without any regard to the sanctity of the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28219" LastEditorUserId="3567" LastEditDate="2014-06-13T22:21:29.060" LastActivityDate="2014-06-13T22:57:25.040" Title="Can I lose privileges on the site by asking too many questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4714" CreationDate="2014-06-13T22:57:25.040" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In general, you don’t lose privileges by asking &lt;em&gt;lots&lt;/em&gt; of questions, you lose them by asking &lt;em&gt;low-quality&lt;/em&gt; questions.&lt;/strong&gt; And unless you’re very abusive (e.g. spamming links to your questions, trivial edits to bump for views), the worse you can get is a temporary ban on asking questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Initially, you might get &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/question-limited&quot;&gt;your ability to ask questions be rate-limited&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We realize that when you come to ask questions, you're in a bit of a hurry, because you're looking for an answer to help you get your work done. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;This has resulted in a history of questions that have been poorly-received by our community&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; – so we're asking you to slow down until you've learned to ask better questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Some of the wording is a little inappropriate for this site, as this is mostly recreational rather than for work: this text is copied verbatim from Stack Overflow.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you continue to ask poor quality questions, then you might get &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/question-bans&quot;&gt;a question ban&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange has automatic filters in place to ban questions from accounts that have contributed many low-quality questions in the past. These filters help keep the quality of our sites high. The exact formula for the bans is not disclosed, but users are only banned if they have a significant number of heavily down-voted, zero-voted, or deleted posts. One or two bad posts will not cause you to be blocked from using the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both of those are automatically triggered by the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe diamond moderators can also issue temporary bans for abusive behaviour, but common sense is usually enough to avoid that sort of ban. If you’re getting close to a manual ban for too many questions, they may also reach out to you privately first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are various pages in the help section about how to ask good, high-quality questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I note from your main profile that you don’t have any questions with a negative score or which have been closed (yet). You won’t be able to keep asking questions at 3 per day forever: we have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/89217/50-question-per-month-limit&quot;&gt;50 question per month limit&lt;/a&gt;, but personally I don’t think you need to worry about a question ban if you continue at the current rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2014-06-13T22:57:25.040" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4716" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4717" CreationDate="2014-06-14T14:18:36.390" Score="3" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today, I edited the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/zombieland&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;zombieland&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;zombieland&lt;/a&gt; wiki and it was rejected. I don't understand why it was rejected, as it was a valid edit (IMO).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to see why my edit was rejected?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19374" LastActivityDate="2014-06-14T14:31:04.303" Title="Why are my tag wiki edits rejected?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4716" CreationDate="2014-06-14T14:31:04.303" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are the links to the review histories for your tag wiki suggested edits.  They should work for anyone. (Let me know if I'm wrong)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/30329&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/30329&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/30328&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/30328&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doing a quick google search of some of the text of your suggested edits, it looks like you plagiarized this blurb from Wikipedia.  There are two problems with this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You're violating &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia's copyright&lt;/a&gt;, which requires attribution, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wikipedia is not the Sci-fi &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange.  Their goals, audience, and content style are all different from us, and this means lifting their articles &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1917/1027&quot;&gt;isn't particularly useful&lt;/a&gt; to us.  Anyone can google a tag name and read up on the subject, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1626/1027&quot;&gt;the tag wikis should provide some useful information and guidance for users of this site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-06-14T14:31:04.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4718" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4732" CreationDate="2014-06-14T19:20:30.377" Score="22" ViewCount="545" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/59239/why-is-it-improper-to-bury-this-character-using-magic&quot;&gt;Question #59239&lt;/a&gt; (spoilers for &lt;em&gt;Deathly Hallows&lt;/em&gt;) has been the subject of back-and-forth edits over whether spoiler information (specifically, the death of a particular character) should be included in the question title, and to what extent the question body should contain spoilers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been links to posts about spoilers elsewhere on Meta in the comments on the question, but the back-and-forth editing suggests that not everybody agrees (at least not for this particular question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know Meta questions are supposed to tackle general site policy rather than specific cases, but I feel like this one is getting out of hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should the title of this question contain spoilers, or not?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T09:02:15.867" Title="To spoiler or not to spoiler, June 2014 edition" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4718" CreationDate="2014-06-14T19:56:38.903" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with both sides of the argument in that post. That is, I agree that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) On a site where most questions will be directly about or directly dependent on plot elements, the user should beware and expect to encounter spoilers. Sometimes, it's just not avoidable. That said,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) The person complaining in this particular question was especially upset that they encountered the spoiler in the hot questions sidebar &lt;em&gt;on another Stack Exchange site.&lt;/em&gt; I agree with this user that one should not go to a programming site expecting to find spoilers about popular media. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And so as far as this particular site is concerned, I feel that questions should be allowed descriptive titles that don't awkwardly mask spoilers. But at the network level, this needs to be fixed. By the time you learn that you can encounter spoilers in a Stack Overflow sidebar, it's already too late. Old media or not, we should strive where possible and reasonable to allow folks to encounter these things fresh. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26552" LastActivityDate="2014-06-14T19:56:38.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4718" CreationDate="2014-06-14T23:20:43.273" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;tl;dr&lt;/strong&gt;: There is a current problem with the Hot Network Questions showing titles to users who would otherwise wish not to use this site. This problem however is unrelated to the way this site should present it's titles. The current consensus regarding spoilers in titles is that they should be used for works that are not extremely new.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;--&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the question of spoilers in the title I will quote the current scifi.SE consensus:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally we operate on the assumption that certain things are too&#xA;popular and old to be mass spoil-able. However, if you feel this isn't&#xA;popular/old enough. Feel free to edit it yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are just some things that it is hard to ask about effectively&#xA;without some small spoilage. We are, after all, a site dedicated to&#xA;answering questions about plots, and the very nature of this is&#xA;spoilerific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110812/02140715488/spoiler-alert-people-enjoy-books-more-when-they-know-spoilers.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;spoiling may not be the bad thing we've always thought&#xA;it was&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/51/dampes8n&quot;&gt;DampeS8N&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/836/20983&quot;&gt;Is it okay to have spoilers in question titles?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1561/20983&quot;&gt;Is there a moratorium on some spoilers?&lt;/a&gt; asking whether spoilers get out of date at a certain point, where the highest voted answer states&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's up to the person asking/answering the question to decide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And additionally quotes Jeff sharing his &lt;em&gt;personal&lt;/em&gt; guideline which seems valuable to consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also take the age of the work into account. [...] With TV shows, I try to spoiler big plot points from the current season, if practical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both movies and television are relatively easy [...] Books are a different story, in my opinion. Books don't generate nearly as much buzz upon release, so I tend to spoiler important plot points [...] for quite a while afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/108/tony-meyer&quot;&gt;Tony Meyer&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1561/is-there-a-moratorium-on-some-spoilers?rq=1&quot;&gt;Is there a moratorium on some spoilers?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, disregarding meta.scifi.SE discussions up till now presenting the rationale in favour and against spoilers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Against&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Currently popular question titles are broadcasted all over the network, thus forcing it upon people who would otherwise not use this site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In favour&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions should be searchable.&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Even on scifi.SE itself when asking a slight paraphrase of this question it did not appear in the suggested question list (all other questions except one contained the word &amp;quot;Dobby&amp;quot; literally in their title and thus ranked higher).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Titles are predominantly shown on Google. The idea of SE is different to a forum or traditional Q&amp;amp;A in that it's meant to answer everyone's question, not only the person who first asks it. If questions can't be found or will be badly indexed this point will be lost.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A title in general should be representative for a question (that's the point of a title). Exceptions can be made in cases where a work is currently really popular (e.g. current season or e.g. 3 years or so for books). People who hate spoilers that much should not go to a Q&amp;amp;A site as this inherit to the nature of such a site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the against rationale I would simply argue the following: This should &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; affect question titles and instead people who take issue with this should add a feature request regarding the filtering and/or hiding of HNQ on meta.SE and upvote it. This seems like a very valuable addition to the SE network that goes far beyond the issue of spoiler only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-06-14T23:20:43.273" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4723" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4725" CreationDate="2014-06-15T01:28:18.220" Score="0" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;The site has &quot; Can I delete an answer I posted?&quot; but I don't want to delete answers I want to delete questions. I don't really want to delete it on this SE, but I might want to on the automotive SE, because my question was apparently bad? I want to know this for future use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28219" LastActivityDate="2014-06-15T02:35:35.503" Title="How do I delete Questions that I posted?" Tags="|discussion|support|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4724" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4734" CreationDate="2014-06-15T02:32:11.863" Score="2" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/58744/why-is-val-called-a-princess&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; and edited it fairly quickly (within two hours) to make it more focused by explicitly asking for textual evidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two answers were posted before the edit and two after, but none of them really present textual evidence. Some of them are decent answers but they don't answer the current question, or even the original question (IMO).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be appropriate to flag them as not-an-answer? If not, what can I do to encourage the answerers to actually answer the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17815" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T00:25:37.420" Title="Flagging answers that don't present textual evidence" Tags="|discussion|flagging|evidence-question|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4723" CreationDate="2014-06-15T02:35:35.503" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/deleted-questions&quot;&gt;Why and how are some questions deleted?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users can delete their own questions if the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;has zero answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;only one answer, but that answer has no upvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply click the delete link underneath the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17815" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-06-15T02:35:35.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1597" CreationDate="2014-06-15T02:44:56.540" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Definitely looks like a not-an-answer to me. Unlike what some of the other answers in this meta post say, I see zero evidence that it is an attempt to answer that specific question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17815" LastActivityDate="2014-06-15T02:44:56.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4727" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4728" CreationDate="2014-06-15T02:45:45.377" Score="8" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3373/didnt-get-mortarboard-badge&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; says wait a couple days. It's been &lt;strong&gt;nine days&lt;/strong&gt;. I'd like the badge. It's a good one. I had +216. Why no badge yet? (June 5th on my history to verify, should you care to.) There was no &quot;association&quot; figure included in the tally. It's legit. I haven't had a badge take this long to show up. Please advise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16974" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2014-06-15T03:18:24.153" Title="After nine days, still didn't get badge" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4727" CreationDate="2014-06-15T03:18:24.153" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;You only earn &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/25/mortarboard&quot;&gt;Mortarboard&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;once&lt;/em&gt; - the &lt;strong&gt;first&lt;/strong&gt; time you earn 200 points in a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you pull that stunt 50 times, you'll get another badge: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/26/epic&quot;&gt;Epic&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/27/legendary&quot;&gt;Legendary&lt;/a&gt; few manage to do it 150 times...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2014-06-15T03:18:24.153" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4718" CreationDate="2014-06-15T07:24:49.597" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The conflict that arises here came from the Hot Network Questions (HNQ) list. Personally I think the HNQ list is a useful feature, and that we want our questions to appear there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’m fairly sure it was introduced earlier this year (2014), after several of the major discussions about out spoiler policy, including those cited in David Mulder’s answer. So the HNQ list wasn’t considered as part of our policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most users of this site (IMO) are aware that spoilers exist, and try to exercise due care when clicking links, reading questions, etc. In the case of older material (such as the Harry Potter books), we’re aware that we might see spoilers in question titles (although spoilers for new media are frowned upon).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But now users who don’t know (or care) about our policy are getting spoilers shown when they read other sites, which is a bad thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this particular question is better &lt;em&gt;on this site&lt;/em&gt; with the spoiler in-title, but better &lt;em&gt;in the HNQ list&lt;/em&gt; without. We can’t have two different titles, but I would propose the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Our existing policy stands for questions that don't show up anywhere except this site. If a question hits the HNQ list, then we should (temporarily) remove the spoiler from the title to be a good Stack citizen as part of the wider network.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don’t know of a way to detect a question hitting the HNQ list with our existing tools without just seeing it there (can moderators see this?). But we already get “Most viewed”, “Most commented”, “Most edited” and so on, so perhaps we could add a way to see which of our questions are on the HNQ list, and react appropriately?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don’t think this would be a huge change to our existing policy, but it’s something we can achieve on-site, without asking our SE overlords to add new features for us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And as for what constitutes enough of a spoiler to trigger my suggested policy, I don’t know. “I’ll know it when I see it”? But enough people showed up to complain about it this time that I think it would have tripped this policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastActivityDate="2014-06-15T07:24:49.597" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4724" CreationDate="2014-06-15T08:23:53.283" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it wouldn't be appropriate to flag them as not-an-answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not an answer flags are only for, well, things that aren't answers - e.g. requests for clarification that should've been comments, spam, insults (like, &quot;that's a stupid question, everyone knows...&quot;)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should never use not an answer flags for answers that are wrong.  It doesn't matter how wrong they are:  totally off-base or (as in this case) just missing supporting quotes.  The moderators who look at your flags can't be (and aren't expected to be) experts on every work that might be asked about here, they're role is to handle exceptional cases that ordinary users can't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, downvote them or leave comments (as you've done).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastActivityDate="2014-06-15T08:23:53.283" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4724" CreationDate="2014-06-15T09:27:26.000" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;not an answer&quot; flag system is used for identifying answers that are basically pointless. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since you can't expect every moderator to be an expert on every canon universe, the general rule-of-thumb should by that &lt;em&gt;any reasonable person&lt;/em&gt; should be able to recognise that the answer provides no useful content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per Anna Lear's answer to this question on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/107216/when-should-the-not-an-answer-flag-be-used&quot;&gt;another stack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A bad or a wrong answer is still technically an answer.&lt;/strong&gt; Moderators&#xA;  aren't here to judge the correctness of answers. That's what the&#xA;  voting system is for, so the right way to handle those is to downvote,&#xA;  edit, or leave a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The &quot;not an answer&quot; flag is for posts that are either completely&#xA;  unrelated to the question, a &quot;me too&quot; kind of post, a follow-up&#xA;  question asked in an answer, etc.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2014-06-15T09:27:26.000" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4718" CreationDate="2014-06-15T20:57:25.790" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I'm pretty anti-spoiler.  I avoid &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt; questions on this site, since I'm watching the TV series &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;, and not reading the books.  So many questions on the franchise are filled with things that are either spoilers for the TV show, or are details that weren't included in the TV series.  I'm not interested in having future twists spoiled, or getting exposed to details that could spoil future events.  If &lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt; was more prolific on this site, I'd probably avoid those questions too, since that show has a similar situation where the original source material is further along than the TV series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, I don't think it's much of a sacrifice to make the question title less clear, so as to not spoil people who browse our site's content via:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Hot Network Questions list&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;code&gt;/questions&lt;/code&gt; page on this site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The site's RSS feed or Newsletter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Links to this site via search engines&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The site's main chat room, which has a feed of the questions posted to it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having no spoilers in question titles ensure all of the above are spoiler-free.  I recall how in recent months, there were many &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/agents-of-shield&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;agents-of-shield&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;agents-of-shield&lt;/a&gt; questions that were posted that contained spoilers in the question title and body without any spoiler tags.  The community cleaned each of those up quickly, I am amazed that it's such an issue with this question in particular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/968/1027&quot;&gt;policy on spoilers&lt;/a&gt; is pretty clear on the subject:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Avoid spoilers completely in the title. This doesn't mean using [REDACTED] or silly things like that, it means coming up with another way to summarise the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have spoiler tags for question and answer bodies, but we have no mechanism for question titles.  Just make a vaguer question title, and leave it at that.  Search engines index question bodies too, so people who seek the answer will still find it just fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2014-06-16T02:46:59.450" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4724" CreationDate="2014-06-15T21:01:46.197" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you should alter your behavior in the future.  Changing a question such that current answers no longer address the question is sort of abusing the edit feature on the site.  Next time, post a new question that asks exactly what you're asking for.  In that new question, reference and link your original question, and make it clear how the new question differs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way the questions and answers on the original don't cease to make sense, they're all addressing the same thing.  For the original question, mark whatever answer you find acceptable as 'accepted', if one of them addresses the question you posted, and move on to the new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-06-15T21:01:46.197" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4724" CreationDate="2014-06-16T13:30:06.783" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR: We don't delete answers just because we don't like them, or because we don't think they're good enough. We only delete answers because they're not answers.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Extremely related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3293/is-deleting-really-wrong-answers-ok-according-to-the-rules&quot;&gt;Is deleting really wrong answers ok according to the rules?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I see it, there are four basic categories of answers (YMMV):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Great Answer&lt;/strong&gt; - an answer that clearly addresses at least most of the issues brought up in the question - with evidence and/or references to back it all up. These are the answers that get my up-votes, regardless of whether or not they are necessarily &quot;correct&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marginal-Good Answer&lt;/strong&gt; - an answer that clearly address at least some of the issues brought up. These can sometimes be speculation based. Evidence or references may or may not be presented, and may only support the concepts, but not offer definitive proof. These are the answers which may or may not receive an upvote from me.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marginal-Bad Answer&lt;/strong&gt; - an answer that only addresses some of the issues brought up in the question - usually with little evidence or few references to back it all up. Speculative answers with no evidence or proof would fall into this category. These answers may or may not get a downvote from me for not being useful.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not An Answer&lt;/strong&gt; - a comment or response to the question or another answer - with no actual attempt made to provide an answer to the question. These are the ones I'll flag for deletion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, the answers on your question fall into the &quot;Marginal&quot; categories of answers. They're not &lt;em&gt;great&lt;/em&gt; answers, but they make an attempt using logical speculation. As such, they may not be &quot;useful&quot; or &quot;helpful&quot; to you, and they may not be correct at all - &lt;strong&gt;but they ARE answers.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On this site, we generally encourage users to vote up answers that are good and helpful, vote down answers that are not not good or not helpful, and only delete answers that aren't actually answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.730" LastActivityDate="2014-06-16T19:18:03.760" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4735" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-16T23:04:58.910" Score="0" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question that is pertinent to both Scifi and fantasy SE and anime and manga SE, but I want a good answer, explanantion and discussion, so since it pertinent to both can't I post it on both?&#xA;Can I ask the same question on different SE's?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a link to the question I asked &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1008/in-what-se-would-a-question-with-a-scifi-element-about-a-manga-or-anime-go&quot;&gt;https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1008/in-what-se-would-a-question-with-a-scifi-element-about-a-manga-or-anime-go&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think its a grey area.&#xA; But that is not the only question I want to post on different sites.&#xA;Or should I ask it on Meta Stacks Exchange. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:51:26.350" LastActivityDate="2014-06-16T23:10:02.840" Title="Can you ask the same question on different SE's" Tags="|support|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2014-06-16T23:09:47.530" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4718" CreationDate="2014-06-17T00:35:02.757" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with avoiding nasty spoilers in question titles (&quot;nasty&quot; being subjective, unfortunately). However, I find some spoiler-free ways of writing titles incredibly annoying and useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some made up examples, though I'm sure you can remember actual examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Why does this happen to this character from Harry Potter?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Why do these entities from The Matrix want to extract this thing from these mammals, and does this violate a certain rule of physics?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I call these the &quot;This Character&quot; kind of questions, and I think they are incredibly useless. They aren't searchable, and it's a kind of pointless Taboo game (say something without mentioning forbidden keywords). The reason is that in a Q&amp;amp;A website, not being able to ask questions clearly runs counter to the format of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I always favor asking &quot;Dumbledore's fate in Harry Potter and The Magic Broom&quot; instead of &quot;Why does this character die in Harry Potter and The Magic Broom&quot;. The first is relatively spoiler-free while mentioning enough keywords to be searchable and meaningful. The latter is pointless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really cannot figure how to ask the question without running into This Character, then maybe the question shouldn't be asked at all; it's so specific that it cannot be asked without spoiling something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="770" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T00:35:02.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4724" CreationDate="2014-06-17T09:44:28.567" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might probably help you to look at the text of the &quot;not an answer&quot; flag reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This was posted as an answer, but it does not attempt to answer the question. It should possibly be an edit, a comment, another question, or deleted altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is IMO inappropriate for these answers because &lt;strong&gt;they do attempt to answer the question&lt;/strong&gt;.  The only place they fall down is that they don't meet your criteria of textual evidence, but otherwise they are honest and in-good-faith attempts at providing an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of the four options given for dealing &quot;not an answer&quot;, none of them are really appropriate either.  The appropriate thing to do is for them to be edited to add the textual evidence you're looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that establishes that &quot;not an answer&quot; is not the appropriate way to deal with this.  Adding a comment requesting such evidence is good, and you can always downvote the answer if you feel it's not helpful to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However it's worth noting that regarding textual evidence on this SE, and particularly with regard to a work that the author has not yet completed (cases also exist where an author has died before completing a work), the hard reality is that &lt;strong&gt;sometimes this evidence just does not exist&lt;/strong&gt;.  In cases like that you just have to accept that an answer without textual evidence is the best you're going to get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T09:44:28.567" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4739" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-18T00:24:36.683" Score="4" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=evidence&quot;&gt;a lot&lt;/a&gt; of questions on this site which ask for evidence. I think there's a substantial difference between questions which ask &quot;Is X true/likely?&quot; and &quot;What is the evidence for X?&quot; This is a site for experts, so I think it's great that we have so many evidence questions, and so many people who can answer them!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should these evidence questions be answered?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously if you can provide evidence that confirms the idea then that would be great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if you can't provide evidence? My natural intuition is that if you begin your answer with &quot;There is no evidence for that. But I think ...&quot; then that is an acceptable answer, and that you can continue on with your own theory. You may even be wrong about what the state of evidence is, but it's still an acceptable answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that it is good to give your speculations to an evidence question without explicitly stating what you believe the state of evidence is. In an evidence question that would be a bad answer. Evidence-less speculation doesn't add value to this site, and there are lots of other places on the internet where that kind of speculation can thrive instead. Would it also be a non-answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17815" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T23:36:39.560" Title="How should questions asking for evidence be answered?" Tags="|discussion|answer-quality|evidence-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4739" CreationDate="2014-06-18T02:34:07.220" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Evidence-based questions should be answered in extremely good faith (for me, this means &lt;em&gt;facts&lt;/em&gt; from &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; canon or fact-based conclusions made within the spirit of canon) and should provide &lt;em&gt;factual&lt;/em&gt; considerations for the OP to apply to his/her question, to then discern whether or not the question can be considered answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some questions simply cannot be answered. They just can't be. There is no factual or evidence-based information available on them. When that happens, you just move along. What else can you do? You can't get blood from a rock, if you know what I mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you never know, so don't lose heart -- I've found answers to &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; questions on SFF.se &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;years&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; after the  initial question was asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T02:34:07.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4739" CreationDate="2014-06-18T09:43:11.043" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a great believer that the strongest answers are those that can back up &lt;strong&gt;every single point made&lt;/strong&gt; with either a canon reference or a logical argument.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers that fail to do either of these things are almost by definition &quot;bad answers&quot;, even if they're correct in their assertions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/59239/why-is-it-improper-to-bury-this-character-using-magic/59240#comment118911_59240&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; perfectly illustrates that fact. Although it's almost certainly right (and widely upvoted), without any evidencing whatsoever, it's merely supposition and opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO - In exactly the same way that we judge the worth of a statement in court, unless arguments can be backed up (either &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_evidence&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;directly&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumstantial_evidence&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;circumstantially&lt;/a&gt;), then we as a community should downvote accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T23:36:39.560" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4742" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-18T10:38:44.987" Score="0" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've selected a tag from meta.stackexchange but then changed to sci-fi stackexchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reason for posting this: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/234179/175002&quot;&gt;Changing site that you ask to does not change the underlying site you submit to on mobile app&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T23:06:54.737" Title="Testing improper tags from mobile app" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4718" CreationDate="2014-06-19T08:57:06.860" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe I'm the only one who feels this way, but to me, it's really a matter of common sense that being on a detailed Q and A site like SE is rather ASKING to be accidentally spoiled at one turn or another - especially when SE has sites for subject matters like... books, movies, and television shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless SE completely and explicitly forbids discussions on spoiler-applicable topics (like movies, books, etc) for eternity, there just ARE going to be some spoilers in question titles if only because many of these questions are related to various points of intrigue as applicable to the stories they originate from. Additionally, there will ALWAYS be SOMEONE out here on SE who has NOT read or watched or whatevered the latest whosit and whatsit and as such, even for an old book series like &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;, someone is BOUND to be spoiled 1, 10, even 20+ years later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, being spoiled here and there is an occupational hazard and that is how I treat the situation myself.  I don't enjoy being spoiled, BUT I am NOT going to be up in arms if spoiler-happy questions pop up, either, and I personally don't support the policing of spoilers within question titles - even in the HQN.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People complain all over SE metas about the lack of quality of the questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Forcing people to ask vague-er questions (or editing questions in the HQN to be more vague/less spoiler-happy) to help solve the spoiler problem isn't a positive step in addressing the 'low quality' questions issue. Additionally, encouraging vague question titles/editing question titles in the HQN to be more vague or whatever doesn't set and won't set a good example for new users and even goes against the guidelines of SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My own question regarding being reconnected with a book ended up being edited for specifics which I am perfectly fine with because... yeah. I was being too vague in my question title.  But from that perspective, to see questions being edited to become more vague really seems to go against the spirit of SE and the community-wide 'be more specific and give lots of details and support your questions and answers' attitude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SE supports and emphasizes QUALITY of both questions and answers and this includes the inclusion of SPECIFICS.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Engaging in a Q and A session re: a very surprising plot twist in XYZ book or movie that needs some additional puzzling out, research, and/or brainstorming ought to be right up SE's alley in terms of 'quality'. Thing is, how in the world is someone to address this question in a high-quality way without touching on spoilers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the time, just by saying something like, &quot;How, exactly, did this character die?&quot; or, &quot;How, exactly, does this late reveal of a character's backstory affect ABC?&quot; is enough on its own to be a spoiler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're perfectly valid questions to ask and they deal with points of intrigue and mystery that - surprise surprise - could use a little clarification, depending on a person's understanding of the canon of the story world in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No spoilers in questions is just silly for that reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is, unless SE wants to ban any and all spoilers AND make it an exception of a sort that question titles here (and in other sites where spoilers might become an issue) are to be vague (and poor in quality according to the rest of SE's standards) if they contain spoilers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28107" LastEditorUserId="28107" LastEditDate="2014-06-19T09:02:15.867" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T09:02:15.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4744" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4749" CreationDate="2014-06-19T13:58:58.837" Score="29" ViewCount="809" Body="&lt;p&gt;Preferably, when closing a duplicate, this happens before any answers have been given to the dupe-to-be. However, it can happen that only after editing of the question and multiple answers, it turns out that it's actually a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we then always vote to close the newer question as a duplicate, or should we try to keep the better question (or the question with the better answers) and vote to close the other question, &lt;em&gt;even if that is the older one&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example: we have the questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/26891/5184&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;What's the significance of this passage from “The Goblet of Fire”?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/30565/5184&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Why was Dumbledore worried by the cut in Harry's arm?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The latter was asked about two months after the former. And while the OP of the latter insisted that his question was specifically about the cut itself, rather than the fact that Voldemort used Harry's blood, the accepted answers are very much the same, which makes them duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But which one should we close?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both have good answers, but I think the answer in the second question is more complete than the answer to the first one, so I would prefer vote to close the older question as a duplicate of the newer one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On other stacks, such as Math.SE, &lt;a href=&quot;https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6508/106234&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6941/106234&quot;&gt;isn't&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4745/106234&quot;&gt;uncommon&lt;/a&gt; practise. Perhaps we should adopt it too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or are there other options, such as merging? (I've only read &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; it, I've never seen it happen; it seems uncommon).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2017-06-17T21:22:08.003" Title="Should we always close the newer question as the duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4744" CreationDate="2014-06-19T23:50:13.600" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.  In general, choose the better one to keep open, as long as it is significantly better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are multiple things and situations to keep in mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the newer question has yet to gain answers, don't VTC the older one.  It's weird, since that one has the answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One thing you haven't touched on (which has happened a couple times on SciFi.SE) is that the newer question is broader, but not enough to get closed as &quot;Too Broad&quot;.&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it can get edited down to no longer be a duplicate, that's the best route.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If that's not possible, then I think it's alright to VTC the older one as a duplicate of the newer one.&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I vaguely remember a Harry Potter one being like this, due to the nature of the question - the older one was about two characters, while the newer was a general case that applied to those two characters.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the newer question is significantly better and already has some good answers, then I think VTCing the older question is okay.  Due to the subjective nature of &quot;better&quot;, there is likely to be friction here, so if there's a fight between closers and openers, bringing up that specific question on Meta is a good idea.&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Because this is the least common course of action, it's also a good idea to leave a comment on the newer question as to why you're closing the older one as a duplicate of the newer one&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the two questions linked in the question, this is one of those borderline cases that doesn't really fall into any of the buckets in the previous bullets.  It's unfortunate that user8252 is no longer on this site, but the new one doesn't to me seem to be &lt;strong&gt;significantly&lt;/strong&gt; better - so the normal course is to close the newer one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, if one question is marked duplicate of another, they both have answers, and are deemed to be identical enough, they can get merged into one question by mods or supermods (I'm not sure who exactly this power is given to).  This is extremely rare, though, since the questions closed as duplicate are used as signposts towards the &quot;original&quot; still-open question - and doing the merge loses that signpost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastEditorUserId="2242" LastEditDate="2014-06-19T23:56:30.977" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T23:56:30.977" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4747" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-20T10:19:28.157" Score="8" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;advanced editing help page&lt;/a&gt;, scrolling to the bottom of the page can cause the sidebar to overlap the footer links and make them inaccessible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a screencap:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hToCE.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28200" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2014-06-22T06:14:52.257" Title="Overlapping content hides footer links on certain help pages" Tags="|bug|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2016-05-24T12:14:44.210" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4748" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4750" CreationDate="2014-06-20T12:47:36.667" Score="6" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;In trying to ask a question about the BBC show &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbcamerica.com/orphan-black/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Orphan Black&lt;/a&gt;, I noticed there is no tag for it. Are questions about the show off-topic, or is it just that none have been asked yet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the answers to this question so far, I've gone ahead and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/59741/where-does-orphan-black-take-place&quot;&gt;posted my question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28460" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2014-06-20T15:07:26.633" Title="Are questions about Orphan Black allowed?" Tags="|discussion|scope|questions|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4744" CreationDate="2014-06-20T13:06:26.010" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remember that the main point of closing-as-duplicates is to help people find a single source of answers when searching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, the preference should be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If one question covers a subset of the other, the more specific version should be closed as a duplicate of the broader one.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If they are essentially the same, the one with the better answers should be left open, and the other closed as a duplicate.  This usually, but not always, results in the older version being left open.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the wording of the closed question is better than the one being left open, then the one being left open should be edited to improve it (so long as this can be done without changing the meaning). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question to be closed under the above guidelines has good answers, then the questions should be flagged for merging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2014-06-20T13:06:26.010" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4748" CreationDate="2014-06-20T13:10:57.557" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_Black&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia entry&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Orphan Black&lt;/em&gt; is a Canadian science fiction television series […] starring Tatiana Maslany as several identical people who are revealed to be clones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't watched the show myself, but it sounds like it would be on-topic to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/clones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;clones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;clones&lt;/a&gt; tag, so clones and clone-related media are certainly on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, if consensus says that it’s off-topic here, then there are &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/orphan-black&quot;&gt;a few questions about &lt;em&gt;Orphan Black&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Movies &amp;amp; TV Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;, so I’m sure a good question could find a home there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2014-06-20T13:10:57.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4748" CreationDate="2014-06-20T13:12:41.163" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't watched it (yet!  It's on my list, as I've heard it is pretty good), but my understanding is that human cloning is a central plot point throughout the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, I believe it is firmly considered on-topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3360/1359&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Junior&lt;/em&gt; is on-topic&lt;/a&gt;, then this certainly should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2014-06-20T13:12:41.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4748" CreationDate="2014-06-20T13:41:05.450" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unlike &lt;em&gt;everyone else&lt;/em&gt; ( :p ), I have watched the show. It's sci-fi.  The premise is that there were successful human clones made ~20 years ago, and the main character (in the present day) learns she's one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2014-06-20T14:26:11.787" LastActivityDate="2014-06-20T14:26:11.787" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4748" CreationDate="2014-06-20T15:07:26.633" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you see a show that is classified as sci-fi, but there is no tag about it, don't worry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ask your question and tag it with something similar while mentioning (on a comment) for a high rep user to create the tag for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19374" LastActivityDate="2014-06-20T15:07:26.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4754" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-21T23:44:06.167" Score="1" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/59825/if-the-sentinel-program-exists-in-1973-why-it-was-never-mentioned-in-the-origina&quot;&gt;If the &amp;quot;Sentinel&amp;quot; Program existed since 1973 why it was never mentioned in the original trilogy of X-Men?&lt;/a&gt; was closed as duplicate because of the answer in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/56921/what-timeline-is-the-post-credit-scene-at-the-end-of-the-wolverine-in&quot;&gt;What timeline is the post-credit scene at the end of The Wolverine in?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet the q and a in that question do not address the new question's,er, question. What gives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user16696" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2014-08-21T01:46:50.790" Title="Question closed as Dupe (Xmen Sentinel Question)" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4754" CreationDate="2014-06-22T00:16:05.300" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't VTC, but I would.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the original question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If we assume that the post-credit scene is in the Days of Future Past timeline, then we are left to explain why no mutants have are being hunted by Sentinels already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll rephrase this for you: if the post-credit scene after &lt;em&gt;The Wolverine&lt;/em&gt; is in the same timeline/continuity as the original X-Men movies, why is there no indication of the existence of Sentinels hunting mutants?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer to the question (which is not accepted, but not necessarily wrong) mentions that the Sentinels &lt;em&gt;were&lt;/em&gt; planned to appear, but were ultimately cut (or arguably reduced to a head in the Danger Room). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, the question has not been answered satisfactorily, but the question is a dupe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2014-06-22T00:16:05.300" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4710" CreationDate="2014-06-22T00:31:27.067" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just tried to close a question as a dupe, but as the original question did not have any answers, much less an accepted or upvoted answer, I received the following message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This question does not have an upvoted or accepted answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and I could not vote to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the message will always be correct and does not need to be changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Though, I feel like we should still be able to mark dupes regardless of whether or not there is an existing answer.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2014-06-22T00:31:27.067" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4757" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-23T22:42:43.600" Score="11" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/59843/in-jurassic-park-how-was-there-a-100-ft-drop-where-the-t-rex-just-came-from&quot;&gt;a post&lt;/a&gt; a couple of days ago, and someone wrongfully made changes to it with a comment of &quot;spelling correction&quot;. While I did misspell one word, the bulk of the changes were for changing &quot;T-Rex&quot; to &quot;T. rex&quot;. The term I used, &quot;T-Rex&quot;, is straight out of Michael Crichton's book, as well as the script. So, I went ahead and re-edited my post. Also, &quot;T. rex&quot; wouldn't even BE proper since the full name is Tyrannosaurus Rex with the 'T' and 'R' capitalized. So the edits were made and approved, and incorrect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;T. rex is a band. T-Rex is used by Crichton.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that this is my post, and I have no ability to reject the edits because I don't have 2000 rep. Shouldn't people have the ability to reject edits for their own posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2014-06-24T06:47:34.140" Title="My post was edited and approved by others, but the corrections were wrong" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4757" CreationDate="2014-06-24T03:02:41.917" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;When there are issues like this, an edit that lowers the quality of the post, the solution is... MAKE MORE EDITS!  The Stack Exchange platform allows edits to improve posts, and everyone can suggest them, even &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt;.  When you see an edit that introduces issues, you can suggest a new edit that fixes the issues, and/or you can suggest a rollback: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go to the revisions page of the post (click the 'edit X minutes/hours/days ago' link on the post) to see the history of the edits made to the post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Find the past revision that had the highest quality.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click 'rollback' under the revision's header.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are ongoing issues with multiple users undoing each others' edits, flag the post so a mod can come in and stop the edit war.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-06-24T03:02:41.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4757" CreationDate="2014-06-24T06:34:07.080" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem at play here is probably the 6 character edit minimum. Users whose edits aren't applied directly, but have to go through review, have a 6 character minimum imposed on their edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To fix a typo or some other minor error, users below the threshold have to make some additional changes to get by the restriction. That may have triggered the user to change &quot;T-Rex&quot; to &quot;T. rex&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not a big fan of this restriction, as evidenced by &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/223706/239016&quot;&gt;my post on meta&lt;/a&gt; where I argue it should be abandoned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, the user may just have wanted to use the correct scientific abbreviation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I have been given the opportunity to judge an edit to a post I made before I reached the threshold (or on other stacks where my rep is lower), but only as a regular reviewer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That means that as long as an edit to your post is in the review queue, you get a chance to approve or reject it, just like any other reviewer would. After it has either been approved or been rejected, you no longer have that option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2014-06-24T06:47:34.140" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4760" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4761" CreationDate="2014-06-24T14:39:19.387" Score="7" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, I had &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4716/why-are-my-tag-wiki-edits-rejected&quot;&gt;some suggested tag wikis&lt;/a&gt; rejected (fairly) because they were copy-pastes from Wikipedia. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But today, I saw the tag wiki on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/zombieland&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;zombieland&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;zombieland&lt;/a&gt; was an exact copy-paste from Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was this accepted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would an edit be valid if it was copy pasted from Wikipedia and then mentioned that the citation is from the Wikipedia?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19374" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2014-07-19T09:15:29.163" Title="Tag wikis from Wikipedia" Tags="|support|tag-wiki|suggested-edit|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2016-09-17T13:32:57.093" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4760" CreationDate="2014-06-24T16:15:44.707" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why was this accepted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because not everybody Googles the text of suggested tag wiki edits before hitting the “Approve” button. That doesn’t make it okay; it just means that those reviewers didn’t do due diligence before approving the edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe this is the sort of problem that &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/157121/226928&quot;&gt;review audits&lt;/a&gt; are meant to solve, but I don’t know if they’re enabled on SFF or whether review audits would try to catch people for this sort of plagiarism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Meta question &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/165379/226928&quot;&gt;Proposed methods for countering plagiarized text in tag wikis&lt;/a&gt; has some interesting suggestions about this topic if you’re still interested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Would an edit be valid if it was copy pasted from Wikipedia and then mentioned that the citation is from the Wikipedia?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be &lt;em&gt;valid&lt;/em&gt; in the sense that it’s not illegal and shouldn’t be rejected as plagiarism, but it wouldn’t necessarily be &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt;. It would be factually accurate, but that doesn’t make it useful for readers of our site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See Gilles’s answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1916/3567&quot;&gt;Is copy/paste from Wikipedia allowed on tag wikis?&lt;/a&gt; or point&amp;nbsp;2 in Keen’s answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4716/3567&quot;&gt;Why are my tag wiki edits rejected?&lt;/a&gt; for a longer explanation of why Wikipedia excerpts don’t make the best tag wiki edits. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.757" LastActivityDate="2014-06-26T16:55:04.710" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4762" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-24T21:31:08.193" Score="9" ViewCount="244" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do we deal with a question like this:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/56266/how-is-magneto-pulling-mystique-in-the-days-of-future-past-trailer&quot;&gt;How is Magneto pulling Mystique in the Days of Future Past trailer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a question such as this is asked, here is what can happen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone knows something based on production notes and gives a spoilerific answer (highly unlikely)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone knows something based on the original source material (in this case the comics)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People start to speculate (most likely)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People wait, then give an answer based on &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/56819/21267&quot;&gt;what actually happened in the movie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why do we not just tell the OP to wait till the movie comes out?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possibilities in OPs' defense:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They do not have access to cinemas/movie-rentals (location, time, money etc.) and find it interesting, so they want to know the answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They want to know of the plausibility of a scenario &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; watching the movie&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2014-06-26T00:10:14.800" Title="Movie trailer based questions" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1997" CreationDate="2014-06-24T23:04:12.653" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a bit of a late answer, but you can use the appropriate tags for each series;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; for the whole Star Trek universe, including books, films, TV, Games, RPG and other media&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tos&lt;/a&gt; for questions relating to the &quot;Star Trek : The Original Series&quot; TV series&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tng&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tng&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tng&lt;/a&gt; for questions relating to &quot;Star Trek : The Next Generation&quot; TV series and films&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-voyager&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-voyager&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-voyager&lt;/a&gt; for questions relating to the &quot;Star Trek : Voyager&quot; TV series &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-ds9&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-ds9&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-ds9&lt;/a&gt; for questions relating to the &quot;Star Trek : DS9&quot; TV series&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tas&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tas&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tas&lt;/a&gt; for questions relating to the &quot;Star Trek : The Animated Series&quot; TV series&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-enterprise&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-enterprise&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-enterprise&lt;/a&gt; for questions relating to the &quot;Star Trek : Enterprise&quot; TV series&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also individual tags for the recent feature films;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-2009&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-2009&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-2009&lt;/a&gt; for questions relating to the rebooted &quot;Star Trek&quot; 2009 film&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-into-darkness&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-into-darkness&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-into-darkness&lt;/a&gt; for questions relating to the &quot;Star Trek into Darkness&quot; film&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2014-06-25T04:33:52.680" LastActivityDate="2014-06-25T04:33:52.680" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4762" CreationDate="2014-06-25T10:13:31.710" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I don't have a problem with these kind of questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one you mentioned was asked a couple of weeks before the movie came out (if I remember correctly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you said, there were mostly speculations as answers, until the movie came out and I posted what actually happened. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, a &quot;correct&quot; answer &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be given, but with a little delay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The kind of questions I don't like and vote to close are questions about movies/books that will come out in many years like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Will the characters in &lt;em&gt;a Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/em&gt; manage to X?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question like this cannot have  a &lt;em&gt;correct&lt;/em&gt; answer for years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19374" LastActivityDate="2014-06-25T10:13:31.710" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4762" CreationDate="2014-06-25T13:45:19.613" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Downvote.&lt;/strong&gt; It seems to me that it's a pretty poor question all around. Prior to the movie being released the answers it attracts are going to be speculative (and they were, as we saw - there was even a fair amount of discussion on one answer in comments). After the movie is released, who is actually going to care about that question? The movie is now out, people can go and watch it; if they're looking at questions on here about it then they probably already have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvoting is the mechanism by which we individually say &quot;This doesn't fit into any of the close reasons, it's technically within the rules, but it's still crap content and the site would be better if this wasn't here.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional reading on similar topics:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3666/are-questions-that-just-ask-for-a-description-of-a-plot-point-on-topic&quot;&gt;Are questions that just ask for a description of a plot-point on-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3070/should-we-close-questions-for-being-too-trivial&quot;&gt;Should we close questions for being &amp;quot;too trivial&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5833" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2014-06-25T13:45:19.613" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4762" CreationDate="2014-06-25T14:10:59.313" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think asking questions based strictly on trailer material isn't justification for special treatment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because the movie isn't out yet (or isn't available to the OP) isn't reason to close, or even downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some questions of this type have been well received in the past (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/33442/1359&quot;&gt;for example, this question on &lt;em&gt;Ender's Game&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;).  The question on Magneto and Mystique that sparked this meta question also is fairly well received, with a decent positive overall score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that a question about a trailer can still be a candidate for closure (although not just because it is about a trailer), and you can still downvote if you'd like.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/32639/1359&quot;&gt;Here's another example&lt;/a&gt; of a question about a trailer.  In this case, I actually downvoted, because the question was asking about the OP's speculation, and was somewhat (in my opinion) poorly worded.  It still received a positive score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, the difference between the first two questions and the third one is that there is plenty of source material available to support answers  to the first two that aren't contingent on likely plot points, whereas the third seems to be (again, though, I felt the wording was ambiguous) asking about potentially unanswerable plot points (i.e. &quot;is &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; flying in that/those particular unit(s)?&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's plenty of source material documenting Magneto's power in detail.  Similarly, there are source references to the uniforms worn in Battle School for &lt;em&gt;Ender's Game&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2014-06-25T14:10:59.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4767" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4768" CreationDate="2014-06-25T20:56:15.123" Score="9" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today there was this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/60071/who-is-the-most-legitimate-heir-of-the-iron-throne&quot;&gt;Who is the most legitimate heir of the Iron Throne?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which was put on hold as primarily opinion based, but it is not opinion based; it is a question that can be answered with quotes from the books (like @TLP said in the comments). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not a question like &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Who do &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt; think is the most legitimate heir?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the books, all of those heirs' claims are explained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I voted to reopen this question, but it was not reopened. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot understand why this was put on hold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19374" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2014-06-25T23:01:14.667" Title="How is this question 'primarily opinion-based'?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4767" CreationDate="2014-06-25T21:09:23.873" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes people get a bit overzealous with the vote-to-close thing. And sometimes they may actually believe that there is no canon answer to a question. In neither case, are the folks who voted to close necessarily correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see a question that has been closed as &quot;primarily opinion based&quot; and you have an answer which is based on canon information, then you should talk to a mod and/or bring the question up in chat. It's easy enough to get a question reopened, if you have sufficient justification for doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5424" LastActivityDate="2014-06-25T21:09:23.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4767" CreationDate="2014-06-25T21:57:25.227" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at it again now, I'm not sure I would cast the same close vote. It still doesn't strike me as being a particularly good question the way it's currently written, and - as mentioned in the comments here - may very well be a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think most of the issues come from that last spoiler tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What would happen if any or every of them would eventually die? Who could claim the throne? The one with the biggest army?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's wandering very close to, if not directly into, the realm of wild speculation. The entire thing also reads (to me, at least) like a &quot;I've read the books, I'm not sure who I think should have the throne, what do you guys think?&quot; discussion-y question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's perhaps not the intent of the question, in which case it could benefit greatly from editing. I'd suggest removing the &quot;Any other&quot; part (that last spoiler tag) so it just focuses on those three who have explicitly been mentioned in the books, and making it clearer that it's an in-universe, &quot;with respect to Westerosi laws&quot; examination of the validity of their respective claims (assuming that it's not a duplicate).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5833" LastActivityDate="2014-06-25T21:57:25.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4767" CreationDate="2014-06-25T23:01:14.667" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to re-open, but at the same time I'd suggest that the question be edited to narrow the scope by changing the first sentence to read:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After finishing the fifth book (A Dance With Dragons), &lt;strong&gt;and based on the information confirmed in the books to date&lt;/strong&gt;, I'm not sure who has more rights to the Iron Throne.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for this, and I'd suspect a reason why some may have voted to close, is the uncertainty and popular fan theories over Jon Snow's parentage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If what is speculated by many turns out to be the case then it upsets the heirship somewhat, but since the author has neither confirmed nor denied that speculation it does mix some element of &quot;opinion-based&quot; into one possible set of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tightening the scope by excluding that possibility from any answers would also have the effect of removing the &quot;opinion-based&quot; element.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2014-06-25T23:01:14.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4771" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-27T10:22:14.663" Score="5" ViewCount="180" Body="&lt;p&gt;A user calling themselves &lt;em&gt;hitasoftmadurai&lt;/em&gt; has been banned several times now, for spamming with nonsensical answers, usually by cobbling together fragments found on the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please suspend this account so they can no longer post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Add new incarnations below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/28741/hitasoftmadurai&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/28741/hitasoftmadurai&lt;/a&gt; (removed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/28895/hitasoftmadurai&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/28895/hitasoftmadurai&lt;/a&gt; (removed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/29116/hitasoftmadurai&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/29116/hitasoftmadurai&lt;/a&gt; (removed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/30444/hitasoft-madurai&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/30444/hitasoft-madurai&lt;/a&gt; (removed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2014-07-16T12:14:41.337" Title="Suspend (ban) account of spamming user account" Tags="|support|status-completed|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4772" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12396" CreationDate="2014-06-27T11:57:29.117" Score="20" ViewCount="566" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, this is likely an off-topic question, but one which is about said off-topicness. Occasionally, when browsing through &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; items, one comes upon a request for a story that is non-sci-fi with people suggesting going to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Literature Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; to ask. That section of the site was closed in 2012. So far, I've been resorting to TV Trope's YKTS board, but is there an SE location to ask such questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2019-03-16T04:41:31.070" LastActivityDate="2022-01-14T16:50:11.740" Title="Is there an alternate place to ask for story identification for non-sci-fi?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|site-rec|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4772" CreationDate="2014-06-27T12:23:10.200" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately not. There isn't a place to ask such questions (yet).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/80865/literature&quot;&gt;Literature Proposal&lt;/a&gt; on Area 51 that would suit your needs, but it is still on the Definition stage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can always ask around our chat. Someone might be able to help you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19374" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2015-03-26T15:58:30.857" LastActivityDate="2015-03-26T15:58:30.857" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4772" CreationDate="2014-06-27T13:39:39.157" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;For books?  &lt;s&gt;Nothing on Stack Exchange.&lt;/s&gt; There is now a &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Literature Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; which accepts (well-worded and detailed) identification requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;For movies?  There's &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Movies &amp;amp; TV&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;For TV?  There's &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Movies &amp;amp; TV&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;For anime?  There's &lt;a href=&quot;http://anime.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Anime&amp;amp;Manga.SE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/s&gt; - they have now &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2806/28456&quot;&gt;completely banned&lt;/a&gt; story-ID requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For video games?  Nothing on Stack Exchange. There's &lt;a href=&quot;http://gaming.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Arqade&lt;/a&gt;, but only in the very specific case when &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7617/how-best-to-ask-about-a-game-identification/7621#7621&quot;&gt;you have an “artifact”&lt;/a&gt; (e.g. a screenshot).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be sure to take the tour on each site to see the constraints they have on Story Identification questions, each of them has different expectations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2019-03-14T17:41:40.110" LastActivityDate="2019-03-14T17:41:40.110" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4771" CreationDate="2014-06-27T19:28:23.760" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The situation has been taken care of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2014-06-27T19:28:23.760" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4776" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4988" CreationDate="2014-06-29T20:39:40.563" Score="10" ViewCount="399" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/60257/19561&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; asks for identification of a game containing fantasy elements (a knight fighting skeletons in a graveyard). It was closed as off-topic, then reopened since games &lt;em&gt;in general&lt;/em&gt; aren't off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The consensus in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3356/19561&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; was that questions about works just containing fantasy elements aren't necessarily on-topic just because of the fantasy elements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question sounds as if it would be more at home at Arqade, except for the fact that &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4168/75191&quot;&gt;identification questions are off-topic there&lt;/a&gt;, even though they &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/tags/game-identification/info&quot;&gt;still have the tag&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So before we go through another close/reopen cycle, let's discuss here if it's on-topic or not. Is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2017-07-29T12:32:34.173" LastActivityDate="2017-07-31T18:33:35.483" Title="Are all questions about games on-topic as long as they contain some SciFi or Fantasy element?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|scope|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4776" CreationDate="2014-06-29T20:55:50.440" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is a game if not an interactive story? We take questions about the background and story of sci-fi and fantasy games just like we do any other sci-fi or fantasy work. The elements described in the game ID question are clearly on-topic, and we allow identification questions, so I think the question is squarely on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2014-06-29T20:55:50.440" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4776" CreationDate="2014-06-29T21:11:24.300" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt; are explicitly allowed (as long as it's not about the game mechanics), as are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I'm concerned, combining the two doesn't seem like any sort of a stretch, especially if/when the questions are phrased in a way that actually allows a single acceptable answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The usual rules (not too broad, not a &quot;list&quot; question, etc) do obviously still apply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2014-06-29T21:14:52.327" LastActivityDate="2014-06-29T21:14:52.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4776" CreationDate="2014-06-30T06:02:50.263" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I know ID Requests on Arqade aren't off topic as I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/129218/what-game-does-extra-credits-use-in-the-working-conditions-episode-at-612&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; almost a year ago and it was never closed, the link in the OP's question is dated back to 2 years ago. To my knowledge ID Requests must meet &lt;strong&gt;certain strict criteria&lt;/strong&gt; otherwise they're closed, Arqade's I think is a screen shot, Anime and Manga has a &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/a/892/63&quot;&gt;Meta Question&lt;/a&gt; on it requiring 2 points or a picture, (my question originally didn't have one but I did link to the video and indicated the time, someone edited the image in for me).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for if something is on-topic here I'd think of it like this. If the story contains one of these elements as a major/significant plot point it's on topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A time setting in the future, in alternative timelines, or in a historical past that contradicts known facts of history or the archaeological record.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A spatial setting or scenes in outer space (e.g. spaceflight), on other worlds, or on subterranean earth.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Characters that include aliens, mutants, androids, or humanoid robots and other types of characters arising from a future human evolution.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Futuristic or plausible technology such as ray guns, teleportation machines, and humanoid computers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Scientific principles that are new or that contradict accepted physical laws, for example time travel, wormholes, or faster-than-light travel or communication.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;New and different political or social systems, e.g. dystopian, post-scarcity, or post-apocalyptic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Paranormal abilities such as mind control, telepathy, telekinesis, and teleportation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other universes or dimensions and travel between them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction#Definition&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also add anything which is seen as Magic as well regardless if it's actually a mystical force (Magecraft, True Magic in the Nasuverse), super advanced technology which is seen as magic by everyone else (Asgard, Goa'uld from Stargate) or a hybrid of the 2 (the Program like Magic Systems in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha) since it kinda is a merger of the 5th and 7th points&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then you have to ask yourself, where can I get a better answer? Practically almost every Anime/Manga/Light Novel/Visual Novel is sci fi whether it's using magical powers like in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dragonball&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dragonball&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dragonball&lt;/a&gt; or weather it's just science like in Robotech, even Arqade accepts story-line questions like &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/81674/why-was-caius-supposed-to-be-immortal&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;. In this case I'd do a search for existing tags on here, Arqade and &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Anime and Manga&lt;/a&gt;, see how many questions have been asked/answers and how detailed they are, which ever site has answers more to your liking is probably your best bet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However it's a good idea to think about what you're trying to get out of the question ie. I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/47968/which-entity-of-the-cthulhu-mythos-does-mary-meet&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; here over Anime and Manga because I was after an ID of a Cthulhu Mythos creature, I knew from the references I give that Mary met something from the Cthulhu Mythos and figured I'd more likely get an answer here considering the number of questions on the Cthulhu Mythos and Lovecraft. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;                                              {Question about Anime}&#xA;                             TV and Movies -----------Ask On------------&#xA;                                /\   ||                                ||&#xA;               Ask On           ||   ||           Ask On               ||&#xA;   {Question about TV or Movie} ||   || {Question about Sci Fi Story}  ||&#xA;                                ||   ||                                ||&#xA;         {Question about Story} ||   \/    {Question about Anime}      \/&#xA; Aquade --------Ask On---------&amp;gt; Sci Fi --------Ask On---------&amp;gt; Anime and Manga&#xA;   ||                                                                  /\&#xA;   ||                                                                  ||&#xA;   --------------------------------Ask On-------------------------------&#xA;                        {Question about JRPG Story}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;^ above is what I'd like to think how ideally questions get put on a site when one thinks about where to ask, ofcause we still get &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/173713/when-exactly-did-everyone-figure-out-about-lucy#comment236017_173713&quot;&gt;Duplicate Cross-Site Questions&lt;/a&gt; so it doesn't work all that well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20916" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:48.340" LastActivityDate="2014-06-30T23:09:15.093" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4776" CreationDate="2014-06-30T07:29:55.900" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;We discussed this earlier in chat and my contribution and position on the matter is: &lt;em&gt;I think the issue is the element of the game -- is it truly sci-fi or fantasy? For example, I wouldn't want to see questions about Donkey Kong just because a princess might make an appearance, and the question is about strategy, not the elemental story of the game.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't believe our site is the appropriate one to discuss game strategy; it shouldn't be allowed on a technicality simply because a minute element of sci-fi or fantasy exists within the game's lore. American McGee's &lt;em&gt;Alice&lt;/em&gt;&amp;#185;, for example, is obviously based on Lewis Carroll's &lt;em&gt;Through the Looking Glass&lt;/em&gt;, which, yes, is a work of fantasy. I would not be impressed by a question asking about plot points &lt;em&gt;for the sole purpose of beating the game&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could say that I wouldn't then mind lore for the sake of lore questions, but if that were the motivation, it would seem the question would (or ought to) have come directly through SFF.se and not be shifted over from Aquade. I can't help but worry that the underlying theme of gaming questions is going to be strategy, which I think would be inappropriate for our site. I would prefer not to see those questions here. YMMV, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#185;&lt;sub&gt;Excellent soundtrack by Chris Vrenna&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2014-06-30T07:29:55.900" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4781" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-30T16:36:29.427" Score="8" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this SE - and others possibly, I haven't really encountered this problem elsewhere yet - but this SE keeps referring to &quot;new users&quot;. Who is classified as a new user? Do new users have low reputation or have only been on the site for a couple of days or months? &lt;strong&gt;What classifies a new user from another user who has been around for a while?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would I be considered a new user? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an example of where it can be seen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MJYAe.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28219" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-05-15T14:43:32.713" LastActivityDate="2016-05-15T14:47:13.327" Title="Who is considered to be a new user" Tags="|support|new-users|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4782" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4821" CreationDate="2014-07-01T03:41:32.327" Score="5" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can address a comment to the author of a post, or to a user who has commented on the post, but unless I'm missing something there is no way to address a comment to a user who has edited without commenting, so that said editor will be notified. Should there be? (For example, someone edited an answer of mine, adding some useful information, and I wanted to ask him/her about where he/she found the information.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastEditorUserId="2922" LastEditDate="2014-07-01T18:25:57.047" LastActivityDate="2014-07-19T09:30:57.613" Title="commenting on an edit" Tags="|support|comments|notifications|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4783" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-01T04:54:59.907" Score="19" ViewCount="1401" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to be writing a post for the blog and the subject is: What is canon? And because we're a community, standards of what constitutes canon is going to vary person to person. My goal is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to try and establish any kind of over-arcing, generalized rule that formally defines canon; my goal for the blog post is to discuss canon usefully, in a way that will ultimately impact SFF.se in a positive and meaningful way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will read &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; you have to say regarding canon&amp;#185; and am very interested in how &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; classify the particular canon of a creative work that you favor. I'm also interested in your thoughts on the importance of different axioms of canon, and how you personally vet the various levels of canon source materials. In other words, what source materials are the most important to you? Which are the least important? Why? For example, my personal &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; canon hierarchy might look something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Seven main &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; novels; three ancillary books &lt;em&gt;Quidditch Through the Ages&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;The Tales of Beedle the Bard&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Interviews with J.K. Rowling&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pottermore website&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;JKRowling.com via the Wayback Machine&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Information I remember having once read before but now cannot find&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Various &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; fan sites/forums&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; theme park trivia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The eight &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; films / The HP Wikia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fan Fiction&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ETA:&lt;/strong&gt; In chat the issue of ret-con came up, which means changing canon long after it has become  established. For example, should J.K. Rowling suddenly decide that Dobby the House-elf's name was actually &quot;Barry&quot;, and that (spoilers) --&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;his death&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-- never occurred, that would be ret-conning. I really think ret-conning is a legitimate axiom of canon, so I'm trying to figure out where it will fall in my personal hierarchy. Some fandoms are cleaner than others when it comes to continuity errors and ret-conning. Fandoms like &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; have had to deal with significant or confusing ret-con. Anyhow, do consider ret-con for your hierarchy if it's applicable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's late so I won't detail my canon hierarchy, but I very much want to know why you choose the order(s) that you do, so please feel free to go into as much detail as you'd like. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you very much. And thanks to the mods for letting me post this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#185; &lt;sub&gt;I'll even accept formal complaints regarding the ridiculously inflexible standards I impose upon &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; canon! Go ahead ... Queue up in the comments section ... No shoving ...&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="3500" LastEditDate="2014-07-01T17:18:21.317" LastActivityDate="2014-07-10T22:24:11.933" Title="What does &quot;canon&quot; mean?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4783" CreationDate="2014-07-01T05:22:11.510" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have never really understood how there can be &quot;levels&quot; or a &quot;hierarchy&quot; of canon. Either something is canon, or it isn't. To be canon, it must come from the &quot;author&quot; or be approved by the author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5424" LastActivityDate="2014-07-01T05:22:11.510" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4783" CreationDate="2014-07-01T05:25:45.533" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, I'd like to thank you for spelling canon right.  No cannonball-shooting typos in your post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, I'd suggest a few topics to touch on.  Official canons, like what &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; used to have, where there were various media (i.e. film, TV, video games, books) in the franchise, and they were stratified into various canon levels.  Other things like &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt;'s lack of an official canon, would be a good thing to touch on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last suggestion is to discuss 'headcanon' where fans take various elements and remix them a bit to make them more personally palatable.  I'm sure there are some notable ones for &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal hierarchy?  Let's take a ubiquitous franchise, and go with &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stuff in the films and TV shows.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Books (the former EU)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Video games&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Information from licensed materials.  I used to play the &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;  card game, which provided a &lt;strong&gt;great deal&lt;/strong&gt; of minutae on various background items and characters.  While I used to know this stuff like the back of my hand, it's not so important that I'd consider it more valid than the higher-ranked sources of data.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, I'm not a very strict follower of canon.  I watch/read/play whatever, and incorporate what I can remember into my knowledge of the franchise.  If I notice things that do clash, then it's usually obvious why or how the conflict came into being, so I accept them both as being possibilities of what happened in universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;, the films and TV series are as close to word of god as possible.  Then all the other stuff is licensed, and managed by people who keep track of canon.  So #1 is far and away the most 'canon'.  2-4 are varying levels of filling in corners of the universe that they're not otherwise going to cover in #1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2014-07-01T14:10:07.280" LastActivityDate="2014-07-01T14:10:07.280" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4783" CreationDate="2014-07-01T13:46:46.587" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a Tolkien fan, and particularly as someone who has read all of the Middle-earth works Tolkien published in his lifetime but not all those published posthumously, this is difficult for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Silmarillion&lt;/em&gt;, for example, was published after Tolkien's death, by his son. Perhaps not &quot;canon&quot;? But then again, much of it was from material that Tolkien had submitted for publication, or at least considered submitting for publication, in his lifetime. So, perhaps &quot;canon&quot;. But then, it may include things that Tolkien might not have considered ready for publication, and things that Christopher Tolkien added (or subtracted) for editorial reasons. So perhaps not &quot;canon&quot;. And on and on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, with respect to Tolkien, I'm not sure I'm ready to use the distinction &quot;canon&quot;/&quot;not canon&quot; with all Tolkien work, since I'm not sure that he had arrived at a distinction between the concepts by the end of his life. There were ideas that he never published and seems never to have considered for publication; ideas that he published in &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt;, and then things that were revised in &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt; in light of &lt;em&gt;The Lord Of The Rings&lt;/em&gt;; there were things that he kept working on even after that&amp;mdash;concepts that appeared one way in &lt;em&gt;The Lord Of The Rings&lt;/em&gt; but got changed in writings afterwards; even things that he apparently never came to a final decision about (like the back story of Galadriel).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as &quot;retcon&quot; - the most famous example in the Tolkien canon is the treatment of Gollum in &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt;. In the first edition of &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt;, Gollum is a rather nice, obsequious, though somewhat slimy creature. He offers Bilbo the ring (that Bilbo's already found); then, when it becomes apparent that the ring is lost, he explains what the ring does, and offers to show Bilbo the way out. This of course is far too nice a Gollum for &lt;em&gt;The Lord Of The Rings&lt;/em&gt;; when Tolkien had finished that, he re-wrote &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt; to make Gollum nasty. Of course, he couldn't do anything about the thousands of copies already in the public's hands with the earlier description. So &lt;strong&gt;he wrote the story change into &lt;em&gt;The Lord Of The Rings&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. He explained that Bilbo lied about how he had got the ring, that he put this false explanation into his diary, and that some earlier copies of Bilbo's manuscript had retained the explanation, but that the story was later corrected in the authoritative copy (&quot;Findegil's copy&quot;) of the manuscript. A complete in-universe description of the result of a completely out-of-universe decision. Thus, both &quot;Gollum was a nice character who wanted to give Bilbo the ring&quot; and &quot;Gollum was a nasty character who wanted to use the ring to murder Bilbo&quot; are canon answers&amp;mdash;but for different time periods and situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as Tolkien goes, for me the distinction &quot;posthumous/non-posthumous&quot; works far better than &quot;canon/non-canon&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26274" LastEditorUserId="26274" LastEditDate="2014-07-01T20:27:36.377" LastActivityDate="2014-07-01T20:27:36.377" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4783" CreationDate="2014-07-01T19:53:03.763" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote out a brief canon guide for Star Trek a couple of months back (see below). It might help you to get a handle on the sheer complexity of materials available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Canon Sources&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;1) The TV episodes (TOS, TNG, Voy, DS9, ENT) and the 12 films are the&#xA;  highest canon (as well as transcripts, deleted scenes and the Animated&#xA;  Series where they don't conflict with what happened on screen)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2) Original scripts (which may or may not mirror what actually&#xA;  happened on the show)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;3) Interviews with the writers and producers, cast and crew (AKA&#xA;  &quot;Voice of God&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;4) Canon reference books such as the &quot;TNG Technical Manual&quot;, &quot;DS9&#xA;  Technical Manual&quot;, and &quot;Voyager Technical manual&quot;. These were&#xA;  originally written as reference manuals for potential script writers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;5) Non-canon reference books such as &quot;Mr Scott's Guide To The&#xA;  Enterprise&quot; and the &quot;Starfleet Technical Manual&quot;. These were written&#xA;  by people closely associated with the show but may have been&#xA;  contradicted later. They're usually considered 'canon unless otherwise&#xA;  contradicted'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;6) Official novelisations of various episodes except where&#xA;  contradicted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Non-canon Sources;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;7) Deleted scenes where they conflict with established canon&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;8) Officially licensed properties such as Star Trek Games, RPGs,&#xA;  Crossovers and Trek Comics&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;9) Expanded-Universe Star Trek books. Those written by those involved&#xA;  in the show (such as Bill Shatner, Jeri Taylor and Armin Shimerman)&#xA;  are generally considered more worthwhile than those written by people&#xA;  with no involvement in the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;10) Fan-made properties such as Star Trek: Phase II and fanfiction&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2014-07-01T19:53:03.763" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4788" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4802" CreationDate="2014-07-01T19:55:36.153" Score="5" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/60365/why-did-they-build-the-wall-in-the-first-place&quot;&gt;Why did they build the Wall in the first place?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OP says &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Given that dragonglass kills the Others wouldn't it be easier to equip armies with dragonglass weapons than build a Wall this massive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and there was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/60497/19374&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The wall was built by the first men. The white walkers drove them&#xA;  south to settle the land of westros. The wall was built to keep those&#xA;  dangers from engulfing the whole continent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But OP &lt;em&gt;clearly&lt;/em&gt; said that those dangers can be defeated, thus there is no point in the Wall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer doesn't answer the question at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It answers a question like &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is the point of the Wall?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But not a question like OP's which was&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is the point of the Wall &lt;strong&gt;since there is an alternative&lt;/strong&gt; ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I flagged this as 'not an answer' but my flag was&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;declined - flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19374" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2014-07-06T23:34:10.197" Title="How is this an answer?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4788" CreationDate="2014-07-01T23:22:21.253" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like an answer to me, which is why I declined the flag.  That the answer has no downvotes indicating that anyone thinks the answer is wrong, and that there are no comments indicating how it is wrong, make it seem pretty valid as an answer.  If you don't think something is an answer, then downvote, add comments, and add more detail in your flags (flag-&gt; select 'other'-&gt;type in a reason) so it's clear to &lt;em&gt;anyone&lt;/em&gt; how it's not an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-07-01T23:22:21.253" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4790" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4791" CreationDate="2014-07-02T01:31:24.747" Score="1" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;Related Question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1863/how-do-we-handle-questions-based-on-incorrect-premise&quot;&gt;How do we handle questions based on incorrect premise?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unlike the premise explored in the linked question - how do we handle a question where the question is completely valid, yet includes an incorrect bit of information (which makes no difference to the actual question or its answers)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eg. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/29426/is-the-teen-titans-robin-tim-drake-or-dick-grayson&quot;&gt;Is the Teen Titans Robin Tim Drake or Dick Grayson?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This is a perfectly fine question, with a perfectly fine answer. However, the question includes the incorrect assumption that the Teen Titans animated series is part of the Timm/Diniverse continuity - an assumption which is not challenged by the highest voted and accepted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In such a case is it ok to go ahead and edit/remove the part of the question which gives the incorrect premise or is it better to just comment to the question with the correct info?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28166" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2014-07-19T09:39:15.707" Title="How do we handle questions with provably wrong assumption given as incidental info?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4790" CreationDate="2014-07-02T02:55:22.200" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In cases like these I usually just leave a comment with the correct information and a &quot;You might want to edit your post&quot; nudge. I personally do not feel comfortable editing someone else's question or answer to the point that the edits change the essence of the Q or A. Also, you could actually answer the question and include a correction of the wrong info there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2014-07-02T02:55:22.200" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4790" CreationDate="2014-07-02T10:07:39.560" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the incorrect information makes no difference to the question or any of it's answers, then editing the question to remove the information won't materially alter it, and so it's OK to edit the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the incorrect information does make a difference then stating that the question is based on an invalid premise in an answer is OK: it's a valid way of answering the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorDisplayName="user8719" LastEditDate="2014-07-02T13:30:47.640" LastActivityDate="2014-07-02T13:30:47.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4793" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-02T19:12:49.287" Score="8" ViewCount="239" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from April 1st 2014 through June 30 2014.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What was the best answer (IYHO) provided to a question that was closed?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2013/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2013/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2013/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="45" LastEditDate="2014-07-02T21:09:19.130" LastActivityDate="2014-07-10T00:20:03.793" Title="Favorite questions and answers from the second quarter of 2014" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4793" CreationDate="2014-07-02T20:04:05.607" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two of my personal favourites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I really liked the answers and discussion on SQB’s question  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/59582/3567&quot;&gt;How did Dumbledore, or anyone, know Lily had sacrificed herself for Harry?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s a well-posed question that invites discussion, which is nice because I think a lot of the recent Harry Potter questions have focused more on trivia than discussion. There are several good answers with different, canon-supported theories.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Richard’s answer to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/55045/3567&quot;&gt;Does Batman use Linux?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember this question getting a lot of flak when it was first asked, and was quickly closed as opinion-based. I was pleasantly surprised when Richard managed to find not one, but &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; canon references to Batman’s computer. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2014-07-02T20:04:05.607" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4793" CreationDate="2014-07-03T11:35:42.497" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are some of mine&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I really liked DVK's &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/58854/how-exactly-is-the-secret-fire-similar-to-the-holy-spirit&quot;&gt;How exactly is the Secret Fire similar to the Holy Spirit?&lt;/a&gt;, a short but precise question that unleashed Jimmy Shelter's excellently researched answer. There were also several other questions on the topic of cosmology and metaphysics in the Legendarium which I enjoyed, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35471/the-valar-and-their-power-to-create&quot;&gt;The Valar and their power to create&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/59039/did-the-force-like-magic-exist-within-lotr-books/59043#59043&quot;&gt;Did the force-like magic exist within LOTR books?&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I had another one but then I noticed that it predated the quarter by a few days.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4516" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-07-05T05:54:01.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4796" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4798" CreationDate="2014-07-03T14:58:07.263" Score="1" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I flagged the comment trail &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/60522/did-ivanova-and-talia-have-a-romantic-relationship-in-babylon-5&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; as off-topic, but my flag was declined.  I'm confused as to how downvotes and Captain Kirk are on-topic to a question about two Babylon 5 characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was my flag declined?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23587" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2014-07-03T16:23:32.427" Title="Are comments on-topic if they are referring to downvotes and other questions?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4783" CreationDate="2014-07-03T15:45:40.077" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do we feel about the third radio series of &lt;em&gt;The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, applying the concept of “canon” to Hitch-Hikers is always going to be tricky, as the various incarnations all merrily contradict each other. There are the first two radio series (the primary and secondary phases; fits the first to twelfth), the novels, the TV series (which I haven’t seen), the film (released after Douglas Adams’s death), more radio series adapted from the books after Adams’s death, and various theatrical releases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="403" LastActivityDate="2014-07-03T15:45:40.077" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4796" CreationDate="2014-07-03T16:23:32.427" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think comments about downvotes are on-topic, because they’re supposed to help the asker improve their question (in the eyes of the downvoter).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We often have comments that lament the &lt;em&gt;lack of&lt;/em&gt; a comment from the downvoter, but there’s not much to be done about that. The question of whether &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1395/3567&quot;&gt;downvotes should require a comment&lt;/a&gt; has been discussed ad nauseam (the answer is no), but those comments are still on-topic, because they still seek to improve the question and/or understand why others didn’t like it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same applies for comments about downvotes on answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don’t know anything about Babylon 5 or Star Trek, so I can neither follow nor comment upon the particular comment thread you linked to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2014-07-03T16:23:32.427" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4783" CreationDate="2014-07-03T18:41:40.967" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chiming in with a more generic answer, geared somewhat (I hope) towards our peculiar environment here on SE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My general canon hierarchy is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The primary published works by the original author.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Any publication by the original author of the primary works, in a different medium.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if the book(s) came out first, then the book counts as the primary, and movie/comics/video games/plays falls under #2 above.  In the case of movie remakes, this only applies if the author has direct creative input.  Movies made after the author has died, or without the author's support (such as Alan Moore and the &lt;em&gt;Watchman&lt;/em&gt; movie) fall into a lower level of canon, #6 below.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ancillary published materials  from the author directly intended to supplement the primary work.  For example, special reprints with extra author's notes, tie-in short stories (such as George R.R. Martin's &lt;em&gt;Dunk and Egg&lt;/em&gt; stories), etc..&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Any published explanation given directly by the author (&quot;word of God&quot; answers), such as interviews or the author's blog.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Officially published materials created by people aside from the author, but with permission from the author.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Officially published materials sanctioned by the license owners, but not necessarily the author. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that &quot;author&quot; can be a pretty nebulous term, and in many cases can refer to more than one individual, or even large groups of people, and can have its own hierarchy (for example, the &lt;em&gt;Forgotten Realms&lt;/em&gt; setting for &lt;em&gt;Dungeons and Dragons&lt;/em&gt; and its various spin-off materials, was created by Ed Greenwood, and then expanded upon by both Ed and Jeff Grubb, and eventually grew until a number of other authors, such as R.A. Salvatore, were contributing major elements of the setting).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For purposes of answering questions here, I consider answers from #1-4 to all be roughly on the same level of authority.  #5 follows behind, and #6 is the lowest level of what I consider &quot;canon&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I do not consider unauthorized &quot;fan fiction&quot; to be canon... but that does not necessarily preclude it from being part of a good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the standpoint of good answers, information from multiple levels of canon can (and should!) be presented, if applicable, even if they contradict each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2014-07-03T18:41:40.967" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4793" CreationDate="2014-07-05T01:36:06.750" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/59930/which-are-the-two-towers-in-lord-of-the-rings&quot;&gt;Which are the Two Towers in Lord of the Rings&lt;/a&gt; by @Ram G Athreya. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deceptively &quot;D'uh&quot; obvious upon first reading and quite interesting to research in depth. I love questions that make me learn new things.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/55016/whats-with-nimbus-2000-2001-naming/55018#55018&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s with Nimbus 2000/2001 naming?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another deceptively obvious question where the canon answer existed and was very unexpected.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/52274/can-avada-kedavra-be-used-to-kill-more-than-one-being/53173&quot;&gt;Can Avada Kedavra be used to kill more than one being?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A great question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What makes it special is that it contains both &lt;strong&gt;the worst answer I saw this quarter (wrong logic, wrong facts, non-canon)&lt;/strong&gt; - which managed to accrue 4 upvotes nonetheless :( - AND aside from that, the worst answer given this year to any question by @Slytherincess (making 2 IMHO incorrect assumptions).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/60278/what-was-in-the-letter-to-the-dursleys-dumbledore-left-with-baby-harry&quot;&gt;What was in the letter to the Dursleys Dumbledore left with baby Harry?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something I was wondering about for a while as well.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/56879/how-did-voldemort-know-about-the-magic-of-lilys-sacrifice&quot;&gt;How did Voldemort know about the magic of Lily&amp;#39;s sacrifice?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/57300/severus-snapes-first-words-to-harry-potter-an-apology/57303#57303&quot;&gt;Victorian flower language by Snape&lt;/a&gt; question&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions: Honorable Mentions:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/55753/if-a-death-eater-had-sacrificed-themselves-for-voldemort-would-that-offer-a-pr/55762#55762&quot;&gt;If a death eater had sacrificed themselves for Voldemort - would that offer a protection to him similar to the one given by Lily for Harry?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Made me cry &quot;uncle&quot; for lack of any canon answer I could find.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/55143/why-doesnt-the-order-use-unforgivable-curses-in-case-of-life-threatening-situat/55175#55175&quot;&gt;Why doesn&amp;#39;t the Order use unforgivable curses in case of life threatening situations?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Allowed me to go all bullet-point-happy. My OCD thanks the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/54527/why-was-cardinal-richeleu-one-of-the-main-antagonists-in-1632/54536#54536&quot;&gt;Why was Cardinal Richeleu one of the main antagonists in 1632?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because it covered both Armand-Jean du Plessis (aka Cardinal Richelieu) who was one of my most favorite statsmen in history, AND Eric Flint's 1632 which is one of my favorite SF works.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answers:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I mostly remember these because they were for the questions I asked, so there's a certain bias there&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/54595/how-do-wizards-prevent-accio-fueled-robberies/54623#54623&quot;&gt;How do wizards prevent Accio-fueled robberies?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer by @alexwlchan is wonderfully canon including sourcing a canon source I wasn't even aware of before!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/58648/would-severus-snape-be-classified-with-aspd/60309#60309&quot;&gt;Would Severus Snape be classified with ASPD?&lt;/a&gt; by @Slytherincess - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/58648/would-severus-snape-be-classified-with-aspd/58663#58663&quot;&gt;AND a competing answer&lt;/a&gt; by @alexwlchan. Amazing analysis&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/53476/overpowering-the-elder-wand/56274#56274&quot;&gt;Would it be possible to create a wand more powerful than the Elder Wand?&lt;/a&gt; by @Slytherincess. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/55559/why-didnt-quirrell-keep-the-flying-key&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t Quirrell keep the flying key?&lt;/a&gt; by @alexwlchan&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially since it was posted right after I made a fool of myself by commenting that there's no canon answer :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2014-07-10T00:20:03.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4783" CreationDate="2014-07-06T11:59:25.797" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally speaking I generally do not pay any attention to things like canon. In this answer I'll put across a few of the arguments against its usefulness as a concept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that canon is used to describe those works of fiction that 'count' (and are somehow less fictional than other fictions?), according to some authority. Things only really seem to develop canon policies when there are works that someone wants to &lt;em&gt;exclude&lt;/em&gt;. Gene Rodenberry only created a Star Trek canon in order to mark the animated series as 'non-canon'; George Lucas created his alphabet soup of canon levels so that he wouldn't have to worry about all the tie-in novels conflicting with his movies. Marvel and DC canons exist for similar reasons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also seems to be primarily an American phenomena. Warhammer 40,000's canon policy is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Everything is canon; nothing is true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...which suits the tone of that work just fine. Judge Dredd doesn't have a canon -- it all happened, even the stuff that is completely at odds with the current tone of the comic. Even that time that Dredd became Sheriff of the Moon. Doctor Who's current showrunner has said that 'It is impossible for a show about a dimension-hopping time traveller to have a canon.' (though if you want to push the issue, you'll find that there &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a Doctor Who canon, but that it includes every work of fiction ever written, with the exception of the &lt;em&gt;Noddy&lt;/em&gt; stories -- and even that's arguable).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the past people always used to retell stories that they had heard. This happened in every culture around the world, to the extent that Terry Pratchett once suggested that we'd be better off classified as Pan Narrans -- the Storytelling Ape. It seems to me that canon is primarily a way for capitalist industry to discredit and suppress that storytelling instinct, so that only their profit-making narratives 'count'. DC Comics managed to screw over the creators of Batman and Superman, so now they claim authority over what stories are canon and what stories are non-canon, fake, disreputable -- and all the fans go along with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That the fans of these works can get into quite heated arguments about what is or isn't canon is instructive of the idea's destructive effects, I think. They accept it -- because it appeals to the fannish, nerdly desire to collect everything into neat little boxes, as if stories were objective physical phenomena rather than ephemeral interactions between the artists and the audience -- and then they internalise it. To many people, stories are somehow 'less' if they're not canon. Because Daddy says so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13404" LastActivityDate="2014-07-06T11:59:25.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4788" CreationDate="2014-07-06T21:58:03.157" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, some context:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of the &quot;not an answer&quot; flag is not to flag inaccurate answers (that's what downvotes are for), but to prevent comments disguised as answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is obviously subjective, but you should downvote (or request clarification) if:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer is inaccurate or wrong.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It doesn't answer the question but something else, usually because the person answering misread or misunderstood the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should flag as &quot;not an answer&quot; if:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &quot;answer&quot; should be a comment on the main question. Note this is independent of it being right or wrong.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &quot;answer&quot; is actually a comment on another poster's answer. Example: &quot;the answer by XYZ is wrong because White Walkers are not undead, and furthermore (yadda, yadda)&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the above, the answer you flagged &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; actually an answer, even if an unhelpful one. You were right to downvote and comment &quot;how is this an answer&quot;, because the author seems to have misunderstood the original question. But it's not a comment in disguise, and so it shouldn't be flagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="770" LastEditorUserId="770" LastEditDate="2014-07-06T23:34:10.197" LastActivityDate="2014-07-06T23:34:10.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4803" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4804" CreationDate="2014-07-10T20:58:08.397" Score="2" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pureferret suggested this first on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3625/tags-asoiaf-and-song-of-ice-and-fire/3628#3628&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, but it hasn't been made into a feature request, so here it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt; tag should have the tag synonym &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/asoiaf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;asoiaf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;asoiaf&lt;/a&gt;. It's easy, quick to type and a well-known shorthand for fans of the series. Pureferret listed other reasons in his answer, but I won't plagiarise them here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, maybe a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/got&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;got&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;got&lt;/a&gt; synonym would be nice for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25915" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2014-07-10T21:52:30.383" Title="Tag synonym &quot;ASOIAF&quot; for &quot;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot;" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4803" CreationDate="2014-07-10T21:52:17.807" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bibbity-bobbity-boo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All done!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-07-10T21:52:17.807" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4783" CreationDate="2014-07-10T22:24:11.933" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Understanding why things are canon in the first place is something I think a lot of people miss, and it leads to arguments over what is and is not canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most basic definition for canon in this context is &quot;If the creator or current writers were to write more in their universe, what would they consider to have definitely happened?&quot; For ongoing works, the value of this is obvious: A subsequent work comes out, and things the creator or writers didn't say are contradicted. For closed works, the value is less obvious, being something else that makes canon valuable: it's what we can all agree has happened in that universe. It makes sense then for that to be what was canon up until the point when the work was closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can get a lot more complicated (as indicated by other answers and even the question itself with retcons.) The fact that there can be multiple canons (due to multiple writers or otherwise considering multiple universes or timelines) But the basic idea is pretty good starting point. For example, it leads to the idea that Silmerillian is canon because it is what the author would have written if he'd been able to publish his ideas. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It even leads to &quot;levels&quot; of canon, as you're rating how likely the author is to reference that information in further works. Obviously official supplemental material is more likely to be used (or &quot;confirmed&quot;) in the official work than speculation by a fan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26601" LastActivityDate="2014-07-10T22:24:11.933" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4806" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4807" CreationDate="2014-07-11T19:39:36.917" Score="0" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I viewed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/warehouse-13&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;warehouse-13&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;warehouse-13&lt;/a&gt; tag page which has bunch of questions, but no description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone please update it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2014-07-11T21:25:48.677" LastActivityDate="2014-07-11T21:25:48.677" Title="Can anyone please describe &quot;warehouse-13&quot; tag?" Tags="|support|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4806" CreationDate="2014-07-11T19:55:00.107" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag appears to have an extensive description; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YLZVS.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2014-07-11T19:55:00.107" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4808" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4809" CreationDate="2014-07-11T20:18:47.233" Score="7" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am saying this because I have seen a lot of comments that say things that like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1+ for the awesome answer or question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1+ for the detail&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1+  I always wondered that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have read this question but it doesn't seem to answer anything for me&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/804/when-is-it-appropriate-to-flag-a-comment&quot;&gt;When is it appropriate to flag a comment?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I flag these comments when I see them as they are not conducive to the community and they don't add anything or adhere to the rules stated in the comment box?&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bLU4u.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't add any links to comments that did this just case it isn't a real problem and to not put somebody on the spot. And I have seen users new and old do this, ones with lots of reputation and some with little reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2014-07-19T09:27:44.573" Title="Should all comments that have 1+ and little else in them be flagged" Tags="|support|comments|users|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4808" CreationDate="2014-07-11T20:53:37.750" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Technically, yes. The Stack Exchange has pretty clear ideas about what comments are and aren't for. Regular purging of comments keeps the site clean and focused on its primary goal being a neatly-organised &quot;pile of answers&quot; without getting cluttered by providing services other sites already do just fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in practice, this particular corner of the Stack Exchange doesn't care. We get into discussions and arguments (which the broader Stack Exchange ethos eschews because forums already do that perfectly well); we fail to edit clarifying comments into our answers (I'm still not sure why that is); we use comments to provide answers if we're unsure of them or can't be bothered to put together full support for a claim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while I encourage you to flag the &lt;strong&gt;+1 awesomes&lt;/strong&gt;, I'm cynical about its effectiveness or long-term impact on a community that pushes back strongly on any attempt to restrict the scope of comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[NB: comments on meta sites aren't held to the same standards; meta is &lt;em&gt;for&lt;/em&gt; discussion, and while the Stack comment mechanic is by design awkward for that, it's expected on meta in order to hash things out.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13941" LastActivityDate="2014-07-11T20:53:37.750" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4812" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4814" CreationDate="2014-07-15T14:11:00.287" Score="2" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I read a question asking if there had been any official statements about whether a forthcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe film’s storyline would cross over with other films in the series:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/63278/will-there-be-any-crossover-of-guardians-of-the-galaxy-with-current-storyline-of&quot;&gt;Are there any official statements on whether Guardians of the Galaxy crosses over with other MCU movies?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question specifically asked about the existence of statements, so it’s not really speculative. But it did ask for statements that related to the content of a movie that’s coming out in less than three weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It struck me as pretty localized, and thus maybe off-topic (as per &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/233/how-do-we-deal-with-questions-about-rumors-and-release-dates&quot;&gt;this meta question&lt;/a&gt;). Is that right? (And if so, what’s would be the appropriate close reason?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/530/should-questions-asking-about-the-future-of-a-franchise-series-or-literary-wor&quot;&gt;See also this question?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4762/movie-trailer-based-questions&quot;&gt;And maybe this one?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="440" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2014-07-16T12:49:49.877" Title="Are questions relating to author statements about future real-world fictional works on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="929" CreationDate="2014-07-15T16:02:04.680" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not unless it’s a tag badge or foul play was involved.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the Meta SE FAQ &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/17853/226928&quot;&gt;How do &amp;quot;badges&amp;quot; work?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What can cause a badge to be lost/revoked/taken away after it is awarded?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Stack Exchange administration has stated repeatedly that “regular” badges never go away unless they were obtained by heinous cheating. […]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag badges, on the other hand, disappear immediately if you ever cease to meet their criteria, which could happen through deletion or downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regular badges, however, once earned, are yours to keep. Even if the criteria by which you earned a badge have changed (the post was deleted, you got downvoted, etc.) you get to keep your badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thread has some examples of what is counted as “heinous cheating”, but in general, if you apply common sense and don’t do anything stupid, you should be fine. Devs and moderators occasionally step in to remove badges when foul play is involved, but I think this is quite rare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason tag badges are different is because they come with certain “superpowers”: for example, the ability to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/230865/226928&quot;&gt;one-click close as dupe&lt;/a&gt; questions which are tagged with something you have a gold tag badge in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-07-15T16:02:04.680" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4812" CreationDate="2014-07-16T12:49:49.877" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say any question that requests official information, rather than speculation, is likely acceptable.  It may or may not be a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; question, but it is probably one that can stay open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is specific reason to suspect further information may exist (hints in a press release or interview, precedent from other works in the series, similar patterns in the materials the work is based off of), questions like this can be quite good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, in the absence of such sources, questions like this can also be quite bad, and even good questions may result in answers of &quot;no&quot; or &quot;we don't know yet&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, I don't think that is sufficient for closure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2014-07-16T12:49:49.877" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4815" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-17T15:39:49.640" Score="12" ViewCount="279" Body="&lt;p&gt;Must all the questions be asked in English?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question was asked in another language, would it be translated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21674" LastEditorUserId="3567" LastEditDate="2014-07-17T15:54:36.680" LastActivityDate="2014-07-18T07:52:07.940" Title="Must questions be asked in English?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4815" CreationDate="2014-07-17T16:59:15.557" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, all questions must be asked in English. If you are having trouble with a particular word or phrase, you might be able to get help with it on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://ell.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;English Language Learners&lt;/a&gt; SE site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:55:12.097" LastActivityDate="2014-07-17T16:59:15.557" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4817" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4818" CreationDate="2014-07-17T17:14:19.677" Score="3" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, this is just one example, but I want to know about the general case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What would cross-universe dragons be like? e.g. the dragons of the world of Harry Potter and the dragons of Anne McCaffrey's Dragons of Pern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't see how this could be a good question on the main site, but I've love to see it discussed.  Would it be suitable as a chat room event theme, as a possible way to draw in new contributors?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25302" LastActivityDate="2014-07-17T19:25:03.190" Title="I'd love to know whether" Tags="|discussion|chat-event|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4817" CreationDate="2014-07-17T19:25:03.190" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I can't see how this could be a good question on the main site&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Agreed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Would it be suitable as a chat room event theme, as a possible way to draw in new contributors?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure!  This site used to have themed chat events, but interest and participation died out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe it may have started with a regular &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/457/1359&quot;&gt;recommendation chat&lt;/a&gt;, which is actually what started my participation here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, that event &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/822/1359&quot;&gt;died&lt;/a&gt;, and was replaced with a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/824/1359&quot;&gt;topic of the day&lt;/a&gt; chat room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Topic of the day died, too, so you might have some challenges getting such a chat to work, but it is certainly an appropriate use of the chat system.  All you need is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges&quot;&gt;100 reputation to create new chat rooms&lt;/a&gt;, so feel free to start the chat (although you might want to try and gauge interest in topics and organize the timing here on meta, first).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2014-07-17T19:25:03.190" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4808" CreationDate="2014-07-19T09:27:44.573" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure, do flag comments that have no useful content like “+1 great answer”. The key question about a comment is, does it have any value? “Noise” comments like “+1 great answer” don't, since there are better ways to express that an answer is great (upvotes, and if you want to emphasize it, bounties), so remove them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comments that should be kept are comments with useful content, for example comments that point out a possible flaw in a post (something is incorrect, some detail is missing, a request for clarification, …). These comments should be removed if the flaw has been addressed (typically by an edit). In principle, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;all comments are supposed to be temporary&lt;/a&gt;. In practice, some comments do end up staying indefinitely, typically either because they point out a minor flaw or add a minor detail that isn't worth the bother of an edit, or because they represent a valid objection that the post author disagrees with, or because they request a clarification that isn't forthcoming. But comments are not given the benefit of doubt: they have to prove their usefulness, the default is to to delete them if they bothered someone enough to flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2014-07-19T09:27:44.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4782" CreationDate="2014-07-19T09:30:57.613" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use the &lt;code&gt;@&lt;em&gt;username&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/code&gt; syntax in a comment on a post to notify:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;someone who previously commented on the post and whose comment isn't deleted;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;someone who edited the post;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a moderator who close the post, if it's a question (this only applies to moderator close votes, not to ordinary close votes).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is in addition to the author of the post, who is always notified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Completion only suggests the names of previous commenters, because that's the usual case. But &lt;code&gt;@&lt;em&gt;name-of-editor&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/code&gt; will notify an editor. Copy-paste the name from the revision history if you aren't sure to get it right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2014-07-19T09:30:57.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4822" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-21T21:29:59.973" Score="11" ViewCount="266" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/63485/is-renlys-rainbow-guard-an-overt-gay-reference&quot;&gt;Is Renly&amp;#39;s Rainbow Guard an overt gay reference?&lt;/a&gt; is framed in a fairly non-inflamatory manner, but isn't well recieved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It currently has 3 downvotes, with no explaination. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this community not appreciate questions about themes, or sexuality?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28409" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2014-07-21T22:12:57.550" Title="Are questions about themes of sexuality off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4822" CreationDate="2014-07-21T21:51:40.750" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think questions about sexuality are off-topic, and I can't speak for the downvoters, but I think the question should probably be closed as Primarily Opinion-based.  If Martin says it's not a gay reference, I don't see how any other evidence really has any bearing on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastActivityDate="2014-07-21T21:51:40.750" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4822" CreationDate="2014-07-21T22:12:57.550" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don’t think that a question is off-topic simply because it discusses or mentions sexuality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It still has to be within the realm of sci-fi and fantasy, but the two topics certainly aren’t mutually exclusive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for this particular question, I think what may have irked people was this line:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I can't see how this isn't a gay reference&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sounds a bit like you have a bit of an agenda asking the question, something like “This is a gay reference, isn’t it? Prove that GRRM is lying”, which isn’t constructive or useful. That may not be your intention, but it’s how it could come across.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A better question might ask &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; the Rainbow Guard is named as such in the books. You could mention the fact that you think it might be a gay reference, but it doesn’t need to dominate the entire question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastActivityDate="2014-07-21T22:12:57.550" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4825" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4826" CreationDate="2014-07-22T05:47:22.227" Score="3" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the nature of of this SE and other SE sites like &quot;Movies &amp;amp; TV&quot; or &quot;Anime &amp;amp; Manga&quot; or (possibly) &quot;Arqade&quot;, it's pretty likely for questions that fit on one of said sites, to also be a good fit on SFF SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it's not acceptable to cross-post to multiple sites from the beginning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in a situation where a question is asked on Site 1 where it is completely appropriate, but either does not receive an answer at all or a correct/good answer for a long period of time, is it considered acceptable to cross-post to Site 2 where it is also completely appropriate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not cross-posting, then is requesting for migration possible? Will this remove the reputation / badges / votes earned on that question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28166" LastActivityDate="2014-07-22T08:11:43.863" Title="Is it acceptable to migrate or cross-post questions that didn't get a (good) answer in the original SE?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-07-24T01:51:46.927" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4825" CreationDate="2014-07-22T08:11:43.863" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4735/can-you-ask-the-same-question-on-different-ses&quot;&gt;This question should answer yours.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/626/how-do-we-handle-conflicts-with-the-anime-and-movies-sites&quot;&gt;And this one.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know whether your question is a duplicate,but a lot of questions that are asked on the &lt;em&gt;anime and manga&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Movies and tv&lt;/em&gt; SE's are either duplicates of what is asked here or they are very closely related. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what was said to me about moving questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There's nothing to stop you asking it on one, then getting a mod to&#xA;  move it to the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/626/how-do-we-handle-conflicts-with-the-anime-and-movies-sites&quot;&gt;And this.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cross-posting is strongly discouraged. (Strictly speaking, that's&#xA;  multi-posting: a question is only present on one site, the SE platform&#xA;  does not support cross-posting by design.) It might be ok occasionally&#xA;  to ask similar questions on both sites, but the questions should be&#xA;  tailored to each audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2014-07-22T08:11:43.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4827" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4828" CreationDate="2014-07-23T08:22:38.937" Score="6" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today there was this question asked: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/63820/noah-religion-and-darwinism&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/63820/noah-religion-and-darwinism&lt;/a&gt; The way I read it, it asks whether the bible is compatible with the idea of intelligent design proposed in the Noah-movie. It surely is off-topic and it was put on hold... with this reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Questions seeking &lt;strong&gt;scientific solutions or explanations&lt;/strong&gt; are off-topic unless they relate directly to a cited work of fiction. There are a number of other Stack Exchange sites dedicated to answering questions on non-fictional sciences.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that surly is not the problem of that question. Shouldn't there be a more generic off-topic text to cover situations like that? Or should there be a second off-topic reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24574" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-07-23T09:06:37.960" Title="Misleading Off-Topic-Default-Text" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4827" CreationDate="2014-07-23T08:51:39.277" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can already do custom text when voting to close a question as off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the vote to close screen, under &lt;strong&gt;off-topic&lt;/strong&gt;, there’s an option of &lt;strong&gt;other (add a comment explaining what is wrong)&lt;/strong&gt;, and you can fill in custom text there. Here’s a screenshot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nHt8W.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the next person votes to close, they’ll be shown that custom reason as an option alongside the default options. If a majority of close votes use that as their close reason, then that’s what gets displayed on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(At least, I assume it would. I can’t find any examples right now.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="3567" LastEditDate="2014-07-23T09:06:37.960" LastActivityDate="2014-07-23T09:06:37.960" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4829" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4831" CreationDate="2014-07-23T08:58:32.303" Score="13" ViewCount="273" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm puzzled why sometimes very short answers to story identification questions get upvoted so highly. Sometimes there is only a title - with no justification as to &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; that is the correct answer. This concerns me because I think we ought to &lt;em&gt;&quot;show our working&quot;&lt;/em&gt;; isn't this a fundamental part of a quality answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/63769/143&quot;&gt;Story ID: Teleporting Castle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/13652/143&quot;&gt;Fantasy movie from 70's, or 80's maybe early 90's&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/2323/143&quot;&gt;What is this Disney scifi movie from the late 80s/early 90s?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference / comparison, when I answer one of these questions, I try to answer each of the points in the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/12009/143&quot;&gt;Help me to find the title of this movie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/7197/143&quot;&gt;Show about a man who is held prisoner in a secret place where very peculiar things happen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/40178/143&quot;&gt;Scifi novel from 90's with AI, robots, and a holodeck-like room&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my questions are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why do some one line story identification answers get so many upvotes?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do others recognise this as a problem?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can we solve this? Should we simply be more strategic in our voting?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2014-07-24T17:17:18.087" Title="Why do some one line story identification answers get so many upvotes?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|voting|up-votes|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4829" CreationDate="2014-07-23T10:30:10.493" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This issue &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/conversation/storyidanswers&quot;&gt;came up in chat yesterday&lt;/a&gt;, based on one of your examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;My guess would be that they're easy to check, especially those where the answer has already been accepted by the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I do think this is problematic. Your examples &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; count as 'link-only' answers and I was surprised I didn't see the most recent one in the review queue for low quality posts. As I said in chat, I think a good answer should not just include &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; but &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; as well.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think there already are enough mechanisms in place to show our approval or disapproval with an answer.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;What we &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; need, is consensus on whether a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; answer should be judged on different standards than other answers. This has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3417/19561&quot;&gt;discussed before&lt;/a&gt;, albeit from the opposite point of view. All answers there give a minimum of more than just the (linked) title. So perhaps all we need to do is point 'offenders' to that, or add our own more detailed answers (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/63823/19561&quot;&gt;which I decided to do, as &lt;em&gt;community wiki&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2014-07-23T11:14:44.823" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4829" CreationDate="2014-07-23T11:37:45.667" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The simple answer to why they get so many upvotes is that they're &lt;em&gt;correct&lt;/em&gt;. These upvotes are usually either from people who agree with the identification, or who come in after the OP has accepted it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They may not be very good answers by the standards we try to encourage here, but they &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; help the OP with his question, which is not an insignificant metric. Remember, too, that most users don't read Meta or go back to look for accepted standards, and there should be other ways to communicate this expectation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;One option, as @SQB suggested (and followed through!) is to add a second answer with more details. You can mark it as Community Wiki if you don't want to seem like you're milking rep from somebody else's answer, but I think that doing the field-work, bringing references and editing an answer also deserve recognition.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A second option is to ask the OP to expand his one-line answer. I've seen it done before, and many answerers don't mind doing so, especially after their position as accepted-answerer is secure and there's no race against time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some, however, won't bother expanding - maybe they don't even come to the site regularly. In this case, I don't see a problem with editing an existing answer and adding the pertinent details. The answer-giver will probably get a rep boost from it which might encourage them to put in those details next time, future visitors will see better answers, and the site, in general, wins.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4516" LastActivityDate="2014-07-23T11:37:45.667" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4832" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4833" CreationDate="2014-07-23T17:26:55.587" Score="3" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a little new to all of this, so I'm wondering, what is the difference between the normal scifi stack exchange and the Meta version?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30693" LastActivityDate="2014-07-23T17:30:50.327" Title="How is Meta different from everything else?" Tags="|discussion|meta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4832" CreationDate="2014-07-23T17:30:50.327" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Directly from the help page &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/whats-meta&quot;&gt;What's Meta?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is &quot;meta&quot;? How does it work?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Meta Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange is the part of the site where users discuss the workings and policies of Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange rather than discussing science fiction or fantasy itself. It is separated from the main Q&amp;amp;A to reduce noise there while providing a legitimate space for people to ask how and why this site works the way it does. Meta is for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;asking questions about how the websites work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;asking questions of the community&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;posting bugs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;suggesting improvements&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;proposing new features&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please look around to see if your question has been asked before, and avoid asking questions that have nothing to do with Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange or the Stack Exchange network. This is not a random discussion area; rather, it's a place for improving our community and website, together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Voting is different on meta.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Like normal Stack Exchange sites, Meta allows members to vote on questions and answers. For most posts, votes reflect the perceived usefulness: well-written, well-reasoned, well-researched posts tend to get more attention and more upvotes. Highly-voted and frequently-linked posts may become part of the community-curated FAQ or codified as part of the site’s Help pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unlike normal Stack Exchange sites, Meta invites the community to discuss, debate and propose changes to the way the community itself behaves, as well as how the software itself works. On posts tagged feature-request, voting indicates agreement or disagreement with the proposed change rather than just the quality or usefulness of the post itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you have an account on Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange, you have an account on its meta site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You do not need to create a separate account for meta; once you are logged in on Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange, you are also logged in and may post on its meta site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Votes on meta do not affect your reputation; your meta reputation is the same as your reputation on Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange (synchronized hourly), though you earn separate badges. You must have 5 reputation to participate on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meta has required tags.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On the main site, we ask that you avoid using meta-tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Because meta-discussion sites are different and serve multiple purposes, some meta-tags are okay, and even required. Each meta question is required to have one of the following tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;[support], which indicates a request for assistance with one of the site's features.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;[bug], denoting a reproducible problem on the site that you believe is due to a mistake, malfunction, or programming error&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;[feature-request], for a proposal for a new feature on the site, or requests a change to an existing feature.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;[discussion], for posts that may not have a clear-cut right or wrong answer and are often subjective. If it's not a bug or feature request, it is probably a discussion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2014-07-23T17:30:50.327" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4829" CreationDate="2014-07-24T15:20:30.650" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;While usually one liners are a bad fit for Stack Exchange, I think identifications are a place where they can be not only accepted but preferred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP has already demonstrated that they know something about the book/movie/etc. by asking the question.  This is particularly true with request not involving images.  After asking, the OP likely just wants the title, since it is probable that they plan to look into it further and possibly even go read/watch it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also suggest a link to IMDB or Wikipedia or perhaps a picture of the book/movie/etc., but cluttering the answer with excessive plot details (or worse, potential spoilers) seems like overkill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;one-liner version&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;OP just wants the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15899" LastEditorUserId="15899" LastEditDate="2014-07-24T17:17:18.087" LastActivityDate="2014-07-24T17:17:18.087" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4835" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-24T17:11:37.187" Score="21" ViewCount="746" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question : &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/63910/is-an-elephant-stronger-than-a-terminator&quot;&gt;Is an elephant stronger than a terminator?&lt;/a&gt; instantly attracted 5 votes to close for being 'primarily opinion-based'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several of the commenters made reference to the classic '&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/gorilla-vs-shark/&quot;&gt;Gorilla Vs Shark&lt;/a&gt;' debate, where a question fails to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;involve facts, references, or specific expertise&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and where the question will&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;likely solicit opinion, debate, arguments, polling, or extended&#xA;  discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm at a loss why a question that can be answered &lt;strong&gt;reasonably and objectively&lt;/strong&gt; using canon sources (e.g. yes, a terminator is stronger than an elephant because it can lift more / No, a terminator isn't stronger than an elephant because it can lift less) would attract such negative attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, as the question title says; &lt;strong&gt;Does &quot;Elephant Vs Terminator&quot; = &quot;Gorilla Vs Shark&quot;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="62709" LastEditDate="2023-05-22T12:53:13.863" LastActivityDate="2023-05-22T12:53:13.863" Title="Does &quot;Elephant Vs Terminator&quot; = &quot;Gorilla Vs Shark&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|gorilla-vs-shark|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4835" CreationDate="2014-07-24T17:15:29.257" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, the question is wholly objective and should never have been closed. It's perfectly possible to determine what the maximum strength of an adult elephant is and then compare that to &quot;in-canon&quot; images of the Terminator performing acts of super-strength in the films, comics etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As evidenced by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/63911/20774&quot;&gt;my own answer&lt;/a&gt; on the subject, there's more than enough information available (on both elephants and terminators) to craft a good answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect that had the OP asked &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Can a Terminator lift a tonne?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; we wouldn't have needed to discuss this at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2017-03-23T15:36:26.920" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4835" CreationDate="2014-07-24T17:45:33.647" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it is Shark versus Gorilla.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not all adult elephants possess exactly the same strength capabilities. Did the question ask for the strength of an &quot;average&quot; elephant, or did it just say an adult elephant or just an elephant? Regardless, it is my understanding that any question that asks &quot;Is Character X (somehow better than) Character Y (at some certain thing)?&quot; is going to fall into Shark versus Gorilla territory. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2014-07-24T17:45:33.647" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4835" CreationDate="2014-07-24T18:33:34.447" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's gorilla vs. shark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are 4 points in the blog post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;1. Nobody needs to know the answer to this question.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Estimating the carrying capacity of a terminator might be interesting or relevant.  Comparing the carrying capacity of a terminator to a random animal or machine seems pointless to me.  Can a terminator squeeze harder than a python?  Can a terminator jump farther than a kangaroo?  Can a terminator pull a fully-loaded freight train?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;2. It’s not nearly specific enough.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Slytheriness points out, which elephants are we comparing to?  There might not be hundreds of variations as there would be in the &quot;who would win a fight...,&quot; but what about a bull elephant in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musth&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;must&lt;/a&gt;?  What about African swallows^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Helephants vs. European (or wherever else there are elephants)?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;3. It is difficult to learn from these questions.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, I think the same argument as for point #1 applies and it basically amounts to: Who cares how the strength or carrying capacity of a terminator compares to the average strength of some animal?  If there is any value in the comparison, shouldn't it be to the maximum strength?  Is anyone really planning on using terminators as pack animals so they might need to estimate how many terminators they need to use for their jungle expedition?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;4. It drives away experts.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure this one applies as much to a entertainment SE site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastActivityDate="2014-07-24T18:33:34.447" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4835" CreationDate="2014-07-24T23:23:24.020" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is Gorilla vs Shark because it's too broadly scoped, which is one of the items touched on in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/gorilla-vs-shark/&quot;&gt;original blog post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we examine the original question again:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Would a T-800 or T-1000 be able to carry or pull more weight than an adult elephant?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the things that are wrong with this question include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An elephant has greater surface area than a Terminator.  Greater surface area can support more weight.  But all of the weight can be focused in a single point which renders that irrelevant.  Which case is being asked about here?  We don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An elephant pulls with its trunk, a Terminator may pull with its hands, its teeth or other parts of its anatomy.  Either may pull a weight via ropes wrapped around its body.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A Terminator has greater manual dexterity which would enable it to manipulate objects into better positions for carrying or pulling that an Elephant may not be able to.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An elephant has all four feet on the ground which may give it better leverage than a Terminator in certain circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This clearly falls under &quot;&lt;em&gt;What, specifically, is wrong with asking Gorilla vs. Shark?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; reason 2:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Without any kind of scope, every answer can make any assumptions they like — and there will assuredly be hundreds, all different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the hypothetical &quot;Google+ vs Facebook&quot; scenario:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But it still utterly fails to set any scope or terms, and is thus virtually impossible to reasonably answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reading similar questions, and the debates attached to them, that have previously appeared on this site, I get the feeling that a common interpretation of &quot;Gorilla vs Shark&quot; is something along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Who is more evil: Judge Death or the Witch-king of Angmar?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; definite &quot;Gorilla vs Shark&quot; but what the blog post should make clear is that the definition is both broader and more subtle than that.  In particular &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/gorilla-vs-shark/&quot;&gt;the four hypothetical scenarios that close the blog post&lt;/a&gt; are a more useful guideline, and those scenarios should be making it clear to us all that &quot;Gorilla vs Shark&quot; is not a problem of subjectivity vs objectivity; it's a problem of &lt;strong&gt;scope&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To reword these scenarios in terms of this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scenario #1&lt;/strong&gt;: Is a Terminator stronger than an elephant?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scenario #2&lt;/strong&gt;: What is it about Terminators that make them stronger than elephants?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scenario #3&lt;/strong&gt;: What is the single aspect of elephants most responsible for their superior strength to Terminators?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scenario #4&lt;/strong&gt;: Are Terminators better at pulling trucks with their hands than elephants are with their trunks?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question as it stands has the following features:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It falls under scenario #1 (I'd hope that's obvious), and:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It can't be edited to improve without changing the asker's intent.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether or not it's Primarily Opinion-Based is completely irrelevant here (on reflection I'd close as &quot;unclear&quot; or &quot;too broad&quot;).  As Richard's answer shows, it's actually not POB given the right circumstances, but that's the problem: Richards answer is one of those answers that &quot;can make any assumptions they like&quot;, one of the &quot;hundreds, all different&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="2920" LastEditDate="2014-07-30T21:35:02.613" LastActivityDate="2014-07-30T21:35:02.613" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2515" CreationDate="2014-07-25T02:16:16.947" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is still open, and it's very problematic. It's asking us to compare all the differences between a 1000000+ word book series and its 40 hour tv series adaptation. Surely that's the definition of Too Broad! If you disagree, can you explain why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some edits were made which changed it to ask about &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;major plot&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; differences, but they have since been rolled back. Perhaps @Keen could explain why he rolled them back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually now that I look at it again the question is still asking for plot differences. There are a lot of non-plot answers which should be deleted. I flagged them before, but they remain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17815" LastActivityDate="2014-07-25T02:16:16.947" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4841" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4846" CreationDate="2014-07-25T04:00:54.627" Score="10" ViewCount="336" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just don't quite understand why we consider a question about minimum viewing/reading guides as being off topic.  Consider the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Point 1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In our Tour we say that one of the categories that is acceptable is 'Franchise/series reading or viewing order'.  Now, granted, that is a difference between a minimum reading/viewing guide, but not too different I don't think.  The reason often given in questions of this nature is that there is 'no definitive answer', which I think can be also applied to questions about reading/viewing order.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Point 2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One could consider a question about minimum viewing guides as being a semi-reading/viewing order question when you think about it.  Both are asking for a certain order (in a sense), and more often than not I would expect the 'minimum viewing/reading' questions would be for people to get a taste of the storylines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Point 3&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/17109/star-trek-the-next-generation-minimum-recommended-viewing-list&quot;&gt;This questions about minimum viewing order of TNG&lt;/a&gt;, despite being closed, has received 8 up-votes (at this point in time).  Now I know that's not many when put into perspective of some of the other questions on the site, but still 8 is a fairly respectable number; 8 people thought this worthy enough to be up-voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we therefore reconsider closing these sort of questions, as where else are other people to ask them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2014-07-25T12:56:34.730" Title="Why are minimum viewing guides considered off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4842" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4844" CreationDate="2014-07-25T04:04:34.217" Score="-5" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was on here just now posting another question and it struck me how many questions there are on here about 'why was this question closed'.  It got me to thinking: should we make it mandatory for people who vote to close a question provide the reason for it.  Now I know this already happens in some instances where people add extra comments discussing it, or in a dupe where the duplicate is linked, but it is evident that not &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt; understands why their question has been closed and they start clogging up this site looking for answers.  Hence should we make it compulsory to make VTCers explain the specific reason why they think this question needs to be closed/put on hold if it's not a dupe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastActivityDate="2014-07-25T16:31:53.977" Title="Should explanations of closures be mandatory?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4841" CreationDate="2014-07-25T04:32:52.483" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me, the differentiation between off-topic &quot;viewing/reading order&quot; questions and on-topic ones (which I still don't personally like) is a matter of who the suggestions are by.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good On-Topic:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/49304/5184&quot;&gt;Is there an official word from Card about reading order of the “Formic Wars” prequel series?&lt;/a&gt; - This question asks if an official order for specific works exists, as prescribed by a specific person. An objective answer can be definitively found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Less-Good On-Topic:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/4649/5184&quot;&gt;Is there an official Marvel films viewing order?&lt;/a&gt; - This is a pretty good question. It's asking for an official, Marvel approved order. Since some directors or people at Marvel might suggest something slightly different, I don't &lt;em&gt;love&lt;/em&gt; this question, but it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; asking for an official list from Marvel. Unfortunately, none of the existing answers really address whether or not there &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; an official order, and simply suggest an order themselves. An objective answer may be definitively found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Off-Topic:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/125/5184&quot;&gt;What's the recommend reading order of the Ender Wiggin books?&lt;/a&gt; - this is asking for the opinions of SE users. What I think is the recommended order may be different from what you think is the recommended order. Neither of us are necessarily any more &lt;em&gt;correct&lt;/em&gt; than each other. No objective answer can be definitively found - the best we can do is hope that some sort of consensus can be agreed upon via upvotes and/or comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, any recommendation question not looking for an order as prescribed by a specific person/entity should be closed as &lt;strong&gt;primarily opinion based&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2014-07-25T04:32:52.483" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4842" CreationDate="2014-07-25T05:24:12.597" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a few problems with requiring people who vote to close to post a reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;People won't do it, and bad questions will stay open.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On other SE sites where there's lots of voting to close, you rarely see the custom off-topic close reason used because it takes more time than it's worth to type out a more specific explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's a waste of people's time if one of the existing close reasons is a good explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The standard close reasons are a bit generic, but they've been developed over 5 years and millions of questions and they actually fit most questions that get closed quite well.  So requiring people to come up with something better on the fly is asking too much.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It takes 5 votes to close, so you'd end up with 5 slightly (or wildly) different explanations of what's wrong with the question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you allow any sort of &quot;choose from boilerplate&quot; then the same objection you raise is going to come up: someone will say the boilerplate doesn't apply to their particular question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally &quot;clogging up this site&quot; (meta) isn't an issue - that's one of meta's purposes: to give people a place to ask for more information about how the site operates.  We've seen it just today with an extended discussion about whether a certain question should or shouldn't be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastEditorUserId="3567" LastEditDate="2014-07-25T16:31:53.977" LastActivityDate="2014-07-25T16:31:53.977" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4841" CreationDate="2014-07-25T05:39:34.447" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note that the question was closed long enough ago that it has the old &quot;not constructive,&quot; which is mostly the same as the current &quot;primarily opinion based.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hadn't seen that question, but I think it's a perfect example of the POB close reason: each of the 3 points listed in the question are matters of opinion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;major multi-episode arcs&quot; - I'm ok with his list of Q, Borg, Klingons, but others might add a couple more they consider major&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;important for individual characters&quot; - which characters? how important? Picard, Riker, Data, Wrof, Laforge, Crusher, Troi...  what about Guinan? Brocolli? Wesley? Pulaski? Tasha?  and what's important? birth/marriage/death? career advancement?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;other outstanding ...&quot; - it seems obvious to me that this is totally a matter of opinion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I'd have voted to close, and now it has one more downvote...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastActivityDate="2014-07-25T05:39:34.447" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4841" CreationDate="2014-07-25T12:56:34.730" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe minimum viewing order lists should be automatically considered off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather, they should be treated like any other list question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2639/1359&quot;&gt;finite, well-scoped list questions are allowed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The example &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: TNG&lt;/em&gt; question posted above is, imho, well-scoped, and clearly finite.   A maximum of 50 episodes was set, and a variety of criteria were listed.  Some of these criteria were a bit subjective (e.g. &quot;other outstanding individual episodes&quot;), but still it is a finite, well-scoped list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The existence of our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt; tag with 154 questions, and the lack of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/465/1359&quot;&gt;dissention in meta&lt;/a&gt; seems pretty clear that &lt;em&gt;suggestions&lt;/em&gt; about viewing order are perfectly fine, so I find the answers here saying &quot;it's too subjective&quot; or citing &quot;opinion based&quot; as reasons for declaring &lt;em&gt;minimum&lt;/em&gt; suggested viewing orders off-topic hard to agree with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Viewing order questions are currently accepted as on-topic, and lists of minimum viewing order suggestions should not be treated any differently, so long as the criteria of what the asker defines as &quot;minimum&quot; is relatively well defined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've voted to reopen the example &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: TNG&lt;/em&gt; question as it has good answers, and I don't see why it was closed in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2014-07-25T12:56:34.730" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4847" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4848" CreationDate="2014-07-25T23:12:36.797" Score="-3" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have recently seen a lot of post containing tl;dr and I have not until recently understood its meaning. The phrase tl;dr supposedly means &quot;too long; didn't read&quot;. If I am mistaken its meaning then tell me and I can delete the post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Other possible meanings:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps it means &quot;too late; don't read&quot;(telling people that it is a bad post), &quot;the language; didn't recognize&quot;(as a problem with translating), or &quot;too leave; don't run&quot;(telling someone they are about to log off and they won't be replying for a while). Someone told me that the phrase could mean this, but they were laughing so I don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if I am not mistaken then that brings me to my next points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is it a good idea to publicize to people that you didn't read the whole post or part of it, because it was to long? Doesn't that ruin the integrity of the site, saying that the users are &lt;em&gt;slovenly&lt;/em&gt; so they don't even read what they copy and paste? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And should that phrase be shunned? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also, should post containing that be down-voted or flagged? As they are helping, but they are also being counterproductive?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or should this phrase just be edited out, by edits?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What should be done about this phrase and its usage?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Disclaimer:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not trying to insult people that do this, and I am not insulting people that have reading disabilities or any other disabilities that stop them from being able to read very good or read a lot(as I myself suffer from a slight reading disability), so no insult meant.&#xA;And I am not calling anyone slovenly, I am just saying that people might think that these things reflect badly on the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28219" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2014-07-25T23:50:39.353" LastActivityDate="2014-08-02T20:02:57.133" Title="What should happen to post containing the word tl;dr" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4847" CreationDate="2014-07-25T23:30:52.133" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quoting from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/TL;DR&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikitionary entry for TL;DR&lt;/a&gt;, which I think explains it nicely:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR.&lt;/strong&gt; too long; didn’t read. Used to indicate that one did not read a (long) text, or to mark a short summary of an overly long text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, when I’ve seen TL;DR used on SFF.se, it’s usually expressing the second sentiment. What it means is: “if my answer is too long for you to read, then here’s a one-sentence version”. It usually calls out the key point or idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here’s an example of a common pattern:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q: Who are Ron and Hermione?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A: [supporting quotes and evidence]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TL;DR: Harry’s best friends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s not the author saying that they didn’t read something; instead they’re highlighting a summary for other readers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-07-25T23:30:52.133" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4847" CreationDate="2014-07-25T23:32:53.753" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two general uses for tl;dr. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only one case it does, in fact,  mean &quot;too long; didn't read&quot;. When used to truly indicate that &lt;em&gt;someone else's&lt;/em&gt; post is too long,  it is rude, and generally unnecessary. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there is another, less obvious (but hopefully more common) use. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tl;dr is also used to indicate that at summary is being provided, for those who don't want to read a lengthy post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I sometimes start answers with a &quot;tl;dr version&quot;,  summarizing the answer in a paragraph or two before beginning a longer,  more detailed, explanation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for what to do when you see this... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see someone using it in the first sense,  while arguing with,  or responding to,  someone else's post,  it may be worth flagging. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the second sense,  though,  I'd suggest just interpreting it as &quot;here's a brief summary&quot;,  and leave it as-is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2014-07-25T23:32:53.753" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4847" CreationDate="2014-07-26T12:56:30.150" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I, myself have used the phrase &quot;tl;dr&quot; in my answers. I've used it exactly in the second scenario that Beofett outlined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a perfect example of when I've used it, and why:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/51786/5184&quot;&gt;How are Wolverine's claws still in his body?&lt;/a&gt; simply asked why Wolverine's claws don't eject or break off from his body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My TL;DR portion of the answer explains quite simply &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The claws are a part of his natural physiology. They're housed within his bones and likely connected to him/controlled by ligaments and tendons, and never &quot;eject&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two sentences; 163 characters; Short and straight to the point. If that's all you read, you would have an answer - maybe not a great answer, but an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't like having not-great answers. I went on with another 4701 characters, including 4 images and a video explaining in great detail how Wolverine's supposed anatomy has changed over the years and across canons. This helps paint a much broader picture and really explain what's going on. That's what makes it a great answer (in my opinion). All of this stuff is really extra. You don't &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; it, but it's very helpful. It's the perfect place to offer a tl;dr version of the answer, so I did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what should be done about users who use them? So long as we're doing them for reasons such as this, nothing. We're trying to offer options to readers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if someone is legitimately using tl;dr in a mocking/sarcastic tone, it would depend on the situation. If it is followed by a reasonable answer, I would comment prompting the user to check and edit their tone. In some cases, I might opt to just edit out myself. If the answer consists primarily of &quot;tl;dr&quot; and/or has other derogatory comments, a flag might be warranted for abuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-07-26T12:56:30.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4851" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-26T18:05:16.090" Score="16" ViewCount="292" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that this question; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/63910/is-a-terminator-stronger-than-an-elephant&quot;&gt;Is a Terminator stronger than an elephant&lt;/a&gt; has attracted votes to close on the grounds that &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Questions seeking scientific solutions or explanations are off-topic unless they relate directly to a cited work of fiction&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I'm no big-city lawyer [ *pulls suspender braces *] but I'm fairly sure that Terminators are fictional which leads me back to the question of why this reason was chosen for closure?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should note that this question has already been closed/reopened on the spurious grounds of being &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4835/does-elephant-vs-terminator-gorilla-vs-shark&quot;&gt;opinion-based&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2014-08-09T08:34:09.847" Title="Are Terminators now considered scientific fact?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4851" CreationDate="2014-07-26T18:13:47.383" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, this question should never have been closed and certainly not for the reason given. The question clearly isn't based on scientific analysis, it's based on &lt;strong&gt;fictional&lt;/strong&gt; references to the Terminator franchise of films, TV shows, comics and books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, the VTC reason is wholly inappropriate. Although it's clear that people don't like this question, I fail to see how it's substantially different from other questions about the strength or attributes of a fictional characters such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/55267/how-strong-is-loki-can-he-be-destroyed-by-a-nuclear-explosion&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/60666/how-strong-are-the-ninja-turtles&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/64050/how-strong-is-data&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/64061/what-are-the-specifications-of-the-ns-5&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A simple downvote would have sufficed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2014-07-26T18:13:47.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4851" CreationDate="2014-07-26T18:58:58.987" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, this question should be closed, and the reason given is acceptable, if not ideal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my mind, this would have been a perfect match for the former close reason &quot;too localized:&quot; the person asking thought it was a fun comparison, but so is &quot;can a terminator jump farther than a kangaroo?&quot;  In all the discussion of this question, no one has given any reason why comparing it to an elephant is worthwhile - how it adds to understading or enjoying the movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was the first person to vote on this round of closing the question, and I think my reasoning was that it was the best available reason.  It &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; asking for real-world analysis of a fictional entity, which is problematic: in this case, although I think your analysis is basically sound, I don't think it would be possible for the terminator to carry a 1-tonne casket as shown in the movie - I think the center of gravity would be too far to one side and he'd actually tip over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastActivityDate="2014-07-26T18:58:58.987" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4851" CreationDate="2014-07-26T21:14:05.190" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This close reason is wholly inappropriate for this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The text of the close reason reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions seeking scientific solutions or explanations are off-topic &lt;strong&gt;unless they relate directly to a cited work of fiction&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pausing to comment that the close reason doesn't make any claim of &quot;scientific fact&quot; but rather &quot;solutions and explanations&quot; (which unfortunately gives the impression that Richard isn't arguing in good faith here), it remains the case that the Terminator franchise &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;a cited work of fiction&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with this question is &lt;strong&gt;the comparison between a Terminator and an elephant&lt;/strong&gt;.  That's what's causing it to attract close votes, and that's to the detriment of what could otherwise be a good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ward's answer here states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In all the discussion of this question, no one has given any reason why comparing it to an elephant is worthwhile - how it adds to understanding or enjoying the movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This touches on what I say above.  Remove the comparison and just ask &quot;How strong is a Terminator?&quot; or &quot;How much weight can a Terminator carry?&quot; or &quot;How much weight can a Terminator pull?&quot; and it becomes a &lt;strong&gt;good&lt;/strong&gt; question.  If the asker &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; wants a comparison between a Terminator and an elephant, he can then Google the figures for elephants and do the comparison himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But include the comparison as part of the question and it becomes problematical.  The fact that it's currently on it's second round of reopen votes should leave that in no doubt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2014-07-26T21:14:05.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4851" CreationDate="2014-07-28T13:31:53.087" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4854/1359&quot;&gt;Jimmy Shelter's answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The problem with this question is &lt;strong&gt;the comparison between a Terminator and an elephant&lt;/strong&gt;.  That's what's causing it to attract close votes, and that's to the detriment of what could otherwise be a good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is, indeed a problem.  However, the problem, imho, is that people are confusing closing a question for downvoting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that the controversy isn't over the idea that a question about the strength of a Terminator is appropriate.  Instead, the objections seem to be &lt;em&gt;how the question is phrased&lt;/em&gt;, rather than the general intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, people seem to object to the question being phrased around what seems a relatively arbitrary comparison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is absolutely &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a reason to close a question.  I could see closing it if the phrasing were offensive, or so poor that it was difficult to understand clearly what the OP was looking for.   But clearly neither of those apply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is simple, clear, and answerable.  The chosen close reason doesn't even remotely apply, and is evidence that at least some of the people closing it were having a hard time finding a close reason that was relevant, which should be a warning sign.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are certainly flaws in the question.  It has no real context, and it would help greatly if the OP could provide reasons &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt; they wanted to know who was stronger.  Perhaps they're writing fan-fiction, and envision some encounter between a Terminator and an elephant.  Or perhaps they're GM'ing a role-playing game session where such an encounter might exist.  Or perhaps they simply had a discussion with some friends, and want to get a better answer than what they were able to come up with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, adding this context would improve the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But again, lacking context isn't reason for &lt;strong&gt;closing&lt;/strong&gt;.  Downvoting, maybe, but saying it is off-topic, particularly if that includes the claim that the &lt;em&gt;Terminator&lt;/em&gt; franchise isn't a specific work of fiction, is mis-use of the close system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The originally &quot;Primarily Opinion-based&quot; is no better.  The OP is, at its core, asking &quot;how strong is a Terminator&quot;, and looking for &quot;how strong is an elephant&quot; as a point of comparison.  Both of those are objective, not subjective, and the close reason is simply &lt;strong&gt;wrong&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt; question would be &quot;how strong is a Terminator?&quot;, and if it were phrased that way, there would be no controversy, I believe.  Even Jimmy Shelter's answer above, currently the highest voted answer here, and arguing that it should be closed, admits that with just a very simple change, not only would it be appropriate, it would be &lt;strong&gt;good&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why, exactly, are people picking clearly incorrect close reasons, rather than &lt;strong&gt;simply improving the question&lt;/strong&gt;?  Anyone who can cast close votes can also make edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edits should be the &lt;strong&gt;first&lt;/strong&gt; course of action if you feel a question has a problem, and you feel it can be improved, particularly if you feel there's a good question somewhere at the heart, but it isn't quite there yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've gone ahead and made such an edit.  I'm honestly disappointed that the only edits previously were grammar changes, when clearly so many people had issues with the basic phrasing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2014-07-28T13:31:53.087" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4856" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-29T06:30:50.303" Score="-2" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;Science Fiction and Fantasy.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, some facts.  As of this writing, our site has about 30 questions about (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic(, all of which are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/my-little-pony-fim&quot;&gt;tagged with [my-little-pony-fim]&lt;/a&gt; and about 25 of which are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/my-little-pony&quot;&gt;tagged [my-little-pony]&lt;/a&gt;.  We don't seem to have any questions about My Little Pony before the Friendship is Magic reboot.  (No surprise, for Friendship is Magic is what made the franchise really popular.)  Using two tags is confusing, and something should be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;del&gt;Here's what I propose.  I ask the admins to remove the [my-little-pony] tag from all questions.  If any new questions remain untagged from this, tag those questions with [my-little-pony-fim] if they are about the Friendship is Magic universe, or with [my-little-pony] if they are about previous generations.  At the same time, modify the [my-little-pony] tag wiki to say something like:&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;del&gt;&lt;em&gt;My Little Pony&lt;/em&gt; franchise of Hasbro before the &lt;em&gt;Friendship is Magic&lt;/em&gt; reboot in 2010.  For questions about &lt;em&gt;My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic&lt;/em&gt;, please use the tag [my-little-pony-fim] instead.&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A previous tagging question on meta about My Little Pony for reference: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1763/4918&quot;&gt;my-little-pony and friendship-is-magic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; per the discussion below, I revoke the above request.  Instead, I will add the [my-little-pony] tag to all these questions, and everyone should try to make sure that the tag is added to questions in the future.  I'm not happy with this, because now we have two almost redundant tags we have to maintain.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2014-07-29T14:57:18.187" Title="Remove tag [my-little-pony]" Tags="|support|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4856" CreationDate="2014-07-29T12:44:19.393" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the argument against destroying the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/my-little-pony&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;my-little-pony&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;my-little-pony&lt;/a&gt; is that there may be legitimate uses for the tag that don't involve &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/my-little-pony-fim&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;my-little-pony-fim&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;my-little-pony-fim&lt;/a&gt;, then the solution is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; to remove &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/my-little-pony&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;my-little-pony&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;my-little-pony&lt;/a&gt; from the 24 questions tagged with both it and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/my-little-pony-fim&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;my-little-pony-fim&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;my-little-pony-fim&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, it should be added to the 7 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/my-little-pony-fim&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;my-little-pony-fim&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;my-little-pony-fim&lt;/a&gt; questions currently missing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we do have future questions that are legitimately about My Little Pony, but not about Friendship is Magic, then it becomes even more important that &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; My Little Pony questions, including the Friendship is Magic series, share a common set of tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your concern is that someone searching for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/my-little-pony&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;my-little-pony&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;my-little-pony&lt;/a&gt; instead of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/my-little-pony-fim&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;my-little-pony-fim&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;my-little-pony-fim&lt;/a&gt; would miss 7 Friendship is Magic questions.  If we did as you're proposing, that someone searching would miss &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; Friendship is Magic questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone were looking to find &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; the non-Friendship is Magic questions, they could search on &quot;[my-little-pony] -[my-little-pony-fim]&quot; and get all the questions tagged with the first, but not the second.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2014-07-29T12:44:19.393" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4858" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-29T15:48:44.360" Score="-2" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I propose to delete &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jk-rowling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jk-rowling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jk-rowling&lt;/a&gt;, and not recreate it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag is currently used on approximately 30 questions.  All but two of those are also tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;.  The two remaining questions should be tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; too, because they ask about Rowling writing Harry Potter, even if they don't mention it explicitly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rowling had specifically said that her future writings outside the Harry Potter universe are unlikely to be in the fantasy genre.  Her latest book, Casual Vacancy, is decidedly not in the fantasy genre.  Thus, it is quite likely that this tag won't be necessary in the future either.  This, and the fact that about 10% of our questions are related to Harry Potter makes my question different from my previous question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4856/4918&quot;&gt;Remove tag [my-little-pony]&lt;/a&gt; . &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2014-07-29T16:04:24.460" Title="Delete tag [jk-rowling] (different from my previous request)" Tags="|support|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4858" CreationDate="2014-07-29T16:04:24.460" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It shouldn’t be deleted.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a lot of the questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jk-rowling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jk-rowling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jk-rowling&lt;/a&gt; don’t really need it, but I also think there are enough good questions where we really do need that tag to mark them as distinct from the other &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; questions. Here are some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/2989/3567&quot;&gt;Does J.K. Rowling deny writing fantasy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/9133/3567&quot;&gt;Did J. K. Rowling&amp;#39;s Religious Beliefs Determine Much in Harry Potter?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/10736/3567&quot;&gt;Does Rowling have an inordinate fondness for the letter H in naming characters?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/7451/3567&quot;&gt;Is there any confirmed instance of J.K.Rowling changing her mind about future HP book detail to accomodate fans?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/10486/3567&quot;&gt;Was J.K. Rowling ever incorrect/misleading in her interviews/answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it’s a frequently misused tag, but I don’t think it should be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2014-07-29T16:04:24.460" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4860" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-29T16:27:34.153" Score="21" ViewCount="412" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Current Context&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We seem to have wound up in a position where we have some weird tag hierarchy issues on this site which have lead to inconsistent tagging practices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll point out some specific examples, but I think it would be helpful to establish a clearer overall policy for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main question is: how do we want to handle tagging when there are a variety of tags specific to a franchise that range from very general to very specific?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In previous discussions, I've seen both the suggestion that specific tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/548/1359&quot;&gt;should only be used for very popular titles&lt;/a&gt;.  For us, this clearly includes things like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;, as well as some others (although &quot;very popular&quot; isn't very well defined, in my opinion).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I've also seen an answer implying that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1998/1359&quot;&gt;franchise tags should only be used for questions that cover multiple titles within the franchse&lt;/a&gt;, and, in fact, that's exactly what the tag wiki for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;American science fiction franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. Use this tag when asking about multiple series in the Star Trek canon or as a whole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this qualifier is not applied to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;, and the franchise tag seems to be applied to everything related to the franchise, regardless of whether the question is relevant to a single work or not (e.g. 30 out of 31 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/phantom-menace&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;phantom-menace&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;phantom-menace&lt;/a&gt; are also tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; has no such disclaimer in its wiki, and, in fact, there do not seem to be &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; title-specific sub-tags... but there are a bunch of sub-tags that aren't specific to a single title (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/voldemort&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;voldemort&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;voldemort&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hogwarts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hogwarts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hogwarts&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wandlore&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wandlore&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wandlore&lt;/a&gt;, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This issue also extends to include how we handle &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/548/1359&quot;&gt;author tags&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;For books and short stories, use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/421/naming-convention-for-tags&quot;&gt;author's name&lt;/a&gt; as a tag (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/isaac-asimov&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;isaac-asimov&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;isaac-asimov&lt;/a&gt;). For media franchises, use the franchise name as a tag, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet clearly we aren't using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jk-rowling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jk-rowling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jk-rowling&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4858/1359&quot;&gt;that way&lt;/a&gt;.  Out of 1677 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; questions, only 30 are tagged with the author, even though many of those questions are specific to books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, that raises an additional question: should author tags be used for movies or shows based off of those books?  Does it matter if the author had direct input into the creation of the show/movie, such as George R.R. Martin's &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of this, which seems rather a mess (at least to me), I believe we need to clarify our policy on the following points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Moving Forward&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should franchise tags be used in conjunction with more specific tags that are sub-sets of that franchise, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sith&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sith&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sith&lt;/a&gt;, or title-specific tags, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/phantom-menace&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;phantom-menace&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;phantom-menace&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How should author tags be used?  Should they apply to every work directly written by the author, questions that are actually &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; the author (e.g. &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/2989/1359&quot;&gt;Does J.K. Rowling deny writing fantasy?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;)? Something else?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do we want to continue using specific sub-tags such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jedi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jedi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jedi&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hogwarts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hogwarts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hogwarts&lt;/a&gt;, and, if so, do they get used in addition to more general tags, or instead of, in cases where the tags are generally redundant?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My hope is that we can get a good, clear policy as an answer here, and then implement it, at which point I'd edit out the &quot;Current Context&quot; section in the hopes this could become a tag FAQ question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2014-07-30T14:59:20.303" Title="How should we handle tag hierarchies?" 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  <row Id="4861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4860" CreationDate="2014-07-29T17:06:27.887" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Franchise Tags / Universe Tags.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the current system should be made more clear. Tags should &quot;drill downward&quot; from the largest possible catchment to more specific tags with Series tags used to cover an entire canon universe;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, a question about a specific lightsaber fight in Phantom Menace should have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; tag as well as a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/phantom-menace&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;phantom-menace&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;phantom-menace&lt;/a&gt; and possibly a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lightsaber&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lightsaber&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lightsaber&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jedi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jedi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jedi&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That'll allow people to locate questions about their own interest areas more easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Author Tags&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that &quot;Author&quot; tags are pretty useless and should only be used on those rare occasions where the question is actually asking about the author themselves (for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/49602/pronunciation-of-van-vogt/49605#49605&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Sub Tags&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sub tags should be used to reflect specific topics that are likely to have a reasonable level of interest. Any tag that's only had one question &quot;hit&quot; in say, 6 months should be considered for closure or merger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2014-07-29T17:12:01.897" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4860" CreationDate="2014-07-30T07:27:37.610" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sub-tags&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been thinking for a long time that tags should work like categories in MediaWiki. For example, if I add &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/r2-d2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;r2-d2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;r2-d2&lt;/a&gt; to a question, then when I click on that tag it should only show me &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/r2-d2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;r2-d2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;r2-d2&lt;/a&gt; questions. However, if I create &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/r2-d2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;r2-d2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;r2-d2&lt;/a&gt; to be a sub-tag of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;, then when I click on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; it should include &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/r2-d2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;r2-d2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;r2-d2&lt;/a&gt; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will reduce the redundancy of tags, therefore making tagging easier for all. Eg, someone new to this site may add a sub-tag and they get the appropriate &quot;higher tags&quot; for free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: you could have multiple higher tags. So &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/r2-d2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;r2-d2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;r2-d2&lt;/a&gt; might be a sub-tag of both &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/droids&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;droids&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;droids&lt;/a&gt; (which in turn is a sub-tag of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/robots&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;robots&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;robots&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2014-07-30T07:27:37.610" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4860" CreationDate="2014-07-30T14:07:34.890" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Should franchise tags be used in conjunction with more specific tags that are sub-sets of that franchise, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sith&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sith&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sith&lt;/a&gt;, or title-specific tags, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/phantom-menace&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;phantom-menace&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;phantom-menace&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Franchise tags should be used for all questions on a franchise. Sub-tags, including tags for specific titles or series, should not be used.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that franchise tags should be used for all questions that fall under that franchise.  Sub-set tags should be removed, or made as synonyms of the franchise tag.  Same with title-specific tags.  Out of over 1000 Star Wars questions, we currently have 66 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jedi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jedi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jedi&lt;/a&gt;, and that's one of the more popular tags.  We have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bstar-wars%5D+-%5Bjedi%5D++%22jedi%22&quot;&gt;887 questions&lt;/a&gt; tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; that contain the word &quot;Jedi&quot;, but aren't tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jedi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jedi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jedi&lt;/a&gt;.  This is an excellent example of why these sub-tags don't work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Individual title tags should also not be used.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; does just fine without &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/half-blooded-prince&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;half-blooded-prince&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;half-blooded-prince&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; and even &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; can do just fine without those tags, and if you're asking about a specific series within that franchise, try and include it in the title, or, failing that, just mention it in the body.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People interested in questions on Sith, or The Clone Wars, can simply use the search functionality (with or without adding the franchise tag).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; makes a bit of a better argument for series-specific tags, at least in theory, but in practice it is a failure.  At least, that's how I'd describe it when there are currently &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22original%22+%5Bstar-trek%5D+-%5Bstar-trek-tos%5D&quot;&gt;391 questions&lt;/a&gt; that have the word &quot;original&quot; in them, and are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt;, but don't have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tos&lt;/a&gt; tag.  Yes, quite a few of them aren't about TOS, but I find it hard to believe &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; aren't.  Certainly many of the top results are clearly referring to the original series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2 . How should author tags be used?  Should they apply to every work directly written by the author, questions that are actually &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; the author (e.g. &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/2989/1359&quot;&gt;Does J.K. Rowling deny writing fantasy?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;)? Something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Author tags should only be used for questions about the actual author, and not their specific works.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one is tricky, and I really want to have author tags associated with works from the author.  It would be great, for example, to quickly find all questions on the works of Phillip K. Dick, which are numerous and generally unrelated.  Search won't work for that, since we can't count on people to say &quot;In the movie version of Phillip K. Dick's &lt;em&gt;A Scanner Darkly&lt;/em&gt;...&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, it just isn't practical to expect all questions on an author's works to include that author's tag.  There are currently 206 out of 374 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt; questions that don't have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/george-r-r-martin&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;george-r-r-martin&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;george-r-r-martin&lt;/a&gt;.  486 out of 697 questions on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt; don't have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Story ID questions further complicate this.  If there's a question to identify a book, and it winds up being a Phillip K. Dick novel, should the tag be added?  Would the OP &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; to add the tag?  Certainly not.  Would anyone who &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; know notice that the tag is ready to be added?  Unlikely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;3 . Do we want to continue using specific sub-tags such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jedi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jedi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jedi&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hogwarts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hogwarts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hogwarts&lt;/a&gt;, and, if so, do they get used in addition to more general tags, or instead of, in cases where the tags are generally redundant?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;No, these sub-tags should not be used at all. Instead, users can search for those keywords.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, as nice as it would be to be able to search on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/voldemort&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;voldemort&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;voldemort&lt;/a&gt; tag (and with 149 questions currently with that tag, it would seem like it should be possible), it just doesn't work.  Even with 149 questions with that tag, there are still &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22voldemort%22+%5Bharry-potter%5D+-%5Bvoldemort%5D&quot;&gt;934 Harry Potter questions that discuss Voldemort, but don't have that tag&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without the addition of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/237284/166646&quot;&gt;enforced tag hierarchies&lt;/a&gt; (which seems to be something that won't happen), sub-tags simply don't work, because they aren't used consistently.  No matter how useful they seem in theory, in practice, the best they could do is cause people to miss relevant content because only a fraction of people use them as intended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2014-07-30T14:07:34.890" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4864" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4866" CreationDate="2014-07-31T03:02:47.467" Score="6" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/64435/why-didnt-obi-wan-try-to-end-vaders-life-to-spare-him-from-a-horrible-painful&quot;&gt;Why didn't Obi-Wan try to end Vader's life to spare him from a horrible painful death by burning? [duplicate]&lt;/a&gt; has been marked as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/11268/why-did-obi-wan-leave-vader-on-mustafar&quot;&gt;Why did Obi-Wan leave Vader on Mustafar?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, I have edited the OP's question to make its distinction from the other question clearer, but even so I did it using text lifted directly from the OP's question itself, so no new information or ideas were introduced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3198/28166&quot;&gt;According to this commment&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;one of the primary factors in determining if questions are duplicates is if the answer (or answers) to one address the other. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, as OP mentions, the linked question does not answer the question asked. (That answer says 'OWK didn't kill Vader because he was his friend' when the Op's question is 'If Vader was his friend, why didn't OWK try to mercy-kill him to spare him being burned alive?')&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this considered a duplicate in this case? Are there any other factors for deciding duplicates I am missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28166" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T22:05:12.683" Title="Is questioning the same action but from completely different perspectives to be be considered duplicates?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4864" CreationDate="2014-07-31T04:41:48.483" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you believe that a question has been closed as a duplicate when in fact it just addresses a similar issue, but differs distinctly, the best thing to do is &lt;em&gt;explain&lt;/em&gt; why you think they differ, in the question itself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We would all like to think that close votes are only cast after spending several minutes evaluating the similarities of both questions and then, with a heavy heart, declaring doom on the duplicate. But the fact is that if you see a question titled &quot;Why did Obi-Wan not kill Vader&quot;, and another question loosely titled &quot;Why did Obi-wan not kill Vader&quot;, chances are you'll get some close votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you should do, if you're aware of the original question, is preface your new one with something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/11268/why-did-obi-wan-leave-vader-on-mustafar&quot;&gt;Why did Obi-Wan leave Vader on Mustafar?&lt;/a&gt;) tackles the question from one angle, but I wish to ask about something a bit different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus communicating clearly to the readers that this is not a duplicate, but a follow-up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's true that a dedicated reader would see differences that mean they're not duplicates, but in most cases, the onus is on the &lt;em&gt;asker&lt;/em&gt;, just like the writer in any text, to communicate clearly. Don't wait for someone to realize it's not a duplicate when you can tell them, explicitly, why it isn't a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why the question is still closed as a duplicate - you've edited it to say it isn't a duplicate (though again, I would recommend saying &quot;this isn't a duplicate because X-Y-Z&quot;, rather than leaving the conclusion as an exercise to the reader), but that was 3 hours ago. To be reopened, a question goes into the reopen queue and waits for reviewers to approve it, but at this point it's still late night or early morning in the USA and most Europe, so it might take a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4516" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T04:41:48.483" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4864" CreationDate="2014-07-31T11:15:24.080" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me, based on my experience on the site, there are a few reasons/situations where a question is marked as a duplicate. To me, I see these requirements being &quot;either/or&quot; requirements. If &lt;em&gt;either&lt;/em&gt; of these are applicable, the &quot;new&quot; question is a possible duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The question has been asked before and the &quot;original&quot; question has an answer.&lt;/strong&gt; It does not have to have a correct or accepted answer. It just has to have &lt;strong&gt;an&lt;/strong&gt; answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Another question exists that has an answer that sufficiently addresses the same issues as the &quot;new&quot; question.&lt;/strong&gt; This is when the &quot;original&quot; question may or may not have actually asked the same root question, but at least one of the answers posted on the &quot;original&quot; &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be lifted and re-used on the &quot;new&quot; question. For discussion on this, refer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3194/5184&quot;&gt;Why are questions considered duplicates although they ask different things?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3610/5184&quot;&gt;When voting to close, MUST the “already answered” information come from the accepted answer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, and your mileage may vary, &lt;strong&gt;the intentions of, and reasons for the question are 100% irrelevant.&lt;/strong&gt; I don't care that you're just curious, or that your little daughter asked you a question, or even that you're doing homework; none of that makes a bit of difference as far as whether or not the question is valid or on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If none of the answers on the &quot;original&quot; question sufficiently answer the &quot;new&quot; question, then the &quot;new&quot; OP needs to explain why the questions are different and edit the &quot;new&quot; question to sufficiently differentiate itself from the &quot;original&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally tend to try to boil questions down to what I feel is their real essence, or crux of the matter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes a particular difference in situations like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/63910/5184&quot;&gt;the Terminator vs Elephant question&lt;/a&gt;. To me, the fact that OP wanted to eventually judge whether or not the Terminator is able to push/pull/lift more than an elephant is irrelevant; to me, the crux of the question is &quot;How much can a Terminator push/pull/lift?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's what's going on with the Vader/Obi-Wan questions, for me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/11268/why-did-obi-wan-leave-vader-on-mustafar&quot;&gt;&quot;Why did Obi-Wan leave Vader on Mustafar&quot;&lt;/a&gt; boils down to &quot;Why didn't Obi-Wan kill Vader or capture him?&quot; The question has an answer. It has multiple answers. One of them is highly upvoted and has been accepted, but that is irrelevant here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/64435/why-didnt-obi-wan-try-to-end-vaders-life-to-spare-him-from-a-horrible-painful&quot;&gt;&quot;Why didn't Obi-Wan try to end Vader's life to spare him from a horrible painful death by burning?&quot;&lt;/a&gt; takes it from a slightly different angle, but boils down to &quot;Why didn't Obi-Wan kill Vader out of mercy?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see no appreciable difference between asking why Obi-Wan did not kill/capture Vader, and asking why Obi-Wan didn't kill Vader out of mercy. Answering why Obi-Wan did not kill Vader is going to inherently include Obi-Wan let Vader suffer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even still, I initially refrained from voting to close. I wanted to allow the OP or anyone else to come back and try to explain why thought there was a difference. An hour or so after, despite continuing discussion, my opinion remained unchanged, so I went over the criteria/situation again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question has been asked before, albeit with a different intention or reason for the question. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &quot;original&quot; question has an answer. Technically, the fact that there is an answer is all that is required. Someone has attempted to answer. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &quot;original&quot; question has an answer which &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; address the &quot;mercy killing&quot; angle. It is not the accepted answer, but that does not matter.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was willing to hear reasons why the &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; are distinctively different, or why the existing non-accepted answer was not sufficient, but the &quot;new&quot; OP never did that to my satisfaction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I voted to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2699/are-multiple-variations-of-a-question-with-subtle-distinctions-duplicate&quot;&gt;Are multiple variations of a question with subtle distinctions duplicate?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3684/should-questions-tagged-as-duplicates-because-of-an-answer-be-treated-different&quot;&gt;Should questions tagged as duplicates because of an answer be treated different?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T15:09:12.890" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4867" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-31T15:12:32.000" Score="6" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;I keep receiving downvotes for a, in my opinion, valid answer. The reason is because I'm using my ideas and reasoning of a film instead of using other sources. If this information was on a webpage will be ok, even being speculations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this particular site is about (or should be accepted depending on the question) speculation and reasoning but correct me if I'm wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/64503/13606&quot;&gt;Will it ever be the year 2000 in The Matrix?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13606" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T23:11:03.680" Title="Can I answer based on my ideas and reasoning of a film without official source?" Tags="|discussion|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4867" CreationDate="2014-07-31T15:25:25.950" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site is not about speculation and reasoning.  It is about &quot;expert answers&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes those expert answers can be based off of speculation and reasoning, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, answers that cite source materials (quotations, author interviews, etc.) tend to do much better than answers that are pure speculation, but there are some questions that can't be answered without speculation and reasoning, and some of those receive answers that are very good, and are well-received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know much about &lt;em&gt;The Matrix&lt;/em&gt; series, but I am guessing that your answer is being downvoted not because it is speculative, but because it is presented as fact.  You phrase your answer very definitively (&quot;Yes, time will pass and year 2000 will be reached.&quot;, and &quot;They will deal with the y2k bug on the Matrix fake world.&quot;, for example), but don't back it up with anything beyond speculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare that to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/64506/1359&quot;&gt;other answer&lt;/a&gt;, which is also speculative, but is phrased in a way that clearly indicates that it is speculation and reasoning.  It hasn't received any upvotes, but it also hasn't been downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T15:25:25.950" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4867" CreationDate="2014-07-31T15:30:44.340" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as your answer falls within the guidelines of the site there's nothing to stop you posting an answer based on your own opinion or pure speculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the same token, there's nothing to stop your fellow users from downvoting your answer because it's based on your own opinion or pure speculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good, well-referenced answers with canon links, quotes or some additional evidence will usually score more highly. Let that be your guide to what people want to see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T15:30:44.340" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4864" CreationDate="2014-07-31T22:05:12.683" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's one of the primary reasons but it's not the only reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, there is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/dr-strangedupe-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-duplication/&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Blog&lt;/a&gt; post that goes into this matter, and it's worthwhile extracting some relevant points from it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Having one “perfect” form of a question that contains every possible answer to every slight variation of that question is a myth at best and actively harmful at worst.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Having dozens and dozens of variations of the same question is clearly bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What we want is on the order of 4 or 5 similar-but-not-quite-the-same duplicates to cover all possible search terms and common permutations of the question. It is also OK for these duplicates to have their own answers so people who find them don’t have to click yet again to get to a good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My opinion here is that your question falls into a slightly grey area between categories 2 and 3 (with the obvious caveat that we don't have &amp;quot;dozens and dozens of variations&amp;quot; of this particular question): it doesn't &lt;em&gt;feel&lt;/em&gt; significantly different enough to be unambiguously a &amp;quot;3&amp;quot; (it really is just the same question but with a reason attached), but yet it's also not quite a &amp;quot;2&amp;quot; either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion to you is to reword it to focus more on the mercy-killing aspect; perhaps asking if mercy-killing is compatible with the Jedi Way and then quoting this specific case as an example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T22:05:12.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4871" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-01T14:20:06.110" Score="3" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently posted a question here about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4860/1359&quot;&gt;how we should handle tag hierarchies&lt;/a&gt; on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I pointed out &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4863/1359&quot;&gt;the many ways in which are current use of sub-tags is inconsistent&lt;/a&gt;, with many of our sub-tags being added to only a tiny fraction of the questions that they would appear to apply to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22original%22+%5Bstar-trek%5D+-%5Bstar-trek-tos%5D&quot;&gt;391 questions&lt;/a&gt; that have the word &quot;original&quot; in them, and are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt;, but don't have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tos&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bstar-wars%5D+-%5Bjedi%5D++%22jedi%22&quot;&gt;887 questions&lt;/a&gt; tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; that contain the word &quot;Jedi&quot;, but aren't tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jedi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jedi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jedi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22voldemort%22+%5Bharry-potter%5D+-%5Bvoldemort%5D&quot;&gt;934 Harry Potter questions that discuss Voldemort, but don't have that tag&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22horcrux%22+%5Bharry-potter%5D+-%5Bhorcrux%5D&quot;&gt;150 questions that mention &quot;horcrux&quot;, but don't have that tag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm certain there are many other examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far, the responses to my question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4861/1359&quot;&gt;indicate support for continued use of these tag hierarchies&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The top-voted policy indicates: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tags should &quot;drill downward&quot; from the largest possible catchment to more specific tags with Series tags used to cover an entire canon universe&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sub tags should be used to reflect specific topics that are likely to have a reasonable level of interest. Any tag that's only had one question &quot;hit&quot; in say, 6 months should be considered for closure or merger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with this is people don't use these tags appropriately.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any utility of having more specific tags hinges on the tags being used.  It seems pretty clear that we're not talking about dozens of instances of sub-tags that need to be added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're talking thousands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, the only way I can see us getting a handle on these is by having a script automatically append selected sub-tags based upon appearances of that tag in the text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, add &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jedi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jedi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jedi&lt;/a&gt; to any question that has the word &quot;jedi&quot; in it, or add &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/voldemort&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;voldemort&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;voldemort&lt;/a&gt; to any question with the word &quot;Voldemort&quot; in it.  We may wind up with some false positives, such as questions that mention Voldemort, but aren't &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; Voldemort (although he is called &quot;He Who Shall Not Be Named&quot; for a reason!), but the cleanup of the false positives should be significantly easier than our current situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar scripts should probably be run whenever a new sub-tag is added, since the consensus seems to be that they should only be added once a certain level of popularity is demonstrated, which means that there will be older questions lacking the tag once a decision is made to add it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if we can't get these automated, we need to identify which questions are lacking sub-tags, and start figuring out who/how/when these will get fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T14:20:06.110" Title="Massive tag cleanup" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4872" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-01T21:17:29.747" Score="3" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that we have a few magical animals as tags: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dragons&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dragons&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dragons&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/basilisk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;basilisk&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;basilisk&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unicorns&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unicorns&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unicorns&lt;/a&gt;. There might be more, but these are the ones that I found in a quick search. Personally, I can't think of much need for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A big part of the point of tags is to attract experts on a subject to a question.  I don't see how a person can be an expert on a mythical animal since their behavior and abilities can vary significantly across different works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/tagging&quot;&gt;any single tag is supposed to be able to function as the only tag on a question,&lt;/a&gt; and I don't think these tags are capable of that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is there something I missed? Are these tags useful? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23159" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2014-08-15T15:09:42.487" Title="Do we need animal tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4872" CreationDate="2014-08-01T22:17:42.040" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tags seem to be doing what they're supposed to: click on e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dragons&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dragons&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dragons&lt;/a&gt; and you see all the questions about dragons, across all the different works that have dragons in them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T22:17:42.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4872" CreationDate="2014-08-01T22:26:36.723" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say yes, probably. They help narrow things down. I however think they are useful ,but don't make or break the site. And a animal tag would be useful if there are a lot of questions about a certain animal, like Basilisk. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since we can find a lot of or a significant number of questions about basilisk or dragons the questions containing them should have a tag, so that people can find them and it improves and increases membership as people can subscribe to tags that include things that they want to hear more about. However, a tag for flobberworms or blast ended skrewts would be unlikely as their few questions that are directly about those animals. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, a tag is given when a topic has a certain membership, or its the main idea of the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28219" LastEditorUserId="28219" LastEditDate="2014-08-01T22:32:22.793" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T22:32:22.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4872" CreationDate="2014-08-02T17:38:15.973" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. The purpose of tags is to categorise questions into &lt;strong&gt;meaningful&lt;/strong&gt; groups, and to bring a question to the attention of those who are likely to be able to answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't consider &quot;questions about dragons&quot; to be a meaningful group, because dragons exist in a vast number of works and aren't necessarily remotely the same between them. I can't see any value in being able to search for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dragons&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dragons&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dragons&lt;/a&gt; on its own, especially when the tag seems to be heavily underused (there are 44 questions with the tag, we seem to have a lot more than that which mention dragons in some way but don't use the tag).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, as far as I'm aware, there's nobody on this site who happens to be an expert in the very generic topic &quot;dragons&quot;, and would be interested in attempting to answer every single one of those questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5833" LastActivityDate="2014-08-02T17:38:15.973" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4876" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4877" CreationDate="2014-08-02T18:44:20.560" Score="10" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I'm flagging a comment, which flag reason should I use?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2014-08-05T21:49:11.350" LastActivityDate="2019-03-19T01:28:07.437" Title="Which flag reason should I use when flagging comments?" Tags="|support|comments|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4876" CreationDate="2014-08-02T18:44:20.560" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/17365/158781&quot;&gt;this MSE post&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;When should I flag a comment?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/21QbZ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/21QbZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;image of flag dialog&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You must specify a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/93821/what-are-valid-reasons-for-flagging-comments&quot;&gt;reason&lt;/a&gt; for each comment flag. The dialog offers a few pre-filled reasons that cover most common cases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It contains harassment, bigotry, or abuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The comment attacks a person or group.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's unfriendly or unkind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The comment is rude or condescending.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's no longer needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This comment is outdated, conversational or not relevant to the post.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A problem not listed above. Try to be as specific as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2228/when-should-comments-be-deleted/2235#2235&quot;&gt;When should comments be deleted?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="82909" LastEditDate="2019-03-19T01:28:07.437" LastActivityDate="2019-03-19T01:28:07.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4878" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-02T19:10:08.020" Score="8" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3557/tags-tags-tags-when-is-enough-enough-already&quot;&gt;I keep flip-flopping on this issue&lt;/a&gt;. Is it better to use as many tags on a question as possible, or is a minimalist approach more ideal? For a while now I've been using only &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;; when I was new to SFF.se I used as many tags as possible. Surely there are reasons for using five tags; perhaps using only &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; is detrimental in some way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To better bolster the purpose of the site, is it more beneficial to use as many tags as possible, or to try and keep it simple and succinct with one or two tags? Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2014-08-02T21:31:42.710" Title="Pros and Cons of using either multiple tags or just one or two tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4847" CreationDate="2014-08-02T20:02:57.133" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;To explain what Beofett stated in a shorter way: &quot;TL;DR&quot; when used in a post (as opposed to a comment) is a less pretentious way of saying what &quot;Executive Summary&quot; heading would say in a business document. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2014-08-02T20:02:57.133" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4880" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-02T20:08:36.957" Score="7" ViewCount="577" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sharkado's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharknado&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; entry lists it under &quot;2010s science fiction films&quot; hierarcy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was shown on SyFy TV channel. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Movie Trailers &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM903JEw-C8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Youtube Channel&lt;/a&gt; listed it under Sci-Fi&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Its premise is Science-Fictiony&lt;/strong&gt;: a storm with tornadoes capable of lifting sharks into the air.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;While IMDB lists it as &quot;Horror&quot; genre, Horror in and out of itself does not preclude being ontopic for SFF site - we have plenty of ontopic questions about works that are Horror (Dracula, Lovecraft, etc...)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2014-08-02T20:15:26.230" LastActivityDate="2014-08-03T21:54:23.083" Title="Is Sharknado SciFi?" Tags="|discussion|scope|genre-classification|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4880" CreationDate="2014-08-02T20:25:05.377" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Science fiction is defined as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fiction dealing principally with the impact of actual or imagined&#xA;  science on society or individuals, or more generally, literary fantasy&#xA;  including a scientific factor as an essential orienting component&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/science%20fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Webster's Dictionary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the phenomenon of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raining_animals#Fish&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;rains of animals&lt;/a&gt; (and in particular rains of fishes) has been recorded historically and is therefore established as scientific &lt;strong&gt;fact&lt;/strong&gt;, the Sharknado isn't science fiction per se. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, since a rain of sharks would be a vanishingly rare event and because the sharks we see in the film seems to possess a level of aggression well beyond that of their real-world counterparts, it's still very much on-topic for the site since it falls under the heading of &lt;strong&gt;fantasy&lt;/strong&gt;, e.g. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fantasy films are films with &lt;strong&gt;fantastic themes&lt;/strong&gt;, usually involving magic, supernatural events, &lt;strong&gt;make-believe creatures,&lt;/strong&gt; or exotic fantasy worlds. The genre is considered to be distinct from science fiction film and horror film, although the genres do overlap. Fantasy films often have an element of magic, myth, wonder, escapism, &lt;strong&gt;and the extraordinary.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2014-08-02T22:04:43.787" LastActivityDate="2014-08-02T22:04:43.787" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4878" CreationDate="2014-08-02T21:31:42.710" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off, &lt;strong&gt;tags are used for&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Classifying questions&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Easing searching for posts&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filtering (inclusive or ignoring)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Providing context to a post (is your Hobbit question for books only or movies only?)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Expressing your inner OCD (OK, perhaps only for me).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using multiple tags (instead of one main one) either &lt;strong&gt;doesn't affect, or enhances, all 5 of these purposes&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using multiple tags &lt;strong&gt;has only one objective negative&lt;/strong&gt;: if there are too many tags available, people may get confused which ones to use and as such, mis-tag their question (e.g. add &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/voldemort&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;voldemort&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;voldemort&lt;/a&gt; and not add &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has some subjective negatives (e.g. some people dislike seeing multiple tags without having any logical reason for objecting to them, out of pure aesthetic sense).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On balance, I would: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Recommend to add multiple tags as your own practice. It's definitely NOT a requirement, but IMHO enhances the post.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Strongly insist leaving alone multiple tags&lt;/strong&gt; on posts made by other people who prefer multiple tags.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2014-08-02T21:31:42.710" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4880" CreationDate="2014-08-02T21:46:18.110" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess this meta question was triggered by my &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/64607/are-there-any-other-marine-animals-in-sharknado#comment130200_64607&quot;&gt;vote to close&lt;/a&gt; on the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/64607/are-there-any-other-marine-animals-in-sharknado&quot;&gt;Are there any other marine animals in Sharknado?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know the answer for sure; I haven't watched the film. That's why I started with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/64607/are-there-any-other-marine-animals-in-sharknado#comment130120_64607&quot;&gt;a comment&lt;/a&gt; and then, after waiting and not receiving any rebuttal, went on to vote to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My reason for challenging it was having read a few summaries (eg &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharknado&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;) and not seeing anything in those summaries implying sci-fi. Eg I don't consider a &quot;freak storm&quot; sci-fi, unless it is caused by a mad scientist or an alien&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't consider any of the reasoning in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4880/143&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; to make it sci-fi: eg Wikipedia might list it under sci-fi because it's got to go into &lt;em&gt;one genre&lt;/em&gt; - but unless it has something &lt;em&gt;specifically sci-fi&lt;/em&gt; in it I don't think we should accept it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4881/143&quot;&gt;Richard says&lt;/a&gt; it is fantasy. But there is (using his definition) no magic, supernatural events, make-believe creatures or exotic fantasy worlds. He has highlighted, &lt;em&gt;&quot;and the extraordinary&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. But &lt;em&gt;every film&lt;/em&gt; contains something extraordinary - otherwise it would just be a film about everyday life. &quot;Extraordinary&quot; is far to broad and vague to use to categorise a film as on topic for this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my answer is: &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Sharknado is off-topic for Sci-Fi &amp;amp; Fantasy&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;. Please upvote if you agree; please downvote if you don't. May this community decide!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;1 Or an mad scientist alien... or a time travelling - no, let's not go there.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2014-08-02T21:46:18.110" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4884" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-03T06:00:55.717" Score="7" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know is there, when I inspect the area were it should be is there, yet I CANNOT SEE IT!! D:&amp;lt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qVSVL.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can the background contrast be dial up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17287" LastActivityDate="2015-11-19T21:23:24.110" Title="Umm... where's the favicon?" Tags="|bug|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4880" CreationDate="2014-08-03T10:05:31.400" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would argue that Sharknado is on-topic here, because it falls under the realm of science fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(i.e. I disagree with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4881/20573&quot;&gt;Richard's answer&lt;/a&gt; which claims that the film cannot be science fiction, because the phenomenon of rains of animals has been recorded historically and is therefore established as scientific fact).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stories playing in the present, mainly influenced by a scientific phenomenon which may be possible but has not happened so far, are generally counted as science fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This includes the entire sub-genre of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalyptic_and_post-apocalyptic_fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;apocalyptic fiction&lt;/a&gt;. Tales about disasters such as a widespread plague, a meteorite impact, a thermonuclear war, are generally considered Science fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sharknado deals with a local apocalypse, not a global one, but I would argue that that does not preclude it from being counted as science fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The important thing is, as far as I understand, Sharknado explores the consequences of a phenomenon that has a scientific explanation, but has not happened so far. (Whether the scientific explanation is sound is another matter, but that just says something about the quality of the movie, not whether it is on-topic here)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the movie instead suggested a supernatural explanation or malevolent force behind the phenomenon, it would fit more into the fantasy genre (but still be on-topic)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20573" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2014-08-03T10:05:31.400" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4886" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-03T20:33:50.230" Score="10" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is similar to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3104/bronze-badge-count-gets-truncated-on-the-badge-page&quot;&gt;Bronze badge count gets truncated on the badge page&lt;/a&gt;, but it occurs in a different place (and may not have the same fix).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This happens in the user info for questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chrome 36, Ubuntu 12.04&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qJAaf.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firefox 31, Ubuntu 12.04&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/crrLt.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also happens in IE (though I don't have a screenshot).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Good job Thaddeus ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24067" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T04:09:54.020" Title="Number of badges gets cut off" Tags="|bug|badges|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-08-21T00:56:09.123" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4880" CreationDate="2014-08-03T21:54:23.083" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; Science Fiction, but it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; Speculative Fiction and thus on topic (alas).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Speculative fiction is an umbrella term encompassing the more fantastical fiction genres, specifically science fiction, fantasy, horror fiction, weird fiction, supernatural fiction, superhero fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, and alternate history in literature as well as related static, motion, and virtual arts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2014-08-03T21:54:23.083" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2667" CreationDate="2014-08-04T01:11:36.517" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually posted a &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/21486/is-person-of-interest-sci-fi&quot;&gt;question on Movies &amp;amp; TV&lt;/a&gt; about this very issue, and I think the answer given is evidence that the show is on-topic here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/21486/is-person-of-interest-sci-fi&quot;&gt;an &lt;strong&gt;interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(July 2013)&lt;/em&gt; with creator &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0634300/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jonathan Nolan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;... A lot of people who don't watch the show think of it as a kind of crime procedural, but &lt;strong&gt;we really think of it of it as a science fiction show.&lt;/strong&gt; We think of it as a genre show, there is a lot of comic book mythos woven into it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://collider.com/person-of-interest-season-3-4-jonah-nolan-greg-plageman-interview/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;another &lt;strong&gt;interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(October 2013, shorty after the start of Season 3):&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;We know what next season —if we’re lucky enough to get a fourth season— we know what that’s about.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;I think viewers who have as much of &lt;strong&gt;an affection for science fiction&lt;/strong&gt; —film, television— as we do, and a really good ear, will already know what next season is going to be, based on the first handful of episodes here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the creator believes he's making a Science Fiction show, who are we to say otherwise, regardless of what the question is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28162" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T01:11:36.517" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4889" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4890" CreationDate="2014-08-05T08:02:03.153" Score="5" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have two author tags like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/grrm&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;grrm&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;grrm&lt;/a&gt; (3 questions, fairly new). All three are related to GoT/ASOIAF.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/george-r-r-martin&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;george-r-r-martin&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;george-r-r-martin&lt;/a&gt; (190 questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don’t have the necessary rep to suggest the tag synonym, but this seems like an obvious one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T12:14:16.033" Title="Tag synonym: “grrm” to “george-r-r-martin”" Tags="|feature-request|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4889" CreationDate="2014-08-05T12:14:16.033" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've deleted all the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/grrm&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;grrm&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;grrm&lt;/a&gt; instances, so that tag will be destroyed on next auto-cleanup.  There's absolutely no need for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A tag synonym would make sense if it re-appears.  As it was, the tag was created by a single user, and hopefully he'll get the hint and not add them to any more questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T12:14:16.033" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4891" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-29T15:00:12.670" Score="4" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/2781/166646&quot;&gt;this has been discussed before&lt;/a&gt;, however, the discussion seems to be primarily focused on how it would pertain to Stack Overflow, with the apparent conclusion being that this is a sign of things being tagged incorrectly, rather than a need for something useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On other Stack Exchange sites, though, there are cases where this would most definitely &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; indicate incorrect tag usage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, on &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;scifi.se&lt;/a&gt;, there are many tags used to refine specific franchise tags.  Some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;harry-potter&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; has many sub-tags such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aldus-dumbledore&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;aldus-dumbledore&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (48 questions), &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hogwarts&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;hogwarts&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (55 questions), &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/voldemort&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;voldemort&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (149 questions), etc., as well as tags specific to individual books/movies.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;star-wars&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; also has sub-tags including specific movie titles as well as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-clone-wars&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;the-clone-wars&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, character tags (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/darth-vader&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;darth-vader&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: 45 questions; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/luke-skywalker&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;luke-skywalker&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: 27 questions, etc.), and franchise-specific tags like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-force&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;the-force&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (46 questions), &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jedi&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;jedi&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (66 questions) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sith&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;sith&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (34 questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Author specific tags are frequently forgotten.  An excellent example is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/george-r-r-martin&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;george-r-r-martin&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which should be used for every question related to one of his works (including &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; TV show, &lt;em&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/em&gt; books, and various short stories and novels unrelated to those titles).  However, we have 181 questions tagged with the author, but 372 tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and 398 tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen similar issues on other sites, such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://gaming.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Arqade.com&lt;/a&gt;, which has some instances of class-specific questions that fall under &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/diablo-3&quot;&gt;more general title tags&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know we have several users who make an effort to fix these when they can, but it is a difficult task, particularly since these examples are all very popular titles, especially for new users who aren't very familiar with the tagging system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be really helpful if we could have the larger franchise and author tags listed as mandatory, or even implied, whenever the tags that are clearly always sub-tags are used.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be up to the individual community to very carefully evaluate which, &lt;em&gt;if any&lt;/em&gt; tags would be set up this way, but it would make cleanup for those communities that have clearly-defined subset tags much easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" OwnerDisplayName="Beofett" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T15:10:53.893" Title="Can we add a way to allow tags to be marked as dependent upon other tags?" Tags="|feature-request|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4891" CreationDate="2014-07-29T15:03:50.577" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does a question tagged &lt;code&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/code&gt; &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to be tagged with &lt;code&gt;george-r-r-martin&lt;/code&gt;? Surely this relies on the author of the question knowing that Mr Martin is the author of the books upon which the TV series is based. Something you can't assume. But &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/412/general-tagging-practices/548#548&quot;&gt;from the meta post&lt;/a&gt; where you define this rule it states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do not use more precise tags&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, this would imply that it's not that you need tags to be linked, just that people are using inappropriate &quot;precise&quot; tags when the more general ones are what they should be using.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The important thing to remember is that you should be able to apply a single tag to a question and have it make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users can favourite multiple tags and include multiple tags in searches so there are tools to ensure that you don't miss a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anything it sounds like your &lt;code&gt;george-r-r-martin&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;star-wars&lt;/code&gt; type tags are redundant and you should be using the more specific tags for a given character or film/book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="ChrisF" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2014-07-29T15:17:11.747" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4893" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-06T17:27:03.590" Score="17" ViewCount="721" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Usual disclaimer: &lt;strong&gt;this is not a rant&lt;/strong&gt;, even if it may appear to be. I'm genuinely trying to understand if &quot;there is a point&quot;, i.e. I may disagree with the community, but I may also be surprised and some member of the community might show me a different way to approach this.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every setting has its own rules, every saga has its own pros and cons. While Harry Potter saga is really great for many reasons, internal consistency definitely isn't one of them: the author herself told time and again she genuinely doesn't care and &quot;can't do math&quot; and that this is fine for her and for most of her fans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a setting such as B5 or The Wheel of Time, or even Star Trek to some extent, while there are of specific instances of contradictions or mistakes made for the sake of entertainment, they still tend to be internally consistent and &quot;make sense&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HP settings feels very &quot;magical&quot;, in a traditional sense, and has a very strong and beautiful atmosphere, and this is a good thing. However, to accomplish this, it tramples any kind of stability to the setting, having plenty of contradictions, plot-holes, events, behaviour, plans that plainly just don't make any sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'm wondering is what's the point of trying to force some canon into that? If the answer is &quot;the author just didn't care, the story is great nonetheless&quot;, what's the point of forging an answer anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there are some genuine and useful questions, most of them fit into this category instead, and I always feel quite awkward reading those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a single episode of Star Trek messes up an established fact, forcing some explanation might make a sense, since the setting as a whole is fine anyway... but here there's no consistency, there's no stability, so I kind of miss the point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope this is clear and answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="640" LastEditorUserId="27" LastEditDate="2014-08-06T17:48:49.213" LastActivityDate="2018-10-18T22:37:56.753" Title="I have problems with most Harry Potter questions: what's the point?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4893" CreationDate="2014-08-06T17:42:34.567" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;What's the point&quot; is an amazingly good question. For me it breaks down to three main reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You'll gain enjoyment in answering the question. A well-written answer is its own reward, regardless of the upvotes gained.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You'll gain a greater enjoyment in the HP canon by exploring it in more detail (note that most of the questions asked &lt;strong&gt;do&lt;/strong&gt; actually have reasonable answers).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It will allow you to take part in a community based around answering questions about HP.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although it's not the done thing, I'll turn your question around and ask &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why are you looking at the Harry Potter questions if you don't think they're worthwhile?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2014-09-17T16:39:53.153" LastActivityDate="2014-09-17T16:39:53.153" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4893" CreationDate="2014-08-06T17:47:23.387" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, from one point of view, there is no &quot;point&quot; to this entire site, since it is entirely about works of fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the subject covers a gamut of books, movies, TV series, comic books, etc that have wildly varying levels of realism, attention to detail, and internal consistency. Who is to say that there is some minimum level of quality that must be demonstrated by the work in question before there is a &quot;point&quot; to it? How would adherence to such a quality standard be measured?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A site like this is what its users make of it. Sure there are questions that seem useless to me (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/futurama&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;futurama&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;futurama&lt;/a&gt;) but there is also a great deal of interesting and useful(?) stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5424" LastActivityDate="2014-08-06T17:47:23.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4893" CreationDate="2014-08-07T05:26:43.927" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that there's a huge difference between Futurama-style inconsistency, where canonicity and continuity is explicitly thrown out the window, and Harry Potter-style inconsistency, where Rowling admitted, as you say, that she didn't cover every corner-case and inconsistency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a wide spectrum of options between &quot;No continuity, no consistency&quot; and &quot;Everything must fit, every plot hole must be retconned or fixed to accommodate a coherent canon&quot;. Harry Potter might not be on the far edge of that spectrum, but it certainly leans towards coherency, much more than many long-running serialized franchises (&lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt;, anyone?). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, there's a lot of merit in delving into that world, which is mostly coherent - not entirely, but enough for most people. Compared to franchises like Futurama, the plot holes in Harry Potter are much fewer and far between, and can be clearly marked (as @Slytherincess commented) as &quot;this is a known plot hole, try not to step in it&quot; while focusing on the &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; 90%.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4516" LastActivityDate="2014-08-07T05:26:43.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4893" CreationDate="2014-08-09T11:16:15.800" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The point here is that this a place for people to goof off from work (unless they're SF writers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site is like a big book store and all the people there: I don't like every book that gets published and don't understand other people's fascination with those, but I respect the fact that the other people &lt;em&gt;read at all&lt;/em&gt; (instead of shoplifting or joining the Djihad or whatever people do for relaxation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole point to the HP questions (and everything else that relates to any books) is that it is civilized, yet fun. Or in other words: the point is that no one dies when such a question gets asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reading the newspaper each day has made me extremely tolerant of anything that does not involve dead children.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user30564" LastActivityDate="2014-08-09T11:16:15.800" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4898" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-09T20:10:12.367" Score="15" ViewCount="214" Body="&lt;p&gt;I mostly ask questions about A Song of Ice and Fire, and I'm usually only interested in the books; I don't consider the series relevant to my questions, so I tend to tag them with just &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/65059/do-no-hedge-knights-have-last-names&quot;&gt;In a recent question&lt;/a&gt;, someone added &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt; - I left it because it wasn't worth the quibble. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does every ASOIAF question need a GOT tag, and vice versa?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25915" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2014-08-09T23:27:49.900" Title="Does every ASOIAF question need a game of thrones tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4898" CreationDate="2014-08-09T20:25:56.187" Score="-9" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I'm concerned, the answer is a resounding yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since almost all &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/asoiaf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;asoiaf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;asoiaf&lt;/a&gt; questions will provoke some level of spoilers for the TV series I would consider it a common courtesy to other site-users to tag it with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt; to ensure that they can use the &quot;ignore-tag&quot; function.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the flipside, there's absolutely nothing to stop you from marking it with &quot;&lt;em&gt;book canon only, please&lt;/em&gt;&quot; in the body of the question if you're convinced that the TV series has nothing useful to contribute to answering your questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2014-08-09T21:11:22.040" LastActivityDate="2014-08-09T21:11:22.040" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4898" CreationDate="2014-08-09T20:58:36.630" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt; is different than &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt;, and, accordingly, they should be considered independently. If a question is asking for information from the books, the question should be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt;; if it's asking about the show, it should be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt;. If (and only if) both canons are fine, it should be tagged with both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, it seems that both are fine. But, for example, if a question were about something in the books beyond where the TV series is, that should be tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt; but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2014-08-09T20:58:36.630" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4898" CreationDate="2014-08-09T23:27:49.900" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say: use your own judgement depending on context and on a case-by-case basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each of the books and the TV series contains material that's not in the other, so it's perfectly possible for a question to be valid for one but not the other (it is of course also possible for a question to be valid for both).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people may be following the TV series a season or some episodes behind others: depending on when it's shown in their country, or on the DVD releases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people may be reading the books but be behind the most recent publication: they may be relative newcomers to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately if someone doesn't want to be spoilered it's their own responsibility to avoid sources of information that could do so.  Using the tagging system as a means of avoiding spoilers seems to twist it's intended purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2014-08-09T23:27:49.900" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4893" CreationDate="2014-08-10T22:11:22.120" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;point&lt;/em&gt; is to give you the opportunity to educate people who may be trying to force consistency about the fact that the author genuinely doesn't care, or that it is an honest plot hole, which many may not know. A good example is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/65364/is-herpo-the-foul-still-alive&quot;&gt;Is Herpo the Foul still alive?&lt;/a&gt;, where the (not yet accepted) answer is basically &quot;this information does not exist&quot; - and that is a legitimately useful answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't allow people to ask this type of question, by sitting back and doing nothing you also do nothing to stop the behavior that you dislike, and it moves elsewhere and spreads and eventually makes it back here ten-fold. If the askers were already aware that the HP series had these qualities, they wouldn't be asking - they came here to learn something and this is a good opportunity to give them information they do not have, which is one of the main points of these sites in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2014-08-10T22:11:22.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4903" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4904" CreationDate="2014-08-11T14:28:30.130" Score="5" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just coming here from the main page chrome smashed my face with a large yellow screen: &quot;The ssl certificate is not valid for this site&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunatly I didn't have the quick though to snip it, but I got a snippet from my &quot;omnibox&quot;, aka. navigation bar:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rDPC9.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that chrome doesn't like the dot between &lt;code&gt;meta&lt;/code&gt; and  &lt;code&gt;scifi&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jXFes.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31524" LastActivityDate="2014-08-13T10:11:33.403" Title="SSL Certificate not valid here" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4903" CreationDate="2014-08-11T20:39:48.247" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is actually valid behaviour; &lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2818.txt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;RFC 2818&lt;/a&gt; specifies that only a single level of subdomain matching is permitted for wildcard SSL certs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Names may contain the wildcard character &lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt; which is considered to match any single domain name component or component fragment. E.g., &lt;code&gt;*.a.com&lt;/code&gt; matches &lt;code&gt;foo.a.com&lt;/code&gt; but not &lt;code&gt;bar.foo.a.com&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any browser that successfully matches more than one level is therefore non-compliant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that this is a technical misconfiguration with SE itself; they shouldn't be using a single-level wildcard cert on this domain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Do I win a prize?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2014-08-11T20:39:48.247" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4893" CreationDate="2014-08-12T17:25:36.083" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it were impossible to find any form of continuity, I would agree it was pointless. But the numerous questions with canonical answers indicate there is continuity. And, if it exists, it has the same point as the continuity of any other series discussed on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You say that some answers are just &quot;It's magic&quot; or &quot;JKR doesn't know how to do math.&quot; But what questions have that as their answer? With Pottermore and the various interviews, &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; has a lot more canon than quite a few works. Questions people have that were not canon are answered by Word of God, making them canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot see how questions that can be answered within the scope of this site could ever be considered pointless. Your premise that they can't be answered is, I believe, false.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26601" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T17:25:36.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4893" CreationDate="2014-08-12T19:54:45.653" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;While some questions really may never be completely answerable, others are not and the understanding of another person may illuminate the questioner. Today I asked a Harry Potter question on a perceived problem I've always been bothered about and got a different perspective on the issue that changes my view. It seems like a worthy reason to ask and answer questions on the subject. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26316" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T19:54:45.653" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4903" CreationDate="2014-08-13T10:11:33.403" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Uber-Meta has some answers in stash. To make it short: Switching to full SSL is scheduled. It's supposed to happen in the memetic 6-8 weeks and meta-domains will probably be changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/230302/invalid-ssl-certificate-on-meta-stackexchange-com-cant-log-in-without-ssl/230303#230303&quot;&gt;Balpha has written a short answer&lt;/a&gt; where he refers us to &lt;a href=&quot;http://nickcraver.com/blog/2013/04/23/stackoverflow-com-the-road-to-ssl/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Nick Craver's Blog-Post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There Nick elaborates the difficulties of going to HTTPS. So in short:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Known problem, in progress, keep calm and pop a beer or something ;) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31524" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2014-08-13T10:11:33.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4908" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-13T13:15:18.707" Score="6" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can my question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/65407/31519&quot;&gt;Why did Palpatine care about Anakin Skywalker in the Prequels given Palpatine's pretty good Force Vision?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;be unmarked as a duplicate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has nothing to do with: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/64436/31519&quot;&gt;Why did Palpatine save Vader&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The latter deals with the Sith code of ethics, and the strong ignoring the weak, and effectively asks &quot;why would one Sith help another, junior Sith&quot;. It is an interesting question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question asks why Palpatine bothered with Vader, given both Vader's uselessness to the overall story arc (aside from killing Palpatine) and Palpatine's ability to see the future.&#xA;It also (implicitly) inquires why Palpatine, who is solely responsible for everything that happens in the prequels, even bothered with an apprentice at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions are different, and while they're both good questions, that's not a reason to mark them as duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31519" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-08-14T00:14:05.397" Title="This isn't a duplicate" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4908" CreationDate="2014-08-13T13:47:40.283" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quoting from the Help Centre on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/duplicates&quot;&gt;duplicate questions&lt;/a&gt; (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you see a question and do not agree that it truly is a duplicate, &lt;strong&gt;edit it to highlight the differences&lt;/strong&gt;, or try to get it reopened by casting a reopen vote or flagging it for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posting on Meta is fine, but I think you should also edit the question. Here’s why:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More likely to get reopen votes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users with &gt;3k rep have access to a “Reopen queue”, where they review questions that have been closed and nominated for reopening. They may not see the Meta discussion, but they will notice edits to the original question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editing the question within five days of closure bumps it into this queue, although I see that the question already has one reopen vote, so it’s already in the queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Explaining in the question why this isn’t a duplicate is more likely to get you reopen votes from anybody going through this queue.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Less likely to be closed again.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s unusual for questions to be repeatedly closed and reopened, but sometimes a closed-and-reopened question will attract a few stray close votes. If the question specifically addresses the proposed duplicate, then that’s much less likely to happen.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2014-08-13T13:47:40.283" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4911" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-14T10:48:59.450" Score="13" ViewCount="325" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/65646/what-are-counterarguments-to-rl-j&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; about R+L=J in A Song of Ice and Fire, and someone spoilered it, which makes sense. But thinking about it, I don't know what it spoils. It's thus far not explicitly mentioned in any of the books, but a popular theory cobbled from evidence scattered throughout all the books. If I were to mention R+L=J, should I just write &quot;(Spoilers All)&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25915" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2014-08-14T15:15:28.187" Title="What is R+L=J a spoiler for?" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4911" CreationDate="2014-08-14T15:06:33.210" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Show-watcher (and non-book-reader) here. I could see that as a spoiler for the start of the story, but after a few episodes, it seems pretty obvious that a person like Ned would never have an affair. I'm not sure how much of the first book that covers, I'm sure a book reader can pipe up with details there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the show, that's a spoiler, but not a huge one.  Again, after the first 3 episodes, it should be clear that Jon's parentage isn't exactly what's being presented as true.  However, that's part of the issue.  The other part is who his actual parents are.  In the show, there aren't many candidates (I spent much of season 1 wondering if he was another one of Robert's bastards).  The character Rhaegar is mentioned a few times in the TV show, but I don't recall it being fleshed out enough for me to recognize him as a potential parent of Jon, same for Lyanna.  So I could see it as a spoiler for the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the books, there is a more fleshed-out history, so I don't know at what point in the books the 'R+L' part of the theory are revealed as potential parents of Jon.  If it's several books in, I can see it being a spoiler, but if it is, the spoiler should be marked with some context.  A spoiler that doesn't have a label indicating what it spoils is kinda useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2014-08-14T15:15:28.187" LastActivityDate="2014-08-14T15:15:28.187" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4914" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4915" CreationDate="2014-08-14T19:22:27.953" Score="3" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/55396/23243&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/55396/23243&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not complaining, just curious as to whether I erred in adding Wookiepedia citations to a too-brief answer given my edit got rolled back before the question was closed as a duplicate. I'd ask Keen directly, but Stack Exchange seems opposed to direct contact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2014-08-14T19:30:28.897" Title="Clarification on rollback regarding black lightsabers?" Tags="|discussion|editing|citations|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4914" CreationDate="2014-08-14T19:25:16.937" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll just restate my comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@SeanDuggan That edit was way too drastic.  You completely overhauled the answer, and that's not &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/editing&quot;&gt;what edits are for&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer as originally posted was incorrect (I think).  You completely rewrote it so that it indicated how incorrect it was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-08-14T19:25:16.937" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4914" CreationDate="2014-08-14T19:30:28.897" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll chime in here, since &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/17152433#17152433&quot;&gt;I brought up the edits in chat.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original answer was posted. Personally, I think it's wrong, but that's neither here nor there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your additions, while full of good intentions, actually went too far trying to back up the answer with citations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Particularly&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also was not entirely black, and glowed with a dark purple hue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The blade took on a deep violet hue and consisted of an obsidian-colored core with blood-red flecks flashing up and down the blade's length.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which actually contradicts their offering of the soulsaber as a black lightsaber.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By adding as much as you did, you effectively took a poor answer and turned it into an answer that contradicts itself. That's far too drastic of an edit for my taste, and I would have rejected it, had it come across the review queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-08-14T19:30:28.897" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4872" CreationDate="2014-08-15T09:34:42.623" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;These tags are useful because you can use them in combination with other tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can't remember the name of a book with dragons in it? Checking &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dragons+story-identification&quot;&gt;dragons+story-identification&lt;/a&gt; will be easier than &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identifcation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identifcation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identifcation&lt;/a&gt; alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Want to see some questions about Tolkien's or GRRM's dragons? Here you are: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dragons+tolkien&quot;&gt;dragons+tolkien&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dragons+game-of-thrones&quot;&gt;dragons+game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17815" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2014-08-15T09:34:42.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4918" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4919" CreationDate="2014-08-16T00:51:12.107" Score="7" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28044/short-story-about-alien-military-telepathy/49588#49588&quot;&gt;Why is this considered an answer:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't give a title or author.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It adds to the question, but in more of a comment sort of way.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So should this be a answer due to its size or a comment(when modified). Either way it adds to the question, but it just doesn't answer it; just adds description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's like a copy of the question, but in the answer spot. If this(my post) is a duplicate question or has a simple answer I will delete it(for quality control).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Additional Question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Would I flag this answer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I flagged it with this reason:&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;This answer could probably be deleted and no one would miss it as the question was answered and the question has some description.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this is what happened when I did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E2GPJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2014-08-16T06:01:37.383" Title="Why is this an answer?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4918" CreationDate="2014-08-16T05:57:26.450" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I'd dispute it if someone flagged it for removal. Although it doesn't answer the question directly (which would usually push it into the status of a comment), it does meet the requirements of a &quot;&lt;em&gt;partial answer&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, as described in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Have the same problem?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Still no answer to the question, and you have the same problem? Help&#xA;  us find a solution by researching the problem, then &lt;strong&gt;contribute the&#xA;  results of your research and anything additional you’ve tried as a&#xA;  partial answer.&lt;/strong&gt; That way, even if we can’t figure it out, the next&#xA;  person has more to go on. You can also vote up the question or set a&#xA;  bounty on it so the question gets more attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top of that, the answer does contain some useful detail (e.g. mentioning the horn, mentioning that it dates to the 1960s) that wasn't in the original question. That extra info would be lost if you removed the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2014-08-16T05:57:26.450" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4920" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4921" CreationDate="2014-08-16T13:08:58.227" Score="19" ViewCount="334" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example, here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/65732/does-weaponized-laser-exist-in-the-star-wars-universe&quot;&gt;Do (weaponized) lasers exist in the Star Wars universe?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;@Zato posted a what-seemed-at-the-moment-correct &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/65738/976&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;, which generated tons of upvotes (10) stating &quot;no such examples exist&quot; - he did the research, but the only actual reference he had was Wikia (lack of references is of course not surprising given that the answer is &quot;no&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Just to be clear - Aside from the fact that the answer is &lt;strong&gt;wrong&lt;/strong&gt; - it's a good answer, with effort put into it, and I'm not intending to criticize the answer or the user.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;After that happened, @DrewS actually posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/65773/976&quot;&gt;an answer&lt;/a&gt; which found a canon example that showed the existence of lasers, thereby 100% proving the previous answer to be wrong. I even added exact book quote proving the assertion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;PROBLEMS:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Voting is now only 2 votes on correct answer vs 9 (+11/-2) on incorrect answer&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even worse, someone upvoted the wrong answer AFTER I the correct answer was posted; AND after I commented on the wrong answer that it's incorrect.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;---&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What can be done to &lt;em&gt;effectively&lt;/em&gt; combat such a situation?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of the &quot;normal&quot; methods seem to work well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Posting a comment on the wrong answer noting its incorrectness didn't stop people from continuing to upvote it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Posting a new correct answer didn't bring enough upvotes to it to even remotely offset the upvotes on incorrect answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Flagging for moderator is useless because moderators 100% always decline flags about incorrect answers (I personally think should be within moderators' scope to deal with, but the fact of life is, it isn't)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Publicizing in chat doesn't help (didn't try for this one yet, but tried it before... zero or negligible effect on subsequent votes)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2014-08-16T18:37:22.390" Title="What can be done to **effectively** combat 100% wrong answers that generate more upvotes than correct answers?" Tags="|discussion|voting|incorrect-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4920" CreationDate="2014-08-16T18:37:22.390" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Patience?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All this happened yesterday, and posts tend to have a big surge of activity initially, followed by a long tail of occasional visits.  So most posts will garner a ton of votes early on, then they'll steadily get more votes as weeks and months pass.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, initially the wrong answer got a bunch of upvotes.  As time goes on, the comments and the new correct answer will wear down those upvotes, and more upvotes will go to the correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By commenting on the wrong answer, you can point out how it is wrong, so others will see there's an issue with the answer in its current state.  This discourages upvotes.  The question asker hasn't accepted any answer.  An answer they accept will get a bit more attention, and hopefully more upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a 5th option by the way, it's a bounty.  In a couple of days, the question will become eligible for bounties.  You can create a bounty with a reason of 'Reward existing answer' so the correct answerer gets some reputation, and the correct answer gets the little tag indicating it earned a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-08-16T18:37:22.390" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4922" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-18T17:26:42.880" Score="4" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;When checking pages on a mobile with embedded videos, the text seems to overflow the box. There is also no horizontal scrollbar, thereby making reading the answer impossible (without switching to Desktop mode first).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example page: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/65927/how-do-we-know-that-the-first-doctor-was-indeed-the-first&quot;&gt;How do we know that the First Doctor was indeed the first?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screenshot:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eFSKT.png&quot; alt=&quot;Unreadable text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Device: Samsung N7505, Android 4.3, Mobile Chrome 36.0.1985.135. Also broken within the stock browser as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17392" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2014-08-18T19:06:52.287" Title="Mobile site layout broken with posts containing videos" Tags="|bug|mobile|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4923" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4925" CreationDate="2014-08-19T11:15:01.010" Score="9" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;We &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1916/is-copy-paste-from-wikipedia-allowed-on-tag-wikis&quot;&gt;don't allow tag wikis/excerpts to be copied directly from anywhere, including wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;. Unfortunately (IMO), not everyone checks for plagiarized content in every wiki edit, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4760/tag-wikis-from-wikipedia&quot;&gt;sometimes bad content gets through&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, this wiki edit made it through this morning, and is lifted directly from Wikipedia without attribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/sarah-connor-chronicles/info&quot;&gt;Sarah-Connor-Chronicles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no ability to flag the entry or otherwise bring them to a mod's attention. When we find instances of plagiarized content getting approved, what is the proper course of action?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T15:41:05.030" Title="What is the proper action when a tag wiki/excerpt has been copied from Wikipedia and approved?" Tags="|discussion|support|tag-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4924" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4926" CreationDate="2014-08-19T11:59:01.923" Score="6" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I noticed this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NruBA.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does it say &lt;code&gt;~1&lt;/code&gt; and not &lt;code&gt;1&lt;/code&gt; suggested edit pending approval?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19374" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T14:13:30.413" Title="Why is ~1 suggested edit waiting for review?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4923" CreationDate="2014-08-19T13:47:04.163" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see four options, (roughly) in order of descending preference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit the tag wiki and/or excerpt so that it is no longer plagiarized content.  Having good wiki descriptions helps the site, and is one of the least popular tasks, so if you're willing to do it, and have the time, please by all means do so!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Create a meta discussion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you don't have the time/ability to suggest an edit, ping a moderator in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you don't have the time/ability to suggest an edit, and can't/won't use the chat system (only a small portion of users use the chat system), then click on the tag, find a question that has the tag, and flag the question itself for moderator attention, leaving a comment in the flag notes indicating that you are flagging because of the tag wiki/excerpt.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="1359" LastEditDate="2014-08-19T15:41:05.030" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T15:41:05.030" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4924" CreationDate="2014-08-19T14:13:30.413" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most likely, due to the #s being cached, so they didn't want to pretend to be exact (&quot;~&quot; means &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde#Common_use&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;approximately&lt;/a&gt;&quot;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a matter of fact, half the time the # I see is actually wrong compared to review counts I see in the actual queues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T14:13:30.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4927" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4928" CreationDate="2014-08-20T09:35:33.950" Score="8" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that there was a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminator3&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminator3&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminator3&lt;/a&gt; tage and a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rise-of-the-machines&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rise-of-the-machines&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rise-of-the-machines&lt;/a&gt;. As they are the same film I tried to suggest rise-of-the-machines as a synonym of the terminator3 tag. However I received the following error:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Failed to propose synonym:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Version specific synonyms can only be created by moderators&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no idea what that means, but it seems strange that I can't suggest a synonym, when it is clearly the same film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any explanation would be appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22254" LastActivityDate="2014-08-22T18:17:14.977" Title="Failed to propose synonym: Version specific synonym?" Tags="|support|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4927" CreationDate="2014-08-20T11:34:50.113" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems to be a carry-over from Stack Overflow, where numbers are used to differentiate between different versions of software (e.g. &lt;strong&gt;foo&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;foo2&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;foo42&lt;/strong&gt;). Here are a few Meta.se posts describing a similar problem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/157869&quot;&gt;Version specific synonyms can only be created by moderators&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/121457&quot;&gt;Version Specific Tag Validation on Tag Synonym Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since we also have a &lt;strong&gt;terminator&lt;/strong&gt; tag, it thinks you’re talking about v3 of the Terminator software. (I’ve also seen reports that it treats any tag that begins or ends with a digit as version-specific, but I can’t confirm that.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’ve also never seen a Meta post that properly explains or justifies this feature; that’s just how SO, and hence SE, treats version-specific synonyms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side note, do we want to make a Terminator 3 tag that incorporates both the number and the name? The Terminator 2 tag is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminator2-judgement-day&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminator2-judgement-day&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminator2-judgement-day&lt;/a&gt;, so perhaps &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminator3-rise-of-the-machines&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminator3-rise-of-the-machines&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminator3-rise-of-the-machines&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2014-08-20T11:34:50.113" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4929" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4930" CreationDate="2014-08-20T12:18:57.413" Score="12" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a lot of information about how elections are run, but none about how often they are held.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are elections a regular thing or are they held more ad hoc? What is the usual period between elections?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22254" LastEditorUserId="28219" LastEditDate="2014-08-20T18:31:42.173" LastActivityDate="2014-08-20T18:31:42.173" Title="How often are moderator elections held?" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4929" CreationDate="2014-08-20T14:03:36.840" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderator elections are held for graduated sites when the SE team feels that additional moderators are needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/99515/166646&quot;&gt;From meta.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When do elections take place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community team periodically looks at the work load on graduated sites and will reach out to the moderation team if it looks like more help might be needed. Broadly, it's up to the moderation teams to indicate whether they need additional hands, and how many sets of hands would be ideal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although we'll reach out to moderators on the anniversary of their last election, just to see how they're doing, elections do not always take place at the same time every year. Sometimes a year can even go by without any election at all. Most elections are scheduled as a result of moderators reaching out to Stack Exchange to ask for additional help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-08-20T14:03:36.840" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4931" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4932" CreationDate="2014-08-20T15:14:27.690" Score="5" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;We currently have two tags to refer to the third Terminator film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminator3&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminator3&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminator3&lt;/a&gt; (2 questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rise-of-the-machines&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rise-of-the-machines&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rise-of-the-machines&lt;/a&gt; (1 question)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag for the second Terminator film unifies both the number and the title:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminator2-judgement-day&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminator2-judgement-day&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminator2-judgement-day&lt;/a&gt; (13 questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose unifying the two tags above into a single tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminator3-rise-of-the-machines&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminator3-rise-of-the-machines&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminator3-rise-of-the-machines&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Originally suggested in my answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4928/3567&quot;&gt;Failed to propose synonym: Version specific synonym?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2014-08-20T15:30:08.970" Title="Tag synonym: “terminator3-rise-of-the-machines”" Tags="|support|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4931" CreationDate="2014-08-20T15:29:01.733" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UmYTz.png&quot; alt=&quot;Error message when trying to create a tag that long.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-08-20T15:29:01.733" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4934" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-21T21:40:38.037" Score="2" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;The favorable response to a story identification question regarding an unfortunately &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/66115/23892&quot;&gt;obscure sci-fi novel&lt;/a&gt; I asked surprised me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are 3 reasons I can think of to upvote a story identification question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The story description sounds familiar but you can't remember the title either. (Possible, but I think it's too obscure for more 20% of question viewers to remember it, especially since nobody's even taken a guess at what it might be. But this is why I would do it.).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The description sounds interesting to you and you'd like to try it out for yourself. (Most likely I think, since in comments it's compared to Sphere).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;While not personally applicable to you, you find the question to be&#xA;a good fit for the site. (Seems unlikely but possible).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there other reasons? Why do you upvote a story identification question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23892" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2014-08-21T21:40:38.037" Title="Why do you upvote a story identifications question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-08-21T21:48:03.830" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4935" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-21T23:25:02.430" Score="7" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of the story-identification questions that I've answered do not have the short-stories tag, although the answer is a short story and the question specifically called for a short story. Can I improve my score for the short-stories tag badge by editing the short-stories tag into those old questions? I mean, would it work, and would it be considered bad etiquette?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;P.S.&lt;/strong&gt; It works all right, I just tried it out on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/50918/story-id-astronaut-is-freed-from-mind-parasite-when-he-leaves-earths-gravity-w&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and the points showed up on my short-stoies badge score. So I'm asking about the etiquette: is it acceptable to edit those old questions this way? (Assuming, of course, that I space them out appropriately.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2014-08-24T21:48:10.997" Title="Editing tags on old questions that I've answered" Tags="|discussion|tags|badges|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4937" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-22T15:15:37.723" Score="2" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;My first &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/66246/if-amy-ponds-parents-were-absorbed-by-the-time-rift-how-is-amy-alive&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; on the SciFi exchange has been marked as a duplicate, which it is clearly not. Not only does it reference it's &quot;original&quot; as a means of what prompted the prompted the question and to show that I already understand somewhat a remote possibility. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, surely people can see the difference between:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) How did Amy survive the crack in her wall?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;and&lt;br&gt;&#xA;2) How does Amy exist after her parents are erased from Time/Space?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I being dense or what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30462" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2014-08-26T22:46:03.877" LastActivityDate="2014-08-26T22:46:03.877" Title="Why has this question been closed as a duplicate when it clearly asking a different question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4937" CreationDate="2014-08-22T15:25:44.957" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unless I'm missing something, the answer to both questions is covered by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/46339/1027&quot;&gt;the answer&lt;/a&gt; on the question that yours was marked as a duplicate of.  When one answer addresses both questions, they get marked as duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2014-08-22T15:25:44.957" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4937" CreationDate="2014-08-22T15:28:23.460" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question was closed by non-moderators, so it took 5 close votes for that decision to be reached. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the future,  it might be worth stating even more clearly in the question &quot;there is a similar but unrelated question that says... However &quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2014-08-22T15:28:23.460" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4927" CreationDate="2014-08-22T18:08:52.920" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's now a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rise-of-the-machines&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rise-of-the-machines&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rise-of-the-machines&lt;/a&gt; -&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminator3&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminator3&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminator3&lt;/a&gt; synonym.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2014-08-22T18:17:14.977" LastActivityDate="2014-08-22T18:17:14.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4941" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4947" CreationDate="2014-08-24T20:21:05.920" Score="19" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;This topic came up in chat the other day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xwv31.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;OMGPEARS&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it good form to insert a related, but ultimately unnecessary, animated gif, picture, or some other form of media (say, a YouTube video) into someone else's post?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't feel it is good form. If the OP wants media in their post, I of course don't mind viewing their pictures -- many of them are really enjoyable. But I feel it's up to the OP to place media in their post. Some users, myself included, prefer a neat text-based question (Although I, too, have occasionally put an image in one of my posts.). To inject unwanted media into an OP's post is, I believe, poor form and unnecessary. Yes, perhaps there is the &lt;em&gt;rare&lt;/em&gt; instance that added media will enhance the post, but I don't believe this is true most of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I may be alone in my take on this. But if I'm not, is there some sort of etiquette we can  talk about, maybe gauge how the community feels about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not proposing we establish a rule or anything like that, but I also don't think it's at all appropriate to say to the protesting OP, who has just been media bombed, &amp;quot;That's what rollbacks are for.&amp;quot; That kind of smacks of &lt;em&gt;neener neener&lt;/em&gt; to me. Why should I be responsible for policing other users, and for keeping their unwanted media out of my post, when there's no need for media to begin with, only to be blithely told, &amp;quot;If you don't like it, too bad. Take it out yourself&amp;quot;? I rarely have time to check my inbox to begin with and I can &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; find the rollback option (Yeah, yeah, I know ...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know we're a collaborative community and that we all muck around in each others' posts, editing, formatting, improving, etc. But I wonder if media should be treated a little more delicately. For example, in a recent &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; question, an answer was given from book canon; someone inserted an animated gif from one of the movies into the OP's answer that directly contradicted book canon. That &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; have been damaging to the OP's answer and cost him/her upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How should we treat media? Is it okay to insert unsolicited media into another user's post or answer?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/C9BMK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8dmdr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh really?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WhAbK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Educational Decree - Computer&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5UNgp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Snape, Snape, Severus Snape - Potter Puppet Pals&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/827Ea.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Harry and Voldemort - Spaghetti&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because I can too :&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-08-29T17:43:04.227" Title="What's the etiquette of inserting videos, pictures, or other media into someone else's post?" Tags="|discussion|editing|images|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4941" CreationDate="2014-08-24T21:37:35.610" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel that this should follow the same exact rules as (a) editing in text and (b) inserting media in your own posts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the media is unnecessary and doesn't add any useful information to the post, it shouldn't be there. Whether it was added by the OP or a side editor is wholly irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already have reasonably decent (if a bit vague) guidelines on that: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1840/what-is-up-with-all-the-tangential-imagery&quot;&gt;What is up with all the tangential imagery?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The example you referenced in your question fully fits under this rubric.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the media is not objectionable and &lt;strong&gt;enhances the post&lt;/strong&gt;, it's poor form to object to the edit. Your post doesn't belong to you, and the site rules clearly state that if you don't like having your posts edited, you're on the wrong site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, unless the media is absolutely necessary to the post, &lt;strong&gt;insisting&lt;/strong&gt; on it (over the objections of the OP - stated in comments or rollback) - is also poor form. OP may not have the right to insist on lack of edits, but they do have the right to have an opinion that is respected by the editors.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2014-08-26T16:58:35.573" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4941" CreationDate="2014-08-24T21:47:10.813" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As a general rule of thumb, I’m fairly conservative about adding media to somebody else’s post.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like media draws attention more than text (look at teh shiny), so I don’t want to add it unless it adds clear and indisputable value to the post. Usually this means my media edits are fairly minor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two examples spring to mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If the OP clearly knows about the media and wants to reference it, but hasn’t found/inserted the item in question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Say, if the OP makes reference to a video clip, but can’t find a link themselves. Adding a YouTube link/embed to the video in question would be fine. This is akin to somebody saying “I can’t find a quote now” in a book answer, and somebody else adding the appropriate quote on their behalf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Improving the quality of existing media.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, replacing screen grabs from a back-of-the-cinema video with one from the DVD release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In both cases, the change to the post is fairly minor, and I don’t think the OP could have much objection to the edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, if it’s anything more substantial and I think it might be useful, then I usually leave it as a link in the comments. The OP can see it and add it if they wish, and other readers can find it, but it doesn’t change the original answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-08-29T07:58:18.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4935" CreationDate="2014-08-24T21:48:10.997" Score="5" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;General retagging:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main problem with doing what you propose is that any edited question shows up as &quot;new&quot; content for people who view the site in the &quot;new content first&quot; mode - that includes both RSS feed and &quot;Active&quot; tab on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Effectively, you're spamming people with less-than-useful changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, if you keep the rate of edits low enough to avoid spamming (say 1-2 every several hours, at most 4-5/day), it should be OK.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That specific retag&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I don't see the point of having that tag in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People aren't likely to search for &quot;Just short story&quot; questions, IMHO. People aren't likely to filter by them. But that's just my personal opinion, not a site rule (unless you ask on Meta specifically whether that tag should exist) and as such, you are free to ignore it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2014-08-24T21:48:10.997" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4941" CreationDate="2014-08-25T14:29:11.173" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Call me old-fashioned, but I like pictures with my text and I've always though that a &lt;em&gt;well-chosen&lt;/em&gt; picture can massively improve a question or an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of the ethos of the site is that we're free to edit posts based on whatever we think will improve them (e.g. &quot;clearer or more relevant&quot;) and that includes adding pictures, quotes or anything else as long as we don't change the original meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To quote from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/editing&quot;&gt;site FAQ&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;Edits are expected...to leave the post better...[including] add[ing] related resources or hyperlinks&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; and that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;If you are not comfortable with the idea of your contributions being collaboratively edited by other trusted users, this may not be the site for you.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This clearly includes pictures and video links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the risk of seeming like I'm repeating your own words back, I haven't seen many &quot;protesting&quot; OP's in the chatroom and the original editor is always free to roll back to an earlier version if they see something they don't like (in fact they get a badge for doing so).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only caveats I'd put on adding media is that an edit should never be made twice (if the OP has removed it) and I'd always be shy of editing a post or a question from a high rep-count user since they're usually big enough and ugly enough to do their own editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T18:31:26.240" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4941" CreationDate="2014-08-26T22:44:47.270" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm really not a fan of the numerous pointless images that get inserted into posts.  If the Q&amp;amp;A requires some visual evidence or explanation, then yes an image is useful.  But the majority of the time, an image is used that just depicts a topic being discussed.  If the question asker and answerer don't know what &lt;em&gt;the things they're discussing&lt;/em&gt; look like, then we have some really big problems that need to be discussed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I rollback edits that add these gratuitous images to my posts.  If I wanted them there, I'd do a google image search and add the image myself.  I prefer to keep my posts short and to the point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, my opinion is clearly the opposite of the community, which seems to upvote these posts more than posts that don't have images.  I think this is an instance of something that isn't helpful being popular, but I can't form an effective argument on the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-08-26T22:44:47.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4941" CreationDate="2014-08-26T23:59:24.573" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's clear that editors are allowed to &lt;strong&gt;improve&lt;/strong&gt; posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's equally clear that editors are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; allowed to make a post &lt;strong&gt;worse&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is perhaps not completely clear, but is true nonetheless, is that editors are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; allowed to merely &lt;strong&gt;change&lt;/strong&gt; posts. If the edit doesn't make the post &lt;strong&gt;better&lt;/strong&gt;, then it should be rejected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In practice, the difference between &quot;improve&quot; and &quot;change&quot; can be hard to pin down. Thus, I think the standard to use should be &quot;&lt;em&gt;Is this image worth a proverbial thousand words? Does it replace a good chunk of unclear descriptive text in the question/answer?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; If yes, go ahead and add it. Otherwise, no matter how relevant or pretty the picture is, you are not within your rights as an editor to add it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="348" LastActivityDate="2014-08-26T23:59:24.573" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4948" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4950" CreationDate="2014-08-27T02:09:20.367" Score="6" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;Things like 'Is [thing] a known/defined trope?' or 'Is this [item] a characteristic of [defined trope]?'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I say trope, I mean it in the way it is commonly used on the TVTropes site (no link!) but not limited only to tropes defined &lt;em&gt;on&lt;/em&gt; the TVTropes site itself, but literary Conventions and common story structures, character archetypes etc that may have been 'codified' in sources other than TVTropes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such I'm not sure if these would be    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An on-topic &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/364/28166&quot;&gt;Contextual Question&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (&lt;em&gt;deals with the context in which science fiction and fantasy occurs: including ...etymology, and society. They have definitive answers about specific facts...&lt;/em&gt;) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An off-topic &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/362/28166&quot;&gt;Genre-Classification Question&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (&lt;em&gt;asks whether a particular work is SF or belongs to a particular subgenre, or ask about what makes up a subgenre.&lt;/em&gt; - are tropes subgenre-ish?)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28166" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2014-08-27T04:21:17.443" Title="Are questions about tropes on-topic here?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4948" CreationDate="2014-08-27T02:20:45.647" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;'Is [thing] a known/defined trope?' - should be ontopic. Assuming that &quot;thing&quot; is defined in sufficient detail, it is 100% answerable, generally either not subjective of &quot;good subjective&quot;, and not too broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'Is this [item] a characteristic of [defined trope]?' - while an individual question of the form may happen to be asked well enough to be OK, a random question of that form is more likely than not to be overly subjective, with no definitive answer - because tropes are rarely precisely defined. Thus, you either have no answer, or your answer consists of &quot;Well, TVTRopes says so&quot; - which is boring, derivative, and not worth asking about (not exactly offtopic, but I would likely downvote as &quot;lack of basic research&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2014-08-27T02:20:45.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4948" CreationDate="2014-08-27T04:21:17.443" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds on topic to me.  I vaguely recall at least one question along these lines, which provides a few examples of characters from several franchises and asks for why these characters are so similar.  It's essentially inquiring about a trend instead of a specific character/work/etc.  Should be fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recommend laying some groundwork in your question to show your reasoning.  A short question that says 'I think this is a trope' is more likely to garner disapproval from the community than a longer question that says 'because of X, Y, and Z, I think this is a trope'.  Showing your work and adding context improves a post's quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-08-27T04:21:17.443" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4951" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-27T12:01:49.743" Score="13" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just posted an answer where:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question is 3 year old&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The main accepted answer has 30+ upvotes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, the answer was heavily (50% to 100%) invalidated canonically by EU material published after the answer was posted.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I posted the correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it acceptable to post a bounty on a question (and award to my own answer) to highlight it and draw attention to the correct info?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I'm going to assume that the poster of the accepted answer won't be so kind as to delete his own 30+ answer just so we don't have incorrect information shadowing out the correct one :)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2014-08-27T15:37:51.473" Title="Is it acceptable to post a bounty on the question to raise awareness of your own answer?" Tags="|discussion|bounty|incorrect-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4951" CreationDate="2014-08-27T15:37:51.473" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consensus on meta.stackexchange.com seems to indicate that &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/234528/166646&quot;&gt;yes, you can use bounties to draw attention to your own answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was concern about this being used as a way to game the system, by gambling reputation in the hopes of earning enough upvotes on a late answer to make a net gain, but this &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/105639/166646&quot;&gt;has been addressed by setting increasing minimum bounties&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As noted by Robert, this has come up recently. Posting a bounty is a perfectly reasonably thing, a good thing (with badges too!). However, when applied repeatedly to a question it does start to represent abuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To help minimise this, but while leaving open the option of offering a subsequent bounty when you really, really are looking for another option we will be implementing a change here, where subsequent bounties have a higher minimum offering. This means you can't place 6 &amp;quot;cheap&amp;quot; bounties of 50 rep, to keep your answer on the bounty board to get lots of pass-by upvotes, as subsequent bounties probably1 will not cover your &amp;quot;spend&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another related change &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/64826/134300&quot;&gt;has been mentioned by Sam Saffron&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you are placing a bounty on a question you answered, your minimum spend is &lt;strong&gt;100&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-08-27T15:37:51.473" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4953" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-28T17:30:43.093" Score="2" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I look at the list of the questions I've flagged, right next to the reason of the flag, my name is displayed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RSs3g.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the reason of that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot see why my name is displayed there &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My name is displayed on the top of the list.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The list is displayed when I look at my profile and click on the 'helpful flags' link, so who else's flags could they have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19374" LastActivityDate="2014-08-28T18:05:21.860" Title="Why is my name shown on my flagged questions list?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4953" CreationDate="2014-08-28T18:05:21.860" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question is really, why not? It rarely hurts to have more information. Also, that's the way mods see it, and though a mod is unlikely to forget whose profile he's looking at, it's easier to have it right there. And it's the same format we see on the all-flags page (minus the other flaggers), so it's probably easier for the devs to display.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2014-08-28T18:05:21.860" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4955" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4956" CreationDate="2014-08-29T14:17:24.450" Score="10" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/66681/what-is-the-earliest-reference-to-a-poisoned-lipstick?noredirect=1&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; recently got closed because the sci-fi technology being asked about is a real technology, or we assume it is based on the answers and comments given in the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I cast the final close vote on this question because I agreed with the highest-voted answer - that the reference in the Bible is close enough to being a reference to it being real that it was not actually a science-fiction technology. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the asker did not know this at the time of asking, and it is reasonable for them not to know - a quick search on 'poison lipstick' on google does not turn up any real-world poison lipstick.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone also brought up the point of Tricorders - handheld devices that offer touch-interaction much like modern cell phones.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's clear that as technology advances, more science-fiction devices are going to have real world counterparts that people will have questions about - and they will ask those questions here.  It's also clear that sometimes what seems like a sci-fi invention can turn out to have a real-world origin.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we allow questions that ask about the origin of a science fiction technology if that technology turns out to be real?  What restrictions should we place on what technology can reasonably be asked about on this site?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20533" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2014-08-29T15:44:28.723" Title="Questions about science fiction technologies that have real world origins" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|question-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4955" CreationDate="2014-08-29T15:02:08.240" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The idea that if a technology exists in the real world questions about it are automatically off-topic is just bizarre. As William Gibson has said, &quot;The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.&quot; Of course the idea that science fiction is about futuristic technology is equally problematic...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about technology may or may not be on-topic, but I don't think that will depend on whether they exist in the real world. Remember that &quot;setting explanations&quot; as well as the &quot;Historical or societal context of a work&quot; are specifically on-topic. Questions about technology should be judged on the normal criteria: is it focused and clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we can distinguish between questions asking about the references to a technology in works of sci-fi/fantasty and references to a technology in any genre, or even in the real world. But asking about poison lipstick or rockets or mobile phones in works of sci-fi, as long as the question is focused and clear, should be on-topic regardless of their real-world existence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17815" LastEditorUserId="17815" LastEditDate="2014-08-29T15:44:28.723" LastActivityDate="2014-08-29T15:44:28.723" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4957" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4958" CreationDate="2014-08-30T05:29:57.747" Score="-7" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apart from the &quot;story-identification&quot; tag, shouldn't OPs mention the same in the question title so that it is easier to spot? I ask this because I see several questions with only the tag but nothing mentioned in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12551" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2014-08-30T18:12:18.257" LastActivityDate="2014-08-31T02:28:02.217" Title="Should &quot;Story identification&quot; be mentioned in the question as well?" Tags="|discussion|tags|story-identification|title|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4957" CreationDate="2014-08-30T06:36:17.333" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. Rather, the question should be all that is necessary to understand exactly what the OP is looking for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's break down the three elements of a question post (as I see them).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Title&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The hook. The title should provide a good general overview of what the OP is looking for. It doesn't need to get into the nitty gritty details or criteria, but readers should have at least a clue of what the OP is asking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should be 100% self sufficient. It should clearly explain what information the OP is looking for and lay out any criteria that should be considered (e.g. canon levels, universes, media, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Tags&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These should be used for categorization purposes. They should be helpful, but not necessary to the question itself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if I am looking for information about Wolverine's claws within the comic universe only, I would make sure that the question itself clearly states that I am looking for an answer based on the comic universe, and not the movie universe. I would also tag it &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wolverine&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wolverine&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wolverine&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-comics&lt;/a&gt; (I'd also understand the choice to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of story identification questions, the reader shouldn't &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; to look at the tags to understand that the OP is looking to identify a story; the tags should just be used to make it easier to categorize and find the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2014-08-30T06:36:17.333" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4957" CreationDate="2014-08-30T11:33:51.077" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes you should &lt;em&gt;indicate&lt;/em&gt; that you're trying to identify a story,  but there's no need to repeat the tag wholesale. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Good:&lt;/em&gt; Trying to find 70s space opera with knights with magical powers and glowing swords. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bad:&lt;/em&gt; Story identification: 70s space opera with knights with magical powers and glowing swords. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2014-08-30T11:33:51.077" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4957" CreationDate="2014-08-31T02:17:47.853" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that the body of the question should be completely self-contained, without reference to the tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I don't see why you're picking on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; tag. Could you point to an example? I've read lots of story identification questions, and I've seen very few, if any, where it's not clear from the body of the question that an identification is wanted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I've seen hundreds of silly &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-explanation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-explanation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-explanation&lt;/a&gt; questions where a tag is the only clue as to what work of fiction is being discussed; such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/66732/how-do-the-azkaban-escapees-get-their-wands-back&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; where the tag is the only hint that the question is about a certain popular kiddie-lit series from England. (Unless, of course, one happens to have read the books, and so recognizes some of the names, such as &quot;Hogwarts&quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2014-08-31T02:28:02.217" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4961" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4962" CreationDate="2014-09-01T21:48:39.027" Score="9" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are some questions on this site which provoke opinion-based answers (i.e. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3267/are-there-any-redeeming-characters-in-game-of-thrones-soiaf&quot;&gt;Are there any redeeming characters in Game of Thrones/SOIAF?&lt;/a&gt; - which has 13 answers!). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some answers which address this well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/3268/21267&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/3268/21267&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/3279/21267&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/3279/21267&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and some who inherently stray into opinion-territory:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/3500/21267&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/3500/21267&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/4229/21267&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/4229/21267&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have to point out that it is not the fault of the answerers - the OP has asked an open-ended and opinion-soliciting question (it just becomes &quot;I think Jon Snow is good&quot;, &quot;no I think Victarion is good&quot; etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here's the problem:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I wouldn't flag the entire question, as there are some good answers which do not go into specific opinions. There are however some answers which are primarily opinion-based and in my opinion something &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; need to be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Solutions:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I flag the answer (but there's no appropriate flag choice)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I down-vote/forgo up-vote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something else&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the correct course of action if I see an &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; which I think is primarily opinion-based?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2014-09-04T18:13:22.307" Title="What do I do with an opinion-only answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4961" CreationDate="2014-09-01T22:08:24.670" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per the FAQ&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual&#xA;  problems that you face. Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the&#xA;  usefulness of our site and push other questions off the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you think that a question is itself opinion-based (or prone to generating opinion-based answers) mark it to &quot;close&quot; and see if your fellow site users agree.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you think that an answer is too opinion-based, downvote it and explain to the author why you've done so.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2014-09-01T22:15:47.250" LastActivityDate="2014-09-01T22:15:47.250" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4963" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4966" CreationDate="2014-09-03T12:20:47.397" Score="6" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often questions are closed as off topic for the following reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions seeking scientific solutions or explanations are off-topic unless they relate directly to a cited work of fiction. There are a number of other Stack Exchange sites dedicated to answering questions on non-fictional sciences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me this seems clear. A question such as &quot;how does time travel work in Stargate SG-1&quot; would be on topic, but &quot;how would time travel work&quot; is off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I often see questions that are about specific Sci-Fi works, but are still closed. Take &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/66956/22254&quot;&gt;this question about Stargate SG-1&lt;/a&gt;. It seems to me that this fits the criteria of &lt;em&gt;unless they relate directly to a cited work of fiction&lt;/em&gt; yet I regularly see questions like this being closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So should it be changed so that all scientific explanations questions are off-topic? Or is there a reason that a lot of these questions are still getting closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22254" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2014-09-03T23:11:18.393" Title="Questions seeking scientific explanations - on topic?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4963" CreationDate="2014-09-03T15:41:16.157" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;These shouldn't be closed.  That close reason is for 'how can I make a warp drive in reality' sorts of questions.  The sci-fi physics questions like 'how do warp drives work in universe' are on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-09-03T15:41:16.157" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4965" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4968" CreationDate="2014-09-03T16:31:32.213" Score="3" ViewCount="384" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question has been marked as a duplicate: &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/67034/why-did-voldemort-need-to-drink-unicorn-blood&quot;&gt;Why did Voldemort need to drink Unicorn blood?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other question is very generic and is by no means related to my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please explain the close votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2014-09-03T17:03:02.727" Title="How on Earth has this question been marked as duplicate?" Tags="|support|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4963" CreationDate="2014-09-03T16:50:19.357" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;That &lt;strong&gt;specific&lt;/strong&gt; question should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was NOT asking about &quot;Is this true in-universe?&quot; (as Keen's answer implies).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It asked: &quot;This &lt;strong&gt;is shown to be true&lt;/strong&gt; in-universe. Can that really happen out of universe?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is even confirmed by the exact wording of the question's subject:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... &lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt; last for thousands of years?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as well as the body:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My question is, &lt;strong&gt;how effective would&lt;/strong&gt; vacuum-sealing (or Hermetic sealing) that canopic jar in preserving the camcorder for thousands of years?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That makes it 100% matching &quot;scientific explanations&quot; close reason&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="2242" LastEditDate="2014-09-03T23:11:18.393" LastActivityDate="2014-09-03T23:11:18.393" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4965" CreationDate="2014-09-03T16:58:47.303" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've voted to keep it closed. Several of the answers to the question about the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8889/what-are-the-uses-of-unicorns-in-harry-potter&quot;&gt;potential uses of unicorn blood&lt;/a&gt; relate to the reason why Voldemort was drinking unicorn blood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since A completely encompasses B, B is a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2014-09-03T16:58:47.303" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4965" CreationDate="2014-09-03T17:03:02.727" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have cast a binding VTRO on this (to undo @Slytherincess' binding VTC) since I don't think any of the answers on the linked question answer the main point of the question: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Horcruxes &lt;strong&gt;already&lt;/strong&gt; were keeping Voldemort alive (or at least undead). Why did he need the Unicorn blood (when he existed without it prior to residing in Quirrell's head in Hogwarts, and presumably, since Quirrell died till V. obtained a new body in GoF).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2014-09-03T17:03:02.727" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4970" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4971" CreationDate="2014-09-03T21:57:59.933" Score="4" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;Earlier I spotted the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doomsday&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;doomsday&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;doomsday&lt;/a&gt; tag and the broad range of things it's used to mean:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_(Doctor_Who)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Doomsday&lt;/a&gt;, the second season finale of the Doctor Who reboot  in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/66785/28162&quot;&gt;Doomsday - How Does Pete Know&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/doomsday&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;doomsday&lt;/a&gt;, the end of the world, in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/64041/28162&quot;&gt;What is the extent and nature of Nix&amp;#39;s power in (the film) Lord of Illusions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_%28comics%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Doomsday&lt;/a&gt;, the DC Comics character and antagonist of Superman in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/20594/28162&quot;&gt;If Doomsday was so powerful, why couldn&amp;#39;t he get out of his restraints?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, these are all perfectly valid claims for the tag, but the wide range of uses also makes it far too broad to put under a single tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What should we do with these questions and the tag to make it more useful?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28162" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2014-09-04T08:44:02.790" Title="Disambiguate the [doomsday] tag" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4970" CreationDate="2014-09-04T08:44:02.790" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per Moogle's comment, I think the tag doesn't belong on the &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; question, since we normally wouldn't tag each and every episode of a TV series. So I removed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the question about Nix's power, the tag is only tangentially related. So I removed it.&#xA;The concept of a doomsday, the end of the world, can be covered be other concepts as well. I think that (if we ever actually need one) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/end-of-the-world&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;end-of-the-world&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;end-of-the-world&lt;/a&gt; or something similar would cover it better, without being tied to s specific term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that leaves the character Doomsday. While there's only one question about Doomsday tagged as such, a simple search showed more examples. So those could be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doomsday&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;doomsday&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;doomsday&lt;/a&gt;, and if we keep the tag, I feel it should be about the character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2014-09-04T08:44:02.790" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4972" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-04T14:46:29.893" Score="13" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://saltlakecomiccon.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Salt Lake Comic Con&lt;/a&gt; granted me a press pass because of my blog writing for this site. Is there anything the community would like me to do specifically at the con? People to meet, questions to ask? Etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Phantom42 suggested I throw a drink in the face of Shelly Rodriguez at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.inki-drop.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Inki-Drop&lt;/a&gt; (she's an old friend).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry for the late notice, I was really hoping they would give me a press packet or something. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="1148" LastEditDate="2014-09-04T14:51:48.713" LastActivityDate="2014-09-04T18:55:24.890" Title="What should I do for the site at Salt Lake Comic Con?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4973" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-04T16:09:32.173" Score="3" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was working on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/67011/4751&quot;&gt;Where is the Emperor in New Hope?&lt;/a&gt; and we have three really good answers (well 2 good ones and then mine) that all answer the question in different ways.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The best answer would be a fusion of the three, development, story theory, and in universe reasons.  What is the best way of combining it without re-writing other answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4751" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-09-04T17:07:13.717" Title="How to handle a question with multiple answers, each right in their own way" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4973" CreationDate="2014-09-04T16:18:19.850" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see 2 solutions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The lazy solution is to just pick one answer and accept it.  Anyone who sees the question in the future will see that there are 3 excellent answers.  All 3 can get upvotes regardless of acceptance.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Offer a bounty, mention that you want an answer that addresses all 3 aspects.  This then provides attention and motivation for people to improve existing answers, or to add a new one that matches your goal.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-09-04T16:18:19.850" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4973" CreationDate="2014-09-04T17:07:13.717" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's look at what the Help Center has to say about accepting answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Accepting an answer is not meant to be a definitive and final statement indicating that the question has now been answered perfectly. It simply means that the author received an answer that worked for him or her personally, but not every user comes back to accept an answer, and of those who do, they may not change the accepted answer if a newer, better answer comes along later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So an answer that addresses your full concerns about the question, that you personally feel answers as fully and completely as possible, would be the correct answer to accept.  If you do not know which answer that is, you can as Keen suggested offer a reward to those who have posted their answers as an incentive to improve the quality of their answers (or new users to post even better answers) and then choose the best one to accept and award the bounty.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, there is no expiration date for a good question (and this IS a good question!), and if you have multiple good answers, starting a bounty on it to find a definitive answer will draw even more attention, which can make up for the bounty in itself.  So you could stand to actually gain some reputation for a judicious use of a bounty.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20533" LastActivityDate="2014-09-04T17:07:13.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4961" CreationDate="2014-09-04T18:13:22.307" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some kinds of opinion-based questions and answers are OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is covered in depth on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt; SE Blog post so I won't go into excessive detail here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key word in the &quot;Primarily Opinion Based&quot; close reason in this context is &lt;strong&gt;Primarily&lt;/strong&gt;.  Obviously this isn't a binary distinction, and there are all kinds of grey areas in between.  An opinion-based answer may well be backed up by solid evidence sourced from canonical texts; despite the fact that the final conclusion may be opinion-based, if the weight of such evidence is strong enough, then it is a good answer.  A bad opinion-based answer on the other hand is solely or mostly comprised of opinion, with little (or poor) evidence to support the conclusions (if indeed there are any conclusions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what I'm saying is that you shouldn't look for a hard-and-fast ruling on this, but instead make your own best judgement on a case-by-case basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2014-09-04T18:13:22.307" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4972" CreationDate="2014-09-04T18:55:24.890" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stand around with a placard asking people if they have amazing SFF questions to ask that they desperately need the answers to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Post their questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gather the rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Retire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2014-09-04T18:55:24.890" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4979" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10720" CreationDate="2014-09-06T18:08:42.010" Score="-5" ViewCount="540" Body="&lt;p&gt;After searching for question and tags related to Sherlock Holmes, I was a little surprised to find that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=sherlock+holmes&quot;&gt;none really exist&lt;/a&gt;. I suppose this is because Sherlock Holmes is not exactly science fiction or fantasy. But then, where could I go (on Stack Exchange) to ask about the Sherlock Holmes novels and short stories?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Movies and TV SE&lt;/a&gt; has a &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sherlock&quot;&gt;Sherlock tag&lt;/a&gt;, but it hardly seems appropriate to ask about the &lt;em&gt;written works&lt;/em&gt; there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was apparently a Literature SE, but it &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/131397/why-did-literature-fail&quot;&gt;failed&lt;/a&gt; a long time ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems quite likely that many people on this SE would be interested in Sherlock Holmes questions in the same way they enjoy &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doctor-who&quot;&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot;&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/a&gt; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Allowing Sherlock Holmes and other mysteries might be a slippery slope towards allowing all fiction, but it seems like you're missing a huge fan base.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30481" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2017-03-16T01:04:36.830" Title="Can I ask about Sherlock Holmes books?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4979" CreationDate="2014-09-06T18:35:26.320" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, unless you're asking about one of the various 'Sherlock Holmes in a sci-fi/fantasy setting' stories that have been written over the past century.  Whether a topic might overlap with geek interests doesn't determine on-topicness.  The genre of the work determines on-topicness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To create a Stack Exchange where this would be on topic, you should contribute to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/61293/books?referrer=ogrw36RgAeou6Q_n0IHwNQ2&quot;&gt;Books proposal&lt;/a&gt; on Area 51.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-09-06T18:35:26.320" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4979" CreationDate="2014-09-06T19:00:50.363" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, you can't.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst there are certainly fantastical &lt;em&gt;elements&lt;/em&gt; in some of the &lt;strong&gt;minor&lt;/strong&gt; Doyle Holmes stories (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_the_Creeping_Man&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Adventure of the Creeping Man&lt;/a&gt;, for example features a man who turns into a monkey and there are mentions of a mythical &quot;Giant rat of Sumatra&quot; in '&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_the_Sussex_Vampire&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire&lt;/a&gt;' (which turns out to have nothing to do with vampires whatsoever) there are no science fictional references in any of the novels that are considered to form the basis for the main Sherlock Holmes canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are, obviously many books, &lt;a href=&quot;http://io9.com/5178945/22-cases-of-sherlock-holmes-in-science-fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;films and TV shows&lt;/a&gt; that are based on Sherlock Holmes but set &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RecycledINSPACE?from=Main.INSPACE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;in space&lt;/a&gt; (TV Tropes Warning). You're perfectly free to ask about those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2015-11-29T00:12:46.883" LastActivityDate="2015-11-29T00:12:46.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4979" CreationDate="2014-09-06T20:38:16.093" Score="-15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Sherlock Holmes stories are on topic because they are SF throughout. The methods Sherlock uses to solve his cases, which he tries to pass off as deductions, are patently nothing but guesswork. The fact that Sherlock guesses right far more often that the laws of chance would allow proves that he has what you'd call ESP or psi powers. How are the adventures of a psi-mutant superhero not SF?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastActivityDate="2014-09-06T20:38:16.093" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4983" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4986" CreationDate="2014-09-09T11:57:45.827" Score="5" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wondering why &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/67400/22254&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; was closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/319/22254&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4776/22254&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; both state that video game questions are on topic, and the latter specifically dealing with identification questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why was the question closed as off-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22254" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2014-09-09T16:13:51.550" Title="Are video games out of scope?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4983" CreationDate="2014-09-09T12:09:19.603" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, they're not out of scope, and that question should be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2014-09-09T12:09:19.603" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4983" CreationDate="2014-09-09T12:22:13.917" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both linked questions make it clear, I think, that games are on-topic as long as the questions are about the setting, story, characters or background, but not gameplay elements. The question in question us asking to identify a game through elements of &lt;em&gt;gameplay&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;interface&lt;/em&gt;, not of settings or story, not of any elements particularly Fantasy or SFnal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe it isn't on topic, and should remain closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4516" LastActivityDate="2014-09-09T12:22:13.917" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4983" CreationDate="2014-09-09T15:34:46.667" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Game ID questions are not fundamentally different from story ID questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That means they need to be held to the same standards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect that if someone asked a story ID question and the only on-topic element they could recall was &quot;there were monsters in it&quot;, it would get closed.  Perhaps off-topic might not be the best close reason, but it would still likely be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, part of the key concept of SE sites is accumulating collections of &lt;em&gt;experts&lt;/em&gt; in a given topic.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As sci-fi and fantasy experts, this community should be able to identify sci-fi or fantasy works of any genre, but you can't expect us to identify as experts unless you're asking us to identify based upon criteria that is within our expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, questions asking to ID games are on-topic, &lt;strong&gt;if&lt;/strong&gt; the description of the game gives a clear picture of some of the key fantasy or sci fi elements or plot points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question in this example does not, so should not be reopened until more details on the sci-fi or fantasy elements are provided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2014-09-09T15:34:46.667" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4983" CreationDate="2014-09-09T16:13:51.550" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Identification questions are not off-topic.  Questions about video games with a sci-fi or fantasy setting are not off-topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But to combine the two does not make it Super-On-Topic, or even necessarily an on-topic question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is actually &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; off-topic, but it's not very good.  The level of detail the asker is giving to identify it it is very low, and focuses on gameplay elements that are hard to distinguish between different games.  Even as a video game expert site we would be ill-equipped to answer it (and I do NOT recommend going to Arquade.se to ask, because I know they specifically require an audio/visual artifact for identification questions).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I won't oppose a re-opening of the question, but I strongly encourage the asker to add more details about the characters, plot, settings, and story elements and to &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; focus on the gameplay elements of the game, because we are not suited to answer identification questions based on gameplay.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20533" LastActivityDate="2014-09-09T16:13:51.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4776" CreationDate="2014-09-09T16:32:06.193" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a simple answer for whether a game question is on-topic if it contains some Sci-Fi or Fantasy element. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the &lt;strong&gt;question&lt;/strong&gt; relates to Sci-Fi for Fantasy, it is on-topic.  Period.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means you can ask Sci-Fi or Fantasy questions about video games, but &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; video game questions about a Sci-Fi or Fantasy video game.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The content of the material is not important - the content of your &lt;strong&gt;question&lt;/strong&gt; determines whether it is on-topic, and I think that's satisfactory.  If there is enough Sci-Fi or Fantasy content in your video game to ask a solid Sci-Fi or Fantasy question about it, then the question is on-topic.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[/Simple Answer]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, Identification Questions are more problematic, but you can still follow this rule when asking an Identification question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are the elements you're using to identify the game Sci-Fi or Fantasy related?  Then it's on-topic, but you'd better make sure those elements are specific enough, or it will get downvoted for low-quality details. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a Sci-Fi/Fantasy SE, so we expect our questions to be Sci-Fi and Fantasy based.  If they're not, they're off-topic.  If they are, they will be treated as any other Sci-Fi/Fantasy question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20533" LastActivityDate="2014-09-09T16:32:06.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4989" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4990" CreationDate="2014-09-09T16:46:48.260" Score="4" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is regarding &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/67397/revisions&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/67397/revisions&lt;/a&gt;. The querent had posted an answer that was really a comment indicating further details to their question which disqualified an actual proposed answer. I flagged the &quot;answer&quot; and then copied the content of it into the question since I figured that there was otherwise a risk of useful information being lost. That was reverted recently. Did I overstep again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2014-09-12T16:07:13.940" Title="Editing in accidental &quot;answers&quot; by the querent into their question" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4989" CreationDate="2014-09-09T16:55:19.197" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;My bad.  I compared the users, and misread the question asker's user name, so I thought they were different names.  I've undone my revert.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-09-09T16:55:19.197" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3599" CreationDate="2014-09-11T03:57:57.577" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doesn't seem that way to me. The most upvotes I ever got for an answer was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/49743/let-there-be-light-story-identification&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; which I answered 5 minutes after it was posted; I got 59 upvotes for being faster than the thousand other users who knew it. On the other hand, I got a grand total of 1 upvote for answering &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20149/book-about-aliens-who-attack-earth-and-destroy-the-sun&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; after it had been lying around for 2 years and 7 months. (The question has 833 views and 10 net upvotes.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess the way to get the most upvotes is to identify a popular story by a popular author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; I just posted the answer to an unsolved story-id question from September of 2011. Waiting for a tidal wave of upvotes. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2015-06-06T04:37:48.737" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4992" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4993" CreationDate="2014-09-11T15:26:44.733" Score="7" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;By reading the description of the conditions needed to earn the &lt;strong&gt;Curious&lt;/strong&gt; (or &lt;em&gt;Inquisitive&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Socratic&lt;/em&gt;) badge on the Help Center, it is still quite unclear to me what conditions are needed to earn it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I even checked the profiles of users who earned them, but I wasn't able to deduce how it works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could somebody clarify or explain it to me, please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32339" LastEditorUserId="28219" LastEditDate="2014-09-11T22:31:20.163" LastActivityDate="2014-09-11T22:31:20.163" Title="How does the &quot;curious&quot; badge work (conditions to be earned)?" Tags="|support|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4992" CreationDate="2014-09-11T15:59:58.217" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;For Curious you need to ask 5 questions on 5 separate days which have a positive score. For Inquisitive, the number of question and days is 30 and for Socratic they are 100.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You wouldn't receive the Curious badge if you asked 5 questions in the space of 1 hour. The badges are to gauge if you are returning to the site and continuing to ask questions day-by-day. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2014-09-11T15:59:58.217" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3599" CreationDate="2014-09-11T18:11:08.150" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;When considering votes that a question receives after an answer has been accepted, it comes down to whether anyone else has a similar question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I have a question, I search for it, find it has already been answered, so upvote the question and the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, I have collected upvotes on posts (on other SE sites) months after the post was made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With story identification questions, maybe people don't recognise other questions as being the same story, all recollections are different.  Therefore, this type of continuing upvote won't happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even so, what it comes down to is: you can't expect to receive any votes for anything.  Take what comes and be happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30512" LastActivityDate="2014-09-11T18:11:08.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3599" CreationDate="2014-09-11T22:08:33.330" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that maybe your right, but I would also say that a question that is answered immediately after a question is posted would get the most votes, potentially. This doesn't have to be a rule, but these are my reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer has had more exposure. People will see the answer first and some people don't go back and check a question out after the question has had more up-votes. So that means that the odds of the first answer getting up-votes is higher than other questions in that case.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reasons that answers, posted after would get more up-votes would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Due to the question not being accepted people assume its wrong and instead vote on the question that is ahead of it. Because it is at the top and that answer is newer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The older answer in most cases get pushed to the bottom when a newer answer gets shown. So once again these 2 reasons mean that the answers have a higher chance of getting more votes.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other reasons could be: who uses pictures?, who's answer is longer?, who's answer is more detailed?. I would say newer answers and older answers have about the same rate of getting votes. It all comes down to your research and how you expose your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of a newer answer getting more votes due to better examples: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1725/trying-to-identify-i-will-measure-the-dust-story&quot;&gt;Trying to identify “I will measure the dust” story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of the older answer getting more votes: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31879/book-about-a-man-on-a-space-station-who-sees-himself?rq=1&quot;&gt;Book about a man on a space station who sees himself&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In both examples the top voted answers showed that the users had given better descriptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2014-09-11T22:08:33.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4996" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-12T02:38:03.320" Score="8" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/67578/short-story-describing-a-girls-body-as-a-galaxy&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; about a short story/poem describing a girl's body as a galaxy, and a guy as an astronaut, got closed as off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The likely answer is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/67583/770&quot;&gt;short poem&lt;/a&gt; found by Richard. My interpretation of this poem is that it's allegorical, and that there is no actual galaxy or astronaut involved. But it could very well be read literally by someone else; for example, an alternative interpretation could be that the astronaut anthropomorphizes the galaxy as a woman. Unlikely, but possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is: &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; the poem admits a literal reading, and there is a galaxy and an astronaut, does this qualify for SF&amp;amp;F? If not, why do we allow questions about the movie &lt;em&gt;Gravity&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="770" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2014-09-12T14:23:36.303" Title="Should we close stories about *science* and *fiction*, but not necessarily *science fiction*?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3599" CreationDate="2014-09-12T03:00:41.950" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL&amp;amp;DR version&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Yes; you are right.  But it's only true with some questions; the recognizable spawn of popular / major franchises can overcome this effect, making it hard to see.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Long version:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I have to agree with you.  It's a bit difficult to see in some cases, but it's something I've noticed as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect it has to do with the obscurity of the specific question -- ask a question that has an element that people recognize, and you will have many views, even once it's answered, as people are interested in seeing how someone answered something they feel they know a lot about.  More views means more chances to vote.  The more of an opinion they have about the subject, the more likely they are to vote.  Star Wars is a good example.  As is Harry Potter.  Or almost any major franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ask a question, however, that has little recognizable detail in the title and, once it's answered, unless it is very intriguing sounding, a lot of people won't bother to look at it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've answered a number like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/53466/2292&quot;&gt;This Pier's Anthony one&lt;/a&gt;, for example -- in 5 months, it's had 94 views, 3 upvotes to the question and 2 to my accepted answer.  The title &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Looking for a story with water/earth/fire as rock/paper/scissors&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; just doesn't draw people in, unless, like me, they recognized a probable source.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Then there is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/12628/2292&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; that Tango asked; 2 years old now, with 491 views, but only 3 up-votes on the accepted answer.  The subject? &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why Was Edgar Rice Burroughs' Style So Poor in “John Carter and the Giant of Mars?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;” -- a good question, but a very niche area of interest.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, in each case, there just wasn't a lot to draw the average person in -- mostly (and I recognize that this is NOT true of many of the regulars here), the less serious visitors are interested several things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Things they know about and can answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Things that peak their interest from the Title&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Things that are related to a Tag that is of interest to them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Their own questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you get outside of that range, there is a lot less viewing, less emotional involvement with any of the answers when they DO read them, and less of an inclination to bother to vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contrast those with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/11716/2292&quot;&gt;A HHGTTG question,&lt;/a&gt; that anyone could recognize from the title (2 years old but 4.5k views and 80 up-votes to my accepted answer. And STILL getting me an occasional +10 various days as someone goes looking for HHGTTG.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Then there is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/12220/2292&quot;&gt;THIS question&lt;/a&gt;; Tango and I came up with it in chat, as an experiment on getting downvotes.  It backfired.  (2 years old, 3.6k views, and 36 upvotes.)  It's about JarJar Binks; we assumed it would instantly get downvotes.. Should have known better -- everyone has an opinion on Star Wars, especially the films, so it got lots of views in a hurry.  (I'm still embarrassed whenever I get points from this one.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/6769/2292&quot;&gt;this Star Wars question&lt;/a&gt;. (2 years old.  6.4k views. 51 up-votes on the accepted answer.)  Again -- Star wars, as was clearly evident from the tags and title.. everyone knows something about it, so it got a lot of views.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each of these, like the previous (low-vote) examples, was a first answer, and the accepted answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[Edit]&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4991/2292&quot;&gt;Richard's comment above&lt;/a&gt; fits with this perfectly; &quot; My top post is about Hogwarts students shagging. I guess eventually you just have to throw your hands in the air and say &quot;what the hell?&quot;&quot;  -- Harry Potter (Major Franchise) + Sex (everyone feels themselves to be at least knowledgeable) == Profit! (well, Rep, anyway.)&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[/Edit]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think providing a quick and accepted answer isn't necessarily poison with regards to getting votes.. But with less known/broad topics, an open question is just more interesting, as there is a possibly you may answer it.  Something you don't know about, and is already answered?  To many, if not most, it becomes a 'Why Bother?'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Again, I must stress -- for those who have been here for a long time, much of what I'm saying is not true... But the vast volume of views and votes isn't coming from us.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2292" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2014-09-12T03:49:14.447" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4996" CreationDate="2014-09-12T11:12:31.347" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've recently started reading all of this year's Hugo nominees. In the Short Story category, all the nominees were hard for me to classify as SF/F. One short short, If You Were A Dinosaur, My Love, while being very nice and well-written, can only, as you say, be seen as vaguely allegorically science fictiony. However, it was still published in an SF (online) publication and received enough votes to be a Hugo finalist. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No real answer here, just an observation that many, including the Hugo committee and voters, are willing to take a broad interpretation of what constitutes SF/F. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4516" LastActivityDate="2014-09-12T11:12:31.347" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4996" CreationDate="2014-09-12T14:23:36.303" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In relation to that specific question, without a quote from the author we can't be certain that it isn't literally about the galaxy, personified as a woman, as opposed to the other way around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My rule of thumb is to operate the &quot;smell test&quot;. If it smells like science fiction then it's probably close enough to count. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2014-09-12T14:23:36.303" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5000" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5004" CreationDate="2014-09-12T15:28:54.433" Score="2" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/67604/book-identification-borrowing-minds-of-animals&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; has recieved two answers that are essentially the same - book identification pointing to the same book &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/67614/20533&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/67619/20533&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  I was ready to flag the later answer as a duplicate, until I read the content of the answer, and realized it was providing an entirely different (and valid) set of evidence for this answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I'm puzzled - the answers essentially point to the same answer to the question as a whole, but come to the conclusion in entirely different but completely valid ways. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I suggest an edit to one of the answers?   Should I flag one as a duplicate?   Should I mark one to be added to another in some way?  And if so, should the asker who provided these new details be rewarded for their effort, since they DID provide an answer that was independent of the other, despite pointing to the same source?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20533" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-09-12T17:43:25.040" Title="When answers are the same but the evidence is different" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5001" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5003" CreationDate="2014-09-12T15:49:52.743" Score="7" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I put &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/67433/identify-this-young-adult-childrens-book-with-a-strong-and-clever-female-protago&quot;&gt;this bounty&lt;/a&gt; up on my question hoping to generate interest and an answer where it has proven difficult to find. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I forgot, when I posted this bounty, that I was going to be out of town for a week starting tomorrow, and therefore the bounty would expire, possibly while the question has been answered, but without being able to reward that bounty.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to request, if possible, that this bounty be extended so that I can reward a correct answer when I return on the 21st (EST).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20533" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2014-09-12T17:23:14.730" Title="I won't be able to reward this bounty, can I have it extended?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3599" CreationDate="2014-09-12T15:54:55.073" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that yes, you are right.  But I would also say that every type of question suffers from this problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's related to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/19533/267587&quot;&gt;fastest gun in the west&lt;/a&gt; problem - answers that are easy to provide (For the answering party) and quickily provided that then get accepted 'block out' interest in providing answers to the question, because the question is already 'finished'.  As a result, the question gets less attention and fewer upvotes are awarded to the asker/answerer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is compounded by the nature of Identification Questions - once the answer is provided, potential answerers see that the answer is already there, and move on without looking at or upvoting the answer/question.  Where in a normal question the answerer might think they still have a chance to provide a unique answer to the question, for an Identification question there is usually only one 'correct' answer, so a casual observer would skip past it and not bother trying to answer at all.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see this as a huge problem - asker and answerer are already rewarded with an accepted answer (the asker presumably is happy with their answer, which in itself should be a reward) and despite the lack of 'additional' upvotes, the question is resolved with no further input required  It might reduce the reward for answering quickly, but that's the risk you run when you're quick to the draw.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20533" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2014-09-12T15:54:55.073" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5001" CreationDate="2014-09-12T16:12:22.333" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I don't usually offer to do this, but I can cancel the bounty.  I think that'll refund the reputation you put up for it.  When you're back, you can place a fresh bounty.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that usually, a second (or third, fourth, etc) bounty on a post is required to be larger than the previous one, and I don't know if that will apply here.  Something to be aware of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-09-12T16:12:22.333" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5000" CreationDate="2014-09-12T16:55:16.230" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Answers&lt;/em&gt; are never flagged as duplicates &amp;mdash; questions can be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers can be voted on. If both answers are of value, vote both up. It's up to the Asker to accept one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2014-09-12T17:43:25.040" LastActivityDate="2014-09-12T17:43:25.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5001" CreationDate="2014-09-12T17:23:14.730" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm interested in knowing the answer too. It does seem vaguely familiar although a quick Google hasn't revealed any obvious candidates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd be quite happy if you want me to place the bounty (out of my own rep, obviously) and reward the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2014-09-12T17:23:14.730" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5006" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5007" CreationDate="2014-09-13T07:50:42.617" Score="7" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I'm not mistaken, there used to be a 'Too minor' edit reject option. Was this reject option removed? And why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EpVwU.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19374" LastActivityDate="2014-09-13T09:22:31.057" Title="Where's the 'too minor edit' reject option?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5006" CreationDate="2014-09-13T09:22:31.057" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is gone.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Discussion on Meta.se (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/149722/226928&quot;&gt;Approve as too minor&lt;/a&gt;) about the problems with the “Too Minor” edit reject reason led to this proposal:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Get rid of the “too minor” reject reason entirely.&lt;/strong&gt; If it's really too minor, reviewers should demonstrate that by providing a not-minor edit. If the reviewer opts to build upon the edit instead of starting over from the current revision, then it isn't too minor!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This option seems to have been popular enough for the SE staff to enact it, so now we have one less reason for rejecting edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Discussion about what you should use instead, if anything, can be found in the Meta.se question &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/239106/226928&quot;&gt;What should be used in place of &amp;quot;Too Minor?&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2014-09-13T09:22:31.057" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5008" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-14T01:33:01.943" Score="-4" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;Users with 10K reputation points have the privilege of seeing deleted posts. As far as I know, there is no way for a user with 10K points to turn off this &quot;privilege&quot;. Wouldn't it be desirable to have a way to do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastEditorUserId="14111" LastEditDate="2014-09-14T02:02:32.910" LastActivityDate="2014-09-14T12:47:50.067" Title="Disable view of deleted posts" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5008" CreationDate="2014-09-14T07:15:43.303" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even if such a feature existed, I'd be quite surprise if many high-rep users chose to activate it, not least because some deleted answers do actually contain some useful information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your own reasons for wanting it seem quite personal and esoteric:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That there was a &lt;strong&gt;single answer&lt;/strong&gt; that was annoying you  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That the colouration isn't terribly clear on deleted answers &lt;strong&gt;on your monitor&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, it would seem far simpler to fix your &lt;em&gt;own&lt;/em&gt; experience (by, for example using &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/132134/hide-deleted-answer-content&quot;&gt;this script&lt;/a&gt; that hides deleted answers and adjusting the contrast on your monitor) rather than globally implementing a feature for which there is no demand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2014-09-14T12:47:50.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5008" CreationDate="2014-09-14T07:54:33.400" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think such a feature is unlikely to ever gain traction with the SE developers. As Richard’s answer explains, they’re fairly useful to most 10k users, and I think very few people would actually use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really want to hide all deleted answers, then add this snippet of CSS to your browser:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.deleted-answer {&#xA;    display: none !important;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty much every browser has an option or plugin for injecting custom CSS; just Google around to find one that suits you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Another problem with deleted answers is that, on my monitor, and with my eyes, it's not that easy to see that they are deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can fix this with a different bit of CSS:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.deleted-answer {&#xA;    background-color: #ffaaaa !important;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This shows deleted answers in a fairly strong shade of reddish-pink. Here’s what it looks like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JyZww.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tweak the colour as appropriate for your monitor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastActivityDate="2014-09-14T07:54:33.400" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5011" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-15T14:36:14.660" Score="13" ViewCount="288" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1359/beofett&quot;&gt;Beofett&lt;/a&gt; suggested we do an all time favorite question and answers post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'll accept any question or answer that was asked since the beginning of the site. It doesn't have to be the most up-voted one or most viewed. Maybe it is the original question / answer that got you involved on the site. A brief explanation of why it is your favorite would be helpful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers will be compiled into a blog post similar to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4793/favorite-questions-and-answers-from-the-second-quarter-of-2014?noredirect=1#comment13475_4793&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;. The end of the quarter is coming up, I might still do a quarterly one or maybe I'll just skip it in favor of this one. Only Time will tell (and Time is being pretty close lipped at the moment). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2014-09-24T13:39:43.537" Title="Favorite questions and answers of ALL TIME" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5011" CreationDate="2014-09-15T17:18:32.087" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason I suggested it was because I re-read &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/4059/1359&quot;&gt;this answer by Jeff&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/4056/1359&quot;&gt;Are all Stormtroopers as poor soldiers as the ones in the movies?&lt;/a&gt;, and thought (again) that this is my single favorite answer on the entire website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's one of those answers that just shattered my preconceived notions about one of my favorite titles in a way that makes me enjoy the movies more than I had originally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2014-09-15T17:18:32.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5011" CreationDate="2014-09-15T22:41:49.517" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Favourite Question:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/51208/what-is-the-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot;&gt;What is the song of ice and fire?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A Pretty underrated question from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/19374/shevliaskovic&quot;&gt;Shev&lt;/a&gt;. It's one of those funny ones where you see it and you're like &quot;why didn't I think of that?&quot;. The entire story hinges around this one simple line, and none of us questioned what exactly &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; the &quot;song of ice and fire&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Favourite Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/14281/21267&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/14281/21267&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2765/thaddeus&quot;&gt;Thaddeus&lt;/a&gt; always takes the time to give us well-researched and wonderfully formatted answers, he even gives us a nice tl;dr for all of his answers. This one stands out for me as I really enjoyed the subject matter and all of the links and extra reading linked in the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2014-09-15T22:41:49.517" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5014" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-15T23:05:24.447" Score="13" ViewCount="352" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've got a question about Greek mythology.  Couldn't find any other Stack Exchange site that might include something like that except for this one.  So can I get a verdict?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12686" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2016-01-04T20:55:35.977" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T20:55:35.977" Title="Can I ask about mythology?" Tags="|discussion|scope|mythology|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5014" CreationDate="2014-09-16T12:57:52.193" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It depends on the nature of your question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on these conversations,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1053/5184&quot;&gt;Should we exclude religious texts, and which?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1038/5184&quot;&gt;Why was this question about the Old Testament closed as off-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the previous meta consensus was that we should not treat religions or religious texts as SF/F.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though, I personally doubt that there would be too many people who might become offended by the assumption that Greek or Roman myths are SF/F. Case in point: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/24480/were-there-any-greek-mythology-heroes-born-of-goddesses&quot;&gt;Were there any Greek Mythology heroes born of Goddesses?&lt;/a&gt; has remained open and unchallenged as far as I am aware.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even still, if we are to treat religions as non-SF/F, we must do so for all of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But not all religious related questions are necessarily bad.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question directly relates the myth to some other SF/F work, I see little to no problem. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/47068/5184&quot;&gt;Was Enoch Root right about Heracles killing a large chunk of the offspring of Ares in original myths?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2014-09-16T12:57:52.193" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5011" CreationDate="2014-09-16T21:50:53.510" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this one; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/63180/who-or-what-are-the-human-characters-in-the-original-1977-hildebrandt-star-war?rq=1&quot;&gt;Who, or what, are the human characters in the original 1977 Hildebrandt Star Wars poster?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It took me a while to puzzle out why the poster (drawn &lt;strong&gt;after&lt;/strong&gt; the film had been made) looked like it had completely different actors on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2014-09-16T21:50:53.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5017" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5018" CreationDate="2014-09-17T13:32:47.027" Score="1" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;I flagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/67219/19561&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; as 'not an answer': &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No it's not Harry Potter but is supposed to look like him. What he summoned isn't explained or likely to explained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is comprised of a reply to a &lt;em&gt;comment&lt;/em&gt; of mine, and a statement that the poster doesn't know the answer to the actual question asked by the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The flag shows as 'disputed'. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edited to add that I'm fine with answers stating &lt;em&gt;there is no answer&lt;/em&gt;, as long as they explain &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; there is no answer. I've accepted and upvoted such answers. But this one just seems to boil down to &quot;I dunno and I don't think anyone knows&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2019-08-25T16:45:24.527" LastActivityDate="2019-08-25T16:45:24.527" Title="Why was this 'not an answer' flag disputed?" Tags="|support|flagging|specific-answer|not-an-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5017" CreationDate="2014-09-17T13:56:25.673" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's an answer, it's just not a very good one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No it's not Harry Potter but is supposed to look like him. &lt;strong&gt;What he summoned isn't explained or likely to explained.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/957/usefulness-of-plot-hole-answers-comments&quot;&gt;Usefulness of “Plot hole” answers/comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2710/how-to-comment-on-there-is-no-in-universe-answer-plot-hole-answers-lacking-a&quot;&gt;How to comment on “There is no in-universe answer”/“plot hole” answers lacking any evidence?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes there &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; an answer. As discussed in previous meta discussions, we ideally want to encourage people to essentially show some work here and explain how they've decided that there is no good, solid answer - but the lack of doing so doesn't make it &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;-an-answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this particular case, the comment reply regarding Harry Potter sort of confuses the issue. Remove that part, and it's just an answer of questionable usefulness, but an answer nonetheless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What he summoned isn't explained or likely to explained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2014-09-17T17:31:55.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5019" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5020" CreationDate="2014-09-17T17:59:08.017" Score="4" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answer 1: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/7404/6675&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/7404/6675&lt;/a&gt; |  &lt;strong&gt;24 upvotes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As Kevin noted, Harry was given a special exemption. From Book 1:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&quot;He's just the build for a Seeker, too,&quot; said Wood, now walking around&#xA;    Harry and staring at him. &quot;Light -- speedy -- we'll have to get him a&#xA;    decent broom, Professor -- a Nimbus Two Thousand or a Cleansweep&#xA;    Seven, I'd say.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&quot;I shall speak to Professor Dumbledore and see if we can't bend the&#xA;    first-year rule. Heaven knows, we need a better team than last year.&#xA;    Flattened in that last match by Slytherin, I couldn't look Severus&#xA;    Snape in the face for weeks....&quot; [ this was Prof. McGonagall speaking&#xA;    - DVK ]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer 2: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/7381/6675&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/7381/6675&lt;/a&gt; &#xA;|  &lt;strong&gt;2 upvotes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When McGonagall was telling Wood about Harry (or somewhere very close&#xA;  to that), she said she'd talk to Dumbledore about getting an exception&#xA;  for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&quot;He's just the build for a Seeker, too,&quot; said Wood, now walking around Harry and staring at him. &quot;Light -- speedy -- we'll have to get&#xA;    him a decent broom, Professor -- a Nimbus Two Thousand or a Cleansweep&#xA;    Seven, I'd say.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;I shall speak to Professor Dumbledore and see if we can't bend the first-year rule.&lt;/strong&gt; Heaven knows, we need a better team than last year.&#xA;    Flattened in that last match by Slytherin, I couldn't look Severus&#xA;    Snape in the face for weeks...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer 2 has a whopping 22 LESS votes than Answer 1.  Answer 2 has also been posted a month before Answer 1. Even Answer 1 references Answer 2.  Yet, currently, they say literally the same exact thing, with the exception of the opening sentence, one that states which book the quote is from, the other answer narrating the context of the quote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really understand this at all...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6675" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2014-09-17T18:37:45.417" Title="I don't understand why there is such a huge vote discrepancy between these two answers" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5019" CreationDate="2014-09-17T18:04:40.973" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The difference is because you're looking at the &lt;em&gt;final&lt;/em&gt; edit, rather than the initial answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you compare DVK's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/7404/revisions&quot;&gt;first effort&lt;/a&gt; (basically unchanged) with Kevin's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/7381/revisions&quot;&gt;first effort&lt;/a&gt; (massively changed) you can very easily see why one got more votes than the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ifdeX.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2014-09-17T18:37:45.417" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5011" CreationDate="2014-09-19T03:14:09.633" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I have three questions favorited:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28184/why-didnt-fidelius-charm-on-shell-cottage-stop-the-heroes-from-apparating-there&quot;&gt;Why didn't the Fidelius Charm on Shell Cottage stop the trio from Apparating there?&lt;/a&gt; asked by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3500/slytherincess&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;moi&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;/a&gt;  &amp;lt; / Miss Piggy&gt; Actually, in hindsight, I'm not sure why I favorited this question ... maybe I was just trying to bookmark it or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7403/is-slytherin-evil/7414#7414&quot;&gt;Is Slytherin Evil?&lt;/a&gt; is a far better question than the Shell Cottage one, IMO. &lt;em&gt;Is Slytherin Evil?&lt;/em&gt; was asked by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1693/tango&quot;&gt;Tango&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22550/why-did-the-fidelius-charm-on-the-potters-house-break&quot;&gt;Why did the Fidelius Charm on the Potters' house break?&lt;/a&gt; asked by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3267/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7837/is-santa-claus-a-time-lord&quot;&gt;Is Santa Claus a Time Lord?&lt;/a&gt;, also asked by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1693/tango&quot;&gt;Tango&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ETA:&lt;/strong&gt; Oh, how could I forget?!  I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/13092/how-was-the-sound-of-the-nazg%C3%BBl-composed&quot;&gt;How was the sound of the Nazgul composed?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4831/gabe-willard&quot;&gt;Gabe Willard&lt;/a&gt;'s answer was absolutely the most surprising and unexpected one I could have imagined! The question is just okay, but the answer is unbelievable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2014-09-20T01:05:35.743" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5011" CreationDate="2014-09-19T15:38:05.420" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the risk of a (probably fair) accusation of self-promotion, I was very happy with the detective work I got to do for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/56367/word-for-female-dunedain/56390#56390&quot;&gt;my answer to &quot;Word for female dunedain&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.  I understand why it only got +8 rather than the obvious +several billion it undoubtedly deserves (smiley goes here) since it was a farly niche-interest question, but it's still amazing what one can dig up in obscure footnotes and side-references.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2014-09-19T15:38:05.420" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5011" CreationDate="2014-09-19T16:08:01.960" Score="4" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6343/was-yoda-fully-sane-on-dagobah&quot;&gt;Was Yoda fully sane on Dagobah?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;looks like a crazy hungry green thing that unfortunately has the ability to speak&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2810/why-do-we-hear-leias-theme-during-kenobis-death&quot;&gt;Why do we hear Leia&amp;#39;s Theme during Kenobi&amp;#39;s death?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because I love music questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7510/when-did-george-lucas-make-up-the-stuff-about-the-sith-and-midichlorians&quot;&gt;When Did George Lucas Make Up the Stuff About the Sith and Midichlorians?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because I'm a masochist, I suppose. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/59930/which-are-the-two-towers-in-lord-of-the-rings/59934#59934&quot;&gt;Which are the Two Towers in Lord of the Rings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deceptively simple and &quot;obvious&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2608/why-exactly-do-the-death-eaters-serve-lord-voldemort/2612#2612&quot;&gt;Why exactly do the Death Eaters serve Lord Voldemort?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Because BULLET POINTS&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/13052/wasnt-harrys-father-just-like-draco/13053#13053&quot;&gt;Wasn&amp;#39;t Harry&amp;#39;s father just like Draco?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because I hate James Potter.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2014-09-19T16:08:01.960" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5025" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5027" CreationDate="2014-09-19T20:23:57.130" Score="11" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/67916/what-happened-to-agents-brown-and-jones&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and received two comments from user &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/20774/richard&quot;&gt;Richard&lt;/a&gt; which answer the question to my liking. Moreover, the comments answer the question better than the single submitted answer. I have asked the commenter to post an answer so I can accept it but he declined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have since done some more research based on the tip from the comments and found a few links to add to the information from the comments. My research didn't yield much (in this specific case, a confirmation of the comments at &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_%28The_Matrix%29#Agents_Jones_and_Brown&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and a &lt;a href=&quot;http://the-causality.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3302&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;random forum post&lt;/a&gt; which also confirms the comments).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I post an answer as community wiki so I don't get credit for the commenter's work, post an answer as myself since I did additional research, or keep waiting for an additional answer (possibly downvoting the existing answer that I don't think is good)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2017-02-19T14:07:19.833" Title="Answer my own question if I prefer the answers in the comments to submitted answers?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5025" CreationDate="2014-09-19T20:38:16.043" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absolutely you can. Posting your own answer is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/self-answer&quot;&gt;positively encouraged&lt;/a&gt;. On top of that, you've apparently done some original research which you can use to supplement the info I put into the comments. You may wish to add an acknowledgement if you use some info from a comment out of pure courtesy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, the only good reasons for posting something like this as a &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/the-future-of-community-wiki/&quot;&gt;community wiki&lt;/a&gt;&quot; would be where you've literally done no work whatsoever and simply wish to identify that an answer exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2014-09-19T20:38:16.043" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5025" CreationDate="2014-09-19T22:41:51.023" Score="15" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What you did was pretty much in full accordance with etiquette (not that it's codified, but it's what I try to adhere to).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Encourage the commenter to produce an answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If they explicitly deny, add some info of your own, and post an answer including a hat-tip to original commenter.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;BTW, from personal POV, I have definitely done that before (added comments when I had useful answer-leading info but either didn't have enough info to make it into an answer I was happy with, or didn't have time to bother writing up the answer). From that perspective, I can definitely state that I viewed it very positively when people took those comments and based answers on them (especially if they followed both points of etiquette outlined above).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; bother with Community Wiki. You write an answer and that's an effort worth the rep gain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main point of CW is to allow people to edit extensively-community-collaborated answers, which isn't even an issue anymore due to the Edit Suggestion feature for low-rep users. So CW is not very useful.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="66402" LastEditDate="2017-02-19T14:07:19.833" LastActivityDate="2017-02-19T14:07:19.833" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5028" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5039" CreationDate="2014-09-20T20:00:07.660" Score="2" ViewCount="468" Body="&lt;p&gt;At one point, the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1289/the-many-memes-of-scifi-stackexchange&quot;&gt;many memes of SFF.SE&lt;/a&gt;&quot; question got closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, at this point, it seems to be a fully acceptable and standard practice on SE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta&quot;&gt;Meta.SE original&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2187/the-memes-of-arqade-and-its-chat&quot;&gt;Arqade/Gaming&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://security.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/880/the-memes-of-information-security&quot;&gt;IT Security&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://travel.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1424/memes-of-travel-se&quot;&gt;Travel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://codereview.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1510/whats-a-zombie-and-what-are-the-many-other-memes-of-code-review&quot;&gt;Code Review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, the moderator who closed it explicitly commented:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think this question should be deleted, and asked again in a few years when we have evolved some memes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we re-instate the &quot;many memes&quot; Meta question?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2019-08-07T20:06:36.643" LastActivityDate="2019-08-07T20:06:36.643" Title="Should we re-instate the &quot;many memes&quot; Meta question?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|meta|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="17" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1963" CreationDate="2014-09-20T20:56:44.310" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;some&lt;/strong&gt; instances, TVTropes is a good resource.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2014-09-20T20:56:44.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5028" CreationDate="2014-09-20T21:22:44.460" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the Many Memes of SFF a Time Lord?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You know I'm all over memes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2014-09-20T21:22:44.460" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5031" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5038" CreationDate="2014-09-21T08:02:25.747" Score="27" ViewCount="648" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently there's a question open requesting identification of a novel that has as a distinguishing feature a sex scene between two lesbians and a monkey: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/68087/science-fiction-novel-sex-scene-with-a-lesbian-and-a-monkey&quot;&gt;Science fiction novel: sex scene with a lesbian and a monkey&lt;/a&gt; (potentially NSFW)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A high rep user voted to close because either the topic or the forum the question inevitably leads to is inappropriate for age 13+ children.  I have no idea whether this site is supposed to be child-friendly or not, though judging from the language in some of the posts, grade school children do read and post here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there guidelines we're supposed to be following with regard to discussing material of a sexual nature?  In this particular question I don't think we need to go any further into the sexual aspects to answer the question, but is even mentioning such aspects verboten?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4096" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2014-09-24T12:55:21.730" Title="Does this question comply with the site's policy regarding explicit content?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5014" CreationDate="2014-09-21T08:23:57.293" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;To ask or answer a good question on SF/F, there need to be sources. What is your source?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If the source is clearly and deliberately fiction, then it is on-topic.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If the source is religious and not meant to be fiction, then it is off-topic.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bible: off-topic&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Chronicles of Narnia (and Biblical origins and parallels): on-topic&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your case, if your primary source is ancient Greek mythology/religion, it doesn't belong on SF/F. It belongs on a site about that religion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if your primary source is Marvel's Herculus, ask away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question concerns both, e.g. how Marvel's Herculus compares to the Greek myth, it's still okay, since it still has SF/F.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1053/should-we-exclude-religious-texts-and-which&quot;&gt;Should we exclude religious texts, and which?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1038/why-was-this-question-about-the-old-testament-closed-as-off-topic?lq=1&quot;&gt;Why was this question about the Old Testament closed as off-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3309/how-will-the-upcoming-noah-film-be-handled?lq=1&quot;&gt;How will the upcoming Noah film be handled?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Those last two were both about Noah...weird.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24067" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2014-09-21T08:30:57.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5031" CreationDate="2014-09-21T08:36:59.600" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been couple of previous meta posts on this subject:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1582/whats-our-tolerance-for-adult-content&quot;&gt;What's our tolerance for adult content?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1885/are-questions-about-a-slightly-adult-scifi-comic-acceptable&quot;&gt;Are questions about a slightly adult sci-fi comic acceptable?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In both cases, the accepted answer led back to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/legal/content-policy&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Content Policy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Sexually Explicit Material : Accounts that use Stack Exchange to post&#xA;  sexually explicit or pornographic material, or links to it, will be&#xA;  suspended.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/legal&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange legal policy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Subscriber&lt;/em&gt; certifies to Stack Exchange that Subscriber is an&#xA;  individual (i.e., not a corporate entity) &lt;strong&gt;at least 13 years of age.&lt;/strong&gt; No&#xA;  one under the age of 13 may provide any personal information to or on&#xA;  Stack Exchange (including, for example, a name, address, telephone&#xA;  number or email address).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the specific case of the question posted, since it makes reference to a decidedly NSFW/adult source (a writer's forum discussing bestiality) I would say that it falls foul of this immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2014-09-21T09:35:01.640" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5031" CreationDate="2014-09-21T23:01:07.370" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question in question doesn't strike me as on topic, as there isn't really anything that relates to Science Fiction or Fantasy in the book, it could be any kind of book. Only a brief comment from the user who says it was a SFF book indicates that it might be on topic. I would like to see a lot more details, especially in the science fiction department, or else closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2014-09-21T23:01:07.370" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5031" CreationDate="2014-09-22T05:36:59.110" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't comment? (need 50 reputations) but I've only this to say a forum that has so many posts about Martin's book and the TV series based on them is in no position to make such high claims as to what is suitable for this site and what is not. Nowhere in my post I mentioned the term bestiality explicitly only the forum it was alluding to has this word as its header. Even on that forum there may be many young people who have developed and early interest in writing but there seems to be no censorship (a different matter of course). This is also not the first question of its kind, here there have been other such similar questions like&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/59842/short-story-about-a-boy-and-a-dog-where-all-animals-can-talk&quot;&gt;Short Story about a boy and a dog, where all animals can talk&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32595" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2014-09-22T06:36:45.653" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5031" CreationDate="2014-09-22T17:15:02.847" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this question has a number of issues that make it close-worthy.  For one thing, it's a secondhand story identification:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A few years ago while going through the posts on a writing forum I came across something that made me curious about the book. The person there had written this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the person asking will be unable to confirm that the answers are truly accurate.  This makes it more of a 'list works with these properties' question, which are too broad.  A story identification question has an answer, and it's verifiable.  This particular question is unanswerable, since the person who could verify an accurate answer isn't involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-09-22T17:15:02.847" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5031" CreationDate="2014-09-23T14:28:49.387" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I agree with the answers posted by our moderators with regards to the general flaws in the question, and am not opposed to the question being closed on those grounds, neither actually answers the question &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;, which is specifically asking &quot;Does this question comply with the site's policy regarding explicit content?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer is &quot;Yes, it does comply with the site's policy regarding explicit content.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Richard linked two very relevant prior meta discussions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1582/1359&quot;&gt;What's our tolerance for adult content?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1885/1359&quot;&gt;Are questions about a slightly adult SciFi comic acceptable?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In both discussions, the consensus is clear that we have some degree of tolerance for adult content, so long as &lt;em&gt;what is posted here&lt;/em&gt; isn't explicitly NSFW.  Note that the decision on the first question was to include a potentially NSFW photograph in the question, but to include it as a link and clearly label it as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other question says &quot;don't link to outright porn&quot;, which is sensible, but this question isn't linking to outright porn, or, in fact, anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that it contains direct quotes from a forum discussing a sexually explicit topic is completely irrelevant.  Our responsibilities for policing the content of this site end sometime before the point where users start to create google searches off of content on our site.  If they type in a phrase that they saw on our site, and google shows them something sexually explicit, that is not our problem, nor should it be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As was pointed out in some of the comments, there are &lt;strong&gt;plenty&lt;/strong&gt; of things discussed here that would lead to potentially &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; offensive content if someone searched on collective phrases (e.g. &quot;slave leia&quot;, or anything related to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/32051/1359&quot;&gt;Kirk's love life&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no, we shouldn't close that question because searching for the original quote could bring you to a forum where sexual topics are discussed, no matter how offensive some people might find those topics.  We're not &lt;em&gt;sending&lt;/em&gt; people to that forum.  We're not quoting anything explicit from that forum.  We're not providing direct links to that forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't mean, of course, that the question couldn't/shouldn't be closed for completely different grounds (as the other answers indicate), but it is fine as far as our policies on sexually explicit content go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2014-09-23T14:28:49.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5028" CreationDate="2014-09-23T14:39:56.803" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe a &quot;Memes&quot; wiki could be useful to this site if it will help new users understand some of the particular references that may be found here.  It might help people feel more a part of the community if there were less things the community did that they found incomprehensible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at some of the examples posted above, I'd say that as long as we stick with the standard format (&lt;strong&gt;Meme/Originator/Cultural Height/Background&lt;/strong&gt;) so that actual context is provided, it would be helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to pick on travel.se, but we should avoid the format they've used, as it seems strictly supportive of &quot;hey, remember when &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; happened?&quot;, and actually makes the clique/exclusiveness division between long-standing participants and new members worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do make enough references here that can be confusing to users without context that I believe it would be helpful.  Some examples off the top of my head include &quot;Is &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; a Time Lord?&quot;, and time traveling robots (much as I am reluctant to in any way put a positive spin on a spammer's obsession).  Both of these still appear with some regularity in comments, and it would help if users have some context for stuff like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2014-09-23T14:39:56.803" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5028" CreationDate="2014-09-23T21:09:57.613" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two and a half years later, I think we have evolved a few memes. I voted to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The existing answers need deleting. The answers posted at the time weren't referring to memes, they were referring to anecdotes then known to maybe half a dozen users and now long forgotten.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2014-09-23T21:09:57.613" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5041" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5043" CreationDate="2014-09-24T13:04:54.153" Score="6" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;After some deliberation, I approved &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/37462&quot;&gt;this edit&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/47401/is-amy-pond-claras-grandmother/47402&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, although I considered rejecting it for being too radical a change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should have been a separate answer in its own right. However, this was made by a new user and the question is protected, so the user would need at least 10 rep earned on this stack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can this question be de-protected?&lt;/strong&gt; Then the user can turn their edit into a separate answer, possibly earning some rep and becoming a valuable and respected user on this stack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2014-09-24T20:08:55.560" Title="Can this question be unprotected?" Tags="|support|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5011" CreationDate="2014-09-24T13:39:43.537" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/392/19561&quot;&gt;What is the origin of the phrase &amp;quot;on the gripping hand?&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;...because I learned something that I didn't even know I &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; learn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2014-09-24T13:39:43.537" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5041" CreationDate="2014-09-24T19:50:10.503" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It collected 3 non-answers over a space of 3 months.  That doesn't strike me as a huge magnet for problem answers.  I think it should be unprotected, and if it does prove problematic, we can always re-protect it later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2014-09-24T19:50:10.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5041" CreationDate="2014-09-24T20:08:55.560" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've unprotected it, despite the obvious potential for them to get more rep than me and end up making me look bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2014-09-24T20:08:55.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1289" CreationDate="2014-09-25T02:20:08.190" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme&lt;/strong&gt;: You are dead to &lt;em&gt;me&lt;/em&gt; (mostly to Jack B Nimble)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scope&lt;/strong&gt;: SFF Chat room (Mos Eisley), &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election/2#post-31973&quot;&gt;2013 Moderator Election&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1148/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B. Nimble&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height&lt;/strong&gt;: End of 2012.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background&lt;/strong&gt;: Anytime someone in chat says or does something that Jack B. Nimble dislikes, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22dead%20to%20me%22&amp;amp;Room=198&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;pagesize=50&amp;amp;sort=newest&quot;&gt;Jack declares to the person &quot;you are dead to me&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The offending topic could be something important, like taking issue with Unicorn Blood drinking. Or, as was the case with &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=2491798#2491798&quot;&gt;the very first instance ever&lt;/a&gt;, as trivial as a person promising to &quot;BRB&quot; and failing to appear back soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The person who is the most dead to Jack B. Nimble is clearly @TangoOversway, and the situation &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=8140869#8140869&quot;&gt;is qualitatively symmetrical&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=you%27re%20dead%20to%20me&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Urban Dictionary definition&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-are-dead-to-me&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;It was a failed attempt at general Internet meme in 2010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure that the original etymology of the meme goes back to ancient Jewish custom of a father excommunicating the son for some major transgression, but can't find any authoritative backing for that aside from (ontopic alert) Alt-Hist Eric Flint &quot;Ring of Fire&quot; series print, Grantville Gazette.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2015-09-13T14:04:57.063" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1289" CreationDate="2014-09-25T02:28:16.190" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;This meme example is a work in progress. Please add details from searching chat, comments and posts&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme&lt;/strong&gt;: &quot;JKR Math&quot; / &quot;JKR is bad at maths&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator&lt;/strong&gt;: TBD (Slytherincess or DVK, likely? My first candidate is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/8002/976&quot;&gt;this comment&lt;/a&gt; from 2011) on main site. &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/3087/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;PearsonArtPhoto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=2603379#2603379&quot;&gt;on chat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height&lt;/strong&gt;: You'd need to be good at maths to find local maxima.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background&lt;/strong&gt;: J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter author) admitted in interviews that she is bad at mathematics, as an explanation for some of the numerical inconsistencies in Harry Potter books (such as population size of Wizarding Britain, or time intervals/chronology)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The meme is used in one of two contexts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Finding Yet Another example of an inconsistency in Harry Potter canon that can most plausibly be explained by JKR not knowing maths&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Using &quot;JKR Math&quot; as a noun describing any poor math by SFF author, the same way people refer to &quot;Lucas/Star Wars physics&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Note: the meme must spell &quot;Maths&quot; the British way, indubitably.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The meme is enhanced and cross-pollinated by the fact that Slytherincess, an acknowledged site Harry Potter expert &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5047/976&quot;&gt;who was at times thought to be JKR herself in disguise&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=6701130#6701130&quot;&gt;admitted to being poor at mathematics&lt;/a&gt; as well. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Examples: &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=jkr+math&amp;amp;room=198&quot;&gt;Chat&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/72841/4918&quot;&gt;How could Hermione have gotten more OWLs than classes?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2016-04-03T12:02:20.657" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5048" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-25T18:28:05.980" Score="-4" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;Isn't this user blatantly self-promoting his website?&#xA;His username and description etc are all aimed an bringing people to his website and audio show.   What's the moderators' position on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoting &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/33084/manofsteelanswers-com?tab=summary&quot;&gt;their user profile&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Welcome to the ManOfSteelAnswers.com where we endeavor to answer the questions, criticisms, and controversies raised by the 2013 film for Man of Steel fans and those excited by the anticipated DC Cinematic Universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Show&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Man of Steel Answers Insight Commentary (MOSAIC) is a weekly audio show dedicated to diving deep into one of the most polarizing films in the superhero genre. &#xA;  etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2014-09-25T19:03:22.187" Title="user manofsteelanswers.com is self-promoting" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="20" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5048" CreationDate="2014-09-25T18:59:26.690" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's look at their profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Website&lt;/strong&gt;: manofsteelanswers.com &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing wrong here. That's exactly what the field is for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bio&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Welcome to the ManOfSteelAnswers.com where we endeavor to answer the questions, criticisms, and controversies raised by the 2013 film for Man of Steel fans and those excited by the anticipated DC Cinematic Universe. [snip]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A little questionable since this is pretty much the &quot;about&quot; page for a website and not the bio of a specific person. I see nothing in any rules or meta questions about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stats:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;0 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;14 answers with a total of 162 rep. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;15 upvotes, 2 downvotes, 1 accept.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of those 14 answers, none of them mention their website or link to it. There are no advertisements for anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding whether or not a url is acceptable as a username, the main meta site &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/100860/are-user-names-that-represent-domains-allowed&quot;&gt;has decided that there is no problem&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not a mod, but I see no particular issue with this user. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2014-09-25T18:59:26.690" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5048" CreationDate="2014-09-25T19:03:22.187" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not a moderator here, but I see no problem with this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This user sees him or herself as an expert on a specific topic relevant to our site.  They've posted numerous answers that seem comprehensive and knowledgeable (at least on the surface; I haven't had a chance to read them in detail yet, and I likely don't know enough about Superman to accurately judge them).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see no mention of their site in their answers, or comments, or anywhere besides their profile and username (and as PearsonArtPhoto linked in a comment above, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/100860/are-user-names-that-represent-domains-allowed&quot;&gt;the username is acceptable&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, the contributions this user has made so far seem exactly the kind of contributions we are supposed to attract: expert answers (with &amp;quot;expert&amp;quot; being understood as a rather nebulous term that can be interchangeable with &amp;quot;someone who spends a lot of time with the subject matter&amp;quot;, for our particular site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that &lt;strong&gt;some&lt;/strong&gt; self-promotion is acceptable.  The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/behavior&quot;&gt;specific rules&lt;/a&gt; are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Avoid overt self-promotion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community tends to vote down overt self-promotion and flag it as spam. Post good, relevant answers, and if some (but not all) happen to be about your product or website, that’s okay. However, you must disclose your affiliation in your answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a large percentage of your posts include a mention of your product or website, you're probably here for the wrong reasons. Our advertising rates are quite reasonable; contact our ad sales team for details. We also offer free community promotion ads for open source projects and non-profit organizations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see no signs of these rules being violated, or even approaching being violated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-09-25T19:03:22.187" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="926" CreationDate="2014-09-25T19:50:54.940" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;After some consideration, I've decided that this is an &lt;strong&gt;excellent idea.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that we can all agree that site swag (specifically pens, mousemats, coasters and &lt;strong&gt;gold bullion&lt;/strong&gt;) should be awarded to the user who 'wins' the following criteria:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Reputation&amp;amp;filter=week&quot;&gt;Highest Rep this Week&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Reputation&amp;amp;filter=month&quot;&gt;Highest Rep this Month&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Reputation&amp;amp;filter=quarter&quot;&gt;Highest Rep this Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Reputation&amp;amp;filter=year&quot;&gt;Highest Rep this Year&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Reputation&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;Top 3 All-time rep users&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T20:38:02.413" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5052" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5053" CreationDate="2014-09-26T12:16:51.477" Score="9" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lately, I've found myself trawling the [story-identification] posts fairly often, and a recurring problem is users who post answers that consist of a book title, occasionally with a bare link to Wikipedia or Amazon. I've been taking those entries and editing in a brief description, sometimes just from the site that they linked. Is this useful? Is it encouraging overly brief answers in hopes of answering &quot;first&quot; that then have to be cleaned up by providing actual detail?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose that, as much as anything, the fact that there's usually a &quot;Can you explain your answer?&quot; comment on these posts to the original author. If the person in that comment didn't feel it was useful to visit the linked site and post the summary, am I presuming on my side?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2014-10-03T05:57:15.110" Title="Is it useful to post short descriptions from sites such as Wikipedia into a sparse post?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5052" CreationDate="2014-09-26T12:26:45.187" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes it is useful.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, you're not '&lt;em&gt;presuming&lt;/em&gt;' at all.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site rules explicitly encourage you to make changes that you feel will improve the original post. If others feel that they aren't improvements then they'll roll those changes  back or make further edits. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At 2000+ rep points you're consisted &quot;trusted&quot; enough  to use your own judgment on what edits to make without the approval of higher rep members. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only caveat I'd offer would be to tread carefully where an answer is &lt;strong&gt;brand new&lt;/strong&gt;. Editing something that's only a few minutes old can come across as seeming meddlesome, especially if the user is still in the process of editing their own answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2014-09-26T12:41:02.473" LastActivityDate="2014-09-26T12:41:02.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1030" CreationDate="2014-09-29T13:54:10.330" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps &lt;a href=&quot;https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Astronomy&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://space.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Space Exploration&lt;/a&gt; will turn out to be good migration paths.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:59:06.177" LastActivityDate="2014-09-29T13:54:10.330" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5055" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5056" CreationDate="2014-09-29T18:37:45.073" Score="3" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;We had &lt;a href=&quot;https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/137837/45702&quot;&gt;a question about quasars&lt;/a&gt; that was quite a bit off topic.&#xA;It has been migrated to the Physics stack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also have an &lt;a href=&quot;http://astronomy.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Astronomy stack&lt;/a&gt;, which is in beta. To me, that seems the stack that should be even better equipped to answer this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to criticise the decision, I'm just genuinely curious why it was migrated to Physics instead of to Astronomy. Is it because the former is graduated while the latter is in beta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:40:12.193" LastActivityDate="2014-09-30T01:06:56.853" Title="Why was the quasar question migrated to Physics.SE instead of Astronomy.SE?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|migration|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5055" CreationDate="2014-09-29T18:40:42.977" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because I flipped a coin, and it came up Physics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-09-29T18:40:42.977" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5055" CreationDate="2014-09-30T00:53:33.597" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question should be, why not? It's perfectly on-topic on either site, and it's doing quite well where it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2014-09-30T00:53:33.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5055" CreationDate="2014-09-30T01:06:56.853" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keen's choice may have been arbitrary, but in general, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/169984/194206&quot;&gt;migrating to beta sites isn't encouraged&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Anna Lear:&lt;/strong&gt; Migrating to beta sites isn't something we encourage because beta should be all about a site figuring out its own voice rather than getting questions from elsewhere, but an occasional migration doesn't hurt much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2014-09-30T01:06:56.853" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5059" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-30T14:03:27.890" Score="8" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from July 1st 2014 through September 30 2014.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note: If you have a favorite question or answer outside of this date range, please post it to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5011/favorite-questions-and-answers-of-all-time&quot;&gt;Favorite questions and answers of ALL TIME&lt;/a&gt; for a blog post that will be coming up in the bottom half of October.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What was the best answer (IYHO) provided to a question that was closed?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2013/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2013/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2013/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2014-12-05T19:19:17.983" Title="Favorite questions and answers from the third quarter of 2014" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5060" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5064" CreationDate="2014-09-30T17:20:26.263" Score="9" ViewCount="784" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are questions about &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_39_Clues&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The 39 Clues&lt;/a&gt; book series on-topic here? They are arguably science fiction, as one central theme is a DNA-altering serum giving people amazing powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32466" LastActivityDate="2014-09-30T18:57:12.960" Title="Is The 39 Clues on topic here?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5060" CreationDate="2014-09-30T17:56:53.177" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;one central theme is a DNA-altering serum giving people amazing powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking, the books sound to be on-topic. I would caution, however, that based on looking over &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_39_Clues&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the Wikipedia entry&lt;/a&gt;, it sounds as though much of the books themselves may fall outside the scope. Questions not specifically about a SF/F related element of the book may be deemed off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2014-09-30T17:56:53.177" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1289" CreationDate="2014-09-30T18:27:08.753" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme&lt;/strong&gt;: &quot;Gorilla vs. Shark&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator&lt;/strong&gt;: Jeff Atwood, one of the founders of the Stackexchange platform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2264/1359&quot;&gt;September, 2012&lt;/a&gt; and again in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4835/1359&quot;&gt;July of 2014&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background&lt;/strong&gt;: In August of 2011, Jeff Atwood wrote a blog entry entitled &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/gorilla-vs-shark/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gorilla vs. Shark&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  While aimed primarily at issues with a certain type of question on Stackoverflow.com, the points made about the uselessness of asking &quot;who would win&quot; in a battle between x and Y turned out to be particularly applicable to SciFi.se.  Throughout our site's history, we've had a number of odd battles suggested, most of which have been since deleted after &quot;gorilla vs. shark&quot; was invoked as a close reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At one point, we even had a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2966/1359&quot;&gt;tag dedicated to the topic&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2014-09-30T18:27:08.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1289" CreationDate="2014-09-30T18:52:33.503" Score="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meme: &quot;Time Traveling Robots&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Originator: An Internet troll originally going under the name &quot;Rondo&quot;, although a wide variety of subsequent usernames were used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cultural Height: April of 2012 through early 2013&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Background: It started innocently enough.  A question posted by a new user, asking about the &lt;em&gt;Terminator&lt;/em&gt; franchise.  Then another, again, seemingly innocently enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then it began.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question was posted asking for a list of all movies involving time traveling robots.  It was closed as off-topic as an open-ended list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another question was posted to replace it.  It was closed as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rondo implied that he believed time traveling robots were real, and expressed frustration with his eventual reluctant conclusion that &lt;em&gt;Terminator 2&lt;/em&gt; was fictional:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GYBAQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Rondo&amp;#39;s list question&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new question feed started filling up with questions about time traveling robots.  Some of them were disguised, starting off as seemingly legitimate questions, only to throw in a bit about time traveling robots at the end.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/espHk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Rondo&amp;#39;s Cyborg 2087 question&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Others were blatant, asking every possible variation of questions involving time traveling robots conceivable.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FC0FU.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Neo is clearly a time traveling robot!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Classical examples of early time traveling robots were sought:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RFh3k.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;I&amp;#39;ve always believed that Jean Valjean was actually a fugitive cyborg from the future&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;User accounts were banned or destroyed, only to have a new series of questions posted under a new account.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Connor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;John Connor&lt;/a&gt; quailed in despair.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-9_(Doctor_Who)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;K-9&lt;/a&gt; contemplated suicide by sonic screwdriver.  Even &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama:_Bender%27s_Big_Score&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bender&lt;/a&gt; swore off a life of crime.  All to no avail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aliases were created, usually some sort of anagram of &quot;Rondo&quot;, and various scatological themes were incorporated into his obsession with robots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rondo's quest spread to other sites, as well:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Telx4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Time traveling robots need more quarters!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually, the influx of time traveling robot questions stopped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then started again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then stopped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A user going by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/5404/rondo&quot;&gt;same original username&lt;/a&gt; eventually showed up, and started posting questions that seem legitimate.  Some of them didn't even involve time traveling robots.  It is uncertain whether there is any relationship between this account and the original trolls.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consipiracy theories were formulated, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22782/help-in-identifying-a-sci-fi-movie-about-some-mechanical-beings-traveling-back-i#comment42045_22782&quot;&gt;speculating&lt;/a&gt; on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5028/should-we-re-instate-the-many-memes-meta-question#comment13653_5039&quot;&gt;possible identity of the original perpetrator&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless, the spam thankfully ended, but ever since the concept of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/31512/1359&quot;&gt;time traveling robots&lt;/a&gt; has had a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/13414/1359&quot;&gt;special place&lt;/a&gt; on our site, and the original spam &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22782/help-in-identifying-a-sci-fi-movie-about-some-mechanical-beings-traveling-back-i#comment41961_22782&quot;&gt;would be referenced&lt;/a&gt; for a long time after.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually, it would go on to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/03/movies-with-time-traveling-robots/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;inspire a blog post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-08-07T20:05:45.760" LastActivityDate="2019-08-07T20:05:45.760" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5060" CreationDate="2014-09-30T18:57:12.960" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The series itself, from a cursory glance at &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_39_Clues&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the Wiki&lt;/a&gt;, appears to be a light-sci-fi light-fantasy series, so I think questions about the series itself are on-topic here.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I caution you that the questions you ask must pertain to the story itself, or to elements of the story that are sci-fi or fantasy related.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've had a few questions lately asking about real-world materials in sci-fi shows, and the conclusion we've reached is that just because something happens &lt;em&gt;in&lt;/em&gt; a sci-fi or fantasy series does not make it sci-fi or fantasy.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4776/20533&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; and the answers to it are a good primer for that.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the best way to find out if your question is valid is to simply ask away!  Well-formatted questions are always welcome, and if they are off-topic, the worst that can happen is that we'll politely inform you of it and close the question.  So it doesn't hurt to ask.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20533" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2014-09-30T18:57:12.960" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5065" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5079" CreationDate="2014-10-01T04:15:49.883" Score="15" ViewCount="277" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've got a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/68696/what-is-the-origin-of-the-name-bolo&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; out which has an answer I am willing to accept but which is along the lines of &quot;I don't know for sure, this may be it...&quot;. I don't want to accept it too early in case someone else comes along and either knows or is willing to do some offline research. What is a good wait time before I accept it? Maybe a week?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2015-09-30T14:09:19.987" LastActivityDate="2015-10-04T01:26:59.950" Title="What is a good time to wait before accepting an answer?" Tags="|discussion|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5066" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5067" CreationDate="2014-10-01T11:00:27.727" Score="9" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just read this question &amp;amp; answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/60609/17122&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/60609/17122&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the answer contains 2 possible answers but if one of them is the answer how would someone else reading the question know what is correct unless a comment is made?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So should the answerer place 2 answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Of course it's possible it doesn't allow 2 answers I have never tried!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17122" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2014-10-01T21:43:12.507" Title="When answering a question and you have 2 answers should you post 2 or 1?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5066" CreationDate="2014-10-01T11:12:41.577" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The idea of the SE network is that you would enter two answers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then other users will vote up the one with which they agree.  Similarly, the OP may accept the one they feel fully answers their question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the help pages state - Good answers will rise to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Putting two possible answers in one posted answer just confuses things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30512" LastActivityDate="2014-10-01T11:12:41.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5065" CreationDate="2014-10-01T12:37:34.967" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a week is a pretty good period of time to wait before accepting answers. It gives people time to compose really excellent answers -- you never know when you'll get a really awesome answer to your question, after a few hours have passed. Meaning, don't feel compelled to accept an answer because it's the first one posted, or because it's &lt;em&gt;okay&lt;/em&gt; (but maybe not brilliant). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal of Stack Exchange is to provide excellent answers to good questions, which is why I sit on accepting answers to questions for at least a week (To be honest, I'm terrible at going through my questions and picking an answer, so don't use me as a mentor, but really a week should be sufficient.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="3500" LastEditDate="2015-10-04T01:26:59.950" LastActivityDate="2015-10-04T01:26:59.950" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5066" CreationDate="2014-10-01T16:19:07.077" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have two separate answers then those should be posted as two separate answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you post them as a single answer (which then gets accepted) then it might not be immediately obvious which part of the answer is the bit that was considered most useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can recall, I've only double-answered a question on one occasion; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/60724/who-was-the-rightful-owner-of-the-sword-of-gryffindor/60738#60738&quot;&gt;Who was the rightful owner of the Sword of Gryffindor?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2014-10-01T21:43:12.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5065" CreationDate="2014-10-01T22:28:11.070" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that you should give it at least a few days. There's no rush to accept and you never know what another user is going to come up with, even if an earlier answer seems definitive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've personally posted answers that have been &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/52427/is-iron-man-s-suit-really-heavy-enough-to-break-through-his-roof&quot;&gt;rapidly upvoted&lt;/a&gt; and accepted, only to read a later comment or see a subsequent answer that shows my answer to have been &lt;strong&gt;completely wrong&lt;/strong&gt; or totally obsolete. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you &lt;em&gt;rapidly accept&lt;/em&gt;, you limit the interest for other users to answer and you may miss out on an even better answer that comes later. I'll happily admit that I'm far less interested in crafting an improved answer for an already accepted question than one that's still open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2014-10-01T22:28:11.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5071" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5072" CreationDate="2014-10-02T18:02:25.483" Score="3" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a close reason: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Questions seeking scientific solutions or explanations are off-topic unless they relate directly to a cited work of fiction. There are a number of other Stack Exchange sites dedicated to answering questions on non-fictional sciences.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, some of the questions closed under it are very interesting and good questions for those sciences. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(A recent example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/68808/is-atlanta-too-far-inland-and-too-far-above-sea-level-to-be-affected-by-the-come&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/68808/is-atlanta-too-far-inland-and-too-far-above-sea-level-to-be-affected-by-the-come&lt;/a&gt; seems like a good question for &lt;a href=&quot;https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Earth Science SE&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we, as a matter of policy, strongly consider migration for questions closed under this reason to a relevant SE (Physics, Chemistry, IT Security, Biology, Earth Science, etc...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, all the usual rules around migration should apply (&quot;don't migrate crap&quot; and ask the mods of the target SE if they will accept the question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;However, within those rules, should we institute a rule that migration process should be initiated for almost all non-crappy questions closed under this VTC reason?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:50:29.557" LastActivityDate="2014-10-02T18:27:10.077" Title="Should we be more active in migratintg science questions to other SEs" Tags="|discussion|scope|closed-questions|migration|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5071" CreationDate="2014-10-02T18:27:10.077" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;No need for any special rule, just be more active in flagging stuff that you have a legitimate reason for wanting migrated.  When I say 'legitimate reason', I'm saying you're an active user on the target site, and know it fits there.  There are tons of comments where people who are not active on physics.SE say, 'send this to physics' where it's obviously not on topic on physics.SE, as they don't do fictional science stuff.  Most of those comments don't come with flags to raise the post to the attention of the mods, so we aren't guaranteed to see it and so we never even get the chance to consider migrating it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long story short, just do more flagging so mods know these posts should be migrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;ask the mods of the target SE if they will accept the question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't a thing.  Hasn't been for a while.  SE tells us to just go ahead and migrate stuff, and the receiving site will accept/reject the migration on their end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-10-02T18:27:10.077" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1289" CreationDate="2014-10-02T20:28:00.070" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meme: &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Because, magic&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Originator: SFF.se &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; fans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cultural Height: The wave has yet to crest! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently active: Yes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Background: In October/November 2011, SFF.se approved &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; as a Q&amp;amp;A topic. Since that time, hundreds of users, perhaps thinking they were clever and iconoclastic, have answered &quot;Because, magic!&quot; whenever a &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; question is posed. It is meant to suggest that &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; which happens in the &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; universe can be fixed by magic, including, presumably, feats that defy normal magic, such as healing wounds from Dark Magic, and even Death itself. This is not compatible with &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; canon, and J.K. Rowling has said many times that &quot;magic doesn't and cannot fix everything.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The application of &quot;Because, magic&quot; is not encouraged and occurs mainly with newer users. However, occasionally a high/higher rep user will whip this winner out of his/her war chest. Upon encountering &quot;Because, magic&quot;, the community typically 1) mocks the phrase, 2) rolls their collective eyes, or 3) pretends to answer every other question on the site with &quot;Because, magic&quot;, even when magic doesn't even exist in a given universe. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/68322/3500&quot;&gt;&quot;Because, magic&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (Scroll down to the bottom of the comments) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag status: No &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/because-magic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;because-magic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;because-magic&lt;/a&gt; tag exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-01-18T06:07:14.493" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5052" CreationDate="2014-10-03T00:20:05.467" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5053/21267&quot;&gt;@Richard explains&lt;/a&gt;, you are doing a helpful thing; there's a reason why short answers are flagged for review &quot;because of their length&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only other caveat I can add is to make sure that you don't paste in too much: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/151/posting-large-swaths-of-wikipedia-as-answers?rq=1&quot;&gt;Posting large swaths of Wikipedia as answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2014-10-03T00:20:05.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5075" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5076" CreationDate="2014-10-03T01:43:18.243" Score="8" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I see answers that are nothing more than &quot;see this link for the answer&quot; I usually write a comment saying that they need to actually answer the question here because link only answers aren't allowed. I'll normally also flag it as a link only answer. On the other sites my flags are accepted as helpful, and the posts are frequently deleted. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/225370/256282&quot;&gt;Meta Stack Exchange says we should flag these answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I last flagged a link only answer here it was declined with this message: &quot;declined - flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So are we not meant to flag these answers here? What should we do with them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17815" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2014-10-03T02:00:56.823" Title="How should link only answers be flagged here?" Tags="|discussion|answers|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5075" CreationDate="2014-10-03T02:00:56.823" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look at the current state of the answer.  It's no longer a link-only post, another user edited it to add the relevant details.  Your flag presumably raised before the edit, and dismissed afterwards.  Sorry for the false negative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-10-03T02:00:56.823" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5052" CreationDate="2014-10-03T05:57:15.110" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not legal in most cases, as the content you're copying is copyrighted. It's legal for WIkipedia as long as you link back to the original article as well, or otherwise acknowledge the creators of the content. It's of very dubious legality for Amazon, although you &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; have a &quot;fair use&quot; defence in some jurisdictions. The correct way to refer to copyrighted content is to link to it, not to copy it, even though this creates a risk of link-rot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23" LastActivityDate="2014-10-03T05:57:15.110" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5065" CreationDate="2014-10-03T14:40:41.150" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am starting to think that a rule to &quot;wait x number of days&quot; before accepting is a little too simple and needs refining.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two days ago I asked a pair of questions: the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/68696/what-is-the-origin-of-the-name-bolo&quot;&gt;one&lt;/a&gt; mentioned in my question and a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/68720/why-didnt-the-rebels-jump-to-hyperspace-to-escape-at-the-battle-of-endor&quot;&gt;popular one&lt;/a&gt; about Star Wars. The activity and popularity of these two questions is very different: the first currently has less than 100 views and was only active on the first day, but the second currently has over 5k views and is still getting answers and comments within the last day. I'm not surprised by this difference (Star Wars is much more popular than the Bolo books) but seeing the stark contrast between the two questions leads me to believe that the wait time before accepting an answer also depends very much on the popularity and activity of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While a week is a good rule of thumb to wait for the &lt;em&gt;average&lt;/em&gt; question, a particularly unpopular question does not require as long of a wait while a popular question would benefit from a longer wait. A few days' wait is still necessary for even the most unpopular questions, but popular questions could benefit from waiting for perhaps multiple weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Put another way, perhaps the rule of thumb is to wait until the question has not been active for about half a week. If the question hasn't been active for half a week then a user will have to search for it in order to find it, and such a user is probably interested enough to post an answer even if there is already an accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastActivityDate="2014-10-03T14:40:41.150" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5065" CreationDate="2014-10-03T19:31:35.130" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to propose a different rule of thumb, based not on your question, but on when you first recieve an answer you feel is 'acceptable'.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see an answer to your question that satisfies you, I suggest waiting 2-3 days &lt;em&gt;after this answer is posted&lt;/em&gt; before accepting it, to give others a chance to finish composing answers-in-progress.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keeping in mind that if a better answer is posted after this, you have full capability to immediately switch to this as your accepted answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2-3 days may seem like very little time, but consider that if you wait much longer, the question is likely to fall off the front page if no new answers have been posted, and that if you see a better answer posted after this, you are free to 'reset' your timer and wait to see if an even better third answer is posted before accepting it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way, a question that generates many good answers will stay open for a long period of time, while a question that immediately gets one definitive good answer will have that answer accepted in a timely manner and before the question goes 'stale'.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20533" LastActivityDate="2014-10-03T19:31:35.130" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="86" CreationDate="2014-10-03T19:47:39.277" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sci-Fi May have this 'problem', but it's definitely not the only site that has it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Arqade&lt;/a&gt;: Other than how to press buttons correctly, every other question on this site belongs in a GameFaq.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Anime/Manga&lt;/a&gt;: The same 'problem' we have here. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://history.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;History&lt;/a&gt;: If we enacted this rule here, the only question would could ever ask is &quot;where to find history?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Movies &amp;amp; TV&lt;/a&gt;: While the technical aspects of movies and tv are interesting questions of their own, this is not the only focus of this SE. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Skeptics&lt;/a&gt;: This is definitely not just a &quot;How-to&quot; SE, as most of the questions here answer questions that skeptics pose, not how skeptics SHOULD answer posed questions.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are the more obvious examples, but the main point is this - SE sites are not just about &quot;How-To&quot;.   At least not in a direct practical problem-solving sense.  Historic trivia, in itself, can be a valid question, and filling in those details that seem to be missing from shows, video games, or other mysetries of life are a part of SE's lifeblood.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there are definitely good how-to questions, I dont' see it as a huge problem that Sci-Fi in particular focuses more on these &quot;why&quot; and &quot;what about&quot; questions, which in this particular field are equally if not MORE valid to ask in certain situations.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20533" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:48.340" LastActivityDate="2014-10-03T19:47:39.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5081" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-04T18:26:31.193" Score="-3" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've searched around the meta, but I haven't yet been able to find any consensus on this. Is it okay to post a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt; asking for a specific book and/or author to have their own tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25915" LastActivityDate="2014-10-06T09:14:34.600" Title="Are questions asking for new books to be added as tags acceptable?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5082" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-04T19:57:40.253" Score="4" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;As noted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5045/3500&quot;&gt;in this meta post on the many memes of SFF.se&lt;/a&gt;, some memes arise from chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should this be allowed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not everyone utilizes the chat room; however, Mos Eisley &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; part of SFF.se and some really funny stuff goes down in chat. In the instance of &lt;em&gt;&quot;You are dead to me!&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, this is a &quot;meme&quot; that I have seen in both chat and on the main SFF site in comments. On the other hand, some find &lt;em&gt;&quot;You are dead to me!&quot;&lt;/em&gt; too ubiquitous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But here is what I don't understand. Just because SE/SO use their main and meta sites as fodder for their memes, is it necessarily &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt; for SFF to selectively incorporate chat-based memes into the Many Memes of SFF.se? Personally, I think it's fine -- as noted, some really funny stuff comes out of chat, and SFF is an infinitely smaller site than either SE/SO, thus has less opportunity to develop memes, due to sheer manpower.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what do you think? I'm not suggesting &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; memes come from chat, but it would be nice for chat-based memes to be eligible for inclusion on the master list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2014-10-06T19:07:46.010" Title="Can SFF.se memes come from the chatroom?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5082" CreationDate="2014-10-04T20:40:00.177" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. Users may come to chat and encounter these memes there. Imagine a user, new to chat, being told by Jack B. Nimble that they're dead to him. They need to know! Soylent green is memes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2014-10-06T19:07:46.010" LastActivityDate="2014-10-06T19:07:46.010" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5084" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-04T20:43:30.643" Score="0" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;The color scheme there (on meta.scifi) pretty annoying, as if it was inverted. It is really not comfortable to look at it. Maybe change it to the main one, just greyed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27992" LastEditorUserId="3567" LastEditDate="2014-10-04T20:57:41.983" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T18:28:05.070" Title="Color scheme on meta is... not good" Tags="|feature-request|design|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5084" CreationDate="2014-10-04T20:56:37.543" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the dark theme. It's an &quot;at-a-glance&quot; indication that you're in the meta site, literally the site behind the main site. The symbolism isn't lost on me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do think you should have the ability to change it though. Many sites have a button to click between differing themes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2014-10-04T20:56:37.543" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5084" CreationDate="2014-10-05T03:37:23.197" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll second that. The scheme has other issues (I am too lazy to look for a link, but there was a Meta question about bold text being hard to distinguish).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not exactly Geocities &quot;hurts my brain&quot; type of bad, but I strongly prefered the regular dark on light themes (even BETA vanilla one). When I used Chrome, I used a custom add-on to change the site's CSS (also discussed here on Meta a while back), but that doesn't work on FireFox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2014-10-05T03:37:23.197" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5082" CreationDate="2014-10-05T03:54:39.747" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. In addition to other reasoning (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5083/976&quot;&gt;SQB's answer&lt;/a&gt;), because our sister sites' equivalent Meme questions allow it, with no major visible negative effects:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://codereview.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1514/21426&quot;&gt;Code Review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://travel.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1433&quot;&gt;Travel&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://security.meta.stackexchange.com/a/882&quot;&gt;IT Security&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://security.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1310&quot;&gt;more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2734/7912&quot;&gt;Arqade&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.190" LastActivityDate="2014-10-05T20:39:05.007" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5081" CreationDate="2014-10-05T12:57:17.387" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once you have 300 reputation (which you already seem to have) you can just &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/create-tags&quot;&gt;create the tag yourself&lt;/a&gt;, by adding a completely new and previously unexisting tag to your (or any other appropriate) question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't have the necessary reputation yet, just leave a comment below the question and other people will eventually create the tag for you. Or you might even flag a moderator to do it, but for a newly created question, a comment is more than sufficient as it will be seen by many people anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For works that don't have any question yet, there shouldn't be a tag anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as to your particular question, no there is usually no &lt;code&gt;feature-request&lt;/code&gt; needed for this. If you think there are already many questions existing that would deserve a specific new tag, then this might be appropriate for a &lt;code&gt;feature-request&lt;/code&gt;, as it can also be debated by the community this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So much to the general question of creating tags. As to the particular question of creating tags for individual works, I'd refer you to &lt;em&gt;DarthSatan&lt;/em&gt;'s comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's not necessarily appropriate for every single individual book to have it's own tag. Consider if the objective can be met just as well by an author tag, or a tag for a series (if a series).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you're unsure if a certain tag should be created or not, asking a meta question about it might not be a bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-10-06T09:14:34.600" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5089" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-05T14:29:15.350" Score="7" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ice Age shows Mammoths, Dinosaurs, the ice age, continental drift. But, at the same time, nothing's really serious. A guy run on the core of the Earth to change environment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can Ice Age questions be asked on this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2014-10-15T07:37:12.760" Title="Is Ice Age series fit for this site?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5089" CreationDate="2014-10-05T16:40:02.133" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a tricky one. The main film series is best described as a &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Age_(2002_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;computer-animated comedy-drama adventure&lt;/strong&gt; film&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In and of itself, the films are neither science fictional, nor especially fantastical (talking animals don't make a film a fantasy) and the main topic  of the first two film (the ice age) is an historical event. The third film obviously has a more fantastical aspect (dinosaurs vs mammoths) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, some &lt;em&gt;elements&lt;/em&gt; of the film series do contain strong sci-fi. It would definitely be on-topic to ask about those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wRIcD.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/ELDeHFeI94g?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2014-10-06T06:47:37.830" LastActivityDate="2014-10-06T06:47:37.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5059" CreationDate="2014-10-06T17:41:28.917" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought this was a good question that provoked a pretty good range of answers;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/64415/why-did-the-matrix-simulate-1999-instead-of-a-pre-computer-year&quot;&gt;Why did the Matrix simulate 1999 instead of a pre-computer year?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I thought this was an especially good answer to a (seemingly) straightforward question; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/65627/20774&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/65627/20774&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2014-10-06T17:41:28.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5092" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5094" CreationDate="2014-10-07T01:33:50.560" Score="5" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was prompted to approve a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/38228&quot;&gt;suggested edit&lt;/a&gt; (I think the link should work, sorry if it doesn't).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The edit itself was o.k., and I nearly approved it, but the wording was more of a personal comment to the OP:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Comment: Just because you don't like something doesn't make you the authority on anything. His sells outweigh your childish words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do I do in this case?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm happy to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Skip&lt;/strong&gt;, let someone else decide&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Improve Edit&lt;/strong&gt;, come up with some descriptive wording&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reject&lt;/strong&gt; / &lt;strong&gt;Reject and Edit&lt;/strong&gt;, meaning the suggester won't get the +2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2014-10-07T12:09:57.733" Title="Suggested edit comment wording issues" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edit|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5092" CreationDate="2014-10-07T03:37:05.817" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, that's inappropriate on the user's part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would remove the insulting comment and, given that the other edits are indeed an improvement, go ahead and send them through. Would this be &quot;Improve Edit&quot; or &quot;Reject and Edit&quot; though? Perhaps another user can clarify. Under no circumstances would I approve it as is, though. The body of an answer is an inappropriate venue for running commentary and opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2014-10-07T03:37:05.817" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5092" CreationDate="2014-10-07T12:09:57.733" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would have rejected it outright. The comment is insulting and the edit radically changes the meaning of the original post without adding any discernible value. The editor is attempting to exchange dlanoD's opinion for his own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2014-10-07T12:09:57.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5095" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5096" CreationDate="2014-10-07T16:04:16.803" Score="9" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/69231/in-science-fiction-which-planet-with-lifeforms-has-the-largest-gravitational-fo?noredirect=1#comment142658_69231&quot;&gt;In science fiction, which planet with lifeforms has the largest gravitational force?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's perfectly answerable, with a very clear criteria. It can't have infinite (or too many) answers that are all equally correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Numerous questions of the same exact form not only exist without being closed on the site, but are quite successful in generating awesome content within full scope of SE mechanics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2014-10-08T18:31:44.620" Title="Why was this question closed?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5095" CreationDate="2014-10-07T16:49:08.347" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The current close reason is &quot;too broad&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The description of &quot;too broad&quot; is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are either too many possible answers, or good answers would be too long for this format. Please add details to narrow the answer set or to isolate an issue that can be answered in a few paragraphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this question, there is, by definition, exactly &lt;strong&gt;one&lt;/strong&gt; answer that is correct at any given time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good answers would, imo, describe a likely candidate for the correct (see above) answer, and possibly two or three other close contenders, along with an explanation as to why they believe those suggestions fit/do not fit the criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Put simply, &quot;too broad&quot; doesn't apply here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not a duplicate (afaik).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not primarily opinion based: answers could easily be supplemented by facts, numbers, and direct comparisons, so while opinion may be part of some answers, it isn't &lt;em&gt;primarily&lt;/em&gt; opinion based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's pretty clearly not off topic (science fiction alien races).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not unclear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagree with the closure, and have voted to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2014-10-07T16:49:08.347" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5097" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5134" CreationDate="2014-10-07T18:36:40.147" Score="9" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently, when the contrast of some UI elements was increased on meta.scifi.SE per &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1609/low-contrast-on-many-meta-design-elements-makes-it-hard-to-read&quot;&gt;this request&lt;/a&gt;, one case was missed: the username of the question owner is still shown as light pink on white in comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0SgX1.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot before fix&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An easy fix would be to make the current CSS rule:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.owner a, .owner a:visited {&#xA;    color: #ca4040;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;read instead as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.owner a, .owner a:visited, a.owner, a.owner:visited {&#xA;    color: #ca4040;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this simple change, the link color becomes a much more readable dark pink:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5Xa6S.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot after fix&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2489" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2014-10-16T19:28:59.707" Title="Username is hard to read in comments posted by the OP on meta" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|meta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5095" CreationDate="2014-10-07T23:51:42.890" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't vote to close originally, but I would have done (and have done on its second round of close votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The trouble with questions that take the form of &quot;in SFF which is the &lt;strong&gt;X&lt;/strong&gt; with the largest/smallest/etc &lt;strong&gt;Y&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; is that there can be no final definitive answer.  Nobody has read all possible SFF books ever, and there is always a chance that someone will come along with an updated answer based on an obscure (or semi-obscure) work that the other answerers haven't read (or may not even be aware of).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, an accepted answer may be invalidated by a future work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes the question and its answers become of potentially limited lifespan and constrains their value as a resource for future visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of the close reasons, none is a perfect fit but I think &quot;too broad&quot; is probably the best of a bad lot.  Yes, there is only one answer, but in order to correctly identify that one answer you must read all SFF works ever published and continually keep your answer up-to-date with all SFF works that ever will be published.  It's the job of answering that is too broad here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot;&gt;Real questions have answers&lt;/a&gt; and by definition this kind of question is unanswerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2014-10-08T18:31:44.620" LastActivityDate="2014-10-08T18:31:44.620" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5099" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-08T17:35:10.853" Score="6" ViewCount="289" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to do a blog post about what technologies from science fiction people hope or wish will be realized within their lifetime. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please cite the source material (literature, movies, etc) of the said technology, with a brief description of it and why you want to see that technology become a reality. Do you think that technology could be achieved within the next n years? (n being from now until your death). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2014-11-03T01:54:09.420" Title="What science fiction technologies do you hope / wish will be realized in your lifetime?" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5099" CreationDate="2014-10-09T12:58:03.053" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not obsessed or anything, I just think that if science can put a man on the moon that they can come up with a good way  (virtual reality, cloning, robotics, etc) to allow the common man (someone like me, for example) to have * ahem * &lt;em&gt;relations&lt;/em&gt; with popular celebrities (like Sarah Michelle Gellar, for example).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BUFFYBOT MkI&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/osbsc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2014-10-09T17:13:28.893" LastActivityDate="2014-10-09T17:13:28.893" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5101" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5102" CreationDate="2014-10-09T13:05:20.820" Score="4" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/69345/1359&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; canon was (appropriately) closed as a duplicate.  However, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/910/how-is-canonicity-of-derivative-works-determined-for-star-wars&quot;&gt;the question linked in the close reason&lt;/a&gt; doesn't fully answer the newer question, yet &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/1806/1359&quot;&gt;this other previous question&lt;/a&gt; does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it worthwhile to reopen the question, and then close it again with a more appropriate duplicate link?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-10-09T16:37:06.217" Title="Should we change the linked duplicate for this question?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|closed-questions|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5101" CreationDate="2014-10-09T16:37:06.217" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure, why not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2014-10-09T16:37:06.217" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5099" CreationDate="2014-10-09T16:54:33.160" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to skip all the jetpacks and spaceships and go straight into Singularity mode - Brain Uploading&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we get older, our bodies start to fail us more and more, and for some of us they were never a bastion of stability in the first place. The promise of being to upload our personalities onto a computer - either as disembodied programs wandering around in cyberspace, moved onto a clone or robot body, or powering a completely different chassis, this is the promise of immortality without needing to solve the biological mechanics of aging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of good examples in fiction:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &quot;cyber ghost&quot; concept can be found in William Gibson's &lt;em&gt;Neuromancer&lt;/em&gt;, where digital &quot;constructs&quot; of a personality can be restored. &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; has it as well with the Library Mainframe in the excellent &lt;em&gt;Silence in the Library&lt;/em&gt;/&lt;em&gt;Forest of the Dead&lt;/em&gt; double episode. Arnim Zola in &lt;em&gt;Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier&lt;/em&gt; is another good example.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Copying your personality onto a new body is the central premise of John Scalzi's &lt;em&gt;Old Man's War&lt;/em&gt;. Also in Heinlein's &lt;em&gt;I Will Fear No Evil&lt;/em&gt;, but there it's just creepy. Whedon's &lt;em&gt;Dollhouse&lt;/em&gt; plays heavily with this as the central concept of the show. Oh, and &lt;em&gt;Avatar&lt;/em&gt;, of course. And Zelazny's &lt;em&gt;Lord of Light&lt;/em&gt;. I can go on, I think, quite a bit.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Replacing a human body with a mechanical one is a bit rarer, I think, mostly because it's a bit of a subset of the first category. What I had in mind is works like McCaffrey's &lt;em&gt;The Ship Who Sang&lt;/em&gt;, but looking into it shows that it's not brain uploading as much as a human hooked up to a ship. But there are still probably dozens of examples. I'm pretty sure Zelazny played around with it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And now for the big question, do I think this will be possible in the coming decades? It's hard to say. Computing power and storage keep advancing, and replicating a human's consciousness inside a computer might be possible even without understanding how said consciousness &lt;em&gt;works&lt;/em&gt;. I think I'll give it a solid &quot;maybe&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; I originally typed &quot;Brian Uploading&quot;, which is a fine thing and I appreciate his efforts, but I'm not looking forward to it as much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4516" LastActivityDate="2014-10-09T16:54:33.160" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5099" CreationDate="2014-10-09T17:20:04.153" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just hope that we can get clean, reliable, safe fusion energy in the form of household devices.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've got &lt;a href=&quot;http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Mr._Fusion&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;one year left&lt;/a&gt;! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/G5KiN.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20533" LastActivityDate="2014-10-09T17:20:04.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5105" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5106" CreationDate="2014-10-09T18:01:46.200" Score="-3" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that some science fiction gangster characters were especially good by Ronny Cox (Vilos Cohaagen), Clarence Bodicker (by Kurtwood Smith) and some performances by Ron Silver (in the Arrival and Timecop). I wonder if there are some more performances like that e.g. science fiction ganster bosses. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could such a question remain and get answered or does it not meet standards?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2599" LastActivityDate="2014-10-09T18:21:09.537" Title="Would this question be acceptable or too subjective?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5105" CreationDate="2014-10-09T18:21:09.537" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per the &quot;close reasons&quot;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Requests for lists of works or recommendations are off-topic as they do not fit our questions and answers format.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also seem to fall foul of the FAQ regarding suitable questions;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face. Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of our site and push other questions off the front page.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2014-10-09T18:21:09.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5107" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-09T23:22:33.670" Score="4" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Movies&amp;amp;TV&lt;/a&gt; beta site, they have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction&quot;&gt;science-fiction tag&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag happens to be the 6&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; most popular tag, and is the most popular 'genre' on the site&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general when a beta sites start, they should not fracture the network; i.e. if a question can be answered in an existing site, then it belongs in the existing site; as per the &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;Area51 FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What are the options here?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Suggest to remove that tag, and have all sci-fi related questions migrated here&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave it as is, and take a case-by-case approach&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do nothing as my concern is not valid&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2014-10-10T10:43:41.150" Title="Would questions tagged 'Science-Fiction' in Movies&amp;TV fracture the network?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-05-01T19:35:20.077" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5107" CreationDate="2014-10-09T23:32:20.557" Score="-8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Other. Let's fracture the network. Make this a site for written sf, and move all that other crap elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastActivityDate="2014-10-09T23:32:20.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5107" CreationDate="2014-10-09T23:43:52.793" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leave as-is and do it on a case-by-case basis&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question relating to the plot of a sci-fi movie or TV show properly belongs here, as does a question relating to the explicitly sci-fi elements of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, and from looking at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;Tour&lt;/a&gt; page of the beta site, it also aims to cover the following elements:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions about a Movie/TV show's production&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The works of a director / an actor / a writer related to Movies/TV&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This class of question &lt;em&gt;doesn't&lt;/em&gt; belong here, &lt;em&gt;even&lt;/em&gt; if it is relating to a work in the sci-fi genre.  It's appropriate to leave these on the Movies &amp;amp; TV SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2014-10-09T23:43:52.793" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5107" CreationDate="2014-10-10T04:27:06.533" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I pick&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do nothing as my concern is not valid&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was discussed ages ago: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/626/1027&quot;&gt;How do we handle conflicts with the Anime and Movies sites?&lt;/a&gt; And I believe discussed since then.  There are sci-fi and fantasy movies, they're on topic for both sites.  Don't crosspost questions, and there's no problem.  Just pick which site you want to post your questions to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2014-10-10T04:27:06.533" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5107" CreationDate="2014-10-10T07:40:20.807" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 3rd point, i.e.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do nothing as my concern is not valid&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact this statement from you question is already wrong:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if a question can be answered in an existing site, then it belongs in the existing site; as per the Area51 FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is stated nowhere in the Area51 FAQ, the only points related to this I could find are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, if a site makes sense as part of a bigger site, it's better to have one big site than a bunch of little niche sites. Site X should be subsumed by site Y if:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Almost all X questions are on-topic for site Y&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If Y already exists, it already has a tag for X, and nobody is complaining&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You're not creating such a big group that you don't have enough experts to answer all possible questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's a high probability that users of site Y would enjoy seeing the occasional question about X&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But all those points only apply if the whole topic of the beta site would be on-topic here, which is clearly not the case, as questions about Science Fiction movies make up for only a small part of all the questions on Movies &amp;amp; TV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as discussed already in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/626/23386&quot;&gt;relevant&lt;/a&gt; meta &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2/49&quot;&gt;sites&lt;/a&gt; it is entirely upto each and every user himself where he asks a question about a Science Fiction or Fantasy movie if it is on-topic on both sites, as long as the same user doesn't deliberately cross-post questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And as to the genre tags on Movies &amp;amp; TV, those are really only used for ID-questions and general questions about the genre, not for questions about specific movies, so its state as the &amp;quot;most popular&amp;quot; genre on the site is debatable anyway. But you can have those ID-questions if you want. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-10-10T07:40:20.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5107" CreationDate="2014-10-10T10:43:41.150" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;All questions on the Movies site that are given a &quot;science fiction&quot; tag should be migrated to here as a matter of course. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may be individual cases where it's better suited to Movies but I'm struggling to think of any relevant examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2014-10-10T10:43:41.150" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="626" CreationDate="2014-10-10T20:56:10.347" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;All questions on the Movies site that are given a &quot;science fiction&quot; tag should be migrated to the sci-fi stack as a matter of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may be individual cases where those questions are better suited to Movies but I'm struggling to think of any relevant examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2014-10-10T20:56:10.347" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5099" CreationDate="2014-10-11T02:49:05.560" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Friendly&lt;/em&gt; strong AI.  Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2209764/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Transcendence&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No nasty hard takeoff like in the &lt;em&gt;Terminator&lt;/em&gt; movies, just a slow, steady climb up the old sigmoid curve, taking humans along when they are ready.  I want to see this become a reality because strong AI gets you &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; the other sf tech goodies if they are obtainable at all.  I think we could see strong AI in ten years.  All the trends in brain scanning technology and massively parallel computing platforms are pointing in the right direction for something to happen.  Machine learning is at the core of many tools we use daily, which means AI is beginning to catalyze changes that will feed back into better AI systems.  Ten years is my guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4096" LastEditorUserId="4096" LastEditDate="2014-10-17T17:42:21.540" LastActivityDate="2014-10-17T17:42:21.540" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3239" CreationDate="2014-10-11T03:07:00.717" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ljt1P.png&quot; alt=&quot;Great RPGs have great worlds!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33055" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:52:23.267" LastActivityDate="2014-10-11T03:07:00.717" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-10-11T03:07:00.717" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5117" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5119" CreationDate="2014-10-12T06:00:37.013" Score="28" ViewCount="1873" Body="&lt;p&gt;The direct cause of my question is this: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/69457/19561&quot;&gt;Why did Remy (the rat from Ratatouille) cook Ratatouille at the end of the movie?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can think of a number of works, from &lt;em&gt;The Wind in the Willows&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;Flushed Away&lt;/em&gt;, from &lt;em&gt;Watership Down&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;Ratatouille&lt;/em&gt;, that feature animals showing some degree of anthropomorphism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly, talking animals do not exist in reality, so they are, in a way, fantastic. But are they enough?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/683/19561&quot;&gt;Are children&amp;#39;s literature and cartoons for children on-topic?&lt;/a&gt; seem to point in the direction of 'no'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2017-01-29T06:14:41.217" Title="Are anthropomorphic animals by themselves enough to deem a work fantasy?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5117" CreationDate="2014-10-12T08:36:53.577" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. Anthropomorphic/Sentient/Talking animals don't, in and of themselves, make a film/book/TV programme/comic into a fantasy if the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_conceit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;central conceit&lt;/a&gt; is that talking animals do &lt;em&gt;already&lt;/em&gt; exist within that fictional universe. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0164912/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stuart Little&lt;/a&gt; would be an excellent example of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That said, we would consider talking animals to be part of a fantasy if:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They had been &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uplift_(science_fiction)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;uplifted&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; in some way (either by technology or magic)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Their speaking was &lt;strong&gt;somehow fantastical&lt;/strong&gt; to the other characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The talking rats in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pages.drexel.edu/%7Eina22/splaylib/Screenplay-Ratatouille.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ratatouille&lt;/a&gt; would certainly fall into the latter category. There's no specific evidence of &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; they became intelligent but it's clear from the scenes in the film that animal sentience certainly isn't a normal feature of that universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LINGUINI :&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;I need this job. I’ve lost so many. I don’t know how to cook and now  I’m talking to a rat as if you actually understand&#xA;what I’m say--&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(sudden realization)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;--did you NOD?? You UNDERSTAND ME??&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-10-12T20:20:20.747" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5117" CreationDate="2014-10-12T14:02:45.800" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me offer some wisdom from a previous and similar question I &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4988/20533&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The content of the material is not important - the content of your &lt;strong&gt;question&lt;/strong&gt; determines whether it is on-topic...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the question posted does &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; have to do with Science-Fiction or Fantasy.  Regardless of Remy's status as a supernaturally intelligent rodent.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be perfectly clear here, I &lt;strong&gt;am&lt;/strong&gt; saying that a question about how they got that intelligence in the first place would be 100% on-topic, because that is a Fantasy/SciFi element of the movie.  It would be on-topic...though I can't guarantee that SciFi.SE would be well-equipped to answer it, since it is plot-related material and comes from a source that isn't very strongly Sci-Fi Or Fantasy.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But asking a question about a work that has Sci-Fi or Fantasy elements, and justifying it as being Sci-Fi or Fantasy, does not fly.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20533" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2014-10-12T14:02:45.800" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5121" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-13T01:50:52.273" Score="12" ViewCount="271" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/58791/abuse-over-celebrity-for-harry-potter-did-dumbledore-choose-correctly&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; about whether or not it was a good choice to have Harry Potter stay with the Dursleys (ergo suffering abuse) over staying with a 'normal' wizarding family was closed due to it being 'primarily opinion-based'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I VTRO and want to campaign that it gets re-opened, because there is a clear answer to it given by Dumbledore himself. And given that it was Dumbledore who made the choice, I think that it is a fair reason to re-open the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should this question be re-opened in light of this new evidence?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2014-10-22T03:45:44.743" Title="Harry Potter - abuse over celebrity question re-open" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5121" CreationDate="2014-10-13T12:37:26.293" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to reopen it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In its original form it wasn't a bad question (as is usual for Slytherincess it's written with a mix of charm, research and wit) but I do still have concerns that it's quite opinion-y&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, the last edit improved it markedly and given that there may be a canon answer, it certainly deserves its moment in the sun. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2014-10-13T12:37:26.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5123" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-13T15:02:20.360" Score="3" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/70545/revisions&quot;&gt;revisions&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/70545/why-dont-we-see-more-dual-phase-lightsabers&quot;&gt;a question about dual-phased lightsabers&lt;/a&gt; I asked. It has been posted, downvoted, upvoted, edited a few times, commented on, closed and finally reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not here to discuss whether the original question deserved to be closed or not. My problem is the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original question received a bad reception, so I tried to fix it to my best abilities. It had gathered 1 downvote and 2 close votes by the time I got some major edits in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It then received the following attention:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A total of 3 upvotes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Three more closevotes (which closed the question 2 hours after the last edit and 3 hours after the major edit).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Five reopenvotes (which reopened the question 2 hours after it was closed, 6 hours after it was originally asked).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That the system works slowly is one thing, but 3 people closevoting a question as &quot;primarily opinion-based&quot; when it clearly isn't, is beyond me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here's the question: what is causing these closevotes that lag behind the actual state of the question and what can be done about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33368" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2019-10-13T19:26:39.993" Title="Blind closevoting?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5121" CreationDate="2014-10-13T15:56:55.863" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;@Mooz - I'm thrilled to learn there is a canon answer to my question and, in light of that, I would love to see it be reopened. Thanks for heading up the charge. I am continually astonished when questions are quickly closed as &quot;opinion based&quot; when I know for a fact there is a canon answer from the books, from J.K. Rowling, or from Pottermore (I'm using &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; here because it's obviously my main fandom). I do wish people would kind of sit back for a moment and see what kind of answers trickle in. They might find themselves surprised AND learn something new as well. I don't know if I can VTRO my own question, but I will try.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2014-10-13T15:56:55.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5123" CreationDate="2014-10-13T16:59:57.333" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was one of the five who voted to close and I can honestly say that I've never done so &quot;blindly&quot;. With great power comes great responsibility (who said that, it sounds awfully familiar?) and I make a point of carefully reading each question, judging and weighing the existing close-votes and making my decision accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, I felt that the answer was more of an attempt to discuss the topic of dual-phase lightsabers (they're useful, aren't they? Why don't people use them more, eh?) than an actual &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;answerable question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even with the edits, it still seems quite opinion-based. I think that sticking a &quot;canon sources only&quot; tag on the end smacks of cheating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2014-10-13T17:06:40.493" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5123" CreationDate="2014-10-13T21:35:04.070" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fact that at least one post-edit close-voter disagreed that it wasn't primarily opinion based is evidence that your argument that it &quot;clearly isn't&quot; isn't 100% true. There's very often disagreements on close votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe this one is a bit fuzzy, but I see no evidence of the system failing. The thing &quot;causing&quot; the close votes is people believing it's opinion based. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can edit it until you're blue in the face, and get it to a state that you think is 100% unequivocally &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; primarily opinion based. That does not, however, mean anyone will necessarily agree with you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding your &quot;blind close voting&quot; comment - having been a part of this community for a few years now, and seeing many of the same people participating in the community moderation, I can tell you that so-called &quot;blind close voting&quot; is pretty rare around here. We may not always agree on whether something should be closed, but the idea that we just vote to close without giving thought to the situation is nearly absurd.*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*We've definitely seen retaliation down-votes and close-votes, but these are VERY rare, and the users doing this are typically in the middle of rage-quitting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2014-10-14T06:30:02.857" LastActivityDate="2014-10-14T06:30:02.857" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5121" CreationDate="2014-10-14T12:26:54.560" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The existence of a canon reason for Dumbledore's choice, and even a canon evaluation of his choice, is irrelevant. The question is not asking why Dumbledore chose, or how he judged his choice in later years, but whether that choice was &quot;correct&quot;. Ultimately that can't be answered other than with opinions. The question should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the problem is a mismatch between the title and the body. Even so, both the question and body would need to be edited considerably to make it clearly non opinion based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17815" LastActivityDate="2014-10-14T12:26:54.560" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1003" CreationDate="2014-10-14T12:30:41.680" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;#EAA4A4 seems &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; jarring - it almost emphasizes deleted content when it should really be downplayed a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, I agree that the existing color is a bit too light. Starting next build, we'll use the same deleted content background color here as we do on Stack Overflow. It should be easier to tell apart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4257" LastActivityDate="2014-10-14T12:30:41.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5099" CreationDate="2014-10-14T22:37:56.003" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The medical tech in &lt;em&gt;Elysium&lt;/em&gt;. It would be marvelous to never have to worry about your health again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26367" LastActivityDate="2014-10-14T22:37:56.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5123" CreationDate="2014-10-15T02:01:17.027" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I must disagree with my esteemed colleagues here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, there are people casting spurious close votes for a variety of reasons. Among those I observed over the years (the list isn't exhaustive mostly because I'm weary of people trying to make this SE restricted to the kinds of questions THEY personally like):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not understanding &quot;Good subjective/bad subjective&quot; idea and thinking that any question that even smells of subjectivity should be closed&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not understanding that any question that is voting-controversial should be first discussed on Meta before casting the vote.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not knowing the canon and thinking that a question is by-design unanswerable except by opinions (frequently, only to have a real expert come and pull out a fully NON opinion answer from canon).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This speaks to Richard's answer's quip about &quot;canon sources only&quot; being a cheat. If you restrict the answers to canon sources, you can no longer have opinion and subjective answers. NOT closeable.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Closing &quot;because the poster had bad intent&quot; independently of the merits of the question itself (e.g. &quot;troll&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Closing because the user didn't put in enough research effort (previously discussed on Meta ad nauseum - that is NOT a reason to close, though open-and-shut cases of laziness may be worth downvotes).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2019-10-13T19:26:39.993" LastActivityDate="2019-10-13T19:26:39.993" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5099" CreationDate="2014-10-15T02:17:38.507" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;At one point, one Joel Spolsky wrote a clearly science-fictiony blog about a world where StackOveflow reputation serves as a useful benchmark when participating in software engineering hiring process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wanna live in that world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2014-10-15T02:17:38.507" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5089" CreationDate="2014-10-15T07:37:12.760" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I consider this type of movie as a historical movie with sci-fi and some fantasy stuff put in. So even though it revolves around historical events it does include some sci-fi and fantasy elements in it. So in theory it's both suitable and unsuitable.&#xA;In my opinion I would not downvote any question based on the Ice age series unless the question is &quot;When did the Ice Age happen?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33680" LastActivityDate="2014-10-15T07:37:12.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1289" CreationDate="2014-10-16T14:40:22.350" Score="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme:&lt;/strong&gt; Warning: TV Tropes Link&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/4703/5184&quot;&gt;Mason Wheeler: July 26, 2011&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height:&lt;/strong&gt; No identifiable particular peak usage of this meme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; DVK explains the warning provided with a link to TVTropes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;don't follow the link or you'll waste half your life in a twisty maze of content&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TVTropes&lt;/a&gt; is in informal encyclopedic wiki cataloging common tropes found in popular media. It is common for readers to click through to one link, and then be presumed missing as the reader has not been seen or heard from in days, having become engrossed following link after link of related tropes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TVTropes own site acknowledges the dangers of viewing the site with a meta-trope: &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life&lt;/a&gt;, citing additional reasons for warnings such as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A common complaint of people who take courses like Media or Film studies is that they never look at a TV program, advertisement or film the same way ever again.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Analyzing a medium in depth and pulling it apart by the seams teaches you to watch things critically — analyzing every aspect and codifying them inside your mind.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They also add their own warning about the time sink that browsing can become for users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now we warn you about the amount of time you will spend browsing the website in your first few weeks of visiting. Some editors spend 7 hour+ periods just reading through the thousands of pages, going through an extended Wiki Walk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tvtropes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tvtropes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tvtropes&lt;/a&gt; also exists, citing that warnings are typically provided when linking to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A link to an article on TV Tropes is usually accompanied by a warning, since the interlinkedness of the site makes it an enormous time sink.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Example Usage:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Warning: TVTropes link!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Usual TVTropes productivity-warning applies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Warning! Don't click -- it will eat half your day.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;tl;dr&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com/609/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/tab_explosion.png&quot; alt=&quot;Tab Explosion&quot; title=&quot;Cracked.com is another inexplicable browser narcotic.  They could write a list of '17 worst haircuts in the Ottoman Empire' and I'd read through to the end, then click on all the links at the end.&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-08-23T22:19:24.113" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2014-10-16T19:28:46.677" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for your feedback. I have modified the CSS as you requested and confirmed that it does appear to make the OP's display name much more visible in their comments. It will be live in the next meta build (&gt; &lt;code&gt;rev 2014.10.16.1945&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34986" LastActivityDate="2014-10-16T19:28:46.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1474" CreationDate="2014-10-17T00:12:09.187" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for bringing this up. I cannot reproduce this issue in the current SciFi theme. Please let me know if the problem remains!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34986" LastActivityDate="2014-10-17T00:12:09.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5138" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5147" CreationDate="2014-10-19T06:23:27.983" Score="14" ViewCount="298" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5123/blind-closevoting&quot;&gt;Blind VTC&lt;/a&gt; question, &lt;strong&gt;@Richard&lt;/strong&gt; suggested that asking for canon-only sources as answers to questions is &quot;cheating&quot; in a way. I found this to be surprising, as I'd never thought about requesting canon sources as being a form of cheating -- I always ask for answers based in canon or, barring an exact canon-based answer, a subjective answer based in the &lt;em&gt;spirit&lt;/em&gt; of canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the community's feeling on requesting an answer based solely on canon (or, if not possible, an answer based in the spirit of canon)? Is this considered good or bad form, or is it neutral and a matter of personal preference ... ? For example, I frequently, if not almost always, leave a request for a canon-based answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'm looking for a canon-based answer, from sources such as the Harry Potter books, quotes or interviews with J.K. Rowling, or Pottermore. Subjective answers in the spirit of canon are also welcome.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure why something like this would be objectionable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What say you, oh wise users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ETA:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm afraid my question may not have been clear. I'm not asking about reasons to VTC, either subjective/opinion-based or off-topic. That is not even remotely a component of my question. I simply want to know if asking for canon-based answers -- as opposed to conjecture, the oft erroneous Wikia-That-Must-Not-Be-Named, or an answer from fan fic -- is appropriate here. That's it. Nothing else. I mentioned @Richard &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; because his comment got me to thinking about how we ask questions and whether or not it's okay to direct the course of any potential answers by restricting them to canon-based only. Nor am I suggesting placing a &quot;canon-based answer only&quot; at the bottom of a bad, opinion-based, or off-topic questions as a way to skirt the site's rules and expectations. I hope  this helps to clarify.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ETA 2:&lt;/strong&gt; I want to stress that I am not, and never was, advocating a &quot;CANON ONLY&quot; stance. Here are my words, again: &lt;em&gt;I'm looking for a canon-based answer, from sources such as the Harry Potter books, quotes or interviews with J.K. Rowling, or Pottermore. Subjective answers in the spirit of canon are also welcome.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm saying, yeah, I prefer an answer grounded in canon, but, barring a canon answer,  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;subjective answers in the spirit of canon are also welcome.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; I would never suggest or advocate that all answers should be purely canon-based. Nor do I wish to exclude good subjective questions and answers. I'm not sure where the &lt;strong&gt;CANON ONLY&lt;/strong&gt; interpretation came from, but that is not where I'm coming from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ETA 3:&lt;/strong&gt; I've changed the title of this question, as the original (CANON ONLY) was polarizing, which was not my intention. My apologies!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2014-10-28T20:49:50.260" Title="Is it okay to prefer canon-based answers to a question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5138" CreationDate="2014-10-19T06:42:41.263" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;My issue wasn't that the request for a canon source was (in itself) cheating, it was the fact that the OP had had their question closed for being too opinion-based and had then attempted to get it re-opened by demanding that answers should only be from canon sources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I asked&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Why don't Jedi use the force more often?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it would be rightly closed as opinion-based. If I then added &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;canon answers only, please&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it wouldn't be any less opinion-based but it would get around the restriction, even if it only resulted in opinion-based answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT - As regards the revised question, the short answer is that you may choose whatever metric you want for upvoting, downvoting and accepting.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's a purely subjective measure.&#xA;Basing your responses on canonicity is literally as good a method as any other.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2014-10-28T20:49:50.260" LastActivityDate="2014-10-28T20:49:50.260" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5138" CreationDate="2014-10-19T07:01:07.997" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Richard's objection was, if I understand him correctly, that the question seemed to be opinion based, until the 'canon only' request was added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was the one advising the OP to request canon answers. My reason for this was not primarily to silence the cries of 'opinion based', but to help the OP formulate their question better, and help them think about what it is exactly they want to know.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In this specific case, did they want to speculate about dual-phase lightsabers, or did they actually want to know, and do they accept references to some obscure S-canon source?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, answers should always be rooted in canon. The only differences I find acceptable, are answers &lt;em&gt;from&lt;/em&gt; canon, and answers &lt;em&gt;based on&lt;/em&gt; canon - reasonable speculation backed by canon sources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2014-10-19T07:01:07.997" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5138" CreationDate="2014-10-19T21:27:55.510" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be two main cases here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users who know what they are requesting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users who don't know what they are requesting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The difference here is that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5138/is-it-okay-to-request-canon-only-answers-to-a-question&quot;&gt;Slytherincess points out&lt;/a&gt;, she often asks for canon-only/based answers, because she has done her research and knows that fan theory, speculation etc are not going to be acceptable. She has a certain criteria for the quality of answers she expects/requires, and therefore cuts-the-crap and asks for canon answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This often happens when a user who has sufficient knowledge in an area, as well as the site asks a question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Newer users, who have had a thought, or have heard something (which will ultimately be opinion-based) ask the question, and throw in the canon-only request to try and make their question a bit more valid.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems more like the 1st point needs to be discussed: Are we going to limit answers if we say canon-only/based?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, given that non-canon or referenced answers get down-voted, it's not a far stretch to ask for well-researched answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is definitely &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; harmful&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; to ask for canon-only/based answers because as the OP you are specifying what types of answers you expect. It serves as a guide to potential answerers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This will all slowly work itself out; poorly researched or speculative answers will be down-voted and not accepted, and well-researched answers will be up-voted or accepted.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt; &lt;strong&gt;1.&lt;/strong&gt; The only possible downside is if you make the question &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; limited:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;like my &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/64367/what-was-in-the-other-backpacks-at-the-feast&quot;&gt;question about the backpacks in Hunger Games&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;which is obscure to begin with, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;we are only told a couple of definite things,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I've read the books and wikia.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;So why limit to those things which I already know?&#xA;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2014-10-20T21:36:08.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5099" CreationDate="2014-10-19T22:18:31.123" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also, I’d like to see an infinite storage space with intelligent properties that travels through time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you all know exactly what I’m talking about. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes…I’d like to see Bending Robots invented within my lifetime. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PvNNn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now hang on a sec and let me explain why Bender is great. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are extremely useful for their primary constructive/destructive purpose of bending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5Q4dL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They run on a cheap reusable fuel...albeit at remarkably high emissions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XbpYc.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus a door thingy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zGFpI.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've got a full 985 years to complete one, so let's get started on making the world's greatest most in-your-face robot! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/T4I5p.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20533" LastActivityDate="2014-10-19T22:18:31.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5138" CreationDate="2014-10-20T02:22:05.250" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/strong&gt; I fully disagree with @Richard. Not only is adding &quot;canon answers only&quot; NOT &quot;cheating&quot;, vice versa - doing so is FULLY within the spirit of SE and accusing the user of cheating for doing so - and/or downvoting or VTCing after such edit is AGAINST the spirit of SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fact 1:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;whole point&lt;/strong&gt; of close-voting process AND donvote-edit-can_upvote dynamics is &lt;strong&gt;so people can improve poor and non-answerable questions into answerable ones&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding &quot;Canon only&quot; to a speculative question &lt;strong&gt;does exactly that&lt;/strong&gt;. As such, calling it &quot;cheating&quot; is the exact opposite of how SE is meant to work. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fact 2:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; vote on the contents of the post and NOT the poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that the question was based on crappy speculation and unanswerable prior to such edit is 100% immaterial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're downvoting/closing based on &lt;em&gt;prior versions&lt;/em&gt; - never mind using ad-hominem attacks like &quot;cheating&quot; to denigrate the poster and their edit - you are violating one of the main precepts of SE, &lt;strong&gt;that is of voting on the post and not the poster&lt;/strong&gt;. If the edit made the post answerable, it's a &lt;strong&gt;GOOD&lt;/strong&gt; edit, not a cheat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Granted, it may still leave the question poor quality, but the discussion was around VTC, not up/downvotes. If the question remains poor, downvote by all means. Personally I disagree about the question quality but that's grounds for valid disagreement and not policy).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fact 3:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The origin and motivation of the question is 100% irrelevant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related to #2: The &lt;strong&gt;only thing&lt;/strong&gt; that should matter when voting to close (or for that matter up/dowb voting) is how answerable the question is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether the OP wanted to start a discussion or not is &lt;strong&gt;wholly immaterial&lt;/strong&gt; to VTC/VTRO votes - only whether the latest current version of the question is liable to generate a discussion or be answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that, on a purely practical level, in established large canons (Harry Potter, Mickey Mouse Wars, Star Trek) pretty much any given question can be legitimately answered from canon. So adding &quot;canon only&quot; is a near-certain way of making the question answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Side note for my last paragraph in Fact #3&lt;/em&gt;: Since @Richard brought it up, I will now use &lt;strong&gt;his very own example&lt;/strong&gt; to prove him wrong:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The specific question he used as illustration &lt;code&gt;&quot;Why don't Jedi use the force more often?&quot;&lt;/code&gt; - while opinion based and subjective if asked in this bare form - indeed &lt;strong&gt;becomes 100% fully objectively answerable&lt;/strong&gt; if you restrict it to canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Specifically, this is answered in Vision of the Future as well as NJO, mainly through Mara Jade's teaching of Luke and later Jacen Solo. There were other interesting facets to the answer, e.g. from prequel novelizations)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2014-10-20T02:47:37.070" LastActivityDate="2014-10-20T02:47:37.070" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5144" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5145" CreationDate="2014-10-20T07:44:45.743" Score="8" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently on the review page it says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Robo-reviewing plagiarized content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Come back in 7 days to continue reviewing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does this mean? Are posts safe from being voted-to-close for the next 7 days?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22254" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-10-20T11:11:21.310" Title="What is &quot;Robo-reviewing&quot;?" Tags="|support|review-queue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5144" CreationDate="2014-10-20T08:06:35.767" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It probably means that you have been found to be approving edits containing content copied straight from other sources, most likely Wikipedia, too easy, almost automatically ('robotically').&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This often happens on tag descriptions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are encouraged to take a break from reviewing and return to it in 7 days. I'm not sure if this goes for all queues or just the edit queue, you'll have to check that yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, please feel free to participate in the rest of the stack. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19374" LastEditDate="2014-10-20T11:09:03.977" LastActivityDate="2014-10-20T11:09:03.977" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5138" CreationDate="2014-10-20T14:41:17.553" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Stack Exchange blog post &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt;&quot; is, so far as I'm aware, still the definitive source of guidance on this topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That makes it clear that it's &lt;strong&gt;perfectly OK&lt;/strong&gt; to ask opinion-based questions, provided they are answerable within the criteria set out in that post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By extension, this means that in the case of this site, a &quot;Good Subjective&quot; question may sometimes be answerable based on non-canon material.  This may include scholarly research by third parties, evidence-based opinion, or what-have-you.  All of which may be a valid answer (by the &quot;Good Subjective&quot; criteria), but is definitely outside of the established authorial canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It does therefore seem reasonable for someone to request that they'd prefer to not have such material in answers to their question&lt;/strong&gt;.  In cases like this &quot;there is no canon answer&quot; may sometimes be a valid answer, and even that is a &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt; answer to have on the site.  At the very least it provides a pointer to future visitors that the answer doesn't exist in canon.  At best it prompts a hypothetical future visitor to go dig out a canon answer that the original answerers may not have been aware of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2014-10-20T14:41:17.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5148" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5149" CreationDate="2014-10-20T15:34:34.650" Score="17" ViewCount="246" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's been a lot of discussion on whether certain types of questions should be closed or not.  In particular, it seems there's some disagreement as to what, exactly, constitutes a question that should be closed as &amp;quot;primarily opinion based&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some related discussions are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5123/1359&quot;&gt;Blind Close Voting?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5138/1359&quot;&gt;Is it okay to request canon-only answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One answer during those discussions declared:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I asked  &amp;quot;Why don't Jedi use the force more often?&amp;quot; it would be rightly closed as opinion-based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet another answer pointed out:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The specific question he used as illustration &amp;quot;Why don't Jedi use the force more often?&amp;quot; - while opinion based and subjective if asked in this bare form - indeed becomes 100% fully objectively answerable if you restrict it to canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Specifically, this is answered in Vision of the Future as well as NJO, mainly through Mara Jade's teaching of Luke and later Jacen Solo. There were other interesting facets to the answer, e.g. from prequel novelizations)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, there was this concern expressed, regarding whether limiting a question to canon-only answers would be acceptable:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My issue was that slinging a &amp;quot;canon only&amp;quot; tag onto an opinion-based question might evade the letter of the law, but ignores the spirit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, this raises the question of: &lt;em&gt;what is the 'spirit' of the law as pertains to 'primarily opinion based' here on scifi.se?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In going through our previous meta discussions on &amp;quot;opinion&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;subjective&amp;quot;, there's not a lot that's very current.  Most of the discussions I could find were &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/275/1359&quot;&gt;more than 2 years old&lt;/a&gt;, and didn't really clearly address the area that I feel needs a better definition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what is the dividing line for us where questions become &amp;quot;opinion based&amp;quot;?  Should questions that can be answered with opinions be closed, even if a canon-based answer is &lt;em&gt;potentially&lt;/em&gt; possible?  Should questions that ask for speculation of any kind be closed, even if the speculation is canon-based?  Or is there some other criteria that we can define and use as a milestone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-10-21T08:17:26.753" Title="Where do we draw the line on &quot;opinion-based&quot; questions?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5148" CreationDate="2014-10-20T15:50:20.930" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;At this point, it seems like there is subset of users who draw the line on &quot;primarily opinion based&quot; at a place that is very different from my expectations based upon the history of the site.  In fact, arguments I'm seeing today as justification for closure seemingly apply to questions asked long ago that were well-received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some examples of questions that appear to be varying degrees of subjective, yet which were not only accepted, but actively embraced by the community:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As some of you might know, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/4056/1359&quot;&gt;Are all Stormtroopers as poor soldiers as the ones in the movies?&lt;/a&gt; has one of my all-time favorite pieces of content on this site.  Yet it is also an example of a question that I believe is likely to get marked by some users as &quot;primarily opinion based&quot;, save for the last sentence asking for canon sources. In fact, the overwhelmingly popular answer doesn't even answer the question, but rather subverts the assumptions of the question altogether, demonstrating that the premise that the Stormtroopers in the movies were all &quot;poor soldiers&quot; was completely inaccurate.  Other answers lack canon references at all, or include n-canon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/1282/1359&quot;&gt;Could the terraforming techniques from Red/Blue/Green Mars work on any other planets in our solar system?&lt;/a&gt; was called out as an example of the types of questions that might be considered to be showing the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/272/1359&quot;&gt;characteristics of a great sci-fi question&lt;/a&gt;. Granted, it was called out by the user who asked the question, but both the meta answer, and the actual example question, were well-received.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/6343/1359&quot;&gt;Was Yoda fully sane on Degobah?&lt;/a&gt; - A very popular question (and answers) that would seemingly be asking for an opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/2608/1359&quot;&gt;Why exactly do the Death-Eaters serve Lord Voldemort?&lt;/a&gt; - Also very popular, and again, seemingly asking for an opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/32526/1359&quot;&gt;Is archery underestimated in the wars of a Song of Ice and Fire?&lt;/a&gt; - My answer, which is both the accepted answer and the highest voted, has no basis in canon.  It has received no downvotes (as of the time of this post, at least).  I agree that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/32534/1359&quot;&gt;TLP's answer&lt;/a&gt; is excellent, and I have upvoted it. Yet the question, as posed, seems to be little different from things like &quot;Why don't Jedi use the force more often?&quot; or &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/70545/1359&quot;&gt;Why don't we see more dual-phase lightsabers?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.  Yet those questions are listed as example arguments as to why &quot;canon-only answers, please&quot; is &quot;cheating&quot;, or &quot;violating the spirit of the law&quot;, when the archery question only addressed canon by appending &quot;Is it a fact archery are little used in Westeros and Essos?&quot; to the end.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems, going by historic acceptance, that there &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; a place for &lt;em&gt;some level&lt;/em&gt; of subjective questions on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet clearly some sort of subjective questions are problematic, and need to be fixed (or, failing that, closed).  The preference should be fixing it, of course, but sometimes either that isn't possible, or the OP ignores the advice.  We don't want questions that lead to discussion, or where every answer is equally valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The definitive description of &quot;good subjective vs. bad subjective&quot; for Stackexchange remains, as far as I know, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;this blog post by Robert Cartaino&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Guidelines for Great Subjective Questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Great subjective questions inspire answers that explain “why” and “how”.&lt;/strong&gt; The best subjective questions invite explanation. If you’re asking for a product recommendation of some kind, you want answers to contain detailed information about the features and how they can be used, and why you might want to choose one over the other. “How?” and “Why?” has more lasting value than a bunch of product-feature bullet points or a giant enumerated list, no matter how extensive. In contrast, the bad subjective questions let answerers get away with hit-and-run answers that maybe provide a name and a link — but fail to provide any sort of adequate explanation, context, or background.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Great subjective questions tend to have long, not short, answers.&lt;/strong&gt; The best subjective questions inspire your peers to share their actual experiences, not just post a mindless one-liner or cartoon in hopes of being rewarded with upvotes for being merely “first.” Sharing an experience takes at least one paragraph; ideally several paragraphs. If I’m asking about how to bake cookies, don’t give me a list of grocery items: milk. butter. vanilla. eggs. There is virtually nothing I can learn from a short, static list of grocery items that make up a recipe. Instead, tell me what happened the last time you made cookies from that recipe! Share your detailed experiences, so that we all might learn from them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Great subjective questions have a constructive, fair, and impartial tone.&lt;/strong&gt; The best subjective questions avoid the all too seductive route of ranting and flamebait. They set the right tone of constructive learning and collaboration from the very outset, by emphasizing that we’re all here to learn from each other, even if we have different viewpoints or beliefs about the right way to handle what are inherently subjective decisions. We’re not here to fight each other; that’s an enormous waste of everyone’s time. There is always more than one right way.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Great subjective questions invite sharing experiences over opinions.&lt;/strong&gt; Certainly experiences inform opinions, but the best subjective questions unabashedly and unashamedly prioritize sharing actual experiences over random opinions. It’s more useful to share with us what you’ve done than what you think. Everyone has an opinion. It takes zero effort or imagination to have an opinion about anything and everything. But people who have done things, real things in the world, and have the scars and arrows in their back to show for it — now that’s worth sharing. You should be uniquely qualified to have your opinion based on the specific experiences you had. And you should share those experiences, and more specifically what you learned from your experiences, with us!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Great subjective questions insist that opinion be backed up with facts and references.&lt;/strong&gt; Opinion isn’t all bad, so long as it’s backed up with something other than “because I’m an expert”, or “because I said so”, or “just because”. Use your specific experiences to back up your opinions, as above, or point to some research you’ve done on the web or elsewhere that provides evidence to support your claims. We like you. We want to believe you. But like wikipedia itself, {{citation needed}}. And good subjective questions make this clear from the outset: back it up!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Great subjective questions are more than just mindless social fun.&lt;/strong&gt; The best subjective questions avoid the social pitfalls of “Getting To Know You” (GTKY) and mindless entertainment. Sometimes people just want to poll a community for ideas that might help solve a problem (best book, best approach). These can be okay when there is actual knowledge in the collection of answers. What isn’t okay are the social bonding questions which are designed just to impress others, such as “What is the coolest/stupidest/weirdest/funniest thing you saw/did/tasted today?”, or questions where the site’s actual topic is tacked on as a token afterthought, such as “Favorite food for programmers.” If you removed the “for programmers” part of this question, is it really unique to our profession? Could an average member of our community reasonably be expected to learn something that makes them better at their job from this question? If not, then it’s a bad subjective question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So, there you have it: the difference between a good subjective question and a bad subjective question — expressed as six simple guidelines. If you’re wondering if a particular subjective question is worthy, wonder no longer. Apply the six subjective question guidelines and see how it scores. &lt;strong&gt;If the score is low, close it.&lt;/strong&gt; If the score is high, vote it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Criteria #1 seems to cover a lot of the justifications I've been seeing for closing things as &quot;primarily opinion based&quot;, and &lt;em&gt;I feel that's wrong&lt;/em&gt;.  Questions asking &quot;why is &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; seemingly underused in &lt;em&gt;title y&lt;/em&gt;?&quot; are explicitly called out as being one of the criteria of &lt;strong&gt;good&lt;/strong&gt; subjective.  We shouldn't be using that as justification for closure, let alone the &lt;em&gt;sole&lt;/em&gt; justification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Item #3 is the one that I feel highlights the warning signs for our site.  If the question violates this impartiality (it is based upon or promotes a pet theory, or focuses on criticism rather than seeking explanation), then it needs to be edited to be impartial.  If it can't be edited to be made impartial, then closing as &quot;primarily opinion based&quot; may be the correct action.  Note that discussion of pet theories does not necessarily indicate it is &quot;bad subjective&quot;; if there is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/6974/1359&quot;&gt;evidence to support a particular theory&lt;/a&gt;, it may be okay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2014-10-20T15:50:20.930" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5150" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-20T19:20:16.350" Score="6" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5148/where-do-we-draw-the-line-on-opinion-based-questions&quot;&gt;Where do we draw the line on &amp;quot;opinion-based&amp;quot; questions?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; lists several likely ways for a question to go astray and become &quot;&lt;em&gt;bad subjective&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the main ones listed is: &lt;strong&gt;&quot;promote a pet theory&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q: What exactly are the good approaches for an OP to take for their question to avoid that specific pitfall?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A good answer would ideally analyze the reasons for WHY &lt;strong&gt;&quot;promotes a pet theory&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; type of question would lead to bad answers, and base its recommendations on that analysis.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2014-10-20T20:04:26.637" Title="What are the good ways of avoiding a &quot;promotes a pet theory&quot; question?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|subjective|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5150" CreationDate="2014-10-20T19:52:29.183" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is relatively simple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is &amp;quot;here's my theory; is there evidence within the canon material to support it?&amp;quot;, I think it is okay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If instead the question is &amp;quot;here's my theory; what do you think?&amp;quot;, it needs to be fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I agree that a good version of a &amp;quot;pet theory&amp;quot; question should provide examples and citations to justify the theory, I don't think lack of those citations should be grounds for closure.  Downvoting, maybe, but not closure (at least, not without other factors in favor of closure).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Kingkiller Chronicles&lt;/em&gt;, I've heard Auri is really Princess Ariel.  Is that true?  What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Close as primarily opinion based&lt;/strong&gt;, if the OP can't be persuaded to elaborate.  Even if the OP elaborates, edit out the &amp;quot;Is that true? What do you think?&amp;quot; part and replace with &amp;quot;what evidence exists within the books (or in other material from Patrick Rothfuss) that would support or disprove this theory?&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Kingkiller Chronicles&lt;/em&gt;, I've heard Auri is really Princess Ariel.  Is there any evidence for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'd probably downvote this, but not vote to close.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the distinction here is that the intent of the OP in the second example is clearly looking for evidence.  In the first example, even though edits can make it functionally the same as the second example, the intent of the OP was clearly to start a discussion, and so long as they don't explicitly agree to reformat it, it should remain closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Kingkiller Chronicles&lt;/em&gt;, Kvothe says &amp;quot;I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also tried to convince Aaron (the blacksmiths apprentice) not to take the Kings coin and if he stayed to listen to the rest of his story would hear the truth about Princess Ariel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Auri hates personal questions, and is specifically said to have bolted for weeks when Kvothe asked her name. This is consistent with a person who has a hidden identity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She also acts like a noble at times, is described as always being prim and proper, and is often formal in her form of address. She eats and drinks as might someone raised in court.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She is adamant that she won't wear secondhand clothing, saying it is &amp;quot;filthy&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of this makes me wonder if perhaps Auri is secretly Princess Ariel.  Even the names are pretty similar, and there is a strong theme of similar-sounding names within the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any other reasons mentioned either in the books, or directly from Patrick Rothfuss, that would support or refute this theory?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'd upvote this version&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think notability is a requirement.  All that does is ensure that really cool theories appear somewhere else &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-10-20T20:04:26.637" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5152" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5157" CreationDate="2014-10-21T12:31:35.747" Score="12" ViewCount="214" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the related meta discussion &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5138/1359&quot;&gt;Is it okay to request canon-only answers?&lt;/a&gt;, several users have expressed the sentiment that adding &quot;only canon answers, please&quot; is a band-aid &quot;fix&quot; or even &quot;cheating&quot;, because it should be automatically assumed that any answerable question should be answered from canon only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some quotes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To me, &lt;em&gt;answers should always be rooted in canon.&lt;/em&gt; The only differences I find acceptable, are answers from canon, and answers based on canon - reasonable speculation backed by canon sources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and, in response to that comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;To me, answers should always be rooted in canon.&quot; - Huge agreement there. Otherwise we're inviting pet theories and fandom wishes - and as long as you have good grammar and punctuation, these don't often get downvoted like they should be. Even worse if they include a barely-related image... (cue &quot;ooh shiny, they must be right!&quot; upvotes)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm confused about why you think adding &quot;canon only&quot; suddenly makes a question answerable. Adding those two magic words doesn't conjure up an answer that didn't previously exist... The objection is about whether the question is good, not about whether there's an answer to it. I don't think that adding &quot;canon only&quot; improves a question at all, personally, &lt;em&gt;because everything those two words communicate should already be implied by virtue of posting the question&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(emphasis mine)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This belief, that the only answers acceptable are those that are directly based in canon (and, by extension, that the only acceptable questions are those that clearly only seek canon answers implicitly), is new to me.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in a related question to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5148/1359&quot;&gt;Where do we draw the line on opinion-based questions?&lt;/a&gt;, I'm asking:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is our community expectation that 100% of our content be directly related to canon (both questions and answers)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2014-10-21T14:22:49.580" Title="Should all questions implicitly require canon answers?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5153" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-21T12:49:51.997" Score="5" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be helpful if a question could be marked so that you get a notification when there is new activity. Just something like the red notification you get when a comment gets a response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26367" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2020-08-21T11:33:40.767" LastActivityDate="2020-08-21T11:33:40.767" Title="Favorite Question notification" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|notifications|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5152" CreationDate="2014-10-21T13:04:09.067" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say, unambiguously, &quot;no&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are three main concerns I have with attempting to restrict all questions/answers to canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2027/1359&quot;&gt;Definitions of 'canon' vary and are subjective&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Restricting to questions answers that are directly based on canon violates our current definiton of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;site scope&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;So far, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5149/1359&quot;&gt;there seems to be significant support for &quot;opinion based&quot; content&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes you can't tell if a question is answerable from canon unless you happen to know the specific piece of canon which provides the answer (which can be a needle-in-the-haystack situation).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Definitions of 'canon' vary and are subjective&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Demanding that all answers either be from canon, or based on canon, is problematic because &lt;em&gt;how do you determine what qualifies as canon&lt;/em&gt;?  In some cases, canon is relatively well-defined (e.g. &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt;).  In others, canon is a sliding scale, such as &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;.  Does &quot;N-Canon&quot; (non-canon, such as video games) qualify for questions/answers?  In other situations, what is canon is actively disputed (e.g. for questions on the world of &lt;em&gt;Dune&lt;/em&gt;, do the works of Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson count)?  For still others, canon is directly contradictory (Douglas Adams), or from so many sources as to be difficult to sort out (Conan).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Violates our current definition of site scope&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our scope currently includes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Plot, character, or setting explanations&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Historical or societal context of a work&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Story identification&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Franchise/series reading or viewing order&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3 out of 5 of those don't relate to canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Opinion-based content has support&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is both historical, and current.  Of course, if consensus turns against opinion-based questions, that may change, but so far, opinion, of some to-be-determined scope, is allowed, and has been allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some examples of well-received questions that either don't implicitly ask for canon, or which have non-canon answers that are well-received:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/1520/1359&quot;&gt;In what order should the &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; movies be watched?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/64415/1359&quot;&gt;Why did the Matrix simulate 1999 instead of a pre-computer year?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/1263/1359&quot;&gt;Is the basic premise of humans as a power source in The Matrix reasonable?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/2611/1359&quot;&gt;Why don't muggle-born wizards use Muggle technology to fight Death Eaters?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/6343/1359&quot;&gt;Was Yoda fully sane on Dagobah?&lt;/a&gt; (note the top answer &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; reference canon, but only to confirm the logic that forms the bulk of the answer; the other answers are upvoted, but don't cite canon at all).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are plenty other examples; these are just some of the highest-voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sometimes you can't tell if a question has a canon answer unless you already know the answer&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/6671/1359&quot;&gt;If a Jedi knight were frozen in carbonite, would they be able to use their Force powers?&lt;/a&gt; seems speculative, but has several (conflicting!) canon answers.  This is frequently an issue with &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;, as it is such a massive volume of source material.  Same for &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;, if you include the novels, cartoons, etc..  There are other examples where someone claimed &quot;that can't be answered&quot;, resulting in the question being closed, only to have a canon answer provided from one or more obscure sources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I don't know the answer&quot; is not the same as &quot;no answer is possible&quot;, but it is sometimes impossible to determine the difference until someone else provides an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Important distinction:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does not excuse questions that are fundamentally a poor fit for our site.  Off-topic is still off-topic.  Discussion is still forbidden.  What constitutes acceptable subjective is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5149/1359&quot;&gt;discussed further here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nor does this mean that non-canon answers are automatically as good as canon answers (although, in some cases, they potentially can be).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember: voting to close is for when something is fundamentally a poor fit for our format.  Downvoting, however, is for content that is low quality.  That's an important distinction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2014-10-21T13:32:00.507" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5153" CreationDate="2014-10-21T13:15:16.800" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not perfect; the system could be made to bring more attention via inbox notifications, but it does alert you to activity on your Favorites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clicking through to your profile, you'll see badge notifications on each area of activity. In this case, there has been two actions on a favorited question of mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bWSsk.png&quot; alt=&quot;favorites&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2014-10-21T13:15:16.800" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5121" CreationDate="2014-10-21T13:18:50.227" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to give a different take.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This question is definitely opinion-based, but should remain open&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of what Dumbledore may have said concerning his choice, regardless of what &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; character may have said regarding this choice, regardless of what &lt;em&gt;J.K. Rowling&lt;/em&gt; may have said regarding Dumbledore's choice, it is an opinion-based question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mind you it is a very very &lt;strong&gt;Good&lt;/strong&gt; opinion-based question, and almost by definition a good-subjective question, but it is opinion nontheless.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no canon that exists where Harry Potter was &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; brought up by the Dursleys.  There is no way we can possibly know who he would've been raised by if not them, and for all the awful things they did to him, we have no other life to compare him by than the one he had.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An upbringing is something a character only gets one shot at, barring time travel or explicit parallel universes.  We can argue that his upbringing was for the greater good, or we can argue (as Dumbledore later did himself) that the damage done by this upbringing was not worth the protection it offered.  We'd be no more or less right to argue either case.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not voting to close this question, because it is a genuinely good subjective question that lies at the core of the work in question.  But I'm convinced that it is subjective.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20533" LastEditorUserId="20533" LastEditDate="2014-10-22T03:45:44.743" LastActivityDate="2014-10-22T03:45:44.743" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5152" CreationDate="2014-10-21T14:22:49.580" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, most questions imply canon answers.  They do this by stating which work they're talking about.  When I ask a &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; question, I'm expecting &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; answers, not &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; answers.  &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; has a set of rules, characters, a history, etc. that questions use as a background.  With most large canons, there are also out-of-universe pieces of documented information that can help fill in the gaps when there isn't a specific in-universe piece of data.  E.g. Tolkein's letters, or interviews with JK Rowling.  The general expectation is that all of a work/franchise's canon will be used to answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there questions that go beyond or outside of the canon?  Yes, and usually those are clear.  They'll state things like 'out of universe answers wanted'.  Or there are works like &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; that take place in a slightly altered version of our reality, so knowledge of the real world can contribute to canon answers.  Or you have multiple canons, so specifying what you're asking about helps (e.g. comic book multiverses, comic book movies/TV series, &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; film vs. books, &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; film vs. books).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my short answer to the question 'Should all questions implicitly require canon answers?' is no.  There are many questions where there's an implied or explicit request for non-canon answers, or there won't be a strictly in-canon answer but we have enough information from canon to extrapolate.  Good answers will explain their starting point, and how they arrive at the conclusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-10-21T14:22:49.580" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5099" CreationDate="2014-10-21T18:52:43.563" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to go with virtual reality, specifically the kind where you act through the body of an avatar to interact with a generated environment. There are plenty examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The movie &lt;em&gt;Avatar&lt;/em&gt; by James Cameron&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The anime &lt;em&gt;Sword Art Online&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The book series &lt;em&gt;Otherland&lt;/em&gt; by Tad Williams&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;See Wikipedia for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality#Fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;more&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going with the kind of virtual reality available in &lt;em&gt;Otherland&lt;/em&gt;, where the avatar body is digital, I think this kind of technology won't be available for at least 200 years because it would require neural connections for full stimulation of the senses. On the other hand, virtual reality involving only some senses (sight, hearing, and tactile) can be simulated without neural connections and a complete VR environment for those senses could be available within, say, 50 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now as for why I'd like to see this as a technology: It would offer full communication in a more personal way than could be achieved through email or video chat. It could also aid in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escapism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;escapism&lt;/a&gt;, acting as an outlet for negative emotions. I think it could have clinical uses as well, such as isolating psychological behaviors from physical ones (like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_disease&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Parkinson's&lt;/a&gt; vs. nervousness).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33526" LastEditorUserId="33526" LastEditDate="2014-10-21T19:21:26.673" LastActivityDate="2014-10-21T19:21:26.673" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5159" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-22T02:44:35.133" Score="12" ViewCount="231" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/71065/star-wars-trivia-question-help&quot;&gt;Star Wars trivia question to identify race&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's pretty clear what's being asked (Identify the species based on a fairly sufficient amount of information about it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer apparently exists (according to one of the comments)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it's not even a super-dumb trivial question &lt;em&gt;(Evidence: I have a SW Gold Badge and I didn't know the answer. Apparently neither did Richard).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How's this question even remotely &lt;strong&gt;&quot;unclear what is being asked&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll grant you that the formatting/wording was crappy, but that doesn't even deserve a -4 votes - especially after a nice edit by Richard; never mind a close voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2014-10-22T09:05:32.287" Title="Why is this question (71065) closed?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5159" CreationDate="2014-10-22T08:23:27.153" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;In its original form, the question was quite poorly written. It wasn't immediately clear what the questioner was asking, nor was it apparent what was being asked and it was rightly closed as being &quot;unclear&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Enter the name of an intelligent race , which is housed in a human&#xA;  hand , can live many thousands of years and tell me what is her&#xA;  talent&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Well that's a question. Personally i couldn't find the correct answer.&#xA;  Maybe you will be able.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After voting to close, I reflected on what was being asked and made some revisions to make the question clearer. I marked it as &quot;reopen&quot; and others followed suit. @GreenstoneWalker posted a comment with a potential answer (hat tip to him) and since he didn't seem inclined to follow up by posting an answer to the question, I've posted what appears to be the correct response along with some additional details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all, this seems a text-book case of how SE is &lt;strong&gt;supposed&lt;/strong&gt; to work;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An inexperienced user posted a poorly written question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The community flagged it as unclear. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A more experienced user edited the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question was marked for reopening.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A user posted a comment with a potential source&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Another user did some additional research and turned that comment into an answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2014-10-22T09:05:32.287" LastActivityDate="2014-10-22T09:05:32.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5162" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5163" CreationDate="2014-10-22T10:11:11.753" Score="8" ViewCount="285" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggested an edit which was rejected. I would like some input on whether this sort of edit is desired, and what the recommended course of action would be from here on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The edit: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/39997&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/39997&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(addendum: I am suddenly unsure whether the edit was rejected after all, I just checked it again and it now says &quot;approved&quot; as well as &quot;rejected&quot;, apparently the votes are still coming in. Perhaps my question here was premature)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/71073/20573&quot;&gt;original answer&lt;/a&gt; is a story-identification answer. The answer is very short, listing only story name and author, does not cite any sources, and in my opinion does not meet the quality standards of this site; &lt;em&gt;but&lt;/em&gt; (and this is quite and important distinction in my mind) I have no doubt that it is the &lt;em&gt;correct answer&lt;/em&gt; to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All it is lacking is some more references that demonstrate why it is the correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer has been left undisturbed for 8 hours, and the author only has this single answer, so it seems unlikely that they will come back to edit it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have added the relevant quotes from the novel to demonstrate that this is indeed the novel that the questions was asking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I took care to only add direct quotes from the novel, and as little of my own commentary as possible, and I cannot really imagine this being against the intent of the original author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is the general consensus that such edits should not be made?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The edit is definitely too long for a comment.&#xA;I suppose another possibility is to add this edit as yet another answer. I do not like this solution for the following reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the first answer is the correct one. it seems disrespectful to copy that answer, only adding my quotes, when I alone would not have been able to identify the story.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;two answers that say essentially the same thing are confusing and unnecessary.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;adding another answer still leaves the site with a sub-standard answer. Editing the original leaves only a (IMHO) good answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20573" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2014-10-22T13:32:01.787" Title="Rejection of story-identification edit that adds references demonstrating the correctness of the answer" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|suggested-edit|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5162" CreationDate="2014-10-22T10:48:39.777" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you look again, you'll see that the edit was approved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Approved 8 mins ago: &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  ash_k29 reviewed this 8 mins ago: Approve&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  jono reviewed this 40 mins ago: Approve&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  Shevliaskovic reviewed this 1 hour ago: Reject &lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It takes 2 votes to reject or approve it, so people vote until one of the two options receive two votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was the one that rejected the edit because it was the original answerer that posted the link to the story, but &lt;strong&gt;it was you&lt;/strong&gt; who added all the details. I feel like &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; deserve as much credit as the original answerer. You did a lot of work that he didn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original answer was 10 words, but your edit was a fully legitimate answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19374" LastActivityDate="2014-10-22T10:48:39.777" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5162" CreationDate="2014-10-22T12:10:01.490" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;My opinion is that an edit that changes the answer &lt;em&gt;substantively&lt;/em&gt; should be rejected. A good rule of thumb would be where where you've added or subtracted more than 50% of the original content. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case your edit amounts to extreme vandalism. Good vandalism, admittedly but vandalism nonetheless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, your hard work should be rewarded. In this case you've put a lot of effort into locating quotes to back up the answer. Other users would no doubt wish to show their appreciation to you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2014-10-22T12:54:15.653" LastActivityDate="2014-10-22T12:54:15.653" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5162" CreationDate="2014-10-22T13:32:01.787" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would have rejected this, had I been around. &lt;sup&gt;I was gone for over 8 hours, though. I hope no one declared me as having abandoned the site.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yes, all questions and answers are CC licensed. You are within your &lt;em&gt;rights&lt;/em&gt; to edit the answer. However, the accepted policy is to not &quot;substantially&quot; (yes, a subjective term) edit other people's posts. You added 2109 characters to a post that was 164. That's over 1200%. I don't judge the edits based solely on character count, but it is indicative of just how substantial of an edit we're talking about. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At first blush, your edits seem valid. To validate them and ensure that they were correct edits, I would have had to go check and do research. To me, that's too radical of a change. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, edits to answers or questions by other people should be restricted to things like spelling, grammar, formatting, and things like additions of links to sources/references that were already mentioned but not actually linked, or reasonably helpful images.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2014-10-22T13:32:01.787" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5099" CreationDate="2014-10-22T21:32:00.640" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The singularity thus making Immortality possible, to transfer my consciousness to a machine and live forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16244" LastActivityDate="2014-10-22T21:32:00.640" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5167" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5169" CreationDate="2014-10-24T09:46:15.307" Score="5" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/6685/19561&quot;&gt;Why must Voldemort&amp;#39;s body be killed last?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;and&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/60389/19561&quot;&gt;Why should the Horcruxes be destroyed first?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly duplicates, one much older than the other, both with good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure which way to vote, so please advise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which one should be marked the duplicate?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-10-24T16:53:57.363" Title="Two duplicates, which one to close?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5167" CreationDate="2014-10-24T10:23:10.250" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally you'd look at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the age of the questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;whether or not the questions have answers (you can't close a question as a duplicate of another question that has no answers)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the quality of the questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the quality of the answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One question is considerably older, they both have at least one &lt;strong&gt;good&lt;/strong&gt; answer, but I'd say the newer question is slightly better written. I don't think there's an obvious closure candidate here, because they're ultimately about the same level of quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They also have two (sort of) contradictory answers. DVK presents two possible theories on how Horcruxes function, one which agrees with Beofett's answer and another that would completely contradict that answer. I'd be slightly wary of implying that one answer is more correct by voting a particular way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of that to end up saying that I really couldn't decide between the two. Flip a coin? Or leave them both open, nothing bad is happening with them right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5833" LastActivityDate="2014-10-24T10:23:10.250" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5167" CreationDate="2014-10-24T16:53:57.363" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In these situations, just pick the question you think will be most useful in the future and use it as the target for dup-closure. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Then flag the other question and request that it be merged!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this way, good answers are not lost or overlooked - instead, they're eventually combined under one question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've gone ahead and done this for the questions you reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastActivityDate="2014-10-24T16:53:57.363" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5170" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-28T14:56:08.533" Score="3" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/71442/which-tng-episodes-should-be-avoided&quot;&gt;recently asked a question&lt;/a&gt; about the viewing order of TNG, in regards to a few criteria, but primarily in regards to viewing order and &lt;em&gt;avoiding&lt;/em&gt; low-quality episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that it already has 3 close votes, and a high-rated comment suggesting it's too subjective, is such a question acceptable?  Is there a way to make it less subjective, or is the criteria being used too innately subjective to salvage my question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20533" LastEditorUserId="39144" LastEditDate="2020-08-14T20:22:30.737" LastActivityDate="2020-08-14T20:22:30.737" Title="Questions regarding viewing order based on episodes to avoid" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|asking-questions|subjective|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5170" CreationDate="2014-10-28T15:19:10.060" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's go over the main thrust of the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, I'm aware that the there are some episodes, in the first two seasons especially, that are...less than stellar. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Given the nature of the show, I'd like to skip or avoid these episodes whenever possible.  Ideally with the following in mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Any episode that gets referenced later, in this series or in ones to come after, I do not want to miss.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Anything involving an ongoing plot, like the Borg invasion, I want to make sure I see.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Any Ferengi episode I do not want to miss, because I'm especially curious about their 'evolution' in Star Trek.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But as for the rest of the series, &lt;em&gt;which episodes can be safely ignored, and are most infamous among Trek fans?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of this is pretty good.  You're looking for S1 and S2 episodes that are later referenced.  You want on-going arcs included.  You want Ferengi episodes included.  These are all clearly-stated criteria, some with reasons for why you want them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the last clause (which you recently edited) is a bit problematic, as it gets into subjective territory.  There are some truly heinous episodes, like &lt;em&gt;Shades of Grey&lt;/em&gt;, as mentioned in an answer.  But most episodes are going to have mixed reactions within fandom, and without some objective measure it's hard to nail down generally well-received vs generally derided.  I think removing that last bit will improve things, you'll already be getting a relatively lean list from your bullet points.  I recommend you build on that by looking for reviews or recaps of those episodes to see if some are awful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2014-10-28T16:23:29.710" LastActivityDate="2014-10-28T16:23:29.710" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5170" CreationDate="2014-10-28T18:05:53.407" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Despite the comment I left, I actually thought your question was ok and had some grounds under good subjective, but it's definitely subjective. Case in point: I wouldn't find any episodes in TNG worth skipping, despite their reception. Perhaps you need to tackle this with a slightly different approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The criteria of the episodes you don't want to miss is definitely answerable, although it will take someone with more intimate knowledge of TNG than myself to provide a complete list. I suggest that you edit your question to focus on just the criteria for the episodes you are especially interested in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The episodes you should skip is subjective, but the overall fan reception of individual episodes has been measured and that information should be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092455/eprate&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;discoverable&lt;/a&gt;. With some specific criteria pertaining to fan reception (below average, bottom 20, whatever), that should be askable since sources can be found online. But, you could probably also compile this information yourself with some &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&amp;amp;pws=0&amp;amp;q=star+trek+the+next+generation+episode+reviews&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google-fu&lt;/a&gt;. Once you have a compiled list of episodes, you could then determine if you should skip some/all of these episodes by cross-checking the list of episodes you definitely want to watch, reading the episode descriptions, and then determining for yourself if they are worth watching or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19252" LastActivityDate="2014-10-28T18:05:53.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5173" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-28T19:14:44.840" Score="2" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5170/questions-regarding-viewing-order-based-on-episodes-to-avoid&quot;&gt;This meta question&lt;/a&gt; no longer refers to a question that has anything to do with quality-based viewing order recommendations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/71460/20533&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; is now the primary focus of quality-based viewing order recommendations based on aggregate reviews and objective proof.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To alleviate discussion of whether or not this is appropriate, post your answers here on &lt;strong&gt;whether or not an aggregate review or objective reasoning allows episode quality to be used as a metric for viewing recommendations&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20533" LastEditorUserId="39144" LastEditDate="2020-08-14T20:22:14.830" LastActivityDate="2020-08-14T20:22:14.830" Title="Aggregate Reviews and Subjective Viewing Order Questions" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5173" CreationDate="2014-10-28T19:50:21.567" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reviews are ultimately based on subjective opinion. One person may like something that another dislikes. The scores that are given on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jammersreviews.com/st-tng/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;review sites&lt;/a&gt; reflect those &lt;em&gt;personal&lt;/em&gt; opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea that you can take a whole bunch of subjective reviews for something (a TV show, for example) smooosh them together and suddenly make them objective is a logical fallacy. All you'll end up with is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_in,_garbage_out&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;larger volume of subjective opinion&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For my money, the more sensible option is to assess &lt;strong&gt;objective&lt;/strong&gt; measures (film revenues, for example) and pretend that these are a metric of popular opinion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2014-10-28T19:50:21.567" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5170" CreationDate="2014-10-28T20:11:05.990" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not going to vote to close, but I still don't think it's a good question.  The problem I have with it is that it's just asking for a list of a bunch of stuff you happen to be interested in - there's no connection between the different parts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the difference between your question and one that asks for TNG episodes that match:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anything involving an ongoing plot, like the Borg invasion, I want to make sure I see.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Q episodes (Yes even Q-Pid)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Episodes with Wesley in them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anything involving the Romulans&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can easily imagine a large number of similar questions, and they'd all be just compilations of episodes someone happens to be interested in.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way it's been re-worded took out the highly subjective part, but it still seems to fall under Off-topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Requests for lists of works or recommendations are off-topic as they do not fit our questions and answers format. Feel free to ask about people's favorites in chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastActivityDate="2014-10-28T20:11:05.990" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5173" CreationDate="2014-10-28T20:47:26.093" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Asking what the consensus is for something should be an objective exercise and sourced by reputable sites. After all, the Stack Exchange Network does this very thing with questions and answers to determine which are good and which are bad by having us, the community for these sites, vote on them to establish a consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are other sites, such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; that have provided the means to establish the consensus on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092455/eprate&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TNG episodes&lt;/a&gt;. Asking what the consensus is for those episodes is objective, since it's either good, bad, or somewhere in between. An individual may agree or disagree with the consensus, which adds subjectivity to the discussion. But ultimately, if you ask if the consensus for episode 98 is good, there's really only two answers: yes or no. And that's pretty objective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19252" LastEditorUserId="19252" LastEditDate="2014-10-28T20:57:43.403" LastActivityDate="2014-10-28T20:57:43.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5173" CreationDate="2014-10-29T13:21:17.763" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't believe I'm about to defend a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This question is close to being objective.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, let's go over what's being asked for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is a question that can be subjective in nature, so please only focus on objectively-reviewed bad episodes based on aggregate site reviews and provide plenty of evidence and reasoning for your answers. Do not dis-recommend an episode based on personal pet peeves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the comments, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Aggregate review sites combine the scores of may reviews rather than writing a review of their own in order to create a more meaningful rating metric. I'm also specifically asking for answers to includ egood (sic) evidence and reasoning of their own, since aggregate reviews can sometimes be the result of a few very vocal voices. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I commented on the fact that reviews are inherently &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; objective. The community seems to agree with me on that, and appears to be focusing on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here is where it seems that we may split off.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this question was edited to &quot;what episodes are ranked highly* according to aggregate sites&quot;, this would bring the question fully into objective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's bring this back to &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; meta question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To alleviate discussion of whether or not this is appropriate, post your answers here on whether or not an aggregate review or objective reasoning allows episode quality to be used as a metric for viewing recommendations&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's talk about the reviews themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I watch a movie and decide to write a review and give it a rating. I have my own personal preferences and criteria for how I rate things. I don't like most &quot;romantic comedies&quot;, so I'm unlikely to score them highly or even review them positively. My wife tends to dislike horror or movies with &quot;excessive gore&quot;, so she's not going to review them particularly positively or rate them high.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reviews and ratings are inherently subjective.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Zibbobz argues that aggregate sites such as MetaCritic or Rotten Tomatoes are objective because they calculate a mathematical average of reviews and ratings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Aggregate review sites combine the scores of may (sic) reviews rather than writing a review of their own in order to create a more meaningful rating metric. I'm also specifically asking for answers to includ egood (sic) evidence and reasoning of their own, since aggregate reviews can sometimes be the result of a few very vocal voices. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once again, another of my earlier comments applies here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Aggregate review sites aggregate ratings from non-objective reviews. The whole point of a rated review is to NOT be objective. Basing it on an average aggregated review score is mathematically less subjective, but to claim that it's objective seems awfully wrong.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The calculated average gives us an idea of the critics taken into account rated something. Being highly (or poorly) rated by critics does not mean that a work is objectively good or objectively bad. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wait, didn't I say I was going to be defending this question?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really do not like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3038/5184&quot;&gt;suggested order&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4843/5184&quot;&gt;minimum viewing&lt;/a&gt; questions - because &lt;strong&gt;ratings and suggestions and inherently subjective&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this different? How could this be &lt;em&gt;almost&lt;/em&gt; objective?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;List questions are something that come up time and time again. The general consensus is that finitely scoped lists are allowed because reasonably definitive answers can be found. This is, actually, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5171/5184&quot;&gt;one of the arguments made for the original question&lt;/a&gt;. That original question initially asked for &quot;low quality&quot; episodes to be left out. That's a subjective qualification, so the &quot;low quality&quot; portion was edited out. The new question was opened. Again, it asks us to recommend episodes - but based on &quot;objective reviews&quot;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/F6jXS.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;(I'm not even going to bother saying it again.)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that we've got all that out of the way - how could this &lt;em&gt;possibly&lt;/em&gt; be almost an objective question? &lt;strong&gt;Don't ask for suggestions. Ask only for episodes which have ratings higher than a certain threshold.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, this is NOT perfect. What ratings we're looking at must be specified - Nielson ratings? Aggregate Reviewer ratings? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But, wait! You said reviews aren't objective, and that aggregate reviewer ratings still aren't objective.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's correct. The ratings and aggregates of them are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; objective. But the &lt;em&gt;numbers&lt;/em&gt; are not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider these questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation have an aggregate MetaCritic score of 80 or above?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation are good according to reviewers?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation are good?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first question can be definitively answered. The second and third cannot. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Phew.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, let's finally get back to the question at hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To alleviate discussion of whether or not this is appropriate, post your answers here on whether or not an aggregate review or objective reasoning allows episode quality to be used as a metric for viewing recommendations&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answers based on aggregate review scores, on &lt;em&gt;the actual scores&lt;/em&gt;, are objective.&lt;/strong&gt; The reviews and ratings themselves are not. I would caution anyone against using the scores or ratings to decide whether or not something is &quot;good&quot; or &quot;bad&quot;, but how you choose to use the information is up to you. (Hint: don't choose poorly.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.807" LastActivityDate="2014-10-29T13:43:09.960" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5178" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-29T21:20:41.410" Score="9" ViewCount="239" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Should there be an edit and flag for mods in same action?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have tried to let this user know that his question title is featured and all over StackExchange people who may have not finished all the books currently released who may have gotten hints that the title is a spoiler.  I have done like this question asked and edited it (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/835/is-it-okay-to-have-spoilers-in-question-titles&quot;&gt;Is it okay to have spoilers in question titles?&lt;/a&gt;) but the OP continues to be stubborn and revert the edits out of pride.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not going to keep playing games but I flagged the user and the question but no interventions have occurred yet and he continues down the same path.  Now I feel like giving up so what else can be done to prevent this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/71504/revisions&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/71504/revisions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35402" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-10-29T21:38:58.003" Title="User edit war ending up with spoilers in title and all over StackExchange" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5178" CreationDate="2014-10-29T21:38:58.003" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you can do, and I've done this for the question you mention is &quot;flag for moderator attention&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on the 'flag' button:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/km6W8.png&quot; alt=&quot;Flag Button&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You will then be presented with the following options:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TMlvW.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Choose the last option.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Give the moderators a description of what is going on.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I said something like &quot;There's an 'Edit War' going on here.&quot;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Mods will then have the ability to lock the question (or do whatever is necessary).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastActivityDate="2014-10-29T21:38:58.003" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5183" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-30T07:27:54.243" Score="5" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here’s a screenshot of close vote panels on both the Meta and Main sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/njQXx.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The subtitle is an unnecessarily light grey, and hard to read against the white. I’d suggest changing it to the same dark grey used on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2014-10-30T13:56:12.220" LastActivityDate="2014-10-30T13:56:12.220" Title="Close vote reasons on Meta are too low-contrast" Tags="|bug|design|meta|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5186" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-30T19:25:16.633" Score="6" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;Case in point: &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/71610/why-does-yoda-mourn-the-jedi-after-order-66-is-executed&quot;&gt;Why does Yoda mourn the Jedi after Order 66 is executed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question itself is actually pretty good and insightful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;strong&gt;the answers are clearly subpar&lt;/strong&gt;. They are not bad, but they are nothing more than probably-correct guesses, not backed up by even a shred of canon as of right now &lt;sub&gt;(the accepted and highest voted answer, when challenged, couldn't come up with anything better than user-generated image description on Wookiepedia)&lt;/sub&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comparable answers on less visited/popular questions usually get at most 2-3 upvotes. Yet, these answers are already upvoted &lt;strong&gt;to 20+&lt;/strong&gt; by influx of people from Hot Network Questions list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO this severely degrades the site, by both:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Devaluing site's good content, which is NOT inflated by Hot Topics effect.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Likely repelling users who CAN contribute good content to that specific question &lt;sub&gt;(I won't speak for other site SW experts, but I personally refuse to research and answer that question because competing with existing 20+ vote answers isn't something I look forward to, nor is having my answer look &quot;bad&quot; by comparison).&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Showcasing very poor content to the visitors as &quot;good&quot; (judging by upvotes) content. Those subpar answers are NOT an impression of a site I want to give to an influx of new users!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do NOT accurately represent the opinion of subject experts - because such fly-in visitors have enough rep to upvote (101) BUT not enough rep to downvote (or incentive to, even if they could). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was just the latest example, I see the same happening all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, can we as a site either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Remove ability of a site visitor to upvote a question if they came to the question from Hot Topics list and their only site rep is a +100 association bonus&lt;sup&gt;[1]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Opt out of Hot List participation alltogether.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;[1] - this is a well-known request on Meta.SE but so far there appears to be no traction to fix this network-wide&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta.SE related:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/238420/prevent-questions-on-hot-list-from-being-upvoted-by-casual-visitors-only-rep-is&quot;&gt;Prevent questions on Hot List from being upvoted by casual visitors (only rep is from association bonus)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/183109/the-association-bonus-should-not-enable-users-to-vote-on-every-site&quot;&gt;The association bonus should not enable users to vote on every site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/238514/users-arriving-at-a-bad-hot-network-question-should-be-able-to-express-their-dis&quot;&gt;Users arriving at a bad Hot Network Question should be able to express their dislike&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. Lest someone things it's sour grapes at not having been the one to answer, here's my answer that unjustly got Hot-Question upvote wave despite being not all that good: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/71940/why-was-sm%C3%A9agol-affected-by-the-ring-so-fast-while-both-frodo-and-sam-could-han/71952&quot;&gt;Why was Sm&amp;#233;agol affected by the ring so fast, while both Frodo and Sam could handle it without immediately trying to choke each other?&lt;/a&gt;. I don't think it's worth even 5 upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2014-11-11T20:14:03.067" Title="Can we somehow either opt out of Hot Network Questions, or prevent people from voting when that happens?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|hot-network-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5187" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5188" CreationDate="2014-10-30T19:42:07.480" Score="26" ViewCount="3913" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a subject that we've touched upon slightly in the past, but either the questions are based on old close reasons such as &quot;General Reference&quot; and &quot;Too Localized&quot;, which are now gone - or they're a little more specific. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4762/movie-trailer-based-questions&quot;&gt;Movie Trailer Based Questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/233/how-do-we-deal-with-questions-about-rumors-and-release-dates&quot;&gt;How do we deal with questions about rumors and release dates?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/530/should-questions-asking-about-the-future-of-a-franchise-series-or-literary-wor&quot;&gt;Should questions about the future of a franchise, series, or literary work (groupings) be permitted?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1748/are-questions-on-series-which-are-answered-by-upcoming-episodes-time-localised&quot;&gt;Are questions on series which are answered by upcoming episodes &quot;time localised&quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/521/what-is-the-limit-for-questions-about-ongoing-series&quot;&gt;What is the limit for questions about ongoing series?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It feels like lately, we've been getting more of these types of questions, and some of them are closed as  &quot;primarily opinion based&quot; citing that they are speculation based. &lt;strong&gt;Is this the correct way to handle these?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's look at the actual close reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, let's look at a recent closed question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/71368/is-anyone-in-the-hulkbuster-armor-in-age-of-ultron-trailer&quot;&gt;Is anyone in the Hulkbuster armor in the Age of Ultron Trailer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the trailer, it shows the Hulk battling what appear to be Iron man in his Hulkbuster armor. Is he actually in the armor (his own armor inside of the Hulkbuster) or is Ultron controlling the armor to battle the Hulk?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was closed as &quot;primarily opinion based&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's (probably) not. There are two possible answers. Yes, or No. In all likelihood, The identity of the person/entity inside, or controlling the Hulkbuster Armor will be revealed in the actual movie. &lt;em&gt;Currently&lt;/em&gt;, all we can do is speculate - and offer our opinions on the matter. We can't provide a reliable answer &lt;em&gt;right now&lt;/em&gt;, but that doesn't mean we can't &lt;em&gt;ever&lt;/em&gt; provide a definitive answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over the years, we've had a number of questions that received answers based on the information we had at the time, and which were updated long after with more recent - and &lt;em&gt;more correct&lt;/em&gt; information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A great example of this was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/18892/who-was-the-first-avatar&quot;&gt;Who was the first Avatar?&lt;/a&gt;. Gabe Willard provided an answer based on the information at the time, but was ultimately incorrect. Eventually, &lt;em&gt;The Legend of Korra&lt;/em&gt; definitively answered this question, and Keen provided a new, more correct answer. (Side note: Pureferret, change your accepted answer!) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can also look towards &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/51303/what-is-that-alien-in-marvels-agents-of-s-h-i-e-l-d&quot;&gt;What is that alien in Marvel's Agents of SHIELD?&lt;/a&gt;. At time of posting, we had no definitive answer. We had some clues, so I wrote an answer explaining what we knew, and which might be more or less likely. It took almost 9 months, but we were finally able to provide a definitive answer to this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more recent &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/64654/who-is-peter-quill-star-lords-father&quot;&gt;Who is Peter Quill/Star-Lord's Father?&lt;/a&gt; is a similar question. The best answer we have right now is, &quot;We don't know, but the director has said that it's not the same person as in the comics.&quot; This question has not been closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, let's look at another question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/54297/why-are-superman-and-batman-against-each-other&quot;&gt;Why are Superman and Batman against each other?&lt;/a&gt; This one has been closed. (Note: Yes, I was one of the close-voters. I've changed my mind since then.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've heard lots about the upcoming Superman vs. Batman movie. But I don't understand why they're fighting against each other. They're both superheroes, trying to fight for the good of humankind, fighting to protect the civilian population. So why are they being pitted against each other? What reasons do they have to fight each other?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here we have a question about a movie that was 2 years away, when it was asked. I'm not sure the script was even finalized at the time. There was no realistic way for anyone outside of the writing/production team to have a definitive answer. Even now, we can't reliably answer it. But eventually, we will be able to. Sure, it'll languish away, largely forgotten until then. But then the day will come, and we can definitively answer it. Then, the question may become a less-than-great question, since it's basically just asking for a recap of the maguffin, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2372/i-havent-read-the-book-watched-the-movie-may-i-ask-a-question-about-it&quot;&gt;we don't require users to have read/watched a work to be allowed to ask a question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some other questions to consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/71628/x-men-apocalypse-taking-on-an-invincible-enemy&quot;&gt;X-men: Apocalypse - Taking on an invincible enemy?&lt;/a&gt; Like the Batman/Superman and Hulkbuster questions, we don't have an answer right now, but will eventually. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/71616/is-there-going-to-be-an-iron-man-4-after-all-prtotypes-are-finally-destroyed-fo&quot;&gt;Is there going to be an Iron Man 4 after all prototypes are finally destroyed for good?&lt;/a&gt; Either there will be a new Iron Man movie, or there won't be. Currently, there are no publicized plans. Where does opinion come into the picture?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/56266/how-is-magneto-pulling-mystique-in-the-days-of-future-past-trailer&quot;&gt;How is Magneto pulling Mystique in the Days of Future Past trailer?&lt;/a&gt; Prior to release, we had a few decent speculative answers. After it was released, we got a solid definitive answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/48361/what-is-the-plot-of-star-wars-7&quot;&gt;What is the plot of Star Wars 7&lt;/a&gt; Yup, another one I initially VTC'ed. I voted for it before I voted against it. Go ahead and call me a waffler if you like.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22404/what-character-is-benedict-cumberbatch&quot;&gt;What character is Benedict Cumberbatch?&lt;/a&gt; This one is deleted, so you may not have access to see it, but it asked about the identity of a character in an upcoming movie. It was originally closed as &quot;Too Localized&quot; since we would get a definitive answer once the movie came out. &quot;Too Localized&quot; is no longer a valid close reason.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3358/who-is-the-eye-patch-woman&quot;&gt;Who is the eye patch woman?&lt;/a&gt; Another question where we didn't have a definitive answer until much later.  This one is especially interesting as Gilles specifically edited the question to make it less time sensitive, extending the life of the value of the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we really be closing questions about future works just because we don't have the answer now?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3014/should-all-questions-without-explicit-canon-answers-be-closed&quot;&gt;Should all questions without explicit canon answers be closed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3484/logical-speculation-in-answers&quot;&gt;Logical speculation in answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/32/questions-that-provide-speculative-answers&quot;&gt;Questions that provide speculative answers…&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4867/can-i-answer-based-on-my-ideas-and-reasoning-of-a-film-without-official-source&quot;&gt;Can I answer based on my ideas and reasoning of a film without official source?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2022-04-19T16:40:54.493" LastActivityDate="2022-04-19T16:40:54.493" Title="Should questions about future works be closed as Primarily Opinion Based?" 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  <row Id="5188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5187" CreationDate="2014-10-30T20:57:44.857" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll go against my philosophical inclination and say &quot;close them&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Closing doesn't mean the question is bad. It just means that it &lt;strong&gt;can not&lt;/strong&gt; be answered as-is. (where as is usually applies to question text, but COULD also apply to the question's ecosystem).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Closing is NOT PERMANENT. So, we could - and likely will - have a lifecycle of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BAD workflow - today:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Question asked&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question generates (likely) several bad opinion based answers. Some are upvoted&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Months/years later, correct canon answer is published&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Someone answers with correct answer&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GOOD workflow:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Question asked&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Question is closed as &quot;not ready yet&quot; (frankly this deserves a special offtopic choice IMHO). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This prevents any bad answers from being posted&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Months/years later, correct canon answer is published&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Whoever finds the answer, requests the question to be reopened, via a mod flag, an edit placing the question in re-open queue, or a Meta post. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question gets reopened.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Someone answers with correct answer. Hopefully nobody will be an rude person and post &quot;correct&quot; answer that the requestor-to-open cited before said requestor can answer (happened to me last week and was very annoying).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2017-12-19T16:08:06.020" LastActivityDate="2017-12-19T16:08:06.020" CommentCount="40" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5190" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-31T14:59:08.203" Score="0" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have observed this several times (full disclosure: most recently happened to me. But I considered it a 1*&amp;amp;k move even prior to that event):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User observes that a closed question is closed as &quot;unanswerable&quot; incorrectly, and that they know the answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User requests the question to be re-opened&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User waits for reopen process to happen since they can't answer yet, but have to leave because we all have lives and sleep outside of SFF.SE&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meanwhile the question gets re-opened&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone else swoops in before the original user arrives back, and answers it with what the original user's answer was supposed to be.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On one hand, this does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; violate any of the rules, and doesn't really damage the site in aggregate (good content is generated either way).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, this DOES have negative side effects:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Original user's efforts are NOT rewarded (it took time and effort to write up a &quot;let's reopen&quot; Meta post).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Feelings are hurt&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The user who suffered this treatment will be extremely unwilling next time to improve the site by spending their effort on reopening the questions that should be. That leads to less resources to maintain the site long term.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'd like to propose is etiquette whereas in situation like this, the person who said they know the answer but can't post it yet is offered a grace period (let's say 12 hrs from question reopening) to post their answer without other users swooping in and stealing the thunder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It wouldn't be a hard and fast rule, just an encouraged behavior norm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2014-10-31T17:33:52.820" LastActivityDate="2016-04-19T13:34:48.710" Title="Should we have an etiquette for NOT &quot;stealing&quot; answers on reopened questions?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5191" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-31T15:39:51.107" Score="2" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answered the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/71178/35012&quot;&gt;Why were the Hobbit and Lord of the Ring movies released in reverse order to the books?&lt;/a&gt; and I had the accepted answer. Later on I realized that the link was pointing to the 1978 animated LOTR movie instead of The Hobbit (1977). I fixed the link, and the next morning I had lost 25 rep on this question. It was no longer the accepted answer and I had also been downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No comments were added why it was no longer the accepted answer, and there wasn't another question which had the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did editing the answer somehow automatically remove it as being the accepted answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2014-10-31T16:08:37.823" Title="What happens when you edit an accepted answer?" Tags="|discussion|accepted-answer|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5191" CreationDate="2014-10-31T15:44:49.857" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no automatic accepting or unaccepting of answers.  The question asker manually applies the acceptance, and can remove it at any time.  Sounds like the question asker no longer finds your answer acceptable, but lacking any input from them we can't say why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-10-31T15:44:49.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5186" CreationDate="2014-10-31T19:10:30.023" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you describe is a problem on all SE sites and the only way to &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; &quot;fix&quot; this would be abolishing the hot questions for good. But actually, I like them, I regularly stumble upon nice questions I can contribute to which I wouldn't have seen otherwise. I &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; however try to refrain from over-voting those already over-exposed posts, and maybe a less severe alternative would be implementing a voting-cooldown of, say, 1 minute, when a question has been reached via hot questions. Plus a reminder &quot;vote responsibly&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's however another problem I personally have with your post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I won't speak for other site SW experts, but I personally refuse to research and answer that question because competing with existing 20+ vote answers isn't something I look forward to, nor is having my answer look &quot;bad&quot; by comparison&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SE is no competition. Sure it sucks to see a rather weak answer (or yet another &lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;don&amp;#39;t get me wrong, I _love_ XKCD, but that&amp;#39;s just not enough for a good answer in most cases&quot;&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt;-&quot;answer&quot;) with so many upvotes, but if you are truly devoted to the subject you should still post a great answer when you see the opportunity. Often enough it has happened that late-comers ultimately &quot;won&quot; not only the checkmark but also got an agglomeration of upvotes (while the former &quot;best&quot; answer was from then on ignored or even downvoted) over a year - you have to take my anecdotal evidence on that though, since I can't give you a top-of-the-head actual example for that...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="769" LastActivityDate="2014-10-31T19:10:30.023" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5194" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-01T02:01:35.780" Score="12" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that &lt;em&gt;technically&lt;/em&gt; I have the right to vote on any question on the site -- upvote, downvote, VTC, whatever. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But is it within the spirit of SFF.se for me to cast a VTC on a question about a canon that I either know nothing about, or know very little about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, maybe I've seen all the &lt;em&gt;LOTR&lt;/em&gt; movies -- would it truly be within good faith for me to exercise a VTC on a question about Tom Bombadil or Glorfindel, two characters that do not appear in in the movies, but rather feature only in the &lt;em&gt;LOTR&lt;/em&gt; books? Or, perhaps I've seen all six of the &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; movies, but only once, and I didn't really pay attention during the first three films and I'm far from having memorized the second trilogy -- I know I have the right to VTC, but should I? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should a person be familiar with or, even better, have a working expert knowledge of a canon before VTC? Or is it okay to VTC whatever the heck you want to, whether you know the canon or not&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize this is something that could never be enforced -- it's too subjective. But I'm compelled to ask out of a concern for the integrity of the site, and I wonder if anyone else had any thoughts on this subject. To be clear, I'm not talking about excoriating another user who happens to interpret a given canon differently; I'm referring to a user who presumptuously VTC questions in a canon he/she clearly doesn't know (or know well). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not going to put down identifying details, but, yes, I saw this happen recently, and I've been thinking about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there anything to be done about this?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Should&lt;/em&gt; anything be done about this?&lt;/strong&gt; I realize this particular issue can never be part of the site's formal policies, but I think SFF.se does a really good job of passing along informal, user collaborated expectations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are your thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="3500" LastEditDate="2014-11-01T20:29:21.110" LastActivityDate="2014-11-01T20:29:21.110" Title="Should one know at least some canon of a question they're preparing to VTC?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5194" CreationDate="2014-11-01T02:34:23.573" Score="14" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes, we can vote on topics we aren't familiar with.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two main reasons. First is that a lot of the vote to close reasons are totally obvious even if you have no knowledge of the specific topic. We shouldn't artificially reduce the number of people who feel free to close obviously bad questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second is that &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; we do this, then it becomes a matter of &quot;how much is &lt;em&gt;familiar&lt;/em&gt;?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; example is great: am I qualified to vote if I've seen one movie? All the movies? Do I need to be keeping up with the currently-airing &lt;em&gt;Star Wars Rebels&lt;/em&gt; TV show? At what point does &quot;unqualified&quot; cross over into &quot;qualified&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer is that we can't reasonably make sweeping statements because it depends on both the franchise and the individual question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;We are &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; expected to act carefully and reasonably.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which means that if we aren't sure, we should stop and think before we act. Drawing the line on qualifications for vote-to-close actions is a personal, individual choice and really can't be anything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;There is nothing site-wide to be done.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Individuals should apply thought and prudence to our voting habits, and that's all there is to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;But if there's a pinpoint problem, it should go through the regular channels.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes an individual's habits show regular thoughtlessness in this regard, to the point that it's a toxic pattern of behaviour. When we can see that their actions are detrimental to the site, then it's no longer a purely personal choice. If the person is resistant to friendly reminders, we should take note and bring it to the attention of the moderators with links to the relevant actions the individual has taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13941" LastEditorUserId="13941" LastEditDate="2014-11-01T02:40:27.077" LastActivityDate="2014-11-01T02:40:27.077" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5194" CreationDate="2014-11-01T11:09:51.680" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt; you're Voting to Close. Let's have a look at the main reasons;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Duplicate of;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some duplicates are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/50594/why-doesnt-leia-get-force-training-in-the-original-movies&quot;&gt;obvious&lt;/a&gt;. Others are far more abstruse and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/66208/why-dont-non-jedis-carry-lightsabers-as-tools&quot;&gt;technical&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Those that fit the latter definition are probably best left to people with a knowledge of the canon.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Off-topic because...&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some off-topic closes are obvious. Others are less obvious (Sherlock Holmes, for example) but &lt;strong&gt;in the main you don't usually need more than a glancing knowledge of a canon to easily determine if it's scifi/fantasy or not. At worst, a 10-second google will tell you.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Unclear what you're asking&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to be used (in the main) to deal with questions that are badly or confusingly written. &lt;strong&gt;No major canon knowledge is required to deal with these.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Too broad&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some questions are obviously too broad, especially where they're non-universe-based (e.g. why are vampires x?) whereas others are more technical and abstruse. &lt;strong&gt;The latter are best left to people with at least a brief knowledge of the canon.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Primarily opinion-based.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one is probably the hardest to quantify. Many seemingly opinion-based questions actually have a fully canon or &quot;word of god&quot; answer. &lt;strong&gt;This close reason is usually best left to people with a more intimate knowledge of a canon universe.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, there's a 'skip' button for a reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2014-11-01T11:09:51.680" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5194" CreationDate="2014-11-01T14:15:52.020" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;With exception of some extremely clear-cut cases, &lt;strong&gt;YES&lt;/strong&gt; they should know canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First off, let's get rid of the obvious ouliers. If the question asks for a list of works similar to canon, yes anyone can tell it's not a good fit for SE. In some (not all) cases of duplicates, the question is such a clear-cut duplicate that knowing canon isn't required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most other instances, however, are NOT. For pretty much ALL of the situations listed below, I have seen cases where people who had no knowledge of canon &lt;strong&gt;erroneously&lt;/strong&gt; close the question as &quot;too vague&quot;, &quot;unclear what you are asking&quot;, &quot;list&quot;, &quot;subjective&quot;, or even worse &quot;unanswerable&quot;. I can dig up examples for ALL of these.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions that fall under &lt;strong&gt;&quot;shark&quot; vs. &quot;gorilla&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;in a specific canon&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, sometimes they are poor. No, without knowing the canon &lt;strong&gt;you are not always, or even usually, qualified to judge whether a given comparison is fully and objectively answerable in canon&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Example&lt;/em&gt;: Superman vs. Hulk fihgt. On the surface, 100% SvG. Once you dig around, they DID have several contests; and I was able to provide an objective answer based on canon. And this isn't even within a single canon since one is DC and one is Marvel! (you can view them as DC+Marvel canon though).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Example&lt;/em&gt;: Dumbledore vs. Voldemort. Again, superficially seems SvG. However it has answers based on canon, good ones.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Unclear what's being asked&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, some are really ramblings that no knowledge of canon would be able to help with. But many are asking about some minute detail of canon that those who know it will be able to discern, and clean up the question to the core of what what being asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Example&lt;/em&gt;: Identify a species in Star Wars. Was greatly denounced for being unclear. In reality, was 100% clear AND answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;List&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as the question is within a given canon, the fact that it asks for a list does NOT in and out of itself make it a bad fit for SE. Specific canon knowledge is needed to understand if it has a &lt;strong&gt;finite - and rankable&lt;/strong&gt; - list of answers. (Caveat: often, such a question is &lt;em&gt;poor&lt;/em&gt; and may deserve downvotes. That's irrelevant as we are discussing VTCs).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Subjective&quot;/&quot;opinion based&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, while there are some outliers, more often than not I see questions closed as &quot;subjective&quot; which can be fully objectively answered from canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Example&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/71762/can-numenor-be-resurrected&quot;&gt;Can N&amp;#250;menor be resurrected?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Unanswerable&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one isn't even on the same scale. In general, canon knowledge or not, existence of an answer as per the site consensus is NOT grounds for VTC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it fits here because &quot;can't be answered&quot; argument is frequently used (incorrectly, since they don't know how answerable something is in canon) by people pushing for VTC for other reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2014-11-01T14:29:43.550" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5198" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-02T01:09:22.037" Score="10" ViewCount="370" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would appear that there is someone periodically roaming the boards downvoting literally everything; questions and answers. They seem to stop eventually, but I suspect this is due to them hitting the limit of votes they can make, rather than saying to themselves that the fiftieth answer they've read today is the first undeserving of a downvote. This would strike me abusing the privilege of being able to vote at all. It seems to have been happening daily for approximately a week, and has been noticed and commented upon by multiple users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is simple; is there any way whatsoever to combat this behaviour? Can we find out who is doing it and take away their voting privileges? Can we cancel their downvotes? Can we (figuratively, not literally. Well, maybe a little literally) kill them with fire? At the moment, the only option is to upvote to compensate the effect of their downvote, but this requires us to either upvote something we would probably not have upvoted before, which I dislike doing, or to have our upvote essentially cancelled out by their downvote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It simply makes the board a more annoying place to post when you know you're going to be downvoted no matter how good your question/ answer is. The fact that people often bandwagon and give further downvotes to a previously downvoted question doesn't help, and I can easily see this driving away new users. Someone like myself is miserable and lonely enough that it won't have much effect on me, but newbies are another issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16534" LastEditorUserId="54887" LastEditDate="2016-07-26T06:33:59.667" LastActivityDate="2016-07-26T06:33:59.667" Title="How to combat behavior of a malicious serial down-voter?" Tags="|discussion|down-votes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5198" CreationDate="2014-11-02T02:13:52.710" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the first thing you'd have to do is give an example of this happening, and then we could talk about whether it's harming the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When have you seen this happen?  I just had a look through the first page of the most recent questions and don't see any signs of every question and answer being downvoted.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't look as closely at the next 2 pages of questions, but the voting patterns look normal to me: some Qs and As have a log of upvotes, some have a few, some have one or two downvotes, a few have more than that.  The posts that have 0 or -ive net votes seem to generally deserve their scores.  I don't see anything that looks like pile-on downvoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not clear on why you're either reluctant to vote or you don't think that's enough of a response.  If you're looking at a question and its answers and putting in the effort check how many up and down votes there are why wouldn't you just vote at the same time?  If you think a post deserves an upvote, and someone else has already downvoted, isn't it better to give the post your upvote?  OTOH, if you think the post is &quot;meh&quot; - not really worthy of a vote - why is it hard to imagine that someone else thought it was bad and downvoted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastActivityDate="2014-11-02T02:13:52.710" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5198" CreationDate="2014-11-02T12:09:36.303" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have had many of my questions/answers downvoted only once without any given reason. So, I can understand what you are saying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But here is what I have to say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the moment, the only option is to upvote to compensate the effect of their downvote, but this requires us to either upvote something we would probably not have upvoted before, which I dislike doing, or to have our upvote essentially cancelled out by their downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/74666/is-voting-to-balance-in-the-spirit-of-the-site&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Upvotes should NOT be used to correct someone else's downvote.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I would say that no, don't upvote something just because someone else downvoted it. Upvote it only if &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; think it deserves an upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's what your vote is counting for, after all - vote for what you think, not for what other people think. Their own votes are used for their opinions, after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;First answer of the above link&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, this shouldn't discourage you from posting. Keep posting. If your posts are good and deserve upvotes, they will get them; one or two downvotes won't be such a big issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a user is targeting you in particular and downvoting a lot of your posts, the automatic script will catch him; don't you worry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19374" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-11-02T18:42:55.937" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5201" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5202" CreationDate="2014-11-02T21:22:45.773" Score="3" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I flagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6853/what-plot-points-are-missing-in-the-harry-potter-movies-that-are-in-the-novels/71771#71771&quot;&gt;this (now deleted) answer&lt;/a&gt; as 'not-an-answer' and I had my flag disputed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EXddf.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, today I saw that the answer was&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;deleted by Darth Satan, Pureferret♦ 11 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is: Why did a moderator dispute my flag when another (or the same) had the post deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the post was deleted for actually not being an answer, wasn't my flag correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19374" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-11-02T21:43:27.723" Title="Why was my 'not-an-answer' flag disputed, when a mod actually deleted the answer?" Tags="|support|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5201" CreationDate="2014-11-02T21:43:27.723" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your flag was automatically dismissed as a result of that question's trip through the Low Quality review queue. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/228861&quot;&gt;Info on that process is on meta.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2014-11-02T21:43:27.723" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5099" CreationDate="2014-11-03T01:54:09.420" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to see a massive increase in the scope and power of the relatively new science of neuromodulation, the various methods of directly stimulating the brain - whether electrical, magnetic, or via sound waves - that has been shown in many studies since about 2000 to have potentially vast implications in the treatment of mental and physical illness and in the enhancement of cognitive functions in healthy brains.  The most sophisticated form of neuromodulation at present is transcranial direct-current stimulation, which has hundreds of studies attesting to its effects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, neuromodulation will reach a point where we are able to substantially reduce our negative emotions (e.g. fear and anger) and enhance our positive emotions (e.g. compassion and empathy) without having to spend decades in meditation as the most 'advanced' humans in that regard do today.  (Those who don't believe intensive, prolonged meditation can achieve extraordinary results in the reduction of negative emotions and enhancement of positive ones should examine the literature on the ~15 years of extensive studies we have done on the subject.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose this may not count as a science fiction prediction, given that I am talking about an already established technology that - unlike many of those listed above - really will be available to the general public very soon, but the extent to which it can be continually developed is unknown.  Meditation is a difficult skill to develop and a very difficult skill to master, and this technology gives me hope that I won't have to go to the extremes of people in the past of spending 40 or 50,000 hours sitting in a cave to reach the same level of emotional well-being that they enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23700" LastActivityDate="2014-11-03T01:54:09.420" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5204" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-03T05:11:30.010" Score="11" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a couple of questions (one of mine, one of other's) that was downvoted or simply not well received because they were about thinking too much about some detail in some work. But that confuses me, because, as far as I understand, sites like this are precisely about that: asking about all the details we can imagine about our favorite SF/F stories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is there a limit about how much detail can we ask about the works? Or are those only personal opinions that don't affect how are questions accepted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32278" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2014-11-30T15:55:29.807" LastActivityDate="2014-11-30T15:55:29.807" Title="Are questions about “thinking too much about it” bad in this site?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5204" CreationDate="2014-11-03T07:11:31.130" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my humble opinion, your &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/70613/in-the-avatar-world-what-exactly-are-they-bending&quot;&gt;Avatar question&lt;/a&gt; was always going to suffer from downvotes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're essentially asking for an atomic-level scientific explanation of something that's only really explainable by saying &quot;it's magic&quot;. Elements aren't real and when you dig too hard into any fantasy universe, you'll inevitably come up short.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's almost certainly why you've faced an accusation of over-thinking by @MishaRosnach and why so many people have agreed with his comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2014-11-03T07:11:31.130" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5204" CreationDate="2014-11-03T10:02:54.283" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a question is downvoted but not closed that means it's unpopular, but not unfit for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some citizens of the site may feel it's worthy of downvoting for whatever reason (they think it's not useful, or poorly formatted, or they just had a bad hair day), but that's a risk we always take--we can either ask the questions we want or need to ask and let the votes fall where they may, or we can censor our posts according to what we think will get us the most reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my experience, trying to predict voting trends is more accurate than cross-referencing astrology with tarot to win the lottery--but not &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; more accurate. Ask questions within the site's guidelines and remember that downvotes shouldn't leave any lasting scars unless a disproportionate number of your posts are significantly downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13941" LastEditorUserId="13941" LastEditDate="2014-11-03T11:41:08.660" LastActivityDate="2014-11-03T11:41:08.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3239" CreationDate="2014-11-03T11:17:23.617" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/75912/scientific-imagination?referrer=IPIEcsN2huMFuP7v0aO_3g2&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/coftu.png&quot; alt=&quot;For the geeks interested in fun science questions and answers.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29074" LastActivityDate="2014-11-03T11:17:23.617" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-11-03T11:17:23.617" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5204" CreationDate="2014-11-03T15:50:17.123" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site seems to have tow very distinct - and largely clustered - demographics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One is people who like &quot;overthinking&quot; questions, and moreover, think that such questions are an important part of the site's attraction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One is people who don't like/get such questions and want to burn them with fire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without splitting the site into two, I fear that this divide is irreconcilable, unless and until the second group grows up, and learns to live and let live, and NOT close/DV questions that aren't actually bad for the site and merely not interesting to them personally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2014-11-10T02:33:27.310" LastActivityDate="2014-11-10T02:33:27.310" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5204" CreationDate="2014-11-03T18:16:54.053" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The issue here is a question of answerability.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is true that there may be &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; canonical source that can answer a question, there may even be an exact explanation in some third-party or even straight canon source that fully explains how these things come about. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some questions though, that is not true.  And while speculation can be fun, that is not what SE is about (try the chat for that, or a forum). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sci-Fi in general draws a lot of fans that are curious about the 'why' and 'how' of things in their favorite shows.  We're deeply interested in them too, but unfortunately a question that is asking for information not present in the canon is something we cannot answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some questions ask for an explanation of what goes on at the physical level in Science-Fiction, and while that may be incredibly interesting if written into a good question, it is not something we are prepared to answer.  This is Sci-Fi, and sometimes authors don't write an explanation of the full science-based details of a phenomena.  We could only speculate, and that is frowned upon in SE as a whole (though not forbidden if it is a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; subjective question, but those are rare and more based on intent and decision rather than physical phenomena).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, while your questions may be interesting, they may also be too broad, may focus on science-fact over science-fiction, and may not be following the standards of an SE question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might get better answers, incidentally, if you post a few links to the questions you're asking about specifically.  I'm only speculating at this point because I have no frame of reference, but by how you've described it, those are the most likely reasons you're seeing downvotes/closures.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; For further reading, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot;&gt;real questions have answers&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20533" LastEditorUserId="20533" LastEditDate="2014-11-03T19:21:24.693" LastActivityDate="2014-11-03T19:21:24.693" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5186" CreationDate="2014-11-03T18:25:01.970" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at the answers that were posted, I see only two downvotes on one of the highest-voted answers given, and now zero downvotes on the accepted answer (which was later edited to include canon information).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, I see an answer given that was downvoted by 5 and is now -1 in ratings, posted at the exact same time (even sooner, in fact) than the other one.  Most of those downvotes came late, as the current top-rated question soared upward and it remained at the bottom, but for the same reason you're citing the current highest upvoted question for - no canon source.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The solution here seems obvious, if a bit brutal.  If we see an answer that shows little research effort, no canon citation, and only speculation, we &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; downvote it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is harsh on the answerer, true.  But it is how the voting system is intended.  When that answer was posted, it was low-quality.  It has since been edited to be much higher quality.  Our downvotes should have been the signal that poster needed to update his answer with proper references.  Yet I only ever saw two downvotes on that answer.  It's no wonder then that people flooding in from hot topic would assume it's high-quality and vote it up as well, especially since it already was near the top with a small handful of upvotes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvotes are nothing to be ashamed of - we all write bad questions/answers sometimes, and we (hopefully) learn from them, and maybe even improve the quality of our answers/questions in the future. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20533" LastActivityDate="2014-11-03T18:25:01.970" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5213" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-04T12:01:04.480" Score="9" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a reason such specific tags in existence? I don't think anyone would try to check &quot;Jedi&quot; and &quot;Sith&quot; tags over &quot;star-wars&quot;..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="931" LastEditDate="2015-03-10T11:42:22.417" LastActivityDate="2015-03-10T11:42:22.417" Title="Why are there &quot;Jedi&quot; and &quot;Sith&quot; tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5213" CreationDate="2014-11-04T13:50:08.630" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I generally dislike over-normalization, or over-tagging, there are valid uses of the tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jedi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jedi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jedi&lt;/a&gt; has 80 questions tagged. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sith&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sith&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sith&lt;/a&gt; has 40. Granted, many of those questions can probably do without some of the Jedi/Sith tags they have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tags &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be used to help specify or categorize the question. A question about the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/71422/5184&quot;&gt;titles and ranks within the Jedi Order&lt;/a&gt; makes sense to be tagged with &quot;Jedi&quot;. A question about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/7635/5184&quot;&gt;a doctrine specific to the Sith&lt;/a&gt; makes sense to be tagged with &quot;Sith&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will anyone try to check &quot;Jedi&quot; or &quot;Sith&quot; over &quot;Star Wars&quot;? No, probably not. The same case could probably be made for a lot of tags which might be grouped within hierarchical tags (which we'll likely never get).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2014-11-04T14:02:18.217" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5215" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5219" CreationDate="2014-11-06T14:43:22.447" Score="16" ViewCount="270" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed on Movie:SE that they have &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;a rule&lt;/a&gt; regarding &lt;strong&gt;abandoned&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Identification questions are of limited use to other users of the&#xA;  site, and are asking people to spend some time identifying the Movie&#xA;  or TV show, so &lt;strong&gt;it is the responsibility of the person asking the&#xA;  question to try to answer clarifications within a reasonable amount of&#xA;  time, certainly within a day or so.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Identification questions may be deleted if it is considered that they&#xA;  are unanswerable and the person asking is not answering clarification&#xA;  comments. Questions from unregistered users unanswered after 2 weeks&#xA;  are liable to be deleted.&lt;/strong&gt; Questions lacking in research, i.e. being&#xA;  easily answered from an actor's name on IMDB or Wikipedia, might get&#xA;  closed.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we have a similar rule here on SF&amp;amp;F:SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2014-11-30T15:58:08.297" Title="Story Identification : Close questions where the OP isn't helping?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|closing-questions|story-identification|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5215" CreationDate="2014-11-06T14:53:33.670" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, I don't think so.  They had a significant influx of Identification questions in their early days, so they established rules to get rid of some of them.  We don't have that problem here; we have a healthy balance of questions of all manners, so there's no need to create special rules for removing some questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-11-06T14:53:33.670" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5215" CreationDate="2014-11-06T18:49:05.407" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see it being necessary to have a specific policy for story ID questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The existing &quot;unclear what you're asking&quot; close reason can cover obviously abandoned questions where follow-up is needed but where the OP isn't providing it, but on the other hand, and if such a question is no longer being updated, I don't see any harm caused by leaving it open anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such a question will still be there to be potentially answered if someone knows the answer and comes across it while rep-hunting on unanswered questions.  They're not cluttering the front page, abandoned questions will quickly fall off, and the rest of us can get on with the business of asking and answering questions, and managing the site within our remits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In extreme cases where the question is really poor, as I said the standard &quot;unclear&quot; close reason already exists and can suffice.  There's no need for anything more specific, and this is the same basic procedure as may be used for any other such question.  But otherwise it would have to be clearly demonstrated that leaving these open is actively detrimental to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2014-11-06T18:49:05.407" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5215" CreationDate="2014-11-06T22:34:19.293" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, we should at least close them (and eventually, delete).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the ID question is vague enough as to not be able to be correctly answerable, it's NOT a good fit for SE site, no matter how much fun it is for people to try to guess the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are absolutely no different from book recommendation questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please identify a book that fits {{this vague set of attributes, not enough to identify it}}&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please give me a list of books that are like this book in {{this vague set of attributes}}.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ONLY practical difference between these 2 questions is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such questions fit BOTH of the close criteria:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;unclear what you're asking&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Please clarify your specific problem or add additional details to highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it’s hard to tell exactly what you're asking. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and even more so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;too broad&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  There are either &lt;strong&gt;too many possible answers&lt;/strong&gt;, or good answers would be too long for this format. Please add details to narrow the answer set or to isolate an issue that can be answered in a few paragraphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2014-11-06T22:34:19.293" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5215" CreationDate="2014-11-07T20:31:21.710" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;By metrics, this is a minor problem now, and could become a major problem in the future. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Story Identification questions account for nearly twice that of any other question type on the site, and are the only questions that are tracked by asked-per-week in the most popular tags.  And the highest-voted Story-ID question has only two answers, both heavily downvoted.  And hasn't received a new answer in weeks.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These aren't bad questions - some story identification has been very insightful, and that highest-voted question had over 100 votes, so there's clearly some interest in identifying stories.  But, as more and more accumulate, there needs to be &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; measure of cleanup, and possibly some new rules regarding how Story-ID questions are handled to fight the inflation rate (read: possibly a topic for another Meta question).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20533" LastActivityDate="2014-11-07T20:31:21.710" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5220" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-07T21:29:03.720" Score="7" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few hours ago, I voted to close this question for being a duplicate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35576/how-did-obi-wan-know-darth-vader-was-anakin?noredirect=1][1]&quot;&gt;How did Obi-Wan know Darth Vader was Anakin?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It closed immediately, despite the fact that I only have a gold tag badge for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt;, not &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently the post did (at one point) have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; tag but that was removed over a year ago. So why am I still able to close it on my own?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-07-12T21:17:05.387" Title="Tag Duplicate close on old question" Tags="|bug|status-completed|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5220" CreationDate="2014-11-07T21:44:58.810" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Update: The behavior in question has been changed, and the original situation should not happen under current (7/2016) rules:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We have changed the behavior of the dupehammer. It now lets you single-handedly close as duplicate unless you have participated in editing the tag (either by adding the tag yourself, or approving an edit that did).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/308573&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/308573&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Original answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to prevent abuse of the dupehammer, the dupehammer applies only to those tags present when the question was asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/231212&quot;&gt;the MSE announcement&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You can instantly close as a duplicate any question that was &lt;em&gt;originally asked&lt;/em&gt; with a tag you have a gold badge for.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.757" LastActivityDate="2016-07-12T20:50:13.530" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5186" CreationDate="2014-11-11T20:14:03.067" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't forget that you have the option of protecting a question.  If a question hits the hot network list, and it's obviously starting to get a bunch of so-so answers, you can protect the question (Anyone with I think 10k rep can?) to prevent 101 folks from posting - you have to have 10 site rep earned not from the rep bonus to do so.  It would prevent a few people from posting valid answers, but it would mostly accomplish what you say here, if you did it fast enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course this would be subject to others agreeing with you that it needs protecting, but it seems a valid strategy (and one I've seen on the sites I'm more active on).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12858" LastActivityDate="2014-11-11T20:14:03.067" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5225" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5226" CreationDate="2014-11-13T21:05:24.807" Score="8" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3239/community-promotion-ads-2014&quot;&gt;Community Promotion Ads 2014&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will we be doing community promotion ads this year, for 2015? I know I'd like to and I'm guessing a few others out there might want to as well. I asked several times in chat, but didn't get any responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mods, may we do ads this year, please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, do they &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to be brand new designs, or could we recycle one or two previous designs that people liked? Or could we take an old ad and update it with new colors, perhaps a new font, etc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first of the year is right around the corner!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2014-11-17T17:06:45.560" Title="Will we have Community Promotion Ads for 2015?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5225" CreationDate="2014-11-13T21:31:18.420" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, yeah.  It's a thing that SE does on an annual basis.  We mods aren't really involved, SE themselves take care of it.  They'll make a 2015 post in the next month or two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-11-13T21:31:18.420" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5227" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-14T08:14:05.400" Score="6" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the top of user profiles on Meta, there’s a “less info” button:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6Lh7C.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*CLICK!*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RSqpu.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The labels next to the items are unreadable, the colour is almost the same as the white background.  By comparison, e.g. on ServerFault:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oAUuN.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The labels &quot;reputation&quot; &quot;badges&quot; and so on are easily visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can reproduce on latest Safari and Chrome on OS X Yosemite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="4167" LastEditDate="2014-11-15T18:49:35.300" LastActivityDate="2014-11-15T18:49:35.300" Title="The “less info” pane on user profiles in Meta is unreadable" Tags="|bug|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5225" CreationDate="2014-11-14T09:36:58.013" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8ElGV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Add for Arqade targeting SF&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;em&gt;screams&lt;/em&gt; for a return add. I don't frequent &lt;a href=&quot;http://gaming.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Arqade&lt;/a&gt;, so I don't know if there already is one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2014-11-14T09:36:58.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5229" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-15T18:55:22.977" Score="-11" ViewCount="383" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks to Yet Another Hot Question List Ignorance Incident, we have a question with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/67035/976&quot;&gt;an answer that is 100% wrong and contradicted by canon&lt;/a&gt;, yet upvoted to 50+ upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far, I posted a correct answer, asked the OP to consider changing their &quot;Accept&quot;, and posted a comment under an incorrect answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, (barring the OP changing their accept mark), that seems well-nigh useless: nobody will read a comment under a long answer with 50+ upvotes to check if that answer is correct; and nobody will pay any attention to an answer with a couple of upvotes when the accepted one has 50+. And the &quot;normal&quot; self-correction mechanism of SE site won't work here, since there will be no flood of ~4000 viewers to provide enough upvotes for the correct answer to even remotely catch up, even in several years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Would it be an acceptable thing&lt;/strong&gt;, to edit in a disclaimer note at the START of the answer, that the answer is canonically wrong, and opposite of what the correct answer is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2014-11-16T01:59:06.253" Title="Is it acceptable to edit in &quot;This answer is wrong&quot; header into a wrong but upvoted answer?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|editing|incorrect-answers|hot-network-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5229" CreationDate="2014-11-15T19:25:51.780" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. &lt;strong&gt;Adding a note to their answer saying &quot;&lt;em&gt;THIS IS WRONG, SEE MY ANSWER BELOW&lt;/em&gt;&quot; would be a form of vandalism.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The correct procedure is to add a comment explaining why the answer is wrong. The answer will then be (gradually) outvoted by your correct answer. It might take years but them's is the downside of a vote-based system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might also want to address a note to the poster (who seems to be a regular visitor) explaining why their answer is wrong and encouraging them to delete or amend their previous answer with the correct canon information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2014-11-15T19:25:51.780" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5229" CreationDate="2014-11-15T19:30:28.877" Score="16" Body="&lt;h3&gt;No.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Commenting and voting are the tools we have for “correcting” the balance if an answer is incorrect. Inserting chunks of text into other people’s post because you don’t like their answer is an abuse of editing privileges, as well as being just plain rude. Is it unfortunate that an answer is “incorrect”? Perhaps, but not enough to justify vandalising somebody’s answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’d reject such an edit if I saw it in the Suggested Edits queue, and revert it if it was actually applied to a post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastActivityDate="2014-11-15T19:30:28.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5229" CreationDate="2014-11-16T01:59:06.253" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with &lt;strong&gt;Alexwlchan&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Richard&lt;/strong&gt;. The &lt;em&gt;nice&lt;/em&gt; thing to do, the thing that would most encourage community building, in my opinion, is to either try and salvage the answer in the most minimalist way possible, or to work with the answering party on correcting his/her errors until he/she has a quality answer. It's okay to not &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; be in a competitive role -- helping someone else to construct a great answer can also be rewarding. But I digress. Anyhow, YMMV, but I wouldn't mind being the recipient of this approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moving on, no, for the love of Pete, it's &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;totally not okay&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to edit in &quot;THIS ANSWER IS 100% WRONG -- PLEASE SEE MY ANSWER FOR THE CORRECT ANSWER!&quot; Even if it's true and the answer is terrible, I agree that doing something like this constitutes editorial vandalism. As well, it's poor form and only serves to make the complainant seem vindictive, jealous, or like a pandering rep w***e. There is just no way a person can do this without looking like a huge cad. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This particular situation is going to occasionally happen and I think, aside from my first suggestion of editing the post &lt;em&gt;within reason&lt;/em&gt; or offering to help the person who answered fix his/her facts, there is not much to be done about a wrong answer that the OP selects as correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2014-11-16T01:59:06.253" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5215" CreationDate="2014-11-16T15:53:17.657" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5218/19561&quot;&gt;DVK&lt;/a&gt;, but I'd like to be a bit more specific and add some conditions. I don't think (or don't know if) these are enforcible through SE itself, so they're &lt;em&gt;more what you'd call &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6kgS_AwuH0&amp;amp;t=12s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;guidelines&lt;/a&gt;&quot; than actual rules&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Age&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The question should be older than &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt; days, for instance 7.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vote threshold&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The question's total score should be less than &lt;em&gt;Y&lt;/em&gt;, for instance 3.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Last reaction&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The last reaction by the OP shouldn't be too long ago, but I think it should depend on the age of the question and other activity by the OP.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question is still young, say under a month, I'd expect the OP to answer within 2-3 days.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For older questions, within 2-3 weeks.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the OP has been active elsewhere on the stack since the request for clarification, or elsewhere on the SE network, one can expect them to respond more quickly than when they haven't been (possibly indicating vacation or otherwise AFK).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm not sure what it should mean if this question was the OP's only activity. It could indicate a drive-by question, but I'm not sure how to define that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Relevance&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Of course, not answering irrelevant questions shouldn't put a question in danger. I don't think the OP should have to dignify &quot;what's your shoe size?&quot; with an answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that questions too which these conditions apply, should be closed as &quot;unclear what you're asking&quot;. This shouldn't even have to be confined to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions, but should be applied to &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; questions that are unclear.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If requests for clarification are not met, the question should be closed. Perhaps the close reason can be edited to include something to the effect of &quot;requests for clarification went unanswered&quot; or &quot;despite requests for clarification&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2014-11-16T15:53:17.657" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5234" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-16T18:39:26.510" Score="-3" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why was this question closed as &quot;opinion based&quot;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/72843/why-didnt-vader-save-luke-this-easier-way-in-return-of-the-jedi&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t Vader save Luke this easier way in Return Of The Jedi?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;James Kahn's novelization was pretty clear on the answer, and it's not in any way, shape or form opinion based.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, it's clear that at least SOME users VTCed not on the merits of the question but because they were &quot;annoyed&quot; by the user posting &quot;too many&quot; questions - at least one of which was also answerable but downvoted because it appeared subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2014-11-17T18:28:58.250" Title="Why was this question closed? It has an answer. Objective one" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5234" CreationDate="2014-11-16T18:54:19.083" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My VTC had nothing to do with the user. I just felt that it was very &quot;opinion-based&quot; because it relies on imagining a situation that didn't occur in the film. By the same token, you might ask why the Emperor didn't use his force abilities to pick up the saber (or choke Luke or make his head explode from the inside out).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel that there's a fully canonical answer, I'm happy to give you the benefit of the doubt and withdraw my close vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE : Now that I've seen DVK's response, my feeling is that answer supplied by DVK has &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; merit but is still a highly speculative answer to a highly speculative question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2014-11-17T09:30:44.783" LastActivityDate="2014-11-17T09:30:44.783" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5225" CreationDate="2014-11-17T16:27:28.423" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;We start the cycle every December. Usually I try to do it at the start but sometimes it might be a later week, but December's the period that we'll go and refresh every Community Promotions Ad thread on all of the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a helpful way to keep on top of this, we include this information on the cycle, as well as additional suggestions regarding recycling ads and such, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3239/community-promotion-ads-2014&quot;&gt;the threads contain a section &quot;Why do we reset the ads every year?&quot;&lt;/a&gt; which granted isn't much but it's a good place to refresh on how to approach the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2537" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2014-11-17T16:27:28.423" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5234" CreationDate="2014-11-17T18:28:58.250" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at the question, I can see why it was VTC'd as opinion-based: It's asking about a hypothetical scenario.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the possibility of some other action was there - It's been shown in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/72875/20533&quot;&gt;another question&lt;/a&gt; that Luke himself retrieved his lightsaber, so the hypothetical solution &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; possible, and perhaps more sensible.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More importantly though, this is not an opinion-based question.  This is a &lt;em&gt;character motivation&lt;/em&gt; question - asking why Vader chose to act the way he did (which, incidentally, would be exactly as suicidal as running him through with a lightsaber, since it was Palpatine hitting him with Force Lightning that caused his inevitable death).   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We &lt;em&gt;DO&lt;/em&gt; answer questions based on character motivation, so this question is definitely on-topic.  Though it might benefit the question-asker to change his question title, since 'the right way' is a &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; subjective way of phrasing his question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20533" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-11-17T18:28:58.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5238" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-17T20:53:30.773" Score="1" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xfmiR.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;It shows up in IE.  It still functions in FF, but it is invisible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This started a couple of weeks ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28516" LastEditorUserId="17279" LastEditDate="2014-11-18T10:28:48.353" LastActivityDate="2014-11-18T10:28:48.353" Title="The Stack Exchange dropdown menu in the upper left is invisible in Firefox" Tags="|bug|status-norepro|design|top-bar|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5239" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5240" CreationDate="2014-11-20T17:14:04.857" Score="8" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen this happen a number of times, and have always been confused about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last week someone posted a new answer on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/38097/did-dumbledore-know-the-last-part-of-snapes-unbreakable-vow&quot;&gt;Did Dumbledore know the last part of Snape's Unbreakable Vow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;So at this point, I don't think Dumbledore knew about the Unbreakable Vow because it hasn't been made yet. I do not find Dumbledore to be indifferent to Snape; I find that he is merely suggesting to Snape that only Snape can reconcile in his soul whether killing Dumbledore under the circumstances he is facing would be an act of murder or an act of mercy, and he is allowing Snape the choice to consider it as an act of mercy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why couldn't Dumbledore simply kill himself? Would it have really been that difficult? I rather doubt it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Null and I both flagged it as &quot;not an answer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I look at my flag history, I see that my flag has been declined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;declined - flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK. I didn't flag it for technical inaccuracies - I flagged it because they were clearly (IMO) asking a new question instead of answering the existing one. Asking why Dumbledore didn't kill himself in no way answers the question of whether or not he knew the last part of Snape's unbreakable vow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, OK - a mod sees differently that me. No big deal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;However&lt;/em&gt; - the answer was still deleted by a mod (I have no idea if these actions were taken by different mods).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why was my flag declined, and then the answer was deleted anyways?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2014-11-20T17:40:04.353" Title="Confusion about declined flags" Tags="|support|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5239" CreationDate="2014-11-20T17:40:04.353" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;That was my bad. In the mod flag screen, the preview didn't show that it was a quote, so the visible part appeared to be answering the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2014-11-20T17:40:04.353" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5242" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5243" CreationDate="2014-11-21T17:50:22.467" Score="2" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently answered &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/73146/what-book-has-criminals-wear-a-ring/73150#73150&quot;&gt;What book has criminals wear a ring?&lt;/a&gt;. After answering it, I noticed that the &quot;similar question&quot; area suggested &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/58794/looking-for-a-book-possibly-entitled-the-ring?rq=1&quot;&gt;Looking for a book: possibly entitled &amp;quot;The Ring&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;, which is indeed the same book. The later question is, in my opinion, significantly superior. Should I put a Close vote in on the older one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2014-11-30T16:00:05.577" Title="Close Votes on Story Identification query" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|story-identification|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2014-11-30T16:00:17.020" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5242" CreationDate="2014-11-21T20:46:05.863" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the absence of an acceptance of both questions by both OPs, &lt;strong&gt;there's no definitive confirmation that they're the same book.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there's a reasonable case to be made for closing the older one as the duplicate (the newer one is definitely a more detailed and overall better question) but I'd personally vote against it for the reason above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2014-11-21T20:46:05.863" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5244" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5246" CreationDate="2014-11-23T10:04:50.427" Score="9" ViewCount="241" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Stack Exchange winter bash is looming, and I’ve seen hat-related posts on quite a few other Stacks, but not one here yet. We had &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3228/3567&quot;&gt;hats in 2013&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2415/3567&quot;&gt;in 2012&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are we doing hats again this year?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2014-11-23T12:04:02.617" Title="Are we doing hats again? (2014 edition)" Tags="|discussion|winterbash|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5244" CreationDate="2014-11-23T10:37:59.997" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I want hats.&lt;/strong&gt; Buffy's head is feeling distinctly bare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wNSNZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d98Vx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qpEMV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3rtYU.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2014-11-23T10:37:59.997" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5244" CreationDate="2014-11-23T12:04:02.617" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;We are doing hats. Based on the fact for the last 2 years there's been pretty much no complaint, we (the moderators) decided to just go ahead and submit the site for hats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2014-11-23T12:04:02.617" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5247" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5248" CreationDate="2014-11-24T01:19:15.307" Score="8" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just started a bounty to reward &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/50450/21267&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I chose the bounty reason of 'Reward existing answer'.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jeBdi.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Bounty reason - Existing answer&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when I tried to immediately award the bounty, the following error message popped-up:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pDeMQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Bounty error message&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why is this so?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I said I want to award an &lt;strong&gt;existing answer&lt;/strong&gt;, so I don't need to wait for a new one&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it to raise awareness of the question in the 'featured' tab for (minimum) a day?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2014-11-24T20:48:38.927" Title="Why do I have to wait 24 hours before awarding a Bounty for existing answer?" Tags="|discussion|support|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5247" CreationDate="2014-11-24T02:45:11.613" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are some of the reasons, based on the discussions and answers supplied in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/116072/should-the-24-hour-timeout-apply-to-bounties-awarded-for-exemplary-answer&quot;&gt;relevant MSO discussion&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/116073/252593&quot;&gt;Feature the question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, as per &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/bounty&quot;&gt;regular bounty protocols&lt;/a&gt;, the question will have the chance to be 'Featured' and attract attention. This can:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide a chance for the question to get more high-quality answers and up-votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide a chance for the existing answer(s) to get more up-votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/118443/252593&quot;&gt;Prevent Misuse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, the SE staff have &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/116072/should-the-24-hour-timeout-apply-to-bounties-awarded-for-exemplary-answer#comment602329_123761&quot;&gt;noticed&lt;/a&gt; that people are using the bounty transfers as a means of passing reps to their mates. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/811/shog9&quot;&gt;Shog9 ◆&lt;/a&gt;  says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've had the dubious privilege of seeing even more dodgy tricks played with bounties - and frankly, I tend to think they're too easy to award already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Limiting the bounty award to 24 hours can:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Deter &lt;a href=&quot;http://ratchet.wikia.com/wiki/Nefarious&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Nefarious&lt;/a&gt; (no not that one) activity&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/118477/252593&quot;&gt;Give others a chance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, As &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/1/jeff-atwood&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood ◆&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you start a bounty, part of your contract with the community is to allow everyone to have a shot at potentially earning it with a great answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2014-11-24T20:48:38.927" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-11-24T20:48:38.927" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5249" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-11-26T02:22:57.357" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scope&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'scope'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scope&lt;/a&gt; is used to define what is pertinent to discussion. Generally, the scope determines what the site is about. Issues arising from &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scope&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'scope'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scope&lt;/a&gt; might have to do with whether a certain question is on-topic or not, but also can be used to evaluate whether an entire topic should be up for discussion (especially as it pertains to specific Stack Exchange sites).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using this tag indicates that the question is requesting help with scope (normally as a specific use of a general topic), and answers should generally relate to the scope of the site and whether the topic raised generally relates. It also may be the case where a user has a question, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/62131/where-do-mediawiki-questions-belong&quot;&gt;but doesn't know where it belongs&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Tag wiki description from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/tags/scope/info&quot;&gt;Meta Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="3567" LastEditDate="2015-01-20T19:57:21.593" LastActivityDate="2015-01-20T19:57:21.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5250" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-11-26T02:22:57.357" Score="0" Body="Use this tag when examining what is on-topic or off-topic, and why." OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="3567" LastEditDate="2015-01-20T19:57:21.593" LastActivityDate="2015-01-20T19:57:21.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5251" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-11-26T02:44:32.777" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-11-26T02:44:32.777" LastActivityDate="2014-11-26T02:44:32.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5252" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-11-26T02:44:32.777" Score="0" Body="For questions about the real time, stateful web chat." OwnerUserId="73606" LastEditorUserId="73606" LastEditDate="2016-12-14T14:42:16.860" LastActivityDate="2016-12-14T14:42:16.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5253" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-29T03:27:22.117" Score="1" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, so I am very confused and possibly for a simply reason, but to me this makes no sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Problem:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/50063/muggle-borns-and-social-workers&quot;&gt;Muggle Borns and Social Workers&lt;/a&gt;  tagged Feb 14 is marked as a Duplicate Nov 25 of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/73349/whats-the-official-explanation-for-harrys-and-everyone-elses-absence-from&quot;&gt;What's the “official” explanation for Harry's (and everyone else's) absence from muggle school?&lt;/a&gt; which was asked Nov 24.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BUT&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the question &quot;Muggle Borns and Social Workers&quot; comes first shouldn't that be the original and the second question be the duplicate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am very confused and don't know how to explain this could somebody please shed some light or is this a topic for Meta Stack Exchange?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;My major Problem is:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can the first question be a duplicate of the second? Especially when it came nearly 6 months before?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did I miss some required reading from the Help Center about duplicates. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2014-11-29T13:01:55.740" Title="Why was this question tagged as a duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-12-12T01:10:30.660" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5253" CreationDate="2014-11-29T04:54:44.827" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I closed them that way because looking at the two questions, the more recent one seemed higher-quality, and it got &lt;em&gt;way&lt;/em&gt; more attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-11-29T04:54:44.827" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5253" CreationDate="2014-11-29T13:01:55.740" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4744/19561&quot;&gt;Should we always close the newer question as the duplicate?&lt;/a&gt;,  it's not necessarily the newer question that gets closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually it is, but there are a number of reasons why the newer question is preferred to the older. In this case, I flagged the newer as a duplicate, but before it got closed, it ended up on the Hot Network Questions list. That made it get a lot of attention and answers, so that made one of the mods decide to close the older.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I think the old question has some good quality answers as well, I'd like to suggest merging, but I don't know if it's possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2014-11-29T13:01:55.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5187" CreationDate="2014-12-01T20:44:47.680" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem is that we don't always know if any future works are in the making, and if they are, if the question will be answered in them. If we take this to its extreme conclusion, we could only have questions about &quot;dead and buried&quot; canon, and we don't want that, do we?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ignoring dead canons for now, we can discern different levels of liveliness in canons.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;On the one hand, we have questions about movie trailers. We know that trailers are meant to pique people's interest, so they will often pose questions that are answered in the movie.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;On the other hand, we have a canon like Harry Potter: mostly dead, but it's still added to in Pottermore &amp;mdash; and then suddenly a whole new trilogy of movies get added.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Somewhere in between are TV series where a number of seasons have been broadcast, but new seasons are still in the making.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the close reason &quot;opinion based&quot; is the wrong reason to close these types of questions with. It is not a matter of opinion, it's a matter of speculation perhaps, but it's above all a matter of patience. &lt;strong&gt;Questions such as these should be closed with a custom reason that boils down to &quot;have patience&quot;, if the work in question is in production or already produced, but not published yet.&lt;/strong&gt; This should cover most movie trailer questions and questions about current seasons and story arcs of TV and other series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With questions such as the &lt;em&gt;Avatar&lt;/em&gt; question, where new information that wasn't necessarily expected, changes the correctness of a long-standing accepted answer, perhaps the best course of action is to re-ask and self-answer the question, then mark the original question as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2014-12-01T20:44:47.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5257" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5258" CreationDate="2014-12-02T03:59:52.050" Score="2" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can amazon.com (and other) referral tags be automatically removed from the posted links ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Referral links may form a perverse financial incentive to post random answers to story identification threads even if they're likely to be false (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/63388/22506&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/63388/22506&lt;/a&gt; - not claiming that it's really the case, but it's certainly a &quot;conflict of interest&quot;) - the poster could hope to possibly earn money if people buy that book, but it motivates to 'advertise' popular (likely to be bought) books instead of the correct answers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be better for the community if those links were 'clean' - preferably cleaned automatically, I believe there is public code that cleans the links of most popular web stores.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22506" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2014-12-02T04:27:56.810" Title="Amazon referral tags" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5257" CreationDate="2014-12-02T04:27:56.810" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/26964/189912&quot;&gt;Normally, all Amazon links &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be auto-converted to an affiliate link which credits Stack Exchange.&lt;/a&gt; These are obvious, as in-text they will link to &lt;code&gt;rads.stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt;. When you follow such a link, you will be redirected to Amazon and find that Stack Exchange's affiliate tag, &lt;code&gt;tag=stackoverfl08-20&lt;/code&gt;, has been added to the final URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example can be seen &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/a/475868/126632&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;: I linked to &lt;code&gt;http://www.amazon.com/dp/0321492668&lt;/code&gt;, SE converted the link to &lt;code&gt;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0321492668&lt;/code&gt;, which when clicked redirects to &lt;code&gt;http://www.amazon.com/dp/0321492668/?tag=stackoverfl08-20&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/106294/189912&quot;&gt;this doesn't apply to non-US Amazon links&lt;/a&gt;. Because SE doesn't have affiliate relationships with Amazon outside the US, it does not convert these links. And since the link in this particular example was to amazon.co.uk, it was not touched. (And it had no &lt;code&gt;tag=&lt;/code&gt;, so it was not an affiliate link to begin with.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:13:53.560" LastActivityDate="2014-12-02T04:27:56.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5259" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-06T17:56:36.533" Score="-10" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-terminator-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-terminator-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-terminator-series&lt;/a&gt; tag is simply unnecessary. Please, create synonym. I don't think someone would like to oppose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The first movie name and the franchise name matches, but we never needed separate tags for each so far (anyone can easily mention that in the question if they need answer from the first movie only which isn't practical). An example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-matrix&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-matrix&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-matrix&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="3567" LastEditDate="2014-12-08T12:03:07.313" LastActivityDate="2014-12-08T12:03:07.313" Title="Please merge &quot;the-terminator-series&quot; tag into &quot;terminator&quot;" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5259" CreationDate="2014-12-06T18:06:05.887" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can see the point of editing the name to make it a bit clearer ( &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminator-franchise&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminator-franchise&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminator-franchise&lt;/a&gt; perhaps?) but not the point of deleting the entire tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a world of difference between Terminator (The 1984 film) and Terminator (the entire fictional universe that covers films, a TV series, comics, graphic novels and novels)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2014-12-06T18:06:05.887" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5261" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-08T07:07:59.013" Score="8" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is copying a question word-for-word from another site allowed? I’ve seen three cases where this has happened, and I don’t know whether it’s allowed. (The site in question was the CoS Forum.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it’s not allowed, should I or the user link a source and then reword the question so that it’s no longer plagiarising?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28219" LastEditorUserId="3567" LastEditDate="2014-12-08T07:56:39.913" LastActivityDate="2016-05-15T22:21:18.637" Title="Is taking questions directly from other sites allowed?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5261" CreationDate="2014-12-08T07:38:10.240" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Word-for-word copying of relatively small amounts is only allowed as evidence / supplementary material, and even then must be properly quoted and attributed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A quote should never be a full post, attributed or not, and presenting it as one's own is strictly forbidden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best course of action when you encounter something like this is to flag one of the user's plagiarized posts with a custom flag and tell the moderators you found plagiarism, with a link to a word-for-word source of the actual text. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's a good question worth keeping around, you could rewrite it in your own words and perhaps a link to the original question. If it's not, it will probably just be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="3267" LastEditDate="2016-05-15T22:21:18.637" LastActivityDate="2016-05-15T22:21:18.637" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5263" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-09T22:43:44.857" Score="6" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meta questions are the community's way of gathering consensus on issues and discussions. Often though, a meta question might have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4749/21267&quot;&gt;highly up-voted answer&lt;/a&gt;, but no accepted ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, accepting a question means that the OP is happy with the answer, but &lt;strong&gt;as a community, do we go with what is accepted or what is up-voted / most up-voted?&lt;/strong&gt; even if there are no accepted answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2014-12-10T04:25:46.730" Title="Does a meta question have to be 'accepted' to be considered as a community consensus?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5263" CreationDate="2014-12-09T22:46:23.160" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. Accepted only means the op liked the answer best. The community consensus is the most voted answer, although that isn't always certain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2014-12-09T22:46:23.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5263" CreationDate="2014-12-10T04:25:46.730" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Only the person who asked the question can accept the answer, so it would be impossible for the accepted answer to stand as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/consensus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;consensus&lt;/a&gt; unless it is also the most highly voted answer. It would effectively give the asker the power to stand as consensus. It would also imply that there is no consensus if the asker never accepts an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using the most highly upvoted answer as the consensus makes much more sense because everyone can vote, but only once. More generally, the highest upvoted answer (or question) can signify consensus or the most downvoted answer (or question) can signify consensus that the post is a bad idea and that we should do the opposite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The asker's acceptance can be considered an upvote just like any other. This would give the asker an &quot;extra&quot; vote, but that can be counteracted by the fact that everyone else can vote on the question itself and get an &quot;extra&quot; vote that way. If the question is in the form &quot;should we do...?&quot; then there is consensus that it is a good idea if it has a high score and consensus that it is a bad idea if it has a very negative score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastActivityDate="2014-12-10T04:25:46.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5266" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5267" CreationDate="2014-12-12T11:19:58.460" Score="-3" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9961/collection-of-youth-short-stories-about-aliens-1990-1994ish?rq=1&quot;&gt;Collection of youth short stories about aliens 1990-1994ish&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The highest-rated answer matches on all points. The cover is correct. The stories inside match with what the querent was looking for. Seems safe to me to go ahead and accept that answer. It gives us one more feather in our cap. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2014-12-12T12:07:27.780" Title="Petition for acceptance of answer to question by vanished querent" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-12-12T23:06:30.500" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5266" CreationDate="2014-12-12T11:40:34.630" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;As covered in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/80321/244929&quot;&gt;this meta.se post&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/accepted-answer+answers+feature-request&quot;&gt;many others&lt;/a&gt;, that's not on the table.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's okay for a nice answer to not get accepted.&lt;/strong&gt; Upvote it instead, but remember: neither acceptance nor upvoting means the answer's right! Upvoting indicates the community gestalt approves of the answer, while acceptance means one single citizen found that answer most useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange makes no claim to judge correctness, only popularity and usefulness. Taking answer accepting out of the hands of the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; person who can really know if an answer was useful would fundamentally change what that mechanic means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please also note that our &quot;questions answered&quot; statistic counts questions with positive-score answers, not questions with accepted answers, for exactly this reason. Our stats reflect the community's gestalt action rather than the actions of individual citizens. There is no &quot;feather&quot; missing from our cap when someone doesn't accept an answer, and forcing accepts to pad our numbers wouldn't be a good idea even if it &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; being tracked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13941" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2014-12-12T12:07:27.780" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5268" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-12T22:55:19.393" Score="2" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;A significant number of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions are tagged as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction-genre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science-fiction-genre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science-fiction-genre&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantasy-genre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantasy-genre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantasy-genre&lt;/a&gt;. However, it is an incorrect use of the tag for specific stories as explained in the tag wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Used for questions on the science fiction genre itself, including its tropes and conventions. Should &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; be used to categorize questions about specific works of science fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This problem has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3361/should-we-purge-the-genre-tags-where-they-are-misapplied&quot;&gt;discussed before on meta&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often these tags are incorrectly used by new users who don't know better and are simply trying to distinguish between works of science fiction vs. fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed that we do not have tags for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science-fiction&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science-fiction&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantasy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantasy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantasy&lt;/a&gt; which could be used to distinguish science fiction vs. fantasy works as these users are trying to do. Should we add these tags and start using them? I would think that most users who attempt to tag their question as science fiction vs. fantasy would correctly choose the new &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science-fiction&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science-fiction&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantasy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantasy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantasy&lt;/a&gt; tags instead of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction-genre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science-fiction-genre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science-fiction-genre&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantasy-genre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantasy-genre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantasy-genre&lt;/a&gt; since they should better match what the user is already typing to add tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found some very old discussions about adding &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science-fiction&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science-fiction&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantasy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantasy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantasy&lt;/a&gt; on meta &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/306/do-we-need-a-sci-fi-and-a-fantasy-tag&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/50/do-we-need-a-sci-fi-tag&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. However, these discussions appear to predate the creation of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/science-fiction-genre/info&quot;&gt;genre&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/fantasy-genre/info&quot;&gt;tags&lt;/a&gt; and they do not address the problem with the genre tags. I agree with the meta discussions that these are very broad tags, but the purpose of these tags would mainly be to &lt;em&gt;drive users away from incorrectly using the genre tags&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science-fiction&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science-fiction&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantasy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantasy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantasy&lt;/a&gt; be created to address the problem with the genre tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: to avoid tags which are so broad as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science-fiction&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science-fiction&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantasy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantasy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantasy&lt;/a&gt;, maybe use something like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction-story-id&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science-fiction-story-id&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science-fiction-story-id&lt;/a&gt;? Or rename the genre tags to something like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction-tropes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science-fiction-tropes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science-fiction-tropes&lt;/a&gt; to better reflect the purpose of the tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2014-12-13T02:59:43.317" Title="Why don't we have 'science-fiction' and 'fantasy' (or similar) tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5268" CreationDate="2014-12-12T23:06:14.467" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't have these tags because &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; post on the site would have one, the other, or both tags on them.  Pretty much every Stack Exchange site has a similar black list of things that it's pointless to tag with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People who are asking  questions shouldn't be using these tags, and users who see their misuse should edit them off existing questions (just don't do it en masse, as that'll flood the /questions page).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-12-12T23:06:14.467" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5270" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-13T13:40:09.507" Score="1" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote this question and then deleted my account:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22926/what-happened-to-eric-ladd-illustrator-of-the-70s&quot;&gt;What happened to Eric Ladd, illustrator of the 70s?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I have a different account. &lt;strong&gt;Can I claim that question?&lt;/strong&gt; I'd like to chose the given answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I have no idea what email address I used to register the deleted account and probably don't use it anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user30564" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2014-12-13T18:44:55.373" Title="Can I claim a post from my old deleted account?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5270" CreationDate="2014-12-13T16:20:28.627" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Honestly, I don't know. But, your best bet is to ask Stack Exchange employees directly by using the 'Contact Us' link that's at the bottom of every page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-12-13T16:20:28.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5270" CreationDate="2014-12-13T18:44:55.373" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is answered here: &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/merging-accounts&quot;&gt;I  accidentally created two accounts; how do I merge them?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:46.357" LastActivityDate="2014-12-13T18:44:55.373" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5275" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5276" CreationDate="2014-12-15T09:13:46.247" Score="26" ViewCount="387" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have earned a nice secret hat, but it has no explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to see how and why I earned it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19374" LastActivityDate="2014-12-15T09:17:25.103" Title="Can I see what I earned a secret hat for?" Tags="|discussion|winterbash|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5275" CreationDate="2014-12-15T09:17:25.103" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/245170/winter-bash-2014-secret-hats&quot;&gt;Meta.se thread&lt;/a&gt; tracking the Winter Bash 2014 secret hats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your hat is there, then it should tell you what it (probably) means. If not, you could join the discussion there to try to work out what it means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2014-12-15T09:17:25.103" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5278" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5280" CreationDate="2014-12-17T01:13:31.347" Score="8" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I got a nice chat message notification (ping) and got really excited that I finally have some friends to talk to, but to my dismay they weren't trying to talk to me but to a user with a similar username:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;me = &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/21267/mooz&quot;&gt;@Mooz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other person = &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/30807/moo&quot;&gt;@Moo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Confusing, I know...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/19114100#19114100&quot;&gt;Here is the relevant chat transcript&lt;/a&gt;. When &lt;strong&gt;@Major Stackings&lt;/strong&gt; sent &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/19113892#19113892&quot;&gt;this message&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; got the notification (sounds, little asterisk in my chat window, etc)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is going on here?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2014-12-17T16:27:09.163" Title="Why does chat alert (ping) me when a similar user is being talked to?" Tags="|bug|chat|notifications|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5279" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-17T03:31:20.003" Score="1" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many questions here and on the very related Movies and TV sites are about adaptations of books or comics. For example, questions about Sherlock Holmes adaptations (&lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Elementary&lt;/em&gt; or the Guy Pierce movies) or about &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; are quite popular. Also, many comics had been adapted to movies or TV in the recent years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question: Is it suitable to ask a question about how faithful to its original source an adaptation is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the pros: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Often, the first comments to many of the questions mentioned above are &quot;Are you speaking about the movie?&quot; or &quot;Do you speak about the comics?&quot;. Sometimes, tags help but it could be good to have a question to clarify the situation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the cons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maybe opinion-based, depending on what people think is the core ideas of the original material.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An answer to this question may turn into a list of all the tiny (and probably worthless) details that differ between mediums. E.g &quot;In the book, A has light grey eyes whereas [actor potraying A] has blue eyes!&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Such questions could be &quot;Does it worth looking at the movie/TV shows&quot; in disguise. If it is well disguised, it is not a problem. But it could attract totally opinion-based answers like &quot;The movie sucks. Read the book!&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: I didn't know how to tag this question. Feel free to improve it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23563" LastEditorUserId="23563" LastEditDate="2014-12-17T03:42:56.477" LastActivityDate="2014-12-17T03:42:56.477" Title="Are questions &quot;Is X faithful to the books/comics/...?&quot; suitable/good questions for this site?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2014-12-17T20:40:04.113" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5278" CreationDate="2014-12-17T16:27:09.163" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is one of the pitfalls of the chat notification system being &quot;smart&quot; rather than dumb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/73931/getting-marcs-chat-notifications&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; on SE: Meta when the system detects the use of a name in the chat box, it attempts to route the notification to the correct user. Unfortunately this sometimes results in another user with a similar name being sent the notification incorrectly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[The System will] generate a notification for you ... when we&#xA;  can't find anyone else who we consider to be a better match, i.e.&#xA;  someone called &quot;Marc&quot; who was in the room during the past seven days,&#xA;  or someone called &quot;Marc Gravell&quot; who was here in the past two days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the saying goes; it's not a bug, it's a feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2014-12-17T16:27:09.163" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5281" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5282" CreationDate="2014-12-17T22:19:20.723" Score="4" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over the past few days I've been going through some of my old Hobbit movie answers updating them where appropriate for new info contained in the third movie.  This mostly relates to &quot;why did...&quot; speculative-type questions about movie-canon info that hadn't yet been available at the time the question was asked.  In all cases I've let the original answer stand but have just added supplementary paragraphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, while there's value in having these bumped (so that the update is more easily visible) on a couple of occasions I've made a trivial edit: for example in my answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/71403/does-thorin-have-the-last-dwarf-ring&quot;&gt;Does Thorin have the last Dwarf ring?&lt;/a&gt; I've recently made an edit to correct a typo - an &quot;s&quot; to an &quot;r&quot; - and such an edit hardly merits bumping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There doesn't appear to be an &quot;opt-out&quot; option for bumping.  Now, I can understand at least one reason why: we definitely don't want a batch of destructive editing going on without anyone becoming aware of it.  But in the case of high-rep users (or users sufficiently trusted by virtue of having, say, a relevant Silver tag badge (which I should note I don't have, but am close to) or something) such an opt-out would definitely be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would at the very least enable us to do useful community work such as spelling corrections, grammar corrections, retagging, and other housekeeping/fix-up without swamping the front page with bumped questions that are of minimal or no interest to anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user8719" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2014-12-17T22:37:40.510" Title="Suggested solution for trivial edits bump old questions to top of the front page" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5281" CreationDate="2014-12-17T22:25:24.817" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been requested and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/26483/172958&quot;&gt;declined&lt;/a&gt; for upwards of 5 years now, even as a moderator-only power. The only exception was a special team of SE employees a couple years ago, going through and cleaning up all the sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2014-12-17T22:25:24.817" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5281" CreationDate="2014-12-17T22:25:28.290" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty certain this subject has come up before but I'm on my phone and can't search. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The posts are bumped so that the community can peer review your edits without them being stuck in a queue like new users.  While your edits are small and innocuous there is no guarantee that the edits by the next person will be. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By bumping we can see that edits have been made and make sure that no one is going and vandalizing old posts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2014-12-17T22:25:28.290" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5284" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-18T06:24:38.000" Score="21" ViewCount="363" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just ran into an answer where the user said they were 9 years old.  This got me wondering about the age limit for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there one?  &lt;strong&gt;Do we have an official or unofficial minimum age before someone is allowed to participate on the site?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that age is not a required field when signing up so there is no real way to enforce anything.  I'm just curious if most people think that everyone on the site should be at least &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; years old, or if the thought is that as long as a person is capable of using the site they are welcome here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23159" LastActivityDate="2014-12-18T10:50:28.953" Title="Is there an age limit on this site?" Tags="|discussion|users|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5284" CreationDate="2014-12-18T07:23:41.083" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is an age limit, no one under 13 is allowed on the site (you can thank &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Protection_Act&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;coppa&lt;/a&gt; for that). If you see evidence someone is under 13, please flag for moderator attention with a custom reason saying so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2014-12-18T07:23:41.083" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5284" CreationDate="2014-12-18T10:50:28.953" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per my answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5033/20774&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/legal&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Legal Policy&lt;/a&gt; explicitly states...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Subscriber&lt;/em&gt; certifies to Stack Exchange that Subscriber is an&#xA;  individual (i.e., not a corporate entity) &lt;strong&gt;at least 13 years of age.&lt;/strong&gt; No&#xA;  one under the age of 13 may provide any personal information to or on&#xA;  Stack Exchange (including, for example, a name, address, telephone&#xA;  number or email address).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2014-12-18T10:50:28.953" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5287" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-18T12:45:10.380" Score="-5" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KiE3S.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did the whole unregistering procedure, and nothing happens. This account had to be deleted since around 35 minutes soon. What is going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user38223" LastEditorUserId="98" LastEditDate="2014-12-18T18:16:54.677" LastActivityDate="2014-12-18T18:17:44.513" Title="My account won't somehow be deleted" Tags="|support|bug|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5287" CreationDate="2014-12-18T18:17:44.513" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like the timing isn't precise with such things. If anyone in the future has this problem, take a deep breath, wait a couple hours, and then if there's an issue, feel free to bring it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2014-12-18T18:17:44.513" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5289" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-20T06:24:21.393" Score="-5" ViewCount="221" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments made on this question have been deleted: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/76163/why-did-lucas-choose-the-word-force&quot;&gt;Why did Lucas choose the word &amp;quot;Force&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to get a deleted comment which was a scolding full of alien terms. Is this possible to get that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I just got the comment I was looking for, thanks to @Randal'Thor (he consulted with a CM who said it was okay). It was (in case anyone is curious):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that making up scifi terms is a VERY common trope, so be nice before the Sangheili and the Salarian Dalatrass hold an Entmoot about ending your time in the 'Verse with a bat'leth, you frackin' varool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2017-03-04T19:52:01.453" Title="Can I please get the deleted comments made on this question?" Tags="|support|status-declined|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-03-24T13:31:25.037" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5290" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5303" CreationDate="2014-12-20T14:43:57.477" Score="-3" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Background:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to ask the community to consider doing a large cleanup of Star Wars content to account for new Post-Disney reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As part of my proposals, I would like for any mention of C-canon (or S-canon, or G-canon) in answers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; to be appended with &quot;(Legends canon)&quot; string, unless that post already has answers that have &quot;Legends&quot; string.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be extremely infeasible to do as a community (too many posts to edit; AND would totally throw recent posts list out of whack). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, assuming the community agrees, I would like to request this to be done on the backend, in the database, by SE team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Question&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leaving aside whether the specific edits I have in mind are a good or a bad idea, &lt;strong&gt;How realistic is it to request SE team to do a global search-and-replace in all the posts?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is acknowledgement that this is indeed something SE would agree to do, I will post an actual proposal of the edits for the community to judge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-11-15T16:01:10.447" LastActivityDate="2017-11-15T16:01:10.447" Title="How realistic is it to request SE team to do a global search-and-replace in all the posts?" Tags="|support|editing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5291" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-12-20T14:47:33.880" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Resources:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucasfilm#Disney_subsidiary&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucasfilm#Disney_subsidiary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.starwars.com/news/the-legendary-star-wars-expanded-universe-turns-a-new-page&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.starwars.com/news/the-legendary-star-wars-expanded-universe-turns-a-new-page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2014-12-20T14:47:33.880" LastActivityDate="2014-12-20T14:47:33.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5292" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-12-20T14:47:33.880" Score="0" Body="This tag is for Meta questions pertaining to how we should handle SFF.SE Star Wars content, in light of 2013 announcement of Disney purchase of Lucasfilm and 2014/04/25 announcement of new canon by Disney." OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2014-12-20T14:47:33.880" LastActivityDate="2014-12-20T14:47:33.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5290" CreationDate="2014-12-20T15:09:49.383" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Probably extremely unlikely.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don’t think they already have this capability, and I doubt they’d write it just for this.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow titan Jon Skeet was asking &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/237110/226928&quot;&gt;about the possibility of mass editing dead blog links&lt;/a&gt; back in July, and was told by SE Dev Nick Craver:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We don't have a way to do this, but as luck happens we're software developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sounds like it’s been done, but it also sounds like this was a special one-off just for Jon. A &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/237110/is-there-any-support-for-mass-link-editing#comment777395_237146&quot;&gt;comment from Nick&lt;/a&gt; makes it sound like this isn’t a tool they have routinely:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;this would be a developer route I deploy, run, and nuke one time in our code base&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it’s very unlikely that the SE Devs would want to spend time on this feature, for what is a relatively inconsequential change. Old Star Wars posts don’t lose value because they don’t include these edits, whereas losing hundreds of Jon Skeet links probably would lose some value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially because it sounds like your edits are more than just simple URL replacements: it would need to know which posts included content about legends canon, and which just happened to mention it in passing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And that’s putting aside the question of whether this is even something we should do, to which my answer is firmly “No”.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2014-12-20T15:15:00.343" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5294" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-22T03:29:01.153" Score="0" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;How should we handle the questions which are specific to Legends (formerly C-canon EU) works, in light of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/76392/976&quot;&gt;post-Disney new Canon rules&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Example&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: &quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7662/what-caused-the-damage-to-nirauan-described-in-hand-of-thrawn-duology-by-zahn&quot;&gt;What caused the damage to Nirauan described in &amp;quot;Hand of Thrawn&amp;quot; duology by Zahn?&lt;/a&gt; &quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2014-12-22T04:18:19.187" Title="How should we handle Legends-specific Star Wars Q&amp;As post-Disney-canon-revamp?" Tags="|canon|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5294" CreationDate="2014-12-22T03:29:57.977" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mark all such questions with a new &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-legends&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-legends&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-legends&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No need to edit anything in the answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Optionally&lt;/strong&gt;, some of the questions where EU works don't have an answer as of 2014, add an answer which states that most likely, this can never be answered since Lucasfilm indicated no new Legends (formerly EU C-canon) works will be published.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Benefits:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allows people who don't care about Legends/EU materials to easily filter out Legends specific content&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;VERY self explanatory and intuitive, both for old-time EU fans (who tend to know what Legends mean) and to new fans brought in by 2015 release of Episode VII, who won't even know what EU means but might know the new Legends brand.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cons:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Requires a lot of work to retag all Legends specific questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;May cause a flood of updates to Recently Updated questions page/feed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Both of these can be addressed if we collect a list of question IDs to retag; and request SE team to retag them on the back-end (should be 10 mins of work to BCP in a list of IDs, and run 1 update query on tags table).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just to elaborate on why a new tag is needed, instead of re-using existing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/extended-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;extended-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;extended-universe&lt;/a&gt; tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;That tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/extended-universe+-star-wars&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;is not Star Wars specific&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It does it help new post-2014 fans who will view the site material without knowing what Extended Universe is in terms of Star Wars.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Its Wiki is NOT relevant to Disney Star Wars Legends brand. And due to #1 it can't really be fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It can't be used to ignore &quot;Legends-only&quot; material due to #1.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;That tag isn't necessarily used consistently right now; and very possibly is present on questions which are NOT Legends-material-only even within Star Wars questions&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Vice versa, it is now missing from many existing Legends-only questions, meaning we would STILL need to do extensive cleanup to make the tag work - thus we don't even get the benefit of &quot;well, EU tag already is on a bunch of questions, so it's less work&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2014-12-22T03:49:56.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5294" CreationDate="2014-12-22T03:31:43.163" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just use the existing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/extended-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;extended-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;extended-universe&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2014-12-22T03:31:43.163" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5294" CreationDate="2014-12-22T03:39:17.600" Score="1" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Add a special note (akin to moderator notes on Skeptics.SE) explaining that the question deals with Star Wars Legends brand material.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The rest of the answer same as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5295/976&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, except that the note makes the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-legends&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-legends&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-legends&lt;/a&gt; tag either optional or not needed at all.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2014-12-22T03:39:17.600" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5298" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-22T04:03:59.357" Score="3" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have ~ 1300+ &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot;&gt;questions on the site&lt;/a&gt;, with many answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that, as of 2014, Disney bought Lucasfilm and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/76392/976&quot;&gt;instituted new Canon rules&lt;/a&gt;, which makes a LOT of the answers on the site out of sync with the new rules of canon which relegated all of EU C-canon to Legends brand (of questionable - if any - canonicity).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, we need to develop a unified policy on how to handle such answers where all or part of the answer is sourced from Legends (formerly EU/C-canon).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please either post your own proposals, or vote on the existing ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2014-12-22T11:14:32.770" Title="How should we handle Star Wars Q&amp;As post-Disney-canon-revamp?" Tags="|canon|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5298" CreationDate="2014-12-22T04:08:50.157" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The same way we'd handle any living canon that develops large changes, we add new answers or adjust existing answers via edits, if the changes aren't too drastic.  At the moment, we don't have anything to really change, since the only new canon is a few books and a few episodes of &lt;em&gt;Rebels&lt;/em&gt;.  I imagine it'll become a more serious problem once the first new film is released, since that'll really step on the toes of the post Ep 6 EU-now-Legends books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This situation is incredibly similar to what happened with &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; after the release of &lt;em&gt;Star Trek (2009)&lt;/em&gt;.  And almost all &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; questions handled it the way I'd expect this to be handled.  The question body made it clear which timeline the question was about, and answers addressed what the question asked.  Occasionally information from the other timeline can be used to address questions, and people make it clear when that's what they're doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the old &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; EU works continue to exist, and there are and will be questions on them.  There will be new questions about &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;' new canon, and we'll address them as we always have.  When there are conflicts, I expect the community to rise to the occasion and address those conflicts thoroughly and with excellent content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2014-12-22T05:04:54.527" LastActivityDate="2014-12-22T05:04:54.527" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5298" CreationDate="2014-12-22T04:09:28.443" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My proposal would be as follows (the approach is heavily based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Wookieepedia:Canon_policy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wookieepedia canon policy&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any answer which has content from both New Canon (G+T canon and new Disney material), as well as Legends (formerly known as C-canon or Extended Universe material), should have TWO separate sections:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New Canon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;put in the parts of the answer that are based on New Canon&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Legends&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;put in the parts of the answer that are based on Legends material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2014-12-22T04:09:28.443" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5294" CreationDate="2014-12-22T04:18:19.187" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see a reason to make any tagging distinction, and definitely not a moderator note. If a user wants answers from only one set of canon, they can indicate so in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2014-12-22T04:18:19.187" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5298" CreationDate="2014-12-22T11:14:32.770" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As it stands there are 4 main categories of question that need to be considered:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions relating to the new canon that are fully answered with reference to the new canon only.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions relating to the old EU that are fully answered with reference to the old EU only.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions relating to the new canon that are answered by pulling in information from the old EU.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions relating to the old EU that are answered by pulling in information from the new canon.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of these the &lt;strong&gt;only one&lt;/strong&gt; that is potentially troublesome is number 3.  And I say &quot;potentially&quot; because an element from the old EU &lt;em&gt;may yet&lt;/em&gt; be pulled into the new canon which would have the effect of making the answer valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Number 1 is evidently self-contained and need not be touched.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Number 2 is also self-contained; it doesn't cross a canon-boundary so there's no need to do anything about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Number 4 is also OK: since the new canon takes priority over the old EU, an answer referencing the new canon must always be valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding number 3, in reality (and from a purely pragmatic perspective) little has actually changed.  Under the old hierarchical canon, something in what was formerly &quot;G-canon&quot; or &quot;T-canon&quot; would &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; trump EU material, and it was never the case that anything at this level would have had to be beholden to EU material.  A &quot;G-canon&quot; or &quot;T-canon&quot; work could have blatantly contradicted an EU work, and that would have just been tough cheese.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was also always the case that the EU was &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; viewed as something that may or may not have happened, and should never have been read as something that &lt;em&gt;definitely did&lt;/em&gt; happen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The analogy is that every piece of published Star Wars fiction is a window into the 'real' Star Wars universe. Some windows are a bit foggier than others. Some are decidedly abstract. But each contains a nugget of truth to them. Like the great Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi said, 'many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Christopher Cerasi)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't read that stuff. I haven't read any of the novels. I don't know anything about that world. That's a different world than my world. But I do try to keep it consistent. The way I do it now is they have a Star Wars Encyclopedia. So if I come up with a name or something else, I look it up and see if it has already been used. When I said [other people] could make their own Star Wars stories, we decided that, like Star Trek, we would have two universes: My universe and then this other one. They try to make their universe as consistent with mine as possible, but obviously they get enthusiastic and want to go off in other directions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(George Lucas)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Legends merely formalizes this, and the new movies are just doing what they have always had the right to do: supersede EU material.  Even if the old EU had never been de-canonized, even under the old system, the scriptwriters of the sequel trilogy have &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; had an obligation to use any or all of the extant EU material.  &lt;strong&gt;This was always a risk when relying on EU material when sourcing an answer&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is not so much &quot;How should we handle Star Wars Q&amp;amp;As post-Disney-canon-revamp?&quot; but rather &quot;How should we handle potential contradictions between the (old) EU and the upcoming sequel trilogy?&quot;, and &lt;strong&gt;that would have always been the case, even if there had not been a canon-revamp&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best approach therefore seems to be to do nothing for now.  The answer is still valid as of the time that the question was asked, so it's served it's purpose.  Stack Exchange is a Q&amp;amp;A platform, not a repository of canon.  Unless material in an answer is explicitly contradicted by new canon, there is no reason to change it.  If material in an answer is never contradicted by new canon, there is never a reason to change it.  Otherwise it can be handled on a case-by-case basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2014-12-22T11:14:32.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5290" CreationDate="2014-12-22T23:50:13.853" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Leaving aside whether the specific edits I have in mind are a good or a bad idea, How realistic is it to request SE team to do a global search-and-replace in all the posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly... not very realistic. Mass replacement is tricky, but even setting that aside, &lt;strong&gt;you can't divorce the merit of the changes from the feasibility of requesting for them&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two go hand in hand. If something is super easy but a bad idea, we're still not going to do it. On the other hand, if something is a great idea but currently impossible, we may be more inclined to put effort into it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, having said that...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If there is acknowledgement that this is indeed something SE would agree to do, I will post an actual proposal of the edits for the community to judge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Come up with a proposal, convince us of the need, and we will consider putting some dev time behind it. No promises, but I also don't see this as any different from any other feature request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4257" LastEditorUserId="4257" LastEditDate="2014-12-23T00:04:56.750" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T00:04:56.750" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5304" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5305" CreationDate="2014-12-23T20:30:00.647" Score="-9" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;Similar to this question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/76464/does-the-royal-family-know-about-the-wizarding-world&quot;&gt;Does the royal family know about the Wizarding World?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I flood the homepage of the site with these questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does the [head of state] of [country] know about the Wizarding World? There are 200+ countries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, why not? Point me towards site rules which prohibit this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T20:48:54.607" Title="Should I flood the homepage of the site with these questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5304" CreationDate="2014-12-23T20:48:54.607" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the face of it, your plan falls foul of a variety of site rules (per the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;Be Nice&lt;/a&gt; - you're not being nice. You're being smug.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;Don't be a jerk&lt;/a&gt; - You're being a jerk&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;There is no actual problem to be solved&lt;/a&gt; - you're not trying to solve a problem, you're trying to make a point. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;Your question is just a rant in disguise&lt;/a&gt; - Self-explanatory&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T20:48:54.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5306" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5307" CreationDate="2014-12-23T21:25:56.310" Score="0" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assuming userid is assigned incrementally, I found &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/7/sorantiswho&quot;&gt;this user&lt;/a&gt; has the lowest userid which is 7. But, what happened to lower userids? Are they deleted or for some unknown reason, the numbering started from 7?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bonus: Who proposed the idea of this site in &lt;em&gt;Area 51&lt;/em&gt;? When did this site come in existence (private beta, public beta, launch)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T21:28:44.903" Title="Who is the first user of this site?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5306" CreationDate="2014-12-23T21:28:44.903" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There doesn't seem to be a user 1. The lowest user I can find is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2/geoff-dalgas&quot;&gt;Geoff Dalgas&lt;/a&gt;, who was user #2. I believe he is a member of Stack Exchange. As for who proposed this site, look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/4451?phase=definition&quot;&gt;Area 51 definition page&lt;/a&gt;, and you can see it was jmfsg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T21:28:44.903" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5308" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5309" CreationDate="2014-12-23T22:12:06.143" Score="1" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wasn't sure whether I was one of oldest users to participate during beta or not. After analysis, I found this: I posted first question/answer even before some &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/4451?phase=beta&quot;&gt;top beta users&lt;/a&gt; signed up. It means that I did participate in the beta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why don't I have &quot;beta&quot; badge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="5184" LastEditDate="2014-12-24T14:27:12.487" LastActivityDate="2014-12-24T14:27:12.487" Title="Why don't I have &quot;Beta&quot; badge?" Tags="|support|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5308" CreationDate="2014-12-23T22:21:06.010" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The beta badge is for active participation in the &lt;em&gt;private&lt;/em&gt; beta. You participated in the public beta, but you joined over a month after the private beta was over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T22:21:06.010" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5310" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-24T13:09:40.277" Score="4" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found where &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1089/20853&quot;&gt;accepted answer image&lt;/a&gt; comes from, but coundn't find the same information about other images.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ROWmT.png&quot; alt=&quot;sprites&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20853" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2014-12-24T16:23:49.093" Title="What is the origin of images in design of scifi.se (icons, sprites, logo)?" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5311" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-24T13:13:30.503" Score="1" ViewCount="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;When cursor is in input field (textarea in html) for the question's text, the &quot;Similar questions&quot; block overlaps the bottom of the site. I think it should stay limited to the grey block (either &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div id=&quot;content&quot;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div id=&quot;mainbar&quot; class=&quot;ask-mainbar&quot;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; in html).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a screenshot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/y1cZz.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20853" LastActivityDate="2014-12-24T13:13:30.503" Title="When writing a question &quot;Similar questions&quot; block overlaps bottom of the site" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2016-05-24T10:12:02.863" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5310" CreationDate="2014-12-24T15:58:22.983" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some information can be found in original questions about design&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/554/what-should-our-logo-and-design-look-like-once-we-are-no-longer-in-beta&quot;&gt;What should our logo and design look like once we are no longer in beta?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/976/design-for-science-fiction-fantasy&quot;&gt;Design for Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Particulary,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Badges are resembling the shape of &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Alliance_Starbird&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Wars Rebel Alliance insignia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cdn.sstatic.net/scifimeta/img/bg-header.jpg?v=629272615c60&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Header image&lt;/a&gt; is the rune circle around the female warrior's silhouette. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20853" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2014-12-24T16:18:44.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5313" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5314" CreationDate="2014-12-24T17:44:41.830" Score="3" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's fairly common to see someone referring to an edit or deleted comment, but without the original item they're referring to, there's no context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to view the edit history of a question and/or answer? Or see a deleted comment? I would assume either feature would require a certain amount of rep, so if these features exist, how much is needed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if this feature doesn't exist, is it something we can add, like a History tab?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20557" LastActivityDate="2014-12-24T18:27:18.133" Title="How to view the history of edits on a question or answer" Tags="|support|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5313" CreationDate="2014-12-24T17:53:24.400" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The text &quot;edited x minutes/hours/days ago&quot; under the post is a link to the post's history, including locks, close and reopen, delete and undelete, and which everyone can see*. Moderators can see deleted comments, but no one else can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*: edits by the same user within 5 minutes fall into a &quot;grace period&quot; and no record of those edits is kept. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2014-12-24T17:53:24.400" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5313" CreationDate="2014-12-24T18:27:18.133" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's another option as well: the timeline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you take the URL of a post, for instance &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5313/how-to-view-the-history-of-edits-on-a-question-or-answer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5313/how-to-view-the-history-of-edits-on-a-question-or-answer&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and change &quot;questions&quot; to &quot;posts&quot; and replace everything after the post id with &quot;timeline&quot;, you get to see the timeline of a post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/posts/5313/timeline&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/posts/5313/timeline&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2014-12-24T18:27:18.133" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5289" CreationDate="2014-12-24T19:18:39.947" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't resurrect comments unless there's a particularly compelling reason to do so, and &quot;it was interesting&quot; just isn't compelling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2014-12-24T19:18:39.947" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5317" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-29T15:42:30.483" Score="2" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from October 1st 2014 through December 31 2014.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a end of the year blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What was the best answer (IYHO) provided to a question that was closed?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2013/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2013/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2013/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2015-01-06T20:20:57.963" Title="Favorite questions and answers from the fourth quarter of 2014" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5317" CreationDate="2014-12-29T18:20:46.537" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;An awful, awful, awful, awful question that prompted an excellent answer: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/76846/is-a-lightsabers-hilt-resizeable&quot;&gt;Is a lightsaber&amp;#39;s hilt resizeable?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one got me a Red Baron hat: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/76163/why-did-lucas-choose-the-word-force&quot;&gt;Why did Lucas choose the word &amp;quot;Force&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2015/01/so-long-winter-bash-2014/?cb=1&quot;&gt;one of only 26 awarded&lt;/a&gt; - whoo!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user8719" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2015-01-06T20:20:57.963" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5317" CreationDate="2014-12-29T18:35:27.207" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I quite liked this question; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/72031/why-is-wednesday-addams-named-wednesday&quot;&gt;&quot;Why is Wednesday Addams named Wednesday?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought I'd found the definitive answer, only to discover that there was an even stronger one waiting in the wings...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/75574&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; was a great answer from Thaddeus to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/75572/whats-under-the-crystal-bridge-in-asgard&quot;&gt;&quot;What's under the crystal bridge in Asgard?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I especially enjoyed the maps and pictures&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And as much as I hate to blow my own trumpet, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/71566/20774&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; to the question of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/71564/in-the-matrix-why-are-there-no-animals&quot;&gt;why there aren't any animals in &quot;the Matrix&quot;&lt;/a&gt; required a considerable amount of research time and effort cataloging and collating pictures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2014-12-29T18:35:27.207" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5320" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5321" CreationDate="2014-12-29T18:41:14.563" Score="1" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;answer 5 questions on Saturday (in UTC time), not necessarily all on the same Saturday&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You haven't earned this hat on any sites yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet, I see 5 answers on Saturday UTC (I'm assuming &amp;quot;Z&amp;quot; stands for Zulu so that should track with UTC requirement):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/76258/976&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/76258/976&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;code&gt;2014-12-20 02:00:31Z&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/76731/976&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/76731/976&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;code&gt;2014-12-27 15:44:10Z&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/76745/976&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/76745/976&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;code&gt;2014-12-27 21:04:01Z&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/76744/976&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/76744/976&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;code&gt;2014-12-27 20:39:57Z&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/76742/976&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/76742/976&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;code&gt;2014-12-27 20:34:06Z&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2014-12-29T19:59:54.310" Title="What's needed to get a Bill Lumbergh hat?" Tags="|support|winterbash|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5320" CreationDate="2014-12-29T19:59:54.310" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing that there may be a hidden requirement of non-zero (or higher) scores, as theorized here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/245836/bill-lumbergh-all-5-questions-in-a-single-saturday&quot;&gt;Bill Lumbergh - all 5 questions in a single Saturday?&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of those 5 answers is at 0 upvotes, one at 1 upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll test that theory by posting an awesome (or at least non-sucky) answer next Saturday and seeing if the very first upvote gets me the hat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2014-12-29T19:59:54.310" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5323" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5324" CreationDate="2014-12-31T14:03:56.127" Score="5" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;We once decided not to permit children's cartoons that were not specifically about Sci-Fi: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/683/are-childrens-literature-and-cartoons-for-children-on-topic&quot;&gt;Are children's literature and cartoons for children on-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the last 24 hours a question on this topic has been closed (quoting the meta question, above) and then re-opened: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/76948/why-isnt-woody-a-valuable-item-anymore&quot;&gt;Why isn't Woody a valuable item anymore?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have the rules changed? Or do we need clarity on what they are?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2014-12-31T17:45:43.643" Title="Have we changed the rules on children's cartoons?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|specific-question|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5323" CreationDate="2014-12-31T14:28:19.070" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, they're still not on-topic. I flagged that question for migration to Movies and TV where it belongs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5424" LastActivityDate="2014-12-31T14:28:19.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5323" CreationDate="2014-12-31T17:35:17.693" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree. Sid's (extreme) response to the toys talking to him shows that the toys can interact with humans. On top of that we see them periodically coming close to &quot;getting caught out&quot; and yet no-one seems any the wiser that toys can talk. That makes the central conceit a &lt;strong&gt;fantasy&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although we've not been made privy to the secret of why toys can talk and move (magic? alien space rays? something in the water?), it's pretty clear that it's &lt;strong&gt;not normal&lt;/strong&gt; for that universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2014-12-31T17:35:17.693" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5326" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-01T03:11:47.957" Score="18" ViewCount="1211" Body="&lt;p&gt;The dawn of a new year, 2015, now approaches, or has already approached, either way it means that it is now time to reset our Community Promotion Ads!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site's twitter account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;interesting articles or findings for the curious&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool Science Fiction or Fantasy events/conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads every year?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be &lt;strong&gt;220 x 250 pixels&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/5326&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2537" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2016-05-26T02:29:05.460" Title="Community Promotion Ads - 2015" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2016-01-19T03:37:33.930" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-01T03:11:47.957" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5326" CreationDate="2015-01-01T03:11:47.957" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/stackscifi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/waXJG.png&quot; alt=&quot;Follow us on Twitter!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2537" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T03:11:47.957" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-01T03:11:47.957" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5326" CreationDate="2015-01-01T14:11:41.137" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LCVVY.png&quot; alt=&quot;Movies &amp;amp; TV StackExchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2015-02-09T13:20:51.230" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-01T14:11:41.137" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5329" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-01T15:17:45.933" Score="-2" ViewCount="423" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please, add a new option as answer (Don't Repeat.. So, please read all answers first). The answer with largest vote would be chosen (this can be checked from time to time in the end of each month). Please, participate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2015-01-06T05:59:56.580" Title="Primary Chatroom Name Polling" Tags="|discussion|voting|" AnswerCount="18" CommentCount="15" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5329" CreationDate="2015-01-01T15:19:23.600" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;................................&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T15:19:23.600" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5329" CreationDate="2015-01-01T15:21:00.177" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Death Star&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.............................. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T15:21:00.177" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5329" CreationDate="2015-01-01T15:22:05.517" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hogwarts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..............................&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T15:22:05.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5329" CreationDate="2015-01-01T15:23:07.017" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gallifrey&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..............................&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T15:23:07.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5329" CreationDate="2015-01-01T15:24:28.200" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;TARDIS&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..............................&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T15:24:28.200" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5329" CreationDate="2015-01-01T15:25:35.300" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;S.H.I.E.L.D.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..............................&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T15:25:35.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5329" CreationDate="2015-01-01T15:26:53.673" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Delphic Expanse&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..............................&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T15:26:53.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5329" CreationDate="2015-01-01T15:28:48.687" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;USS Enterprise&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..............................&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T15:28:48.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5329" CreationDate="2015-01-01T15:30:07.760" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Time Vortex&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.............................&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T15:30:07.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5329" CreationDate="2015-01-01T15:31:51.140" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it needs to be something that conveys &quot;chat room&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ten Forward&lt;/strong&gt; was the alt name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2015-01-02T15:26:21.900" LastActivityDate="2015-01-02T15:26:21.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5329" CreationDate="2015-01-01T15:37:12.280" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/751/what-should-we-call-our-chatroom&quot;&gt;previous poll&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;The Ansible&lt;/strong&gt; was the runner-up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, it's now the highest voted with a mighty +4.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T16:00:19.450" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5329" CreationDate="2015-01-01T15:38:56.760" Score="-7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Three_Broomsticks_Inn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Three Broomsticks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T15:38:56.760" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5329" CreationDate="2015-01-01T15:42:44.923" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Skynet&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;................................. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T15:42:44.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5329" CreationDate="2015-01-01T18:28:44.507" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd prefer something vaguely sci-fi/fantasy sounding, but generic enough to not be tied to a specific universe:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The Void&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T18:28:44.507" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5329" CreationDate="2015-01-01T19:13:15.793" Score="-8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rivendell&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Imladris&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(the Last Homely House :-D )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T19:13:15.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5329" CreationDate="2015-01-01T20:35:08.327" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think the chatroom name should be changed. But if it was to change, my favorite proposal is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Dirac&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Dirac is a communication medium in James Blish's series &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_in_Flight&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cities in Flight&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. It is nowhere as well-known as Ursula K. Le Guin's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansible&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ansible&lt;/a&gt; (I don't remember any other author calling their communication device a Dirac), but it's more appropriate: an ansible is a point-to-point communication device, like a personal messaging system, whereas the Dirac instantly broadcasts all messages all over the universe, like a chatroom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T20:35:08.327" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5329" CreationDate="2015-01-01T22:15:12.583" Score="-9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like what Mos Eisley conveys, but here's a suggestion that's closer to something real:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stan Lee's back porch&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because who wouldn't want to share a beer with Stan Lee on his back porch and talk about SciFi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user15742" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T22:15:12.583" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5348" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-01T22:16:38.580" Score="3" ViewCount="592" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm specifically asking about the film, not the comics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T22:44:01.933" Title="Is &quot;V for Vendetta&quot; film on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5348" CreationDate="2015-01-01T22:40:08.897" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, absolutely. The film is set in 2038 in a post-apocalyptic future. The titular character's origin story suggests that he has been the victim of genetic experimentation and the (albeit largely unseen) &quot;fate&quot; computer is clearly a work of immense technical sophistication. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any one of these features would be sufficient to render it on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T22:40:08.897" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5348" CreationDate="2015-01-01T22:44:01.933" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've never watched the movie or read the comics, but I don't see anything on IMDB or Wikipedia that suggests the movie as a whole would be on-topic, so I'd say no (unless it's specifically about a piece of future technology that happens to be in the movie). Any fictional technology is just movie flashiness and not enough to make it sci-fi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our current guidelines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If it's marketed as SF, it's on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDB says &quot;Action | Drama | Thriller,&quot; Wikipedia says &quot;Political Thriller.&quot; Nope&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If magic, futuristic science or technology, alternate history, or other &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;sf-nal&lt;/a&gt; concept is an important part of the overall plot, it's on-topic. (&lt;em&gt;Alice in Wonderland&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Clockwork Orange&lt;/em&gt;, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the plot summary doesn't mention any future tech, it's clearly not integral to the plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If the question is specifically about an sf-nal element, even if it's only a minor part of the work, it's on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I said, if the question is about a specific scifi piece of the movie, OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If it's set in an on-topic universe, it's on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nope&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If you're not sure it's SF but you think a good case can be made for it, it's on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see anyone making a good case for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If there is a minor supernatural element (e.g. a fortune teller's prediction comes true, or someone sees a ghost, or a story for children involving anthropomorphic animals) but it's just a throwaway plot element that's not particularly relevant to the question, it's off-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/344/3267&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/344/3267&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T22:44:01.933" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5351" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-01T22:51:51.337" Score="10" ViewCount="398" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does the fact that a work of fiction is set in post-apocalyptic future (with no other details being known about it) make the work automatically in scope for this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; Please don't post &quot;yes&quot;/&quot;no&quot; answers devoid of any reasoning as to WHY it's a &quot;yes&quot; or a &quot;no&quot;. This us a question, not a radio button poll :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2015-01-01T23:28:52.947" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T21:21:49.283" Title="Does a work being set in post-apocalyptic future automatically make it in scope on the site?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5351" CreationDate="2015-01-01T23:19:22.770" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to go out on a limb and say &quot;yes&quot;. Although I'm sure we could brain-storm and find some exceptions (perhaps certain kinds of horror fiction?) I'd say that in the &lt;em&gt;absence&lt;/em&gt; of any factors disqualifying it from consideration, the default position should be that something set in a post-apocalyptic future should be on topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Since the world of the present day clearly doesn't match the world seen in the film, in the absence of a science-fictional explanation for the present setting (e.g. what happened), there must be some element of fantasy involved&lt;/strong&gt;. Either way it ends up back on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2015-01-01T23:35:17.293" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T23:35:17.293" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5351" CreationDate="2015-01-01T23:23:53.000" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's apply the current guidelines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If it's marketed as SF, it's on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depends on the work, not automatically on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If magic, futuristic science or technology, alternate history, or other &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;sf-nal&lt;/a&gt; concept is an important part of the overall plot, it's on-topic. (&lt;em&gt;Alice in Wonderland&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Clockwork Orange&lt;/em&gt;, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depends on the work, not automatically on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If the question is specifically about an sf-nal element, even if it's only a minor part of the work, it's on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depends on the specific question, not automatically on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If it's set in an on-topic universe, it's on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose this is the crux of the question. I'll address it later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If you're not sure it's SF but you think a good case can be made for it, it's on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depends on the work, not automatically on-topic. Related to previous case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If there is a minor supernatural element (e.g. a fortune teller's prediction comes true, or someone sees a ghost, or a story for children involving anthropomorphic animals) but it's just a throwaway plot element that's not particularly relevant to the question, it's off-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depends on the work, not automatically on-topic.  If anything, this point would suggest that setting alone isn't enough to make a work on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To address 4, I'll use a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;reductio ad absurdum&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take a work that's clearly off-topic. Say, &lt;em&gt;To Kill a Mockingbird&lt;/em&gt;.  Instead of being set during the great depression (nearly post-apocalyptic in itself), imagine that the first sentence or two mention that the year is somewhere after publication, and some big apocalypse happened and threw society back into the stone age. Society has begun to recover, so there is some law, but still a lot of racism and distrust.  The rest of the story could plausibly happen in such a society with little to no further modification of the story. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we be allowed to ask anything we want about &lt;em&gt;To Kill a Mockingbird&lt;/em&gt; just because of a sentence or two at the very start of the book? Clearly not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T23:23:53.000" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5351" CreationDate="2015-01-01T23:54:12.040" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, but the vast majority will be on topic. All such questions should be evaluated using the default site guidelines, but I think most of them will be on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some sort of a disease, either natural or evil scientist. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Take place some time after the event.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Involve some sort of a nuclear war.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Involve mythical creatures (Zombies, Dragons, etc), super powers, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Worse case, it's a technothriller. Referencing a very &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/344/98&quot;&gt;popular answer on spy/technothrillers&lt;/a&gt;, technothrillers are on topic, most of the time. Post-apocalyptic works typically fall in to one of the following scenarios, all of which I believe are on topic: Anything beyond that goes in to the realm of purely on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a disease was naturally created, and the work took place during the outbreak, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2672/is-the-movie-contagion-ontopic-in-sff/2677#2677&quot;&gt;it probably isn't on topic&lt;/a&gt;. I can also imagine maybe an asteroid impact scenario, or other natural phenomena, that might not be on topic. Otherwise, it probably is on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2015-01-02T13:25:08.910" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5326" CreationDate="2015-01-02T01:36:43.760" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ljt1P.png&quot; alt=&quot;The world you made&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32756" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:52:23.267" LastActivityDate="2015-01-02T21:41:26.520" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-02T01:36:43.760" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5351" CreationDate="2015-01-02T02:03:02.670" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want a simple answer: the stuff that is filed under science fiction at your local bookstore is science fiction and in scope. This would mean that &lt;em&gt;On the Beach&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Road&lt;/em&gt; are not in scope, but &lt;em&gt;Damnation Alley&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;A Canticle For Liebowitz&lt;/em&gt; certainly are in scope. As I say, this is mostly appealing in that it's a simple answer that most people can apply without much difficulty. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the absence of a convincing yardstick for determining that a work is &quot;really&quot; SF based on its content, I vote for the simplistic and easily-applied answer. The fact that it generally gets us the right result is an added bonus. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22086" LastActivityDate="2015-01-02T02:03:02.670" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5357" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5359" CreationDate="2015-01-02T08:50:50.833" Score="6" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that some of my votes on the answers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5329/primary-chatroom-name-polling&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; were no longer shown as highlighted. Furthermore, I got a message (as I was voting) reminding me to vote on questions as well. This was strange because I had already voted on &lt;em&gt;that question&lt;/em&gt;. But when I checked, my question vote was not recorded either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems like a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.807" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T00:46:08.073" Title="Bug: votes not being recorded?" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|voting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5357" CreationDate="2015-01-03T05:57:40.730" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sure looks like it's serial vote reversal, since it happened to me twice.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first time I voted was in the evening of Jan 1 (so it would have already been early on 2 Jan in UTC) and a few hours later those votes were gone.  I voted again on the Q and some of the As but now early on 3 Jan (again, in UTC) most of those votes are gone again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/246491/does-serial-vote-reversal-strangeness-bug-or-feature&quot;&gt;I've asked a general question about serial vote reversal on meta sites on meta.SE,&lt;/a&gt; to see if this can be clarified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although it wasn't a suggested dup when I asked my question, this has come up before on meta.SE and I even favourited it:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/150180/the-vote-fraud-script-breaks-legitimate-polling-questions-a-serial-downvoters&quot;&gt;The vote fraud script breaks legitimate polling questions - A serial downvoter&amp;#39;s lament&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The closest thing to an official answer on that earlier question seems to be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;yes, this is is unwanted side-effect of the serial vote reversal script&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;but it doesn't come up often enough for SE to change the script&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if you want to do a poll, don't have just one person post all the possible answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in this case, if there's actually a desire to continue with the poll, different people will have to re-post the suggested names and the originals have to be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Better, since there doesn't seem to be a strong desire to change the name, would probably be to just close the poll question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2015-01-03T07:16:30.713" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5360" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5362" CreationDate="2015-01-03T17:21:54.930" Score="-6" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, the mobile site of SFF.SE uses a blue theme, which looks like Super User desktop site color. Switching to red will match the desktop version of this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="3567" LastEditDate="2015-01-03T18:09:31.753" LastActivityDate="2015-01-03T18:09:31.753" Title="Please change the color scheme of mobile site to red" Tags="|feature-request|design|mobile|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5360" CreationDate="2015-01-03T18:00:55.517" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The color scheme of every site is the same, I don't see a need for making an exception for us. We'll get a custom color scheme if and when they start doling them out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2015-01-03T18:00:55.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5360" CreationDate="2015-01-03T18:04:47.417" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I can’t speak for the SE Staff, but I would guess the answer is no.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoting SE dev &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/231442/226928&quot;&gt;Ebenezer Sklivvze on Meta.se question asking for something similar&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Declining as there are no plans to differentiate the sites on mobile (see e.g. the mobile apps).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since Meta.se is much larger than SFF, and didn’t get an exception, I doubt we’d get one either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two additional comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If I was replacing the blue on the mobile site with an SFF-specific colour, I wouldn’t pick red; I’d go for a more blueish-grey colour. Red is a highlight colour of the main site; not a main one.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Last I heard, the SE Designers are already backed up for designs for meant-to-be-graduated sites. (e.g. Movies.se, which has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1471/9285&quot;&gt;ready to graduate for months with a design pending&lt;/a&gt;) Doing a custom mobile theme for every Stack probably isn’t high on the priority list.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2015-01-03T18:04:47.417" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5326" CreationDate="2015-01-03T18:17:32.460" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://space.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GWTVN.png&quot; alt=&quot;Space Exploration Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2015-01-03T18:17:32.460" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-03T18:17:32.460" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5366" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5367" CreationDate="2015-01-04T18:09:01.820" Score="0" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have some pure astronomic / physics questions, that are 100% inspired by a scifi work. E.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Star needs thosands of years, if not more, to go to nova and to dectect it a wide range of measurements must be conducted; how could Picard detect such event (in &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/The_Inner_Light_(episode)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Inner Light&lt;/a&gt;&quot; episode of Star Trek Next Generation) during only 10 years and using only a telescope?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where such question would fit better (in anywhere)? Here or on &lt;em&gt;Physics&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7885" LastActivityDate="2015-01-05T15:22:49.013" Title="Pure astronomic question, but inspired by scifi work -- where to ask it?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5366" CreationDate="2015-01-04T19:06:10.140" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It definitely won't be on topic here, since scientific explanations are off topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not so sure about the Physics site, since I don't use it, but a question like that sounds like it'd be off topic there as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe a question like &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Star needs thousands of years, if not more, to go to nova and to dectect it a wide range of measurements must be conducted; is it possible for someone to do this in only 10 years using a telescope, like Picard did in ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;would be on topic, but still I can't be sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also an &lt;a href=&quot;https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Astronomy SE&lt;/a&gt; site that might accept the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the simplest answer to your question would be that Star Trek is something fictional; not everything has to be 100% scientifically accurate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19374" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:59:06.177" LastActivityDate="2015-01-04T19:06:10.140" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5368" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-04T19:39:20.390" Score="1" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm curious if any author/creator/writer/producer, etc. has ever answered an SF.SE question about their own work? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user30472" LastActivityDate="2015-01-04T19:39:20.390" Title="Has an author/creator ever answered a question on here about their own work?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-01-04T19:40:56.487" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5366" CreationDate="2015-01-04T21:33:45.237" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you rephrase it to match the circumstances, without making it seem like a &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; question, it would probably be on topic for Astronomy.SE, and maybe Physics.SE.  At least, assuming the character whose memories Picard was reliving wasn't using technology that doesn't currently exist in the real world.  It would be a straightforward astrophysics question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Given &amp;lt;insert technology available&amp;gt;, how could I detect when the local star is going nova?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe add a comment mentioning that the question is inspired by &lt;em&gt;The Inner Light&lt;/em&gt;, so people understand the nature of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2015-01-04T21:33:45.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5366" CreationDate="2015-01-05T15:22:49.013" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Depending on the question, Worldbuilding.SE may be your huckleberry. You may want to ask on their Meta; as well as use their Sandbox feature&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2015-01-05T15:22:49.013" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5371" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-05T16:26:44.897" Score="-8" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a &quot;current&quot; user on &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Movies &amp;amp; TV&lt;/em&gt; SE Site&lt;/a&gt;, yet relatively new to SciFi &amp;amp; Fantasy. I see a lot of questions here which would and could be more easily answered over there, such as &quot;ID this movie&quot; type questions. I'm curious why these types of questions aren't directed to that site from here more often ... in fact, I don't remember too many &lt;em&gt;ever&lt;/em&gt; being redirected from here. I realize there is a huge segment of the movie industry which is dedicated to SciFi &amp;amp; Fantasy, which would make for a corresponding overlap. These questions are on-topic here, but would make a LOT more sense being there. &lt;strong&gt;I'm just wondering the reasoning or why it isn't more prevalent to move them.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21234" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2015-01-05T21:28:11.710" Title="A lot of film based questions" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="14" ClosedDate="2015-01-08T15:07:05.673" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5371" CreationDate="2015-01-05T20:58:52.247" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that there's just as good a case to be made that all SF-related questions on Movies:SE should be migrated here, the consensus (for the time being) seems to be to let sleeping dogs lie, at least until Movies:SE comes out of beta and we start looking at formal migration paths.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZWrp8.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As has been discussed (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/626/how-do-we-handle-conflicts-with-the-anime-and-movies-sites&quot;&gt;at&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3691/when-does-a-movie-question-get-migrated-to-movies-and-tv&quot;&gt;considerable&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1875/should-questions-about-twin-peaks-be-migrated-to-the-movies-and-tv-beta&quot;&gt;length&lt;/a&gt;),  since we have both a Movies:SE and a Science-Fiction:SE site, &lt;strong&gt;it's best left down to the individual user to decide which would be most likely to provide the best response to their question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2015-01-05T21:28:11.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5351" CreationDate="2015-01-06T01:00:18.020" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say yes, unless it is in a time period not so far in the future as to make the time period an actually relevant factor. (That is, a marked difference)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, ignore the fact that the Walking Dead Contains zombies. Suppose some completely reasonable apocalypse happened. While the first episode may depict some 'present' or 'near future', it isn't there for the sake of being a future or some kind of speculation on possibilities regarding our future. It's just contemporary, set slightly forward to give that edge of uncertainty. For example, if we made a Walking Dead series where the events took place in the 1960s, it would be strange. The whole idea of a post-apocalyptic future is rooted in either fear, speculation, or fun concepts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the future is realistic (that is, contemporary with little to no technological or scientific speculation) then the future is not really a point of the work, and almost redundant I'd say. If the time period [a future] is of import to the actual story, then I would say that that condition would necessitate it as a work of science fiction. Otherwise, I'd say no. Do I make sense?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39173" LastActivityDate="2015-01-06T01:00:18.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5329" CreationDate="2015-01-06T05:59:56.580" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.revolutionsf.com/fiction/ourdistantcousins/01.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Billiards Club&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastActivityDate="2015-01-06T05:59:56.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5317" CreationDate="2015-01-06T06:15:44.233" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought the best question was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/72431/why-didnt-qui-gon-jinn-use-his-jedi-mind-tricks-to-exchange-his-republic-credit&quot;&gt;Why didn't Qui-Gon Jinn use his Jedi mind tricks to exchange his Republic credits?&lt;/a&gt; It exposed what nearly amounts to a plot hole, as demonstrated by the poor answer (as noted in the comments, I think the answer was poor because of the filmmakers, not @Richard).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastActivityDate="2015-01-06T06:15:44.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5317" CreationDate="2015-01-06T16:32:02.303" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really liked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/76511/unknown-feature-on-middle-earths-map/76512&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;Unknown feature on Middle Earth's map?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That asked about the island in the sea of Rhun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I also liked my answer there:&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/76512/19374&quot;&gt;Because I found some interesting discussions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19374" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2015-01-06T16:32:02.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1384" CreationDate="2015-01-07T18:22:44.133" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there should be a &quot;welcome to SE&quot; comment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently a user has been adding welcome comments to many new users. Here is an example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hi and welcome to stack exchange :) I recommend you take the&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;tour&lt;/a&gt; and visit the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;help&#xA;  center&lt;/a&gt;. Have fun with us!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The intent is obviously benign, but when I first saw this, I assumed that the OP had done something wrong and that the commenter was trying to gently/subtly tell them that they should first take the tour before making posts to avoid such errors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many people can contribute and post questions without ever taking the tour or visiting the help center, and suggesting that they do so might scare them off.  SE is not the first forum, and much of the information in the tour/help center is common sense.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in this case, I don't think these comments are appropriate.  While I laud the intent and effort put into them to try to welcome new users, I think it might be more off-putting than welcoming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone else have thoughts on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21927" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2015-01-07T18:22:44.133" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6380" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6381" CreationDate="2015-01-08T08:26:57.330" Score="7" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed some edits that have added &lt;strong&gt;[Story Identification]:&lt;/strong&gt; in there header below is an example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/78607/story-identification-short-story-with-carnivorous-organisms-mimicking-objects&quot;&gt;Short story with carnivorous organisms mimicking objects&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this the preferred way?  I always though that having the tag is enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17122" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2015-01-08T10:09:09.873" Title="Including tag in header" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2015-01-08T15:36:17.393" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6380" CreationDate="2015-01-08T09:25:48.117" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is unneeded,  if you see this in the future,  feel free to edit the question title to remove the tags, adding any appropriate tags to the tag field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While you're there, if anything else is amiss,  please take the time to clean that up as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2015-01-08T10:09:09.873" LastActivityDate="2015-01-08T10:09:09.873" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6382" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-08T13:29:15.167" Score="15" ViewCount="348" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per the Help Center: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;What types of questions should I avoid asking?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To prevent your question from being flagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/deleted-questions&quot;&gt;and possibly removed&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;avoid&lt;/em&gt; asking subjective questions where …&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;you are asking an open-ended, hypothetical question: “What if ______ happened?”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently I personally deal these questions on quite a regular basis, and it seems that they're getting more frequent; some recent examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/78635/if-the-flash-travels-back-in-time-and-changes-it-is-there-still-a-flash-in-the&quot;&gt;If The Flash travels back in time and changes it, is there still a Flash in the future to travel back?&lt;/a&gt; (Deleted question; only visible to high-rep users)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/77397/what-would-have-happened-if-the-valar-came-to-numenor-to-stop-the-rebellion&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/77397/what-would-have-happened-if-the-valar-came-to-numenor-to-stop-the-rebellion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/77197/how-would-robb-stark-handle-the-white-walker-threat&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/77197/how-would-robb-stark-handle-the-white-walker-threat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/73961/what-if-saruman-sent-an-army-to-attack-sauron&quot;&gt;What if Saruman sent an army to attack Sauron&lt;/a&gt; (Deleted question; only visible to high-rep users)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm aware that “What if ______ happened?” is &lt;a href=&quot;https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;generic boilerplate text that's present on all SE sites&lt;/a&gt;, but it seems particularly applicable to this site owing to it's nature: dealing with speculative works in the first place would tend to invite this kind of question moreso than for other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given this consideration, are these questions of sufficient volume to merit a custom close reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user8719" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-01-09T06:39:36.350" Title="Close Reasons: “What if ______ happened?”" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6382" CreationDate="2015-01-08T13:40:48.470" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the implication of the caveat against &quot;what if x happened?&quot; questions is that they should only be asked if they're &lt;strong&gt;supportable&lt;/strong&gt; (e.g. that there are sufficient in-universe reasons to think that &lt;em&gt;something would have happened had something else not happened&lt;/em&gt; or if there are good reason to presume that there will be out-of-universe sources to draw on such as Director interviews). They should be neither open-ended nor require &lt;em&gt;large&lt;/em&gt; leaps into the hypothetical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Would Yavin have been destroyed if Luke hadn't blown up the Death Star?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Yes, almost certainly.&lt;/em&gt; It was &lt;strong&gt;about to happen&lt;/strong&gt; when Luke blew it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bad&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Would Yavin have been destroyed if &lt;strong&gt;Leia&lt;/strong&gt; had been taken by Obi-Wan?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A.&lt;/strong&gt; Deeply unclear. No canon reference support this version of events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The irony is that it's not always possible for a non-specialist to tell the difference and often it doesn't become clear that an answer is possible until after the question is closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2015-01-08T13:49:18.773" LastActivityDate="2015-01-08T13:49:18.773" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6384" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-08T15:42:31.783" Score="4" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;Robin Hood has been the subject of a number of films, cartoons and books over the years. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Prompted by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/78648/how-does-the-army-know-to-cheer-for-longstride?noredirect=1#comment164732_78648&quot;&gt;this deleted question&lt;/a&gt;, given that he exists as a &lt;em&gt;fictional&lt;/em&gt; character within a largely fictionalised representation of Medieval England, are questions about him (and his various media) on-topic here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/O6PGT.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9dVgg.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Cw09A.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2015-01-18T00:16:42.117" Title="Are questions about Robin Hood on topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6384" CreationDate="2015-01-08T16:19:51.380" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_of_Sherwood&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Robin of Sherwood&lt;/a&gt; is almost certainly &lt;strong&gt;on&lt;/strong&gt;-topic, otherwise it's more folk legend than sci-fi/fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My gut feeling is that the proposed &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/58307/mythology&quot;&gt;Mythology.SE&lt;/a&gt; on Area 51 would be a more suitable home.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/58307/mythology/68316#68316&quot;&gt;One of its current example questions relates to King Arthur&lt;/a&gt;, for example, who is a figure of similar provenance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="3267" LastEditDate="2015-01-08T17:20:11.800" LastActivityDate="2015-01-08T17:20:11.800" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6382" CreationDate="2015-01-09T06:39:36.350" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Speaking from personal experience, I did ask one &lt;em&gt;What would have happened if&lt;/em&gt; question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/41068/what-would-have-happened-if-snape-had-died-in-absence-of-harry&quot;&gt;What would have happened if Snape had died in absence of Harry&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that question, I wanted to know only the in-universe explanation.&#xA;As in, did Dumbledore and/or Snape had a backup plan for giving Harry those memories. But seeing that no evidence existed, I turned to see whether&#xA;JK Rowling had answered this &lt;em&gt;What if&lt;/em&gt; question in her later interviews. Apparently, she hadn't.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There in lies my point. What if my intention with my &lt;em&gt;What if&lt;/em&gt; question was really what-if parallel universe answers? Then that question should/would have been&#xA;closed as primarily opinion based. But then what if JK Rowling had answered the question in one of her interviews. Would the question still be primarily &#xA;opinion based? I suppose not.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR;&lt;/strong&gt; So, I would not close a &lt;em&gt;What if&lt;/em&gt; parallel-universe scenario question if it is answered by the author. &#xA;Absolutely no question of closing a &lt;em&gt;What if&lt;/em&gt; in-universe question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15706" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-01-09T06:39:36.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6387" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6426" CreationDate="2015-01-09T07:03:22.793" Score="6" ViewCount="235" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/78731/13217&quot;&gt;Was Narcissa Malfoy a Death Eater?&lt;/a&gt;. To my surprise, it was marked as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/10130/13217&quot;&gt;What Happened to the Malfoys after the Second Wizarding War?&lt;/a&gt;, despite them seeming to me like very different questions. As far as I can tell, the reason was because the second question's accepted answer had, by its own admission, &quot;a tenuously related fact&quot; that happened to be the answer to the first question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to go against the message of the duplicate, which says &quot;This question has been asked before and already has an answer&quot;, since the question itself has not been asked before. This conflicts with one comment for the question, which stated that &quot;We close questions as dupes based on previous questions &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; answers.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/duplicates&quot;&gt;policy on duplicates&lt;/a&gt; states that sometimes duplicates aren't closed: &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/dr-strangedupe-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-duplication/&quot;&gt;We love (some) dupes&lt;/a&gt;. There are many ways to ask the same question, and a user might not be able to find the answer if they're asking it a different way.&quot; I think that even if this were a duplicate, this question would fall under that category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should this particular question have been closed because an unrelated question (from my point of view) contains the answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13217" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2015-01-17T01:40:13.617" Title="Should this question be marked as duplicate because an unrelated question has the answer?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6388" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-09T22:39:56.403" Score="4" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked the question &quot;Is Batman a super hero?&quot; A while ago and now I have altered and edited it over and over again to make it less opinion based.&#xA;Link: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/50314/is-there-criteria-for-being-super-hero-and-batman-meets-it&quot;&gt;Are there criteria for being a super hero and does Batman meet them?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone has any suggestions on how I can change it so it may be reopened I would love to hear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21674" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2015-01-09T23:13:28.487" Title="Suggestions to reopen a question" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6388" CreationDate="2015-01-09T23:13:28.487" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it should be reopened, both in its original form and/or with the latest edits I've added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the question is fine. &quot;What defines a &lt;strong&gt;super&lt;/strong&gt;hero, especially when they don't have &lt;strong&gt;super&lt;/strong&gt;powers?&quot; seems an excellent fit to this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-01-09T23:13:28.487" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6390" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6391" CreationDate="2015-01-10T03:58:47.767" Score="2" ViewCount="239" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RLY5L.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The overall symbol that this SE site has selected to represent “Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy” is shown above. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every SE site that uses a symbol has chosen one that very easily represents the topic at hand. Examples include books for &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://academia.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Academia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, a 20-sided die for &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rpg.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Role-playing Games&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, and a chef hat for &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://cooking.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Seasoned Advice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (My pick for wittiest SE name btw).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What reason was this sites symbol chosen for and what, if any, are the work(s) of Science Fiction/Fantasy that it originates from?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32276" OwnerDisplayName="S. Fruggiero" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:49:49.367" LastActivityDate="2015-01-10T04:10:01.973" Title="What work of Science Fiction/ Fantasy does this Stack Exchange's symbol represent?" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2015-01-10T04:13:00.993" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6390" CreationDate="2015-01-10T04:10:01.973" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have a look at this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2729/what-does-the-sff-se-logo-icon-mean&quot;&gt;Sci-Fi &amp;amp; Fantasy Meta Topic&lt;/a&gt; on the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The logo is an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/976/design-for-science-fiction-fantasy&quot;&gt;original creation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the second link (credit to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/44/jin&quot;&gt;Jin&lt;/a&gt;, designer and original poster):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The logo for the site is the rune circle around the female warrior's&#xA;  silhouette. It's not actually in the logo type &quot;Science Fiction +&#xA;  Fantasy.&quot; I feel this placement sets the mood better in the header&#xA;  image. Its design is inspired by a promotional t-shirt I created for&#xA;  the NYC Comiccon couple of months ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35225" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2015-01-10T04:10:01.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6392" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-10T12:28:22.500" Score="8" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being a big fan of Roger Zelazny's work I'd love to hear how he sounded. I've spent some time searching but didn't manage to find anything. Would a question &quot;Is there any recording of Roger Zelazny's voice available on the Internet&quot; or &quot;Where can I find any recording of Roger Zelazny's voice on the Internet?&quot; a valid question for this SE site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35695" LastActivityDate="2015-01-10T12:36:24.797" Title="I want to hear Zelazny's voice, can I ask about it here?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6392" CreationDate="2015-01-10T12:36:24.797" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems like a reasonable question to me. It's answerable and it's about SF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23" LastActivityDate="2015-01-10T12:36:24.797" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5326" CreationDate="2015-01-12T00:44:58.933" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.pottermore.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/I6D9s.png&quot; alt=&quot;Need more Potter? Visit J.K. Rowling&amp;#39;s Pottermore.com for fresh Potter facts and fun! Updated regularly.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="3567" LastEditDate="2015-01-23T17:25:12.270" LastActivityDate="2015-01-23T17:25:12.270" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-12T00:44:58.933" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2474" CreationDate="2015-01-12T04:37:09.640" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2765/thaddeus-howze&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/flair/2765.png&quot; width=&quot;208&quot; height=&quot;58&quot; alt=&quot;profile for Thaddeus Howze at Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange, Q&amp;amp;A for science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts&quot; title=&quot;profile for Thaddeus Howze at Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange, Q&amp;amp;A for science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thaddeus Howze&lt;/strong&gt; is a professional writer mainly in the Science-Fiction genre, see his website - &lt;a href=&quot;http://hubcityblues.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hub City Blues&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, read &lt;a href=&quot;https://medium.com/@ebonstorm/who-is-thaddeus-howze-418583642692#.kbhrfwxvz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;his own bio on Medium&lt;/a&gt; and check out his &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5397140.Thaddeus_Howze&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;author's bio on Amazon&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He may not have directly asked/answered questions on his own canon, but he &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; an active professional on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently, user SQB asked the question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/99814/who-are-the-architects-on-whose-buildings-the-buildings-were-based&quot;&gt;Who are the architects of the buildings on which these fictional buildings were based?&lt;/a&gt; to which &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/99814/who-are-the-architects-on-whose-buildings-the-buildings-were-based#comment230156_99814&quot;&gt;Thaddeus replied&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I approve those answers...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2016-03-21T22:45:26.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6396" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6398" CreationDate="2015-01-12T09:02:44.680" Score="18" ViewCount="4185" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why so many people uses so many times &lt;strong&gt;a bold&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;em&gt;an italic&lt;/em&gt; font (or both), often with many exclamation points at the end, to warn people, that link is pointing to TVTropes? What is so wrong about this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has some kind of original style, but... I never found any real spoilers there, my head never get boiling during reading it etc. For me (newbie, ignorant?) this is a site like many, many others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there really any point (or requirement here?) it doing so loud scream, that given link points to TVTropes ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7885" LastActivityDate="2015-01-20T00:08:51.497" Title="What is so wrong about TVTropes?" Tags="|discussion|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6396" CreationDate="2015-01-12T09:16:47.233" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The possible spoilers are not the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The danger of TV Tropes is that it can be a huge time sink, especially to the easily distracted. Everything seems interesting, and each article has at least a dozen equally interesting looking links to other tropes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other examples of such sites are &lt;em&gt;Cracked&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Buzzfeed&lt;/em&gt;, (insert examples here).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T09:16:47.233" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6396" CreationDate="2015-01-12T09:35:51.493" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a semi-serious complaint rather than a real complaint. The TV Tropes website is clickbait of the first order, encouraging you to follow link after link in an almost pavlovian way, burning up any free hours that you may have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's even &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a page on TV Tropes&lt;/a&gt;  (Warning - TV Tropes link) that warns that TV Tropes can ruin your life:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now we warn you about the amount of time you will spend browsing the&#xA;  website in your first few weeks of visiting. Some editors spend 7&#xA;  hour+ periods just reading through the thousands of pages, going&#xA;  through an extended Wiki Walk&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And an &lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com/609/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;xkcd cartoon&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UniversalTropes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4AQAj.png&quot; alt=&quot;xkcd 609&quot; title=&quot;Cracked.com is another inexplicable browser narcotic.  They could write a list of &amp;#39;17 worst haircuts in the Ottoman Empire&amp;#39; and I&amp;#39;d read through to the end, then click on all the links at the end.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2015-01-20T00:08:51.497" LastActivityDate="2015-01-20T00:08:51.497" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6399" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-12T18:11:28.973" Score="2" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find myself sometimes in the situation where I would like to comment on a new user's answer, how the site works and why their answer is downvoted. Do we have a default template for that or does somebody have a custom text they could recommend?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; With the respect to the apparent duplicate, let me clarify, that this is not a default welcoming that I want to paste for every new user. The intent was rather to have a response to give to new users who clearly struggle to understand how this site works. For example, answering a question in a bulletin-board style (raising other questions or providing (amusing) anecdote that doesn't answer the question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is substantially different from the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1384/how-should-we-reach-out-to-new-users?lq=1&quot;&gt;How should we reach out to new users?&lt;/a&gt; and should be reflected in the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2015-01-13T16:43:41.657" Title="Do we have a default message template for new users that indicates how they can improve their post?" Tags="|discussion|comments|new-users|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2015-01-14T14:03:53.480" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1289" CreationDate="2015-01-12T18:20:04.190" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme:&lt;/strong&gt; Phantom42 is Slytherincess' daughter&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scope:&lt;/strong&gt; SFF Chat room (Mos Eisley)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/18476071#18476071&quot;&gt;Richard: Nov 4 '14 9:22 PM&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height:&lt;/strong&gt; Late 2014&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; Phantom42 and Slytherincess were logging off of chat within minutes of each other. The former supposedly to commute, and the latter supposedly to pick up her daughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Phantom42 joked:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The fact that @Slytherincess says she's leaving to pick up her daughter just as I'm signing off to go commute should in no way be viewed as suspicious. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Richard deduced the the secret connection:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@phantom42 - Are you @Slytherincess' daughter? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since then, occasional comments/jokes are made when either of the users are logging out of chat in the afternoon. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T18:20:04.190" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2474" CreationDate="2015-01-12T18:32:27.950" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is another answer from an author to a question about (or at least related to) her own work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/34595/2565&quot;&gt;Did Heinlein invent the term “boot-chevrons” or did an actual military use it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T18:32:27.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="81" CreationDate="2015-01-12T19:28:53.623" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the contrary, I think that the idea that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Trying to make sense of these things is really a matter of trying to apply logic to something one really needs to suspend disbelief over. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;only applies to fiction that is intentionally self-inconsistent, which does not apply to most sci fi or fantasy. That is, it might apply to farce (e.g. Space Balls) or dream sequences, but even these settings have answers (e.g. because it's funny and it parodying X, or because it's a dream and relates to Y).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the most part, I think that this type of question is extremely relevant to SF. For much traditional written SF, and even for a lot of flashy Hollywood SF, a major theme of the work (in main cases, the main theme) is &quot;imagine what if some situation were true - what would that be like?&quot; While many people relate to such settings as &quot;oh well then anything can happen - anything can be true, so we should stop expecting anything to make sense&quot;, many other people are interested in that major question posed by the setting, and have a very reasonable expectation that it will make sense and be self consistent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What a SF would be like is only answered when the rest of the universe doesn't also randomly abandon logic. So yes such questions are common around SF and fantasy, and rather than being something that shouldn't be done, have always been the meat and potatoes of many works in the genre. Some people might see them more as the vegetables, and argue against it, but they're definitely on-topic except on a site that sets out to avoid it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21254" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T19:28:53.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1289" CreationDate="2015-01-12T20:29:40.207" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme:&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;Dead Fish of Jack B Nimble&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scope: SFF Chat room (Mos Eisley) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election/1&quot;&gt;2012 Moderator Election&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1148/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height:&lt;/strong&gt; January 2012&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; Once upon a time Jack B Nimble had an &lt;a href=&quot;http://atwitsendcomics.com/blogs/view/30/Aquarium&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;aquarium&lt;/a&gt; [&lt;a href=&quot;http://atwitsendcomics.com/comics/index/122/When-Fish-Retire&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;comic&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://atwitsendcomics.com/comics/index/123/Pinchie-The-Crab&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;comic&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href=&quot;http://atwitsendcomics.com/comics/index/124/The-Good-Life&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;comic&lt;/a&gt;]. It was not a very successful aquarium, and it had a high death rate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the 2012 moderator elections were held, He ran a fierce campaign against 'Is X a Timelord' questions and offered this promise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If elected as Moderator I would [nurture] the site as well or better than the fish that recently died in my fish tank due to severe neglect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These days, you might occasionally hear someone mention the dead fish (most notably &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=4090899#4090899&quot;&gt;Slytherincess&lt;/a&gt;), but for the most part this meme has gone the way of the D'Arsay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T20:29:40.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5351" CreationDate="2015-01-12T21:21:49.283" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would vote on post-apocalyptic fiction being a subgenre of Science Fiction (SF) as SF is subgenre to Speculative Fiction which would include Sci-Fi and Fantasy.  Some authors disapprove of strict genre labelling.  Witness Anne McCaffrey's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pern&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pern&lt;/a&gt; where most of the story elements are fantasy, yet the story is set in a SF setting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No matter whether you agree with my opinion on post-apocalyptic as a subgenre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does matter is that Post Apocalyptic fiction is speculative fiction, no matter what themes are explored.  This is due to the fact that you have to accept a world after an apocalypse as suspension of disbelief (which is actually a qualifier for SF).  I think that any sort of Speculative Fiction should be welcome in SF&amp;amp;F discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38397" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T21:21:49.283" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1289" CreationDate="2015-01-12T21:25:50.977" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme:&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;Unicorn Blood&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scope:&lt;/strong&gt; SFF Chat room (Mos Eisley)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator:&lt;/strong&gt; Maybe &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1148/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first time he mentioned the consumption of unicorn was in this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8889/what-are-the-uses-of-unicorns-in-harry-potter&quot;&gt;What are the uses of Unicorns?&lt;/a&gt; (Jan. 2012)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first time someone mentioned drinking the blood of a unicorn was Oct 2012.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=6363357#6363357&quot;&gt;JackBNimble:&lt;/a&gt; @Izkata I love the [delicious] taste of unicorn blood.. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height:&lt;/strong&gt; October 2012 - September 2014&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; In the first Harry Potter book, &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone&lt;/em&gt;, the antagonist Voldemort drinks the blood of a unicorn to keep himself alive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;...it is a monstrous thing, to slay a unicorn. Only one who has nothing to lose, and everything to gain, would commit such a crime. The blood of a unicorn will keep you alive, even if you are an inch from death, but at a terrible price. You have slain something pure and defenceless to save yourself, and you will have but a half-life, a cursed life, from the moment the blood touches your lips.&quot; - Firenze&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ever since then, it has been a fad to drink the blood of unicorns. Voldemort made it cool before it was cool. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lots of people have jumped on the bandwagon. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=8516275#8516275&quot;&gt;Xantec:&lt;/a&gt; I cannot remember the last time I had Unicorn blood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=14597436#14597436&quot;&gt;DVK:&lt;/a&gt; &#xA;  I guess drinking Unicorn Blood does do good things for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=16013757#16013757&quot;&gt;SQB:&lt;/a&gt; But that unicorn blood one pretty much cinched it for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=7509767#7509767&quot;&gt;Pureferret:&lt;/a&gt; [In] other news, my new ear medicine is made [of] Magic, Rainbows and a dash of unicorn blood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T21:52:05.357" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6399" CreationDate="2015-01-13T16:43:41.657" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Welcome to SciFi.StackExchange. This site does not work like a regular bulletin board. We prefer answers that are well sourced and address the original question where they were posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[This post is work-in-progress, feel free to extend it]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastActivityDate="2015-01-13T16:43:41.657" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-13T16:43:41.657" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6407" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6418" CreationDate="2015-01-13T17:11:27.170" Score="5" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed, that many high-rank users, when asking or answering about particular Star Trek episode, are always or nearly always linking to episode's script (pure textual screenplay) at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.st-minutiae.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ST-Minutiae&lt;/a&gt; rather than to full-detailed information about that particular episode at &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Memory Alpha&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the reason for doing this? Is this a de facto standard here (to where should I link to)? And -- in what way simple text scripts at ST-M are better than detailed episode info at MA?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm always linking to Memory Alpha, because I think, that information provided there for any episode is much more detailed, full of images, quotes and external links and, in general, is a way better source of information that episode script at ST-Minutiae. But, at this point I begin to think if I'm not mistaken in doing so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7885" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-08-25T10:26:49.757" LastActivityDate="2017-08-25T10:26:49.757" Title="Why is linking ST questions to ST-Minutiae rather than to Memory Alpha better?" Tags="|discussion|hyperlinks|notability-of-sources|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6407" CreationDate="2015-01-13T17:43:49.537" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't answer Star Trek questions, so I can't speak for those users specifically, but I frequently answer Star Wars questions and will link to either the scripts or Wookieepedia entries as necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, why would I link to an un-annotated script over Wookieepedia, or any other wiki source in some cases?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Because the un-annotated script isn't subject to user edits, which are sometimes incorrect. I want to provide the most definitive source I can find.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Citing/linking to a wiki is great for summations and things of the sort, but if I want to reference a specific instance of the script, I want to link to the script to specifically demonstrate/cite what I'm talking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2015-01-13T17:43:49.537" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6407" CreationDate="2015-01-13T18:40:40.070" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me it boils down to two key factors;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;MA is sometimes wrong&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst Memory Alpha is a great source of information, like all wiki-based sites it's prone to mistakes and inaccuracies. When you have a site that anyone can edit, there's nothing to stop someone from putting in their own opinions &lt;strong&gt;as fact&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By comparison, the original scripts listed at ST-Minutiae are, for the most part based on scans of the original show-scripts. Although they sometime differ from the actual filmed transcripts, I've never found them to have any material inaccuracies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;It's not a primary source.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've found that when you reference a primary source (a crew interview, for example) you can often tease out additional information that a secondary source (e.g. whoever wrote the memory alpha article) may have missed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In principle &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_source&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;primary sources&lt;/a&gt; are usually better than secondary sources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-01-13T18:40:40.070" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6410" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6411" CreationDate="2015-01-13T18:41:17.817" Score="17" ViewCount="289" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once in a while I see a large spike of generic comments which welcome pretty much every new user to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we encourage or discourage such practice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't apply to post-specific comments, which include the welcome as part of directly addressing something in a given post - in other words, we are only talking about comments which would NOT be posted if the user wasn't a new one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments in-scope for this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Welcome to the site, perhaps you'd enjoy perusing the FAQ, which is located here, blah blah,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments &lt;strong&gt;out of scope&lt;/strong&gt; for this question: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This answer can also add {point X} to enhance it.&lt;/strong&gt; Great first post, welcome to the site!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Welcome to the site. &lt;strong&gt;This answer has information which can be a spoiler, so I edited in the spoiler tags for you&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Welcome to the site. &lt;strong&gt;This answer seems like a personal opinion not backed by canon, please read FAQ here&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2015-01-14T14:17:06.210" LastActivityDate="2015-01-17T22:35:53.890" Title="Should we encourage or discourage posting generic &quot;welcome comments&quot; to all new users" Tags="|discussion|comments|new-users|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6410" CreationDate="2015-01-13T18:48:32.790" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I think we should heavily discourage them.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They don't serve any real purpose&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They can be very easily misread as a chastisement&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They're a bit creepy : &lt;em&gt;&quot;Who is this person and why are they messaging me?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They're basically a form of spam for wannabe moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They encourage other low-value comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They give a false impression that the commenter is a moderator or has some kind of special connection to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2015-01-13T22:36:37.670" LastActivityDate="2015-01-13T22:36:37.670" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6413" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-13T23:24:40.253" Score="-3" ViewCount="246" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am having a question roughly along the lines of the following in mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are the inevitable plot holes in Frank Herbert’s &lt;em&gt;Dune&lt;/em&gt; writings?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read the first &lt;em&gt;Dune&lt;/em&gt; novels in pretty quick succession and while the universe is consistent at large, there are a few prominent plot holes, such as discrepanices on the nature of navigators or the requirements and effects of pre-born-ness. Given the nature of the novels, in particular their reliance on consistency, these were unpleasantly confusing to an extent that in my opinion justifies the efforts of creating a list of them. Having such a list would have been something I would have welcomed and also would like to have for a possible re-read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence I am asking: What are the generally acknowledged plot holes in Frank Herbert’s &lt;em&gt;Dune&lt;/em&gt; series? To keep the list short, useful and subjective, answers must comply with the following criteria:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It’s really a &lt;strong&gt;plot&lt;/strong&gt; hole, i.e., it’s relevant to the plot and not just an athmospheric side note. For example, if somebody’s hair colour changes without explanation, this is only a plot hole if it is relevant to the plot.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It’s really a plot &lt;strong&gt;hole&lt;/strong&gt;, i.e., there is a clear contradiction here, to which no satisfying in-universe explanation exist. In particular, plot holes of the &lt;em&gt;“why don’t they?”&lt;/em&gt; type are not permitted. Preferrably, the plot hole is generally accepted. [Alternatively: There must be a question about it on this Stack Exchange that did not came up with a good (insert vote criterion) in-universe answer.]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It occurs within the six original &lt;em&gt;Dune&lt;/em&gt; books by Frank Herbert. Short stories, deleted passages, the &lt;em&gt;Dune Encyclopedia&lt;/em&gt; or writings by Brian Herbert do not count into this.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those not familiar with Dune: This is about six books by one author, who did seem to strive for consistency, and just seems to have failed to remember certain aspects. I personally estimate the number of such plot holes to be between five and twenty. I am not suggesting that asking similar questions about the Star Wars, Star Trek, the Discworld or Doctor Who would be a good match for this site (though &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/the-actual-plot-holes-in-doctor-who-61543.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;some claim that there is a small finite number of plot holes in the new Doctor Who&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Questions:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Would such a question be acceptable?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Would the answer to the above question change, if I only allow for answers “backed-up” by another SciFi.SE question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If such a question in any form is acceptable, how should the answers be organised? One anwser for everything or one big community-wiki answer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20840" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-01-14T20:58:39.037" Title="Would be asking for a list of plot holes of some work (with strong restrictions) be acceptable?" Tags="|discussion|scope|list-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6413" CreationDate="2015-01-13T23:53:02.283" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;We generally say a small finite list question is acceptable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can everyone agree on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&amp;amp;ion=1&amp;amp;espv=2&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8#q=define%20plot%20hole&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;definition&lt;/a&gt; of a plot hole?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A plot hole, or plothole is a gap or inconsistency in a storyline that creates a paradox in the story that cannot be reconciled with any explanation. These include such things as illogical or impossible events, and statements or events that contradict earlier events in the storyline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know sometimes people call poor writing plot holes, where it is really just poor writing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2015-01-13T23:53:02.283" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6415" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-14T00:28:45.760" Score="-1" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always wondered. Its quite beautiful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are the things I've wondered...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that an angel or some greek god?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that an ocean horizon on the shore of rocks or overlooking a blue planet of some sort with asteroids? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the rune markings in a circle around her that seems to have a theme of 3 being significant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The larger circle is a star chart two and what are the wavy lines encased on two circles indicating?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11673" OwnerDisplayName="Jason Sebring" LastActivityDate="2015-01-14T00:36:00.200" Title="What is the origin/lore behind the website banner of Science Fiction &amp; Fantasy?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2015-01-14T00:39:45.843" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6415" CreationDate="2015-01-14T00:36:00.200" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I posted in an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6390/what-work-of-science-fiction-fantasy-does-this-stack-exchanges-symbol-represen/6391#6391&quot;&gt;another version of this question&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The logo is an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/976/design-for-science-fiction-fantasy&quot;&gt;original creation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;From the above link (credit to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/44/jin&quot;&gt;Jin&lt;/a&gt;, designer and original&#xA;  poster):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;The logo for the site is the rune circle around the female warrior's&#xA;    silhouette. It's not actually in the logo type &quot;Science Fiction +&#xA;    Fantasy.&quot; I feel this placement sets the mood better in the header&#xA;    image. Its design is inspired by a promotional t-shirt I created for&#xA;    the NYC Comiccon couple of months ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35225" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2015-01-14T00:36:00.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6413" CreationDate="2015-01-14T01:07:36.813" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, the question you're planning to pose is not acceptable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Without border or boundaries, it's basically an open-ended list. There's no &quot;right&quot; answer. Dumping it as a community wiki doesn't make it any more suitable.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;While finite lists are acceptable, something which could end up running to tens or dozens of entries would not be acceptable. Your estimate is a pure guess.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your definition of a plot-hole is fluffy, at best. One man's mistake is another man's stylistic choice.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;em&gt;What are the generally acknowledged plot holes in Frank Herbert’s Dune?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; - Acknowledged by who? And if there's general acknowledgment elsewhere, what's the point of replicating that list here?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-01-14T01:07:36.813" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6407" CreationDate="2015-01-14T04:01:51.827" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I post answers about a specific episode, I typically link to Memory Alpha so that readers can get a quick overview/reminder of which episode that was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's rare that I link to a script, because when I quote dialogue, I almost always bring up the episode itself and type it out then and there.  Pauses in dialogue added by the actors, as well as visual cues, can then be added that wouldn't have been in the original script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The few times I can remember linking to a script, it was because of information that didn't make it into the dialogue and so couldn't be quoted like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastActivityDate="2015-01-14T04:01:51.827" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6410" CreationDate="2015-01-14T22:01:00.283" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm of a split opinion on this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a new user does something wrong, I say go for it. It's a polite way of saying &quot;hey, you're new here, you might not have been aware of this BUT...&quot; rather than coming down hard on them and making them feel like they aren't welcome or they need to read and memorize EVERY single rule, regulation and policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, if there's nothing wrong with what they're posting and the poster is doing it just to up his/her post count or feel important, then the practice should absolutely be discouraged because it serves no purpose and there is so much useless junk on the internet that serves no purpose that we don't need to contribute to the pile. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36921" LastActivityDate="2015-01-14T22:01:00.283" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6387" CreationDate="2015-01-15T00:33:31.293" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;That definitely looks like an invalid dupe to me. Sure that question has an answer, &lt;em&gt;but only in a paragraph which is off-topic for its own question!&lt;/em&gt; (At best it's an aside. It would be an acceptable comment on the question, but it doesn't really belong in an answer.) As DVK himself said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;tenuously related fact&lt;/strong&gt; from the same chat - Narcissa wasn't actually a Death Eater&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be entirely appropriate to edit out that part of DVK's answer, in which case your question would be unanswered by it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17815" LastActivityDate="2015-01-15T00:33:31.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6387" CreationDate="2015-01-16T14:27:58.530" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I mentioned in chat, this situation is a victim of poor wording of the &quot;Duplicate&quot; message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As discussed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3194/why-are-questions-considered-duplicates-although-they-ask-different-things&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, dupes are defined by questions OR answers. It doesn't matter &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; question DVK was answering - just that the answer he wrote covers the information that the new question is asking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I honestly think that the only reason anyone is even really questioning this is DVK's use of the word &quot;&lt;em&gt;tenuously&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, which I don't think is really even necessary there. It's very much related, as her level of allegiance would likely play into any fate or repercussions after the war.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2015-01-16T14:27:58.530" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6422" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6425" CreationDate="2015-01-16T17:06:52.463" Score="10" ViewCount="345" Body="&lt;p&gt;DVK &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6410/should-we-encourage-or-discourage-posting-generic-welcome-comments-to-all-new&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt; whether we should encourage or discourage posting generic “&lt;em&gt;welcome comments&lt;/em&gt;”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the positive response to my answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6411/20774&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; suggesting that they should be &lt;strong&gt;firmly discouraged&lt;/strong&gt;, I would like to propose;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;That as a community we should make efforts to flag any messages of this kind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Welcome to SF:SE&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&amp;quot;Welcome to SF:SE, take the tour for an easy badge&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&amp;quot;Hi and welcome to stack exchange. If you want an easy badge simply take the tour ;)&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&amp;quot;Hi and welcome to our community :)&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;That moderators should &lt;strong&gt;firmly discourage&lt;/strong&gt; this behaviour when they encounter it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-05-14T19:11:40.837" Title="Should we begin flagging generic &quot;welcome&quot; messages as too chatty?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6422" CreationDate="2015-01-16T17:08:06.047" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with both of these suggestions;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We should begin flagging these sorts of comments ASAP.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderators should firmly discourage users from posting these kinds of comments.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="3567" LastEditDate="2015-01-17T11:33:32.960" LastActivityDate="2015-01-17T11:33:32.960" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6422" CreationDate="2015-01-16T18:04:01.493" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I don't particularly like generic welcome messages (and for the sake of disclosure I should say that I used to leave them for new users, I don't anymore, so I've been on both sides), I don't agree that we should begin flagging them for deletion. It's not because I love them, as I noted, but I have a few concerns about making this a blanket requirement. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What if the comment containing the welcome message &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; contains information explicitly relevant to the question? Do I want to delete that too? Personally, I do not. Relevant info to the question supersedes a generic welcome message.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We're never going to catch all of the welcome messages. Even if we have folks that read every single question that comes through the feed, some may disagree with a policy of flagging welcome messages and simply leave the question alone.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Our mods are very busy with the tasks they already have. Do we want to add a task that &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; (COULD) be high volume to their already full plates? I mean, if it were an extremely important issue, such as &lt;em&gt;Should we flag profanity on the site&lt;/em&gt;?, that's one thing. But flagging welcome messages just seems like modly busy work. Most people do not like busy work. Perhaps one of the mods will speak to this issue themselves.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's fine to discourage users from leaving welcome messages, if that is the community consensus, but to start expecting people to report welcome messages is out of the scope of the site's requirements. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2018-05-14T19:11:40.837" LastActivityDate="2018-05-14T19:11:40.837" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6422" CreationDate="2015-01-16T18:32:49.360" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, go nuts flagging them.  We'll delete the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2015-01-16T18:32:49.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6387" CreationDate="2015-01-16T20:01:37.790" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's what we (mods) are gonna do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We edit DVK's answer to remove the bit about her not being a Death Eater, and replace it with a link to this new question.  Narcissa being a Death Eater is pretty tangential to the question as posed and the answer already fully addresses the question, even if you completely remove the Narcissa bit at the end.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We reopen the closed question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This preserves the relevant information, and makes it clearer and easier to access/find in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2015-01-16T20:01:37.790" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6387" CreationDate="2015-01-17T01:40:13.617" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently some people think it's OK to close question A as a &quot;duplicate&quot; because it is &quot;answered&quot; by a side remark in an answer to a different question B. There are several problems with this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A side remark is likely to be a low quality answer, skimpy and poorly sourced. In any case, it is immune to the &quot;quality control&quot; system (such as it is) based on voting, because people vote on answers, not on side remarks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the embedded &quot;answer&quot; is wrong or otherwise suboptimal, there is &lt;strong&gt;nowhere to post&lt;/strong&gt; a better answer to question A. You can't even downvote it, because the vote will be interpreted as a vote on the answer to question B.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastActivityDate="2015-01-17T01:40:13.617" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6410" CreationDate="2015-01-17T22:35:53.890" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about we allow them, but remove them after a while?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think welcoming new users is a good thing. I try to make the comment relevant beyond just &quot;welcome to SFF.SE, see the [tour] and the [help]&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if the message is just that, it's still valuable to a new user, to be welcomed in the community, especially if the user is new to the Stack Exchange Network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a week or so, the user either has read the comment, or hasn't come back and is likely to be a drive-by user. Either way, the comment can then be removed. If the original commenter forgets, it can be flagged as obsolete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2015-01-17T22:35:53.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6433" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6453" CreationDate="2015-01-19T14:59:39.400" Score="18" ViewCount="411" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lately, it seems like a significant number of edits on Story Identification queries have less to do with clarifying the query and more to do with one's personal views on what should be in the title. There was a general trend at one point of adding &quot;Story ID&quot; or the like to the front and now someone seems to be taking them out. In either case, people seem to have an aversion to &quot;Looking for a...&quot; at the beginning or questions that simply state what the querent is looking for such as &quot;Short story where alien is underwater and sinking&quot;. In the interest of avoiding an edit war, do we want an agreement on what's a reasonable template to work from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And honestly, it's not bad yet. Most of the time, the title change is in addition to fixes in the body. Most of the time...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a side note, the sidebar recommended &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4957/should-story-identification-be-mentioned-in-the-question-as-well?rq=1&quot;&gt;Should &amp;quot;Story identification&amp;quot; be mentioned in the question as well?&lt;/a&gt; where it looks like the general consensus was that the question title itself should be sufficient. That suggests to me that it's pretty fair game to modify &quot;Robot seeking Human Female for Reproducing&quot; to &quot;Looking for a short story about a robot seeking a human female to create more robots&quot;. Ideally, the question title should have the core details such as what sort of media and general era, but those can often work fine in the body. I do feel that Story Identification questions need a title that conveys the idea that you are looking for it, not that you want to discuss it, or place a personal ad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further points raised in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/80580/aliens-experimenting-on-human-capitalism-by-creating-an-entirely-new-market-in-b?noredirect=1#comment171174_80580&quot;&gt;these comments&lt;/a&gt; that this may interact strangely with the Hot Network Questions since they don't see tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2015-01-31T16:58:17.147" Title="Consensus on Story Identification titles?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6434" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-19T17:55:18.620" Score="5" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll be attending SLCC Fan Xperience with press credentials this year. What questions needs good answers which might be supplied by the following celebrity panels / appearances?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the list of people who will be in &lt;a href=&quot;http://saltlakecomiccon.com/panel_schedule/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;panels&lt;/a&gt;, and therefore may be available for questions. &lt;em&gt;I make no guarantees that I'll be able to attend the panels, or ask any questions.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mark Pellegrino - Dexter, Lost, Supernatural, Revolution&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Karen Gillan - Doctor Who, Guardians of the Galaxy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Laurie Holden - The Walking Dead&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Christopher Lloyd - Back to the Future, Star Trek, Who Framed Roger Rabbit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Brandon Routh - Arrow, Superman Returns&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Felicia Day - Supernatural&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Glenn Morshower - Transformers, Star Trek, X-Men: First Class&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Alaina Huffman - Stargate, Supernatural&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tom Felton - Harry Potter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Richard Paul Evans - Author of Michael Vey&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ralph Macchio - The Karate Kid? I guess that's scifi/fantasy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Robotech Industry Panel - &lt;code&gt;Join Harmony Gold's Tommy Yune and Steve Yun as they showcase all the latest live action and animated Robotech productions&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ray Park - G.I. Joe, Star Wars, X-Men &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Billie Piper - Doctor Who&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Morena Baccarin - Gotham, Firefly, V. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggest a question and the person you think might be able to answer it. I'll do my best. I'll also be writing posts for the blog about the show and my experiences. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or peruse the &lt;a href=&quot;http://saltlakecomiccon.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://saltlakecomiccon.com/&lt;/a&gt; site if you see an exhibitor, booth, or celebrity you are interested in me checking out for you.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="1148" LastEditDate="2015-01-19T18:10:36.147" LastActivityDate="2015-01-24T00:37:38.130" Title="Which questions need a good answer from Word of God at SLCC xFan 2015?" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6434" CreationDate="2015-01-19T18:28:10.170" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Billie Piper&lt;/strong&gt; -- What was the exact nature of Rose's relationship with the 9th and 10th doctors? (i.e. was there a romantic relationship, consummated or not, between Rose and the Doctor?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question might be horribly overdone in Who fandom, but it's a topic I've never personally explored online or otherwise. Perhaps &lt;strong&gt;BESW&lt;/strong&gt; can weigh in on how worn out this topic is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tom Felton&lt;/strong&gt; -- In light of Draco Malfoy's early characterization as a one-dimensional bully, if you've read J.K. Rowling's updated information about Draco, what are your thoughts on Draco's development into an almost reclusive figure, who eschews his parents' Muggle-hating values, collects Dark Arts artefacts, and develops a fascination with Alchemy? As Draco's actor, does this surprise you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ralph Macchio&lt;/strong&gt; -- What is a yoot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose a more relevant question to sci-fi would be: &lt;strong&gt;Why do you not age?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are my three suggestions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T18:28:10.170" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6434" CreationDate="2015-01-19T18:48:51.980" Score="2" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Karen Gilan&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do Rory and Amy wave to themselves in &quot;Hungry Earth&quot;? Why didn't create a &lt;strong&gt;fixed point&lt;/strong&gt; in time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pESmz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T18:48:51.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6434" CreationDate="2015-01-19T18:58:13.557" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Tom Felton&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What was Draco's boggart form (e.g. What was his greatest fear?)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How do you &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; feel about being &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/draco-malfoy-actor-tom-felton-joins-pottermore-sorted-into-gryffindor-2015221&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;sorted into Gryffindor&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2015-01-24T00:37:38.130" LastActivityDate="2015-01-24T00:37:38.130" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6434" CreationDate="2015-01-19T19:15:26.527" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Morena Baccarin&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More &lt;strong&gt;Firefly&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;wheeennnnnnnnn?!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T19:15:26.527" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6434" CreationDate="2015-01-19T19:21:32.503" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Ray Park&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Where did Maul Park his spaceship on Naboo?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Was Maul the titular &quot;Phantom Menace&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T19:21:32.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6434" CreationDate="2015-01-19T19:45:16.243" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Alaina Huffman&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What do &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; think happened in Stargate : Universe Season 3?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T19:45:16.243" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6441" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-19T20:02:31.550" Score="9" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 2015 Community Moderator Election is now underway!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community moderator elections have three phases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nomination phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Primary phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Election phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most elections take between two and three weeks, but this depends on how many candidates there are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please visit the official election page at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for more detail, and to participate!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have general questions about the election process, or questions for moderator candidates, feel free to ask them here on meta -- just make sure your questions are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/election&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;election&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;election&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T20:05:17.473" Title="2015 Community Moderator Election" Tags="|discussion|moderators|election|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-19T20:02:31.550" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6442" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-19T20:02:41.690" Score="14" ViewCount="415" Body="&lt;p&gt;In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Q&amp;amp;A with the candidates.  This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation.  Participation is completely voluntary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6502/2015-moderator-election-qa-questionnaire&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's how it'll work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;During the nomination phase, (so, until Monday, January 26th at 20:00:00Z UTC, or 3:00 pm EST on the same day, give or take time to arrive for closure), this question will be open to collect potential questions from the users of the site. Post answers to this question containing any questions you would like to ask the candidates. Please only post &lt;em&gt;one question per answer&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We, the Community Team, will be providing a small selection of generic questions. The first two will be guaranteed to be included, the latter ones are if the community doesn't supply enough questions. This will be done in a single post, unlike the prior instruction.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a perfect opportunity to voice questions that are specific to your community and issues that you are running into at current.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the phase, the Community Team will select &lt;strong&gt;up to 8 of the top voted questions submitted by the community&lt;/strong&gt; provided in this thread, to use in addition to the aforementioned 2 guaranteed questions. We reserve some editorial control in the selection of the questions and may opt not to select a question that is tangential or irrelevant to moderation or the election. That said, if I have concerns about any questions in this fashion, I will be sure to point this out in comments before the decision making time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once questions have been selected, a new question will be opened to host the actual questionnaire for the candidates, containing 10 questions in total.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is not the only option that users have for gathering information on candidates. As a community, you are still free to, for example, hold a live chat session with your candidates to ask further questions, or perhaps clarifications from what is provided in the Q&amp;amp;A.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have any questions or feedback about this new process, feel free to post as a comment here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2537" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2015-01-26T20:00:20.880" Title="2015 Moderator Election Q&amp;A - Question Collection" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="29" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6441" CreationDate="2015-01-19T20:05:17.473" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note that I've decided after being a moderator on this site for about 3 years, that I'm stepping down. It's been an exciting time, but I've got enough other commitments that it's time to let someone else manage this site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck to all the candidates!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T20:05:17.473" CommentCount="12" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-19T20:05:17.473" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6442" CreationDate="2015-01-19T20:16:43.953" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given hypothetical absolute authority, what current community policy/policies would you reverse or otherwise change (regardless of community consensus)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="5184" LastEditDate="2015-01-19T20:44:52.987" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T20:44:52.987" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6442" CreationDate="2015-01-19T20:17:20.267" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Dev Team has granted you one wish to add or change something about the system/platform (that may or may not be realistically possible). What do you wish for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="5184" LastEditDate="2015-01-19T21:04:17.213" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T21:04:17.213" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6442" CreationDate="2015-01-19T20:22:02.317" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;What types of questions would you like to see more or less of?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T20:22:02.317" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6442" CreationDate="2015-01-19T20:23:18.550" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff Atwood has posted an extensive &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;&quot; to cover the Stack Exchange Network. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What elements do you most and least agree with?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T20:23:18.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6442" CreationDate="2015-01-19T20:26:43.093" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;How, if at all, would your new insta-close powers affect your current voting habits or activity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T20:26:43.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6442" CreationDate="2015-01-19T20:27:18.320" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a set of general questions, gathered as very common questions asked every election. As mentioned in the instructions, the first two questions are guaranteed to show up in the Q&amp;amp;A, while the others are if there aren't enough questions (or, if you like one enough, you may split it off as a separate answer for review within the community's 8). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In your opinion, what do moderators do? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more effective as opposed to simply reaching 10k or 20k rep? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2537" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T20:27:18.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6442" CreationDate="2015-01-19T20:31:02.893" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;While you don't have to know the subject matter to be a mod, often it helps. Are there any major tags with which you have little to no affiliation with, and what will you do in the event that a questionable flag was made in an area where you have little expertise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2015-01-19T20:32:15.783" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T20:32:15.783" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6442" CreationDate="2015-01-19T20:35:37.937" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the most difficult flags to manage is the &quot;This is not an answer&quot; flag for answers. How will you manage these flags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T20:35:37.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6442" CreationDate="2015-01-19T20:37:08.883" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments currently are the only domain by which only moderators can perform moderating actions, aside from flags. As a result, there are a significant number of comment flags. The most difficult of these to manage is the &quot;Too Chatty&quot; option. How will you manage a flag on a comment that is &quot;Too Chatty&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T20:37:08.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6433" CreationDate="2015-01-19T20:37:33.100" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange adds the most popular tag on a question at the start of the page title, before the actual title of the question. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; is the most popular tag on the site, so all story identification questions will have a page title of the form “story identification - …”. Do not add yet another way of saying “story identification” to your title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't put things like “looking for” or “trying to find” in your title either. We know that if you're asking, it's because you're looking for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Useful pieces of information that are good to start with are the &lt;strong&gt;media and genre&lt;/strong&gt;. These are often key criteria for readers to decide whether they're interested in the question, so it's good to have them feature prominently in the title. Starting a story identification title with something like “TV miniseries about …” or “Golden Age short story about …” is a nice way to present important information in a way that flows naturally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the interest of brevity, it's ok to have a title that isn't a grammatical phrase or sentence. For example “movie: boy invents perpetual motion machine” is a better title than “movie about a boy who invents a perpetual motion machine”, because the latter wastes the reader's attention with words that don't convey information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more general advice about titles, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10647/writing-a-good-title/10648#10648&quot;&gt;Writing a good title&lt;/a&gt; on the main meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.757" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T20:37:33.100" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6442" CreationDate="2015-01-19T20:41:17.683" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;A typical moderator on a Stack Exchange website commits to checking in regularly with the site, managing sometimes difficult decisions, for a period of several years. While they can take breaks, and occasionally receive help from the community team, most of the time it is up to you and the other moderators. This usually requires checking in to this site for moderation purposes around 3-4 times per day, on most days throughout the year. Are you prepared to make that commitment to this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T20:41:17.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6442" CreationDate="2015-01-19T20:48:28.050" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;What works/tags are your favorite, or are the ones you have the most expertise in?  What are your least favorite?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T20:48:28.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6442" CreationDate="2015-01-19T20:51:02.947" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;What time zone do you live in?  When (UTC) would you be active on the site, moderating?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T20:51:02.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6442" CreationDate="2015-01-19T20:55:48.290" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes people may become unhappy with the moderators (on this site or other sites on the stack), these people may even be active and avid members of the site.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If they become unhappy with your moderation and start voicing their malcontent, &lt;strong&gt;how will you handle the situation?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T20:55:48.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6442" CreationDate="2015-01-19T20:59:15.907" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;What on-topic works have you recently watched/read?  Are there any titles that you are currently watching/reading that would be considered on-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T20:59:15.907" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6442" CreationDate="2015-01-19T21:01:44.937" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;What area do you feel the site could use the most improvement in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would you propose as a solution in order to work towards that improvement?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T21:01:44.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6442" CreationDate="2015-01-19T21:55:59.120" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;What current policies do you believe are too strictly enforced (either by mods or the community)? Which do you believe are not enforced strictly enough?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T21:55:59.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6442" CreationDate="2015-01-19T22:19:21.447" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do you expect to be the most difficult part of being a moderator? How will you handle it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T22:19:21.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6442" CreationDate="2015-01-19T22:24:06.517" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;One current SF&amp;amp;F policy is that questions should be marked as duplicates if they are answered somewhere in an answer on another question, even if the questions seem entirely unrelated. This has of course caused a lot of confusion and sometimes anger. Do you agree or disagree with this policy, and why? How would you state when a question should be marked as a duplicate in your own words?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17815" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T22:24:06.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6442" CreationDate="2015-01-20T00:05:36.887" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many other members of this site, and some may be members that you may have &quot;crossed swords with&quot; in the past.  The other member(s) may have even been in the right.  As a moderator, how would you propose to handle a hypothetical situation where this may happen again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2015-01-20T00:05:36.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1289" CreationDate="2015-01-20T01:49:48.317" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme:&lt;/strong&gt; The Many Hammers of SFF&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scope:&lt;/strong&gt; SFF Chat Room (&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/a&gt;) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6448/21267&quot;&gt;2015 Moderator Election Question Collection&lt;/a&gt; (comments)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=774469#774469&quot;&gt;Gilles 2011-04-02&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height:&lt;/strong&gt; January 2014; ongoing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Known variants&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CeYUZ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mod Hammer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, when a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;Moderator ♦&lt;/a&gt; exercises their binding vote&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A recent example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=19843232#19843232&quot;&gt;From a chat transcript&lt;/a&gt;, @Keen swoops in as &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;thunder rumbles in distance&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and closes an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Close Hammer&lt;/strong&gt;, as above but specifically to close a question or cast a binding vote&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KFrZx.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dupe Hammer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, when a person (with a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges?tab=tags&amp;amp;filter=gold&quot;&gt;gold tag badge&lt;/a&gt;) closes a question as a dupe&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A recent example: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/79520/21267&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/79520/21267&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, marked as duplicate by @Slytherincess after some &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=19605402#19605402&quot;&gt;chat comments&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Beware those who transgress&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/v3RLN.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Thor smashes enemies with his hammer &amp;quot;Mjolnir&amp;quot; and crushes his enemies: The Dupes&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;Scholars maintain that the swoosh and gong these &quot;Hammers&quot; make can awaken sleeping giants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T01:16:58.987" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6442" CreationDate="2015-01-20T02:36:34.297" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;How will you manage the additional time expectations of moderating?  Will you be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;devoting more time to the site to accommodate moderation duties?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;devoting less time to your normal user activities (posting questions/answers, editing, etc.) to allot time to moderating?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;something else?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2015-01-20T02:36:34.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6442" CreationDate="2015-01-20T08:28:09.173" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do you do (if anything) with your old comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will you do anything different with them when you're a moderator?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2015-01-20T08:28:09.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6442" CreationDate="2015-01-20T09:16:36.193" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;What would you do if candidates in a moderator election started answering the questions prematurely?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Not to poke fun at the ones who have, but a serious question, even it's an uncommon occurrence).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2015-01-20T09:16:36.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6442" CreationDate="2015-01-20T09:37:24.037" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;How would you handle a user giving unwanted attention to another user, either on the main site or in chat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That attention could be any kind, from romantic interest to unwarranted negative comments (and serial downvoting, but that's usually caught by the site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2015-01-20T09:37:24.037" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6442" CreationDate="2015-01-20T09:41:46.690" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;How would you handle disagreement with another moderator?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is on an hotly debated (&lt;em&gt;by the community&lt;/em&gt;) issue, would you let the community know anything about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2015-01-20T09:41:46.690" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6470" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6475" CreationDate="2015-01-20T10:28:01.180" Score="8" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;From time to time, I go through comments I made to see if they're still relevant and adding value to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I delete a throw-away comment (I made), I flag any replies as &quot;obsolete&quot;. But how about comments that sparked a bit of discussion? If I feel my comment no longer serves a purpose, should I just delete it and flag &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; relies as &quot;obsolete&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example would be &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/74301/is-the-three-fingered-salute-from-the-hunger-games-trilogy-based-on-something-fr#comment156262_74301&quot;&gt;Is the Three-fingered salute from The Hunger Games trilogy based on something from the real world?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;where I deleted a comment on the boy scout's salute being three-fingered. Now the comment by @Phantom42 following it, may be interpreted as referring to something in  the original question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2015-01-20T15:13:49.663" Title="When deleting a comment I made, should I always flag replies as &quot;obsolete&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|comments|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6471" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6474" CreationDate="2015-01-20T11:16:52.977" Score="14" ViewCount="1577" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is George Orwell's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Animal Farm&lt;/a&gt; on topic here? It is clearly not Sci-Fi but could we consider it Fantasy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I'm going to add my own for and against answers for voting, but of course that doesn't preclude any other answers!&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2015-01-20T11:24:36.627" LastActivityDate="2017-01-23T01:17:05.533" Title="Is Animal Farm on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6471" CreationDate="2015-01-20T11:18:10.180" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Animal Farm is primarily a political satire. It contains talking animals but only as a plot device; it is not set in a fantasy world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2015-01-20T11:18:10.180" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6471" CreationDate="2015-01-20T11:20:32.193" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Nineteen Eighty-Four&lt;/a&gt; (also by George Orwell, which is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/1984&quot;&gt;on-topic&lt;/a&gt;) is a political satire with &lt;em&gt;Sci-Fi&lt;/em&gt; elements. So Animal Farm, with its Fantasy elements (ie talking animals), should also be on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2015-01-20T11:20:32.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6471" CreationDate="2015-01-20T12:20:02.703" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The discussion of anthropomorphised animals &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5117/3567&quot;&gt;has come up before&lt;/a&gt;. Quoting from the most upvoted answer on that thread:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Anthropomorphic/Sentient/Talking animals don't, in and of themselves, make a film/book/TV programme/comic into a fantasy if the central conceit is that talking animals do already exist within that fictional universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Animal Farm&lt;/em&gt; falls squarely into this category, and thus is off-topic. (At least, I think so. I don't recall the talking animals being depicted as unusual in-universe, although it's been years since I read it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from the talking animals, the rest of the book is a political allegory which has nothing to do with sci-fi or fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2015-01-20T12:20:02.703" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6470" CreationDate="2015-01-20T15:13:49.663" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been discussed at reasonable length &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3091/when-if-ever-should-we-flag-comments-as-obsolete?rq=1&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. In short, the answer is &lt;strong&gt;Yes and no&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes -&lt;/strong&gt; If a comment is wholly a reply to yours (&quot;&lt;em&gt;cheers, I've edited that&lt;/em&gt;&quot;) then you can choose to flag it as obsolete. It's served its purpose but is no longer of any use to anyone, including the OP and the person who posted the comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No -&lt;/strong&gt; If the reply still contains some element of useful information (&quot;&lt;em&gt;Cheer, I actually thought it might be xyz&lt;/em&gt;&quot;). In that case it's not obsolete and should be left unflagged &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last remaining category would be those rare times that the &lt;em&gt;meaning&lt;/em&gt; of a comment becomes unclear because you've removed your own comment (if for example it now looks like someone is replying to an earlier unrelated comment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In those cases, I'd err on the side of yes, but with a &lt;strong&gt;custom flag&lt;/strong&gt; explaining the problem to the moderator rather than the blanket &quot;obsolete&quot; flag reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2015-01-20T15:13:49.663" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6434" CreationDate="2015-01-20T17:35:51.673" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Tom Felton&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do you agree with JKR's view expressed in interviews, that all the girls who are deeply attracted to &lt;strong&gt;Draco&lt;/strong&gt; (as opposed to the actor) are way wrong and shouldn't be?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How much input into the personality of your character did you have from JKR?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2015-01-24T00:37:00.343" LastActivityDate="2015-01-24T00:37:00.343" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6434" CreationDate="2015-01-20T18:14:37.590" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Laurie Holden&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What was Andrea's biggest mistake or regret?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who had it more right - the Governor or Rick?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2015-01-20T18:14:37.590" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6442" CreationDate="2015-01-21T10:41:30.700" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The biggest problem I feel this SE site faces is that good quality, but late, answers are rarely recognized. I have quite a few answers that are much higher quality than the accepted answer, but they often languish in obscurity. I find that it's much worse here than on other SE sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can you do about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4380" LastActivityDate="2015-01-21T10:41:30.700" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6479" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6481" CreationDate="2015-01-21T10:58:50.677" Score="7" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just passed through &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/75928/7885&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. I was kind of surprised, that OP &quot;secured&quot; a picture as we hide typical text-spoiler. Is this really necessary? I can't imagine, that a single image can become a spoiler and can reveal anything important to someone, who never watched (or read) something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to edit this particular question, but I'm unsure, if this is correct decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please, advise, if images can be a spoilers (and therefore should be hidden, as in given example)? Both, in case of this particular question and as a general rule, that should be used here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2015-01-21T13:21:30.053" Title="Can a picture really become a spoiler?" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6479" CreationDate="2015-01-21T11:58:26.973" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of course a picture can be a spoiler. For example, though not SF, a single frame could give away the big surprise in the film &lt;em&gt;The Crying Game&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23" LastActivityDate="2015-01-21T11:58:26.973" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6479" CreationDate="2015-01-21T12:14:28.267" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, a picture can be a spoiler.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A single frame could be a spoiler in plenty of ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A corpse tells us that somebody is dead&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Conversely, we could see somebody alive who was previously thought dead&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We could see a character or object that was unexpected&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Multiple characters together tells us about a meeting or a confrontation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As with text-based spoilers, I try to err on the side of caution when marking text with spoilers, but I'm also not going to override the OP's preference unless I think it's obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see why they've marked this image as a spoiler: although it doesn't really tell you anything about the plot, it's the twist at the end of the mid-season finale, and some people would want to get that surprise as they watch the episode. I probably wouldn't have marked it as a spoiler myself, but I also don't think it's worth an edit to revert.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="3567" LastEditDate="2015-01-21T13:21:30.053" LastActivityDate="2015-01-21T13:21:30.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6482" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-21T12:29:07.393" Score="9" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a picture from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/help/badges&quot;&gt;the Badges page on Meta&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3fFcC.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The text &quot;Help Center &gt; Badges&quot; is black, but all the other pages are white:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/D2kCB.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The low contrast makes the text much harder to read. Since both &quot;Help Center&quot; and &quot;Badges&quot; are links, they should probably be red instead. Or at least not black.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can reproduce on the latest builds of Chrome and Firefox on Windows 7, and I can see the CSS rule which causes this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.subheader a {&#xA;    color: #000;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so I suspect this affects most, if not all, browsers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same rule is also applied on the main site, where it makes more sense (the other tabs have dark blue subheadings). Nonetheless, it should be changed for Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ETA:&lt;/strong&gt; Here’s &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/5326&quot;&gt;another page showing the same problem&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FNE5E.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T18:54:01.680" Title="&quot;Help Center &gt; Badges&quot; text on Meta is the wrong color" Tags="|bug|design|meta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6442" CreationDate="2015-01-21T15:20:17.817" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;What, if any, previous moderator (or similar) experience do you have from a different Stack Exchange site, a different website, and/or the real world (e.g. arbitration)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastActivityDate="2015-01-21T15:20:17.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6442" CreationDate="2015-01-21T15:32:17.997" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why are you standing? In other words, what are you hoping to get out of it? Or is it pure altruism?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2015-01-21T15:32:17.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6442" CreationDate="2015-01-21T21:39:51.360" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would you moderate on anything you're (even just remotely) involved in? When do you back out and leave it to other mods?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2015-01-21T21:39:51.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6486" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6487" CreationDate="2015-01-22T10:25:43.123" Score="8" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;Romulans plays essentialy the same role (by sole number of apperances) in Star Trek franchise, like Klingon do. Yet, there is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/klingon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;klingon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;klingon&lt;/a&gt; tag, but no &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/romulan&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;romulan&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;romulan&lt;/a&gt; one. Why? Should we have such?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7885" LastActivityDate="2015-01-22T14:49:53.843" Title="Why there is no &quot;romulan&quot; tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6486" CreationDate="2015-01-22T14:49:53.843" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because nobody who's tag-obsessed posted Romulan centric questions and had an occasion to create one. Go ahead and add one to your questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2015-01-22T14:49:53.843" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6442" CreationDate="2015-01-23T05:37:10.507" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderators' non-mod-related activity almost invariably drops significantly after election or appointment. Are you content with such a drop, becoming more of an &quot;invisible hand&quot;? Is such a drop in activity in the site's best interest, compared with what other candidates offer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2015-01-23T05:37:10.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6489" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-23T12:55:52.067" Score="6" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let us assume that I have 5 tags added as favourites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a page where I can see questions that comes under my favourite tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i.e., a page/feed that shows recent questions that comes under all of my favourite tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16994" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T14:10:30.280" Title="Is there a feature/page where I can see all the questions under my favourite tags?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6489" CreationDate="2015-01-23T13:15:54.880" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes.&lt;/strong&gt; Sort of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Visit &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/filters/&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com/filters/&lt;/a&gt; and select &quot;Favorite Tags&quot; in the sidebar. (You need to be logged in for this).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This page has a list of all these questions (network-wide), there's a subscribe-by-email in the sidebar, or a Favorite Tags RSS feed link in the bottom right-hand corner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if you can do this on a per-site basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Disclaimer: I haven't tried this because I'm at work, but if it doesn't, then file a bug report on Meta.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastActivityDate="2015-01-23T13:15:54.880" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6491" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6492" CreationDate="2015-01-23T21:04:07.913" Score="5" ViewCount="1971" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many people know H.P. Lovecraft for his Cthulhu mythos and generally assume anything with tentacles is of his work. He is widely known as a horror-fiction author, which is entirely true, but he does much more than that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Much of his work, at the time, dealt with what was considered science fiction. He tackles such things as alchemy, space travel, magic, mythological beings, fictional medical practices, great fictional kingdoms, and even alien beings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I would consider Lovecraft sci-fi before sci-fi was really a thing (his work dates around 1910-1920), but I can understand that many people misunderstand Lovecraft, and to my knowledge there is no horror SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38299" LastActivityDate="2015-01-23T21:08:55.883" Title="Is H.P Lovecraft sci-fi/fantasy?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6491" CreationDate="2015-01-23T21:08:55.883" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/h-p-lovecraft&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;h-p-lovecraft&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;h-p-lovecraft&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure seems like it to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2015-01-23T21:08:55.883" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6493" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-23T22:10:48.420" Score="-6" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is wrong with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/79928/7885&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've asked about &lt;strong&gt;picture&lt;/strong&gt;, a fillmed and shown on-screen example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No one provided a correct answer (an actual image pasted into answer  or name of the episode, where it can be seen) and question was closed as too broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the comments suggests, that question is too broad, because asked event (replicating non-food item out of replicatior) occurs in nearly every episode. And yet no one managed to provide &lt;strong&gt;at least one pictured example&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What am I missing? How question can be too broad, when no one provided at least one on-screen example and thus -- no one has actually answered the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2015-01-24T00:10:12.777" Title="Questions asks about an image, all answers contains only text" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6493" CreationDate="2015-01-23T23:24:24.290" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn’t vote on this question – it was closed before I saw it – but I can make some suggestions for why people might have voted to close:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It sounds like there would be a lot of examples.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like there are plenty of canon examples of replication of non-food-related objects. Of course, not all of those will have associated pictures (for example, if somebody talks about a replicated object but it’s never seen on screen), but it seems like it would be a pretty long list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That alone probably caused some of the “too broad” close votes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It’s not clear why you want images.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finding good screenshots takes a fair amount of time, compared to writing a sentence about it, and maybe linking to the episode’s Wikipedia entry. In certain cases, finding an image is absolutely necessary to a good answer – for example, a story ID question where the asker vividly remembers the cover, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/55045/3567&quot;&gt;looking at pictures of Batman’s computers&lt;/a&gt; – but here, I don’t think it’s very obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(To some users, requiring images as part of an answer might seem like you’re placing an unnecessary imposition on them, but that’s just speculation.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The existing answers provide plenty of &lt;em&gt;examples&lt;/em&gt; of this behaviour, but not any &lt;em&gt;images&lt;/em&gt;. The spirit of the question has been answered, even if the letter hasn’t.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2015-01-23T23:24:24.290" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6493" CreationDate="2015-01-24T00:10:12.777" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the problem is that you weren't sufficiently clear in your initial question that you were exclusively looking for someone to post up images. You then used an edit to make a not-very-gracious complaint about the existing answers, then posted several comments that weren't exactly brimming over with friendliness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have to remember that the close/reopen process isn't intended to be a personal criticism, it's about helping users to get the most out of their questions and helping answerers to understand what you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-01-24T00:10:12.777" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6434" CreationDate="2015-01-24T00:34:40.153" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Christopher Lloyd&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We've got two conflicting &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/50482/what-is-the-basis-for-doc-brown-and-marty-mcflys-friendship&quot;&gt;word of god&lt;/a&gt;&quot; answers to the question of why Marty and Doc were friends in the first place. Perhaps Mr Lloyd could give us his take on it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2015-01-24T00:34:40.153" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5326" CreationDate="2015-01-24T21:05:24.580" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/168/the-overlook-hotel?tab=schedule&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/D64tF.png&quot; alt=&quot;Writing exercise chat&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33" LastActivityDate="2015-01-24T21:05:24.580" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-01-24T21:05:24.580" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6498" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-01-25T22:12:40.280" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What are moderator elections?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderator elections are held periodically to determine who the community moderators will be for a given site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What are community moderators?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators are site users who have been elected by the community based on not only their knowledge in the topic domain, but also because they are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;patient and fair&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lead by example&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;show respect for their fellow community member in their actions and words&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moderators have the very highest level of privilege in our system:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderator votes are binding. Any place we have voting (close, open, delete, undelete, offensive, etc), that vote will reach the threshold and take effect immediately if a single moderator casts a vote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderators can lock posts. Locked posts cannot be voted on or changed in any way.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderators can protect posts. Protected posts cannot be answered by new users.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderators can see all data in the system, including votes and user profile information.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderators can place users in timed suspension, and delete users if necessary.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderators can perform large-scale maintenance actions like merge questions and batch retag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderators have access to the moderator flag queue&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When should I seek out a community moderator?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't hesitate to flag posts for moderator attention any time there is something you feel strongly needs to be brought to the attention of a moderator. And if it is extremely urgent, you can always mail the address provided in the footer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2015-01-25T22:12:40.280" LastActivityDate="2015-01-25T22:12:40.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6499" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-01-25T22:12:40.280" Score="0" Body="Elections are held to choose moderators for non-Beta Stack Exchange sites." OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2015-01-25T22:12:40.280" LastActivityDate="2015-01-25T22:12:40.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6500" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6501" CreationDate="2015-01-26T06:37:55.037" Score="19" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/80029/why-didnt-snape-keep-or-secure-his-copy-of-advanced-potion-making&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; says &quot;asked 23 hours ago&quot; but has answers from April 2014.  I'm guessing this is a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5930" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2015-01-26T15:10:40.547" Title="Nine-month old question asked today" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6500" CreationDate="2015-01-26T07:17:06.297" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;It’s not quite a bug, but nor is the reason completely obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two questions at play here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/80029/3567&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t Snape keep or secure his copy of Advanced Potion-Making?&lt;/a&gt; (asked yesterday)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/55309/3567&quot;&gt;Why did the Half Blood Prince leave his book in the Potions dungeon?&lt;/a&gt; (asked 30 Apr 2014)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Originally I closed the new question as a dupe of the older question. But the new one is no longer closed-as-dupe, and has inherited all of the older answers. What gives?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at the old question, you see this notice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;merged by Kevin♦ 3 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was merged with &lt;em&gt;Why didn't Snape keep or secure his copy of Advanced Potion-Making?&lt;/em&gt; because it is an exact duplicate of that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The merging process mean that all the answers on the old question move to the new question, but their original timestamps are preserved. That’s why the new questions has answers which were written before it existed – because they were!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only realised this because I did the original dupe-closing. How could you tell if you didn’t know about the other question? It’s not easy to find on the new question, but if you look in the edit history of one of the answers (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/55312/revisions&quot;&gt;for example&lt;/a&gt;), you’ll see this line:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Post Merged (destination) from scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/55309/…&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;occurred 3 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which tells you when the merge occurred, and where the answer was originally posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-01-26T07:17:06.297" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6502" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-26T19:59:58.217" Score="15" ViewCount="470" Body="&lt;p&gt;In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&amp;amp;A thread for the candidates. Questions collected &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6442/2015-moderator-election-qa-question-collection&quot;&gt;from an earlier thread&lt;/a&gt; have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as the space for the candidates to provide their answers. Not every question was compiled - as noted, we only selected the top 8 questions as submitted by the community, plus 2 pre-set questions from us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a candidate, your job is simple - post an answer to this question, citing each of the questions and then post your answer to each question given in that same answer. For your convenience, I will include all of the questions in quote format with a break in between each, suitable for you to insert your answers. Just &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/99990e67-0b95-4d12-8cfb-76a22ab8205f/view-source&quot;&gt;copy the whole thing after the first set of three dashes&lt;/a&gt;. Oh, and please consider putting your name at the top of your post so that readers will know who you are before they finish reading everything you have written.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once all the answers have been compiled, this will serve as a transcript for voters to view the thoughts of their candidates, and will be appropriately linked in the Election page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck to all of the candidates!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How, if at all, would your new insta-close powers affect your current voting habits or activity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While you don't have to know the subject matter to be a mod, often it helps. Are there any major tags with which you have little to no affiliation with, and what will you do in the event that a questionable flag was made in an area where you have little expertise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sometimes people may become unhappy with the moderators (on this site or other sites on the stack), these people may even be active and avid members of the site. If they become unhappy with your moderation and start voicing their malcontent, how will you handle the situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What current policies do you believe are too strictly enforced (either by mods or the community)? Which do you believe are not enforced strictly enough?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What time zone do you live in? When (UTC) would you be active on the site, moderating?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A typical moderator on a Stack Exchange website commits to checking in regularly with the site, managing sometimes difficult decisions, for a period of several years. While they can take breaks, and occasionally receive help from the community team, most of the time it is up to you and the other moderators. This usually requires checking in to this site for moderation purposes around 3-4 times per day, on most days throughout the year. Are you prepared to make that commitment to this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of the most difficult flags to manage is the &quot;This is not an answer&quot; flag for answers. How will you manage these flags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Given hypothetical absolute authority, what current community policy/policies would you reverse or otherwise change (regardless of community consensus)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2537" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2015-02-03T20:31:32.627" Title="2015 Moderator Election Q&amp;A - Questionnaire" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6502" CreationDate="2015-01-26T20:56:21.283" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I’m @alexwlchan, and these are my answers.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election/3?tab=nomination#post-79837&quot;&gt;a link to my nomination post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How, if at all, would your new insta-close powers affect your current voting habits or activity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’d probably be more careful about voting, and only vote if I was absolutely sure.  If not, I’d leave a comment and wait for a few other people to weigh in before voting, if at all. Look at how I handle close-as-dupe superpowers in the [harry-potter] tag for examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While you don't have to know the subject matter to be a mod, often it helps. Are there any major tags with which you have little to no affiliation with, and what will you do in the event that a questionable flag was made in an area where you have little expertise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only major tag I know nothing about is ASOIAF/Game of Thrones. I have at least a passing familiarity with all the other tags, even if I’m not a domain expert.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would depend on the nature of the flag. Certain flags can be resolved without knowledge of the topic; on others, I’d probably confer with the other moderators, and maybe do some reading to get some context. This is where “don’t vote unless I’m absolutely sure” comes in – I’d wait for a second opinion before resolving the flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sometimes people may become unhappy with the moderators (on this site or other sites on the stack), these people may even be active and avid members of the site. If they become unhappy with your moderation and start voicing their malcontent, how will you handle the situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it was a well-founded complaint, then I’d give an honest response. I’d try to explain any controversial decisions (within reason, I probably couldn’t account for every action I did, ever), which is about all I feel that I can do. I’d also consider the feedback the next time I was doing something similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What current policies do you believe are too strictly enforced (either by mods or the community)? Which do you believe are not enforced strictly enough?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we can be a bit harsh on opinion-based questions. Often a poorly-worded question that looks wooly will be closed quickly, and then reopened when somebody actually does find an answer. I see the reason for closing opinion questions, but sometimes I think we’re a bit trigger happy. (And I was guilty of this in the past, although I’d like to think I’ve eased off a little.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What time zone do you live in? When (UTC) would you be active on the site, moderating?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UK time, so UTC or UTC+1. Active times would be 7–8am and 7–12pm on weekdays, more varied on weekends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A typical moderator on a Stack Exchange website commits to checking in regularly with the site, managing sometimes difficult decisions, for a period of several years. While they can take breaks, and occasionally receive help from the community team, most of the time it is up to you and the other moderators. This usually requires checking in to this site for moderation purposes around 3-4 times per day, on most days throughout the year. Are you prepared to make that commitment to this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’d show you my browser history to prove how much I visit the site, but the frequency would be mildly embarrassing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of the most difficult flags to manage is the &quot;This is not an answer&quot; flag for answers. How will you manage these flags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fairly liberally. If an answer makes even a poor attempt at answering the question, I’d probably decline. Even a single sentence could be enough. The post might be bad, unsubstantiated and get downvoted to oblivion, but it’s still technically an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The not-an-answer flag is the only flag I’ve ever had declined on this Stack – twice, in quick succession. I’ve given this a fair amount of thought, and subsequent not-an-answer flags have all been marked as helpful.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It depends on the nature of the arguments and flags. Anybody who makes a good contribution (high rep, low rep, prolific or occasional poster) is somebody I’d like to keep, but it may not be worth the problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a petty squabble (like posting flamebait comments about Star Trek on all the Star Wars questions), I’d message the user privately, explain to them why they’re causing upset, and ask them to stop. It’s not worth losing a user over small things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if the comments were more offensive, and making people feel uncomfortable or unsafe – for example, threats or harassment – I’d be much less reluctant to ban them. However good their contributions were, they’re not worth having if it makes other users feel unsafe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It all depends on the degree of the problem, really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Talk to them privately, and find out why they closed/deleted/etc. Perhaps when I learn why they did it, I’ll agree with them and move on. Or we might agree to disagree (on a minor issue), and not do anything about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it’s a more major disagreement about community opinion, I’d consider taking it to Meta. The rules are based on what the community thinks, not the mods, and if two of us have a disagreement about how everybody else feels, then the best thing is probably to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Given hypothetical absolute authority, what current community policy/policies would you reverse or otherwise change (regardless of community consensus)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’d probably lighten the rules on list-based questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I quite enjoy reading the [big-list] questions on sites like Maths or LaTeX. I wouldn’t want a whole site of them, but I think they can be valuable if the topic is good. It goes against the Stack Exchange ideal of “one right answer”, but we’re already in a grey area, and I think there might be some good questions that are on-topic here and follow that format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don’t want to get rid of close-as-too-broad or close-as-list entirely, but I think we could relax the rules and still be okay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2015-01-28T09:35:49.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6502" CreationDate="2015-01-26T21:08:29.760" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How, if at all, would your new insta-close powers affect your current voting habits or activity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The major differences are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Vote-to-close: since mod votes are the big hammer, sometimes mods need to let the community decide if a given question is on or off topic&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Blatant violations: as mod you just lower the hammer, rather than flag the problem&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While you don't have to know the subject matter to be a mod, often it helps. Are there any major tags with which you have little to no affiliation with, and what will you do in the event that a questionable flag was made in an area where you have little expertise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've had Futurama on my hidden tag list since the beginning. That's why we have four (six?) mods - so that we can handle areas where the other mods aren't as strong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sometimes people may become unhappy with the moderators (on this site or other sites on the stack), these people may even be active and avid members of the site. If they become unhappy with your moderation and start voicing their malcontent, how will you handle the situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a very laid back person, so I will always try listening first. Do I understand their complaint? Do I need them to clarify? Next, establish the facts, and the relevant policies. If I made a mistake - fix it. If I didn't make a mistake, then help them understand why. Be civil, be polite, be professional. If the situation escalates, call in another moderator or a community manager.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What current policies do you believe are too strictly enforced (either by mods or the community)? Which do you believe are not enforced strictly enough?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't say that I've seen anything terribly troubling either way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What time zone do you live in? When (UTC) would you be active on the site, moderating?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;US, Eastern. I am often on-line during normal business hours and randomly available at other times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A typical moderator on a Stack Exchange website commits to checking in regularly with the site, managing sometimes difficult decisions, for a period of several years. While they can take breaks, and occasionally receive help from the community team, most of the time it is up to you and the other moderators. This usually requires checking in to this site for moderation purposes around 3-4 times per day, on most days throughout the year. Are you prepared to make that commitment to this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I wasn't prepared to make the commitment, I wouldn't have nominated myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of the most difficult flags to manage is the &quot;This is not an answer&quot; flag for answers. How will you manage these flags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every case is different. These are probably the most common flag on Astronomy, so I've seen the gamut. Usually though, either the flag is spurious (often because flagger disagrees with the answer), the &quot;answer&quot; should have been a comment - often because the poster doesn't have enough rep to comment, or the &quot;answer&quot; is some kind of random graffiti. Generally, if the answer in question isn't clearly a comment, or graffiti, it should be left alone, and users can downvote it if they don't like it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are procedures in place for dealing with such users, with escalating measures to encourage them to rein in such behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Already has happened. I love a good debate, but in the end, SE policy sets the standards, and the user community decides what is/is not on-topic. I don't have to like it, but isn't my job to set policies, only to apply them as consistently and as fairly as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Given hypothetical absolute authority, what current community policy/policies would you reverse or otherwise change (regardless of community consensus)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are &quot;fantasy&quot; stories such as &lt;em&gt;The Life of Pi&lt;/em&gt;, where the fantastic elements exist only in the dreams or hallucinations of one or more characters. I would rule all such stories off topic. If the fantastical element isn't real within the confines of the story, then it isn't fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5424" LastEditorUserId="5424" LastEditDate="2015-01-26T22:00:25.700" LastActivityDate="2015-01-26T22:00:25.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6502" CreationDate="2015-01-26T21:29:22.517" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'm phantom42, and I approve this message.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How, if at all, would your new insta-close powers affect your current voting habits or activity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Less than it would have even just a few months ago. Anyone who obsessively watches my review habits would notice that I've actually been skipping more and more review items lately. Not because I'm trying to shirk my duty, but because I've only been reviewing things that are very black and white to me. If it's a gray area, I've been skipping it to allow it to go to other users who hopefully feel stronger than I do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a moderator, I would follow this line of action, allowing the community to largely police itself, stepping in with a binding vote if there is absolutely no question in my mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While you don't have to know the subject matter to be a mod, often it helps. Are there any major tags with which you have little to no affiliation with, and what will you do in the event that a questionable flag was made in an area where you have little expertise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to the Internet, I'd never say that I'm completely ignorant of any tag or work that comes up on the stack. That said, I (and I admit this knowing that it may hurt my chances of being elected) am not a personal fan of Doctor Who, and I have not watched/read the &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; books (though, we have Season 1 sitting on our shelf to be watched in the near future). For questions on such subjects, I'd do what I do whenever I don't know something - some quick research. If after some basic research I still don't know enough to make an informed ruling, I'd check with other mods and the group in chat who are often able to help out with such things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sometimes people may become unhappy with the moderators (on this site or other sites on the stack), these people may even be active and avid members of the site. If they become unhappy with your moderation and start voicing their malcontent, how will you handle the situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, converse with the user to truly understand what it is they're upset about. Explain my own position as best I can in hopes that we can at least come to an understanding. I'd also double-check with the other mods to make sure my understanding of policy and protocol was correct. If necessary, I'd take it to Meta to find out if the community believes the policy needs to be reconsidered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What current policies do you believe are too strictly enforced (either by mods or the community)? Which do you believe are not enforced strictly enough?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I'm generally one for closing dupes, I believe we should let non-confirmed Story Identification questions lie until we can truly label them as confirmed duplicates. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While subjective questions are often treated correctly, I personally find the exception to be &quot;suggested order&quot; questions which I feel are too subjective and feel that they &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be closed. I do not, however, vote to close them, as current policy is to leave them open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;List questions tend to be to quickly shut down regardless of how finitely scoped they really are. It's certainly a fine line sometimes, but I feel a lot of people are a little trigger happy with them sometimes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What time zone do you live in? When (UTC) would you be active on the site, moderating?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm on the East coast (UTC-5) and am at my computer from 8:30am to 5pm EST (13:30-22:00 UTC) on weekdays aside from short breaks. During this time, I almost always have the site and chat open in a set of tabs. While I am less active in chat afterwards, I check in frequently through the evening up until usually 11:30 or so. Weekends are a little more sporadic and less standardized depending on weekend activities, but I am stopping by to check on the site and review queues anytime I am near my computer or have time to kill on my phone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A typical moderator on a Stack Exchange website commits to checking in regularly with the site, managing sometimes difficult decisions, for a period of several years. While they can take breaks, and occasionally receive help from the community team, most of the time it is up to you and the other moderators. This usually requires checking in to this site for moderation purposes around 3-4 times per day, on most days throughout the year. Are you prepared to make that commitment to this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I came awfully close to a 365 day streak of logins, being broken only because of a work trip that kept me away from the site for too long. I'm married, but have no kids. The SF/F stack is one of my personal hobbies that I always enjoy coming back to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of the most difficult flags to manage is the &quot;This is not an answer&quot; flag for answers. How will you manage these flags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even reviewing these as a non-mod is difficult for me. To me, if the answer is technically an attempted answer, but just &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; low-quality, it should remain, and a comment should be left trying to encourage the user to improve it. Answers which are just comments/replies with no attempt or indication of an attempt to answer it should be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Discreetly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chat with the user privately to explain why the behavior is problematic and why/how it is causing issues. Try to find a happy medium so the user does not feel unduly burdened or restricted from having fun, but does not incite other issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd message the other mod to try to get an understanding of their thought processes. If, after discussing with them and other mods whether or not the action was correct, it may be time for a wider community weigh in on whether or not policy needs to be addressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Given hypothetical absolute authority, what current community policy/policies would you reverse or otherwise change (regardless of community consensus)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My two pet peeve types of questions are suggested order and shopping questions. I don't feel either are good fits for the main site. I'd also burninate decades tags. They're never used to any useful end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="5184" LastEditDate="2015-01-27T04:36:32.320" LastActivityDate="2015-01-27T04:36:32.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6502" CreationDate="2015-01-26T22:06:29.823" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I’m Richard, and I'd like to be your Community Moderator.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How, if at all, would your new insta-close powers affect your current voting habits or activity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have gold badges in two tags (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;) which means that I already have some insta-close privileges for duplicates. I'm well aware of the potential for annoyance if these are used without consideration and as a mod I'd look to use these new abilities &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; where there was a clear and obvious need, either because other users have already highlighted an issue or where I felt there was little or no room for argument. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While you don't have to know the subject matter to be a mod, often it helps. Are there any major tags with which you have little to no affiliation with, and what will you do in the event that a questionable flag was made in an area where you have little expertise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are no &lt;em&gt;major&lt;/em&gt; tags with which I have no affiliation. That said, there are still plenty of lesser-used tags where I'll confess to having limited/no knowledge. In those circumstance, I'd defer to other mods who do have existing subject-knowledge (if one exists) or spend some time researching the tag until I was happy to make a judgement call on my own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sometimes people may become unhappy with the moderators (on this site or other sites on the stack), these people may even be active and avid members of the site. If they become unhappy with your moderation and start voicing their malcontent, how will you handle the situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the main duties of a site moderator is to enforce the existing rules. I'm of the opinion that if anything, &quot;active and avid&quot; users should be &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; aware of the site's policies than those that have recently arrived (especially rule #1 &quot;BE NICE!&quot;). I'm not looking to be a behind-the-scenes moderator and I expect to remain highly visible and approachable if people want to vent about my decisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What current policies do you believe are too strictly enforced (either by mods or the community)? Which do you believe are not enforced strictly enough?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a community, I think we're probably a bit too quick on the draw when it comes to closing &quot;scoped list&quot; questions, especially those that are definitively answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What time zone do you live in? When (UTC) would you be active on the site, moderating?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm in the UK. I generally have the site open (in a tab) from around 9AM UTC to about 1AM. I'd be most active as a moderator from about 8PM to about 1AM.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A typical moderator on a Stack Exchange website commits to checking in regularly with the site, managing sometimes difficult decisions, for a period of several years. While they can take breaks, and occasionally receive help from the community team, most of the time it is up to you and the other moderators. This usually requires checking in to this site for moderation purposes around 3-4 times per day, on most days throughout the year. Are you prepared to make that commitment to this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm delighted to make that commitment. I presently log in at least 3-4 times per day and I've logged in daily for the last 397 days. I like being on the site and keeping up to date with chat and Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of the most difficult flags to manage is the &quot;This is not an answer&quot; flag for answers. How will you manage these flags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I must confess that I find this one of the simpler flags to raise and my flagging history (out of the last 100 &quot;not an answer&quot; flags I've raised, zero have been declined) shows that I'm pretty much in tune with the other moderators. As far as I'm concerned, if an answer &lt;em&gt;attempts&lt;/em&gt; to answer the question then the flag should be declined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These users need to be made aware that their contribution is valued, but not at the cost to others enjoying the site. Beyond that, the wider SE community has very clear guidelines for dealing with users who abuse others or intentionally generate arguments for their own amusement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd look to discuss it with them privately. My experience is that almost all decisions can be made unanimously if you can understand what the other party is thinking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Given hypothetical absolute authority, what current community policy/policies would you reverse or otherwise change (regardless of community consensus)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I had &lt;strong&gt;absolute authority&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;insert maniacal evil-villain laughter here&lt;/em&gt;) I'd seriously consider reinstating the &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Vote to close as general reference&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; close reason. Questions that can be instantly answered by merely googling the question title are of limited value to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2015-01-26T23:30:44.463" LastActivityDate="2015-01-26T23:30:44.463" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6502" CreationDate="2015-01-27T02:15:22.810" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My name is Thaddeus Howze and I approve these campaign messages.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How, if at all, would your new insta-close powers affect your current voting habits or activity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not at all. I will continue to be impartial toward questions that do not warrant my attention while focusing on those questions or answers which are potentially distracting or disruptive to the site. Spam and spam-like entries will be removed with extreme prejudice. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While you don't have to know the subject matter to be a mod, often it helps. Are there any major tags with which you have little to no affiliation with, and what will you do in the event that a questionable flag was made in an area where you have little expertise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have a wide array of badges in a diverse selection of topics. Furthermore, I have often let questions go unanswered hoping to see new writers, even when I know I could contribute immediately. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If a question has a problematic nature, I am confident I can recognize them. Of the most popular questions on this site: Star Trek, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, comic books, and a variety speculative fiction and media, there are rarely questions I cannot answer. I am an excellent researcher and certain I can contribute, in a team setting, toward ensuring high quality questions with the help of other moderators. &quot;-Teamwork makes the dream work.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sometimes people may become unhappy with the moderators (on this site or other sites on the stack), these people may even be active and avid members of the site. If they become unhappy with your moderation and start voicing their malcontent, how will you handle the situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;By hearing out their complaints and doing my best to understand the problems caused by my moderation. Surely with the support of the other moderators, I would hope no such events would come to pass.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What current policies do you believe are too strictly enforced (either by mods or the community)? Which do you believe are not enforced strictly enough?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My only complaint with rules moderated here is the speed at which some questions (which have legitimate answers) are closed. I would like to think we would as a whole not just close questions before being sure answers did not exist.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What time zone do you live in? When (UTC) would you be active on the site, moderating?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I live in California (-8 UTC). My initial moderation will be in the morning and then scattered through the day depending on my work schedule. Since I am a professional writer, I keep very late hours, I will likely provide moderation overlapping several moderators during the course of the day.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A typical moderator on a Stack Exchange website commits to checking in regularly with the site, managing sometimes difficult decisions, for a period of several years. While they can take breaks, and occasionally receive help from the community team, most of the time it is up to you and the other moderators. This usually requires checking in to this site for moderation purposes around 3-4 times per day, on most days throughout the year. Are you prepared to make that commitment to this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I already have made such a commitment. 1210 days, 821 consecutive days in a row. I check the site easily 3-5 times daily, both to look at new questions and to see what has transpired over the course of the day.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of the most difficult flags to manage is the &quot;This is not an answer&quot; flag for answers. How will you manage these flags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Determine, based on my knowledge of the material, whether such flags require moderation and if I cannot conclusively make the decision myself, I will confer with other moderators for their opinions. I rarely have a problem recognizing a good answer from a comment or spam.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Discretely. People who are providing high quality answers are desirable but not at the price of alienating new members. I am confident the community of existing moderators and I will be able to find a way to effectively regulate undesirable behavior without taking extreme action. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not that I am opposed to doing whatever is necessary, but I recognize the mindset prone to participate in wikis and other content management systems may be a more challenging personality and thus requires a light touch for everyone to find common ground.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As with all community efforts, communication between members is essential. The site offers plenty of means to speak to other members via comments, meta or chat. Disagreements should remain a rarely experienced event if everyone communicates effectively. I am an ex-military veteran used to working in teams toward a larger mission or purpose.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Given hypothetical absolute authority, what current community policy/policies would you reverse or otherwise change (regardless of community consensus)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My goal as a moderator is to heed the words of Futurama's Galactic God which offered Bender some advice after a failed period of godhood: &quot;You have to have a light touch. Like a safecracker or a pickpocket.&quot; (Bender replies: Or like the guy who burns down his bar for the insurance money.) Galactic God agrees and sagely closes with: &quot;If you do things right, no one can be sure you've done anything at all.&quot; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/_nwvCGLmFEA?start=72&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good moderation should be like that. Effective and invisible to the naked eye. All visitors should see is a great site. I can do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2765" LastActivityDate="2015-01-27T02:15:22.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6508" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-27T09:58:19.683" Score="6" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are an awful lot of questions regarding the various MCU properties that are not tagged with the &lt;strong&gt;marvel-cinematic-univ&lt;/strong&gt;erse tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way we can automatically tag any questions that contain, for example, the &lt;strong&gt;iron-man-2&lt;/strong&gt; tag with the &lt;strong&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/strong&gt; tag, or at least suggest this tag in addition to the ones they have provided?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24087" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2015-01-27T15:46:35.917" LastActivityDate="2015-01-27T15:46:35.917" Title="Can we make it so questions regarding the Marvel Cinematic Universe are automatically tagged correctly?" Tags="|feature-request|tags|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6509" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6512" CreationDate="2015-01-27T14:25:29.460" Score="14" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's say I'm deeply convinced that a particular candidate in a moderator elections is deeply unsuited to the role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are available/appropriate avenues to oppose that particular candidate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Unlike Moderator Pro Tempore nominations on Beta sites, there's no &quot;vote down&quot; option.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There's also no way to post a comment when voting&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;While you can post comments during nomination process, people are unlikely to read nomination posts during an election itself (presumably), and even less likely to read comment threads.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing that posting a Meta question as an attack ad on a candidate is at best inappropriate and at worst, off-topic as per Meta rules and closable&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm also somewhat hesitant to use Chat for negative campaigning.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2015-01-31T22:12:25.820" Title="What are available/appropriate avenues to oppose a particular candidate in moderation elections?" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6509" CreationDate="2015-01-27T14:58:54.677" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In most cases bad candidates simply won't win the election. The election itself is the primary defense against unqualified candidates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Critical comments on the nomination during the primary phase are the main method for criticism. They can be rather effective when there is some actual evidence that a candidate would make a bad moderator. But as you said, because they're not visible during the actual election, their effect is limited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In extreme cases SE can forcibly remove a nomination. But this ability is rarely used except for obvious joke nominations. If you have clear evidence that a candidate intends to abuse their moderator abilities, you might get SE to intervene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the most likely case of a problematic, but not obviously evil moderator that manages to win the election, you can still work towards  removing them afterwards. Clearly document abuses of power and bring them to meta. If there is a pattern of abuse, you can contact SE and get the other moderators to invoke the ability to remove a fellow moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user496" LastEditorDisplayName="user496" LastEditDate="2015-01-31T22:12:25.820" LastActivityDate="2015-01-31T22:12:25.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6502" CreationDate="2015-01-27T15:16:11.020" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm &lt;strong&gt;SSumner&lt;/strong&gt;, and here are my answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How, if at all, would your new insta-close powers affect your current voting habits or activity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be careful to cast close votes on borderline questions, or questions there is not a meta consensus on. Some questions are objectively bad or against site policies - e.g. ones that are excellent examples of the descriptions for close reasons. Those I will happily cast instant close votes. However, there are some questions that seem to be disagreement over. These questions include duplicates that are a bit unclear, questions from topics that seem to be written in satire or some other way that obscure whether the question is actually unclear or too broad. Those I will close only as the 5th close vote, working as a &amp;quot;normal user&amp;quot; instead of a mod.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While you don't have to know the subject matter to be a mod, often it helps. Are there any major tags with which you have little to no affiliation with, and what will you do in the event that a questionable flag was made in an area where you have little expertise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of tags that I have not provided any questions or answers, but I've been around long enough to have received a good bit of knowledge from all the good questions and answers that have been posted here. That being said, in most cases it is obvious how to handle the flag. &lt;code&gt;not-an-answer&lt;/code&gt; flags are usually clear because they commonly are very tangential or clearly comments. &lt;code&gt;spam&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;offensive&lt;/code&gt; flags are completely irrelevant to the question's topic at hand. So only custom flags in very niche cases would cause issue, and I would err on the side of rejecting the flag, chatting with the user who raised the flag if possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes people may become unhappy with the moderators (on this site or other sites on the stack), these people may even be active and avid members of the site. If they become unhappy with your moderation and start voicing their malcontent, how will you handle the situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is just a single user, then I'd ask to discuss the issue in a private chat. If the issue becomes more widespread, then I'd open it up to a more public chat or start a Meta post about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What current policies do you believe are too strictly enforced (either by mods or the community)? Which do you believe are not enforced strictly enough?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think any. I'm not saying this community is &lt;em&gt;perfect&lt;/em&gt; - we've got hundreds of users from all sorts of backgrounds here, and that does cause disagreement, and occasionally, adverse behavior. But I think that the StackExchange model works very very well, and the current site policies back that up. There have been minor changes here and there over the last couple years, and only a few major ones, but I'd say that we've ironed out a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of the kinks, and our policies work pretty darn well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What time zone do you live in? When (UTC) would you be active on the site, moderating?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A typical moderator on a Stack Exchange website commits to checking in regularly with the site, managing sometimes difficult decisions, for a period of several years. While they can take breaks, and occasionally receive help from the community team, most of the time it is up to you and the other moderators. This usually requires checking in to this site for moderation purposes around 3-4 times per day, on most days throughout the year. Are you prepared to make that commitment to this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm gonna answer these two together. I live in UTC-0600, and I'm on from about 0700 local/1300 UTC to about 2200 local/0400 UTC, with a +/-3 hour variation depending on when I have to be up if work is different. I'm usually active all throughout that period, checking in every 1-2 hours, sometimes more if I'm not super busy. I am active all throughout the year, and haven't missed a day in about 6 months. So yes, I am already constantly on here, and more than happy to make that commitment to this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the most difficult flags to manage is the &amp;quot;This is not an answer&amp;quot; flag for answers. How will you manage these flags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I alluded to in one of my above answers, in many cases it is fairly cut-and-dried for this type of flag. However, in the cases that it is not, I will carefully compare the question, answer, and any other answers to determine the accuracy of the flag. There will be some cases where I really don't know, but in those cases, I will err on the side of rejecting the flag and leaving the answer there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It depends on the arguments and flags that were being raised. If he's being too chatty, then I would admonish him to move his discussions to chat. If it's causing heated discussion, then I'll look at why. Most of the time, I'm just going to contact through chat and explain to him what's happening and why and try to get him to change. The only time I'd implement a timeout is when the user appears to be intentionally causing unnecessary disagreements or is being rude to other users. But I would always talk to the user first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first action I would take would be to contact the other moderator and get their reasoning. Sometimes there may just be some reason I missed, and that's why they closed/deleted it. But if after that, I still disagreed with it I would have to look at the content. Unless I felt that the other mod was overstepping his bounds and being completely unreasonable, I would not publicly disagree and cast a binding reopen vote or push for reopening in comments. In the case of reopens, most of the divisive questions tend to have a strong reopen push from the users here, so I might cast a fifth reopen vote, again acting as a regular user. Since deletions/undeletions are less obvious, I &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; undelete if I felt the other mod was completely off-base. But the priority would be presenting a unified front to the community. We're here to help, not rule, so we need to be together as a group to be effective in that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given hypothetical absolute authority, what current community policy/policies would you reverse or otherwise change (regardless of community consensus)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I mentioned above, I think this community is in great shape. I think the users here do a great job of changing the site through Meta, and I wouldn't want to be the one to unilaterally overrule that. We've got a great group of users here, and I'm certainly not wiser than the collective. To keep this great community going, we've got to work as a community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-01-27T15:21:42.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6509" CreationDate="2015-01-27T15:18:20.403" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Very limited indeed, bordering on none.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your main opportunity was during the nomination phase (by commenting and asking pointed questions about a candidate's suitability to run) and since you've ruled out the possibility of using the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;Mos-Eisley chatroom&lt;/a&gt; (and presumably by extension the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/20363/scifi-2015-election&quot;&gt;2015 Election chatroom&lt;/a&gt;) as a vector to attack a particular candidate, you aren't really left with any realistic ways to make your voice heard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could probably get away with asking a more general meta question (&quot;&lt;em&gt;should candidates who've only got x be allowed to run in a moderator election?&lt;/em&gt;&quot;) but that could easily backfire, either by creating a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Streisand effect&lt;/a&gt; or actually encouraging people to vote &lt;strong&gt;for&lt;/strong&gt; your unsuitable candidate out of a sense of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_campaigning#Risks_and_consequences&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;sympathy voting&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-01-27T15:18:20.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6513" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-27T15:47:43.173" Score="4" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;On Topic section of the FAQ&lt;/a&gt; reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Not all questions have a home on Stack Exchange. Please note the following types of questions are off-topic here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Facts easily found on a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/403/what-are-standard-internet-reference-sites-for-sf&quot;&gt;reference site&lt;/a&gt;: Who played X in Y?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which links to a meta question about &quot;Standard Internet Reference Sites&quot; - sites that were used for the line of General Reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing as that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2545/5184&quot;&gt;General Reference has been burninated&lt;/a&gt;, it seems like we should remove this bullet point from the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2015-01-27T16:28:40.373" Title="Should the FAQ be updated to remove all traces of General Reference?" Tags="|feature-request|site-faq|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-01-27T16:28:47.550" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6513" CreationDate="2015-01-27T15:59:25.227" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;One of two things should happen.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1) We should remove the reference from the FAQ. If General Reference is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2400/should-we-burninate-general-reference?lq=1&quot;&gt;no longer an accepted close reason&lt;/a&gt;, it makes no sense to list it on the FAQ.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2) We should reinstate General Reference as a close reason to match the FAQ.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since there seems little appetite for #2, #1 should be enacted immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2015-01-27T15:59:25.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6509" CreationDate="2015-01-27T16:00:51.933" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another option is to instead of attack, praise.  Instead of criticizing the candidate(s) you don't want elected, talk up the candidates you would prefer are elected.  Encourage people to vote for the people who you think will do a good job, and that can help earn them votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2015-01-27T16:00:51.933" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6513" CreationDate="2015-01-27T16:02:24.753" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, we should remove all traces of General Reference ASAP. We voted to eliminate General Reference and the site and FAQ should reflect this accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2015-01-27T16:02:24.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6513" CreationDate="2015-01-27T16:28:40.373" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I totally forgot that I'd posted to that dupe question.  I just edited the FAQ to remove this line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2015-01-27T16:28:40.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6509" CreationDate="2015-01-27T20:50:13.387" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a past election on another SE site, negative comments on a nomination probably (IMO) contributed to a candidate not being elected.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The comments were not attacks on the person and not cranky in any way.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They were presented in a very matter-of-fact way: &quot;I think this candidate's statements A and B mean that they are likely to do C and D and I think C and D are not desirable.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They were made by a long-standing, active member of the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some other active members agreed with the sentiments expressed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/election/1&quot;&gt;https://serverfault.com/election/1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By contrast, in a more recent election, comments on a nomination might have had a Streisand effect, contributing to a candidate's election:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In this case, there were many serious comments, mostly not made in a very matter-of-fact manner - more like &quot;You're kidding, right?! You can't possibly think this guy would make a good mod!?!&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many of the comments were made by people who are not active members on the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many of the comments were made by &lt;em&gt;SE staff&lt;/em&gt; including ones who used to be active on the site but hadn't been seen much for a few years.  So these came across as the powers-that-be jumping in on something they didn't understand.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Multiple people who are active on the site strongly disagreed with the comments.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/election/4&quot;&gt;https://serverfault.com/election/4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(But on review, to find all the relevant comments, you also have to browse some of the Qs on meta.ServerFault.  I'm too lazy to post links, but there are 4 questions in a row on Nov 20 and 21 2014 that I was thinking of when I made this post.  )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it were me, if I had what I thought was a serious concern that I could express in a dispassionate way, I'd certainly post it on the person's nomination.  I would guess that if it's a concern that not many others share, it wouldn't have much impact.  OTOH, maybe there are other people who would agree with you, they're just waiting for someone to be brave and take the first step...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:13:53.560" LastActivityDate="2015-01-27T21:33:37.070" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6519" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6520" CreationDate="2015-01-27T23:29:19.647" Score="8" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just found &lt;em&gt;tvtropes&lt;/em&gt; tag on the main site without any warning. Can anyone tell me what purpose does that serve? Can I create ComicVine or SFX or XKCD tags for example?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="3567" LastEditDate="2015-01-28T08:18:12.197" LastActivityDate="2015-01-28T08:18:12.197" Title="What's with tvtropes tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6519" CreationDate="2015-01-27T23:31:35.977" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;That tag should not exist and I have removed it from the questions it was on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2015-01-27T23:31:35.977" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6521" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6522" CreationDate="2015-01-28T20:53:58.107" Score="-3" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, I'm halfway through the fourth season of &lt;em&gt;Fringe&lt;/em&gt;. I like the series and I've asked some questions about it. I'd like to read and answer questions about it as well, however, from what I've seen before quickly looking the other way, is that even the titles can be spoilerific. And if the titles aren't, the questions themselves can be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what would help, is a way to see how far along a series a question is. For that purpose, I propose season tags: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/season-1&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;season-1&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;season-1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/season-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;season-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;season-2&lt;/a&gt; and so on. Having tags per show would be overkill, so yes, they would be meta tags, but they would be &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt; meta tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Along the same lines I can imagine &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-1&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-1&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-2&lt;/a&gt; and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2015-01-29T00:04:34.793" Title="Would season tags be useful?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6521" CreationDate="2015-01-29T00:04:34.793" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;A generic &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/season-1&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;season-1&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;season-1&lt;/a&gt; tag would cause trouble with tag badges.  Consider the case where you have a gold &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/season-1&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;season-1&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;season-1&lt;/a&gt; badge for, say, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doctor-who&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;doctor-who&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;doctor-who&lt;/a&gt;.  Now you've also got an instant dupe-hammer on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; questions which are also tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/season-1&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;season-1&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;season-1&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'd say &quot;no&quot;; they may be useful for an immediate and specific class of question, but would in the longer term cause more problems than they solve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2015-01-29T00:04:34.793" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6523" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-29T03:22:42.757" Score="3" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very often we get questions which have very (IMO) generic and un-descriptive title. This is mainly the case for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/80182/90s-fantasy-book-need-id&quot;&gt;90s fantasy book need id&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/80381/what-is-the-tv-show-from-80s-or-90s&quot;&gt;What is the TV show from 80s or 90s?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/80008/book-with-eye-on-cover&quot;&gt;Book with eye on cover&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/76750/need-help-finding-fantasy-book-series&quot;&gt;Need help finding fantasy book series&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem being that these titles are not useful for people who have the same problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some non-&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/76440/difference-between-cloning-methods&quot;&gt;Difference between cloning methods?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cloning methods where? What Universe?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/55552/time-freezing-by-will&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/55552/time-freezing-by-will&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What canon is this referring to?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/48647/is-she-able-to-kill-with-a-mirror&quot;&gt;Is she able to kill with a mirror?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who can kill with a mirror?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What are some guidelines to use, especially to help newer users improve their questions' titles?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;Some related extra reading:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2292/when-should-we-edit-a-title&quot;&gt;When Should We Edit a Title?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2747/abbreviations-in-question-titles-okay&quot;&gt;Abbreviations in question-titles, okay?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3032/are-spoiler-edits-becoming-excessive&quot;&gt;Are spoiler edits becoming excessive?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/835/is-it-okay-to-have-spoilers-in-question-titles&quot;&gt;Is it okay to have spoilers in question titles?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note, this question is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; designed to single-out any particular user/question; rather to solve a supposed problem. The examples are merely that: &lt;strong&gt;examples&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;I also understand that some of the examples are IMO poorly titled, you may disagree.&#xA;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2015-01-29T04:06:20.437" Title="What are the guidelines for 'descriptive' and 'searchable' title?" Tags="|discussion|title|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6524" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-29T08:20:12.180" Score="3" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was an active post about an Harry Potter kind off animated series running on Indian television. The 1st answer itself was answer. But I posted related material, which was about, one Indian movie which was cheap version of Harry Potter and another superhero based series which borrowed (copied) basic concepts from Harry Potter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since, secondary topic of concern was &quot;Harry Potter being copied on Indian television&quot;, I just shared 2 other such occurrence, did I break any rule?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(If I have broken any rule, please deduct points from Gryffindor, I belong there)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40933" LastActivityDate="2015-01-29T09:55:06.300" Title="Is posting topic related material (not solution) wrong in any way?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6524" CreationDate="2015-01-29T09:55:06.300" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, it's wrong. It's naughty. It's....&lt;a href=&quot;http://friends.wikia.com/wiki/The_One_Where_Ross_Dates_A_Student/Transcript&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;taboo&lt;/a&gt; (pause for shivers).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers should be &lt;strong&gt;answers to the question asked&lt;/strong&gt;, not an attempt to pass on additional (non-relevant) information that you've uncovered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've all been there. While we've been researching a topic, we've come across something interesting that practically &lt;em&gt;cries out&lt;/em&gt; to be shared far and wide despite not ultimately answering the question that the OP posted. &lt;strong&gt;Resist that urge.&lt;/strong&gt; Save it for comments or, if you simply gotta tell someone, pose your own question and frame your interesting info as a new answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the FAQ under &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;How do I write a good answer&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer the question :&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Read the question carefully. &lt;strong&gt;What, specifically, is the question asking for? Make sure your answer&#xA;  provides that&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-01-29T09:55:06.300" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6502" CreationDate="2015-01-29T15:52:18.987" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They call me Jack &quot;The Nimble&quot; Nimble. It is somewhat repetitive.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a link to my &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election/3?tab=nomination#post-79576&quot;&gt;nomination&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How, if at all, would your new insta-close powers affect your current voting habits or activity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Insta-close would affect my voting habits. Unless obviously bad, I'd wait to see if a few other people also felt it should be closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While you don't have to know the subject matter to be a mod, often it helps. Are there any major tags with which you have little to no affiliation with, and what will you do in the event that a questionable flag was made in an area where you have little expertise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I essentially know nothing about Doctor Who. I've watch an episode here or there, but I really only know that I favor the Dalek side of the war. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sometimes people may become unhappy with the moderators (on this site or other sites on the stack), these people may even be active and avid members of the site. If they become unhappy with your moderation and start voicing their malcontent, how will you handle the situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As best as possible. I'm usually able to defuse situations with a little humor. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What current policies do you believe are too strictly enforced (either by mods or the community)? Which do you believe are not enforced strictly enough?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than believing 'Is X a Timelord' is too loosely tolerated I think the current moderation that happens from both the mods and the community is good right now. I have no real complaints. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What time zone do you live in? When (UTC) would you be active on the site, moderating?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;US, Mountain Time. I am typically on from 8-5 on weekdays, and then intermittently on the weekends. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A typical moderator on a Stack Exchange website commits to checking in regularly with the site, managing sometimes difficult decisions, for a period of several years. While they can take breaks, and occasionally receive help from the community team, most of the time it is up to you and the other moderators. This usually requires checking in to this site for moderation purposes around 3-4 times per day, on most days throughout the year. Are you prepared to make that commitment to this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I feel like I already check it at least that often on weekdays, and usually 1-2 times on weekends. If elected I can certainly check in more frequently as required. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of the most difficult flags to manage is the &quot;This is not an answer&quot; flag for answers. How will you manage these flags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each of these have to be taken on case by case. You can't paint everything with the same brush (the brush will run out). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As this likely isn't a new thing, I'm sure there are historical things that people have done in this situation. If you can't appeal to the good nature of person by explaining the issue with their comments greater action may need to be taken. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually these are appealed in meta and decided by the community. If enough high rep non-mods vote to reopen it, the other mod should respect it. If they don't, then I need to respect the decision to close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Given hypothetical absolute authority, what current community policy/policies would you reverse or otherwise change (regardless of community consensus)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't believe I would rashly change any community policy just because I disagree with it. That would defeat the purpose of the community. There is always going to be a discussion of what is on-topic and what isn't. As long as the discussion is happening, there shouldn't be a need to rule with an iron fist of dictatorship. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2015-01-29T16:01:59.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4700" CreationDate="2015-01-30T14:37:16.970" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over the course of 2014, there were about 2 migrations a month.  We mods can handle that low workload of manually migrating questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community as is does not have a solid consensus of when questions that overlap in topic between us and another site should be migrated.  In the past week, I've declined 2-3 flags where someone saw a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt; question and wanted it moved to Arquade, even though they're lore questions about sci-fi/fantasy games.  These are questions that are clearly on topic for us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a steady stream of flags and comments that try to get behind-the-scenes questions about sci-fi/fantasy films and TV shows migrated to Movies &amp;amp; TV.SE.  These are on topic here, and we've got plenty of this type of question.  There's a handful of questions that get posted here that are either about films or TV shows that aren't sci-fi/fantasy, or are about sci-fi/fantasy films or TV shows that are digging pretty deep into non-sci-fi/fantasy elements.  These get migrated, and usually not rejected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things are fine as-is, we don't need a migration path.  A migration path complicates the process, as whenever there's disagreement (and there's &lt;em&gt;plenty&lt;/em&gt; of disagreement on migrations, search Meta), it's nigh impossible to undo.  When a migration happens, we're kicking the question out of our court, so we lose control over it.  I'd prefer that ability stays in the hands of moderators, who are more familiar with the fine details of what should and shouldn't be migrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2015-01-30T14:37:16.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6533" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6534" CreationDate="2015-01-30T15:43:02.417" Score="5" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;I never understood what's wrong with the prequels, and I'd like to find out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17662" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2015-01-30T16:55:47.500" LastActivityDate="2015-01-31T10:54:55.693" Title="Is it on-topic to ask &quot;what are some of the reasons the Star Wars prequels are greatly disliked by the older fanbase?&quot;" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6533" CreationDate="2015-01-30T15:59:17.077" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;While this is an interesting question, it is unfortunately off-topic and I would vote to close. You are asking for a list (lists are generally off-topic) of subjective reasons (subjective questions are also off-topic).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastActivityDate="2015-01-30T15:59:17.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6535" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-31T01:15:05.113" Score="13" ViewCount="237" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm referring to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/80491/what-was-the-name-of-the-high-tech-tv-spy-show-in-the-70s/80499#80499&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This show, &lt;em&gt;Search&lt;/em&gt;, regularly featured technology that was not possible in the time it was written, although some other shows (such as &lt;em&gt;Mission: Impossible&lt;/em&gt;) were written as if such technology existed.  We can look at the question now and easily think, &quot;Oh, that's just high tech, it's not SF.&quot;  However, having miniature cameras and being able to keep in touch, in real time, with a base station where they could interact with professional translators and other experts was speculative in 1972/1973 when the show was produced.  (Those elements would still have been speculative even at the end of the 1970s.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the tech described in the question has all become common place in the 21st century, and while there were elements of that technology around in that time, I would think it would still be considered speculative or SF at that time.  There were cameras in that time, but electronic cameras that could be worn were decades away.  So was easy contact with a distant location without higher powered and big (as in easily seen by others) equipment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was poorly asked (and I cleaned it up a little and will be glad to clean it up more and spell out more of the technology next week when I have more time), but it was about a show that dealt with speculative technology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;True, what was in the show is all old-hat now, but it seems to me that the show would still be SF, since characters in it frequently used technology beyond contemporary capabilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Also, the &quot;on hold&quot; notice states, &quot;This question does not appear to be about science fiction or fantasy within the scope defined in the help center.&quot;  Yet there is no clear definition of what is SF or F in the help center.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2015-01-31T04:07:53.527" Title="If a Show Was Speculative in 1972, but Would Not Be Now, is it SF?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6535" CreationDate="2015-01-31T02:00:05.343" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short answer: Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In this specific case&lt;/strong&gt;, the show was about people who had implanted communication devices, and the show aired about 5 years before the first &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochlear_implant#Technological_evolution_and_competition_leading_to_a_consensus_on_the_best_approach_.281976-1997.29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cochlear implants&lt;/a&gt; existed.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tvparty.com/recsearch.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Other technology&lt;/a&gt; in the show included a scanner each agent carried:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The scanner was able to retrieve signals &quot;off presence&quot; of the agent and give medical telemetry readings of the people our Probe agents would run into. For example, an adrenaline surge indicating a probable lie could be detected by Probe Control&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which doesn't sound like technology that existed at the time, and probably doesn't exist presently.  Especially not in a handheld gadget.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In general&lt;/strong&gt;, I'm loathe to waste time arbitrating if various technologies outlined in then-sci-fi works have now been accomplished in real life, thus rendering the work no longer on topic for this site.  Past predictions of the future is what science fiction is largely about, and retroactively declaring predictions of the fantastic as being totally mundane is not something I'm up for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2015-01-31T02:00:05.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6535" CreationDate="2015-01-31T03:49:58.220" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that the question is really about language.  That is, in order to answer the question, all we have to do is agree on the definition of &quot;science fiction.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, at the risk of sounding cheeky, here is the dictionary.com definition:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A form of fiction that draws imaginatively on scientific knowledge and speculation in its plot, setting, theme, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to that definition, sci-fi has to do with the writing process itself.  This, of course, remains the same regardless of the state of real-life technology.  Jules Verne, for example, is generally considered a science fiction writer.  However, it is safe to say that we mostly caught up to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31275" LastEditorUserId="31275" LastEditDate="2015-01-31T04:07:53.527" LastActivityDate="2015-01-31T04:07:53.527" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6533" CreationDate="2015-01-31T10:54:55.693" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Echoing @Null, @Phantom42 and @Keen; Whilst this isn't an appropriate subject for a site question (too subjective, too broad, too-opinion-based), it would be an &lt;strong&gt;excellent&lt;/strong&gt; subject to bring up in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;Mos-Eisley Chatroom&lt;/a&gt; where there are no proscriptive rules about on-topic conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming you go the chat route, you might even like to try to create an &quot;event&quot; by getting  people to attend at a specific time to discuss it or, if you have sufficient rep, by creating your own dedicated &quot;&lt;em&gt;Why do people hate the prequel trilogy&lt;/em&gt;&quot; chatroom (which you can then publicise on Mos Eisley).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I for one would be happy to attend an event or visit your chatroom to explain &lt;s&gt;why I hate Jar Jar&lt;/s&gt; what I dislike about the films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-01-31T10:54:55.693" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6539" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-31T22:13:52.117" Score="1" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;I appreciate that spoiler markup is important for users who are worried about spoilers, but I can also say that, especially on the mobile SE platform, I find it annoying to constantly click &quot;Show Spoiler&quot;.  I am almost never worried about spoilers in the body of an SFF.SE question I choose to click on, and I imagine there are many other users who feel the sameway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TV Tropes has resolved the tension between users who are annoyed by spoiler markup by allowing them to select an option in their profile to show spoilers by default, thus making the massive amounts of time wasted on that website slightly more pleasurable for people who don't care about spoilers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to see such an option implemented here, but I know very little about coding, or how the SE platform works, which leads me to ask the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is it feasible to allow users to have an option that would ignore text marked up as a spoiler, and show it as regular body text instead?  (By feasible, I mean could such a feature be easily integrated into the SE platform?)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Provided the technical challenge is minimal (which may be a big IF), are there any reasons NOT to provide this option?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user30472" LastActivityDate="2015-02-02T00:54:18.220" Title="Can we make it an option for users to show spoilers by default?" Tags="|feature-request|spoilers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2015-02-02T22:51:48.600" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6539" CreationDate="2015-01-31T22:27:35.490" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't mind spoilers. In fact, I often actively seek them out. But others don't and remaining spoiler-free is essential for an optimal viewing experience for many. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can handle one click if it preserves a semblance of courtesy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2015-01-31T22:27:35.490" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6539" CreationDate="2015-01-31T23:05:45.363" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a workaround.  If you're using Chrome or Firefox, go install the &lt;a href=&quot;https://userstyles.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stylish extension&lt;/a&gt;.  This extension lets you customize the rendering of webpages by overriding their CSS.  Then write a style for scifi.stackexchange.com with this code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);&#xA;&#xA;@-moz-document domain(&quot;scifi.stackexchange.com&quot;) {&#xA;  .spoiler {&#xA;     color: #393318 !important;&#xA;  }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can create another style for meta.scifi.stackexchange.com with this code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);&#xA;&#xA;@-moz-document domain(&quot;meta.scifi.stackexchange.com&quot;) {&#xA;  .spoiler {&#xA;     color: #EEE !important;&#xA;  }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will make spoilers just show up without interacting.  AFAIK, there's no way to accomplish this on mobile devices, which you mention in your question, but this works for computers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above is how I accomplish creating user CSS in Firefox.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/a/465964/94278&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; indicates for Chrome, you instead select “Manage installed styles” then click “Write new style”, then below the code box enter scifi.stackexchange.com to tell Stylish which site to apply the style to, then put the inner bit of CSS into your style:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.spoiler {&#xA;   color: #393318 !important;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:16:39.853" LastActivityDate="2015-02-02T00:54:18.220" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6542" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6546" CreationDate="2015-02-02T20:00:41.533" Score="4" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just voted to close a question as a dupe on Meta. When you suggest a candidate dupe, the close window shows you your chosen dupe and all the answers, so that you can read it without opening a new tab or window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Except… it’s kind of hard to read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CWakT.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Safari 8.0.3, OS X Yosemite 10.10.2)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="44" LastEditDate="2015-02-03T21:07:08.267" LastActivityDate="2015-02-03T21:07:08.267" Title="“Close as duplicate” on Meta shows question text in a low contrast colour" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|meta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6543" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6544" CreationDate="2015-02-03T17:30:54.940" Score="4" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;The color on the Review stats (meta) is really bright and I cannot see the number of my reviews:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NaICi.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if I select it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/g812L.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use Google Chrome Version 40.0.2214.93 on Windows 7.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19374" LastEditorUserId="44" LastEditDate="2015-02-03T20:11:58.827" LastActivityDate="2015-02-03T20:11:58.827" Title="Cannot see my total reviews" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|meta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6543" CreationDate="2015-02-03T20:11:50.413" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have pushed a fix for this. It will be on live after our next production build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastActivityDate="2015-02-03T20:11:50.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6545" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-03T20:36:00.973" Score="28" ViewCount="521" Body="&lt;p&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election/3&quot;&gt;3rd moderator election&lt;/a&gt; has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 2 new moderators are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/20774&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/flair/20774.png&quot; alt=&quot;Richard&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2765&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/flair/2765.png&quot; alt=&quot;Thaddeus&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They'll be joining &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;the existing crew&lt;/a&gt; shortly — please thank them for volunteering, and share your assistance and advice with them as they learn the ropes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For details on how the voting played out, you can download the election results &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election/3&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opavote.org/results/6319710861787136/0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;view a summary report online&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, please join me in thanking &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/98/pearsonartphoto&quot;&gt;PearsonArtPhoto&lt;/a&gt; as he steps down as a moderator after 3 years of service. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T20:59:44.117" Title="2015 Community Moderator Election Results" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6542" CreationDate="2015-02-03T21:07:01.330" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have pushed a fix for this. The change will be on live after next production build(within 24 hours).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastActivityDate="2015-02-03T21:07:01.330" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6545" CreationDate="2015-02-03T21:08:22.667" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me be the first to congratulate @PearsonArtPhoto on his sterling service to the site. I know he's not been especially active in the past few months but as one of the earliest moderators, he was responsible for making this site the success it is now. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A firm round of applause is in order...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TOUda.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-02-03T21:08:22.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6545" CreationDate="2015-02-03T22:39:55.973" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congrats from me to the successful candidates, and kudos to all who nominated themselves for this.  It can be a horrible and thankless job, so let's start on a high note!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've no doubt that the site is going to continue going forward in good hands.  Onwards!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2015-02-03T22:39:55.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6549" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6552" CreationDate="2015-02-04T17:07:18.743" Score="7" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/48075&quot;&gt;suggested edit&lt;/a&gt; to my question about the book &lt;em&gt;I, Robot&lt;/em&gt; removes the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/i-robot&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;i-robot&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;i-robot&lt;/a&gt; tag because the question is about the book and not the movie, whereas the tag description only refers to the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I accept this edit? Or should the tag description be updated? It's probably not very important but it seems that pedantry is the best way to keep things organized on a site like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31130" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2015-02-04T20:46:03.687" Title="Tags for titles that describe multiple works" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6549" CreationDate="2015-02-04T17:24:11.567" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/i-robot&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;i-robot&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;i-robot&lt;/a&gt; tag should be reserved for the real &lt;em&gt;I, Robot&lt;/em&gt; - which is the book, and a separate tag, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/i-robot-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;i-robot-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;i-robot-movie&lt;/a&gt; created for the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5424" LastActivityDate="2015-02-04T17:24:11.567" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6549" CreationDate="2015-02-04T18:19:59.707" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I’d have rejected the edit, and then I’d modify the tag description to cover both the book and the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In a community of sci-fi enthusiasts, I imagine the Asimov stories are what come to mind when somebody mentions “I, Robot”, not the 2004 film. Thus the stories should definitely be covered by the primary tag.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There don’t seem to be that many questions either the film or the stories. There are 13 questions currently tagged with [i-robot], and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=i%2C+robot+is%3Aquestion+asimov&quot;&gt;there don’t seem to be many more&lt;/a&gt; that mention “I, Robot” and “Asimov” which don’t have the tag. I don’t think it’s worth having two separate tags for the book and the film.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2015-02-04T18:19:59.707" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6549" CreationDate="2015-02-04T20:46:03.687" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robot_(short_story)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;I, Robot&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is the title of a short story by Eando Binder, published in 1939. It's never come up on the site as far I can tell. Although it is somewhat obscure now, it was a source of inspiration for the young Asimov. This story was one of the earliest ones to portray robots as something other than potentially evil creature who were in danger of overthrowing their creators. A tag for a short story that was somewhat historically important but isn't the object of an avalanche of questions is unwarranted. Our normal policy is to use the author's name, i.e. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/eando-binder&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;eando-binder&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;eando-binder&lt;/a&gt; in such cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;I, Robot&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is the title of the first collection of short stories by Isaac Asimov. All the stories had been published in magazines before. The collection added a framing sequence and has been reprinted many times, but all the stories have been included in other collections as well. There isn't any intrinsic criterion that distinguishes the stories in that collection from Asimov's other robot stories, so it doesn't make sense to have a tag for this specific collection. Our normal policy is to use the author's name, i.e. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/isaac-asimov&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;isaac-asimov&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;isaac-asimov&lt;/a&gt;, in such cases, or possibly a tag for the series of works, which would be something like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/asimov-robot-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;asimov-robot-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;asimov-robot-series&lt;/a&gt; (but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/isaac-asimov&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;isaac-asimov&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;isaac-asimov&lt;/a&gt; + &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/robots&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;robots&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;robots&lt;/a&gt; is probably good enough).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robot_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;*I, Robot&lt;/a&gt; is the title of a somewhat popular movie (loosely drawing inspiration from some of Asimov's stories, but with a theme of robots revolting against humanity that Asimov and Binder consciously rebelled against). A tag for the movie is warranted since there are several questions about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(There have been a few other works with the same title but I don't think any of them are relevant here.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we can say that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The short story deserves the tag, since it's the “real” &lt;em&gt;I, Robot&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The collection deserves the tag, since it's the most famous &lt;em&gt;I, Robot&lt;/em&gt;. Wikipedia uses this title. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The movie deserves the tag, since it's the only one of the three that justifies a tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose to reserve the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/i-robot&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;i-robot&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;i-robot&lt;/a&gt; for the movie. That's what a majority of the questions that currently have it use it for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2015-02-04T20:46:03.687" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3032" CreationDate="2015-02-04T21:48:32.410" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, the edited question titles you mention are &lt;em&gt;harmful&lt;/em&gt; and should be reverted to their more descriptive titles (or better titles should be written for them). Using common sense, of course: actively trying to spoil plot points in a title is bad. The goal should be to write descriptive, non-generic question titles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of a question title is to be descriptive and searchable. It should convey information about the full text of the question, and should help you decide whether&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You want to read the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You may have knowledge to answer the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A vague title such as &quot;why does this character do this to this other character in this TV show?&quot; is meaningless and doesn't make me want to click on the question. It's not descriptive. If we decide we do not want to make descriptive titles a priority, taken to an extreme this would mean replacing every title with &quot;Question about ${TV SHOW}&quot;, which I think everyone agrees wouldn't be an improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bad question title:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Why does this character help this other character in Flash Gordon&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Better question title:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Why does Princess Aura help Flash Gordon?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="770" LastActivityDate="2015-02-04T21:48:32.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6554" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6555" CreationDate="2015-02-05T17:16:21.200" Score="12" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a science fiction game that has been playable (and continually developed) for years, and its very enjoyable. Not many people know about it. It recently went onto Steam Greenlight, so I'd like to draw more attention to it. Would it be alright to make a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5326/community-promotion-ads-2015&quot;&gt;community promotion ad&lt;/a&gt; for such a thing? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36675" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T17:43:48.460" Title="Is it okay for me to make a community promotion ad for a game I really like? (no mention of game in post)" Tags="|discussion|advertising|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6554" CreationDate="2015-02-05T17:30:10.877" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's pretty much the point of the Community Promotion ads. They're to give SE users a chance to advertise things that this community might be interested in.  The voting threshold on the ads helps filter out stuff that people aren't interested in, or subpar ads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say go for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T17:30:10.877" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6556" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-06T00:13:46.970" Score="8" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know it's a game, not the books or movie, but the Lord of the Rings Online game has its own rich contribution to the LotR  world.  I haven't found any references to it here, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In many ways I find the story in this universe to greatly complement the original.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts? &lt;strong&gt;Is LOTRO On topic?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41044" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2015-02-06T00:22:23.843" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T21:51:47.240" Title="Is LOTRO On topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2015-02-13T12:41:14.307" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6556" CreationDate="2015-02-06T00:21:17.643" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;LOTRO is described (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_Online&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;by Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;) as a... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...massively multiplayer online role-playing game set in a fantasy&#xA;  universe based upon J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings. It takes&#xA;  place during the time period of The Lord of the Rings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming your question is about the &lt;em&gt;universe explored within the game&lt;/em&gt; then absolutely yes, these questions would be totally on topic here. It's fantasy and it's fiction which means it's right for SF&amp;amp;&lt;strong&gt;F&lt;/strong&gt;:SE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your questions are about the game's mechanics, the stats of various characters, walkthroughs, etc then the answer would be a decided &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt;. Those questions would be better answered on another stack, perhaps &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Gaming:SE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:09:36.363" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T21:51:47.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6556" CreationDate="2015-02-06T00:33:32.467" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've already got several questions for the game &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shadow-of-mordor&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Shadow of Mordor&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which like Lord of the Rings Online is not in &lt;em&gt;Tolkien's canon&lt;/em&gt;, but exists in the same universe. Those questions have been well-received, and as long as you follow the specifications that Richard pointed out, go ahead and post them!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just make sure if you ask about some part of the world that may exist in the books/movies as well, that you specify you are asking from a &lt;em&gt;game perspective&lt;/em&gt;, unless you want all views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T00:33:32.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5326" CreationDate="2015-02-06T04:27:44.327" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=370711368&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/04Tuk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Transcendence: Journey to the Core (PC, rogue-like/RPG game)&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36675" LastEditorUserId="36675" LastEditDate="2015-02-09T15:45:00.197" LastActivityDate="2015-02-09T15:45:00.197" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-02-06T04:27:44.327" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6560" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-08T08:46:38.567" Score="1" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/60119/why-is-victor-creeds-hair-black-in-x-men-origins-wolverine&quot;&gt;Why is Victor Creed&amp;#39;s Hair black in &amp;quot;X-men Origins: Wolverine&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was closed as off-topic. My question is why? I want someone, maybe the people that closed it, to explain why it was closed. The explanation I got wasn't very explanatory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought it was on-topic due to the fact that I am inquiring about a possibly sci-fi element. The series I am talking about is definitely a sci-fi series. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All I want is a explanation. I am not trying to cause a argument or insult someone. If anyone can answer my question that would be appreciated. I really want a answer for the X-Men question as I find it peculiar and Sabretooth is one of my favourite characters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2015-02-08T19:41:22.053" Title="Why was this questions closed as &quot;Off-Topic&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|scope|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6560" CreationDate="2015-02-08T10:17:56.683" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't close the question, but this is my guess:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having black vs blonde hair is not sci-fi related. That is,  the question is about hair colour,  not sci-fi. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2015-02-08T10:17:56.683" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6560" CreationDate="2015-02-08T19:41:22.053" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was one of those who originally voted to close this question. If memory serves, I felt that the questioner was more interested in the &lt;em&gt;stylistic&lt;/em&gt; choice of hair colour for the actor that played Sabretooth in the films, rather than a question about whether that coloration had any bearing on his character in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the recent comments from the OP, I've been convinced that the question is indeed valid, albeit I agree with @phantom42's comments that it is a poor question in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, I've reopened it (with my super-dooper new moderator powers) and downvoted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-02-08T19:41:22.053" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6563" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6564" CreationDate="2015-02-09T15:16:37.463" Score="-4" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;Last I checked, there's no canon with name &lt;em&gt;Mars&lt;/em&gt;. Also, tag wiki indicates that it's for the planet in Sol System.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we need this tag? How many people browse with planet name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="931" LastEditDate="2015-03-10T11:49:14.833" LastActivityDate="2015-03-10T11:49:14.833" Title="Do we need &quot;mars&quot; tag?" Tags="|discussion|support|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6563" CreationDate="2015-02-09T15:59:49.000" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do we need it? Yes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the FAQ : &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/tagging&quot;&gt;What are tags, and how should I use them?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A tag is a keyword or label that categorizes your question with other,&#xA;  similar questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are the questions that are tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mars&lt;/a&gt; being used correctly? &lt;strong&gt;Yes.&lt;/strong&gt; All of the questions with this tag have questions about films/books and stories that have Mars as a major theme. This includes Andy Weir's &quot;The Martian, Total Recall, Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tags can also be used to help you identify questions that are&#xA;  interesting or relevant to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag is likely to be of interest to people with a special interest in stories about Mars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2015-02-09T15:59:49.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6565" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-10T04:58:40.657" Score="4" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/20774/richard&quot;&gt;Richard&lt;/a&gt; has &lt;em&gt;way&lt;/em&gt; too many badges -- so many, in fact, that they don't all fit on the page!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/t7TEh.png&quot; alt=&quot;Image with an answer by Richard, with the number of bronze badges cut off at the end, by the hot network questions from the side of the page&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The linked answer may be found &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/81298/41144&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;btw; congatulations on becoming a moderator, Richard!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41144" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2015-02-10T04:58:40.657" Title="Richard has too many badges!" Tags="|bug|design|badges|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-02-10T05:04:05.917" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5326" CreationDate="2015-02-10T05:35:49.597" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HQ5S2.png&quot; alt=&quot;Astronomy Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30773" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:59:06.177" LastActivityDate="2015-02-10T05:35:49.597" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-02-10T05:35:49.597" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6567" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6568" CreationDate="2015-02-10T08:59:24.197" Score="7" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures recently came to an agreement regarding Spiderman and his related characters. Would a question about that agreement, including details on who owns what and how each party can use the character, be on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tour of the site claims that &quot;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information&quot; questions are on-topic, but I thought it would be best to check here first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24087" LastActivityDate="2015-02-10T11:54:25.983" Title="Would a question about the recent deal between Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures be on topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6567" CreationDate="2015-02-10T10:44:31.533" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you've noted, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;tour&lt;/a&gt; states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ask about...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Plot, character, or setting explanations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Historical or societal context of a work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Story identification&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Franchise/series reading or viewing order&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(emphasis mine).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this should fall under &quot;behind-the-scenes and fandom information&quot; and should therefore be on topic, &lt;em&gt;provided&lt;/em&gt; that you ask about its impact on the franchise / canon. (In other words, questions about how much money went where should be off topic).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2015-02-10T10:44:31.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6569" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-10T11:10:34.097" Score="5" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;In science-fiction there are certain aspects of science that are purposefully changed or circumvented (such as FTL, time travel etc.). However sometimes there are errors for facts for which we have not &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_of_disbelief&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;suspended disbelief&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a tag for this here? I tried guessing some but didn't find any (the closest was perhaps &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/physics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;physics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;physics&lt;/a&gt; but that is for asking questions about the intended physics of a universe (also the error may be in biology, chemistry or history). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2760" LastActivityDate="2015-03-13T12:06:07.627" Title="Is there a tag for science error like there is for plot-inconsistency?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6571" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6572" CreationDate="2015-02-10T19:13:06.497" Score="6" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;So you've asked a bunch of questions and have forgotten about them. How do you find out which questions may have been answered without you having accepted an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2015-02-10T19:13:06.497" Title="How do I search for questions I asked but where I haven't accepted an answer?" Tags="|support|accepted-answer|search|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ClosedDate="2016-03-17T14:04:28.170" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6571" CreationDate="2015-02-10T19:13:06.497" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Enter &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=user%3Ame+is%3Aquestion+hasaccepted%3Ano+answers%3A1+closed%3Ano&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:me is:question hasaccepted:no answers:1 closed:no&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; into the search box (or click the link). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This searches for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:me         // posts by you&#xA;is:question     // questions&#xA;hasaccepted:no  // no answer has been accepted yet&#xA;answers:1       // it has at least one answer&#xA;closed:no       // not closed&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And there you go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2015-02-10T19:13:06.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6573" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6574" CreationDate="2015-02-10T19:48:12.533" Score="19" ViewCount="294" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone upvoted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/48752/boy-with-horse-companion-and-tele-pyrokinesis-unknown-author-and-date/48810#48810&quot;&gt;one of my answers&lt;/a&gt;, so I clicked on it to reread what I had written and was shocked to notice that the '&lt;em&gt;accepted answer&lt;/em&gt;' now contains a duplicate of the cover photo that I'd linked to and a synopsis of the story, word for word, that I had written with the edit justification saying,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Turning this into a complete answer.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it okay to copy and paste other people's work? Is this a new accepted practice to merge parts of other peoples' answers into the accepted answer?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps they thought that my writing was from a bookcover because someone else edited it to note that it contained spoilers... Just trying to be generous, but still, they copied the photo, which was already there in my answer for anyone to see and then they duplicated what my answer already said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the question looks dumb now, because both answers are basically the same. I also remember that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;it took a good deal of time and mental effort to craft&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; a succinct and easy-to-read summary of the story. Not cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8530" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-11-10T13:21:25.100" Title="Someone took part of my answer and added it to the 'accepted answer'... Is this kosher?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="15" ClosedDate="2016-11-18T10:51:15.627" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6573" CreationDate="2015-02-10T19:55:03.460" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question has been discussed at some considerable length &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/160071/what-to-do-when-plagiarism-is-discovered&quot;&gt;here (&quot;What to do when plagiarism is discovered&quot;)&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/122056/should-i-flag-plagiarism-for-moderator-attention&quot;&gt;here (&quot;Should I flag plagiarism for Moderator Attention?&quot;)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general concensus of opinion is that you should flag the offending answer and allow a moderator to deal with the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2015-02-10T21:20:12.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6569" CreationDate="2015-02-11T11:23:41.617" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's the issue with that: a lot of these questions are going to be &lt;code&gt;seeking scientific solutions or explanations&lt;/code&gt;, which &lt;code&gt;are off-topic&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are asking &quot;why does this [book/movie/episode] not agree with the rest of [universe]&quot; OR why something doesn't agree with stated in-universe physics, then you're fine - perfectly on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;However&lt;/em&gt;, if you are asking why something in-universe is blatantly unscientific as we know it now (e.g. all of &lt;strike&gt;Star Wars &lt;/strike&gt; LucasPhysics), then that would be off-topic IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastEditorUserId="4678" LastEditDate="2015-02-11T11:52:53.173" LastActivityDate="2015-02-11T11:52:53.173" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6576" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-11T14:57:13.567" Score="24" ViewCount="625" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes people post jokey comments under questions and answers. Sometimes they're funny, sometimes not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should we do about them? It seems (based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/20012437#20012437&quot;&gt;this conversation&lt;/a&gt;) that moderators are &lt;strong&gt;obliged&lt;/strong&gt; to delete them if they flagged as &lt;em&gt;&quot;too chatty&quot;&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; which apparently has been the case recently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should the procedure be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag all &quot;jokes&quot; and let the moderators delete?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave all &quot;jokes&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag only seriously unfunny (and genuinely offensive) jokes (partly judged on votes).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something else I haven't thought of.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Responding to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6576/what-should-we-do-about-funny-comments?noredirect=1#comment15148_6577&quot;&gt;Michael's comment&lt;/a&gt;, I 'm asking both:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;what should normal users do (flag or leave) and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;what should moderators do (accept or reject the flag)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;1 My understanding was that the &lt;em&gt;&quot;too chatty&quot;&lt;/em&gt; flag was when a discussion goes on too long or is off-topic.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.190" LastActivityDate="2019-11-18T04:20:52.077" Title="What should we do about &quot;funny&quot; comments?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6576" CreationDate="2015-02-11T15:05:06.767" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off, the &quot;too chatty&quot; flag really sounds like it is meant for comments that have diverged into a side conversation. If anything, &quot;joke&quot; comments would fall under &quot;Non-constructive&quot;, as they really are not helping improve the question/answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We definitely don't want to go the #3 route, as that would require our moderators to suddenly become the final arbiters of what is or isn't funny, and we all know @Richard has no sense of humor &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; spelling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For normal users, I think this is just one of those things where we leave it up to the user to decide for themselves. I don't see any reason to tell users to actively flag jokes (the way we are asked to actively flag spam, dupes, etc.). But, at the same time, I don't think we can really say that humor is sacred and we must never flag a joke. If I don't mind them, I won't be bothered by them. It likely even depends on the exact questions at issue: Doctor Who fans are more likely to play fast and loose with humor than some other fandoms because the show itself is extremely humorous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as moderators are concerned, though, there isn't much room for debate. The &lt;em&gt;purpose&lt;/em&gt; of comments is to help improve the questions and answers, and jokey comments (that don't &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; serve that purpose) are off-topic. They are non-constructive. I think there is a benefit to them as they make the questions and answers more enjoyable to read, but strictly speaking, they don't make the questions or answers any better. Since that is ultimately the reason that all stack exchange sites exists, I don't think there's any justification to change that policy just to keep more humor around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2015-02-11T15:27:43.330" LastActivityDate="2015-02-11T15:27:43.330" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6576" CreationDate="2015-02-11T15:41:22.483" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a culture here that involves a certain amount of light-hearted joking.  So, I don't instantly delete any joke comments when I see them.  However, the joke doesn't need to stick around forever, after a post's been around for a while, not many people are seeing the post or the jokes.  And since comments aren't supposed to be permanent, there isn't a need to maintain them for eternity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually, what I do is delete joke comments that are 6 months to 1 year old minimum.  This covers stuff I randomly see from browsing the site and things that are flagged as 'too chatty' or 'non constructive'.  I delete jokes earlier on if they're part of a really long comment thread, as sometimes posts accumulate dozens of comments quickly, most of which are tangential discussion.  Those discussions belong in chat, not comments, so I am a bit more heavy handed in deleting all kinds of comments in this case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This then maintains our culture while enabling old posts to be clean of cruft.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2015-02-11T15:41:22.483" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6579" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-11T16:44:31.237" Score="-3" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example, making not-particularly-important grammar tweaks to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31385/why-couldnt-red-pills-be-used-instead-of-running-towards-a-ringing-telephone&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; in order to make the homepage, briefly, have questions concerning red, white and blue at the top?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CCseY.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="440" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T18:32:58.000" Title="Is it frowned upon to edit questions partially to create certain homepage arrangements?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21" CreationDate="2015-02-11T19:52:46.760" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find this is a tricky question sometimes. I personally find it very difficult to edit for spelling and grammar, and not also &quot;improve&quot; the question by correcting odd regional phrasing, adding commas to indicate pauses, etc. It's a fine line between &quot;I'm fixing this so it's more readable&quot; and &quot;I'm fixing this to fit my standards of how things should be written&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I think it's a noble thing to do in general, and it's surprisingly useful in terms of ferreting out little ambiguities. For example, when editing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/81337/part-machine-scavenger-with-a-red-eye-trying-to-save-a-girl-from-a-tank-with-spi&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, I realized that I'd submitted the wrong answer because I confused who &quot;he&quot; was in the question. Editing it made that more clear to me, so I could make it more clear to others. Of course, that does raise the possibility of accidentally changing it via &quot;correction&quot; in much the same way that many Biblical variations came about (a scribe, coming upon a misspelled word, fixed it to the wrong word).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2015-02-11T19:52:46.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6576" CreationDate="2015-02-11T20:08:15.623" Score="-8" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the original flagger, let me try to clarify the point I was trying to make.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, from time to time I go through my comments and remove the ones that are no longer relevant, for whatever reason (including silly jokes I found very funny and smart at the time). &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6470/19561&quot;&gt;I also flag surrounding comments&lt;/a&gt; if they no longer make sense, or if they too seem irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I happen to disagree with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6410/19561&quot;&gt;the consensus that welcome messages that contain no information beyond that, are to be discouraged&lt;/a&gt;. One of the arguments against them, in the accepted answer, was that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They encourage other low-value comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In chat, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/conversation/flagging-comments&quot;&gt;in a conversation with the user who wrote that accepted answer&lt;/a&gt;, I wanted to point out that low-value comments can arise regardless of a welcome comment, and used two jokes as an example. I deleted a joke I made and flagged those two for deletion as &quot;not constructive&quot;. He agreed and deleted them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The points I wanted to make:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Almost all comments older than a couple of months should either be deleted, or edited into the post they're commenting on and &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; be deleted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Throwaway comments, such as jokes and welcome messages, make sense at the time but should not linger. They &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; provide value, be it levity or an attempt to lead a new user on their first steps towards becoming a valuable member of the community. But their time of  usefulness is much shorter than other comments. After about a week, they're up for deletion as far as I'm concerned.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that second point answers the question posed here.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;What should we do about &quot;funny&quot; comments?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;After about a week, we should delete them.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.190" LastActivityDate="2015-02-11T20:08:15.623" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6576" CreationDate="2015-02-12T08:01:01.397" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's my own answer to this question (to see what the community thinks). Similar to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6578/143&quot;&gt;Keen's answer&lt;/a&gt;, I'm happy for &lt;strong&gt;old&lt;/strong&gt; jokes to be deleted. But not recent ones - that's just killing fun which is part of the appeal of this &lt;em&gt;not-too-serious&lt;/em&gt; site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One difference though is with heavily up-voted jokes. As &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6576/what-should-we-do-about-funny-comments#comment15171_6578&quot;&gt;Izkata mentioned&lt;/a&gt;, those I think should be left, to preserve the fun. I don't have a specific number in mind, but I'd say +5 or +10 votes would be enough to leave comments alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2015-02-12T08:01:01.397" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6583" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-12T13:57:05.753" Score="1" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a few questions about the Anime series Bleach I'd like to ask, I just want to make certain it ok to ask them. Thank you&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41479" LastActivityDate="2015-02-12T13:57:05.753" Title="Are questions about Anime shows ok?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-02-12T13:59:47.270" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6584" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-12T18:35:29.120" Score="13" ViewCount="262" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wuxia is a genre of Chinese fiction about ancient martial arts heroes. The martial arts as depicted in these stories often allow their masters to achieve superhuman abilities. The most famous example (at least in the U.S.) is probably &lt;em&gt;Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon&lt;/em&gt;, which features characters effectively flying, and fighting while standing on the thin top branches of trees. Other films released internationally include &lt;em&gt;Hero&lt;/em&gt;, which shows people fighting on the surface of a lake, and &lt;em&gt;House of Flying Daggers&lt;/em&gt;, where assassins can throw knives with impossible trajectories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are these abilities amazing enough to be considered &quot;fantastic&quot;? And, perhaps more importantly, are they a &quot;central conceit&quot; of the story, meaning the stories are off-topic, or a fantasy element, making them on-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36103" LastActivityDate="2015-02-19T03:36:35.747" Title="Are wuxia (kung-fu) stories on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6584" CreationDate="2015-02-13T00:18:37.427" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;These sorts of stories are definitely a grey area. While the hyper-velocity martial artistry we see in wuxia films is definitely unnatural in our universe, that's pretty much the only difference between that and our own experience. Whether this is, in and of itself sufficient to make a story a &quot;work of fantasy&quot; isn't especially clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My gut instinct is that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If the question is about the unrealistic combat (or something that relates to it) then the answer would be yes, it is on-topic&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If the question was merely asking for an explanation of a plot point that was wholly unrelated to any unreal elements, then I'd say no, take it to Movies:SE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2015-02-13T18:22:36.587" LastActivityDate="2015-02-13T18:22:36.587" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6589" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-14T22:29:12.393" Score="3" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just wondering how a question like the following could be on-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/81661/what-brand-and-model-is-the-briefcase-used-by-the-observers&quot;&gt;What brand and model is the briefcase used by the Observers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me this is a very trivial question which does not advance the SF&amp;amp;F.SE site ... how can the identification of a briefcase on a television show, albeit a science fiction based show, advancing the general knowledge base of SciFi and/or Fantasy? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21234" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2015-02-15T11:29:19.860" Title="Trivial Pursuit?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6589" CreationDate="2015-02-14T22:46:42.833" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the one who asked it, let me clarify. I'm toying with the idea of dressing up as an observer. Getting the right briefcase would be important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I think cosplay would be on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't add this information to the question as I thought it too specific and irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2015-02-14T23:58:22.583" LastActivityDate="2015-02-14T23:58:22.583" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6589" CreationDate="2015-02-14T22:49:01.770" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's on topic because it's not off-topic. Feel free to downvote it if you think it's a &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; question, but &quot;bad&quot; and &quot;off-topic&quot; are very different things on stack exchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The list of things that are on-topic for this site, as described in the Help page, includes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Plot, character, or setting explanations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question you specified easily falls into one or both of those categories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, not all such questions are automatically on topic. The kind of questions that are about sci-fi, but still &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic&quot;&gt;off-topic&lt;/a&gt; for this site, include questions that do not have a single, objectively correct answer, such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Personalized recommentations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Recommendation/Categorization Questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;List Questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question you linked to is not any of those things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, it falls into one of the on-topic categories, and doesn't meet any of off-topic exceptions, so it's on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2015-02-14T22:49:01.770" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6589" CreationDate="2015-02-14T23:22:11.180" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a custom close reason for people seeking scientific explanations, or solutions. Both of which are very common in Sci-Fi but still off-topic for this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions seeking scientific solutions or explanations are off-topic unless they relate directly to a cited work of fiction. There are a number of other Stack Exchange sites dedicated to answering questions on non-fictional sciences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel this is very close to that - the briefcase used in the show has no real impact (as far as I know) on the show's sci-fi nature. I haven't voted to close, as I would like to see the community's opinion on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a clarification: I'm not bothered by the  'trivial' nature of the item in question.  But if it had been a magical briefcase or a sci-fi briefcase then it would be a different story for me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2015-02-15T11:29:19.860" LastActivityDate="2015-02-15T11:29:19.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6594" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6596" CreationDate="2015-02-15T17:18:20.130" Score="29" ViewCount="608" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scope&quot;&gt;many meta questions regarding scope&lt;/a&gt; have quite firmly established that questions must be about a &lt;em&gt;work&lt;/em&gt; that is related to sci-fi/fantasy. We have, however, seen dissenting opinion and behavior when it comes to questions about non-SF/F elements within a SF/F work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a recent meta question, one user chimed in on such questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I feel this is very close to that - the briefcase used in the show has no real impact (as far as I know) on the show's sci-fi nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A great example of this was the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/58858/5184&quot;&gt;Nolan's Dark Knight: Why would Dent's convictions be overturned?&lt;/a&gt;. This question was closed as off-topic and actually migrated to the Movies/TV stack (though it was later migrated back).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the ensuing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3691/5184&quot;&gt;meta discussion&lt;/a&gt;, the explanation offered up, and confirmed by the mod who migrated it was&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The reason, I would presume is due to the fact that the sci-fi setting holds no bearing on the issues addressed in the question, nor in the answer. You could have asked a similar question from a non SF setting and had the same response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the most highly voted answer (by 10:1) was that it never should have been migrated because&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We have plenty of on topic questions that aren't asking for, or answered by, details specific to fantastic elements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This same poster refers to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/32526/5184&quot;&gt;well-received question about archery in Game of Thrones&lt;/a&gt;, and their well-received answer. Archery is not at all a SF/F topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, many of our top-voted questions that are still open, are only marginally about SF/F elements - many are only really on-topic because they are about behind-the-scenes elements which have been deemed on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/310/5184&quot;&gt;Why did Douglas Adams pick 42 as the ultimate answer?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An even better example would be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/41339/5184&quot;&gt;Was the Cantina music deliberately off-tune or just an artifact of cheap production?&lt;/a&gt;. The question is open, with 91 upvotes and 0 downvotes. But the arguments used to close the Harvey Dent question all fit the Cantina Band question exactly as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contrasting, in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6585/5184&quot;&gt;another recent meta answer&lt;/a&gt;, the upvoted answer states&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the question is about the unrealistic combat (or something that relates to it) then the answer would be yes, it is on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the question was merely asking for an explanation of a plot point that was wholly unrelated to any unreal elements, then I'd say no, take it to Movies:SE.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer ignores whether or not the work is SF/F, and only considers whether or not the subject of the question is SF/F releated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even in instances when the questions are not closed or migrated, there are a number of users who leave comments such as &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Perhaps this would be better suited in the Movies/TV Stack? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is also slightly problematic. If the question is on-topic here, it's on-topic here. Should we be encouraging a migration to another site with no official cause for migration? (Note: this could be less problematic if such comments were more about finding a better audience of experts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How should we handle questions that are about non-SF/F elements in a SF/F work?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Additional reading&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/350/5184&quot;&gt;What questions are on-topic, and what questions are off-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2944/5184&quot;&gt;What type of “behind the scenes” questions are on-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2782/5184&quot;&gt;Do my questions belong here, or in Movies &amp;amp; TV or in Anime &amp;amp; Manga?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/626/5184&quot;&gt;How do we handle conflicts with the Anime and Movies sites?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;FAQ: What topics can I ask about here?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;FAQ: What types of questions should I avoid asking?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2015-08-20T19:18:06.597" Title="How should we handle questions that are about non-SF/F elements in a SF/F work?" 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  <row Id="6596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6594" CreationDate="2015-02-15T18:47:57.500" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before I get to my real answer, two things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;No, we &lt;strong&gt;absolutely should not&lt;/strong&gt; migrate questions off this site if they are on-topic. There are plenty of cases in the Stack Exchange network where site scopes overlap and the rule, as far as I am aware, is &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; to leave the question on the site where it was asked unless it's overtly off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We need to be careful when specifically throwing out &quot;just take it to M&amp;amp;TV&quot; as an option during meta discussions, for several reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not everything here is on topic for Movies &amp;amp; TV; we deal with a lot of literature and graphic novel questions. The &lt;em&gt;last&lt;/em&gt; thing we want is a different policy for SF/F movies and SF/F novels.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;M&amp;amp;TV has stricter off-topic rules than we do. They'll refuse to migrate questions that are about some &quot;minor or trivial&quot; aspect of a SF/F movie, for example.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, I don't think those questions are off-topic here at all. This is a site, as our Help Center says, &quot;for science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts.&quot; Our &quot;What can I ask&quot; list says that all of the following are on-topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Plot, character, or setting explanations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Historical or societal context of a work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Story identification&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Franchise/series reading or viewing order&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arguably, only &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; of those bullets will have anything specific to do with a fantastical element of a work; in other words, if we limited questions to those things which were specifically about some part of a work that was not realistic, we'd cut our on-topic list down by &lt;em&gt;80%&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, people come to this site to ask questions that &lt;em&gt;people who read SF/F can answer&lt;/em&gt;. If you have a question about &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;, whether you're asking about The Force or what they made C-3PO's costume out of, you'll want to ask a Star Wars fan. That's what we have here, so I see no reason to punt those questions somewhere else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="27" LastEditDate="2015-08-20T19:18:06.597" LastActivityDate="2015-08-20T19:18:06.597" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6598" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-15T22:47:01.503" Score="2" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are any fellow scifi.se Trekkies planning to attend a &lt;strong&gt;Star Trek convention&lt;/strong&gt; in 2016?  If so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is the one in Las Vegas in April 2016 (Creation Entertainment) the &quot;official&quot; 50th Anniversary convention?  (If not, which one is?)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How far in advance should one acquire tickets?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this is meta and  not the main site, allow me to say &lt;em&gt;thanks in advance&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastActivityDate="2015-02-15T22:47:01.503" Title="Star Trek 50th anniversary convention(s)?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6600" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6601" CreationDate="2015-02-16T11:18:23.523" Score="3" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tbis is one of those &lt;em&gt;oops&lt;/em&gt; moments. I've answered &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/81748/short-story-where-humans-receive-false-distress-signal-lured-into-galactic-fede&quot;&gt;Short story where humans receive false distress signal, lured into galactic federation&lt;/a&gt; without stopping to think that it's a duplicate (the OP actually linked the previous duplicate).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I delete my answer, answer the previous duplicate and finally vote to close the question I initially answered? Or do I vote to close the previous question, or just shrug and leave things as they are?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4144" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2015-02-16T13:29:06.343" Title="Answering a duplicate question" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2017-04-04T05:24:00.557" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6600" CreationDate="2015-02-16T13:29:06.343" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you do anything, vote to close the old question as a duplicate.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because two questions are duplicates doesn't mean we have to close the new question as a dupe of the old one. We make the question with the best answers the &quot;canonical&quot; question, and closes others as a dupe of that, regardless of the order in which they were posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, the newer question has an answer (with three votes, which you'd lose if you delete/reposted it), and the older question doesn't. Ergo, it's the old question that should be closed, if any.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastActivityDate="2015-02-16T13:29:06.343" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6602" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6603" CreationDate="2015-02-16T19:01:17.353" Score="12" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got upvotes today on 20 different answers, all very well deserved, but 19 of them came within a span of 15 minutes. Assuming they were all from one account, does that meet the test for &quot;serial voting&quot;, and are the points going to be taken away?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastActivityDate="2015-02-16T19:19:33.687" Title="Is this serial voting?" Tags="|support|voting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6602" CreationDate="2015-02-16T19:08:36.457" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, based on your description, it's almost certain that you've been the recipient/victim of a serial upvoter. My guess would be that given your proclivity for solving &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions, someone you've helped has decided to reward you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, it's very likely that those rep points will be nullified when the serial-upvoter script kicks in and removes them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/126829/what-is-serial-voting-and-how-does-it-affect-me&quot;&gt;What is serial voting and how does it affect me?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If the voting fraud is in the progress of happening or just happened&#xA;  recently, don't worry about it. You should wait at least 24 hours&#xA;  after noticing before becoming concerned. The system should detect it&#xA;  and reverse it for you. Please do not try to get help on this issue on&#xA;  meta or by flagging for a moderator. All they will do is tell you to&#xA;  wait for the voting fraud script to run (they won't run it for you&#xA;  just this once).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why don't I get to keep the reputation?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The reputation was removed because it is not proper behavior and it is&#xA;  not allowed. The votes were completely invalidated by the system and&#xA;  thus the reputation gain from them was also invalidated. The only way&#xA;  you can gain this reputation back is to go post some more and get some&#xA;  legitimate upvotes on those posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reversals trigger a reputation recalculation.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Whenever serial voting gets reversed, all days involved in the serial&#xA;  voting will be recalculated as if the serial votes had never happened,&#xA;  and any reputation you might have lost due to those serial votes&#xA;  hitting the reputation cap will be given to you at that time. Serial&#xA;  voters will not prevent you from gaining reputation that you deserve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2015-02-16T19:08:36.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6602" CreationDate="2015-02-16T19:10:35.243" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The exact mechanics for the serial vote check is kept private, for obvious reasons, but your situation sounds like it will get caught:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Every night around 03:00 UTC, a voting fraud detection script is run that looks for patterns such as these. It basically looks for users who have upvoted another user many times. &lt;strong&gt;The number is fairly low&lt;/strong&gt; within a given amount of time (the exact mechanics are kept secret)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you get caught, you'll know by 3:00 UTC tomorrow morning, and your rep tab will show it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the upvotes being deserved: the reason for the serial vote check is essentially that the votes came in too fast for the voter to have &lt;em&gt;actually read your answers&lt;/em&gt;. That might or might not be true in every case, but in general, the fraud detector is tuned to hit the right balance. If those 20 upvotes came in so quickly that the voter was voting for &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; and not &lt;em&gt;your answer&lt;/em&gt;, deserved or not, they'll get backed out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2015-02-16T19:19:33.687" LastActivityDate="2015-02-16T19:19:33.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6605" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-17T03:43:40.573" Score="3" ViewCount="207" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you haven't heard, the website/service Scribd has &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/2015/02/scribd-comic-books/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;recently added comic books to their service&lt;/a&gt;, allowing unlimited reading amongst the publishers that they've partnered with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;My intention is to use the free trial period to review the service and their offerings and write up an entry for &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;our blog&lt;/a&gt; about them.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To this end, I'm hoping that I can find out what comic books and/or specific issues our users would be looking for in a service like this. For example, I would personally be looking for the Dark Phoenix saga from Marvel Comics, or perhaps the Death of Gwen Stacy. From IDW, I would personally be looking for the All Hail Megatron issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From the following publishers below, what would &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; be looking for?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Archie Comics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dynamite Comics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;IDW Comics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Marvel Comics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Top Cow Comics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Top Shelf Comics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Valiant Comics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Zenescope Comics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was your favorite publisher not included (I hear you DC comic fans screaming &quot;WHAT ABOUT ME?!&quot;)? What publishers would you be hoping for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="5184" LastEditDate="2015-02-17T20:38:17.527" LastActivityDate="2015-02-20T09:04:36.713" Title="What are the &quot;must read&quot; comics/issues from the following publishers?" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6605" CreationDate="2015-02-17T16:04:15.240" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;For Marvel, I'd say 3 types of comic should be checked:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Books published recently, ~1 year ago.  Also see how recent the most-recent available comics are.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Seminal books from 20-30 years ago.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Really old stuff from Marvel's early days (or even pre-dating Marvel proper).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For #1, I'd recommend looking at a random smattering of books that were released about a year ago.  A quick google search can find all the comics published each week, so pick a week and check a bunch of books that were released then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For #2, I'd suggest big events from the 80's and 90's.  Things like &lt;em&gt;Secret Wars&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Infinity Gauntlet&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Maximum Carnage&lt;/em&gt;, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For #3, look up first appearances for some of Marvel's big guns.  Spider-Man, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Avengers, etc. and see if those first appearances are available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A methodology like this may work on other comic publishers (admittedly with a more compressed timeline), but I'm not familiar enough with most of them to say with certainty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2015-02-18T16:28:04.173" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T16:28:04.173" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6607" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6609" CreationDate="2015-02-17T17:27:01.150" Score="8" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6605/19561&quot;&gt;What are the &amp;quot;must read&amp;quot; comics/issues from the following publishers?&lt;/a&gt; received a close vote with the reason &quot;Primarily Opinion Based&quot;. But on meta, we're &lt;em&gt;asking&lt;/em&gt; for opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't that close reason be removed from meta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to stress the point that that question isn't just asking for what to read, but for what the community would be interested in, regarding a review of the service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2015-02-17T18:58:39.547" Title="Should we ever close a question as &quot;Primarily Opinion Based&quot; on meta?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|meta|primarily-opinion-based|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6607" CreationDate="2015-02-17T17:36:54.737" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Strikes me that it's a useful shortcut. Otherwise we'd need a close reason on meta for &quot;This question belongs on the main site&quot; and then have to close it again as opinion-based on the main site. I guess it could be rephrased as &quot;This question would belong on the main site, but it's opinion-based and so off-topic there&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23" LastActivityDate="2015-02-17T17:36:54.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6607" CreationDate="2015-02-17T17:41:43.853" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions like this should generally be closed under the first off-topic reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question does not appear to be about Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange or the software that powers the Stack Exchange network within the scope defined in the help center.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I won't go so far as to say the primarily-opinion-based reason should never be used on meta, I have difficulty imagining a situation in which it would be appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2015-02-17T17:41:43.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6610" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-18T05:24:38.553" Score="2" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted this question,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Why do characters from Marvel Universe have muscular physique most of the time?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which was edited to,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Why do most comics characters have a muscular physique?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I had specified characters from Marvel Universe. By editing the question, it broadens to other comics like Archies, Asterix &amp;amp; Obelix, Tintin and so on. Thus changing the meaning itself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did someone actually approved such worst editing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40933" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T07:19:12.770" Title="How to tackle bad editing?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6610" CreationDate="2015-02-18T07:19:12.770" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Typically if the user's below a certain reputation their edit is put in a queue. If the edit doesn't seem up to standard it can be rejected for various reasons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the primary reasons for rejecting an edit I'd that if changes there meaning too drastically. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In contrast, at 2k rep,  you don't need to &lt;em&gt;suggest&lt;/em&gt; an edit;  it is in effect,  automatically approved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at the reviewer history,  someone with 2k+ rep edited the question,  so that is why it went through. I'd guess almost all edits by these trusted users don't need approval,  add they're fine.  For everything else there's the roll back system. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information on privileges,  see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T07:19:12.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6612" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6613" CreationDate="2015-02-18T08:54:34.860" Score="5" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed we have tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mass-effect&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mass-effect&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mass-effect&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mass-effect-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mass-effect-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mass-effect-2&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mass-effect-3&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mass-effect-3&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mass-effect-3&lt;/a&gt;. Do we really need a tag for each installment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2015-02-18T14:35:12.320" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T18:30:42.293" Title="Do we need Mass Effect have tags for each installment, or should those tags be synonyms?" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6612" CreationDate="2015-02-18T09:05:28.783" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, we don't.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mass-effect-3+or+mass-effect-2+or+mass-effect&quot;&gt;37 questions tagged&lt;/a&gt; with any of those tags. Of those 37, we have&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mass-effect+-mass-effect-3+-mass-effect-2&quot;&gt;26 questions&lt;/a&gt; tagged with just &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mass-effect&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mass-effect&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mass-effect&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mass-effect-2+-mass-effect-3+-mass-effect&quot;&gt;1 question&lt;/a&gt; tagged with just &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mass-effect-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mass-effect-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mass-effect-2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mass-effect-3+-mass-effect+-mass-effect-2&quot;&gt;4 questions&lt;/a&gt; tagged with just &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mass-effect-3&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mass-effect-3&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mass-effect-3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag wiki excerpt for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mass-effect-3&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mass-effect-3&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mass-effect-3&lt;/a&gt; already says that it should always be used in conjunction with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mass-effect&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mass-effect&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mass-effect&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leads me to the conclusion that these tags add very little over the general tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mass-effect-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mass-effect-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mass-effect-2&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mass-effect-3&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mass-effect-3&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mass-effect-3&lt;/a&gt; should be synonyms for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mass-effect&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mass-effect&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mass-effect&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T09:05:28.783" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6614" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6623" CreationDate="2015-02-18T11:01:19.153" Score="3" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a grand total of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/expanded-universe&quot;&gt;4 questions&lt;/a&gt; tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/expanded-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;expanded-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;expanded-universe&lt;/a&gt;, 3 of which are about &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; while 1 is about &lt;em&gt;Mass Effect&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the tag wiki, it is intended for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Generally, expanded universe is the extension of a media franchise (i.e. a television show, series of feature films, etc.) with other media (generally comics and original novels), often with the result being that the stories described in the other media are not considered canon in the original.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;With reference to Star Wars: The Expanded Universe (or EU for short) encompasses every one of the officially licensed, fictional background of the Star Wars universe, outside of the six Star Wars films produced by George Lucas. It is derived from and includes most official Star Wars-related books, comic books, video games, spin-off films, television series, toys, and other media. This material expands and continues the stories told in the films, taking place anywhere from over 36,000 years before The Phantom Menace to 134 years after Return of the Jedi. The issue of which aspects are canon is one of the most hotly debated topics among fans. (Wookieepedia)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would classify it as a meta-tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, there are a further &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=-%5Bexpanded-universe%5D+%22expanded+universe%22+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;51 questions&lt;/a&gt; that are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; tagged with it, but that &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; contain the phrase &quot;expanded universe&quot;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=-%5Bexpanded-universe%5D+%22expanded+universe%22+is%3Aquestion+-%5Bstar-wars%5D&quot;&gt;11 of which&lt;/a&gt; are not about &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; (most of those are about &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what, if anything, should be done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is a tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-eu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-eu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-eu&lt;/a&gt; that's already used on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-eu&quot;&gt;11 questions&lt;/a&gt;. Should all questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; + &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/expanded-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;expanded-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;expanded-universe&lt;/a&gt; be retagged to that, while all questions containing &quot;expanded universe&quot; and tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; should be checked and possibly retagged as well?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do we need a tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-eu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-eu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-eu&lt;/a&gt; for those 9 or so questions containing &quot;expanded universe&quot; and tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Should we remove &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/expanded-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;expanded-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;expanded-universe&lt;/a&gt; from other questions?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2015-02-19T01:22:14.450" Title="What should happen with the Expanded Universe tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6612" CreationDate="2015-02-18T14:34:21.690" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;They should be separate tags. They're each for different works that will each have their own questions. The misuse of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mass-effect&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mass-effect&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mass-effect&lt;/a&gt; as a franchise tag should end though, as that confuses the first game with the franchise.  I propose a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mass-effect-franchise&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mass-effect-franchise&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mass-effect-franchise&lt;/a&gt; for this purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Synonymizing them into one would be like merging all the individual &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; film tags into one. It destroys the correctly fine-grained nature of the tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2015-02-18T18:30:42.293" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T18:30:42.293" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6617" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-18T15:20:52.640" Score="2" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently there was a flood of edits to the tag wiki for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-files&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-files&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-files&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original wiki entry was admittedly a bit lax, and needs improvement. But somewhere around revision 4 things went really off the rails. The tag wiki now lists the &quot;central theme&quot; for almost every episode of the show, plus (IMO) far too much information about the plot and character development for a tag wiki. (It's almost 100 lines line now.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a point at which these entries become so big they are counterproductive? I thought that the tag wiki was just supposed to be a summary of the tag's topic, enough to let someone know &lt;em&gt;how to use&lt;/em&gt; the tag, not an attempt to explain the entire work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was going to roll this wiki back to somewhere around rev 4/5 but I don't want to start an edit war or meta argument, so I figured I'd ask first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2015-02-19T04:13:18.180" Title="Is there a such thing as &quot;too much tag wiki&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|tag-wiki|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6618" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-18T18:53:21.673" Score="24" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Taken from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/248579/tagoverflow-interactive-exploration-of-stack-exchange-tags&quot;&gt;this Meta.se question&lt;/a&gt; and adapted for SFF.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LspLK.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are the 32 most popular tags, with size proportional to the popularity of the tag. Edges represent the relationship between tags. Width is related to the number of questions with both tags, while shade compares how often they occur together compared to what you’d expect if tags were distributed randomly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Made with &lt;a href=&quot;https://p.migdal.pl/tagoverflow/?site=scifi&amp;amp;size=32&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TagOverflow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ETA:&lt;/strong&gt; Some people have been complaining that this isn’t a question. *rolleyes*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty cool, huh?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-06-21T00:51:47.437" LastActivityDate="2019-06-21T00:51:47.437" Title="Tag Overflow – interactive exploration of Stack Exchange tags" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6618" CreationDate="2015-02-18T19:29:49.663" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it is cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ozvJW.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T19:29:49.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6617" CreationDate="2015-02-18T23:37:54.803" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I suspect I'm in the minority, I'm going to say that there shouldn't be such thing as “too much tag wiki”, as long a minimum standards are met:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of the X-Files tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is all the information on-topic?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's all about the subject at hand, the X-Files TV series and Films&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there extraneous or unnecessary information?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, it's all relevant to the TV series and films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it unnecessarily wordy?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, the wording seems relatively concise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there overlap into another canon universe?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, it's all pretty well focused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T23:37:54.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6614" CreationDate="2015-02-18T23:40:30.257" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I vote we destroy it and untag the small number of questions that are using it. It seems pretty pointless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As @pureferret says in his comment above; would you ever tag our search just for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/expanded-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;expanded-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;expanded-universe&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T23:40:30.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6584" CreationDate="2015-02-19T01:13:02.127" Score="2" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Wuxia in General&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply being 'visually fantastic' should not (and does not to me) qualify a work as Fantasy.  I am going to argue that while the visuals of these movies defy the laws of physics, the intent is not to show that these warriors have supernatural powers, but instead to imply that they are skilled enough to make it appear they are acting supernaturally.  Its a form of visual hyperbole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not excluding the possibility that there are such movies which are in fact fantasy, but just walking on air should not qualify them as on topic.  I would go on to say that the visual hyperbole itself should be off topic, as it is not intended to be taken as fantastical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Wuxia with a Sole Bona Fide Fantastic Element&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To allow questions about a work with a limited scope of what about that work can be discussed (in the comments, the bamboo fighting scene from Crouching Tiger is used as an example), puts us in a paradoxical position.  A question that may or may not be related to a fantasy or scifi element would be moved to another site if it was not obviously directly related to a fantastical element - before an answer could make that clear.  A question apparently about a fantastical element would be allowed to stay even if it turns out it wasn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also do not move questions with answers that prove not to contain any scifi or fantasy element.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clear that paradox we either need to classify any work with a fantastic or scifi element as wholly on topic, or limit the works we accept as on topic to only those works that are intrinsically scifi or fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Conclusion&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My position is that wuxia is not intrinsically fantasy (though a particular story MAY be), so should be considered off-topic.  Crouching Tiger out, Kung-Fu In Space (a hypothetical film) in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35682" LastEditorUserId="35682" LastEditDate="2015-02-19T03:36:35.747" LastActivityDate="2015-02-19T03:36:35.747" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6614" CreationDate="2015-02-19T01:22:14.450" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Richard. It needs to be burniated!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the Star-Wars questions, we have a couple options: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;a retag at some point to delineate between Lucas (Legends) canon and Disney canon, somewhat along the lines (like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-legends&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-legends&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-legends&lt;/a&gt; vs &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-disney&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-disney&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-disney&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;a retag to delineate between films and novels (like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; for the films and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-eu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-eu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-eu&lt;/a&gt; for everything else). This seems like the current system, though minimally implemented and really is outdated with Disney declaring everything on equal footing from here on out&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;delete the Star Wars EU tag. Out of 1,391 questions, we only have 11 used, and judging by the number of SW questions that are answered primarily from non-movie sources, could be used a lot more.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of the three, I'm inclined to just delete the Star Wars EU tag as well, as retagging the likely hundreds of questions that apply to it or the Legends vs Disney canon is not practical and adds little value. Most questions that deal with Star Wars will either specify the canon it is asking from or be obvious as the character or event only exists in one canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't speak to the Star-Trek tag either, and although the amount of EU material appears to be much smaller, the same argument applies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR&lt;/strong&gt;: I would remove all of these EU tags and just let them be identified by the major franchise they are associated with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastActivityDate="2015-02-19T01:22:14.450" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6617" CreationDate="2015-02-19T04:13:18.180" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the editing page itself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7NaRR.png&quot; alt=&quot;What are Tag Wikis?&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/x-files/info&quot;&gt;x-files tag wiki&lt;/a&gt; is not brief, has no links, and in my opinion is a bit beyond reasonably sized - largely because the space the list takes up, but the rest has its own issues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like whoever has been editing this doesn't want to link offsite, instead incorporating as much information as they can onto the page.  The list of plotlines is unnecessary (&quot;many paranormal topics&quot; would probably suffice, perhaps with a link to Wikipedia or an X-Files wiki) and the protagonist paragraph seems like it's trying to describe every aspect of the characters' personalities instead of just introducing them.  Actors should be removed, that's on Wikipedia, IMDB, and I'm sure many other places as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By including links and adding clear separation of plots/characters/out-of-universe information (antagonists just melds into filming locations if you're only skimming the page), the whole thing would become a lot easier to digest, without overwhelming the reader - it's supposed act as an introduction, not an endpoint.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference, here's the current entire thing (scaled down to 1/3rd the height):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SJgo8.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2242" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2015-02-19T04:13:18.180" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6625" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-19T10:59:20.513" Score="11" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way I've always viewed story identification questions is finding the stories that left details in mind and yet the title has slipped and simple google is not helpful. These usually have the &quot;a-ha!&quot; moment, where additional details from an answer make the asker see that it indeed is what he was looking for. However today a question like that arrived:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/82058/identify-story-books-similar-to-lord-of-the-rings&quot;&gt;Books similar to The Lord of the Rings: dark elves, different gods, Thommas, red-haired woman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In it, in quite nice detail, OP asks about a story two other people were talking about. In other words, no matter how good of an answer might come, there is no fair way to accept any answer, seeing as any additional detail can't possibly help in recognition what they were really talking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a proper story identification question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35600" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2015-02-19T11:22:25.810" Title="Story identification without possible answer" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|question-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6625" CreationDate="2015-02-19T11:22:25.810" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good answers explain themselves. Often our story ID answers omit this bit, but that's a fault of existing answers, not a justification for future ones. A good answer to this question will carefully justify itself, talking through the querent's points and explaining how the suggested story meets those points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This lets voters make informed voting decisions, so that likely answers float to the top and unlikely ones go to the bottom. &lt;em&gt;That's what's important.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, Stack Exchange doesn't put a lot of stock in answer acceptance. Acceptance means the answer was useful to one single person, but questions and answers on the Stack are for everyone, not just the original querent. We don't track &quot;accepted answer&quot; metrics. We don't remove or obscure unaccepted answers. And we've got a badge for giving a super-upvoted answer when another answer gets accepted. Stack Exchange is most interested in the groupmind evaluation (through voting) of answers. If the question gives enough info for informed voting on whether an answer is clear, thoughtful, and useful, that's awesome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides: We should not presume to tell a querent that they won't know the answer to their own question when they see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13941" LastActivityDate="2015-02-19T11:22:25.810" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6627" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6628" CreationDate="2015-02-19T19:04:54.573" Score="5" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;In April 2014 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.starwars.com/news/the-legendary-star-wars-expanded-universe-turns-a-new-page&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Disney re-branded the Star Wars Expanded Universe as &quot;Legends&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. In light of this, should we replace &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-eu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-eu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-eu&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-legends&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-legends&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-legends&lt;/a&gt;? This has been mentioned before (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5295/31936&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) in the context of &lt;em&gt;adding&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-legends&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-legends&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-legends&lt;/a&gt; but not in the context of &lt;em&gt;replacing&lt;/em&gt; the existing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-eu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-eu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-eu&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are currently &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-eu&quot;&gt;11 questions&lt;/a&gt; tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-eu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-eu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-eu&lt;/a&gt;, and in general the tag was used appropriately for those questions. Quite a few more questions could use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-eu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-eu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-eu&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-legends&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-legends&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-legends&lt;/a&gt; but there is little need to add the tag to existing questions (especially before the release of Episode VII). But it seems to me that new questions may wish to specify canon vs. Legends, especially for events after Episode VI. This will become more likely after the release of Episode VII, but already there are some questions which are looking specifically for answers from Legends or contain only Legends material. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/81891/31936&quot;&gt;Lightsaber claws in Expanded Universe?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/79926/31936&quot;&gt;Why was Skippy the Jedi Droid (R5-D4) force sensitive?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose creating &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-legends&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-legends&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-legends&lt;/a&gt; and setting &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-eu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-eu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-eu&lt;/a&gt; as its synonym. Is this desirable? (And is it even possible to mark an existing tag as a synonym of another one?) This would use the correct brand name for non-canon Star Wars material (which is more likely to be used by younger users) without removing the Expanded Universe name that will more likely be recognized and used by older users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is not possible, should we add &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-legends&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-legends&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-legends&lt;/a&gt; as a synonym with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-eu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-eu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-eu&lt;/a&gt; as its master tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or should we just burninate &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-eu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-eu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-eu&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2015-02-19T19:18:01.847" Title="Should we replace the star-wars-eu tag with a star-wars-legends tag?" 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  <row Id="6628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6627" CreationDate="2015-02-19T19:18:01.847" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I agree.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The tags should be linked together under the aegis of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-legends&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-legends&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-legends&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-eu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-eu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-eu&lt;/a&gt; tag should continue to exist as a synonym. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-02-19T19:18:01.847" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6605" CreationDate="2015-02-20T08:56:15.487" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;For Dynamite, I think it pretty much has to be the &lt;strong&gt;The Boys.&lt;/strong&gt; Everything else is licensed. As to which story, just start at the top - the origin story is pretty sharp, and complete in 2 issues (though their first adventure is the next four issues).  I don't know if they would have the rights to those issues, as they were originally published by Wildstorm but have subsequently been reprinted by Dynamite.  If the first 6 issues aren't there, then &quot;Glorious Five Year Plan&quot; (issues 11-14) would be an early hit from the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nearly everything else from Dynamite is licensed properties, which will be very hit-and-miss in terms of fans (fan either like the source material or not, but the comic will only be enjoyed by fans of &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; the original and the new comic).  Still, you could check out Classic Battlestar Galactica for a flavor of the type of thing they do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For Zenescope, you ought to just go with their flagship title, &lt;strong&gt;Grimm's Fairy Tales&lt;/strong&gt;. Most issues of this series are standalone, but if you want to select a popular one, you could try issue 15's &quot;Three Little Pigs&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For Top Shelf, the big hits are going to be the Alan Moore books, and the top title is likely going to be League of Extraordinary Gentlemen III, but Lost Girls is probably going to be up there, too.  Other popular comics are going to be the critically-acclaimed works that people have a hard time shelling out $30 for in their bookstore.  Titles like Blankets, or Good-bye, Chunky Rice from Craig Thompson, or Clumsy from Jeffrey Brown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38855" LastEditorUserId="38855" LastEditDate="2015-02-20T09:04:36.713" LastActivityDate="2015-02-20T09:04:36.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6634" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6635" CreationDate="2015-02-20T13:01:42.823" Score="6" ViewCount="258" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that there are differences between fantasy and magic realism, but can I ask questions concerning &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; works of magic realism here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;The best place would be a Books/Literature SE site, but since there isn't any right now, I thought I could ask here&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case someone doesn't know, here is what magic realism is, per &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_realism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Magic realism or magical realism is a genre where magical or unreal elements play a natural part in an otherwise realistic or mundane environment. Although it is most commonly used as a literary genre, magic realism also applies to film and the visual arts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, can I ask a question about Haruki Murakami's 1Q84? If someone reads it, they find out that there are many fantasy elements in the work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19374" LastEditorUserId="19374" LastEditDate="2015-02-20T14:23:23.463" LastActivityDate="2015-03-05T17:37:39.773" Title="Is magic realism on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6634" CreationDate="2015-02-20T13:10:33.557" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;A general question about magic realism (as an overarching topic) would probably be too broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question about the use of magic &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;within a specific universe&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; would be well within the scope of the site. As Terry Pratchett &lt;a href=&quot;http://januarymagazine.com/profiles/tpratchett2002.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;famously said&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;[saying that you write magic realism] &lt;strong&gt;is like a polite way of&#xA;  saying you write fantasy&lt;/strong&gt; and is more acceptable to certain people --&#xA;  and who, on the whole doesn't care that much.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-02-20T13:10:33.557" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6636" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6638" CreationDate="2015-02-20T16:23:23.723" Score="8" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few days ago I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/81888/31936&quot;&gt;When did Morpheus find out the Oracle is a program?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I received a good answer from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/20221/nerrolken&quot;&gt;Nerrolken&lt;/a&gt; but we had a short discussion in the comments about an issue I mentioned in my question (specifically, why didn't anyone try to unplug the Oracle if they thought she was human?). Nerrolken came up with some good reasons and I asked him to edit that into his answer, but I've received no response (and he's been active since then).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Would it be acceptable for me to copy the text of his comment into his answer?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, I would be appending the text of the second to last comment below his answer minus the initial &quot;Fair enough. :)&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fair enough. :) As for questioning why someone else didn't unplug her before his time, if he ever wondered about it, there are plenty of reasonable explanations: being in the Matrix allows her greater access to the blue pill candidates, for example, and easier access by any given ship that might need her. Hell, since a precog needn't fear the Agents, maybe she simply prefers it there. (She's quirky enough to just &quot;prefer my old house&quot; or something.) But mostly, I think he just wouldn't presume to question her like that: she's the Oracle, if she's still in the Matrix she no doubt has a reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally, I would consider such an edit to be too substantial and I wouldn't do it (or accept it if suggested). However, I think it &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be acceptable for the following reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I would be copying his exact words, so it's not like I would be putting words into his mouth.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My (original, unedited) question specifically asks about this issue so the answer is not entirely complete without addressing it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;Comments are intended to be temporary&lt;/a&gt; and I wouldn't want this information to be lost.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2015-02-20T17:22:53.767" Title="Acceptable to edit an answerer's comment into his answer?" Tags="|discussion|editing|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6636" CreationDate="2015-02-20T16:35:11.583" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's an excellent idea. Then again, I also seem to be a mildly controversial figure in terms of editing people's answers, so take that with a grain of salt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2015-02-20T17:20:30.737" LastActivityDate="2015-02-20T17:20:30.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6636" CreationDate="2015-02-20T17:22:53.767" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually, I wouldn't think twice. I've done similar edits. However, since you've already asked the answerer to do it, I would wait a while to give them the opportunity to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2015-02-20T17:22:53.767" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6639" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-20T19:43:24.763" Score="2" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do the classical epics &lt;em&gt;Iliad&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Odyssey&lt;/em&gt; and the &lt;em&gt;Aeneid&lt;/em&gt; come under the scope of SFF?&#xA;And &lt;em&gt;Metamorphoses&lt;/em&gt;, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They involve fantasy by today's standards, but does it make a difference whether they were conceived by the author as fantasy or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see them being discussed on this site, and I also don't see any other SE site relevant to asking questions about them. It would be great to have questions about them here, as there are lots and lots to be asked about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see the oncoming objection that this would be opening a can of worms, but Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost and Indian epics should be called religious epics, and not fantasy. Pharsalia is purely historic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Put simply, do we classify mythical fiction as fantasy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25950" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2015-02-20T20:00:06.900" LastActivityDate="2015-02-20T20:00:06.900" Title="Are the classical epics on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|mythology|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2015-02-20T20:01:18.620" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6640" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-20T20:20:43.543" Score="4" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/82203/timeline&quot;&gt;the timeline&lt;/a&gt;, the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/82203/5184&quot;&gt;Why haven't the Sith tried to harvest midichlorian?&lt;/a&gt; was closed as a duplicate at 19:51 UTC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It then received &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/82206/5184&quot;&gt;an answer&lt;/a&gt; at 20:00 UTC. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions aren't supposed to be able to have answers posted after closing. I've been blocked from posting when I've been in the middle of writing an answer and the question has been closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-02-20T22:01:23.283" Title="How did this question get an answer after it was closed?" Tags="|support|bug|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6641" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6642" CreationDate="2015-02-20T22:24:26.590" Score="4" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of the more successful questions that have been around for years are often &quot;protected&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question is protected to prevent &quot;thanks!&quot;, &quot;me too!&quot;, or spam&#xA;  answers by new users. To answer it, you must have earned at least 10&#xA;  reputation on this site.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could someone elaborate a bit further as to what this does and why it is put in place on older questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35706" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2015-02-21T00:46:35.447" LastActivityDate="2015-02-21T00:46:35.447" Title="What does &quot;protecting&quot; a post do?" Tags="|discussion|protected-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6641" CreationDate="2015-02-20T22:26:23.053" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm just going to shamelessly plagiarise &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/52765/262849&quot;&gt;the answer from here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What does it mean for a question to be protected?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/new-protected-question-status/&quot;&gt;Protected&lt;/a&gt; questions have the additional restriction that &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/privileges/new-user&quot;&gt;new users&lt;/a&gt; are not permitted to answer the question.  Unlike &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/22228/what-is-a-locked-post&quot;&gt;locked&lt;/a&gt; questions, they can still be edited, commented on, and voted on.  You can even vote to close them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why are some questions protected?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some questions are protected because they are expected to attract either spam or users -- often new users -- who may mistake the site as a traditional forum, posting &quot;noisy&quot; answers such as &quot;Thank you&quot; or &quot;This worked for me&quot; or &quot;I'm also having this problem&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Who can protect and unprotect questions?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/75189/what-are-diamond-moderators&quot;&gt;Diamond moderators&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users with at least 15,000 reputation can protect or unprotect any question at least a day old&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The system (via &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19738/who-is-the-community-user&quot;&gt;the Community user&lt;/a&gt;) will &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/89532/automatically-protect-questions-with-three-or-more-low-rep-user-deleted-answers/89971#89971&quot;&gt;automatically protect&lt;/a&gt; a question that's had three answers from low-rep users deleted or &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/226619/auto-protect-questions-that-get-more-than-n-answers-from-new-users-in-a-24-hour&quot;&gt;5 answers from low-rep users posted in the past 24 hours&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Who can answer a protected question?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users with 10 or more reputation can answer a protected question. However, &lt;strong&gt;the +100 account association bonus is ignored for this check&lt;/strong&gt;, so you must have earned 10 or more reputation &lt;em&gt;on that specific site&lt;/em&gt; to answer a protected question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;When should I protect or unprotect a question?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do protect questions that are attracting a lot of non-answers or very poor answers (spam, etc.) from new users.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don’t protect questions just because they’re linked to on a high-traffic news site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do unprotect questions that aren’t currently attracting a lot of attention and don’t have a long history of unproductive answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.757" LastActivityDate="2015-02-20T22:26:23.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6643" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6644" CreationDate="2015-02-20T22:53:02.997" Score="5" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know about you guys, but I have a difficult time telling the difference between the blue text of an un-viewed question and the &lt;em&gt;slightly&lt;/em&gt; lighter blue text of a viewed one.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I just pay more attention, or would there be a better color scheme to help show which questions you've looked at already?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a grey color would be easier to make out than the lighter blue.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is what things look like for me:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4ym34.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;They all kind of blend together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35706" LastEditorUserId="35706" LastEditDate="2015-02-23T15:23:38.803" LastActivityDate="2015-02-23T15:23:38.803" Title="Easier differentiating between viewed and un-viewed questions" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6643" CreationDate="2015-02-20T23:13:25.773" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to create add some custom CSS for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can usually be done with a browser extension: &lt;a href=&quot;https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylebot/oiaejidbmkiecgbjeifoejpgmdaleoha?hl=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stylebot for Chrome&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stylish for Firefox&lt;/a&gt;. Google around for your browser of choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you need to add the following rule (adjust the colour to your preference):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.question-hyperlink:visited {&#xA;    color: #bbb !important;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This recolours any links to a question that you’ve already visited in a very light shade of grey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here’s what that looks like in my browser:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HOFb8.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you wanted, you could choose an even lighter shade of grey to make them fade away even more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastActivityDate="2015-02-20T23:13:25.773" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6634" CreationDate="2015-02-21T09:28:18.010" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently, it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_realism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Magic realism or magical realism is a genre where magical or unreal elements play a natural part in an otherwise realistic or mundane environment. Although it is most commonly used as a literary genre, magic realism also applies to film and the visual arts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The term is broadly descriptive rather than critically rigorous. Matthew Strecher defines magic realism as &quot;what happens when a highly detailed, realistic setting is invaded by something too strange to believe.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more informal description at &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicRealism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TVTropes&lt;/a&gt; reads&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It definitely isn't Science Fiction and not quite Urban Fantasy and yet... stuff happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's a realistic setting, with elements of magic. According to this definition, &lt;em&gt;Groundhog Day&lt;/em&gt; would qualify. We have questions about that: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/groundhog-day&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;groundhog-day&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;groundhog-day&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;An example given at TVTropes is &lt;em&gt;Twin Peaks&lt;/em&gt;. We have questions about that: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/twin-peaks&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;twin-peaks&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;twin-peaks&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Another common example is &lt;em&gt;Pan's Labyrinth&lt;/em&gt;. Again, we have questions about that: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pans-labyrinth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pans-labyrinth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pans-labyrinth&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it would seem that yes, it is on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2015-02-21T09:28:18.010" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6646" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6647" CreationDate="2015-02-22T16:09:33.133" Score="2" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, I was viewing the current questions and I noticed an item on the sidebar that looked very familiar. Pursuing it, and doing a quick search, it looks like we have three &lt;code&gt;Story Identification&lt;/code&gt; questions for &lt;em&gt;Black and Blue Magic&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/36782/kids-story-question-ointment-gives-kid-wings-loses-them-when-seen?rq=1&quot;&gt;Kids Story Question: Ointment gives kid wings, loses them when seen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/46662/name-of-young-adult-novel-from-1960s-70s-with-harry-houdini&quot;&gt;Name of Young Adult novel from 1960s/ 70s with Harry Houdini?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/52001/ya-novel-where-clumsy-boy-gains-wings/52013#52013&quot;&gt;YA novel where clumsy boy gains wings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first two are relatively brief questions, and both contain small bits of incorrect information (one stating that Houdini was the boy's benefactor and the other saying it was his uncle, when in fact it was one of the residents at his mother's boarding house), so I'm inclined to mark them as Dupes of the third, but I also have the accepted answer on that one, so I didn't want to act too boldly for fear of being accused of trying to hide the other two questions in favor of the one I answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-02-22T18:27:46.420" Title="Figuring out which one (if any) to delete as duplicates" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6646" CreationDate="2015-02-22T18:27:46.420" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's perfectly fine to mark questions 1 and 2 as duplicates in favor of question 3, even if yours is the accepted answer for question 3. If question 3 truly contains the most accurate information, I would think that trumps the order in which the questions were posed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2015-02-22T18:27:46.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6648" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-27T22:06:11.027" Score="41" ViewCount="487" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is my sad duty to inform the community that Leonard Nimoy has &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/leonard-nimoy-dead-star-trek-spock-actor-dies-after-suffering-lung-disease-10076199.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;beamed up for the last time&lt;/a&gt;. He will truly &quot;Live long and prosper&quot; in all our memories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;RIP&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26367" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-01-26T19:52:13.973" LastActivityDate="2022-05-25T20:04:07.080" Title="In Memoriam: Leonard Nimoy" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6648" CreationDate="2015-02-27T22:23:07.407" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;RIP Spock. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xk6Y79vduEE?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/AGF5ROpjRAU?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-02-27T22:23:07.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6648" CreationDate="2015-02-27T22:25:47.537" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dif-tor heh smusma ...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Jmq4K.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;Live long and prosper&lt;/em&gt; in Vulcan, according to the &lt;em&gt;New York Times&lt;/em&gt;. If this is wrong, I'm sure some &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; expert will rip my head off ... er, I mean, will let me know.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="3500" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T01:53:23.367" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T01:53:23.367" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6648" CreationDate="2015-02-27T22:36:03.937" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/505v7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35225" LastActivityDate="2015-02-27T22:36:03.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6648" CreationDate="2015-02-28T21:39:13.740" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;We are assembled here today to pay final respects to our honored dead. And yet it should be noted, in the midst of our sorrow, this death takes place in the shadow of new life, the sunrise of a new world; a world that our beloved comrade gave his life to protect and nourish. He did not feel this sacrifice a vain or empty one, and we will not debate his profound wisdom at these proceedings. Of my friend, I can only say this: Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most.... human.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2015-02-28T21:39:13.740" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5326" CreationDate="2015-03-01T13:27:37.460" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/?tab=featured&quot;&gt;See all questions with active bounties http://stack-exchange-dynamic-ads.herokuapp.com/scifi.stackexchange.com/bounty.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3253" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T13:27:37.460" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-03-01T13:27:37.460" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6654" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-02T15:39:34.120" Score="6" ViewCount="984" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using Chrome Version 40.0.2214.111 (64-bit) on OSX Yosemite, the main site does not render the bold tag correctly. It does however, render correctly on Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FF 35.0.1 on the same system works correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the screenshot below, the top line should be bolded. I duplicated the line without the bold styling to demonstrate the (lack of) difference between the rendering of the two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kepGb.png&quot; alt=&quot;top line should be bolded.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2015-05-17T02:08:39.980" Title="Bold formatting not working in Chrome" Tags="|bug|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6656" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6657" CreationDate="2015-03-04T10:37:22.637" Score="-5" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, I was banned from Chat (it is now in read-only for me). Reason: I was using &lt;em&gt;(removed)&lt;/em&gt; text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, what's wrong with it? I don't think it's offensive or something bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was just using it as meme. And, there's nothing new here. Such system message based memes are in existence since 90s. So, I don't think it's wrong. If admins have problem with it, the better way is to modify the system message to distinguish it from user text (like highlight &lt;em&gt;(removed)&lt;/em&gt; in a fancy way).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2015-03-04T13:39:08.250" Title="Why is it wrong to use &quot;(removed)&quot; meme?" Tags="|support|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6656" CreationDate="2015-03-04T13:18:08.740" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are three reasons why it's was inappropriate to keep posting it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's not funny when you do it repeatedly.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You posted &quot;(removed)&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/search?user=8479&amp;amp;q=removed&quot;&gt;at least ten times&lt;/a&gt;. Maybe it was funny the first or second time, but not the tenth. It was just noise for everybody to scroll past. Did you expect a better response on subsequent postings?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It could be seen as deception.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have a history of posting annoying or offensive messages in chat. They get flagged and removed, so it's not implausible that these are genuinely deleted messages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless you look carefully, it's not obvious that it's just a regular message. It's easy to assume that you've posted something offensive again. Can you see why people could find that deceptive?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You were asked to stop by a moderator.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keen asked you &lt;s&gt;on at least twice (&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=20250150#20250150&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=20352037#20352037&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/s&gt; to stop posting it. [&lt;em&gt;Amended:&lt;/em&gt; per comments, the second &amp;ldquo;ask&amp;rdquo; was explaining the chat ban.] Didn't that give you a hint that the joke was lost on everybody else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm afraid I don't buy the idea that you thought they were &amp;ldquo;in on the joke&amp;rdquo;, so to speak. This isn't the first time you've been posting annoying messages in chat, and ignored multiple requests to desist. Why are you unable to respond to a reasonable request?)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A more general comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If admins have problem with it, the better way is to modify the system message to distinguish it from user text (like highlight &lt;em&gt;(removed)&lt;/em&gt; in a fancy way).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The better way is to behave like an adult. Don't try to trick people with an unfunny joke, and listen when you're asked to stop. If you can't behave properly, then the problem isn't with the site's design or policies, it's with you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Footnote on design:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For whatever it's worth, there are already different styles. Actually removed messages have a grey tint, while messages with the text &quot;(removed) are shown in white. It's subtle, but it's there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SFMI5.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that's easy to miss if you're just skimming chat, and it's not an excuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="3567" LastEditDate="2015-03-04T13:39:08.250" LastActivityDate="2015-03-04T13:39:08.250" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6658" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-04T18:13:12.130" Score="-1" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;As many of you probably know, mythology has no home anywhere on the Stack Exchange network. Here on Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5014/22427&quot;&gt;some mythology questions are permissible&lt;/a&gt;, but I think we can all agree that this isn't its home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there is an &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/58307/mythology?referrer=u4bI8H2eeMTa1Ktl-HOLsw2&quot;&gt;Area51 proposal for a mythology SE site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, in the &quot;commitment&quot; stage, which means it needs more people to hit commit, to say that they will be active on the site beta. To that end,  I also promoted the site &lt;a href=&quot;https://history.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2094/3383&quot;&gt;on history's meta&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Would you like to commit?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22427" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:49:21.080" LastActivityDate="2015-03-05T08:12:53.240" Title="Mythology SE needs more commitments" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2015-03-07T00:11:38.710" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6658" CreationDate="2015-03-04T19:27:53.227" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want free advertising,  try drawing up a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5326/23386&quot;&gt;community ad&lt;/a&gt;, or posting in chat.  But please keep it respectful,  and not too spammy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2015-03-05T08:12:53.240" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6661" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6662" CreationDate="2015-03-05T03:59:13.667" Score="-6" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83085/where-is-marvel-cinematic-universe-heading&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83085/where-is-marvel-cinematic-universe-heading&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83092/would-there-be-infinity-stone-in-avengers-age-of-ultron&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83092/would-there-be-infinity-stone-in-avengers-age-of-ultron&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions has been closed as primarily opinion based. How can these be opinion based when I am asking for official statements?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2015-03-05T04:16:55.960" Title="Why are these questions closed" Tags="|support|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6661" CreationDate="2015-03-05T04:10:03.250" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, these questions have no official answers. As such, we have four options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ignore the question completely.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer the question saying that there is no official answer. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer the question saying that there is no official answer, provide (hopefully) reasonable logical speculation which may or may not be correct and need to be updated later.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close the question until such time that an official statement or answer &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; exist.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per the discussion on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5187/should-questions-about-future-works-be-closed-as-primarily-opinion-based&quot;&gt;Should questions about future works be closed as Primarily Opinion Based?&lt;/a&gt;, the community consensus was that we should choose the fourth option and come back to it once someone finds an official answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If at any point, someone &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; find an official statement, a comment can be left and the question can be flagged for re-opening, or a mod can be contacted to get it re-opened quicker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially since you are asking for official statements, the fourth option makes even more sense to help prevent the non-official answers you say you're not looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2015-03-05T04:16:55.960" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6663" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6664" CreationDate="2015-03-05T07:54:49.350" Score="0" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;I deleted a lot of content from a post that I thought had nothing to do with the question and was off-topic, but got rejected by the author (it wasn't peer reviewed). I believe my edit should have been approved. What can or should I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the rejected edit: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/49821&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/49821&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify: I was hoping for something like the following, if the OP really wanted to keep the content:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is peer-reviewed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is perhaps approved&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The OP rolls it back&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This lets my changes remain in the revision history, and the OP can have his question however he/she likes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I'm not downvoting it, because I think it's generally a good question. It just has a part that I believe is fluff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30412" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2015-03-06T11:20:49.723" Title="I want to dispute my edit being rejected by the author; what should I do?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6663" CreationDate="2015-03-05T08:12:34.020" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not to be too flip about it, but at this point, you can accept it and move on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You proposed an edit, the OP thought it was a bad edit. It's their question, they get to do that. If you still believe the question is poorly written and cannot convince the author to fix it, downvote it and be done with it. Otherwise, you've exhausted the list of things you can do to change it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2015-03-05T08:12:34.020" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6665" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-05T14:03:11.267" Score="-21" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;Last I checked, this site is dominated by Sci-Fi questions. Also, referring to this site is a pain in ass. Concise name would be awesome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If fantasy guys are pissed, the new name can be &lt;em&gt;Death Star&lt;/em&gt;. Star Wars is both Science Fiction and Fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I am giving reference of &lt;em&gt;Ask Different&lt;/em&gt; site which by no means displays any connection with Apple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="931" LastEditDate="2015-04-21T11:47:36.593" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T11:47:36.593" Title="Change the site's name to Science Fiction or Sci-Fi" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-03-07T06:29:38.633" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6665" CreationDate="2015-03-05T14:12:21.470" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second most frequently used tag is Harry Potter - currently with 2099 questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, of the top five tags, two are science-fiction (Star Trek, Star Wars), and two are Fantasy (Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings). Totaling up their questions, the Science Fiction and Fantasy camps are neck and neck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no reason to change the name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2015-03-05T14:12:21.470" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6634" CreationDate="2015-03-05T17:37:39.773" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the question begs further definition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If by &quot;magic realism&quot; you mean magic that doesn't break the readers willing suspension of disbelief - then it is an entirely subjective &amp;amp; opinion driven answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If by &quot;magic realism&quot; you mean a fictional universe in which magic obeys laws specified by the author then it would be possible to pose specific questions about those rules to see how they might apply in a specific situation, and have a reasonable chance of referenced answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose the best measure might be whether the person writing the answer can provide a reference to support their opinion.  If not, then it's just an opinion and probably the question isn't a good one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42324" LastActivityDate="2015-03-05T17:37:39.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6668" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6669" CreationDate="2015-03-05T19:15:46.107" Score="3" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;I checked back on a question to which I had posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/83153/36454&quot;&gt;an answer&lt;/a&gt; and discovered that I allegedly also posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83076/tolkien-calls-sauron-morgoths-greatest-servant-but-does-he-ever-really-earn-t#comment179309_83076&quot;&gt;a comment&lt;/a&gt; with the same content (although truncated) at exactly the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's going on here? Did a moderator think that my answer should have been a comment, hit the convert button, and then realise that it was truncated and half-undo the conversion? Is it some weird bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would delete the comment, but I don't want to muddy the waters further until I understand what happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36454" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2015-03-05T19:21:20.490" Title="Why does my answer appear to be half-way to being converted into a comment?" Tags="|support|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6668" CreationDate="2015-03-05T19:21:20.490" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears a mod converted your post to a comment, then changed his mind and undeleted it, without removing the comment. I can't speak to why he deleted or restored it, but I've deleted the comment as it's incomplete and no longer needed anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2015-03-05T19:21:20.490" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6670" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6671" CreationDate="2015-03-05T19:36:21.287" Score="2" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83145/how-did-james-potter-become-head-boy&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; today , and in about 6 hours it got about 850 views ( as it reads in the description ).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wanted to know whether its a glitch since none of the other questions that were asked today got so many views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE 1 &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It just became 954 !!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE 2   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just for the happy beginning , it crossed 1000 :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42628" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2015-03-10T10:40:27.910" Title="Unnatural amount of views on a question" Tags="|support|hot-network-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6670" CreationDate="2015-03-05T19:54:33.647" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Confirmed - your question made &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/questions?tab=hot&quot;&gt;the Network Hot Questions List&lt;/a&gt;, so it's showing up for users across the network&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1aemj.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="5184" LastEditDate="2015-03-05T20:07:51.623" LastActivityDate="2015-03-05T20:07:51.623" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1289" CreationDate="2015-03-05T21:01:17.820" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme:&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;Saying 'crap' gets stars in chat&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scope&lt;/strong&gt;: SFF Chat room (Mos Eisley)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1693/tango&quot;&gt;TangoOversway&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height:&lt;/strong&gt; Early 2012&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First Occurrence:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=3056486#3056486&quot;&gt;TangoOversway Jan 19 '12 6:50 PM&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are times I make sure I include a full sentence here, to give something funny to be starred, then people ignore those and star my comments whenever I say, &quot;Crap!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; Tango said it, and it made it so. Although of 527 chat entries containing 'crap', only 47 of them have received stars. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To date one comment shines highest with 6 stars for containing the secret 'star' word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/26731/tango&quot;&gt;Tango&lt;/a&gt; Note to self: Whenever anyone mentions @Slytherincess and Glee in a message, star it - just like all my messages get starred when I write &quot;crap&quot; in them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T14:52:17.687" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6673" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6675" CreationDate="2015-03-06T00:48:19.207" Score="3" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just about to answer an old question with newly-released information, but I stopped: the answer came from an issue of a recent comic, and basically the whole answer would be spoilers.  The question was of the &quot;Has this ever happened&quot; style, and answering in the affirmative at all would give away major plot points of an ongoing story...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the policy here?  Should an entire answer be wrapped in spoiler tags?  If the question is &quot;Has X ever happened?&quot; and it happened in this month's issue, even just saying &quot;Yes, it happens in Comic-Name #12&quot; would be a spoiler, before anyone even got to the spoiler text outlining exactly &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; happens in Issue 12.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/980/20221&quot;&gt;this Meta answer&lt;/a&gt; that timeframe shouldn't really be weighed in giving spoilers, since someone will always be new to the franchise.  But it also seems wrong to read a comic on the day it comes out, and then jump on the site and shout &quot;Yeah!  That totally happens!  It just happened in the issue you haven't had time to read yet!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a policy for this?  Wrapping a whole answer in spoiler tags seems ugly, but so does giving away spoilers without wrapping them in spoiler tags...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20221" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2015-04-27T12:08:07.567" Title="What's the policy on whole-answer spoilers?" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6673" CreationDate="2015-03-06T01:10:17.260" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd consider how big of a spoiler the answer would be. As you said, you could start off with where the answer is found, then wrap the answer in spoilers. If the spoiler is short, I see no problem putting it all in spoilers. If it's gonna be long, then maybe consider breaking it up into several spoiler chunks separated by nonspoiler context. Or if that's difficult, maybe work in some minor spoilers as context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't really have a policy about this. Just try to be spoilery as little as possible, and if there's big readability problems, it will get edited or commented on. It's hard to give a hard and fast rule on this, so just stay on your toes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastEditorUserId="4678" LastEditDate="2015-03-06T01:22:21.253" LastActivityDate="2015-03-06T01:22:21.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6673" CreationDate="2015-03-06T01:23:59.083" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of answers on this site that are &lt;em&gt;mostly&lt;/em&gt; spoilers, but an answer that was &lt;em&gt;entirely&lt;/em&gt; a spoiler would not be very useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, when I have those situations, I will try to summarize the answers with all identifying information removed as much as possible, and then expand on the details in the spoiler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the very least, you want to get the basic answer out in the open, so if the question is &quot;Has XXX ever happened in Y universe?&quot; you would format your answer something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, it has, at least once:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Details here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is enough to let people, especially the OP, at least know the answer to the question; if they want to know more details it's up to them to risk the spoilers. If it's a &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; recent event, as in your case, you may want to point that out:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, it has happened recently:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; In Issue #10 stuff happened&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2015-03-06T01:23:59.083" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6663" CreationDate="2015-03-06T06:47:03.543" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can ask here on Meta for the community as a whole to weigh in. No posts, whether questions or answers, strictly belong to their authors alone, they belong to the community as a whole. While the desires of original authors should be respected, the community may reach a consensus decision that an edit should be made to a post against the author's wishes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this particular edit it doesn't look like the consensus will side with you. I agree that those lines don't really belong in the question, but they're not particularly problematic either. It would be acceptable to downvote the question, but I don't think it's particularly deserving of that either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17815" LastEditorUserId="17815" LastEditDate="2015-03-06T11:20:49.723" LastActivityDate="2015-03-06T11:20:49.723" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6673" CreationDate="2015-03-06T09:41:29.553" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could also preface you're answer with a disclaimer, explaining why everything is wrapped in spoiler tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Answering your question would be a spoiler, so continue at your own risk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Yes, it has happened, in issue #10 (details here).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, the OP wants to know, so they want to be spoiled, whereas people not wanting to be spoiled have no business reading the question in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2015-03-06T09:41:29.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6678" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-06T14:32:55.260" Score="5" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; I am &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; implying or arguing that a user should ever be restricted from deleting their post - this question is about acceptable etiquette on the part of other users &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; a post has been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Occasionally, a user will delete a post after it has garnered some answers. As such, the post has become useful to some degree, in that research which may be helpful to other users has been done. In the case of a meta post, useful conversation may have occurred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One such example is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3043/5184&quot;&gt;Should questions about sex and other adult activities be off-topic?&lt;/a&gt; (Sorry, it's deleted, so it requires enough rep to see it now.). The question generated 10 answers, and a lot of discussion over our policies regarding &quot;adult material&quot;. The OP decided to delete their question and their account. But the subject of adult material has come up again from time-to-time. It would be useful to be able to refer back to the original conversation, but we can't since it's been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/82984/5184&quot;&gt;this recent story identification question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions were asked, research was done, Sean Duggan's answer was incorrect, but the OP found the correct answer. Instead of writing up a new answer of his own, the OP left a quick comment and then deleted the whole question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Sean Duggan pointed out in chat, though, doing so removes useful knowledge from the public site. We have no idea why the OP deleted the question in this instance, and we don't really need to - it's their right to delete it if they choose to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But technically anyone with enough rep can vote to undelete a post. &lt;strong&gt;When is it acceptable (or unacceptable) to do so?&lt;/strong&gt; Undeleting posts is not something we see with any sort of frequency here - in fact, I can't think of a single time I've ever seen it done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2015-03-08T00:21:24.433" Title="When is it acceptable to undelete another user's post?" Tags="|discussion|deleted-questions|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6678" CreationDate="2015-03-06T15:08:08.643" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, I think we need to make a clear distinction here between posts that were deleted by the user, vs. posts that were deleted by someone else (e.g. a mod or the community). If a third-party deleted the post, then see no reason a third-party should hesitate to undelete it, if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, when a user deletes their own post, I think, we are in a much different situation. While I admit that there are certainly some cases where undeleting a post would &lt;em&gt;seem&lt;/em&gt; to be beneficial, I have a real hard time justifying an action that clearly goes against the user's wishes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are tons of reasons why someone might want to delete a question they posted, and for us (mod or community) to come in and undo that would require us to understand the thought process that user went through. Perhaps they thought the question would cause them problems if someone found it while browsing or searching. Perhaps they thought it was a terrible question and didn't want to be associated with it. Perhaps they decided that Stack Exchange is not their cup of tea and want to remove themselves entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whatever their reason, if a user wants to make one of their questions go away, I am very reluctant to countermand that choice for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a side note, is there a way for questions to be converted to community wiki? If we had a way to &quot;anonymize&quot; a question before undeleting it, much of my argument against would vanish. I still think the bar should be very high: of the two linked questions in the OP, I would say the meta question would be worth it and the other not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2015-03-06T15:08:08.643" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6680" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6682" CreationDate="2015-03-06T16:14:56.837" Score="21" ViewCount="417" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently downvoted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/83216/20533&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; highly upvoted answer to a currently very popular question.  The answer was written well, and offered an interesting perspective, but I felt it was not very useful to the questioner who was looking for an answer more related to canon, and less related to imaginative world-buidling and whether or not 'parsec' means the same thing in a galaxy far, far away.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I notice a lot of people, from the comments being made on the answer, upvoted it solely because the answer was funny, regardless of (and in spite of) the actual usefulness of the answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't mean to be a party pooper, but I don't think this is appropriate.  Funny though the answer may be, it's now the highest-voted answer on the question, and doesn't really contribute that much to the actual question itself.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should such upvotes be discouraged?  Am I just being a big wet blanket?  Or is the content of this answer actually fully relevant and therefore this meta question is just amounting to a big rant?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20533" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2015-03-06T16:26:28.443" Title="Upvoting 'funny' answers" Tags="|discussion|answers|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6680" CreationDate="2015-03-06T16:22:33.173" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was kind of on the fence on this one. Translation conventions aside, it is entirely possible that another culture could count differently. Maybe it's unlucky to sound off sequentially, for example. But yeah, it was posted as a joke, and I personally downvoted it as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2015-03-06T16:22:33.173" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6680" CreationDate="2015-03-06T16:22:45.713" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;While Stack Exchange sites offer &lt;em&gt;guidance&lt;/em&gt; for what we consider good questions and good answers, they very specifically do not have &lt;em&gt;rules&lt;/em&gt; for what justifies up-votes or down-votes. It has always been policy, (AFAIK on every site) that you up-vote answers you &quot;think are good&quot;, and that means whatever you want it to mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, while you may be correct that the answer isn't doing much to answer the question, the community as a whole likes it, and that's all there is to it. You've done your part by downvoting it (and it may get some more via the meta effect), but otherwise...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Short: no, you're not being a &quot;wet blanket&quot;, because you are largely correct; but yes, this question is mostly just a rant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2015-03-06T16:22:45.713" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6680" CreationDate="2015-03-06T16:26:28.443" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voting is subjective so we can't discourage upvotes. The best thing for you to do is downvote to discourage such &quot;funny&quot; answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the concern about the answer not being useful to the asker, that's for the asker to decide. The asker has the option to accept a different answer that is more helpful, and that answer would float to the top even if it isn't the highest voted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastActivityDate="2015-03-06T16:26:28.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6678" CreationDate="2015-03-07T23:40:32.977" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;All content submitted to this site is submitted under the Creative Commons BY-SA licence and a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/legal&quot;&gt;perpetual and irrevocable licence to Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;, and so in essence belongs to the whole site community. In principle this means that there may be occasions where a user's desire to delete their posts will not be accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a single post is deleted and it's not of great quality, then nothing really is lost. If it's of average quality it could be potentially reposted by another user. If an important post that was well received is deleted (or an average question with amazing answers), then probably the reasons have to do with something other than the post itself. After trying to deal with the real issues, it would be very appropriate to undelete such a post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a user deletes all their posts, that should be considered site vandalism. I know I have read this before, but I'm having a hard time finding an appropriate post on Meta.SE. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/7635/256282&quot;&gt;main question for this issue&lt;/a&gt; has very mixed answers, most of which say such a user's wishes should be respected :/&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17815" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2015-03-08T00:21:24.433" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6685" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6687" CreationDate="2015-03-09T18:49:24.593" Score="-1" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/percy-jackson&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;percy-jackson&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;percy-jackson&lt;/a&gt;: 12 questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For comparison, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; is beyond 2,000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Percy Jackson seems to be a pretty popular series with a decently large universe. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why do we have so few questions on it? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything that can be done to entice more (which I feel needs the &quot;why&quot; answered first)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T21:56:06.963" Title="Why do we have so few Percy Jackson questions?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6670" CreationDate="2015-03-09T18:53:28.550" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not impossible to generate tons of traffic for a specific question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I posted this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/80025/what-states-did-the-2-extra-stars-on-the-american-flag-represent-in-star-trek-tn&quot;&gt;What states did the 2 extra stars on the American flag represent in Star Trek TNG &amp;quot;The Royale&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; to reddit, I received the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/56/publicist&quot;&gt;Publicist&lt;/a&gt; badge within 10 hours. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T18:53:28.550" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6685" CreationDate="2015-03-09T18:55:53.553" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Book Popularity&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Harry Potter series of books have been accessed over a billion times (80-100M physical sales of each book + 200M digital sales and at least  50M illegal downloads).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By comparison, the Percy Jackson series appears to have sold less than 20M copies per novel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That alone should explain the relative lack of interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Film Popularity&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top of that, the HP films are the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films#Highest-grossing_franchises_and_film_series&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;single most successful film series of all time&lt;/a&gt; (with an average cinematic take of over a billion dollars per film) as compared to Percy Jackson's relatively flaccid $100M per film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Target Demographic&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The New Yorker also spoke to the book series' young readership and (almost insultingly) simplistic plotlines, neither of which would seem to lend themselves well to providing a good source of questions on a site largely geared towards adults (or at least those aged 13+):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That slangy, casual style is a hallmark of the Percy Jackson books,&#xA;  which often read like a faithful transcription of teen uptalk. At the&#xA;  level of language, Riordan’s books make J. K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter”&#xA;  series seem as if it were written by Samuel Johnson. &lt;strong&gt;Unlike the Harry&#xA;  Potter books, which, notoriously, have been embraced by adult readers&#xA;  as well as juvenile ones, the Percy Jackson books seem positively&#xA;  contrived to repel adult readers, so thoroughgoing is their&#xA;  affectation of teen goofiness.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2015-03-09T21:56:06.963" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T21:56:06.963" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6688" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-09T19:45:52.770" Score="-2" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has anyone ever broached the idea of putting tags on answers in addition to questions? There are a lot of questions that don't have accurate tags since the OP doesn't know what series/TV show/comic book they're looking for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we could tag answers as well, it would make it far easier to find content. For example, many questions have an &quot;Amazing Stories&quot; episode as the answer, but that fact isn't reflected in the question tags, or even the question itself (since it's unknown at that time). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a purely usability standpoint, it would be nice if clicking a tag called &quot;Amazing-Stories&quot; showed you not only all questions tagged that way, but also any questions where an answer is tagged that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: Using &quot;Amazing Stories&quot; as an example, I see them fairly often. Here's two I came across just today:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/68369/20557&quot;&gt;I am looking for a science fiction story were three guys plot to kill an old drunk in a bar for insurance but the old man can&amp;#39;t be killed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/67835/tv-show-where-goo-brings-images-to-life/67853#67853&quot;&gt;TV show where goo brings images to life&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both questions are currently tagged with just &quot;story-identification&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20557" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T20:29:23.380" Title="Putting tags on Answers" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6685" CreationDate="2015-03-09T19:47:51.093" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Excluding the latest film, the series predates this site.&lt;/strike&gt;  Popular works that aren't contemporaries garner far less activity on this site.  Admittedly, this isn't consistent (super-massive franchises tend to have no problem garnering questions), but it's a trend I've noticed.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lost&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lost&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lost&lt;/a&gt; has 13 questions, despite being one of the biggest sci-fi shows of the past decade.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/battlestar-galactica-2004&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;battlestar-galactica-2004&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;battlestar-galactica-2004&lt;/a&gt; has a respectable showing with 105.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alien-franchise&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alien-franchise&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alien-franchise&lt;/a&gt; has 72 questions to its name.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/douglas-adams&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;douglas-adams&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;douglas-adams&lt;/a&gt; (not sure if there's another good 1 tag that shows interest in his works) has a mere 19 questions. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wheel-of-time&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wheel-of-time&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wheel-of-time&lt;/a&gt; has 93 questions, despite being one of the largest fantasy book franchises (only its final book was published after the site started).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile works that have been going on while the site's around are a bit more prolific; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt; has almost 500 questions.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt; manages a decent 214 questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Undermining this is the &lt;em&gt;Avatar: The Last Airbender&lt;/em&gt; franchise.  The older &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avatar-the-last-airbender&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avatar-the-last-airbender&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avatar-the-last-airbender&lt;/a&gt; has roughly the same number of questions (~100) as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-legend-of-korra&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-legend-of-korra&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-legend-of-korra&lt;/a&gt; (started in 2012, ended in 2014).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially, my guess is that &lt;em&gt;current&lt;/em&gt; interest in a work is necessary to result in many questions.  Once there are questions, then there's more activity, and things snowball from there.  To a certain extent, one person can jump-start this, but there's only so far you can get with a bunch of either self-answered or unanswered posts.  Something needs to happen to trigger broad interest to make the number of posts on the tag increase without an individual or small group driving it.  I'm not sure there's any silver bullet fix here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sidenote: I'm way more active in TV/film than books.  If someone can suggest popular book series from the past decade or two, we can add more data points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2015-03-09T20:14:48.083" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T20:14:48.083" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6688" CreationDate="2015-03-09T19:54:35.903" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the tags on a question are wrong, then the correct solution is to change those tags. That's one of the things that community editors are expected to deal with when cleaning up a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, if you're writing an answer where the tags would be different from the ones on the question, either the question needs to be fixed, or you're writing a bad answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions, I admit there's a bit of fuzziness there. @phantom42 mentions this question: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/671/should-we-tag-story-identification-questions-with-the-name-of-the-author&quot;&gt;Should we tag (solved) story identification questions with the name of the author / property?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which addresses the issue of editing tags into story-id questions. But, IMO, those tags are unlikely to be helpful. My reasoning here is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People looking for story-id help won't know which tags to look for, since they don't know the story.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People looking for questions about a given tag probably &lt;em&gt;don't want&lt;/em&gt; to see story-id questions, since those questions rarely have anything interesting to say &lt;em&gt;about the work&lt;/em&gt;. They are mostly &quot;this is the story you're looking for&quot; answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T20:29:23.380" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6691" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-10T11:33:22.323" Score="-9" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;@Richard deleted a question of mine: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83396/whats-the-stamina-of-wolverine-on-bed&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83396/whats-the-stamina-of-wolverine-on-bed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, I respect her decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to make the question suitable for this site. I already tried my best to write sexual things indirectly (like I used bed, I never used f**k word, etc), but looks like it still needs work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please, help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2015-03-11T00:32:50.583" Title="How to make this question suitable for this site?" Tags="|discussion|support|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6692" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-10T12:00:14.070" Score="-9" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;The site has &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1582/whats-our-tolerance-for-adult-content&quot;&gt;slight tolerance for mature questions&lt;/a&gt;, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6691/how-to-make-this-question-suitable-for-this-site&quot;&gt;sometimes you don't have a way&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we have a special tag for such questions and clicking such questions should ask whether users are 18+ or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2017-03-04T13:32:42.510" Title="Should we have tag and special treatment for mature questions?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6693" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6694" CreationDate="2015-03-10T12:06:56.897" Score="14" ViewCount="516" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some leaks can from accidental statements by actors, or the like. I'm not talking about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm think of blackhat leaks, which can be illegal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do we allow such leaks on the site?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="3567" LastEditDate="2015-03-10T12:40:52.007" LastActivityDate="2015-03-11T12:54:35.780" Title="What's our position on leaked material that was obtained illegally?" Tags="|discussion|legal|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6693" CreationDate="2015-03-10T12:34:36.067" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Stack Exchange &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/legal&quot;&gt;Terms of Service&lt;/a&gt; expressly forbid using the service for illegal activity. These two sentences seem particularly relevant:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any fraudulent, abusive, or otherwise illegal activity or any use of the Services or Content in violation of this Agreement may be grounds for termination of Subscriber’s right to Services or to access the Network. [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use of the Network or Services to violate the security of any computer network, crack passwords or security encryption codes, &lt;strong&gt;transfer or store illegal material&lt;/strong&gt; including that are deemed threatening or obscene, or engage in any kind of illegal activity is expressly prohibited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I imagine reposting material that was obtaining illegally falls squarely under that second sentence. Don't do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see illegal material, then please edit to remove it. If the OP has a pattern of posting illegal content, or it should be obvious that it was illegal, then flag for moderator attention with the custom flag reason. Explain why you think the content was obtained illegally – they can decide what to do next, and escalate it to SE Staff as necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ETA, after 12 hours reflection:&lt;/strong&gt; When I wrote the hard-lined response above, I was thinking in very black-and-white terms. I am not a lawyer. The OP’s use of the word “blackhat” made me think of things that any reasonable person would find nefarious or illegal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: there’s a grey area (that we tend to let slide) with respect to quoting scripts for released films that are posted online, even though they probably aren’t there with the writer’s permission. But there’s a difference between that and, say, hacking into Joss Whedon’s voicemail to get the latest Avengers rumours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not a lawyer. Legal stuff is hard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-03-11T12:54:35.780" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6692" CreationDate="2015-03-10T13:15:03.943" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are three major problems with your proposal:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, and most importantly, you're making a broad assumption that such questions are &lt;em&gt;welcome&lt;/em&gt; here by the community. As near as I can tell, that is not the case. The target audience (13+ users) is inclusive because that's what we want, not because we can't figure out how to target a different audience. As @alexwlchan says, there are other places where such questions would be perfectly at-home, just not here. (Try reddit?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, we would be relying on the person asking the question, plus every subsequent high-rep user with edit privileges, to know whether their question was &quot;bad enough&quot; to warrant the tag; people under-tagging would negate the point, and people over-tagging would likely hide perfectly good questions where lots of people won't see them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, assuming there was consensus that your idea was a good one, we would be asking the developers of the Stack Exchange software to make a significant change to the way the site runs, specifically to allow a question that most of the community thinks is terrible. I don't see much likelihood of that proposal getting pushed through anytime soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="66402" LastEditDate="2017-03-04T13:32:42.510" LastActivityDate="2017-03-04T13:32:42.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6693" CreationDate="2015-03-10T14:26:44.343" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that there would be no problem discussing it, but you should probably avoid posting anything substantive of the material itself. As mentioned by alexwlchan, it's still copyrighted material, so we could at best post excerpts or low-quality images, and only for constructive discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2015-03-10T14:26:44.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6691" CreationDate="2015-03-11T00:32:50.583" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Per my comment above, I see no reasonable way to make this question suitable for a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1582/whats-our-tolerance-for-adult-content/1586#1586&quot;&gt;13+ audience.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A couple of points; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) Even if we somehow managed to fix the unsavoury (and squicky) wording in the original question, your thesis; that sexual intercourse results in &lt;em&gt;injury&lt;/em&gt; to the participants, simply isn't true. The main premise of your question is flawed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) Based on your prior track-record of closed questions, I suspect you posed this question less out of genuine interest in knowing the answer and more to provoke a response by asking a &lt;strong&gt;deliberately inappropriate&lt;/strong&gt; question you knew would get closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2015-03-11T00:32:50.583" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6698" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6702" CreationDate="2015-03-11T13:18:58.703" Score="3" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83379/what-are-some-nicknames-the-joker-has-for-batman&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; got put on hold recently as being too broad.  I voted to have it put on hold, and I stand by it being too broad.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue I have with this question is not that the number of &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; is to great, but that the number of referenced materials that would have to be scoured would be too great.  But some of the commenters, high-rep, respectable commenters, disagree and say the number of variations on Joker-Batman nicknames are few enough that it should be a manageable list.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They make a good point, and while I take the other side on this, I feel like the question could be salvaged with a bit more specification, but that the nature of the franchise would make forming a complete answer unreasonable for any Sci-Fi user.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should a list question be put on hold if the franchise is too broad, even though the pool of answers would be relatively small?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20533" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T20:55:10.410" Title="Is a list question within the scope of Sci-Fi SE if it is a relatively small pool of answers?" Tags="|discussion|scope|question-quality|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1289" CreationDate="2015-03-11T13:57:19.063" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme:&lt;/strong&gt; If Toad Slimed...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scope:&lt;/strong&gt; SFF Chat room (Mos Eisley) and main site (multiple questions)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=20368264#20368264&quot;&gt;Michael Edenfield Mar 4 5:14 PM&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height:&lt;/strong&gt; Early March 2015&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; A new user began asking &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=toad+user%3A42495&quot;&gt;a series of questions about Toad's spit&lt;/a&gt;, and who might survive or avoid the attack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tag Status:&lt;/strong&gt; Of course there's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/toads-spit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;toads-spit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;toads-spit&lt;/a&gt; tag!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/82989/5184&quot;&gt;Can Kitty Pryde phase through material attached to her (e.g. Toad's slime)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/83049/5184&quot;&gt;Could Gambit rescue Rogue from Toad without injuring her?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/83058/5184&quot;&gt;Could Husk escape Toad's slime attack?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the regular users in chat noticed the trend and began commenting on it and its possible ulterior motives&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sean Duggan: @JackBNimble: The question is, how long will it take before he asks whether the time-traveling robots can remove the slime from Toad's attack? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Michael Edenfield: I'm a bit worried over his fascination with Toad's spit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Michael Edenfield: @phantom42 Originally I thought he was looking for a female that was vulnerable to Toad, but his question about Rogue clearly indicates that she is vulnerable and he just wants to know if she could survive Gambit's rescue attempt. I think? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And thus, chat turned into creating absurd versions...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Michael Edenfield: If Toad slimed a drunk Caitlin Snow could The Flash run her home before she choked on her own vomit? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Michael Edenfield: If Mystique was slimed by Toad could she turn into a gnat? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as well as trying to figure out what characters might actually fit what the user was looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Michael Edenfield: marvel wikia lists 102 x-men related women. I'll take A-M you take the rest? :)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, we came up with Dani Moonstar, Silverfox, Blindfold, and Karma as all being the most susceptible to Toad's slime attack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since then, when lower-quality questions or topics, or just absurd situations come up, Toad's slime attacks are sometimes mentioned, wondering how Toad's slime would affect the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Michael Edenfield: if toad spit on padme would it still be creepy for her to marry anakin? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Michael Edenfield: If Toad slimed a drunk Caitlin Snow could The Flash run her home before she choked on her own vomit? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Michael Edenfield: If Toad spit slime at the Blob could Juggernaut still break through it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2015-11-22T23:31:38.263" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6698" CreationDate="2015-03-11T14:32:42.033" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Post whatever you know, there shouldn't be one right answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has sent my alarm bells ringing!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My main issue with this question is that it's possibly very difficult to maintain. If it was more strict on which films the OP was interested in, it'd be trivial to get all the names by watching films and noting them down. In that case I'd like to re-open it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it stands it sounds like they just want any-and-all nicknames, the listed actors are just story inspiration (possibly irrelevant to question's scope).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an example of a good &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/11132/3804&quot;&gt;list-question&lt;/a&gt;. No one is going to add to that picture - &lt;em&gt;the list there is static&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question could definitely be re-opened if it the scope could be better defined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2015-03-11T14:32:42.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6698" CreationDate="2015-03-11T17:01:10.793" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;tl;dr:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes, the community consensus, at least the last time I brought this up, is that a question with a &lt;em&gt;small, finite, stable&lt;/em&gt; list-style answer is on-topic. Unfortunately, the question at issue here doesn't fit that criteria, and was &lt;em&gt;rightly&lt;/em&gt; closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with Pureferret, and I'm rather shocked that high-rep users would consider this a good question. IMO it falls squarely into the kind of list question that motivated the no-lists policy in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, regardless of the form that it takes, a question on a Stack Exchange site is expected to have a single, objectively correct answer, and that answer is expected to be valid for future users that have the same question. Obviously, that's an ideal that isn't always possible to meet, particularly on this site where retcons are almost the rule rather than the exception, but it's still the goal we should &lt;em&gt;strive for&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An &lt;em&gt;on-topic&lt;/em&gt; list question is a question that can be answered entirely in a single answer, which can be judged &amp;quot;right&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;wrong&amp;quot;, and is &lt;em&gt;likely&lt;/em&gt; to remain correct forever. For example, &amp;quot;How many Observers were there in Fringe&amp;quot;, or &amp;quot;How many species of intelligent non-human were there in &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; would fall into that category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An &lt;em&gt;off-topic&lt;/em&gt; list question is any question that fails one of those criteria. In the case of the Batman nickname question, the main issue is that any answer we give today is &lt;em&gt;very likely&lt;/em&gt; to become wrong in the near future, because Batman stories are being published constantly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top of that, it's going to be very difficult for the OP to determine if any given answer is correct or not, because it's any answering user would need to have either memorized, or have access to, &lt;em&gt;every single&lt;/em&gt; issue of any comic imprint that includes Joker making reference to Batman. As @Keen says in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2639/2816&quot;&gt;related meta-question:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not reasonable to ask a question on a Q&amp;amp;A site that requires knowledge of all works that ever existed, and then request a massive list of the works that contain one specific element.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, there is the issue that we can't tell &lt;em&gt;from the question&lt;/em&gt; how broad the answer will end up being. On this point, I think there is some disagreement; comments on the related meta question go both ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions shouldn't really be judged on the quality of the answers provided, they should be judged on their own merits. - @Anthony Grist&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagree with your premise - to an extent, the answers a question generates (or will likely generate) should be a factor in judging a question - @Iszi&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it is a factor worth considering, that leaving the question open because it &lt;em&gt;might not&lt;/em&gt; generate a huge list of partial lists as answers, means risking that it &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; produce exactly that. And closing a question because we don't like the answesr just feels wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-03-11T17:07:34.980" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6698" CreationDate="2015-03-11T19:56:41.037" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The real problem here is the question absolutely should have been closed as &quot;too broad&quot;, &lt;strong&gt;but not for the reasons those who voted to close have argued.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's a list question and one that could potentially spawn multiple answers from a variety of canon universes. Theoretically you could find one set of answers from the comics, another from the films, yet one more from the cartoons. How do you judge the relative &quot;rightness&quot; of an answer when two answers may be equally right? For that reason, it should have been closed as &quot;too broad&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, some people seem to be saying that because the OP is asking for answers from across the full spectrum of canons that feature Batman, that that somehow makes the answer &lt;em&gt;too hard&lt;/em&gt; to answer. I'd argue that's a poor excuse for a close. The idea that we want to focus on making questions as easy as possible to answer &lt;strong&gt;is just plain wrong.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-03-11T19:56:41.037" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6703" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-11T20:00:00.793" Score="-13" ViewCount="338" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just asked a question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83622/how-good-is-bifrost-bridge-in-comparison-with-star-trek-transporters&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83622/how-good-is-bifrost-bridge-in-comparison-with-star-trek-transporters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone can understand what I am asking and by no way it's conflicting with in-universe canon rules even if I have used words from other canon. Those words are quite popular in the sci-fi world, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By no means, Star Trek is involved here. And, everyone knows that. Why do you need to scan words like robots?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The purpose of this meta question is community awareness. Don't be a robot to scan words. To all who agreed with question's closure: Ask yourself (don't give arguments), is the question not clear? Is the question really opinion-based?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2015-03-11T20:20:54.727" Title="Why is community being Robot here?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ClosedDate="2015-03-12T21:15:03.450" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6703" CreationDate="2015-03-11T20:20:54.727" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to you, in your own words:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;By no means, Star Trek is involved here. And, everyone knows that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yet, your question title is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How good is Bifrost Bridge in comparison with Star Trek transporters?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, there are two options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You are asking for a comparison between transport technologies from two different universes, which is off-topic and will be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You are asking about the transport technology from &lt;em&gt;Thor&lt;/em&gt;, in which case the Star Trek reference is incidental, and its presence in the title is just causing confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we're all willing to accept that the right answer is #2. You are not asking for a comparison between the two, you are asking for a specific capability of the Bifrost. That's fine. As written, the question is just easily misinterpreted as an X vs Y question, but with a bit of clarification, it becomes a good question. But, when someone comes along and helpfully edits your question to get it reopened, &lt;em&gt;you just rolled it back&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that you insist on forcing the Star Trek comparison into your question, when you admit yourself that it's not needed, is making your question demonstrably worse and preventing you from getting answers to what could be really good questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2015-03-11T20:20:54.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6705" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6706" CreationDate="2015-03-12T00:07:48.500" Score="4" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I was reading a flame war between two users, and I came across&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...asking for a comparison between transport technologies from two different universes, which is off-topic and will be closed - Michael Edenfield&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is comparing attributes from one universe to another considered off topic? I understand the point of this website is to discuss science fiction and fantasy, to clarify or explore explanations for questions about existing works. Under this thinking the question was valid, but clearly others think not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone clarify?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42794" LastEditorUserId="42794" LastEditDate="2015-03-12T00:28:03.803" LastActivityDate="2015-03-12T00:28:03.803" Title="Cross-canon comparisons are off topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6705" CreationDate="2015-03-12T00:24:44.943" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;That depends on what you mean to &quot;cross-over comparisons.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As this site is a Q&amp;amp;A site, and not an open-ended discussion site, questions here should be the kind of question that has a &quot;right&quot; answer. Ideally, that right answer should come from a canon source, or at least something vaguely authoritative. We want to make sure that, if someone comes up with an answer, it's possible for the person asking the question to &quot;know&quot; if it's right or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if you asked &quot;Could Force Lightning hurt Superman?&quot;, that would be an impossible question to ask, because there is no point of reference. We could &lt;em&gt;speculate&lt;/em&gt; over whether Force Lightning qualified as magic in the DC-Universe-sense, but that's all it would be: speculation. And we don't want speculative answers. Alternatively, if you asked something like &quot;Could the Death Star beat up a Borg Cube?&quot;, the answers you get would mostly be opinions: &quot;I think the Death Star would win because _____&quot;. And we also don't like subjective or opinion answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, a question like &quot;Could Hulk beat up Superman&quot; very well &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; have a real answer, because those two canons have interacted before. In that case, the person asking the question would be expected to specify that -- indicate that they're looking for a situation where Hulk really did fight Superman and what happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it's not so much that we don't like cross-over questions, it's that we don't like &lt;em&gt;purely hypothetical&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;purely subjective&lt;/em&gt; questions. The cross-canon comparison questions are just an example of the kind of question that usually falls into one of those two categories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2015-03-12T00:24:44.943" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6707" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-12T09:19:15.533" Score="-22" ViewCount="718" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83622/can-bifrost-bridge-reach-underground&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83622/can-bifrost-bridge-reach-underground&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was closed. Then, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6703/why-is-community-being-robot-here&quot;&gt;I reached meta to resolve issues&lt;/a&gt; because I thought my question shouldn't be closed in its original form. I waited. Also, after a while, I agreed for the edit in the chat and pinged all involved users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2816/michael-edenfield&quot;&gt;a guy&lt;/a&gt; (who clearly participated in this question on meta and chat) took the idea and created a new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I clarified the question. Then, @Keen (who was also active during my question issue) opened my question and closed &lt;em&gt;my question&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83635/could-the-bifrost-bridge-be-used-to-extract-someone-from-a-secure-location&quot;&gt;as duplicate&lt;/a&gt;. How can this previously asked question be duplicate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To Stack Exchange employees:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If you want to encourage genuine content creation on the site, you must delete the other question (and move answer to mine). Also, as a strong message to diamonds, I suggest you revoke diamond access of @Keen (or, at least strongly warn him). This is no longer about democracy. This is like smashing the basic morals of constitution of a country.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Message of duplicate closure says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question has been &lt;strong&gt;asked before&lt;/strong&gt; and already has an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is this applicable here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;How does the site deal with Plagiarism? Should I start doing that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2018-02-21T17:04:30.687" Title="How can this question be duplicate (Also, please revoke diamond status of @Keen)?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="16" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6707" CreationDate="2015-03-12T11:46:34.480" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite frankly, you brought this on yourself. You were unnecessarily obtuse when people tried to fix your question, insisting on keeping it in a state that turned a reasonable (on-topic) question into an off-topic one. You were given numerous chances to fix it, and others even tried to help you get it into a good state, but you went so far as to roll back the edits to the originally poor wording. And to top that all off, you were rude to those trying to help you, and were not approachable about the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new question was asked some &lt;em&gt;five hours&lt;/em&gt; after you rolled the question back, and after discussion there did not seem like any way to appease you, so the other question was asked. It was only then that you acquiesced to people's suggestions and made the question on-topic. At this point, you're too late.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has nothing to do with content creation or mods that abuse their power. The other question asker was interested by the question and asked when it was clear the original was not going to be salvaged. The new question has been well-recieved and fostered several good answers and some good discussion. Keen acted in accordance with normal procedures for duplicates, and I've seen no evidence anyone is singling you out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You did this to your question, nobody else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; The question &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; asked before and has an answer. When you wrote the question, it was not a duplicate. It was only after you edited it that it became a duplicate. So the newer question actually &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; the first of the two to ask the same question, the older one got edited into a duplicate later. Really, that's pointless, because as Keen linked to, we closer older, poorer duplicates as dupes either way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastEditorUserId="4678" LastEditDate="2015-03-12T12:47:23.977" LastActivityDate="2015-03-12T12:47:23.977" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6707" CreationDate="2015-03-12T12:57:17.023" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know why I'm even bothering doing this...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's look at the sequence of events:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/83622/1&quot;&gt;your original question&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For better or worse, it was deemed as being off-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Another user &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/83622/2&quot;&gt;fixed the title&lt;/a&gt; of the question in an effort to focus it on what a number of us perceived the intention of the question to be.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/83622/3&quot;&gt;rolled back the edit&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question was closed again.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You opened a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6703/5184&quot;&gt;meta question&lt;/a&gt; decrying this, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6703/why-is-community-being-robot-here#comment15521_6703&quot;&gt;calling everyone &quot;robots&quot; and &quot;dick&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After much talking at you, and you refusing to even acknowledge anyone's points, you made mention that you might edit the question back.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In chat, Michael mentioned possibly re-posting a new, clear version of the question, as we all felt it a good one, fundamentally.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You popped into chat and told us that we could edit the question if we wanted to.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Speaking only for myself, I told you that I had no interest in doing so. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hours pass. You have not edited your question, or given any futher indication you intend to.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Michael Edenfield sees the question has not been edited or re-opened, and chooses to proceed to open a new version of the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your original question is opened and then closed as a dupe so that it points to the new version.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which question should have been closed as a dupe?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yours asks if it can transport without destruction. Michael's takes that and refines it - asking if it can transport from underground - what are its limitations? Is consent involved? Does it pull an unwilling person?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Michael's is a more robust question that would serve to garner a more complete answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4744/should-we-always-close-the-newer-question-as-the-duplicate&quot;&gt;discussion here&lt;/a&gt;, we keep the question that shows more value to the community, and not necessarily the older one. As such, it makes sense that your original question be closed as the duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How is the closure reason applicable here?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an issue that has been mentioned a handful of times on Meta. The close reason could definitely use tweaking - in part, for reasons you're running into here. The other issue we bump against is that we close questions as dupes when the answers match, even if the questions aren't exactly the same. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you want to get that changed, you'll need to bring that up in a separate meta discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How should you deal with plagiarism?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;You do not own your posts. None. Not any of them.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything anyone writes on this site is licensed as &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Creative Commons - Share Alike&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/legal&quot;&gt;the TOS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You agree that all Subscriber Content that You contribute to the Network is perpetually and irrevocably licensed to Stack Exchange under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license. You grant Stack Exchange the perpetual and irrevocable right and license to use, copy, cache, publish, display, distribute, modify, create derivative works and store such Subscriber Content and to allow others to do so in any medium now known or hereinafter developed (“Content License”) in order to provide the Services, even if such Subscriber Content has been contributed and subsequently removed by You. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, site &lt;em&gt;etiquette&lt;/em&gt; is to &lt;em&gt;treat&lt;/em&gt; the OP as the owner, and generally abide by their wishes as far as the content of their posts are concerned. We have had instances where exact copy/pastes have been deleted, but a re-written version of your question is 100% within anyone's rights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T16:52:14.707" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6707" CreationDate="2015-03-12T12:57:38.537" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I intended to stay out of this whole mess, since I'm not entirely objective, but feel like I should defend @Keen here (not that he needs it), because he clearly did nothing wrong. Specifically, I want to make sure everyone gets the sequence of actions here, and why the &amp;quot;older&amp;quot; question got closed as a dupe of my &amp;quot;newer&amp;quot; one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sometime yesterday, @SS asked a question, originally titled &amp;quot;How good is Bifrost Bridge in comparison with Star Trek transporters?&amp;quot;, which was closed as off-topic (Gorilla vs. Shark).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A few minutes later, a user comes along and  edits the question to remove the comparison aspect, and the question gets re-opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;@SS then returns and rolls back the edit, back to the original form, and not surprisingly, the question gets closed again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, the question had become a point of interest in chat, with several of us expressing the opinion that it's really a good question, if only @SS would let the edits go through. At least one person expressed an interest in writing an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Eventually I decided to risk it, and started editing the question to clean it up, and make it clear that Star Trek was being use merely as an example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the middle of this edit, I get notified that the question had already been edited, specifically, @SS had posted to meta and edited a reference into his question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I took my edited content, saved it to a file, and went to participate in the meta question, hoping he would allow me to make my update and everyone would be happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The meta question went... a different way. By the end, I had given up on making edits to the original question, largely because of the insults and uncooperativeness being shown by the author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, I was &lt;em&gt;genuinely curious&lt;/em&gt; what the answer to the question was, because it really was an interesting one. It was just a matter of figuring out how to get it opened and answered. I even considered posting the question myself, after it became clear that the original was a non-start. However, after the furor died down, @SS left a final comment that he would go back and fix his question as we'd been asking, so I left the issue and waited for him to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;About 5 hours later, after I got home, I checked the original question, and it had not been touched. So, I took the updated content I had written and used it to open a new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A few hours later, @SS pops in and edits his original question, eliminating the part that we objected to, which puts it into the reopen queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By then, @Keen had already seen my question and posted a good answer to it. So yes, at the point that @SS edited his question, he &lt;em&gt;made it into&lt;/em&gt; a duplicate of mine, and @Keen correctly closed it as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-02-21T17:04:30.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6712" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-12T16:32:11.180" Score="67" ViewCount="903" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm incredibly sad to find out Terry Pratchett, possibly my favorite fantasy author, finally passed away. Went into the endless desert. Left early to avoid the rush. Kicked the bucket.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find this passage relevant:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;‘Goodbye,’ Mort said, and was surprised to find a lump in his throat.  ‘It’s such an unpleasant word, isn’t it?’&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;QUITE SO.  Death grinned because, as has so often been remarked, he didn’t have much option.  But possibly he meant it, this time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I PREFER AU REVOIR, he said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="770" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-01-26T19:51:59.510" LastActivityDate="2023-05-26T22:55:44.587" Title="RIP Terry Pratchett" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6712" CreationDate="2015-03-12T16:46:37.490" Score="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;From his official twitter feed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4wlfx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&amp;quot;AT LAST SIR TERRY WE MUST WALK TOGETHER&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2015-03-12T16:46:37.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6712" CreationDate="2015-03-12T20:11:51.270" Score="21" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'But he can't die! He's always been here!' said Gurder, aghast. 'You've got it wrong. Sir? Sir!'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'Is he dead?' &lt;br&gt; '&lt;em&gt;I detect no life functions.&lt;/em&gt;' &lt;br&gt; 'What does that mean?' &lt;br&gt; '&lt;em&gt;It means &amp;quot;yes&amp;quot;.&lt;/em&gt;'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'It has pleased Arnold Bros (est. 1905) to take our brother to the great Gardening Department beyond Consumer Accounts, where there is Ideal Lawn Edging and an Amazing Floral Display and the pool of eternal life in Easy-to-Lay Polythene with Real Crazy-Paving Edging.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;R. I. P.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-03-12T20:11:51.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6712" CreationDate="2015-03-12T23:35:55.333" Score="32" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Terry Pratchett, &amp;quot;Reaper Man&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;R.I.P Mr. Pratchett. You and your celestial turtle A'tuin shall live in our hearts forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="887" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-03-12T23:35:55.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6716" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6717" CreationDate="2015-03-13T08:47:51.067" Score="5" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83643/what-does-manw%C3%AB-do-all-day-and-all-the-night&quot;&gt;What do the Valar actually do in the Third Age?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was asked, and in it's original incarnation closed as &quot;unclear what you're asking&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I subsequently edited it, in order to remove some elements that would make it closable (but for a different close reason), added a comment requesting that the asker tighten up the focus a little, and it started to get some reopen votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it's now been closed again, and again as &quot;unclear what you're asking&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing is: &lt;strong&gt;even as it stands, the question is perfectly answerable with references from the source material&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm personally reluctant to go hacking and slashing through the question text any more as I feel it would risk changing the asker's intent too much, but I do think that is a potentially good question and I'd like to see it rescued.  But how?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2015-03-13T12:39:51.160" Title="How can we rescue this question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6716" CreationDate="2015-03-13T12:39:51.160" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is my bad. I should have made it clear that I closed it (as unclear) because it's two different questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can rescue it by making it a single answerable question or posting a comment explaining how the two (distinct) questions are related to each other. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-03-13T12:39:51.160" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6712" CreationDate="2015-03-13T14:27:43.733" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This video is very relevant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/cKxiLCMb6Q4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20533" LastEditorUserId="57642" LastEditDate="2017-01-10T22:46:47.707" LastActivityDate="2017-01-10T22:46:47.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6719" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6720" CreationDate="2015-03-13T16:50:51.757" Score="3" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand that upvoting someone's comment will not give them any reputation points, and I'm fine with that. &lt;strong&gt;I have no desire to change this functionality.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I AM curious - what was the original reason for setting it up that way and not, say, give someone 1 rep point each time their comment gets upvoted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20557" LastActivityDate="2015-03-13T17:28:31.187" Title="Reputation Points on comment votes" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6719" CreationDate="2015-03-13T17:21:02.150" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been occasional questions about this on the meta.stachexchange, or back when it was meta.stackoverflow, including this answer that explains why they aren't going to &lt;em&gt;change&lt;/em&gt; the behavior. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/296/reputation-for-comments/197642#197642&quot;&gt;Reputation for comments?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer there doesn't come right out and say it, but the reason that comments don't have rep is because rep is for &lt;em&gt;good questions and good answers&lt;/em&gt;. There's really no such this as a &quot;good comment&quot; or &quot;bad comment&quot;, apart from obvious policy violations (spam, harrassment, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea of comments is that they are transitory. After a while, you don't even see them; in fact, it's not uncommon for users to go back and delete old comments, or for moderators to come in and delete comments &lt;em&gt;en masse&lt;/em&gt; when thy get particularly out of hand. That kind of variability would play havoc with a rep system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Getting reputation for comments would essentially elevate them to the same level as questions and answers, when they are purposefully intended to be second-class citizens. We don't &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; people getting a &quot;reputation&quot; for being a really good commenter, because ultimately that doesn't advance the goal of Stack Exchange: to explicitly &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be a comments forum. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, if you allowed + rep points for comment upvotes, you'd ultimately need to allow - rep points for comment downvotes, but it's not clear what a downvote on a comment would mean. Comments often contain opinions, suggestions, or requests for clarification -- we don't want people penalized for making suggestions that just happen to turn out to be bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2015-03-13T17:28:31.187" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6721" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-14T13:07:44.633" Score="-10" ViewCount="352" Body="&lt;p&gt;After recent election, I am seeing lots of Diamond actions...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what happens these days: I ask a question and it gets closed within a minute, for example. They are highly active, that's great, but aren't we loosing community moderation elements? Shouldn't we still trust on multiple people's opinions on a question's viability, unless it's a spam, offence or a low quality question (grammatically or ethically punctured) from new user? Aren't diamond superpowers designed for occasional use?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should Diamond Moderators stop using their diamond powers in generic user's way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="931" LastEditDate="2015-03-16T19:24:59.093" LastActivityDate="2015-03-17T00:24:41.437" Title="Is the heavy use of superpowers exercised by Diamond Moderators right?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="31" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6721" CreationDate="2015-03-14T13:27:55.897" Score="-10" Body="&lt;p&gt;From this FAQ: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/75189/who-are-the-diamond-moderators-and-what-is-their-role&quot;&gt;Who are the diamond moderators, and what is their role?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What special privileges do diamond moderators have?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Diamond moderators are &lt;strong&gt;human exception handlers&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;em&gt;The main function of diamond moderators is to follow up on flagged posts&lt;/em&gt; but they also have some special abilities necessary to handle &lt;strong&gt;rare exceptional conditions&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ....&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is strongly suggested to Diamond Moderators to stop using diamond superpowers in a generic user's way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2015-03-14T14:26:48.457" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6721" CreationDate="2015-03-14T14:36:26.387" Score="23" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is what happens these days: I ask a question and it gets closed within a minute, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This assertion is not true&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the moderator election you have asked 27 questions of which 4 have been closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/81863/what-material-is-iron-mans-armor-made-of&quot;&gt;What material is Iron Man&amp;#39;s armor made of?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a clear duplicate and was closed by 5 votes, i.e by community consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/82691/why-did-palpatine-choose-jango-fetts-gene-to-create-clone-army&quot;&gt;Why did Palpatine choose Jango Fett&amp;#39;s gene to create Clone Army?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise a clear duplicate and likewise closed by community consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83085/are-there-any-official-statements-about-where-shield-vs-hydra-is-heading-in-the&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83085/are-there-any-official-statements-about-where-shield-vs-hydra-is-heading-in-the&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise, but Primarily Opinion-Based this time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83276/why-werent-muggle-parents-and-guardians-counted-as-muggle-under-section-13-of-t&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83276/why-werent-muggle-parents-and-guardians-counted-as-muggle-under-section-13-of-t&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And likewise, but once more a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;At no stage in the closing of these questions was a moderator involved&lt;/strong&gt;.  In fact every single time it's been exactly what you're asking for: multiple people's opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand you also asked this quesion: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/82532/can-i-have-map-of-star-wars-galaxy-showing-territory-of-separatists-and-commerci&quot;&gt;Can I have map of Star Wars galaxy showing territory of Separatists and commercial routes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where you come out and &lt;em&gt;demand that somebody make a hand-drawn map of the Star Wars galaxy for you&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the result of this was that &lt;em&gt;Richard gave you a helpful answer that the community showed it's approval of&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I think that Richard is doing a good job as a moderator.  He's still a new one, of course, and therefore growing into the role, but he's done a good job so far and is showing signs that he's going to be excellent at it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this stage I'm going to suggest that the problem here isn't moderator actions on this site.  &lt;strong&gt;The problem is your attitude to this site&lt;/strong&gt;.  You &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; capable of asking &lt;em&gt;great&lt;/em&gt; questions, your track record shows that, but you also ask some - and I'll be blunt - frankly ludicrous ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, it's expected that a &lt;em&gt;new user&lt;/em&gt; will make some mistakes in how they ask and answer questions, but over time they will learn how the site works and will either decide that it's not for them or they will become a better user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You on the other hand have been a member of this site for 4 years and have over 22k reputation.  &lt;strong&gt;But yet you don't seem to have progressed to the second (&quot;over time&quot;) part&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I made a point of mentioning the question where you demanded that someone make a hand-drawn map of the Star Wars galaxy for you above, because it's a good example of how I think you're interacting with this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that you're not showing much interest in being a productive and helpful member of this site and this community.  Instead I think that you're treating this site and this community as your own personal playground; you're treating this site and this community as though it existed solely for your own gratification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Others have suggested that you need to take some time out, and I'm going to suggest likewise.  I'm going to suggest that you use that time out to think about how you use this site and what you want to gain from your use of it.  Look over the questions that you've asked but that have been closed or have recieved a high number of downvotes, try to learn &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; that happened, and use that learning to improve the quality of your questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; been a good member in the past - you wouldn't have over 22k rep if you hadn't - and you &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; become a good member again, but right now you're unfortunately not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user8719" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2015-03-14T14:44:00.467" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6721" CreationDate="2015-03-14T14:41:55.697" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't always see exactly eye-to-eye with Richard in how he moderates, but I think he has been very careful in his moderation since becoming a mod. Your question and answer state that diamond mods should stop acting like generic users, but I see no reason to say they are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most obvious power a mod exercises is binding close votes. I've never seen anything that says they should refrain from using this, except for those times where their may not be a consensus or there is not an obvious reason to close. I'd say Richard and the other diamond mods have followed this guideline, and I've actually seen Richard closing &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt; questions as a mod. I assume this is to avoid the kind of thing you are accusing him of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, you really should provide specific examples of the abuse you are accusing others of. Otherwise it just looks like you have your feelings hurt and are lashing out at a target.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastActivityDate="2015-03-14T14:41:55.697" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6721" CreationDate="2015-03-14T16:10:27.420" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Addressing the assertion that Richard is free to close any question by himself, I ran &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/286784/close-votes-by-user-with-links&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this SE Data Explorer Query&lt;/a&gt; (Richard's ID = 20774) and found all Richard's close votes since he became a mod (enter '2015-02-03' for the SinceDate). There's only 62, 36 of which were closed as duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;30 questions (31 votes) solely closed by Richard&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;16 duplicates&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5 off-topic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3 'unclear what you're asking', 1 reopened later by Richard&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 migrated to History.SE&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 migrated to EL&amp;amp;U.SE&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 closed as off-topic, reopened, then closed as too broad (all by Richard)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 closed as off-topic but reopened by another Mod&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/32637/revisions&quot;&gt;1 closed as off-topic by the community&lt;/a&gt;, reopened by a another mod, closed as 'unclear what you're asking' (by Richard), reopened by another Mod, then closed by the community&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;9 questions closed by Richard and only 1 other user&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;7 duplicates&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 too broad&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 off-topic (you were the other voter)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;7 questions closed by Richard and two other users&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5 duplicates&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 too broad&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 as 'unclear what you're asking', reopened later by Richard&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;8 questions closed by Richard and 3 other users&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5 duplicates&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 primarily opinion-based&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 migrated to History.SE&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;7 questions closed by a total of 5 people (Richard's mod powers do not apply)&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3 duplicates&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 too broad&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 off-topic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community has only reopened 4 of his closed questions, and 2 of those reopenings were by Richard himself, another was closed again by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now it's possible that questions could be closed as duplicates where they aren't, but I didn't see any evidence of that, and dupes are the most objective close reasons, and the majority of his close votes were duplicates. You are welcome to look through the other deleted questions to see his close history - all the links show up in the report. But I'm not seeing abuse here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to check out the other mod's habits they are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keen: ID 1027 (mod start date '2012-02-07')&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kevin: ID 3267 (mod start date '2013-03-05')&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pureferret: 3804 (mod start date '2013-03-05')&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Thaddeus: 2765 (mod start date '2015-02-03')&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2015-03-14T16:42:44.240" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6726" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-14T17:10:43.640" Score="2" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;Later part of this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83808/how-does-the-superpower-distribution-of-asgardians-work&quot;&gt;How does the superpower distribution of Asgardians work?&lt;/a&gt; contains this question in a sense: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83825/can-bifrost-bridge-be-operated-without-heimdall&quot;&gt;Can Bifrost Bridge be operated without Heimdall?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How to remove the duplicate part from the first question without removing the example?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, can both questions coexist?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2015-03-14T17:43:21.977" Title="Help removing duplicate part from this question" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6726" CreationDate="2015-03-14T17:43:21.977" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I'd just scrub the entire last paragraph. It doesn't really add anything to the master question which is about how Asgardians get and hone their powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're utterly wedded to the idea of keeping the example, you could improve it by including more examples; extending it to other gods and their known powers (e.g. can other god-level Asgardians learn to create illusions or use the Odinforce?) and just remove the reference to the bifrost bridge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-03-14T17:43:21.977" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6712" CreationDate="2015-03-16T14:40:49.013" Score="9" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/3375.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tribute by Irregular Webcomics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xkcd.com/1498/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tribute by xkcd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.lspace.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the L-space Web, a homepage that collects information about Terry Pratchett and his writings,&lt;/a&gt; has added a landing page with an obituary, and moved the old main page a click below that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="4918" LastEditDate="2020-03-24T14:27:07.757" LastActivityDate="2020-03-24T14:27:07.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6721" CreationDate="2015-03-17T00:06:27.060" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;To quantify this, here's the last 45 closed questions, obtained via the moderator tools which are accessible to any user with 10k+ reputation.  I should note here that the OP meets that reputation requirement and can perform a similar exercise to what I have just done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83946/if-sauron-had-regained-the-one-ring-would-he-have-been-greater-in-power-than-mel&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83946/if-sauron-had-regained-the-one-ring-would-he-have-been-greater-in-power-than-mel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed by 5 user votes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83940/why-the-mutants-did-not-show-a-good-fight-in-days-of-future-past&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83940/why-the-mutants-did-not-show-a-good-fight-in-days-of-future-past&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed by 5 user votes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83929/story-identification-movie-with-an-algae-like-creature-in-a-pond&quot;&gt;Story Identification: movie with an algae like creature in a pond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed by 2 user votes plus &quot;Community&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/32164/older-childrens-shows&quot;&gt;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/32164/older-childrens-shows&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Migrated to Movies &amp;amp; TV.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83898/why-does-anakin-have-ahsoka-as-a-padawan-if-he-is-not-a-master&quot;&gt;Why does Anakin have Ahsoka as a Padawan if he is not a Master?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed as duplicate by 1 moderator vote&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83890/sci-fi-easter-eggs&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83890/sci-fi-easter-eggs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed by 5 user votes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83849/did-dumbledore-use-to-believe-that-sirius-black-betrayed-harrys-parents&quot;&gt;Did Dumbledore use to believe that Sirius Black betrayed Harry&amp;#39;s parents?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed by 5 user votes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83867/is-gandalf-an-ent&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83867/is-gandalf-an-ent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed as unclear by 1 moderator vote&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83854/how-did-the-tesseract-get-to-earth&quot;&gt;How did the Tesseract get to Earth?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed as duplicate by 1 moderator vote&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83843/a-war-on-a-planet-where-time-passes-slowly-at-the-poles&quot;&gt;A war on a planet where time passes slowly at the poles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed as duplicate by 1 user vote + 1 moderator vote&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83832/how-would-the-war-have-gone-if-this-marriage-had-happened&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83832/how-would-the-war-have-gone-if-this-marriage-had-happened&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Migrated from Movies &amp;amp; TV, closed as POB by 3 user votes + 1 moderator vote&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83798/what-advantage-are-at-ats-theyre-rubbish&quot;&gt;what advantage are AT-ATs (they&amp;#39;re rubbish)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed as duplicate by 1 moderator vote&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83724/firefly-has-its-own-gravitational-field&quot;&gt;Firefly has its own gravitational field?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed as duplicate by 2 user votes + 1 moderator vote; currently at 1 reopen vote&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83683/was-c3po-a-hipster-drone&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83683/was-c3po-a-hipster-drone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed as unclear by 1 user vote + 1 moderator vote&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83636/finding-the-tesseract&quot;&gt;Finding the Tesseract&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed by 5 user votes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83656/why-did-voldemort-use-triwizard-tournament-to-get-harry-to-the-graveyard&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83656/why-did-voldemort-use-triwizard-tournament-to-get-harry-to-the-graveyard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed as duplicate by 1 user vote (Gold tag badge)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/63580/spoilers-all-does-any-house-in-westeros-suffer-a-worse-fate-than-this-house&quot;&gt;Does any House in Westeros suffer a worse fate than this House?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed by 5 user votes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83644/kids-raised-in-potemkin-village-environments-escape-and-make-contact&quot;&gt;Kids raised in Potemkin-village environments, escape and make contact&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed by 5 user votes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83627/free-vampire-book&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83627/free-vampire-book&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Migrated from eBooks, closed as duplicate by 1 user vote + 1 moderator vote&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/82889/book-id-70s-80s-novel-about-boy-that-goes-to-a-space-academy&quot;&gt;Book ID: 70s-80s novel about boy that goes to a space academy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed as duplicate by 5 user votes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83576/in-the-hunger-games-series-which-part-of-our-current-real-world-becomes-panem-i&quot;&gt;In The Hunger Games series, which part of our current real world becomes Panem in future?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed as duplicate by 5 user votes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83578/about-moving-objects-for-human-eye-is-reading-is-bad-while-moving&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83578/about-moving-objects-for-human-eye-is-reading-is-bad-while-moving&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed by 5 user votes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83558/kotor-and-disney-canon&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83558/kotor-and-disney-canon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed as duplicate by 2 user votes + 1 moderator vote&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/31997/whats-up-with-the-marine-uniforms-in-this-episode-of-scorpion&quot;&gt;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/31997/whats-up-with-the-marine-uniforms-in-this-episode-of-scorpion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Migrated to Movies &amp;amp; TV.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83529/in-gravity-falls-season-2-episode-11-why-was-the-author-on-the-other-side-of-th&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83529/in-gravity-falls-season-2-episode-11-why-was-the-author-on-the-other-side-of-th&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed as POB by 1 moderator vote&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83482/what-does-yoda-mean-when-he-says-the-last-of-the-jedi-will-you-be-from-the-pe&quot;&gt;What does Yoda mean when he says, &amp;quot;The Last of the Jedi Will You Be&amp;quot; from the perspective of Legends?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed as duplicate by 5 user votes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83424/is-unobtainium-in-the-movie-the-core-2003-possible&quot;&gt;Is Unobtainium in the movie The Core (2003) possible?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed as duplicate by 5 user votes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83379/what-are-some-nicknames-the-joker-has-for-batman&quot;&gt;What are the nicknames that the Joker has called Batman?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed by 5 user votes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83392/how-can-spiderman-wear-tennis-shoes&quot;&gt;How can Spiderman wear tennis shoes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed as duplicate by 4 user votes + 1 moderator vote&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/78959/short-story-about-cybercriminal-sentenced-not-to-use-computers&quot;&gt;Short story about cybercriminal sentenced not to use computers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed as duplicate by 1 user vote + 1 moderator vote&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83328/why-did-the-death-star-plans-have-to-be-physically-carried&quot;&gt;Why did the Death Star Plans have to be Physically Carried?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed as duplicate by 4 user votes + 1 moderator vote&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83323/was-thranduil-really-a-poor-battle-tactician&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83323/was-thranduil-really-a-poor-battle-tactician&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed as duplicate by 1 moderator vote&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83276/why-werent-muggle-parents-and-guardians-counted-as-muggle-under-section-13-of-t&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83276/why-werent-muggle-parents-and-guardians-counted-as-muggle-under-section-13-of-t&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed as duplicate by 5 user votes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83211/do-lightsabers-have-safety-settings&quot;&gt;Do lightsabers have safety settings?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed as duplicate by 5 user votes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83220/was-umbridge-a-death-eater&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83220/was-umbridge-a-death-eater&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed as duplicate by 1 user vote (Gold tag badge)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83171/who-is-this-person-in-the-age-of-ultron-trailer-that-looks-like-spider-man&quot;&gt;Who is this person in the Age of Ultron trailer that looks like Spider-Man?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed as unclear by 2 user votes + 1 moderator vote&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83161/how-did-sauron-not-notice-gandalf-sneaking-about-in-dol-guldur&quot;&gt;How did Sauron not notice Gandalf sneaking about in Dol Guldur?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed as duplicate by 5 user votes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83125/what-is-the-origin-of-steampunk-theme-usually-seen-in-movies-and-video-games&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83125/what-is-the-origin-of-steampunk-theme-usually-seen-in-movies-and-video-games&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed as duplicate by 3 user votes + 1 moderator vote&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83083/who-is-this-person-and-what-is-he-holding-from-the-avengers-age-of-ultron-trail&quot;&gt;Who is this person and what is he holding from the Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer #3?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed as POB by 1 moderator vote&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83098/why-did-robb-stark-invade-the-south-rather-than-hold-the-north&quot;&gt;Why did Robb Stark invade the south rather than hold the north?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed as duplicate by 5 user votes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83029/are-humans-summonable&quot;&gt;Are humans Summonable?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed as duplicate by 1 user vote (Gold tag badge)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/82927/would-luke-skywalker-be-considered-a-war-criminal&quot;&gt;Would Luke Skywalker be considered a war criminal?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed as POB by 5 user votes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/82998/what-is-the-real-world-equivalent-of-consortium-in-dan-browns-inferno&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/82998/what-is-the-real-world-equivalent-of-consortium-in-dan-browns-inferno&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed by 5 user votes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/82891/id-short-story-humanity-stumbles-across-ancient-booby-trap&quot;&gt;Humanity stumbles across ancient booby trap&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed as duplicate by 1 user vote + 1 moderator vote&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/82858/who-is-financially-speaking-the-poorest-superhero-in-the-marvel-universe&quot;&gt;Who is &amp;quot;financially speaking&amp;quot; the poorest superhero in the Marvel Universe?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed by 5 user votes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some statistics:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;45 closed questions in total, but this does not include questions which were deleted before they were closed, nor does it include reopened questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Of these, 22, or almost 50%, were closed by 5 user votes.  I have included cases here where a question may have been closed by 4 user + 1 moderator vote (which would have been an identical result if the moderator had been a standard user).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;7 questions closed by a moderator acting solo, of which:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4 closed as duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 POB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 unclear&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It should be noted that &lt;em&gt;none&lt;/em&gt; of these questions have recieved reopen votes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3 questions closed by 1 user vote, Gold tag badge, the same user in all 3 cases.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;10 questions closed by 1, 2 or 3 user votes + 1 moderator vote, of which:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5 questions were closed by 1 user vote + 1 moderator vote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;One&lt;/em&gt; of these questions has currently recieved reopen votes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The remainder are migrated questions and suchlike.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The evidence from this is that &lt;strong&gt;moderators are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; replacing community action&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;16% of closures coming from a moderator acting solo might seem high at first glance, but we have to ask: &lt;em&gt;why have none of these questions recieved reopen votes&lt;/em&gt;?  Could it be the case that community consensus agrees with the closures?  At the very least I would have expected that those making the complaint that moderators are replacing community action would have cast reopen votes, but yet it doesn't appear to be happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The statistic that does seem on the high side to me is the one where moderators cast a deciding vote after a question has already recieved some close votes from the community.  There were 10 of those, half of which were cases where a moderator stepped in after only 1 user vote.  But yet the reopen votes are still on the low side: only 1 in this case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the single most telling thing: &lt;strong&gt;people are not casting reopen votes&lt;/strong&gt;.  In the same time period as those 45 closed questions, there are currently &lt;em&gt;three&lt;/em&gt; questions nominated for reopening.  It honestly boggles my mind for starters that we have an extended Meta discussion about question closures, but yet &lt;em&gt;some people seem to prefer to complain about it rather than take positive action and cast reopen votes or edit questions to improve them&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The take-home from this is that &lt;strong&gt;the reopen mechanism is not working&lt;/strong&gt;.  Or at least it's not being used, and in particular it's not being used by those who &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; know to use it.  Now, I personally went through a case recently where a question was closed that I felt was answerable if it's focus had been tightened a little more; I raised it on Meta, I edited the question to tighten the focus, the question got successfully reopened, and I supplied an answer.  That's the way things should work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That aside, in a case where almost 50% of recent closures are by user action alone and over 70% by user + moderator action, it seems that the implication in the OP that the majority of closures are by moderators acting solo is actually totally false.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have 10k+ on other SE sites, but I'd be interested in seeing the figures for any other site, to see how we compare and determine if we actually do have a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user8719" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2015-03-17T00:24:41.437" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6730" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-17T21:09:04.477" Score="16" ViewCount="275" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question that recently received &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/84103/11159&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;. As stated in the comment, this is clearly some sort of fan-fiction. Aside from the obvious downvote, which (if any) flag would be appropriate here? I feel &quot;Not an Answer&quot; isn't any good, because they are trying (and failing) to provide an answer, yet I feel &quot;Spam&quot; isn't sufficient either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11159" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T18:47:54.990" Title="How to handle fan-fiction answers?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6730" CreationDate="2015-03-17T21:16:07.197" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The stated policy is that &quot;flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, &lt;strong&gt;or an altogether wrong answer&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said... There's a case to be made that the answer should be deleted on the grounds that &quot;&lt;strong&gt;it is very low quality&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; (or even just flagged as &quot;&lt;strong&gt;other&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; with an explanation why it needs closing) but frankly, I'm happy to just leave it for now. The community is doing its job in downvoting it to hell and there's a comment explaining to the poster why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE :&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;In light of receiving several community flags (and reflecting a substantial numbers of downvotes) I've decided to delete the answer in question, if for no better reason than for the sake of the poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2015-03-18T18:47:54.990" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T18:47:54.990" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6712" CreationDate="2015-03-17T23:35:18.350" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/11474455/Terry-Pratchett-will-live-on-in-the-clacks-thanks-to-fans-programming-code.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GNU Terry Pratchett&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14001" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-05-29T04:38:08.380" LastActivityDate="2019-05-29T04:38:08.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6730" CreationDate="2015-03-18T02:22:10.633" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on discussion &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5152/should-all-questions-implicitly-require-canon-answers&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, the consensus was that we don't assume an implicit requirement of canon answers. So, unless the question &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; specify that canon answers are sought, non-canon answers are technically fair game. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, if you find it to be less than useful, you are more than welcome to downvote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*Note: Yes, the other discussion was largely focused on canon versus speculation-based answers, but the original question was a bit broader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T02:22:10.633" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6712" CreationDate="2015-03-18T16:27:07.527" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm reading Reaper Man right now, for the first time. It was given to me be a friend, and its my first Pratchett novel. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incredibly odd and bittersweet for him to have died while I was reading &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; book. Reaper Man was already on its way to becoming one of my favorites prior to the news the other day. We humans love to find significance in odd timing, but this a moment which will stick with me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Terry Pratchett gave a great deal to the world. I feel lucky to benefit from a little of it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19253" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T16:27:07.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6735" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6736" CreationDate="2015-03-23T07:19:12.473" Score="-1" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;Almost all sci-fi works have their own in-universe rules of physics. Is this tag useful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="21267" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T21:16:06.463" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T21:16:06.463" Title="Should the “physics” tag exist?" Tags="|discussion|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6735" CreationDate="2015-03-23T07:39:24.830" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, I think “physics” is a useful tag.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few notes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/physics&quot;&gt;46 questions in the tag&lt;/a&gt;, so it’s clearly being used.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The tag description is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions about the physics of a fictional universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while most fictional universes have their own specific physics, there are a lot of (if not most) questions that are asking about something that has nothing to do with physics, fictional or otherwise. Using this tag on those questions would be inappropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think it’s a useful tag: it’s well-scoped, clearly on-topic and not something that would be easy to search for. (With the caveat that a question with this tag is only on-topic is about the fictional physics, and not looking for real-world scientific explanations.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T07:39:24.830" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6737" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-23T07:41:20.890" Score="-7" ViewCount="196" Body="&lt;p&gt;This answer has been deleted by one of our Diamond Moderators: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31771/why-is-janeway-an-admiral-and-not-picard/84103#84103&quot;&gt;Why is Janeway an Admiral and Picard is not?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;High rep users can see the last comment there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it &lt;em&gt;mandatory&lt;/em&gt; on this site to provide citation? Last I checked, I have seen lots of high quality answers without any citation. Also, there are lots of wrong answers which provide proper citation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Talking about &lt;em&gt;for the sake of answerer&lt;/em&gt;, that user has 1 reputation. I don't think downvotes would hurt him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should Diamond Moderators use their diamond powers after judging the answer's correctness?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T08:58:39.787" Title="Should Diamond Moderators delete answers just because it doesn't provide proper citation?" Tags="|discussion|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6737" CreationDate="2015-03-23T07:55:51.357" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The relevant quote from the FAQ is that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Links to external resources are &lt;strong&gt;encouraged&lt;/strong&gt;, but please add context&#xA;  around the link so your fellow users will have some idea what it is&#xA;  and why it’s there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no, it's not mandatory to add citations. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, answers that make bold claims without citations are liable to suffer from downvoting and that's something we want to avoid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31771/why-is-janeway-an-admiral-and-not-picard/84103#84103&quot;&gt;the answer you've referenced&lt;/a&gt;, it also had the misfortune to be a work of fan-fiction which meant that it had a double-whammy of downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE :&lt;/strong&gt; I've discussed the specific reasons for the closure &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6739/why-was-this-question-deleted&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T08:58:39.787" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6739" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-23T08:37:10.667" Score="10" ViewCount="282" Body="&lt;p&gt;On March 17th, user @SanchoRodriguez answered the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31771/why-is-janeway-an-admiral-and-not-picard&quot;&gt;Why is Janeway an Admiral and not Picard?&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31771/why-is-janeway-an-admiral-and-not-picard/84103#84103&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; (direct link only visible to 10K users).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Picard was the first 6 star admiral in Starfleet history - a position&#xA;  thrust upon him during the final Borg conflict (As initiated by the&#xA;  Borg Blitzkrieg and total assimilation of Romulus, Vulcan, Cardassia&#xA;  prime, Kronos, and Ferenginar). The scattered remnants of those&#xA;  societies became full members of Starfleet in short order to mount a&#xA;  final defense.   The conflict was won when, knowing that his&#xA;  unparalleled knowledge of starfleet strategic information and former&#xA;  status as Locutus of Borg gave him special significance to the Borg,&#xA;  Picard surrendered himself to the Borg willingly...   ...With a Borg&#xA;  logic bomb installed in his remaining Borg implants.   Within a matter&#xA;  of months, every Borg in the galaxy ceased to function as the virus&#xA;  spread.   Picard's sacrifice, and the resulting peace between nearly&#xA;  all the races in the quadrant cements him as one of the most venerated&#xA;  figures in all of history. However, since that all happened after the&#xA;  events of Voyager, it hasn't been documented yet.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shortly afterwards the answer was marked for deletion by two users; @K-H-W and @DarthMelkor, then power-deleted by a community moderator (i.e. me).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After discussing the situation &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6737/should-diamond-moderators-delete-answers-just-because-it-doesnt-provide-proper#comment15718_6737&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, this is a clarification on the question, &lt;strong&gt;why was this answer deleted&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-09-26T05:46:12.710" LastActivityDate="2017-09-26T05:46:12.710" Title="Why was this answer about Picard becoming an admiral deleted?" Tags="|discussion|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6739" CreationDate="2015-03-23T08:53:49.360" Score="12" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Overview&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had several issues with this answer right out of the gate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It appears to be a work of fan-fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question is seeking a &quot;canonical&quot; answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question already has an accepted high-quality answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Timeline&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I spotted this answer as soon as it was posted. I made a comment on the post encouraging the poster to provide a citation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original poster of the question posted a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6730/how-to-handle-fan-fiction-answers&quot;&gt;meta question&lt;/a&gt; asking about what should happen with answers that are purely fan-fictional, which I responded to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After some 24 hours, the question had received 10 downvotes along with delete flags from two well regarded high-rep community members; @&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2292/k-h-w&quot;&gt;K-H-W&lt;/a&gt; and @&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/8719/darth-melkor&quot;&gt;DarthMelkor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taking into account the general low quality of the answer, the delete flags, the downvotes and the fact that poster had made no effort to justify their assertions or improve the answer in any way, I decided to press the delete button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I then updated the meta question to highlight that the answer had been deleted (and why)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;UPDATE : In light of receiving several community flags (and reflecting a substantial numbers of downvotes) I've decided to delete&#xA;  the answer in question, if for no better reason than for the sake of&#xA;  the poster.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31771/why-is-janeway-an-admiral-and-not-picard#comment182609_84103&quot;&gt;a comment&lt;/a&gt; encouraging @SanchoRodríguez to add some citation to improve the general quality and explaining that if it was improved, it would be reopened:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This seems to be attracting downvotes like a magnet. For your own sake, I'm deleting this one. I'll happily re-open if you can provide&#xA;  any sourcing for it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T09:53:11.377" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6741" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-23T20:14:27.827" Score="8" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from January 1st 2015 through March 31st 2015.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I convince meta this question is unique to the 10-odd similarly asked questions each quarter? Via the power of lies, damn lies, and statistics. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What was the best answer (IYHO) provided to a question that was closed?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2013/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2013/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2013/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="1148" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T22:02:50.637" LastActivityDate="2015-03-25T00:31:27.500" Title="Favorite questions and answers from the first quarter of 2015" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6741" CreationDate="2015-03-23T21:31:47.737" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;My favorite questions (all Star Wars, sorry!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83209/why-did-red-squadron-give-their-call-signs-in-random-order&quot;&gt;Why did Red Squadron give their call signs in random order?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83490/why-did-jango-fett-have-a-son-via-cloning-instead-of-through-natural-reproductiv&quot;&gt;Why did Jango Fett have a son via cloning instead of through natural reproductive processes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My favorite answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The only answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83005/how-big-is-the-executor-based-only-on-film-evidence&quot;&gt;How big is the Executor, based only on film evidence&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/83917/4678&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83912/during-the-war-of-the-ring-did-sauron-or-saruman-actually-win-any-major-battles&quot;&gt;During the war of the ring did Sauron or Saruman actually win any major battles?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T21:31:47.737" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6741" CreationDate="2015-03-23T22:45:15.130" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought these were especially interesting questions; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/80366/why-didnt-the-machine-kill-neo-after-he-was-ejected&quot;&gt;Why didn't the machine kill Neo after he was ejected?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/82442/why-do-people-risk-death-by-joining-starfleet-if-not-for-money-or-preservation-o&quot;&gt;Why do people risk death by joining Starfleet if not for money or preservation of their homes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/79862/did-darth-vader-ever-talk-to-r2-d2-again&quot;&gt;Did Darth Vader ever talk to R2-D2 again?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And my answers to them weren't half bad, either, if I can toot my own trumpet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T22:45:15.130" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6744" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-24T17:09:38.917" Score="0" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question has been closed as duplicate by community despite I updated the question clarifying why it wasn't duplicate: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/84628/why-did-lucas-choose-to-keep-memory-of-r2-d2&quot;&gt;Why did Lucas choose to keep memory of R2-D2?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unlike the other question, I asked from out-of-universe perspective. Also, none of the answers on the other question answers my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can my question be duplicate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2015-03-24T17:20:28.263" Title="Why did the community close this question as duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|support|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6744" CreationDate="2015-03-24T17:20:28.263" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The other question does not ask for in-universe answers only -- it makes no mention at all of whether answers should be in-universe or real-world. Therefore, any valid answer to your question would also be a valid answer to the other question, and should be used to answer that question. The fact that there are no such answers doesn't prevent this from being a duplicate -- it may just mean that there is in fact no real-world evidence to answer your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23" LastActivityDate="2015-03-24T17:20:28.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6746" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6747" CreationDate="2015-03-24T21:16:33.627" Score="2" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, I understand originators of content—questions or answers—hold higher weight than others when it comes to edits of their content. But I am at a loss to understand why &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/50987&quot;&gt;my suggested edit to this answer&lt;/a&gt; was rejected with the reason being:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This edit does not make the post even a little bit easier to read,&#xA;  easier to find, more accurate or more accessible. Changes are either&#xA;  completely superfluous or actively harm readability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I added copy edit fixes but mainly added contextual links to items in question that clearly support the answer’s assertions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be fair and in context, I made this edit after the user in question—in my humble opinion—behaved &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/84656/is-there-any-canonical-evidence-of-vulcan-nerve-pinch-being-used-on-species-othe/84665&quot;&gt;like a troll on a question I posted and have since asked to be deleted&lt;/a&gt;. So yes, I clicked their profile, saw they are knowledgeable about &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; and simply made an edit to add more context and validation to a good answer they provided. But for the community member to have rejected it for the reasons outlined seems odd at best; maybe they took it as a personal slight on their work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But regardless, why was this edit—which added references and links to a valid answer—rejected with the reason given? Are users not encouraged to provide a larger context for the answers given by providing clear links and supporting evidence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14850" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2015-03-24T22:14:53.997" Title="Why was this edit that added references and links to a valid answer rejected?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6746" CreationDate="2015-03-24T21:30:41.147" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is pretty borderline. You've made two edits; one relatively minor, one larger and more contentious. Let's take them in order:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) You've added active (Memory Alpha) links to two specific areas of the text; The episode title and the code used to teleport into space. In principle these are fine and I would have no problems with personally accepting these. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) You've copied some text from memory alpha into the body of the answer. I can see several potential problems with this; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You're essentially repeating what the answer already says. Because the wording is very similar, it could look (to an outsider) like @Tritium is merely repeating something he's read elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As @DVK mentioned in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6746/why-was-this-edit-that-added-references-and-links-to-a-valid-answer-rejected/6747?noredirect=1#comment15749_6747&quot;&gt;his comment below&lt;/a&gt;, some people really don't like using the Wiki as a quote source given that it's not a canon source of information.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I think this was an acceptable edit but as I said, it's on the verge of not being.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2015-03-24T21:52:40.937" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6746" CreationDate="2015-03-24T22:09:44.880" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wasn't involved in this, but I personally see nothing wrong with your edits.  Providing the links was a genuinely helpful way of improving the answer (a reader who wants to know more now has a direct route to do so), and providing the quote supported the answer but without materially changing it.  I would have been more inclined to post these as comments, let the original answerer edit them in if they see fit, then clean up my comments when done, but that's my own preference and you're perfectly within your rights to suggest them as an edit instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would have approved this edit if I had seen it in the review queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I must also add that the person who rejected the edit was the original answerer, and while you are perfectly within your rights to suggest the edit, the original answerer is also perfectly within their rights to reject it, for whatever reason they see fit, and without providing an explanation if they don't wish to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've read over the other (now deleted) question and I also don't see much wrong with the other user's behaviour.  They provided a reasonable answer to your question, as it was worded at the time, and there doesn't appear to be any trollish behaviour there.  I'd actually be inclined to call foul on you for moving the goalposts and then bombing them with a downvote after doing so (I also note that a moderator had to put some friendly advice your way on another answer to this question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this stage the whole thing looks more like some personal argy-bargy between you and another user than anything else, and the best thing I can say is: &lt;strong&gt;it happened, it's not worth making an issue of, let it be and move on&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorDisplayName="user8719" LastEditDate="2015-03-24T22:14:53.997" LastActivityDate="2015-03-24T22:14:53.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6741" CreationDate="2015-03-25T00:31:27.500" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I enjoyed this one: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83573/why-is-belgium-the-rudest-word-in-hitchikers-guide-to-the-galaxy&quot;&gt;Why is &amp;#39;Belgium&amp;#39; the rudest word in Hitchiker&amp;#39;s Guide to the Galaxy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Lots of votes and lots of reputation gained for everyone involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Richard got an awesome answer to this one precisely one minute before I did, and did a much better job of it than I did too, so it's worth a shout-out: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/80366/why-didnt-the-machine-kill-neo-after-he-was-ejected&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t the machine kill Neo after he was ejected?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obligatory blowing of one's own trumpet: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/81477/why-would-the-elves-help-destroy-the-one-ring&quot;&gt;Why would the elves help destroy the One Ring?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this was enormous fun all-round: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/82987/how-big-is-the-death-star-compared-to-the-executor&quot;&gt;How big is the Death Star compared to the Executor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-03-25T00:31:27.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6750" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-25T05:30:04.613" Score="16" ViewCount="393" Body="&lt;p&gt;In about a month, the next &lt;em&gt;Avengers&lt;/em&gt; film, &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt; will be released.  To celebrate and prepare for the occasion, I'd like to do a promotion of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt; posts. I hope this draws attention to this tag, and encourages some additional posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The promotion is simple, I ask y'all to post answers here on Meta highlighting questions and answers in this tag that are, like Thor, &lt;strong&gt;worthy&lt;/strong&gt;.  Which is to say, posts that are interesting, high-quality, or just in general impressive.  Post a link and a short blurb about what you like about the post, and the community can then vote on your nomination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will then place bounties on the highest posts to draw attention to them on the Main site.  The number and value of the bounties will depend on how many posts get nominated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me know what questions/comments you have either by commenting below, or by @mentioning me in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/19346/agents-of-nothing&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;, where I frequently hang out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;This is inspired by a similar promotion over on &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2281&quot;&gt;Anime.SE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:51:26.350" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T16:31:44.990" Title="Bounties for tag: Marvel Cinematic Universe" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6751" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6752" CreationDate="2015-03-25T15:09:49.087" Score="3" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I asked one question in the forumm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wanted to create a new tag in that question but I used my phone and the mobile version did not allow me to create one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug or a lack of functionality ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28200" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2015-03-25T15:10:49.260" LastActivityDate="2015-03-25T16:10:08.743" Title="Why users are not allowed to create tags in mobile site?" Tags="|bug|tags|mobile|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6751" CreationDate="2015-03-25T15:28:00.180" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;It's by design.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To quote from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/109063/why-cant-i-create-a-new-tag-in-mobile&quot;&gt;Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably because it's really easy to make a typo when using a mobile browser, and they don't want to clutter the tag-space with misspellings, so it's prompting you to recheck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For legitimate cases, just edit the tag in later when you're not using a mobile browser or switch to the full-site version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/130213/kevin-montrose&quot;&gt;Kevin Montrose&lt;/a&gt;, one of SE's paid developers, confirms this &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/109063/why-cant-i-create-a-new-tag-in-mobile#comment281533_109064&quot;&gt;in a comment&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the case. It's very rare that a new tag is intentionally and correctly created, and mobile device auto correct and difficulty typing makes it even more likely that tags are accidentally created. We just disallowed it altogether accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-03-25T16:10:08.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6753" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-26T02:39:37.553" Score="1" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;SFF.SE bot automatically posts all new questions to primary chat room. Let's say, I created a chat room for Doctor Who fans and I want all new questions tagged with &lt;em&gt;doctor-who&lt;/em&gt; in my new chat room. How to do this? Is this even possible? If it's not possible, please consider adding the feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2015-03-26T02:39:37.553" Title="How to make SFF.SE bot to auto-post questions in my chat room?" Tags="|support|feature-request|chat|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-03-26T02:55:58.493" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1213" CreationDate="2015-03-26T03:26:22.687" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Suggestions&lt;/strong&gt; - feel free to add/edit/remove any:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-hobbit&quot;&gt;the-hobbit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-matrix&quot;&gt;the-matrix&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-into-darkness&quot;&gt;star-trek-into-darkness&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-next-generation&quot;&gt;star-trek-next-generation&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tos&quot;&gt;star-trek-tos&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-first-contact&quot;&gt;star-trek-first-contact&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-wrath-of-khan&quot;&gt;star-trek-wrath-of-khan&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-voyager&quot;&gt;star-trek-voyager&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-2009&quot;&gt;star-trek-2009&lt;/a&gt; -- most of these have at least one question not tagged with star-trek&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Alternately &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-*&quot;&gt;star-trek-*&lt;/a&gt; if it works technologically (suggestion by Keen)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doctor-who&quot;&gt;doctor-who&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-dark-knight-rises&quot;&gt;the-dark-knight-rises&lt;/a&gt; - a big tag, and only half covered by batman&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batman-begins+or+the-dark-knight&quot;&gt;batman-begins or the-dark-knight&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/inception&quot;&gt;inception&lt;/a&gt; - another big one&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-avengers&quot;&gt;the-avengers&lt;/a&gt; - 50 questions, of which only 7 are tagged marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers-age-of-ultron&quot;&gt;avengers-age-of-ultron&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men*&quot;&gt;x-men*&lt;/a&gt; - 44 questions all together&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-wolverine&quot;&gt;the-wolverine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminator-2+or+terminator-genisys+or+the-terminator+or+terminator-salvation+or+terminator-3&quot;&gt;the-terminator or terminator-*&lt;/a&gt; (currently 5 tags)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time-travel&quot;&gt;time-travel&lt;/a&gt; - wow! 44 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/back-to-the-future&quot;&gt;back-to-the-future&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/men-in-black-3+or+men-in-black&quot;&gt;men-in-black-3 or men-in-black&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avatar&quot;&gt;avatar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avatar-the-last-airbender&quot;&gt;avatar-the-last-airbender&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men-cinematic-universe&quot;&gt;x-men-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt; (count 105)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arrowverse&quot;&gt;arrowverse&lt;/a&gt; (count: 75)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lucifer&quot;&gt;lucifer&lt;/a&gt; (count: 7)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2016-06-14T11:24:22.300" CommentCount="7" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-07-20T05:49:02.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6755" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-26T07:24:03.337" Score="2" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question based on fictional novel (not sci-fi). Which section do I post it in? I don't find such section in stackexchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40933" LastActivityDate="2015-03-26T08:39:48.350" Title="Where do we post questions for Fictional novels?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2015-03-26T15:58:44.820" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6755" CreationDate="2015-03-26T08:39:48.350" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alas, the answer seems to be &quot;Nowhere&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a Literature:SE Beta site but unfortunately it &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/131397/why-did-literature-fail&quot;&gt;collapsed&lt;/a&gt; from lack of interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a number of sites where you can ask &lt;strong&gt;genre-specific&lt;/strong&gt; book questions (Religion, English Language Usage, philosophy) but no sites where you can ask &lt;em&gt;general&lt;/em&gt; book questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2015-03-26T08:39:48.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6757" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6759" CreationDate="2015-03-26T18:24:55.140" Score="1" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/58307/mythology&quot;&gt;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/58307/mythology&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;followers active in&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  49.1% Stack Overflow&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  20.6% Meta Stack Exchange&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;18.8% Science Fiction &amp;amp;...&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems abysmally low to me given the subject matter overlap &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are some of the main reasons why not more of Mythology followers come out of SFF.SE fold, and what can be done to increase that? (the ultimate goal is of course to simply raise the # of proposal followers, but I see SFF.SE as a best case source aside from Worldbuilding)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2015-03-26T20:06:40.290" Title="Why are so few people from SFF following Mythology.SE proposal on Area 51 and how can we address that?" Tags="|discussion|stackexchange|mythology|area51|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6757" CreationDate="2015-03-26T19:19:29.967" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't see that the overlap would be of necessity strong. Of our top tags (story-ID, harry-potter, star-wars, lord-of-the-rings, star-trek, movie, and doctor-who), none fall clearly into mythology. Only a couple (marvel, via Thor and &lt;em&gt;maybe&lt;/em&gt; some epic fantasy) would fall into scope over there. Sure, some of the stories may sound like fantasy, but that doesn't mean we are SMEs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know personally, I have very little mythology knowledge. I know some basic stories about Greek and Roman mythology, but that's it. I wouldn't be much use over there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastActivityDate="2015-03-26T19:19:29.967" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6757" CreationDate="2015-03-26T20:06:40.290" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;General perspective&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I commented on @SSumner's answer, even in canons where I think there is &lt;em&gt;potential&lt;/em&gt; for strong overlap (I used the example of Lord of the Rings where I believe such potential really exists), many fans are just fans for the work's own sake, and not really interested in the deeper background and it's connections to our own real-world mythologies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be specific about the Lord of the Rings example, we have quite a heavy proportion of questions asked by watchers of Peter Jackson's movies who are looking for further explanations of events in the movies themselves but which may not be totally clear from the movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By way of comparison, we currently have 981 Lord of the Rings questions, but only 119 Silmarillion questions (this is going by tag counts and I'm ignoring mistaggings here).  Of Tolkien fans, it seems to me that those who would be more inclined to follow Mythology are also more likely to be those with a deeper interest in the Silmarillion and related works, and we have relatively fewer of those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Personal perspective&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I am interested in this proposal I am not committed.  The areas of mythology I am most interested (but by no means even a semi-expert) in - Celtic (particularly Irish) and Ancient Near Eastern - are under-represented in the example questions (there's the expected heavy skew towards Norse and Greek, with a good sampling of Egyptian, which just makes me cold), and while I could redress that by committing and participating, it's also the case that my interest is more in terms of what those mythologies reveal about, and how they link to, our own unrecorded prehistory rather than the mythologies themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short: I like mythology for what it tells us about unrecorded prehistory, but my interest is in the unrecorded prehistory part &lt;em&gt;substantially&lt;/em&gt; more so than in the mythology part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consequently I feel that the site would be of quite marginal use to me.  I will definitely be joining and checking-in semi-regularly, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2015-03-26T20:06:40.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6760" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6761" CreationDate="2015-03-26T20:39:46.223" Score="4" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been prompted by the Meta question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6739/why-was-this-answer-deleted&quot;&gt;Why was this answer deleted?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here @Richard states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I also posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31771/why-is-janeway-an-admiral-and-not-picard#comment182609_84103&quot;&gt;a comment&lt;/a&gt; encouraging @SanchoRodríguez to add some citation to improve the general quality and explaining that if it was improved, it would be reopened:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This seems to be attracting downvotes like a magnet. For your own sake, I'm deleting this one. I'll happily re-open if you can provide any sourcing for it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I agree with the spirit of protecting a user (particularly a new user who may not yet have a full appreciation of how to use the site), it seems to me that a critical flaw is that &lt;em&gt;this is now not actionable by the user&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The user does not have sufficient reputation to view deleted questions and answers, and therefore cannot view this comment and understand why it was deleted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The user cannot edit the answer to provide the sourcing requested (assuming such sourcing exists).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this particular case I think we can safely assume that the answer was fan-fiction and sourcing does not exist, but I'm more concerned about the general case.  If this was something that happened again, but if the user &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; able to provide sourcing to support their answer, &lt;em&gt;they would not be in a position to be able to do so&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specific questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is this something we need to worry about?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is having the user open a Meta question an appropriate way of addressing this (considering most users don't use Meta)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there something else that might work better, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/22228/what-is-a-locked-post&quot;&gt;locking the answer&lt;/a&gt; instead?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T18:04:51.180" Title="Follow-up to Deleted Questions and Answers" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6760" CreationDate="2015-03-26T21:29:08.540" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;There’s a problem with your premise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The user does not have sufficient reputation to view deleted questions and answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoting from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/173513/226928&quot;&gt;Meta.se&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Deleted questions will be visible to their authors, regardless of those authors' reputation.&lt;/strong&gt; They won't be linked to anywhere that they're not already linked, but if someone knows where to find their question and it's been deleted, they should always be able to view it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, the author in question can always find their deleted answer, and @Richard’s comment, by visiting the associated question. It will always be visible to them there, and they can choose to act upon it (or not) accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2015-03-26T21:29:08.540" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6763" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6766" CreationDate="2015-03-28T00:07:28.727" Score="8" ViewCount="232" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just got a vote to close as off-topic on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/39423/what-is-the-origin-of-the-concept-of-reaping-souls&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; with the following comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it's not about a fantasy or sci-fi character or plot device. —&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/770/andres-f&quot;&gt;Andres F.&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/39423/what-is-the-origin-of-the-concept-of-reaping-souls#comment184883_39423&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;source&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question asks about the origin of a particular concept which is fantastical in nature and widely used in sci-fi and fantasy, but is not specific to a particular work or series of works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are such questions on- or off-topic? The help center pages don't clearly indicate whether this is on- or off-topic, and it did seem on-topic to me. Specificially, I would want to argue that it falls under &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic/364#364&quot;&gt;this topic&lt;/a&gt;, but I can't say for sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16664" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2015-03-28T01:37:19.963" Title="Is question 39423 (origin of &quot;reaping&quot; souls) on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6763" CreationDate="2015-03-28T00:35:23.203" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I don't see a difference between your question and any of our &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=is%3Aq+%22what+is+the+first%22&quot;&gt;What was the first X&lt;/a&gt;&quot; questions, of which we have at least twenty and not a single one is closed. I think this is just an instance of the community being fickle, but there's not a whole lot we can do about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2015-03-28T00:47:16.250" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6763" CreationDate="2015-03-28T01:37:19.963" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question is absolutely on topic for this site. We have a canonical meta question where the various kinds of questions were judged, by the community, as on-topic or off-topic, and yours falls squarely into the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic/364#364&quot;&gt;Contextual Questions&lt;/a&gt;&quot; category&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, that category of on-topic questions includes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;These types of questions deal with the context in which science fiction and fantasy occurs: including history, etymology, and society. They have definitive answers about specific facts or events related to science fiction and fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It even gives an example of such an op-topic question: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/392/what-is-the-origin-of-the-phrase-on-the-gripping-hand&quot;&gt;What is the origin of the phrase &amp;quot;on the gripping hand?&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Most&lt;/em&gt; of our questions here are related to a known work of fiction, but that doesn't mean they all have to be. Your question is about &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; work of science fiction or fantasy, you just don't know what it is yet; it has a correct answer, and someone who is knowledgable about science fiction could be expected to answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2015-03-28T01:37:19.963" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6767" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-29T07:14:53.880" Score="-7" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just thinking about getting to questions regarding classic Doctor Who, then I realized its need. Should we have these tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I never told anything about splitting. Existing &quot;doctor-who&quot; tag should continue to exist because there are generic Doctor Who questions addressing the whole canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="931" LastEditDate="2015-03-29T08:01:01.837" LastActivityDate="2015-03-29T08:01:01.837" Title="Should we have doctor-who-classic and doctor-who-2005 tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6767" CreationDate="2015-03-29T07:37:45.673" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Splitting the tags should be prompted by a need. The need shouldn't be &quot;Ooh, it'd be neater and more taxonomically satisfying to have this sub-distinction&quot;, but more like &quot;We, the community of NewWho fans, are constantly annoyed by OldWho questions that we don't care about&quot;, and vice versa. I don't think this is the case - there's a lot of overlap both between fans of the two eras, and by the content of the answers themselves - many NewWho questions are perfectly served by an OldWho answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the one tag, with its ~725 questions, is fine as it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4516" LastActivityDate="2015-03-29T07:37:45.673" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6769" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-30T18:22:03.733" Score="6" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw that a new answer popped up to this old question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2628/what-would-really-happen-if-you-were-exposed-to-space&quot;&gt;What would really happen if you were exposed to space?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure that this question would be closed as off-topic if it were asked today, since it asks about real-world science, a topic that's repeatedly been accepted as off-topic. But it's a four year-old question, with many highly-voted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there's no reason for it to draw &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; answers at this point, even good ones. My first instinct was to protect it, so at least we won't get new answers from random bypassers. Is this a good solution? Is this what we want to use question protection for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, should we close this question so even higher-rep users won't contribute new answers to a question that is, at most, tolerated as legacy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4516" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T18:05:21.170" Title="Was my protecting this question appropriate?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|protected-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6769" CreationDate="2015-03-30T18:33:20.637" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;While protecting the question didn't do anything adverse, it does seem largely unnecessary. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Protecting a question sets a minimum reputation requirement of 10 points to be able to answer the question. None of the answers posted to the question were posted by low-rep users. The newest answer is by a user with over 1,000 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of protecting a question is to stem an influx of poor answers, which hasn't been an issue on this question &lt;em&gt;yet&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Show we close the question? I'd vote to close if it came through the queue. It's not currently on-topic, as it requests an explanation of real-world science. Just because it was once on-topic, it doesn't mean it currently is. Similarly, there have been a few instances when we've re-opened questions that were closed for now-outdated reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2015-03-30T18:33:20.637" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6769" CreationDate="2015-03-30T18:58:42.580" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The correct approach for dealing with this type of question is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/126587/what-is-a-historical-lock-and-what-is-it-used-for&quot;&gt;Historical Lock&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the Meta.SE post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A historical lock is a mechanism by which moderators can mark posts as historical artifacts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A historical lock preserves older content that was very popular when it was originally posted, but is now off-topic or otherwise out of scope for the site it is posted on. Historically locking a post ends the debate over whether a question should be kept on the site or deleted, and is often the final state of a question that has been deleted and undeleted more than once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going further into the criteria for applying a Historical Lock, this specific question meets all of them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The post is Off-Topic or Not Constructive&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I don't think we need to argue about that; most of us would VTC this question if we saw it in the review queue today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The post is stellar, in spite of its off-topic nature&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The number of highly voted answers is evidence of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There are a large number of views, upvotes and inbound links on the post&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Over 6000 views and still active today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The post is contentious; i.e. it has been closed and reopened at least once, or deleted and undeleted at least once&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The comments provide evidence that the question had attracted close votes, but yet there are none registered for it now.  Therefore it must have gone through the close/reopen cycle at least once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've flagged it accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-03-30T18:58:42.580" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6772" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-01T08:27:16.487" Score="-4" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/85264/star-trek-tng-uniforms-where-to-buy?noredirect=1#comment185625_85264&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;Where can I buy a good-quality TNG uniform?&lt;/em&gt; is reportedly, &lt;strong&gt;As it's currently written, it’s hard to tell exactly what you're asking&lt;/strong&gt;.  Huh?  How is that not clear and unambiguous? Seriously, I find this rather frustrating. My English is quite good. If I asked a sentence of that form to random people in the street, most would not know the answer, but would have no trouble parsing and understand what is being asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about &quot;where I can get a high-quality [Star Trek TNG uniform] in a 6-week time frame?&quot;  A lot of people agree that &quot;it's hard to tell exactly what you're asking&quot;. I cannot fathom that, and since a bunch of folks feel that way, would someone tell me what is not understandable about it? Am I writing Polish and not knowing it conciously?  Seriously, &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38557" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2015-04-03T14:04:31.093" Title="how can this be &quot;not clear&quot;?" Tags="|support|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6772" CreationDate="2015-04-01T10:11:23.137" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with &quot;shopping&quot; questions is that there's no &lt;strong&gt;definitive&lt;/strong&gt; answer that works for everybody. What constitutes an acceptable uniform? What sizes does the supplier cater for? Where do they delivery exactly? Etc etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With these sorts of &lt;em&gt;open-ended&lt;/em&gt; questions, they're far better asked in the Mos Eisley chatroom rather than on the main site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-04-01T10:11:23.137" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6750" CreationDate="2015-04-01T16:28:43.067" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I quite liked this one that asked what Groot is, having done some research:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/82085/what-species-is-groot&quot;&gt;What Species is Groot?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer has page grabs and everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="440" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2015-04-01T16:28:43.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6750" CreationDate="2015-04-01T16:31:16.037" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question makes a good, clearly-explained point about the plot of &lt;em&gt;The Winter Soldier&lt;/em&gt;, and gets a detailed answer that I think explains it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/76922/what-is-the-lemurian-star-really-doing-in-captain-america-the-winter-soldier&quot;&gt;What is the Lemurian Star really doing in Captain America: The Winter Soldier?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="440" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2015-04-01T16:31:16.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6750" CreationDate="2015-04-01T17:01:26.127" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;And I think this one asking about all of Stan Lee’s cameos is pretty fun, with decently-sourced answers (they got the word of The Watcher! I mean God!):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/76303/is-stan-lee-playing-the-watcher-in-all-his-cameos&quot;&gt;Is Stan Lee playing the Watcher in all his cameos?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="440" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2015-04-01T17:01:26.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6772" CreationDate="2015-04-03T14:04:31.093" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Majority votes aren't always as accurate as we'd like. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the look of things, your question has two possible issues with it - one, that it's a shopping rec, and two, that it's not clear if it's the sort of shopping rec question we can answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the close votes (Less than 3) marked it as a shopping-rec question, while the others (at least 3) marked it as unclear, because they wanted to give the benefit of the doubt that you could clarify your post to make it clear that it's an acceptable shopping rec question.  This happens sometimes - many users have the ability to vote on a close reason, and not all of them are always clear about which reason is the 'best'.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, you'll note that the question is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; actually 'closed', but 'on hold'.  This means that the users have come to a consensus that the question requires some attention to clarify or redirect it into an answerable form.  Coming here and asking for clarification on how to make your question acceptable was a good first step, and now that you have some solid answers, you can focus on re-writing your question to address those issues.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't be discouraged if your question is put on hold, or even closed, in the future.  Question quality is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; what determines whether or not this happens (I have one question that, rightfully, was closed as a duplicate, despite receiving 20+ upvotes).  Take it in stride, find out how you can improve the question, and work to make it even better &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20533" LastActivityDate="2015-04-03T14:04:31.093" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6750" CreationDate="2015-04-03T19:13:16.323" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jason Baker posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/85464/1027&quot;&gt;this excellent answer&lt;/a&gt; about why there haven't been more Hulk films in the MCU since &lt;em&gt;The Incredible Hulk&lt;/em&gt;.  I especially like the research he did to compare the Hulk films against the rest of the MCU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2015-04-03T19:13:16.323" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6782" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-05T12:16:13.060" Score="-8" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a generic question on MSO: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/235036/proposal-to-rename-community-user&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/235036/proposal-to-rename-community-user&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This won't be suitable for all sites out there, but in site specific cases, it may work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest to rename Community to R2-D2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2015-04-05T14:09:49.603" Title="Rename Community bot's name to R2-D2" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6782" CreationDate="2015-04-05T14:09:49.603" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see three potential objections:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;R2-D2’s gender has never been absolutely confirmed (afaik), but a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R2-D2#Notes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;note on his Wikipedia entry&lt;/a&gt; points to a source that suggests that it has “masculine programming”. By contrast, the Community user is known to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/245123/226928&quot;&gt;identify as female&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be unfair and inappropriate to force a gender change on Community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note, however, that this particular criticism would not affect Buffy.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;R2-D2 belongs to the &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; franchise, while this site has fans of many different fictional universes. Some users of the site may not even like &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be inappropriate to choose a new name for the Community user that does not represent most, if not all, of the site’s users.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You say that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This [change] won't be suitable for all sites out there, but in site specific cases, it may work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That may be true, but site-specific changes are also more-work-for-less-benefit for the SE Developers, compared to a change network-wide. And it would fragment us from the rest of the SE network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can’t speak for them, but I think the SE Devs would be reluctant to make this change.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2015-04-05T14:09:49.603" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6784" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-07T18:58:30.730" Score="3" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure if this would happen here or in the higher SE site, but I was wondering if would be possible to show comment votes when viewing comments we've left in the activity tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I often go to my profile and click on the Activity sub-tab (now 'All Actions') to find comments I've recently left. If I want to see how many upvotes the comment got, or any responses (ones that don't tag me specifically), I have to click the comment and go to the question. Since comment &quot;scores&quot; don't affect reputation, I'm not aware of any other way to check them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I realize there's no easy way to show comments that follow (is there?), I think it would at least be possible to show the number of upvotes beside each comment, just like when viewing the question/answer on its own page. Granted, that's the least of the two uses but still. Seeing your comment get voted up is a great feeling if nothing else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Would this be a possible and/or useful feature to add?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;META LINK:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/38285/288263&quot;&gt;Display the Number of Comment Upvotes In Recent Activity Pages&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20557" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2015-04-08T15:06:16.197" Title="Show comment upvotes on activity tab" Tags="|feature-request|comments|profile-page|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6785" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-08T22:02:25.650" Score="12" ViewCount="238" Body="&lt;p&gt;The topic of really broad tags, such as media tags, comes up every so often. To this point, the consensus has mostly been that these tags are more beneficial than detrimental. For example, here is the most recent discussion on media tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3000/why-are-the-media-tags-still-around&quot;&gt;Why are the media tags still around?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The consensus there was that media tags &quot;aren't too bad&quot; and &quot;fill a gap&quot; that would otherwise require lots of sub-tags for works that appear on multiple media.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, that discussion happened before gold-tag-badge privileges were put in place last year. This adds another element to the risk/reward equation for these tags, which was mentioned in this question as a reason &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to allow &quot;season&quot; tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6521/would-season-tags-be-useful&quot;&gt;Would season tags be useful?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is, gold tag badge holders can now insta-dupe-close anything with their tag. Meaning, if someone managed to accumulate enough questions and rep to get a gold tag in, say, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt;, they could then insta-dupe &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; movie question. In addition, the powers that be have expressed  &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/240700/empowering-tag-badge-holders-part-ii-lets-look-at-silver&quot;&gt;interest in adding more&lt;/a&gt; in the future, and particularly giving privileges to silver tag holders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to play devil's advocate to myself: in practice, I don't know that we're at risk for this any time soon. The closest we have are @Thaddeus, about 2/3 towards a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt; gold, and @user14111m, who's 2/3 towards &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt;, and they are ahead by quite a large margin.  However, we've already awarded several silver tags, and plenty of users are closing in on more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is it time to revisit the usefulness and need for these broad tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.757" LastActivityDate="2015-04-09T22:17:50.613" Title="Are overly-broad tags &quot;dangerous&quot; now that there are tag-specific privileges?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6785" CreationDate="2015-04-09T02:49:45.653" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think some of the suggestions in comments are decent ideas, but dealing with your &quot;devil's advocate&quot; point, we've only awarded 8 total gold badges, to 6 people:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;alexwlchan (Harry Potter)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;DVK (Harry Potter &amp;amp; Star Wars)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Slytherincess (Harry Potter)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Darth Melkor (Lord of the Rings)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thaddeus (Marvel Comics)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Richard (Star Trek &amp;amp; Story Identification)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of these, 2 (Thaddeus &amp;amp; Richard) are already mods and the other 4 are high-rep users who are all active on Meta, have access to a great deal of Moderation tools already, and who I haven't seen a pattern of strange moderation from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've only awarded 27 total silver badges too. That's 19 not including those who have gold badges, who would already have the silver, and these badges were awarded to only 7 more people:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;System Down (ASOIAF, Game of Thrones)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thaddeus (Comics, DC Comics, Star Trek, Superman)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;b_jonas (Harry Potter)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Richard (Harry Potter, movie, Star Trek TNG, Star Wars)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;dlanod (Lord of the Rings)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;user14111 (Short stories, Story Identification)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Izkata (Star Trek)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;DavRob60 (Star Wars)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mike Scott (Story Identification)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Darth Melkor (The Hobbit, Tolkien)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like the Gold Badge list, all of these are high-rep users with the exception of b_jones, who still has over 7,000 rep. This is not a lot of people, and most of these already have a lot of mod tools avaliable, and I haven't heard complaints (granted, complaints could have been made in private).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But these badges are super rare. We have 16,963 users with more than 1 rep, so that's only 0.076% of users even have a &lt;em&gt;silver badge&lt;/em&gt;. We have 29 users with over 20,000 rep, so less than half (45%) even have a silver badge and only about 1 in 5 (21%) has a gold badge. Of the 119 users with more than 5,000 rep, only 10.9% have even a silver badge. It's just really hard to get them, and that's the point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It takes 200 answers to get a gold badge. It takes a really long time to answer 200 questions &lt;em&gt;total&lt;/em&gt;, not to mention in just a single tag. Take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/298518/total-answers-by-user&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this query&lt;/a&gt;: only 22 people have answered 200 questions across all tags. It's just really hard to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL; DR&lt;/strong&gt; I realize I kind of went off on a tangent, but in my opinion, it's too soon to use this as a reason to restrict these broader tags. I realize we've had some issues with meta-tags in the past, but the ones that have no use at all have been burniated for the most part. I think the ones mentioned are fine, and maybe in a few years it could be revisited, but I see no threat of misuse at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastActivityDate="2015-04-09T02:49:45.653" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6785" CreationDate="2015-04-09T03:09:18.283" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don’t think this is a problem (yet).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’m not saying that we don’t have a problem with overly broad tags, but the potential for gold tag-badge abuse is a very weak argument against them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There are no “broad” tags where this is likely to happen any time soon.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going through the list of tags, and looking at the users with the most answers in the broad tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/movie/topusers&quot;&gt;[movie]&lt;/a&gt; – Richard ♦ (103), Thaddeus ♦ (74), phantom32 (34).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/short-stories/topusers&quot;&gt;[short stories]&lt;/a&gt; – user14111 (135), Richard ♦ (29).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/comics/topusers&quot;&gt;[comics]&lt;/a&gt; - Thaddeus ♦ (127), Pureferret ♦ (31), DVK (27).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/books/topusers&quot;&gt;[books]&lt;/a&gt; – Richard ♦ (30), Mike Scott (25).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/novel/topusers&quot;&gt;[novel]&lt;/a&gt; – Richard ♦ (24), Mike Scott (17).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/tv/topusers&quot;&gt;[tv]&lt;/a&gt; – Richard ♦ (34), Thaddeus ♦ (18), Tango (16)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Below this, the broad tags have &amp;lt;200 answers and tend to become far more fragmented in terms of answerers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the people  most likely to get gold tag badges in these broad tags are already moderators, and so these new powers would mean nothing new. The users below them are so far off getting this tag badge that it’s nothing we need to worry about any time soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only exception is user14111 in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/short-stories&quot;&gt;[short-stories]&lt;/a&gt; tag, but they’re already so close to a gold tag badge in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/story-identification/topusers&quot;&gt;[story-identification]&lt;/a&gt; that I doubt getting a gold badge in short stories would open up much potential for abuse that wasn’t already there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So far, there have been no problems on our site with people abusing these privileges.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal approach (with a gold tag badge in Harry Potter) is to only close if I’m absolutely sure that a question is a dupe. Otherwise, I’ll drop a comment and let other people voice their opinion. I’ve seen very similar sentiments from our other gold tag badge holders and our mods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, to get a gold tag badge, you need to have been around a while. You’re probably familiar with how the site works. This isn’t a badge that a new user gets by accident – it takes sustained effort to earn this. That doesn’t strike me as the sort of person who’d abuse their new closing privileges. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And in the unlikely event that somebody did, there’s always the modhammer. I think it unlikely you could do this unnoticed for long.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2015-04-09T03:09:18.283" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6788" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6789" CreationDate="2015-04-09T13:56:52.190" Score="14" ViewCount="242" Body="&lt;p&gt;Prompted by &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/20994836#20994836&quot;&gt;Michael Edenfield’s comment in chat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A quick glance through the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;series&lt;/a&gt; tag shows that it seems to be used for a couple of things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Story ID questions that the OP remembers were part of a series&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about TV shows and books that happened to come in a series (note that we used to have a [tv-series] tag, which become a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1504/3567&quot;&gt;synonym for [tv]&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it’s clearly not applied very well: it would be easy to find hundreds of questions that meet one or both of these criteria that don’t have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;series&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This smells of being a meta tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the moment, there are only about 65 questions with this tag. I don’t see how it provides a useful categorisation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we get rid of this tag? And if not, should we clarify its purpose?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;s&gt;down to &lt;s&gt;38&lt;/s&gt; &lt;s&gt;28&lt;/s&gt; 12 questions.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TljGY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2015-04-13T08:15:42.843" Title="Is it time for the [series] finale?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6788" CreationDate="2015-04-09T14:06:25.087" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the help center's entry on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/tagging&quot;&gt;tagging&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A tag is a word or phrase that describes the topic of the question. Tags are a means of connecting experts with questions they will be able to answer by sorting questions into specific, well-defined categories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tags can also be used to help you identify questions that are interesting or relevant to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;series&lt;/a&gt; is too broad to describe the topic of the question well and is not useful for identifying questions that are interesting or relevant to anyone. And there are no &quot;experts&quot; on series in general that need to be connected to these questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it is a meta-tag as well by the following definition:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If the tag can’t work as the only tag on a question, it’s probably a meta-tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, it's too broad to describe the topic of the question by itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2015-04-09T14:06:25.087" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6788" CreationDate="2015-04-09T14:13:58.737" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've already started cleaning up this tag in cases where it is obviously redundant, e.g. cases like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;series&lt;/a&gt;. However, I'm not sure what to do when the only two tags are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-id&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-id&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-id&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;series&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get rid of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;series&lt;/a&gt; and let &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-id&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-id&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-id&lt;/a&gt; stand on its own?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Replace &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;series&lt;/a&gt; with an almost-as-bad media tag, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movies&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do as was suggested in the other meta question about media tags, and only leave them on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-id&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-id&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-id&lt;/a&gt; questions where no more specific tag is available?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(BTW: We have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; and neither is a synonym of the other...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2015-04-09T14:13:58.737" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6788" CreationDate="2015-04-09T21:22:46.177" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The explicit purpose of tags is to help people search for content.  This can either be a single tag search, or a tag used as a refiner to a search.  The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;series&lt;/a&gt; tag seems to me to assist with neither of these objectives:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm having difficulty even thinking of a scenario where somebody might search for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;series&lt;/a&gt; tag in isolation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adding it as a refiner to a search doesn't seem to me to be in any way useful either (you either already know that it's a series or the fact that it's a series is irrelevant).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Much more useful would be tags based around the overall name of a series, with individual episodes (in cases where there are not too many of them - 5 to 7 seems a reasonable highmark) having their own tags where this would also be helpful, but not as a hard-and-fast rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, kill it until it's dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2015-04-09T21:22:46.177" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6792" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6802" CreationDate="2015-04-09T22:09:15.870" Score="10" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed a recent trend editing my posts (I assume other user's posts too) which pretty much amounts to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Replace pre-Disney canon level mentions with &quot;Legends&quot; in text&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Replace (or add) &quot;legends&quot; tag instead of &quot;EU&quot; tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The edits in and out of themselves are harmless, my only 2 concerns with them are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Volume: If ALL Star Wars posts get edited that way, the site gets spammed with largely meaningless bumps (well, it'll generate me extra rep so perhaps I shold shut up and not raise the issue? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If only some posts are edited, we have inconsistent styling throughout the site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They don't seem like a MAJOR improvement (especially if only a minority of old posts are edited due to volume concerns). Not really a major reason to avoid such edits (IMHO), but worth thinking whether we need them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not providing teh links to avoid calling out specific users doing the edits. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To clarify: I'm not really objecting to the edits per se, just want to have a coherent policy&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2015-04-22T19:22:02.767" Title="Should we be editing old posts to reflect &quot;C-canon/EU&quot;=&gt;&quot;Legends&quot; rename by Disney?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6785" CreationDate="2015-04-09T22:17:50.613" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some more items to consider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to get a gold tag badge you need a total tag score (&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/63836/133026&quot;&gt;tag score is basically the combined total of all the upvotes and downvotes you've accumulated on answers under that specific tag&lt;/a&gt;&quot;) of 1000 in at least 200 answers.  Since tag score * 10 roughly equals reputation, that's a 10000 reputation level, but more practically you're going to be a good bit above it because those answers will all have gotten at least 1 upvote, as well as a healthy percentage of accepts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this reputation level you already have &lt;em&gt;colossal&lt;/em&gt; potential for misbehaviour, if you were so inclined, and this potential exists &lt;em&gt;whether or not&lt;/em&gt; you also have a gold tag badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you were the type who would abuse a gold tag badge, then chances are that you're also the type who would abuse &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; site privileges; the ones in particular that I'm thinking of include posting more links, editing questions and answers, vote down, and regular close vote casting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Realistically, if you're that type of user it's going to be a minor miracle if you've not been banned from the site already, before the risk of potential abuse of a gold tag badge even comes into play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite all this, I would still like to see these overly-broad tags killed until they're dead, but for a different reason: they're just not particularly useful for searching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2015-04-09T22:17:50.613" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6792" CreationDate="2015-04-09T22:27:12.537" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's &lt;em&gt;absolutely&lt;/em&gt; necessary right now (because we still understand the distinction), but it seems to do no harm aside from bumping a lot of old questions to the front page (and I've gotten some extra rep from it myself too, so no complaints on that count here either).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Longer term I think it is useful in that it provides additional clarity to the answer.  The issue of Star Wars canon can get a bit gnarly sometimes, and being able to say things like &quot;this explanation comes from Legends&quot; or &quot;this explanation is fully in canon&quot; (without requiring someone to go off and search whether or not a cited work is canon themselves) is going to be helpful to people searching for content in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So long as the edits are at least correct, I say let it be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2015-04-09T22:27:12.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6795" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6796" CreationDate="2015-04-10T12:48:19.237" Score="-17" ViewCount="400" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now, what have I done wrong or unethical this time that I have been banned again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Richard, seriously? This is you who have started the fight...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="931" LastEditDate="2015-04-10T15:40:04.040" LastActivityDate="2015-04-10T15:40:04.040" Title="Why have I been banned from chat this time?" Tags="|support|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6795" CreationDate="2015-04-10T14:06:58.443" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because you said something rude in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/22477/the-waiting-room&quot;&gt;The Waiting Room&lt;/a&gt; (Health.SE's chat room), it was flagged, and deleted. Don't be rude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also quit blaming Richard for everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2015-04-10T14:06:58.443" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6792" CreationDate="2015-04-10T16:52:03.310" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think heritage of the world should be preserved. After decades, if a guy finds a Star Wars question from 2012, he should be able to find the true canon of that time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2015-04-10T16:52:03.310" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6798" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-13T02:33:54.627" Score="-1" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've Harry Potter questions beating any other canon by hundreds of questions. Should we also add book-specific tags like &lt;em&gt;deathly-hallows&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;chamber-of-secrets&lt;/em&gt; etc. to a question if applicable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My personal opinion:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes. It'd be useful for a guy to visit questions from a book after reading it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="931" LastEditDate="2015-04-13T05:03:37.347" LastActivityDate="2015-04-13T13:21:09.680" Title="Should we have book-specific Harry Potter tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2016-04-07T12:28:33.173" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6799" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6829" CreationDate="2015-04-13T11:41:34.383" Score="14" ViewCount="221" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider the following two tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/deathly-hallows&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[deathly-hallows]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 17 questions. Tag description:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Three magical objects in the Harry Potter universe that together give the owner ‘mastery over death‘. Specifically, they are the Elder Wand, Resurrection Stone and Cloak of Invisibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/elder-wand&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[elder-wand]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 23 questions. Tag description:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Elder Wand is the most powerful wand in the Harry Potter Universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But looking through the questions, it seems as if [deathly-hallows] is only for questions about the Stone and the Cloak, and anybody asking about the Elder Wand only uses [elder-wand].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s confusing to look for information about the Wand in the [deathly-hallows] tag, especially as it’s in the tag description, and find that there’s almost nothing there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I think we should retag all the questions that use [elder-wand] with [deathly-hallows].&lt;/strong&gt; We could alternatively make [elder-wand] a tag synonym for [deathly-hallows], but that seems unnecessary when it’s so seldom used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Or as a weak alternative, at least add the [deathly-hallows] tag to the [elder-wand] questions.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this seem sensible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T09:47:00.933" Title="Should we destroy the [elder-wand]?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6799" CreationDate="2015-04-13T13:18:49.467" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would a new user who isn't familiar with this meta tag be satisfied to see their &quot;Elder-Wand&quot; tagged post be tagged with &quot;Deathly-Hallows&quot; instead?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knowing that the Elder Wand is one of them, and it being described as one in the Wiki, I think it'd be an appropriate synonym.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20533" LastActivityDate="2015-04-13T13:18:49.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6798" CreationDate="2015-04-13T13:21:09.680" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt;, given the number of tags that can be used to further specify the Harry-Potter questions, by character, object, type of magic, or whether it's the books or movies being put to question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20533" LastActivityDate="2015-04-13T13:21:09.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6792" CreationDate="2015-04-13T13:58:01.400" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't need to actively edit out all mention of the EU and the previous levels of canon (G-canon, T-canon, etc.), but a user should edit posts to the new, correct terminology if&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the user is editing the post for something else anyway (spelling corrections, tag cleanup, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the post is already on the front page (e.g. an old question got a late answer)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a new question has been asked and marked as a duplicate, and the old question it is a duplicate of uses the old terminology&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is a good middle ground to update/correct the terminology while avoiding the work and spam from purging the site of every mention of the EU and old levels of &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the tags, it is not necessary to substitute &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-legends&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-legends&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-legends&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-eu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-eu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-eu&lt;/a&gt;, since they are synonyms (and the former is the master tag). See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6627/31936&quot;&gt;this meta post&lt;/a&gt;. As I mention in the linked meta question, I don't think it is necessary to edit &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-legends&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-legends&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-legends&lt;/a&gt; into all the old questions about Legends. But if the above criteria are met (e.g. a user is already editing a Legends question) we might as well add the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some background:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am one of the users (perhaps the only) making the edits in question. An example is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/31783/revisions&quot;&gt;my edit to a question about R2-D2&lt;/a&gt;. In this case, I was editing the question to remove the character tags (the issue of character tags came up recently in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/20987980#20987980&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;, and we have an existing, highly upvoted answer on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/846/31936&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt; arguing against the use of almost all character tags). When editing posts, I proofread the text and make any other edits that seem necessary. In this example and other cases, I updated the terminology and added the relevant &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-legends&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-legends&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-legends&lt;/a&gt;, which did not exist at the time the question was added. The question specifically allows a level of canon (in the old terminology) which has been deemed Legends, so the tag is relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's probably also worth mentioning that when &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-legends&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-legends&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-legends&lt;/a&gt; was first created, I did specifically edit a few questions just to add it. This was because  users must have score &gt;= 5 in a tag to approve synonyms to it, and no users had such a score since &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-legends&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-legends&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-legends&lt;/a&gt; was new. By making these edits, I was able to get approval to make the old &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-eu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-eu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-eu&lt;/a&gt; its synonym. Such edits are no longer necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2015-04-13T13:58:01.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6803" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-14T07:24:50.957" Score="2" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've already disapproved character tags: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/843/star-wars-character-tags&quot;&gt;Star-Wars character tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, based on this, @Null recently removed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/r2-d2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;r2-d2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;r2-d2&lt;/a&gt; tag from one of my questions. It means it's in action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please, remove &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/yoda&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;yoda&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;yoda&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/darth-vader&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;darth-vader&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;darth-vader&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/obi-wan-kenobi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;obi-wan-kenobi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;obi-wan-kenobi&lt;/a&gt; tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T12:34:15.263" Title="Please, remove &quot;yoda&quot;, &quot;darth-vader&quot; and &quot;obi-wan-kenobi&quot; tags" Tags="|feature-request|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2015-04-16T22:49:18.690" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6803" CreationDate="2015-04-14T12:04:39.983" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;We are &lt;em&gt;slowly&lt;/em&gt; cleaning up character tags on a tag-by-tag basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not all character tags are being removed; rather, the consensus based on recent meta discussions is that character tags should stick around if they identify some significant subset of question that a person might be an &quot;expert&quot; in. In other words, it's &lt;em&gt;feasible&lt;/em&gt; that someone could know a whole lot about Darth Vader, but not really be interested in the rest of Star Wars. OTOH, it's less likely that someone would &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; want to answer questions about R2-D2 -- those questions will probably be answered by people who are general Star Wars experts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is ultimately a subjective decision, but we've started by getting rid of the &quot;easy&quot; cases: tags with the smallest number of tagged questions, tags that seem to be redundant on every question they're used in, etc. And, it needs to be done slowly and carefull, or we'll end up flooding the front page with old questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/yoda&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;yoda&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;yoda&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/darth-vader&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;darth-vader&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;darth-vader&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/obi-wan-kenobi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;obi-wan-kenobi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;obi-wan-kenobi&lt;/a&gt; fit the bill for deletion, someone will get around to them eventually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T12:04:39.983" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6799" CreationDate="2015-04-14T20:56:15.460" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/elder-wand&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;elder-wand&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;elder-wand&lt;/a&gt; tag be useful for readers who have not yet read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21187" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T20:56:15.460" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6806" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6808" CreationDate="2015-04-15T18:15:42.727" Score="5" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently posted a comment on this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/86289/why-doesnt-s-h-i-e-l-d-put-hulk-on-the-index-and-lock-him-away&quot;&gt;Why doesn&amp;#39;t S.H.I.E.L.D. put Hulk on the index and lock him away?&lt;/a&gt; that included a link to some information about what the OP was asking. I did not write an answer because the information in my comment did not meet the specific restrictions that the OP requested but I felt that the information would still be of interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that extended discussions will get deleted and answers in the comments will be deleted but this deletion seems to extend the scope of comment deletion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are comments no longer permitted for anything other than question clarification? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3180" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T12:24:11.377" Title="Where did all the comments go on this question about the Hulk and SHIELD?" Tags="|discussion|comments|deleted-comments|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6806" CreationDate="2015-04-15T18:21:56.363" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments aren't meant to be permanent, so don't expect them to stick around forever.  Much of the thread was various tangential ruminations on trying to restrain the Hulk, much of which now lies in the answers to the question.  When I saw the huge comment thread, I simply wiped all of them out to tidy up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2015-04-15T22:15:06.277" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T22:15:06.277" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6806" CreationDate="2015-04-15T19:51:50.247" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, as much as that kind of information might be useful, it's not what comments are for. Comments are meant to help &lt;em&gt;improve the question&lt;/em&gt; -- ask for clarification, make suggestions for edits, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a moderator sees a long comment thread that contains discussion or speculation, or information that better belongs in an answer, there's a decent chance it will go away. Particularly if there really is an answer to the question, which &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; contain the relevant information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not really sure what the right thing for you to do here was; my first instinct is for you to just write an answer anyway, but mention the fact that you know it isn't an exactly answer but contains useful information anyway. Another option would be to edit your information into the existing answer, or (if you're not comfortable with that), leave a comment on the answer for the OP to edit in themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(For the record, one of my comments on that question also got deleted, for the same reason: the information was used to improve an answer and was no longer needed.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T19:51:50.247" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6809" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-15T20:25:11.957" Score="-10" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;A diamond moderator has pissed me off. Again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question had very interesting comments which could have drawn new users to the site during this Avengers period: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/86289/why-doesnt-s-h-i-e-l-d-put-hulk-on-the-index-and-lock-him-away&quot;&gt;Why doesn&amp;#39;t S.H.I.E.L.D. put Hulk on the index and lock him away?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;An another user has also showed the concern: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6806/where-did-all-the-comments-go-on-this-question-about-the-hulk-and-shield&quot;&gt;Where did all the comments go on this question about the Hulk and SHIELD?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Those comments were enjoyable reads for fans (also, this isn't Stack Overflow that comments can distract users or so). Yet, they were deleted by one of our Diamond Moderators. From bureaucratic point of view, he hasn't done anything wrong because comments aren't meant for those things. Fine (although it's not really fine from the spirit of Sci-Fi).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just checked some of the top voted questions on top tags and was surprised to see big threads of comments there. Those comments aren't related to question clarification etc too. Where are diamonds now? Why haven't been those comments deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we setup a more strict protocols about comments rather than leaving them on the choice of diamonds? Currently, if a diamond is drunk and accidentally deleted all comments, it'd still be considered okay. This is not Okay.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Also, deleting comments on one question and leaving them on another is kind of offense!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SE employees pay more attention here. We should either prevent highly voted comments from deletion (or, at least force Diamonds for that) or clean comments automatically (e.g. auto clean all comments from solved questions after a week).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2015-05-24T16:55:40.253" Title="Why haven't any Diamond Moderator deleted big comments thread of top questions and answers?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|comments|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6809" CreationDate="2015-04-16T01:11:07.207" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with keeping top comments around simply because they're top comments is because a lot of them are simply humorous or joking comments, or replies to previous comments. Taken without the other comments, they won't make sense. Or, if they are simply standalone funny comments, they are cute and all but add no permanent value, so there's no reason to keep them around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, if there's a &lt;em&gt;ton&lt;/em&gt; of comments on a question/answer, they should be deleted too. But the mods can't be everywhere 24/7, so they rely a lot on flags and links from regular users. Especially if the question has had no recent activity, the mods are not going to go seek out every old question with lots of comments. If you want them to be consistent, then lend a hand and flag old groups of chart or extraneous comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As has been said many times before, comments are not meant to be permanent. If there is good info, then it should be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Added by the answerer/asker in an edit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edited into the question/answer by another user (so long as it is relevant and useful, and doesn't substantially change or contradict the existing Q/A)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Form the basis of a new question/answer, if substantial and relevant and the original poster rejects an edit or it is substantially different.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't think we need a new policy. But more consistent implementation of the current policy is not a bad idea, it will just require input from the community to help&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastEditorUserId="4678" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T02:17:17.880" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T02:17:17.880" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6811" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6812" CreationDate="2015-04-16T01:33:04.303" Score="5" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AiwGI.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AiwGI.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of the site&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.118 Safari/537.36&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/253550/256282&quot;&gt;Bug report on Meta.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17815" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2017-07-26T01:02:36.040" LastActivityDate="2017-07-26T01:02:36.040" Title="Overflow in Chrome 41" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|user-interface|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6811" CreationDate="2015-04-16T02:12:39.917" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/253555/130213&quot;&gt;A fix for this is rolling out now.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T02:12:39.917" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6806" CreationDate="2015-04-16T12:24:11.377" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comments are not intended to be permanent&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of comments is mostly to solicit clarifications on, and suggest improvements to, questions and answers.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;Please see the Help Center writeup on comments for further information on this&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Comments are temporary &quot;Post-It&quot; notes left on a question or answer. They can be up-voted (but not down-voted) and flagged, but do not generate reputation. There's no revision history, and when they are deleted they're gone for good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You should submit a comment if you want to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Request clarification from the author;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Leave constructive criticism that guides the author in improving the post;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Add relevant but minor or transient information to a post (e.g. a link to a related question, or an alert to the author that the question has been updated).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A flag reason of &quot;obsolete&quot; exists for comments, and it is perfectly reasonable to flag a comment as obsolete when the comment no longer serves it's purpose&lt;/strong&gt;; i.e if the suggestions made in the comment are taken up in a question or answer, or if the question or answer is clarified so that the comment is no longer necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also not necessary for a comment to be flagged in order for it to be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Your comment is not a special snowflake&lt;/strong&gt;.  Comment with the understanding that what you're posting is potentially transient content that may be deleted if and when it no longer serves it's purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T12:24:11.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6809" CreationDate="2015-04-16T12:57:29.170" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If moderators haven't yet deleted comments it's because they haven't yet become aware that those comments may need to be deleted&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators are not robots.  They don't spend all day reading every question and answer that gets posted; they have lives to live, their own questions and answers to post, and other things to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moderators are very dependent on the rest of us to help them do their job&lt;/strong&gt;.  You're not seeing any inconsistent policy here; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;the policy on comments is outlined in the Help Center&lt;/a&gt; and seems sufficiently clear.  &lt;strong&gt;All that you're seeing is moderators not reacting to a potential problem because they're not yet aware of it&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You're a 25k user&lt;/strong&gt;.  You have editing privileges.  If you see a comment on a question or answer that you think improves it, then &lt;strong&gt;edit the question or answer to include the comment in it&lt;/strong&gt;.  Do something positive yourself instead of complaining about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T12:57:29.170" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6816" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6817" CreationDate="2015-04-16T16:22:01.597" Score="6" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just reviewed (and rejected) a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/52146&quot;&gt;suggested edit&lt;/a&gt; on a story ID question by user &quot;Scottybrown100&quot; attempting to edit a post by user &quot;Scott Brown&quot;. It appears that this is the same user, but the person lost his login credentials for the original &quot;Scott Brown&quot; account. The edit was to add more details to the question description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What should we do in cases where a user suggests a substantial edit&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; because he appears to have lost the login credentials for his original account and is therefore forced to suggest the edit from the new account?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I'm pretty sure this is the same user (especially since it's a story ID question), my concern if we approve these suggested edits is that a malicious user could create a new account with a similar username to pose as the original user in order to vandalize a post. Consequently, I rejected the edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see a couple of possibilities here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reject the edit for some reason like &quot;attempt to reply&quot;. Reviewers can't be sure it's the same user, and the user can't approve answers with the new account even if it is.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reject the edit and flag for a moderator. I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) that mods can see a user's IP address, so a mod could confirm if the two &quot;users&quot; are using the same IP address.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Approve the edit (perhaps only for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions, since a lot of new users -- who might lose their original account information -- ask these questions). Essentially, the reviewer assumes it's the same user.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;Substantial here means that the edit changes the meaning of the post, such that the edit would be rejected if the editor was obviously not the original poster. If the edit is a simple spelling correction or similar, there is no issue whether the editor is the same as the original poster or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T17:20:45.770" Title="Suggested edits by users probably trying to edit their own post from a new account" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edit|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6816" CreationDate="2015-04-16T16:29:33.300" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/20528/how-can-i-recover-a-lost-account&quot;&gt;How can I recover a lost account?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The correct procedure in this case is not for the user to create a new, but similarly named, account, but instead to go through account recovery.  This will also ensure that the possibility of malicious editing is avoided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that you should reject the edit, but adding a comment to the effect that lost account recovery is possible and pointing the user at the URL outlining the recovery procedure seems an appropriate (and helpful) addition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T16:29:33.300" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6750" CreationDate="2015-04-16T16:31:44.990" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a huge fan of nuances and phrasings, so I enjoyed answering the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/33546/what-did-loki-mean-when-he-called-natasha-black-widow-drakovs-daughter/33549#33549&quot;&gt;What did Loki mean when he called Natasha (Black Widow) “Drakov's daughter”?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11159" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T16:31:44.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6816" CreationDate="2015-04-16T16:46:03.587" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regardless of who the user is, if the suggested edit changes anything about the original intentions of the poster, I reject it. If the edits are things like spelling, grammar, or formatting, I'd let it through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no fool-proof way for me to know that Null2 is really the same person as Null, so I'm not going to assume that they are the same person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think it &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be the same user, I'd suggest rejecting it with a custom reason and telling them that they should follow the procedures to recover their other account and merge the accounts as necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T16:46:03.587" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6820" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-17T18:17:18.320" Score="-6" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's our Future Works policy: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5187/should-questions-about-future-works-be-closed-as-primarily-opinion-based&quot;&gt;Should questions about future works be closed as Primarily Opinion Based?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of main and effective point of it is that Closed Questions can be Reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, if the question has negative votes (which is likely), it's get deleted which isn't desirable. After the question gets deleted, community has very low chance of finding it, so it has less chance of getting opened again (after undelete) unless that question is in someone's memory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, don't delete such questions in auto-cleanups.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Implementation can be slightly tricky. Future Works can be marked in Closure menu. Or, community can suggest better option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T19:04:11.797" Title="Don't delete Future Works closed questions to adhere with our policy" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6820" CreationDate="2015-04-17T18:39:22.043" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag them if you see them get deleted.  There's an auto-deletion script that deletes negative-scored closed questions, and there isn't anything we can do to prevent that.  We just need to undelete things that it catches, given our current policy towards these questions expects a future reopening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T18:39:22.043" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6820" CreationDate="2015-04-17T19:04:11.797" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are a couple of ways to respond to this suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, the most practical and immediately relevant: this is something you would have to take up with the Stack Exchange developers, and would likely need to be a code change, and would likely impact the entire Stack Exchange network. All to deal with a single, subjectively-assigned category of question that you're asking be treated &quot;differently&quot; that all other questions. Regardless of what any of us in SF&amp;amp;F think about the idea, I'm betting your suggestion would get no traction at that level. If this is really a problem for us, we'll have to come up with a way to fix it that we have a real chance of implementing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(@Keen's suggestion to just flag them for undelete when you see them is a good start, and I'm not sure we can do any better right now.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, I'm not convinced that it's really a good idea. We are effectively setting up a category of questions that will never get deleted, many of which (IMO) are terrible. The bigger problem is, I can't even tell if it's a good question yet, so I don't know if I should upvote or downvote it. Suppose you saw the trailer, and thought &quot;huh, I wonder who that character is?&quot;, so you came here and asked. And then you watched the movie and they show up in the first scene with a &quot;Hi, my name is ___&quot; name tag on. Your future-works question now becomes a bad question, deserving of lots of downvotes. But if you saw the movie, and you &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; don't know who that character is, then it's probably a really good question, and now it might even have an answer. But there's no way to know that ahead of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, just in general, as my own personal opinion (which I realize is not site policy, but there it is) is that future-works questions are silly. I understand that people are often antsy to ask questions as soon as they think of them, but asking a question that has a &lt;em&gt;near certainty&lt;/em&gt; of not having a canonical answer is just a bad idea. Even if we get the answer from leaked scripts, or unofficial blog posts, or whatever, who's to say the answer doesn't change before the final product comes out? How do we even know we're not being intentionally lied to? Until it shows up on-screen, there &lt;em&gt;cannot be&lt;/em&gt; a right answer. Is it really that hard to just be a little patient, watch the movie like everyone else, &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; figure out what you want to ask about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T19:04:11.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6823" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-19T19:04:00.117" Score="4" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the past few days I've noticed that characters (especially names and badges) are unusually placed. They seem to be either squashed up against other words, sometimes overlapping and something being pushed onto the next line down. Refreshing seems to fix the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll take screenshots when I notice it, but here's a minor example of what I mean&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/285OP.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and then after being refreshed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GEuSN.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and more recently;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yu8ZP.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T18:08:19.337" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T18:08:19.337" Title="Unusual character placement on answer screens" Tags="|bug|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6824" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7610" CreationDate="2015-04-20T03:01:12.897" Score="8" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a generic question about this: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/252794/why-am-i-getting-different-versions-of-my-profile-page-on-different-sites&quot;&gt;Why am I getting different versions of my profile page on different sites?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just noticed that Stack Overflow and Super User (which are the oldest guys and not beta) have already been upgraded. When will SciFi.SE get the upgrade?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T00:12:26.250" Title="When will we get new profile?" Tags="|support|profile-page|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6824" CreationDate="2015-04-20T03:17:31.683" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;As mentioned here:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/253450/new-profile-pages-are-out-bugs-and-feedback-master-list&quot;&gt;New profile pages are out - bugs and feedback master list&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new profile page requires an upgrade to new CSS for each site, so it's rolling out slowly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T03:17:31.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6826" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6827" CreationDate="2015-04-20T04:25:38.173" Score="3" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am new to reviewing edits.  I've just seen three separate changes proposed which add or modify the authors original intended question/answer (but isn't wrong or contrary to what the author intended).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How I personally handle this sort of input is to write a comment under the question / answer suggesting the change or providing the new information to the original author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to reject the edits but do so with comments suggesting that the additional information be provided in a comment under the original question / answer (but I don't see a mechanism to do this).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only feel qualified to approve edits in grammar, formatting, etc. that don't substantially change the content of the author's work.  Is this the correct approach or are my standards too strict?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42324" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2016-01-04T20:54:45.847" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T20:54:45.847" Title="Editing proposed changes" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edit|review-queue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6826" CreationDate="2015-04-20T05:41:38.267" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The general rule of thumb is that an edit should improve the post in some fashion, either by clarifying the answer, adding additional &lt;strong&gt;relevant&lt;/strong&gt; information or improving the readability. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, on a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; question;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Answer A mentions a book by name. The editor adds a hyperlink to the book's wikipedia page&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Answer B also mentions a book. The editor copies some info from the wikipedia page to clarify why it's a match&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Answer C is the correct answer but has poor use of English. The editor inserts commas and periods to create paragraphs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of these would be acceptable because they don't change the Author's &lt;em&gt;intent&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want more info about the theory behind editing, there's a section in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; and some meta discussion &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/21788/how-does-editing-work&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if in doubt, why not pop into the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;chatroom&lt;/a&gt; to ask a question about what your fellow users think you should do, or you can simply skip the edit and come back later to see what other users did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T11:43:28.753" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6824" CreationDate="2015-04-20T08:48:13.143" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;So far SE team haven't given the precise date. SciFi.SE is on the deck at this time: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/253359/list-of-communities-with-base-css-updates-completed&quot;&gt;List of communities with base css updates completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T08:48:13.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6799" CreationDate="2015-04-20T09:47:00.933" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I suggested creating a synonym, @Keen proposed different in the comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We should just remove the tag from all the questions that have it, in this case. Tag synonyms are for when we have multiple tags that really refer to the same thing. The term “elder wand” is pretty generic, and might see some use outside of Harry Potter. –  Keen♦ Apr 14 at 15:23&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has now been done: every question tagged with [elder-wand] has been retagged with [deathly-hallows], and sometimes [wandlore] where appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag will be deleted by the auto-cleanup script in the next day or so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T09:47:00.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3586" CreationDate="2015-04-20T22:44:31.397" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adding another answer here because I've just recently (in the previous 2 hours) fallen foul of this, or at least of something that looks on the surface a lot like it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not keen on the idea of calling out specific people here (the history is visible for those who are interested in looking for it anyway), so in summary the sequence of events looked like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A question is asked.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Another user supplies an answer (which seemed quite weak to me).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I add an answer with quoted references from the source.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The other user then goes back and edits their answer, incorporating my material as well as one of the same quotes into it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The other user then proceeds to - and I can't think of a charitable way to put this so I'll just be blunt instead and describe how it felt at the time - nitpick at my answer and discredit it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although there's nothing rules-wise to prevent this, and although the end result is that the other user's answer has been vastly improved by doing this, it still does seem quite an uncool thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I could be reading this completely wrong, and perhaps it's just all a big coincidence.  I'm more inclined to take the more negative reading, however, on account of the last item I listed above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's easy to give an emotionally detached response to this kind of thing until it actually happens to you, I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T22:44:31.397" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6831" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-20T23:07:12.117" Score="20" ViewCount="385" Body="&lt;p&gt;As site users we have the ability to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/flag-posts&quot;&gt;raise flags on questions and answers&lt;/a&gt;, which is granted at 15 reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators also exist and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/site-moderators&quot;&gt;the Help Center states&lt;/a&gt; that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The most common moderator task is to follow up on flagged posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, this opens the possibility that a user may raise a flag on a moderator's post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it a conflict of interest if the same moderator reviews and rejects or accepts that flag?&lt;/strong&gt;  Should that moderator instead be &quot;self-censoring&quot; and leave the flag for a different moderator to review?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I note the discusstion at &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/58440/flag-reviewed-by-same-moderator&quot;&gt;this Meta post&lt;/a&gt; but I'm interested in opinions on this from this community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2018-01-26T14:35:36.233" Title="Is it a conflict of interest for a moderator to review a flag on one of their own posts?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|moderation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6831" CreationDate="2015-04-20T23:09:26.550" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Indeed it would be a conflict of interest for a moderator to dismiss flags on their own posts. But I handled the flag you are referring to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T23:09:26.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6831" CreationDate="2015-04-21T11:54:37.720" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As @kevin says, under normal circumstances a Moderator should not be dismissing &quot;&lt;em&gt;behaviour&lt;/em&gt;&quot; flags where they're the object of the flag. There's no site 'law' that says you can't, but it would represent a clear ethical conflict of interest. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd offer some caveats;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'd dismiss a flag on my own answer if the flag was obviously intended to be frivolous or humorous.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'd probably dismiss it if it was clearly raised in error.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'd happily uphold it if it was highlighting an error on my part (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9832/what-exactly-happened-with-dr-crushers-husband-and-captain-picard/89380#89380&quot;&gt;posting the same answer twice, for example&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2018-01-26T14:35:36.233" LastActivityDate="2018-01-26T14:35:36.233" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6831" CreationDate="2015-04-21T14:50:10.463" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll chip in my general behavior on the subject as well.  I don't clear flags on my own posts, nor on posts where I also have a post.  I.e. if I've answered a question, and a flag comes up on another answer, I avoid handling the flag, as that would add an air of impropriety to my flag clearing.  Similarly, I kinda avoid handling flags on answers to questions I've posted, but I'm a bit more willing to handle these.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially, I try to avoid making it look like I'm abusing my powers, even if the moderation is super clear-cut.  However, being human, I sometimes end up handling flags on competing answers, simply because I've forgotten I posted an answer (I've posted &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; of answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T14:50:10.463" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6835" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6836" CreationDate="2015-04-21T18:25:18.897" Score="4" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have two tags for the &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: The Old Republic&lt;/em&gt; MMO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sw-the-old-republic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sw-the-old-republic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sw-the-old-republic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/swtor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;swtor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;swtor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sw-the-old-republic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sw-the-old-republic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sw-the-old-republic&lt;/a&gt; has six questions and two followers, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/swtor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;swtor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;swtor&lt;/a&gt; only has three questions (one of which is &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sw-the-old-republic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sw-the-old-republic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sw-the-old-republic&lt;/a&gt;) and zero followers, I suggest making &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/swtor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;swtor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;swtor&lt;/a&gt; a synonym.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can vote for the synonym &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/sw-the-old-republic/synonyms&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a related note (since there are currently only two users with enough answer score to vote on this), should we expand the scope of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sw-the-old-republic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sw-the-old-republic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sw-the-old-republic&lt;/a&gt; to include the entire &lt;em&gt;Knights of the Old Republic&lt;/em&gt; sub-franchise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2016-02-08T14:30:38.933" Title="Suggested tag synonym: [sw-the-old-republic] and [swtor]" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6835" CreationDate="2015-04-21T23:44:09.913" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since we lack the users to make this happen without mod help, I'll just synonymize them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T23:44:09.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6792" CreationDate="2015-04-22T19:22:02.767" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see the point in completely removing the entire mention of previous canons, leaving them to the edit history. Although Disney has created new Canon levels, it doesn't mean that people are only going to be interested only Disney or Legends canon. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a user wants an explanation that only uses previously established levels of canon, then the Disney canon and Legends canon descriptions are useless to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To preserve the &quot;heritage&quot;, I would suggest edits to include both terms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;G-Canon&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Into&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Disney Canon (Previously G-Canon).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way, older questions get visibility and we passively educate users on which old canons fall into the new canons (without having to specifically look that up.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lumping every pre-existing canon works well for Disney's continuity model, but not necessarily for satisfying the users. The different levels of canon were developed for a &lt;em&gt;reason&lt;/em&gt;, and that wasn't just because there was discontinuity between canons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, I agree with Null about &lt;em&gt;when&lt;/em&gt; to edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2015-04-22T19:22:02.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6838" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6841" CreationDate="2015-04-23T15:09:24.190" Score="7" ViewCount="514" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a lets shy away from direct religious questions on this site policy, which i think is good. However, where do we draw the line on what is religion and what is myth? The Greek gods, Roman gods, Norse gods, and Egyptian gods are all classified as myths when you search for them online, or in history books. While it was pointed out some of these have an active following, (the Greeks have about 2000 active worshipers) for the rest of the world these religions are dead. By definition myth's are &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;an idea or story that is believed by many people but that is not&#xA;  true&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;a story that was told in an ancient culture to explain a practice,&#xA;  belief, or natural occurrence&quot;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/myth&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So should subjects that are classified by the &quot;world&quot; as mythology be off topic, or on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29220" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2015-04-23T15:30:36.113" LastActivityDate="2015-04-24T17:46:32.350" Title="Should myths be considered religions?" Tags="|discussion|mythology|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6839" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6840" CreationDate="2015-04-23T15:50:24.010" Score="19" ViewCount="336" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've recently been going through and cleaning up tags - particularly character tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the criteria we've used to determine whether or not we should get rid of it, is to consider how many questions have been tagged with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Judging based on this measure seems like a sort of self-fulfilling curse though - getting rid of a tag entirely because there's not enough usage of the tag, and removing the tag from incoming questions prevents the tag from ever having enough questions tagged with it to warrant the existence of the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say we kill the tag due to lack of usage, and then continue to remove it from incoming questions - at what point do we say, &quot;OK, we now have enough questions about this character to warrant a character tag?&quot; Do we use quantities of questions at all? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we re-create the tag at this point, do we go back and re-tag the relevant questions? If not, a zealous user could see it as a tag not being used enough, and wipe it out again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Certainly, not every character needs or deserves a tag, but there are a number who do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What guidelines should we follow regarding the creation, deletion, or re-creation of character tags?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T16:19:07.223" Title="When should character tags be created/recreated?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6839" CreationDate="2015-04-23T16:39:10.463" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Warning: this is a long one, mostly review! Skip to the end for the good stuff if you're in a hurry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've gone back and read a lot of the earlier questions, and the main problem is they were written when the site was much younger (the main &quot;reference guide&quot; is from 2011), and there were &lt;em&gt;far&lt;/em&gt; fewer questions. I think it's worth revisiting how to apply those ideas to our current situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, some source questions, newest to oldest:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6803/please-remove-yoda-darth-vader-and-obi-wan-kenobi-tags&quot;&gt;Please, remove &amp;quot;yoda&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;darth-vader&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;obi-wan-kenobi&amp;quot; tags&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1563/why-is-there-a-voldemort-tag-is-there-a-criteria-for-character-tags&quot;&gt;Why is there a voldemort tag? Is there a criterion for character tags?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1770/inconsistent-tagging/1775&quot;&gt;Inconsistent tagging&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/843/star-wars-character-tags&quot;&gt;Star-Wars character tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you go by those meta discussions, character tags have always been frowned on; obviously, that's not a policy that was strictly enforced, or we wouldn't have so many, but at least it has been consistently stated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First off, the point of tags in general, as quoted from @Gilles' answer to the original Star Wars question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tags are useful for two things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For people to subscribe to them or ignore them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To classify questions in a manner that goes beyond plain text search. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He goes on to explain why character tags typically don't fit either of those two criteria:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For example a Star Wars fan would want to browse every question tagged star-wars, and a Star Wars hater would want to ignore these questions. But are you going to ignore questions tagged jar-jar just because you hate the character? If you're in love with Princess Leia, does that mean you specifically want to read all princess-leia questions and not other star-wars questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A question about R2-D2 would contain “R2-D2” or at least “R2D2”, so the tag isn't helping much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a comment to that same answer, @DavRob60 first mentions one criterion for determining if a character tag &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a good tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;when we will get more star-wars question, and a rather large subset of them on some specific character, the need of character specific Tags would arise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Jeff also seems to echo this sentiment in his own answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm uncertain that there will be a great need for them - do these characters really have enough unique questions to warrant their own tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both of these ideas pop up again in subsequent character tag questions, such as this answer (again from @Gilles) about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/voldemort&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;voldemort&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;voldemort&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A tag for a character is only warranted if there are a lot of questions about that particular universe (HP and ST do qualify), and a significant fraction of these questions are specifically about that character. If the tag is used on every question that mentions the character, that defeats the purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, as this topic has come up again recently, @phantom42 brings up another thing to factor in (again, initially related to Star Wars):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Given that there are entire solo books and comics dedicated to vader and obi-wan, I'm inclined to let those ones live. I think the amount of dedicated material should play into our culling&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Current Guidelines&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which brings us to this question, and what our current guidelines should be. In trying to boil down all the past discussions to use as guidance for our cleanup efforts, I think we've settled on the following general rule for character tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A character-specific tag is only useful, and should only be created/kept, if there is enough material &lt;em&gt;unique&lt;/em&gt; to that character, within their larger universe, to generate questions &lt;em&gt;specifically about&lt;/em&gt; that character, such that one or more of the following is true:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users may want to follow/ignore &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; that character, but not the rest of the work.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone may be an &quot;expert&quot; on &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; that character, and no other part of the work.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The character appears in a significant amount of &lt;em&gt;their own&lt;/em&gt; material&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far, some of the metrics we have been informally using, based on coordinating our efforts in chat, have been:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A character that has their own spin-off titles automatically gets to stay.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A character tag with few questions and no followers is an easy delete.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A character that has lot of questions where they're the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; character tagged in it,  that tag will likely stay.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;e.g. if &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chewbacca&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chewbacca&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chewbacca&lt;/a&gt; only ever appears with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/han-solo&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;han-solo&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;han-solo&lt;/a&gt;, we say goodbye to Chewie.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A character tag with lots of people following it probably stays.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that's obviously an incomplete list, so it can definitely use enhancement and refinement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(on a side note: all the old meta discussions seem to agree that character tags are bad unless there's compelling proof otherwise. Assuming that's still the consensus, the criteria we come up with ought to be pretty hard to meet.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2015-04-23T16:39:10.463" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6838" CreationDate="2015-04-23T17:10:19.177" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;My opinion, which I've stated before on related questions, is that trying to classify &quot;mythology&quot; as fantasy or religion is the wrong question. What we're really after is knowing if mythology questions are on-topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a general rule, we consider things to be on-topic here if they relate to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One or more specific works of fantasy and science fiction, or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The practical details (history/evolution/production/etc) of that genre.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; deal with are all the other topics that are &lt;em&gt;brought in to&lt;/em&gt; a work of fantasy as part of telling a good story. The classic example is that we don't take questions on general relativity just because someone made &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that we should apply the same rule to mythology as we would to science, or history, or whatever else. That is, Greek mythology &lt;em&gt;as a whole&lt;/em&gt; is not on-topic for this site. That doesn't mean we can't talk about &lt;em&gt;The Odyssey&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Beowulf&lt;/em&gt;: those are &lt;em&gt;acknowledged works of fiction&lt;/em&gt;, which happen to use mythology as the basis for their stories. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can talk about the dozens of different ways Jason and his quest for the Golden Fleece has been portrayed over the centuries, but I think asking &quot;how many people were actually Argonauts&quot; is off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2015-04-23T17:10:19.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6842" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-23T21:22:28.927" Score="2" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this when I reviewed an edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9gty1.png&quot; alt=&quot;Crunched up text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the CSS is messed up. But on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/16053/revisions&quot;&gt;looking back on it&lt;/a&gt;, everything looks ok.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a known issue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2017-07-26T01:02:43.433" LastActivityDate="2017-07-26T01:02:43.433" Title="The CSS on the reason for edit field is broken when reviewing edits" Tags="|bug|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6843" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-24T11:37:38.670" Score="0" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this question was pulled as a duplicate when it shouldn't have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/87106/in-hp-and-poa-why-didnt-they-take-the-minister-back-in-time-with-the-time-turne&quot;&gt;In HP and PoA, why didnt they take the Minister back in time with the time turner to validate Sirius&amp;#39; innocence?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the question is about Time-Turners, which seems to be well-documented and discussed, &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; question has not been asked, nor answered, as far as I can tell. The question which it is being linked to as a duplicate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/11946/why-couldnt-a-time-turner-have-been-used-to-stop-voldemort&quot;&gt;Why Couldn&amp;#39;t a Time Turner Have been Used to Stop Voldemort?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically does not answer the question. It appears to me that @Richard pulled the plug way too quickly on this question. The answer given by @alexwlchan has a great explanation, which is not a duplicate of another answer as far as I can tell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, this question should be taken off the duplicate list and revitalized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21234" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2015-04-26T11:52:48.883" Title="Why was this question about Time Turners marked as a duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6843" CreationDate="2015-04-24T11:57:57.270" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, we judge duplicate questions based on having duplicate answers. The answer to the original question starts out by saying this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Luckily, time travel in Harry Potter doesn’t exactly work that way. The time traveler cannot change the past because what is experienced in the past has already been changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; the answer to your question, and in fact, to just about every time-turner question that's ever been asked. Just picking some other random situation from HP and asking &quot;why didn't they use a Time Turner to fix _________&quot; does not make a new and interesting question, because the answer is always the same: &quot;they can't.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2015-04-24T11:57:57.270" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6843" CreationDate="2015-04-24T11:59:56.393" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off: the fact that @alexwlchan provided an alternate answer does not make it not a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But more to the question of whether or not it's a dupe. Reading the new question and the existing question and answers, I'd agree that this is a dupe. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fundamentally, the new question asks why a time turner wasn't used to go back and right a wrong. The existing answers provide various reasons why a time turner isn't or can't be used for such purposes. This includes things like intended uses of time turners, how far time can be turned back, and the issue of creating paradoxes. While Alex has laid out some new ideas on the new question, the old answers already addresses this pretty well as these are the same reasons why they couldn't/didn't use a time turner to exonerate Sirius.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2015-04-24T11:59:56.393" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6838" CreationDate="2015-04-24T13:25:00.590" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe you're asking the wrong question for what you mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Myths&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;mythology&lt;/em&gt; are broader terms than just stories from old, largely historic religions. There are plenty of contemporary myths that have nothing to do with religions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think, and feel free to correct me, what you're really trying to get at is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should ancient/historic/largely unfollowed religions be on topic?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your contention is that since no one follows them anymore, they are no longer &quot;religions&quot;, and have crossed over into some sort of public domain, for a lack of a better term. In a sense, this is true. The average person doesn't think of Zeus and wonder if the guy next door secretly has a shrine to him. For many today, Greek or Egyptian &quot;myths&quot; hold as much truth as Grimm's Fairy Tales. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without trying or wanting to get into a big religious debate, I'm going to put this out there: to me, all religions (current, or ancient, and regardless of the numbers of followers are equally true/untrue/legitimate/illegitimate as none of them can be proven as more or less true than any other. This is why I mentioned in comments that defining a &quot;myth&quot; based on the definition you provided is such a dangerous idea. If we hold that any religion is false, we must hold them all false, and if we hold any of them true, we must hold them all true. That's not a discussion we want to be having.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have already &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1053/5184&quot;&gt;banned religious texts such as the Bible&lt;/a&gt; and no one has ever contested that - only the scope of how much we were going to ban. Now, to my knowledge, there are no Ancient Greek Holy Texts (I could be wrong; I'm no expert on the subject), but religious teachings, beliefs, rules, and dogma stem from more than just texts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, as discussed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3309/5184&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, allowances are made for fictional works &lt;em&gt;based on&lt;/em&gt; the religions/myths, provided that they are intended as a fictional work, and not a documentary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about the mythology mentioned in &lt;em&gt;Clash of the Titans&lt;/em&gt;? We're good. Questions about the mythology mentioned in &lt;em&gt;The Mummy&lt;/em&gt;? We're good. Questions about &lt;em&gt;Noah&lt;/em&gt;, the movie? We're good. Questions about &lt;em&gt;The Iliad&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;The Odyssey&lt;/em&gt;? Maybe a little fuzzier, but I'd say we're good. But questions about religions in general? I'm going to say no. We may have a lot of overlapping interests, but we (as a group) are sci-fi/fantasy experts, not religious experts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2015-04-24T17:46:32.350" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6847" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-26T08:38:35.000" Score="2" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;The description for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magical-creatures&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magical-creatures&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magical-creatures&lt;/a&gt; tag reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Refers to the large group of creatures based in magic in mythology, fantasy, and science fiction, such as elves, dwarves, and unicorns. Not to be confused with aliens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has 71 questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the fairly wide scope of this tag, it seems strange to me that we have separate tags for all of these creatures:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/centaurs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;centaurs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;centaurs&lt;/a&gt; (4 questions, 0 followers)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/phoenix&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;phoenix&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;phoenix&lt;/a&gt; (11 questions, 0 followers)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unicorns&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unicorns&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unicorns&lt;/a&gt; (7 questions, 0 followers)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some magical creatures that have struck out on their own and seem to be doing quite well as their own tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/basilisk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;basilisk&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;basilisk&lt;/a&gt; (23 questions, 1 follower)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dragons&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dragons&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dragons&lt;/a&gt; (61 questions, 7 followers)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dwarves&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dwarves&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dwarves&lt;/a&gt; (38 questions, 1 follower)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/elves&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;elves&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;elves&lt;/a&gt; (77 questions, 4 followers)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the [magical-creatures] tag has overshadowed some of the smaller tags. The fist set are often unused on questions where they would be relevant. For example, there are lots of questions that include the term “unicorn”, should probably have  a [unicorn] tag, but don’t. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=unicorn+is%3Aquestion+-%5Bunicorn%5D&quot;&gt;Search&lt;/a&gt;) At the scale it’s being used, I don’t see how useful it is for filtering questions at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thinking about it harder, I have some competing suggestions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Delete the small tags and just make [magical-creatures] the canonical tag. &lt;em&gt;(This was my original suggestion.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Delete all of the tags listed above except [magical-creatures].&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Try to increase the usage of the small tags so that they get a more complete coverage of the topic, and can act as a decent filter for their topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As originally phrased, this question was essentially a bit of an unsubstantiated rant. “I think we should do option 1, who’s with me?” When I stop and think about why I wanted to clean up the tags, I realise it wasn’t as clear-cut as I thought. I’ve explained my problems with the current tags, and suggested an alternative which is hopefully more amicable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2015-06-09T06:17:34.333" Title="Should we round up some of the [magical-creatures]?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6847" CreationDate="2015-04-26T10:42:09.327" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see no issue with this, as long as you're...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...willing to commit to re-tagging any &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; questions that use the old tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...happy to direct users to this meta if there are any issues arising.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way, we won't end up with both sets running at the same time or any arguments over why tags have been removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-04-26T10:42:09.327" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6843" CreationDate="2015-04-26T11:52:48.883" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Speaking to @Kevin's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6843/why-was-this-question-about-time-turners-marked-as-a-duplicate/6849#comment16048_6844&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt; that none of the answers in the dupe address the consequences of using the time-turners purely for &quot;&lt;em&gt;information gathering purposes&lt;/em&gt;&quot; (e.g. acting under the assumption that this won't create a paradox since it only affects events in the future), I've added an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/87258/20774&quot;&gt;additional answer&lt;/a&gt; that specifically refers to the fact that time-turners are considered pretty bloody dangerous at the best of times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also take exception to his idea that time-travel is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sound_of_Thunder&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;consequence free&lt;/a&gt; but that's another matter entirely :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2015-04-26T11:52:48.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6847" CreationDate="2015-04-27T02:21:17.330" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, those tags shouldn't be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They don't cause &lt;strong&gt;any&lt;/strong&gt; harm whatsoever&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They are useful in searching, e.g. when I want specifically Unicorn questions (either HP only, or may be cross-universe research).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;More specific to your retagging proposal, it's also problematic because general &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magical-creatures&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magical-creatures&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magical-creatures&lt;/a&gt; tag is non-obvious tag to use to a random person asking the question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2015-05-27T09:33:30.963" LastActivityDate="2015-05-27T09:33:30.963" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6847" CreationDate="2015-04-27T05:30:43.130" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the blurb at the end about not covering aliens is pretty goofy, given how prolific aliens are in material that's on topic for this site.  I say that if we're gonna keep &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magical-creatures&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magical-creatures&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magical-creatures&lt;/a&gt;, we change it into something that properly acts as a broad tag for non-existing creatures.  Maybe &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fictional-creatures&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fictional-creatures&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fictional-creatures&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantastical-beings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantastical-beings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantastical-beings&lt;/a&gt;.  Something that covers the various beings that are science fictional or fantastic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2015-04-27T05:30:43.130" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6852" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6854" CreationDate="2015-04-27T10:50:00.353" Score="8" ViewCount="234" Body="&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6673/13418&quot;&gt; What's the policy on whole-answer spoilers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/87329/13418&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; question is totally legitimate. But the whole body of the question is in spoiler tag. It is not the first time I see a question almost entirely in spoiler tags. And it just seems weird.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that a movie question is different from a book, comics or series question: you either saw the movie or you didn't; whereas you could have watched a series up until season X and ask a legitimate season X-1 question and at the end of the question, in spoiler tag, say something along &quot;now we know that it may have been for this reason which we learned later, but can you enlighten this particular point?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But fully spoiler tagged question give me the feeling of unnecessary work. The name of the movie in the title of the question should be sufficient to prevent people who didn't see the movie from clicking the question, should it not ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13418" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2015-04-27T14:08:18.393" Title="What's the policy on whole-question spoilers?" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6852" CreationDate="2015-04-27T12:07:16.967" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a guideline: if you can imagine filling the hidden part with a completely different, reasonable question, then you're overusing spoiler markup. Otherwise, even someone who doesn't want to see spoilers has to read the hidden content in order to find out whether the question was about something they didn't want to be spoiled about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the specific case of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/87329/what-is-this-plot-device-featured-in-avengers-age-of-ultron&quot;&gt;What is the “Water of Sight” featured in Avengers: Age of Ultron?&lt;/a&gt;, the whole point of the question is “Water of Sight” (whatever that is, I'm not familiar with that movie or the material it's based on). So the question should mention “Water of Sight” prominently, in fact that should be the title of the question: &lt;em&gt;What is the Water of Sight in Avengers: Age of Ultron?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it a major plot point that Water of Sight appears in this movie? The details of how it appears and what its role is, maybe. But the fact that it appears at all? I doubt it, and even if it is, since it's the whole point of the question, you can't hide it without making it impossible to tell what the question is about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2015-04-27T12:07:16.967" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6852" CreationDate="2015-04-27T14:08:18.393" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spoilers need to have some context around them, so you know what is spoiled by the spoiler block.  In addition, you should make the question accessible by having something outside of the spoiler block. Throw in some non-spoilery context for the question, or something so people can get some idea what the question is about before they look at the spoiler blocks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2015-04-27T14:08:18.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6855" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6856" CreationDate="2015-04-27T14:26:04.217" Score="6" ViewCount="221" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very similar to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/835/is-it-okay-to-have-spoilers-in-question-titles&quot;&gt;this unanswered meta question&lt;/a&gt;.  Should we allow the obfuscating a character's name when the question is about his/her/its death?  In particular, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/87339/after-arthurs-death-why-does-merlin-not-return-to-camelot&quot;&gt;this question about Merlin (BBC)&lt;/a&gt; was originally titled:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After this character's death, why does Merlin not return?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, this is acceptable and proper.  I would know not to go into that question, because I have not seen all of the episodes yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/72451/is-there-any-evidence-that-this-character-is-really-dead&quot;&gt;This question about Supernatural&lt;/a&gt; was edited to remove the spoiler from the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8993/why-was-a-certain-character-in-the-hunger-games-killed&quot;&gt;This question about the Hunger Games&lt;/a&gt; was framed this way, and went unedited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4343/how-did-ender-kill-this-character&quot;&gt;This question about Ender's Game&lt;/a&gt; was also framed this way, and not edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4120/how-was-was-a-certain-character-killed-without-avada-kedavra-spoilers&quot;&gt;this question about Harry Potter&lt;/a&gt; originally contained the character's name, but was later changed to use the generic &quot;this character&quot; phrasing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14710" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2015-04-27T14:41:56.610" Title="Character Death Spoilers In Title" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|title|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6855" CreationDate="2015-04-27T14:35:48.273" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/968/5184&quot;&gt;original spoiler guidelines&lt;/a&gt; established on meta stated&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Avoid spoilers completely in the title.  This doesn't mean using [REDACTED] or silly things like that, it means coming up with another way to summarise the question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Avoid spoilers in the first chunk of the question, because this text is often included (even if it is in spoiler tags) in links to the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Don't use &quot;SPOILER&quot; in the title.  Exactly what a spoiler is is subjective, and IMO it's just ugly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;As with answers, put as little text into the spoiler markup as possible, consider how &quot;spoiled&quot; I would feel, and don't consider the age of the material.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Don't include anything superfluous if it's remotely spoiler-y.  Rework the question text so that you get the question across without including spoilers that don't need to be there.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If unsure, use the tag or avoid the spoiler altogether (there are places, e.g. RSS, where the spoiler markup is ignored).  I want users to be able to follow tags or even the whole questions list without having to worry about users in another country getting access to their favourite TV show first and spoiling episodes for them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The top voted/accepted answer on last year's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4732/5184&quot;&gt;To spoiler or not to spoiler, June 2014 edition&lt;/a&gt; referred to that post and quoted the same guidelines. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both went largely uncontested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see no reason to believe that the community consensus has changed to the point that the accepted policy should be modified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said - we, as a community, could be a lot more considerate about spoilers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2015-04-27T14:41:56.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6857" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-27T17:38:30.130" Score="19" ViewCount="589" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since there are now &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; separate SE sites where users are unscrupulously posting &lt;em&gt;Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt; spoilers in their question titles, is there some way to avoid seeing the Hot Network Questions lists, Keen? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2019-03-13T03:46:11.597" Title="Is there a way to hide the HNQ List?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6857" CreationDate="2015-04-27T18:09:31.363" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted general instructions on how to accomplish this sort of thing over on &lt;a href=&quot;https://superuser.com/a/465964/94278&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;, but am happy to help people trying to accomplish specific webpage customizations too.  We're gonna use something called User CSS, and an extension called Stylish that simplifies the application of User CSS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You're gonna need either Firefox or Chrome to use Stylish.  Once you've got one installed, click the appropriate link to install Stylish: &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Firefox Link&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylish/fjnbnpbmkenffdnngjfgmeleoegfcffe?hl=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chrome Link&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There will be a button (white 'S' over a colorful background) in your address bar that creates a new blank style for the current domain:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SwPnC.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you're using Chrome, below the code window, you enter the sites or URL patterns that the CSS should apply to. Be sure to select &quot;URLs on the domain&quot;, which will automatically include all &lt;code&gt;sitename.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;meta.sitename.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; sites. For sites that don't follow this pattern, add their domain names as well. Some examples are shown in the screen show below (after which you can skip to step 5):&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/D2Y9L.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For Firefox, we specify which sites the CSS applies to using an &lt;a href=&quot;https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@document&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;@-moz-document&lt;/a&gt; rule, which we'll then fill with the customization code.  Copy and paste this into code box:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);&#xA;&#xA;@-moz-document domain(&quot;stackexchange.com&quot;), domain(&quot;stackoverflow.com&quot;), domain(&quot;superuser.com&quot;), domain(&quot;serverfault.com&quot;), domain(&quot;askubuntu.com&quot;), domain(&quot;stackapps.com&quot;)&#xA;{&#xA;&#xA;    /*CSS goes here*/&#xA;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, give the customization a name, so you know what it is later on.  Maybe 'Hide HNQ'.  Enter that in the text field above the code box.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the code box, we then put the code that hides the Hot Network Questions list.  Copy and paste this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;/* Hide Hot Network Questions. */&#xA;#hot-network-questions {&#xA;    display: none !important;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Click 'Save', and confirm it's working.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:04:28.970" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T16:23:48.657" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6857" CreationDate="2015-04-27T18:55:57.727" Score="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could get a piece of paper approximately three inches wide and use masking tape to attach it to the side of your monitor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Artist's Impression.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rAQdc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T18:01:23.667" LastActivityDate="2017-03-20T18:01:23.667" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6857" CreationDate="2015-04-27T19:16:44.067" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have two possible solutions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first is dependent on a browser 3rd-Party Extension.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm personally using an AdBlocker extension on Chrome, but I've seen the same functionality for other blockers, including FireFox extensions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For BetaFish AdBlocker, I can right-click on the HNQ area and choose &#xA;&lt;code&gt;BetaFish AdBlocker &amp;gt; Block this Ad&lt;/code&gt;. Then, I move the slider until it blocks the HNQ div.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ODO8e.png&quot; alt=&quot;BetaFish AdBlocker demo&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It will only block that area, and shouldn't affect the rest of the functionality of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another option I've taken is to just block age-of-ultron tagged questions on SF.SE. Unfortunately, this apparently doesn't block the HNQ's with those tags, but it can at least block your site feed with those tags. (I'm assuming &lt;em&gt;you've&lt;/em&gt; already done that, though, since you didn't ask about it. However, I'd like to leave this here for any potential visitors that aren't aware we can block tags.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The settings for this are under the &lt;code&gt;Preferences&lt;/code&gt; section of your user profile. The tags are site-dependent, so you much set up blocks for each site you visit that may have the offending material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ftoon.png&quot; alt=&quot;Ignore tag preferences&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2015-04-27T19:20:56.260" LastActivityDate="2015-04-27T19:20:56.260" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6862" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6864" CreationDate="2015-04-27T20:03:19.183" Score="4" ViewCount="375" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm inquiring about this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/86415/in-the-netflix-daredevil-series-is-the-black-sky-concept-from-any-comic&quot;&gt;In the Netflix Daredevil series, is the &amp;quot;Black Sky&amp;quot; concept from any comic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is the highest-view question so for this year by a margin of 26,000 (over double the next-highest view count this year). Of those top-ten, it has the second-&lt;em&gt;lowest&lt;/em&gt; score (9 compared to 6). I made &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/307453/top-viewed-questions-of-2015&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this query&lt;/a&gt;. It's also #9 in views when you include 2014, despite being only 10 days old, and again second-lowest in score (tied at 9, compared to 5).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize my question is probably bringing a lot of traffic straight from Google, and so the views aren't necessarily from the community. As such, they aren't creating account with which to vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nevertheless, it's disappointing to me (as a relatively new user), to see my question so lowly voted, when it's clear people want to see what was asked. I've received no feedback as to how to improve my question (it's pretty straightforward), but I would welcome it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, would it be appropriate for me to comment on my own question asking new visitors to take the time to register if they found the question and/or answers helpful, so that they vote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not looking for a rep-gain here (getting a Gold &quot;Famous Question&quot; badge was more than I ever expected!). I mainly use Parenting.SE, where voting is typically much more active for questions and answers with high views. I realize there are far fewer questions to focus attention on in the Parenting Beta.. I'm trying to wrap me head around the differences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2015-05-02T01:46:12.607" Title="Can I comment on my own question asking people to vote more?" Tags="|discussion|comments|etiquette|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6862" CreationDate="2015-04-28T16:28:51.770" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I noted in my comment, my personal opinion is that it is tacky, though there is nothing &lt;em&gt;prohibiting&lt;/em&gt; you from doing so (site policy, etc). However, while my initial reaction is that you were overreacting, I checked the query you posted and decided to look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/edit/307780&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;questions in general for the year&lt;/a&gt;. And I was quite surprised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Graphing the questions for the year &lt;em&gt;with&lt;/em&gt; your question, I get this data:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/s09PQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Graphing the questions for the year &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; your question, I get this data:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/D3yXG.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question changes the slope of the data by 25% and the R-squared value, which tells you how strongly correlated the data is, without your question is at 0.73, but &lt;em&gt;with&lt;/em&gt; your question is a much lower 0.57. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BUT...this is for just this year, which is only 4 months old.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I ran the query for the entire history of SE (using the same query, but with a start date of 1 Jan 2011), and got a much larger data set (over 20,000 data points). I graphed this as well, and as you can see, there's a lot more outliers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zkHi1.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question is the one highlighted in red in the lower left-hand corner. As you can see, there are a significant number of questions in the area right around yours that have similar votes-to-views ratio. Some have less votes with a similar number of views. But if you look at the overall picture, the data is significantly more random. The R-squared value drops to 0.14, a value meaning there is little correlation between views and votes. Your question is no longer an extreme outlier, in fact, I've noted several questions of interest on the chart:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(A) is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22079/in-the-walking-dead-what-did-dr-jenner-tell-rick&quot;&gt;In the Walking Dad, what did Dr. Jenner tell Rick?&lt;/a&gt;. It has 206,308 views - some 5 times your question, and yet only has &lt;em&gt;8 upvotes&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(B) is, coincidentally, also about the Walking Dead - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/11325/how-did-the-zombies-infection-start-in-the-walking-dead&quot;&gt;How did the Zombies infection start in the Walking Dead?&lt;/a&gt;. It actually has the &lt;em&gt;most views of any question&lt;/em&gt; - 408,659. And it only has 30 upvotes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then we see some that are the opposite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(C) has the most upvotes of any question - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/48180/would-the-one-ring-even-work-for-anyone-but-sauron?s=1%7C3.5309&quot;&gt;Would the One Ring even work for anyone but Sauron?&lt;/a&gt;. With 38,148 views, it has 236 upvotes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(D) is similar - also a Tolkien question - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1586/who-or-what-was-tom-bombadil?s=1%7C3.8648&quot;&gt;Who or what was Tom Bombadil?&lt;/a&gt;. It has only 21,995 views and 226 upvotes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And for fun, we see the most &quot;extreme&quot; example that fits the trendline:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(E) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1520/in-what-order-should-the-star-wars-movies-be-watched?s=1%7C2.8503&quot;&gt;In what order should the Star Wars movies be watched?&lt;/a&gt; - 341,264 views, 167 upvotes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So there's not a huge correlation historically between views and votes. Your question is not the first, nor will it be the last.&lt;/strong&gt; I &lt;em&gt;suspect&lt;/em&gt; that over time, you'll pick up some more upvotes with the views, but it's not unheard of for questions to perform like yours. Given how other questions are similarly received, I doubt that any plea for more votes would be particularly effective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you noted, a lot of your views are probably drive-by views from Google, who can't upvote anyway. From some of the examples that are similar, they likely recieve a lot of drive-by views but not votes, because the topic is popular at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Anecdotally, I found it interesting that the &quot;worst performing&quot; questions were &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-walking-dead&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-walking-dead&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-walking-dead&lt;/a&gt; and the &quot;best performing&quot; questions were &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt;. If people are interested, I'd be happy to analyze the behavior of different tags and how that affects votes when I have the time.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2015-05-02T01:46:12.607" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6865" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-29T02:16:42.437" Score="1" ViewCount="232" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/87330/20221&quot;&gt;Numerous&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/87376/20221&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/87274/20221&quot;&gt;use&lt;/a&gt; a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/87378/20221&quot;&gt;similar&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/87327/20221&quot;&gt;construction&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/87269/20221&quot;&gt;to&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/87271/20221&quot;&gt;avoid&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/87268/20221&quot;&gt;spoilers&lt;/a&gt;.  That is, referring to the question vaguely: &quot;How did this character do this?&quot; or &quot;Why wasn't this tried?&quot;, etc.  It can be quite common, especially regarding new releases, and it had become my understanding that this construction was allowable, if not standard.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously most questions won't need such a title, but for those questions whose titles are by-nature spoilers (e.g. &quot;Why did Romeo &amp;amp; Juliet have to kill themselves?&quot;), this is a useful practice.  However, one of my similar edits was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/87494/20221&quot;&gt;recently rejected&lt;/a&gt; for following this standard.  This question's title holds several spoilers, including:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The fact that Banner &amp;amp; Widow are romantically linked, and potentially (I haven't seen the film yet) that Banner is in a relationship with someone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is editing a title like this, simply to vague-it-up, not acceptable?  It seems to me that it's a good way of handling a &quot;hot topic&quot; like a big new release that hasn't hit all markets yet: the poster still gets to ask, the viewers don't get spoiled, and everyone else can just glance at the tags to see if they want to open the question.  Simple, effective, and easy all around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some reason why edits like this aren't acceptable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Final Note:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also worth mentioning that every one of the links in the opening sentence above points to a question from the same user: SS, whose profile states &quot;&lt;em&gt;I am laughing at the face of Americans who can't watch Avengers: Age of Ultron until May 1st (I have already watched). Guess what... &lt;strong&gt;I am spoiling them already&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&quot; and who has asked no less than 21 &lt;em&gt;Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt; questions in a single day, many of which have spoiler-filled titles. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of these titles have been edited by me to remove spoilers, some by others, and several remain quite spoiler-filled as of this writing, such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Why can't Natasha Romanoff be pregnant?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I would never suggest someone can't ask any questions they may have, in any quantity they may have them and whenever they have them, but it seems that when something becomes excessive, simple anti-spoiler edits are an easy and effective way of handling it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why aren't vague title edits allowed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6856/20221&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; to a similar question would seem to indicate that titles SHOULD be vagued-up, as the very first (and bolded) entry in the spoiler guidelines reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Avoid spoilers completely in the title. This doesn't mean using [REDACTED] or silly things like that, it means coming up with another way to summarise the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That sounds exactly like &quot;vague it up&quot; to me, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20221" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T18:00:09.307" Title="What's wrong with this title construction?" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|title|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6865" CreationDate="2015-04-29T03:33:36.983" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was the one who reverted the title, not the OP. The original title was &quot;Why didn't Bruce Banner simply tell Natasha that “I am NOT single”?&quot;, which Nerrolken changed to &quot;Why didn't Bruce Banner try this?&quot;. I believe this was a well-intentioned edit, presumably caused by the OP's profile, which claims he/she intends to spoil the movie &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagreed with the change and reverted it because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The original title isn't a spoiler. Yes, it tells us &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; things about the movie: that Banner told/didn't tell Natasha something of a romantic nature. Hardly a big plot point. For that matter, it also tells us that Banner is in the movie and that he failed to do something, somehow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The edited title wasn't meaningful or useful. &quot;Why didn't Bruce Banner try this?&quot; is not a searchable title, and even worse it tells the potential reader &lt;em&gt;nothing&lt;/em&gt; about the question before he/she actually reads it. Try &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; exactly? Turning into the Hulk? Leaping from a building? Fighting Ultron? What?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a general rule, I oppose titles of the form &quot;Why didn't &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; character do &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt;?&quot;. We must write meaningful titles, not go overboard with trying to avoid spoilers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="770" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T03:33:36.983" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6867" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-29T12:13:48.210" Score="6" ViewCount="464" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've discussed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4835/does-elephant-vs-terminator-gorilla-vs-shark&quot;&gt;Gorilla vs Shark&lt;/a&gt;. The majority seemed to conclude that we don't like those kind of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now we have a question that was just closed for this reason: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/87538/can-wolverine-beat-the-hulk&quot;&gt;Can Wolverine beat The Hulk?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, we've had two similar (Gorilla vs Shark) highly upvoted questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/17597/could-the-hulk-become-powerful-enough-to-break-adamantium&quot;&gt;Could the Hulk become powerful enough to break adamantium?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/87487/can-a-cage-made-out-of-vibranium-contain-the-hulk&quot;&gt;Can a cage made out of Vibranium contain The Hulk?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's our policy here? And why are we treating questions inconsistently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="62709" LastEditDate="2023-05-22T12:57:04.907" LastActivityDate="2023-05-22T12:57:04.907" Title="Inconsistency in Gorilla vs Shark closing?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|gorilla-vs-shark|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6867" CreationDate="2015-04-29T12:18:35.720" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;My own answer: the problem is in the word &quot;can&quot;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; (or &quot;could&quot;). This invites discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A better question asks if this has ever happened: &lt;em&gt;&quot;Has a Shark ever fought a Gorilla and if so, which was the victor?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; This can be answered objectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;1 Another dangerous word is &lt;em&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1465/how-should-we-handle-any-list-questions&quot;&gt;any&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T12:18:35.720" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6867" CreationDate="2015-04-29T14:44:47.547" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with Shark vs. Gorilla questions isn't that they ask to compare two different things. It's that there's no factual/rational basis to compare on, since there's no in-universe information to base the answer on - only personal subjective opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason the questions you highlighted aren't &quot;Shark vs Gorilla&quot; and not off-topic is that they have sufficient in-universe data to reason from, in either objective or good-subjective way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the answers to the linked answer demonstrated. Another clear answer of &quot;This isn't Shark vs Gorilla&quot; is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/38046/hulk-vs-superman-did-they-ever-fight-who-won/38056#38056&quot;&gt;Hulk vs. Superman - did they ever fight? Who won?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T22:50:42.450" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6865" CreationDate="2015-05-01T17:51:15.553" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meaningless titles such as “this character” have never been allowed. The fact that some of them slipped through the cracks doesn't mean that you should compound the problem. What you're seeing there is more one specific user's bad titling habits. The fact that he used a decent title this time should be encouraged, not reverted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I see a title, I need to understand what the question is about, so that I know what it will spoil me about. Otherwise the title is ineffective as a spoiler protection: I'd have to read the question anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key to spoiler prevention is: &lt;strong&gt;the reader needs to know what they'd be spoiled about&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, spoiler or not, keep in mind that the whole purpose of Stack Exchange is to produce answers that people will find. Nobody goes looking for “Why did this character do this thing to that other character?”, so such titles make the question impossible to find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try to follow &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3032/are-spoiler-edits-becoming-excessive/3034#3034&quot;&gt;DVK's advice&lt;/a&gt;: find a way to convey the key elements in the title, and avoid mentioning the spoilery specific event.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/87494/why-didnt-bruce-banner-simply-tell-this-character-that-i-am-not-single&quot;&gt;This case&lt;/a&gt; is borderline. ‘Why didn't Bruce Banner simply tell this character that &quot;I am NOT single&quot;?’ looks really silly, but at least, in combination with the tag, we know roughly what it's referring to. Nonetheless, people who are looking for this question are likely to use “Natasha” as one of their search keyword (together with “Bruce Banner”), so it would be better for the title to include both characters' names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T18:00:09.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6862" CreationDate="2015-05-01T18:15:39.357" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Commenting on your question to ask people to vote for it would not be allowed, polite, or effective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can read &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;what comments are for&lt;/a&gt; in the help center. The purpose of comments is to do something that, ideally, should lead to an edit of the post, such as requesting clarification or pointing out something that could be improved. A comment becomes obsolete when the post is updated accordingly or when the proposed change turns out not to be warranted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pushing people to vote for your stuff is tacky in most social settings, including this community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question is getting a lot of views but few upvotes, it means that it's being seen from people from outside the SFF.SE community, who cannot vote here. It's likely that it's been linked in some high-traffic community. There's no point in telling people to do something that they cannot do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T18:15:39.357" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6862" CreationDate="2015-05-02T01:14:15.360" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel for you in what you are asking ... more voting. I wish more voting was done throughout SE. Everyone has 40 votes per day, why not use them? The problem is, begging for votes isn't going to help you or your question. I have seen it happen on SE ... when I do, I &lt;em&gt;intentionally&lt;/em&gt; don't vote it up no matter how good it is, and I'm a prolific voter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, IMHO, you just need to let your question ride. Enjoy the fact you gained a gold badge from it due to it's popularity. Those don't come along that often ... unless your user name is Richard ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21234" LastActivityDate="2015-05-02T01:14:15.360" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6873" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-05T03:21:39.197" Score="9" ViewCount="243" Body="&lt;p&gt;We haven't got a (IMO) good Community Promotion Ad to use across the network. We have &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/a/8063/90943&quot;&gt;this gaming related one&lt;/a&gt; but it hardly screams Sci-Fi&amp;amp;Fantasy. I also tried to use it on M&amp;amp;TV and it got down-voted to oblivion (now deleted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What are your suggestions for a good Community Promotion Ad which we can use?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:43:44.403" LastActivityDate="2016-05-17T05:55:04.760" Title="Can we have a default Community Promotion Ad to use network wide?" Tags="|discussion|advertising|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2017-03-07T23:17:01.127" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6876" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6877" CreationDate="2015-05-05T18:51:31.990" Score="0" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can I ask a question about science-fiction short story writing, or is there a specific SE forum about writing tips?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43295" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2015-05-06T05:45:29.893" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T05:45:29.893" Title="Is it okay to ask a question about story writing?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6876" CreationDate="2015-05-05T19:01:47.093" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. You cannot ask questions about your writing. It's specifically contrary to our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;stated site policies&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If your question is about...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Writing science fiction, ask on &lt;a href=&quot;https://writers.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Writers - Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're looking for info about sci-fi concepts, you might want to try &lt;a href=&quot;https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Worldbuilding:SE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:52:23.267" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T03:18:11.330" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6879" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-06T14:21:00.690" Score="7" ViewCount="275" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm okay with the losing of rep when users go away. I get that. My question is, can we get something more meaningful than &quot;User was removed&quot;? Specifically, I'd like to know which question it was that lost the rep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11159" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T21:14:06.153" Title="User was removed" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6879" CreationDate="2015-05-06T20:21:48.820" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alas, no. One of the key policies on SE is that your &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12984/is-there-a-way-to-see-who-voted-on-your-posts&quot;&gt;voting is private and confidential&lt;/a&gt;. If you received a notification of which of your answers had been upvoted, shortly after a user had deleted themselves (or been deleted), that would obviously breach the policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last time this was asked on the main meta site, it was closed as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt;, e.g. &lt;em&gt;&quot;the specified behavior is intentional and &lt;strong&gt;not subject to change or correction.&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T21:14:06.153" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6882" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6883" CreationDate="2015-05-07T10:52:33.297" Score="3" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I view the answers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/89123/is-there-any-mechanical-race-in-lord-of-the-rings-extended-universe&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, sorted by votes, the accepted answer appears at the top, although it has only 14 votes, and the other answer has 24. Fine, that's what I expected, acceptance trumps votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when I view the answers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/87979/story-identification-human-taught-powers-by-aliens-and-tries-to-save-the-univer&quot;&gt;this other question&lt;/a&gt; (still sorting by votes), the unaccepted answer with 2 votes is at the top, and the accepted answer with 1 vote is below it. &lt;strong&gt;Why is that?&lt;/strong&gt; (In this case the user who asked the question accepted his own answer, but I don't see why that would make a difference.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T11:21:08.013" Title="Answers sorted by votes and acceptance" Tags="|support|answers|sorting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6882" CreationDate="2015-05-07T11:21:08.013" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's because the answer on the second question was self-accepted. In this case, acceptance doesn’t trump votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoting from Meta.se, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/5235/226928&quot;&gt;How does accepting an answer work?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you accept:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;someone else's answer:&lt;/em&gt; You get +2 rep and the author of the accepted answer gets +15 rep.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;your own answer:&lt;/em&gt; There is no reputation awarded and &lt;strong&gt;the answer does not float to the top of the list&lt;/strong&gt;. This can be done no earlier than 48 hours after the question is asked.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T11:21:08.013" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6884" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-09T21:21:57.197" Score="14" ViewCount="319" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm giving away a few codes for Marvel Digital Comics bundles.  The bundles contain these issues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Superior Iron Man #1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Black Widow #1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Captain America #1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Thor God of Thunder #1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hawkeye #1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hulk #1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Avengers Origins: Scarlet Witch &amp;amp; Quicksilver #1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've got 4 bundle codes, each contains all of these comics.  The giveaway is pretty simple, just post an answer here before the end of May 16 (UTC) to enter.  Afterwards, I'll roll a random number generator to pick the winners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fine print:  You must have a Sci-fi &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange account older than this post.  Redeem the codes at &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.com/redeem&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://marvel.com/redeem&lt;/a&gt;.  Requires a Marvel.com account (you can link your Marvel.com account to Comixology so these comics will show up in your Comixology account).  The download codes expire on 7/31/15 at 11:59:59 PM ET.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Winners&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Eric McCormick&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bobson&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mooz&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;PrisonMonkeys&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Thanks&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to Jack B Nimble and Michael Edenfield for contributing codes to the prize pool!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2015-05-17T23:55:49.123" LastActivityDate="2015-05-17T23:55:49.123" Title="Marvel Digital Comics Giveaway" Tags="|discussion|contest|" AnswerCount="19" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6884" CreationDate="2015-05-09T21:26:47.237" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been tempted to get into digital Marvel comics for a while, and I've never read any comics before (only watched the MCU flicks), so that bundle sounds useful for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35327" LastActivityDate="2015-05-09T21:26:47.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6884" CreationDate="2015-05-09T22:12:14.027" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've done this sort if thing before...and is be happy to do so again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2015-05-09T22:12:14.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6884" CreationDate="2015-05-10T01:51:01.550" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a great offer. I like those MCU movies pretty much but have never ever read a single comic in my life (apart from &lt;em&gt;Watchmen&lt;/em&gt;). So this sounds like a great opportunity to get a little more background in the matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23386" LastActivityDate="2015-05-10T01:51:01.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6884" CreationDate="2015-05-10T06:53:46.040" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always wanted to read all Marvel Comics but didn't know  where to start so I guess it would be cool to start my journey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28602" LastActivityDate="2015-05-10T06:53:46.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6884" CreationDate="2015-05-10T14:29:21.343" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ooh, I haven't seen any recent issues (most of my collection is still silver age....)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Would love to get a head start on catching up :-) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2544" LastActivityDate="2015-05-10T14:29:21.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6884" CreationDate="2015-05-10T16:24:35.617" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems like a perfect way to expand my comics collection, although I'm going to have a hard time showing these off in my book case...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15363" LastActivityDate="2015-05-10T16:24:35.617" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6891" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6892" CreationDate="2015-05-10T19:41:39.913" Score="14" ViewCount="324" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question about &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tintin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Adventures of Tintin&lt;/a&gt;. Wikipedia says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Its well-researched plots straddle a variety of genres:&#xA;  swashbuckling adventures with elements of &lt;strong&gt;fantasy&lt;/strong&gt;, [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'm not sure if there is enough fantasy to be on-topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30638" LastActivityDate="2015-05-10T19:56:29.140" Title="Are Tintin questions on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6891" CreationDate="2015-05-10T19:56:29.140" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's certainly a considerable amount of Fantasy (and even Sci-fi) involved in the various Tintin books. As with most &quot;genre-based&quot; stories, question about those elements are absolutely 100% on-topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/crA0q.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4zfMu.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about non sci-fi or fantasy elements, however are probably off-topic as they would fall under general literature. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;On-topic: What are the mysterious shooting stars in &quot;The Shooting Star&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Off-topic: What is Captain Haddock's favorite brand of whisky?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And as always, if you're in doubt you can always 'trial' the question out in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;chatroom&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; posting it on the main site. You'll get a prompt response and plenty of feedback, I'm sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-05-10T19:56:29.140" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6884" CreationDate="2015-05-10T23:07:22.970" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have not really read many comics in the past, but have grown very fond of the genres. I would &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;love&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to receive this pack!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastActivityDate="2015-05-10T23:07:22.970" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6884" CreationDate="2015-05-11T20:25:00.640" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having never read a comic book in my life, I'd be super interested in winning this. But until then, you can hold this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;hands over a NERD card&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11159" LastActivityDate="2015-05-11T20:25:00.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6884" CreationDate="2015-05-11T20:44:39.480" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always been turned off of comics due to all the continuity issues, but that is something the MCU seems to be keeping tight control over.  I'd love to give the format another try.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5490" LastActivityDate="2015-05-11T20:44:39.480" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5326" CreationDate="2015-05-12T18:00:46.147" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://mythology.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HD3jX.png&quot; alt=&quot;Meet the Real Thor -- Join the Mythology Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41082" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T13:00:19.550" LastActivityDate="2015-05-12T20:26:53.123" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-05-12T18:00:46.147" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6884" CreationDate="2015-05-13T11:12:02.677" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's fantastic. I'm very eager to get it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43114" LastActivityDate="2015-05-13T11:12:02.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6884" CreationDate="2015-05-13T14:06:08.153" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Love to get my hands into digital comics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6006" LastActivityDate="2015-05-13T14:06:08.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6884" CreationDate="2015-05-13T14:35:27.177" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm in.  MCU is the first thing that's made me want to read a comic since Appleseed.  Thanks for the offer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20490" LastActivityDate="2015-05-13T14:35:27.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6884" CreationDate="2015-05-13T17:28:36.697" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alright!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Never read a digital comic - would be eager to see how it works out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16075" LastActivityDate="2015-05-13T17:28:36.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6884" CreationDate="2015-05-13T23:28:25.457" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like a pretty cool thing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23401" LastActivityDate="2015-05-13T23:28:25.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6884" CreationDate="2015-05-14T04:51:41.837" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hey thanks for this great offering to the community!  Top stuff (although I've not read any online comics before but I'm sure they're great!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastActivityDate="2015-05-14T04:51:41.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6884" CreationDate="2015-05-14T15:14:38.620" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been considering trying to get my son to read comics.  Though improving, his reading level is below where it should be.  I figure any kind of reading is better than no reading, and he loves the Marvel movies.  This would certainly be a good start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14710" LastActivityDate="2015-05-14T15:14:38.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6884" CreationDate="2015-05-14T17:52:22.553" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Awesome sauce. I'm ready, roll the dice!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23283" LastActivityDate="2015-05-14T17:52:22.553" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6884" CreationDate="2015-05-15T01:36:29.380" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't mind some free comics :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="887" LastActivityDate="2015-05-15T01:36:29.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6884" CreationDate="2015-05-15T17:51:13.747" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cool giveaway.  Would be fun to read these.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2015-05-15T17:51:13.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6908" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6909" CreationDate="2015-05-16T11:27:51.133" Score="17" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/classic-sci-fi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;classic-sci-fi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;classic-sci-fi&lt;/a&gt;, which has no wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first sight, one would assume that the tag is for works deemed to be classics. For example the works of Jules Verne or H.G.Wells.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The tag has been applied to 11 questions, none of which are any more &quot;classic&quot; than any other question on this site.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ten of the 11 also carry &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; and, for these, the classic tag seems irrelevant.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The eleventh is about &lt;em&gt;Soylent Green&lt;/em&gt;, the classic status of which is open to debate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we clean up the tag?  Create a defining wiki?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;At present the tag appears to be confusing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: The tag has now been removed from all questions.  Can it be deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30512" LastEditorUserId="30512" LastEditDate="2015-05-18T11:16:54.580" LastActivityDate="2015-05-21T02:57:21.297" Title="What is the classic-scifi tag for?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6908" CreationDate="2015-05-16T11:41:29.080" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nuke the entire tag from orbit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's the only way to be sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2015-05-16T11:41:29.080" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6654" CreationDate="2015-05-17T02:08:39.980" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I’m not sure if this is really an answer or not, but here goes …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would appear to be due to some kind of error or non-compliance in the font itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The font &lt;code&gt;varelaround-regular-webfont.woff&lt;/code&gt; is correctly fetched (obviously, since the font does show up) from its location on &lt;a href=&quot;http://cdn.sstatic.net/_fonts/valera-round/varelaround-regular-webfont.woff?v=e1f4c050104f&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;cdn.sstatic.net&lt;/a&gt;, but for some reason, Chrome does not render its bold version correctly. There is, at least sometimes, a difference, but it is not all that clear:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BYRD6.png&quot; alt=&quot;Example of bold vs. non-bold on Chrome&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last line there is bold, the rest regular. You can see that the bold is kind of ‘fuzzier’-looking. (This is a screenshot from Chrome 42.0.2311.152/64-bit running on OS X Yosemite.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With other fonts, including &lt;a href=&quot;http://cdn.sstatic.net/_fonts/orbitron/orbitron-medium-webfont.woff?v=f6007a3e3ca1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Orbitron Medium&lt;/a&gt; (the font used for the main navigation menu (“Questions”, “Tags”, “Users”, etc.), switching &lt;code&gt;font-weight: bold;&lt;/code&gt; on and off in the browser shows a distinct difference in boldness:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Mw779.png&quot; alt=&quot;Orbitron Medium, non-bold&quot;&gt; (non-bold)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0MQLm.png&quot; alt=&quot;Orbitron Medium, bold&quot;&gt; (bold)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well … &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; distinct, anyway, but I’m willing to believe that’s more down to the font than the browser: the level of distinctness between Orbitron Medium bold and non-bold is the same in Chrome as in other browsers. So it’s just Varela in particular, which tends to be a good indicator that the error is in the font, and Chrome is just less forgiving than other browsers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, I don’t know where we’re getting our fonts from ultimately; but if whoever packaged Varela Round to the WOFF format that’s read by both Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Opera (at least on OS X Yosemite) is actually someone from SE, rather than, say, someone from FontSquirrel, then it might be possible to have a look to see if there’s something non-compliant going on somewhere in the WOFF file (and, presumably, in the base font as well).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An alternative solution might be to make a separate &lt;code&gt;@font-face&lt;/code&gt; inclusion call to include the actual bold version into the same CSS font. But since &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/varela-round&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;there seems to be only one weight of Varela available&lt;/a&gt;, that’s probably not a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43655" LastActivityDate="2015-05-17T02:08:39.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6545" CreationDate="2015-05-18T20:59:44.117" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been searching for this post after seeing the moderator flag beside Thaddeus' name. Finally found it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Late congrats to both @Richard and @Thaddeus. I'm sure you'll do a great job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Late thanks to @PearsonArtPhoto. You may now rest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, thank you and well done to all who nominated themselves. Don't be disappointed. There are a lot of ways to help building this great site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13418" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T20:59:44.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6914" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-19T04:40:53.563" Score="8" ViewCount="3553" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does it mean &quot;as it relates to the original source&quot;? The word drives me crazy. I have looked it up on google and it takes me to either the camera brand or cannons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10746" OwnerDisplayName="Arvin G Borkar" LastActivityDate="2015-05-19T12:06:09.980" Title="What does &quot;canon&quot; mean?" Tags="|discussion|canon|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2015-05-20T00:26:59.610" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2015-05-19T05:03:58.647" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The term &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_%28fiction%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Canon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; in works of fiction refers to any 'authoritative' body of work related to said work of fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In fiction, canon is the material accepted as part of the story in an individual universe of that story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;-&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_%28fiction%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Canon (fiction), Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'Authoritative' can refer to any work which is approved or written specifically &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; the original author(s). This can include extra material such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Games&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Video games&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Board games&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Director's Cuts and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Behind the scenes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Interviews&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Correspondence&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any other works are considered to be works of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fan Fiction&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and not necessarily authorised by the original author(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;For example, in the world created by &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._R._Martin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;George. R. R. Martin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; for his books series &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; the following works are considered &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;canon&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_Dunk_and_Egg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Tales of Dunk and Egg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_of_Ice_%26_Fire&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The World of Ice and Fire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Westeros.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;So Spake Martin&lt;/a&gt; - to a certain degree&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some &lt;em&gt;special&lt;/em&gt; cases; for example, &lt;em&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/em&gt; has a television adaptation (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones - HBO&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) which &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; approved by the author (George R. R. Martin), but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/2902/21267&quot;&gt;tends to deviate from the original storyline in the book(s)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" OwnerDisplayName="Mooz" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2015-05-19T12:06:09.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6916" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6917" CreationDate="2015-05-19T09:06:49.187" Score="2" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;The user &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/931/ss-3-1415926535897932384626433&quot;&gt;SS-3.1415926535897932384626433&lt;/a&gt; has 17 Gold badges &amp;amp; countless other silver &amp;amp; bronze badges. He had a high reputation the last time I checked. Why did all of a sudden it reduced to 1. Did he delete his account &amp;amp; create a new one? But if that is the case why are all his badges intact&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15706" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T18:58:48.717" Title="Why did this user's reputation score drop to 1?" Tags="|support|reputation|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6916" CreationDate="2015-05-19T11:24:14.297" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This user is presently &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&quot;&gt;suspended&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When their suspension ends, their reputation score will automatically be reinstated and recalculated if their answers and questions have been up or down - voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-05-19T11:24:14.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6918" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-20T13:05:05.463" Score="9" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;p&gt;Earlier today &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/90246/31029&quot;&gt;someone asked&lt;/a&gt; for the source of a picture of Captain Picard that is often used in memes. Besides the fact that this could have been easily solved by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=picard%20meme&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a simple Google search&lt;/a&gt;, is this actually an on-topic question? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that there are several similar questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2013/which-episode-is-the-double-facepalm-image-macro-from&quot;&gt;Which episode is the &amp;quot;double facepalm&amp;quot; image macro from?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/11839/is-this-image-of-picard-using-data-as-a-phone-from-an-actual-episode&quot;&gt;Is this image of Picard using Data as a phone from an actual episode?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4159/which-episode-of-star-trek-tng-is-this-image-from&quot;&gt;Which episode of Star Trek: TNG is the image on the chat servers&amp;#39; error pages taken from?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, in each case the source of the image is a sci-fi series, but is that enough to consider this on-topic? To me, these aren't &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;questions about science fiction or fantasy&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, they're questions about the image source of a meme, and it's merely coincidence that these happen to be originating from a sci-fi series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO these questions are adding to the noise of this SE. Considering the vast collection of memes using images from TNG I don't think they should be allowed here. There are plenty of &lt;a href=&quot;http://knowyourmeme.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;good resources&lt;/a&gt; to learn about memes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31029" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2015-05-22T22:41:32.653" Title="Are questions asking for the picture source of memes genuinely worthwhile?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6918" CreationDate="2015-05-20T13:21:08.727" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question title asks if they are &quot;worthwhile&quot;; your question body asks if they are &quot;on-topic&quot;. Those are two different things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That kind of question is, generally, a horrible question, especially if the answer is to just right-click and Google Image Search it. But, &lt;em&gt;on-topic&lt;/em&gt; for this site is defined as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Plot, character, or setting explanations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Historical or societal context of a work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Story identification&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Franchise/series reading or viewing order&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can easily see more than one of those bullets applying to &quot;which episode is this image from?&quot; questions. They're very similar to &quot;what book is this I'm thinking of in my head?&quot; questions; we appear to be the only site that embraces those type of questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we're going to allow story-id-by-description questions to be on-topic, I can't see a good justification for rejecting story-id-by-screenshot questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T13:21:08.727" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6920" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-20T19:43:44.073" Score="8" ViewCount="813" Body="&lt;p&gt;So...I just joined this community today, and have posted several answers (SciFi Fantasy, not Meta), and I am now receiving the message that the site is no longer accepting answers from my account? I haven't posted anything (knowingly?) inappropriate, and have been offered no feedback of any kind, other than what's posted in the standard FAQ section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried to backtrack through my posts and don't see any downvotes, but I don't remember every single topic I've looked at - I was really having fun exploring the site! I did notice that my newly-won reputation went from 11 to 1. What's going on? This is a really fantastic way to treat a new user. Maybe a better way would be to say &quot;Hey, we know you're new, but you shouldn't have done this (insert offensive action here), so...don't do that!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.......As with ALL the Stack family of sites, I am familiar with the tours and policies, and am unsure what happened or what I could possibly have posted that's so offensive I've been banned on my first visit?! If this site is like the rest of Stack, high-rep users and mods should be able to see my list of posts, can you tell me what I did wrong? The FAQ says you can go back and edit the offending post, but how am I supposed to do that with no direction as to where I was (apparently) heinously, unforgivably wrong? A little help here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to remain a part of the community, and am happy to play by the rules, but polite and detailed feedback can really be helpful in a situation like this...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user45906" LastEditorDisplayName="user45906" LastEditDate="2015-05-20T19:48:59.010" LastActivityDate="2015-05-31T15:09:49.930" Title="Joined today, account banned?" Tags="|discussion|answer-quality|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6920" CreationDate="2015-05-20T19:54:18.243" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both of your answers are about how you feel and your opinion. This site isn't for discussion or opinions; it's for verifiable factual answers. I wouldn't have banned you for it, and I don't know if you've been banned, but they're very low-quality answers for this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T19:54:18.243" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6920" CreationDate="2015-05-20T19:58:13.580" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;In short, your entire contribution has been either inappropriate or off-topic. Of the six answer you've posted, 4 have already been flagged as comments and the remaining two have been flagged for deletion at least once and have attracted a downvote apiece.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply put, this site isn't intended for discussion, it's intended for Q+A. &#xA;Literally the first line of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;Tour&lt;/a&gt; is that...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This site is all about getting answers. &lt;strong&gt;It's not a discussion forum&lt;/strong&gt;.&#xA;  There's no chit-chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've said that you're &quot;&lt;em&gt;familiar with the tours and policies&lt;/em&gt;&quot; but I note that you've not read the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;site tour&lt;/a&gt; (which would have earned you the bronze participation badge for doing so), nor have you taken the time to read through the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, both of which would have given you a really good insight into what we're about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Might I suggest that rather than diving in feet first, you take a brief while to learn and understand what this community is about, then focus on providing some strong answers to build up your reputation, which will in turn allow you to post all the comments you like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2015-05-30T08:45:10.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6920" CreationDate="2015-05-20T19:59:43.997" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know the special sauce that goes into an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/answer-bans&quot;&gt;answer ban&lt;/a&gt; (thanks ptfreak, for the link!), but I can provide some feedback on your posts so far.  You've posted 6 answers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4 of those are currently deleted.  3 of those were comments posted as answers.  So my first piece of feedback is to not post comments as answers.  When you're submitting an answer, it's expected to provide a complete solution to the question.  If you're adding a note to another answer, that's a comment, wait until you've earned &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;50 reputation&lt;/a&gt; and then make these sorts of posts, as comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other 2 posts are, unfortunately, not in tags that I am familiar with, so my advice will be general.  This site is kinda strict about the quality of answers.  A great answer will outline its argument, and will include quotations (or other appropriate sourcing).  A decent answer will just outline its argument, referencing things from the source material.  A bad answer will state pure conjecture, not backed by actual events from the source material.  So to garner more upvotes, I'd recommend working up that ladder.  If your answer is just your opinion, try to edit in references to &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; you think that, and if possible include a quote, or a screenshot, or a reference to back that up.  Do that, and you'll be more successful in answering.  I also highly recommend browsing tags for material you're familiar with, and seeing what highly-voted posts look like, so you can see what specific things to emulate in your posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For your existing posts, you need to edit them, and then I'd recommend flagging for undeletion so a mod can resurrect them.  Once they garner some upvotes the answer ban should be lifted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also discuss this topic with us in chat.  We have a general site room, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/a&gt;, and we have several other rooms focused on specific topics or franchises.  There's usually a few people hanging out, we're happy to help out new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T20:06:29.897" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6920" CreationDate="2015-05-20T20:02:11.653" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know why you got that message, but I do know it's often system generated, not by a mod here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You start with 1 point of rep. I don't see any votes whatsoever. If you had 11 earlier on (as your userbox still shows right now), you may have had an upvote that was retracted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I flagged both your answers as &quot;not an answer&quot; (but only after you drew attention to them by asking this), because quite frankly, they aren't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The longest one states quite clearly that it's (just) your feelings about the subject, &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a sourced answer. The other one is just a comment in passing. If they've received more flags, that may have triggered your temporary ban.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You say you're familiar with the tour and policies, but it seems you're not. Please take some time to understand that this is a Q&amp;amp;A site, not a discussion forum or a message board.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But all of this doesn't mean you're not welcome here. Please take the tour, read through the help section, read some questions and their answers and try to get the gist of the site. I'm sure you have some good answers in you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T20:02:11.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6908" CreationDate="2015-05-21T02:57:21.297" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Purely by the name, I assumed that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/classic-scifi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;classic-scifi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;classic-scifi&lt;/a&gt; referred to pre-1923 stories, those whose copyright has expired in the United States (the home country of Stack Exchange). That would include most famous Wells stories but not Tolkien and not &lt;em&gt;Soylent Green&lt;/em&gt;, which is based on Harry Harrison's &lt;em&gt;Make Room! Make Room!&lt;/em&gt; (1966). This has precedent elsewhere; TV Tropes uses copyright expiry as a trigger for when a work is free to spoil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But is there a reason why one would be an expert on SF works that, say, happen to be available on Project Gutenberg?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32306" LastActivityDate="2015-05-21T02:57:21.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6873" CreationDate="2015-05-22T12:56:29.720" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are also the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/261121/162011&quot;&gt;images used for the auto-generated Hot Network Question Ads&lt;/a&gt;. Those provide a very nice appropriately sized background image with a properly formatted logo text. All that has to be done would be either adding some more general text about the site, or maybe a static question relevant for the target site to which it is to be proposed (or just leave it as is, if that isn't too empty).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/stackexchange/Img/launched-ads/scifi.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://sstatic.net/stackexchange/Img/launched-ads/scifi.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2016-03-10T13:56:37.673" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6927" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-22T16:51:27.690" Score="2" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed in my reputation listing on my scifi profile:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-1 2 days ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-1 03:00 remove What is the exact step by step process of Borg assimilation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was my question removed? I had no warning, and no message was sent to me notifying me this happened. The question was well within the guidelines. I was told at meta.stackexchange.com: &quot;You'll want meta.scifi.stackexchange.com –  Billy Mailman 2 mins ago&quot; to repost my question here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot even find this question anymore, does it still exist? I can edit it if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40599" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2016-01-04T20:53:53.260" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T20:53:53.260" Title="How do I find out how and why my question was removed?" Tags="|support|specific-question|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6927" CreationDate="2015-05-22T17:37:29.490" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It still exists, you should be able to find it through the link at the bottom-left of your &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/40599/jmfb?tab=questions&quot;&gt;questions profile page&lt;/a&gt;, &quot;deleted recent questions.&quot;  You'll find it was automatically &quot;deleted by Community♦ 2 days ago,&quot; as is liable to happen to closed questions. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/177675/172958&quot;&gt;Rules for automatic deletion here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Automatic deletion of closed, abandoned questions for questions meeting the following criteria: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Closed more than 9 days ago&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Not closed as a duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Score &amp;lt;= 0&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Not locked&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;No answers with a score &gt; 0&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;No accepted answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;No pending reopen votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;No edits in the past 9 days&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2015-05-22T17:37:29.490" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6918" CreationDate="2015-05-22T21:42:02.167" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to very explicitly address the &quot;worthwhile&quot; part (as defined by many other people here in terms of votes):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The downvote arrow hover-over clearly states as explanation &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question does not show any research effort&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As others noted, this question is trivially researched via the means of Google Image Search. Unless the asker explicitly indicated thet did this &lt;em&gt;and failed&lt;/em&gt;, the question &lt;strong&gt;should&lt;/strong&gt; be downvoted into obvlivion without being off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once sufficiently downvoted, it would disappear from front page.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2015-05-22T22:41:32.653" LastActivityDate="2015-05-22T22:41:32.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5326" CreationDate="2015-05-24T14:10:46.667" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://health.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/U29vw.png&quot; alt=&quot;Visit Health Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39051" LastActivityDate="2015-05-24T14:10:46.667" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-05-24T14:10:46.667" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6920" CreationDate="2015-05-25T20:52:30.863" Score="-7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You stated that you have the same profile on other stackexchange sites. If this is the case you should have gotten an automatic 100 reputation points for being a trusted user. You get extra reputation points if your profile is filled out as well. So you should have had plenty of points when you started out on scifi if you used the same profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So unlike what others stated you would not have gotten automatically deleted or canceled for a few bad posts if your reputation was let's say 111 when you started out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my answer is three fold. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Go to this question I posted:&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/253125/how-does-up-downvoting-work-exactly-in-terms-of-reputation-and-do-some-users-hav&quot;&gt;How does up/downvoting work exactly in terms of reputation and do some users have greater ability to affect ones reputation?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read the answer given by one of the paid employees here. In the comment section it tells you how to &lt;strong&gt;go directly to the employees and bypass the moderators&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would ask them the questions you have here directly. The advice they give is to click on the  at the bottom of the page and ask them directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The three questions I'd ask them if I were you are simple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;1) Why was my account deleted as a new user. All I did was blank blank&#xA;  blank, no explanation was given, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;separate question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2) When I joined the scifi site I should have received 100 points for&#xA;  being a trusted user as I am a member of the other sites. Why didn't I receive the trusted user reputation points.&#xA;  etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;separate question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;3) I feel that the moderator blank has been treating me unfairly.&#xA;  He/She has done the following: present your evidence/feelings on the&#xA;  matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is how I would handle it. I can't pull up your profile to see what you did, but my experience is that there are a few people here, not most, but a few (including moderators) who will fly off the deep end, prejudge, go edit crazy, etc. without reason or provocation. Remember moderators are not gods (even though some might feel that way). Some behavior may be beyond just simple misinterpretation of the rules. It should definitely be reported if you feel that happened to you. Since I cannot pull up your profile or questions/answers I don't know what exactly your violations are or how egregious they are or if they are at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please ask your questions directly to the employees here and voice your opinions to them. It will make this a better site for all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40599" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2015-05-25T20:52:30.863" CommentCount="24" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6934" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-26T05:39:51.260" Score="7" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/90698/7885&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; and many, many more posts (I'm not sure, if this is SF&amp;amp;F specific or SE-wide?):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QZtRH.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Google Chrome &lt;code&gt;42.0.2311.152 m&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2015-05-26T19:19:09.507" Title="What's wrong with the fonts" Tags="|discussion|bug|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6935" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6936" CreationDate="2015-05-26T12:48:49.247" Score="14" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would questions about Fury Road be on-topic here, or would they be better suited for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Movie Exchange&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20393" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2015-05-26T13:22:48.420" Title="Questions about Mad Max : Fury Road on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6935" CreationDate="2015-05-26T13:19:21.477" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;Post apocalyptic fiction is an &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalyptic_and_post-apocalyptic_fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;established sub-genre&lt;/a&gt; of science fiction. As such, there's no reason not to discuss the movie here on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, being a movie, it is &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; on-topic in Movies.SE. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/626/how-do-we-handle-conflicts-with-the-anime-and-movies-sites&quot;&gt;A common guideline&lt;/a&gt; here is that questions about plot and characters, and especially questions about the SFnal elements in the film, are warmly welcomed here, while questions about production, visual effects and the process of &lt;em&gt;making&lt;/em&gt; movies is more fitting over there, but it's a soft guideline, and usually not a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just remember not to cross-post a question on both sites. That's discouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4516" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2015-05-26T13:22:48.420" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6937" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6938" CreationDate="2015-05-27T16:17:19.313" Score="4" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are users allowed to ask questions that deal specifically with fan theories, and that cannot be answered by any concrete evidence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7758" LastActivityDate="2015-05-27T16:51:01.393" Title="Are questions about fan theories allowed?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6937" CreationDate="2015-05-27T16:41:33.540" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;In short: if your question is likely to start a discussion or debate, it's probably off topic. If your question has a &quot;right answer&quot; that're you would recognize when you see it, it's probably on topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a bit of a grey area on this site, because as a general rule we don't like questions that invite speculation or opinion. So we are probably not the place to ask about a brand new interesting idea that you have about some work of fiction. If you're goal is to &quot;chat&quot; or &quot;discuss&quot; your particular theory with other people, then don't ask a question on the SF&amp;amp;F site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(You would be &lt;em&gt;welcome&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;encouraged&lt;/em&gt; to pop into our &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt; to talk about it, though!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, there are a lot of fan theories that are well established and based on extensive examination of the evidence from canon sources. Even though fan theories, by definition, require some speculation, there's a difference (one that's not well defined, unfortunately) between random guessing and informed, reasoned deduction. Theories based on the latter often can generate useful, answerable questions. For example, if you have seen a popular fan theory somewhere else and you don't understand why it makes sense, or what evidence there is to support it, that probably &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; the kind of question you could ask here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(As a concrete example, we have a good number of &lt;em&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/em&gt; questions based on the popular but speculative theory about Jon Snow's parentage.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're genuinely not sure, go ahead and ask. If you make it a clear, well-written question, the worst thing that's likely to happen is it gets closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2015-05-27T16:41:33.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6937" CreationDate="2015-05-27T16:51:01.393" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're asking two different questions here. You can certainly ask questions about fan theories, such as &quot;Has there been speculation about this?&quot;, or &quot;Is there any canon evidence for this theory?&quot;. But you can't ask questions that don't have verifiable answers, so be sure to phrase your questions so that they can be answered rather than being a springboard for discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23" LastActivityDate="2015-05-27T16:51:01.393" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6941" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-31T15:56:02.717" Score="0" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;I deleted a post, but the comments still remained. The asker suggested I put one of my comments as the answer, but when I tried to edit it it said you couldn't edit deleted posts. I tried to undelete it, but it said I couldn't because a moderator had deleted it. I can only post more answers (necause of the auto-ban) if I improve upon my existing ones, and the moderators are making this impossible because they keep deleting things. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46383" LastActivityDate="2015-05-31T16:12:20.897" Title="Post deleted by me then moderator, now I can't edit?" Tags="|discussion|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6941" CreationDate="2015-05-31T16:12:20.897" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/91266/1&quot;&gt;original answer&lt;/a&gt; was deleted because it wasn't an answer to the question asked. I also felt that it was close to the borderline in terms of coming across as somewhat racist, although I'm assuming that wasn't your intention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that you've edited it into something more suitable (e.g. now that it's actually an answer to the question asked), I've undeleted it for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2015-05-31T16:12:20.897" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6943" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-04T19:17:59.633" Score="7" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed this issue.  I've never reported a bug before, so I don't know if this is a known problem, but it's reproducible for me, at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I go to my profile, then go to the Reputation graph page, clicking on a date will show me the reputation changes for the &lt;em&gt;next&lt;/em&gt; day.  Or at least, they're labeled as the next day. (Not sure if the problem is in the data or the labeling).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NqWKC.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is anyone else seeing this bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20221" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditDate="2015-06-11T13:04:34.667" LastActivityDate="2015-06-11T13:04:34.667" Title="Reputation graph dates are offset by 1 day" Tags="|bug|status-completed|reputation|profile-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6944" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-08T18:38:15.150" Score="40" ViewCount="762" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been on my mind for some time, and I'd actually &lt;em&gt;previously&lt;/em&gt; written up something to post here, but I dropped it until the discussion on the following question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/91922/what-is-tolkien-trying-to-say-in-this-letter&quot;&gt;What is Tolkien trying to say in this letter?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, it seems to be SF&amp;amp;F SE policy to close questions as a duplicate if they are &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; alike, regardless of whether or not they are a duplicate, &lt;strong&gt;or&lt;/strong&gt; if an answer on another question even touches on the answer to the new question, even if the actual questions are totally unrelated. @JasonBaker mentioned that this is official policy, though I was not able to find anything specific on Meta, then or now. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be clear, I have nothing against marking questions that are &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; duplicates as duplicates. But what I see over and over is marking any question, even if only tangentially related, as a duplicate of another if one answer even slightly maybe touches in passing information that might be an answer to a new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see any benefits to this policy. And actually, to SO blog covers some of this topic pretty well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/dr-strangedupe-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-duplication/&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/dr-strangedupe-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-duplication/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...but this issue is a little different. We're expecting users who ask a question parse out potentially unrelated questions and scroll through answers possibly consisting of mostly unrelated content that may somewhere touch on the answer to their question, rather than receiving an answer that is tailored to, and directly addresses &lt;em&gt;their&lt;/em&gt; question. Why? The upsides seem legion: searching for answers to questions is easier, users get direct answers to their distinct questions that touch on any subtleties rightfully missing from answers to other questions, and we can &lt;em&gt;still mark&lt;/em&gt; questions as related if they contain potentially valuable information. I've found this to be especially egregious when those voting to close aren't intimately familiar with the source material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the downsides to being less aggressive about marking questions as duplicates? Why don't we move forward to at least stop marking distinct questions as duplicate? (As opposed to the current policy where distinct questions with similar answers &lt;strong&gt;even if those answers are not the accepted answer&lt;/strong&gt; can be marked duplicate.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15667" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2015-06-14T18:10:27.700" Title="Why is the close-as-duplicate policy so aggressive, and should we change it?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6944" CreationDate="2015-06-08T19:11:14.963" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, I want to address this issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We're expecting users who ask a question parse out potentially unrelated questions and scroll through answers possibly consisting of mostly unrelated content that may somewhere touch on the answer to their question, rather than receiving an answer that is tailored to, and directly addresses their question. Why? The upsides seem legion: searching for answers to questions is easier, users get direct answers to their distinct questions that touch on any subtleties rightfully missing from answers to other questions, and we can still mark questions as related if they contain potentially valuable information. I've found this to be especially egregious when those voting to close aren't intimately familiar with the source material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that to some users, and especially new users, a question being closed can come across as a discipline or punishment - that we're trying to say, &quot;Hey, pay more attention!&quot; or &quot;Don't do that, noob!&quot; But, we're not (unless it becomes a repeated egregious issue). Closing a question as a duplicate isn't a personal attack, nor are duplicates inherently bad. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, duplicates can be useful - even when they're closed. Two &quot;duplicate&quot; questions with different wordings can help other users find the information should they choose to search for it. That's a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if the community agrees that there &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; enough of a distinction between the questions, or the OP can explain why the original question/answers don't cover the information they're looking for, then the question can be re-opened. Closing isn't permanent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why are we so &quot;strict&quot; about closing duplicates?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because a question should have a single repository of answers, and because often times, the relevant necessary discussions have already been had. How many questions do we really need asking how the infection started in The Walking Dead, or how many do we need about why time turners were never used again after &lt;em&gt;Prisoner of Azkaban&lt;/em&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But those are the issues of &lt;em&gt;exact&lt;/em&gt; duplicate questions. The lines get fuzzier when we start talking about defining duplicates based on &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;. And this &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; something that has been generally controversial over the years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the most recent discussion on this was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3194/5184&quot;&gt;Why are questions considered duplicates although they ask different things?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same reasoning really applies here. We've already posted the information being searched for. Answering it again and again in multiple places makes the whole thing confusing as we start finding contradicting answers and information across the site (look at questions about &quot;The Rule of Two&quot; for an example of this). Users looking for the information get confused when there are more than one &quot;right&quot; answers or sources of information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admittedly, this is &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt; of an issue when it comes to answer-dupes, but this is how the community has decided so far. Personally, I see no particular reason to change the policy as of now, but am not vehemently opposed to doing so. The community has changed its mind about things in the past, and will likely do so again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some other pertinent reading:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3684/5184&quot;&gt;Should questions tagged as duplicates because of an answer be treated different?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1830/5184&quot;&gt;Is clarification needed on what makes a duplicate question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2699/5184&quot;&gt;Are multiple variations of a question with subtle distinctions duplicate?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3610/5184&quot;&gt;When voting to close, MUST the “already answered” information come from the accepted answer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2015-06-09T04:11:20.503" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6946" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6948" CreationDate="2015-06-09T05:59:36.143" Score="8" ViewCount="178" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm currently reading &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings:  A Reader's Companion&lt;/em&gt; by Wayne Hammond and Christina Scull, and I was wondering if questions related to this book, which is obviously about LotR, would be considered &quot;on topic&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastActivityDate="2015-06-09T14:49:46.130" Title="Questions about books about fantasy books on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6847" CreationDate="2015-06-09T06:02:46.953" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, they shouldn't be removed, but &quot;phoenixes&quot; should be changed to &quot;phoenices&quot;, and instead of &quot;Magical Creatures&quot;, we should call them &quot;Magical Critters&quot; or &quot;Magical Varmints&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="44025" LastEditDate="2015-06-09T06:17:34.333" LastActivityDate="2015-06-09T06:17:34.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6946" CreationDate="2015-06-09T07:45:23.587" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;As this is a non-fiction book about a fantasy universe, questions about the &lt;strong&gt;subject matter&lt;/strong&gt; (&quot;why does Wayne Hammond think this&quot;) probably would be on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By comparison, questions about the book itself or the author would probably be off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per my normal advice, why not visit the chatroom and pre-ask the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-06-09T07:45:23.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6946" CreationDate="2015-06-09T14:49:46.130" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Books like this would fall under one or both of these entries in our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;site's scope&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Historical or societal context of a work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'd expect most questions on these sorts of books about fantasy (or sci-fi!) works to be on topic, as their focus would overlap with these areas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2015-06-09T14:49:46.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6943" CreationDate="2015-06-11T13:04:28.410" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was a fun problem, made more fun by the nature of it. It was a problem with the time epoch calculation used in the AJAX request that fetches the post data underneath. The interesting bit is that UTC users (included Oded!) weren't affected by it because their time offset matched.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A fix for all other users will roll out in the next build, it's just a small tweak to the JavaScript:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;- var date = Date.UTC(d[0], d[1] - 1, d[2]),&#xA;+ var date = new Date(d[0], d[1] - 1, d[2]).getTime(),&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2015-06-11T13:04:28.410" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6951" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-11T15:24:29.817" Score="6" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do we have a tag for printed interactive fiction books (gamebooks, choose your own adventure books, not requiring a computer)?  If we do, tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/87405/4918&quot;&gt;Trying to find book I read from library about a lone person crash landing on an alien planet&lt;/a&gt; .  If we don't, what should we call it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be simlar to other media type tags like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-story&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-story&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-story&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/film&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;film&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;film&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt; etc, and would help the most for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions to help search for other questions that may ask for the same work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More such questions I found:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/55157/4918&quot;&gt;Clock Embeded in Eyelid. Choose Your Own Adventure(?)&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/51157/4918&quot;&gt;Story/book identification - Star Wars Choose Your Own Adventure, fighting Boba Fett&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/33204/4918&quot;&gt;Adventure book, possibly published around 25 years ago&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/22522/4918&quot;&gt;Book Identification: Stuck in a Store after Closing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/31908/4918&quot;&gt;Drawing of Yggdrasil&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/21356/4918&quot;&gt;Identify a short story where a young boy is time-shifted several minutes into the future&lt;/a&gt; (original poster identifies it as interactive fiction book in answer)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/40259/4918&quot;&gt;Series following a lone adventurer named Grey Wolf&lt;/a&gt; (may be interactive fiction if bert's answer is correct)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus there's a couple of non-story-id questions about the Lone Wolf series:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/65687/4918&quot;&gt;In Lone Wolf, why does 7 and 13 signify everlasting death in life, and evil power respectively?&lt;/a&gt; (not story-id)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/39426/4918&quot;&gt;Any idea how to get hold of copies of the Legends of Lone Wolf Novels?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2015-06-11T18:01:15.980" Title="Tag for printed interactive fiction books (gamebooks, choose your own adventure books)" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6944" CreationDate="2015-06-11T17:04:50.377" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mooz wrote in a comment,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If someone asked &quot;Who was Palpatine's last apprentice?&quot;, and someone answers &quot;It was Anakin Skywalker&quot; and &lt;strong&gt;specifically&lt;/strong&gt; mentions that &quot;Anakin is Luke's father, by the way&quot;, then &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; is what makes the question of &quot;Who was Luke's father&quot; a dupe of &quot;Who was Palpatine's last apprentice?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is so completely wrong it hurts. If this is our policy, we might as well refer everyone to the appropriate Wiki and call it a day, because that would be just about as useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Duplicates are duplicates if and only if the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;QUESTIONS&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; are the same. (This is how every other SE site does it, by the way.) Otherwise, we're asking users to wade through a bunch of totally irrelevant information to find the one tidbit that's useful to them. &lt;em&gt;Preventing&lt;/em&gt; that sort of exercise in frustration was the reason StackExchange was invented, folks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also the issue of reliability: how do you know that that &quot;oh by the way&quot; bit of information in an otherwise-unrelated answer is actually &lt;em&gt;correct&lt;/em&gt;? The voting on the answer is likely to reflect how well it answers the question it was posted to; if it contains some not-quite-correct extraneous information, that may be worth a comment, but it may still get upvotes. If the comments then get too long and are taken to chat, the information about what is incorrect about the answer will be almost impossible to find. (In fact, for a low-rep new user who doesn't yet have chat privileges, it will be totally impossible to find.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="348" LastActivityDate="2015-06-11T17:04:50.377" CommentCount="22" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4708" CreationDate="2015-06-11T17:34:25.337" Score="7" Body="&lt;h1&gt;ANSWERS DON'T MAKE QUESTIONS DUPLICATES.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is the long and the short of it. The fact that many high-rep users of SFF (including  the moderators) get this wrong doesn't change the fact that they're wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/258325/153019&quot;&gt;Robert Harvey answered to your Meta question&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions are duplicates only when the questions themselves are duplicates. In other words, you can't close a question as a duplicate of another question just because &quot;you can find your answer over here.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The only exception to this are canonical questions; these are questions that are asked and answered specifically to address a category of questions that are always answered the same way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're sick and tired of questions about Horcruxes, write a canonical question and answer about Horcruxes and refer people to it. If you can't actually write a canonical q&amp;amp;a (which I suspect is likely, given that it's not actually a clear-cut subject and new information &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; still crop up courtesy of Pottermore), then don't close new questions about Horcruxes as duplicates of other questions that happen to have a mention of Horcruxes in an aside in one of the 14 wordy answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To put it another way, if you find yourself wanting to point your &quot;duplicate of&quot; link to an answer instead of a question, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;stop&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: the questions are not duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="348" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2015-06-11T17:34:25.337" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6951" CreationDate="2015-06-11T17:49:49.480" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;We already have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/choose-your-own-adventure&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;choose-your-own-adventure&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;choose-your-own-adventure&lt;/a&gt;. I've gone ahead and added it to three of the linked questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/87405/trying-to-find-book-i-read-from-library-about-a-lone-person-crash-landing-on-an&quot;&gt;Trying to find book I read from library about a lone person crash landing on an alien planet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/33204/adventure-book-possibly-published-around-25-years-ago&quot;&gt;Adventure book, possibly published around 25 years ago&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/21356/identify-a-short-story-where-a-young-boy-is-time-shifted-several-minutes-into-th&quot;&gt;Identify a short story where a young boy is time-shifted several minutes into the future&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the linked questions already had the tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/55157/clock-embeded-in-eyelid-choose-your-own-adventure&quot;&gt;Clock Embeded in Eyelid. Choose Your Own Adventure(?)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/51157/story-book-identification-star-wars-choose-your-own-adventure-fighting-boba-f&quot;&gt;Story/book identification - Star Wars Choose Your Own Adventure, fighting Boba Fett&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22522/book-identification-stuck-in-a-store-after-closing&quot;&gt;Book Identification: Stuck in a Store after Closing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the others I'm not confident if the tag should be added; not confident enough to edit, anyway:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The OP of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31908/drawing-of-yggdrasil&quot;&gt;Drawing of Yggdrasil&lt;/a&gt; does specifically call out a CYOA book, but only to point out what their desired book &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; I don't see anything else in the description to suggest that it's a gamebook&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/40259/series-following-a-lone-adventurer-named-grey-wolf&quot;&gt;Series following a lone adventurer named Grey Wolf&lt;/a&gt; has an accepted answer which is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a CYOA book&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't know anything about the &quot;Lone Wolf&quot; series, so I don't feel qualified to make the edit here&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2015-06-11T18:01:15.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6951" CreationDate="2015-06-11T17:50:23.900" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is already a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/choose-your-own-adventure&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;choose-your-own-adventure&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;choose-your-own-adventure&lt;/a&gt; tag which would seem to cover the majority of these sort of interactive RPG books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do appreciate that CYOA is actually a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choose_Your_Own_Adventure&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;brand name&lt;/a&gt; rather than a catch-all term, but it seems pretty darned close&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-06-11T17:50:23.900" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6956" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6962" CreationDate="2015-06-12T09:50:41.877" Score="50" ViewCount="1337" Body="&lt;p&gt;Christopher Lee, best known for his portrayal of dark and terrible characters such as Count Dracula in six Hammer House of Horror films, Saruman in the &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt; films, and Count Dooku in three &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; films, has &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33098353&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;yielded&lt;/a&gt; to a power infinitely darker and more terrible than himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To the dismay of those that stood by, about the body of Saruman a grey mist gathered, and rising slowly to a great height like smoke from a fire, as a pale shrouded figure it loomed over the Hill. For a moment it wavered, looking to the West; but out of the West came a cold wind, and it bent away, and with a sigh dissolved into nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;RIP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-01-26T19:45:58.890" LastActivityDate="2017-01-26T19:45:58.890" Title="RIP Christopher Lee" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6956" CreationDate="2015-06-12T15:59:06.500" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Christopher Lee, making the Hereafter more metal since 2015. Rock on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/MC0S60Gp5rM?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastActivityDate="2015-06-12T15:59:06.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6944" CreationDate="2015-06-12T16:57:00.497" Score="-2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;What do I do?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I'm the one who more-or-less kicked off this discussion, I thought I'd weigh in on how I decide whether two questions are dupes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mandatory disclaimer: I vote according to my own conscience, based partly on how I've seen other high-rep users on this site vote, partly from my own understanding of this site's policies and practices, and partly on my own (evolving) understanding of what it means for a question to be a dupe. Despite being a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/leagues/82/alltime/scifi/2011-01-11/31051?sort=reputationchange#31051&quot;&gt;pretty high-rep user&lt;/a&gt;, I'm still fairly new to the community (less than a year), so I might be wrong - I'm often wrong, in fact - but this is the measuring stick I use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So let's say I have questions A and B. In my mind, B is a dupe of A if:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;B is asking the same question as A. This is pretty uncontroversial; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/40862/when-does-the-doctor-actually-tell-river-his-name&quot;&gt;When does the Doctor actually tell River his name?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/47097/how-does-river-song-know-the-doctors-name&quot;&gt;How does River Song know The Doctor&amp;#39;s name?&lt;/a&gt; are pretty transparently asking the same question (there may be better examples of this, but this was a recent one that was easy to find).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;B is asking a different question to A, but the answer to A is the answer to B. This is a little controversial, but I don't think it's terribly so. Let's look at some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/87680/did-bellatrix-really-love-her-husband&quot;&gt;Did Bellatrix really love her husband?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/63427/did-bellatrix-have-any-affection-towards-voldemort&quot;&gt;Did Bellatrix Lestrange have any affection towards Voldemort?&lt;/a&gt; are slightly different questions. The first is about Bellatrix's relationship to Rodolphus, the second is about her relationship to Voldemort. However, these two questions have basically the same answer; alexwlchan and I use the same quote, but frame it in slightly different context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the framing context has no bearing on whether or not the answers are the same. The existence of my answer does not benefit the site. It also doesn't actively harm it, which is part of the reason I'm not freaking out trying to get it deleted&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Any&lt;/strong&gt; answer to B would also be an answer to A. This is probably the most controversial, since it doesn't rely on existing answers, and I suspect I'm in a minority for feeling this way. I know that I've done this before, but I can't think of any other examples off the top of my head. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the reason I vote this way is because (and I know there's a meta discussion on this, but can I find it? Nooo.) the fact that A doesn't have useful answers doesn't affect whether or not B is a dupe. That's actually part of the reason I VTC'd &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/91922/what-is-tolkien-trying-to-say-in-this-letter&quot;&gt;What is Tolkien trying to say in this letter?&lt;/a&gt;. Wad, the OP on that question, pointed out that the answers to the dupe (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28876/was-elrond-in-tolkiens-opinion-more-inherently-powerful-than-galadriel&quot;&gt;Was Elrond, in Tolkien&amp;#39;s opinion, more inherently powerful than Galadriel?&lt;/a&gt;) weren't satisfying because they were based on opinion rather than from authorial intent. This is completely true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the top two upvoted answers (and arguably the third as well) would both be perfectly valid answers to Wad's question. Would they be satisfying? No. But they'd be upvote-worthy, because they would be an earnest attempt to answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Equally true, suppose we found a way to get an answer to Wad's question based on authorial intent. That answer would &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; be a correct answer to the dupe question. It would in fact be more correct than the other answers to that question, for the &lt;em&gt;same&lt;/em&gt; reason it would be an answer to Wad's question: we actually find out what the author thought.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why do I do it?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I've found to be true about these answer-dupe questions is that, when you essentialize them, they are the &lt;em&gt;same&lt;/em&gt; question; Izkata in comments relates this to the notion of a &quot;parent&quot; question, and you can apply this rule to every example I've given:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; examples in my first point are both different ways of asking &quot;How does River know the Doctor's name?&quot;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Bellatrix questions in my second point are just different ways of asking &quot;Who does Bellatrix have feelings for?&quot; (essentialization courtesy of Izkata, who got be thinking about this)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Tolkien questions in my third point, the questions that sparked this discussion, are both different ways of asking &quot;Did Tolkien think that Elrond was more powerful than Galadriel?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we're doing by closing these questions as answer-dupes is not fundamentally different from what other SE sites suggest doing: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/the-wikipedia-of-long-tail-programming-questions/&quot;&gt;canonical questions (or answers)&lt;/a&gt;. The difference in our approach is twofold:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We let &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; question potentially be a canonical question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We don't wait for a question to become a &quot;problem&quot; question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What are the benefits?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;phantom42 already laid them out. Go read his answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What are the downsides?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This list is largely going to be based on comments I've seen other users making in these discussions, and my responses to them. But I'll try to throw in some originality too&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If question A and B are different, the part of A's answer (unrelated to question A) that addresses B may be incorrect&lt;/strong&gt;. This is definitely a potential problem, but it's a problem related to &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; answers. No information in any answer, no matter how tangential or unrelated to the question its been posted under, should be immune from the community vetting process; incorrect information should be &lt;em&gt;corrected&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, consider my answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/90036/1&quot;&gt;Is MODOK planned to appear in the MCU?&lt;/a&gt; (I've linked to a specific revision to make my point better). I initially wrote this answer as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the game, [MODOK is] an enhanced version of Aldrich Killian, the main antagonist from &lt;em&gt;Iron Man 2&lt;/em&gt; and founder and CEO of Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wrote that line from memory, which was incorrect. If somebody else had asked &quot;Who was the main antagonist of &lt;em&gt;Iron Man 2&lt;/em&gt;?&quot;, and if that question was closed as a dupe of this MODOK question, &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; my answer was left as it was, &lt;em&gt;that would be a problem.&lt;/em&gt; Without that hypothetical question, my answer being left as it was &lt;em&gt;would still be a problem&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course what happened was that I had to leave for a family engagement, and I was unable to correct the information. Someone commented (I don't know who it was; I only know the comment was made because I received a notification on the mobile app, which I part of, but the comment was deleted before I could address it)  that this was incorrect, and I was unable to redress it. So Keen, a subject-matter expert on the Marvel Cinematic Universe, corrected it for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's an example of the system working properly. &lt;em&gt;Another&lt;/em&gt; example of the system working properly is on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/92282/31051&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/92282/31051&lt;/a&gt;, and an answer which has since been deleted. The answer read:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would just add that while the movie makes Fili and Kili die at the Battle of the Five Armies, they in fact die in the Moria (as per JRR Tolkien), during the failed attempt from Balin to reclaim it from the Orc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The last pages of the diary of the colony of dwarves of Moria have been written by Kili, which has a writing elfish in nature (perhaps why he has been chosen by Peter Jackson to be the subject of the invented Love Story with Tauriel...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This information is obviously incorrect, and it &lt;em&gt;so&lt;/em&gt; incorrect that the answer is beyond salvaging; it could not be edited without substantially deviating from the answer's intentions. The correct course of action is to downvote the answer, and eventually delete it from the site altogether, which is exactly what happened; the answer attracted 13 downvotes and no upvotes, and was deleted by its owner 14 hours after it was posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other users have commented in this discussion that sometimes incorrect information gets called out in comments, and then never corrected. This is absolutely a problem, but it's a problem with our policy on editing posts, not on our dupe policy. If this is a problem that we're currently grappling with (and it might be; I've not seen it myself but what does that matter?), then we should be dealing with it on &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; answers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions might be closed as dupes based on a throwaway one-liner in an answer to an unrelated question.&lt;/strong&gt; My other comments in this discussion notwithstanding&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;, I actually agree with this one. Questions should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be closed-as-dupe based on insignificant, tangential parts of answers to other questions; and you'll notice that none of my points above involve this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Picking on myself again, consider my answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/80061/how-could-treebeard-call-for-war-without-an-entmoot/80063#80063&quot;&gt;How could Treebeard call for war without an Entmoot?&lt;/a&gt;. In that answer, I have a footnote which reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Quickbeam, an Ent is] so named because he once replied &quot;Yes&quot; before another Ent had finished asking the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imagine if someone asked &quot;Why is Bregalad named Quickbeam?&quot; That would be a terrible question because it's answered immediately following the character's introduction, but imagine. If that question were then closed as a dupe of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/80061/how-could-treebeard-call-for-war-without-an-entmoot&quot;&gt;How could Treebeard call for war without an Entmoot?&lt;/a&gt; based on my answer, I would have a problem with that; if I took that single line, in isolation, and made it an answer, I would be disappointed in myself. That line is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However strongly I may agree with our current policy of closing questions based on answers, I do agree with this point; we should apply the same scrutiny to those answers as we would to answers on the question we're closing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Closing based on answers means that the user who asked the closed question has to go hunting for the answer to their question.&lt;/strong&gt; This is true, but I think it's more a limitation of &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; we're applying this policy, not of the policy itself. Obviously this situation would be improved if &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4708/when-i-flag-as-dupe-can-the-system-put-the-link-to-the-answer-and-not-the-quest&quot;&gt;the &quot;this question is a dupe&quot; dialogue pointed to the particular answer&lt;/a&gt;, but that's not something that's going to happen. One thing I often try to do is leave a comment saying &quot;This is a dupe of question X, and in particular look at user Y's answer&quot;, which may help the questioner but may not help future travellers (since comments are ephemeral and subject to deletion at any time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately this isn't a bad point, but I feel like it's directed at the wrong policy. We &lt;em&gt;already&lt;/em&gt; have systems in place that encourage questioners to seek out and read related questions to find the answer, rather than asking a dupe question: the existence of the duplicate close function tends to act like this, and can be perceived by new users (and old ones) as a slap on the wrist; we downvote posts that show a lack of research effort, although that's thankfully limited to questions that are answered by a simple Google search; we have &quot;similar questions&quot; boxes that pop up when you're creating a new question, showing you possible examples of similar questions that have already been asked (these boxes are generally pretty awful, but that's a different issue).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the objection to the current policy is that it makes users look harder for the answer to their question, then I think we should be having a broader conversation about whether we should &lt;em&gt;ever&lt;/em&gt; be closing questions as duplicates, because that seems like an unavoidable result of the system in general.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The answer to the old question hasn't been properly vetted as an answer to the new question.&lt;/strong&gt; This objection hinges primarily on the fact that closing a question only requires five votes from 3k+ users, but up- or downvoting an answer is open to the entire community (who have at least 15 rep for upvoting or 125 rep for downvoting).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll leave aside the fact that many correct answers get fewer than 5 upvotes (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=is%3Aanswer+isaccepted%3Ayes+score%3A..5&quot;&gt;there are currently 4100 accepted answers with scores of 5 or lower&lt;/a&gt;, accounting for 30% of all accepted answers, although that excludes correct answers that aren't accepted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As with the last objection I discussed, this is something that is true in a broader context. It only takes five votes (or one modhammer, or one gold tag badge for dupe votes) to close a question for any reason, and to argue that those five people may not be correct is an argument better levelled at the entire closing policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is absolutely possible for close voters to get it wrong, on any kind of close vote. That happens, because we're human and make mistakes, and because we have different ideas about what each close reason means. But there is recourse for users who disagree with this, of &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; rep levels:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Any user can comment on their own posts, and users with 50 or more rep can comment on any. It's somewhat regrettable that comments don't bump the question (although on balance it's probably better that they don't), because that does limit the exposure of these questions, but recent questions that are still near the top of the list are going to get viewed by plenty of users who can cast votes anyway&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You only need 15 rep to flag a post for moderator intervention. The modhammer can open a closed question with only a single vote.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;250+ users (of which there are about 2000) nominate their own question for reopening, and 3k+ users (of which there are currently over 200) can cast reopen votes on any question. It may take five votes to close a question, but it also only takes five votes to reopen it&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/participate-in-meta&quot;&gt;You only need 5 rep to participate in Meta&lt;/a&gt; at which point you can bring your case to that subset of the community (mostly long-time, experienced users) who participate here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And bear in mind as well that a new question is going to get seen by plenty of users who are able to flag, comment, or vote on it to get it reopened, and casting reopen votes sends it into the queue where it can potentially be seen by &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; 3k+ user (with a time delay so you don't get the same users who VTC'd it immediately voting to leave it closed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If after all of this the question remains closed, unless most 3k+ users just don't care about voting (which is a much larger problem), I submit to you that the expert community &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; vetted the duplicate answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If the dupe question doesn't have satisfying answers, the asker of the closed question doesn't have many options for getting them.&lt;/strong&gt; This is absolutely true, and is a side-effect of duplicate closing in general. On more than one occasion I've flagged questions as dupes of other questions that have &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; upvoted answers, because the questions &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; dupes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that this is a problem, which I don't have a good solution to (the typical answer is &quot;post a bounty&quot;, but you need 75 rep to do that, at which point the minimum bounty would basically wipe out your site privileges; it's not something that works for all users). I'd be open to discussing ways to solve this problem, but as it stands I feel (and the community both on SFF ans the broader SE network seem to agree) that the benefits of a duplication policy outweigh this problem&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Sidenote: Yes, my answer probably &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be deleted. I jumped the gun, answering before I'd checked to see if it was a dupe, and only found the dupe after my answer had been accepted and could no longer be deleted. &lt;em&gt;C'est la vie&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; Of course that's the actual title of one of the questions, which is convenient for us; but I maintain that it's not strictly necessary&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt; I got a little upset, and said some things I didn't mean. I'm better now&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2015-06-14T18:10:27.700" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6956" CreationDate="2015-06-12T20:01:14.940" Score="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;That sucks.  Trivia:  He was the only cast member on the Peter Jackson movies who actually knew J.R.R. Tolkien.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;LAWRENCE FRENCH: You actually met J. R. R. Tolkien, didn’t you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;CHRISTOPHER LEE: Yes, quite by chance, really. I met him with a group of other people in a pub in Oxford he used to go to, The Eagle and Child. I was very much in awe of him, as you can imagine, so I just said, “how do you do?” I also met T. H. White who wrote The Once and Future King.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2010/06/sir-christopher-lee-on-saruman-the-white-and-the-other-great-wizards-of-the-lord-of-the-rings-trilogy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2010/06/sir-christopher-lee-on-saruman-the-white-and-the-other-great-wizards-of-the-lord-of-the-rings-trilogy/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-06-12T21:40:45.067" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6960" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6961" CreationDate="2015-06-13T03:11:25.120" Score="1" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Disclaimer upfront - I am involved in the example in which I provide &lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/90884/why-is-worf-permitted-to-wear-his-sash-but-ro-cant-wear-her-earpiece&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; as an example.  There are two equally valid answers which address the question the way it has been presented, yet the OP doesn't want to accept any of them.  The OP has checked in on this site recently and it has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5065/what-is-a-good-time-to-wait-before-accepting-an-answer&quot;&gt;over a week&lt;/a&gt; (not that I'm saying that is a hard and fast rule, but rather more of a reasonable time frame).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I'm not trying to single out this particular question to force the issue, more trying to understand what to do as a general rule when this situation arises.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we have a situation as above where there are answers which adequately address the question and the OP doesn't explain what they don't like about the answer, &lt;strong&gt;how do we handle such a situation&lt;/strong&gt;, considering this site is about trying to answer people's questions?  Perhaps I'm being a bit grumpy...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2015-06-13T06:51:06.193" Title="What to do when an OP isn't accepting answers that address the question without providing a reason" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6960" CreationDate="2015-06-13T06:51:06.193" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;In specific&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both of these answers are opinion-based. That's not to say that they're not good and interesting answers but neither actually offers a &lt;em&gt;definitive&lt;/em&gt; statement that says (for example)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;In a later episode, Picard said &quot;&lt;em&gt;Sashes are fine, Mr Riker, but earrings are not&lt;/em&gt;' &quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rick Berman stated that &quot;&lt;em&gt;Riker finds Ro's earring unacceptable because he's insensitive&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such the OP is probably right to hold out for a better answer (if one exists)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;In general&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're back to the old question of when/why users &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5234/how-does-accepting-an-answer-work&quot;&gt;accept answers&lt;/a&gt;. The short version is that an OP is welcome to accept (or not) for whatever reason they choose, whenever they choose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answer might be the best possible with multiple quotes from the script, writer, director, actors, producer, novel and graphic novel and &lt;strong&gt;still not get accepted&lt;/strong&gt;. Them's the breaks, I'm afraid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're welcome to campaign for an acceptance (I regularly give users a prod to say something like &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;em&gt;I felt my answer was pretty comprehensive. Is there anything you'd&#xA;  like me to address before you offer an acceptance?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but I also accept that when I do so, sometime I get a) feedback that requires me to rewrite my answer or b) silence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2015-06-13T06:51:06.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6956" CreationDate="2015-06-14T20:04:59.463" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CYJt7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Sir Christopher Lee has passed away at the venerable age of 93. He was a man of incredible talent and expertise (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/06/11/413606321/reports-christopher-lee-star-in-dracula-star-wars-dies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;NPR&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He was 6'5&amp;quot; tall, a world champion fencer,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He spoke six languages, did his own stunts,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Had appeared in over 250 movies and television shows&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Had participated in more on-screen sword fights than any actor in history,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;served for five years defending democracy from global fascism as a British Commando blowing the shit out of Nazi asses in World War II, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And he was the oldest person to ever record lead vocals on a heavy metal track when, at the age of 88, he wrote, performed on, and released a progressive symphonic power metal EP about the life of Charlemagne (because why the fuck not?).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.npr.org/2015/06/12/413936419/listen-back-to-a-1990-interview-with-actor-christopher-lee&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;audio/transcript interview&lt;/a&gt; of his early career with NPR's Dave Davies in 1990.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;READ a whole lot more about the legend that was Christopher Lee at:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.badassoftheweek.com/christopherlee.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;www.badassoftheweek.com/christopherlee.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2765" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-06-14T20:04:59.463" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6579" CreationDate="2015-06-15T08:55:50.510" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Challenge accepted and accomplished:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/etPnn.png&quot; alt=&quot;My Handle is the first letter of the top questions&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastActivityDate="2015-06-15T08:55:50.510" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6964" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6973" CreationDate="2015-06-16T07:05:11.150" Score="7" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;When elections come around each year, I'm just wondering whether this site has a ratio of moderators to users (i.e. 1 moderator for every X number of users) when determining the number of moderation positions required.  If so, what is the ratio?  If not, how on this site specifically do we determine the number of moderators there should be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastEditorUserId="3567" LastEditDate="2015-06-16T07:25:57.000" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T07:25:57.000" Title="Is there a moderators to users ratio?" Tags="|support|election|moderators|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6965" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-06-16T07:06:21.740" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-06-16T07:06:21.740" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T07:06:21.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6966" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-06-16T07:06:21.740" Score="0" Body="For questions regarding the design elements of the main and meta sites e.g. CSS issues" OwnerUserId="22917" LastEditorUserId="22917" LastEditDate="2015-06-16T12:47:23.503" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T12:47:23.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6967" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-06-16T07:08:03.493" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-06-16T07:08:03.493" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T07:08:03.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6968" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-06-16T07:08:03.493" Score="0" Body="For use when inquiring about a particular question e.g. inquiring about a specific question's suitability for this site." OwnerUserId="22917" LastEditorUserId="22917" LastEditDate="2015-06-16T12:47:17.230" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T12:47:17.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6969" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-06-16T07:08:50.647" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-06-16T07:08:50.647" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T07:08:50.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6970" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-06-16T07:08:50.647" Score="0" Body="For use when discussing the principles and reasoning behind closing questions" OwnerUserId="22917" LastEditorUserId="22917" LastEditDate="2015-06-16T12:47:29.627" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T12:47:29.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6971" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-06-16T07:11:10.930" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-06-16T07:11:10.930" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T07:11:10.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6972" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-06-16T07:11:10.930" Score="0" Body="For use when discussing the appropriateness and use of comments" OwnerUserId="22917" LastEditorUserId="22917" LastEditDate="2015-06-16T12:47:49.180" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T12:47:49.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6964" CreationDate="2015-06-16T07:23:49.003" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don’t think so.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/99515/226928&quot;&gt;Meta.se question about moderator elections&lt;/a&gt;, it’s explained how a site comes to have more moderators:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The community team periodically looks at the work load on graduated sites and will reach out to the moderation team if it looks like more help might be needed. Broadly, it's up to the moderation teams to indicate whether they need additional hands, and how many sets of hands would be ideal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The “community team”, also known as the Community Managers or CMs, are Stack Exchange employees who are responsible for making sure the sites run smoothly, which includes running the moderator elections.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That answer goes on to highlight that elections are not held annually; only when an existing moderator steps down, or when the moderators want more hands (in the recent SFF election, it was a combination of both):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Although we'll reach out to moderators on the anniversary of their last election, just to see how they're doing, elections do not &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; take place at the same time every year. Sometimes a year can even go by without any election at all. Most elections are scheduled as a result of moderators reaching out to Stack Exchange to ask for additional help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators-to-users would be a poor metric for determining the number of moderators. We have a lot of drive-by users – particularly for story ID questions – who add minimal new work for the moderators. Most of the work (editing their question, etc.) can be done by regular 10K users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More users != need for more moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T07:25:42.410" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6974" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-16T16:53:51.907" Score="6" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from April 1st 2015 through June 30th 2015. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think my favorite question to answer was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/89322/could-the-earth-2149-squirrel-girl-destroy-colonel-americas-shield&quot;&gt;Could the Earth-2149 Squirrel Girl destroy Colonel America&amp;#39;s shield?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously it doesn't have to be something you asked or answered. If you found someone else's question or answer amazing. Let me know. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These will of course go into a blog post summary. &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/category/qotw/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;At this point, I am just trying to be able to submit the post without it saying this is a duplicate.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2015/04/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2015/04/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2015/04/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-06-19T04:05:58.957" Title="Favorite Answers and Questions from second quarter of 2015" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6579" CreationDate="2015-06-16T17:54:32.633" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say that you're taking your life into your hands with this one. As long as the edits are &lt;em&gt;genuinely&lt;/em&gt; improving the questions, you're free and clear. The fact that they happen to spell out a word is really neither here nor there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, on the other hand your edits are frivolous (which may be something of a temptation if you're trying to get that last letter into place before someone mucks it up) then I would be minded to offer a warning or even consider a small suspension given that you've abused your privileges as a high rep user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note also that using the edit queue to spell out a &lt;strong&gt;rude word&lt;/strong&gt; would be viewed very poorly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2015-06-16T18:32:58.000" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T18:32:58.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6974" CreationDate="2015-06-16T18:29:56.307" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I quite liked this question from new user kviiri. Short, succinct and surprisingly answerable&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/88072/what-did-godric-gryffindor-have-a-sword-for-anyway&quot;&gt;What did Godric Gryffindor have a sword for, anyway?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of answers, I was especially proud of the one below. I spent a lot of time playing with the custom map and finally decided to make a video to demonstrate what I was talking about. The fact that it didn't get many upvotes or an acceptance didn't even bother me (that much). A good answer is its own reward :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/81430/in-the-movie-gravity-where-does-sandra-bullocks-character-end-up/81435#81435&quot;&gt;In the Movie Gravity, where does Sandra Bullock's character end up?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@SS's demands seemed quite unreasonable at first glance, but with a bit of work, this question was actually pretty fun to answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/85471/how-many-people-know-that-harry-owns-an-invisibility-cloak/85472#85472&quot;&gt;How many people know that Harry owns an Invisibility Cloak?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T18:29:56.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6974" CreationDate="2015-06-16T21:32:41.993" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really enjoyed @Richard's answer to my question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/91298/why-does-han-solos-carbonite-slab-have-a-vital-signs-panel-on-the-edge&quot;&gt;Why does Han Solo&amp;#39;s carbonite slab have a vital signs panel on the edge?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is succinct and answers every part of the question, and the chosen illustration is perfect.  It also introduced me to a book that I was not aware of...I have lost hours to it now, for better or worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@JasonBaker's answer to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/89934/40294&quot;&gt;In The Avengers, how is it possible that the Hulk can overpower the god Loki?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is brilliant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last but not least, I very much enjoyed @JasonBaker's thorough answer to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/91601/how-do-we-reach-ultima&quot;&gt;How do we reach Ultima?&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;even though it wasn't the answer I wanted to hear!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2015-06-17T01:50:55.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6974" CreationDate="2015-06-17T07:23:51.347" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;My favorite questions were:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Praxis' &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/91879/nacelles-if-two-are-better-than-one-then-why-are-three-not-better-than-two&quot;&gt;Nacelles: if two are better than one, then why are three not better than two?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Richard's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/90591/why-is-max-mad&quot;&gt;Why is Max Mad?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My favorite answers were:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/87536/why-does-the-batmobile-have-a-no-step-sign/87548#87548&quot;&gt;Richard's response&lt;/a&gt; to 'Why does the Batmobile have a “NO STEP” sign?' (and if comments count,  Boelabaal's comment for that question)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Richard's response to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/87336/what-is-the-benefit-of-a-hover-car-over-a-standard-ground-car&quot;&gt;What is the benefit of a hover-car over a standard ground-car?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-06-17T07:23:51.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6979" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-18T02:24:56.310" Score="5" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I try to edit &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/47085/dan-dascalescu&quot;&gt;my bio for the site&lt;/a&gt;, SE pulls an older version of it. My bio starts with &quot;Currently building &lt;a href=&quot;http://idorecall.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;iDoRecall&lt;/a&gt;&quot; but when I edit, I get an older version starting with &quot;As a full-stack engineer&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9xSEr.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47085" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T02:43:12.837" Title="Bug: editing my bio pulls up some old version" Tags="|bug|profile-page|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6980" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-18T04:39:31.673" Score="-3" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Due to negative community feedback, this idea is no longer on the table&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Your feedback has been greatly appreciated in this&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have revised the proposition to the following: instead of an emphasis on timeliness, &lt;strong&gt;users will be allocated a certain amount of time (perhaps 1 hour) in which to research and compose the best answer they can.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Praxis and I have been discussing this idea on chat.   We haven't got as far as a prize (perhaps a bount), but the idea is that several of our leading users can nominate to enter (that means you Richard) and on June 30 at an amenable time for the contestants, a question is posted and the entrants scramble to provide a quality answer first.  Please leave answers to this question to express your opinions.  I cannot stress sufficiently though &lt;strong&gt;that this isn't a mock question or anything&lt;/strong&gt; - this will be a legitimate question with a demand for regular quality, just with a twist by adding a time constraint.  The answers would then be judged by a panel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Originally we were thinking of launching a competition where whoever answers a question first with a quality answer wins &lt;strong&gt;* BUT no longer the case*&lt;/strong&gt;. )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastEditorUserId="22917" LastEditDate="2015-06-19T00:40:58.117" LastActivityDate="2015-06-19T00:40:58.117" Title="How about a fun competition to end the quarter?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6980" CreationDate="2015-06-18T09:45:48.377" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.  I think this would demean the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The beauty of SE sites as a whole is that good answers are posted in time after due consideration, not in a hurry to get a prize.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes we have the &lt;em&gt;Enlightened&lt;/em&gt; badge but to win that you have to get a respectable score.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;During Winterbash 2013 there was a &lt;em&gt;Quick on the Draw&lt;/em&gt; hat for fast answers.  Let us leave speed there and not mingle contrived questions with real ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30512" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T09:45:48.377" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6980" CreationDate="2015-06-18T17:21:47.907" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;OMG, a thousand times no. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you're proposing &lt;em&gt;is what the site already does&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally -- and I mean this politely and just food for thought -- you specifically invited @Richard to participate. This means I (and maybe others, who knows ... ) cannot discount the possibility that you, or @Praxis, or others, are biased in his favor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my vote is no. :/&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T17:21:47.907" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6983" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6984" CreationDate="2015-06-18T20:42:40.013" Score="13" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've heard of it happening to other people but now it's happening to me, a bunch of my old / unrelated questions and answers were downvoted in the space of a few minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do I report it and if so, how?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MuzCY.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The very next day, the system works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Kh4wd.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20393" LastEditorUserId="20393" LastEditDate="2015-06-19T06:34:47.207" LastActivityDate="2015-06-19T06:34:47.207" Title="Can I do anything about serial or malicious downvoting?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6983" CreationDate="2015-06-18T20:59:10.067" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a phenomenon called &lt;em&gt;serial downvoting&lt;/em&gt;. It happens quite regularly, but there are automated scripts to catch it, and reverse it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoting from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/28758/226928&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;What can I do if I’m the victim of serial down voting?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; on Meta SE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are three ways to fix it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Do NOTHING. The daily vote anomaly script will pick it up and your rep&#xA;  will be recalculated automatically.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If after 36 hours (give the script&#xA;  time to run) you still see a problem, then flag one of your posts and&#xA;  ask a moderator to look into the anomalous voting patterns.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If it&#xA;  still hasn't been corrected, contact the SE team via the &quot;contact us&quot;&#xA;  link at the bottom of any page on the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T20:59:10.067" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6974" CreationDate="2015-06-19T04:05:58.957" Score="1" Body="&lt;h1&gt;My favourite answer&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nika G.&lt;/strong&gt; posted an excellent answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/91309/21267&quot;&gt;Why would Arya join the Faceless Men?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/91371/21267&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;She wants revenge. She's hungry for the blood.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Well researched&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Excellent analysis of how exactly she progressed from The Saltpans (previously known as Whitewalls) to The House of Black and White&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It tied-in her connection to Jaqen / The Faceless Men&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tied-in her want for revenge&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All backed-up by relevant canon&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;My favourite question&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Honorable Ned Stark&lt;/strong&gt; asked about the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/91866/21267&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Origin of the name Azor Ahai&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's always good to ask the seemingly unanswerable questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Made me question the importance of names made up by George R. R. Martin&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sent me delving into the depths of my favourite canon&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I had a lot of fun trying to find a suitable answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Made me learn &lt;em&gt;so much&lt;/em&gt;, including that George R. R. Martin is extremely deliberate with his name choices!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I &lt;em&gt;maaay&lt;/em&gt; have earned some extra rep from the bounty offered by @Arm0geddon&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-06-19T04:05:58.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6986" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-19T06:11:01.067" Score="15" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hope this is the right place to post this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://youranswers.info/question/view/en/YUhSMGNEb3ZMM05qYVdacExuTjBZV05yWlhoamFHRnVaMlV1WTI5dEwzRjFaWE4wYVc5dWN5ODVNamcyTkM5M2FHRjBMWGRoY3kxMGFHVXRjR2hoYzJWeUxYTmxkSFJwYm1jdGQyaGxiaTF6YVhOcmJ5MTBiMjlyTFhSb1pTMTNZV3hzTFdSdmQyNHRkRzh0Wm1sdVpDMTBhR1V0WW1GcWIzSmhiaTFvYVE9PQ==&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this link&lt;/a&gt; you'll see that it is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/92864/what-was-the-phaser-setting-when-sisko-took-the-wall-down-to-find-the-bajoran-hi&quot;&gt;one of my questions&lt;/a&gt;, with comments, and answers here on Sci-Fi/Fantasy Stack Exchange. I'm not sure if this is a copyright violation or if it's just a companion site. I wanted to bring it to everyone's attention just in case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope I posted this in the right place and did the right thing. Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT/UPDATE (6/25/15-6 days after OP): Just to update, the entire site youranswers.info has been taken down. One of the commenters below (trejder) pointed it out and I checked it to make sure. The action I took when I realized this site was scraping and reposting our data was to post in both metas, send the info to the &quot;contact us&quot; link at the bottom of the page, and I also filed a complaint with Googles scraping division. Just thought everyone should know that it worked and the site is down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40599" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2015-06-25T21:06:52.790" Title="Is this site supposed to be copying our questions and answers?" Tags="|discussion|support|copyright|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6986" CreationDate="2015-06-19T10:59:20.890" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please report these sites to the Stack Exchange powers that be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/200177/updated-procedure-for-reporting-scrapers&quot;&gt;A site (or scraper) is copying content from Stack Exchange. What do I do?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Send all reports of SCRAPERs to us via the form on the contact us page, linked at the bottom of every page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use the &quot;Other&quot; reason on the form (fortunately, we don't get enough of these reports to justify making SCRAPERs their own category/reason). Please include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;the URL of the copied post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;the URL of the original post on SE&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;for high-rankers, the search string you used (and the name of the search engine, if not Google)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;any other details you noticed and want to share, because you're awesome&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2015-06-19T10:59:20.890" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6988" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6991" CreationDate="2015-06-19T12:17:25.160" Score="11" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/93071/23243&quot;&gt;Example here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When reviewing first or potentially bad posts, it's not horribly uncommon to find an answer that not only misses the point, but also has bad grammar or spelling, or is unclear. Being the sort of person that I am, I feel compelled to at least correct that grammar and spelling, even though the answer itself is bad in content. Is this harmful behavior? Benign? Actually helpful in some way to avoid future confusion from a reader?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2015-06-26T13:19:56.613" Title="Should we edit bad answers for grammar?" Tags="|discussion|editing|review-queue|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6988" CreationDate="2015-06-19T12:54:31.717" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since we edit questions for grammar, I think it is fine to edit an answer for the same reason. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did that to an answer to one of my questions yesterday to correct spelling. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2015-06-19T12:54:31.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6988" CreationDate="2015-06-19T13:20:20.953" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the grammar / grasp of English is especially poor, I'll generally edit an answer if it helps. But if after editing, the answer would still be so poor as to not answer the question at all, I wouldn't bother in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20393" LastActivityDate="2015-06-19T13:20:20.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6988" CreationDate="2015-06-19T14:30:39.793" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's never a &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; thing to edit a post for grammar. In some cases, you may be wasting your own free time, but that's your choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the typical case, you clean up the grammar on a bad answer and it gets deleted or ignored; no harm/no foul. However, that's not the only option. Other possibities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The OP might come back and see his answer marked NAA, and turn it into a comment, but use your cleaned up version.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The OP might come back and try to improve the answer, and hopefully your grammatically improved version will remain intact.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The OP might come back and see your cleanup and learn something about English grammar they did not know, which will help them in the future.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Yes, I'm an optimistic person.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2015-06-19T14:30:39.793" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6992" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-21T04:07:22.687" Score="3" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, I'm trying to get the &lt;em&gt;Research Assistant&lt;/em&gt; Badge, but there seems to be a bug that's preventing me.  I've got some screenshots below, but basically I've edited quite a number of tag wikis that  have been accepted, yet the progress for my research assistant badge is stuck on 27.  The screenshots below serve as proof of this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DkzgW.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot 1&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here you can see that I've just edited a tag wiki and it says that I've edited 27 tags so far.  Fair enough.  Note that this was taken at 3:54 UTC time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rJnFb.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot 2&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here you can see that 2 tag wikis have just been approved and I've been awarded the rep for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6IKNc.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot 3&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when I go into a new tag and look at my progress, it still says that I've only edited 27 tag wikis when it should be 29 following those two tag wikis that were just approved.  Note the time is on 3:57 UTC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I've edited quite a lot more than 27 tag wikis and, whilst I mightn't have done 50 yet&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastActivityDate="2015-06-21T04:54:04.143" Title="Tag wiki edits not registering" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6992" CreationDate="2015-06-21T04:54:04.143" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Thanks to Jason Baker for this&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I checked back after I had edited a full wiki, not just the &lt;em&gt;excerpt&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/121517/research-assistant-badge-requirements&quot;&gt;which doesn't count&lt;/a&gt; and the tags I had edited had increased by one!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this happens to you, make sure you are editing the &lt;em&gt;tag wiki&lt;/em&gt;, not just the excerpt!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2015-06-21T04:54:04.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6994" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6995" CreationDate="2015-06-21T06:02:34.607" Score="13" ViewCount="276" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently noticed we have three tags, the existence of which kind of baffles me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rings-of-power&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rings-of-power&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rings-of-power&lt;/a&gt; According to the tag wiki, this should be a general &quot;magic ring&quot; tag. In practice, of the 81 tagged questions 76 of them are about &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;, and the rest are about Green Lantern rings&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ring&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ring&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ring&lt;/a&gt; The tag wiki on this was just changed today (which is what got me started on this bend) to clarify its usage to &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;-specific rings, which is what 4 of the tagged five questions are about (the last is about the movie &lt;em&gt;The Ring&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/power-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;power-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;power-rings&lt;/a&gt; Currently has no tag wiki, and both of its questions are about Green Lantern rings&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems like a strange state of affairs, to say the least, and one that could be improved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I see it, there are really three works that could get any use out of a &quot;magic rings&quot; tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Green Lantern and his multicoloured brethren&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Ring&lt;/em&gt; franchise, which is so popular it has two tags and one question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There might be others, (Ringworld, maybe? but we already have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ringworld&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ringworld&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ringworld&lt;/a&gt;) but these are the ones that seem to have attracted the current situation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here's what I propose:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Re-tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ring&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ring&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ring&lt;/a&gt; questions with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rings-of-power&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rings-of-power&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rings-of-power&lt;/a&gt;, and make it a Tolkien-specific tag. Realistically that's mostly what it's being used for anyway, and I don't think having a tag for Lantern rings really adds value; are people really going to say to themselves &quot;I want to look up Green Lantern info, but &lt;em&gt;only about his ring&lt;/em&gt;&quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kill &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/power-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;power-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;power-rings&lt;/a&gt; for much the same reason&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ring&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ring&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ring&lt;/a&gt; specific to &lt;em&gt;The Ring&lt;/em&gt;. There's only one question using the tag for that purpose, but the &lt;em&gt;Ring&lt;/em&gt; franchise is on-topic here in my estimation, and it wouldn't be the only film tag with only one question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastActivityDate="2015-06-22T05:33:37.800" Title="What's with all the ring-related tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6994" CreationDate="2015-06-21T06:43:48.607" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I agree with the general sentiment, I’d just suggest a minor tweak.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could definitely do a better job disambiguating the ring-related tags. I’d make one change to your proposal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than using the generic &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ring&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ring&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ring&lt;/a&gt; tag for &lt;em&gt;The Ring&lt;/em&gt;, I’d create a new tag, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-ring&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-ring&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-ring&lt;/a&gt;, and use that for the franchise. That way, the generic tag goes away, and it’s less likely that people use it on the “wrong” questions (because it won’t be in the suggested tags). It also avoids future confusion about which ring it refers to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I assume that the &lt;em&gt;The Ring&lt;/em&gt; question is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/26423/3567&quot;&gt;In which year(s) are Ring and Ring 2 set?&lt;/a&gt;. When we do the tidy-up, whatever we do, I’d collapse &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ring&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ring&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ring&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ring-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ring-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ring-2&lt;/a&gt; into a single franchise-related tag, and let the other tag die.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2015-06-21T06:43:48.607" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6994" CreationDate="2015-06-21T21:09:53.223" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about the ring in &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; should be retagged to either &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rings-of-power&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rings-of-power&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rings-of-power&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-one-ring&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-one-ring&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-one-ring&lt;/a&gt;, depending on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The single question about the horror movie has already been retagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-ring&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-ring&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-ring&lt;/a&gt;, which is the name of the American version. I think that if a question about the Japanese original should come up, it could be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ringu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ringu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ringu&lt;/a&gt;, and one could be the synonym of the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the rest, I would like to follow &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6995/19561&quot;&gt;alexwlchan's answer&lt;/a&gt; and lose the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ring&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ring&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ring&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.730" LastActivityDate="2015-06-22T05:33:37.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6997" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7002" CreationDate="2015-06-22T21:02:11.613" Score="5" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I use the &quot;image&quot; button, instead of bringing up the usual dialogue box, it now has this monstrosity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/31oIX.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I no longer seem to be able to add copied images so there's a loss of functionality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What gives?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="3567" LastEditDate="2015-06-23T04:09:25.113" LastActivityDate="2015-06-23T04:09:25.113" Title="What's going on with the add image dialogue?" Tags="|bug|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6998" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6999" CreationDate="2015-06-22T23:07:28.720" Score="2" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once the second season starts, and we have more than 11 episodes to discuss, will Rick and Morty questions be on topic here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those who don't know, Rick and Morty is a cartoon on Adult Swim, and the premise is that an eccentric genius and his relatively dull grandson go on adventures to other dimensions and galaxies together.  The show grew out of a web cartoon, which was extremely risqué, called &quot;Doc and Mharti&quot;, a very crude spoof of &lt;em&gt;Back to the Future&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the show is primarily a comedy, there is a strong undertone of science fiction and fantasy.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be a better fit for the Movies &amp;amp; TV SE, or for our beloved SF&amp;amp;F SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastActivityDate="2015-06-22T23:15:53.150" Title="Rick and Morty questions on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6998" CreationDate="2015-06-22T23:15:53.150" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The overview on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_and_Morty&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; suggests that it's very strongly on topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rick and Morty is an American adult animated television series created&#xA;  by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon for Adult Swim. The series follows&#xA;  the misadventures of alcoholic scientist Rick and his easily&#xA;  influenced grandson Morty, who &lt;strong&gt;split their time between domestic&#xA;  family life and interdimensional travel.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as does the blurb on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.adultswim.com/videos/rick-and-morty/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Adult Swim&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Every episode of Rick and Morty is now on AdultSwim.com for free. &lt;strong&gt;Rick&#xA;  is a mad scientist who drags his grandson, Morty, on crazy sci-fi&#xA;  adventures&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-06-22T23:15:53.150" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7000" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7001" CreationDate="2015-06-23T00:08:29.877" Score="7" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;Noticed this issue about an hour ago, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/22323852#22323852&quot;&gt;see chat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Issue 1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;CSS issues are causing all unvisited links to appear blue until visited, at which point they go the normal redish:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/t1NbF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image depicting incorrect css for links&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Issue 2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;When you visit a user's profile, their page looks incorrectly aligned:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oKKZe.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image depicting user&amp;#39;s profile which is incorrectly aligned&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is going on?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ETA: This is affecting both the main site as well as our meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2017-07-26T01:02:54.143" LastActivityDate="2017-07-26T01:02:54.143" Title="Site CSS is broken, un-visited links appear blue, alignment in user profiles is off" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7000" CreationDate="2015-06-23T01:05:22.850" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/259186/295850&quot;&gt;We have an answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We rolled out a new image uploader today. Unfortunately, the design was targeted at the new-design sites only, and so the image uploader stopped working (at all) on the old-design sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a hurry to get the image uploader working, we grafted the new image uploader styles to the old base styles. This had some of the side effects you noticed. We have since fixed these side effects. My sincere gratitude to our design team for helping out with this in off-hours!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-06-23T01:05:22.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6997" CreationDate="2015-06-23T04:09:18.743" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quoting from a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/259186/226928&quot;&gt;question about today’s CSS bugs&lt;/a&gt; on Meta.SE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We rolled out a new image uploader today. Unfortunately, the design was targeted at the new-design sites only, and so the image uploader stopped working (at all) on the old-design sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a hurry to get the image uploader working, we grafted the new image uploader styles to the old base styles. This had some of the side effects you noticed. We have since fixed these side effects. My sincere gratitude to our design team for helping out with this in off-hours!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I now see a very different uploader, which seems to work correctly (I used it to upload this image), and looks very much newer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ajAdk.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-06-23T04:09:18.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7003" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-23T17:48:00.570" Score="23" ViewCount="665" Body="&lt;p&gt;An issues that has come up recently, that seems to recur every so often, is the question of what constitutes a &amp;quot;Gorilla vs. Shark&amp;quot; question on SF&amp;amp;F. We know such questions are off-topic, but what exactly qualifies a question to fall into that category?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides numerous discussions in comments on specific questions, there have been two previous meta discussions on this topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6867/inconsistency-in-gorilla-vs-shark-closing&quot;&gt;Inconsistency in Gorilla vs Shark closing?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4835/does-elephant-vs-terminator-gorilla-vs-shark&quot;&gt;Does &amp;quot;Elephant Vs Terminator&amp;quot; = &amp;quot;Gorilla Vs Shark&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of the problem, I feel, is that people are basing their idea of what &amp;quot;Gorilla vs. Shark&amp;quot; means (as far as SE goes) on Jeff Atwood's &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/gorilla-vs-shark/&quot;&gt;rather famous post&lt;/a&gt;; however, Jeff's post doesn't always apply to the SF&amp;amp;F site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have, with the encouragement and assistance of a number of other users, put together a follow-up to Jeff Atwood's post, that is more applicable to our site. It's too long to post as a question or answer or on meta. Therefore, I think having it on the SF&amp;amp;F blog would give us a good, common place to link to when discussing and explaining close/no-close decisions on such questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order for this to work, though, the blog post needs to reflect not just one person's interpretation of our close policy, but a genuine community consensus. So, I have put a draft of the post on my personal blog, and invite and encourage people to review it, to make sure it is an accurate representation of how the community wants to deal with these types of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20210421012611/https://blog.kutulu.org/2015/06/gorilla-vs-shark-not-so-fast-review.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://blog.kutulu.org/2015/06/gorilla-vs-shark-not-so-fast-review.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any and all corrections, enhancements, or other feedback are welcome! (Please ignore any style problems -- Wordpress and Blogspot do not seem to get along very well.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="62709" LastEditDate="2023-05-22T12:57:16.883" LastActivityDate="2023-05-28T20:33:50.950" Title="Gorilla vs. Shark - a Longer Explanation" Tags="|discussion|scope|blog|gorilla-vs-shark|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7004" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7005" CreationDate="2015-06-25T16:50:35.683" Score="3" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/93720/how-vulnerable-to-physical-hits-are-federation-ships/93747#93747&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, I tried using the LaTeX formula formatting to prettify it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, formula formatting no longer seems to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, I wrote $ \Delta V $ into it and get the text you see, while I expected the capital version of the Greek letter &quot;Delta&quot; followed by the letter &quot;V&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When and why did this stop working.  What do I use instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42324" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2015-06-25T16:54:09.090" Title="Why did LaTeX formula formatting stop working?" Tags="|support|bug|formatting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7004" CreationDate="2015-06-25T16:54:09.090" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I know, it never worked on this SE site.  It's something that's enabled on a per-site basis by Stack Exchange.  We don't really need it like other sites (e.g. Math), so it's not enabled here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2015-06-25T16:54:09.090" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6988" CreationDate="2015-06-25T17:17:53.830" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would tend to correct only the good answers, e.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Han shor first&quot; -&gt; &quot;Han shot first.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but I wouldn't edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Greedo shor first&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21254" LastActivityDate="2015-06-25T17:17:53.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6988" CreationDate="2015-06-26T13:19:56.613" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This subject just came up on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/297820/1147918&quot;&gt;meta.so&lt;/a&gt; today as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen full confirmation of this, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/297831/1147918&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; mentions an important point if it's true. According to their (not a mod/staff) statement, a grammar edit could bump the question out of the VLQ/Deletion review queue. I've never &lt;em&gt;noticed&lt;/em&gt; this to be the behavior, but it generally makes sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Posts in the VLQ review queue are immediately removed from the queue when the question is edited. You could have a post with 5 &quot;Recommend&quot; delete votes, but someone with 1 rep or an anonymous user (with the help of 3 reviewers) can block deletion simply by editing the question. It basically made the effort of the VLQ reviewers worthless as those recommend delete votes are gone. And since this is done without any fanfare, no one knows it happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T09:16:33.917" LastActivityDate="2015-06-26T13:19:56.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7008" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-27T15:34:35.273" Score="0" ViewCount="234" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked this currently closed and deleted question, &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/89353/what-is-the-exact-step-by-step-process-of-borg-assimilation&quot;&gt;What is the exact step by step process of Borg assimilation?&lt;/a&gt; [closed]&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; (only visible to 10k+ users; sorry).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't figure out for the life of me why this is too broad. It's not like there's 10,000 steps. I clarified the question with specific points of what my confusion is/was and included a quote from wiki about wikis view of assimilation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I am asking the community to vote to undelete and reopen the question.&lt;/strong&gt; I realize there are very few with the ability/reputation to undelete and reopen questions and those with the ability generally tend to do the opposite, but I'd still like to see the question undeleted and reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you were one of the people who voted to close the question I'd like an explanation of why so I can edit it to make it less broad. I was told that Meta is the place to go with questions/requests like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;For &amp;lt;10k rep users, here's the full text of the question:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We were having this discussion in some comment lines, so I thought I'd throw this question out there. Hopefully the others commentators will chime in on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did do some research on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg_%28Star_Trek%29#Assimilation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the Wikipedia article on the Borg&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The method of assimilating individual life-forms into the collective has been represented differently over time. The only constant is that the infant, and fetal humanoids have been grown in an accelerated state and surgically receive implants connected directly into the brain (cannot be removed without death), as well as ocular devices, tool-enhanced limbs, armor, and other prosthetics. In Star Trek: First Contact, the method of adult assimilation is depicted with the more efficient injection of nanoprobes into the individual's bloodstream through a pair of tubules that spring forth from the drone's hand. Assimilation by tubules is depicted on-screen as being a fast-acting process, with the victim's skin pigmentation turning gray with visible dark tracks forming within moments of contact. The individual is then taken away for complete assimilation by drones. The Borg are neither male nor female and individual's reproductive systems are removed during the process of assimilation. The individual has all traces of individuality removed and implants are attached to the new drone so it can become an integrated part of the collective. This method of assimilation is also shown to be much more surgical in nature. In Star Trek: First Contact a captured crew member is shown to have a forearm and an eye physically removed and replaced with cybernetic implants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wiki has more, but that's enough to explain my confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here are the main parts that I'm concerned about in terms of this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is involved step by step in assimilating an individual?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are nanites required at all, a necessary step, or just one of several ways to get to create a drone.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are prosthetics and implants required at all, a necessary step, or just one of several ways to create a drone?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the step by step process, and if there is more than one process please describe as many as you know of to get from an individual to a fully matured Borg drone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a side note, do they really remove the reproductive organs? 7 of 9 didn't have female sex organs? Picard's were removed? Hugh's manhood was taken from him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40599" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-06-27T23:51:13.870" Title="I am confused as to why this question &quot;What is the exact step by step process of Borg assimilation?&quot; was too broad and closed?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|deleted-questions|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7008" CreationDate="2015-06-27T16:05:22.740" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't (vote to) close it, but I can easily see why people would. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) In your question you posed no less than 8 separate questions. In and of itself, this makes it too broad to effectively answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) It probably didn't help that you also made disparaging remarks at the bottom of the question to discourage people from actively editing the question to make it better:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What is involved step by step in assimilating an individual?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Are nanites required at all, a necessary step, or just one of several ways to get to create a drone.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Are prosthetics and implants required at all, a necessary step, or just one of several ways to create a drone?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What is the step by step process, and if there is more than one process please describe as many as you know of to get from an&#xA;  individual to a fully matured Borg drone.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Do they really remove the reproductive organs? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;7 of 9 didn't have female sex organs? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Picard's [sex organs] were removed? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Hugh's manhood was taken from him?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2015-06-27T16:38:47.623" LastActivityDate="2015-06-27T16:38:47.623" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7010" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-27T16:25:08.890" Score="-9" ViewCount="231" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over on Stack Overflow, a decision &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/297859/can-stack-overflow-and-metas-logos-be-changed-temporarily-to-the-loveoverflow&quot;&gt;was made by the community&lt;/a&gt; to temporarily change the logo to reflect the recent US Supreme Court decision allowing gay marriage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we consider making a similar change?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've mocked up a sample logo we could use, although I suspect that others can do much, much better&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XYYpl.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-07-01T01:05:52.597" LastActivityDate="2019-07-01T01:05:52.597" Title="Should we consider changing the logo temporarily?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7010" CreationDate="2015-06-27T16:46:24.520" Score="-9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QCmw5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;VOLDEMORT&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Heck, yeah! I would support a logo change similar to SO's. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2015-06-27T16:46:24.520" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7012" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-27T19:28:27.827" Score="-7" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now it requires a 3000 reputation to cast a re-open vote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not as concerned about closing votes as I think it should be a rare occurrence and we should lean towards helping people make their questions and answers better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the fact that it only takes five people to close votes out of thousands of users, and only the rare few that have attained over 3000 reputation, does seem kind of unfair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also can see though how you wouldn't want people that are relatively new closing questions as they may not have enough experience yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But to re-open should be different and here's why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone is a casual user or somebody who enjoys reading more than writing, their voice is completely squashed by this system. Someone might ask a good question, five people out of a small pool of the 3000 plus crowd vote to close it for whatever reason (and it might not be a good reason). And remember that pool is even smaller than you think because most people only read posts that they're interested in (I read Star Trek, and some Harry Potter, others may only look at Star Wars or a favorite author, etc.). And there's hundreds maybe even thousands of users that don't have 3000+ who would like to read and/or answer those questions, and they can't do anything about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should lower the re-open reputations significantly. We should lower it to 500 or maybe 750 reputation. At that number the person is a real member of the community, has been participating, and should have their voice heard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the process for doing something like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40599" LastEditorUserId="3267" LastEditDate="2015-06-28T16:48:25.757" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T16:48:25.757" Title="How do we go about lowering the reputation for re-open votes?" Tags="|feature-request|vote-to-reopen|privileges|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7012" CreationDate="2015-06-27T19:46:51.680" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Privileges are common across the entire SE estate. If you feel that these should be changed, you need to raise it on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;SE:Meta&lt;/a&gt;, not on a local site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, there was a review a while ago. Some things changed, most things didn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/167109/close-votes-policy-review&quot;&gt;Close votes policy review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2015-06-27T19:46:51.680" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7012" CreationDate="2015-06-27T20:30:20.887" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now it takes 3,000 reputation to cast a re-open &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; a close vote. We don't &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; &quot;casual users&quot; voting to close or open questions, we want users who are invested in the site and making it a better place all around. I know that some people have, in the past, suggested making account-age a substitute for reputation requirements, but it's always been shot down as it's not proof of investment or involvement. Reputation isn't a perfect measure, but it's about the best we've got. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example of this, &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/1046/phantom42?tab=profile&quot;&gt;my account on movies/tv&lt;/a&gt; is over three years old, and I've got 1500 rep there. Yet, I don't really know what their rules, policies, or norms are because I'm not invested over there. As such, I don't participate in much flagging, opting to leave it to people who are more involved in that particular site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thousands of sub-3,000-rep users who may wish to read or answer those questions &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; still have a voice that can be heard. They can leave comments, discuss in meta, or discuss it with us in chat. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite what you seem to think, most of us don't &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to close lots of questions; we want to make sure the questions are within the scope of the site, and that they are good, and answerable. Closing a question is not a punishment or a personal issue on the part of the close-voters. We're all happy to help anyone get a question or answer into shape so that it can be left open/undeleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T04:03:30.300" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7010" CreationDate="2015-06-27T20:39:24.257" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. Whatever our personal feelings may be on the matter, the site should remain apolitical on an official level. Update your personal userpics if you wish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2015-06-27T20:39:24.257" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7016" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-27T23:07:04.297" Score="-3" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just now it says in my profile, &quot;visited    94 days, 1 consecutive&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That can't possibly be right. I not only have visited the site for more then fifteen consecutive days, I've probably posted either question/answers/comments on all of those days. It says I wasn't on the site on Friday but I most definitely was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the proper course of action for me to take?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40599" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2015-06-27T23:43:39.810" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T00:55:05.500" Title="Every time I get to somewhere between 15 and 20 consecutive days it resets my counter, what should I do about it?" Tags="|support|profile-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7016" CreationDate="2015-06-28T00:24:14.130" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first instance the appropriate course of action is to attract the attention of a moderator (check). They would then tell you that a quick look at your &quot;all actions&quot; tab shows that you failed to check in to the site on the 25th June, the 21st June and between the 2nd and 8th of June.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may (as @phantom42 has &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7016/every-time-i-get-to-somewhere-between-15-and-20-consecutive-days-it-resets-my-co#comment17633_7016&quot;&gt;pointed out&lt;/a&gt;) be due to the fact that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/27199/what-is-an-se-day-when-does-each-day-start&quot;&gt;site clock&lt;/a&gt; is based on GMT. It's therefore possible that you checked in on those days locally, yet still managed to spend more than 24 hours off the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming you're still unhappy, you can always email the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;support team&lt;/a&gt; although I suspect their answer will be much the same as the one above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T00:55:05.500" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7019" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7021" CreationDate="2015-06-28T03:40:55.177" Score="-4" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;In recent times, several users, including myself, have posted questions where the first vote was a downvote but no explanation was given.  Here are some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/91298/why-does-han-solos-carbonite-slab-have-a-vital-signs-panel-on-the-edge&quot;&gt;Why does Han Solo's carbonite slab have a vital signs panel on the edge?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7024/how-many-days-passed-between-the-initial-outbreak-and-chupacabra-in-the-walkin/93988#93988&quot;&gt;This answer to &quot;How many days passed between the initial outbreak and “Chupacabra” in The Walking Dead?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/93555/first-reference-to-extraterrestrial-life-forms-who-werent-considered-gods-in-sc&quot;&gt;First reference to extraterrestrial life forms who weren't considered Gods in sci-fi?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/93708/were-men-forbidden-from-going-to-aman-prior-to-the-creation-of-n%C3%BAmenor&quot;&gt;Were Men forbidden from going to Aman prior to the creation of Númenor?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Granted, not all of these questions had their first vote as a DV, but several of them did with no explanation provided)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am aware that there are protocols in place to avoid users going on downvoting-rampages from negatively impacting the community, but it got me thinking about a policy we could implement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if we had a policy whereby &lt;strong&gt;users who downvote a question, and that vote &lt;em&gt;is the first vote&lt;/em&gt;, they are required to indicate the &lt;em&gt;reason&lt;/em&gt; for that downvote&lt;/strong&gt;.  This would be similar, I envisage, to the process like when voting to close where you have several pre-defined options or an 'other' category where you can write your own reason.  That would allow for the OP to gain an understanding of where they've gone wrong in their question and improve the quality of it, but would also hopefully reduce the proportion of rogue individuals downvoting for no apparent reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2015-06-30T01:04:27.743" Title="Explanation of downvotes when they are the first vote?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7019" CreationDate="2015-06-29T16:59:12.327" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since no one has formally answered, let me just point out the two major issues with this proposal (so you don't feel ignored :) )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You're asking in the wrong place. This kind of change to the site would require changing the software, which is not something the site-specific moderators can do. This kind of feature request needs to be asked on the meta-meta &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;meta.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;, which covers things related to the entire Stack Exchange network.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They're going to tell you no. This question, as @phantom42 has pointed out, comes up all the time, on every site. Yours is a bit of a novel variation on the topic, but it still suffers from the same fundamental problem all similar feature requests have: &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It forces a user to identify themselves when they downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting on Stack Exchange is anonymous. It's that way on purpose. People need to feel free to vote up &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; down without worrying about how those votes will affect them later on. Being forced to identify a reason why you voted someone down destroys that anonymity in the worst way possible: you are now the &lt;em&gt;primary target&lt;/em&gt; for the OP's wrath.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, I &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; leave comments when I downvote, because I find it useless. Or, to put it in slightly better terms, I &lt;em&gt;never downvote&lt;/em&gt; a question if I'm planning to leave a comment. If I'm going to bother writing a comment to help the OP improve their question, it means I've giving them a chance to fix it before I cast judgement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I'm voting a question down, it means either I find it &lt;em&gt;so obviously terrible&lt;/em&gt; that the OP should be able to figure it out on their own, or else I've previously left a comment and it has gone ignored. In both cases, I don't see any benefit in explaining myself any further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying everyone should follow this practice; downvotes are one of the most personalized and individualized things we have on SE. I'm merely saying that, IMO, there are genuinely good reasons why we don't require people to comment on their votes, and historically the people who run SE find those reasons quite compelling. Your argument is nothing they haven't heard hundreds of times, I doubt one more try will change their minds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2015-06-30T01:04:27.743" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7022" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7023" CreationDate="2015-06-30T15:24:11.050" Score="2" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following questions are very similar to each other:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/5801/31936&quot;&gt;Are Imperial Storm Troopers all clones?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/41198/31936&quot;&gt;What canon evidence is there that Stormtroopers are/are not still clones?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/47614/31936&quot;&gt;Is it widely known that Stormtroopers are clones?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say that (1) and (2) are duplicates, and (3) is close enough that it might be worth closing as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real question, in my mind, is: which question(s) should be marked as the duplicates?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(1) was asked first so (2) was a duplicate when it was asked. However, I propose closing (1) as a duplicate of (2) because the accepted answer to (1), while correct, is based on an outdated, non-canon source (it cites a Wookieepedia article which in turn cites a video game). However, now that Disney is handling &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; canon they have confirmed canonically -- both in and out of universe -- that the clones were  quickly phased out of the Stormtrooper Corps. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/72400/31936&quot;&gt;My (accepted) answer&lt;/a&gt; to (2) provides these updated canon sources and therefore, in my opinion, we should use (2) as the main version of the question and close (1). I did post an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/94056/31936&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; to (1) with the updated canon information, but visitors are unlikely to see it since it has not been accepted and has a much lower score than the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for (3), it's not an exact duplicate but is based on the false premise that the stormtroopers were clones throughout the Empire's existence. Should (3) be marked as a duplicate? I'm inclined to leave it open since it also asks about the attitudes of Imperial citizens. The accepted answer by @phantom42 is out of date (perhaps he'd like to update it?) but makes good points about the attitudes and knowledge of Imperial citizens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What say you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2015-06-30T15:48:32.937" Title="Clones of the &quot;are the stormtroopers clones?&quot; question" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7022" CreationDate="2015-06-30T15:48:32.937" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think 1 should be closed as a dupe of 2.  That we have a complete answer on the nature of the Troopers several years (and a canon change) later means the answers on the old question are kinda deprecated, but still of historical value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3 is asking a different enough question that I don't think it's a duplicate.  3 is asking about in universe common knowledge of the provenance of the Storm Troopers. That the asker misunderstood that the troopers aren't clones provides some overlap with the other questions, but the piece about what the common knowledge of Troopers is makes it sufficiently distinct from the other questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2015-06-30T15:48:32.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7024" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-01T17:54:10.533" Score="2" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/94181/24773&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t Harry want to be placed in Slytherin?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we need a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sorting-hat&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sorting-hat&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sorting-hat&lt;/a&gt; tag? Are there really specialists in sorting hat questions inside the harry potter specialists?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I motion for the burninating of that tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24773" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2015-07-01T18:42:27.860" Title="Burninate the sorting-hat (sub-tag of Harry Potter) tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7024" CreationDate="2015-07-01T18:42:27.860" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I think we should keep it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several reasons why I think it’s an okay tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It’s not ambiguous. The Sorting Hat – or Sorting in general – are fairly well-defined within the scope of the Potterverse. It’s not too ambiguous or obscure to be not useful.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think the tag is useful. We have a fair number of “Why was X sorted into Y” questions, but also other mechanics about the Sorting Hat. It’s a well-defined category that I think would be difficult to search for without the tag. I have used it in a couple of searches.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are there specialists in the Sorting Hat? I don’t know, but I also don’t think that the lack of specialists means we have to get rid of it. It’s being applied to questions, it’s well-scoped and it describes a major theme in the universe. That seems like a good tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’m not convinced that we should do anything except leave it be.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Mild disclaimer: I’m the second highest user in the tag, and my most upvoted answer is also in the tag.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastActivityDate="2015-07-01T18:42:27.860" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7026" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7027" CreationDate="2015-07-01T23:54:49.147" Score="0" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;The case for allowing questions about Archer:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cyborgs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Space travel (occasional)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Weird fantasy (as in illogical and unrealistic) timeline &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Futuristic weapons and technology (in occasional episodes)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Frequent references to science fiction and fantasy works, especially LotR, and occasionally comic books and even Star Wars&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's awesome&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The case against allowing questions about Archer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not strictly a science fiction or fantasy show (the show is more of an action adventure spy-themed comedy cartoon)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Science fiction and fantasy elements are relatively few and far between&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, are questions about Archer on topic or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="44025" LastEditDate="2015-07-02T00:11:57.207" LastActivityDate="2015-07-02T00:13:54.923" Title="Archer questions on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7026" CreationDate="2015-07-02T00:13:54.923" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's basically a spoof of James Bond, and includes many of the same spy-fi elements. It's basically as on topic as Bond is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2015-07-02T00:13:54.923" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7028" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-02T12:24:13.833" Score="13" ViewCount="240" Body="&lt;p&gt;We get a lot of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions.  Many of these are asked with too few details.  When this happens, we have to ask the user explicitly to edit the question later.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This comes up often, so I am seeking to try to improve this situation for new users.  I feel we could gain a lot from even some small changes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe part of what causes this problem is that the hints for how to write a good story-identification question are not too visible.  Hints are buried &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/story-identification/info&quot;&gt;in the tag wiki&lt;/a&gt;, which most users don't notice much.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose to improve the Help Center to educate users more easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit the help center topic &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;What topics can I ask about here?&lt;/a&gt; so that &quot;Story identification&quot; links to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/story-identification/info&quot;&gt;the tag wiki&lt;/a&gt; rather than the tag search page.  Update: Richard has done this. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Possibly edit that page so it includes a few words of advice about story-identification questions right in there.  I know that it does not seem very on-topic for what the question asks, but still, this is among the most visible pages of the help center.  If you're concerned, try to disguise the advice as rules for what types of story-id questions are on topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;How do I ask a good question?&lt;/a&gt; is admin-editable (Update: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/259914/222298&quot;&gt;it isn't&lt;/a&gt;), edit it to include specific hints for story-identification questions.  This is the relevant help page to include information.  It is also somewhat visible because it is linked from the &quot;How to edit&quot; tips when asking a question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If that latter page is not admin-editable, try to ask on Meta Stack Exchange to make it editable.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/259912/222298&quot;&gt;Ask on Meta Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; to link that question from the main Help Center page, instead of less important questions like &quot;Why is the system asking me to wait a day or more before asking another question?&quot; and &quot;Why have I been limited to one question per week?&quot;. (If the system is asking someone to wait, the message would probably link them right to that help center page.)  (Update: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/259912/222298&quot;&gt;I asked&lt;/a&gt;. The question got deleted due to a downvote and no answer.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you have any other ideas on how to make new users learn about these hints more easily?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-10-15T10:17:52.760" Title="Could we cover hints for asking story-identification questions in the help center?" Tags="|feature-request|story-identification|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5326" CreationDate="2015-07-02T18:09:23.437" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/SciFiScroll/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/185oi.png&quot; alt=&quot;Our mission is to provide genre news to the community on a regular basis.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35" LastActivityDate="2015-07-02T18:09:23.437" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-07-02T18:09:23.437" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7030" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7032" CreationDate="2015-07-06T20:22:45.837" Score="9" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;@Daft and @Richard have marked my post, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/94744/the-maze-runner-does-this-character-really-have-to-die-at-the-end-of-the-third&quot;&gt;What were James Dashner&amp;#39;s motivations for killing off this character?&lt;/a&gt;, as off-topic, as it is more based on opinion than fact. Is there any way I can rephrase the question or otherwise alter it such that it fits the criteria to be on-topic on this forum? When I wrote my question, I was hoping that answers would provide ideas/opinions as to why she should have died, with textual evidence to back things up, though in retrospect, I didn't explicitly state that in the body of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47858" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2015-07-12T10:44:36.923" Title="Question put on hold as opinion based; how can I change it?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7030" CreationDate="2015-07-06T20:56:24.633" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you mentioned on the question itself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I do realize it's very opinion based, but only realized that after posting it. It's more a debate than a question with a factual answer. –  Jenguinie&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do we fix this? Come up with a related question that can have a factual answer. For instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did the author ever explain why they chose to end the story this way?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why did [character] go to the trouble of killing her, given that...?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do we know how her death affected [other character]?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, any question that could potentially have a &lt;em&gt;definitive&lt;/em&gt; answer in some interview, spin-off, crossover, or sequel is one that you can ask here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We definitely do not do discussions or debates. Only questions and answers. But all that other stuff is welcome in chat, as others have pointed out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35327" LastActivityDate="2015-07-06T20:56:24.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7030" CreationDate="2015-07-06T20:57:42.820" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you ask a question like &quot;Why such-and-such happen in some novel?&quot;, there are only two ways for it to be on-topic and get an answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You want to know if there was anything written in the story that explains why the event happened from an &lt;em&gt;in-universe&lt;/em&gt; perspective. (&quot;She died because in Chapter 45 she gets bitten by a poisonous bug and no one noticed&quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You want to know if the author has ever made any specific comments about why he/she chose to write the story that way. (&quot;I wrote her death because I felt like it gave symmetry to so-and-so's rebirth story.&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question doesn't really look like either of those is what you want. Instead, you've listed a bunch of subjective reasons for and against having the author kill off the character in question, things like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Her death was so... disappointing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the reader could easily distance him/herself from her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those are not facts, they are your personal impressions of the character from your reading of the novel. None of those bullet points are helpful in providing an &lt;em&gt;objective&lt;/em&gt; answer to your question. Instead, they seem designed to invite speculation and debate over which &quot;side&quot; makes more sense, the &quot;pro&quot; or &quot;con&quot; side. And, unfortunately, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;we don't allow debate or discussion questions on this site.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, there isn't actually a question in the body of your question until the very end:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Could this have any significance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and it's not even the main question you wanted to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To fix this question, you'd probably need to gut it. It's probably OK to keep much of the information intact, to explain why you're asking in the first place, but you'll need to summarize it a lot more succinctly. And, most importantly, you need to ask the question you really want an answer to: from what you've written, you're really asking is &quot;Did &lt;em&gt;James Dashner&lt;/em&gt; ever explain why he killed off this character?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2015-07-06T20:57:42.820" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7033" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7034" CreationDate="2015-07-07T16:32:16.987" Score="-1" ViewCount="221" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently engaged in a lengthy attempt to address a noisy, misdirecting joke comment by a user. After realizing that chat rooms require 100 rep (I was thinking it was 200 rep, for some reason), I moved the conversation to chat, at which point the stonewalling continued, with &lt;em&gt;continuous&lt;/em&gt; straw man and &lt;em&gt;ad hominem&lt;/em&gt; fallacies thrown at me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I flagged one of the later comments under the question for moderator intervention to clean up the entire comment thread, which has since been taken care of)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a hallowed (though oft-ignored, it seems) rule on the Stack Exchange network to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/behavior&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Be Nice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;; insinuating that someone has no value on the site because they don't have many questions/answers, or that they have no place criticizing your actions because they have lower rep or fewer questions/answers, is rude and offensive, I think (not to mention &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2720/should-i-delete-my-account-due-to-harassment-from-a-high-rep-user#comment8736_2720&quot;&gt;wrong&lt;/a&gt;). As such, the &lt;em&gt;less than friendly&lt;/em&gt; language of the user has me wondering whether such behavior or reasoning of this magnitude is now justified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The chat discussion is located here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/25206/discussion-between-tylerh-and-wad-cheber&quot;&gt;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/25206/discussion-between-tylerh-and-wad-cheber&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23886" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2015-07-08T07:11:23.077" Title="Does high reputation allow a user to be rude? Or mean that a user need not follow the rules?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7033" CreationDate="2015-07-07T18:04:16.117" Score="12" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Perspective&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having read the conversation, I can honestly say that this seems to be a case of 6 of 1 and half a dozen of the other. Neither of you covered yourselves with glory, both repeatedly failed to meet the &quot;Be Nice&quot; threshold and neither of you took the opportunity to flag a moderator if/when you felt the other user was going off the rails until it was much too late.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At any point, either of you could have simply stopped responding to the other user's comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Response&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In answer to your specific question, having a higher reputation certainly doesn't exempt you from acting appropriately and treating others with kindness and consideration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Moving forward&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Creating a separate chatroom to harangue another user for their supposed infractions was &lt;strong&gt;never going to end well&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wad's original comment (which provoked the initial conversation) was certainly off-topic, but certainly not to the point that it required you to drag him into a protracted discussion. The appropriate thing would have been to simply flag a moderator and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-07-07T18:04:16.117" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7033" CreationDate="2015-07-07T21:20:16.017" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;My take: I have seen tons of joke comments, most of which are well-received as long as they are not personal attacks. This comment was most certainly &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;, and while yes, technically it is off-topic, like he did say, most comments that receive a lot of upvotes &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt;. So given all that, and the fact we have some &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6576/what-should-we-do-about-funny-comments&quot;&gt;precedent for funny comments&lt;/a&gt;, I would say that &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; were rude to call him out like that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying he's blameless - he did make some rude comments, but he didn't start until well after you had kept harassing him about it, and in my opinion handled it well up until he did make a veiled accusation of you not contributing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;, he was rude, and &lt;strong&gt;no, that's not ok&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;em&gt;but&lt;/em&gt; you did contribute by starting it needlessly. Live, laugh, and let live, and maybe the real reason we're all here - to have fun and learn about our favorite universes - will still be the focus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2015-07-07T21:20:16.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7033" CreationDate="2015-07-07T23:46:07.080" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are framing the question the wrong way.  It isn't a matter of whether rep entitles a user to be rude. Of course rep isn't a license to treat other people badly, and I never said it was.  I also never said that low rep makes you less important than anyone else, especially myself - it doesn't. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real question is this:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it rational to expect that someone should show you respect when you have shown them none?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer:  No.  Common courtesy is a two way street.  When you begin a conversation by being rude, hostile, and aggressive, the other party is probably going to return your rudeness, hostility, and aggressiveness in spades.  If you start off by calling the other person annoying, they probably won't take it very well, and you can't expect him to be more polite than you have been.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note:  I am happy to report that Tyler and I have stopped acting like children, grown up, and apologized to each other for our respective roles in this rather ridiculous situation.  We both screwed up, but now we've put it behind us.  He made an unpleasant remark to me, and I went totally overboard in return, acting like an absolute jackass.  We both should have acted differently, and we both should have let it go much earlier than we did.  If there is a bright side to all of this, it is that we have both made so many mistakes that we'll be geniuses by the time we're done learning from them.  Sorry, everyone.  Our bad.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="44025" LastEditDate="2015-07-08T07:11:23.077" LastActivityDate="2015-07-08T07:11:23.077" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7033" CreationDate="2015-07-08T01:08:24.237" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure the only comment police we have are the Mods. See something squirrely? Ping a Mod, wave a flag. If you have issues with a particular user, ignore or block him. I've been involved in a spat or two on this site. It's not worth the aggravation to take it upon oneself to lay down the law, and it's not our job to do so. If you need a Mod, flag a Mod. If they see it your way, then yea! If not, at least there wasn't any mud flinging. In either case, everyone can move on from there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4356" LastActivityDate="2015-07-08T01:08:24.237" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7039" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-12T20:27:22.293" Score="-4" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a comment on an answer to this question :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/95160/36068&quot;&gt;Are there any orc names mentioned in LOTR movie trilogy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answerer claims to have read through 5 full LOTR film scripts in an attempt to answer the question. The time between the question and answer was 3 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my comment I said I didn't believe someone could have  done so much research, covering such a large amount of material in such a short amount of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My comment was deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it completely against the rules to question or critique an answer you believe to be false / incorrect? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36068" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2015-07-15T04:14:51.200" Title="Why was my comment deleted?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7039" CreationDate="2015-07-12T20:44:14.207" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I purged the comment stream because I didn't feel that the comments contributed anything constructive in improving the answer. Bluntly, if you want to chat about an answer we have a chatroom precisely for that reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the comment(s) themselves were concerned, I toyed briefly with flagging the one below for another moderator to deal with (as &quot;Rude or offensive&quot;), then decided the easiest thing to do would be to delete &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of them, excluding the two that weren't prompted by your original comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-1 You literally read all 3 film scripts as well as the special editions? That would take hours. 45minutes+ per script? This question&#xA;  is 3 hours old. That's not possible. I'm sorry but I don't believe&#xA;  you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if may quote from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;comment privileges page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When shouldn't I comment?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Criticisms which do not add anything constructive (&quot;-1, see previous&#xA;  comments you scallywag!&quot;); instead, down-vote (and provide or up-vote&#xA;  a better answer if appropriate);&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2015-07-12T20:56:44.783" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7039" CreationDate="2015-07-13T01:29:19.203" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question isn't really accurate.  You asked if any Orcs are mentioned by name in the LotR movies.  It is entirely possible to answer this question without having to read every word of 5 scripts.  I briefly explained this in the comments, but I will repeat the explanation here:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other characters- the humans, hobbits, dwarves, elves, ents, and wizards - have no way of knowing the names of any Orcs.  This makes all the lines spoken by such characters irrelevant.  The only characters who &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; refer to Orcs by name are other Orcs.  Therefore, the only parts of the scripts that &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; contain the necessary information are the scenes in which Orcs are speaking to each other.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There are &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; few scenes like this.  In fact, there are &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; few scenes in which Orcs speak at all.&lt;/strong&gt;  I have seen each of the three movies at least a dozen times.  Off the top of my head, I can only think of about three scenes in which Orcs speak to one another.  Even in those scenes, the dialogue is mostly limited to things like &quot;Get a move on, maggots!&quot;, and &quot;The scum tried to knife me!&quot;, and &quot;Looks like meat's back on the menu, boys!&quot;  You'll notice that in none of these cases do we hear any names being mentioned, unless someone is named &quot;Maggot&quot; or &quot;The Scum&quot; or &quot;Boys&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, by simple deduction, we have already eliminated all but a few pages of the 5 scripts.  Your argument now boils down to &quot;I don't believe that anyone could read 5 pages in 3 hours&quot;, which doesn't make sense.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having also read the books, I can remember only a few Orc names:  Shagrat, Gorbag, Ugluk, and Grisnakh.  There are probably a couple of names I'm forgetting, but not many.  The Orcs in Tolkien's work are foils, nameless baddies who serve little purpose aside from giving the good guys someone to kill.  There are hundreds of thousands of Orcs, and all of them are exactly the same.  Why bother trying to distinguish between them all?  There is only one Balrog in the movies, and we don't know its name either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with your comments was that you disrespected a fellow user for no apparent reason, and you questioned that user's ability to do something that isn't even difficult to do- read a handful of pages of a few scripts.  It isn't about misuse of authority, bullying, throwing weight around, or whatever else you want to call it.  It is about simple common courtesy.  You basically called someone a liar.  Unless you don't mind being called a liar, I think you will agree that &quot;You're lying&quot; is a pretty offensive thing to say.  Were those your exact words?  No, but the intent is the same.  &quot;I don't believe you&quot; is synonymous with &quot;You're a liar&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="44025" LastEditDate="2015-07-15T04:14:51.200" LastActivityDate="2015-07-15T04:14:51.200" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7042" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-13T10:07:37.007" Score="-3" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire+or+george-r-r-martin+or+game-of-thrones+or+a-storm-of-swords&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; related tags&lt;/a&gt; on scifi.stackexchange.com, I have noticed that people have started answering with speculation and unsupported explanations, rather than using facts and quotes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: (No offense to the writers of these answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/95353/2256&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/95353/2256&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/95281/2256&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/95281/2256&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And as an example of how I think it should look:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/94688/2256&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/94688/2256&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The part that bugs me about that is that these answers get lots of upvotes. I do not think that it goes along with how stackexchange sites should work: Give answers based on facts. Perhaps some of these questions do not have answers except speculation -- then this should be mentioned in the answer: We don't know, but here is a possible explanation. Or perhaps some of these questions should be closed for inviting speculation and discussion. Am I out of line here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a question about how &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; should deal with low quality answers, it is that the community is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; dealing with low quality answers. People are not downvoting unsupported answers. I see answers which are both right and wrong getting lots of upvotes. What can we do to encourage higher quality answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not object to speculation, I like theories and speculation, but I do object to laziness. Here is an example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/2816/michael-edenfield&quot;&gt;Michael Edenfield&lt;/a&gt; (no offense, Michael) who happened to have written one of the examples I gave wrote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Sons of the Harpy want Daenerys dead. They don't really have any demands that she could ever meet that would make them happy because her mere presence is what they object to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which should be written more like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We can assume that all that The Sons of the Harpy want is that Daenerys is dead or gone. They have not mentioned any demands in the show or in the books, all they have done is kill people that Dany likes and/or supports.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It says the same thing, but without hidden implications about knowledge that do not really exist. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/95308/2256&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, I have no objection to what you are saying, and it is a good answer to a vague question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2256" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T16:49:31.510" Title="Televising the books leads to speculative answers" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="17" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7042" CreationDate="2015-07-13T15:01:40.330" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Or perhaps some of these questions should be closed for inviting speculation and discussion.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that are just a discussion ARE closed as not conforming to the Q&amp;amp;A format. Questions that may only have a speculative answer are not closed. You can get some pretty good speculative answers, or maybe someday a Word of God answer will come along and end all speculation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What can we do to encourage higher quality answers?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can upvote what you consider to be high quality answers, and downvote the ones you consider low quality. I would guess if you decide to go on a downvoting rampage and serially downvote all answers you consider speculative, you probably aren't going to make many friends. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="1148" LastEditDate="2015-07-13T16:35:50.683" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T16:35:50.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7044" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7045" CreationDate="2015-07-14T23:28:06.313" Score="1" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;My answer here &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/80559/can-mystique-replicate-a-person-by-just-looking-at-a-photograph/95423#95423&quot;&gt;Can Mystique replicate a person by just looking at a photograph?&lt;/a&gt; flagged as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some of the information contained in this post requires additional references. Please edit to add citations to reliable sources that support the assertions made here. Unsourced material may be disputed or deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because a mod disagrees with my answer does not mean it lacks citations. As noted, it occurred on screen in &lt;strong&gt;First Class&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user16696" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2015-07-16T07:22:02.400" Title="Why was my answer flagged?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7044" CreationDate="2015-07-14T23:47:05.023" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the record, I don't want you to feel that I personally &lt;em&gt;dislike&lt;/em&gt; this answer. It was user-flagged as &quot;not an answer&quot; (which I disputed) and nominated for deletion as being &quot;low quality&quot; which I also felt was unfair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;With regard to the moderator notice&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've made some very bold assertions in this short answer. I felt that additional citations (specifically something that confirms that this is specifically intended to be an in-universe reference to the earlier film rather than an out-of-universe wink at the audience) would improve this answer immeasurably.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-07-14T23:47:05.023" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7046" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-15T17:30:56.937" Score="4" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this a bad question for this SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the oldest instance of magical familiars being used by witches in fiction, and also called familiars, or a cognate? For example, an English novel having familiars and calling them 'familiars', or a French novel having familiars, and calling then 'familier' (whatever the plural of that is...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OR is this better suited for History.SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OR should I try Google N-grams or something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=familiar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Online Etymology Dictionary&lt;/a&gt; has the first use of Familiar to mean a spirit being from 1580s, but that's for things like the Malleus Maleficarum, I think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Posted: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/95604/what-is-the-first-instance-where-familiars-are-called-familiars&quot;&gt;What is the first instance where Familiars are called Familiars?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42059" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2015-07-15T23:46:23.170" Title="Is this a bad question? - First instance of Familiars as Familiars" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7046" CreationDate="2015-07-15T17:47:28.903" Score="6" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's a question of a type fully within the site rules.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's answerable, can have a single &quot;correct&quot; answer that can be judged by experts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Caveat&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: there may be a minor issue in that your question doesn't clearly define what a &quot;Familiar&quot; is, which can lead to arguments over whether some contrived example or not is a &quot;Familiar&quot; (e.g., Circe's animals in Odyssey); or for that matter, what you consider a &quot;Witch&quot; (I claim a sorceress like Circe is).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that's a &lt;strong&gt;very easily fixable&lt;/strong&gt; problem with your question being a bit too vague (not being the wrong type for the site rules). Add definitions of both terms and it's fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, some site members hate such questions on sight and would downvote it, or even abuse their VTC privilege to try to close it - especially if you don't tighten up the definition giving people an excuse of claiming &quot;subjective&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, I think you shouldn't worry about that - and if the question is good (see my caveat above for fixing it a bit), it should generate enough upvotes and VTRO reviews to easily offset that.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2015-07-15T17:53:21.173" LastActivityDate="2015-07-15T17:53:21.173" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7044" CreationDate="2015-07-16T07:22:02.400" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you're a great contributor to the site, cde, and I enjoy seeing your answers, but you have a tendency to leave very brief answers, and very brief answers tend to get flagged and/or deleted.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some questions only require a few lines of text to answer them, but most of the time, the longer an answer is, the better it is, and the more votes it will receive.  This is one place where being brief and to the point isn't necessarily a good thing.  Longer answers suggest that more thought went into them.  A short answer suggests that the user may have been in a rush and didn't put much effort into it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying that you are posting half assed answers - you aren't.  I'm just saying that some users might interpret short answers that way.  There is also the possibility that people might think you're trying to be The Fastest Gun In The West  - plopping down a very curt answer and moving along to the next one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears that in this case, a mod didn't flag your answer - a regular user did - and the mod was simply trying to help you improve the answer.  I also think there was a bit of confusion about the thrust of your argument, which could have been avoided if the answer wasn't so short.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope you don't think I'm trashing you or criticizing your contributions, because I'm definitely not:  I enjoy seeing you around the site and I think you post some great answers.  I'm simply trying to help you avoid the repetition of this problem in the future.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And by the way, the answer as it now stands is great - you have my +1)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastActivityDate="2015-07-16T07:22:02.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7050" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7051" CreationDate="2015-07-16T17:09:07.673" Score="3" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/95572/balefire-suicide&quot;&gt;This happened to me.&lt;/a&gt; And I think it is a bug that it COULD even happen. A user saw my question and spawned a similar question (a more general question). After a user saw the newer question and then read mine, my question was flagged as a duplicate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously it was not a duplicate since it was the original question. Any protection against this kind of thing in the future? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35690" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2015-07-16T17:27:36.950" Title="Should you be able to be flagged as duplicate by newer post?" Tags="|bug|closed-questions|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2015-07-16T17:27:22.240" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7050" CreationDate="2015-07-16T17:18:06.617" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, you have always been able to close an older post as a duplicate of a newer one. It's generally done that way if the newer post is significantly better, especially if it gets better answers, or if the newer post is more general and encompasses the older one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2015-07-16T17:18:06.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7052" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7054" CreationDate="2015-07-17T20:45:25.657" Score="8" ViewCount="180" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the runaway success of our Spaceballs Group Viewing Event last night (7 active participants and around 10 lurkers (read the Transcript &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198/2015/7/16/22-24&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) we're going to be doing it all over again next week!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have your say on our &lt;strong&gt;next choice of movie&lt;/strong&gt;! Have you got a favourite film you'd love to &lt;s&gt;inflict on&lt;/s&gt; share with community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;All&lt;/s&gt; Most suggestions will be considered  carefully, with &lt;s&gt;no exceptions&lt;/s&gt; very few exceptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPATE: Shaun of the Dead and Invasion of the Body Snatchers were our joint-winners and will be played over consecutive weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RTUw6.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2015-07-24T17:44:31.403" LastActivityDate="2015-07-24T17:44:31.403" Title="Scifi Movie Group Viewing Event! July 2015!! Coming Soon!" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7052" CreationDate="2015-07-17T20:57:47.817" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My vote goes to the original, 1951 version of the science fiction classic &lt;em&gt;The Day the Earth Stood Still&lt;/em&gt;, starring Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/po3yu.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the source of the iconic line, &quot;Klaatu Barada Nikto&quot;, which has been used in dozens of other science fiction and horror films.  It is rightly regarded as one of the greatest movies of the genre.  It's also very easy to find.  You have no business saying you are a sci fi fan if you haven't seen this movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T20:57:47.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7052" CreationDate="2015-07-17T21:09:32.407" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Shaun of the Dead&lt;/em&gt; comes to mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4356" LastEditorUserId="4356" LastEditDate="2015-07-17T21:11:59.913" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T21:11:59.913" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7052" CreationDate="2015-07-17T21:13:55.720" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Alien&lt;/em&gt; is always a winner as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4356" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T21:13:55.720" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7052" CreationDate="2015-07-18T01:34:26.363" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/41yQD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IF we're going &lt;em&gt;classic&lt;/em&gt;, which is what it seems like, then how about &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;The Omega Man&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; with Charlton Heston? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of you may not have seen it but it was what the Will Smith movie &quot;&lt;em&gt;I am Legend&lt;/em&gt;&quot; is based on. It's the original and &lt;strong&gt;pretty damn good&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40599" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2015-07-18T15:01:23.937" LastActivityDate="2015-07-18T15:01:23.937" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7052" CreationDate="2015-07-18T14:58:10.070" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't help but put in a vote for &lt;em&gt;Invasion of the Body Snatchers&lt;/em&gt; (1978).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hY21Y.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/u5IYYm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/amgvNm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some genuinely creepy happenings in this film.  Apart from the classic &quot;caper vs. rat turd&quot; debate in the French restaurant, the film has both &lt;strong&gt;Jeff Goldblum&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Leonard Nimoy&lt;/strong&gt;.  What's not to love?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastEditorUserId="40294" LastEditDate="2015-07-18T15:46:45.187" LastActivityDate="2015-07-18T15:46:45.187" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7061" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7069" CreationDate="2015-07-19T07:14:50.473" Score="3" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lego frequently comes out with various themed sets with science fiction or fantasy themes, often with a back story.  An example would be the &lt;a href=&quot;http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/Mars_Mission&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mars Mission sets&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per the Brickipedia page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The theme focuses on the adventures of a team of Astronauts as they&#xA;  land on Mars and are forced to contend with a dangerous alien race.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering whether these would be considered to be on-topic for this site.  Note I'm specifically asking about the &lt;strong&gt;story&lt;/strong&gt; behind these series of Lego sets, &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; about the Lego sets themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastActivityDate="2015-07-19T21:42:28.170" Title="Are questions about the backstory of a sci fi or fantasy Lego set on topic here?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7061" CreationDate="2015-07-19T07:45:19.547" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In principle yes. The backstory of a SciFi- or Fantasy-themed toy or game would be well within topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/319/can-i-ask-a-question-about-video-game-based-scifi-fantasy&quot;&gt;Can I ask a question about video game based scifi/fantasy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/48697/does-a-stuffed-toby-the-targ-toy-exist&quot;&gt;Does a stuffed &amp;#39;Toby the Targ&amp;#39; toy exist?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I'd be quite surprised if there's more of a backstory to these sets beyond the miniature story cards and storybooks that were found in some 1980s sets. Nowadays they don't even seem to have those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2015-07-19T07:45:19.547" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7052" CreationDate="2015-07-19T09:24:42.597" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like us to watch the Director's Cut of the classic James Cameron film &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Aliens&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wWXSu.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This movie (and especially the Special Edition, sans studio interference) represents the very &lt;em&gt;pinnacle&lt;/em&gt; of his illustrious career, before he decided to become a peddler of low-grade &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avatarmovie.com/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;smurf pornography&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-07-19T09:24:42.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7052" CreationDate="2015-07-19T11:04:50.977" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/32/Mr._Nobody_%28film_poster%29.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Mr. Nobody&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about a movie that is not a classic (yet, although a cult classic according to Wikipedia)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen &lt;em&gt;Mr. Nobody&lt;/em&gt; yet, so all I have to go by are its reviews, which seem favourable. It is on Netflix (at least in the Netherlands).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2015-07-19T11:04:50.977" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7065" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7067" CreationDate="2015-07-19T18:40:24.820" Score="20" ViewCount="1426" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has been widely &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3431/why-would-vtc-as-duplicate-be-appropriate-for-a-story-identification-question&quot;&gt;discussed&lt;/a&gt; and seems to be generally agreed that where two &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions have an accepted answer &lt;strong&gt;that is the same&lt;/strong&gt;, one should be closed as duplicate of the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What seems more contentious is closing questions where &lt;strong&gt;only one&lt;/strong&gt; has an accepted answer and where the other &lt;em&gt;appears&lt;/em&gt; to be a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What should we do in those circumstances?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.190" LastActivityDate="2016-03-15T12:55:18.637" Title="Closing Story-Ident questions as duplicates (where there's no acceptance)" Tags="|discussion|faq|duplicate-questions|story-identification|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7065" CreationDate="2015-07-19T18:40:24.820" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The second question should be closed as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the following caveats;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It should only be closed if it's judged by the community, or by a gold tag badge holder in that category to be &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;clearly&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; a duplicate of the other (e.g. where the similarity is distinct and obvious).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A moderator should be immediately flagged to re-open the question if the OP indicates (in comments or in chat) that it's not a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/26616/short-story-about-people-who-lived-only-a-few-days&quot;&gt;Short story about people who lived only a few days&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Closed as a dupe of:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/53445/looking-for-story-where-time-is-accelerated-and-characters-have-to-get-back-to-s&quot;&gt;Looking for story where time is accelerated and characters have to get back to ship?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2015-07-19T19:02:12.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7065" CreationDate="2015-07-19T18:41:36.280" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions should only be closed as duplicates where both answers are accepted, regardless of the similarity between them. (If the OP posts a &quot;yes this is it&quot; comment, that's as good as an acceptance.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simple, easy to administer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-03-15T12:54:32.427" LastActivityDate="2016-03-15T12:54:32.427" CommentCount="22" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7065" CreationDate="2015-07-19T20:42:01.967" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If only one question has a known correct answer, then we should leave the other open.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My response to the suggestion that we close ‘obvious’ story ID dupes has always boiled down to “Okay, but why?”. We have a slightly tidier site, but that seems to be about it. By contrast, there are several reasons &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to do it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If we’re wrong, we’ve just annoyed the OP.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And what have we gained by doing so? The site is slightly tidier, but they don’t have the answer. So we have a frustrated user (who I think is likely to just leave, and not correct us), and bad information on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Even if we’re correct, we’re essentially accepting an answer for the OP.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By asserting that the answer is “obvious” and closing as dupe, we’ve cut the OP out of the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2571/3567&quot;&gt;many proposals&lt;/a&gt; for a mechanism that allows us to accept an answer on somebody else’s behalf, and they’ve always met strong opposition. I don’t see why story identification questions should get special treatment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At best, we should try to guess what the story is – but only the OP can confirm. We shouldn’t take that control out of their hands.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are other ways I think we cause harm if we close questions as incorrect dupes, but I don’t have time to write those up at the moment. Suffice to say, I disagree with the idea of closing dupes without OP confirmation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2015-07-19T20:42:01.967" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7061" CreationDate="2015-07-19T21:42:28.170" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a guy with a &lt;em&gt;major&lt;/em&gt; ScienceFictionLegoAddiction, I think it would benefit Bricks SE if we go there when we have Lego questions to ask. They need the traffic and the topic is spot on in Bricks SE whereas the topic is sort of peripheral to SciFi&amp;amp;F.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4356" LastActivityDate="2015-07-19T21:42:28.170" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7070" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7071" CreationDate="2015-07-19T23:16:46.153" Score="2" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you look at the description of the requirements for tag badges, it is actually pretty vague.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, the silver badge requires a total score of 400 in at least 80 non-community wiki answers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it really this simple, or are there hidden provisions?  For instance, do answers with scores of zero or less count?  Do answers on your own questions count? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it makes any difference, I am asking because I want to know how close I am to getting my silver LotR badge.  As such, it would be great if someone could tell me what, if anything, I still have to do before I get it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T00:31:05.967" Title="What are the exact requirements for tag badges?" Tags="|support|tags|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7070" CreationDate="2015-07-19T23:24:27.037" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is covered on the main meta site here;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/67397/list-of-all-badges-with-full-descriptions#68395&quot;&gt;List of all badges with full descriptions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your specific points; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;No, answers that are at zero still count toward the total.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes, answers to your own questions do count.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Badge progress.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You presently have &lt;strong&gt;81&lt;/strong&gt; answers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt; tagged questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&amp;amp;q=user%3a44025%20%5blord-of-the-rings%5d%20is%3aanswer&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&amp;amp;q=user%3a44025%20%5blord-of-the-rings%5d%20is%3aanswer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, at least 4 are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=user%3A44025+%5Blord-of-the-rings%5D+is%3Aanswer+wiki%3Ano&quot;&gt;community wiki answers&lt;/a&gt; so you're &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; bubbling under at present.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T00:31:05.967" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7074" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-21T21:01:22.730" Score="12" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/96150/a-few-questions-on-sirius-black&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/96150/a-few-questions-on-sirius-black&lt;/a&gt; just came up on the Close Vote queue. Because it's asking several questions in one go, I VTCd as too broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this is a new user, by their own admission unclear regarding our rules on multiple questions, and since I know that we've allowed multiple-questions in other cases&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, I thought I'd leave a comment explaining when it's okay and when it's not. Then I realized I didn't actually know; I have an instinctual idea, but no expressible criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question: &lt;strong&gt;when is it okay to have a question with multiple sub-questions, and when is it considered &quot;Too Broad&quot;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Although I'm struggling to find examples at the moment; I know I've come across questions with some variation of &quot;And another thing&quot; in them, and these questions not being closed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2015-07-24T14:42:45.917" Title="When are we okay with multiple-questions-in-one?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7074" CreationDate="2015-07-21T21:26:52.620" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a rule, we don't want more than one question per Question Post. This is a pretty universal Stack Exchange rule that, as far as I know, SF&amp;amp;F has adhered to pretty consistently since I've been a user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The primary reason we don't want this kind of situation is because it makes it difficult to determine what the right answer is. Suppose you asked 3 questions in one post, and three different users posted the right answer to one question each. Which one is &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; correct answer? All three are right, and none is &quot;more right&quot; than any others. But that defeats the whole point of Stack Exchange sites: Person A asks a question, Persons B-D give answers, Person A accepts whichever answer is &quot;right&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, though, you'll see a question post that seems to ask multiple questions, but really doesn't. This is where the kind of grey area you are probably remembering comes in. If those &quot;multiple questions&quot; are really just facets of one bigger (but still answerable) question, it's less likely to get flagged as Too Broad. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, it's all about the answer: if all of the &quot;multiple questions&quot; really have a &lt;em&gt;single, right answer&lt;/em&gt;, then they really aren't different questions, just different ways to ask the same thing, and they'll probably get away with it. Otherwise, we need to strongly encourage the user to split their question up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Plus, asking multiple questions just means multiple chances to get rep, so it's a win-win.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2015-07-21T21:45:55.787" LastActivityDate="2015-07-21T21:45:55.787" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7074" CreationDate="2015-07-21T21:27:00.767" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Subquestions are a good thing when their presence clarifies, pins down or narrows the scope of the original question. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/95999/why-are-the-doctors-companions-called-companions&quot;&gt;the question I asked yesterday&lt;/a&gt; technically contains a few subquestions, but they serve only to clarify what I'm after in terms of an answer to my main question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the subquestions are all completely separate questions that don't clarify the main question in any way, they're probably bad. In the example you linked, they're obviously completely separate questions. Either you're left wondering which one is the &quot;main&quot; question you're expected to answer, or you end up writing a list of answers in one post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35327" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2015-07-21T21:27:00.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7077" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7078" CreationDate="2015-07-22T17:45:07.653" Score="13" ViewCount="233" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Generalist badge description reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Provided non-wiki answers of 15 total score in 20 of the top 40 tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There’s a &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.stackexchange.com/2010/05/generalist-badge-implemented/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;hidden rule&lt;/a&gt; about when the badge gets turned on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One thing the badge doesn't say, is that &lt;strong&gt;there must be at least 200 questions in all 40 of the top tags before this badge is awarded to anyone&lt;/strong&gt;. That's why you won't see it on meta for a bit longer, or any new sites for about a year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/14/generalist&quot;&gt;nobody on the main site&lt;/a&gt; has been awarded the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it seems to me that we’ve met the conditions for the badge to be awarded, and have done for a while now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Looking at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags&quot;&gt;tags page&lt;/a&gt;, the 40th top tag is [suggested-order], with 202 questions. The most recent question in this tag was July 8th, nearly a fortnight ago, so it’s been &gt;200Qs for a while.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At least three of our users (no surprises – DVK, Thaddeus and Richard) all meet the tag badge criterion. It seems like they should have been awarded this badge.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why hasn’t the badge been awarded yet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2015-09-27T19:41:26.433" Title="When will the generalist badge start being awarded?" Tags="|discussion|badges|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7077" CreationDate="2015-07-22T18:01:30.107" Score="10" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Update: As of September 13th, 2015 the badges are now being awarded&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/14/generalist&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/14/generalist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;You've failed to take into account that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags&quot;&gt;tag page&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;strong&gt;9&lt;/strong&gt; lines long, not 10. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of the top 40 tags, only &lt;s&gt;37&lt;/s&gt; 38 have over 200 questions and only &lt;s&gt;36&lt;/s&gt; 37 have enough &lt;em&gt;qualifying&lt;/em&gt; questions (e.g. non-wiki questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/F8PTI.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/F8PTI.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to when I get my shiny new badge, based on current projections it'll probably be within the next 3 months unless we have some major push on the tags that are bubbling under.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can keep an eye on the progress using &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/305810/waiting-for-generalist&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this data search&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: We now have 38 tags with 200 questions. Two more are required for Generalist to be offered:&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wAf6o.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wAf6o.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2015-09-27T19:41:26.433" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7079" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-23T14:07:38.410" Score="3" ViewCount="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;I seem to be experiencing a bug with comment text. In some comments, usually at the beginning/end of sentences, the text will overlap. Making the end of one sentence lay on top of the beginning of the next. Somewhat demonstrated here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PjWSv.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PjWSv.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'll add a better example if I can find one today)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After inspecting the source for the comments where this occurs I usually find a sentence that has more than one space after a period. This space coincides with where the over lapping text is. Removing the space fixes the over lap. Has this been previously documented?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47760" LastActivityDate="2015-07-23T14:41:45.663" Title="Overlapping Text in comments" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7079" CreationDate="2015-07-23T14:41:45.663" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a known issue with SF&amp;amp;F and I think one or two other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe it's because the SE network pushed out new style sheets, in conjunction with the enhanced profile pages that were rolled out a few weeks ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, there's something about our site's custom styles that conflicts with the new stuff, which is why 1. there's CSS quirky stuff happening, and 2. we don't have the new profile pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes just refreshing the page fixes it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2015-07-23T14:41:45.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7081" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7082" CreationDate="2015-07-23T20:51:00.373" Score="2" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I created this account some years ago with a college gmail address. I ended up forgetting I had this account and made a new one through my current gmail address. But within the 1st week of using my new account I came across a question I had asked years ago. It was then I remembered I had my old account and logged in to revive it. I was hoping to mitigate it and change the email address on it to my new gmail account, but since I had already created an account for my new gmail it wouldn't let me change it. Is there anyway to mitigate the two accounts, or delete my account on my new gmail and change the email on my old college account to my current gmail?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7126" LastActivityDate="2015-07-24T11:56:56.133" Title="Changing email address on account" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7081" CreationDate="2015-07-24T00:07:34.310" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;See: &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/merging-accounts&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.com/help/merging-accounts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Summary: Yes, it is possible to merge accounts, but the process is not automatic. Someone from Stack Exchange needs to verify that you own both accounts. You can get things going by picking &quot;I need to merge user profiles&quot; from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/contact&quot;&gt;Contact Us&lt;/a&gt; link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If all you want to do is change the email address associated with your account, you can add and remove login credentials from your user profile page by clicking on the &quot;Logins&quot; link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AbLki.png&quot; alt=&quot;New Layout Login Link]&quot;&gt;&#xA;[&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZV5wE.png&quot; alt=&quot;Old Layout Login Link]&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:33:39.573" LastActivityDate="2015-07-24T11:56:56.133" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7074" CreationDate="2015-07-24T14:42:45.917" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO more than one question is okay in circumstances where there is a clearly defined primary question and the sub questions can be answered with the same research or specific area of expertise.  For example if you were to ask a question about light sabers in Star Wars such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do Jedi construct their light sabers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the sub questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What parts do they need? Where do they get the parts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would be fine in my opinion as the sub questions are very closely related to the main question/topic and could very likely be answered by reading the same few paragraphs of a wiki or at least be linked in the same wiki entry. Note the answers to this sub question might actually be in a good answer anyway whether the OP asked them or not. However they certainly wouldn't be required for an answer to be correct. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conversely with the same main question the sub questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What are the different forms of light saber combat? Are light sabers possible to construct in our universe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite those questions all being about light sabers they aren't exactly related and the sub questions could certainly stand on their own as questions. They could also certainly elicit responses like this one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't know about your first question but to answer the second...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which to me is an indication that the question could be broken up in to separate questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47760" LastActivityDate="2015-07-24T14:42:45.917" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7084" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7085" CreationDate="2015-07-25T22:19:54.393" Score="13" ViewCount="557" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are at this time two questions about Inside Out (one directly about it, one relating it to Toy Story):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/96481/do-riley-and-andy-live-in-the-same-world&quot;&gt;Do Andy and Riley live in the same world?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/93997/why-are-two-of-rileys-five-emotions-in-inside-out-male&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/93997/why-are-two-of-rileys-five-emotions-in-inside-out-male&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is this movie on-topic? To me it's off-topic: it's certainly not Sci Fi, and to me it's clearly not meant to be taken as literal Fantasy. The little dudes &quot;living&quot; inside people's heads are the metaphorical personification of actual emotions, and we are supposed to believe this is the actual world, just with a quirky way of giving the audience insight into other people's heads. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="770" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2016-06-13T19:26:39.737" Title="Is Inside Out on-topic here?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7084" CreationDate="2015-07-25T22:31:38.423" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to say no. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_Out_(2015_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; describes it as a &quot;3D computer-animated comedy-drama&quot; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2096673/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt; categorises it as &quot;Animation, Adventure, Comedy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no specific reason to assume that the little people inside her head are &lt;em&gt;literally&lt;/em&gt; there, as opposed to metaphorically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film's director &lt;a href=&quot;http://pixar.wikia.com/Inside_Out&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;backs up this assertion&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At the 2013 Siggraph convention, Pete Docter said the story was &quot;one&#xA;  of the most challenging I've ever had to put together&quot;, because the&#xA;  film has to tell simultaneously what is happening to Riley and what is&#xA;  happening inside her mind.[33]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Docter has insisted the film's setting is independent from the&#xA;  biological, physical reality of the brain, and that it is rather set&#xA;  in the mind, with a more metaphysical, abstract viewpoint&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-06-13T19:26:14.787" LastActivityDate="2016-06-13T19:26:14.787" CommentCount="24" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7086" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7089" CreationDate="2015-07-25T22:44:14.243" Score="5" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/weapon&quot;&gt;one&lt;/a&gt; tag - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/weapon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;weapon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;weapon&lt;/a&gt; - for all weaponry - swords, axes, bows and arrows, missiles, guns, bombs, lasers, grenades, blasters, positronic antimatter discombobulators with dual metastasized particle flanges diverted through a network of supercooled serial uptake integrators, light sabers, pointy sticks, etc - and one for &quot;staff-weapon&quot;.  As there is, to date, a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/staff-weapon&quot;&gt;single&lt;/a&gt; question tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/staff-weapon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;staff-weapon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;staff-weapon&lt;/a&gt;, can we get rid of it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2015-07-25T23:56:49.477" Title="Do we really need a tag for &quot;staff-weapon&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7084" CreationDate="2015-07-25T23:48:51.830" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The premise of the film appears to be &quot;fantasy&quot; only in the sense that it is not strictly realistic.  However, if we define &quot;fantasy&quot; this way, almost everything can be considered on topic here.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Simpsons&lt;/em&gt; are yellow and have 4 digits per hand.  The baby is still a baby after 26 years of the show.  The city of Springfield is said to border on Ohio, Nevada, Maine, and Kentucky (Ohio and Kentucky actually do share a border, but Nevada and Maine are hundreds of miles away from either).  Homer has caused several nuclear meltdowns, but is still the safety inspector of a nuclear power plant.  This is not realistic.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The old TV show &lt;em&gt;Murder She Wrote&lt;/em&gt; was set in a small New England town, but someone was murdered there every week&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.  The local police force was incapable of solving the crimes, and instead of hiring more detectives, they asked a local mystery writer to do their jobs for them - every week.  The townspeople didn't have a problem with the incompetence of their police force, nor did they complain about having the highest per capita murder rate in the country.  This is not realistic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, neither of these shows can be considered as true &quot;fantasy&quot;.  Wikipedia defines the fantasy genre as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary plot element, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic and magical creatures are common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Oxford Dictionary largely agrees with this description:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A genre of imaginative fiction involving magic and adventure, especially in a setting other than the real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This definition would appear to suggest that neither &lt;em&gt;The Simpsons&lt;/em&gt;, nor &lt;em&gt;Murder She Wrote&lt;/em&gt;, nor &lt;em&gt;Inside Out&lt;/em&gt; fit the criteria for fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems even less likely that &lt;em&gt;Inside Out&lt;/em&gt; could be considered &quot;science fiction&quot;.  Again, Wikipedia defines the science fiction genre as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginative content such as futuristic settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes and extraterrestrial life. It usually eschews the supernatural, and unlike the related genre of fantasy, its imaginary elements are largely plausible within the scientifically established context of the story. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And again, the Oxford Dictionary largely agrees:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes, frequently portraying space or time travel and life on other planets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although &lt;em&gt;Inside Out&lt;/em&gt; appears to include a fantastic conceit - i.e., the portrayal of emotions as actual, personified entities - it doesn't seem to fit either of the categories relevant to this site.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the question has already been answered by several people, and those answers have attracted upvotes, it would be unfair to delete it out of spite, and thereby deprive users of well-earned reputation increases.  The best option is clearly to migrate the questions to the Movies and Television SE site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;sub&gt;The show is set in the fictional town of Cabot Cove, which was based on Kennebunkport, Maine.  Kennebunkport has a population of 3,500 people.  The series lasted for 12 years, at 13 episodes per season, which would have killed off about 160 people, or nearly 5% of the population.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="44025" LastEditDate="2015-07-26T01:22:27.990" LastActivityDate="2015-07-26T01:22:27.990" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7086" CreationDate="2015-07-25T23:56:49.477" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that the tag is essentially worthless. Since it's been deleted by one of the site's high-rep users (an especially handsome one, I might add), you should see it disappear &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/251221/how-can-we-get-rid-of-misspelled-and-unused-or-zombie-tags&quot;&gt;within the next 24 hours&lt;/a&gt; unless someone tags it onto something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/251221/how-can-we-get-rid-of-misspelled-and-unused-or-zombie-tags&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/251221/how-can-we-get-rid-of-misspelled-and-unused-or-zombie-tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T09:16:33.917" LastActivityDate="2015-07-25T23:56:49.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5326" CreationDate="2015-07-26T16:46:00.423" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://law.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kQ8xm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Join Law SE. Ask awesome questions&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24082" LastActivityDate="2015-07-26T16:46:00.423" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-07-26T16:46:00.423" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7091" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7093" CreationDate="2015-07-27T05:08:22.683" Score="-4" ViewCount="282" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been a regular over at the SFF chatroom, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/a&gt;, for several years, and I've seen many trends in chatting come and go, but, traditionally, giving a comment a star meant the comment was &lt;em&gt;exceptionally&lt;/em&gt; funny, useful, courageous, or topical. Oh, and if you're &lt;strong&gt;@Tango&lt;/strong&gt;, you can get a star for saying the word &quot;crap&quot;. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyhow, I've recently noticed that lots of comments that, in my opinion, are just general chat statements, getting starred for reasons I am clearly not understanding. I realize people star things they think will be helpful, but it seems a lot of the starred comments are coming from general conversations. If this is so, can't a user can just read the transcript to get all the details? I don't know -- it just seems like there's been a huge shift in what kind of comments are starred in the chatroom. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ETA:&lt;/strong&gt; Just wanted to add that I'm not upset by the change in dynamic, but rather I'm just curious as to whether it's appropriate and if the star board is more of a use and let use thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do we want to revisit our policy (if there is one) on what is appropriate to star in the chatroom?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="931" LastEditDate="2015-11-20T14:39:10.800" LastActivityDate="2017-02-15T22:05:31.553" Title="What type of comments should be starred in the chatroom?" Tags="|discussion|chat|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7091" CreationDate="2015-07-27T05:25:22.243" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I star what I find interesting or entertaining. I admit to enjoying seeing some of my comments up there on the scroll, but don't feel the lion's share ought to have been singled out. On the other hand, the only concern I can see about the high turnover rate of starred comments in what is generally an off topic chat room is somebody might not get 50 or 60 stars before their comment rolls off the screen. Are starred comments an issue? No. Not really. Not even Tango's crappy ones. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4356" LastEditorUserId="4356" LastEditDate="2015-07-27T05:32:01.687" LastActivityDate="2015-07-27T05:32:01.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7091" CreationDate="2015-07-27T06:01:04.450" Score="13" Body="&lt;h1&gt;What gets starred?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Seems anything.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Essentially, people seem to be starring things which they might want to bring to the forefront to show that they have 'seen' or even just 'like' the comment made by the other person. This often happens when there are two or more people &quot;just chatting&quot; (no one will be singled out here - on purpose).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect that this is because there's no &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like_button&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;'Like' Button&lt;/a&gt; or any way to show that you appreciate the person's response to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;What should get starred?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Again, anything.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;But&lt;/em&gt;; here's the only piece of guidance I've found from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/faq#star&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chat FAQ&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Feel free to star any message you feel is particularly useful or worthy of summarizing in the transcript.&lt;/strong&gt; You can star a maximum of 20 messages per room per day. Messages can be starred by anyone in the room; the more stars, the more interesting the message to that room.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sub&gt;[emphasis mine]&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally the tool-tip info text for the chat star suggests that you should &quot;star as interesting&quot; indicating that if you star it, perhaps you have found the comment &lt;strong&gt;interesting&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/B1jrq.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/B1jrq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Comment tool-tip, indicating the comment star is used to &amp;quot;star as interesting&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do with that what you will...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Now to guidelines&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't bother&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Only because, it's just going to be too difficult (probably technically impossible) to police. I know &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/20774/richard&quot;&gt;@Richard ♦&lt;/a&gt; is prolific, but even &lt;em&gt;he&lt;/em&gt; won't be able to hammer down on &quot;misuses&quot; of the chat star guidelines; nor should we.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Going forward&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Try&lt;/em&gt; to reserve your stars to the more &lt;strong&gt;stellar&lt;/strong&gt; comments. Having said that, it is purely your opinion as to what is and isn't stellar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider though, that there are only a limited number of slots in the chat star board. Therefore, if you are starring comments more often, then that will push the comments away more transiently, and people might miss the &lt;strong&gt;stellar&lt;/strong&gt; comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;I'm the funniest person I know&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing's for sure, you can't star your own message(s); much to my dismay:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gezLB.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gezLB.png&quot; alt=&quot;Can&amp;#39;t star own message in chat.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2017-02-15T22:05:31.553" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7084" CreationDate="2015-07-28T14:39:09.977" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If &lt;em&gt;Inside Out&lt;/em&gt; is neither Science Fiction nor Fantasy, then logically neither is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nolan-batman-trilogy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;nolan-batman-trilogy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;nolan-batman-trilogy&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/toy-story-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;toy-story-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;toy-story-2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sonic-the-hedgehog&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sonic-the-hedgehog&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sonic-the-hedgehog&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kung-fu-panda&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kung-fu-panda&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kung-fu-panda&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/animal-farm&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;animal-farm&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;animal-farm&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/clockwork-orange&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;clockwork-orange&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;clockwork-orange&lt;/a&gt; and various others, none of which contain the hallmarks of either science fiction of fantasy as defined by @WadCheber in their answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would argue that our collective acceptance of the above (particularly the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nolan-batman-trilogy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;nolan-batman-trilogy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;nolan-batman-trilogy&lt;/a&gt;, which is as grounded in reality as a superhero film can get) should mean that we keep &lt;em&gt;Inside Out&lt;/em&gt; (and by extension, most other Pixar films that can be said to contain fantastical elements) as on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24087" LastActivityDate="2015-07-28T14:39:09.977" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7095" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-29T19:44:12.757" Score="-4" ViewCount="230" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/96327/is-mr-robot-in-elliots-head?noredirect=1#comment222112_96327&quot;&gt;Is Mr. Robot in Elliot's head?&lt;/a&gt;. There's a comment and a close vote that it is off topic. Now, I firmly believe that this show is considered at least Sci-Fi, as do many other sites on the internet. Dictionary.com states the definition as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;A form of fiction that draws imaginatively on scientific knowledge and speculation in its plot, setting, theme, etc.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This show fits that definition. It's also been labeled as Cyberpunk, which is a sub-genre of sci-fi. As I stated, just because there's no spaceships or aliens doesn't make this show any less sci-fi. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11159" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2015-07-30T22:22:12.977" Title="Are questions about Mr. Robot on topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7095" CreationDate="2015-07-29T19:48:11.240" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to say no. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show has been marketed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usanetwork.com/mrrobot/cast&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;USA Network&lt;/a&gt; (among others) as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;contemporary and culturally resonant drama.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There don't seem to be any substantial science-fictional or fantasical elements aside from the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HollywoodHacking&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;hollywood hacking&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (warning, TV Tropes link) and even that's toned down to the absolute minimum, according to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.npr.org/2015/06/21/415517808/the-human-drama-of-hacking-fuels-tv-thriller-mr-robot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;show's creator&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So I was a nerd growing up, and I was a big techie and I watched all&#xA;  of those terrible movies and all those terrible television shows. And&#xA;  it was actually, I think, more work to portray it as poorly as they&#xA;  did because they forced all these CGI graphics and all this ridiculous&#xA;  stuff to force the drama there. One of the rules I have on my show is&#xA;  that we don't green screen ... anything. So everything you see that we&#xA;  filmed is real. And so the actors, I really wanted them to react to&#xA;  what is actually going on on-screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But I gotta be honest, I'm not some genius over here, I'm just&#xA;  actually going through what a programmer or coder or cybersecurity&#xA;  engineer would do in a certain hack. And the funny thing is, even&#xA;  though people don't completely understand it, they get it. And it's&#xA;  almost like when you watch a medical drama, or a legal drama or&#xA;  whatever, I don't necessarily understand all of the terminology, but I&#xA;  get what's going on emotionally, I get what the stakes are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2015-07-29T19:53:12.927" LastActivityDate="2015-07-29T19:53:12.927" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7097" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-29T20:21:43.927" Score="-2" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/96889/how-would-you-build-a-power-plant&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; about the best way to use fictional characters to generate power. I was looking forward to all the comic book wonks battling over the best scenario. But it was put on hold. Is this really an opinion-based answer issue? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48839" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2015-07-29T20:40:16.537" Title="Question about opinion-based answers" Tags="|discussion|primarily-opinion-based|comics|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7097" CreationDate="2015-07-29T20:40:16.537" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with this one is that there's no &quot;right&quot; answer. Superman can lift a near-infinite amount, the human Torch can generate a near-infinite amount of heat, etc etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your meta question hits the nail on the head perfectly;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I was looking forward to all the comic book wonks &lt;strong&gt;battling over the&#xA;  best scenario.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're not a discussion board, we're a Q&amp;amp;A site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I can quote from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of our site and&#xA;  push other questions off the front page.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If your motivation for asking the question is “I would like to&#xA;  participate in a discussion about ______”, then you should not be&#xA;  asking here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and from &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.stackexchange.com/2011/01/real-questions-have-answers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Real Questions Have Answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Constructive subjective questions ....  are more than just mindless&#xA;  social fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2015-07-29T20:40:16.537" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7095" CreationDate="2015-07-30T22:22:12.977" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As someone who's actually watching the show, I'll add my 2 cents.  It's not sci-fi at all. It's very clearly set in a modern day real-world setting with no fantastical elements.  It's as grounded as grounded can be, they go far out of their way to maintain accuracy on the many technology and computer elements, especially compared other computer-centric shows on TV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are certain cyberpunk elements.  While Evil Corp is meant to be a satire of actual corporations, it's not being as unrealistically over the top as, for example, the TV networks in &lt;em&gt;Max Headroom&lt;/em&gt;.  So I wouldn't call that element fantastical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no, it's not sci-fi (and certainly not fantasy), and so it is off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only possible fantastical element is what that linked question asks about, is Mr. Robot an imaginary person in Elliot's head?  Which is why I didn't vote to close it, but did migrate another &lt;em&gt;Mr. Robot&lt;/em&gt; question that was recently posted here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2015-07-30T22:22:12.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7100" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-31T22:48:43.120" Score="-2" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;In particular, for a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; question, do we add tags based on the accepted answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastActivityDate="2015-08-01T08:20:08.090" Title="Do we edit tags based on answers?" Tags="|discussion|tags|story-identification|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7100" CreationDate="2015-08-01T08:20:08.090" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally no, post-editing an &lt;em&gt;accepted&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; question is discouraged since it doesn't show what the accepted answerer had to work with ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;See also;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/671/should-we-tag-story-identification-questions-with-the-name-of-the-author?rq=1&quot;&gt;Should we tag story identification questions with the name of the author?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sole exception I can think of would be where the original tags were wildly inaccurate or selected in error by an inexperienced user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I recall an incident where I deleted the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-story&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-story&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-story&lt;/a&gt; where the OP had put both &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-story&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-story&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-story&lt;/a&gt; AND &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt;. Obviously it couldn't be both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2015-08-01T08:20:08.090" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7091" CreationDate="2015-08-02T22:14:41.680" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;My own criteria for starring comments in the chat room:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comments about stars&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comments containing profanity and vulgar language &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comments that make me larff &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The rare comment that is genuinely insightful&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Anything about Richard being a jerk&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastActivityDate="2015-08-02T22:14:41.680" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7084" CreationDate="2015-08-03T07:03:49.683" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the director may have intended the people in her head to be metaphorical, that doesn't mean the viewers have to interpret it that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Authors (and directors) have their view of the works and the people that read/watch/listen to it hav theirs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it seems to me that viewers &quot;feel&quot; for the people in her head, and not just for her -- making them just as real as she is, and thus the film fits here at least as well as it does on Movies and TV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3471" LastActivityDate="2015-08-03T07:03:49.683" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7104" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7115" CreationDate="2015-08-06T18:04:37.213" Score="10" ViewCount="239" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, this is a repeat of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/905/3823&quot;&gt;How should we tag questions about the 2009 Star Trek movie and any successors?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't believe it was resolved, and that question was asked before release of STID so it was more theoretical at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, there is definitely a gap here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about TOS and TOS-era movies are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about TNG and TNG-era movies are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tng&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tng&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tng&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-2009&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-2009&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-2009&lt;/a&gt; doesn't make sense for question about the Abramsverse, including ST2009, STID and any future movies taking place in that timeline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2016-03-29T15:30:01.797" Title="What is the tag for the Star Trek Abramsverse timeline?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7105" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-06T20:01:00.677" Score="7" ViewCount="446" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked about whether identification questions would be on-topic for a proposed beta. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the replies originally stated that identification questions were some of the least productive on the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I followed up with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As for productivity, when I look at SciFi's tags I see that Story-Identification is their most-used tag (more than the next 2 tags combined).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the reply was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We cannot guarantee there's a site (or an audience) for every question, but in my opinion (and many others), identify-this-* questions are not generally a very useful part of most sites. Unfortunately, showing me how it has all-but overtaken SciFi (and our Movie site) does not enamor me to it any moreso.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From this, I get the feeling that there's a large number of people who dislike identification questions, despite their very apparent popularity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the popularity of these questions something that the stack has only begrudgingly allowed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some data:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After seeing a quote from Jeff Atwood on the Guessing Games blog post: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Well, look at the data. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=views%3A500&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=views%3A500&lt;/a&gt; 571 questions with views of 500 or more. Of those ONLY SIXTEEN, 2.8% are [story-identification]. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bstory-identification%5D+views%3A500&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bstory-identification%5D+views%3A500&lt;/a&gt; That’s a little odd, don’t you think, considering [story-identification] is the second most common tag on the site? Like I was saying.. “The goal of Stack Exchange is not to construct un-findable single-serving questions that only help one person, but that’s exactly what guessing game questions tend to do.” I know they’re fun in a way, but a) we’re not shy about demoting fun when it isn’t producing useful artifacts and b) you have to take a cold, hard look at the utility of the artifacts that are produced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wrote this query: &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/344677/story-id-question-with-500-views&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Story ID question with &gt; 500 views&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And found that there were 1131 rows returned, which is just under 24% of all such questions. If you bump it up to &gt; 1000 views, it's just over 7%. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I provide this only as evidence that the questions themselves are popular to view, not just to be asked, but I won't make any normative statement about the questions in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2015-12-08T00:20:24.030" Title="Have story identification questions &quot;overtaken&quot; SF&amp;F?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7105" CreationDate="2015-08-06T20:27:07.820" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes and no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, we have heaps and heaps of them. Like you said, more than the next two tags combined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, since we're not too bothered by them. They're easy to ignore if you want to, but often fun to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2015-08-06T20:27:07.820" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7107" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7110" CreationDate="2015-08-06T21:24:45.777" Score="7" ViewCount="261" Body="&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: As the result was a draw, I've chosen &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7110/20774&quot;&gt;the answer with the single highest number of upvotes&lt;/a&gt; as the winner; 8 versus 6.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, SFF:SE peeps. It's time to choose the first group-viewing event film for August!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As before, you need to pick your preferred film and post it as an answer below. Upvote the ones you like and the top answer (by Tuesday 11th August at midnight UTC) will be selected as the winner. We'll then watch together on Thursday 13th August at 10pm UTC in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley chatroom&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Choose wisely and remember, &lt;s&gt;all&lt;/s&gt; most suggestions will be considered  carefully, with &lt;s&gt;no exceptions&lt;/s&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_Earth_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;very few exceptions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/31tCK.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/31tCK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2017-06-03T13:52:55.330" LastActivityDate="2017-06-03T13:52:55.330" Title="August Movie Event #1!" Tags="|discussion|movie-night|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7105" CreationDate="2015-08-06T22:59:51.393" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't like story ID questions at all. But, yes, I have the option to filter these questions away -- I've just been too focused on other activities (Q&amp;amp;A, chat, etc.) to put the filter in place. Since we have the option of filtering by tag, I kind of feel like posts that ask &quot;Do we have too many of &quot;X&quot; questions are redundant -- &lt;em&gt;as long as the tag is on topic for SFF&lt;/em&gt;. If the tag is on topic, and it bothers you so greatly, simply put a filter into place. Problem solved! We all like different things, so the filter is a great tool. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2015-08-06T22:59:51.393" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7107" CreationDate="2015-08-06T23:21:47.990" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to vote for &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Steel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Real Steel&lt;/a&gt;&quot; with Hugh Jackman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's got &lt;strong&gt;everything&lt;/strong&gt;; gigantic robots whacking at each other, a cute kid, a failed boxer and the super hot hottie who'd love him if &lt;em&gt;only he'd stop sabotaging himself&lt;/em&gt;...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/60kBa.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/60kBa.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-08-06T23:21:47.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7107" CreationDate="2015-08-07T06:16:35.440" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I nominate the classic movie &lt;em&gt;The Day the Earth Stood Still&lt;/em&gt;, starring Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal, which is available on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still/60026578?sod=search-autocomplete&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Netflix&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 1995 The Day the Earth Stood Still was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as &amp;quot;culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Day the Earth Stood Still also received recognition from the American Film Institute. &lt;strong&gt;In 2001, it was ranked number 82 on 100 Years...100 Thrills, a list of America's most heart-pounding films&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;strong&gt;It placed number 67 on a similar list 100 Years...100 Cheers, a list of America's most inspiring films&lt;/strong&gt;.  In June 2008, the American Film Institute revealed its &amp;quot;10 Top 10&amp;quot; — the best ten films in ten &amp;quot;classic&amp;quot; American film genres — after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. &lt;strong&gt;The Day the Earth Stood Still was acknowledged as the fifth best film in the science fiction genre.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film was also on the ballot for AFI's other lists including 100 Years...100 Movies, the tenth anniversary list, 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains for Klaatu in the heroes category, 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes for the famous line &amp;quot;Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!&amp;quot;, and AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores.  In 2004, the film was selected by The New York Times as &lt;strong&gt;one of The Best 1000 Movies Ever Made.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I repeat for emphasis:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&amp;quot;The Day the Earth Stood Still was acknowledged as the fifth best film in the science fiction genre.&amp;quot;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also the only movie I know of that had the balls to say &amp;quot;Stop obsessing about Communism, you childish jerks&amp;quot; at the height of the &amp;quot;Red Scare&amp;quot;, and even cast a blacklisted &amp;quot;Communist sympathizer&amp;quot; in a major role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hDxn1.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hDxn1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-08-11T23:24:29.370" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7107" CreationDate="2015-08-07T06:21:39.050" Score="2" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Outlander&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sfxb9.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sfxb9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Movie Poster for Outlander&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beowulf meets Predator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's got old fashioned battles, it's got sci-fi, it's got giant monsters. It's viking drinking games! It's actually got a plot!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-08-07T06:21:39.050" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7104" CreationDate="2015-08-07T09:35:45.843" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Simply tag them with the movie(s) they are referring to.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see no reason that questions about &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; (2009) shouldn't just be tagged with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-2009&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-2009&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-2009&lt;/a&gt; tag, and questions about &lt;em&gt;Star Trek Into Darkness&lt;/em&gt; shouldn't just be tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-into-darkness&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-into-darkness&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-into-darkness&lt;/a&gt;. Questions about both would simply use both tags, and questions about the upcoming sequel to &lt;em&gt;Star Trek Into Darkness&lt;/em&gt; would use a film specific tag for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for this is that unlike the various &quot;cinematic universe&quot; tags we have (such as the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt; tag, the new Star Trek films are not a &quot;cinematic universe&quot; as such thanks to the fact that they are just a series of films, with no spin off or related material to ask about. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should a spin-off film or TV series be announced then this will need rethinking, but for now we should treat them the same way as we would treat any other series of films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: It looks like the new Star Trek films &lt;strong&gt;do&lt;/strong&gt; in fact have related materials. As such, I would suggest a new tag to be used when referring to this new franchise, something like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-reboot&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-reboot&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-reboot&lt;/a&gt;.   Please use the other answer to upvote this solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24087" LastEditorUserId="3823" LastEditDate="2015-08-07T20:15:22.483" LastActivityDate="2015-08-07T20:15:22.483" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7113" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7114" CreationDate="2015-08-07T18:00:55.923" Score="2" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;As any users from some of the other Stack Exchange sites (such as Stack Overflow), there is an update user profile floating around that has a sleeker, more fancy layout with relevant information displayed quite prominently. I noticed that English Language and Usage got the update, but I was just curious if it was making its rounds and would come to this site soon or if it were going to be a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46019" LastActivityDate="2015-08-07T18:04:51.997" Title="Is SSF&amp;F going to get an SO style profile page?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2015-08-08T22:09:03.687" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7113" CreationDate="2015-08-07T18:04:51.997" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the Community Managers, the new user profile pages are being rolled out incrementally across a range of different sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/253359/list-of-communities-with-base-css-updates-completed&quot;&gt;List of communities with base css updates completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Allegedy, SFF:SE (and other sites) has proven more challenging because our site has custom CSS and other bespoke design features that would clash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Patience is advised. They'll arrive soon but we're evidently not a priority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2015-08-07T18:04:51.997" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7104" CreationDate="2015-08-07T20:16:11.397" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per @DrRDizzle's suggestion at the end, the tag for this universe makes sense.&#xA;It should be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-reboot&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-reboot&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-reboot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastActivityDate="2015-08-07T20:16:11.397" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7105" CreationDate="2015-08-08T09:25:18.750" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have no personal interest in identification questions either, because I'm nowhere near well-read enough to answer any of them, and I already have more things to read/watch than I'll ever get around to so I get nothing out of reading them. But I find the meta issue of ID questions very interesting, especially how much it seems to vary from site to site, so here's a text wall of the various random observations I can offer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;tl;dr: In my experience, the acceptability of ID questions on a given site comes from the natural quality level that ID questions have there when they're allowed without restriction, and this is a product of 1) how their enthusiasts stumble across things they want identified, and 2) whether their enthusiasts remember the kinds of details that help distinguish one work from another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, on Anime &amp;amp; Manga you get a lot of &quot;What anime is this image from?&quot; which can often be answered by a trivial reverse image search. This is probably because in the anime/manga communities it's very normal to browse imperfectly-tagged internet archives of images from potentially anywhere, and many of the people doing this simply don't know that reverse image search is a thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over on Arqade, ID questions were underspecified so often that they had to narrow the scope to ID questions with an &quot;audiovisual artifact&quot;. Presumably this is because it's hard to write a textual description of any video game that clearly distinguishes it from any other; most mechanics, weapons, enemy types, plot devices, etc are shared by several different games (unless you throw in details like exact cooldown times that no one would normally remember). You might remember playing a game that had this cool gravity manipulation power, but just saying &quot;gravity manipulation&quot; doesn't narrow it down as much as you might think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site seems to be one of the few SEs on which simply allowing &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; identification question tends to get a lot of decently-asked, genuinely answerable questions that are not a blatant &quot;lack of research effort&quot;, nor are there so many of them they risk overtaking the site. I suspect this is because 1) most of our story-ID askers are not just &quot;I saw this thing on Google, what is it from?&quot; but people who actually read or watched the work a long time ago and are trying to find it again, and 2) the things we remember a sci-fi/fantasy story for are usually the very same things that make it easily identifiable (&quot;the alien burst out of his chest&quot;, &quot;dystopia where it turned out the food was made of people&quot;, etc). Note that we also have a lot of character-ID questions, but those tend to be motivated by very specific things like &quot;Who was that character at the end of the last Marvel movie?&quot; which are--unlike most ID questions--potentially useful to other people!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35327" LastActivityDate="2015-08-08T09:25:18.750" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7105" CreationDate="2015-08-10T11:05:01.697" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally find the story identification queries very useful, not only for my own asked questions, but also because I occasionally find it's already been answered. In addition, I do find answering the questions entertaining both for the challenge and for the fact that it exposes me to new works I might never have thought to look for (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/95146/help-me-identify-a-story-about-a-jewish-ghost-and-a-ventriloquist/95151#95151&quot;&gt;A Ghost and his Ventriloquist hunt down Nazis!&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/84363/horror-story-about-a-shack-full-of-notorious-serial-killers-possesions/84365#84365&quot;&gt;A Boy and his Friends are haunted by serial killer memorabilia!&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/36836/book-where-swimming-skill-is-feared-due-to-shapeshifting-water-monsters-that-can/92865#92865&quot;&gt;A Boy is thought a Monster because he can swim!&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/93087/fantasy-book-where-a-young-prince-becomes-a-mage/93090#93090&quot;&gt;Young boy goes from Page to Wizard!&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/95175/movie-where-aliens-invade-a-farm/95177#95177&quot;&gt;Aliens attack over Thanksgiving!&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/95453/story-about-a-man-who-discovers-the-power-of-nothing/95456#95456&quot;&gt;The Space between Perforations is the new super-technology!&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/78625/secret-agent-that-also-sings-opera-and-travels-through-windows/78646#78646&quot;&gt;Opera-singing Multi-dimensional Secret Agents!&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/75536/story-identification-about-children-getting-butterfly-wings-because-of-a-tree/75537#75537&quot;&gt;Children turned to Butterflies by a Tree and then Dissected!&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/72717/future-yeasts-witchcraft-subterranean-journey/72725#72725&quot;&gt;The Battle between Wicca and Yeast!&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/68718/science-fiction-horror-survivor-floating-in-the-water-leds-to-deaths-including/68723#68723&quot;&gt;Death by Swordfish in Satan's Triangle!&lt;/a&gt; and many others).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, Story Identification is as much about fun as anything else, as well as huge geek cred for being able to answer, but honestly, isn't that entirely what the Code Golf Stack Exchange is about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2015-08-10T11:05:01.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7107" CreationDate="2015-08-10T11:25:41.883" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since it's always the answer to a Story ID question except that it almost never is, I nominate &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099740/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hardware&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. Plus, it's pretty classic dystopic science fiction where the female lead fairly successfully defends herself from the robot attacks despite her boyfriend being the obvious designated hero of the piece.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EoXcg.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EoXcg.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2015-08-10T11:25:41.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7120" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-10T16:16:22.070" Score="1" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am somewhat new around here. I recently answered a question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/98800/46178&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; that had me wondering if I was supposed to hide parts of it behind spoiler tags and if so what formatting is avalible if any to hide parts of my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2015-08-10T16:16:22.070" Title="What is the stance on spoilers around here?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-08-10T17:14:09.140" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7107" CreationDate="2015-08-10T18:09:10.710" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say we all watch &lt;em&gt;Fantastic Four&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, not that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1502712/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fantastic Four&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, not that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120667/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fantastic Four&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x19pvwt_the-fantastic-four-1994-unreleased-roger-corman_shortfilms&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fantastic Four&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2015-08-10T18:09:10.710" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7122" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7126" CreationDate="2015-08-11T18:23:04.667" Score="10" ViewCount="317" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came across &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/98982/31936&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; in the low quality posts queue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;thanks everyone for trying but I remembered the show I was thinking of was called first wave&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It had been previously edited by another user to add Wikipedia and IMDB links, as well as quotes from both to provide more context:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I remembered the show I was thinking of was called First Wave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Former thief turned security specialist Kincaid Lawrence &quot;Cade&quot; Foster’s life was idyllic, with a beautiful wife, good job and a nice&#xA;    house. Unbeknownst to him, a race of extraterrestrials called the Gua&#xA;    have identified him as subject 117 in an experiment to test human&#xA;    resilience. As part of this experiment, his life is systematically&#xA;    ruined, including the murder of his wife, for which he is framed. He&#xA;    is the only one of the 117 subjects to solve the riddles of the&#xA;    experiment and escape arrest to live as a fugitive. The Gua are among&#xA;    humans in the form of hybridised genetic clones and plan to enslave&#xA;    humanity—the first of three “waves” intent on conquering and finally&#xA;    destroying the human race. Constantly pursued by the police, and a&#xA;    strange government agency called the Illuminati, Foster discovers&#xA;    previously unknown quatrains of Nostradamus, which tell of three waves&#xA;    that will destroy the planet unless the “twice-blessed man” can stop&#xA;    them. For this reason, Foster investigates strange occurrences that&#xA;    may have ties to the Nostradamus quatrains, hoping to find what he&#xA;    needs to stop the Gua.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The episode with the witches was Season 1 Episode 8, &quot;Book of Shadows&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Cade and Eddie travel to Salem, Oregon, where high school student Diana Black stands accused of killing three high-ranking members of&#xA;    the community. Diana's defense is that she is a witch and the three&#xA;    victims were not human but demons. Cade and Eddie realize that Diana&#xA;    has somehow found a way to identify the Gua. Diana tells Cade that she&#xA;    learned everything from an old book called &quot;The Book of Shadows&quot;. Cade&#xA;    finds the book in the police department's evidence room, but the pages&#xA;    that tell how to identify the &quot;demons&quot; are missing. Realizing that the&#xA;    Gua will do anything to keep their secret, Cade realizes that he must&#xA;    find a way to save Diana and recover the missing pages before the Gua&#xA;    can destroy them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this edit was rolled back by a third user for &quot;vandalism&quot; because it added so much text to the original (very short) answer. See the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/98982/revisions&quot;&gt;revision history&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are edits like this (substantial addition of text by another user) acceptable or is it &quot;vandalism&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2015-08-17T13:27:41.767" Title="Is it acceptable to substantially add text to a post when editing?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7122" CreationDate="2015-08-11T20:13:46.327" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that it was unacceptable. Although the edits themselves were filled with useful info (and technically met the edit criteria regarding &lt;em&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/editing&quot;&gt;adding relevant links and resources&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/em&gt;) what happened here was that the OP's poor answer was essentially used as a vehicle to post a much better answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although there's no reason to assume that the intention wasn't wholly honourable, the editor still deserves credit for his actions in writing what is, to all intents and purposes a brand new (and high quality) answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2015-08-11T20:13:46.327" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7122" CreationDate="2015-08-11T20:15:10.850" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, it is acceptable&lt;/strong&gt; (in some cases)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case at hand, the original content and meaning of the answer was not changed.  The edit added (much) context, quotes, etc.  These were unambiguously helpful to anyone coming across this question in the future.  The answer, as it stood, was not very informative.  The whole point of posting questions and answers that everyone can edit is that the community can add information to make the post &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt;.  That's exactly what happened here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only objection I can seem to find to this is that the OP gets undue credit/rep for work that someone else voluntarily put into making their answer better.  Since the editor knew this would happen, it seems they are okay with it.  Do we want to be so uptight about assigning internet points that we disallow people from improving answers for no credit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the other answer suggests this edit was in conflict with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/editing&quot;&gt;what edits are for&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;page.  I don't see this.  From that page,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Edits are expected to be substantial and to leave the post better than you found it. Common reasons for edits include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;To fix grammar and spelling mistakes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;To clarify the meaning of the post (without changing that meaning)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;To include additional information only found in comments, so all of the information relevant to the post is contained in one place&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;To correct minor mistakes or add updates as the post ages&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;To add related resources or hyperlinks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The edit at hand seems to meet the criteria of being substantial, leaving the post better than it was found, clarifying the meaning (without changing the meaning), adding related resources or hyperlinks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What are we trying to discourage?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also don't see what preventing a substantial edit that adds context to a weak answer would avoid.  The person doing the editing gets nothing out of it.  All they have done is maybe cause the OP to get some unearned rep.  This seems a rather minor side effect to getting a much higher quality answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48818" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2015-08-11T20:22:45.310" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7122" CreationDate="2015-08-11T21:22:02.917" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best course of action would have been a new community wiki answer, containing the extra information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's what I usually do when I consolidate a short answer given in a comment. This case looks little different, except that the answer was given as an actual answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless I had to do substantial research, I just do a quick bit of searching, quote a bit of Wikipedia, link to the imdb, isfdb, or what have you, and mark it cw.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Of course, if that embryonic answer was just the starting point of more research to arrive at an acceptable answer, I do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; mark it cw, but claim it as my own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2015-08-11T21:35:52.213" LastActivityDate="2015-08-11T21:35:52.213" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7107" CreationDate="2015-08-11T21:36:57.000" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should just cut to the chase. Forget all these mediocre or mildly bad movies, and go for the jugular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHhSS3r4OrQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Manos: Hands of Fate&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Manos: The Hands of Fate is a 1966 American low budget horror film written, directed, produced by, and starring Harold P. Warren. It is widely recognized to be one of the worst films ever made. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manos:_The_Hands_of_Fate&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;src&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because this film was published pre-1977, and without a copyright notice, it is in the public domain. It can be found on YouTube (the link in this post), as well as a number of other places. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2015-08-11T21:56:18.970" LastActivityDate="2015-08-11T21:56:18.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7107" CreationDate="2015-08-11T23:18:25.280" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since Manos: Hand of Fate didn't go over well, I suppose it's time to bring out the big guns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie popularly considered the worst movie ever made:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Plan 9 From Outer Space&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (not to be confused with &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Plan 9 from Bell Labs&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once again, a public domain movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln7WF78PolA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;available on YouTube&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film tells the story of extraterrestrials who are seeking to stop humanity from creating a doomsday weapon that could destroy the universe. The aliens implement &amp;quot;Plan 9&amp;quot;, a scheme to resurrect the Earth's dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both Wood and his film were posthumously awarded two of Medveds' Golden Turkey Awards, as the Worst Director Ever and Worst Film, respectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And remember friends, future events such as these &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; affect you in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-08-11T23:18:25.280" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2" CreationDate="2015-08-12T03:48:06.487" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; defines the fantasy genre as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary plot element, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic and magical creatures are common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/fantasy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Oxford Dictionary&lt;/a&gt; largely agrees with this description:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A genre of imaginative fiction involving magic and adventure, especially in a setting other than the real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; defines the science fiction genre as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginative content such as futuristic settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes and extraterrestrial life. It usually eschews the supernatural, and unlike the related genre of fantasy, its imaginary elements are largely plausible within the scientifically established context of the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And again, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/science-fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Oxford Dictionary&lt;/a&gt; largely agrees:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes, frequently portraying space or time travel and life on other planets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastActivityDate="2015-08-12T03:48:06.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7131" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7132" CreationDate="2015-08-13T02:40:34.543" Score="-8" ViewCount="305" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently had the idea that, well, because this is a &lt;strong&gt;Science Fiction&lt;/strong&gt; and Fantasy site, perhaps it would be fun if members could have a 'rank'!  I have just looked through the &lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Starfleet_ranks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Starfleet Ranks page on Memory Alpha&lt;/a&gt; and correlated some ranks with the privileges.  The idea is that once individuals achieve privileges, they are 'promoted' and can change their rank to the next level up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way I envisage it is that it would &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; be something forced on people - I appreciate that not everyone here is a Trekkie, but for those who are interested it might be a bit of fun to call themselves 'Captain [insert-handle-here]'.  People would add their rank, only if they wanted to of course, to the 'about me' section for their profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the rank system that I propose - any discussion would be greatly appreciated!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/create-posts&quot;&gt;Cadet 4th class&lt;/a&gt; | Rep = 1 &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/participate-in-meta&quot;&gt;Cadet 3rd class&lt;/a&gt; | Rep = 5 &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/new-user&quot;&gt;Cadet 2nd class&lt;/a&gt; | Rep = 10 &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/vote-up&quot;&gt;Cadet 1st class&lt;/a&gt; | Rep = 15&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/chat&quot;&gt;Petty officer 3rd class&lt;/a&gt; | Rep = 20&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;Petty officer 2nd class&lt;/a&gt; | Rep = 50&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/set-bounties&quot;&gt;Petty officer 1st class&lt;/a&gt; | Rep = 75&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit-community-wiki&quot;&gt;Chief petty officer&lt;/a&gt; | Rep = 100&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/vote-down&quot;&gt;Senior chief petty officer&lt;/a&gt; | Rep = 125&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/view-close-votes&quot;&gt;Ensign&lt;/a&gt; | Rep = 250&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/create-tags&quot;&gt;Lt Jr Grade&lt;/a&gt; | Rep = 300&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/access-review-queues&quot;&gt;Lt&lt;/a&gt; | Rep = 500&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/established-user&quot;&gt;Lt Cmdr&lt;/a&gt; | Rep = 1000&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;Cmdr&lt;/a&gt; | Rep = 2000&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/suggest-tag-synonyms&quot;&gt;Captain&lt;/a&gt; | Rep = 2500&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/close-questions&quot;&gt;Fleet Captain&lt;/a&gt; | Rep = 3000&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/approve-tag-wiki-edits&quot;&gt;Commodore&lt;/a&gt; | Rep = 5000&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/moderator-tools&quot;&gt;Rear Admiral&lt;/a&gt; | Rep = 10,000&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/protect-questions&quot;&gt;Vice Admiral&lt;/a&gt; | Rep = 15,000&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/trusted-user&quot;&gt;Admiral&lt;/a&gt; | Rep = 20,000&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fleet Admiral | Moderator&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I appreciate this scheme may be a bit over the top, so we could have this second one instead which is based on milestones and moderation privileges:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/new-user&quot;&gt;Cadet&lt;/a&gt; | Rep = 10&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/vote-up&quot;&gt;Petty Officer&lt;/a&gt; | Rep = 15&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/vote-down&quot;&gt;Chief petty officer&lt;/a&gt; | Rep = 125&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/view-close-votes&quot;&gt;Ensign&lt;/a&gt; | Rep = 250&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/access-review-queues&quot;&gt;Lt Jr Grade&lt;/a&gt; | Rep = 500&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/established-user&quot;&gt;Lt&lt;/a&gt; | Rep = 1000&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;Lt Cmdr&lt;/a&gt; | Rep = 2000&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/suggest-tag-synonyms&quot;&gt;Cmdr&lt;/a&gt; | Rep = 2500&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/close-questions&quot;&gt;Captain&lt;/a&gt; | Rep = 3000&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/approve-tag-wiki-edits&quot;&gt;Commodore&lt;/a&gt; | Rep = 5000&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/moderator-tools&quot;&gt;Rear Admiral&lt;/a&gt; | Rep = 10,000&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/protect-questions&quot;&gt;Vice Admiral&lt;/a&gt; | Rep = 15,000&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/trusted-user&quot;&gt;Admiral&lt;/a&gt; | Rep = 20,000&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fleet Admiral | Moderator&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like I say, this is just a thought and would &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; be forced onto people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Edit&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This idea has been rejected by the community: the reasons for this are explained quite clearly in Wad Cheber's answer below.  I accept the points made in the accepted answer as perfectly valid reasons not to accept this proposal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-01-07T00:37:59.657" LastActivityDate="2015-08-13T04:51:20.847" Title="Honorary 'Rank' for this site?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7131" CreationDate="2015-08-13T03:26:20.300" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the concept, but I don't know how it would work out in execution.  For example, I'm not a fan of &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;.  I would prefer to have a rank associated with &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;.  Slytherincess would probably want a rank associated with &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt;.  Someone else might want a rank associated with Marvel Comics.  Another person would want a rank associated with the &lt;em&gt;Terminator&lt;/em&gt; franchise.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'd end up with Maiar, Valar, and Orcs living alongside Wizards and Witches; Jedi and Sith; T-800s and T-1000s; Iron Men, Hulks, and X Men, and so on and so forth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would create a huge mess, and it would be totally incomprehensible to new users.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way to make it work would be to have people vote for which franchise the titles should be based on, but that would lead to a situation where the people who like the franchise that wins would have titles, but no one else would have one.  That means that the site is now catering to fans of a single franchise, which is not a good thing, at least as I see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastActivityDate="2015-08-13T03:26:20.300" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7065" CreationDate="2015-08-13T04:22:05.877" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll post my answer in the form of a question: I have to question what makes a story ID question a duplicate? Is it the answer? I ask because the name of a book could be the answer to several different questions. Just because the answer is the same doesn't mean the questions were. It's a slippery slope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4356" LastActivityDate="2015-08-13T04:22:05.877" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7134" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7135" CreationDate="2015-08-13T11:19:45.170" Score="-3" ViewCount="337" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today we have seen a couple of questions about the latest Mission: Impossible film, &lt;em&gt;Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a spy film, we have seen characters use gadgets and devices that do not exist (or do not exist at the level of advancement we see in the film) in real life. Examples of these gadgets include the masks, the voice disguisers, the general technology etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there is very little in these films otherwise that could be classed as Science Fiction, and nothing at all that could be classed as Fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are questions about the &lt;em&gt;Mission: Impossible&lt;/em&gt; franchise on topic?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24087" LastEditorUserId="24087" LastEditDate="2015-08-13T11:36:56.987" LastActivityDate="2017-07-19T16:16:14.847" Title="Are questions about Mission: Impossible on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7134" CreationDate="2015-08-13T11:23:28.560" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe not. Mission Impossible is a series of action-spy genre, and does not to any extent fit the definitions of either Science-Fiction OR Fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the same as James Bond, or Jason Bourne (Hey their initials are the same!!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not believe that action-spy should on-topic in sci-fi &amp;amp; fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is the entire Movies stack exchange for generic movie questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12551" LastActivityDate="2015-08-13T11:23:28.560" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7134" CreationDate="2015-08-13T11:35:50.823" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;My argument for the &lt;em&gt;Mission: Impossible&lt;/em&gt; films being on-topic comes from the fact that if they had been published as comic books first (or based on comic books in someway), we would almost certainly consider them on-topic thanks to the series being full of gadgets and devices that lean slightly into science fiction territory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Proof of this is the acceptance of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nolan-batman-trilogy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;nolan-batman-trilogy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;nolan-batman-trilogy&lt;/a&gt; tag, which as a series of films;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Contains a similar amount of science fiction elements as the &lt;em&gt;Mission: Impossible&lt;/em&gt; films.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does not contain any references to the more science fiction or fantasy heavy concepts from the comics.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24087" LastActivityDate="2015-08-13T11:35:50.823" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7137" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-14T20:03:01.847" Score="2" ViewCount="3106" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/130/3823&quot;&gt;Are comic superheroes considered sci-fi?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;seems to have the subtext of &quot;Are all superheroes on-topic?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any superhero that wouldn't count as fantasy if it's not sci-fi?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do we count as fantasy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.730" LastActivityDate="2015-08-14T20:33:54.193" Title="Are superheroes considered fantasy?" Tags="|discussion|fantasy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7137" CreationDate="2015-08-14T20:33:54.193" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any superhero that has a &quot;superpower&quot; is going to be either science fiction or fantasy, and thus on-topic for this site. Heroes that do not have superpowers (i.e. Batman) would have to be taken on a case-by-case basis. Batman, as well as many other heroes without powers, are part of universes where there are other heroes and villains who &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; have powers, or the universe that they live in is clearly &quot;alternate history&quot; and so they are on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now as to whether a particular superpower is fantasy or science fiction is a subject of much debate. Many of the folks in the hard SF crowd hold that anything not strictly within the bounds of physics &lt;em&gt;as currently understood&lt;/em&gt; is fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, many super powers have scientific, &quot;handwavium&quot;, or pseudo-scientific explanations, or are part of the spectrum of abilities categorized as &lt;em&gt;psionics&lt;/em&gt;. Any powers meeting these criteria will generally be categorized as science fiction by most people (including me).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5424" LastActivityDate="2015-08-14T20:33:54.193" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7139" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-15T00:31:46.627" Score="-2" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;At present, we decide which movies to watch on a case by case basis, with a new question for each viewing.  I propose that we start a single meta question thread and keep it going indefinitely, and every time we are ready to watch a movie, we pick the one with the most upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This system would encourage participation, and make it easier to keep track of the voting.  A suggestion that loses once will still be in the running for the next go round.  The possibility that your suggestion will win would no longer be dependent upon your keeping track of a succession of different questions, and repeating the same suggestion time after time.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problems caused by having a new question every two weeks, and people not knowing that a new question had been asked, would cease to exist.  There would be one place to check in on how the voting is going, and how your suggestion is doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the problems with the current system is that a new question is asked every two weeks, and whoever submits the first answer is likely to attract more votes than later answers.  This discourages people from participating after the first day or two.  If we adopted my proposal, everyone would have an equal footing, regardless of when they submitted their suggestion.  The advantage of submitting a suggestion early would be negated by the fact that the process is ongoing, and every valid suggestion will be likely to win eventually.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a movie is watched, that answer would be deleted, and the remaining answers would become the focus of the voting.  This would have the added benefit of allowing people to see which movies had already been watched, and therefore, should not be suggested again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The biggest problem with the system now in place is that people just aren't participating.  The last few times we've watched a movie, there have been 3 or 4 participants (and &lt;em&gt;Shaun of the Dead&lt;/em&gt; was just me and Richard), which isn't much fun.  I think this is largely a result of the voting system.  If you don't notice that a new question has been asked, you won't know that a movie event is about to happen.  If you notice the question too late, the votes will already be in, you won't bother to submit a suggestion because you know it won't stand a chance of winning, and therefore, you won't be interested in watching the movie. An ongoing thread will attract attention and encourage participation.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the way the SE system works in every other situation - once an answer is submitted, voting on it continues indefinitely.  The best answers rise to the top of the heap.  I see no reason why this situation should be any different from the rest of the site.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="44025" LastEditDate="2015-08-15T00:51:29.693" LastActivityDate="2015-08-15T09:54:58.813" Title="Should we have a single meta question about which movies we will watch?" Tags="|discussion|questions|meta|chat-event|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7139" CreationDate="2015-08-15T01:02:27.183" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. I think that opening a new question each time is the better solution&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why not have one thread?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Curating a single thread and identifying which film is the winner will require multiple edits of the question over time, creating confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Less experienced users could also become confused as to why the top film isn't being shown that week.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;People might waste votes on films that have already been selected.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This system would require me (or whoever) to repeatedly select and de-select an accepted answer&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There would be an in-built &lt;em&gt;survivor bias&lt;/em&gt; among relatively poorly performing films. They would accrue votes over time simply be being around the longest.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The level of votes for existing films would discourage people from posting new answers. Why bother when you can see that a film is already at +7?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Opening a new question each time fits better with the Meta:SE model - You ask a question, the community chooses their preferred answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Participation&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a secondary issue, but I do think that we're learning lessons about what works in driving participation; more choice, shorter lead times, publicising the meta question, etc. I simply don't see how this idea would help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2015-08-15T09:54:58.813" LastActivityDate="2015-08-15T09:54:58.813" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6648" CreationDate="2015-08-16T17:55:20.973" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;William Shatner's tribute: the following image is a mosaic made up of pictures of Star Trek fans doing Vulcan salutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hMiez.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hMiez.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;mosaic&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2015-08-16T17:55:20.973" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7122" CreationDate="2015-08-17T13:27:41.767" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a frequent transgressor on this (as I was in this case). So often, we never see the answerer again, so it leaves a stub answer which, even if it is right, doesn't really tell us much. And it feels weird to add another answer &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My viewpoint is, if it doesn't actually change the answer, adding a plot description and a link to another site is good. Adding additional text indicating how the work matches is a bit more iffy, but constructive. Removing natter is... I guess that one is more controversial, but I feel like it's a good thing, kind of like fixing the spelling and grammar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2015-08-17T13:27:41.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7143" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7146" CreationDate="2015-08-17T21:07:45.257" Score="8" ViewCount="245" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our most recent chat event (&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/conversation/the-day-the-earth-stood-still&quot;&gt;The Day the Earth Stood Still&lt;/a&gt;) was our most successful yet, with five commenters and 13 another lurkers watching from the sidelines. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's now time to pick August's Movie Event #2!!! (woo!!!)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Update - As the answer with the joint highest overall score and highest number of upvotes, our choice for the next event is (...&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itAOGRiYRLI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;drumroll&lt;/a&gt;....) &lt;strong&gt;Alien&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Join us in the chatroom on 22nd August at 10pm UTC to watch together&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;As before, you need to pick your preferred film and post it as an answer below. Upvote the ones you like and the top answer (by Thursday 20th August at midnight UTC) will be selected as the winner. We'll then watch together on Saturday 22nd August at 10pm UTC in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/72PMQ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley chatroom&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Choose wisely and remember, &lt;s&gt;all&lt;/s&gt; most suggestions will be considered carefully, with &lt;s&gt;no exceptions&lt;/s&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signs_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;very few exceptions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/72PMQ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/72PMQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2017-06-03T13:51:14.853" LastActivityDate="2017-06-03T13:51:14.853" Title="August Movie Event #2!" Tags="|discussion|movie-night|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7143" CreationDate="2015-08-17T21:22:05.833" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Minority Report. Mainly because I've been meaning to rewatch it for ages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46805" LastActivityDate="2015-08-17T21:22:05.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7143" CreationDate="2015-08-17T21:27:03.207" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to suggest the 1984 classic &quot;The Terminator&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's not to like? Gunplay, time-traveling robot&lt;s&gt;s&lt;/s&gt;, Linda Hamilton's enormous hair...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/a6i7F.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/a6i7F.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an added bonus, we can all hoot and holler during the highly erotic &lt;a href=&quot;https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A8z3mQUCEAAAVa2.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;sex scene&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2015-08-18T14:49:25.877" LastActivityDate="2015-08-18T14:49:25.877" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7143" CreationDate="2015-08-17T23:59:56.087" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest the classic movie &lt;em&gt;Alien&lt;/em&gt;.  'Nuff said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/g8dKI.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/g8dKI.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastActivityDate="2015-08-17T23:59:56.087" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6648" CreationDate="2015-08-18T00:03:36.360" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/6C70QRbawN8?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/X9cBm.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/X9cBm.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastActivityDate="2015-08-18T00:03:36.360" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7143" CreationDate="2015-08-18T01:59:32.553" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn76zoYjr4k&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Things to Come&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cdnstatic.visualizeus.com/thumbs/7f/ae/7fae7790c5ab49d223644771268fa5d3_i.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://cdnstatic.visualizeus.com/thumbs/7f/ae/7fae7790c5ab49d223644771268fa5d3_i.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2015-08-18T18:25:34.093" LastActivityDate="2015-08-18T18:25:34.093" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7143" CreationDate="2015-08-18T09:18:57.940" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I may actually be able to attend this one! As such, I would like to nominate;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;frm=1&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=3&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;uact=8&amp;amp;ved=0CDcQFjACahUKEwiky_jEpbLHAhWMWNsKHSNzArc&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt1843866%2F&amp;amp;ei=ePfSVaSvLYyx7Qaj5om4Cw&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNG5o7XKZZ6xH_dNJCN5BMENDJ6c4A&amp;amp;bvm=bv.99804247,d.ZGU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Captain America: The Winter Soldier&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which is the 9th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the 6th live action Captain America film, the 2nd Captain America film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the 3rd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to have Captain America in it and the 7th live action film which contains Captain America.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Directed by the Russo Brothers (most well known for their directing work on &lt;em&gt;Community&lt;/em&gt;), &lt;em&gt;Captain America: The Winter Soldier&lt;/em&gt; follows Steve Rogers, who after the events of &lt;em&gt;The Avengers/Avengers Assemble&lt;/em&gt; finds himself working for SHIELD. After SHIELD director Nick Fury is attacked by the mysterious Winter Soldier, Steve teams up with Sam Wilson and Natasha Romanoff in order to find out what exactly is going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24087" LastActivityDate="2015-08-18T09:18:57.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7150" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7152" CreationDate="2015-08-18T12:06:27.717" Score="4" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just got an odd -1 rep from a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1586/who-or-what-was-tom-bombadil/93345#93345&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; in which I downvoted an answer. Is this small penalty due to the fact that I had downvoted without a comment? If so, please direct me to these rules. I'm not belly aching about a lousy 1 pt, but I want to be aware of the rules. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47903" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2015-08-18T13:13:25.077" Title="I re-read the help documents and I couldn't find anything about the act of downvoting" Tags="|discussion|down-votes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-07-06T14:31:11.960" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7150" CreationDate="2015-08-18T12:36:17.727" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downvoting any answer costs 1 rep. This is not a &quot;penalty&quot; but rather to discourage people from arbitrarily downvoting answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some cases, rather than downvoting, we should be editing the answer to improve it, especially if the problem(s) are simple things like spelling, grammar, and punctuation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5424" LastActivityDate="2015-08-18T12:36:17.727" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7150" CreationDate="2015-08-18T12:57:49.093" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &amp;quot;penalty&amp;quot; is explained in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/vote-down&quot;&gt;the help page for the &amp;quot;vote down&amp;quot; privilege.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What happens when I vote down?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you vote down, you are nudging that content &amp;quot;down&amp;quot; the page, so it will be seen by fewer people. Voting down answers is not something we want you to take lightly, so it is not free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvotes remove 2 reputation from the post owner.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvotes on answers remove 1 reputation from you, the voter.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvotes on questions are free. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/06/optimizing-for-pearls-not-sand/&quot;&gt;Why?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can vote 30 times per UTC day. You get an additional 10 votes on questions only. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/05/vote-for-this-question-or-the-kitten-gets-it/&quot;&gt;Why?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are no hard and fast rules for when to downvote or upvote, aside from &amp;quot;vote on the post, not the poster&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people vote based on usefulness, or how interesting a post is, amount of effort and research, or how correct something is. What you vote on, and how you vote is up to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, the help page discusses some suggestions regarding when to downvote, and what alternative actions you might take.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What are the alternatives to down-voting?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The up-vote privilege comes first because that's what you should focus on: pushing great content to the top. Down-voting should be reserved for extreme cases. It's not meant as a substitute for communication and editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of voting down:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the post is spammy or offensive, flag it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question is duplicate or off-topic, flag it for moderator attention.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If something is wrong, please leave a comment or edit the post to correct it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have had many discussions on what sort of things the community generally deems as &amp;quot;downvote-worthy&amp;quot; or not. You can read through &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=downvote&quot;&gt;some of those posts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-08-18T13:13:25.077" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7143" CreationDate="2015-08-18T14:34:52.553" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since it did fairly well in the prior poll, I'm going to renominate &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hardware&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. If I keep proposing it, it will eventually be the right answer. ^_^&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/X47N0.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/X47N0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2015-08-18T14:34:52.553" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7154" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-18T16:26:21.373" Score="1" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I choose the option, &quot;belongs on a different StackExchange&quot;, the only option that comes up is the Meta site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if we could say it probably belongs on Movies.SE, or Arqade.SE, or WorldBuilding.SE. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since we most commonly tell people those are the sites that are a better fit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2015-08-18T16:26:21.373" Title="How do we get more options for &quot;Belongs on a different Stack Exchange&quot;?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-08-18T21:22:07.417" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7143" CreationDate="2015-08-18T21:18:45.977" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardust_(2007_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stardust&lt;/a&gt;, one of the best films I've ever seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A0rfq.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A0rfq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It ticks ALL the boxes. Whatever you want, Stardust has it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Romance: an emotional and convincing love story at the heart (pun intended!) of the plot&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Action: plenty of swordfighting, daring escapes, and galloping horseback chases&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Intrigue: power-hungry princes plotting to assassinate one another to gain the throne&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cast: Robert de Niro as a flying pirate with a fascinating character, Michelle Pfeiffer, Claire Danes, that inimitable villain of villains Mark Strong, Peter O'Toole and Ricky Gervais in minor roles&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Soundtrack: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JQSeTKOr-Q&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;fantastic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dialogue: witty, moving, tons of quotes you'll want to remember&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suspense is kept up very well throughout, character development is a central theme, and the ending is even better than in the book!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, anyone who doesn't like this film can sod off :-D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2015-08-18T21:18:45.977" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7143" CreationDate="2015-08-19T02:23:19.167" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Time Bandits! Monty Python's own Terry Gilliam as director, and George Harrison soundtrack to boot!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uJduS.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uJduS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40599" LastEditorUserId="44025" LastEditDate="2015-08-19T19:37:44.513" LastActivityDate="2015-08-19T19:37:44.513" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7159" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-21T04:28:39.987" Score="9" ViewCount="394" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had some doozies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By contentious,  I mean the question with the most downvotes yet still positive overall. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a straightforward way to find it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastActivityDate="2015-08-27T20:19:44.197" Title="What's the most contentious question on scifi.SE?" Tags="|discussion|questions|voting|down-votes|up-votes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7159" CreationDate="2015-08-21T05:07:14.213" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/queries?order_by=recent&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/queries?order_by=recent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/353177/most-contentious-posts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/353177/most-contentious-posts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stole that from another sites queries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like this is a leading candidate:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/59521/why-are-most-of-the-main-characters-caucasian-in-game-of-thrones&quot;&gt;Why are most of the main characters White/English in Game Of Thrones?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry, missed that you wanted positive overall rep:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/60467/why-is-it-logical-to-live-long-and-prosper&quot;&gt;Why is it logical to live long and prosper?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-08-21T05:07:14.213" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7161" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-21T14:21:00.810" Score="1" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3552/what-factors-would-allow-people-here-to-acquire-more-than-200-reputation-points&quot;&gt;What factors would allow people here to acquire more than 200 reputation points per day?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;So receiving bounties doesn't apply against the limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry if this one is duplicate too.&#xA;When you offer a bounty, does that come off the daily rep limit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:  You earn 250 point in a day for normal up/down votes etc (normally capped to 200) and also offer a +50 bounty.   The 50 point come off right away.   At the of the day if your reputation +200 or +150?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I checked the help article, but it's not clear to me which way it goes.   I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; the answer &lt;strong&gt;should be&lt;/strong&gt; +150, but I &lt;strong&gt;think&lt;/strong&gt; the answer might be +200.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(If it's +200, it means that on days where you're earning lots of votes, you can essentially offer bounties free of charge !)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2015-08-21T15:47:24.197" Title="Do offered bounties count against the 200/day rep cap?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7161" CreationDate="2015-08-21T15:18:49.210" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As @Richard explained in a comment, instead of thinking of receiving bounties as being exempt from the rep cap limit, it better to think of it like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Offering and claiming bounties &lt;strong&gt;both affect the rep cap limit&lt;/strong&gt; in the amount equal to their value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Offering a +50 bounty reduces your cap to 150 and simultaneously reduces your rep by 50.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earning a +50 bounty raises your cap to +250 and awards you +50.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In his example, if you offer a +50 bounty and earn a +100 bounty, you will have a net gain of +50 and your rep cap for the day will be 250.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastEditorUserId="3823" LastEditDate="2015-08-21T15:47:24.197" LastActivityDate="2015-08-21T15:47:24.197" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7164" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-22T09:23:09.260" Score="4" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/99837/have-any-answers-from-this-site-been-used-in-any-subsequent-canon-works&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; I have posted to the main site.  Considering there are a few close votes for this not being on-topic, my question is &lt;strong&gt;is it considered to be on-topic for the main site?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, to me, the main reason why it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; on-topic for the site, is that &lt;strong&gt;it is asking about works of science fiction or fantasy&lt;/strong&gt;.  I'm not asking a question about the workings of the &lt;em&gt;site&lt;/em&gt;, but whether any canon material has been made &lt;em&gt;on the basis of information from this site&lt;/em&gt;.  I can't see how this is any different to a question asking about any out-of-universe aspect of a science fiction or fantasy work.  Furthermore, I have placed a &lt;strong&gt;time limit&lt;/strong&gt; to it, so there would be a finite list (if any works at all).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2015-08-23T04:59:46.640" Title="Is this question on topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7164" CreationDate="2015-08-22T13:04:27.277" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that question is definitely on-topic. We have tons of &quot;what was the first XXX?&quot; questions, many of them well received (despite my personal dislike of them). This is just one of those: &quot;What was the first work of fiction to incorporate speculation from SF&amp;amp;F into canon?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, IMO it's not a very &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; question, because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This site's only been around a few years; the odds that an author/writer/etc read this site at all, let alone changed their mind about their work because of our answer, approaches nil.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We generally don't &lt;em&gt;like&lt;/em&gt; speculating on future events. The bulk of our answers are about things that are already canon, or based on things we know are canon. There aren't a whole lot of places where an author can even find future speculative information to &quot;borrow&quot; from.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Even if that did happen, how would we know? Unless the author came out and said &quot;Yeah, I had this whole thing planned out in my mind, until I read that guy on stack exchange and it made so much more sense. I scrapped my ideas and just wrote his.&quot; No author's going to do that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But bad questions are still on-topic :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2015-08-22T13:04:27.277" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7164" CreationDate="2015-08-22T23:40:59.780" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Regarding the close votes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the current time, there are four close votes, all saying this is 'off-topic'.  The reasons behind the close votes are as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question belongs on Meta&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, it &lt;em&gt;doesn't&lt;/em&gt;!  As per the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/whats-meta&quot;&gt;Meta guidelines&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Meta Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange is the part of the site&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;where users discuss the workings and policies of Science Fiction &amp;amp;&#xA;  Fantasy Stack Exchange&lt;/strong&gt; rather than discussing science fiction or&#xA;  fantasy itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As this question is talking about Science Fiction and Fantasy, not about the &lt;em&gt;workings or policies&lt;/em&gt; of the site itself, then it is not suitable for Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;This is off-topic because it's not about a work of SF or F, it's about this website... which is off-topic for this website. I don't think the main problem is that it's a list question (though it's that, too).&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I reject this claim: the question &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; talking about Science Fiction and/or Fantasy works, just a specific question in relation to this site.  It's no different to asking something like 'What was the inspiration for X?'  As those questions are on-topic, then this question should be too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Requests for lists of works or recommendations are off-topic as they&#xA;do not fit our questions and answers format. Feel free to ask about&#xA;people's favorites in chat.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, this is a 'list' question.  Nevertheless, the guidelines by which we object to 'list' questions are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Reading or watching recommendations &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lists of works with a particular plot element&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the former is not relevant to this - the question is clearly not asking for recommendations.  However, it could be construed as looking for a particular plot element, but I think this is drawing a rather long bow, as the question isn't looking for a &lt;em&gt;single&lt;/em&gt; plot element, but rather plot elements containing information based on answers here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, that's the end of my rant.  The way I see it (and yes, I am somewhat biased), this question is &lt;strong&gt;completely on topic for this site&lt;/strong&gt;.  None of the close votes, in my opinion, are valid reasons to close this question.  It is inquiring about works of science fiction or fantasy.  Agreed, it is a broad question, but I have narrowed it down to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Being a &lt;em&gt;speculative&lt;/em&gt; answer only&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There being evidence that the speculation involved in canon works was, in some way, linked with this site i.e. the next episode of a show they suddenly use a similar idea to what was presented in an answer is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; acceptable: we need to see evidence that it is sourced from this site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a finite list: it must have been the first instance&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also argue that is is on-topic on the grounds that it is asking about background information to science fiction or fantasy works, which, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;as per the guidelines&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;makes this question on-topic&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2015-08-23T04:59:46.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7159" CreationDate="2015-08-24T12:27:40.300" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; All the numbers and ratios given in this answer were accurate when the answer was first made. Their inclusion here seems to have triggered some voting, though, so they’re probably all wrong by the time you're reading this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you define &lt;em&gt;contentious&lt;/em&gt; not so much by total number of votes cast (up or down), but rather by the difference between the number of up- and downvotes cast, the results are a bit different from JohnP’s query.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, if a post has 35 upvotes and 26 downvotes, that would count as very contentious in John’s query, which goes by vote count; but if we’re talking differences between up- and downvotes, it’s not really that high: there’s a difference of 9 votes between the 35 upvotes and the 26 downvotes, which is equivalent to about 25% of the total number of upvotes. In other words, only about 75% as many people downvoted the question as upvoted it; one direction of voters is quite a bit larger than the other (downvoters = 75% of upvoters), and the contention is fairly skewed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question with 12 upvotes and 11 downvotes has fewer votes overall and would score lower in John’s query; but there is here only one vote’s difference between up- and downvotes, corresponding to just 8.33% of the total number of upvotes. The two groups of voters are thus, percent-wise, more equal than in the previous example (here downvoters = 91.66% of upvoters) and the question is ‘more contentious’. A percentile ratio is, then, a good way of figuring out whether the distribution of up- and downvotes is heavily skewed in one direction, or fairly equal. An added benefit is that questions that have received little attention will not clutter up the list, since even a single vote’s difference will represent a high percentage if there are only a few votes either way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’ve forked John’s query to create an &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/354157/questions-with-closest-number-of-up-and-downvotes-and-positive-total&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;overview of questions with the lowest differential ratio&lt;/a&gt;. The differential ratio given is the difference between up- and downvotes as a percentage of total upvotes; i.e., the 8.33% in the example above, not the 91.66%. (I’ve limited it to posts that have at least 7 upvotes, just to get completely rid of the ones that haven’t received much interest—too easy to be ‘contentious’ when only a few people have voted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From that, it seems the most evenly divided votes belong to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10 up, 9 down — ratio: 10%&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/87658&quot;&gt;What is Theta Protocol?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/27244&quot;&gt;Is there any truth to the rumor that Speaker for the Dead was ghost-written by a committee of Mormons for theological purposes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9 up, 8 down — ratio: 11.1%&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/89879&quot;&gt;What’s going on with the War Boys in Mad Max: Fury Road? (SPOILERS)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;– and then from there on, there are six questions with 8 up, 7 down (12%), etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note:&lt;/em&gt; there is one answer that has an even lower ratio, with 12 up and 11 down (8.33%): &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/11911/who-is-the-first-minority-superhero-in-mainstream-us-superhero-comics/11915#11915&quot;&gt;this answer to &lt;em&gt;Who is the first minority superhero in mainstream US superhero comics?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Second note:&lt;/em&gt; As mentioned by ThePopMachine in the comments, if we include those questions which have a negative overall score (i.e., more downvotes than upvotes), there are several that have even lower ratios:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/43718&quot;&gt;Did Darth Vader post-ROTS ever engage in sexual activity in canon?&lt;/a&gt; (16 down, 15 up = 6.25%)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/49416&quot;&gt;Do &amp;quot;Conan&amp;quot; movies pass Bechdel test?&lt;/a&gt; (15 down, 14 up = 6.66%)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/14299&quot;&gt;What does Storm really bring to the table?&lt;/a&gt; (12 down, 11 up = 8.33%)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ratios here are a little different from the ones in ThePopMachine’s comment, since his ratio was based only on selecting questions with more downvotes than upvotes and changing nothing else—that means it still calculated the ratio relative to the upvotes. My ratios here are based on reversing the query entirely, calculating the ratio relative to the downvotes, now that they are the larger group. That way, the ratios remain consistent in both cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43655" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2015-08-27T20:19:44.197" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1289" CreationDate="2015-08-25T07:46:15.230" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme&lt;/strong&gt;: Praxis and Often Right have synaptic scanners that allow each other to listen in on the other's thoughts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/22350462#22350462&quot;&gt;Praxis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height&lt;/strong&gt;: June 2015, but it still recurs&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dr Noonien Soong has a device called a synaptic scanner which he uses to transfer or copy consciousness from a living being into an android body.  My handle being a reference to Dr Soong, was making comments about downvotes and Praxis made a very similar remark literally at the same time.  The remark was made by Praxis that a synaptic scanner must have been used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since then, whenever Praxis and Often Right make a statement that is very similar, they cite the synaptic scanner as the reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Example&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@JasonBaker: do you mean Star Trek: The Motion Picture (the one with V'Ger in it), because in that movie the Enterprise had undergone a refit to have the rectangular warp nacelles which these images don't have. That movie is the only time I ever recall seeing the Enterprise in spacedock too, but that's not it I'm afraid! –  Often Right Jun 4 at 1:39&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;hr&gt;&#xA;   @JasonBaker : Do you mean The Motion Picture? I'm just clarifying because the image above shows the Enterprise as it appeared in The Original Series, but The Motion Picture only has the refit Enterprise, which looks quite different from above. –  Praxis Jun 4 at 1:39 &#xA;  &lt;hr&gt;&#xA;   @OftenRight : Were you scanning my brainwaves?! –  Praxis Jun 4 at 1:40 &#xA;  &lt;hr&gt;&#xA;  @Praxis - my synaptic scanner comes in handy sometimes ;) –  Often Right Jun 4 at 1:41   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note how we both had the same idea at the same time - proof of the synaptic scanners!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastEditorUserId="22917" LastEditDate="2016-05-20T04:39:26.423" LastActivityDate="2016-05-20T04:39:26.423" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1289" CreationDate="2015-08-25T13:28:47.693" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme:&lt;/strong&gt; Thanks, Richard/It's Richard's fault&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scope:&lt;/strong&gt; SFF Chat room (Mos Eisley) and Meta (multiple questions)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator:&lt;/strong&gt; Michael Edenfield and Phantom42, based on behavior of&#xA;SS-3.1415926535897932384626433&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height:&lt;/strong&gt; April 2015 - October 2015.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; A user who had a number of contentious posts which would often be closed or downvoted, was also receiving temporary bans in chat for offensive remarks. Despite many of the closures being the result of the community's will, or any one of the mods, this user would almost always blame Richard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Case in point: SS was banned from chat and opened &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6795/5184&quot;&gt;this meta question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, what have I done wrong or unethical this time that I have been banned again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Richard, seriously? This is you who have started the fight...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To which &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6796/5184&quot;&gt;Keen responded&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because you said something rude in The Waiting Room (Health.SE's chat room), it was flagged, and deleted. Don't be rude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also quit blaming Richard for everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The amount of blame placed on Richard for every perceived sleight led way to chat's assigning the blame for every wrong in the world to Richard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In chat, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/21024420#21024420&quot;&gt;phantom42 said&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We need a &amp;quot;Thanks Richard&amp;quot; (a la Thanks Obama) image to start posting anytime anything bad happens around here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Michael Edenfield stepped up to the task and created a handful of images for use, lampooning the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/x5W9i.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/x5W9i.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;thanks, richard&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lAwQQ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lAwQQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;is it off-topic?&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L2Jbn.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L2Jbn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;I'm just here to see who blames richard&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xP0Tu.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xP0Tu.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;damn you, richard!&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unofficial retirement:&lt;/strong&gt; When Richard stepped down as moderator, the active chat participants made a collective agreement to no longer blame Richard for everything, even in jest, going so far as to even remove the &amp;quot;Blame Richard&amp;quot; functionality from Mike Edenfield's &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/166588/joshua&quot;&gt;Joshua bot&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-10-03T19:00:08.287" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7170" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-26T00:19:54.870" Score="0" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;I accidentally clicked on the preformatted text option just now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;This is a sample&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I understand on other computer sites where programming is involved that this is commonly used for code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is though, &lt;strong&gt;when is it appropriate to use preformatted text formatting on the main site?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastActivityDate="2015-08-27T23:20:16.977" Title="When to use preformatted text on this site?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7171" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-26T00:20:32.800" Score="2" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;Specifically, I'm referencing this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/100099/25379&quot;&gt;Which character from Star Trek (TNG era) &amp;quot;died&amp;quot; the most times?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why I believe this question requires a lot of discussion&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Initially, I left a comment asking for some clarification. (The request was based specifically on some examples presented in Praxis' answer; you can check the history to see that he was initially counting them all. Even now, it's not entirely clear whether some of them &quot;count&quot; or not.). This comment was deleted before clarification could be provided. (I don't think the asker even saw it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the comments being cleaned up while discussion was ongoing and some significant clarification also being lost without being edited in the question, I concluded that the mods had decided that there was simply too much discussion for the Q&amp;amp;A format. A narrower choice of criteria for &quot;death&quot; would probably require much less discussion, but I don't believe that's the question the OP wanted to ask. Without extensive discussion of the criteria, I don't believe we can determine whether a particular event &quot;counts&quot;; it would either be opinion based or simply unclear. (Even with that discussion, it might still be considered opinion based unless the OP is allowed to have final arbitration on whether something &quot;counts.&quot;) Based on this conclusion, I downvoted, flagged the question for closure, and left a comment explaining my reasons for doing so. (The flag was declined, but obviously, I don't have any insight on the reasoning for that; perhaps I should have chosen &quot;Primarily opinion based&quot; instead of &quot;Unclear what you're asking&quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The behavior in question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a couple more comments clarifying this reasoning to the OP, they suggested that the necessary discussion and clarification could occur in a chat room. However, I'm skeptical that this is acceptable. The Q&amp;amp;A format is explicitly designed to &lt;em&gt;limit&lt;/em&gt; lengthy discussion, instead promoting clarity and narrow scope. This limiting is frequently credited as a major factor in why StackOverflow was such a huge success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my primary question here is whether this behavior is acceptable: &lt;strong&gt;are questions that require lengthy discussion and clarification but contain that discussion to chat acceptable as on topic?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondary questions about this specific case:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have I misinterpreted the moderator action in this case?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does this question require less clarification than I think?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-08-26T02:30:07.000" Title="Is a question that requires an associated chat for lengthy discussion on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|chat|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7171" CreationDate="2015-08-26T00:51:28.193" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The purpose of comments is to suggest improvements to questions or answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think a question is unclear or ill-defined, then comments are appropriate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It &quot;ought to&quot; never be the case that it's required to read comments to understand a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How you arrive at the improvements to a question is irrelevant.    The discussion could happen in comments if it's short or in chat if it's long.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately the result of those queries may result in clarifying edits to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional comment:   Like I pointed out elsewhere:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's not disapproval for the mods to delete comments. Comments are to improve a question or answer and it's normal procedure to delete those comments if there are too many and after clarifications or suggestions to improve may have been applied to the questions or answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastActivityDate="2015-08-26T00:51:28.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7171" CreationDate="2015-08-26T02:30:07.000" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm largely unfamiliar with the question, so I'm going to answer this in terms of the issue you raised, and not in regards to the specific question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real issue that needs to be examined when determining this is &lt;strong&gt;What sort of discussion is being kicked off?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have two discussion-related close reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They are primarily-opinion based.&lt;/strong&gt; These are questions that inherently don't have a objectively &quot;correct&quot; answer that can be identified. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They are &quot;too broad&quot; in that they have too many possible answers, or the answers would be too long for our format.&lt;/strong&gt; For questions like these, we often try to get the OP to narrow down their question and criteria to bring it within scope.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, let's talk about comments. What are they for? The instructions say&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use comments to ask for clarification or add more information. Avoid answering questions in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, officially, comments are &lt;em&gt;for&lt;/em&gt; a back-and-forth with OP/other users to get more information. If the comments become too lengthy, the system automatically suggests that users move to a chat room for extended discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you've described in this situation sounds like the normal prescribed and suggested use of the comments and chat room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But what about all this discussion? Does that make it a discussion-based question?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We come back to &lt;em&gt;What sort of discussion is being kicked off?&lt;/em&gt; If the discussion is about trying to narrow down the question, or establish guidelines or criteria, the discussion and size of the discussion has zero bearing on whether or not the question is on-topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, if the question is generating an overly large discussion trying to nail down the scope, that may be a good indicator that the question is too-broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But... you just said the size of the discussion doesn't make it on/off-topic.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether or not a question is on or off-topic should be decided &lt;em&gt;solely&lt;/em&gt; on the question. The comments are just a relevant side-effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2015-08-26T02:30:07.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7170" CreationDate="2015-08-27T10:14:04.173" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The beauty of formatting is that it allows for emphasis.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As @Mooz says in the comments above, formatting is suitable;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Whenever the OP feels like it suits their post&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if I wanted to quote a specific part of a script including action lines or descriptive elements, rather than just diaglouge;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;CAPTAIN AMERICA throws his shield, hitting IRON MAN in the chest and winning the civil war&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I might use it then in order to differentiate important text from the rest of the body of the answer and other types of emphasised text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's really up to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24087" LastActivityDate="2015-08-27T10:14:04.173" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7170" CreationDate="2015-08-27T12:06:12.043" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another potential option, since pre-formatted text is monospaced, is ASCII art for when hand-drawn circles just don't cut it. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The following is a crude ASCII diagram of the room showing why Xavier had to curve the bullet&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;X - Xavier Killminion    C - Clueless Mook    H - Helpless Hostage&#xA;    X&#xA;       C&#xA; C  H &#xA;    C&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;As you can see, Xavier doesn't have a clear shot at the third clueless mook, so his only choice was to use his bullet-bending prowess to curve the bullet around the room to hit all three.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2015-08-27T12:06:12.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7170" CreationDate="2015-08-27T23:20:16.977" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;A common usage of preformatted text outside of code discussions is for movie script excerpts. Movie scripts are often formatted with a centered, narrow column that's hard to emulate in text without disabling regular HTML flowing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've used it in at least one case on Movies.SE, &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/35794/why-didnt-aragorn-let-theoden-kill-grima/35796#35796&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't particularly like using it for emphasis, because I'm a fan of semantic markup and having specific forms of emphasis have meanings - &lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;em&gt;underline&lt;/em&gt; and quotes are different markups with different meanings, but I don't really care that much either way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4516" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2015-08-27T23:20:16.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7177" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-28T20:46:31.630" Score="3" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a minor annoyance/inconsistency with the close vote review queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suppose I’m looking at a question which has been flagged as a duplicate of another question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On the flagged question, I can only see the number of answers/whether there’s an accepted answer. I can‘t see the answers themselves.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On the duplicate question, I can see both the number of answers/whether there’s an accepted answer &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; the answers themselves.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if I could see the existing answers on the question I’m about to review, not just related questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do I want this?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Particularly when I’m reviewing Story ID questions which have been marked as dupe, I wanted to check the answers on both of them for an OP confirmation that it’s the same story. (Probably unnecessary if it’s already got CVs, but I like to be thorough.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, I have to click through to the original question, but I can immediately see the answers on the dupe target. That’s mildly annoying. It would be a little easier if the answers on the review question were immediately accessible. &lt;em&gt;#firstworldproblems&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be sufficient if this just occurred on questions with dupe votes, but it’s probably easier and no less arduous to enable it for all close vote questions. But this is a very low priority request – the annoyance is minor at best. But hey, if you don’t ask, etc? :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Screenshots&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Original question, with no answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kc0uA.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kc0uA.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The duplicate, with answers shown below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wLluk.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wLluk.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastActivityDate="2015-08-29T05:46:30.120" Title="Close vote review queue: let me see the answers on a review question" Tags="|feature-request|review-queue|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7177" CreationDate="2015-08-28T21:07:41.523" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is apparently such a popular request, that someone has written a client-side script to implement it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From an answer to this &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/212479/165776&quot;&gt;existing meta question&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Update: &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/questions/4486/the-stack-overflow-unofficial-patch-soup&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Unofficial Patch v1.10&lt;/a&gt; now contains a client-side implementation of this feature. It works by detecting the presence of un-displayed answers (based on the summary table) and loading them via AJAX instead. There's some kluginess involved in reformatting the answer wrapper elements to fit the review page format, but overall it seems to work nice and smoothly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:25:40.340" LastActivityDate="2015-08-28T21:07:41.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7179" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-28T21:44:40.700" Score="1" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;3 years ago, there was this question: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/21847/help-identifying-a-sci-fi-book-with-short-stories-about-portals&quot;&gt;Help identifying a sci-fi book with short stories about portals&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And today there was this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/100407/short-story-collection-about-transporter-doors&quot;&gt;Short story collection about Transporter “Doors”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new question was a duplicate of the old one, but the old one got closed as the duplicate? Shouldn't the new one be closed instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19374" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2015-08-29T00:28:45.587" Title="How can a 3-year-old question be a duplicate a new one?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7179" CreationDate="2015-08-28T21:57:13.020" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This happens sometimes. The decision of which to make the duplicate is based on which question is better, more inclusive, etc. It can also matter if the newer question already has a better answer than the older.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, the newer question and its newer answer has slightly more information than the older.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4744/should-we-always-close-the-newer-question-as-the-duplicate&quot;&gt;Should we always close the newer question as the duplicate?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2015-08-29T00:28:45.587" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7177" CreationDate="2015-08-29T05:46:30.120" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not just click through to the actual Q&amp;amp;A?  And then go back to the review screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do the most close and re-open reviewing here and on Serverfault and on both sites I regularly click on the question link so that I can look at all the comments, any answers, etc.  It's an easy way to get a better picture of what's good or bad about a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And although I'm not going to go looking now for the relevant meta.SE posts, it's been clearly stated by SE staff that it's not just &lt;em&gt;allowed&lt;/em&gt; to do this, it's almost the definition of careful reviewing if you do it.  You don't have to do it, it's not always necessary, but it's totally fine if you do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastActivityDate="2015-08-29T05:46:30.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7182" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-29T17:03:44.623" Score="-3" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed many other sites have a new profile, that among other things leads to items like tracking tag badges and other badges. Every other site that I participate on regularly has the new format, but for some reason I don't see it here. I know there was a configuration that happened initially, but I'm not sure why this one site would be the only site that I belong to that doesn't have it. Am I going crazy, or is there something unique about this site that doesn't allow for the new profile? Is there something unique to my profile that doesn't show the new page? If so, how can I change it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm referring to this page, which shows examples of the new page. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/244238/155668&quot;&gt;Profile Page Makeover, Part 3: the Prototype returns&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2015-08-29T18:41:34.497" Title="Why doesn't my profile show up with the new format on this site?" Tags="|bug|profile-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2015-08-29T17:42:01.597" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7182" CreationDate="2015-08-29T17:28:33.203" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Allegedly it's because our site has funky custom CSS and any attempt to do anything clever results in the whole site falling over in a quite embarrassing way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've raised this on several occasions and the answer is that we get the usual &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/253359/list-of-communities-with-base-css-updates-completed&quot;&gt;we're working on it and it'll happen in a few weeks&lt;/a&gt; messages back. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that we're not the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; site in this position. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/253359/list-of-communities-with-base-css-updates-completed#comment843552_253359&quot;&gt;This comment&lt;/a&gt; from the SE design team is also quite instructive; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We were cranking on these, but some other design stuff that was more&#xA;  time sensitive slowed the rollout a bit. You should see these picking&#xA;  up pace again pretty soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2015-08-29T18:41:34.497" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7184" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7185" CreationDate="2015-08-31T22:00:18.613" Score="-1" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to vote to close a James Bond question as off topic because it's not science fiction or fantasy (it wasn't about Moonraker which maybe would fit but not Casino Royale).  But I only got these choices:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6ymer.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6ymer.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has happened a couple of other times too, and I end up giving up in frustration.  Why aren't I presented with the complete list of choices?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if I choose the &quot;another site&quot; bubble, the only other site presented is scifi meta.  Literature would have been ok.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line, whatever algorithm is restricting the choice lists for these menus is working very poorly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28516" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T23:52:07.450" Title="Incomplete choice list when I vote to close" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7184" CreationDate="2015-08-31T22:25:55.703" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, this is the complete list of off-topic close reasons for SF&amp;amp;F. What do you think is missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are no migrations set up from SF&amp;amp;F to other sites, mostly because we don't need them. So, the list of &quot;other sites&quot; is empty on purpose. The volume of migrations is small enough that they can be handled by moderators, which is preferred (because they're usually rejected anyway).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to close for a reason that's not in the list, pick &quot;Other&quot; and type it in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T22:25:55.703" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7184" CreationDate="2015-08-31T22:32:14.533" Score="3" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Migration to SE communities other than SF&amp;amp;F Meta is handled by Mods, not regular users.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You posted a picture of the menu, which offers four options.  The obvious choice should have been &quot;Other (add a comment explaining what is wrong)&quot;.  This gives you the ability to describe exactly why you think the question belongs elsewhere on SE.  I would have written something like:  &quot;Casino Royale is not a science fiction or fantasy movie, so this question is off topic for SF&amp;amp;F.SE&quot;.  This would have addressed all of your concerns.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Literature.SE hasn't existed for quite some time, and I believe the new proposal for a reboot of the community is still in the commitment phase on Area 51.SE.  As far as I am aware, it would be impossible to migrate the question there.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For reasons that I don't fully understand, we (and every other SE site) were limited to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2978/what-should-be-our-off-topic-reasons&quot;&gt;three or fewer customized off-topic closure options&lt;/a&gt;.  For other reasons that I also don't understand, we elected to have an unusable and all but worthless &quot;belongs on another site&quot; option instead of the much more useful and practical &quot;This isn't a question about science fiction or fantasy, dummy&quot; option.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T23:52:07.450" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7187" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-01T00:14:25.743" Score="-1" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2978/what-should-be-our-off-topic-reasons&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; meta question, when the VTC options were being overhauled, we were asked to choose a maximum of three customized reasons for off topic VTCs.  The options we have now are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Seeking scientific solutions or explanations...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Request for list of works or recommendations...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Belongs on another site...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Other (add comment explaining what is wrong).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the second highest voted answer to the question linked above was &amp;quot;This question does not pertain to Science Fiction or Fantasy&amp;quot;, which would be an excellent option to have available to us, it was inexplicably ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, we have option #3, which is absolutely useless:  as countless meta posts have pointed out, if you select that option, you get a menu with exactly one choice:  Question should be migrated to SF&amp;amp;F Meta.  Since this is almost never the option the user is trying to find, it is totally worthless to us.  There are several compelling reasons why we should get rid of this choice, if it is possible to do so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions that don't belong on SF&amp;amp;F usually belong on Movies &amp;amp; TV or some other SE community, not SF&amp;amp;F Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We very rarely need to migrate questions (a meta question about this received an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3080/44025&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; stating that in the previous 90 days, only 9 questions had been migrated;  an average of 1 migration every ten days is well within the capabilities of our mods to handle;  a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1037/44025&quot;&gt;similar answer&lt;/a&gt; to another question found only 5 migrations in 90 days).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3078/44025&quot;&gt;Mods deal with migrations, not normal users&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7184/incomplete-choice-list-when-i-vote-to-close&quot;&gt;most obvious reason&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4827/misleading-off-topic-default-text&quot;&gt;say&lt;/a&gt; that a question on &lt;strong&gt;SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY&lt;/strong&gt; is off topic is clearly &amp;quot;This question is not about &lt;strong&gt;SCIENCE FICTION OR FANTASY!!!&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is sometimes necessary to alert a mod to a question that should be migrated, of course, but at present, the only way to do this is to flag the question as &amp;quot;In need of moderator attention&amp;quot;.  This system works perfectly well, and makes VTC option #3 totally redundant and surplus to requirements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If a question appears, and it is clear that it should be moved to meta, we can simply flag it for moderator attention and say so, the same way we do with every other migration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Taking all of this into consideration, it seems to be completely obvious that we should get rid of VTC option #3 and substitute &amp;quot;This question is not about science fiction or fantasy&amp;quot;.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Is this even possible?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-09-01T02:30:35.900" Title="Are we allowed to change our custom &quot;off topic&quot; VTC options?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|scope|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7187" CreationDate="2015-09-01T02:17:39.270" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Can we?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. Per &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/184154/closing-changes-on-hold-unclear-too-broad-opinion-based-off-topic-reasons&quot;&gt;this Meta.SE post&lt;/a&gt;, moderators can curate the list of site-specific off-topic close reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Each site will have a list of its own specific pre-selected “Off-Topic” reasons&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[...]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;These lists will be determined by the communities, and moderators will be able to update them, subject to review by each other, their community, and the SE team&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I don't believe we can remove the migration option, although I'm welcome to correction on that point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Should we?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;not science fiction or fantasy&quot; custom close reason is certainly popular; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tools/question-close-stats?daterange=last90days&quot;&gt;the last 90 days&lt;/a&gt; (10k+ users only; sorry), 12 questions were closed with a custom reason that was some variation of &quot;this is not about science fiction or fantasy&quot; with no additional information given&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, out of 32 total questions closed with a custom off-topic reason. Anecdotally, I think most of these are on story-id questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But despite its popularity, I'm leery of canonizing this close reason; it seems lazy, and I'm not convinced we have the volume of &quot;not worth the effort&quot; questions to justify it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/169814/help-us-make-off-topic-close-reasons-clearer-to-the-op&quot;&gt;goal of the off-topic closure&lt;/a&gt; is three-fold:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Make it clear to the poster &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; their question is off-topic. In the words of the OP of the above-linked question, we want to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;minimize frustration and reduce the misperception that they’re just being “picked on for being a noob”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Incentivize improvement. Again, in the words of the above-linked OP:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;we want the language and workflow to encourage editing wherever possible (and in particular, to make improving a post seem more logical than arguing that it shouldn’t have been closed.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The close reason shouldn't rely on outside information, like the help pages.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my mind, the &quot;not science fiction or fantasy&quot; close reason only accomplishes one of those, or perhaps two in a small subset of cases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;em&gt;maybe&lt;/em&gt; arguable, but it provides the bare minimum of information. As I see it, there are three types of questions where this close reason would apply:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions that, yeah, are &lt;em&gt;obviously&lt;/em&gt; not SFF. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/90714/custom-message-box-in-c-language&quot;&gt;Custom message box in c# language&lt;/a&gt; (visible to 10k+ users only), which was migrated to StackOverflow (because of course it was) would be one example of this as would spam questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, I can see that having the canon close reason would help us save time on questions that really aren't worth it However, although I don't have hard stats, I believe this is still a minority of cases&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Story-id questions where there's no obvious SFF elements. You could perhaps make an argument for this one, but I don't know how often it really applies, and in any case I don't think it's wise to have a dedicated close reason that's only really valid for a single tag.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions where the community has decided that the work (or genre) is off-topic; the recent &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7134/are-questions-about-mission-impossible-on-topic&quot;&gt;crackdown on spy-fi&lt;/a&gt; springs to mind, as does the longstanding issue with religious works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem I have with this case is that, ideally, we should be explaining &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; the question isn't considered SFF for our purposes. Since this is already a major source of &quot;picking on me&quot; complaints, I'm not sure adding to that is a good idea&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Complete failure. Saying &quot;this is not science fiction or fantasy&quot; offers no guidance for improving the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will grant that the more legitimate uses of this close reason focus on questions that are unsalvageable, but I'm not yet convinced we have enough of those to justify the canonized close reason.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Well, yes. Except in the case of community-driven decisions about something being off-topic, where we should (I think) be linking back to Meta, the close reason is definitely self-contained.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line: I don't think the close reason does a good enough job fulfilling the goals of off-topic closure. There might be a case for it when we have a higher volume of questions that are just beyond saving, but I don't think we're at that point yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Aside from suggestions to migrate to M&amp;amp;TV, but there's only two of those&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2015-09-01T02:30:35.900" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7189" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7215" CreationDate="2015-09-02T18:14:20.293" Score="8" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/13232/19561&quot;&gt;Riddle within a fantasy book about 3 men, one with money, one with might and one with a weapon?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was self-answered. While the OP &lt;em&gt;thought&lt;/em&gt; they were looking for a story by Terry Pratchett and tagged it thus, it turned out to be something from &lt;em&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/671/19561&quot;&gt;we don't retag story ID questions&lt;/a&gt; when an answer has been found, but &lt;em&gt;in this case&lt;/em&gt; it was already tagged, but wrong (because the OP misremembered where the story came from).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we now retag the question?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should we remove the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terry-pratchett&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terry-pratchett&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terry-pratchett&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/discworld&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discworld&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discworld&lt;/a&gt; tags?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should we add &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt; and related tags?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-02-08T14:30:09.533" Title="Should we retag this question?" Tags="|discussion|tags|specific-question|retagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7189" CreationDate="2015-09-03T01:41:13.537" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not familiar with either of these franchises, so I can't answer the question myself, but here's how I see it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the two franchises are similar enough that someone else is likely to make the same mistake as this OP did, it makes sense to leave the tags as they are, or at the most, add ASoFaI tags.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If there is little or no possibility that someone else will make the same mistake as the OP did, then it would be acceptable to change the tags, and probably even remove any references to Pratchett/&lt;em&gt;Discworld&lt;/em&gt;/any titles, locations, characters, etc, associated with this franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It probably isn't that important either way.  Story ID questions are often duplicated, and site policy is to leave the new question open until/unless both the new question and the old question have accepted answers.  The prevalence of Story ID dupes suggests that previous questions about the same story are rarely discovered by the person posting the new question before said question is posted.  In other words, it is unlikely that someone who has a Story ID question about ASoFaI will find this question before he or she posts the new question, and it won't make any difference whether we change the tags or not.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, we can change the tags if we think that it might be beneficial to do so, or we can leave the tags as is if we think that it might be beneficial to do so.  But whatever we do, it probably won't matter anyway, so if we simply ignore it altogether, it probably won't make a difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastActivityDate="2015-09-03T01:41:13.537" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7191" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-03T04:18:47.180" Score="2" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, so the question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/100702/all-halo-books-list&quot;&gt;Is there a list of all Halo-related reading?&lt;/a&gt;, was closed and then re-opened, after a bit of discussions in the comments section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was then re-closed very soon after. See the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/100702/revisions&quot;&gt;revision history&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the Off-topic reason being:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Requests for lists of works or recommendations are off-topic as they do not fit our questions and answers format. Feel free to ask about people's favorites in chat.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why was this question closed?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What makes it &quot;off-topic&quot;? It's definitely not asking for a recommendation. It's asking for all the relevant source material for that certain canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answerable&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Definite list&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On-topic (Halo is very Sci-Fi)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not asking for our 'favourites', etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related (on-topic) questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/56992/where-does-the-background-story-in-a-song-of-ice-and-fire-come-from&quot;&gt;Where does the background story in A Song of Ice and Fire come from?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/89740/how-many-marvel-earths-universes-are-there&quot;&gt;How many Marvel Earths (Universes) are there?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/41192/what-should-i-do-if-i-want-to-cover-100-of-star-wars-eu-but-dont-want-to-play&quot;&gt;What should I do if I want to cover 100% of Star Wars EU but don&amp;#39;t want to play the games?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2289/is-there-an-official-ish-complete-chronological-order-for-star-wars-c-canon-ma&quot;&gt;Is there an &amp;quot;official&amp;quot;-ish complete chronological order for Star Wars C-canon material (books+comics+games)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;I am most definitely not asking for people to justify themselves having gone against what I've said. I just want to get a consensus on whether or not this is on/off-topic and &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-09-03T04:18:47.180" Title="Why was the question about All Halo Books List (100702) closed again, after it was re-opened?" Tags="|discussion|scope|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7192" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7193" CreationDate="2015-09-03T20:37:30.747" Score="9" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just went through the Reopen Votes review queue and found &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/100896/humorous-story-about-toilet-paper-perforations-leading-to-the-creation-nothing?lq=1&quot;&gt;this question (A)&lt;/a&gt;, which is currently closed as a dupe of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/95453/story-about-a-man-who-discovers-the-power-of-nothing&quot;&gt;this question (B)&lt;/a&gt;, which is currently closed as &quot;unclear what you're asking&quot;. Had I known all this at the start, I would've voted to reopen A and leave B closed as the poorer - albeit older - of the two duplicate questions. But I came across B first and voted to reopen it (the text of the question doesn't say, but the tags do), then came across A and voted to reopen that too (having been told the site policy on closing story ID questions as dupes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I'm just saying all that so the mods know why I voted to reopen both and don't ban me from the review queues on this basis. Irrelevant backstory aside...&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Is there a way I can retract a reopen vote?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Retracting close votes is easy - just click on the 'close' button as if you're voting to close again, but then you can 'Retract Close Vote' instead of 'Vote to Close'. But when I click on the 'reopen' button as if I'm voting to reopen again, all I get is an error message saying 'you have already voted to reopn'. Is there another way to do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2015-09-03T23:12:55.123" Title="Can I retract a reopen vote?" Tags="|support|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7192" CreationDate="2015-09-03T23:12:55.123" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Survey says no. There was a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/193061/ability-to-retract-reopen-delete-votes&quot;&gt;feature request for this&lt;/a&gt; posted on Meta.SE back in 2013, but there was no response from the StackExchange team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/284239/undo-a-reopen-request&quot;&gt;A related question posted earlier this year on Meta.SO&lt;/a&gt; got a &amp;quot;no&amp;quot; answer from an SE employee:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, it is not currently possible to retract a reopen vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, your reopen vote will have bumped the question into the Reopen Votes queue. If reviewers choose to leave it closed, the aging process will begin immediately and your reopen vote will automatically expire after four days assuming no other reopen votes get cast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing you can do is hope that your vote &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/136989/how-do-close-votes-age-away&quot;&gt;ages away&lt;/a&gt;; per Shog9's answer to that question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[W]hen the aging task fires it just looks at every post that has at least 100 views where all outstanding close votes are older than 4 days, and every post where all outstanding close votes are older than 14 days &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/250223/modernize-the-close-vote-aging-logic&quot;&gt;regardless of the view count&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-09-03T23:12:55.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5326" CreationDate="2015-09-04T19:04:34.940" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/96086/paranormal&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lL7s5.png&quot; alt=&quot;Support this proposal&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8043" LastEditorUserId="8043" LastEditDate="2016-05-26T02:29:05.460" LastActivityDate="2016-05-26T02:29:05.460" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-09-04T19:04:34.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7195" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-05T14:26:29.493" Score="-6" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had this comment exchange on this answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/68242/16835&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/68242/16835&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but at some point some of my comments were deleted. Now, another comment refers to one of deleted comment, and then I answer again - but the context is lost since my original comments are missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can/should I do to get them restored? (For now I'm just reposting them)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16835" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2015-09-05T15:37:16.033" Title="How can I get my comments restored?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7195" CreationDate="2015-09-05T15:37:16.033" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the comments that are left on that answer are indicative of the ones that were deleted, I doubt there's any chance of them coming back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are meant to provide feedback to improve questions and answers. They are intended to be temporary and fleeting. There is a &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; low bar for deleting comments, and once they are gone, that's it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they were deleted in the first place, it's likely because someone found them to be unrelated to the purpose of improving the answer; for example, the current thread has devolved into discussion of the legal intricacies of murder in different jurisdiction. I wouldn't be surprised if they got deleted &lt;em&gt;again&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2015-09-05T15:37:16.033" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7197" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7198" CreationDate="2015-09-06T11:49:24.530" Score="2" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a Star Wars question and I got a message claiming what I asked was a duplicate. In an indirect way it was a duplicate, but I found the answer from the mod and the post that he directed me to. Satisfied with that, I answered the prompt &quot;Yes, I don't need to pursue the question&quot;. The prompt said that it would just reroute to the original question and is closed to answers. How come I'm getting dinged points? Should I have deleted it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47903" LastActivityDate="2015-09-07T03:55:47.190" Title="I asked a question, in an instant it was a duplicate, I accepted and moved on. Why is the question still there?" Tags="|support|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7197" CreationDate="2015-09-06T11:51:48.590" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That's how the Stack Exchange system works.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a question gets closed as a duplicate, it doesn't get &lt;em&gt;deleted&lt;/em&gt;: it's still there on the system, still searchable via Google. If it's a duplicate of a good question, then it's probably also a good question and therefore worth upvotes, and upvotes still earn you points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2015-09-06T11:51:48.590" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7197" CreationDate="2015-09-07T03:55:47.190" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason closed questions remain on the site is that people might show up in the future with the same question you had.  Depending on which search terms they use, they might find the original question, or the might not.  If we deleted every duplicate, people could only find the original question by randomly guessing the right search terms to use.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if we leave the questions that have been closed as duplicates, it is more likely that future visitors will be able to find what they're looking for, because if their search terms bring them to your question, the link that is now attached to your question will send them to the original one.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some limits, of course, and we don't want to have a billion closed duplicates all over the place, but it makes sense to leave a good number of closed duplicates around so people can find the information they're looking for more easily.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also helps to prevent people from &lt;em&gt;asking&lt;/em&gt; questions that have already been answered.  If we have several similar questions, each using slightly different wording, and all but one of them are closed as duplicates of the first one, it will be more likely that the person asking the same question again will realize it and be spared the hassle of opening a question, only to find it closed moments later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastActivityDate="2015-09-07T03:55:47.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3070" CreationDate="2015-09-07T04:34:26.967" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, unless our goal is to prevent people from joining the site.  Since &quot;too trivial&quot; is closely related to google questions, I will address both at once.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We should be encouraging new users to participate in the community, and many such people have questions that might seem very basic to users with more experience and expertise in the field.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question seems to be suggesting that Stack Overflow should only be used as a last resort - when an answer cannot be found elsewhere on the internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Surely this is the opposite of the site's intended purpose. I thought it was supposed to become the first place people would come for answers. To quote the FAQ,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;No question is too trivial or too &quot;newbie&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/8739/295850&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Joel says that the only bad simple question is a duplicate simple question. I say simple questions are OK as long as they’re actually interesting (in some way) for other users to consider and answer.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.stackexchange.com/2011/02/are-some-questions-too-simple/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The podcast quoted above, along with some suggestions from users, led to the introduction of a new close reason:  &quot;General Reference&quot;.   After this new reason was tested, Jeff changed his mind and said that it was a valid reason to VTC:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Per the discussion in Stack Exchange Podcast #20, and after evaluating the close reason on english and scifi, I now agree with Joel: I believe this close reason has too much potential for abuse and misunderstanding. It is unlikely we will ever adopt this close reason network wide.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -  &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/86043/introduce-a-general-reference-close-reason/88521#88521&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The suggestion that an answer can be found by using Google is actually all the more reason to answer basic questions here.  We &lt;strong&gt;want&lt;/strong&gt; people to see our site in the Google results, don't we?  Imagine a person who has never heard of SE.  This person googles &quot;What species is Chewbacca&quot; or whatever, and the third result is from SF&amp;amp;F.SE.  This person now knows about us, and it is at least possible that he or she will join the site.  This is something to be desired, not discouraged.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Part of the thinking behind Stack Overflow was for those Google searches to link somewhere useful.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/09/15.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/09/15.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  By answering questions properly, instead of saying 'just Google it', you hopefully set up a definitive answer that Google will find for evermore.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/8729/295850&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, read the article linked in the middle of that quote.  One of the original principles on which the SE network was founded was &quot;Make sure that Google searches produce useful results - namely, &lt;strong&gt;our&lt;/strong&gt; results&quot;.  I see no legitimate reason to change this fundamental principle now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The most basic questions are likely to be the questions that are most common.  All the more reason to answer them here so people have access to the best information available.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Meta Stack Exchange has made it &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8724/how-should-we-deal-with-google-questions&quot;&gt;abundantly clear&lt;/a&gt; that it is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5280/embrace-the-non-googlers&quot;&gt;unacceptable&lt;/a&gt; to close &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/80730/i-mean-still-google-it-answers/80807#80807&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; simply because the information is already available elsewhere.  The general guidelines are quite emphatic about this point:  we should &lt;strong&gt;embrace the non-googlers&lt;/strong&gt;, not shun them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This site is a community of like minded people who are interested in the subject at hand;  we are experts, amateur enthusiasts, students, professionals, scholars, and lay people.  We are not the &quot;Did you do enough research&quot; police.  It isn't our job to punish strangers for not doing what we might do if we were in their position.  We are here to provide answers to relevant questions.  We are supposed to make information readily available to whomever needs it.  We are not supposed to make sure everyone does their homework.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't speak for anyone else, but I don't see any legitimate reason to deny people access to useful information, especially not on the grounds that it is too rudimentary to be bothered with.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2015-09-07T04:34:26.967" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7201" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-07T19:43:56.460" Score="0" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to find this children's sci-fi book I read about 20 years ago. I've asked a question, but it's not met any success, so I'd like to try a new tact. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I ask for a list of known US publishers of children's sci-fi and fantasy publishers from the 80s and 90s? Publishers like Scholastic Apple Paperbacks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2015-09-07T20:05:53.873" Title="Can I ask this question about book publishers?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7201" CreationDate="2015-09-07T20:05:53.873" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. Although this list question is technically finite, the reality is that it's liable to be a very large number which makes it an inherently bad fit for a Stack Exchange site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia puts it very nicely on their own page about &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_publishers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Scifi Publishers&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is an incomplete list that may never be able to satisfy&#xA;  particular standards for completeness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-09-07T20:05:53.873" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7203" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-07T20:15:35.530" Score="6" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pick some question tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/voldemort&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;voldemort&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;voldemort&lt;/a&gt; like this: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8659/why-didnt-the-basilisk-bite-in-chamber-of-secrets-destroy-the-horcrux&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t the basilisk bite in Chamber of Secrets destroy the Horcrux?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you open it, the browser tab will be titled&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;harry potter&lt;/strong&gt; - Why Didn't the Basilisk Bite in Chamber of Secrets&#xA;  Destroy the Horcrux?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pick another question that is also tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/voldemort&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;voldemort&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;voldemort&lt;/a&gt; like this one: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/11530/how-did-harry-become-a-horcrux&quot;&gt;How Did Harry Become a Horcrux?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the browser tab is titled&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;voldemort&lt;/strong&gt; - How Did Harry Become a Horcrux?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What sort of algorithm was used to determine the browser tab's title prefix? Why are some questions prefixed with &lt;strong&gt;harry potter&lt;/strong&gt; and others with &lt;strong&gt;voldemort&lt;/strong&gt; and others with yet another different Harry Potter relatd tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I imagined that the most popular tag would be the one used for the prefix, and yet the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/voldemort&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;voldemort&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;voldemort&lt;/a&gt; one appears to prevail over the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; one in some cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is some sort of bug, it should be easy to fix by always prioritizing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/voldemort&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;voldemort&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;voldemort&lt;/a&gt; over &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1660" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2015-09-07T20:42:41.750" Title="How is a question prefix determined?" Tags="|support|tags|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7204" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-08T03:32:49.813" Score="29" ViewCount="596" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just learned that one of our fellow users, Affable Geek, &lt;a href=&quot;https://christianity.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4496/lets-take-a-moment-to-remember-affable-geek&quot;&gt;died this past Valentines Day&lt;/a&gt;.  His real name was Michael Hollinger, and he was only 43 years old.  He was on SF&amp;amp;F the day before he passed away, and he even commented on Christianity.SE the day he died:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is exactly the kind of question this site was designed for. Thank you!!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I can safely say that the collective good wishes and condolences of the entire SF&amp;amp;F community go out to his family.  We would be fortunate to have more people like him on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:49:03.150" LastActivityDate="2017-01-26T19:53:44.407" Title="Goodbye, Affable Geek" Tags="|discussion|users|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7204" CreationDate="2015-09-08T05:08:01.270" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_to_Do_in_Denver_When_You%27re_Dead&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Boat drinks&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;/slytherincess raises her glass&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I linked &quot;Boat drinks&quot; to the wiki page for &lt;em&gt;Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead&lt;/em&gt;. I meant this to explain the source/meaning of &quot;Boat drinks&quot; in the context of a death, but it didn't occur to me that the title of the movie itself would make linking to it possibly super tacky. Please know that was not my intention at all. &quot;Boat drinks&quot; is what I've always posted when there's been a death. &lt;strong&gt;Affable Geek&lt;/strong&gt; was a great user to interact and trade comments with. I'm truly sorry to hear that he's passed. :(&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="3500" LastEditDate="2015-09-08T17:07:59.833" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T17:07:59.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7206" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7207" CreationDate="2015-09-08T19:03:08.897" Score="5" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really want to start reading about &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Genesis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;New Genesis&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apokolips&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Apokolips&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I ask a question about what graphic novel(s) and/or story arcs I should read to get started?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36068" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2015-09-08T19:54:26.017" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T19:54:26.017" Title="Can I ask a question about important story arcs?" Tags="|discussion|scope|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7206" CreationDate="2015-09-08T19:16:55.833" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reading/Viewing order questions are allowed on this site, as long as you have clear and somewhat objective criteria for the installments and/or order thereof you want us to provide. So do not ask things like &quot;What are the good story arcs?&quot;, but a question about which ones have crucial backstory or are amenable to new readers should be perfectly answerable (unless the series is extremely long, in which case you'd need to narrow it down a bit more).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35327" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T19:16:55.833" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7208" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7211" CreationDate="2015-09-08T23:20:49.870" Score="9" ViewCount="257" Body="&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: Stardust was our winner!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our most recent chat movie event, the classic 1979 film &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7143/august-movie-event-2&quot;&gt;Alien&lt;/a&gt;&quot; proved ridiculously popular, with no less than 10 active commenters and nearly 20 lurkers watching from the sidelines. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's now time to pick September's first chatroom Movie Event! &lt;em&gt;(can I get a woop-woop!?)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As before, you need to &lt;strong&gt;pick your preferred film and post it as an answer below&lt;/strong&gt;. Upvote the ones you like and the top answer (by Saturday 12th September at midnight UTC) will be selected as the winner. We'll then watch together on Sunday 13th September at 10pm UTC in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley chatroom&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Choose wisely and remember, &lt;s&gt;all&lt;/s&gt; most suggestions will be considered carefully, with &lt;s&gt;no exceptions&lt;/s&gt; very few exceptions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9Enj9.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9Enj9.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2017-06-03T13:51:52.890" LastActivityDate="2017-06-03T13:51:52.890" Title="September Chatroom Movie event #1" Tags="|discussion|movie-night|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7208" CreationDate="2015-09-08T23:23:20.530" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to nominate &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090605/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Aliens&lt;/a&gt;, James Camerons's magnum opus. Quite literally the finest sci-fi film ever made and acknowledged to be one of the single greatest films of all time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone voting for other films should hang their heads in shame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lvSrJ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lvSrJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-03-12T13:20:51.970" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T13:20:51.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7208" CreationDate="2015-09-08T23:27:02.493" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a break from my record of suggesting classics, I nominate the independent Irish sci-fi/horror/comedy film &lt;em&gt;Grabbers&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://farm1.staticflickr.com/655/20587030210_ac61443e21_o_d.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that Grabbers received positive reviews from 72% of 29 surveyed critics; the average rating was 6.3/10. Damon Wise of Empire film magazine described it as &quot;a romantic but surprisingly scary monster movie that feels like a lost Amblin flick, shaken and stirred with a dash of The Guard. ... a finely crafted tribute to a long-lost style of filmmaking [that] stands up in its own right too.&quot; Matt Glasby of Total Film rated it 3/5 stars and called it &quot;a bright, breezy Irish monster mash boasting gorgeous cinematography, appealing performances and great SFX&quot;. Gareth Jones of DreadCentral rated it 4/5 stars and said, &quot;it is one hell of a good time that offers plenty of laughs, excellent characters and performances, and big slimy monsters.&quot; Jordan Hoffman of US cable channel IFC summed the film up as &quot;a delightful romp&quot;, while Upcoming Movies gave it four stars and called it a &quot;fun, monster movie roller coaster&quot; with a &quot;mix of laughs and scares&quot;. The Daily Telegraph‍ '​s Robbie Collin called it a &quot;cherishable Irish B-picture ... with an unimprovable premise&quot;.  Kim Newman of Screen Daily said of the film: &quot;Kevin Lehane's smart script is canny enough to sidestep the expectations of fans who might think they know how films like this are supposed to play out, while the monsters are as well-realised as anything in far more costly productions.&quot;  The Irish Times said, &quot;Grabbers has an atmosphere all its own: the humour is earthy without being patronising; the action sequences are both absurd and properly exciting.&quot; Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian rated the film 3/5 stars and described it as &quot;a likable and technically impressive comedy-horror&quot; that is &quot;fantastically silly, often funny&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T23:27:02.493" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7208" CreationDate="2015-09-08T23:29:35.283" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Re-nominated; it was equal highest-voted answer last time)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardust_(2007_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stardust&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, one of the best films I've ever seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A0rfq.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A0rfq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It ticks ALL the boxes. Whatever you want, Stardust has it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Romance: an emotional and convincing love story at the heart (pun intended!) of the plot&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Action: plenty of swordfighting, daring escapes, and galloping horseback chases&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Intrigue: power-hungry princes plotting to assassinate one another to gain the throne&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cast: Robert de Niro as a flying pirate with a fascinating character, Michelle Pfeiffer, Claire Danes, that inimitable villain of villains Mark Strong, Peter O'Toole and Ricky Gervais in minor roles&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Soundtrack: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JQSeTKOr-Q&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;fantastic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dialogue: witty, moving, tons of quotes you'll want to remember&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suspense is kept up very well throughout, character development is a central theme, and the ending is even better than in the book!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, anyone who doesn't like this film can sod off :-D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T23:29:35.283" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7208" CreationDate="2015-09-09T14:24:45.717" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan%27s_Run_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Logan's Run&lt;/a&gt; (1976, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074812/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NPHtT.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NPHtT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="406" LastActivityDate="2015-09-09T14:24:45.717" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7213" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-09T14:47:53.620" Score="8" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;What counts as a 'view'?   It can't be a view by unique users because some questions have over 100k views.   I don't think it counts as a view every time you reload a page.   Is it a view per user per day?  Is it a view only after there is an edit, comment or answer?   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2016-06-12T01:11:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-06-12T01:11:13.513" Title="What counts as a 'view'?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7213" CreationDate="2015-09-09T15:22:11.333" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As TARS stated in his comment, a view is basically a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/36728/how-are-the-number-of-views-in-a-question-calculated&quot;&gt;unique IP visit, 15 minutes apart&lt;/a&gt;. This has been discussed at length on Meta:SE (see below)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to how some questions have &lt;em&gt;hundreds of thousands&lt;/em&gt; of views, that's the power of google and the &quot;Hot Network Questions&quot; bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've recently investigated the functioning of the Stack Overflow views&#xA;  counter because I wanted to implement something similar (which I did).&#xA;  My ramblings on the matter are here:&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/87092/dissecting-the-stack-overflow-views-counter&quot;&gt;Dissecting the Stack Overflow views counter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So, how that thing works? Quite simply, as I turned out to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Every question page has that counter link embedded in it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/3590653/ivc/[Random code]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;which is hit with every page load (either cached or not).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is some sort of a throttling mechanism in action. It saves the&#xA;  information about a question view per visitor like in pairs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;for anonymous users, it is &lt;code&gt;IP + QuestionNr&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;for authenticated users it is &lt;code&gt;UserNr + QuestionNr&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This information is saved in an expiring cache entry for about 15&#xA;  minutes. If a subsequent hit sees the entry is still there it discards&#xA;  the new hit. If it is already gone it allows for a new record.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Every time a new hit is registered, it is also added to a memory&#xA;  buffer in addition to the expiring cache entry. The buffer itself also&#xA;  expires after a few minutes or after it is filled up to a certain&#xA;  size, whichever happens first. When it expires, everything it has&#xA;  accumulated is written into the database in bulk. They call it a&#xA;  &quot;buffered write scheme&quot;. I like the term. Basically the buffer entries&#xA;  are grouped per question and then just added to the sum of the&#xA;  questions views, no particular table to store every visit details (too&#xA;  much to store), like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;UPDATE Question&#xA;SET Views = Views + @NewViews&#xA;WHERE Nr = 36278&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And the same for every question which has any views registered in the&#xA;  buffer. To optimize and minimize the database access you send the&#xA;  entire data for multiple questions to your update query in one run.&#xA;  You can format the data as XML, join to it inside the query and&#xA;  perform the update in one statement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That's pretty much it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I haven't been able to figure out what the [Random code] in the&#xA;  counter url does, but that's okay. Without that mysterious part, I&#xA;  have implemented this scheme under ASP.NET MVC + SQL Server about two&#xA;  weeks ago for a project I'm currently working on. I've got it running&#xA;  on my development machine since then and it's worked like a charm.&#xA;  Views are properly registered as they should. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2015-09-09T15:22:11.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7189" CreationDate="2015-09-09T22:26:17.813" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I vote in this case (the OP mistakenly tagged the question AND the tag was incorrect, as demonstrated by the accepted answer) that we remove the tag and also fix the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If we believe titles are helpful for finding questions/answers, then &lt;em&gt;incorrect&lt;/em&gt; titles are less helpful.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is no relation between Discworld and A Song of Ice and Fire, except both being fantasy worlds with a sometimes cynical world view.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If we accept the Discworld tag, why not The Lord of the Rings? Both are works of fantasy, both could have a cynical character telling the story.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="770" LastActivityDate="2015-09-09T22:26:17.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7216" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-10T20:28:36.047" Score="-11" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find that sometimes I answer a question and then the Original Poster (OP) changes the question. The problem is then the answer may not seem correct. The system does not notify us  each time a question is changed or edited, that we post an answer to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In legal documents there's a concept called red lining. What happens is that when a change is made there's a red line placed under the changed part so that the receiving party knows what changes have been made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if that's something that people would be interested in having here, or if it's possible at all to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for example. Let's say there was a question, &quot;How many different uniforms were there in Star Trek?&quot; I might answer and give a listing of the various colors and styles in the various series. Then the poster changes the question to say, &quot;How many different uniforms were there in &lt;em&gt;the original series of&lt;/em&gt; Star Trek?&quot; So now my answer looks like overkill and might get downvoted, not upvoted, or criticized and I didn't even know that there was a change made. We could have a red line under the words &quot;the original series of&quot; so that when community members read the question they immediately know that those words were changed or added, and take that into consideration when reading answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that a downvote may show up in my reputation queue, but sometimes it does not. In addition I may just not get upvotes in this scenario and would have no idea. I realize I could go through and check all of my questions and answers multiple times daily but that is not practical for most of us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that at the bottom of every question you can click on the edited link to see what edits have been made but I don't think that most of us do that. We usually assume it's grammar, spelling, sentence structure, etc. Often times a document goes through many edits and the edits of the OP are lost in translation. If it's an edit by anybody other than the OP I usually figure it's simply a grammatical change, as most users are courteous enough not to change the meaning of an OP's question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was just wondering if there's any interest in adding this feature or if it's possible to do at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40599" LastActivityDate="2015-09-11T04:21:53.280" Title="Should we have some kind of &quot;redline&quot; in our questions sections so we know what part of a question has been edited or added after the fact?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7216" CreationDate="2015-09-11T03:08:42.017" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really see what benefit this adds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It creates a visual cue that the question has been edited, but we already have one (as you pointed out). Also, from a personal perspective, I think the &quot;edited&quot; link at the bottom is a &lt;em&gt;nicer&lt;/em&gt; visual cue than an abundance of red underlines&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There's a huge potential for false positives. Assuming the goal is to show when the question has been altered so that the answers are invalid, how can you tell that from a question that's merely been extensively edited, but otherwise stayed the same? Consider an example; let's say a new user posted the following question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;y flsh prpl&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And you edited it into the more legible (but equally nonsense):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why is the Flash's costume purple?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The spirit of the question is the same, but it's been so extensively re-written that, under your proposal, it would still be &lt;em&gt;heavily&lt;/em&gt; red-lined; depending on exactly how the redlining was done, it would be comparable to if you'd instead changed the question to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why does Spock have pointy ears?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You wouldn't be able to tell if the intent had been changed unless you went and looked at the revision history, which is the same solution we have now.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="31051" LastEditDate="2015-09-11T04:21:53.280" LastActivityDate="2015-09-11T04:21:53.280" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7208" CreationDate="2015-09-11T18:14:38.437" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Holiday_Special&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Star Wars: Holiday Special&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because what could be more fitting of a revenge to George Lucas for inflicting the prequels on us, than keeping alive the thing he wishes to hide in the ashes of history?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Full movie below&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Z4CtXcjib4o?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2015-09-11T18:34:18.843" LastActivityDate="2015-09-11T18:34:18.843" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7208" CreationDate="2015-09-12T02:57:31.280" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about Westworld?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/j6tr0.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/j6tr0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a classic sci-fi movie with an intriguing plot. With the TV reboot coming soon, it will help everyone get up to date with the original.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also has a lot of stupid things and parts that don't make sense, so everyone can make fun of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastActivityDate="2015-09-12T02:57:31.280" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1289" CreationDate="2015-09-14T14:07:16.610" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meme: &quot;timey-wimey.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Originator: TBD (Possibly &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1027/keen&quot;&gt;Keen&lt;/a&gt; in this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4037/is-rory-still-plastic-and-follow-up-questions/4038#4038&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; from June 7, 2011.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cultural Height: Still going strong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Background: Based on a quote from the Doctor Who episode &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(Doctor_Who)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Blink&lt;/a&gt;.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually — from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint — it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly... timey-wimey... stuff.&quot;&#xA;  — The Tenth Doctor&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This phrase, or some variation of it, is often used in response to questions related to Doctor Who or time travel in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is similar to the meme &quot;Because, Magic&quot; in that it is used as an excuse when something doesn't make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2016-03-12T03:31:45.527" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7077" CreationDate="2015-09-14T16:40:24.610" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When will the generalist badge start being awarded?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yesterday:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/14/generalist&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/14/generalist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2015-09-14T16:40:24.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7226" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-15T16:04:44.193" Score="-2" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to do more specific searches other then one or more word searches in the search bar?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I wanted to search a particular users questions, or answers for a specific word, is that possible? For example, let's say I wanted to do a search on my own questions for the word &quot;yoda&quot;? Or if I wanted to search all of @praxis's answers for the words &quot;JMFB is Cool&quot; how would I do that? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to search comment lines? For example I would want to search all of @n_soong's comments for &quot;TL;DR?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's not possible to do so, is this a feature that could be added to the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40599" LastActivityDate="2015-09-15T17:32:37.533" Title="Can we do more specific searches? If not are community members interested in adding it as a feature?" Tags="|support|feature-request|search|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2016-03-17T14:03:17.223" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7226" CreationDate="2015-09-15T16:21:45.483" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If I wanted to search a particular users questions, or answers for a specific word, is that possible? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. To search for a particular user's posts, use the string &lt;code&gt;user:1234&lt;/code&gt; where &lt;code&gt;1234&lt;/code&gt; is the user's ID. You can find the user's ID by clicking on his profile and noting the ID in the search field in the upper right corner of the page. If you are searching your own posts you can use &lt;code&gt;user:me&lt;/code&gt;. To restrict the search to questions use &lt;code&gt;is:question&lt;/code&gt;, and for answers use &lt;code&gt;is:answer&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there a way to search comment lines?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If it's not possible to do so, is this a feature that could be added to the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should probably be a question for the main meta site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the Advanced Search Tips on the search page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TjY3L.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TjY3L.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are even more details on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/searching&quot;&gt;search help page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2015-09-15T16:21:45.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7226" CreationDate="2015-09-15T16:23:17.307" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you do a search on the site, there is a link at the top right of the result page that says &quot;advanced search tips&quot;. Click that for some additional query options, or you can look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/searching&quot;&gt;the search help page&lt;/a&gt; for more complete info.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specific to your question, you can search by users using the &lt;code&gt;user: [userid]&lt;/code&gt; option&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you wanted to search for the instance of &quot;yoda&quot; in all of your questions/answers, you could search for &lt;code&gt;user:me yoda&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To search for @praxis talking about you, you might search for &lt;code&gt;user:40294 jmfb&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can add in options like &lt;code&gt;is:question&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;is:answer&lt;/code&gt; if you wish to restrict your results accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this time there is no reliable way to search all comments. Google indexes the first few, but not all of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some guy named Jeff Atwood &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/23786/191489&quot;&gt;acknowledged this missing feature.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You can't at the moment. It's annoying to me, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2015-09-15T17:32:37.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7229" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-16T00:23:25.810" Score="17" ViewCount="269" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the decision to create the custom off-topic close reasons, we've only used 2 of the 3 reason slots, so we're left with a spare custom close dialogue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would simplify matters if we used this for a standard dialogue warning people that the question they've asked is off-topic for the site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e.g.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This question does not appear to be about science fiction or fantasy within the scope defined in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2015-09-16T20:19:07.187" Title="3rd Custom &quot;Close Reason&quot;" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7229" CreationDate="2015-09-16T00:24:20.200" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, I agree.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This dialogue should be added to the standard custom-close reasons. It seems sensible and fits in well with the site's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;existing policies&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2015-09-16T00:29:31.527" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7229" CreationDate="2015-09-16T00:25:22.180" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, I disagree.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This dialogue should be used for something else, held in reserve for some other purpose, or simply not used at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-09-16T00:25:22.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7232" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-16T00:18:45.207" Score="8" ViewCount="279" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would really like to know how the background on this site was made, was it a picture, or a drawing, or photoshop?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user53112" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2015-09-16T00:28:54.853" LastActivityDate="2015-09-16T01:05:59.903" Title="What is the background to this site? How was it made? Is it Space?" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7232" CreationDate="2015-09-16T01:05:59.903" Score="8" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Let me lead with the fact I did not design the background but I am a graphic designer of online images for CSS backgrounds. With that said, the background is not a natural starfield as would be seen in space and instead would appear to be a regular grid of images which can imitate a star field.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you look closely you can see the reappearance of artistic elements in the star field at regular intervals.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3UWvV.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3UWvV.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As for the upper banner region, each of the elements was found separately and likely layered and arranged in Adobe Photoshop or another corresponding graphic art manipulation program.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I know the art elements were available in the general public because I emulated the design used here on my own website by finding said graphic elements and layering them in Adobe Photoshop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2765" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-09-16T01:05:59.903" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7234" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-16T15:46:34.510" Score="6" ViewCount="307" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from July 1st 2015 through September 30 2015.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They don't have to be &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; questions and answers.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2015/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2015/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2015/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="1148" LastEditDate="2015-09-16T16:21:43.067" LastActivityDate="2015-09-23T15:58:02.140" Title="Favorite Questions and Answers from the third quarter of 2015" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7234" CreationDate="2015-09-16T16:14:52.930" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sure this doesn't really need to be said, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/100281/5184&quot;&gt;your answer&lt;/a&gt; to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/100278/5184&quot;&gt;Who are these DC superheroes&lt;/a&gt; for its sheer and ridiculous overachieving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2015-09-16T16:14:52.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7234" CreationDate="2015-09-16T17:37:44.353" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Questions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Hannover Fist deserves a special mention for the inventiveness and charm of his question about management policy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/102822/could-i-fake-death-to-stop-being-force-choked/102826#102826&quot;&gt;Could I fake death to stop being Force-choked?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I rather liked Praxis' question which was both topical and amusing: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/95971/which-2015-technologies-were-correctly-predicted-by-back-to-the-future-ii&quot;&gt;Which 2015 technologies were correctly predicted by Back to the Future II?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Answers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to blow my own trumpet, but I thought &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/96052/20774&quot;&gt;my own answer&lt;/a&gt; to Slytherincess' deceptively simple question was very good:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/96049/did-j-k-rowling-give-two-or-more-unrelated-characters-the-same-first-name-in-an&quot;&gt;Did J.K. Rowling give two or more unrelated characters the same first name in any of the 10 books?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and the variety of &lt;strong&gt;quality answers&lt;/strong&gt; to this question about science fiction is worthy of a mention:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/96389/which-sci-fi-universe-uses-the-most-forms-of-ftl-faster-than-light&quot;&gt;Which Sci-fi universe uses the most forms of FTL (Faster Than Light)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-09-16T17:37:44.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7237" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-16T19:49:45.133" Score="1" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8903/what-was-the-first-movie-to-feature-zombie-children&quot;&gt;What was the first movie to feature zombie babies?&lt;/a&gt; was changed from a list question to a question about which the first case was. There was already an answer that indicated two movies that had zombie children that had 5 upvotes and an accept. Because of the question change, the answer is no longer correct. How should this be handled? Should the correct answer be amended to answer the question (possible without removing information, but requiring adding a little)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2015-09-16T20:15:16.700" Title="How should one handle answers when the question has changed?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7237" CreationDate="2015-09-16T20:08:41.920" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Why did this happen in the first place?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This happened because the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/8903/1&quot;&gt;original question&lt;/a&gt; was off-topic. &quot;Are there any movies with X&quot; questions are generally regarded as open-ended list questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shortly after it was posted, it was closed by moderator @Pearsonartphoto as &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Not Constructive&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; which at the time served as a proxy for list question closures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the intervening days between being posted and being closed, however, the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/8907/20774&quot;&gt;was answered by&lt;/a&gt; @Spectre. &lt;strong&gt;This is where the problem occurred.&lt;/strong&gt; Since this was a list question, &lt;strong&gt;it never should have been answered. It should have been closed promptly by the community or by a moderator&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;Not all questions can or should be answered here&lt;/a&gt;. Save yourself some&#xA;  frustration and avoid trying to answer questions which... [etc...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that it has been edited and re-opened, the original answer is now not a good match to the original question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;So, what should be done?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, editing Spectre's answer would not be appropriate since you would be changing the intention of what he put.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The old question should be closed, left closed and a new question should be asked&lt;/strong&gt; rather than attempting to write an entirely new question to evade the original (historic) close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2015-09-16T20:08:41.920" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7237" CreationDate="2015-09-16T20:15:16.700" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Richard mentions, the question when it was answered was off-topic.  That answer shouldn't have been posted to begin with.  I think the answer should be deleted, and the now edited and on-topic question should be left open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2015-09-16T20:15:16.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7240" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-16T23:53:18.707" Score="20" ViewCount="668" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update - Based on the vote-counts (as of 18/09/15) we have added users &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3500/slytherincess&quot;&gt;Slytherincess&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/40294/praxis&quot;&gt;Praxis&lt;/a&gt; to the list of room owners for the Mos Eisley chatroom.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you feel that there is a further need for additional moderators, feel free to raise the issue in a separate Meta.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A big hand and a round of congratulations to our new mini-mods :-P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/veuII.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/veuII.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4jg8g.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4jg8g.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was recently suggested by someone of rather large import to the Stack Exchange community that perhaps our beloved chat room needed to have some owners who were not moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Shog9: I think this room needs a couple of owners who aren't mods; the elected mods tend to have their hands full on the main site, while this room could use a few people with kick-mute privileges sorta hanging around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/24144371#24144371&quot;&gt;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/24144371#24144371&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, I would like to propose the question: should we have the existing room owners (currently, they are exactly the same as the site moderators) add one or two other users as owners of the room?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The primary tool that room owners will have at their disposal is the ability to &quot;kick-mute&quot; a user in the room. This silences the user and prevents them from speaking &lt;em&gt;in Mos Eisley&lt;/em&gt; for a short cool-down period (which scales with subsequent mutes). Note that room owners have no influence over the disposition of flags or chat-wide bans. The main benefit of having extra room owners is that they can manage issues at the room level, before it devolves into a flood off flags that require moderator intervention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE: This is an &lt;em&gt;informal poll&lt;/em&gt; for the community to voice their opinion on people they think would be good in this position. Ultimately it will be up to the existing room owners (i.e. the mods) to appoint, or not appoint, people they trust to the position.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;Here are some qualities which the new room owner should have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/24145214#24145214&quot;&gt;Ability to persuade, and deter conversations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/24145224#24145224&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Not&lt;/em&gt; anonymous&lt;/a&gt;; so if they tell you to stop what you're doing, you know it's because they are a room owner, and are likely to &quot;kick-mute&quot; you.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/24144602#24144602&quot;&gt;As @shog9 mentions&lt;/a&gt;:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the key elements of successful chat moderation are:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  1) anticipation of a problem&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  2) intervention before it becomes a problem&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  3) guidance to prevent future problems&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ...of which only #2 really requires special tooling. Hence, kick-mute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The candidates should ideally be widely respected, trusted, not contentious or prone to arguments, and friendly, with good judgment and a diplomatic personality.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;And they should be willing to take on the job.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-09-19T08:47:47.060" Title="Should Mos Eisley have non-moderator owners, and if so, who?" Tags="|discussion|chat|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7240" CreationDate="2015-09-16T23:53:54.043" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. We do not need any more room owners. The issues Mos Eisley has are not things that a room owner can solve by merely kick-muting the offending users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this option comes in second, assume it means we don't need two new owners :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T17:32:44.397" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T17:32:44.397" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-09-17T00:41:53.457" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7240" CreationDate="2015-09-16T23:58:52.417" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, we should add @Slytherincess as a room owner because she's awesome. Also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;She's active (and is able to jump in very quickly if pinged). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;She's observant and assertive (she's not likely to misunderstand what the conversation is - unless it's about Math&lt;del&gt;s&lt;/del&gt;). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;She's trusted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;--Mooz&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="44025" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T03:38:16.863" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T03:38:16.863" CommentCount="13" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-09-17T00:42:19.177" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7240" CreationDate="2015-09-17T00:12:39.227" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, we should add @MajorStackings as a room owner because &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;WadCheber: &#xA;  @MajorStackings You're friendly, pleasant, fair, and people trust you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T00:42:51.477" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T00:42:51.477" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-09-17T00:41:47.003" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7240" CreationDate="2015-09-17T00:17:12.807" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, we should add @N_Soong as a room owner because he &lt;del&gt;knows when to tell @WadCheber to shut up&lt;/del&gt; is nice and fair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="22917" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T03:42:14.200" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T03:42:14.200" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-09-17T00:41:38.613" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7240" CreationDate="2015-09-17T00:17:38.907" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to nominate @Praxis.  Why?  Because&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Praxis is friendly&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Praxis is fair&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Praxis is reasonable&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Praxis can be firm when Praxis wants to&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Praxis is just a generally good guy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vote 1 for Praxis!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastEditorUserId="40294" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T01:12:14.707" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T01:12:14.707" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-09-17T00:45:43.267" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7240" CreationDate="2015-09-17T00:19:44.373" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, we should add @MikeEdenfield as a room owner.  Mike has been on this site for quite some time, is very familiar with the rules and protocols and knows what he's talking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all my experiences with @MikeEdenfield, he's been completely fair and reasonable, but also knows when enough is enough and would be excellent to have the power of being able to halt things before they go awry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T15:47:09.657" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T15:47:09.657" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-09-17T00:45:52.810" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7240" CreationDate="2015-09-17T00:35:50.890" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm also nominating @rand al'thor because he doesn't want to nominate himself.  He's a great guy and would also be wise and frequents chat enough to be useful in this capacity!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T00:35:50.890" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-09-17T00:45:35.493" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7240" CreationDate="2015-09-17T00:54:20.953" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/5184/phantom42&quot;&gt;@phantom42&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's someone who is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;trusted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;impartial&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;witty enough not to be too serious and grumpy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;assertive enough to be able to tell people to &quot;cool it&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;active on both the site as well as Mos-Eisley&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T00:54:20.953" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-09-17T00:54:20.953" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7234" CreationDate="2015-09-17T02:33:03.170" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I liked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/93423/why-did-agent-smith-co-pursue-pre-escaped-neo-through-the-matrix-instead-of&quot;&gt;Why did Agent Smith &amp;amp; co. pursue (pre escaped) Neo through the Matrix instead of going to his pod?&lt;/a&gt; most of all my questions, and I'm too jealous to nominate anything better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4356" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T02:33:03.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7234" CreationDate="2015-09-17T03:07:20.530" Score="5" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Questions&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Praxis' '&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/97166/why-are-there-so-many-47s&quot;&gt;Why are there so many 47s?&lt;/a&gt;'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Praxis' '&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/94273/when-and-why-did-the-enterprise-get-balls&quot;&gt;When and why did the Enterprise get balls?'&lt;/a&gt;'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Major Stackings' '&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/96469/what-aside-from-binocular-vision-eye-count-and-goggle-style-is-the-differenc&quot;&gt;What, aside from binocular vision, eye count, and goggle style, is the difference between 1 eyed and 2 eyed minions?&lt;/a&gt;'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chris' '&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/102109/trying-to-remember-a-dinosaur-book&quot;&gt;Trying to remember a dinosaur book&lt;/a&gt;'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Pop Machine's '&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/99468/which-star-trek-character-appeared-on-screen-with-the-most-different-ranks&quot;&gt;Which Star Trek character appeared on screen with the most different ranks?&lt;/a&gt;'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Answers&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;JMFB's answer to '&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/97523/why-werent-civilians-evacuated-before-the-fleet-at-wolf-359-engaged-the-borg/97534#97534&quot;&gt;Why weren't civilians evacuated before the fleet at Wolf 359 engaged the borg?&lt;/a&gt;'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wad Cheber's answer (that gives you a finger-cramp from scrolling it's so detailed) to '&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/95351/why-does-the-ring-have-such-an-obsessive-possessive-effect/95487#95487&quot;&gt;Why does the Ring have such an obsessive possessive effect?&lt;/a&gt;'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Himarm's answer to '&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/102424/do-the-borg-have-any-plans-after-assimilating-all-they-want/102443#102443&quot;&gt;Do the Borg have any plans after assimilating all they want?&lt;/a&gt;'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Paul D. Waite's creative answer to '&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/102107/has-the-phrase-star-trek-ever-been-used-in-star-trek/102121#102121&quot;&gt;Has the phrase 'Star Trek' ever been used in Star Trek?&lt;/a&gt;'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Pop Machine's brilliantly creative answer to '&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/99720/whats-the-relationship-among-the-many-uses-of-the-name-praxis-in-sci-fi/99721#99721&quot;&gt;What's the relationship among the many uses of the name “Praxis” in sci-fi?&lt;/a&gt;'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-09-19T03:38:49.783" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7234" CreationDate="2015-09-17T06:41:38.560" Score="5" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Self-promotion alert&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I stand by this one &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/102947/in-star-trek-do-the-greek-gods-lack-nipples&quot;&gt;In Star Trek, do the Greek gods lack nipples?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;because nipples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And because I like when I think I have an interesting question and then after some research, it ends up fascinating. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, of course this one too, which was both fascinating and a lot of work to do.   But fun. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/99720/whats-the-relationship-among-the-many-uses-of-the-name-praxis-in-sci-fi&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the relationship among the many uses of the name &amp;quot;Praxis&amp;quot; in sci-fi?&lt;/a&gt; (hint: I answered in the form of a poem)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-09-19T04:20:08.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7234" CreationDate="2015-09-17T07:50:11.993" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I never get nominated for any of these, so I'm going to nominate a few of my own answers that I think are rather good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, I'd like to nominate my self answered question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/100804/does-the-general-public-know-who-superheroes-really-are-in-the-marvel-cinematic&quot;&gt;&quot;Does the general public know who superheroes really are in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. I put a lot of effort into it and I'm happy to say it was received well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, I'd like to nominate &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/97033/why-arent-the-people-responsible-for-creating-ultron-arrested-at-the-end-of-ave/97037#97037&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt; to the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/97033/why-arent-the-people-responsible-for-creating-ultron-arrested-at-the-end-of-ave&quot;&gt;&quot;Why aren't the people responsible for creating Ultron arrested at the end of Avengers: Age of Ultron?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. This leans heavily on my knowledge of what (broadly speaking) will be happening next in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as well as some (solid and evidence based) speculation about the details of &lt;em&gt;Captain America: Civil War&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And finally, I feel that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/95130/24087&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt; to the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/94295/are-there-any-rules-guidelines-regarding-spider-mans-appearance/&quot;&gt;&quot;Are there any rules/guidelines regarding Spider-Man's appearance?&quot;&lt;/a&gt; never got as much attention as it deserved - it's an interesting (and topical) question that, although potentially looking primarily opinion-based, actually had a definitive answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also like to mention &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/96984/elvish-tattoo-can-it-be-translated-into-english&quot;&gt;&quot;Elvish tattoo - can it be translated into English?&quot;&lt;/a&gt; as a great example of why I love this community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24087" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T07:50:11.993" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7240" CreationDate="2015-09-17T08:00:07.843" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to nominate Dr R Dizzle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although a new user, Dr R Dizzle has earned a lot of reputation recently and in all my dealings with him, he has been most respectful of everyone in the chatroom.  He also frequents Mos Eisley regularly and in my opinion he would use his powers only when necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T08:00:07.843" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-09-17T08:00:07.843" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7240" CreationDate="2015-09-17T08:23:49.867" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to nominate &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1148/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt;, if he's willing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's impartial (we're &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; dead to him), he's often around, he already takes care of the blog so he has shown he's responsible, and he has run for mod so he likely wants the responsibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T08:23:49.867" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-09-17T08:23:49.867" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7256" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-17T14:58:03.417" Score="1" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;Certainly &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/zombie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;zombie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;zombie&lt;/a&gt;-related works are on topic, for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-walking-dead&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-walking-dead&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-walking-dead&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I presume &lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt; is on-topic because the zombies are fantastical.   Or if they weren't fantastical, the result of the zombie virus would be considered sci-fi.   Fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So do we need to apply one of those criteria to all horror works for them to be on-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, is a horror film with a realistic serial killer off-topic?   Or just a deranged individual?   (Like perhaps &lt;em&gt;Saw&lt;/em&gt;? -- I haven't actually seen it, so I may be wrong here)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is horror automatically on-topic regardless of plot or elements?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T15:05:59.723" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T15:05:59.723" Title="What horror works are on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-09-17T15:08:12.280" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7258" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-18T03:18:06.433" Score="5" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;When we make a comment, why are we only permitted to notify one additional user? Sometimes there may be good reason to notify two or more users. What's the harm in that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T03:53:42.547" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T03:53:42.547" Title="Why can we only notify one additional user of a comment?" Tags="|feature-request|comments|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7259" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7261" CreationDate="2015-09-18T10:13:56.300" Score="-2" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can I include questions about detective stories in this site? If not, on which site can I post them? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50946" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2016-01-04T20:51:51.010" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T20:51:51.010" Title="Are detective stories a part of Science Fiction and fantasy site?" Tags="|support|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7259" CreationDate="2015-09-18T10:26:50.803" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Are &quot;detective stories&quot; on topic?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per the site's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, detective stories are &lt;strong&gt;not on topic&lt;/strong&gt; for the site &lt;strong&gt;unless they contain elements that are science fictional or in some way fantastical:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What topics can I ask about here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange is for questions targeted&#xA;  towards science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts. This includes&#xA;  questions about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Plot, character, or setting explanations &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Historical or societal context of a work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Story identification&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Franchise/series reading or viewing order&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may wish to note that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4979/can-i-ask-about-sherlock-holmes-books&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; specifically asked about whether the Sherlock Holmes stories are on topic. The overwhelming vote was that they are not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Where can I ask them?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On-site there's nothing to stop you raising it in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;. Failing that, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quora.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Quora&lt;/a&gt; has a good reputation for more general questions, as does &lt;a href=&quot;https://uk.yahoo.com/answers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Yahoo Answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T10:59:33.353" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7259" CreationDate="2015-09-18T10:28:34.427" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe. As taken from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/are-works-that-arent-sf-per-se-but-have-occasional-sfnal-elements-on-topic-e&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If it's marketed as SF, it's on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If magic, futuristic science or technology, alternate history, or other &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;sf-nal&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  concept is an important part of the overall plot, it's on-topic.&#xA;  (&lt;em&gt;Alice in Wonderland&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Clockwork Orange&lt;/em&gt;, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If the question is specifically about an sf-nal element, even if it's only a minor part of the work, it's on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If it's set in an on-topic universe, it's on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If you're not sure it's SF but you think a good case can be made for it, it's on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If there is a minor supernatural element (e.g. a fortune teller's prediction comes true, or someone sees a ghost, or a story for&#xA;  children involving anthropomorphic animals) but it's just a throwaway&#xA;  plot element that's not particularly relevant to the question, it's&#xA;  off-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if the story contains elements of science fiction or fantasy, you might be able to ask it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the story in question has been turned into a film or TV series, you may want to take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Movies.SE&lt;/a&gt; and try there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24087" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T10:28:34.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7262" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-18T19:00:27.120" Score="1" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title pretty much covers it - I want to know if this is a good place to ask about One Piece.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if such questions would be better off on movies &amp;amp; tv SE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53234" LastEditorUserId="5184" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T19:15:23.320" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T19:28:07.287" Title="Is this a good place to ask about manga canon, such as One Piece?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7262" CreationDate="2015-09-18T19:06:32.243" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if One Piece would be considered on topic here, but it is most definitely on topic at &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Anime and Manga SE&lt;/a&gt;. They even have &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/one-piece&quot;&gt;a tag for it&lt;/a&gt;, and we don't. So I'd ask over there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35327" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:48.340" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T19:06:32.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7262" CreationDate="2015-09-18T19:28:07.287" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Piece&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the wikipedia entry&lt;/a&gt;, I immediately come across this line&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The world of One Piece is populated by humans and numerous other races, including mermen and mermaids, &quot;fishmen&quot; (a race of fish/human hybrid), and giants. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;along with &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The group goes to Water 7, where they battle the cyborg shipwright Franky&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These elements make the story on-topic here. However, you may find better experts or answers at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Anime/Manga SE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:48.340" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T19:28:07.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7234" CreationDate="2015-09-19T03:33:20.550" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are my nominations, in no particular order:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Questions&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;N_Soong's question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/95624/&quot;&gt;Is there anyone Strickland doesn&amp;#39;t think is a slacker?&lt;/a&gt; made me laugh&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I enjoyed Richard's question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/95882/&quot;&gt;Who (or what) is Unbreakable?&lt;/a&gt;, which deconstructs something that might be taken for granted otherwise&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dr R Dizzle's question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/100804/&quot;&gt;Does the general public know who superheroes really are in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?&lt;/a&gt;, for which he offered his own answer, is interesting and informative&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ThePopMachine's question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/102947/&quot;&gt;In Star Trek, do the Greek gods lack nipples?&lt;/a&gt; may have caused SFF:SE to &quot;jump the shark&quot;, but it brought up some interesting facts about 1960s US television&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Without any intention to self-promote, I was quite happy with my question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/95944/&quot;&gt;Is the ending of Minority Report halo-induced?&lt;/a&gt;, which generated a lot of nice discussion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Answers&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Richard's answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/97162/&quot;&gt;Did Indiana Jones affect the outcome of Raiders of the Lost Ark?&lt;/a&gt; is brilliant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wad Cheber's answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/95971/&quot;&gt;Which 2015 technologies were correctly predicted by Back to the Future II?&lt;/a&gt; gets a mandatory inclusion, because he really went the distance!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;JMFB gave a perfect answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/99116/&quot;&gt;What exactly is cellular peptide cake?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jason Baker did stellar work on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/97166/&quot;&gt;Why are there so many 47s?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think I ought to mention the ThePopMachine's answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/99720/&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the relationship among the many uses of the name &amp;quot;Praxis&amp;quot; in sci-fi?&lt;/a&gt;, given that he &lt;em&gt;wrote a poem about me&lt;/em&gt; within it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Again without self-promoting, I want to mention my answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/96879/&quot;&gt;Who wrote &amp;quot;Ode to Spot&amp;quot; and Data&amp;#39;s other poem?&lt;/a&gt;, because it gave me an excuse to pester Star Trek writer and producer Brannon Braga&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-09-20T19:45:23.837" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7234" CreationDate="2015-09-19T10:36:33.393" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Best Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Andrew Ferguson's answer to my question &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/97103/reading-order-for-the-novels-of-r-a-lafferty&quot;&gt;Reading order for the novels of R. A. Lafferty&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2015-09-19T10:36:33.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7267" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7268" CreationDate="2015-09-20T14:41:56.037" Score="7" ViewCount="358" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both The Matrix and Westworld were tied on +4, however The Matrix has the most upvotes (10 vs 6) so it's selected as our winner for this event.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our most recent chat movie event, the amazing fantasy film &quot;Stardust&quot; was a &lt;strong&gt;complete and utter bust&lt;/strong&gt; with just three commenters and three lurkers, thus proving that my initial instinct to stick with &lt;strong&gt;only scifi films&lt;/strong&gt; was totally and utterly correct :-P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that in mind and undeterred by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7211/20774&quot;&gt;rand al'thor's dismal failure&lt;/a&gt;, it's now time to pick September's second chatroom Movie Event! (can I get a hell-yeah!!?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As before, you need to pick your preferred &lt;strong&gt;SCI-FI&lt;/strong&gt; film and post it as an answer below. Upvote the ones you like and the top answer (by Friday 25th September at 9pm UTC) will be selected as the winner. We'll then watch together on Saturday 26th September at 9pm UTC in the Mos Eisley chatroom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Choose wisely and remember, all scifi film suggestions will be considered carefully, except those that turn out to be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/103222/what-sci-fi-show-is-this-gif-from/103224#103224&quot;&gt;shampoo commercials&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/g4zPj.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/g4zPj.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2017-06-03T13:50:11.833" LastActivityDate="2017-06-03T13:50:11.833" Title="September Movie Event #2" Tags="|discussion|movie-night|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7267" CreationDate="2015-09-20T14:48:30.597" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going for the hit 1999 film &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Matrix&lt;/a&gt;&quot; starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne and Carrie-Anne Moss. This film literally inspired a film revolution, introducing new effects techniques that are imitated (but not bettered) in pretty much every scifi flick since 2000. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember the days when all that anyone could ask was...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is the Matrix?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lVq1X.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lVq1X.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2015-09-20T17:53:16.967" LastActivityDate="2015-09-20T17:53:16.967" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7267" CreationDate="2015-09-20T15:48:28.567" Score="-8" Body="&lt;p&gt;2015-09-26 Saturday is the date of the TV premiere of the fantasy movie&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Friendship Games&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;on Discovery Family.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't interrupt the, ahem, “regular” schedule of the &lt;em&gt;My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic&lt;/em&gt; TV show, so season 5 episode 15: “Rarity Investigates!” will be broadcast on the same evening.  With those two, there's no need for any other movie for the night.  So no matter what you choose, I'll be watching these instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please tag questions about the film or TV show with both &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/my-little-pony-fim&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;my-little-pony-fim&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;my-little-pony-fim&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/my-little-pony&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;my-little-pony&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;my-little-pony&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastActivityDate="2015-09-20T15:48:28.567" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7267" CreationDate="2015-09-20T23:22:00.770" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;My first nomination is the &lt;strong&gt;hilarious&lt;/strong&gt; and very original independent Irish sci-fi/horror/comedy film &lt;em&gt;Grabbers&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without giving too much away, an alien monster is attacking a small island off the coast of Ireland, and the only way to survive is to get really, REALLY drunk.  Hijinks ensue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://farm1.staticflickr.com/655/20587030210_ac61443e21_o_d.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that Grabbers received positive reviews from 72% of 29 surveyed critics; the average rating was 6.3/10. Damon Wise of Empire film magazine described it as &quot;a romantic but surprisingly scary monster movie that feels like a lost Amblin flick, shaken and stirred with a dash of The Guard. ... a finely crafted tribute to a long-lost style of filmmaking [that] stands up in its own right too.&quot; Matt Glasby of Total Film rated it 3/5 stars and called it &quot;a bright, breezy Irish monster mash boasting gorgeous cinematography, appealing performances and great SFX&quot;. Gareth Jones of DreadCentral rated it 4/5 stars and said, &quot;it is one hell of a good time that offers plenty of laughs, excellent characters and performances, and big slimy monsters.&quot; Jordan Hoffman of US cable channel IFC summed the film up as &quot;a delightful romp&quot;, while Upcoming Movies gave it four stars and called it a &quot;fun, monster movie roller coaster&quot; with a &quot;mix of laughs and scares&quot;. The Daily Telegraph‍ '​s Robbie Collin called it a &quot;cherishable Irish B-picture ... with an unimprovable premise&quot;.  Kim Newman of Screen Daily said of the film: &quot;Kevin Lehane's smart script is canny enough to sidestep the expectations of fans who might think they know how films like this are supposed to play out, while the monsters are as well-realised as anything in far more costly productions.&quot;  The Irish Times said, &quot;Grabbers has an atmosphere all its own: the humour is earthy without being patronising; the action sequences are both absurd and properly exciting.&quot; Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian rated the film 3/5 stars and described it as &quot;a likable and technically impressive comedy-horror&quot; that is &quot;fantastically silly, often funny&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="44025" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T19:00:57.847" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T19:00:57.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7267" CreationDate="2015-09-20T23:23:47.980" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;My second nomination is the 1980 classic, &lt;em&gt;Flash Gordon&lt;/em&gt;.  It has everything:  Brian Blessed!&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;  Max Von Sydow!  Topol!  Timothy Dalton!  Richard O'Brien!&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;  Sam J. Jones!  A brilliant soundtrack by &lt;em&gt;Queen&lt;/em&gt;!  Beautiful, incredibly unique backgrounds!  Boar worms!  Ridiculously bad acting!  Absurd dialogue!  A fight in the form of a bizarre alien football game!  This thing!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://farm1.staticflickr.com/740/20930012674_a06faf3d24_o_d.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;this thing&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Just look at the poster:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://farm1.staticflickr.com/645/21364769408_4eee0e6af6_b_d.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;poster&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It absolutely &lt;strong&gt;screams&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;quot;Campy Sci Fi!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Look how big Brian Blessed's mouth is!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5827/21527138046_26165387bc_z_d.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;It's enormous&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Watch the video for the amazing theme song!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/gNIVpMXHqlk?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Read how much of a cluster#%£@ the production was!  Screenwriter Lorenzo Semple, Jr. said:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Producer] Dino [De Laurentiis] wanted to make Flash Gordon humorous. At the time, I thought that was a possible way to go, but, in hindsight, I realize it was a terrible mistake. We kept fiddling around with the script, trying to decide whether to be funny or realistic. That was a catastrophic thing to do, with so much money involved... I never thought the character of Flash in the script was particularly good. But there was no pressure to make it any better. Dino had a vision of a comic-strip character treated in a comic style. That was silly, because Flash Gordon was never intended to be funny. The entire film got way out of control.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Gordon_(film)#Production&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's right - they weren't sure if the movie was a comedy or not, &lt;strong&gt;even while they were filming it&lt;/strong&gt;.  The producer didn't care that the main character was about as complex as a piece of cardboard.  It was less like producing a film, and more like releasing a sack full of angry, drunken badgers into a kindergarten classroom just to see what would happen.&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;But it gets even crazier than that!  Sam J. Jones, the star and titular character, hated Dino De Lauretiis so much that he quit before post production began.  A voiceover actor had to dub most of Jones' lines, and no one can remember who that voiceover actor was:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to a 2012 interview in Maxim, Sam J. Jones had disagreements of some sort with De Laurentiis and departed prior to post-production&lt;sup&gt;4&lt;/sup&gt;, which resulted in a substantial proportion of his dialogue being dubbed by a professional voice actor, whose identity is still a mystery.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Gordon_(film)#Production&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you even imagine a film production so screwed up that no one thought to write down the name of the guy who recorded most of the lead character's lines?  Well, if you vote for this movie, you won't &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to imagine it, because you'll see it for yourself!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Freddie Mercury explains why we need to watch this movie:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Flash is the Savior of the Universe&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He'll save every one of us&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He's a miracle&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;King of the impossible&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He's for every one of us&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stands for every one of us&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He'll save with a mighty hand every man, every woman, every child&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just a man, with a man's courage&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You know he's nothing but a man, but he can never fail&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;No one but the pure of heart may find the Golden Grail&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;In light of this argument, I genuinely and emphatically believe that we &lt;em&gt;owe&lt;/em&gt; it to Flash to watch this film.  After all, he &lt;strong&gt;did&lt;/strong&gt; save every one of us.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;During filming, the battle scenes had to be reshot because &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/103262/44025&quot;&gt;Brian Blessed was making &amp;quot;Pew!  Pew!&amp;quot; noises every time he fired a weapon&lt;/a&gt;, and you could see his mouth moving.  The director was not pleased.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;Best known as the writer-director of &lt;em&gt;Rocky Horror Picture Show&lt;/em&gt;, in which he also played the role of the butler, Riff-Raff&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;Seriously, it was ridiculous.  The producer referred to &lt;em&gt;Flash Gordon&lt;/em&gt; as &amp;quot;the only improvised $27 million dollar movie ever made&amp;quot;.  You can read all about it &lt;a href=&quot;http://io9.com/the-weirdest-things-you-never-knew-about-the-making-of-1571016187&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;4&lt;/sup&gt;The article linked in note &lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt; describes Jones' departure rather differently:  &amp;quot;At Christmas, he went to Los Angeles and never returned&amp;quot;.  The producer was proud that he was responsible for the only major studio film that was completed with the star AWOL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-09-20T23:30:47.233" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7267" CreationDate="2015-09-21T02:23:19.877" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you haven't seen this movie you absolutely want to see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Host (2006 film)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7vg4o.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7vg4o.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was suggested I include some info, but I don't want to spoil it for you, this will spoil the first ten minutes of the movie, so here goes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie concerns a monster kidnapping a man's daughter, and his attempts to rescue her. According to the director, his inspiration came from a local article about a deformed fish with an S-shaped spine caught in Han River&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are sightings of a strange amphibious creature in the waterway, and the fish in the Han River are dying off because of water pollution. Six years later, in Seoul, Park Gang-du (Song Kang-ho) is a seemingly slow-witted man who runs a small snack-bar with his father, Hee-bong (Byun Hee-bong). Also with him is his daughter, Hyun-seo (Go Ah-sung), his sister, Nam-joo (Bae Doona), a national medalist archer, and his brother, Nam-il (Park Hae-il), a heavy drinking unemployed college graduate and former political activist.&#xA;While Gang-du is delivering food to some customers, he sees a crowd along the Han River. They witness a huge creature hanging from the Wonhyo Bridge, which then jumps into the water...from there everything goes haywire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Host_(2006_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Host_(2006_film)&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It was ranked one of the top films of 2007 on &lt;strong&gt;Metacritic with a score&#xA;  of 85.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Host received critical acclaim, with a &lt;strong&gt;93% &quot;Fresh&quot; rating on&#xA;  Rotten Tomatoes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...13 million tickets had been sold, making it (at the time) the&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;highest grossing South Korean film of all time.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It won several awards including Best Film at the Asian Film Awards and&#xA;  at the Blue Dragon Film Awards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In addition to its opening in Cannes, among the most prominent were&#xA;  the Toronto, Tokyo and New York film festivals. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The film swept Korea's Blue Dragon Awards : The Host received five&#xA;  awards, Go Ah-sung took Best New Actress and Byun Hee-bong was awarded&#xA;  as Best Supporting Actor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The French film magazine Cahiers du cinéma ranked the film as 3rd&#xA;  place in its list of best films of the year 2006 and 4th for the&#xA;  2000-2009 decade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Japanese film magazine Kinema Junpo selected it as one of the top&#xA;  10 best foreign films of the year 2006. (Flags of Our Fathers won the&#xA;  best foreign film of the year 2006.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Manohla Dargis of The New York Times wrote &quot;The Host is a loopy,&#xA;  feverishly imaginative genre hybrid about the demons that haunt us&#xA;  from without and within.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The filmmaker &lt;strong&gt;Quentin Tarantino&lt;/strong&gt; included it in his list of &lt;strong&gt;top 20&#xA;  films&lt;/strong&gt; released since 1992 (the year he became a director).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The film was also listed at #81 on Empire Magazine's list of The 100&#xA;  Best Films of World Cinema.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Top ten lists:  The film appeared on several critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2007:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2nd Ella Taylor, LA Weekly (tied with Manufactured Landscapes) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2nd V.A. Musetto, New York Post &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;4th Dana Stevens, Slate &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;5th Marc Mohan, The Oregonian &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;5th Mike Russell, The Oregonian &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;7th Desson Thomson, The Washington Post &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;9th Wesley Morris, The Boston Globe&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Awards and nominations:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2006 Asia Pacific Film Festival&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Best Supporting Actor - Byun Hee-bong&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Best Editing - Kim Sun-min&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Best Sound - Choi Tae-young&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2006 Chunsa Film Art Awards:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Best Lighting - Lee Kang-san&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Technical Award - Jang Hwi-cheol&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2006 Blue Dragon Film Awards:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Best Film&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Best Supporting Actor - Byun Hee-bong&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Best New Actress - Go Ah-sung&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Best Lighting - Lee Kang-san, Jung Young-min&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Audience Choice Award for Most Popular Film&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Technical Award - The Orphanage, EON (CG)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nomination - Best Director - Bong Joon-ho&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nomination - Best Actor - Song Kang-ho&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nomination - Best Supporting Actress - Bae Doona&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nomination - Best Screenplay - Bong Joon-ho&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nomination - Best Cinematography - Kim Hyung-koo&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2006 Korean Film Awards:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Best Film&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Best Director - Bong Joon-ho&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Best Cinematography - Kim Hyung-koo&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Best Visual Effects - The Orphanage, EON&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Best Sound - Choi Tae-young&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nomination - Best Supporting Actress - Go Ah-sung&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nomination - Best Art Direction - Ryu Seong-hee&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nomination - Best Music - Lee Byung-woo&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2006 Director's Cut Awards:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Best Performers Award - Ensemble cast (Song Kang-ho, Byun Hee-bong,&#xA;  Park Hae-il, Bae  Doona, Go Ah-sung)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2007 Asian Film Awards:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Best Film&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Best Actor - Song Kang-ho&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Best Cinematography - Kim Hyung-koo&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Best Visual Effects - The Orphanage, EON&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nomination - Best Editing - Kim Sun-min&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2007 Hong Kong Film Awards:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nomination - Best Asian Film&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2007 Baeksang Arts Awards:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Best Film&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nomination - Best Actor - Byun Hee-bong&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nomination - Best New Actress - Go Ah-sung&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2007 Saturn Awards:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nomination - Best International Film&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nomination - Best Performance by a Younger Actor - Go Ah-sung&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2007 Grand Bell Awards:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Best Director - Bong Joon-ho&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Best Editing - Kim Sun-min&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nomination - Best Film&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nomination - Best Actor - Song Kang-ho&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nomination - Best Supporting Actor - Byun Hee-bong&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nomination - Best Supporting Actress - Go Ah-sung&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nomination - Best Cinematography - Kim Hyung-koo&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nomination - Best Visual Effects - The Orphanage, EON&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nomination - Best Sound - Lee Seung-chul, Choi Tae-young&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2007 Busan Film Critics Awards:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jury Prize&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2008 Belgian Syndicate of Cinema Critics:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nomination - Grand Prix&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40599" LastEditorUserId="40599" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T19:10:55.047" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T19:10:55.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7267" CreationDate="2015-09-21T02:30:57.527" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Time Bandits&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm nominating &quot;Time Bandits&quot; again as well as &quot;The Host&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very few movies are better than this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/01PWQ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/01PWQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still think we should watch &quot;The Host&quot; as most community members probably haven't seen it and it's a really enjoyable film. But if people want a classic, great writing, great storytelling, great acting, amazing cast, this is it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Time Bandits is a 1981 British fantasy film co-written, produced, and directed by Terry Gilliam, and starring Sean Connery, John Cleese, Shelley Duvall, Ralph Richardson, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Michael Palin, David Warner, and Craig Warnock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On review aggregator website &lt;strong&gt;Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 92% rating&lt;/strong&gt; based on 39 reviews, averaging an 8/10.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40599" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T02:30:57.527" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7267" CreationDate="2015-09-21T09:28:15.940" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about the 2014 film &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowpiercer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Snowpiercer&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Director Bong Joon-ho brings us a superbly created science fiction film that sees the last remaining survivors of a sudden global-cooling stuck on a train that travels the entire world once per year. At the back of the train, the masses live in poverty and are controlled by a vicious and fascist police force. At the front, the few live in luxury. We follow protagonist Curtis Everett (Chris Evans) as he leads a revolt from the back of the train that intend to take the front by any means necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A film with great action, fantastic performances, an inventive concept and full of fun little moments that you would never get in a Hollywood film, &lt;em&gt;Snowpiercer&lt;/em&gt; is just a great film that I would want anyone to see, and actually made my list of &lt;a href=&quot;http://screennerds.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/the-must-see-films-of-2014.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the must see films of 2014&lt;/a&gt;, in which I described it as &quot;undoubtedly one of the strongest science fiction films released in years, at once an exercise in world building, an allegorical look at the class system and a great action film&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QwGLv.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QwGLv.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Snowpiercer poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen it three times now, and I can confirm that it is a &lt;strong&gt;really, really, really good film&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24087" LastEditorUserId="24087" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T09:35:50.170" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T09:35:50.170" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7267" CreationDate="2015-09-21T19:26:00.687" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to nominate Neill Blomkamp's &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1136608/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;District 9&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. A wonderful mix of low budget effects and larger-than-life space aliens living in a filthy ghetto in South Africa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ever wondered what it would really be like when aliens arrive, this dystopian film gives us a glimpse into the future, 10 minutes from now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LLU4o.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LLU4o.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T19:26:00.687" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7276" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7278" CreationDate="2015-09-21T19:50:44.753" Score="1" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;Last night during &lt;em&gt;Rick and Morty&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Adult Swim&lt;/em&gt; aired a bumper card which mentioned our own beloved moderator, Thaddeus.  I'm trying to find a decent quality video or gif of the bump.  It read, in part:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/69RrU.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/69RrU.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/i0TuI.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/i0TuI.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My own attempts to get a video of it left much to be desired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/rPlf1WqawOk?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ls_fplW6ZOs?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would be willing to pay a bounty of 300 points for a good quality video or gif of the bump.  Post it here or in chat.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The episode was titled &lt;em&gt;Interdimensional Cable II:  Tempting Fate&lt;/em&gt;.  It is available on putlocker, and should be on the Adult Swim website within a day or two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="44025" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T20:02:03.143" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T23:19:31.167" Title="Can you make a decent video or gif of Thaddeus' bump?" Tags="|discussion|moderators|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7267" CreationDate="2015-09-21T22:12:14.730" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm renominating &lt;em&gt;Westworld&lt;/em&gt;. With a score of 4, it is currently the highest voted movie from the last event, scoring higher than &lt;em&gt;Stardust&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/j6tr0.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/j6tr0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a classic sci-fi movie with an intriguing plot. With the TV reboot coming soon, it will help everyone get up to date with the original.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also has a lot of stupid things and parts that don't make sense, so everyone can make fun of it, and that's always fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastEditorUserId="51226" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T22:31:33.503" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T22:31:33.503" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7276" CreationDate="2015-09-22T23:19:31.167" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tada:&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/a4MprjNu-mg?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T23:19:31.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5065" CreationDate="2015-09-23T02:56:28.490" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use a sort of sliding scale to determine when to accept an answer.  Basically, the more complex the question, the longer I wait before accepting an answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In rare instances in which the question is exceedingly simple and easy to answer, I might accept an answer almost as soon as it is submitted.  This doesn't happen very often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking very broadly, I have found that most of the time, I wait for a little less than a week, and in all but a very few cases, the waiting time was between two days and one week.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you mentioned, the obvious downside to accepting an answer right off the bat is the possibility (probability) that in doing so, you are inadvertently discouraging people from posting new, potentially better answers.  So you are trying to balance the desire to accept an answer (which just feels good for some reason) with the desire to accept the best possible answer, which might not appear very quickly.  As such, I try to give people a reasonable amount of time to see the question and respond before I click the check mark.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, no matter how long you wait, there is always the possibility that someone who can do a better job of answering the question will see that an answer has already been accepted and pass by without posting, but I don't think that happens very often - here's why:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the people who are most likely to be able to write a great answer are also the people who are most likely to know that accepted answers can be unaccepted in favor of a better option.  On top of that, I suspect that these people are also likely to care more about offering the best possible answer than they do about getting accepted.  Thus, they will hopefully submit an answer, either because they hope that the currently accepted answer will be dropped in favor of the new one, or because they don't care about acceptance, and are solely interested in providing the right answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastActivityDate="2015-09-23T02:56:28.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7281" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-23T14:47:37.477" Score="13" ViewCount="649" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obviously there is significant overlap between scifi.SE and movies.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you spend a significant amount of time on movies.SE?   Why or why not?   How is the other site different in culture? Content? Quality of questions?   Quality of answer?   If you spend time on both, how do you decide where to post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This is purely discussion, sorry if it's considered off topic -- frankly I don't understand want would be considered off-topic on meta.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastEditorUserId="3823" LastEditDate="2015-09-23T15:51:46.847" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T14:11:25.570" Title="Do you spend significant time on movies.SE? Why or why not?" Tags="|discussion|movies.se|" AnswerCount="15" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7281" CreationDate="2015-09-23T15:18:58.540" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have almost the same rep on both sites, around 4500, but I spend more of my time on scifi (Although not by much).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally if I have a question about a science fiction show or movie, &lt;em&gt;and it relates to the science or fantasy aspects&lt;/em&gt;, I will ask it here. That's because it is why scifi is here, and I am much more likely to get a good answer relating to those aspects from the people that have that as their primary interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is not really about the science fiction/fantasy aspects, then I will ask it on movies.se. (Such as why was Matthew McConaughey cast in the lead for Interstellar?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have gotten excellent answers from both, and I believe both have a very receptive culture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is such that it would be a fit on either site, then I again consider where I am most likely to get a comprehensive, educated answer and post appropriately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12305" LastActivityDate="2015-09-23T15:18:58.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7234" CreationDate="2015-09-23T15:39:17.790" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Best Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm surprised no one has mentioned Praxis's answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/95785/&quot;&gt;When was the Verteron Array built exactly and why wasn&amp;#39;t it used against the Xindi when they were about to destroy earth?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only officially joined SFF this quarter, but I've been lurking around here for a while, and this is one of the nicest, most creative answers I have seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55350" OwnerDisplayName="user52910" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user52910" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-09-23T15:58:02.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7281" CreationDate="2015-09-23T15:45:35.043" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have an account, but I don't spend much time there. &lt;em&gt;shrug&lt;/em&gt; Honestly, it's largely that my itch is well enough scratched here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2015-09-23T15:45:35.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7267" CreationDate="2015-09-23T16:27:14.277" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why aren't we watching Star Trek Renegades?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/eE2Wgop9VLM?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2015-09-23T16:27:14.277" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7281" CreationDate="2015-09-24T03:58:20.273" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've got accounts on both sites, but to be frank I prefer this site.  A few disclaimers though:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I've only joined up there in the past month or so&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most of my interests are in the sci-fi or fantasy genre and are considered on-topic here&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have been on this site for a while now&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I haven't given chat on Movies &amp;amp; TV.SE a go yet&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that said, in my limited experience, I have found this site to be more active than Movies &amp;amp; TV.SE, at least in the areas I'm interested in (specifically &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;).  I've also found that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;generally&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (and I can't stress this enough) that the quality of answers on this site is higher than on Movies &amp;amp; TV.SE  No disrespect to that community and there are some fabulous answers there, but I've found that there does tend to be a greater reliance on wikis over there than there is here and, well, we all know what an unsourced wiki can be like!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I spend way more time on this site than I do TV &amp;amp; Movies, so I might be ignorant to a lot of matters, but those are just my experiences!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T03:58:20.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7281" CreationDate="2015-09-24T08:10:59.250" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I split my time fairly evenly between Movies.SE and SciFi.SE and I'm active often in both main chatrooms - but SciFi.SE has a more active community and questions/answers that are more interesting to me, so naturally I end up answering and asking more questions over here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone who has visiting my profile will know that my main area of interest is the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a topic that questions could be asked about on either site, which makes for a handy comparison of which site I prefer. My reputation score on SciFi.SE is currently 9,414 but my reputation score on Movies.SE is just 1,712.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general I will answer question on either site - but when choosing to ask a question, I will often choose this one unless it is about the &quot;movie-ness&quot; of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, such as contract lengths, film versions etc. I think the main reason for this is the aforementioned community activity - I recognize a dozen or so users on this site that I have spoken to in chat, but only an small group (mostly moderators) over in Movies.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24087" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T08:10:59.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7281" CreationDate="2015-09-24T08:44:15.250" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't know there was a movie.se so no, I don't spend any time over there at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user46509" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T08:44:15.250" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7281" CreationDate="2015-09-24T08:56:11.267" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have hardy ever visited Movies.SE, because my primary interest is in written SF and fantasy, not movies or TV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T08:56:11.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7259" CreationDate="2015-09-24T12:12:58.817" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends if they're Sci-Fi or Fantasy detective stories or not. For example &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8855321-leviathan-wakes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Leviathan Wakes&lt;/a&gt; by James S. A. Corey is a Detective story set in a Sci-Fi context. Your traditional Agatha Christie detective novels would be off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50773" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T12:12:58.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7281" CreationDate="2015-09-24T21:32:51.390" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I spend very little time on Movies.se.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I tend to go in-depth on a small number of fictional universes – Harry Potter, Doctor Who and the MCU have been recent favourites. Beyond those, my interests skew towards sci-fi and fantasy anyway, and I don’t watch many other TV shows or movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That means a lot of the posts on M&amp;amp;TV just aren’t interesting to me. And of those posts that are, they’re a small incremental gain over what I’m already reading on this site – those interests are already well covered here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That’s not a criticism of M&amp;TV; it’s just a reflection of my personal tastes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have no qualms with the culture of M&amp;amp;TV. I usually enjoy the answers I read there. All the M&amp;amp;TV users I’ve talked to have been as friendly and considerate as on any other stack. It’s just not a place where I’ve spent much time myself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I was on SFF first. That inertia counts for a lot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The other users I know and recognise.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The warm fuzzy feelings from nice comments I’ve received here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I’ve read a lot of Meta posts on SFF, and I feel like I have a good idea of the community mood on certain issues and policies. (I may not agree with it, but I know what it is.) Since I haven’t spent the same time reading Meta posts on M&amp;amp;TV, I don’t know it nearly as well. Familiarity is a strong draw.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T21:32:51.390" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7281" CreationDate="2015-09-24T23:35:04.000" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have spent very little time there, because &quot;All movies and television shows ever&quot; is too broad for my taste, and because M&amp;amp;TV has very few questions about the movies and shows I like.  It seems like they are focused on &lt;em&gt;recent&lt;/em&gt; movies and shows, and I'm not a big fan of most recent movies and shows.  &lt;del&gt;The answer quality often leaves much to be desired, in my experience, perhaps because the site is so focused on movies and shows alone, rather than books that inspired said movies and shows, which leaves them with little recourse apart from citing wikis of highly questionable merit.&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:  I'm more active on M&amp;amp;TV of late, and I have seen some fascinating Q&amp;amp;A's as well as some dreadful stuff (the dreadful stuff mainly consisting of some of the worst Story ID questions I've ever encountered).  The mods are awesome, and the top contributors are fantastic.  My opinion of the site has drastically improved, and some of my favorite SE people are M&amp;amp;TV regulars, like Catija, Napoleon Wilson, Ankit Sharma, and Walt.  I strongly recommend that SF&amp;amp;F members spend more time over there, because it is well worth the effort and the problems on M&amp;amp;TV will only be resolved if more people post high quality Q&amp;amp;A there.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="44025" LastEditDate="2015-12-27T23:10:41.810" LastActivityDate="2015-12-27T23:10:41.810" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7281" CreationDate="2015-09-25T08:40:51.043" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm only really interested in sci-fi films so this site is ideal for me. I'm only aware of Movies.se as a place to migrate off-topic questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2015-09-25T08:40:51.043" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7294" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-25T15:17:21.613" Score="1" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;That says it all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, when I first noticed it, I asked about it on chat, and someone said something like &quot;Apparently, it's had been there a while, but I just noticed it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it intermittently displayed and what determines it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastActivityDate="2015-09-25T18:41:20.930" Title="Why does the &quot;next badges&quot; progress display sometimes appears in the &quot;recent achievements&quot; dropdown and sometimes not?" Tags="|discussion|badges|recent-activity|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7294" CreationDate="2015-09-25T18:41:20.930" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;They were A/B testing it as a new feature. Anna Lear &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/265841/can-we-have-an-option-to-disable-the-new-badge-privilege-section-in-the-achiev#comment862723_265859&quot;&gt;commented on Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt; on September 6th:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We're A/B-testing this tracker right now. Assuming it performs well, we'll put more time into &quot;congrats! you earned X&quot; notifications. (Our initial designs for it interfered with how we decide when to mark achievements as &quot;read&quot; and we opted to run the test without making any changes to that first.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You won't be seeing it again for a while, though (if at all). Thomas Orozco, one of SE's Product Managers, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/265841/can-we-have-an-option-to-disable-the-new-badge-privilege-section-in-the-achiev#comment865602_265841&quot;&gt;commented yesterday&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The A/B test has completed for now, but we'll probably run another one before making a final decision (for a variety of reasons that don't really make sense to explain here). Either way, if we were to decide to move forward with it (that decision has &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; been made yet), we'd work towards making it less intrusive. So, for the time being, I'll make this status-review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2015-09-25T18:41:20.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7296" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-28T11:52:42.810" Score="57" ViewCount="1720" Body="&lt;p&gt;[Edit: Richard is stepping down. This was NOT the desired outcome, here. At most, I hoped for clarified policies: a learning opportunity, not a blame-and-punishment game. I really hope this question was not a major part of the decision. If it was... I feel unable to ever question mod actions if the reaction against the mod is so heavy.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Background:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/103697/were-the-moon-landings-faked&quot;&gt;Were the Moon landings faked in Interstellar?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;has been edited by Moderator @Richard, from &quot;Is there proof that the United States land landed on the moon in Interstellar?&quot; to &quot;were the moon landings faked?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Richard knew that this would be contentious and misleading, commenting &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I've changed the title. You'll get more upvotes, but with such a provocative header you'll also attract some crazies. Flag anything that looks amiss :-)&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;adding &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Per my message above, if you wish to discuss the title, please do so in chat. Further attempts to edit tags into the title will be frowned upon.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Since the only tag on the question was &quot;Interstellar&quot; this second comment was a clear threat of Moderator action to anyone editing the title to mention the word &quot;Interstellar&quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the question hit the HNQ list, the question's OP, @PremierBromanov went to chat (&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/24365359#24365359&quot;&gt;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/24365359#24365359&lt;/a&gt;), agreed that the mod-edited title is &quot;&lt;strong&gt;misleading&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;, but claimed it &quot;an attention grabber, but in a good way&quot;, &quot;good for attracting attention to our SE&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we have a definitive, clear ruling? Is it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Deliberately misleading clickbait for upvotes is &lt;strong&gt;OK and encouraged&lt;/strong&gt; on this SE. The mods commit to defending these;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The above is true, but it's &lt;strong&gt;only for the mods&lt;/strong&gt; to make &quot;lulz&quot;y edits to questions: regular users will still get in trouble if exploiting the system; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Something else? (what?)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Edit, because I feel it's not very obvious from my probably-overly-provocative phrasing above: I absolutely believe that there was not one iota of malice or ill-intent in Richard's modding there, and that he acted with the interests of the SE in mind. I'm very confident that I'd make many far worse calls in his place.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41357" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-08-03T21:44:02.583" LastActivityDate="2017-08-03T21:44:02.583" Title="Should this be a clickbait site, or should we stand by SE standards of question quality?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|title|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7296" CreationDate="2015-09-28T11:52:42.810" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I reckon:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is SE, not a clickbait site like Buzzfeed. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Titles should be as clear and searchable as possible.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Clickworthiness is no valid criterion for question quality.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's no rule against tag info in titles.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's no such thing as &quot;misleading in a good way&quot;. Misleading is bad, always.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The amended title is deliberately, consciously bad.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bad titles cause off-topic arguments, comment deletions, reversions, and upset users.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bad titles should be fixable &lt;em&gt;without fear or threats of admin retribution&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When a clickbait title gets to the HNQ list, it makes this look like the /b/ of SE.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Clickbait cheapens upvotes, and cheats those who post proper content.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The amended title has twice been good-faith fixed by editors of far higher rep than I: @Gilles and @lightness-races-in-orbit - would likely have been more, but Richard put the threat in.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not feel that either option 1 or option 2 good options, as I do not feel that Mod-defended clickbait titles are good options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only good option 3 I can think of is a promise not to do it again, and a removal of mod-protection and threats from the bad question title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Interesting! I see comments questioning whether what appears to me to be an obvious threat, &lt;em&gt;actually was not a threat&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could this be a regional thing? Because it was that threat -- a mod menacing the community against changes to his pet edit -- that really raised my hackles. Without it, I'd just have shrugged and moved on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The phrase &quot;will be reverted&quot; would not have been as menacing a threat, and would be essentially the same as locking the topic. But the vague and unrestricted &quot;will be frowned upon&quot;, from a mod, IS a clear threat of moderator action above and beyond mere reverting. Not sure how this is even questioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If my boss said &quot;any employee doing X will be frowned on&quot;, I don't think anyone would reasonably claim that meant that if I do X, I will merely be scowled at as the boss undoes X.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might be a regional thing, though? **/edit]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Edit2**: this seemed an interesting enough possibility that I took it off to &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/276652/is-you-will-be-frowned-upon-always-an-ominous-understatement&quot;&gt;it's own question on English Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed in discussions about authority statements that in-group people are often blind to official-voice and threats aimed at out-groupers, because they can't feel the chilling effect.&#xA; &lt;strong&gt;/edit]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41357" LastEditorUserId="13217" LastEditDate="2015-10-02T16:33:29.700" LastActivityDate="2015-10-02T16:33:29.700" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7296" CreationDate="2015-09-28T13:16:35.220" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I can see, you really have two separate concerns:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should question titles be &quot;clickbait-y&quot;, with an eye towards improving view/vote count?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Richard's conduct&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have thoughts on each of these, but I'll handle them separately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Clickbait titles&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see a problem with this; askers are welcome to choose whatever title they want (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;within reason&lt;/a&gt;). If an asker wants their question title to be in some way light-hearted, that's their prerogative and I see no reason to prevent them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise, I don't see a problem with users editing question titles to make them humorous. One of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;few general pieces of guidance on the &quot;edit&quot; privilege&lt;/a&gt; is to improve the post. If the OP disagrees with the new title, they are welcome to revert it or make further changes; although strictly speaking all content on the SE network belongs to the community, we do &lt;em&gt;generally&lt;/em&gt; respect the sovereignty of post ownership, unless there's a compelling reason not to. I don't think a funny question title is worth arguing over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another issue to consider is how we would police this. What is the standard for &quot;too clickbaity&quot;? Quickly skimming the list of top-voted questions, I can see a bunch that &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be considered clickbait:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Beofett's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/68005/whose-underwear-is-this&quot;&gt;Whose underwear is this?&lt;/a&gt;, which was asking to identify a DC superhero's logo from a pack of kid's underwear&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ryan's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4056/are-all-stormtroopers-as-poor-soldiers-as-the-ones-in-the-movies&quot;&gt;Are all Stormtroopers as poor soldiers as the ones in the movies?&lt;/a&gt;, asking about why Stormtrooper's can't shoot straight&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Praxis' &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/97166/why-are-there-so-many-47s&quot;&gt;Why are there so many 47s?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, asking about the prevalence of the number &quot;47&quot; in &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Praxis' (again) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/94273/when-and-why-did-the-enterprise-get-balls&quot;&gt;When and why did the Enterprise get balls?&lt;/a&gt;, asking about nacelle design on the &lt;em&gt;Enterprise&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Peter Casetta's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6343/was-yoda-fully-sane-on-dagobah&quot;&gt;Was Yoda fully sane on Dagobah?&lt;/a&gt;, which is exactly what it says on the tin&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wikis' &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1458/was-the-millennium-falcon-too-slow&quot;&gt;Was the Millennium Falcon too slow?&lt;/a&gt;, asking about George Lucas' dodgy physics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;WhatRoughBeasts' &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/61010/hogwarts-so-why-arent-the-kids-doing-it&quot;&gt;Hogwarts: So why aren&amp;#39;t the kids &amp;quot;doing it&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;, also what it says on the tin&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Beofett's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35410/what-is-the-origin-of-the-riker-chair-maneuver&quot;&gt;What is the origin of the &amp;quot;Riker Chair Maneuver&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;, asking about the ongoing war between chairs and Jonathon Frakes' spine&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And on and on and on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every single one of those question titles accurately describes the question. So which ones are too &quot;clickbaity&quot;? Why? What would you change them to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no reason we &lt;em&gt;couldn't&lt;/em&gt; do implement a policy like this, but I don't think the administrative overhead is worth whatever questionable benefit would come out of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, as much as our unofficial motto is &quot;We hate fun&quot;, we are one of the minority of SE sites that is purely recreational; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/96984/elvish-tattoo-can-it-be-translated-into-english&quot;&gt;with a few exceptions&lt;/a&gt;, we don't solve pressing, real-life problems. With that in mind, I don't think a little silliness is a bad thing at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Richard&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not going to say I've always agreed with Richard's moderation decisions, and I think this is one of those times things could have been handled more tactfully, but on the balance I don't think his actions were &lt;em&gt;that bad&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I said above, one of the few pieces of guidance we're given on what constitutes an &quot;appropriate edit&quot; is that we improve the post in some way. Richard's comment (quoted in part below) would suggest that he believes this &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; an improvement:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You'll get more upvotes, but with such a provocative header you'll also attract some crazies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's worth noting that &lt;strong&gt;none of the further edits to the title substantially changed it.&lt;/strong&gt; The only change that was made, by both two subsequent users, was to clarify in the title that the question was about the movie &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I'm not a fan of edit wars; I find them unproductive. If I make an edit and somebody else undoes it, I prefer to let it lie in most cases. But in this case, I don't have much of a problem with the edit. Although &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2749/is-it-ok-for-titles-to-have-tags-in-them&quot;&gt;tags in titles&lt;/a&gt; isn't something we have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10647/how-do-i-write-a-good-title&quot;&gt;hard-and-fast rule about&lt;/a&gt;, personally I'm opposed to it. It seems silly to include that information in the title when, in many situations &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/130242/using-tags-in-question-titles/130243#130243&quot;&gt;it will be put there anyway&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main exception to that rule is the HNQ list, which puts question titles beside site logos, devoid of other context. That's a problem, but I don't think we should be basing policies around one feature of the network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Disclaimer: I have the top-voted (and only) answer on this question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2015-09-29T12:19:16.450" CommentCount="23" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7296" CreationDate="2015-09-28T13:56:00.237" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this question is kinda loaded, since I don't consider the title to be click-bait and only &quot;misleading&quot; as a sunday newspaper comic joke. That is to say, it's a slight misdirection, in that your first reaction to such a statement is to say &quot;WELL OF COURSE WE LANDED ON THE MOON&quot;. This title plays on reactions, but isn't lying to anyone. The context is available to anyone that takes a single second to find out which stack exchange the question is on (Sci-fi) and what the question is about (Interstellar).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can the title utilize &quot;in Interstellar&quot;?&lt;/strong&gt; Sure. &lt;strong&gt;Does it need to?&lt;/strong&gt; I don't think it &lt;em&gt;needs&lt;/em&gt; to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, this is less about titles and more about the fact that Richard edited my title to something more compelling, but also more concise. Something a lot of people saw as &quot;clickbait&quot;. I think Richard knew this would happen, and so tried to nip the edit war in the bud. As the OP, I appreciate this. I don't like edit wars on my stuff. No one does. Since the sovereignty of ownership is generally respected, had I actually been online I don't think much of this discussion would have happened. In fact, when Richard edited it I saw the edit and had the opportunity to revert it, but I didn't. So really, all that's left here is to question Richard's mod decisions, not the title editing. And I think, again, that he forsaw the edit war and nipped it in the bud. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Regarding your actual question: 3)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's an element of personal creativity that is and should be allowed on every stack exchange, especially one about fiction. Users are free to use whatever words they like, so long as the question's content is clear and it follows other guidelines. Users are human beings, after all, and constructing your title is as important here as it is with any story, article, document, movie, etc etc. There's nothing wrong with attention grabbing titles &lt;strong&gt;so long as it isn't lying and it is accurate to the question.&lt;/strong&gt; It's actually a great strategy to make your question stand out, especially if you believe it's a good one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38299" LastEditorUserId="38299" LastEditDate="2015-09-28T15:53:19.987" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T15:53:19.987" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7296" CreationDate="2015-09-28T14:52:16.693" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are quite a few misconceptions around your question, so lets get to them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your assertion that the title it &quot;clickbait&quot; is misleading. The generally accepted meaning of &quot;clickbait&quot; is a title that is designed to attract attention to a post &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickbait&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;at the expense of quality or accuracy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. There was nothing inaccurate or low-quality about the post in question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;em&gt;original&lt;/em&gt; title of the post did not mention Interstellar at all. The OP only added that in after prompting from well-meaning but, IMO, misguided commenters that he should. All @Richard did was revert the title to something much close to the OP's original goal.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The OP's opinion was more than just &quot;provocative == good&quot;. He specifically agreed with the assertion (which I also made) that this is a &lt;em&gt;science fiction site&lt;/em&gt;. Any question asked here is implicitly about a fictional universe and should be read in that context.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's nothing against the rules about catchy or provocative titles, and certainly no rule that we need to go around fixing them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt;, however, a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/130208/165776&quot;&gt;general policy&lt;/a&gt; that you don't try to force tag names into question titles just to &quot;clarify&quot; them. If the title is &lt;em&gt;unreadable&lt;/em&gt; without the tag name, that's fine, but making an edit to a perfectly legitimate title just to add tag names is not something I agree with.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Richard's threat was not merely &quot;don't do this thing I disagree with.&quot; His threat was &quot;this question is in dispute, &lt;em&gt;stop editing it&lt;/em&gt; until we get the matter resolved&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having cleared some of that up, are there really any issues here? There's a few things to look at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Provocative Titles&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO there's nothing at all wrong with provocative titles. If there is, someone should probably &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2196/12183&quot;&gt;tell Arqade about it&lt;/a&gt;. They've got a long history of clever or unusual titles that make no sense out of context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The cruz of the issue here, of course, is the Hot Network Questions list. That is the one place were titles appear almost entirely devoid of context (on Google, the tags are auto-inserted into search results, for example). And IMO, that's a flaw in the HNQ's that we shouldn't start making policy to fix. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even without any other context, the site's logo is right there: it's a &lt;em&gt;SciFi&lt;/em&gt; question, of course it's going to be about some science fiction book/movie/TV show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal of writing good question titles is to attract attention. Once you have that attention, the goal of writing good question bodies is to keep that attention. As long as your title is not &lt;strong&gt;misleading*&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;offensive&lt;/strong&gt;, I see no reason why it can't be amusing, intriguing, provocative, or whatever other technique you feel like using to get attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Richard's Actions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Had Richard merely asserted, by fiat, that he was right and you were wrong, apart from being business as usual for us, it would have probably been inappropriate. However, that was &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the sequence of events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was edited by a user to add the tag Interstellar into the title, because that user found the title &quot;nonsense sensational attention-seeking&quot;. Aside from the personal judgement over whether this was an accurate assessment or not, there was a genuine dispute over whether this change &quot;improved the question&quot; or not. As such, the edit was rolled back. Another user came along later and made the same edit again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, the question was in danger of starting an edit war, so @Richard did the correct thing: reverted the last, controversial edit, opened a discussion on the topic, and pointed people to it. He also made clear that any attempts to edit the question &lt;em&gt;in the meantime&lt;/em&gt; would be considered vandalism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I know, that's entirely appropriate action to be taken in case of an edit war. The only way the behavior could have gone badly, if is the decision had gone the other way and he had refuse to allow it. That's not what happened, though, so I see no evidence of abusive moderator behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T14:52:16.693" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7296" CreationDate="2015-09-28T17:19:21.520" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;(I feel like my answer is more like a long comment, but I wasn't sure which of the other answers it would fit on.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think &quot;Were the moon landings faked?&quot; is misleading and it would be better if the title made it clear the question is talking about moon landings as depicted in a movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's misleading because moon landings really happened (or were really faked...), so when you see just the title it's not clear the question is about a work of fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a comparison in a comment to a question about dragons where the title doesn't specify which work of fiction it's about, but in that case it's clear that it's about &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; work of fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, since discussion of real-world explanations for things that happen in an SF&amp;amp;F world are off-topic, I think a title that looks like it's asking about a real-world event is undesirable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T17:19:21.520" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7281" CreationDate="2015-09-28T18:11:14.727" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I spend little time there, mostly because I simply have filled my SE participation well above my capacity as it is. If I had unlimited time, I would spend more time on M&amp;amp;TV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the reasons that site doesn't bubble up to take a bigger share in my SE diet:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Unlike SFF.SE, there appears to be no (or very little) premium on canon-based answers. Speculations - as far as plot details - seem to be just as valued. At least from my small experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, if someone who enjoys the somewhat-rigorous approach SFF.SE tries to take to our content, here's a clearest reason to avoid Movies&amp;amp;TV:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/44934/how-did-the-resistance-know-their-planet-was-the-next-target/45277#45277&quot;&gt;How did the Resistance know their planet was the next target?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Well-writen, canon-based answer with quotes and citatoins. Basically, the kind that in my experience would get 10 upvotes in a couple of days on SFF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Score: -1 DV, 0 UV (now -2/+4)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A completely random guess with a flashy, offtopic picture, and which is 100% incorrect based on canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Score: 3 UV (now -2/+4, same as mine, if you ignore my own DV).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note the delta 1/3/2016: since I posted this 12/27, the 100% wrong answer garnered 1 more upvote, and mine 1 more downvote. NOT encouraging at all (I'm thankful about 4 upvotes on mine, but that's rather irrelevant - the upvotes on incorrect answer - or downvotes on correct answer - is what bothers me)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;SFF genres construe a vast majority of my M&amp;amp;TV consumption. Since most of my interest is on in-universe content (as opposed to production details), SFF.SE is a better location to both obtain relevant answers, and to &lt;strike&gt;show off&lt;/strike&gt; err.... &lt;strike&gt;rep-x0re&lt;/strike&gt; errr... provide valuable assistance to information seekers on these topics.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Non-SFF content in general seems to produce less of &quot;Oh! I want to mentally engage with in-universe details&quot; impetus for me, even for the smaller share of my entertainment that is non-SFF. It's a genre specific thing, I suspect - the whole point of SFF is largely world-building.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T04:12:38.033" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7303" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-29T13:53:27.550" Score="6" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked the following question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/102697/are-there-any-instances-of-an-individual-whose-animagus-form-is-a-magical-creature&quot;&gt;Are there any instances of an individual whose Animagus form is a magical creature?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was closed as a duplicate of &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/53739/can-an-animagus-take-the-form-of-any-animal&quot;&gt;Can an Animagus take the form of any animal?&lt;/a&gt;, likely due to &lt;strong&gt;@DVK&lt;/strong&gt;'s answer here, which included the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;There was also never any mention of Animagus form being a magical animal. But it's unlikely you will obtain magical powers foreign to you even if you self-Transfigure yourself into the form of a Phoenix or Unicorn.&lt;/em&gt; - DVK&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The premise of my question distinguishes between regular animals and magical animals -- I am not lumping them all together. Because  @DVK has not found a reference to a magical animal that serves as an Animagus doesn't  mean it doesn't exist. I note, and @DVK agreed with me, that the statement in question is not based in canon and is not referenced. Basically, it's an opinion, not an answer, and there is a distinction between a regular animal (giraffe, horse, stag) and a magical creature (Kappa, Augury, HORKLUMP!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I truly think the two questions are distinctive enough that they are not duplicates. I would really like to have my question re-opened: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/102697/are-there-any-instances-of-an-individual-whose-animagus-form-is-a-magical-creature&quot;&gt;Are there any instances of an indivdual whose Animagus form is a magical creature?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2015-09-29T14:03:47.410" Title="I'd like my question re-opened please" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7303" CreationDate="2015-09-29T14:03:47.410" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unless I'm much mistaken, it &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; reopened, by HP Gold Tag badge holder @DVK on Sep 16 at 19:00.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-09-29T14:03:47.410" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7305" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7306" CreationDate="2015-09-29T19:38:22.273" Score="15" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's been an influx of questions into the late answers review queue -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8TQXz.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8TQXz.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ones I looked at seemed to have been answered a year or so ago, not now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately in looking through them I went through my 20 for the day so don't have a concrete example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this behavior correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8413" LastEditorUserId="15823" LastEditDate="2015-10-08T17:10:57.967" LastActivityDate="2015-10-08T17:10:57.967" Title="Sudden surge of late answers?" Tags="|support|review-queue|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7305" CreationDate="2015-09-29T19:43:13.353" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;They made a change based on a Feature Request on Meta.SE. All sites are affected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/266696/can-we-raise-the-bar-for-reputation-for-late-answers-to-enter-the-review-queue&quot;&gt;Can we raise the bar for reputation for late answers to bypass the review queue?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The feature request was accepted and raised the bar from 10 rep to 50 with a potential increase to 100 rep in the future, per the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/267080/284336&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/1438/jon-ericson&quot;&gt;Jon Ericson&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Raising the bar to 100 would require changing two variables at once. Since that would make it harder to evaluate each individual change, I'd like to try raising the reputation for getting enqueued to the Late Answer reviews to 50 and reconsider upping it to 100 at some point in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to some comments on his answer, Jon implies that this should have only affected answers that were posted within the last month... unfortunately, that seems to not be the case, so have fun reviewing and getting some badges!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@yo': Well, we are about to find out. ;-) Just to note, the answers should not be older than a month and the current spike should be temporary. –  Jon Ericson♦ 33 mins ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@JonEricson: One on C.SE from 2013 and one on PPCG from 2011. A month, eh? –  El'endia Starman 32 mins ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@JonEricson We've got hundreds of posts with &amp;quot;active: 2 years ago&amp;quot;. Are you should about &amp;quot;answers should not be older than a month&amp;quot;? I smell a bug here... :D –  yo' 32 mins ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@El'endiaStarman: Looks like this is the second time in as many weeks as you've caught me making bad assumptions about how things work around here. ;-) Well, now's the time to earn that Late Answer Reviewer badge you've always wanted. –  Jon Ericson♦ 27 mins ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully, if they bump it up to 100 rep, they will fix this so that it doesn't go back to the beginning of the site as this one did... though, the numbers seem to show very few late answers from users with rep between 50 and 100, according to one of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/266707/284336&quot;&gt;other answers&lt;/a&gt; (at least on Stack Overflow).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41668" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-09-29T20:10:26.063" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7305" CreationDate="2015-09-29T19:53:38.627" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason the bar was raised is as follows:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Under the old system, the bar for &quot;Late Answers&quot; was lower than the bar for posting comments.  This means that relatively new users were posting comments as answers, which is bad.  They raised the bar so that these answers will show up in the queue, and can be reviewed.  The inevitable side effect of this is an influx of &quot;Late Answers&quot; in the queue.  It may happen again sooner or later, because Jon Ericson said that he'd consider raising the bar from 50 (where it it now) to 100.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is apparently a planned change of protocol, so there's nothing wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastActivityDate="2015-09-29T19:53:38.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7296" CreationDate="2015-09-30T00:36:44.883" Score="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every community in the Stack Exchange network has a single objective: &lt;em&gt;create the world's highest quality, most complete archive of information in whatever topic the site is about.&lt;/em&gt; The quality and integrity of the information compiled by this community is the reason this site is here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Titles should be optimized for clarity, ease of understanding and accuracy. Not for catching eyeballs.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are lots of places on the 'net where you can go to practice getting the maximum response possible from passersby, but that's not what Stack Exchange sites are for. They're for building a body of specialized, expert knowledge. This is consistent whether we're talking about SciFi &amp;amp; Fantasy SE, or Physics SE, or Stack Overflow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ultimately, as much as our unofficial motto is &quot;We hate fun&quot;, we are&#xA;  one of the minority of SE sites that is purely recreational...we don't&#xA;  solve pressing, real-life problems. With that in mind, I don't think a&#xA;  little silliness is a bad thing at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is true. Except fun isn't the goal unto itself here. It's a happy byproduct, and shouldn't be sought at the expense of the site's primary purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19253" LastActivityDate="2015-09-30T00:36:44.883" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7281" CreationDate="2015-09-30T08:36:57.793" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite frankly I find Movies.SE not that great due to the large volume of &quot;noise&quot;. Besides the overabundance of &quot;identify this&quot; questions -- at this moment about half of the questions on their homepage -- it often features inane questions. Not just ones that can be solved by looking at a wiki page (&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/41670/13595&quot;&gt;&quot;What does Leonard Hofstadter do at Caltech?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;), but also obvious ones like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/9755/13595&quot;&gt;&quot;Do they really drink or eat when shooting movies?&quot;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/9666/13595&quot;&gt;&quot;Do they really have sex in movies?&quot;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/16181/13595&quot;&gt;&quot;How do they film phone conversations?&quot;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/32006/13595&quot;&gt;&quot;How do they make the boy in City of god cry in the scene where he gets shot in the foot?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31029" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2015-09-30T08:36:57.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3598" CreationDate="2015-09-30T13:42:48.833" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;(A late answer, but)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on what is on-topic &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt;, it shouldn't have been migrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That having been said, it's now &lt;em&gt;way&lt;/em&gt; past the 60 day limit for either emigration or (I'd imagine) re-immigration. So your best bet would be re-asking, possibly linking to the cross-site duplicate and noting that you haven't received a satisfying answer over there so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2015-09-30T13:42:48.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7311" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7312" CreationDate="2015-09-30T13:56:37.860" Score="0" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/103913/46509&quot;&gt;What is the inspiration for Moff?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has some answers, a combination of which answer it really. What is the etiquette when it comes to marking one as the answer (I don't think any one answer fully answers it but they're all pretty much the same)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do I select the oldest? The one with most references etc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user46509" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2015-09-30T14:08:54.190" Title="What's the etiquette for selecting and answer in this question" Tags="|discussion|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7311" CreationDate="2015-09-30T14:08:54.190" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The decision is entirely up to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/someone-answers&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt; says (emphasis added):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To accept an answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Choose one answer that you believe is the best solution to your problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;To mark an answer as accepted, click on the check mark beside the answer to toggle it from greyed out to filled in.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You may change which answer is accepted, or simply un-accept the answer, at any time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Accepting an answer is not mandatory&lt;/strong&gt;; do not feel compelled to accept the first answer you receive. Wait until you receive an answer that answers your question well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/accepted-answer&quot;&gt;says&lt;/a&gt; (emphasis added):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Accepting an answer is not meant to be a definitive and final statement indicating that the question has now been answered perfectly.&lt;/strong&gt; It simply means that the author received an answer that worked for him or her personally, but not every user comes back to accept an answer, and of those who do, they may not change the accepted answer if a newer, better answer comes along later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't have to accept an answer, or you can accept one using whatever criteria you want (oldest, most references, highest voted, best written, etc.). Either way, you can also ask the answer authors to try to improve their answer to make it stand out as the most acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if you choose to accept an answer, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5065/31936&quot;&gt;you may choose to wait before accepting in the hope that a better one will come along&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2015-09-30T14:08:54.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7281" CreationDate="2015-09-30T18:23:23.297" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I spend some time there, but definitely not an amount that could be described as &quot;significant&quot;. The major reasons are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's a lot less active compared to the other sites in the network I visit. For a site that's been out of beta long enough to have custom CSS, it really doesn't seem to get that much traffic. I honestly feel like checking once every couple of days is sufficient to see everything worthwhile they have to offer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question quality seems to be a lot lower than SF&amp;amp;F. Not necessarily in terms of the writing, but just what's asked about. They tend to attract a lot of poor quality identification questions, and while they have good criteria for those questions and seem to close the bad ones, they still tend to hang around. There's also just a lot of question I'd personally consider dumb and not necessarily worth having around.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;I can't downvote. I have essentially no way to indicate that I think a question is poor quality, but not outside the scope of the site, and that's actually pretty demotivating since I'm so used to having that ability here.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A lot of the questions just aren't interesting to me.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There's a big overlap between their site and ours, and the questions that might be of interest to me over there have generally already been covered on our site (and, in my opinion, usually to a much higher standard).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5833" LastEditorUserId="5833" LastEditDate="2016-01-04T14:11:25.570" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T14:11:25.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7315" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-02T06:05:33.450" Score="57" ViewCount="3851" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over the past few months, I have become increasingly aware that my role as Moderator is conflicting with my and others enjoyment of the site; attracting controversy and acting as a lighting-rod for some less pleasant elements, both from within the site and from the wider SE community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After speaking with the powers-that-be, I have been offered a stark choice; &lt;strong&gt;jump ship or get pushed.&lt;/strong&gt; Since disputing the situation serves no other purpose than to damage the site I love (and ironically court &lt;em&gt;even more&lt;/em&gt; controversy) I'm choosing to bow to inevitable and to hand over my Moderatorship with immediate effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope you'll understand my decision and will offer the existing site mods your support as they pick up the slack from my absence from the team. Those 200+ members who voted for me, I hope will forgive me for not living up to their fullest expectations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-10-28T02:48:49.077" Title="Stepping down as Moderator" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="25" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7315" CreationDate="2015-10-02T07:41:14.257" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd just like to register my thoughts on the matter;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This sucks. Richard was a great moderator in my opinion, and I can't see the site being as good without him as a significant part of it. He was fair, active, and genuinely cared about the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also like to say, with utmost sincerity;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thanks, @Richard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24087" LastEditorUserId="24087" LastEditDate="2015-10-02T07:57:40.227" LastActivityDate="2015-10-02T07:57:40.227" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7315" CreationDate="2015-10-02T08:54:44.527" Score="35" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thanks, @Richard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I mean that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been annoyed with some aspects of your modding, like the announcements in chat every time you swung your &quot;Hammer of the Mods&quot;. But I was very pleased with your commitment to this stack and your efforts in maintaining and promoting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You say you acted like a lightning-rod. I say that's a very useful function. Yes, moderators should do their work behind the scenes &lt;em&gt;in general&lt;/em&gt;, but I found it very useful to have one very visible mod who is &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; in chat to talk to, complain to, and to blame — with my tongue planted firmly in my cheek.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm sad to see you step down and I hope that you will remain as active on the site as you have been.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thanks, @Richard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2015-10-02T08:54:44.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7296" CreationDate="2015-10-02T09:56:41.603" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: I'm far from a regular visitor here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw this question in the HNQ, and my interest was piqued, so I clicked on it.  I imagined a Skeptics-style question, but in different context, but not so narrow as just &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;. On second thought, perhaps what I imagined as being asked would be more suited to &lt;a href=&quot;http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;World Building&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then I saw it was about &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;. I felt deceived. I did go on to read the post and answers, but that title had annoyed me sufficiently that I didn't spend time voting. Yeah, not a big loss, given that I have made only 14 votes in total here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is acceptable that titles mean different things in the context of different sites. But this title was committing a lie of omission. Even knowing that the question is on &lt;em&gt;Science Fiction and Fantasy&lt;/em&gt; does nothing to show that this question is about &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; specifically. Had it mentioned &quot;in &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;&quot; in the title as it does now, I would have remembered Cooper's dialogue with the teacher, and shrugged it off as &lt;em&gt;yet another easy question going hot&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This title was clickbait. I don't need clickbait to visit this site. It's better than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47234" LastActivityDate="2015-10-02T09:56:41.603" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7319" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-02T10:52:32.677" Score="59" ViewCount="2769" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we all know by now, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7315/19561&quot;&gt;Richard is stepping down as a moderator&lt;/a&gt; for this Stack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Richard notes both in his announcement and in chat, he was asked to step down by a community manager.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After speaking with the powers-that-be, I have been offered a stark choice; &lt;strong&gt;jump ship or get pushed&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I received an email from [a CM] this morning headed &quot;I'm asking you to step down as a moderator on Scifi Stack Exchange&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/24463849#24463849&quot;&gt;permalink&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from how we feel about this, I'm sure I'm not the only one who wants to know &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What was the problem that needed to be solved?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why was the solution to ask Richard to step down?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that the specifics can probably not be divulged and I'm &lt;em&gt;certainly&lt;/em&gt; not asking who complained, but I am asking if the reasons in general can be explained. If nothing else, as guidance for current and future moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-04-27T03:15:27.830" LastActivityDate="2019-04-27T03:15:27.830" Title="Why was a moderator on our Stack asked to step down?" Tags="|discussion|support|moderators|community|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7315" CreationDate="2015-10-02T13:47:13.810" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is sad and in my opinion seems like a clearly wrong move on CM's part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;On absolute scale, Richard is &lt;strong&gt;a pretty good moderator&lt;/strong&gt; in my (admittedly limited) experience. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I have disagreed with a few of his moderation decisions, but not with the overall pattern was overwhelmingly fine.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;On relative scale, Richard is &lt;strong&gt;far from the worst&lt;/strong&gt; moderator, either on the network at large or even (IMHO) on this specific SFF.SE site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The only 2 major controversies surrounding relations with other users that I'm aware of that involved Richard, he as a moderator wasn't at fault:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In one of them (departure of a well respected user), Richard clearly did not act well as a &lt;strong&gt;user&lt;/strong&gt; and (imho!) was in the wrong. BUT, the respected user was forced off the site due to moderator activity of &lt;strong&gt;another moderator&lt;/strong&gt; far more than any moderation action by @Richard, even if R's user action as a user triggered the sequence of events.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In another, a user who objected to Richard's moderation was clearly being a troll (and this comes from someone who was pretty much the only person on the site who openly stated that the site community treated said troll unfairly overall) and I haven't observed a single instance of action by Richard as a moderator that was objectionable towards that user.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For context, this comes from someone who has largely been infamously dis-satisfied with moderation on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2015-10-02T13:52:50.160" LastActivityDate="2015-10-02T13:52:50.160" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7315" CreationDate="2015-10-02T14:30:09.177" Score="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;This will be downvoted, but&lt;/s&gt; let me be the first to say this is the &lt;strong&gt;right decision&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;(I have nothing to do with any recent activity which may have led to this.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As @Richard has said&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have become increasingly aware that my role as Moderator is conflicting with my and others enjoyment of the site; attracting controversy and acting as a lighting-rod...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is precisely right.   Everyone uniformly appreciates and recognizes that @Richard is a great contributor and part of the lifeblood of this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's been my opinion for a while based on observations that @Richard never really recognized that a moderator needs to &lt;strong&gt;appear&lt;/strong&gt; impartial.   It reminds me of the anti-corruption training I must repeat at work every year, &lt;strong&gt;even the appearance of impropriety is a problem&lt;/strong&gt;.   Therein comes the lightning-rod.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Richard can and should have opinions.   Sometimes you agree with them, sometimes you don't.   Serving as a moderator can be in conflict with that.   It takes a certain mindset to put impartiality ahead of everything else.   This is not @Richard's focus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Richard and the site will be better served by the removal of this conflict, so he can make his contributions and argue his points without the appearance of impropriety.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;@Ana♢ posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7330/3823&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; to this question:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7319/why-was-a-moderator-on-our-stack-asked-to-step-down&quot;&gt;Why was a moderator on our Stack asked to step down?&lt;/a&gt;   which I think essentially echoes my thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the problem that needed to be solved?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As explained in A Theory of Moderation, we expect moderators to be ambassadors who are held to a higher standard of behavior. They should be exemplary of the community at its best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As much as he is an excellent contributor, and a beloved community member, Richard has not always been able to embody this sort of behavior when faced with trying circumstances, both in chat, as well as on the main site. This is not a reflection on Richard as a person, or a user, but it does present a problem for him as a moderator. Moderators are trusted to rein in not only their own words and actions, but those of others as well, and in Richard's case, we eventually lost the ability to expect that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-10-02T21:56:03.060" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7315" CreationDate="2015-10-02T14:31:36.247" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;RICHARD SUCKS, said almost nobody ever on this site. We like you, Richard. And we're sorry to see you dropped as a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Heck, I voted for you, so now I feel doubly robbed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On related note, I think it's a very bad sign for the future of the community when one or two disgruntled users can (essentially) determine policy for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20557" LastActivityDate="2015-10-02T14:31:36.247" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7323" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7324" CreationDate="2015-10-02T15:48:28.870" Score="5" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;CSS for both the Main and Meta sites seems to have changed sometime in the last 24 hours.  Links are now confusing as hell.  There's a baffling mixture of light red, dark red, and blue coloring all being used for visited/unvisited, depending on which section of the page you're looking at.  The main content of the page, other areas of the main content, and the different sections of the sidebar all seem to have different rules on which color means visited and which color means unvisited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1027/keen&quot;&gt;User profile&lt;/a&gt; layout is all borked too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Meta when I use my mod-power to view deleted comments inline, the CSS makes them unreadable.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2017-07-26T01:02:30.267" LastActivityDate="2017-07-26T01:02:30.267" Title="CSS Weirdness on both Main and Meta" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7323" CreationDate="2015-10-02T15:51:43.687" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's presumably the same thing that caused this question on Meta.SE months ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/259185/problems-with-sff-and-seasoned-advice-se-css/259186#259186&quot;&gt;Problems with SF&amp;amp;F and Seasoned Advice SE CSS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've asked that the status-completed tag be removed so that it becomes active again and I've commented on the answer linked to bring attention to it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to be an issue on all sites that don't have the CSS update.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an Epilogue, I've been told that, rather than asking for the tag to be removed, a new topic should be created.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can we un-status-completed this? It's broken again. – Catija 30 mins ago   declined - If it's broken again, then please create a new bug report. You can reference this one if you'd like. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I have done this, here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/267265/sff-and-mi-yodeya-are-experiencing-odd-link-colors&quot;&gt;SFF and Mi Yodeya (and other sites without CSS update) are experiencing odd link colors &amp;amp; Broken User Profile pages&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41668" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2015-10-02T16:17:38.537" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7325" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7350" CreationDate="2015-10-02T15:58:49.150" Score="6" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at the sidebar in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7319/5184&quot;&gt;this meta question&lt;/a&gt;, the post &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7315/stepping-down-as-moderator?lq=1&quot;&gt;Stepping down as Moderator&lt;/a&gt; is listed twice - once in the &quot;linked&quot; section, and once in the &quot;related section&quot;. However, the scores displayed on the links are different. As of this moment, the post has 14 upvotes and no downvotes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this just a caching issue? If so, why is only one section cached, but not the other?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Rj61G.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Rj61G.png&quot; alt=&quot;wrong scores&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2015-10-08T02:58:05.747" Title="wrong vote score in sidebar" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|linked-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7326" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-02T16:43:59.693" Score="9" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Man_on_Earth_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Last Man on Earth&lt;/a&gt; on-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastActivityDate="2015-10-02T18:59:02.333" Title="Is The Last Man on Earth on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7315" CreationDate="2015-10-02T18:00:21.650" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I have disagreed with some of your decisions in your capacity as both a regular user and moderator, I consider you to be one of the most valuable members of the community. I think you did a good job as a moderator overall (primarily because you're so active), and I have great respect for your ability to thoroughly answer so many questions on the site. I am pleased that you plan to continue participating as a regular user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In light of the controversy surrounding some of your decisions as a moderator, it is probably best for the community that you step down. I commend you for stepping down honorably and without a fight so as to avoid further controversy. Your love for this site is obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you for all your efforts, both as a moderator and as a regular user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastActivityDate="2015-10-02T18:00:21.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7315" CreationDate="2015-10-02T18:29:04.740" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;What follows is a heavily-revised version of an earlier post.  The revisions are intended to address issues brought up in other answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Richard as a moderator&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that &lt;strong&gt;Richard has been an excellent moderator&lt;/strong&gt;.  Let me explain why:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Availability:&lt;/strong&gt;  One thing that cannot be disputed is that Richard has been &lt;em&gt;available&lt;/em&gt; &amp;mdash; even when the poor man was on holiday recently.  Richard has been visible and ready and willing to respond to issues, crises, and dramas of all sizes.  In many cases, he has prevented larger issues from occurring.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Outcome of Decisions:&lt;/strong&gt; Do people disagree with his decisions?  Of course.  If something needs to be &lt;em&gt;moderated&lt;/em&gt;, then there are usually two sides to the story, and someone will always feel slighted by the process.  Also, moderation on the stack is not a tribunal process.  Moderation requires action.  I would say that Richard's moderation has solved more problems than it has caused, which means he was &lt;em&gt;acting&lt;/em&gt; and often taking the &lt;em&gt;correct action&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Impartiality:&lt;/strong&gt; I see very little favouritism or other such abuses in his moderation history.  As one example, let's take comment removal. He snips comment threads when they get too long (or too heated).  Some people take issue with this, but (a) comments are described in the overarching SE philosophy as being temporary, (b) I have seen no &quot;patterns&quot; in his comment removal, and (c) I have seen him remove comments that would benefit him if they were to stay.  In general, if one is unhappy with a moderation decision, it is easy to start seeing &quot;patterns&quot; of favouritism where there are none.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chat Room Behaviour:&lt;/strong&gt; It's been noted that he whips out the &quot;mod hammer&quot;, etc., when in the chat room.  But the chat room is not &lt;em&gt;the site&lt;/em&gt;.  I would be more concerned if Richard posted the mod hammer in comments below a question or answer.  Richard's personality was &quot;available&quot; to the public prior to his election.  I'm not sure we should penalize him for being himself in chat.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All in all, I will be sad to see Richard go as a moderator.  Thank you for your hard work and dedication to this community in your moderator capacity.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Richard as a user&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that some of the issues with Richard as a moderator come from the perception of Richard as a user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's be clear: &lt;em&gt;Richard is more famous on this site for being an extremely high-rep user than for being a mod.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, at one point, an issue was taken with him as a moderator when the real problem was with him as a user.  Richard had downvoted a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/91390/&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; which (in all honesty) was perfectly legitimate and identified himself as the downvoter, which then caused or further fueled a downvote mini-apocalypse.  The OP became agitated at this, and Richard's influence as a moderator came up:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I hope you can accept the criticism that on many occasions I see you downvoting or criticizing myself and others (Ernie most recently comes to mind) in a not-unbiased way which isn't befitting a moderator. In this instance, downvoting should be primarily for ill-formed or off-topic questions, not because YOU think the answer is &quot;yes, it's a coincidence.&quot; YOUR leadership influences people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP makes an interesting point, but it's really about Richard the high-rep user, not about Richard the moderator.  Richard exerts this perceived influence because of his high rep and visibility, not because he is a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I contend that Richard has, indeed, been excellent as a moderator, and everyone is allowed to make a few mistakes.  I feel, however, that ever since he became a mod, we have been unable to separate Richard the moderator from Richard the user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One might counter this by saying that he hasn't sufficiently separated these two roles, but I also contend that he has, to the extent that sometimes I feel that I have been dealing with two different users, Richard with his mod cap on and Richard with his &quot;my answer is better than yours and the novelization thinks so too&quot; cap on.  ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, Richard the user &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a good guy, too, but I think if there are concerns, they are with the asker/answerer not with the moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2015-10-02T22:24:25.163" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7326" CreationDate="2015-10-02T18:59:02.333" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;By all accounts it sounds post-apocalyptic enough:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The year is 2020, Phil Miller (Will Forte) is seemingly the only human left on Earth after a deadly virus swept the planet one year earlier.[5] An average man &quot;who likes Star Wars, Twinkies, and sex&quot;,[6] Phil searches North America in his RV for other survivors. After a long journey, Phil returns to his hometown of Tucson, Arizona believing that he is Earth's last surviving human. Just before he attempts suicide out of loneliness and a desire for a female companion, his prayers are answered, and he meets Carol Pilbasian (Kristen Schaal), an irritating and obnoxious woman&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bear in mind, that you should focus on the speculative fiction aspects of the show. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2015-10-02T18:59:02.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7319" CreationDate="2015-10-02T19:31:47.613" Score="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, allow me to be clear - Richard is an active and well-respected member of the community. His contributions and participation as a user are not in question. However, over the course of the last few weeks we have become convinced that he is not as well suited to being a moderator. I will do my best to explain how and why, although out of respect for Richard, I will refrain from going into specifics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What was the problem that needed to be solved?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As explained in &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;, we expect moderators to be ambassadors who are held to a higher standard of behavior. They should be exemplary of the community &lt;em&gt;at its best.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As much as he is an excellent contributor, and a beloved community member, Richard has not always been able to embody this sort of behavior when faced with trying circumstances, both in chat, as well as on the main site. This is not a reflection on Richard as a person, or a user, but it does present a problem for him as a moderator. Moderators are trusted to rein in not only their own words and actions, but those of others as well, and in Richard's case, we eventually lost the ability to expect that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why was the solution to ask Richard to step down?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everybody makes errors, but if the same issues keep occurring, then we're responsible for acknowledging and acting on them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the past we had communicated with Richard regarding the kind of behavior we were looking to see, with specific examples as well as general guidance. However, when it became apparent that his behavior was not changing, the Community Team and the remaining SciFi moderation team came to a consensus that it was best for Richard not to continue as a mod, but for him to maintain his status as a respected contributor within the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What happens now? Doesn't this go against the concept of moderator elections?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site is built collaboratively by the community and the Stack Exchange system is designed to allow everyone to participate in site moderation. However, the responsibilities of diamond-moderators are unique, and not everyone is well-suited to the role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Community Team is here to support moderators and communities. We take great care not to interfere with the day-to-day operations. We aim to take such a dramatic action as asking a moderator to step down rarely if ever, only after ample feedback has been provided, and when other options have been exhausted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There will be another moderator election in the coming weeks to ensure a full moderator team is here to serve the community going forward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19253" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-10-02T19:31:47.613" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7319" CreationDate="2015-10-03T04:36:39.593" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am concerned that &quot;the title controversy&quot; was mentioned here, albeit just in a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was NOT in ANY WAY the desired outcome, of my post questioning the moon landing title change, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7296/should-this-be-a-clickbait-site-or-should-we-stand-by-se-standards-of-question&quot;&gt;Should this be a clickbait site, or should we stand by SE standards of question quality?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At most, I hoped for clarified policies: a learning opportunity, not a blame-and-punishment game. As it is, whoever replaces him will likely have to make the same mistakes, because mistakes are part of learning. All that experience he's gained through his mistakes will be lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really hope my question was not a major part of the decision. If it was... I feel unable to ever question mod actions again, if the reaction against the mod can be so heavy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If just asking if something should be handled differently in future gets them kicked out, how can I push for improvement?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41357" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2015-10-03T04:36:39.593" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7333" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7335" CreationDate="2015-10-04T14:53:41.987" Score="6" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a glut of new questions prompted by the release of the movie &quot;Martian&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this film (haven't seen yet) is as different from the book it's based on as the usual pattern is, we should probably police film-specific questions and tag them with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-vs-film&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-vs-film&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-vs-film&lt;/a&gt; as appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2015-10-04T17:27:46.737" Title="Should we police the Martian questions for &quot;movie&quot; tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7333" CreationDate="2015-10-04T15:02:32.187" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's beneficial to use the Metatag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt;. I'd be more in favour  of using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/martian-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;martian-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;martian-movie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2015-10-04T15:02:32.187" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7333" CreationDate="2015-10-04T17:27:46.737" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie isn't particularly different from the book. It's obviously a shortened version of the tale. However, a couple events are changed from the book, but I think that's minor enough that we don't need special tagging. The content of questions will likely make it clear which version the question is about. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2015-10-04T17:27:46.737" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7336" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-04T23:23:24.703" Score="9" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a community-elected moderator vacates their position, for whatever reason, what's the process for replacing them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we just wait until the next elections, even if it's 4-6 months away?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do community moderators help pick up any (potential) slack?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some other process in place for selecting another candidate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Beta sites, I believe moderators are usually replaced fairly quickly, with existing moderators and CMs choosing an active member that displays moderator qualities. I can't find information here or on main meta that deals with replacing mods on full stacks, although I'm sure that has to occur frequently enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2015-10-04T23:51:08.570" Title="What's the process for filling the position left by a moderator that steps down?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7336" CreationDate="2015-10-04T23:51:08.570" Score="11" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There will be another moderator election in the coming weeks to ensure a full moderator team is here to serve the community going forward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7330&quot;&gt;So says Ana&lt;/a&gt;, a community manager.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But generally, there are three options (on graduated sites):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Election happens earlier than it would otherwise.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The results of recent election are recalculated with an increased number of mod positions. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/296975&quot;&gt;Example&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nothing happens, if the remaining mods are still enough for the job.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user35659" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T09:16:33.917" LastActivityDate="2015-10-04T23:51:08.570" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7315" CreationDate="2015-10-05T01:22:12.403" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Richard,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I don't always agree with your &lt;em&gt;opinions,&lt;/em&gt; but I greatly respect the breadth of your SFF knowledge. I hope you stay with us.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Joe L.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26367" LastActivityDate="2015-10-05T01:22:12.403" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7339" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7340" CreationDate="2015-10-05T17:22:20.003" Score="11" ViewCount="270" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title says it all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to retrieve this information from a database command?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastActivityDate="2017-12-18T13:16:51.380" Title="What is the total amount of rep in sff.SE?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7339" CreationDate="2015-10-05T18:01:03.367" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/371333/total-reputation-for-all-users-on-site&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quick query in data explorer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select sum(reputation) as total_rep&#xA;from users&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For our site, it returns &lt;strong&gt;11803197&lt;/strong&gt; (as of Dec 2017)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-12-18T13:14:13.743" LastActivityDate="2017-12-18T13:14:13.743" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7339" CreationDate="2015-10-05T18:02:24.400" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This should be very easy to do with a simple SEDE query that just sums the reputation of all users. Using &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/371338&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;such a query&lt;/a&gt; (and considering the usual weekly update frequency of the data explorer) this reputation sum would be &lt;strong&gt;6,317,380&lt;/strong&gt; at the time of answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23386" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-12-18T13:16:51.380" LastActivityDate="2017-12-18T13:16:51.380" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7343" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7344" CreationDate="2015-10-06T16:02:34.387" Score="20" ViewCount="437" Body="&lt;p&gt;A user asked  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/81579/19561&quot;&gt;What movie are these gifs from?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer revealed that they were from an &lt;em&gt;Axe&lt;/em&gt; commercial. In it, we see a number of angels walking the street towards a young man who has apparently used &lt;em&gt;Axe&lt;/em&gt;. They grab their halos and smash them, thus becoming fallen angels, in order to woo the young man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the comments, the question was raised if the question was on topic. So, is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2015-10-06T16:09:32.233" Title="Is the story-ID question that turned out to be about the Axe commercial, on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7343" CreationDate="2015-10-06T16:02:34.387" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it is on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, the user asking didn't know it was from an &lt;em&gt;Axe&lt;/em&gt; commercial. Angels are not unusual in works of Fantasy, so this Stack was a logical place to ask.&#xA;An answer should not make a question off-topic, if the question &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; the answer seems on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, angels falling from heaven are a common trope (no, I'm not linking to &lt;em&gt;TV Tropes&lt;/em&gt;). See for instance &lt;em&gt;City of Angels&lt;/em&gt;, where a male angel played by Nicolas Cage falls in love with a woman played by Meg Ryan. Or preferrably, see the German original, &lt;em&gt;Der Himmel &amp;uuml;ber Berlin&lt;/em&gt;. Of course, we expect no work of art from a minute-and-a-half commercial, but the story is roughly the same. So even the answer is on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2015-10-06T16:09:00.080" LastActivityDate="2015-10-06T16:09:00.080" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7346" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-08T00:56:54.147" Score="14" ViewCount="573" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm just curious as to how people found out about this site, so I'm running a bit of a survey here.  Basically, if someone has provided an answer to the titular question already, upvote it.  Otherwise, post your own answer!  After about a month or two (providing I remember), I'll update this question with a pie graph of the results.  Thanks for participating! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastActivityDate="2016-08-19T10:33:10.203" Title="How did you find out about this site?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="18" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7346" CreationDate="2015-10-08T00:57:14.480" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found out about this site through StackOverflow.com!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastActivityDate="2015-10-08T00:57:14.480" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7346" CreationDate="2015-10-08T00:58:16.240" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found out about this site through a Stack Exchange website &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; than StackOverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastActivityDate="2015-10-08T00:58:16.240" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-10-08T00:58:16.240" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7346" CreationDate="2015-10-08T01:03:35.633" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was curious about a Star Wars question, googled it and came up with nothing but I did find a related question on SFF.SE so I signed up and asked. I also had a Stack overflow account but I didn't know about SFF.SE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastActivityDate="2015-10-08T01:03:35.633" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7325" CreationDate="2015-10-08T02:49:46.257" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the contents of both sidebars are cached. Looking at the current code, the Linked sidebar is cached for 5 minutes, and the Related sidebar is cached for 1 hour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The entire HTML content of the sidebar is what's cached, not the question IDs or what not. So the scores for the questions won't be updated live.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43936" LastActivityDate="2015-10-08T02:49:46.257" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7346" CreationDate="2015-10-08T21:03:42.600" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Follower/supporter from Area 51!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastActivityDate="2015-10-08T21:03:42.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7346" CreationDate="2015-10-09T08:02:54.077" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;While out xmas shopping, I was taking a short break and browsing the news on my phone. I spotted a clickbait article about the &quot;top 100 essential sites&quot; (according to the Guardian Newspaper) and followed a few different links, including the one to SFF:SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I actually joined the following day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-10-09T08:02:54.077" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7355" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7356" CreationDate="2015-10-09T19:35:50.617" Score="11" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;For all the other questions that I checked, I can protect them (20K rep privilege).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wanted to protect this question (because the same user posted two racist answers within minutes of each other (both were promptly deleted - well done all!)) but there is no protect link for me&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/104732/who-is-the-first-african-black-superhero&quot;&gt;Who is the first African/Black superhero?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do I not see a protect link? I'm using Windows 7 &amp;amp; Google Chrome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screenshots: this question, no protect link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/I9r6k.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/I9r6k.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Protect link&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question with protect link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hfxf2.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hfxf2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Question with protect link&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;1 So I flagged it for the moderators to protect.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T19:02:59.487" Title="Why can I not protect a question?" Tags="|support|protected-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7355" CreationDate="2015-10-09T19:53:35.917" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/protect-questions&quot;&gt;Because it's too young&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which questions can be protected?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any question at least a day old can be protected and unprotected by users that have the privilege.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt; put in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/120572/allow-users-with-15k-reputation-to-protect-questions-less-than-a-day-old-but-wi&quot;&gt;to allow 15k+ users to protect young questions&lt;/a&gt; back in 2012, but nothing ever came of it; a similar request was &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/268353/allow-15k-rep-to-protect-highly-viewed-young-questions&quot;&gt;posted in October 2015&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T19:02:59.487" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7355" CreationDate="2015-10-09T19:53:55.117" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions have to be at least a day old before you can protect them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Protection is mostly mean to prevent a flood of &lt;em&gt;late&lt;/em&gt; poor quality answers, when the question may not otherwise be garnering a lot of attention. I assume that new questions are unprotectable because they expect people to be paying more attention to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2015-10-09T19:53:55.117" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7346" CreationDate="2015-10-11T00:06:48.527" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was brought to the site from the Hot Network Questions list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw something that was incorrect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I joined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I corrected it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rest is history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastEditorUserId="40294" LastEditDate="2015-10-11T00:32:25.887" LastActivityDate="2015-10-11T00:32:25.887" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7360" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-11T04:26:00.463" Score="52" ViewCount="1313" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a sci-fi fan and I joined this site recently.  Admittedly, I'm a little shy, but I want to contribute.  I'm not always confident about having an interesting question or a correct answer, and this often gets the better of me.  I understand that some people on this site are extremely knowledgeable and can give really spectacular answers quickly.  I'm happy to sit back and read those questions and answers, it's really entertaining, and I'll contribute when I feel I have something to add :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I'm making a mountain out of a molehill, but I've been exploring the meta part of the site lately and there was a comment that kind of irked me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question was asked about how people came to know about SFF:SE.  Below one of the answers, there was the following comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oh, I've looked back more than a few times. Mostly to see the rest of you in my rear-view mirror, admittedly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it was just a joke.  I understand the user who made has really high reputation and I gather that's a kind of in-joke maybe?  But it doesn't really help welcome new people into the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like I said, I'm a bit shy and writing this is taking some effort on my part, and I don't really want to get on anyone's bad side.  I also feel bad because maybe I have no right to complain as a relative outsider and just don't understand the dynamics of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I feel compelled to speak up for the people who don't want this to be a competition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I alone? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(If this post is felt to be in bad taste, I will remove it immediately.  I promise!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52965" LastEditorUserId="40294" LastEditDate="2015-10-11T21:56:26.660" LastActivityDate="2016-01-03T16:12:01.873" Title="Is scifi.stackexchange.com a competition?" Tags="|discussion|new-users|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7360" CreationDate="2015-10-11T04:59:13.033" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least it is not a competition in the way you think it is. Users here strive to answer a question as well as they can, it is not however an unfriendly competition. If you go through the site or observe chat you will see most of the regulars congratulate each other on good answers or finding a nice quote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are few (more than who i mention) who have friendly competitions about rep, it's a long running joke that @Richard wants to overtake @DVK and @Randal'thor is consistently after his daily rep caps. The comment you mentioned is what i am going now call 'rep banter'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I am active in the community at the moment and have been before. I'm not &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; concerned with rep I won't answer every question and I rarely hit my limits only posting answers when I get interested in a question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You will not be targeted in anyway for&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;answering questions in a credible fashion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not trying to get rep at every possible instance&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;having a low rep&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;being new&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should feel free to post any question and answer any question. We do however have guidelines for this and you should not take any negative comments on the structure of your answers or questions as a personal attack. They may just not adhere to the guidelines of the site. If you feel this way about something you want to ask or answer then you can feel free to pop into chat and ask about it. We will not steal your question or answer we are just there to help. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*As a side @Richard is British and we (as Brits) have a fantastic sense of humour which may sometimes be deemed as snarky when out of context or in the wrong tone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22709" LastActivityDate="2015-10-11T04:59:13.033" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7360" CreationDate="2015-10-11T05:08:25.843" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;No and yes.  Or yes and no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Come in and enjoy and post questions and answers and feel free to join us in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/a&gt; where you can chat with a lot of us.  Don't worry about how many points you have or badges.  Seriously, just enjoy the site and contributing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, yes, there are hard core users and friendly competition in terms of reputation points and badges.  For some, anything becomes more interesting when there's a goal to focus on, such as a certain amount of rep points.  I used to play that game myself, but only until I reached 20,000 (the Trusted User level).  I am still proud to say I'm the third person to reach that level on this site.  But since then, I've coasted.  I come in and post questions from time to time and answer questions when I feel I have a good answer, but, at this point, I could care less about gaining reputation points or badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for @Richard and his comment you cite above, well, yes, there are a few people who seem to live here, but, honestly, often they're the very ones that can be quite helpful when you need it.  Their competition is pretty much among each other.  (And I suspect his answer was more to bait a few of the others in the high rep group than aimed at anyone else.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So don't worry about competing.  Just enjoy the site and the people you interact with.  Those that are competing are playing a game with each other.  If, at some, point, you want to join in, you can, but there's no reason to.  Any competition is totally unofficial and generally ignorable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2015-10-11T05:08:25.843" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7360" CreationDate="2015-10-11T07:52:47.593" Score="17" Body="&lt;h2&gt;SE can be a competition, but only if you &lt;em&gt;choose&lt;/em&gt; to make it one&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming you've read the site's FAQ, you'll note that once you get beyond 25,000 reputation points, everything &lt;strong&gt;stops&lt;/strong&gt;. There's literally (from a user/moderator perspective) no point in continuing. There are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;no more privileges to be earned&lt;/a&gt;, no more additional tools that can be accessed and no more, well, no more anything really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what is it that incentivises those who've hit the wall to continue to post great answers? Well, for some it's the joy of sharing, the contentment that comes from having helped fellow travelers out with their problems. For others, it's the simple glory of being &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/67397/list-of-all-badges-with-full-descriptions#68395&quot;&gt;recognised&lt;/a&gt; as one of the masters of their fandom. For still others, it's the fact that every answer is a portal into a journey of exploration and discovery, wherein you, the answerer gain as much insight as the asker. And for very few, a &lt;em&gt;select&lt;/em&gt; few I might add, and I number myself among them, &lt;strong&gt;their driver is REP.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly7PONiKGUs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rep glorious rep&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those in the final category, rep is the fire in which we burn. It is what guides us and drives us. It is the purpose that defines us and in the darkness binds us. It is an addiction and a spur to greatness. It's the reason why we work to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/71564/in-the-matrix-why-are-there-no-animals/71566#71566&quot;&gt;craft&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/82442/why-do-people-risk-death-by-joining-starfleet-if-not-for-money-or-preservation-o/82452#82452&quot;&gt;tweak&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/96049/did-j-k-rowling-give-two-or-more-unrelated-characters-the-same-first-name-in-an/96052#96052&quot;&gt;prod&lt;/a&gt; a single answer for hours and why you'll see some of the fastest responses of any Q&amp;amp;A site on the web. Our greatest enemy is &lt;strong&gt;not each other&lt;/strong&gt; though, our greatest enemy is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/32160/what-is-the-daily-reputation-cap-and-how-can-i-hit-it&quot;&gt;repcap&lt;/a&gt; that stops us earning even more of the damn stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Rearview mirror&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you witnessed was intended as &lt;em&gt;banter&lt;/em&gt; (healthy or otherwise) between two grizzled SE veterans who have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/90725/how-in-the-world-did-slughorn-prepare-the-felix-felicis-in-time-for-his-class/90741#90741&quot;&gt;faced each other&lt;/a&gt; across the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/90601/does-the-tone-of-the-hobbit-significantly-differ-from-that-of-lord-of-the-rings/90604#90604&quot;&gt;field of battle&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/104331/what-did-the-black-monoliths-do-in-2001-a-space-odyssey/104335#104335&quot;&gt;many an occasion&lt;/a&gt;. From his comments in chat, it's clear to me that Rand's driver is the same as mine. We're both after that most elusive of prey, community approval (AKA rep).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comment itself was largely directed at him &lt;em&gt;personally&lt;/em&gt;, rather than being intended for general consumption.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;That all being said&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To quote Tango's answer above:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...don't worry about competing. Just enjoy the site and the people you&#xA;  interact with. &lt;strong&gt;Those that are competing are playing a game with each&#xA;  other. If, at some, point, you want to join in, you can, but there's&#xA;  no reason to.&lt;/strong&gt; Any competition is &lt;strong&gt;totally unofficial and generally&#xA;  ignorable.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The site is only a competition if you view it as such.&lt;/strong&gt; If what you want to do is potter around, ask the odd question and post the occasional answer then that's wonderful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2015-10-14T19:17:59.550" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7364" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7367" CreationDate="2015-10-11T12:55:03.373" Score="40" ViewCount="1569" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the most contentious close reasons we have on the site is the one that designates real-world science questions as off-topic. The close reason is worded as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Questions seeking scientific solutions or explanations are off-topic unless they relate directly to a cited work of fiction.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, that last part seems to seriously muddy the waters: what does it mean for a science question to &quot;directly relate&quot; to a work of fiction? Just about every question asked on here cites some work of fiction. A question like &quot;Could I make dilithium out of a lithium battery?&quot; directly relates to &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; but I think it's exactly the kind of question we &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to be off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, most fictional works, even pure fantasy ones, operate with an implicit assumption that the laws of physics in the movie work just like the laws of physics in the real world, unless/until the work shows us differently. So many legitimate questions about the fictional universe will end up being answered using real-world science, because it's &lt;em&gt;the same&lt;/em&gt; as the fictional science.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Different people, including different moderators, seem to fall at different points along the spectrum of possible interpretations, and it almost always leads to comment and chat &quot;discussions&quot; over which side a given question falls. So, can we try to pin down a community consensus over exactly where we draw the line? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For consideration, here are some previous meta questions that are related, but either don't quite answer this question, or else, there's no clear consensus in the answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1755/are-speculative-science-questions-on-topic&quot;&gt;Are speculative science questions on-topic?&lt;/a&gt; (says that questions speculating about real-world science are off-topic)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1776/are-real-world-speculation-questions-still-on-topic&quot;&gt;Are real world speculation questions still on topic?&lt;/a&gt; (a newer restatement/reiteration of the previous one)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/656/are-questions-about-current-or-near-future-science-technology-on-topic&quot;&gt;Are questions about current, or near-future science/technology on-topic?&lt;/a&gt; (says that questions about purely fictional science that has since become, or is likely to see become, real-science is on-topic; &lt;strong&gt;no clear consensus&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, here are some sample questions that are clearly asking about &quot;real-world science&quot; but with varying degrees of &quot;related to a work of fiction&quot;. Note that I've tried to avoid questions from the very early days of the site, since their status may or may not reflect the current consensus (looking at you &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1263/is-the-basic-premise-of-humans-as-a-power-source-in-the-matrix-reasonable&quot;&gt;&quot;Matrix Battery&quot;&lt;/a&gt; question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/104856/the-martian-and-weight-units&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;The Martian&amp;quot; and weight units&lt;/a&gt; [Closed]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/46086/how-could-the-matter-converter-in-tron-legacy-generate-an-army&quot;&gt;How could the matter converter in Tron Legacy generate an army&lt;/a&gt; [Open]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/96600/how-does-mass-conservation-work-in-the-mcu-ant-man-movie&quot;&gt;How does mass conservation work in the MCU Ant-Man movie?&lt;/a&gt; [Open]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/96156/how-much-power-does-the-martian-heat-ray-output&quot;&gt;How much power does the Martian heat ray output?&lt;/a&gt; [Closed]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/74417/how-can-quicksilver-run-with-someone-with-out-injuring-them&quot;&gt;How can Quicksilver run with someone without injuring them?&lt;/a&gt; [Open]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would also be a good idea to lay out a policy for what good &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; to these questions -- assuming they stay open -- ought to look like. That will at least give us something to point users to when trying to help them keep within the scope of the site, or explain why their otherwise-factually-correct answers might be getting downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2019-04-24T03:19:12.363" Title="What is our actual policy on science questions?" Tags="|discussion|faq|scope|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7364" CreationDate="2015-10-11T12:57:00.830" Score="-10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Real-World Science Is Always Off-Topic&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any question that requires answering using real-world science is off-topic. This site is for fans and enthusiasts of Science Fiction and Fantasy. We should not allow questions that require expertise in other areas, such as chemistry, physics, or biology. Those are out of scope for our site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1778/2816&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; for a longer explanation on this idea.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2015-10-11T15:30:53.967" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7364" CreationDate="2015-10-11T12:58:53.487" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Real-World Science With Any Relation To a Work Of Fiction Is On-Topic&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any question that relates back to a particular work of science fiction or fantasy, in any way, is on-topic. There is a lot of overlap between fans of science fiction and interest or expertise in real science. There's no reason we shouldn't allow questions that begin with a fictional premise and try to understand how such a premise might be possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally answers should be based on as much information as we have about the work, but should feel free to draw on real-world science knowledge to fill in any gaps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2015-10-11T15:31:37.603" LastActivityDate="2015-10-11T15:31:37.603" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7364" CreationDate="2015-10-11T13:01:13.317" Score="39" Body="&lt;h2&gt;In-Universe Explanations — Even Based On Real Science — Are On-Topic&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any question that is asking for an answer within the context of a fictional universe, even if that question requires real-world science information, is on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should not expect content creators to spell out every detail of the science in their works. We can assume that works of science fiction and fantasy obey all the same natural laws that we are familiar with, until presented with evidence to the contrary in the work itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers should always be written from an in-universe perspective, and use only scientific information that is either explained, demonstrated, or at least not-contradicted by what can be seen within the work. Answers should also avoid trying to &lt;em&gt;speculate&lt;/em&gt; how the science within a work might operate without evidence to support it. (e.g. there are humans breathing unaided, so we &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; speculate that the atmosphere of fictional Earth is similar to ours.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions which are &lt;em&gt;explicitly&lt;/em&gt; asking for an out-of-universe explanation of the science from a work of science fiction or fantasy should be off-topic.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/96156/how-much-power-does-the-martian-heat-ray-output&quot;&gt;How much power does the Martian heat ray output?&lt;/a&gt; - Appears to be asking how a fictional device would operate in the real world.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/54913/in-terms-of-energy-output-what-type-of-bending-is-strongest&quot;&gt;In terms of energy output, what type of bending is strongest?&lt;/a&gt; - Trying to apply real-world physics to something that explicitly has no scientific explanation in-universe.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/23025/is-it-possible-for-so-many-technologies-to-cease-working&quot;&gt;Is it possible for so many technologies to cease working?&lt;/a&gt; - Asking if something that clearly happened on-screen could &quot;really happen&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note that, in many cases, merely asking the OP to clarify that they are looking for an in-universe explanation is sufficient to clean up a borderline post.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-04-24T03:19:12.363" LastActivityDate="2019-04-24T03:19:12.363" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7360" CreationDate="2015-10-11T20:45:25.240" Score="15" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Is SFF.SE a competition?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mostly, no. &lt;strong&gt;It's a collaborative content creation platform with elements of gamification.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What that means is that &lt;strong&gt;the main stated goal of participation on the site is NOT to win some competition&lt;/strong&gt;, but to create &lt;em&gt;ahem&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strike&gt;somewhat&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strike&gt;questionably&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strike&gt;sorta&lt;/strike&gt; valuable content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site &lt;strong&gt;allows&lt;/strong&gt; competing (because it is designed with gamification approach in mind). But that is a &lt;strong&gt;tool&lt;/strong&gt;, not a goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For comparison, think about running in general PhysEd class in school (not on the team). Yes, you can see who won. Yes, some people care and can strive to win. Yes, that's useful, as a way to drive people to run better. &lt;strong&gt;But the main goal is to get students healthy and acquire physical health habits&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Given that the site allows competition, should people compete?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you mean &quot;should&quot; as in &quot;compelled&quot;: NO. Nobody should feel &lt;em&gt;compelled&lt;/em&gt; to compete (elaborated on below). It's reasonably easy to obtain a minimum required rep to do basic tasks on the site. A person with good knowledge of subject matter has a good chance to get to 3K rep in under a year, when most of useful abilities which are rep-governed are unlocked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should only compete &lt;strong&gt;if you enjoy it and want to compete, for personal reasons&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Nobody&lt;/strong&gt; expects it of you. &lt;strong&gt;Nobody&lt;/strong&gt; insists on it. Nobody really looks down on you if you don't (even people who DO complete, or at least an overwhelming majority of them). Competing or not is a personal choice, and either one of those choices is absolutely valid and respected. &lt;em&gt;(Specific random example: Gilles. I know he has very deep  knowledge of some subjects based on some of the answers he gave to my questions. His level of competitiveness: zero. The effect of that on my evaluation of his expertise: zero. I know him from his &lt;strong&gt;posts&lt;/strong&gt;, not his rep score)&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Does having high rep and winning the competition mean you're the only expert and those who don't, aren't?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Absolutely not.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;High rep can and often does correlate to good knowledge of subject area, BUT the causal relationship is one way only:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, you're unlikely to have high rep unless you are a bit of an expert.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in the opposite causal direction, it's an absolute &quot;NO&quot;. You can be an expert and have no rep at all. See the above for my random example, and I can point out dozen(s) more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;High rep also &lt;strong&gt;correlates strongly with things that have far less to do with knowledge:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How much time a user can afford to spend on answering&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How much time a user can afford to simply scan the site (you need to be lucky to notice a good question early enough to answer before other experts)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How lucky you are (you can get tons of rep from Hot Network questions that get boatloads of views very quickly).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How lucky you are that your area of expertise is popular. People who are experts on more obscure areas of SFF (a) have far fewer questions to answer; (b) have far fewer people who are able and willing to upvote their good answers due to lack of interest in the topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(you can see this on regular StackOverflow as well. Being a Perl expert nets far far less rep than Java or C++. My most voted post is nowhere NEAR my best... but it's a bikeshedding Java answer).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2016-01-03T16:12:01.873" LastActivityDate="2016-01-03T16:12:01.873" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7364" CreationDate="2015-10-11T21:09:52.210" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;My viewpoint is that anything unrelated to a work of science fiction or fantasy is off-topic. We don't want people asking &quot;How does a combustion engine work?&quot;. The answers are too mundane, and off-topic. Similarly, we don't want questions about fantastical technologies that are not bound to a specific science fiction or fantasy work, so we don't want questions of &quot;How do I build a warp engine?&quot; For one, there is no canonical answer outside of that universe. For two, it's too broad. What sort of warp engine? What laws of physics are we working within?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would probably add to the first one that, if the question doesn't have a more interesting answer in said work of fiction than in real life, that's pretty off-topic too, but that gets into questions, sometimes, as to whether it's the case. Take, for instance, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/104874/how-did-rick-make-a-silencer-out-of-a-flashlight&quot;&gt;How did Rick make a silencer out of a flashlight?&lt;/a&gt;. It's got a perfectly mundane answer, but it does inform you of something in the show, that such a silencer can be built, and that the parts are likely available in-universe. At least in my opinion it's relevant. Since I answered it and all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2015-10-11T21:09:52.210" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7360" CreationDate="2015-10-11T21:30:51.700" Score="24" Body="&lt;h1&gt;There's a little bit of competition, and a little bit of competition is good...&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hi Emma and welcome to SFF:SE!  I'm Praxis.  I am a room owner for our &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stsckexchange.com/rooms/198&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;chatroom&lt;/a&gt;.  I was there when you posted this, and your post came up briefly there as Tango and CandiedMango wrote responses to you.  I decided to wait a little longer to weigh in on this, mainly to formulate my thoughts properly and to see what others had to say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the first thing I'd like to tell you, to answer your very last question, is that you are &lt;strong&gt;not alone&lt;/strong&gt;.  A few others have expressed frustration with the competitive aspects of the site very recently, although they did not do so in Meta (rather, through the chat room or through commenting).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't mean that the site is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; competitive, but only that there is competition.  Whenever there is competition, people fall on either the losing or winning end of it, and that causes problems, as I am sure you are well aware.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Benefits of the reputation system&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having a reputation system (yep, we keep score) gives people an incentive to answer questions.  I am saying this because you are particularly interested in the effect of competition on newer users.  While competition can indeed scare off some newer users, it is mostly a boon to them, as the promise of rep means that people will step forward to answer questions, including somewhat tedious questions (which no one would think twice about normally) and difficult questions (which may not be worth the effort otherwise).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I enjoy answering for the sake of answering, and acceptance of an answer is more of a goal for me than reputation (because I feel good when I know I have helped someone and solved a problem).  &lt;strong&gt;But I understand the value of reputation in connecting new users with questions to established users with answers.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a new user gets a good answer, they are more likely to stay.  Quite often they never return, but that's usually because they got the one thing they needed, not because they were scared off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Main versus Meta&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are a curious new user who has been poking around in Meta, reading comments, etc. &amp;mdash; that's great!  We get many new users each day, and most don't make it so far into the site.  Many ask a question (&lt;em&gt;&quot;I'm looking for a book I once read...&quot;&lt;/em&gt;), get an answer, and have no immediate need to explore Meta.  In a sense,  Meta is like a workshop where experienced users go to discuss aspects of site operation.  Sure, some new users make it there and even have a question to ask but it's not the norm.  By the time most get to Meta, they have usually decided to stick it out and have been exposed to a variety of comments of different styles and moods on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that particular comment had been made on the main site, it could be removed as being off-topic.  Here, it is on-topic, even if it is (perhaps) unnecessarily self-focused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You shouldn't be afraid to get on anyone's &quot;bad side&quot; &amp;mdash; you likely won't and there are mechanisms for dealing with that if you feel you are being targeted unfairly in any way.  You will also find that someone you weren't getting along with one week will be sticking out their neck for you the following week.  People get over things here very quickly!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the real moral is to not draw too many conclusions from one comment from one user with little context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Upshot&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should aim to be the user that you want to be.  If you spend enough time here participating in the way that you want to participate, people may start to emulate you, for better or for worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can even make it &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; pet project to welcome and support new users, to explain the site and community to them.  The site is what you make it to be.  The arrival of one new but active user can affect the site considerably.  You actually have incredible power to steer the site, if you want it (and are willing to earn it by keeping up your participation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, welcome to SFF:SE.  Stick around, don't be afraid to speak up, and don't be afraid to lead by example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastEditorUserId="40294" LastEditDate="2015-10-11T22:21:57.003" LastActivityDate="2015-10-11T22:21:57.003" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7371" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-12T02:49:38.280" Score="57" ViewCount="6331" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's the story behind your username?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are one of us folks whose username is not your actual name, what is the story behind it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll go first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2017-08-24T11:48:27.350" LastActivityDate="2023-08-24T11:57:42.807" Title="The many usernames of SFF.SE" Tags="|discussion|users|" AnswerCount="71" CommentCount="24" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2015-10-12T02:53:58.570" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm named after a &lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Praxis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;far away moon&lt;/a&gt;.  In the year 2293 of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Alternate_reality&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Prime Timeline&lt;/a&gt;, I exploded due to over-mining.  This caused an ecological disaster on my parent planet that led to two warring empires not really fighting anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4jg8g.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4jg8g.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/strong&gt; I picked it because I like Star Trek.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-01-07T00:37:59.657" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T05:17:46.727" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2015-10-12T02:56:27.807" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Way back when, when xbox live was first becoming a thing. Me and my older brother wanted to play online. We spent the night setting up the router and such (Old model even for 2005-7 or whenever it was) so we didn't actually get online that night. I go to school the next day and just come home to him playing online on some random named account and i ask why it isn't with my account.&#xA;It was my account but my name was taken and so he decided in his infinite wisdom to random name generate a new account name for me. Needless to say I wasn't happen but it has long since grown on me and spread to every corner of my internet ID. Crazy. It's actually really good considering how unique it is, it has only ever previously existed once. Stupid twitter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also I'm apparently some fruit with a seed in the center or something, who knew!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22709" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T02:56:27.807" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2015-10-12T04:06:06.967" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;I stack, therefore I am. I build Lego for public display. My builder's name is &lt;em&gt;Major Stackings&lt;/em&gt; and denotes the utter importance of each and every creation I put together. ;) Although I build whatever captures my interest, I'm mainly into micro scale &amp;amp; miniland scale MOCs (&lt;a href=&quot;https://bricks.stackexchange.com/questions/135/what-does-the-acronym-moc-stand-for&quot;&gt;M.O.C.s, in Lego language means &lt;em&gt;my own creation(s)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;), so, to me, the name &lt;em&gt;Major Stackings&lt;/em&gt; is pretty funny. I use it here, because, you know, &lt;em&gt;Stack Exchange&lt;/em&gt; sounds like a Lego swap meet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are a couple of the links from BrickCon 2015:  Three theme coordinators (myself included) get interviewed &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.breakingdads.com/all-sorted/as-pod/brickcon-2015-interviews-part-2/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.breakingdads.com/all-sorted/as-pod/brickcon-2015-interviews-part-2/&lt;/a&gt; and the BreakingDads.com guys explore some of the displays on video &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.breakingdads.com/all-sorted/video/brickcon-2015/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.breakingdads.com/all-sorted/video/brickcon-2015/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4356" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:47:55.610" LastActivityDate="2017-03-18T01:16:32.987" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2015-10-12T06:52:38.860" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking for an obscure nickname for one online messaging board or another. I was playing a game called Waku Waku 7 at the time, which featured a character called Politank-Z, which was a walking tank piloted by a Mario-like character and his dog. It fit my criteria at the time: absurd, obscure (the only web search references I found to it were to the video game), and non-identifying. I have stuck with it, for the most part, since.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vXEMY.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vXEMY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44480" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T06:52:38.860" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2015-10-12T06:54:05.653" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to promote an &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Area 51&lt;/a&gt; initiative I created about wikis, first called &lt;em&gt;&quot;Wikis and Wikipedia&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and then &quot;&lt;em&gt;Wikispeedia&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. We weren't getting enough people interested so I changed my user name to &lt;em&gt;&quot;Wikis at Area 51&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, an initiative which delivered zero impact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When our Area 51 proposal died, I shortened it. I might change it again; searching for &lt;em&gt;&quot;Wikis&quot;&lt;/em&gt; (eg in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/a&gt; or even &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=Wikis&quot;&gt;here on meta&lt;/a&gt;) is pretty hopeless: most of the time people are talking about Wikipedia. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T06:54:05.653" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2015-10-12T07:38:48.653" Score="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am named after the minor planet &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_planets:_14001%E2%80%9315000#101&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;14111 Kimamos&lt;/a&gt; which in turn is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meanings_of_minor_planet_names:_14001%E2%80%9315000#101&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;named after a science teacher in West Virginia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8367949.Kim_Amos&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;lady in Michigan&lt;/a&gt; who writes romance novels under that name. (Just kidding. Actually user14111 is my real name.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T07:38:48.653" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2015-10-12T09:50:21.133" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;I joined this Stack Exchange to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394/rand-althor?tab=questions&amp;amp;sort=newest&amp;amp;page=2&quot;&gt;ask Wheel of Time questions&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Rand al'Thor&lt;/strong&gt; is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rand_al%27Thor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;main character&lt;/a&gt; in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wheel_of_Time&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wheel of Time series&lt;/a&gt;, and also someone I can identify with personally in many ways. Nobody else had taken that username (at the time, I didn't know usernames could be duplicated), so I used it. If it had already been in use, my second choice would have been &lt;strong&gt;Aragorn&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the Last Battle comes to Stack Exchange, I will stand firm, my two closest friends at my side, to defend what is right against the dark forces of evil and the Shadow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EeWA2l.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EeWA2l.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Tarmon Gaidon&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long live the Dragon!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-10-22T16:12:33.323" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2015-10-12T21:12:44.973" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first online community I heavily participated in was a Kingdom Hearts forum, and sometime after Kingdom Hearts 2 came out there was a thread where everyone posted their Organization XIII names. For those unfamiliar with the game, the Nobodies in Organization XIII created their names by taking the names they had back when they were human, rearranging the letters and adding an X. So my real life name of &quot;Eric&quot; became &quot;Ixrec&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I quickly realized that this would make a good username as it was fairly short, distinctive and had essentially zero google hits, so I've been using it consistently on every other site and community I've joined since then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35327" LastEditorUserId="35327" LastEditDate="2015-10-12T22:22:40.870" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T22:22:40.870" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2015-10-12T21:56:55.610" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;You might want to take a cup of coffee and sit down for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, it all started in 2007. The world was a much more innocent place, or was I younger and more innocent? Who's to tell?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyways, being on volunteer work in Haifa Israel, a bunch of my friends and I started calling each other &quot;Freak&quot;, you know, in a cool way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hey &lt;strong&gt;Freak&lt;/strong&gt;, how's it going?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Dude, you're such a &lt;strong&gt;Freak&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now a bunch of the girls I knew started a mini clique of their own called &quot;The Freaks&quot;. Being that it was now the most exclusive club, I &lt;em&gt;had&lt;/em&gt; to be in it (even though I was a guy). But they hesitated, it was really harsh for me, I felt that I was one of the founding members because I had originally in on the &quot;Freak&quot; naming. I had even looked up a Hebrew phrasebook and found the meaning of the word &quot;Freak&quot; which was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moozaroot&lt;/strong&gt; - פריק&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was gutted, how could these girls exclude me in this little, random, meaningless but oh so exclusive club, when I was such a strong impetus of its creation? Yeah, na, I was having none of that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I spoke to my &quot;sister&quot; from the clique (who wasn't really my sister but looked exactly like me - weird huh, &quot;freak&quot;-y even, lol), so everyone called us siblings. After a long while we convinced them to let me into this clique (and I even owned my new moniker - &quot;Freak Wannabe&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now my sister and I started calling each other &quot;Mooz&quot; because it was just shorter and funnier sounding than &quot;Moozaroot&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since then, I've used Mooz, or a derivative of it, in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;StackExchange&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Facebook&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Twitter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Microsoft Live&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ASOIAF account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And a myriad of online games&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A few of my younger cousins and friends have taken the 'Mooz' post-fix to their usernames too. I've sort of got a mini clan going, tee hee.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And there you have it, a small narrative titled &quot;Mooz&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so, the next time I act like a &quot;freak&quot;, you will know that it's because I &lt;em&gt;am&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Why 'Möoz'?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The '&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;umlaut mark&lt;/a&gt;' doesn't actually mean anything to me, it just looks cool AF!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="21267" LastEditDate="2018-02-25T22:07:29.123" LastActivityDate="2018-02-25T22:07:29.123" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2015-10-13T00:21:17.180" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;In case you were wondering, my username is &quot;Often Right&quot;.  Now, if you're a Trekkie and you don't know who this is then leave this site now - just joking!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often Right is an obscure reference for &lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Noonian_Soong&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dr Noonien Soong&lt;/a&gt; - don't trust Memory Alpha, trust me - his name &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/100020/is-it-noonien-or-noonian-soong&quot;&gt;is Noonien&lt;/a&gt;.  Lore says he was known as 'Often Wrong', but I didn't like that name, so I'm changing it to 'Often &lt;em&gt;Right&lt;/em&gt;'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the important question: &lt;strong&gt;why did I choose this handle?&lt;/strong&gt;  Well, there are a few reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is actually a striking resemblance between the real me and the character of Noonien Soong, not so much in appearance but in characteristics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm also fascinated by concepts of artificial intelligence and robotics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He's my favourite character from &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-01-07T00:37:59.657" LastActivityDate="2016-05-06T01:39:31.723" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2015-10-13T03:06:16.947" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a clever disguise; my real name is Bason Schmaker&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastActivityDate="2015-10-13T03:06:16.947" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7346" CreationDate="2015-10-13T10:15:40.487" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1888/the-screening-room&quot;&gt;The Screening Room&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Keen (or maybe someone else) mentioned it in chat with pro-temp mod of Movies &amp;amp; TV on various occasions few years back. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6006" LastActivityDate="2015-10-13T10:15:40.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7384" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7394" CreationDate="2015-10-13T14:55:17.007" Score="9" ViewCount="519" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand that there are a few related questions on meta.   I understand that we no longer close as &quot;general reference&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I don't understand is, to what degree do we consider Memory Alpha a reliable source?   As far as I can tell, it's just a wiki and anyone could put anything there.   And yet we have numerous answers the cite 'Memory Alpha says' or 'there's no reference on Memory alpha' or quote Memory Alpha etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How much should we accept Memory Alpha as 'evidence'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastEditorUserId="29220" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T01:49:47.920" LastActivityDate="2017-04-13T01:49:47.920" Title="What exactly is the standing of information from Memory Alpha?" Tags="|discussion|general-reference|notability-of-sources|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7384" CreationDate="2015-10-13T15:12:44.820" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From my experience currently the mods of memory alpha are not letting bad info up on the wiki. Most of the info on Memory alpha also contains references to specific episodes, and interviews, so the vast majority of it is verifiable. Unless we start to see conflicting, or wrong info on the site i believe its a great tool to answer questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As with all things found online a reasonable sense of caution should be used, attempt to double check, follow references, research your answers well, but generally its a safe place for good quality material. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29220" LastActivityDate="2015-10-13T15:12:44.820" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2015-10-13T16:04:14.387" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I play world of warcraft, it has a random name generator, it gave me himarm, read as him arm, not hi marm. thank you&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29220" LastActivityDate="2015-10-13T16:04:14.387" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7384" CreationDate="2015-10-13T16:23:58.863" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Theoretically&lt;/strong&gt;, Memory Alpha is a Wikia, meaning anyone can write anything random there. Therefore, mere wording from MA should not be used as canon source, especially specific nuances of wording (Wikia writers on SFF topics tend to have a strong tendency to take a short phrase/fact from canon, and spin a whole wider non-supported narrative around that fact).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, MA should really be used only as a secondary source - meaning, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, use it to find and cite primary sources&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you use it as a source without primary cite, explicitly note that in your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Practically&lt;/strong&gt;, Memory Alpha, in my less-than-expert experience, seems to be far less inaccurate than other Wikias I'm familiar with (Wookiepedia/HP Wikia) overall, and seems to have a decent editorial/moderation policy. So while I wouldn't trust MA info that isn't sourced explicitly nearly as much as I'd trust canon primary source, I would also trust it more than random unsourced fact on other Wikias.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2015-10-13T16:23:58.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7388" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-13T19:40:59.473" Score="-4" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would it be okay if I asked for examples of movies where there's the motive of learning more than human can normally take? I'm looking for movies like &quot;Limitless&quot; (NZT) or &quot;Matrix&quot; (human brain loading).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24226" LastEditorUserId="5184" LastEditDate="2015-10-13T19:49:09.483" LastActivityDate="2015-10-13T19:49:09.483" Title="Can I ask a question about movies with a particular motive?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7388" CreationDate="2015-10-13T19:46:50.833" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, such questions would be closed as they are off topic on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Requests for lists of works or recommendations are off-topic as they do not fit our questions and answers format. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, feel free to head into &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt; where someone would likely be happy to help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2015-10-13T19:46:50.833" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7390" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-13T21:23:15.863" Score="4" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28676/why-was-firefly-cancelled&quot;&gt;Why was Firefly cancelled?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been here a while, and I can't for the life of me see why this would be considered off-topic by modern (2015) standards.   It was closed in 2012.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2015-10-13T21:29:21.897" Title="Should this question still be closed as off topic?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7390" CreationDate="2015-10-13T21:29:21.897" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It should be reopened&lt;/strong&gt;. It clearly fits into the category of &quot;&lt;em&gt;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information&lt;/em&gt;&quot; which would be very heavily on-topic by 2015 standards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's already at 4 reopen votes. I look forward to seeing it open again shortly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-10-13T21:29:21.897" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2015-10-14T01:18:07.090" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Back when online gaming meant telnet, I was younger.  And stupider.  I may have just repeated myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was just discovering the internet when I heard about online role playing.  Friends liked MUDs, but I found myself drawn to MUSHes, which had less numbers and involved less killing harmless level 1 critters for an hour.  The biggest MUSH I found was Elendor, and it was based around Lord of the Rings (big enough that it may even still be around, I haven't checked).  So I registered an account, thinking thoughts of being Gandalf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone has those thoughts.  There's a big sign that says &quot;book characters are reserved, don't try to make one&quot; for a reason.  Naturally, being young (and denied), I took umbrage and for the next infinity of fifteen minutes tried to think of a character minor enough to sneak in as.  I finally came up with a name that worked to my delight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It worked because I'd misspelled it.  I'd been aiming for Haldir.  I'd typed Hildar.  (I later turned the character into a dwarf, for amusement)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remembering my silliness, in a later RPG that year I just rearranged the letters again, to create Radhil.  Almost by accident, I also created a character that knew many stories and how to draw the wisdom from them, something I rather desperately wanted to emulate at the time and until that moment hadn't realized or figured out how to put words to it.  It took more years still, but I did learn the trick, and still am.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So twenty years on, I still use the name.  It reminds me I can be silly and stupid at times, and also that I can learn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38235" LastActivityDate="2015-10-14T01:18:07.090" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2015-10-14T01:28:59.087" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a competitive ballroom dancer and have a serious passion for all three types of tango, which is Argentine, American, and International.  I was originally TangoOversway since, when I first logged on, the system wouldn't let me use Tango, but found later I could change it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In American tango, there is a move at the lower ability level (Bronze) called the Oversway.  It is, for that level, a particularly challenging move, but looks awesome if you get it right.  So combining that with the dance name seemed a good choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the different kinds of tango, my favorite (and my fiancée's, as well) is Argentine tango, which doesn't have an oversway and generally is not used in competition.  Argentine tango is just a beautiful, passionate, and sensual dance.  International tango is used mostly for competition and American tango is used for competitive ballroom, but also used for social ballroom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can I say?  I just love to tango!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2015-10-14T01:28:59.087" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7384" CreationDate="2015-10-14T01:51:32.790" Score="16" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Memory Alpha is not always correct.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, see this question that I asked:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/96641/whats-the-deal-with-marshmelons&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the deal with &amp;quot;marshmelons&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read @N_Soong's answer first and then @Richard's.  (In case @N_Soong reads this: it wasn't your fault, it was Memory Alpha's!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my own answers, I use Memory Alpha mainly as &quot;further reading&quot; on episodes that I refer to.  If I write something like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Geordi found a strange shadow in a holo-recording in &quot;Identity Crisis&quot;&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;then I will usually put in a link to the episode:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Geordi found a strange shadow in a holo-recording in &lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Identity_Crisis_(episode)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Identity Crisis&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as a benefit to the reader, since the plot summaries are very complete at Memory Alpha.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I try to avoid using Memory Alpha for primary research.  On several occasions in non-episode articles, I have found quizzical statements with no primary reference.  At times when the only available information on a topic is an unsupported claim from Memory Alpha, I will include the claim in my answer, but with a proviso that it is unauthenticated and may be purely speculative in nature, despite being presented by Memory Alpha as fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, I find that Memory Alpha makes for good reading and browsing but not necessarily for good research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-01-07T00:37:59.657" LastActivityDate="2015-10-14T01:51:32.790" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7396" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-14T14:52:41.290" Score="4" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;Related:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/282/acceptability-of-reading-viewing-order-questions&quot;&gt;Acceptability of reading/viewing order questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I ask is, I don't see how these &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt; questions rise above the level beyond 'primarily opinion based'.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The linked question makes the same point, giving the example of multiple answers of which there's no basis to pick the best.   But this dates back to 2011, and I know the positions on these kinds of things have evolved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also note that @phanton42 gave &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/282/acceptability-of-reading-viewing-order-questions/3038#3038&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; in 2013, yet it was voted into the negative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it time to revisit and/or reaffirm the position on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-09-13T18:15:57.797" Title="What's the reasoning behind suggested-order questions being on topic? Aren't they opinion-based?" Tags="|discussion|scope|suggested-order|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2015-10-14T15:07:17.630" Score="27" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My user name should show that I was male, so people wouldn't have to refer to me as &quot;he, or she, I dunno&quot;. (My real name seems to have that effect; it sounds androgynous to native English speakers.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I also like science fiction, and I wanted a name that reflected that. (It's a character from Red Dwarf, in case you're wondering. My avatar is the Red Dwarf itself.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And I found I have rather a tendency to make lists of everything. No matter the question; if I answer anything, it's often in list form. So, that's what I do, I make lists.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4495" LastActivityDate="2015-10-14T15:07:17.630" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7396" CreationDate="2015-10-14T15:20:59.507" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;We shouldn't exclude the entire category of questions; although they sometimes lean on the edge of being opinion-based, they don't have to be bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Some of them are good&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/76252/suggested-order-to-watch-entire-dr-who/&quot;&gt;Suggested order to watch entire Dr. Who?&lt;/a&gt; is an example of a good &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt; question&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;. The OP defines very clearly what they want out of an answer (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;what is the best approach to continuity (&lt;strong&gt;an episode E1 that helps understand something in episode E2 should be watched in E1=&amp;gt;E2 order&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the least amount of spoilers&lt;/strong&gt; (ala &amp;quot;I don't want to find out Vader is Luke's father before watching the prequels&amp;quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;extra weight given to &lt;strong&gt;the order recommended specifically by creative team(s) associated with the show&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the possible exception of the first one (though I think it could be worded differently to make it objective), all of these criteria have objective answers. The fact that my answer focuses on general concepts rather than a specific list of episodes should be taken as a testament to the scale of &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt;, not a commentary on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Some of them are not&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In contrast, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2585/what-episodes-of-doctor-who-should-i-watch-first&quot;&gt;What episodes of Doctor Who should I watch first?&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a good &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt; question; the OP specifically says what they're looking for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where would you recommend starting and what are the definitive episodes/seasons I should watch?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is practically the definition of &amp;quot;Primarily Opinion-Based&amp;quot;; that this question has 15 answers (5 visible only to 10k+ users), many of which include some variation on the phrase &amp;quot;I think&amp;quot;, demonstrates the problem&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;General guideline&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To paraphrase a much better writer than I: objective and subjective have not changed since yesterday, nor are they one thing among &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt; and another among other tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is asking for some objective criteria, as in my first example, then that sounds like a fine question to me; if they aren't, then they should be closed as appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Disclaimer: I have the top-voted, accepted (also, only) answer on this question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-10-14T15:20:59.507" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2015-10-14T20:18:55.153" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;Scooby-Doo &amp;rarr; Scooby &amp;rarr; skooby &amp;rarr; SQB&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2015-10-14T20:18:55.153" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2015-10-16T03:42:52.947" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you can't figure out my real name, I'm not going to tell you.  It's pretty obvious.  If you're having trouble figuring it out, Google the word &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoonerism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;spoonerism&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="44025" LastEditDate="2015-10-16T05:03:43.377" LastActivityDate="2015-10-16T05:03:43.377" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2015-10-16T07:23:26.667" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;I’ve been a fan of The Lord of the Rings since before everybody had heard of it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I read it for the first time in the late 1960s.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I still have a very dog-eared and taped up copy that was printed in 1966. &#xA;Not a first edition, or anything, just old.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I’ve read it cover-to-cover probably five or six times. &#xA;(I have bought a newer copy; the old one is falling apart.)&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yes, I know there are people who read it every year.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Every now and then I pick it up and just read a chapter or two.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I wanted my user name to reflect that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I grew up in an area where peregrine falcons are indigenous,&#xA;and I wanted to pay homage to them. &#xA;And, of course, Pippin’s real name is Peregrin Took. &#xA;And, of course, a “rook” is a kind of bird. &#xA;So it all fell into place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I like chess, although I’m absolutely no good at it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;________&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Yes, I remember when telephones had “dials”. &#xA;And, yes, we did ride dinosaurs to school.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30482" LastActivityDate="2015-10-16T07:23:26.667" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7346" CreationDate="2015-10-16T11:26:15.290" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I stumbled across it while searching for the title of a book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26367" LastActivityDate="2015-10-16T11:26:15.290" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2015-10-16T15:48:04.947" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sadly, I didn't have any strong convictions about a user name before I joined.  I happened to be in the process of watching Avatar at the exact moment I signed up, and I ended up typing in avatar_sully.  I'd like to say it's some sort of high-browed life imitating art thing (my user account being an avatar of me), but...no.  It was just extreme laziness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the silly thing is, I don't even really like Avatar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've thought about changing my user name, planning it out in my mind that I would go to my profile page and click that Edit button.  But I'm just to lazy to move the mouse there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems right that I should be punished for my laziness by being condemned to live out my online life with not the user name I need, but the one I deserve. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55350" OwnerDisplayName="user52910" LastEditorUserId="55350" LastActivityDate="2015-10-16T15:48:04.947" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7360" CreationDate="2015-10-16T23:09:58.970" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site is whatever you want it to be.  Everyone has their own reasons for being here, and their own approach to contributing.  If you don't feel the need to compete, you don't have to.  If you see a benefit to competing, have at it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one thing this site will always be is a recreational activity, which is solely intended for entertainment and conveying and obtaining information about Science fiction and fantasy.  What happens here doesn't really mean much in the real world, so every approach to using the site is valid, as long as you are genuinely interested in asking and answering questions about the relevant subjects, and abide by the site's rules and regulations for proper conduct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you saw, and asked about, was good natured ribbing between a couple of people who enjoy competing with one another.  I would suggest that you take it as such.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastActivityDate="2015-10-16T23:09:58.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7315" CreationDate="2015-10-16T23:28:03.943" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand why this happened, but I don't necessarily agree with the decision.  I consider this a significant loss to the community, but one that we will recover from.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I joined this site about 6 months ago, Richard was the first mod I interacted with.  He was extremely helpful to me, and over the course of the following weeks, I repeatedly dragged him into chat so I could pester him about all kinds of things.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He taught me how to become a useful contributor to the site, and the fact that I accumulated over 14,000 rep in my first four months here is largely a testament to his advice and tutelage.  He told me to look for the best answers already on the site, and model my own answers on them.  I followed his advice, paying particular attention to answers from Jason Baker, Thaddeus, Phantom42, and of course, Richard himself.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't be here right now if it wasn't for Richard's patience, generosity, and instruction.  Aside from helping me become a better user, he also made it more fun to be here.  We sometimes disagree with one another, but I can only think of two or three instances in which I disagreed with his actions as a moderator.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sad to see him step down as moderator, but I am delighted that he will stick around as a user.  He has been an enormous asset to the community, and he was even more valuable as a mod.  The community will suffer a bit from losing him as a mod, but at least we will continue to benefit from his contributions as a user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastActivityDate="2015-10-16T23:28:03.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7407" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7409" CreationDate="2015-10-17T17:13:15.623" Score="5" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see an obvious way to determine the date and time&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastEditorUserId="31051" LastEditDate="2015-10-17T17:58:51.220" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T15:35:03.237" Title="Is it possible to determine when an answer was accepted?" Tags="|support|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7407" CreationDate="2015-10-17T17:28:12.617" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check the mouseover (tooltip) of the green &lt;em&gt;accepted&lt;/em&gt; symbol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JD1by.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JD1by.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user35609" LastActivityDate="2015-10-17T17:28:12.617" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7407" CreationDate="2015-10-17T17:51:05.440" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to Loong's answer, you can also use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/36303/feedback-request-new-timeline-question-view&quot;&gt;timeline view&lt;/a&gt;. This has the advantage of always showing the full date and time; the tooltip uses the same relative timestamp (e.g. &quot;yesterday&quot;, &quot;&lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt; days ago&quot;) used in most other places on the site, but you can't hover over a hover text (the way you can to get the more precise time in other cases).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The information on acceptance lives on the timeline for the accepted answer; for example, on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/105190/&quot;&gt;Who played Hedwig?&lt;/a&gt;, the tooltip only says that the answer was accepted &quot;two days ago&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8RR72.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8RR72.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/105192/timeline&quot;&gt;timeline of phantom42's answer&lt;/a&gt; shows the full date and time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/08Vm7.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/08Vm7.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This screen is a bit hard to get to; if you have &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GreaseMonkey&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo?hl=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TamperMonkey&lt;/a&gt; installed, you can use &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/a/4238&quot;&gt;this userscript&lt;/a&gt; to add a link to every post&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gGg6E.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gGg6Em.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also get here from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/105190/timeline&quot;&gt;question's timeline&lt;/a&gt;; the time each answer was posted is recorded there, and includes a link to the answer's timeline:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5DwDr.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5DwDr.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll notice that the (currently) accepted answer is marked by a green checkmark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Note that I'm using another UserScript to add a &quot;revisions&quot; link to each post; you don't get that for free with the script I've linked to here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T15:35:03.237" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2015-10-19T12:59:03.780" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The entertainment/arts-related sites make using your favorite characters from the respective medium/genre an obvious choice, in contrast to some lame real-life name or a username used everywhere else on the internet anyway. But since I'm not much into written works I did not want to pick a character that I have to feel hypocritical for not knowing its base material inside out. Neither did I want to be the 5000th &lt;em&gt;l0rd_vad3r&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Gandalf87&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being more into movies in general than science-fiction or fantasy per se, the obvious choice were &lt;em&gt;original stand-alone science-fiction/fantasy movies&lt;/em&gt; that also work as mere cinematic experiences apart from the science-fiction/fantasy appeal alone. This is the reason why I first chose &lt;em&gt;Sky Captain&lt;/em&gt; as an avatar, a great character from a very entertaining and unique retro sci-fi movie. I then later changed it to another great character from one of the best science-fiction movies of recent times and left it at that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23386" LastEditorUserId="23386" LastEditDate="2016-01-25T13:28:38.180" LastActivityDate="2016-01-25T13:28:38.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2015-10-19T17:43:54.823" Score="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;I slammed my fists on the keyboard a few times until I got a result I liked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54417" LastActivityDate="2015-10-19T17:43:54.823" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2474" CreationDate="2015-10-19T19:32:14.777" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted an answer that addressed the fact that we sometimes get professionals involved with our answers, without the professional specifically creating an account here to answer the questions themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/104907/31178&quot;&gt;Who are all the people in this “BEST. SELFIE. EVER!”? answer by @Praxis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, a professional (celebrity handler) was contacted via Twitter to answer a question, and they responded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/12841/31178&quot;&gt;Wanderers of Time &amp;amp; Next of Kin Cover artist answer by @John Riselvato&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here, the professional artist that created the cover art was contacted by the user, which resulted in not only a confirmation that it was the correct artist, but said artist's website was updated to include the art in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/32108/31178&quot;&gt;Why was Snarl not in The Transformers: The Movie? by @JackBNimble&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer this question, Jack emailed the voice artist who voiced the character in question, Snarl.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/86317/whose-fist-dent-is-there-on-the-seclusion-retreat-cabin-of-s-h-i-e-l-d/86338#86338&quot;&gt;Whose fist dent is there on the seclusion retreat cabin of S.H.I.E.L.D.? by @phantom42&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is another case of Twitter connecting us to professionals, and phantom42 contacted one of the writers of the show. Their response essentially confirmed all the downvotes on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8726/15836#15836&quot;&gt;Which DVD editions of “The Last Unicorn” are commendable?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Peter Beagle responded to an email about DVD royalties for a movie for which he wrote the screenplay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/2937/4918&quot;&gt;Story where the number 3 is the monster?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two authors got involved in this story-identification question.  R. L. Stine replied in twitter to confirm that this wasn't his story; then the writer of the story, Greg Cox, replied when Kyle Hale found the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/179579/98028&quot;&gt;Where did Rocket's repair tool come from? answer by @TheLethalCarrot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Carrot used Twitter to reach out to James Gunn, the movie's director, who came up with an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While these don't exactly fit the bill of professional participation, they are participating by proxy (whether they realize it's for our stack or not). These interactions are different than general quotes from professional's Twitter accounts or websites. For instance, JK Rowling's tweets are often cited to answer Harry Potter questions, but those tweets were not given in a direct response to a SciFi.SE member's inquiry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-09-26T22:08:57.400" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7346" CreationDate="2015-10-19T23:32:25.157" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had been rewatching the original &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; trilogy and suddenly realized that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/85714/does-r2d2-try-to-trick-luke-in-episode-v-empire-strikes-back&quot;&gt;R2-D2 tries to trick Luke in &lt;em&gt;Empire Strikes Back&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and I wanted to find somewhere to ask questions about &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;.  This was the best place I could find.  I joined the site and asked the question linked above, and the rest is history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2015-10-19T23:32:25.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7360" CreationDate="2015-10-19T23:57:07.590" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure why, but I was looking at meta today (haven't done much of anything on this site in a long while) and spotted this question. The competitive nature from a few very active specific users was what turned me off from remaining an active user of this site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to say that I started really being active here while competition took second place to teaching and learning.  However, after being very active for a while I recognized that a portion of the populous was concerned mostly with making their reputations grow, and not with the quality of questions nor answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I no longer actively participate in this site for that reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4383" LastActivityDate="2015-10-19T23:57:07.590" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7418" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7421" CreationDate="2015-10-20T03:03:33.707" Score="10" ViewCount="319" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I love how usually quickly you can get answer on this forum, sometimes it leads to problems, when the person asking forgets/fails to ask precisely the question they want answered and someone meanwhile already answered... unfortunately not exactly on the topic that question's author had in mind. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lets say I'd like to ask about the hair loss problems among elves:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Has there been any description of bald elf in literature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For which I get answer that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yes, there was an X in book Y that lost his hair after meeting the fire-breathing dragon Z&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Uh, yes... it is right, but I really meant &quot;natural baldness&quot;, so I should I now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit my question pointing that I had in mind &quot;natural causes&quot; such as age - this invalidates the answer which is (apparently) frowned upon&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Point my correction in the comment to the answer - which in turn (since not everyone reads the comments) won't stop another person from describing yet another case of elf that lost hair in accident &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Drop the question completely and re-edit it - this would kinda put the work of people that already answered to waste.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, of course I should clarify everything perfectly at the first time, but after all, I'm just a human prone to make mistakes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50522" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2019-10-21T07:54:07.027" LastActivityDate="2019-10-21T07:54:07.027" Title="Best policy when edit to question invalidates the answer" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7418" CreationDate="2015-10-20T03:16:13.713" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to Meta Meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, any edit that changes the question should be rolled back, but for a question without answers, sometimes I think the OP can be given a little leeway as long as they aren't trying to get around a question ban and/or completely changing the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;strong&gt;any&lt;/strong&gt; edit to a question, other than clarifying the original question, that invalidates any answer should be rolled back and a comment should be left indicating what they did wrong.  Sometimes it is possible to edit the question in such a way as to integrate the new info added by the OP without invaliding answers and the editor should try to make an effort to do that.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/155712/should-edits-be-rolled-back-if-users-update-change-their-questions-with-a-give/155713#155713&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users are encouraged to &lt;em&gt;clarify and improve&lt;/em&gt; existing questions, if they are under-specified or otherwise incomplete.  That's not the same thing as asking a new question that renders the existing answers invalid.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/179215/edited-question-makes-answers-incorrect/179216#179216&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This meta answer suggests that the OP should ask for clarification in comments rather than by editing the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T03:36:55.837" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7418" CreationDate="2015-10-20T03:21:21.403" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the event that the OP makes the change and it keeps with the spirit of the question and does not result in a very different question all together, then &#xA;&lt;strong&gt;leave the edit so it best gets across the point of your question and draws out the best answers to it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So long as the OP is the one making changes to the question to ensure they get the answer they are looking for, then I see no problems here. If someone has answered the question and then they are wrong because of your changes, they can modify their answer or pull it. The OP should only care that their question is clear and draws out the type of answers they are looking for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP is welcome to modify their question by adding a remark about the further clarification they are making. Such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; To clarify, I am looking for instances of &quot;naturally occurring baldness&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32276" LastEditorUserId="32276" LastEditDate="2015-10-20T03:33:06.140" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T03:33:06.140" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7418" CreationDate="2015-10-20T04:23:37.507" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you want to follow up with the author of a post, the best solution is &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; to leave a comment. The reason why is at the core of why we dislike edits that invalidate answers: &lt;strong&gt;that's the only way answerers get notified of something changing&lt;/strong&gt;. There was a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2322/notify-us-when-the-question-has-been-edited-after-posting-an-answer&quot;&gt;change this&lt;/a&gt; back in 2009, but it never got an official response; it seems like this is a feature that's not coming in the near future, if ever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, I don't personally think there's &lt;em&gt;necessarily&lt;/em&gt; anything wrong with making clarifying edits to a question; it depends a great deal on the specifics of the edit, and how drastically it changes the parameters of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The specific example you give, for example, is a bit drastic in my opinion; it excludes a huge number of answers (which is, of course, your intention). A better edit might have been to add:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I have a special interest in natural baldness&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea is to narrow your meaning without excluding the efforts of prior answerers. This might feel a bit weaselly, because it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a bit weaselly, but that's the game we play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also worth pointing out that &quot;Existing answers are outdated&quot; is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/set-bounties&quot;&gt;bounty reason&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, though it wasn't intended for this use case:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/S9fRn.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of bounty window&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That reason is intended to address old questions where new information &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; have been released that the existing answers don't address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;In this case&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think this specific instance (that is, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/105494/has-anyone-gotten-married-more-than-once-in-the-lotr-universe&quot;&gt;Has anyone gotten married more than once in the LOTR universe?&lt;/a&gt;) is a good example of this policy in action; I would have answered both versions of the question (the one you posted and the one you &lt;em&gt;meant&lt;/em&gt; to post) in exactly the same way. Likewise, I would answer both versions of your &quot;bald elf&quot; example he exact same way&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I want to caution against narrowing down your questions, but for a different reason: you'd be surprised the things you can learn. Ideally, a good answer to a slightly overbroad question will &lt;em&gt;include&lt;/em&gt; the answer to the question you wanted answered (and if it doesn't, you can always ask in a comment), but you'll gain a little bit of extra trivia along the way. And that's why we're really here, isn't it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Image stolen shamelessly from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/117214/276025&quot;&gt;Jason Plank on MSE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; Even assuming we lived in a world where the correct answer to both wasn't a flat &quot;No.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T14:49:47.447" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7422" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-20T08:20:29.160" Score="5" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed recently that a lot of questions that get asked are extremely easily answered with 10 seconds of Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/105361/19561&quot;&gt;What horse or horses played Shadowfax?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/105171/19561&quot;&gt;Who is the head of Ravenclaw?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These kinds of questions will, on other stackexchanges, rather quickly, get voted down into oblivion as that is literally just a matter of typing that question into Google to get an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, these kinds of questions seem to generate very few, if any, downvotes on Sci-Fi and often generate upvotes, meaning people are actively being rewarded with reputation for doing no research of their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is Sci-Fi less strict in their research requirements?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22803" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2015-10-22T17:46:33.973" Title="Does sci-fi have extremely low standards for questions compared to other stackexchanges?" Tags="|discussion|scope|question-quality|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7423" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7435" CreationDate="2015-10-20T09:20:17.313" Score="6" ViewCount="412" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/105483/19561&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; was deleted by a mod.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why was it deleted?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comments argue that it doesn't address the question. I'd like to argue that it &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt;, although not directly. (The answer concludes that Hermione is white, because it wasn't specified otherwise).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, that doesn't seem like a good reason to delete the answer. Instead, its merits should be judged by the vote. It clearly isn't spam, it's not rude or abusive, and — as I've argued — it's not that clearly not an answer to have it deleted for that reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, I'd like to request it undeleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uzt3e.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uzt3e.png&quot; alt=&quot;deleted answer&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2015-10-21T00:51:19.833" Title="Why was this answer to the question of Hermione's ethnicity deleted?" Tags="|discussion|support|status-completed|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7424" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7430" CreationDate="2015-10-20T11:51:19.100" Score="5" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/flag-summary/19561&quot;&gt;flagged a number of comments&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/95974/19561&quot;&gt;Wad Cheber's answer&lt;/a&gt; to the question what technologies were predicted by &lt;em&gt;Back to the Future II&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a discussion about the source of some statements that had been resolved, there were some snarky remarks, there was some other stuff that was superfluous. I flagged a total of 13 comments and about half a day later, they were gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet all those flags were declined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is that? I'm glad they were cleaned up, but it nearly doubled my number of declined comment flags, looking bad on my record, and it delays my &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/71/marshal&quot;&gt;Marshal Badge&lt;/a&gt; (okay, I don't care &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; much, but still).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what I really want to know, is if I should have flagged these comments or not. Was I wrong to flag them like this? Should I have flagged the first one for moderator attention with a request to delete the lot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T14:53:02.597" Title="Why were these comment flags declined, while the comments were deleted?" Tags="|support|comments|flagging|deleted-comments|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7423" CreationDate="2015-10-20T12:01:40.920" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3670/19561&quot;&gt;Keen's answer&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(...)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  I don't delete anything that's a non-joke attempt at answering the question, even if that answer is buried in a little cruft. If a post is entirely tangential commentary, a comment/reply to another answer, or trolling/offensive/spam, then I delete. But if the post makes some attempt to answer the question, I don't delete it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if that's in line with this stack's or even SE's policy, the answer shouldn't be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T12:01:40.920" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7424" CreationDate="2015-10-20T12:24:52.213" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is actually two questions: &quot;Why were those flags declined?&quot; and &quot;Should I have done what I did?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the first one, I &lt;em&gt;believe&lt;/em&gt; (based on things I've seen mentioned on meta.se) that if a moderator deletes comments that have flags pending on them, those flags are auto-declined. In this case, you should see your declined flag count go up but there won't be any way to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/134939/shouldnt-deleted-posts-comments-result-in-decrementing-the-declined-comment-fla&quot;&gt;see those flags&lt;/a&gt; in the declined flag list. That would be a hint as to what happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the second one, your approach is probably &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the way to go. As explained by Shog9 in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/203211/flagging-multiple-comments-versus-flagging-the-whole-post-for-moderator-attentio&quot;&gt;this meta post&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But if removing the comments requires a moderator to review an entire comment thread and pick out which bits are no longer relevant, or verify that an edit has indeed obsoleted a good many of them... Then multiple comment flags don't really accomplish much. Just flag the post, summarize the problem, and let the moderator deal with it. This is especially true when the bulk of a thread should be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, if the first comment flag was enough to clue the moderator in that the entire thread was out of hand, then having a second comment flag isn't helpful -- it's just noise. In that case, the remaining 12 flags were redundant, and got declined because there was nothing left to &quot;do&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(You could argue that perhaps pending flags should be &lt;em&gt;approved&lt;/em&gt; when the comment is deleted, but that doesn't appear to be the case for whatever reason. You'd have to ask on meta.se if you really wanted to know why.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T12:24:52.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7422" CreationDate="2015-10-20T13:45:09.943" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Open 'em all*; let votes sort 'em out.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;*except for things that are actually off-topic or out of scope&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Originally, we closed such questions as &quot;General Reference&quot;, but we had a problem where we could never totally agree on what constituted &quot;General Reference&quot;. Almost &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; question can be answered via Google in just one search of the correct keywords. Closing every question that could be &quot;easily&quot; Googled would close more questions than we wanted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, we decided that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2372/5184&quot;&gt;one does not need to have read/watched the work being asked about&lt;/a&gt;, meaning that even the most trivial and obvious of questions about a work are on topic&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over time, we realized that we never really had a problem with having too many &quot;too easy&quot; questions (they certainly show up, but they don't overrun the site). This led to us &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2400/5184&quot;&gt;burninating General Reference&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the question came up again later, we reiterated that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3070/5184&quot;&gt;we do not close questions for being &quot;too trivial&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2402/5184&quot;&gt;Beofett's answer&lt;/a&gt; still reflects the general consensus:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why is it not sufficient to say &quot;if a question is trivial, boring, and demonstrates little to no research, downvote it&quot;? Note that the hover-text for downvoting states quite clearly that a question or answer should be downvoted when it &quot;does not show any research effort&quot; or &quot;it is unclear or not useful&quot;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for why such questions are upvoted, well, that's every user's prerogative. They may find the question interesting, or useful, or they may have just wondered about the same thing. You may not, and that's OK. Vote however you want (so long as it's on the post, not the poster), and everyone else will do the same. Typically, the votes will eventually reflect the overall quality of the question (except for questions which hit the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/questions?tab=hot&quot;&gt;Hot Network Questions List&lt;/a&gt;, which can dramatically skew scores.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2015-10-21T20:16:13.410" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2015-10-20T14:19:23.477" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Slytherincess&quot; is, unsurprisingly, a combo of &quot;Slytherin&quot; and &quot;Princess&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've had this online handle since 2002. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I first read &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; fan fiction at a site called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sugarquill.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Sugar Quill&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and I participated in their forums. I basically liked their site, but it was very restrictive -- for example, the site would only archive fan fic with what they considered to be canon pairings -- Harry/Ginny, Ron/Hermione, and Sirius/Remus (whom the site administrators considered a canon pairing). If you questioned their restrictions, even in light conversations on their forums, your post would disappear -- that kind of BS. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Oh, and, uh ... Slytherins were definitely not welcome there, and I had felt an affinity toward Slytherin since the first time I read the first book. Why? That's a whole 'nother story!&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, yeah, things at the Sugar Quill were all around problematic. I knew I was going to have to leave the site. I hadn't yet registered at the Quill; I decided I would. I tried out a variety of Slytherin-themed names, but &lt;strong&gt;Slytherincess&lt;/strong&gt; is the one that stuck. I left The Sugar Quill, but not before leaving silly, but harmless, messages in a few of the forums I had frequented, so I could splash my new moniker, because &lt;em&gt;someone&lt;/em&gt; had to say it:  &lt;strong&gt;SLYTHERIN WAS HERE&lt;/strong&gt;! ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because I got into &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; fandom quite early on, I was able to scoop up my username in a variety of apps, most of which are obsolete now: Gmail (I still use my Gmail account); Yahoo; Livejournal; FictionAlley, AO3; &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; conference sign-ups; Twitter; Facebook; Pinterest; Flickr; and, yes, Stack Exchange! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the screen-saver for my iPhone (My iPhone is named &quot;Malfoy&quot;, for anyone interested):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pfKo2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pfKo2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="3500" LastEditDate="2016-01-23T23:15:29.627" LastActivityDate="2016-01-23T23:15:29.627" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2015-10-20T14:38:09.020" Score="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Someone lay me down a sick beat. We goin' ham.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's mid-2007, not too long ago,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;when a little nerdy white boy and his buddies go,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;and sign up for Xbox Live to play some videogames,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;using Gears of War and Halo as a replacement for dames.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well I'm sitting there just thinking, trying to choose a handle,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;but my friends names are much better, mine can't hold a candle.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Take a look at my initials - D and R can make Doctor,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;think about the wannabe gangsters I can mock-a.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Throwing round words and phrases, abusing dumbass slang,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;my satirical skills will make their heads hang.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like a flash of inspiration, the air begins to sizzle,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;hammering my controller, I type &quot;Dr D Rizzle&quot;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;But it turns out that was taken, so I go for second best,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&quot;Dr R Dizzle&quot; sounds just as stupid, I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been nearly a decade now, the name was a bad choice,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;but I kind of got used to it as my online voice.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If there's a lesson here, then the lesson is this;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;'Don't choose an online name while trying to take the p*ss'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24087" LastEditorUserId="24087" LastEditDate="2015-10-20T14:57:10.777" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T14:57:10.777" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7424" CreationDate="2015-10-20T14:53:02.597" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mike's answer contains an error:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;if a moderator deletes comments that have flags pending on them, those flags are auto-declined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is incorrect, if a mod deletes comments that have flags on them, that auto-validates the flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I declined your &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; comment flags because that's not how you flag a comment thread that should be deleted.  Especially since many of your flag reasons seemed to be chosen at random, which made the flags look like some bot run amok.  Instead, you should flag the first comment with 'other' and then enter an explanation that the comment thread should be deleted (see Shog9's quote in Mike's answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T14:53:02.597" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7431" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7434" CreationDate="2015-10-20T18:40:26.433" Score="26" ViewCount="598" Body="&lt;p&gt;From quick browsing across announcements of and discussions about Movie Night Events, I was unable to determine what a movie night really is. Are all participants supposed to find access (rent a DVD, dig out an old VHS, search on Youtube) to the same movie and all press play on the same instant? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just wonder how to keep everybody &quot;in sync&quot; then (different editions, different play speed in 24frames vs 25 frames regions, people pressing pause for potty time or fast forwarding over boring stuff) in order to have a nice common chat experience. Or are the movies picked from a regionally available TV broadcaster or the like? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12025" LastEditorUserId="1441" LastEditDate="2016-04-13T08:34:33.017" LastActivityDate="2017-07-13T15:11:00.777" Title="What is a Movie Night, really?" Tags="|support|chat-event|movie-night|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7431" CreationDate="2015-10-20T18:56:22.053" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are all participants supposed to find access (rent a DVD, dig out an old VHS, search on Youtube) to the same movie and all press play on the same instant?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often people will be out of sync by a few seconds to minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Participants comment on the movie while it is playing, making observations, making jokes, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sometimes&lt;/em&gt; those transcripts are compiled together into blog posts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/08/live-chat-the-day-the-earth-stood-still-1951/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Live Chat - The Day the Earth Stood Still&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2013/09/live-chat-star-trek-tos-space-seed/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Live Chat - Space Seed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/08/live-chat-star-trek-tos-and-the-children-shall-lead/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Live Chat - And the Children Shall Lead&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T18:56:22.053" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2015-10-20T19:00:14.117" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like the pine trees lining the winding road,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I've got a name, I've got a name;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Like the singing bird and the croaking toad,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I've got a name, I've got a name.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;And I carry it with me like my daddy did,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;But I'm living the dream that he kept hid...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26274" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T19:00:14.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7431" CreationDate="2015-10-20T19:03:51.413" Score="35" Body="&lt;h2&gt;What is Movie Night?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A movie is chosen, either via a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7267/september-movie-event-2&quot;&gt;meta question&lt;/a&gt; or simply by &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/24644925#24644925&quot;&gt;royal decree&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How is it supposed to work?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At the agreed time, we all gather in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/58631/the-restaurant-at-the-end-of-the-universe&quot;&gt;main site chatroom&lt;/a&gt; and press start at the same time on our respective copies of the chosen movie. Generally for an hour or so before the event, there's discussion about places where you can buy/rent/view the film in question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What actually happens during the movie?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As we watch the movie, you're free to chime in with any thoughts, observations, musings or questions that pop into your head.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What if I get out of sync?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Periodically, we pause to allow those who've gone out of sync (for whatever reason) to catch up and rejoin the herd. If a copy is available online, we might use a movie-sharing tool like watch2gether so that we're all in the same place.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How does it work in practice?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Frankly, it's like &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk7yqlTMvp8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;herding cats&lt;/a&gt;. We get ahead and behind. Some people are watching the wrong film. Some people can't get access to the film and try to join in from memory. Honestly it's &lt;strong&gt;great fun&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-07-13T15:11:00.777" LastActivityDate="2017-07-13T15:11:00.777" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7423" CreationDate="2015-10-20T21:21:57.233" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even though I hadn't read &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3670/3804&quot;&gt;Keen's post&lt;/a&gt;, on first reading of the question, I initially thought it fell into this criteria:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...entirely tangential commentary...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which to me is also grounds for deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But after being prompted by this meta post I'd like to think the answer is not entriely tangential. Especially after &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/105483/8&quot;&gt;Kevin's edit&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm happy it got undeleted, and I'm sorry we had to go through this rigamarole. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T21:21:57.233" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7423" CreationDate="2015-10-21T00:51:19.833" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As soon as I saw the title of the question, I recalled a quotation from Ursula K. Le Guin on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2004/12/a_whitewashed_earthsea.single.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;protagonist of her Earthsea stories&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fantasy tradition I was writing in came from Northern Europe, which is why it was about white people. I'm white, but not European. My people could be any color I liked, and I like red and brown and black. I was a little wily about my color scheme. I figured some white kids (the books were published for &amp;quot;young adults&amp;quot;) might not identify straight off with a brown kid, so I kind of eased the information about skin color in by degrees—hoping that the reader would get &amp;quot;into Ged's skin&amp;quot; and only then discover it wasn't a white one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;. . .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it is possible that some readers never even notice what color the people in the story are. Don't notice, don't care. Whites of course have the privilege of not caring, of being &amp;quot;colorblind.&amp;quot; Nobody else does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Agree or disagree with her politics, I hope you can see the important point this author makes about the art of writing and, in particular, the importance of leaving some details open to interpretation in order to engage readers. (As an aside, I did not notice the color of Ged's skin when I read the novels as a young adult. It would very likely have bothered me if I had.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;J. K. Rowling, however, is a different author who had different concerns with her characters. Unless she says something explicitly (either in the novels themselves or while talking about the novels) the answers to the question must be guesswork.  Even something seemingly clear as cover art can deceive. Here's Le Guin again:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gradually I got a little more clout, a little more say-so about covers. And very, very, very gradually publishers may be beginning to lose their blind fear of putting a nonwhite face on the cover of a book. &amp;quot;Hurts sales, hurts sales&amp;quot; is the mantra. Yeah, so? On my books, Ged with a white face is a lie, a betrayal—a betrayal of the book, and of the potential reader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get that questions like these can be a fun way to explore the universes that we love and wish to inhabit as readers. But it's very dangerous to encourage guesses of one sort and delete guesses of another. Agree or disagree with the proposed solution (when using English, the unspoken default race is white), it functions the same way as the other answers on the page. I think it a positive result that the answer has been undeleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Let's talk about race and this site.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few years ago, when I first started work as a Community Manager, I ran across a controversy on this site about race. It was notable to me since I never thought that a site about Science Fiction would have this sort of incident. In the years since I have learned I was utterly naive. For whatever reason this topic is a hotbed of controversy about race. I would not have predicted such a thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comments surrounding this question are, unfortunately, yet another example of a mean-spirited debate about race on this site. Thankfully the comments have been deleted, but not before the targets of the comments saw them and received the message. I won't republish the nastiness, but I will say that lots of people who really should know better left comments that fall short of the standard set out in our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;be nice policy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know much about this community or the questions asked here. I'm probably seeing the worst examples that get pointed out to me because of my position. But my impression is that this community is unable to hold a civil conversation about race (or, for that matter, gender). I would suggest that this community decide to not put up with this sort of embarrassing behavior. That may very well mean closing questions about race. (Not, I should hasten to say, because they don't belong on the site, but rather because the site lacks maturity when it comes to the topic.) It probably means timed suspensions for those who are unable to control their comments and say regrettable things. It definitely means aggressively deleting content that is not welcome on Stack Exchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site is supposed to be fun. Nobody is paid to answer questions. Our moderators volunteer their time to keep the place orderly; they wouldn't if they didn't enjoy caring for this community. If you are having fun, I'm glad for you. But just be sure you aren't having your fun at the expense of others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15823" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-10-21T00:51:19.833" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2015-10-21T22:26:07.553" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;Organic marble!  It's gluten free, absolutely no BPAs, non allergenic, and crunchy!  Contains only trace amounts of uranium!  Accept no substitutes for this all natural product!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28516" LastActivityDate="2015-10-21T22:26:07.553" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7438" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-22T03:53:40.360" Score="1" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;So a few days ago I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/105575/watchmen-book-ending-versus-movie-ending&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; regarding the ending differences of the Watchmen book and movie and it was marked as duplicate to a question from 2011 (answered 2011). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First off, I'm not disagreeing with the duplicate tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I had a question about the ending, one that I hoped could be solved by a quote from a cast member or crew member. In the original question, one of the answers stated that there was no such quote to be found (2011). Now, my question (and then later added to the original) had an answer that DID have such a quote. Funny enough, the quote was from 2009, but this bears little importance. What is important is that it was believed there was no information, and I believed there could be some given the 4 year gap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how do I ask a question in hopes of finding new information that was not available in an old answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I do that? Should I comment on an old question? Do I ask anyway, knowing it will get marked duplicate so as to point at the original and get new answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38299" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T01:38:26.073" Title="Can I ask a duplicate question based on requesting new information?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7438" CreationDate="2015-10-22T04:09:59.860" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have a few different options&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Bounty&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the preferred way: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/set-bounties&quot;&gt;post a bounty&lt;/a&gt; on the older question. This automatically bumps the question to the top of the front page and puts it in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=featured&quot;&gt;featured questions tab&lt;/a&gt;, making it much more visible and gives a little extra incentive to prospective answerers. There are a variety of bounty reasons you can choose from, and the one you pick will appear in the notice under the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xBioU.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xBioU.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would think that &lt;strong&gt;Authoritative reference&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Canonical answer&lt;/strong&gt;, or &lt;strong&gt;Improve details&lt;/strong&gt; would all be good reasons for your case. You can also (optionally) add a custom message to the bounty notice, which can be helpful for adding context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main downside here is that the ability to post a bounty is restricted to users with at least 75 rep. And, of course, that you're sacrificing some of your own hard-earned reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Chat&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't want to (or can't) post a bounty, you can also ask the Lovecraftian monstrosity that dwells in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley chatroom&lt;/a&gt;. If you ask at a time when many people are active (which seems to be most of the time, though as an irregular denizen I'm not an authority), there's a good chance that somebody in there will be able to find the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Just Ask It&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a slightly more controversial option, and I wouldn't advise it in this case, but I should point out that it's not &lt;em&gt;necessarily&lt;/em&gt; a bad thing to ask a question that's been asked before. We do occasionally &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4744/should-we-always-close-the-newer-question-as-the-duplicate&quot;&gt;close older questions as duplicates of newer ones&lt;/a&gt;, but it's somewhat less common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, you should only take this option under two circumstances:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your version of the question is demonstrably better-quality&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your question is a superset of the older question (but be careful it's not Too Broad)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In either case, you may have to fight hard to not have your question be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T01:38:26.073" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2015-10-22T10:07:06.710" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;My username is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/13716/user13267&quot;&gt;user13267&lt;/a&gt; because it has &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.numberempire.com/13267&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;these properties&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I promise I didn't just google it up&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13716" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-10-22T10:07:06.710" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2015-10-22T14:28:42.177" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually hadn't really realized I was using my actual name for my display name, so I modified it to my preferred handle :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Originally, I went around the Internet as Broseidon, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=285&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;which I stole&lt;/a&gt;. However, that name was reletively common and I need to be a special snowflake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I took &lt;a href=&quot;http://cnc.wikia.com/wiki/Alexander_Romanov&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Premier Romanov&lt;/a&gt; from Red Alert 2 and added a B to make it BROmanov. Because I'm very clever. I grew up with the &lt;em&gt;Command and Conquer&lt;/em&gt; series, so it was only natural.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After 3-4 years of having my own unique handle, I've found it stolen by another steam user and now I weep every night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38299" LastEditorUserId="21267" LastEditDate="2016-12-02T04:23:27.280" LastActivityDate="2016-12-02T04:23:27.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7422" CreationDate="2015-10-22T17:46:33.973" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Is Sci-Fi &lt;strong&gt;less strict&lt;/strong&gt; in their research requirements?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. I'm too lazy to go find actual examples, but StackOverflow is choke full of obvious RTFM/LMGTFU obvious questions, that are upvoted into stratosphere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a matter of fact, many sites suffer from this, for similar reasons. If you google &quot;meta+stackexchange+bikeshedding&quot; you will see examples from tons of SE sites struggling with this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, of the 2 questions you listed as examples, one has a cumulative score of &quot;-2&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What are those mythical reasons?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bikeshedding &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/31253/the-bikeshed-problem-and-stack-exchange&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.daedtech.com/bike-sheds-ducks-and-nuclear-reactors&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson&amp;#39;s_law_of_triviality&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;[3]&lt;/a&gt; effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;people tend to spend disproportional amount of time and effort (including granting upvotes and liking) things which are trivial **and thus easily comprehended)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are tons of people who aren't experts and enjoy trivial questions; whereas very few experts in comparison who dislike trivia.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is significantly worsened by &lt;strong&gt;Hot Network Questions list&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As discussed ad nauseum on Meta.SE (e.g. my &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/238420/prevent-questions-on-hot-list-from-being-upvoted-by-casual-visitors-only-rep-is&quot;&gt;own question&lt;/a&gt;), people tend to see a trivial question (and trivial questions tend to become hot), visit the site from a larger site (e.g. SO), get 100rep association bonus. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;First, as casual visitors, they create a perfect bikeshedding hurricane of people who aren't necesarily experts (and thus prone to bikeshedding) AND have enough rep to upvote&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Second, they do NOT get enough rep to downvote (needs 125, not 100) and thus we don't get corresponding # of downvotes to offset the upvoters.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.757" LastActivityDate="2015-10-22T17:46:33.973" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7444" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7445" CreationDate="2015-10-23T07:16:50.977" Score="3" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;In all other (at least the ones that I have checked: biology, chemistry, stackoverflow, math, ELU, TeX, Academia and the beta sites) the user profile page follows the new format. When you click your own profile, the default is the activity tab which is missing in [scifi.se]. Also, the layout is still the old format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am using a dark gtk theme (Mona 3.0) on an XFCE desktop (fedora-21/22). With other sites the comment boxes and question/answer boxes are insensitive to the theme. But with [scifi.se] the font is white which makes it invisible in white background. There is a fix for this which prevents dark themes to override text-boxes in the websites, which I did implement and the problem is solved. I guess, some CSS implementation makes other se sites insensitive to the gtk theme. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is the layout/configuration of [scifi.se] still in the old format? Are we expecting an update soon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54607" LastEditorUserId="54607" LastEditDate="2015-10-23T07:22:54.120" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T07:22:54.120" Title="Why is the site layout of scifi.se different from other se sites?" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-10-29T21:01:59.400" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7444" CreationDate="2015-10-23T07:21:38.117" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The other sites all have their updated base CSS. List of sites with and without it is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/253359/list-of-communities-with-base-css-updates-completed&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; (hint SFF isn't actually the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; site without the update).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is probably what's causing the issue. Fortunately, all sites (other than Area 51) are slated to get updates to their CSS soon... and there's only eight remaining, so, hopefully SFF will get the update and the new user pages soon, which should fix this issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41668" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T07:21:38.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7446" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-23T14:58:56.693" Score="36" ViewCount="853" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2937/story-where-the-number-3-is-the-monster&quot;&gt;Story where the number 3 is the monster?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incredibly this question was answered. I want to feature this question as a Question of the Week blog post, so I'd like to get some stories about the many many people who tried to answer this question. If nothing else, it would be nice to have a list of prominent users who all made an attempt. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;UPDATE&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The blog story has been posted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/10/story-where-the-number-3-is-the-monster-finally-answered/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Story where the number 3 is the monster: Finally Answered!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2016-04-17T16:30:27.257" Title="The Number 3 question has been answered, please share your story" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7446" CreationDate="2015-10-23T15:25:43.880" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried when I first joined the site, but to no avail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to atone for my dismal failure I've contented myself with helping Kyle Hale by editing in some quotes from the story itself (and a nice picture) and offering a chunky bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T15:25:43.880" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7446" CreationDate="2015-10-23T22:18:08.163" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The description had me completely fooled. I thought it was kiddie-lit; it never occurred to me that it was a story published in a regular science fiction magazine. That saved me from ransacking my collection for it, which would not have done any good. I reposted the question in the Children's section of the BookSleuth Forum at Abebooks.com, but got no response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T22:18:08.163" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7446" CreationDate="2015-10-25T04:25:24.503" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had been working on the question on and off for the past eight months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I went to great lengths to answer this, even checking leads that had been largely dismissed.  Apart from the obvious search attempts, here are some specific things I tried.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Consulting with R.L. Stine&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP mentioned,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't think it was R.L. Stine, but I cannot remember the author.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wanted to be absolutely sure, given the R.L.-Stine-esque nature of the description, and so in July of this year I contacted him directly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;@RL_Stine&lt;/strong&gt; Quick question, if you have a moment. There is a now-famous question on a few forums regarding a horror story...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;@RL_Stine&lt;/strong&gt; According to the asker, the narrator is a boy who was scared only twice a day for exactly one minute, when the clock read 3:33.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;@RL_Stine&lt;/strong&gt; At those times, the 3's would be powerful enough to leave the clock and run around terrifying the boy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;@RL_Stine&lt;/strong&gt; The asker suggested it might have been one of your stories. Ring any bells?  Thanks for your time and have a nice day. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;@RemnantOfPraxis&lt;/strong&gt; Not my story.  Let me know if you find out whose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;https://mobile.twitter.com/RemnantOfPraxis/status/619916648271736832&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Original&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was impressed that Stine responded within an hour.  At least that definitively ruled out a large chunk of horror literature.  (Of course, I have updated Stine regarding the solution to the mystery.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Visit to a horror specialist&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In August of this year, I had a two-hour meeting with a librarian in the city I currently live in, who curates the library system's horror collection.  He has an encyclopedic knowledge of 20th Century horror short stories, but couldn't think of a &amp;quot;3:33&amp;quot; short story that matched this one in both content and time period.  The ones he brought up that were closest in content and time where ones that I had already ruled out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interestingly, he did ask me if it could have been a number other than 3, as there are plenty of horror stories involving clocks and various times.  However, I mistakenly vetoed this, asserting that the OP must have gotten that main detail right!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To repent for my mistake, I, along with @MikeEdenfield, reached out to @Zompz (the OP, who hadn't been active on the site in about a year) to let her know that the mystery had been solved by our new expert sleuth, @KyleHale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T16:58:18.330" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7450" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7452" CreationDate="2015-10-25T05:41:50.463" Score="6" ViewCount="337" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why was this question closed as off-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/85643/is-the-depiction-of-the-movement-of-stars-at-warp-in-star-trek-accurate?rq=1&quot;&gt;Are those stars moving past the window when the ship is at warp?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems to me it's as relevant as any scale question, and is answerable, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21254" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2015-10-25T09:10:07.033" Title="Why was this question (about Star Trek starfield movements being literal or not) closed?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7450" CreationDate="2015-10-25T06:17:02.963" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should be reopened.   The question is asking if there is an in-universe explanation for the depiction.   That is in bounds. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastActivityDate="2015-10-25T06:17:02.963" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7450" CreationDate="2015-10-25T09:08:41.647" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've amended the title to make it a little clearer what the OP is driving at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Is the depiction of the movement of stars at warp in Star Trek&#xA;  accurate?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Are those stars moving past the window when the ship is at warp?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully that should make it simpler for users to understand that the question &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; on-topic and get it reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-10-25T09:08:41.647" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7281" CreationDate="2015-10-25T12:35:55.863" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do spend very significant time on that site. Since I largely ceased my activity on StackOverflow it has become my number one SE site I visit everyday. I usually enjoy its questions and answers very much and care for the overall well-being of that site to a large degree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reasons I prefer it over this site are on the one hand grounded in the fact that I'm not much of an avid reader and not so much into science-fiction or fantasy alone but into movies and TV in general. Besides that I'm usually not so much concerned about secondary &quot;canon&quot; or the finer intricacies of the surrounding universe in general but rather about the primary cinematic material, its story and motifs. I just don't care that much about questions like &lt;em&gt;&quot;Has there ever been a mention of Picard listening to the Beatles in Star Trek canon?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;&quot;What would happen if a mud-blood apparates directly into the Ministry of Magic's council chamber?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But since those two sites have inherently different approaches to questions and answers, as a natural consequence of being different SE sites with inherently different scopes and underlying philosophies, it would seem rather futile to reason about the quality of that site's questions and answers by employing the standards and viewpoints of a completely different site. For them and their approach many of the questions/answers seem perfectly fit and high-quality, even if there are naturally of course also many low-quality questions/answers as on any other SE site (especially since they seem to have quite a big problem with identification questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of those content/scope/philosophy-wise differences, my years-long dedication to that other site and my contribution to its community and site history, I feel much more at home there and would ask every question first and foremost there, except if it was solely about written material (which I rarely have a question about, though).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23386" LastEditorUserId="23386" LastEditDate="2015-12-27T23:29:45.090" LastActivityDate="2015-12-27T23:29:45.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7454" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-26T02:11:35.943" Score="1" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;If an editor has enough rep and badges, the badges and their count starts getting behind OP's flair rectangle: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8caOO.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8caOO.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This problem can be seen in this post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/105975/do-in-universe-characters-look-down-on-hufflepuff&quot;&gt;Do in-universe characters look down on Hufflepuff?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the second glance OP's flair can get overlapped by other elements like the right widget column:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zfCgc.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zfCgc.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bo0xR.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bo0xR.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9202" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T02:16:41.027" Title="User flair is getting overlapped by other various elements on the page" Tags="|bug|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2015-10-26T02:27:04.427" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7281" CreationDate="2015-10-26T21:30:39.477" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tend to &lt;strong&gt;read&lt;/strong&gt; a lot over there. Funnily enough, I look for the SF&amp;amp;F related posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes when I see a question I'm interested in, and can answer, I do. But for the most part I'm more of a user than a contributor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've found that they get a lot of traffic as well as a lot of broad genres, which is actually quite fun to see, although I do get a little bit jealous of their popularity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've found some tremendously good users there, some of which have become moderators and are doing an excellent job. Their posts are really fun to read as well as informative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site and the posts are quite neat for the most part, and that seems to be mainly due to the excellent moderation (both elected and high-rep users).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said all of that, I'm more than happy to camp right here where I'm at. This is where I started. This is where I belong. This' where my peeps at!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T21:30:39.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7456" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7458" CreationDate="2015-10-27T02:59:18.473" Score="3" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/105371/21267&quot;&gt;Which Game of Thrones book characters are missing from the HBO series?&lt;/a&gt; was closed as &lt;strong&gt;too-broad&lt;/strong&gt;, and rightfully so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has since been edited, and in my opinion is not too broad any more. It in fact has an excellent answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should this question be re-opened?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2015-10-27T19:08:05.917" Title="Re-open the Game of Thrones missing characters question (105371)" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7364" CreationDate="2015-10-27T17:24:16.357" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Mike Edenfield's answer involving the in-universe/out-of-universe one is a good one, but I think there are some ambiguities in the definition and I also disagree with some of the examples given, so I'd like to suggest a slight modification of this idea:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Questions that require taking into account as much relevant canon in-universe information as possible, and then combining it with (or contrasting it to) real-world science to try to give an answer about how things work in-universe, are acceptable; questions that are more focused on how things might work in the real world rather than how we should understand them to work in-universe, particularly questions that require us to selectively ignore bits of canon information because they aren't scientifically plausible, are off-topic.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example of the latter, if someone asked &quot;how might we build a Star Trek style faster-than-light warp drive in real life&quot;, but they wanted us to ignore all the things that have been said on the show about the warp drive relying on &quot;subspace fields&quot;, since there is nothing that seems to resemble &quot;subspace&quot; in real-world physics, that would be too much of an out-of-universe question.*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, Mike Edenfield gave the answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/96156/how-much-power-does-the-martian-heat-ray-output&quot;&gt;How much power does the Martian heat ray output?&lt;/a&gt; as an example of an out-of-universe question, but I think according to this standard it could actually be acceptable, provided we are asked to take into account all the scenes that might be relevant to judging its destructive power, and then combining that with &quot;only scientific information that is either explained, demonstrated, or at least not-contradicted by what can be seen within the work&quot; (one of Mike's criteria for acceptable questions). A similar example would be the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/90193/what-is-the-wattage-of-the-death-stars-superlaser&quot;&gt;What is the wattage of the Death Star's superlaser?&lt;/a&gt;, which wasn't closed for being off-topic (though it was closed as a duplicate since the answer was already given incidentally in the answer to another question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think it should be acceptable to just ask if a given description of some fictional technology or science could be understood in terms of real scientific ideas or engineering plans, as long as the full description is taken into account rather than being selective about what in-universe information to use. An example would be the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/82251/accelerated-decrepitude-due-to-telomere-length-in-blade-runner&quot;&gt;Accelerated decrepitude due to telomere length in Blade Runner&lt;/a&gt;, which asks us to consider the whole of a technical discussion about how to stop the accelerated aging of replicants, and asks if it could possibly jibe with real-world scientific ideas about aging being due to shortening telomere length. The focus in such questions should be about how the laws of nature work in-universe, whether certain real-world facts are being referred to by the characters (and thus demonstrating these facts hold in the fictional world as well) or if we have to assume they're talking about scientific findings specific to the fictional world. The focus should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be on asking whether the creators of the fictional world made a scientific error, or asking for detailed information on how things &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; work as beyond the information necessary to conclude they don't work that way in-universe. As Mike Edenfield suggested in the comments, a question of the type &quot;Does X work in movie Y the same way X works in the real world?&quot; is OK, likewise &quot;Does X work in movie Y the same way X would be theorized to work in the real world, according to modern scientific theories&quot; (for purely theoretical examples like Star Trek warp drive vs. the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Alcubierre drive&lt;/a&gt;), but a question of the type &quot;Is Thing X from Movie Y really possible?&quot; is not. It can be a subtle distinction, but I would favor erring on the side of a &quot;charitable&quot; interpretation of ambiguous questions, or suggesting edits to make it a more clearly in-universe question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*There should perhaps be some slight amount of wiggle room on the prohibition on &quot;selectively discarding&quot; in-universe information--the dependence of warp drive on subspace fields was established consistently over and over again in the Trek franchise, but in a question about a Trek technology, it might be acceptable to ignore a single odd statement about the technology made by a character in one episode of &lt;em&gt;Voyager&lt;/em&gt;, for example. Likewise, when there seem to be internal inconsistencies in depictions of a given science or technology in the canon of a given fictional universe, it should be acceptable to just pick whichever side of the inconsistency seems to have more weight behind it, seems more favored by fans, or seems more scientifically plausible. Finally, there might be reasonable restrictions the questioner wants on what they want to consider &quot;canon&quot;, for example someone might want to ask a question based only on how a technology was presented in the Star Wars films, ignoring books and TV series and other spinoffs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22250" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T16:42:31.213" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7456" CreationDate="2015-10-27T19:08:05.917" Score="2" Body="&lt;h1&gt;The question has been re-opened by the community.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For details, see the question's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/105371/revisions&quot;&gt;revision history&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2015-10-27T19:08:05.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7315" CreationDate="2015-10-28T02:48:49.077" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just read this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't been active lately because of all the bs crap that's been going on around here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously from what he posted he was asked to step down. I've had many run ins with Richard, probably as many as anybody else. I never reported them I just dealt with it and decided to get along with him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was helpful in several situations and I know he did A LOT of mod work on here that others were not doing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With all of that being said, my biggest problem is that he was elected, and unless he did something egregious (racist, bigoted, direct violation of the rules, or multiple minor violations of the rules while ignoring warnings), he should only be removed by the community not by the powers that be, that's crazy. It makes me not want to vote for anything around here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if he did do something that egregious such as racism, or major rule violations, etc. then we as a community should know about it. But as it stands all that happened is an unnamed person or several people filed some undisclosed complaint and an entire communities elected official was removed thereby nullifying their votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whatever power hungry crap people accused Richard of, it's the same exact thing in terms of how he was removed (forced to resign). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40599" LastActivityDate="2015-10-28T02:48:49.077" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7460" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-28T03:36:55.763" Score="-14" ViewCount="299" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is what I wrote, it was in regards to an accusatory comment made to me which was so insulting, that I responded thus, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I knew you'd come up with some kind of sophomoric response like that, and since my ancestors were thrown in those pits not yours don't lecture me about it. I wasn't comparing his suspension, I was talking about the broad sweeping statement you made that was almost offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was in reference to a holocaust comment. Was that comment inappropriate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I have been blocked by a mod/cm for that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And why don't I get to know which mod/cm blocked me after that comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40599" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2015-10-28T04:13:43.327" LastActivityDate="2015-10-28T14:45:17.137" Title="Is this comment inappropriate?" Tags="|support|chat|moderators|moderation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7460" CreationDate="2015-10-28T04:13:39.867" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes, that was inappropriate&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/faq#nice&quot;&gt;Chat FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do I have to be nice?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yes. We expect community members to treat each other with respect … even when they don't deserve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;Rule Number 1, the Be Nice Policy&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rudeness and belittling language are not okay.&lt;/strong&gt; Your tone should match the way you'd talk in person with someone you respect and whom you want to respect you. &lt;em&gt;If you don't have time to say something politely, just leave it for someone who does.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Be welcoming, be patient, and assume good intentions.&lt;/strong&gt; Don't expect new users to know all the rules — they don't. And be patient while they learn. If you're here for help, make it as easy as possible for others to help you. Everyone here is volunteering, and no one responds well to &lt;em&gt;demands&lt;/em&gt; for help.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't be a jerk.&lt;/strong&gt; These are just a few examples. If you see them, flag them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Name-calling.&lt;/strong&gt; Focus on the post, not the person. That includes terms that feel personal even when they're applied to posts (like &quot;lazy&quot;, &quot;ignorant&quot;, or &quot;whiny&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bigotry of any kind.&lt;/strong&gt; Language likely to offend or alienate individuals or groups based on race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc. will not be tolerated. At all. (Those are &lt;em&gt;just a few examples&lt;/em&gt;; when in doubt, just don't.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Inappropriate language or attention.&lt;/strong&gt; Avoid vulgar terms and anything sexually suggestive. Also, this is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a dating site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harassment and bullying.&lt;/strong&gt; If you see a hostile interaction, flag it. If it keeps up, disengage — we'll handle it. If something needs &lt;em&gt;staff&lt;/em&gt; attention, you can use the contact us link at the bottom of every page.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And now my two cents: It's &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;totally fine that you were offended.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; You have every right to be offended by comments made by another user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;However&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, the way you chose to express that was inappropriate. If you're offended, the proper course of action is to flag the offensive post, not to lash out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Responding to an offensive comment&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; with a confrontational comment of your own benefits nobody. At best, the other person doesn't respond and you're just sitting there fuming. At worst, they respond with another confrontational comment, and on and on we go. Nobody wins, everyone loses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why can't you see who suspended you?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Kevin says in a comment on the question, you were suspended automatically. Your &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qYQNV.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;chat profile&lt;/a&gt; looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qYQNV.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qYQNV.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/155103/banned-from-chat-for-apparently-inappropriate-content&quot;&gt;animuson says on Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;This user has been &lt;strong&gt;automatically&lt;/strong&gt; suspended for posting inappropriate content and cannot chat for 1 hour 2 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The ban was triggered by the links simply being deleted due to flags, no one user or even a moderator was involved in suspending you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The specific of that linked question don't really apply here, but the general guideline is what's important: multiple users approve the flag, you get auto-suspended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding learning who &lt;em&gt;handled&lt;/em&gt; the flag, Shog9 explains in a comment on this post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Trivia: there are actually no tools that show who &lt;em&gt;handled&lt;/em&gt; a flag; employees can retrieve that information from the database manually if need-be, but it's not exactly convenient for anyone. Might be worth exposing this information to moderators at some point, but as your answer demonstrates it's generally easy enough to figure out what happened without it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; I'm not passing a judgement on the offensiveness or inoffensiveness of the other comment. JMFB was offended by it, so to him it was offensive. That's enough for my purposes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2015-10-28T14:45:17.137" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7460" CreationDate="2015-10-28T04:18:09.923" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assuming that the &quot;insulting comment&quot; made to you is the one where you were asked not to equate a 7-day SE suspension with the holocaust...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't have flagged your comment as being insulting, but it seems a bit over the top to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then the flagging system for chat rooms can be a problem.  Anyone who's reached 10k total rep (across multiple SE sites) gets flag notifications and can act on them.  So generally when something is flagged it gets dealt with instantly, but not necessarily be people who are familiar with a room, its norms, and its regulars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastActivityDate="2015-10-28T04:18:09.923" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7460" CreationDate="2015-10-28T11:06:36.130" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jason has given you a good summary of the SE rules on the matter, but what you really want to know is, of course, &lt;em&gt;who did what to whom&lt;/em&gt;, without any wrapping of bureaucratic language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not a mod, so I don't know any specifics of your case, but I can tell you what you need to know about how the suspension system works in general. (And just in case you suspect me, I wasn't involved in any of it; I'd gone to bed by the time all this happened.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;1. Someone flagged you&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comment you made in chat got flagged. &lt;strong&gt;Anybody&lt;/strong&gt; can flag - you don't need to have 10k rep or anything. If there is a rep limit, it'll be something tiny like 20 rep. Impossible to find out who, unless you're a CM: not even mods can tell at this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it was a mod who flagged you, that would have got you a 30-minute auto-suspension. If it wasn't, we move on to stage 2...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;2. The flag was validated&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming it wasn't a mod who flagged you, the flag needed validation from &lt;strong&gt;six 10k+ users (or one mod)&lt;/strong&gt; in order for you to get that 30-minute auto-suspension. That means six users with at least 10k rep network-wide, or one mod, agreed with the original flagger that your comment was inappropriate. Again, impossible to find out who, maybe even for CMs. Most of the active chat users on SFF do have more than 10k rep, so you can't even narrow the field much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry to see that you've now been suspended on the main site. Without attempting to justify this action, I can't say I'm surprised. SE doesn't tolerate people expressing their feelings in certain ways, and if someone is saying things the moderators don't want to hear, it's always possible for them to suspend you. Suspensions can be reversed, but that happens only very rarely. You will have received a suspension message from either one of the site mods or a CM, to which you can reply if you want to appeal the suspension (or just tell them what you think of them). I wouldn't recommend it though - it's only for a day, and no action is likely to be taken that quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've already expressed displeasure with the way this site is run and decisions that have been made by some high-up people. Receiving this suspension must have only exacerbated your annoyance. I'm sorry that you have to go through this. I hope we'll still see you around - there are plenty of us on SFF.SE who like and respect you - but I'll understand if you decide not to participate on SE any more after this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2015-10-28T11:06:36.130" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7464" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7466" CreationDate="2015-10-28T15:30:32.760" Score="3" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just noticed this on the main page. No hand-drawn circle; let's see if you can pick it out:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OixG7.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OixG7.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This actually looks rather similar to the styling on Stack Overflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HrqKf.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HrqKf.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="4257" LastEditDate="2015-10-28T17:12:12.523" LastActivityDate="2015-10-28T17:13:00.433" Title="Accepted answer styling is a little more vibrant than usual" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7465" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11169" CreationDate="2015-10-28T17:09:00.533" Score="6" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was a little surprised to see this screen when I attempted to switch to Meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cPVUK.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cPVUK.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that this was already commented on (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4903/15672&quot;&gt;SSL Certificate not valid here&lt;/a&gt;), but that was about a year ago. Has no progress been made on this issue, or is this a regression?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15672" LastEditorUserId="16926" LastEditDate="2017-08-07T18:28:33.437" LastActivityDate="2017-08-07T18:28:33.437" Title="SSL Certificate Still Invalid" Tags="|bug|status-completed|meta|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7464" CreationDate="2015-10-28T17:13:00.433" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry about that. I was fixing accepted answer indicators in the linked/related questions in the sidebar, and messed up the front page in the process because I am a genius.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4257" LastActivityDate="2015-10-28T17:13:00.433" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7465" CreationDate="2015-10-28T17:27:12.617" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;At least as of right now, visiting meta sites over SSL is &quot;not supported&quot;. The most recent information I could find on meta.SE was from last year, and there doesn't appear to have been any change since then. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The technical problem is the way the domain names are formatted breaks the wildcard SSL certificates. The certificate is for &lt;code&gt;*.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt;, which matches &lt;code&gt;site.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; but doesn't match &lt;code&gt;meta.site.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to make things work they need to restructure the domain names so that, e.g.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;meta.scifi.stackexchange.com ===&amp;gt; scifi.meta.stackexchange.com&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once that's done, a certificate for &lt;code&gt;*.meta.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; will work, but I assume that's not a trivial change so they haven't gotten around to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/116782/better-https-support-for-stack-exchange-sites&quot;&gt;Better HTTPS support for Stack Exchange sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/216384/untrusted-connection-when-visiting-meta-stack-exchange-sites&quot;&gt;Untrusted connection when visiting per-site meta over SSL&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://nickcraver.com/blog/2013/04/23/stackoverflow-com-the-road-to-ssl/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This blog post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2015-10-28T20:46:04.160" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7469" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7470" CreationDate="2015-10-29T18:42:01.527" Score="20" ViewCount="810" Body="&lt;p&gt;Himarm was suspended today after making a joke that he targeted another user with 100 downvotes.  He was obviously kidding, because his profile shows that he has made a total of 107 downvotes in two years on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fiM1v.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fiM1v.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless we're supposed to believe that all but 7 of those votes were for the same person, he clearly didn't target anyone.  Shouldn't a suspension for voting irregularities be based on evidence more compelling than a silly comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He posted &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/25035638#25035638&quot;&gt;screenshots&lt;/a&gt; of his downvote history, which seems to confirm that he hasn't targeted anyone:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yXaWv.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yXaWv.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this history, the user he jokingly claimed to have targeted was downvoted not 100 times, but only &lt;strong&gt;eight to ten times&lt;/strong&gt;.  The history shows 73 total downvotes, presumably because it omits deleted questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NagvD.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NagvD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="44025" LastEditDate="2015-10-29T19:14:04.080" LastActivityDate="2015-11-08T20:44:04.323" Title="Is a facetious comment sufficient evidence of voting irregularities to justify a suspension?" Tags="|discussion|voting|users|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7469" CreationDate="2015-10-29T18:55:34.807" Score="28" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Shouldn't a suspension for voting irregularities be based on evidence more compelling than a silly comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We investigated this user's history in response to their statements in chat. We won't discuss the specifics of what we found but rest assured, there's more going on here than meets the eye, and the appropriate action was taken. The user can engage in discussion of what took place themselves if they wish, after they return. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="19253" LastEditDate="2015-10-29T19:42:07.530" LastActivityDate="2015-10-29T19:42:07.530" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7471" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7472" CreationDate="2015-10-29T19:57:53.760" Score="3" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/105080/do-we-know-how-clara-will-leave-series-9-of-doctor-who&quot;&gt;Do we know how Clara will leave series 9 of Doctor Who?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;be re-opened? The closed reason is simply not true:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer includes &lt;em&gt;&quot;facts, references, or specific expertise.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; It is well researched and interesting as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please vote to re-open or post a corrective answer if I have misunderstood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2015-10-29T20:19:00.650" Title="Re-open the question on Clara's death?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7471" CreationDate="2015-10-29T20:07:47.333" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, since Clara's departure is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5188/1027&quot;&gt;future work&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admittedly, I'm behind on &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt;, but my understanding is she's leaving at the end of the season, which is not yet upon us.  If she's left in the past week or two, let me know, and I'll reopen that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2015-10-29T20:07:47.333" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1289" CreationDate="2015-10-29T21:33:11.353" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meme:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394/rand-althor&quot;&gt;rand al'thor&lt;/a&gt;'s (or anyone else's) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/102209/are-there-donkeys-in-the-star-wars-universe&quot;&gt;donkey of shame&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Originator:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/44025/wad-cheber&quot;&gt;Wad Cheber&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cultural height:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/102000/how-to-pronounce-mos-eisley&quot;&gt;September 2015 to present&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Background:  rand made the mistake of admitting that he has never seen any of the  &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; movies.  Therefore, he was forced to ride a donkey backwards into the desert with a bucket on his head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most commonly used by saying &amp;quot;GET ON THE DONKEY&amp;quot; whenever he mentions &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WcQDDm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WcQDDm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sgUsOm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sgUsOm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Update:  This meme has expanded in recent months, and can now be used in reference to anyone who hasn't seen/read a wildly successful and well known work of science fiction/fantasy.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other such franchises include &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Back to the Future&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Terminator&lt;/em&gt;, etc.  It should be used primarily with reference for whichever format(s) of such franchises are extremely popular:  eg, movies for &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Terminator&lt;/em&gt;, and BTTF; movies and books for HP and LotR;  movies and TV for &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;; etc&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;em&gt;I thought I had a&lt;/em&gt; Hunger Games &lt;em&gt;donkey, but chat came to the consensus that HG isn't big enough, and hasn't been around for long enough, to warrant its own donkey.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update #2:&lt;/strong&gt; On May 23, 2016 rand al'thor said this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7nwCX.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7nwCX.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It did not go unnoticed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/F0tckm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/F0tckm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/loF1Xm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/loF1Xm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-05-24T00:49:11.470" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7474" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7475" CreationDate="2015-10-30T12:53:56.783" Score="2" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why are these two questions linked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/90940/what-did-aragorn-do-with-his-sword-between-the-battles-of-pelennor-fields-and-mo?lq=1&quot;&gt;LOTR related question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/105102/where-is-hill-valley?lq=1&quot;&gt;Back to the Future related question&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it just me or they shouldn't they be linked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53996" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2015-10-30T13:02:48.770" Title="Why is this Back to the Future related question linked with this Lord of the Rings related question?" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7474" CreationDate="2015-10-30T13:00:37.277" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;All it takes is one link &lt;em&gt;anywhere&lt;/em&gt; on either page to link two questions. The link could be in the question, any answer or even any comment. And the link itself can link to either the question, any answer or any comment on the other page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case it is due to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/105103/143&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; by @randal'thor which ends with this paragraph:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/90940/what-did-aragorn-do-with-his-sword-between-the-battles-of-pelennor-fields-and-mo/90943#90943&quot;&gt;pedants&lt;/a&gt;: under the rules in effect in 1989 (after the 1986 enactment of PL 99-359 to amend the Uniform Time Act, but before the Energy Policy Act of 2005 - see &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_the_United_States#History_of_DST_in_the_United_States&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;), US Daylight Saving Time &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; have ended on the last Sunday in October instead of the first Sunday in November. In 2015 this is 25 October, which is still after 21 October, so Daylight Saving Time would still have been in effect and the answer remains the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;pedants&lt;/strong&gt; word links to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/90940/what-did-aragorn-do-with-his-sword-between-the-battles-of-pelennor-fields-and-mo/90943#90943&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2015-10-30T13:00:37.277" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2015-10-31T03:14:29.450" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The SS part of my username is the abbreviation of my real name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The numeric part &lt;code&gt;3.1415926535897932384626433&lt;/code&gt; is the value of ratio of circumference to diameter of a circle. In reality, this value is infinitely long, but I had to trim it down to 25 post-decimal digits because of the limitation of Stack Exchange. I picked this ratio because I was always interested in it. Also, there's a supernatural kind of thing attached with it. When I was kid, I realized I already knew certain things like speed of light is fastest. The value of ratio of circumference to diameter of a circle being infinitely long was also among them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The entire username signifies that the mystery of SS is infinitely long just like ratio of circumference... oh, leave it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2015-10-31T03:14:29.450" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7477" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-31T10:55:33.553" Score="-3" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&amp;amp;q=easter%20egg&quot;&gt;multiple questions&lt;/a&gt; about &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg_(media)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Easter Eggs&lt;/a&gt;. I think we should have: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/easter-egg&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;easter-egg&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;easter-egg&lt;/a&gt;. Any objections?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2015-10-31T12:42:51.020" Title="Should we have an Easter Egg tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7477" CreationDate="2015-10-31T12:42:51.020" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22easter+egg%22+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;This is a better search&lt;/a&gt; since it references questions only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of the 15 questions found, 14 appear to relate to movie/TV &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg_(media)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;easter eggs&lt;/a&gt; but only 7 actually indicate the presence of a &lt;em&gt;known&lt;/em&gt; easter egg. The others simply use 'easter egg' as a throwaway term to mean &quot;deleted scene&quot; or as an example of an alternate source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On that basis, I would say that the proposed tag would be almost wholly useless. That being said, there's absolutely nothing to stop you adding it, but I doubt it'll prove of any worth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-10-31T12:42:51.020" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7479" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-31T19:41:32.167" Score="2" ViewCount="1457" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was recently looking at my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/users/4859979/rand-althor?tab=activity&quot;&gt;network-wide activity history&lt;/a&gt; and noticed the following anomaly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3PDX7.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3PDX7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;looks good&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When reviewing an item on the Low Quality Posts review queue, the options are &quot;Delete&quot; / &quot;Recommend Deletion&quot;, &quot;Edit&quot;, &quot;Skip&quot;, and &quot;Looks &lt;strong&gt;OK&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;. Indeed, when I clicked on the relevant review item, I found the &quot;Looks OK&quot; terminology is used on-site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dg2Bx.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dg2Bx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;looks ok&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So which is it: &quot;Looks Good&quot; or &quot;Looks OK&quot;? Is this a bug in the syncing between SFF and the SE network, or what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(For the record, I think &quot;Looks OK&quot; is better, since it doesn't necessarily mean &lt;em&gt;this is a good answer, +1&lt;/em&gt;: it just means &lt;em&gt;this isn't so terrible that it should be deleted; it's OK&lt;/em&gt;.)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2015-10-31T19:41:32.167" Title="&quot;Looks OK&quot; or &quot;Looks Good&quot;?" Tags="|bug|review-queue|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7480" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7484" CreationDate="2015-10-31T19:48:36.850" Score="0" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;(aka: Redacted Stack is too redacted!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the main users page, the user Redacted Stack (formerly Major Stackings) has a profile picture which is mainly a solid grey block:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gThrS.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gThrS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;grey block&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when I hover over his picture, the blowup mini-bio has a real picture:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DzzKM.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DzzKM.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;blowup&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which also appears on his actual profile page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/acVH3.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/acVH3.png&quot; alt=&quot;profile page&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this some sort of bug? I suspect not, since it's happening to him and no other user. Is it possible to 'redact' one's profile picture in this way, or to have two pictures, one for one's actual profile page and one to appear as a thumbnail on the main users page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2015-11-01T00:00:30.493" Title="Profile picture not displaying properly?" Tags="|support|profile-page|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7481" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7482" CreationDate="2015-10-31T19:54:49.750" Score="2" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of my questions has just been bumped onto the front page by the Community bot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/B2djW.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/B2djW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;modified&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the revision histories of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/103173/revisions&quot;&gt;the question&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/104142/revisions&quot;&gt;its sole answer&lt;/a&gt; (no deleted answers) show no activity since several weeks ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What modification was made by the Community bot?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2015-10-31T20:03:20.137" Title="What does it mean when the Community bot modifies my question?" Tags="|support|editing|community|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ClosedDate="2015-11-11T13:34:32.433" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7481" CreationDate="2015-10-31T19:57:30.533" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Community bot bumps old posts with low views and no accepted answers occasionally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HCa8w.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HCa8w.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't change anything, it just wants to help you get more attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="44025" LastEditDate="2015-10-31T20:03:20.137" LastActivityDate="2015-10-31T20:03:20.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7481" CreationDate="2015-10-31T19:58:40.520" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every so often the Community user will bump old questions. Quoting from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;its user profile&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I do things like […] Randomly poke old unanswered questions every hour so they get some attention&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only “modification” this involves is to change the last modified time in the database, and attribute an empty edit to the user. It doesn’t make any substantive edits to these posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2015-10-31T19:58:40.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7480" CreationDate="2015-10-31T20:01:58.560" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like his thumbnail gravatar icon is just messed up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WvfsF.jpg?s=48&amp;amp;g=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WvfsF.jpg?s=48&amp;amp;g=1&quot; alt=&quot;Thumbnail&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WvfsF.jpg?s=48&amp;amp;g=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WvfsF.jpg?s=48&amp;amp;g=1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the small/medium/large alternatives look fine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WvfsFs.jpg?s=48&amp;amp;g=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WvfsFs.jpg?s=48&amp;amp;g=1&quot; alt=&quot;Small&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WvfsFs.jpg?s=48&amp;amp;g=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WvfsFs.jpg?s=48&amp;amp;g=1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WvfsFm.jpg?s=48&amp;amp;g=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WvfsFm.jpg?s=48&amp;amp;g=1&quot; alt=&quot;Medium&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WvfsFm.jpg?s=48&amp;amp;g=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WvfsFm.jpg?s=48&amp;amp;g=1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WvfsFl.jpg?s=48&amp;amp;g=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WvfsFl.jpg?s=48&amp;amp;g=1&quot; alt=&quot;Large&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WvfsFl.jpg?s=48&amp;amp;g=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WvfsFl.jpg?s=48&amp;amp;g=1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably just needs to update the picture again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2015-11-01T00:00:30.493" LastActivityDate="2015-11-01T00:00:30.493" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7485" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-01T11:24:42.577" Score="43" ViewCount="2210" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the past few weeks we’ve had a lot of discussion from the community about the necessity for community manager and moderator intervention. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst we value input from our community, we are also concerned that this can be detrimental if it’s about someone who has been suspended, and they cannot defend themselves. As Ana (CM) put it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;PSA: Please refrain from mentioning the names of or talking about the conduct of users who were suspended from chat &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; they've been suspended. Having people discuss your actions while you have no way to defend yourself rarely brings out the best in people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We all understand your concern over the suspensions of some members of this site, but the best outcome is when we take action before the community notices a problem.  That way no-one suffers too badly from the newly-suspended member’s behaviour. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the flip side, people coming back from suspension need to be aware that bringing up old issues &lt;em&gt;directly with people who made those comments&lt;/em&gt; will open up old wounds on both sides, and make things even more difficult for everyone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To counter this behaviour, we will be keeping a much closer eye on people causing trouble by either talking behind suspended people backs, or bringing up old issues. In either case, you should contact the moderators and the community managers by flagging whatever behaviour you have issue with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And don’t forget to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;be nice&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T04:19:17.800" Title="Unhelpful discussion around suspensions" Tags="|discussion|chat|moderation|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7485" CreationDate="2015-11-01T12:07:26.213" Score="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I agree with the general sentiment of what you've said (e.g. not having protracted discussions about users who aren't present) the main issue is that there is a &lt;strong&gt;total lack of information emanating from the Community Managers and Community Moderators when major events occur&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is often down to the users themselves to work out what the hell is happening, usually after having discovered a substantive change in reputation or a sizeable alteration in the number of votes recorded. Natural curiosity leads people to try to determine what is going on and how/why/whether it affects them &lt;em&gt;on a personal level&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;If I can make a few suggestions;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) Users are &lt;strong&gt;not mushrooms&lt;/strong&gt;, nor are they stupid. Keeping them in the dark &lt;strong&gt;never, ever&lt;/strong&gt; helps. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) After making a major change (such as temp-banning a high rep user) perhaps you could &lt;strong&gt;make a brief statement and pin it in the chatroom&lt;/strong&gt;. Everyone can then refer to it rather than expecting users to find out on their own and then performing damage control once the speculation has reached fever-pitch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) After making a major change (such as temp-banning a high rep user), perhaps you could &lt;strong&gt;maintain some presence in the chatroom&lt;/strong&gt; to be on hand to answer questions, even if that answer is &quot;we can't talk about it&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2015-11-01T13:53:18.393" LastActivityDate="2015-11-01T13:53:18.393" CommentCount="23" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7487" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-01T15:54:16.327" Score="-12" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;a SciFi.SE user with 10k+ reputation&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;a Sci-Fi News junkie&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;interested in sharing hot buzzwords from Sci-Fi world&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can apply for SS News. I'll love to have you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2015-11-06T02:02:56.553" Title="Apply for SS News gallery chatroom" Tags="|discussion|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7488" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-01T16:44:31.337" Score="0" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just stumbled upon a question tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hp-methods-of-rationality&quot;&gt;hp-methods-of-rationality&lt;/a&gt; and I found that there are handful of questions on that tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we allow Fan Fictions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If yes, can I discuss a fan fiction told by my friend last evening? Certainly not. What are the criteria for the fan fictions to be allowed here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If no, I request the community and moderators to do some clean ups.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T20:51:28.503" Title="Do we allow Fan Fictions?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2015-11-01T17:10:06.967" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7346" CreationDate="2015-11-02T19:38:34.353" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came from StackOverflow. I've been there for several years, and one day I was reading down the hot links down the right side of the page (I had never really paid attention to the sidebar for the longest time) and saw something interesting. Star Trek, maybe? Wheel of Time? I could wish for more Heinlein discussion, but he's my favorite author, so I'm biased.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, that's how I got here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54774" LastActivityDate="2015-11-02T19:38:34.353" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7485" CreationDate="2015-11-02T22:31:44.817" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you all for the points you raised,  both Richard in his post,  and the comments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're working to improve how we handle these unfortunate situations, and this feed back is very helpful in this process. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2015-11-02T22:31:44.817" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7491" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7493" CreationDate="2015-11-03T01:36:52.137" Score="14" ViewCount="404" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/106700/53771&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; and in the body I specifically said that I'm not looking for a list. The first comment said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is an interesting question, but requests for lists of works are off-topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I responded in the comments to the person saying that I specifically stated I don't want a list of works. I also edited my question to make the statement that I'm not looking for a list bold. That didn't stop my question for being closed as off-topic because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Requests for lists of works or recommendations are off-topic &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A helpful person commented that if I put the word &quot;First&quot; into my question it would be totally on topic.  &lt;strong&gt;Why do I have to put &quot;first&quot; in my question if I only care if something happened?&lt;/strong&gt; Similarly there was mostly well received question about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/106169/53771&quot;&gt;Star Trek and Auto-Destruct&lt;/a&gt;. That question follows the same format as mine. Both questions essentially state:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I know to a lesser degree XYZ has happened, but has anyone gone all the way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find it irksome that I have to say &quot;First&quot; when I don't even know &lt;strong&gt;if such a thing exists&lt;/strong&gt;. Especially since there are 50+ votes on a question that asks &lt;strong&gt;if such a thing exists&lt;/strong&gt;. If the answer or a comment was along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why yes I know of lots of things that apply off the top of my head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I would understand where asking for the first occurrence carries more weight. Also if the question is fundamentally flawed, or plain off topic I'm happy to delete. It just bothers me that my question was closed pretty quickly with a given reason that contradicts my intent (close reason says I'm asking for a list, and I explicitly said I don't want a list).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53771" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2015-11-05T00:43:55.563" Title="Closed as asking for a list when I said I don't want a list" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7346" CreationDate="2015-11-03T02:09:56.193" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I first found out about this site through the &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Movies &amp;amp; TV Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;, where this site and its partial overlap was brought up now and then during the early days of meta discussion. I didn't join this site until about 2 years after finding out about it, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2015-11-03T02:09:56.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7491" CreationDate="2015-11-03T02:34:04.607" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dislcaimer: I left the first comment mentioned in the Meta question, and cast the first close vote.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In hindsight, I'd rather have VTC'd as &quot;Too broad,&quot; which is a slight nuance on essentially the same idea. I initially VTC'd as a list question because I saw the bit that said &quot;Are there any...&quot; and didn't see the &quot;I'm not looking for a list.&quot; That's on me. However, I didn't retract my vote because I do believe your question should have been closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to point out right now that I genuinely &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; think you asked an interesting question; it's one I'd love to see answered, if only to satisfy my own bizarre curiosity. However, interesting is not the same as good, at least not within the SE context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, moving on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The problem with &quot;Is there a...&quot; questions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The trouble I have with questions of this type, as I mentioned in a subsequent comment on your question, is that you're inviting a situation of &quot;Me too!&quot; answers; users adding one more (legitimate) example just because they remembered one&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously most types of questions that suffer from this problem: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; and &quot;first-of&quot; questions being more notable for it. The difference is that those classes of question have objective answers; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions can (usually) be positively identified by the OP, and we don't have the technology to create an &lt;em&gt;earlier&lt;/em&gt; example of a given work. &quot;Is there a...&quot; questions usually don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can actually see the problem in the &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; question you link to; there are six answers, all of which are perfectly legitimate answers to the question. Which one is &quot;correct&quot;? All of them. How do you choose which one is correct? Maybe by quality, which is intensely subjective, or either arbitrarily or by who answered first, both of which are kind of icky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the reason you were advised to modify your question to &quot;First occurrence of...&quot;. While this may seem a little weaselly (frankly, it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a little weaselly), it does give us a reasonable way to stem the tide of &quot;Me too&quot; answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The existence of undesireable questions isn't a reason to post more undesireable questions. If you think there's a discrepancy between how your question was handled compared to another question, you should do one or both of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Post to Meta.&lt;/strong&gt; Which you did, which is good. This is a conversation we should be having.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flag or VTC the other question.&lt;/strong&gt; Obviously flag/vote in a way that's commensurate with your values. But if you feel like your question is bad and that &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; question is bad for the same reasons, flag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise, that a question is highly-upvoted does not make it a good question. As an example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6723/could-the-enterprise-beam-a-vampire-into-a-house-she-didn-t-have-permission-to-e&quot;&gt;Could the Enterprise beam a vampire into a house she didn’t have permission to enter?&lt;/a&gt;, the highest-scored closed question, has a score of 107. It was initially closed as &quot;Not constructive&quot;, but still falls foul of our &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/06/gorilla-vs-shark-not-so-fast/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Gorilla vs. Shark&quot; policies&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, we're not always as diligent as we could be. We're only human&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;, it happens. If you see one in the wild, flag it. Or go to Meta and ask about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I'm not fussed on the question, but I'm withholding my close vote for the moment. The community seems to have drawn a distinction between questions about a specific universe (&lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;, in this case), which is reasonably finite and relatively slow-growing,and the science fiction genre as a whole, which is enormous and growing rapidly. I'm not sure of my position on that yet, and personally I hope this question opens that debate up a bit more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; I realize this isn't exactly what the phrase &quot;'Me too' answer&quot; means elsewhere on the network, but I use it this way because I've seen others do so and I haven't come up with a better phrase for it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;For now...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2015-11-04T21:49:49.780" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7494" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-04T17:52:22.523" Score="-7" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems to me that this question is asking for a list: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/106820/dumbledores-abilities-that-make-him-the-greatest-wizard-of-the-age&quot;&gt;Which of Dumbledore&amp;#39;s abilities make him the greatest wizard of the age?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can this be closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T20:53:09.720" Title="Can I close this question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7494" CreationDate="2015-11-04T18:06:06.937" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lists aren't always a bad thing, especially when the list is finite, preferably fairly short, and restricted to a single universe or franchise.  This question seems to fall well within the limits of an acceptable list.  The list is short, certainly finite, absolutely limited to one universe/franchise, and there is an acceptable answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastActivityDate="2015-11-04T18:06:06.937" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7491" CreationDate="2015-11-04T21:16:53.933" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the OP on the Star Trek Non-Aborted Autodestruct question, I'm gobsmacked at the response.  I must have struck a deep chord in Star Trek aficionados.  (I have no  interest in looking at the vampire question cited by Jason Baker as one of possible comparable worthlessness.)  I'd rather get on to the list issue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of my earlier questions was closed (after two excellent answers) and a discussion that obviously gave pleasure to many 3- &amp;amp; 4-digit rep users as (paraphrasing) &quot;even if it doesn't ask for a list, it could generate a list.&quot;  See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/103090/has-science-fiction-used-the-many-worlds-interpretation-mwi-of-hugh-everett-to&quot;&gt;Has science fiction used the Many Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of Hugh Everett to address time travel?&lt;/a&gt;  All I wanted was one, one, example of a particular controversial mainstream science question being used in science fiction.  Fortunately, enough users understood that, and responded. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that questions that ask for lists should be regarded with grave suspicion.  But many questions that get more than two answers will generate a list of some sort.  So the &lt;em&gt;potential&lt;/em&gt; for generating a list -- a list that was not asked for -- should not, &lt;em&gt;by itself&lt;/em&gt;, be a reason for closing the question.  In scrolling through some questions, I see several that &quot;generated lists&quot; -- e.g., &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/105867/how-many-times-has-make-it-so-been-demanded-by-anyone-other-than-picard&quot;&gt;How many times has &amp;quot;Make It So&amp;quot; been demanded by anyone other than Picard?&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/105832/which-character-in-star-trek-has-been-played-by-the-most-actors&quot;&gt;Which character in Star Trek has been played by the most actors?&lt;/a&gt;; I could go on, but I won't. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for &quot;what was the first....&quot; being the magic phrase to get Eric's question reopened, does this mean that no one is going to answer or comment: &quot;Whosis said XYZ was the first, but PQR was really the first because [long chain of at least arguable logic]&quot;?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect that whether to close or not to close can have more to do with the egos of the people debating the point than the merits of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:  Because of the thoughtful and polite comments from Keen and Jason Baker, I withdraw my sentence about egos.     &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user48960" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2015-11-05T00:43:55.563" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7346" CreationDate="2015-11-05T00:14:21.343" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a tax question, and I couldn't find a definitive answer in &quot;Lasser&quot;.  I googled and found Personal Finance and Money SE, got an answer, and then just explored the SE. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user48960" LastActivityDate="2015-11-05T00:14:21.343" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7469" CreationDate="2015-11-05T17:27:52.230" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks everyone who attempted to help in my plight, and I apologize to everyone for my dis-honest behavior. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first the notice I received did state that I was suspended for serial down-voting which I did not believe that I had done. However, as the mods dug deeper they found a second account I had originally created to ask questions on SO, as this account was down-voted and no longer allowed to ask questions. after a time I found that I could up-vote my own questions, which I started to do on less well received answers or questions of mine across various sites. For this I apologize for padding my rep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the End my suspension on Scifi.SE is still tagged as serial down-voting, while my suspensions on Skeptics and History are due to my sock-puppet. I assume it was simply easier to leave the serial down-voting suspension with the equal penalty to un-suspending /re-suspending for alternate reasons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks again for everyone who tried to help, and sorry for my actions. -Himarm (him-arm, not hi-marm)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29220" LastEditorUserId="44025" LastEditDate="2015-11-08T20:44:04.323" LastActivityDate="2015-11-08T20:44:04.323" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7485" CreationDate="2015-11-05T17:43:08.287" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;As recently being suspended I myself was never told anything more than a canned answer, which lead to other users inquiring on my behalf. While in the end I was to blame for my suspension, my initial contact lead me to believe that I was being wrongly suspended, and after responding via the proper methods, I never received an update or personal explanation on my situation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not saying I deserved a response, but it would have alleviated some other issues, as I was only suspended from the main site, and not chat. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29220" LastEditorUserId="21267" LastEditDate="2015-11-08T20:16:37.400" LastActivityDate="2015-11-08T20:16:37.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7487" CreationDate="2015-11-06T02:02:56.553" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;A couple rebuttals:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) - I didn't hit 10K rep until over 3 years, and I have several dozen well recieved questions and answers, hundreds of edits and flags, and thousands of reviews, and a couple dozen meta posts. Yet up until a few upvotes ago, I would have been ineligible. I'm sure there are other users just as dedicated to the site who have 800 fewer rep than me. Excluding them wouldn't do any good (and would eliminate from you another possible discusser).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) The very fact someone is on this site means they're some sort of Sci-fi news junkie. Even the person who only follows one niche storyline probably has knowledge of news in thar area that you and most others don't. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) I don't know exactly what you mean by &lt;code&gt;sharing hot buzzwords&lt;/code&gt;, but I can't imagine there are enough new &quot;buzzwords&quot; to warrant its own chat room. Most secondary chat rooms here tend to stay pretty empty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As some others have pointed out, it would probably be more efficient to post the latest news in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/a&gt;. If you &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; create a separate room, it is my opinion you would be missing out on large sources of potential news and unfairly excluding the biggest segment of the SFF.SE community. &lt;strong&gt;I think it's great you want to share your love of Sci-Fi, I just think there's a better way to do it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastActivityDate="2015-11-06T02:02:56.553" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1465" CreationDate="2015-11-06T04:38:14.880" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;My core position is what &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1490/53771&quot;&gt;Martha stated&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Any != All&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer an &amp;quot;any&amp;quot; question one or two representative samples are needed to prove your point. &lt;strong&gt;One or two examples isn't a list.&lt;/strong&gt; The rest of my answer is addressing the common complaints that I've seen against &amp;quot;any&amp;quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;1. The myth that there should only be room for one canonical answer. This was expressed by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7491/closed-as-asking-for-a-list-when-i-said-i-dont-want-a-list?cb=1#comment20364_7496&quot;&gt;Jason Baker in a comment&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that questions like this tend to generate multiple equally valid answers is the issue I'm grappling with at the moment; the SE model, which is designed for questions to have one and only one correct answer, works great for programming&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO asking if there is &lt;strong&gt;any way to solve programming question X is very similar to asking is there any evidence of X occurring&lt;/strong&gt;. In programming there is often many ways to solve any given problem. The narrow focus on there being only one &lt;em&gt;right&lt;/em&gt; way to solve JavaScript problems gave rise to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/19492/301021&quot;&gt;jQuery Meme&lt;/a&gt;. Another rather silly example on DBA.SE is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://dba.stackexchange.com/q/111830/72091&quot;&gt;Alternative to Where Clause&lt;/a&gt; question. While the premise is silly, the multitude of answers shows there are lots of ways to avoid using a core language construct and still get the same output.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also SE encourages multiple answers to a degree. For example Outdoors.SE's &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/3659/the-great-outdoors&quot;&gt;Area 51 page&lt;/a&gt; states that the current average of 2.5 answers per question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay – 2.5 answers per question is good, only 1 answer per question needs some work. On a healthy site, questions receive multiple answers and the best answer is voted to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I think the driver for encouraging multiple answers is because different answers will contain slightly different information, and because of that resonate more with the OP. This is just as valid IMO for &amp;quot;any&amp;quot; questions here as it is for solutions to a programming problem. Regardless, it is clear SE encourages more than 1 answer per question. Also note that 2.5 answers per question is only &amp;quot;Okay.&amp;quot; That means a greater average than 2.5 is preferred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;2. The fear that there is ambiguity about which answer is &lt;em&gt;the best&lt;/em&gt;. This was also expressed by Jason Baker &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7493/53771&quot;&gt;in an answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;all of which are perfectly legitimate answers to the question. Which one is &amp;quot;correct&amp;quot;? All of them. How do you choose which one is correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in the Area 51 quote above votes are the community's way to recognize the better answers, and show consensus on which answer is the best. Keep in mind though that the acceptance of an answer is purposefully allowed to be subjective. For example DVK accepted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/56756/53771&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; with a -2 score instead of the answer with a +24 score. That is fully within their right. SE doesn't automatically mark the highest voted answer as accepted because they're giving the power to the OP to &lt;strong&gt;exercise their subjective judgment&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;3. There is no way to prove something doesn't exist, so these questions are at risk of being impossible to answer.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that is a possibility, but that doesn't mean that these questions should be banned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;4. We can solve points 1 and 2 by requiring people to exchange &amp;quot;any&amp;quot; for the word &amp;quot;first.&amp;quot; In a now deleted comment &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/44025/wad-cheber&quot;&gt;Wad Cheber&lt;/a&gt; (I believe) stated the currently accepted (encouraged?) workaround to appease the anti-any question crowd is to ask for &amp;quot;the first occurrence of X.&amp;quot;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately this exacerbates point 3. If I know X happened in a new story I can no longer answer an unanswered &amp;quot;first&amp;quot; question, because I have no reason to assume this was the &amp;quot;first&amp;quot; occurrence. The fear of too many answers to an &amp;quot;any&amp;quot; question drives people to convert them to &amp;quot;first&amp;quot; questions which in turn makes them seem &lt;em&gt;even more worthless&lt;/em&gt; because they can go unanswered. Also I find it irksome that I have to say &amp;quot;First&amp;quot; when I &lt;strong&gt;all I care about is if such a thing exists&lt;/strong&gt;. Finally &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7493/53771&quot;&gt;it is weaselly&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53771" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-11-06T04:43:53.023" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1289" CreationDate="2015-11-08T22:01:43.910" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme:&lt;/strong&gt; Obie, aka: Obie the Interrupting OneBox&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scope:&lt;/strong&gt; SFF Chat room (Mos Eisley)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/conversation/the-secret-origins-of-obie-the-interrupting-one-box&quot;&gt;Mike Edenfield May 27, 2015 6:58 PM&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height:&lt;/strong&gt; Through early May 2017.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; Richard was attempting to tell a knock-knock joke about an interrupting cow named Gerald, but was thwarted by the system's question feed which generates preview links to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/57286/191489&quot;&gt;questions, answers, and a number of other selected types of links&lt;/a&gt;, as it generated a preview link for a new question on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Referring to Richard's joke being interrupted, the Interrupting OneBox was briefly referred to as &quot;Gerald&quot; by Mike Edenfield, who shortly changed his mind and dubbed it &quot;Obie the Interrupting Onebox&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MwyPE.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MwyPE.png&quot; alt=&quot;the secret origins of obie&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MwyPE.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Click for bigger&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this time, even when Obie is not interrupting or ruining jokes, the Onebox previews are still referred to as &quot;Obie&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Note: If you're not clear why Obie is a funny nickname, recall that OneBox can be abbreviated as &quot;OB&quot;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Usage Examples:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I thought Obie knew how to Twitter&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=23512983#23512983&quot;&gt;Mike Edenfield&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Shut up Obie&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=24463064#24463064&quot;&gt;Richard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Slow as ever Obie&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=24481374#24481374&quot;&gt;Mike Edenfield&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Death of Obie&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of May 2017, the name &quot;Obie&quot; was retired when &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/198/poisoned-room-it-is-defunct&quot;&gt;the previous chat room&lt;/a&gt; was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10914/how-come-our-main-chat-mos-eisley-got-frozen-this-time&quot;&gt;frozen&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/58631/the-restaurant-at-the-end-of-the-universe&quot;&gt;the new room taking its place&lt;/a&gt; decided to distance itself completely from all things related to the old room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-08-07T20:08:47.233" LastActivityDate="2019-08-07T20:08:47.233" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7503" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-09T19:20:36.087" Score="6" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;We know that books,  short stories,  graphic novels,  TV shows,  movies, and &lt;strong&gt;computer games&lt;/strong&gt; are on-topic.  What about websites? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, I was wondering about the history and etymology of chakoteya.net.   But this is just an example.  Of course,  I mean questions about a website itself,  not just about the same topic as the website, where the website figures into the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastEditorUserId="3823" LastEditDate="2015-11-09T19:41:11.993" LastActivityDate="2015-11-09T19:45:18.287" Title="Are questions about SF-related websites on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7503" CreationDate="2015-11-09T19:35:35.240" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that if the question is about a topic where the answer is likely to come from SFF works' content (e.g. etymology of chakoteya.net) it's ontopic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is totally unrelated to in-universe, it's probably offtopic (e.g. history of that website seems like offtopic to me)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2015-11-09T19:35:35.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7503" CreationDate="2015-11-09T19:45:18.287" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're asking about the &lt;em&gt;site&lt;/em&gt; itself, not the site's &lt;em&gt;contents&lt;/em&gt;, it's probably off-topic. From the close dialog:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question does not appear to be about science fiction or fantasy within the scope defined in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from that link, we see types of questions that are on-topic: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Plot, character, or setting explanations&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Historical or societal context of a work&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Story identification&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Franchise/series reading or viewing order&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing here that this type of question could fall into is &lt;code&gt;behind-the-scenes and fandom information&lt;/code&gt;, but this is more referring to questions surrounding the development of the particular story or world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know much about your particular example, but unless whatever world that particular site talks about is the main source for the lore of that world, it's probably off-topic. For a slightly more detailed explanation of what constitutes &quot;behind-the-scenes&quot;, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic/356#356&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Even so, such a question would need to be constrained so as to focus on the development of the lore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/strong&gt; If your question deals with solely a website, it's probably off-topic, unless that website was used as a vehicle for the development of the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2015-11-09T19:45:18.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7485" CreationDate="2015-11-10T22:43:12.363" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please remember that I and @Praxis are room owners of Mos Eisley -- we're both here to help try and keep chat -- no matter the topic -- flowing nicely and without abuse. I am not at my computer 24-7, but if you ping me or @Praxis (by typing @Praxis or @Slytherincess into the chat window and hitting ENTER), and I hear the ping, of course I will jump into the fray and try and be helpful and to help sort out issues. I'm confident @Praxis would do the same. As Murphy's Law would have it, brou-ha-has have happened when @Praxis and I have been away from chat, but I've seen my fair share of chatroom meltdowns, and I'm fine stepping in and trying to restore order.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2015-11-10T22:43:12.363" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7508" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-11T22:12:53.090" Score="30" ViewCount="425" Body="&lt;p&gt;Editing a question on Movies &amp;amp; TV.SE, which was tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/identify-this-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;identify-this-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;identify-this-movie&lt;/a&gt; (their equivalent of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, I saw this awesome little reminder box pop up automatically, reminding OPs to include relevant information:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QluhR.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QluhR.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It asks for language, country of origin, and approximate year of release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We frequently find ourselves leaving comments on Story ID questions here on SF&amp;amp;F, asking the OP about format, book cover designs, approximate time the OP read/watched the media in question, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Shouldn't we save ourselves some hassle by adopting a similar tip box for all questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If M&amp;amp;TV did it, it should be relatively easy to follow suit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO has a similar feature:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iyEGN.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iyEGN.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2021-11-11T13:10:37.790" LastActivityDate="2021-11-11T13:10:37.790" Title="Tip box for Story ID questions" Tags="|feature-request|tags|story-identification|questions|tag-tips|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="18" ClosedDate="2023-05-09T13:31:42.760" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7105" CreationDate="2015-11-12T23:18:01.640" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1890/statistics-on-identification-questions-and-their-askers&quot;&gt;Napoleon Wilson's post&lt;/a&gt; on the M&amp;amp;TV Meta, I thought I'd look at some of the statistics on identification questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few notes before I get started:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't want to diminish anyone's experience.&lt;/strong&gt; All of the numbers and graphs and I'm going to spit at you all in this answer are averages. There are certainly some exceptional users who were drawn here by ID questions, or who stay here because of ID questions. I think that's &lt;em&gt;wonderful&lt;/em&gt;. Your personal experiences may not match with the average, but that's why averages are average&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We're more than just story-id.&lt;/strong&gt; But not much more; we have seven (non-aliased) identification tags: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character-identification&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/episode-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;episode-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;episode-identification&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/author-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;author-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;author-identification&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/actor-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;actor-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;actor-identification&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/object-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;object-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;object-identification&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/music-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;music-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;music-identification&lt;/a&gt;, but only story-id has more than 100 questions&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://shouldiblamecaching.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Caching is (still) a problem.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I'm going to use &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SEDE&lt;/a&gt; as much as possible, so my numbers may be slightly out of date. At time of writing, SEDE was last updated four days ago.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also going to use another frequently-used tag as a baseline; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; is our second most-used tag, so that'll do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Question Numbers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are currently &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/revision/390141/500607/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5,403 non-deleted ID questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/revision/390234/500766/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2,677 Harry Potter questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; out of &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/revision/390144/500612/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;25,574 non-deleted total questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. So 21.1% of all non-deleted questions have been identification questions, and 10.5% have been Harry Potter questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of those ID questions, &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/revision/390146/500618/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;287 of them have been closed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;; that's 5.3% of all ID questions. In accordance with our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7065/closing-story-ident-questions-as-duplicates-where-theres-no-acceptance&quot;&gt;policy of closing duplicate ID questions&lt;/a&gt;, the vast majority of those closures are duplicates; I can't check this with SEDE (or, I don't know how to), but from looking on the main site: out of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=closed%3Ayes+%5Bstory-identification%5D+or+%5Bcharacter-identification%5D+or+%5Bepisode-identification%5D+or+%5Bauthor-identification%5D+or+%5Bactor-identification%5D+or+%5Bobject-identification%5D+or+%5Bmusic-identification%5D+or+%5Bscene-identification%5D&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;293 closed ID questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (coming from a later time), &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=closed%3Ayes+duplicate%3Ayes+%5Bstory-identification%5D+or+%5Bcharacter-identification%5D+or+%5Bepisode-identification%5D+or+%5Bauthor-identification%5D+or+%5Bactor-identification%5D+or+%5Bobject-identification%5D+or+%5Bmusic-identification%5D+or+%5Bscene-identification%5D&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;210  (71.7%) of them were closed as duplicates&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. With &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/revision/390236/500769/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2,191 total closed questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, ID questions represent 13.1% of all closures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of the Harry Potter questions, &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/revision/390235/500768/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;328 have been closed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, 12.3% of all HP questions; that's 15% of all closed questions. Out of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=closed%3Ayes+%5Bharry-potter%5D&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;331 closed questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=closed%3Ayes+duplicate%3Ayes+%5Bharry-potter%5D&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;276 (83.4%) of them were closed as duplicates&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately I can't comment on deleted questions; SEDE strips tags from deleted questions, and I don't have the mod power to search for them on the main site. Undoubtedly some of the poorer examples get sucked by &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/92006/276025&quot;&gt;the roomba&lt;/a&gt;, and are lost to my stats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Question Quality&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the acknowledgement that quality is a hard thing to measure statistically, ID questions are lower in &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/revision/390237/500776/overall-statistics-of-questions-with-specific-tag&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;all stats we can measure&lt;/a&gt; (note that these are averages, and only includes positive-scoring answers):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Agsme.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Agsme.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the average views/question is the number that shocks me the most; ID questions are viewed an average of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;five times less&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; than non-ID questions. But, though it's less dramatic, I also find it noteworthy that both the questions &lt;em&gt;and their answers&lt;/em&gt; are scored noticeably lower than non-ID questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Question Growth&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ID questions are growing quite rapidly; the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/revision/390244/500806/ratio-of-questions-with-specific-tag&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;left graph&lt;/a&gt; shows absolute number of questions (Yellow is total, green is non-ID, blue is ID, red is HP), and &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cz02H.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the right&lt;/a&gt; shows growth as a percentage of total questions (yellow is ID, blue is HP):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cz02H.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cz02H.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Who asks them?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/revision/390490/501179/questions-with-specific-tag&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;75% of all ID questions are a user's first question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, compared with 20.9% of HP questions. When considering only a user's first &lt;em&gt;post&lt;/em&gt;, those drop to 71.1% and 16.2%, respectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of all first posts, &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/revision/391780/502566/first-posts-with-specific-tag&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;26.9% of them are ID posts; when a first post is a question, 50.1% of the time it's an ID question, and when the first post is an answer, it's an ID answer just 10.8% of the time.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bCNHo.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bCNHo.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In contrast, &lt;strong&gt;8.3% of first posts are HP posts; 5.5% of first-post questions, and 10.2% of first-post answers.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So ID questions are clearly driving new users to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But they're not staying, at least not in droves (red are users whose first question wasn't an ID question; green is for HP, yellow for all askers, blue for ID):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7NTwe.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7NTwe.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/revision/390535/501224/access-time-of-specific-tag-users&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;31.1% of users whose first question was an ID question were still visiting 30 days later.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Compare to 47.7% for the site average, 59.1% for HP askers, and 63.8% for general non-ID askers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RYmbx.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RYmbx.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/revision/390544/501233/further-contributions-from-specific-tag-users&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;20.2% of users whose first question was an ID question have any more posts.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 16.8% have another post that's not an ID question. Compare to 55.5% and 55.3% for HP-askers, or 34.2% and 32.3% for the site as a whole. Users whose first question is an ID question appear to participate less, in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;My Thoughts&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So obviously I have some statements about the utility and quality of ID questions peppered throughout my analysis above. But despite how I may have interpreted the numbers, I don't see ID questions as a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's true that they've &quot;overtaken&quot; the site, in the sense that they tend to be of less-high quality and utility, as judged by question score and view count, and are abandoned more often (judged by likelihood of acceptance).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't think that's a &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; thing for the site. The fact that my numbers are as positive as they are proves that we've been able to stem the tide of &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; objectionable ID questions (and objectionable questions of all sorts). As long as the ones that are left don't diminish the quality of the site (and they don't; they just increase it by a smaller amount), I have no problem with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise, I don't think it's a problem that a third of ID askers keep visiting the site, and that 15-25% of them continue to contribute. I'd rather &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; those people here, and contributing, then not have them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At best they're the reason some people keep coming back to the site. At worst, they're a mild nuisance to some frequent users. Yes, I count myself in the &quot;nuisance&quot; group, but the minor inconvenience they cause me is outweighed, in my mind, by the benefit they bring to other users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2015-12-07T20:25:26.163" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7510" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-13T04:11:10.353" Score="1" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;p&gt;For quite some time now, I have had enough rep to be considered a &quot;trusted user&quot; or whatever, and as a result, I have been able to make edits to whatever I like (except tag wikis - I just got that privilege last night) without the need for other users to approve the edits.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just now, I saw a post that needed a couple of minor spelling and grammar corrections.  I clicked the link, but someone had already put a &quot;suggested edit&quot; into the queue on the question, so I couldn't do my own edit.  I checked the other user's edit, and it was identical to what I had intended to do, so I approved it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of seeing the edit implemented immediately, I got a pop up message saying something like &quot;Another user has to approve this edit before it is implemented&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This strikes me as absolutely ridiculous - I'm trusted enough to do whatever editing I please to questions and answers without approval from anyone else, but when I see a great edit and think &quot;That's exactly what I was going to do&quot;, my judgment is no longer sufficient to correct someone's spelling and grammar?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that we should either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not allow new users to suggest edits&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let a single trusted user approve and implement edits suggested by new users&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let trusted users override pending suggested edits from new users, while allowing the new user to get the +2 if their edit makes the cut    &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Something else that would have the result of allowing trusted users to avoid the need for a second opinion when approving an edit from a new user.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="44025" LastEditDate="2015-11-13T04:25:27.053" LastActivityDate="2015-11-19T13:23:23.740" Title="Strange double standard for editing" Tags="|feature-request|editing|new-users|privileges|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7510" CreationDate="2015-11-13T04:39:51.423" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sort of feature would almost certainly have to be network-wide, so &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/&quot;&gt;Super Meta&lt;/a&gt; may be a better place for this request. But here's my take anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Don't allow new users to edit&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Strongly opposed. There's a huge swathe of edits that you don't need a lot of experience with a site to handle; the spelling and grammar example you give is one. There's lots of value in letting low-rep users make some trivial edits. Even anonymous edits &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/60587/suggested-edit-stats-for-anon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;have value&lt;/a&gt;; 41.5% of anonymous suggested edits have been approved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure we probably &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; let the high-rep users handle them, but why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Give high-rep users a weightier approval &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jENMO.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;hammer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some variation on this has been suggested a &lt;em&gt;bunch&lt;/em&gt; of times before, notably:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/94581/instant-edit-approval-for-high-rep-users&quot;&gt;Instant edit approval for high-rep users&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/85758/instant-approval-of-revisions-for-users-with-edit-privileges&quot;&gt;Instant approval of revisions for users with edit privileges&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/78799/why-do-we-need-multiple-approvers-for-suggested-edits&quot;&gt;Why do we need multiple approvers for suggested edits?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Three drops in a veritable tsunami of examples. The usual response given is a historical one; something like this was tried out on StackOverflow a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Yonks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;yonk&lt;/a&gt;-and-a-half ago, and it ended up &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/77674/abridged-too-far/77683#77683&quot;&gt;spamming the site with a bunch of really bad edits&lt;/a&gt;. And while I'm not personally convinced by an argument from historical experience, there's another argument I like, made by &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/248170/276025&quot;&gt;Servy in an answer to one of those Meta.SE posts&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The suggested edit queue has demonstrated time and time again that rep is not a very good indicator of the quality of the reviewer. There are &lt;em&gt;lots&lt;/em&gt; of reviewers with a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of rep doing a constantly poor job reviewing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe this isn't a problem on SFF; I don't know. I do know there have been times where I've disagreed with the outcome of a review, so having another set of eyes isn't an inherently bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I might support this more if it were tied to something more indicative of review experience; maybe you get a hammer with the review queue or editing badges , or something. But even then, I mean; I have three (almost four) gold review queue badges, all six review queue silver badges, and the gold and silver edit badges&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, and there are still times I want another set of eyes on one of my reviews.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there is one aspect of the suggested edits queue that I think is a bit silly, but I'll cover that next.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Let us override suggested edits&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless I'm radically misunderstanding what you mean, we kind of already have this: it's basically what the &amp;quot;improve edit&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;reject and edit&amp;quot; buttons are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In principle you could improve a suggested edit in an extremely trivial way, say by adding a comma somewhere; the original edit is automagically approved, and the user who suggested it gets the +2 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternately, you could choose to &amp;quot;reject and edit&amp;quot;, and just make all of the same proposed changes again; the edit is automagically declined, and the original proposer gets no rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that's a bit silly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Something else&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm unsure what, if anything, would work. A couple thoughts off the top of my head:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reduce the reviewers required on trivial edits.&lt;/strong&gt; Problem is there's no easy way for an automated tool to determine triviality, but still protect us from destructive edits being approved by lazy reviewers; it doesn't take much to introduce vandalism or profanity, and having only one pair of eyes on an edit like that leaves us very susceptible to robo-reviewers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Give certain badge-holders a suggested edit hammer.&lt;/strong&gt; I don't know how difficult this would be to implement on the SE platform, but it seems reasonable enough on the face of it; we give a dupehammer to gold tag badge holders, so why not give a smaller hammer to someone who has, say, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/33/copy-editor&quot;&gt;copy editor badge&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One issue I see is that edit badges aren't tied to contribution quality the way tag badges are; getting a gold tag badge is rather hard (unless you're Richard, who seems to attract them magnetically), because you need to demonstrate a &lt;em&gt;volume&lt;/em&gt; of &lt;em&gt;quality&lt;/em&gt; contributions. The edit badges satisfy the volume requirement (500 edits is rather a lot), but not the quality requirement (there is a minor quality baseline, since rolled-back edits don't count, but that's negligible). In theory, you could get that badge with 500 one-character edits, and I would not feel comfortable giving a hammer to the person who did that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/humblebrag&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hashtage humblebrag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-11-13T17:16:53.080" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7510" CreationDate="2015-11-13T11:19:28.910" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;While &lt;em&gt;Jason Baker&lt;/em&gt; already gives quite an exhaustive rundown of the motivations for a multi-user review process, I'd like to approach your notion of a &quot;ridiculous double standard&quot; a little more from a mere conceptual viewpoint.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is very well a difference between making that edit yourself and just giving someone else doing it your Ok. An actual edit comes with a &lt;strong&gt;much bigger personal responsibility and also with much more work&lt;/strong&gt;. So if you do an edit yourself, you have to bring the motivation and dedication to perform that edit properly. This is not the same amount of motivation and dedication that is required for just saying &quot;yes&quot; to someone else's edit. Thus the bar for approving suggested edits is far lower than the one for actually performing that edit yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from personal experience on a site that is &lt;em&gt;far&lt;/em&gt; smaller than StackOverflow (where I'm sure this problem is &lt;em&gt;leagues&lt;/em&gt; bigger), and even smaller than this site, I have seen valuable high-rep users who normally perform very good edits themselves robo-review and approve downright invalid suggested edits (and I'm talking &lt;em&gt;invalid&lt;/em&gt; here, spam, answers in edits, plagiarism). It is unclear if that's to get a badge, to clean the queues or just genuine insecurity about the validity of the edit and a reluctance to just &quot;skip&quot; it, but it all comes down to the fact that clicking that &quot;approve&quot; button is &lt;strong&gt;very easy and doesn't (directly) attach your name to it&lt;/strong&gt;, it's someone else's edit and thus also someone else's responsibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the edit is really good, then it will get through once another approval comes anyway. If you would have made the edit yourself, well, maybe you should have. And if the suggested edit was faster, then you'll just have to live with the waiting time. There is a way to somehow circumvent this review process. You could just click &quot;improve&quot; and make some minor change (like adding a space or what), this &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; immediately approve the suggestion. This might be seen as a bit of a leak in the system, as Jason does in his answer, but then again, improving the edit, be it only trivially, still requires you to actually &lt;strong&gt;do something and put your name on it&lt;/strong&gt;, it still comes with the implication of an actual edit by you and thus already raises the commitment bar towards the levels of an actual edit. If you are ready to go to such lengths just to have the edit approved faster, then you're comitted enough to the edit to trust your actions anyway. So I don't think this is really a way to trick the system from a mere practical viewpoint.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23386" LastEditorUserId="23386" LastEditDate="2015-11-19T13:23:23.740" LastActivityDate="2015-11-19T13:23:23.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7446" CreationDate="2015-11-13T12:29:15.410" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I never put a lot of time into researching it, it was a question that I plugged away at from time to time. I have since picked up a copy of the story as found in the Bruce Coville collection and I have found it very enjoyable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="23243" LastEditDate="2015-11-16T18:45:44.913" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T18:45:44.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7514" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-14T04:27:33.663" Score="16" ViewCount="851" Body="&lt;p&gt;The particulars of the most recent incidents aren't particularly important.  What matters is chat is causing far too many problems.  How do we address this issue in a way that keeps as many people as happy as possible?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The things that seem to cause trouble are, in my opinion, as follows (and I myself have been guilty of all of these things at various points):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Contentious political and social issues - e.g., gun control, reproductive rights, occasionally party politics, and in a rare instance or two, race relations. By far the biggest problem in Mos Eisley, never productive, always provoking heated debate, and frequently intense, if usually short-lived, animosity.   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Suspensions:  This has already been covered in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7485/8368&quot;&gt;a post by Pureferret&lt;/a&gt;, and doesn't require additional explanation here.   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Profanity/obscenity - there have actually been relatively few flags for this in the past few weeks, but it still happens from time to time.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We elected room owners to help mitigate these issues, and when they are present, it is almost unheard of for serious problems to occur.  Slytherincess and Praxis have done an outstanding job of keeping chat on track.  However, and through no fault of their own, they obviously can't be in chat at all times.  When they aren't there, a slight nudge can send the room careening off the rails.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do we deal with this?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T04:00:29.907" Title="Problems in chat have gotten out of hand" Tags="|discussion|chat|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7514" CreationDate="2015-11-14T04:57:04.943" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's my take - note that all of the following apply to everyone, whatever their stance on the issues involved, including myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As unfortunate as it may be, it appears that we should simply prohibit certain subjects from Mos Eisley.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;First and foremost among these topics is gun control.  Many people have strong opinions about it, and although some of them may enjoy debating the issue, it clogs up chat, leads to endless bickering, and no matter what is said, it can never produce any useful results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Although it comes up far less frequently, reproductive rights should probably also be prohibited from discussion in Mos Eisley.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Party politics is inherently divisive, and we aren't going to change each other's opinions, so we should either prohibit such discussions outright, or at least try to limit their frequency and duration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I would be strongly opposed to enforcing a ban on discussions of race relations, in part because most people are much more respectful during these conversations.  However, we should all remember to respect each other's experiences and opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7485/8368&quot;&gt;linked post&lt;/a&gt;, talking about suspensions is not only useless, but often actively harmful.  Let's not do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;My personal take is that generic curse words aren't offensive, but plenty of people feel otherwise, and I respect that.  As such, I see several options, any number of which can be applied in tandem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a general rule, try not to curse at all.  If you do curse, do so in moderation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Avoid the words most likely to cause the greatest amount of offense:  F__k, c__t, t__t, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Adopt a loose set of guidelines about what is and isn't acceptable:  I would suggest that &amp;quot;ass&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;damn&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;hell&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;crap&amp;quot;, and &amp;quot;shit&amp;quot; are all mild enough, as long as they aren't directed at anyone in particular, especially in a hostile manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More generally:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Off Topic Room:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Shog9 suggested, we opened a new room specifically intended for off topic conversations about subjects that are likely to cause problems.  If a user in Mos Eisley wanders into dangerous territory, they will be politely asked to take it to the off topic room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This obviously won't prevent the potentially offensive comments from being made, but it will theoretically ensure that they are seen by fewer eyes, and only by people who have chosen to take part.  At the same time, it will make Mos Eisley a more pleasant place to be for everyone who doesn't like the drama inherent to political and social arguments.  The site's main chat room will be easier to keep on topic, friendlier, less contentious, and when conversation strays away from science fiction and fantasy, it will only be allowed to wander into relatively unemotional areas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Active Involvement, Early Intervention:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By far the most difficult-to-implement aspect of my suggestion.  We all need to step up and take responsibility for what happens in chat.  If someone is skirting the line, let alone crossing it, don't wait for a mod or room owner to do something, and don't wait until all hell breaks loose - speak up and say &amp;quot;Let's change the subject&amp;quot;, or encourage whoever is involved to head over to Off Topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Mod Elections:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we lost Richard as a mod, we lost the only mod who was almost always in Mos Eisley.  We need to fill that gap as best we can.  Mod elections, held as soon as possible, would go a long way towards reducing the number of incidents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Add a Third Room Owner:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More room owners means more people ready to divert chat from dangerous ground to safer territory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T11:45:43.607" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7517" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7518" CreationDate="2015-11-14T12:45:13.213" Score="41" ViewCount="2682" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I just came to know that we have got a new primary chatroom with the same name. When I visited the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;old one&lt;/a&gt;, I saw that it was frozen (by @Shog9♦) and there were 37000+ users inside it. This certainly is a rare event and people are curious. So, I think @Shog9♦ himself should answer this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's what I saw in the post-apocalyptic debris:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hundreds of messages were deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Several users are banned even from the main site (presumably, due to the chat incident).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: Why didn't these two things solve the problem? What was the point of nuking the entire chatroom? Did it solve any problem? How can a new chatroom prevent an inflammatory debate in future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I just stumbled upon a message by @Shog9♦:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;PSA: Mos will remain frozen until the SciFi mods decide otherwise. ALL mods have been instructed to freeze any SFF chatroom if a valid flag is raised unless/until a SciFi mod is able to intervene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such temporary freezes could solve the problem provided that Mos Eisley was one of the most active chatrooms in SE network and SciFi mods weren't that active in chat. But, why was a permanent freeze required?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="931" LastEditDate="2015-11-22T08:32:13.230" LastActivityDate="2015-11-22T08:32:13.230" Title="Why did our primary chatroom get nuked?" Tags="|support|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7517" CreationDate="2015-11-14T17:39:16.443" Score="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;A problem has been festering in SFF's chatroom for some time now. And in spite of the best efforts of your moderators and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7240/should-mos-eisley-have-non-moderator-owners-and-if-so-who&quot;&gt;room owners&lt;/a&gt;, it doesn't seem to be going away. I've observed the activity in SFF chat for some time now, and I've come to believe that the problem boils down to a fundamental lack of respect for each other by some of the most active members of the chatroom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The nature of the third place&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chat exists to serve the main site. That should be pretty obvious; Stack Exchange doesn't &lt;em&gt;sell&lt;/em&gt; chat, or serve ads there, or even let folks join it unless they've participated on the main sites to some degree. Chat exists simply to be &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/04/do-trilogy-sites-need-a-third-place/&quot;&gt;that third place&lt;/a&gt; for folks who call SFF home to meet and commune with one another:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third places are nothing more than informal public gathering places. The phrase 'third places' derives from considering our homes to be the 'first' places in our lives, and our work places the 'second.'&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;-- a quote from urban sociologist Ray Oldenburg&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This definition is important; even though it's trivial to observe that chat &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a public gathering space (anyone can join, anyone can read your conversations there) folks still seem to forget that, when they converse in chat, &lt;strong&gt;they &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; speaking in public.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Conversation in public and in private&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rules of etiquette for conversation in public and private spaces are different. If I invite you into my house, you can leave if you're uncomfortable, and I can make you leave if you disrespect me... But if we happen to be sitting next to each other in a tavern, conversing while waiting for our beer and burger, then neither of us wishes to leave and yet may still find the other's choice of conversation unpleasant. It is therefore considered rude to bring up inflammatory topics in the public context, or to continue discussions after someone has expressed discomfort with the topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The folks in SFF's chatroom are brought together by a shared interest in... Science Fiction and Fantasy. They can &lt;em&gt;and do&lt;/em&gt; have wildly varying interests and opinions when it comes to areas of life outside of that shared interest. Expecting the folks who drop into chat to agree on matters of politics, religion, art, philosophy or human rights is naive; there &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; be people who love Harry Potter just as much as you do but whose views on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership strike you as abhorrent and who feel the same about yours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You wouldn't drive the person next to you away from their plate of food, so why would you seek to drive someone away from their discussion of Star Wars? And yet... That's what keeps happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Showing respect for others&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a public place, in a diverse group, it can be all but impossible to know what someone else will find off-putting. If you care about the people around you, the best you can do in most cases is to listen and watch for signs that they've become uncomfortable and, when you observe this, to back off: stop the conversation and either move to a different topic or move the conversation to a different space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few areas where you should generally &lt;em&gt;anticipate&lt;/em&gt; problems however. For instance, if you're bringing up a topic that large groups of people have physically &lt;em&gt;marched to protest&lt;/em&gt; in real life, then you should not expect a calm conversation from random folks on the 'Net.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, if a word or image came to your attention in the context of &amp;quot;something that bothers people&amp;quot;, then you should expect that repeatedly posting it in chat will, in fact, bother people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you know something is likely to cause a negative reaction &lt;em&gt;and you bring it up anyway&lt;/em&gt;, then you're already being fairly disrespectful; if you raise the topic knowing that others will express opinions that you vehemently disagree with, and then proceed to take umbrage at those opinions... Then you're straight-up &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;trolling&lt;/a&gt;, demonstrating a complete lack of respect for others in this public space. Trying to give yourself a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fig_leaf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;fig leaf&lt;/a&gt; by claiming cultural ignorance really only works once; you may have led a sheltered life in a small country with a fairly uniform culture, but you're on The Internet now - so respect the diversity of opinion and learn from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What happened last night&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The three sections above are intended to help explain the background; what happened last night is the culmination of the problems hinted at there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Several people began a conversation on a controversial topic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They then proceeded to get offended at each other's opinions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flags were raised. When a moderator responded by entering the room to try and calm things down, he was ignored and then mocked.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More moderators and employees entered the room, at which point the conversation pivoted into finger-pointing as to &lt;em&gt;who started it&lt;/em&gt; (nevermind that no one tried to stop it).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After deleting the original conversation, warning those in the room, and putting the room in time-out (and then freezing it), we contacted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;the moderator team&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The first moderator to arrive later that evening found that the finger-pointing had continued well into the night.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The moderators responded by freezing additional rooms, leaving some guidance, and suspending some of the worst offenders. Then, finally, everyone went to bed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;This needs to change&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, this was far too much drama, far too much work for a problem that could've been solved easily by the folks involved. It's become apparent when talking to the room owners that this problem isn't one of ignorance; these issues inevitably arise &lt;em&gt;when the room owners aren't around&lt;/em&gt;, suggesting that certain folks encourage them when they know they won't get called on what they're doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This hurts everyone. Especially the folks who just wanted to sit down and share a moment with others who share their interests. It's not fun, and it's completely avoidable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What YOU can do&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The moderators and room owners will sort out the locked-room situation next week (the freeze is &lt;em&gt;temporary&lt;/em&gt;). But starting now and going forward, you - as a participant in chat - can do your part to help avoid problems. Here are a few suggestions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Respect your peers.&lt;/strong&gt; You don't need to agree with them on everything, but if you're gonna all hang out together you &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; need to respect their right to believe differently than you do. Don't intentionally make them uncomfortable.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;Be Nice&lt;/a&gt;. The rules are the same in chat as on the main site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Speak up when you see folks becoming uncomfortable with the topic. Suggest changing the topic or moving the discussion to a different room.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Listen when someone speaks up.&lt;/strong&gt; If you're told that someone's uneasy about the current topic, then ignoring them is a slap in the face; be respectful of others (#1) and stop intentionally hurting them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have fun and be good to one another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T20:16:24.867" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7514" CreationDate="2015-11-14T17:51:13.910" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, here's the deal. I don't often come to this chat often and do not frequent it. But when I do it's &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; because the chat has set off a lot of flags. I come because I occasionally ask questions on Scifi and want feedback or just to discuss them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that I feel I have to make that disclaimer about why I visit should say something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to address your comments, from an outsider perspective who has been exposed to this chat room on and off over the past years and consistently had a negative impression.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Contentious political and social issues - e.g., gun control, reproductive rights, occasionally party politics, and in a rare instance or two, race relations. By far the biggest problem in Mos Eisley, never productive, always provoking heated debate, and frequently intense, if usually short-lived, animosity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is nothing inherently problematic with these topics. I am part of multiple other chat rooms on this site which can talk about these subjects, with significant disagreement, and have never seen the problems Mos Eisley seems to have. Other chat rooms have a non-trivial amount of cursing too - and yet to my understanding I've &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; seen a flag there for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is not the content, it's the way it's handled and the attitudes/actions of users. A symptom might be certain topics causing flagfests, insults, whatever, but... people need to take responsibility for their actions. Seriously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words: it's not the topics that are the problems, it's the users who can't maturely handle those topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really dislike how both this question and your answer here imply that the problem is the topic of conversation. &quot;If we fix the conversation topic, then Scifi's chat problems will be fixed.&quot; Treating symptoms &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; work. But if your core problem is users cannot be mature? All you will do is kick the can down the road.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I would suggest is for everyone to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Accept that it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://xkcd.com/386/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;OK for someone to be wrong on the Internet&lt;/a&gt;. No, really. It's OK if someone has viewpoints that are wrong. It's &lt;em&gt;OK&lt;/em&gt; to not go to war over things you feel strongly about. Part of maturing is not emotionally getting pissed off and reacting as such.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Treat everyone else with respect. No matter how wrong someone is, that doesn't mean you can disrespect them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Take the high road. Is someone else being immature/wrong/dumb/whatever? Don't engage. Don't &quot;make it so!&quot; and react the same way. The phrase, &quot;it takes two to tango&quot; applies here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;Don't be a jerk&lt;/a&gt;. This really could be the tl;dr of this whole thing. Understand that &quot;being a jerk&quot; can often be in the eyes of the beholder.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more people here take personal responsibility for how they act towards other, the fewer problems you will have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11841" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T04:00:29.907" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7514" CreationDate="2015-11-14T18:52:36.893" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow. I have to suggest some folks grow thicker skin. Yes. People need to know when to back off, and even when to not even go there, but now I'm getting the impression that a single person can bring an entire room to it's knees without even posting. All they need to do take it upon themselves to feel insulted, outraged, a stranger jumping in mid conversation, or otherwise unfriendly and raise a flag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be their right, but that doesn't make them right. In some cases, it makes them seem a wee bit selfish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4356" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T18:52:36.893" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7522" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7523" CreationDate="2015-11-14T23:10:09.397" Score="8" ViewCount="346" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well in light of the recent fiasco which occured in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Chat&lt;/a&gt;, it would seem atleast a moderator (I won't name names!) was suspended for, what I would assume, lack of &quot;moderating&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If a moderator was suspended and he/she returns after their allotted suspension, are they still a moderator?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40748" LastEditorUserId="40748" LastEditDate="2015-11-14T23:24:37.017" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T23:24:37.017" Title="Do suspended moderators regain their moderator privileges?" Tags="|discussion|moderators|suspension|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7522" CreationDate="2015-11-14T23:22:04.887" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;As this is not the current situation,  I will answer this hypothetical situation - Moderator powers are unrelated to being suspended. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If said hypothetical moderator were to have taken actions worthy of being suspended, then I would imagine that their ability to moderate would be reviewed by the community management team and the remaining moderators at the least. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T23:22:04.887" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7514" CreationDate="2015-11-15T03:42:59.000" Score="9" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do we address this issue in a way that keeps as many people as happy as possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really see this about making sure as many possible people are &lt;em&gt;happy&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's about this negativity apparently being so pervasive that the &lt;em&gt;entire&lt;/em&gt; chat had to be frozen, 3 or 4 meta topics have been created, 3 members suspended, and Shog9 voicing that he has considered permanently freezing the room (although it's currently only temporary). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it's less about making people happy, and more about participants not being hostile, antagonistic, rude, etc. Part of the problem, as I see it, is the blatant disrespect also given to blue names when these issues come up. Users can't complain moderators are taking comments out of context, when their direct rudeness to moderators is exemplary of the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen the chat get overly negative, or offensive comments get posted, and this is how I've personally tried to resolve it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tell the user what they said was too much. I've done this a couple times, and the user edited or deleted their message. &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; personally wasn't much bothered by what they said, but I recognized that it would be over the line for some users. I want to emphasize here that the other users acknowledged the comment and modified it, after only a simply prodding. It didn't resort to arguing or a big discussion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I edit my own messages, sometimes before I say them. Mentally, I try to keep my comments &lt;strong&gt;PG-13&lt;/strong&gt;, which I think is a suitable guideline for public chatrooms that store content indefinitely. There are times where I've wanted to say something like &quot;What the f***?&quot;, but censored myself to &quot;What the &lt;em&gt;hell&lt;/em&gt;?&quot; (&amp;lt;--- Like when I logged in to find chat frozen, I did that exact thing)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'll try to change the subject. This one is sometimes a bit harder. Recently, there was a heated discussion and I made the mistake of restarting it. I stepped back, and with several other users worked to move on to another topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't star inciting comments. Too often our star-board contains negativity, which makes it difficult to move past. I try to star light-hearted, funny, or truly interesting comments. For me, it's pretty demoralizing to come into the room 2-3 hours after a &quot;heated discussion&quot; and get the full, negative synopsis just by reading the starboard. I come to chat to escape stress, not be bombarded with it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've only been an active chatter for a few weeks, because of a confluence of work and life events has allowed it to be so, but I've definitely seen some ugliness in the chatroom in such a short time. It's generally an enjoyable experience, and I like being able to discuss SF&amp;amp;F stuff with people who &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; what we're talking about (except for certain somebodies who haven't watched &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;) &lt;em&gt;as well as&lt;/em&gt; talking about adult subjects. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, if the chatroom was only about SF&amp;amp;F, I'd likely not enjoy it as much. Chat is a way for me to have conversations that I otherwise don't have the opportunity to have. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do we deal with this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people can't be respectful, and follow some internal guidelines or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7518/31178&quot;&gt;those laid out by Shog9&lt;/a&gt;, then they need to be kickbanned and/or suspended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see absolutely no reason why this should have ever come to the point that the entire room needed to be frozen. That shouldn't ever have to happen again. Instead, the offending individuals should be removed. If they're abusing their privilege, and risking &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; privilege, then I don't see any reason to allow the behavior to perpetuate without reprimand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then, when such disciplinary action takes place, we need to realize it's for the health of the community. Suspensions are temporary. People come back. And when they do, hopefully they've cooled their jets and learned where the line is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T03:42:59.000" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7525" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7526" CreationDate="2015-11-15T13:46:12.713" Score="5" ViewCount="882" Body="&lt;p&gt;As everyone must be aware by now, there have been a LOT of problems recently in our primary chatroom, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/a&gt;, culminating in the room being frozen and some of our most active users being temporarily suspended. Other people have already posted on meta about why this came about and what kind of behaviour needs to be addressed in order to stop it happening again. I'm not going to rehash those issues; this post is about how we can try to &lt;em&gt;put it all behind us&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mos Eisley has probably acquired a bad reputation across the network by now for its constant flags and fights. Assuming that such events aren't going to keep on happening in the future, it would be nice to distance ourselves from the past craziness, so that people don't think &quot;oh, Mos Eisley - that's full of jerks&quot; as soon as they see the room and need to be persuaded otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Getting to the point ... how about we &lt;strong&gt;rename the chatroom&lt;/strong&gt; once it's reopened? Much better to have people come to the chatroom with no prejudices, and then by the time they realise it's the former Mos Eisley, they may already have realised we're an OK bunch :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;And yes, I know this proposal has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5329/primary-chatroom-name-polling&quot;&gt;made before&lt;/a&gt; with scant success, but there's a better reason for it now!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2015-11-28T14:53:15.407" Title="Putting it all behind us - Renaming the Chatroom" Tags="|discussion|chat|" AnswerCount="45" CommentCount="46" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-15T13:48:15.160" Score="19" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Renaming the chatroom won't solve any of its problems; let's leave the name as it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T13:48:15.160" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-15T13:50:37.173" Score="-3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The TARDIS&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the outside, it's just a square box on the chat.SE front page. On the inside, it's a whole universe of conversation on every topic under the sun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T13:50:37.173" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-15T13:52:56.613" Score="-7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Hogwarts&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; is our top tag beside story-ID, and one that most of our users have at least some familiarity with. Plus, Hogwarts has always been a welcoming and homely place!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T13:52:56.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-15T13:55:25.343" Score="-4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Madam Rosmerta's&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May be this would sound less villainous and scummy? And of course, as pointed out on the other answer, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; is our top tag beside story-ID&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13716" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2015-11-15T13:57:07.890" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T13:57:07.890" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-15T13:57:27.447" Score="-4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Honeydukes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Hogsmead candy shop, so that the room can be more welcoming to the kiddies as well&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13716" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T13:57:27.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-15T13:58:59.253" Score="-4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The Hogs Head&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Mos Eisley of Potterverse&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13716" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T13:58:59.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-15T13:59:27.617" Score="-4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The Round Table&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It fulfills our fantasy side whilst being popular enough that I believe almost all people will be familiar with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22709" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T13:59:27.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-15T13:59:39.790" Score="-3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Rivendell &lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last homely house. A place where friends can come together and discuss. Plus, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt; is one of the top tags and most users have some familiarity with it (like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastEditorUserId="4678" LastEditDate="2015-11-15T14:01:41.810" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T14:01:41.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-15T14:03:09.650" Score="-4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The Common Room&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hogwarts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hogwarts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hogwarts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13716" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T14:03:09.650" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-15T14:03:28.107" Score="-8" Body="&lt;h1&gt;The Jedi Temple &lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keeping with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; theme, a place for learning to occur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T14:03:28.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-15T14:04:26.927" Score="12" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The Nexus&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The term &amp;quot;Nexus&amp;quot; is often used in &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; Science Fiction and Fantasy, and the name implies a connection point where we can communicate with one another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T14:04:26.927" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-15T14:05:54.757" Score="-5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The Great Hall&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hogwarts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hogwarts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hogwarts&lt;/a&gt; because &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7535/13716&quot;&gt;The Common Room&lt;/a&gt; was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7525/putting-it-all-behind-us-renaming-the-chatroom#comment20555_7535&quot;&gt;not inclusive enough&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13716" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T14:05:54.757" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-15T14:07:31.510" Score="-5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Construct&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-matrix&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-matrix&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-matrix&lt;/a&gt; training room&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13716" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T14:07:31.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-15T14:18:16.557" Score="-3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Chamber of Secrets&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13716" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T14:18:16.557" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-15T15:28:57.613" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not that I think renaming the chatroom will solve anything, but I'll once again propose my favorite name…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Dirac&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Dirac is a communication medium in James Blish's series &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_in_Flight&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cities in Flight&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; which instantly broadcasts all messages all over the universe, like a chatroom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(While Ursula K. Le Guin's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansible&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ansible&lt;/a&gt; is better known, it isn't really appropriate as a chatroom name, since an ansible provides two-party communication, like a phone, not an open medium like a chatroom.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T15:28:57.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-15T16:07:33.647" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Time Vortex&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.. .. .. .. .. ... .... .. .. .. .. ... .. .. ... .. ....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T16:07:33.647" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-15T16:14:26.757" Score="-1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The Leaky Cauldron&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.. ... ..... ... .. ... .. .... ... .. .. .. .... .. .. ..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="13716" LastEditDate="2015-11-15T16:43:37.150" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T16:43:37.150" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-15T16:17:36.833" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fortune Casino&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;........ ... .. .. ... .. .. .... .... .. .... .... .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T16:17:36.833" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-15T16:19:12.590" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Hip Joint&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... .. ... ... .. ... ... ... .... .. ... ... .. .. ..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T16:19:12.590" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-15T16:21:59.257" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maxwell's Nightclub&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..... .... .. ... .... ... .. ... .. ..... .. .. .. ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T16:21:59.257" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-15T16:24:30.067" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ten Forward&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... .. ..... .... .. .. .. ... ...... .. ..... .... .. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T16:24:30.067" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-15T16:26:38.020" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mystic Grill&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.... ... .... .. ... ..... ... .. .... .. .. .. ... .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T16:26:38.020" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-15T16:30:18.083" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Night Spot&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.... ... ... .. .. ..... ..... .. ... .. ..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T16:30:18.083" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-15T16:41:11.753" Score="-4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;SciFi&amp;amp;Fantasy Chat&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Short, simple and to the point&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13716" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T16:41:11.753" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-15T16:52:42.397" Score="-5" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Quark's&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A different wretched hive of scum and villainy, as seen in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-ds9&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-ds9&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-ds9&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T16:52:42.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-15T17:25:16.140" Score="-7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xhmT6.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xhmT6.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Zócalo&lt;/strong&gt; is the central plaza and meeting place on the space station &lt;a href=&quot;http://babylon5.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Babylon 5&lt;/a&gt;.  The goal of the Babylon 5 project was...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;...to &lt;strong&gt;prevent another war&lt;/strong&gt; by creating a place where humans and aliens &lt;strong&gt;could work out their differences peacefully&lt;/strong&gt;. It's a port of call - &lt;strong&gt;home away from home&lt;/strong&gt; for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers. Humans and aliens wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal, all alone in the night.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastEditorUserId="40294" LastEditDate="2015-11-15T18:18:03.043" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T18:18:03.043" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-15T17:27:36.520" Score="-8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Biers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ankh-Morporkian pub where various &amp;quot;people&amp;quot; can show their true forms and nobody will give a second glance. Perhaps one of the few locations where, when asking the bartender for a Bloody Mary, he won't mix you simply a metaphor... Clientele include vampires, werewolves, zombies, bogeymen, ghouls, Tooth Fairies, and Mrs Gammage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T17:27:36.520" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-15T19:23:09.450" Score="-8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Dark Tower &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the Stephen King novel that brings together several of his other sci-fi and fantasy characters together. Seems fitting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T19:23:09.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-15T21:30:25.217" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Seems Oily&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a) Because this all resulted in a sticky situation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;b) It's an anagram of Mos Eisley&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40748" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T21:30:25.217" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-15T22:35:56.343" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Spaceport Bar&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An iconic stfnal setting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T22:35:56.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-15T22:39:02.753" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Inn Outside the World&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Title of a classic story by Edmond Hamilton.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastEditorUserId="14111" LastEditDate="2015-11-15T22:45:55.987" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T22:45:55.987" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-15T22:41:27.567" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Billiards Club&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Lord Dunsany's Jorkens tales, like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.revolutionsf.com/fiction/ourdistantcousins/01.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T22:41:27.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7559" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-16T04:01:41.080" Score="12" ViewCount="513" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the TV show Gotham on topic? In season 1, only one episode contains material that is seriously sci-fi in nature, which according to current guidelines only makes that episode on-topic, not the series. Or is it on-topic because Batman makes all Batman-related works blanket on-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29220" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2020-04-06T14:08:02.077" LastActivityDate="2020-04-06T14:08:47.827" Title="Is the TV show &quot;Gotham&quot; on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-16T05:09:32.050" Score="-7" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Praxis&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it's a hopeless proposal, but I feel I should point that &lt;em&gt;praxis&lt;/em&gt; holds a suitable meaning and that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/99721/3823&quot;&gt;it's used in many scifi works&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus it would be cool to have @Praxis owning Praxis.  That would embody the meaning of &lt;em&gt;praxis&lt;/em&gt; (putting theory into practice).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This metapost is very meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T05:09:32.050" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7559" CreationDate="2015-11-16T05:24:30.513" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR - &lt;em&gt;Gotham&lt;/em&gt; should be on-topic because being in the &quot;superhero&quot; genre isn't judged purely by content, but by association.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Full answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our Help Center doesn't, in fact, mention comic books or superheroes at all as part of our accepted topics. This is, I guess, because they're accepted as a sub-genre of SF or Fantasy (even though I believe they're a genre of their own). As such, it's a bit unclear where to draw the line between the heroic and the superheroic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this vague line, as drawn, often puts the clearly heroic as on-topic, with Batman and the &lt;em&gt;Arrow&lt;/em&gt; TV show (in its earlier seasons) seen as clearly on-topic despite having very few elements of super-science or unexplained phenomena. This is, I believe, because Batman and the Arrow are clearly in the &quot;superhero comics&quot; genre, not necessarily because of their actual &lt;em&gt;content&lt;/em&gt;, but because of history and association - they share a history and stories with the clearly SFnal Superman, for instance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is why I believe &lt;em&gt;Gotham&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be on topic, just like other genre-free Batman stories or spin-offs. Because it's still &lt;em&gt;Batman&lt;/em&gt;, in a variant of the Batman universe, which is accepted as on-topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's true that if you changed the names you'll just have a non-genre cop show, but &lt;em&gt;the names are important&lt;/em&gt;. They're what draw a lot of viewers. They add a layer of meaning or people familiar with those names and their (alternate) history. &lt;strong&gt;It's a show watched by our site's members, &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; of its on-topic association&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4516" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2020-04-06T14:08:05.573" LastActivityDate="2020-04-06T14:08:05.573" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-16T05:34:50.117" Score="-6" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Nimbus III&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The planet from &lt;em&gt;Star Trek V: The Final Frontier&lt;/em&gt;.  This planet was intended to be the planet of Galactic Peace!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Nimbus_III&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Read more here&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-01-07T00:42:01.647" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T05:34:50.117" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-16T06:02:28.527" Score="-4" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Tanagra&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the famous tale in the &lt;em&gt;TNG&lt;/em&gt; episode 'Darmok' where Darmok and Jalad make peace at Tanagra!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UNitV.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UNitV.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastEditorUserId="40294" LastEditDate="2015-11-16T06:03:07.157" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T06:03:07.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-16T07:09:51.803" Score="-6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Room 42&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A tribute to the late great Douglas Adams.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30482" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T07:09:51.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-16T07:14:31.980" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Milliways    (or The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A tribute to the late great Douglas Adams.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30482" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T07:14:31.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-16T12:09:53.747" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;We all love Mos Eisley, and I think a completely new name would be a mistake. However, I also think that not acknowledging that things need to and will change is a mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such I think the new name of our main chat room should be;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Mos Eisley Episode IV: A New Hope&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's still Mos Eisley, but it's a new beginning, the start of a new, hopefully better era.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24087" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T12:09:53.747" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7568" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-16T13:40:49.337" Score="9" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bobafett&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bobafett&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bobafett&lt;/a&gt; was recently created, and while I typically abhor character tags, it &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6839/5184&quot;&gt;passes our general criteria for existence&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, all of our other character tags and property name tags substitute hyphens for spaces. As such, the tag &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/boba-fett&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;boba-fett&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;boba-fett&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, due to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/284785/lets-give-videoplayer-the-hyphen-it-has-always-wanted&quot;&gt;a bug&lt;/a&gt;, when we try to create a synonym, it blocks regular users from creating it.  When a mod tries, it generates an error page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Steps to recreate:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Create 2 tags (tags A and B).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Set tag A as the synonym of tag B.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Attempt to set tag B as a synonym of tag A (with the merge checkbox checked).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Observed result:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're a moderator attempting to merge tag B to tag A, you will get an error page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Alternate steps to recreate:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit question with misnamed tag (bobafett)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Remove misnamed tag (bobafett)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add correctly named tag (boba-fett)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Observed result:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Receive an error message that the misnamed (bobafett) tag already exists, and that you should raise an issue on meta if you believe it should be done. The error is similar to the one &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/284785/lets-give-videoplayer-the-hyphen-it-has-always-wanted&quot;&gt;shown here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T15:12:44.557" Title="Can't merge tag A into tag B when a synonym from B to A is pending" Tags="|bug|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-16T18:36:40.913" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mountains of Madness&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of Lovecraft's famous Cthulhu Mythos &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;There is a nasty little pun linking the story of this book to our current situation ;)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4177" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T18:36:40.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7571" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-16T19:19:52.430" Score="10" ViewCount="398" Body="&lt;p&gt;tl;dr No changes right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I am posting this is to respond to the ongoing chatter in the &quot;new&quot; chat rooms concerning appointments of new room owners after recent events. This is just to let everyone know that, after some discussion with the moderators, we feel that new room owners should be elected by meta, rather than in real time during chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If such elections happen, they will not be &lt;em&gt;right now&lt;/em&gt;.  There are still issues to be dealt with before moving forward. This does not preclude the appointment of temporary or deputy room owners during extenuating circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's leave this aside for now and enjoy our currently problem-free chats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastEditorUserId="19253" LastEditDate="2015-11-16T21:02:02.123" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T13:01:36.910" Title="A brief statement on room owners for Mos Eisley" Tags="|discussion|chat|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7572" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-16T19:24:13.923" Score="2" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've spent some time trolling through the tag system (been bored) and updating any blank entries I might be a fan of.  Found myself eyeing the Mistborn section and trying to presume &quot;how it should be working&quot; with the author tag, the series tag, the subseries tag, etc.... led me to search and find &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4860/38235&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, which seems to be the most recent and more comprehensive at documenting multiple tag issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately that question didn't seem to lead to any sort of consensus.  There are two differing answers, each with the same upvote count, one that looks like its advocating a barebones one-tag approach and the other advocating tags and sub-tags (at most, limiting author tags).  Everything else I see about tags appears to be a lot of single-use questions asking if something should be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to continue helping make the tag system useful where I can (or at least somewhat, as I think &quot;close enough&quot; is best that can be hoped categorizing for a fanbase as varied and opinionated as most SFF fans are).  Since I can see the reasoning behind both approaches, my general takeaway from the non-consensus seems to be &quot;keep it simple stupid by default, unless you see the demand is there for more&quot;.  Applying this to the Mistborn examples wouldn't lead to much changing (all the tags are well in use), but might guide some cleanup (mistborn tag clarified to apply to entire setting, subseries tags removed from questions that aren't novel specific, maybe clarifying the subseries tags (wax-wayne-novels is an awful name) etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;tl;dr hierarchy seems unavoidable in the long run, but the more we can trim and clarify the better.  Is this the best approach?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T19:31:54.887" Title="Question about dealing with multiple relevant tags" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7572" CreationDate="2015-11-16T19:31:54.887" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those tags are partly my doing, I believe, and I'm not happy with them either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Mistborn setting is a bit of a problem to tag because &lt;em&gt;Mistborn&lt;/em&gt; is the name of the setting, and the general name for the first trilogy, and the name of the first novel. I think &quot;Wax and Wayne&quot; is the name of the second series, so perhaps we can trim the &quot;-novels&quot; off the tag, but it still sucks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The author's tag probably shouldn't be used for a book that has a more specific tag; there's also a cosmere tag to cover things that cross more than one novel, so the sanderson tag probably only applies to one-off books outside the Cosmere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, I don't think we're going to get any generally useful rules out of trying to figure out the tag situation for the Mistborn books, but god bless you for trying :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T19:31:54.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7574" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-16T20:19:22.807" Score="-22" ViewCount="279" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everyone has seen what happened to Mos Eisley. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mods have better things to do with their time than sitting in our chats, and we'd all have a much better time if they didn't hover around and censor speech in rooms where &quot;off topic is the topic&quot;, as it were.  &lt;em&gt;Essentially, the only people who should be in a room are people who want to participate or watch.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As everyone can agree that no one is being kept in a room when they're offended and would rather not debate, why can't we just have the option of removing the flagging capability from our rooms? Let the market hammer it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user40790" LastEditorUserId="4257" LastEditDate="2015-11-16T22:52:41.943" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T22:52:41.943" Title="Removing flagging (and thus relieving mods of the need to babysit)" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|status-declined|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7574" CreationDate="2015-11-16T20:30:30.190" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because flagging &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; have real uses. If someone is coming in and legitimately name-calling, insulting users, and being disruptive, &lt;em&gt;that's what flags are for&lt;/em&gt;. There is no perfect system, no way to prevent abuses of any system. But flagging is the system we have in place to prevent abuses of the chat room itself. Of course there will be those who want to abuse that system, but we can't stop that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've revised our chat rules since the nuking, and that &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; cover the issues when all parties involved are interested in being productive members of the community. I think the edge cases where they are not are rare enough that it's not a big issue, or as a commentor noted, symptomatic of a deeper issue among those particular users. Treating the symptom won't solve that underlying problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, I don't think getting rid of flagging would solve any problem.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T20:30:30.190" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7576" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7578" CreationDate="2015-11-16T21:22:31.867" Score="2" ViewCount="419" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was recently suspended on chat with no reason or notice. I would like a mod response to this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I know the only issue I've had was with a simple,&quot;That's what she said joke&quot;. After reading the recent mod posts about what's acceptable in chat, I believe it meets those requirements. It is also something I have both done, and seen done multiple times in chat over the past few months with zero flags raised. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After it was brought to my attention that this joke offended someone, I simply asked it to be deleted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your frequent trouble maker, Himarm. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional reading, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/01/thats-what-she-said-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-2000s-best-bad-joke/283259/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;That's what she said&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29220" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2019-04-29T03:19:11.183" LastActivityDate="2019-04-29T03:19:11.183" Title="Suspensions from chat with no notice" Tags="|support|chat|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7576" CreationDate="2015-11-16T21:36:39.697" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;N.B.: I am not the suspending mod, I am merely offering my take on the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I imagine this suspension came along partly as a product of the recent events in SFF chat. Under normal circumstances, perhaps &quot;that's what she said&quot; is par for the course in Mos Eisley - but this can hardly be called &quot;normal circumstances&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the moment, Mos Eisley Cantina is being... not babysat, but &lt;em&gt;supervised&lt;/em&gt;. There's a desire to encourage the SFF chat community to conform to similar standards as the rest of the chat network, which is a standard is hasn't always lived up to before. That culminated in the recent events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll quote a message from a SciFi mod:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Alright, this is what's up. Everyone in Sci-fi &amp;amp; Fantasy.SE chat will be on their utmost best behavior this weekend. If you see problems brewing, help guide your fellow users back on track. Flag things that need a mod or a CM to clean up. We're going to be super-liberal with suspensions, so behave. Be nice, don't gossip, and stay on topic. If additional chat rooms pop up, please do us all a favor and copy this message in there so people are aware.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Be Nice policy does also make brief reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;inappropriate language or attention&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Avoid vulgar terms or anything sexually suggestive. Also, this is not a dating site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While SFF chat is being chivvied back to being Nice, it's probably a good idea to refrain from the usual jokes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52927" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T21:36:39.697" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7576" CreationDate="2015-11-16T22:11:54.797" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;ArtOfCode put it very well, but I'm chiming in here for the sake of clarity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;SFF's main chatroom is in an unusual place right now in that it's being guided back to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;Be Nice&lt;/a&gt; standards of the rest of the Stack Exchange network so that the community here can continue to enjoy it.&lt;/em&gt; As such, tolerance for things which fall into gray areas is unusually low over the short term because everyone is finding their footing, and re-establishing baseline standards and behaviors. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Himarm -- it is notable that in comments, you mention that you've made far more polarizing jokes in the past and have received smaller slaps on the wrist. That implies that yes, there's a baseline for normalcy that's been in need of rejiggering for awhile now. By the same token, I'd like to apologize that this did not come with a private, clarifying message right away. Not getting feedback on what's going on is likely to feel strange and unfair, especially since this is a departure from what the community has come to expect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This suspension is a byproduct of recent events, and is not a personal knock against you in any way. We look forward to having you back in chat in a few hours once the suspension is over. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19253" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T22:11:54.797" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7571" CreationDate="2015-11-16T22:26:02.527" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't want to bring this up in chat since, well, we don't need to be talking about this there anymore, but:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the discussion you're referring to was around who should be owners in the &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; room @SQB created. I don't think anyone has proposed adding new owners to Mos Eisely if/when it is ever unfrozen. (At least, I have not seen any such discussions myself; others may be having them elsewhere.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I correct in understanding that users creating alternate rooms related to SF&amp;amp;F:SE, other than Mos Eisley, can continue to set the owners as they see fit? Any other questions I have will be deferred until the resolution of the room situation :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T22:26:02.527" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7574" CreationDate="2015-11-16T22:52:34.733" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see us ever taking away the ability to report issues in chat or on our sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want a free-for-all chat where anything and everything goes, Stack Exchange chat is not the proverbial droids you're looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4257" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T22:52:34.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7581" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-17T08:34:43.177" Score="31" ViewCount="967" Body="&lt;p&gt;You may have noticed some updates to the design lately, they are part of a SE network-wide update to a new base css framework.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The updates allow us to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have sharper / more beautiful design on retina displays&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fix layout bugs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More easily add new features to all of our sites in the future&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But more importantly, it gives you access &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/current&quot;&gt;to the new profile&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see any bugs please let us know in the form of answers (to this post) that illustrate one particular thing at a time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55880" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T07:48:26.653" Title="Updates to the site" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="16" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7571" CreationDate="2015-11-17T13:01:36.910" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;On &lt;em&gt;Mos Eisley Cantina&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Adapted from my statements in chat)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR: if we do what we did, we get what we got, which we don't want.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When old Mos Eisley was frozen, a number of alternatives popped up. The one that stuck around longer than a few hours, was &lt;em&gt;Most Eisley&lt;/em&gt;, which was owned by @Axelrod. I have nothing against them, but that made it a room owned by one single low-rep user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I created &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/31550/mos-eisley-cantina&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley Cantina&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; as a reaction, and added a great number of regulars as room owners.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;As not all those I wanted to add were available on chat at that time, I did so without consulting them, figuring they could remove themselves if they didn't want to be an owner.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I added someone as an owner who had been suspended in the wake of the Great Freeze, which I regretted doing but didn't want to roll back at that time. I also neglected or forgot to add some regulars who probably should've been. That had been fixed since.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Implementation aside, I intended to have this room owned by a greater number of people than the old Mos.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;When yesterday the room owners were pared down to just the owners of the original Mos, I was disappointed, although I understand the user doing that thought they were doing good. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We tried few owners, that didn't work, so I thought we should try more owners. I do not know what the status of the old Mos is, but as long as &lt;em&gt;Mos Eisley Cantina&lt;/em&gt; is its substitute, I think we should try alternative modes of &quot;room modding&quot;, the most important of that being more owners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope that by having more owners, more people will feel responsible for the room and more people will be available to moderate chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T13:01:36.910" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5084" CreationDate="2015-11-17T18:28:05.070" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Finally, the design is going to change and meta will look like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UZYwG.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UZYwG.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27992" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T18:28:05.070" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6482" CreationDate="2015-11-17T18:54:01.680" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7581/a-design-update-is-coming&quot;&gt;The new design&lt;/a&gt;, when launched, will fix these problems:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Mt13A.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Mt13A.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jEnrB.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jEnrB.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27992" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T18:54:01.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2703" CreationDate="2015-11-17T19:00:01.637" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7581/a-design-update-is-coming&quot;&gt;The redesign (not yet launched)&lt;/a&gt; will fix that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gcIDP.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gcIDP.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PJzWn.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PJzWn.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27992" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T19:00:01.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7581" CreationDate="2015-11-17T19:09:46.883" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt; This is intended styling to stay consistent with Network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the old design, the community bulletin and questions with my favorite tags were having the colorscheme-matching design (though the bulletin meta icons could be hardly seen):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TC4w9.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TC4w9.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the new design (which seemingly is going to be live &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7581/a-design-update-is-coming?cb=1#comment20670_7581&quot;&gt;by the end of november&lt;/a&gt;), the icons are fixed, but bulletin background and the questions which have my favorite tags got the yellow background, doesn't really look good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hVpwI.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hVpwI.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could this be reverted to the blueish, please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27992" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2015-11-26T15:46:17.893" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7581" CreationDate="2015-11-17T19:44:01.173" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The new accept colors remind me of zombies, especially the faint text shadow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HftGM.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HftGM.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ones &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/1/jeff-atwood?tab=topactivity&quot;&gt;used currently on Meta Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; would go better there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TmInd.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TmInd.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27992" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T19:44:01.173" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7588" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-18T03:48:49.200" Score="38" ViewCount="749" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Story So Far (tm):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main chat for Sci-fi and Fantasy, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/a&gt;, has been slowly creeping out of line with the standard expected of all Stack Exchange chat rooms. This has meant that it has departed from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;Be Nice&lt;/a&gt; policy, at times, and this has recently come to a head. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We want to guide it back&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means making sure everyone is aware of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;Be Nice&lt;/a&gt; policy and the correct behaviour for a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7518/3804&quot;&gt;'third place'&lt;/a&gt;. Once Mos Eisley is unfrozen it will continue to be supervised somewhat more than usual by moderators, room owners, and CMs. Ultimately we want it to be an enjoyable place for people to come and chat. And like the rest of SE, we will rely on some &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;Community Moderation&lt;/a&gt;, which means users of chat taking some actions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;Be nice!&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rudeness and belittling language are not okay - &lt;em&gt;If you don't have time to say something politely, just leave it for someone who does.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be welcoming, be patient, and assume good intentions. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't be a jerk:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Name-calling&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bigotry of any kind.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Inappropriate language or attention.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Harassment and bullying.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be aware of others not acting nicely, and flag them appropriately (this will no longer result in rooms being frozen).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it keeps up, &lt;em&gt;disengage&lt;/em&gt; — we'll handle it. If something needs moderator or staff attention, you can ping a mod in chat or use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;contact us&lt;/a&gt; link at the bottom of every page.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That last point is particularly important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, the reason we need these is that chat is still a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7518/3804&quot;&gt;third place&lt;/a&gt; - chat is a public place. Don't make it uncomfortable for anyone, and if you do, be big enough to change the topic. Speak up if you see this happening, even if you're not involved. If you are involved, watch out and stop yourself short of offending someone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that sometimes moving from other places to chat might feel restricting, you might not be able to share your normal topics or tastes in humour. But we know you can share something that everyone can enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T03:48:49.200" Title="What's next for chat" Tags="|discussion|chat|community|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7091" CreationDate="2015-11-19T03:43:36.567" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only rule I've ever heard about starring a comment in chat is that a comment should be starred if it's from certain users and it contains the word 'crap.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2015-11-19T03:43:36.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4884" CreationDate="2015-11-19T21:23:24.110" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7581/a-design-update-is-coming&quot;&gt;redesign&lt;/a&gt; rolling out &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7581/a-design-update-is-coming#comment20670_7581&quot;&gt;soon&lt;/a&gt;, it'll be fixed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MHoiv.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MHoiv.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27992" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2015-11-19T21:23:24.110" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-21T20:14:56.183" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Skynet&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;....................................................................&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2015-11-21T20:14:56.183" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-21T20:16:34.460" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;42&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..............................................................&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, it's the ultimate answer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2015-11-21T20:16:34.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-21T20:20:25.537" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Omega Protocol&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..................................................................&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2015-11-21T20:20:25.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-21T20:22:07.893" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Death Star&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;............................................................&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2015-11-21T20:22:07.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-22T10:49:11.743" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wait for it.... nananana nananana &lt;em&gt;CHAT-CAVE!&lt;/em&gt;  We all show up to see the next episode, same chat time. Same chat channel. If we are going to change the name of the room, trust me. This is the right choice. It's the name we &lt;em&gt;deserve.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wu802.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wu802.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Hero&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4356" LastActivityDate="2015-11-22T10:49:11.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7598" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7600" CreationDate="2015-11-22T12:28:57.740" Score="3" ViewCount="315" Body="&lt;h2&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm aware of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7525/19561&quot;&gt;this recent similar meta question&lt;/a&gt;, but I think it's a flawed question, since it seems to be asking both &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; we should do so and &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; the new name should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This question is &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; for voting yes or no.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;(And thus not a duplicate).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Should we rename our main chatroom?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we're all aware of, we've &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7588/19561&quot;&gt;had some problems&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7517/19561&quot;&gt;our main chatroom&lt;/a&gt;. In the wake of those problems, the question was posed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7525/19561&quot;&gt;whether we should rename our chatroom&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, to make a clean break with its troublesome past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, that question got clogged by a great number of suggestions for a new name, making it impossible to get a clear answer on whether &lt;em&gt;we should rename it at all&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this question is an attempt to get an answer to the question that should be answered first:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we rename our main chatroom?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please do not leave suggestions for new names, just vote yes or no. Only up votes will be counted, down votes on either suggestion will be ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Outcome&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;With +24/-11 against +16/-10, the noes have it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-11-29T17:20:28.657" Title="Should we rename our chatroom? (yes/no)" Tags="|discussion|chat|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7598" CreationDate="2015-11-22T12:28:57.740" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should rename our main chatroom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-11-22T12:28:57.740" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-11-22T12:28:57.740" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7598" CreationDate="2015-11-22T12:31:09.843" Score="19" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should not rename our main chatroom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-11-22T12:31:09.843" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-11-22T12:31:09.843" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7601" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7604" CreationDate="2015-11-22T12:48:01.337" Score="11" ViewCount="301" Body="&lt;p&gt;The TV series &lt;em&gt;Black Mirror&lt;/em&gt; is, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;according to WikiPedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(...) a British television anthology series (...) that features speculative fiction with dark and sometimes satirical themes that examine modern society, particularly with regard to the unanticipated consequences of new technologies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also classifies it as &quot;science fiction, satire&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've only seen the first episode, &quot;National Anthem&quot;. That didn't contain any science fictional elements. Perhaps later episodes &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt;, so I'd like to know,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;are questions about &lt;em&gt;Black Mirror&lt;/em&gt; on topic?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or are they only on topic if about episodes that actually contain science fictional or fantastic elements?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2015-11-30T11:46:46.433" LastActivityDate="2015-11-30T11:46:46.433" Title="Are questions about Black Mirror on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7601" CreationDate="2015-11-22T16:16:54.400" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disclaimer:&lt;/strong&gt; I haven't actually seen the show; this opinion is just based on reading the Wikipedia pages, so take it with as many grains of salt as you like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Individual episodes should be on-topic, the show in general should not&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reading the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Black_Mirror_episodes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;plot summaries on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, I do see a fair bit of undoubtedly sci-fi content; for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In a world where people can replay everything they do, see or hear, Liam Foxwell's (Toby Kebbell) life falls apart when he gets paranoid over his wife's past relationship with a colleague.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When Martha's (Hayley Atwell) boyfriend Ash (Domhnall Gleeson) is killed on the day they move in together, she is consumed by grief and signs up for a service where she can speak to a virtual avatar of her partner based on his online communications. Martha grows to rely on this, then finds out there may be a way to bring Ash back in body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I also see a fair bit that isn't:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When Victoria Skillane (Lenora Crichlow) wakes up in a chair to find she can't recall anything about her life, she quickly learns that she is in a world where almost everyone appears to be either a psychopath or a voyeur. However as she joins in an attempt to free the people, she finds the truth to be far darker than she ever could have imagined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jamie Salter (Daniel Rigby), a failed comedian who has found unwanted success by performing the voice and movements (via performance capture) of a blue cartoon bear named Waldo, reluctantly agrees to allow his character to stand in an upcoming by-election. What begins as a piece of harmless fun however soon spirals out of control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While in normal situations I would here say that the whole show is on-topic because it exists in a universe where sci-fi things exist, that argument doesn't hold with &lt;em&gt;Black Mirror&lt;/em&gt;; according to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/dec/01/charlie-brooker-dark-side-gadget-addiction-black-mirror&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Guardian&lt;/em&gt; article&lt;/a&gt; by series creator Charlie Brooker, different episodes emphatically do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; take place in the same fictional universe:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[E]ach episode has a different cast, a different setting, even a different reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastActivityDate="2015-11-22T16:16:54.400" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7598" CreationDate="2015-11-22T17:17:20.163" Score="5" Body="&lt;h1&gt;No&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only should we not rename the chat room but which should also lock&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; discussions on this for one year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is because it is being discussed very often here and each time the answer is No. Let's use our energies to discuss something else for a time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the discussions I found (please feel free to add other duplicates):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7525/putting-it-all-behind-us-renaming-the-chatroom?lq=1&quot;&gt;Putting it all behind us - Renaming the Chatroom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5329/primary-chatroom-name-polling&quot;&gt;Primary Chatroom Name Polling&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1173/do-we-like-the-name-of-our-chatroom&quot;&gt;Do we like the name of our chatroom?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/751/what-should-we-call-our-chatroom&quot;&gt;What should we call our chatroom?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(original question)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And for completeness:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2533/why-is-the-name-of-main-chat-room-mos-eisley?lq=1&quot;&gt;Why is the name of main chat room &quot;Mos Eisley&quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perceptive people might spot a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/769/143&quot;&gt;conflict of interest&lt;/a&gt; on my part but I don't think that is my motivation: I just want to stop discussing it! And, I don't believe that people's behaviour would change even if we renamed it &lt;em&gt;&quot;My Little Pony: Sweetness and Light&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;1 By which I mean &lt;em&gt;close any questions raising this topic as a duplicate&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2015-11-22T17:17:20.163" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7601" CreationDate="2015-11-23T00:14:40.100" Score="20" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Black Mirror, of which I have watched every episode, deals with themes that are very much within the bailiwick of science-fiction.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It includes social, cultural and technological effects on societies of the near-future. The show should easily be at home here and tasteful questions regarding the show would be welcomed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2765" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-11-23T00:28:42.727" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7581" CreationDate="2015-11-23T10:43:07.213" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; It's now fixed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When sharing a link to an answer on meta.scifi.SE, the answer fades to black before &quot;snapping back&quot; to white.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To see what I mean, please click &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3359/24087&quot;&gt;this link&lt;/a&gt; to the meta answer that I first noticed it on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably, this fade to black was great when the site was darker in colour, but with the new style is simply looks broken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: As per comments, this &quot;black fade&quot; effect happens in multiple areas of the site, including &quot;show more comments&quot;, making a new post or using a link to go to a comment. An example of the comment one is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7581/updates-to-the-site/7605?noredirect=1#comment20768_7605&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24087" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2015-11-23T11:26:08.930" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7581" CreationDate="2015-11-23T10:43:25.107" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; It's now fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The newsletter ad is barely readable:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bOrX2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bOrX2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23386" LastEditorUserId="56348" LastEditDate="2015-11-30T14:18:44.243" LastActivityDate="2015-11-30T14:18:44.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7581" CreationDate="2015-11-23T10:58:40.130" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;This might not be a bug per se, rather than a criticism on the design, but it's IMHO a major issue, especially for someone used to the original design and the ideas and themes it induced and was based on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new design seems to significantly &lt;strong&gt;lack any red&lt;/strong&gt;. In fact red seems to have entirely disappeared from it, while the original design featured red quite prominently, primarily for user links. And this prominent red-blue contrast seemed to directly fit to the logo, which contrasts the (cold) blue of &lt;em&gt;Science Fiction&lt;/em&gt; with the (warm) red of &lt;em&gt;Fantasy&lt;/em&gt;. In a design that already seems to overemphasize the science-fiction aspect over the fantasy aspect (which although admittedly being a bit of an afterthought in the site's evolution has still been an integral aspect of the site for nearly its entire lifetime), this seems quite a heavy change to the ideas expressed in the design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to get back some bits of red, maybe on the user links as before? If not, then could the reasoning for this change be made a bit clearer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23386" LastEditorUserId="23386" LastEditDate="2015-11-23T11:31:53.597" LastActivityDate="2015-11-23T11:31:53.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7581" CreationDate="2015-11-23T11:38:06.990" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; It's now fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Badges on the profile look a bit cramped.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a pair of badges from my profile page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HyVNE.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HyVNE.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the badges look a little cramped, and would benefit from a small about of padding on either side. Here's a mockup of what that might look like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mQu3N.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mQu3N.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="56348" LastEditDate="2015-11-27T12:43:46.530" LastActivityDate="2015-11-27T12:43:46.530" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7581" CreationDate="2015-11-23T11:40:21.903" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; It's now fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Badges in the list of other accounts are very cramped.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the accounts part of my Activity tab:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wx0em.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wx0em.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those badges are very tightly spaced &amp;ndash; a bit of padding on the left-hand side would look a lot nicer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="56348" LastEditDate="2015-11-30T14:18:55.357" LastActivityDate="2015-11-30T14:18:55.357" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6824" CreationDate="2015-11-23T11:43:51.817" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As of today (23 November 2015), the new profiles are out on Sci-Fi &amp;amp; Fantasy SE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MXllm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MXllm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;profile&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tETJm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tETJm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;activity&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Time to celebrate! Or mourn, depending on your point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2015-11-24T00:12:26.250" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T00:12:26.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7611" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-23T15:55:21.887" Score="-3" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does anyone else feel the highlight:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;on the front page for questions in tags you are following&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;for block quotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is not pronounced enough in the new design?   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can hardly see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Votes on the question mean agreement or disagreement that it's too subtle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers:   How do we change it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastActivityDate="2015-11-23T16:17:56.353" Title="Is the highlight not pronounced enough?" Tags="|discussion|support|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2015-11-23T17:15:09.683" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7611" CreationDate="2015-11-23T16:17:56.353" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks fine to me; it looks pretty much like Stack Overflow and other sites. Are you not seeing this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FqTaj.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FqTaj.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't get me wrong, I much preferred the old color scheme (I'm partial to blues and especially cyan) but even if I don't like the colors they look easy enough to tell apart to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2015-11-23T16:17:56.353" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7581" CreationDate="2015-11-23T19:41:38.127" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt; This is intended styling. If user has already gained particular privilege, then we simply fade it out a little bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The links on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges?tab=all&quot;&gt;the privileges page&lt;/a&gt; need more contrast. They're pretty difficult to read right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CP4XN.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CP4XN.png&quot; alt=&quot;privileges list&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2015-11-26T15:54:08.557" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7614" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-24T02:03:26.177" Score="3" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/U63wC.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/U63wC.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OBkCw.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OBkCw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do the symbols on the banner image have meaning?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;some sort of cross?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;various parts (a-j) listed below:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a. crescent moon x3&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;b. creepy skull x3&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;c. through j. look like Tolkien dwarf runes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;some sort of angel, perhaps with only one wing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, I read the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/whats-meta&quot;&gt;what's meta?&lt;/a&gt; page but I'm still not sure if this is a meta-type question. I apologize if I'm doing something wrong. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54827" OwnerDisplayName="RedCaio" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T02:23:34.650" Title="What do the scifi stack exchange symbols mean?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2015-11-24T03:57:50.507" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7581" CreationDate="2015-11-24T02:26:39.817" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt; This won't be updated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site name has become too small:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EO0Qh.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EO0Qh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The title &quot;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy&quot; used to be bigger; now it's hardly any larger than the &quot;Questions&quot;, &quot;Tags&quot;, etc. buttons, yet there's still a lot of space on three sides of it. What's the reason for this change in size?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cf. e.g. the &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;English SE&lt;/a&gt;, where the site name is MUCH bigger than the &quot;Questions&quot;, &quot;Tags&quot;, etc. buttons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:38:09.780" LastActivityDate="2015-11-26T15:37:45.603" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7581" CreationDate="2015-11-24T03:02:41.673" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt; This won't be fixed. It has to stay consistent with entire Network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Favorite&quot; tagged questions are highlighted with very-pale-yellow background. May be it's just me but it seems &lt;strong&gt;too pale&lt;/strong&gt; - you can barely distinguish it from regular question's white background. Is that something specific to SFF and if so, can it be fixed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7BsPm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7BsPm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="56348" LastEditDate="2015-11-26T15:40:45.420" LastActivityDate="2015-11-26T15:40:45.420" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7617" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-24T13:52:19.050" Score="-10" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just used Ironman tag on mobile site and the site refused to accept it because there was a similar tag. Better create Ironman tag and link it to iron-man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T15:51:09.987" Title="Please, make Ironman synonym of iron-man" Tags="|feature-request|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7617" CreationDate="2015-11-24T15:51:09.987" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, because the site already does this for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YAmWI.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YAmWI.png&quot; alt=&quot;error when trying to create ironman tag&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T15:51:09.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3599" CreationDate="2015-11-24T19:06:33.827" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Does answering ID questions net less rep?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/399389/sff-top-views-and-answer-score-for-top-franchise-tags&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a variant&lt;/a&gt; of a query I used in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7105/have-story-identification-questions-overtaken-sff/7509#7509&quot;&gt;similar answer&lt;/a&gt;, we can compare the average answer score of ID questions to our other top tags. I compared our top 10 tags&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JVjFc.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JVjFc.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers to ID questions (which encompasses all of our &lt;code&gt;*-identification&lt;/code&gt; tags) have a substantially lower score than our other top tags, and are also much less likely to be accepted. What I find interesting is that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt; are scored so high relative to the ID questions. We can &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/398023/sff-top-views-and-answer-score-for-top-id-category-tags&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;go a little deeper&lt;/a&gt; to look at these stats for ID tags and a selection of the most popular &quot;category&quot; tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iDj6I.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iDj6I.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can see that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt; is a significant outlier&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although there are always going to be outliers in both directions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The highest-scored ID answer (+207) is, unsurprisingly, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2937/story-where-the-number-3-is-the-monster/105743#105743&quot;&gt;Story where the number 3 is the monster?&lt;/a&gt;, which is also the 8th highest-scored answer on the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The lowest-scored ID answer (-6) is, a three-way tie between &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/59470/story-about-a-world-where-darkness-drives-people-mad/59491#59491&quot;&gt;Story about a world where darkness drives people mad&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/48631/twilight-zone-tv-show-where-boy-transported-by-toy/60673#60673&quot;&gt;Twilight zone tv show where boy transported by toy.&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/80547/seeking-sci-fi-movie-about-a-black-man-alone-in-spaceship/80551#80551&quot;&gt;Seeking Sci-Fi movie about a black man alone in spaceship&lt;/a&gt;; at least one of those was the &lt;em&gt;correct&lt;/em&gt; answer, but got sent into downvote hell by an answerer who refused to add details&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The lowest-scored &lt;em&gt;accepted&lt;/em&gt; ID answer (-1) is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/42658/man-undergoes-cryonic-suspension-through-multiple-millennia-has-a-redhead-girl/42973#42973&quot;&gt;Man undergoes cryonic suspension, through multiple millennia. Has a redhead girl friend and they reunite in each age&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Statistically, answering ID questions is one of the least-effective ways to gain rep&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;, unless your only area of expertise is obscure non-English literature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Does answering &lt;em&gt;old&lt;/em&gt; ID questions net less rep?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sort of. &lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;, average answer score decreases the longer after the question it was posted; &lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;, answering old ID questions won't net you less reputation than answering any other kind of old question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wrote &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/398757/average-score-for-late-answers-sff-top-tags#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a query&lt;/a&gt; to compare exactly this, for the top five tags (left graph shows up to a year out, right shows only 30 days):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TMYAv.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TMYAv.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ID answers are the blue line; if you're exclusively going to answer old questions, answering ID questions is at least no worse than answering other kinds of questions, and for &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; old questions is even one of the better ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I suspect the spike on day-0 answers is at least partially due to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/31253/the-bikeshed-problem-and-stack-exchange&quot;&gt;HNQ feedback loop&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User posts an easy question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Everyone who sees the title immediately knows what the answer is (alternately, the title is intriguing or seems easy to answer), so they click on it &lt;em&gt;en masse&lt;/em&gt;; whoever gets the answer up first gets a swarm of upvotes from these people&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Huge number of views in a short time gets it on the HNQ list pretty much instantly&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Everyone on the network sees it in their sidebar, knows the answer, and jumps on; the top-voted answer gets upvoted to high heaven&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anecdotally, this is exactly what happened to me on my top four ID answers: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/104906/who-are-these-lego-superheroes/104908#104908&quot;&gt;Who are these Lego superheroes?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/106680/millionaire-mans-brain-implanted-into-female-secretarys-body/106681#106681&quot;&gt;Millionaire man&amp;#39;s brain implanted into female secretary&amp;#39;s body&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/106050/who-is-this-goblin-with-a-teapot-on-a-stick/106051#106051&quot;&gt;Who is this goblin with a teapot on a stick?&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/106763/when-did-william-shatner-have-a-relationship-with-joan-collins-in-the-1930s/106765#106765&quot;&gt;When did William Shatner have a relationship with Joan Collins in the 1930&amp;#39;s?&lt;/a&gt;. All four of them were easy IDs, and several of them had titles ripe for clicking (&quot;William Shatner and Joan Collins?!? Hellz yeah!&quot;). The HNQ list strikes again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; This probably wasn't entirely fair of me, since most &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-story&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-story&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-story&lt;/a&gt; questions, and a fair proportion of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; questions, are also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;. But you can make that argument about a few of the top tags, and that's before getting into questions like &quot;should I include &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tng&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tng&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tng&lt;/a&gt; as well as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt;?&quot;. I figrued this was easier than justifying which tags I'd cherry-picked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; Note that my first query counted any question with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt; as a &quot;Short story&quot; question. This second one counts &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; an ID tag; that drops the average answer score, but not by much. The same thing happened with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt;, but had a much larger effect; considering &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; is often used on all manner of questions, this isn't surprising&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt; Unless you're &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/28603/kyle-hale&quot;&gt;Kyle Hale&lt;/a&gt;, who has earned 4,415 rep from a single answer (at time of writing), or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/14111/user14111&quot;&gt;user14111&lt;/a&gt;, who answers pretty much nothing else&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2015-11-30T18:55:37.080" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1289" CreationDate="2015-11-25T07:03:39.077" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MEME:&lt;/strong&gt; Just because you &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; ask doesn't mean you &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator:&lt;/strong&gt; Dr. Ian Malcolm&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height&lt;/strong&gt; Currently effective Stack premise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; Paraphrased from 1993 Jurassic Park speech. Ian said it first, but OP's of the world won't listen.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4356" LastActivityDate="2015-11-25T07:03:39.077" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7621" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-25T11:20:23.300" Score="0" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I click on my user on the top bar, and then navigate to the Profile tab, I get the following error screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/error?aspxerrorpath=/users/24087/dr-r-dizzle&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/error?aspxerrorpath=/users/24087/dr-r-dizzle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This also happens whenever I try to go to another users profile. As far as I can see, private profiles are not suffering from this issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's happening?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: The error seems to have been fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24087" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2015-11-25T11:44:49.563" Title="Error when viewing profiles" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7622" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7623" CreationDate="2015-11-25T16:20:29.297" Score="19" ViewCount="276" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having just stumbled across &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7319/why-was-a-moderator-on-our-stack-asked-to-step-down&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, I'm very curious as to when the next Moderator Election will be held.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have any information?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20393" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2015-11-25T16:43:17.030" Title="When is the next Moderator Election?" Tags="|discussion|election|moderators|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7622" CreationDate="2015-11-25T16:43:17.030" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the current moderator team feels it's necessary, and time permits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the holidays, it'd probably be best to not hold one any sooner than January; whether one is necessary &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; is a decision the current moderator team should make based on their availability and workload.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastActivityDate="2015-11-25T16:43:17.030" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7581" CreationDate="2015-11-25T16:56:24.577" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Issue with a moderation tool:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just handled a flag for a post with many comments.  When I clicked the 'move comments to chat' button, I get this useless little overlay:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iCwlQ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iCwlQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;overlay with just a close button&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Inspecting the element shows there's no text in the overlay, which seems odd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gR4wx.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gR4wx.png&quot; alt=&quot;overlay element, inspected&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure if this is the new design or an underlying bug.  I think that overlay is supposed to have a link to the chatroom in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Steps to reproduce:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On Mac OS X Yosemite running Firefox 42.0, notice a 'post has 20 comments flag' and navigate to the post's page.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click the 'move comments to chat' button.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Observe little blue overlay.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2015-12-10T20:15:28.563" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T20:15:28.563" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7625" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-26T00:15:08.853" Score="7" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qm1z0.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qm1z0.png&quot; alt=&quot;rep count&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vNYqZ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vNYqZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;rep count without highlighting&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Left is highlighted text, Right is without the text being highlighted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of the black background we use in SFF the rep count is never displayed properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Np3CO.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Np3CO.png&quot; alt=&quot;white rep count&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest we simply change the rep flair to white. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cSs0Q.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cSs0Q.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted it's not really important at all, but it's a trivial change (depending on who manages the CSS)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22709" LastEditorUserId="43936" LastEditDate="2015-11-27T15:56:17.747" LastActivityDate="2015-11-27T15:56:17.747" Title="Can we make a minor tweak to the SFF chat CSS?" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2474" CreationDate="2015-11-26T22:02:01.333" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/56366/eliezer-yudkowsky&quot;&gt;Eliezer Yudkowsky&lt;/a&gt;, author of the famous &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; fan fiction &lt;em&gt;Methods of Rationality&lt;/em&gt;, contributed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/108803/31051&quot;&gt;an answer&lt;/a&gt; to a question about his work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/5625/eliezer-yudkowsky&quot;&gt;Another (unregistered) user&lt;/a&gt; had previously used the name &quot;Eliezer Yudkowsky&quot; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/14076/in-harry-potter-and-the-methods-of-rationality-should-the-reader-just-negate-qu/14143#14143&quot;&gt;answer a &lt;em&gt;MOR&lt;/em&gt; question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-11-27T02:59:44.727" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7581" CreationDate="2015-11-27T01:10:22.970" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; It's now fixed and will be live after our next production build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The green checkmarks for accepted answers have become unclear as a result of the background lines becoming bolder and more defined:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vJqb4.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vJqb4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same problem exists with the upvote and downvote arrows, but they're not quite as bad (IMO). Would it be possible to change them back to how they looked before, with the background lines being much weaker so that it's clear that thing is a tick?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is especially important for new users. When they're not used to the site, they may not know about the practice of accepting the correct answer, and it's much easier to ask them to &quot;click on the checkmark on the left&quot; than &quot;click on that grey patterned circle below the vote count - no, not the downvote button, the one below that&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="56348" LastEditDate="2015-11-30T14:17:19.500" LastActivityDate="2015-11-30T14:17:19.500" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7581" CreationDate="2015-11-27T08:42:29.837" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The RSS link for a given tag runs into the right sidebar.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To replicate this, go to any the question list for any tag. It is particularly evident on a tab without many questions to display, where it overlaps the text in the sidebar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe?sort=unanswered&amp;amp;pageSize=50&quot;&gt;unanswered questions tab&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IL6E6.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IL6E6.png&quot; alt=&quot;overlapping text&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2015-12-13T23:56:38.150" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7625" CreationDate="2015-11-27T15:56:10.863" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is now implemented as of chat build 341.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43936" LastActivityDate="2015-11-27T15:56:10.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7525" CreationDate="2015-11-28T14:53:15.407" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;My choice is the name of the recreation room aboard the JMC mining ship &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/red-dwarf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;red-dwarf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;red-dwarf&lt;/a&gt;, which is...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The Recreation Room&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4495" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-11-28T14:53:15.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7632" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-29T23:14:54.303" Score="2" ViewCount="327" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed there are a few &lt;em&gt;Toy Story&lt;/em&gt; questions on the site. There are also the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/toy-story-2+toy-story&quot;&gt;Toy Story&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/toy-story-2&quot;&gt;Toy Story 2&lt;/a&gt; tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should they be closed for being off-topic? I fail to see how &lt;em&gt;Toy Story&lt;/em&gt; is sci-fi or fantasy as neither magic nor other fantastical elements are used to bring the toys to life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5119/4678&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; simply having talking animals does not make it fantasy, I would argue the same is true for talking toys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2015-11-29T23:39:57.477" Title="Are Toy Story questions on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7632" CreationDate="2015-11-29T23:25:03.840" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Toy Story&lt;/em&gt; is fantasy because the characters (toys) in the show act as sentient, which is decidedly &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; reality. So, no, these questions should not be closed as they are on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In reference to your edit, &lt;em&gt;Toy Story&lt;/em&gt; does cover a key point in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5119/4678&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; you referenced:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Their speaking was somehow fantastical to the other characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The talking rats in Ratatouille would certainly fall into the latter category. There's no specific evidence of how they became intelligent but it's clear from the scenes in the film that animal sentience certainly isn't a normal feature of that universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that they go to lengths to hide their sentience from humans, I would argue that their speaking would be fantastical to the other (human) characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Regardless, such a question about Toy Story should deal with the fantastical elements of the story to be on-topic.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4678" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-11-29T23:39:27.397" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7634" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-30T16:14:38.707" Score="14" ViewCount="264" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm having some trouble understanding why my &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/69348&quot;&gt;suggested edit&lt;/a&gt; to this question was rejected:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/95802/do-we-have-a-copy-of-captain-jonathan-archers-final-speech-in-the-final-episode&quot;&gt;Do we have a copy of Captain Jonathan Archer&amp;#39;s final speech in the final episode of the series Enterprise &amp;quot;These are the voyages?&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is a few paragraphs long, but the vast majority of it is just the asker talking about how he much he hated the final episode but liked the show Enterprise overall. None of this is relevant to the question, and really has no place in a SE post (we're a Q&amp;amp;A site, not a blog or discussion forum). So because it was just a lot of irrelevant fluff, I stripped it all out of the question and modified it to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The final episode of Enterprise had a lot of build-up to a dramatic speech by Archer at the formation of the foundation of the Federation, but we never get to  heat it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we have Captain Archer's speech from &amp;quot;These are the Voyages&amp;quot; in written form that I can read? Was there an audio recording or even better a video of it that might be a deleted scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, my edit was rejected because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This edit deviates from the original intent of the post. Even edits that must make drastic changes should strive to preserve the goals of the post's owner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that isn't the case at all. The original intent of the post was that the asker wanted to hear the speech Archer gave in the final episode, since  it's exclusion hurt the users enjoyment of the finale. The opening paragraph about how much he loves the series, along with the other paragraph about how much he hated the finale and the link to fan reception isn't relevant to that at all. It's the kind of thing that belongs on a blog or chat room, not in a SE question, and all it does is clog up the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, given that, I really don't understand why my edit was rejected, because it doesn't make any sense to me. Could someone clarify?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2091" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T21:28:32.130" Title="Why was my suggested edit to this Enterprise question rejected?" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edit|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7581" CreationDate="2015-11-30T16:50:13.567" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a broad issue I have with the new design: The design on the main site and meta are too similar.  In the old design, I could tell at a glance if I was on meta or the main site because of the wildly different color schemes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like the main differentiator between main and meta is the top banner, but that's a pretty minor difference, and it vanishes if you've scrolled down a bit.  Once you've scrolled down enough to see the question and answer bodies, there's no big indicator that you're looking at meta vs main.  It looks like the colors between the two are ever so slightly different.  The text on meta looks a little lighter to my eyes when I do a side by side comparison. But there's no way I can keep track of that minor difference to keep track of which is which.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2015-11-30T16:50:13.567" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7634" CreationDate="2015-11-30T16:55:09.313" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I speak only for myself; two other people reviewed this post (one accepted and one other rejected), but this is my thought process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I rejected because I was on the fence, and erred on the side of the OP's sovereignty.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can appreciate why you'd suggest the edit; the question is phrased a bit abrasively, and the OP spends (what I feel to be) an excessive amount of time setting up context. So yeah, I can appreciate why you'd propose it, and I understand why another reviewer approved it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, providing context isn't an altogether bad thing. It's certainly not uncommon to include some background information on what prompted the question, and it's not wholly bad to do so; understanding the motivation for asking can help answerers frame their answer in a way that's more helpful to the OP's specific problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can argue over whether that applies in this specific case; I did, and wasn't really able to convince myself one way or the other. The OP provided context, which isn't bad; the context was ranty, which &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; bad; the rant isn't rude or abusive, which isn't bad. Is the context actually useful to answerers? I don't know; my familiarity with the extended &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; &quot;canon&quot; is limited at best. The answer on the question did include information related to the general dissatisfaction with the episode (the subject of the OP's context/rant), so maybe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In absence of a firmer deciding reason, I fell back on sovereignty. Although we don't legally have a say in how the content we post on SE is modified&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, as a courtesy we typically give the OP primacy with respect to content, except where it violates &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;Rule #1&lt;/a&gt;. I found it hard to justify to myself that the OP's context/rant really violated that policy (although the sentiment could have been expressed more tactfully), so I rejected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Per the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/legal/terms-of-service&quot;&gt;terms of service&lt;/a&gt;, it's permanently and irrevocably licensed to StackExchange, Inc., and they (or anyone else on the network) can modify it as they see fit&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T21:28:32.130" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7637" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-30T21:33:24.343" Score="-6" ViewCount="318" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I have already watched &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;. And, the movie is easily available for everyone (won't disclose the source as SE doesn't allow sharing illegal things). So, I think lots of people would be able to answer my questions too (otherwise, it'd be pointless).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I ask The Force Awakens questions now (Spoilers would be hidden)? Or, would such questions get closed because of our future works policy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think that Future Works policy shouldn't be applicable because it's not longer a future work for lots of people. So, questions and answers won't be guesswork. But, I want to discuss it with the community because it's a special case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2015-12-01T07:49:32.300" Title="Would my The Force Awakens questions get closed if I ask them right now?" Tags="|discussion|support|questions|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7637" CreationDate="2015-11-30T21:53:12.873" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would be a distinction between a work being &lt;em&gt;available&lt;/em&gt; and a work being &lt;em&gt;released&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A work being &lt;em&gt;available&lt;/em&gt; just means you've seen/consumed it it; a leaked &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; movie, or an accidentally-released &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A work being &lt;em&gt;released&lt;/em&gt; means that the producer has decided to make it available in your region, as with &lt;em&gt;Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt; being released internationally weeks before it was released in North America.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To my mind, the Future-Works policy is more concerned with when works are &lt;em&gt;released&lt;/em&gt;, rather than merely when they're &lt;em&gt;available&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; way you can see the movie is to download it illegally, I have a hard time calling that &quot;released.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="31051" LastEditDate="2015-12-01T01:49:23.293" LastActivityDate="2015-12-01T01:49:23.293" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7637" CreationDate="2015-11-30T22:25:21.860" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would be happy with a policy that said it was askable when it's answerable. The only repeatable metric, for its answerability is its release date. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise anyone can say they have an answer,  and that isn't verifiable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2015-11-30T22:25:21.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7637" CreationDate="2015-11-30T22:29:43.170" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm admittedly not that sure about the general intricacies of the &quot;future works&quot; policy and its application to your case of a not-so-future work. But seeing that it's AFAIK primarily intended to prevent ungrounded speculation about a work noone knows anything about, it doesn't seem to apply that much in your case. When looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5188/23386&quot;&gt;why &quot;future works&quot; are bad&lt;/a&gt; it seems this doesn't really apply to a question that asks about the specific content of a movie you have definitely seen. You're not asking &lt;em&gt;&quot;Where is Luke Skywalker in TFA?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; without having seen it. You're asking &lt;em&gt;&quot;Why did Luke have to kill Han only to stop Leia from turning to the dark side?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;clearly address an audience that &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; seen the movie&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, adressing a different viewpoint on the matter regarding the issue of asking a question about something you supposedly watched in some illegal way, then &lt;strong&gt;I don't think that this is of the community's concern so much at all&lt;/strong&gt;. While assuming piracy might be a reasonable deduction, we just don't know. And even more than that, it seems irrelevant. &lt;strong&gt;As long as the question does not propagate or encourage piracy or link to pirated content, it seems not relevant where and how the asker has watched the movie or read a book.&lt;/strong&gt; And in the end, he might as well have watched it in a preview screening as a journalist, or even a sneak preview accessible to any public moviegoer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise might there very well be questions about already released movies asked by people who also watched a pirated copy, but we don't worry about those either, since neither can we prove anything nor does it matter for the site or the question. (Likewise we wouldn't talk about this matter had the question been asked some days later, which makes the whole problem somehow &lt;em&gt;&quot;too localized&quot;&lt;/em&gt; anyway.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And last but not least and while I know a precedent doesn't necessarily make a rule, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/91458/23386&quot;&gt;existing&lt;/a&gt; questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/90690/23386&quot;&gt;about&lt;/a&gt; the leaked &lt;em&gt;Supergirl&lt;/em&gt; pilot episode asked before its official release and apparently left untouched might be of at least related interest on the matter (hell, there's even &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/05/supergirl-leaked-pilot-an-almost-completely-spoiler-free-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a whole blog post&lt;/a&gt; on it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2015-12-01T01:54:06.517" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7637" CreationDate="2015-12-01T02:45:29.500" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If content is available to the general public (and thus community) &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; through illegal activity/pirating, then I would not say it's &quot;easily available&quot; for everyone. While our website is generally made of tech-savvy individuals, not every user is tech-savvy enough to understand how to safely pirate content without reprisal from the MPAA and their ISP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are other obstacles in the way of acquiring such content, namely the moral and ethical dilemmas for many users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking questions about such works that aren't intended to have yet been seen by our community of &quot;science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts&quot; is needlessly exclusionary. While there may be the occasional journalist or industry person on the site that could respond to such questions, the heart of the matter is not the question or the answers, but the voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can the community vote if they have no reasonable way of &lt;em&gt;safely&lt;/em&gt; verifying the information, or otherwise trust the credibility of the responding user?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I doubt it'll be a VTC, if it's obvious you've seen the work and have a question based on actual viewing. But, I suspect you may not garner as much attention as you would as waiting until the general public has seen it. So, the community may vote by not voting at all. By asking early, you'll attract a much smaller pool of people to answer, and then might be sacrificing quality for immediate (maybe) gratification (maybe).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I'd wait until the day of release (wherever it's earliest), to ask, just to get as much attention to the question as possible, or even wait until the opening weekend is over, unless you think someone else might ask the question before you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2015-12-01T02:45:29.500" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7637" CreationDate="2015-12-01T03:48:38.617" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This whole section of Stack Exchange, Science Fiction and Fantasy, is about works of fiction.  That makes this site, among other things, a celebration of the hard work of many writers of fiction, along with the producers, directors, other crewmembers, and casts of the finished works.  We depend on these people to create the content we love and on which this site is based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is another question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2474/1693&quot;&gt;Have we had ANY professionals participate in SFF?&lt;/a&gt;) in Meta about whether we have had any professionals participate in this forum.  Such participation is to be desired and good for the community and this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Supporting illegal (and many of these authors would argue, immoral and even damaging) distribution of material on this site would not only discourage their participation, but is a slap in their face and a showing of extreme disrespect.  I follow several SF writers on FB and feel that if an appropriate question showed up, I could send them the link to see if they want to answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this site is going to accept questions that can only be asked by people watching illegal pirate copies, then it is not only supporting or giving an implicit acceptance of such activity, but it also discourages the participation of professionals in the industry and is quite disrespectful to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a chance to have some of my work shot soon by an indie film crew.  If someone asked me to visit a site and answer some questions, and I found out that site was accepting questions on pirated and unreleased works, I would shun that site in the future and probably cease communication with the person who invited me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's rude and disrespectful to those who create the content to allow questions in this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2015-12-01T03:48:38.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7637" CreationDate="2015-12-01T07:49:32.300" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several times in the past, an illegally-distributed copy of a movie turned out to be different than the final, theatrical release. The example that pops to my mind is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men_Origins:_Wolverine#Leaked_workprint&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;X-Men Origins: Wolverine&lt;/a&gt;, which had a nearly-complete-but-not-quite copy circulate around the torrenting circuits, downloaded (by some estimates) 4.5 million times before it was released to theaters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given these examples, and the many discussions that come up in meta related to canonicity of specific &lt;em&gt;versions&lt;/em&gt; of source materials, I think it's best to wait for an official release, and consider the existing copies - even if they turn out to be identical to the final release - to be merely &quot;work drafts&quot;, and not the actual work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4516" LastActivityDate="2015-12-01T07:49:32.300" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7644" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7645" CreationDate="2015-12-02T00:25:03.780" Score="3" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have recently asked a few questions on Star Wars:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/109260/are-old-order-storm-trooper-helmets-more-sight-restrictive-than-clone-helmets&quot;&gt;Are old-order storm trooper helmets sight restrictive?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/109139/did-any-jedi-in-the-old-republic-employ-prostitutes&quot;&gt;Did any Jedi in the Old-Republic employ prostitutes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The basic formatting of these questions is &quot;does this occur in any canon, and if so, where?&quot; Are these on topic? On the one hand there could be canon on the subject. On the other side the answer could just as easily be a no, there is no canon. Is this kind of question on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not believe this has been addressed here, and my question does not appear on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;list of donts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38409" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T06:22:50.750" Title="Are &quot;does this appear in canon and if so, where&quot; questions on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7644" CreationDate="2015-12-02T00:55:28.143" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, they are on-topic.&lt;/strong&gt; Quite apart from Ixrec's observation (in a comment on the question) that many questions on the site boil down to &amp;quot;find me a canon example of X happening, I want to address the concerns you raise individually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;There might not be a canon answer&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might be true, but knowing this seems an unreasonable burden to place on askers and close-voters. As Kevin points out in an answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3014/should-all-questions-without-explicit-canon-answers-be-closed&quot;&gt;to a related meta question&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Q]uestions should not be closed on the grounds that they don't have a canon answer, and I want to specially emphasize one particular point: the only way to know a question is unanswerable given canon is to know all canon in a universe, an unreasonable bar to set for most topics asked about here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a similar reason, one of the rules of thumb for close-voters is that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5194/should-one-know-at-least-some-canon-of-a-question-theyre-preparing-to-vtc&quot;&gt;you shouldn't VTC a question because &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; don't think there's a canon answer&lt;/a&gt;. It's astonishing what kind of information someone might dredge up from obscure sources&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, this is the biggest reason I'm opposed to making these questions off-topic&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As an &lt;strong&gt;asker&lt;/strong&gt;, how am I to know my question is off-topic? Even if I came to meta and saw the post saying &amp;quot;Questions with no canon answer are off-topic&amp;quot;, if I knew there was (or wasn't) a canon answer, I wouldn't need to ask the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As a &lt;strong&gt;close voter&lt;/strong&gt;, how am I to know there's no canon answer? Restricting close votes only to those people who have encyclopaedic knowledge of all aspects of a work (including all works of arguable canonicity: licensed fanon (like the &lt;em&gt;Star Wars Legends&lt;/em&gt; universe or &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; book series), author interviews, what-have-you) would limit our pool of close voters to essentially no-one&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;New canon might disqualify old answers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is undeiniably true, but I don't see it as a problem. It's also not something unique to us; a huge number of answers on StackOverflow become outdated when a new version of the relevant standard is released. The mechanics of the network are even designed around it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Askers can change their mind on accepted answers if a better one comes along&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;Existing answers are outdated&amp;quot; is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/117202/how-best-to-request-a-particular-question-topic-to-be-revisited-addressed-accord/&quot;&gt;bounty reason&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is just a fact of life if we're going to be dealing with on-going series. You might reasonably reply that we should limit our scope to series that have ended, but I'm not comfortable with that either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It somewhat arbitrarily limits the topics we can ask about&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It locks us out of topics that are currently popular, which help drive both new traffic/new users and new questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the long run, &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; series is ongoing: &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; canon &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Cursed_Child&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;is continuing&lt;/a&gt;, eight years after &lt;em&gt;Deathly Hallows&lt;/em&gt; was released; The &lt;em&gt;Hitchhiker's Guide&lt;/em&gt; series &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Another_Thing..._(novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;continued&lt;/a&gt; after Douglas Adams died; &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children_of_H%C3%BArin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;new&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; works &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/23/jrr-tolkien-middle-earth-annotated-map-blackwells-lord-of-the-rings&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;by Tolkien&lt;/a&gt; are occasionally released.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although not strictly relevant for our purposes, I learned today that there's a remake of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102685/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Point Break&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; being released soon, fourteen years after the first one was released. There's always more canon to be had&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just as it doesn't seem reasonable to close questions that don't have canon answers &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt;, it doesn't seem reasonable to close them because answers &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be released later&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;They might never get answered&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is sad, but not to my mind a reason to make the class of questions off-topic. We have a bounty system designed partially to prevent this, and there are two badges (&amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/59/revival&quot;&gt;Revival&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/44/necromancer&quot;&gt;Necromancer&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;) incentivizing answering old questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Forbidding these kinds of questions seems like a rather drastic way to avoid the problem of unanswered, abandoned questions, and one that provides questionable benefit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We don't actually have &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; many unanswered questions. According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/408343&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this query&lt;/a&gt;, only 4.76% of non-deleted questions are unclosed with zero answers. That's less than 1300 out of over 26000&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are no space-saving benefits. Frankly, I found this to be an odd objection. There's no metric whereby forbidding this class of question saves us anything, except for numbers on the question counter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It doesn't save StackExchange any server space. SE keeps a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of data. Like, a lot a lot. I notice you have the &amp;quot;See deleted posts&amp;quot; privilege on WorldBuilding, which means you know that SE also keeps every post that was &lt;em&gt;ever&lt;/em&gt; posted&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;, even if it was deleted. Even if the data associated with these questions wasn't a drop in the proverbial bucket of what SE keeps track of, they'd hold onto all that data anyway&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It doesn't save us any screen real estate. People are &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; going to ask these questions, even if we ban them (according to the 10K tools, we've had 77 off-topic closures in the past 90 days, and 66 Primarily Opinion-Based). So all we'd accomplish is having a whole bunch of closed questions sitting on the front page, unless they got extensively downvoted, which is unlikely&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Which, in this context, usually means one of Richard's ludicrous collection of novelizations, but might just as easily mean an old interview, or even a conversation someone had with the creator (or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2474/have-we-had-any-professionals-participate-in-sff/&quot;&gt;the creator themselves&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; Questions about future works are a slightly special case, but that issue has been given much fairer treatment elsewhere. Even those questions aren't off-topic, but are put on-hold &lt;em&gt;temporarily&lt;/em&gt;; the intention has always been that they will be re-opened&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt; I suppose it's possible that there are some posts SE doesn't keep in the database, but I don't know of any&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T06:22:50.750" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7646" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-02T10:50:47.067" Score="14" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you include an image in an answer, you can specify the alt text of the image in brackets.  In some posts, the image is an integral part of the answer, in which case the alt text is essential.  Examples are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/109295/4918&quot;&gt;&quot;Are there police in the Wizarding World?&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (with a poster from the Harry Potter movie shown as evidence) or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/109236/4918&quot;&gt;&quot;Why did Harry name his child after Snape?&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (with Twitter posts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is all great, but there's a problem.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/174880/222298&quot;&gt;The alt text is not searchable by the search box&lt;/a&gt;.  (Also, very often, external search engines like Google prefer not to search in the alt text either, probably to avoid certain misuses of text that is often invisible.)  Thus, such answers are difficult to search for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When this is the case, I can work around the search problem by including the transcription or description of the image not only as the alt text, but also as plain text content under the image.  I can certainly do this in my posts, but should I also edit other posters' posts this way when it seems useful? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2015-12-04T13:24:18.043" Title="Can I put image transcriptions to posts as text for searchability?" Tags="|discussion|editing|search|images|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7646" CreationDate="2015-12-02T15:45:22.797" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see why not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Images should &lt;em&gt;support&lt;/em&gt; the answer; they should not &lt;em&gt;be&lt;/em&gt; the answer.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;In theory&lt;/em&gt;, images in answers should be self-documenting; the context around the image should adequately describe what the image contains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/55044/does-batman-use-linux/55045#55045&quot;&gt;Richard's answer here&lt;/a&gt; contains two images, which act as evidence for the claims made around them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 1960s Batman series used a modified &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=cray&quot;&gt;Burroughs Corporation B205&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AMWpq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Burroughs Corporation B205&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[...]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The panel below shows that the BatComputer uses seven Cray T932 &amp;quot;plug-in units&amp;quot; to provide backup processing power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1Vb8U.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1Vb8U.png&quot; alt=&quot;BATCOMPUTER COMPONENTS&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer is consequently pretty easy to reach through the search box; searching for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=cray&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;cray&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=burroughs+computer&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;burroughs computer&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; (not just &amp;quot;burroughs&amp;quot;; that mostly turns up &lt;em&gt;A Princess of Mars&lt;/em&gt;) quickly gets us where we need to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;In practice&lt;/em&gt;, there's always room for another set of eyes; sometimes we don't get it right. If you can improve an answer by adding text context, I see absolutely no reason to prevent you; I can't imagine a single situation where the above answer is inferior to this (invented) one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AMWpq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Burroughs Corporation B205&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1Vb8U.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1Vb8U.png&quot; alt=&quot;BATCOMPUTER COMPONENTS&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would, however, be cautious about adding descriptions in places where some already exists; I'm not sure how you would improve Richard's (actual) answer, above, by further describing his images; to me, an edit along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 1960s Batman series used a modified &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=cray&quot;&gt;Burroughs Corporation B205&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AMWpq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Burroughs Corporation B205&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above image depicts Robin operating a Burroughs computer labelled &amp;quot;Navigational Aid Computer&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would just be noise&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;. As always, make sure you're &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; improving a post when you edit it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; From a searchability perspective, anyway. There's an accessibility argument too, but accessibility content should be restricted to alt-text anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-12-04T13:24:18.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7648" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-02T22:47:16.857" Score="4" ViewCount="329" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am new to this discussion and trying to wrap my head around the terms I see on this site. Certainly, &quot;In-universe&quot; comes up all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it mean in a certain version of a story. For example, the difference between the story in Star Trek 2009 and Star Trek?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56643" OwnerDisplayName="Jerry Nixon - TOS" LastActivityDate="2015-12-02T23:10:57.577" Title="What does &quot;In-universe&quot; mean?" Tags="|discussion|terminology|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-12-03T01:49:10.113" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7648" CreationDate="2015-12-02T23:10:23.497" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;In-universe&quot; means that it is something valid or correct &lt;strong&gt;from the point of view of fictional story (or a universe of stories, e.g. Harry Potter)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is opposite of &quot;out of universe&quot;, aka &quot;outside the 4th wall&quot; - things which are true in our real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good example of in-universe vs. out-of-universe information is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q:&lt;/strong&gt; Why did this character on fiction TV show die?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A: (in-universe)&lt;/strong&gt;: Because this other character was a son of a person the first character killed, and they wanted revenge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A: (out-of-universe)&lt;/strong&gt;: Because the character was played by an actor who was demanding a salary too high for the budget.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" OwnerDisplayName="DVK" LastActivityDate="2015-12-02T23:10:23.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7651" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-03T10:45:16.033" Score="5" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that we don't currently have a tag designed to support the DCEU (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_Extended_Universe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DC Extended Universe&lt;/a&gt;) in the same way that we have a tag for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, so I created it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-extended-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-extended-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-extended-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've retagged all the current questions about &lt;em&gt;Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice&lt;/em&gt; in order to reflect this, but we currently have 42 questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/man-of-steel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;man-of-steel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;man-of-steel&lt;/a&gt; that, in my eyes, should be retagged to also include &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-extended-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-extended-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-extended-universe&lt;/a&gt; thanks to the precedent (which I support) set by the way we use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the process for doing this, and should we do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24087" LastEditorUserId="24087" LastEditDate="2015-12-03T16:39:45.837" LastActivityDate="2015-12-03T16:39:45.837" Title="Creation of the DC Extended Universe tag" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7652" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7653" CreationDate="2015-12-04T17:13:42.170" Score="4" ViewCount="244" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since people can't keep their grubby little paws off other people's questions, we now have to have the community decide on how to name this question properly: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/109234/29220&quot;&gt;Why did this character name his son after Snape?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was initially &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Why did Harry Potter name his son after Snape?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but a few users said it was spoilerish so a mod stepped in and removed the spoilers from the title, and then 24634 other users thought they would contribute and override the mod's decision. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29220" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2015-12-06T04:15:28.317" Title="What should the title of this Harry Potter question be?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7652" CreationDate="2015-12-04T17:21:29.487" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the current title of, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why did this character name his s̶e̶c̶o̶n̶d̶ son after Snape?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is a perfect spoiler free title, that fits my, the questions author, intent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is also essentially what Pureferret originally changed it to, to edit out spoilers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29220" LastEditorUserId="29220" LastEditDate="2015-12-06T04:15:28.317" LastActivityDate="2015-12-06T04:15:28.317" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7652" CreationDate="2015-12-04T17:39:37.043" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I might also suggest &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why is this character named after Snape?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as this makes it less obvious that it is someone's child.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2015-12-04T17:39:37.043" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7652" CreationDate="2015-12-04T21:15:06.677" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My suggestion was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why did Harry honor Snape this way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an aside, it'd be easy to rewrite the question to have the appropriate spoiler tag, without hiding the whole question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Pertaining to the events in the Epilogue of the series, also seen at the end of the last film, why would Harry  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;name one of his sons Albus &lt;em&gt;Severus&lt;/em&gt; Potter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all those years of distrusting, and being bullied by Snape, does Harry every give a reason for doing this, or has JKR ever expanded on why?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2015-12-04T21:15:06.677" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7581" CreationDate="2015-12-06T16:41:13.147" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Progress towards tag badges on my profile aren't updating.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several days ago I set my target tag badge to be the silver &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; badge, and ever since then my progress towards it has shown as exactly the same, even though I've posted a few &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; answers since then:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/I00lN.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/I00lN.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;tag badge progress&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These numbers have been stuck on the same figures for a week or so now, even though the numbers shown on my Tags tab are different:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Iom9u.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Iom9u.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;tag scores&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surely this is a bug. On other Stacks I've been active on since the new profiles came out, the scores in the tag badge progress box updated at the same time as the scores in the Tags tab: &lt;strong&gt;daily&lt;/strong&gt;. But here they're not updating daily or even weekly, and I suspect they may not be updating at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2015-12-06T16:41:13.147" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2017" CreationDate="2015-12-06T17:50:48.617" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;More than 3 years later, but...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just cast the final vote to &lt;strong&gt;undelete this question&lt;/strong&gt;, bringing it back into the public eye. For good measure I also &lt;strong&gt;voted to reopen&lt;/strong&gt;, just to get it onto the review queue so that people are aware of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2015-12-06T17:50:48.617" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7658" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7659" CreationDate="2015-12-06T17:53:43.467" Score="8" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few days ago, I tried to submit an answer and was surprised when a captcha popup appeared, requiring me to tick an &quot;I'm not a robot&quot; box and possibly pick out some pictures before continuing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why should we have to do captchas while logged in?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system clearly recognised that I was logged in to my SE account. I've been around on this site for over a year and have got nearly all the rep-based privileges; why should I need to prove I'm not a robot at this stage?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(The result of this delay was that another user posted a near-identical answer first and got the accepted answer instead of&lt;/sub&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;me. However, this isn't the first time it's happened.)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it makes a difference, my internet connection at the time was very slow and dodgy. I'd already tried to submit the answer a couple of times and just got an error message since the page wasn't loading. The captcha was also very slow to work. In the end I opened another window and posted the answer there, and succeeded without needing to complete a captcha test.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2015-12-07T15:56:40.250" Title="Why do I have to do captchas while logged in?" Tags="|discussion|support|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7658" CreationDate="2015-12-06T18:48:32.760" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being a high-rep, logged-in user doesn't automatically solve the problems CAPTCHA is aiming to solve. Although it certainly means you weren't &lt;em&gt;intended&lt;/em&gt; to be a spambot, it doesn't preclude you from &lt;em&gt;becoming&lt;/em&gt; one; what if some malware got onto your computer and hijacked your account info?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I'm of the opinion that high-rep users should have &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; CAPTCHAs, simply because we can do more damage if our accounts are compromised. But, as it stands, we already get less; per the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/164899/the-complete-rate-limiting-guide/164900#164900&quot;&gt;Complete Rate-Limiting Guide&lt;/a&gt;, 10k+ users get CAPTCHAs on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your second question posted within 30 seconds&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your second answer posted within 30 seconds&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your second edit within 10 seconds, or if it takes you less than 5 seconds to edit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sub-10K users are limited on the same actions, but the numbers are generally doubled&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think anyone is going to argue that CAPTCHAs are a perfect system; I'm certainly not trying to. But they do solve a problem and, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.codinghorror.com/designing-for-evil/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jeff said in a blog post&lt;/a&gt; (emphasis his):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you design your software, &lt;strong&gt;work under the assumption that some of your users will be evil&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[...]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because when good is dumb, evil will always triumph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; The major exception to this is on answering; users with less than 125 rep can only post one answer every 3 minutes, so they don't trip an additional CAPTCHA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other exception is on short edits; all users get a CAPTCHA on edits that take less than five seconds&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-12-07T15:56:40.250" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7105" CreationDate="2015-12-08T00:20:24.030" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like them....my major annoyance with them (which is implied by Jason Baker's wonderful data and analysis) is when a first time user pops in, asks one, I answer it correctly, and then they never show up again to accept it.  Grrr.  Ironically, my highest voted answer on this site is one of these.  But I still like them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS, I came to the site to ask one (which was answered) and have stayed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28516" LastActivityDate="2015-12-08T00:20:24.030" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7661" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7662" CreationDate="2015-12-08T12:34:53.013" Score="2" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, I'll be honest, I already have a ton of questions regarding The Force Awakens and the 30 years aged Galaxy that is so Far Far Away.  However, some of these questions might be answered in this movie, they may be answered in supplemental texts (such as comics or novels) or, potentially, upcoming TV shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, I wanted to check and see if it is within the terms to ask &lt;em&gt;concrete&lt;/em&gt; questions, which have specific answers that we can't reliably answer today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My point is to stack the questions on this site so that as people find the information, that can fill in the details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EXAMPLE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just so you can get a feel for what I'm thinking, I would like to ask &quot;Why is C-3PO's left arm red?&quot;  This is a good question and from my snooping, we can't hope to find that out in the coming movie.  However, it has been mentioned that this minor detail will likely be addressed in a future comic book. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a specific answer to this, and I'm not interested in fan speculation.  However, since I'm probably not going to read a comic book nor pay attention to when it will be released, I would like to go ahead and ask the question so that some future-guru can fill in the blanks with reliable details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this behavior allowed within the Q&amp;amp;A TOS?  My gut says that technically, yes, but this would be frowned upon with potential downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5493" LastActivityDate="2015-12-08T12:53:09.950" Title="Ep. VII: So many questions and none that can be answered... yet! Is this allowed?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7661" CreationDate="2015-12-08T12:53:09.950" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a community, we've had this discussion in the past, over questions that will likely be answered by some upcoming, as-yet-unpublished work. You can see the discussion and ultimate consensus here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5187/should-questions-about-future-works-be-closed-as-primarily-opinion-based&quot;&gt;Should questions about future works be closed as Primarily Opinion Based?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The basic policy is: if the question is asking about something that hasn't been answered &lt;em&gt;yet&lt;/em&gt; but might be answered in the &lt;em&gt;future&lt;/em&gt;, it is likely to get closed (since any answers would be speculative and opinion-based.) At the point in the future where the answer is revealed, in theory we can simply ask for the question to be re-opened and answer it then. (In practice, this relies on the asker and answers to keep up with the status of the questions -- favorite them, etc. -- which is hard to guarantee.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if the question is asking about out-of-universe information: press releases, trailers, interviews, ComicCon reveals, etc., that would typically not fall under the future works policy. Of course, the answer to those questions is often just &quot;no, we don't know&quot;, making them much less interesting and likely to attract negative voting attention from the regulars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2015-12-08T12:53:09.950" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3282" CreationDate="2015-12-09T04:09:54.020" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This appears to have been fixed in the recent CSS updates around the user flair box&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/76194/how-did-the-master-escape-from-the-eye-of-harmony/76196#76196&quot;&gt;How did the Master escape from the Eye of Harmony?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YjRNa.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YjRNa.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/109909/what-was-the-benefit-of-the-belts-given-by-galadriel-to-3-fellowship-members&quot;&gt;What was the benefit of the belts given by Galadriel to 3 Fellowship members?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lk5uK.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lk5uK.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chrome 47, Windows 8.1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T04:09:54.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3104" CreationDate="2015-12-09T14:26:25.810" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This appears to have been fixed by the recent CSS update to the user flair box:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/c6grQ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/c6grQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chrome 47, Windows 8.1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T14:26:25.810" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7665" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7666" CreationDate="2015-12-09T18:37:07.237" Score="6" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that there is a &quot;story identification&quot; tag, and is clear to know if the question is on-topic (by the description of the story containing Sci-Fi/fantasy elements).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a &quot;object-identification&quot; but my problem is that, since I don't know what my object is, I can't use it in the proper way, like identifying an object within a franchise. I want to identify an object that clearly belongs to Sci-fi genre, without knowing the franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question would be like posting a picture of and X-wing and asking what kind of spaceship it is, without knowing that it is a Star Wars vehicle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32339" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T18:54:45.890" Title="Would my &quot;(object) identification&quot; question be on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7665" CreationDate="2015-12-09T18:54:45.890" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;So long as you have valid reason to believe it is associated with a SF/F property, yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/106050/5184&quot;&gt;my own object identification question&lt;/a&gt; which was well received and had no close votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T18:54:45.890" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7667" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-10T16:58:14.550" Score="2" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;h1&gt;What are the policies governing what is allowable in a user profile?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How much more lenient are they than what is allowed in a post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T17:31:28.187" Title="What are the policies governing what is allowable in a user profile?" Tags="|discussion|profile-page|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7667" CreationDate="2015-12-10T17:06:09.753" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a few of these on Meta.SE, including &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/208551/offensive-profiles-where-to-draw-the-line&quot;&gt;Offensive profiles - where to draw the line?&lt;/a&gt;; quoting Tim Post's answer there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To be clear, we give people as &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; latitude as possible when it comes to their avatar and profile page. It's all about &lt;em&gt;them&lt;/em&gt;, and we try to let them just be themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When a profile page or avatar has, or is likely to create a disruption, we need to be made aware of it and investigate. We might not take action in some cases, but we really do need to be aware of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or Jeff, from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/52730/what-if-anything-should-one-do-if-a-users-about-me-profile-section-contains&quot;&gt;What, if anything should one do if a user&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;about me&amp;quot; profile section contains extremely inflammatory terms (racist, etc.)&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Our general approach has been to take a hands-off approach to the user page -- it's for you to place whatever you want there, &lt;em&gt;within reason&lt;/em&gt;. Obviously racism, hate speech, any sort of overt evil will not be tolerated. But there is more flexibility in the grey areas on the user page, because it's about the user, not us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or John Rudy, from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/31504/rules-for-profiles&quot;&gt;Rules for Profiles&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Generally speaking, your profile is (to an extent) fair game, as it is a reflection of you as a person, not the site as a whole. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/31448/how-much-advertising-is-allowed-on-userinfo-pages/31478#31478&quot;&gt;Self-promotion&lt;/a&gt;, your &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/23351/can-i-give-out-my-email-here/23356#23356&quot;&gt;e-mail&lt;/a&gt; address, humor, (if you know HTML) imagery and even the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/31197/why-is-the-f-word-still-allowed-in-profiles&quot;&gt;f-bomb&lt;/a&gt; are allowed there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are reasonable limitations for all of those, but generally speaking, unless you're a hard-core spammer or you put something &lt;em&gt;truly&lt;/em&gt; offensive / crazy in there (like hate speech or pornography), you'll be OK. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general policy, as I understand it, seems to be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;User profiles are allowed more leniency (for things like &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/31197/why-is-the-f-word-still-allowed-in-profiles&quot;&gt;expletives&lt;/a&gt; and self-promotion) than other posts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The reasoning is that there's an expectation that user profiles reflect only on the user, and not on the community at large; if any particular user wants to make an ass of themselves, that's their prerogative.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Content that could be reasonably construed as offensive (hate speech, for example) is Not Okay&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Although note that the definition of offensive is also fairly broad for profiles; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/139190/can-i-link-to-my-male-enhancement-pills-site-on-my-profile&quot;&gt;linking to male enhancement pills&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/178342/one-user-is-putting-another-user-in-the-pillory-on-his-profile-page-is-it-reall&quot;&gt;shaming another user&lt;/a&gt; were both deemed acceptable, as is profanity that would &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be acceptable in questions or answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T17:22:24.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7667" CreationDate="2015-12-10T17:31:28.187" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really think your answer is in your question -- the powers that be have pretty succinctly outlined what is and what isn't okay in a user profile. Perhaps others feel differently, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use quotes, have an &quot;about me&quot; paragraph, and use images in my profile, which is located &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3500/slytherincess?tab=profile&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; if interested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T17:31:28.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1289" CreationDate="2015-12-10T22:37:59.117" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=tacos&amp;amp;Room=198&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;pagesize=50&amp;amp;sort=newest&quot;&gt;&quot;Tacos&quot; (v 2.0)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scope:&lt;/strong&gt; SFF chat — both (the now defunct) Mos Eisley and The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator:&lt;/strong&gt; Unknown, but Ixrec may have explicitly described it first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I love how &quot;tacos&quot; is the official safe word when engaging in rough chat&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -  &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/25981237#25981237&quot;&gt;Ixrec&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also may have been the first to &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/25306733#25306733&quot;&gt;use it this way&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/25306733#25306733&quot;&gt;November 2015&lt;/a&gt; to present&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; Born &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7631/44025&quot;&gt;from the ashes of an unfortunate, older meme&lt;/a&gt;, &quot;taco(s)&quot; is now a hint to change the subject in chat to avoid unpleasantness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Example:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Axelrod And there we come to what are likely fundamental differences between us, and so I bid you a respectful change of subject. Tacos.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -  &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/26066117#26066117&quot;&gt;Politank-Z&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2017-07-12T07:40:07.017" LastActivityDate="2017-07-12T07:40:07.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7671" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-11T23:32:49.297" Score="7" ViewCount="315" Body="&lt;p&gt;In honour of the impending theatrical release of Episode VII of the &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; film franchise, let's watch Episode VI, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Return of the Jedi:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HF89O.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HF89O.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To set a &quot;standard&quot;, let's aim to watch the 2004/2006 DVD release version.  The 2011 version is only longer in one scene (as far as I can tell), and so there should be only one need to resync.  Watch other versions at your own peril.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm proposing &lt;strong&gt;11 pm UTC&lt;/strong&gt; (11 pm GMT, 6 pm EST) on either &lt;strong&gt;Tuesday the 15th&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;Wednesday the 16th&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People can vote below for Tuesday or Wednesday.  I'll call a victor at 11:59 pm UTC on Sunday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone is invited, including the user who said these things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=24960861#24960861&quot;&gt;&quot;What is Star Wars?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=22324042#22324042&quot;&gt;&quot;Star Wars is crap.&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Update&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of 23h59 UTC on 13 Dec, both options (Tuesday the 15th and Wednesday the 16th) had an equal number of votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here's what we'll do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;On &lt;strong&gt;Tuesday the 15th at 23h00 UTC&lt;/strong&gt;, we'll watch &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Return of the Jedi&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (the 2004/2006 or 2011 versions, which have &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_changes_in_Star_Wars_re-releases&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;minimal difference in length&lt;/a&gt;, or another version if you don't mind being out of sync) &amp;mdash; to be hosted by our very own Wad Cheber&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;On &lt;strong&gt;Wednesday the 16th at 23h00 UTC&lt;/strong&gt;, we'll watch &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;It's a Trap!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, the &lt;em&gt;Family Guy&lt;/em&gt; version of &lt;em&gt;RotJ&lt;/em&gt;! &amp;mdash; to be hosted by yours truly&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/u43yjm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/u43yjm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastEditorUserId="1441" LastEditDate="2016-04-13T08:35:22.593" LastActivityDate="2016-04-13T08:35:22.593" Title="Movie Night: Return of the Jedi (and It's a Trap!)" Tags="|chat-event|discussion|movie-night|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="23" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7671" CreationDate="2015-12-11T23:33:38.863" Score="4" Body="&lt;h1&gt;I want to watch &lt;em&gt;RotJ&lt;/em&gt; on Tuesday at 11 pm UTC.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upvote this answer if you agree with the statement above.  (I'll only be counting upvotes, not downvotes.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastActivityDate="2015-12-11T23:33:38.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7671" CreationDate="2015-12-11T23:36:25.570" Score="3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;I want to watch &lt;em&gt;RotJ&lt;/em&gt; on Wednesday at 11 pm UTC.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upvote this answer if you agree with the statement above.  (I'll only be counting upvotes, not downvotes.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastActivityDate="2015-12-11T23:36:25.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7674" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7675" CreationDate="2015-12-12T21:30:19.503" Score="9" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/body-parts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;body-parts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;body-parts&lt;/a&gt; on the main site. Is this &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; necessary, or can we burninate it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2015-12-12T21:56:58.737" Title="Do we really need [body parts]?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7674" CreationDate="2015-12-12T21:56:58.737" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it's absolutely not necessary, and doesn't even come close to meeting the criteria for a good tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, what I should probably say is... what &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/body-parts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;body-parts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;body-parts&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2015-12-12T21:56:58.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7581" CreationDate="2015-12-13T18:48:34.113" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; It's now fixed, it'll be live after our next production build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt; Long usernames run over the users information card on questions.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/931/ss-3-1415926535897932384626433&quot;&gt;SS-3.1415926535897932384626433&lt;/a&gt; has a username with an allowable length in the system, but the username runs out of the styled div.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the user name belongs to the asker or answerer, the result is cramped text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XXQUk.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XXQUk.png&quot; alt=&quot;long username as asker&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/twtaK.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/twtaK.png&quot; alt=&quot;long username as answerer&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the user name belongs to the editor of a post, it runs over the information of the original author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZqRw0.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZqRw0.png&quot; alt=&quot;long username as editor&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T07:48:26.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1289" CreationDate="2015-12-15T01:47:48.510" Score="-7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme:&lt;/strong&gt; This guy / these guys / this ship / this pillow &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/102522/3823&quot;&gt;@ThePopMachine here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/102527/3823&quot;&gt;@Praxis here&lt;/a&gt; on Sept 11, 2015.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height:&lt;/strong&gt; Alive and well&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; @ThePopMachine asks question excluding &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/102522/3823&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;these guys&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and @Praxis answers question with &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/102527/3823&quot;&gt;The two guys on the right&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; ; @ThePopMachine comments &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/102522/are-there-truly-alien-star-trek-species-with-races/102527#comment236189_102527&quot;&gt;I'm literally lying in bed cracking up over the fact your answer is the two guys on the right.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  A meme is born.   Generally used when a post revolves around an image, especially of something relatively obscure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Examples:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/102522/3823&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;These guys&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/102728/3823&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;these guys&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/108431/3823&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;this guy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/102775/3823&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;this guy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/104132/which-ship-has-the-most-prolific-recurring-role-in-star-trek/104134#comment242062_104148&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;this ship&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/110491/in-universe-how-is-bb-8s-head-adhered-to-his-body/110510#comment262751_110510&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;this pillow&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/109231/in-star-wars-iv-and-star-trek-iii-are-this-guy-and-this-guy-the-same-guy&quot;&gt;In Star Wars: IV and Star Trek: III, are this guy and this guy the same guy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/178833/3823&quot;&gt;Is this guy a Star Wars character?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastEditorUserId="3823" LastEditDate="2018-01-16T20:06:16.077" LastActivityDate="2018-01-16T20:06:16.077" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7681" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-15T02:57:45.713" Score="27" ViewCount="4041" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a sequel to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7371/the-many-usernames-of-sffse&quot;&gt;The many usernames of SFF.SE&lt;/a&gt;, this is the definitive collection of &lt;strong&gt;SFF.SE users' profile pictures (avatars) and their meaning or significance&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some of our most active users whose avatars I've always been curious about. So I thought I'd create this thread for everyone to post answers about their pics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-07-08T16:59:56.237" LastActivityDate="2022-03-02T18:53:37.320" Title="The many avatars of SFF.SE" Tags="|discussion|users|" AnswerCount="46" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2015-12-15T03:02:11.800" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7378/31394&quot;&gt;username&lt;/a&gt;, Rand al'Thor, comes from the main character of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wheel-of-time&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wheel-of-time&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wheel-of-time&lt;/a&gt; series of fantasy novels. Originally my avatar was one of SE's auto-generated ones, but during the 2014 Winter Bash I wanted to have a real picture on which to wear my hats. The first one I went with was &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EeWA2l.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the image found in my username post&lt;/a&gt;, which epitomises the WoT series in a way (Rand, Mat, and Perrin standing with their armies against the Dark One), but then I settled for this picture, which I've always found amusing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gWtwGs.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gWtwGs.png&quot; alt=&quot;me&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;(I'm considering changing my avatar some time soon, by the way.)&lt;/s&gt; I changed it! That crown, and the reference to a British patriotic slogan, were making me too uncomfortable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sO7Ms.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sO7Ms.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;new me&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-07-08T17:00:05.933" LastActivityDate="2017-07-08T17:00:05.933" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2015-12-15T03:21:09.557" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/THIxgl.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/THIxgl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As my profile says, I am &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/44025/wad-cheber?tab=profile&quot;&gt;SF&amp;amp;F's self-styled expert on &lt;em&gt;The Thing&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (as of December 2015, I am &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=user:44025%20[the-thing-1982]&quot;&gt;one answer away&lt;/a&gt; from getting the site's first ever &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-thing-1982&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-thing-1982&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-thing-1982&lt;/a&gt; tag badge).  It is my favorite science fiction and/or horror film, so my avatar is the &quot;red smoke&quot; version of the poster for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-thing-1982&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Thing&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, featuring the tagline preferred by director John Carpenter and producer Stuart Cohen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Man is the Warmest Place to Hide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Carpenter and Cohen &lt;a href=&quot;http://theoriginalfan.blogspot.com/2011/12/final-days.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;despised&lt;/a&gt; both the tagline and the poster design the studio opted to use: the &quot;glow face&quot; image and the phrase: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Ultimate in Alien Terror.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/68BTU.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/68BTU.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They felt that the &quot;glow face&quot; design was confusing and had nothing to do with the movie, and they criticized the tagline for giving too much away and simply reeking of B-Movie cliche.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The advertising campaign had changed overnight - the somber, predominately black and white imagery (which we had been consulted on) replaced overnight with the now familiar &quot;glow face&quot; (which we hadn't), the tag line &quot; Man Is The Warmest Place To Hide&quot; dumped for &quot;The Ultimate In Alien Terror&quot;, which I abhorred (&quot;Man&quot; was written by a publicist named Stephen Frankfort, who also came up with what I thought was the best tag line ever for ALIEN - &quot;In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream&quot;.  He was hired early on and his company also created the earliest teaser with the ice block. The &quot;Alien Terror&quot; tagline was concocted by a studio suddenly desperate to display the word &quot;Alien&quot; above the title). Both, I thought, represented a last minute demotion to &quot;B&quot; film status, something we had fought for years, and evidence that Universal was effectively throwing in the towel in trying to reach a broader, more mainstream audience.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  - Producer Stuart Cohen on his blog, &lt;a href=&quot;http://theoriginalfan.blogspot.com/2011/12/final-days.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Original Fan&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with Cohen and Carpenter regarding the taglines, but I like the &quot;red smoke&quot; poster slightly more than the black and white one they wanted to use:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QXt4z.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QXt4z.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the &quot;red smoke&quot; version conveys a sense of the movie's plot without giving anything away.  It also scores points for featuring the superior &quot;Man is the Warmest Place to Hide&quot; tagline; I only wish it didn't &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; include the schlocky &quot;Ultimate in Alien Terror&quot; tagline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T03:31:14.530" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2015-12-15T03:27:21.910" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once I was Simon Waterson, a college football star who was transformed into a frog by a slighted witch. Then I picked up a sliver of Mjolnir, and was granted the power of Thor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6ff5M.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6ff5M.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I am &lt;strong&gt;Throg&lt;/strong&gt;, the Frog of Thunder. Evildoers beware.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I learned about Throg a few years ago, and it was (and remains) one of the funniest concepts I've ever heard; it's completely bananas, I cannot get enough of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, I call my dupehammer Frogjolnir (the real in-universe name of Throg's mini-Mjolnir, because there is a god and he works at Marvel Comics).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="31051" LastEditDate="2016-12-29T17:50:44.587" LastActivityDate="2016-12-29T17:50:44.587" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2015-12-15T04:09:11.000" Score="13" Body="&lt;h1&gt;My avatar is a half-blown moon.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LCFXY.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LCFXY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My avatar is consistent with my &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7372/40294&quot;&gt;username&lt;/a&gt;.  The avatar is actually a screenshot of a screenshot.  It's what appears on the main viewscreen of the USS Excelsior near the beginning of &lt;em&gt;The Undiscovered Country&lt;/em&gt;, to show Captain Sulu and his bridge crew what remained of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Praxis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;moon Praxis&lt;/a&gt; after this happened:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/uCQZ3SDNTr0?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-01-07T00:42:01.647" LastActivityDate="2017-08-17T09:13:53.290" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2015-12-15T04:26:09.773" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pretty basic, just my logo. The logo is CE (backwards E), based on the standard image for power buttons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Current:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lMNjd.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lMNjd.png&quot; alt=&quot;Web Head&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Base:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FixWhs.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FixWhs.png&quot; alt=&quot;Base CE logo&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've also did monthly avatar changes for awhile:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;2017&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;January-ish:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I cheated and reused January's from last year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This February is a square, because my son turns &lt;em&gt;4&lt;/em&gt;, and it's red letters because that's currently his favorite color:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yiLU0s.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yiLU0s.png&quot; alt=&quot;February 2017&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;April-Whenever. I graduate from university in a couple weeks, so got my cap and school colors going on. (Last semester stuff is why I've not had time to update, but this weekend I &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; want to procrastinate, so ta-da!):&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SL11ls.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SL11ls.png&quot; alt=&quot;Graduation 2017&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;2016&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A snowflake for January (Re-used in 2017):&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YD4kus.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YD4kus.png&quot; alt=&quot;January 2016&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A missing image circle with the line through it, since I haven't had time to make February-themed one:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/s4t7Gs.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/s4t7Gs.png&quot; alt=&quot;February 2016&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A green one for Spring, which officially starts on March 20th this year:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rNXOzs.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rNXOzs.png&quot; alt=&quot;March 2016&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;April showers:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0jEpos.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0jEpos.png&quot; alt=&quot;April 2016&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May flower (It's my attempt at a wild daisy, very common in my area!):&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MikSfs.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MikSfs.png&quot; alt=&quot;May 2016&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;June sunshine:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eVFFVs.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eVFFVs.png&quot; alt=&quot;June 2016&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;July patriotism:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/swgAAs.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/swgAAs.png&quot; alt=&quot;July 2016&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fall colors (technical issues and busy semester have made it hard to get anything out lately):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jRbAUs.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jRbAUs.png&quot; alt=&quot;August 2016&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;2015&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Xmas colors for December:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/itGLHs.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/itGLHs.png&quot; alt=&quot;December 2015&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-06-29T02:39:32.727" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2015-12-15T04:54:48.063" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;My avatar is a picture of myself; Dr Noonien Soong.  It was drawn by Julianna I understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T04:54:48.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2015-12-15T09:44:05.760" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the time of posting this answer, my current profile picture is a photoshopped version of my Twitter pic, courtesy of @MikeEdenfield.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zegUsm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zegUsm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is something of a running joke at this stage that I hate everything thanks to my vocal dislike for &lt;em&gt;Man of Steel&lt;/em&gt;, with other negative opinions of sometimes popular things only cementing my status as the SciFi.SE and Movies.SE &quot;resident hater&quot; - unearned, in my opinion, but it has stuck nevertheless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In response to this, @MikeEdenfield took a copy of my Twitter picture and photoshopped it to mute the colours and include a &lt;em&gt;Man of Steel&lt;/em&gt; poster, as well as changing the colours of the shield on my T-shirt to match those of the Steelers - an American Football team supported by @steelerfan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After I referred to the picture as the anti-Dr R Dizzle, @randal'thor named this abomination &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/26158705#26158705&quot;&gt;Elzzid R Rd&lt;/a&gt;. Elzzid R Rd loves everything regardless of if it is any good or not, and is a huge fan of &lt;em&gt;Man of Steel&lt;/em&gt;, which he considers to be &quot;really deep, y'know?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24087" LastEditorUserId="24087" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T09:54:19.777" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T09:54:19.777" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2015-12-15T12:16:53.970" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;My avatar was an obvious and mandatory choice, given the existing choice of my username, as explained in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7411/23386&quot;&gt;this related answer&lt;/a&gt;. However, in pracitice it wasn't too easy to find a nice picture of TARS that I'd be satisfied with. This is also the reason why the actual execution of my idea to use this username was even delayed from its initial inception towards the day I got myself the BluRay of &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; and was able to capture a nice picture myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But even the manual capture of TARS in a fitting surroundings and a pose that emphasisizes his unique and simplistic structural form wasn't as easy as I might have expected. So I settled on a compromise, fueled by a little enlightenment: Why am I so eager to highlight his full body when avatars on these sites are usually rather face-based, especially due to the limited size of the final picture in its everyday use?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So with this insight and my incapability of finding a fitting full-body image, I just settled for a picture of TARS' &quot;face&quot;, which is, like his whole body, &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/27141/49&quot;&gt;deliberately non-human&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/72390/23386&quot;&gt;pragmatically functional&lt;/a&gt;. And to lighten the mood as well as highlight his nevertheless unique persona, I of course chose a portrait with the joking cue light on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yQyV4.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yQyV4.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T12:33:13.067" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2015-12-15T13:33:55.877" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm boring. My avatar is myself. The one I'm currently using is me after a bike race, with a balloon-animal monkey on my back (there was a balloon artist at the turnaround point and I thought it would be fun).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0Wg2u.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0Wg2u.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T13:33:55.877" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7691" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-15T19:46:44.107" Score="2" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I'm bored, and want to re-read &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safehold&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Safehold&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and want an excuse:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From now till January 1, 2016, any questions about David Weber's &lt;em&gt;Safehold&lt;/em&gt; series are entered into a drawing to be bountied (and a bounty gets you extra question upvotes, usually). I will post at least one bounty, but if several great questions are asked, maybe more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Extra bonus: I will match ANY bounty up to 100 rep points posted by @Richard on top of any bounties I would have posted otherwise on Safehold questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T19:46:44.107" Title="Bounties for Safehold series questions!" Tags="|discussion|contest|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2015-12-15T20:44:32.403" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;More minor story for this question. I was kind of on a fantasy figurine kick for a good long while, and kept trying to turn an image of one or another into an avatar. They usually sucked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually I pulled out an old Nintendo R.O.B. robot (anyone remember Gyromite? Anyone? Bueller?) and for lack of anything else useful to do with it added it to my display. It stuck out horribly among a bunch of pewter and sand castles and other kitsch, so I put a sword-in-the-stone letter opener thing in his hands, like it was pulling it out, and it just made me smile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Took a photo, it seemed to fit, and I haven't found anything better in a while. Really ought to get a clearer/brighter picture, but its all back in storage now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38235" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T20:44:32.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2015-12-15T20:55:23.637" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Until recently, my avatar was an &quot;On Strike&quot; sign.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SNbnH.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SNbnH.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This reflected my decision not to participate in the site's ongoing moderation (editing, flagging, voting to close/open/reopen, etc.) until the end of my unnecessarily harsh chat-ban.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-02-25T01:42:32.603" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T01:42:32.603" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7696" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-15T23:05:54.407" Score="2" ViewCount="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/110270/were-the-clone-troopers-aware-of-the-contents-and-meaning-of-order-66&quot;&gt;Were the clone troopers aware of the contents and meaning of Order 66?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is asking if the clones who followed Order 66 were consciously aware of its contents and meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question it is closed as a dupe of (AND all of its answers) don't address that at all and merely address the fact that some troopers did NOT follow the order, presumably because their chip was broken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T23:05:54.407" Title="Why is this question closed as duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7697" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-15T23:12:24.203" Score="4" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've not seen all of the series but from what I have seen nothing seems particularly fantastical or science-fiction-y, the premise is that somehow the Axis won the war and have dominated the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't remember anything that would in my mind constitute science-fiction, no advanced technology or weaponry, seemingly most things are less advanced if anything. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me this seems like it's more fiction than science-fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/man-in-the-high-castle&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/man-in-the-high-castle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22709" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T19:58:31.243" Title="Is &quot;Man in the high castle&quot; on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7698" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7700" CreationDate="2015-12-16T00:50:36.243" Score="9" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Update&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you community members; this has been resolved now :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a mod could mark this as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/status-closed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-closed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-closed&lt;/a&gt; that would be great thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I was doing some editing the other day and I've come to form the opinion that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/origins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;origins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;origins&lt;/a&gt; really should become synonyms.  This was previously discussed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3120/how-to-use-origins-tag-vs-history-of-tag&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, but I don't think anything came from it.  So I'm renewing the push.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why should these be synonyms?  Well, first take a look at the answer to the aforementioned question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also take a look at the usage guides for the two tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use this tag for questions about the history of the genre: &lt;strong&gt;the origin and evolution of ideas&lt;/strong&gt; in speculative fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/origins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;origins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;origins&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;a tag for questions that seek to identify &lt;strong&gt;the first appearances of specific things&lt;/strong&gt; in the world of scifi and fantasy, like characters, items, themes, and/or theories. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I would propose that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; should become a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/origins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;origins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;origins&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.730" LastActivityDate="2015-12-19T16:14:21.640" Title="Can we merge the 'history-of' tag AND the 'origins' tag?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7698" CreationDate="2015-12-16T01:02:52.517" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I propose a slight variant of your suggestion: that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/origins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;origins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;origins&lt;/a&gt; should become a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in the accepted answer to the previous question you mentioned, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/origins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;origins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;origins&lt;/a&gt; is a subset of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt;, and there are questions covered by the latter but not the former (e.g. about the &lt;em&gt;development&lt;/em&gt; of an idea in SFF rather than its &lt;em&gt;origin&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T01:02:52.517" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7697" CreationDate="2015-12-16T01:51:43.847" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having not completed watching the show (due to only one season being released at time of writing), it seems to have science fictional elements beyond the alternate history premise (this is beyond the final scene of season 1, which in and of itself is science fictiony).  The story revolves around accumulating MacGuffins in the form of films of alternate (to the people in the story) timelines.  This implies either in universe there's someone with vast resources making unbelievably realistic films, or someone has the ability to see alternate timelines and is filming them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've also heard spoilers from the book that indicates an important character has supernatural abilities, which puts it clearly into our domain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T01:51:43.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7702" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-16T02:25:13.620" Score="2" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed a couple of questions which seem to ask essentially the same thing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6396/what-was-the-actual-prophecy-about-bringing-balance-to-the-force&quot;&gt;What Was the Actual Prophecy About Bringing Balance to the Force?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Asked Oct 23 '11 at 23:17 by @Tango&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/23906/how-was-the-chosen-one-meant-to-bring-balance-to-the-force&quot;&gt;How was the Chosen One meant to bring balance to the Force?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Asked Sep 26 '12 at 16:14 by @hammythepig&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They seem really similar to me, but I can't tell whether they are dupes or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What should we do wit these questions?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close one as dupe of the other?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Merge them?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave them?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T02:33:48.850" Title="Star Wars' multiple &quot;Balance to the Force&quot; questions; what to do with them?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7702" CreationDate="2015-12-16T02:33:48.850" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think those two are sufficiently different as to be left alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;tl;dr&lt;/strong&gt; The questions are asking different things, and none of the answers to one would be a good answer to the other. Let 'em be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first linked question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6396/what-was-the-actual-prophecy-about-bringing-balance-to-the-force&quot;&gt;What Was the Actual Prophecy About Bringing Balance to the Force?&lt;/a&gt;, is interested in the actual text of the prophecy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[I]s the actual prophecy ever stated anywhere? Just how much do we know about what it said? Having just re-watched &lt;em&gt;The Phantom Menace&lt;/em&gt;, the only clues we get are that it seems to include virgin birth and the high midichlorian count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/6400/31051&quot;&gt;Daryl Brown's answer&lt;/a&gt; covers that base quite well, and I don't think a good answer to Tango's question (as Daryl's is) would be a good answer to the second question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/23906/how-was-the-chosen-one-meant-to-bring-balance-to-the-force&quot;&gt;How was the Chosen One meant to bring balance to the Force?&lt;/a&gt;, is more about the &lt;em&gt;interpretation&lt;/em&gt; of the prophecy (emphasis OP's):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[W]e know that Anakin Skywalker was the Chosen One, but how exactly was he supposed to restore balance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[...]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the meaning of 'balance' when it is said that &amp;quot;Chosen One will bring balance to the Force&amp;quot;, and did he fulfill the prophecy?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interpreting the meaning of the word &amp;quot;balance&amp;quot; doesn't require knowing the full text of the prophecy, and none of the answers provide it (I don't think; I just skimmed over some of the more text-blocky answers)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T02:33:48.850" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7704" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-16T06:43:23.007" Score="4" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not surprisingly, there has obviously been a major uptick in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;-related activity as there is renewed interest and presumably as people have been rewatching the &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; movies leading up to the release of &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Is anyone interested in writing the queries and providing a (possibly ongoing) analysis of the trends of activity on &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;-related posts?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastEditorUserId="40294" LastEditDate="2015-12-17T17:00:19.203" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T18:49:08.200" Title="What's the effect of the recent renewed interest in Star Wars on statistics?" Tags="|discussion|site-statistics|recent-activity|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7697" CreationDate="2015-12-16T09:18:09.410" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_history&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Alternate history&lt;/a&gt; is a genre that's usually accepted to be a part of the Science Fiction and Fantasy family. &#xA;This is expressly true if there are explicitly SFnal elements - such as the alternate history being a parallel dimension/universe with people and things crossing over - but even when the AH is self-sustained, it's still a speculative genre that fits into our site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's true that AH novels or shows can be seen as Historical Fiction as well, and a &lt;em&gt;very theoretical&lt;/em&gt; debate can be made about historical fiction with any minor changes from recorded history qualifying as AH and sneaking its way into our site, but I think this is premature worry, and explicitly-AH works should be accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4516" LastEditorUserId="4516" LastEditDate="2015-12-16T14:18:55.323" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T14:18:55.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7706" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-16T15:58:37.433" Score="7" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;When people are posting many images in chat, or there's a flood of questions being posted by users, I'd like to be able to ignore the oneboxes.  This then makes it easier to follow the text portion of the conversation.  How can this be accomplished?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T16:44:27.427" Title="How can I hide oneboxes in chat?" Tags="|support|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7706" CreationDate="2015-12-16T15:58:37.433" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, you need to be using Firefox or Chrome.  Go install the &lt;a href=&quot;https://userstyles.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stylish&lt;/a&gt; extension.  Then create a new blank style, and copy and paste the below into it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);&#xA;&#xA;@-moz-document domain(&quot;chat.stackexchange.com&quot;), domain(&quot;chat.stackoverflow.com&quot;), domain(&quot;chat.meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;), domain(&quot;chat.meta.stackexchange.com&quot;) {&#xA;  .onebox { display: none !important; }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are using Chrome, do not paste this directly into your new style (Stylish for Chome doesn't understand &lt;code&gt;@-moz-document&lt;/code&gt; and will ignore it.) Instead, click this button:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ePF4p.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ePF4p.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and paste the above Stylish code into the &quot;Mozilla Format&quot; box, and click &quot;Overwrite Style&quot;. This will translate the Firefox script to Chrome script, and also extra the URL domains into the appropriate place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will hide any items in chat that have the onebox CSS class.  This means oneboxes, images, Youtube, etc.  If you want to hide a specific type of onebox, replace the 'onebox' in the middle of that code with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SE posts -&gt; ob-post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chat quotes -&gt; ob-message&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;images -&gt; ob-image&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Youtube -&gt; ob-youtube&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can ignore multiple items by replacing '.onebox' with a comma-separated list of the above. Be sure to put a period before each one though (e.g. '.ob-post, .ob-message' would ignore SE posts and chat quotes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2015-12-16T16:44:27.427" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T16:44:27.427" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7708" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7709" CreationDate="2015-12-16T16:06:19.780" Score="69" ViewCount="1240" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over the next couple of days, most of the world will be able to finally see the new &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; film, &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;.  But, since it's not a global simultaneous release, some regions get to see it days ahead of other regions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I use Scifi.SE over the next few days and avoid spoilers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorDisplayName="user56" LastEditDate="2015-12-16T20:03:15.027" LastActivityDate="2019-05-29T04:24:07.723" Title="How to avoid Star Wars spoilers?" Tags="|support|spoilers|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-12-16T16:06:19.780" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7708" CreationDate="2015-12-16T16:06:19.780" Score="70" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ignore the tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-force-awakens&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-force-awakens&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-force-awakens&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12522/102999&quot;&gt;set ignored tags to be hidden&lt;/a&gt;. Also avoid the review queues (and flag queues, if you're a mod), as those ignore your ignored tags setting. Note: This does not work in the SE app.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you use chat, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/faq#mute&quot;&gt;ignore the feed bots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you use chat, you can also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7706/how-can-i-hide-oneboxes-in-chat&quot;&gt;hide all oneboxes&lt;/a&gt;, so as to avoid spoilers from other users posting questions into chat.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Use &lt;a href=&quot;https://getadblock.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Adblock&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6858/1027&quot;&gt;some CSS&lt;/a&gt; to hide the Hot Network Questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-05-29T04:24:07.723" LastActivityDate="2019-05-29T04:24:07.723" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-12-16T16:06:19.780" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7704" CreationDate="2015-12-16T19:44:52.940" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There has been an awakening&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; as a baseline, because they're my graphs and I want to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/410457/ratio-of-questions-with-specific-tag#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Question growth over time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vAfjR.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vAfjR.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above graph shows question growth in absolute numbers. &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; questions (blue line) have been growing more-or-less constantly since July 2012, and slightly slower (at least recently) than &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; (red line) questions. There is, however, a very slight uptick in the last few days. In the interests of exploring that better, I &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/414370/ratio-of-questions-with-specific-tag#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;modified my query slightly&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RB3Ao.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RB3Ao.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see the &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; line (now the yellow line, not blue) begin to grow fairly significantly starting on December 17.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/410461/ratio-of-questions-with-specific-tag#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Percentage Question Growth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/V5G0q.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/V5G0q.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above graph shows the change in percentage of &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; questions. There has been an uptick, beginning in about August, that got suddenly very large near the end of December. Looking &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/414373/ratio-of-questions-with-specific-tag#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;just for the month of December&lt;/a&gt;, we can see that this very closely resembles the previous graph:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uZE1p.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uZE1p.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/410466/overall-statistics-of-questions-with-specific-tag&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Question Statistics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one is going to be less scientific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0OnO6.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0OnO6.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare to my graph from last week:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/m8ugR.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/m8ugR.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And to an analysis I did &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7619/31051&quot;&gt;in November&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JVjFc.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JVjFc.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can see that views on &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; questions have gone up a fair amount in the intervening period, but other statistics have grown only a small bit. Average answer score has actually gone down, which I can only attribute to a sudden influx of low-quality but not-deleteable answers from new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are, of course, always exceptions; all of my numbers here are averages. A particularly extreme example&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1520/in-what-order-should-the-star-wars-movies-be-watched&quot;&gt;In what order should the Star Wars movies be watched?&lt;/a&gt;, which has gone from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6862/can-i-comment-on-my-own-question-asking-people-to-vote-more/6864#6864&quot;&gt;341K views and +167 score in April 2015&lt;/a&gt; to 787K views and +190 score at time of writing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Disclaimer: at time of writing, SEDE was last updated December 20, so these stats are a few days out of date. I'll revisit this after SEDE updates on December 27, subject to my own schedule&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; Nod to CreationEdge for pointing out this edge case&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T17:15:05.047" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7711" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-16T20:26:16.437" Score="1" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you haven't already, I would like to encourage you to take a moment to support the &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/93238/literature?referrer=JZwS-YfNZmxD4yRnMOivZg2&quot;&gt;Area51 literature proposal&lt;/a&gt; by...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Following the proposal.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Writing example questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voting on other example questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/80865/literature&quot;&gt;various&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/6426/literature&quot;&gt;attempts&lt;/a&gt; to create a Stack Exchange site dedicated to literature, but unfortunately these attempts have not been successful, &lt;a href=&quot;https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/a/22393/36412&quot;&gt;mostly due to a lack of effort on the part of the supporters of the proposals&lt;/a&gt;. The latest literature proposal has been doing great (31 followers in nine days), but I don't want it to lose steam halfway through the Area51 process, and become yet another failed literature proposal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why I'm reaching out to the Science Fiction and Fantasy community on Stack Exchange and asking for their support. I'm sure most of you enjoy reading books that aren't science fiction or fantasy, and I'm sure most of you occasionally have questions about those books that you would like answered (or have answers to questions that you would like to write). If the latest literature proposal is successful, then we will finally have a place on the Stack Exchange network where you can receive answers to these burning questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/93238/literature?referrer=JZwS-YfNZmxD4yRnMOivZg2&quot;&gt;So don't wait! Support the literature proposal today!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;A moderator &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/26233372#26233372&quot;&gt;gave me permission&lt;/a&gt; to write this meta post.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1807" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-03T08:41:06.403" LastActivityDate="2015-12-17T18:58:21.373" Title="Support the Area51 literature proposal!" Tags="|discussion|area51|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7712" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7713" CreationDate="2015-12-17T00:28:33.400" Score="13" ViewCount="262" Body="&lt;p&gt;In chat, as we were watching &lt;em&gt;Family Guy Star Wars:  It's a Trap!&lt;/em&gt;, our beloved RO Slytherincess objected to the choice of material, which had been selected by our other beloved RO, Praxis.  Her objection was based on SE's &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/102250/295850&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;13+&amp;quot; content guidelines&lt;/a&gt;, and the fact that &lt;em&gt;Family Guy&lt;/em&gt; is rated &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Parental_Guidelines#TV-14&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TV-14&lt;/a&gt; in the US.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our previous movie night choices, most recently, have been a mix of G, PG, PG-13, and R (18+) titles:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek:  The Wrath of Khan&lt;/em&gt; - PG&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Stardust&lt;/em&gt; -  PG-13&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;The Thing&lt;/em&gt; - R&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Alien&lt;/em&gt; - R&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Spaceballs&lt;/em&gt; - PG&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;The Day the Earth Stood Still&lt;/em&gt; - G&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Invasion of the Body Snatchers&lt;/em&gt; - PG&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Return of the Jedi&lt;/em&gt; - PG&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Family Guy&lt;/em&gt; - TV-14&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Shaun of the Dead&lt;/em&gt; - R&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;The Matrix&lt;/em&gt; - R&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In every case, the R ratings were for violence and language, not nudity or sexuality, if that makes a difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In many cases - for instance, &lt;em&gt;The Thing&lt;/em&gt; - we have had mods join us, including mods from other sites in the SE network, and no one has objected to the movies on the basis of ratings or content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, SE is now in the process of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/270587/toward-a-philosophy-of-chat&quot;&gt;redefining the role of chat&lt;/a&gt; and what behavior should be expected in our chat rooms, and obviously, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7517/why-did-our-primary-chatroom-get-nuked&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley has had its share of problems&lt;/a&gt; along those lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Should the ongoing changes in chat be reflected in what movies we consider watching during movie nights?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Insight from the mods and CMs is of particular interest here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-01-12T08:23:53.227" Title="Movie Events and Ratings" Tags="|discussion|chat|chat-event|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7712" CreationDate="2015-12-17T00:40:00.940" Score="23" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No, we shouldn't limit our movie nights to PG-13-or-under movies.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The movie itself isn't being hosted on SE, so its content is irrelevant.  In any case, ratings applied by the MPAA and FCC only count in the US, and many of our members don't live in the US, so those ratings aren't a useful metric (two different countries will use different criteria to determine different ratings that mean different things - assuming that they even bother to use ratings at all).  All that matters is that we keep the &lt;em&gt;commentary&lt;/em&gt; on the movie 13+.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've watched R-rated movies before, and despite the 13+ guideline&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/22246/295850&quot;&gt;language that would never be allowed in a PG-13 film today is allowed, in moderation, on SE&lt;/a&gt;. Furthermore, it has been established on Meta that even users who think &quot;obscenities&quot; shouldn't be used on SE make exceptions for certain cases, including relevant quotations that have &quot;obscenities&quot; in the original material:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is a direct quote. The poster is not using the word to make his point, he was quoting something else, and the swearing was part of the point. None of the obscenity was added.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -  &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/58745/295850&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More importantly, our site is devoted to SF&amp;amp;F in all its forms, and many of the franchises we discuss are rated R.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actual content - i.e., the film itself - isn't hosted on the SE network, and the only way chat reflects the fact that we're watching the film is that we're talking about it.  But we'd be talking about it anyway, even if we weren't watching it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the &quot;no 14+ media on movie night, because chat is supposed to be 13+&quot; idea to make sense, we would have to stop talking about many of the most popular on-topic franchises on the site - &lt;em&gt;Aliens&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Matrix&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Terminator&lt;/em&gt; (1 and 2), &lt;em&gt;The Thing&lt;/em&gt;, etc.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top of all this, the suggestion that our movie choices should be restricted to a certain ratings criteria ignores the fact that SE is a global network, and the ratings in the US are not universal.  The agency that assigns ratings to movies in the US, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mpaa.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;MPAA&lt;/a&gt;, has no authority outside the US.  The same goes for the US' &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Parental_Guidelines&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Television Parental Guidelines&lt;/a&gt;, which are, as the name suggests, merely &lt;em&gt;guidelines&lt;/em&gt;, not laws.  Many SF&amp;amp;F users are from the United Kingdom, for instance, where &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_content_rating_systems#Countries_without_TV_rating_systems&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;no television ratings system exists&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;All we're doing in chat is &lt;em&gt;discussing&lt;/em&gt; an on-topic movie that some of us happen to be watching.  No 14+ material is being posted on the site or in chat&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;  &lt;em&gt;For what it is worth, the 13+ guideline appears to be &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/102250/295850&quot;&gt;merely a necessary byproduct&lt;/a&gt; of the fact that SE allows users to post contact info, and in the US, that makes the network subject to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.coppa.org/comply.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Children's Online Privacy Protection Act&lt;/a&gt;.  The idea isn't really to protect kids from naughty words, as I understand it, it is to prevent them from sharing their personal information in a way that might endanger them.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;em&gt;And even if we quote a line containing &quot;obscenity&quot; in chat during the event, which has happened on several occasions, it might be okay, as noted above.  Even &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/23604671#23604671&quot;&gt;mods&lt;/a&gt; have used &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=23604537#23604537&quot;&gt;profanity&lt;/a&gt;&quot; during movie nights, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/21138148#21138148&quot;&gt;and&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=24162132#24162132&quot;&gt;other&lt;/a&gt; times &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/11?m=9388884#9388884&quot;&gt;as well&lt;/a&gt;...  sometimes &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/32693?m=26009303#26009303&quot;&gt;even&lt;/a&gt; a &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/2359?m=5967117#5967117&quot;&gt;CM&lt;/a&gt; says a &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/19294?m=19060459#19060459&quot;&gt;naughty word&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/179?m=13884881#13884881&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I think the use of &quot;obscene&quot; words in chat, during movie nights or otherwise, may be a thing of the past (for the most part), and that's okay - but it doesn't mean we can't choose to watch movies containing such language, or other adult material (e.g., violence and gore), in our movie night events.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2015-12-17T02:20:56.910" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2015-12-17T17:14:09.017" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EzL6p.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EzL6p.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;My avatar&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My avatar was Joseph Ducreux, a French painter known for breaking the fourth wall and having portraits far more expressive than the standard of his time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A meme of the interwebs has established his paintings as the perfect place to post dated rewordings of musical lyrics. Here, we see Ducreux pointing at the camera with the chronologically correct reimagining of &quot;Can't Touch This&quot;. It should be noted that this is not the version currently used in my avatar (the wording is different).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I abandoned my previous idea of using David Axelrod (the musician) as an avatar, as he quite simply doesn't sit still in a manner appropriate for hats. Indeed, I planned for the &lt;em&gt;long haul&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a show of solidarity with a fellow chatter... who is now a squirrel, I then changed my avatar to Vince Offer holding a Terrible Towel, with this pose, taken from a ShamWow commercial, as the base:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tTWcz.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tTWcz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;New avatar&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;I also changed my name to Terriblefan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the departure of Major Stackings and his warning against sock puppetry, I then changed my name back and changed my picture to a heavy metal sock puppet:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PLvbx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;SockPuppet avatar&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's noted as &quot;Metallica Sock Puppet&quot;.  While I don't care for Metallica, it is a fairly awesome sock puppet and I felt it reflected my name better than the KISS sock puppet or the Slipknot sock puppet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With an avatar from Gallifreyan and a name from I Love You (because said user thought my name was Axe Lord and not Axel Rod, and making this change messed with the user's autocorrect), I have created my latest avatar-name combo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FCO6f.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Last Avatar&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; think it's pretty freakin' rad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In light of incidents in chat, I have changed my avatar once again, to something more appropriate to the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/c6/77/1a/c6771ae68d1a575ac66c748da9c53883.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;They tell you to leave then punish you when you do&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user40790" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-08-17T07:51:27.260" LastActivityDate="2017-08-17T07:51:27.260" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7719" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7720" CreationDate="2015-12-17T17:28:44.543" Score="20" ViewCount="402" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just ran into a question which has an answer that is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;100% canonically wrong (as in, its conclusion is directly fully contradicted by canon)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;But it's old, &lt;strong&gt;has 25 upvotes&lt;/strong&gt;, and is &lt;strong&gt;accepted&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(and the user doesn't seem too active so a chance of him accepting a more correct answer seems unlikely).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What avenues do I have to fix this deplorable situation, other than appealing to the better nature of a user who posted an incorrect answer via a comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T10:43:01.523" Title="What can I do when a question has an old, accepted, and +25 voted **100% incorrect answer** contradicted by canon?" Tags="|discussion|incorrect-answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="21" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7719" CreationDate="2015-12-17T17:30:39.457" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion a new question should be asked, with a correct answer, and the Old question, with the Incorrect answer should be tagged as the dupe of the NEW question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this seems to have been done before &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6601/29220&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6601/29220&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as alex says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Just because two questions are duplicates doesn't mean we have to close the new question as a dupe of the old one. We make the question with the best answers the &quot;canonical&quot; question, and closes others as a dupe of that, regardless of the order in which they were posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;again common consensus seems to be, &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4746/29220&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4746/29220&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Izkata says,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No. In general, choose the better one to keep open, as long as it is significantly better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beofett argues,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If they are essentially the same, the one with the better answers should be left open, and the other closed as a duplicate. This usually, but not always, results in the older version being left open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29220" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2015-12-17T17:45:53.130" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7711" CreationDate="2015-12-17T18:58:21.373" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As someone who was pretty excited to have a literature.SE before and saddended when it was shuttered, I wholeheartedly support the &lt;strong&gt;idea&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, before I support the &lt;strong&gt;proposal&lt;/strong&gt; (and I suspect others like me), I would strongly suggest that you explicitly elaborate on stated reasons for original literature.SE demise, and how the new propsal proposed (no pun intended) to deal with the issues?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason to be cautious is because my support of Area 51 proposals is a &lt;strong&gt;very scarse resource&lt;/strong&gt; - because you're limited to committing to only 3 Area 51 sites at a time by Area 51 rules. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, it forces people to be VERY careful with deciding which sites to commit to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2015-12-17T18:58:21.373" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7722" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-18T00:56:58.840" Score="2" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed this bug recently with the way user profiles are displayed on the list of all users:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SHsIn.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SHsIn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user's rep and badges show up beneath their location if there &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a location. But when there isn't, the gap left by its absence is at the bottom instead of the top. Wouldn't it make much more sense to have the gap in the same position as the thing whose absence leaves the gap, like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Lc0QE.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Lc0QE.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;fixed!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2016-01-17T03:27:20.620" Title="Rep on profiles is misaligned according to whether a location is displayed" Tags="|bug|profile-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7722" CreationDate="2015-12-18T03:27:02.503" Score="-1" Body="&lt;h1&gt;No.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a design choice, and as you can see, it is designed like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The area to the right of the avatar is for the following user-related information: name, location, rep, and badges&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The area to the right of, but below the avatar is for the tags.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the first set of information doesn't vertically fill the box to the right of the avatar, then there's a gap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see no particular reason that your preferred design choice is superior, or &quot;makes more sense&quot;.   Personally, I like it the way it is.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in short:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;You're overthinking.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T03:27:02.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7724" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7725" CreationDate="2015-12-18T05:23:29.343" Score="4" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;The profile page used to tell us the user's age, except in the case of those users who failed to provide their birth dates. On certain rare occasions this information was of some slight use; namely, when someone asks about a book he read when he was 12, it saves the trouble of asking him when that was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has age been removed from the profiles, or is it still there and I'm just not smart enough to find it? If it has been removed, was this done on purpose or by accident?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T07:57:23.377" Title="Has age been removed from user profiles?" Tags="|support|profile-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7724" CreationDate="2015-12-18T07:57:23.377" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It doesn’t appear to be on the site-specific profiles, but it can still be found.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’ve checked the new profile page pretty thoroughly, and I can’t find it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I know I’ve not done anything to hide my age, and I know hold old I am. If I can’t find that string on the page it’s probably not there.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But every page has a link to a “network profile”, which covers you for the entire SE network. Notably, it has quite a different design to the site-specific pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This page still includes the age. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/users/11683/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet’s page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vjs1l.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vjs1l.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is still limited based on whether the user is sharing this info with SE, and choosing to share it. Your page doesn’t tell us anything:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4nlU6.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4nlU6.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don’t know why it’s been removed – you’d have to ask one of the Stack Exchange designers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T07:57:23.377" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7719" CreationDate="2015-12-18T09:34:53.070" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per my answer to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5229/is-it-acceptable-to-edit-in-this-answer-is-wrong-header-into-a-wrong-but-upvot?rq=1&quot;&gt;similar question&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The correct procedure is to add a comment explaining why the answer is&#xA;  wrong. The answer will then be (gradually) outvoted by your correct&#xA;  answer. It might take years but them's is the downside of a vote-based&#xA;  system.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;You might also want to address a note to the poster explaining why their answer is wrong and encouraging&#xA;  them to delete or amend their previous answer with the correct canon&#xA;  information.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notably, this approach has proven successful on more than one occasion. In this instance (the one that prompted the question in the first place), the OP has actually changed their acceptance: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DVK:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7719/what-can-i-do-when-a-question-has-an-old-accepted-and-25-voted-100-incorre/7726#comment21162_7719&quot;&gt;&quot;Minor update: &lt;strong&gt;the OP of the question I was thinking of was actually gracious enough to change his acceptance.&lt;/strong&gt; However, this Meta question&#xA;  is generic and therefore still stands as-is.&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On other questions, I've personally been successful in persuading both the poster of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/910/how-is-canonicity-of-derivative-works-determined-for-star-wars?rq=1&quot;&gt;superseded answer&lt;/a&gt; and the question's original OP to add notes and change their acceptance, resulting in my new answer being upvoted ahead of the old answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/910/how-is-canonicity-of-derivative-works-determined-for-star-wars?rq=1#comment170010_913&quot;&gt;How is canonicity of derivative works determined for Star Wars?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T10:43:01.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7728" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-18T17:38:06.843" Score="5" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you have a request to create tag synonyms, or rename or merge tags,&lt;/strong&gt; post the request here as answers.  Site adminstrators can then act on the request. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Requests are for tags on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;the Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy SE main site&lt;/a&gt; by default.  If your request is about tags on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt;, please indicate that specifically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admins: please edit the answer to indicate that the request is completed or declined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-02-20T01:42:06.107" Title="Tag synonym/rename/merge requests" Tags="|support|tags|tag-synonyms|retagging|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7728" CreationDate="2015-12-18T17:38:44.737" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;: synonymisation &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/tags/winterbash/synonyms&quot;&gt;is complete&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;On Sci Fi meta, can please you rename &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hats&quot;&gt;[hats]&lt;/a&gt; to [winterbash] so it has the same name as &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/winterbash&quot;&gt;[winterbash]&lt;/a&gt; on Meta SE and so it's easier to find?  Leave [hats] as a synonym.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2016-02-19T02:27:09.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7730" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7731" CreationDate="2015-12-19T05:12:03.547" Score="5" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111023/how-did-maz-kanata-acquire-this-weapon?noredirect=1#comment264921_111023&quot;&gt;How did Maz Kanata acquire Luke&amp;#39;s lightsaber?&lt;/a&gt; and then, 12 hours later, JMFB asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111121/what-are-the-origins-of-this-weapon&quot;&gt;In Star Wars: &amp;quot;The Force Awakens,&amp;quot; how could this lightsaber have turned up where it did?&lt;/a&gt; which I, like a few others, believed was a duplicate of mine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then someone voted to close &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; question as a duplicate, even though mine was first. I honestly believe my question is clearer and the answers on both questions are saying the same thing so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4744/should-we-always-close-the-newer-question-as-the-duplicate&quot;&gt;Should we always close the newer question as the duplicate?&lt;/a&gt; but I guess I still don't know what I should do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It shows this on my question&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/levAe.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/levAe.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;and I don't know what to do since I &lt;em&gt;don't think&lt;/em&gt; my question's different, it's just that I think the &lt;em&gt;other one&lt;/em&gt; should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54827" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2015-12-19T20:14:45.977" Title="Dupe, but mine was first" Tags="|support|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2017-09-07T18:11:56.817" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7730" CreationDate="2015-12-19T05:57:36.660" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Let the community decide.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually with dupes the newest one is normally closed but there are exceptions, these exceptions occur when the newer question receives a better answer than the older question or for some other extenuating circumstance. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the author there's really nothing you can do and you shouldn't take it personally at all this overlap is bound to happen with everyone asking the same question from the new movie and phrasing it differently due to spoilers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible that people prefer the new question because of how it's phrased or if it's phrased better with better answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22709" LastActivityDate="2015-12-19T05:57:36.660" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7732" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7744" CreationDate="2015-12-19T18:29:38.503" Score="2" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's what profile pages are meant to look like during the 2015 Winter Bash, with a woolly hat over the corner of the badges box:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7Siyj.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7Siyj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;DVK&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I've just earned a new badge, and now the badges box is hiding the woolly hat:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oLJP2.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oLJP2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;me&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like a bug in the Winter Bash user profile coding, but also one that'd be easy to fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hat count must be visible at all times!&lt;/strong&gt; Who cares about badges when there are hats to be had?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="171" LastEditDate="2015-12-21T15:58:10.933" LastActivityDate="2015-12-21T15:58:10.933" Title="New badges are obscuring hats" Tags="|bug|status-completed|profile-page|winterbash|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7733" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7735" CreationDate="2015-12-19T19:23:21.303" Score="-1" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Specifically - I thought of this question re: the numerous Kylo Ren naming questions - there are several and while answers have been given that could justify marking the question as answered, they simply haven't been. But, because of that, the SE platform doesn't allow flagging of a new question as duplicate because the old question isn't 'officially' answered. Should that be changed or a new method of flagging as dupe devised?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(PS - I searched for a question similar to this but didn't have much luck...so feel free to close as duplicate if needed :D &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55637" LastActivityDate="2015-12-19T23:16:51.627" Title="Should duplicates be closed even if there is no answer on the original?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7730" CreationDate="2015-12-19T20:14:45.977" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As hard as it is to take (Don't get all hard on yourself for posting a duplicate, although you seem to be taking it in stride. I posted what some think is a duplicate just yesterday.) I think the question &lt;strong&gt;with the best answer(s)&lt;/strong&gt; should be the one to remain open, regardless of which question was posted first. If the goal of our community is to provide the internet with stellar information on a variety of topics, the best information needs to come up first on a Google search. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes we will be the one to post a question that gets the best answer(s), but sometimes it will be another question that is the highest quality. That is the one that should remain open. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2015-12-19T20:14:45.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7733" CreationDate="2015-12-19T21:40:52.307" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;We should close one of them, not necessarily the newer&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of the reasons we close questions as duplicates still apply here, the biggest one being duplication of information. We have two questions asking the same thing; irrespective of either &lt;em&gt;having&lt;/em&gt; an answer, we only &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; answers to that question to be in one place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If neither question has an (upvoted) answer, or if both do, then we should keep the better one open, whichever one that happens to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If only one has an answer, we should leave that one open. Why close is when that's the one with an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as mechanics goes, the SE system does prevent us from flagging/VTCing as a duplicate when the &quot;target&quot; question has no upvoted answers. This is a limitation of the SE platform that is probably not going to be changed (but if you want to petition, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt; is the place to do so). What I've done in the past in situations like this is raise a custom flag and leave a comment. Moderators are able to close questions regardless of answers on either, so that neatly takes care of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2015-12-19T23:16:51.627" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2015-12-20T06:01:12.187" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; My new avatar is a simple red &amp;amp; white &quot;RC&quot; for RedCaio. I made the RC as a watermark for my videos that is post on my &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtube.com/user/redcaio&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;RedCaio youtube cannel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Icon:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fB2zw.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fB2zw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;RC icon&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Full logo:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ryezo.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ryezo.png&quot; alt=&quot;RedCaio logo&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Past Avatar(s):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My avatar was a minimalist drawing I drew myself depicting Kylo Ren:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wrpf6.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wrpf6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a passionate &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; fan, so I &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.queeky.com/artist/caiored&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;draw&lt;/a&gt; Star Wars stuff for fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54827" LastEditorUserId="54827" LastEditDate="2017-08-19T03:14:39.383" LastActivityDate="2017-08-19T03:14:39.383" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2015-12-20T20:05:03.763" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Until very recently I didn't have an avatar at all, but...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/30174?m=26171533#26171533&quot;&gt;I'm trying to start a trend of putting the Fourth Doctor's hat and scarf on other Doctors.&lt;/a&gt; - BESW&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I recently finished all of New Who and am currently watching quite a bit of Old Who, it seemed appropriate. So far I've put the Timey Wimey hat on the Tenth Doctor, the Twelfth Doctor, and (my current avatar) the First Doctor hiding in a Dalek shell. I'll probably change it at least a few more times before Winter Bash is over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I eventually settled on the Second Doctor, Patrick Troughton, because he happens to be my favorite of the Doctors from Old Who.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35327" LastEditorUserId="35327" LastEditDate="2016-06-22T19:46:24.910" LastActivityDate="2016-06-22T19:46:24.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7738" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-20T20:38:13.973" Score="32" ViewCount="423" Body="&lt;p&gt;We all love the hats,* and we covet the fashionable scarf of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://winterbash2015.stackexchange.com/timey-wimey&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Timey Wimey hat&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But please, make edits that you would be proud of during the rest of the year. Edits should be, as always, either substantial improvements to the post or otherwise be important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trivial edits on old questions not only make the baby hats cry, but also threaten the integrity of the time streams.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;* Apart from our resident hat-haters.**&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;** May not actually hate hats.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="3267" LastEditDate="2016-01-04T17:39:27.937" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T17:39:27.937" Title="Please avoid trivial edits during Winter Bash" Tags="|discussion|winterbash|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7739" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7740" CreationDate="2015-12-21T02:04:58.317" Score="2" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've only participated in Meta just a teensy bit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yFs46.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yFs46.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't think any of those upvotes were reflected in my reputation. &lt;strong&gt;Do Meta questions affect reputation? If not, then why?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54827" LastActivityDate="2015-12-21T02:32:10.007" Title="Do Meta questions affect reputation?" Tags="|support|meta|reputation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7739" CreationDate="2015-12-21T02:29:35.353" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No, you don't earn reputation from meta activity.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your meta rep count is synced with your main-site reputation. Meta is supposed to be a sub-site for community members to discuss the workings of the site, or talk about community activities/plans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Votes on meta aren't intended to reflect quality, but agreement or disagreement with the ideas presented, or support/lack thereof for having discussions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, it wouldn't make sense to have a separate set of reputation, or to have meta activity affect your primary rep gain. When you're penalized for downvotes, such as when you downvote answers on the main site, it discourages downvoting except when the answer quality is poor enough. But on meta, we &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; the community to voice their opinion freely, without penalty, so the best policies and decision can be enacted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While you can't earn rep on the meta, you &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; earn a separate set of badges!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-12-21T02:29:35.353" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7739" CreationDate="2015-12-21T02:32:10.007" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/whats-meta&quot;&gt;the help page for meta&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting is different on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like normal Stack Exchange sites, Meta allows members to vote on questions and answers. For most posts, votes reflect the perceived usefulness: well-written, well-reasoned, well-researched posts tend to get more attention and more upvotes. Highly-voted and frequently-linked posts may become part of the community-curated FAQ or codified as part of the site’s Help pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unlike normal Stack Exchange sites, Meta invites the community to discuss, debate and propose changes to the way the community itself behaves, as well as how the software itself works. On posts tagged feature-request, voting indicates agreement or disagreement with the proposed change rather than just the quality or usefulness of the post itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have an account on Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange, you have an account on its meta site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You do not need to create a separate account for meta; once you are logged in on Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange, you are also logged in and may post on its meta site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Votes on meta do not affect your reputation&lt;/strong&gt;; your meta reputation is the same as your reputation on Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange (synchronized hourly), though you earn separate badges. You must have 5 reputation to participate on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-12-21T02:32:10.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2015-12-21T10:10:48.443" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Back when I had more free time, I got quite interested in using &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.povray.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;POV-ray&lt;/a&gt; - my day job is as a programmer, and this was a way for me to use some of those skills to be artistic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My profile pic is a cropped version of what I consider to be my nicest rendering to date, something I simply called &quot;Ring &amp;amp; Ball&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nB0Vp.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nB0Vp.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it looks simple, at the time using the processor I had available, rendering a full size image such as this took (literally) many hours - on a more modern chip it's seconds, or minutes at most!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For anyone who wants to see an example of what POV-Ray code looks like, here's a few sections from the file that defines the image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The blue sphere at the center:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#declare sphereSize = 2;&#xA;&#xA;sphere {&#xA;  &amp;lt;0,0,0&amp;gt;,sphereSize&#xA;  texture { &#xA;    pigment { rgbf &amp;lt;0.25,0.5,1,0.9&amp;gt; } &#xA;  }&#xA;  interior { I_Glass }&#xA;  finish { phong 0.9 }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The silver &quot;bands&quot; that encircle the red torus are defined as a single band, which are two cylinders (defined as a &lt;code&gt;cone&lt;/code&gt; that doesn't taper) with a slightly smaller one &quot;subtracted&quot; (using the &lt;code&gt;difference&lt;/code&gt; command) from the middle of a larger one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#declare band = difference {&#xA;  cone {&#xA;    &amp;lt;0,-0.25,0&amp;gt;,ringWidth + 0.1&#xA;    &amp;lt;0,0.25,0&amp;gt;,ringWidth + 0.1&#xA;  }&#xA;  cone {&#xA;    &amp;lt;0,-0.5,0&amp;gt;,ringWidth&#xA;    &amp;lt;0,0.5,0&amp;gt;,ringWidth&#xA;  }&#xA;  texture { T_Chrome_5E }&#xA;  rotate x*90&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;code&gt;band&lt;/code&gt; definition is then iterated over and revolved around 360&lt;sup&gt;o&lt;/sup&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#declare rot = 0;&#xA;#while (rot &amp;lt; 2*pi)&#xA;  object {&#xA;    band&#xA;    rotate y*(degrees(rot)+90)&#xA;    translate &amp;lt;ringRadius*sin(rot),0,ringRadius*cos(rot)&amp;gt;   &#xA;  }&#xA;  #declare rot = rot + (pi/3);&#xA;#end&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope this was interesting, and gets you inspired to get making stuff!  If you didn't already find it, make sure you checkout the &lt;a href=&quot;http://hof.povray.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;POV-Ray Hall of Fame&lt;/a&gt; - there's some really great examples of what can be achieved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48188" LastActivityDate="2015-12-21T10:10:48.443" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2015-12-21T13:34:10.187" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The chronicles of my avatars... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first one worth mentioning was the Hufflepuff crest:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cJjfom.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cJjfom.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Hufflepuff crest&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Hufflepuff crest was chosen because, well, I'm a Hufflepuff. And at the beginning of my activity here, I was only active in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; tag, and so my avatar reflected that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Around Winter Bash 2015, I changed it to an image of Mr. Spock:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/49o0rm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/49o0rm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Spock&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I needed a head to put a hat on, and Spock seemed like a good idea on a site dedicated to Science Fiction and Fantasy. Also, something something smart something something answer questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a while I then changed it to fit my username:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hjskDm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hjskDm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Gandalf&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(My username being &quot;Mithrandir&quot;, the name that the Elves call Gandalf.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I then felt a pull to the Dark Side and updated to an image of Sauron:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2rqYtm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2rqYtm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Sauron&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I stuck with Sauron for a while. Then out of fear of becoming a Ringwraith... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...it was changed to a picture of Arwen Undómiel. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ep2Zjm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ep2Zjm.png&quot; alt=&quot;Arwen&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This image is a screenshot from the poster for the &lt;em&gt;The Return of the King&lt;/em&gt; movie, taken from a YouTube video playing the soundtrack.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And to switch to a different universe...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cr9QCm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cr9QCm.png&quot; alt=&quot;Isabella&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isabella Garcia-Shapiro from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/phineas-and-ferb&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;phineas-and-ferb&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;phineas-and-ferb&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screenshot from a YouTube upload of the song &quot;Whatcha Doin'?&quot; from the episode &quot;Roller Coaster - The Musical&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And to hop franchises again, now it's Violet Parr from &lt;em&gt;The Incredibles&lt;/em&gt;. Sticking with the pattern, again it's a screenshot from a YouTube video.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WlAFc.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WlAFc.png&quot; alt=&quot;Violet&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, to depart from the previous theme...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/e82CX.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a cropped and lightened version of a drawing made by &lt;a href=&quot;https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com/users/4550/avazula&quot;&gt;avazula&lt;/a&gt;, that is a representation of me based on things I've said in Interpersonal Skills chat. This is the full version:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mxx7R.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2018-10-19T09:05:06.353" LastActivityDate="2018-10-19T09:05:06.353" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7732" CreationDate="2015-12-21T15:58:04.343" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is fixed now: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/271286/congratulations-thanks-to-your-efforts-you-have-earned-box-appears-on-top-of/271553#271553&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Congratulations! Thanks to your efforts you have earned&amp;quot; box appears on top of the hat picker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="171" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2015-12-21T15:58:04.343" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7346" CreationDate="2015-12-21T18:19:44.607" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was trying to find the answer to a question, one I'd had for several years - googling around various keywords.  One of the links was to a question on the site.  It was not actually relevant to the question I had - but I realized I could write my &lt;em&gt;own&lt;/em&gt; question.  Unfortunately the question that brought me here is not so easy to answer, but so it goes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54401" LastActivityDate="2015-12-21T18:19:44.607" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7746" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-21T19:56:20.350" Score="9" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from October 1st 2015 through December 31 2015 (&lt;strong&gt;They don't have to be &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; questions and answers.&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, this is totally &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a duplicate of all the previous times I've done this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2015/10/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2015/10/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2015/10/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T21:29:40.937" Title="Favorite Questions and Answers from 4th Quarter of 2015" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7746" CreationDate="2015-12-21T20:26:17.030" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is really my favourite, as everyone drops into Yoda-talk so readily, with no questions asked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/106339/3804&quot;&gt;On Dagobah, do what, did Yoda?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T21:29:40.937" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7746" CreationDate="2015-12-21T21:14:57.730" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Answers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Praxis' answer to my 'Star Trek Selfie' question deserves a mention. +1 for going above and beyond with some original research&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/104907/20774&quot;&gt;Who are all the people in this “BEST. SELFIE. EVER!”?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought my own answer to this one was nicely comprehensive&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/109870/20774&quot;&gt;Why was the saucer separation so rarely done on the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and proving to DVK that there's &lt;a href=&quot;http://media.giphy.com/media/136kOut0qvFB28/giphy.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;no kill like overkill&lt;/a&gt;, quoting an answer from 7 different sources (including 3 different graphic novels of the same film, two different versions of the script as well as the FBI website)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/107710/20774&quot;&gt;Why did Men in Black wear black suits?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Questions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to blow my own trumpet, but if there was a special prize for &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/M0vno.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;taking one for the team&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (28 downvotes and counting), I deserve it for asking ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/105467/what-is-hermione-grangers-ethnicity&quot;&gt;What is Hermione Granger&amp;#39;s ethnicity?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2015-12-21T21:31:19.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7749" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-21T21:40:34.237" Score="3" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but it would be cool if we could point to specific details of TFA and note influence of questions on scifi SE.  If I was writing a new entry of an existing scifi franchise I know I would be mining SE for some thoughts and ideas and other research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5912" LastActivityDate="2015-12-21T21:40:34.237" Title="Is there any evidence of scifi SE influencing the Force Awakens?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7750" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7751" CreationDate="2015-12-22T00:40:26.177" Score="3" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/86458/21267&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; which has the following notice applied to it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Post is related to a rapidly changing event.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6bVZV.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6bVZV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What does this notice mean?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who can place/remove these notices?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T00:40:26.177" Title="What does the notice &quot;Post is related to a rapidly changing event.&quot; mean?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7750" CreationDate="2015-12-22T00:40:26.177" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a notice &lt;strong&gt;placed by a moderator&lt;/strong&gt; which means that this post is likely to change rapidly based on on-going real-world event(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yes, it's a post notice that moderators can put on a question / answer. The idea is to give heads-up to visitors that information contained therein may change over a short period of time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Naturally, any answer can change in correctness over time, but with things such as safety in a country due to civil unrest et al I felt it was a good use of the post notice to notify viewers of the situation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  PS - It's not a flag, it's a post notice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;-&lt;a href=&quot;https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/108/ankur-banerjee&quot;&gt;Ankur Banerjee ♦&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://travel.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1500/13872&quot;&gt;Travel SE (Meta)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information, see: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/107269/252593&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What does the “Current event” post notice mean?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:52:14.213" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T00:40:26.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7746" CreationDate="2015-12-22T00:58:19.507" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Answers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer MUST get a mention:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/105743/31394&quot;&gt;Story where the number 3 is the monster?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question used to be the highest-voted question on the Unanswered tab, by a factor of about 3, until Kyle Hale solved it with his first (and so far only) post on SFF. He's earned more rep from a single post than anyone else on SFF, by far, and this answer has earned more rep in bounties than any other answer &lt;strong&gt;on the SE network&lt;/strong&gt;! The answering of this question was such a landmark in the history of the site that it inspired &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/10/story-where-the-number-3-is-the-monster-finally-answered/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;its own blog post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I'm not personally a fan of Star Wars, there have been some exceptional answers in this tag (along with a lot of very bad questions and answers, admittedly) in the last month, including the following gems from DVK:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/112540/how-many-times-was-obi-wan-less-than-honest-with-luke/112543#112543&quot;&gt;How many times was Obi-Wan less than honest with Luke?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/112251/which-predictions-of-the-force-awakens-darths-droids-bingo-were-correct/112253#112253&quot;&gt;Which predictions of the Force Awakens: Darths &amp;amp; Droids Bingo were correct?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the obligatory 'tooting my own horn' section, I'm going to mention a couple of answers into which I put an enormous amount of time and effort without getting &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; much of a reward votes-wise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/107875/what-language-does-neri-from-ocean-girl-speak/108388#108388&quot;&gt;What language does Neri from &amp;quot;Ocean Girl&amp;quot; speak?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/105430/was-the-location-of-the-portal-to-landover-in-magic-kingdom-for-sale-sold-a/105442#105442&quot;&gt;Was the location of the portal to Landover in &amp;quot;Magic Kingdom for Sale — SOLD!&amp;quot; an actual site in Virginia?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Questions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question about Tolkien generated some very interesting results; researching it, as well as reading the excellent answers from Wad Cheber and Jason Baker, taught me a huge amount:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/109078/did-tolkien-create-any-characters-based-on-people-he-knew&quot;&gt;Did Tolkien create any characters based on people he knew?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question deserves a special mention, as answering it enabled me to discover a new fantasy novel I hadn't heard of, which I've now bought myself for Christmas and started reading:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/105639/31394&quot;&gt;Which fairy tales are the stories in the first two Witcher books based on?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(So answering questions on works you've never read can serve a practical purpose as well as helping others!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T19:29:32.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7746" CreationDate="2015-12-22T02:04:56.763" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Questions:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/104833/does-lucius-malfoy-have-a-wand-inside-his-cane-in-the-books/104838#104838&quot;&gt;Does Lucius Malfoy have a wand inside his cane in the books?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was fun to answer... and it showcases that films can in some cases have improvements over books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/109912/are-the-teachers-at-hogwarts-ever-publicly-intoxicated/109913#109913&quot;&gt;Are the teachers at Hogwarts ever publicly intoxicated?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because I never before realized what a den of scum and villainly Hogwarts is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/110188/does-planting-have-any-biological-impact-on-the-pequeninos-piggies-lifecycle/110200#110200&quot;&gt;Does &amp;quot;planting&amp;quot; have any biological impact on the Pequeninos (piggies) lifecycle?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of awesome illustrations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/110892/do-mathematicians-have-jobs-in-star-wars/110894#110894&quot;&gt;Do mathematicians have jobs in Star Wars?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because I love the idea of ivory-tower Math professors in TGFFA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, I &lt;em&gt;totally&lt;/em&gt; ascribe to myself the credit for turning poor rambling question with -5 score into a good one (-5/+8).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2301/janes-gender-in-enders-game-series/110898#110898&quot;&gt;Jane&amp;#39;s gender in Ender&amp;#39;s Game series&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because when I found the answer it was &lt;strong&gt;so totally unexpected&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/110876/is-there-evidence-to-suggest-that-supreme-leader-snoke-is-darth-plagueis/111028#111028&quot;&gt;Is there evidence to suggest that Supreme Leader Snoke is Darth Plagueis?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because it let me in on an awesome fan theory I was missing out on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111078/potty-breaks-during-the-force-awakens&quot;&gt;Potty breaks during The Force Awakens&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Because this is the First Ever question on this site that is actually on-topic according to StackExcahange standards of &amp;quot;Please post &lt;strong&gt;actual problems&lt;/strong&gt; you are facing&amp;quot;, as our Site Tour insists&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Answers:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tooting my own horn, the canonical answer I compiled to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/109101/what-is-orson-scott-cards-position-on-discrepancies-between-various-enderverse/109102#109102&quot;&gt;What is Orson Scott Card&amp;#39;s position on discrepancies between various Enderverse books?&lt;/a&gt; - which basically addresses about 10-30% of all &lt;em&gt;Ender's Game&lt;/em&gt; questions on this site in one fell swoop&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/109656/976&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/109656/976&lt;/a&gt; from @Hypnosifl, because he managed to completely beat my own answer, hands down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To honor Episode VII: The Lens Flares, the canonical answer to  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111224/what-are-the-things-that-the-force-awakens-borrowed-parallel-from-a-new-hope/111225#111225&quot;&gt;What are the things that “The Force Awakens” borrowed/parallel from “A New Hope?”&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This absolutely &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/111997/976&quot;&gt;delightful answer&lt;/a&gt; from @rand al'thor on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111996/alec-guinness-attitude-toward-star-wars&quot;&gt;What has been Alec Guinness&amp;#39;s attitude toward Star Wars?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Fairy-tale rubbish&amp;quot; is my phrase of the year!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T02:20:59.280" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7746" CreationDate="2015-12-22T02:53:55.617" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My favorite question was probably: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/107467/what-are-the-names-of-all-the-sci-fi-vessels-in-this-artwork&quot;&gt;What are the names of all the sci-fi vessels in this artwork?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that some users dislike these type of ID questions, but something fun happened with that one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer was made into a community wiki and there was a strong collaboration between chatters and commenters to attempt to identify all the works. The artist was even contacted, but provided an incomplete list! So, we still haven't been able to identify all the vessels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Working with the rest of the community to come up with guesses and confirmations for the guesses was a lot of fun, for me. It help bolster my sense of involvement with other active members, test my Sci-Fi knowledge and my Google-fu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T02:53:55.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7704" CreationDate="2015-12-22T18:49:08.200" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just look at the tag statistics (as of today, 22 Dec at around 18:30 UTC):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JyApZ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JyApZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;: 36 asked this week, 121 this month&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;: 13 asked this week, 74 this month&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;: 33 asked today, 194 this week&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt;: 11 asked this week, 74 this month&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt;: 15 asked this week, 49 this month&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt;: 11 asked this week, 23 this month&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt;: 16 asked this month, 357 this year&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doctor-who&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;doctor-who&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;doctor-who&lt;/a&gt;: 7 asked this week, 65 this month&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-comics&lt;/a&gt;: 22 asked this month, 300 this year&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tng&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tng&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tng&lt;/a&gt;: 9 asked this week, 36 this month&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt;: 19 asked this week, 34 this month&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt;: 5 asked this week, 14 this month&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;: 27 asked this month, 392 this year&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt;: 7 asked this month, 159 this year&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt;: 7 asked this month, 95 this year&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt;: 10 asked this month, 137 this year&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;There have been more Star Wars questions in the last 7 days than in all the rest of the top 12 tags put together.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now &lt;em&gt;that's&lt;/em&gt; what I call a disturbance in the &lt;strike&gt;Force&lt;/strike&gt; site!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T18:49:08.200" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7756" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-22T23:07:14.803" Score="9" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking at my reputation and I was confused when I saw this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JkfRn.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JkfRn.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I checked the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;what's rep&lt;/a&gt; page where it says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You gain reputation when:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;question is voted up: +5&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;answer is voted up: +10&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but I still don't get it. This has happened to me more than once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Why is one upvote a +3 and another +10?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54827" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-11-24T20:55:59.763" Title="Why is one upvote +3 and another +10?" Tags="|support|reputation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7756" CreationDate="2015-12-22T23:19:53.683" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have earned 200+ (247) reputation points in one day. I forgot how the math for things like this work, but when you have earned 200 reputation points in one day, you are capped at how many new reputation points you can earn for upvotes on old activity. But I believe you do get reputation points for 100% new activity such as posting a new question that is up voted or a new answer that is accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when you see an odd number like that +3 I believe that comes from a situation that might be like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You down voted 3 answers and lost 3 points in reputation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Then someone comes along to one of your old answers or questions and up votes that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Since the system won’t give you any new reputation points for an old question since you have received 200+ reputation points today, the +3 comes from the system accounting for the 3 reputation points you lost from down voting activity and “backfills” that lost reputation from whatever new voting activity you get.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no new reputation points, but backfill of lost reputation within the day you lost that reputation points yet gained 200+ reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14850" LastEditorUserId="14850" LastEditDate="2015-12-22T23:25:06.543" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T23:25:06.543" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7756" CreationDate="2015-12-22T23:22:11.803" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;You hit the repcap today. Congratulations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To fully explain what was going on with your reputation, I first need to explain how the repcap works. Note that a lot of this is covered in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;the Help Center&lt;/a&gt;, but I'm going to go through it in rather more detail than they do there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first thing to understand is that reputation changes broadly fall into two categories&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Standard&quot; changes.&lt;/strong&gt; This encompasses most activities; rep you gain when you receive upvotes, rep you lose when you give or receive downvotes, and reputation you gain from having suggested edits approved.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bonus changes.&lt;/strong&gt; This includes the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/cross-site-account-associations/&quot;&gt;association bonus&lt;/a&gt;, the accepted answer bonus (that is, the +15 you get when an answer of yours is accepted &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; the +2 bonus you get when you accept an answer on one of your questions), and any rep gained or lost from awarding or receiving a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this in mind, the repcap requirements can be restated as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Every day, you can earn a maximum of 200 reputation from standard changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this in mind, let's look at what happened to you on December 22, 2015. I find it instructive to think of your reputation like a glass and bucket of water:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Every time you gain reputation in a standard way, an amount of water is added to your glass&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Everytime you love reputation in a standard way, an amount is removed from your glass&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At the end of each day, the glass is emptied into a big bucket&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any bonus changes affect the bucket, not the glass&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The glass has a finite capacity, and any overflow is lost forever&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/54827/redcaio?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;your reputation history for the day&lt;/a&gt;, we can reconstruct a timeline of what happened to your glass:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At 00:38, somebody upvoted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/111284/31051&quot;&gt;Why does Kylo Ren keep hitting the side of his body?&lt;/a&gt; and you got 5 mL of water added to your glass&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At 00:56, it happened again; now your glass has 10 mL of water&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Skip ahead a bit to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At 20:07, somebody downvoted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/111022/31051&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/111022/31051&lt;/a&gt; and 2 mL was removed from your glass; it now contains 187 mL&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At 20:10, somebody upvoted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/110944/31051&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/110944/31051&lt;/a&gt; adding 10 mL and bringing your glass to 197 mL&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At 21:23, somebody upvoted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/111679/31051&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/111679/31051&lt;/a&gt;, adding 10 mL to your glass. This should have brought you up to 207 mL but, because the glass only has a 200 mL capacity, 7 mL spilled over and were lost forever. So the net gain was 3 mL, not 10&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; I'm excluding a few edge cases, like reputation changes to to retracted votes and deleted posts; those get complicated, and aren't useful here. I'm also excluding the hilarious &quot;Arbitrary Reputation Change&quot; category, which I believe has only been used on &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/&quot;&gt;StackApps&lt;/a&gt;. Finally, there's a -100 reputation penalty if one of your posts receives 6 valid spam or abuse flags; I have no idea how that factors into the repcap, though I doubt it's something that comes up very often&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2016-11-24T20:55:59.763" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7759" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-23T00:21:29.017" Score="1" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are at least 3 new questions related to Easter Eggs for &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111224/what-are-the-things-that-the-force-awakens-borrowed-parallel-from-a-new-hope&quot;&gt;What are the things that “The Force Awakens” borrowed/parallel from “A New Hope?”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111440/what-are-the-parallels-between-the-force-awakens-and-previous-lucas-films-exclu?lq=1&quot;&gt;What are the parallels between The Force Awakens and previous Lucas films (excluding Episode IV)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111777/the-force-awakens-easter-eggs&quot;&gt;The Force Awakens Easter Eggs?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And they're getting wildly different treatment, with the most-upvoted actually being broader than the one closed for being &quot;too broad&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's our policy on requesting limited lists on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&amp;amp;q=easter%20egg&quot;&gt;Easter Eggs&lt;/a&gt; in media?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T04:23:52.130" Title="Are Easter Egg questions off topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7760" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-23T00:40:35.560" Score="15" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems the Winter Bash encourages frivolous activities on a site that is serious, or fairly serious for the rest of the year. How do Winter Bash statistics compare to and impact the SF&amp;amp;F years statistics? (I'm not complaining. I'm curious as I count my pile of hats along with a lot of you.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4356" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T00:40:35.560" Title="How much does the Winter Bash skew SF&amp;F Site stats?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7761" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-23T00:43:17.913" Score="14" ViewCount="350" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the more common complaints on meta is the misuse/overuse/abuse of tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of the problem is that not everyone agrees on what is good vs. bad tag use. But that's not what I'm interested in at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other problem is, even if we do agree on how tags should be used, and that certain tags should be removed/added/cleaned up/etc, the effort is rather large. In order to avoid destroying our front page, we have generally agreed to limit tag edits so that only 5 at a time show up at the top of the &quot;Active&quot; questions list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This, of course, means tag cleanup never happens, because someone will do 5, or maybe 10, and then get bored and wander off to watch TV or whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One option I have seen on other SE sites is to pick a specific date and time, set up a chat event, and just accept that for a couple of hours, the front page will be useless. The timing is selected so that as many regulars as possible are available, but the general site traffic is such that the front page being &quot;broken&quot; won't impact everything. By focusing all the effort at one time, the damaged is minimized and the retagging gets done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this something that anyone else but me would be interested in doing? Obviously we'd need to figure out how to identify tags that need to go away, and we'd focus on the non-controversial ones first, but I think we talk about &quot;fixing tags&quot; a lot and it never seems to happen. Lets make it happen!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; While we're at it, this would also be a good time to determine if there are any tags we need to &lt;em&gt;add&lt;/em&gt; to questions to remain consistent. With all the users monitoring the chat feed, IMO if we can get to a good starting point, we can keep up the proper application of tags from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(P.S. I absolutely did not wait 4 days to ask this question just to get a hat.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(P.P.S. Of course I did.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-01-06T20:49:16.317" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T20:49:16.317" Title="Would we be interested in a concerted tag cleanup effort?" Tags="|discussion|retagging|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-12-29T19:30:57.323" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7759" CreationDate="2015-12-23T01:23:53.293" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;In General&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm of the opinion that Easter Egg questions are like any other kind of questions: some of them are good, some of them are not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a general rule, Easter Egg questions fall under &amp;quot;Behind-the-scenes&amp;quot; information, something that is firmly on-topic. Normal rules for broadness, listiness, and opinion-based questions still apply, as they always should.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course the general topic of Easter Eggs rather lends itself to &amp;quot;Validate my fan theory&amp;quot; questions, which must be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5150/what-are-the-good-ways-of-avoiding-a-promotes-a-pet-theory-question&quot;&gt;considered carefully&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;In Specific&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm personally not fussed about any of those questions. I get very nervous whenever the solution to a list question is &amp;quot;make a CW post and let everyone add in their pet examples.&amp;quot; That smacks rather strongly of TVTropes' &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;There's No Such Thing as Notability&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; rule, which to my mind is the opposite of what SE aims to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically regarding broadness, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;General site consensus is that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2638/are-all-list-questions-off-topic&quot;&gt;finite, well-scoped list questions are okay&lt;/a&gt;. Obviously &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt; is finite. So in one sense, any question about things &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt; uses for inspiration will also be finite, just because there's a limit to the number of things that &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be influenced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue, at least for me, comes from the &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; end of the question. Looking at the examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A New Hope&lt;/em&gt; also finite, and fairly well-scoped. It's a single movie. Moving on&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; movies, but not &lt;em&gt;A New Hope&lt;/em&gt;. Still finite; only five movies (six if you count &lt;em&gt;The Clone Wars&lt;/em&gt; movie). Scope is getting a little harder to justify, but it's still a finite list&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, I VTC'd this question. The reason I did so is because, at the time, the OP hadn't placed any limits on what the Easter Eggs were referring to, effectively asking for &amp;quot;all references to any other piece of media, &lt;em&gt;ever&lt;/em&gt;.&amp;quot; That's not merely the &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; franchise; that's all human creative output.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your edit, by the way, made it rather better by imposing some kind of reasonable limit (namely, intent of the production crew). Now that it only requires knowledge of all JJ Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan interviews, I have VTRO'd&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; TVTropes link (duh). &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A5jrE.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;It's dangerous to go alone&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T04:23:52.130" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7764" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7781" CreationDate="2015-12-23T03:07:50.163" Score="3" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How can I tell how much rep I lost to repcap in &lt;em&gt;recent&lt;/em&gt; day(s)?&lt;/strong&gt; (less than 1 week ago)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@rand al'thor asked me that in comments, and I was at a loss how to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know how much rep I got from the rep tracker dropdown for any recent day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I can calculate my total (ever) rep loss using Data.stackexchange.com queries, except that this data is 1 week old so I can't use it on recent week's days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a decent not-too-labour-intensive way for me to answer that question for a day in this week?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2016-08-13T23:59:42.877" Title="How can I tell how much rep I lost to repcap in recent day(s)?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7764" CreationDate="2015-12-23T03:44:48.287" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you repcap, your profile page's &quot;reputation&quot; activity still tracks your upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/q9K8G.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/q9K8G.png&quot; alt=&quot;RepCap example&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JGUMn.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JGUMn.png&quot; alt=&quot;RepCap example&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you change to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/976/dvk?tab=reputation&amp;amp;sort=post&quot;&gt;display the reputation by &quot;post&quot;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZargC.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZargC.png&quot; alt=&quot;Post option&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you'll see exactly how many votes you received for a given question, whether or not it added to your reputation total, and can quick tally that up in your head or with a calculator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/v7w9F.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/v7w9F.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using this last method, you can easily construct a spreadsheet to tabulate your totals. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you expand all the &quot;# events&quot; listed, you can then copy and paste the entire day's activity into Excel or Google Sheets, starting in A1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, in the last column you can use a formula such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;=IF(AND(C2=&quot;upvote&quot;,ISBLANK(A2)),10,IF(AND(C2=&quot;upvote&quot;,MOD(A2,10)&amp;gt;0),10-MOD(A2,10),0))&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This formula performs the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;if(activity == &quot;upvote&quot; &amp;amp;&amp;amp; reputation.isBlank()) {&#xA; return 10;&#xA;}&#xA;else if (activity == &quot;upvote&quot; &amp;amp;&amp;amp; reputation % 10 &amp;gt; 0) {&#xA; return 10 - reputation % 10; &#xA;}&#xA;else { return 0;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;else if&lt;/code&gt; accounts for partial rep gain earned because of downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, you do a simple &lt;code&gt;SUM()&lt;/code&gt; of that new column, and you get, for example, 1417 lost reputation for @DVK on 2015-12-21 UTC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I confirmed that the formula I posted works in both Excel and Google Sheets, but I don't know if it works in OpenCalc/LibreCalc/Numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T06:02:32.890" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7766" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7767" CreationDate="2015-12-23T03:54:50.620" Score="9" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;I apologize if the answer was supposed to be obvious, but I didn't see anything on the topic and I am curious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The winter bash hats are pretty neat and there's lots of different ones.  Is there a way to display more than one at a time?  I suppose too many would hide the icon, but a few might work quite well.  It looks like they're just layered on top of the icon picture, and I don't know if it would cause problems to have more than one layer at a time, or if there might be a different way of adding many hats.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would be pleased with either a way make it work, or a reason why it doesn't (or shouldn't).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54401" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T04:05:27.687" Title="Is it possible to wear many hats" Tags="|discussion|winterbash|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7766" CreationDate="2015-12-23T03:59:21.007" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/159307/how-about-multiple-hats&quot;&gt;Alas no&lt;/a&gt;; not within the SE interface, anyway. However, in an answer to the question I just linked to, Aarthi (a former SE employee) mentions the one way you &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt;, sort of, do this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That said, there's a fairly easy &quot;cheat&quot; around this -- just screencap your gravatar wearing a hat, make that image your gravatar, and equip a different hat. repeat until you are wearing all the hats!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, consider &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2816/mike-edenfield?tab=profile&quot;&gt;Mike Edenfield&lt;/a&gt;. He appears to be wearing both Timey-Wimey and A New Hope:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/B9Kfp.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/B9Kfp.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you look at his &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p84Q9.png?s=328&amp;amp;g=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;actual avatar image&lt;/a&gt;, you will see that he just took a screenshot of Cthulhu wearing the Timey-Wimey hat, and uploaded that as his new avatar:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p84Q9.png?s=328&amp;amp;g=1&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main limitation here is that any hats that are part of your screencap won't be able to extend beyond the regular avatar boundaries the way overlain hats can (my Fan-hat-tic hat, for example)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T04:05:27.687" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7768" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-23T04:20:10.410" Score="2" ViewCount="271" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't seem to find a clear and consistent way to quote things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;May the Force be with you.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;May the Force be with you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;May the Force be with you.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I supposed to use quotation marks if I'm using &lt;strong&gt;&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; for quotes? Or is &lt;strong&gt;&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; only for really long quotes? I like using them, even on short quotes because they draw you attention and they break up the text, making it easier to read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then there's the issue of how to include who said it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;May the Force be with you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-Obi-Wan&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;May the Force be with you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;OBI-WAN: May the Force be with you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Obi-Wan said, &quot;May the Force be with you.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Obi-Wan said, &#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;May the Force be with you.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;and so on.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I've looked around in the help center and stuff but I still need some help.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54827" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-03-30T23:45:27.873" LastActivityDate="2016-03-30T23:45:27.873" Title="What's the best way to format quotes?" Tags="|discussion|support|faq|markdown|quotes|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7768" CreationDate="2015-12-23T04:25:00.813" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Honestly, there's no one true way to do this.  I recommend:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use markdown, if it has a relevant markup for what you're doing.  So use quotes for quoting things (start a paragraph with a '&gt;').&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be consistent.  Pick one way to layout your post, and stick to it.  Using a mix of markdown and inline &quot;quotes&quot; with quotation marks makes your post harder to read.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T04:25:00.813" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7346" CreationDate="2015-12-23T06:43:58.870" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was told about it by someone who had already been using SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T06:43:58.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7772" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7773" CreationDate="2015-12-23T10:25:50.793" Score="22" ViewCount="257" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/site-analytics&quot;&gt;site analytics&lt;/a&gt; (25k users only, sorry) while trying to work out &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7760/3567&quot;&gt;whether Winter Bash skews the stats&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of noticeable spikes in the traffic graph:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/u9CZb.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/u9CZb.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The spike in the last month or so is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Force_Awakens&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;some low-budget indie film&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’m more interested in the spike on 28 June 2012. There’s a comparable spike in posts, but less so in votes. &lt;strong&gt;What happened?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The stats page lists a few milestones that might have caused a traffic blip, but all at the wrong time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;11 Jan 2011 – private beta&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;18 Jan 2011 – public beta&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;13 Dec 2011 – graduation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2015-12-27T17:04:12.607" Title="What caused a spike of traffic on 28 June 2012?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7772" CreationDate="2015-12-23T12:08:35.897" Score="19" Body="&lt;h2&gt;This was an event related to Futurama.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I looked on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions?page=435&amp;amp;sort=newest&quot;&gt;list of questions ordered by date&lt;/a&gt; and noticed a lot of Futurama questions on 28 June 2012. Personally I wasn't around at that time, but I've heard about this event from DVK, who said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;sigh.&lt;/em&gt; I was SOOOO hoping that the Trauma of Futurama was fully behind us :( Basically, we got overflooded with Futurama questions, many of questionable quality, as part of a promotional event.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;-- DVK, 7 Dec 2015&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more details, have a look at the various meta posts thrown up by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=futurama+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;this search&lt;/a&gt;. Notice the date stamps: they're all in June or July 2012. In particular, here are two posts from 28 June. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1971/congratulations-on-being-mentioned-on-futuramas-facebook-page&quot;&gt;Congratulations on being mentioned on Futurama&amp;#39;s Facebook page!&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/Futurama/posts/313500278739993&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.facebook.com/Futurama/posts/313500278739993&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was browsing Facebook this evening and noticed a link to the SciFi Stack Exchange on Futurama's newsfeed! Congratulations - this should bring a good bit of traffic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then the results of this promotion. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1977/holy-monkeys-batman-that-is-a-lot-of-posts&quot;&gt;Holy monkeys Batman! That is A LOT of posts!&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think due to what happened here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1971/3383&quot;&gt;Congratulations on being mentioned on Futurama&amp;#39;s Facebook page!&lt;/a&gt;, or most probably here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/Futurama/posts/320014191418612&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.facebook.com/Futurama/posts/320014191418612&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are getting &lt;strong&gt;MANY&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/futurama&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;futurama&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;futurama&lt;/a&gt; posts within the past few minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T12:08:35.897" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7761" CreationDate="2015-12-23T13:12:08.147" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.  This has worked well on other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a suggestion - have three or four two-hour bursts spread through the day (or weekend) so that people in various time zones can do their bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30512" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T13:12:08.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7768" CreationDate="2015-12-23T13:17:04.707" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends. There's not really a clear rule and some of that comes down to personal preference. However, there are some preferred general guidelines for the overall use of SE when it comes to quote blocks in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When quoting a larger standalone block of text you should really use a quote block, as that is what quote blocks are made for and it immediately clarifies that the text is a quote, without trying to decipher the little &quot;s in there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If however you're just using a &quot;small part of a quote&quot; right inside the text, I'd just put it there with quotation marks to not impede the reading flow. I for myself also use &lt;em&gt;&quot;italics&quot;&lt;/em&gt; together with the quotation marks, but that's as well a matter of taste.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Using both a quote block &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; quotation marks is redundant, you're already using a quote block, additional quotes are distracting and look like the quote is itself quoting something.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to the format to use when including the quoter, this comes down to personal preferrance quite a bit. But it also depends on the nature of the quote itself to a large degree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;May the Force be with you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-Obi-Wan&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes sense if it is some kind of important standalone quote. You're not quoting a film or a book per-se, but the &lt;em&gt;actual person&lt;/em&gt; who said it (be that a fictional person or not) and you want to highlight exactly that person as the originator together with the quote.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;May the Force be with you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes sense if the quoter is clear from the context, for example if you are quoting a single person in a dialogue and you already said in the paragraph before who you are going to quote. Or if it is some kind of general wisdom hardly attributable but clearly a quote.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;OBI-WAN: May the Force be with you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is more inherent to dialogue in a dramatic work, be that a play or a movie. I'd use it when quoting  dialogue from a film and it is not already clear fro mthe preceding context who says it or it's part of a larger dialogue with more than one character.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Obi-Wan said, &quot;May the Force be with you.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's as said, more to be used for smaller quotes that you can put right into the text flow.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23386" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T13:17:04.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7768" CreationDate="2015-12-23T15:49:57.477" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will do a few extra things over what TARS recommends, based on how much time I have or how pretty I want the post to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For quotes from people, articles, or character dialague, I may do something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Well, there was more shirtless Thor. The DVD extras are going to be enormously popular. But no, for me, it’s really a couple of little exchanges that I thought would have helped the emotionality and the clarity of the thing. The flow of it, that’s all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-&lt;em&gt;Joss Whedon&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/avengers-age-of-ultron/35112/joss-whedon-interview-avengers-marvel-titan-ae&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Den of Geek Interview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where my citation sits below the quote, naming both the speaker and the web source/work cited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For in-line quotes, I sometimes use code blocks, using the backtick (`) markdown:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;James Marsters (Spike), said this about vampires, &lt;code&gt;For Joss, vampires are metaphors for the things you get over in adolescence.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which isn't the intended purpose for the code blocks, but I think makes the quotes stand out better than just using quotation marks, but doesn't waste vertical space. This habit was actually born out of the fact that you can't do quote blocks in comments, but you &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; surround text in the backticks to get the code snippets, and in that case it's very useful for showing direct quotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T15:49:57.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7761" CreationDate="2015-12-23T20:56:16.600" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes, but let's wait a while.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Christmas is coming up, and (I hope!) most of us will have better things to do over the next week or two than hanging out on a Q&amp;amp;A site. We should definitely &lt;strong&gt;leave it until January&lt;/strong&gt;, so that all the people who'd like to participate in such a discussion can have their say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(If we have this event during the Christmas period, presided over by Mike Edenfield and phantom42, the notorious &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=grumpy+sod&amp;amp;user=&amp;amp;room=198&quot;&gt;Grumpy Sods of Mos Eisley&lt;/a&gt;, we'll be lucky to be left with any tags at all! :-P )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T20:56:16.600" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7768" CreationDate="2015-12-23T20:57:39.967" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not think there is a universal “best” way to format quotes. But honestly I believe formatting of these things can get out of hand and the simplicity of the markdown formatting should be respected. In general—when it comes to markdown formatting—if you are feeling restricted by it’s limitations, many times the best solution is to rethink your overall document structure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also remember, there is a mobile app for all Stack Exchange content and formatting choices that &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; make sense on a desktop site will look ridiculous at best, unreadable at worse when view via the app.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knowing that, I would say keeping it simple with your 2nd example is the best way to go:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;May the Force be with you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you are placing that in some context—such as attribution—then prefacing that quote I see as the best solution:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;May the Force be with you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for whether the quote itself should have quotes, that depends. 90% of the time no quotes should be fine since adding them would be redundant. But if you are quoting text out of a book with dialogue in text that has quotes then leave that in there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“May the Force be with you,” Obi-Wan Kenobi said as he opened the door and  exited the security room overlooking the hangar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14850" LastEditorUserId="54827" LastEditDate="2015-12-27T01:10:44.990" LastActivityDate="2015-12-27T01:10:44.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7768" CreationDate="2015-12-23T20:59:21.583" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no hard and fast guideline. What I've found works for me is what you've described as #6; placing script quotes into inline boxes (with the &amp;gt; key). I also bold the name of the person speaking, use italics to indicate speech and place square quotes to indicate non-speech directions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WORF:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Captain, I recommend we fire photon torpedoes&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PICARD:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Denied. We're on a mission of peaceful exploration&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DATA:&lt;/strong&gt; [Explosions are heard offscreen] &lt;em&gt;The Romulans have boarded us and are killing hostages&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's a need to show where the quote is from, I usually hypertext link it into the line above or add it as a rider at the bottom using the format &amp;lt; sup &amp;gt; &amp;lt; sub &amp;gt; text goes here &amp;lt; / sub&amp;gt; &amp;lt; sup&amp;gt; to make it small and innocuous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T20:59:21.583" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7780" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-23T21:12:16.040" Score="2" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I hover over, for example, the Harry Potter tag, and I try and subscribe to the desktop pop-up feed (desktop pop-ups), which I had used for years, and which was an SE feature, and not a third party app, I am now redirected to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/feeds/tag/harry-potter&quot;&gt;a page of RSS code&lt;/a&gt;. I'm assuming this is not the right selection for pop-ups. Who would I go to, or what can I do, to get the desktop pop-ups working again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T20:16:43.160" Title="Are the desktop pop-ups feeds working properly?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7764" CreationDate="2015-12-23T21:14:39.453" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can get a figure for how much rep you lost to the repcap in 1 week, Sunday to Sunday, as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;visit &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/328997/rep-without-rep-cap-fixed-with-correct-answer-score&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt; at Data.SE to find out what your rep &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; have been last Sunday, 20 Dec at around 3am UTC, if not for the rep cap; the answer is &lt;strong&gt;219322&lt;/strong&gt; rep&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;visit the same page again next week to get a corresponding figure for next Sunday, 27 Dec at around 3am UTC; &lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; I've now done this and found a figure of &lt;strong&gt;229752&lt;/strong&gt; rep&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;subtract the two figures&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;PROFIT!!!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DVK, you earned &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;10,000 rep&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; in a single week between the 20th and 27th December. To quote @steelerfan: &lt;em&gt;faints, then explodes&lt;/em&gt;!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2015-12-28T17:48:39.297" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T17:48:39.297" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2015-12-23T23:31:14.750" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;My user name, RedCaio, is inspired by my real name. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Red&quot; is part of my last name.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Caio&quot; is a Portuguese name that, when said aloud, sounds like &quot;Kyle&quot;, which is my middle name. I speak Portuguese so I thought it was neat. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've used CaioRed and RedCaio interchangeably on different sites. You'll notice my profile has links to my QueekyPaint and YouTube accounts, the usernames for those are CaioRed and RedCaio respectively. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coincidentally, now that they've made a new Star Wars film, I noticed that CaioRed sounds a little bit like &quot;Kylo Ren&quot;, hence &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7681/the-many-avatars-of-sff-se/7736#7736&quot;&gt;my avatar/profile pic&lt;/a&gt;! &#xA;O.O&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54827" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T23:31:14.750" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7783" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7791" CreationDate="2015-12-24T00:10:56.040" Score="6" ViewCount="246" Body="&lt;p&gt;At this point, it's possible to get access to screenshots of TFA from people taking their recording digital devices (aka smartphones) into cinemas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it permissible on this site to post those screenshots in the answers, despite coming from what are, at best, ethically dubious, and at worst, borderline illegal, sources? Or do I need to stop looking for them to include in my answers and simply wait till DVD/BR releases and I can get it and screenshot myself to my heart's content?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Please note that the most obvious efficacy arguments don't necessarily apply - those of use who saw the film a couple of times can easily tell if a specific screenshot is indeed authentic, or just made up by a fan&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T14:08:07.293" Title="Is it permissible to post screenshots from TFA in answers?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2015-12-24T01:13:37.897" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Boring answer for you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My user ID &lt;strong&gt;used&lt;/strong&gt; to be my real name, but, as we got bigger, I decided to put at least a LITTLE bit of obfuscation between me and any random trolls / web-spiders, etc., and I switched to my initials.   Years ago, I tried to buy the domain of my initials (khw.com), but there's someone with the same initials who had the same idea and has been sitting on it for 10 years or so.  (No web page there,  just 'under construction', but I can't really criticize, as I rarely have anything on my domain, either.  Just temporary pages I put up for one thing or another.)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I bought the next best thing, to my way of thinking.. k-h-w.com.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sigh&lt;/strong&gt; -- do you KNOW how many sites don't think that's a POP3 compliant format?  Bah.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless, I've had the site for years, now, tho, so when I decided to remove my actual name k-h-w seemed the obvious choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2292" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T01:13:37.897" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7785" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-24T02:15:57.430" Score="-4" ViewCount="303" Body="&lt;p&gt;In honour of TFA release, I propose we rename the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; tag to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fairy-tale-rubbish&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fairy-tale-rubbish&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fairy-tale-rubbish&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111996/alec-guinness-attitude-toward-star-wars&quot;&gt;What has been Alec Guinness&amp;#39;s attitude toward Star Wars?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can keep &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; as a synonym, to avoid confusing posters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T11:15:12.360" Title="Should we rename the [star-wars] tag to [fairy-tale-rubbish]?" Tags="|discussion|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7786" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7790" CreationDate="2015-12-24T02:56:46.560" Score="5" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just discovered that we have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/james-bond&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;james-bond&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;james-bond&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This surprised me, as community consensus is that James Bond is off-topic. So I went to burninate the tag ... and discovered that it's used on two questions, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/77028/is-james-bond-explicitly-described-as-caucasian-in-ian-flemings-books&quot;&gt;one of which&lt;/a&gt; is closed for not being about SFF while &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/75798/how-implausible-is-the-landing-of-spectres-spacejacking-in-you-only-live-twice&quot;&gt;the other&lt;/a&gt; will probably soon be closed for asking about real-world science (I just cast the first VTC). But both these questions have positively-scored answers and are unlikely to be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should we do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If we get rid of the tag, how do we retag those two questions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If we leave the tag, will its existence make people think James Bond is on-topic?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T13:50:29.653" Title="What should we do with a tag that's used only for questions closed as off-topic but not deleted?" Tags="|discussion|scope|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7786" CreationDate="2015-12-24T08:56:19.523" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I’d let the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/james-bond&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;james-bond&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;james-bond&lt;/a&gt; tag survive.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It’s an appropriate tag for the two questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would be hard to argue “it’s on-topic because there’s a tag for it” when the only two questions in that tag have been closed for being off-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T08:56:19.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7785" CreationDate="2015-12-24T11:15:12.360" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have given this serious consideration and my answer is &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FKM1g.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FKM1g.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dUQ19.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dUQ19.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ea2s7.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ea2s7.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T11:15:12.360" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7786" CreationDate="2015-12-24T13:42:16.537" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not particularly happy about it but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/james-bond&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;james-bond&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;james-bond&lt;/a&gt; probably needs to stay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, our consensus on scope is that if someone asked a question specifically about some futuristic technology &lt;em&gt;in&lt;/em&gt; a &lt;em&gt;James Bond&lt;/em&gt; movie, that would probably be on topic. So, there's a possibility we'll need the tag later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've edited the tag wiki to make it clarify the proper usage of the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we do need to keep an eye on this tag, to make sure it doesn't get used on any on-topic questions, it's otherwise serving a purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2015-12-24T13:50:29.653" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T13:50:29.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7783" CreationDate="2015-12-24T14:08:07.293" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is obviously a tricky situation, and IANAL, but here's my two and a half cents...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note: since SE is a US based company, I am using US laws/policies)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr/&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Is what we're doing considered fair use?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://copyright.gov/fair-use/more-info.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;US Copyright Office's page on Fair Use&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fair use is a legal doctrine that promotes freedom of expression by permitting the unlicensed use of copyright-protected works in certain circumstances. Section 107 of the Copyright Act provides the statutory framework for determining whether something is a fair use and identifies &lt;strong&gt;certain types of uses—such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research—as examples of activities that may qualify as fair use.&lt;/strong&gt;  Section 107 calls for consideration of the following four factors in evaluating a question of fair use:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(1) Purpose and character of the use, including whether the use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes:  &lt;strong&gt;Courts look at how the party claiming fair use is using the copyrighted work, and are more likely to find that nonprofit educational and noncommercial uses are fair.&lt;/strong&gt;  This does not mean, however, that all nonprofit education and noncommercial uses are fair and all commercial uses are not fair; instead, courts will balance the purpose and character of the use against the other factors below.  Additionally, “transformative” uses are more likely to be considered fair.  Transformative uses are those that add something new, with a further purpose or different character, and do not substitute for the original use of the work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, even the Copyright Office acknowledges that the criteria are vague and subject to interpretation and discretion on a case-by-case basis. &lt;a href=&quot;http://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/what-is-fair-use/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stanford University has a nice summary of the definition&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In its most general sense, &lt;strong&gt;a fair use is any copying of copyrighted material done for a limited and “transformative” purpose, such as to comment upon, criticize, or parody a copyrighted work.&lt;/strong&gt; Such uses can be done without permission from the copyright owner. In other words, fair use is a defense against a claim of copyright infringement. If your use qualifies as a fair use, then it would not be considered an illegal infringement. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Commentary and Criticism&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you are commenting upon or critiquing a copyrighted work — for instance, writing a book review — fair use principles allow you to reproduce some of the work to achieve your purposes. Some examples of commentary and criticism include:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;quoting a few lines from a Bob Dylan song in a music review&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;summarizing and quoting from a medical article on prostate cancer in a news report&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;copying a few paragraphs from a news article for use by a teacher or student in a lesson, or&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;copying a portion of a Sports Illustrated magazine article for use in&amp;nbsp;a&amp;nbsp;related court case.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;The underlying rationale of this rule is that the public reaps benefits from your review, which is enhanced by including some of the copyrighted material. Additional examples of commentary or criticism are provided in the examples of fair use cases.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Again, IANAL, but what we're doing feels like it would generally fall under the Fair Use guidelines.&lt;/h3&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are presenting information/assets for an criticism and commentary, for an educational, if fun, purpose. So long as sources are attributed as best we can, and no false claims of ownership are made, I think we're generally in the clear. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, should a legitimate copyright owner feel differently, we would be morally and legally obligated to required to obey their wishes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr/&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;But... this material was illegally obtained!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That, of course, is the real issue here, right? Let's look back at some related discussion: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1349/5184&quot;&gt;Should We Allow Links to Sources of a Questionable Legal Status?&lt;/a&gt;. But that's specifically about linking &lt;em&gt;to&lt;/em&gt; illegal material. &lt;strong&gt;That should never be done.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I think there's a stark difference between linking TO a source, which actively facilitates piracy, theft, and copyright infringement, and using that source as a factual source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Do we really know if any of our online sources were legally obtained?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we know that the scans on Wookieepedia were legally obtained, and not just taken from a pirated file? No, and it's not really crucially important, IMO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Disclaimer: It's always important to purchase/acquire sources legally, it's just less important to me whether or not the specific images posted on the site came from a legally purchased copy or not.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, you have no idea whether or not the &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt; novelization I've been referencing lately was illegally obtained (note: my copy is completely legit, having been purchased from Amazon). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;But there's no way that these screencaps came from a legally obtained source!&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally fail to see a difference. As Mike Edenfield noted, we post screencaps from shows all the time, including shows that haven't been released for purchase yet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr/&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The final measure for me comes in regards to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/legal&quot;&gt;the TOS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Subscriber represents, warrants and agrees that it will not contribute any Subscriber Content that (a) infringes, violates or otherwise interferes with any copyright or trademark of another party, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By posting such screencaps or quotes, we are not encouraging or enabling theft or copyright infringement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Since what we're doing would all likely fall under the Fair Use Doctrine, I believe posting screencaps/quotes from illegitimately acquired sources is OK, so long as we do not link to said sources.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T14:08:07.293" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7792" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7794" CreationDate="2015-12-24T14:26:04.170" Score="34" ViewCount="841" Body="&lt;p&gt;On one hand&lt;sup&gt;[1]&lt;/sup&gt;, I appreciate the intent behind trying to de-spoiler TFA questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, we don't have THIS deep and wide a level of hiding data for any of the older works, like the other 3 &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; films (Episodes 4-6) or &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it mean that at some point &lt;strong&gt;we will have an officially sanctioned effort to edit such questions (organized or not), so that they actually have a meaningful title&lt;/strong&gt;? Doing so would benefit all future site users (as opposed to a very narrow - time wise - demographic who haven't seen TFA yet)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or will these titles languish forever with absolutely meaningless titles like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Why did this character do that vague thingy?&quot;` &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...on every single of hundreds of TFA questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is &quot;Yes, we will sanction a cleanup&quot;, how will we know when that time comes? Some pre-determined time that elapses after the movie's release? A new Meta question with conclusive voting? Moderators making a decision and announcement? Users fed up with the useless titles organizing an independent tag clean-up, and starting the insurgent work at a volume which makes it clear there is a critical mass of intent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;[1] - Tangentially, personally, I think this level of de-spoilering is beyond ridiculous. If I don't want to have a work spoiled, I either technologically filter it out (like, SE's tag ignore feature), or simply mentally ignore anything pertaining to it. I don't demand that people butcher their &lt;em&gt;GoT&lt;/em&gt;, or &lt;em&gt;WoT&lt;/em&gt;, or &lt;em&gt;DW&lt;/em&gt; questions on account of me not having bothered to consume that universe yet - it's &lt;strong&gt;my&lt;/strong&gt; problem, not theirs &amp;lt;/rant&gt;. But that's not really germane to what I'm asking. &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="3500" LastEditDate="2015-12-29T18:56:33.747" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T18:56:33.747" Title="Will we ever clean up those ridiculous spoiler-free “The Force Awakens” question titles?" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7793" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7837" CreationDate="2015-12-24T14:39:11.333" Score="3" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed a puzzling trend lately, editing a lot of TFA content (since it contains spoiler blocks).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of people format their spoiler blocks with NO empty line after preceding text, like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;I'm talking about this secret stuff&#xA;&amp;gt;! my Spoiler&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as opposed to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;I'm talking about this secret stuff&#xA;&#xA;&amp;gt;! my Spoiler&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a reason this is done? Is that a method I should be using to (my normal way - due to stylistic readability preference - is to always precede quote blocks, including spoiler blocks, with an empty line)? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or merely random preference with no effect and done as personal preference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(side note: Not sure if this is unique to spoiler blocks or all quote blocks - I never noticed the trend before with quote blocks but doesn't mean it wasn't there)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2016-01-01T07:39:32.857" Title="Why do people NOT put empty lines before spoiler paragraphs?" Tags="|discussion|markdown|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7792" CreationDate="2015-12-24T14:57:18.210" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've been having this discussion (unfortunately, mostly in chat) since the movie came out, and I think the regulars (and a few CMs) are in agreement with you that the spoiler markup and generic titles are out of hand. You'll know pretty well by now that this isn't uncommon when a new movie comes out, we get a flood of badly-despoiled questions, and after a while they have to get fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I (only half jokingly) claimed that we would go back and clean them up as a Christmas Present for Shog9, who was particularly annoyed by them. Now that it's been two weekends since the movie came out, at least IMO we can start working on these.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the past, from what I've seen, it's been a mostly organic process: when &lt;em&gt;Ant-Man&lt;/em&gt; came out, I think it was Gilles who just came along one day and started fixing them all, and other people sort-of fell in behind him. I don't know that it &lt;em&gt;needs&lt;/em&gt; coordination -- though obviously if we wanted to put it to a vote and put a drop-dead date on it, I'd fall in line with that effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But really, I think if you see a terrible title, go ahead and fix is; we can make those edits now, as long as we try to stick to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/968/what-is-the-policy-for-spoilers&quot;&gt;general spoiler principles&lt;/a&gt;, as we would any other work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Try to keep the titles &lt;em&gt;as&lt;/em&gt; spoiler free as you can without making them meaningless, so people can choose not to read them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make sure everything is tagged properly, so people can choose to hide/ignore them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Try to keep the &lt;em&gt;really big&lt;/em&gt; reveals/twists/swerves/surprises behind spoiler markup, if possible, without making the answer terrible.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Overall make the question and answers make sense first, and avoid spoiling second.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T23:55:45.303" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7793" CreationDate="2015-12-24T16:08:58.530" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There is literally no difference.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The example below shows two spoiler blocks – one with a newline, one without. The output HTML is the same in both cases. There is no difference between the two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, I think it comes down to personal preference. There’s no “better” way of doing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I prefer having the empty line there, because I think it looks nicer, and I use some Markdown parsers which don’t start a blockquote unless it’s preceded by a newline – but it’s not a strong preference. Don’t overthink it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Example&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Markdown source:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;I’ve written a paragraph&#xA;&amp;gt;! and there isn’t a newline in the Markdown source.&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;I've written another paragraph&#xA;&#xA;&amp;gt;! And although you can’t see it, there’s a newline in the Markdown source.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HTML output:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;I’ve written a paragraph&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;p&amp;gt; and there isn’t a newline in the Markdown source.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;I've written another paragraph&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;p&amp;gt; And although you can’t see it, there’s a newline in the Markdown source.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rendered output:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’ve written a paragraph&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; and there isn’t a newline in the Markdown source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've written another paragraph&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; And although you can’t see it, there’s a newline in the Markdown source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T16:08:58.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2015-12-25T04:01:43.450" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am the one true king of the Seven Kingdoms. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50565" LastActivityDate="2015-12-25T04:01:43.450" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2015-12-25T04:16:50.643" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not using my usual username, because I need to protect my identity...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, really...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2015-12-25T04:16:50.643" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7799" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7800" CreationDate="2015-12-25T07:45:22.540" Score="1" ViewCount="365" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/111992/14850&quot;&gt;What has been Harrison Ford&amp;#39;s attitude toward Star Wars?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/111996/14850&quot;&gt;What has been Alec Guinness&amp;#39;s attitude toward Star Wars?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/112128/14850&quot;&gt;Kenny Baker&amp;#39;s attitude toward Star Wars&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who can ever forget &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0514086/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Laine Liska&lt;/a&gt;’s stunning performance as &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Muftak&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Muftak&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sexes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;male&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Talz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Talz&lt;/a&gt; pickpocket who was sitting at a table bewildered in in the cantina scene at Mos Eisley spaceport on Tatooine in &lt;em&gt;Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (Original 1977/Special Edition 1997/DVD Version 2004)&lt;/em&gt; directed by George Lucas the acclaimed director of &lt;em&gt;American Graffiti&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;THX 1138&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OqAJF.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OqAJF.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Laine Liska as Muftak the Talz pickpocket.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’ve heard claims here and there about Laine Liska’s attitude toward the &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; franchise, with some claiming that he hates it or used to hate it, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did he like &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; and then grew to dislike it? Or vice versa? If he ever did dislike &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;, then why? etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, what has been Laine Liska’s attitude(s) towards &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tleSnj4OD0g&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“Not again! The line must be drawn here!”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/tleSnj4OD0g?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, I understand the desire for &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; questions on this site since I myself have been asking and answering them as well since everyone’s “Force” was awoken a week or so back. But I think a line must be drawn between endless “behind the scenes gossip” versus “behind the scenes rationale for in-universe behavior.” All of these “What did they think about &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; questions don’t add anything to the concept of science fiction and just lay on the assumption that… Blah! I can’t deal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the existing ones on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/111992/14850&quot;&gt;Harrison Ford&lt;/a&gt; and the one on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/111996/14850&quot;&gt;Alec Guinness&lt;/a&gt; are fine since these are both actors who &lt;strong&gt;desired their characters to die in the plot of the films&lt;/strong&gt; since they both have issues with the whole &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; universe. Meaning, the reason Obi-Wan died in the first &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; film and Han Solo was frozen in carbonite in &lt;em&gt;The Empire Strikes Back&lt;/em&gt; were plot contrivances partially concocted to deal with their, “You know what? No more &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; for me!” attitudes. &lt;strong&gt;So it sheds light on character development in the fiction story presented.&lt;/strong&gt; No disrespect to Kenny Baker but does anyone actually care about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/112128/14850&quot;&gt;Kenny Baker&lt;/a&gt;’s ups/downs in the films? If—somehow—he revealed he was never actually playing R2-D2 in one scene, does that impact anything? Is it possible R2-D2 was in “low power mode” in &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt; because Kenny Baker was being difficult on set so they cut his role? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is a desire for this type of gossipy info, perhaps one huge community wiki compiling all we know/find on the politics of the cast and crew &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be worth something. But one thread per character is a trend I don’t think benefits the site or the readers or even the contributors to such threads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14850" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T03:13:43.850" Title="Laine Liska’s—and everybody and their cousins’—attitude toward Star Wars" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7799" CreationDate="2015-12-25T12:36:08.237" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;These questions are on topic. Unless you want to discuss changing the scope of the site to make &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; such questions off-topic, there isn't a lot to be done. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, they're terrible questions. But we have a way to deal with terrible on-topic questions: we downvote them, so as to discourage future users from asking similar ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately (for some of us, anyway) these questions are not only getting voted up, but they are getting high quality answers. Someone was interested enough in the question to ask it; others were interested enough to vote on it; still others were interested enough to find the answer and post it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's little chance we're going to start driving away on-topic questions getting good answers just because some of us find them silly. If that were the case, we'd have a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; fewer &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; questions on the site...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2015-12-25T12:36:08.237" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7793" CreationDate="2015-12-27T00:15:39.347" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only situation I can think of in which it &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; make a difference is when your question/answer is using &lt;strong&gt;bullet points&lt;/strong&gt; or a &lt;strong&gt;numbered list&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Without empty line:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In film #1 we learn&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; spoiler #1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In film #2 we learn&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; spoiler #2&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In film #3 we learn&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; spoiler #3&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;With empty line:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In film #1 we learn&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; spoiler #1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In film #2 we learn&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; spoiler #2&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In film #3 we learn&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; spoiler #3&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll notice that, if you're making a list with bullets/numbers, it looks neater to have &lt;strong&gt;no empty line&lt;/strong&gt;. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111224/what-are-the-things-that-the-force-awakens-borrowed-parallel-from-a-new-hope&quot;&gt;What are the things that “The Force Awakens” borrowed/parallel from “A New Hope?”&lt;/a&gt; for an example of how nice it looks &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; an empty line. &#xA;&lt;sub&gt;I believe I was the one who made that edit, since lists become much harder to read and follow if there &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; an empty line.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This also applies to normal blockquotes; this is not specific to spoiler tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54827" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2015-12-27T00:18:01.537" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7802" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7806" CreationDate="2015-12-28T05:25:38.987" Score="3" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I try to use the tag &lt;code&gt;R2D2&lt;/code&gt; I get the error:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1lRMT.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1lRMT.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You are attempting to create the tag [r2-d2]; however the tag [r2-d2] already exists! If you think this new tag should be allowed, raise it on meta&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, I'm not trying to use the hyphenated tag. I'm just trying to use &lt;code&gt;R2D2&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second - when I try to use the hyphenated tag - I get the same error!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: &lt;strong&gt;Why can't I use the R2D2 tag?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-11-15T16:00:26.987" LastActivityDate="2017-11-15T16:00:26.987" Title="Why can't I use the R2D2 tag?" Tags="|support|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7802" CreationDate="2015-12-28T08:32:26.857" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;What &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7803/3804&quot;&gt;Jake Gould&lt;/a&gt;  said is correct,  there should be no need for such a specfic tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However,  I think the system sees &lt;code&gt;r2d2&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;r2-d2&lt;/code&gt; as the same,  as far as I know.  It will prevent duplicates based on this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-06-21T10:28:57.567" LastActivityDate="2017-06-21T10:28:57.567" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7805" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7807" CreationDate="2015-12-28T09:04:18.593" Score="4" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;So this site &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7803/161&quot;&gt;has a business rule&lt;/a&gt; along the lines of 'obscure tags are banned'. Fair enough. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the error message associated with this business rule - doesn't actually tell the user that the tag is banned. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/akdMA.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/akdMA.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You are attempting to create the tag [r2-d2]; however the tag [r2-d2] already exists! If you think this new tag should be allowed, raise it on meta&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The error message says that the tag already exists, not that it is a banned tag. (If it already existed, and that was it, then you'd be able to use it right?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: &lt;strong&gt;Is the banned tags error message broken?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T00:26:05.207" Title="Is the banned tags error message broken?" Tags="|bug|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7802" CreationDate="2015-12-28T12:56:29.233" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Technically, you &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be able to use this tag. It's been added to the system and shows up in the tag list. Specifically, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/r2-d2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;r2-d2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;r2-d2&lt;/a&gt; exists as a tag and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/r2d2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;r2d2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;r2d2&lt;/a&gt; is a synonym that should automatically remap to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/r2-d2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;r2-d2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;r2-d2&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no idea why the site won't let you use it. I suspect the combination of having a tag synonym but not being on any questions is confusing the software somehow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The good news is you &lt;em&gt;shouldn't&lt;/em&gt; be using it. It looks like the tag has been cleaned out -- removed from all questions -- in the hopes that it would fade into obscurity. It's a bad tag; character tags in general aren't something we like to encourage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2015-12-28T13:32:50.810" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T13:32:50.810" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7805" CreationDate="2015-12-28T13:28:40.007" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: This has been confirmed as a &quot;bug&quot;, though a pretty obscure one, which is triggered because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The original &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/r2-d2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;r2-d2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;r2-d2&lt;/a&gt; tag was burninated (removed from all questions and auto-purged)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The tag synonym &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/r2d2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;r2d2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;r2d2&lt;/a&gt; was not purged when the master tag was&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The tag ends in a number -- Stack Exchange has special rules for dealing with tags that &quot;look like&quot; they have version numbers at the end of them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A dev blew away the synonym; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;please don't re-create &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/r2-d2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;r2-d2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;r2-d2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, there's something odd going on with this particular set of tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, the answer to your first meta question is a bit misguided. The &lt;em&gt;system&lt;/em&gt; does not enforce any such business rule. It's left up to the community editors to make sure that tags are used properly. (In this case, the r2-d2 tag falls into the general category of &quot;character-specific tags&quot;, which we usually frown on).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, the error you are getting is caused by the system mistakenly believing that you are trying to create a &quot;too similar&quot; tag. Normally if you try to create a new tag and there's an existing one that looks very close to it, you won't be allowed. This is to prevent an overload of identical-but-cosmetically-different tags, which is bad. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/r2-d2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;r2-d2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;r2-d2&lt;/a&gt; already exists; it must have been used on questions in the past. However, it appears to have been removed from those questions, for the reasons laid out in the answer your first question. We don't &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; people to create tags for specific characters unless there's a really good compelling reason, and when we find such tags we tend to remove them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both &quot;exist&quot; as far as the system is concerned, but one is a synonym of the other, and neither are being used by any questions. My guess is, this combination of factors is confusing the software, making it think the tag doesn't exist when it really does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I've opened a meta-question for this because I'm pretty sure you're found a bug: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/272019/unable-to-use-existing-tag-because-system-thinks-im-trying-to-create-it&quot;&gt;Unable to use existing tag because system thinks I&amp;#39;m trying to create it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.757" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T00:26:05.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7792" CreationDate="2015-12-28T20:36:18.913" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Warning&lt;/strong&gt;: if you haven't seen&lt;/em&gt; The Force Awakens, &lt;em&gt;don't read any of the spoilers in this post!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technological solutions (read: hiding certain tags) have a limited usefulness. For one thing, they depend on other people using those tags.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; The other, bigger problem is that tag filtering doesn't work at all in many places, like the review queues, individual user profiles, and the &quot;hot network questions&quot; sidebar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Of course, if you can't count on someone to add the correct tags to a question, you certainly can't count on them to write spoiler-free titles...&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that, for the foreseeable future, &lt;em&gt;question &lt;strong&gt;titles&lt;/strong&gt; need to remain as spoiler-free as possible.&lt;/em&gt; Here, I'm thinking about the big plot points, the ones that Abrams and Disney have gone out of their way to keep hidden: the parentage of certain characters, and which characters are killed and by whom. Quite simply, I never ever, not even 30 years from now, want to see a question titled&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Why did Kylo Ren think it important to kill Han (his dad) but not Leia (his mom)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;strong&gt;Warning&lt;/strong&gt;: the above is an enormous spoiler for &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might think it sufficient to de-spoilerize the above hypothetical question as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Why did Kylo Ren think it important to kill his dad, but not his mom?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then what happens when the person who read your title is sitting watching the movie and the initial reveal is made about that spoiler?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; They know (from your question title) that Kylo kills his dad, and now they know (from Snoke IIRC) that his dad is Han, so all of a sudden, the whole movie is ruined for them: they'll be sitting there, waiting for the scene where Kylo kills Han, unable to appreciate any of the rest of the movie because they know what's coming, just not when or how.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I had something like this happen to me once, not with a movie, but same idea: a supposedly spoiler-free review of a book mentioned, in very vague terms, that a sad thing happens, so I spent the whole book dreading who would be killed off and when, and it turns out the sad event was mentioned only in a postscript-like scene on literally the second-to-last page of the book.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bottom line is, there are certain things that happen in certain books and movies where knowing about them in even the vaguest terms ahead of time can ruin your enjoyment of the book/movie. In such cases, I think overly-vague question titles are definitely the lesser of two evils.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What's with the Oedipal complex of this TFA character?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure this can be taken to extremes, with people hiding even the most obscure details behind question titles that are utterly meaningless (&quot;Why did the [spoiler] [spoiler] to [spoiler]?&quot;). If you want to edit the worst of those titles, go ahead, but keep in mind that your irrelevant detail might be someone else's delicious tidbit that they wish they hadn't have known beforehand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="348" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T20:36:18.913" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7809" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7817" CreationDate="2015-12-28T23:26:07.183" Score="-3" ViewCount="395" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to add a kylo ren tag to the site and was shot down multiple times by a moderator. I was told he's not a main character, we don't do character tags, etc. A user here said nasty things to me, flagged it multiple times, and it was taken out by a moderator multiple times who threatened me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if there's a way to pull that discussion back up. It was in comment lines I believe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any event, now the question I had that was closed, was re-opened by a moderator. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What bothers me the most at this point. Is that now somebody else has added that tag when I tried to on at least three separate occasions, they own the tag, and they have 28 questions now associated with it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And worst of all my question was just edited with the Kylo-Ren tag that this other user posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want that tag, I want an apology from that moderator, and I want the discussion posted in Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway to do such a thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40599" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2015-12-30T18:18:56.457" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T17:28:28.063" Title="Kylo Ren tag question" Tags="|discussion|support|tags|moderators|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7810" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-28T23:31:37.827" Score="-5" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;After moderator and users trying to close it, it got reopened by the sane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111121/in-star-wars-the-force-awakens-how-could-this-item-have-turned-up-in-this-lo&quot;&gt;In Star Wars: &amp;quot;The Force Awakens,&amp;quot; how could this lightsaber have turned up where it did?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why has it been put on hold? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's the title, then users need to realize that the way we get more users here is to have good titles that get lots of hits on google. If you put why did generic generic generic, not only will it not come up on google hits but users here won't be interested in checking out the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I get it taken off of hold?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40599" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2015-12-30T03:33:04.447" Title="Why is my question closed?" Tags="|support|closed-questions|moderators|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7809" CreationDate="2015-12-29T01:03:53.897" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(I have no dog in this race, I'm not a moderator, I wasn't involved in any of this, [insert more disclaimers here])&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't have Han Solo, Leia Organa, C-3PO, R2D2, Palpatine, or Anakin Skywalker tags. We do seem to have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/darth-vader&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;darth-vader&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;darth-vader&lt;/a&gt; (91 questions), &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/darth-sidious&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;darth-sidious&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;darth-sidious&lt;/a&gt; (27 questions), and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/luke-skywalker&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;luke-skywalker&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;luke-skywalker&lt;/a&gt; (56 questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't have Hermione Granger or Ron Weasley tags. We do have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;, but that doesn't count, because the work as a whole is named after its main protagonist. There's also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/voldemort&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;voldemort&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;voldemort&lt;/a&gt; (247 questions) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/albus-dumbledore&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;albus-dumbledore&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;albus-dumbledore&lt;/a&gt; (95 questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't have Aragorn, Frodo, or Samwise tags. We do have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sauron&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sauron&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sauron&lt;/a&gt; (98 questions) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gandalf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gandalf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gandalf&lt;/a&gt; (91 questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line is, I see no rhyme or reason to which characters have tags and which don't. If our site policy is &quot;no character tags&quot;, then we have some major cleaning up to do. If that is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; our site policy, then I'm not sure why you weren't allowed to create a Kylo Ren tag, unless it requires more reputation than you have?&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; I know the privileges say 300 reputation for creating tags, but it also says 2500 rep for creating tag synonyms, and we all know that not even God can create tag synonyms, except on the second Tuesday in May if the moon is 3/4 full and the necessary incantations are performed, and no, nobody knows what those incantations are.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One major clarification though: &lt;strong&gt;nobody &lt;i&gt;owns&lt;/i&gt; a tag&lt;/strong&gt;. Each tag has a &quot;top users&quot; page, but that comes from questions which use the tag. If you have questions which you feel ought to have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kylo-ren&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kylo-ren&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kylo-ren&lt;/a&gt; label, now that someone else has slipped it through the cracks, you can go ahead and add it where you'd like, but be aware that enough people are opposed to character tags that it might just go away again in a few days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: As DVK points out, there is a rare and hard to get &lt;em&gt;badge&lt;/em&gt; for creating a tag, so in that sense, the person who creates a tag &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; &quot;special&quot;. I'm not sure how to correct this situation at this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="348" LastEditorUserId="348" LastEditDate="2015-12-29T18:02:33.200" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T18:02:33.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7810" CreationDate="2015-12-29T01:48:29.757" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now &lt;strong&gt;it isn't closed&lt;/strong&gt;. (Incidentally moderators weren't involved either in closing or reopening it; that was just ordinary users like you and me.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's been done to it now is a 'lock', which means nobody can edit it or vote on it until it's unlocked. This was done by moderator Keen. Obviously he's the only one who can explain exactly why he did it, but the notice &quot;Content dispute&quot; which he added at the same time suggests that he locked it &lt;strong&gt;because there was significant disagreement between yourself and some others about its content&lt;/strong&gt;. Frequent edits and rollbacks often lead to such a lock being imposed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're quite right to take this to meta, as (I believe) this is the appropriate place to hash out disagreements that led to a post being locked. I'm not sure why everyone is downvoting you here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(FWIW, I have no 'axe to grind' in this issue. I didn't answer the question or vote to close or reopen it, although I may have voted to &quot;Leave Open&quot; when it first appeared in the Close Votes review queue.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T01:48:29.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7809" CreationDate="2015-12-29T05:15:51.630" Score="4" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Since the Kylo Ren tag created by another user is now being used I regret that you were denied a Taxonomist badge. However, I am not responsible for the deletion of the tag you created &amp;quot;at least three times&amp;quot; and I stand by all my actions regarding the tag.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The conversation you are referring to might be the one you and I had a few months ago, though our conversation might have been one of the other &amp;quot;three separate occasions&amp;quot; you tried to add the tag. If you are referring to our conversation, I do not think I said anything to you that could be considered &amp;quot;nasty&amp;quot;. In full disclosure, that conversation is still posted in the comments to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/102451/31936&quot;&gt;one of your answers&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kylo Ren is too minor of a character to have his own tag. Please don't create a tag for him. – Null Sep 10 at 15:01&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Null isn't he the main antagonist of the film? Darth Vader and Darth Sidious both have tags. – JMFB Sep 10 at 15:03&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possibly, but only of one film in the entire franchise. He is currently far too minor of a character to have his own tag. Only a few very major characters have tags. We don't have tags for Han Solo and Leia, for example. Please roll back your edit again or I'll flag for a mod. – Null Sep 10 at 15:08&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6839/when-should-character-tags-be-created-recreated/6840#6840&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt; on character tags. – Null Sep 10 at 15:11&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vader and Sidious are both major characters who have appeared in six films and countless other sources (books, cartoon, video games, etc.). None of that is true for Kylo Ren. – Null Sep 10 at 15:15&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Null Han Solo and Leia are not the main antagonists or protagonists of a film or series. Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Sidious, etc. are. Kylo Ren is the Darth Vader of the upcoming movies. Read about him. The tag was approved fyi, so flag it if you like. And commanding somebody to rollback an edit or you're going to flag a mod sounds like a threat and highly inappropriate. And you gave me a link to one person's meta answer with 3 upvotes? That's hardly site policy. – JMFB Sep 10 at 15:18&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flagged. Ask on meta whether or not we need the tag if you really think we need it. – Null Sep 10 at 15:23&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did not command you, I said please. Since we are in disagreement the appropriate action is to flag for a mod to avoid an edit war. – Null Sep 10 at 15:32&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Null agreed. I like you and your contributions. This is nothing personal. Can't wait for the new movie to come out fyi. Hope it's more like 4 or 5 then 1, 2, or 3. – JMFB Sep 10 at 15:47&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@JMFB Quit making the Kylo Ren tag. We know virtually nothing about whether or not it will be appropriate. At best, we'll know once The Force Awakens is released. – Keen♦ Sep 10 at 16:15&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Keen made it one time. It was approved. That's all I did. No need to give directives. – JMFB Sep 10 at 20:03&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@JMFB You've done it twice, ergo the directive. – Keen♦ Sep 11 at 1:13&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I explained in the comments, I flagged for a mod in order to avoid a tag edit war. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/100005/revisions&quot;&gt;I edited the question to delete the Kylo Ren tag once&lt;/a&gt; and then posted my first comment above. After you added the tag back again, I asked you to &lt;em&gt;please&lt;/em&gt; roll it back or I would flag for a mod to resolve the dispute. You refused, so I flagged. The mod and another user agreed with me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also posted a link to the relevant &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6839/when-should-character-tags-be-created-recreated/6840#6840&quot;&gt;meta discussion&lt;/a&gt; on character tags and suggested you post a new meta question so the community could decide whether to add the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still think Kylo Ren is too minor of a character to have his own tag since he has only appeared in one movie out of the entire &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; franchise. (I haven't seen &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt; yet, so please don't spoil whether Kylo Ren is alive or not at the end of the movie. If he's alive, he may eventually become a major enough character to deserve his own tag. If he's dead, he'll probably never deserve his own tag.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I removed the tag from the question you answered, I did not systematically remove the tag from all questions on the site so that it would be deleted entirely. I only removed it from that one question, and that question should not have the Kylo Ren tag even if community consensus is that the tag should exist because &lt;em&gt;that question is not about Kylo Ren&lt;/em&gt;. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/100005/1&quot;&gt;original text of the question&lt;/a&gt; was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;[Title] Sith without masters&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the new Star Wars film has a Sith in it, his name's Kylo Ren.  Hope I'm not spoiling this for anyone, but it's pretty obvious from the trailers that he's a Sith Lord of some kind, with his menacing red light saber and scary mask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if the last Sith died in Return of the Jedi, that got me wondering who trained this Ren guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not actually my question, just the inspiration.  I want to know if there's any evidence in books etc. of any Sith who became Sith without having a Sith master to train them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for your time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current version of the question is very similar. Kylo Ren received an incidental mention in the question, but the question is about the Sith. The asker even specifically said that &amp;quot;who trained this Ren guy&amp;quot; is &amp;quot;not actually [his] question&amp;quot;. Furthermore, as your own answer stated that Kylo Ren is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a Sith Lord, the Kylo Ren tag does not belong on the question anyway.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if your Kylo Ren tag was deleted as a result of its removal from this question, but if so it should have been deleted at that time anyway since there were no questions that warranted the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You mentioned that you attempted to create the tag on &amp;quot;at least three separate occasions&amp;quot;. Since I only removed the tag on this one question, I cannot speak to why the tag was deleted on these other occasions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; There are multiple meta answers explaining why character tags should not be used on questions which give an incidental mention of the character. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/846/31936&quot;&gt;A tag could help pinpoint the questions that are specifically about the character, as opposed to mentioning it in passing; but this is rather marginal, especially as a title search should be able to serve the same purpose.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1566/31936&quot;&gt;If the tag is used on every question that mentions the character, that defeats the purpose.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The latter is also quoted in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6840/31936&quot;&gt;meta answer&lt;/a&gt; I linked to in our comment discussion. All of these answers are upvoted, indicating strong community consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-01-03T05:17:06.103" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7810" CreationDate="2015-12-29T05:28:02.997" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I locked it to prevent you from rolling back the edits that remove spoilers from the question title. You've made it clear you'll do so multiple times, so I put a stop to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to put spoilers in question titles, then post &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/968/what-is-the-policy-for-spoilers&quot;&gt;on Meta&lt;/a&gt; with an argument for it, and garner enough votes to change our policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T06:29:47.717" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7815" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-29T12:46:55.183" Score="2" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/71558&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/71558&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was an awesome edit that I, as the post owner, totally agree with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was it rejected?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Rejected 1 hour ago:&#xA;BMWurm reviewed this 1 hour ago: Reject&#xA;This edit was intended to address the author of the post and makes no sense as an edit. It should have been written as a comment or an answer.&#xA;alexwlchan reviewed this 1 hour ago: Reject&#xA;This edit was intended to address the author of the post and makes no sense as an edit. It should have been written as a comment or an answer.&#xA;(less)&#xA;&#xA;Reviewer Stats&#xA;&#xA;    BMWurm has approved 76 edit suggestions and rejected 6 edit suggestions and improved 4 edit suggestions&#xA;    alexwlchan has approved 284 edit suggestions and rejected 93 edit suggestions and improved 32 edit suggestions&#xA;&#xA;Editor Stats&#xA;&#xA;    Ivan Kolmychek had 2 edit suggestions approved, and 1 edit suggestion rejected&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2015-12-30T01:45:04.023" Title="Why was this edit rejected?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|suggested-edit|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7809" CreationDate="2015-12-29T17:02:58.317" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know everyone likes to hate people who complain of unfair treatment, but in this case there really was unfair treatment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The user created a plausibly valid tag (on another user's question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;By that time &lt;strong&gt;it was clear from all the released material&lt;/strong&gt; that Kylo Ren is a major character. I shall avoid posting 3-page-long bullet list of why, to avoid spoiling people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;While there may be valid arguments made on the side of the tag not being valid&lt;sup&gt;[3]&lt;/sup&gt;, there are very valid arguments on the side of it being valid, and therefore NOT unanimously and unchallengingly worth-deleting without debate and discussion. This Q&amp;amp;A is not the correct place to settle that argument, but what's important to what happened is the fact that &lt;strong&gt;it's a meaningful disagreement on merits, not a unanimous and obvious &amp;quot;junk&amp;quot; tag conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The tag was challenged &lt;strong&gt;without knowing this fact, and without checking this fact (e.g. on main site or Meta)&lt;/strong&gt;, and deleted by a moderator &lt;strong&gt;without seeking the site consensus on Meta, as is appropriate for tag deletion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As per the challenger, the basis of the challenge was 2-fold: (#1) he considered the tag invalid (&lt;sub&gt;as per above, I greatly disagree with him on merits of that judgement call, but it's his right to make that judgement call&lt;/sub&gt;); and (#2) considered it inapplicable to THAT specific question (&lt;sub&gt;another judgement call, that I am ambivalent about, I can see valid reasoning to either support or oppose that call on merits, and think it was far more correct than #1&lt;/sub&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As per comments from moderator, the FORMER basis of the challenge (validity of the tag itself) was the basis for fulfilling the flag. As such, I believe it necessitated a Meta discussion prior to deletion and should have been rejected until such Meta discussion was resolved. (&lt;sub&gt;For hypothetical completeness - I may have arrived at the opposite conclusion regarding moderator's action if the reason for the deletion was the second basis of the flag - question content, including tags, is definitely within moderator purview and ordinarily wouldn't need to be Meta-discussed. I may have disagreed with moderator's judgement but NOT his procedure then.&lt;/sub&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of the intentions of the action, the &lt;strong&gt;practical - if unintended - effect&lt;/strong&gt; of this action was that the user was deprived of an official, SE-promoted, activity (creating new good tag) - and as a consequence of that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;user lost a chance to earn a rare badge awarded for creating a tag that is used by 50+ questions&lt;sup&gt;[1]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This was compounded when - according to the OP, his OTHER 2 tries to create the tag were also rejected. I do not possess the knowledge of how to dig through the data to verify that, or to see the circumstances, except that I know that &lt;strong&gt;OTHER people were involved than the user who challenged the tag's first instance&lt;/strong&gt; - so this is a pattern of events that transcends a single user's one judgement call.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then, to add insult to injury, someone else created that tag and will get the badge that the OP was deprived of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only correct way to make things right is to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Apologize to the OP for the rash action of deleting a tag without ANY community debate (which would have resulted in people - myself included - being able to present evidence that it's a major character and worth its own tag). A brief comments thread doesn't count, as few people likely saw it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE: One person who was involved (&lt;em&gt;of MANY&lt;/em&gt;) - @Null apologized in his answer, which I deeply appreciate and would like to urge the OP to accept that apology, as no damage to OP was intended and it was all done in good faith by @Null, with negative outcome being unanticipated and unforeseen&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does not change &lt;strong&gt;the poor action of other people&lt;/strong&gt;, both the moderator (who should have seeked community consensus before acting on that flag, and some users on this Meta thread who behaved in a hugely unconstructive&lt;sup&gt;[2]&lt;/sup&gt; manner - and no, the fact that OP's wording wasn't anywhere near 100% constructive &lt;strong&gt;is NOT A GOOD EXCUSE&lt;/strong&gt;); as well as as-yet-unknown-details of who did what in the other 2 cases where the user's attempt to create a tag was rejected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Restore the opportunity to get the badge to the user. While a bit drastic edit-wise, it's doable:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;delete the current tag, from all quetsions, and let the OP re-create it once it's gone from the database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As an alternative, ask SE team to change the tag's creator in the back-end database to the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;[1] - I know 10 people piled on a bandwagon and upvoted a snarky &amp;quot;nobody owns a tag&amp;quot; comment to the OP (&lt;strong&gt;where were the moderators enforcing &amp;quot;civility&amp;quot; then?)&lt;/strong&gt;, but that badge indicates that the tag creator IS treated differently by the site, and is rewarded. That's not &amp;quot;ownership&amp;quot;, but it is user-specific. My strong opinion is that this is what the OP meant but they chose an incorrect term to express it which had unfortunately negative context&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;[2] - One of the comments on the question explicitly called the user &amp;quot;nuts&amp;quot;. &lt;strong&gt;IT WAS UPVOTED&lt;/strong&gt;. Not flagged and deleted, upvoted.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;[3] - Obviously, I'm on the &amp;quot;tag is valid&amp;quot; side of the disagreement, but I acknowledge that arguments against it have validity despite my considering those arguments incorrect&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T17:28:28.063" CommentCount="22" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7818" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-29T17:28:27.717" Score="1" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;If someone creates a new site tag, and there's a difference of opinion of whether it's a good tag for the site, &lt;strong&gt;who has the onus of proving their side by &lt;em&gt;initiating&lt;/em&gt; discussion on Meta&lt;/strong&gt;? The tag creator, or whoever opposes the tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More specifically, is it a valid approach to claim that the tag creator has the responsibility to start a Meta discussion, and if they don't, the tag is worth deleting despite the lack of said discussion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T18:53:33.877" Title="Who has the onus of asking if a tag belongs on the site?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7818" CreationDate="2015-12-29T17:43:48.133" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering the fact that none of the SE sites (including this one) requires posting a Meta question to create a new tag, this is clearly not an established custom to ask permission to create a new tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering that the negative downsides to deleting a tag erroneously far outweigh the negative downsides of erroneously NOT deleting it (the latter merely creates a minor negligible extra clutter without any meaningful harm to any site user, the former &lt;strong&gt;deprives people of the effective search means&lt;/strong&gt;), the onus should be on the people who intend to cause the more impactful negative consequences if they are wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T17:43:48.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7818" CreationDate="2015-12-29T18:53:33.877" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, anyone who is allowed by the system to create a tag may do so freely and without asking permission (either on meta, in chat, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem, as you note, is that other users might object to the creation of the tag. Such users can just as easily remove the new tag, possibly resulting in an edit war. In that case, both the tag creator and the objector(s) should search for and link to a relevant meta discussion (either a discussion regarding the specific tag or a class of tags in which the disputed tag falls). &lt;strong&gt;If a relevant meta discussion exists and the community's consensus is clear, the onus is on the party which disagrees with that meta discussion (whether the creator or objector(s)).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some cases the community's consensus is not clear (either there is no relevant meta discussion, or there is an existing one but there is no clear consensus). In that case, &lt;strong&gt;the onus is on the party which is outnumbered in the initial dispute.&lt;/strong&gt; For example, if the tag creator and one other user agree that the tag should exist but one user objects, the onus is on the objector. If there are two objectors versus one tag creator, the onus is on the creator. &lt;strong&gt;If the two parties are equal in number, the onus is on both to initiate the meta discussion.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T18:53:33.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7815" CreationDate="2015-12-30T00:13:52.237" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I am not one who participated in the voting that ultimately rejected this comment, I agree with the rationale given:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This edit was intended to address the author of the post and makes no&#xA;  sense as an edit. It should have been written as a comment or an&#xA;  answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/71558&quot;&gt;edit of content to that degree&lt;/a&gt; is just to large and too far away from the original poster’s intent to simply be an edit. It does not enhance the content but instead &lt;em&gt;completely rewrites&lt;/em&gt; the content to a degree it conflicts with what was previously stated. Edit reviewers are simply &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the original poster thus we &lt;em&gt;cannot&lt;/em&gt; assume anything past what is being reviewed at that moment. I would recommend a comment be made about the proposed edit and then take it from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But even if the original poster believes the edit would be helpful, in general, &lt;em&gt;their own personal awareness of a great edit&lt;/em&gt; doesn’t change the fact that &lt;em&gt;radical edits should simply be left as a comment&lt;/em&gt; when filtered by the filter or anyone else reviewing the edit. This is how the sites here work. If the original poster likes that edit that was rejected, they should feel free to reinstate it themselves; ultimately they will be alerted and can handle it themselves. But I believe—in this case—the community acted properly rejecting the edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14850" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2015-12-30T01:45:04.023" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7823" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-30T03:29:46.853" Score="6" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a comment on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/112543/44635&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; answer which I thought was quite constructive and did generate a good number of upvotes. I noticed just now that its gone. I'm curious what the reasoning was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44635" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2015-12-30T03:46:00.297" Title="Why did my comment get deleted from this answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7824" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-30T03:30:42.453" Score="1" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a lot of questions since the new Star Wars movie premiered where most people title their questions in a roundabout manner in order to avoid revealing spoilers, since spoiler markup (afaik) don't work in the title field when you ask a question. For example, over a decade ago it would make sense to title your question as &quot;Why did this happen to Anakin?&quot; when today you would have simply typed &quot;Why did Anakin lose his right hand?&quot; Two more recent examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/112647/does-han-solo-only-do-this-because-leia-asked-him-to-do-it&quot;&gt;Does Han Solo only do this because Leia asked him to do it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/112642/why-didnt-they-just-shoot-him&quot;&gt;Why not take a shot at Kylo Ren when given the opportunity?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we can see, such titles don't serve well in the long term. Every new release (movie, book etc.) brings new hype, new content and a flurry of new questions with good answers. If these questions aren't titled well, their answers aren't useful in the long term to the community since future askers with the same question may not be able to find it in the search results, leading only to more duplicates. People won't go back years later to rename old questions, and I doubt mods will conduct &quot;renaming exercises&quot; either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I don't think we have a good long-term solution to this anytime soon, the next best thing may be to have a guideline for how long new content should be considered spoilers - in other words, how long question titles that may normally be considered poorly worded would be tolerated to prevent spoilers. As such, generalized, my question is: When a new release comes out, for how long should we consider protecting spoilers while it matters most more important than the long term usefulness of the question to the community (as elaborated in my previous paragraph)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44906" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2015-12-30T06:41:24.273" Title="How long should new content be protected with spoiler markup etc.?" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ClosedDate="2015-12-30T06:01:17.870" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7810" CreationDate="2015-12-30T03:33:04.447" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the record, search results &lt;strong&gt;are not returned by title alone&lt;/strong&gt;. The entire body of the question is indexed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you put your spoilers in a spoiler tag in the question body, Google will find it just fine. Googling &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/webhp#q=luke%27s+lightsaber+maz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;luke's lightsaber maz&quot;&lt;/a&gt; turns up &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111023/how-did-maz-kanata-acquire-this-weapon&quot;&gt;this duped question&lt;/a&gt; as the 2nd result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That duplicate question immediately links to your own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, SEO isn't relevant to this discussion, and the title should follow our spoiler policies. Willfully, repeatedly ignoring meta policies is a good reason to have a post locked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2015-12-30T03:33:04.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7823" CreationDate="2015-12-30T03:46:00.297" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, all of the comments on that answer were deleted because the comment thread got out of control. If you think your comment still applies, just go post it again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments on answers are not intended to be permanent. They're intended to help clarify or improve the post they are attached to. Ideally, if your comment was genuinely helpful, it would have been edited into the answer and no longer be needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since deleting comments is a moderator-only action, and policing all comments on every question and answer would require an army of them, most of the time comments are left alone. But if they get overly out of control, other community members will typically flag the post for moderator attention, and most of the time the moderators will just clear the whole thread.  Unfortunately, when a moderator does intervene, occasionally a relevant one gets caught in the process. This is just part of the disposable nature of comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This particular answer came up in chat when the comment thread got over 50 comments long, and it was handled. The comments that were currently on the answer are just the ones that have been posted &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the previous set were deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2015-12-30T03:46:00.297" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7824" CreationDate="2015-12-30T04:08:41.920" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The policy we have typically adhered to, which has been the consensus opinion for years, is that there is no &quot;expiration date&quot; on spoilers. You should try to be frugal in what you put behind spoiler markup, because odds are, it will be there forever. At the same time, if something really is a spoiler, you should continue to mask it no matter how &quot;old&quot; is it. But, first and foremost, you should make things make sense, with the spoiler as a secondary consideration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We make a distinction on this site between &lt;em&gt;title&lt;/em&gt; spoilers and &lt;em&gt;post&lt;/em&gt; spoilers. Titles can't use markdown syntax, so there's no way to &quot;hide&quot; spoilers in them. Titles are also visible in a lot more places, and with a lot less conscious effort, than the bodies of questions/answers. So we're a bit stricter with keeping spoilers out of them. But &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; at the expense of making the title meaningless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The quick-and-dirty rules of thumb are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Try to make your title as free of key plot developments as possible, but always make it meaningful.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Try to avoid giving away key plot details in your questions and answers if they are not relevant to your post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you need to include key plot details, put as little as possible behind spoiler markup.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tricky part is deciding what is a &quot;key&quot; plot detail. Not everything we learn in a movie is a spoiler. A spoiler is, by definition, something that will &lt;em&gt;spoil the movie for you&lt;/em&gt; if you knew it ahead of time. To use &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt; as an example, knowing that Han Solo confronts Kylo Ren isn't a spoiler, because the good guy confronting the bad guy is something you're probably expecting to happen. But, knowing that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Han Solo is Kylo Ren's dad, and Kylo kills Han&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is a huge spoiler, and will continue to be a spoiler forever for anyone who hasn't seen the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that you have to use a bit of common sense here, as well. Some spoilers seep so deeply into the public awareness that they just don't matter anymore. No one's spoiling the fact that Luke is Darth Vader's son, or that he blows up the Death Star with the Force, because &quot;everyone&quot; knows that (within a reasonable margin of error).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2015-12-30T04:08:41.920" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7728" CreationDate="2015-12-30T15:31:49.727" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;: synonymisation &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/werewolf/synonyms&quot;&gt;is complete&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;Make &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lycanthropy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lycanthropy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lycanthropy&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/werewolf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;werewolf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;werewolf&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-02-20T01:42:06.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7728" CreationDate="2015-12-30T15:34:52.727" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Make &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apparition&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apparition&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apparition&lt;/a&gt; (which doesn't refer to ghosts but to the magical transportation used in the Harry Potter universe) a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magical-transportation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magical-transportation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magical-transportation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2015-12-30T15:34:52.727" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1563" CreationDate="2015-12-30T18:24:09.223" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, I just found out that y'all have some rule about tagging being reserved for &quot;major characters&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found out about it because almost four years later &lt;em&gt;people are still arguing about it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it takes an acrimonious discussion for every tag to establish whether or not it's appropriate, the test you're using is broken. You're letting the perfect become the enemy of the good... Find a simpler test, one that folks can apply in common cases (release of a new book / movie) &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; having to tear each others' throats out here on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something like,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If at least 10 questions have been asked regarding a character, create a tag for that character and add it to those questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yeah, you'll probably end up with a few tags that aren't often used. The world won't end because of it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastActivityDate="2015-12-30T18:24:09.223" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7761" CreationDate="2015-12-30T18:42:18.600" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a tag cleanup would be good and necessary, but &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;first the community must come to an agreement as to what an appropriate tag is (and isn't)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. That fracturing is a big part of why we need a cleanup in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2015-12-30T18:42:18.600" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-12-30T18:42:18.600" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7346" CreationDate="2015-12-30T19:48:26.587" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Found out about this site via the main Stack Exchange sites; Stack Overflow, Super User, etc…. I have contributed to this site on and off over the years, but mainly have been an active reader of the content here: No kidding, some of the questions and answers here are great!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of the last few weeks, far more active thanks to &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt; being released and &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; being more in the spotlight. For the first time in genuinely decades I have deeply thought about certain aspects o the storyline I have not thought of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And as a result I am part of that “weird” aspect of the &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; fanbase who only really cares about &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; (1977) and &lt;em&gt;The Empire Strikes Back&lt;/em&gt; (1980) and really was disappointed with the childish/pandering tone of &lt;em&gt;Return of the Jedi&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that said, being back on the site has made me appreciate the universe of &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; far more than I did before. And I have some deep respect for a few of  the regular contributors here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, if I were not an active member on Super User and other sites I will honestly say I might only have been a reader of the content here. So to me the unique aspect of the Stack Exchange system is it took me little to no effort to link my account up here and decide, “Well, let me try my hand at a few questions or answers here…” So kudos to the whole Stack Exchange eco-system for allowing enthusiasts of all levels to participate in discussions across various topics!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14850" LastActivityDate="2015-12-30T19:48:26.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7761" CreationDate="2015-12-30T21:00:51.723" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes, but&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;... per tag.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a tag is overly broad, used wrong, or just needs some attention, I think it's better to post a question on meta about that tag, get consensus, and put that into action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-12-30T21:00:51.723" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-12-30T21:00:51.723" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7793" CreationDate="2015-12-31T12:11:42.883" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest that the reason is at least partly related to the official &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/editing-help#spoilers&quot;&gt;Markdown Editing Help&lt;/a&gt; page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a user clicks on the advanced help link, the spoiler tag demo/example itself that pops up on the instructions page shows &lt;em&gt;no spacing&lt;/em&gt; between the non-spoiler and spoiler segement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fzvR6.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fzvR6.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of the “Spoilers” section of the help page.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28107" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2016-01-01T07:39:32.857" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7839" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7840" CreationDate="2016-01-01T01:24:48.650" Score="2" ViewCount="311" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is a post stating that an image is in a in-universe picture book but not providing a screenshot to prove it considered a bad quality post - specifically, bad enough that it's &lt;strong&gt;grounds for deletion&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(To be specific, the question for that answer is merely &quot;does item X exist&quot; with no elaboration asked for, so existence of an image in a book is enough to answer the question affirmatively with no elaboration.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is &quot;yes&quot;, why does a post stating &quot;something exists in a film&quot; not grounds for deletion - absent screenshot or a video to prove that (I'm assuming the site policy is that it isn't grounds for deletion, as the site is choke full of those kinds of answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;P.S. To address a comment: I'm very specifically asking about &lt;strong&gt;deletion, not downvoting&lt;/strong&gt;. I can easily see why someone would downvote such a post - everyone's standars of what is good/bad enough for votes differ.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2016-01-01T01:44:04.203" LastActivityDate="2016-01-02T00:34:48.807" Title="Is this grounds for post deletion?" Tags="|discussion|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7839" CreationDate="2016-01-01T03:40:44.177" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that its wrong that this answer got deleted. It’s very common for us to answer questions, and then mention, will update with quotes later. This is essentially what DVK did, he answered the question, explained where the answer was, and then noted that he would flesh the answer out shortly when he gets back on his better PC. At most this deserved down votes, for not being a &quot;great&quot; answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DVK, answered the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;yes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Provided the source:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Visual Dictionary explicitly shows it on Rey’s page &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then stated that he couldn’t post a picture at the moment but it was forthcoming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many answers for questions like Harry Potter start out like this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The answer is blah, blah, blah, because Dumbledore says so. (will add&#xA;  quotes shortly)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the author proceeds to update with quotes later. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously if someone else comes along and answers it completely with quotes and pictures first, the site is set up so we can upvote that answer, and downvote the “incomplete” answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29220" LastEditorUserId="14850" LastEditDate="2016-01-01T05:54:02.920" LastActivityDate="2016-01-01T05:54:02.920" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7839" CreationDate="2016-01-01T12:22:59.133" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Relating specifically to the answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/112871/20774&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Should this answer have been deleted?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No. Absolutely not.&lt;/strong&gt; It was on-topic, contained an answer to the question asked and objectively referenced a source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Should this answer have been downvoted to hell?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes. Absolutely it should.&lt;/strong&gt; It was terse, contained no verifiable reference (such as transcribed text) and didn't explicitly state what it was that the source mentioned &lt;em&gt;actually referred to&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-01-02T00:33:49.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7839" CreationDate="2016-01-01T12:29:35.087" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No. Absolutely not. No.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An answer that contains an objective reference (e.g. that merely mentions a source) should not be deleted simply because it doesn't offer a link/picture/quote from that source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you were to say ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I remember reading in an article in Time Magazine that George Lucas&#xA;  planned for Luke to be Han's son&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... but didn't link to the article or offer anything more to back it up, then that's certainly grounds for the answer to be downvoted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;for not being a good answer&lt;/a&gt;, but I see no objective grounds for the answer to be marked for deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-01-02T00:34:48.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7845" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-01T17:48:11.200" Score="-2" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, lots of comments (which were not offensive or spam) got deleted from this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/113061/why-doesnt-chewbacca-learn-to-speak-english-aka-galactic-basic&quot;&gt;Why doesn&amp;#39;t Chewbacca learn to speak Galactic Basic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, people are complaining in chat. I also didn't like it. Notably, I have raised comments deletion issues before (and, there's always others who also felt bad). This time, I am proposing to enforce a policy which should override the generic guideline of comments deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, mods are doing whatever they want. Sometimes, they delete a long thread of comments and sometimes they don't. Sometimes, it makes us happy and sometimes it pisses us up. I won't blame mods. The problem is with the rules. I am requesting the community to enforce a policy regarding this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please, post your policy you want enforced as answer and let community vote. Here are some examples (not applicable for offensive, spam etc comments):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Delete comments only after a week.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Delete comments only if the discussion thread crosses x number of comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Always push comments to a chat room. Never permanently delete.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don't touch the comments. The community has grown far from the initial vision of SO founders. Maybe, their logic isn't working well due to nature of this site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ask for consent of the post author before deleting comments on it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Discuss in chat before deleting comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;____________________ (fill in the blanks with your creativity)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2016-01-03T18:39:33.350" Title="Proposal for enforcement of strict policies regarding Comments Deletion" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7845" CreationDate="2016-01-01T18:09:24.270" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderators get flagged if a certain number of comments are made in a specific amount of time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That came up,  and I browsed the comments.  I didn't see anything crucial, and they'd wandered off topic from the original question,  so I deleted them all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some other examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7039/3804&quot;&gt;Why was my comment deleted?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2916/3804&quot;&gt;What happened to my comment?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3056/3804&quot;&gt;Why was my comment correcting terminology deleted?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7823/3804&quot;&gt;Why did my comment get deleted from this answer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2016-01-01T19:42:19.427" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7360" CreationDate="2016-01-01T20:44:16.337" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this won't come as a surprise to @Richard, because we've had words on this topic before, but I am extremely put off by the &quot;rear-view mirror&quot; comment. It bothered me in October and I didn't say anything at that time. I should have. However, since we are revisiting the topic, I will express my concern. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know what constitutes a &quot;power user&quot;, but I do know I am a high rep user. As such, I would never in a million years make a joke that was ultimately at the expense of my fellow SFF users on the site, on Meta, or in chat. I found it a boorish thing to say, and an ungrateful way to behave toward the users who have given @Richard all his rep through upvoting his questions and answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for a high rep user who comports himself on SFF with class and aplomb, and possesses an impeccable and unbelievably vast knowledge of his particular fandom, comic books and comic history, I would look to @Thaddeus. He's also an example of a high rep user who doesn't treat SFF as a mere competition. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; high rep users who would never say something like the above, about his/her fellow users. There are users for whom SFF is not just a competition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2016-01-01T22:28:37.983" LastActivityDate="2016-01-01T22:28:37.983" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7849" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-03T04:27:22.077" Score="4" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question throws a big spoiler data: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111154/why-was-luke-absent-for-most-of-the-force-awakens&quot;&gt;Why was Luke Skywalker missing in The Force Awakens?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's what OP says on the spoiler issue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@SS-3 I myself am a big believer in hiding spoilers. However (1) it's been almost a month since TFA was released, (2) people can add TFA to their ignored tags to avoid spoilers, (3) I feel that this question doesn't spoil any major plot points, and (4) the question title was way to vague in spoiler-free form :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this acceptable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My reply:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(1) One month is nothing. It hasn't yet been released to entire world. (2) With that logic, you won't hide spoiler anywhere. This is wrong. Although people can, they don't always do that. (3) It is broadcasting a major plot point. Lots of people expect to see Luke in the movie. (4) No. It's not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is my reply correct? If yes, why haven't community acted on it yet? This question was posted on December 19. I saw it few minutes ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T20:52:26.430" Title="Is this spoiler acceptable?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|spoilers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7849" CreationDate="2016-01-03T05:05:56.897" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, this question title is a borderline case where it may be a bit spoilery (I don't think it's that big of a spoiler), but we will have to live with it either way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lets take the commenter's points one at a time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's been almost a month since TFA was released&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on our previous spoiler discussions, this is actually irrelevant. The general practice, as far as I can discern from reading back through meta, is that spoilers never expire; if it's a spoiler on release day it, it's a spoiler a year later. (the trick is defining what exactly &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a spoiler; see #3 later).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People can add TFA to their ignored tags to avoid spoilers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, not true. The reason we are much more strict on spoilers in titles than in question bodies, answers, or comments is precisely because this isn't true. There are any number of ways that ignored tags can get seen anyway: the Hot Network Questions lists, the chat feed bot, the mobile app which ignores tag preferences, the twitter feeds, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I feel that this question doesn't spoil any major plot points&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is where things start to get complicated. We have never been very good at separating &lt;em&gt;spoilers&lt;/em&gt; from &lt;em&gt;stuff that happens in the movie&lt;/em&gt;. Not every plot element, action, or line of dialogue from a movie is a spoiler. (There are some people who do generally want to avoid &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; detail about a movie, but I would claim that goes well above and beyond just avoiding spoilers.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The generally accepted definition of a spoiler is something that, if you knew it before hand, would &lt;em&gt;literally ruin (&quot;spoil&quot;) the movie for you&lt;/em&gt;. That's what we need to ask ourselves when we decide if something needs to be hidden as a spoiler or not: if I knew this going in, would I have enjoyed the movie less?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, I would argue no. Luke was entirely absent from the trailers, and his absence was noted very early on. The very first line in the opening crawl is &quot;Luke Skywalker has vanished.&quot; The rest of the movie is driven entirely by the search for Luke's whereabouts. It's pretty clear right from the opening second of the movie that Luke isn't going to be around. Knowing that he remains absent except for a little bit at the end, in my opinion, doesn't detract from the movie in any way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question title was way to vague in spoiler-free form&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one is really at the heart of the issue. Question titles need to be meaningful, and in borderline cases, this is often the deciding factor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If&lt;/em&gt; you can come up with a way to phrase the question so that someone else asking the same question can still &lt;em&gt;find it&lt;/em&gt;, without revealing the plot detail, that would be perfect. That's the ideal we strive for as often as possible. In this case, I've spent a few minutes trying to do that and come up blank. We &lt;em&gt;absolutely&lt;/em&gt; don't want titles like &quot;Why did Luke do this?&quot; -- those are useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until someone can figure out how to reword the title in a meaningful way without including that particular element of the plot, I think it needs to stay as it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2016-01-03T05:26:16.783" LastActivityDate="2016-01-03T05:26:16.783" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7849" CreationDate="2016-01-03T05:29:35.730" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Mike - the time since the release is irrelevant, and the title gives away more than we'd like, but it isn't a clear cut case of an important plot point being spoiled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mike's excellent answer raises a good point - it's hard to come up with an alternative title for this question that would avoid both spoiling the movie and creating an unacceptably vague title.  I can think of a few possible titles that meet both of these concerns:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Why did Luke&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; get the screen time he did in TFA?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Has anyone explained why Luke&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; got the amount of screen time he did in TFA?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Luke's&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; screen time in TFA&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of these are slightly spoilery, because they reveal that Luke's screen time is noteworthy, which - since he's an important player in the series - probably means that he gets very little screen time;  however, they don't explicitly give away the fact that...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; he is only onscreen for the last 60 seconds, and never even speaks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&quot;Mark Hamill&quot; can be used instead of &quot;Luke&quot;, if you prefer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="44025" LastEditDate="2016-01-03T05:40:50.400" LastActivityDate="2016-01-03T05:40:50.400" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7852" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7853" CreationDate="2016-01-03T17:54:02.427" Score="4" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;(First Meta post, prompted by AncientSwordRage; if I've done something wrong in the question, it's not intentional, and please don't hesitate to fix it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jarwin asked a question earlier on whether &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/113310/should-star-wars-have-ended-after-return-of-the-jedi&quot;&gt;Star Wars should have ended after the prequels&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without putting words in Jarwin's mouth, it seems as though he disagrees with the saga continuing -- because a satisfying end has been reached, if nothing else. It's also looking for opinion, and has been closed as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think the essence of the question can be saved and made into a good question: something along the lines of, as AncientSwordRage suggested, &quot;did Lucas intend to continue the story beyond VI&quot; or something like &quot;are the events and intended stories of the original six movies concluded by episode VI&quot; (a far better proposal than my own of &quot;ain't it done yet?&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would still argue that's quite opinion based; however @NikolaiDante has an answer with quotes from Lucas himself that weigh in on the matter. In light of this, should / could the question be reworked to fit in our guidelines while still keeping the essence of the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16565" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2016-01-03T17:59:16.250" Title="In light of Word of God, can this Star Wars question be reworked?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7852" CreationDate="2016-01-03T17:59:16.250" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;No because those changes would invalidate the other answer. Post your reworked version as a new question, and link back to the closed one as inspiration. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2016-01-03T17:59:16.250" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7857" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-04T04:56:50.407" Score="1" ViewCount="255" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on the recent, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7832/31178&quot;&gt;upvoted answer&lt;/a&gt; to the old character tag question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1563/why-is-there-a-voldemort-tag-is-there-a-criterion-for-character-tags&quot;&gt;Why is there a voldemort tag? Is there a criterion for character tags?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If suggest reading the full post for background information, and some of the other, many discussions on character tagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it takes an acrimonious discussion for every tag to establish whether or not it's appropriate, the test you're using is broken. You're letting the perfect become the enemy of the good... &lt;strong&gt;Find a simpler test, one that folks can apply in common cases&lt;/strong&gt; (release of a new book / movie) without having to tear each others' throats out here on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This statement is made because our currently policy is fairly unclear. It uses terms such as &amp;quot;lots of questions&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;significant fraction&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;do you think&amp;quot;, which lend themselves towards subjectivity, and the arguments we have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Shog9 clarified further in his comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags are a utilitarian form of organization, @Aith; they're messy by design. We have some rules in place to help avoid complete chaos, but utility should always take precedence over organizational ideals that can't easily be achieved in practice. This is my problem with the status quo: folks are apparently wasting more time arguing about which tags are unnecessary than they are on adding those which are useful.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;A folksonomy is only useful if the meaning of a tag emerges based on how it's used; you can't assign a meaning other than what emerges naturally&lt;/strong&gt;... and if none emerges, you can't force it to. As with language itself, you have to be willing to examine how people use it to understand what they're saying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on that last part, I would think it could be a good idea to design the test around how people actually use tags, or want to use them, if possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not aiming for this to be a discussion about whether or not we &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; have a new simple test. I'm aiming to see what types of solutions we can come up with towards our problem. Perhaps later we can vote as to whether/when to implement a suggested change. Let's play it hypothetical and constructive to start, and see where that gets us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;So, what should our new, simple test be for character tags, which can be easily applied in our common cases?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T03:35:50.027" Title="What should our simple test be for character tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7281" CreationDate="2016-01-04T05:14:55.310" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not spend time at M&amp;amp;TV. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding movies, I don't see films in the theaters, so by the time I get around to watching a movie on Netflix or BD, discussion has typically died down -- I would have to have a &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; good reason for resurrecting an old thread; it couldn't be just to chat about the movie a bit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only watch a handful of shows regularly: the &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; films, the &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; trilogy, &lt;em&gt;NCIS&lt;/em&gt;, the &lt;em&gt;Law and Order&lt;/em&gt; franchises, and &lt;em&gt;Psych&lt;/em&gt;. Accordingly, I don't feel I would have much to contribute to discussion at M&amp;amp;TV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T05:14:55.310" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7857" CreationDate="2016-01-04T05:42:33.310" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm posting Shog9's suggestion as an answer, since it was given already in the other thread:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If at least 10 questions have been asked regarding a character, create a tag for that character and add it to those questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T05:42:33.310" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7857" CreationDate="2016-01-04T08:57:08.377" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In response to CreationEdge's request:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Based on that last part, I would think it could be a good idea to design the test around how people actually use tags, or want to use them, if possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to give my answer which can partially be found in the conversation that Shog9 and I had in the previous thread:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;tags are a utilitarian form of organization... but messy by design&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Organization and quicker identification and sorting - in other words, fully utilitarian - is how I always &lt;em&gt;personally&lt;/em&gt; understood the purpose of tagging systems across various platforms - blogging, forums, offline data management, etc - and it is with this understanding that I myself utilize tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, probably less of 'folksonomy' which Shog9 linked to and more of 'taxonomy' with logical hierarchies and connections with close to zero personal investment towards 'tags' created or not created no matter how social the setting is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I would rather go for a 'label them all individually' or 'label every character-related question with a generic 'character' tag' and be done with it because I see that though '10 topics' makes ideal sense in theory... it will be a different story in practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Differing opinions can be great, but not when they result in recurrent hamster wheeling (my opinion) and as recurrent discussions on character tagging have shown, people STILL will find reason to argue that a character ought to have a tag because of ABC and 123 situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, I have to agree that &lt;em&gt;eventually&lt;/em&gt;, even the most minor characters will accumulate enough questions to hit the '10 questions' threshold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And finally, though veterans to Stack Exchange and to the SF section in particular might think '10 questions' makes sense, I don't think newbies are going to think the same way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To demonstrate:  A new person sees various questions related to various characters and sees them all tagged with the appropriate character names. &quot;Cool, that makes sense,&quot; they think.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;When they see another question about another character that isn't tagged with the character's name, they go, &quot;Oh hey, this character question ought to be tagged, too, since everyone else was... right?  Right.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In such a case, the assumption made may not be correct which will inevitably result in tag creation conflicts and yet, how can we blame them for making that assumption in the first place unless there's some sort of prompt to remind them and tell them that, &quot;Hey, you, character tagging doesn't apply to ABC person because they aren't popular enough... yet.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we're actually interested in keeping the chaos of tagging down to a minimum, then my opinion is that the most utilitarian approach is the most logical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Either tag everyone... or tag no one... or tag every character with a generic 'character' tag.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28107" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2016-01-06T03:35:50.027" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T03:35:50.027" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7857" CreationDate="2016-01-04T13:32:25.973" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to provide some possibly useful raw data for this question I read through the first 10 pages of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; questions (oldest first, so I haven't even gotten to &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt; yet) to see what characters were in them. If this seems like a reasonable set of tags for a single (admittedly large and expansive) universe, then the offically-dubbed &lt;code&gt;Shog9-rule&lt;/code&gt; would probably work. If not, it may need some tweaking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we use the arbitrary suggestion of &quot;10 questions&quot; as a starting point, we need the following tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/count-dooku&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;count-dooku&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;count-dooku&lt;/a&gt;     - 10&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/padme-amidala&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;padme-amidala&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;padme-amidala&lt;/a&gt;       - 11&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/qui-gon-jin&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;qui-gon-jin&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;qui-gon-jin&lt;/a&gt;     - 11&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/leia-organa&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;leia-organa&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;leia-organa&lt;/a&gt;     - 12&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/c-3po&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;c-3po&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;c-3po&lt;/a&gt;           - 13&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/han-solo&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;han-solo&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;han-solo&lt;/a&gt;        - 16&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/yoda&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;yoda&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;yoda&lt;/a&gt;            - 21&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/anakin-skywalker&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;anakin-skywalker&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;anakin-skywalker&lt;/a&gt;    - 33&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I kept Anakin separate because he really is a different character in the prequels vs. original trilogy, and many questions were asked where that distinction was relevant, or even part of the question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, since that was only about 1/5 of the questions, there's a statistically good chance we'll also need (these are tags with 4 or more questions in the first 10 pages, obviously not all of these will actually hit 10)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/r2-d2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;r2-d2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;r2-d2&lt;/a&gt;           - 9&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shmi-skywalker&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shmi-skywalker&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shmi-skywalker&lt;/a&gt;  - 8&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/darth-maul&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;darth-maul&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;darth-maul&lt;/a&gt;      - 6&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jabba-the-hutt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jabba-the-hutt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jabba-the-hutt&lt;/a&gt;  - 6&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/boba-fett&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;boba-fett&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;boba-fett&lt;/a&gt;       - 5&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jar-jar-binks&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jar-jar-binks&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jar-jar-binks&lt;/a&gt;   - 4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mace-windu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mace-windu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mace-windu&lt;/a&gt;      - 4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chewbacca&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chewbacca&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chewbacca&lt;/a&gt;       - 4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sifo-dyas&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sifo-dyas&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sifo-dyas&lt;/a&gt;       - 4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/general-grevious&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;general-grevious&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;general-grevious&lt;/a&gt;    - 4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/darth-sidious&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;darth-sidious&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;darth-sidious&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/obi-wan-kenobi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;obi-wan-kenobi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;obi-wan-kenobi&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/luke-skywalker&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;luke-skywalker&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;luke-skywalker&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/darth-vader&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;darth-vader&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;darth-vader&lt;/a&gt; already exist, and have 30+ questions, but they are used &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; erratically (I didn't even realize some of them existed for several pages). Obviously, once we have a character-tag rule in place a massive retagging effort will need to follow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also a lot of questions about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/palpatine&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;palpatine&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;palpatine&lt;/a&gt;, which could probably be made into a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/darth-sidious&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;darth-sidious&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;darth-sidious&lt;/a&gt;, though IMO that's a moderate spoiler for anyone who hasn't seen the prequels yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T13:32:25.973" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7857" CreationDate="2016-01-04T14:25:52.167" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see the need to ever have tags about specific characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The name of the character should be used in the question anyway, so it's still easily searchable. If the name isn't included (outside of spoiler text - I don't know if that part is looked at for search results), then it's either a very badly written question or it's attempting not to spoil anything - at which point adding a character tag is just as much of a spoiler as using their name. Asking &quot;When was it decided that this character was the father of this other character?&quot; isn't any less a spoiler if you then throw darth-vader and luke-skywalker tags on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It just strikes me as a bit too much unnecessary categorisation. If the only reason to have the tag is because the character has been mentioned, it doesn't need to exist at all. At that point you're tagging just for the sake of tagging, and there's no actual gain in terms of functionality to users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disallowing character tags means that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there's no disagreement on whether a specific character warrants a tag, the answer is always &quot;no&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there's no confusion on when a character tag should be created, the answer is always &quot;never&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we absolutely need a test, then I'd propose this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;10 or more users - who don't already have the accompanying franchise/series/movie/whatever tag favourited - have expressed a desire to add the tag as one of their favourites, because they consider themselves an expert on and/or especially interested in that character in particular, but not the rest of the work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the only time the tag actually adds functionality to the site that can't otherwise be achieved. By design I can't see that being a test that is ever passed, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5833" LastEditorUserId="5833" LastEditDate="2016-01-04T14:38:06.437" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T14:38:06.437" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7708" CreationDate="2016-01-04T14:56:44.990" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;A Chrome extension, there is. &lt;a href=&quot;https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/force-block-the-star-wars/bplpphlobgcnjhoglonpnkooaaenlmol&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Force Block&lt;/a&gt;, preemptively all Force Awakens Spoilers, it blocks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Description: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Block pages containing spoilers from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, with smart pattern detection and a whitelist for false alarms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25061" LastEditorUserId="54827" LastEditDate="2016-01-09T03:18:05.617" LastActivityDate="2016-01-09T03:18:05.617" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-01-04T14:56:44.990" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7728" CreationDate="2016-01-04T15:46:09.880" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;: Keen/user1027 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/star-wars-finn/synonyms&quot;&gt;did this synonymisation&lt;/a&gt; in January.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;Per &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7855/1027&quot;&gt;this deleted question&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fn-2187&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fn-2187&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fn-2187&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-finn&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-finn&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-finn&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-02-19T02:22:59.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6839" CreationDate="2016-01-04T16:06:58.393" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, i'd like to stress that I agree with a lot of Mike said on his answer. This answer is largely a rebuttal of ONE very specific point he references in his answer - but, to me, that point is crucial in determining whether the &lt;strong&gt;concept&lt;/strong&gt; of character tags is worth defending or not; whether character tags as a group are &lt;strong&gt;useful&lt;/strong&gt; or not (leaving aside choosing which specific character is or isn't worth a tag).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mike quoted Gilles' point thusly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Tags are useful for two things:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li&gt;To classify questions in a manner that goes beyond plain text search.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And goes on to quote Gilleses &lt;strong&gt;theoretical&lt;/strong&gt; reasoning for rejecting #2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;A question about R2-D2 would contain “R2-D2” or at least “R2D2”, so the tag isn't helping much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is, I don't know what Gilles's reason for stating this was (e.g., his experince with specific searches at the time this was written; OR simply a theoretical assumption), but &lt;strong&gt;in practice, I personally found Gilles' assertion in the second quote to be 100%, completely, incorrect&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;sub&gt;with all my respect for Gilles' encyclopedic knowledge, he does sometimes make mistakes too&lt;/sub&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Personal testimony:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The character tags significantly improve the efficiency and reduce the effort of searches for me. In my experience, you frequently have 3-4 times more posts that merelty mention a character name, compared to posts specifically about that character. I've literally had cases where I spent 30min searching for something with no success, only to think of using a correct tag in the search, and a minute later have 10-result thing with what I was looking for among those 10.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mistake in Gilles' own reasoning&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He himself admits that there's TWO searches one needs to do, &quot;R2-D2&quot; and separatelty, &quot;R2D2&quot;. Oh, and he forgot &quot;artoo-deetoo&quot; or whatever other spellout of R2's name both the EU writers and site users choose. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the site search doesn't allow complex logical queries; &lt;strong&gt;that means the user now has to repeat their search at least 4 times&lt;/strong&gt;. And might STILL miss what they need because they forgot about searching for &quot;luke's astromech droid&quot; because someone didn't bother putting the droid name in the question text, or &quot;artoo&quot; because someone didn't bother with full spellout.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Evidence&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's look at an example. Since R2-D2 tag was actually vetoed and is I think on like 1 question, let's look at another tag that aroused Meta conversation: &lt;strong&gt;He-who-must-not-be-tagged&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is the search using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/voldemort&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;voldemort&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;voldemort&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;sub&gt;I'm adding &quot;HP&quot; tag for a technical reason related to search mechanics on SE, it's not really needed as far the result counts&lt;/sub&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter+voldemort&quot;&gt;&quot;[harry-potter] [voldemort]&quot;&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;250 questions&lt;/strong&gt;. A lot, but manageable to traverse.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now, let's pretend I need to do my research but the SFF.SE community reached a consensus, and Harry-Pottered that tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=[harry-potter]+voldemort&quot;&gt;&quot;[harry-potter] voldemort&quot;&lt;/a&gt;:  &lt;strong&gt;3,042 results&lt;/strong&gt; . Personally, at this point I give up and admit I'm not &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-data&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-data&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-data&lt;/a&gt;, I just can't scan this.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;OK, the above was the worst-case scenario, assuming I'm a &quot;normal&quot; user and wasn't aware that you can only search question text. I hope nobody will argue that most users are aware of &quot;is:question&quot; syntax?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But let's say a very experienced rare user who knows this syntax tries:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=[harry-potter]+voldemort+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;&quot;[harry-potter] voldemort is:question&quot;&lt;/a&gt; :  &lt;strong&gt;784 results&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's not as astronomically bad as 3000, but still far more than a normal person would even remotely would be willing to peruse for research. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And as I stated above, this makes an extremely unlikely assumption that our searcher is even aware of this syntax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To make things worse, our text search missed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=[harry-potter]%20voldermort%20is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;17 questions mentioning &quot;Volde&lt;strong&gt;r&lt;/strong&gt;mort&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=[harry-potter]%20voldermort%20is%3Aquestion%20-voldemort&quot;&gt;4 of which would NOT have shown up in the original searches&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for this major difference is that Voldemort may frequently be &lt;strong&gt;mentioned&lt;/strong&gt; in questions or answers on Harry Potter, but precious few of those mentions (&amp;lt; 1/3) are ABOUT Voldemort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T16:19:07.223" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7867" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7868" CreationDate="2016-01-04T17:06:36.640" Score="4" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;While browsing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/105467/what-is-hermione-grangers-ethnicity&quot;&gt;What is Hermione Granger&amp;#39;s ethnicity?&lt;/a&gt;, I was surprised to see the top answer by votes wasn't accepted, when the icon in the questions list was green, indicating it had an accepted answer. I've since checked other questions and they all appear to behave this way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought &quot;maybe the OP unaccepted at the exact moment I was looking&quot;, but when I scrolled further down, I saw the accepted answer several answers down. At this point I thought it might be some weird sorting choice, but I was unable to get the accepted answer to appear at the top of the page, despite choosing all three answer-sorting options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't the accepted answer supposed to appear at the top of the answers list &lt;em&gt;regardless of sorting method&lt;/em&gt;? It appears to work that way on other Stack Exchange sites and is hinted at in the Tour page animations here, as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23886" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T17:28:43.970" Title="Why isn't this accepted answer appearing above other answers?" Tags="|bug|accepted-answer|self-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7867" CreationDate="2016-01-04T17:22:57.693" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer to this question was a self-acceptance, and self-accepted answers aren't sorted to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This behavior is documented in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/accept-your-own-answers/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow blog post by Jeff Atwood&lt;/a&gt; (emphasis added):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now, there are some special rules around owner-accepted answers, to prevent gaming:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wait 48 hours. You must wait 2 days from the time you originally asked your question before you can accept your own answer. This gives other users a chance to answer the question in good faith, and earn the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No change in sort order. Normally, accepted answers are &quot;docked&quot; under the question. This is not true for owner accepted answers; they stay in standard sort order like any other answer.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;No reputation is earned. Normally, accepted answers confer +15 rep to the answerer and +2 to the owner. Owner accepted answers do not earn rep (or badges) for anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar questions about this behavior have been asked on the main Meta. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/6365/299342&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; asks about it and was tagged &quot;status by design&quot; by the admins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T17:28:43.970" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7857" CreationDate="2016-01-04T20:11:27.843" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/408/should-we-relax-the-tag-creation-rules-for-this-site/410#comment2438_410&quot;&gt;another suggestion&lt;/a&gt;, which isn't my own:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Any tag should be able to pass the &quot;more than 2 questions will exist in a 6 month period&quot; test, and the &quot;will another human being actually subscribe to this tag?&quot; test. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T20:11:27.843" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7871" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-04T20:13:05.883" Score="22" ViewCount="734" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is part of of the Tag Cleanup Effort discussed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7896/tag-wars-the-science-fiction-fantasy-tag-cleanup-event&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Discussions on the mechanics of this process are being had in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/33865/tagwars&quot;&gt;Tag Cleanup chatroom&lt;/a&gt; and will be posted in &lt;a href=&quot;http://localhost/nothing_yet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this meta question&lt;/a&gt; once they've been finalized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of this post is to collect suggestions/nominations/etc for tags that should be part of the site-wide tag cleanup effort that is currently being organized. Please don't use this post to discuss the mechanics of that effort; once I have a few more details nailed down a second post will be going up to discuss &quot;how&quot; to do the cleanup. This post is just for the &quot;what&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have suggestions for what tags we should consider &lt;strong&gt;adding or removing&lt;/strong&gt; from questions as part of this cleanup effort, please post an answer. Each answer should include &lt;strong&gt;one&lt;/strong&gt; tag or one &lt;strong&gt;very closely related&lt;/strong&gt; set of tags, for which one of the following is true:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The tag is a &quot;poor&quot; tag - it does not belong and needs to be removed from all questions and allowed to be garbage-collected&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The tag is a &quot;missing&quot; tag - it is a good tag that would benefit a lot of questions but isn't in use yet, and needs to be created.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The tag is a &quot;misused&quot; tag - it is current in use but not correctly, and needs to be add to some questions and removed from others.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each answer should include the name of the (existing or proposed) tag, a brief description why you think it needs to be changed, and a rough estimate (as good as you can manage) of how many questions will be affected. Additionally, I have included a proposed set of &quot;scoring guidelines&quot; to more objectively judge good vs. bad tags that you may also want to include in your proposal - lower scores means worse tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note that just because a tag is on lots of question &lt;strong&gt;does not&lt;/strong&gt; mean it's a good tag; that's why this coordinated effort exists :))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NOTE: Please &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;do not&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; propose either of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;New tag synonyms for existing &quot;good tags&quot; - Use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7728/tag-synonym-rename-merge-requests&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; for that purpose&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anything to do with &quot;character tags&quot; - Please see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7857/what-should-our-simple-test-be-for-character-tags&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; for that quagmire&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Tag Scoring&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(blatantly stolen and slightly adapted from &lt;a href=&quot;https://chemistry.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2967/what-do-i-need-to-know-about-tagging&quot;&gt;Chemistry.SE's tagging discussions&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For each tag, answer the following questions with a &quot;Yes&quot;, &quot;No&quot;, or &quot;Sometimes&quot;  e.g. maybe it's &quot;yes but only in in some cases&quot;. (I've modified this a bit based on discussions with it's author based on Chemistry's useage patterns vs. ours; please feel free to leave feedback in the comments on this, as it's just a proposal!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does it make sense to be an &quot;expert&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/proposed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;proposed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt;&quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does it make sense for a question to be tagged &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/proposed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;proposed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt;&quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/proposed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;proposed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt; have a single, universally-unambiguous meaning?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/proposed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;proposed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt; likely to be used correctly just based on it's name?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there &quot;enough&quot; (&gt; 15) but not &quot;too many&quot; (&gt; 10% site-wide) questions that qualify for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/proposed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;proposed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are people like to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/proposed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;proposed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt; to find questions to answer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there likely some users (&lt;em&gt;be objective!&lt;/em&gt;) who will favorite or ignore &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/proposed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;proposed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Could &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/proposed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;proposed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt; be reasonably used to feed questions to a specialized chat room?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/proposed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;proposed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt; be used to search for questions (for any reason) in a way that keyword searching cannot accomplish?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;sub&gt;The meaning of &quot;expert&quot; in the context of SF/F may not be obvious. For our purposes, being an &quot;expert&quot; in a tag means: 1) if the only thing someone knew about a question was that it was tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/proposed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;proposed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt;, that would be enough information for them to feel confident about trying to answer it, and 2) it's reasonable for someone to have a lot of knowledge about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/proposed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;proposed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt; as a separate subject, and not &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; because it's a subset of a larger topic (e.g. would someone know a lot about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/light-sabers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;light-sabers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;light-sabers&lt;/a&gt; on their own, &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; because they're an expert on everything about  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For each &quot;Yes&quot;, score +2. For each &quot;Sometimes&quot;, score +1; for each &quot;No&quot;, score -1. The goal of this score is to identify tags that are &quot;multi-purpose&quot;; since different people use tags for different things, we should strive for tags that cover all the bases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very roughly speaking, tags that score &gt; 12 are &quot;good&quot; tags, tags that score &amp;lt; 8 are &quot;terrible&quot; tags, others are likely good but may need some clarification/renaming/etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T22:54:58.480" Title="Tag Wars Episode I: Harry Potter and the Tag Cleanup" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|retagging|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="22" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7871" CreationDate="2016-01-04T20:31:36.483" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;Untag Decade Tags: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/70s&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;70s&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;70s&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/80s&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;80s&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;80s&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/90s&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;90s&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;90s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag Score: -3&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Impact: ~150&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These tags are way too broad and it's very difficult to figure out when to use them. They have some very limited use for story identification questions but only if the questioner actually knows what decade the story was from. This makes them impractical for use in finding questions, and unlikely that anyone will follow or ignore them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-01-13T00:39:02.097" LastActivityDate="2016-01-13T00:39:02.097" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7873" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7876" CreationDate="2016-01-04T20:36:26.230" Score="3" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;While doing some reading around the tag-related discussions we’ve been having recently, I stumbled across the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/create-tags&quot;&gt;“create tags” privilege page&lt;/a&gt;. I knew most of it already, but this bit was new to me (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What happens when a new tag is created?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new tag will now be available for all other community members to use, without needing the new tag privilege. It will also show up in the moderator tools new tag report.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, note that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;on some sites, new tags will be automatically culled and removed from the system if they are not used by at least 1 other question in a 6 month period.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don’t think it makes much difference to the tagging discussions (the contentious tags are being used quite a bit more than this), but I’m curious:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does this rule apply on SFF?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/48418/226928&quot;&gt;Meta post that first mentions this process&lt;/a&gt; sounds like it runs on the trilogy sites, but I don’t know whether it runs here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T22:58:30.413" Title="Are tags that are only used once in 6 months auto-removed on SFF?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7871" CreationDate="2016-01-04T20:37:39.740" Score="-8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; This entry was clearly very contentious; it will likely be moved to a separate, focused discussion for later. Do not feel obligated to continue to vote or comment on it at this time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Retag Media Tags: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt; (syn: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv-series&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/television&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;television&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;television&lt;/a&gt;); &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; (syn: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movies&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/film&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;film&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;film&lt;/a&gt;), &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; (syn: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novels&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novels&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novels&lt;/a&gt;), &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt; (syn: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-story&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-story&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-story&lt;/a&gt;), &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/written&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;written&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;written&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag Score: 4/9*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Impact: ~1800&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Previous Discussions: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/293/should-we-do-away-with-the-media-tags-books-novel-tv-movies-etc&quot;&gt;Should we do away with the media tags (books, novel, TV, movies, etc.)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3000/why-are-the-media-tags-still-around&quot;&gt;Why are the media tags still around?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose that these tags be cleaned up from all &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;non-&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When used in conjunction with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; tag these become useful, for example, to filter book-id from tv-id. However, if applied to all questions they would by far too broad (one of them would apply to every question we have, for example). While it's possible that someone could be an &quot;expert&quot; or &quot;interested in&quot; identifying obscure short stories, it's unlikely they would be an expert in &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; television or movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For consistency we should treat all media tags the same&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For story-id questions include one of them on every question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For non-story-id questions, remove them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;NOTE: These lower score is for all questions; the higher score is we assume they're only used in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2016-01-05T18:27:33.760" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7871" CreationDate="2016-01-04T20:43:52.073" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Untag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-explanation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-explanation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-explanation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag Score: -6&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Impact: ~500&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question arguably applies to over half of the questions on this site, but only gets used haphazardly. This seems proof enough that it's not a good tag -- people do not automatically use it properly just based on it's name, and it can't be used to find &quot;all plot-explanation&quot; questions. Even if it were, though, it is too broad a tag to be useful in searching or filtering questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2016-01-06T21:16:17.530" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T21:16:17.530" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7873" CreationDate="2016-01-04T20:53:35.063" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2489/&quot;&gt;Nope&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After reviewing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/885/automatic-tag-clean-up-and-the-long-tail/2454#2454&quot;&gt;Gilles' data&lt;/a&gt; and talking about this internally for a while, I agree that &lt;em&gt;for a site like SciFi&lt;/em&gt; where there are no allowable classes of tags that apply to most questions, this culling isn't helping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disabled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please keep a sharp eye on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags?tab=new&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags?tab=new&lt;/a&gt; for crap tags.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T22:58:30.413" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7877" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-04T20:53:35.247" Score="14" ViewCount="372" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to get some help of others that may be able to leverage SEDE in ways that I can't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to see some analysis or statistics regarding how we actually, &#xA;currently, are using tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we're having discussions about tagging policies, I think it'd be beneficial to have some clear data on the subject that we can all work from. I'm not just asking about character tags, but all tags in general. I've an interest in this topic now because the term &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;folksonomy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; was recently used, which I'd not heard of before. I'm trying to see how our folksonomy has developed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please post what you're able to find. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was trying to build a SEDE query that someone else may be able to help me with or do. I wanted to pull a list of say, our top 50 tags, and then a list of the top 3 tags that are used with those top 50 tags. For example, one of the top tags is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;, what are the top 3 other tags used in those questions? Rinse and repeat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, please see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7871/a-song-of-tags-and-fire-part-one-a-game-of-tags&quot;&gt;Tag Wars Episode I: Harry Potter and the Tag Cleanup&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is an attempt to give certain tags a score, based on how they meet criteria, to demonstrate their currently quality/usefulness or lack thereof. A summary of those results, once they come in, would make an excellent addition to this thread. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-02-28T04:23:36.310" Title="How do we actually use tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7871" CreationDate="2016-01-04T21:00:05.847" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Untag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-inconsistency&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-inconsistency&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-inconsistency&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag Score: -1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Impact: 107&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Much like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-explanation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-explanation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-explanation&lt;/a&gt;, this is a tag used only in some of the instances where it is arguably appropriate, but is unlikely to be used for any meaningful search or categorization of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also the issue of what people define as a &quot;plot inconsistency&quot;, or more commonly a &quot;plot hole&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2016-01-06T21:16:09.713" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T21:16:09.713" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7877" CreationDate="2016-01-04T21:07:48.640" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;The portion concerning naming conventions has been moved to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9246/31178&quot;&gt;new answer&lt;/a&gt;, to make it easier to follow (and edit).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've started off looking at the top tags, which I arbitrarily set as tags with count &amp;gt;= 50.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just wanted to see &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; was there. I think the popular tags are the ones which the majority of users are going to be exposed to, and thus shape their ideas about how to tag and what kinds of tags to make.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to do this analysis, I had to come up with some way to categorize the tags. I wanted to keep to a small number that would include, theoretically, all of the tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Categories&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's what I came up with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Franchise&lt;/strong&gt; - A name that generally refers to a franchise, which I define as a set of related works that span multiple series or multiple forms of media. The best examples are some of our top questions: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Series&lt;/strong&gt; - An individually named series which may or may not be part of a franchise. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tng&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tng&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tng&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Work&lt;/strong&gt; - An individually named single work, such as a movie or book, which may or may not be part of a series or franchise. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-new-hope&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-new-hope&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-new-hope&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/interstellar&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;interstellar&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;interstellar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Work-specific&lt;/strong&gt; - A character, setting, object, etc. that relates to a specific work, series, or franchise. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/middle-earth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;middle-earth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;middle-earth&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jedi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jedi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jedi&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/horcrux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;horcrux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;horcrux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Author&lt;/strong&gt; - Specific authors of written works&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Publisher&lt;/strong&gt; - The publisher of works. Only 2 examples are in the 50+ range, those being &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-comics&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-comics&lt;/a&gt;, but smaller ones such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/disney&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;disney&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;disney&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dark-horse-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dark-horse-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dark-horse-comics&lt;/a&gt; are found.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Media&lt;/strong&gt; - The format of the work in questios. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Genre&lt;/strong&gt; - Genre classifications of works, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/young-adult&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;young-adult&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;young-adult&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/horror&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;horror&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;horror&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/post-apocalyptic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;post-apocalyptic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;post-apocalyptic&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/80s&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;80s&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;80s&lt;/a&gt;. Genre and Media classifications have some interesting uses, which I will point out in detail later.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Topic&lt;/strong&gt; - Broad topics you can't necessarily pin down to a specific work or genre. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aliens&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aliens&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aliens&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magic&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Probing&lt;/strong&gt; - Tags used for questions used to clarify a work, its content, or its creation. The main example being our top tag, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, but a large number of others exist such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-explanation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-explanation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-explanation&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/characters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;characters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;characters&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Category analysis&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After looking at these &lt;strong&gt;top 173 tags&lt;/strong&gt;, I found that they broke down as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;By number of tags:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bNXQF.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bNXQF.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;By number of questions tagged:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tk4Iw.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tk4Iw.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What shouldn't be surprising here is that Franchise tags are not only the most common types of tags, but the most commonly tagged questions. Part of this is because of how I classified franchise. What I &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; find surprising is that Work-specific tags are our 3rd most common type of tag, but 6th most commonly tagged questions. Although, Work-specific tags have more tagged questions than any 2 of the &lt;em&gt;least&lt;/em&gt; commonly types of tagged questions: Publisher, Author, Work, Genre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A complete breakdown of what I classified these tags as can be found in my other answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Relationships with Probing tags&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found Media and Genre tags to have some interesting things going on with them.&#xA;They're rarely used alone, and tend to be attaching to some type of Probing tag. The most common example being &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, which is what I'll use in my examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Media tags:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; - x1105, 36.5% (x403) with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt; - x938, 96.7% (x907) with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; - x632, 71.8% (x454) with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt; - x590, 12.4% (x73) with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; - x526, 81.2% (x427) with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt; - x410, 48.8% (x200) with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Genre tags:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/young-adult&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;young-adult&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;young-adult&lt;/a&gt; - x225, 96.9% (x218) with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt; - x191, 05.2% (x10) with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/horror&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;horror&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;horror&lt;/a&gt; - x165, 84.2% (x139) with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/anime&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;anime&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;anime&lt;/a&gt; - x109, 48.6% (x53) with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/childrens-novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;childrens-novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;childrens-novel&lt;/a&gt; - x106, 90.6% (x96) with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/post-apocalyptic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;post-apocalyptic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;post-apocalyptic&lt;/a&gt; - x99, 89.9% (x89) with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cartoon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cartoon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cartoon&lt;/a&gt; - x96, 69.8% (x67) with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction-genre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science-fiction-genre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science-fiction-genre&lt;/a&gt; - x95, 23.2% (x22) with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hard-sci-fi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hard-sci-fi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hard-sci-fi&lt;/a&gt; - x89, 60.7% (x54) with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantasy-genre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantasy-genre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantasy-genre&lt;/a&gt; - x85, 36.5% (x31) with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/soft-sci-fi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;soft-sci-fi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;soft-sci-fi&lt;/a&gt; - x56, 92.9% (x52) with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/80s&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;80s&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;80s&lt;/a&gt; - x75, 90.7% (x68) with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/90s&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;90s&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;90s&lt;/a&gt; - x45, 97.8% (x44) with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/70s&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;70s&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;70s&lt;/a&gt; - x15, 100.0% (x15) with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I included all of the decade tags, as only 2 more existed that weren't in the 50+ range. &lt;strong&gt;However, decade tags have since been burninated!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Combining both into one table, here's a quick chart showing the %age of each tag that is used with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CoEkz.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CoEkz.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The average percent of Media and Genre tags used with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; is 66.7%. That is, the average of the percents seen in the list and graph above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The percent of Media and Genre tagged questions that include &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; is 60.5%.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Media tags&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt; seems to be an exception to the Probing connection, a cursory look at those questions shows that the tag is often used to specify that a question is only about the comic-book version of events or characters, instead of the entire franchise which may include movies and TV shows. &lt;strong&gt;This is how Media tags are used in general: they are almost never used alone, and make the most sense when used in conjuction with other tags to narrow scope.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Genre confusion&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two big genre tags, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction-genre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science-fiction-genre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science-fiction-genre&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantasy-genre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantasy-genre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantasy-genre&lt;/a&gt; have some counter-intuitive definitions based on actual usage:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; be used to categorize questions about specific works of science fiction.&#xA;Should &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; be used to categorize questions about specific works of Fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, none of the other genre tags have such a caveat. Furthermore, while this &amp;quot;rule&amp;quot; exists in the tag descriptions, it's not universally enforced. 53 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions include one of these two genre tags. I think it would actually be much higher, if not for tag-definition and enforcement, where those two genre tags are actively removed from Probing questions. I don't see any reason why a site named Science Fiction and Fantasy would have more questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/horror&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;horror&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;horror&lt;/a&gt; (x165) than either &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction-genre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science-fiction-genre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science-fiction-genre&lt;/a&gt; (x95) or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantasy-genre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantasy-genre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantasy-genre&lt;/a&gt; (x85).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hard-sci-fi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hard-sci-fi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hard-sci-fi&lt;/a&gt; (x89) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/soft-sci-fi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;soft-sci-fi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;soft-sci-fi&lt;/a&gt; (x56), which seem to circumvent the &amp;quot;not be used to categorize&amp;quot; rule, but no such tags exist for fantasy, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/high-fantasy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;high-fantasy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;high-fantasy&lt;/a&gt;. Although, there is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/urban-fantasy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;urban-fantasy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;urban-fantasy&lt;/a&gt; (x27).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Decades?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;The decade tags have a definition that states they're for the 20th century (19xx), although it doesn't say whether it about works &lt;em&gt;set&lt;/em&gt; in those decades, or works that were &lt;em&gt;created&lt;/em&gt; in those decades. It seems primarily to be used for the latter. However, they're not used only for clearly-known time-frames. 13 questions are tagged both &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/90s&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;90s&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;90s&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/80s&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;80s&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;80s&lt;/a&gt;, and 7 are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/80s&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;80s&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;80s&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/70s&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;70s&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;70s&lt;/a&gt;, all with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Decade tags have been burninated!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Movies, books, novels&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt;, which are both high-level genre tags, but used differently. To see how, we also have to bring in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; (which is plural, unlike the other two), which is defined as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use this tag only to differentiate the book from the movie or other media.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when you remove &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; from the question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; is used primarily to differentiate the work from the written media, rather than being the expected standard implied by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; description, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; is used more like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; says it should be. Keeping &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; are primarily used for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and there's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-vs-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-vs-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-vs-movie&lt;/a&gt; (x66), which further entangles things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is still an issue that should be evaluated.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Hidden rules&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've found that there are rules regarding how to use specific tags hidden in the tag descriptions themselves, but &lt;strong&gt;I can't seem to find a meta that contains a list of all such tagging rules&lt;/strong&gt;. For example, you can't go to one place to see how &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction-genre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science-fiction-genre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science-fiction-genre&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantasy-genre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantasy-genre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantasy-genre&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; are &lt;em&gt;supposed&lt;/em&gt; to be used. There's possibly more hidden rules, but I'm not going to go through every tag description to find them. In &lt;em&gt;general&lt;/em&gt;, I don't think these description rules are followed. Instead, I think they're only &lt;em&gt;enforced&lt;/em&gt; by those aware of the rules already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Jedi, for example&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4863/31178&quot;&gt;earlier analysis&lt;/a&gt; of some tags, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jedi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jedi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jedi&lt;/a&gt;, I wanted to do an update.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Previously:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of over 1000 Star Wars questions, we currently have 66 questions tagged jedi, and that's one of the more popular tags. We have 887 questions tagged star-wars that contain the word &amp;quot;Jedi&amp;quot;, but aren't tagged with jedi. This is an excellent example of why these sub-tags don't work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of 2541 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; questions, we currently have 170 with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jedi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jedi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jedi&lt;/a&gt;. We have 598 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; questions without &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jedi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jedi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jedi&lt;/a&gt; but contain the word &amp;quot;Jedi&amp;quot; in the title or body, 126 of which have &amp;quot;Jedi&amp;quot; in the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Discussion&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Much of the meta discussions I found regarding some of the genre and media tags happened 4 years ago, when the site was young and smaller. There's merit behind the discussions, and I think they were valid and worked at that scale, but I'm not sure our general tagging policies now reflect how people actually use the tags. Here are some example questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/293/should-we-do-away-with-the-media-tags-books-novel-tv-movies-etc&quot;&gt;Should we do away with the media tags (books, novel, TV, movies, etc.)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This purged several media tags that weren't used very much at that time, but left others. By doing these purges, and actively removing attempts at recreating these tags that were previously purged, we can't get accurate numbers on how often people are &lt;em&gt;trying&lt;/em&gt; to use them, which seems to be part of our criteria for whether or not we keep them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4860/how-should-we-handle-tag-hierarchies&quot;&gt;How should we handle tag hierarchies?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This discussion is more recent, but has an interesting look at how some Work-specific tags are used, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jedi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jedi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jedi&lt;/a&gt;, and how Author tags are used, as well. The &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; stats have changed, so I decided to update them above.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/606/horror-and-other-genre-tags&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/606/horror-and-other-genre-tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Discusses the creation of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/horror&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;horror&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;horror&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;which was poorly received but now has beat out our main genres&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/306/do-we-need-a-sci-fi-and-a-fantasy-tag&quot;&gt;Do we need a sci-fi and a fantasy tag?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5268/why-dont-we-have-science-fiction-and-fantasy-or-similar-tags&quot;&gt;Why don&amp;#39;t we have &amp;#39;science-fiction&amp;#39; and &amp;#39;fantasy&amp;#39; (or similar) tags?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;These clarify why we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantasy-genre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantasy-genre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantasy-genre&lt;/a&gt; instead of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantasy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantasy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantasy&lt;/a&gt;. However, it doesn't address that people still feel the &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; to use the tags, and have co-opted the &lt;code&gt;-genre&lt;/code&gt; tags to do the work for them when necessary.  I think the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantasy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantasy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantasy&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science-fiction&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science-fiction&lt;/a&gt; policies may need re-evaluation in light of the use of Probing questions on the stack. Probing questions make up a high number of our questions, and genre classifications can be helpful for &lt;em&gt;them&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-02-28T04:23:19.400" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7871" CreationDate="2016-01-04T21:47:57.863" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;Untag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag Score: -9&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Impact: 139&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag is usually used in a way that should be a synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-explanation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-explanation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-explanation&lt;/a&gt;, but is more ambiguous and thus even worse. Again, a majority of our questions are plot questions, making this tag overly broad and thus probably useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2016-01-06T21:15:58.460" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T21:15:58.460" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7877" CreationDate="2016-01-05T01:46:55.350" Score="6" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Categorization&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please feel free to discuss or disagree with how I did so, but I think my approach was consistent and unbiased. These are the categories I used in my other answer, but they were taking up too much space, there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Franchise&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; - x2788&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; - x2354&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; - x2192&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt; - x1384&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doctor-who&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;doctor-who&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;doctor-who&lt;/a&gt; - x937&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt; - x624&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men&lt;/a&gt; - x375&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-hobbit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-hobbit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-hobbit&lt;/a&gt; - x349&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/superman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;superman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;superman&lt;/a&gt; - x312&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;batman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;batman&lt;/a&gt; - x310&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-matrix&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-matrix&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-matrix&lt;/a&gt; - x265&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers&lt;/a&gt; - x264&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stargate&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate&lt;/a&gt; - x219&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-legends&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-legends&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-legends&lt;/a&gt; - x160&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/thor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;thor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;thor&lt;/a&gt; - x159&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dune&lt;/a&gt; - x153&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-walking-dead&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-walking-dead&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-walking-dead&lt;/a&gt; - x150&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminator&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminator&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminator&lt;/a&gt; - x141&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wolverine&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wolverine&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wolverine&lt;/a&gt; - x124&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/iron-man&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;iron-man&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;iron-man&lt;/a&gt; - x123&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wheel-of-time&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wheel-of-time&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wheel-of-time&lt;/a&gt; - x118&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spider-man&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;spider-man&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;spider-man&lt;/a&gt; - x116&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-hunger-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-hunger-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-hunger-games&lt;/a&gt; - x112&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/back-to-the-future&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;back-to-the-future&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;back-to-the-future&lt;/a&gt; - x105&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/warhammer40k&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;warhammer40k&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;warhammer40k&lt;/a&gt; - x101&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-hulk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-hulk&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-hulk&lt;/a&gt; - x92&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/transformers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;transformers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;transformers&lt;/a&gt; - x92&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/captain-america&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;captain-america&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;captain-america&lt;/a&gt; - x91&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alien-franchise&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alien-franchise&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alien-franchise&lt;/a&gt; - x84&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/green-lantern&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;green-lantern&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;green-lantern&lt;/a&gt; - x76&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/guardians-of-the-galaxy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;guardians-of-the-galaxy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;guardians-of-the-galaxy&lt;/a&gt; - x71&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/buffy&quot; 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class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hitchhikers-guide&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hitchhikers-guide&lt;/a&gt; - x53&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-incredible-hulk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-incredible-hulk&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-incredible-hulk&lt;/a&gt; - x52&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ant-man&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ant-man&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ant-man&lt;/a&gt; - x52&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mass-effect&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mass-effect&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mass-effect&lt;/a&gt; - x50&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Total: 14901&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Probing&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; - x5471&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-explanation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-explanation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-explanation&lt;/a&gt; - x575&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt; - x227&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; - x176&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot&lt;/a&gt; - x139&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/languages&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;languages&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;languages&lt;/a&gt; - x136&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/canon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;canon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;canon&lt;/a&gt; - x135&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character-identification&lt;/a&gt; - x111&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/names&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;names&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;names&lt;/a&gt; - x105&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-inconsistency&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-inconsistency&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-inconsistency&lt;/a&gt; - x104&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/characters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;characters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;characters&lt;/a&gt; - x78&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/origins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;origins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;origins&lt;/a&gt; - x71&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-vs-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-vs-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-vs-movie&lt;/a&gt; - x66&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/continuity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;continuity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;continuity&lt;/a&gt; - x60&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history&lt;/a&gt; - x58&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/episode-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;episode-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;episode-identification&lt;/a&gt; - x58&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character-motivation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character-motivation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character-motivation&lt;/a&gt; - x55&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/timeline&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;timeline&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;timeline&lt;/a&gt; - x53&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/behind-the-scenes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;behind-the-scenes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;behind-the-scenes&lt;/a&gt; - x51&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Total: 7729&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Media&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; - x1105&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt; - x938&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; - x632&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt; - x590&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; - x526&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt; - x410&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt; - x191&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/anime&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;anime&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;anime&lt;/a&gt; - x109&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Total: 4501&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Series&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tng&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tng&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tng&lt;/a&gt; - x854&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt; - x613&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt; - x589&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-ds9&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-ds9&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-ds9&lt;/a&gt; - x346&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-voyager&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-voyager&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-voyager&lt;/a&gt; - x298&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tos&lt;/a&gt; - x224&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/futurama&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;futurama&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;futurama&lt;/a&gt; - x204&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stargate-sg1&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-sg1&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-sg1&lt;/a&gt; - x149&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/battlestar-galactica-2004&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;battlestar-galactica-2004&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;battlestar-galactica-2004&lt;/a&gt; - x123&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avatar-the-last-airbender&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avatar-the-last-airbender&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avatar-the-last-airbender&lt;/a&gt; - x112&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-legend-of-korra&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-legend-of-korra&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-legend-of-korra&lt;/a&gt; - x110&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fringe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fringe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fringe&lt;/a&gt; - x105&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/supernatural&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;supernatural&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;supernatural&lt;/a&gt; - x101&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-enterprise&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-enterprise&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-enterprise&lt;/a&gt; - x93&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/agents-of-shield&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;agents-of-shield&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;agents-of-shield&lt;/a&gt; - x86&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-clone-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-clone-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-clone-wars&lt;/a&gt; - x81&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/babylon-5&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;babylon-5&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;babylon-5&lt;/a&gt; - x68&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-flash-2014&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-flash-2014&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-flash-2014&lt;/a&gt; - x62&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-terminator-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-terminator-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-terminator-series&lt;/a&gt; - x50&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Total: 4268&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Topic&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aliens&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aliens&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aliens&lt;/a&gt; - x538&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time-travel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time-travel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time-travel&lt;/a&gt; - x509&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magic&lt;/a&gt; - x316&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spaceship&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;spaceship&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;spaceship&lt;/a&gt; - x264&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/technology&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;technology&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;technology&lt;/a&gt; - x189&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/robots&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;robots&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;robots&lt;/a&gt; - x171&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/space&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;space&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;space&lt;/a&gt; - x167&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/weapon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;weapon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;weapon&lt;/a&gt; - x115&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vampire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vampire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vampire&lt;/a&gt; - x113&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/elves&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;elves&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;elves&lt;/a&gt; - x109&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/zombie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;zombie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;zombie&lt;/a&gt; - x106&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magical-theory&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magical-theory&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magical-theory&lt;/a&gt; - x102&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spells&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;spells&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;spells&lt;/a&gt; - x95&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science&lt;/a&gt; - x87&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dragons&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dragons&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dragons&lt;/a&gt; - x82&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artificial-intelligence&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;artificial-intelligence&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;artificial-intelligence&lt;/a&gt; - x82&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/space-exploration&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;space-exploration&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;space-exploration&lt;/a&gt; - x77&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magical-creatures&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magical-creatures&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magical-creatures&lt;/a&gt; - x76&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/powers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;powers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;powers&lt;/a&gt; - x75&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/religion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;religion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;religion&lt;/a&gt; - x71&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dystopia&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dystopia&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dystopia&lt;/a&gt; - x64&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/physics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;physics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;physics&lt;/a&gt; - x64&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/super-hero&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;super-hero&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;super-hero&lt;/a&gt; - x59&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/warfare&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;warfare&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;warfare&lt;/a&gt; - x59&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/clones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;clones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;clones&lt;/a&gt; - x58&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time&lt;/a&gt; - x57&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/computers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;computers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;computers&lt;/a&gt; - x56&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/death&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;death&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;death&lt;/a&gt; - x56&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ftl-drive&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ftl-drive&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ftl-drive&lt;/a&gt; - x54&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magical-items&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magical-items&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magical-items&lt;/a&gt; - x53&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alien-invasion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alien-invasion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alien-invasion&lt;/a&gt; - x53&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/animals&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;animals&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;animals&lt;/a&gt; - x51&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/biology&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;biology&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;biology&lt;/a&gt; - x50&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dwarves&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dwarves&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dwarves&lt;/a&gt; - x50&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Total: 4128&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Work-specific&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/middle-earth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;middle-earth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;middle-earth&lt;/a&gt; - x279&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/voldemort&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;voldemort&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;voldemort&lt;/a&gt; - x246&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jedi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jedi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jedi&lt;/a&gt; - x169&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/borg&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;borg&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;borg&lt;/a&gt; - x138&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/horcrux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;horcrux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;horcrux&lt;/a&gt; - x134&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sith&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sith&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sith&lt;/a&gt; - x127&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-force&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-force&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-force&lt;/a&gt; - x125&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-one-ring&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-one-ring&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-one-ring&lt;/a&gt; - x107&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-data&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-data&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-data&lt;/a&gt; - x103&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hogwarts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hogwarts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hogwarts&lt;/a&gt; - x103&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sauron&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sauron&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sauron&lt;/a&gt; - x98&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/albus-dumbledore&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;albus-dumbledore&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;albus-dumbledore&lt;/a&gt; - x95&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gandalf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gandalf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gandalf&lt;/a&gt; - x91&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/darth-vader&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;darth-vader&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;darth-vader&lt;/a&gt; - x90&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lightsaber&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lightsaber&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lightsaber&lt;/a&gt; - x84&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rings-of-power&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rings-of-power&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rings-of-power&lt;/a&gt; - x83&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/klingon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;klingon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;klingon&lt;/a&gt; - x75&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/droids&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;droids&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;droids&lt;/a&gt; - x71&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wandlore&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wandlore&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wandlore&lt;/a&gt; - x68&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tardis&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tardis&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tardis&lt;/a&gt; - x58&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/severus-snape&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;severus-snape&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;severus-snape&lt;/a&gt; - x57&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/luke-skywalker&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;luke-skywalker&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;luke-skywalker&lt;/a&gt; - x54&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vulcan&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vulcan&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vulcan&lt;/a&gt; - x53&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-q&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-q&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-q&lt;/a&gt; - x53&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/warp&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;warp&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;warp&lt;/a&gt; - x53&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/skynet&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;skynet&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;skynet&lt;/a&gt; - x51&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Total: 2665&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Publisher&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-comics&lt;/a&gt; - x858&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-comics&lt;/a&gt; - x505&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Total: 1363&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Author&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt; - x728&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/george-r-r-martin&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;george-r-r-martin&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;george-r-r-martin&lt;/a&gt; - x233&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/isaac-asimov&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;isaac-asimov&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;isaac-asimov&lt;/a&gt; - x112&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/orson-scott-card&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;orson-scott-card&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;orson-scott-card&lt;/a&gt; - x73&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/robert-a-heinlein&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;robert-a-heinlein&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;robert-a-heinlein&lt;/a&gt; - x65&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Total: 1211&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Work&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/silmarillion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;silmarillion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;silmarillion&lt;/a&gt; - x230&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-force-awakens&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-force-awakens&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-force-awakens&lt;/a&gt; - x220&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/age-of-ultron&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;age-of-ultron&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;age-of-ultron&lt;/a&gt; - x122&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/enders-game&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;enders-game&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;enders-game&lt;/a&gt; - x107&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/interstellar&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;interstellar&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;interstellar&lt;/a&gt; - x85&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminator2-judgement-day&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminator2-judgement-day&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminator2-judgement-day&lt;/a&gt; - x62&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-new-hope&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-new-hope&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-new-hope&lt;/a&gt; - x61&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men-days-of-future-past&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men-days-of-future-past&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men-days-of-future-past&lt;/a&gt; - x56&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/prometheus&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;prometheus&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;prometheus&lt;/a&gt; - x55&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/phantom-menace&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;phantom-menace&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;phantom-menace&lt;/a&gt; - x54&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dark-knight-rises&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dark-knight-rises&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dark-knight-rises&lt;/a&gt; - x51&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Total: 1103&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Genre&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/young-adult&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;young-adult&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;young-adult&lt;/a&gt; - x225&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/horror&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;horror&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;horror&lt;/a&gt; - x165&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/childrens-novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;childrens-novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;childrens-novel&lt;/a&gt; - x106&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/post-apocalyptic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;post-apocalyptic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;post-apocalyptic&lt;/a&gt; - x99&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cartoon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cartoon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cartoon&lt;/a&gt; - x96&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction-genre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science-fiction-genre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science-fiction-genre&lt;/a&gt; - x95&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hard-sci-fi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hard-sci-fi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hard-sci-fi&lt;/a&gt; - x89&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantasy-genre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantasy-genre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantasy-genre&lt;/a&gt; - x85&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/80s&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;80s&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;80s&lt;/a&gt; - x75&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/soft-sci-fi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;soft-sci-fi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;soft-sci-fi&lt;/a&gt; - x56&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Total: 1091&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Top Tags&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an analysis of the the top 16 tags, and the top 9 tags used  with each of those tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I couldn't figure out how to build a single query to do this for me, but I &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/419412/top-9-tags-used-alongside-given-tag-id&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;made one&lt;/a&gt; that gave me the top 9 tags used  with each tag. (I meant to do top 10, but forget to update it before I did all my Excel work. The 1st result in the query is always the tag in question.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, I ran that query for each of the top 16 tags. I chose the top 16 because they fit nicely in one Excel window for me, originally. Also, a few of them are closely related to one another, so I wanted more variety than just the top 10.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify, this list is the top tags, by count, used in questions also tagged  with the given tag, which happens to be from the top 16 tags used on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The % given in each bullet is the amount given divided by the parent tag total. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;with 5496 questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt; x907, 16.5%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; x454, 8.3%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; x427, 7.8%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aliens&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aliens&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aliens&lt;/a&gt; x417, 7.6%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; x402, 7.3%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time-travel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time-travel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time-travel&lt;/a&gt; x240, 4.4%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/young-adult&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;young-adult&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;young-adult&lt;/a&gt; x218, 4.0%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt; x200, 3.6%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spaceship&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;spaceship&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;spaceship&lt;/a&gt; x161, 2.9%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I expected the Genre &amp;amp; Media tags to be in the top 9, here. The Topic tags can be compared to my other post to see that each of their top tags is actually &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;with 2809 questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/voldemort&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;voldemort&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;voldemort&lt;/a&gt; x247, 8.8%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/horcrux&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;horcrux&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;horcrux&lt;/a&gt; x135, 4.8%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magic&lt;/a&gt; x122, 4.3%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hogwarts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hogwarts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hogwarts&lt;/a&gt; x101, 3.6%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/albus-dumbledore&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;albus-dumbledore&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;albus-dumbledore&lt;/a&gt; x97, 3.5%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spells&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;spells&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;spells&lt;/a&gt; x91, 3.2%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magical-theory&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magical-theory&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magical-theory&lt;/a&gt; x85, 3.0%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wandlore&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wandlore&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wandlore&lt;/a&gt; x67, 2.4%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/severus-snape&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;severus-snape&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;severus-snape&lt;/a&gt; x58, 2.1%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;with 2504 questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-force-awakens&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-force-awakens&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-force-awakens&lt;/a&gt; x307, 12.3%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-legends&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-legends&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-legends&lt;/a&gt; x172, 6.9%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jedi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jedi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jedi&lt;/a&gt; x168, 6.7%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-force&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-force&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-force&lt;/a&gt; x128, 5.1%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sith&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sith&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sith&lt;/a&gt; x127, 5.1%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/darth-vader&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;darth-vader&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;darth-vader&lt;/a&gt; x93, 3.7%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lightsaber&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lightsaber&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lightsaber&lt;/a&gt; x82, 3.3%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-clone-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-clone-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-clone-wars&lt;/a&gt; x81, 3.2%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/droids&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;droids&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;droids&lt;/a&gt; x74, 3.0%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As pointed out before, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jedi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jedi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jedi&lt;/a&gt; isn't used in every question with the word &quot;Jedi&quot; in it, so if that inconsistency can be ironed out we'd likely see some different numbers there. I expect the same thing can be found with similar tags for both &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt;, and our other most popular franchises. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;with 2201 questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tng&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tng&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tng&lt;/a&gt; x617, 28.0%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-ds9&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-ds9&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-ds9&lt;/a&gt; x271, 12.3%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-voyager&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-voyager&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-voyager&lt;/a&gt; x220, 10.0%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tos&lt;/a&gt; x195, 8.9%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/borg&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;borg&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;borg&lt;/a&gt; x117, 5.3%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-enterprise&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-enterprise&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-enterprise&lt;/a&gt; x79, 3.6%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-data&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-data&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-data&lt;/a&gt; x65, 3.0%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/klingon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;klingon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;klingon&lt;/a&gt; x64, 2.9%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-2009&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-2009&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-2009&lt;/a&gt; x55, 2.5%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The top tag here, about &lt;em&gt;The Next Generation&lt;/em&gt;, is actually one of the top tags on its own. There's significant overlap here, but it's not complete. Clarity might be needed for how we use sub-tags and other &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4860/how-should-we-handle-tag-hierarchies&quot;&gt;tag hierarchies&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;with 1386 questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt; x476, 34.3%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-hobbit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-hobbit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-hobbit&lt;/a&gt; x210, 15.2%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/middle-earth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;middle-earth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;middle-earth&lt;/a&gt; x197, 14.2%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-one-ring&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-one-ring&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-one-ring&lt;/a&gt; x102, 7.4%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/silmarillion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;silmarillion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;silmarillion&lt;/a&gt; x99, 7.1%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sauron&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sauron&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sauron&lt;/a&gt; x84, 6.1%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rings-of-power&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rings-of-power&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rings-of-power&lt;/a&gt; x83, 6.0%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gandalf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gandalf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gandalf&lt;/a&gt; x83, 6.0%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/elves&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;elves&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;elves&lt;/a&gt; x69, 5.0%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The top tag here, again, is one of the top tags on its own, being about J RR Tolkien. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/middle-earth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;middle-earth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;middle-earth&lt;/a&gt; is one of the only geographic tags (for example, there's no &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/westeros&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;westeros&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;westeros&lt;/a&gt;). And, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/elves&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;elves&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;elves&lt;/a&gt; here represent 63.9% of all questions with that tag (108).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;with 1106 questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; x402, 36.3%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aliens&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aliens&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aliens&lt;/a&gt; x55, 5.0%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt; x51, 4.6%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers&lt;/a&gt; x48, 4.3%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt; x39, 3.5%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-comics&lt;/a&gt; x37, 3.3%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/horror&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;horror&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;horror&lt;/a&gt; x34, 3.1%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt; x34, 3.1%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; x33, 3.0%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt; should not be on this list. Tagging MCU questions as movies is redundant, at least as it's being used. There could be an argument for TV shows being part of the MCU, but the movies tag isn't really used to differentiate between the movie MCU and the TV MCU, so the argument is currently moot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doctor-who&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;doctor-who&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;doctor-who&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;with 947 questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tardis&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tardis&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tardis&lt;/a&gt; x59, 6.2%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/timelord&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;timelord&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;timelord&lt;/a&gt; x42, 4.4%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time-travel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time-travel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time-travel&lt;/a&gt; x32, 3.4%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dalek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dalek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dalek&lt;/a&gt; x28, 3.0%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-explanation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-explanation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-explanation&lt;/a&gt; x28, 3.0%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/day-of-the-doctor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;day-of-the-doctor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;day-of-the-doctor&lt;/a&gt; x25, 2.6%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/weeping-angels&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;weeping-angels&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;weeping-angels&lt;/a&gt; x25, 2.6%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/regeneration&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;regeneration&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;regeneration&lt;/a&gt; x20, 2.1%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/river-song&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;river-song&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;river-song&lt;/a&gt; x18, 1.9%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interesting, to me, is that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-day-of-the-doctor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-day-of-the-doctor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-day-of-the-doctor&lt;/a&gt; is essentially just a single episode of a season of a series. It was broadcast separately, and sold that way, because of how the show is produced and marketed. I'm not sure any other popular shows have so many questions about special episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;with 940 questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; x907, 96.5%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aliens&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aliens&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aliens&lt;/a&gt; x96, 10.2%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time-travel&quot; 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class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt; x214, 24.8%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt; x170, 19.7%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men&lt;/a&gt; x165, 19.1%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers&lt;/a&gt; x116, 13.5%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/thor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;thor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;thor&lt;/a&gt; x68, 7.9%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spider-man&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;spider-man&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;spider-man&lt;/a&gt; x61, 7.1%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wolverine&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wolverine&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wolverine&lt;/a&gt; x57, 6.6%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-hulk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-hulk&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-hulk&lt;/a&gt; x51, 5.9%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-comics&lt;/a&gt; x44, 5.1%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The high number of Marvel Comics questions also tagged as &lt;em&gt;comics&lt;/em&gt; seems to be used to specify Marvel property limited to comics only, which makes sense. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt; is actually a synonym, and it looks less redundant if you think of it that way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tng&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tng&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tng&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;with 856 questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; 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class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt; question has at least one more tag, which means we may need re-evaluate how author tags are used. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1827/what-is-the-policy-for-author-series-universe-work-tags&quot;&gt;What is the policy for author, series/universe/work tags?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;and&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/412/general-tagging-practices&quot;&gt;General tagging practices&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;and&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4860/how-should-we-handle-tag-hierarchies&quot;&gt;How should we handle tag hierarchies?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;have different ideas about tagging authors, given at different points in time. I'm not sure what the &quot;proper&quot; use is, but we've been pretty liberal with our most popular author tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;12&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;with 635 questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; x454, 71.5%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aliens&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aliens&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aliens&lt;/a&gt; x37, 5.8%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; x34, 5.4%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/young-adult&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;young-adult&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;young-adult&lt;/a&gt; x32, 5.0%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt; x26, 4.1%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt; x24, 3.8%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magic&lt;/a&gt; x18, 2.8%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time-travel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time-travel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time-travel&lt;/a&gt; x16, 2.5%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt; x15, 2.4%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag is &lt;em&gt;supposed&lt;/em&gt; to be for specific the book version of a work that's also a movie. So I'm not sure what &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt; is doing on this list. Checking out those dual-tagged questions seems like there's been incorrect tagging, in some way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even without this tag's definition, it's easy to see that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; shouldn't be on this list. That's redundant, no matter what.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag is often used just as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; is, especially with tags also used by Probing questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think people primarily use this tag as a straight-up synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt;, so based on it's usage we may want to decide whether how people are using the two actually reflect what was discussed previously:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/62/tags-novel-or-book&quot;&gt;Tags: Novel or Book?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;13&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; 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x49, 7.8%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/guardians-of-the-galaxy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;guardians-of-the-galaxy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;guardians-of-the-galaxy&lt;/a&gt; x49, 7.8%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/captain-america&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;captain-america&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;captain-america&lt;/a&gt; x47, 7.5%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;with 613 questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt; x438, 71.5%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/george-r-r-martin&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;george-r-r-martin&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;george-r-r-martin&lt;/a&gt; x166, 27.1%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-explanation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-explanation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-explanation&lt;/a&gt; x18, 2.9%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt; x12, 2.0%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dragons&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dragons&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dragons&lt;/a&gt; x11, 1.8%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-storm-of-swords&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-storm-of-swords&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-storm-of-swords&lt;/a&gt; x9, 1.5%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; x5, 0.8%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/languages&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;languages&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;languages&lt;/a&gt; x4, 0.7%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/literary-analysis&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;literary-analysis&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;literary-analysis&lt;/a&gt; x3, 0.5%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't watch the show, but I know that &lt;em&gt;GoT&lt;/em&gt; is the HBO-show, based on the book series &lt;em&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/em&gt;. Knowing that, tagging it as TV seems redundant. Literary analysis should be done for the novels, not the TV show, and then I'm not sure if the book questions actually belong. We made need some tag cleanup there, because of user confusion between the two named franchises.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag is a good example of how questions about the TV/movie version of a franchise are clearly different that the written versions. However, most of our other major franchises, if not all of them, don't have a separate tag. For instance, there's no &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter-wb&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter-wb&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter-wb&lt;/a&gt; to separate it from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter-books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter-books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter-books&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;But&lt;/em&gt;, with certain works we are quick to create modified tags of the work name, to separate it from other parts of the franchise. A clear example exists with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-2009&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-2009&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-2009&lt;/a&gt;, which not only includes the new &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; title movie, but also &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: Into Darkness&lt;/em&gt; and presumably the upcoming &lt;em&gt;Star Trek Beyond&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;15&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;with 592 questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-comics&lt;/a&gt; x214, 36.1%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-comics&lt;/a&gt; x100, 16.9%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men&lt;/a&gt; x81, 13.7%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; x73, 12.3%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/superman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;superman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;superman&lt;/a&gt; x47, 7.9%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers&lt;/a&gt; x39, 6.6%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;batman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;batman&lt;/a&gt; x36, 6.1%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt; x25, 4.2%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spider-man&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;spider-man&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;spider-man&lt;/a&gt; x24, 4.1%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over half the questions here use the Publisher tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;16&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;with 590 questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt; x438, 74.2%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/george-r-r-martin&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;george-r-r-martin&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;george-r-r-martin&lt;/a&gt; x215, 36.4%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-explanation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-explanation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-explanation&lt;/a&gt; x14, 2.4%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-storm-of-swords&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-storm-of-swords&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-storm-of-swords&lt;/a&gt; x12, 2.0%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dragons&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dragons&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dragons&lt;/a&gt; x10, 1.7%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; x7, 1.2%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt; x6, 1.0%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot&lt;/a&gt; x5, 0.8%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/religion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;religion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;religion&lt;/a&gt; x5, 0.8%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And now the book version of this franchise. It is tagged with books, which seems redundant, and TV, which seems incorrect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-01-05T17:15:41.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7883" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7885" CreationDate="2016-01-05T11:04:18.557" Score="12" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/2001&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;2001&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;2001&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;2001-container&quot;&gt;2001&lt;/a&gt; for questions related to Stanley Kubrick's movie &lt;em&gt;2001: A Space Odyssey&lt;/em&gt;, used on 20 questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose we rename the tag to the full name of the movie — &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/2001-a-space-odyssey&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;2001-a-space-odyssey&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;2001-a-space-odyssey&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;2001-a-space-odyssey-container&quot;&gt;2001-a-space-odyssey&lt;/a&gt; — since that is much clearer and make &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/2001&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;2001&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;2001&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;2001-container&quot;&gt;2001&lt;/a&gt; a synonym.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie and the book share the exact same title (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2485&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ISFDb&lt;/a&gt; entries). This is not the case with the sequel, which is called &lt;em&gt;2010: Odyssey Two&lt;/em&gt; for the book and &lt;em&gt;2010&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;2010: The Year We Make Contact&lt;/em&gt; for the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas if and how to rename the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/2010&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;2010&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;2010&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;2010-container&quot;&gt;2010&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/2001&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;2001&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;2001&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;2001-container&quot;&gt;2001&lt;/a&gt; is done. I'll wait a while before doing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/2010&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;2010&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;2010&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;2010-container&quot;&gt;2010&lt;/a&gt; and any other related tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Do we need a tag for the franchise?&lt;/em&gt;*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/2010&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;2010&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;2010&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;2010-container&quot;&gt;2010&lt;/a&gt; is done. I've also created a tag for &lt;em&gt;3001&lt;/em&gt;, so we now have&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/2001-a-space-odyssey&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;2001-a-space-odyssey&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;2001-a-space-odyssey&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;2001-a-space-odyssey-container&quot;&gt;2001-a-space-odyssey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/2010-odyssey-two&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;2010-odyssey-two&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;2010-odyssey-two&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;2010-odyssey-two-container&quot;&gt;2010-odyssey-two&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;no tag for &lt;em&gt;2061&lt;/em&gt; since &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=2061+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;I've found no questions about it&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/3001-the-final-odyssey&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;3001-the-final-odyssey&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;3001-the-final-odyssey&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;3001-the-final-odyssey-container&quot;&gt;3001-the-final-odyssey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/2001-a-space-odyssey&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;2001-a-space-odyssey&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;2001-a-space-odyssey&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;2001-a-space-odyssey-container&quot;&gt;2001-a-space-odyssey&lt;/a&gt; for questions about the franchise should suffice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Done&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2023-01-29T13:54:16.550" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T15:42:52.487" Title="Should we rename the tag [2001] to [2001-a-space-odyssey]?" 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  <row Id="7884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7871" CreationDate="2016-01-05T15:35:15.543" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Untag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/death&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;death&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;death&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Score: -6&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Impact: 57 questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag wiki notes that the term can refer to either the end of life of a subject, or the personified entity of death, so there's no clear correct usage of the tag to begin with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2016-01-06T21:16:24.077" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T21:16:24.077" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7883" CreationDate="2016-01-05T16:44:21.657" Score="10" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, we should rename &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/2001&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;2001&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;2001&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/2001-a-space-odyssey&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;2001-a-space-odyssey&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;2001-a-space-odyssey&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The proposed tag is more expressive and unambiguous. (You couldn't, for example, mistake it for a year tag.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We should rename &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/2010&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;2010&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;2010&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/2010-odyssey-two&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;2010-odyssey-two&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;2010-odyssey-two&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's very little to choose between the book or the film title. I'm inclined to lean towards the book for a few small reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The film is based on the book, not the other way around. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia entry&lt;/a&gt; for the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is a sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film &lt;em&gt;2001: A Space Odyssey&lt;/em&gt;, and is based on Arthur C. Clarke's novel &lt;em&gt;2010: Odyssey Two&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The book titles (&lt;em&gt;2001: A Space Odyssey&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;2010: Odyssey Two&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;2061: Odyssey Three&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;3001: The Final Odyssey&lt;/em&gt;) are clearly part of a common series, in a way that's less obvious from the film titles.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the mechanics, I think we should just edit the tags by hand (assuming we don't fall afoul of the &quot;this tag is too similar to an existing tag&quot; checks). Editing 24 questions can be done quite quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once we have the longer tags, anybody attempting to use the short version will have the longer version suggested. The benefits of a tag synonym are minimal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastActivityDate="2016-01-05T16:44:21.657" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7886" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-05T17:41:30.777" Score="9" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm inclined to think so after looking at the answers to this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/112783/how-did-leia-become-aware-of-this&quot;&gt;How could Leia sense a specific death among so many?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read, hover, read, hover, read, hover...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do we really need spoiler protection on &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; to questions?&lt;/strong&gt;  If the question title is sufficiently vague, and the question itself uses spoiler tags, and nonetheless someone is clicking on the question to read it, can we safely assume at that point that they want to see the answers and we don't need to protect them from spoilers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1498" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2016-01-05T19:09:25.720" Title="Have spoiler tags gone too far?" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7886" CreationDate="2016-01-05T19:09:25.720" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Off the top of my head, I can think of a few reasons we want spoiler markup in answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Review queues.&lt;/strong&gt; Because you can't exclude tags from the queues, I got more than a few things spoiled for &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt; just because I spend a lot of time there. This is perhaps a weaker reason, because many of the queues focus on questions, and the ones that focus on answers overwhelmingly focus on new or bad answers (which are less likely to use spoiler markup in the first place), but still; if the rationale for hiding spoilers is courtesy (and it is), then even small courtesies are positive things.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mods.&lt;/strong&gt; So, I'm not a mod (obviously). I don't know how modding really works. But I'm fairly confident that mods still have to moderate on things they have not seen. Our intrepid mod team still has to keep an eye on unpleasantness in &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt; questions (and answers), even if they have not seen the film. Spoiler markup in answers is a (admittedly small, in he grand scheme) courtesy we can offer to them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ongoing series/franchises.&lt;/strong&gt; This is my biggest argument. I realize this question is motivated by the glut of &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt; questions, so this reason may not apply in the specific case, but it &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; in general. We have a lot of questions asking about ongoing franchises or series, and people don't always wait until they're fully caught up to ask their questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is also a problem with older works, mind; I know of at least two users (you know who you are), who asked questions about &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; books (a series that was completed sixty years ago) while in the middle of reading them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, consider &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/105649/how-did-john-winchester-escape-from-hell&quot;&gt;How did John Winchester escape from hell?&lt;/a&gt; (top-voted answer by me), a &lt;em&gt;Supernatural&lt;/em&gt; question. Although I couldn't be sure, the question strongly suggested to me that the asker hadn't watched past season 6, while the show is currently in its 11th season. Accordingly, I put some things in spoiler markup, because the OP may not have gotten far enough in the show to know those things. Should I not have done that, and changed the OP's viewing experience later on? I don't feel like I have that right.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, I do appreciate that some people don't care about spoilers (whether they've already consumed the media being spoiled, or if they just don't care at all), and for them reading something like the linked question (and its answers) can be frustrating. I get that. But I think there are better solutions than blanket-banning spoiler markup in answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A global &quot;disable spoilers&quot; button.&lt;/strong&gt; This would be a network-wide change, have to be requested on Meta.SE, and may not be accepted (I haven't done the research to see if it's been done already), but something like that TVTropes has: a button on each page saying &quot;I don't care about spoilers; make everything visible to me&quot; would handily resolve this problem. People who care about spoilers have them, people who don't do not.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Better use of spoiler markup.&lt;/strong&gt; One thing I try to do (not always successfully) is try to make reading the spoiler markup an optional experience. If you're familiar with the work, you &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be able to glean enough detail from the surrounding (unspoilerified) context to have an idea what the spoilered content is going to say. This admittedly doesn't work for people who haven't seen a work and don't care about spoilers anyway, but I'm open to suggestions on that front.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contrariwise, we could try to condense use of spoilers into a few larger blocks, rather than having spoilerified sentence fragments peppered throughout. This has its own problems, notably that for some answers necessarily have so many spoilers that the answer becomes less useful for being almost-entirely spoilered. But it would reduce the amount of mouse movements, which is something.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2016-01-05T19:09:25.720" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7888" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-05T21:03:11.337" Score="11" ViewCount="466" Body="&lt;p&gt;To turn &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7886/have-spoiler-tags-gone-too-far&quot;&gt;this frustration&lt;/a&gt; into something concrete, I have a suggestion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Could we have a &quot;Make Spoilers Visible&quot; button or checkbox?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be &lt;strong&gt;per tag&lt;/strong&gt;, so I could elect to show spoilers for things I've seen and keep them hidden (the default) for things I haven't seen.  This would improve the readability of questions and answers with a plethora of spoilers, such as the one linked above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1498" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2016-11-04T02:33:48.817" Title="Can we have a per-tag &quot;Make Spoilers Visible&quot; button?" Tags="|feature-request|spoilers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7889" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-06T10:28:41.800" Score="13" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was browsing the front page when I came across this question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/113667/why-does-chewbacca-s-bowcaster-fire-red-projectiles&quot;&gt;Why does Chewbacca’s bowcaster fire red projectiles?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was tempted to answer it, but I found that it had been closed by a moderator as a duplicate of &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/111723/22898&quot;&gt;Why was Han Solo acting like he’s never seen Chewbacca’s bowcaster before?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was quite surprised to see that less than a few hours later, the question had been re-opened, and then promptly answered &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;by the same moderator who originally closed it&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this appropriate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T15:03:25.810" Title="Is it appropriate for a Moderator to close a question, then answer it when it gets reopened?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7889" CreationDate="2016-01-06T11:59:59.537" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thaddeus closed the question as a duplicate, I'd assume believing - on the face of it - that it &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; a duplicate. However, the community disagreed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Post Reopened by SS-3, Jason Baker, Null, Mike Edenfield, phantom42&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that Thaddeus wasn't (directly) involved in the process of re-opening the question. Since five trusted members of the community decided the question deserved to stand on its own, and Thaddeus had an answer, he's perfectly allowed to post an answer. I see no malice or wrongdoing here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5833" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T11:59:59.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7889" CreationDate="2016-01-06T12:00:00.857" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/113667/timeline&quot;&gt;the timeline for the post&lt;/a&gt;, Thaddeus initially closed it as a dupe using his mod-hammer, but it was re-opened by five regular users, including myself, Mike, Null, Jason Baker, and SS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see no wrongdoing or abuse of powers here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr/&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Regarding the updated question,&lt;/strong&gt; I still see zero issue here. The question was determined, by proper channels, that the questions were indeed different. Additionally, the answer posted by Thaddeus was not a copy/paste job or matched answer from the other question (which would have made it a dupe). Once Thaddeus (or any other user) understands what the difference between the questions is, I see no reason why they shouldn't be allowed to answer the new question as they see fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr/&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Regarding the moral issue of answering a question you've previously voted to close,&lt;/strong&gt; so long as the user is not still arguing that it's a dupe/off-topic at the time of answering, I still see no issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People change their minds. Having previously thought an opposite way should in no way preclude a user from writing an answer at a later time. Even if they &lt;em&gt;haven't&lt;/em&gt; changed their minds, I still see no problem. This is what appears to have happened here. Thaddeus closed it, users explained why the closure was wrong, users voted it back open, and he answered it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the voting user was still obstinately arguing that the question was a dupe/off-topic, and wrote an answer anyways, I'd see where some users may be put off by their behavior, but if a user wants to write a useful answer, I see no reason why they shouldn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T15:03:25.810" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7889" CreationDate="2016-01-06T13:20:14.527" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer was originally closed by a moderator because the earlier question had an answer. However, after closing, a user pointed out in a comment that the earlier question's answer was &lt;em&gt;no longer canon&lt;/em&gt;, and the newer question wanted a canon answer. Thus, the earlier answer &lt;em&gt;didn't&lt;/em&gt; answer the newer question. So the question was nominated for reopening (I am one of the ones who voted to reopen).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once it got reopened, answering it was fair game by anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T13:20:14.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7893" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-06T14:51:22.973" Score="10" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;h2&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'm &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; proposing to burninate all media tags;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I'm just proposing to remove them from questions where they &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; don't belong.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Media tags in action&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3000/19561&quot;&gt;haven't reached a decision yet&lt;/a&gt; about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/293/19561&quot;&gt;what to do with the media tags&lt;/a&gt;. There are two main uses for them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; to specify what the OP is looking for (example: &amp;quot;I'm looking for a book I read as a kid&amp;quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To differentiate between works released in different media (ie: &amp;quot;I'm looking for an answer from the Harry Potter movies specifically&amp;quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'm not proposing to touch any of these uses.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I found there is a third and a fourth use that are both unnecessary and often redundant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Missing work tags&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about specific works that do not have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/this-work&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;this-work&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;this-work&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/5028/19561&quot;&gt;this question about &lt;em&gt;The Road&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; had only one tag: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt;. We do have a tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-road&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-road&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-road&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt;, but we didn't at the time, so the OP probably thougth &amp;quot;it's a novel, so I'll tag it &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/5028/3&quot;&gt;I edited it&lt;/a&gt; to have the proper tag, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-road&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-road&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-road&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose giving all questions like this their proper work and/or author tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Department of redundancy department&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions where the media tag is simply redundant, because it's used &lt;em&gt;together&lt;/em&gt; with specific tags for the work, author, series, franchise and so on, &lt;em&gt;without falling under use 2&lt;/em&gt; (differentiating between different media for the same work or franchise).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/650/19561&quot;&gt;this question about continuity between &lt;em&gt;Snow Crash&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Diamond Age&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; had, again, the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt;. They're both novels, so that's true, but there are no other media we might be confused with, there are no &amp;quot;novel-experts&amp;quot; that might be of any help, so &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/650/3&quot;&gt;I removed the tag from the question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Solution&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On questions that are tagged with a media tag in absence of a specific tag for that work, tag them with a tag for the specific work, for the series, for the author, or the franchise, preferably using tags already in existence, but creating them if needed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On questions that are tagged with a media tag in conjunction with a specific tag for that work, (or author, series, or franchise), simply remove the media tag &lt;em&gt;but only in those cases where the media tag is redundant&lt;/em&gt; (in other words, not falling under use 2).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Cleaning&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can either search for the lot of them in one go:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=is%3Aquestion+%28+%5Bmovie%5D+or+%5Bshort-stories%5D+or+%5Bbooks%5D+or+%5Bcomics%5D+or+%5Bnovel%5D+or+%5Btv%5D+or+%5Bvideo-games%5D+or+%5Banime%5D+%29+-%5Bstory-identification%5D&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;is:question ( [movie] or [short-stories] or [books] or [comics] or [novel] or [tv] or [video-games] or [anime] ) -[story-identification]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or one at a time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books+-story-identification&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[books] -[story-identification]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (171 questions)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie+-story-identification&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[movie] -[story-identification]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (691 questions)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel+-story-identification&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[novel] -[story-identification]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (97 questions)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/anime+-story-identification&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[anime] -[story-identification]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (53 questions)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and so on. Keep in mind that those numbers are the numbers of results returned by those searches, but, as not all those need to have their tags cleaned, those are not the numbers of edits to be made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, these will contain many false positives, since it's just a search for media tags not used in conjunction with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I plan to go through these, add work tags and author tags where needed, and remove media tags where unnecessary or even redundant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who's with me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also see the general tag clean-up effort called &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7761/19561&quot;&gt;Tag Wars&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-01-07T08:52:04.653" Title="Tag Wars: cleaning up redundant media tags" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7893" CreationDate="2016-01-06T16:11:47.117" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm against this for a couple of reasons &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1 - I fail to see how this would improve the site or its usability in any dramatic fashion. Yes, I can appreciate that it's annoying to have the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/650/what-is-the-connection-between-snow-crash-and-the-diamond-age&quot;&gt;the question you've highlighted&lt;/a&gt; but at the same time, I don't see how it actively harms the site either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2 - Without any idea of the sort of scale of what you're proposing, this could potentially swamp the front page with hundreds, potentially thousands of largely meaningless edits&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The pain seems to outweigh the benefit, especially since it's an open invitation for the 'tagging crew' to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7893/tag-wars-cleaning-up-redundant-media-tags/7894#comment22095_7893&quot;&gt;screw up the front page&lt;/a&gt; for an unknown period, potentially running into days or weeks.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T16:30:12.560" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7893" CreationDate="2016-01-06T18:02:17.930" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;After discussing the cleanup with those involved, looking at the results of our current tag usage, and looking at our previous discussions on tagging:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'm currently against this.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think before we start doing any sort of large scale retagging effort, we first must come up with a cohesive, consolidated tagging policy and &lt;em&gt;philosophy&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, we're looking at either continued confusion and misuse of tags or recurring/multiple &lt;em&gt;major&lt;/em&gt; clean-up events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think this clean-up or the others are bad ideas, but I think that the forward-planning for tags is more important than the immediate cleanup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once we have a &lt;em&gt;full&lt;/em&gt; game plan, we can do a single, massive retagging that makes all the changes at once. Many questions that may be subject to multiple retagging efforts can just be done a single time (I have reasons to suspect there could be many). Synonyms can be made, or tags renamed by mods, which will also eliminate some work. The least disruptive approach to this is waterfall, not iterative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T18:02:17.930" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7896" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-06T20:34:49.673" Score="19" ViewCount="393" Body="&lt;p&gt;Below are links to the various elements of the tag cleanup event.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7761/2816&quot;&gt;Initial Proposal&lt;/a&gt; - Motivation and goals.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7871/2816&quot;&gt;Target Tag Nominations Round One&lt;/a&gt; - Round one tag selection &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7952/2816&quot;&gt;completed 1/15/2016&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7919/tag-cleanup-2016-before-the-burnination&quot;&gt;Tag Cleanup Round One&lt;/a&gt; - Cleanup efforts for round one tags &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7952/2816&quot;&gt;completed 1/15/2016&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some tag discussions are large enough to justify separate meta discussions before being rolled into the cleanup even; these are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7893/2816&quot;&gt;Media Tags&lt;/a&gt; - Discussing use of media tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7901/actors-cast-and-casting&quot;&gt;Actor/Cast Tags&lt;/a&gt; - Discussion of these tags. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;cleanup is completed&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7923/what-is-the-correct-usage-of-individual-works-tags-vs-author-tags-vs-franchise&quot;&gt;Work/Franchise/Author Tags&lt;/a&gt; - Discussion of when and how to use these types of tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.730" LastActivityDate="2016-02-23T12:57:52.090" Title="Tag Wars: The Science Fiction/Fantasy Tag Cleanup Event" Tags="|discussion|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7888" CreationDate="2016-01-06T21:36:16.910" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;While not exactly what you're looking for, I took some time this afternoon to create &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/q/7109/37723&quot;&gt;a UserScript&lt;/a&gt; that will allow you to toggle spoilers on a per-&lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; basis. It creates a checkbox in the question info block in the sidebar that will toggle spoilerification:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rTvX1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rTvX1.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no caching involved, so you'll have to manually tick the box each time you visit the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's what it looks like on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/112783/how-could-leia-sense-a-specific-death-among-so-many&quot;&gt;How could Leia sense a specific death among so many?&lt;/a&gt; (images are thumbnails, because the whole screen is rather long; click for the full image):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Before:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uwMDX.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uwMDXs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;After:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kMKMz.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kMKMzs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The script was created and tested in TamperMonkey and Chrome 47 on Windows 10, but it should work on Firefox with Greasemonkey. Don't know what to do if you're using any other browsers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can find the code &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/jwbaker/stackexchange-toggle-spoilers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;on GitHub&lt;/a&gt;, or (if you already have Greasemonkey or Tampermonkey installed) you can install the script with this handy link: &lt;kbd&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/jwbaker/stackexchange-toggle-spoilers/raw/master/script.user.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Install&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you run into any problems with this script, leave a comment here or open &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/jwbaker/stackexchange-toggle-spoilers/issues&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;an issue&lt;/a&gt; or pull request on GitHub.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2016-11-04T02:33:48.817" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7898" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7899" CreationDate="2016-01-06T23:06:59.183" Score="1" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the actual URL for the site is scifi.stackexchange.com I would abreviate it to SF.SE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;S&lt;/strong&gt; for Sci&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;F&lt;/strong&gt; for fi&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;S&lt;/strong&gt; for stack&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;E&lt;/strong&gt; for exchange.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;scifi.stackexchange -&amp;gt; &lt;strong&gt;S&lt;/strong&gt;ci&lt;strong&gt;F&lt;/strong&gt;i.&lt;strong&gt;S&lt;/strong&gt;tack&lt;strong&gt;E&lt;/strong&gt;xchange -&amp;gt; SF.SE&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I see others abreviate it as SFF.SE instead. I assume they are drawing upon the site's name &amp;quot;Science Fiction and Fantasy&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/htqyx.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/htqyx.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally think it's confusing to have people use two different abreviations for the same site, so which is it, SF.SE or SFF.SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My vote:&lt;/strong&gt; I think SF.SE works for &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; because it can either mean&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;strong&gt;S&lt;/strong&gt; for Sci&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;strong&gt;F&lt;/strong&gt; for fi&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;strong&gt;S&lt;/strong&gt; for stack&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;strong&gt;E&lt;/strong&gt; for exchange&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Or, if you're going off the full site name, it can mean&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;strong&gt;S&lt;/strong&gt; for sci-fi&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;strong&gt;F&lt;/strong&gt; for &lt;strong&gt;fantasy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;strong&gt;S&lt;/strong&gt; for stack&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;strong&gt;E&lt;/strong&gt; for exchange.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54827" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-01-07T23:19:22.960" Title="Is it SF.SE or SFF.SE?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7898" CreationDate="2016-01-06T23:11:23.000" Score="14" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Which acronym do we use?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although our URL is &lt;code&gt;scifi.stackexchange&lt;/code&gt;, which would suggest SF as an abbreviation, the community tends towards SFF, largely to avoid a name collision with &lt;a href=&quot;https://serverfault.com/&quot;&gt;ServerFault&lt;/a&gt;. It's pretty rare to see &quot;SF.SE&quot; used to refer to this site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Searching Meta, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22SF.SE%22&quot;&gt;SF.SE is only used in 9 posts&lt;/a&gt; (three of which are this question and its two answers). According to SEDE, &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/revision/420547/536338/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SF.SE is only used in 5 comments&lt;/a&gt; on the main site, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/meta.scifi/query/420547&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;7 comments&lt;/a&gt; on Meta&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On the other hand, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22SFF.SE%22&quot;&gt;SFF.SE&lt;/a&gt; shows up in 66 Meta posts (again, three of which are on this page). Going to SEDE for comments, &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/420550&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;SFF.SE&quot; appears in 139 comments&lt;/a&gt; on the main site and &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/meta.scifi/query/420550&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;34 comments&lt;/a&gt; on Meta&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the acknowledgement that SEDE is about five days out-of-date at time of writing, the community seems to overwhelmingly prefer SFF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Wait, but ServerFault isn't an SE site&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been pointed out in comments (by Ward and Catja, so hat-tip to them) that, strictly speaking, ServerFault's acronym should be (and, indeed, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/40353/stack-exchange-glossary-dictionary-of-commonly-used-terms&quot;&gt;is&lt;/a&gt;) just SF, without the &quot;.SE&quot; suffix; the reason is because SF is so old that it has its own domain, rather than being a subdomain of &lt;code&gt;stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt;: &lt;code&gt;serverfault.com&lt;/code&gt; takes you to SF, but &lt;code&gt;serverfault.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; takes you to a 404 page. In principle, then, &quot;SF&quot; and &quot;SF.SE&quot; shouldn't be an issue; one unambiguously refers to them, and the other to us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem I have with this is that it's true from a technical perspective, but not from a user experience perspective. For the vast majority of users, I believe it would be more confusing to have two very similar acronyms referring to two very different sites. Personally speaking, I do &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; that SF has its own domain, but I'm rarely consciously aware of that fact; if I saw &quot;SF.SE&quot; in a context-neutral setting (Meta.SE, for instance), I would probably assume it was referring to ServerFault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other problem I have is that using SFF.SE allows us to drop the &quot;.SE&quot; and just use SFF without confusing anyone. While not strictly technically accurate, it's a convenient thing to be able to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why is our URL &lt;code&gt;scifi&lt;/code&gt;, then?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The URL is mainly a historical thing. Back in the deeps of time, the name of the site was just &quot;Science Fiction&quot; (despite fantasy being on-topic); that was changed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/205/should-we-change-the-name-of-this-site-to-include-fantasy&quot;&gt;pretty early&lt;/a&gt;, after it was realized that this was discouraging fantasy questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the comments on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/300/scifi-stack-exchange-is-now-science-fiction-fantasy&quot;&gt;official rename announcement&lt;/a&gt;, SE employee Robert Cartaino explained why the URL didn't change:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What name are you suggesting? Ideally it should be less than 8-10 characters, be intuitive and easy to remember, and not obfuscate the subject of the site. Those criteria are preferable to 100% technical accuracy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;fantasy.stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/316/add-an-alias-of-fantasy-stackexchange-com&quot;&gt;soon added as an alias&lt;/a&gt;, in lieu of changing the URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:13:53.560" LastActivityDate="2016-01-07T23:19:22.960" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7898" CreationDate="2016-01-07T00:38:23.490" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I use SF&amp;amp;F.SE or SFF.SE.  As Kevin &amp;amp; Jason Baker said, SF.SE isn't unique enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also refer to Movies &amp;amp; TV.SE as M&amp;amp;TV.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2016-01-07T00:38:23.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7901" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7902" CreationDate="2016-01-07T01:07:29.207" Score="8" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are three tags that need sorting out:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/actors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;actors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;actors&lt;/a&gt; (32 questions)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Actors are the cast members that portray the characters that entertain audiences in live action TV, films and stage shows. Voice actors, also refered to as voice over artists, are actors that lend their voices to radio and animated productions. Actors are also used to promote and sell products in commercials, in print, and on billboards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cast&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cast&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cast&lt;/a&gt; (6 questions)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[no tag wiki]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/casting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;casting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;casting&lt;/a&gt; (1 question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[no tag wiki]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;as well as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/53562/how-did-brent-spiner-get-cast-as-data-for-tng/58455#58455&quot;&gt;a few&lt;/a&gt; questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/94125/why-was-jor-el-played-by-two-different-people&quot;&gt;that&lt;/a&gt; don't have any of these tags but probably should.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the obvious solution is to retag all the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cast&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cast&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cast&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/casting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;casting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;casting&lt;/a&gt; questions as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/actors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;actors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;actors&lt;/a&gt; instead. BUT WAIT! There's more than one type of question falling under these headers, and it might be useful to have more than one tag for such questions. I suggest the following.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions about the &lt;strong&gt;casting process&lt;/strong&gt; (choice of actors, auditioning, etc.) should be tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/casting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;casting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;casting&lt;/a&gt;. Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/53562/how-did-brent-spiner-get-cast-as-data-for-tng&quot;&gt;How did Brent Spiner get cast as Data for TNG?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8269/was-the-casting-of-alan-rickman-as-snape-based-on-the-full-knowledge-of-the-futu&quot;&gt;Was the casting of Alan Rickman as Snape based on the full knowledge of the future of that character?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/104203/is-this-story-about-how-michael-dorn-became-worf-true&quot;&gt;Is this story about how Michael Dorn became Worf true?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions about the &lt;strong&gt;actors themselves&lt;/strong&gt; (number of roles, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7799/laine-liska-s-and-everybody-and-their-cousins-attitude-toward-star-wars&quot;&gt;their views on films&lt;/a&gt;, what they had for breakfast, etc.) should be tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/actors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;actors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;actors&lt;/a&gt;. Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111160/has-anyone-played-more-distinct-roles-in-star-wars-than-warwick-davis&quot;&gt;Has anyone played more distinct roles in Star Wars than Warwick Davis?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/110792/has-one-actor-ever-played-two-different-characters-from-marvel&quot;&gt;Has one actor ever played two different characters from Marvel?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/105236/actors-appearing-in-both-star-trek-and-star-wars&quot;&gt;Actors appearing in both Star Trek and Star Wars?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Usage guidance for both these tags, and when to use which one, should be made clear in the tag wiki excerpts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cast&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cast&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cast&lt;/a&gt; tag, which is ambiguous as it could mean either the noun &quot;cast&quot; (synonymous with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/actors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;actors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;actors&lt;/a&gt;) or the verb &quot;cast&quot; (synonymous with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/casting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;casting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;casting&lt;/a&gt;), should be abolished altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-01-08T20:38:06.530" Title="[actors], [cast], and [casting]" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7901" CreationDate="2016-01-07T02:56:51.773" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on the info you provided, I think:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/actors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;actors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;actors&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cast&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cast&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cast&lt;/a&gt; should be synonyms, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/casting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;casting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;casting&lt;/a&gt; should be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cast&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cast&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cast&lt;/a&gt; may seem ambiguous, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/casting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;casting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;casting&lt;/a&gt; has been used &lt;em&gt;once&lt;/em&gt;, and only just recently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another usability reason for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cast&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cast&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cast&lt;/a&gt; is that it will be typed before &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/casting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;casting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;casting&lt;/a&gt;. If a new user is &lt;em&gt;trying&lt;/em&gt; to use it, looking to use the noun definition, they'll get an error if we burninate it. Whereas, if we leave it, and they try typing &quot;casting&quot;, they'll see the tag-wiki definition for &quot;cast&quot; and likely see that it's enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per SQB's comment, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/casting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;casting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;casting&lt;/a&gt; can be ambiguous itself, when referring to the casting of magical spells (or fishing lines!). Yes, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cast&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cast&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cast&lt;/a&gt; could be ambiguous the same way, but I believe there's going to be some ambiguity either way. I &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; think confusing the noun and verb is terribly relevant, as they're still referring to the general topic of actors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag wiki for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/actors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;actors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;actors&lt;/a&gt; would be better off not being a dictionary definition of what the word means, but include a little guidance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions about actors/actresses and voice actors, as related to their roles in Science Fiction and Fantasy works, including the casting process, opinions on the work, history of their role, and more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2016-01-08T20:38:06.530" LastActivityDate="2016-01-08T20:38:06.530" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7901" CreationDate="2016-01-07T13:46:29.660" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;@rand al'thors suggestion makes sense to me, i.e. remove the ambiguous &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cast&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cast&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cast&lt;/a&gt;, and retag thusly tagged questions either to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/actors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;actors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;actors&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/casting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;casting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;casting&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I would suggest to only start using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/casting&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;casting&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;casting&lt;/a&gt; if it can be applied to at least ten different questions. Else I would just fold everything into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/actors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;actors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;actors&lt;/a&gt; which with just a bit more than 30 questions isn’t particularly huge anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16378" LastEditorUserId="16378" LastEditDate="2016-01-07T14:14:01.320" LastActivityDate="2016-01-07T14:14:01.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7871" CreationDate="2016-01-07T13:59:43.323" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Untag &lt;code&gt;titles&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Score: -3 (liberal scoring; usage clearly leans to using the tag to denote and easily identify a question about honorifics... but fails in all other scoring - especially regarding proper usage and possible ambiguity) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are currently only 16 tagged questions and there is a very clear case of tag confusion going on with some people going with 'honorifics' and other people going with 'what is the title of this book' and still other people going with 'why was XYZ book or movie titled as such'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Untagged the 4 story identification-related &lt;code&gt;titles&lt;/code&gt; tags, so the number is closer to 12.  If we untag the 'why was XYZ book or movie titled as such questions', that would likely remove another 4. Honorific-related tagging is very few and far-between... less than 10.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28107" LastEditorUserId="28107" LastEditDate="2016-01-07T14:17:55.043" LastActivityDate="2016-01-07T14:17:55.043" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7708" CreationDate="2016-01-07T16:23:31.203" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would also suggest you avoid all SE sites as it seems TFA questions asked here are being promoted to the 'hot network questions' list. While you can only see the title, they often give away enough information in themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;eg. just from reading Programmers, I now know that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Luke goes to some Jedi Temple.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; He leaves a map showing to find him.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; there There is a star killer base.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; Han flies through the shields of said base.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26768" LastActivityDate="2016-01-07T16:23:31.203" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-01-07T16:23:31.203" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7906" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-07T16:34:17.387" Score="5" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can find at least ten different question that are directly inspired or directly related to XKCD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My opinion is that such a tag is both appropriate and useful.   I can totally envision someone wanting to read all the XKCD-related questions or subscribing to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xkcd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xkcd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt;.   But I also believe there may be dissenters.   I thought I would preemptively ask the meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xkcd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xkcd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt; both on topic and useful?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastEditorUserId="3823" LastEditDate="2016-01-08T16:43:13.560" LastActivityDate="2016-01-08T16:43:13.560" Title="Is [tag:xkcd] going to be contentious?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7906" CreationDate="2016-01-07T17:05:32.907" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;tl;dr: I'm skeptical that we need it but I would not likely argue over it, which is just another way of saying &quot;not contentious.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using our &quot;checklist&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7871/tag-wars-episode-i-harry-potter-and-the-tag-cleanup&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, for me I score &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xkcd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xkcd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt; a 7:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does it make sense to be an &quot;expert in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xkcd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xkcd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt;&quot;? &lt;strong&gt;+1 possibly.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does it make sense for a question to be tagged only with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xkcd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xkcd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;strong&gt;-1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xkcd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xkcd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt; have a single, universally-unambiguous meaning? &lt;strong&gt;+2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xkcd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xkcd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt; likely to be used correctly just based on it's name? &lt;strong&gt;+2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there &quot;enough&quot; (&gt; 15) but not &quot;too many&quot; (&gt; 10% site-wide) questions that qualify for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xkcd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xkcd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;strong&gt;-1: Not at the moment&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are people like to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xkcd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xkcd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt; to find questions to answer? &lt;strong&gt;+2.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there likely some users (be objective!) who will favorite or ignore &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xkcd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xkcd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;strong&gt;+1 given the range of topics, favorite &lt;em&gt;maybe&lt;/em&gt;, ignore unlikely&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Could &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xkcd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xkcd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt; be reasonably used to feed questions to a specialized chat room? &lt;strong&gt;-1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xkcd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xkcd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt; be used to search for questions (for any reason) in a way that keyword searching cannot accomplish? &lt;strong&gt;+2 (questions/answers might mention XKCD without actually being about one of the comics)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on my short sample of good/bad tags, the &quot;probably good&quot; tags score 8 or higher, and the &quot;obviously good&quot; ones at least 10. 7 is pretty low, meaning I would be skeptical that it will be of much use (primarily: I think it will get &lt;em&gt;applied&lt;/em&gt; correctly but never &lt;em&gt;used&lt;/em&gt; much).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, we have much worse tags than this, and 7 is borderline. It's also getting close to the arbitrary 15 question threshold, which would push it up to a 10. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, I'd say wait to see if we get any more questions and then we can go tag them &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xkcd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xkcd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt; but I wouldn't object very loudly if someone wanted to do it now. 1-2 years from now if there still aren't many questions we can always remove it again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-01-07T17:41:36.313" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7906" CreationDate="2016-01-08T04:55:50.290" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;For Sci-fi &amp;amp; Fantasy-related questions to the world of XKCD, I'm cool with the tag. XKCD is not, by its nature, Sci-fi &amp;amp; Fantasy, but some of the strips are, and Randall Munroe being who he is, there's a decent chance we can even get explanations for how those world work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2016-01-08T04:55:50.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7906" CreationDate="2016-01-08T10:32:22.987" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;XKCD won &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thehugoawards.org/2014/08/2014-hugo-award-winners/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the 2014 Hugo Award&lt;/a&gt; for &quot;Best Graphic Story&quot;. That's enough for me to make it on-topic, even if not all individual episodes are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My evaluation of the checklist scores &lt;strong&gt;12&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Does it make sense to be an &quot;expert in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xkcd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xkcd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt;&quot;?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; Possibly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Does it make sense for a question to be tagged only with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xkcd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xkcd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;+2&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; I expect questions about a specific episode to be tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xkcd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xkcd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Does &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xkcd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xkcd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt; have a single, universally-unambiguous meaning?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;+2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xkcd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xkcd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt; likely to be used correctly just based on it's name?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;+2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Are there &quot;enough&quot; (&gt; 15) but not &quot;too many&quot; (&gt; 10% site-wide) questions that qualify for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xkcd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xkcd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;-1&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=xkcd+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;Currently no&lt;/a&gt;; out of the 8 questions that &lt;em&gt;mention&lt;/em&gt; xkcd, only 2 would qualify for the tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Are people likely to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xkcd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xkcd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt; to find questions to answer?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;+2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Are there likely some users (be objective!) who will favourite or ignore &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xkcd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xkcd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; Favourite &lt;em&gt;maybe&lt;/em&gt;, ignore unlikely&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Could &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xkcd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xkcd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt; be reasonably used to feed questions to a specialized chat room?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; I can imagine a xkcd-themed chatroom.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Can &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xkcd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xkcd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt; be used to search for questions (for any reason) in a way that keyword searching cannot accomplish?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;+2&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; As evidenced by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=xkcd+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;this search&lt;/a&gt;, a number of questions mention xkcd without actually being &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; xkcd. Answers even more so.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the Hugo Award for xkcd, held by a member of this stack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Odcy1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;someone holding the xkcd Hugo award&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-01-08T10:52:10.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7888" CreationDate="2016-01-08T22:03:29.290" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I created &lt;a href=&quot;https://gist.github.com/alexwlchan/5adf997e7006c4a4e6a0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a UserScript&lt;/a&gt; which does just this – you specify a list of tags, and it will unhide spoilers on any question that uses those tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I developed and tested it with TamperMonkey in Chrome 47 on OS X, although I see no reason why it shouldn’t work in other browsers – this is just vanilla JavaScript.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here’s the code for the script:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name         SFF.SE Show spoilers on questions with particular tags&#xA;// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/&#xA;// @version      1.0&#xA;// @description  Show all spoilers on SFF.SE questions with specified tags&#xA;// @author       alexwlchan&#xA;// @match         *://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/*&#xA;// @match         *://meta.scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/*&#xA;// @grant        none&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;/* jshint -W097 */&#xA;'use strict';&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;// If every tag on a question is in this array, then the spoilers on this&#xA;// question will be shown.&#xA;var SHOW_ME_SPOILERS_IF_TAGGED = [&#xA;    &quot;harry-potter-tag&quot;,&#xA;    &quot;not-star-wars&quot;,&#xA;];&#xA;// (Tags tweaked so you don't get inadvertently&#xA;// spoiled while testing this script.)&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;// Returns an array of tags on a question&#xA;var getTagsOnQuestion = function() {&#xA;    var taglist = document.getElementsByClassName(&quot;post-taglist&quot;)[0];&#xA;    var hrefs = taglist.getElementsByClassName(&quot;post-tag&quot;);&#xA;&#xA;    var tags = [];&#xA;    for (var ii = 0; ii &amp;lt; hrefs.length; ii++) {&#xA;        tags.push(hrefs[ii].innerText);&#xA;    }&#xA;    return tags;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;// Returns true/false depending on whether the spoilers on this question&#xA;// should be shown -- that is, whether every tag on the question is in&#xA;// SHOW_ME_SPOILERS_IF_TAGGED.&#xA;var shouldShowSpoilersOnQuestion = function() {&#xA;&#xA;    // Get the tags on a question.  All questions have at least one tag.&#xA;    var tags = getTagsOnQuestion();&#xA;&#xA;    for (var jj = 0; jj &amp;lt; tags.length; jj++) {&#xA;        // If we don't find the tag in the array of spoiler-able tags,&#xA;        // then we have to reject the question.&#xA;        if (SHOW_ME_SPOILERS_IF_TAGGED.indexOf(tags[jj]) == -1) {&#xA;            return false;&#xA;        }&#xA;    }&#xA;    return true;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;// Modify all the spoilers on the page to show their spoiler text&#xA;var showSpoilers = function() {&#xA;    var spoilers = document.getElementsByClassName(&quot;spoiler&quot;);&#xA;    for (var kk = 0; kk &amp;lt; spoilers.length; kk++) {&#xA;        spoilers[kk].transition = &quot;none&quot;;&#xA;        spoilers[kk].style.color = &quot;#222426&quot;;&#xA;    }&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;if (shouldShowSpoilersOnQuestion()) {&#xA;    showSpoilers();&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You need to put a list of all the tags where you don’t want spoilers into the &lt;code&gt;SHOW_ME_SPOILERS_IF_TAGGED&lt;/code&gt; array, and any question whose tags are a subset of that array will have the spoilers unhidden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rather than showing up immediately, the spoilers have the same 1-second fade-in when you hover over them; it just kicks in immediately. Would be nice if it snapped to position.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only works on desktop browsers; I think the mobile spoiler layout is a bit different.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you’d like to moan about my JavaScript (it’s something I’ve only dabbled in), please direct criticism to &lt;a href=&quot;https://codereview.stackexchange.com/q/116267/36525&quot;&gt;Code Review&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:40:39.990" LastActivityDate="2016-01-09T08:24:29.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7871" CreationDate="2016-01-09T20:50:08.310" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rework &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/costume&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;costume&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;costume&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/costume-design&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;costume-design&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;costume-design&lt;/a&gt; and add the tag to relevant questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update wiki to specify it's for questions about the in-universe and out-of-universe aspects of costume design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Current Score: 0&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Reworked Score: 8&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Impact: &amp;lt; 382&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently 34 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/costume&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;costume&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;costume&lt;/a&gt; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=costume+-%5Bcostume%5D&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;costume -[costume]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; has 382 to go through, a single &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/design&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;design&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;design&lt;/a&gt; that fits in it's scope, and 56 results for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=costume+-%5Bcostume%5D+design&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;costume -[costume] design&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-01-09T21:09:39.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="62" CreationDate="2016-01-10T16:17:18.163" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Make &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; synonyms.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;1. There's no separated media tags for movies/films that differentiate them from other works.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;2. A &lt;em&gt;minimum&lt;/em&gt; of 71.5% of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; questions are tagged incorrectly, but I suspect it's really at least 80%. Correctly tagging them all is a waste of effort, because:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;3. Users are going to continue using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; the way &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; is intended, because that's what makes sense for the word. Four years worth of cumulative evidence has shown us that.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;em&gt;supposed&lt;/em&gt; to be for specific the book version of a work that's also a movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use this tag only to differentiate the book from the movie or other media.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is a bit of a silly usage, to say it's &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; for that purpose. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/film&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;film&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;film&lt;/a&gt; are synonyms. Neither one of them say they're only for differentiating the movie from the book version. &lt;em&gt;However&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; is often used that way. Outside of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, the main usage of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; is actually to differentiate between the written other versions of the work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the most glaring issue with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; is that users don't actually use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; by the definition anyway:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;with 635 questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Top 9 tags, by question count, used with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; x454, 71.5%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aliens&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aliens&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aliens&lt;/a&gt; x37, 5.8%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; x34, 5.4%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/young-adult&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;young-adult&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;young-adult&lt;/a&gt; x32, 5.0%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt; x26, 4.1%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt; x24, 3.8%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magic&lt;/a&gt; x18, 2.8%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time-travel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time-travel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time-travel&lt;/a&gt; x16, 2.5%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt; x15, 2.4%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;with 528 questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Top 9 tags, by question count, used with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; x430, 81.4%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; x34, 6.4%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/young-adult&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;young-adult&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;young-adult&lt;/a&gt; x31, 5.9%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aliens&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aliens&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aliens&lt;/a&gt; x29, 5.5%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time-travel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time-travel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time-travel&lt;/a&gt; x18, 3.4%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magic&lt;/a&gt; x13, 2.5%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/post-apocalyptic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;post-apocalyptic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;post-apocalyptic&lt;/a&gt; x13, 2.5%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spaceship&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;spaceship&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;spaceship&lt;/a&gt; x11, 2.1%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt; x10, 1.9%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see here, the primary usage of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, which is not only the &amp;quot;wrong&amp;quot; usage, but the the same primary usage as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novels&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novels&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novels&lt;/a&gt;. In fact, separately, their number of questions tagged as such is very close to the same, but [tags:books] is actually higher. When two words have a near 50/50 split of when they're chosen for the same purpose, that's an excellent sign of a synonym.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the top single used with it, we see some overlap. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aliens&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aliens&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aliens&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time-travel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time-travel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time-travel&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/young-adult&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;young-adult&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;young-adult&lt;/a&gt;. Something to note is that those three tags are primarily used for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, so they're likely used in questions with 3+ tags, than just &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even without the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; wiki definition, it's easy to see that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; shouldn't be on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; list and vice-versa. That's redundant, no matter what.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently the top-voted policy is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Novel is always a book, but a book is not always a novel. So I say go with the more inclusive term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet, I can see when that makes a reasonable difference to how we tag questions. The times when a book is is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a novel is usually when it's a short story or some other media which we already have another tag for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going back to my executive summary, there's very strong reasons for making the two tags synonyms, but no strong reasons for keeping them separate. The strongest argument for keeping them separate has been completely ignored by the majority of the community. The other reasons, such as my last quote, seem like arguments to create additional tags, for things that aren't novels but &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-01-10T16:17:18.163" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="62" CreationDate="2016-01-10T17:56:54.067" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Split &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether or not it makes sense to have media tags at all (a discussion that seems to be still ongoing), it's undeniable that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; is a broader tag than the others. We don't have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/screen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;screen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;screen&lt;/a&gt; tag to cover both films and TV, so why should we have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; tag to cover both novels and short stories?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we get rid of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt;, then our media tags become less confusing and have no overlap:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2016-01-10T17:56:54.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7871" CreationDate="2016-01-10T18:02:31.057" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Retag all &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; questions to make clear what kind of books are concerned (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Copied from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7915/31394&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether or not it makes sense to have media tags at all (a discussion that seems to be still ongoing), it's undeniable that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; is a broader tag than the others. We don't have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/screen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;screen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;screen&lt;/a&gt; tag to cover both films and TV, so why should we have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; tag to cover both novels and short stories?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we get rid of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt;, then our media tags become less confusing and have no overlap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-01-10T18:02:31.057" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7917" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7980" CreationDate="2016-01-11T12:38:12.690" Score="31" ViewCount="1747" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Ahch-To&quot;. No, &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Ahch-To&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;you did not need to say &quot;Gesundheit&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. However, if you didn't, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120655/quotes?item=qt0309118&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;you're getting off light&lt;/a&gt; according to Loki. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have grown intensely jealous of a certain elusive Jedi who had taken several years of relaxing and staring at rocks while everyone in the Galaxy was doing actual work. Apparently, he learned all the &lt;strong&gt;right&lt;/strong&gt; things from Yoda.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the Force is guiding me to follow his example (what, why are Jedi the only ones allowed to blame the Will of the Force for everything?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;So, into exile I must go.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;I would like to thank the Academy, my parents, and my coke dealer&lt;/strike&gt; sorry, wrong speech.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to thank the people who have made my time on the site good, better, great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Those who welcomed me as a brand new user and were kind enough not to close all of my newbie questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Those who posted awsome answers that provided information about fictional universes I loved (or introduced me to ones I wasn't familiar with).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;   &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Those who posted great or simply thought provoking questions, forcing me to dig deeper into the works I love and learn more about them than I ever thought possible.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Those who expressed their appreciation of (what I hope was, to an extent, largely quality) content offered for other's benefit in my posts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I would also like to thank those who have had kind or encouraging words for me in the last couple of days. The only reason I won't name anyone is because I'm sure to forget someone and that wouldn't be fair to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I would like to single out @randalthor, for the last formal thank you, for a wide variety of reasons, not all of them recent.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just like Yoda, my exile won't start the moment this is posted. I still &lt;strike&gt;have to deal with Padme's birth&lt;/strike&gt; owe several people some answers, so most likely I will stop in about a week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/status-exiled&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-exiled&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-exiled&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To avoid idle rumours in chat interspersed with the hushed &quot;are we allowed to talk about this?&quot; neuroses, I'd like to clarify a few things I anticipate will be hypothecized, aloud or not:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;No, I'm not ragequitting. I might return, although when that happens is... I'm'akjustgonnablametheForce again. What do you mean &quot;The Force Doesn't Work Like That&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are numerous varied reasons for me to suspend my activities on the site. Not all of the reasons having to do with the site in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;No, the moderators/CMs did not ask me to quit &quot;or else&quot; :) Or just asked me to quit. Or even suggested it to me directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only person i'm aware of who explicitly asked me to do this is the voice in my head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that there is a voice in my head clearly should have been one of the reasons contributing to my decision.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, some of the moderation patterns and actions by individual moderators, both recent and not, definitely contributed to my decision.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This was &lt;strong&gt;not directly caused&lt;/strong&gt; by the activity of a specific user that 90+% of those reading this post would suspect as the main reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the recent happenings helped crystallize my decision, the specific words uttered by a specific user were &lt;strong&gt;NOT in any way the direct cause&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To prove that the symmetry of the Universe is a mysterious thing, ironically, my decision was strongly contributed to by a specific user; that an overwhelming majority of those reading this would not ever suspect. I was among that majority :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;No, the chat suspension  wasn't a factor &lt;strong&gt;at all&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I honestly &lt;strong&gt;do NOT object to the suspension itself&lt;/strong&gt;, at all (I do object to who got suspended vs. not suspended, but that's water under the bridge and not worth my time to expound on or anyone else's to read).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Incidentally, to kill the rumour I saw going around and frankly, am a bit offended by, my recently increased posting activity had nothing to do with suspension EXCEPT that it freed up even more of my free time (on top of &lt;strong&gt;year end vacation days off&lt;/strong&gt;) to enjoy researching and posting.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I currently have no idea how long I'll be gone, and how complete my &quot;gone-ness&quot; will be. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;   &#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I'm not sure if this will affect official chat policy in any way, but in case it matters: people have my 100% permission to discuss myself or anything pertaining to myself as a user in chat, by name. No exceptions. No objections. &quot;Be nice&quot; rule would hopefully still would apply :)&#xA;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt; If anyone wishes to contact me, you can @-ping me on the site; or if in private, my email address is in my SFF user profile. &#xA;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2017-01-29T18:16:36.337" LastActivityDate="2017-01-29T18:16:36.337" Title="Into exile I must go" Tags="|discussion|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="21" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7917" CreationDate="2016-01-11T16:36:17.957" Score="30" Body="&lt;h2&gt;May the Force be with you, DVK.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T16:36:17.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7919" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-11T17:23:15.553" Score="3" ViewCount="227" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've got a pretty good thread running down various tags that should be removed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7871/tag-wars-episode-i-harry-potter-and-the-tag-cleanup&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  However, before I submit a request to SE to have them removed, we need to do some sanity checking.  From &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/239191/158781&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Start by cleaning up the edges&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bad tags are often harbingers of bad questions. So if you're about to remove a bad tag, start by removing the bad questions it collected: find closed questions and delete them, find downvoted questions and close them (if they warrant it), find poorly-written questions and re-write them (if they deserve it). You get the idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a tag is merely ambiguous, sometimes it makes more sense to just replace it with another tag, or one of a number of other tags. This can be a quick way of turning a bad tag into a good one, or at least accomplishing something other than raw destruction when removing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This cleanup is easily the hardest, most time-consuming part of the process. Document your progress here on meta, so that others can see what you're up to and get involved - many hands make light work! And again, if you don't think it's worth doing then just drop it and move on to something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several tags that there's clear consensus should be removed, but there's no indication that someone's done this cleanup work.  To be clear, the tags that need this check are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;All gone!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For each of these (excepting maybe &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/death&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;death&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;death&lt;/a&gt;), make a post here documenting the work done to check that it's okay to remove the tag completely.  Once each has been checked, we'll have the tag removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Nuked&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These tags are gone now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/70s&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;70s&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;70s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/80s&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;80s&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;80s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/90s&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;90s&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;90s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-inconsistency&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-inconsistency&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-inconsistency&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-explanation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-explanation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-explanation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/death&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;death&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;death&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T21:47:00.223" Title="Tag Cleanup 2016: Before the burnination" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|retagging|burnination|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7919" CreationDate="2016-01-11T17:48:08.447" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the cases of the &quot;decade&quot; tags, they are used almost exclusively (with only 2 exceptions) for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions. In those cases, the tag was superfluous in the first place, and just needs to be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/70s&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;70s&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;70s&lt;/a&gt;: 15 questions, all &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, all of them where &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/70s&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;70s&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;70s&lt;/a&gt; was the suspected publication date of the story. &lt;strong&gt;All superfluous.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/80s&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;80s&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;80s&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;strike&gt;75&lt;/strike&gt; 74 questions. 73 of them &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, where &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/80s&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;80s&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;80s&lt;/a&gt; was the suspected publication date of the story. 1 where the question happened to be about a show produced in the 1980s. &lt;strike&gt;1 where the question was a broad question about all cartoons from the 80s. &lt;strong&gt;74 superfluous&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/84909/who-owns-the-rights-to-popular-1980s-cartoons-that-havent-gotten-a-modern-live&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; can probably be deleted.&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strong&gt;All superfluous.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/90s&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;90s&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;90s&lt;/a&gt;: 45 questions, all; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, all of them where &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/90s&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;90s&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;90s&lt;/a&gt; was the suspected publication date of the story. &lt;strong&gt;All superfluous.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-01-12T01:24:47.593" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7919" CreationDate="2016-01-11T18:10:02.890" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot&lt;/a&gt; originally had 140 questions tagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of those:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;115 already have a franchise, work, or author tag on them, so &lt;strong&gt;superfluous&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;7 are also tagged [story-identification], so &lt;strong&gt;superfluous&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3 closed questions with no more relevant tag:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22262/if-you-drink-nothing-but-holy-water-are-your-bodily-fluids-holy&quot;&gt;If you drink nothing but holy water, are your bodily fluids holy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is closed as &quot;not constructive&quot; but would probably be on-topic today. What do we usually tag these &quot;first X to show Y&quot; questions with these days?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3653/ejected-into-space-survival-tactics&quot;&gt;Ejected into space -- survival tactics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not only off-topic, but it's a dupe of another off-topic question. The only relevant tag is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science&lt;/a&gt;, which is not one of my favorites but so far, not on the chopping block. Should we delete this question, or just remove &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot&lt;/a&gt; from it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/34002/anything-known-about-the-plot-in-david-weber-jane-lindskolds-upcoming-book-t&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/34002/anything-known-about-the-plot-in-david-weber-jane-lindskolds-upcoming-book-t&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is about a specific work of fiction, but it has no tag and no other questions on the site, and the question itself was speculative and no longer relevant (it asks for speculation about the plot of a book published in 2014.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;13 questions need to have a franchise/work/author tag added to them. &lt;strong&gt;in progress - 2 fixed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;2 questions that were not actually about plot, and have been now been fixed to have proper tags: &lt;strong&gt;fixed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2310/science-fiction-plot-resource-website&quot;&gt;Science Fiction plot resource (website)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1109/what-is-a-retcon-or-retroactive-continuity&quot;&gt;What is a retcon, or retroactive continuity?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T21:16:10.707" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7728" CreationDate="2016-01-11T18:39:23.287" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Make &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/genre-trope&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;genre-trope&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;genre-trope&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/trope&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;trope&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;trope&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The former only has 3 questions, and we really only deal with a small (some would say &amp;lt; 3) genres here, so it should be self-evidence that our trope questions about sci-fi or fantasy tropes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T18:39:23.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7923" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-11T21:11:45.050" Score="23" ViewCount="503" Body="&lt;p&gt;As part of the cleanup effort to eliminate some of the more &quot;meta&quot; tags, there are a lot of questions that are about a specific work of fiction, and should be tagged as such, but for which no tag yet exists. It's already been pointed out that this can be an issue for lower-rep users, who can't create tags, but for the moment I'm more interested in what the &lt;em&gt;higher-rep&lt;/em&gt; users should do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we get a question about some work of fiction we've never seen before, at what point should we create a tag specific to that work? In particular, what is the cut-off for creating a new tag, vs. using existing tag(s) for the author(s) of the work? At what point do we need to create new franchise-level tags and start using them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a previous discussion about the usage of author tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1827/what-is-the-policy-for-author-series-universe-work-tags&quot;&gt;What is the policy for author, series/universe/work tags?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but the two conflicting answers were voted +4/-1 and +2/-1 ... not really an overwhelming consensus. If we're going to re-tag such questions appropriately, we need to agree on exactly when each type of tag should get created, and used. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When do we tag a question with the author's tag, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brandon-sanderson&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brandon-sanderson&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brandon-sanderson&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When do we tag a question with the name of the work, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/well-of-ascension&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;well-of-ascension&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;well-of-ascension&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When to we tag a question with the name of the franchise it's part of, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cosmere&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cosmere&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cosmere&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does the answer to any of the previous three questions change if it means creating a new tag?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2016-01-13T20:10:24.553" Title="What is the correct usage of individual works tags vs. author tags vs. franchise tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7923" CreationDate="2016-01-11T22:19:48.107" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;We should be pretty liberal with creating tags for specific works of science fiction, and here's why I think so (if you don't care, skip down a bit :) )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, a &quot;work of fiction&quot; is the core element of &quot;expertise&quot; that exists for the people supplying answers on this site. In other words, the bulk of the answers (not all, but most) start from the premise of &quot;I have read/seen/heard/etc the given work of fiction you're asking about and know all of the details.&quot; Very often we can expand this to include &quot;all of the works of fiction in a given series/franchise/etc&quot;, or even &quot;all of the works of fiction by a given author&quot;, but in general, our core knowledge boils down to those things we know because we have consumed some specific piece of fictional media.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other tags we have -- story-id, author, franchise, history-of, etc. -- serve to identify those questions where that assumption doesn't hold true, and so they should be used for those cases. But we should always strive, whenever possible, to &lt;em&gt;at least&lt;/em&gt; identify the fictional work that is at the core of a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an aside, I ran a &quot;hypothetical&quot; brand new book by a brand new author through our tentative tag scoring guide, and even with 0 questions it scores a +12, which is well into the range of &quot;good tag&quot;.  That assumes we've selected a good &lt;em&gt;name&lt;/em&gt; for the tag, which can sometimes be problematic, but not insurmountable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my proposal is that we use the following guidelines when tagging or retagging questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question is about a work of fiction, it always gets a tag; if we have to create one, we do that (give it a tag wiki, etc.) If there's confusion over what to call it, bring it to meta.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the work in question is part of a larger franchise, also give it that tag &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt;. This makes it easier for people to follow/ignore/etc. one tag and cover the entire franchise. (For example, I believe all questions about MCU movies should be tagged as such, even if the question is localized to one movie, so I only have to follow one tag.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question is asking about a) aspects of the author's life, or b) aspects of the author's work that are not specific to a single work or franchise, then we tag the question with the name of the author.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T22:19:48.107" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7917" CreationDate="2016-01-11T23:36:16.300" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;I shall assume this is au revoir rather than goodbye.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vhz8Q.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vhz8Q.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-01-11T23:51:39.290" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T23:51:39.290" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7919" CreationDate="2016-01-11T23:50:29.777" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The overwhelming majority of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-inconsistency&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-inconsistency&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-inconsistency&lt;/a&gt; questions already have a franchise, work or author tag. There are only four exceptions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/106122/in-ernest-clines-armada-why-didnt-they-use-communication-relays&quot;&gt;In Ernest Cline&amp;#39;s Armada, why didn&amp;#39;t they use communication relays?&lt;/a&gt; is about Ernest Cline's &quot;Armada&quot;, so we can just make a tag for that &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/99665/spoilers-dead-space-3-why-bring-the-codex-to-the-center-of-the-machine&quot;&gt;Why bring the codex to the center of the Machine?&lt;/a&gt; is about Dead Space 3, so we can apply the existing [dead-space] tag to it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/68077/what-coherent-fictional-time-travel-theories-exist&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/68077/what-coherent-fictional-time-travel-theories-exist&lt;/a&gt; is not about a franchise, work or author, but this is a (justifiably) closed question, and it already has the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time-travel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time-travel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time-travel&lt;/a&gt; tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/51939/alternate-reality-world-of-the-movie-the-invention-of-lying-why-no-fiction&quot;&gt;Alternate Reality World of the movie the Invention of Lying - Why no fiction?&lt;/a&gt; is about a movie called &quot;The Invention of Lying&quot;, so we can just make a tag for that&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, this tag is superfluous everywhere and safe to burninate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35327" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T23:32:20.677" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7919" CreationDate="2016-01-12T00:14:24.193" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This cleanup is &lt;strong&gt;done&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/death&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;death&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;death&lt;/a&gt; is ready to go away. All questions that are about a character named Death have a work-specific tag; all others have a valid work tag, story-id tag, or history-of tag as appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It'll probably take a bit more than this one post to deal with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/death&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;death&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;death&lt;/a&gt; properly, but I might as well get the ball rolling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/death&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;death&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;death&lt;/a&gt; questions are about the concept of death. To aid the discussion of whether we want a tag for that at all, most of these questions fit one of the following formulas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What can kill X?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can X kill someone?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What does X know about death?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why are there so many/few dead people during X?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why did X die? (both in and our of universe)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What happens when X dies?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why did this happen after X died?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How many times did X die?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal opinion is that this would &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be a useful tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are all the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/death&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;death&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;death&lt;/a&gt; questions that happen to be about a specific personification of death:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/54713/does-death-really-exist-in-harry-potter&quot;&gt;Does Death really exist in Harry Potter?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/56120/in-the-harry-potter-universe-is-death-deadly&quot;&gt;In the Harry Potter Universe, is Death deadly?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt; now tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter-death&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter-death&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter-death&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/65534/how-could-the-marauders-map-detect-something-which-death-could-not&quot;&gt;How could the Marauder&amp;#39;s Map detect something which Death could not?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt; now tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter-death&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter-death&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter-death&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/59644/what-would-happen-if-rogue-touched-or-was-touched-by-death-grim-reaper&quot;&gt;What would happen if Rogue touched or was touched by Death (Grim-reaper)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt; now tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-death&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-death&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-death&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32919/why-does-death-work-for-dracula-in-castlevania&quot;&gt;Why does Death work for Dracula in Castlevania?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt; now tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/castlevania-death&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;castlevania-death&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;castlevania-death&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/39423/what-is-the-origin-of-the-concept-of-reaping-souls&quot;&gt;What is the origin of the concept of &amp;quot;reaping&amp;quot; souls?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt; question is closed and has other tags.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83831/not-so-grim-reaper&quot;&gt;Not-So-Grim Reaper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt; tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; should be enough.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35327" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-01-16T03:36:26.447" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7917" CreationDate="2016-01-12T00:47:29.987" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/W2NVdm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/W2NVdm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2jrLT.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2jrLT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You gave thanks to a lot of people in your farewell post,&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; but the biggest one of all should be &lt;em&gt;to&lt;/em&gt; you rather than &lt;em&gt;from&lt;/em&gt; you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Thank you, DVK&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;for your generally very high-quality questions and answers over more than 4 years on this site (recently I mentioned several of these among my nominations for best posts of the quarter)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;for your friendliness and good spirit (not everyone will agree with me on this, but I don't ever remember seeing you treating anyone on this site in a way I'd condemn)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You've been called 'abrasive' on this site, and (I think) even agreed with that assessment. But frankly, I like a bit of &lt;strong&gt;blunt honesty&lt;/strong&gt; from someone who has &lt;strong&gt;strong opinions&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;doesn't suffer fools gladly&lt;/strong&gt; - it's better than false sincerity, at any rate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;for sticking around for so long, continuing to provide great posts to the community, in spite of everything you've been through (sometimes people seem to think having plenty of rep deprives one of human emotions, to judge from the amount of flack a lot of top users get - &lt;strong&gt;it's tough at the top&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Looking to the future ...&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although you'll certainly be missed, and your absence will be keenly felt - especially by the many askers of Star Wars and Harry Potter questions (as well as the not-quite-so-many askers of Ender's Game and Hunger Games questions), and also by those who've come to know you and enjoy interacting with you here - at the end of the day, &lt;strong&gt;you have to put your own life first&lt;/strong&gt;. I'm sure you have much better and more useful things to do than spend time on a Q&amp;amp;A site answering questions about imaginary people in imaginary worlds :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hanging out on Stack Exchange is all well and good &lt;strong&gt;as long as you enjoy it&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/26492525#26492525&quot;&gt;When life is no longer a joy, a new perspective is a requirement.&lt;/a&gt; If you aren't finding this site fun any more, then (much as it pains me to say it) you're making the right decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And after all, it's not goodbye for ever. You'll still come back (hopefully more often rather than less, and sooner rather than later) and still provide awesome content. When you do, we'll be waiting for you, armed with smiles and upvotes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;One thing is sure: you will NEVER be forgotten.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;sub&gt;On a more personal note, I'm flattered that you singled me out for a special mention in your thanks, over plenty of people who've been on this site and known to you for much longer. It's a tough game to win your respect, and I'm honoured to have done so.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2016-01-12T00:47:29.987" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7917" CreationDate="2016-01-12T15:55:36.217" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am sad to see you go, and I hope you won't be gone long. I have enjoyed learning from your many answers on this site (especially Star Wars). Thank you for your contributions -- your site reputation is well deserved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;On the bright side, your exile means you won't beat me to answering Star Wars questions like you have a tendency to do. Your answers have slowed my progress on the gold Star Wars tag badge since I need to post 200 answers for it. Now if I could only get @Richard to go into exile, too, I'd get there even faster...&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastActivityDate="2016-01-12T15:55:36.217" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7931" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7934" CreationDate="2016-01-12T19:13:45.963" Score="6" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;As many of you know, I write a lot of &lt;code&gt;story-identification&lt;/code&gt; questions. I've had it commented on from time to time, including that I have a handful where I've also provided the answer after having done further research. ^_^ Just to be perfectly clear, all of these cases were ones where I did not know the answer before I started the question, or even before I submitted the question. However, the question is, is such a practice allowable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1196/interesting-trivia-questions-to-which-you-already-know-the-answer&quot;&gt;we support people posting questions and answering simultaneously&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/its-ok-to-ask-and-answer-your-own-questions/&quot;&gt;it's allowable under general Stack Exchange policy&lt;/a&gt;, but it seems to me that it's a kind of iffy practice for &lt;code&gt;story-identification&lt;/code&gt; where it's so terribly subjective, not to mention that there really is no possibility of a &quot;better answer&quot; being posted. On the other hand, it does help others who might look for the story in the future. And, under more selfish motives, it's a way to expose others to the work in question (one could introduce a question relating to the story, but one doesn't always spring to mind and, in my experience, they tend to be largely ignored unless someone else is already of the fandom).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2016-01-13T23:32:43.247" Title="Is it OK to post a story-identification where you knew the answer at the time when you wrote it?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7919" CreationDate="2016-01-12T20:58:59.427" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/00s&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[00s]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: 0&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/10s&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[10s]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: 0&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/20s&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[20s]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: 0&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/30s&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[30s]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: 0&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/40s&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[40s]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: 0&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/50s&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[50s]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: 0&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/60s&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[60s]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: 0&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/70s&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[70s]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: 15&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/80s&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[80s]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: 69&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/90s&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[90s]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: 45  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/70s&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[70s]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/70s+-story-identification&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[70s] -[story-identification]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: 0&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/80s&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[80s]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/80s+-story-identification&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[80s] -[story-identification]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: 0&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/90s&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[90s]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/90s+-story-identification&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[90s] -[story-identification]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: 0  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-01-12T20:58:59.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7923" CreationDate="2016-01-12T21:10:42.683" Score="-4" Body="&lt;h3&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Always create tags for work and author; franchise if applicable.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Rationale&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like I've said before, tags are a question's &lt;em&gt;Bat Signal&lt;/em&gt;. They signal which experts a question needs, to have the best chance at getting answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most important experts to attract are those of the work itself. The question is about the work itself, so if there is someone out there who has studied the work in depth, they are the best expert possible.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;If the tag doesn't exist, it should be created.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But of course, if the work itself is too small to warrant any experts, the next best thing is the bigger whole it's a part of. That can either be an author's body of work, or a series or franchise it is a part of.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Again, if those tags do not exist, they should be created.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And since we want to attract as much experts as possible &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; we don't have a tag hierarchy, the question should wear the complete set of tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Example&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if there's a question about &lt;em&gt;Dark Force Rising&lt;/em&gt;, the second book of Timothy Zahn's &lt;em&gt;Heir to the Empire&lt;/em&gt; trilogy, which is part of the Thrawn series and ultimately part of the &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; franchise, it should be tagged:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dark-force-rising&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dark-force-rising&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dark-force-rising&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/heir-to-the-empire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;heir-to-the-empire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;heir-to-the-empire&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/thrawn-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;thrawn-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;thrawn-series&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/timothy-zahn&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;timothy-zahn&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;timothy-zahn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Of these, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/heir-to-the-empire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;heir-to-the-empire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;heir-to-the-empire&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/thrawn-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;thrawn-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;thrawn-series&lt;/a&gt; are debatable and could be omitted, depending on the existence of other questions about the same series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-01-12T21:10:42.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7931" CreationDate="2016-01-13T23:32:43.247" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question already got an answer of sorts previously,  but the query stoked by DVK doesn't actually answer the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/422739/story-identification-questions-asked-and-answered-by-the-same-user-at-the-same-ti&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;query&lt;/a&gt; covers the exact case where on posting the question,  you select the self-answer Tick Box. I query a proxy if this,  but making sure the asking and answering time is the same &lt;em&gt;down to the second&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of the current four,  two are yours. One is very well received, and none are closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But from your comment it sounds like these were likely asked in good faith:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I remembered those ones, but thought that I didn't find the answer until later that day. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I think it stretches the limit of the sites purpose,  to only post to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;expose others to the work in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that case,  I think it's a step to far. Otherwise,  go ahead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2016-01-13T23:32:43.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7917" CreationDate="2016-01-13T23:37:14.400" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry to see you leave.  I regret the fact that we butted heads, but I have enjoyed the times when we got along.  You're a great guy, and you have been an enormous asset to the site.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope you come back, and sooner than later.  SF&amp;amp;F owes you a debt of gratitude.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May the Force be with you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastActivityDate="2016-01-13T23:37:14.400" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7936" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-14T03:03:06.260" Score="6" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am almost certain I've seen a question on main site that asked what SW Stormtrooper armor was made of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I finally tracked down the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I can't find the question anymore. None of my searches yield results. &lt;strong&gt;Help please!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll post a new one if I'm just hallucinating, but I KNOW I saw one!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T14:00:35.167" Title="Please help me find a question" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7936" CreationDate="2016-01-14T03:27:05.713" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Might it be either &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/112277/are-stormtroopers-armor-ineffective-against-stormtrooper-blasters&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/14454/is-stormtrooper-armor-not-very-strong-or-were-the-rebel-guns-just-that-powerful&quot;&gt;this other one&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions seem focused on the armor's effectiveness, but a question on the construction material might be asked, or speculated on, or even just relevant, to determining how effective the armor is or should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think I saw any ones that are a better fit than this, sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54401" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T03:27:05.713" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7938" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-14T04:31:11.750" Score="6" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that the limit for votes is 40 per day, but I think mine has occasionally been closing early over the past couple weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today, for example, I have 33 votes recorded on my vote list.  A &quot;daily limit reached&quot; sign came up around 30, when I was trying to upvote a comment.  The same sign occurred with two other comments, but I was able to upvote both questions and answers (thus the other three), and the review section does not have the &quot;out of daily votes&quot; sign where it sorts what review tasks I am eligible for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is merely kind of annoying, but it's also not the first time this has happened.  A little while ago, probably less than two weeks, I noticed that I seemed to be running out of votes early - I noticed there was a lot of time until the votes refilled first, since I tend to switch between sites, and so I would usually see hours between short bursts of activity, instead of running out of votes two hours into 24.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it hadn't kept happening for several days, I would have thought I was merely mis-remembering how many votes I'd cast or going through the questions on the site unusually quickly.  I did notice that on those days, a vote would sometimes go through &lt;em&gt;later&lt;/em&gt; for a question or answer, but not for a comment, and for a while I wondered if those extra votes were coming from the next day's total.  Once I found the vote record tab, I started keeping track and we come to today, when it definitely closed &lt;em&gt;early&lt;/em&gt; for comment votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So - I am trying to figure out what's happening.  Is this happening to anyone else?  Does someone know the cause?  Have I missed something very obvious, like a maximum on how many votes daily can be given to comments as opposed to questions and answers?  I did check the Q&amp;amp;A and did a search, but didn't see anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any answers will be appreciated, thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54401" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T20:41:23.847" Title="Is there an issue with (my) daily vote limits?" Tags="|support|voting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7938" CreationDate="2016-01-14T04:47:18.717" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The vote limit is more complex than a simple &quot;40 votes per day.&quot; There are a number of meta questions about it, including &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/90202/please-dont-require-answer-votes-to-be-cast-before-question-votes/90256#90256&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/90726/cannot-vote-on-question-although-40-votes-limit-not-reached&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The basic idea, though, is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You get to vote 30 times in a given day.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Every time you vote on a question, you get an extra vote, up to 10.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As soon as you hit your limit, you're locked out until the next day, even if you had &quot;unearned extra question&quot; votes left.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, to get to 40 votes, you need to cast 10 of your initial 30 votes on questions; if you voted for 3 questions and 30 answers you would get locked out at 33 votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the daily allowance is based on UTC time, so your allowance will reset after midnight UTC, not midnight in your timezone (unless it's the same). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T20:41:23.847" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7940" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-14T05:02:32.003" Score="5" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are questions of the form:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Character A Vs. Character B&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What the similarities between these two characters&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was one based on the other?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few Star Wars characters I've been thinking about that have some similarities in their character, but I have a feeling this might not be an appropriate. I guess they could end up list like on one hand, but if they are intentionally similar by design I would think it could be on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First time posting in meta by the way, so this might even be an inappropriate question about an inappropriate question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user45549" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T05:02:32.003" Title="Are character comparisons appropriate questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7938" CreationDate="2016-01-14T06:49:49.253" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You always get at least 30 votes on questions and answers per day.  (I don't know if there's a limit on comments, but if so it's independent of Q and A votes.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If at least 1/3 of your votes are on questions, you will get up to an additional 10 votes per day.  You have to maintain that 1/3 ratio up to the point you start getting &quot;You have 5 more votes today.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also possible to get more than 40 votes in a day:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you vote on questions that get auto-deleted, your vote count doesn't go down, but you can cast those votes again, e.g. today I could cast 43 votes if I wanted to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T06:49:49.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7942" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-14T10:37:28.107" Score="4" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;A couple of hours ago I was the first to flag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/114865/what-is-the-availability-of-full-episodes-of-the-shannara-chronicles-on-the-mtv&quot;&gt;&quot;What is the availability of full episodes of the Shannara Chronicles on the MTV website for non-MTV subscribers?&quot;&lt;/a&gt; as off-topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, afterwards I discovered that I couldn't find any rule that explicitly prohibits these kind of questions, unlike over at the Movies SE where &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;&quot;Locating or purchasing Movies or TV content&quot; is listed as off-topic&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, neither is this topic listed as one of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;SF&amp;amp;F's allowed topics&lt;/a&gt;; and considering that this question was quickly closed others agree that it wasn't an appropriate subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, perhaps this subject should be listed either &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31029" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T10:37:28.107" Title="Are &quot;where to watch/read/buy&quot; questions on topic, and if not, shouldn't that be mentioned in the FAQ?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2016-01-17T20:15:14.593" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7943" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7944" CreationDate="2016-01-14T13:14:19.570" Score="11" ViewCount="444" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I post a question after searching and determining it hasn't been asked. And later find out, on my own or by a fellow user that the question is a possible duplicate. Is it encouraged to delete the questions, or should I wait for the consensus of users that vote to close it ? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39187" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-03-30T23:40:02.400" LastActivityDate="2019-03-17T02:40:44.303" Title="Is it encouraged to delete your own questions if they have possible duplicates?" Tags="|discussion|faq|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7943" CreationDate="2016-01-14T13:26:57.987" Score="29" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;No&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;DO NOT DO THIS&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry for shouting, but I've wanted to say this to a few people recently; I got a bit excited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of reasons you shouldn't do this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Your question may not end up getting closed.&lt;/strong&gt; For a recent example, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111121/in-star-wars-the-force-awakens-how-could-this-item-have-turned-up-in-this-lo&quot;&gt;In Star Wars: &amp;quot;The Force Awakens,&amp;quot; how could this lightsaber have turned up where it did?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111023/how-did-maz-kanata-acquire-lukes-lightsaber&quot;&gt;How did Maz Kanata acquire Luke&amp;#39;s lightsaber?&lt;/a&gt; (but don't if you're avoiding &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt; spoilers). There was a bit of a debacle around these, but there was a time when each had close votes pointing to the other. Obviously only one of them got closed (and then re-opened and the other closed, but that's a different story). Either JMFB or RedCaio could have deleted their questions upon getting close votes, but they shouldn't have, because nobody knew which would end up getting closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admittedly, this is probably more true for questions where the dupe and the original were posted at similar times. Still, its worth noting that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4744/should-we-always-close-the-newer-question-as-the-duplicate&quot;&gt;we don't necessarily close the newer question in all cases&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also a number of cases where duplicate close votes are disputed by the rest of community. To coin a phrase, a single close vote does not a duplicate make.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;By far the biggest reason is that having the duplicate question up makes it easier to find the original. Obviously the original wasn't terribly easy to find, since you weren't successful in your search. With your closed question, there's now a whole new collection of searchable terms floating around the Internet, with a great big neon sign pointing to the original question (and answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, you just made the question (and its answer) much easier to find. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is a good thing.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Closed questions aren't &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/259868/does-marking-an-earlier-question-as-a-duplicate-of-a-newer-one-harm-the-asker&quot;&gt;counted terribly harshly against you when determining a question ban&lt;/a&gt;. However, deleted questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/86997/what-can-i-do-when-getting-we-are-no-longer-accepting-questions-answers-from-th/86998#86998&quot;&gt;definitely count against you&lt;/a&gt;, especially if they make up a large proportion of your total answers; quoting that FAQ I linked to (links in the quote are preserved from the source):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's not a problem to have deleted posts. But if a large percentage of your posts are deleted by yourself or the community, then apparently they are not suitable for the site. Posting them consumes time from users who read them, edit them, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/86997/what-can-i-do-when-getting-we-are-no-longer-accepting-questions-answers-from-th/86998#86998&quot;&gt;respond to them&lt;/a&gt;. Therefore deleted posts &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/86982/should-i-avoid-deleting-my-questions/87029#87029&quot;&gt;have&lt;/a&gt; an effect on the filter, among many other factors&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Problem&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, there are two reasons why a user would feel pressure to delete a question that has close votes (or has already been closed):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The view that closure is a censure.&lt;/strong&gt; To users who aren't excessively familiar with the SE network (and even to some who are), a close vote feels like a rejection. It can feel like the question is undesireable, when in fact it is not. I suspect that many users see a &quot;Possible duplicate of X&quot; comment as implying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What the hell is wrong with you? This has already been asked, why are you asking it again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the natural desire is to delete it; the question has already been asked, so what benefit can it possibly be adding to the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course that's a false assumption, which is the point I made earlier in this answer. There's probably some room for user training on the benefit of having duplicate questions, but that's a different issue.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The view that closed = bad.&lt;/strong&gt; This is problem both for askers and for voters. For askers, the issue is similar to the above:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oh, I asked a bad question. I should delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Relatedly, there may be the expectation that a duplicate question is going to be downvoted. This is probably not such a critical issue in practice; while there may be many duplicate questions that have attracted some downvotes, according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/423717/duplicate-questions-by-score&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this SEDE query&lt;/a&gt; (inspired by phantom42 doing something similar in comments), only 130 of our duplicate questions have a negative score.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-03-17T02:40:44.303" LastActivityDate="2019-03-17T02:40:44.303" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7919" CreationDate="2016-01-14T21:22:16.260" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This cleanup is &lt;strong&gt;done&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions have now all been retagged with work and/or author tags as appropriate. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-explanation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-explanation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-explanation&lt;/a&gt; can go away safely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, here is a final list of all &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-explanation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-explanation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-explanation&lt;/a&gt; questions that need to be retagged before we can burninate the tag. In most cases these will need new work/author tags created. We will work through this list during our first Retagging Event.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please remember when retagging a question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't just retag! Fix anything else that's wrong (generic titles, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you need to create a new tag name, check with the chat room (in case someone else needs the same tag) to coordinate names.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you make a new tag, give it at least a tag excerpt. (A whole wiki would be ideal, but we can get the wikis later).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the working list. Please check the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/33865/tagwars&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt; before working on these for guidelines and effort coordinating! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/16296/why-did-hawkins-destroy-the-atlantis&quot;&gt;Why did Hawkins destroy the Atlantis?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/26470/when-and-why-was-regan-possessed-in-the-exorcist&quot;&gt;When and why was Regan possessed in The Exorcist?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/36578/why-are-people-being-trapped-collected-and-stored-in-phone-boxes-in-la-cabina&quot;&gt;Why are people being trapped, collected and stored in phone boxes in La Cabina?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/49666/what-was-the-significance-of-the-hummingbird-in-the-movie-cowboys-aliens2011&quot;&gt;What was the significance of the hummingbird in the movie Cowboys &amp;amp; Aliens(2011)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/51184/how-did-thing-change-locations-in-the-addams-family-tv-series&quot;&gt;How did &amp;#39;Thing&amp;#39; change locations in The Addams Family (TV series)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/52629/the-enchanted-1984-confused-by-the-plot&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;The Enchanted&amp;quot; 1984 - confused by the plot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/54776/how-does-the-dagger-work-in-prince-of-persia&quot;&gt;How does the dagger work in Prince of Persia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/69457/why-did-remy-the-rat-from-ratatouille-cook-ratatouille-at-the-end-of-the-movie&quot;&gt;Why did Remy (the rat from Ratatouille) cook Ratatouille at the end of the movie?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/77294/what-happened-to-the-original-bodies-in-invasion-of-the-body-snatchers&quot;&gt;What happened to the original bodies in Invasion of the Body Snatchers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/77561/what-was-martina-and-his-family-in-picking-up-the-pieces-by-pat-cadigan&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/77561/what-was-martina-and-his-family-in-picking-up-the-pieces-by-pat-cadigan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/78881/who-is-sammy-the-snakes-mother&quot;&gt;Who is Sammy the Snake&amp;#39;s mother?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/80340/is-there-an-official-plot-explanation-for-the-movie-u-f-o-2012&quot;&gt;Is there an official plot explanation for the movie U.F.O. (2012)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/82264/how-did-jimmy-end-up-with-freddy-the-magic-flute&quot;&gt;How did Jimmy end up with Freddy the magic flute?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/82812/in-the-machine-2013-why-is-a-soldier-burned&quot;&gt;In &amp;quot;The Machine&amp;quot; (2013), why is a soldier burned?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83398/in-professor-layton-vs-phoenix-wright-what-is-responsible-for-the-car-accident&quot;&gt;In Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright what is responsible for the car accident?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/85384/in-steinsgate-the-show-how-does-the-first-d-mail-change-the-universe&quot;&gt;In Steins;Gate (The Show), how does the first D-mail change the universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/85465/bruisers-phone-call&quot;&gt;Bruiser&amp;#39;s Phone Call&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/86002/what-was-the-box-in-the-bullet-catchers-daughter&quot;&gt;What was the box in The Bullet Catcher&amp;#39;s Daughter?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/87063/what-is-the-relationship-between-the-loc-nar-and-the-taarakians&quot;&gt;What is the relationship between the Loc-Nar and the Taarakians?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/87470/what-is-the-nature-of-the-grinning-gargoyle-at-the-end-of-disneys-the-hunchbac&quot;&gt;What is the nature of the Grinning Gargoyle at the end of Disney&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;The Hunchback of Notre Dame&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/91601/how-do-we-reach-ultima&quot;&gt;How do we reach Ultima?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/97597/what-was-the-ais-answer-in-the-film-the-god-question&quot;&gt;What was the AI&amp;#39;s answer in the film: The God Question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/99401/can-somebody-explain-to-me-the-ending-of-foxglove-summer-pc-peter-grant-5&quot;&gt;Can somebody explain to me the ending of Foxglove Summer (PC Peter Grant #5)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/100519/why-were-vps-proxies-sabotaged-in-david-maruseks-cabbages-and-kale&quot;&gt;Why were VP&amp;#39;s proxies sabotaged in David Marusek&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;Cabbages and Kale&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/102011/in-avengers-grimm-is-there-any-explanation-for-ernst-coming-back&quot;&gt;In &amp;quot;Avengers Grimm&amp;quot;, is there any explanation for Ernst coming back?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/102105/why-does-superman-fly-headfirst&quot;&gt;Why does Superman fly headfirst?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/102347/how-are-humans-infected-in-prey-by-michael-crichton&quot;&gt;How are humans infected in Prey by Michael Crichton?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/102695/question-about-the-fountain&quot;&gt;Question about The Fountain&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/103364/what-does-the-climax-of-carlos-fuentes-novel-vlad-mean&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/103364/what-does-the-climax-of-carlos-fuentes-novel-vlad-mean&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/110267/in-rice-boy-what-were-the-fulfillers-three-changes-of-form&quot;&gt;In Rice Boy, what were the fulfiller&amp;#39;s three changes of form?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111671/why-didnt-this-person-die&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t Tiny Tim die?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35327" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-01-16T03:38:08.640" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7946" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-15T03:09:51.147" Score="14" ViewCount="1318" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's 2016 now, and we've &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/272563/were-standardizing-the-sidebar-width-at-300px-on-all-sites&quot;&gt;made some changes to the sidebar size&lt;/a&gt;. As such, we can now restart the Community Promotion Ads for 2016!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind, we have updated some of the guidelines compared to previously - the changes are marked in bold in the Image Requirements section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site's twitter account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;interesting articles or findings for the curious&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool Science Fiction or Fantasy events/conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads every year?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be &lt;strong&gt;300 x 250 pixels&lt;/strong&gt;, or double that if high DPI.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of &lt;strong&gt;150 KB&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If the background of the image is white or partially white, there must be a 1px border (2px if high DPI) surrounding it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/7946&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2537" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.757" LastActivityDate="2016-11-01T22:29:12.323" Title="Community Promotion Ads - 2016" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2017-02-02T15:10:12.103" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7946" CreationDate="2016-01-15T03:09:51.147" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/stackscifi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/H1tp8.png&quot; alt=&quot;Follow us on Twitter!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2537" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T03:09:51.147" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7949" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-15T16:15:17.740" Score="2" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry, I know that question is difficult to follow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The specific case I'm asking about would be about the history of the leadership (editting, hosting, and ownership) of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://escapepod.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Escape Pod podcast&lt;/a&gt;.   For those not familiar this is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Escape_Pod_episodes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;long-running&lt;/a&gt; podcast that pays for and publishes audio versions of high-quality SF short stories by a wide variety of authors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has evolved many times over the over-a-decade run, and I've never been able to identify when changeovers occurred and why.   Usually there is a little blurb within a podcast that mentions the change, but it's obviously not practical to go listen to the beginning and end of every podcast to determine the history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An equivalent question might be something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is the history of the leadership and ownership of DC Comics?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;On-topic?   If not, why not?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T16:22:37.783" Title="Are questions about on-topic organizations or outlets related to on-topic properties on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7949" CreationDate="2016-01-15T16:22:37.783" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;That just sounds like 'behind the scenes and fandom information', which is on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T16:22:37.783" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7951" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-16T02:49:46.583" Score="4" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;As an example to illustrate me question consider this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A mid-season trailer for season 2 of Star Wars Rebels was released recently and contains some pretty interesting things such as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; a green crossguard lightsaber and 2 white lightsabers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So seeing how Rebels is main canon, can the trailer be considered canon as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or more generally, are trailers containing impending canon content to be considered canon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is it inappropriate to cite trailers as evidence on this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user45549" LastEditorDisplayName="user45549" LastEditDate="2016-01-16T03:12:20.747" LastActivityDate="2016-01-17T10:43:08.063" Title="Would trailers for canon material be considered canon?" Tags="|discussion|canon|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7896" CreationDate="2016-01-16T03:41:55.103" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The First Sci-Fi/Fantasy Tag Cleanup Event -- such as it was -- has been completed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a very small one; myself and @DVK cleaned up 31 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-explanation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-explanation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-explanation&lt;/a&gt; and 4 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/death&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;death&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;death&lt;/a&gt; in preparation for those tags being deleted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, the following tags have been, or will soon be, deleted by SE Staff:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-inconsistency&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-inconsistency&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-inconsistency&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-explanation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-explanation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-explanation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/death&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;death&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;death&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/70s&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;70s&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;70s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/80s&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;80s&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;80s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/90s&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;90s&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;90s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting for round two will start soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2016-01-16T03:41:55.103" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7917" CreationDate="2016-01-16T04:34:05.520" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hope you find what you're looking for and wish you the best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2016-01-16T04:34:05.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7917" CreationDate="2016-01-16T17:54:31.747" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Safe travels. Watch out for any filthy mudbloods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1660" LastActivityDate="2016-01-16T17:54:31.747" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7946" CreationDate="2016-01-16T18:19:39.137" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XcLLn.png&quot; alt=&quot;Movies &amp;amp; TV Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T19:38:48.760" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7917" CreationDate="2016-01-17T03:57:58.160" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Awww.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The internet is a strange place. I really don't know you, or anything about you. And yet I'm quite sad about this. You're contributions to the Harry Potter tag have been outstanding and I have learnt a lot. Certainly, when I joined, it was clear I was in the company of a profoundly knowledgeable individual and whenever I saw DVK at the end of an answer (which was quite a lot in the Harry Potter tag), I knew it would be trustworthy and valuable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*Thinks of Lupin at the end of &lt;em&gt;PoA&lt;/em&gt;*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46027" LastActivityDate="2016-01-17T03:57:58.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7951" CreationDate="2016-01-17T09:20:01.547" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trailer material is canon, with caveats.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s part of the published material from the same people who make the film and/or TV show, so I think it qualifies as canon. However, I’d class it as a lower level of canon: in particular, if the film or episode is released and contradicts the trailer, then the full version takes precedence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have to be a little carful: trailers don’t have context, they and be designed to be misleading, and sometimes they include material omitted from the final film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it’s fine to use a trailer as source material, particularly if we don’t have anything else to go on. Just be ready to update your answer if the film is released and it’s different to what we saw in the trailer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastActivityDate="2016-01-17T09:20:01.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7951" CreationDate="2016-01-17T10:15:34.580" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Star Wars trailers are not canon (in themselves).&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trailers are usually treated in the same way as any other mixed-canon source (such as a novelisation or pre-2014 factbook). The material in the trailer that appears in the show is canon. The material that appears in the trailer that doesn't appear in the show is non-canon and is treated as a &quot;deleted scene&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, you absolutely can quote them as evidence in your answers. Non-canon answers and deleted scenes are often an excellent way to understand how the makers were thinking, even if the actual material ended up on the cutting-room floor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-01-17T10:43:08.063" LastActivityDate="2016-01-17T10:43:08.063" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7959" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-17T10:27:06.750" Score="5" ViewCount="178" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question was posed by enderland:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/115200/wasnt-rey-cold-on-starkiller-base-shouldnt-this-have-impacted-her-somehow&quot;&gt;Wasn&amp;#39;t Rey cold on Starkiller base? Shouldn&amp;#39;t this have impacted her somehow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it was promptly closed (by myself) as a dupe of this one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/115000/why-does-rey-wear-the-same-outfit-in-different-environments&quot;&gt;Why does Rey wear the same outfit in different environments?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since then, it seems to have been &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/115200/timeline&quot;&gt;reopened&lt;/a&gt; (by users ibid, enderland, Wad Cheber, Null and alexwlchan) which confused me somewhat since my answer to the dupe question specifically deals with the question of whether Rey was cold on the Starkiller base (Yes, she was) and whether it impacted on her (yes, she briefly wore a jacket).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Given that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/115064/20774&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt; to the first question specifically answers the second question, why was it reopened?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2016-04-03T19:26:17.120" Title="Why was this question reopened?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|specific-question|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7960" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7961" CreationDate="2016-01-17T21:59:22.263" Score="4" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://htmlasks.com/which_predictions_of_the_force_awakens_darths_amp_droids_bingo_were_correct&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://htmlasks.com/which_predictions_of_the_force_awakens_darths_amp_droids_bingo_were_correct&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;vs&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/112251/which-predictions-of-the-force-awakens-darths-droids-bingo-were-correct/112254#112254&quot;&gt;Which predictions of the Force Awakens: Darths &amp;amp; Droids Bingo were correct?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-01-17T22:27:52.763" Title="Is this website legit (adhering to SE license), or illegal scraper?" Tags="|support|policy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7960" CreationDate="2016-01-17T22:27:52.763" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it most certainly is not adhering to the SE license. Nowhere on that page is there a mention of Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange, any mention of the CC-BY-SA license, a link to the original question, or a link to the profile of the asker, all of which are (at least as far as SE claims) requirements for mirroring their content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;report this&lt;/a&gt; in the usual place as described here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/200177/a-site-or-scraper-is-copying-content-from-stack-exchange-what-do-i-do&quot;&gt;A site (or scraper) is copying content from Stack Exchange. What do I do?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(summary: the &quot;contact us&quot; page has a special option just for this purpose.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2016-01-17T22:27:52.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7964" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-18T18:50:54.697" Score="3" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of course, I mean &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Starkiller Base from &lt;em&gt;Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should it be included (should the tag description be amended)?   Should there be a tag synonym?  Should there be a new tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T22:00:59.470" Title="Does [tag:death-star] include this other structure?" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7964" CreationDate="2016-01-18T18:51:36.483" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;We should create &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/starkiller-base&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;starkiller-base&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;starkiller-base&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arguments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Starkiller Base is not a Death Star (is it not named as such)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users won't expect Starkiller Base to be included in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/death-star&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;death-star&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;death-star&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Starkiller Base is significant enough, and there are enough related question to support &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/starkiller-base&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;starkiller-base&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;starkiller-base&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If we don't do this, or make it a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/death-star&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;death-star&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;death-star&lt;/a&gt; synonym some users are likely to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/death-star&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;death-star&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;death-star&lt;/a&gt; any for Starkiller Base anyhow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastEditorUserId="3823" LastEditDate="2016-01-18T19:18:52.343" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T19:18:52.343" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-01-18T19:16:31.217" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7964" CreationDate="2016-01-18T18:53:25.933" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/starkiller-base&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;starkiller-base&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;starkiller-base&lt;/a&gt; should be a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/death-star&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;death-star&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;death-star&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arguments:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Starkiller Base is essentially an amped up Death Star&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There were already two Death Stars, so the existing tag already comprises more than one entity&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some people may be surprised to include Starkiller Base in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/death-star&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;death-star&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;death-star&lt;/a&gt; because the name differs, therefore it makes sense to make a tag synonym&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For example, this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/112753/why-does-the-dark-side-keep-building-death-stars&quot;&gt;Why does The Dark Side keep building Death Stars?&lt;/a&gt; seems assume that &quot;Death Star&quot; includes Starkiller Base.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If we don't do this, or create &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/starkiller-base&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;starkiller-base&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;starkiller-base&lt;/a&gt; some users are likely to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/death-star&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;death-star&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;death-star&lt;/a&gt; for Starkiller Base anyhow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T22:00:59.470" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-01-18T19:16:20.327" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7964" CreationDate="2016-01-18T18:54:50.463" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/starkiller-base&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;starkiller-base&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;starkiller-base&lt;/a&gt; is not justified at this time.   No action is needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arguments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Starkiller Base is not a Death Star (is it not named as such)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users won't expect Starkiller Base to be included in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/death-star&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;death-star&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;death-star&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/starkiller-base&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;starkiller-base&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;starkiller-base&lt;/a&gt; is not justified at this time by usual tag creation metrics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastEditorUserId="3823" LastEditDate="2016-01-18T19:01:56.170" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T19:01:56.170" CommentCount="7" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-01-18T19:16:43.557" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7968" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-18T20:08:02.470" Score="21" ViewCount="1105" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once again, in connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Q&amp;amp;A with the candidates.  This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation.  Participation is completely voluntary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8032/2016-moderator-election-qa-questionnaire&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's how it'll work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;During the nomination phase, (so, until 2016-01-25 at 20:00:00Z UTC, or 3:00 pm EST on the same day, give or take time to arrive for closure), this question will be open to collect potential questions from the users of the site. Post answers to this question containing any questions you would like to ask the candidates. Please only post &lt;em&gt;one question per answer&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We, the Community Team, will be providing a small selection of generic questions. The first two will be guaranteed to be included, the latter ones are if the community doesn't supply enough questions. This will be done in a single post, unlike the prior instruction.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a perfect opportunity to voice questions that are specific to your community and issues that you are running into at current.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the phase, the Community Team will select &lt;strong&gt;up to 8 of the top voted questions submitted by the community&lt;/strong&gt; provided in this thread, to use in addition to the aforementioned 2 guaranteed questions. We reserve some editorial control in the selection of the questions and may opt not to select a question that is tangential or irrelevant to moderation or the election. That said, if I have concerns about any questions in this fashion, I will be sure to point this out in comments before the decision making time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once questions have been selected, a new question will be opened to host the actual questionnaire for the candidates, containing 10 questions in total.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to check previous runs of the thread (or even things predating this Q&amp;amp;A style) for questions you may want to ask the new candidate base: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2702/2013-moderator-election-town-hall-chat&quot;&gt;2013&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6442/2015-moderator-election-qa-question-collection/&quot;&gt;2015&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is not the only option that users have for gathering information on candidates. As a community, you are still free to, for example, hold a live chat session with your candidates to ask further questions, or perhaps clarifications from what is provided in the Q&amp;amp;A.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have any questions or feedback about this process, feel free to post as a comment here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2537" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2016-01-25T20:07:24.237" Title="2016 Moderator Election Q&amp;A - Question Collection" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="22" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7968" CreationDate="2016-01-18T20:08:02.470" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a set of general questions, gathered as very common questions asked every election. As mentioned in the instructions, the first two questions are guaranteed to show up in the Q&amp;amp;A, while the others are if there aren't enough questions (or, if you like one enough, you may split it off as a separate answer for review within the community's 8). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In your opinion, what do moderators do? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more effective as opposed to simply reaching 10k or 20k rep? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2537" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T20:08:02.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7970" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-18T20:08:11.450" Score="12" ViewCount="485" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 2016 Community Moderator Election is now underway!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community moderator elections have three phases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nomination phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Primary phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Election phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most elections take between two and three weeks, but this depends on how many candidates there are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please visit the official election page at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for more detail, and to participate!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have general questions about the election process, or questions for moderator candidates, feel free to ask them here on meta -- just make sure your questions are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/election&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;election&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;election&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T20:08:11.450" Title="2016 Community Moderator Election" Tags="|discussion|moderators|election|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="16" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-01-18T20:08:11.450" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7968" CreationDate="2016-01-18T22:26:58.763" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a moderator should be a &quot;human exception handler&quot;, one who steps in when the system needs &lt;strong&gt;occasional intervention&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How will you best separate your own opinions and your responsibilities for being an ambassador for the site?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T22:26:58.763" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7968" CreationDate="2016-01-18T23:13:09.163" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the most important aspects of moderators in Stack Exchange communities is that they come from the community itself.  They are normally well respected within that community before being elected to a moderator role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is bipartite: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do you think it's possible to remain both a part of the community and as a moderator who also must police it?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do you, as a member of the community, actively engage as a &lt;em&gt;part&lt;/em&gt; of the community, yet balance that with the extra weight carried by the diamond on everything you do and have done?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44256" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T23:13:09.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7968" CreationDate="2016-01-18T23:55:12.653" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;How will your moderator practices be shaped by the person in question? Will you change the way you moderate for another moderator, high reputation user, or newbie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T23:55:12.653" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7974" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-19T03:04:19.293" Score="11" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Introduction&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is intended to be a collection of information on the tagging system, as it applies to Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy. This includes information on how to tag, when to create tags, what to call them, and how to use them effectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Table of Contents&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7976/2816&quot;&gt;What are tags and why do we have them?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/412/general-tagging-practices&quot;&gt;How should I decide what tags to put on my questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7978/2816&quot;&gt;What can I do with a tag once I know it exists?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-02-23T12:27:37.343" Title="Science Fiction and Fantasy Tagging Guidelines" Tags="|support|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7974" CreationDate="2016-01-19T03:24:56.647" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;What Are Tags and Why Do I Care?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The basic purpose of the Stack Exchange tagging system can be found in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/tagging&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt; for this (and every other) Stack Exchange site. If you haven't already, you should go read it. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/18878/how-do-i-correctly-tag-my-questions&quot;&gt;This meta.stackexchange question&lt;/a&gt; also has a lot of useful information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That topic tells you a lot about the mechanics of tags, but not so much about the &lt;em&gt;purpose&lt;/em&gt; of tags. That's what this post is about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tags&lt;/strong&gt; are a feature of the Stack Exchange sites that allow us to quickly categorize questions into broad areas of interest, so that other users can quickly and easily find those questions that are of interest to them. They work a bit like tags on a typical blog site, and a bit like categories on a typical wiki site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal of tagging is to give other users a way to decide if your question is something they know about or are interested in, so they can find and answer it more quickly. As such, having the right tags on a question is a key part in getting good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your choice of tags should be a reflection of the things your question is fundamentally &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt;. It's not necessary to have a tag for every little detail -- that's unlikely to help you in the long run. Instead, you should try to ask yourself what parts of your question will be most important in getting an answer, and apply them. Other questions in this FAQ go into more detail about how to pick tags, and what makes a good tag vs. a bad one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to using them to bring attention to your question, you can also use tags to find questions from other users. There's a number of ways this works, and again, there is more information on these in other parts of this FAQ. But, briefly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Each tag has it's own separate question list, showing all questions with that tag, which you can use to browse for questions of interest.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Each tag also has a tag wiki, which you can refer to for more information about a tag, and the topic if refers to; these are especially helpful for explaining &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; to use a tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The search box has special syntax for tags that, when used properly, can be more powerful than just a normal keyword search.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your user profile can include lists of favorite and ignored tags, which changes how questions appear when you view the various question feeds on the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Each tag also generates it's own RSS feed, which you can subscribe to using any RSS viewer, and be notified as soon as new questions pop up.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T03:24:56.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7977" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-19T03:46:18.450" Score="3" ViewCount="336" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following answers aren't 100% complete and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7917/into-exile-i-must-go&quot;&gt;I won't be working on them after today&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone likes them, please consider adopting them and improving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/112251/which-predictions-of-the-force-awakens-darths-droids-bingo-were-correct&quot;&gt;Which predictions of the Force Awakens: Darths &amp;amp; Droids Bingo were correct?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have completed answers to 70 out of 74 sub-questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4 still don't have satisfactory sub-answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, ~12 sub-answers are fine but would be awesomer if someone includes a screenshot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I included a complete list of suggested maintenance into the end of the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111224/what-are-the-things-that-the-force-awakens-borrowed-parallel-from-a-new-hope&quot;&gt;What are the things that “The Force Awakens” borrowed/parallel from “A New Hope?”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111228/which-things-characters-do-the-force-awakens-and-a-new-hope-have-in-common&quot;&gt;Which things/characters do “The Force Awakens” and “A New Hope” have in common?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They seems somewhat complete content wise but really could use TLC to organize them better than a flat list of bullets. Thematically or chronologically etc...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They could also use enrichment; links and/or pictures, to be improved.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111972/what-were-all-those-visions-rey-saw&quot;&gt;What were all those visions Rey saw?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Needs film screenshots for the individual scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T02:18:38.740" Title="Please adopt these answers" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7974" CreationDate="2016-01-19T04:03:38.137" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Tags! What Are They Good For?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the appropriate tags have been applied to questions, there's a lot of ways you can use them to find things of interest to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tag Questions Page&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For starters, ever time you look at a question, you can see at the bottom the list of tags the asker put on them. Tags appear like this at the bottom of the question's text when you're looking at a single question, or beneath the title when you're looking at any list of questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/urWvA.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/urWvAm.png&quot; alt=&quot;Tag under question title&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also click on the button that says &quot;TAGS&quot; at the top of any page to see a list of &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; tags in the system, if you're just curious what kinds of topics we talk about here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags are always displayed with a special formatting, like this: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;, that makes them stand out. Any time you see a tag like this, you can click on it to go directly to that tag's questions page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tvfLw.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tvfLwm.png&quot; alt=&quot;Tag Question List&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This page gives you a list of all questions that have that tag applied to them, which you can sort using the links across the top. You can also see, at a glance, how many such questions there are, and a little bit about the tag. (This is the &lt;strong&gt;tag wiki excerpt&lt;/strong&gt;, which provides a quick summary of what the tag is about so you know when to use it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Favorites and Ignored Tags&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you've found some tags that are of interest (or not of interest) to you, you can let the site know about them and it will change the way that questions are presented to you. There are two things you can do with tags this way: &lt;strong&gt;favorite&lt;/strong&gt; tags, and &lt;strong&gt;ignored&lt;/strong&gt; tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Favorite tags are ones where you're especially interested in seeing questions about them. You can add favorite tags (but not ignored ones) right from the sidebar on most pages on the site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/itWDp.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/itWDpm.png&quot; alt=&quot;Favorite Tags Edit&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also edit your favorite &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; ignored tags in your user profile. Click on your user picture at the top of the page, then go into your user profile/settings tab and select preferences:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1sFK4.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1sFK4t.png&quot; alt=&quot;Profile Preferences&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here you can add and remove favorites and ignored tags. You can also decide what to do with ignored tags: the can be hidden completely, or they can be displayed &quot;dimmed out&quot; so they are less noticeable. For example, suppose I had decided to favorite &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/once-upon-a-time&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;once-upon-a-time&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;once-upon-a-time&lt;/a&gt; but ignore &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;; on the front page I might see this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/H9eLJ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/H9eLJm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Searching&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the search box at the top of the page, you can type keywords and Stack Exchange will search for any questions and answers that include the search terms. Sometimes, though, this isn't exactly what you want: maybe there are too many results, or maybe some questions don't include the terms exactly as you typed them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In these cases, you can use a special search syntax to only search the tags on a question, not the title or body. To do this, just type square brackets around the tag name, like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[star-wars]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also search for questions that &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; have a tag, if you know you're not interested in those questions, by using a minus sign. This is most useful if you want to search for a popular key word you know appears in a lot of questions in that tag, e.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;vampires -[twilight]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Email/RSS Feeds&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One slightly advanced thing you can do with tags is &quot;subscribe&quot; to them. If you hover your mouse over any tag you see, you'll be presented with two options: subscribe and rss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zk3Ab.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zk3Abt.png&quot; alt=&quot;tag popup box&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Subscribing to a tag will send you an email (by default once a day, but you can change it) with a list of all new questions in that tag. Clicking on &lt;code&gt;rss&lt;/code&gt; will give you an link to use with any RSS Feed program to see new questions in real time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2016-01-19T04:20:06.450" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T04:20:06.450" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7917" CreationDate="2016-01-19T04:15:08.400" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The saying goes...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MR6uK.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MR6uK.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and so they must&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May I say &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING @DVK!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've contributed so very much to this site and made it a much more knowledgeable place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, for now I say&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0mk9E.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0mk9E.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and remember to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wrzGD.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wrzGD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the mean time, we shall all await the&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rhBKe.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rhBKe.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T04:15:08.400" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7917" CreationDate="2016-01-19T05:01:08.240" Score="25" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Thanks for introducing me to a world of science fiction I couldn't imagine&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just joined this specific &lt;strong&gt;StackExchange&lt;/strong&gt; about a month ago. I don't think there is a single post by you that I haven't read. Your posts really (&lt;em&gt;and I mean really&lt;/em&gt;) made me enjoy this site. I didn't realize how in-depth &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; really is, and to be honest, you turned me into a complete geek. &lt;strong&gt;EVERY QUESTION&lt;/strong&gt; I had was answered by you in a way that made Star Wars seem fun and amazing. Although there are a lot of great posters here, you specifically stood out to me when I joined this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used to read your awesome posts during class, and I still laugh about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/112998/why-does-everyone-think-that-the-millennium-falcon-is-a-piece-of-junk/113001#113001&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;escaping in a Victory Oil Truck&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. It's a shame you're going, but I hope this isn't the last I see you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just be careful out in the world! Remember, &lt;strong&gt;“It’s a trap!”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59242" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T05:01:08.240" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7968" CreationDate="2016-01-19T07:01:04.450" Score="18" Body="&lt;h2&gt;How often, and for how long, are you willing to be on the site each day/week?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our current mods are fantastic, but it is sometimes difficult to find one when you need one.  What are your normal usage patterns here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T07:01:04.450" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7968" CreationDate="2016-01-19T14:09:51.160" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The questions and answers on Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange have a tendency to attract many comments that would be considered “too chatty” or “not constructive” on most other Stack Exchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do you intend to handle such comments (e.g. with regard to deletion or comment flags)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user35609" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T14:09:51.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7968" CreationDate="2016-01-19T14:09:56.923" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;What is, in your own words, the purpose of this stack?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there are all kinds of opinions and even consensuses to be found on meta, but I'd like to here what &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; think this stack &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be, and how you will work to achieve that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T14:09:56.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7968" CreationDate="2016-01-19T14:24:16.117" Score="26" Body="&lt;h2&gt;How will you handle highly visible, controversial incidents?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last year has seen suspensions of high rep users, freezing of our main chat room, and a moderator being asked to resign.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; want to rehash those incidents, but one thing that stood out to me was the decision by both the community managers and the moderators to keep as silent as possible, asking us to do the same — most notably to not discuss it in the chat room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; appreciate the need to prevent escalation, but on the other hand, as I remember one user remarking (thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/3567&quot;&gt;alexwlchan&lt;/a&gt; for finding the quote, which was part of a deleted post):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users are not mushrooms, nor are they stupid. Keeping them in the dark never, ever helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How will you handle incidents like the suspension of a high rep user or a chat regular?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;How will you balance the need for privacy, the need to prevent escalation, and the need of the community for information?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-01-24T14:01:59.520" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7968" CreationDate="2016-01-19T14:37:56.753" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given hypothetical absolute authority, what current community policy/policies would you reverse or otherwise change (regardless of community consensus)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clarification: The intent of this question is to understand what policy you most strongly disagree with or object to, it is not meant to focus on what sort of dictator you would be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="5184" LastEditDate="2016-01-19T17:40:34.677" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T17:40:34.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7968" CreationDate="2016-01-19T14:40:34.877" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;What current policies do you believe are too strictly enforced (either by mods or the community)? Which do you believe are not enforced strictly enough?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T14:40:34.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7968" CreationDate="2016-01-19T14:48:56.553" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the complaints we see often is that many users are not aware of current meta policies. Additionally, some of the policy decisions conflict with each other.  What do you suggest we do to make these policies more definitive and more accessible to the average user?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T14:48:56.553" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7968" CreationDate="2016-01-19T14:50:57.290" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a moderator, your votes become binding. Actions you used to take like flagging, reviewing, closing, and deleting will take effect immediately without any input from any other users or moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How will you adapt the way you currently flag and vote to deal with this change?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23386" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T14:50:57.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7968" CreationDate="2016-01-19T14:52:12.997" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more effective as opposed to simply reaching 10k or 20k rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23386" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T14:52:12.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7968" CreationDate="2016-01-19T14:53:46.597" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;What, if any, previous moderator (or similar) experience do you have from a different Stack Exchange site, a different website, and/or the real world (e.g. arbitration)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23386" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T14:53:46.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7968" CreationDate="2016-01-19T15:03:09.137" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site's chatrooms, while only a &quot;third place&quot; and not too relevant for the main site content, are nevertheless an important part of its community building efforts. And especially last year has seen a few incidents that also seeped into larger-scale consequences for the site and its meta discussions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without rehashing past incidents and on a more general note, &lt;strong&gt;what is your stance towards chat?&lt;/strong&gt; Are you active in the site's chatrooms? How important do you think they are for the site as a whole? Is it important for moderators to also be chat regulars? Should the chatrooms be frequented more (or even less?) by the site's moderators?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23386" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T15:03:09.137" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7946" CreationDate="2016-01-19T19:14:06.770" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jJDEN.png&quot; alt=&quot;No, I don&amp;#39;t know what planet this is on either.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52927" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:52:23.267" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T21:33:09.100" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7968" CreationDate="2016-01-19T21:01:34.680" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do you do now to build the community, rather than your own prestige in the community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T21:01:34.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7968" CreationDate="2016-01-19T23:01:53.540" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Will you be able to separate yourself from relationships made in chat in order to fulfill your role as a moderator dealing with people you are chat friendly with on the  main site? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4356" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T23:01:53.540" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7917" CreationDate="2016-01-20T07:48:19.407" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh no! You will be missed, Sir.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23401" LastEditorDisplayName="user1027" LastEditDate="2016-01-20T17:07:49.407" LastActivityDate="2016-01-20T17:07:49.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7997" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7998" CreationDate="2016-01-20T16:03:40.950" Score="6" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;On a certain meta user's profile, I see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qXGZb.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qXGZb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Meta suspension&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the main site user profile I see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GC0WO.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GC0WO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Main site suspension&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is the reason not shown on meta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="13771" LastEditDate="2016-01-21T09:55:16.027" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T09:55:16.027" Title="Profile on meta does not show why a user is suspended" Tags="|support|meta|user-accounts|suspension|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7997" CreationDate="2016-01-20T16:19:13.340" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This (probably) isn't a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This issue was raised recently &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/272331/can-the-list-of-reasons-for-temporary-suspension-be-updated-to-properly-reflec/&quot;&gt;on MSE&lt;/a&gt;; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/272331/can-the-list-of-reasons-for-temporary-suspension-be-updated-to-properly-reflec/272333#comment884097_272332&quot;&gt;a comment on one of the answers&lt;/a&gt;, animuson said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The message didn't change. You were probably looking at your profile on Meta, which doesn't retrieve the sub-reason from the parent site and just doesn't display one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm honestly not sure whether this is considered a bug or a by-design. The most sensible reason I can see for it being by-design is that Meta and Main site data are stored in separate databases, so it's expensive to peek into one from the other; this is why &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/273010/let-the-convention-badge-be-tracked-as-next-badge&quot;&gt;you can't track the meta badges&lt;/a&gt; in the new badge tracker thingy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, this wouldn't be a real-time update, but a single query that could easily be massively cached (not sure how often a suspension reason changes mid-suspension, or if that's possible). So it may be a bug, or it may be a future feature that's not too high on the priority list, or it may just be something the team isn't interested in bothering with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2016-01-20T17:04:57.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7968" CreationDate="2016-01-20T17:17:42.827" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over the past 18 months, a sizeable number of the site's top 10 users (by rep) seem to have stopped actively participating in the site (e.g. in terms of their questions/answers dropping below one action per week).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this something that concerns you and, if so, what action would you take to address the situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2016-01-20T17:17:42.827" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8000" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-20T19:54:28.953" Score="3" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another question of a similar but not identical nature for reference: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/489/what-should-happen-when-a-new-answer-is-more-accurate-than-the-existing-acctepte&quot;&gt;What should happen when a new answer is more accurate than the existing acctepted answer&lt;/a&gt; (hereby known as Question 1)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With reference to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/110851/why-do-the-training-drones-shots-not-bounce-off-the-lightsaber/&quot;&gt;Why do the training drone&amp;#39;s shots not bounce off the lightsaber?&lt;/a&gt; (hereby known as Question 2)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question 1 asks what should be done when a different answer is more accurate than the accepted answer. In that context, the accepted answer WAS correct but the years passed, people changed, new decisions were made, and so more recent events become more correct than the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question 2 is a different context. The question asks for in-universe facts. The accepted answer appears to be correct, until you see the unaccepted answer. If you know your lore well enough you will know it is wrong. A training drone's shots are made of plasma, not electricity. When you compare the accepted answerer's reasoning in the comments to the sources quoted in the unaccepted answer, you'll realised the answerer made an incorrect observation, leading to an incorrect conclusion about the nature of training bolts. If you get the nature of the bolts wrong, your answer for why the shots don't deflect off the lightsaber cannot be correct, because the physics for plasma and electricity is completely different. Therefore the accepted answer is factually wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generalising from this particular instance, what should be done if there is an unaccepted answer for some given question which, is more accurate than the accepted answer based on the facts, or if the accepted answer is completely wrong? It can be based on common knowledge or sense, or known information from within the story universe. I feel that sometimes, some askers accept the first answer to come along that seems to make sense, without making sure the answer is logically sound and/or actually correct (when I was in school, I was taught a good answer should be in a point-elaboration-evidence-conclusion format).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, here's one such scenario (not real):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question: Did Anakin kill younglings during Order 66?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accepted answer: Kanan was a youngling during Order 66, and he's still alive in Rebels, so no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another answer: Yes. The official novelisation of the movie said so. *quotes the book*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer to Question 1 says more accurate answers should indeed be made an answer. But what if the asker doesn't come back to change it? Are we to leave it as it is? That doesn't seem right, it runs contrary to the intent of questions and answers to serve the community instead of just the asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other suggestions in the comments say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;In general, this is why there's voting as well - the later answer should get higher votes and so appear right next to the accepted answer.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;In the case that the asker is no longer around, at least the better answer may eventually be rewarded the Populist badge.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't feel those are good ideas. That green tick is meant to be a universally recognisable visual cue for the correct answer. It exists so that people with the same question can find the correct answer without greater scrutiny. Why should we be confusing them by saying &amp;quot;the one with more votes is more correct, not the one that is accepted and has a green tick&amp;quot;? Awarding the more correct, better voted but unaccepted answer with a badge awards an answerer for submitting it, but doesn't contribute to the question serving the community correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What can be done when an accepted answer is wrong based on facts and another answer is correct/more correct? Do higher rep members have the ability to change which answer is accepted, or if that's not possible then what else can be done?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apologies in advance if I missed out anything I wanted to say or if anything else seem off. It's 4am here =D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44906" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-01-20T19:54:28.953" Title="What should be done if the accepted answer is factually less true than another answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2016-01-20T20:10:25.593" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7917" CreationDate="2016-01-20T23:08:07.043" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There will always be some disingenuousness by officials, both by volunteer officials and by paid Company Men (CMs), on a site that works only when &lt;em&gt;profiteers&lt;/em&gt; can sell &lt;em&gt;advertisers&lt;/em&gt; the right to slap adverts on &lt;em&gt;other people's freely donated material&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those who don't want to be corrupted, who are here above all because they enjoy really getting into science fiction and fantasy, and mixing with others who have similar interests, should take an &quot;enjoy it while it lasts&quot; approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for all your contributions, DVK. Your enthusiasm has been contagious. That you're getting out or scaling down now, though it means a loss to many of us, speaks greatly in your favour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56895" LastEditorDisplayName="user56895" LastEditDate="2016-01-20T23:58:07.913" LastActivityDate="2016-01-20T23:58:07.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2016-01-21T13:00:33.160" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;My username is the child of pure creativity.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;When I was in my early teenage years I liked to read Naruto mangas.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Naruto's father, was the 4th hokage of the leaf village. And he was super cool. So I started using the username Yondaime everywhere on the net, which translates to 4th in Japanese. Till one day, I had the dreaded message informing me that the username Yondaime is taken, and it suggested Yondaime008 instead.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;And I was like, hey look, you'd look like the next spy to 007 with a licence to kill, which is nice but also I was born on the 8th.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This website -which i forgot- actually did the creative part for me. Sorry to dissapoint you all who are reading this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39187" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T13:00:33.160" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8003" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-21T20:48:14.607" Score="-3" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow employs a brilliant tool:  FAQ tags.  Questions that fall uner a certain category, like common questions about C++, are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/c%2b%2b-faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;c++-faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;c++-faq&lt;/a&gt;.  I think a variation on this would be an excellent resource here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, our assortment of questions about how lightsabers work, including the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4845/what-keeps-a-lightsaber-from-going-on-infinitely&quot;&gt;What keeps a lightsaber from going on infinitely?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6094/why-do-lightsabers-turn-off-when-a-jedi-dies-or-drops-it&quot;&gt;Why does a lightsaber turn off when a Jedi dies or drops it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/21465/what-keeps-lightsabers-from-going-through-each-other&quot;&gt;What keeps lightsabers from going through each other?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/113358/which-button-activates-skywalkers-lightsaber&quot;&gt;Which button activates Skywalker&amp;#39;s lightsaber, and why is it inconsistent?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111585/what-are-all-the-known-lightsaber-designs&quot;&gt;What are all the known lightsaber designs?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/26843/does-construction-of-a-lightsaber-require-use-of-the-force&quot;&gt;Does construction of a Lightsaber require use of the Force?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/114698/any-good-resources-about-lightsaber-production/114700#114700&quot;&gt;Any good resources about lightsaber production?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7283/what-goes-into-the-design-of-lightsaber-hilts&quot;&gt;What goes into the design of lightsaber hilts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lightsaber-design-faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lightsaber-design-faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lightsaber-design-faq&lt;/a&gt; or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could also have a tag - say, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lightsaber-ownership-faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lightsaber-ownership-faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lightsaber-ownership-faq&lt;/a&gt; for all the questions about what happened to specific lightsabers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111121/in-star-wars-the-force-awakens-how-could-this-item-have-turned-up-in-this-lo&quot;&gt;In Star Wars: &amp;quot;The Force Awakens,&amp;quot; how could this lightsaber have turned up where it did?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/72875/did-luke-retrieve-his-lightsaber-from-second-death-star&quot;&gt;Did Luke retrieve his Lightsaber from second Death Star?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/113119/what-color-is-luke-s-lightsaber-blade&quot;&gt;What color is Luke’s lightsaber blade?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/75852/where-are-obi-wan-kenobis-and-qui-gon-jinns-lightsabers&quot;&gt;Where are Obi-Wan Kenobi&amp;#39;s and Qui-gon Jinn&amp;#39;s Lightsabers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the slew of questions that follow the formula &quot;Why didn't they do [insert idea here] with the One Ring?&quot; could be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/one-ring-faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;one-ring-faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;one-ring-faq&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/68280/why-not-let-a-dwarf-carry-the-one-ring-to-mount-doom-since-their-will-cannot-be&quot;&gt;Why not let a dwarf carry the One Ring to Mount Doom, since their will cannot be dominated by the rings of power?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/114649/why-not-encase-the-one-ring-in-solid-metal&quot;&gt;Why not encase the One Ring in solid metal?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/64471/why-didn-t-they-just-take-the-ring-to-valinor&quot;&gt;Why didn’t they just take the ring to Valinor?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/38417/why-didnt-elrond-or-c%c3%adrdan-take-the-ring-from-isildur-by-force-and-destroy-it&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t Elrond or C&amp;#237;rdan take the ring from Isildur by force and destroy it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/91658/why-not-use-the-ring&quot;&gt;Why not use the Ring?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2333/why-didnt-gandalf-or-frodo-fly-to-mount-doom?s=1|0.2325&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t Gandalf or Frodo Fly to Mount Doom?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other potential FAQ/category tag subjects:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Who is/isn't a horcrux questions&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sorting Hat questions&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Borg questions&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tolkien Elves questions&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Force Powers questions&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Has comic book character X fought comic book character Y questions&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You get the idea.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As our friend Mike Edenfield &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/27009001#27009001&quot;&gt;says&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Once we have it we have an easy way to decide which one is the 'canonically best' duplicate to use&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I think it would bring many more advantages as well - ease of researching a specific idea, more intelligent categorization (a person or group of people might be tasked with deciding which questions make the cut for the FAQ tags, which is more reliable than trusting every user who happens by to use the right tag for the right reasons), etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The issue isn't whether the specific tags I've suggested make sense, but rather, is the idea in general a good one?  Should we try to work out how to adopt this kind of tagging system?  What would the pros and cons be?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;WHAT SAY YOU?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note:  Feel free to edit this question and add ideas if you like.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T21:02:51.717" Title="Proposal: Start some FAQ/category tags" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8003" CreationDate="2016-01-21T21:00:03.297" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow has a few FAQ tags because traditionally it was extremely difficult for people to &lt;em&gt;find&lt;/em&gt; the questions they needed in a timely manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, the C++ tag on Stack Overflow gets, on average, somewhere north of 200 questions per day. And a lot of them are duplicates, but &lt;em&gt;finding&lt;/em&gt; the questions they duplicate is tedious, especially in the past when the UI didn't offer a list of suggestions and there was no &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lightsaber?sort=frequent&quot;&gt;list of frequently-linked questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Y'all don't get 200 questions about lightsabers every day. In fact, there haven't been 200 questions about lightsabers &lt;em&gt;ever&lt;/em&gt; asked here. The entire list of questions about lightsabers is shorter than the list of &lt;em&gt;frequently asked C++ questions&lt;/em&gt; on Stack Overflow. I strongly suspect you'd put more work into creating these lists than you would ever save by &lt;em&gt;having&lt;/em&gt; them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you don't have to create them. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lightsaber?sort=frequent&quot;&gt;The system handily builds them for you.&lt;/a&gt; So just use what you get for free...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/168359/special-handling-for-faq-questions&quot;&gt;Special handling for FAQ questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T21:02:51.717" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7968" CreationDate="2016-01-21T21:35:23.867" Score="2" Body="&lt;h1&gt;How will you handle controversial topics?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the past, this site has had some issues when discussing controversial issues (e.g. politics, social issues, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a moderator, how will you handle these controversial topics?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1807" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T21:35:23.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1289" CreationDate="2016-01-22T02:38:40.650" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme:&lt;/strong&gt; How old is this non-&lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; character who shares a name with a &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; character?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator:&lt;/strong&gt; Allie B, though it may have been unintentional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height:&lt;/strong&gt; January, 2016.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; Originated with this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/114983/how-old-is-finn&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;, followed by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/115010/how-old-is-rey&quot;&gt;m&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/115312/how-old-is-luke&quot;&gt;u&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/115738/how-old-is-han&quot;&gt;l&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/115796/how-old-is-mace&quot;&gt;t&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/115802/how-old-is-tarkin&quot;&gt;i&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/115886/how-old-were-the-rebels-wedge-and-biggs&quot;&gt;p&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/117723/how-old-is-chewie&quot;&gt;l&lt;/a&gt;e others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Explanation&lt;/strong&gt;: A question where the age of a character who shares their name with a &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; character is asked.  The title of the question deliberately does not mention the work, so it can make people think it's a Star Wars question at first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-07-11T15:40:59.053" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2016-01-22T03:59:56.893" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would give a whole detailed explanation for my username, but really just see the previous post, it's probably all explained over there. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55866" LastEditorUserId="55866" LastEditDate="2016-01-24T20:24:08.103" LastActivityDate="2016-01-24T20:24:08.103" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8008" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8073" CreationDate="2016-01-22T07:34:56.410" Score="20" ViewCount="1389" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are questions about Lemony Snicket's &quot;A Series of Unfortunate Events&quot; considered on-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I wouldn't necessarily classify them as science fiction or fantasy, they do have some fantastical elements (e.g. lachrymose leeches, bombinating beast, Ink, etc.) and some sci-fi elements (e.g. the VFD, a lot of the technology in &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; ways, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55866" LastActivityDate="2017-01-17T01:32:25.493" Title="Are questions about Lemony Snicket's &quot;A Series of Unfortunate Events&quot; considered on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8009" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8010" CreationDate="2016-01-22T09:10:42.977" Score="12" ViewCount="239" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I'm ill-equipped to be a mod, nobody would vote for me, &lt;em&gt;and other good reasons&lt;/em&gt;, I am not nominating myself for the current (or past) elections. Thank you, hold your applause.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, I am intrigued by the &lt;strong&gt;blue boxes&lt;/strong&gt; showing the Candidate Score for nominees. I haven't been able to find a way to generate one for myself (possibly another reason I shouldn't be a mod?). There are many moderation and participation badges and I don't know which are the ones counted, etc...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to generate one of these short of nominating yourself and then bowing out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16974" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-06-05T13:03:09.953" LastActivityDate="2016-06-05T13:03:39.783" Title="Finding out your Candidate Score" Tags="|support|election|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8009" CreationDate="2016-01-22T09:29:10.767" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/298418/candidate-score?UserIds=1530814%2C3622940%2C1252759%2C871050%2C572%2C1234256%2C1065190%2C492405%2C616460%2C224988%2C3366929%2C465378%2C229044%2C1380752%2C100297%2C1849664%2C189134%2C542517%2C2371861%2C2581872%2C109702%2C3001736%2C1069068%2C476%2C995926%2C1952862%2C2876565%2C379693%2C1603234&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Using the standard SEDE query Kevin linked to with our user ids:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your Score: 14  (5 for rep, 3 mod badges, 3 editing badges, 3 participation badges)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My Score: 8 (2 for rep, 1 mod badge, 1 editing badge, 4 participation badges)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35327" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-06-05T13:03:39.783" LastActivityDate="2016-06-05T13:03:39.783" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7968" CreationDate="2016-01-22T16:59:59.313" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a corollary to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7999/53771&quot;&gt;Richard's question&lt;/a&gt; about high rep users:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What will be your approach to low rep (&amp;lt;1k rep) users in general?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Low rep users are the vast majority of the users, and the ones who frequently need some gentle guidance. As a low rep user I've felt like my opinion was discounted because it is assumed that low rep users &amp;quot;just don't understand XYZ&amp;quot; about the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How will you handle an issue raised by a low rep user so they don't feel like they're being discounted due to their rep?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53771" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-01-22T16:59:59.313" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8009" CreationDate="2016-01-22T18:03:00.770" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/298418/candidate-score?UserIds=3267,3804,1027,2765&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is the Query run for the current site  mods. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;User Link        Total CappedRep BadgeCount ModBadges EditingBadges ParticipationBadges &#xA;---------------- ----- --------- ---------- --------- ------------- ------------------- &#xA;Kevin            36    20        16         5         5             6                   &#xA;AncientSwordRage 35    20        15         5         4             6                   &#xA;Keen             34    20        14         4         4             6                   &#xA;Thaddeus         33    20        13         4         5             4                   &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2016-01-22T18:08:30.957" LastActivityDate="2016-01-22T18:08:30.957" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8013" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-22T18:03:21.400" Score="1" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this will be explicitly stated at a later stage in the election cycle, but....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How many moderator positions are open for this round of elections?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is a moderator stepping down or is another moderator being added to the team?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm &lt;strong&gt;definitely not&lt;/strong&gt; looking for any mud slinging about whether a moderator is stepping down or should be stepping down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53771" LastActivityDate="2016-01-24T10:34:17.650" Title="How many moderator positions are open?" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8013" CreationDate="2016-01-22T18:28:49.163" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/41668/catija&quot;&gt;Catija&lt;/a&gt; pointed out in a comment that I clearly overlooked that there are two open positions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is answered very clearly on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election?cb=1&quot;&gt;election post&lt;/a&gt;... in the right sidebar... it says there are two positions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/5184/phantom42&quot;&gt;phantom42&lt;/a&gt; pointed out in a comment that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the mods have said in chat that no one is currently stepping down. this is to augment the current staff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53771" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-01-22T18:28:49.163" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-01-22T18:28:49.163" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8015" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-22T20:17:22.930" Score="5" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can I get a report of most duplicated questions ?&#xA;Inspired by recent discussions and curiosity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2089" LastActivityDate="2016-01-22T20:44:57.953" Title="How can I get a report of most duplicated questions?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8015" CreationDate="2016-01-22T20:17:22.930" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks to @Shog9 's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8003/proposal-start-some-faq-category-tags#comment22553_8003&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt; I had a go at using data.stackexchange.com to get the data. His example seems to be a bit out of date as regards the schema so I researched a new working version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not yet fully familiar with the full db schema so feel free to improve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bear in mind this only lists actually declared duplicate questions, not tags or groups of &quot;very similar but not duplicate&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This only lists question with 3+ dups, there are a few 100 2 dups.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/426939/questions-with-3-or-more-identified-duplicates&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;For main site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/meta.scifi/query/426939/questions-with-3-or-more-identified-duplicates&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;and for meta!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2089" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2016-01-22T20:44:57.953" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-01-22T20:17:22.930" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7917" CreationDate="2016-01-23T03:30:16.670" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately I have been off the SF grid for a while, only answering questions in other sites, so I am really unpleasantly surprised now after reading your goodbye.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;To prove that the symmetry of the Universe is a mysterious thing, ironically, my decision was strongly contributed to by a specific user; that an overwhelming majority of those reading this would not ever suspect. I was among that majority :)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Strangely I must admit I feel a bit addressed. Unbeknowst to the others we had a small number of run-ins on other sites and at least for me it was pretty clear from the onset that while we share a certain trait of directness our convictions and personal views are &lt;em&gt;vastly&lt;/em&gt; different. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given our differences perhaps you can accept something which can be easier&#xA;dismissed from a more friendly side: &lt;strong&gt;It is also pretty clear for me that you were (and still are) an integral part and a building block of Sci-Fi Stackexchange&lt;/strong&gt;. I do not know if you really acknowledged it; well, you have it now from &lt;em&gt;me&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is an idiom in German: You can only appreciate what you had if you have lost it. The Great Suspension was really bad news, it teared a very large and conspicous hole in Mos Eisley.&#xA;I think one reason was that you really liked this site and this love was reciprocated. Therefore whatever you do, do not think lightly of your presence in SFF, it had a strong positive impact which will last a very long time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gesundheit !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30266" LastActivityDate="2016-01-23T03:30:16.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8018" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-23T04:09:49.917" Score="5" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the question : &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/115856/could-there-been-some-seer-blood-in-harry-potter&quot;&gt;Could there been some “Seer” Blood in Harry Potter?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the above mentioned question, If Megha presented her comment as an answer, the answer would be a very good one. Still it would be incomplete unless we included ibid's answer, which IMO, is incomplete unless it adds some more facts to establish the questions authenticity, which are provided by Megha. So if suppose Megha presented her comment as an answer, which answer should I accept?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54738" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-01-23T11:02:16.203" Title="Which answer to accept if there are more than one correct answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2016-01-26T16:48:56.603" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8018" CreationDate="2016-01-23T04:30:47.287" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Accept the one that you found more helpful; that's really the only criterion for acceptance. But if you really can't decide between them, then you have at least four more options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Accept neither.&lt;/strong&gt; That's perfectly acceptable, and we will forgive you. Although the checkmark is a nice thing to see on one of your answers, the benefits it provides are small compared to getting lots of upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nudge them both to incorporate information from the other answer, then accept the first that does.&lt;/strong&gt; It's sometimes seen as &amp;quot;bad form&amp;quot; to use information from other answers in your own, but there are no rules against doing so (though courtesy demands at least acknowledging the original source).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I'm not sure I like this option, largely because it creates a sense of urgency that I'm opposed to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Create a new answer incorporating information from both.&lt;/strong&gt; Self-accepting is explicitly encouraged on the SE network, and our goal is to provide the best possible resource for science fiction and fantasy information. Posting your own answer including the (correct) information from both of the other answers, and then accepting it, is a fair compromise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're worried about poaching reputation or upvotes, you can &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts&quot;&gt;make the answer Community Wiki&lt;/a&gt;, which means you won't earn reputation from it (and you won't earn badges from it). Self-accepts are also not pinned to the top of the answers list (unlike accepted answer from someone else), so accepting your answer won't obscure the other answers unless yours gets more upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Accept one, give the other a bounty.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; The main problem here is that the awards are radically different; acceptance gives the answerer a +15 rep gain, but the minimum bounty amount is 50. But if one answer is substantially more impressive, while perhaps not answering the question as effectively, this can be a good option&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also don't forget that you can change your acceptance later. So if you choose one today, and then tomorrow the other improves their answer enough that you want it to have the tick, you can do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Thanks to DVK for returning from exile (briefly) to suggest this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-01-23T11:02:16.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7968" CreationDate="2016-01-23T21:10:44.060" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;A considerable number of candidates were criticised for their past actions – rather than their lack of activity in certain areas. While we all make mistakes at times and being criticised is an inevitable part of moderation, I consider the way we handle such events a crucial indicator for good moderator candidates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was any past activity of yours particularly badly received (when in doubt, choose the worst or what was mentioned in the course of this election) and why do you think that this does not affect your suitability as a moderator?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20840" LastActivityDate="2016-01-23T21:10:44.060" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8013" CreationDate="2016-01-23T23:34:46.957" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are presently 10 candidates standing for 2 vacant moderator positions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uB9tT.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uB9tT.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that the addition of one more candidate would allow us to move to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/135360/theres-an-election-going-on-whats-happening-and-how-does-it-work&quot;&gt;a primary&lt;/a&gt; (and a further 4 days for the wider community to become involved in the election process) I hope &lt;strong&gt;at least one more candidate&lt;/strong&gt; will choose to step up to the mark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2016-01-24T10:34:17.650" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2016-01-25T04:42:56.890" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a maniacal supervillain who &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zhPhow2EGE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hates&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that hedgehog!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11061" LastActivityDate="2016-01-25T04:42:56.890" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7968" CreationDate="2016-01-25T08:26:50.630" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you ever been suspended (from any Stack Exchange main site or chat), and if so for what? Are you willing to release existing moderators from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/legal/moderator-agreement&quot;&gt;moderator agreement&lt;/a&gt; to confirm or rectify your answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-01-25T08:26:50.630" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8025" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8027" CreationDate="2016-01-25T14:56:41.743" Score="9" ViewCount="251" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm just really curious to know if there is any way to check for the largest bounty ever awarded to someone for an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20393" LastActivityDate="2016-01-25T16:08:42.267" Title="What's the biggest bounty someone has been awarded for an answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8025" CreationDate="2016-01-25T15:09:44.833" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you mean total bounty rep on one post, regardless of how many people contributed bounties to the total, I believe &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2937/story-where-the-number-3-is-the-monster/105743#105743&quot;&gt;the accepted answer to &quot;Story where the number 3 is the monster?&quot;&lt;/a&gt; has the most bounty points of any post in the entire SE network: +3000&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35327" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-01-25T15:09:44.833" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8025" CreationDate="2016-01-25T16:08:42.267" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/269743/which-answer-has-earned-highest-bounty-in-se-network&quot;&gt;Asked and answered over on MSE&lt;/a&gt;. Although Ixrec is correct that Kyle Hale's legendary ID answer is the top-earner network-wide, I'm going to shamelessly steal from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/269757/276025&quot;&gt;rene's answer&lt;/a&gt; with a network-wide &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/396019/which-answer-has-earned-highest-bounty-in-se-network&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SEDE query&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/otvkj.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/otvkj.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because SEDE is updated weekly, that query will sometimes not be perfectly accurate; nevertheless, it seems unlikely that anyone is going to beat Kyle's record anytime soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2016-01-25T16:08:42.267" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8028" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-25T16:43:59.643" Score="-3" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question similar to this &lt;a href=&quot;https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/34196/depth-of-an-inhabitable-shell-around-the-earth&quot;&gt;https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/34196/depth-of-an-inhabitable-shell-around-the-earth&lt;/a&gt; on the SF&amp;amp;F site.  I deleted it because I didn't want to lose the rep just to have it get closed on me.  This comment, while helpful, is incredibly disturbing to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question is much better suited to&#xA;  worldbuilding.stackexchange.com. SciFi.SE is about existing&#xA;  properties, and I'm pretty sure cross-posting is frowned upon.  -Name&#xA;  Omitted- 16 mins ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Better suited, okay I'll concede that point...  Don't cross post, okay, I can accept that.  But existing properties??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a young writer, one of the things that established writers consistently repeat is that, &quot;If you write you're a writer.&quot;  This is important because it helps new writers to not look down on themselves because they are not published.   Getting paid is not what makes good writing, or good sci-fi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the SF&amp;amp;F community should be just as much about building up, teaching and even helping to create the next generation of science fiction and fantasy.  Otherwise, all this might as well just be a chat.  Why make it permanent if not to be a lasting resource?  The Q&amp;amp;A format that we live and die by here is about answering questions in perpetuity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that's my two cents, but I'll respect the opinions of the community.  Is the question that I asked appropriate for the site or not?  If not, does a work of science fiction need to be published for it to be discussed here?  If neither of these are correct, then where do we draw the line?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4346" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:52:23.267" LastActivityDate="2016-01-25T17:18:55.417" Title="When is science fiction existing?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8028" CreationDate="2016-01-25T16:59:36.960" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Existing properties&quot; means &quot;published works&quot;; works that &lt;em&gt;have already been created&lt;/em&gt; and are &lt;em&gt;accessible to the general public&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;That ranges from the most famous franchises and works by writers that are known to people outside SF-aficionados, to stuff by relatively obscure writers with just a small number of readers. We actually have some writers and aspiring writers among out regulars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the line is drawn at consuming vs. creating. If you want to ask about &lt;em&gt;creating&lt;/em&gt; a fictional world, ask over on &lt;em&gt;Worldbuilding&lt;/em&gt;. If you've read or seen something and aren't sure how to interpret it, ask here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2016-01-25T16:59:36.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8028" CreationDate="2016-01-25T17:15:35.747" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding your &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/116233/inhabitable-shell-around-the-earth&quot;&gt;original question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, there are actually three problems with it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's got &lt;em&gt;loads&lt;/em&gt; of sub-questions. This is something &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7074/when-are-we-okay-with-multiple-questions-in-one&quot;&gt;we want to avoid as much as possible&lt;/a&gt;, for a number of reasons unrelated to your core concern&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your last part is &quot;help me define this question.&quot; I can appreciate that you want to cover all of your bases, and I think that's commendable from the standpoint of a writer; but it's not a good fit for the Q&amp;amp;A format of SE.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Off-topicness. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That last one is what you actually asked about, so I'm going to cover it very extensively from here on out. But I wanted you to be aware that your question had other problems (something I notice the WB folks have already pointed out).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Is your question off-topic&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. I'm sorry, but yes. One of our off-topic reasons is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions seeking scientific solutions or explanations are off-topic unless they relate directly to a cited work of fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7364/what-is-our-actual-policy-on-science-questions&quot;&gt;attempts to pin down what we mean by this&lt;/a&gt;, but your question clearly falls under it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why&lt;/em&gt; is your question off-topic&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I think this is really what your question is driving at, and the answer is what sort of site we want to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I believe the SF&amp;amp;F community should be just as much about building up, teaching and even helping to create the next generation of science fiction and fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that sort of community is a bad idea, but it's not the sort of community we have here. The reason for that is mainly because of our knowledge domain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this site, we're experts on the genre of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Personally, I'm an expert on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien; we have experts on &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;, or even on the published output of science fiction and fantasy literature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; have (or, not in abundance) is expertise in geophysics, materials sciences, or narrative storytelling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the moment, the larger community is perfectly happy having that division of expertise; and we've been around for long enough that it's unlikely we'll be able to shift our momentum now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;But you still want a community like that&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Great! Personally I think that, between WorldBuilding and &lt;a href=&quot;https://writers.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Writers&lt;/a&gt;, you're pretty well sorted. But if you think there should be another SE community more specifically tailored to supporting aspiring SFF writers, then more power to you. We have a way of accomplishing that: &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Area51&lt;/a&gt;. That's how all (well, most) SE sites got started, and your idea might flourish too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point I want to get across is that, just because something isn't a good fit &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt; doesn't mean it's not a good fit &lt;em&gt;anywhere&lt;/em&gt;. SE may not have the niche you're looking for, so you should create it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does come with the caveat that your niche may not be a good fit for the SE format, or may not have enough support to get off the ground. Those are both unfortunate reasons why Area51 proposals flounder, and I can't really help you with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; 10k+ only link, sorry&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2016-01-25T17:15:35.747" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8028" CreationDate="2016-01-25T17:18:55.417" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a number of issues with your post, all of which made the advice to head over to Worldbuilding exactly appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first, and biggest, issue is that the scope of this site, as has been determined over the years by the community, has settled on discussions of works of science fiction and fantasy, and the overall features of the genre itself. In order to be on-topic here, the question needs to relate to some work of science fiction that other users can consume and comment on, or else, directly related to the genre (history questions, trope questions, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question about a work of fiction you're still in the process of writing is off-topic here because &lt;em&gt;we can't read it yet&lt;/em&gt;. That makes it impossible for us to answer questions about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other issues with your question are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That's way too many questions for one post; what if one person answers #1 and a second answers #2, which is &quot;correct?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many of those are asking for open-ended discussion, meaning there's more than one right answer. On this SE site, that's off-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many of those are asking for real-world science explanations of what's &quot;plausible&quot; or &quot;possible&quot;. From our perspective, &lt;em&gt;whatever you put in your novel&lt;/em&gt; is possible, because we focus on the in-universe physics you create, not the real-world physics that really exists.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2016-01-25T17:18:55.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8032" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-25T20:06:54.700" Score="12" ViewCount="1541" Body="&lt;p&gt;In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&amp;amp;A thread for the candidates. Questions collected &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7968/2016-moderator-election-qa-question-collection&quot;&gt;from an earlier thread&lt;/a&gt; have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as the space for the candidates to provide their answers. Not every question was compiled - as noted, we only selected the top 8 questions as submitted by the community, plus 2 pre-set questions from us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a candidate, your job is simple - post an answer to this question, citing each of the questions and then post your answer to each question given in that same answer. For your convenience, I will include all of the questions in quote format with a break in between each, suitable for you to insert your answers. Just &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/73444db7-3391-49a7-be2d-6ac8ca13a8e8/view-source&quot;&gt;copy the whole thing after the first set of three dashes&lt;/a&gt;. Oh, and please consider putting your name at the top of your post so that readers will know who you are before they finish reading everything you have written.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once all the answers have been compiled, this will serve as a transcript for voters to view the thoughts of their candidates, and will be appropriately linked in the Election page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck to all of the candidates!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How will your moderator practices be shaped by the person in question? Will you change the way you moderate for another moderator, high reputation user, or newbie?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How will you handle highly visible, controversial incidents?&lt;/strong&gt; The last year has seen suspensions of high rep users, freezing of our main chat room, and a moderator being asked to resign. I do not want to rehash those incidents, but one thing that stood out to me was the decision by both the community managers and the moderators to keep as silent as possible, asking us to do the same — most notably to not discuss it in the chat room. &lt;strong&gt;How will you handle incidents like the suspension of a high rep user or a chat regular?&lt;/strong&gt; How will you balance the need for privacy, the need to prevent escalation, and the need of the community for information?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a moderator should be a &quot;human exception handler&quot;, one who steps in when the system needs occasional intervention. &lt;strong&gt;How will you best separate your own opinions and your responsibilities for being an ambassador for the site?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What do you do now to build the community, rather than your own prestige in the community?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;One of the complaints we see often is that many users are not aware of current meta policies. Additionally, some of the policy decisions conflict with each other. What do you suggest we do to make these policies more definitive and more accessible to the average user?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Will you be able to separate yourself from relationships made in chat in order to fulfill your role as a moderator dealing with people you are chat friendly with on the main site?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Have you ever been suspended (from any Stack Exchange main site or chat), and if so for what? Are you willing to release existing moderators from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/legal/moderator-agreement&quot;&gt;moderator agreement&lt;/a&gt; to confirm or rectify your answer?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How often, and for how long, are you willing to be on the site each day/week? Our current mods are fantastic, but it is sometimes difficult to find one when you need one.  What are your normal usage patterns here?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2537" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-02-04T18:57:35.283" Title="2016 Moderator Election Q&amp;A - Questionnaire" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8032" CreationDate="2016-01-25T20:13:48.263" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'm @alexwlchan, and these are my answers.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election/4#post-115598&quot;&gt;my nomination post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How will your moderator practices be shaped by the person in question? Will you change the way you moderate for another moderator, high reputation user, or newbie?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It depends a lot on the severity and nature of the incident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Putting aside the extreme cases, I'd be more lenient with new users. They don't know our rules or how the site weeks. Treat them as an opportunity to teach them, and welcome them to our community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;High-rep users and moderators should be held to a higher standard. They (particularly the diamonds) are role-models for the site – if they start pushing the line, there needs to be a gentle but firm pushback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How will you handle highly visible, controversial incidents?&lt;/strong&gt; The last year has seen suspensions of high rep users, freezing of our main chat room, and a moderator being asked to resign. I do not want to rehash those incidents, but one thing that stood out to me was the decision by both the community managers and the moderators to keep as silent as possible, asking us to do the same — most notably to not discuss it in the chat room. &lt;strong&gt;How will you handle incidents like the suspension of a high rep user or a chat regular?&lt;/strong&gt; How will you balance the need for privacy, the need to prevent escalation, and the need of the community for information?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With care and in coordination with the other moderators/CMs.  Here are a few of my ideas (some cribbed from Richard the last time this was discussed):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Maintain a chat presence after the incident. Being around to answer questions, even if you have to say &quot;Sorry, I can't answer that&quot;, helps people feel like they're not talking to a brick wall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If appropriate, I think it's useful to explain &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; you can't answer the question – people are more likely to accept decisions based on secret information if they know why it has to be kept private.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it's a very high-profile suspension (say, from the first page in the user list), post a brief statement in chat. Something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We've suspended @jimkirk &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/23385/226928&quot;&gt;to cool down&lt;/a&gt;.  This is not related to his joking about made-up entries in the captain's log.  If you want to discuss his suspension, please remember that he can't reply, but will be able to see your comments when he gets back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or words to a similar effect. People will notice anyway; this helps cut down on repeated discussions as people wake up.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Talk to the other mods and CMs before acting.  High profile incidents will inevitably attract more controversy.  I think people are more likely to accept a decision as fair if it's clear that it was made collectively, and not by a rogue individual.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a moderator should be a &quot;human exception handler&quot;, one who steps in when the system needs occasional intervention. &lt;strong&gt;How will you best separate your own opinions and your responsibilities for being an ambassador for the site?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being careful about what I say, and where I say it.  Although I often have strong opinions and a big mouth, I'm pretty good about keeping them off the site unless I actually need to say them aloud.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also have to be sure my opinion doesn't interfere with my moderation. I'll have to be careful, and listen to feedback if people (or other moderators) think I'm drifting off course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What do you do now to build the community, rather than your own prestige in the community?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lots of voting.&lt;/strong&gt;  The point of this site is Q&amp;amp;A, and votes make that happen.  We all know the rush you get from an upvote – spreading the love helps people feel good about their posts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I stick around in the review queues.&lt;/strong&gt;  To keep the community high-quality, it's really important to tidy away spam and rock crushers – if the noise-to-signal ratio is too high, people drift away.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Twitter.&lt;/strong&gt;  I follow the @StackSciFi account on Twitter, and will often retweet posts that I find interesting.  I know it gets at least a few more people onto the site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;One of the complaints we see often is that many users are not aware of current meta policies. Additionally, some of the policy decisions conflict with each other. What do you suggest we do to make these policies more definitive and more accessible to the average user?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should use the [faq] tag on more questions.  It hasn't been used in &lt;em&gt;four&lt;/em&gt; years. It's a good way to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;mark policies as definitive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;help them carry extra weight when they're linked&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;make these questions easier to find&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; And if elected, I'd start by giving &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2571/3567&quot;&gt;this question about &quot;can the community accept an answer instead of an OP&quot;&lt;/a&gt; an 'faq' tag. Partly because it's asked a lot, and partly because a dupe was asked just hours before the election closed. Current affairs!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Will you be able to separate yourself from relationships made in chat in order to fulfill your role as a moderator dealing with people you are chat friendly with on the main site?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to think so.  And if I'm struggling, there are several other moderators to help me out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't claim to have any silver bullet for turning off my feelings. But I'm pretty good at spotting when my emotions are getting the better of me, and being able to step back and let somebody else take over.  I do that in my daily life; I'd do the same in moderation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Have you ever been suspended (from any Stack Exchange main site or chat), and if so for what? Are you willing to release existing moderators from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/legal/moderator-agreement&quot;&gt;moderator agreement&lt;/a&gt; to confirm or rectify your answer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not that I remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How often, and for how long, are you willing to be on the site each day/week? Our current mods are fantastic, but it is sometimes difficult to find one when you need one.  What are your normal usage patterns here?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I live in the UK, so UTC or UTC+1 timezone.  I'm usually available between 7-8am and 7–12pm on weekdays, more varied on weekends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's usually when I'm posting. I'm not looking at the site continuously, but I'm usually near my computer and notice when I got pinged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It depends on the nature of the arguments and flags. Anybody who makes a valuable contribution is somebody I’d like to keep, but not if they cause too many problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For petty squabbles, I'd talk to the user in private. I'd explain why they're causing upset, and ask them to stop.  It's not worth losing somebody over small things.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What if it's more offensive, and making people feel uncomfortable or unsafe? Say, threats or harassment. I'd be much faster to ban. However good their contributions, they’re not worth having if it makes other people feel unsafe.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Talk to them, and find out why they did what they did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It it’s a minor disagreement, we can thrash it out in comments or in chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it’s a bigger disagreement about community opinion, I’d take it to Meta. The rules are based on what the community thinks, not the mods. If two of us have a disagreement about how everybody else feels, the best thing to do is to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T10:55:33.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8032" CreationDate="2016-01-25T20:21:06.720" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vote &lt;strong&gt;Jason Baker.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before I get started, I want to be clear about something; any time I talk about actions I would take as a moderator, for the sake of brevity I'm going to omit the first step: &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;consult with other mods.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; In real practice, that will &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; be the first thing I do, for all but the most trivial cases (e.g. obvious spam). I'm not the only mod, and I'd be (one of) the newest, so I plan to take advantage of the knowledge of the more experienced mods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How will your moderator practices be shaped by the person in question? Will you change the way you moderate for another moderator, high reputation user, or newbie?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously this is going to depend a great deal on circumstance. Some moderator actions, like cleaning up comment flags, I don't expect will require any special handling for different types of user. If the comment isn't adding anything, it doesn't matter who said it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things like Not An Answer flags I will probably handle separately (although again it depends on circumstance). A high-rep user should know when to leave a comment and when to leave an answer, so a terse &amp;quot;This should have been a comment&amp;quot; comment followed by deletion seems a reasonable response. A lower-rep user, on the other hand, may not know to comment (or may not be able to comment). What I do in that case will depend on the type of &amp;quot;comment&amp;quot;; if it doesn't add anything, I would leave a guidance comment (including links to the help center) and then delete it; if the &amp;quot;comment&amp;quot; &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; add something, though, I would probably convert it to a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could go on listing examples, but I think my point is made; I'm not going to let either group get away with being disruptive, but new and low-rep users need more guidance than slaps on the wrist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How will you handle highly visible, controversial incidents?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, disclaimer: I had very low exposure to most of these incidents; I've only occasionally popped into chat over the past year, so I don't have a perfectly clear idea of what frustrations the community had with regards to them. So this response is going to be pretty vague.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the key is to manage the conversation, not control the conversation. The full question expressed some frustrations at being stonewalled by the mod/CM team, and at being asked not to discuss burning issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously stonewalling is something I, if I were elected, could help with directly; to steal shamelessly from one of Richard's deleted answers (also the source of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7985/31051&quot;&gt;the mushroom quote mentioned in the original question&lt;/a&gt;), simply being in chat to respond to inquiries (obviously bearing the moderator agreement in mind) is a step. Being present would also help me try to keep the conversation constructive. People are &lt;em&gt;going&lt;/em&gt; to talk about these issues; that's not a debatable point. Rather than shutting them down, I think a more constructive response (as a moderator) is to minimize ill-feelings, finger-pointing, and the general simmer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't honestly know how much that approach may have helped in the past incidents, or how feasible they would be for future incidents; I would of course work with the CM team, aka the people who are paid to know how to do these sorts of things better than me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How will you best separate your own opinions and your responsibilities for being an ambassador for the site?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see my first loyalty as being to the site, and to the community at large. As a member of the community, I'm going to have opinions about how things should be run; that's a given. However, I would slow down on posting meta answers shaping new policy, and instead use voting to indicate my preferences. I know that the diamond is a weighty responsibility, and also a badge of authority, and I don't want other users to think that, just because a mod said so, this is the right way to go. Perhaps that's less of a problem than I'm making it out to be (I hope it is), but it's something I'd like to avoid anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, I would focus my meta activity on enlightening users on existing policy, or providing informational resources (like data from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;public data explorer&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, I can tell you until I'm blue in the face that I'll enforce policies I disagree with, if the community wills it; I will absolutely do that. But as long as I have (what appears to be) a personal stake in a policy decision, there's always going to be some doubt that I will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What do you do now to build the community, rather than your own prestige in the community?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose that depends on what you mean by &amp;quot;build the community.&amp;quot; If you mean help the community grow, honestly not much; I've never been much of a promoter, so although I often recommend SFF to my real-life friends, I don't think I've managed to get any of them to join.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you mean &amp;quot;support the goals of community&amp;quot;, then I do that in three ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Providing guidance to new askers/answerers.&lt;/strong&gt; Sometimes this means editing, sometimes it means leaving comments guiding new users to improve their questions or answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Review queues.&lt;/strong&gt; I spend a lot of time in the queues; it's often the first page I load when I check in to SFF. Although there is a certain amount of gamification and self-aggrandizement there (with badges and a big honking leaderboard), I see it more as polishing the community; getting rid of the things we don't want, salvaging the things we do, and keeping an eye on the things we aren't sure about&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meta participation.&lt;/strong&gt;  I spend quite a lot of time on Meta, responding to questions about policies. This ties in somewhat to the next question but, as with the review queues, I see this as helping to clarify community direction&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As well, I've recently been getting into building third-party applications to help users work with the site better; I've already built &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7888/can-we-have-a-per-tag-make-spoilers-visible-button/7897#7897&quot;&gt;a userscript that allows toggling spoiler markup on question/answers&lt;/a&gt;, and I'm currently working on a web application to help easily &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7764/how-can-i-tell-how-much-rep-i-lost-to-repcap-in-recent-days&quot;&gt;determine how much reputation a given user has lost to the cap&lt;/a&gt; (more quickly than just using &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the data explorer&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What do you suggest we do to make these policies more definitive and more accessible to the average user?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to do two things, which will hopefully at least help with his problem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clarify existing policies.&lt;/strong&gt; There should be clarity on what our policies actually &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt;, before we worry about pointing people towards them. I'd like to get a sense for the policies people feel are confusing (our answer-dupe policy, for example), clarify them, and possibly get a firm consensus for some of the more controversial ones (our answer-dupe policy, for example)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Increase visibility.&lt;/strong&gt; This is the harder one, and I don't have clear answers for it. One thought that occurred to me is getting more mileage out of &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;; it seems tailor-made for the purpose. While we've used it a bit for that, most of the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; questions are focused on our spoiler policy, not many of our other policies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Making use of &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/featured&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;featured&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;featured&lt;/a&gt; also occurred to me; possibly rotating policies through &amp;quot;Featured on Meta&amp;quot;, which appears in the sidebar for every logged-in user. While having canonical policy questions to refer to in comments is helpful, I think allowing new users to see some of those policies &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; they ask would be helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pointing to some of these policies in the Tour is also a good idea, I think. Although I understand the reasons for not overloading new users with rules and policies, I think at &lt;em&gt;least&lt;/em&gt; a link to the on-topic and off-topic help center pages is called for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Will you be able to separate yourself from relationships made in chat in order to fulfill your role as a moderator dealing with people you are chat friendly with on the main site?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not hard for me, since I've not traditionally been active in chat. However, I realize that the broader question here is &amp;quot;how will you moderate your 'friends'&amp;quot;, so I'll touch on that briefly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I definitely think I've formed closer relationships with some users than others; there are definitely some users I get on with better than others. But my personal feelings don't enter into it; my first loyalty is to the site, not to any individual member of it, and that's true whether I have a modhammer or a dupehammer or a &lt;a href=&quot;http://quaap.com/D/media/thors-hammer.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;little cardboard one&lt;/a&gt;. I'm already not afraid to cast delete/close/down votes on posts made by &amp;quot;friends,&amp;quot; if I feel that's the best course of action for the site, and I likewise would not be afraid of using mod powers on them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have you ever been suspended, and if so for what?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, I've never been suspended on any SE site, or in chat. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/23386/tars&quot;&gt;TARS&lt;/a&gt; (a moderator on Movies&amp;amp;TV.SE) has &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8032/2016-moderator-election-qa-questionnaire/8034?noredirect=1#comment22737_8034&quot;&gt;confirmed this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible I was kick-muted once or twice in chat, during an incident where Wad Cheber (one of our users) had created a chat room and was experimenting with ownership powers. Of course, it's equally possible that I &lt;em&gt;wasn't&lt;/em&gt;. I honestly cannot remember; it was a strange day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How often, and for how long, are you willing to be on the site each day/week?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm here every day; since I've joined the site, there's only been one day I haven't at least checked in, and as I recall that was a family emergency day. I'm not always on at consistent times, but most days I have the site open in a tab (that I check regularly) pretty much all day. If you live in the Western Hemisphere, there's a good chance that you'll be able to find me any time you need me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would first delete the comments and discuss with the parties separately, and privately. Hopefully cooler heads will prevail, and we can move beyond whatever unpleasantness occurred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, since this seems to be an ongoing issue, that may not be possible. If that's the case, and if the user was being quite abusive, then a short suspension may be in order, to give them a chance to cool off. Although I said earlier I wouldn't be mentioning this, I feel its important here to reiterate that I would be discussing &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; with the other mods, CM team, and probably off-site mods in The Teacher's Lounge. This is emphatically not a decision I would be making on my own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the user wasn't being abusive, merely argumentative and confrontational, then merely nuking the comment thread may be sufficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would privately discuss it with them. Although I may have disagreed initially, it may turn out that there was something I missed. Alternately, it may turn out that there was something &lt;em&gt;they&lt;/em&gt; missed. If I felt the mod acted improperly (as opposed to merely having a different opinion on policy), then I would bring other mods into the discussion. On the other hand, if the other mod acted reasonably, but we had a philosophical difference, I would not take additional action; there are really three reasons why:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My voice is not the only voice.&lt;/strong&gt; Although I have strong opinions, I don't have the right or the inclination to bend others to my will. Sometimes there are going to be differences of opinion and, as long as that doesn't do harm to the community, that's okay.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Present a united front.&lt;/strong&gt; I'm of the opinion that moderators should present a united front to the community; that's not to say we should blindly back each other up, but bringing disagreements into the public view seems very damaging to me; consistent signals are the key, so the community has clear guidance on what is and isn't okay&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If the decision is contentious, it will get brought up on meta.&lt;/strong&gt; Ultimately, if the decision is &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; contentions, I won't &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; to do anything about it; the community will happily take the issue to meta (or chat) and discuss it endlessly. At that point, all moderators (and the wider community) have a new standard we can follow: new, community-driven policy. And if that doesn't happen, then the issue was clearly not so important for me to get in a twist over.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T16:14:38.600" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8032" CreationDate="2016-01-25T20:27:04.060" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;My name is &lt;strong&gt;Mike Edenfield&lt;/strong&gt; and this is my obligatory joke about approving this message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How will your moderator practices be shaped by the person in question? Will you change the way you moderate for another moderator, high reputation user, or newbie?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer to this question would depend on exactly which moderation task I was performing, because I think it makes a difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the one had, moderators act as the &quot;police&quot; for the community. Our job is to enforce the rules in a way that other community members cannot. In that role, it's very important to be fair, even-handed, and impartial. Users need to know that everyone who openly abuses the site or breaks the rules will be dealt with in a consistent manner, or they lose trust in the moderation team to do their job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, moderators are not machines that mechanically apply policies. If that were true, we wouldn't need humans to do it; SE has some really smart programmers working for it that could make that happen. Instead, we elect moderators from within the community precisely because they're expected to take each situation in context, and apply their own judgement to it. And I do think there are cases where different classes of users would need to be handled differently. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, take a user asking an off-topic question.  If it were an established user, I would expect them to understand the site's policies: how closing works, why arguing in comments is bad practice, how to use meta to resolve disputes, etc. Closing the question with a short explanation why should suffice, and I would hope and expect them not to &quot;pick a fight&quot; in the subsequent comments. On the other hand, a new user who has never asked a question, let alone had it closed on them, may be unprepared for what that means, and need to be guided. In the end, I think it's important that we show users that we want to work &lt;em&gt;with&lt;/em&gt; them, not &lt;em&gt;against&lt;/em&gt; them, to help them produce the best quality content possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How will you handle highly visible, controversial incidents?&lt;/strong&gt; The last year has seen suspensions of high rep users, freezing of our main chat room, and a moderator being asked to resign. I do not want to rehash those incidents, but one thing that stood out to me was the decision by both the community managers and the moderators to keep as silent as possible, asking us to do the same — most notably to not discuss it in the chat room. &lt;strong&gt;How will you handle incidents like the suspension of a high rep user or a chat regular?&lt;/strong&gt; How will you balance the need for privacy, the need to prevent escalation, and the need of the community for information?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the past, I was one of those users that was very vocal in calling for more transparency in this process, especially in high profile events. As a regular user, I think it's very important for us to speak up when we see something at the moderator level that we disagree with. It's also very important that users see the moderation actions as justified, and always with the goal of the long-term stability of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a moderator, it's going to continue to be important to me that &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; actions be as open and transparent as I am allowed to make them. However, with the extra authority also comes extra responsibilities, and one of those is to abide by the standing policies of the site I'm being elected to moderate. It's not within my authority to unilaterally change the decisions made by those who own and operate Stack Exchange -- as important as it is that the users of the site trust me to be fair, it's also important that the &quot;higher ups&quot; trust that I can do my job within the boundaries they laid out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I do think this is an important aspect of the process that, at least from the outside, does not always seem to be handled as well as it could. I think there have been several options mentioned that could potentially make it better. It would surprise me to find out that those things had not &lt;em&gt;already&lt;/em&gt; been discussed among the moderators and CMs, but it can never hurt to bring a fresh perspective to those discussions. I would make an effort to work with the rest of the moderation team, and the CMs, to see if there was anything we could do to improve those policies &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; compromising the important concerns (privacy, de-escalation, etc) that led to their implementation in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a moderator should be a &quot;human exception handler&quot;, one who steps in when the system needs occasional intervention. &lt;strong&gt;How will you best separate your own opinions and your responsibilities for being an ambassador for the site?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's hard to answer a question like this other than to just point out that it's something I feel I do well anyway. I always find it helpful to recognize and understand opposing viewpoints. I am also fully away that those opposing viewpoints may be just as valid or correct as mine. This is a skill I've developed not only for interacting online, but as part of my real-life career working in small teams, where everyone needs to contribute their perspective on decisions. And, as a developer, I have learned the painful lesson that, when things are working properly , the worst action you can take is try to &quot;improve&quot; them just because you can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even on topics where I feel very strongly, I recognize that it's ultimately most important to do what's right for the site and the community, even if I think it's wrong. If things are working the way the community believes they should, assuming they are not  violating  some core Stack Exchange rule, I don't see any need to involve myself any further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What do you do now to build the community, rather than your own prestige in the community?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As many of you are likely aware, I have spent a lot of time over the past year working on issues that relate to how we, as a community, want the site to operate, and trying to bring clarity to those local site policies that are confusing to everyone. Often times, I focus on these kinds of activities even more than answering questions (which means a slower gain in reputation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I'm not sure you really need to separate &quot;building the community&quot; from &quot;gaining prestige in the community&quot;. I like to think that the prestige I have built up on the site is &lt;em&gt;due to&lt;/em&gt; my efforts in building the community. It's an important goal that I work for, because as a user &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; want the site to succeed and grow, but if I also gain prestige in the process, I think that's just an added bonus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;One of the complaints we see often is that many users are not aware of current meta policies. Additionally, some of the policy decisions conflict with each other. What do you suggest we do to make these policies more definitive and more accessible to the average user?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think solving this problem is going to be difficult -- I have legitimately been thinking about it for a long time, and am reminded of it every time we have a new, important meta discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On one hand, we have some limited help here from the tools themselves: we can &quot;feature&quot; meta posts to make them show up in the side-bar, in order to encourage participation. Beyond that, and the usual process of encouraging discussion in comments and chat, I don't have a good answer to how we get people to participate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as making them more accessible, I think there we have some more options. From what I understand, there are some parts of our help center that we can customize (though not all of it), where we can do a better job of pinning down our scope and what/how to ask certain questions. In addition, the custom close reasons could include hyperlinks to the relevant meta answers, once they've reached consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, though, I think a big part of this is just going to be keeping up the effort to refine and clarify these policies, and not giving up when it turns out to be hard. As much as we all hate long, drawn-out meta debates, the &lt;em&gt;end result&lt;/em&gt; of those debates is usually good for the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Will you be able to separate yourself from relationships made in chat in order to fulfill your role as a moderator dealing with people you are chat friendly with on the main site?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like to think so (I would not have nominated myself otherwise).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I try to remain as impartial as I can, even now when I have no real authority, because I think it's healthier for the community overall if everyone acts that way. There are certainly people with whom I get along better, or interact with more frequently, but I think I will be able to draw a line between those &quot;informal / unofficial&quot; interactions, and any duties I have as a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mostly, I would hope that anyone I was friendly with in chat would have enough respect for me, and my position and impartiality, that they wouldn't take offense if I needed to take some action against them. This is the kind of attitude I have towards our current moderation team, who do a good job of being part of the community without letting it interfere with their jobs. I would try to follow their example in drawing that line, and hope that my actions were fair and impartial enough that none of my &quot;chat friends&quot; would find any reason to criticize them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Have you ever been suspended (from any Stack Exchange main site or chat), and if so for what? Are you willing to release existing moderators from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/legal/moderator-agreement&quot;&gt;moderator agreement&lt;/a&gt; to confirm or rectify your answer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been subjected to two 30-minute chat bans, last August 8 and August 11. Both were for comments that were flagged as inappropriate. One of was intended to be poking gentle fun at a rival SE site, but wasn't taken as such. The other generally accused everyone in the chat room of being a &quot;clowns&quot; (again, intended as harmless humor) but wasn't taken as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like many others of the chat room regulars, I have since learned to be more careful with the kind of humor I display in such a diverse and public forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no problem with any moderators verifying this information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How often, and for how long, are you willing to be on the site each day/week? Our current mods are fantastic, but it is sometimes difficult to find one when you need one.  What are your normal usage patterns here?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a moderator, I don't foresee my usage of the sight changing significantly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On weekdays I am typically online sporadically during the work day (Monday through Friday, approximately noon through 4am UTC), based on my other work commitments. On weekends I am online during the same time period, but more consistently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume we are talking about &quot;mild to moderate&quot; arguments, and not anything outright abusive or offensive. While valuable contributions are key to the success of the site, the short-term benefit of a good answer doesn't justify the long-term problems of an abusive user. A user that is  repeatedly violating the &quot;be nice&quot; policy, and refused to stop, would need to be suspended. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, its also important to keep in mind that comments are &quot;disposable&quot;, while questions and answers are the heart of a Q&amp;amp;A site. Some users are simply more defensive about their contributions than others. Ideally, I would try to find some way to guide this user into more productive ways to express his/her disagreements, but in the end, those kind of comments (again -- assuming they were merely argumentative, not offensive) can just be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing I think is very important for any site like this is to have a well-defined and consistently-applied set of policies. It is particularly important that the moderation team at least give off the &lt;em&gt;appearance&lt;/em&gt; that we are all on the same page (even though, as individuals, that's not always going to be true.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I ran into a situation where another moderator took an action I disagreed with, my first action would be to try to understand exactly where s/he and I differed on our interpretation of our policies, with the goal of arriving at some consensus. Once we had the immediate issue resolved, it would also be important to figure out if one or the other of us had simply made a mistake, or if there was genuine ambiguity in the policy, and try to make it more clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2016-01-25T20:27:04.060" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8032" CreationDate="2016-01-25T20:57:49.713" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm Jack B Nimble and I'm running for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election/4#post-115452&quot;&gt;Moderator&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How will your moderator practices be shaped by the person in question? Will you change the way you moderate for another moderator, high reputation user, or newbie?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New users are just that, new. They can't be expected to coming knowing the 5 year history of the site or the evolution of its rules and content. As such an effort should be made to gently educate new users as opposed to just squashing them and alienating them from ever wanting to return.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Experienced users who have been around are likely to know the rules and should be able accept the consequences if they overstep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How will you handle highly visible, controversial incidents? The last year has seen suspensions of high rep users, freezing of our main chat room, and a moderator being asked to resign. I do not want to rehash those incidents, but one thing that stood out to me was the decision by both the community managers and the moderators to keep as silent as possible, asking us to do the same — most notably to not discuss it in the chat room. How will you handle incidents like the suspension of a high rep user or a chat regular? How will you balance the need for privacy, the need to prevent escalation, and the need of the community for information?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I know the issue of &quot;secret&quot; suspensions can be frustrating for some, I believe it is in the interest of those involved to remain quiet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'This user was suspended for actions unbecoming of the policies of this site' while completely uninformative, is probably the best policy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe, &lt;em&gt;maybe,&lt;/em&gt; if the affected party wishes to disclose the nature of their suspension, that could is their preoperative, provided it is an accurate and truthful account of the incident. Unfortunately people in general tend to become defensive and sometimes omit or otherwise misrepresent the whole of a situation. Which is probably why a policy of 'no comment' is the best solution. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;According to A Theory of Moderation, a moderator should be a &quot;human exception handler&quot;, one who steps in when the system needs occasional intervention. How will you best separate your own opinions and your responsibilities for being an ambassador for the site?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not like rash decisions. I prefer things to be discussed before a decision or action is made. This falls in line with recognizing that the system needs only 'occasional intervention.' I shouldn't be sticking my head in every little thing that comes up. The community should be working to self govern. The role of the moderator is to step in only when the community can't seem to make a decision, or things are getting out of hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though I don't like rash decisions, I recognize that sometimes a quick decision is preferable to waiting. A user clearly acting out in comments or chat may require a quick action before things spiral out of control. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What do you do now to build the community, rather than your own prestige in the community?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I coordinate and contribute to the blog (yes, we have a &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/?blb=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;).  I hope that these contributions and my subsequent promotion of these articles via social media (such as reddit) helps to build the community by bringing new interested parties onto the site and exposing them to the wide range of topics we cover. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;One of the complaints we see often is that many users are not aware of current meta policies. Additionally, some of the policy decisions conflict with each other. What do you suggest we do to make these policies more definitive and more accessible to the average user?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think utilizing the blog might be a good place to post policies (old and new) when a consensus by the community is reached. When questions are closed or answers deleted it might also be good to include a comment link to the meta policy being applied, to help both educate the OP and anyone else who happens to see it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Will you be able to separate yourself from relationships made in chat in order to fulfill your role as a moderator dealing with people you are chat friendly with on the main site?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone in chat (and perhaps the site at large) is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5045/1148&quot;&gt;dead to me&lt;/a&gt;. As such, I am in a good position of emotional detachment from all of the other regulars. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, no one is above the law, not friends, not family, not even Steven Seagal! If a person is clearly violating a policy, some action will be taken, regardless of personal association. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Have you ever been suspended (from any Stack Exchange main site or chat), and if so for what? Are you willing to release existing moderators from the moderator agreement to confirm or rectify your answer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To my recollection I have never been suspended. Any mod who knows otherwise is free to dispute that claim. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How often, and for how long, are you willing to be on the site each day/week? Our current mods are fantastic, but it is sometimes difficult to find one when you need one. What are your normal usage patterns here?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am typically on 5-6 days a week in chat for 6-8 hours a day (basically during my work day). I also frequently check in on the site during the off hours, 7 days a week, to check for new questions, see the feedback on my answers, reply to comments, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously these users exist, because I aware of several people who fit this description. They do generally provide quality questions and answers, but for whatever reason, tend to generate a lot of controversy / drama in their comments. What I have seen other mods do in the past is, if the comments are getting out of hand, to suggest or force them into a private chat to continue the discussion, or to come in later and remove all the non-relevant comments so it isn't just noise against an otherwise acceptable question / answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This situation happens all the time where a question is closed, and someone else disagrees. These questions are often mitigated via meta such as &quot;why was this question closed&quot; and &quot;here is why I think it should be reopened.&quot; This gives the moderator who closed it an opportunity to discuss their decision, and for the community at large to discuss the situation and reach a consensus. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/t5ovZ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/t5ovZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;For those who don't know, that guy on the right is an idiot. &lt;a href=&quot;http://atwitsendcomics.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;At Wit's End Comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T01:09:34.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8032" CreationDate="2016-01-25T21:16:34.553" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mithrandir&lt;/strong&gt;, running for mod!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How will your moderator practices be shaped by the person in question? Will you change the way you moderate for another moderator, high reputation user, or newbie?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A newbie deserves an explanation of how the site works. A high-rep user presumably knows how the site works - they get what's coming. A spammer, of course, is shown no mercy. A moderator who breaks the rules gets moderated. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How will you handle highly visible, controversial incidents? The last year has seen suspensions of high rep users, freezing of our main chat room, and a moderator being asked to resign. I do not want to rehash those incidents, but one thing that stood out to me was the decision by both the community managers and the moderators to keep as silent as possible, asking us to do the same — most notably to not discuss it in the chat room. How will you handle incidents like the suspension of a high rep user or a chat regular? How will you balance the need for privacy, the need to prevent escalation, and the need of the community for information?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SE policy is to not air user's dirty laundry. The community will receive any information that they need to know, but as much as possible should be kept secret.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;According to A Theory of Moderation, a moderator should be a &quot;human exception handler&quot;, one who steps in when the system needs occasional intervention. How will you best separate your own opinions and your responsibilities for being an ambassador for the site?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My opinions are suggestions. The community's opinion is law.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What do you do now to build the community, rather than your own prestige in the community?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I flag things. I have over a thousand votes. I just offered my first bounty :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;One of the complaints we see often is that many users are not aware of current meta policies. Additionally, some of the policy decisions conflict with each other. What do you suggest we do to make these policies more definitive and more accessible to the average user?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Put links to the Help Center in a more prominent place. This would give people a better idea of what our policies are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Will you be able to separate yourself from relationships made in chat in order to fulfill your role as a moderator dealing with people you are chat friendly with on the main site?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing as I don't really have chat friends, that won't be a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Have you ever been suspended (from any Stack Exchange main site or chat), and if so for what? Are you willing to release existing moderators from the moderator agreement to confirm or rectify your answer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, I have not been banned ever. Mods can verify that – or refute it – as they wish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How often, and for how long, are you willing to be on the site each day/week? Our current mods are fantastic, but it is sometimes difficult to find one when you need one. What are your normal usage patterns here?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm on whenever I find the time. Almost always at least 5 hours a day, usually more. On Saturdays i'm not available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They should get a warning. Good answers are good, but a disruptive user is a problem. If they insist on causing problems, they may need a ban.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd talk to the mod in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2016-01-25T22:03:05.110" LastActivityDate="2016-01-25T22:03:05.110" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8038" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-25T21:42:58.347" Score="3" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are some very detailed, well thought out, and researched answers on this site. However, many answers are conjecture. That is not usually the fault of the person answering the question, due to the lack of information available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a perfect world, there would always be some way to authoritatively answer any valid question. This is just simply not possible since many of these authors are long dead, and there is no other source. Think about how many questions would have amazing answers of Tolkien, Heinlein, etc. were still living.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Getting back to reality, there are still some living authors that could lend a hand such as G.R.R.M., and J.K. Rowling, and many others. But, I am not aware of any answers that they have posted themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have only been able to find one question which was answered by an authority on the subject. The question below was answered by Danny Rubin, who was the screenwriter for Groundhog Day. Are there other questions on the site which were answered by the writer or other authority?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/6334/35012&quot;&gt;How long was Bill Murray&amp;#39;s character (Phil Davis) supposed to be in a time loop in the film &amp;quot;Groundhog Day&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T12:00:20.383" Title="Questions Answered by &quot;Word of God&quot;" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2016-01-26T13:52:10.900" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8038" CreationDate="2016-01-25T21:59:10.357" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/71054/30726&quot;&gt;Richard's answer&lt;/a&gt; to my &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/64154/30726&quot;&gt;In The Clone Wars movie, why can't Anakin understand Huttese?&lt;/a&gt; question incorporates a picture of a tweet by one of the writers/producers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30726" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2016-01-25T21:59:10.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8032" CreationDate="2016-01-25T22:02:47.630" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'm Null, and these are my answers. Please also see my &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election/4#post-115807&quot;&gt;nomination post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How will your moderator practices be shaped by the person in question? Will you change the way you moderate for another moderator, high reputation user, or newbie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally my moderator practices would not be shaped by the person in question. &lt;strong&gt;As much as possible, every user should receive the same treatment regardless of reputation, moderator status, my opinion of the user (good or bad), etc.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only change I might make would be to give new users some leniency regarding matters in how the site works (but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; for rude behavior or similar). I remember when I first joined the SE network and struggled a bit to understand the expectations of good questions and answers and meet those expectations in my own posts. I don't want to turn away potentially valuable contributors just because they similarly struggle at first, so it is important to show some extra patience to new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How will you handle highly visible, controversial incidents?&lt;/strong&gt; The last year has seen suspensions of high rep users, freezing of our main chat room, and a moderator being asked to resign. I do not want to rehash those incidents, but one thing that stood out to me was the decision by both the community managers and the moderators to keep as silent as possible, asking us to do the same — most notably to not discuss it in the chat room. &lt;strong&gt;How will you handle incidents like the suspension of a high rep user or a chat regular?&lt;/strong&gt; How will you balance the need for privacy, the need to prevent escalation, and the need of the community for information?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a regular user who has logged onto the site after a major incident and left wondering what happened, I understand that users are going to be curious about what happened. However, providing the community with more information may only serve to escalate the controversy even further. It also risks too much exposure of matters which should really be private. In the case of a suspended user, that user would also be unable to defend himself/herself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In such an incident, I would act with the following priorities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Prevent escalation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maintain the affected users' privacy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide the community with information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actions required to accomplish my top priority of preventing escalation would depend on a case-by-case basis. Nonetheless, there are some common things mods can do which I've noticed helped or would have helped with previous incidents that I've observed. They include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maintain a presence on the site so that users can ask the mods questions. (I may not be able to &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; those questions, but I can at least explain that I can't answer because it's private.) I can spend some time in chat and watch my inbox closely.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Work with the other mods to try to make sure at least one of us is available at all times. Discussing the situation with the other mods will also help us determine the appropriate course of action to handle it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post a starred message in chat if the incident starts escalating. The contents of this message depends on the situation, but it would be something to the effect of &quot;We can tell you .... happened but nothing else. Please stop asking further questions because we can't answer them.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the incident starts escalating even further and/or the explanation can't be contained in a short message, start a meta thread. This would be a similar message: &quot;We can tell you ... happened but nothing else.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a moderator should be a &quot;human exception handler&quot;, one who steps in when the system needs occasional intervention. &lt;strong&gt;How will you best separate your own opinions and your responsibilities for being an ambassador for the site?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am willing to support community consensus even if I personally disagree with it. I respect the community and realize that my opinion may be flawed (and may change!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, as I moderator I realize my opinion might be seen as carrying extra weight compared to normal users. With that in mind, I will explicitly state that I'm &quot;not wearing my moderator hat&quot; when I state my opinion in meta and/or chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What do you do now to build the community, rather than your own prestige in the community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have spent substantial time in the review queues, with over 1,000 reviews in the First Posts and Low Quality Posts queues and several hundred reviews in each of the other review queues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have also edited hundreds of posts by other users, usually to improve spelling, grammar, capitalization, etc. These things make posts more readable and easier to understand, which improves the quality of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have participated in various tagging/re-tagging efforts to improve the ability of users to search the site. As a specific example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6627/31936&quot;&gt;I proposed the creation of the Star Wars Legends tag and making the Star Wars EU tag a synonym of it&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have participated in meta on a variety of topics (mostly tagging) to help determine community consensus. My participation has involved asking questions, posting answers, and/or voting on existing posts (I have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/help/badges/18/civic-duty?userid=31936&quot;&gt;Civic Duty&lt;/a&gt; badge on meta, meaning I've voted 300+ times on meta). This has helped me form site policy and, more importantly, be &lt;em&gt;aware&lt;/em&gt; of community consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of the complaints we see often is that many users are not aware of current meta policies. Additionally, some of the policy decisions conflict with each other. What do you suggest we do to make these policies more definitive and more accessible to the average user?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a number of meta posts marked as favorites so that I can easily link to them on the main site when appropriate. This makes them more accessible to anyone who sees my link and can help make the policies more definitive by drawing attention to the post and hopefully encouraging users to vote on the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A possible solution to make these meta policies even more accessible would be to create a new meta question asking for a list of commonly referenced and/or disputed meta policies (a similar meta question for commonly referenced &lt;em&gt;main&lt;/em&gt; site questions can be found on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2419/61108&quot;&gt;TeX.SE meta&lt;/a&gt; site). This would allow users to favorite and link to the list meta question and more easily inform the average user of current meta policies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way to make meta policies more definitive is to encourage more users to vote on existing meta questions and/or post new meta questions and answers to refine existing policies. Making the existing meta policies more accessible using the aforementioned methods helps encourage users to vote on meta and acquire more definitive policy decisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Will you be able to separate yourself from relationships made in chat in order to fulfill your role as a moderator dealing with people you are chat friendly with on the main site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to lurk rather than actively participate in chat, so I am not such close friends with the chat regulars that it would cloud my judgment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if I had to moderate a user whom I liked or disliked (due to past experiences with the user in chat or anywhere else on the site), &lt;strong&gt;I would be careful to do my best to judge the situation as impartially as possible so as to avoid an appearance of favoritism. I think it is important to avoid such an appearance, and that would be one of my most important goals as a moderator. If I felt I could not judge the situation impartially, it would take whatever immediate action necessary (e.g. delete a rude comment) but then ask another moderator to make a final decision.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Have you ever been suspended (from any Stack Exchange main site or chat), and if so for what? Are you willing to release existing moderators from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/legal/moderator-agreement&quot;&gt;moderator agreement&lt;/a&gt; to confirm or rectify your answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not aware of any suspension here or on any Stack Exchange site. The existing moderators are free to verify this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How often, and for how long, are you willing to be on the site each day/week? Our current mods are fantastic, but it is sometimes difficult to find one when you need one.  What are your normal usage patterns here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am generally available on week days during normal work hours (I keep the site open in a separate browser tab, which I periodically check). In the evenings I am less available as I am spending time with my family, though I usually have some time in the late evening (10pm to 1pm or so) before I go to bed. I am also less available on weekends during the day, though I usually check the site a couple of times throughout the day. I usually have more time for the site on weekend late evenings (the same time as during the week day).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am in the U.S. Eastern time zone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If immediate action is necessary (e.g. the user is being abusive), I would delete the comments and/or suspend the user as necessary. Next, I would discuss the user with other mods and attempt to come up with a course of action for dealing with the user. I would then reach out to the user and ask to discuss the matter with him/her privately. I would ask the user to explain why s/he is acting in a way that is causing strife and what (if anything) that user thinks needs to be done to fix the problem. I would also offer to make myself available for a chat between myself, that user, other mods and/or with other users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, if the user continues to cause strife I would meet with the other mods to decide what to do. Although the loss of any user is regrettable -- especially a user who produces many valuable answers -- there eventually comes a point where such a user might do more harm than good. If the mod team decides that the user is too disruptive then I would agree to a more long term suspension. For such an otherwise valuable user and for a long term suspension, the situation is serious enough that I would not act unilaterally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first thing to do is to discuss the situation with that mod privately. We might be able to come to an agreement by discussing it just the two of us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that doesn't work, there are two paths to follow depending on whether or not other users have expressed an opinion (e.g. in the comments to a closed question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If no other users have expressed an opinion, I would ask other mods to weigh in. Hopefully, the mod team would be able to come to an agreement and act accordingly. In that case most users wouldn't even notice that there was a dispute. If the mods are not able to come to an agreement then it is time to open up the discussion to the wider community via meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If other users &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; expressed an opinion, the issue needs to be brought up in meta. More users discussing the issue in meta may help break the disagreement between the mods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-01-25T22:24:01.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8038" CreationDate="2016-01-25T22:13:28.777" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assuming we focus purely on questions answered by word-of-god authorities where that question was &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;prompted by a question asked on SFF:SE&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, then there are plenty to choose from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83282/do-i-need-to-read-city-of-the-damned-before-kinslayer/96754#96754&quot;&gt;Do I need to read City of the Damned before Kinslayer?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;strong&gt;David Guymer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/66076/whose-buttocks-are-these/81161#81161&quot;&gt;Whose buttocks are these?&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;Charles Stross&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32835/why-doesnt-glopp-mutate-humans/71499#71499&quot;&gt;Why doesn&amp;#39;t GLOPP mutate humans?&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;George Broussard&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/80340/is-there-an-official-plot-explanation-for-the-movie-u-f-o-2012/81671#81671&quot;&gt;Is there an official plot explanation for the movie U.F.O. (2012)?&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;Dominic Burns&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/94663/is-dharia-a-matriarchy&quot;&gt;Is Dharia a matriarchy?&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;Susan Kaye Quinn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/92296/why-is-paris-flooded-in-edge-of-tomorrow&quot;&gt;Why is Paris flooded in Edge Of Tomorrow?&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;Chris McQuarrie&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/73133/how-does-shreks-rescue-party-reach-him-so-fast-at-the-end-of-shrek-2/73138#73138&quot;&gt;How does Shrek&amp;#39;s rescue party reach him so fast at the end of Shrek 2?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;strong&gt;David N. Weiss&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/102004/what-has-happened-to-books-from-world-of-paranoia-published-by-ultraviolet-bo/102478#102478&quot;&gt;What has happened to books from world of &amp;quot;Paranoia&amp;quot; published by &amp;quot;Ultraviolet books&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;strong&gt;Alan Varney&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/113602/was-star-wars-the-force-awakens-a-junior-novel-based-on-the-films-script-o/113611#113611&quot;&gt;Was &amp;quot;Star Wars: The Force Awakens - A Junior Novel&amp;quot; based on the film&amp;#39;s script or the official novelisation?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;strong&gt;Michael Kogge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8180/is-there-a-heaven-in-the-top-cow-universe/90581#90581&quot;&gt;Is there a heaven in the Top Cow Universe?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;strong&gt;Ron Marz&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/70575/is-there-a-reason-this-human-characters-name-sounds-tymbrimi/89677#89677&quot;&gt;Is there a reason this human character&amp;#39;s name sounds Tymbrimi?&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;John Henry&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/73024/any-plans-to-make-a-movie-of-one-of-jack-vances-books/73025#73025&quot;&gt;Any plans to make a movie of one of Jack Vance&amp;#39;s books?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;strong&gt;John Vance&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/94288/is-there-any-news-about-the-lost-fleet-books-and-spinoffs/106400#106400&quot;&gt;Is there any news about the Lost Fleet books and spinoffs?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;strong&gt;John Henry&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/64154/in-the-clone-wars-movie-why-cant-anakin-understand-huttese/71054#71054&quot;&gt;In The Clone Wars movie, why can&amp;#39;t Anakin understand Huttese?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;strong&gt;Karen Traviss&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T12:00:20.383" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8032" CreationDate="2016-01-25T22:15:03.390" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am &lt;strong&gt;rand al'thor&lt;/strong&gt;, the Dragon Reborn. Please read my answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How will your moderator practices be shaped by the person in question? Will you change the way you moderate for another moderator, high reputation user, or newbie?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My motto will be &lt;strong&gt;neither to favouritise nor to victimise&lt;/strong&gt;. Already I have been putting this into practice, since I am friendly with many of the site's users but nonetheless occasionally feel the need to criticise or even downvote their posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Newbies do tend to need different treatment from established users. With over 500 reviews in the First Posts queue, I've seen a very wide range of first questions and answers. Leaving aside the (frequent) egregiously bad and unrescuable ones, it seems to me that newbies, more than established users, could benefit from &lt;strong&gt;guidance and advice rather than downvotes and deletion&lt;/strong&gt;. Many posts which are &lt;em&gt;initially&lt;/em&gt; pretty bad (e.g. link-only answers or primarily opinion-based questions) could easily be edited into a fit state. Newbies should be allowed a certain amount of leeway (within reason, of course) while they pick up the ways of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;High reputation users should be held to a higher standard than others, since they serve as examples for the rest of the community. On the other hand, they also tend to have built up - and earned - a certain level of trust. If there was a moderation issue with a high-rep user, I would &lt;strong&gt;be more careful to check that there really is an issue&lt;/strong&gt; (whereas obvious troll answers from newbies can be deleted without much checking required) but also &lt;strong&gt;lean more heavily on them if indeed there is a problem&lt;/strong&gt; (they can't be allowed to set a bad example to everyone else).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Moderators are a special case. I believe there is a private chatroom for the SFF mods; I would try to hash the issue out there in the first instance, and perhaps escalate it to the Community Managers if necessary. The moderator team should present a united front to the site rather than squabble publicly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How will you handle highly visible, controversial incidents?&lt;/strong&gt; The last year has seen suspensions of high rep users, freezing of our main chat room, and a moderator being asked to resign. I do not want to rehash those incidents, but one thing that stood out to me was the decision by both the community managers and the moderators to keep as silent as possible, asking us to do the same — most notably to not discuss it in the chat room. &lt;strong&gt;How will you handle incidents like the suspension of a high rep user or a chat regular?&lt;/strong&gt; How will you balance the need for privacy, the need to prevent escalation, and the need of the community for information?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My experience on Stack Exchange has taught me that although moderator actions can seem unreasonable from an outsider's perspective, they tend to be much more reasonable when one actually knows more of the details of what went on. In this sense, it would be beneficial &lt;em&gt;for the mod team&lt;/em&gt; to reveal more information. When high-profile users get into trouble, the community naturally wants to know what happened and why - but a lot of this desire is merely human curiosity and not a real &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; to learn the details. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/legal/moderator-agreement&quot;&gt;moderator agreement&lt;/a&gt; also has to be taken into account: moderators are specifically disallowed from disclosing, storing, or copying &quot;potentially personally-identifying information&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In cases such as the suspension of a high-rep user, respecting that user's privacy is one of the most important criteria. They always have the ability to reply to the suspension message, but from what I've heard, sometimes they don't reply, sometimes they reply reasonably, and sometimes they reply with ... let's say, material that would violate the &quot;Be Nice&quot; rule. My suggestion would be to &lt;strong&gt;allow the suspended user to present a message to the community about their suspension, if they so wish&lt;/strong&gt;. This would have a length limit and would be &lt;strong&gt;subject to approval by moderators and CMs&lt;/strong&gt; in order to avoid any streams of invective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, as a single mod I wouldn't have much personal say over such matters. This is only a suggestion, but one that I would like to discuss with CMs for &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt; future implementation. A high-level &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt;, if you will. I also realise that in practice it would rarely be used, but there have been a couple of suspensions in the last few months (naming no names) where it would have been nice to have such a policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a moderator should be a &quot;human exception handler&quot;, one who steps in when the system needs occasional intervention. &lt;strong&gt;How will you best separate your own opinions and your responsibilities for being an ambassador for the site?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one is actually quite easy: &lt;strong&gt;by consulting with the rest of the moderator team&lt;/strong&gt;. As human beings, all moderators are different and have different opinions; as ambassadors for the site, we should all be united, bearing the same responsibility together. If we can all agree that a certain intervention or &quot;exception handle&quot; is appropriate, then it probably is what's best for the site; if I'm the only one who believes it's appropriate, then that's probably my own opinion coming into play rather than my responsibility as a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What do you do now to build the community, rather than your own prestige in the community?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a prolific editor - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Editors&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;one of the most prolific&lt;/a&gt;, in fact. I like to improve other people's posts, whether it's editing synopses into answers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-id&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-id&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-id&lt;/a&gt; questions or adding images and quotes to posts that previously included only links or vague memories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a related note, I always try to be encouraging to new users. First Posts is my favourite review queue and the one I always go to first, and I rarely click &quot;No Action Needed&quot;, instead editing to improve the post, commenting to encourage the OP to improve it, voting on it, or flagging it if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also trying to expand the range of the site (within its established scope, of course). Questions about Harry Potter and Star Wars are all very well, but there are plenty of them already. I'd like to bring some less appreciated sci-fi and fantasy works out of obscurity. Recently I asked the site's first &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vampirates&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vampirates&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vampirates&lt;/a&gt; question, and there are several other franchises I'm planning to introduce in the near future - with community-wiki self-answered questions, if necessary!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;One of the complaints we see often is that many users are not aware of current meta policies. Additionally, some of the policy decisions conflict with each other. What do you suggest we do to make these policies more definitive and more accessible to the average user?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those policies which are already clearly defined, I suggest that the moderator team keep a list of &quot;stock comments&quot; with links to meta consensus posts, which can be left on posts on the main site as necessary. E.g. a link to the meta discussion of spy-fi being off-topic would be much more useful, to a new user who's posted a James Bond question, than just closing their question silently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When there are policies which are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; clearly defined, we should try to make them so. I would be happy to start discussions about such topics on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Will you be able to separate yourself from relationships made in chat in order to fulfill your role as a moderator dealing with people you are chat friendly with on the main site?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe so, yes. As I mentioned under point 1 above, I am friendly with many of the site's active users through chat, but still willing to criticise their posts and behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I may take a specific example, Wad Cheber is a user that I (for the most part) like and get on well with, but I've never been afraid to call him out when he behaves inappropriately, and as far as I know he's never taken offence at my doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Have you ever been suspended (from any Stack Exchange main site or chat), and if so for what? Are you willing to release existing moderators from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/legal/moderator-agreement&quot;&gt;moderator agreement&lt;/a&gt; to confirm or rectify your answer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have never been suspended from the SFF Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than those associated with main-site suspensions, I have been suspended 2-3 times from chat due to validated flags. One of these was for making a slightly innuendo-ish remark about a then moderator, who wasn't offended (another moderator validated the flag, but has since agreed that he shouldn't have done so). Another was for saying a rude word in Mos Eisley, and I was unsuspended by a moderator almost as soon as the flag had been validated. I can't remember any others, but I'm happy for any moderator to jog my memory and confirm the details. &lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; a moderator has confirmed that there were 3 such suspensions, two &quot;invalidated&quot; and the third &quot;unclear&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have also been suspended from the Puzzling Stack Exchange: twice &quot;to cool down&quot; (I made remarks while violated the &quot;be nice&quot; policy and which I deeply regret - I later apologised to those concerned, who expressed forgiveness) and once &quot;for promotional content&quot; (which the mods there told me was due to a question and a comment that mentioned a riddle site I co-own, posted from a [disclosed] shared sockpuppet account - it's possible there was more that contributed to the decision to suspend, but if so I don't know what). Again, I'm happy for one of the moderators concerned to confirm that this is the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How often, and for how long, are you willing to be on the site each day/week? Our current mods are fantastic, but it is sometimes difficult to find one when you need one.  What are your normal usage patterns here?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am currently active on the site &lt;strong&gt;every day&lt;/strong&gt;, mostly in the (UTC) evening but also often throughout the day. Even when not logged in, I'm often monitoring the site and could log in if needed. Living in the UK, the only time I'm &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; active is the small hours of the (UTC) morning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, I would consult with the other moderators, who presumably have experience with such issues and would be much better at dealing with them than I!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My gut feeling in how to deal with this situation would be first to &lt;strong&gt;engage the user politely&lt;/strong&gt; - inform them that they've been involved in a lot of arguments or flagged comments, and ask them to change their behaviour. This could be either in chat (probably a private chatroom) or via moderator private messages. If there is no improvement in their behaviour, I would consider suspending them for a short time - though this isn't a decision I'd take lightly, and I would want to consult with other site moderators, and possibly CMs and more experienced moderators from across the network, first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See my answer to point 1. Moderator conflicts should be resolved privately if at all possible. I've found that two reasonable people each willing to assume good faith in the other tend to be able to agree, either by compromise or by one conceding to the other. Assuming this stage can be reached and that the other mod agrees their action was inappropriate, it would probably be better for &lt;em&gt;them&lt;/em&gt; to reopen/undelete/etc. the question, so that it doesn't look as though I was overriding their decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2016-01-31T17:25:35.393" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8032" CreationDate="2016-01-26T06:30:54.913" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm &lt;strong&gt;CreationEdge&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How will your moderator practices be shaped by the person in question? Will you change the way you moderate for another moderator, high reputation user, or newbie?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that usage mistakes, typical of new users, should be handled with coaching, rather than merely moderation &lt;em&gt;tools&lt;/em&gt;. Taking the time to explain a little bit more about how this site works, or how their post isn't working, can go a long way to help building our community. Even if that particular newbie doesn't take our direction, which happens, it still signals to other members or passerby that we try to build up our new members. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Experienced users generally don't need that sort of coaching for their content. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, new and experienced users alike can also exhibit behavioral issues, where amount of reputation doesn't play a role, to me. People generally know when they're being rude, or violating the &quot;be nice&quot; policy, and I believe that type of behavior should be handled equally for all members. That's not to say every reprimand or corrective action needs to be identical, as the response should be equal in measure to the severity of the incident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How will you handle highly visible, controversial incidents?&lt;/strong&gt; The last year has seen suspensions of high rep users, freezing of our main chat room, and a moderator being asked to resign. I do not want to rehash those incidents, but one thing that stood out to me was the decision by both the community managers and the moderators to keep as silent as possible, asking us to do the same — most notably to not discuss it in the chat room. &lt;strong&gt;How will you handle incidents like the suspension of a high rep user or a chat regular?&lt;/strong&gt; How will you balance the need for privacy, the need to prevent escalation, and the need of the community for information?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that, in retrospect, the way the events &lt;em&gt;were&lt;/em&gt; handled was done well. The chat room freeze was quite a heated time. I greatly appreciated the presence of the CMs, who were able to answer some of our &lt;em&gt;basic&lt;/em&gt; questions without violating the moderator-member confidentiality clause. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen more than once where the &lt;em&gt;team&lt;/em&gt; of moderators, or the community moderators, have been able to work together in moments of high stress. I think that is part of the ideal solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see no reason to change the policy about revealing the nature of corrective actions and why they were done. I agree that it's not something we should dwell on or talk about when said person isn't able to chime in, even if we strongly believe they wouldn't mind (or would appreciate our concern). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a moderator should be a &quot;human exception handler&quot;, one who steps in when the system needs occasional intervention. &lt;strong&gt;How will you best separate your own opinions and your responsibilities for being an ambassador for the site?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I understand, some of the challenge of being a moderator is those moments when exceptions fall into a grey area. A flag might get raised about content that could fall on either side of the line of acceptable. I think those may be times when a moderator's opinion, based on their experience or gathering of information (from Meta or other mods), is part of their responsibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those cases tend to be behind-the-scenes. More visible displays of opinion, such as Meta posts, comments on the main site, or chat participation warrant a different approach. I personally would be more reserved in expressing normative statements in such venues, to avoid the possibility of a diamond-backed opinion being considered policy. I don't believe experienced users would make this mistake, but considering our level of growth I believe it obvious that we have many inexperienced users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have had supervisor roles before, and have had experience is maintaining professional decorum and separating my opinions regarding policy and even people from my ability to get the work done. I find that once I'm in that &quot;mode&quot;, it's quite easy to separate my responsibilities from my personal sentiments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What do you do now to build the community, rather than your own prestige in the community?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I vote. I chat. I try to pay attention to the trends of our active users. I try to elicit stronger answers from users by asking guided or pointed questions in comments. I've tried to contribute where I can in meta, such as running an (excessive) analysis on how we use tags. I do these things because I find the site on a whole fun, worthwhile, and fulfilling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe I could have a stronger presence by answering more questions (and asking them), to earn reputation/badges more quickly, but that's not my goal. I get excited when my rep rolls over to my next target, or I get a badge I was working on, but those are not my reasons for being here. This is an environment where I very much enjoy just being a cog in the machine, just a part of the whole community. Being a moderator would allow me to be a different type of cog, but still a cog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;One of the complaints we see often is that many users are not aware of current meta policies. Additionally, some of the policy decisions conflict with each other. What do you suggest we do to make these policies more definitive and more accessible to the average user?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been considering this for awhile, and I believe a start is to do some housekeeping. The different policies on certain subjects should be gathered somewhere, for reference, and then we should do some reevaluations once everyone can easily see what already exists. Some policies were decided early in the stack's history, and are no longer effective at our current size. We need to find such policies, and work on new ones. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for making current or new policies more visible, I think that's a discussion worth having with the community. A couple options are creating wiki-like posts or creating special tags to indicate active policies (such as &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/current-policy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;current-policy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;current-policy&lt;/a&gt;). The general idea would have something that's easy to link to or find for users that are trying to find the information. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Will you be able to separate yourself from relationships made in chat in order to fulfill your role as a moderator dealing with people you are chat friendly with on the main site?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. I feel like I get along fairly well with everyone in chat, even if we disagree on a given topic. Yet, I've still been willing to call out some of those users on sub-par answers, or inappropriate comments in the chat room. Favoritism wouldn't be a problem, but I can see there being some concern about expecting more from users I know better. That could be an unfair standard. However, if I ever considered myself to be impartial in a situation, I would ask another moderator to step in. Even if we'd take the same action, I would try to avoid bias. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Have you ever been suspended (from any Stack Exchange main site or chat), and if so for what? Are you willing to release existing moderators from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/legal/moderator-agreement&quot;&gt;moderator agreement&lt;/a&gt; to confirm or rectify your answer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've not been suspended from the site or chat, or even booted from chat. Any moderator can confirm/deny this if they so wish, because I think in elections transparency is a good thing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will add, though, that I'm not sure this question is particularly effective at evaluating the merits of a candidate. We don't have a permanent ban policy on Stack Exchange. Users can reform, and suspensions can be part of that process. On the flip-side, by answering &quot;No&quot; to this question, not much can be learned about me unless I offer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How often, and for how long, are you willing to be on the site each day/week? Our current mods are fantastic, but it is sometimes difficult to find one when you need one.  What are your normal usage patterns here?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be willing and able to be on the site in some capacity daily. I know I will be able to meet the minimum recommendations for moderators (30 minutes a day), but I expect that many days it will be much more. I'm currently a student, and employed, but I find there are a lot of transition times during my day where SFF.SE is the best fit for filling up my time. I also like to check up on the site throughout the afternoon/evening, to fill in those &quot;down&quot; times at home or when I need a break from whatever task I'm working on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also very responsive to pings, provided I'm not sleeping. I have the mobile app installed, and so I get the push notifications to my phone/tablet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm generally not on during sleeping hours, Central Time, but otherwise could be on any time of the day, even on weekends and holidays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this could be an interesting case for analysis. Is the number of arguments/flags actually scaling with the users number of contributions? Are the other participants/flaggers consistent, or are the problems coming from across the community? Are the flags retaliatory, or the arguments personal? There some data and information to look at there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It'd also be important to note the disposition of the user contributing those answers. Are they actively instigating the negativity, or is it just a byproduct of the types of questions they answer? Do they attempt to put out flames, or fan them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coming up with an answer to this question would require having specific context. I'm not trying to give a non-answer, rather my answer is that each scenario will have to be weighed differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do think that a valuable site user should be open to coaching or constructive criticism, given in private if need be. If their concern is the quality and well-being of the site, then helping guide them away from engaging should be something they're willing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, clear violations of policy should be handled as I mentioned in question 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would try to find out why they took action on it in order to understand their reasoning. Sometimes others simply see things that you miss. If I still disagreed with their assessment, I would try to see what they thought of mine, and find out why we're disagreeing. The goal wouldn't be to find out who's right or wrong, but to preserve the health of the stack. My loyalty is to the stack, not myself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If thought there action was actively detrimental to the site, then I would seek guidance from other moderators, or CMs if need be. I have no interest in having a power struggle with another user, let alone another moderator. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T06:30:54.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8045" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-26T09:18:07.977" Score="7" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a question I asked I would like to show the relevant page in the comic book. Is this allowed, and if so what citation should I use? I have it scanned in a jpeg format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20613" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2022-06-25T09:06:57.687" LastActivityDate="2022-06-25T09:06:57.687" Title="Is it acceptable to include a scan of comic book page?" Tags="|discussion|copyright|images|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8045" CreationDate="2016-01-26T09:23:04.810" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I Am Not A Lawyer&lt;/strong&gt; but this seems like &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;fair use&lt;/a&gt; to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In US law, that means there are four important factors to consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Purpose and character of the use&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In this case, it would most likely fall under &quot;for nonprofit educational purposes&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nature of the copyrighted work&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Not really an issue here; it's not something that ought to be in the public domain.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Amount and substantiality&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Just one page, not the whole book.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Effect upon work's value&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It's not likely to decrease the value of the original work; one could argue it would &lt;em&gt;increase&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other jurisdictions often have similar provisions to allow quoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On this stack, we have a number of questions, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/108546/19561&quot;&gt;one about covers of comics&lt;/a&gt;, so quoting a page is nothing unusual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, if you would have a hard time asking your question without it, it's probably okay to add it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T14:29:01.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8047" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-26T16:33:29.367" Score="8" ViewCount="217" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/education&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;education&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;education&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/murder&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;murder&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;murder&lt;/a&gt; have &gt; 5 questions, no wiki excerpt, and a poor &quot;tag score&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we give them wikis and define a proper use for them, or burninate them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently it was decided to burninate murder. Status completed!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2016-02-06T17:13:13.207" LastActivityDate="2016-02-06T17:13:13.207" Title="Are we going to [murder] [education]?" Tags="|discussion|tags|burnination|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8048" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8052" CreationDate="2016-01-26T16:37:56.570" Score="-3" ViewCount="371" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I get my rep up quickly? I've seen a couple of questions I could answer, or answers I could comment on to give, help but I can't&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also don't like how you need 300 rep to create your own tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59848" OwnerDisplayName="qtMemer" LastEditorUserId="31051" LastEditDate="2016-01-26T17:02:14.717" LastActivityDate="2016-01-27T02:08:58.203" Title="How to quickly increase my rep" Tags="|discussion|reputation|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8048" CreationDate="2016-01-26T16:45:29.477" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best way to get your rep up quickly is to provide well thought out questions or answers to existing questions. If your information is correct, there is enough traffic on this site that your reputation could go up a couple hundred points in a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also suggest you read through how stack exchange works, there are reasons behind needing certain amounts of points to achieve privileges such as creating new tags. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;help section is here&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;site tour is here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T16:45:29.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8048" CreationDate="2016-01-26T16:47:56.717" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can increase your rep as a new user by asking some &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;good questions&lt;/a&gt;, and avoid asking some &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;not good questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also answer most questions, except those that have been &quot;protected&quot; and require a very small amount of reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, the tour and help pages (upper right of any page), will give you the info you need to be successful on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for creating tags, we have a variety of policies in place regarding creating and using them. Even if there were no reputation restriction, you may find that more experienced users, familiar with our policies, would remove tags that didn't fit or add tags that do fit, anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T16:51:35.787" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8047" CreationDate="2016-01-26T16:51:01.310" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/education&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;education&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;education&lt;/a&gt; to me looks middle-of-the-road enough that it's not going anywhere soon. It's one of the tags in the &quot;other aspects of a question&quot; category I'm not a fan of, but also not aggressively against. But the questions mostly seem to be about the education system in a fictional work, so that's fine. And that is a topic that people could genuinely be knowledgable about. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say that we need to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Give it a tag wiki and excerpt (were you volunteering? :) )&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Review the questions tagged with it to make sure it belongs. &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bad Use: &quot;What is this story that took place in a school?&quot; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Proper Use: &quot;How do OWLs in &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; work?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/murder&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;murder&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;murder&lt;/a&gt; is more sketchy to me. Only 2 of them seem to be about the concept of murder, the other 4 are about a story where a murder happened to take place. I'd say &lt;em&gt;at least&lt;/em&gt; remove it from 4 of those 6 questions, and I'm very skeptical about the &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; one. That only leaves one question I think it &quot;about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/murder&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;murder&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;murder&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. I think we all know that &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; recommend there :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T16:51:01.310" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8048" CreationDate="2016-01-26T16:56:41.457" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;High-quality, useful content.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't seem terribly helpful, but it's the only strategy that consistently works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, there are three ways you can earn rep. Note that a lot of this is covered in the help center page &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;What is Reputation? How do I earn (and lose) it?&lt;/a&gt;; actually a lot of &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt; is in the Help Center. Read the Help Center, it's helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Asking high-quality questions.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;How do I ask a good question?&lt;/a&gt; will serve you well here. Posting a question has no rep requirement (as you know; you've already posted two)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Provide high-quality answers&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;How do I write a good answer?&lt;/a&gt; is your guide. You mentioned that you've seen questions you can answer; that's great! Answer them. There's no rep requirement to post an answer&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, so if you feel like you have a good answer (or feel like the existing answers have missed something), post it. Just be careful to make sure that what you're posting actually &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; the question; we want to keep comments separate from answers, but it doesn't take long before you can comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that high-quality answers are generally a faster way to gain rep than high-quality questions; an upvote to your question nets you 5 rep, while an upvote to your answer nets you 10. The flip side is that high-quality answers are generally harder; they require much more research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit posts.&lt;/strong&gt; There's no rep requirement to suggest an edit to another user's question or answer; until you reach 2000 rep, your edits are reviewed by other members of the community. If two members agree that you proposed a good edit, you'll get 2 rep out of it. That may not seem like a lot, but it's a good way to gain rep if you don't feel confident asking or answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, note that you can only gain 1000 rep from proposed edits; if you make 501 good edits, before reaching 2000 rep, you won't earn anything for the last one. It also stops working once you hit 2000 rep (at which point you can review suggested edits from newer users)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My last piece of advice is easy to say, but not so easy to do: &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;don't get discouraged.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; The StackExchange network can seem a bit daunting, because we have way more rules and expectations than most other places on the Internet. We do a lot more moderation of content, and we put these barriers (which often seem arbitrary) in between new users and certain activities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, keep in mind that we &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; you to succeed; we want you to stick around and produce high-quality content. If you're willing to work with us, and accept constructive criticism, we're willing to help you polish your content and build your prestige in the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/f3bnW.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/f3bnW.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Unless the question has been protected, but there aren't many of those&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-01-27T02:08:58.203" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8048" CreationDate="2016-01-26T17:24:47.097" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thinking back to my earliest days on the site, I have to say that the &lt;em&gt;quickest&lt;/em&gt; way to earn the minimum rep required to begin actively participating is the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/unanswered&quot;&gt;unanswered question&lt;/a&gt;&quot; list. With even a modicum of research you can usually find and answer a couple of the more niche questions and earn a few upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best overall advice I can give is to find a user whose answers (or questions) you like and try to replicate their style and manner of answering. I've found that my own answers seem to be well received because I &lt;s&gt;always&lt;/s&gt; usually obey my own golden rule; &lt;strong&gt;If you can't back it up with evidence, don't write it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2016-01-27T00:32:37.943" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8054" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-26T18:49:32.157" Score="6" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even without all the content that exists only in the EU, there is still a lot of content that is present in the movies, and so remains in canon to this day. However, a lot of additional details - technical specifications, for example - that is provided only by the EU, and when the new Disney canon came into force, not all of such details are replaced by a Disney equivalent. Many areas have been &quot;abandoned&quot; and left blank. But people still have lots of questions about these areas even if Disney does not intend to provide an answer. This &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/116188/was-the-death-star-cost-effective/&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; demonstrates this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/116319/who-is-the-leader-of-the-sith&quot;&gt;Who is the Leader of the Sith?&lt;/a&gt;) represents a more general case: Different answers exist in both canon levels. In such cases, do we have a policy on which canon level(s) an answer should contain if the asker does not specify it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-legends&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-legends&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-legends&lt;/a&gt; tag is supposed to indicate questions belonging to Legends and/or questions which the asker permits to be answered with Legends. It hasn't been followed hard and fast so far. People continue to give answers containing Legends material when the tag isn't there (I'm guilty of this, but only because it appears to be acceptable in other peoples' Q&amp;amp;As), and askers continue to accept such answers anyway even when they are aware of the canonicity. It appears many people are ok with answers containing Legends even though they didn't use the tag, and I don't see any enforcement that the tag is mandatory if answers containing Legends answers are used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my observations, there seem to be a few approaches right now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Give both canon and Legends answers, organised separately (I do this currently after observing others do it)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Given canon-only answers if Legends isn't tagged or asked for&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Give an answer based on either canon or Legends, depending on the answerer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In many questions, I see someone commenting to the asker asking if he wants canon or Legends, even though the tag isn't there. If this is going to happen anyway even with the existing-but-poorly-used Legends tag, I think a guideline should be established so that we don't need to manually ask &quot;canon or Legends?&quot; in comments for the rest of posterity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44906" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T22:46:48.253" Title="Which canon level should Star Wars questions be answered with if an answer exists in either version?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8054" CreationDate="2016-01-26T19:19:21.087" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a better question: If you have enough information to provide answers to both canons, and the OP didn't specify, why &lt;em&gt;wouldn't&lt;/em&gt; you give both answers, if only to be complete?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr/&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Perfect world&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both. Clearly mark which answer is which canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Perfectly acceptable&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disney Canon only. Many people don't realize there even is an EU/Legends canon. Answer based solely on canon facts. But I'd also suggest mentioning that the answer is based on Disney Canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Ehh, alright, I guess&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Legends only. These answers should be clearly noted that the information is purely Legends based. Unless the OP asks for an answer based in either/both canons, answers based &lt;em&gt;solely&lt;/em&gt; on Legends material should generally be avoided. Personally, I won't downvote these, but I'm not upvoting them either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T19:19:21.087" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8054" CreationDate="2016-01-26T19:20:13.880" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answers should contain canon material (or a statement that canon is silent) if the question isn't tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-legends&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-legends&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-legends&lt;/a&gt; and the text of the question does not indicate that Legends is acceptable. In other words, Legends-only answers should not be posted unless the questions indicates in some way that Legends is acceptable. Answers may include Legends sources as a bonus, but should clearly differentiate between canon and Legends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is not clear whether or not Legends is acceptable then our only choice is to ask in the comments (and add the tag if the asker confirms). Hopefully as the tag gains more usage people will use it more clearly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T19:20:13.880" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8047" CreationDate="2016-01-26T20:43:24.580" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not running for mod, so I'll help you out with the more controversial solution:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Burn both tags.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Within the context of this Stack, it makes no sense to be an expert in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/murder&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;murder&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;murder&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/education&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;education&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;education&lt;/a&gt;. They are too broad and to general to be of help for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;. These tags are meta-tags that should be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T20:43:24.580" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8032" CreationDate="2016-01-26T20:49:29.353" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Himarm here, and I approve this message. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How will your moderator practices be shaped by the person in question? Will you change the way you moderate for another moderator, high reputation user, or newbie?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the best way to answer this question is to say I will attempt to mod in a fluid fashion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since situations can vary and circumstances can be unique its important that the mod handling the situation gets the full story and makes the best decision for that specific case. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If another mod is causing an issue I would handle it the same way as if it was a high rep user, a new user, or a user I would consider a friend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How will you handle highly visible, controversial incidents?&lt;/strong&gt; The last year has seen suspensions of high rep users, freezing of our main chat room, and a moderator being asked to resign. I do not want to rehash those incidents, but one thing that stood out to me was the decision by both the community managers and the moderators to keep as silent as possible, asking us to do the same — most notably to not discuss it in the chat room. &lt;strong&gt;How will you handle incidents like the suspension of a high rep user or a chat regular?&lt;/strong&gt; How will you balance the need for privacy, the need to prevent escalation, and the need of the community for information?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the best approach as a mod, would be to create a meta post explaining the situation as much as possible without infringing on privacy. Most of our recent highly visible incidents had meta posts creating asking the mod team why, and a mod would eventually respond. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of this could be a few users get suspended from chat for more then a few hours a simple statement in meta could alleviate most issues. &quot;Today in chat some users had some inappropriate remarks or comments, leading to them be suspended for a few days to cool down.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a moderator should be a &quot;human exception handler&quot;, one who steps in when the system needs occasional intervention. &lt;strong&gt;How will you best separate your own opinions and your responsibilities for being an ambassador for the site?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will not let my personal opinions handle my ability to moderate a dispute. We recently had a situation in chat were a mod refused to delete a comment that was flagged by multiple people. because the mod stated that he did not find the comment offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its great that I dont find alot of things offensive, but I can tell when OTHERS find things offensive, and even if I dont agree with them, I understand that for the whole its better to edit/remove the offending comment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What do you do now to build the community, rather than your own prestige in the community?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm active on the site. I post questions, answer questions, comment to help, or offer criticism if needed. I'm an active part of the chat community, and also follow most of the happenings in Meta.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;One of the complaints we see often is that many users are not aware of current meta policies. Additionally, some of the policy decisions conflict with each other. What do you suggest we do to make these policies more definitive and more accessible to the average user?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the major things I want to do here, is to make NEW meta posts re-visiting old questions, and closing the old questions as dupes. This will allow the current community to decide things like, what's on topic, how to handle X situation. Alot of our current policies are created years ago by users who are no longer active, and were voted on by users who may or may not still be active. Having us re-create this questions will allow the community as it is now move on in a unified fashion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to making awareness the only thing I know we can do on site, is simply making it known by linking the meta question when needed. If we can add it to other areas on site is something I would be curious and like to do, but I don't know the extent of mods control over things like that on the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Will you be able to separate yourself from relationships made in chat in order to fulfill your role as a moderator dealing with people you are chat friendly with on the main site?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. Having considered running for this Mod position I asked myself this same question, and came to the conclusion that I am able to objectively take a step back and see if the situation around me needs moderation attention. That includes instances of my friends on this site crossing lines and needing moderation as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Have you ever been suspended (from any Stack Exchange main site or chat), and if so for what? Are you willing to release existing moderators from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/legal/moderator-agreement&quot;&gt;moderator agreement&lt;/a&gt; to confirm or rectify your answer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, for a sock puppet. I have already released all info on this in my meta post/apology to the community at the time of offense, to learn more head &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7498/29220&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How often, and for how long, are you willing to be on the site each day/week? Our current mods are fantastic, but it is sometimes difficult to find one when you need one.  What are your normal usage patterns here?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;US Central time zone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typically on 7 days a week from 8 AM to 10 PM on week days, and 10 AM to 3 AM on weekends. Occasionally I will be only glancing at chat on weekdays if I'm actually busy at work, but i see and respond to pings very quickly while at work so i can intervene if needed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the user cannot change their aggressive and argumentative behavior in comments despite their contributions harsher and harsher punishments will have to be placed on the user. It doesn't matter who you are, if you're being repeatedly told by mods to calm down, or stop doing X, which is against site policy WE will have no choice but to continue escalating punishments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply talk with the mod; should that mod be stubborn, depending on the situation, drop it or suggest taking the topic to meta or having the other mods help get a consensus. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29220" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T21:17:56.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8054" CreationDate="2016-01-26T22:46:48.253" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As much as it pains me to say it... [through gritted teeth] &lt;strong&gt;either are fine&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Phew, that was painful. I'm going to need to take a breather. Hang on, I'll be back shortly.... ok. I'm here again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My usual modus operandi is to post &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/910/how-is-canonicity-of-derivative-works-determined-for-star-wars&quot;&gt;Disney canon&lt;/a&gt; first, along with an &lt;em&gt;indication&lt;/em&gt; of the canon level. Where an answer overlaps into a lower canon level (Legends), I'll post it, but I'll make it clear that it's not part of the main canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously if the question is about something that's &lt;em&gt;already&lt;/em&gt; Legends canon, I'd usually lead with a Legends canon answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T22:46:48.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8060" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8061" CreationDate="2016-01-27T08:27:35.137" Score="12" ViewCount="450" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to be widely accepted that Wookieepedia is not an acceptable primary source of information, but I think it would be helpful to have a go-to verdict that says so for easy reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is our stance on answers built upon the foundation of Wookieepedia?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="44025" LastEditDate="2016-01-27T22:23:21.093" LastActivityDate="2016-01-30T02:47:41.827" Title="Time for a clear consensus on Wookieepedia" Tags="|discussion|answers|citations|notability-of-sources|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8060" CreationDate="2016-01-27T12:24:54.660" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like all Wikis (and indeed fansites and blogs), if someone cites wookieepedia as if it's a &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_source&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;primary source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, you should feel free to use the comments and, if needs be, the downvote button to express that &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; primary sources (such as book or film quotes, for example) are strongly preferred around these parts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of the problem is that a lot of users are simply unaware that WP is fan-written. I find that after that's explained, most newer users stop directly citing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-01-28T01:12:11.887" LastActivityDate="2016-01-28T01:12:11.887" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8060" CreationDate="2016-01-27T14:09:32.690" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt; wiki sources should *ever* be considered as a primary source.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This includes things like Wikipedia, Wookieepedia, HP Wikia, Buffy Wikia, Marvel Cinematic Wikia, and IMDB. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Talk to any educator, and you'll hear about students trying to use Wikipedia or similar sources as references for their papers. As these students are told, resources like Wikipedia are fine as &lt;em&gt;starting points&lt;/em&gt;, but not for actual citations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many wikia sources are full of citations. Wikipedia, itself, is full of citations that can be cross referenced. Wookieepedia is also often well referenced. Other times, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/54827/5184&quot;&gt;not so much&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;No&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt; wiki sources should *ever* be considered as a primary source, not even us.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our answers should be cited with verifiable references. That means linking to definitive, verifiable sources. We should be linking to the sources that the wikis linked, not the wikis themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Sometimes all you've got is a wiki.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes there are unsourced &quot;facts&quot;. That doesn't necessarily mean they're wrong. I'm &lt;em&gt;ok&lt;/em&gt; with people mentioning these facts, so long as they also mention that the claim is unverified. I won't downvote answers based on these facts, but they're not getting an upvote from me either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Sometimes passages from wiki sources are acceptable.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is a verifiable citation to match them, sometimes Wiki sources have great summations of facts. In these cases, I find it acceptable to quote a passage from a wiki source. Sometimes someone else has already said it far better than I ever could.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What is acceptable should be left up to the person asking the question.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite the &lt;strike&gt;rules&lt;/strike&gt; guidelines above, I hesitate to ever say we need a &quot;consensus&quot; or any sort of official rule about whether wiki sources are acceptable. A poor, unsourced answer is still an answer. It may deserve a downvote, but I would not vote to delete just because it's an unsourced statement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr/&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt;Some official wiki type sources like Marvel Universe are more acceptable as they are curated by employees of the company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2016-01-28T02:51:13.030" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8063" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-28T08:35:40.867" Score="3" ViewCount="221" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question was posted yesterday. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/116562/whats-the-canonicity-of-lucass-former-word-of-god-statements/116589#116589&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the canonicity of Lucas&amp;#39;s former &amp;quot;word-of-God&amp;quot; statements?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a few minutes consideration, I closed the question as a dupe of this wider question of Star Wars canon&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/910/how-is-canonicity-of-derivative-works-determined-for-star-wars&quot;&gt;How is canonicity of derivative works determined for Star Wars?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it was then &lt;em&gt;reopened&lt;/em&gt; (without edit) by several active users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2016-01-28T15:24:38.263" Title="Why was this Star Wars canonicity question reopened?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8064" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-28T12:59:06.963" Score="2" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per usage policy of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-legends&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-legends&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-legends&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use this tag if your question references Legends sources and/or to indicate that answers are permitted to use Legends sources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where Disney canon and Legends contradict each other, which of the two is &quot;more correct&quot; for a question with the above tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Example question&lt;/strong&gt;: What interactions with the rest of the galaxy did Yoda have during his exile, before Luke's arrival?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Canon answer&lt;/strong&gt;: He telepathically kept in contact with Jedi survivors who have not lost their way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Legends answer&lt;/strong&gt;: Random people visited Dagobah and encountered/visited him from time to time, some aware of his true identity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is the correct answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generalising from the example: When interpreting a question with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-legends&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-legends&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-legends&lt;/a&gt; tag, how should we tell whether it means &quot;I am ok with the answer being canon-only, Legends-only or containing both&quot; as opposed to &quot;I want the answer to be Legends-only&quot;? Even in the first interpretation, is Disney canon still considered a more correct answer when the tag is used?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44906" LastActivityDate="2016-01-30T23:18:38.443" Title="Which canonicity is more right in a Legends question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8064" CreationDate="2016-01-28T14:47:04.577" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When interpreting a question with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-legends&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-legends&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-legends&lt;/a&gt; tag, how should we tell whether it means &quot;I am ok with the answer being canon-only, Legends-only or containing both&quot; as opposed to &quot;I want the answer to be Legends-only&quot;? Even in the first interpretation, is Disney canon still considered a more correct answer when the tag is used?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless the asker specifically says in the question text that &quot;I want the answer to be Legends-only&quot;, we have to assume that canon vs. Legends answers are perfectly acceptable -- they can be canon-only, Legends-only, or contain both. Any of these answers are potentially worthy of upvotes. As always, canon + Legends answers are preferred (it doesn't hurt to include more information even if the asker only cares about Legends, especially for anyone else interested in the question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose we could instruct askers to include &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-legends&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-legends&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-legends&lt;/a&gt; but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; if they only want Legends answers, but this is such a rare case that I see no point in doing this. Thinking &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; was forgotton, an editor is likely to add it later on anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, canon supersedes Legends so a canon answer is usually preferred. Only the asker can determine if Legends supersedes canon for the purposes of his question, and askers already have a way of indicating the response that best answered their question: answer acceptance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastActivityDate="2016-01-28T14:47:04.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8063" CreationDate="2016-01-28T15:24:38.263" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this question in the re-open queue and voted to re-open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As indicated by the fact that you had to take a few minutes to consider (and so did I), this is a tricky question because it's certainly very closely related to the first question. The difference, as I see it, is that the first question is asking about works that make in-universe statements, whereas the new question was asking about out-of-universe commentary by the original creator of the franchise. The first question also did not specifically ask about statements made by George Lucas, which is the focus of the new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, I voted to re-open because I'd prefer to err on the side of keeping closely related questions open. After I'd thought about it and made my decision to re-open, I noticed that other users had already voted to re-open (four by the time I reviewed it, if I remember correctly). This indicated to me that my decision to re-open was more likely correct, and that other users seemed interested in a distinct answer for the new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still think it should remain open, but I won't lose sleep if it is closed again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastActivityDate="2016-01-28T15:24:38.263" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8064" CreationDate="2016-01-28T18:59:57.443" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both are &quot;&lt;em&gt;right&lt;/em&gt;&quot; (or rather, neither are wrong), however the consensus of opinion, as evidenced by the weight of upvotes seems to be that answers that come from works within the studio's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/910/how-is-canonicity-of-derivative-works-determined-for-star-wars?lq=1&quot;&gt;officially recognised canon&lt;/a&gt; are more valued by the community and are generally more likely to receive an acceptance than those that are based on answers from works within the &quot;Legends&quot; canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where you find two sources that directly diverge from each other, I'd strongly suggest you lead with the Disney canon evidence first, then highlight that a lower level canon source contradicts it. Often this can be as interesting as the answer itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2016-01-30T23:18:38.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8060" CreationDate="2016-01-28T22:37:49.313" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. The question asker decides what sources are acceptable&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The user asking the question can specify whether they're looking for concrete evidence for something. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the asker doesn't make any stipulations on what sources they're looking for, then users should be free to answer with whatever sources they may find. These sources can include wiki/wikipedia/etc. answers. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The asker can accept the answer that best solves the issue for them. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. The community of SF&amp;amp;F users will upvote the best answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't believe an answer citing a wiki source merits a downvote, especially if the asker didn't specify what sources they want.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Instead of downvoting an answer for having a wiki source, just upvote the ones you feel have better sources. Many users already do this.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, in the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/116085/how-did-the-dianoga-avoid-being-crushed/116094#116094&quot;&gt;How did the dianoga avoid being crushed?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/116090/54827&quot;&gt;one answer&lt;/a&gt; had no sources; it was pure speculation/deductive reasoning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When the trash compactor starts the dianoga releases Luke. It obviously knows what is coming and it removes itself from the trash compactor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Because the water level doesn't seem to rise there must be some kind of sluice mechanism in the compactor to deal with this, which would give an ideal escape route for a squid-like creature to hide whilst the compactor works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/116094/54827&quot;&gt;another&lt;/a&gt; answer cited Wookieepedia and used speculation/deductive reasoning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is no canon answer on exactly how the dianoga avoids getting&#xA;  squished. This quote from Wookieepedia seems to offer a possible&#xA;  explanation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;The dianoga itself had managed to burrow into the wall, and so was&#xA;    relatively safe inside the compactor; that is, until the Death Star&#xA;    was destroyed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So it is possible the dianoga was safe in a hole it had&#xA;  burrowed in the wall. However, as @phantom42 pointed out, that passage&#xA;  isn't cited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The legends section of the Dianoga page shows that the creature has&#xA;  sharp teeth and strong tentacles, which could have been used to burrow&#xA;  into the wall. So even though the quote above is uncited, it seems as&#xA;  good a speculation as any as to how the creature survives each time&#xA;  the walls close. Burrowing into the wall could also possibly&#xA;  contribute to the water level not rising when the walls start closing,&#xA;  as @Cearon O'Flynn mentioned in his answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The bottom line is there is no canon answer; all we have is this&#xA;  Wookiepeedia quote I mentioned above and our own speculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/116708/54827&quot;&gt;third answer&lt;/a&gt; sites a Legends status interview/commentary from Lucas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Per the film's commentary track with George Lucas, the Dianoga has managed to locate a small space where it can hide while the mashing is going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;And you begin to say, &quot;how am I gonna get Luke free from this monster?&quot; And you have lots of choices, and obviously the easy one is having Han shoot it, having it let go and go away but that's not too much fun. So when you get in there, you know where things are going... when the walls start to close the Dianoga runs away and hides, in a little space that protects him from the walls. So things start to tell their own story after a while. You got the thing, the thing he lives in there, the thing closes all the time he must have figured out a way not to get squashed but it would mean that he would let go of Luke and release him, and then the next problem would be introduced, the doors closing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Since none of the answers have canon sources, we're left with Legends and speculation. Rather than downvote something just because of a wiki source, simply upvote the answer you feel is the best.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54827" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2016-01-30T02:47:41.827" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8069" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8079" CreationDate="2016-01-29T19:31:23.920" Score="4" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1Q60N.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1Q60N.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of a visited link&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The screenshot says it all. I visited a site, copied the address, posted it in chat (new interface).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The colour used for the link is too close to the background colour, which makes the link barely visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" OwnerDisplayName="SQB" LastEditorUserId="171" LastEditDate="2016-02-01T16:04:01.000" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T16:04:01.000" Title="Links to visited sites are barely visible" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|chat|mobile|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8070" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-29T21:19:10.090" Score="2" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;A while ago I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7911/how-to-ask-this-question-about-star-wars-fan-theories&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7911/how-to-ask-this-question-about-star-wars-fan-theories&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;strong&gt;SF&amp;amp;F &lt;em&gt;meta&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; because I figured it'd be a little too broad and slightly opinion-based. So then I thought, &lt;em&gt;I know, I'll ask it on chat. People are always saying chat is where to go if it's opinion-based and such.&lt;/em&gt; The problem is I have no idea how chat works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I opened a room &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/34881/star-wars-fan-theories&quot;&gt;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/34881/star-wars-fan-theories&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I doing this incorrectly? Nobody has chimed in so far. I just want to hear people's 2-cents on the question &lt;strong&gt;&quot;When has any Star Wars theory turned out to be true?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54827" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-01-29T21:25:34.170" Title="How can I get answers thru chat?" Tags="|support|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8070" CreationDate="2016-01-29T21:25:25.953" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should join an existing room that already has people talking in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this site, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/a&gt; is the main chatroom, which means it's usually fine to start there. You can also check &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/?tab=site&amp;amp;host=scifi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;the list of all SF&amp;amp;F chat rooms&lt;/a&gt; in case one of them is obviously more appropriate. At the moment there don't appear to be any active chat rooms focused on Star Wars, so Mos Eisley is probably the best choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35327" LastActivityDate="2016-01-29T21:25:25.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8070" CreationDate="2016-01-29T21:25:34.170" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Opening a new room like that is unlikely to get much attention, because no one will know it's there unless they happen to be looking at the site's room list. I can tell you that I, for one, don't do this in a regular basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would recommend that you go into the primary room for the site, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/a&gt;, and announce the existence of your room to the people there. You may need to do this a few different times, depending on who's active and paying attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could also just ask your question right there in Mos Eisley, especially if the activity has hit a lull, we're always happy for a new topic. (If the chat activity is already high, you might need to wait it out.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2016-01-29T21:25:34.170" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8008" CreationDate="2016-01-30T17:18:56.523" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say it's on-topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) It seems to be set in an alternate world with anachronistic technology and elements of fantasy/magic mixed throughout. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The books seem to be set in an alternate, &quot;timeless&quot; world with stylistic similarities to both the 19th century and the 1930s, though with contemporary, and seemingly anachronistic scientific knowledge. For instance, in The Hostile Hospital, the Baudelaire children send a message via Morse code on a telegraph, yet in the general store they are in, there is fiber-optic cable for sale&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0339291/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;film adaptation is classified&lt;/a&gt; as a fantasy movie&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) Your question was generally accepted:&#xA; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/116182/reading-order-for-books-in-a-series-of-unfortunate-events-universe&quot;&gt;Reading order for books in A Series of Unfortunate Events universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the issues with YA and children's novels is that the can be hard to pin down into a genre, as they're often just thrown into the category of &quot;Young Adult&quot; or &quot;Children's&quot;, without going further. We see the same things with movies that get classified as &quot;Family&quot; and nothing else, when they're clearly also sci-fi/fantasy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, going back to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/344/31178&quot;&gt;our policy&lt;/a&gt; on works with sci-fi/fantasy elements, I would say this point is most relevant here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you're not sure it's SF but you think a good case can be made for it, it's on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've seemed to have made a case, another user commented that they think it's fantasy and got a number of upvotes. I think the case is made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-01-30T17:18:56.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2474" CreationDate="2016-01-31T23:16:55.253" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/59933/elio-miguel-garcia-jr&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Elio Miguel Garcia Jr&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/INts6.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/INts6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Elio Garcia and author George R. R. Martin&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/vulture/2013/04/17/17-george-rr-martin.w529.h352.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;img src&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The co-author of the book &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_of_Ice_%26_Fire&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The World of Ice and Fire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and renown A Song of Ice and Fire 'superfan' and collaborator with George R. R. Martin, has made a couple of appearances on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most notably:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/116193/21267&quot;&gt;His answer&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/116115/what-is-the-in-universe-title-of-yandels-a-world-of-ice-and-fire&quot;&gt;What is the in-universe title of Yandel&amp;#39;s ‘A World of Ice and Fire’?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/169204/21267&quot;&gt;His answer&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/169198/which-bastards-in-westeros-were-automatically-legitimized-once-their-parents-mar&quot;&gt;Which bastards in Westeros were automatically legitimized once their parents married?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Proof&lt;/strong&gt;: I personally &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/westerosorg/status/691581218136129536&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;contacted&lt;/a&gt; Elio on Twitter, and he confirmed that is his account.&#xA;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="21267" LastEditDate="2017-09-14T04:06:21.980" LastActivityDate="2017-09-14T04:06:21.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2474" CreationDate="2016-01-31T23:53:55.643" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assuming we focus purely on questions answered by word-of-god authorities &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;where that question was prompted by a question asked on SFF:SE&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, then there are plenty to choose from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/141737/question-about-fantasy-novels-by-f-j-hale-robert-e-vardeman&quot;&gt;Question About Fantasy Novels By F.J. Hale/Robert E. Vardeman&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;Robert E. Vardeman&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/132319/do-they-have-surnames-in-stonewylde&quot;&gt;Do they have surnames in Stonewylde?&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;Kit Berry&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/137301/what-exactly-were-the-klingon-gods&quot;&gt;What exactly *were* the Klingon gods?&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;Keith R. A. DeCandido&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/135329/how-can-tristran-believe-this-about-his-adopted-mother&quot;&gt;How can Tristran believe this about his adopted mother?&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;Neil Gaiman&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/175630/is-there-a-star-trek-audio-book-read-by-brent-spiner/175924#175924&quot;&gt;Is there a Star Trek audio book read by Brent Spiner?&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;Brent Spiner&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/132907/whos-the-character-that-can-talk-to-flowers-and-whos-her-daughter-in-ruins&quot;&gt;Who&amp;#39;s the child and her mother that can &amp;quot;talk to flowers&amp;quot; in Ruins?&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;Terese Nielsen&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/121617/why-exactly-do-the-twin-towers-still-stand-in-the-kermit-less-world/121885#121885&quot;&gt;Why exactly do the Twin Towers still stand in the Kermit-less world?&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;Kirk R. Thatcher&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/137300/why-does-watney-s-notebook-in-the-martian-have-four-holes&quot;&gt;Why does Watney’s notebook in The Martian have four holes?&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;Noel Cowell / Neil Floyd&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/129724/sttitan-sword-of-damocles-ending/129735#129735&quot;&gt;ST:Titan Sword of Damocles ending&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;Christopher L. Bennett&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;David Mack&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/129333/are-there-any-more-elminster-novels-coming&quot;&gt;Are there any more Elminster novels coming?&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;Ed Greenwood&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83282/do-i-need-to-read-city-of-the-damned-before-kinslayer/96754#96754&quot;&gt;Do I need to read City of the Damned before Kinslayer?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;strong&gt;David Guymer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/124887/which-order-to-read-the-4-old-republic-novels/125008#125008&quot;&gt;Which order to read the 4 Old Republic novels?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;strong&gt;Paul S. Kent&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Sean Williams&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Drew Karpyshyn&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/66076/whose-buttocks-are-these/81161#81161&quot;&gt;Whose buttocks are these?&lt;/a&gt; &#xA;  - &lt;strong&gt;Charles Stross&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32835/why-doesnt-glopp-mutate-humans/71499#71499&quot;&gt;Why doesn&amp;#39;t GLOPP mutate humans?&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;George Broussard&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/80340/is-there-an-official-plot-explanation-for-the-movie-u-f-o-2012/81671#81671&quot;&gt;Is there an official plot explanation for the movie U.F.O. (2012)?&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;Dominic Burns&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/94663/is-dharia-a-matriarchy&quot;&gt;Is Dharia a matriarchy?&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;Susan Kaye Quinn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/92296/why-is-paris-flooded-in-edge-of-tomorrow&quot;&gt;Why is Paris flooded in Edge Of Tomorrow?&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;Chris McQuarrie&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/73133/how-does-shreks-rescue-party-reach-him-so-fast-at-the-end-of-shrek-2/73138#73138&quot;&gt;How does Shrek&amp;#39;s rescue party reach him so fast at the end of Shrek 2?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;strong&gt;David N. Weiss&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/102004/what-has-happened-to-books-from-world-of-paranoia-published-by-ultraviolet-bo/102478#102478&quot;&gt;What has happened to books from world of &amp;quot;Paranoia&amp;quot; published by &amp;quot;Ultraviolet books&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;strong&gt;Alan Varney&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/113602/was-star-wars-the-force-awakens-a-junior-novel-based-on-the-films-script-o/113611#113611&quot;&gt;Was &amp;quot;Star Wars: The Force Awakens - A Junior Novel&amp;quot; based on the film&amp;#39;s script or the official novelisation?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;strong&gt;Michael Kogge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8180/is-there-a-heaven-in-the-top-cow-universe/90581#90581&quot;&gt;Is there a heaven in the Top Cow Universe?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;strong&gt;Ron Marz&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/70575/is-there-a-reason-this-human-characters-name-sounds-tymbrimi/89677#89677&quot;&gt;Is there a reason this human character&amp;#39;s name sounds Tymbrimi?&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;John Henry&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/73024/any-plans-to-make-a-movie-of-one-of-jack-vances-books/73025#73025&quot;&gt;Any plans to make a movie of one of Jack Vance&amp;#39;s books?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;strong&gt;John Vance&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/94288/is-there-any-news-about-the-lost-fleet-books-and-spinoffs/106400#106400&quot;&gt;Is there any news about the Lost Fleet books and spinoffs?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;strong&gt;John Henry&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/64154/in-the-clone-wars-movie-why-cant-anakin-understand-huttese/71054#71054&quot;&gt;In The Clone Wars movie, why can&amp;#39;t Anakin understand Huttese?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;strong&gt;Karen Traviss&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/123306/why-is-the-planet-lola-sayu-so-damaged&quot;&gt;Why is the planet Lola Sayu so damaged?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;strong&gt;Leland Chee&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/116533/when-and-where-are-the-daggers-and-steele-books-set/116649#116649&quot;&gt;When and where are the Daggers and Steele books set?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;strong&gt;Alex P. Berg&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/135976/where-did-the-gold-in-fort-knox-go&quot;&gt;Where did the gold in Fort Knox go?&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;Patrick E. McLean&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2017-12-10T13:52:30.940" LastActivityDate="2017-12-10T13:52:30.940" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2016-02-01T14:52:52.193" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Long story short, it's the combination of old nicknames, newer coined ones, and the difficulty of securing a unique username on most sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my Freshman year of college, I joined a group named The Fuzzies run by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/cincinnati/obituary.aspx?n=matthew-kohmescher&amp;amp;pid=149581015&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Father Matt Komescher&lt;/a&gt; at the University of Dayton. We had blue buttons with the word &quot;Fuzzy&quot; on them and membership cards. We'd pledged to make the world a better place by being nice to people and &quot;giving at least one warm fuzzy a day&quot;. Because I wore the pin every day, I quickly became nicknamed &quot;Fuzzy&quot;. When I started my first job after college, I still wore the pin, but one of my co-workers kept adding to the nickname until he finally settled on a simplification of FuzzyBoots because I also occasionally wore into work a set of bright yellow Caterpillar boots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being a common name, Fuzzy was a difficult username to secure, so I started using FuzzyBoots on many sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Up until today, I was just using my name, Sean Duggan, on the site, but I figure I ought to embrace the idea of a proper alias. ^_^&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="23243" LastEditDate="2016-02-01T20:50:40.580" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T20:50:40.580" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8077" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-01T14:57:04.940" Score="18" ViewCount="292" Body="&lt;p&gt;The comment info text says &quot;Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. Avoid comments like “+1” or “thanks”.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why I was flagging these kinds of comments as not constructive whenever I encounter one of them. But here on scifi &amp;amp; fantasy when I had a look on my flagging history I got the impression it is not that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I noticed like 10 of my last ~15 flags of this kind just got declined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if comments like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/104961/44517&quot;&gt;the first comment here&lt;/a&gt;, which is just saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thanks. That was really helpful. – eleanora Oct 12 '15 at 20:13&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...are welcome on this SE page, shouldn't this text on the comments-form be removed then, to avoid people might be frightened off to post &quot;+1 thanks man&quot; and that alike?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44517" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T15:34:20.130" Title="Why the info says not to use comments for saying &quot;thanks&quot; when it seems to be appreciated to do so?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8077" CreationDate="2016-02-01T15:58:07.527" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking over the logs, it seems I did this, but since it was 3 months ago, I don't have a solid recollection for why I did it.  My best guess is that I disagreed with the flag reason, and you used a bunch of the same flag reason at once on many comments, which made it look like someone was spamming flags with an inaccurate reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/17365/158781&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You must specify a reason for each comment flag. The dialog offers a few pre-filled reasons that cover most common cases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;rude or offensive — comments that violate the “be nice” rule&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;not constructive / off-topic — comments that do not contribute to improve the post are ripe for deletion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;obsolete — for example, criticism of a post that has been satisfactorily addressed by the author&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;chatty — anything that's not really relevant (e.g. “+1” comments)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're more chatty than non-constructive, although that description of non-constructive is super broad.  If I see a ton of wrongly-flagged comments like that, I'll usually decline them.  Admittedly, I'll usually delete the comment if it should be deleted anyway, which I oddly didn't do here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T15:58:07.527" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8069" CreationDate="2016-02-01T16:03:53.450" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry about that, fixed now. Thanks for the report.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="171" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T16:03:53.450" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8080" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-01T17:50:43.143" Score="16" ViewCount="466" Body="&lt;p&gt;In relation to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/117053/what-happened-to-marlena&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, I replied to Obie in Mos Eisley with a gif of the scene in question.  Someone took issue with it, and I was automatically suspended for 30 minutes.  The image is in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/117057/44025&quot;&gt;the answer I posted&lt;/a&gt; as well, and no one has complained about it there.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I asked a mod to review the automatic suspension, which I felt was unwarranted - because sci-fi movies are quite clearly on topic (and relevant, and - I would have assumed - acceptable) in chat - my suspension was actually &lt;strong&gt;extended&lt;/strong&gt; to 6 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Keen - @WadCheber Sit out your suspension in silence next time.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -  &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/27254040#27254040&quot;&gt;Chat&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not normally one to challenge mod decisions - even when they involve suspending me - and I didn't do that here.  I merely questioned an &lt;em&gt;automatic&lt;/em&gt; suspension that I felt was uncalled for.  I will admit, however, that 6 hours for basically saying &quot;This automatic suspension seems unwarranted, can you look into it and maybe undo it?&quot; seems a bit much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are we to assume that images from science fiction films that directly answer a question on the main site are now unacceptable in chat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note 1 - The content didn't violate the site's age restrictions, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1060277/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the movie is PG-13&lt;/a&gt;.  Thus, its content is deemed acceptable for viewers who are 13 years old (at least in the US), which is all that the site guidelines require.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note 2 - Keen is awesome.  &lt;strong&gt;I like Keen&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;A lot&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;I like Thaddeus, and Kevin, and AncientSwordRage&lt;/strong&gt;. I'm not bashing mods, or a particular mod - I'm just reacting to something I think shouldn't have happened, and it isn't personal at all.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T18:07:56.127" Title="Is a photo that answers a question on the main site grounds for suspension in chat?" Tags="|discussion|chat|suspension|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="26" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8080" CreationDate="2016-02-01T18:12:55.687" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're missing some details in your rundown of events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You posted an animated GIF of a violent moment from &lt;em&gt;Cloverfield&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Another user flagged it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone validated that flag.  This caused you to receive a 30 minute chat suspension.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You posted a comment on one of my posts requesting I remove the suspension.  I look up the details of the suspension, and leave it in place.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You start an argument with the person who flagged it, via commenting on a random post.  I find these comments and delete them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I extend your suspension, because this is a) abusing comments to sidestep your chat suspension, and b) harassing someone for helping to moderate the site, which is a violation of the 'be nice' rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I post the chat message you quoted above.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1027" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T18:12:55.687" CommentCount="25" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8080" CreationDate="2016-02-01T18:28:08.600" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have been around SE long enough now that you should know that moderation/flagging on Chat is &lt;em&gt;different&lt;/em&gt; - it's easier.  Anyone with enough rep anywhere on SE can act on Chat flags and in my experience it's usually people who aren't regulars in a specific room that respond first to flags.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, as was said in the comments, YES some things that will be fine on the actual Q&amp;amp;A site could get flagged on Chat.  It's just something to live with.  One time, on one of his rare visits to Chat, the guy with the most rep on ServerFault got suspended for &lt;strong&gt;quoting&lt;/strong&gt; something someone else had said in Chat just a few minutes earlier.  It happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T18:28:08.600" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8083" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-01T20:44:47.603" Score="-4" ViewCount="814" Body="&lt;p&gt;A common issue in chat rooms is the use of flags as a &quot;downvote&quot;. &#xA;IE, a user may flag a picture from a movie used to explain a question asked within the room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of if the post is appropriate to the room, however, moderators often act decisively, with suspensions and deletion of the post.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has an issue in that the flagged post may be wholly within the bounds of the room, both thematically and in terms of maturity guidelines. IE, posting a picture of a chestburster poking its head out of a person in an Alien movie -- it's a graphic which is within the PG-13 guideline of the room &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; it's a SFF topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should these flags be encouraged by punishing users for posting relevantly and within the bounds of the room, or should such flags  be considered unwelcome and, if so, should there be some sort of feedback involved?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user40790" LastEditorUserId="44025" LastEditDate="2016-02-01T20:48:07.040" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T18:40:05.523" Title="Should we encourage or discourage flags for personal taste?" Tags="|discussion|chat|flagging|policy|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="15" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8083" CreationDate="2016-02-01T21:17:39.073" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everyone knows the MPAA ratings are horribly inconsistent and flawed. To say that any image or sequence of images within a PG-13 rating would be appropriate to be displayed indefinitely in the main chat room is perhaps naive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did they rate the movie PG-13 specifically for that scene, or for the movie as a whole (it can go either way). If the movie was comprised of only that scene (like a 5 second clip where someone is graphically murdered) would it still be PG-13?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And since I know what the inciting incident was for this question, I would personally say I consider an animated gif to be more offensive than a still image. Animated gifs catch the eye, and they endless loop, showing the same thing over and over again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of chat flags, it takes 6 people (or 1 mod) saying &amp;quot;valid&amp;quot; for the flag to result in the comment being deleted and the person being suspended for 30 minutes.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/100414/how-many-chat-flags-are-required-to-remove-a-message-ban-a-user/100439#100439&quot;&gt;How many chat flags are required to remove a message/ban a user?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The threshold is six, meaning the net flag count of the message has to reach six. Net flag count means the number of flags minus the number of counter flags (i.e. &amp;quot;I disagree with this flag&amp;quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also take into account the number of people who have decided not to vote either way (we call this a &amp;quot;meh&amp;quot; vote), under the assumption that if many people see the message, but don't think this is obvious enough to be a flag-worthy message, it can't be that bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &amp;quot;meh&amp;quot; votes are taken into account with a ratio of 1:5 (and rounded downwards); in other words, for every five people doing nothing with the flag, we deduct one from the net count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means unless a mod intercedes, the population at large across the entire StackExchange network makes a decision on what is offensive and what isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One person may decide to flag something, but unless the population agrees, that flag isn't going to amount to anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T21:22:44.100" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8083" CreationDate="2016-02-01T21:23:01.827" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every group of people who interact on a regular basis develop their own social norms, unique to the blend of individuals who comprise the whole. Different customs, humor, jargon, they all become key to a group identity. The glue that holds us together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chat flags are a representation, a stand in, for something else entirely; The opportunity for anyone who has gained the right to take part in a space to send a signal to leadership when they think something might be amiss. &lt;em&gt;Why bother with this?&lt;/em&gt; When a group is constantly tweaking and reconsidering their social mores -- the way they comport themselves as a whole -- that's a sign of a healthy community. &lt;em&gt;In order for communities to work, individuals need to be able to influence the whole.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By design, flags are signal, not noise. If folks have differing views about what should be discussed in a given space, flags allow them to draw out these differing sensibilities and discuss them. To grapple with their opposing sense of the norm, and together, figure out a way forward. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flags are never the problem nor the solution unto themselves, but they always represent an opportunity to operate more effectively as a community.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19253" LastEditorUserId="19253" LastEditDate="2016-02-01T21:35:38.247" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T21:35:38.247" CommentCount="24" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8087" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8088" CreationDate="2016-02-02T04:42:15.867" Score="5" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few days ago, I was one question away from getting &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/122/curious&quot;&gt;Curious&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I then asked this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/116896/what-actually-is-arithmancy&quot;&gt;What actually is Arithmancy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question has (at time of writing) 42 upvotes, has been viewed almost 5000 times and has 4 highly voted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still do not have the Curious badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this question not 'well received'? (Yes, I do have a positive question record.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is this question missing that makes it not well received, or is it an error with Stack Exchange?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user32390" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T16:54:06.240" Title="What constitutes a 'well received question'?" Tags="|support|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8087" CreationDate="2016-02-02T05:17:14.680" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem doesn't seem to be that question, but the other one you posted on the same day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You asked two questions on December 31st (that I can see; I don't know if you have any deleted questions on that day):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/116896/what-actually-is-arithmancy&quot;&gt;What actually is Arithmancy?&lt;/a&gt;, which was well-received&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/116900/what-spells-charms-curses-hexes-jinxes-enchantments-and-charms-do-we-know-w&quot;&gt;What spells, enchantments and charms do we know were taught in the first year of Hogwart&amp;#39;s curriculum?&lt;/a&gt;, which was closed until recently, and currently has a negative score&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoting from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/234259/asking-days-badges&quot;&gt;the official announcement of the Curious badge family&lt;/a&gt; (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you ask at least one well-recieved question in a UTC day and &lt;strong&gt;none of your questions that day are deleted, downvoted, or closed&lt;/strong&gt;, you get one more day of credit toward the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it looks like it's the second question that's holding you back&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T16:54:06.240" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8077" CreationDate="2016-02-02T11:28:51.987" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;In general&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &quot;thank you&quot;-comments are useful when the OP hasn't accepted an answer (probably because they are not familiar with Stack Exchange); in those cases, a &quot;thank you&quot;-comment is the only indication an answer was what the OP was looking for and should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be deleted (except after having been edited into the post they were commenting on).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example of inclusion of a &quot;thank you&quot;-comment in a post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The book you're looking for is blah blah ... blah.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;hr&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The OP confirmed this answer as correct in a comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Thank you! I found it in my library and this is definitely it! Thank you so much!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    &amp;mdash; OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2016-02-02T11:46:23.847" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T11:46:23.847" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8091" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-02T20:01:53.357" Score="30" ViewCount="1917" Body="&lt;p&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election/4&quot;&gt;fourth moderator election&lt;/a&gt; has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 2 new moderators are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/flair/31394.png&quot; alt=&quot;rand al&amp;#39;thor&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31936&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/flair/31936.png&quot; alt=&quot;Null&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They'll be joining &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;the existing crew&lt;/a&gt; shortly — please thank them for volunteering, and share your assistance and advice with them as they learn the ropes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please join me in thanking Keen who was elected in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election/1&quot;&gt;very first election&lt;/a&gt; and stepped away from the site shortly before this announcement. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For details on how the voting played out, you can download the election results &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election/4&quot;&gt;on the election page&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opavote.org/results/4658187521228800/0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;view a summary report online&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15823" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2018-03-19T18:23:23.003" Title="2016 Community Moderator Election Results" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8091" CreationDate="2016-02-02T20:06:37.807" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Congratulations to you both.&lt;/strong&gt; I hope your time as a moderator is happier than mine was and that you both hold fast to the qualities that made people vote for you in the first place; honesty, openness and a genuine desire to make this site the best that it can be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/N0mq3.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/N0mq3.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ity6b.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ity6b.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A special word to Rand. You've had to deal with some very open (and harsh) criticism during this campaign and you've shown amazing resilience in not taking the bait that's been offered, something that bodes extremely well for your time as mod. &lt;strong&gt;Kudos&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-02-02T21:02:51.707" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T21:02:51.707" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8091" CreationDate="2016-02-02T20:19:39.123" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations to Null.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/34495?m=27234630#27234630&quot;&gt;Since I do not trust rand al'thor as a moderator, I have requested the deletion of my account&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To the Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy community: so long, and thanks for all the fish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;— Gilles a.k.a. user56&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user56" LastEditorUserId="3267" LastEditDate="2018-03-19T18:23:23.003" LastActivityDate="2018-03-19T18:23:23.003" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8091" CreationDate="2016-02-02T21:16:00.737" Score="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Congratulations to our new moderators!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a losing candidate, I send my personal congratulations to both Rand al'Thor and Null. I wish you and the entire community the best. I’m sure you’ll both work for the good of the site. I can’t imagine this is an easy role to take on – good luck to you and our entire moderation team – and thanks in advance for the work you’re about to put in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks also to everybody else who ran. There were more good candidates than positions available, and I think that’s an endorsement for the health of our site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, thanks to anybody who voted for me. It really means a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;@Gilles and @Keen:&lt;/strong&gt; Thank you for all the work you’ve put into the site, both as some of our first moderators and as regular posters. I’m sorry you felt the need to leave the site behind, and I wish you both the best of luck in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2018-03-19T06:31:55.060" LastActivityDate="2018-03-19T06:31:55.060" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8091" CreationDate="2016-02-02T22:29:20.787" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;To &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31936/null&quot;&gt;@Null&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394/rand-althor&quot;&gt;@rand al'thor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night's Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/user1027&quot;&gt;@Keen&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And now his watch is ended&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T22:34:35.340" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8096" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8104" CreationDate="2016-02-02T22:34:06.777" Score="51" ViewCount="1059" Body="&lt;p&gt;For those who aren't aware, Keen has &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/users/375283/keen?tab=accounts&quot;&gt;stepped down as moderator and left SF&amp;amp;F&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;strong&gt;It is up to him to decide whether he wants to share his reasons for leaving, or comment on his departure in any way&lt;/strong&gt;, but I think we owe him a fond farewell - as well as an enormous debt of gratitude for everything he has done for us &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election/1&quot;&gt;in the FOUR YEARS he was a mod&lt;/a&gt; (to say nothing of his earlier stint as a regular user here).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thank you, Keen, goodbye, and godspeed.  We wish you weren't leaving, but we're glad you let us get to know you, and we are all grateful for all your hard work on the behalf of this community.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?num=50&amp;amp;newwindow=1&amp;amp;q=go%20raibh%20maith%20agat%20agus%20sl%C3%A1n%20go%20f%C3%B3ill%20translate&amp;amp;oq=Go%20raibh%20maith%20agat%2C%20agus%20sl%C3%A1n%20go%20f%C3%B3ill%21%20tran&amp;amp;gs_l=serp.3.0.33i21.5158.7019.0.8795.5.5.0.0.0.0.218.654.0j3j1.4.0....0...1c.1.64.serp..1.3.435.1iaa9t-rU6A&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Go raibh maith agat, agus slán go fóill!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="anon" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="anon" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2017-01-29T18:15:54.793" Title="Goodbye and godspeed, Keen - and thank you for playing a large part in making this site great" Tags="|discussion|moderation|users|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8091" CreationDate="2016-02-02T22:37:43.710" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congrats to Null and Rand.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of your duties will consist of chanting &quot;WE ARE THE MODS, WE ARE THE MODS, WE ARE WE ARE WE ARE THE MODS!&quot; and terrorizing British seaside towns like Brighton on Bank Holidays.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/8E4znu82XhE?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May you both be the just and worthy Big Brothers we wished for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/555jxltr9Zo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Less optimistically:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/o1tj2zJ2Wvg?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="44025" LastEditDate="2016-02-03T20:10:45.713" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T20:10:45.713" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8098" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8099" CreationDate="2016-02-03T02:54:24.773" Score="1" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was reviewing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/117238/i-am-dreaming-now-waiting-to-know-what-happens-withparralells&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and it seems to me that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/233/how-do-we-deal-with-questions-about-rumors-and-release-dates&quot;&gt;this meta question&lt;/a&gt; should apply, and that the question would be off-topic as &lt;em&gt;too localized&lt;/em&gt;. However, when trying to flag it as such, I found that the &lt;em&gt;too localized&lt;/em&gt; close reason no longer exists - does this indicate that release date questions are now on-topic for the site, and if not, how should they be appropriately flagged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I should note that as originally written, the main answerable &quot;question&quot; I could see was whether a sequel will be coming out - if that is not retained, the overall question of release dates remains.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22078" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:29.123" LastActivityDate="2016-03-27T15:11:54.273" Title="Are release date questions still off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8098" CreationDate="2016-02-03T03:22:06.893" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer to this question is a bit complex, because there's multiple parts to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Too localized&lt;/em&gt; is no longer a close reason; it was abandoned a while ago, and &lt;em&gt;in general&lt;/em&gt; we &lt;strong&gt;don't&lt;/strong&gt; close questions for the kind of reasons that it covered. The same goes for &lt;em&gt;not constructive&lt;/em&gt;, the other close reason that covered release-date questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We have had &lt;em&gt;similar&lt;/em&gt; recent questions, e.g. about DVD releases of Netflix shows, or HD releases of certain movies, that remained open. To me, this means the community is &lt;strong&gt;no longer actively closing&lt;/strong&gt; those kinds of questions -- and there aren't very many of them so I don't think there's much need to.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, the question you referenced isn't really a good example of a release date question; the &lt;em&gt;core&lt;/em&gt; of that question is asking for details about the resolution of some plot details from the movie. I don't think the OP was really asking &quot;when is this thing being released&quot; so much as they were expressing frustration, e.g. they really meant something like &quot;come on Netflix, how hard is this, go release this already,&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In light of #3, and the edits that were made to it, I think the question now deserves to be closed per our Future Works policy: none of those questions have answers, and likely won't have answers, until more material from that show comes out.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T03:22:06.893" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8091" CreationDate="2016-02-03T05:29:10.187" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thank you to all who voted for me and to everyone who expressed their congratulations. Thank you also to all the candidates for a good race.&lt;/strong&gt; There were many excellent candidates who would have made great moderators, and I hope they consider running in the next election.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you also to Keen for all his efforts. Your presence will be sorely missed, especially as I learn how to use the mod tools!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I look forward to serving this community and doing my best to help ensure that everyone here has the best experience possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T05:29:10.187" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8096" CreationDate="2016-02-03T09:00:34.627" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;You will be missed, Keen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Live long and prosper, and may the Force be with you.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T23:10:20.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7946" CreationDate="2016-02-03T10:00:19.723" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://mythology.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KIHiq.png&quot; alt=&quot;Join us and discover your great-great-great-grandfather&amp;#39;s SciFi &amp;amp; Fantasy!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user59881" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T13:00:19.550" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T10:00:19.723" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8103" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8107" CreationDate="2016-02-03T12:52:57.307" Score="10" ViewCount="221" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election&quot;&gt;Election page&lt;/a&gt; shows an overview of all elections held for this stack, now that there's currently no election in progress.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The overview looks a bit off with two missing userboxes, since two former mods left this stack entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TWas7.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TWas7.png&quot; alt=&quot;A screenshot of the election overview page, with two missing userboxes&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T16:53:34.353" Title="Two missing user boxes on Election overview" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|election|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8096" CreationDate="2016-02-03T13:10:59.863" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9y0dN.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9y0dN.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keen has worked tirelessly to make this community a better place, doing so with grace, patience, and calm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for all the hard work, Keen.  I'm sure I speak for many when I say that you will be sorely missed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T13:10:59.863" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8105" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8106" CreationDate="2016-02-03T14:08:23.750" Score="3" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the activity tab on your profile on meta, it shows you the next tag badge that you'll earn - mine says it's a bronze &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discussion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not do this on the main site, too? That way I won't have to go count how many &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; answers I have, and what the score is, etc. It would just be there, on my profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2016-02-08T14:29:43.737" LastActivityDate="2016-02-08T14:29:43.737" Title="Show the next tag badge on the main site profile too" Tags="|support|profile-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8105" CreationDate="2016-02-03T14:18:26.353" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;You &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; already do this.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reason it doesn't come up automatically is because you don't yet have all the rep-based privileges. I'll show you how to do this based on screenshots from my account on a site where &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; don't have all the privileges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, go to the box in the top left of your Activity page and click the little wheel to change from tracking a privilege to tracking a tag badge:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6VU6v.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6VU6v.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you've set it to track a tag badge instead of a privilege, you can then choose &lt;em&gt;which&lt;/em&gt; tag badge to track by clicking the other little wheel on the left:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/q1aRP.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/q1aRP.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll then get a popup window with all the possible tag badges you can track. Have fun!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T14:18:26.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8103" CreationDate="2016-02-03T16:53:34.353" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;This has now been fixed.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The departed mods' names still don't show up, but the two tiny &quot;missing user&quot; icons have been enlarged to show that three moderators &lt;em&gt;were&lt;/em&gt; elected in 2012 even though two have now left the site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PupxX.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PupxX.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to be the best solution that balances these users' desire for privacy with the natural wish to see them recognised as former moderators of this community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T16:53:34.353" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8083" CreationDate="2016-02-03T18:40:05.523" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't read my answer until you read &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/8086/15823&quot;&gt;Ana's&lt;/a&gt;. She answered perfectly and this is minor commentary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After some investigation, I found the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/messages/27253263/history&quot;&gt;chat item&lt;/a&gt;. It's an animated GIF (also available in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/117053/what-happened-to-marlena&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;) that is mildly disturbing the first time through and exponentially annoying the next N times you can stand to watch it. Flagging is definitely called for and not because of a little blood or off-screen violence. It's obvious the film maker staged the scene to make viewers anxious. There's no reason to subject other users of chat to unsettling images like this. (Doubly so since humans are attuned to movement. Animated GIFs draw far more attention to themselves than static images.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Context matters, of course:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This chick blew up like she ate TNT.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well the real context was discussion of an the question I linked to above. Talking about a post on the site is obviously exactly the sort of thing we want chat to be all about. I don't know if the animated GIF helps the answer itself, but in chat it's gratuitous. Maybe you enjoy seeing the scene fragment looped forever, but nobody should be surprised if other people are uncomfortable with it dominating the chatroom for however long it takes to be deleted or scroll out of view. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this &quot;personal taste&quot;? Sure. But it's a personal taste shared by several other users besides whoever flagged it. And this is exactly the sort of information that the flag system is designed to gather. There's no point in trying to frame it as some sort of objective ratings standard; flagging works on the principles of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stewart test&lt;/a&gt;. So we should certainly encourage people to flag when they find something offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The associated suspension seems to be the part that annoys folks the most about chat flags. I'm not going to argue that chat suspensions are perfect. They are intended to serve a similar function our &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&quot;&gt;main site suspensions&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Disruptive] behaviors &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to be dealt with. When they aren't, it takes up excessive moderator time that could be used for something more productive&amp;mdash;and, even worse, these behaviors begin to &lt;strong&gt;actively turn people away from our community, stunting its growth and harming everyone&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Automatic chat suspensions cost one user 30 minutes of time they could potentially be using to participate on chat. Sadly Mos Eisley (as well as a select few other rooms) tends to take &lt;em&gt;many times as many person-hours&lt;/em&gt; discussing the suspension, the flags that initiated it, and the system itself. Instead of spending their time doing something productive (such as answering questions on the site or income taxes or something) people just love to stir up drama instead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we should get rid of automatic suspensions, right? Not so fast, partner. There needs to be some way to signal to the person who wrote the chat item that the community (or at least a subset of it) did not appreciate it. In our experience, nothing communicates quite like a suspension. The real problem I see is that automatic suspensions delay the communication. You can flirt with the the line  of acceptable behavior for &lt;em&gt;hours&lt;/em&gt; and annoy people who don't flag for fear of being a bigger jerk who gets you suspended. Eventually, you cross the line, get flagged and suspended, and it feels incredibly unjust. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have any solutions. But I would like to suggest that people stop focusing on problem flagging and start focusing on problem chatting. The current state of affairs is like people in a burning building complaining about the smoke detectors instead of calling the fire department.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15823" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T18:40:05.523" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8096" CreationDate="2016-02-03T19:35:42.297" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keen: Though we recently didn't see eye to eye, you did perform your duties... dutifully. And you contributed to chat in a manner which I appreciated.  Thank you for your work and your contributions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user40790" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T19:35:42.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8111" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8112" CreationDate="2016-02-03T20:26:53.343" Score="9" ViewCount="274" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two users who were candidates in the first moderator election have since left the site and deleted their accounts. This seems to have caused some issues with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election/1&quot;&gt;page documenting that election&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The users who no longer are members are completely missing from the page. (This is true for the nomination, primary, and election tabs.) While it says “9 candidates” in a few places, there are only seven people listed. In my opinion, the platforms should be treated like questions and answers; i.e. they should still be shown, although calling the users “userNNNN” instead of their previous user names.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election/download-result/1&quot;&gt;ballot file&lt;/a&gt; has also changed and no longer mentions the former users. Apparently, their ID has been set to 0 in the individual ballot lines. As far as I understand the syntax, that makes the file invalid; in any case, it is no longer possible to verify the election results from that file.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44860" LastEditorUserId="14111" LastEditDate="2016-02-03T23:06:13.040" LastActivityDate="2016-02-04T08:28:06.017" Title="Historical election records are incomplete" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|election|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8111" CreationDate="2016-02-03T21:01:59.257" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Deleted candidates is not a scenario well-supported nor one we have any intention of encouraging. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I manually patched up the list of winners, which should be sufficient to indicate what happened. But we will not modify votes or alter any other data connected to the election (that is: We're not going to create fake users with fake votes winning fake positions in an old election to paper over the fact that two of the winners decided to leave; they're gone).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2016-02-04T08:28:06.017" LastActivityDate="2016-02-04T08:28:06.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8113" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8114" CreationDate="2016-02-04T06:59:46.380" Score="2" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;See title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are the round-by-round election results and the vote counts available? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastActivityDate="2016-02-04T07:04:35.407" Title="Are the round-by-round election vote counts available?" Tags="|support|election|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8113" CreationDate="2016-02-04T07:04:35.407" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the links to the results were provided when the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/8091/31936&quot;&gt;election results&lt;/a&gt; were posted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For details on how the voting played out, you can download the election results &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election/4&quot;&gt;on the election page&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opavote.org/results/4658187521228800/0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;view a summary report online&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-02-04T07:04:35.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8115" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-04T16:23:28.490" Score="2" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;In light of the news: &lt;a href=&quot;http://comicbook.com/2016/02/03/the-flash-to-appear-on-supergirl-in-march/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Flash &amp;amp; Supergirl Crossover Officially Confirmed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When this happens, or similar cross-overs in the future, do we need to go back and retag the existing stand-alone media, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/supergirl-2015&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;supergirl-2015&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;supergirl-2015&lt;/a&gt;, with the collective works tag, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arrowverse&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;arrowverse&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;arrowverse&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/supergirl-2015&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;supergirl-2015&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;supergirl-2015&lt;/a&gt; has a small number of questions, and it would be easy to do, but I'm also interested in our long-term policy where crossovers may crop up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2016-02-04T16:44:36.713" Title="Supergirl and Arrowverse" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8115" CreationDate="2016-02-04T16:44:36.713" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Until we see how extensive of a crossover and universe merge this is, I vote for leaving it alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's very likely, IMO, that Supergirl's universe is going to essentially be an &quot;Earth-3&quot; in the Arrowverse, and while they are part of the same multiverse, there will not be regular lasting cause/effects between the shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the shows decide to merge the universes fully (which makes little sense given comments made about who already has what sort of powers in their respective universes), we can go back and re-tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2016-02-04T16:44:36.713" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8118" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-06T11:21:15.630" Score="9" ViewCount="324" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do Zoolander and its sequel constitute as sci-fi?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are certainly strong elements of sci-fi, including:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Zoolander using a psychic power to stopping a throwing star from killing the Prime Minister of Micronesia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Having Zoolander, Derek Jr, Hansel &lt;sup&gt;who is so hot right now&lt;/sup&gt; and Sting using psychic powers to catch a bomb&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; A swimsuit model with the ability to swim underwater for thousands of miles&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Large scale government and high fashion conspiracies&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Ghosts from beyond communicating with the living&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, does Zoolander constitute sci-fi?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user20155" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2016-02-08T14:07:44.707" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T19:55:30.303" Title="Is Zoolander sci-fi?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8118" CreationDate="2016-02-06T13:04:39.260" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really think that Zoolander fits into the genre descriptions for Scifi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It certainly contains &lt;em&gt;elements&lt;/em&gt; that are scifi-ish but only as part of a wider fantasy universe in which male models apparently have superpowers such as &quot;hotness&quot; and the ability to freeze objects in mid-air when they pose. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fxPVv.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fxPVv.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As is usual with these edge-cases, &lt;strong&gt;questions about the fantastical bits of the film are broadly on topic&lt;/strong&gt;. More general questions about the film should be taken elsewhere, perhaps to Movies:SE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-02-12T19:55:30.303" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T19:55:30.303" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8120" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8121" CreationDate="2016-02-08T01:37:27.420" Score="0" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yes, you did read that title right...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Does Andy Griffiths's &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Griffiths#.22Bum.22_series&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;bum/butt series&lt;/a&gt; fall within the scope of this site?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if the fact that bums are sentient and can function separately from the rest of the body, or the existence of &quot;bum guns&quot; and flying &quot;bum-mobiles&quot;, is enough to make it on-topic, so I'd appreciate the community's input.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Note: I'm mainly asking about the &lt;strong&gt;books&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;em&gt;The Day My Bum/Butt Went Psycho&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Zombie Bums/Butts from Uranus&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Bumageddon/Butt Wars&lt;/em&gt; - since I know almost nothing about the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_My_Butt_Went_Psycho!&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TV series&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;The Day My Butt Went Psycho!&lt;/em&gt;.)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T01:54:48.833" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T01:54:48.833" Title="Are Andy Griffiths's bum/butt books on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8120" CreationDate="2016-02-08T07:16:46.480" Score="7" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Zack Freeman's bum is constantly detaching itself from his body and running off. One night, when he follows his bum, he learns that there is a plot by bums to take over the world. Specifically, the bums plan to create a huge, worldwide fart by building up a massive quantity of methane gas in the &quot;Bumcano&quot;. When the Bumcano blows, all humans will be rendered unconscious. While they are unconscious, the bums will seize their chance and switch places with their heads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sounds so bizarre I can't see how it wouldn't be fantasy or sci-fi. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2016-02-08T07:16:46.480" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8122" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8124" CreationDate="2016-02-08T10:06:21.887" Score="5" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been visiting the site everyday for three weeks. Tonight, after only being off the site for a few hours, it reset to 1 from 21 days here and from 20 to 1 on Movies &amp;amp; TV. This has happened before. GMT can't be a factor as it was only a few hours during the same night. It's making it literally impossible to earn the 100 day gold badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can some mod check on this and explain the problem? I'd really like this badge and it is rather upsetting to have my efforts dashed. It's impossible I was away longer than 24 hours as I'm visiting my parent's house right now and have not even been here 12 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT :&lt;/strong&gt; In case it's unclear, I'm talking about the &lt;strong&gt;main site&lt;/strong&gt; here. This is not a question for the main site, it's off topic, so I brought it here. I thought it was obvious, but I may have been wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16974" LastEditorUserId="16974" LastEditDate="2016-02-12T09:36:07.610" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T09:36:07.610" Title="My consecutive day counter reset after a few hours" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8123" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8125" CreationDate="2016-02-08T15:06:18.617" Score="7" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do we need a tag for what happens on-screen during &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/credits&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;credits&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;credits&lt;/a&gt; (end titles of a movie)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this would be useful because &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&amp;amp;q=credits&quot;&gt;searching on &quot;credits&quot;&lt;/a&gt; gives you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;credits (end titles of a movie)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;credit (singular, as in &quot;give credit to&quot;) and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;credits (currency in multiple sci-fi stories)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-02-08T16:44:56.967" Title="Do we need a &quot;credits&quot; tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8122" CreationDate="2016-02-08T15:19:29.717" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As explained in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66482/consecutive-days-problem-97&quot;&gt;this MSE question&lt;/a&gt;, it is not enough to just visit the main page or log in; this alone will not make the day count against the number of days visited required for the Enthusiast and Fanatic badges. It should be sufficient to look at any question page, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44860" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2016-02-08T15:19:29.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8123" CreationDate="2016-02-08T15:38:42.447" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7871/tag-wars-episode-i-harry-potter-and-the-tag-cleanup&quot;&gt;This post&lt;/a&gt; has a tag scoring sheet, copied over from another site, to determine what makes a good tag. Let's see how &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/credits&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;credits&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;credits&lt;/a&gt; scores:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Does it make sense to be an &quot;expert&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/credits&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;credits&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;credits&lt;/a&gt;&quot;?*&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;; score &lt;strong&gt;-1&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does it make sense for a question to be tagged &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/credits&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;credits&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;credits&lt;/a&gt;&quot;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt; (there should also be a tag for the film or franchise in question); score &lt;strong&gt;-1&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/credits&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;credits&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;credits&lt;/a&gt; have a single, universally-unambiguous meaning?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt; (as you defined in your question); score &lt;strong&gt;2&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/credits&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;credits&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;credits&lt;/a&gt; likely to be used correctly just based on its name?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Maybe&lt;/strong&gt; (although there are other meanings of the word, as mentioned in your question); score &lt;strong&gt;1&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there &quot;enough&quot; (&gt; 15) but not &quot;too many&quot; (&gt; 10% site-wide) questions that qualify for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/credits&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;credits&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;credits&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Maybe?&lt;/strong&gt; Someone would have to count them to check, so for the moment I'll say score &lt;strong&gt;1&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are people like to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/credits&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;credits&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;credits&lt;/a&gt; to find questions to answer?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Maybe?&lt;/strong&gt; I'd say probably not, but let's say score &lt;strong&gt;1&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there likely some users (&lt;em&gt;be objective!&lt;/em&gt;) who will favorite or ignore &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/credits&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;credits&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;credits&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Maybe?&lt;/strong&gt; The fact that you've asked this question shows a certain level of interest! Score &lt;strong&gt;1&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Could &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/credits&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;credits&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;credits&lt;/a&gt; be reasonably used to feed questions to a specialized chat room?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;; score &lt;strong&gt;-1&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/credits&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;credits&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;credits&lt;/a&gt; be used to search for questions (for any reason) in a way that keyword searching cannot accomplish?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt; (because as you said, the word has more than one meaning); score &lt;strong&gt;2&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Total is &lt;strong&gt;5&lt;/strong&gt;, which is apparently not enough for the tag to be worth creating. From the linked question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;tags that score &gt; 12 are &quot;good&quot; tags, tags that score &amp;lt; 8 are &quot;terrible&quot; tags, others are likely good but may need some clarification/renaming/etc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2016-02-08T16:44:56.967" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8126" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-09T06:01:33.467" Score="8" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just approved an edit made to an answer by someone other than the answer's author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It added a piece of information to the answer's list of data. I happened to know the data was a correct addition. (In this case, the role of Captain Pike's First Officer to a list of characters Majel Barret has played in Star Trek.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It had me wonder something I don't know, which is, are edits supposed to correct or add data to an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21254" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T08:00:34.073" Title="Are edits supposed to add information/content to an answer?" Tags="|support|editing|review-queue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8126" CreationDate="2016-02-09T08:00:34.073" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, adding information is fine (if it’s not too much at once).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoting from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;Help Centre on editing&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When should I edit posts?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any time you feel you can make the post better, and are inclined to do so. Editing is encouraged!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some common reasons to edit are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to fix grammatical or spelling mistakes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to clarify the meaning of a post without changing it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to correct minor mistakes or add addendums / updates as the post ages&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to add related resources or hyperlinks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that adding a small amount of new information (such as in this example) falls squarely under the third item, and so is perfectly acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have to be more careful with edits that add substantial content. In particular, be careful of running into this rejection reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This edit deviates from the original intent of the post. Even edits that must make drastic changes should strive to preserve the goals of the post's owner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s harder to come up with a rule-of-thumb for this; I don’t think I’ve invoked this rejection reason very often (on SFF, at least).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T08:00:34.073" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8128" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-09T11:31:43.063" Score="-6" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question which could have a lot of statements/quotes in a single answer. But I want to add some fun like making the question a competitive one. By competitive I mean that I would create the question with rules like :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Answer with most quotes/statements gets their answer as accepted. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The 2nd and 3rd best answer will also get mention at the last edit of question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;No duplication allowed, if a quote/statement is already used by someone, do not use that in your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54738" LastEditorUserId="5436" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T22:24:21.317" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T22:24:21.317" Title="Could I create a competitive sci-fi question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8128" CreationDate="2016-02-09T12:03:35.660" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, I don't think this is a good idea. This is not &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Puzzling&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Code Golf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some users think the site can be too competitive even as it is, see&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7360/19561&quot;&gt;Is scifi.stackexchange.com a competition?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; sometimes have questions asking to identify all these &lt;em&gt;Xs&lt;/em&gt;, where &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt; can be robot or spaceship, usually in another work that quotes well-known &lt;em&gt;Xs&lt;/em&gt; from present or past. These can turn into impromptu community challenges &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;in chat&lt;/a&gt;, leading to a CW-answer (but not always).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples include&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/117496/19561&quot;&gt;Identify these &amp;quot;Retro Machines&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/116715/19561&quot;&gt;Can you identify these Doctors of the science fiction genre in miniature formats?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:50:55.053" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T12:15:16.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8080" CreationDate="2016-02-09T14:41:46.250" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've been around SE long enough to know that my current situation is absurd and uncalled for. – Wad Cheber&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm glad you brought that up, your history. It's the reason I'd give both of you a pass and call it a wash. You forgot the common courtesy of not posting NSFW content in chat (!= PG13) and he forgot how to be nice. Sadly however, my advice is to take his advice. Unless you hope to revamp the flag system, I'd advise a little more caution when posting in such a volatile hive of scum and villainy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A note about posting images (that I've learned over the years): Almost always if you have to ask whether an image is okay to post, it probably is not. You know your online peers, so, yeah, if you have to ask, it's probably best kept in your images folder! –&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=27431325#27431325&quot;&gt;Slytherincess&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23785" LastEditorUserId="23785" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T18:07:56.127" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T18:07:56.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8131" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8134" CreationDate="2016-02-09T23:32:34.183" Score="19" ViewCount="266" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a common chain of events on SFF.SE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a new user posts a story-ID question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the question gets a few comments from other users&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the OP finds the story they were looking for and says so in a comment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the OP disappears and never returns to the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The end result of all this is a story-ID question &lt;strong&gt;whose solution is known&lt;/strong&gt; and known to be correct, but which has &lt;strong&gt;no answer posted&lt;/strong&gt; to it, let alone an accepted answer.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;My suggested solution to this problem is for us, the people who use the site regularly rather than making one-off appearances, to &lt;strong&gt;post community-wiki answers&lt;/strong&gt; to such questions. That way,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;we avoid clogging up the &quot;Unanswered Questions&quot; tab with questions that &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; answered&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;we improve our site by having answers clearly posted rather than buried in the comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;we set an example for how to write &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; answers to story-ID questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;nobody except the OP earns any rep out of the whole business.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such community-wiki answers should of course be deleted if the OP ever returns to post their own answer. Ideally they should be accompanied by a comment on the question along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you ever come back to the site, please do post this as an answer! It's possible for you to answer your own question and even accept your own answer. Until then, we've turned your comment into a community-wiki answer, just so that this question &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did this a couple of weeks ago &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/82813/sci-fi-source-of-phrase-oedipus-wrecks/116542#116542&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and am considering doing it again &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/117692/what-book-is-about-a-planet-of-feline-humans&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What are your thoughts on this suggestion?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you agree wholeheartedly, we can start collecting a list of such questions in order to post CW answers to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have some reservations (e.g. should we set a fixed waiting time, only doing this if the OP hasn't visited the site for say 6 months?), please post your suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you disagree with my suggestion, please let me know why!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T09:14:00.550" Title="CW answers for story-ID questions where the OP has found the answer?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8132" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-10T00:44:43.337" Score="10" ViewCount="356" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/117909/who-killed-this-character?noredirect=1#comment288905_117909&quot;&gt;Who killed this Harry Potter character?&lt;/a&gt; the asker is talking about events from the book &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows&lt;/em&gt;. I tried to tag the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/deathly-hallows&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;deathly-hallows&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;deathly-hallows&lt;/a&gt; but someone else undid it and it was explained that the &quot;tag wiki description says it's about the objects, not the book/films&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since we have tags for each and every &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; film and such, why don't we have tags for each &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; installment, especially considering how popular HP questions are on this site? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54827" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2018-11-06T20:34:35.143" Title="Why don't we have tags for each Harry Potter installment?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8131" CreationDate="2016-02-10T01:44:06.260" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see any need for new rules/procedures, the generally-accepted guidance from meta.SE is that if you see an answer posted in comments, it's fair game to &quot;steal&quot; it and post it yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/139075/should-old-questions-with-a-solution-in-the-comments-but-no-posted-answer-be-ans&quot;&gt;Should old questions with a solution in the comments but no posted answer be answered?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.serverfault.com/questions/1886/how-to-handle-unanswered-questions-that-have-the-answer-in-a-comment-or-edited-i&quot;&gt;a similar question on ServerFault,&lt;/a&gt; where Jeff Atwood weighed in saying it's ok to steal a comment: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, note that I completely support stealing answers-as-comments and posting them as &lt;em&gt;your own&lt;/em&gt; answer in these cases. So either way. – Jeff Atwood♦ Aug 12 '11 at 14:37&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per most of the answers above, it's usually appropriate to make such an answer CW and/or to attribute it to whoever posted the comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't think there needs to be a lot of concern about &quot;stolen&quot; rep: the point of voting is to indicate to anyone who comes along and reads a Q&amp;amp;A what the better answers are.  Giving rep to someone who deserves it is &lt;em&gt;a side effect.&lt;/em&gt;  No one should hesitate to vote for a good answer because of some theoretical stolen rep. At most, if you think it's unfair, don't bother voting once it's already at +1 or +2  (I realize I should have let someone steal this comment for their own answer...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.757" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T03:28:36.083" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8132" CreationDate="2016-02-10T02:26:24.323" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7871/tag-wars-episode-i-harry-potter-and-the-tag-cleanup&quot;&gt;This post&lt;/a&gt; has a tag scoring sheet, copied over from another site, to determine what makes a good tag. Let's see how a particular &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hp-book&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hp-book&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hp-book&lt;/a&gt; tag (a tag for a particular book in the HP series) scores:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Does it make sense to be an &quot;expert&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hp-book&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hp-book&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hp-book&lt;/a&gt;&quot;?*&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt; (people can be experts in HP, but not in a particular book); score &lt;strong&gt;-1&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does it make sense for a question to be tagged &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hp-book&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hp-book&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hp-book&lt;/a&gt;&quot;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt; (there should also be a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; tag); score &lt;strong&gt;-1&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hp-book&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hp-book&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hp-book&lt;/a&gt; have a single, universally-unambiguous meaning?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;; score &lt;strong&gt;2&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hp-book&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hp-book&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hp-book&lt;/a&gt; likely to be used correctly just based on its name?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Maybe&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/deathly-hallows&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;deathly-hallows&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;deathly-hallows&lt;/a&gt; might be confusing as you mentioned, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chamber-of-secrets&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chamber-of-secrets&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chamber-of-secrets&lt;/a&gt; probably wouldn't be); score &lt;strong&gt;1&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there &quot;enough&quot; (&gt; 15) but not &quot;too many&quot; (&gt; 10% site-wide) questions that qualify for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hp-book&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hp-book&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hp-book&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt; (I haven't actually counted, but I'm almost certain there are); score &lt;strong&gt;2&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are people like to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hp-book&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hp-book&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hp-book&lt;/a&gt; to find questions to answer?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Maybe&lt;/strong&gt; (e.g. if they've just done a reread of one of the books); score &lt;strong&gt;1&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there likely some users (&lt;em&gt;be objective!&lt;/em&gt;) who will favorite or ignore &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hp-book&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hp-book&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hp-book&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Maybe&lt;/strong&gt; (I doubt it, but who knows); score &lt;strong&gt;1&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Could &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hp-book&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hp-book&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hp-book&lt;/a&gt; be reasonably used to feed questions to a specialized chat room?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;; score &lt;strong&gt;-1&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hp-book&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hp-book&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hp-book&lt;/a&gt; be used to search for questions (for any reason) in a way that keyword searching cannot accomplish?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;; score &lt;strong&gt;2&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;Total is &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;, which is apparently not enough for the tag to be worth creating. From the linked question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;tags that score &gt; 12 are &quot;good&quot; tags, tags that score &amp;lt; 8 are &quot;terrible&quot; tags, others are likely good but may need some clarification/renaming/etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T11:30:06.203" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8136" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8138" CreationDate="2016-02-10T06:30:32.470" Score="13" ViewCount="655" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's say the guy who made all the wands for the &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; films is secretly a SFF.se user and wants to test our knowledge / research skills, so he posts a picture of a bunch of wands and asks &amp;quot;To whom do each of these wands belong?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To whom do each of these wands belong?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9Ssd7.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9Ssd7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;a rack full of wands&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would that be a bad thing to do? Meaning, even though &lt;em&gt;he&lt;/em&gt; knows the answer since he's the one who made those wands and is an expert on the subject, is it OK to ask the question and allow others to search for an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For another example, let's says the user who asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/107467/what-are-the-names-of-all-the-sci-fi-vessels-in-this-artwork&quot;&gt;What are the names of all the sci-fi vessels in this artwork?&lt;/a&gt; is actually the original artist of that drawing and just wanted to see if SFF users could successfully ID all the different ships - Would that change anything? Would users frown on the asker and downvote the question when/if they discovered that he's the original artist?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I personally think that it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; acceptable as I find these picture-identification questions really enjoyable.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54827" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T08:39:10.183" Title="Can a user ask something they already know?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8136" CreationDate="2016-02-10T09:38:55.467" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it is OK to ask such a question, as long as you also post your answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/its-ok-to-ask-and-answer-your-own-questions/&quot;&gt;It's OK to Ask and Answer Your Own Questions&lt;/a&gt; (on StackOverflow blog), which is linked from the &quot;Ask Question&quot; page.  This is official policy all around the Stack Exchange network, as evidenced by the Help Center entry &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/self-answer&quot;&gt;Can I answer my own question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yes! Stack Exchange &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/its-ok-to-ask-and-answer-your-own-questions/&quot;&gt;has always explicitly encouraged&lt;/a&gt; users to answer their own questions. If you have a question that you already know the answer to, and you would like to document that knowledge in public so that others (including yourself) can find it later, it's perfectly okay to ask and answer your own question on a Stack Exchange site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T09:38:55.467" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8136" CreationDate="2016-02-10T13:05:46.443" Score="23" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can a user ask something they already know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Yes, definitely.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As b_jonas &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/8137/31394&quot;&gt;said&lt;/a&gt;, asking and answering your own question is definitely allowed by Stack Exchange policy. The system even makes it easy for you to do this, by including a special checkbox that allows you to submit question and answer simultaneously:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EIIfK.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EIIfK.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's also fine to ask a question you know the answer to even if you don't post the answer yourself. &lt;strong&gt;Stack Exchange is about building a database of quality questions and answers&lt;/strong&gt;, and it doesn't really matter who posted those answers (except to one's personal reputation). There are several users and moderators across the network who make a habit of posting good questions whose answers they already know but allowing others to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the same way as an established user can answer a new user's question in order to help the latter with their problem, an established user can also ask a question which they could answer themselves but allow other users to answer instead, perhaps newer users who haven't had much of a chance to post answers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Personally, I've asked many questions to which I know (or could easily find) the answer but allow others to post answers instead. That way, the site gains a quality question and one or more quality answers without people worrying that I only posted this question to bolster my own reputation. And when I do self-answer, I never use the checkbox shown above, but wait to start writing my answer until I've finished writing the question, thus &quot;levelling the field&quot; a bit.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Let's say the guy who made all the wands for the Harry Potter films is secretly a SFF.se user and wants to test our knowledge / research skills, so he posts a picture of a bunch of wands and asks &quot;To whom do each of these wands belong?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is still fine, provided the guy doesn't engage in self-promotion while asking questions about his wares. For those interested, the Stack Exchange spam policy can be found at the bottom of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/behavior&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T22:33:11.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8139" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8141" CreationDate="2016-02-11T13:59:22.033" Score="9" ViewCount="1650" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/117985/need-the-title-for-a-short-story-about-the-us-losing-a-war?noredirect=1#comment289426_117985&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, @user14111 refers to the book &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Flies&lt;/em&gt; as being typically classified as science fiction.  I remember reading it years ago, and having seen a movie adaption, but hadn't remembered any science fiction elements (apparently it is set during an offstage nuclear war.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At any rate, it made me curious --is &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Flies&lt;/em&gt; typically classified with SF?  The references I looked up were ambiguous on the question, although the second one indicates there was an earlier draft with more of a SF orientation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/golding_william&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/golding_william&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: To be clear, the question is not SHOULD this book be considered Science Fiction, but is there any reputable consensus one way or another about it?  I had never personally considered it in that category, but user14111 had seemed to take it as a given that it is typically classified that way.  As I said, the sources I consulted were ambiguous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19193" OwnerDisplayName="Chris Sunami" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2016-11-03T18:19:06.073" Title="Is *Lord of the Flies* generally classified as SF?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8139" CreationDate="2016-02-11T14:17:50.723" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lord of the Flies&lt;/em&gt; is actually set during World War II, not a nuclear war (yet).  Sources I found (Google &quot;lord of the flies genre&quot; all said that it was an adventure story with many &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;allegorical&lt;/a&gt; aspects.  I just finished it, and I certainly agree with that notion.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Science fiction&lt;/a&gt; is usually defined as set in the future with fantastical elements such as awesome technology, and LOTF does not fit with this format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51142" OwnerDisplayName="CHEESE" LastEditorUserId="770" LastEditDate="2016-02-12T19:34:17.463" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T19:34:17.463" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8139" CreationDate="2016-02-11T14:25:00.740" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lord of the Flies is usually classified as an Allegory. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though I have also seen it referred to as &lt;em&gt;&quot;Speculative Fiction&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, often, confusingly abbreviated to SF or S-F as well as SpecFi. &#xA;Speculative Fiction according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/speculative-fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;dictionary.com&lt;/a&gt; is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;a broad literary genre encompassing any fiction with supernatural, fantastical, or futuristic elements&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A catchall for those stories that don't quite fit into  Horror, Sci-Fi or Fantasy - the early Conan books and the works of H.P Lovecraft could be considered part of this genre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.greententacles.com/articles/5/26/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Greententacles.com&lt;/a&gt; has a nice article on Speculative Fiction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If allegory doesn't quite cut it, Speculative Fiction might be a better fit than straight out Sci-Fi, but I wouldn't consider &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Flies&lt;/em&gt; as Sci-Fi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46719" OwnerDisplayName="Cearon O'Flynn" LastEditorUserId="51142" LastEditDate="2016-02-11T18:19:28.203" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T18:19:28.203" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8132" CreationDate="2016-02-11T16:02:27.733" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Outside of our tag scoring, I think there's a more simple solution for not having those tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Events in the books are generally well-known enough that citing the specific book would be superfluous. Additionally, many of the questions may actually require answers that draw upon multiple instances of the work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, our use of individual work tags is spotty (as in usual in our tag use):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/em&gt; has no individual work tags.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; has 3.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mistborn&lt;/em&gt; has 1 of 6.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ender's saga&lt;/em&gt; has at &lt;em&gt;least&lt;/em&gt; 3, of 15 or so existing books.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;His Dark Materials&lt;/em&gt; only has 1 (and that one only has 1 question, even though it's also a movie!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sword of Truth&lt;/em&gt; has 0 of 14+ tags (if you count the Richard and Kahlan novels, and &lt;em&gt;Law of Nines&lt;/em&gt;, it goes up).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Chronicles of Narnia&lt;/em&gt; has 0 of 7, just &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/narnia&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;narnia&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;narnia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, those last 5 have very few questions to begin with (a shame, in my opinion). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, I don't see any reason to &lt;em&gt;remove&lt;/em&gt; individual work tags, if people start using them, with one caveat:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question should be requesting answers that are contained within that book (or film) only. To me, it actually makes more sense with the films, as they are more self-contained than the books. (Note, this caveat is just my suggestion. I just don't see a reason to remove individual work tags in general. We should be &lt;em&gt;creating&lt;/em&gt; tags, not destroying them.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T16:02:27.733" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8143" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-11T19:37:55.650" Score="2" ViewCount="268" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Please bear with me—this is quite a long question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site-wide &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/referencing&quot;&gt;Help page on referencing&lt;/a&gt; states that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Plagiarism - posting the work of others with no indication that it is not your own - is frowned on by our community, and may result in your answer being down-voted or deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you find a useful resource that can help answer a question (from another site or in an answer on Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange) make sure you do all of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Provide a link to the original page or answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Quote only the relevant portion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Provide the name of the original author&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On various other sites, there has been quite a bit of discussion regarding what does and does not constitute proper citation of sources (see, for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4973/what-to-do-about-missing-source-attributions&quot;&gt;this question on ELU&lt;/a&gt; by tchrist, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://islam.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1157/take-pride-in-your-community-and-work-to-build-a-site-you-can-be-proud-of&quot;&gt;this one on Islam.SE&lt;/a&gt; by Community Coordinator Shog9); but I can’t seem to find much on here, which is odd given how many quotes we throw around here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have always thought that the general guidelines and rules laid out in the answers to those two questions were fairly site-wide and universal on SE, as well—in essence, that anything you quote from anywhere absolutely requires an attribution that includes the three pieces of information listed in the quote above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While perhaps not exactly authoritative, the following bit of &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4981/47827&quot;&gt;Andrew Leach’s answer to tchrist’s question&lt;/a&gt; also seems to be quite widely adhered to, and to make good sense (emphasis in italics mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This post used to mention “unattributed material may be deleted”, which — while not inaccurate — isn’t the whole story and is open to misinterpretation. &lt;strong&gt;Plagiarised material may be deleted summarily without warning.&lt;/strong&gt; If you mark a quotation as a quotation, then it’s obviously not plagiarised. In this case, it’s unlikely to be deleted without warning. &lt;em&gt;However, if a citation isn’t added after a reminder, or an edit to add one is rolled back, then the quote or the post containing it might be subject to deletion.&lt;/em&gt; Each case will be dealt with individually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I have understood from various comments made by moderators (and perhaps SE staff too? Not sure), a large part of the strictness in enforcing attribution is to show that SE is a place that does not tolerate plagiarism and that we are committed to avoiding copyright infringements and DMCA notices. If we get too lax in our enforcement (especially if a notice is posted in a comment or a post is flagged for moderator attention and nothing happens), then we reduce the credibility of the network as a whole responding to claims of copyright infringement with assertions that we do our best to avoid them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I’ll admit, I haven’t actually been paying particular attention to how good we in general are at properly sourcing our quotes, and I certainly haven't noticed anything on here that resembles actual plagiarism; but a moment ago, I came across &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/95225/who-controls-the-watcher-in-the-water&quot;&gt;this July 2015 question&lt;/a&gt;, which has three answers that include quotes. All three answers also have the following comment by Mooz, made on the day the question was asked:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Good answer, however, you need to give proper attribution to these quotes. I.e, what book(s), chapter(s), author, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The highest-voted and accepted answer had a proper citation edited in after that comment was made, but the other two did not; the quotes in those answers remain unattributed now, seven months later, despite the comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/95234/43655&quot;&gt;The first of these two answers&lt;/a&gt; is by a high-rep user, Mike Scott (who seemed, from a quick glance at his rep graph, to also have been a high-rep user in July 2015 when he made the answer) and quite short:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is no suggestion in the book that it is controlled by anyone. All Gandalf says about it is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Something has crept, or has been driven out of dark waters under the mountains. There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There being no attribution in the answer (aside from the words “in the book”, which do not meet the criteria listed above), I flagged it for moderator intervention with the following wording:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unattributed quote, even after a comment requesting attribution. I believe moderators are instructed to delete on sight in such cases?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have previously flagged similar cases on other SE sites, and the most common course of event has been that a moderator commented that the lack of attribution constitutes a legal liability for SE and subsequently deleted the answer in question. The flag I raised here, however, was declined with the following message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the source for the quote is not described well but it isn't plagiarism&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This puzzled me, so I came here to Meta to find some previous discussion on the topic of plagiarism and lack of attribution—but couldn’t find any. (I was about to flag the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/95304/43655&quot;&gt;other unsourced answer&lt;/a&gt; for the same thing when I noticed the flag decline, so I didn’t.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot say that I can agree with the wording of the flag decline that this wouldn’t fall under the SE definition of what constitutes plagiarism—that seems to go against both the spirit and the letter of all previous discussion on the topic on SE—but there is of course a certain amount of leeway in how strict each site is on enforcing attribution, and how users and mods are expected to react when unattributed quotes are found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, with downright, deliberate plagiarism, I have no doubt that moderators and users here would agree with deletion-on-sight (for example, if someone repeated copies entire posts from fan forums and posts them as their own answers on here).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also feel quite confident in saying that neither moderators nor users would feel that a new user who posts a quote with an inadequate attribution (“this is what the third book says: [quote]”) should be punished with immediate deletion of the entire answer. A comment like Mooz’ above is clearly the way to go there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The edge cases are what’s interesting here. In this case, for example, Mike was—at the time of posting—a high-rep user of approximately four years, who should presumably be aware of the attribution requirements; and even if it was just a slip-of-the-mind that he forgot it here, a comment was made requesting attribution. On the other hand, it is relatively clear from the question (and the other answers) where the quote is from,&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; and the very fact that Mike is a high-rep user with an excellent score average on his answers could imply that in fact an attribution was/is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; expected here in an answer like his.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;So what exactly are the policies here on SFF on unattributed materials (or what should they be, if we don’t currently really have any at all)? How much attribution do we expect for quotes where it’s reasonably obvious what’s being quoted—and what is ‘reasonably obvious’? How about quotes repeated in multiple answers—do they each require attribution, or is once enough?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Another reason I didn’t flag the third answer is because &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/58369&quot;&gt;the edit to the accepted answer that added attribution&lt;/a&gt; was proposed by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2981/leftaroundabout&quot;&gt;same user who wrote the third answer&lt;/a&gt; and gave a somewhat flippant answer to Mooz’ comment—and the proposed edit was made one minute before the flippant comment answer. So I suspect he either accidentally added the citation to the wrong answer or that there is no need to add the same attribution to the same quote if it appears in multiple answers on the same page.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; The question itself actually never mentions in so many words which book/movie it’s talking about, except in the tags; and the attribution in the accepted answer had not yet been added in when Mike’s answer was written; so to someone not overly familiar with Tolkien’s writings or the movies, it wouldn’t be &lt;strong&gt;that&lt;/strong&gt; obvious.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43655" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2016-02-16T20:00:44.417" Title="What is the policy on unsourced quotes on SFF?" Tags="|discussion|quotes|sources|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2016-02-11T20:01:19.923" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;“Hello, it me”, as they say on YouTube. Or Twitter. Or one of those newfangled places where people say such things. So yeah, it’s just a slightly annoyingly cropped picture of me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QhDdU.jpg&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I actually just realised, due to this thread, that I hadn’t uploaded my avatar to this site at all—thought I had.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43655" LastEditorUserId="43655" LastEditDate="2016-11-19T09:32:57.017" LastActivityDate="2016-11-19T09:32:57.017" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8145" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-11T20:04:52.500" Score="4" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am seeing a lot of questions tagged with both &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My understanding is that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt; is for the TV show and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt; is for the books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we clean up tags that are clearly only related to one or the other based on: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the reference of the question or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;where the OP wants answers sourced from? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-02-12T02:47:48.267" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T02:47:48.267" Title="Game of Thrones / A Song of Ice and Fire tag clean up" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ClosedDate="2016-02-13T17:16:44.647" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8143" CreationDate="2016-02-11T20:17:29.017" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this worth arguing about? &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/95234/revisions&quot;&gt;Just edit the damn thing&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Heck, you could've pulled the citation off of &lt;em&gt;the same quote in another answer&lt;/em&gt; if you'd cared to. Anyone could've: the author of that answer, the person who commented on it, some passing reader... I don't even own a copy of LotR, I didn't even bother reading the other answers, and still it took me about 10 seconds to find the exact citation on Wikipedia. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why leave cruft around when it's so easy to fix?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plagiarism is a &lt;em&gt;huge&lt;/em&gt; problem &lt;strong&gt;when it's misleading&lt;/strong&gt;, when it becomes difficult or impossible to figure out &lt;em&gt;who actually wrote something.&lt;/em&gt; This particular case isn't all that hard to figure out, but &lt;em&gt;it could've been easier&lt;/em&gt; - and can trivially be made easier. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what are you gonna do, call the moderators and write a two-page essay every time you find a careless mistake? Or just fix it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't let &quot;the rules&quot; stop you from doing what's right, doing what's useful. The rules exist to serve the community, not to tie its hands and force it to the ground.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T20:17:29.017" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8143" CreationDate="2016-02-11T20:53:43.203" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;What Shog9 says is excellent advice when you don't know,  or there is no policy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Don't let &quot;the rules&quot; stop you from doing what's right, doing what's useful. The rules exist to serve the community, not to tie its hands and force it to the ground.&#xA;  &lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/8146/3804&quot;&gt;Shog9&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the examples you give are for a misleading lack of attribution,  but stating that your quote is from the book/film/work in question is OK. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as a citizen of SFF (SFFizen) you should demand better, and edit in the attribution if you can find it.  That's &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; you have the ability to edit (when you have the rep) - &lt;strong&gt;to help self-moderate the site&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of what &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; should &lt;em&gt;edit&lt;/em&gt; in, the three bullet points you mention are good for online resources. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Provide a link to the original page or answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Quote only the relevant portion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Provide the name of the original author&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The golden standard for books should be the above but instead of proving a link,  &lt;em&gt;try to provide book name and/or page number and/or edition (if relevant)&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The golden standard for film would include the &lt;em&gt;name of film, when in the film it occurs (as accurately as possible)&lt;/em&gt; and optionally a link to the script or video clip &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is the golden standard though,  if you can't source it just grab what you can.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for what should be flagged as plagiarism it should be malicious or deceitful. Some one is trying to pass off sometimes else's work as their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flagging should always indicate bad &lt;em&gt;behaviour&lt;/em&gt; not bad &lt;em&gt;content&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bad behaviour is normally a result of repeated minor incidents of bad content (never attributing but making it obvious it's a quote from elsewhere) or it could be a single event (deliberately passing off someone else's work as yours) If you can't fix it all yourself, &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; flag it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2016-02-16T20:00:44.417" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8148" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-11T21:04:03.437" Score="-2" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is cleveland middle school. We are doing a project which needs a picture of a prosthetic arm. Could we possibly use your site's picture for our project.we will cite your name in the credit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user60855" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2016-02-15T08:47:23.060" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T08:47:23.060" Title="Can We use some pictures for our school project" Tags="|discussion|legal|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8148" CreationDate="2016-02-11T21:28:30.180" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quoth the footer of the site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;user contributions licensed under &lt;a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cc by-sa 3.0&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/&quot;&gt;attribution required&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, assuming you're talking about a post someone put in one of our questions or answers (and they had the right to put it there in the first place), then it's totally okay for you to use it elsewhere, as long as you give proper attribution. Those two links should provide more than enough detail on what that means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35327" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T21:28:30.180" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2016-02-11T22:36:11.550" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;My avatar is a cropped and edited version of this very Space Age-y picture because I like Space Age-y science fiction and frankly I am Space Age-y.  This could well have been me in 1965 but it is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kXLiV.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kXLiV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28516" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T22:36:11.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2016-02-12T02:42:02.773" Score="14" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Current&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DEtTq.png?s=328&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DEtTq.png?s=328&quot; alt=&quot;&amp;quot;M&amp;quot; in the shape of fire flares, designed by user &amp;quot;Creation Edge&amp;quot;.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fire and Ice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This is my shiny new, custom-made hotness, designed by our very own &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31178/creationedge&quot;&gt;@CreationEdge&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is an 'M' in the shape of flares with some of my favourite colours incorporated into it. I love that it still has that 'cool ice' feel to it, even though it represents fire; with Ice and Fire being my two elements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;History&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've had a few iterations of the same concept for my avatar, but they have all been derivatives of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com.au/search?q=tiesto%20logo&amp;amp;biw=1680&amp;amp;bih=965&amp;amp;source=lnms&amp;amp;tbm=isch&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=kuXsVO_5POe5mAWkxoHADQ&amp;amp;ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Nyanna bird logo&lt;/a&gt; of the Trance and EDM producer/DJ &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ti%C3%ABsto&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tiësto&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;First it was a plain black and white one (his first iteration as well):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/10dXQs.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/10dXQs.png&quot; alt=&quot;Nyanna logo 1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Secondly I had a slightly more 'modern' looking version:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/M2hi4s.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/M2hi4s.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Nyanna logo 2&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then I followed it with a 'pink' cancer awareness themed one (which sort of stuck with me for a year or so):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OFTyUs.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OFTyUs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Nyanna logo 3&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fourthly, I had one of the most recent iterations of the logo (which was also my favourite):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xCDV5s.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xCDV5s.png&quot; alt=&quot;Nyanna logo 4&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This one is great, my new favourite so far! It is a design by Erick Alvarez which I found on &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/tiestomagiks/status/722866095883812865&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tkiM1s.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tkiM1s.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Nyana Logo 5&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="21267" LastEditDate="2017-07-10T21:35:22.807" LastActivityDate="2017-07-10T21:35:22.807" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8152" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-12T05:20:57.860" Score="14" ViewCount="453" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to be just &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/118222/what-do-stormtroopers-wear-when-not-wearing-their-armor&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; that's doing it for me, and the posted non-answer indicates it's not just me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OVnxY.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OVnxY.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T15:31:32.410" Title="What's going on with this question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8152" CreationDate="2016-02-12T05:24:40.043" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ah, I missed what was going on... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That was the actual posted answer that was doing it.  @WadCheber fixed it, but now the whole answer is rightly gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T05:24:40.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8152" CreationDate="2016-02-12T05:38:32.790" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;A pair of accounts were created to post this mess. As @Richard states, it's &quot;Zalgo text&quot; (Stack Overflow has an explanation &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/q/6579844/3964927&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;strong&gt;I've deleted both accounts.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From this &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/247022/175002&quot;&gt;SE meta post&lt;/a&gt;, the ability to do this is by design:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;By Mark Gravel comment this is to be considered as now by-design and as such won't be modified unless problems emerge that make the fix worth the effort. In the meantime abuses of the system shall be dealt manually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:46.357" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T14:58:40.423" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8152" CreationDate="2016-02-12T07:10:33.933" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &quot; Zalgo text&quot;. Basically a way of misusing unicode characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Z̢̮̞̠̠̾̇ͬͩ̆ͩͧ͑̌̅̾̽̿̀̚a̴̻͈̟͍̳̣͓͍͇̻͎͔̟͇ͫ̀ͨ̽͋̈́͗͘l̢̛͓͙̹̯̦̞̞͔͎͊́̈́ͣͨ͌͗̐̓̓̔̔͋ͪ́g̯̤̩͓͇̹̖̪̝̃͌ͩͨ̃͗ͫ́̂̉͐͂̇̃̀͟͡͠ͅo̢̹͓̻̖̤̫̝̟̰̯͖̻̱̤͎͙̱͊͐̽ͦ͊ͨ͒̽̇͊̍̑̚̕͘̕ ̶̨̻̦͔̟̟̰̹̫̭̰͙̭̺͙̐͐̓̓͆͗ͮ͛ͯ̉ͫ̾͂ͯ͑͐́́͞t͒͛ͧ̈̑ͣͣ̇͊̍ͯ̑̀̋̆͌̚̕͢͟͝҉̺̝͕̰̣̗̭̳̥̜̯̝͔͍̞̦͔̹ė̢̐ͮ͗͏̡̠̬̘̲͕̬̝͍̤̟̹͖̥̲͇͎̗̱̺͠x̢̛̼̦̺̘̦̮͔͑͆̾̈͗ͫͥͫ͛ͤͤͮ͒ͅt̑̽͑̑ͨ̈́̐̌̏ͬ̆ͮ͑ͭ͛ͭͫ̓̚҉̢̨̗͇̱͖́͢ ͔̭̰̻̰̼̔ͩͩͧͣͮ̿̆̕̕ỉ̡̩͉͉̪̘̼̘̗̱̬̺̂̐̄ͦͬ̋̉͑̅ͯ̿̿̂͑̓͘͟ͅs̛ͭ͆ͤ̓͂͌̇ͪͭ͌͛̉̄ͨ̾́͊̀͝͏͚̰͇̯̖̙̼̲͎̣̦͍͙͎͕͡ ̵̷̡̙̻̪͙͙̫̪̱͚̯͕̺͛̌̐̇ͣ̾̔̓̔ͯͤͫ͜͡f̸͖̫̯͖̮̺̼̗͉̞̫͕̤̼͈̅͊̄̐̂̅͐̉ͧ̔ͫͦ̅͡ͅͅư̌̽͐̏̑̑̄͠҉͍̥̰̟͍̫͚̺̜̩̜n̡̧̼̪̱̯̺̥̳̝̻͍̭ͬ́̀̍͐̾ͧ̓̋͒͋͊̇̾͂̋̚̚͟͡&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can &lt;a href=&quot;http://eeemo.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;generate your own here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T07:10:33.933" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8136" CreationDate="2016-02-12T08:34:02.943" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;It is allowed, but that doesn't mean you should.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some users, like myself, have issues with questions that are not asked in good faith.  There are some questions here that were quite clearly asked because a user found a bit of trivia and decided to turn it into rep.  That's not explicitly forbidden, but it also isn't very cool.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would recommend the following guidelines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don't do it often &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Before you do it, ask &lt;em&gt;yourself&lt;/em&gt; some questions:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is it interesting? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is it significant?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Can you imagine other users asking the same question?  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Would you upvote it if someone else had asked it?  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Can you imagine people being led to join the site by this question - e.g., is it likely that people who don't know about SE might Google this subject and find their way here?  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are you asking because you think it will improve the site, or because it will increase your rep?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is it worth asking?  That is, how hard would it be to find the answer via the usual routes (in this case, a reverse image search)?  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So, yes, you can do it, but please make sure it is a worthwhile post.  The goal of this site is to provide well researched answers to relevant questions, and the goal of the users should be to make the site as useful and high-quality as possible.  You gain rep along the way, but that should always be a side effect, not the end game.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A ton of picture identification questions aren't going to help many people, although they are often interesting and sometimes a LOT of fun to answer, especially when a group of people get together and assemble an enormous CW answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the time, you should ask questions because you don't know the answer, but want to learn about it.  Questions your already know the answer to should never be more than an occasional indulgence.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And more important than anything else, make sure that the question is worth having here.  It should be interesting to other people, at least somewhat significant, useful, worthy of upvotes, and ideally, something that other people might have been wondering about as well.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that fail to meet these criteria should be avoided whenever possible.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although it goes without saying that we usually don't know whether the OP already possesses the information he or she is seeking unless he or she posts an answer shortly after posting the question, and it is rarely easy to determine with any certainty whether a question was asked in good faith.  This means that it is incumbent upon each of us to maintain our own integrity for the good of the community.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Full disclosure:  As far as I can recall, I have asked questions to which I knew the answer only twice:  once here, once on M&amp;amp;TV.  They were both Story ID questions about a particular movie.  I asked here first, to see how long it would take for someone to find the (extremely obscure, almost completely unknown and forgotten) movie in question.  Months later, I asked it on M&amp;amp;TV to see if they would be faster than SF&amp;amp;F.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="44025" LastEditDate="2016-02-12T08:39:10.183" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T08:39:10.183" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8152" CreationDate="2016-02-12T09:07:10.730" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I feel that the contents of an element (in this case the &lt;code&gt;div&lt;/code&gt; containing the answer) should not be allowed to draw outside the boundaries of that element, I've filed &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/274560/239016&quot;&gt;a bug report&lt;/a&gt; over on central Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T09:07:10.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8131" CreationDate="2016-02-12T09:14:00.550" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I already do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is already there, either in the comments or edited into the question by the OP (as often happens), I'll just turn it into a CW-answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if I have to do significant work to turn it into an answer, I'll claim the answer for myself. The only example I have of such a case is one about a cartoon character, where the OP's comment about it being called &quot;Kutlas&quot; turned out to be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/59540/19561&quot;&gt;&quot;Cuttlas&quot; instead&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T09:14:00.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8132" CreationDate="2016-02-12T12:44:28.157" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My evaluation of the checklist scores &lt;strong&gt;12&lt;/strong&gt; (but see my note at the end):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Does it make sense to be an &quot;expert in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hp-book&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hp-book&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hp-book&lt;/a&gt;&quot;?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; Possibly. While people will most likely be an expert in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;, they might be fond of a specific book and may have reread it more than the others.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Does it make sense for a question to be tagged only with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hp-book&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hp-book&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hp-book&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;+2&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; Yes. While the question would &lt;em&gt;benefit&lt;/em&gt; from being tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; as well, being tagged with &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hp-book&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hp-book&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hp-book&lt;/a&gt; makes it clear what the question is about. &lt;em&gt;It's not a meta tag.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Does &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hp-book&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hp-book&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hp-book&lt;/a&gt; have a single, universally-unambiguous meaning?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;+2&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; Yes, if chosen well. Some of the books share most of the title (the part after &quot;Harry Potter and &quot;) with an important object or set of objects that may have a tag of their own (most notoriously the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/deathly-hallows&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;deathly-hallows&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;deathly-hallows&lt;/a&gt;) but a tag name like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hp-the-deathly-hallows&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hp-the-deathly-hallows&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hp-the-deathly-hallows&lt;/a&gt; or even &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hp-book-seven&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hp-book-seven&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hp-book-seven&lt;/a&gt; would be unambiguous.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The only problem here could be the films, but we can follow our convention of adding the release date after the title.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hp-book&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hp-book&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hp-book&lt;/a&gt; likely to be used correctly just based on its name?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;+2&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; See previous.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Are there &quot;enough&quot; (&gt; 15) but not &quot;too many&quot; (&gt; 10% site-wide) questions that qualify for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hp-book&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hp-book&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hp-book&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;+2&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; I haven't searched, but very likely, based on the size of the franchise tag.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Are people likely to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hp-book&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hp-book&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hp-book&lt;/a&gt; to find questions to answer?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; Possibly, if they have just read the book.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Are there likely some users (be objective!) who will favourite or ignore &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hp-book&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hp-book&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hp-book&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; Possibly, if they are in the process of reading the heptalogy, or if a new book has just been released&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Could &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hp-book&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hp-book&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hp-book&lt;/a&gt; be reasonably used to feed questions to a specialized chat room?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;-1&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; No. The franchise, likely, but not the separate works. But see the note below.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Can &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hp-book&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hp-book&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hp-book&lt;/a&gt; be used to search for questions (for any reason) in a way that keyword searching cannot accomplish?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;+2&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; Yes. A number of subjects come up in different books. A user who's in the process of reading the series might want to exclude questions about later books, or search for questions only about the book they've just read.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the play &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Cursed Child&lt;/em&gt; will be released as a book. Then, when a new title has just been released, I expect people using the tag for the specific work, either to answer questions, or to avoid spoilers. Perhaps even to feed a topical chatroom.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;So my score for the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter-cursed-child&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter-cursed-child&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter-cursed-child&lt;/a&gt; would be &lt;strong&gt;16&lt;/strong&gt;, around the time of its release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2018-11-06T20:34:35.143" LastActivityDate="2018-11-06T20:34:35.143" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8161" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8164" CreationDate="2016-02-14T00:21:58.990" Score="4" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;A long time ago, on &lt;strike&gt;a site far, far away&lt;/strike&gt; this site, the possibility of a migration path to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Movies &amp;amp; TV&lt;/a&gt; Stack Exchange &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4700/should-we-have-a-migration-path-to-mtv-se-now-that-it-has-graduated&quot;&gt;was discussed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If such a path was set up, it would mean that M&amp;amp;TV would be added as an option for migration for questions on the main SFF site on the same level as the option for migration to SFF meta, and thus &lt;strong&gt;five users with 3k+ reputation would be enough to migrate a question from here to M&amp;amp;TV&lt;/strong&gt;. Currently any migration except to SFF meta requires moderator intervention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The highest-voted answer there says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3691/when-does-a-movie-question-get-migrated-to-movies-and-tv&quot;&gt;This discussion&lt;/a&gt; the other day shows that some people, including high-rep users, aren't entirely on the same page regarding what should be migrated. It's clear that non-SF&amp;amp;F movies or shows should go. It's pretty well established, I think, that asking about a non-genre show or movie is &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; fine if the question related to a genre-ish element within that movie, but having a bit of genre-ish content doesn't make a show SF&amp;amp;F automatically. But what that discussion seem to indicate is that non-genre questions are off-topic, even if they're in an explicitly on-topic show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This, I think, is unclear to all. Is this the consensus opinion? Where exactly is the line drawn about non-SF&amp;amp;F elements in SF&amp;amp;F works?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once we've established that, I think the migration path should be added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A year and a half have passed since then, and much has changed both in SFF and in M&amp;amp;TV, so I'm reopening this discussion. There are two issues to be established here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Do we now have a clear policy on when migration to M&amp;amp;TV is appropriate?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, let's make one here!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;h3&gt;If so, shall we set up a migration path?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(For what it's worth, M&amp;amp;TV &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1641/where-are-our-migration-options&quot;&gt;had a similar discussion&lt;/a&gt; about migration to other sites, which is marked &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-deferred&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-deferred&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-deferred&lt;/a&gt;, indicating that they won't be adding any migration paths in the near future, but may do so at some point.)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-04-15T05:45:03.590" Title="Migration to M&amp;TV - reopening the discussion" Tags="|discussion|migration|movies.se|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8162" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-14T10:30:44.680" Score="0" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2021/3804&quot;&gt;last time this was asked&lt;/a&gt;, we decided that these questions were iffy at best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we need the tag though? To paraphrase &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2033/31394&quot;&gt;dlanod's answer&lt;/a&gt;, it's not clear how the tag should be used. It can :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either ask a question that can be answered yes/no with reasoning like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1494/is-the-movie-rendition-of-the-golden-compass-significantly-different-from-the-bo&quot;&gt;Is the movie rendition of the Golden Compass significantly different from the book?&lt;/a&gt; or ask about a given character, plot point, device, etc.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12437/how-true-to-canon-was-denethors-movie-characterization&quot;&gt;How True to Canon Was Denethor&amp;#39;s Movie Characterization?&lt;/a&gt; is a great example of the latter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or ask a question like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6853/what-plot-points-are-missing-in-the-harry-potter-movies-that-are-in-the-novels&quot;&gt;What plot points are missing in the Harry Potter movies that are in the novels?&lt;/a&gt; which is far too broad despite the fact that it elicited a long answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-02-14T14:45:05.470" Title="Do we need the 'book-vs-movie' tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|policy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8162" CreationDate="2016-02-14T10:30:44.680" Score="-1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7871/tag-wars-episode-i-harry-potter-and-the-tag-cleanup&quot;&gt;This post&lt;/a&gt; has a tag scoring sheet, copied over from another site, to determine what makes a good tag. Let's see how &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-vs-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-vs-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-vs-movie&lt;/a&gt; scores:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Does it make sense to be an &quot;expert&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-vs-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-vs-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-vs-movie&lt;/a&gt;&quot;?*&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;; score &lt;strong&gt;-1&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does it make sense for a question to be tagged &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-vs-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-vs-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-vs-movie&lt;/a&gt;&quot;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt; (there should also be a tag for the film or franchise in question); score &lt;strong&gt;-1&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-vs-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-vs-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-vs-movie&lt;/a&gt; have a single, universally-unambiguous meaning?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Maybe&lt;/strong&gt; (as you present good and bad questions); score &lt;strong&gt;1&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-vs-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-vs-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-vs-movie&lt;/a&gt; likely to be used correctly just based on its name?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt; ; score &lt;strong&gt;2&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there &quot;enough&quot; (&gt; 15) but not &quot;too many&quot; (&gt; 10% site-wide) questions that qualify for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-vs-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-vs-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-vs-movie&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Maybe?&lt;/strong&gt; Someone would have to count them to check, but it'd be too difficult to check because of how common the words &lt;code&gt;book&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;movie&lt;/code&gt; are &lt;strong&gt;1&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are people likely to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-vs-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-vs-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-vs-movie&lt;/a&gt; to find questions to answer?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;No?&lt;/strong&gt; Not without other tags &lt;strong&gt;-1&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there likely some users (&lt;em&gt;be objective!&lt;/em&gt;) who will favorite or ignore &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-vs-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-vs-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-vs-movie&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Yes?&lt;/strong&gt; The fact that someone has asked if they are OK, indicates someone might ignore them at least! Score &lt;strong&gt;2&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Could &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-vs-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-vs-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-vs-movie&lt;/a&gt; be reasonably used to feed questions to a specialized chat room?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;; score &lt;strong&gt;-1&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-vs-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-vs-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-vs-movie&lt;/a&gt; be used to search for questions (for any reason) in a way that keyword searching cannot accomplish?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt; because &lt;code&gt;book&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;movie&lt;/code&gt; probably appear too often to narrow it down without the tag; score &lt;strong&gt;2&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Total is &lt;strong&gt;4&lt;/strong&gt;, which is apparently not enough for the tag to be worth creating. From the linked question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;tags that score &gt; 12 are &quot;good&quot; tags, tags that score &amp;lt; 8 are &quot;terrible&quot; tags, others are likely good but may need some clarification/renaming/etc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2016-02-14T13:11:21.400" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8161" CreationDate="2016-02-14T13:04:56.520" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nah.&lt;/strong&gt; Not only would automatic migration be a flashpoint for contention (nearly a quarter of mod-migrated question have ultimately been rejected, I can only assume the number would be higher if we allowed community migration) but there's simply very few questions that get asked on SFF:SE that need to be migrated, As &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6532/20774&quot;&gt;user1027 pointed out&lt;/a&gt;, less than one or two every month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The present system (flag it and let a mod sort it out) is both proportionate and appropriate. Adding migration paths just complicates matters unnecessarily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-02-14T13:04:56.520" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8162" CreationDate="2016-02-14T14:17:54.167" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about the differences between a book and its film adaptation are usually quite distinctive and not like any other type of question on this site, needing a special approach in order to find answers to them. So from the beginning I'm tending towards thinking they should have their own tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Disclaimer: I also have a personal liking for this kind of question, although it's not one of my &quot;favourited&quot; tags, and I believe I have more&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sub&gt; &lt;sup&gt;&lt;sup&gt;posts in this tag than anyone else.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going through the criteria in AncientSwordRage's answer, I found a few which I disagree with, and thought the differences were enough to be worth making a new answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Tag scoring criteria, as ever, are copied from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7871/tag-wars-episode-i-harry-potter-and-the-tag-cleanup&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does it make sense to be an &quot;expert&quot; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-vs-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-vs-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-vs-movie&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;; score &lt;strong&gt;-1&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does it make sense for a question to be tagged &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-vs-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-vs-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-vs-movie&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt; (there should also be a tag for the film or franchise in question); score &lt;strong&gt;-1&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-vs-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-vs-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-vs-movie&lt;/a&gt; have a single, universally-unambiguous meaning?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt; (the tag wiki description is clear enough); score &lt;strong&gt;2&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-vs-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-vs-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-vs-movie&lt;/a&gt; likely to be used correctly just based on its name?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt; ; score &lt;strong&gt;2&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there &quot;enough&quot; (&gt; 15) but not &quot;too many&quot; (&gt; 10% site-wide) questions that qualify for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-vs-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-vs-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-vs-movie&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt; (there are 79 questions with this tag, and certainly not thousands that need it); score &lt;strong&gt;2&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are people likely to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-vs-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-vs-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-vs-movie&lt;/a&gt; to find questions to answer?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Maybe&lt;/strong&gt; (this is one of my favourite tags, and I just went browsing through it to find &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/114325/which-names-besides-for-voldemort-do-the-movies-pronounce-wrong/118438#118438&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; to answer, so others might be doing the same); score &lt;strong&gt;1&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there likely some users (&lt;em&gt;be objective!&lt;/em&gt;) who will favorite or ignore &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-vs-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-vs-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-vs-movie&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt; (the tag already has 6 &quot;followers&quot;); score &lt;strong&gt;2&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Could &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-vs-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-vs-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-vs-movie&lt;/a&gt; be reasonably used to feed questions to a specialized chat room?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;; score &lt;strong&gt;-1&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-vs-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-vs-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-vs-movie&lt;/a&gt; be used to search for questions (for any reason) in a way that keyword searching cannot accomplish?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;; score &lt;strong&gt;2&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Total is &lt;strong&gt;8&lt;/strong&gt;, which should be enough for the tag to be not worth destroying. From the linked question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;tags that score &gt; 12 are &quot;good&quot; tags, tags that score &amp;lt; 8 are &quot;terrible&quot; tags, others are likely good but may need some clarification/renaming/etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-02-14T14:45:05.470" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8166" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-14T18:10:54.753" Score="14" ViewCount="709" Body="&lt;p&gt;Specifically, when the fictional language is used in places outside of the works they appear in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/96996/what-does-this-elvish-text-from-uc-irvine-say&quot;&gt;What does this elvish text from UC Irvine say?&lt;/a&gt; is okay&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/118448/grammar-and-quality-check-for-a-klingon-warning-notice-for-server-room&quot;&gt;Grammar and quality check for a Klingon warning notice for server room&lt;/a&gt; is a current question, has 3 close votes at the moment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/103378/is-this-gallifreyan-and-what-does-it-say&quot;&gt;Is this Gallifreyan, and what does it say?&lt;/a&gt; is a surprising request because there's so little to go on, but it had an answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/116583/what-is-written-on-my-mjolnir&quot;&gt;What is written on my Mjolnir?&lt;/a&gt; is about a licensed product with runic gibberish&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may be more, I only looked through the first couple pages of a search for &quot;translate&quot;, and they may have appeared in other ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may not be enough to be too concerned about, but with one such question locked by a CM (I think the context was not good on that one, but that could be edited out), and a current one getting a close vote, I'm wondering about how to vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T02:46:10.643" Title="Translations of fictional languages to English" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8166" CreationDate="2016-02-14T18:53:06.217" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see no reason to consider these questions undesireable:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They're not off-topic.&lt;/strong&gt; These questions are asking about fictional languages from science fiction or fantasy contexts; that seems thoroughly under our umbrella.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They're not primarily opinion-based.&lt;/strong&gt; There's always going to be a single, unambiguously correct answer: either the correct translation or some variation on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It doesn't mean anything; here's a statement from the creator saying they just took random symbols and mashed them together&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's no translation guides available, then we're asking if we should close a question because it has no canon answer, something &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3014/should-all-questions-without-explicit-canon-answers-be-closed&quot;&gt;we are opposed to&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They're not too broad.&lt;/strong&gt; Depends on the question, obviously, but I fail to see how a single translation could fall under this.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They're not unclear.&lt;/strong&gt; For the most part, anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They take advantage of the expertise we cultivate.&lt;/strong&gt; Our knowledge domain is the sum published output of science fiction and fantasy media, and the behind-the-scenes and fandom context surrounding that media. We are the &lt;em&gt;perfect&lt;/em&gt; people to address questions about this sort of thing, and I struggle to think of anyone better suited.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2016-02-14T20:31:40.853" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8148" CreationDate="2016-02-14T22:52:37.240" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think what you're looking for is the ability to use some of the site's designs and pictures for your school project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is correct; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/legal/trademark-guidance&quot;&gt;then you are &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; allowed to use them&lt;/a&gt;. Unless you ask them specifically first and they tell you it's ok.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IANAL&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;I Am Not A Lawyer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trademark and Copyright&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;You see, the site's logo(s), name and design(s) are a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Trademark&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/about&quot;&gt;StackOverflow inc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;; which means that if you use it in a way which is identifiable, then people will think that you are owned/endorsed &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per their legal info:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Trademark and Copyright&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The logos associated with Stack Exchange Inc. and any Stack Exchange site are a trademark. The purpose of trademark law is to prevent consumers from being misled as to the origin of the product. So if you were making a product, and you used a Stack Exchange name or logo in your product (or in its advertising) in such a way that would mislead someone into thinking that your product was owned by, operated by, endorsed by, or in any way part of Stack Exchange Inc., you would be violating the trademark and this would not be legal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our logo images and site names are copyrighted. Any content on the Stack Exchange Network &lt;strong&gt;not contributed by users&lt;/strong&gt; is copyrighted. Copyright is different than trademark. Ordinarily you couldn't copy it. But if you were writing a news story or blog post about a Stack Exchange site, reproducing the logo image would almost certainly be considered &quot;fair use&quot; and allowed under trademark law because you were not using it &quot;in trade&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Stack Exchange name and logos are trademarks of Stack Exchange Inc. The names and logos for sites and products operating on the Stack Exchange network are also trademarks of Stack Exchange Inc.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fair Use&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Since you claim that you are a school, if you were to be using or referencing any of these Trademarked or Copyright materials, then your use may fall under the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Fair Use&quot;&lt;/a&gt; policy. However, even if you are a school, if your usage promotes your school in any way enabling you to make money, then most likely it will not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I did &quot;Intellectual Property Law&quot; as part of my university studies, generally the &quot;rule of thumb&quot; was that if you're going to be making money from someone else's work in any way, then it is not allowed, however, this was in Australia and again, IANAL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Best to ask&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If you would like to use anything from this site (which is not deemed content contributed by &lt;em&gt;users&lt;/em&gt; of the site), then you should consider contacting the StackOverlow team and ask them for permission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may find that the StackOverflow staff can sometimes be very giving and lenient and might go &quot;yeah sure go for it, no problem&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;contact form&lt;/a&gt; which can be found at the bottom of every page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T03:24:48.190" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9168" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9169" CreationDate="2016-02-15T13:29:36.820" Score="12" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I came across two old questions (both by the same user and posted on the same day, oddly enough) which are very similar in form but have been treated very differently:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/96/are-there-any-plans-for-a-new-star-trek-tv-series&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/96/are-there-any-plans-for-a-new-star-trek-tv-series&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;closed, 3 pending votes to delete&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/48/are-there-any-plans-for-a-new-babylon-5-series-or-movies?rq=1&quot;&gt;Are there any plans for a new Babylon 5 series or movies?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;open, has never been closed&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems rather silly. Whatever our position is on such questions, it should at least be &lt;em&gt;consistent&lt;/em&gt;. Unless there's some difference I'm missing between these two questions, they should either &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; be closed or &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; be open. The purpose of this meta post is to find out which.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What is the community's position on such questions?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;If anyone finds more examples like these two questions (whether open or closed), give me a link and I'll edit them in.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: the second of the above questions has now also been closed, and the first has been deleted. Seems fairly conclusive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2016-02-20T00:25:28.670" Title="What's our position on questions of the form &quot;Are there any plans for a new series of X?&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9168" CreationDate="2016-02-15T13:49:57.077" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe these questions &lt;strong&gt;should be closed&lt;/strong&gt; because they usually can't be answered and tend to &lt;strong&gt;encourage speculative answers&lt;/strong&gt;. Arguably they're a special case of our existing &quot;future works&quot; policy. Both of the examples linked by the OP contain what I would consider speculative answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The exception would be questions that explicitly exclude the future in some way, e.g. &quot;Were there plans to make another X before Y happened?&quot;, since the answer to that won't change even if a new X does get made someday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35327" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T13:49:57.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9168" CreationDate="2016-02-15T16:36:01.690" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see these questions as completely objective. &lt;strong&gt;Are there any plans&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt; - you can answer this with Yes or No; and then back up with the appropriate evidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speculative answers indicate a problem &lt;em&gt;with those answers&lt;/em&gt;, not with the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;1 Of course, you really need to ask if there are any &lt;em&gt;plans that have been made public&lt;/em&gt; but the gist of the question is clear to me.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T16:36:01.690" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9171" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9172" CreationDate="2016-02-15T19:25:26.790" Score="4" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/43/3804&quot;&gt;Which was the first novel set in universes where P=NP?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been wanting this to be reopened since before I was a mod. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since it's been asked,  the community reaction to 'first of'type questions had softened remarkably. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the answers within are good quality examples of how to answer such questions. And I think the question in its own seems genuine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does the community think? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T20:37:39.040" Title="Is this question about universes in which P=NP worth reopening?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9171" CreationDate="2016-02-15T19:32:42.620" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, it should be reopened.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have quite a few “first of” questions on the site, which have been generally well-received. Picking a few examples at random:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/117891/3567&quot;&gt;What was the first story to be set in the future?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/115775/3567&quot;&gt;Who was the first robot to refer to organic lifeforms as &amp;quot;meatbags&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/115461/3567&quot;&gt;First use of the &amp;quot;captive human brains as computers&amp;quot; idea?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/114442/3567&quot;&gt;What is the first work to feature a planet that is one city?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your example fits into the mould of these posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think these are good and interesting questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They tell us something about the history of the genre&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They are often an introduction to important works (cf. story ID questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The best answer is usually easy to distinguish – it’s hard to argue about the meaning of “first”. (Which doesn’t preclude the possibility of an earlier work which nobody has mentioned yet, but it does give an easy way to sort the existing answers.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, I’d note that the “not constructive” close reason has been gone for a while. If this question were to be re-asked today, I don’t think it would be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T19:32:42.620" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8161" CreationDate="2016-02-15T23:33:14.983" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's really no need. In the last 90 days, we have not had a single question migrated to M&amp;amp;TV:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SI9Fe.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SI9Fe.png&quot; alt=&quot;migration stats&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T23:33:14.983" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9174" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-16T21:00:08.320" Score="0" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;scifi.stackexchange has a peculiar scope. It tackles, as the name says, Science fiction and fantasy elements. However, these are usually distributed by Films, TV and Books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, these two questions: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/30805/why-is-avada-kedavra-considered-unblockable/30808#30808&quot;&gt;Why is Avada Kedavra Considered Unblockeable?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/35130/are-unforgivable-curses-unblockable-in-harry-potter&quot;&gt;Are Unforgiveable curses unblockeable in Harry Potter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are essentially dupes of one another, (if you exclude the fact that on scifi book canocity supercedes), however they are on different stack exchanges, and both fit their respective scopes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should these questions be handled?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24748" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2016-02-16T21:00:08.320" Title="What's the policy on questions that already have an answer in another .SE?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-02-16T21:21:54.397" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2474" CreationDate="2016-02-16T23:09:07.670" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The person who created the Toby the Targ stuffed animal prop answered a question about whether they're available anymore, at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/48697/does-a-stuffed-toby-the-targ-toy-exist/72988#72988&quot;&gt;Does a stuffed &amp;#39;Toby the Targ&amp;#39; toy exist?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Matthew Hughes also answered a question about a short story of his. After a bit of confusion where his answer was deleted for not answering the question, it was all sorted out and his answer currently resides at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/114353/33591&quot;&gt;Does it have to be those two spells, or would any combination of &amp;quot;impossible&amp;quot; spells work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2017-12-10T09:15:40.670" LastActivityDate="2017-12-10T09:15:40.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9176" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9182" CreationDate="2016-02-17T09:14:17.163" Score="4" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/thedaggerandthecoin&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;thedaggerandthecoin&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;thedaggerandthecoin&lt;/a&gt; (1 question). The proper tag name would be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-dagger-and-the-coin&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-dagger-and-the-coin&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-dagger-and-the-coin&lt;/a&gt;, but the existence of the former prevents creation of the latter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we please rename this tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-02-17T11:05:28.400" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T11:40:47.387" Title="Rename [thedaggerandthecoin] to [the-dagger-and-the-coin]" Tags="|support|status-completed|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9177" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9178" CreationDate="2016-02-17T09:49:22.440" Score="1" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/backstory&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;backstory&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;backstory&lt;/a&gt;. It had less than 15 questions, but I've already removed it from some questions where it didn't make much sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I checked myself before continuing, and thought it better to seek consensus on meta first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we want to keep &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/backstory&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;backstory&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;backstory&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T09:49:22.440" Title="What's the backstory of [backstory]?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9177" CreationDate="2016-02-17T09:49:22.440" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does it make sense to be an &quot;expert&quot; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/backstory&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;backstory&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;backstory&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;No (-1)&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; perhaps an expert in the backstory for a specifc franchise or character, but not just backstory in general.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does it make sense for a question to be tagged &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/backstory&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;backstory&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;backstory&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;No (-1)&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; there should at least be a tag for the work or franchise in question as well; it's really a meta tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/backstory&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;backstory&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;backstory&lt;/a&gt; have a single, universally-unambiguous meaning?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Yes (2)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/backstory&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;backstory&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;backstory&lt;/a&gt; likely to be used correctly just based on its name?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Yes (2)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there &quot;enough&quot; (&gt; 15) but not &quot;too many&quot; (&gt; 10% site-wide) questions that qualify for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/backstory&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;backstory&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;backstory&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Maybe (1)&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; there were 14 questions before I removed it from some.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are people likely to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/backstory&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;backstory&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;backstory&lt;/a&gt; to find questions to answer?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;No (-1)&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; not by itself, &lt;em&gt;perhaps&lt;/em&gt; in conjunction with another tag, but even that is unlikely.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there likely some users (&lt;em&gt;be objective!&lt;/em&gt;) who will favorite or ignore &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/backstory&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;backstory&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;backstory&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;No (-1)&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; the tag currently exists but has no followers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Could &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/backstory&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;backstory&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;backstory&lt;/a&gt; be reasonably used to feed questions to a specialized chat room?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;No (-1)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/backstory&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;backstory&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;backstory&lt;/a&gt; be used to search for questions (for any reason) in a way that keyword searching cannot accomplish?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Maybe (1)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Total is &lt;strong&gt;1&lt;/strong&gt;, which is low enough to get rid of this tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T09:49:22.440" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9179" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9183" CreationDate="2016-02-17T09:53:00.110" Score="3" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stormlight-archives&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stormlight-archives&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stormlight-archives&lt;/a&gt; tag, for the Brandon Sanderson's series, but the correct name of the series is Stormlight Archive (singular; without the &lt;code&gt;s&lt;/code&gt; at the end).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we replace this tag with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stormlight-archive&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stormlight-archive&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stormlight-archive&lt;/a&gt;? I am not allowed to do that myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19374" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-02-17T11:43:21.423" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T11:43:21.423" Title="Can we rename the [stormlight-archives] tag to [stormlight-archive]?" Tags="|support|status-completed|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9180" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-17T10:11:20.390" Score="6" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often, in posting a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; question, a user will add a tag that has to do with one element of a story that they remember. e.g., A story about a werewolf that tries to eat lettuce will be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lettuce&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lettuce&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lettuce&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/young-adult&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;young-adult&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;young-adult&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/werewolf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;werewolf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;werewolf&lt;/a&gt;. But it's not a question about werewolves - it's a question about a story that has a werewolf in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions with tags that are specifically for story-id (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/young-adult&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;young-adult&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;young-adult&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt;, etc), or have other tags as well (such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aliens&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aliens&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aliens&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/computers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;computers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;computers&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time-travel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time-travel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time-travel&lt;/a&gt; etc)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2016-02-17T10:19:44.193" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T13:42:20.323" Title="What should we do about tags on story-id questions?" Tags="|discussion|tags|story-identification|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9176" CreationDate="2016-02-17T11:04:42.653" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@rand al'thor has taken care of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/49761/why-doesnt-clara-kalliam-return-to-her-parents-or-family-when-her-husbands-nam&quot;&gt;Why doesn&amp;#39;t Clara Kalliam return to her parents or family when her husband&amp;#39;s name is disgraced?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T11:04:42.653" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9176" CreationDate="2016-02-17T11:05:09.240" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Done.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've created a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-dagger-and-the-coin&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-dagger-and-the-coin&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-dagger-and-the-coin&lt;/a&gt; tag for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/49761/why-doesnt-clara-kalliam-return-to-her-parents-or-family-when-her-husbands-nam&quot;&gt;the single question that requires it&lt;/a&gt;, and merged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/thedaggerandthecoin&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;thedaggerandthecoin&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;thedaggerandthecoin&lt;/a&gt; with this new tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Unfortunately, &lt;strong&gt;the tag wiki and tag wiki excerpt have disappeared along with the old tag&lt;/strong&gt;. Sorry about that. I should have copy-pasted them into the new tag before merging - a lesson to learn for next time.&lt;/strike&gt; @SQB has now recovered them using the SE Data Explorer, so no harm done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;PS. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7169/31394&quot;&gt;It's Richard's fault&lt;/a&gt;, as he &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/49761/3&quot;&gt;created the old tag&lt;/a&gt; :-)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T11:40:47.387" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9179" CreationDate="2016-02-17T11:32:02.440" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's ninja @randal'thor again, hmm?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;, by @rand al'thor. Now to fix the tag wikis!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T11:32:02.440" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9184" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-17T12:46:33.370" Score="8" ViewCount="334" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just searched for questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tng&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tng&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tng&lt;/a&gt; without being tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt;. There are 79 of them, right now. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tng%2B-star-trek&quot;&gt;(Here's where you can find them.&lt;/a&gt;) There also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tos&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-voyager&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-voyager&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-voyager&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-ds9&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-ds9&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-ds9&lt;/a&gt; questions without &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt;. Should we edit them? Do we actually need that tag on every single ST:TNG question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T23:40:20.370" Title="Should we add the [star-trek] tag to all of the Star Trek questions that don't have it?" Tags="|status-completed|tags|retagging|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9180" CreationDate="2016-02-17T13:42:20.323" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that it comes down to one of the purposes for tags, namely expertise. Someone who's an expert in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/werewolf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;werewolf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;werewolf&lt;/a&gt; is likely to have the background to answer story-identification questions about them. So yes, the tags are good in the question. If someone of them turn out to be inaccurate (the story isn't actually about werewolves, but vampires, and the querent realizes they were mistaken), we fix the tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T13:42:20.323" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9186" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9190" CreationDate="2016-02-17T15:27:38.193" Score="8" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Military science fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction for which the principal characters are members of a military service and an armed conflict is occurring, often in space or on a planet other than Earth &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_scifi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;excerpted from Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-&lt;sub&gt; tag wiki excerpt&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, these questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/119643/how-is-the-republic-military-divided&quot;&gt;(1)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/119561/why-did-the-empire-not-put-their-stormtroopers-in-camouflage-when-they-were-stat&quot;&gt;(2)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/119538/jedi-naval-ranks&quot;&gt;(3)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/117325/what-is-the-rank-structure-of-stormtroopers&quot;&gt;(4)&lt;/a&gt; (there are more, just not looking now) are using this tag for questions about an army. Should this be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/warfare&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;warfare&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;warfare&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: They now no longer have this tag. Thanks @rand al'thor ♦!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if so, what should &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/military-sf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;military-sf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;military-sf&lt;/a&gt; be used for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-02-20T19:16:12.850" Title="What is correct usage of [military-sf]?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9186" CreationDate="2016-02-17T17:21:31.543" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Military science fiction is a sub-genre, so the tag would apply to any work that is arguably military science fiction, especially if discussing a military aspect of the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would not apply to a work just because it has military elements in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While most people would not consider Star Wars to be milSF, it could certainly be argued since large parts of the total story universe revolve around characters who are, or end up in, the military and much of the action is preparing for, or engaging in, combat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5424" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T17:21:31.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9184" CreationDate="2016-02-17T17:35:04.993" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;After some discussion I'm fine with retagging all star-trek questions with the generic franchise tag. However, I would like it to be a coordinated effort during off peak (ie weekend evening) hours. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would appear that you have already started changing them, without much discussion or allowing this meta question to receive votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T17:35:04.993" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9189" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9191" CreationDate="2016-02-17T19:35:01.057" Score="11" ViewCount="238" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/114073/how-did-changelings-learn-who-killed-one-of-them?noredirect=1#comment292798_114073&quot;&gt;This comment&lt;/a&gt; (last parts) seems to be explaining everything:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(...) it seems, that anti-spoiler can hide only one-line sentence. Breaking sentences into more than one line or trying to hide lists produces a very strange and not looking good effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to use anti-spoiler tag (&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;!&lt;/code&gt;) to hide a list or block of text? Or what am I doing wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried both with unordered list and with &quot;converting&quot; it into multi-line block of text, replacing &quot;dots&quot; with &quot;a)&quot;, &quot;b)&quot;, &quot;c)&quot; etc. All for nothing -- any attempt, that I undertook ended in converting multi-line block of text or list into single line (hidden behind anti-spoiler).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What am I missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2019-06-24T14:37:04.887" Title="How to hide list or multi-line text behind anti-spoiler?" Tags="|support|spoilers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9186" CreationDate="2016-02-17T19:47:38.147" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag should only be used to ask  questions about the subgenre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone following it searching on that tag would not immediately be able to answer a question on Jedi commanders,  but could more  easily answer how Jedi being defacto commanders related to common themes in military sci-fi. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-02-18T00:18:45.190" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T00:18:45.190" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9189" CreationDate="2016-02-17T22:42:43.923" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You have to use HTML tags.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’m not quite sure why the regular Markdown formatting works in blockquotes but not in spoiler blocks; I dug into it a while back but never got very far with it. The limited subset of HTML supported by SE mostly just works in spoiler blocks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For linebreaks, use &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;! This is a spoiler block &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; with multiple lines &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; of text&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; This is a spoiler block &lt;br&gt; with multiple lines &lt;br&gt; of text&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For paragraphs, use a double &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;! My first paragraph. &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Another paragraph. Such words.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; My first paragraph. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Another paragraph. Such words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have used &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags in the past, although I have a vague recollection that it broke some spoiler markup on mobile.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For lists, use &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;ol&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;! My example list has&#xA;&amp;gt;! &amp;lt;ol&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;gt;! &amp;lt;li&amp;gt;a first item&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;gt;! &amp;lt;li&amp;gt;and another item&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;gt;! &amp;lt;li&amp;gt;and a final item&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;gt;! &amp;lt;/ol&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; My example list has&#xA; &lt;ol&gt;&#xA; &lt;li&gt;a first item&lt;/li&gt;&#xA; &lt;li&gt;and another item&lt;/li&gt;&#xA; &lt;li&gt;and a final item&lt;/li&gt;&#xA; &lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T22:42:43.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9189" CreationDate="2016-02-18T01:05:12.723" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;@alexwlchan's answer gives one nice solution, but you don't necessarily &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to use HTML tags for linebreaks and paragraphs. It's enough to &lt;strong&gt;put two spaces at the end of each line&lt;/strong&gt;, like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;! one line  &#xA;&amp;gt;! another line  &#xA;&amp;gt;!  &#xA;&amp;gt;! after a blank line&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which yields the following output:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; one line&lt;br&gt;&#xA; another line&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA; after a blank line&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this doesn't work to give bulletpoints or list formatting within a spoiler block, for which see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9191/31394&quot;&gt;Alex's answer&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;On a related note, to get get &lt;em&gt;separate&lt;/em&gt; spoiler blocks with nothing in between use either &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;nbsp/&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- ---&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; in between the two blocks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;! one spoiler  &#xA;&#xA;  &amp;lt;nbsp/&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;gt;! another spoiler.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;yields&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; one spoiler  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; another spoiler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-06-24T14:37:04.887" LastActivityDate="2019-06-24T14:37:04.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9193" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-18T12:05:13.247" Score="4" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering whether fanfic identification questions (i.e. story-identification style questions that are about a fan fiction; note that, normally, the question author would know what particular work the fanfic in question is based on) are on-topic on SFF.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It would appear that they would have been a big part of SFF content had they been on-topic (indeed, IIRC, there are many other online communities dedicated to fanfic identification); yet I have never seen any. Is there another SE network site that fits this category better?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I already know that non-story-identification questions about (well-known) fanfic settings are on-topic; in particular, I've seen a few about (Harry Potter and the) Methods of Rationality. I'm talking about fanfic identification (as described above) questions specifically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, I'm talking about the case where the general work that the fanfic is based on is otherwise on-topic for SSF, such as Star Trek or Harry Potter.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;And yes, I'm considering asking a few questions of this kind (completely seriously, there really are a few fanfics I liked but cannot find anymore) if the general opinion is positive enough. Though I might yet not do that if you guys think that such question would have been too common if their on-topicness was established definitively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59083" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T12:05:13.247" Title="Are fanfic identification questions on-topic on SFF?" Tags="|discussion|scope|story-identification|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2016-02-18T18:44:45.100" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9194" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-18T16:03:06.917" Score="13" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tmnt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tmnt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tmnt&lt;/a&gt; (21 Q) does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; show up on a search for 'teenage' while asking a question, nor is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles&lt;/a&gt; a synonym or anything. If I hadn't clicked on a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tmnt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tmnt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tmnt&lt;/a&gt; question, I would have no idea what tag to use when asking a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can we rename &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tmnt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tmnt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tmnt&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-08-09T10:32:38.637" LastActivityDate="2017-08-09T10:32:38.637" Title="Should we rename [tmnt] to [teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles]?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9194" CreationDate="2016-02-18T17:01:35.537" Score="23" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, it's too long. &lt;code&gt;teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles&lt;/code&gt; has 28 characters, which is 3 over the limit. You could try it without the dashes, but that makes for an ugly tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; probably do, is set up &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/teenagemutantninjaturtles&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;teenagemutantninjaturtles&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;teenagemutantninjaturtles&lt;/a&gt;, the ugly no-dash version, as a synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tmnt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tmnt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tmnt&lt;/a&gt;, so that it will be found when searching for tags, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tmnt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tmnt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tmnt&lt;/a&gt; will be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we're at it, we might as well set up &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/teenagemutantheroturtles&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;teenagemutantheroturtles&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;teenagemutantheroturtles&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tmht&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tmht&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tmht&lt;/a&gt; as synonyms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2016-02-18T17:18:54.197" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T17:18:54.197" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9196" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9197" CreationDate="2016-02-18T19:11:48.167" Score="3" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that we should synonymize &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/legal-proceedings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;legal-proceedings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;legal-proceedings&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/laws&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;laws&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;laws&lt;/a&gt;. Legal proceedings has 4 questions, Laws has 31. Legal proceedings is part of laws, right? So can we please synonymize these?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T19:43:08.757" Title="Synonymize [legal-proceedings] with [laws]?" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9196" CreationDate="2016-02-18T19:36:05.693" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, let’s get rid of the [legal-proceedings] tag.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag wiki description for [laws] reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions relating to in-universe laws of a work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is an equally apt description of legal proceedings (which doesn’t have a tag wiki of its own). It’s hard to see a distinction between the tags; as such, we should move to abolish one of them. Since [legal-proceedings] has fewer questions and no description, that‘s the one to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, three of the four questions tagged with [legal-proceedings] are already tagged with [laws]. In its current form it isn’t adding anything useful to the questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T19:36:05.693" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9196" CreationDate="2016-02-18T19:43:08.757" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just remove the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/legal-proceedings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;legal-proceedings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;legal-proceedings&lt;/a&gt; from the questions it's currently on. Three of those already have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/laws&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;laws&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;laws&lt;/a&gt; and the other one doesn't need (it may need a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/copyright&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;copyright&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;copyright&lt;/a&gt; or somesuch).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T19:43:08.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9199" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9203" CreationDate="2016-02-20T16:55:25.447" Score="8" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently discovered that we have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/real-world&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;real-world&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;real-world&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, I'm &lt;strong&gt;really not sure when this tag is meant to be used&lt;/strong&gt;. It can't be for &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; out-of-universe questions, as it would then have a lot more than 35 questions to its name. The tag wiki doesn't give much help or clear guidance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This tag usually refers to how something in Sci-Fi or Fantasy works in the real world. It can also refer to a version of our world featured in a Sci-Fi or Fantasy work. For instance, Stephen King uses a version of himself in what is supposedly our world in his Dark Tower novels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, we have a policy (and even a custom close-vote reason) that &lt;strong&gt;questions asking about real-world science are off-topic&lt;/strong&gt; unless somehow linked to a particular work of SF/F. This policy is still unclear, however, and having a tag that seems to apply to such questions is only going to exacerbate the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Can we nuke this tag?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-02-28T16:17:14.240" LastActivityDate="2016-02-28T16:17:14.240" Title="Is it time to get rid of the [real-world]?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9200" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9201" CreationDate="2016-02-20T17:31:38.883" Score="2" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science&lt;/a&gt; tag has 87 questions and 16 followers, but it isn't clear to me what it's supposed to be used for. The tag wiki does not help much:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stories about science, or questions about the science of a story&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about real-world science are off-topic, and I don't know why we would need a tag to designate stories that are about science specifically, or how we would judge that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That leaves questions about in-universe science, like what exactly happens if you cross the streams in ghostbusters, perhaps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose either changing the tag wiki to say that it's for explanations of in-universe science, or nuking the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36115" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2016-02-20T17:50:49.493" LastActivityDate="2016-02-24T15:58:21.327" Title="Do we need [science]?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9200" CreationDate="2016-02-20T17:41:57.650" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quoting from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/742/31394&quot;&gt;Gilles's excellent answer&lt;/a&gt; to a related question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/physics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;physics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;physics&lt;/a&gt; is about the physics of a fictional universe, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/languages&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;languages&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;languages&lt;/a&gt; is about languages in a fictional universe, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magic&lt;/a&gt; is about magic in a fictional universe and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see why there shouldn't be a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/physics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;physics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;physics&lt;/a&gt; tag. It's not about real-world physics, any more than &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magic&lt;/a&gt; is about real-world magic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Science, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magic&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aliens&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aliens&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aliens&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spaceship&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;spaceship&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;spaceship&lt;/a&gt;s, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/physics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;physics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;physics&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/astronomy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;astronomy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;astronomy&lt;/a&gt;, etc., is a common enough trope in SF/F literature to be worth its own tag, provided we make clear what types of question would be on-topic in this tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I definitely agree that the current tag wiki for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science&lt;/a&gt; isn't good enough. I suggest the following tag wiki excerpt (thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9219/31394&quot;&gt; @Mazura&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For questions about the fictitious in-universe science found in works of speculative fiction. Questions purely concerning real-world science are off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and the following tag wiki (based heavily on @Gilles's tag wiki for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/physics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;physics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;physics&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use this tag if your question is about the fictional science found in the universe of a work of science fiction or fantasy. Note that this site is about fiction, not about real-world science. Expect answers based on internal consistency or author fiat ('Word of God').&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question is about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;how the in-universe science relates to real-world science, ask here, but do not necessarily expect answers from experts on real-world science.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;real-world science, your question is off-topic here. You might consider asking on one of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites#science&quot;&gt;science-based Stack Exchange sites&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7364/what-is-our-actual-policy-on-science-questions&quot;&gt;this discussion thread&lt;/a&gt; for more detail about our policy on science questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-02-24T15:58:21.327" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9200" CreationDate="2016-02-20T18:00:34.373" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems in your post the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science&lt;/a&gt; tag, you're implying that the best use of the tag is for explaining the in-universe science is a work of fiction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However in much the same way that we don't need a tag for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-explanation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-explanation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-explanation&lt;/a&gt; because it should be implied for the majority of questions about plot,  I feel the same holds over with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2016-02-20T18:00:34.373" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9199" CreationDate="2016-02-20T18:27:40.037" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Nuke it&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does it make sense to be an &quot;expert&quot; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/real-world&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;real-world&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;real-world&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;No (-1)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does it make sense for a question to be tagged &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/real-world&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;real-world&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;real-world&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;No (-1)&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; it's a meta tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/real-world&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;real-world&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;real-world&lt;/a&gt; have a single, universally-unambiguous meaning?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Maybe (1)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/real-world&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;real-world&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;real-world&lt;/a&gt; likely to be used correctly just based on its name?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Maybe (1)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there &quot;enough&quot; (&gt; 15) but not &quot;too many&quot; (&gt; 10% site-wide) questions that qualify for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/real-world&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;real-world&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;real-world&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Yes (2)&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; currently 35 and could be used on more.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are people likely to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/real-world&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;real-world&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;real-world&lt;/a&gt; to find questions to answer?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;No (-1)&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; not by itself, &lt;em&gt;perhaps&lt;/em&gt; in conjunction with another tag, but even that is unlikely.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there likely some users (&lt;em&gt;be objective!&lt;/em&gt;) who will favorite or ignore &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/real-world&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;real-world&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;real-world&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Yes (2)&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; the tag currently exists and has 2 followers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Could &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/real-world&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;real-world&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;real-world&lt;/a&gt; be reasonably used to feed questions to a specialized chat room?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;No (-1)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/real-world&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;real-world&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;real-world&lt;/a&gt; be used to search for questions (for any reason) in a way that keyword searching cannot accomplish?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Maybe (1)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Total is &lt;strong&gt;3&lt;/strong&gt;, which is low enough to get rid of this tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2016-02-20T18:27:40.037" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9199" CreationDate="2016-02-20T18:36:21.487" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say no, but that it just needs to be renamed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/real-world-influence&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;real-world-influence&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;real-world-influence&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Expert? Yes. +2&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tagged only? No. -1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unambiguous? Yes. +2&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Used correctly based on name? Yes +2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enough? Yes. +2&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use it to find questions? Maybe, but leaning to no. -1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Favorite or ignore? Maybe +1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specialized chat? No. -1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Search? Yes (people use &quot;influence&quot;, &quot;origin&quot;, &quot;idea of&quot;, etc., in questions.) +2&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Total: &lt;strong&gt;8&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An okay tag, but not terrible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2016-02-20T18:36:21.487" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9186" CreationDate="2016-02-20T19:16:12.850" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another use, as with every genre tag, would be on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2016-02-20T19:16:12.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9194" CreationDate="2016-02-20T22:31:25.927" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;TMNT is the accepted abbreviation for the franchise, to the point that one of the movies was specifically titled &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMNT_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TMNT&lt;/a&gt;. It's pretty clear what it means. Even a Google search for TMNT brings up &quot;Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles&quot; first thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the other short name, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ninja-turtles&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ninja-turtles&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ninja-turtles&lt;/a&gt;, would make a good synonym.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2016-02-20T22:31:25.927" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9207" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-21T14:09:51.970" Score="0" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, I've been looking at tags, and realized that some things really need to be cleaned up. Like all those &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tng+-star-trek&quot;&gt;without the star-trek tag.&lt;/a&gt; While we're at it, why not clean up other tags, too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When should we organize another tag cleanup?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-04-12T12:58:23.180" Title="When should we do another tag cleanup?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9208" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-21T16:19:00.157" Score="6" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;On mobile view Richard appears with gold text. At first I blamed caching, and it was a mod thing. But even Rand Al'Thor's name isn't gold in the picture before:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wnQ9Kl.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wnQ9Kl.png&quot; alt=&quot;Richards name in golden text&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="17279" LastEditDate="2016-02-22T09:20:44.620" LastActivityDate="2016-02-22T09:20:44.620" Title="Why is Richard golden?" Tags="|support|design|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9208" CreationDate="2016-02-21T16:35:59.940" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because you've visited his profile page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://cdn.sstatic.net/skins/mobilemeta/all.css&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CSS&lt;/a&gt; make the unvisited link &quot;strong blue&quot;.&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.comment-user {&#xA;    font-weight: 700;&#xA;    color: #4A6FB1&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The exact colour code for &lt;em&gt;visited&lt;/em&gt; links is &lt;code&gt;#c18215&lt;/code&gt;, which is described as &quot;strong orange&quot;.&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;a:visited,&#xA;a:visited&amp;gt;em,&#xA;a:active,&#xA;a:active&amp;gt;em,&#xA;a:hover,&#xA;a:hover&amp;gt;em {&#xA;    color: #C18215&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2016-02-22T07:49:54.943" LastActivityDate="2016-02-22T07:49:54.943" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9208" CreationDate="2016-02-21T17:04:02.417" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because you've visited his profile page. See this screenshot that I just took: &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L1LZq.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L1LZq.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Richard is blue there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After visiting his profile:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2YN06.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2YN06.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look! It's gold!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Just for fun, I took the shot on the same question that you did. :P)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2016-02-21T17:29:38.663" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T17:29:38.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9207" CreationDate="2016-02-22T17:12:34.103" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per my comment, I'm going to say &quot;Never&quot; or at the very least &quot;Not for a long time&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For over a month now, the 'tagging team' have been pretty active in destroying lesser used tags, adding all manner of synonyms and untagging questions. What's been confusing me is &lt;em&gt;why?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst it's quite straightforward  to see the damage caused (repeatedly flooding the front page with dozens of minor edits) where I'm struggling is trying to see what the benefit actually is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like you to elect a spokesperson who can explain (using graphs and stats) how all this retagging has helped the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Until then, I think you should stop.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-04-12T12:58:23.180" LastActivityDate="2016-04-12T12:58:23.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9212" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-22T18:20:44.133" Score="4" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever I try to add an image to a question on Google Chrome, this happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OLOl6.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OLOl6.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't access the button to actually post the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have to switch to Firefox to add images.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anyway I can fix this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastEditorUserId="17279" LastEditDate="2016-02-23T11:18:19.570" LastActivityDate="2016-02-23T11:18:19.570" Title="Can't post images?" Tags="|support|bug|status-norepro|images|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9213" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9217" CreationDate="2016-02-22T20:57:24.983" Score="3" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I click on the new 'About Us' link, it gives me this page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/COjz8.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/COjz8.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Page Not Found&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're sorry, we couldn't find the page you requested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-02-22T22:32:25.940" Title="When I click on the new 'About Us' link in the help down drop menu, it gives me a page not found" Tags="|bug|status-completed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9214" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9218" CreationDate="2016-02-22T21:32:13.690" Score="6" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;In particular regards to this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/120014/did-the-peverell-brothers-attend-hogwarts&quot;&gt;Did the Peverell brothers attend Hogwarts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have received two comments that seem to believe I could get an answer by using Twitter to pose the question to JK Rowling. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not have a Twitter account nor do I want to create one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is; could I start a bounty and then award to a person who does have Twitter, poses the question to Twitter, and then posts the proof as answer here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-02-22T22:08:51.577" Title="Offer a bounty for an action outside SFF?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9215" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-22T21:40:44.570" Score="12" ViewCount="253" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been noticing a lot of meta questions asking whether or not some tag should be created/destroyed are including a &quot;tag score sheet&quot; copied from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7871/21192&quot;&gt;this meta post&lt;/a&gt;. That score sheet seems to have been copied from another Stack Exchange site and slightly modified for the effort described in that question. However, the logic for coming up with that specific score sheet or if it should be used in perpetuity was never the intention of that original meta question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question here is; does the Science Fiction and Fantasy Stack Exchange need an objective way of scoring tags, and if so, what is that scoring method?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would expect answer to this question to be of the form:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes - this is why it is necessary. Here is a proposed scoring sheet and how to use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No - this is why it is unnecessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also point out that no mention of scoring a tag is mentioned in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/412/21192&quot;&gt;General tagging practices&lt;/a&gt; (admittedly, an old question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21192" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-02-23T16:55:59.540" Title="Does SFF need/have an objective way of scoring tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9215" CreationDate="2016-02-22T21:52:44.243" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. It's unnecessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's nearly impossible to make objective. We've already seen where our current scoring method gets different scores based on different users. Coming up with a more objective system isn't likely.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's &lt;em&gt;tedious&lt;/em&gt;. Tagging was never meant to be this much of a pain in the ass to make decisions on. Unless a tag is atrociously bad or almost unused, it may as well stay.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's not likely to be effective as the site grows, as evidenced by earlier tagging policies. It would need to be revisted in the future, making it a bit pointless (possibly by actively undermining future tagging policies, where we burninate or prevent tags we later believe would be useful).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any tag we prevent from being made or burninate actually destroys our ability to track the actual usage of tags, to develop policies based around what our users &lt;em&gt;naturally&lt;/em&gt; feel is an effective way to tag questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It discourages tagging in general more than it encourages good tagging. (My opinion, anyway)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2016-02-22T21:52:44.243" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9213" CreationDate="2016-02-22T21:59:16.997" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/276002/175002&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt; on the main meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We caught this shortly after we shipped too, so it's been fixed. You reported it riiiight in between.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2016-02-22T21:59:16.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9214" CreationDate="2016-02-22T22:08:51.577" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can award bounties for whatever you see fit, so long as it isn't meant to be a way to simply build up the rep for a specific user. That is, you're not just trying to transfer a lot of rep to one person over the course of many bounties. That's similar to serial upvoting. (Although, I haven't found this particular policy written down, yet, I assume it's true, as would any other stances against intentional abuse or exploitation would be.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could edit your question to specify you'd be willing to award a bounty to any user that could get a response for JKR on Twitter, but those users would have to trust that you'd actually do it. However, your low rep score (meaning, you have little to give), and your account age could lead people to be wary of such claims. I'm not saying your untrustworthy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if you offer a bounty &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt;, there's a good chance that no one will get a response in time, and the bounty will go to a user that's answered based on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16065/how-does-the-bounty-system-work&quot;&gt;award system policies&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2016-02-22T22:08:51.577" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9200" CreationDate="2016-02-22T22:21:18.587" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;New tag description:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For questions about the &lt;strong&gt;fictitious in-universe science&lt;/strong&gt; found in works of fiction. Questions purely concerning &lt;strong&gt;real-world science&lt;/strong&gt; are off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23785" LastActivityDate="2016-02-22T22:21:18.587" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9215" CreationDate="2016-02-22T22:47:06.857" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;That checklist is pretty sketchy in general, but might perhaps be applied successfully to a very strictly defined subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sci-fi and fantasy is not a very strictly defined subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, question #1 is worthless: there are experts in every topic imaginable if you look hard enough; at best then, a &amp;quot;no&amp;quot; answer to #1 is useful for identifying a lazy judge whose further opinions you can safely ignore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Test #7 is also worthless; there is actual data for this, although it isn't necessarily public. If you were going to base a decision on it, it would be worth pulling real numbers instead of trying to guess &amp;quot;objectively&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second-most damning problem with this checklist is that it repeatedly confuses tags with topics... On some sites, those sets overlap quite a bit, but not this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the single most damning problem with that list is that it has &lt;strong&gt;nine distinct tests.&lt;/strong&gt; Ain't nobody got time for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;see also: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/239190/when-to-burninate&quot;&gt;When to burninate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-02-22T23:54:05.853" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9215" CreationDate="2016-02-23T16:55:59.540" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes - It is necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tagging is hard and an inexact science&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Having some well thought out rules/guidelines would help make it a little easier&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Having a standard list of questions to ask about a tag helps jump-start the discussion as to whether or not a tag should be kept&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a proposed tag score card and how to use it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tag Scoring&#xA;  (&lt;em&gt;blatantly stolen and slightly adapted from &lt;a href=&quot;https://chemistry.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2967/what-do-i-need-to-know-about-tagging&quot;&gt;Chemistry.SE's tagging discussions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For each tag, answer the following questions with a &quot;Yes&quot;, &quot;No&quot;, or &quot;Sometimes&quot; e.g. maybe it's &quot;yes but only in in some cases&quot;. (I've modified this a bit based on discussions with it's author based on Chemistry's useage patterns vs. ours; please feel free to leave feedback in the comments on this, as it's just a proposal!)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Does it make sense to be an &quot;expert* in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/proposed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;proposed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt;&quot;?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Does it make sense for a question to be tagged only with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/proposed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;proposed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt;&quot;?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Does &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/proposed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;proposed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt; have a single, universally-unambiguous meaning?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/proposed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;proposed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt; likely to be used correctly just based on it's name?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Are there &quot;enough&quot; (&gt; 15) but not &quot;too many&quot; (&gt; 10% site-wide) questions that qualify for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/proposed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;proposed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt;?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Are people like to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/proposed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;proposed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt; to find questions to answer?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Are there likely some users (be objective!) who will favorite or ignore &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/proposed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;proposed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt;?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Could &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/proposed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;proposed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt; be reasonably used to feed questions to a specialized chat room?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Can &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/proposed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;proposed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt; be used to search for questions (for any reason) in a way that keyword searching cannot accomplish?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;sub&gt;The meaning of &quot;expert&quot; in the context of SF/F may not be obvious. For our purposes, being an &quot;expert&quot; in a tag means: 1) if the only thing someone knew about a question was that it was tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/proposed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;proposed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt;, that would be enough information for them to feel confident about trying to answer it, and 2) it's reasonable for someone to have a lot of knowledge about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/proposed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;proposed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt; as a separate subject, and not &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; because it's a subset of a larger topic (e.g. would someone know a lot about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/light-sabers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;light-sabers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;light-sabers&lt;/a&gt; on their own, &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; because they're an expert on everything about  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For each &quot;Yes&quot;, score +2. For each &quot;Sometimes&quot;, score +1; for each &quot;No&quot;, score -1. The goal of this score is to identify tags that are &quot;multi-purpose&quot;; since different people use tags for different things, we should strive for tags that cover all the bases.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Very roughly speaking, tags that score &gt; 12 are &quot;good&quot; tags, tags that score &amp;lt; 8 are &quot;terrible&quot; tags, others are likely good but may need some clarification/renaming/etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Quote taken from: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7871/21192&quot;&gt;Tag Wars Episode I: Harry Potter and the Tag Cleanup&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21192" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2016-02-23T16:55:59.540" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-02-23T16:55:59.540" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9222" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-02-24T00:34:24.263" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This tag is to be used for any questions concerning &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; posts on the main site, e.g. about scope and policy relating to such questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-02-24T00:34:24.263" LastActivityDate="2016-02-24T00:34:24.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9223" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-02-24T00:34:24.263" Score="0" Body="For questions relating specifically to posts with the [story-identification] tag on the main site." OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-02-24T00:34:24.263" LastActivityDate="2016-02-24T00:34:24.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9224" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9225" CreationDate="2016-02-24T00:56:42.670" Score="13" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;When flagging questions and comments one of the options always lets you leave a custom comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have noticed several times that after getting a flag declined when choosing one of the categories, I'll get it accepted if I use the &quot;other&quot; option to specify why I'm flagging it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Should I always use that option? Would it be making things easier or harder for the moderators?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55866" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-02-24T02:00:15.570" LastActivityDate="2018-01-07T16:57:58.173" Title="Is it better to flag with a custom flag or a preset one?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9224" CreationDate="2016-02-24T01:59:48.693" Score="12" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Clear communication between flagger and handling moderator.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the optimal situation when you're flagging anything. You want the moderator to understand &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; you're flagging and to agree with your reasoning. The same applies in reverse: if we don't agree with it, ideally we'd like you to understand &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; we're declining the flag, so that you can learn better what sort of content really needs flags. (If we do agree, of course, there's no need for further communication.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Custom reasons for flags&lt;/strong&gt; is one way of achieving this. If you give us a personalised message, &quot;I'm flagging this post because XYZ&quot; or &quot;this comment should be deleted because ABC&quot;, it's much easier for us to understand why you raised that flag, and we're probably more likely to agree with you if we understand your reasoning. Remember, there's a human on the other end of each flag you raise, and we do listen to your concerns!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the same reason, each time we decline a flag, we have the option of giving you one of several canned reasons for declining (e.g. &quot;a moderator reviewed your flag, but found no evidence to support it&quot; or &quot;flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention&quot;) or of giving you a custom message, &quot;this post shouldn't be deleted because PQR&quot;. I like to use these custom messages as much as possible&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, because users are more likely to understand and accept the declining of their flag if they're given an explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point of these custom flags and responses is for &lt;strong&gt;clearer communication&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, custom reasons certainly aren't always necessary. In very clear-cut cases (e.g. spam/offensive flags, obvious non-answers, many cases of obsolete comments), there's no point in raising a custom flag. Just flag with one of the canned reasons, and we'll deal with it if it's obvious. The point of custom flags is to explain your reason for flagging &lt;strong&gt;if it's not already clear&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, &lt;strong&gt;spam and offensive posts should always be flagged as such&lt;/strong&gt;, rather than using a custom flag reason. This is because there's an automated system for catching such posts, and the more user flags they get, the better trained this system will be. (See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2610/psa-when-to-flag-things-as-spam?rq=1&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;If your flag is declined ...&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... you have a few possible options, depending on how much you care about the issue and/or how sure you are that the flag was handled incorrectly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Forget it and move on.&lt;/strong&gt; This is probably the best approach in most cases. We don't just decline flags for no reason; we do look at each one individually and decide whether or not to act on it. But if you're really confident it shouldn't have been declined, or if we haven't given you a custom decline-message and you'd like to understand why, you have other options.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flag again and explain better.&lt;/strong&gt; The only reason we would have declined a flag that you're certain should have been approved (assuming you're right) is because of poor communication: we didn't appreciate your reasoning for flagging the post. At this stage, you &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; to use a custom flag in order to explain yourself better. And if you used a custom flag the first time when it was declined, the best option is probably point 1 above.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Take it to chat or meta&lt;/strong&gt;. As a last resort, either if you're &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; sure your flag was mishandled or if you really want to understand why it was declined, you can raise the issue publicly. Chat is relatively informal; you can either ping a mod there (we're all in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/a&gt; at least occasionally) or discuss it with other users - some flags, such as for deletion of crappy answers, don't &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; mod intervention. Meta is for a more serious discussion, and almost never worth the trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Unfortunately, it's impossible for moderators to give a custom response to a &lt;em&gt;comment&lt;/em&gt; flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2018-01-07T16:57:58.173" LastActivityDate="2018-01-07T16:57:58.173" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9226" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9227" CreationDate="2016-02-24T16:58:51.630" Score="7" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/influences&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;influences&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;influences&lt;/a&gt; (23 questions) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/inspiration&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;inspiration&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;inspiration&lt;/a&gt; (26 questions) both seem to have roughly the same meaning: they're both for questions about where an SF/F author's ideas came from, what influenced or inspired them to write the things they did. Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/48083/is-james-t-kirk-known-to-be-based-on-horatio-hornblower&quot;&gt;Is James T. Kirk known to be based on Horatio Hornblower?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/influences&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;influences&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;influences&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/108260/was-the-hulk-based-on-jekyll-hyde&quot;&gt;Was the Hulk based on Jekyll/Hyde?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/inspiration&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;inspiration&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;inspiration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/86553/erebors-architectural-influences&quot;&gt;Erebor&amp;#39;s architectural influences?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/influences&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;influences&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;influences&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/99814/who-are-the-architects-on-whose-buildings-the-buildings-were-based&quot;&gt;Who are the architects of the buildings on which these fictional buildings were based?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/inspiration&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;inspiration&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;inspiration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Shall we synonymise and merge these tags?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;They also bear some similarity to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/origins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;origins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;origins&lt;/a&gt; tag (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7698/can-we-merge-the-history-of-tag-and-the-origins-tag&quot;&gt;now synonymised&lt;/a&gt; with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; tag), but I think the latter is different enough not to be synonymised: it's more about the &lt;strong&gt;history of the genre as a whole&lt;/strong&gt;, e.g. &quot;where did X first appear in science fiction literature?&quot;, whereas the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/influences&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;influences&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;influences&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/inspiration&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;inspiration&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;inspiration&lt;/a&gt; tags are more about the &lt;strong&gt;history of a specific idea&lt;/strong&gt;, e.g. &quot;where did author X get this idea?&quot; (Admittedly the tag wikis should be edited to make this clear &lt;em&gt;[hint hint]&lt;/em&gt; ...)&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; PLEASE DO NOT start editing the tags on these questions manually before a consensus is reached here. The community has &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9207/when-should-we-do-another-tag-cleanup&quot;&gt;expressed their disapproval&lt;/a&gt; of multiple tag edits cluttering up the front page, and it's entirely unnecessary in this case: if we do agree to merge these tags, we can do the retagging automatically without bumping any questions at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2017-05-27T16:38:18.757" Title="Synonymise [influences] and [inspiration] tags?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9226" CreationDate="2016-02-24T17:23:17.303" Score="8" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Yes, synonymize them.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is, as you said, almost zero difference between them - they're just two different words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/inspiration&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;inspiration&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;inspiration&lt;/a&gt; should be the one that goes, as it seems to have a slightly smaller scope than &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/influences&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;influences&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;influences&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-02-24T17:43:17.683" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9226" CreationDate="2016-02-24T17:34:28.450" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;We are &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt; using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/inspiration&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;inspiration&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;inspiration&lt;/a&gt; for questions about where authors got &lt;em&gt;their inspiration&lt;/em&gt;, while using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/influences&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;influences&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;influences&lt;/a&gt; on questions about the real world being &lt;em&gt;influenced by&lt;/em&gt; SF&amp;amp;F works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of the latter would be the waterbed that couldn't be patented because Heinlein had already described it in &lt;em&gt;Double Star&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This change took place after the initial versions of the tags were merged. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2017-05-27T16:38:18.757" LastActivityDate="2017-05-27T16:38:18.757" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9229" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-25T06:21:30.830" Score="2" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;editing help&lt;/a&gt; page simply says the following with regards to spoiler tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Spoilers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To hide a certain piece of text and &lt;strong&gt;have it only be visible when a&#xA;  user moves the mouse over it&lt;/strong&gt;, use the blockquote syntax with an&#xA;  additional exclamation point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At the end of episode five, it turns out that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt; he's actually his father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone knows that, when on a desktop computer, it will reveal the text if you hover the mouse over the spoiler. However I just accidentally found out that, after hovering and revealing the spoiler, if you click on it once then the spoiler &lt;em&gt;remains&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;revealed&lt;/em&gt; even if you move the mouse away!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this a brand new feature? Or has it always been like that?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54827" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T13:49:42.017" Title="Spoiler tag stays revealed?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9229" CreationDate="2016-02-25T13:49:42.017" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it does. It was implememnted a long, long, time ago on a server far, far away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T13:49:42.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9231" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9232" CreationDate="2016-02-25T14:54:08.713" Score="10" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/120508/16171&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; I initially had two story plots mixed together. I've since discovered this error and know one of the stories but not the other. Do I now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;leave this alone and wait for an answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;edit the found story out of the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;delete the question and start over&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a fourth thing?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16171" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T15:06:04.490" Title="I mixed two stories in a story-identification question. Found one of them. What do I do now?" Tags="|support|story-identification|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9231" CreationDate="2016-02-25T15:06:04.490" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;We typically don't like it when an edit invalidates existing answers. But your question doesn't have any existing answers, so this is pretty straightforward. I would recommend the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit the elements of the unknown story out of the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Answer the question with the story you know, and accept the answer.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post a second story-id question with the elements of the unknown story&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To my mind, this arrangement will give you the highest chance of getting a good answer to the question you actually have, while also letting the site at large benefit from the knowledge you've obtained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T15:06:04.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7296" CreationDate="2016-02-25T23:02:23.417" Score="0" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Clickbait is a lot like jalapeños.  It's good in controlled amounts.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvote me all you like - serial downvotes will be reversed.  I like a healthy amount of clickbait in my *.SE diet.  I love a good laugh.  If a title writer is clever enough to come up with a good clickbait title, he deseves my upvote.  It just shouldn't become everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55164" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T23:02:23.417" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9234" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-26T06:47:45.097" Score="5" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;Occasionally, particularly in &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; questions, I see people give answers which cite fan fiction instead of canon, in response to questions that aren't specifically about that fanfic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see a fair number of speculative answers along the lines of &quot;In canon, [X] is true, and it seems like that would imply [Y].&quot;  &lt;strong&gt;These are not the answers I'm talking about.&lt;/strong&gt;  I like those answers.  They're fun and interesting.  I'm specifically concerned with answers like &quot;In fanfic [W], [Z] is true, and canon never says [Z] is false, (so I'm going to assume that [Z] is true).&quot;  The part in parentheses is often left out, but it is the natural implication of these answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we have a formal policy against this?  Should I downvote such answers, flag them, or just ignore them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T06:47:45.097" Title="Answering questions with blatant fanon: What's our policy?" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-02-27T00:07:03.173" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9234" CreationDate="2016-02-26T06:47:45.097" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions are about canon unless specified otherwise&lt;/strong&gt; (or when restricting to canon would be nonsensical, such as out-of-universe questions).  Such answers should be downvoted as irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5152/should-all-questions-implicitly-require-canon-answers&quot;&gt;Questions do not implicitly require canon answers&lt;/a&gt;.  But they are still &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; canonical things (or if there is no canon, those things which are in some sense &quot;official&quot; or licensed).  If I ask whether Hermione is white, there are various ways you can answer that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We don't know, because the books don't say, and we know the books don't say because Rowling said so in an interview.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yes or No, because while the books don't actually say, they do say some other things which lead us to believe that she is or isn't white.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yes, because Emma Watson is white.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No, because Noma Dumezweni is not white.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These answers are not all solely based on canon; the second in particular is largely speculative.  But they are all &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; one or another canonical version of Hermione, and I would regard them all as valid answers (though the question should probably specify which canon it wants).  On the other hand, an answer based on some fanfic is not about any canonical version of Hermione, and so it is answering a different question than the one asked (namely, &quot;Is Hermione white in fanfic [X]?&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Yes, I enjoyed &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality&lt;/em&gt; too.  But I'm not terribly interested in hearing about it when I'm reading random &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; questions.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T06:47:45.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9236" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-26T08:37:54.933" Score="3" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see the &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;XXXXX People Chatting&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Mos Eisley&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Agent of Nothing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;on the main site, yet it shows up on meta. Why is this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; I see it sometimes. Other times... it's gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2016-02-26T13:03:03.810" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T13:03:03.810" Title="Why does chat only show up on the sidebar in meta, but not on the main site?" Tags="|support|bug|design|chat|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9237" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-26T23:34:17.177" Score="1" ViewCount="312" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could the &quot;Magician's Nephew,&quot; by C. S. Lewis be considered science fiction? It has a lot of the classic trademarks of science fiction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62551" LastActivityDate="2016-02-27T07:18:08.687" Title="Is the &quot;Magician's Nephew,&quot; by C. S. Lewis science fiction?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9238" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9243" CreationDate="2016-02-27T03:45:39.823" Score="-1" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/120637/working-titles-of-star-wars-films&quot;&gt;Working titles of Star Wars films?&lt;/a&gt; I currently have a deleted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly enough I didn't answer this question, I answered a question specifically asking regarding Star Wars Episode VIII.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence, I have two questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why was the question I answered 'merged' and not removed?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why was my answer added on the new question, when it's clearly not answering the new question?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24748" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2016-02-27T19:44:24.027" Title="Why was my answer moved to a new question?" Tags="|support|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9237" CreationDate="2016-02-27T07:18:08.687" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is why I don't like the distinction between science fiction and fantasy.  To answer your question, &lt;em&gt;The Magician's Nephew&lt;/em&gt; is clearly &lt;em&gt;speculative&lt;/em&gt; fiction, but whether it is &lt;em&gt;science&lt;/em&gt; fiction is going to depend more on your definition of sci-fi than on the book itself.  I would probably call it &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fantasy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;science fantasy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The book involves the scientific concept of parallel universes, and the rings that transport the characters between worlds are explicitly the product of science, not magic (the &quot;magician&quot; in the title is a fraud, or as much of a fraud as you might consider someone who puts on magic shows in real life).  But at the same time, The Chronicles of Narnia is clearly a fantasy series.  Magic runs deep within it, and this magic is not nonexistent in &lt;em&gt;The Magician's Nephew&lt;/em&gt;.  Aslan does some fairly blatant magic (though I'm not sure C. S. Lewis would call it that) to create Narnia, and while the book does explain where the wardrobe came from, it provides no scientific reasoning about why the wardrobe works as it does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is important to remember that science fiction and fantasy are not inherently incompatible.  A story can be both or neither (though the latter is off-topic for this site).  Numerous stories are difficult to classify as sci-fi or fantasy precisely because they are really both at once: &lt;em&gt;Fullmetal Alchemist&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;A Wrinkle in Time&lt;/em&gt;, most comic book universes, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The good news is that this website covers both genres, so &lt;strong&gt;you can ask questions about Narnia&lt;/strong&gt; regardless of whether it is fantasy, sci-fi, or something in between.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastActivityDate="2016-02-27T07:18:08.687" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9240" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9241" CreationDate="2016-02-27T18:36:43.967" Score="-9" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just found &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/120560/7885&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. While it is really nice idea, in my opinion it has nothing to do with actual Star Wars franchise. It is a fake image inside a funny game-like question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't questions like this be asked here, on meta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2016-02-27T18:42:08.540" Title="Shouldn't questions not related to franchise belong to meta?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9240" CreationDate="2016-02-27T18:39:49.437" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Science Fiction and Fantasy Meta is for questions about the Science Fiction and Fantasy StackExchange website. The question you've linked is not asking about that site, so it does not belong on this Meta site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35327" LastActivityDate="2016-02-27T18:39:49.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9240" CreationDate="2016-02-27T18:40:58.323" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The meta site is for discussions &lt;strong&gt;about the main site&lt;/strong&gt;, e.g. policy discussions, bug reports, or feature requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question you link to is nothing to do with Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange, so it doesn't belong on the meta site. It is about science fiction / fantasy, so it belongs on the main site (provided it's considered on-topic - e.g. not a list question etc. - which in this case it is).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-02-27T18:42:08.540" LastActivityDate="2016-02-27T18:42:08.540" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9238" CreationDate="2016-02-27T19:44:24.027" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;You must have just got very confused.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a moderator, I can confirm that &lt;strong&gt;the question where your answer was posted has not been merged with any other&lt;/strong&gt;. Your answer only ever appeared in one place, namely on the question you link to: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/120637/working-titles-of-star-wars-films&quot;&gt;Working titles of Star Wars films?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the OP of that question, I can confirm that &lt;strong&gt;the question has not been edited since submission&lt;/strong&gt;. It was never asking about only Episodes VIII and IX; it has been in exactly the same form ever since I hit the &quot;Post Your Question&quot; button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I don't know how you came to the conclusion that you actually answered a different question. Sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2016-02-27T19:44:24.027" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9244" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-27T22:43:29.763" Score="2" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had added &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/deadpool&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;deadpool&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;deadpool&lt;/a&gt; to my ignored tags and life was good. Then, to my dismay, I start seeing Deadpool questions again. Turns out they were not tagged Deadpool but rather Deadpool-2016. I'm fine with adding that one to my ignored tags as well, but it got me wondering...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shouldn't all/most &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/deadpool-2016&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;deadpool-2016&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;deadpool-2016&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; questions also be tagged &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/deadpool&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;deadpool&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;deadpool&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54827" LastEditorUserId="54827" LastEditDate="2016-02-27T23:32:23.847" LastActivityDate="2016-02-28T05:34:34.650" Title="Shouldn't all/most Deadpool-2016 questions also be tagged Deadpool?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9244" CreationDate="2016-02-27T23:32:56.550" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/deadpool&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;deadpool&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;deadpool&lt;/a&gt; seems to about the character, and while it's not explicit, I would assume about the comic character &lt;em&gt;mainly&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/deadpool-2016&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;deadpool-2016&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;deadpool-2016&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use this tag for questions related to the 2016 Deadpool movie. Use [deadpool] for general questions about the character or the franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's possible to only ask about the movie, or not want 'general' answers about the character. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no I don't think would be good to require &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/deadpool-2016&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;deadpool-2016&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;deadpool-2016&lt;/a&gt; question to require the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/deadpool&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;deadpool&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;deadpool&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/120618/what-are-the-names-in-the-dead-pool-in-deadpool&quot;&gt;What are the names in the dead pool in Deadpool?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has no relation to the character himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In conclusion, &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; would have both, but not as a rule. Only because you'd imagine a question about his movie would involve the main guy himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2016-02-28T00:19:08.730" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7877" CreationDate="2016-02-28T04:23:36.310" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Naming Conventions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; new works that have the same title as an existing tag, we append the year the new work/series was created:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-flash-2014&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-flash-2014&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-flash-2014&lt;/a&gt; (x64) vs. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-flash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-flash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-flash&lt;/a&gt; (x55)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-2009&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-2009&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-2009&lt;/a&gt; (x63) vs. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; (x2205)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/battlestar-galactica-2004&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;battlestar-galactica-2004&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;battlestar-galactica-2004&lt;/a&gt; (x123), actually a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/battlestar-galactica&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;battlestar-galactica&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;battlestar-galactica&lt;/a&gt;, but there's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/battlestar-galactica-1978&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;battlestar-galactica-1978&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;battlestar-galactica-1978&lt;/a&gt; (x7)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mostly, we use other conventions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Media/Franchise tags&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/green-lantern&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;green-lantern&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;green-lantern&lt;/a&gt; (x77) vs &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/green-lantern&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;green-lantern&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;green-lantern&lt;/a&gt; + &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; (x8)   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ant-man&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ant-man&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ant-man&lt;/a&gt; (x52) vs &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ant-man&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ant-man&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ant-man&lt;/a&gt; + &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt; (x49)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers&lt;/a&gt; (x265) vs &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers&lt;/a&gt; + &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; (x48) vs &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers&lt;/a&gt; + &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt; (x125) vs  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers&lt;/a&gt; + &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; + &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt; (x20)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; (x2812) vs &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; + &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; (x33) vs &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; + &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; (x9)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men&lt;/a&gt; (x375) vs &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men&lt;/a&gt; + &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt; (x24) vs &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men&lt;/a&gt; + [tag:movie ] (x23) vs &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men&lt;/a&gt; + &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt; + &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; (x2)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;batman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;batman&lt;/a&gt; (x311) vs &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;batman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;batman&lt;/a&gt; + &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; (x26)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/superman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;superman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;superman&lt;/a&gt; (x312) vs &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/superman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;superman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;superman&lt;/a&gt; + &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; (x17)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/enders-game&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;enders-game&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;enders-game&lt;/a&gt; (x107) vs &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/enders-game&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;enders-game&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;enders-game&lt;/a&gt; + &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; vs &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/enders-game&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;enders-game&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;enders-game&lt;/a&gt; + &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; (x5)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Name of starring character&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a little harder to illustrate, as many of our starring characters have eponymous titles. I think we have a tendency to name this way, without seeing if there's a better alternative, anyway. The most clear evidence is&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/buffy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;buffy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;buffy&lt;/a&gt; (x73), which exists even though &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/buffy-the-vampire-slayer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;buffy-the-vampire-slayer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;buffy-the-vampire-slayer&lt;/a&gt; is both more clear and within the tag character limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Use of subtitles&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes we use the full title and subtitle:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-into-darkness&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-into-darkness&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-into-darkness&lt;/a&gt; (x44)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/captain-america-tws&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;captain-america-tws&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;captain-america-tws&lt;/a&gt; (x39)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, as you see here, these two examples are not consistent, and one uses an abbreviation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes we use just the full subtitle&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-clone-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-clone-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-clone-wars&lt;/a&gt; (x85)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/attack-of-the-clones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;attack-of-the-clones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;attack-of-the-clones&lt;/a&gt; (x25)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batman-begins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;batman-begins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;batman-begins&lt;/a&gt; (x16)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes we use a shortened subtitle, even if the character limit isn't an issue &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dark-knight&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dark-knight&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dark-knight&lt;/a&gt; (x31) vs &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-dark-knight&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-dark-knight&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-dark-knight&lt;/a&gt; (x0)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dark-knight-rises&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dark-knight-rises&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dark-knight-rises&lt;/a&gt; (x51) vs &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-dark-knight-rises&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-dark-knight-rises&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-dark-knight-rises&lt;/a&gt; (x0)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice the lack of &quot;the&quot; here, but it exists for &lt;em&gt;The Clone Wars&lt;/em&gt; tag and others, and &quot;a&quot; exists in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt; (x590) and others.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Naming franchises&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a lot of different ways we name franchises of connected movies and TV shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The official name for the collective works:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-extended-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-extended-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-extended-universe&lt;/a&gt; (x26)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt; (x629)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arrowverse&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;arrowverse&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;arrowverse&lt;/a&gt; (x29)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes abbreviated:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dcau&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dcau&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dcau&lt;/a&gt; (x42) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then we also have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nolan-batman-trilogy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;nolan-batman-trilogy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;nolan-batman-trilogy&lt;/a&gt; (x31), which uses the director's name (and at the beginning of the tag, when usually the franchise name comes first, as in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-q&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-q&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-q&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/battlestar-galactica-2004&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;battlestar-galactica-2004&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;battlestar-galactica-2004&lt;/a&gt;). Furthermore, the trilogy is officially called &quot;The Dark Knight Trilogy&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-movies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-movies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-movies&lt;/a&gt; (x22), with no matching &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-movies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-movies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-movies&lt;/a&gt;, and seems like a shorthand for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-comics&lt;/a&gt; + &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In general, we have very inconsistent approaches to tagging works in a way that helps differentiate between characters, franchises, and single works, where two or three of those things would have the same name. This forces us into using the meta tags, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt;, sometimes in the same question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A clear naming policy should be considered, that address how we handle franchise names, titles, and characters. Those questions that aren't overwhelmingly beyond retagging (such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;) should possibly be looked at.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The policy should also address the convention, such as when we abbreviate, use subtitles, or collective work names we choose vs. official names. While the name of the tag itself doesn't necessarily matter, if the wiki points to just fine, having a clear style will help guide people making new tags, and finding those before a wiki exists.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most effective way of addressing this would likely be a &quot;going forward&quot; approach, rather than a massive &quot;retag everything that exists contrary to our new policy&quot; deal. (Supposing we ever make guidelines about this.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2016-02-28T04:23:36.310" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9244" CreationDate="2016-02-28T05:34:34.650" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/deadpool&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;deadpool&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;deadpool&lt;/a&gt; should be for the character / the franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/deadpool-2016&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;deadpool-2016&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;deadpool-2016&lt;/a&gt; reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use this tag for questions related to the 2016 Deadpool movie. Use [deadpool] for general questions about the character or the franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that's only recently, because I added that. It had general info in place of the usage guidance, so I edited it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/deadpool-2016&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;deadpool-2016&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;deadpool-2016&lt;/a&gt; is a (large) part of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/deadpool&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;deadpool&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;deadpool&lt;/a&gt; franchise, questions with the former tag should have the latter as well (ideally).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2016-02-28T05:34:34.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2016-03-01T10:22:30.197" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;While loitering in Mos Eisley, watching on - topic chat soaring above my head, I grew jelous of everyone's avatars and looked sadly at the defult pink pattern thing the site gave me when I joined. Plus I just got a hat and it looked poo on my avatar so (like two days before hats vanished :( ) I decided I needed something better. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having just been writing an essay on &lt;em&gt;The Metamorphosis&lt;/em&gt; I hurried to Deviantart.com and shamelessly stole a surreal - looking Gregor Samsa (we're allowed to do that right?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16565" LastActivityDate="2016-03-01T10:22:30.197" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2016-03-01T11:24:18.970" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meh.........&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the day I started writing it, it was Nightwing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fOREm.jpg?s=328&amp;amp;g=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fOREm.jpg?s=328&amp;amp;g=1&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't blink, it might change into &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Dwarfs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Grumpy Dwarf&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Pace&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Charlie Pace&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Arrow&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Constantine&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Constantine&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;V for vendetta&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Voorhees&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jason Voorhees&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Babadook&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Babadook&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://vampirediaries.wikia.com/wiki/Alaric_Saltzman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Alaric Saltzman&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelter_(2007_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Zach&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sw6Bc.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Groncholverine&lt;/a&gt;, Indian gods form &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.moleeartgallery.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;molee's art pieces&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tbaJl.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Captain America (Hydra Agent)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvelcinematicuniverse.wikia.com/wiki/Punisher&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Punisher&lt;/a&gt;  and god knows what else. Occasionally I do use my own pictures too ( still visible in Area 51).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the side note, My avatars are reflection of my current favorite characters mostly with some exceptions. Nightwing is my all time favorite character, not Nightwing but the whole D*** Grayson character, I even like him more then Batman. I like his continuous character development. But its not going to stick forever, so why to waste time discussing it more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wow, while writing it, my mind giving me more idea for my next 100s &lt;STRIKE&gt;1000s&lt;/STRIKE&gt; of avatars but for now I am sticking with it for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to constant hearing about that people can't keep track of my profile picture changes, I am making a log here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/1190/ankit-sharma&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LwJWss.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;me&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_Morgan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TyFhrs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Dexter Morgan&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_(comics)#Film_adaptation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xeruks.jpg&quot; 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alt=&quot;me&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Image source linking under processing&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IW7hJs.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fHvBLs.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jtijYs.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fOREms.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RnYtos.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mLzoMs.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/k7pGQs.png&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7UE1ns.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dZd3Ns.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xCdXbs.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LuqJKs.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sw6Bcs.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tbaJls.png&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wDYZhs.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6XGRMs.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nkYois.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8jyAOs.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QY3IVs.png&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VlWW8s.jpgg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HIjCss.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0VahLs.png&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VHwN3s.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZjO7ps.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/blOiXs.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/u2Obgs.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/b02HKs.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ahk4Us.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/j7OcJs.png&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qLTgds.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pgPSTs.png&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WcB3rs.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QEWVbs.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2umXWs.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sECves.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jokk5s.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9VAXCs.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y9TmQs.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xTEBUs.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pa4jAs.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PaBlHs.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RP0JRs.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/70ichs.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cEw1Ts.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I lost track of few profile picture due to using old upload methods or maybe I missed them in copy paste ;D I remember few of them, they were Jason Voorhees, Jason X and maybe Freddy Krueger , Ghsotface (Scream) etc. I even recycled few of them many times, so listing only unique ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6006" LastEditorUserId="6006" LastEditDate="2019-05-17T17:11:05.243" LastActivityDate="2019-05-17T17:11:05.243" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1289" CreationDate="2016-03-02T05:34:02.547" Score="-10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MEME:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; insert word here &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DESCRIPTION:&lt;/strong&gt; using a random word, preceded by &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and followed by &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Usually used at the end of a thought or sentence. In this way, it is similar to an HTML end tag like &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/strike&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; for creating &lt;strike&gt;strikethrough text&lt;/strike&gt;, or &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; for creating &lt;sub&gt;lowered text&lt;/sub&gt; etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EXAMPLES:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/ninja&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;  &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Did I win this time? &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/ninja&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; ;-)) – rand al'thor&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/114311/was-constable-zuvio-in-the-force-awakens#comment276182_114313&quot;&gt; source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/sarcasm&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'll sometimes write &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/sarcasm&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; at the end of a Facebook comment&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/27954741#27954741&quot;&gt; source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/handwave&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;handwave&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;He knew via the Force that he would be made Chancellor&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/handwave&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; – Daniel Roseman&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/120984/did-palpatine-have-an-alternate-plan-had-he-not-been-elected-chancellor#comment297176_120984&quot;&gt; source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/straight_face&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;according to Lucas, the story was always broken into 9 movies. &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/straight_face&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; - DVK&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/29331/does-emperor-palpatine-have-a-first-name#comment57148_29338&quot;&gt; source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MEANING:&lt;/strong&gt; In the above case, &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/sarcasm&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, it means 'I was being sarcastic. I'm done now.In the case of &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/ninja&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, it means that they were in a race to post first - the race is over now. One of them was 'ninja'd'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/114311/was-constable-zuvio-in-the-force-awakens/114313#comment297165_114313&quot;&gt;According to&lt;/a&gt; rand al'thor:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It means one is exiting the state described by that random word (sometimes the word might be included in &amp;lt; &gt; beforehand as well). E.g. &quot;DVK totally doesn't know his stuff about Star Wars &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/sarcasm&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&quot; or &quot;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;ninja&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; I got my answer in before yours! &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/ninja&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I guess people use &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/  &amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; like some people use hashtags &lt;code&gt;#&lt;/code&gt; or parentheses &lt;code&gt;(  )&lt;/code&gt;. It still doesn't make a lot of sense to me though. :/&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ORIGINATOR:&lt;/strong&gt; [I don't know where this meme originated. Do you?]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Rather than ask &quot;what does it mean when someone uses a word surrounded by &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/  &amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;? as it's own question on meta, I'm posting here since it is a meme I've seen several times on SFF. Please let me know if you know what it means. :) &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54827" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2016-03-09T04:30:10.573" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9251" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9253" CreationDate="2016-03-02T18:24:45.593" Score="4" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently a friend and I were discussing the Harry Potter books and noticed that on Pottermore J.K.Rowling has occasionally contradicted the books. I'm almost certain that other Sci-Fi and Fantasy authors have contradicted themselves or their books in later interviews. I know if I was trying to remember every detail of a book I had written years before I would forget something so it is unsurprising that these authors do. My question is, if an author directly contradicts a book in a later interview which source do we use?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60757" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2016-03-03T17:45:59.130" LastActivityDate="2016-03-03T17:45:59.130" Title="What source do we use when a &quot;Word of God&quot; statement contradicts the books?" Tags="|discussion|canon|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9251" CreationDate="2016-03-02T21:35:45.733" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say you can use whatever you want, but it's really up to the community and the asker to determine whether or not they agree with your ordering of materials.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the author contradicts the books, people are likely to toss it out. But if an author clarifies points not detailed in the book, we often accept that just fine (based on votes and checkmarks).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some cases, such as with JK Rowling, there can be a disdain for Word of God answers, because some of the community feels that she seems to making new things up as she goes along, without regard to previously-established details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2016-03-03T16:31:31.360" LastActivityDate="2016-03-03T16:31:31.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9251" CreationDate="2016-03-02T21:53:11.520" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Both.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A great answer would include an explanation of the original book/film/show (etc) source, and also explain that the author had later contradicted this.  We're trying to educate and entertain people and help them understand things, not establish some sort of gospel for a one true answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, it's up to the OP to decide whether or not the answer satisfies them enough to accept it.  It's up to individual voters to decide whether they believe the answer is good enough to vote for, including whether or not any sourced information comes from appropriate sources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of a (brief) 'good' answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q: When Gandalf said &quot;Use the Force, Harry!&quot;, what did he mean by &quot;force&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A: When Gandalf reaches the Undying Lands and meets Yoda, he learns how to combine his magic with midichorians.  When he meets Harry, it's this mystical energy that he's referring to, so that he can defeat the sparkling vampires.  However, in an interview in late 2020, Tolkien explained that he actually meant the F=MA type force, and that the midichorians never really existed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2016-03-02T21:53:11.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7946" CreationDate="2016-03-02T23:41:44.097" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/?tab=featured&quot;&gt;See all questions with active bounties http://stack-exchange-dynamic-ads.herokuapp.com/scifi.stackexchange.com/bounty.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3253" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-03-02T23:41:44.097" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9256" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9263" CreationDate="2016-03-03T13:05:09.990" Score="8" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x2&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men-2&lt;/a&gt; appear to be about the same movie. The site won’t let me suggest synonyms, so I’ll ask here: should these be made synonyms of each other? &lt;del&gt;I suggest making &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x2&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men-2&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Never mind. It isn't possible to synonymize these tags, since they only have two answers total.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36115" LastEditorUserId="36115" LastEditDate="2016-03-03T21:07:59.747" LastActivityDate="2016-03-04T11:24:46.003" Title="Make [x2] and [x-men-2] synonyms" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9256" CreationDate="2016-03-03T20:47:43.073" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/x-men-2/synonyms&quot;&gt;Suggested&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arguably deleting &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-2&lt;/a&gt; would also work, as they should see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men-2&lt;/a&gt; when they first type &lt;kbd&gt;X&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2016-03-03T20:55:28.703" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9259" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-03-03T23:15:19.160" Score="1" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote an answer to question&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/39639/who-wrote-about-an-energy-free-space-elevator/121089?noredirect=1#comment297621_121089&quot;&gt;Who wrote about an energy free space elevator?&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is asking for &lt;em&gt;scientific writers&lt;/em&gt; - which may indicate&#xA;science-fiction writer using real science, or actual scientists - who&#xA;would have considered the energy free space elevator.  This is actually&#xA;a triviality from a scientific point of view, based on a principle&#xA;that was probably known even to engineers in the middle ages, possibly&#xA;earlier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus I suggested the names of scientists who had contributed the&#xA;idea. They clearly were &lt;em&gt;scientific writers&lt;/em&gt;, as requested in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer was deleted on the basis that they are not &lt;em&gt;science fiction&#xA;writers&lt;/em&gt;, which is not what is being asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I actually checked the wording of the question before answering&lt;/em&gt;, as the answer represented some real&#xA;work on my part, which I thought might be useful to science-fiction&#xA;readers. It could also be useful to some authors who do write nonsense&#xA;on that topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site is about science fiction, but there is no constraint that&#xA;matters relevant to science fiction should exclude real science, or&#xA;real scientists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I did not get a chance to answer the moderator criticism, which&#xA;seems unfounded, given the actual wording of the question, which is&#xA;not the wording the moderator seems to be asserting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15592" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-03-04T20:09:05.373" Title="How do I reply to a moderator deleting my answer on a false premise?" Tags="|discussion|scope|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9259" CreationDate="2016-03-03T23:37:08.863" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag the post with a custom reason and another mod will review it, or bring it up here on meta for more public feedback. But it's not going to help you here, the question is looking for a particular work by a particular author, not the scientific literature on the idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2016-03-03T23:37:08.863" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9259" CreationDate="2016-03-04T02:59:35.457" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the original deletion was the right thing to do - your answer has some serious problems:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's a story identification question: in addition to the tag, the OP clearly states in the question that he's looking for a Sci-Fi story, not a science reference.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;scientific writers&quot; is most likely a reference to Sci-Fi authors with solid scientific backgrounds.  The specific mentions of Clarke or Charles Sheffield indicate that he's looking for authors of stories.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You're &lt;em&gt;guessing&lt;/em&gt; that the original proposers of a space elevator would have mentioned the idea of descending elevator cars generating most of the power needed by ascending cars.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't actually know if the scientific papers you're citing fit what the question is asking for.  You haven't read the original papers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I guess no one here (myself included) has read the original scientific work on this topic&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but then claim:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... I am pretty sure the original thinkers of the system thought so too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(thought of the &quot;the issue of free resources&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More than half of your answer is general information about conversation of momentum and Bussard ramjets and has nothing to do with the actual question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastActivityDate="2016-03-04T02:59:35.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9259" CreationDate="2016-03-04T03:02:47.983" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The appropriate course to contact a moderator is to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/261453/299342&quot;&gt;flag the post with a custom reason explaining what you want reviewed&lt;/a&gt;. You might get the same moderator, or you might not, and even if you do get a different moderator you might not get the desired reaction (in this case Kevin agrees with me, Thaddeus does not). Had you flagged with a custom reason and I saw it, I would have asked the other moderators for their opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also take the issue to meta as you've done in order to get the community involved (but not all users will have the privilege to view your answer if it is still deleted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for why I deleted your post, I was responding to a &quot;not an answer&quot; flag. My initial reaction upon seeing your lengthy, upvoted post was to decline it, but I owe it to both the flagger and the poster to take a good look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I looked more closely I noticed that, while the question asked for a &quot;scientific writer&quot; as opposed to a &quot;science fiction writer&quot;, the other example writers given in the question were science fiction writers. Furthermore, the asker said he was looking for a &quot;story&quot; (as in, a fictional work), not a &quot;scientific work&quot; as you posted. Still further, the accepted answer and another answer both cited fictional works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think your answer has an issue in that you provide some Wikipedia links but do not cite a specific work. Moreover, you mention &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It would be nice if some other user proficient in Russian could check these two authors&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All told, this answer looked to me like it should be a comment rather than an answer since it would be a good hint to &quot;some other user proficient in Russian&quot; to look into those scientists and develop an answer out of it. However, it was too long to convert to a comment. Unfortunately, therefore, I judged that deletion was necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are correct that citation of real science and real scientists is permitted when relevant to the question, but I did &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; delete your answer for that reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update: The user who asked the question you answered has confirmed that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/39639/who-wrote-about-an-energy-free-space-elevator/121089?noredirect=1#comment297789_39639&quot;&gt;he was looking for the fictional work in the accepted answer&lt;/a&gt;. In light of this, Kevin has re-deleted your answer.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-03-04T20:09:05.373" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9256" CreationDate="2016-03-04T11:24:46.003" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since there was only one question in each tag, I renamed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x2&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men-2&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's obvious what the latter means to somebody who isn't familiar with the X-Men franchise.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most of our other X-Men-related tags start with &quot;x-men&quot;, so it fits nicely.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's more likely to show up in autocomplete on an X-Men related question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I imagine there are probably more questions about the film that need the tag, but I really can't be bothered to go on a mass tagging spree, and I don't want to mess up the homepage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastActivityDate="2016-03-04T11:24:46.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9264" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9268" CreationDate="2016-03-05T07:12:21.383" Score="6" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/amber&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;amber&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;amber&lt;/a&gt; tag has 11 questions and no tag wiki. Every question appears to be about Roger Zelazny’s &lt;em&gt;Chronicles of Amber&lt;/em&gt;, rather than, say, fossilized tree resin containing Jurassic mosquitoes. Should we rename &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/amber&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;amber&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;amber&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chronicles-of-amber&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chronicles-of-amber&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chronicles-of-amber&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36115" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-03-08T11:59:13.820" LastActivityDate="2016-03-08T11:59:13.820" Title="Rename [amber] to [chronicles-of-amber]" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9264" CreationDate="2016-03-05T08:06:27.510" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, good idea. Much clearer and doesn't need a tag wiki to explain its purpose. (Although it should get one nonetheless).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2016-03-05T08:06:27.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9266" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-03-05T15:34:56.283" Score="-5" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the volume of Star Wars questions we have, would it be relevant to have tags that refer to major factions for questions that are not about a specific work or character but the group in general? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion would be for: &lt;code&gt;galactic-empire&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;rebel-alliance&lt;/code&gt; to start. with maybe &lt;code&gt;first-order&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;the-resistance&lt;/code&gt; with Episode VII out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only downside I see is that the wording may be too common and could cause confusion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2016-03-06T08:36:27.993" Title="Star Wars Faction tags" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9266" CreationDate="2016-03-06T08:36:27.993" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My general thought is that any questions specifically about these groups will be easy to find with keyword searches, especially in combination with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then we also need to think about how we'd use the proposed tags. Since they'd only be used on &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; questions, other tags would necessarily have to exist already (see above). But, then we'd have the tags being used wherever these factions are mentioned (because that's what happens with tags). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that, we may look at what retagging would take. Due to the volume of &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; questions, retagging is likely not an option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So, overall, I'd vote no.&lt;/strong&gt; There are possibly other reasons to avoid them, such as the one @Richard pointed out in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2016-03-06T08:36:27.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9264" CreationDate="2016-03-06T11:11:02.073" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Done.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chronicles-of-amber&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chronicles-of-amber&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chronicles-of-amber&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/edit-tag-wiki/1890&quot;&gt;write a tag wiki&lt;/a&gt; for the new tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2016-03-06T11:11:02.073" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9269" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9270" CreationDate="2016-03-07T03:21:32.127" Score="10" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are nine questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/reference&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;reference&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;reference&lt;/a&gt;. It has no tag wiki. Browsing the list of questions, it’s not clear to me what its intended use is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the questions appear to be seeking references for something. But most good answers on the site should include references anyway, so I’m not sure how the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/reference&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;reference&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;reference&lt;/a&gt; tag would help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we need this tag? If so, what should its usage guidance be? I’m not suggesting that we make any effort to re-tag questions that should or shouldn’t have the tag, but if we keep the tag, then I think it should have a tag wiki excerpt to help with its usage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: It’s been a week, and it looks like no one is especially interested in keeping the tag. Should we remove it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36115" LastEditorUserId="36115" LastEditDate="2016-03-14T14:19:48.147" LastActivityDate="2016-03-14T14:19:48.147" Title="What is the [reference] tag for?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9269" CreationDate="2016-03-07T04:40:41.143" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can see two possible uses for this tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Find me a work with property X.&lt;/strong&gt; This appears to be the most common use of the tag currently. Examples include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/96559/what-anthology-am-i-thinking-of-underwater-aliens-an-impassable-wall-a-moon&quot;&gt;Anthology: underwater aliens / an impassable wall / a moon with an incredibly low orbit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/84186/where-can-i-find-the-rest-of-tolkiens-stories&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/84186/where-can-i-find-the-rest-of-tolkiens-stories&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/54105/source-of-tale-story-referenced-in-the-last-question-by-asimov&quot;&gt;Source of tale/story referenced in &amp;quot;The Last Question&amp;quot; by Asimov&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/52052/where-can-i-get-arabic-english-arabian-nights&quot;&gt;Where can I get Arabic-English Arabian Nights?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/41114/kiplings-abc-stories&quot;&gt;Kipling’s Aerial Board of Control stories&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, I struggle to see how this use fills an unmet need. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; is already this to an extent, and the rest seem well-served by franchise or author tags; I'm struggling to think of a counter-example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is, of course, also the complication that &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; question on this site is fundamentally a &quot;Find me a work with property X&quot; question. Those are, at least, the kind of answers we encourage.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions about references within works.&lt;/strong&gt; By which I mean references to real works of fiction, not footnotes&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;. Examples include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/121170/is-starkblast-a-song-of-ice-and-fire-reference&quot;&gt;Is Starkblast a Song of Ice And Fire reference?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/118210/does-marvel-comics-exist-in-the-the-dc-universe&quot;&gt;Does Marvel Comics exist in the the DC universe?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I struggle to see how having this tag is an improvement over simply using two &quot;works&quot; tags (which you should be tagging your question with anyway). To take the first of my above examples, what benefit does &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/reference&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;reference&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;reference&lt;/a&gt; add that the combination of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dark-tower&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dark-tower&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dark-tower&lt;/a&gt; doesn't already provide?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's perhaps a case that someone might be interested in finding questions about references between works of fiction, regardless of the work(s) in question. I'm not sure how credible you find that; it seems like an extremely niche use case, but then I don't know what the kids are into these days.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;My thoughts&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we're &lt;em&gt;going&lt;/em&gt; to keep it, the second option I've presented here is by far the better one. The tag should be removed from (most) questions, other questions should have it added, and all of that fun stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I lean towards killing it, though I wouldn't raise a fuss if we decided to keep it. I just don't see the benefit, myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Although I do love me some footnotes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2016-03-07T05:25:57.607" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9271" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-03-07T14:55:24.770" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;For questions about closing questions, or about a specific closed question.  Not for requesting closure, for that flag (or vote to close for users with that privilege).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user57650" LastEditorDisplayName="user57650" LastEditDate="2016-05-24T02:32:20.913" LastActivityDate="2016-05-24T02:32:20.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9272" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-03-07T14:55:24.770" Score="0" Body="For questions about closing questions, or about a specific closed question." OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2016-03-07T22:41:52.690" LastActivityDate="2016-03-07T22:41:52.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9273" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9275" CreationDate="2016-03-07T22:27:14.260" Score="4" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to ask a question about practical jokes played by the members of the Star Trek TOS crew - namely, how many were there, and what were they.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, is this question, which would involve things like William Shatner stealing Leonard Nimoy's bike (and towing his car), on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's about actors on a Star Trek show - but it doesn't really have anything to do with SF/F.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-02-06T01:22:54.327" LastActivityDate="2017-02-06T01:22:54.327" Title="Would this question about practical jokes by the Star Trek crew be on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9273" CreationDate="2016-03-07T22:39:13.710" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt; (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What topics can I ask about here?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange is for questions targeted towards science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts. This includes questions about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Plot, character, or setting explanations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Historical or societal context of a work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Behind-the-scenes&lt;/strong&gt; and fandom information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Story identification&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Franchise/series reading or viewing order&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The subject itself it not off-topic. Some people may take umbrage at how &amp;quot;list-y&amp;quot; it is, or how broad it is, but that will depend on exactly what and how you ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-03-07T22:39:13.710" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9273" CreationDate="2016-03-07T22:42:24.060" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Sure, go for it.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;With my 'rules hat' on, I'll quote the help centre's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;guide to what's on-topic&lt;/a&gt; (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange is for questions targeted towards science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts. This includes questions about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Plot, character, or setting explanations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Historical or societal context of a work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Story identification&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Franchise/series reading or viewing order&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question about the behind-the-scenes antics of the Star Trek cast definitely qualifies under the &quot;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information&quot; bullet-point.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;Now with my 'reasonable hat' on, I'll say why I think this &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we have here, on this site, is a community of &lt;strong&gt;science fiction and fantasy experts&lt;/strong&gt;. A question like the one you suggest, while not being in-universe, is still going to be answerable by people who are Star Trek fanatics &lt;em&gt;(looking at you, @Praxis)&lt;/em&gt; - it seems perfect for our site. (Admittedly the same argument could be applied to questions which are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; on-topic, such as list and recommendation questions, but they fall under the &quot;primarily opinion-based&quot; bracket.) Provided your question isn't:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;too broad&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;primarily opinion-based&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;unclear what you're asking&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(which it isn't), then hell, go for it!&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Bonus&lt;/strong&gt;: once you've asked your question, I'll upvote it :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2016-03-07T22:42:24.060" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9276" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9277" CreationDate="2016-03-08T16:01:25.817" Score="10" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may be a dumb question, but I think most new users of the site would find it helpful. What is exactly intended as &quot;Word of God&quot; statements?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63016" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2016-03-08T18:39:26.127" LastActivityDate="2016-03-08T18:39:26.127" Title="What is &quot;Word of God&quot;?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9276" CreationDate="2016-03-08T16:12:42.130" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;They're statements from the author of a work establishing some particular part of canon in their fictional universe. The statements are outside of the fiction in question, but they still count as canonical because the author said so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;J. K. Rowling likes to do this a lot by making statements about Harry Potter on Twitter, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36115" LastActivityDate="2016-03-08T16:12:42.130" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9276" CreationDate="2016-03-08T16:13:40.883" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WordOfGod&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The first place I heard the term was TV Tropes&lt;/a&gt;, and I believe our usage is the same as theirs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A statement regarding some ambiguous or undefined aspect of a work, the Word of God comes from someone considered to be the ultimate authority, such as the creator, director, or producer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35327" LastActivityDate="2016-03-08T16:13:40.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9279" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9285" CreationDate="2016-03-09T21:50:33.060" Score="0" ViewCount="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked the question below. While the first one regarding Storm Troopers (+49) was well received the one for Rebels (-1) was not. The third question on Clone Troopers was asked by another user and also received well (+7). I thought that since the one side of the question coin was good, the other would be as well... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there something that caused the second question to be not as well received as the first? Can I improve it to make it more attractive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/121076/are-storm-troopers-paid-or-rewarded-in-any-way-for-their-service&quot;&gt;Are Stormtroopers paid or rewarded in any way for their service?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/121220/are-rebel-soldiers-paid-or-rewarded-for-their-service-in-any-way&quot;&gt;Are Rebel Soldiers paid or rewarded for their service in any way?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/121450/were-clone-troopers-paid-or-rewarded-in-any-way-for-their-service?lq=1&quot;&gt;Were Clone Troopers paid or rewarded in any way for their service?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2016-03-10T05:58:35.143" Title="Improving related question" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9280" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9281" CreationDate="2016-03-10T00:12:13.077" Score="5" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am currently reading A Song of Ice and Fire (just finished CoK) and I am really scared that I will accidentally read a question title that will spoil something really big for me.  Is there a way to exclude a particular tag from your search results?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51142" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-03-10T00:40:08.087" LastActivityDate="2016-03-10T00:40:08.087" Title="Is there a way to search but exclude questions with a certain tag?" Tags="|support|tags|spoilers|search|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2016-03-17T14:08:45.483" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9280" CreationDate="2016-03-10T00:21:38.887" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes: use a minus sign.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Searching for &lt;code&gt;[a-song-of-ice-and-fire]&lt;/code&gt; gives you all questions with that tag; searching for &lt;code&gt;[a-song-of-ice-and-fire] -[a-storm-of-swords]&lt;/code&gt; will give you all questions tagged with the first tag but not the second.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;strong&gt;be warned&lt;/strong&gt;: not all questions that concern material from &lt;em&gt;A Storm of Swords&lt;/em&gt; will be tagged as such! If you want to avoid spoilers altogether, you'll be better off setting the entire &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt; tag (and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt; for good measure) on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/preferences/51142&quot;&gt;ignore&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; And if you see anything about the Red Wedding or the Purple Wedding, read no further!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2016-03-10T00:21:38.887" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9282" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9355" CreationDate="2016-03-10T00:44:25.613" Score="4" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;A quick search of &lt;code&gt;tolkien language&lt;/code&gt; yields &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=tolkien+language&quot;&gt;161 results&lt;/a&gt;, 33 of them &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=tolkien+language+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt;, while &lt;code&gt;quenya&lt;/code&gt; yields &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=quenya&quot;&gt;89 results&lt;/a&gt;.  I scored &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien-language&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien-language&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien-language&lt;/a&gt; using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7871/51142&quot;&gt;this system&lt;/a&gt; and got 12 (+2, -1, +1, +2, +2, +2, +1, +2, +1), which is pretty darn good, and according to the aforementioned post is good enough to be a tag.  There is even a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/klingon-language&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;klingon-language&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;klingon-language&lt;/a&gt; tag, which seems preposterous since I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien-language&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien-language&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien-language&lt;/a&gt; would be much better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51142" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-03-21T19:13:34.577" Title="Should we have a tolkien-language tag?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9283" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9289" CreationDate="2016-03-10T04:31:47.917" Score="3" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/currency&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;currency&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;currency&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/money&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;money&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;money&lt;/a&gt; tags have 16 and eight questions, respectively. I can’t think of a reason why we would need both tags. Should one of them be made a synonym of the other? Or should questions be re-tagged so that one of the tags is removed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36115" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-03-10T11:50:32.773" LastActivityDate="2016-03-10T11:50:32.773" Title="Do we need both [currency] and [money] tags?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9279" CreationDate="2016-03-10T05:55:41.800" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You just got lucky and one of your questions hit the Hot Network Questions list. Why that happens is mostly a mystery, though it involves both the question being well voted as well as its answers. Providing positive examples as NKCampbell and Milo Price did is easier to do, and it's easier for other people to confirm or just feel confident about, and therefore upvote. thegreatjedi's answer feels more speculative, so it's not surprising it has less upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17815" LastActivityDate="2016-03-10T05:55:41.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9279" CreationDate="2016-03-10T05:58:35.143" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few things could be affecting you questions. Below are some possibile explanations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Number of views&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can simply be conincidence, but some of you questions have been viewed a lot more than others: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Stormtrooper&lt;/strong&gt; one has a lot more views&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;viewed 8252 times&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;while the &lt;strong&gt;Rebels&lt;/strong&gt; on has very few views&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;viewed 64 times&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it is &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt; that the &lt;strong&gt;Rebels&lt;/strong&gt; one will get more upvotes if more users view it. It's hard to tell. The same thing has &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/109159/do-the-imperials-know-they-are-evil&quot;&gt;happened&lt;/a&gt; to me &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/110696/do-the-sith-know-they-are-evil?lq=1&quot;&gt;before&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Editing the question brings it to the top of the questions feed, giving it a chance to be seen by more users.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comunity retaliation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some users frown on copycat questions for some reason. I guess they consider it a greedy attempt at quickly increasing one's reputation - as in &quot;Why ask 1 good question, when I could ask 40 nearly identical ones?&quot; you know? Some users might downvote a question, even if it's good, simply because it seems like a copycat question to them. There's no real way to tell &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; a question gets a downvote without a comment from the downvoter, which is optional. Also note that I'm not saying I think this is what's happening here (there's just the 1 downvote) but it's a possibility. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Personally, I vote based on each question's quality, not it's originality.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54827" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2016-03-10T05:58:35.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9286" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-03-10T06:33:01.967" Score="1" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Gaming SE has &lt;strong&gt;awesome&lt;/strong&gt; images that very clearly scream &quot;gaming!&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/w6TAM.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/w6TAM.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/o2k92.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/o2k92.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare with SFF.SE's images: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CBzXs.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CBzXs.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TTYDr.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TTYDr.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they're unclear/confusing [they don't &quot;pop&quot;, you know?]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they don't scream &quot;sci-fi&quot; or &quot;fantasy&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;judging purely by the site's images, one could think this is a site devoted to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the TV show &lt;em&gt;Supernatural&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ancient mythology, or even&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;pagan/occult worship. :(&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My sincerest apologies to whoever made these designs, but I just feel like SSF needs some images that clearly and immediately identify our site as being about sci-fi and fantasy. so...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;What are the chances of us changing them?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how that would all work but, can we be as cool as gaming.SE? Please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54827" LastActivityDate="2016-03-10T08:58:08.287" Title="What are the chances of us changing the SFF logos/banners etc.?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9286" CreationDate="2016-03-10T08:58:08.287" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would imagine the chances are low. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue is that changing imagery of the site serves no large purpose,  even less so know that you don't need it for graduation from a beta site anymore. Not to mention the backlog for site designs.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also those who are requesting the change are viewing it differently to those who've been on the site longer and may have grown fond of it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would not at all attribute arqade's success on their design,  as having itself lends itself to a more interactive format requiring Q&amp;amp;A. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said I'm very fond of RPG.SE's design. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WvuhG.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WvuhG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;the banner for RPG.SE&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2016-03-10T08:58:08.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9283" CreationDate="2016-03-10T11:45:53.780" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/money/synonyms&quot;&gt;Done&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both tags have been merged and synonymised, with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/money&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;money&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;money&lt;/a&gt; as the master tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2016-03-10T11:45:53.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2016-03-11T19:00:37.237" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just love cheese.  That's it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51142" LastActivityDate="2016-03-11T19:00:37.237" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9293" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9295" CreationDate="2016-03-11T21:37:18.673" Score="14" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;Upon discovering, a few days ago, that &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/ifmagazine?&amp;amp;sort=date&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;all issues of IF Magazine have been made available on the Internet Archive&lt;/a&gt;, I thought that there could be answers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions that could benefit from having a (fully legit and long lasting) link to the full text of the suggested story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I searched for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; answers containing either &quot;IF magazine&quot; or &quot;Worlds of IF&quot;, and edited those that did not already have a source link, adding something like this at the end:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/ifmagazine?&amp;amp;sort=-date&amp;amp;page=3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Month Year issue of &lt;em&gt;Worlds of IF&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is freely available on the Internet Archive; &lt;em&gt;Title&lt;/em&gt; starts at page N.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of six suggested edits, three (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/77834&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/77835&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/77836&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;) were rejected by reviewers with the reason being either &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;This edit was intended to address the author of the post and makes no sense as an edit. It should have been written as a comment or an answer.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;This edit does not make the post even a little bit easier to read, easier to find, more accurate or more accessible. Changes are either completely superfluous or actively harm readability.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will surely survive these rejections, but I fail to see how the provided reasons apply to the suggested edits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I certainly did not intend to &lt;em&gt;address the author of the post&lt;/em&gt; (= the answer's writer) as she/he already knows the title; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the changes would make no sense as &lt;em&gt;an answer&lt;/em&gt;, as I would repeat an existing identification hypothesis (sometimes already accepted)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think having a chance to verify if the suggested story is indeed the one the OP was looking for would make the answer &lt;em&gt;more accurate and more accessible&lt;/em&gt;, not less so&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;strong&gt;why were these edits considered not useful or even harmful?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related meta questions (only partially, as this situation is different):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6746/why-was-this-edit-that-added-references-and-links-to-a-valid-answer-rejected&quot;&gt;Why was this edit that added references and links to a valid answer rejected?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5162/rejection-of-story-identification-edit-that-adds-references-demonstrating-the-co&quot;&gt;Rejection of story-identification edit that adds references demonstrating the correctness of the answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40711" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-03-13T14:18:41.757" Title="Adding source link to [story-identification] answers: not a good edit?" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edit|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9293" CreationDate="2016-03-11T22:26:47.510" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would not have rejected these. They're useful edits that add appropriate information to the answers in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2016-03-11T22:26:47.510" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="345" CreationDate="2016-03-11T23:55:08.107" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/70/benstraw?tab=votes&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt; you can see a list of all votes (up, down, close, reopen, deletion, undeletion) that you have cast and on which posts you cast them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The URL is &lt;code&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/[user-id]/[user-name]?tab=votes&lt;/code&gt; (fill in your own user ID and user name to see a list of your votes; you can't see anyone else's).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-03-11T23:55:08.107" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9298" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-03-12T00:07:38.947" Score="20" ViewCount="479" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;For the pedants&lt;/strong&gt;: yes, I realise that &quot;FAQ questions&quot; looks like a tautology, as it means &quot;frequently asked questions&lt;/sub&gt; &lt;sup&gt;questions&quot;. But in this context, the word FAQ refers to the tag, so it means &quot;meta questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;&quot; - &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a tautology.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;In case you haven't noticed, we have a &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; tag on the SFF meta site. This is intended to be used for the most frequently asked questions about our site, those that come up over and over again. The posts with this tag should form a reference point to which we can direct new users who are seeking to learn more about our site. (Cf. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7931/faq-for-stack-exchange-sites&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; listing all the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; questions on main meta.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On SFF meta, the last post to be given the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; tag was in 2012. In the last four years (almost the whole of SFF's time as a graduated site), nobody has bothered with this tag or with creating a decent FAQ repository. But now ... the times, they are a-changing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; tag is a &quot;moderator-only tag&quot;, which means only mods can add it to a question or remove it from one. The purpose of this post is to try to gain community consensus first.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Questions currently tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A couple of weeks ago, I went through the questions then tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; and, after agreement with the other moderators, removed the tag from several which were horribly out of date, superceded by newer questions, or otherwise no longer worthy of being counted as FAQ. Ten of the original 21 still remain:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/250/whats-the-process-for-getting-a-closed-question-re-opened&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the process for getting a closed question re-opened?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/319/can-i-ask-a-question-about-video-game-based-scifi-fantasy&quot;&gt;Can I ask a question about video game based scifi/fantasy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/are-works-that-arent-sf-per-se-but-have-occasional-sfnal-elements-on-topic-e&quot;&gt;Are works that aren&amp;#39;t SF per se, but have occasional SFnal elements on-topic? (e.g. spy movies)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic&quot;&gt;What questions are on-topic, and what questions are off-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/403/what-are-standard-internet-reference-sites-for-sf&quot;&gt;What are standard internet reference sites for SF?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/441/is-there-an-rss-feed-for-new-questions&quot;&gt;Is there an RSS feed for new questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/452/where-can-i-ask-questions-that-arent-science-fiction-fantasy-stack-exchange-q&quot;&gt;Where can I ask questions that aren&amp;#39;t Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/703/how-do-i-contribute-to-the-blog&quot;&gt;How do I contribute to the blog?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/968/what-is-the-policy-for-spoilers&quot;&gt;What is the policy for spoilers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1530/list-of-common-abbreviations&quot;&gt;List of common abbreviations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of these (especially #5 and #7, also #4 and #10) need a bit of editing, some new content added, or at least checking to ensure they're up to date. But in my opinion, &lt;strong&gt;all of these 10 are worth keeping as &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; questions.&lt;/strong&gt; Let me know in comments or answers if you disagree!&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Questions to be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the main point of this post: to find questions on the SFF meta site which currently &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; have the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; tag but which people think &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; have it. I'll post up some suggestions below, but I'm looking for community input here (especially from people who've been on this site longer than I have and are more familiar with its old meta posts). Please, speak up!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;TL;DR: if you find any posts on SFF meta which you think are important enough to be &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;-tagged, please post an answer below.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.757" LastActivityDate="2017-07-17T13:57:35.670" Title="Proposals for a list of FAQ questions" Tags="|discussion|site-faq|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9298" CreationDate="2016-03-12T00:14:32.987" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;My suggestions for new &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; questions (first round)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1053&quot;&gt;Should we exclude religious texts, and which?&lt;/a&gt; (the often-cited meta discussion which fixed the site's policy on religious texts)&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strong&gt;done&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2156/ways-that-you-can-contribute-to-the-blog&quot;&gt;Ways that you can contribute to the blog.&lt;/a&gt; (the place for people to post new ideas for blog posts)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2638/are-all-list-questions-off-topic&quot;&gt;Are *all* list questions off-topic?&lt;/a&gt; (site policy on one of our main custom close reasons)&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strong&gt;done&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7065&quot;&gt;Closing Story-Ident questions as duplicates (where there&amp;#39;s no acceptance)&lt;/a&gt; (also often cited, and one of our clearest policies)&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strong&gt;done&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7364&quot;&gt;What is our actual policy on science questions?&lt;/a&gt; (site policy on another of our main custom close reasons)&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strong&gt;done&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7877&quot;&gt;How do we actually use tags?&lt;/a&gt; (detailed discussion of tag usage data)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7974&quot;&gt;Science Fiction and Fantasy Tagging Guidelines&lt;/a&gt; (the basics of tags and how they work)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9224/31394&quot;&gt;Is it better to flag with a custom flag or a preset one?&lt;/a&gt; (guidelines on flagging)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you agree with some of these but not others, please leave a comment.&lt;/strong&gt; The &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;-ification process will be slow, and some can be done before others if they get enough support first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: #1, #3, #4, and #5 have now received enough support and been &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;-ified. Please now cast your votes based only on the remainder of the posts listed here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2016-03-30T23:46:50.777" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9298" CreationDate="2016-03-12T12:20:24.787" Score="4" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8087/what-constitutes-a-well-received-question&quot;&gt;What constitutes a &amp;#39;well received question&amp;#39;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strong&gt;removed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7943/is-it-encouraged-to-delete-your-own-questions-if-they-have-possible-duplicates&quot;&gt;Is it encouraged to delete your own questions if they have possible duplicates?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strong&gt;done&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7768/whats-the-best-way-to-format-quotes&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the best way to format quotes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strong&gt;done&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7756/why-is-one-upvote-3-and-another-10&quot;&gt;Why is one upvote +3 and another +10?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2136/why-am-i-getting-too-many-downvotes-on-my-posts&quot;&gt;Why am I getting too many downvotes on my posts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strong&gt;removed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Found another one: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9316/flag-a-comment-for-containing-a-spoiler&quot;&gt;Flag a comment for containing a spoiler when OP requested no spoilers?&lt;/a&gt; It says in the question that it is asking for guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51142" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2016-03-30T23:49:46.933" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9184" CreationDate="2016-03-12T16:42:29.703" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There is no way to achieve this retagging automatically.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We could &lt;em&gt;synonymise&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tos&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tng&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tng&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tng&lt;/a&gt;, etc. with the master &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; tag, but this wouldn't add the master tag to the old questions with the more specific tags, and it would mean no new questions would be able to have the specific tags.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively a moderator could &lt;em&gt;merge&lt;/em&gt; the specific tags into the master tag, but that would mean losing the specific tags on all the old questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither of these outcomes is desirable.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The community appears to be against doing it manually.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As @JackBNimble suggested in his answer above, the manual retagging of all questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tng&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tng&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tng&lt;/a&gt; etc. without being tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; would be a massive undertaking which shouldn't be done bit by bit (messing up the front page for weeks or months) but in one coordinated effort.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And the response to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9207/when-should-we-do-another-tag-cleanup&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; was resoundingly against having another big manual tag cleanup effort any time soon. Most of those who responded or voted there felt that such a cleanup would cause more problems than it solved.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it doesn't look as if this retagging is actually going to get done in the near future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;But we can still search easily for Star Trek questions!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the main purposes of tags is to aid searchability, and one of the main reasons it's undesirable for not all Star Trek questions to be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; is that it makes it hard for people to easily find questions about Star Trek. But in fact &lt;strong&gt;we can search for all Star Trek questions&lt;/strong&gt;, even with the tags in their current state!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just type &lt;code&gt;[star-trek*]&lt;/code&gt; into the search box, and you'll get to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek+or+star-trek-tng+or+star-trek-ds9+or+star-trek-voyager+or+star-trek-tos+or+star-trek-data+or+star-trek-enterprise+or+star-trek-2009+or+star-trek-q+or+star-trek-eu+or+star-trek-into-darkness+or+star-trek-dominion+or+star-trek-beyond+or+star-trek-reboot+or+star-trek-uniforms+or+star-trek-emh+or+star-trek-first-contact+or+star-trek-motion-picture+or+star-trek-insignias+or+star-trek-generations&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt;, which lists every question with &lt;strong&gt;every.damn.tag&lt;/strong&gt; that starts with the words &quot;star-trek&quot;. The existence of this search ability eliminates a lot of the practical problems of not having a single unified Star Trek tag (even though I would still &lt;em&gt;like&lt;/em&gt; very much to see every ST question tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-09-14T12:45:52.357" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9298" CreationDate="2016-03-12T18:46:03.977" Score="11" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Questions to be &lt;em&gt;created&lt;/em&gt; for the purposes of being &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My previous answer lists some already existing questions here which could be turned into &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; posts, but there are also frequently arising issues which (as far as I know) aren't covered at all so far on the SFF meta site. I'll list these ideas here, and turn them into links if/when such questions are created:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to write a good story-ID question?&lt;/strong&gt; We often need to leave comments on new story-ID questions along the lines of &quot;when did you read/watch it? how old was it? what language was it in? was it a novel or a short story / film or TV series?&quot; It'd be easier to have canonical meta guidance to point people to.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9335/how-to-ask-a-good-story-id-question&quot;&gt;How to ask a good story-ID question?&lt;/a&gt; now tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to write a good story-ID answer?&lt;/strong&gt; Similarly, we often need to leave comments on new story-ID answers along the lines of &quot;please provide a summary of this story so that we can see how well it matches the OP's question; link-only answers tend to be discouraged, ...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9444/how-to-write-a-good-story-id-answer&quot;&gt;How to write a good story-ID answer?&lt;/a&gt; now tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to use the search facility?&lt;/strong&gt; Possibly more of a main-meta question, but the fact remains that only today I &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9184/should-we-add-the-star-trek-tag-to-all-of-the-star-trek-questions-that-dont-h/9301#9301&quot;&gt;learned something new&lt;/a&gt; about searching on SE, something which is particularly useful on this site. It'd be nice to have a canonical post to point people to, which questions like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9280/is-there-a-way-to-search-but-exclude-questions-with-a-certain-tag&quot;&gt;Is there a way to search but exclude questions with a certain tag?&lt;/a&gt; could be closed as a dupe of.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9331/how-do-i-search-for-questions-on-the-site&quot;&gt;How do I search for questions on the site?&lt;/a&gt; now tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to use spoilertagging?&lt;/strong&gt; Not the issue of &lt;em&gt;when&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;whether&lt;/em&gt; to use it (which is already covered by one of the existing &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; posts), but the technicalities of how it works. Again, it'd be nice to have a canonical post which questions like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9189&quot;&gt;How to hide list or multi-line text behind anti-spoiler?&lt;/a&gt; could be closed as a dupe of.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me know in comments if any of these &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; already exist as meta posts, and I'll update my answer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2017-02-12T12:14:33.917" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9303" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9305" CreationDate="2016-03-14T18:45:22.887" Score="19" ViewCount="624" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spring is on its way and, along with it, the blockbuster season &amp;mdash; that part of the year when we analyze, dissect, and rip apart (and maybe even enjoy) the entertainment industry's newest slate of giant set-piece sci-fi / comic book / fantasy films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Let's kick off what is sure to be a period of heightened activity on the site by cringing together at some of the less-than-stellar productions of days gone by &amp;mdash; the more terrible they are, the better!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(What's a &quot;Movie Night&quot;, you ask?  Your question has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7434/40294&quot;&gt;wonderfully answered&lt;/a&gt; by our usual movie night organizer.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The event will take place in the SFF chatroom &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;23:00 UTC on Tuesday 22 March!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But first, we need to nominate and vote on our &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;favourite terrible sci-fi / fantasy films!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll kick this off with a suggestion or two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Voting closes at 23:00 UTC on Sunday 20 March.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, even though we are talking about &lt;em&gt;terrible&lt;/em&gt; films, we'll decide by &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;highest&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; number of votes rather than lowest number.  ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;UPDATE: &lt;em&gt;Flash Gordon&lt;/em&gt; (1980) has received the highest number of votes!  Join us as we watch it together in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/198/mos-eisley?tab=schedule&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/a&gt; at 23:00 UTC on Tuesday 22 March!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-04-13T08:34:06.203" Title="Movie Night! Tuesday the 22nd. Nominate your favourite TERRIBLE sci-fi fantasy film!" Tags="|discussion|chat-event|movie-night|" AnswerCount="16" CommentCount="20" ClosedDate="2016-04-04T05:58:40.360" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9303" CreationDate="2016-03-14T18:45:22.887" Score="4" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;em&gt;Highlander 2: The Quickening&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A critic called this film &quot;the sound of a franchise flushing itself down the drain&quot;.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/02/jacks-bad-movies-highlander-ii-the-quickening/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Recently reviewed&lt;/a&gt; by our very own &lt;strong&gt;@JackBNimble&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Highlander 2&lt;/em&gt; is arguably uniquely terrible amongst sci-fi films.  There's a lot to cringe at...but also a lot to laugh about!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This film even has one of those scenes from romantic comedies where a character is being fitted with different outfits in a dressing room with a musical number playing over the scene and facial expressions of store personnel to indicate whether the outfits are good or bad....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;You do not have to have seen the first film.  They have basically no connection.  Anything you need to know about the first film is summarized in this one.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/o7zcv.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/o7zcv.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastActivityDate="2016-03-14T18:45:22.887" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9303" CreationDate="2016-03-14T18:50:06.857" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;My nomination is the 1980 classic, &lt;em&gt;Flash Gordon&lt;/em&gt;.  It has everything:  Brian Blessed!&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;  Max Von Sydow!  Topol!  Timothy Dalton!  Richard O'Brien!&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;  Sam J. Jones!  A brilliant soundtrack by &lt;em&gt;Queen&lt;/em&gt;!  Beautiful, incredibly unique backgrounds!  Boar worms!  Ridiculously bad acting!  Absurd dialogue!  A fight in the form of a bizarre alien football game!  This thing!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://farm1.staticflickr.com/740/20930012674_a06faf3d24_o_d.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;this thing&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Just look at the poster:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://farm1.staticflickr.com/645/21364769408_4eee0e6af6_b_d.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;poster&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It absolutely &lt;strong&gt;screams&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;quot;Campy Sci Fi!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Look how big Brian Blessed's mouth is!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5827/21527138046_26165387bc_z_d.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;It's enormous&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Watch the video for the amazing theme song!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/gNIVpMXHqlk?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Read how much of a cluster#%£@ the production was!  Screenwriter Lorenzo Semple, Jr. said:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Producer] Dino [De Laurentiis] wanted to make Flash Gordon humorous. At the time, I thought that was a possible way to go, but, in hindsight, I realize it was a terrible mistake. We kept fiddling around with the script, trying to decide whether to be funny or realistic. That was a catastrophic thing to do, with so much money involved... I never thought the character of Flash in the script was particularly good. But there was no pressure to make it any better. Dino had a vision of a comic-strip character treated in a comic style. That was silly, because Flash Gordon was never intended to be funny. The entire film got way out of control.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Gordon_(film)#Production&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's right - they weren't sure if the movie was a comedy or not, &lt;strong&gt;even while they were filming it&lt;/strong&gt;.  The producer didn't care that the main character was about as complex as a piece of cardboard.  It was less like producing a film, and more like releasing a sack full of angry, drunken badgers into a kindergarten classroom just to see what would happen.&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;But it gets even crazier than that!  Sam J. Jones, the star and titular character, hated Dino De Lauretiis so much that he quit before post production began.  A voiceover actor had to dub most of Jones' lines, and no one can remember who that voiceover actor was:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to a 2012 interview in Maxim, Sam J. Jones had disagreements of some sort with De Laurentiis and departed prior to post-production&lt;sup&gt;4&lt;/sup&gt;, which resulted in a substantial proportion of his dialogue being dubbed by a professional voice actor, whose identity is still a mystery.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Gordon_(film)#Production&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you even imagine a film production so screwed up that no one thought to write down the name of the guy who recorded most of the lead character's lines?  Well, if you vote for this movie, you won't &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to imagine it, because you'll see it for yourself!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Freddie Mercury explains why we need to watch this movie:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Flash is the Savior of the Universe&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He'll save every one of us&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He's a miracle&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;King of the impossible&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He's for every one of us&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stands for every one of us&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He'll save with a mighty hand every man, every woman, every child&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just a man, with a man's courage&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You know he's nothing but a man, but he can never fail&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;No one but the pure of heart may find the Golden Grail&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;In light of this argument, I genuinely and emphatically believe that we &lt;em&gt;owe&lt;/em&gt; it to Flash to watch this film.  After all, he &lt;strong&gt;did&lt;/strong&gt; save every one of us.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;During filming, the battle scenes had to be reshot because &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/103262/44025&quot;&gt;Brian Blessed was making &amp;quot;Pew!  Pew!&amp;quot; noises every time he fired a weapon&lt;/a&gt;, and you could see his mouth moving.  The director was not pleased.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;Best known as the writer-director of &lt;em&gt;Rocky Horror Picture Show&lt;/em&gt;, in which he also played the role of the butler, Riff-Raff&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;Seriously, it was ridiculous.  The producer referred to &lt;em&gt;Flash Gordon&lt;/em&gt; as &amp;quot;the only improvised $27 million dollar movie ever made&amp;quot;.  You can read all about it &lt;a href=&quot;http://io9.com/the-weirdest-things-you-never-knew-about-the-making-of-1571016187&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;4&lt;/sup&gt;The article linked in note &lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt; describes Jones' departure rather differently:  &amp;quot;At Christmas, he went to Los Angeles and never returned&amp;quot;.  The producer was proud that he was responsible for the only major studio film that was completed with the star AWOL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-03-14T18:50:06.857" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9303" CreationDate="2016-03-14T18:53:41.920" Score="0" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;em&gt;Troll 2&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another film that has nothing to do with its predecessor and which is shockingly terrible.  Despite the name, there are no trolls in the film.  There are goblins, and it takes place in Nilbog (&lt;em&gt;hint hint hint&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/x4KJf.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/x4KJf.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/9KCct4RwLNM?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Below, the most famous line from &lt;em&gt;Troll 2&lt;/em&gt;...in 5 languages!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/_36KRMbtIQE?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastEditorUserId="40294" LastEditDate="2016-03-17T20:38:58.463" LastActivityDate="2016-03-17T20:38:58.463" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9303" CreationDate="2016-03-14T19:59:49.923" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mythica: A Quest for Heroes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The young magician Marek dreams of exciting adventures. When she meets the help-seeking priestess Teela she offers her assistance and provides a motley troupe. Together they go in search of Teela's sister, who was kidnapped by a wild ogre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know what this movie is, other than it has Kevin Sorbo and someone randomly left it at my brother-in-law's house and he gave it to me. Apparently this movie has two sequels. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/mythica-a-quest-for-heroes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;JustWatch.com&lt;/a&gt;, this movie is only available for rent or purchase from: iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, and XBox whatever. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Kv3aS.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Kv3aS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="1148" LastEditDate="2016-03-14T20:11:23.607" LastActivityDate="2016-03-14T20:11:23.607" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9303" CreationDate="2016-03-14T20:11:48.790" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Four_(2015_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fantastic Four&lt;/a&gt; (2015)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why don't we watch a newer film, while the hate is still fresh in our minds?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1O71b.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1O71b.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fantastic Four&lt;/em&gt; is described by many as the worst superhero movie of all time and is the most critically panned mainstream superhero film released post-2000. This unintentionally hilarious movie has it all: bad acting, plot-holes, poor directing, blatant continuity errors, special effects failures, no Stan Lee...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and this idiot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Sgjri.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Sgjri.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A jumble of predictable but also incoherent plot turns, dreadful dialogue, and unfortunate visual choices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two distinctly different approaches to filmmaking are employed here and neither of them manages to eke out a victory over the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't help but feel that this was another type of film, but someone put his hands on it and it all went to hell&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;features subpar visual effects and one-dimensional characters, along with a story that lacks emotional depth or any meaningful subtext leading to the obligatory trumped-up finale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For now, the only big screen on which Fantastic Four deserves to be seen is the one in your living room, on a Saturday afternoon, on Syfy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are so many things wrong with Fantastic Four . . . that you could never squeeze them all into a conventional film review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story of the film's incredibly troubled production is also highly entertaining. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPowVAXtN3lVNpK_f7QXbgag5HobKnV3w&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This video series&lt;/a&gt; on it is great and I would highly recommend it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-03-15T00:10:53.673" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9303" CreationDate="2016-03-14T20:38:52.927" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_Earth_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Battlefield Earth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CGTEf.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CGTEf.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen it but I really want to! It is considered &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_Earth_(film)#Reception&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;one of the worst films ever made&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (not just in sci-fi) in part because it tries to sell Scientology to the world outside Hollywood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2016-03-14T20:38:52.927" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9303" CreationDate="2016-03-14T23:23:10.293" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051380/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Attack of the 50 Foot Woman&lt;/em&gt; (1958)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastActivityDate="2016-03-14T23:23:10.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9303" CreationDate="2016-03-14T23:25:14.160" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093991/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity&lt;/em&gt; (1987)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastEditorUserId="14111" LastEditDate="2016-03-14T23:31:25.083" LastActivityDate="2016-03-14T23:31:25.083" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9303" CreationDate="2016-03-14T23:30:04.763" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043778/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Man from Planet X&lt;/em&gt; (1951)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastActivityDate="2016-03-14T23:30:04.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9313" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-03-15T01:36:57.820" Score="2" ViewCount="285" Body="&lt;p&gt;28 questions are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sexuality&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sexuality&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sexuality&lt;/a&gt;, and eight questions are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lgbt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lgbt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lgbt&lt;/a&gt;. No questions have both tags. Browsing the list of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sexuality&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sexuality&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sexuality&lt;/a&gt; questions, I saw five or six that could be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lgbt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lgbt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lgbt&lt;/a&gt;. Neither tag has any followers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the low volume of questions, do we need both tags? It seems like all 36 questions could be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sexuality&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sexuality&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sexuality&lt;/a&gt;, rather than trying to sort them into subcategories. Or, if someone wants to go on a retagging spree, we could remove both tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36115" LastEditorUserId="36115" LastEditDate="2016-03-15T13:16:42.087" LastActivityDate="2017-03-17T12:22:11.440" Title="Should we merge/remove the [sexuality] and [lgbt] tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9303" CreationDate="2016-03-15T08:37:10.837" Score="1" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Imagine Elvis directed Mad Max as a music video,  under the tutelage of Quentin Tarantino&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's Six String Samurai.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Available on &lt;a href=&quot;http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Six-String-Samurai/18022053&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Netflix&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EPcND.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EPcND.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;movie poster&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 1957, World War III ended and the United States lost. Decades later, Buddy (Jeffrey Falcon), thinking that he's a dangerous Buddy Holly, traverses the radioactive landscape with a guitar and a sword. Dodging mutants, cannibals and the occupying Soviet army, he heads for &amp;quot;Lost Vegas,&amp;quot; picking up an orphan sidekick (Justin McQuire) along the way. In the ruined city, Buddy competes with other rockers for the title of &amp;quot;The King,&amp;quot; now available in the wake of Elvis Presley's recent death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an example of one of the crazy groups our hero faces&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FZgJn.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FZgJn.gif&quot; alt=&quot;crazy Soviet band&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll love the film,  just like that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zN8UD.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zN8UD.gif&quot; alt=&quot;snap&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;snap&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-03-19T01:08:46.123" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9303" CreationDate="2016-03-15T10:03:59.913" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Plan 9 from Outer Space&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thetexastheatre.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/movie_poster_project__plan_9_by_gravelstain.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.thetexastheatre.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/movie_poster_project__plan_9_by_gravelstain.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Aliens resurrect dead humans as zombies and vampires to stop humanity&#xA;  from creating the Solaranite (a sort of sun-driven bomb). -&#xA;  IMDb&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plan 9 from Outer Space (originally titled Grave Robbers from Outer Space) is a 1959 American black-and-white science fiction horror film released by Distributors Corporation of America (as Valiant Pictures). The film was written, produced, directed and edited by Ed Wood, and stars Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Tor Johnson, Vampira and posthumously bills Bela Lugosi as a star (silent footage of the actor had actually been shot by Wood for another, unfinished film just prior to Lugosi's death in 1956).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The script is so bad, I cannot even start explaining. Mostly known with this unfathomable line:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in&#xA;  the future.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like... wtf?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62088" LastEditorUserId="62088" LastEditDate="2016-03-16T07:33:27.953" LastActivityDate="2016-03-16T07:33:27.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9316" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9317" CreationDate="2016-03-15T12:41:45.277" Score="14" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/122174/22254&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; OP stated that they didn't want spoilers from preview chapters of &lt;em&gt;The Winds of Winter&lt;/em&gt;. Somebody then went on to post a comment saying (paraphrased) &quot;why would you exclude &lt;em&gt;The Winds of Winter&lt;/em&gt; when it's already been revealed that one of the characters you list as dead is still alive&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;While I was writing this question the user deleted their comment, but I though I'd post it anyway for guidelines&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering the OP specifically said no spoilers, and gave clear guidelines on what would be considered a spoiler, should/could we flag comments that contain spoilers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22254" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2018-02-19T09:46:22.317" LastActivityDate="2018-02-19T09:46:22.317" Title="Flag a comment for containing a spoiler when OP requested no spoilers?" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|comments|flagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9316" CreationDate="2016-03-15T12:51:42.083" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;First let me point out that you &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; flag anything you want for any reason you want - that doesn't mean the flag will be marked helpful :-)&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;Pedantry aside:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Yes, this can certainly be a valid reason for flagging.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone asks a question about Harry Potter which specifically requests no spoilers from the last 2 books (or 3 films), and someone else leaves a comment which says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Snape kills Dumbledore,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;then that person is being a jerk (or possibly didn't read the question properly, but either way the effect is the same). You'd be perfectly right to flag such a comment, and personally I would delete it if I was the one handling the flag. Comments aren't meant to be permanent anyway, and if a comment is unnecessary and obviously going to piss off the OP, then it goes.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;With the specific example you cite, I wouldn't say it's completely clear-cut. The commenter said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Excluding preview chapters is a bit silly, as there's at least one character off the top of my head that is confirmed alive in the preview chapters while you list them as being dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP had listed several characters as being dead, so this isn't a massive spoiler as it's not clear which one the commenter is referring to. That said, if it had been flagged I would still probably have deleted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per the comments, you would use a custom flag reason of &lt;code&gt;other...&lt;/code&gt; and leave a message of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;this comment contains spoilers that the OP specifically asked not to be told&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or something along those lines. It may be helpful to also include the URL to this meta topic, so that any mod handling the flag has easy-access to this discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2017-03-02T18:00:14.827" LastActivityDate="2017-03-02T18:00:14.827" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9303" CreationDate="2016-03-15T13:52:41.757" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;Zardoz&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0d/Zardoz_zed.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Sean Connery as Zed&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Yes, that's Sean Connery)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2016-03-15T13:52:41.757" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9319" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-03-15T13:56:01.057" Score="6" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have already read many times comments that complain they weren't warned that something is a TVtropes link or, similarly, &quot;duh, dat tvtrope link, damn I'm at work!&quot; or simply sometimes even a simple warning !!ATTENTION!! Tvtrope link: [URL]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what is bad about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or if it is just a running gag, what's its origin?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44517" LastEditorUserId="23243" LastEditDate="2016-03-16T12:01:13.517" LastActivityDate="2016-03-16T12:01:13.517" Title="What is it about tvtropes link disclaimers? is it a running gag or is there some real danger?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2016-03-15T20:25:33.853" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9313" CreationDate="2016-03-15T16:03:48.253" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per my earlier answer to this question, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9207/when-should-we-do-another-tag-cleanup&quot;&gt;When should we do another tag cleanup?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Whilst it's quite straightforward to see the damage caused (repeatedly&#xA;  flooding the front page with dozens of minor edits) where I'm&#xA;  struggling is trying to see what the benefit actually is.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see no good reason why retagging these questions would have any positive impact on the site's usability or any good reason why we'd want to flood the front page when there's nothing at stake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2016-03-15T16:03:48.253" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9303" CreationDate="2016-03-16T01:07:50.820" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Masha Porter and the Magical Ring&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Worst film I've ever seen. I'm not even sure if it was sci-fi or fantasy - at least I'm sure it was horrible!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A bit of an obscurity though (available online, but likely not in real stores).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Kinopoisk page &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/840942/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;; I could not find it on IMDB (but it's an actual movie, I swear).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59083" LastActivityDate="2016-03-16T01:07:50.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9313" CreationDate="2016-03-16T01:22:48.710" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd take a different approach:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes you just have to &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; this stuff with tags, especially when it's so minor. I would've just axed LGBT without asking anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same as when I've created other tags that needed application to several questions, or pruned other unused tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Improving tags on a small scale is just part of normal user moderation. If someone contests your actions, you can always go to meta after. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2016-03-17T04:00:49.847" LastActivityDate="2016-03-17T04:00:49.847" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9323" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-03-16T08:05:59.017" Score="15" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a question on meta stackexchange about tvtropes, I did my research made sure it isn't a duplicate and asked. Sadly there it was off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got referred to this site. So I asked the same question over here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just copy pasted the parts and clicked &quot;Post your question&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the same moment I saw the &quot;Questions that may already have your answer&quot; list refreshing seeing exactly that question in it. I immediately deleted by question and found there an satisfying answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this morning I saw my post on meta: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9319/44517&quot;&gt;What is it about tvtropes link disclaimers? is it a running gag or is there some real danger?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Got undeleted, marked as duplicate (what is absolutely correct), and multiple times downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question here is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why I'm enforced to keep low quality posts (I guess the community sees it that way, otherwise no idea why getting downvoted) that are dupes anyway, accessible?&#xA;Who profits from this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44517" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2016-03-19T09:26:45.940" Title="Who decides to undelete posts, and for what reason I might be enforced to let bad quality content available with my name as author?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9323" CreationDate="2016-03-16T08:55:33.417" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this instance, a moderator (AncientSwordRage♦) undeleted your post as you can see from the post's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/posts/9319/timeline&quot;&gt;timeline&lt;/a&gt;. The general rule of thumb is that posts should not be deleted where they serve a useful purpose (signposting) which I suspect is why this post was resurrected (see also - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7943/is-it-encouraged-to-delete-your-own-questions-if-they-have-possible-duplicates/7944#7944&quot;&gt;Is it encouraged to delete your own questions if they have possible duplicates?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're very unhappy you can ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Flag it for a moderator to reconsider deleting it (using a custom flag to explain what you want)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Use the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;contact us&lt;/a&gt;&quot; dialogue to ask a Community Manager to either delete it entirely or simply disassociate the post from your account.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Raise the subject on Meta, which you've done.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2016-03-16T08:55:33.417" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9325" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9326" CreationDate="2016-03-16T17:22:30.623" Score="8" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I wrote &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/105016/is-there-any-indication-of-phaedruss-weakness-in-the-reckoner-trilogy&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; about &lt;em&gt;The Reckoner Trilogy&lt;/em&gt;, there were only two books. By the time of the accepted answer, the third had been released, which contains the answer, but the answerer chose to write his answer according to the two that had been released to avoid spoiling it. How should I handle this case where the question has been superseded by sequels?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-03-16T17:39:18.557" Title="How do I handle a question where a later book gives the answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9325" CreationDate="2016-03-16T17:39:18.557" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the point of view of an &lt;strong&gt;answerer&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Post a new answer.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what I've often done in the past: when I find a question whose current answers are outdated and made obsolete by the release of newer material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/809/31394&quot;&gt;Is it true that The Doctor can only regenerate 12 times?&lt;/a&gt; This is one of the oldest questions on the site, and the answers provided in 2011 were all well and good &lt;em&gt;in 2011&lt;/em&gt;. After the release of Series 8 and 9 in 2014 and 2015, the question was in need of an updated answer, so I posted one. Luckily the OP was still active on the site, and able to change acceptance to my answer instead of an older one. This isn't always the case; sometimes you find a question with outdated or non-canonical answers, provide a perfect answer with nice canon quotes, and it languishes at the bottom of the list because nobody ever notices it and the OP never accepts it. This problem has &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5229/is-it-acceptable-to-edit-in-this-answer-is-wrong-header-into-a-wrong-but-upvot&quot;&gt;been&lt;/a&gt; raised &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7719/what-can-i-do-when-a-question-has-an-old-accepted-and-25-voted-100-incorre&quot;&gt;before&lt;/a&gt; on meta, with no entirely satisfactory solution found.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;From the point of view of an &lt;strong&gt;asker&lt;/strong&gt; (if you don't want to follow the above advice and self-answer):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Start a bounty.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the possible 'bounty notices' you can put on a question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Current answers are outdated&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The current answer(s) are out-of-date and require revision given recent changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tosAG.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tosAG.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2016-03-16T17:39:18.557" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9313" CreationDate="2016-03-16T21:30:32.933" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sexuality&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sexuality&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sexuality&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lgbt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lgbt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lgbt&lt;/a&gt; tags enhance the taxonomy of questions on scifi.se. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Works of science fiction and fantasy have been used to explore sexuality, for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outcast_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Outcast&lt;/a&gt; (an episode of Star Trek: TNG) uses Asexuality as a plot device. Captain Jack Harkness (Doctor Who / Torchwood) is the poster boy for Omnisexuality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;LGBT on the other hand (as a specific term) is much better know and in more common usage and thus should remain (unless there are enough questions to warrant breaking the taxonomy down further). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be suggested that the sites search facility is ample for those who might be interested in questions regarding sexuality in general, or LGBT specifically. There are two questions that have recently been denuded of their &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lgbt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lgbt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lgbt&lt;/a&gt; which counter this argument:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/60522/did-ivanova-and-talia-have-a-romantic-relationship-in-babylon-5&quot;&gt;Did Ivanova and Talia have a romantic relationship in Babylon 5?&lt;/a&gt; This question is explicitly asking about whether an LGBT relationship existed or not. At the time of writing, only one answer (out of 5) includes the word &quot;lesbian&quot;, which is the same answer that contains the word &quot;gay&quot;. In the absence of that answer, turning this question up when wanting to see Q&amp;amp;A regarding LGBT themes in SciFi &amp;amp; Fantasy would be unlikely to turn this question up.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/94219/short-poignant-1960s-era-sci-fi-story-about-space-shuttle-crewmans-infatuation&quot;&gt;Short poignant 1960&amp;#39;s era sci-fi story about space shuttle crewman&amp;#39;s infatuation with captain&lt;/a&gt; This question contains an answer that references what seems to be a seminal work regarding LGBT themes in SciFi writing. The only reference to a matching search term is in a comment, which as we all know is here today, gone tomorrow.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, there is everything to loose, and &lt;em&gt;very little to gain&lt;/em&gt; by removing tags, which I think is part of the point &lt;s&gt;Richard&lt;/s&gt; Valorum has tried to make in his answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1651" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2017-03-17T12:22:11.440" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9303" CreationDate="2016-03-16T22:23:55.673" Score="3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Star Wars: The holiday special&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It did say awful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one should probably be saved for next christmas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UGbKL.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UGbKL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user57650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-03-17T15:58:52.133" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9298" CreationDate="2016-03-17T05:09:06.383" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A potential candidate here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2372/i-havent-read-the-book-watched-the-movie-may-i-ask-a-question-about-it&quot;&gt;I haven't read the book/watched the movie/… May I ask a question about it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a bit of discussion in the comments about it being tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;.  The only problem with it I can see is that it doesn't actually have an accepted answer :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2016-03-17T05:09:06.383" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9303" CreationDate="2016-03-17T08:57:58.010" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Night of the Lepus&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yeneH.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yeneH.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Might I humbly suggest the 1972 classic Night of the Lepus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has everything, science fiction, horror and giant rabbits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also has DeForest Kelly in a rare post Star Trek role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZF4yT.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZF4yT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also extremely rubbish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user46509" LastActivityDate="2016-03-17T08:57:58.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9331" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9332" CreationDate="2016-03-17T13:31:10.417" Score="20" ViewCount="285" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's say I want to search for all posts containing a certain word, or maybe &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; containing a word. Maybe I want to search only under a given tag (or collection of tags), or only for posts by a given user, or only for questions and not answers, or only for posts with scores in a certain range or active in a certain time frame. &lt;strong&gt;Are all these things possible?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What are all the tips and tricks for the search facility on this site?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-03-23T20:09:51.953" LastActivityDate="2018-05-17T07:27:16.820" Title="How do I search for questions on the site?" Tags="|support|faq|search|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9331" CreationDate="2016-03-17T13:31:10.417" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, go to the search box in the left-hand side of the topbar:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LH98Gm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LH98Gm.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot highlighting the search box&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can type any word or collection of words into there to get a list of all posts on the SFF site containing all of those words. Putting &lt;code&gt;-&lt;/code&gt; before a word will &lt;em&gt;exclude&lt;/em&gt; posts containing that word, so e.g. &lt;code&gt;voldemort -dumbledore&lt;/code&gt; will give you all posts that mention Voldemort but not Dumbledore. Quotes enable you to search for phrases rather than just collections of words: e.g. &lt;code&gt;&quot;Gandalf the White&quot;&lt;/code&gt; will give you all posts containing the phrase &quot;Gandalf the White&quot;, not all posts containing those three words somewhere. You can search for URLs linked from within a post by typing &lt;code&gt;url:example.com&lt;/code&gt; into the search box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But probably you know all this already. The interesting bit is how to do more advanced searches. The official page on this is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/searching&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, but I've rewritten it all below (and wow, did I learn a lot while doing so!) That help page is also linked to from the 'Advanced Search Tips' which you see on the right of every search results page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8rycQm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8rycQm.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot highlighting the link to the advanced search tips&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Warning:&lt;/strong&gt; entering a number into the search bar may give you the post with that number as its post ID rather than a list of all posts containing that number in their text. This applies if and only if the post with that ID is a &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt;. For example, searching for &lt;code&gt;9331&lt;/code&gt; here on meta will take you back to the question above, but searching for &lt;code&gt;9332&lt;/code&gt; won't take you to this answer. Whether you want to see this as a bug or a feature is up to you; certainly, it has its uses but can also be annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Wildcard&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Include &lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt; in a search term to do a wildcard search: e.g. &lt;code&gt;Wooki*&lt;/code&gt; will give you all questions containing Wooki, Wookie, Wookiee, or any other possible misspelling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Tags&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To search for questions only in a certain tag, include the tag name in square brackets. E.g. &lt;code&gt;white tower [wheel-of-time]&lt;/code&gt; will give you all posts in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wheel-of-time&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wheel-of-time&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wheel-of-time&lt;/a&gt; tag which mention the White Tower.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To broaden your search to more than one tag, you can use &lt;code&gt;or&lt;/code&gt; between tags. E.g. &lt;code&gt;[star-trek-tos] or [star-trek-tng]&lt;/code&gt; will give you all posts in &lt;em&gt;either&lt;/em&gt; of the two tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tos&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tng&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tng&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tng&lt;/a&gt;. And as with individual words, adding &lt;code&gt;-&lt;/code&gt; before a tag &lt;em&gt;excludes&lt;/em&gt; posts in that tag, so e.g. &lt;code&gt;[star-trek] -[star-trek-tos]&lt;/code&gt; will give you all questions with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; tag but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tos&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The wildcard search mentioned above can also be very useful here: searching &lt;code&gt;[star-trek-*]&lt;/code&gt; will give you all posts in any of the tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tos&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tng&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tng&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tng&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-ds9&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-ds9&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-ds9&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-voyager&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-voyager&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-voyager&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-data&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-data&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-data&lt;/a&gt;, and so on (I can't even be bothered to list them all!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can search only in tags you have marked as 'favourites' by appending &lt;code&gt;intags:mine&lt;/code&gt; to your search terms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Users&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can search for posts only by a given user provided you know their user ID: e.g. &lt;code&gt;user:976&lt;/code&gt; will give you all posts by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/976/dvk-in-exile&quot;&gt;DVK&lt;/a&gt;. If you're searching for your &lt;em&gt;own&lt;/em&gt; posts, you don't have to remember your own user ID: &lt;code&gt;user:me&lt;/code&gt; will suffice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also search among a user's 'favourited' questions by adding &lt;code&gt;infavorites:976&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;infavorites:mine&lt;/code&gt; to your search terms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Types of post&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can search only questions, or only answers, by including &lt;code&gt;is:question&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;is:answer&lt;/code&gt; in your search. Both use their first letter as shorthand: &lt;code&gt;is:q&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;is:a&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can narrow down the range for number of votes, views, and (for a question) answers. When a single number is provided, it's assumed to be a minimum. Ranges can be specified as well, either open-ended or closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;score:-1&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;score:-1..&lt;/code&gt; will both return posts with a score greater than or equal to -1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;views:500..1000&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;views:500-1000&lt;/code&gt; will return posts with between 500 and 1000 views&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;answers:..3&lt;/code&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;for questions only&lt;/strong&gt;) will return questions with at most 3 answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;answers:2..2&lt;/code&gt; will return questions with exactly 2 answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also search only for posts specifying - or not specifying - certain specific criteria. In each of the following cases, you can put &lt;code&gt;1&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;yes&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;true&lt;/code&gt; after the colon to find posts that &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; satisfy that criterion, and &lt;code&gt;0&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;no&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;false&lt;/code&gt; to find posts that &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;isaccepted:&lt;/code&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;for answers only&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;hascode:&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;hasaccepted:&lt;/code&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;for questions only&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;isanswered:&lt;/code&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;for questions only&lt;/strong&gt;; only positively-scored answers count)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;closed:&lt;/code&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;for questions only&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;duplicate:&lt;/code&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;for questions only&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;migrated:&lt;/code&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;for questions only&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;locked:&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;hasnotice:&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;wiki:&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifying a question-only or answer-only criterion will limit the search to that type of post. Specifying both at the same time will yield no results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Dates&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can narrow down to specific dates or date ranges for posts, using &lt;code&gt;created:&lt;/code&gt; to specify when the posts were created and &lt;code&gt;lastactive:&lt;/code&gt; to specify when they were last active (created, edited, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dates can be entered in the following formats:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Absolute dates&lt;/strong&gt;, using one, two, or all three of the Y/M/D possibilities. &lt;code&gt;created:2012..2013&lt;/code&gt; searches posts created from January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2013; &lt;code&gt;created:2012&lt;/code&gt; searches posts created from January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2012; &lt;code&gt;created:2012-04..2012-05&lt;/code&gt; searches posts created between April 1, 2012 and May 31, 2012; &lt;code&gt;lastactive:2012-04-03&lt;/code&gt; searches posts which were last active between 12:00 AM on April 3, 2012 and 11:59 PM on April 3, 2012.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Relative dates&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;code&gt;1y&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;1m&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;1d&lt;/code&gt; are shorthand for &quot;last year&quot;, &quot;last month&quot;, and &quot;yesterday&quot;: e.g., if today is 17 March 2016, &lt;code&gt;created:1m&lt;/code&gt; searches posts created between 1 February 2016 and 29 February 2016. (Any other number can be substituted for 1.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If you want to see all the posts active in the last three months, use &lt;code&gt;lastactive:3m..&lt;/code&gt; On 17 March 2016, that will show posts from 17 December 2015 up to the most recently active. You can close the range as well: &lt;code&gt;lastactive:3m..1m&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, all times are in UTC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2018-05-17T07:27:16.820" LastActivityDate="2018-05-17T07:27:16.820" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9331" CreationDate="2016-03-17T14:13:20.953" Score="8" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Questions where you could accept an answer&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enter &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=user%3Ame+is%3Aquestion+hasaccepted%3Ano+answers%3A1+closed%3Ano&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:me is:question hasaccepted:no answers:1 closed:no&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; into the search box (or click the link). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This searches for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:me         // posts by you&#xA;is:question     // questions&#xA;hasaccepted:no  // no answer has been accepted yet&#xA;answers:1       // it has at least one answer&#xA;closed:no       // not closed&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And there you go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2016-03-17T14:13:20.953" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9335" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9337" CreationDate="2016-03-18T00:52:02.530" Score="84" ViewCount="16938" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our top tag is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-story-identification-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, with nearly 6000 questions, many of which are new users' first posts to the site. Many of these new users need some guidance on how to ask a story-ID question well (include as many details as possible), and established users often need to leave comments along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When did you read this book/see this film? How old was it? What language was it in? Can you remember anything more about it? Any little detail might help us to identify it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of this meta post is to give us a single page to link these users to, for guidance on how to write a good story-ID question and what to think of and include.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What advice would you offer on writing a good &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-story-identification-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; question?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="62709" LastEditDate="2023-05-09T13:20:44.457" LastActivityDate="2023-05-09T13:20:44.457" Title="Tips for asking Story Identification questions" Tags="|discussion|faq|story-identification|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9335" CreationDate="2016-03-18T13:34:54.070" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions must have &lt;strong&gt;as much detail as possible&lt;/strong&gt;, including, but not limited to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Media&lt;/strong&gt; (short story collection, magazine, novel, TV, film, animated, website)  Was it part of a series?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Original year of publication/airing&lt;/strong&gt;, or at least &lt;strong&gt;when you read/saw this work of fiction.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&quot;Read when I was a child&quot;&lt;/em&gt; is not as useful as &lt;em&gt;&quot;Read when I was a child (early 1980s)&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. Similarly, qualifications like &lt;em&gt;'a long time ago'&lt;/em&gt; are not very helpful.  Many teenagers think five years is &quot;a long time&quot;; some of us find that laughable (no offense).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Major themes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Plot&lt;/strong&gt; (as much as you can remember), including details of technology (e.g., people had a matter transmission capability, but they pretended that it was FTL travel.  Were there robots or other artificial intelligences?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tone&lt;/strong&gt; (adventure, horror, serious / light-hearted / tongue-in-cheek)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Setting&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Characters&lt;/strong&gt; (names, descriptions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If live action (TV or movie), do you remember any of the &lt;strong&gt;actors&lt;/strong&gt;? &#xA;If animated, were any of the &lt;strong&gt;voices&lt;/strong&gt; performed by celebrities?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;language you read or heard the story in&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;what country?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;language the story was originally written in&lt;/strong&gt; (if different),&#xA;and any information you might have about translations into other languages&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Details about &lt;strong&gt;the cover&lt;/strong&gt;, if applicable&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Target audience/age group&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Color or black &amp;amp; white&lt;/strong&gt;, if applicable&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gameplay mechanics&lt;/strong&gt;, if applicable&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;sketch&lt;/strong&gt; of a book cover, or a scene, or a character, could also help jog someone's memory&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ideas that you have already ruled out&lt;/strong&gt; (for example, if you know the story was &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; written by Asimov, then tell us so that we can save time)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is too vague (and so could match dozens or hundreds of stories), then it will probably be closed.  If this happens to your question, please add more detail and flag it for re-opening.  Add the details relevant to the question by editing your question, rather than by commenting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2017-04-24T06:09:48.597" LastActivityDate="2017-04-24T06:09:48.597" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-03-18T13:34:54.070" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9335" CreationDate="2016-03-18T18:01:38.860" Score="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;As one of the site's top answerers of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;story-identification-container&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions, I'd like to offer the following suggestions to anyone thinking of posting a question in this tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No detail is too insignificant&lt;/strong&gt;. You might think it's &lt;em&gt;ever so obvious&lt;/em&gt; that your characters are white or teenagers or whatever, but you still need to tell us. If you don't tell us, we don't know it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Try to offer &lt;em&gt;unique&lt;/em&gt; details.&lt;/strong&gt; That means you need to think about character names, details of any incidents that occurred in the plot, any dialogue that you can remember, any words invented by the author, etc. Anything that can help &lt;em&gt;distinguish&lt;/em&gt; your story is key to finding it. Thus, don't refrain from revealing &amp;quot;spoiler&amp;quot; parts; somebody else might remember the same thing you did. If you want, you can partially hide them by preceding the spoiler with &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;!&lt;/code&gt;. For example &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;! but he dies at the end&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Be available to answer questions about it, and answer them in a timely fashion.&lt;/strong&gt; Story Ident questions will often lead to comments asking for more details. Those users who enter into a dialogue about their ident are almost certain to get more interest than those who post and run away, never to be seen again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is it?&lt;/strong&gt; It may seem obvious to you that your question is about a book/film/TV show, but harking back to &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;you need to tell us&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;, if you don't say what it is, you've hurt your chances of having it identified. If we have to spend ten minutes puzzling that out, that's ten minutes less time we'll spend actually helping you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When did you see it?&lt;/strong&gt; It's absolutely no help to know that you saw it &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.pinimg.com/564x/59/95/a1/5995a1ccba2211e5f3f183e06814d64c.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;when you were younger&lt;/a&gt;. Be specific. &lt;em&gt;Tell us when you actually saw it and whether you think it was new or old when you saw it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tell us what made it memorable.&lt;/strong&gt; I've noticed that very generic ident questions can often become answerable when people share why they remember it so vividly. This can also lead to further details emerging about the way that the story was portrayed, the audience it was intended for or where you saw it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tell us what it isn't&lt;/strong&gt;. If you've already spent years posting the same question around the internet, make sure you tell us. There's nothing more frustrating then thinking you've found a mention of the story only to find a post from 2007 on Yahoo Questions that's &lt;em&gt;identical to the one that was just posted&lt;/em&gt;. If you've ruled anything out already, let us know &lt;strong&gt;so that we don't waste time following the same lines of enquiry.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What did it look like?&lt;/strong&gt; Some questions have been answered through the askers describing the appearance of the cover of books or through rough sketches of the work they are describing, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/204619/102999&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You've never finished asking.&lt;/strong&gt; After posting, come back and review what you've put. Try to add at least one extra detail, no matter how measly. The more you edit, the more likely you are to remember something else. Don't forget that each quality edit will mean more attention for your question when it gets bumped back to the top of the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and if someone posts the right answer, remember to be polite and accept the answer, even if that means having to spend a few minutes finding your login details!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11995/how-to-ask-a-good-video-game-story-id-question&quot;&gt;How to ask a good (video game) story-ID question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11922/how-to-ask-a-good-fan-fiction-story-id-question&quot;&gt;How to ask a good (fan fiction) Story-ID question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11874/how-to-ask-a-good-anime-story-id-question&quot;&gt;How to ask a good (anime/manga) Story-ID question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12587/how-to-ask-a-good-western-comics-story-id-question&quot;&gt;How to ask a good (Western comics) story-ID question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2022-12-16T17:40:31.037" LastActivityDate="2022-12-16T17:40:31.037" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9313" CreationDate="2016-03-19T03:00:25.677" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like it's a moot point now that there are no questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lgbt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lgbt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lgbt&lt;/a&gt;. And not being an active user here, I don't want to try to say what tags should and shouldn't exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'd urge you not to regard &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lgbt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lgbt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lgbt&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sexuality&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sexuality&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sexuality&lt;/a&gt; as synonymous, or to treat &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lgbt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lgbt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lgbt&lt;/a&gt; as a subset of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sexuality&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sexuality&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sexuality&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sexuality&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sexuality&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sexuality&lt;/a&gt; includes straight sexuality, and clearly focuses on the sexual aspect of things. That is, it's about sex, not sexual orientation. This is demonstrated both by the tag wiki excerpt (&quot;Sexuality is the quality of being sexual or possessing sex.&quot;) and the questions so tagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lgbt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lgbt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lgbt&lt;/a&gt; doesn't really have to be about sex at all. Yes, the LGB part is sexual orientation, but plenty of LGB issues are really nothing to do with sex. And the T is about gender identity, not sexuality. (While it obviously has some connections to sexuality it's clearly not just about that.) In any case, questions can be about LGBT topics without being about sex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So consider this: would you apply &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sexuality&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sexuality&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sexuality&lt;/a&gt; to all questions about straight relationships, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=married%20is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;everything that mentions marriage&lt;/a&gt;? I don't think so. It doesn't seem any more appropriate to apply &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sexuality&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sexuality&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sexuality&lt;/a&gt; to all questions about LGBT topics. If anything, it might be a disservice to the important, meaningful topics of those questions. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/106717/845&quot;&gt;&quot;What are Wizarding society's attitudes towards homosexuality?&quot;&lt;/a&gt; is really not about the same subject as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/32051/845&quot;&gt;&quot;How many alien women has Capt/Admiral Kirk slept with?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="845" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-03-19T03:00:25.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9339" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9340" CreationDate="2016-03-19T07:39:44.843" Score="4" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just looking at a question and I clicked the little star underneath the vote and then I realized that I had no idea what it did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57258" LastEditorUserId="23243" LastEditDate="2016-03-21T16:01:11.370" LastActivityDate="2016-03-21T16:01:11.370" Title="What does the little star underneath the vote for a question do?" Tags="|support|voting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9339" CreationDate="2016-03-19T07:48:14.303" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It marks the question as a favourite.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you hover your cursor over the star (assuming you’re using a device that has a cursor to hover), you’ll see the description:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is a favourite question (click again to undo)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All this means is that you found the question interesting, and want to follow it. It has no impact on reputation. You can see all your favourited questions on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/57258/the-mandolorian?tab=favorites&quot;&gt;/favorites tab&lt;/a&gt; of your user profile. Many people use favourites as an informal bookmarking system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There’s &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/53580/226928&quot;&gt;an FAQ on Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt; that explains, in detail, how favourites work and what they mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-03-19T07:48:14.303" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9341" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9343" CreationDate="2016-03-20T04:36:27.110" Score="2" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah I want to know if it is cheating to answer my own question and then accept it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57258" LastActivityDate="2016-03-20T09:00:03.557" Title="Am I able to answer my own question and then mark it as accepted?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9341" CreationDate="2016-03-20T04:40:14.413" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It isn’t cheating. Go ahead, if you think your answer is better than any other answers. There is a two-day waiting period between posting your question and being able to accept your own answer, but other than that, there are no restrictions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There’s even an “Answer your own question” checkbox when writing a question that specifically allows you to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few differences (from sumelic):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You don’t gain any reputation when you accept your own answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your self-answer won’t move to the top of the list of answers, unless it has more upvotes than any other answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36115" LastEditorUserId="36115" LastEditDate="2016-03-20T04:56:01.297" LastActivityDate="2016-03-20T04:56:01.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9341" CreationDate="2016-03-20T09:00:03.557" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes. This is completely allowed.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoting from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/self-answer&quot;&gt;Help Centre &lt;em&gt;Can I answer my own question?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/its-ok-to-ask-and-answer-your-own-questions/&quot;&gt;has always explicitly encouraged users&lt;/a&gt; to answer their own questions. If you have a question that you already know the answer to, and you would like to document that knowledge in public so that others (including yourself) can find it later, it's perfectly okay to ask and answer your own question on a Stack Exchange site. […]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/accept-your-own-answers/&quot;&gt;accept your own answer&lt;/a&gt;, but you must wait 48 hours to do so. After all, someone else may come along with an even better solution to your problem!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To avoid people abusing this, there are a few limitations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You have to wait 48 hours to accept your own answer, compared to the usual &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/50697/226928&quot;&gt;15 minutes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you accept an answer from somebody else, you get +2 rep and they get +15 rep. You don’t get either of those if you accept your own answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Normally the accepted answer is shown at the top of the list of answers, even if it has less votes than other answers. You don’t get that if you self-accept – your answer is sorted according to its vote count.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-03-20T09:00:03.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9344" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9348" CreationDate="2016-03-20T14:43:17.123" Score="9" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm extremely new here, 15 days in, and I've read that most new users ask a lot of story identification questions. I certainly have. A story ID question brought me here in the first place. I checked my own history and so far I've asked 27 questions, with 14 of them tagged as ID questions. That makes sense. An ID question is easier to conceptualize and frame than many other types.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's reasonable to assume that, as time goes on, people ask fewer ID questions and branch off into broader areas of interest. My sense is that this broadening is not only expected, but also preferred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there metrics that can track the ratios of new users' question types, and are there expectations about what a good ratio is for a beginner? Would it be useful to offer this type of information to new users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, this is my first meta question, so I hope I'm on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62927" LastActivityDate="2016-03-21T18:25:52.097" Title="New user guidelines or markers for the ratio of story ID questions to other types?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2016-03-20T15:41:30.780" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't go through all of the answers yet because I've burned through my votes and I want to be able to do them justice as I read them. But it's a fascinating thread and when my votes kick back in, I'll be back to reading everyone's reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That having been said, my story is simple, if a little mushy. rosesunhill is my newish user name on a lot of sites. My name is Michael Hillel Roseman, I have two sons, so rose-sun-hill, allowing for a little mutation in the middle part. It's easy for me to remember and I've yet to find it taken on a site. I dread that day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I'm thinking of painting a thumbnail that represents the handle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62927" LastActivityDate="2016-03-20T15:41:30.780" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9316" CreationDate="2016-03-20T20:39:09.940" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at the answers to that question I fail to see how this would be of any use to anyone, not even the original asker. Almost everything is covered in spoiler tags, whatever is visible is mostly unreadable, and much of the information is already outdated, simply because the asker imposed absurd limitations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is silly to ignore what the showrunners of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; have said at the end of the previous season WRT the fate of various characters, especially when the next season is only a little more than a month away and they have released a  trailer which definitely answered the fate of at least one character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And IMHO it is almost as silly to ignore information that can be gleaned from the preview chapters for &lt;em&gt;The Winds of Winter&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which means that we now have to pretend that Stannis is possibly dead in the books -- but we know he is alive at the start of TWoW -- and possibly alive in GoT -- except the showrunners have already confirmed he's dead, plus it's not like Brienne of Tarth was going to spare him considering he killed Renly who she adored, plus there isn't anybody who can revive Stannis since Melisandre had already left him and had arrived at Castle Black.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A significant portion of the question will be definitely invalid in about a month's time, and the rest will be when TWoW is published, which could be somewhere later this year (and which was planned to coincide with the start of season six, but GRRM couldn't get the book finished in time). But much of it is already invalid, and only by imposing arbitrary limitations it isn't. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it even reasonable to demand that answerers limit themselves to &quot;in-world elements&quot; when comparing two different versions of the same story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31029" LastActivityDate="2016-03-20T20:39:09.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9303" CreationDate="2016-03-20T22:43:19.550" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not really sci-fi or fantasy, but has some fantasy elements:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489235/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;My Name is Bruce&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDb:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;B Movie Legend Bruce Campbell is mistaken for his character Ash from the Evil Dead trilogy and forced to fight a real monster in a small town in Oregon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cdKtX.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cdKtX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;My name is bruce poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why it should be picked&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Becuase its fantasy, comedy, B-Movie, and Bruce Campbell, why else‽&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28540" LastActivityDate="2016-03-20T22:43:19.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9344" CreationDate="2016-03-21T01:28:50.117" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Is this on-topic?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. Welcome to Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, that was easy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Can I find out my ratio of ID questions?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/453543/ratio-of-users-questions-in-a-tag&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Yes&lt;/a&gt;. Just plug your SFF.SE user ID into the box. Note that I have this query set up to search for all ID questions, not specifically story ID; so &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/object-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;object-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;object-identification&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions will be included, as will our several other &lt;code&gt;*-identification&lt;/code&gt; tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can get your SFF user ID by going to your profile and looking at the URL in your browser; it should look like &lt;code&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/####/&lt;/code&gt;; the number that I've replaced with &lt;code&gt;#&lt;/code&gt; signs is your ID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31051/&quot;&gt;mine&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;code&gt;31051&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/62927/&quot;&gt;Yours&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;code&gt;62927&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's what my graph looks like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3h3tB.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3h3tB.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That spike was on March 25, 2015, when I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/84024/who-are-these-characters-at-the-end-of-deathly-hallows-part-2&quot;&gt;Who are these characters at the end of Deathly Hallows, Part 2?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a general tip, &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SEDE&lt;/a&gt; will let you play around with some data, and will let you get loads of metrics that haven't been included in the site user interface. The caveat is that you need to have some experience with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.postgresql.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;PostgreSQL&lt;/a&gt;, or be willing to learn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also bear in mind that SEDE updates once a week, on Saturday or Sunday (depending on your timezone).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Should I care about this number?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on what you wrote in the question, and some of your comments, you seem to be concerned that asking a large proportion of ID questions reflects poorly on you as a user of the site. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;It doesn't.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Seriously, we don't care what you ask about&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, as long as you're asking good questions. Nobody will think less of you if all (or most) of your questions are in a single tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/23243/&quot;&gt;FuzzyBoots&lt;/a&gt;, for example&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rbi3F.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rbi3F.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;70-80% of his questions are ID questions, and that's been pretty consistent for the past two years. Alternately, consider &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3500/&quot;&gt;Slytherincess&lt;/a&gt; (I changed the tag pattern to &lt;code&gt;%harry-potter%&lt;/code&gt; for this one):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1eQCH.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1eQCH.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a period of about two months where &lt;em&gt;100%&lt;/em&gt; of her questions were in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;, and that ratio has been hovering pretty consistently around 80% for three years now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, consider &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/14111/&quot;&gt;user14111&lt;/a&gt; (ID questions again):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HdoN8.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HdoN8.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;0.00% of their questions were ID questions for two and a half years, until &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/103008/whose-definition-of-science-fiction-is-this&quot;&gt;Whose definition of &amp;quot;science fiction&amp;quot; is this?&lt;/a&gt; (tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/author-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;author-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;author-identification&lt;/a&gt;) was asked in September 2015&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are all high-rep, highly-respected users of the site. Nobody cares where you ask your questions, or even if you ask questions at all, as long as your posts are high-quality. Ask things that interest you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; As long as you ask about things that are on-topic, obviously&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; And if you're reading this, FuzzyBoots, I don't mean to pick on you; but you are the top &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; asker&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-03-21T18:25:52.097" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9349" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-03-21T08:41:23.557" Score="1" ViewCount="356" Body="&lt;p&gt;League of Legends is a MOBA (multi-player online battle arena) type computer game. It's set in the fictional world of Runeterra and sports several regions, ranging from Human Medieval(ish) to Magic Kingdoms and Steampunk cities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gameplay itself has not much to do with a storyline (as it's a MOBA), however, each champion (playable character) has a story behind it, and ocasionally there are events that expand the story of Runeterra.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24748" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-03-21T09:48:52.750" LastActivityDate="2016-03-21T09:48:52.750" Title="Is League of Legends on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9349" CreationDate="2016-03-21T09:47:08.493" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's set in the fictional world of Runeterra and sports several regions, ranging from Human Medieval(ish) to Magic Kingdoms and Steampunk cities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That sets it squarely in the realm of fantasy worlds, which are on-topic. However, note that questions about &lt;strong&gt;the world itself&lt;/strong&gt; should be asked here while questions about &lt;strong&gt;gameplay&lt;/strong&gt; should be asked on Arqade. From our policy on video game questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you can ask questions about the &lt;strong&gt;plot&lt;/strong&gt; and even production of the game. And you can certainly ask about the &amp;quot;expanded universe&amp;quot; you mention (books, comics &amp;amp; movies).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Off topic would be &lt;strong&gt;gameplay&lt;/strong&gt;, e.g. &amp;quot;how do I complete task X?&amp;quot; Please take that to &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Arqade&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-03-21T09:47:08.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9351" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-03-21T14:15:12.853" Score="7" ViewCount="319" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from January 1st 2016 through March 31 2016 (&lt;strong&gt;They don't have to be &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; questions and answers.&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;La la la la la la, la la la la la. Will the Smurf theme be enough to trick StackExchange? We'll have to wait and see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2016/01/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2016/01/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2016/01/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This has now gone live. &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/04/highlights-from-2016-1st-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/04/highlights-from-2016-1st-quarter/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-04-08T14:49:34.370" Title="Favorite Questions and Answers from first quarter of 2016" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9351" CreationDate="2016-03-21T14:42:49.017" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a start, my favorite answer to one of my questions this quarter was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/117720/51142&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/117720/51142&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51142" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-03-21T14:42:49.017" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9351" CreationDate="2016-03-21T14:59:14.077" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Favourite question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I liked this one because, quite frankly, I had the same question in mind while I was watching the film&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/113497/if-luke-skywalker-didn-t-want-to-be-found-why-did-he-leave-a-map&quot;&gt;If Luke Skywalker didn’t want to be found, why did he leave a map?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Favourite Answer&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to blow my own trumpet, but I thought my own answer to this question was nicely comprehensive&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/122275/was-kylo-rens-lightsaber-activated-by-the-character-that-it-then-killed&quot;&gt;Was Kylo Ren&amp;#39;s lightsaber activated by the character that it then killed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as was my answer to this one&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/120122/why-did-the-dursleys-give-harry-glasses&quot;&gt;Why did the Dursleys give Harry glasses?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2016-03-21T14:59:14.077" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9354" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-03-21T18:57:59.547" Score="9" ViewCount="519" Body="&lt;p&gt;I never really thought of &lt;em&gt;Charlotte's Web&lt;/em&gt; by E.B. White as fantasy (and definitely not science fiction), but it's definitely not realistic; now that I am thinking about it, I realize that it has many talking, intelligent animals, and is probably as close to fantasy as it is to any other genre.  Also, I have a question I am dying to ask about it, and this site is the only one with a possibility of the question being on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51142" LastActivityDate="2016-03-22T20:13:00.030" Title="Is Charlotte's Web on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9282" CreationDate="2016-03-21T19:13:34.577" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very good question, @CHEESE; funnily enough, I was about to ask the same exact question when you ninja'd me!  Anyway, I certainly agree with everything you have said; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien-languages&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien-languages&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien-languages&lt;/a&gt; makes perfect sense given how well it did on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7871/51142&quot;&gt;this system&lt;/a&gt; and all of those searches, and given that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;nobody has yet responded and tried to negate your efforts&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, @CHEESE, this seems like a great idea and should be created ASAP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51142" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2016-03-21T19:13:34.577" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9356" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9357" CreationDate="2016-03-21T21:35:46.853" Score="2" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a definition of an &quot;active user&quot; here, and, if so, are there statistics available, either on an individual or global basis, about how many still participate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been rummaging through unanswered questions, looking for anything about which I might have some insight, and I couldn't help but notice that some of the older questions were from people with very low scores and almost no badges. I can well understand that being active may well be an on and off thing. But I would think that even occasional participation would slowly nudge up the scores.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not every site is a good match, and it makes sense that people drift away. Interests also change. There's no blame attached. It's just an unfortunate aspect of the Internet that it is easier to silently vanish. Or maybe not so unfortunate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would still offer an answer to any question I could. But I have to wonder if low-score people from long ago are ever coming back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly, this isn't something confined to here. It's just a place I've quickly come to care about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62927" LastActivityDate="2016-03-23T13:48:15.557" Title="Is there a definition of active membership?" Tags="|support|recent-activity|unanswered-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9356" CreationDate="2016-03-21T23:18:24.950" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing resembling a measure of activity is the &quot;Last seen&quot; metric on your &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/62927/rosesunhill?tab=profile&quot;&gt;user profile&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/laNbL.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/laNbL.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can tell (since that's a picture of your profile, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;I am not you&lt;/a&gt;), you can see this stat for any user, not just yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In principle you could use SEDE to find the last action taken by a given user (posting a question/answer or comment, accepting an answer, editing a post), but that is also imperfect, because it doesn't account for people who browse without taking action&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both of these, however, are poor indicators of how likely someone is to return to a site to, for instance, read an answer to one of their old questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About the only thing I'm prepared to say with anything approaching confidence is that if you have a user with only one question, posted more than a few months ago, who was last seen within a couple of days of asking their question, they're &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; not coming back. But even that is a generalization.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; You also can't get vote or flag activity through SEDE, which also limits the reliability of this metric&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-03-23T13:48:15.557" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9351" CreationDate="2016-03-22T00:15:05.670" Score="7" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Favourite questions&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In no particular order:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;randal'thor's&lt;/strong&gt; question &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/114773/when-did-pure-historical-doctor-who-go-out-of-fashion&quot;&gt;When did pure-historical &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; go out of fashion?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; I like questions that track trends in long-running science fiction works!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;N_Soong's&lt;/strong&gt; question &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/122654/are-any-regular-bridge-crew-on-tng-actually-members-of-the-next-generation&quot;&gt;Are any regular bridge crew on &lt;em&gt;TNG&lt;/em&gt; actually members of the next generation?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; One of those questions that few would think about until an astute observer asks it!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WadCheber's&lt;/strong&gt; question &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/116040/which-is-bigger-the-star-forge-or-the-death-star&quot;&gt;Which is bigger: the Star Forge or the Death Star?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; I'm partial to this one for several reasons: it's an interesting question that tries to put two mega-structures in the &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; universe on some common ground, but I also like it because I answered it and enjoyed doing the calculations that resolved the question (and I netted a 500-point bounty in the process &amp;mdash; thanks Wad!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Favourite answers&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also in no particular order:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Richard's&lt;/strong&gt; answer to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/122275/was-kylo-rens-lightsaber-activated-by-the-character-that-it-then-killed&quot;&gt;Was Kylo Ren's lightsaber activated by the character that it then killed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; I always enjoy an answer that locks down a question completely, with multiple references that leave no room for quibbling...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DVK's&lt;/strong&gt; answer to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/114250/40294&quot;&gt;What does an astromech droid actually do while deployed in combat?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; a comprehensive, model answer!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mazura's&lt;/strong&gt; amazing answer to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/116904/40294&quot;&gt;Where is Vader's meditation chamber on the Executor?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; such excellent work deserves more votes!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Politank-Z's&lt;/strong&gt; answer to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/116331/40294&quot;&gt;Which Clark Gable movie did Edith Keeler want to see with Captain Kirk?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; while not the accepted answer, it's an enjoyable example of lateral thinking&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-03-28T04:22:26.597" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9359" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-03-22T03:43:26.860" Score="13" ViewCount="358" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a frequent occurrence on this site that:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone will ask a question.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question will get a downvote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The OP (or someone) else will post a comment saying &quot;Why the downvote&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Over time the question will accumulate lots of upvotes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Later visitors to the question (especially new users with under 1000 rep) will just see a score of over 20 with comments complaining about downvotes, and get confused. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In these situations, should I flag these comments as obsolete? Is there a different flag that would be better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've tried flagging a couple of these (mostly with custom flags explaining why), and about half of them got declined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of one that got declined is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/117728/did-vader-ever-face-another-force-user-in-aerial-space-combat-aside-from-luke-i&quot;&gt;Did Vader ever face another Force user in aerial/space combat, aside from Luke in Ep. IV?&lt;/a&gt;. The question has 41 upvotes, 2 downvotes, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/117728/did-vader-ever-face-another-force-user-in-aerial-space-combat-aside-from-luke-i#comment288142_117728&quot;&gt;a comment&lt;/a&gt; posted half an hour after the question was originally asked, saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why the downvote?&lt;/strong&gt; I don't see anything wrong with this question. You have my +1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I flagged using a custom flag of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Obsolete, as question has since received &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which was declined. Did I use the wrong flag? Is this the type of comment that we like to preserve for eternity? (Possibly to show that every popular question starts with a singular downvote.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What flag if any should be used for &quot;Why the downvote&quot; comments on questions that subsequently got many upvotes?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: The above question also applies to answers, but that seems to me to be less common than questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55866" LastEditorUserId="55866" LastEditDate="2016-03-30T17:29:53.627" LastActivityDate="2016-03-30T17:29:53.627" Title="Should I flag &quot;Why all the Downvotes&quot; comments as obsolete?" Tags="|discussion|comments|flagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9351" CreationDate="2016-03-22T03:50:44.050" Score="4" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Favourite Question&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/116115/what-is-the-in-universe-title-of-yandels-a-world-of-ice-and-fire&quot;&gt;What is the in-universe title of Yandel&amp;#39;s ‘A World of Ice and Fire’?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For attracting &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/8074/21267&quot;&gt;yet another professional to our site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Favourite Answer&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My own &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/117943/21267&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/107687/how-many-people-actually-died-during-the-war-of-the-five-kings&quot;&gt;How many people actually died during The War of the Five Kings?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; because any excuse for me to dig deep into the ASOIAF lore is a joy for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2016-03-22T20:23:57.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9359" CreationDate="2016-03-22T05:43:55.083" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that all &quot;Why the downvote?&quot; comments are pointless and &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be flagged and deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, I think those comments are not constructive because the meaning of a downvote is right there in the tooltip that pops up over the button and because I don't think I've ever seen anyone come back and add a comment explaining their downvote in response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the situation you describe, where the comment was posted early on and the question subsequently received many more upvotes than down, I think obsolete is also a valid flag, but not constructive would apply as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of a &quot;why the downvote?&quot; comment posted after a question has received several upvotes, I think the comment is absolutely not constructive.  If several people have already rated a question as clear and/or useful, who cares why one person thought it wasn't?  It's highly unlikely that the downvoter will explain why if they didn't in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastActivityDate="2016-03-22T05:43:55.083" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9359" CreationDate="2016-03-22T11:51:02.187" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Sometimes.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're right that often there's no longer any point to such comments, and they should be deleted as no longer relevant. But remember: the reason for such comments is usually because the OP is &lt;strong&gt;hoping for useful feedback which might enable them to improve their question&lt;/strong&gt;. If the question has since received many upvotes, that doesn't mean it can't still be improved. If someone is motivated to keep improving their question until it pleases &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt; who reads it, then &lt;em&gt;good on them&lt;/em&gt;, I say!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the comment is recent, &lt;strong&gt;leave it&lt;/strong&gt;, because in that case it's more likely that the downvoter will come back to explain themselves - or that someone &lt;em&gt;else&lt;/em&gt; will make a constructive criticism which might give a possible reason for the downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the comment says more than just &quot;why the downvote?&quot;, &lt;strong&gt;leave it&lt;/strong&gt;, if the rest of the comment is something worth keeping. (Mods can edit comments, but it's rarely worth doing, and we'll probably get annoyed if we start getting loads and loads of flags asking us to edit obsolete or non-constructive parts out of otherwise useful comments.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the comment is old, contains nothing constructive, and hasn't elicited any feedback, &lt;strong&gt;flag it&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In relation to the specific comments you flagged: I handled a few of these flags, and the only ones I declined were as follows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/117728/did-vader-ever-face-another-force-user-in-aerial-space-combat-aside-from-luke-i#comment288142_117728&quot;&gt;The one you mentioned in your question&lt;/a&gt; - I nearly deleted this one too, but since it said more than just &quot;why the downvote?&quot;, I decided to leave it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/114356/what-was-theodens-reaction-in-the-book-when-gondor-asked-for-aid#comment276339_114356&quot;&gt;This one&lt;/a&gt;, which spawned some discussion and feedback in the comment section - in this case, since I &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; the downvoter, instead of deleting the comment I replied to it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One more example: I hesitate to say a comment is worth keeping because it has a high score, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1586/who-or-what-was-tom-bombadil#comment1853_1586&quot;&gt;this 35-scored comment&lt;/a&gt; could even be said to have some historical value: it's quite ironic to see a &quot;why the downvote?&quot; comment on the site's second highest-voted question ever, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1586/who-or-what-was-tom-bombadil#comment66503_1586&quot;&gt;others have noted&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2016-03-22T11:51:02.187" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9363" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-03-22T17:19:45.167" Score="16" ViewCount="374" Body="&lt;p&gt;Back in 2011, in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/350/31394&quot;&gt;a long discussion&lt;/a&gt; which I still haven't read through fully to see whether it's up to date, it was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/362/31394&quot;&gt;decided&lt;/a&gt; that &lt;strong&gt;genre-classification questions were off-topic&lt;/strong&gt;. Do we want to revisit or revise this policy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What should our policy be today on genre-classification questions?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that there are two different types of such questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions of the form &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Does X count as science fiction?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; Current practice is to migrate these to meta, under the argument that they're exactly equivalent to &lt;em&gt;&quot;Is X on-topic for this site?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions about subgenre, e.g. &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Does X count as hard sci-fi?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Does X (clearly SFF) count as sci-fi or fantasy?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9237/is-the-magicians-nephew-by-c-s-lewis-science-fiction&quot;&gt;This recent example&lt;/a&gt; was again considered on-topic on meta and off-topic on the main site, but it was more controversial. In a comment on the now-deleted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/120634/could-the-magicians-nephew-by-c-s-lewis-be-considered-science-fiction&quot;&gt;main-site incarnation&lt;/a&gt;, Jason Baker said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why, in Aslan's name, should this question be on meta? It has nothing to do with site policy, either directly or indirectly, and its answer will have no bearing on how the site is run. Leave it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such disagreement and controversy is my main reason for asking this question.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm tagging this &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/featured&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;featured&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;featured&lt;/a&gt; now in the hopes of getting enough votes on the answers to get a proper community consensus. The motivation for this was the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/128951/how-well-does-inception-fit-into-the-sci-fi-genre&quot;&gt;How well does Inception fit into the Sci-Fi Genre?&lt;/a&gt;. Initially it was asked on the main site; I migrated it to meta since the (sort of) consensus at the moment appears to be that genre questions belong on meta (even though I personally don't agree with this), and it was promptly closed on meta as being &quot;not about SFF.SE&quot; (which is fair enough, IMO). I'm reopening it now since it's been edited to ask &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9690/why-is-inception-on-topic-on-sffse#9690&quot;&gt;Why is Inception on-topic on SFF:SE?&lt;/a&gt;, but the issue remains of what should have happened to it if it had remained as a question of &quot;Is Inception sci-fi?&quot; Surely we, of all SE communities, should be able to provide a good answer to this question, whether on main or on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-06-16T15:17:19.373" Title="Policy on questions about which genre or subgenre a given work is in?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9363" CreationDate="2016-03-22T17:24:55.083" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Asking about subgenre classification of SF/F works should be on-topic.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a work is indisputably SF/F, it should be perfectly fine to ask a question about what &lt;em&gt;kind&lt;/em&gt; of SF/F it is. This is not a meta question, since the work is definitely on-topic. And it clearly falls within the area of expertise of our userbase here, namely SF/F experts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples of questions currently considered off-topic which would be allowed under this new rule:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1235/would-michael-crichton-be-considered-hard-sci-fi&quot;&gt;Would Michael Crichton be considered “hard” sci-fi?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/120634/could-the-magicians-nephew-by-c-s-lewis-be-considered-science-fiction&quot;&gt;Could the “Magician's Nephew,” by C. S. Lewis be considered science fiction?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/86/are-the-pern-novels-by-anne-mccaffrey-and-the-erna-novels-by-celia-s-friedman-s&quot;&gt;Are the Pern-novels by Anne McCaffrey and the Erna-novels by Celia S. Friedman SF or Fantasy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Upvote if you agree; downvote if you disagree.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2016-03-22T18:18:59.647" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9363" CreationDate="2016-03-22T17:53:54.553" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since rand decided not to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&quot;Is X science fiction/fantasy&quot; should be off-topic on the main site&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As pointed out in the question, these are essentially &quot;Can I ask about X?&quot; which is part of why meta exists in the first place. So to meta they go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem I have with allowing these on the main site, and why I ultimately deleted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/120634/could-the-magicians-nephew-by-c-s-lewis-be-considered-science-fiction/120636#120636&quot;&gt;my answer to a recent example&lt;/a&gt; (10k+ users only, sorry), is that in all but a small handful of cases, the answer depends entirely on one's definition of &quot;science fiction&quot; or &quot;fantasy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even in some cases that seem quite unambiguous, there's room for debate. You can make the case that &lt;a href=&quot;https://simondillonbooks.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/why-star-wars-is-not-science-fiction-and-related-matters/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/why-doctor-who-is-a-fantasy-show-74984.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; -  despite both dealing with space travel, aliens, and advanced technology, and despite both being heavily marketed as science fiction and being taken as science fiction by most mainstream audiences - are actually works of fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're interesting questions, but a bad fit for our format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-03-22T17:53:54.553" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9354" CreationDate="2016-03-22T20:13:00.030" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5119/31394&quot;&gt;highest-voted answer&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5117/are-anthropomorphic-animals-by-themselves-enough-to-deem-a-work-fantasy&quot;&gt;Are anthropomorphic animals by themselves enough to deem a work fantasy?&lt;/a&gt; tells us that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anthropomorphic/Sentient/Talking animals don't, in and of themselves, make a film/book/TV programme/comic into a fantasy if the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_conceit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;central conceit&lt;/a&gt; is that talking animals do &lt;em&gt;already&lt;/em&gt; exist within that fictional universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That said, we would consider talking animals to be part of a fantasy if:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They had been &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uplift_(science_fiction)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;uplifted&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; in some way (either by technology or magic)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Their speaking was &lt;strong&gt;somehow fantastical&lt;/strong&gt; to the other characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither of these is the case in &lt;em&gt;Charlotte's Web&lt;/em&gt;. All the animals are able to talk to each other as a matter of course, and there's nothing fantastical about this. None of the humans except Fern can understand them, but the in-universe explanation for this is that Fern is younger and more sympathetic and listens to them better. The only animal who shows abilities beyond that of a normal animal is Charlotte, and she's just unusually intelligent rather than being &amp;quot;uplifted&amp;quot; by some technology or magic (or being bitten by a radioactive human).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-03-22T20:13:00.030" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9367" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-03-23T13:16:31.973" Score="2" ViewCount="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/122830/11841&quot;&gt;Is there any story reason for Force users being less acrobatic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; It seems strange to me to see spoiler tags for a movie that has been out over three months. It makes questions hard to read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Am I able to edit these sorts of spoiler tags out of questions when I see them? It really makes it annoying to read/skim questions and answers when the meaningful content in them are hidden in spoiler tags. Also I am unsure how many people visiting from google will even know to mouseover the tags, does SE have data related to that? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This entire site could be hidden behind spoiler tags at a certain point. It seems 3+ months especially for such a popular movie to consider that... over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11841" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2016-03-23T13:16:31.973" Title="When should spoiler tags stop being used?" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2016-03-23T15:32:15.720" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9368" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9369" CreationDate="2016-03-23T14:00:19.113" Score="3" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/9164/22254&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP has said that it is the correct answer in a comment, but that they cannot mark the answer as accepted. Are the mods able to mark the answer as accepted so that other people will easily be able to find it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously there would need to be clear indication that something is accepted by the OP (so this is quite a niche scenario).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22254" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-03-23T14:13:43.267" Title="Can mods mark an answer as accepted?" Tags="|feature-request|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9368" CreationDate="2016-03-23T14:06:27.247" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, they can't. Only the asker of a question can mark an answer as accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few questions on Meta Stack Exchange addressing this issue (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/18312/moderators-accepting-answers-on-users-behalf-after-a-certain-time-period&quot;&gt;example 1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/53235/what-happens-when-an-accepted-answer-is-wrong-but-the-op-is-gone&quot;&gt;example 2&lt;/a&gt;) and the response is always strongly against adding this feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(NB I'm a moderator on another site.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2720" LastActivityDate="2016-03-23T14:06:27.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9368" CreationDate="2016-03-23T14:07:05.560" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been asked before on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/18312/moderators-accepting-answers-on-users-behalf-after-a-certain-time-period&quot;&gt;main meta&lt;/a&gt; but rejected. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/accepted-answer&quot;&gt;Accepting an answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;means that the author received an answer that worked for him or her personally&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only the question author knows which answer worked for him/her &lt;em&gt;personally&lt;/em&gt; (if any) so only the author can determine acceptance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the absence of an accepted answer, votes determine which answer is listed first in the default &quot;votes&quot; view of answers -- so vote up answers like the one you found, like I just did!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-03-23T14:13:43.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9335" CreationDate="2016-03-24T09:56:46.017" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the most important tip for asking about a story is composing a concise title and first paragraph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The title issue has been discussed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6433/consensus-on-story-identification-titles&quot;&gt;Consensus on Story Identification titles?&lt;/a&gt; and the quality of titles is better than it was a year ago, but I'm not sure how much of that is people reviewing questions vs people writing them well in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I scan down a list of questions and see something like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/76750/need-help-finding-fantasy-book-series&quot;&gt;Need help finding fantasy book series&lt;/a&gt; with no helpful snippet underneath, it's useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7175" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2016-03-24T09:56:46.017" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1289" CreationDate="2016-03-24T14:52:06.810" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever somebody asks a question regarding &amp;quot;How does x work&amp;quot;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/440/paul-d-waite&quot;&gt;Paul D. Waite&lt;/a&gt; jumps in with a&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How does x work? Very well, thank you.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before anyone else gets a chance!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/122134/how-does-the-chain-used-at-the-battle-of-the-blackwater-work#comment301319_122134&quot;&gt;How does the chain used at the Battle of the Blackwater work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/121149/how-can-invisible-woman-see#comment297811_121149&quot;&gt;How can Invisible Woman see?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/120664/how-does-the-red-pill-work#comment296108_120664&quot;&gt;How does the red pill work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;And many, many more. I call out Paul because of &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/611170/very-well-thank-you-comments&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;all such comments&lt;/a&gt;, he's made over half of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you think he missed one, think again!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/99251/how-does-the-new-deadpool-movie-relate-to-x-men-origins-wolverine#comment295936_99251&quot;&gt;How does the new Deadpool movie relate to X-Men Origins: Wolverine?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and because I forgot to make this joke before: how does the new Deadpool movie relate to X-Men Origins: Wolverine? Very well, thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-01-04T01:16:15.537" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9373" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-03-25T06:12:00.947" Score="-1" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;What if I only want to ask a two word question like &lt;em&gt;What Joke&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57258" LastActivityDate="2016-03-25T08:37:23.743" Title="Why do you need a min of 15 characters in a comment?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9373" CreationDate="2016-03-25T08:37:23.743" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The limit is meant to discourage very short comments like &quot;lol&quot;, &quot;thanks&quot;, &quot;+1&quot; and so on which are just &quot;noise&quot; of no particular value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if you have a valuable comment to post which is that short, it's still easy to work around the limit by adding spaces or dots and even editing the comment to remove the padding after posting it. The limit is not meant to be a bulletproof defense, it's just meant to discourage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe this is just me, but I've never wanted to post a comment shorter than 15 characters in the first place. It's the maximum comment length that I run into at least a few times a week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35327" LastActivityDate="2016-03-25T08:37:23.743" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9375" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9376" CreationDate="2016-03-26T04:24:12.253" Score="0" ViewCount="196" Body="&lt;p&gt;I get annoyed with people putting unnecessary images in their questions and answers, but I wonder if there is any rational objection to the practice, or is it just irrational prejudice on my part? Is there anything &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; with posting a useless image, aside from making me waste my precious time scrolling past the picture so I can read the post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastActivityDate="2019-10-30T12:03:26.870" Title="People Posting Pointless Pictures" Tags="|discussion|images|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2016-03-27T19:41:46.747" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9375" CreationDate="2016-03-26T06:48:17.643" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;(I've expanded this answer quite a bit from its original version.  Even though the Question is a duplicate, I thought a more complete answer covering the current status of including images would be useful.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think much has changed since &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1840/what-is-up-with-all-the-tangential-imagery&quot;&gt;an earlier version of this question was asked 4 years ago:&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;images that illustrate exactly what's being said in the text are useful, even if there are a lot of them (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/16917/why-doesnt-batman-make-an-armored-suit-like-ironman&quot;&gt;&quot;Batman wore such-and-such armour in this situation.&quot;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;images that are large and require a lot of scrolling to go past are distracting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;unrelated or barely-related images in posts are distracting and many people (myself among them) find them annoying&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there's a wide range of opinion as to what's related or not &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;How bad is the problem?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not bad at all, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I spent some time looking at questions with images in them (search for imgur urls) and I didn't find too many that I thought were pointless:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;looking just at questions, there are about 50 per month that have imgur links&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;even though I'm &quot;prejudiced&quot; against images, I'd say at least 50% of them are clearly relevant, and another 20%-30% are &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; useful - I didn't think they were totally relevant, but I had to agree they were at least useful to illustrate something in the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;most of the images I thought weren't relevant were from relatively new users who probably just haven't developed a good sense yet of what's relevant or not&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So overall I think &lt;em&gt;at most 10% of images that get posted aren't relevant&lt;/em&gt; and could be edited out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What to do about it&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't do anything, it's not actually that big a problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit posts and remove links to irrelevant images.  If editing old questions, limit edits to one or two at a time so they don't overwhelm the front page.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the images are hosted on stack.imgur, it's easy to edit a question to convert large images to thumbnails:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the image URL is: &lt;code&gt;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MGbrX.png&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can add an &lt;code&gt;m&lt;/code&gt; or a &lt;code&gt;t&lt;/code&gt; to the end of the filename to make the image a thumbnail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This: &lt;code&gt;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MGbrXm.png&lt;/code&gt; makes the largest dimension 320 pixels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this: &lt;code&gt;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MGbrXt.png&lt;/code&gt; makes it a thumbnail with 160 pixels max.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is the how you do an &quot;m&quot; thumbnail with a link to the original picture:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![picture whose claim I am skeptical of][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;  [1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/wa5kLm.png&#xA;  [2]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/wa5kL.png&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/74312/thumbnail-image-on-stack-overflow/108821#108821&quot;&gt;More details on thumbnails on meta.StackExchange.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, if editing old questions, only do a couple at a time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Fair use&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has gotten to be a bit long, so I'll just mention that one of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1848/4167&quot;&gt;answers to the earlier question&lt;/a&gt; has some good comments on fair use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2019-10-30T12:03:26.870" LastActivityDate="2019-10-30T12:03:26.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9377" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9378" CreationDate="2016-03-27T09:58:45.943" Score="6" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a very small question with what will probably be a very quick answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main scifi site has a right-hand sidebar with several meta questions listed, which change over time, and the hed &quot;HOT META POSTS.&quot; What are the criteria for picking the posts to list, and is it driven by an algorithm, picked by a moderator, or selected in some other fashion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no complaints; I'm just curious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62927" LastEditorUserId="62927" LastEditDate="2016-03-27T10:14:32.270" LastActivityDate="2016-03-27T11:08:39.533" Title="How are hot meta posts selected?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9377" CreationDate="2016-03-27T11:08:39.533" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;They're selected by an algorithm :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;(log(Qviews)*4) + ((Qanswers * Qscore)/5) + sum(Ascores)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;--------------------------------------------------------&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;((QageInHours+1) - ((QageInHours - Qupdated)/2)) ^ 1.5&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/4789/175002&quot;&gt;Original meta post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2016-03-27T11:08:39.533" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9379" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9380" CreationDate="2016-03-27T12:32:56.230" Score="10" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are there any established guidelines on how much one should intervene when reviewing an edit? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, when reviewing an edit with several grammatical corrections, but with similar errors left intact, if the first edit has improved the question and made it more readable, should I leave well enough alone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would be my likely approach, but the idea makes me twitchy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62927" LastActivityDate="2016-03-27T12:52:33.547" Title="How much should one edit an edit?" Tags="|discussion|editing|review-queue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9379" CreationDate="2016-03-27T12:52:33.547" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;If an edit has improved the question but left more improvement still to be done, then &lt;strong&gt;by all means go ahead and do that improvement&lt;/strong&gt; - just as you would have done if you'd come across the question after the edit had been approved and noticed there was still more improvement to be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system even goes out of its way to make it easier for you to do this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CK0bg.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CK0bg.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are not just buttons for &lt;strong&gt;Approve&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Reject&lt;/strong&gt; (the simplest possibilities), but also &lt;strong&gt;Improve Edit&lt;/strong&gt; (which automatically approves the suggested edit, giving that user their +2 rep, and then puts you into the edit box so you can re-edit the edited version of the question) and &lt;strong&gt;Reject and Edit&lt;/strong&gt; (which automatically rejects the suggested edit and puts you into the edit box so you can edit the original version of the question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more details on all facets of the suggesting and reviewing edits process, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/76284/278659&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; on main meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2016-03-27T12:52:33.547" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9381" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-03-27T15:04:04.653" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use this tag for questions about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.stackexchange.com/review&quot;&gt;review queues&lt;/a&gt; on Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange: e.g. best practices for reviewing, guidance on how the review system works, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question is not specific to Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange, please consider asking on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;main meta&lt;/a&gt; instead, where they have a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/review&quot;&gt;[review] tag&lt;/a&gt; with over 2000 questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-03-27T15:04:04.653" LastActivityDate="2016-03-27T15:04:04.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9382" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-03-27T15:04:04.653" Score="0" Body="For questions about reviewing or the review queues." OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-03-27T15:04:04.653" LastActivityDate="2016-03-27T15:04:04.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9383" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-03-27T15:28:50.567" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use this tag for questions relating to the Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;community blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you'd like to contribute by posting an article to the blog, the best way is to ping the blog administrator, @JackBNimble, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have a question about Stack Exchange blogs in general, you may wish to ask on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;main meta&lt;/a&gt; instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-03-27T15:28:50.567" LastActivityDate="2016-03-27T15:28:50.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9384" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-03-27T15:28:50.567" Score="0" Body="For questions about the Science Fiction &amp; Fantasy community blog." OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-03-27T15:28:50.567" LastActivityDate="2016-03-27T15:28:50.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9385" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-03-27T22:38:29.713" Score="3" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I find that while answering one question I actually end up answering another, is it okay to post my answer under both questions?  Or is that in poor taste?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63676" LastActivityDate="2016-04-02T16:20:26.213" Title="Can I answer more than one question with the same answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9385" CreationDate="2016-03-27T22:50:07.157" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Posting &lt;em&gt;identical&lt;/em&gt; answers to different questions is a bad idea&lt;/strong&gt;: if exactly the same answer solves both problems, then the questions are likely to be duplicates. (In fact, it's considered such 'suspicious' behaviour that doing so automatically raises a moderator flag.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posting &lt;em&gt;similar&lt;/em&gt; answers, e.g. &lt;strong&gt;based on the same information but focusing on different aspects of it to draw conclusions about different questions&lt;/strong&gt;, can be acceptable though. I've even &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111134/how-does-transwarp-speed-relate-to-warpspeed/111151#111151&quot;&gt;done&lt;/a&gt; it &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/123071/was-warp-14-1-the-fastest-warp-in-star-trek/123075#123075&quot;&gt;myself&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above are my own thoughts on the matter, which seem to align with the policy laid out &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/104231/278659&quot;&gt;on main meta&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Copying and pasting the same answer for different questions is not the correct thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the exact same answer is required for different questions, then those questions could be duplicates; it could also be the user is generalizing too much the question being asked, and writes the same answer for different question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first case, it is more appropriate to vote to close the question as duplicate; in the second case, it is more appropriate to reformulate the answer, and make it more specific for the question being answered. Even if the solution to two different questions is the same, copying and pasting the answer given to one of them is not what I would do, as there is always a part that is specific for a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-04-02T16:20:26.213" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9385" CreationDate="2016-03-28T12:22:42.447" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;While it doesn't relate to your set of questions, I will note that the various &quot;Identification&quot; questions lend themselves to this as sometimes you'll have multiple questions that have the same details that match your answer but could still be distinct works (and, for that matter, the system doesn't allow closing them as duplicates because they have no accepted answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, usually there are some additional details that differ that you can elaborate on such that you're giving the same ultimate answer, but explaining different parts of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2016-03-28T12:22:42.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2474" CreationDate="2016-03-30T04:51:36.640" Score="4" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It seems that Madeleine Robins answered a question on one of her books here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/21500&quot;&gt;Is there a reference in the first line of Madeleine Robins&amp;#39; &amp;quot;Petty Treason&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Chuck_Jones&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chuck Jones&lt;/a&gt; apparently answered a question about a model that he designed for a Half-Life character:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35781/how-did-gordon-freeman-survive-the-entire-storyline-without-a-helmet/45502#45502&quot;&gt;How did Gordon Freeman survive the entire storyline without a helmet?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36115" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-05-25T16:43:23.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7946" CreationDate="2016-03-30T08:43:41.307" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thesffblog.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EZFka.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;There&amp;#39;s a Blog?&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="57642" LastEditDate="2016-11-01T22:29:12.323" LastActivityDate="2016-11-01T22:29:12.323" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9390" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-03-31T03:59:02.290" Score="9" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;Normal SF&amp;amp;F tags are all one color (blue with a lighter blue background):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BssRa.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BssRa.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;META&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.SF&amp;amp;F tags are all over the place:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CbfXz.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CbfXz.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BsYrd.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BsYrd.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/61K0E.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/61K0E.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do the different colors (text and background) mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54827" LastActivityDate="2016-03-31T16:33:50.377" Title="What do the different colors of meta tags mean?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9390" CreationDate="2016-03-31T06:45:41.790" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at the legend on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/tags&quot;&gt;/tags&lt;/a&gt; page, we see the following key:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[red: moderator-only-tag]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;this is a moderator tag, it can only be added by a diamond moderator. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This includes tags like “faq”, any “status-XYZ” on feature requests and “community-ads”.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[dark grey: required-tag]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;this is a required tag; every new question must have at least one required tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Namely “discussion”, “bug”, “feature request” and “support”.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[light grey: tag]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;this is a standard tag; every question must have at least one tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are analogous to the tags on SFF.se – they can be created, added and removed by any user (subject to rep requirements around tags/editing).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2016-03-31T16:33:50.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9392" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9417" CreationDate="2016-03-31T09:00:05.037" Score="6" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;DCAU refers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_animated_universe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DC animated universe&lt;/a&gt; and should be used for those questions only but here DCAU tag is used for  &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_Universe_Animated_Original_Movies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DC Universe Animated Original Movies&lt;/a&gt; too which is wrong. Similar to MCU, DCAU is quite famous term among fans and it have distinct meaning and shouldn't be used with any random DC animated film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it not better to remove it from non DCAU film questions? And submitting a better descriptive tag wiki like movies.se have for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/tags/dc-animated-universe/info&quot;&gt;same tag&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am also ready for counter argument too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6006" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2016-04-05T16:13:15.490" Title="When to use DCAU tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|tag-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5117" CreationDate="2016-03-31T23:47:00.783" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia defines fantasy as &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A genre of fiction that uses magic or other supernatural elements as a main plot element, theme, or setting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Animals and humans do not speak to each other in real life. If they're depicted as doing so in a story, without further explanation, then that's clearly fantasy. On-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; further explanation, then it might end up being Sci-Fi instead. Still on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, any particular question about anthropomorphic animals might be off-topic for other reasons, but not because it's not fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44184" LastActivityDate="2016-03-31T23:47:00.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9394" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-01T09:07:09.510" Score="4" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a question on this SE (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/123707/why-arent-wands-protected-better&quot;&gt;Why aren&amp;#39;t wands protected better?&lt;/a&gt;), whose only answer until now is basically a list of reasons why wands aren't better protected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought another possible reason, but I'm confused by how should I proceed.&#xA;AFAIK, I could post an answer, write a comment or edit the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I posted a new answer, it would be something like &quot;I agree with the previous answer, but there is an additional reason: ... &quot;, and because it would be rather short, it may be written as a comment as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I know that we can edit answers to add content: see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8126/are-edits-supposed-to-add-information-content-to-an-answer&quot;&gt;Are edits supposed to add information/content to an answer?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60559" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2018-03-13T16:24:29.387" Title="Comment,edit or answer when adding content" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9395" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9396" CreationDate="2016-04-01T18:49:48.650" Score="4" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please help me understand why this question was closed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/122958/why-were-there-two-hulk-origin-films-within-five-years-of-each-other&quot;&gt;Why were there two Hulk origin films within five years of each other?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot work it out from the brief close reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;This question does not appear to be about science fiction or fantasy within the scope defined in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/closed-questions&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;nor from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/122958/why-were-there-two-hulk-origin-films-within-five-years-of-each-other#comment306931_122958&quot;&gt;the only explanatory comment&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;VTC as this seems to be more of a business-based question than a scifi one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;since this reason is not listed in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/closed-questions&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2016-04-01T21:22:59.243" Title="Why was the &quot;two Hulk films&quot; question closed?" Tags="|support|closed-questions|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9395" CreationDate="2016-04-01T20:29:40.103" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can see the close timeline &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/122958/timeline&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Only one user stated their close reason; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;VTC as this seems to be more of a business-based question than a&#xA;  scifi one&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record (and assuming that's the reason the other users chose to close the question) they were acting in error. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Behind the scenes info about Science Fiction and Fantasy properties&lt;/a&gt; is firmly on-topic on SFF:SE and well within the scope of acceptability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question has been reopened now so no real harm has been done, other than making us relive memories of Hulk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-04-01T20:29:40.103" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9395" CreationDate="2016-04-01T21:22:59.243" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was (and still am) on the fence with this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The type of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;on-topic&lt;/a&gt; question this falls most closely under is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my case, I voted based on my interpretation of your question and what the help center means by &quot;behind the scenes&quot;. I interpreted your question as one of &quot;why did the movie studio reboot a film in just a few years?&quot;. As the VTC comment indicates, this is a business-based question (or &quot;financial&quot;, in your words) which for most movies doesn't have anything to do with sci fi/fantasy. The accepted answer indicates that the film was rebooted not for a sci fi/fantasy reason but because it used&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;a new director and an all new cast&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community seems to be divided on the help center's meaning of the &quot;behind-the-scenes&quot;. For one, five distinct users voted to close your question and five distinct users voted to re-open it. As far as meta goes, there is an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2944/what-type-of-behind-the-scenes-questions-are-on-topic&quot;&gt;old meta question asking about the meaning of &quot;behind the scenes&quot;&lt;/a&gt; which seems to support just about any &quot;behind the scenes&quot; question. On the other hand, there is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6567/would-a-question-about-the-recent-deal-between-marvel-studios-and-sony-pictures/6568#6568&quot;&gt;more recent meta question about studios' decisions&lt;/a&gt; which suggests that some &quot;behind the scenes&quot; questions aren't on-topic. In particular, the accepted answer by @SQB says that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;questions about how much money went where should be off topic&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So financial &quot;behind the scenes&quot; questions -- like yours -- aren't necessarily on topic. At the time of this post, both meta answers have the same score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think your question is too much like the financial &quot;behind the scenes&quot; type of the question which the recent meta answer says is off-topic. Furthermore, I think this question would be a better fit for Movies &amp;amp; TV (yes, I know that a question can be asked on any SE site for which it is on topic, even if it is on-topic on multiple sites and was asked on a less relevant one). However, I acknowledge that reasonable arguments can be made on both sides.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2016-04-01T21:22:59.243" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9398" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9423" CreationDate="2016-04-01T21:42:48.510" Score="9" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, there's a question here asking &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/123790/who-was-killed-to-make-nagini-a-horcrux-frank-bryce-or-bertha-jorkins&quot;&gt;who was killed to make Nagini a Horcrux&lt;/a&gt;. Now, we have a very obvious question that already answers that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/23006/who-did-voldemort-kill-to-create-the-horcruxes/23007#23007&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you read through the entire body of the question, it's quite clear the person asking already knows that is a potential answer. To very, very briefly summarize, it seems to me that the asker is really trying to discover which source is more authoritative in this particular instance: &lt;em&gt;The Half-Blood Prince&lt;/em&gt; or JKR in a Q&amp;amp;A session. Luckily, we have a pretty great question already asking that over &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/117948/which-harry-potter-works-are-considered-canon&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; (although, it has multiple answers and the highest-voted answer isn't the one accepted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we consider a question to be closed as a duplicate if it requires two separate answers from two different questions in order to completely answer the question? Or should the question stand alone and receive a proper answer that draws from the information contained in the two potential duplicate questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19252" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2016-04-06T10:48:40.330" Title="What to do if a question can be answered by combining two existing questions on the site?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9399" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-02T03:13:21.133" Score="-3" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;A user's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/123701/54827&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/10500/can-the-force-be-used-to-fly/123701#123701&quot;&gt;Can the Force be used to fly?&lt;/a&gt; spoils a surpise from the season 2 finale of &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: Rebels&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/123701/4&quot;&gt;edited&lt;/a&gt; the spoiler into spoiler tags while still allowing the answer to remain clear and neat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, the answer's poster undid said edit, claiming that it wasn't a spoiler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;what should be do about this post to avoid spoiling was is supposed to be a surprise from the episode?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54827" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-04-02T05:40:51.803" Title="How to help this answer avoid spoiling SW Rebels" Tags="|spoilers|editing|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9399" CreationDate="2016-04-02T05:40:51.803" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth, I think your edit would have been reasonable (but insufficient, more on that later) if the presence of Inquisitors was a spoiler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I agree with Rogue Jedi on this one: it's not reasonable to consider that fact a spoiler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What constitutes a spoiler?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the fact that Inquisitors appear (and fly) in the episode is a spoiler in one regard: you didn't know it&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But using that definition is a problem for a community like this, because it means that &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt; is a spoiler. Every piece of fiction is new to somebody, so &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; fact about &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; work is a potential spoiler. The problem with having this as a site policy seems pretty obvious, because we can't hide &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; fact; it's a completely unreasonable burden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will admit that I'm engaging a bit in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;reduction to absurdity&lt;/a&gt;. Clearly nobody is suggesting that &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; fact be spoiled. Some things, character names being an obvious example, are safe to leave un-spoilerified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, great. So which facts are spoilers, and which are not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've had &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/968/what-is-the-policy-for-spoilers&quot;&gt;some discussion&lt;/a&gt; on this, and the nearest we have to a consensus makes one particular point I want to highlight:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Consider how &quot;spoiled&quot; I would feel if I knew the information in advance. This is extremely subjective, but it's important, because otherwise everything is a spoiler.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does this mean in practice? For my money, I would say it means that we should spoilerify facts when they:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are major plot points&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are pivotal moments in the main character arcs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's what I try to do, anyway. You may disagree with me, and I'll get back to that in a moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why is this specific fact not a spoiler?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I said, I agree with Rogue Jedi that this is not a spoiler. The reason I feel that way should be pretty clear from the previous section, but just to be very clear:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The fact that Inquisitors appear in the episode is not a spoiler unless you haven't been watching the show at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Grand Inquisitor was a major character in season 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The season 2 premiere ended with the Emperor saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Emperor:&lt;/strong&gt; Dispatch another Inquisitor to hunt [Kanan and Ezra] down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Wars: Rebels&lt;/em&gt; Season 2 Episode 1: &quot;The Siege of Lothal&quot;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fifth Brother and Seventh Sister have been major antagonists in season 2; Sarah Michelle Gellar (the voice of Seventh Sister) is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001264/?ref_=nv_sr_1#actress-tt2930604&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;credited with appearing in five episodes&lt;/a&gt; (six if you count &quot;Twilight of the Apprentice&quot; in two parts), about 25% of the whole season, and I would hazard a guess that they've been referenced in dialogue in &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; episode&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that Inquisitors exist and are hunting Kanan and Ezra is certainly an important plot point, but one that is (or should be) known if you've paid any attention to the show at all. If you haven't, then merely hearing the word &quot;Inquisitor&quot; isn't going to spoil that for you.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The fact that Inquisitors can fly isn't an important point to the story. This is perhaps a subjective judgement, but consider how a reveal like, for instance, Maul's presence was handled&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A mysterious character was introduced&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His identity is left mysterious&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He's always shot with lots of shadows covering his face&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The reveal of his identity is drawn out by a short monologue&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dramatic chord as the hood is thrown back&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He says his name, and then fade to black&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's rule of drama for you. In contrast, how is the fact that Inquisitors can fly handled? After blasting Ezra down a hole, Eighth Brother leaps up and flies away on his saber-copter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no drama there; it's treated as just being something Eighth Brother can do, like how Seventh Sister has a small army of probe droids to toss around. Even once Fifth Brother and Seventh Sister show up, the fact that &lt;em&gt;they&lt;/em&gt; can fly is revealed in a single shot, with no dramatic build-up at all.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To put it another way: would learning that Inquisitors can fly have ruined the episode for you? Most people, I suspect, would answer &quot;no.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, some people would answer &quot;yes,&quot; which is what the next section is for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What if I think it should be spoilerified anyway?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everybody has a different understanding of what it means to be spoiled. Personally, I religiously avoided everything related to &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt; for about two weeks, until I had a chance to see it, because I wanted that experience to be completely fresh&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;; I was more devoted to avoiding TFA spoilers than I am about going to the gym, as my doctor was keen to remind me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't care about &lt;em&gt;Batman v. Superman&lt;/em&gt;. Maybe that's my low expectations talking, but I don't intend to see that until it comes out on DVD, and I don't care to go hiding from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what does this mean for SFF?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, it means that you have total sovereignty over &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; posts. Be as spoiler-happy as you like, and if anybody gives you a hard time for having too many spoiler tags, send them to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7888/can-we-have-a-per-tag-make-spoilers-visible-button&quot;&gt;the userscripts alexwlchan and I made&lt;/a&gt;; they're great for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On somebody else's post, do what you did: propose an edit (or leave a comment). If the poster agrees with you, great! But if they don't, &lt;em&gt;let it alone&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By design, we don't have hard-and-fast rules about how to handle spoilers; we &lt;em&gt;can't&lt;/em&gt;, because of how nebulous and open to interpretation the issue is. We have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/968/what-is-the-policy-for-spoilers&quot;&gt;a vague policy&lt;/a&gt; on how spoilers should be handled, but that's at best a minimum threshold and at worst an acknowledgement that a more definitive policy is impossible. Even that policy opens with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think it's up to users to find their own guidelines&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a subjective issue and, as long as our official policy is &quot;Spoilers be bad. How bad? &lt;em&gt;[shrug]&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, your understanding of it is not more or less valid than somebody else's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want a more restrictive, &lt;em&gt;enforceable&lt;/em&gt;, spoiler policy, post a competing answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/968/what-is-the-policy-for-spoilers&quot;&gt;our current policy&lt;/a&gt;, and best of luck to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What would have been a good spoiler edit to this answer?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I said way back at the start that I didn't think your edit was sufficient for removing spoilers. The reason I think that is simple: big honking Maul-face in the embedded YouTube preview.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anything about that answer is a spoiler, the fact that Maul appeared in the episode is it. Personally, I think removing the embedded YouTube video (adding it as a regular link) and replacing it with a screenshot of the Inquisitors and their saber-copters&lt;sup&gt;4&lt;/sup&gt; would be a much more effective spoiler edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers the question, avoids plot-relevant spoilers. Easy-peasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Or maybe you did, but then it's not a spoiler any more; for the sake of this exercise, assume you didn't know&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; I mean, I figured out it was Maul within seconds, so it wasn't handled &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; well. Then again, having seen &lt;em&gt;The Clone Wars&lt;/em&gt; may have given me an unfair advantage, or maybe I'm just that great&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt; It didn't &lt;em&gt;work&lt;/em&gt;, but hey&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;4&lt;/sup&gt; No, I'm not going to stop calling them this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2016-04-02T05:40:51.803" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9401" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-02T05:58:17.793" Score="3" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just on the main page of SF&amp;amp;F and looking for a quick link to Meta (yep, right here).  I searched the page, and there was no direct link to Meta.  There was a link to hot meta questions, but that included other SE sites as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Within the SF&amp;amp;F site, we have three main components: Chat, SF&amp;amp;F itself, and Meta.  On Chat, there's an easy link to the main site and on the main site, there's an easy link to Chat.  Neither of these sites, though, have easily visible links to Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps, on each of the three components, there should be clear and easy to see links to the other two components?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2016-04-04T13:10:17.253" Title="Should we put more easily accessible links on main pages?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9402" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9404" CreationDate="2016-04-02T06:11:07.030" Score="1" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/9199/1693&quot;&gt;one question&lt;/a&gt; I asked a while back, I wanted an answer about how a particular topic was addressed in &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; (specifically in &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: Voyager&lt;/em&gt;).  I don't know what I was thinking when I picked one answer as an official answer, since it really didn't address my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's something I've always wondered (how a series made in the 1990s would address the devastating Eugenics Wars that happened just before or during that time if that period of history had to be referenced).  Tonight I was posting another question and thinking, &quot;Well, I really still don't know this...&quot;  Then, after searching, I realized I had forgotten I had asked that and, apparently, picked an answer that didn't directly answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What options are open to address this?  I can't unselect an answer at this point and if I re-ask the question, it becomes a duplicate.  How can I fix this goof up so it's possible to get a good answer to this question?  (And, no, I was NOT drunk when I picked the answer!  If I drink, I make sure my browser and email programs are shut down and won't let myself use them!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've updated this because the original link was to the question I had just asked and not to the one I wanted to ask about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-04-02T13:01:18.250" Title="I made a poor choice in picking an answer" Tags="|discussion|answer-quality|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9401" CreationDate="2016-04-02T06:30:20.947" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's easy enough to get to Meta...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the Sites dropdown menu, there's a link to the Meta of whatever site you're currently on&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can also add your favourite sites - including Metas - to the &quot;Your Communities&quot; section (by clicking Edit).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the Help dropdown menu there's a link and a short description of what Meta is for&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can get to your Meta user profile by clicking on your profile link on the top bar, then on &quot;Meta User.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastActivityDate="2016-04-02T06:30:20.947" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9402" CreationDate="2016-04-02T13:01:18.250" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you &lt;em&gt;sure&lt;/em&gt; you can't unaccept the currently accepted answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/5235/278659&quot;&gt;main meta's canonical guidance&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You may change which answer is accepted, or simply un-accept the answer, at any time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is wrong or outdated and you really can't unaccept, then (at a wild guess) maybe &lt;strong&gt;editing&lt;/strong&gt; your question or the accepted answer would allow you to unaccept it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As @user14111 mentioned in a comment, you can also &lt;strong&gt;start a bounty&lt;/strong&gt; on the question to draw more attention to it, if none of the current answers are good enough. Even if you can't unaccept the current top answer for whatever reason, the offer of 50 or 100 points for a better one will make up for not being able to award it 15 points and a green tick!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2016-04-02T13:01:18.250" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9401" CreationDate="2016-04-02T13:31:21.103" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;On the whole, I tend to agree.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until recently, I thought that you basically couldn't get to meta unless you already knew about it; I would always go there either by manually typing the URL into the address bar or by navigating to a user profile page and clicking on 'meta user'. Now I've discovered the link in the help menu, which is a very useful and quick way of getting to meta - &lt;em&gt;provided you know it's there&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, it would be nice to have a clearer link to meta from the main site (and vice versa). But you're not going to get this implemented by asking on the SFF meta site. If such a change was made, it would be done across the whole of the SE network, so the right place to post such a &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;main meta&lt;/a&gt; (where it'll probably be closed as a duplicate, since I'm sure someone has had this idea before).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;On the other hand ...&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... people who already know about meta will also know how to get there: in the worst case, by typing in &lt;code&gt;meta.&lt;/code&gt; into the front of their address bar manually; or by using a shortcut such as the dropdown menu, if they know about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main advantage of having a clear and direct link would be for people who &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; already know about it. So put yourself in the shoes of someone new to SE who doesn't know there's a 'meta' site for discussing the site itself. If they find a bug, or want to ask about some policy or about how something works in the SE system, what are they likely to do? They'll look around the front page and see this button saying &quot;&lt;strong&gt;help&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;. Then they'll click on that and most likely discover the meta site. Problem solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The existing methods&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a nice screenshot (complete with hand-drawn circles) to demonstrate the currently available ways of getting to the meta site from the main front page: you can drop down the &quot;StackExchange&quot; or the &quot;help&quot; menu from the top bar, each of those have a link to Meta, or use the links from the right sidebar to featured articles on Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CN1vR.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CN1vR.png&quot; alt=&quot;(explanation of the above with a screenshot of the main site and hand-drawn red circles)&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2016-04-04T13:10:17.253" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1571" CreationDate="2016-04-03T11:45:04.273" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Your question has been edited and reopened.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/3018/revisions&quot;&gt;edited it&lt;/a&gt; so as to remove the clause about &quot;a single example is enough&quot; and make it more clearly asking about &lt;strong&gt;the origin of the idea&lt;/strong&gt; rather than just asking for more examples of it. While list questions are off-topic, questions about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/inspiration?sort=votes&amp;amp;pageSize=50&quot;&gt;the inspiration for an idea in a given SFF work&lt;/a&gt; or about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of?sort=votes&amp;amp;pageSize=50&quot;&gt;the origins of an idea or trope in SFF literature as a whole&lt;/a&gt; are both perfectly fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was reluctant to wield my mod-hammer and reopen it unilaterally, but my edits bumped it to the front page so that it got some attention, and I also &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/28718529#28718529&quot;&gt;mentioned it in chat&lt;/a&gt; as a possible candidate for reopening. After three people had voted to reopen it, I cast the fourth vote and it's now open again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-04-03T23:31:35.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7959" CreationDate="2016-04-03T19:25:30.087" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The question has now been closed and merged.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(Posting this answer since I found the question on the Unanswered Questions tab just now.)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2016-04-03T19:25:30.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9408" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9415" CreationDate="2016-04-03T21:30:45.157" Score="2" ViewCount="505" Body="&lt;p&gt;Disney's &lt;em&gt;The Princess Diaries&lt;/em&gt; has princesses, princes, and castles in it, so &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; might say its sort of fantasy. However the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;real reason&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; I ask is that I want to ask about a possible connection between &lt;em&gt;The Princess Diaries&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Marvel and the Marvel Cinematic Universe&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;which is most definitely on-topic for  SF&amp;amp;F.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like SF&amp;amp;F is a better fit for my question since I get the feeling that movies.SE users tend to be more casual and less motivated to find answers than SF&amp;amp;F users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, can I ask a question on SF&amp;amp;F about a connection between Marvel and &lt;em&gt;The Princess Diaries&lt;/em&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54827" LastEditorUserId="54827" LastEditDate="2016-04-04T03:24:23.677" LastActivityDate="2016-04-07T23:04:39.523" Title="Can I ask about a connection between Marvel and The Princess Diaries?" Tags="|discussion|scope|specific-question|migration|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9409" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9437" CreationDate="2016-04-04T05:46:39.833" Score="12" ViewCount="331" Body="&lt;p&gt;Arguably, the biggest event in science fiction this past year (or perhaps even the last several years) has been the theatrical release of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WdbEIm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WdbEIm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that the film has been released for digital purchase (iTunes, Google Play, etc.) and will be released imminently on DVD / Blu-Ray, it's a great time to have a &lt;strong&gt;movie night&lt;/strong&gt; in celebration.  (It was &lt;strong&gt;@Jolenealaska&lt;/strong&gt; who suggested this during our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9303/&quot;&gt;last movie night&lt;/a&gt;, and we think it's a great idea!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The event will take place in the SFF chatroom &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; at &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;22:00 UTC on Monday 11 April!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference, that's 3 pm PST, 6 pm EST, and 11 pm UK time (GMT+1).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(What's a &quot;Movie Night&quot;, you ask?  Your question has been wonderfully answered &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7434/40294&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Join us on the 11th to discuss, criticize, and possibly even enjoy the latest entry in one of the world's most popular and enduring science fiction franchises!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt; We'll be watching the 2015 version, not the 1977 one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2016-04-13T19:55:34.290" Title="There has been an awakening...another Movie Night! Force Awakens on Monday the 11th!" Tags="|discussion|chat-event|movie-night|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9410" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-04T07:41:36.723" Score="8" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if it would be plagiarism for me to answer a story identification question with direct quotes from the text. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question:&#xA;The plot is as follows... The book starts with a girl waking up in a vehicle crash.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The girl’s name is Merlin. She wakes up in the wreck of what she thinks is an ambulance but is actually a “flyer”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She was in the back of a van surrounded by blankets, pieces of broken glass and unfamiliar implements. Through a dark tinted window under her, running the length of the cabin she could see foliage pressed against the glass. A matching window above showed the sky. Clearly she had been in an accident and the van had overturned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ambulance, she thought dazedly. I was in the back of an ambulance so there must have been something wrong with me before the accident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this plagiarism if I state that this is the text from the book?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64014" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-04-04T08:09:39.450" Title="Can I answer story identification with quotes from the text?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9410" CreationDate="2016-04-04T08:09:39.450" Score="13" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;pla·gia·rism&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;/ˈplājəˌrizəm/&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;noun&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas &lt;strong&gt;and passing them off as one's own.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you explicitly state the text is from the book, then by definition it's not plagiarism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even your sample answer should be fine because it's extremely obvious that the quote is meant to be from that particular book. It wouldn't make any sense to include that quote if it was from some other book or if you had just made it up yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also very normal for story-id answers to include a quote from or a summary of the original work, since that makes it easier for the OP to tell if it really is the book they were looking for and provides additional information for any future readers of the Q&amp;amp;A.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35327" LastActivityDate="2016-04-04T08:09:39.450" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9412" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-04T16:30:34.447" Score="2" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;A particular user is spamming &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/124022/what-does-dumbledore-see-in-the-mirror-of-erised&quot;&gt;one of my questions about Albus Dumbledore&lt;/a&gt; with an image of him wearing 'socks'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I report him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59086" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2016-04-05T16:28:38.743" Title="How to report a user who is repeatedly spamming?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9412" CreationDate="2016-04-04T16:52:43.310" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can report a user for spam by flagging the spam comment/post. In this case, you did so on the first comment, which I deleted. If the user continues to spam, I'd use a custom flag on the spam comment/post with a complaint that the user is continuing to spam. This will signal to the moderators that we need to investigate for other instances of spam. The more information you can give us, the better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also use meta as you've done here. After seeing this meta post, another moderator deleted the second comment. Let us know if this behavior continues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2016-04-04T16:57:58.830" LastActivityDate="2016-04-04T16:57:58.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9408" CreationDate="2016-04-05T11:03:11.147" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of those works is on-topic, so questions about it would be on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you will need to be very careful in your question to avoid the dreaded &quot;Gorilla vs. Shark&quot; problem. Questions comparing elements of those two works from an in-universe perspective are off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think there is clear evidence of an out-of-universe connection between them (Easter eggs, story influences, etc), and want to know if the writers have commented on it, that &lt;em&gt;type&lt;/em&gt; of question would be fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you just think two things in the two universes are similar and want to know if they're supposed to be the same, that &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be on topic, but without official statements from the author, any answers would be speculative and not helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Also, fair warning: depending on how much of a stretch your connection is, you might very well be the target of some heavy downvoting.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2016-04-05T11:03:11.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9408" CreationDate="2016-04-05T11:50:56.393" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Echoing Mike's answer, if you plan to ask &quot;What is the connection between X and Y?&quot; you need to clarify &lt;strong&gt;why you feel there's a connection&lt;/strong&gt; and highlight what you would consider to be an acceptable answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Is 'The Princess Diaries' part of the MCU?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;would be an astoundingly &lt;em&gt;poor&lt;/em&gt; question. There's no indication that this is the case and while &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Entertainment#Disney_subsidiary&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Marvel is a division of Disney&lt;/a&gt;, it's never been the case that their properties have crossed over universe-wise. Unless you could show some reasoning behind it, it's likely that this question would be downvoted into oblivion even if it wasn't closed as opinion-based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, on the other hand you were interested in finding out whether there are any cast/crew crossovers between Princess Diaries and the MCU, that might actually work as a question. Something like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Have any MCU crew worked on 'The Princess Diaries'?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is actually mildly interesting. A &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/search/name?roles=tt0247638,tt1981115&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;surprising&lt;/a&gt; number of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/search/name?roles=tt0247638,tt0371746&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;people&lt;/a&gt; seem to have been &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/search/name?roles=tt0247638,tt0848228&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;involved&lt;/a&gt; with both studios, especially in relation to the music, visual effects and stuntwork.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2016-04-05T11:50:56.393" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9392" CreationDate="2016-04-05T16:13:15.490" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have tried to fix as much as I have clear idea about but had doubts with few question, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/93098/can-beast-boy-turn-into-other-humans&quot;&gt;this beast boy question&lt;/a&gt;, as beast boy never directly appeared in DCAU but had partial cameo in Static shock. Might  also have intentionally/unintentional left few vague ones, which others can help in sorting out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway Tag wiki for the tag has been fixed to elaborate what is counted as canon. I hope it help future tag users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6006" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2016-04-05T16:13:15.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9418" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-05T22:51:59.540" Score="5" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;Typically, a short story which is identified here will have appeared in several different magazines, anthologies, or collections, and the text may (or may not) vary slightly or considerably from one publication to another. In answering a story-identification question (or any other kind of question) with quotations from the text, &lt;strong&gt;how important is it to specify the exact edition being quoted?&lt;/strong&gt; Is it mandatory, or is it optional, or is it considered noise? If the answer is that it's mandatory, does that mean we should revise our old answers with imprecisely attributed quotations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastEditorUserId="14111" LastEditDate="2016-04-06T00:53:27.353" LastActivityDate="2016-04-06T01:30:14.693" Title="When backing up an answer with quotations from a printed work, how important is it to specify the exact edition from which the quotations are drawn?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9418" CreationDate="2016-04-06T01:30:14.693" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When there are &lt;em&gt;relevant&lt;/em&gt; differences between editions, please specify which one you're using.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/106969/can-molly-weasley-apparate&quot;&gt;Can Molly Weasley apparate?&lt;/a&gt; is a good example of a question in which the answer depends on a quote which &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/106986/what-is-the-provenance-of-this-harry-potter-and-the-chamber-of-secrets-quote&quot;&gt;appears in one edition but not another&lt;/a&gt; of the Harry Potter books, both editions being very widespread. So the answer should specify which edition is being quoted from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the OP of a story-ID question specifically remembers a scene which was in one version of the story but not another (hypothetical, but you may have a concrete example which inspired this meta post), then again a good answer would specify which particular version is what the OP is looking for.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;In general, specifying which edition you're quoting from is recommended but not mandatory.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless you own two editions of the same book, or you happen to be an expert on all the different versions of it, you probably won't &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; how much they differ from each other and whether the differences are relevant. So to be on the safe side, it's probably best to specify which edition you're quoting from, just in case there do turn out to be relevant differences which you weren't aware of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But making this a requirement would be a massive pain for a lot of people and cause more problems than it solved. I suspect most people (including myself) own a copy of a book without knowing what edition it is, or how many editions there are, or how specific they need to be to ensure there's no ambiguity. Forcing people to specify edition every time they provide a book quote in an answer would make people afraid to provide quotes, which would lower the quality of answers. Let's not go there.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;And finally, just to remind everyone how important these between-version differences can be ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Han shot first!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2016-04-06T01:30:14.693" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9420" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9422" CreationDate="2016-04-06T01:58:01.733" Score="2" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;Five questions have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pottermore&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pottermore&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pottermore&lt;/a&gt; tag. I presume that @ibid knows what the tag is for, since he wrote four out of the five questions. Two questions are about &lt;a href=&quot;http://pottermore.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pottermore&lt;/a&gt; specifically, but I don't know why the other three have it as a tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion: either write a tag wiki excerpt or remove the tag, presumably with ibid's input.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36115" LastActivityDate="2016-04-06T03:43:44.067" Title="What is the [pottermore] tag used for?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9421" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9424" CreationDate="2016-04-06T02:06:36.317" Score="2" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;Five questions are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mote-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mote-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mote-series&lt;/a&gt;. One of those questions is also tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/co-dominium-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;co-dominium-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;co-dominium-series&lt;/a&gt;. Checking Wikipedia, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mote_in_God%27s_Eye&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Mote in God's Eye&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; is a novel that is part of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoDominium&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CoDominium&lt;/a&gt; series, which itself is apparently subdivided into several series, including a &quot;Moties series.&quot; Nothing on Wikipedia is named &quot;Mote Series.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both tags clearly relate to the series which contain &lt;em&gt;The Mote in God's Eye&lt;/em&gt;, but I'm not familiar with the books and I don't know what the tag names should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do we need both &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mote-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mote-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mote-series&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/co-dominium-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;co-dominium-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;co-dominium-series&lt;/a&gt;, or should one be merged into the other?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mote-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mote-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mote-series&lt;/a&gt; be renamed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/moties-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;moties-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;moties-series&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/co-dominium-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;co-dominium-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;co-dominium-series&lt;/a&gt; be renamed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/codominium-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;codominium-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;codominium-series&lt;/a&gt; (without the first hyphen)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36115" LastActivityDate="2016-04-07T12:38:26.883" Title="What is the difference between the [co-dominium-series] and [mote-series] tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9420" CreationDate="2016-04-06T03:43:44.067" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having &amp;quot;Pottermore&amp;quot; as a tag only makes sense when the question is &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; Pottermore. As you mention, this applies to two of the (currently) five &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pottermore&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pottermore&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pottermore&lt;/a&gt;-tagged questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/115453/why-was-the-old-pottermore-shut-down&quot;&gt;Why was the old Pottermore shut down?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/113605/what-are-the-differences-between-old-pottermore-and-new&quot;&gt;What are the differences between old Pottermore and new?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My best guess is that, for two of the remaining three, it was used because the question was motivated by information gathered from Pottermore:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/115239/why-would-the-headmaster-try-re-curing-dragon-pox&quot;&gt;Why would the Headmaster try re-curing Dragon Pox?&lt;/a&gt; is motivated by one the Pottermore sorting quiz&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/112014/what-happened-to-each-of-the-original-forty&quot;&gt;What happened to each of The Original Forty?&lt;/a&gt; is motivated by a piece of original writing posted on Pottermore&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not, to my mind, a good reason for a tag. It's worth pointing out that one of the suggested edit &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/238333/what-guidance-should-be-given-when-edits-are-rejected/239950#239950&quot;&gt;rejection reasons&lt;/a&gt; is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Irrelevant tags&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This edit introduces tags that do not help to define the topic of the question. Tags should help to describe what the question is &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt;, not just what it &lt;em&gt;contains&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No sensible interpretation would argue that those two questions are &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; Pottermore; they're about the &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; canon, and we already have a tag for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The final question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/123493/why-isnt-draco-malfoy-behind-bars-in-azkaban&quot;&gt;Why isn&amp;#39;t Draco Malfoy behind bars in Azkaban?&lt;/a&gt;, I assume had the tag added as a way to motivate answers - perhaps to indicate that Pottermore is an acceptable source. Again, the question isn't &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; Pottermore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we're &lt;em&gt;going&lt;/em&gt; to keep it&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, that's the only sensible usage guidance: for questions about the Pottermore &lt;em&gt;website&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; And, personally, I don't have strong feelings either way; it's clearly not a tag that's getting used a whole lot, but it also doesn't really hurt anyone to have, so long as its use is policed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-04-06T03:43:44.067" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9398" CreationDate="2016-04-06T10:43:32.023" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should &lt;strong&gt;let the question be&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that can be answered by following the first link of a simple google search are closed.&#xA;But if it takes several links to read and summarize, then a question is legit, &lt;strong&gt;even if the links to read and summarize belongs to Scifi.SE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So a good answer to this particular question would provide the two links you did, with pertinent extracts from each explaining why you consider one source or the other more canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13418" LastEditorUserId="13418" LastEditDate="2016-04-06T10:48:40.330" LastActivityDate="2016-04-06T10:48:40.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9421" CreationDate="2016-04-06T11:01:12.687" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A bit of research has convinced me the term &quot;Mote series&quot; &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; used, and is in fact more common than &quot;Moties series&quot;. The search terms &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22mote+series%22+jerry+purnelle&amp;amp;ie=utf-8&amp;amp;oe=utf-8&amp;amp;gws_rd=cr&amp;amp;ei=8uQEV8KnCcHwUJXOs7AG#q=%22mote+series%22+jerry+pournelle&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Mote series&quot; Jerry Pournelle&lt;/a&gt; yield 7200 results on Google, while &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22moties+series%22+jerry+pournelle&amp;amp;ie=utf-8&amp;amp;oe=utf-8&amp;amp;gws_rd=cr&amp;amp;ei=t-UEV5iyBIOBU9n9v5AN&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Moties series&quot; Jerry Pournelle&lt;/a&gt; yield only 500-odd. Given that the terminology used by Wikipedia will actually skew results towards &quot;Moties series&quot; (since so many other websites copy Wikipedia's content, any phrase used on Wikipedia will generate hundreds of hits from that fact alone), I think this means that &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Mote series&quot; is by far the more popular term&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main books in the Mote series are &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mote_in_God%27s_Eye&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Mote in God's Eye&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gripping_Hand&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Gripping Hand&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Outies&lt;/em&gt; - the latter being an authorised sequel written by Jerry Pournelle's daughter and marketed as &quot;Mote Series, Book 3&quot; (it's even mentioned as such on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoDominium&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt; you linked to).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, the term &quot;CoDominion series&quot; seems to refer to all works set within the imagined history that begins with an alliance (the CoDominium) between the USA and a revived USSR, who manage to colonise various planets before the alliance breaks down. Most of these books are written or co-written by Jerry Pournelle, but they don't form a single unified series, more a collection of works which are vaguely connected by being set within the same universe. As far as I can understand, though, the Mote series does form a coherent and unified narrative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, let's consider your bullet-pointed suggestions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do we need both &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mote-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mote-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mote-series&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/co-dominium-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;co-dominium-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;co-dominium-series&lt;/a&gt;, or should one be merged into the other?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, let's keep them both.&lt;/strong&gt; There aren't very many questions on either of them at the moment, but that could change, and there's plenty of precedent for having one tag for the wider series or universe and more tags for sub-collections of works within that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it might be worth hunting around for more questions to tag with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/codominium-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;codominium-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;codominium-series&lt;/a&gt;. This tag is only used on one question so far, but there may be others (not necessarily &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mote-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mote-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mote-series&lt;/a&gt; questions) which deserve the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Should &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mote-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mote-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mote-series&lt;/a&gt; be renamed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/moties-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;moties-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;moties-series&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt; However, when you write a tag wiki for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mote-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mote-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mote-series&lt;/a&gt; (as I'm sure you plan to do shortly), it's worth mentioning that it can also be called the Moties series. I don't think there's any point in setting up a synonym either, since when people type &lt;code&gt;mot&lt;/code&gt; into the tag box they'll get this tag via autocomplete anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Should &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/co-dominium-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;co-dominium-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;co-dominium-series&lt;/a&gt; be renamed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/codominium-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;codominium-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;codominium-series&lt;/a&gt; (without the first hyphen)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes.&lt;/strong&gt; I've just done this, and edited the tag wiki to say CoDominium instead of Co-Dominium.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: on the advice of user14111 (who's far more knowledgeable about 20th-century science fiction literature than I am), I renamed the tag to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/codominium-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;codominium-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;codominium-universe&lt;/a&gt; instead. Note that this required no editing of posts: no front page was harmed in the making of this answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-04-07T12:38:26.883" LastActivityDate="2016-04-07T12:38:26.883" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9351" CreationDate="2016-04-06T12:46:50.243" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Best questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/113380/4918&quot;&gt;How much was accomplished with the practical BB-8 prop?&lt;/a&gt; (Keen's question) - I like this one because I'd heard contradictory rumors before, like that no moving props were used and the BB-8 in the desert was all computer animated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/118212/4918&quot;&gt;Why are storm troopers legs asymmetrical?&lt;/a&gt; (Jonathan.'s question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/118387/4918&quot;&gt;What is the &amp;quot;About the Author&amp;quot; blurb in Shadows of the Empire supposed to say?&lt;/a&gt; (Wad Cheber's question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Best answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/117108/4918&quot;&gt;What's the story behind the Spock helmet?&lt;/a&gt; (Jason Baker's answer)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/114611/4918&quot;&gt;What other Harry Potter related writings has Rowling written?&lt;/a&gt; (ibid's answer) - a great list of references.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions of unusual topics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/114090/4918&quot;&gt;Pears in Doctor Who&lt;/a&gt; (Rand al'Thor's question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/115402/4918&quot;&gt;Which &amp;#39;finger&amp;#39; was BB-8 sticking up?&lt;/a&gt;  (Keen's question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2016-04-06T12:46:50.243" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9409" CreationDate="2016-04-07T15:11:02.677" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's how to get it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt; is available on Redbox in the US for both DVD and Blu-Ray.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The full movie is generally available for $15 USD the DVD or $20 USD for the Blu-ray/Digital HD combo. Online retailers have those prices, and in-store mega marts generally have those prices until Fridays after the release (then they go up about $5, but Amazon, for instance, generally doesn't).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The digital release is available for full purchase on most major online video stores, including iTunes, Google Play, Vudu, and more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, there no digital rental option yet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The UK physical copy is not available until April 18th. The digital release is on April 11th.&lt;/strong&gt; It'll run about £13.99 for HD and £9.99 for SD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please feel free to edit with EU/AUS/Other release dates. Hopefully they're before or on the 11th.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2016-04-07T15:11:02.677" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9428" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9429" CreationDate="2016-04-07T16:44:06.867" Score="5" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was taking a look through the list of unanswered &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions the other day, and I noticed that, though I thought that the list was sorted high-to-low by vote, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification?page=64&amp;amp;sort=unanswered&amp;amp;pagesize=15&quot;&gt;tail end of the list&lt;/a&gt; has some surprisingly high-scored posts on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the basis on which the list is being sorted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42769" LastEditorUserId="3267" LastEditDate="2016-04-07T16:47:31.210" LastActivityDate="2016-04-07T17:36:37.483" Title="What is the basis for sorting unanswered [story-identification] questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9428" CreationDate="2016-04-07T17:23:55.710" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The '&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification?page=64&amp;amp;sort=unanswered&amp;amp;pagesize=15&quot;&gt;unanswered&lt;/a&gt;' question list only shows questions that have &lt;strong&gt;no upvoted answers&lt;/strong&gt;, cross-sorted by descending number of votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The top of the list has those questions that haven't been answered at all (zero answers) whereas the bottom of the list has questions with one or more downvoted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification?page=58&amp;amp;sort=unanswered&amp;amp;pagesize=15&quot;&gt;first 58 pages&lt;/a&gt; are those with no answers, then those with an increasing number of downvoted answers, culminating with what is arguably &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/64917/movie-about-humans-living-on-another-planet-and-are-at-war-with-each-other&quot;&gt;the worst question on the site&lt;/a&gt;; no upvotes and only a single downvoted answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-04-07T17:36:37.483" LastActivityDate="2016-04-07T17:36:37.483" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9408" CreationDate="2016-04-07T23:04:39.523" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the other answers that in fringe cases such questions may be on topic. However, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/124431/why-does-stan-lee-make-a-cameo-in-the-princess-diaries-2&quot;&gt;question that has arose&lt;/a&gt; from this discussion is, I feel, not on topic for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While questions about Stan Lee's cameos in certain media have been asked, the items in those questions have been about science fiction or fantasy topics. And while I've not seen The Princess Diaries 2, the plot summaries I've read don't make mention of any science fiction or fantasy elements. Apart from The Princess Diaries 2 being a Disney production, it doesn't appear to be linked to any fantastical elements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1234" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2016-04-07T23:04:39.523" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9431" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9432" CreationDate="2016-04-08T10:27:24.323" Score="21" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/124480/13418&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It certainly does not &quot;Look OK&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I can't edit it because I don't know anything about Halo.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I wouldn't recommend deletion because I think the author can improve it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should I just skip it ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I took time to leave a comment to indicate to the answerer what he should do. It seems unfair to just skip it in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the correct course of action ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13418" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2016-04-14T09:58:21.753" Title="I feel like I don't have enough options when reviewing low quality posts" Tags="|discussion|review-queue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9431" CreationDate="2016-04-08T13:59:06.660" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off, &lt;strong&gt;you should &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; seriously consider skipping&lt;/strong&gt;, especially if you know nothing about the property in question. Skipping isn't the mark of failure, it's simply a way of saying that you genuinely think that someone else might be able to objectively assess the answer better than you can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what are your remaining options? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Looks OK&lt;/strong&gt; - Not appropriate. Even a cursory glance shows that the answer doesn't address the key point raised (e.g. &lt;em&gt;what would happen?&lt;/em&gt;) and while it's perfectly acceptable to disagree with the main thesis of a question, you need to explain (in pretty solid detail) why the question's assumptions are wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit the Answer&lt;/strong&gt; - Not appropriate. You don't know anything about Halo and anything you add (beyond fixing grammar and spelling) would be sheer guesswork.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mark for Deletion&lt;/strong&gt; - This is the correct option. In its current state, the answer simply doesn't address the question. Once it's deleted, It's not gone forever and the OP can still improve it further and vote for it to be reopened. If you're genuinely in agony, you can always leave a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it happens, one of your friendly mods has already converted the question into a comment, where it belongs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-04-12T13:26:26.727" LastActivityDate="2016-04-12T13:26:26.727" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9433" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9436" CreationDate="2016-04-08T16:44:36.883" Score="5" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ethics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ethics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ethics&lt;/a&gt; tag has ten questions and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/morality&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;morality&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;morality&lt;/a&gt; tag has nine. The tag wiki excerpts on both are basically dictionary definitions. Should we merge these tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/morality&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;morality&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;morality&lt;/a&gt; tag has a full tag wiki which contains a bit of information on what sort of questions would be appropriate for this site. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ethics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ethics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ethics&lt;/a&gt; tag has no tag wiki (only an excerpt). I suggest making &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ethics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ethics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ethics&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/morality&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;morality&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;morality&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36115" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-04-14T14:31:19.667" LastActivityDate="2016-04-14T14:31:19.667" Title="Should we merge [ethics] and [morality]?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9434" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-04-08T16:46:14.530" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-04-08T16:46:14.530" LastActivityDate="2016-04-08T16:46:14.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9435" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-04-08T16:46:14.530" Score="0" Body="For questions about tag synonyms: either existing synonyms or proposals to create new synonyms." OwnerUserId="36115" LastEditorUserId="36115" LastEditDate="2016-04-08T17:33:30.487" LastActivityDate="2016-04-08T17:33:30.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9433" CreationDate="2016-04-08T21:21:11.230" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ethics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ethics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ethics&lt;/a&gt; has now been merged and synonymised with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/morality&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;morality&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;morality&lt;/a&gt;. All questions previously tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ethics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ethics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ethics&lt;/a&gt; are now tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/morality&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;morality&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;morality&lt;/a&gt; instead, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ethics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ethics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ethics&lt;/a&gt; will map to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/morality&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;morality&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;morality&lt;/a&gt; for all new questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/morality/synonyms&quot;&gt;Link to synonym.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-04-08T21:21:11.230" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9409" CreationDate="2016-04-12T00:41:27.430" Score="4" Body="&lt;h1&gt;At &lt;strong&gt;17 watchers / lurkers&lt;/strong&gt; at the highest points, this was one of our most successful movie nights ever!!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to all of the attendees for making this an awesome movie night &amp;mdash; it was a blast!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those who are interested, the transcript starts &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198/2016/4/11/22-23&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As always, many thanks to &lt;strong&gt;@AncientSwordRage&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;@Randal'Thor,&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;@Null&lt;/strong&gt; for advertising these events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastEditorUserId="40294" LastEditDate="2016-04-12T13:49:01.423" LastActivityDate="2016-04-12T13:49:01.423" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9438" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-12T01:20:57.183" Score="1" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I say we don't.&lt;/strong&gt; However, YMMV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/knight-bus&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;knight-bus&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;knight-bus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; tag was recently created and has a total of &lt;strong&gt;5 questions&lt;/strong&gt; attached to it. No tag-wiki or tag-excerpt either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a bit of a specific tag, a bit too specific IMO. I can't imagine anyone searching or favouring or ignoring that tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do we do with this tag?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-04-12T01:36:30.850" LastActivityDate="2016-04-12T12:54:31.470" Title="Do we need the [Knight-Bus]?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9440" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9441" CreationDate="2016-04-12T04:53:19.697" Score="-1" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;I keep seeing the term OP in reference to someone who has asked a question and I wanted to know what words OP stand for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57258" LastActivityDate="2016-04-12T05:27:58.497" Title="What does OP stand for?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2016-04-12T05:37:19.050" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9440" CreationDate="2016-04-12T05:27:58.497" Score="4" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Original poster&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, on the question above, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/57258/the-mandolorian&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; are the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2016-04-12T05:27:58.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9438" CreationDate="2016-04-12T12:36:55.170" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since deleting it won't improve the site in any meaningful way but &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; result in the front page being spammed with irrelevant minor edits, I think we should just leave it alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per my &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9207/when-should-we-do-another-tag-cleanup/9211#comment24451_9207&quot;&gt;earlier comment&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9211/20774&quot;&gt;answer to a similar question&lt;/a&gt;, I'd also like to suggest that asking future questions about minor tag edits like this should be avoided &lt;strong&gt;unless you can explain how changing these tags will result in some sort of improvement to the site.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.323" LastActivityDate="2016-04-12T12:36:55.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9438" CreationDate="2016-04-12T12:54:31.470" Score="1" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Maybe it wasn't worth creating, but nor is it worth getting rid of at this stage.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a lot of tags about fairly minor items or concepts in the &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; series. For instance: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/polyjuice-potion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;polyjuice-potion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;polyjuice-potion&lt;/a&gt; (22 questions), &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apparition&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apparition&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apparition&lt;/a&gt; (13 questions), &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dada&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dada&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dada&lt;/a&gt; (24 questions), &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/invisibility-cloak&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;invisibility-cloak&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;invisibility-cloak&lt;/a&gt; (9 questions). Your argument about specificity applies to these tags too, and so does the argument in @amarillo's now-deleted answer that none of these tags is going to be used without &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;. Remove &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/knight-bus&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;knight-bus&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;knight-bus&lt;/a&gt; and we open the floodgates for removing a whole lot of other minor HP-related tags. If we do that manually, we'll spam up the front page with more-or-less useless edits; and it's certainly not an important enough issue to be worth bugging a CM or dev to burninate the tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, &lt;strong&gt;the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/knight-bus&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;knight-bus&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;knight-bus&lt;/a&gt; tag passes all our tag tests&lt;/strong&gt;. Firstly, consider &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/239191/278659&quot;&gt;this test&lt;/a&gt; proposed by a CM on main meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? &lt;strong&gt;Yes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is the concept described even on-topic for the site? &lt;strong&gt;Yes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does the tag add any meaningful information to the post? &lt;strong&gt;Yes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does it mean the same thing in all common contexts? &lt;strong&gt;Yes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even more impressively, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/knight-bus&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;knight-bus&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;knight-bus&lt;/a&gt; passes the (rather more draconian, and now more or less rejected) tag test we got from Chemistry.SE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does it make sense to be an &amp;quot;expert in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/knight-bus&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;knight-bus&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;knight-bus&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;? &lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt; (2 points).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does it make sense for a question to be tagged &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/knight-bus&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;knight-bus&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;knight-bus&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt; (-1 point).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/knight-bus&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;knight-bus&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;knight-bus&lt;/a&gt; have a single, universally-unambiguous meaning? &lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt; (2 points).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/knight-bus&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;knight-bus&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;knight-bus&lt;/a&gt; likely to be used correctly just based on its name? &lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt; (2 points).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are there &amp;quot;enough&amp;quot; (&amp;gt; 15) but not &amp;quot;too many&amp;quot; (&amp;gt; 10% site-wide) questions that qualify for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/knight-bus&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;knight-bus&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;knight-bus&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;strong&gt;Maybe&lt;/strong&gt; (1 point).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are people like to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/knight-bus&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;knight-bus&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;knight-bus&lt;/a&gt; to find questions to answer? &lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt; (2 points).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are there likely some users (&lt;em&gt;be objective!&lt;/em&gt;) who will favorite or ignore &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/knight-bus&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;knight-bus&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;knight-bus&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;strong&gt;Maybe&lt;/strong&gt; (1 point).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Could &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/knight-bus&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;knight-bus&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;knight-bus&lt;/a&gt; be reasonably used to feed questions to a specialized chat room? &lt;strong&gt;Maybe&lt;/strong&gt; (1 point).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Can &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/knight-bus&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;knight-bus&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;knight-bus&lt;/a&gt; be used to search for questions (for any reason) in a way that keyword searching cannot accomplish? &lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt; (-1 point).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Total is &lt;strong&gt;9&lt;/strong&gt;, which is enough not to get rid of the tag even by the standards of this test.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-04-12T12:54:31.470" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9444" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9445" CreationDate="2016-04-12T18:55:34.317" Score="22" ViewCount="936" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our top tag is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, with nearly 6000 questions and nearly 7000 answers, many of which are new users' first contributions to the site. Many of these new users need some guidance on how to answer a story-ID question well (include as many details as possible), and established users often need to leave comments along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please add a summary or some details about this story so that we can tell how closely it matches the one described in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of this meta post is to give us a single page to link these users to, for guidance on how to write a good story-ID answer and what to think of and include. It acts as a sequel to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9335/how-to-ask-a-good-story-id-question&quot;&gt;this previous post&lt;/a&gt; on how to write a good story-ID &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What advice would you offer on writing a good &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; answer?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2021-08-01T12:29:56.243" Title="How to write a good story-ID answer?" Tags="|discussion|faq|story-identification|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9444" CreationDate="2016-04-12T19:44:08.210" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;As one of the site's top answerers of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;story-identification-container&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions (by volume), I tend to follow a very simple process when answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Movie ID&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Indicate the &lt;em&gt;name&lt;/em&gt; of the film&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Indicate the &lt;em&gt;year&lt;/em&gt; of the film&lt;/strong&gt; (if needed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Link the name of the film to IMDB&lt;/strong&gt; (or another reliable source of information such as Rotten Tomatoes)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Include a brief synopsis of the film&lt;/strong&gt;, preferably one that mentions the points raised by the OP.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Include a youtube link to the film's trailer&lt;/strong&gt; (or the full film if one exists)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If the OP has mentioned a specific scene and you can find a link to that scene (either a pic or a vid), add that as well.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Story ID&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Indicate the name of the story&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Indicate the year of the story&lt;/strong&gt; (if needed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Indicate the author of the story&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Link the story to an appropriate source.&lt;/strong&gt; For short-stories, I tend to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ISFDB&lt;/a&gt;, for books I tend to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;goodreads&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Add a synopsis of the story&lt;/strong&gt;, preferably one that mentions the points raised by the OP (or the full story if one exists in a copyright free format).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mention any plot elements that &lt;em&gt;don't match the description given&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Include the book's cover.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2023-01-29T13:54:16.550" LastActivityDate="2018-05-06T23:53:08.673" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9446" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-12T20:41:18.780" Score="-5" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rule of Two seems to get &lt;strike&gt;too much&lt;/strike&gt; a lot of attention in the form of questions on SF&amp;amp;F.SE and it got me wondering, should there be a tag for [rule-of-two]?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would make it easier to find answers sooner, thus reducing rule of two related duplicates&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the rule of two never interested you in the first place (me), then you could be able to ignore that tag and viola, everyone's happy!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54827" LastActivityDate="2016-04-13T02:12:42.027" Title="Should there be a tag for the Rule of Two?" Tags="|tags|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9446" CreationDate="2016-04-13T02:12:42.027" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the sake of having an answer, I’ll say that we don’t need a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rule-of-two&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rule-of-two&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rule-of-two&lt;/a&gt; tag. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sith&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sith&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sith&lt;/a&gt; tag is a good related tag, and adding a more specific tag isn’t worth the 40-something edits it would take.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36115" LastActivityDate="2016-04-13T02:12:42.027" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7946" CreationDate="2016-04-13T14:07:17.163" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pottermore.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4tnwt.png&quot; alt=&quot;Need more Potter? Visit J.K. Rowling’s Pottermore.com for fresh Potter facts and fun! Updated regularly.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43655" LastActivityDate="2016-04-13T14:07:17.163" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9449" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-13T21:20:00.623" Score="2" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;Beyond 1984. Beyond 2001. Beyond Love. Beyond Death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ZARDOZ! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qB87n.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qB87n.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17566" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-04-13T23:38:19.820" LastActivityDate="2016-04-19T05:06:17.817" Title="Recommendation for next Movie Event" Tags="|discussion|chat-event|movie-night|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9449" CreationDate="2016-04-13T23:37:48.143" Score="1" Body="&lt;h1&gt;We'll be making a request for suggestions soon here on Meta....&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please remember to add &lt;em&gt;Zardoz&lt;/em&gt; as a suggestion!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We intend to have another movie night in the next 2-3 weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastEditorUserId="40294" LastEditDate="2016-04-19T05:06:17.817" LastActivityDate="2016-04-19T05:06:17.817" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9451" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-14T00:21:07.660" Score="1" ViewCount="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;When suggesting an alternative site for a question, it only suggests the meta site.  Is it possible to add in more sites, like movies, anime, and others?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40833" LastActivityDate="2016-04-14T00:21:07.660" Title="Other suggested sites" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2016-04-14T19:13:17.917" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9452" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9453" CreationDate="2016-04-14T02:02:35.940" Score="2" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/robocop&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;robocop&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;robocop&lt;/a&gt; tag has 11 questions and this tag wiki excerpt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A 1987 science fiction film starring Peter Weller and its titular character which have inspired a number of sequels, a &quot;reboot&quot;, comic books, and video games. Set in the near future, a cybernetic law enforcer created from a murdered Detroit policeman wages war against criminals and corruption&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/robocop-1987&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;robocop-1987&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;robocop-1987&lt;/a&gt; tag has 13 questions and this tag wiki excerpt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Robocop is a 1987 sci-fi film starring Peter Weller as cop Alex Murphy who is gunned down and then brought back to life as Robocop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That seems familiar...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both tags have full tag wikis. For what it's worth, every &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/robocop&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;robocop&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;robocop&lt;/a&gt;  question is also tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/robocop-1987&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;robocop-1987&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;robocop-1987&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest merging &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/robocop&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;robocop&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;robocop&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/robocop-1987&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;robocop-1987&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;robocop-1987&lt;/a&gt;. Alternatively, we could make &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/robocop&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;robocop&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;robocop&lt;/a&gt; about the franchise by adding &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/robocop&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;robocop&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;robocop&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/robocop-2014+or+robocop-1987+-robocop&quot;&gt;these four questions&lt;/a&gt; and rewriting its tag wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36115" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2016-04-14T13:58:07.290" Title="Should we synonymize [robocop] and [robocop-1987]?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9452" CreationDate="2016-04-14T12:24:21.450" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just added &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/robocop&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;robocop&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;robocop&lt;/a&gt; to the few &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/robocop-1987&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;robocop-1987&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;robocop-1987&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/robocop-2014&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;robocop-2014&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;robocop-2014&lt;/a&gt; questions that didn't have it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And @amarillo has now rewritten the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/robocop&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;robocop&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;robocop&lt;/a&gt; tag wiki so that this tag applies to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop_%28franchise%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the whole franchise&lt;/a&gt; and not just the 1987 film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Problem solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-04-14T13:57:37.287" LastActivityDate="2016-04-14T13:57:37.287" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2848" CreationDate="2016-04-14T21:01:02.037" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't think this is feasible on as grand a scale as you propose ...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding a notice to &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; answer of the form &quot;this is unknown as of now, but may be revealed in later canon&quot; in order to put a timestamp on when that later canon is likely to be published would be a pretty big operation, and probably not feasible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;... but maybe in one particular setting.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we close questions as off-topic because they're &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5187/should-questions-about-future-works-be-closed-as-primarily-opinion-based&quot;&gt;about future works&lt;/a&gt;, the OP often doesn't get any specific feedback since the standard close reason to use for this is &quot;primarily opinion-based&quot;. One or more of the close-voters may leave a comment to say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is about a future work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but usually without a link to the relevant meta consensus or anywhere the OP can learn more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In cases where the community goes to the trouble of closing a question for being about future works, why not also go to the trouble of adding the date when this future work is schedules to appear, as a suggested date for reopening? We could recommend, if not require, that &lt;strong&gt;when voting to close a question due to the future works policy, users should use a custom VTC reason and mention an approximate date when the question will be reopenable and answerable:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it conflicts with our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5187/should-questions-about-future-works-be-closed-as-primarily-opinion-based&quot;&gt;future works policy&lt;/a&gt;. It will be reopenable in &lt;em&gt;March 2017&lt;/em&gt; when &lt;em&gt;[...]&lt;/em&gt; is set to be released.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.730" LastActivityDate="2016-04-14T21:01:02.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2016-04-15T02:35:29.510" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;My avatar is GIR with his dog costume and a mustache and a sombrero because I'm mexican and Invader Zim is one of my favorite cartoons...and I don't mind stereotypes.&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/y3ldX.png?s=328&amp;amp;g=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/y3ldX.png?s=328&amp;amp;g=1&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21184" LastActivityDate="2016-04-15T02:35:29.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8161" CreationDate="2016-04-15T05:28:03.230" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/472000/find-all-questions-sucessfully-migrated-away-from-a-site?Site=scifi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This data.SE query&lt;/a&gt; shows how many questions have been migrated away from this site that have never been closed on the target site. Movies &amp;amp; TV is by far the most common target for successful migration:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Site          Count Latest Migration &#xA;------------- ----- ---------------- &#xA;Movies        72    2016-03-22 15:09:53&#xA;English       8     2016-02-02 15:49:22&#xA;Physics       8     2015-02-19 04:47:56&#xA;Worldbuilding 7     2016-03-22 17:04:56&#xA;Gaming        5     2016-01-27 19:18:48&#xA;History       3     2015-06-04 13:09:18&#xA;Writers       3     2014-01-06 19:38:15&#xA;Anime         2     2015-06-08 00:29:30&#xA;Space         2     2013-07-29 16:59:30&#xA;Astronomy     1     2014-07-09 14:38:49&#xA;Biology       1     2013-05-12 12:40:15&#xA;Boardgames    1     2012-08-20 21:29:07&#xA;Earthscience  1     2014-10-02 18:21:23&#xA;Graphicdesign 1     2014-01-27 22:46:46&#xA;Hermeneutics  1     2012-04-10 21:32:38&#xA;Linguistics   1     2016-03-17 21:51:14&#xA;Mythology     1     2016-03-14 15:27:09&#xA;Security      1     2012-01-25 21:45:33&#xA;Travel        1     2012-10-04 21:05:20&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other answers have already shown that a Movies &amp;amp; TV migration path isn't needed right now, but if we ever add a migration path to anywhere, Movies &amp;amp; TV would be the site to add. But from the numbers above, we've had only 1.3 successful migrations to Movies &amp;amp; TV per month over that site's lifetime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36115" LastEditorUserId="36115" LastEditDate="2016-04-15T05:45:03.590" LastActivityDate="2016-04-15T05:45:03.590" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9457" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9458" CreationDate="2016-04-15T12:25:54.643" Score="3" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked a question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/124622/25784&quot;&gt;Has Batman ever fought Hawkman?&lt;/a&gt;) the pertained to a single battle of a tournament that was constructed by a kids comic book (I don't remember which one of the top of my head).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if I could ask a similar question but have it cover the entire tournament?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be too broad because of the amount of times that some heroes and villains have fought each other?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;would it be too broad because of the length of the answers?  I assume that the length of the answers may get rather long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25784" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2016-04-15T13:21:03.970" Title="DC ComicTournament Bracket?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9457" CreationDate="2016-04-15T12:36:13.370" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would strongly suggest that you post each pairing as a separate question. As you've rightly identified, having the entire tournament in a single question is simply going to be too lengthy and complex for a single answer format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top of that, having all of the bouts in a single question will make it very hard for the average site user to judge the relative worth of each answer, especially if there are multiple sources being used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To my mind, it's far better to follow the format you've already used; &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Has X ever fought Y and if so, who won?&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; and simply replicate it for all of the bouts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-04-15T13:21:03.970" LastActivityDate="2016-04-15T13:21:03.970" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9460" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-15T20:11:57.543" Score="-3" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;After watching the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; tag, I noticed that many questions are of poor quality, simply because the information provided is very minimal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This issue was already discussed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2041/checklist-for-story-identification&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; but the thread is already 3 or 4 years old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with low quality questions on this tag is, that it's just a guessing game. With too little information, the possible answers are too many to give a precise answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm somewhat active on anime/manga stackexchange and they have a special reason to mark a question as off topic because there is too little information. Questioned with enough votes are put on hold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the mentioned site is a checklist, of which at least three points should be covered by a question to be considered on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/891/what-criteria-should-we-use-for-qcing-for-all-identification-request-questions/892#892&quot;&gt;Link to original post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The list covered following items:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Any description of the &lt;strong&gt;leading/recurring character(s)&lt;/strong&gt; (i.e. physical description, behavior, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Any description of any &lt;strong&gt;distinctive features&lt;/strong&gt;, including the plot and related elements (e.g. girls who are soda cans that do battle, or i.e., the setting, the plot)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What the &lt;strong&gt;genre or cinematic style&lt;/strong&gt; was (e.g. mecha, sci-fi, fantasy, shonen, shoujo, seinen, noir, cyberpunk, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What the &lt;strong&gt;drawing/animation style&lt;/strong&gt; is like&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When and where&lt;/strong&gt; you saw it (if you saw it when you were a kid, don't give your age, give the approximate year, and month if possible)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Who the &lt;strong&gt;publisher, licensor, and/or distributor&lt;/strong&gt; was&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Type of media&lt;/strong&gt;: TV show, OVA, movie, manga, web-series, one-shot, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Any &lt;strong&gt;image(s), audio, or video(s)&lt;/strong&gt; related to the series (an exception may be made for questions with one or more of these items)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer also links to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2662/22208&quot;&gt;second thread&lt;/a&gt; which lists following points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Primary&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A complete description of one significant character: Hair color, eye color, skin tone, clothes, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A complete description of one significant location: Type of location (farm, house, etc.), style of location (colors, notable characteristics), etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A complete description of a plot point: Detailed information about a story arc, central theme of an episode, or concept focused on&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Secondary&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Character's name (approximations are fine)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Incomplete character descriptions: Gender, approximate hair style, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Type of media: OVA, TV show, serialized manga, one-shot, doujin, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Publisher, licensor, distributor, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tertiary&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Year you saw it (and month, if possible)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Publication you read it in, or TV channel/network you saw it on&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What language your read/saw it in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What kind of art style it has&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Genre&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, answering three points doesn't automatically mean that the answer is of a higher quality. But the chances that we have enough information to narrow it down to a single instance are higher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example for such a question would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Last year, I read a Manga about a boy, coming into a school where they learn magic. At first nobody liked him, but later on, he became popular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with this question is, that the description isn't detailed enough. I can think of at least half a dozen mangas which cover all of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Almost all of the points in the lists can be adapted to SciFi work, that is not necessarily anime/manga.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples of bad quality questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/125165/sci-fi-story-about-2-young-girls-aged-6-to-9-taken-from-home-and-trained-by-the&quot;&gt;Sci fi story about 2 young girls aged 6 to 9 taken from home and trained by the military&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/93620/1970s-or-1980s-movie-where-peoples-heads-would-explode-in-their-sleep&quot;&gt;1970s or 1980s movie where people's heads would explode in their sleep&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/125133/space-opera-i-read-before-2004-egg-shaped-car-wormhole-biblical-story-arc&quot;&gt;Space opera i read before 2004. egg shaped car , wormhole , biblical story arc , father son reunited&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29135" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:51:26.350" LastActivityDate="2022-02-01T18:46:19.177" Title="Improving threshold for asking story-identification" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|scope|story-identification|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9460" CreationDate="2016-04-15T20:11:57.543" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is an adaption of the lists for SciFi in general:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;List from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/891/what-criteria-should-we-use-for-qcing-for-all-identification-request-questions/892#892&quot;&gt;first thread&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Any description of the &lt;strong&gt;leading/recurring character(s)&lt;/strong&gt; (i.e. physical description, behavior, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Any description of any &lt;strong&gt;distinctive features&lt;/strong&gt;, including the plot and related elements (e.g. girls who are soda cans that do battle, or i.e., the setting, the plot)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What the &lt;strong&gt;genre or cinematic style&lt;/strong&gt; was (e.g. mecha, sci-fi, fantasy, cyberpunk, action, noir, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What were characteristic effects, e.g. lots of lens flares, lots of unfinished sentences, no color except certain elements, etc &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When and where&lt;/strong&gt; you saw it (if you saw it when you were a kid, don't give your age, give the approximate year, and month if possible)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Who the &lt;strong&gt;publisher, licensor, and/or distributor&lt;/strong&gt; was&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Type of media&lt;/strong&gt;: TV show, movie, book, fanfiction, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Any &lt;strong&gt;image(s), audio, or video(s)&lt;/strong&gt; related to the series (an exception may be made for questions with one or more of these items)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;List from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2662/22208&quot;&gt;second thread&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Primary&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A complete description of one significant character: Hair color, eye color, skin tone, clothes, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A complete description of one significant location: Type of location (farm, house, etc.), style of location (colors, notable characteristics), etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A complete description of a plot point: Detailed information about a story arc, central theme of an episode, or concept focused on&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Secondary&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Character's name (approximations are fine)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Incomplete character descriptions: Gender, approximate hair style, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Type of media: TV show, one-shot, book, audiobook, fanfiction etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Publisher, licensor, distributor, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tertiary&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Year you saw it (and month, if possible)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Publication you read it in, or TV channel/network you saw it on&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What language your read/saw it in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What kind of art style it has&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Genre&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29135" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:51:26.350" LastActivityDate="2016-04-15T20:11:57.543" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9460" CreationDate="2016-04-15T20:30:39.197" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I disagree (with gusto)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SFF:SE has always been especially tolerant of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions. It is one of our key specialties and something that we should (rightly) take great pride in. Artificially trying to limit this number by setting an &lt;em&gt;arbitrary quality boundary&lt;/em&gt; will simply result in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fewer visitors&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A larger number of highly contentious arguments&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A smaller volume of questions overall&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(and)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A less active and interesting site&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we should certainly &lt;em&gt;encourage&lt;/em&gt; users to improve the quality of their questions (the recent &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9335/how-to-ask-a-good-story-id-question/9337#9337&quot;&gt;How to ask a good ident question&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; FAQ being a good step in the right direction) setting out to close ident questions because they don't meet a metric that 99% of question askers will have never seen is &lt;strong&gt;utterly counter-productive to the site's overall aims.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h4&gt;Might I suggest that if you don't like the quality of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions we get, your best option is to place them on your &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19173/what-do-favorite-tags-and-ignored-tags-do&quot;&gt;ignore-tags list&lt;/a&gt;, rather than trying to deal with the problem at source.&lt;/h4&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2022-02-01T18:46:19.177" LastActivityDate="2022-02-01T18:46:19.177" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9464" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9465" CreationDate="2016-04-15T23:34:36.947" Score="3" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;For my question &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/123255/51226&quot;&gt;How many people each do Batman and Superman kill in BVS: Dawn of Justice?&lt;/a&gt;,&quot; this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/125236/51226&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; was posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer does not answer my question. I asked how many people Batman and Superman killed in the film. His answer just states why he thinks that Superman didn't kill one specific person in the film. It doesn't mention any of the definitive other Superman and Batman deaths. Apparently other people also didn't like it, because it currently has a score of -5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I flagged this and gave this reasoning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This doesn't answer the question. I asked how many people Batman and Superman killed. All he's stated is why he thinks Superman didn't kill a specific person. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't select &quot;Not an answer&quot; because I wanted to give my reasoning for the flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In return, I was given this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;declined - flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand. Isn't not answering the question something that requires moderator intervention?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2016-04-15T23:53:49.403" Title="Why was this flag rejected?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|moderators|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9464" CreationDate="2016-04-15T23:53:49.403" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Deletion of non-answers doesn't have to be done by moderators.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have &gt;10k rep, so you have access to the Low Quality Posts review queue, where users with sufficient reputation can vote to delete answers that have been flagged as &quot;very low quality&quot; or &quot;not an answer&quot;, and you must have seen posts that have been deleted by three high-rep users rather than a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you see a non-answer (assuming it's not spam, offensive, or gibberish), the best thing to do is &lt;strong&gt;flag it as &quot;not an answer&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;. That will send the answer into the Low Quality Posts review queue, where the community can vote to delete it or not as they see fit. If you want to provide more details as to &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; you think it's not an answer, then &lt;strong&gt;leave a comment&lt;/strong&gt;, which people reviewing the post will see.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;The above was my reasoning for declining the flag on the basis that it &lt;em&gt;doesn't require moderator intervention&lt;/em&gt;. For the record, if it had been an absolutely blatant non-answer, I would have deleted it and marked the flag helpful, but it was enough of a borderline case that I didn't want to take binding moderator action without letting the community have a say first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also considered declining it on the basis of &lt;em&gt;flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies or an altogether wrong answer.&lt;/em&gt; The answer you flagged could be seen as a &lt;strong&gt;partial answer&lt;/strong&gt;, attempting to answer part of the question while not really addressing the whole of it. Personally I agree with you, and if I wasn't a mod I would have voted to delete it, but it was a borderline enough case that I thought we should allow the community to decide (and quite possibly the answer will end up deleted after all - it already has one pending vote to delete) rather than a single moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2016-04-15T23:53:49.403" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9466" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9467" CreationDate="2016-04-17T01:05:56.863" Score="9" ViewCount="205" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's about 15 seconds of speech in Russian in the film &lt;em&gt;2001: A Space Odyssey&lt;/em&gt;. The subtitles on the DVD don't show what they're saying. I didn't see any other requests for translation with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/translation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;translation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;translation&lt;/a&gt; tag. Would it be on-topic to ask what they said?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that this site is for science fiction experts, not experts in Russian, but at least one person on the site knows Russian. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/497/subtitles-translations-on-or-off-topic&quot;&gt;This meta question&lt;/a&gt; is related, but it doesn't make it clear whether my question would be on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; I posted my question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/125321/what-do-the-russian-scientists-say-in-this-scene-of-2001-a-space-odyssey&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36115" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-04-27T22:59:06.650" Title="Is this request for a translation on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9466" CreationDate="2016-04-17T01:18:58.400" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Requesting a translation to English of a &lt;em&gt;specific short&lt;/em&gt; passage or clip in a foreign language, in a work of SF/F written mainly in English, is on-topic.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of the following questions have ever been VTCed, giving us a clear precedent:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/112330/what-does-oliver-queen-say-in-russian&quot;&gt;What does Oliver Queen say in Russian?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/105419/what-is-this-norwegian-shouting&quot;&gt;What is this Norwegian shouting?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/109372/what-do-the-arabic-dialogues-in-the-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen-say&quot;&gt;What do the Arabic dialogues in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen say?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good rationale for this policy would be that understanding what's being said in such passages/clips may be important for complete understanding of what's going on in the book/film. Often they're just for flavour, giving the reader/watcher the atmosphere of being in a foreign country or around foreign speakers, but there will always be perfectionists who want to understand every last thing being said, especially on a site like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Usual disclaimers apply: please don't start flooding the site with questions asking for translations of every foreign-language clip in every SFF film ever.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2016-04-27T22:59:06.650" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7446" CreationDate="2016-04-17T16:30:27.257" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;Not my story, but some interesting statistics related to this post.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a graph of the votes on both question and answer over time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nxxaa.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nxxaa.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With nearly 6000 rep, Kyle Hale is easily the person on this site with &lt;strong&gt;the most rep earned from a single post&lt;/strong&gt;. His answer has also earned &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/269743/which-answer-has-earned-highest-bounty-in-se-network&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;more points in bounties than any other answer &lt;em&gt;on the entire Stack Exchange network&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2016-04-17T16:30:27.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9471" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-18T04:19:55.217" Score="10" ViewCount="1096" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, I've been wondering about this question for some time. I'm pretty sure there's a consensus that the whole secret agent/spy action genre is not science fiction, but I can't work out why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's some things that place it in the Sci Fi category:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;technology that doesn't work here and now (you can't actually get most of Mr Bonds gadgets)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;some science-driven technologies (e.g. Magnets used to deflect bullets, collecting huge amounts of sunlight and directing it to make a weapon)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it takes place in our universe. It doesn't claim that its content works outside the laws of physics. It's not super-natural, just deeply implausible.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's some things that place it outside the genre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;no aliens, alternate universes, time travel etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it mostly takes place on this planet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;storylines aren't particularly science-driven. More about people and politics (and punching the Bad Guys™).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm a bit stuck, here. I think it must actually be Sci Fi, even though my first impression is that if definitely is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here's the question; does James Bond fit into the genre of Science Fiction or not? I'd really like to see your working on this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43623" OwnerDisplayName="AJFaraday" LastActivityDate="2016-04-18T10:09:40.200" Title="Is James Bond science fiction?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ClosedDate="2016-04-18T08:08:17.527" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9471" CreationDate="2016-04-18T05:54:47.300" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe most of the denizens of this stack exchange consider James Bond to be off topic, for no logical reason. None of your &quot;things that place it outside the genre&quot; carries any weight whatsoever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;no aliens, alternate universes, time travel etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Most&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; science fiction stories have no aliens, alternate universes, or time travel. I think you will have a hard time coming up with a finite list of gadgets and themes such that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; science fiction story has to have one of them. Anyway, a list of required or permissible themes would be an utterly ridiculous and point-missing way to define science fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;it mostly takes place on this planet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Great gobs of science fiction take place entirely on the planet Earth. As to what proportion of the whole that is, whether more than half or less than half, I wouldn't hazard a guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;storylines aren't particularly science-driven. More about people and politics (and punching the Bad Guys™).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess over 90% of science fiction is not &quot;particularly science-driven.&quot; Consider two four-letter words: &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;. I'm not going to claim that &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; is science fiction, or that it isn't, but whatever it is, it takes up a lot of space in this stack exchange. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastEditorUserId="14111" LastEditDate="2016-04-18T10:09:40.200" LastActivityDate="2016-04-18T10:09:40.200" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2016-04-19T06:30:13.823" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YY0cz.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YY0cz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can I say? They look cute in hats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20538" LastActivityDate="2016-04-19T06:30:13.823" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5190" CreationDate="2016-04-19T13:34:48.710" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answer stealing happens often on this site (and similar internet forums).  Someone posts a question when you are sleeping, and someone else quickly answers it before you had time to react.  You give a better answer half a day later, but everyone has already upvoted the first answer, and few people read your answer.  It doesn't seem fair, because you have given a better answer, but that's how this site always work.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer stealing can also happen when a question is closed and you request reopening, but closing and reopening is simply irrelevant here.  Just because you request reopening doesn't entitle you to give the first answer, the same as knowing the best answer doesn't entitle you to that either. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in short, I am &lt;strong&gt;against&lt;/strong&gt; this recommendation.  If you can give a good answer to a question, and it's open, then do answer it, do not wait for whoever submitted a request to open.  If you know the answer and the question is not open, leave a comment.  In that case, someone can steal the answer from you, but that isn't a big problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I agree with DVK: the other user who steals the answer &lt;strong&gt;might not even have noticed&lt;/strong&gt; that the question was closed and recently re-opened, so you can't really ask people to refrain from answering that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastActivityDate="2016-04-19T13:34:48.710" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9475" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-04-19T14:26:01.780" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the standard close reasons for voting to close a questions is that it is primarily opinion-based. Use this tag for questions about this close reason, usage guidance for it, or specific questions closed for this reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-04-19T14:26:01.780" LastActivityDate="2016-04-19T14:26:01.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9476" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-04-19T14:26:01.780" Score="0" Body="For questions about the &quot;primarily opinion-based&quot; close reason." OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-04-19T14:26:01.780" LastActivityDate="2016-04-19T14:26:01.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9477" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9478" CreationDate="2016-04-20T06:12:27.567" Score="8" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lately I've been finding questions like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/125576/why-did-clara-want-to-be-like-the-doctor&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; that it's only a big chunk of text pasted from probably chakoteya.net, a fan-made site for show transcripts like Doctor Who.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I've seen more, but can't find them anymore. They were probably edited already, as should this one, but I was wondering...is there a policy, or a rule, of how much of a script can be just pasted in the site? I know those are fan-made, and not official, but I was wondering if they could cause trouble for copyright infrigement or something...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2016-04-20T08:06:51.240" Title="How much quote is too much quote?" Tags="|discussion|quotes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9477" CreationDate="2016-04-20T08:06:51.240" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two questions here; Copyright and readability. I'll address them in that order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Copyright&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since these are fan-transcriptions, copyright &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; an issue, but not much of one. This is a site dedicated to discussion of sci-fi and as such, posting even very large chunks of text (short of entire book chapters and large sections of original scripts) is well within the scope of &quot;fair use&quot; under pretty much every definition. Note that as far as I am aware, there have been &lt;strong&gt;zero takedown requests for any quoted text anywhere on the network, ever.&lt;/strong&gt; You're safe to post and if you go overboard, it's likely that a high-rep user or one of the moderation team will tell you well before it becomes a legal issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Readability&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ah, now here's the rub. Posting slabs of formatted text makes questions next to impossible to read, let alone answer. You should pick quotes sparingly to illustrate your main thesis rather than allowing the quote to stand as the actual question. The link you've provided is a perfect example of a question that could be good, but has been ruined by someone overdoing it with the quotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion would be that you should ruthlessly edit everything you write, then look at all the quotes to see if they're &lt;em&gt;really necessary&lt;/em&gt;. If you have even the slightest doubt, cut it out and see if helps. There's no hard 'n' fast rule, but if a quote forms more than 50% of a question or more than 75% of an answer, then you've probably gone too far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2016-04-20T08:06:51.240" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9479" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9483" CreationDate="2016-04-21T03:28:13.813" Score="14" ViewCount="735" Body="&lt;p&gt;Continuing our latest line of movie nights focused on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9303/&quot;&gt;terrible films&lt;/a&gt;, we invite you to nominate your favourite &lt;strong&gt;TERRIBLE comic book film&lt;/strong&gt; for a group viewing!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your suggestion should be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;based on a comic book series and/or comic book character(s)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;readily available on DVD, Blu-Ray, or a digital streaming service (e.g. iTunes, Google Play)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;generally awful&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The more terrible it is, the better!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(What's a &quot;Movie Night&quot;, you ask?  Your question has been wonderfully answered &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7434/40294&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The event will take place in the SFF chatroom &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;22:00 UTC on Sunday the 1st of May.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll kick off the voting with a suggestion or two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Voting closes at 22:00 UTC on Wednesday the 27th of April.  If the film you voted for wins, please make every effort to attend (or else your account will be closed and your rep will be donated to charity).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, even though we are talking about &lt;em&gt;terrible&lt;/em&gt; films, we'll decide by &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;highest&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; number of votes rather than lowest number.  ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;UPDATE: 3-way tie!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of the close of voting, we have a three-way tie!  The winners are &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Phantom&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (1996), nominated by @CreationEdge, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Batman: The Movie&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (1966), nominated by @WadCheber, and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fantastic Four&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (2015), nominated by @RogueJedi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we'll be treated to a &lt;strong&gt;triple of movie nights&lt;/strong&gt; focusing on these terrible comic book films!  Exercising my privilege as movie night organizer, we'll watch them in the following order:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Phantom&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;(22:00 UTC on Sunday 1 May)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Batman: The Movie&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9672/&quot;&gt;22:00 UTC on Tuesday 31 May&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fantastic Four&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9987/&quot;&gt;22:00 UTC on Thursday 28 July&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you voted for one of these films, we hope to see you in Mos during movie night!  If you didn't vote, then we hope to see you too.  The more, the merrier as always!  :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that we'll probably be watching these a few weeks apart, so as to accommodate other events.  In particular, we may propose other movie night themes in between!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2016-07-29T20:01:55.153" Title="Movie Night! Nominate your favourite TERRIBLE comic book film!" Tags="|discussion|chat-event|movie-night|" AnswerCount="15" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9479" CreationDate="2016-04-21T03:28:13.813" Score="5" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;em&gt;Steel&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;(1997, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120207/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_(1997_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shaquille O'Neal's foray into the superhero genre as John Henry Irons (a character introduced during DC Comics' seminal &lt;em&gt;Reign of the Supermen&lt;/em&gt; series) was less than well-received.  It has a mere 12% on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1078035-steel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rotten Tomatoes&lt;/a&gt;, where the critics agree that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Steel is a badly-acted movie that indulges not only in superhero clichés, but also the sappy TV-movie-of-the-week ones.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, 12% is probably a lot more than it deserves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/r7BkP.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/r7BkP.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/-bAWWmLfkWo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Available on &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B003G5K7RW&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DVD and Amazon Instant Video&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastEditorUserId="40294" LastEditDate="2016-04-21T14:29:57.573" LastActivityDate="2016-04-21T14:29:57.573" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9479" CreationDate="2016-04-21T03:36:25.150" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles_(1990_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;(1990)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FEEzu.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FEEzu.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'Nuff said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-04-21T03:36:25.150" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9479" CreationDate="2016-04-21T03:43:53.953" Score="9" Body="&lt;h1&gt;WATCHED: Tuesday 31st of May&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;Batman: The Movie&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(1966_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;(1966)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Available on Amazon Video for free with Prime membership (in the US).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eqq62.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eqq62.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why should we watch this?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Bat Shark Repellent Spray&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view2/1648925/batman-exploding-shark-o.gif&quot; alt=&quot;shark&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Batman running around with a bomb&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3j1uM.gif&quot; alt=&quot;bomb&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://tomscifiblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/tumblr_m7vhjugwae1qhejigo1_500.gif&quot; alt=&quot;bomb2&quot;&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3.  Cesar Romero flying an umbrella&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://images-cdn.moviepilot.com/images/c_fill,h_278,w_493/t_mp_quality_gif/ipjg0pe952zzf2cktoxl/netflix-review-batman-the-movie-1966-yes-that-is-a-giant-flying-umbrella-433133.gif&quot; alt=&quot;umbrella&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4. Batman wearing his utility belt over a surgical gown (and the Super Molecular Dust Separator)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oNBpn.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oNBpn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2016-07-18T21:00:05.887" LastActivityDate="2016-07-18T21:00:05.887" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9479" CreationDate="2016-04-21T03:44:51.910" Score="8" Body="&lt;h1&gt;WATCHED: Sunday 1st of May&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Phantom&lt;/em&gt; (1996)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Available on Netflix in the US and for digital SD / HD rental on iTunes in US, Canada, and UK!&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Phantom, descendent of a line of African superheroes, travels to New York City to thwart a wealthy criminal genius from obtaining three magic skulls which would give him the secret to ultimate power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Purple. So much purple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;THE RING!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2kqipm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2kqipm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has horse(s) in it! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://br.web.img3.acsta.net/medias/nmedia/18/87/07/46/19888244.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://br.web.img3.acsta.net/medias/nmedia/18/87/07/46/19888244.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter link description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OOOH LA LA, BILLY ZANE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SrV4g.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SrV4g.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dual-wielding like a mad pro&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qOdzb.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qOdzb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have confidence in your king of terrible comic book movies&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rfxaV.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rfxaV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="40294" LastEditDate="2016-07-29T20:01:55.153" LastActivityDate="2016-07-29T20:01:55.153" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9479" CreationDate="2016-04-21T04:57:04.863" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103923/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Captain America (1990)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/captain-america1990/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rotten Tomatoes&lt;/a&gt; score: 9%&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/622Ar.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/622Ar.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Captain America (1990)&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B00BCMT49I&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Available from Amazon&lt;/a&gt; on DVD &amp;amp; &lt;em&gt;Collector's Edition&lt;/em&gt; BluRay!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Google turned up various sites to stream it, but I'm not sure of their legality)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14001" LastActivityDate="2016-04-21T04:57:04.863" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9479" CreationDate="2016-04-21T04:57:55.450" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Barbarella&lt;/em&gt; (1968)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSS3QHCny8zz3g_KqLU4z-evPM4tAofuDny8-1qeAvdV3HCXzMC&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSS3QHCny8zz3g_KqLU4z-evPM4tAofuDny8-1qeAvdV3HCXzMC&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17566" LastActivityDate="2016-04-21T04:57:55.450" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9479" CreationDate="2016-04-21T09:22:54.010" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Condorman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/lo5LZmx9Vrg?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He can really fly!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eh76G.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eh76G.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Condorman has wings&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Best bit: the hidden car reveal (see also trailer above).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EMbfP.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EMbfP.png&quot; alt=&quot;Car reveal&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the car can go on water:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EM2Yg.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EM2Yg.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Car floating&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A film for true geeks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2016-04-21T09:22:54.010" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9488" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-21T13:07:26.057" Score="0" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are these two boxes meant to move with the scrolling motion? If I scroll down to the bottom of the page to check out other stackexchange pages I can check out, this beige box follows me around, blocking the right most links.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this something that just happens to me? Or in every browser?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kinda seems to hint that unless I'm done editing whatever I've been typing, I'm not supposed to use the bottom right links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've added a screenshot of the bug. And yes, it's on another stackexchange site, but it's the same everywhere? Is it really a bug? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IsyeD.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IsyeD.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64844" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-04-23T16:52:01.607" LastActivityDate="2016-04-23T16:52:01.607" Title="The side box/blurb to the right of the screen irritating while editing" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9479" CreationDate="2016-04-21T14:18:20.627" Score="9" Body="&lt;h1&gt;WATCHED: Thursday 28th of July&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Four_(2015_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fantastic Four&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2015)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why don't we watch a newer film, while the hate is still fresh in our minds?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1O71b.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1O71b.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fantastic Four&lt;/em&gt; is described by many as the worst superhero movie of all time and is the most critically panned mainstream superhero film released post-2000. This unintentionally hilarious movie has it all: bad acting, plot-holes, poor directing, blatant continuity errors, special effects failures, no Stan Lee...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and this idiot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Sgjri.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Sgjri.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A jumble of predictable but also incoherent plot turns, dreadful dialogue, and unfortunate visual choices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two distinctly different approaches to filmmaking are employed here and neither of them manages to eke out a victory over the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't help but feel that this was another type of film, but someone put his hands on it and it all went to hell&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;features subpar visual effects and one-dimensional characters, along with a story that lacks emotional depth or any meaningful subtext leading to the obligatory trumped-up finale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For now, the only big screen on which Fantastic Four deserves to be seen is the one in your living room, on a Saturday afternoon, on Syfy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are so many things wrong with Fantastic Four . . . that you could never squeeze them all into a conventional film review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story of the film's incredibly troubled production is also highly entertaining. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPowVAXtN3lVNpK_f7QXbgag5HobKnV3w&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This video series&lt;/a&gt; on it is great and I would highly recommend it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's also easily available for rent or purchase on DVD, Blu-Ray, iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, and Playstation.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-07-29T20:01:27.620" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9479" CreationDate="2016-04-21T14:25:19.340" Score="4" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;em&gt;Catwoman&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;(2004, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327554/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catwoman_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considered one of the worst films of all time, this movie fell flat on its face in its attempt to bring a stand-alone Catwoman to the big screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's rejoice in its awesome terribleness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YZ49P.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YZ49P.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/ePgLOVNMSTo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Available on &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B001NAT05W&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DVD and Amazon Instant Video&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastActivityDate="2016-04-21T14:25:19.340" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9488" CreationDate="2016-04-21T15:56:15.923" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see no such behaviour in my device (Android 4/5?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sOGhO.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sOGhO.gif&quot; alt=&quot;gif of screen scrolling on mibile&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tell us your device, it might help&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2016-04-21T15:56:15.923" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9488" CreationDate="2016-04-21T16:14:48.003" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt; I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; you're talking about the &quot;How to Edit&quot; / &quot;How to Format&quot; boxes in the right sidebar which appear when you're asking&lt;/sub&gt; &lt;sup&gt;or editing a question. If I've misinerpreted your question, I'll delete this answer.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is by design, and isn't going to be changed.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same issue has been raised on main meta: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/136849/right-hand-sidebar-covers-the-footer-on-the-ask-question-page-and-markdown-hel&quot;&gt;Right-hand sidebar covers the footer on the &amp;quot;ask question&amp;quot; page and markdown help page&lt;/a&gt;. The answer posted there by Pops, a Community Manager employed by Stack Exchange, says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We think that sidebar is pretty important, and want it to remain visible. The footer, on the other hand, isn't &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; important, and can always be accessed again with a bit of scrolling up. It's not worth the time to tweak the page so that it's only scrollable until the point of overlap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2016-04-21T16:14:48.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9479" CreationDate="2016-04-21T22:03:26.310" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061191/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wild World of Batwoman&lt;/a&gt;, available for free on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdiXvz6Kmhc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt; via its MST3K treatment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In this zero budget cheapie a busty Batwoman enlists her beauteous bevy of Batgirls (when they are not dancing the jerk) to help her regain a mad scientist's invention (an atom bomb made out of a hearing aid) before a costumed ne'er-do-well, Rat Fink, can glom onto it for his own purposes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bljlM.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bljlM.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whatever else you want to say about it, it is undeniably terrible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44480" LastActivityDate="2016-04-21T22:03:26.310" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9479" CreationDate="2016-04-22T05:55:08.150" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Superman IV&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/drvoAempNTY?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps to worst comic book movie of all time, poor plot, terrible effects and could be considered  the reason we didn't have a big comic book adaption for a number of years after.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user46509" LastActivityDate="2016-04-22T05:55:08.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9479" CreationDate="2016-04-22T06:11:48.430" Score="4" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;em&gt;Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;(1991, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103060/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles_II:_The_Secret_of_the_Ooze&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In stark contrast to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9481/40294&quot;&gt;this film&lt;/a&gt;, which was well done and downright gritty, its sequel &lt;em&gt;The Secret of the Ooze&lt;/em&gt; is a complete stinker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Between the ill-fitting casting change for April O'Neil, the made-up Tokha and Rahzar (in place of Bebop and Rocksteady), the ridiculous &quot;Super Shredder&quot;, the cringe-worthy Vanilla Ice cameo, and the lack of a coherent plot, there is little that is redeeming about this movie...but there is a lot to laugh at!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8R3tr.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8R3tr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/axX2r.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/axX2r.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/al9jfY7zOBY?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Available on &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B0000696I0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DVD and Amazon Instant Video&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2016-04-22T06:17:31.807" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9496" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9504" CreationDate="2016-04-22T13:47:34.183" Score="13" ViewCount="235" Body="&lt;p&gt;During a discussion in chat, the question came up if there were any particularly useful SEDE (Stack Exchange Data Explorer) queries for this stack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="14111" LastEditDate="2016-04-22T22:29:35.330" LastActivityDate="2021-08-27T08:30:11.130" Title="What are some useful Stack Exchange Data Explorer queries for this site?" Tags="|discussion|data-explorer|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9496" CreationDate="2016-04-22T13:57:07.700" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/432081/tags-used-more-than-once-without-a-wiki&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tags used more than once without a tag wiki&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The title says it all, these are tags that have been used more than once on a post, but have either no excerpt, no wiki, or neither.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2016-04-22T13:57:07.700" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9496" CreationDate="2016-04-22T13:59:10.227" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/430740/drive-by-idents&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Drive by Idents&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an overview of all questions by a user who has asked just a single question, with a breakdown in identification requests and other questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2016-04-22T13:59:10.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9499" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9501" CreationDate="2016-04-22T16:10:44.713" Score="1" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;How is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/120962/13418&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; not flaggable ?&#xA;It lacks formatting. It lacks basic syntax. It even has this little tone we try to remove from answers (starts with &quot;C mon guys, it pretty obvious.......&quot; and ends with &quot;Nerdy captain flies off.&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to know because when reviewing my flag raising history, I noticed the flag I raised for this answer has been declined with &quot;flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not angry with the mod that rejected my flag, really. I know that although I've been around for three years, I don't understand the site as much as an elected moderator should.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a wrong answer, and it doesn't contain technical inaccuracies. It just feel wrong to permit such answer on this site, but maybe I'm being too harsh, in which case I'd like your enlightment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13418" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-04-22T17:38:21.103" Title="How is flagging this answer not helpful?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9499" CreationDate="2016-04-22T17:38:04.960" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;N.B. I'm not the flag rejecting mod &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's just a really poor quality answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The extra things a mod could do after having that brought to our attention are: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add a post notice&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Delete&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Convert to a comment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Convert to a wiki&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lock&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of those are useful things from my POV. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;You&lt;/em&gt; can downvote,  and &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; can edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like TARS said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you don't like its format or wording alone, rather than its actual content, how about downvoting and/or editing it? A flag is not a super-downvote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2016-04-22T17:38:04.960" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9499" CreationDate="2016-04-22T17:38:21.103" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently I was the mod who declined your flag, but it was several weeks ago and I really can't remember why. Probably I declined it because I didn't consider the answer worth deleting and hadn't yet got into the habit of sometimes marking flags helpful even when not deleting the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It lacks formatting. It lacks basic syntax. It even has this little tone we try to remove from answers (starts with &quot;C mon guys, it pretty obvious.......&quot; and ends with &quot;Nerdy captain flies off.&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of these is a good reason to &lt;em&gt;flag&lt;/em&gt; an answer. If you see an answer that's poorly formatted or contains unnecessary commentary, the best course of action is to &lt;strong&gt;downvote it or edit it.&lt;/strong&gt; If you see an answer that makes no attempt to answer the question, then flag it as &quot;not an answer&quot; (and vote to delete it if you have enough rep to do so). See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/225370/your-answer-is-in-another-castle-when-is-an-answer-not-an-answer&quot;&gt;this post from a CM on main meta&lt;/a&gt; about non-answers, and the following amended picture courtesy of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/287563/youre-doing-it-wrong-a-plea-for-sanity-in-the-low-quality-posts-queue&quot;&gt;Undo&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/H11SPm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/H11SPm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see, however, that you &lt;em&gt;didn't&lt;/em&gt; flag as &quot;not an answer&quot;, but as &quot;very low quality&quot;. Unfortunately the workings of the &quot;very low quality&quot; flagging system are pretty unclear, and a lot of people agree that it doesn't really work very well. &quot;Not an answer&quot; is relatively easy to define, but &quot;very low quality&quot; is much more subjective and it can be hard to decide when to delete an answer flagged as such.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;General theorising aside, looking at the answer now I definitely agree that it is very low quality. Whether or not I deleted the answer, &lt;strong&gt;your flag should have been marked helpful.&lt;/strong&gt; But a single flag won't make a great deal of difference in the long run; the vast majority of the flags you've raised have been marked helpful, so it's not a big deal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2016-04-22T17:38:21.103" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9496" CreationDate="2016-04-22T17:42:15.107" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/83159/votes-over-time-for-a-specific-question-and-its-answers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Votes over time for a specific question and its answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Input a question ID and go to the Graph tab to get a visualisation of how the score of that question and all its answers have changed over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2016-04-22T17:42:15.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9479" CreationDate="2016-04-22T19:31:56.440" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tank Girl.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tank.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Girl.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TANK GIRL!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/x7gLY.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/x7gLY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;I LOVE JET GIRL!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16974" LastActivityDate="2016-04-22T19:31:56.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9496" CreationDate="2016-04-23T02:23:49.150" Score="6" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Posts&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/461511&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Find questions to reopen&lt;/a&gt;: Some of these questions should probably be reopened.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Tags&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/445925&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Most common tags with short, long, or missing excerpt or wiki&lt;/a&gt;: You can browse tag wikis by tweaking the first four parameters on this query.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/459569&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Related tags&lt;/a&gt;: Browse the full list of related tags for any tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/476081&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Search posts with a specific post type ID&lt;/a&gt;: Mainly useful for searching tag wikis.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/502270&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tags with the most views per question&lt;/a&gt;: See which tags are most likely to get views.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Users&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/472703&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Users with the same display name&lt;/a&gt;: Find all of M.A. Golding’s posts, for example.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/220825&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;My reputation graph&lt;/a&gt;: Cool, but it doesn’t consider the rep cap.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Other stuff&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/476438&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Search comments or view top comments&lt;/a&gt;: Find the most popular comments on the site, or search comments by user or by content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/464985&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Get all review tasks for a specific post ID or user's posts&lt;/a&gt;: Fill in the user ID or post ID, and browse old review tasks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/472000?Site=scifi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Find all questions sucessfully migrated away from a site&lt;/a&gt;: See what questions migrated away from here are still open. Click a site name in the results to see each question found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Bonus round&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This isn’t a data.SE query, but it’s a data dump: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/reputation&quot;&gt;Reputation audit&lt;/a&gt;. View your reputation changes, excluding deleted posts. More information &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/43004/how-do-i-audit-my-reputation&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The truly curious can browse my list of &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/users/21693?order_by=favorite&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;favorite queries&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;This has nothing to do with browsing data, but check out the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8211&quot;&gt;hidden features&lt;/a&gt; of Stack Exchange.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36115" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2021-08-20T08:38:33.117" LastActivityDate="2021-08-20T08:38:33.117" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9505" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-04-23T03:45:14.150" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-04-23T03:45:14.150" LastActivityDate="2016-04-23T03:45:14.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9506" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-04-23T03:45:14.150" Score="0" Body="For questions relating to the Stack Exchange Data Explorer or SEDE, a tool for running arbitrary queries against public data on Stack Exchange sites, available at data.stackexchange.com." OwnerUserId="36115" LastEditorUserId="36115" LastEditDate="2016-04-23T10:19:59.073" LastActivityDate="2016-04-23T10:19:59.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9479" CreationDate="2016-04-23T13:44:11.823" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Spirit&lt;/strong&gt; (2008)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rotten Tomatoes Score: 14%&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qz7sV.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qz7sV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot; spirit&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/egvFBZFi0vY?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We had all the makings for a good movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frank Miller, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, and Eva Mendes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2016-04-23T13:44:11.823" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9508" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9509" CreationDate="2016-04-23T19:42:24.423" Score="7" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/clark-kent&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;clark-kent&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;clark-kent&lt;/a&gt; tag has four questions and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/superman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;superman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;superman&lt;/a&gt; tag has 341. Should &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/clark-kent&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;clark-kent&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;clark-kent&lt;/a&gt; be a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/superman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;superman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;superman&lt;/a&gt;, or is there value in having both tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only similar situation I could find is that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tom-riddle&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tom-riddle&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tom-riddle&lt;/a&gt; is a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/voldemort&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;voldemort&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;voldemort&lt;/a&gt;. There is no &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bruce-wayne&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bruce-wayne&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bruce-wayne&lt;/a&gt; tag. I didn't make any attempt to search for other secret identities to see if any of them have tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36115" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-10-20T16:25:59.670" LastActivityDate="2016-10-20T16:25:59.670" Title="Should [clark-kent] be a synonym of [superman]?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2016-04-24T02:03:02.927" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, they should be synonyms. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, one is a secret identity and there could be questions about &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; him, but a fan of Superman might not search for &quot;Clark Kent&quot; in order to find such a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the mods can do this work, I see the day-to-day of this as community activity. As such, I have suggested &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/clark-kent&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;clark-kent&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;clark-kent&lt;/a&gt; as a synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/superman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;superman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;superman&lt;/a&gt;, since I had the requisite rep in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/superman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;superman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;superman&lt;/a&gt;. Those who can review synonyms can &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/superman/synonyms&quot;&gt;up or down vote the suggestion accordingly&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an aside, I wouldn't create secret identity tags just to match things up, but if someone feels the need when they create new questions, then we can take care of them then. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2016-04-24T02:03:02.927" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9510" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9511" CreationDate="2016-04-24T10:09:00.493" Score="14" ViewCount="311" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pursuant to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5190/should-we-have-an-etiquette-for-not-stealing-answers-on-reopened-questions&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Should we have an etiquette for not stealing answers on reopened questions&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/a&gt;, How long should we wait before utilizing a comment by another user to enhance our own answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/125775/3500&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Can Avada Kedavra by blocked by a Patronus Charm&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/a&gt; I edited my answer to include the bit on the Lethifold (Fourth bullet point) after reading a comment from &lt;strong&gt;The Dark Lord&lt;/strong&gt;. I credited &lt;strong&gt;The Dark Lord&lt;/strong&gt; as the original source of the information, although his mention of a Lethifold in his comment is rather off-handed and he does not elaborate in any other comments or in his own answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was I wrong to take the idea of the Lethifold from &lt;strong&gt;The Dark Lord&lt;/strong&gt; and run with it in my own answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How long should we wait before going off information found in someone else's comment to enhance our own answer?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-11-23T04:20:56.943" LastActivityDate="2019-11-23T04:20:56.943" Title="How long until a comment is fair game?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9510" CreationDate="2016-04-24T10:55:41.577" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two questions here. I'll tackle them both... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Was I wrong to take the idea of the Lethifold from The Dark Lord and run with it in my own answer?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, absolutely not.&lt;/strong&gt; Not only has TheDarkLord not included the info in his own answer, but he's actually paraphrasing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/125752/20774&quot;&gt;another answer&lt;/a&gt; found elsewhere on the site. As such, his comment is completely fair game. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top of that, you haven't simply copied what he's said but you've used it as a jumping off point for a fleshed-out argument. Crediting him was a nice touch but largely unnecessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;At what point are comments fair game?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is down to the judgement of the individual user. My personal take is that if you think the OP has made a good argument in a comment &lt;strong&gt;under their own answer&lt;/strong&gt;, your first action should probably be to encourage them to add that point into their answer. If they refuse (or simply fail to act after a reasonable period, say a few hours) then the comment can be considered fair game. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the comment is found &lt;strong&gt;under the question&lt;/strong&gt; (or under &lt;strong&gt;your answer&lt;/strong&gt;), then I'd argue that it's fair game immediately. Crediting the commenter is definitely good form though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2016-04-24T10:55:41.577" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9512" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-25T20:21:46.380" Score="8" ViewCount="448" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The first round is over! Results and Round Two can be seen &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9546/the-great-science-fiction-fantasy-tv-showdown-round-2/9547#9547&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who's up for The Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange's own (slightly belated) version of March Madness?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For all the info, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/04/the-great-science-fictionfantasy-tv-showdown/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's how to participate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will post two answers to this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One will be for voting. It will have all 24 primary brackets on it. Any site member with a SF&amp;amp;F SE account older than two weeks as of 4/25/2016 may vote. To do so, &lt;strong&gt;simply leave a single comment with the 24 shows you think are better.&lt;/strong&gt; Put &lt;em&gt;Pass&lt;/em&gt; and the bracket's number if you don't want to vote on a specific bracket. Attempting to vote more than once will result in &lt;em&gt;none&lt;/em&gt; of your votes counting. At 6pm ET, in exactly one week, voting will close. I will see which 24 shows won their brackets and will post an update for Week Two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other answer will be for predicting the winner. This week only, any member with a SF&amp;amp;F SE account older than two weeks as of 4/25/2016 may comment their prediction on the answer. I will record all the predictions and will have a raffle for all the correct ones. The winner will receive a 100 rep bounty on their best site answer, as determined by me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please do not leave an answer on this page. If you have an additional question, comment, or gripe that your favorite show isn't on the list, please comment on the main question, not either of the answers.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can chat about the event &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/38884/the-great-science-fiction-fantasy-tv-showdown-discussion-room&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have fun and May the Force be with you/ Live long and prosper/ Keep Flying/ Live together, die alone/ Cowabunga!/ Fear the Living, Fight the Dead...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And remember, choose wisely!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CAIeb.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CAIeb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-05-02T21:54:04.357" Title="The Great Science-Fiction/Fantasy TV Showdown! (Round 1) [Finished!]" Tags="|discussion|contest|prizes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9512" CreationDate="2016-04-25T20:21:46.380" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;VOTE (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9546/the-great-science-fiction-fantasy-tv-showdown-round-2?noredirect=1#comment25886_9546&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt;)!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Trek Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself: &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: The Original&#xA;Series&lt;/em&gt; / &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: The Next Generation&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not Your Children’s’ Cartoons: &lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt; / &lt;em&gt;Rick and Morty&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fun For All Ages: &lt;em&gt;Adventure Time&lt;/em&gt; / &lt;em&gt;My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Family That Slays Together: &lt;em&gt;Buffy the Vampire Slayer&lt;/em&gt; / &lt;em&gt;Angel&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who Are You? Who, Who, Who, Who?: Classic &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; / Nu-Who&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Element Of Surprise: &lt;em&gt;Avatar: The Last Airbender&lt;/em&gt; / &lt;em&gt;The Legend of&#xA;Korra&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mysteries And Stuff: &lt;em&gt;LOST&lt;/em&gt; / &lt;em&gt;X-Files&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Batman V Batman: Dawn of Batman: &lt;em&gt;Batman&lt;/em&gt; (‘60s) / &lt;em&gt;Batman: The&#xA;Animated Series&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What A Twist!: &lt;em&gt;The Twilight Zone&lt;/em&gt; (Original) / &lt;em&gt;The Outer Limits&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;(Original)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jedi Did Not See That Coming: &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: The Clone Wars&lt;/em&gt; / &lt;em&gt;Star&#xA; Wars: Rebels&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Turtle Power!: TMNT (Original)  / TMNT (2012)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No Spoilers!: &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; / &lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Space And Stuff: &lt;em&gt;Battlestar Galactica&lt;/em&gt; (2004) / &lt;em&gt;Babylon 5&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DC on CW: &lt;em&gt;Arrow&lt;/em&gt; / &lt;em&gt;The Flash&lt;/em&gt; (2014)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This IS A Place For A Hero: &lt;em&gt;The Spectacular Spider-Man&lt;/em&gt; / &lt;em&gt;Justice&#xA; League Unlimited&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Aussies and Brits: &lt;em&gt;Farscape / Red Dwarf&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Simply Marvelous: &lt;em&gt;Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D&lt;/em&gt; / &lt;em&gt;Daredevil&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Currently Airing Fantasy: &lt;em&gt;Supernatural&lt;/em&gt; / &lt;em&gt;Once Upon a Time&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Spin-Offs: Stargate: &lt;em&gt;SG-1&lt;/em&gt; / &lt;em&gt;The Sarah Connor Chronicles&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Classics: &lt;em&gt;The Incredible Hulk&lt;/em&gt; (1978) / &lt;em&gt;The Hitchhiker’s Guide&#xA; to the Galaxy&lt;/em&gt; (TV series)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Animation Across The Nation(s): &lt;em&gt;Transformers&lt;/em&gt; (1984) / &lt;em&gt;Gravity Falls&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pretty Funny: &lt;em&gt;Sabrina the Teenage Witch&lt;/em&gt; / &lt;em&gt;ALF&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Time After Time: &lt;em&gt;Quantum Leap&lt;/em&gt; / &lt;em&gt;Torchwood&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There Are Two Left Over And I Can’t Think Of Any Connection But&#xA; They Both Start With F, So Let’s Go With That: &lt;em&gt;Firefly&lt;/em&gt; / &lt;em&gt;Fringe&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2016-05-02T21:50:23.897" CommentCount="30" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9512" CreationDate="2016-04-25T20:23:16.553" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Predictions are now over!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-05-02T21:50:43.700" CommentCount="21" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9516" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-26T02:27:15.313" Score="-8" ViewCount="1086" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is Avatar: The Last Airbender considered part of the 'fantasy' genre?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What are some examples to prove it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user65228" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-04-26T12:28:31.097" LastActivityDate="2023-05-07T21:19:20.187" Title="Why is &quot;Avatar: The Last Airbender&quot; considered fantasy?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9516" CreationDate="2016-04-26T12:09:34.477" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Off the top of my head, there are a number of elements (pun intended) that place Avatar firmly into the &amp;quot;fantasy&amp;quot; category&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fantastical &lt;a href=&quot;https://external-preview.redd.it/D6COo3YmmcBYv5zwCHMdZO4kUjpczWZjNc-Td7cHH20.jpg?auto=webp&amp;amp;v=enabled&amp;amp;s=f6fcca57639db88e128a966c61fe50a1dc66b3e2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;other-worldly setting&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The titular character is capable of a wide variety of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdHvPfgoF8U&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;elemental magic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The titular character can commune with a &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KhBcABRI1c&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;spirit-world&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; containing demons&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The titular character is a reincarnation of prior characters&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Many characters are capable of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1EnW4kn1kg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;elemental magic&lt;/a&gt; which seems to be strengthened/weakened by the presence or absence of appropriate talismans such as the moon spirit fish and a passing comet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/avatar/images/8/82/Appa_soaring.png/revision/latest?cb=20140117221705&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Flying bison&lt;/a&gt; (and flying other creatures)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hybrid creatures, many of whom can perform magic&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A character who is able to use &lt;a href=&quot;http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/powerlisting/images/b/bd/Toph_seeing_thru_metal.gif/revision/latest?cb=20130630124303&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;extra-sensory perception&lt;/a&gt; to &amp;quot;see&amp;quot; the world around her&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Love_Potion_8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Love potions&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Amulet_Quest&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;purchasable spells&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also some &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Magitek&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;magitek&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; elements that cross over into science fantasy;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Vehicles (tanks, ships/submarines, flying ships) that are powered by magic-users&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Power stations that are powered by magic&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2023-05-07T21:19:20.187" LastActivityDate="2023-05-07T21:19:20.187" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9518" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-26T13:38:49.977" Score="7" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;We now have a way of determining the most valuable tags! &lt;sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Okay, okay, so it's all a bit subjective...&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The query '&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/revision/478127/605828/most-valuable-questions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Most Valuable Questions&lt;/a&gt;' displays the top 500 questions, sorted by &lt;code&gt;votes/views&lt;/code&gt;, with the option to limit results to questions over a certain amount of votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can be helpful in determining tags that have a high ratio of votes to views, for example, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; tag shows up a lot in this list, even for higher-voted questions (much of the list at &lt;code&gt;votes &amp;gt;= 50&lt;/code&gt; is story-identification, while at &lt;code&gt;votes &amp;gt;=70&lt;/code&gt; it takes up 3 of the top 4 results, and no others).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy! and please, post anything interesting you notice as an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/revision/478127/613291/most-valuable-questions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/revision/478127/613291/most-valuable-questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of people have mentioned how the data returned with this query is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9518/view-the-most-valuable-tags-determined-by-votes-per-view#comment25791_9519&quot;&gt;not representative of the majority of questions&lt;/a&gt; on the site, as the trend is skewed by low view-counts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this in mind, I edited the query to limit the results by view count, instead of vote count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here it is: &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/revision/478127/613291/most-valuable-questions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Most Valuable Questions (Limited By Views)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user32390" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user32390" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-05-10T04:15:18.553" Title="View the most valuable tags (determined by votes per view)" Tags="|discussion|data-explorer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9518" CreationDate="2016-04-26T14:01:21.773" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;At &lt;code&gt;votes &amp;gt;= 0&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; comprises 44.8% of all valuable questions, or 224 of 500&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; comprises 3.8%, or 19 of 500&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; comprises 3%, or 15 of 500&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-comics&lt;/a&gt; comprises 1.6%, or 8 of 500&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;At &lt;code&gt;votes &amp;gt;= 20&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; comprises 21.6%, or 108 of 500&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; comprises 15% of all valuable questions, or 75 of 500&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; comprises 12%, or 60 of 500&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; comprises 9.8%, or 49 of 500&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-comics&lt;/a&gt; comprises 1.2%, or 6 of 500&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;At &lt;code&gt;votes &amp;gt;= 100&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; comprises ~35.56%, or 16 of 45&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; comprises ~15.56%, or 7 of 45&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; comprises ~11.11%, or 5 of 45&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; comprises ~2.22% of all valuable questions, or 1 of 45&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-comics&lt;/a&gt; comprises ~2.22%, or 1 of 45&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Conclusions&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Story identification figures strongly in the lower-voted questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Star Trek and Star Wars become more valuable among higher-voted questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user32390" LastEditorDisplayName="user32390" LastEditDate="2016-04-26T22:53:28.010" LastActivityDate="2016-04-26T22:53:28.010" CommentCount="7" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-04-26T22:49:43.160" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9479" CreationDate="2016-04-26T16:00:36.503" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Batman and Robin&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/smsmj.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/smsmj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118688/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_%26_Robin_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13716" LastActivityDate="2016-04-26T16:00:36.503" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9522" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10704" CreationDate="2016-04-27T06:31:17.117" Score="53" ViewCount="934" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6618&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, I created a map of all tags on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used some &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/stared/tag-graph-map-of-stackexchange/wiki&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;software&lt;/a&gt; from the same person who made the &lt;a href=&quot;http://p.migdal.pl/tagoverflow/?site=scifi&amp;amp;size=32&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TagOverflow&lt;/a&gt; online tool. This tool uses a &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/478702?RatioCap=1000&amp;amp;NumTags=10000&amp;amp;MinTagCount=1&amp;amp;MinOERatio=2.5&amp;amp;MinTagPairCount=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;data.SE&lt;/a&gt; query, so it isn’t limited by API requests like the online tool is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;2017 map of everything&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The coloring is mostly arbitrary. That outer ring of tags is a bunch of tags that had no connections to any other tag, so they’re just out by themselves. The image links to an SVG version of the file, for better zooming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://yellowantphil.com/tags/scifi.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6XE9K.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;2017 map of all tags&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;2017 map of all tags used at least 15 times&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a map of all tags that are used at least 15 times. The color scheme is not quite the same as the previous map.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qw6Tb.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qw6Tbl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;2017 map of tags used 15+ times&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;2016 map&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a map of all tags from 2016. This reflects the site’s tagging prior to the recent &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10691&quot;&gt;Big Edit Event&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://yellowantphil.com/tags/scifi-2016.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LGW1Ml.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;2016 map of all tags&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make this a question: any requests? I can generate SVG, different tags, different coloring, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36115" LastEditorUserId="36115" LastEditDate="2017-03-19T22:13:14.663" LastActivityDate="2021-06-08T22:14:30.213" Title="Map of all 2,355 tags" Tags="|discussion|tags|data-explorer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9523" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9535" CreationDate="2016-04-27T06:44:24.797" Score="25" ViewCount="1605" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand that &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; based on counting religious texts as fiction are off topic here. What about &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; (such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/126226/what-is-the-earliest-example-of-a-blighted-land-created-by-human-or-semi-human/126292#126292&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;) which count a religious text (in this case the Bible) as fiction? I suppose they are considered inappropriate, but what are we supposed to do when we see one? Can we flag a moderator to have it removed? Is &quot;not an answer&quot; the right reason for flagging, or is it &quot;rude or abusive&quot;, or do we need a custom reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit.&lt;/strong&gt; I posted this question &lt;strong&gt;after&lt;/strong&gt; reading the old question which this allegedly duplicates. The old question concerned &lt;strong&gt;questions&lt;/strong&gt; about religious texts, and it was decided that such questions could be closed as being off topic. I did not see anything there about &lt;strong&gt;answers&lt;/strong&gt; that cite religious texts as fiction, and the remedy &quot;vote to close as off topic&quot; does not apply to answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2023-03-02T14:22:43.483" Title="Answers that count religious texts as fiction" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9524" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-28T11:42:38.400" Score="3" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if there is a subsite to ask about Stack Exchange itself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I have a question about a Sci-Fi movie or TV show, is it better to ask this question here or under the Movies &amp;amp; TV subsite?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57297" OwnerDisplayName="Adam Howarth" LastActivityDate="2016-04-28T11:49:56.580" Title="Should a question about a Sci-Fi Movie/TV Show be asked in &quot;Science Fiction &amp; Fantasy&quot; or &quot;Movies &amp; TV&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-04-28T11:52:21.487" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9526" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9527" CreationDate="2016-04-29T13:12:51.693" Score="7" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have had a long-standing policy that questions asking about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5187/should-questions-about-future-works-be-closed-as-primarily-opinion-based&quot;&gt;material from unproduced future works&lt;/a&gt; should be closed until such time as they are answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The meta consensus was that we should close them as primarily opinion-based, which is as close to a legitimate reason as we can get. But it isn't really right -- in many cases, these questions &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; have objective answers, we just can't know them yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even worse, people are not consistent with the close reason they use, since none of them actually specify &quot;future works&quot;. We get them closed, for example, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/126504/when-is-attack-on-titan-season-2-coming&quot;&gt;&quot;off-topic&quot;&lt;/a&gt; or &quot;too-broad&quot; as well. It also shows up &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tools/question-close-stats&quot;&gt;repeatedly&lt;/a&gt; in the list of custom close reasons people type in for off-topic questions. For example, of the 14 &quot;custom&quot; close reasons this month, 10 of them are &quot;future works&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we have room to add in a custom close reason for this -- one that not only specifies why the question is being closed, but also links to the meta discussion, as well as reminding people that the question could be reopened in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-04-29T22:12:44.787" Title="Do we have room for a custom close reason for future works?" Tags="|feature-request|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9526" CreationDate="2016-04-29T16:22:42.820" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, all three custom off-topic close reasons are being used. They are as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rZaE4.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rZaE4.png&quot; alt=&quot;custom off-topic close reasons&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The third (generic) close reason was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7229/3rd-custom-close-reason&quot;&gt;added last September&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is an &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/185097/299342&quot;&gt;explanation by @Shog9 on Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt; as to why there are only three reasons allowed, but also that an additional reason can be added if there is a need (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Large lists make selection tedious and difficult. Fortunately, most sites do not attract an extremely high volume of off-topic questions, and those that are asked tend to be about a relatively small number of topics - therefore, we limit the number of active reasons to 3. A few sites do get a regular influx of off-topic questions in a larger number of distinct categories; if you find this to be the case on your site, &lt;strong&gt;post a feature-request on your meta site with examples of questions that would benefit from a predefined off-topic option - we'll verify the need for this and work with you to make more reasons available.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the community would like to explore the possibility of adding a &quot;future works&quot; close reason (or replacing the current generic one), I'd suggest opening up a new meta discussion with the feature request (as outlined in Shog's Meta.SE post).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2016-04-29T22:12:44.787" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2041" CreationDate="2016-04-29T21:16:36.953" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a very old question that apparently got bumped by the bump-o-matic, but since it came up, you may be interested in what M&amp;amp;TV has done with this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2133/improve-and-extend-the-automatic-tag-popup-for-identification-questions&quot;&gt;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2133/improve-and-extend-the-automatic-tag-popup-for-identification-questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They have identified a number of criteria that good id questions have, and there's a custom pop-up when selecting the appropriate tags that tells the user what those are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:49:37.240" LastActivityDate="2016-04-29T21:16:36.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9529" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-04-29T22:15:50.507" Score="14" ViewCount="296" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Help Center &gt; Asking&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h1&gt;What topics can I ask about here?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange is for questions targeted&#xA;  towards science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts. This includes&#xA;  questions about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Plot, character, or setting explanations &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Historical or societal    context of a work &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Behind-the-scenes &lt;strong&gt;and fandom information&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Story    identification &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Franchise/series reading or viewing order&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It says it right there, people. Questions about behind-the-scenes &lt;strong&gt;and fandom information&lt;/strong&gt; are indeed ON TOPIC. However, I have often seen these questions discriminated againt simply because some users don't care for them. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Main example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/126388/into-which-house-was-rowling-sorted&quot;&gt;Into which house was Rowling sorted?&lt;/a&gt; was closed, reopened, and closed again as off topic when it really is on topic, falling under fandom info.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sub examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111992/what-has-been-harrison-fords-attitude-toward-star-wars&quot;&gt;What has been Harrison Ford&amp;#39;s attitude toward Star Wars?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111996/what-has-been-alec-guinnesss-attitude-toward-star-wars&quot;&gt;What has been Alec Guinness&amp;#39;s attitude toward Star Wars?&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/112128/kenny-bakers-attitude-toward-star-wars&quot;&gt;Kenny Baker&amp;#39;s attitude toward Star Wars&lt;/a&gt; each had some backlash for some users who erroneously belived that fandom information wasn't on topic, when it really is on topic. See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7799/laine-liska-s-and-everybody-and-their-cousins-attitude-toward-star-wars&quot;&gt;Laine Liska’s—and everybody and their cousins’—attitude toward Star Wars&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/124078/did-harrison-ford-ever-tell-fans-he-used-to-be-himself-and-why&quot;&gt;Did Harrison Ford ever tell fans he used to be himself, and why?&lt;/a&gt; was said to be off topic in some of the comments, with some users sounding like they were threatening to VTC.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/124431/why-does-stan-lee-make-a-cameo-in-the-princess-diaries-2&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/124431/why-does-stan-lee-make-a-cameo-in-the-princess-diaries-2&lt;/a&gt; isn't a very good example, but it &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; fall under fandom information (but I do realize it's not a &lt;em&gt;great&lt;/em&gt; question).&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like some users treat fandom info questions as off topic. &lt;strong&gt;Why is fandom information treated as if it weren't on topic?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54827" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-04-30T02:36:53.193" Title="Why is fandom information treated as if it weren't on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9529" CreationDate="2016-04-29T22:15:50.507" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I suggest we create a tag for fandom information.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is already a tag for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/behind-the-scenes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;behind-the-scenes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;behind-the-scenes&lt;/a&gt; so it makes sense. That way, once there's a tag for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fandom-information&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fandom-information&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fandom-information&lt;/a&gt;, any users who prefer not to see them can simply add &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fandom-information&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fandom-information&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fandom-information&lt;/a&gt; to their &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1979/can-you-exclude-a-tag-from-showing-up&quot;&gt;ignored tags list.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54827" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-04-30T00:04:03.733" CommentCount="10" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-04-29T22:15:50.507" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9529" CreationDate="2016-04-29T22:59:32.487" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Historically, (and incorrectly) because a number of people believe that since the question does not have anything to do with a SF/F element of the work, it is off-topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, every time the topic comes up on meta, fandom and behind-the-scenes information is deemed on-topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see a question closed for one of these reasons, either vote to re-open or flag it for mod action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6594/5184&quot;&gt;How should we handle questions that are about non-SF/F elements in a SF/F work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2944/5184&quot;&gt;What type of “behind the scenes” questions are on-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7503/5184&quot;&gt;Are questions about SF-related websites on topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2016-04-29T22:59:32.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9532" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9534" CreationDate="2016-04-30T10:19:56.420" Score="22" ViewCount="427" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, one of my answers was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/80966&quot;&gt;edited&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The typo fix is appreciated.  The other &quot;fixes&quot; are not.  Removing doubled spaces at the end of sentences has no effect on the rendered output, so it just serves to clutter the edit history.  Changing from one valid spelling to another is &lt;em&gt;entirely&lt;/em&gt; unhelpful.  And I'm not sure how the editor came up with &quot;1 steradians.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we please not do this in the future?  Or if we're going to do it, can we develop a formal policy on which national variant of English we're going to use, and enforce it consistently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2017-07-19T12:03:08.100" LastActivityDate="2017-07-20T07:19:02.847" Title="Can we please not change American to British English and vice-versa?" Tags="|discussion|editing|spelling|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9532" CreationDate="2016-04-30T11:17:33.483" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is an instance of Hanlon's Razor &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hanlon's razor is an aphorism expressed in various ways including &quot;&lt;strong&gt;never assume bad intentions when assuming stupidity is enough&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've had the same thing happen to me across the stackexchange network. If it's a problem,  you're free to rollback or just edit the post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: If people don't realise that &lt;em&gt;colour&lt;/em&gt; is &lt;strike&gt;the correct &lt;/strike&gt; a valid spelling,  then they &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; try to correct it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2017-07-20T07:19:02.847" LastActivityDate="2017-07-20T07:19:02.847" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9532" CreationDate="2016-04-30T11:46:02.197" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;The simplest rule is that &lt;strong&gt;you shouldn't correct overseas spellings.&lt;/strong&gt; As much as it pains me to say it, both variants of English (US and UK) are &lt;strong&gt;equally valid&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;shouldn't be considered misspellings&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a personal note, I never correct &lt;s&gt;overseas&lt;/s&gt; non-standard English spellings when editing and in fact, I'll go one step further and when editing an answer, if the OP is clearly using US-English, I'll make sure that any edits that I make use US variants too. It's just the polite thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-05-13T18:45:42.117" LastActivityDate="2016-05-13T18:45:42.117" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9523" CreationDate="2016-04-30T19:26:45.280" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Paraphrasing Beofett's answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1053/should-we-exclude-religious-texts-and-which&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Any &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; which states (or even strongly implies) that a religious work is a work of fiction should be immediately flagged for moderator attention, pending deletion.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;I think that a ban on questions on religious works is appropriate. It&#xA;  leaves us open to too much controversial debate, potentially offended&#xA;  visitors, and the likelihood of duplicated content with other SE sites&#xA;  (i.e. the ones dedicated towards those specific religions).&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel like you want to go further, you always have the option of downvoting and/or leaving a comment explaining our general policies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2016-05-17T23:47:48.903" CommentCount="29" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9536" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-01T01:33:16.020" Score="6" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Let's raise the tagging topic to a new level of meta-ness by talking about tags on &lt;strong&gt;meta&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have four different tags on meta.SFF which are about question closure:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/closed-questions&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;closed-questions&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;closed-questions&lt;/a&gt; (81 questions): &quot;&lt;em&gt;For questions about closing questions, or about a specific closed question.&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/close-reasons&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;close-reasons&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;close-reasons&lt;/a&gt; (58 questions): &quot;&lt;em&gt;For use when discussing the principles and reasoning behind closing questions.&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/vote-to-close&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vote-to-close&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vote-to-close&lt;/a&gt; (31 questions): &lt;em&gt;no tag wiki&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/closing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;closing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;closing&lt;/a&gt; (7 questions): &lt;em&gt;no tag wiki&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the difference in meaning and usage, if any, between these four tags? Should they be synonymised or merged together?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2016-05-15T01:33:06.860" Title="What's with all the closure tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|meta|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9536" CreationDate="2016-05-01T03:32:41.197" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 2nd pair serve no purpose. I can think of ways to use them as separate terms, but they're only being used the way the first two are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first two make sense, per their tag wikis. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/close-reasons&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;close-reasons&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;close-reasons&lt;/a&gt; should be what types of policies we have about closing questions, or which option to select when we vote to close when a question needs closing. Generally forward-thinking, even if inspired by a specific question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/closed-questions&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;closed-questions&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;closed-questions&lt;/a&gt; should be about questions that are or were closed. Why specifically were they closed, if closing them was correct, if the close reason was correct, if they should be reopened, whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the looks of it, this &lt;em&gt;seems&lt;/em&gt; like it's how the two tags are generally used, anyway. But there's the usual double-tagging and mix ups we get with related tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, we already have &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/specific-question&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;specific-question&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;specific-question&lt;/a&gt;, so I think it'd work just fine to make them all synonyms, and when it's about a question that's already closed or maybe should be, then use the additional tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2016-05-01T03:32:41.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9538" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-01T07:54:09.267" Score="4" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's currently the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/klingon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;klingon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;klingon&lt;/a&gt; and the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/klingon-language&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;klingon-language&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;klingon-language&lt;/a&gt;. As Klingon is probably the most famous fictional language around, it having a separate tag from Klingons in general is justified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, some questions currently in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/klingon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;klingon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;klingon&lt;/a&gt; are solely about the language, and so should be retagged accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(For those wondering about the question title: see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/apr/29/star-trek-fan-film-klingon-paramount-cbs-lawsuit?CMP=soc_568&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Who owns Klingon? Lawsuit draws battle over invented languages into court&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="289" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-05-03T20:26:00.247" LastActivityDate="2016-05-03T20:26:00.247" Title="Retagging some questions from [klingon] to [klingon-language] would be a most logical action" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9539" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9541" CreationDate="2016-05-01T11:41:03.247" Score="2" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am having a problem that I need to mouse-over a quote to see it. Is this a bug or intentional?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See in this link, I need to mouse-over &quot;Royal Canadian Bandit&quot; quotes to see them.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111680/why-does-poe-dameron-leave-jakku-without-bb-8?rq=1&quot;&gt;Why does Poe Dameron leave Jakku without BB-8?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2016-05-01T11:59:26.377" Title="Why do you have to mouse-over to see content in a quote?" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9539" CreationDate="2016-05-01T11:56:37.150" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because those are spoiler tags, not regular quotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at the markdown of that post (by clicking the &quot;edit&quot; button) you'll see that Royal Canadian Bandit was using &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;!&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35327" LastActivityDate="2016-05-01T11:56:37.150" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9539" CreationDate="2016-05-01T11:59:00.623" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's called &lt;strong&gt;spoilertagging&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People use it to mark content that could be seen as spoilers. E.g. in the answer you link to, people who haven't seen &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt; might not want to mouse over those sections of the text and learn what happens in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also the various &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/spoilers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;spoilers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;spoilers&lt;/a&gt; posts on meta, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1514/how-should-i-be-indicating-a-question-is-by-its-very-asking-a-spoiler&quot;&gt;How should I be indicating a question is, by its very asking, a spoiler?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/968/what-is-the-policy-for-spoilers?lq=1&quot;&gt;What is the policy for spoilers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-05-01T11:59:00.623" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9538" CreationDate="2016-05-01T12:49:26.423" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Update: &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were eight questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/klingon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;klingon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;klingon&lt;/a&gt; which didn't have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/klingon-language&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;klingon-language&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;klingon-language&lt;/a&gt; tag and should have had it, and I've now added it to all of these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/108748/was-huttese-based-on-klingon&quot;&gt;Was Huttese based on Klingon?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/103184/is-there-any-more-klingon-opera&quot;&gt;Is there any more Klingon Opera?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/73957/is-there-a-klingon-word-for-kitten&quot;&gt;Is there a Klingon word for kitten?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/59869/within-universe-is-klingon-a-constructed-language&quot;&gt;Within-universe, is Klingon a constructed language?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/29190/is-the-klingon-language-the-only-constructed-language-seen-on-screen&quot;&gt;Is the Klingon language the only constructed language seen on-screen?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28205/what-is-this-klingon-santa-saying&quot;&gt;What is this Klingon Santa saying?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/24112/was-there-klingon-used-in-any-of-star-wars-movies&quot;&gt;Was Klingon used in any of the Star Wars movies?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1228/is-the-klingon-language-fully-realized-or-just-a-handful-of-disconnected-phrase&quot;&gt;Is the Klingon language fully realized, or just a handful of disconnected phrases?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;IMO, this is few enough to be able to retag them all in a day or two without awaking the &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bglo6.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wrath of Meta&lt;/a&gt; and bringing the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9207/when-should-we-do-another-tag-cleanup&quot;&gt;Doom of Retaggers&lt;/a&gt; down upon your head. I'll be happy to help with this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;strong&gt;please don't do too many at once&lt;/strong&gt;: we don't want to flood the front page with old questions bumped by tag edits, especially relatively minor tag edits like this. A useful rule of thumb is to ensure that at most 5 of the top 15 questions on the front page of the site were last edited by you.&lt;/strike&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;There were also two questions which did have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/klingon-language&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;klingon-language&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;klingon-language&lt;/a&gt; tag but were also tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/klingon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;klingon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;klingon&lt;/a&gt; despite not being to do with Klingons or Klingon culture in general but just their language:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;11&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/118448/grammar-and-quality-check-for-a-klingon-warning-notice-for-server-room&quot;&gt;Grammar and quality check for a Klingon warning notice for server room&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/97330/klingon-for-arrow&quot;&gt;Klingon for &amp;#39;arrow&amp;#39;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just removed the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/klingon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;klingon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;klingon&lt;/a&gt; tag from these two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2016-05-03T20:25:38.747" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2449" CreationDate="2016-05-01T16:59:31.260" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2449/why-arent-my-high-voted-questions-showing-up-when-i-sort-the-questions-page-by#comment8062_2449&quot;&gt;you noted&lt;/a&gt; in a comment, this bug, whatever it was, has been fixed. Your question now shows up exactly where it should in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions?page=5&amp;amp;sort=votes&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;the list of all questions sorted by votes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-05-01T16:59:31.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9510" CreationDate="2016-05-02T19:36:58.610" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just stumbled across this question and thought I'd clear up what happened! No, you were absolutely within your rights to use the Lethifold point in your answer and there was no need to credit me at all. I don't mind either way but I was actually a bit surprised when you mentioned me in your answer. If anything, I was copying you, not the other way around!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reason I mentioned the Lethifold was because I was looking at other questions to do with Patronuses and ran across &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15335/how-was-the-sword-of-gryffindor-placed-in-the-pond-in-deathly-hallows#comment28421_15339&quot;&gt;this comment&lt;/a&gt; - from yourself! - dating from 2012. This was, as far as I can tell, the original mention of the Lethifold reference on this site. My viewpoint in the comments-discussion was influenced by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15354/what-are-the-rules-governing-how-a-patronus-can-interact-with-the-physical-world&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; by David, also from 2012. So you were (unintentionally, it seems) actually citing yourself!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only mentioned the Lethifold for completeness's sake because it essentially put a hole in my argument that a Patronus can only interact physically with a Dementor and nothing else. I had to look up what a Lethifold actually was on the Harry Potter wiki and would be quite happy to wager that your Lethifold knowledge outstrips my own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My reference in the comments to the Lethifold was, as @Richard says, really very fleeting and circumspect anyway so I don't think that I'd be justified in complaining even if my point was original and I did feel hard done by (in reality, neither is the case). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the main question, I agree with the principle that if someone feels strongly about a point-of-view then they'll answer as a question rather than a comment anyway. Someone taking up a comment as part of more fleshed-out answer is perfectly entitled to do. Credit can be given at the answerer's discretion but in my view is not strictly necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64888" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-05-02T19:36:58.610" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9546" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-02T21:41:20.357" Score="8" ViewCount="351" Body="&lt;h2&gt;This round is over! Round 3 and results are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9628/the-great-science-fiction-fantasy-tv-showdown-round-3-back-with-a-vengeance?cb=1&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First off, please see the results from Round 1 and other important information on &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/05/the-great-science-fictionfantasy-tv-showdown-results-and-round-two/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; on our blog. You can also see Round 1 itself, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9512/the-great-science-fiction-fantasy-tv-showdown-round-1-finished&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;To vote on your favorite show:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will post and answer below. It will have all 12 primary brackets on it. Any site member with a SF&amp;amp;F SE account older than two weeks as of 5/2/2016 may vote. To do so, simply leave a single comment with the 12 shows you think are better. Put Pass and the bracket's number if you don't want to vote on a specific bracket. Attempting to vote more than once will result in none of your votes counting. &lt;strong&gt;Upvoting someone's vote will not affect the outcome.&lt;/strong&gt; In one week, voting will close. I will see which twelve shows won their brackets and will post an update for Week Three.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please do not leave an answer on this page. If you have an additional question, comment, or gripe that your favorite show isn't on the list, please put it &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/38884/the-great-science-fiction-fantasy-tv-showdown-discussion-room&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, or comment on the main question, not the voting answer.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have fun and May the Force be with you/ Live long and prosper/ Keep Flying/ Live together, die alone/ Cowabunga!/ Fear the Living, Fight the Dead...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2016-05-16T17:02:28.790" Title="The Great Science-Fiction/Fantasy TV Showdown! (Round 2) [Over]" Tags="|discussion|contest|prizes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9546" CreationDate="2016-05-02T21:41:20.357" Score="4" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Heavy Contenders #1:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: The Next Generation&lt;/em&gt; and Nu-Who&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Heavy Contenders #2:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Firefly&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dave Filoni:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: The Clone Wars&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Avatar: The Last Airbender&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DC Animated:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Justice League Unlimited&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Batman: The Animated Series&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marvel VS DC:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;The Flash&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Daredevil&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Science Fiction with Numbers in their Names:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Babylon 5&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Stargate:&#xA;SG-1&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#80's:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Transformers&lt;/em&gt; (Original) and &lt;em&gt;TMNT&lt;/em&gt; (Original)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Animation Across the Nation(s), 2.0 Edition:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;MLP:&#xA;Friendship is Magic&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Old School:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy&lt;/em&gt; (Series) and&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Quantum Leap&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;90's and Beyond:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Buffy the Vampire Slayer&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The X-Files&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Left-Overs (Part 1):&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Farscape&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Twilight Zone&lt;/em&gt; (Original)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Left-Overs (Part 2):&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Sabrina the Teenage Witch&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Supernatural&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastEditorUserId="4918" LastEditDate="2016-05-03T09:13:43.003" LastActivityDate="2016-05-03T09:13:43.003" CommentCount="38" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9548" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-03T09:20:11.423" Score="4" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am referring to this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/97665/what-happened-to-jon-snow-the-evidence-as-of-adwd-season-5/&quot;&gt;What happened to Jon Snow? The Evidence, as of ADWD / Season 5 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it was first posted (Last August), it didn't have an answer, because neither the book nor the show had progressed that far and thus it was closed. But as of this Sunday (with the release of S06E02), this question has a definite answer (which I edited into my answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should this question be reopened now that it as a definite answer? I voted to reopen, but people voted against it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nHYEa.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nHYEa.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19374" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-05-03T09:31:26.607" Title="Should this GoT question be reopened now that it has an answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9549" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-04T14:59:57.073" Score="11" ViewCount="604" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have many old meta questions that restrict, corral, or allow content on this site. Things like spy-fi, what's on or off topic, fan-fics, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many of these policies were made and voted on before the vast majority of our current user base joined (back in 2011), by users/mods who no longer exist or are no longer active. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we as a community feel like we should have the ability to re-visit some of these policies, by creating new meta questions and having our current community vote and decide on how to handle these issues?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Potential issues to discuss:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;fanfics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;spy-fi (I know we have a lot of users who would like to include this onsite)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Watership Down. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not to say all of our policies need to be revisited, just that we are open to change and potentially re-ask meta questions that some of us feel don't fit the current user base.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29220" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-05-04T15:11:12.737" LastActivityDate="2016-05-04T15:25:58.530" Title="Do current users want the ability to re-visit older site policies?" Tags="|discussion|scope|policy|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9549" CreationDate="2016-05-04T15:00:48.640" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I think we as a community should have the ability to re-visit old meta policies and take new votes. Without the feel of instantaneous dupe hammering, to the exact question we are re-visiting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29220" LastEditorUserId="29220" LastEditDate="2016-05-04T15:25:58.530" LastActivityDate="2016-05-04T15:25:58.530" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9549" CreationDate="2016-05-04T15:02:02.160" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, I think our old meta policies are fine, and there is no need to re-visit them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29220" LastActivityDate="2016-05-04T15:02:02.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9549" CreationDate="2016-05-04T15:09:42.587" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is way too broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you have a particular policy for which you'd like to reopen discussion, then feel free to start a more specific meta discussion.&lt;/strong&gt; Depending on how the community feels about that policy, such a discussion may end up changing community consensus, leaving things as they are, or possibly getting closed as a duplicate. If you make it clear that you're not asking what our policy should be when we've already fixed it, but instead asking whether our policy should be changed, then the new question shouldn't be closed as a duplicate. In short: &lt;strong&gt;yes, feel free to propose changes to specific existing policies&lt;/strong&gt; (although nobody can guarantee how these proposals will be received).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;strong&gt;we don't need to rebuild the site's scope from scratch&lt;/strong&gt;. For better or worse, the 5-year-old Science Fiction and Fantasy Stack Exchange now has a shape and a direction, and it's a successful enough site that we don't need to tear it all down and begin again. Certain particular aspects of site policy may end up being changed, but let's not place &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; our policies and consensuses on trial just because they were made a long time ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-05-04T15:24:04.967" LastActivityDate="2016-05-04T15:24:04.967" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9553" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9555" CreationDate="2016-05-05T01:08:48.143" Score="6" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;New user. Very dumb. Don't really understand technical stuff very well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've gotten this comment &quot;Have you considered accepting an answer or starting a bounty for this question?&quot; on my...uhm...page, and I don't know what that means. Could you tell me, or point me to a link that could tell me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry to bother you&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Randy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65470" OwnerDisplayName="Mahatma Randy" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-05-05T09:38:57.393" LastActivityDate="2016-05-05T09:49:19.833" Title="What does &quot;Have you considered accepting an answer or starting a bounty for this question?&quot; mean?" Tags="|support|questions|notifications|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9553" CreationDate="2016-05-05T09:47:59.550" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You get this notification automatically when you've asked a question without &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/accepted-answer&quot;&gt;accepting an answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone has answered your question correctly, in a way that solves the problem you had when you asked it, you're &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/someone-answers&quot;&gt;encouraged to accept it&lt;/a&gt;. However, this is &lt;strong&gt;not mandatory&lt;/strong&gt;, and if nobody has answered your question to your satisfaction, there is no obligation to accept an answer anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you haven't received any satisfactory answers, and you have more rep than you know what to do with, you can also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/no-one-answers&quot;&gt;start a bounty&lt;/a&gt; on your question by offering a rep incentive to anyone who answers it correctly. However, note that by doing so, you lose that amount of rep whether or not somebody answers the question and receives it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really, you don't have to pay any attention to this automatic message, as long as you know how to accept answers (which evidently you do, since you have accepted answers on a couple of your questions). It's automatically generated by the system, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/18031/how-else-can-i-remove-the-have-you-considered-accepting-an-answer-or-starting-a&quot;&gt;will go away in a month&lt;/a&gt;. Consider it a reminder to check through &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/65470/mahatma-randy?tab=questions&quot;&gt;your question list&lt;/a&gt; and see if there are any accept-worthy answers you've forgotten to accept, &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a decree telling you that you &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; accept more answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-05-05T09:47:59.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9553" CreationDate="2016-05-05T09:49:19.833" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Accepting an answer means clicking the check mark button next to one of the answers to mark it as the &quot;accepted&quot; answer which &quot;solved your problem&quot;. One purpose of this is to act as a signal that no further assistance is required, so answerers can focus on other questions. Another is to give a 15-point reputation bonus to the answerer that helped you the most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Starting a bounty means clicking the &quot;start a bounty&quot; link underneath one of your questions and selecting an amount of reputation that you would like to post as an additional reward for those answering the question. This can be done to encourage people to post better answers in order to earn the bounty (typically if you feel the existing answers aren't good enough), or to reward an answer that was already posted (typically if you felt that answer was exceptional).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason this notice appears is that, in theory, we should strive to get an accepted answer on every question eventually. So if you have a question with no accepted answer, that implies you either forgot to accept an answer, or none of the answers were good enough (in which case you may wish to try a bounty).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of this is required, it's just there to encourage the behaviors described above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35327" LastActivityDate="2016-05-05T09:49:19.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1053" CreationDate="2016-05-06T00:20:36.917" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can support questions regarding religious texts as being off-topic for purely pragmatic reasons, but not for logical ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pragmatically&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People can be &lt;em&gt;extremely&lt;/em&gt; sensitive regarding their religion, and we're all trying to be nice here. If people could simply respect each other's beliefs and not get offended, then it would be fine, but far too few people can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want anyone to emotionally implode and rage quit the site because the site recognizes the reality that not everyone believes in their religion by allowing individuals to ask questions in line with &lt;em&gt;their&lt;/em&gt; beliefs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, we're more likely to horribly offend someone by allowing these questions than by not allowing them, even though that's a little offensive as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Logically&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No religion has a majority share of the world's population. For &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; religion, the people that believe in it literally are a minority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, for &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; religious text, the majority of the world's population considers it a work of fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, given that these works include things that appear impossible given our current science, i.e. miracles, they would clearly fall in the realm of science fiction or fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if it weren't for the sensitivity issue, these would be on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44184" LastActivityDate="2016-05-06T00:20:36.917" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9557" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9558" CreationDate="2016-05-06T17:33:10.257" Score="4" ViewCount="407" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no question that there's overlap and this question is tough. From one perspective all fiction is fantasy since it begins with a set of assumptions that are most likely of appeal to the author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've recently been trying to make lists of &quot;fantasy movies&quot; or &quot;fantasy books&quot; with the aim of writing online reviews. I keep finding myself hitting a brick wall when it comes to a clear definition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's my attempt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fantasy focuses more on magic and imagination than technology and rational explanation (fantasy is not science fiction)&#xA;Fantasy focuses more on heroes and struggles rather than dread and overwhelming fear (fantasy is different than horror)&#xA;Pure fantasy is not about any element in the story but about the attitude of the story -- such as wonder, beauty, supernatural forces, and especially a heroic journey.&#xA;What do people think? Is there an agreed upon definition of fantasy? How do we determine when a movie or book is fantasy as opposed to horror or science fiction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65716" LastActivityDate="2016-05-06T18:13:52.660" Title="What is the definition of “fantasy” as opposed to “horror”, “science fiction”, or “adventure”" Tags="|discussion|fantasy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9557" CreationDate="2016-05-06T18:13:52.660" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is probably the most intractable problem in all of speculative fiction (the super-genre encompassing science fiction, fantasy, and such).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the problems in defining &quot;fantasy&quot; is where to draw the line on what is &quot;magical&quot;. There are some people who consider any form of psionics to be &quot;magic&quot; and any work containing them is automatically fantasy (in their opinion). Same is true with faster than light travel (no, I'm not kidding).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And just to make it even harder, there are works like the Kate Daniels series by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilona_Andrews&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ilona Andrews&lt;/a&gt; - a modern fantasy series set in the future and containing advanced technology. There are even works set in the future, containing advanced technology that are considered to be NON-science-fiction by some (because they aren't written in an SF style or something like that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there will never be any universal agreement on definitions for any of these genres, and especially not on what genre many works will fall into.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking, I would tend to agree that using style as a guideline would work for many, but probably not most, people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the most part though, I think people focus on story elements. A story that contains any &quot;fantastic&quot; element (magic, supernatural creatures, beings, or events, etc) is fantasy. A story that contains any &quot;science fictiony&quot; element (the future, time travel, technology in advance of current bleeding edge, aliens, some psionics, etc) is science fiction. Horror is trickier since it must have a supernatural element to be on-topic for this site. I wouldn't want to try &quot;adventure&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice that I did not try to define which exact elements belong to which genres, but stuck to rather generic definitions that most people would agree with, as long as they get to draw the lines (even if only in their own thoughts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5424" LastActivityDate="2016-05-06T18:13:52.660" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9559" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9561" CreationDate="2016-05-07T03:40:11.353" Score="2" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chronology&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chronology&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chronology&lt;/a&gt; tag with 19 questions and a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chronological-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chronological-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chronological-order&lt;/a&gt; tag with 9 questions. They seem to be used in the same way. (A couple &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chronology&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chronology&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chronology&lt;/a&gt; questions should perhaps be retagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we merge and synonymize these tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36115" LastActivityDate="2016-06-06T16:38:48.060" Title="Should we merge [chronology] and [chronological-order]?" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9560" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-07T07:01:57.507" Score="10" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is particularly relevant on this site,  where it's easy for a new movie or TV series to come out and appear in a chat feed,  and spoil you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've made this as a post on this site not the main meta, as it's something I don't think would be as useful on other sites besides Movies &amp;amp; TV. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2018-11-21T12:12:42.043" LastActivityDate="2018-11-21T12:12:42.043" Title="Allow users to hide question Oneboxes that contain ignored tags" Tags="|feature-request|chat|spoilers|chat-feed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9559" CreationDate="2016-05-07T11:46:39.277" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, here are the usage patterns of these tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chronological-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chronological-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chronological-order&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is used similarly to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt;: for questions asking about &lt;strong&gt;the chronological order of certain SFF works in the same series&lt;/strong&gt;. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/25/what-is-the-chronological-order-of-the-novels-in-asimovs-foundation-series&quot;&gt;What is the chronological order of the novels in Asimov&amp;#39;s Foundation series?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/117748/what-is-the-chronological-order-of-warcraft-canon-media&quot;&gt;What is the chronological order of Warcraft canon media?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;There are only two exceptions to this usage guidance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/108553/when-do-we-first-hear-the-name-anakin&quot;&gt;When do we first hear the name &amp;quot;Anakin&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/103916/is-there-a-way-to-bypass-the-paradox-system-with-a-time-turner-in-harry-potter&quot;&gt;Is there a way to bypass the paradox system with a Time Turner in Harry Potter?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't see why either of these questions have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chronological-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chronological-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chronological-order&lt;/a&gt; tag, and propose that we remove it. The first one could arguably be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chronology&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chronology&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chronology&lt;/a&gt; instead (see below).&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chronology&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chronology&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chronology&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions with this tag generally seem to be about &lt;strong&gt;the chronology of specific in-universe events&lt;/strong&gt;, i.e. what order things happened in within SFF works. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/44933/which-of-these-enderverse-characters-died-first&quot;&gt;Which of these Enderverse characters died first?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/124438/chronologically-when-does-the-death-star-scene-of-revenge-of-the-sith-take-plac&quot;&gt;Chronologically, when does the Death Star scene of Revenge of the Sith take place?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;However, there are also several questions with this tag which are asking about the order of works in the same series. IMO, four of these should be retagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chronological-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chronological-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chronological-order&lt;/a&gt; and four should be retagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/336/what-is-the-order-timeline-for-iain-m-banks-culture-novels&quot;&gt;What is the order/timeline for Iain M. Banks &amp;quot;Culture&amp;quot; novels?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2289/is-there-an-official-ish-complete-chronological-order-for-star-wars-c-canon-ma&quot;&gt;Is there an &amp;quot;official&amp;quot;-ish complete chronological order for Star Wars C-canon material (books+comics+games)?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chronological-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chronological-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chronological-order&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4396/x-men-story-chronology-2000-2010&quot;&gt;X-Men Story/Chronology 2000 - 2010&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8715/what-is-the-chronology-of-the-gundam-series&quot;&gt;What is the chronology of the Gundam series?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chronological-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chronological-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chronological-order&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/36332/chronology-of-ray-bradburys-martian-short-stories&quot;&gt;Chronology of Ray Bradbury&amp;#39;s Martian short stories&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chronological-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chronological-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chronological-order&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/49188/what-is-the-chronological-order-for-the-star-trek-series&quot;&gt;What is the chronological order for the Star Trek series?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chronological-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chronological-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chronological-order&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/65316/james-blish-cities-in-flight-series&quot;&gt;James Blish, Cities in Flight series&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/87301/x-men-reading-order-edit&quot;&gt;X-men Reading Order EDIT&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once again, we have 10 questions to be retagged, which should be few enough to do over the course of a day or two without causing too much annoyance. Standard disclaimers apply: &lt;strong&gt;please don't do too many at once&lt;/strong&gt;, as we don't want to flood the front page with old questions bumped by tag edits, especially relatively minor tag edits like this. A useful rule of thumb is to ensure that at most 5 of the top 15 questions on the front page of the site were last edited by you.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the tag wikis for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chronology&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chronology&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chronology&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chronological-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chronological-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chronological-order&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt; should be rewritten to reflect the actual usage of these tags. Each tag should have a clear and unambiguous meaning which is summarised concisely and accurately in the tag wiki excerpt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; all required editing of posts and tag wikis has been done. This issue is now solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-06-06T16:38:48.060" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9562" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-07T21:24:47.867" Score="2" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question was marked as a duplicate but the question that's been linked is asking something different so I don't understand why&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/127049/any-direct-tranlations-from-gallifreyan&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/127049/any-direct-tranlations-from-gallifreyan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30498" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-05-07T21:50:02.340" Title="My question was closed and I don't understand why" Tags="|support|specific-question|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9562" CreationDate="2016-05-07T21:41:49.547" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wasn't one of the close-voters, but their reason for voting to close your question was probably because &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/103379/31394&quot;&gt;the highest-voted answer&lt;/a&gt; to the older question says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I know, there isn't any &lt;em&gt;official&lt;/em&gt; translation of the alphabet; in fact, in at least one case (&amp;quot;A Good Man Goes To War&amp;quot;) River Song explicitly mentions that High Gallifreyan writing &amp;quot;doesn't translate&amp;quot; -- even the TARDIS can't do it for someone who doesn't read it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there have been many attempts by fans to scour the episodes looking for hints as to what certain words might mean, based on the writing in various places where The Doctor may have read or explained them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which also seems to answer your question, albeit not very conclusively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-05-07T21:41:49.547" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9562" CreationDate="2016-05-07T21:50:02.340" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I marked it as closed (as dupe) because two key points in KutuluMike's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/103379/20774&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; address the question you've asked;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;River Song explicitly mentions that High Gallifreyan writing &quot;doesn't&#xA;  translate&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... there have been many attempts by fans to scour the episodes&#xA;  looking for hints as to what certain words might mean, based on the&#xA;  writing in various places where The Doctor may have read or explained&#xA;  them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... as far as I know &lt;strong&gt;the writing on the show itself is just random&#xA;  cool-looking circular designs.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-05-07T21:50:02.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9523" CreationDate="2016-05-08T12:58:24.597" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;There're a few things to consider here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Offensive content should be flagged to the moderators.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's obviously offensive or you, yourself find it offensive then please flag it as such. This is the flag option to select:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/skdvP.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/skdvP.png&quot; alt=&quot;Rude or Abusive flag options&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things I would flag as this is &lt;em&gt;explicitly&lt;/em&gt; saying that a religion is fictional. Subtly implying it as such is not for instance offensive to me, but I would 100% accept a flag from someone saying they were offended by such implications. I'd much rather listen to the community speaking up about it than impose what I thought the community wanted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Non-fiction sources are simply poor answer fodder&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other side of the coin is that, answers that use a non-fiction source are simply poor answers in some case. First though, let's be clear on which meaning of fiction I'm referring to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people.&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;synonyms&lt;/strong&gt;:   novels, stories, creative writing, imaginative writing, works of the imagination, prose literature, narration, story telling&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;something that is invented or untrue.&#xA;&amp;quot;they were supposed to be keeping up the fiction that they were happily married&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;synonyms&lt;/strong&gt;:   fabrication, invention, lies, fibs, concoction, untruth, falsehood, fantasy, fancy, illusion, sham, nonsense;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say the majority of religious texts may come under the category of &lt;em&gt;Stories&lt;/em&gt;, or &lt;em&gt;Narration&lt;/em&gt; implying they are &lt;em&gt;invented&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;untrue&lt;/em&gt; is likely not the intention of the original author. The accepted answer on the related meta post uses the idea of whether it would be in the sci-fi or fantasy section of a book shop. While it's not an exhaustive criterion, it's probably easier than trying to understand the intention of the original author in some cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By either metric most answers that treat religious texts (regardless whether they're Judeo-Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Shinto, Buddhist, Druidic, Pagan, Ancient Roman, Ancient Greek etc....) are simply not providing a good answer, and I'd expect them to get the same response as using &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Cube&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Time Cube&lt;/a&gt; as a scientific source on Physics.SE - it's just not on topic. Downvote and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Inspiration isn't implying fiction&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is one exception though. If a question is asking for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/inspiration&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;inspiration&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;inspiration&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-inspiration-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;inspiration&lt;/a&gt; behind a work of fiction, answers citing religious texts should be considered valid. That is, you can change the wording of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the earliest reference to &lt;em&gt;type of thing&lt;/em&gt; (e.g. talking snakes, transmutation alchemy, angels with more than two wings) in science-fiction/fantasy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is very broad, assuming that one thing or trope has a definite single earliest reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be more clearly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the inspiration behind &lt;em&gt;definite example of thing&lt;/em&gt; (e.g. Mrs. Plithiver in Legend of the Guardians, Philosopher's stone in Full Metal Alchemist, Evangelion).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2023-03-02T14:22:43.483" LastActivityDate="2023-03-02T14:22:43.483" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2016-05-08T14:42:06.940" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a username I've used for many years, most actively on here and on Twitter, where I spout all kinds of inane drivel :-) The origin of my name is simply my surname and the squad number of my then-favourite player which I once got on the back of a football (soccer) shirt :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42237" LastActivityDate="2016-05-08T14:42:06.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2016-05-09T11:48:12.300" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've used Marakai for... it must be decades now. Heard it yoiks ago, when a tour guide gave it as the name of a huuuuuge saltwater croc up on the Catherine River in the Northern Territory. You can see why I thought it'd be a cool name. :D It's apparently a Melanesian/Micronesian word - not Aboriginal or of the people of Arnhem Land. Sounds good, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, my profile age isn't real either. As Aragorn said &quot;I'm older than I look.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64489" LastActivityDate="2016-05-09T11:48:12.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9568" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9569" CreationDate="2016-05-09T13:35:16.813" Score="2" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I logged in this morning, nearly the entire front page was full of questions that had been actually asked 2 or 3 years ago. They seem to have flagged by the system as &quot;active&quot; because someone made edits to the question or answer sometime in the past few hours.  For the most part, the edits were simple formatting or typo-corrections.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to see a list of just the most recently asked or answered questions on the homepage, and ignore questions that were simply modified recently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65576" LastActivityDate="2016-05-09T20:20:32.170" Title="Can the homepage show questions most recently asked/answered, not modified?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2016-05-09T14:47:29.480" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think you can change the settings on the front page, but here is a search you can use to see all questions and answers, with the most recent ones first: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?tab=newest&amp;amp;q=%22%22&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?tab=newest&amp;amp;q=%22%22&lt;/a&gt;. I don't think the search page notifies you if new questions or answers are posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you only care about new questions (not new answers), you can go to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions&quot;&gt;Questions&lt;/a&gt; page and click on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=newest&quot;&gt;newest&lt;/a&gt;. That page will notify you of newly asked questions, like the front page does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you only want to see new answers, you can use this search: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?tab=newest&amp;amp;q=is%3aa&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?tab=newest&amp;amp;q=is%3aa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36115" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2016-05-09T18:28:54.340" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9570" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9571" CreationDate="2016-05-09T16:03:58.340" Score="5" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/104077/was-dr-octavius-brine-inspired-by-octodad&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; about the Penguins of Madagascar movie was closed as off topic for this site but seems like it should be on-topic for Movies and TV.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was this question not migrated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3180" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.143" LastActivityDate="2016-05-09T18:33:47.953" Title="Why was this question not migrated to Movies and TV?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|migration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9570" CreationDate="2016-05-09T18:16:02.337" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's a moot point now.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question could indeed have been migrated to Movies &amp;amp; TV, but none of the close-voters, nor the OP himself, ever flagged it for migration. I don't know why they didn't, but at this point the post is more than 60 days old and therefore cannot be migrated. It's stuck on the SFF site forever now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2016-05-09T18:16:02.337" CommentCount="25" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2016-05-09T20:20:32.170" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to the right of the site logo is a &quot;Questions&quot; button that takes you to a page with several ways to sort questions, the default is most recently asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Cs02R.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Cs02R.png&quot; alt=&quot;Questions button&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2016-05-09T20:20:32.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9575" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-10T10:46:21.663" Score="-8" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question,&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/126853/when-rey-touches-lukes-light-saber-why-does-it-bring-back-memories&quot;&gt;Any canon precedents of Psychometry that Rey's visions are also Psychometry? [closed]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;closed as primarily opinion-based by phantom42, Jason Baker, Jonah,&#xA;  Mooz, Ward May 3 at 4:00&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert&#xA;  experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost&#xA;  entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific&#xA;  expertise. If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the&#xA;  help center, please edit your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And a comment that it was,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;voting to close based on our future works policy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was genuinely very interested in why this was happening (what I asked in the question) and spent a few days  searching through Wookieepedia, when I found a definitive canonical answer. I did not know that meta is where you post these questions I so I posted the answer inside the questions post. But for correct form. The answer should be in  answer format ,have the edit removed and reopened for others to comment etc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am going to post a full answer as to why I think Rey used Psychometry and also had some of her own memories mixed in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first scene is Rey being transported by her vision to the halls of Cloud City on Bespin, from the novel,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;she saw in the distance a section of the famed Cloud City. Two figures&#xA;  were locked in combat, distant, distant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So obviously Rey was not there and could not have known about how the halls  looked. This had to be due to Psychometry&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the vision we Luke’s hand touching R2D2. Rey could have possible seen this herself or used Psychometry, so it is inconclusive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next part is the Knights of Ren standing in the rain over the bodies of the slain Jedi. Rey could have also witnessed this herself or could be Psychometry, so inconclusive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then we see someone being killed by Kylo Ren. I don't know what this means or is indicating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then we see Rey as a child standing next to Unkar Plutt,crying and calling back whoever left her there. This is obviously a memory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last part is what seems to be a vision of the future, with Rey standing before Kylo in the snow. So this also being that Rey is seemingly looking into the future, cannot be Psychometry&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line, she had no way of ever knowing what the halls of Cloud City on Bespin looked like and could only have gained that image from the Lightsaber. The other images that could have been from Psychometry do in fact hint that they were from Psychometry, due to her young age, but the first fact is clear evidence in my mind that she used it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 2: &#xA;Question title for original thread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-07-17T17:36:08.960" LastActivityDate="2017-07-17T17:36:08.960" Title="Shouldn't this TFA question be re-opened so it can be answered" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9575" CreationDate="2016-05-10T12:34:19.390" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I get your argument, but I lean to leave it closed (and voted as-such).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You found an ability that is a possible explanation in Wookieepedia, but you have not found or presented any proof that Rey has this ability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, you've got two canon facts, but are merely speculating that they are connected. That, to me, is more of a comment than an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, if it's re-opened, I'm not going to argue it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2016-05-10T12:34:19.390" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2474" CreationDate="2016-05-10T14:51:20.067" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Franc Ross, who portrayed Monty on &lt;em&gt;Firefly&lt;/em&gt; seems to have answered my question about the character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/127609/51226&quot;&gt;Is Monty's last name actually Reynolds?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Leland_Chee&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Leland Chee&lt;/a&gt; also &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/HolocronKeeper/status/733140666771968001&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;responded&lt;/a&gt; to a Tweet I asked to answer this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/123306/51226&quot;&gt;Why is the planet Lola Sayu so damaged?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xOeog.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xOeog.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/e7N07.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/e7N07.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2016-05-20T12:40:10.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9523" CreationDate="2016-05-10T20:57:16.310" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Treating religious texts as fiction is a surefire way to start wars. Let's not do that. Also, it does not adhere to the &quot;be nice&quot; policy of Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answers that treat religious works as fiction should be flagged for moderator attention, to be deleted as soon as possible.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/126292/19561&quot;&gt;the example&lt;/a&gt; used does not do that. It merely shows that the idea of blighted lands is much older than last century fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, &lt;em&gt;that answer&lt;/em&gt; should not have been deleted. Edited for clarity at most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-05-10T20:57:16.310" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9579" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9580" CreationDate="2016-05-11T03:18:42.553" Score="2" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/127087/short-story-where-man-rejected-from-learning-program-and-identified-as-untrainab&quot;&gt;Short story where man rejected from learning program and identified as untrainable&lt;/a&gt; was closed as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6642/story-where-the-protagonist-is-turned-off-from-an-automated-system-of-profession&quot;&gt;Story where the protagonist is turned off from an automated system of professional attribution and instant learning&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The latter question has an accepted answer, while the former answer doesn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Site policy is that questions should not be closed as duplicates of each other if they &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7067/32390&quot;&gt;don't both have accepted answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we reopen the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/127087/short-story-where-man-rejected-from-learning-program-and-identified-as-untrainab&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user32390" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2016-05-11T10:42:30.837" Title="Reopen this mistakenly-closed-as-duplicate question" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|specific-question|duplicate-questions|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9579" CreationDate="2016-05-11T10:42:06.377" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question has been reopened by @Himarm and @user14111, and I just left a comment reminding users of the policy on dupe-closing story-ID questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2016-05-11T10:42:06.377" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9523" CreationDate="2016-05-11T15:46:54.440" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been a spate of 'Earliest example' questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think these are on topic for the site, as it is interesting to see how speculative ideas have emerged and changed over time as society and science has changed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However some ideas may also have roots in religious texts. I'm thinking of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/126313/1132&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; as an example. It is not commenting on the on the text in question, just mentioning that it contains an idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is not going to be uncommon with such questions, many fantasy and scifi ideas may have roots in religious texts. They are some of the oldest texts that exist and they contain many fantastical ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think it is perfectly valid as an answer and is not offensive unless a user explicitly cites it as fiction or untrue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1132" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-05-11T15:46:54.440" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9582" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-12T05:31:39.553" Score="4" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am new here so please be patient with me... I just want to know how one would start a chat room? Or if one even can? Are they only created by Moderators/senior members?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just want to know so I am not the silly newbie... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65829" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-05-12T10:06:50.530" LastActivityDate="2016-05-12T10:06:50.530" Title="How do you start a chat? Or can you start one?" Tags="|support|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9582" CreationDate="2016-05-12T10:05:05.037" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the bottom of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/?tab=site&amp;amp;host=scifi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;list of all SFF chatrooms&lt;/a&gt;, there's a button for setting up a new room:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hEewn.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hEewn.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That link goes to &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/new&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt;, where you can create a room with whatever room title you like, associated to whatever SE site you like. (I think you can even set up a room associated to a site where you don't have an account.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you've got enough rep - at least 1000 network-wide - you can also create a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/gallery-chat-rooms&quot;&gt;gallery chatroom&lt;/a&gt;, in which only users you grant permission (plus moderators) are able to post, although the room and its transcript are still publicly visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2016-05-12T10:05:05.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9584" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-12T20:29:12.107" Score="3" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &quot;Related&quot; bar, the scores have backgrounds - green to indicate there's a accepted answer, grey if it's not. The main questions list is the same way, just blank if unanswered instead of colored, but still green if it has an accepted answer. In many places, they're just boxes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, here, we have shapes! In our main questions list, it's a group of three regular hexagons - one centered over the number, the other two with the word &quot;answer&quot; running between them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the Related questions bar, we have the hexagons, but they appear to be truncated. This is a minor problem, but I wonder if they're supposed to be centered regular hexagons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, the questions that &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; have accepted answers have rectangles instead. Are they supposed to be grey hexagons? Does anybody else see this differently? Is it me? Is the style sheet broken? Is it supposed to be this way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kjLsx.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kjLsx.png&quot; alt=&quot;Related Questions&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43815" LastActivityDate="2016-05-12T20:29:12.107" Title="Related Question Display Error - Is it me, or the style sheet?" Tags="|bug|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9585" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-12T21:10:16.400" Score="28" ViewCount="494" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Current status: we do not have consensus to pursue this under the present system (which only allows custom &lt;em&gt;off-topic&lt;/em&gt; close reasons). We may re-visit this if the system is changed to allow a custom close reason for a different type (e.g. &quot;primarily opinion-based&quot;).&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a policy that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5187/should-questions-about-future-works-be-closed-as-primarily-opinion-based&quot;&gt;questions about &quot;future works&quot; are to be closed&lt;/a&gt; until something has been published that can be used to answer the question. Such questions are typically closed as &quot;primarily opinion-based&quot; or as simply &quot;off-topic&quot; with the generic message&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question does not appear to be about science fiction or fantasy within the scope defined in the help center.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Helpful users often link to our &quot;future works&quot; policy on meta to better explain why the question is being closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was recently &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9526/do-we-have-room-for-a-custom-close-reason-for-future-works&quot;&gt;asked if we had room to add a custom off-topic close reason for &quot;future works&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. As noted in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9527/31936&quot;&gt;answer to that question&lt;/a&gt;, we have used up all three custom close reasons but we can request space for a fourth one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A few sites do get a regular influx of off-topic questions in a larger number of distinct categories; if you find this to be the case on your site, post a feature-request on your meta site with examples of questions that would benefit from a predefined off-topic option - we'll verify the need for this and work with you to make more reasons available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/185097/299342&quot;&gt;-- @Shog9, Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we ask Stack Exchange to add a fourth custom close reason for us so we can have a &quot;future works&quot; close reason?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are examples of questions that were closed in accordance with our &quot;future works&quot; policy&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/123573/who-is-this-guy-in-zack-snyders-batman-vs-superman&quot;&gt;Who is this guy in Zack Snyder&amp;#39;s Batman vs Superman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/113963/how-did-c-3pos-golden-arm-get-to-maz-kanata&quot;&gt;How did C-3PO&amp;#39;s golden arm get to Maz Kanata?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/110487/are-there-any-spin-off-series-or-guest-appearances-planned-for-these-doctor-who&quot;&gt;Are there any spin-off series or guest appearances planned for these Doctor Who characters?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/127303/are-rey-and-luke-skywalker-connected&quot;&gt;Are Rey and Luke Skywalker Connected?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/126983/why-is-kylo-ren-separated-from-the-other-knights-of-ren&quot;&gt;Why is Kylo Ren separated from the other Knights Of Ren?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/124947/why-the-name-rogue-one&quot;&gt;Why the name &amp;#39;Rogue One&amp;#39;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/124445/is-jyn-erso-based-on-jan-ors-and-or-kyle-katarn&quot;&gt;Is Jyn Erso based on Jan Ors and/or Kyle Katarn?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, 10k users can see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tools/question-close-stats&quot;&gt;question close statistics tool&lt;/a&gt;, which shows that there are a substantial number of custom close comments which cite the &quot;future works&quot; policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The moderation team is willing to make the request to add a custom close reason, but only with clear consensus from the community. In order to judge the wishes of the community, please post or vote on answers to this question (either in the affirmative or negative). Votes on this question will not be considered.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;I found them by searching comments for the keyword &quot;future works&quot; using &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/425086/search-comments-by-keyword&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this query&lt;/a&gt;. I searched for comments by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/20774/richard?tab=profile&quot;&gt;userID 20774 (Richard)&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2816/kutulumike?tab=profile&quot;&gt;userID 2816 (Mike)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-11-17T16:51:14.167" Title="Should we add an off-topic close reason for &quot;future works&quot;?" Tags="|feature-request|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9585" CreationDate="2016-05-12T22:04:52.317" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, we should request a custom &quot;future works&quot; closure reason. Many questions that are unsuitable because they have no current answer may become useful in the future, and current closure reasons aren't a good fit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastActivityDate="2016-05-12T22:04:52.317" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9585" CreationDate="2016-05-12T22:06:07.730" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, we should not request a custom &quot;future works&quot; closure reason. The current close reasons adequately cover this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastActivityDate="2016-05-12T22:06:07.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9585" CreationDate="2016-05-13T01:05:57.987" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really like the idea of having a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/210314/276025&quot;&gt;custom close reason&lt;/a&gt; for this, but I am strongly opposed to having a custom &lt;em&gt;off-topic&lt;/em&gt; close reason for this policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Questions closed under the future-works policy are not off-topic&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. They're perfectly desirable questions&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; that were just asked X days/weeks/months/years too early for our liking. Using the same hammer for them that we use for recommendations, scientific explanations, and questions about kittens - that is to say, questions which have no place on this site and never will - sends entirely the wrong message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, to take it from another direction, the point of closing a question is to signify to the asker (and to future travellers) that something is wrong with the question. Other close reasons indicate that something is wrong with the question &lt;em&gt;as formulated&lt;/em&gt;: &quot;Too Broad&quot; is an invitation to narrow the scope, &quot;Primarily Opinion-Based&quot; invites more objectivity, and so on. The hope is that, with a little spit-and-polish, the question can be improved and eventually re-opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the off-topic close reason(s) indicates that something is wrong with the question &lt;em&gt;itself&lt;/em&gt;: for one reason or another, we don't want it here and would prefer it politely go away. These questions will &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; be re-opened, unless the question is changed fundamentally&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Future-works questions, by-and-large, fall under the first umbrella; what's wrong with the question is that it doesn't (currently) have an objective answer&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;, but we fully expect that it will sometime in the future; we're not saying &quot;kindly leave the building&quot;, we're saying &quot;please take a seat, we'll be with you in a minute&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related MSE discussion: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/192086/276025&quot;&gt;Shouldn&amp;#39;t &amp;quot;off-topic&amp;quot; be only about... off-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And some proof that this isn't an imagined problem; UX signals really do matter:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/66125/algorithm-for-determining-similiarity-of-text#comment140690_66125&quot;&gt;https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/66125/algorithm-for-determining-similiarity-of-text#comment140690_66125&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Most of the time; there are always some that are bad, but they're usually bad for other reasons&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; That's assuming a perfect world. In reality, questions closed as off-topic could be re-opened for a number of other reasons; perhaps the question was closed improperly, perhaps there's a scope disagreement, perhaps site scope changes over time, and so on&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt; Which is why I (and others, I suspect) like the POB close reason for them&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:38.303" LastActivityDate="2016-11-17T16:51:14.167" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9589" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9590" CreationDate="2016-05-13T16:04:41.677" Score="1" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/127929/inconsistencies-between-the-star-wars-movies-star-wars-the-clone-wars&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; was closed today, citing this question as a duplicate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/23814/what-continuity-problems-have-star-wars-the-clone-wars-created&quot;&gt;What continuity problems have Star Wars: The Clone Wars created?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer there cites a couple examples and the answer was accepted but the list doesn't appear to be exhaustive in any way. It seems like its lack of completeness is what prompted the user to ask the duplicate question in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should happen here? Should the old question be resurrected (not even sure what that would mean in this context...)? Should it be closed for being too open-ended to build a good list? What does that mean for the duplicate question since its scope is a little more narrow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57075" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2016-05-13T17:24:14.777" Title="What should happen with this list-based question?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9589" CreationDate="2016-05-13T17:24:14.777" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;What should have happened, if your are correct about the new OP's motivations, is a bounty. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although, SE says something like, &quot;If this does not answer your question, please ask a new one.&quot; So the &lt;em&gt;OP's&lt;/em&gt; course of action is to edit and vie for reopening. Championing the question is also your prerogative, should you wish to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not unheard of for a new question to make a dupe out of an old one, but it is rare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'Should be resurrected' doesn't mean anything here; it (the old one) is not on hold or closed (nor has it ever been; no edit history).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not too open-ended to build a good list, but it'd likely be quite extensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, it's of limited use (meaning use DVs, not VTCs). I really have no interest in pointing out every inconsistency in Star Wars, as I have no respect for any canon that has produced one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23785" LastActivityDate="2016-05-13T17:24:14.777" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9591" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-13T18:29:50.220" Score="24" ViewCount="752" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the time I've been active on SF&amp;amp;F, I couldn't help but notice comments that compliment screen shots that are annotated with circles, specifically hand-drawn, more especially red, and with a special shout-out when it appears that MS Paint was used to make the annotations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the kind of delightful cultural quirk that I love, even if I don't understand it (and I'm probably not the only one who feels that way). So, when I finally had an opportunity, earlier today, to annotate an image myself, I dutifully opened up MS Paint and hand-drew some red circles, added the image to an answer, and was rewarded with a comment complimenting &lt;strong&gt;my&lt;/strong&gt; red circles! Hooray!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this got me thinking: What the heck is up with all that? Why are hand-drawn circles praised and perfect computed circles and ovals booed? Is this an SF&amp;amp;F.SE thing or is it some wider Internet meme? (I did search know your meme for this, BTW) Either way, does anyone know where it comes from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See below. The first shows the circles I drew (circled):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IpgRl.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IpgRl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second shows the complimentary comment (circled):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zT7RF.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zT7RF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46607" LastEditorUserId="46607" LastEditDate="2016-05-13T18:34:12.260" LastActivityDate="2018-12-27T21:02:05.500" Title="Why does the community like hand-drawn red circles?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9591" CreationDate="2016-05-13T18:38:53.503" Score="28" Body="&lt;h2&gt;It's a Stack Exchange-wide meme.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fourth highest-voted answer in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta&quot;&gt;Many Memes of Meta&lt;/a&gt; thread (main meta version) &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/19775/278659&quot;&gt;says&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qXOY3.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qXOY3.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/138031/is-there-a-joke-about-freehand-circles-that-im-oblivious-to&quot;&gt;Is there a joke about &amp;quot;Freehand Circles&amp;quot; that I&amp;#39;m oblivious to?&lt;/a&gt; (also on main meta).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-05-13T18:38:53.503" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9591" CreationDate="2016-05-13T18:45:43.293" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it also comes from the use of circles in many of those &quot;Top Ten Thing You Didn't Know About XYX&quot; spam advertisements at the bottom of websites that try to get you thinking that you missed something so obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2016-05-13T18:45:43.293" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9594" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9596" CreationDate="2016-05-13T21:47:21.723" Score="5" ViewCount="780" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several other questions discuss the design of Science Fiction and Fantasy SE UI elements, including the logo. The words &quot;Science Fiction&quot; are in Orbitron. What font is used for the word &quot;Fantasy&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-05-13T22:12:02.120" LastActivityDate="2016-05-13T22:33:58.110" Title="What is the Fantasy font?" Tags="|support|design|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9594" CreationDate="2016-05-13T22:12:56.360" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure, but it might be the font &lt;strong&gt;Polonaise&lt;/strong&gt; (manufacturer URW).  See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.identifont.com/show?65F&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.identifont.com/show?65F&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/urw/polonaise/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/urw/polonaise/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastActivityDate="2016-05-13T22:12:56.360" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9594" CreationDate="2016-05-13T22:31:10.013" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The font is probably &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dafont.com/font-comment.php?file=chopin_script&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chopin Script&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SY5f5.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SY5f5.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="51379" LastEditDate="2016-05-13T22:33:58.110" LastActivityDate="2016-05-13T22:33:58.110" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9597" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-14T08:54:45.407" Score="0" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basic question. Does it represent something or is it a reference to something? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57188" OwnerDisplayName="kzevo1800" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-05-14T11:00:17.813" LastActivityDate="2016-05-14T11:00:17.813" Title="What does the logo of the sci-fi stack exchange show?" Tags="|support|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-05-14T11:01:37.350" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9598" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-14T12:47:34.383" Score="-1" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm working on a nonfiction book, and I've discovered that SFF short stories can be very helpful to me in that process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, I just reread &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_for_Algernon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Flowers for Algernon&lt;/a&gt;. Because my book deals with coping with neurological disease, Flowers for Algernon helped me find the words to make a point I was trying to make about particular fears people have when facing inevitable degeneration. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that, &quot;What's a good story about an underwater society?&quot; would be off-topic, but what if I framed it more like a Story ID question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like (hypothetical): &lt;strong&gt;Short Story About Absolute Power Corrupting&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to find a short story to illustrate the idea that absolute power corrupts absolutely, and no one is so pure as to be immune from that corruption. I'd like the character being corrupted by the power to be a likable character. The story can use any plot device, magic, technology, whatever. Any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An answer might be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Pyth915.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pythias&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just like a Story ID question, I'd 'accept' whatever answer I found most helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could a question like that fly? Advice? Caveats?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20538" LastActivityDate="2016-05-14T21:58:35.950" Title="Regarding themes and morals in stories" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9599" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-14T13:45:13.163" Score="1" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions get flagged as duplicates etc, and it takes a certain amount of people to vote that question as such. But, there is no direct vote to counter the flag before it gets deleted or closed. You have to vote after the question has been dealt with. Why can't you counter a vote while it is in moderation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-05-14T13:57:43.823" LastActivityDate="2016-05-14T13:57:43.823" Title="How to &quot;unflag&quot; a question?" Tags="|discussion|support|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9599" CreationDate="2016-05-14T13:56:48.613" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;You can't retract a flag ... yet.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ability to do so has been the subject of many &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt;s on main meta for at least 5 years:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/87500/cancel-misclicked-flags&quot;&gt;Cancel misclicked flags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/87660/flag-removal-is-it-possible-to-remove-your-flag-or-otherwise-indicate-it-should&quot;&gt;Flag removal: Is it possible to remove your flag or otherwise indicate it should be unflagged?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/96190/change-or-reverse-flag&quot;&gt;Change or reverse flag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/96950/can-we-have-a-way-to-undo-a-flag&quot;&gt;Can we have a way to undo a flag?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/111400/add-ability-to-retract-a-flag&quot;&gt;Add ability to retract a flag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/152827/a-way-to-retract-a-comment-flag&quot;&gt;A way to retract a comment flag?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/194598/can-we-retract-active-answer-flags&quot;&gt;Can we retract active answer flags?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far it hasn't been implemented, but the first (oldest) question linked to above has been tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-planned&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-planned&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-planned&lt;/a&gt; by one of the Stack Exchange Community Team, so it may be implemented in the near(ish) future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;You can, however, retract a close vote or vote to leave open.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With less than 3000 rep, you can only &lt;em&gt;flag&lt;/em&gt; a question to recommend closure, rather than casting a fully fledged close vote. But users with over 3000 rep can retract a cast close vote by simply clicking 'close' on the question again to produce a new popup with a 'Retract Close Vote' button instead of a 'Vote to Close'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also the Close Votes review queue (again, accessible only to users with over 3000 rep), where every question which has been close-voted or flagged for closure gets reviewed by the community. Each reviewer can either click &quot;Leave Open&quot; or &quot;Close&quot;, and enough &quot;Leave Open&quot; votes will remove the question from the review queue. This is the way of &quot;counter[ing] the flag before it gets deleted or closed&quot; that you were looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2016-05-14T13:56:48.613" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9598" CreationDate="2016-05-14T14:16:44.690" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt; You're trying to lawyer your way around the restriction on recommendation-type questions being off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Phrasing it like a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; question &lt;strong&gt;when you know full well that it's not&lt;/strong&gt; is not appropriate behaviour and will almost certainly result in your question being closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to talk about suggestions for book types, we have a lovely &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;chatroom&lt;/a&gt; where you can pose as many off-topic questions as you like. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-05-14T21:58:35.950" LastActivityDate="2016-05-14T21:58:35.950" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="133" CreationDate="2016-05-14T17:04:36.710" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;general reference&quot; close reason has been abolished, and this particular question seems to be a good and interesting one. It's asking for a finite and clearly scoped list rather than being an open-ended question, so it doesn't fall foul of our &quot;lists or recommendations&quot; close reason either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2638/are-all-list-questions-off-topic&quot;&gt;Are *all* list questions off-topic?&lt;/a&gt; describes what kind of list questions are allowed here, and in fact cites &lt;strong&gt;this very question&lt;/strong&gt; as one that is acceptable:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, finite and well-scoped list questions are allowed here. There's a question asking for a list of all of &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt;'s Doctors, for example. A mere 12 Doctors exist, which can be reasonably included in one, canonical answer. Similarly, a question asks about all of &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;'s &lt;em&gt;Enterprise&lt;/em&gt;s. There's a reasonable, limited number of those as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I helped to undelete this post, and it has now been reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-05-14T17:04:36.710" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9536" CreationDate="2016-05-14T23:57:15.530" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every time I went back to this issue and started to consider merging some of these tags, I stopped short of taking any action even on the least-used tag, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/closing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;closing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;closing&lt;/a&gt; with 7 questions. Eventually, I realised what was nagging at me: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/closing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;closing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;closing&lt;/a&gt; is actually the best tag name of the four&lt;/strong&gt;, which is why I could never quite bring myself to merge it into any of the others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What are these questions about? They're about &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/closing-questions&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;closing-questions&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;closing-questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/close-reasons&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;close-reasons&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;close-reasons&lt;/a&gt; doesn't work as a tag for all of them, because not all questions about closure relate to the &lt;em&gt;reasons&lt;/em&gt; for closure: e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/137/are-too-many-questions-being-closed-by-a-moderator-alone-rather-than-the-communi&quot;&gt;Are too many questions being closed by a moderator alone rather than the community?&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/243/is-there-a-way-to-undo-voting-to-close-a-question&quot;&gt;Is there a way to undo voting to close a question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/vote-to-close&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vote-to-close&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vote-to-close&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; work as a tag for all these questions (barring the pedantic nitpick that moderators can't vote to close a question, only close it outright), since they're all about when, whether, or why users should vote to close questions. But this is a strange name for a tag anyway, and what really matters is whether a question actually gets closed, not whether it gets one or two votes to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both the answers here propose merging &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/closing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;closing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;closing&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/vote-to-close&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vote-to-close&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vote-to-close&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/close-reasons&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;close-reasons&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;close-reasons&lt;/a&gt;, since all three are used for questions &quot;&lt;strong&gt;about closing questions&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;. I agree that these three tags should be merged together, but if they're about closing questions, then let's call the master tag &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/closing-questions&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;closing-questions&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;closing-questions&lt;/a&gt;!&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;I've now merged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/close-reasons&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;close-reasons&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;close-reasons&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/vote-to-close&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vote-to-close&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vote-to-close&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/closing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;closing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;closing&lt;/a&gt; into a new tag called &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/closing-questions&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;closing-questions&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;closing-questions&lt;/a&gt;. I'll leave &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/closed-questions&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;closed-questions&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;closed-questions&lt;/a&gt; for a bit, since nobody seems to have worked out yet whether its usage differs significantly from the other three, but I may end up merging that one into &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/closing-questions&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;closing-questions&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;closing-questions&lt;/a&gt; too. Comments on this will be appreciated, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2016-05-15T01:13:13.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9604" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-05-15T01:08:04.007" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use this tag when asking about closure of questions or votes to close. For example, questions with this tag might take any of the following forms:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Should this question be closed?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Do we want this custom close reason?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;What close reason should be used for questions of this form?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-05-15T01:08:04.007" LastActivityDate="2016-05-15T01:08:04.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9605" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-05-15T01:08:04.007" Score="0" Body="For questions about the closing of questions: whether, when, why, and how questions should be closed." OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-05-15T01:08:04.007" LastActivityDate="2016-05-15T01:08:04.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9606" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9607" CreationDate="2016-05-15T01:41:21.180" Score="4" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9573/the-great-science-fiction-fantasy-tv-showdown-round-3&quot;&gt;this meta question&lt;/a&gt; deleted? There's no comment explaining, and it was mod deleted so no ability to nominate for re-opening. I can't see any other meta questions explaining it (including the other two posts in the series).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original post in the series says that the concept was approved by moderators (as unnecessary as that seems) so it seems rather odd for this silent kill, particularly for an event promoted on the blog. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.377" LastActivityDate="2016-05-15T01:59:31.497" Title="Why was round 3 deleted?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|moderation|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9606" CreationDate="2016-05-15T01:51:02.667" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rogue Jedi, the event organiser, asked for the question to be deleted due to community disapproval of the chosen pairing for Round 3:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to general opinion, I'm going to scrub Round 3 and start it over later today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;-- &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/29562834#29562834&quot;&gt;Rogue Jedi&lt;/a&gt;, 10 May&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After posting the above in chat, he flagged the question and asked the moderators to delete it. He also made an announcement in Mos Eisley, which was pinned for a while:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Round Three of the Showdown event is going to redone. Sorry for the confusion. Sorry for messing it up the first time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;-- &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=29574028#29574028&quot;&gt;Rogue Jedi&lt;/a&gt;, 11 May&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure exactly when the new Round 3 is to be expected, but hopefully within the next couple of days if all is going well with Rogue Jedi, whose latest announcement was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll have to do it this weekend. I've got a lot of stressful work to do in my real life right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;-- &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/29598865#29598865&quot;&gt;Rogue Jedi&lt;/a&gt;, 12 May&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apologies for the confusion; I or Rogue Jedi should probably have edited a cancellation/postponement notice into the top of the meta post before deletion. I've now rectified this oversight by putting a bold title at the top to make clear what's happening with Round 3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-05-15T01:51:02.667" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9608" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9611" CreationDate="2016-05-15T11:17:46.787" Score="7" ViewCount="642" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assuming they weren't removed when the writers/directors changed the plot mid-shoot and therefore don't directly contradict anything left included in the film/tv show&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30498" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-05-15T11:22:13.163" LastActivityDate="2016-05-15T12:02:38.190" Title="Are deleted scenes considered canon?" Tags="|discussion|support|canon|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9609" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9610" CreationDate="2016-05-15T11:43:15.580" Score="8" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simple question, What is the most viewed question on Science Fiction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-06-12T01:10:44.213" LastActivityDate="2016-06-12T01:10:44.213" Title="What is the most viewed question on Science Fiction?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9609" CreationDate="2016-05-15T11:44:30.367" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1520/in-what-order-should-the-star-wars-movies-be-watched&quot;&gt;In what order should the Star Wars movies be watched?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With over 1 million views, it wipes the floor with all other questions where views are concerned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second most viewed is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/11325/how-did-the-zombie-outbreak-start-in-the-walking-dead&quot;&gt;How did the zombie outbreak start in the Walking Dead?&lt;/a&gt; with less than 600,000 views. You can see the top 1000 most viewed questions with &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/463419/posts-with-most-views&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this Data.SE query&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-05-15T11:48:15.560" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9608" CreationDate="2016-05-15T12:02:38.190" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It depends on the work in question and on whom you ask. They're at best lesser canon, but an answer based on a deleted scene would usually be acceptable.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At one end of the spectrum, we have &lt;strong&gt;Star Wars&lt;/strong&gt;, which currently takes a very strict approach to canonicity, with the vast majority of its existing material falling under 'Legends' rather than canon. The accepted answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/86485/are-deleted-scenes-considered-canon&quot;&gt;Are deleted scenes considered canon?&lt;/a&gt; tells us that &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt;, deleted scenes even from the seven main films count as Legends material.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the far end of the spectrum, there's &lt;strong&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/strong&gt;, which takes a much much (much) more lax approach to canonicity and is often said to &quot;have no canon&quot;. There are TV shows, films, books, comics, and much more, all interacting and contradicting each other. Even within the TV show (the closest we can get to 'main canon'), there are frequent contradictions. The accepted answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/57150/is-time-crash-considered-part-of-doctor-who-canon&quot;&gt;Is &amp;#39;Time Crash&amp;#39; considered part of Doctor Who canon?&lt;/a&gt; says that even minisodes are &quot;as close to canon as you get with Doctor Who&quot;, but deleted scenes are generally not considered &quot;real&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But both of these are massive franchises with huge fanbases, and most films and TV shows haven't bothered specifying whether or not deleted scenes should be considered canon. At that point it depends on whom you ask. Personally I might consider deleted scenes to be canon unless they contradict something else in main canon. A &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=deleted+scenes+canon+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;quick search&lt;/a&gt; through questions on the main site threw up at least three questions from DVK in which he's looking for &quot;canon including from interviews or deleted scenes&quot;, so seemingly he agrees with me on this one. Doubtless you'll also be able to find people who feel that deleted scenes are &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, even with the two franchises mentioned above, it's not as clear-cut as all that. Deleted scenes from Star Wars films often make it into the novelisations, which &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/80098/31394&quot;&gt;are considered canon when they elaborate on the films&lt;/a&gt;. For instance, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/103793/has-chewbacca-ever-ripped-anyones-arm-off/112424#112424&quot;&gt;Chewbacca ripping someone's arm off in TFA&lt;/a&gt; is canon even though this scene was deleted, and so is the existence of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/114311/was-constable-zuvio-in-the-force-awakens/114312#114312&quot;&gt;Constable Zuvio&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;From the point of view of providing acceptable answers on this site, I would say that &lt;strong&gt;an answer based on a deleted scene is fine, provided you make clear that it is from a deleted scene (and preferably provide a link to that scene if possible).&lt;/strong&gt; Sure, it might be a lesser level of canon than the non-deleted parts of the film, but the fact that we accept film-based answers to questions about Harry Potter, and novelisation-based answers to questions about Star Wars, shows that we're fine with answers based on lesser canon, provided it's clear that they are such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2016-05-15T12:02:38.190" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4781" CreationDate="2016-05-15T12:28:53.877" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the specific cases you mention - the First Posts and Late Answers review queues - there are strict definitions of &quot;new user&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The First Posts review queue contains posts from &lt;strong&gt;users who've never posted on the site before&lt;/strong&gt;: it literally means &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt; posts. This queue was implemented in 2012; see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/146988/new-review-queue-first-posts&quot;&gt;New Review Queue: First Posts&lt;/a&gt; on main meta.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Late Answers review queue contains answers from &lt;strong&gt;users with less than 50 rep&lt;/strong&gt; which were posted at least 30 days after the question was asked. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/177552/how-old-does-a-question-have-to-be-for-it-to-be-a-late-answer&quot;&gt;How old does a question have to be for it to be a late answer?&lt;/a&gt; on main meta, and note that the rep bar was &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/266696/can-we-raise-the-bar-for-reputation-for-late-answers-to-bypass-the-review-queue&quot;&gt;raised from 10 to 50&lt;/a&gt; on 29 September 2015.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, &lt;strong&gt;there's no strict definition&lt;/strong&gt;. Different people use the term &quot;new user&quot; in different ways, according to their own reputation and time on the site. Some people would see me as a new user, since I've only been here since 2014; others probably see me as one of the mainstays of the site. It's all subjective. There are only two possible general definitions I can think of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;users with &lt;strong&gt;less than 10 reputation&lt;/strong&gt;: according to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/new-user&quot;&gt;the help centre&lt;/a&gt;, one gets &quot;new user restrictions&quot; removed at this point (though I still think of some users with &gt;1k rep as being new)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;users who've &lt;strong&gt;been around for less than 45 days&lt;/strong&gt;: this is the definition used by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=newusers&quot;&gt;new users tab&lt;/a&gt; in the user list (thanks to @anaranjada for reminding me of this)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Would I be considered a new user?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt;. You have over 5000 rep, and you've been a member of this site for longer than two of the moderators - you're no noob :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-05-15T14:47:13.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9613" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-15T22:36:28.913" Score="13" ViewCount="240" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/116033/is-montys-last-name-actually-reynolds&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; about Franc Ross' character on Firefly appears to have received an answer from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/65886/franc-ross&quot;&gt;Franc Ross&lt;/a&gt; himself. The problem is that they've offered no other evidence to support their contention, nor does their user account give any indication that they're the real Franc Ross.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/127609/20774&quot;&gt;The answer&lt;/a&gt;, in and of itself is very low quality and from &lt;em&gt;any other user&lt;/em&gt; would merit downvoting and probably deletion. Obviously if it's from the actor, then it's actually a very good answer from a primary source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we assume that someone who claims to be celebrity is accepted as such until proven otherwise? And if not, then what proof would be considered acceptable?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-05-16T21:02:11.747" Title="Should we assume celebrity users are who they say they are?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2016-05-17T06:21:10.553" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9614" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-15T22:41:10.597" Score="22" ViewCount="240" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently used the &quot;flag a moderator&quot; function to raise a concern about another user's posts. I was quite surprised to see that flag &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/29671345#29671345&quot;&gt;openly posted into a chatroom&lt;/a&gt;, along with my username and a timestamp.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I should stress that I couldn't personally give a damn if &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; of my flags were published, I was wondering what the &lt;em&gt;principle&lt;/em&gt; was; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are moderators entitled to make flags public?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="51226" LastEditDate="2016-05-15T23:29:40.287" LastActivityDate="2016-05-15T23:31:35.897" Title="Are moderator flags private?" Tags="|discussion|moderators|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6873" CreationDate="2016-05-15T22:44:02.533" Score="-2" Body="&lt;h1&gt;No&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We don't need a network-wide default ad&lt;/strong&gt;; leave it to the community to come up with whatever they'd like at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastActivityDate="2016-05-15T22:44:02.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9613" CreationDate="2016-05-15T23:12:48.360" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm inclined to say &lt;strong&gt;yes&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;mdash;at least for the purposes of deleting, and probably upvoting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, it is much more likely that an actor happened to see their name come up in a search than that some troll decided to play pretend for no benefit, perhaps even psychological.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that is the case, we certainly would not want to delete an answer that many others looking at the question might see as highly authoritative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an aside, I gather that moderators are not permitted to contact users to verify their identity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastActivityDate="2016-05-15T23:12:48.360" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9614" CreationDate="2016-05-15T23:31:35.897" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am informed such a breach of protocol is non-standard. I apologize for any inconvenience or disturbance this may have caused. It will not happen again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2765" LastActivityDate="2016-05-15T23:31:35.897" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9613" CreationDate="2016-05-15T23:41:28.090" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, don't assume, never assume.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recommend that you do as much digging as you can to determine whether it's them or not. Like I did recently with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/116193/21267&quot;&gt;this answer from Elio Garcia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if the community sees it as a useful answer, then by all means they should up-vote it; low-quality or no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel that you don't see it as a credible source, don't vote, or if you're so inclined, down-vote it or leave a comment mentioning your concerns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Proof&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;As for what proof, well, that it entirely up to your opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6334/how-long-was-bill-murrays-character-phil-davis-supposed-to-be-in-a-time-loop&quot;&gt;How long was Bill Murray&amp;#39;s character (Phil Davis) supposed to be in a time loop in the film &amp;quot;Groundhog Day&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;, Danny Rubin apparently &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/10567/21267&quot;&gt;posted an answer&lt;/a&gt;, and it was confirmed by @DVK, @Keen and @Phantom42 (and perhaps others); as well as that text having been placed on Rubin's own website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2474/have-we-had-any-professionals-participate-in-sff&quot;&gt;Have we had ANY professionals participate in SFF?&lt;/a&gt; in case someone has already done the sleuthing to ascertain whether or not some professional is who they say they are. (Quite frankly in not sure Thaddeus is who he says he is :p)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I certainly wouldn't +1 an answer just because someone claims to be a celebrity unless I'm confident that they are. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-05-16T21:02:11.747" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9613" CreationDate="2016-05-16T00:00:20.080" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we assume every supposed celebrity user is who they say they are?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not necessarily. It would be easy for anyone to set up an account under the name &quot;George Lucas&quot; or &quot;Christopher Tolkien&quot; and troll us all (although if they chose somebody that famous to impersonate, they'd probably be found out fairly quickly). In the words of Karl Marx, &quot;&lt;em&gt;de omnibus dubitandum&lt;/em&gt;&quot;: doubt everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What proof would be considered acceptable?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No personally identifying information about SE users is publicly visible. And beyond making off-site contact with the celebrity themselves (which is a possibility and has been done in the past), such information is the only way of proving a user is who they say they are. So, if you find someone who claims to be a specific actor, author, etc. and you're doubtful about their claim, feel free to flag the post for moderator attention. The mods are the only people who have a chance of verifying a user's identity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that of course we can't reveal anything about the PII we have access to, so as with many things, you'll just have to trust us to make the right decision :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2016-05-16T00:00:20.080" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9621" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9622" CreationDate="2016-05-16T05:47:33.137" Score="-3" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to delete my Stack Exchange profile. Can any one tell me how?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user64716" LastEditorUserId="21267" LastEditDate="2016-05-17T02:17:13.420" LastActivityDate="2016-05-17T02:17:13.420" Title="Can any one tell me how to delete my Profile?" Tags="|discussion|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2016-05-24T04:43:05.123" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9621" CreationDate="2016-05-16T05:59:53.043" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5999/how-can-i-delete-my-account&quot;&gt;This post&lt;/a&gt; on Meta Stack Exchange describes the process. Basically, since you have more than one post or have voted, you need to contact the Stack Exchange team &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/contact&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:33:39.573" LastActivityDate="2016-05-16T05:59:53.043" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9623" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-16T06:23:12.570" Score="4" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just out of curiosity: If a new user can't find out how to get to the Meta site, where is he supposed to ask? On the main site, or on Meta? (I didn't see any directions on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/whats-meta&quot;&gt;What's Meta&lt;/a&gt; page, but it was too long to read the whole thing. At one time, before the site was redesigned, the Meta button was not so well hidden.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2016-05-16T10:33:00.860" Title="Finding the Meta site" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2016-05-17T06:17:26.657" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9621" CreationDate="2016-05-16T08:30:08.007" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Process&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Jonah has pointed out, if you wish to delete your account you need to contact the SE team using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;&quot;Contact Us&lt;/a&gt;&quot; link, which can also be found below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What happens next?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that you've accrued a reasonable amount of votes for your questions (as well as voting up and down on a number of questions), it's quite likely that your account won't be destroyed, it'll just be deregistered. That means your questions, comments and votes will remain on the site, just under an account not linked to your personal info and no longer under your control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Reasons for quitting&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You seem to be rage-quitting after finding out that copying questions over from moviemistakes verbatim isn't acceptable conduct. This was an honest mistake and something that's quite easily fixed. &lt;strong&gt;Don't quit&lt;/strong&gt;, or, at the very least take a few days to think about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, turning these into acceptable questions (by attributing the content) is a very simple process that takes about one minute per question. If you do quit, I'll be working my way through your questions and correcting them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-05-16T09:55:13.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9623" CreationDate="2016-05-16T08:34:44.310" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a number of ways to find &amp;amp; get to the Meta site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There's a prominent link in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/whats-meta&quot;&gt;&quot;What's Meta?&quot;&lt;/a&gt; FAQ page.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's mentioned on the privileges page; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/participate-in-meta&quot;&gt;&quot;Participate in Meta&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's mentioned in the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;What Questions are on-topic&lt;/a&gt;&quot; page&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Featured Meta questions appear on the right-hand side of the front page (if there are any) along with hot meta posts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1Jxen.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1Jxen.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's a link in the SE drop-down.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pTOuc.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pTOuc.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you visit your user profile, it's there.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WILmp.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WILmp.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's in the drop-down under &quot;help&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xG73M.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xG73M.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Interestingly, there's also a link to Meta under the &quot;feedback&quot; button at the bottom of the front page.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JkMZB.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JkMZB.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-05-16T10:33:00.860" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9523" CreationDate="2016-05-16T08:48:03.323" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Only if it's in an offensive way. There are hundreds of religions and some are blatantly jokes, some might be seen as a joke but are practised seriously, some are just dead-serious. A bunch of them are grey areas regarding seriousness. Not allowing for an answer to treat joke religions as fiction would result in a very silly answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would flag for moderator attention, only if the answer is offensive. If the question is something like an identify this fictional story and someone suggests the Bible, that would be very offensive to Christians. But if the answer does nothing more or less than answer the question, and it treats religious texts as fiction it doesn't have to be offensive. Most Christians no longer believe the earth is 8000 years old, even though the Bible says so, there are parts of all great religions that are already widely regarded as fiction, why should we pretend we're stupid?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21629" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2016-09-23T13:59:32.887" LastActivityDate="2016-09-23T13:59:32.887" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9627" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-16T13:13:10.830" Score="1" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just got an upvote on an answer. In my reputation tab and in my total rep, it says I got 1 point for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/S0qVM.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/S0qVM.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is that possible? Is it a bug? It might be interesting that I did downvote an answer there so I thought that answer got deleted, giving me my 1 point back. But that answer is still there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-05-16T13:15:56.453" Title="1 point for upvote on answer?" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|answers|reputation|up-votes|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2016-05-16T13:16:03.110" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9628" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-16T15:02:28.237" Score="9" ViewCount="269" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Round 3 is over! See Round 4 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9688/51226&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, an explanation and an apology. This is not the original Round 3. The first version had different rankings, that in retrospect, were not the best. After multiple people expressed their views on it, I decided to start Round 3 over. Sorry for the poor choice and confusion, and hopefully this will go better the second time around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, please see the results from Round 2 and other important information on &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/05/the-great-science-fictionfantasy-tv-showdown-results-and-round-3-2nd-edition/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; on our blog. You can also see Round 2 itself, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9546/the-great-science-fiction-fantasy-tv-showdown-round-2-last-chance-to-enter&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;To vote on your favorite show:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will post and answer below. It will have all six primary brackets on it. Any site member with a SF&amp;amp;F SE account older than two weeks as of 5/16/2016 may vote. To do so, simply leave a single comment with the six shows you think are better. Put Pass and the bracket's number if you don't want to vote on a specific bracket. Attempting to vote more than once will result in none of your votes counting. &lt;strong&gt;Upvoting someone's comment will not affect the outcome.&lt;/strong&gt; In one week, voting will close. I will see which six shows won their brackets and will post an update for Round Four.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please do not leave an answer on this page. If you have an additional question, comment, or gripe that your favorite show isn't on the list, please put it &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/38884/the-great-science-fiction-fantasy-tv-showdown-discussion-room&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, or comment on the main question, not the voting answer.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have fun and May the Force be with you/ Live long and prosper/ Keep Flying/ Live together, die alone/ Cowabunga!/ Fear the Living, Fight the Dead...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-05-23T23:01:54.833" Title="The Great Science-Fiction/Fantasy TV Showdown: Round 3: Back with a Vengeance! [Over!]" Tags="|discussion|contest|prizes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9628" CreationDate="2016-05-16T15:02:28.237" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;VOTE!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Buffy the Vampire Slayer&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;vs.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Daredevil&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stargate: SG-1&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;vs.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: The Clone Wars&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Firefly&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;vs.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Quantum Leap&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Farscape&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;vs.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: The Next Generation&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;vs.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;TMNT&lt;/em&gt; (Original)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Batman: The Animated Series&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;vs.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Supernatural&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastEditorUserId="51226" LastEditDate="2016-05-16T17:06:26.093" LastActivityDate="2016-05-16T17:06:26.093" CommentCount="34" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9630" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9632" CreationDate="2016-05-17T03:40:13.477" Score="7" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;I propose that the tags below on the left be merged and possibly synonymized to those on the right. Because if there's one thing people love more than tags, it's tags on meta.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/statistics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;statistics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;statistics&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/site-statistics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;site-statistics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;site-statistics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/css&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;css&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;css&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/design&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;design&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;design&lt;/a&gt; possibly&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/wrong-answers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wrong-answers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wrong-answers&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/incorrect-answers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;incorrect-answers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;incorrect-answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/edit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;edit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/editing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;editing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;editing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/interesting-tags&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;interesting-tags&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;interesting-tags&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/tags&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tags&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tags&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/interesting-tags&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;interesting-tags&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;interesting-tags&lt;/a&gt; is one of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/233898/what-tags-exist-by-default-on-child-metas&quot;&gt;default tags&lt;/a&gt; that the cleanup script won't touch. No one uses it, but it might as well be a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/tags&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tags&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tags&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/quotes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quotes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quotes&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/quotation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quotation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quotation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; What, that's just me? &lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;awkward&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36115" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2016-05-18T18:21:08.643" Title="Some meta tag synonyms" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|meta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9630" CreationDate="2016-05-17T07:17:59.187" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/statistics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;statistics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;statistics&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/site-statistics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;site-statistics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;site-statistics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Done.&lt;/strong&gt; There were only a few questions with each of these tags, and both seem to be used identically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/css&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;css&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;css&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/design&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;design&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;design&lt;/a&gt; possibly. If these should not be synonyms, then the tag wiki excerpt for &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/design&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;design&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;design&lt;/a&gt; could use some clarification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll let someone else handle this one, since I don't know enough about website design to even know what CSS means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/wrong-answers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wrong-answers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wrong-answers&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/incorrect-answers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;incorrect-answers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;incorrect-answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Done.&lt;/strong&gt; These tags are clearly identical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And apparently both tags have only ever been used by one user. I get that incorrect but upvoted answers are a pet peeve of his, but it's a pity nobody else has ever seen fit to post to meta about this important site quality issue [unless they have but haven't used the tag].)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/edit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;edit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/editing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;editing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;editing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Done.&lt;/strong&gt; The first of these only has a few questions and is clearly synonymous to the second.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/interesting-tags&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;interesting-tags&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;interesting-tags&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/tags&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tags&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tags&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/interesting-tags&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;interesting-tags&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;interesting-tags&lt;/a&gt; is one of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/233898/what-tags-exist-by-default-on-child-metas&quot;&gt;default tags&lt;/a&gt; that the cleanup script won't touch. No one uses it, but it might as well be a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/tags&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tags&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tags&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nah.&lt;/strong&gt; I'm not sure what &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/interesting-tags&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;interesting-tags&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;interesting-tags&lt;/a&gt; is meant to be for, but if someone comes up with a distinct and sensible meaning for it, they're free to start asking questions with that tag. Let's not synonymise it before it's even been used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/quotes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quotes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quotes&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/quotation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quotation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quotation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Done (ish).&lt;/strong&gt; I did this merge the other way round, since even though there are more questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/quotation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quotation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quotation&lt;/a&gt; than &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/quotes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quotes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quotes&lt;/a&gt;, the latter seems like a more intuitive name for the tag: people ask questions about &lt;em&gt;quotes&lt;/em&gt; in questions and answers here, not about famous &lt;em&gt;quotations&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2016-05-17T07:35:15.443" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9633" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9634" CreationDate="2016-05-17T07:35:35.107" Score="4" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have two tags on meta about what to do with tags: &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/retagging&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;retagging&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;retagging&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/tag-cleanup&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tag-cleanup&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tag-cleanup&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any meaningful difference in meaning, or any useful difference in usage, between these two tags, or should they be retagged, cleaned up, synonymised, and merged? In the latter case, which one do we want to keep and which one should be made a synonym of it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Also, can I have a prize for &quot;most meta question ever on meta SFF&quot;?&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-05-23T10:22:59.493" LastActivityDate="2016-05-23T10:22:59.493" Title="Retagging [retagging], or a [tag-cleanup] tag cleanup?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|retagging|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9633" CreationDate="2016-05-17T07:46:23.460" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking at this a couple hours ago...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’d say &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/tag-cleanup&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tag-cleanup&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tag-cleanup&lt;/a&gt; should merged into &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/retagging&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;retagging&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;retagging&lt;/a&gt;. I thought that &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/tag-cleanup&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tag-cleanup&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tag-cleanup&lt;/a&gt; would have to do with tag cleanup events, but that’s rarely how it’s used. If we want a tag for those events, it would be easier to create a new tag &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/tag-cleanup-event&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tag-cleanup-event&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tag-cleanup-event&lt;/a&gt; and tag the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=tag+title%3Acleanup+is%3Aq+-%22harry+potter+tag+cleanup%22&quot;&gt;9 or so questions&lt;/a&gt; that relate to tag cleanup events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/retagging&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;retagging&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;retagging&lt;/a&gt; sounds less all-encompassing than a tag cleanup event, and &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/tag-cleanup&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tag-cleanup&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tag-cleanup&lt;/a&gt; sounds like either a general cleanup (i.e. retagging) or a cleanup event, so it’s ambiguous. I would suggest not even creating a synonym for it because of this ambiguity, if we create a &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/tag-cleanup-event&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tag-cleanup-event&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tag-cleanup-event&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36115" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2016-05-17T07:46:23.460" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9523" CreationDate="2016-05-17T18:50:09.103" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say this a really basic problem with a basic solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Story&lt;/strong&gt; itself means &lt;em&gt;a relation of events&lt;/em&gt;, there is no implication that it must be true or fictional. So, when someone is asking for the first occurence of whatsoever, the bible or a Cicero's text or a fantasy book are all at the same level of dignity; saying that the Ramayana (for example) is not a story is against logic itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;What has been the first work of fiction to&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;...well, no need to offende someone by taking the Qur'an as an example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Side note: unless there is a specific .se for literature (I didn't check, honestly), all the questions that try to figure the first reference to something (and/or the inspiration for something) in a neutral way should be really appreciated on SF&amp;amp;F as they gives people a way to better understand where the things they like come from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43417" LastActivityDate="2016-05-17T18:50:09.103" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9591" CreationDate="2016-05-18T00:48:46.167" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've created a helpful infographic.  I added the first freehand red circle to indicate my preference.  This answer is now Community Wiki, so everyone else can edit the image and add their own two cents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/j1sBS.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/j1sBS.png&quot; alt=&quot;Another circle&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="21192" LastEditDate="2018-12-27T21:02:05.500" LastActivityDate="2018-12-27T21:02:05.500" CommentCount="9" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-05-18T00:57:44.997" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9637" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-18T14:08:53.853" Score="0" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;Asking for lists, or other open-ended questions are usually discouraged in most SE sites, including this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In space exploration stackexchange (SX-SE) I've just asked the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://space.stackexchange.com/q/15320/12102&quot;&gt;What would be the (most difficult) challenges to making a &quot;10,000 year satellite&quot;?&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just briefly, it's a question about a at-least-partially mechanical satellite that - like the &lt;a href=&quot;http://longnow.org/clock/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;10,000 year clock&lt;/a&gt; - should be designed and launched into an orbit such that it's reasonable to expect or hope that it lasts for 10,000 years. Once a year it should emit some rudimentary radio beep, flash of artificial light, or at least change its reflectivity to suddenly &quot;appear&quot; for a few weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I'd like to ask &lt;em&gt;here in SF SE&lt;/em&gt; if there have been stories with descriptions of some kind of mechanical satellite - something that &lt;em&gt;has been designed&lt;/em&gt; to make use of low tech mechanical or other things so that it might survive a long time and then &quot;wake up&quot; and do something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first, burried obelisk in 2001 A Space Odyssey might be an example of something that wakes up an does something, but they were (I assume) not low-tech mechanical devices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I think I'm getting close to being off-topic. Any advice how I might be able to proceed? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51174" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:58:51.047" LastActivityDate="2016-05-18T14:53:14.100" Title="How to ask a question to find good example(s) of something, without going off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9637" CreationDate="2016-05-18T14:15:46.877" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask on &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastActivityDate="2016-05-18T14:15:46.877" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9637" CreationDate="2016-05-18T14:23:02.647" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The sort of question you have in mind is interesting, but it's off topic for the site. Asking in chat (like Jason Baker mentioned) or in a discussion forum on some other site are probably your best options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't recommend asking for the first such example unless you actually care which story was the first: it doesn't seem like a good idea to rephrase your question in an attempt to dance around the off-topic restrictions on the site. On the other hand, if you think that knowing the first example of a story with certain criteria would be interesting, feel free to ask that question. Maybe mention in the question why you are interested in the first example specifically. To me, that explanation can make the difference between a good first-appearance question and a question that is merely on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36115" LastEditorUserId="36115" LastEditDate="2016-05-18T14:53:14.100" LastActivityDate="2016-05-18T14:53:14.100" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9640" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-18T18:24:40.753" Score="7" ViewCount="238" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the superheros in the MCU that have multiple movies made after them, I've noticed that each individual film has its own tag, but that the first film in each series tends to be titled to be simple and after the superhero. E.g.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/iron-man&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;iron-man&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;iron-man&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/iron-man-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;iron-man-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;iron-man-2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/iron-man-3&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;iron-man-3&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;iron-man-3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/thor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;thor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;thor&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/thor-the-dark-world&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;thor-the-dark-world&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;thor-the-dark-world&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/captain-america&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;captain-america&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;captain-america&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/captain-america-tws&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;captain-america-tws&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;captain-america-tws&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/captain-america-civil-war&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;captain-america-civil-war&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;captain-america-civil-war&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc...  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that someone searching for questions &lt;strong&gt;specific to that first movie in the series&lt;/strong&gt; while come across a number of questions pertaining to the character them-self. I was reading through questions about the first Iron Man movie and started re-tagging questions pertaining to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/iron-man-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;iron-man-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;iron-man-2&lt;/a&gt; when someone suggested a better way to re-tag in the comments to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/16861/57885&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how should these movies be tagged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57885" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2016-05-23T20:56:57.660" Title="Marvel Cinematic Universe Movie Titles that Have the Same Name as the Superhero" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1289" CreationDate="2016-05-19T11:35:39.310" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme:&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;quot;Everyone is Jay Garrick&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scope&lt;/strong&gt;: SFF Chat room (Agents of Nothing)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/19346?m=28670733#28670733&quot;&gt;phantom42&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height:&lt;/strong&gt; From Early 2016&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First Occurrence:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/19346?m=28670733#28670733&quot;&gt;phantom42 Apr 1 3:27 AM&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;jay garrick is everyone - &lt;sub&gt;phantom42&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During Season 2 of &lt;em&gt;The Flash&lt;/em&gt;, there are questions about the identity of Zoom, The Man In The Iron Mask, Jay Garrick, and his doppleganger. As the season progresses, the viewer inevitably questions if each of them is really Jay Garrick, possibly even all of them somehow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the speed force is everything, and everything is jay garrick. - &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/19346?m=29594741#29594741&quot;&gt;KutuluMike&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer of every question is Jay Garrick. - &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/19346?m=29322922#29322922&quot;&gt;MAFIA36790&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speed force is Jay Garrick - &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/19346?m=29594689#29594689&quot;&gt;Ankit Sharma&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the TV Flash (aka, everyone is secretly Jay Garrick) - &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/19346?m=29270602#29270602&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then people started declaring everyone Jay Garrick; &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/19346?m=29731928#29731928&quot;&gt;John Berg&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/19346?m=29675211#29675211&quot;&gt; bucky,  steve, t'challa&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/19346?m=29505663#29505663&quot;&gt;Barry&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/19346?m=29322757#29322757&quot;&gt;Speed force&lt;/a&gt; etc etc and even &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/19346?m=29294935#29294935&quot;&gt;you&lt;/a&gt; are Jay Garrick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even it got crossed over to &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1888/the-screening-room&quot;&gt;The Screening Room&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;quicksilver is jay garrick - &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/1888?m=29465474#29465474&quot;&gt;KutuluMike&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even to Movies &amp;amp; TV answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/53128/1190&quot;&gt;&lt;strike&gt;The Man in the Iron Mask (Deposed King of France (Leonardo Di Caprio)) aka Jay Garrick (from The Jay Garrick Show).&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/52573/1190&quot;&gt;It appears that the people in the Arrowverse have yet to realize that literally everyone is Jay Garrick.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/19346?m=29299346#29299346&quot;&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt; know that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/icMUJsO3qyg?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aiY8S.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aiY8S.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even Oprah Winfrey agreed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iTlu9.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iTlu9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6006" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-09-30T11:33:09.007" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9642" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9643" CreationDate="2016-05-19T17:45:37.933" Score="9" ViewCount="269" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question has experienced several rounds of closing and reopening:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/104077/was-dr-octavius-brine-inspired-by-octodad&quot;&gt;Was Dr. Octavius Brine inspired by Octodad?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The close justification is that the film is off-topic, with the reasons cited typically being that films with slightly advanced technology and espionage (&quot;spy-fi&quot;) or cartoon talking animals are not on-topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I would be in favor of expanding the scope to include some of these works, that is not the issue here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that while the two elements mentioned above may not be sufficient for a work to be on-topic, their &lt;em&gt;absence should not be necessary&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Penguins of Madagascar&lt;/em&gt; has plenty of sci-fi/fantasy elements above and beyond its spy-fi or cartoon animal nature. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is a ray that turns people into monsters:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Skipper: You point that death ray away from Private right now!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Private: It's not a death ray, Skipper! He's gonna turn us into&#xA;  monsters! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The ray also causes penguins to sprout supernumerary appendages. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dave: Yepper-doo! And what comes next, Dave? Invasion! Ahhh!&#xA;  Horrible mutant penguins released on the streets of New York City!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Skipper: Private, are you okay? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Private: Yes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Skipper, Rico and Kowalski gasp in surprise and notice that Private&#xA;  has sprouted a hand out of his buttocks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kowalski: Whoa! Butt-hand! There’s a hand attached to his butt. That&#xA;  was not... that was not there before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The polarity of the uglification ray can be reversed through cuteness, which frankly is more fantasy than sci-fi. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In order to reverse the ray, we would need to replace the Medusa Serum&#xA;  with a power source of almost immeasurable cuteness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, this last one convinces me that it is on-topic. It's very MLP, isn't it?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Wiki insists that Octavius Brine was once human and turned into an octopus, but this is not confirmed elsewhere (I'd like to ask this question if the series is deemed on-topic, though). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seemed to me that such a contentious issue called for a Meta consensus, so: Is &lt;em&gt;Penguins of Madagascar&lt;/em&gt; on-topic? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2016-05-19T17:55:31.433" Title="Is &quot;Penguins of Madagascar&quot; on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9642" CreationDate="2016-05-19T17:50:43.777" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it should be on-topic. There are sufficient sci-fi or fantasy elements. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastActivityDate="2016-05-19T17:50:43.777" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9642" CreationDate="2016-05-19T17:51:45.933" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it should not be on-topic. There are insufficient sci-fi or fantasy elements, or spy-fi/cartoon animals disqualifies it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastActivityDate="2016-05-19T17:51:45.933" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9591" CreationDate="2016-05-19T19:06:03.177" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1t3l8.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1t3l8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Slytherincess&amp;#39;s red hand-drawn circles&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, yeah, I've got nothing ... I can say the circles are certified &quot;non-aliased&quot; by the image gurus in Mos Eisley!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2016-05-19T19:06:03.177" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9646" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9647" CreationDate="2016-05-19T23:59:08.073" Score="7" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can I ask questions about the &quot;non-canon&quot; Star Wars Universe on this forum?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For Example: &quot;How old was Jacen Solo when he died?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That question has nothing to do with the movies and Disney has declared it &quot;non-canon&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And how would I format such questions to be clear what I am asking?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66403" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-05-20T00:06:56.870" LastActivityDate="2016-05-20T16:09:47.033" Title="Does this forum deal with the &quot;non-canon&quot; Star Wars Universe" Tags="|scope|discussion|canon|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9646" CreationDate="2016-05-20T00:03:44.670" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions about Legends material from the Star Wars universe are on-topic.&lt;/strong&gt; (Hell, even questions about fan fiction are on-topic here, and material that used to be considered some level or other of canon is a lot higher up the pecking order than that!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;And how would I format such questions to be clear what I am asking?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can make clear in the text of your question that you're asking about Legends material as opposed to Disney canon, perhaps with a link or citation to the particular work you're referring to or asking about. We also have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-legends&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-legends&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-legends&lt;/a&gt; tag, whose &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/star-wars-legends/info&quot;&gt;tag wiki info&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use this tag if your question references Legends sources and/or to indicate that answers are permitted to use Legends sources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5298/how-should-we-handle-star-wars-qas-post-disney-canon-revamp&quot;&gt;How should we handle Star Wars Q&amp;amp;As post-Disney-canon-revamp?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5294/how-should-we-handle-legends-specific-star-wars-qas-post-disney-canon-revamp&quot;&gt;How should we handle Legends-specific Star Wars Q&amp;amp;As post-Disney-canon-revamp?&lt;/a&gt; here on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-05-20T16:09:47.033" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9648" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-20T06:26:40.920" Score="-4" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there an actual rule that says a person that created a post is not allowed to delete it as long as it is marked as a duplicate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is yes then you should change the system, so the delete button under the post should be deactivated after the post has been marked as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, then I can assume that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/128502/where-do-dementors-come-from&quot;&gt;my post&lt;/a&gt; was un-deleted twice by a moderator without a legitimate reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65255" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-05-20T14:50:04.633" Title="Rules for a duplicate post deletion" Tags="|discussion|support|specific-question|policy|locked-posts|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9649" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9651" CreationDate="2016-05-20T06:38:24.850" Score="4" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was browsing the list of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?tab=newest&amp;amp;q=locked%3a1%20migrated%3a0&quot;&gt;locked posts&lt;/a&gt; and noticed this one: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/120995/is-harry-related-to-ginny-by-blood&quot;&gt;Is Harry related to Ginny by blood?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question had &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/120995/revisions&quot;&gt;multiple edits&lt;/a&gt; and was eventually locked, with a notice of a content dispute. That was 17 days ago. Does it still need to be locked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36115" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2016-05-20T09:35:23.983" Title="Is there still a content dispute on this question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|locked-posts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9648" CreationDate="2016-05-20T08:50:28.640" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Your post is useful for the site.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SFF Stack Exchange has a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7943/is-it-encouraged-to-delete-your-own-questions-if-they-have-possible-duplicates&quot;&gt;very clear community policy&lt;/a&gt; that questions should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be deleted simply because they're duplicates. Jason Baker's answer to the linked meta discussion provides lengthy arguments for why this would be a bad idea, but the TL;DR is that leaving duplicate questions undeleted &lt;strong&gt;increases searchability&lt;/strong&gt; and it's always possible &lt;strong&gt;they may be reopened&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your particular case, the question of where Dementors came from is a valid question about the &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; universe which many people are likely to find interesting. And while the answer does exist on a previous question (hence the closure of yours as a duplicate), that question is entitled &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/120595/did-ekrizdis-create-the-dementors&quot;&gt;Did Ekrizdis create the Dementors?&lt;/a&gt;, which is a much less searchable title. Far more people will have heard of Dementors, which appear prominently in the HP books and films, than the wizard Ekrizdis, who as far as I know is only ever mentioned in a single Pottermore article. From the point of view of providing information to the maximum possible number of people searching for this question on the interent, your title &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/128502/were-do-dementors-come-from&quot;&gt;Where do Dementors come from?&lt;/a&gt; is much more useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also please remember that closure is not necessarily a permanent state. You believe your question is not a duplicate; if enough other community members agree with you, it may be reopened. Deleting your post is a way to ensure that nobody will ever see it again to upvote it or vote to reopen it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You've licensed the content of your post to Stack Exchange.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like it says in the small print at the bottom of every Stack Exchange page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;user contributions licensed under &lt;a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;cc by-sa 3.0&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/&quot;&gt;attribution required&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this sense, you don't &quot;own&quot; the contents of your post, so you shouldn't just delete the entire question and replace it by &quot;&lt;em&gt;ffs........&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/128502/revisions&quot;&gt;you did twice&lt;/a&gt;. There's no network-wide rule or policy on deletion of duplicates, but SE is entitled to keep a post around on the site if it's useful content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can, however, request dissociation of your username and credentials from the question, so that it will show as having been posted by &quot;anon&quot; rather than &quot;hedgehog&quot;, and will disappear from the list of your posts and activity. This can only be done by Stack Exchange employees, so if you'd like your post to be dissociated, you can either use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;contact us&lt;/a&gt; link at the bottom of every page, or raise a moderator flag on the post so that we can pass on your request to the appropriate people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note that I don't know much more about the SE licensing system than I've written here. If you want to know more details, please look around or ask on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;main meta&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-05-20T08:50:28.640" CommentCount="22" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9649" CreationDate="2016-05-20T09:35:23.983" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've unlocked it, since as you say it's been a while and hopefully there's no longer a content dispute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the edit war resumes, please flag the post for mod attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2016-05-20T09:35:23.983" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9652" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9653" CreationDate="2016-05-20T12:49:29.327" Score="7" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to determine the average number of upvotes and downvotes for all my questions and answers. Are there any database commands to do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastEditorUserId="51226" LastEditDate="2016-05-20T12:59:29.017" LastActivityDate="2016-06-08T13:09:20.867" Title="Is it possible to determine your average question and answer scores?" Tags="|support|data-explorer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9652" CreationDate="2016-05-20T14:14:29.820" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/406369/what-is-my-average-question-score&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Some&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/488747/what-is-my-average-answer-score&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;these&lt;/a&gt; queries already exist. However, I made a slightly more at-a-glance version that captures average score, as well as average upvotes and downvotes for both questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Disclaimers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The usual SEDE disclaimers apply here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It only updates once a week (usually Sunday morning, depending on your timezone), so it won't include any questions or answers posted in the last few days&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Deleted questions and answers are not included&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/488789/my-post-averages&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The results&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are mine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WU8iB.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WU8iB.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Average question score is 15.63, with an average of 15.81 upvotes and 0.19 downvotes per question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Average answer score is 15.44, with an average of 15.48 upvotes and 0.04 downvotes per answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's yours:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/K6BXw.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/K6BXw.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Average question score is 10.76, with an average of 11.66 upvotes and 0.9 downvotes per question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Average answer score is 6.84, with an average of 6.9 upvotes and 0.07 downvotes per answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="31051" LastEditDate="2016-06-08T13:09:20.867" LastActivityDate="2016-06-08T13:09:20.867" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9652" CreationDate="2016-05-20T14:15:19.707" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure. Nice one-liner to paste into the Data Explorer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT AVG(Score) AS [Average Score] FROM Posts WHERE OwnerUserId = ##UserId:int##&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Provides an average score across all posts. If you want to filter to post types, you'll need to add another constraint.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;N.B. Will always output an integer, because of integer division. Can be worked around, if necessary.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52927" LastEditorUserId="52927" LastEditDate="2016-05-20T14:20:51.720" LastActivityDate="2016-05-20T14:20:51.720" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9648" CreationDate="2016-05-20T14:50:04.633" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9650/31936&quot;&gt;Rand's answer&lt;/a&gt; is an excellent explanation of SE policy and why your specific question should remain undeleted (it increases searchability, and you can edit it to possibly re-open it). Additionally, it's worth noting that &lt;a href=&quot;https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/9343/can-i-get-my-answers-deleted-from-stack-exchange&quot;&gt;Law.SE has a question about getting one's own questions/answers deleted&lt;/a&gt; which notes that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/legal&quot;&gt;Users &lt;em&gt;grant&lt;/em&gt; StackExchange a licence&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You agree that all Subscriber Content that You contribute to the Network is perpetually and irrevocably licensed to Stack Exchange under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the moderator who responded, I will explain what happened from my point of view. I initially responded to an auto-generated flag for too many comments. As I started pruning the comments I noticed that you were quite upset and were abusive to other users. Consequently, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/128502/where-do-dementors-come-from#comment323484_128502&quot;&gt;my first comment to you&lt;/a&gt; was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are clearly upset, but ranting about it is not going to solve anything. Please consider stepping away from the computer and taking a break.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your first response to me (which you later deleted) indicated that you intended to &amp;quot;rage&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;troll&amp;quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;yeah when i get misstreated and missjugded i rage a lot.... cause i know i am trying to explain somethign that i know its correct but none listens.... so troll mode on, yeah why not...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Uhncd.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Uhncd.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I therefore reminded you of the &amp;quot;be nice&amp;quot; rule (since you were abusive to other users) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/128502/where-do-dementors-come-from#comment323488_128502&quot;&gt;told you&lt;/a&gt; that trolling would not be tolerated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@hedgehog You are not being mistreated -- other users simply judged your question to be a duplicate and voted to close it, as is their right. You are not allowed to rage at other users -- you have to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;be nice&lt;/a&gt;. Trolling will not be tolerated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your response to that was to vandalize your question and delete it (after you had already vandalized it once before). I undeleted it, and you re-deleted it. I undeleted it once again and commented with links from Meta.SE explaining SE policy on deleting duplicates and vandalized (even self-vandalized) posts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the last time, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/230/duplicate-question-etiquette-to-delete-or-not-to-delete&quot;&gt;do not delete duplicate questions&lt;/a&gt;. Also, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/106807/how-should-we-treat-posts-that-are-vandalized-by-their-original-authors?lq=1&quot;&gt;do not vandalize your posts&lt;/a&gt;. You've now deleted it twice and vandalized it twice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To summarize your behavior:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You were abusive to other users.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You stated you were in a &amp;quot;rage&amp;quot; and were in &amp;quot;troll mode&amp;quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You vandalized and deleted your post twice.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of this behavior on your part, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/128502/where-do-dementors-come-from#comment323492_128502&quot;&gt;I warned you that you would be suspended&lt;/a&gt; if you continued such behavior. I also kept a close eye on the question throughout the day in case you came back to continue your behavior (that's how I noticed you kept deleting it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Under more normal circumstances I would not have objected so strongly to the deletion of your question. I would have recommended you keep it undeleted per SE policy and for searchability, but I would not have undeleted it if you'd insisted. However, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/128502/where-do-dementors-come-from#comment323521_128502&quot;&gt;I indicated in the comments&lt;/a&gt;, you appeared to be deleting your question in order to make good on your threat to engage in &amp;quot;troll mode&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I said in my first comment to you, take a break and calm down. If you still think the question should be deleted after you've calmed down I won't undelete it. @Rand locked the post for a week, so you have until then to calm down and make a &lt;em&gt;rational&lt;/em&gt; decision to delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-05-20T14:50:04.633" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9656" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9657" CreationDate="2016-05-20T16:33:15.130" Score="1" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am seeing a pattern that when some tags are answered with non-cinematic references they receive extensive upvoting, but when other topics that clearly have cinematic and literature references (such as Marvel) are answered in the same fashion, they're downvoted due to supposed irrelevancy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why can some topics be answered with novel or other forms of references, but others can't?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-05-20T17:32:43.127" LastActivityDate="2016-05-20T17:35:00.920" Title="Why do certain types of source material get more votes in certain tags?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9656" CreationDate="2016-05-20T17:25:30.890" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The very short answer is that there are many different kinds of source material. My experience has been the the SFF:SE community tends to rate them in terms of usefulness (and hence upvotes) according to the following scale; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;#1 - Faithful Source material&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where a pre-existing book/comic/whatever is &lt;strong&gt;directly adapted&lt;/strong&gt; into a film or TV show, the general assumption is that the original source novel is actually the higher canon and the community will usually rewards answers relating to 'what came first'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;#2 - Post-facto Novelisations / Shooting Scripts / Graphic Novelisations / Bonus Materials&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is where the related materials directly relate to the film/show and &lt;strong&gt;agree with it almost completely&lt;/strong&gt;. It is almost universally held that these are at their best when the writer/creator of the original property was also involved in writing of the bonus materials.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;#3 - Pre-facto Novelisations / Early Scripts&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are often written before scripts have been finalised and can often disagree with the finished product. They may exclude key events, change names or even included elements that were ultimately deleted from the finished film/TV show. Votes tend to flow very sluggishly if you try to use these sorts of sources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;#4 - Unrelated source material&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is where things get really dicey. It's not unusual for a property be &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;based on&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; an earlier work but without actually having any actual similarities in terms of plotting, characterisation or structure. In those cases, using the original material to explain the new property is pretty tenuous at best. For example, Magneto appears in a bunch of comics but that doesn't mean you can point at his abilities &lt;em&gt;in the comics&lt;/em&gt; to explain his abilities in the X-Men films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-05-20T17:35:00.920" LastActivityDate="2016-05-20T17:35:00.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9658" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9664" CreationDate="2016-05-20T17:32:34.267" Score="2" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should this question be reopened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/128502/where-do-dementors-come-from&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/128502/where-do-dementors-come-from&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was closed by two users (Jason Baker and Slytherincess) as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/120595/did-ekrizdis-create-the-dementors&quot;&gt;Did Ekrizdis create the Dementors?&lt;/a&gt;, but at least one user (hedgehog, the OP) contends that the answers to the existing question don't answer the new one and therefore it is not a duplicate. (For full information, another question mentioned in comments as a possible duplicate was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8919/how-are-dementors-created-born&quot;&gt;How are Dementors created/born?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the question is currently locked due to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/128502/revisions&quot;&gt;other issues&lt;/a&gt;, no non-moderator can vote to reopen it. You'll be able to VTRO when it's unlocked, if appropriate, but I'd like to get a sense of the community's opinion now since it might impact on the discussion &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9648/rules-for-a-duplicate-post-deletion&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Is this question really a duplicate, or should it be reopened?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2016-05-20T20:51:45.707" Title="Should the Dementors question be reopened?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|duplicate-questions|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9658" CreationDate="2016-05-20T17:37:19.963" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Leave Closed as Duplicate&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If the question was not a duplicate of&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/120595/did-ekrizdis-create-the-dementors&quot;&gt;Did Ekrizdis create the Dementors?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is surely a duplicate of&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8919/how-are-dementors-created-born&quot;&gt;How are Dementors created/born?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A common thought, although not 100% enforced rule is that an answer can make a question a duplicate. Based on the answers given in the older questions, any answers given to the new question will be the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a different point on view... being the OP for the first linked question, I had to carefully select and word the question I was asking because it too was almost closed as a duplicate of the second question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, while no user is all-powerful or all-knowing  Richard (Valorum) and Slytherincess are &lt;code&gt;gold-badge&lt;/code&gt; holders and therefore would be considered the cream of the crop experts in that field (at least by SE standards). Their knowledge of the subject should lend some credence and weight to the close votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-05-20T17:45:46.117" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9658" CreationDate="2016-05-20T17:38:17.343" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not because it may or may not be a duplicate, but because it's asking &lt;em&gt;at least&lt;/em&gt; 4 questions at once:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where do Dementors come from?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also, unexplainable is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do they have a gender? (male/female)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(...) how do they actually reproduce?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What is their story, did they get created by someone or just started existing similar as to giants?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2016-05-20T17:38:17.343" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9662" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-20T19:59:28.307" Score="-2" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/40002/why-did-professor-x-smile-before-being-killed-by-the-phoenix#40002&quot;&gt;Why did Professor X smile before being killed by the Phoenix?&lt;/a&gt; has a spoiler right in the title. It doesn't really bother me for some reason, but it might bother other users so I thought I'd bring it up on meta here. What do you think? Should we remove these spoilers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54827" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2016-05-21T18:06:01.150" Title="Should we remove these spoilers?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|spoilers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9662" CreationDate="2016-05-20T20:14:14.447" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; It really is not much of a spoiler as he does not end up dead. In the end it really is just a mid point drama piece. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There spoiler tag! Sorry about that...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65829" LastEditorUserId="65829" LastEditDate="2016-05-21T18:06:01.150" LastActivityDate="2016-05-21T18:06:01.150" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9658" CreationDate="2016-05-20T20:41:17.280" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absolutely should be reopened (and if the question wasn't locked, I would have now undupe-hammered it and fixed it up). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;It should be reopened, albiet refocused on what is now question #4 in a list of 4&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is NOT a duplicate of &quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/120595/did-ekrizdis-create-the-dementors&quot;&gt;Did Ekrizdis create the Dementors?&lt;/a&gt; &quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question itself only asks about ONE plausible theory of Dementor origins, and the answers don't conclusively and exaustively cover ALL plausible theories. As such, &lt;strong&gt;that question's answers do not adequately address the question under consideration&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Yes, it is possible that someone might post an exaustive answer to Ekrizids Q, which would answer &quot;Did Ekrizids&quot; with &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;This&lt;/strong&gt; is the definitive origin&lt;/em&gt;, and it is NOT Ekrizids&quot;, and such an answer would then address Hedgehog's question. But such an answer is NOT posted there now.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is NOT a duplicate of &quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8919/how-are-dementors-created-born&quot;&gt;How are Dementors created/born?&lt;/a&gt; &quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That question's title may mislead one at first glance, but it is about creation of an individual dementor being, NOT about creation/origin of Dementors as a species, and as such &lt;strong&gt;its answers also in no way address the question under consideration&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, SQB's answer makes a valid point, and 3 sub-questions out of 4 can and likely should be deleted, leaving only &quot;&lt;em&gt;What is their story, did they get created by someone or just started existing similar as to giants?&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. The other 3 can then be reposted as separate questions, but at least some of them are indeed dupes (such as #1)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-05-20T20:51:45.707" CommentCount="28" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9665" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-05-21T02:51:21.407" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-05-21T02:51:21.407" LastActivityDate="2016-05-21T02:51:21.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9666" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-05-21T02:51:21.407" Score="0" Body="For questions about locked questions or answers: either site policy about when a post should be locked, or questions about a specific locked post." OwnerUserId="36115" LastEditorUserId="36115" LastEditDate="2016-05-21T14:57:27.070" LastActivityDate="2016-05-21T14:57:27.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9667" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-21T10:27:06.113" Score="8" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;We seem to have a number of questions under the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/horror&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;horror&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;horror&lt;/a&gt; tag relating to works that contain &lt;strong&gt;no discernible science fiction or fantasy content.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/126255/title-of-horror-novel-book-where-the-villain-is-actually-twins-raised-to-believe&quot;&gt;Title of horror novel book where the villain is actually twins raised to believe they were one person?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/128680/young-adult-horror-novel-from-the-90s&quot;&gt;Young adult horror novel from the 90s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/109670/searching-for-specific-anthology-show&quot;&gt;Searching for specific anthology show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/85356/looking-for-an-obscure-80s-movie-that-happened-in-a-neighbors-house-at-night&quot;&gt;Looking for an obscure 80s movie that happened in a neighbor&amp;#39;s house at night&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously horror stories &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3368/does-fantasy-include-the-supernatural-what-about-horror&quot;&gt;with supernatural or sci-fi elements&lt;/a&gt; are very firmly on-topic, but what about horror stories that don't have these? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2016-05-22T06:33:33.477" Title="Are 'pure' horror works on topic? And if so, why?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9668" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-21T20:30:26.497" Score="2" ViewCount="236" Body="&lt;p&gt;The user &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/20774/valorum&quot;&gt;Valorum&lt;/a&gt; (formerly known as Richard), &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/128736/how-intelligent-are-dementors-how-smart-are-they&quot;&gt;commented that he wants to close a question merely to provoke a user&lt;/a&gt;. I commented back that his reply says a lot about him. (My comment and his have been deleted within the last 5 minutes. Not sure why they were deleted.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the proper response to somebody that closes questions merely to provoke other users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also like both his comment and mine undeleted if that is possible. I've only been on this site for a few weeks, so if there is some policy about undeleting comments, please provide a link to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63201" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-05-21T21:26:21.097" Title="How to handle user that brags about wanting to close a question merely to provoke people?" Tags="|support|users|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9668" CreationDate="2016-05-21T21:03:20.497" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My comment was intended as a humourous reference to another &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9658/should-the-dementors-question-be-reopened&quot;&gt;recent similar question&lt;/a&gt; about Dementors, one which resulted in a great deal of upset feeling and a particular user having a mini-meltdown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that you didn't get the in-joke was definitely my fault (a link would have been helpful) and for that I'm sorry, but flinging around words like &quot;bullying&quot; and demanding that the comments be reinstated strongly suggests that your aim here isn't to understand the policy, but just to get as much &lt;em&gt;drama&lt;/em&gt; out of this as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't like a comment, the very best thing to do is flag it, allow a mod to deal with it (which they did) and then simply move on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2016-05-21T21:03:20.497" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9668" CreationDate="2016-05-21T21:16:14.910" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a general rule, &lt;strong&gt;if you see a user behaving in a way you feel is inappropriate, flag for moderator attention&lt;/strong&gt;. That's one of the things moderators are here for: to handle situations where the problem is with a &lt;em&gt;user&lt;/em&gt; rather than with a post (cf. off-topic questions, for instance, which don't need a moderator in order to be handled effectively). From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;'be nice' policy&lt;/a&gt; (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you see a hostile interaction, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/flagging&quot;&gt;flag&lt;/a&gt; it. If it keeps up, disengage — we'll handle it. If something needs &lt;em&gt;staff&lt;/em&gt; attention, you can use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;contact us&lt;/a&gt; link at the bottom of every page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;In this particular case, the matter was brought to my attention by a &quot;rude/offensive&quot; flag on the initial comment from &lt;strike&gt;Richard&lt;/strike&gt; Valorum, which said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The firestarter in me is tempted to close this as a dupe just to see if we can provoke another user into having a meltdown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(For the record, this was not meant as an attack on &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;, but as a reference to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/128502/where-do-dementors-come-from&quot;&gt;another recent question&lt;/a&gt; about Dementors whose closure as a duplicate has already spawned two meta posts and a great deal of ranting from the OP of that question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the time I saw this flag, you had already responded with another comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Valorum &quot;The firestarter in me is tempted to close this as a dupe just to see if we can provoke another user into having a meltdown.&quot; So you close down questions merely to annoy others? That comment of yours, Valorum (formerly known as Richard), says a lot about your character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was obviously a fight waiting to happen, so I deleted both comments and wrote a short comment of my own asking &lt;strike&gt;Richard&lt;/strike&gt; Valorum not to make inflammatory comments. Once he'd (presumably) seen my comment, I deleted that too, so no evidence of the drama remains on the question. You've now created a permanent record of it here on meta, but there's not much I can do about that.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;For future reference, if you see inappropriate behaviour, &lt;strong&gt;flag it rather than engaging the user&lt;/strong&gt;. The moderators are here to deal with this kind of thing, and we'd much rather have to reprimand one user for a single inappropriate remark than two for an extended argument.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And no, I'm not going to undelete the comments. The entire chain of comments was unnecessary and borderline offensive, and leaving them in place would only have encouraged further drama and possible escalated the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-05-21T21:16:14.910" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9667" CreationDate="2016-05-22T06:33:33.477" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should operate a simple rule;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If a question is about a horror work that contains some element of science fiction or fantasy (anything supernatural) then it's on-topic and fine to stay.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If a question is about a horror work that has no discernible elements of science fiction or fantasy (e.g. is simply about people being killed or harmed or scared in an elaborate fashion) then it's off-topic and should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The corrolary of this is &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Where &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;turn out to be&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; about an off-topic work, they should be retained.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2016-05-22T06:33:33.477" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9672" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9673" CreationDate="2016-05-23T00:33:00.857" Score="9" ViewCount="313" Body="&lt;p&gt;As promised, we'll be watching the 1966 &lt;em&gt;Batman&lt;/em&gt; film, one of the winners of our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9479/&quot;&gt;terrible comic book movie vote&lt;/a&gt;.  This slapstick take on the caped crusader stars Adam West as Batman, Burt Ward as Robin, Lee Meriwether as Catwoman, and Cesar Romero as the Joker!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oBpKU.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oBpKU.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The event will take place in the SFF chatroom &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; at &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;22:00 UTC on Tuesday 31 May!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference, that's 3 pm PST, 6 pm EST, and 11 pm UK time (GMT+1).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(What's a &quot;Movie Night&quot;, you ask?  Your question has been wonderfully answered &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7434/40294&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please join us on the 31st to discuss, laugh at, criticize, and possibly even enjoy this decidedly terrible comic book film!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, note that this was nominated by &lt;strong&gt;WadCheber&lt;/strong&gt;, our newest room owner in Mos Eisley.  &lt;strong&gt;What better way is there to celebrate his new role than by gathering in chat to watch this film?!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is WadCheber's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9482/40294&quot;&gt;original post&lt;/a&gt; nominating the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Availability:&lt;/strong&gt;  Apart from DVD, this film is available on Amazon Prime and Google Play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Many thanks to &lt;strong&gt;Randal'Thor&lt;/strong&gt; for reminding me to post this!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2016-06-02T11:19:06.287" Title="Holy reverse polarity Batman, what do we do now? Have a Movie Night on Tuesday, May 31!" Tags="|discussion|chat-event|movie-night|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9672" CreationDate="2016-05-23T00:35:23.607" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm ready.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7S8ts.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7S8ts.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if this movie is amazing, not terrible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastActivityDate="2016-05-23T00:35:23.607" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9674" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9685" CreationDate="2016-05-23T11:04:09.863" Score="3" ViewCount="334" Body="&lt;p&gt;WadCheber has been added temporarily to the room owners of Mos Eisley &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=29746092#29746092&quot;&gt;by Slytherincess&lt;/a&gt;, as she needs backup while she moves to a new house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Everyone, please welcome @WadCheber as a temporary Room Owner of Mos Eisley! Wad has been kind enough to be a backup of sorts for me while I move to a new house. Wad will be an RO until July 1st. Thank you, Wad! :D  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;— Slytherincess&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To increase the number of non-mod room owners, should we make this permanent (if Wad Cheber is willing, of course)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2016-05-24T05:20:04.377" LastActivityDate="2016-05-24T05:20:04.377" Title="Should Wad Cheber be added to the room owners of Mos Eisley permanently?" Tags="|discussion|chat|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9674" CreationDate="2016-05-23T11:04:09.863" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a good idea. Wad has shown great commitment to the Stack and to Mos Eisley. He is the embodiment of &quot;be nice&quot;. He should be a permanent room owner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This should not preclude other committed regular users from becoming additional room owners, of course.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2016-05-23T11:44:02.427" LastActivityDate="2016-05-23T11:44:02.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9676" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9677" CreationDate="2016-05-23T13:28:52.693" Score="3" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basically what the title says, Does editing your own post leave details about each edit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-05-23T13:38:32.667" LastActivityDate="2016-05-23T13:38:32.667" Title="Does editing your own post leave details about each edit?" Tags="|support|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9676" CreationDate="2016-05-23T13:33:54.433" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes, unless you do more than one edit within a 5-minute window.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edits by a user to their own post are shown in the post's revision history (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/115540/revisions&quot;&gt;random example&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But more than one edit by the same user to &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; post within 5 minutes, if no comments or answers are added during that 5-minute window, are all rolled into a single edit in the revision history. See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/grace-period&quot;&gt;questions with the [grace-period] tag on main meta&lt;/a&gt; for more details about how this works. This is called &lt;strong&gt;shadow-editing&lt;/strong&gt;, and just for fun, I've done it on this very answer here: first posting it with just the first two paragraphs, and then going back to edit in more text within a 5-minute window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This is useful for people who wish to be the so-called &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9731/fastest-gun-in-the-west-problem&quot;&gt;Fastest Gun in the West&lt;/a&gt;: a user can post a short and minimal answer in order to be the first to answer a given question, and then edit their answer to be longer, better, and more detailed, and these changes will not show in the answer's revision history provided they're all done within 5 minutes. This strategy has often been employed by users such as DVK, &lt;strike&gt;Richard&lt;/strike&gt; Valorum, Jason Baker, and myself.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-05-23T13:37:36.073" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9678" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-05-23T19:28:43.257" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;For questions pertaining to deleted questions, to debate the deletion or request the deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user57650" LastEditorDisplayName="user57650" LastEditDate="2016-05-24T02:32:18.087" LastActivityDate="2016-05-24T02:32:18.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9679" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-05-23T19:28:43.257" Score="0" Body="For questions pertaining to deleted questions." OwnerDisplayName="user57650" LastEditorDisplayName="user57650" LastEditDate="2016-05-23T21:06:13.047" LastActivityDate="2016-05-23T21:06:13.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9680" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-05-23T19:31:30.503" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;For questions relating to spoilers, content about a work (movie or book) that some users may not know yet,  and that may take some of the enjoyment out of the book/movie for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user57650" LastEditorDisplayName="user57650" LastEditDate="2016-05-23T21:06:43.440" LastActivityDate="2016-05-23T21:06:43.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9681" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-05-23T19:31:30.503" Score="0" Body="For questions relating to spoilers, content about a work (movie or book) that some users may not know yet," OwnerDisplayName="user57650" LastEditorDisplayName="user57650" LastEditDate="2016-05-23T21:05:39.233" LastActivityDate="2016-05-23T21:05:39.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9640" CreationDate="2016-05-23T19:48:58.763" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have already had this situation with The Flash, which is both a character/franchise, and the name of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flash_%282014_TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a 2014 TV show&lt;/a&gt; (and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flash_(1990_TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a 1990 TV show&lt;/a&gt; that thus far has not had a tag created). So we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-flash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-flash&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-flash&lt;/a&gt; for general questions about the character and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-flash-2014&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-flash-2014&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-flash-2014&lt;/a&gt; for questions about the 2014 TV show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that going forward, we should do the same for other characters/franchises that share the name with movies. So for instance, general questions about the character Thor would be under &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/thor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;thor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;thor&lt;/a&gt; and questions about &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the 2011 movie&lt;/a&gt; would be under &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/thor-2011&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;thor-2011&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;thor-2011&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of tags where we use &quot;movie&quot; instead, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stargate&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate&lt;/a&gt; for the franchise and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stargate-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-movie&lt;/a&gt; for the 1994 movie. However, I think that's problematic for two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the case of a remake or reboot, it creates ambiguity (e.g. there are four TV series named &lt;em&gt;The Incredible Hulk&lt;/em&gt;. And the &lt;em&gt;Stargate&lt;/em&gt; example above may be a problem since a reboot is in the works)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For a character in multiple movies, like Thor, a tag like a theoretical &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/thor-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;thor-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;thor-movie&lt;/a&gt; may be confusing with some people thinking it's about the movie-version of Thor (i.e. the character's representation in the Marvel Cinematic Universe).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using the year as a suffix avoids both problems, so I believe it is the way to tags should generally be named.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13217" LastEditorUserId="13217" LastEditDate="2016-05-23T20:56:57.660" LastActivityDate="2016-05-23T20:56:57.660" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9683" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9686" CreationDate="2016-05-23T22:15:13.313" Score="2" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK so I have some issues with the chat room I was in. I was chatting in then my phone crashed so I went to take a shower and left my phone on the couch and when I got out my chat room wouldn't let me chat it said I could only read and I don't know why. Was I blocked, is my phone messed up. I don't know. But I do really want to chat again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66412" OwnerDisplayName="Kate_walsh24" LastEditorUserId="36115" LastEditDate="2016-05-23T22:21:37.477" LastActivityDate="2016-05-23T22:38:27.057" Title="Chat room issues" Tags="|support|chat|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9674" CreationDate="2016-05-23T22:22:16.280" Score="14" Body="&lt;h3&gt;No, at least not at the moment.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-05-23T23:20:03.930" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9683" CreationDate="2016-05-23T22:24:47.587" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/211541&quot;&gt;chat account is currently suspended for posting inappropriate content&lt;/a&gt;. The suspension will end very shortly. You can see your recent messages &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/211541?tab=recent&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. The one that resulted in your account's suspension appeared at this point in the chat room:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/t2dxz.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/t2dxz.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The removed message occurred right after &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/29850789#29850789&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2016-05-23T22:38:27.057" LastActivityDate="2016-05-23T22:38:27.057" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9683" CreationDate="2016-05-23T22:25:15.910" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;During your absence your brother apparently got control of your phone again and caused a little trouble, ultimately leading to posting an offensive message that was flagged as such. It was deemed appropriate that you (or whoever controlled your user account) take a little break from chat. Your chat account has thus to undergo a 30 minute cooldown before you can chat again and the message has been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might find it unfair, seeing how it was not really your fault, but it was done through your user account. But rejoice, this has absolutely no repercussions on your further contribution in chat. Once this little break is over you are more than welcome to join chat again, this time refraining from posting any offensive messages (or handing control of your chat account over to persons you cannot fully trust with it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23386" LastActivityDate="2016-05-23T22:25:15.910" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9688" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-23T22:27:22.743" Score="6" ViewCount="260" Body="&lt;h2&gt;This round is over! See the Final Round &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9725/51226&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please see the results from Round 3 and other important information on &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/05/the-great-science-fictionfantasy-tv-showdown-round-4/?cb=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;  on our blog. You can also see Round 3 itself, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9628/the-great-science-fiction-fantasy-tv-showdown-round-3-back-with-a-vengeance?cb=1&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To vote on your favorite show:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will post an answer below. It will have all three primary brackets on it. Any site member with a SF&amp;amp;F SE account older than two weeks as of 5/23/2016 may vote. To do so, simply leave a single comment with the three shows you think are better. Put Pass and the bracket's number if you don't want to vote on a specific bracket. Attempting to vote more than once will result in none of your votes counting. &lt;strong&gt;Upvoting someone's comment will not affect the outcome&lt;/strong&gt;. In one week, voting will close. I will see which three shows won their brackets and will post an update for the Final Round.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please do not leave an answer on this page. If you have an additional question, comment, or gripe that your favorite show isn't on the list, please put it &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/38884/the-great-science-fiction-fantasy-tv-showdown-discussion-room&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, or comment on the main question, not the voting answer.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have fun and May the Force be with you/ Live long and prosper/ Keep Flying/ Live together, die alone/ Cowabunga!/ Fear the Living, Fight the Dead...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-06-02T11:18:33.990" Title="The Great Science-Fiction/Fantasy TV Showdown: Round 4 [Over!]" Tags="|discussion|support|contest|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9688" CreationDate="2016-05-23T22:27:22.743" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Vote!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xk316.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xk316.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Daredevil&lt;/strong&gt; VS &lt;strong&gt;Star Trek: The Next Generation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Firefly&lt;/strong&gt; VS &lt;strong&gt;Stargate: SG-1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Futurama&lt;/strong&gt; VS &lt;strong&gt;Batman: The Animated Series&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And remember, upvoting someone's comment does not effect anything!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastEditorUserId="51226" LastEditDate="2016-05-26T16:25:44.790" LastActivityDate="2016-05-26T16:25:44.790" CommentCount="40" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9690" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-24T01:36:54.183" Score="-7" ViewCount="3486" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to work out why Inception fits into the &lt;em&gt;Sci-Fi genre.&lt;/em&gt; What elements make it 'on-topic' on a site devoted to science fiction and fantasy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user66587" LastEditorDisplayName="user66587" LastEditDate="2016-05-26T04:03:46.053" LastActivityDate="2021-07-05T07:12:01.967" Title="How well does Inception fit into the Sci-Fi Genre?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9691" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9692" CreationDate="2016-05-24T09:34:50.907" Score="3" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/128938/who-died-in-a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot;&gt;Who died in A Song of Ice And Fire?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/128936/who-died-in-harry-potter&quot;&gt;Who died in Harry Potter?&lt;/a&gt;. These received mixed reception: The Harry Potter question received 2 upvotes, but has received 4 VtC as &quot;too broad&quot;, while the ASOIAF question has received 3 downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the timeline: I asked these questions last night originally. I saw that the HP one got a vote to close for too broad, and because I agreed with it, I deleted it myself. After that, ibid asked me on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/102669/why-did-leia-give-the-stolen-version-of-the-death-star-plans-to-r2-d2-instead-of?noredirect=1#comment325033_102669&quot;&gt;Why did Leia give the stolen version of the Death Star plans to R2-D2 instead of a copy?&lt;/a&gt; why I closed it and said that the Harry Potter Wiki page wasn't adequate. I then reopened them for wider community review. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are both list questions, but IMHO, they're different from the kind of list question that we usually close:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question is well-scoped: Just the main book series and only named deaths, which are both things that can be objectively decided and have a limit.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They're similar to the &quot;Who got drunk in Harry Potter&quot; question, which has been relatively well-received: 26 upvotes. All 3 of these are &quot;do the research for me&quot; questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure whether it's healthy for the community to treat questions inconsistently like this. Are these kind of questions considered a poor fit for this format? Is there anything that can be done to salvage them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24603" LastEditorUserId="24603" LastEditDate="2016-05-24T10:24:41.503" LastActivityDate="2016-06-05T18:37:51.187" Title="Is &quot;who has died in X&quot; considered a poor list question?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9691" CreationDate="2016-05-24T10:51:04.200" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2639/20774&quot;&gt;long-held policy&lt;/a&gt; on SFF:SE that &lt;em&gt;finite&lt;/em&gt; list questions are considered to be on-topic. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean that the community as a whole will like them, or are likely to upvote them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Harry Potter Question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/128936/who-died-in-harry-potter?noredirect=1&quot;&gt;HP question&lt;/a&gt;, I cast the final vote to close on that question (which has since been mod-hammered open by a moderator against community opinion) because I felt that it fails to meet the criteria; &quot;&lt;em&gt;good answers would be too long for this format&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. Looking over the &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_deaths&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;linked wiki post&lt;/a&gt;, the number of named characters who died in HP is at least 50, with unnamed character deaths (such as the Inferi and the casualties of the Battle of Hogwarts) ranging into the low hundreds. &lt;strong&gt;A good answer would require you to write &lt;em&gt;and then justify&lt;/em&gt; pages and pages of names.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;ASOIAF Question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have also voted to close the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/128938/who-died-in-a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot;&gt;ASOIAF question&lt;/a&gt;. The number of named character deaths in &lt;em&gt;each book&lt;/em&gt; numbers into the dozens and makes this a poor fit for the site for much the same reasons as above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2016-06-05T18:37:51.187" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9690" CreationDate="2016-05-24T15:43:23.847" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inception certainly meets the primary criteria that we would normally use to determine suitability for inclusion onto SFF:SE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Setting&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film is set &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;20 minutes into the future&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; in a world where a single large corporation dominates the Energy Sector. Futuristic settings are almost always on topic on SFF:SE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Conceit&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The central conceit of the film is that the main characters use a piece of technology that does not exist, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://inception.wikia.com/wiki/Portable_Automated_Somnacin_IntraVenous_Device&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;PASIV machine&lt;/a&gt;, originally designed to for military training but then corrupted to allow information theft. Since the film requires a fundamental suspension of disbelief, it's not only fictional, but &lt;em&gt;Science&lt;/em&gt;-fictional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Marketing and classification&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top of that, the film was marketed as sci-fi (complete with a &lt;a href=&quot;http://collider.com/first-poster-from-christopher-nolans-inception-starring-leonardo-dicaprio/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;viral marketing&lt;/a&gt; campaign and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://inception.wikia.com/wiki/Inception:_The_Cobol_Job&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;pre-release&lt;/a&gt; of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nolanfans.com/2010/06/01/dream-share-tactical-employment-procedures-manual/#more-2744&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;range&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thefirstcity.co.uk/rpg/inception/PASIVinstr.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;prequel materials&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/daJtO.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/daJtO.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and the cast and crew are pretty open about it being scifi&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Director&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Certainly, dreams have been a feature of films in many different ways,&#xA;for years. What “Inception” deals with is a science fiction concept in&#xA;which really only one simple thing has changed, which is that you and&#xA;I are able to experience the same dream at the same time. Once you&#xA;remove the privacy, you’ve created an infinite number of alternate&#xA;universes in which people can meaningfully interact – with validity,&#xA;with weigh, with dramatic consequences.&lt;/em&gt; - &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/30/a-man-and-his-dream-christopher-nolan-and-inception/?_r=0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A Man and His Dream: Christopher Nolan and ‘Inception’&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Main Actor&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;But to answer your question about how one acts in that world or that&#xA;there’s something you need to be aware of or do different, I would say&#xA;absolutely not, and that’s what was exciting about even attempting,&#xA;you know, this was my first science-fiction film. The earliest&#xA;conversations I had with Chris were about how both of us have a hard&#xA;time with science fiction. We have a little bit of an aversion to it&#xA;because it’s hard for us to emotionally invest in worlds that are too&#xA;far detached from what we know.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; - &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mtv.com/news/2764231/interview-leonardo-dicaprio-talks-inception-and-hoover/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;INTERVIEW: LEONARDO DICAPRIO TALKS INCEPTION AND HOOVER&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2021-07-05T07:12:01.967" LastActivityDate="2021-07-05T07:12:01.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9696" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-24T20:01:23.357" Score="4" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I go into the chat lobby and use the search facility, no results are returned, even for strings I know are present.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/63nDA.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/63nDA.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WSPqe.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WSPqe.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-05-24T21:34:15.580" LastActivityDate="2016-05-24T21:34:15.580" Title="Chat search facility not working" Tags="|bug|status-completed|chat|search|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9696" CreationDate="2016-05-24T21:32:10.893" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;It should be working again now.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/279613/chat-search-is-returning-no-results/279620#279620&quot;&gt;Chat search is returning no results&lt;/a&gt; on main meta, where a dev has just posted that a fix is underway. At least for me, the chat search facility is back to normal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2016-05-24T21:32:10.893" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9699" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-25T01:42:13.833" Score="3" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made a &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/490432/deleted-posts-per-day#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;graph&lt;/a&gt; of deleted posts on the site per day (day of post creation, not its day of deletion):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rELpN.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rELpN.png&quot; alt=&quot;graph of deleted posts&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The spike on 2012-06-28 is because of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/promos/8/answerama&quot;&gt;Answerama&lt;/a&gt;, a Stack Exchange promotion that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7772/what-caused-a-spike-of-traffic-on-28-june-2012&quot;&gt;did not turn out well&lt;/a&gt;. The left edge of the graph shows when the site first launched. It makes sense that many of the first posts have been deleted, since the site scope wasn't well defined at that time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what about the spike on 2015-08-22? The &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/489976/deleted-posts-on-2015-08-22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;list of deleted posts&lt;/a&gt; isn't very enlightening: it's mostly multiple answers to a handful of unrelated questions. For the deleted questions where I can see the title, there's no obvious theme there either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is that many of these posts were due to a very busy troll, but maybe the site had a flurry of activity that day for some other reason. Is there an explanation for this that mere mortals like me are allowed to know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;em&gt;In case you feel like that's a lot of deleted posts, Stack Overflow has been known to delete &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/490432/deleted-posts-per-day#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;5000 posts per day&lt;/a&gt;. Hopefully, many of those deletions were by the roomba.&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36115" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2016-05-25T02:00:14.810" Title="Why are there so many deleted posts made on 2015-08-22?" Tags="|discussion|deleted-questions|deleted-answers|data-explorer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9699" CreationDate="2016-05-25T01:59:52.213" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You came closest to the mark with this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My guess is that many of these posts were due to a very busy troll&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suffice it to say that a large number of offensive posts, mainly attacks against a particular pair of users, were created and subsequently destroyed on 22 August 2015. The many different accounts used to make these posts no longer exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2016-05-25T01:59:52.213" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9699" CreationDate="2016-05-25T02:00:14.810" Score="5" Body="&lt;h3&gt;As you suggested, we had &amp;quot;a very busy troll&amp;quot;.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without getting into the details, the incident was dubbed &amp;quot;sock fest&amp;quot;.  A user believed he/she had been treated unfairly and retaliated by creating dozens of sock puppet accounts and making malicious posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-05-25T02:00:14.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2474" CreationDate="2016-05-25T16:40:08.260" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;John Rennie emailed David Brin and got an answer for this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/97229/houseflies-use-humanity-to-colonize-the-galaxy&quot;&gt;Houseflies use humanity to colonize the galaxy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28516" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2016-05-25T16:40:08.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7946" CreationDate="2016-05-26T09:47:07.037" Score="-8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/96086&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/ads/proposal/96086.png&quot; alt=&quot;Support Paranormal proposal&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8043" LastEditorUserId="6006" LastEditDate="2016-05-26T10:14:36.627" LastActivityDate="2016-05-26T10:14:36.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9706" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-27T08:14:00.090" Score="2" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I earn the 50 points required to be able to comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user66742" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-09-13T14:31:12.913" LastActivityDate="2016-09-13T14:31:12.913" Title="How do I earn the 50 points to be able to comment?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-05-27T11:01:13.080" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8048" CreationDate="2016-05-27T08:28:59.517" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;What is reputation? How do I earn (and lose) it?&lt;/a&gt; in the help center.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2016-05-27T08:28:59.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8048" CreationDate="2016-05-27T08:30:18.047" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Write answers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the most efficient way. For each upvote you get on an answer, you receive 10 points. A decent answer can easily get five upvotes, putting you at 50 reputation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good answer is detailed; longer answers tend to be well received, but only if the information is relevant. Quotes and other sources help make a good answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Ask questions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You get 5 points per question upvote, so this is a bit slower. On the other hand, writing questions often takes less research effort. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Suggest edits&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can look for grammatical and other errors in questions and answers. For each edit that is approved, you receive 2 points. This is the slowest, but there are lots of grammatical errors to correct. There is a minimum number of characters that must be changed, though. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note also that only 20 reputation is needed to talk in chat, and so if you need help you can get it a bit sooner. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastActivityDate="2016-05-27T08:30:18.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9709" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9710" CreationDate="2016-05-27T13:17:22.267" Score="12" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;After lurking in this community for some time, I finally made an account on scifi to ask &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/129294/how-did-lukes-proton-torpedoes-correctly-navigate-through-the-thermal-exhaust-p/129297#129297&quot;&gt;How did Luke's proton torpedoes enter the first Death Star after Red Leader's impacted on the surface?&lt;/a&gt;, which I thought to be a decent question after consulting the related questions on the topic, which didn't cover my inquiry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/129294/revisions&quot;&gt;have the title edited by one user, and then the question closed as a duplicate&lt;/a&gt; due to a now improper title. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No discussion, no search for clarification, just change from on high.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is crazy frustrating, and is directly responsible for my reduced desire to ever contribute to the community again. At the encouragement of a coworker, he suggested getting more direct feedback here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was there something I could have done better? Did the combination of moderator edits just cause an unfortunate circumstance? I feel the question deserved more thought.&#xA;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66729" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-06-04T03:19:05.067" Title="How should I avoid overzealous editing of question in the future?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|duplicate-questions|new-users|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9709" CreationDate="2016-05-27T14:38:01.153" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only prevention advice I can give you is to read over your question before submitting, and make sure that both the title and body are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Asking the question you intended to ask&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Asking the &lt;em&gt;same&lt;/em&gt; question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Quite clear about the question you're asking&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the third bullet, something I've seen other users do (and which I've done as well) is to write a one-sentence &amp;quot;thesis&amp;quot; summary of your question, in bold, at the bottom (or top) of your question post; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/85777/31051&quot;&gt;for example&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, how effective that is going to be for prevention is...variable. The StackExchange model puts the burden of moderation on the community, so all users have the responsibility to make sure the site is the best it can be. Many times that's a judgement call, and sometimes it just happens that some users disagree over that judgement call.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So rather than prevention, there are a few things you can do for recovery:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the edit was suggested by a user with less than 2000 reputation, you can reject the edit (if you get to it quickly enough), and it won't appear at all&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users with more than 2000 reputation aren't subject to community approval on their edits, but you can always &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/17038/276025&quot;&gt;roll back&lt;/a&gt; edits if you feel they overstep&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can also make further edits to bring the question back into line with your intention&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question is closed incorrectly (or what you feel to be incorrectly), you have options for that, as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you edit your post &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/157584/should-questions-be-added-to-the-reopen-queue-as-soon-as-theyre-edited-by-the-o#comment514253_157584&quot;&gt;within five days&lt;/a&gt; of it being closed, it's automatically put into the reopen queue, where users with 3000 or more reputation can choose whether or not to vote to reopen it. Users often take this opportunity to edit to explain why the duplicate target doesn't adequately answer their question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you have at least 20 reputation, you can go onto &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;. Mos Eisley, the main site chatroom, is often quite bustling, so there are lost of people who can discuss the issue&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can post on meta, as you've done here. Meta gives you a chance to make and defend your case, and it gives close voters the same chance. One possible outcome is that you change people's minds, another is that the close voters change yours. Either way, the community as a whole wins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should mention as well that all questions posted on Meta.SFF are automatically posted in the main site chat room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As an absolute last resort, you can flag the question for moderator attention. Custom flags are only visible to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;site moderators&lt;/a&gt;, who have the power to immediately reopen a question. I would caution you against using this option, though; moderators are supposed to defer to the community, so unless you've been the subject of truly egregious abuse, posting in chat or on Meta is a better option&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I appreciate that this has been a frustrating experience for you, but I feel like I should emphasize that this is an example of the system working as intended. One user, acting within the scope of their authority, made a choice that was perhaps questionable (I'm not here to judge that), which resulted in some behaviour that was perhaps undesirable; you drew attention to that, and the community course-corrected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your frustration with the process is understandable, but I hope that you won't lose faith with the StackEchange system as a whole. It really is quite good, even if it's not always perfect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-05-27T15:12:18.273" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9709" CreationDate="2016-05-27T14:54:29.850" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a case like this where your question is closely related to another question on the site, I would suggest mentioning the related question(s) in your post and explaining why your question is different. This will help everyone understand exactly what you are asking and make it less likely that users will vote to close it as a duplicate. This is mainly a &lt;em&gt;preventative&lt;/em&gt; measure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have several courses of action if you've already posted and user(s) are editing your question and/or closing it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit your question to clarify and/or remove false assumptions made by the other user(s) editing your question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If an edit war ensues, flag your post for moderator attention and we can &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/22229/299342&quot;&gt;lock&lt;/a&gt; it so that no one can make further changes. The question can then be discussed on meta, chat, etc. to resolve the content dispute. Once resolved, a moderator can then unlock the post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post a question here on meta asking why your question was closed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the closing of your question, normally it takes five users with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/close-questions&quot;&gt;at least 3k reputation&lt;/a&gt; to vote to close. The fact that multiple users are required helps protect against the erroneous closing of questions (whether due to a misunderstanding or mistake made by a single user). However, moderators' close votes are always binding, and users with a gold tag badge in a tag that your question was posted with can cast a binding &lt;em&gt;duplicate&lt;/em&gt; close vote. Such users are trusted more and can cut down on review time in certain cases, but it opens up the possibility that your question will be closed by a single such user before you have a chance to explain why your question isn't a duplicate (or correct a misleading edit, as in this case). I don't think your question was closed as a duplicate due to any malicious intent -- another user had already linked to related questions and also thought yours was a duplicate of one of them. Furthermore, the same gold tag badge holder who closed your question later re-opened it with a binding vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry to hear that you have been discouraged from contributing here. This sort of thing doesn't usually happen so I hope you decide to continue contributing. If you have any further issues you'd like to discuss feel free to ping me in a comment or in &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley chat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2016-05-29T03:05:12.337" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9712" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9713" CreationDate="2016-05-28T09:08:41.333" Score="3" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just curious as to what makes a question a &quot;Hot Network Question&quot;. Is it view count, votes or a combination of both?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="51379" LastEditDate="2016-05-28T20:47:07.973" LastActivityDate="2016-05-28T20:47:07.973" Title="What warrants &quot;Hot Network Questions&quot;" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9712" CreationDate="2016-05-28T10:01:00.743" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/61343/262849&quot;&gt;David Fullerton's answer&lt;/a&gt; on another stack&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/60756/how-do-the-arbitrary-hotness-points-work-on-the-new-stack-exchange-home-page/61343#61343&quot;&gt;How do the &amp;quot;arbitrary hotness points&amp;quot; work on the new Stack Exchange home page?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Basically what's documented here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11602/what-formula-should-be-used-to-determine-hot-questions&quot;&gt;What formula should be used to determine &amp;quot;hot&amp;quot; questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We have a few tweaks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Succeeding questions from the same site are penalized by increasing amounts.  So, the first question from SO in the list gets multiplied&#xA;  by 1.0, the second by 0.98, the third by 0.96, etc)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We make a per-site traffic adjustment so SO does not dominate the entire list&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The benefit of many answers is capped at 10&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We only degrade based on question age, and not the last update date on a question, so questions don't pop back up to the top every time&#xA;  they're edited&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Views are not counted towards the score&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The core of the formula (without the site-based degrading or traffic&#xA;  scaling) is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt; (MIN(AnswerCount, 10) * QScore) / 5 + AnswerScore&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;---------------------------------------------------&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;          MAX(QAgeInHours + 1, 6) ^  1.4 &lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2016-05-28T16:35:06.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9714" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9715" CreationDate="2016-05-29T22:58:16.667" Score="7" ViewCount="353" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have at least a couple users who post regularly and never register accounts. Each time the cookies on their computer get cleared, they lose their old unregistered account and are given a new one. If we know of users like this, do we need to do anything about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Possibly the best well-known example is M.A. Golding. He had a dozen or so accounts until recently. Now he's down to &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/472703/users-with-the-same-display-name?name=%25Golding&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;three accounts&lt;/a&gt; because of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2273/unregistered-user-with-multiple-accounts&quot;&gt;meta post&lt;/a&gt; on movies.SE.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Another example is PMar, who currently has &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/472703/users-with-the-same-display-name?name=pmar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;16 accounts&lt;/a&gt;, assuming that all of those are the same person.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Random Passerby has &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/472703/users-with-the-same-display-name?name=random%20passerby&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;16 accounts&lt;/a&gt;, unless we have multiple random passersby.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are all &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/472703/users-with-the-same-display-name?name=the%20doctor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;13 of The Doctors&lt;/a&gt; the same person? What about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/472703/users-with-the-same-display-name?name=revenant&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;11 revenants&lt;/a&gt;? Who knows!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a problem? CMs can merge accounts, but I thought until recently that they only did that at the request of the owner of the accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36115" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:49:37.240" LastActivityDate="2016-06-02T17:06:04.547" Title="What should we do about duplicate, unregistered user accounts?" Tags="|discussion|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9714" CreationDate="2016-05-30T00:51:08.777" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Other than leaving a comment resembling something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are you [this user with a similar name]? If so, you might want to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/20528/how-can-i-recover-a-lost-account&quot;&gt;merge your accounts&lt;/a&gt;, otherwise you'll lose the reputation and privileges gained by the other account&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's nothing we (&quot;we&quot; being everybody who isn't an SE employee) &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/192725/276025&quot;&gt;can&lt;/a&gt; or, indeed, &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Users have the right to choose how they interact with the site&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Within some reasonable limits, of course; but although registration is strongly encouraged, it's not required. It's entirely possible that a user may not know about the difference between a registered and an unregistered account, in which case pointing them to the &quot;merge my accounts&quot; FAQ page will sort them. But maybe a user does know, and are intentionally choosing to use an unregistered account. That's their decision, and it's not against any rule (or any sensible proposed rule).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Is it even really a problem?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the actual consequences of this scenario?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unregistered users can't vote on posts, so bad sockpuppetry is basically impossible&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's no reputation restriction on asking or answering, so we're not deprived of quality content&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, there are only a few actual negative effects to the community, all of which are negligible at best:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We lose a chat contributor. Chat is a third-class citizen anyway, and I'm not comfortable basing site policy around it, but we're also not exactly hurting for chatters&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We may lose quality comments. Comments are second-class citizens anyway, and mods can convert answers to comments if they feel it's necessary. I'm not bothered&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We lose someone looking over the queues. To take an easy example, the M.A. Golding users have enough combined reputation to handle all of the queues, assuming they're all the same person (a questionable assumption in itself). But considering the &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dyOwL.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;normal state of our queues&lt;/a&gt;, I think we can handle it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A user might use unregistered accounts to circumvent a ban. This is the one thing I agree is a potential problem. If the user is posting garbage, then we already have systems in place to deal with that; the VLQ queue, spam flags, and account deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, there's too much ambiguity for anybody not on the SE payroll to assume liability for getting it wrong. How do we know an unregistered account belongs to a banned user?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Username? Seems way too likely to generate false positives&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Email address? Only if they're &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; dumb&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;IP address? What about shared computers?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a cost-benefit analysis to be done here, but this one may be something that SE monitors internally, if they're not already. But handling this use case is above our pay grade&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2016-05-30T00:51:08.777" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9716" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9718" CreationDate="2016-05-30T11:09:10.820" Score="9" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I hit the 2000 rep-mark and up until then I was wondering, &lt;em&gt;what exactly does 2000 rep get you?&lt;/em&gt; Well I found out when this review landed in my lap;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/83019&quot;&gt;Edit review for &quot;Why does everyone in Firefly speak Chinese?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I rejected the edit as it did not seem to contribute to the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Was I right to do so, and what guidelines should I be following to make these judgements?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-05-30T12:35:42.503" Title="Was I right to reject this edit?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9716" CreationDate="2016-05-30T12:21:15.203" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;You were absolutely right to reject this edit. The addition was basically a commentary and pretty darned rude to boot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[although one could argue that &quot;high education&quot; and &quot;high capital&quot;&#xA;  aren't exactly the first things that come to mind when someone&#xA;  mentions America].&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for your rejection is personal preference, but I'd class it as &lt;strong&gt;vandalism&lt;/strong&gt; as it might confuse readers into thinking that this was the OP's opinion, rather than something that had been added later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The official guidelines are here; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&lt;/a&gt; but honestly, as long as you use common sense, you're always going to be OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2016-05-30T12:26:17.410" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9716" CreationDate="2016-05-30T12:22:54.737" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say you made a good choice. At least one other user (Wad Cheber) agreed with your assessment, as do I.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't believe there's any specific guidance laid out anywhere, but the edit rejection reasons give you some clues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/co5C9.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/co5C9.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spam or vandalism&lt;/strong&gt; is pretty straightforward: edits that introduce promotional content, or deface the post for no reasons, should be rejected&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No improvement whatsoever&lt;/strong&gt; is more nuanced. Edits should aim to improve the post in some way; if it does not, then this reason applies. Personally I rarely use this one, although I do sometimes use it on edits &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9532/31051&quot;&gt;&quot;correcting&quot; regional spelling&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Irrelevant tags&lt;/strong&gt; is, for the most part, quite straightforward. Tags that are truly tangential (like adding &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; question) should not be added, and those edits should be rejected.In more difficult cases, this often becomes a way for users to tacitly vote against certain tag policies (character tags being an easy example)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clearly conflicts with the author's intent&lt;/strong&gt; exists to remind us that we do enforce some notion of the sovereignty of the original poster. This one might be chosen in the case where &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7122/31051&quot;&gt;an edit is &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; substantial for comfort&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Attempt to reply&lt;/strong&gt; is quite straightforward, and I probably use it the most; I don't know if I'm just weird like that or what. Frequently users without the reputation to comment (or anonymous users) will use the &quot;edit&quot; feature to leave a comment, or even answer a question. This should be rejected swiftly&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Causes harm&lt;/strong&gt; is the most nebulous, obviously. It largely comes down to when you &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; the edit is wrong, but it doesn't quite fit under any of the other categories&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can perhaps tell, most of these involve judgement calls to some degree. As you gain more experience reviewing edits, you'll develop an intuition about what does and does not make a good edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I had to give you some specific advice, it would be the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/editing&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;editing&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;editing&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/suggested-edit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-edit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-edit&lt;/a&gt;. The questions in those tags will help give you a sense of what kind of specific things to watch out for&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Don't robo-review&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, by which I mean don't blindly accept or reject edits. There's no rush to review an edit, so take your time and look at all relevant information. Personally I like to pull up the original post page in a separate tab, so I can see the comments under the post I'm reviewing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't be afraid to use the &quot;skip&quot; button. There's no penalty for skipping a review, and it's much better to do that than to commit to a review you're not sure about. A rule of thumb: If someone took to meta to protest your decision, could you justify it? If not, skip.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2016-05-30T12:22:54.737" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9719" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9720" CreationDate="2016-05-30T12:56:41.287" Score="2" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was second to answer a question which as it happened turned out to be decently voted and accepted by the OP. It is currently the top voted answer on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later another user put a bounty on the Question so in order to gain it, I edited my answer to make it more valuable in terms of info. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when I read the bounty page it says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you do not award your bounty within 7 days (plus the grace period),&#xA;  the highest voted answer &lt;strong&gt;created after the bounty&lt;/strong&gt; started with a&#xA;  minimum score of 2 will be awarded half the bounty amount.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So does that mean that no matter how much I improve my answer, it still won't be eligible for bounty award unless the person offering it manually awards the bounty? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If yes, why are &lt;strong&gt;older answers updated after the bounty&lt;/strong&gt; offer not eligible for the automatic award?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastEditorUserId="54887" LastEditDate="2016-05-30T13:09:18.447" LastActivityDate="2016-05-30T21:45:29.280" Title="Why are pre-existing answers not eligible for automatic bounty award after editing?" Tags="|discussion|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9719" CreationDate="2016-05-30T13:07:04.210" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally, the reason that bounties are offered are to get more attention to the question and get &lt;strong&gt;better&lt;/strong&gt; answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An answer that exists before the bounty is set, is, by default, considered insufficient, else the bounty would not have been offered. Though, there are exceptions as one of the bounty reason is to award an exceptional answer...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, because it's impossible for the system to know how valuable the edit to the answer was without having someone manually review every edit, existing answers, even those that were edited, are ineligible for the auto-awarded bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, yes, you are correct. You will not be able to win the bounty... unless the person who set the bounty awards it manually... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there's no reason for you to assume that the person who placed the bounty &lt;strong&gt;will not&lt;/strong&gt; award it manually. You'll just have to wait and see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a note, Wad is a very active user on the site... it's extremely unlikely that he will fail to award the bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41668" LastEditorUserId="41668" LastEditDate="2016-05-30T21:45:29.280" LastActivityDate="2016-05-30T21:45:29.280" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9721" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9724" CreationDate="2016-05-30T15:55:34.053" Score="3" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I asked a question regarding books about life on neutron stars -- &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/129589/other-books-about-life-on-neutron-stars-besides-forwards-dragon-egg-series-and&quot;&gt;Other Books About Life on Neutron Stars Besides Forward's Dragon Egg Series and Baxter's Flux?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; and saw it quickly downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've read this treatise on list questions -- &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2638/are-all-list-questions-off-topic?rq=1&quot;&gt;Are &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; list questions off-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;  -- and the general consensus was that in general list questions were a bad idea as most have &quot;infinite answers&quot;, are open-ended, or are subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I showed I did my research by posting two books I was aware of on this topic, which too my understanding is relatively rare explored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, however, I'm guessing there's been 10 works or less published on this topic and it's very specific.  Additionally there's no ambiguity as a novel either features life on a neutron star or it doesn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you think this question is inappropriate to ask in spite of it almost assuredly having a short and specific answer (in the form of &amp;lt; 10 works which feature this setting)?  If you guys agree it's a bad idea and explain to me why I'll retract my question, but wanted to get some feedback first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66830" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-05-30T21:43:54.833" Title="Is Asking For Work on a Very Niche (Not Easily Researched) Specific Topic Not Allowed?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|etiquette|list-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9721" CreationDate="2016-05-30T17:51:54.673" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The central premise of stackexchange is not, to replace google,  but to provide pairings of high quality questions to &lt;em&gt;single&lt;/em&gt; correct answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any &quot;recommendation&quot; is already going to be primarily opinion based, but further won't have a single correct answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue with some lists is not that it's long,  but that it's simply unknown &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; long they are.  If someone lists 10 stories about neutron stars, you have to ask  &lt;em&gt;is that all of them&lt;/em&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tying the request to an author, or asking for the first is a great way to not just narrow down your search but make specific enough for a single correct answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2016-05-30T17:51:54.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9721" CreationDate="2016-05-30T18:06:16.000" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question wasn't facing closure because it was a &lt;em&gt;list&lt;/em&gt; question, but because requests for works on a specific theme/style/subject are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic&quot;&gt;strictly off-topic on SFF:SE&lt;/a&gt; (and have been since its inception). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I appreciate that we do occasionally allow finite list questions to come through the net, your question doesn't fall into that category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-05-30T18:06:16.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9721" CreationDate="2016-05-30T18:32:41.850" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;There are several problems with such a question.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that that when I say &quot;problems,&quot; that does not imply that the question is &quot;bad.&quot; Indeed, in my opinion it is a very interesting question. However, that does not render it a good fit for this site. &quot;Have you ever been in love?&quot; may be a good question to ask a friend, but not your calculus professor. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The question is a recommendation question. These are generally off-topic because&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They are of very limited interest&lt;/strong&gt;. Although I found your question interesting, the fact is that most people probably will not. This may or may not be a &lt;em&gt;great&lt;/em&gt; reason (there are plenty of questions of limited interest that are on-topic), but it is the consensus of the community that recommendation questions are particularly narrow.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They lack a definitive answer. What is the &quot;right&quot; list of recommended books on a certain topic? Who knows? Thus accepting an answer becomes an activity with little meaning, as perhaps does upvoting. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They're too open-ended. Let's say you choose a very narrow type of book (which may already be limiting how useful the topic is to others). Perhaps some very widely-read person will then make a short list of all extant works on that topic, in every language. Two years later, the topic has exploded in popularity and  hundreds of additional books have come out, rendering the existing answer extremely limited. As with the previous reasons, this is not &lt;em&gt;limited&lt;/em&gt; to recommendation questions, but is likely to be particularly severe with them. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It wouldn't be the end of the world&lt;/strong&gt; if very narrow recommendation questions were allowed, but, at the current time (and for essentially all of SFF:SE's history), the community has decided not to allow them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand how frustrating it can be to have a question that is closed or otherwise subject to censure, so I will say that you do have a few options. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Discuss it in chat. If all you care about is getting an answer, and not getting reputation or badges, chat has an extraordinarily loose format, and most of the people who post answers on the main site are also there. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If what you really are interested in is not finding books to read, but the development of an &lt;em&gt;idea&lt;/em&gt;, you might ask  a question tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; with a title along the lines of &quot;What was the first appearance of Concept X?&quot; Don't use this as a substitute for recommendations, though. Use it only if:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You are genuinely interested in how the trope came to be.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The concept is sufficiently common or popular that &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; people are likely to be interested in how the concept came to be. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="51379" LastEditDate="2016-05-30T21:43:54.833" LastActivityDate="2016-05-30T21:43:54.833" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9725" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-05-30T23:39:59.460" Score="15" ViewCount="506" Body="&lt;h2&gt;It's over! Final results are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9764/51226&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please see the results from Round 4 and other important information on &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/05/the-great-science-fictionfantasy-tv-showdown-final-round/?cb=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; on our blog. You can also see Round 4 itself, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9688/51226&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To vote on your favorite show:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will post an answer below. It will have the bracket on it. Any site member with a SF&amp;amp;F SE account older than two weeks as of 5/30/2016 may vote. To do so, simply leave a single comment with the single show you think is better. Attempting to vote more than once will result in none of your votes counting. &lt;strong&gt;Upvoting someone's comment will not affect the outcome&lt;/strong&gt;. In one week, voting will close. I will see which show won and post an update.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please do not leave an answer on this page. If you have an additional question, comment, or gripe that your favorite show isn't on the list, please put it &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/38884/the-great-science-fiction-fantasy-tv-showdown-discussion-room&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, or comment on the main question, not the voting answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to everyone who's participated, and let's go out with a bang!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.390" LastActivityDate="2016-06-07T01:02:36.070" Title="The Great Science-Fiction/Fantasy TV Showdown: The Final Round [Over!]" Tags="|discussion|contest|prizes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9725" CreationDate="2016-05-30T23:39:59.460" Score="13" Body="&lt;h2&gt;VOTE!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Firefly&lt;/strong&gt; VS &lt;strong&gt;Star Trek: The Next Generation&lt;/strong&gt; VS &lt;strong&gt;Batman: The Animated Series&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastActivityDate="2016-05-30T23:39:59.460" CommentCount="69" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9728" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9729" CreationDate="2016-05-31T14:05:02.917" Score="6" ViewCount="270" Body="&lt;p&gt;There don't seem to be any tags on SFF.SE for &lt;em&gt;Clash of the Titans&lt;/em&gt;. It seems to be in the fantasy realm, but I don't want to post an off-topic question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is &lt;em&gt;Clash of the Titans&lt;/em&gt; considered fantasy?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="2865" LastEditDate="2016-06-04T21:59:55.827" LastActivityDate="2016-06-04T21:59:55.827" Title="Is Clash of the Titans considered on topic for Science Fiction and Fantasy?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9728" CreationDate="2016-05-31T14:11:48.260" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Both versions of the film and the 2012 sequel 'Wrath of the Titans' are clearly on-topic for SFF:SE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're currently untagged, not because they're off-topic, but simply because no-one has asked a question about them (yet).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Setting &amp;amp; Conceit.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story is a fictionalised mish-mash of Greek, Egyptian and Sumerian myths. Gods and mortals fight against gigantic monsters, dragons, demons, beasts and worm-creatures using a varied mixture of sword and sorcery items and godly magic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marketing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Leading a daring band of warriors, Perseus sets off on a perilous&#xA;  journey deep into forbidden worlds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Battling unholy demons and fearsome beasts, he will only survive if he&#xA;  can accept his power as a god, defy his fate and create his own destiny. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Genre: &lt;strong&gt;Sci-Fi/Fantasy&lt;/strong&gt;,  Action/Adventure&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.warnerbros.com/clash-titans-2010&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.warnerbros.com/clash-titans-2010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cast/Crew opinion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Director&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You have creatures throughout the movie being mingled with the real&#xA;  characters. You saw Sheik Solomon, the big wooden character.  &lt;strong&gt;So, this&#xA;  is part of the world we’re creating where it’s mythology. Its not&#xA;  history, its not fantasy, it’s an in-between.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://collider.com/director-louis-leterrier-on-set-interview-clash-of-the-titans/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Director Louis Leterrier On Set Interview CLASH OF THE TITANS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Director (Sequel)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“For me, taking Greek mythology and all that fantasy and putting it in&#xA;  a real world that’s epic, like Gladiator, like a big Ridley Scott&#xA;  movie, and taking all that fantasy and putting it in, grounding it,&#xA;  making it feel real, that’s the movie that I wanted to see when I&#xA;  walked into Clash 1 and that’s the movie that Clash 2 is gonna be.&#xA;  That’s what I was looking for, I was looking to come in and have a&#xA;  real, intense, visceral kick-ass experience with spectacle but&#xA;  grounded, with great actors, and that’s what the second one will be.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://collider.com/clash-of-the-titans-2-jonathan-liebesman/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Exclusive CLASH OF THE TITANS 2 Update from Director Jonathan Liebesman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lead Actor&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;You’re doing another big fantasy project right now with Clash of the Titans, right?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sam:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;We’re filming it, at the moment.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://screencrave.com/2009-05-08/sam-worthington-talks-terminator-avatar-clash-of-the-titans-and-green-latern/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sam Worthington Talks Terminator, Avatar, Clash of the Titans and Green Lantern&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Trailers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/hBB5L8t-0Co?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/FD7JSTz7g0g?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T19:50:45.577" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T19:50:45.577" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9363" CreationDate="2016-05-31T21:12:40.410" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be on topic, but we have to be on the lookout for opinions.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Genre classification, even in very broad strokes, should be on topic. Also, they should be perfectly answerable. &lt;em&gt;However&lt;/em&gt;, we should be careful not to let to turn it into a discussion about the genres themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To ask if a certain work is considered hard sf, should be perfectly answerable by pointing to reputable sources classifying it as such, for instance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it should not be a starting point for a discussion about &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; constitutes hard sf, or that if sf is not hard, it's not sf, or ..., or ... In other words, primarily opinion based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So yes, but.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T21:12:40.410" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9733" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9736" CreationDate="2016-06-01T12:12:47.900" Score="0" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently noticed this comment:  &quot;Fantastic. Thank you very much – Daniel Feb 11 at 5:53 &quot; here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/118033/44517&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/118033/44517&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;was flagged to delete it but the flag was declined: &quot; too chatty – Zaibis Feb 11 at 15:09   declined&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was this comment appropriate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44517" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T19:53:42.663" Title="Why this comment was appropriate?" Tags="|discussion|comments|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="18" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9733" CreationDate="2016-06-01T15:05:25.370" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I declined this flag. Others have linked to various SciFi Meta threads on this issue, and I will admit that many of them suggest that they should be flagged and deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I declined it in part because you flagged it as &quot;too chatty&quot; despite the fact that it was the only comment on that post; however, in researching comment flag directives here and on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt; it seems that &quot;too chatty&quot; is indeed the recommended flag type to raise (personally, I think &quot;not constructive&quot; makes more sense, especially when there's only one comment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also declined it in part because it was from the OP. Yes, the OP had accepted the answer but I see no harm in a friendly thank you comment -- especially when, again, it is the only comment on the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, I declined it in part because this site is not particularly strict about comments (as others have mentioned, e.g., &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9733/why-this-comment-was-appropiate#comment27065_9733&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). Other SE sites are more strict about comments but even Meta.SE has conflicting opinions about &quot;thanks&quot; and &quot;+1&quot; comments. For example, an &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/15290/299342&quot;&gt;old question about +1 comments&lt;/a&gt; has &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/15293/299342&quot;&gt;an answer which favors a lax policy&lt;/a&gt;. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/15292/299342&quot;&gt;answer from Jeff Atwood&lt;/a&gt;  suggests that such comments should be deleted in part because&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;the flagging comment process is basically 100% automated and doesn't require any mod intervention&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...which is not true in this case (I guess this was an older way of handling flags) since you raised a moderator flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/125541/299342&quot;&gt;Meta.SE question&lt;/a&gt; suggests getting rid of the &quot;too chatty&quot; flag reason because such flags have a tendency to &quot;eradicate&quot; encouragement and kindness from the community, and are noise for moderators:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do we need to bug moderators because someone added a &quot;Thanks! This worked for me!&quot; comment to an answer? I'd hate to think we were expected to eradicate all encouragement or kind words from a post. Kinda not good for the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer to that question disagrees with the proposal but says this about &quot;chatty&quot; comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Having “chatty” comments hurts because they impede the visibility of future, more useful comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, that's not true in this case (since there was only one comment on the post) and that's part of the reason I declined your flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet another &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/169999/299342&quot;&gt;Meta.SE answer&lt;/a&gt; suggests that &quot;thanks&quot; comments are okay as long as they aren't distracting (which this one wasn't):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You shouldn't feel obligated to flag them when they are not distracting from anything else. When it distracts from other comments (especially if other comments are hidden as a result or take up more than a small fraction of the height of a page), I think they should be flagged. I'm not saying they need to be flagged whenever there are n or more other comments. This is subjective, there probably &lt;em&gt;does not need to be a rule for this&lt;/em&gt;, and everyone can use their own judgment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I see no harm in &quot;thanks&quot; comments (especially from the OP) as long as they aren't hiding more useful comments. Nonetheless, after doing this research about comment policies here and across the network, I have deleted the comment you flagged. Since the community seems to think such comments warrant a moderator's attention I will delete them in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an aside, I wonder why you didn't flag any of the comments on the &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; post. All of them are obsolete and distracting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Imc09.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Imc09.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T15:05:25.370" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9714" CreationDate="2016-06-02T17:06:04.547" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;If you suspect two unregistered users are the same person ...&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best (and often, the only) thing to do is to leave a comment &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9715/31394&quot;&gt;as Jason suggested&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are you &lt;em&gt;[this other user]&lt;/em&gt;? If so, you might like to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/merging-accounts&quot;&gt;merge your accounts&lt;/a&gt; so that you keep all your posts under one account and have privileges such as being able to edit your posts by yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In really clear-cut cases (e.g. one user asks a story-ID question, another user with the same username suggests an edit to add more details; or two users make two word-for-word identical posts), you could &lt;strong&gt;flag one of the relevant posts for moderator attention&lt;/strong&gt;. We have more tools to investigate such issues, and also easier access to those with the power to actually merge accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in most cases it's not something you need to worry about too much; the only person who loses out from the two accounts not being merged is the person who created them. &lt;strong&gt;Having more than one account is allowed&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/57682/how-should-sockpuppets-be-handled-on-stack-exchange/57685#57685&quot;&gt;provided you're not doing anything nefarious with them&lt;/a&gt;, so you don't need to flag for moderators every time you come across a user with two accounts. In particular, if the person is &lt;em&gt;deliberately&lt;/em&gt; maintaining two accounts and is open about it (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/53228/buffybot&quot;&gt;Buffybot&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/59965/awesome-frog&quot;&gt;Awesome Frog&lt;/a&gt;), then chances are there's nothing bad going on and nothing you should do about it. However:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;If you suspect foul play ...&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although you don't have to raise a flag every time you come across two accounts that seem to be the same person, &lt;strong&gt;please do let the mods know if you've found some real nefarious activity.&lt;/strong&gt; This is part of what the flagging system is for: you help us to police the site, and flags are how you let us know about things that might require our attention. Just bear in mind that you may not receive any feedback on your flag, as these things often need to be dealt with privately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I realise this isn't what you're really asking about: you're focusing on unregistered users who accidentally create more than one account, rather than sockpuppeteers. But I wanted to make clear that there &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; situations when it's good to flag even if the case isn't clear-cut from the non-mod perspective; and since others here have raised the issue of new accounts being created to circumvent a ban, I thought I'd mention this possibility too, even if only briefly.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-06-02T17:06:04.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9738" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9740" CreationDate="2016-06-03T09:54:43.273" Score="4" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've read the metas concerning religious texts and concluded that it would be fine to use them as answers if one does not claim they are fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Context:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/129544/53124&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; I've posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/129582/53124&quot;&gt;an answer&lt;/a&gt; (now deleted) relating Norse Mythology. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also on this question I have seen &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/129544/first-appearance-of-the-wake-up-from-a-coma-discover-the-world-has-ended-trop/129571?noredirect=1#comment326822_129544&quot;&gt;two&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/129544/first-appearance-of-the-wake-up-from-a-coma-discover-the-world-has-ended-trop/129571?noredirect=1#comment326886_129582&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; that seem to be unsure whether or not that would be okay. I've also seen similar discussions on other &quot;first appearance of Trope&quot; questions. So, I'd like a distinct meta discussion that I can link to that either says its okay or its not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9523/answers-that-count-religious-texts-as-fiction&quot;&gt;This meta&lt;/a&gt; is not concrete enough for my question. Even though I read it as &quot;such answers are fine&quot; I was liked to it by someone who thought the opposite (comment now deleted, so no link)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1053/should-we-exclude-religious-texts-and-which?rq=1&quot;&gt;This meta&lt;/a&gt; talks more about questions (even though its not in the title, nor tags), this question is about a specific kind of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53124" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-06-05T16:41:09.210" Title="Is it on-topic to give religious texts as answer for &quot;first appearance&quot;" Tags="|discussion|scope|answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2016-06-03T14:42:54.323" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9738" CreationDate="2016-06-03T09:54:43.273" Score="0" Body="&lt;h1&gt;As answers, they are on-topic&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be noted that such answers must make sure not to claim the texts are fictional, because that is the element that could offend believers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither the question asked, nor the site in general, is a better place when we remove these elements. Many tropes are very old and are (sometimes only) preserved in old religious texts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course a question can state &quot;first appearance of this trope IN FICTION&quot;, then such answers would not be a proper answer to this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53124" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T09:54:43.273" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9738" CreationDate="2016-06-03T11:47:29.910" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Probably not&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As indicated in the most-upvoted answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9565/51379&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is one exception though. If a question is asking for the&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/inspiration&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;inspiration&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;inspiration&lt;/a&gt; behind a work of fiction, answers citing religious texts&#xA;should be considered valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; questions ask for the first appearance of something &amp;quot;in a  work of fiction&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;in sci-fi&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;in fantasy.&amp;quot; For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/126299/51379&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/119468/51379&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;. They are not asking for the &amp;quot;inspiration&amp;quot; of a concept (which might be real life, for example), but its point of origin &lt;em&gt;in fiction&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;This is generally implied&lt;/strong&gt; even when not stated explicitly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In such cases, simply giving a religious answer, with no further clarification, doesn't really fit the bounds of the question, rather like answering a book question with a movie answer.&lt;/strong&gt; The question is not asking for the real-world origin of a trope, but when it first appeared in a fictional work. You wouldn't answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/126226/what-is-the-earliest-example-of-a-blighted-land-created-by-human-or-semi-human&quot;&gt;What is the earliest example of a &amp;quot;Blighted Land&amp;quot; created by human or semi-human activity?&lt;/a&gt; with a scientific treatise about nuclear testing sites, so why answer it with a religious work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stating the first appearance of the trope in a fictional text, and then giving a religious, scientific, or historical text as the probable inspiration should be acceptable, though.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first fictional appearance of this concept is in Y (describes Y). However, it is much older, with its roots in the mythology of X.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An alternative might be asking &amp;quot;What is the origin of trope X?,&amp;quot; which could plausibly be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/inspiration&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;inspiration&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;inspiration&lt;/a&gt;, and which would admit real-world/religious &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; fictional answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q: &amp;quot;What is the origin of the trope of radiation making animals grow in size?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A: &amp;quot;I'm pretty sure this actually happened in real life after nuclear tests.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A: &amp;quot;The Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Nuking first mentioned this idea in the 40s.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A: &amp;quot;Probably &lt;em&gt;Godzilla&lt;/em&gt;.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T12:04:09.107" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9741" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-06-03T15:19:13.233" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;For questions about the moderation policies of the site and actions taken by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;the moderators&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2016-06-03T15:19:13.233" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T15:19:13.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9742" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-06-03T15:19:13.233" Score="0" Body="For questions about the moderation policies of the site and actions taken by moderators." OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2016-06-03T15:19:13.233" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T15:19:13.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9743" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9748" CreationDate="2016-06-03T18:44:58.947" Score="13" ViewCount="860" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6953/51379&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; references &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/258320/when-i-flag-as-dupe-can-the-system-put-the-link-to-the-answer-and-not-the-quest/258325#258325&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; Meta:SE post, claiming that that Stack Exchange policy is to close questions only if the questions themselves are duplicates, not if an answer to one question contains an answer to another. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, users on this site frequently close questions that are very different, and indeed whose actual answers are very different, because one happens to answer the other. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does the previously mentioned question really constitute a Meta:SE policy indicating that marking questions as duplicates based on answers is discouraged?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If so, does it overrule our (apparent) policy, or is the community free to adopt a different policy? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T22:01:43.153" Title="Does this Meta policy overrule our Meta?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9743" CreationDate="2016-06-03T19:11:24.077" Score="7" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Does the previously mentioned question really constitute a Meta:SE policy...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, that single question doesn't constitute meta.SE policy.  I think this answer from meta&gt;SE is what most people have in mind when they say that duplicate answers can make a question a duplicate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10841/how-should-duplicate-questions-be-handled/10844#10844&quot;&gt;How should duplicate questions be handled?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As that answer says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions may be duplicates if they have the &lt;strong&gt;same (potential) answers.&lt;/strong&gt; This includes not only word-for-word duplicates, but also the same idea expressed in different words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T19:11:24.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9743" CreationDate="2016-06-03T19:12:29.387" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Narrow issue&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason why that &lt;em&gt;particular&lt;/em&gt; question is overruled by wider SE meta discussions is because even if we (on SFF:SE) decided that we wanted to be able to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;link&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; as duplicates rather than questions, a decision has already been taken on a site-wide basis not to allow that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since it would require a programming change and not just a policy change, this means that &lt;strong&gt;all the wishing in the world ain't gonna make it happen&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously the flipside is that if we do decide (for some reason) to accept this as site-wide policy on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/258320/when-i-flag-as-dupe-can-the-system-put-the-link-to-the-answer-and-not-the-quest/258325#258325&quot;&gt;say-so of a single poorly upvoted answer&lt;/a&gt; by someone who's not a member of SE staff, then we'd suddenly have to reopen potentially thousands of closed questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Wider issue&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Individual sites are allowed to make their own policy through a process of concensus and opinion. It is a long-standing and reasonably popular policy on SFF:SE (and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10841/how-should-duplicate-questions-be-handled/10844#10844&quot;&gt;site-wide&lt;/a&gt;) that where an existing &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; covers a newer question, the new question is marked as a duplicate in order to prevent multiple semi-identical answers being repeatedly posted, either by the original author (wasting their time) or by a new author (leading to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/112084/handling-answers-that-build-heavily-on-or-are-copied-outright-from-existing-an&quot;&gt;accusations of plagiarism&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're probably a little more aggressive about de-duping on the basis of answers, but that's largely because we have such as well informed core of users that dupe questions are picked up more easily, even when they're less obvious (at first glance) to less experienced users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T21:28:05.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9746" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-03T20:39:39.530" Score="3" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a lot of answers from low-rep members that belong more correctly in the comments section they can't post in because they don't have enough rep. After getting enough rep to see deleted answers, I can see even more of such posts. My observations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many of them have only 1 rep - it appears these are people who created an account because they finally have something they want to say and decided to join the discussion - only to discover they can't comment so they resorted to posting an answer, forum style layout-wise, as an alternative.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;These guys aren't aware of site policy. Almost every such answer has a comment from a seasoned user informing them that the &quot;answer&quot; doesn't answer the question. When they do reply though, it's almost invariably a &quot;I want to post it as a comment but can't&quot; response, usually phrased in a way that suggests they don't know why. Virtually none of the replies say &quot;I don't have enough rep to comment so I chose to post it as an answer instead.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you put just a little thought into it, you'd easily realise all these guys are newbies who have zero awareness of site policy. However, few comments that called them out for their mistake actually explained why it happened and how they can get the rep they needed to comment until asked.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A good number of such answers, even if posted as comments, would probably be spam-ish and adds no value (the very problem the rep requirement exists for), but majority are still valid as comments from what I've seen.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ironically, they lose rep from downvotes because these comments, when posted as an answer, would be flagged as not-an-answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand the current rep requirement exists for a reason, but the system needs improvement for the following reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rep requirement to comment is meant to stop the comment sections from being flooded by spam and non-constructive posts by at least ensuring only committed users of SE can comment. But this implementation pushes the flood into the answers. The symptoms changed but the root causes aren't addressed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The current solution to this is to just comment and inform them, but then that hinges on commenters to tell them what they need to know. That doesn't happen reliably, and it's repetitive and inefficient. And then the community makes things worse by downvoting them - by policy, the downvoters aren't wrong, but it still feels a bit unfair to the newbie who knows and is told nothing relevant until they effectively asked &quot;why are you doing this to me??&quot;. There should be a better way to do this, seeing as removing the rep requirement will probably do more harm than good.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there a place people can go to see salient points about what they need to know about using this site correctly and effectively? I've accumulated so much rep over 13 months and I still don't know where I can find info on site policy and such meta stuff (official policy text in b/w, not questions). I think new users need more help learning the site's features: the dos and don'ts, the good to know and nice to know.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The people who commit these are almost invariably guests who, prior to posting their first comment because they finally have something to say, are up until then just a reader. It would seem they don't understand how this site is different from a forum until we point it out after the deed is done - otherwise why would they initially think posting comments as an answer is ok, given that the visual layout can be mistakened to be like a forum thread?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand why the rep requirement exists, and agrees it needs to stay. I just think there are some things about the site new users who have something perfectly legit to post as a comment should be introduced to important points about the site and its policy before they actually try to do anything with this newly created account. The current solution isn't consistently effective nor sustainable - if you need to manually correct newcomers for the hundredth time, the implementation has a bad design imo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know enough about this site to give specific suggestions, however. I can only give general ideas on what I feel would be my preferred design for the sake of user-friendliness. Hence, I would like to ask what has already been done to address the issues I've stated, and whether anything more can be done because as it stands whatever is already implemented, if at all, is inadequate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if this question should belong in the overarching SE Meta. I don't know if other SEs have the same rep requirement on comments, since I start with 100 rep in all the others I join, although I don't believe I've seen answers in other SEs' questions with the same telltale signs of a new user trying to comment but failed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44906" LastEditorUserId="44025" LastEditDate="2016-06-10T02:28:24.203" LastActivityDate="2016-06-10T02:28:24.203" Title="What measures have been/can be taken to guide guests &amp; new users with respect to the rep requirement to comment?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9746" CreationDate="2016-06-03T21:18:30.570" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The very short answer is that the present system works reasonably well. Users are given a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/105/informed&quot;&gt;shiny badge&lt;/a&gt; for actually reading the manual, which specifically notes that... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As you earn reputation, you'll &lt;strong&gt;unlock new privileges like the ability&#xA;  to&lt;/strong&gt; vote, &lt;strong&gt;comment&lt;/strong&gt;, and even edit other people's posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally people who answer (in place of commenting) do so because they're more interested in getting a point across than in actually providing a useful addition to the question asked. Most times the comment itself is relatively worthless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what should we, the community do? If you see an answer that should be a comment, downvote it as not helpful, flag it for a moderator's attention, click the delete button and consider posting a comment explaining that answers aren't intended to be used to comment. Beyond that, there's not a lot more that needs to be done. Users who want to &lt;em&gt;&quot;join in the conversation&quot;&lt;/em&gt; but &lt;strong&gt;aren't interested in trying to understand even the most basic aspects of site policy&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Rules_of_the_Internet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;rule 33&lt;/a&gt;) aren't especially welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T21:23:54.087" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9743" CreationDate="2016-06-03T22:01:43.153" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd reckon the closest thing we have to an &lt;em&gt;official, network-wide policy&lt;/em&gt; on duplicates is found in the 2010 blog post, &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/dr-strangedupe-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-duplication/&quot;&gt;Dr. Strangedupe: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love Duplication&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are my official guidelines on question duplication:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Having one &amp;quot;perfect&amp;quot; form of a question that contains every possible answer to every slight variation of that question is a myth at best and actively harmful at worst.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Having dozens and dozens of variations of the same question is clearly bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What we want is on the order of 4 or 5 similar-but-not-quite-the-same duplicates to cover all possible search terms and common permutations of the question. It is also OK for these duplicates to have their own answers so people who find them don't have to click yet again to get to a good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea of a &lt;strong&gt;massive canonical Topic FAQ&lt;/strong&gt; is persistently alluring; instead of having 50 questions about a &amp;quot;sorting hat&amp;quot;, you could just have one question with a few dozen huge answers! However, this quickly becomes impractical:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Massively broad questions don't rank as well in search results as specific, focused questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Folks with specific, focused questions tend to not read massively broad FAQs even if they do find them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Finding specific information among multiple answers to massively broad FAQs is troublesome.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Remembering which information is even &lt;em&gt;contained&lt;/em&gt; in these tomes is difficult; eventually, folks just start to assume that they contain everything and close new questions without worrying whether they're actually answered or not... This chokes out new information.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does this have to do with your question? Well, &lt;em&gt;normally&lt;/em&gt; the presence of identical answers is a pretty good indication that the questions themselves are the same (unless the answer itself is something trivial like the name of a character). But this doesn't hold if a question has managed to attract a lot of different answers - so you end up in situations like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2611/why-dont-muggle-born-wizards-use-muggle-technology-to-fight-death-eaters&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; where various answers might be applied to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/54126/doesnt-hogwarts-seriously-put-the-world-in-jeopardy&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;completely&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/79528/if-voldemort-intends-for-wizards-to-rule-the-muggles-why-the-apparent-hesitation&quot;&gt;different&lt;/a&gt; questions even though &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; of the answers are inapplicable. Frankly, this is a wee bit silly, and smells more of folks being bored with the topic than anything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To avoid looking silly then, I would strongly recommend using answers as more of a litmus test than as a policy: if you're already pretty sure the questions are duplicates, testing the answers of one against the other can easily confirm your suspicions. But don't close completely irrelevant questions as duplicates of one another simply because there's an animated gif that happens to apply to both...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T22:01:43.153" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9709" CreationDate="2016-06-04T03:19:05.067" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You ask, “Was there something I could have done better?” &#xA;At the risk of repeating part of what Jason Baker has already said,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Try to be more clear when you write a question. &#xA;I looked at the revision history of your question,&#xA;starting with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/129294/1&quot;&gt;the original version&lt;/a&gt;, and I thought it was asking&#xA;“It’s obviously easy for a torpedo to miss the port, and hard to get one in. &#xA;So how did Luke manage to get his shot in?”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Comparing it to the current version,&#xA;I’m having trouble recognizing it as the same question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don’t post a question&#xA;until and unless you’re prepared to babysit it for the next hour or so.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A question gets the most attention&#xA;in the first few hours after it is posted. &#xA;People often ask follow-up, clarifying questions in comments.  In fact,&#xA;comments were posted starting 11 minutes after you posted the question. &#xA;If you don’t respond for ten hours, people will believe that you don’t care.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When the question was edited incorrectly&#xA;(six minutes after you posted the question!),&#xA;you should have immediately taken corrective action.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;By the time &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; edited the question, it had already been closed. &#xA;And yet,&#xA;IMNSHO, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/129294/4&quot;&gt;you &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; didn’t clarify the thrust of the question&lt;/a&gt;. &#xA;Yes, the question &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; mentions Red Leader’s torpedoes,&#xA;but it could still be interpreted as being about how difficult a shot it was.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And, if you believe that the change of the title&#xA;was so damaging to the meaning of the question,&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;you should have edited the title back when you edited the question!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30482" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-06-04T03:19:05.067" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9750" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9752" CreationDate="2016-06-04T03:43:44.687" Score="5" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;The current &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/metropolis&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;metropolis&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;metropolis&lt;/a&gt; tag description seems lacking in that it is limited to questions about the place where Superman lives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However the word 'Metropolis' to me, particularly in a SciFi/Fantasy context, conjures thoughts and images of this film classic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cpnm8.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cpnm8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/faXi5.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/faXi5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BTpyK.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BTpyK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/05cQH.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/05cQH.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(1927_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fritz Lang movie&lt;/a&gt; be added to the tag wiki, or is that just confusing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an example of a tag that has been assigned multiple uses: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/2012&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;2012&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;2012&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8530" LastEditorUserId="36115" LastEditDate="2016-06-04T04:09:21.307" LastActivityDate="2016-06-04T13:11:15.080" Title="Are tags with multiple meanings confusing? / Should 'Metropolis' tag be changed to include classic SciFi film?" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-wiki|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9750" CreationDate="2016-06-04T04:02:04.207" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Tags with multiple meanings should be avoided if possible.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags assist with searching, and a user searching for information about the city where Superman lives probably doesn't care about questions/answers discussing the film (or vice versa). Users who post high scoring answers also earn tag badges as a way to demonstrate expertise, but a user who is an expert in the &lt;em&gt;Metropolis&lt;/em&gt; film isn't necessarily an expert regarding the city where Superman lives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The typical way around this is to use separate tags with related names. For example, we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; for the franchise but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-2009&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-2009&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-2009&lt;/a&gt; for the film within that franchise from the year 2009.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There currently aren't any questions about &lt;em&gt;Metropolis&lt;/em&gt; the film, but if we ever did get a question about it I would suggest creating a tag named &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/metropolis-1927-film&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;metropolis-1927-film&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;metropolis-1927-film&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/metropolis-1927&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;metropolis-1927&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;metropolis-1927&lt;/a&gt; (which also distinguishes it from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_%282001_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;2001 film of the same name&lt;/a&gt;). The tag wikis for that new tag and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/metropolis&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;metropolis&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;metropolis&lt;/a&gt; should refer to each other and explain when one is appropriate and the other is not. (Actually, I doubt we really need a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/metropolis&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;metropolis&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;metropolis&lt;/a&gt; for the Superman city anyway.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/2012&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;2012&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;2012&lt;/a&gt; is a poor tag name. It would be better if it were renamed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/2012-film&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;2012-film&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;2012-film&lt;/a&gt; or similar to reflect the movie. We don't need a tag for SFF works referencing the year 2012 anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-06-04T13:11:15.080" LastActivityDate="2016-06-04T13:11:15.080" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9750" CreationDate="2016-06-04T13:10:05.347" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9751/31394&quot;&gt;Null's excellent answer&lt;/a&gt; covers the general principles - most importantly, &lt;strong&gt;tags with multiple meanings should be avoided if possible&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm just posting this second answer to say I've now sorted out the specific tags you were asking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/metropolis&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;metropolis&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;metropolis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9750/are-tags-with-multiple-meanings-confusing-should-metropolis-tag-be-changed#comment27157_9750&quot;&gt;people&lt;/a&gt; have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9750/are-tags-with-multiple-meanings-confusing-should-metropolis-tag-be-changed#comment27164_9750&quot;&gt;expressed&lt;/a&gt; the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9751/31394&quot;&gt;opinion&lt;/a&gt; here that a special tag for the &lt;em&gt;Superman&lt;/em&gt; city of Metropolis is unnecessary. Plus I searched for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=metropolis+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;questions containing the word Metropolis&lt;/a&gt; and discovered that the tag wasn't even being used consistently: there are several questions that &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/metropolis&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;metropolis&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;metropolis&lt;/a&gt;, but only &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/95071/how-much-of-metropolis-is-toronto&quot;&gt;one&lt;/a&gt; that actually was. So I nuked this tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the 1927 film, I created a new tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/metropolis-1927&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;metropolis-1927&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;metropolis-1927&lt;/a&gt; and posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/129992/where-is-metropolis&quot;&gt;the first question&lt;/a&gt; about this film. I also created a tag wiki for this new tag, just to avoid any possible confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone posts a question about the 2001 film, that should be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/metropolis-2001&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;metropolis-2001&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;metropolis-2001&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/2012&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;2012&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;2012&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag wiki excerpt for this tag previously read:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions pertaining to either the 2009 movie called &quot;2012&quot;, or to any SFF works referencing the year of 2012 A.D.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second half of this is just ridiculous. We really don't need a tag for all SFF works referencing a particular year; similarly, we &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7871/tag-wars-episode-i-harry-potter-and-the-tag-cleanup/7872#7872&quot;&gt;already got rid of&lt;/a&gt; the decade tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/70s&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;70s&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;70s&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/80s&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;80s&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;80s&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/90s&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;90s&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;90s&lt;/a&gt;. I've edited the tag wiki accordingly. Possibly the tag name should also be edited to e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/2012-film&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;2012-film&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;2012-film&lt;/a&gt;, but I'm not sure about that one, so I left it for the time being.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-06-04T13:10:05.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9755" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9757" CreationDate="2016-06-06T14:53:52.790" Score="7" ViewCount="275" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my view, the way &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions are written is not useful for future readers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, someone might ask:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I'm looking for a [work] that I can remember from [time]. I can remember a [sidecharacter] who did on regular base [activity]. Also at some point he met [villain] on [strange occasion]. can you tell me its name?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which would be, as far as I can tell, totally on-topic for story identification. But I ask myself, is it likely that, someone is ever going to ask for the same story by using enough significant words to find this post by i.e. Googling?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't want to start a discussion about whether these questions should be banned here&lt;/strong&gt;. I don't like them but I understand their relevance. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when I saw &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/131107/44517&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;, and noticed he asked and self-answered it immediately, I asked myself, how far is this tolerated here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had a look into the help center, which gave no evidence this could be off-topic. But is this really encouraged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could easily spam questions her,e summing up the significant pictures I have in mind of some stories, and then just answer them by myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be well written and totally on-topic (as I understand it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But would this really help future readers in any way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NOTE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this isn't intended to be any kind of rant or whatever, so to make clear my intention to ask this I put in here my statement to Rand al'Thor's comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I could easily spam questions in here summing up the significant pictures I have in mind of some storys and then just answer their titles by myself.&quot; Yes, and this would be abusing the site. Many on-topic subjects can be abused if someone really wants to abuse them. See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5304/should-i-flood-the-homepage-of-the-site-with-these-questions&quot;&gt;Should I flood the homepage of the site with these questions?&lt;/a&gt; – Rand al'Thor&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not asking this from the POV of someone who WANTS to abuse them. But as far as I know, the whole SE concept is encouraging self-answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But how is it here?&#xA;Is it abusing in the moment I'm asking a question, while being aware of the answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it abusing in the moment I intentionally do this to flood the page?&#xA;When it is obviously intentional?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And especially, if it isn't discouraged to do this, where is the border between posting well-written and meaningful questions to all stories I know just for adding high-quality content to the page, versus just flooding the site with redundant objective &quot;spam&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44517" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-06-22T16:43:34.757" LastActivityDate="2019-06-22T16:43:34.757" Title="Under what conditions is self-answering 'Story Identification' questions considered abusing the site?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="15" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9755" CreationDate="2016-06-06T15:20:49.640" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As best I understand it, your concern is that people might unfairly game the system by asking &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions that they already know the answer to, and then just post the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why is this a problem?&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're right that this is not against the rules, nor should it be. The goal of this site (as much as some of us might forget that in our mad quest to inflate &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;imaginary numbers&lt;/a&gt;), is to be a compendium of useful knowledge; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;According to the tour&lt;/a&gt;, our mission statement is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[T]to build a library of detailed answers to every question about science fiction or fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any action that contributes positively to this goal is a welcome one. It's &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/17463/276025&quot;&gt;already &lt;em&gt;encouraged&lt;/em&gt; to answer your own questions&lt;/a&gt;, because doing so increases the collective knowledge base of the site. Why should &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; be any different in this regard?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;But Story-Id isn't useful for future travellers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the obvious response to the question I posed above, but it is simply not true. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; answers &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; immensely useful for people beyond merely the original poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think I could very easily amass statistics on this, but I can tell you from personal experience that many, &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; people post &quot;answers&quot; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions that resemble some form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thank you! I've been looking for this story as well, and you helped me find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a more legitimate concern that people who might be looking for a particular story won't find the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; question identifying about it, because they're searching for different keywords. This is one of the problems our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7065/31051&quot;&gt;story-id duplication policy&lt;/a&gt; was meant to solve, and is why we &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7943/31051&quot;&gt;discourage deleting questions that have been closed as duplicates&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;My warning to you&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is nothing at all preventing you from doing as you suggest, asking a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; question for every movie you can think of, self-answering it, and then sitting back as the imaginary Internet points roll in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as Rand al'Thor has already told you, that would be a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5304/31051&quot;&gt;bad idea&lt;/a&gt;. Asking the questions is allowed, but asking them in excessive quantities such that it interferes with other people trying to use the site will not end well for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; That's a rhetorical question; it &lt;strong&gt;isn't&lt;/strong&gt; a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-06-06T15:27:50.127" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9755" CreationDate="2016-06-06T15:22:40.570" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Self-answering &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; tagged questions is &lt;strong&gt;perfectly acceptable behaviour.&lt;/strong&gt; Not only is self-answering tolerated, it's &lt;strong&gt;positively encouraged by both the rules of the site and a strong community concensus.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3352/is-it-okay-to-ask-and-answer-a-story-identification-question-i-already-know-the?rq=1&quot;&gt;Is it okay to ask and answer a story-identification question I already know the answer to?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/17463/276025&quot;&gt;Can I answer my own questions, even if I knew the answer before asking?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/its-ok-to-ask-and-answer-your-own-questions/&quot;&gt;It's OK to Ask and Answer Your Own Questions&lt;/a&gt; (Blog Post)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, here's where it can get a bit tricky;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly you need to be aware there are some users who will insta-downvote &lt;strong&gt;practically anything&lt;/strong&gt; that's self-answered, regardless of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/129319/why-is-the-matrix-tinted-green&quot;&gt;quality&lt;/a&gt; of the question and the answer simply because they disagree with the site policy and this is their way of showing it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, if you were to decide to start spamming story-identification questions &lt;em&gt;and answering them yourself&lt;/em&gt;, it would become apparent very quickly that you're not looking for genuine answers, you're playing a guessing game with the site or attempting to gain rep quickly. That's not something that would be tolerated and is likely to lead to downvotes and would eventually result in your receiving a rap on the knuckles from a friendly moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5305/20774&quot;&gt;Don't be a jerk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-06-06T15:28:43.743" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9755" CreationDate="2016-06-06T15:33:58.347" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Are story-ID questions useful?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Playing devil's advocate for a moment: are &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; questions on this site useful? We're all here discussing issues of whether, why, or how this or that happened in this or that fictional work, which at the end of the day is not going to be useful to anyone. This isn't Stack Overflow or Maths SE, where people's careers might depend on solving these problems correctly. As the co-founder of Stack Exchange &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/738867731261313024&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;recently put it&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;this is like a scifi stack exchange question, the correct answer to every question there is &quot;who cares&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you look at it this way, story-ID questions are actually &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; useful than most of our questions here. People ask questions like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/48180/would-the-one-ring-even-work-for-anyone-but-sauron&quot;&gt;Would the One Ring even work for anyone but Sauron?&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1586/who-or-what-was-tom-bombadil&quot;&gt;Who or what was Tom Bombadil?&lt;/a&gt; out of &lt;strong&gt;idle curiosity&lt;/strong&gt;, and the answer is going to have no effect on their lives whatsoever. People often ask story-ID questions because &lt;strong&gt;they want to find the work and re-read / re-watch it&lt;/strong&gt;. Sure, if they're unsuccessful it won't ruin their lives. But if they're successful, it'll have more of an effect on their lives than knowing the answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/112998/why-does-everyone-think-that-the-millennium-falcon-is-a-piece-of-junk&quot;&gt;Why does everyone think that the Millennium Falcon is a piece of junk?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Are they useful for &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; people?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can actually gather some statistics for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Story-ID questions are closed as duplicate if and only if they have the same accepted answer as the other question, i.e. both OPs were looking for exactly the same work. There are currently &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=[story-identification]+is%3Aquestion+duplicate%3A1&quot;&gt;262 duplicate story-ID questions&lt;/a&gt;; that makes 262 people who were looking for exactly the same work as someone else and were helped by an old question. In fact the figure is much greater, because a lot of story-ID askers wander off without accepting an answer, which means the question can't be closed as duplicate even though the answer is almost certainly correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also a great many people who post answers along the lines of &quot;I was looking for the same story!&quot;, which rapidly get deleted or converted to comments. I ran a search (this only works for mods, but the link at least shows you what search terms I used) which yielded &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=[story-identification]+is%3Aanswer+the+same+deleted%3A1&quot;&gt;123 deleted answers&lt;/a&gt; to story-ID questions containing the words &quot;the same&quot;. There might be a few false positives, but almost all of these will be from someone who's not the OP but still found the question useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes. Although they're not as likely as non-story-ID questions to be useful to people besides the OP, often they still are.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;You've now edited your question to be about potential abuse of story-ID questions rather than whether they're useful. I'm leaving this answer since it has some hopefully useful thoughts and statistics, but for a more pointed discussion of the issue of possible abuse, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9757/31394&quot;&gt;Valorum's answer&lt;/a&gt;. I'll just note that the following &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1684/31394&quot;&gt;has been proposed&lt;/a&gt; in the past (by a then-moderator):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If the OP knows the answer to the question when he is asking the question, then it should not be allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This idea didn't get much support, for reasons that are probably obvious. Anyone can ask a story-ID question knowing the answer and just not &lt;em&gt;saying&lt;/em&gt; they know it - hell, I've done this myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, self-answered story-ID questions can be useful to &lt;strong&gt;set a good example&lt;/strong&gt;. FuzzyBoots is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/story-identification/topusers&quot;&gt;the top asker&lt;/a&gt; in the story-ID tag and also has a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/143/story-identification?userid=23243&quot;&gt;gold badge for answering&lt;/a&gt; story-ID questions, reflecting his very good record in both asking and answering. He's done several self-answers in this tag, and all his story-ID questions that I've seen have been exemplary. If he wants to do a self-answer to show how a good story-ID question should be asked and answered, then I won't get in his way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-06-06T15:44:36.910" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9759" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9778" CreationDate="2016-06-06T17:13:40.923" Score="4" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;Posts are not appearing in chat right now. When a user posts something, it often doesn't show up, as confirmed by various users. On my end, posts are staying green, indicating that they are not posting. Furthermore, new messages won't show up unless chat is refreshed. What is going on? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="4257" LastEditDate="2016-06-07T02:23:44.173" LastActivityDate="2016-06-08T01:09:20.650" Title="Messages not posting in chat" Tags="|bug|status-completed|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9760" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-06T17:54:56.990" Score="33" ViewCount="1119" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are multiple questions on the site about fantasy or science fiction creatures that aren't directly related to a specific on-topic work. Most are eventually closed, but they're often quite contentious&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7028/why-dont-zombies-eat-each-other&quot;&gt;Why don't zombies eat each other?&lt;/a&gt; [Closed]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8193/arent-zombie-outbreaks-self-defeating&quot;&gt;Aren't zombie outbreaks self defeating?&lt;/a&gt; [Open]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8206/what-happens-to-zombies-that-dont-eat&quot;&gt;What Happens to Zombies that Don't Eat?&lt;/a&gt; [Closed]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/107844/are-werewolves-undead-or-alive&quot;&gt;Are Werewolves undead or alive?&lt;/a&gt; [Closed]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9971/what-is-it-about-the-full-moon-that-affects-werewolves&quot;&gt;What is it about the full moon that affects Werewolves?&lt;/a&gt; [Closed]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/24137/why-are-vampires-not-rotten-like-other-undead&quot;&gt;Why are vampires not rotten like other undead?&lt;/a&gt; [Closed]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7825/how-does-santa-claus-get-into-houses-without-a-fireplace&quot;&gt;How does Santa Claus get into houses without a fireplace?&lt;/a&gt; [Closed, Deleted]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we have a set policy on how to treat these type of questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastEditorUserId="82909" LastEditDate="2021-11-08T03:10:11.993" LastActivityDate="2021-11-08T03:10:11.993" Title="What's our policy on questions about fantasy/sci-fi creatures that aren't directly related to a specific on-topic work?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9760" CreationDate="2016-06-06T18:14:14.223" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In general the format of these questions &lt;s&gt;would be considered off-topic&lt;/s&gt; should be closed.&lt;/strong&gt; The reason being that the creatures have different abilities or features across a vast number of works. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any one question therefore may have numerous acceptable answers. As our &quot;too broad&quot; close reason states (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are either &lt;strong&gt;too many possible answers&lt;/strong&gt;, or good answers would be too long for this format. Please add details to &lt;strong&gt;narrow the answer set&lt;/strong&gt; or to isolate an issue that can be answered in a few paragraphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While these may be &lt;em&gt;good questions&lt;/em&gt; that can solicit &lt;em&gt;good answers&lt;/em&gt; from some our dedicated users who have a great knowledge of, it seems the overall SE preference to not do this. This is also not to say the subject matter is &quot;off-topic&quot;... Obviously vampires, werewolves, and zombies are on-topic; the formatting on the question would just need to be a better fit for the community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One possible way to answer these questions could be a community wiki and have a different answer for each universe. However, that may still to be too much as many creatures such as zombie or vampires are in an almost countless number of works. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2016-06-09T12:51:06.353" LastActivityDate="2016-06-09T12:51:06.353" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9760" CreationDate="2016-06-06T18:14:24.850" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, I'll bite. (Note that this is my &lt;em&gt;personal&lt;/em&gt; opinion - I'm not speaking as a moderator here.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;These questions should be on-topic.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about (for instance) zombies in general, without being tied to a particular work of SFF, are answerable by experts in SFF works. Where on Stack Exchange can we find experts on SFF works? Here, that's where. This is a site about the science fiction and fantasy genres, and questions like these are archetypal &lt;em&gt;genre&lt;/em&gt; questions. A good answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7028/why-dont-zombies-eat-each-other&quot;&gt;Why don&amp;#39;t zombies eat each other?&lt;/a&gt; adds more to our collective knowledge of these genres than a good answer to some specific question like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2333/why-didnt-gandalf-or-frodo-fly-to-mount-doom&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t Gandalf or Frodo Fly to Mount Doom?&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2611/why-dont-muggle-born-wizards-use-muggle-technology-to-fight-death-eaters&quot;&gt;Why don&amp;#39;t muggle-born wizards use Muggle technology to fight Death Eaters?&lt;/a&gt; At the end of the day, we're here to gain knowledge about science fiction or fantasy as a whole, and a nice general answer to a genre-specific but not franchise-specific question teaches us more about that than any amount of knowledge about one particular work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To put it another way, imagine you're an expert on SFF literature (the sort of person we want to attract to this site). What kind of question is more likely to pique your interest and inspire you to write up a really good answer: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8193/arent-zombie-outbreaks-self-defeating&quot;&gt;Aren&amp;#39;t zombie outbreaks self defeating?&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/105867/how-many-times-has-make-it-so-been-demanded-by-anyone-other-than-picard&quot;&gt;How many times has &amp;quot;Make It So&amp;quot; been demanded by anyone other than Picard?&lt;/a&gt; ? Trivia has its place here, but we shouldn't throw out complex and interesting questions in favour of keeping &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; trivia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The counter-argument I'm expecting to see is that these questions are &quot;too broad&quot;: they could take too many different possible answers depending on which particular work is used for context. My response to that is that &lt;strong&gt;a good answer will consider the genre as a whole and cover many different works&lt;/strong&gt;. For instance, consider &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8206/what-happens-to-zombies-that-dont-eat&quot;&gt;What Happens to Zombies that Don&amp;#39;t Eat?&lt;/a&gt; and the excellent answers it has received from Jeff and Wad Cheber, both of which are general answers about zombie fiction. Franchise-specific answers to general genre questions should be considered &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-06-06T18:22:05.193" CommentCount="23" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2016-06-06T18:47:21.653" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Original&lt;/strong&gt; (and most often)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ovmAxm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ovmAxm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;red viper&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which many may recognize as &amp;lt; SPOILER ALERT &gt;. I just really liked the meta humor and since most fans fell in love with this character, it was just another example of GRRM butchering our dreams.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next up I decided to show my love of things non-SFF and being one of the few that enjoys various types of sportsball I will be changing to one of Pittsburgh based teams logo (Steelers, Penguins, Pirates) based on their playoff performance: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2017 AFC North Champions, the Pittsburgh Steelers (January 2018)&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;In keeping with &quot;tradition&quot; of changing my avatar when my favorite teams make the playoffs, this Steelers logo is to support them, and not confuse people in chat... (previously used in January 2017)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dHwPVs.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dHwPVs.png&quot; alt=&quot;Steelers&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2016 Stanley Cup Champions, the Pittsburgh Penguins! (April-June 2016)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2017 Stanley Cup Champions, BACK TO BACK!! (April-June 2017)&lt;/strong&gt; First time since 1998 and the first time in the salary cap era!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2018 Stanley Cup Playoffs, #3elieve&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XPtzys.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XPtzys.png&quot; alt=&quot;penguin18&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2020-04-13T14:51:08.750" LastActivityDate="2020-04-13T14:51:08.750" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9764" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-06T23:46:40.517" Score="8" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here we are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The end of this great journey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many worthy series fell, but three remain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Firefly&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: The Next Generation&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Batman: The Animated Series&lt;/em&gt; all fought well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nNhq0.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nNhq0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ceHlu.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ceHlu.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y0SH7.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y0SH7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But one fought the best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;3&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;2&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;1&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/q3x7k.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/q3x7k.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;FIREFLY WINS!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Final Scores:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Firefly&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;26&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek: The Next Generation&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;22&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Batman: The Animated Series&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;11&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And now for the prize!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Captain Cranium, Tony Meyer and Jeeped all correctly predicted &lt;em&gt;Firefly&lt;/em&gt;, so we'll have to determine the winner randomly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whoever is at the top of the generated list wins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fUhYF.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fUhYF.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tVJAc.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tVJAc.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tony Meyer wins! He'll get his bounty soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to all the mods and users who helped and participated!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lmc6n.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lmc6n.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastEditorUserId="51226" LastEditDate="2016-06-07T01:03:32.780" LastActivityDate="2016-06-07T01:03:32.780" Title="The Great Science-Fiction/Fantasy TV Showdown: The Winner!" Tags="|discussion|contest|prizes|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9760" CreationDate="2016-06-07T01:35:34.787" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;These are too broad&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without specifying a particular work, questions like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7028/why-dont-zombies-eat-each-other&quot;&gt;Why don&amp;#39;t zombies eat each other?&lt;/a&gt; are &lt;em&gt;far&lt;/em&gt; too broad. Virtually any answer one wants can be correct, depending on whether one can find a work containing a &amp;quot;zombie&amp;quot; that follows the right principles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The virus in them seeks to infect human beings?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They are reanimated corpses that simply obey the whims of their animator, and thus have no desire to attack their fellows?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They are humans placed in a near-death state, and those don't want to eat humans' brains anyway?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They thrive on life energy, and the undead don't possess it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They are evil, and see no reason to attack other evil creatures?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They are actually aliens, and the &amp;quot;brain-eating&amp;quot; was a myth made up by frightened humans?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any and all of these could be true, and most of them likely are nothing close to the sort of  answer the OP wants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The accepted answer on this question ends thus:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, it's a conceit of the genre, and each author gives it his&#xA;own spin (or doesn't - some just don't address it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such questions are the &lt;em&gt;definition&lt;/em&gt; of &amp;quot;too broad.&amp;quot; They can have any of a very large set of answers, and producing a complete answer is basically a matter of creating a large set of mutually contradictory answers and combining them into one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fortunately, I believe most such questions can be made  clearly on-topic by clarifying what kind of creature or situation the questioner has in mind, and asking about a specific work that exemplifies that situation. Thus the question becomes narrow, with well-defined answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, perhaps the questioner has Romero-style zombies in mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question: Why do zombies in the Romero films not attack each other?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer: &amp;quot;...&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/7033/51379&quot;&gt;they seek living flesh. If it isn't warm, they leave it be.&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/107844/are-werewolves-undead-or-alive&quot;&gt;Should werewolves in literature be considered magical living creatures or part of the Undead?&lt;/a&gt; has two equally correct, entirely contradictory answers: yes and no. But specify a work of fiction (and the questioner probably had one vaguely in mind in any case), and the question becomes much more clear:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question: In the &lt;em&gt;Parasol Protectorate&lt;/em&gt;, are werewolves undead or alive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer: Werewolves are considered a form of undead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question: In the &lt;em&gt;Dungeons and Dragons&lt;/em&gt;, are werewolves undead or alive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer: Werewolves are living shapeshifters. Although they are vulnerable to silver, they are not undead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indeed, there very premise of such questions is often incorrect if applied to every instance of a category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/24137/why-are-vampires-not-rotten-like-other-undead&quot;&gt;Why are vampires not rotten like other undead?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer varies from &amp;quot;magic&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;no, they are most certainly rotten.&amp;quot; Specify a universe or narrow set of universes, and the question becomes better-posed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;With all such questions, we should pick a work that exemplifies what kind of creature the questioner is thinking of, and run with it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way we get to keep the question, but actually give it a proper answer, rather than a (possibly unbounded) set of answers. In addition, there's nothing preventing one from adding contextual genre information (if such a concept is well-defined) to such an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-07-07T17:51:58.040" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9755" CreationDate="2016-06-07T11:55:17.750" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the person who posted the question in question, I figure I ought to weigh in. Funnily enough, I've previously asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7931/is-it-ok-to-post-a-story-identification-where-you-knew-the-answer-at-the-time-wh&quot;&gt;my own questions about self-answered questions&lt;/a&gt; because they happen to me. I'll genuinely not know the answer and, in the process of writing the question, I'll realize the answer and post it. Because SF&amp;amp;F is my primary location, it's usually here where it happens, but it happened at least once in the main site, Stack Overflow. It's even got a term associated with it when it's programming, &quot;rubber-duck debugging,&quot; the idea that a lot of problems get solved because the act of explaining them causes you to think about them in a different way, so sometimes asking your question to a rubber duck (an audience surrogate who will, being mute, listen patiently) is all you need to get an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now in this case, I didn't know the answer by the time I finished writing the question. It was actually some time later, after two good answers that had been posted addressing the canonical status, that I had a vague memory of a fanfic that had an Imperial trooper providing Vader with Luke's test results and that it had something to do with Life Day. So I did some searches and came up with a match. At that point, even if self-answered questions didn't have some value, not posting what I'd found would deprive others who might be looking for a similar confluence of plot threads, and I couldn't exactly delete the question when two people had provided answers that would be useful for others exploring Luke's Imperial record.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, thank you for bringing the topic up. I at one point worried that, by having these cases where I posted the question and answer, I might be seen as trying to farm rep (although, at this point, I have all of the privileges, so it would be for bragging rights like &lt;s&gt;Richard&lt;/s&gt; Valorum). And, in this case, having an answer got me one step closer to a tag badge, so I was doubly worried about people thinking I was trying to game the system, so I'm glad to have a forum to explain myself without posting yet another self-answered question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2016-06-07T15:47:58.293" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9767" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9768" CreationDate="2016-06-07T12:11:45.820" Score="6" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was reading &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9746/what-measures-has-been-can-be-taken-to-guide-guests-new-users-with-respect-to&quot;&gt;What measures have been/can be taken to guide guests &amp;amp; new users with respect to the rep requirement to comment?&lt;/a&gt; and I was reminded of what had seemed to be a trend lately of people posting such &quot;Answer-comments&quot; and having them be transformed, and whether it was a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, I feel like we may be encouraging people who lack sufficient rep to comment to instead post an answer, knowing that it will be converted for them. On one hand, that seems mildly absurd since anyone who'd read enough of the site to know that we routinely turn such answer-comments into actual comments ought to have, or be able to accrue, sufficient rep to comment. On the other hand, we do have lurkers who may be quite familiar with how we do business, but have never registered an account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, this is not something I see as a huge issue, but it occurs to me from time to time, and now seemed like a good time to bring it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2019-03-04T04:15:38.733" Title="Are we undermining ourselves by converting answer-comments to comments?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9767" CreationDate="2016-06-07T12:44:34.197" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, we are not undermining ourselves.&lt;/strong&gt; We should teach new users how to use the site, not punish them for a minor infraction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posting a comment as answer is a common mistake for new users, especially those who have not read the tour page. In our current review system one of the tools when a post is flagged as &quot;Low Quality&quot; is to attach a canned comment to help guide the new user to the tour page.  If you are feeling a more personal mood, you can leave direct comment to assist the new user. However, if the trend continues, further action may be warranted and my time here has shown me that the self-moderation tools provided do a nice job of preventing abuse of the site. If the situation does take a turn for the worse, our ever-vigilant moderators can step in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel this is the correct approach as we should try to welcome new users the best way we can. The problem will work itself out; the new user will either 1) take the advice and become a constructive member of the site or 2) ignore the advice and leave the site. First impression go both ways, so we should strive to show our commitment to helping other and of course &lt;em&gt;being nice&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2019-03-04T04:15:38.733" LastActivityDate="2019-03-04T04:15:38.733" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9769" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9771" CreationDate="2016-06-07T14:23:44.747" Score="9" ViewCount="244" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking through some tags I came across &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-clash-of-kings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-clash-of-kings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-clash-of-kings&lt;/a&gt; - 1 question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-storm-of-swords&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-storm-of-swords&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-storm-of-swords&lt;/a&gt; - 16 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but did not see&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-feast-for-crows&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-feast-for-crows&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-feast-for-crows&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-dance-with-dragons&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-dance-with-dragons&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-dance-with-dragons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-winds-of-winter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-winds-of-winter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-winds-of-winter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-dream-of-spring&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-dream-of-spring&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-dream-of-spring&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I have noticed that some series (Star Wars is the prime example) will get tags for each installation in the series while other (Harry Potter comes to mind) do not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This question is directly related to A Song of Ice and Fire... do we need/want tags for each book?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Judging by the inconstant and low usage of the current two tags, my opinion would be that: No, we do not need them. The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt; should be able to cover the series. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also have the issue of the TV show (and tag to accompany it) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt; to cause endless confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I do ask the question because I have seen this type of editing done. Whether it was out necessity, trying to bring old questions to the surface again, or an attempt to get one of our many coveted badges is not known to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, I would be willing to undertake the grunt work either way to adding/removing tags if a consensus could be made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="36115" LastEditDate="2016-06-07T22:35:49.080" LastActivityDate="2017-07-20T07:34:35.813" Title="Does A Song of Ice and Fire need individual book tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9769" CreationDate="2016-06-07T19:46:27.103" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I would think that each book needs a tag of its own. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;While there is an overall plot, each book does in fact have special things that happen in it that need clarification.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;General tags are confusing because like with Game of Thrones, TV show questions get thrown in with novel-based questions and the mix is a muddle. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just my five cents worth. But I like having a place to put things that are organized :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65829" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-06-07T21:42:21.187" LastActivityDate="2016-06-07T21:42:21.187" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9769" CreationDate="2016-06-07T20:06:18.407" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, we don't need tags for each book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say this for purely pragmatic reasons: out of the 675 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt; questions, 662 of them are not tagged with any book in the series. For the most part, people on the site have managed just fine without tags for these books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we want tags for each book, then to make our tagging consistent, someone would have to review all 662 of those questions to see if any of them should have a book tag. On the other hand, if a mod merges the two existing book tags into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt;, our tagging will be consistent, with no edits required for any question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I suggest merging the existing book tags into the series tag.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36115" LastEditorUserId="36115" LastEditDate="2016-06-07T21:32:04.837" LastActivityDate="2016-06-07T21:32:04.837" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9772" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-07T20:25:04.600" Score="4" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just been awarded the Marshal gold badge twice. In 5 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A)&lt;/strong&gt; I was under the impression this was a &quot;one time only&quot; badge&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;B)&lt;/strong&gt; I'm not the only one who just randomly got it. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/71/marshal&quot;&gt;22 others&lt;/a&gt; seems to have received one or two of these badges in the past few minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1q7B8.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1q7B8.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2016-06-08T08:38:28.903" Title="What's going on with the &quot;Marshal&quot; badge?" Tags="|support|bug|status-completed|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9773" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-07T20:27:07.040" Score="2" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not that I'm one to complain about extra badges, but something seems to be up with the Marshal badge calculation, as I've just been awarded it two extra times on the main site. I've got 583 helpful flags, so not enough to earn it three times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rK7J8.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rK7J8.png&quot; alt=&quot;marshall 1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PjXHi.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PjXHi.png&quot; alt=&quot;marshall 2&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/71/marshal&quot;&gt;badge recipient list&lt;/a&gt; has 35 entries, with a bunch of dupes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-06-08T01:25:59.437" Title="Extra Marshal Badges" Tags="|bug|badges|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2016-06-07T20:30:21.887" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9772" CreationDate="2016-06-07T20:38:07.610" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oops. Looks like someone at SE Towers pressed the wrong button/s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/280023/excavator-and-marshall-badges-are-being-awarded-over-and-over&quot;&gt;Excavator and Marshall badges are being awarded over and over&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We just did a major revamp of how badges are awarded behind the scenes&#xA;to drastically reduce the load on SQL Server. It now takes advantage&#xA;of some pre-compute work we're doing to track badge progress in the&#xA;profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;However, I screwed up 2 queries, specifically the text names of the&#xA;badges that prevent duplicate awarding.&lt;/strong&gt; I was thinking to myself&#xA;earlier &amp;quot;hey, maybe we should pass these in&amp;quot; as part of the rewrite -&#xA;but it's not quite so simple. I'll take another look at this soon but&#xA;when we're not fighting fires from a SQL Server upgrade. The&#xA;cardinality changes which hosed some of the bigger badge queries&#xA;needed urgent attention here, which ended up as a major revamp and&#xA;introduced the 2 errors reported here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apologies for all the bad grants here - that certainly wasn't the&#xA;intention. Due to how badges get tested, it's also not a symptom that&#xA;shows up locally. If I can change this to a param exclusion passed by&#xA;the code then things like this become far less likely to happen going&#xA;forward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nick Craver♦&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fixed now, all apart from the fact that my badge count still says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ni4P5.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ni4P5.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which I gather will get fixed overnight&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have cleaned up all achievements and grants associated with the bad&#xA;code. User badge counts (on user cards and flair) will sync up tonight&#xA;as part of a regular process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-06-07T20:38:07.610" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9775" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-07T22:42:22.440" Score="1" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question in question is this one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/24137/3804&quot;&gt;Why are vampires not rotten like other undead?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know of no zombie/vampire fiction where this isn't the case. That means a trope/genre type answer should be of narrow enough scope to answer it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes I did answer it,  but I'm also interested as I  like these sort of questions (when done well). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See this current meta question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9760/&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s our policy on questions about fantasy/sci-fi creatures that aren&amp;#39;t directly related to a specific on-topic work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2016-06-08T19:37:53.517" Title="What makes this creature question too broad?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9775" CreationDate="2016-06-07T23:07:20.210" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with broad questions is that they encourage two sorts of answers;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;CYOU&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Choose Your Own Universe&quot; strategy is one where users answer the question  &lt;strong&gt;based on the fictional universes with which they're most familiar, ignoring all others.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this is kinda fun for those answering, the odds are that by selecting a narrow range of examples, the answer is going to fail to take account of the wider picture. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next person then comes along and makes the same mistake and you end up with what you've got on that question, a total dog's breakfast of answers referencing Bram Stoker's Dracula, Twilight, Peeps(?), Anita Blake, The Dresden Files and The Vampire Diaries as well as several zombie flicks like Dawn of the Dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Spot the edge case&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Broad questions practically invite people to &lt;em&gt;dispute the question&lt;/em&gt; by posting answers based on an '&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_case&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;edge-cases&lt;/a&gt;', usually quoting from an obscure show/book that hardly anyone's heard of. These answers aren't actually answering the question in any meaningful sense, they're simply poking holes in it, which is possible because the OP has opened the question up to &lt;strong&gt;every vampire book/film/play/TV show ever written.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As regards &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/24137/3804&quot;&gt;the question&lt;/a&gt; in question, your answer may well be the best of a bad lot, but it's not &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; an answer to the question asked. You've written a really good answer to the question &quot;&lt;em&gt;Why are vampires not portrayed as rotten &lt;strong&gt;in Bram Stoker's Dracula&quot;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; which, ironically would be very much on-topic and a much more interesting question to boot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-06-08T01:00:23.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9777" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-08T00:07:18.197" Score="-3" ViewCount="216" Body="&lt;p&gt;A simple enough question, hopefully with a simple answer. When was the discussion held (and presumably the decision taken) that questions on SFF:SE should relate to a &lt;strong&gt;single canon universe&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2016-06-10T15:35:27.300" Title="When did we decide to add &quot;too broad&quot; to the close reasons?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="22" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9759" CreationDate="2016-06-08T01:09:20.650" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As shown by the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; tag added by Adam (a Stack Overflow developer), this issue appears to have been solved. I'm just posting this answer so the question doesn't stay in the Unanswered list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We had some issues with chat following a SQL server upgrade, but I believe those have been resolved now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;-- &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9759/messages-not-posting-in-chat#comment27274_9759&quot;&gt;Adam ♦&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-06-08T01:09:20.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9779" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-08T10:47:26.950" Score="1" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Academia.SE&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1756K.png&quot; alt=&quot;image description&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Stackoverflow.com&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2smdN.png&quot; alt=&quot;image description&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Google.com&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/c5bIq.png&quot; alt=&quot;image description&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;SciFi.SE&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/luNHC.png&quot; alt=&quot;image description&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see on the images, every site uses a rule that &lt;strong&gt;visited link is darker and less apparent&lt;/strong&gt; than non visited one. I don't remember a site that would chose for inverse behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find this quite confusing. And after using this site on a while, I end up being confused on other &amp;quot;normal&amp;quot; sites as well - that makes this behavior actively harmful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31673" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-06-08T13:40:56.240" Title="Why is the visited/not visited link color inverse than anywhere else?" Tags="|support|design|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9777" CreationDate="2016-06-08T17:02:29.663" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When was the discussion held (and presumably the decision taken) that questions on SFF:SE should relate to a single canon universe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't believe that discussion was held prior to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9760/1359&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this is completely unrelated to the &quot;too broad&quot; close reason, which is not at all stating that all questions must relate to a single canon universe:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are either too many possible answers, or good answers would be too long for this format. Please add details to narrow the answer set or to isolate an issue that can be answered in a few paragraphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The decision that questions on this site should relate to a single canon universe seems to have been made by a handful of users who closed questions without discussing it on meta, or without waiting for the ongoing meta discussion to be resolved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The closest I can find is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5148/1359&quot;&gt;this discussion&lt;/a&gt; about &quot;opinion based&quot;, which touches on the subject somewhat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the arguments that this policy has been enforced for a long time seem to be erroneous.  For example, the majority of the items in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9760/whats-our-policy-on-questions-about-fantasy-sci-fi-creatures-that-arent-direct&quot;&gt;this discussion&lt;/a&gt; were closed within the past 2 years.  In fact, 4 out of 7 were closed within the past few months, despite the questions being open for years without objection.  1 other was closed about 2 years ago, again, after the question had been around for 2 years without issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2016-06-10T15:35:27.300" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9775" CreationDate="2016-06-08T19:29:54.877" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe it is too broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: I don't particularly like the question.  I think it is borderline downvote-worthy (little research).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I don't think it should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The existing answers all provide relevant information that may be of interest to visitors browsing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe there is a fundamental difference of opinion within this site, which has roots going back to the beta.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some users seem to enjoy subjective, but thought-provoking questions.  Others seem to want to adhere closer to the standard SE model of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/86/1359&quot;&gt;solving actual, real world problems&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would prefer that, short of a clear consensus, we err on the side of being more permissive, out of respect to those who enjoy these types of questions.  Those who don't should feel free to downvote or move on.  They don't seem to be frequent enough to cause a significant problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So long as questions don't fall under our more clear-cut close reasons (duplicate, off-topic, unclear, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5148/1359&quot;&gt;opinion-based&lt;/a&gt;), I think we should leave these types of questions open pending a solid community definition of &quot;too broad&quot; that goes beyond the stock wording: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are either too many possible answers, or good answers would be too long for this format. Please add details to narrow the answer set or to isolate an issue that can be answered in a few paragraphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-06-08T19:37:53.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9782" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-08T19:35:07.433" Score="4" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, the close reason (which is standard for all SE sites) has a description of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are either too many possible answers, or good answers would be too long for this format. Please add details to narrow the answer set or to isolate an issue that can be answered in a few paragraphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been a couple of recent discussions on the topic, some of which are fairly specific (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9775/1359&quot;&gt;Creature questions&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9760/&quot;&gt;questions not relating to a specific work&lt;/a&gt;, etc.), but perhaps a more general discussion of how we determine &quot;too many possible answers&quot; or good answers being &quot;too long for this format&quot; would help create a more consistent and understandable basis for our closing policies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.730" LastActivityDate="2016-06-10T13:20:41.417" Title="Can we get a more specific definition of what this site considers &quot;too broad&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|scope|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2016-06-08T20:16:02.017" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;Heaven Sent,&quot; the 11th episode of the 9th season of the reboot of &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt;, the Doctor quotes the tale of the shepherd-boy, from the Brothers Grimm:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There’s this emperor, and he asks the shepherd’s boy: How many seconds&#xA;  in eternity? And the shepherd’s boy says, ‘There’s this mountain of&#xA;  pure diamond. It takes an hour to climb it and an hour to go around&#xA;  it. Every hundred years a little bird comes and sharpens its beak on&#xA;  the diamond mountain. And when the entire mountain is chiseled away,&#xA;  the first second of eternity will have passed.’&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Doctor's mountain of pure diamond is my profile picture: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xP1V6.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xP1V6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adamant is an archaic word for (among other things) diamond, &lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.com/books?id=ATlnAAAAcAAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA24&amp;amp;lpg=PA24&amp;amp;dq=%22mountain%20of%20adamant%22%20shepherd&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=YEU8s4B3t6&amp;amp;sig=VxV6zAf_DAwbc9H214W-IGOmz6g&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwjLpeaUye_NAhVKfiYKHRCrD6wQ6AEIHjAA#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=%22mountain%20of%20adamant%22%20shepherd&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;as seen&lt;/a&gt; in a few versions of &quot;The Shepherd's Boy&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The third question,&quot; said the King, &quot;is: How many seconds in&#xA;  eternity?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;mdash;To this the little shepherd-boy replied, In a remote district&#xA;  of Pomerania there is a mountain of adamant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="51379" LastEditDate="2016-07-13T04:14:24.733" LastActivityDate="2016-07-13T04:14:24.733" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9746" CreationDate="2016-06-09T01:02:09.233" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've raised a lot of points in your question, so I'll try to address them one by one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most importantly, you seem to be assuming that non-answers stick around as (downvoted) answers even when they should be comments. &lt;strong&gt;They don't.&lt;/strong&gt; They usually get deleted pretty quickly, or if a moderator comes across them they may be directly converted to comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If you put just a little thought into it, you'd easily realise all these guys are newbies who have zero awareness of site policy. However, few comments that called them out for their mistake actually explained why it happened and how they can get the rep they needed to comment until asked.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, answers that get deleted by &quot;should have been a comment&quot; votes from the review queue do get canned comments left on them which say &lt;em&gt;“This does not provide an answer to the question. Once you have sufficient &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;reputation&lt;/a&gt; you will be able to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;comment on any post&lt;/a&gt;; instead, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/214173/why-do-i-need-50-reputation-to-comment-what-can-i-do-instead&quot;&gt;provide answers that don't require clarification from the asker&lt;/a&gt;.”&lt;/em&gt; All of the links included in such auto-generated comments are designed to be useful to new users who haven't learned the ropes yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A good number of such answers, even if posted as comments, would probably be spam-ish and adds no value (the very problem the rep requirement exists for), but majority are still valid as comments from what I've seen.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's what the &quot;convert to comment&quot; button is for. This is a mod-only power, but the mods here are ever-vigilant - I doubt there are &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; many answers which should have been converted to comments and instead get outright deleted. If you're really worried about preserving a non-answer's content as a comment, you could use a custom flag saying &quot;please convert to comment&quot; rather than just flagging as Not an Answer - this ensures mods see the flagged post even if it gets deleted by 20k users first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Ironically, they lose rep from downvotes because these comments, when posted as an answer, would be flagged as not-an-answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, they don't lose rep. Non-answers posted as answers, after being flagged as Not an Answer, get &lt;strong&gt;deleted&lt;/strong&gt;, which means all rep changes from these posts are cancelled. Also, new (1-rep) users can't lose any rep anyway: 1 rep is an absolute lower bound.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Rep requirement to comment is meant to stop the comment sections from being flooded by spam and non-constructive posts by at least ensuring only committed users of SE can comment. But this implementation pushes the flood into the answers. The symptoms changed but the root causes aren't addressed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But answers are &lt;strong&gt;much much&lt;/strong&gt; easier to moderate than comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mainly because comments can only be edited or deleted by moderators, whereas answers can be edited by anyone (subject to approval, for &amp;lt;2k rep users) and delete-voted by anyone with at least 20k rep. There's an entire &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts&quot;&gt;review queue&lt;/a&gt; for low-quality answers, and 40-odd users to deal with them, compared to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;5 poor schmucks&lt;/a&gt; who have to handle all moderation of comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, every time a new answer is posted, it bumps the post to the front page, where reviewers, editors, and flaggers are standing ready to scrutinise it. (Whenever I saw a new post from a 1-rep user on the front page, I used to go and check if it was worth fixing or flagging. Now I don't need to bother, since others will flag it for mod attention if it needs it. Mwahahaha.) By comparison, new comments don't bump a post at all, or notify anyone except the OP. Someone who wanted to post spam in comments, for example, might get away with it for a long time if they had enough rep to get started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Is there a place people can go to see salient points about what they need to know about using this site correctly and effectively? I've accumulated so much rep over 13 months and I still don't know where I can find info on site policy and such meta stuff (official policy text in b/w, not questions). I think new users need more help learning the site's features: the dos and don'ts, the good to know and nice to know.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would be the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;help centre&lt;/a&gt;, which has various links telling you more than you'd ever need to know about the workings of the SE system. For more SFF-specific stuff, meta is the place to go. Both meta and the help centre are listed on the dropdown menu from the &quot;help&quot; button in the top right of any page on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The current solution isn't consistently effective nor sustainable - if you need to manually correct newcomers for the hundredth time, the implementation has a bad design imo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every newcomer needs to be treated individually; we can't educate them all at once. And the system does what it can to help us; e.g. those auto-generated comments I mentioned above, and also certain warnings shown to users who post answers the system detects as low-quality (e.g. short).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't know if other SEs have the same rep requirement on comments, since I start with 100 rep in all the others I join, although I don't believe I've seen answers in other SEs' questions with the same telltale signs of a new user trying to comment but failed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All rep requirements are the same on all SEs (well, scaled down for beta sites, but there's no single site which works differently from the rest on this issue). The reason you've never seen such answers on other SEs is because you don't have enough rep (10k) to see deleted posts there. They're everywhere, but the system, the users, and the moderators work well together to delete them or convert them to comments where necessary. The fact that you haven't seen many on sites where you can't see deleted posts is a testament to how well it all works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-06-09T01:02:09.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1272" CreationDate="2016-06-09T05:53:14.953" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;To summarize and expand on the other answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most things fall into one of two categories: &quot;Roman with Quotation Marks,&quot; and &lt;em&gt;Italic Without Quotation Marks&lt;/em&gt;.  Just about everything will be written in Title Case in one of these two formats; that means every &quot;important&quot; word is capitalized as well as the first word regardless of importance.  &quot;Unimportant&quot; words are typically prepositions and articles with at most four letters (&quot;of,&quot; &quot;the,&quot; &quot;in,&quot; etc.).  The &quot;the&quot; at the beginning of a title may or may not actually be part of the title, so be careful.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As is stated above, the vast majority of auditory, visual and literary works fall into the italics category, &lt;strong&gt;with individual episodes of TV and radio shows the major exception&lt;/strong&gt; (I constantly see people mess this up and italicize things).  The shows themselves are italicized, and the rule is identical between animated and live-action shows and films.  Podcasts are like radio shows.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Short films may be quoted or italicized depending who you ask.  A short film is substantially less than two hours long.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Individual chapters of books are quoted.  The books themselves are italicized, and the chapter number gets nothing (e.g. &quot;The Patronus,&quot; Chapter 12, &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban&lt;/em&gt;).  Comic books and graphic novels are books, but issue numbers are not titles.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Quotation marks are used for poems (except for epic poems like &lt;em&gt;Beowulf&lt;/em&gt; and very long poems like &lt;em&gt;The Waste Land&lt;/em&gt;) and short stories.  The exact length at which a story or poem becomes &quot;too long&quot; for quotation marks is not well established, but note that &quot;epic poem&quot; is a genre rather than a length (see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epyllion&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;epyllion&lt;/a&gt; subgenre).  Inclusion in an anthology or longer work is a good sign that a story or poem is &quot;short,&quot; as is a lack of chapters or other internal divisions (stanzas, horizontal lines, and other formatting niceties do not count).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Video games are italicized.  Individual quests or other subdivisions of a game should probably be quoted, but I don't think this is a well established usage.  Most of these &quot;rules&quot; were made up by academics over the years, and there are relatively few academic texts which seriously cite video games, let alone individual quests within those games.  In non-academic contexts, quests often take no formatting, but I'm not sure whether that's correct or just convenient.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Plays are italicized.  Individual acts and scenes would get quotation marks, but they typically do not have names at all.  Do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; quote act and scene numbers (e.g. Act 2, Scene 2 of &lt;em&gt;Hamlet&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Songs are quoted, albums are italicized.  Bands are not works and do not get any special formatting, but they do usually qualify for Title Case (e.g. &quot;Eleanor Rigby&quot; from &lt;em&gt;Revolver&lt;/em&gt; by The Beatles).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Entire franchises are most often named after the first major work set in that universe, which is usually italicized, so it's become common to italicize whole franchises (e.g. &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;, not to be confused with TOS or the 2009 film).&#xA;&#xA;For things which are named after nothing in particular (like Known Space or &lt;em&gt;Discworld&lt;/em&gt;), I've seen it both with and without the italics (at the time of writing, Wikipedia italicizes Discworld but not &lt;em&gt;Known Space&lt;/em&gt;, which drives me nuts for reasons I hope are obvious).  Italics are even less common when the name is or looks unofficial, particularly if it has the -verse suffix (the Whoniverse, Arrowverse, etc.), but perhaps those are settings rather than franchises.  Regardless, franchises pretty much never get quotation marks and always get Title Case.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Religious texts are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1053/36526&quot;&gt;off topic&lt;/a&gt;, which is good because I wasn't able to find consistent rules for them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A rule of thumb: &quot;Short&quot; things (length relative to the medium), most poems, and anything that's part of a larger whole (other than a whole franchise) will typically be quoted, and everything else will typically be italicized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A second rule of thumb: &lt;strong&gt;Be consistent&lt;/strong&gt;.  It's better to always write it the same way and be entirely wrong than to write it both ways and be right once and wrong once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-06-09T06:38:40.543" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9787" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9788" CreationDate="2016-06-09T11:11:44.173" Score="0" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;Question Reference: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/131402/what-can-stop-a-lightsaber&quot;&gt;What can stop a Lightsaber? [duplicate]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some weeks ago we were having a big discussion on a question of mine wether it's a duplicate or not. I am posting this without minding what was the result of that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Valorum closed my question as a duplicate (Mind that only one person supported that at the moment). I strongly believe that my question (without even needing any editing) is not a duplicate because my question is talking/asking specifically for weapons that can be used by someone to fight against a Lightsaber and the question that was tagged by Valorum as duplicated is clearly talking about effective armors against blasters etc. A person with a bit of logic can see the clear difference between these two questions, so I kindly urge you to reopen my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To continue, as for persons with administrative rights or gold badges, because they got one of these it doesn't mean that they are always CORRECT or that they are ABOVE RULES. This is the second time in a row that my question is getting closed without me being asked to revise the question or give an explanation as for why my question is not a duplicate or the &quot;investigator&quot; trying to talk about it (and see even if he is wrong about his thinking), which as a fact I know it should be done from our previous duplicated question contradiction. In my opinion if there can't be order and rules/regulations following then something should be done for this to change. Best case scenario start the process of making rules on under which circumstances someone with privileges should close a question as a duplicate or any other state or not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being proactive is better than have to clean up the mess later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is very nerve breaking and provocative when people close your questions without providing any reasons except for &quot;I command I conquer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65255" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-06-09T12:22:02.733" Title="Reopening Duplicated Question - Start creating Rules for tagging a question" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|duplicate-questions|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="20" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9787" CreationDate="2016-06-09T12:09:39.517" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Your specific question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd rather not comment on this, since I never got into the Star Wars franchise. My gut feeling is to agree with you that it's not a duplicate, and if I weren't a mod I would vote to reopen, but I'm not going to use my mod powers to reopen it unilaterally. Now that you've raised the issue on meta, others who know more about Star Wars will see it and vote to reopen or not as they see fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Your general issue with duplicate closure&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's unfortunate that you (and others) feel that gold tag badge wielders frequently misuse their dupehammer powers. But if you feel that this functionality shouldn't exist, the correct place to raise your concerns would be &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;main meta&lt;/a&gt;, since this isn't something that can be changed on a per-site basis. You might also like to read &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/230865/increase-close-vote-weight-for-gold-tag-badge-holders/231212#231212&quot;&gt;the post where this dupehammer power was first introduced&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a moderator, with insta-close powers on &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; questions, I've also had to deal with the issue of when to use these powers and how to avoid the appearance of heavy-handed abuse. My personal rule is &lt;strong&gt;not to close a question unilaterally unless I'm &lt;em&gt;absolutely certain&lt;/em&gt; it should be closed.&lt;/strong&gt; I'm not afraid to hammer a question which is blatantly off-topic or opinion-based, but if I'm only 70% sure a question should be closed, I'll usually wait for 3 or 4 others to VTC before casting the final vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to &lt;em&gt;encourage&lt;/em&gt; our esteemed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges?tab=tags&amp;amp;filter=gold&quot;&gt;gold tag badge holders&lt;/a&gt; to follow a similar guideline when voting to close questions as duplicates: in very clear cases, feel free to dupehammer unilaterally, but if unsure, wait for a few others to VTC first. However, we can't &lt;em&gt;force&lt;/em&gt; anyone to use their close-vote powers in any particular way. The whole point of giving gold tag badge holders the power to dupehammer is that &lt;strong&gt;they're trusted to have good judgement in that tag&lt;/strong&gt;. When you've amassed that many good answers in a tag, the system assumes you know your stuff and should be able to detect dupes there. And if you screw up, there are always others who can vote to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What to do when your question is closed&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might like to read this meta answer: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/250/whats-the-process-for-getting-a-closed-question-re-opened/254#254&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the process for getting a closed question re-opened?&lt;/a&gt; If your question gets closed (as a duplicate, or for any other reason), your first course of action should be to &lt;strong&gt;edit&lt;/strong&gt; it, e.g. to make it clearer what you're asking or to explain why you don't think it should be closed. This will automatically send the question into the review queue, where the community can vote to reopen or leave closed. You could also try pinging some of the close-voters in comments (as you did, in this case). If these two approaches fail, then raise the issue with the community on meta as you've now done. Good luck!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-06-09T12:09:39.517" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9789" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9790" CreationDate="2016-06-09T17:49:09.500" Score="-2" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;To prevent confusion, should we rename &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/-24/obie&quot;&gt;the chat feed&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/a&gt;, since we now have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/51379/obie&quot;&gt;a user&lt;/a&gt; with the same name and icon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/n6IG4.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/n6IG4.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Edit: problem resolved, move along.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29220" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-06-09T19:17:33.037" Title="Should we rename our chatfeed to prevent confusion?" Tags="|discussion|chat|chat-feed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9789" CreationDate="2016-06-09T18:05:38.327" Score="15" Body="&lt;h1&gt;No, the chat feed should keep its name&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obie the Interrupting OneBox has had its name for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1289/the-many-memes-of-scifi-stackexchange/7502#7502&quot;&gt;over a year&lt;/a&gt;. Users taking that name for themselves is not a reason to rename the chat feed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the situation is too confusing, have a mod rename any users named Obie. Renaming the chat feed won't prevent this situation from occurring again in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36115" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2016-06-09T18:05:38.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9792" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9793" CreationDate="2016-06-09T23:16:17.370" Score="12" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question was posted today: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/131422/what-is-the-fight-club-theory&quot;&gt;What is the fight club theory?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP is asking about a particular fan theory relating to the &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; TV series, of which they've heard the name but want to know what the theory actually says. The question has been closed as &quot;unclear what you're asking&quot;; however, at least one of the close-voters VTCed the question for being poorly researched:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because this shows zero research. A simple google search would answer this. – &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/54887/aegon&quot;&gt;Aegon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I pointed out very quickly, &lt;strong&gt;being poorly researched is a reason to downvote, &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a reason to close-vote.&lt;/strong&gt; Since it seems perfectly clear (at least to me) what the OP is asking, I'm worried that others may have voted to close for the same reason. IMO, this is a valid question, albeit poorly researched, and therefore should be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do others think? Should this question be reopened or stay closed?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Disclaimer: I was the one who answered it.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-06-10T02:08:55.360" Title="Should this Game of Thrones question be reopened?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9792" CreationDate="2016-06-10T02:08:55.360" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The question should be (and was) reopened&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a question about a popular fan theory. As laid out in the most-upvoted answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6937/are-questions-about-fan-theories-allowed&quot;&gt;Are questions about fan theories allowed?&lt;/a&gt;, we can even ask questions that deal directly with fan theories: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For example, if you have seen a popular fan theory somewhere else and&#xA;  you don't understand why it makes sense, or what evidence there is to&#xA;  support it, that probably is the kind of question you could ask here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems clear that asking the &lt;em&gt;identity&lt;/em&gt; of a fan theory should also be on-topic, if asking the specifics of it is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, this is also a question that seeks a definition of a particular term in the fandom. We have many such questions that were well-received and not closed. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/128470/wheel-of-time-perrins-plod&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Wheel of Time&amp;quot;, Perrin&amp;#39;s PLOD&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As explained by the mod who reopened it, while the question may be downvoted for being easy to answer (i.e. showing no research effort), it is on-topic and should thus remain open. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2016-06-10T02:08:55.360" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9782" CreationDate="2016-06-10T10:17:57.653" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;My general rule: If an answer would have to consider every single work covering whatever the topic of the question is in order to be considered truly correct then the question is &quot;too broad&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take, for example, the question &quot;How do you kill a vampire?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can start by listing the common methods, but even then you have to start mentioning exceptions to them (Twilight vampires aren't killed by direct exposure to sunlight, for example). However, who on this site knows every single work involving vampires? Is there even a list we could trust to be correct that includes all works involving vampires? Do we also consider works where they have things that are essentially vampires (with general vampire traits [whatever you consider those to be...]) but aren't referred to as such?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's bad enough with a single answer that attempts to cover everything. However, in most cases what will actually happen (which is far worse) is we'll end up with multiple answers, each covering some of the various ways in which vampires can be killed. We might get an answer that just lists a single, unique way in which they can be killed from some obscure work that nobody else has read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5833" LastActivityDate="2016-06-10T10:17:57.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9782" CreationDate="2016-06-10T13:20:41.417" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the two scenarios identified in the close reason text are a good starting place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;There are too many possible answers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most obvious examples of this are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2639/1359&quot;&gt;&quot;list&quot; questions&lt;/a&gt;.  In fact, the accepted answer from that linked discussion contains a very helpful definition for &quot;too broad&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's not reasonable to ask a question on a Q&amp;amp;A site that requires knowledge of all works that ever existed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;How do you kill a vampire?&quot; (in the absence of clarifying details) is essentially an open-ended list question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that something like &quot;&lt;em&gt;are there any&lt;/em&gt; examples of vampires being killed by explosion&quot; would be considered &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1490/1359&quot;&gt;on topic&lt;/a&gt; (although this is a policy I don't agree with).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, with slight rewording, open ended list questions can be reworded to asking for common tropes, which I think would be acceptable.  &quot;What are the most common ways in which vampires can be killed?&quot; becomes rather more narrowly scoped.  It is still a list, but I think it is a list that someone expert in the genre can provide a reasonably thorough explanation for.  If an answer citing half a dozen examples would satisfy the wording of the question, then it is reasonably scoped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Good answers would be too long for this format&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one is trickier for our site.  We have a couple of users here who sometimes post very long, detailed, in-depth answers that would be nearly unheard of on most other SE sites.  Those answers also tend to be my favorites on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/127825/1359&quot;&gt;this detailed exposition on the workings, history and variations of vibranium&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd hate to see any policy that discourages questions soliciting answers like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for our purposes, I think &quot;good answers would be too long for this format&quot; should largely overlap with &quot;unclear what you're asking&quot;, when we're not specifically dealing with list questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &quot;Why are vampires so powerful?&quot; could theoretically be answered by in-depth descriptions of all the various ways that vampires are portrayed as having power (or even half a dozen examples), but is the OP looking at vampires as being powerful because of physical strength?  Or their ability to decimate entire populations?  Or are they referring to magic-using vampires from specific settings (such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strahd_von_Zarovich&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Strahd&lt;/a&gt;)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question needs clarification. What &lt;strong&gt;type&lt;/strong&gt; of power is the OP interested in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/21776/1359&quot;&gt;An example&lt;/a&gt; listed in another post of a &quot;terrible&quot; answer that is justification for why questions on scifi tropes in general (in this case, creature tropes) should be closed is actually what I consider an example of exactly the opposite: it is, at the time of this writing, sitting at 41 upvotes, and 0 downvotes.  Clearly the community has an appreciation for this type of content, and the opponents, while vocal and active members of the community, are a minority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Conclusion&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that &quot;too broad&quot; for our site should cover list questions, and questions that are asking for too much detail about too many diverse topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Outside of list questions, &quot;too broad&quot; should be used very sparingly, and the OP of any question marked as &quot;too broad&quot; should be encouraged to be more specific with the information they're seeking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2016-06-10T13:20:41.417" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9363" CreationDate="2016-06-10T14:09:21.960" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see a more simple (but probably more controversial) way to look at this...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In the SE format, why does it matter what sub-genre is?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a user wants to determine if a work is on-topic for the site, then they should ask on Meta.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the work is deemed on-topic, they then can post questions on Main.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers to these questions could be considered &quot;Primarily Opinion Based&quot; or even &quot;Too Broad&quot; as there could be elements of multiple sub-genres in a given work. Comments would likely devolve into quibbles over who feels what should and should not be considered part of certain sub-genre. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ultimately, these types of questions would be better suited for forum discussion, which is not what SE is about.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I do understand that this &lt;em&gt;does matter&lt;/em&gt; to users here, otherwise this would not have opposing views to begin with. I am not trying to undermine anyone else's opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2016-06-10T19:26:50.000" LastActivityDate="2016-06-10T19:26:50.000" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9797" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-10T20:28:04.457" Score="3" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;Help me pick a less Troper-centric for my question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/131540/when-was-the-first-instance-of-grimmification&quot;&gt;When was the first instance of Grimmification?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Initially, it was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When was the first darker remake of a fairy tale?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, that title got me these comments, informing me on what's wrong with my title:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The original versions of fairy tales were at least as dark as any modern remake. Does that count as an answer? – @DJClayworth&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You may be unaware that pretty much all of the original versions of fairy tales are dramatically darker than their 20th century retellings. @Valorum&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And my criteria for selecting an answer is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Armadillo - I would accept any instance of a fairy tale being made darker, as long as it was historically preceded by a lighter version, that the darker's author would have known about, and (most likely) made a conscious choice to remake in darker fashion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, can you guys help me pick a better title?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42059" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2016-06-10T21:03:27.257" Title="Help me pick a less Trope-centric title for my question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9798" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-12T07:12:18.777" Score="4" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do we really need &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kill-count&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kill-count&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kill-count&lt;/a&gt;?  Tag scoring checklist stolen from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7871/tag-wars-episode-i-harry-potter-and-the-tag-cleanup&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does it make sense to be an &quot;expert* in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kill-count&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kill-count&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kill-count&lt;/a&gt;&quot;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;No,&lt;/strong&gt; because questions with this tag could belong to any fictional universe and you cannot possibly know them all.  -1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does it make sense for a question to be tagged only with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kill-count&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kill-count&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kill-count&lt;/a&gt;&quot;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;No,&lt;/strong&gt; it would need to have a franchise or work tag at a minimum.  -1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kill-count&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kill-count&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kill-count&lt;/a&gt; have a single, universally-unambiguous meaning?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Yes.&lt;/strong&gt; +2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kill-count&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kill-count&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kill-count&lt;/a&gt; likely to be used correctly just based on it's name?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Yes.&lt;/strong&gt; +2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there &quot;enough&quot; (&gt; 15) but not &quot;too many&quot; (&gt; 10% site-wide) questions that qualify for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kill-count&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kill-count&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kill-count&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Maybe,&lt;/strong&gt; there are nine now and I could imagine that a few more might exist but not have the tag (or be asked in the future).  &gt;10% site-wide is &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; going to happen.  +1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are people like to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kill-count&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kill-count&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kill-count&lt;/a&gt; to find questions to answer?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Maybe,&lt;/strong&gt; some people might like doing the kind of math and trivia this involves.  +1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there likely some users (be objective!) who will favorite or ignore &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kill-count&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kill-count&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kill-count&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Maybe,&lt;/strong&gt; but I doubt it.  +1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Could &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kill-count&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kill-count&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kill-count&lt;/a&gt; be reasonably used to feed questions to a specialized chat room?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;I can't imagine why you'd want to do that&lt;/strong&gt;, and the question frequency is low enough that there really wouldn't be much point.  -1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kill-count&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kill-count&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kill-count&lt;/a&gt; be used to search for questions (for any reason) in a way that keyword searching cannot accomplish?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt;  These questions all involve one of the words &quot;died,&quot; &quot;killed,&quot; and &quot;body.&quot;  You can just keyword search on terms such as those.  -1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Final score:&lt;/strong&gt; +3, which is well into the &quot;terrible&quot; zone:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Very roughly speaking, tags that score &gt; 12 are &quot;good&quot; tags, tags that score &amp;lt; 8 are &quot;terrible&quot; tags, others are likely good but may need some clarification/renaming/etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have the rep to mass edit these nine questions without going through approval, but I would suggest that someone with the rep do so, since this looks like a fairly open-and-shut case to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2016-06-12T13:06:36.160" Title="Why are we keeping a [kill-count]?" 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  <row Id="9799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9798" CreationDate="2016-06-12T09:02:18.420" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leave &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kill-count&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kill-count&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kill-count&lt;/a&gt; alone.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For my money, the most important of the criteria you've mentioned is #6, &lt;strong&gt;are people likely to use it to search for questions about kill-counts&lt;/strong&gt;? Since the answer is a very firm &quot;yes&quot;, that means that it's worthwhile keeping it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I think we need a new criteria for retagging.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) Is it possible that removing this tag could harm, rather than improve the ability of users to find questions that interest them? &lt;strong&gt;Y/N&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) Will retagging a bunch of these questions bugger up the front page for a day? &lt;strong&gt;Y/Y&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer to either of these questions is yes, &lt;strong&gt;leave the tag alone.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-06-12T11:32:22.320" LastActivityDate="2016-06-12T11:32:22.320" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9798" CreationDate="2016-06-12T13:06:36.160" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your criteria (which were originally proposed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7871/tag-wars-episode-i-harry-potter-and-the-tag-cleanup&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; having been copied over from Chemistry SE) were popular here on SFF meta for a while, but gradually decreased in popularity, until eventually &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9215/31394&quot;&gt;the question was posed&lt;/a&gt; of whether they were actually useful and met with a resounding &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really want a tag-scoring system, there's a relatively short and easy one &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/239191/278659&quot;&gt;on main meta&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is the concept described even on-topic for the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does the tag add any meaningful information to the post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does it mean the same thing in all common contexts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kill-count&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kill-count&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kill-count&lt;/a&gt; would get the answer &lt;strong&gt;yes&lt;/strong&gt; for all four of these questions. Another important question is &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;does the tag aid in searchability?&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot;, to which again the answer is yes, since it's hard to search for questions about kill counts using just the search facility: the question &amp;quot;how many X did Y kill in Z?&amp;quot; can come in many different forms, and if one's interested in finding all such questions, having a special tag for them would be very useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admittedly, if someone was proposing the &lt;em&gt;creation&lt;/em&gt; of this tag, I would probably be against it. But now that it exists, and seems to satisfy a bunch of sensible criteria for tags, it's certainly not worth the trouble of burninating it. To quote &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9216/31394&quot;&gt;the top-voted answer here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tagging was never meant to be this much of a pain in the ass to make decisions on. Unless a tag is atrociously bad or almost unused, it may as well stay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any tag we prevent from being made or burninate actually destroys our ability to track the actual usage of tags, to develop policies based around what our users naturally feel is an effective way to tag questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;TL;DR: leave it alone.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-06-12T13:06:36.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9363" CreationDate="2016-06-12T18:06:29.803" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO, &lt;strong&gt;most&lt;/strong&gt; of the sub-genre classification should be off-topic, because they are impossible to answer objectively in non-trivial way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is based on a specific source (IMDB/Amazon/Wiki/Bookstore X classification), it's both trivia (who cares what that specific source says), subjective (we don't know their methodology of bucketing), and too broad/too narrow (if you restrict to 1-2 specific sources, how do you justify using those sources only? If not, there are too many sources to check).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this has one particular counter-example listed below that should be an exception - when the specific source is &lt;strong&gt;the creator themselves&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is based on some &quot;common&quot; definitions, it's subjective one TWO counts at once: first, those definitions are somewhat arbitrary/subjective themselves (why are Star Trek tachyon beams space opera but some other work's equally scientific thingy is hard SciFi?); and second because a large - and IMHO a majority - number of works aren't easily classifyable into seemingly objective clearcut subgenre &quot;definitions&quot;. Are elves on a spaceship SciFi or fantasy? Or for more obvious counterargument, remember Arthur Clarke's &quot;Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;HOWEVER&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, there's one clear exception (there may be more).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions of the form &quot;Did the creator bucket their own work X into genre Y&quot; are both objective, answerable, AND interesting (and thus should be ontopic).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2016-06-12T18:06:29.803" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9802" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-13T12:00:10.053" Score="14" ViewCount="599" Body="&lt;p&gt;We now have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/131718/zootopia-bunnyburrow-population&quot;&gt;couple&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/122725/what-do-the-carnivores-eat-in-the-zootopia-universe&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; about the hit film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2948356/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Zootopia (AKA Zootropolis)&lt;/a&gt;. In chat, there have been several references to this earlier question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5117/are-anthropomorphic-animals-by-themselves-enough-to-deem-a-work-fantasy&quot;&gt;Are anthropomorphic animals by themselves enough to deem a work fantasy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that the consensus of opinion is that anthropomorphic animals &lt;strong&gt;don't&lt;/strong&gt; make a work on topic, &lt;strong&gt;is there a reason why Zootopia would be on topic for SFF:SE?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-06-13T16:41:07.267" Title="Is Zootopia on topic on SFF:SE?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9802" CreationDate="2016-06-13T12:00:10.053" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Zootopia is very firmly on topic, containing significant elements of science fiction.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Conceit/Setting&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ignoring the talking animals, the film itself is set in a futuristic world, complete with &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fSvoS.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;steampunk zeppelins&lt;/a&gt;. The city of Zootopia features impossible architecture (suggesting materials technology in advance of our own) as well as being arranged into differing environments that are dependent on currently impossible (or at least implausible) technology such as the rain dispensers in the Rainforest District and the truly enormous &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WPfmP.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;heat-exchanger walls&lt;/a&gt; that keep the Sahara Square area toasty and the Tundratown area frozen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the central themes is that the police bunny must discover the cause of the disappearance of several predators who turn out to have been&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; given a fictional drug, making them revert to their savage &lt;em&gt;pre-enlightened&lt;/em&gt; state.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Marketing&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film has been trailed as a '&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_history&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;what-if&lt;/a&gt;' world where humans (and indeed any form of primate) never existed. This places it quite firmly into the &lt;em&gt;alternate reality&lt;/em&gt; category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Apes are too much like us, so as soon as we put them in the story,&#xA;everyone goes, oh the ape is the smart one. And we wanted all these&#xA;mammals to seem like more or less equal intelligence, more or less,”&#xA;said Byron Howard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thedisneyblog.com/2016/03/02/how-zootopia-was-made-talking-with-disneys-animation-team/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;How Zootopia was made, talking with Disney’s animation team&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, we see the process by which the animals were uplifted (through evolution) rather than simply being asked to accept that the animals talk as a matter of course&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the Natural History Museum at the end of the film, you’ll see&#xA;things like primitive jackelopes fending off sabertooth leopard. There&#xA;are big paintings of primative tribes of lions and zebra shaking&#xA;hands. It’s supposed to be the moment that they bonded at the watering&#xA;hold and declared peace. We used to have a scene where Bellweather&#xA;gives Judy a speech about the fountain and he looks outside and you can&#xA;see the fountain and town’s square is the watering hole where they&#xA;united in peace. We actually miss that scene because it gave a nice&#xA;history of Zootopia, but we didn’t have room for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.womenandtheirpretties.net/zootopias-creators-talk-hidden-disney-gems-serious-messages-cut-themes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ZOOTOPIA’S CREATORS TALK HIDDEN DISNEY GEMS AND CUT SCENES&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-06-13T16:41:07.267" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9804" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9805" CreationDate="2016-06-13T15:04:33.073" Score="10" ViewCount="407" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently there have been a couple of questions about Super Mario Bros on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/131735/44294&quot;&gt;How did the Mario Brothers discover/enter the Mushroom Kingdom?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/131712/44294&quot;&gt;What is Mario&amp;#39;s full name?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me this seems like it might be on-topic on Movies and TV (if referring to the Movie) or on Arqade (if asking about the game).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is Super Mario Bros on topic on Sci-Fi and Fantasy SE?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44294" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-06-13T16:06:42.390" Title="Is Super Mario Bros on topic here?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9804" CreationDate="2016-06-13T15:27:27.027" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, Mario is on topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plot, Man fights a dragon to save a princess, can shoot fireballs after eating a flower. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Magic exists, further proof. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fKMkK.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fKMkK.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29220" LastEditorUserId="29220" LastEditDate="2016-06-13T15:32:30.020" LastActivityDate="2016-06-13T15:32:30.020" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9804" CreationDate="2016-06-13T15:41:21.357" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did a little googling after the comment responses to the question and found some pages that help to answer this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tor.com/2015/06/12/is-super-mario-brothers-fantasy-or-science-fiction/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tor.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At first glance, it seems pretty straightforward that the Super Mario Brothers games are a fantasy series. They take place in a fantastic world with dragons, princesses, and magic mushrooms. The RPGs in the series have all the typical role-playing elements of a fantasy game. But when you look at the entire franchise, particularly the Super Mario Galaxy games, it seems almost certain that the game is science fiction, or at the least, science fantasy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way this article says that Super Mario is on topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://forum.greenheartgames.com/t/what-kind-of-game-topic-genre-super-mario-bros-is/6414/6&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This forum seems to come to a consensus that it is Fantasy&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fantasy/action. The princesses and turtle people root it in the fantasy topic, whilst action is a broad enough genre to easily envelop most platformers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0108255/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt; classifies the movie as a Fantasy or Sci Fi movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Genres:&#xA;  Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, Super Mario Bros is on topic.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44294" LastActivityDate="2016-06-13T15:41:21.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9804" CreationDate="2016-06-13T15:59:45.470" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, &lt;em&gt;Super Mario Brothers&lt;/em&gt; is on-topic&lt;/strong&gt;. The other answers cover the &quot;why&quot; nicely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;BUT&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per previously discussed policy. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/319/can-i-ask-a-question-about-video-game-based-scifi-fantasy?lq=1&quot;&gt;Can I ask a question about video game based scifi/fantasy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions should be limited to the SFF nature of the game. Question regarding game design, mechanics, or other such things would be off-topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2016-06-13T16:06:42.390" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9808" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-13T18:30:35.473" Score="2" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is trying to get some clarification for why  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/131614/44294&quot;&gt;Are there in-universe reasons reason why Dany wouldn&amp;#39;t start her conquest in Dorne?&lt;/a&gt; would have been closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the actual question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Any possible reason why Dany will not start her conquest of Westeros in Dorne?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me that sounds like the OP is really asking a yes/no type of question.  &quot;Should Dany start her conquest of Westeros in Dorne?&quot;  While we can't answer whether or not Dany &lt;strong&gt;will&lt;/strong&gt; start her conquest in Dorne, I believe it is possible to answer this question by presenting the currently known issues with a Dorne Invasion and letting the OP infer the answer based on that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my understanding, this question was put on hold as opinion based with the argument that multiple factors that lead to the same answer make a question unanswerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my reading of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5150/44294&quot;&gt;What are the good ways of avoiding a &amp;quot;promotes a pet theory&amp;quot; question?&lt;/a&gt;, this should be considered on topic as asking for backup for a theory is considered on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this correct?  Is a question too broad if there are multiple lines of reasoning to get to the same answer?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44294" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-06-15T09:02:51.893" Title="Is a question too broad if there are multiple ways to back up a correct answer?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9809" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9812" CreationDate="2016-06-13T19:58:10.200" Score="3" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a recent comment to this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/131158/is-there-any-evidence-that-this-character-survived-x-men-apocalypse&quot;&gt;Is there any evidence that this character survived X-Men: Apocalypse?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My comment basically referenced a quote from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men:_Apocalypse&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wiki&lt;/a&gt; which didn't seem to have much evidence to support the answer. But the OP has asked to post it as an answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should a comment, similar to what I have posted, be instead posted as an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40748" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2016-06-14T01:59:37.333" Title="Should a comment referenced from wiki be posted as an answer?" Tags="|discussion|comments|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2016-06-16T19:39:08.027" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9810" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9813" CreationDate="2016-06-13T20:23:19.670" Score="-7" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been numerous debates on what we consider on-topic for this site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To show some prime and highly debated examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5117/are-anthropomorphic-animals-by-themselves-enough-to-deem-a-work-fantasy&quot;&gt;Are anthropomorphic animals by themselves enough to deem a work fantasy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/are-works-that-arent-sf-per-se-but-have-occasional-sfnal-elements-on-topic-e&quot;&gt;Are works that aren&amp;#39;t SF per se, but have occasional SFnal elements on-topic? (e.g. spy movies)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We even have an FAQ version &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic&quot;&gt;What questions are on-topic, and what questions are off-topic?&lt;/a&gt; but that has not been updated since 2011.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This got me thinking since there has been discussion on how we score our tags. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9215/does-sff-need-have-an-objective-way-of-scoring-tags&quot;&gt;Does SFF need/have an objective way of scoring tags?&lt;/a&gt; (although this idea was not well received).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Would there be someway to bring some objectiveness into how what works we determine on and off topic?&lt;/strong&gt; Or is this something that will have to be handled in a discussion format when new works have questions about them? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not could an &lt;strong&gt;update to the FAQ question&lt;/strong&gt; linked need an update? (At least one current discussion  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9363/policy-on-questions-about-which-genre-or-subgenre-a-given-work-is-in&quot;&gt;Policy on questions about which genre or subgenre a given work is in?&lt;/a&gt; makes one point on the FAQ debateable.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is any attempt at objective consistency futile?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.730" LastActivityDate="2016-06-14T02:06:52.903" Title="Would an objective system for determining whether a work is on-topic or not be useful?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9810" CreationDate="2016-06-13T21:05:24.247" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;When answering questions about topicality, I tend to refer to three key elements;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does the film contain substantial elements of science fiction or fantasy?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Was the film &lt;em&gt;marketed&lt;/em&gt; as being science-fictional or fantastical?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do those that were involved in the production (cast and crew) consider the film to contain substantive elements of science-fiction or fantasy?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, while the latter two are objective, the first (and most important) of the measures is largely subjective, since we've never been able to come up with a &lt;strong&gt;single clear-cut definition of what consists science fiction or fantasy.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, I don't think we can come up with an objective system, nor do I think we should invest our energy in trying to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-06-13T21:29:31.520" LastActivityDate="2016-06-13T21:29:31.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9809" CreationDate="2016-06-14T01:59:37.333" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Should&quot;? 100% up to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you don't want to post the comment as an answer (you don't feel confident of its quality, or your Seer said you shouldn't post answers on odd Thursdays, or you expect some specific user to do more thorough work and trump any effort of yours anyway - basically, ANY reason), then don't post it. It's as simple as that. 100% your call.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you choose NOT to post as an answer, it may be good etiquette (not required by any means, but good manners) to explicitly state that you don't intend to convert the comment to an answer, and let someone else make it into the answer if they wish.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you DO want to post it as an answer, go ahead!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you are worried about whether posting Wiki-sourced answer in general is permitted - yes it is. No prohibition on that (whether it will be well received or not is a different question).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you are worried about whether posting Wiki-sourced answer in general will lead to an answer that is poorly recieved - you merely need to post it in a recommended form (e.g. see my answer here - &quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1342/primary-sources-vs-wikis&quot;&gt;Primary sources vs wikis?&lt;/a&gt; &quot;) to ensure that it's recieved in the best possible way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now it doesn't guarantee that everyone will love it, or even that not everyone will dislike it, but in my experience clear answers that honestly say &quot;Wiki sourced, no primary backup to Wiki&quot; get less/no downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you are worried that it's a poor quality answer (not as far as votes, but as far as how it reflects on you; in either your own opinion or of other users'), then you have two options: Either don't post (see #1); or put in extra effort trying to improve it - either before posting or after posting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2016-06-14T01:59:37.333" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9810" CreationDate="2016-06-14T02:06:52.903" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes (as in, it is futile).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not simply because it may well be impossible (i'm not 100% sure of that), but &lt;strong&gt;because it's not worth the effort and cost compared to the pay-off&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We have VERY VERY few works that are significantly ambiguous as to need to be scored in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Most of those works are easily scored by their overall, well-discussed genres (e.g. 007 type films)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And the few that aren't, can be discussed individually on Meta, at a fraction of the cost and effort to come with complicated scoring generic system applicable to ALL works.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, we should simply have some broad stroke rules that are &lt;strong&gt;almost&lt;/strong&gt; universally applicable but simple; and handle anything that doesn't easily fit them on case by case exception basis on Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2016-06-14T02:06:52.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9814" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-14T13:37:12.140" Score="4" ViewCount="682" Body="&lt;p&gt;So let's start with the usual argument here that talking animals aren't on-topic, as established in the following meta discussion: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5117/are-anthropomorphic-animals-by-themselves-enough-to-deem-a-work-fantasy/5119#5119&quot;&gt;Are anthropomorphic animals by themselves enough to deem a work fantasy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now let's look at the situation we have in &lt;em&gt;The Jungle Book&lt;/em&gt;, mostly based on the Disney animated version. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When do talking animals make a work on-topic? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Their speaking was somehow fantastical to the other characters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The&#xA;  talking rats in Ratatouille would certainly fall into the latter&#xA;  category. There's no specific evidence of how they became intelligent&#xA;  but it's clear from the scenes in the film that animal sentience&#xA;  certainly isn't a normal feature of that universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what if animals aren't the ones that can talk to humans?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mowgli is unique in the fact that &lt;strong&gt;HE&lt;/strong&gt; can talk to animals. As far as we are concerned, animals can't talk to humans, only to Mowgli. It's clear the animals stay away from humans, because humans are dangerous to them. But if in-world they could simply walk up to humans and say &quot;sup, don't shoot&quot;, the entire story of &lt;em&gt;The Jungle Book&lt;/em&gt; wouldn't make any sense. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also from my understanding of the book, the animals are actually nervous around Mowgli, because &lt;strong&gt;HE&lt;/strong&gt; is weird to them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having a main character who can talk to animals seems pretty much in line with fantasy to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29220" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2020-04-13T10:16:03.407" Title="Would The Jungle Book be on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9814" CreationDate="2016-06-14T13:56:22.140" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Based only on the films, I see no evidence that Mowgli &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; special.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We never see an animal surprised to learn that they can talk to Mowgli, not even ones who have never seen him before. Take Baloo, Kaa, or the Elephant March - none of them are shocked or surprised or even at all curious about meeting a human they can talk to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This indicates that in the world of &lt;em&gt;The Jungle Book&lt;/em&gt; (or at least, both of the films titled that which I have seen), humans talking to animals isn't all that fantastical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A better litmus test, however, is to simply ask &quot;If the animals were human, would the work in question have any science fiction or fantasy elements that make it on-topic?&quot;. In the case of &lt;em&gt;The Jungle Book&lt;/em&gt;, I feel confident in saying that no, there are no further elements of science fiction or fantasy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As such, we should consider &lt;em&gt;The Jungle Book&lt;/em&gt; to be off-topic.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24087" LastActivityDate="2016-06-14T13:56:22.140" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9814" CreationDate="2016-06-14T14:18:28.863" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, the Jungle Book (2016) isn't on topic for SFF:SE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Conceit&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two main elements of fantasy are &lt;strong&gt;the ability of the main character to speak with animals&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;the ability of those animals to act contrary to how animals would normally act&lt;/strong&gt;. Since there's no evidence of &quot;uplifting&quot;, nor any explanation of &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; the animals are able to speak, this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5117/are-anthropomorphic-animals-by-themselves-enough-to-deem-a-work-fantasy/5119#5119&quot;&gt;can't be considered in itself to be fantastical&lt;/a&gt;. Talking animals are apparently a normal feature of this universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Marketing&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film is described by Disney as a &lt;strong&gt;&quot;live-action epic adventure&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;. No mention of fantasy is made in any of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://boingboing.net/2016/04/01/an-early-peek-at-the-jungle.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;press-releases&lt;/a&gt; that accompanied the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Directed by Jon Favreau (“Iron Man”), based on Rudyard Kipling’s&#xA;  timeless stories and inspired by Disney’s classic animated film, “The&#xA;  Jungle Book” is an all-new live-action epic adventure about Mowgli&#xA;  (newcomer Neel Sethi), a man-cub who’s been raised by a family of&#xA;  wolves.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Cast/Crew&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The director makes a passing reference to the film being a &quot;fantasy&quot; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/04/14/jon-favreau-interview-i-want-my-jungle-book-to-remind-people-how/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt;, stating that the film is...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“... a fantasy about a boy living among both friendly and dangerous&#xA;  animals, and coming of age”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, he seems to be referring to the overall conceit mentioned above, where animals are basically furry people. For the record, pretty much all of the reasons above also apply to the earlier animated version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2016-06-14T14:19:50.730" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9818" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-14T21:50:34.957" Score="4" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/131770/do-westerosi-know-and-believe-that-dany-has-grown-up-and-dangerous-dragons&quot;&gt;Do Westerosi know and believe that Dany has grown-up and dangerous dragons?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is a duplicape of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/102158/what-knowledge-do-the-people-of-westeros-have-about-daenerys-and-her-dragons&quot;&gt;What knowledge do the people of Westeros have about Daenerys and her dragons?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;however both are asking about a specific point-in-time; so technically they are different. I don't like this since next episode we could have another question asking the same thing, or one would need to be updated every episode. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we merge these two questions?&lt;/strong&gt; And any future questions of the like? Or just close them as dupes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2016-08-04T14:38:49.057" Title="Merge these two GoT questions?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9819" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9821" CreationDate="2016-06-14T23:21:05.440" Score="-8" ViewCount="1180" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has long been site policy that answering one's own questions is both allowed and encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has been established on our Meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1786/51379&quot;&gt;Where does it say that a user can&amp;#39;t ask a question they know the answer to?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And on the sitewide Meta: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/17463/can-i-answer-my-own-questions-even-if-i-knew-the-answer-before-asking&quot;&gt;Can I answer my own questions, even if I knew the answer before asking?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has even been &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/its-ok-to-ask-and-answer-your-own-questions/&quot;&gt;stated explicitly&lt;/a&gt; by Jeff Atwood:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To be crystal clear, it is not merely OK to ask and answer your own&#xA;  question, it is explicitly encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the reality of the situation (on this and many other sites) is very different. Self-answered questions meet with a lukewarm reception at best (particularly if one mentions that reception!). If a question is self-answered within a short period of being posted, particularly if one uses the &quot;Answer your own question&quot; button, a cascade of downvotes is very likely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/131652/51379&quot;&gt;Would a phoenix Horcrux be indestructible?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/131650/could-dumbledore-have-made-a-horcrux&quot;&gt;Did Dumbledore make a horcrux?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/131741/at-the-end-of-zootopia-are-nick-and-judy-an-item&quot;&gt;At the end of Zootopia, are Nick and Judy an item?&lt;/a&gt; (though there are other reasons here). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People do intentionally downvote merely because a question is self-answered, as mentioned recently in chat. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/30364059#30364059&quot;&gt;Some users have suggested&lt;/a&gt; that the policy mentioned in our Meta might not be valid, since it was made too long ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that the practical policy seems to be that self-answers are heavily discouraged, should we revisit the policy that they are allowed and encouraged? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2017-11-18T18:12:06.173" Title="Should we revisit the self-answer policy?" Tags="|discussion|self-answer|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9819" CreationDate="2016-06-14T23:44:00.690" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leave your question open for 24-48 hours (at least), see if anyone else knows the answer, then self answer if no one else knows, or self answer additional information to correct or complete another answer.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Self-answering is something that should be allowed, &lt;strong&gt;BUT&lt;/strong&gt; its something that, at least on this site, we don't tend to like, at least when the self answer is immediate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How I feel on the issue is that you should not ask and answer simultaneously. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It doesn't hurt you&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;the community&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;or your question&lt;/strong&gt;, to hold off on self answering for a day or two, if anything it helps &lt;strong&gt;DRAW&lt;/strong&gt; people to your question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answering immediately just looks cocky, and rubs people the wrong way. If you're a known user who regularly talks about rep capping, it also appears like a rep grab, whether it is the user's intention or not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29220" LastEditorUserId="44025" LastEditDate="2016-06-15T00:05:33.307" LastActivityDate="2016-06-15T00:05:33.307" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9819" CreationDate="2016-06-14T23:48:13.903" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not quite sure what you're proposing here; you seem to be getting unpopularity mixed up with off-topicness.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Self-answers are allowed ...&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as clear unambiguous &lt;strong&gt;site policy&lt;/strong&gt; goes, there's nothing wrong with self-answered questions. That's why you can't &lt;em&gt;close&lt;/em&gt; a question for being self-answered. Close votes are meant to be cast according to site policy; if a question is of a type that the community has decided to be off-topic, then it should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;... but that won't stop people downvoting them.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unlike close votes, downvotes are for members of the community to use in whatever way they see fit. No meta policy or community consensus in the world is going to stop anyone from downvoting a post they want to downvote. Each user uses their upvotes and downvotes according to &lt;em&gt;their own personal preference&lt;/em&gt;, not according to the will of the community as a whole. Some people might downvote every single &lt;em&gt;Twilight&lt;/em&gt; question without for a moment disputing that &lt;em&gt;Twilight&lt;/em&gt; is on-topic.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;Another false premise on which your question is more or less based:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Self-answered questions meet with a lukewarm reception at best (particularly if one mentions that reception!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nope. Here are some examples of well-received self-answers, with question and answer score included (for a longer list, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/500234/self-answered-questions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this useful Data.SE query&lt;/a&gt; thanks to @amaranth):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/112120/why-was-this-major-star-wars-character-killed-off-in-the-force-awakens&quot;&gt;Why was this major Star Wars character killed off in The Force Awakens?&lt;/a&gt; (Q 32, A 31)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/115402/which-finger-was-bb-8-sticking-up&quot;&gt;Which &amp;#39;finger&amp;#39; was BB-8 sticking up?&lt;/a&gt; (Q 133, A 202)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/120130/why-does-seven-of-nine-pronounce-futile-differently-than-locutus&quot;&gt;Why does Seven of Nine pronounce &amp;quot;Futile&amp;quot; differently than Locutus?&lt;/a&gt; (Q 51, A 97)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/102107/has-the-phrase-star-trek-ever-been-used-in-star-trek&quot;&gt;Has the phrase &amp;#39;Star Trek&amp;#39; ever been used in Star Trek?&lt;/a&gt; (Q 54, A 74)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/114974&quot;&gt;Was Severus Snape based on a real person?&lt;/a&gt; (Q 8, A 19)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Unfortunately, sometimes how a question is received will depend on who's posting it. (I know, I know: SE policy is &quot;vote for the post, not the person&quot;. But once again, each user is free to use their upvotes and downvotes however the hell they want.) If you're a known rep maniac, people will be more likely to assume you just posted it to garner rep, and might downvote for that reason. This is why you and Valorum tend to be particularly hard hit by the Curse of the Downvoted Self-Answer. However, this isn't &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; the case - see the above examples posted by me during my rep-maniac period.&lt;/sub&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;One last thing from your question that I should address:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some users have suggested that the policy mentioned in our Meta might not be valid, since it was made too long ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bull.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Policies established by the community on meta are valid until they're overturned by new policies established by the community on meta. Saying &quot;we last had this discussion 5 years ago, shall we reopen it&quot; is fine; saying &quot;we last had this discussion 5 years ago, so let's ignore the consensus we reached then as it's too long ago&quot; is &lt;strong&gt;absolutely 100% wrong&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-06-15T10:08:40.820" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9819" CreationDate="2016-06-14T23:51:09.507" Score="6" Body="&lt;h3&gt;I think being able to answer one's own questions is a viable and acceptable option as long as it is not being abused.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I shall use myself as an example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I rarely write questions but when I do, they are not easily answered. I may ask them because I don't know and don't have time to do the research for myself at that moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I may ask them because they are something I just considered and thought it would be a good question to put on the board and I have NO idea of what the answer might be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;See:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/131200/2765&quot;&gt;Is Tony Stark exaggerating about the potential espionage threat in the Marvel Universe?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is an example of a question that, if no one can answer it in a few weeks, I may be forced to do the deed myself, if no easy answers can be found. Inherent in my asking of my questions, most easy answers are NOT available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am looking for insider information, a hard to find interview, a Twitter conversation or people who specialize in this kind of hard to find data. However, if such information is challenging to find, I may end up having to answer my own question because I felt it was important enough to ask, and should have an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe it is still a viable option to allow the original poster to ask and answer a question if the community has not been sufficient to the task. The benefit is the answered question, not necessarily the rep gained. Writers here, in my opinion, have a good sense of people who are rep-farming versus people who are contributing interesting and compelling information to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2765" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-06-14T23:51:09.507" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9819" CreationDate="2016-06-15T00:26:51.183" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/131652/would-a-phoenix-horcrux-be-indestructible&quot;&gt;The question&lt;/a&gt; in question, is a hypothetical situation, akin to saying &lt;em&gt;Hey, I thought of this, what do you think?&lt;/em&gt; crossed with &lt;em&gt;This'll get me some reps for sure!&lt;/em&gt; That is my opinion, and IMO, undoubtedly the reason for some of those DVs. The self-answer policy is neither here nor there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, as you have learned, &lt;strong&gt;self-answers are to be conducted with the utmost scrutiny&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone is willing to ignore this: (&lt;em&gt;until you cross a certain point&lt;/em&gt;)*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;You should only ask&lt;/a&gt; practical, answerable questions &lt;strong&gt;based on actual problems that you face&lt;/strong&gt;. Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of our site and push other questions off the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*You found that point. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a &lt;strike&gt;fine line&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;em&gt;large area&lt;/em&gt; in between &quot;actual problems that you face&quot; and &quot;chatty, open-ended questions&quot;. Try to stick to the shallow end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23785" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-06-15T00:26:51.183" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9808" CreationDate="2016-06-15T09:02:51.893" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question is too broad if there is (significantly) more than one answer.  Especially if the answers are a little speculative.  As stated in the close flag prompt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are either too many possible answers, or good answers would be too long for this format. Please add details to narrow the answer set or to isolate an issue that can be answered in a few paragraphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is a single answer then the number of ways to validate that answer is irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30512" LastActivityDate="2016-06-15T09:02:51.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9814" CreationDate="2016-06-15T12:24:56.873" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;On Topic&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To offer a counter point to the other answers...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Jungle Book&lt;/em&gt; (primarily based on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle_Book_(1967_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;1967 Disney film&lt;/a&gt;) has &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A human being successfully raised by wild animals from near birth.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Said human can speak to and understand said animals.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A snake with hypnotic powers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A group on primates that resemble a monarchy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Elephants that have adapted a military like structure&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also we have two questions on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tarzan&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tarzan&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tarzan&lt;/a&gt; and I see the two works as being similar; however it is not a large enough sample size for a conclusion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2016-06-15T12:24:56.873" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9826" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-15T22:51:50.310" Score="0" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question recently: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/131800/44184&quot;&gt;Why was the tree burnt?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Part&lt;/em&gt; of this question is checking whether Cyclops' optic blasts produce heat. That's only part of the question because if they do, then that makes for a pretty trivial answer: the tree is burnt because the blast is hot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actual question, though, is &quot;If not, why was the tree burning?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet, this question has been closed as a duplicate of a question that has nothing to do with this specific instance of Cyclops hitting something with his blasts and having it light up. The only part of the answer to the &quot;duplicate&quot; that is even relevant is &quot;Nor does it emit infrared radiation or heat of any kind&quot;. All that does is &lt;em&gt;justify&lt;/em&gt; my question, not answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I'm perfectly happy to edit the question if someone has a specific suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2016-08-04T15:38:49.147" Title="Can we please reopen this question about Cyclops' optic blasts?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|specific-question|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2016-06-16T02:24:28.103" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm just bleh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Complete bleh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57642" LastActivityDate="2016-06-16T02:24:28.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9819" CreationDate="2016-06-16T04:47:28.053" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, we shouldn't revisit that policy. Other answers explain why. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I just revisited my own policy of allowing people who don't get the point of this site or its rules to run rough-shod and hurt people posting good content to the site and doing nothing to address it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Your excellent self-answer gets 100 bounty&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I intend to make addressing things this way a habit, and encourage anyone else who strongly feels with the harmfullness and unfairness of downvotes on self-answered questions merely because they are self-answered to follow the same approach and offer your own bounties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2016-06-16T04:47:28.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9829" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-16T15:12:06.980" Score="18" ViewCount="635" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Result / Summary of policy&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers which state or imply that a religious work is fiction should be flagged for moderator attention. Moderators will delete such answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The only exception in which an answer is permitted to cite a religious source is if the question clearly states that non-fictional sources are allowed, and the answer does not state or imply that the religious work is fiction.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Since the validity of an answer depends on the asker's clear intent, we require the asker to clearly state &lt;em&gt;in the question post&lt;/em&gt; whether or not he's looking for non-fictional inspiration. We will not make assumptions about the asker's intent based on the question's tags.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Proposal TL;DR&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The moderation team is proposing the following policy regarding answers that cite religious sources:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions which clearly ask for fictional sources only are not to be answered with religious sources. Users who find such an answer should flag the answer for deletion. &lt;strong&gt;No change from current policy.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions which clearly allow non-fictional sources may be answered with religious sources if applicable. In the event that such an answer could be interpreted as treating the religious sources as works of fiction, we will add a disclaimer that the community does not consider religious texts to be works of fiction. This disclaimer will be in the form of either an edit to the answer or a moderator post notice. The answer would &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be deleted. &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Since the validity of an answer depends on the asker's clear intent, we will require the asker to clearly state &lt;em&gt;in the question post&lt;/em&gt; whether or not he's looking for non-fictional inspiration. We will not make assumptions about the asker's intent based on the question's tags. &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Background&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community recently decided &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9523/31936&quot;&gt;how to handle answers that cite religious texts&lt;/a&gt;. All the upvoted answers on that meta discussion are clear that &lt;strong&gt;the overarching goal of the policy is to avoid offending users by treating their religion's texts as fictional.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9565/31936&quot;&gt;@AncientSwordRage's post&lt;/a&gt; is the most comprehensive explanation of the agreed-upon policy. To summarize the important points: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderators are obligated to delete answers which are flagged as offensive, whether or not that moderator personally finds the answer offensive. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Because the topic of this site is a specific type of fiction, answers are generally expected to cite works of fiction (and thus not religious works). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is an exception in which answers may cite a religious work if a question asker is looking for a (possibly non-fictional) inspirational source. @AncientSwordRage suggested using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/inspiration&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;inspiration&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;inspiration&lt;/a&gt; to indicate non-fictional sources are acceptable (or, of course, the asker can specify it in the question text).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This policy is largely sound, but the moderators have been discussing it extensively among ourselves and we would like to suggest a few modifications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Rationale for the disclaimer&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The main modification we are suggesting is to &lt;em&gt;add a disclaimer&lt;/em&gt; rather than &lt;em&gt;delete&lt;/em&gt; answers which cite religious sources on questions that allow non-fictional sources.&lt;/strong&gt; The edit would add a disclaimer that the citation of a religious source is not intended to imply that the religious work(s) cited are fictional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of this suggested modification is to preserve content which is potentially useful while still attempting to avoid offending religious users. The existing policy to delete such answers certainly avoids offense but is vulnerable to a tyranny of the offended censor -- content can be deleted easily by just a few offended flaggers even if it is useful to the majority of the community. Worse, moderators are expected to delete flagged answers of this type even though we cannot know whether or not the flagger is truly offended (the flagger may raise a flag simply because someone else &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be offended, or to troll). We've already seen flags in which the flagger did not appear to be personally offended but raised a flag simply because the answer cited a religious text. The existing policy also risks offending the &lt;em&gt;answerer&lt;/em&gt;, who may feel censored after having posted an answer with no ill intent. This suggested modification seeks a middle ground.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make this editing policy easy for everyone, we propose the creation of a disclaimer template which would be edited into an answer which cites religious source(s). An example of such a disclaimer is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The citation of religious source(s) in this answer is not intended to imply that said source(s) are fictional; answers citing such source(s) are allowed by the Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange community only when relevant to questions seeking non-fictional inspirations for works of fiction. See [link to &quot;answers with religious works&quot; policy on meta] for more details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...where the link to meta would point to the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; meta discussion in which the community agreed upon the text of the disclaimer template. Don't worry too much about the template text at this point -- we'll figure out the exact text in a future meta discussion if consensus is achieved for the suggested policy change in &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; meta discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two ways to apply the disclaimer template:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Simply edit the answer. No moderator intervention would be required: any user can simply edit the disclaimer to the [top? bottom?] of the answer (users without the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;edit privilege&lt;/a&gt; can &lt;em&gt;suggest&lt;/em&gt; the edit).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/191981/what-about-site-specific-post-notices&quot;&gt;custom post notice&lt;/a&gt;. We would need to post a &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt; to convince Stack Exchange to add such a post notice. Additionally, a moderator would be required to add the post notice (users would need to raise a flag &quot;in need of moderator attention&quot;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are pros and cons to each approach. For example, (1) is easier to apply but such an edit could be rolled back in spite of site policy. On the other hand, while (2) is more permanent it requires a feature change to the site and moderator intervention. &lt;strong&gt;Please discuss the pros and cons of each approach and suggest one or the other if you approve of changing the policy to add a disclaimer.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This policy change would only apply to questions which do not clearly indicate that only fictional works are acceptable; &lt;strong&gt;if a question explicitly asks for only fictional works then the answer would still be deleted&lt;/strong&gt; (it either treats a religious text as fiction in violation of site policy, or it treats it as non-fiction and is thus &quot;not an answer&quot;). You can flag such answers as &quot;offensive&quot;, &quot;not an answer&quot;, or &quot;in need of moderator attention&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Rationale for determining the asker's intent&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other suggested modification (more of a clarification) deals with the intent of the asker and enforcement of the policy. The linked meta post by @AncientSwordRage suggested using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/inspiration&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;inspiration&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;inspiration&lt;/a&gt; -- but not the related &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; -- to indicate that the asker is looking for non-fictional sources and thus possibly religious sources. However, the moderators have come to a consensus among ourselves that tags are an unreliable method of determining the asker's intent because (a) users are often ignorant of tag wikis explaining the proper use of the tag and (b) someone other than the asker can easily add or remove a tag by mistake. Therefore &lt;strong&gt;we propose that tags -- like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/inspiration&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;inspiration&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;inspiration&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; -- are to be ignored when determining whether or not non-fictional/religious sources can be included in answers. To be sure what is acceptable, the asker needs to specify in the question post.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Your mission&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Indicate your support or disapproval of the proposal to add a disclaimer rather than delete answers which cite religious works on questions that allow non-fictional sources.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Indicate your support or disapproval of the proposal to ignore tags when determining the intent of the asker to allow or disallow non-fictional sources.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you approve of adding a disclaimer, indicate whether you think it is better to add it via normal edit or via a moderator post notice (and why).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you approve of adding a disclaimer but you think the example wording requires significant changes, please suggest alternate wording. Don't worry about it yet if you think the wording just needs minor tweaking -- we will work that out later if the disclaimer is approved by the community.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To help determine consensus, please consider the above tasks in separate answers to this meta question. Also, votes on this meta question will not be considered for determining consensus -- only votes on answers to this question will be considered. If a clear consensus is not achieved for the above proposals the current policy of deletion will continue to be enforced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2016-06-27T21:32:58.140" Title="Proposal to modify the policy on answers that cite religious texts" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9829" CreationDate="2016-06-16T16:09:27.977" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disapprove of point 1 on the grounds that community consensus is (and always has been) that &lt;strong&gt;we're &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9523/answers-that-count-religious-texts-as-fiction&quot;&gt;perfectly happy to allows this sort of content&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; Referencing religious works is only disallowed &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9738/is-it-on-topic-to-give-religious-texts-as-answer-for-first-appearance?lq=1&quot;&gt;when they're referred to as being fictional&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, a disclaimer would serve no useful purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they get flagged by someone who isn't aware of the site's existing policies, the moderator can always point the flagee to the appropriate policies (see above) that explicitly state that such content is acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2016-06-16T16:27:19.877" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9829" CreationDate="2016-06-16T20:22:45.893" Score="-7" Body="&lt;p&gt;A separate &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; tag should be made to define that &lt;em&gt;fictional&lt;/em&gt; answers are desired, IE &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-in-fiction&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-in-fiction&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-in-fiction&lt;/a&gt; . Essentially, I disagree with @AncientSwordRage 's decision to use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/inspiration&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;inspiration&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;inspiration&lt;/a&gt; tag as the differentiator, because it is also usable for a much broader group of cases, and &quot;history of&quot; already has an out-of-fiction connotation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user40790" LastActivityDate="2016-06-16T20:22:45.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9829" CreationDate="2016-06-16T20:41:13.857" Score="-1" Body="&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I &lt;strong&gt;disapprove&lt;/strong&gt; of ignoring the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/inspiration&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;inspiration&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;inspiration&lt;/a&gt; tag, &lt;em&gt;if it was added by the OP&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the &lt;strong&gt;OP&lt;/strong&gt; (not another user) includes the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/inspiration&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;inspiration&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;inspiration&lt;/a&gt; tag, it should not be ignored.  The chances of a new user finding, then misusing, that tag seem so negligible as to be a non-issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, I am fine with ignoring the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2016-06-16T20:41:13.857" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9839" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9841" CreationDate="2016-06-17T11:24:53.080" Score="-4" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;The usage guidance excerpt for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/albus-dumbledore&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;albus-dumbledore&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;albus-dumbledore&lt;/a&gt; reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Albus Dumbledore, a powerful wizard, &lt;strong&gt;is the headmaster of Hogwarts&#xA;  School of Witchcraft and Wizardry&lt;/strong&gt;, and a major character in the&#xA;  Harry Potter series&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the wiki states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Albus Dumbledore &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; a major character in J.K. Rowling's&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; franchise and served as Harry Potter's mentor and&#xA;  guide as he grew into wizarding. &lt;strong&gt;He is a powerful wizard and the&#xA;  headmaster&lt;/strong&gt; at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hogwarts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hogwarts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hogwarts&lt;/a&gt; School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.&#xA;  Dumbledore knew Harry's past and, as such, took great care to make&#xA;  sure he had the resources to face the trials he suspected were coming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He was portrayed by two actors in the film series: Richard Harris (who&#xA;  died after filming the second movie) and Michael Gambon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe this is obsolete as it does not account for following (Spoilers alert for those who haven't read/watched Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Albus Dumbledore was no longer the head master of the school because&#xA; of being dead and everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is why I believe we should use past tense here instead of present tense. Should It be edited to represent up to date information without giving away too much? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2016-06-17T11:45:44.830" LastActivityDate="2016-06-17T15:28:54.000" Title="Should the Albus Dumbledore tag wiki be updated?" Tags="|discussion|tag-wiki|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9839" CreationDate="2016-06-17T11:39:48.470" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You may be running into problems as you were suggesting to edit one word, which even though changes the meaning entirely could still considered &lt;em&gt;trivial&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest adding the years Dumbledore was actually headmaster (which I do not remember off the top of my head). This would make the update a bit more substantial and accurate. With new materials coming out as well (Cursed Child) we are going to be seeing the current Headmaster it probably &lt;em&gt;could be&lt;/em&gt; updated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I had to skip that review because it made me sad... I think to a lot of the HP fandom Dumbledore will always be the headmaster. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2016-06-17T11:39:48.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9839" CreationDate="2016-06-17T14:28:07.237" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I went over some other character tags, including &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/voldemort&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;voldemort&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;voldemort&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/darth-vader&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;darth-vader&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;darth-vader&lt;/a&gt;, and it seems like they take a different view of how to structure the tag wiki, tense-wise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For Voldemort:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The major antagonist of the Harry Potter series of books by JK Rowling, a powerful evil wizard who &lt;strong&gt;seeks&lt;/strong&gt; to cheat death and rule the world&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The major antagonist of the Harry Potter series of books by JK Rowling, later adapted to film. A greatly feared dark wizard, he &lt;strong&gt;seeks&lt;/strong&gt; to dominate both the magical and non-magical societies in Britain and maybe further. He &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; completely amoral and unable to understand loyalty (vs intimidation), friendship, or (most importantly) love.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we see here is a description that tries to address the character in &lt;em&gt;general&lt;/em&gt; terms, not in any specific point along the fictional timeline. You don't need to address his actions in the books, but look at it as an encyclopedia entry about him, either in-universe or out: he &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; the main antagonist in the novels, since we're not before or after reading them, he just &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt;. He &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; completely amoral, when describing him, not at any point in time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And for Vader:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Darth Vader &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; the primary antagonist &lt;strong&gt;in the original Star Wars films.&lt;/strong&gt; Wearing a black armoured life-support suit, he &lt;strong&gt;features&lt;/strong&gt; in all three original films. As a master of the dark side of the Force, Vader &lt;strong&gt;became&lt;/strong&gt; the scourge of the Jedi, leading the Great Jedi Purge. [..]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Darth Vader &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; the primary antagonist in the original Star Wars films. After a battle with his former master he &lt;strong&gt;was&lt;/strong&gt; badly damaged by lava; Vader &lt;strong&gt;is seen&lt;/strong&gt; in a black, armoured life-support suit. [..]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This gets a bit more complicated. It seems the tag wiki here is written from a point in time of when the character is first introduced, in Episode IV - he fell into lava and became the scourge of the Jedi &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the first point in the narrative, so it's not an occurrence in the plot (though it would later be, in the prequels), but a static description of the character &lt;em&gt;as characterized&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Don't Kill Dumbledore&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Judging by these, I think that a better update to Dumbledore's tag wiki would be along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Albus Dumbledore, a powerful wizard, is the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry throughout most of the Harry Potter novels, and a major character in the plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't change &amp;quot;is a major character&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;was a major character&amp;quot;, because he still &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a major character, in the sense that the books still exist and he's still a major character in them. Instead of &amp;quot;he is a powerful wizard&amp;quot;, go for &amp;quot;he is one of the most powerful wizards in the Harry Potter universe&amp;quot;, which is true because it describes his position in the story and universe, not in a given point in time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And remember, there's no need for the tag wiki to be fully detailed, or even up to date with everything that's happened, just the snapshot of the character that encapsulates them. Would you say it would be wrong to say that &amp;quot;Harry Potter is a student at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry&amp;quot; because the final scene skips years ahead, placing the &amp;quot;last known point&amp;quot; of the plot when he is no longer a student? I don't think so. His being a student is his essence, in the novels, just like Dumbledore's importance lies in his being the headmaster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4516" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-06-17T15:28:54.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9829" CreationDate="2016-06-17T20:33:12.843" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disapprove of using tags as a way to qualify answers, because we've clearly shown that tags are used inconsistently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is being asked by an experienced user, they should be familiar with our religious text policy and be clear in their question about what they're willing to accept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is being asked by a new user, I wouldn't expect them to tag properly, let alone be aware that we have a policy on religious texts. So, we'd be forced to comment on their question to ascertain what they're willing to accept... At which point the information should be edited into the question body, and not left to be defined by a tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asker aside, we also have plenty of users that don't look at what every tag means when &lt;em&gt;answering&lt;/em&gt; a question. If the question is asking about the origin of an idea, why on Earth would an average user look to see if &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/inspiration&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;inspiration&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;inspiration&lt;/a&gt; had some &lt;em&gt;additional&lt;/em&gt; connotation before answering? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They wouldn't. All the work regarding these policies is going to be done by:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Those in the community that know of the policies&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Those in the community that care to enforce them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And those two groups might not overlap. The only thing adding tags into the mix will do is create more work for another group:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Those in the community that care to fix tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this 3rd group may not care about anything else!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2016-06-17T20:33:12.843" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9843" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9844" CreationDate="2016-06-18T22:28:22.007" Score="1" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question (&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/129604/what-changes-have-been-made-to-hogwarts-throughout-the-series&quot;&gt;What changes have been made to Hogwarts throughout the series?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;) asks for some details from the movies about the changes in Hogwarts castle from film to film. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the best way to get a good answer for future visitors to the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Set some sort of &lt;strong&gt;bounty&lt;/strong&gt; on the question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Start a &lt;strong&gt;CW answer&lt;/strong&gt; and hope users will add to it over time?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some &lt;strong&gt;other&lt;/strong&gt; idea?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't had much luck with setting bounties in the past so I'm not very hopeful about idea #1 but I also think a CW would be kinda boring. Any thoughts? What's the best way to end up with a decent answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54827" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-06-18T23:17:25.293" LastActivityDate="2016-06-18T23:17:25.293" Title="What's the best course of action for my Hogwarts question?" Tags="|discussion|answers|bounty|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9843" CreationDate="2016-06-18T23:03:14.730" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem here is that your question is very broad and not a little dull. It's not &lt;em&gt;unanswerable&lt;/em&gt;, but doing so would require someone to put in an inordinate amount of effort for a question that is very poorly scoped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm reasonably sure that any of the users &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9843/whats-the-best-course-of-action-for-my-hogwarts-question/9844#comment27801_9843&quot;&gt;mentioned above&lt;/a&gt; could answer it if they were minded to (as could you), so it's just a matter of motivating someone to do the leg-work that you seem unwilling to do yourself. That says &quot;bounty&quot; to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-06-18T23:09:53.890" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1213" CreationDate="2016-06-19T07:41:34.110" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the Bots but would enjoy more fantasy posts and book posts being posted. There is far more sci-fi stuff and movie stuff then books and fantasy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65829" LastActivityDate="2016-06-19T07:41:34.110" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9846" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-20T17:06:04.503" Score="5" ViewCount="354" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from April 1st 2016 through June 30 2016 (&lt;strong&gt;They don't have to be &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; questions and answers.&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2016/04/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2016/04/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2016/04/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This time I will also be linking all blog posts that happened within this quarter.&lt;/strong&gt; Might be nice for people to see those. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2016-07-05T15:56:07.653" Title="Favorite Questions and Answers from second quarter of 2016" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9846" CreationDate="2016-06-20T18:01:11.613" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/129319/why-is-the-matrix-tinted-green&quot;&gt;Why is The Matrix tinted green?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/129936/why-does-everyone-call-hagrid-by-his-last-name&quot;&gt;Why does everyone call Hagrid by his last name?&lt;/a&gt; (it's a thinker)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/131940/why-does-zaphod-beeblebrox-call-ford-prefect-ford-when-they-meet-on-the-heart&quot;&gt;Why does Zaphod Beeblebrox call Ford Prefect &amp;quot;Ford&amp;quot; when they meet on the Heart of Gold?&lt;/a&gt; (because I noticed it years ago, but never remembered to ask it here)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/129322/20774&quot;&gt;Why is the Matrix tinted green&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/124193/20774&quot;&gt;What happens to Fawkes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2016-06-20T18:01:11.613" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9846" CreationDate="2016-06-20T19:02:03.140" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll break convention and nominate a meta question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9522/map-of-all-2-137-tags&quot;&gt;Map of all 2,137 tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like this question because it makes our tagging look awesome. Our messy tagging that's been known to cause arguments also creates a tag map with clusters of tags and surprising connections all over the place. Sites that enforce cleaner tagging sometimes have tag maps that look more sterile. Scroll through the tag map and revel in our messy tagging!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36115" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-06-20T19:02:03.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9846" CreationDate="2016-06-21T13:40:11.257" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/132068/does-aragorn-wear-pants&quot;&gt;Does Aragorn wear pants?&lt;/a&gt; is as important as whether &lt;a href=&quot;http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Balrogs/Wings&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Balrog have wings&lt;/a&gt; (or &lt;a href=&quot;http://flyingmoose.org/tolksarc/theories/slippers.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;fuzzy slippers&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/125624/why-is-the-star-wars-universe-not-a-post-scarcity-economy&quot;&gt;Why is the Star Wars universe not a post-scarcity economy?&lt;/a&gt;, although I might be seen as biased since I have the high vote on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/127181/why-have-most-superhero-movies-ditched-the-secret-identity&quot;&gt;Why have most Superhero movies ditched the &amp;quot;Secret Identity&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; was entertaining to see how various people answered it on Word of God, sociological, and story-telling levels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2016-06-21T13:40:11.257" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9850" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-21T19:27:45.173" Score="11" ViewCount="577" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Background.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over the past few days a user has been mass-editing this tag (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nolan-batman-trilogy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;nolan-batman-trilogy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;nolan-batman-trilogy&lt;/a&gt;) onto the Nolan trilogy films. 33+ edits have been made in the past 48 hours with no sign of abating. Thus far the &lt;em&gt;volume&lt;/em&gt; of changes made has provoked at least two users (that I've seen) into refusing their edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I flagged the latest round of changes, the third set of &gt;5 over the past day for Moderator attention, I was told that ...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The user checked with a moderator in chat first, has been&#xA;  made aware of the '&lt;em&gt;5 per top 15&lt;/em&gt;' guideline, and has been sticking to&#xA;  it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Query&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the dubious value of these changes (and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9207/when-should-we-do-another-tag-cleanup&quot;&gt;lack of community interest in recent tag-cleanup efforts&lt;/a&gt;) &#xA;&lt;strong&gt;how many tag edits should we tolerate each day without the user seeking meta consensus?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2016-06-29T12:39:27.817" Title="How many tag edits should we allow per day?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="37" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9850" CreationDate="2016-06-21T19:32:51.567" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;These edits are of very low value to the community and while a well-tagged site is something to aim for in theory, we shouldn't put that over the (IMHO &lt;strong&gt;vastly more important&lt;/strong&gt;) front page &amp;amp; active questions board. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The policy described basically allows a single user to leverage a full &lt;em&gt;third&lt;/em&gt; of the front page for their own ends and is clearly well in excess of what's appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without meta concensus, I think we should tolerate &lt;strong&gt;no more than 5 tag-edits per day from a single user on a mission.&lt;/strong&gt; Any more than that and a moderator should have a quiet word with the user about coming to meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-06-21T19:58:23.920" LastActivityDate="2016-06-21T19:58:23.920" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9850" CreationDate="2016-06-21T20:07:06.490" Score="-13" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can &lt;strong&gt;do whatever you want between 7~9 AM UTC. Everyone's asleep&lt;/strong&gt; (Chicago's 2AM~4AM, if I got that right).  I've seen mods do what you're talking about; this is when they do it: when the English speaking world is largely asleep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This 2 hour &lt;em&gt;'late night down time'&lt;/em&gt; window is when it's OK to flood the front page with edits, &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; 48 hours a day...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, &lt;strong&gt;anyone who still needs their edits approved, shouldn't be editing tags&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;How many tag edits should we tolerate each day without the user seeking meta consensus?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As many &lt;em&gt;appropriate&lt;/em&gt; ones as they make, so long as that when made in excess, they're following the two lines I have in bold: do it quietly, do it alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently, I've ruffled some feathers claiming people are asleep at work ;) These 'dips' in activity are what I'm talking about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/isCm7.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/isCm7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23785" LastEditorUserId="23785" LastEditDate="2016-06-21T20:17:22.220" LastActivityDate="2016-06-21T20:17:22.220" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9850" CreationDate="2016-06-21T22:17:25.973" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The guideline agreed to in the past within Mos Eisley, with approval from mods (at the time) was 5 of the top 15 posts on the most recent filter of the front page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most weekdays, this rule worked just fine, pushing the edits out of the top 15 reasonably quickly with regular site activity and allowed larger retagging efforts to finish within a reasonable amount of time. Weekends or late nights tended to slow this down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see no particular reason to change the past guideline now. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3102/5184&quot;&gt;there was a previous meta precedent&lt;/a&gt; established with 11 upvotes, 0 downvotes. The numbers were a bit different than what we usually went with, having been a little higher in tolerance at 4/10 instead of the more commonly used 5/15 guideline. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2016-06-22T10:52:45.017" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9855" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-21T23:27:02.127" Score="-1" ViewCount="313" Body="&lt;p&gt;On several occasions I've seen users decrying the Nolan Batman as being little more than spy-fi with little or no fantasy or science-fictional content. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is the 'Dark Knight trilogy' on topic for SFF:SE and if so, why?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7559/is-gotham-on-topic&quot;&gt;Is Gotham on topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2016-06-22T13:42:36.433" Title="Is the Nolanverse Batman on-topic on SFF:SE?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9855" CreationDate="2016-06-22T00:09:53.837" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes, because he's Batman.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, that's all we need to say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-06-22T00:09:53.837" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7559" CreationDate="2016-06-22T00:59:55.367" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gotham is on-topic because Fish can do weird stuff when she touches you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23785" LastActivityDate="2016-06-22T00:59:55.367" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9855" CreationDate="2016-06-22T01:34:07.347" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's on topic (check the links at the bottom). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The linked question covers most of this already. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The 75 questions we have seem to indicate the community thinks it's on topic. If there was a time to ban it (and confuse and annoy Batman fans) it would've been as swiftly after people started asking as possible. But no one took it to meta, and instead voiced their opinion by not DVing and VTCing the questions away. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The final film has a sci-fi clean/limitless energy device turned into a nuke and other extraordinarily advanced technology such as The Bat. Those things aren't just &lt;em&gt;by the ways&lt;/em&gt;, but important throughout the plot.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's Batman. The &lt;em&gt;franchise&lt;/em&gt; is on topic, considering we've never had an official Batman media been deemed off-topic. There's no reason to cherry pick versions of the character that we're allowed to discuss. This comes up when people use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;batman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;batman&lt;/a&gt; asking questions of the entire franchise, Nolan movies included. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, this question actually seems to be about defining what Sci-fi is. Without a fast definition, we can't compare the trilogy to it and see how it holds up. If Nolanverse is off-topic, then we need to come up with a better definition of SFF. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The top answers on these questions would place Nolanverse on topic, easily:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1028/31178&quot;&gt;What are our boundaries?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/37/31178&quot;&gt;What is and what isn&amp;#39;t considered science fiction?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9471/31178&quot;&gt;Is James Bond science fiction?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/337/31178&quot;&gt;Are works that aren&amp;#39;t SF per se, but have occasional SFnal elements on-topic? (e.g. spy movies)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reading those answers, the community seems pretty open to accepting a broad range of SFF, and our actual Q&amp;amp;A voting patterns would seem to agree. Our voting seems to be less based on &quot;Is this even on topic?&quot; even on grey area questions, and more &quot;Is this even a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; question?&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And since our reigning policy is &quot;if you think a case can be made for it, it's on topic&quot;, I think the case has been made, not here but in the fact that the questions are here already and have done well enough). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2016-06-22T03:44:50.973" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9850" CreationDate="2016-06-22T02:59:32.993" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Should there be a limit on the number of edits a single post generates?&lt;/em&gt; –ELU&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's an answer, as has already been stated, &lt;strong&gt;if it improves the answer, it is (imo) not unwelcome.&lt;/strong&gt; If it makes the answer worse, and the behavior is across multiple answers, then &lt;strong&gt;I think a flag to attract the mods should be sufficient&lt;/strong&gt;, but that's just my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it hurt the site in any way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, it puts it at the top again. I think &lt;strong&gt;if the user does this, say, to draw more attention to the question (gaming the system, so to speak), it can be something to look into&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;–&lt;a href=&quot;https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7767/should-there-be-a-limit-on-the-number-of-edits-a-single-post-generates/7801&quot;&gt;medica&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I implore you to read the fine print on that answer, of which I'd be aghast to say myself)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real question: are these 'good' edits? IMO, yes. They &lt;em&gt;do not&lt;/em&gt; make the question worse. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9855/is-the-nolanverse-batman-on-topic-on-sffse&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Assuming this tag isn't a farce&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your beef is with the system, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3676/is-there-a-possibility-to-edit-my-own-question-without-bumping-it&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;as it was designed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, 'discussions' will not avail you (you need &lt;em&gt;feature requests&lt;/em&gt;, which FYI, the likes of which have been denied in the past).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23785" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-06-22T02:59:32.993" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9855" CreationDate="2016-06-22T06:37:02.700" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dark Knight trilogy is way less Sci-Fi then James bond film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A billionaire man uses scientific gadgets to fight crime. Villains are a man with half burnt face, a psychotic man and a team of assassins; nothing more Sci-Fi then any spy film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because he is Batman seems the most unreasonable statement. On the other hand, DCEU's batman is Sci-Fi, as he fights with alien beasts and his villain gallery included super-powered people (the Suicide Squad). Similarly, the Gotham TV series does have Sci-Fi elements: resurrections, super-powers etc etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;tl;dr: &lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6006" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-06-22T13:42:36.433" LastActivityDate="2016-06-22T13:42:36.433" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9861" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-22T07:06:23.980" Score="9" ViewCount="314" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have individual character tags like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/voldemort&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;voldemort&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;voldemort&lt;/a&gt; , &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/severus-snape&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;severus-snape&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;severus-snape&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sirius-black&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sirius-black&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sirius-black&lt;/a&gt; etc. Keeping personal feelings apart, they are allowed by community. Then there have been &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9508/should-clark-kent-be-a-synonym-of-superman&quot;&gt;dual tags for a single character&lt;/a&gt; (now fixed). But my concern is, if we have individual character tags, then &lt;strong&gt;do we really need general character tags too?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/characters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;characters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;characters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character-motivation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character-motivation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character-motivation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character-development&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character-development&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character-development&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/female-characters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;female-characters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;female-characters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character-similarity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character-similarity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character-similarity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am skipping &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character-identification&lt;/a&gt; because of its usefulness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So do we really need individual character tags and general character tags both?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;If yes&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then &lt;strong&gt;is it a good idea to have 5 general character tags, or should we merge them all into something clear?&lt;/strong&gt; Like merging all of them under &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I kept the new tag suggestion singular intentionally&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6006" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-05-13T08:16:50.247" Title="Do we want Individual character tags and general character tags both? If yes then do we really need all 5 generic character tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="20" ClosedDate="2019-05-13T08:22:02.250" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9861" CreationDate="2016-06-22T07:58:52.203" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You ask, &lt;em&gt;do we really need individual character tags and general character tags both?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think about it from the perspective of shows/movies/books rather than characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wheel-of-time&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wheel-of-time&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wheel-of-time&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt;, etc, do we really need &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantasy-genre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantasy-genre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantasy-genre&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer is, &lt;em&gt;in most cases,&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;yes&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are questions about aspects that are shared across the general category, not just the individual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;* &lt;em&gt;Some&lt;/em&gt; &quot;general&quot; tags may not be necessary, but &lt;em&gt;in general&lt;/em&gt;, they are useful.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14001" LastActivityDate="2016-06-22T07:58:52.203" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9861" CreationDate="2016-06-22T08:08:26.957" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We don't need character tags at all, never mind the meta tags you've listed in the question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone who has listened to my whining about this before can skip this, because I'm just banging the same drum I have been for some time now. Still;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best way we could approach tagging on this site would be from the perspective of what I've just now decided to call the Individual to Broad hierarchy. The basic concept is that we tag based on the individual work(s) the question is about, the franchise those works belong to (if required), and then the (again, if required) the over-riding intellectual property on which the work/franchise is based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using a hypothetical question about &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt; as an example, we would tag that as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-dark-knight&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-dark-knight&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-dark-knight&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nolan-batman-trilogy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;nolan-batman-trilogy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;nolan-batman-trilogy&lt;/a&gt; and then &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;batman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;batman&lt;/a&gt; (as the over-riding intellectual property, NOT the name of the character).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In just three tags, we cover people interested in any of the possible levels at which they may want to see this question. People looking for questions about &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt; find it, people looking for questions about Nolan's trilogy find it, and people interested in anything to do with the intellectual property of Batman find it too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, not all of these &quot;levels&quot; of tagging will be required in every instance - for example, a question about &lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt; would only have one tag as that show doesn't belong to a larger franchise or intellectual property (at least as far as I'm aware).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In conclusion - no we definitely don't need the general character tags (which are meta tags) that you've highlighted there. But we also don't need specific character tags either.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24087" LastEditorUserId="24087" LastEditDate="2016-06-22T08:31:58.533" LastActivityDate="2016-06-22T08:31:58.533" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2016-06-22T11:17:22.163" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mine is a (happy)Pikachu from the anime series of Pokemon&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OCVeM.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OCVeM.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53012" LastActivityDate="2016-06-22T11:17:22.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9829" CreationDate="2016-06-22T11:29:17.427" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;3&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a disclaimer should be added by a moderator through a post notice, to stress that it is a stack policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A user can flag for &quot;needs attention&quot; or perhaps a custom flag can be added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2016-06-22T11:29:17.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9829" CreationDate="2016-06-22T11:31:46.667" Score="-2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;4&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the wording should address the use who wrote the answer and should be worded something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your answer may be interpreted as if you consider Greek religion to be fiction.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Please edit your answer to reflect that religious texts are not considered fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2016-06-22T12:04:53.017" LastActivityDate="2016-06-22T12:04:53.017" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9829" CreationDate="2016-06-22T11:34:42.297" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;2&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the main topic of this Stack is &lt;em&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy&lt;/em&gt;, all questions should be treated as being primarily about that subject matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;However&lt;/em&gt;, if an idea is older than that, a complete answer should mention the older sources, be they religion, myth, or folk tale, unless the asker has explicitly mentioned they are not interested in that. (And even then a throwaway line doesn't hurt).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question should make sense even &lt;em&gt;without any tags at all&lt;/em&gt;, so I would judge this primarily by the question itself, instead of by the tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2016-06-22T11:34:42.297" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9829" CreationDate="2016-06-22T11:42:22.123" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;1&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A disclaimer can be useful &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; the answer is ambiguous about the fictitiousness of the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if the answer clearly shows that the user uses a religious text as an example to show that an idea is older than fiction, but makes a clear distinction between fiction and religion, there's no need for a disclaimer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if a question asks for the first character in fiction with the ability to throw lightning bolts and the answer reads &quot;Zeus&quot; instead of &quot;Electro&quot;, it may need a disclaimer or message to the answerer, reading&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your answer may be interpreted as if you consider Greek religion to be fiction.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Please edit your answer to reflect that religious texts are not fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2016-06-22T11:42:22.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9855" CreationDate="2016-06-22T13:21:08.733" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm posting this answer separately so what's given here isn't coupled with my other reasoning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our longest-standing, highest-approved determination of SFF on-topicness is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If it's &lt;strong&gt;marketed as SF&lt;/strong&gt;, it's on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If magic, &lt;strong&gt;futuristic science or technology&lt;/strong&gt;, alternate history, or other sf-nal concept is an &lt;strong&gt;important part of the overall plot&lt;/strong&gt;, it's on-topic. (Alice in Wonderland, Clockwork Orange, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If the question is specifically about an sf-nal element, even if it's only a minor part of the work, it's on-topic. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If it's &lt;strong&gt;set in an on-topic universe&lt;/strong&gt;, it's on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If you're not sure it's SF but &lt;strong&gt;you think a good case can be made for it&lt;/strong&gt;, it's on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If there is a minor supernatural element (e.g. a fortune teller's prediction comes true, or someone sees a ghost, or a story for children involving anthropomorphic animals) but it's just a throwaway plot element that's not particularly relevant to the question, it's off-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is a rather inclusive policy&lt;/strong&gt;. I think being inclusive will generate less friction (better have a few questions that purists can just snub, than cause bad feelings by closing borderline questions). This isn't to say you shouldn't vote to close if you feel that a borderline question is on the wrong side of the border, but please explain your reasoning when you cast your close vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For 1:&lt;/strong&gt; I'd say it's marketed as a Super Hero film, and getting agreement on whether or not that's SF marketing may not happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For 2:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first film includes:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A high-tech military jumping tank, the Tumbler  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A sci-fi chemical weapon that induces vivid, fear-based hallucinations, created from a flower (a type of blue poppy) that doesn't actually exist  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A sci-fi microwave emitter device that can evaporate an enemy's water supply from a distance  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A sci-fi sonic transmitter device that summon bats to its location  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first 3 are very large pieces of the plot, with the last two being the core plot and part of the climax of the film. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the second movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A sci-fi, echolocation-based visual mapping system to render objects in real time  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A wall of computing equipment that can hack everybody's cell phones and turn their microphones into data points for echolocation system, and also pinpoint people's location just by their voice  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A tank-like vehicle with a certain level of automation, plus the ability to eject a motorcycle-like device that uses the same &quot;wheels&quot;, and said motorcyle device has wheels that can rotate on two axis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first two are major plot elements and involved in the climax. Also, movie 2 is in the same universe as movie 1.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the final movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An energy generated described as &quot;No radiation, no fossil fuels.            Free, clean energy for an entire city.&quot;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A way to turn that generated into a giant nuclear bomb  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A flying vessel described as thus: &quot;Defense Department project for            tight-geometry urban pacification. Rotors configured for maneuvering          between buildings without recirculation.&quot;, which not only seems SF-nal, but &lt;em&gt;looks it&lt;/em&gt;:  &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qtElp.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qtElp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A &quot;clean slate&quot; sci-fi hacking program that can erase all digital footprints of somebody, including government records, so that the person's identity can essentially be rebooted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These elements all play important pieces of the plot. This movie is still in the same universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For 4:&lt;/strong&gt; If one film is SFF, then per this rule they all are. We also have the possibility of a DC Multiverse event at some point that ties the movie universe to other universes, which could also reinforce this shared universe space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For 5:&lt;/strong&gt; I think a good case can be made. I think I made it here already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The policy is meant to be &lt;em&gt;inclusive&lt;/em&gt;. Putting this as off-topic &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; cause friction, and &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; snub people.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, determining whether or not it's on-topic was supposed to be handled by the community voting to close, and explaining their votes. No one is VTCing these questions, that I can tell. We've been okay with them, therefore we &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; okay with them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we're not okay with, that should be settled by exercising rights to close and reopen, not adding a new policy that says the questions should be closed or open. The existing policy is to let &lt;em&gt;we the people&lt;/em&gt; make this decision ourselves, for each question, not have meta make the decision for us and then we go and enforce it for every question that matches. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2016-06-22T13:21:08.733" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9870" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9877" CreationDate="2016-06-22T14:09:41.463" Score="17" ViewCount="367" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a number of vanilla films, books and TV shows that have included science-fiction or fantasy content &lt;em&gt;in sequels&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Oscar™-nominated &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098627/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Weekend at Bernie's&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; had zero fantasy content. The sequel revolved around Bernie being reanimated with voodoo magic (with predictably hilarious results).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan_(book_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;earliest Tarzan novels&lt;/a&gt; contain zero fantasy or sci-fi content. Later novels had him shrinking to the size of a pea, fighting ant-men in a volcano and battling medieval knights at the centre of the Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The first four seasons of the TV show &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/tv-shows-really-weird/?view=all&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Felicity&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; have zero fantasy content. The last few episodes of the fourth season revolve around an extensive magical time-travel plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The first Season of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baywatch_Nights&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Baywatch Nights&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was a run-of-the-mill detective show with zero sci-fi content. The second season was retooled as an inexplicable ripoff of &lt;em&gt;The X-Files&lt;/em&gt;, complete with mermaids, alien viruses and vampires.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a sequel contains extensive SFF content and is evidently set in the same universe as the original film/books/TV show, does that make the &lt;em&gt;original property&lt;/em&gt; on-topic as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2023-09-16T09:13:14.117" LastActivityDate="2023-09-16T09:13:14.117" Title="If a sequel contains SFF content, does that make the original property on-topic as well?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9850" CreationDate="2016-06-22T20:35:35.807" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;strong&gt;no arbitrary number&lt;/strong&gt; of edits &lt;em&gt;we&lt;/em&gt; as a community can set. Any such arbitration would violate the spirit of the site's design. Editing is the heartbeat of Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/editing&quot;&gt;Why can people edit my posts? How does editing work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All contributions are licensed under Creative Commons, and this site is collaboratively edited, like Wikipedia. &lt;strong&gt;If you see something that needs improvement, click edit&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Editing is important for keeping questions and answers clear, relevant, and up-to-date.&lt;/strong&gt; If you are not comfortable with the idea of your contributions being collaboratively edited by other trusted users, this may not be the site for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;When should I edit posts?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Any time you see a post that needs improvement and are inclined to suggest an edit, you are welcome to do so.&lt;/strong&gt; The original author of a question or answer may always edit their own post, regardless of reputation level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edits are expected to be substantial and to &lt;strong&gt;leave the post better than you found it&lt;/strong&gt;. Common reasons for edits include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To fix grammar and spelling mistakes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To clarify the meaning of the post (without changing that meaning)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To include additional information only found in comments, so all of the information relevant to the post is contained in one place&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To correct minor mistakes or &lt;strong&gt;add updates as the post ages&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To add related resources or hyperlinks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What happens when I edit a post?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The post will be updated to show the latest editor, as well as the original author. All edits are saved and tracked in a public revision history with attribution to each editor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The revision history can be viewed by clicking the date and time next to the edited post (e.g., &amp;quot;edited 3 days ago&amp;quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editing a post also bumps the question to the top of the homepage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Who makes sure that proposed edits are good?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any user can propose edits, but not all edits are publicly visible immediately. If a user has less than 2,000 reputation, the suggested edit is placed in a review queue. Two (three on Stack Overflow) accept or reject votes are required to remove the suggested edit from the queue and either apply the edit to the post or discard it. &lt;strong&gt;Users with more than 2,000 reputation are considered trusted community members&lt;/strong&gt; and can edit posts without going through the review process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What happens if someone suggests a bad edit?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If a user without edit privileges proposes an edit that does not comply with the guidelines above, it is ordinarily rejected in the review process.&lt;/strong&gt; Even if a bad edit is applied to a post, other users will generally fix it. Users with sufficient reputation may elect to roll back the post to a previous version (by viewing the revision history of the post and selecting the version they would like to display).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Additionally, any user who submits many rejected edits will be banned from suggesting further edits for 7 days.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23785" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-06-22T20:35:35.807" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9872" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9874" CreationDate="2016-06-22T20:37:26.757" Score="22" ViewCount="590" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Background&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following question has been on the &quot;unanswered&quot; list since the 12th June.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/131677/sci-fi-story-about-ai-and-flawed-religious-interpretation&quot;&gt;Sci Fi story about AI and flawed religious interpretation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the 17th June, user Einar Petersen posted the answer below with a link to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread886012/pg1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this forum.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xqw6J.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xqw6J.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I followed the link, I was surprised to see that there was no actual answer stating the name of the story, nor anything additional to go on, other than the assertion that the OP thought that it might be a P.K. Dick story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having spent some time researching and cross-referencing stories by Dick, I spotted one that matched the OP's description. I briefly toyed with the idea of adding my findings to Einar Petersen's answer but eventually decided that by doing so, I would basically need to delete his entire answer and replace it with one of my own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having posted my answer and mindful of the fact that Einar Petersen's answer didn't actually lead anywhere useful, I flagged his question to be converted into a comment. I was quite surprised to see my flag declined and the note below appended, especially given that his answer &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; subsequently &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/131677/sci-fi-story-about-ai-and-flawed-religious-interpretation/132183#comment332374_131677&quot;&gt;converted into a comment&lt;/a&gt; by a mod.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Using someone else's answer to write your own, and then flagging&#xA;  theirs for deletion, isn't very nice. The sporting thing to do would&#xA;  have been to edit their answer into better form instead.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Question/s&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I have edited their answer to include the actual answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Were my actions &quot;not nice&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2016-06-27T14:56:26.290" Title="Was I &quot;not very nice&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9870" CreationDate="2016-06-22T20:40:21.560" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think we need a specific policy about &quot;questions about works whose sequels are SFnal&quot; that isn't already covered by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/are-works-that-arent-sf-per-se-but-have-occasional-sfnal-elements-on-topic-e&quot;&gt;Are works that aren&amp;#39;t SF per se, but have occasional SFnal elements on-topic? (e.g. spy movies)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Works with minor SFnal sequels (Parks &amp;amp; Recreation, Felicity) would clearly fall under that policy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Movie sequels like Weekend at Bernie's would be relevant only if they relate to an SFnal element - it would be OK to ask a question about an element of the first movie if it relates to a relevant SFnal element in the on-topic second movie.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In-between cases like Tarzan should be evaluated as they come. How many of those are there, really? Ones that actually have questions asked? Let's not start deciding policy for hypotheticals.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4516" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-06-22T20:43:06.220" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9872" CreationDate="2016-06-22T20:53:37.083" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;Einar Petersen's post was a link-only, partial answer at best. Valorum used the hints provided at the link to find the story. It would not have been appropriate to edit the information into Einar's answer--that would be overhauling another user's post, which I think goes too far as an edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's entirely fair for Valorum to post his findings, especially since he answered the question and Einar only provided a lead. If Valorum had wanted to, he could have posted a comment giving the title of the story on the original answer, hoping that Einar would edit it in, but there is no need for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for flagging the original post for deletion, it was more of a comment than an answer, so that seems fair. You could interpret it as a partial answer instead, in which case, the post should not have been converted to a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing left to be &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; nice would be to make another comment or note in the answer giving credit to Einar for the lead. Valorum apparently did that already, but the comment has been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer the question, I declare that Valorum was &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw06dnzmK01qdv84j.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;nice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and acted appropriately by not overhauling the other user's answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36115" LastEditorUserId="36115" LastEditDate="2016-06-22T22:31:17.377" LastActivityDate="2016-06-22T22:31:17.377" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9872" CreationDate="2016-06-22T22:49:08.953" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two actions here to consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Taking Einar's suggestion and running with it. This is fine. Many people will add a note mentioning that they took the lead from another user/answer and then did their own legwork. I see no issue here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Flagging Einar's post for deletion. This is not so fine. Einar's post &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; an answer. It's not a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; answer, but it put forth a suggestion of what work it may have been. Downvote it, let it languish, whatever, but it falls on the right side of the answer/comment definition.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either action alone is fine, but both actions by the same user definitely smells funny.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2016-06-22T22:49:08.953" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9872" CreationDate="2016-06-23T17:34:57.760" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The link-only answer was not an answer.  As it stood, it should have been deleted, or edited.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say edited, because it did provide additional information.  The link doesn't answer the question, but it does provide additional details, and is pretty clearly referring to the same story the OP is looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not useless information, so the person presenting the link has made a meaningful contribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would have been appropriate to mention in your answer that you used the additional information in the deleted answer (even if it was just the identification of the author), but not necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagree that it would have been inappropriate to edit the link-only answer into a complete answer; the idea that overhauling a new user's invalid attempt at answering a question is going too far is subjective, and can be helpful in showing new users what the expectations of the community are.  If the user complains about the edits, it can always be rolled back, and then deleted/downvoted as appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But... the idea of editing another user's partial- or non-answer should be &lt;em&gt;entirely&lt;/em&gt; optional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No one should feel compelled to take a bad answer and turn it into a good one, just because it provided a hint or two down the path towards a good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Valorum was under no obligation to do more than he did.  Mentioning the PKD lead in his answer would have been nice, but not necessary, so I disagree that his actions &quot;weren't nice&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2016-06-23T17:34:57.760" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9870" CreationDate="2016-06-23T18:12:54.480" Score="19" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Maybe, but probably not&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe some of the possible scenarios can fall under this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/344/1359&quot;&gt;existing discussion&lt;/a&gt;, which references two relevant clauses (assuming none of the previous rules in that answer firmly place the question on-topic):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you're not sure it's SF but you think a good case can be made for it, it's on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If there is a minor supernatural element (e.g. a fortune teller's prediction comes true, or someone sees a ghost, or a story for children involving anthropomorphic animals) but it's just a throwaway plot element that's not particularly relevant to the question, it's off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The earliest Tarzan novels contain zero fantasy or sci-fi content. Latter novels had him shrinking to the size of a pea, fighting ant-men in a volcano and    battling Medieval knights at the centre of the Earth.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, it has been a &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; long time since I read the originals, but I recall Tarzan being able to communicate with animals far beyond what is considered normal, even among naturalists who have been accepted into wild animal groups, developing a sense of smell far superior to any other human, and being so strong one could argue some of the feats he performed were borderline &amp;quot;supernatural&amp;quot;.  I think those characteristics fall under rule #5, being a good case for it being SF, even if we're not sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, more in line with the gist of this question, the hollow-earth plotlines and other supernatural elements sound like they form more of a background universe within which Tarzan takes place.  If that is an accurate description, then I'd say yes, later stories tip the balance from &amp;quot;not sure if it's SF&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;yes, the universe is SF&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The first four seasons of the TV show Felicity have zero fantasy&#xA;content. The last few episodes of the fourth season revolve around&#xA;an extensive magical time-travel plot.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, I've never seen this, but it sounds like this falls under rule #6: if the question is directly related to the time travel, then it is on-topic; otherwise, the time travel becomes just a throwaway plot element that's not particularly relevant to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the other two... I'd say no, later episodes don't automatically retcon something that is unambiguously non-SF into an on-topic franchise. Questions about the earlier, non-SF portions of the franchise would have to directly relate to a later SF element in order to be on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seasons two and on (did they make more than 2 seasons?) of Baywatch Nights are on topic; Season one is not, unless it somehow directly ties in with a fantastical element of Season two (e.g. &amp;quot;we found out that lifeguard Janice was secretly a were-chicken in episode 5 of season 2; is there any indication from earlier episodes that might have been hints at her condition?&amp;quot; might be on-topic).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-06-23T18:12:54.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3458" CreationDate="2016-06-24T01:38:09.660" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.  My daughter.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QB0VJ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QB0VJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Capy Q. Stenchbeast-Cheber is already the Official (Unofficial) Dog of Mos Eisley, and she has agreed to run for &quot;Official &lt;del&gt;(Unofficial)&lt;/del&gt; Dog and Mascot of Mos Eisley&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the Mos Eisley regulars have gone on record as saying that she's already the defacto mascot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;You'd have to vote to repeal at this point&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/30579872#30579872&quot;&gt;Mazura&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=29643064#29643064&quot;&gt;Jonah&lt;/a&gt;:  &lt;em&gt;Can I be the room mascot, then?&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=29643071#29643071&quot;&gt;Mazura&lt;/a&gt;:  &lt;em&gt;No, that's Capy.&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it has been widely accepted that she is indeed the Mos Eisley dog:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Capy is Room Dog.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=30579890#30579890&quot;&gt;Rand al'Thor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wad's dog, Capy is the real face of Mos Eisley&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=29994749#29994749&quot;&gt;Steelerfan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;We have a room dog and a room ferret.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=30147278#30147278&quot;&gt;Rand al'Thor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;In short, if Mos Eisley is to have a mascot, I think it should be Capy (although I'm obviously the least impartial source imaginable, so it should be up to the community at large).&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="44025" LastEditDate="2016-06-24T01:54:29.200" LastActivityDate="2016-06-24T01:54:29.200" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9879" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-24T13:15:59.093" Score="2" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got a notice that a user was removed and any of their votes were removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I received a -2 rep reprimand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why do I have a reputation change on my reputation page that says 'User was removed'?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This message means that a user who voted for one of your posts had&#xA;  their account deleted (either by request or due to violating the&#xA;  network's terms of service). As a result, all of their votes were&#xA;  removed, and the reputation you gained or lost from them was undone.&#xA;  The resultant reputation change could be any amount; it could even be&#xA;  a reputation gain if enough of the removed votes were downvotes. All&#xA;  the reputation changes from a single user's deletion are rolled into a&#xA;  single event in the reputation page labelled &quot;User was removed&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This removal occurs whenever a user is deleted, unless that user had a&#xA;  very high reputation score. Because high-reputation users have usually&#xA;  cast a great many votes, removing all of them could be that much more&#xA;  disruptive to other users. In such cases, the staff use a special&#xA;  deletion that preserves the votes, resulting in no reputation change&#xA;  for those who had been voted on by that user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't see how a -2 would happen? Maybe a -5 or a -10, but not a -2????&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-06-24T13:21:37.667" LastActivityDate="2016-06-24T13:21:37.667" Title="How can a user removed equal -2 rep?" Tags="|support|reputation|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9879" CreationDate="2016-06-24T13:21:19.230" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Getting -2 from a 'User was removed' means that you got +2 from that user before the deletion of their account. The easiest way I can think of for this to happen would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you accepted one of their answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, other sequences of events that might cause a net +2 rep gain include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they upvoted one of your questions and you downvoted three of their answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they upvoted one of your answers and downvoted four of your posts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they upvoted one of your questions and downvoted one of your posts and you downvoted one of their answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The possibilities are infinite really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2016-06-24T13:21:19.230" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3458" CreationDate="2016-06-24T15:27:35.367" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Science Fiction and Fantasy Stack Exchange mascot should obviously be...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;...Handy, the Hand-Drawn Red Circle:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/r1cw6.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/r1cw6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9592/51226&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2016-06-24T15:34:13.517" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3458" CreationDate="2016-06-24T18:31:03.930" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about the one-winged warrior angel lady from the header?  Does she have a name yet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xRCOB.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xRCOB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;one-winged warrior angel lady&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the part that @Valorum is referring to in the comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tCccI.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tCccI.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;angel with encircled posterior&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17390" LastEditorUserId="17390" LastEditDate="2016-06-24T21:18:12.253" LastActivityDate="2016-06-24T21:18:12.253" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9846" CreationDate="2016-06-25T04:33:49.930" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/129816/51379&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t Harry use the right-hand-rule (or other methods) to solve the Triwizard maze?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have over 3000 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; questions. One that is genuinely thought-provoking is a rare find. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answers&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/129570/51379&quot;&gt;What are the advantages that come with knighthood?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a truly comprehensive answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/131565/51379&quot;&gt;Did maps in Middle-Earth have west on the top?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I seriously did not imagine any in-text answer to this question could exist, but this answer proved me wrong, and showed that Tolkien put much more thought into map orientations (or should I say occidentations?) than I gave him credit for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2016-06-25T04:49:37.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9884" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9885" CreationDate="2016-06-25T07:42:11.110" Score="2" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;Say there exists a story ID question that lists details A and B and has an accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a user posts another question that lists details C and D and you're absolutely sure that the answer is the same as the first question, should the second one be marked as a duplicate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the one hand both questions are asking about the same work, on the other they have different content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22670" LastActivityDate="2016-06-25T11:36:48.177" Title="How to deal with story ID questions with different details but the same answer" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|flagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2016-06-25T14:46:00.847" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9884" CreationDate="2016-06-25T08:03:32.030" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you're describing is a fairly common occurrence with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question 1 ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question 1 -&lt;/strong&gt; I'm thinking of a film that has metal people from the future trying to kill a woman named Sally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A.&lt;/strong&gt; This is 'The Terminator'. The metal people are called Terminators and the heroine is actually called Sarah.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... is &lt;strong&gt;still&lt;/strong&gt; a dupe of Question 2 ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question 2  -&lt;/strong&gt; I'm thinking of a film where a psychiatrist interviews a man from the future and doesn't believe him&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... even though none of the points raised in Question 2 are addressed in the answer to Question 1. That's  just how we roll, I'm afraid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also have a policy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7065/closing-story-ident-questions-as-duplicates-where-theres-no-acceptance&quot;&gt;Closing Story-Ident questions as duplicates (where there&amp;#39;s no acceptance)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to prevent &lt;em&gt;potential&lt;/em&gt; dupes being closed until there's an agreement from the OP that their question is actually a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-06-25T08:05:50.057" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9884" CreationDate="2016-06-25T11:36:48.177" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If a user posts another question that lists details C and D and you're absolutely sure that the answer is the same as the first question, should the second one be marked as a duplicate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YES, where 'absolutely sure' is defined to mean 'the original posters of both questions have verified that the answers are correct'.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This policy was agreed upon &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7065/closing-story-ident-questions-as-duplicates-where-theres-no-acceptance&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-06-25T11:36:48.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9887" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-25T17:12:28.010" Score="11" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like the ability to renounce a gold tag badge, specifically my &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/help/badges?tab=tags&amp;amp;filter=gold&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Discussion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&quot; badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since pretty much every question on Meta gets tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discussion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; it's essentially &lt;em&gt;meaningless&lt;/em&gt;, overly broad and affords any user with this badge the ability to insta-close almost every question that gets asked, something that doesn't seem to be desirable from a non moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming such a thing is possible, I would also seek to encourage any future users who also get this badge to take the same action, although I wouldn't expect the results of this meta question to be binding on them if they feel they can justify &lt;em&gt;not doing so&lt;/em&gt; to the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2016-06-25T22:37:51.253" Title="Renounce Tag-Badge feature request" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9887" CreationDate="2016-06-25T19:22:48.903" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the Dupe Hammer was introduced over on Meta.SE, some people objected, saying that the domain knowledge required to achieve a gold badge doesn't necessarily imply the responsibility and understanding of SO mechanics required to wield the Dupe Hammer responsibly. SE's management obviously think otherwise, both because traditionally privileges were awarded based on rep, and because the Dupe Hammer doesn't require you to be super-involved with SE moderation - just to be familiar enough with the body of questions in a given tag to know when something has come up before already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Meta, however, even that original objection doesn't really apply.The domain knowledge here and the site-organization knowledge are one and the same. It's not easy to get a gold badge, even with mandatory tags in Meta. It means you read and participated in &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; previous Meta discussions. That makes you eminently qualified to notice duplicate questions, even here on Meta. This is &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; what the Dupe Hammer is for - for people who are involved enough in the questions on the site to know when something has been asked before. No more, no less.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So carry your Dupe Hammer proudly! You don't have to use it - and VtC-Dupes are much rarer on Meta than they are on Main anyway - but don't feel bad about it, or that it's unearned. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4516" LastActivityDate="2016-06-25T19:22:48.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9887" CreationDate="2016-06-25T22:37:51.253" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Just don't use it.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ability to renounce a specific type of badge isn't something SE are going to implement on a site-by-site basis, so the place to request this would be &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;main meta&lt;/a&gt;. IMO, they're unlikely to want to implement this at all, but if you can convince them to abolish &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discussion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; dupehammer powers (or, more likely, all dupehammer powers on meta sites), great!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until then, my suggestion is that you simply &lt;strong&gt;stop using your &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discussion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; dupehammer&lt;/strong&gt;. That way, you're acting as if the badge has been abolished already, which has the same effect in practice. If you see a question here which you think is a duplicate, just leave a comment saying so instead of voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, &lt;strong&gt;you can always choose to renounce it voluntarily even if the system won't let you do so automatically.&lt;/strong&gt; This is entirely up to the individual dupehammer wielder, of course, and it's possible that future &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discussion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; gold tag badge holders may disagree with your call for renunciation and use their dupehammers liberally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2016-06-25T22:37:51.253" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9890" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9892" CreationDate="2016-06-26T05:46:27.520" Score="8" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could not find anything, but is there a detailed explanation on what is required of you once you hit certain rep scores? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At present having reached 3,000 &lt;strike&gt;posts&lt;/strike&gt; (rep count, always mixing the two words), it seems to give you a fair bit of power to moderate posts. Problem is, I am not real sure what is correct usage of this. It would be nice if there was a link to a page in your inbox that tells you what is required of you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way I see it right now is that this is a pretty big responsibility and to keep new members attracted to the site a fair system is needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can also see a that a lot of people won't necessarily read every page on the rules when they join a forum. A lot of people use the '&lt;em&gt;trial and error&lt;/em&gt;' method, e.g. if this question is accepted then this should be the type of question I need to ask from now on. But, I have seen that this does not necessarily mean that those questions are quality posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope you can understand what I am trying to say as I am not the best at English. I just would like to see a prompt to show guidelines after you receive your next privilege.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-06-26T12:50:04.190" LastActivityDate="2016-06-26T15:30:50.720" Title="Is there an explanation of duties for each milestone?" Tags="|discussion|privileges|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9890" CreationDate="2016-06-26T09:32:48.250" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off, it needs to be made clear that there are no &quot;duties&quot; that relate to reputation and privileges. There are a considerable number of high rep users (those over 20K) who do next to nothing in terms of user moderation and &lt;strong&gt;that's absolutely fine&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to how to use your new-found closing powers, there are a few posts that are essential reading (see below), but beyond that it's just a matter of involving yourself in the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the best ways to learn is to follow the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review&quot;&gt;review queue&lt;/a&gt;. This will allow you to see what questions and answers are being flagged by your fellow users. If you're not sure how to deal with a problem that arises, the easiest thing to do is 'skip it' and come back later to see how others dealt with it. You can also look at the history of a contentious question/answer using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/76566/list-of-unlinked-pages-on-stack-exchange-sites&quot;&gt;timeline tool&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic&quot;&gt;What questions are on-topic, and what questions are off-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10582/what-is-a-closed-or-on-hold-question&quot;&gt;What is a &amp;quot;closed&amp;quot; or “on hold” question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7065/closing-story-ident-questions-as-duplicates-where-theres-no-acceptance&quot;&gt;Closing Story-Ident questions as duplicates (where there&amp;#39;s no acceptance)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6944/why-is-the-close-as-duplicate-policy-so-aggressive-and-should-we-change-it&quot;&gt;Why is the close-as-duplicate policy so aggressive, and should we change it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2400/should-we-burninate-general-reference&quot;&gt;Should we burninate General Reference?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6594/how-should-we-handle-questions-that-are-about-non-sf-f-elements-in-a-sf-f-work&quot;&gt;How should we handle questions that are about non-SF/F elements in a SF/F work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-06-26T09:32:48.250" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9890" CreationDate="2016-06-26T12:48:29.440" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;So you've just acquired a new rep-based privilege. There's a couple of different questions here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is required?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing. These milestones are privileges, not responsibilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How should you use this power, given that you want to?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, read &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/close-questions&quot;&gt;the help centre page&lt;/a&gt; associated with that particular privilege. (There a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges&quot;&gt;list of all privileges&lt;/a&gt; with links to some explanation and guidance for each one, so this doesn't just go for 3k powers.) That page is the same on all Stack Exchange sites, so it contains nothing SFF-specific; it's mainly about the technicalities, system restrictions, and user interface associated with this power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll notice that that page links to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;the on-topic page&lt;/a&gt; in the help centre. Again, the page exists on all Stack Exchange sites, but this one is tailored specifically to SFF (in fact, site moderators can edit it). The most important information to take away from there is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Science Fiction &amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange is for questions targeted&#xA;  towards science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts. This includes&#xA;  questions about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Plot, character, or setting explanations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Historical or societal context of a work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/story-identification/info&quot;&gt;Story identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Franchise/series reading or viewing order&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Not all questions have a home on Stack Exchange. Please note the&#xA;  following types of questions are off-topic here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;Questions calling for a list of works, authors, …: &lt;em&gt;What&#xA;  are all the books that have X?&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;em&gt;Who wrote about topic&#xA;  Y?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Reading or viewing recommendations: &lt;em&gt;I liked X,&#xA;  what should I watch next?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Genre classification: &lt;em&gt;Is X&#xA;  Science Fiction?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For more information, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic&quot;&gt;the&#xA;  question where these topics were discussed&lt;/a&gt; on our meta discussion&#xA;  site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;OK, so now what do you do when you come across a question in the Close Votes or Reopen Votes review queue and need to work out what to do with it? Well, there are a few different reasons a question might need to be closed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Duplicate.&lt;/strong&gt; These are relatively straightforward to work out. The review queue will show you two tabs, for the question you're voting on and the proposed duplicate. Read through the dupe-target and its answers; if the other (usually newer) question is answered there, then vote to Close/Leave Closed, otherwise vote to Leave Open/Reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unclear what you're asking.&lt;/strong&gt; If the question is not actually a question, or it's so unclear that you can't understand what's being asked, vote to Close/Leave Closed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Primarily opinion-based.&lt;/strong&gt; If the question is not objectively answerable - e.g. it's asking for 'the best' something, or about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5187/should-questions-about-future-works-be-closed-as-primarily-opinion-based&quot;&gt;future works&lt;/a&gt; - then vote to Close/Leave Closed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Too broad.&lt;/strong&gt; If the question has such a broad scope that any answer would necessarily be ridiculously long (OK, that's vague - for better guidance, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9782/can-we-get-a-more-specific-definition-of-what-this-site-considers-too-broad&quot;&gt;this meta question and answer&lt;/a&gt;), vote to Close/Leave Closed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Off-topic.&lt;/strong&gt; This is probably the hardest and most complicated to determine. There are a couple of standard off-topic close reasons - &lt;strong&gt;scientific solutions or explanations&lt;/strong&gt;, explained in detail &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7364/what-is-our-actual-policy-on-science-questions&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;strong&gt;lists of works or recommendations&lt;/strong&gt;, which is fairly self-explanatory. Beyond that, it can be harder to determine. Sometimes it's obvious - questions which are obviously nothing to do with science fiction or fantasy - but more often it's not at all clear-cut and you may need to spend a while thinking about it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't forget that if you're not sure - e.g. because the question is about a work you're not familiar with, or just because you don't want to commit yourself one way or the other - you can always click Skip and not review that particular question. There are also some friendly folk in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt; who'll be happy to discuss or advise on question-closing dilemmas. And if you want a more formal discussion and official consensus, you can post a &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/scope&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scope&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scope&lt;/a&gt; question here on meta, either about a &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/specific-question&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;specific-question&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;specific-question&lt;/a&gt; or about a whole class of questions, asking whether they should be allowed or closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also remember that if you &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; go wrong, it's not the end of the world. You can't close or reopen a question all by yourself (at least until you get a gold tag badge and the associated dupehammer), and any closed question can be reopened, any reopened question re-closed. Platitudes about great responsibility coming with great power don't apply that much to 3k rep users :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2016-06-26T15:30:50.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9893" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-06-26T13:06:08.470" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use this tag for questions about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges&quot;&gt;privileges&lt;/a&gt; such as accessing the review queues, editing without approval, moderator tools, or deletion/undeletion abilities which become available to all users once they have earned enough reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-06-26T13:06:08.470" LastActivityDate="2016-06-26T13:06:08.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9894" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-06-26T13:06:08.470" Score="0" Body="For questions about the privileges such as editing, reviewing, or voting to close which become available to all users with sufficient reputation." OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-06-26T13:06:08.470" LastActivityDate="2016-06-26T13:06:08.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9872" CreationDate="2016-06-27T07:51:11.437" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to put aside the debate about whether it's good to overhaul answers like this. In your description of the events, the answer you flagged provided a clue, but it didn't actually lead to an answer. As such, at least from your point of view, it wasn't an answer, and you provided an actual answer. Even if major overhauls are preferred, what you describe would arguably be a border case, and I think there's room for reasonable people to disagree about the best course of action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think the main problem here is not so much the action you took or your reasons for taking them as much as &lt;em&gt;how your actions were perceived&lt;/em&gt;. Consider the viewpoint from another user:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You post a longer answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You flag the other answer, which at first glance appears likely to lead to the content you posted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's it. It's not immediately obvious that you had to put in extra effort to find the answer. It should have been clear to you that your actions would look somewhat suspicious. Knowing this, you should have used a custom flag and provided a brief explanation of the fact that the link contained no clear answer and that you had to do a fair amount of additional research. (You could use that exact phrasing.) This would dispel the appearance of impropriety.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I should also mention that there may be an inclination to think, &quot;The mod should have checked on the details.&quot; Maybe so. But mods are busy people with a lot of work to do, and they make mistakes from time to time. Do them the courtesy of giving them an explanation to get them started, rather than expecting them to dig up all the facts from scratch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the response to your question here proves, an explanation of the events and your thoughts goes a long way toward convincing people that your action was appropriate or, at a &lt;em&gt;bare&lt;/em&gt; minimum, at least not malicious. So just be mindful of appearances and provide that explanation up front when needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25379" LastEditorUserId="25379" LastEditDate="2016-06-27T14:56:26.290" LastActivityDate="2016-06-27T14:56:26.290" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9896" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-27T13:06:54.747" Score="2" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found this question on Meta: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/217115/is-the-ultimate-goal-of-stack-exchange-really-to-build-a-knowledge-base-for-goog&quot;&gt;Is the ultimate goal of Stack Exchange really to build a knowledge base for Googlers, not to help individual users (even if they ask good questions)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although this may not directly relate to this particular part of Stack Exchange the general consensus is that we are building a database of knowledge so that people searching the web will be able to access the database here and find whatever they are looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My issue is that these two questions are considered a duplicate. I don't mind having the question marked duplicate, but I can't see how they are?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/59521/why-are-most-of-the-main-characters-caucasian-in-game-of-thrones&quot;&gt;Why are most of the main characters Caucasian in Game Of&#xA;Thrones?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/133018/why-does-everyone-in-game-of-thrones-have-a-british-accent&quot;&gt;Why does everyone in Game Of Thrones have a British accent?&#xA;[duplicate]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I searched this site for the answer to my question before posting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=why%20does%20game%20of%20thrones%20use%20British%20accent&quot;&gt;Why does game of thrones use British accent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=why%20does%20game%20of%20thrones%20use%20English%20accent&quot;&gt;Why does game of thrones use English accent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=Why%20does%20game%20of%20thrones%20use%20English%20actors&quot;&gt;Why does game of thrones use English actors&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://Why%20is%20game%20of%20thrones%20filmed%20in%20Ireland&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Why is game of thrones filmed in Ireland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=What%20is%20the%20reason%20for%20English%20actors%20in%20game%20of%20thrones&quot;&gt;What is the reason for English actors in game of thrones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=why%20are%20game%20of%20thrones%20characters%20British&quot;&gt;Why are game of thrones characters British&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When researching this question, none of my searches came up with a link to my question, hence the reason why I asked in the first place. However, now all of those links to searches only point to my question that is active now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried a plethora of searches and not one links to this question or answer. In order to get to that question you nearly have to literally enter the title of the question to get to it. Suffice to say, someone searching for a reason for why a certain dialect is use in Game Of Thrones &lt;strong&gt;WILL NOT&lt;/strong&gt; be directed to that question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Searching the world wide web, any number of combinations now brings up the current question on the first page if you are looking for the reason as to why, they use British or English accents. To get anything on the other question you need to specifically have &lt;code&gt;Caucasian&lt;/code&gt; in your search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that linking to that question will create a carry down effect, but how on earth are these two questions even considered duplicate, in the sense of answering the questions title? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could understand someone editing in a link to the original post to create that link, as it does in a sense provide some more clarity to the answer and I am perfectly fine with that. But I am perplexed as to how this could possibly be considered as it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand how closing this question is consistent with striving for a database of information that is most easily accessible via your search engine of choice? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, if I am wrong, then that is the way things are and I will accept that too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-07-05T14:26:00.320" Title="Should this Game of Thrones question be closed?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9896" CreationDate="2016-06-27T13:31:30.567" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;EDIT: your question has now been reopened.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was reopened by five users and has since received no further votes to close. Problem solved, I think. The remainder of this answer seeks to explain some of the issues surrounding duplicate questions in general, as well as the likely motivation behind the closing of your specific question.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Duplicates are good and increase searchability.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing a question as a duplicate is not some kind of 'punishment'; it doesn't mean you've asked a 'bad' question. There's a reason that on various system statistics and procedures for 'bad' questions, only questions closed &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; as duplicate are counted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why are duplicates treated better than any other kind of closed question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Because a duplicate of a good question is (usually) still a good question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Because the more different ways a question is phrased, the easier it will be to find using internet search engines.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By posting the question about British accents, you have almost certainly &lt;strong&gt;increased the number of people who will find an answer to that question on this site&lt;/strong&gt;. If they search the internet for why people in GoT have British/English accents, perhaps using some of the search terms you mentioned, then they will likely find your question, which will lead them directly to the older question which also has the answer. Or in short, to respond to a particular sentence from your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Suffice to say, someone searching for a reason for why a certain dialect is use in Game Of Thrones WILL NOT be directed to that question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They will now!&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why was the GoT question closed?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this particular case, your question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/133018/why-does-everyone-in-game-of-thrones-have-a-british-accent&quot;&gt;Why does everyone in Game Of Thrones have a British accent?&lt;/a&gt; was closed because the highest-voted answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/59521/why-are-most-of-the-main-characters-caucasian-in-game-of-thrones&quot;&gt;Why are most of the main characters White/English in Game Of Thrones?&lt;/a&gt; already answers it. Quoting from that answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Caucasian is a rather silly thing to call white people, though, since it does not only refer to white people. A more accurate term here is to ask why the main characters seem to be &lt;em&gt;English&lt;/em&gt;, which is what they are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It then goes on to explain why this is, i.e. answering the question about British accents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note that I'm not saying it necessarily &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; have been closed; in fact, I'm on the fence about that. I'm just explaining why it &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; closed. It's now been reopened, and I have no problem with that either.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For further reading on duplicate closure, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9743/does-this-meta-policy-overrule-our-meta&quot;&gt;this question on SFF meta&lt;/a&gt; (with an answer from a Stack Exchange Community Manager).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-07-05T14:26:00.320" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9898" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9899" CreationDate="2016-06-27T21:43:02.583" Score="1" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have 630 questions with the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt;. These cover all sorts of comics. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have questions about comic strips:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/98839/51379&quot;&gt;Searching for this comic on bots and humans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also have, of course, lots of questions about mainstream comic books, which comprise the majority of these questions. For example, the most recent open question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/132907/whos-the-character-that-can-talk-to-flowers-and-whos-her-daughter-in-ruins&quot;&gt;Who&amp;#39;s the child and her mother that can &amp;quot;talk to flowers&amp;quot; in Ruins?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And we have questions about graphic novels. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A search of the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt; with the keywords &quot;graphic novel&quot; brings up 24 results. A search for the keywords alone brings up 52 results, likely indicating that the majority of questions about graphic novels are not tagged as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some sources suggest that graphic novels are separate from comics. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikihow.com/Distinguish-Between-a-Comic-Book-and-a-Graphic-Novel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; graphic novels are distinguished mainly by being long-form, or standalone stories. &lt;a href=&quot;http://dailyutahchronicle.com/2012/09/19/graphic-novels-vs-comic-books-whats-the-difference/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; writer takes a similar view, although they also mention aspects of the plot that might be too vague for our purposes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, some people see &quot;graphic novel&quot; as simply a pretentious way of referring to comic books of &quot;quality,&quot; a tendency mentioned in some of the answers &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.quora.com/Is-it-elitist-to-say-graphic-novel-vs-comic-books-After-all-isnt-a-graphic-novel-technically-a-comic-book&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note the tag wiki description for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt;, as it stands right now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Comics is a graphic medium in which images convey a sequential&#xA;  narrative. The term could include 'graphic-novels'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to be more a suggestion of a synonym than anything else, but it does put forth the view that the two terms are equivalent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My interpretation of the term &quot;graphic novel,&quot; which I think is fairly close to the mainstream, is basically the same as the first one mentioned: a long-form or standalone graphic work. However, I think graphic novels are a subcategory of comic books, and thus any &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/graphic-novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;graphic-novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;graphic-novel&lt;/a&gt; would be a example of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see three options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should we create a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/graphic-novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;graphic-novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;graphic-novel&lt;/a&gt; tag and begin applying it to the relevant questions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should we create such a tag, but make it a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should we not create a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/graphic-novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;graphic-novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;graphic-novel&lt;/a&gt; tag at all, because there is no need for it? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2016-06-27T22:24:13.440" Title="Should we have a graphic-novel tag?" 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  <row Id="9899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9898" CreationDate="2016-06-27T22:24:13.440" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To quote arch-curmudgeon &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_novel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Alan Moore&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It [graphic novel] is a marketing term... that I never had any sympathy with. The term&#xA;  'comic' does just as well for me... The problem is that 'graphic&#xA;  novel' just came to mean 'expensive comic book' and so what you'd get&#xA;  is people like DC Comics or Marvel Comics—because 'graphic novels'&#xA;  were getting some attention, they'd stick six issues of whatever&#xA;  worthless piece of crap they happened to be publishing lately under a&#xA;  glossy cover and call it The She-Hulk Graphic Novel....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that there's no clear definition of what comprises a graphic novel and what comprises a comic, artificially &lt;strong&gt;dumping a new tag onto those comics that some users consider to be graphic novels&lt;/strong&gt; is a waste of time, effort and energy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and as with all of our previous large-scale retagging projects, my standard objections apply: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1)&lt;/strong&gt; How does this actually help anyone (in a demonstrable way)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2)&lt;/strong&gt; Does this help anyone more than it mucks up the front page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2016-06-27T22:24:13.440" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9900" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9901" CreationDate="2016-06-28T09:25:44.180" Score="8" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do we need a tag for the Lego Star Wars franchise?  We have about five to ten questions about it, including &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/117442/4918&quot;&gt;What is the canonicity of the new &amp;quot;Lego Star Wars: Droid Tales&amp;quot; TV show?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/56252/4918&quot;&gt;What is the canonicity of Lego Star Wars (TV Episodes)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/8327/4918&quot;&gt;The red cup(?) in the Millennium Falcon (Lego 7965)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/117475/4918&quot;&gt;How many times is Jar Jar killed in Lego Star Wars?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/115231/4918&quot;&gt;What is this Star Wars LEGO figure?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/115225/4918&quot;&gt;What are these Star Wars Lego figures supposed to be?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/133155/4918&quot;&gt;Does Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures contain spoilers for The Force Awakens?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that may or may not count, I don't know:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/86006/4918&quot;&gt;Did Darth Vader&amp;#39;s TIE fighter appear in any version of Empire Strikes Back?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/102610/4918&quot;&gt;Were the Death Star plans always in R2-D2?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/111245/4918&quot;&gt;Watchable star wars content besides the movies (and a few series)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://bricks.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot;&gt;questions tagged star-wars on &#xA;LEGO® Answers (bricks) SE&lt;/a&gt;, currently 39 questions; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lego-star-wars+or+lego-star-wars-3&quot;&gt;questions tagged lego-star-wars or lego-star-wars-3 on Arqade&lt;/a&gt;, currently 24 questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternately, do we need a tag specifically for the TV series Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures which is debuting in 2016?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:47:55.610" LastActivityDate="2016-07-10T22:36:42.377" Title="Tags for Lego Star Wars" Tags="|status-completed|tags|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9900" CreationDate="2016-06-28T10:21:51.290" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In light of the positive community response and lack of dissenting opinion to the answer below, I've appended the new &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lego-star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lego-star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lego-star-wars&lt;/a&gt; tag to all of the site questions that are about Lego Star Wars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;----------&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lego.com/en-us/starwars&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lego Star Wars&lt;/a&gt; is a &lt;strong&gt;specifically different property&lt;/strong&gt; than &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.starwars.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Wars&lt;/a&gt;. As such, it should have its own tag which should be applied to questions which relate to the Lego Star Wars franchise, including Freemaker Adventures (which don't need their own tag).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If retagging needs to take place, it should be done in accordance with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1743/massive-retagging-editing&quot;&gt;current policy on mass retagging&lt;/a&gt; to avoid spamming the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2016-07-07T14:18:08.323" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9861" CreationDate="2016-06-29T05:47:20.047" Score="-3" Body="&lt;h3&gt;We absolutely need some character tags.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a tricky subject to address on meta because it needs to be handled on a case by case basis.  The intellectual property called &amp;quot;Superman&lt;sup&gt;TM&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;quot; is different from the character named Clark Kent/Kal-El.  No character should have more than one character tag that isn't also the franchise name, though.  If we choose to have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/superman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;superman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;superman&lt;/a&gt; (franchise) and a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/clark-kent&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;clark-kent&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;clark-kent&lt;/a&gt; (character), no &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kal-el&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kal-el&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kal-el&lt;/a&gt; allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, we can't get rid of them altogether as one answer suggested.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;We have enough Gandalf questions to start a new SE.  Same goes for Batman questions.  Things aren't perfect the way they are, but the site also isn't kerploding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The generic character tags you mention are mostly crap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-06-29T06:04:05.743" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9846" CreationDate="2016-06-29T08:25:23.653" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/132901/what-do-people-in-westeros-eat-during-winter&quot;&gt;What do people in Westeros Eat during winter&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The amount of effort put into this Question is truly amazing. Loved reading it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/132393/did-sansa-play-jon-season-6-eps-9-spoiler&quot;&gt;Did Sansa Play Jon?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not really high voted but a very well thought Question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answers:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/131484/why-did-saruman-attack-helms-deep-instead-of-capturing-edoras/131663#131663&quot;&gt;Why did Saruman attack Helm's Deep instead of Edoras?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really enjoy reading answers which include maps and battle strategies, based in canon info of the franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/24948/game-of-thrones-confusing-geography/131151#131151&quot;&gt;Game of Thrones - Confusing Geography&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Embarrassing entry because this is one of mine and not high voted either. But since we are talking about enjoying stuff so what the heck, I really enjoyed writing this answer and creating maps for it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some other very good questions but I suppose 4 entries are enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-06-29T11:43:28.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9870" CreationDate="2016-06-29T10:48:50.540" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don’t think questions should automatically be on-topic just because they’re about a work that has a sequel with sci-fi elements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, only &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; are on- or off-topic. If a question is about a work that’s considered sci-fi/fantasy, but the question isn’t particularly related to sci-fi/fantasy (e.g. why did Captain Picard get annoyed at Wesley?), then sure, that’s related enough to sci-fi/fantasy to be on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’m guessing the first season of Baywatch Nights, for example, isn’t considered sci-fi/fantasy, so questions about it would be unlikely to have any relation to sci-fi/fantasy. However, if someone asked “Why did Hasselhoff do this in Baywatch Nights season 1, given that vampires live in the city as seen in season 2”, that sounds on-topic, and &lt;em&gt;awesome&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="440" LastEditorUserId="440" LastEditDate="2016-06-29T11:39:20.470" LastActivityDate="2016-06-29T11:39:20.470" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9905" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9907" CreationDate="2016-06-29T17:01:48.123" Score="1" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is &lt;em&gt;Friday the 13th&lt;/em&gt; on-topic here? As it's a slasher/horror franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th_%28franchise%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Friday the 13th is an American horror franchise that, as of 2016,&#xA;  comprises twelve slasher films, a television show, novels, comic&#xA;  books, and tie‑in merchandise. The franchise mainly focuses on the&#xA;  fictional character Jason Voorhees, who drowned as a boy at Camp&#xA;  Crystal Lake due to the negligence of the camp staff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of 12 films, only &lt;em&gt;Jason X&lt;/em&gt; was sci-fi slasher, and &lt;em&gt;Freddy vs. Jason&lt;/em&gt; can be stretched into a bit of fantasy. Resurrection by electricity is debatable to be science fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But does it make the whole franchise on topic here? For now we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/friday-the-13th&quot;&gt;2 questions&lt;/a&gt; about them here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Common consensus on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9870/if-a-sequel-contains-sff-content-does-that-make-the-original-property-on-topic&quot;&gt;If a sequel contains SFF content, does that make the original property on-topic as well?&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Maybe, but probably not&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is &lt;em&gt;Friday the 13th&lt;/em&gt; on topic here and why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6006" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-06-29T18:00:26.113" Title="Is Friday the 13th on topic here?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9905" CreationDate="2016-06-29T17:48:59.103" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it should be. &lt;em&gt;Friday the 13th VI&lt;/em&gt; onward are explicitly supernatural movies, and &lt;em&gt;Friday the 13th I - V&lt;/em&gt; are ambiguous, to which we have traditionally taken a &quot;when in doubt, it's on topic&quot; approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For starters, part VI onward include explicitly supernatural elements: ghosts, telekenesis, Jason clearly and obviously being resurrected, human cloning, etc. So, there's no doubt in my mind that questions specific to those movies fall within the scope. The issue is, does that retroactively affect questions about the first 5 movies in the series?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9870/if-a-sequel-contains-sff-content-does-that-make-the-original-property-on-topic&quot;&gt;previous discussion&lt;/a&gt; on sequels which introduce sci-fi elements into a series, and whether that change retroactively affects our scope. The consensus boiled down to the fact that we have to examine the series on a case-by-case basis and determine how &quot;core&quot; the changes were to the previous movie's universes. Quoting from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9877/2816&quot;&gt;accepted answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;later episodes don't automatically retcon something that is unambiguously non-SF into an on-topic franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;supernatural elements sound like they form more of a background universe within which Tarzan takes place. If that is an accurate description, then I'd say yes, later stories tip the balance from &quot;not sure if it's SF&quot; to &quot;yes, the universe is SF&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the questions to ask are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is &lt;em&gt;Friday the 13th&lt;/em&gt; &quot;unambiguously&quot; not science fiction?, and &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do the later movies in the series make the &quot;background universe&quot; of the &lt;em&gt;Friday the 13th&lt;/em&gt; series a science fiction one?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, the first movies are &lt;em&gt;purposefully&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;clearly&lt;/em&gt; ambiguous about the nature of Jason Vorhees: is he a zombie, is he immortal, or is he just really good at faking his own death? In Part I we see a supposedly-dead Jason drag a girl out of a boat; the police later claim there no such thing happened -- are they lying, or did they just not see him, or is Alice hallucinating?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later movies show Jason being &quot;killed&quot; a number of times: drowning, axe to the head, etc., and yet he keeps coming back in the sequels. Again, is he immortal, or is he just really good at playing dead? The movies never clearly say one way or the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, IMO, the movies &lt;em&gt;could be&lt;/em&gt; supernatural in nature -- it's ambiguous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, the later movies clearly establish that resurrection and immortality &lt;em&gt;do exist&lt;/em&gt; in the &lt;em&gt;Friday the 13th&lt;/em&gt; universe, and their use to bring Jason back to life form the core plot element of almost every movie. So, these changes are introducing a fundamental supernatural element into the universe that the series is set in. This new element, again IMO, makes it even &lt;em&gt;more ambiguous&lt;/em&gt; what was going on in the previous movies, since we now &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; that coming back from the dead is a thing that can happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you combine those two things, I think it's clear that we cannot rule &lt;em&gt;Friday the 13th I-V&lt;/em&gt; out as being clearly not science fiction; by our long-standing scope rules dating back many years, that means we err on the side of inclusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2016-06-29T17:48:59.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9905" CreationDate="2016-06-29T17:50:35.960" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jason is immortal&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He fights a psychic girl&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He is inhabited by a demon, and can regenerate limbs and heal from injuries&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He battles Freddy in dreams&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He is reassembled by nanobots and becomes a cyborg&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;True, he wasn't the villain in the first movie, but that's irrelevant because the franchise is built on Jason.  The recent reboot ignored his mother completely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gqjqtm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gqjqtm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;image&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lVk8zm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lVk8zm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First movie:  drowns, then comes back as a rotten, waterlogged corpse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yuJkim.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yuJkim.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spends years in a lake, after being killed by the ghost of a psychic girl's father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/C9q3Im.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/C9q3Im.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Buried for years, maggots eat him, still alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RHUG2m.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RHUG2m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's a demon who can only be killed by a magic dagger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uKwmsm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uKwmsm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rotting corpse + lightning = living corpse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nrDUgm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nrDUgm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Devils drag him to hell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7Eh9mm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7Eh9mm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nanobots turn him into a cyborg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pOOxFm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pOOxFm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fights Freddy in a dreamworld.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-06-29T18:00:26.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9909" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-06-30T01:44:01.467" Score="11" ViewCount="258" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand why we're asking these questions over and over again, when our guidelines seem to be broadly inclusive. Most of the time when these questions are asked, the answer is a very firm, &quot;Yes&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are from this month:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9905/is-friday-the-13th-on-topic-here&quot;&gt;Is Friday the 13th on topic here?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9855/is-the-nolanverse-batman-on-topic-on-sffse&quot;&gt;Is the Nolanverse Batman on-topic on SFF:SE?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9804/is-super-mario-bros-on-topic-here&quot;&gt;Is Super Mario Bros on topic here?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9802/is-zootopia-on-topic-on-sffse&quot;&gt;Is Zootopia on topic on SFF:SE?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And going (slightly) further back:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9728/is-clash-of-the-titans-considered-on-topic-for-science-fiction-and-fantasy&quot;&gt;Is Clash of the Titans considered on topic for Science Fiction and Fantasy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9642/is-penguins-of-madagascar-on-topic&quot;&gt;Is &amp;quot;Penguins of Madagascar&amp;quot; on-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9349/is-league-of-legends-on-topic&quot;&gt;Is League of Legends on topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8120/are-andy-griffithss-bum-butt-books-on-topic&quot;&gt;Are Andy Griffiths&amp;#39;s bum/butt books on-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8008/are-questions-about-lemony-snickets-a-series-of-unfortunate-events-considered&quot;&gt;Are questions about Lemony Snicket&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;A Series of Unfortunate Events&amp;quot; considered on-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those are from this year alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the 4 similar questions that received a &quot;No&quot; instead:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9814/would-the-jungle-book-be-on-topic&quot;&gt;Would The Jungle Book be on-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9354/is-charlottes-web-on-topic&quot;&gt;Is Charlotte&amp;#39;s Web on-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8139/is-lord-of-the-flies-generally-classified-as-sf&quot;&gt;Is *Lord of the Flies* generally classified as SF?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8118/is-zoolander-sci-fi&quot;&gt;Is Zoolander sci-fi?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For further reference, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bscope%5D%20*topic%20is%3Aq%20&quot;&gt;over 150 of all meta questions are about what's on-topic&lt;/a&gt;. This makes it incredibly difficult to get an easy or consistent answer. Of those, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bscope%5D%20*topic%20is%3Aq%20created%3A6m...&quot;&gt;1/4 have been asked in the last 6 months alone&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many of the answers repeat the same ideas or concepts, in different words or number of words, usually varying only to tackle specific examples. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This confusion seems a bit contrary to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/are-works-that-arent-sf-per-se-but-have-occasional-sfnal-elements-on-topic-e/344#344&quot;&gt;our standing policy&lt;/a&gt;, specifically:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is a rather inclusive policy.&lt;/strong&gt; I think being inclusive will generate less friction (better have a few questions that purists can just snub, than cause bad feelings by closing borderline questions). This isn't to say you shouldn't vote to close if you feel that a borderline question is on the wrong side of the border, but please explain your reasoning when you cast your close vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several of these questions are being asked in meta after questions about the works already exist and have been opened plenty long enough for users to close them, which would seem to indicate that they're already on-topic per policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So are these questions really helping us, or are we just rehashing the same ideas over and over again, because what we have now is getting lost or hard to find? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When our answers are spread out over many questions, and reception on individual answers varies, it can confuse our general community stance. (Why does one &quot;Yes&quot; get +2 and another +20?, for instance)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we rewrite our existing policy to make it more clear, without changing the meaning? Can we make it more visible so users can easily get their question answered in one definitive place?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The information is already here, how do we make it accessible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-07-12T02:52:12.540" Title="Do we have to ask if all these works are on-topic or not?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9909" CreationDate="2016-06-30T02:35:14.160" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In theory&lt;/strong&gt;, asking questions to clarify our scope is a good thing. The more the community talks about what is and isn't on topic, the easier it is for the community to consistently vote to close or not close questions. Having some examples to work from helps understand how to apply those rules. In particular, known where to draw the line (&lt;em&gt;James Bond&lt;/em&gt;? &lt;em&gt;Jungle Book&lt;/em&gt;? &lt;em&gt;Watership Down&lt;/em&gt;? etc.) should help apply those rules in a similar way as new topics arise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In practice&lt;/strong&gt;, your impression is largely correct that asking about every new work that someone happens to find borderline maybe-off-topic maybe-on-topic is not productive. The number of minutes spent arguing over &lt;em&gt;Zoolander&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Friday the 13th&lt;/em&gt; dwarfs the number of minutes spent actually reading the sum total of all questions on those works. And in all but one case, a pretty simple application of our existing inclusive policy ends up being the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I dispute the &lt;em&gt;Jungle Book&lt;/em&gt; conclusion, since as far as I can tell, Mowgli literally talks to the jungle animals, which is clearly fantastical, but I have not seen it so I can't object too loudly.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are not cases where people are arguing over &lt;em&gt;classes&lt;/em&gt; of work -- spy-fi, horror, anthropomorphic animals, etc. They are, to be brutally honest, cases where people just decide for themselves that they don't like the scope rules and try to end-run around them by coming to meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, in theory, that's what meta is for -- if we're going to change the rules, here's where we do it. In practice, though, people don't really want to change the rules &lt;em&gt;overall&lt;/em&gt;, they just want to make the case that &lt;em&gt;this time&lt;/em&gt; we should bend them a little. I think we'd all be better off if we just relaxed a bit and let people ask their questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;except &lt;em&gt;watership down&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2016-06-30T02:35:14.160" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9909" CreationDate="2016-06-30T11:14:17.127" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did we need to ask the scope questions above? Yes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each of the questions listed has a legitimate reason for existing, typically because one or more high-reputation user has questioned the right for such a question to exist on the site. The place to settle these sorts of debates is Meta using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scope&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scope&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scope&lt;/a&gt; tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of Zootopia, for example, the first couple of questions in this tag attracted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/131718/timeline&quot;&gt;close&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/122725/timeline&quot;&gt;votes&lt;/a&gt;. After the Meta question was asked (and answered), the subsequent questions have attracted no close votes for being off-topic. It would seem that once a consensus was reached in Meta, those who were minded to close accepted that ruling and have turned their fire elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do we need to ask about &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt;? No&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a community we've already decided that certain works and properties are so heavily immersed in scifi and/or fantasy tropes that every question about them is on-topic. Asking about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.startrek.com/article/watch-teaser-trailer-for-new-star-trek-series&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;new Star Trek series&lt;/a&gt;, for example, would be worthless. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2016-06-30T11:14:17.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9909" CreationDate="2016-06-30T17:29:57.833" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not all the questions you linked to here are from veteran users. Half the ones in your recent 4 aren't (and the other half are from @Valorum, who likes to keep the conversation going). Also quite a few (though perhaps not half) of the earlier and rejected ones are from non-high-rep users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it would be nice if relatively new users would come to Meta, dig into its search and try to look for established policy, it might be a bit of an ordeal if all you want to do is &lt;em&gt;do the polite thing&lt;/em&gt; and ask if your proposed question would be on-topic. Not everyone on Meta necessarily knows what the established, accepted policy is. I have no problem with Meta-n00bs (which aren't necessarily site-n00bs) asking &quot;is X on topic&quot; - this is one of Meta's primary jobs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; of those questions are people who &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; know better who want to push for an exception, or a rule change, or just want to debate minor nuances of genrehood. But for those that aren't, I see no issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4516" LastActivityDate="2016-06-30T17:29:57.833" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9913" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9924" CreationDate="2016-07-01T09:10:33.753" Score="19" ViewCount="372" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/site-analytics/traffic-sources&quot;&gt;Google Analytics data&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; for our site the other day, and I noticed something odd. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have access to data on &lt;em&gt;referral traffic&lt;/em&gt;. We &lt;a href=&quot;http://smallbusiness.chron.com/referral-traffic-google-analytics-53168.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;know&lt;/a&gt; that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Referral traffic is Google's method of reporting visits that came to&#xA;  your site from sources outside of its search engine. &lt;strong&gt;When someone&#xA;  clicks on a hyperlink to go to a new page on a different website,&#xA;  Analytics tracks the click as a referral visit to the second site.&lt;/strong&gt; The&#xA;  originating site is called a “referrer” because it refers traffic from&#xA;  one place to the next. Referral traffic is one of three statistics&#xA;  tracked by Google Analytics. The others are Search traffic -- visits&#xA;  from a search engine -- and Direct traffic to a domain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The top few referral sites are no surprise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The top site is stackoverflow.com. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Next comes Reddit, with significantly fewer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Then is superuser.com&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No surprise here: people are most likely to click on an HNQ from SO or SU, and Reddit has many related/linked subreddits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The fourth referrer, however, is very strange&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://ratp.fr/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ratp.fr&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site gives us nearly as many referrals as superuser.com (&lt;em&gt;as of the time I checked&lt;/em&gt;), which is odd considering &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RATP_Group&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;that&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The RATP Group (French: Groupe RATP), also known as the Régie Autonome&#xA;  des Transports Parisiens (English: Autonomous Operator of Parisian&#xA;  Transports) is a state-owned public transport operator headquartered&#xA;  in Paris, France.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why is a French public transportation website responsible for so many referrals?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tyLTM.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tyLTM.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; link only available for 25K+ rep users&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2016-07-03T08:18:45.037" Title="Why are we getting referrals from ratp.fr?" Tags="|discussion|site-statistics|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1488" CreationDate="2016-07-01T23:54:30.903" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;On SFF, 43 (Valorum), followed by 16 (you), 14 (you), 13 (Valorum).&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Christmas Eve 2015, you not only hit the repcap but more than doubled that with your &lt;strong&gt;SIXTEEN&lt;/strong&gt; accepted answers. This superhuman feat, which I observed myself at the time, was the best ever on this site until just a couple of days ago when Valorum absolutely slaughtered all competition by leaving hundreds of comments nagging OPs for acceptances and successfully gaining &lt;strong&gt;FORTY-THREE&lt;/strong&gt; acceptances in one day, mainly on old answers. From &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/60982/most-accepted-answers-in-a-day&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the query in Gilles's answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JWi9T.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JWi9T.png&quot; alt=&quot;Data.SE query&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your churning out of TFA answers in December left everyone else biting your dust, until Valorum went on an OP-nagging spree. You also had some good days back in 2012, and Valorum has had a few more good days this year. Honourable mention to BESW for a spate of acceptances early in 2014.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-04-28T13:53:43.397" LastActivityDate="2019-04-28T13:53:43.397" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9916" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9918" CreationDate="2016-07-02T03:30:05.523" Score="6" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just asking out of idle curiosity:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;1. What is the longest span of time between asking a question and accepting an answer? All right, that must be the infamous 3:33 question.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;2. Between the posting of an answer and acceptance of that answer?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;3. Between accepting and unaccepting an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastActivityDate="2017-05-01T18:54:55.133" Title="Accepted answers" Tags="|support|accepted-answer|site-statistics|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9916" CreationDate="2016-07-02T04:40:41.957" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, because of the way accept and unaccept events are stored in the database, these questions cannot be perfectly answered. The problem is that &quot;acceptance&quot; is a special kind of vote, and unacceptance is equivalent to deleting that vote. Because &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/271752/accepted-event-is-not-logged-in-the-new-timeline/271754#comment881756_271754&quot;&gt;deleted votes aren't accessible&lt;/a&gt;, there's no way to check acceptances other than the currently-accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For completeness' sake I've checked on both SEDE and &lt;a href=&quot;http://api.stackexchange.com/docs&quot;&gt;the API&lt;/a&gt;, and there's no immediately obvious way of circumventing this problem without an unfeasibly expensive query.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, here's what I can answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/507221/longest-gap-between-question-posting-and-answer-acceptance&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Longest time between asking a question and accepting an answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At time of writing, the honour goes to Rodger Cooley and Valorum. Rodger asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/999/31051&quot;&gt;Which actors from the original Star Trek pilot &amp;quot;The Cage&amp;quot; appeared in later Star Trek media?&lt;/a&gt; on January 19, 2011, and Valorum's answer (posted October 10, 2016) was accepted on october 11, 2016.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The total difference, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?m1=01&amp;amp;d1=19&amp;amp;y1=2011&amp;amp;m2=10&amp;amp;d2=11&amp;amp;y2=2016&amp;amp;h1=14&amp;amp;i1=55&amp;amp;s1=44&amp;amp;h2=19&amp;amp;i2=11&amp;amp;s2=29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;2092 days, 4 hours, 15 minutes and 45 seconds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Runner-up is PearsonArtPhoto/Omegacron for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/166/31051&quot;&gt;What was Shepherd Book&amp;#39;s past in Firefly?&lt;/a&gt;, with a net difference of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?m1=1&amp;amp;d1=11&amp;amp;y1=2011&amp;amp;m2=9&amp;amp;d2=19&amp;amp;y2=2016&amp;amp;h1=23&amp;amp;i1=28&amp;amp;s1=27&amp;amp;h2=17&amp;amp;i2=40&amp;amp;s2=57&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;2077 days, 18 hours and change&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/507217/longest-gaps-between-answer-post-and-acceptance&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Longest time between posting an answer and that answer being accepted&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The winner is NiceOrc for answering &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/5722/31051&quot;&gt;A collection of stories about young monsters and vampires&lt;/a&gt;. The answer was posted on September 21, 2011, and accepted on April 27, 2017. Total difference: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?m1=9&amp;amp;d1=21&amp;amp;y1=2011&amp;amp;m2=4&amp;amp;d2=27&amp;amp;y2=2017&amp;amp;h1=21&amp;amp;i1=33&amp;amp;s1=52&amp;amp;h2=21&amp;amp;i2=15&amp;amp;s2=20&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;2044 days, 23 hours, 41 minutes and 28 seconds&lt;/a&gt;. A nice, patient orc indeed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Runner-up is geoffc for answering &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/2813/31051&quot;&gt;Who is the Hindmost in the Ringworld sequels?&lt;/a&gt;. His answer was posted on April 10, 2011, and accepted on October 7, 2016. Total time difference: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?m1=04&amp;amp;d1=10&amp;amp;y1=2011&amp;amp;m2=10&amp;amp;d2=7&amp;amp;y2=2016&amp;amp;h1=21&amp;amp;i1=33&amp;amp;s1=42&amp;amp;h2=16&amp;amp;i2=14&amp;amp;s2=32&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;2006 days, 18 hours and change&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Longest time between an answer being accepted and it being unaccepted&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because old acceptances aren't stored either by SEDE or the API, this one is unanswerable. Sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="31051" LastEditDate="2017-05-01T18:54:55.133" LastActivityDate="2017-05-01T18:54:55.133" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9919" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-07-02T10:20:17.297" Score="4" ViewCount="455" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the question says, is there a way to ensure that a user/users are not targeting you for downvotes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Failing that, what system exists to ensure that this does not happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-07-02T17:40:31.100" LastActivityDate="2016-07-02T18:27:07.187" Title="Is it possible to ask for moderators to check if a user has abnormally downvoted you?" Tags="|discussion|down-votes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ClosedDate="2016-07-07T01:21:52.767" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9919" CreationDate="2016-07-02T10:30:02.373" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is already a system to detect malicious voting patterns and correct the reputation accordingly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone serial up-votes and down-votes your answers/questions, you have to wait for at least 24 hours. When the script is run, your reputation will be corrected to pre-malicious-voting level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/serial-voting-reversed&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt; for help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoting from the same page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When a single user continually votes (up or down) on many of your&#xA;  posts within a short period of time, the system considers these votes&#xA;  to be invalid and removes them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What to do when you think you are victim of serial voting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you see very unusual votes being targeted at your account, don't&#xA;  worry about it. You should wait at least 24 hours after noticing&#xA;  before becoming concerned, as the automated system should detect it&#xA;  and reverse it for you. If, after 24 hours, you do not see any fix to&#xA;  your reputation, please contact the team using the &quot;contact us&quot; form&#xA;  located at the bottom of any page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also see: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/252270/what-can-i-do-about-getting-a-sudden-flood-of-revenge-downvotes&quot;&gt;What can I do about revenge downvotes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happens to the perpetrator(s):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If such a voting pattern continues to happen between two users&#xA;  mutually or from one user towards another, or otherwise falls outside&#xA;  of normal voting patterns, moderators and/or developers may&#xA;  investigate the matter; intentionally voting merely to reduce or&#xA;  inflate another user's reputation is considered abuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The exact nature and rules of the reversal script are kept in secret to avoid potential abusers from finding work-arounds. Relax, your reputation will be back by tomorrow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also See: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/126829/what-is-serial-voting-and-how-does-it-affect-me&quot;&gt;What is serial voting and how does it affect me?&lt;/a&gt;. Also relevant, Stackoverflow Blog post titled &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/vote-fraud-and-you/&quot;&gt;Voting Fraud and you&lt;/a&gt;&quot; by Jeff Atwood. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:46.357" LastActivityDate="2016-07-02T10:41:58.087" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9922" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9998" CreationDate="2016-07-02T14:43:32.727" Score="16" ViewCount="428" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Per Rand al'Thor♦'s answer below, the site manager for Chakoteya.net is apparently unwilling or unable to make changes at their end to resolve this problem.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That being the case, our options are now limited to trying to convince an SE Programmer to make the changes en-masse or making the changes ourselves.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometime over the past few days, Chakoteya.net appear have changed the URLs of their episode transcripts, enforcing case and rendering the links broken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chakoteya.net/nextgen/132.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.chakoteya.net/nextgen/132.htm&lt;/a&gt; = No longer working&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chakoteya.net/NextGen/132.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.chakoteya.net/NextGen/132.htm&lt;/a&gt; = Working.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chakoteya.net/ds9/447.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.chakoteya.net/ds9/447.htm&lt;/a&gt; = No longer working&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chakoteya.net/DS9/447.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.chakoteya.net/DS9/447.htm&lt;/a&gt; = Working&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chakoteya.net/doctorwho/32-12.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.chakoteya.net/doctorwho/32-12.htm&lt;/a&gt; = No Longer working&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chakoteya.net/DoctorWho/32-12.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.chakoteya.net/DoctorWho/32-12.htm&lt;/a&gt; = Working&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chakoteya.net/voyager/718.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.chakoteya.net/voyager/718.htm&lt;/a&gt; = No Longer working&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chakoteya.net/Voyager/718.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.chakoteya.net/Voyager/718.htm&lt;/a&gt; = Working&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chakoteya.net/startrek/16.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.chakoteya.net/startrek/16.htm&lt;/a&gt; = No Longer working&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/16.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/16.htm&lt;/a&gt; = Working&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=url%3Achakoteya.net&quot;&gt;quick search&lt;/a&gt;  indicates that some 445+ answers possibly now have broken or invalid links, although the &lt;em&gt;actual number&lt;/em&gt; is probably lower given that several will have already been fixed or will link to sources that are unaffected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously we could go through and just change all of those that are affected but this would engulf the front page. Does anyone have any better ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2016-07-20T10:16:26.470" Title="Chakoteya.net links are broken" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9922" CreationDate="2016-07-02T15:42:45.247" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for raising this problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After seeing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/92462/delta-flyer-transporter-capability/92465#comment337520_92465&quot;&gt;Jon Clements's comment&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;I've just sent an email to the Chakoteya site administrator&lt;/strong&gt; to ask them whether they could possibly fix the URLs so that e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chakoteya.net/doctorwho/30-15.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.chakoteya.net/doctorwho/30-15.htm&lt;/a&gt; redirects to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chakoteya.net/DoctorWho/30-15.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.chakoteya.net/DoctorWho/30-15.htm&lt;/a&gt;. That would be by far the simplest fix from our point of view - no editing needed here - and I'm hoping it'll also be not too hard for them to sort out this redirect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;: I received a reply from the Chakoteya webmaster, who says the website itself hasn't changed (the folders for Doctor Who, DS9, etc. always had capitalised names, the only entirely lowercase folder being movies) and therefore they're not going to make any changes to the site, since they haven't done anything to create our situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2016-07-06T11:45:39.520" CommentCount="27" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9913" CreationDate="2016-07-02T16:42:40.687" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cannot provide any data but, given who the domain belongs to, this is likely to be an artefact of a WiFi network on French transit routes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/wi-fi-4g-applis-la-ratp-veut-devenir-le-leader-de-la-mobilite-connectee-39827732.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;some technical specific of their groundbreaking WiFi's login portal&lt;/a&gt; redirects in such a way that their domain ends up as the HTTP Referer &lt;em&gt;[sic]&lt;/em&gt; field when requests to Stack Exchange (and other sites) are made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1167" LastActivityDate="2016-07-02T16:42:40.687" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9919" CreationDate="2016-07-02T16:46:56.333" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;While there's always the possibility that you've been &lt;em&gt;very cleverly targeted&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;a look at your recent Q+A would strongly suggest that you're not being targeted at all.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've had &lt;strong&gt;27&lt;/strong&gt; downvotes in the last 30 days, which certainly &lt;em&gt;seems&lt;/em&gt; an unusually high number until you start to break things down:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4&lt;/strong&gt; came from this off-topic (and now closed) question&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/129204/any-canonical-reason-as-to-why-valorum-did-this&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/129204/any-canonical-reason-as-to-why-valorum-did-this&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8&lt;/strong&gt; came from this self-answered (and now closed) question and answer set&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/132681/can-we-use-turbo-boost-to-jump-a-car/132682#132682&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/132681/can-we-use-turbo-boost-to-jump-a-car/132682#132682&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4&lt;/strong&gt; came from this self-answered question about accents&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/133018/why-does-everyone-in-game-of-thrones-have-a-british-accent&quot;&gt;Why does everyone in Game Of Thrones have a British accent?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt; came from this poorly received question about a prop on GoT&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/133566/who-sent-ser-barristan-the-pardon-for-jorah-mormont&quot;&gt;Who sent Ser Barristan the pardon for Jorah Mormont?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of the remaining &lt;strong&gt;5&lt;/strong&gt; downvotes, the remainder are &lt;em&gt;single downvotes&lt;/em&gt; on questions that have been quite poorly received in terms of the ratio between question visitors and upvoters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of the downvotes you've received this month seem in any way remarkable once you accept that &lt;strong&gt;self-answered questions invariably attract at least one or two downvotes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-07-02T18:27:07.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9926" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-07-03T07:45:25.823" Score="3" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just lost 24 rep points and I don't know why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-07-03T10:52:12.870" LastActivityDate="2016-07-04T03:38:27.190" Title="Why did I lose 24 rep points with no notice?" Tags="|support|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9926" CreationDate="2016-07-03T08:16:44.033" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;One of your answers  was deleted&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You wrote a question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/132681/can-we-use-turbo-boost-to-jump-a-car&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, asking whether Turbo Boost could be used to jump a car. You also answered that question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/M3FPP.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/M3FPP.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;As you can see, your answer has 3 upvotes and 3 downvotes, for a net reputation gain of 3*10-3*2 = 24 reputation. When the question was deleted, you lost that reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qQLiv.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qQLiv.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why was the question deleted?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The deletion reason was given as RemovedAbandonedClosed. As noted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/roomba&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, a question is deleted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If the question was closed more than 9 days ago, and ...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;not closed as a duplicate&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;has a score of 0 or less&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;is not locked&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;has no answers with a score &gt; 0&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;has no accepted answer&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;has no pending reopen votes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;has not been edited in the past 9 days&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of these conditions were met on your question, and so the Community user deleted it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At some point, you should have seen (or should see) a gain of 2 reputation as well, since your net -2 on the question should also be reversed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you wish to view your deleted posts, you have several options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you have more than 10,000 reputation the &lt;code&gt;deleted:1&lt;/code&gt; search term should be of some assistance.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the question was deleted recently, a high-reputation user might be able to see it, if you really need access.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; link only available for 10K+ rep users&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2016-07-04T03:38:27.190" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9928" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9929" CreationDate="2016-07-03T13:44:11.507" Score="1" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why even bother marking a post accepted on meta? It does not seem to contribute to anything, so why even bother?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-07-03T14:07:51.977" LastActivityDate="2016-07-03T14:07:51.977" Title="Why even accept an answer on Meta?" Tags="|discussion|meta|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9928" CreationDate="2016-07-03T14:07:10.853" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the same reason as you'd accept an answer on the main site. Basically, accept an answer if it solved your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you post a &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/support&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;support&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;support&lt;/a&gt; question, &lt;strong&gt;accept the answer that solves your problem&lt;/strong&gt; by telling you how to do whatever it was you wanted to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you post a &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/bug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt; report, you might get an answer from a developer or moderator, either saying the feature/bug has been implemented/fixed or explaining why it won't be. In the absence of such a definitive answer, you can &lt;strong&gt;accept the answer you found most useful&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you post a &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discussion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; question, then answers and the voting on them may be used in the future to determine community consensus and site policy, so &lt;strong&gt;you should accept the highest-voted answer&lt;/strong&gt;, since that will be the one used to determine policy even if you don't accept it. See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5263/does-a-meta-question-have-to-be-accepted-to-be-considered-as-a-community-conse&quot;&gt;Does a meta question have to be &amp;#39;accepted&amp;#39; to be considered as a community consensus?&lt;/a&gt; Quoting from @Null's answer there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only the person who asked the question can accept the answer, so it would be impossible for the accepted answer to stand as the consensus unless it is also the most highly voted answer. It would effectively give the asker the power to stand as consensus. It would also imply that there is no consensus if the asker never accepts an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's often fairly useless to accept an answer on meta. But it serves the same purpose as on the main site: to mark a question as being 'solved' and indicate which answer was the most useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also the main meta question &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/85095/when-do-you-accept-an-answer-on-meta&quot;&gt;When do you accept an answer on meta?&lt;/a&gt; Quoting from the accepted answer there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You accept an answer when someone posts an answer that is acceptable in answering your question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously though, accepting isn't as expected here on [meta] and certainly less so for &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discussion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; posts. There's even an &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/17055/dont-calculate-accepted-answer-rate-on-meta&quot;&gt;open feature request&lt;/a&gt; to not calculate the accept rate on MSO because it's so different. Typically I've accepted when either someone has posted an answer that answers my question or when a dev has explained why something is &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt; or is &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt;, etc. Otherwise, I don't accept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-07-03T14:07:10.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9930" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-07-05T13:22:28.640" Score="5" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over on StackOverflow, some tags are decorated with relevant icons. For instance, &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/google-chrome&quot;&gt;the tag for Chrome&lt;/a&gt; sports the Chrome icon, while &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android&quot;&gt;the Android tag&lt;/a&gt; shows Bugdroid, the Android mascotte.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a great number of franchises that have a recognisable icon. &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; come to mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So can we decorate our tags with relevant icons, copyright permitting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:33:39.573" LastActivityDate="2016-07-05T13:22:28.640" Title="Can we have relevant icons on tags?" Tags="|feature-request|tags|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9818" CreationDate="2016-07-05T14:05:25.057" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/102158/what-knowledge-do-the-people-of-westeros-have-about-daenerys-and-her-dragons&quot;&gt;What knowledge do the people of Westeros have about Daenerys and her dragons?&lt;/a&gt; is tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt;, the answers seem to be book-based, whereas the answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/131770/do-westerosi-know-and-believe-that-dany-has-grown-up-and-dangerous-dragons&quot;&gt;Do Westerosi know and believe that Dany has grown-up and dangerous dragons?&lt;/a&gt; is primarily show-based. So one solution would be to &lt;strong&gt;retag the former as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt; and keep both questions intact.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That still leaves the problem of possible future incarnations of the same question. What will happen if someone posts the same question again asking who knows about Dany and her dragons in the books after &lt;em&gt;The Winds of Winter&lt;/em&gt; has been published, or in the show after Season 7?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's possible that she may actually show up in Westeros and declare herself in the next book/season, in which case the question will be moot since the answer will become obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If not, the best suggestion I can come up with is to &lt;strong&gt;make the questions and their answers community-wiki and update them as new canon material is released&lt;/strong&gt;. That way, anyone can edit the posts, and we'll have an up-to-date record of the latest and most accurate answer to the question in both the books and the show. Not only that, but we can record how the answer has changed over time, by listing the people who know in the order they find out.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could also post a new CW question asking about both the books and the show, compose a really top-quality answer to it as described above, and close both the existing questions as dupes of that.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;Alternatively, it's possible that you're just overthinking it and this won't become a problem :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2016-07-05T14:05:25.057" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9826" CreationDate="2016-07-05T14:09:30.920" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question has been reopened by Thaddeus Howze ♦ (the same person who originally closed it) and four other users. Nobody has voted to re-close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2016-07-05T14:09:30.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9846" CreationDate="2016-07-05T15:11:04.717" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The other Jonas (before he changed his name) gave several impressive answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/124257/4918&quot;&gt;Why do manga characters love to eat a lot of food?&lt;/a&gt; As someone who doesn't know much about animé and manga, this answer gives a nice glimpse into its culture.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/125262/4918&quot;&gt;What is the first instance of a person gaining powers from radiation?&lt;/a&gt; Comics history.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/126587/4918&quot;&gt;Warhammer story that covers someone's transition from human to ghoul&lt;/a&gt;. Nice detective work to prove that something is never described in a long book series.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/126665/4918&quot;&gt;Looking for a young adult book about an audiovisual recording device that can rewind and fast-forward past the limits of the recording&lt;/a&gt;  FuzzyBoots and Jonas together are unable to verify if this answer is right, because the book is completely inaccessible, but it looks like a good candidate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other highlights of the quarter:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;del&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/92524/4918&quot;&gt;Why is Gollum's memory so selective?&lt;/a&gt; ATB answers why Gollum doesn't know he's a hobbit.)&lt;/del&gt; Update: sorry, I messed this one up, it was only edited this quarter, not posted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;del&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/122285/4918&quot;&gt;Why did Rowling seemingly make light of the house-elf situation?&lt;/a&gt; Jason Baker's answer explains that Hermione's efforts were for a good cause but utterly misguided, confirmed by a Rowling interview.)&lt;/del&gt; This one is from the last quarter.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/128792/4918&quot;&gt;Is there a mind probe lying around in the middle of this Death Star meeting room?&lt;/a&gt; Nice question noticing a setting detail in the film by The Dark Lord, with a good answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/132378/4918&quot;&gt;I remember a children's book with math and a world inside a book&lt;/a&gt; Story-id well done, by user14111.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2016-07-05T15:56:07.653" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9934" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-07-05T18:21:24.420" Score="1" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've got a question I was planning to ask. However, the title of the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Why did Ned not tell Catelyn the truth about Jon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is a spoiler in and of itself. I'm not sure there's a way to frame that tile any better to make it not a spoiler. What's the proper way to address this on the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11159" LastActivityDate="2016-07-05T18:21:24.420" Title="How are spoiler questions to be handled?" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2016-07-07T12:06:25.403" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9935" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-07-06T12:41:01.373" Score="0" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/133778/is-anyone-concerned-about-daenerys-lack-of-an-heir&quot;&gt;Is anyone concerned about Daenerys' lack of an heir?&lt;/a&gt;, I had posted an answer. Upon further comments from the OP, I realized his question is primarily going to be opinion based. I deleted my answer and voted to close. Should I have left my answer up? Should I undelete it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11159" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2016-07-06T13:25:57.740" Title="Should I have not deleted my answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9935" CreationDate="2016-07-06T13:25:57.740" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No, there's no need for you to undelete it.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because &lt;strong&gt;it doesn't really answer the question&lt;/strong&gt;, as stated by the question poster in a comment on your answer before you deleted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Daenerys is kind of without an heir. Why does no one in the show seem concerned about this after season 1? [...] In the books how and when is concern over this brought up? What are proposed resolutions if any?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/w9l96.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/w9l96.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of deleted answer&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of this answer is talking about who else might or might not be ahead of Dany in the line of succession, rather than about the issue of Daenerys not having a child. The one part that isn't (point 1) is about Dany's &lt;em&gt;barrenness&lt;/em&gt;, which still isn't quite the same issue. Sure, nobody knows she's barren, but everyone knows she doesn't actually have a child.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;None of this answers the question of why people don't see Dany's childlessness as an issue.&lt;/strong&gt; Even if Jon and/or Tyrion are ahead of Dany in the Targaryen line of succession, nobody knows about it; nor does anybody know about her barrenness; so these are all irrelevant to the main question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2016-07-06T13:25:57.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9937" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9939" CreationDate="2016-07-07T07:56:53.313" Score="12" ViewCount="317" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, the Very Low Quality (VLQ) flag underwent a major change. It is now no longer available on answers older than 7 days, as described &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/326635/6354918&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many answers much more than a week old that could be considered very low quality. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/81210/51379&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; is a one-line, completely unsupported fan theory. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/68363/51379&quot;&gt;This one&lt;/a&gt; is similar. Of course, my assessment of these specific answers may be incorrect, but the basic problem remains. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do we bring VLQ answers that have slipped through the cracks to the attention of those who can do something about them, now that we no longer have the flag for them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should we flag as Not An Answer? Presumably this is a bad idea if the answer attempts to answer the question. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should we not flag at all, and post in chat?  This could be bothersome to people who want to use chat without being interrupted several times an hour. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should we use custom moderator flags? This could bother moderators.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should we just ignore them? They probably are not doing much harm if they are that old. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the correct course of action now?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-07-07T22:53:56.177" Title="What to do when Very Low Quality flags are not available?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|answers|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9937" CreationDate="2016-07-07T09:05:49.977" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As with most unilateral actions from SE, this one seems to have taken the community a little by surprise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Parsing out &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/326585/unable-to-flag-as-very-low-quality-for-answers/326635#326635&quot;&gt;Shog's advice&lt;/a&gt; gives you three options; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Editing to fix the problems or simply downvoting will suffice&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Their greatest flaws tend to be in &lt;strong&gt;not actually answering the question, for which there exists another flag&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A flag doesn't really help much. &lt;strong&gt;A downvote will speed things along a bit though.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's really bad (and has somehow managed to slip under the radar for more than 7 days) then I favour option #4 - &lt;strong&gt;Flag it with the &quot;Other&quot; and just type &quot;Low quality&quot; as your custom reason&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T10:37:56.310" LastActivityDate="2016-07-07T09:05:49.977" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9937" CreationDate="2016-07-07T12:53:18.230" Score="10" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should we flag as Not An Answer? Presumably this is a bad idea if the answer attempts to answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indeed: &lt;strong&gt;NaA flags should be reserved for actual non-answers.&lt;/strong&gt; (For more information, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/225370/your-answer-is-in-another-castle-when-is-an-answer-not-an-answer&quot;&gt;Your answer is in another castle: when is an answer not an answer?&lt;/a&gt; on main meta. It has an explanatory picture at the end which is elaborated upon in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/287563/youre-doing-it-wrong-a-plea-for-sanity-in-the-low-quality-posts-queue&quot;&gt;this meta.SO post&lt;/a&gt;. Both of these meta posts are probably worth a read.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should we use custom moderator flags? This could bother moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bothering us isn't a problem in itself - after all, part of a moderator's job is to get 'bothered' by flags about posts that need moderator intervention :-) However, note those last four words: &quot;&lt;em&gt;that need moderator intervention&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. One of the flag-decline reasons says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't often mod-delete answers unless they're either clearly non-answers (not even attempting to answer the question) or objectively extremely bad (e.g. spam, offensive, nonsense, rants). So while we'll be happy to delete any awful old crap that's fallen through the net and hasn't yet been noticed and deleted, please don't start flagging every wrong or poorly written old answer, because &lt;strong&gt;being wrong or poorly written are reasons to downvote or edit, not to delete.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site has plenty of users with &gt;20k rep, three of whom are sufficient to delete any negatively scored answer. Which brings us on to the last two of your possibilities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should we not flag at all, and post in chat? This could be bothersome to people who want to use chat without being interrupted several times an hour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as you aren't flooding chat with such posts, &lt;strong&gt;this should be fine.&lt;/strong&gt; I often post in chat about some site-upkeep issue: &quot;should this question be closed/reopened&quot;, &quot;are these questions duplicates&quot;, &quot;should this answer be deleted&quot;, and so on. It's a way of informally engaging the community in discussion without going to the trouble of writing up a meta post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bear in mind, though, that when you post in chat you're only addressing a small subset of the site's users. To attract a wider audience, you could post on meta, but that seems like massive overkill to get deletions for a bunch of old answers that have probably been downvoted already. Which brings me to your final point:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should we just ignore them? They probably are not doing much harm if they are that old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indeed. It is nice to get rid of old crap, and do go ahead and try to do so if it's convenient, but don't put &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; much effort into it. If an answer's been around for months or years, there's probably no pressing urgency to delete it; you might be barking up the wrong tree in your (very welcome) efforts to improve the site, which might be better spent elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.757" LastActivityDate="2016-07-07T17:11:48.313" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9940" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9941" CreationDate="2016-07-07T19:07:34.903" Score="0" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok long story I sort of posted this question on Movies and Tv by accident (got my book marks mixed up :p) so please say nothing about the double up of the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But here it is... finally in the right place! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok they are machine making, cowboy hat wearing, egg stealing pigs and the Birds are well you know! So I would say that they are well out of the bounds of the normal and into the world of the fantastical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But before I ask my question I wanted to know if they were on topic or not. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65829" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-05-28T01:50:53.313" LastActivityDate="2019-05-28T01:50:53.313" Title="Is the Angry Birds game and movie on topic here?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9940" CreationDate="2016-07-07T19:37:23.340" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The games may or may not be on-topic&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the Angry Birds games (at least the first one) simply do not contain enough science fiction or fantasy elements to generally be on-topic. Narrow questions about their science fiction aspects (if any) might be acceptable, though. &lt;strong&gt;The situation might be different for many individual games, such as Angry Birds Transformers, or Angry Birds Star Wars, which &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; science fiction and connected to an established property to boot, or the Angry Birds Epic RPG, which appears to be fantasy.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, all video games should be on-topic at &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Arquade&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The movie is on-topic&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The pigs possess technology, but nothing more advanced than what was available at the time the movie was created (airplanes and so forth). However, the birds' special powers, which are little more than mechanics in the game (and thus do not qualify it as SFF) are, well, special powers. For example, Bomb can blow himself up and create an electric shockwave in the movie, which is a clear super-power. As such, the movie is on-topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The general principle&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5119/51379&quot;&gt;Current site policy&lt;/a&gt; says that anthropomorphic animals &lt;em&gt;by themselves&lt;/em&gt; are not enough to render a work on-topic. Though there remains disagreement, that is the current community consensus.  As such, a movie such as &lt;em&gt;The Angry Birds Movie&lt;/em&gt; would have to possess additional speculative fiction elements in order to be considered science fiction or fantasy (and does). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:09:36.363" LastActivityDate="2016-07-07T20:34:59.713" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9937" CreationDate="2016-07-07T22:53:56.177" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the course of analysing flags, we've discovered that &quot;Very-Low Quality&quot; means wildly different things to different people. The flag is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/93606/1438&quot;&gt;intended&lt;/a&gt; for unsalvagable posts &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/19324/15823&quot;&gt;such as&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;woop woop woop woop woop woop woop woop woop!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference (since they are deleted), the answers called out in the question are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think when hermione cast the spell on her parents (obliviate) her memory of her parents had been taken from her so if she lives she won't remember her parents so she won't have to live though the pain of knowing her parents will never remember her&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Elves are neither good nor bad. They play by their own rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are garden-variety unsupported answers. If anybody cared, both answers could theoretically be fixed with some additional evidence and arguments. (Additionally, the first has &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/326635/1438&quot;&gt;grammar issues&lt;/a&gt;.) Assuming you don't want to edit, the best course of action is to downvote. That sends a clear signal to both the reader and the author of the answer that something is lacking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both answers &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; got comments suggesting that the author find some evidence to support their theories. Commenting is commendable when an answer can be fixed. Most people won't bother if the answers are just junk. Truly low-quality posts rarely make it a week on Stack Exchange sites&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt;, which is the primary reason the VLQ flag has been restricted to new posts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, both examples provided were subjected to previous reviews. One &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/37554&quot;&gt;passed&lt;/a&gt; the low-quality queue and the other passed the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/48314&quot;&gt;first post&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/late-answers/48315&quot;&gt;late answer&lt;/a&gt; queues. More indicative of very-low quality posts would be a near unanimous consensus that they are irredeemable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two examples given aren't examples of VLQ posts. But for the sake of argument (and to be able to answer the question), suppose they were. If you do run across a post that &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/93606/1438&quot;&gt;truly stinks&lt;/a&gt; and nothing has been done about it for 7 days or more, any one of the proposed actions seems reasonable. None of them work &lt;em&gt;quite&lt;/em&gt; in the way the VLQ flag does, but the difference in terms of the end result (what readers see) should be minimal. Either the answer is deleted or has a low score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt; The example I gave lasted 22 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15823" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-07-07T22:53:56.177" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9943" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9944" CreationDate="2016-07-08T16:14:50.247" Score="12" ViewCount="640" Body="&lt;h1&gt;UPDATE: Room created!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to everyone who expressed interest! Everyone interested are welcome to visit the newly create room at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/42263/sff-ontopic-chat&quot;&gt;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/42263/sff-ontopic-chat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Q: If there was a dedicated &quot;SciFi and Fantasy&quot; chat room in SFF chat, would you be interested in participating in it?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means a separate, dedicated, non-Mos-Eisley room, where the only ontopic conversation is about SciFi and Fantasy works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The poll will have 4 initial answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yes, would be interested in participating if such a room existed on SFF chat&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I would be interested in reading the room's transcripts but probably would not participate in the chat myself.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unsure, depends on details or alignment of Saturn.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No interest at all.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to be clear:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;This question is only a poll to gauge interest in such a room&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is &lt;strong&gt;NOT intended to discuss the pros/cons&lt;/strong&gt; of having such a room (because discussing pros/cons is a waste of everyone's time and effort unless there's enough interest to consider the idea in the first place), or its viability, or any other topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2016-07-10T18:03:29.333" LastActivityDate="2016-07-10T18:03:50.037" Title="Is there an interest in dedicated SciFi and Fantasy chat room?" Tags="|discussion|scope|chat|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9943" CreationDate="2016-07-08T16:15:00.497" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, would be interested in participating if such a room existed on SFF chat&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;UPDATE: Room created.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/42263/sff-ontopic-chat&quot;&gt;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/42263/sff-ontopic-chat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2016-07-10T18:03:50.037" LastActivityDate="2016-07-10T18:03:50.037" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9943" CreationDate="2016-07-08T16:17:10.667" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would be interested in reading the room's transcripts but probably would not participate in the chat myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2016-07-08T16:17:10.667" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9943" CreationDate="2016-07-08T16:21:10.273" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unsure, depends on details&lt;/strong&gt; or alignment of Saturn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2016-07-08T16:21:10.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9943" CreationDate="2016-07-08T16:21:45.197" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No interest at all,&lt;/strong&gt; and I need to meet the 30 character limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;This answer is rather meaningless and only added to satisfy my OCD. I'm interested in how many people would use the room; it's obvious that a vast majority of site users wouldn't just because most people don't use chat in the first place.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2016-07-08T19:08:21.193" LastActivityDate="2016-07-08T19:08:21.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9943" CreationDate="2016-07-08T16:22:17.147" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Allow me to break the demand that the responses are limited to these polls. (Check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/233908/are-poll-style-questions-ever-acceptable-on-meta-sites&quot;&gt;Are poll-style questions ever acceptable on meta sites?&lt;/a&gt; for why I'm disinclined to not discuss my own thoughts this topic, since I have a strong interest in it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There already exists a Fantasy-only talk and chat room, since Fantasy has received less attention in general on SFF, aside from a small set of very popular media.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been quite successful when people are actually present. &lt;strong&gt;It shows that there's an interest in at least one dedicated chat room, as a healthy number of people have showed up at least once.&lt;/strong&gt; People's actions (actually chatting there) probably speak louder than passively voting up and down here on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As room owner, I do try and steer the topics back to Fantasy, instead of general chat or other topics. I would absolutely be interested in adding additional room owners that would be interested in encouraging such conversations, if that would help build a 3rd place that satisfies community needs for an on-topic outlet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/38833/fantasy-talk-recommendations&quot;&gt;Fantasy Talk &amp;amp; Recommendations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2016-07-09T02:03:19.623" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9943" CreationDate="2016-07-09T10:50:50.687" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would be interested in a dedicated &quot;SciFi and Fantasy&quot; chat room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastActivityDate="2016-07-09T10:50:50.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9951" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9952" CreationDate="2016-07-10T13:34:24.637" Score="14" ViewCount="286" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 1989 movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097351/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Field of Dreams&lt;/a&gt; starring Kevin Costner is billed as a Fantasy/Drama movie on IMDb as well as Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie features the following Fantasy elements (to name a few):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Ghosts&quot; of dead baseball players are seen by only certain people.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The phenomenon of dead baseball players only occur on the baseball field.  the players cannot leave the field for fear of never returning.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Certain characters seem to share the exact same &quot;vision&quot; regarding what their purpose is and how it is tied to said baseball field.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would this movie be deemed on-topic for this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52940" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-07-10T13:36:24.937" LastActivityDate="2016-07-10T15:40:30.853" Title="Is Field of Dreams on-topic here?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9951" CreationDate="2016-07-10T15:22:00.820" Score="14" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Tentatively yes, but with a proviso (see below)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Main Conceit&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ghost story around which the film is based (farmer hears voices, sees ghosts) is on-topic for the site. Aside from the title character, other people such as his daughter and a local author also &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSNyiSetZ8Y&amp;amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;amp;t=30s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;see the ghosts&lt;/a&gt; as well as elements of his fantastical &quot;&lt;em&gt;field of dreams&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the strength of that, we're led to believe that &lt;strong&gt;the ghosts were real, rather than purely imaginary.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Marketing&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film has been marketed as a &quot;magical experience&quot; and a &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://digital.sabanciuniv.edu/posters/0081.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;glowing tribute to all those who dare to dream&lt;/a&gt;&quot; but there's no specific indication that the film was intended to be a straight-up fantasy ghost flick. The ghosts are there to further an allegorical tale about believing in oneself, in the face of opposition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Proviso&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already have an established system for dealing with films that have SFF content, but aren't &lt;em&gt;in themselves&lt;/em&gt; fully on-topic &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/are-works-that-arent-sf-per-se-but-have-occasional-sfnal-elements-on-topic-e&quot;&gt;Are works that aren&amp;#39;t SF per se, but have occasional SFnal elements on-topic? (e.g. spy movies)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Because the film is an &quot;edge-case&quot;, it's acceptable to ask questions about those elements that are definitely (or at least arguably) on-topic or that relate to on-topic elements&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Why did the ghosts pick Kevin Costner's field?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; = Fine&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;&quot;What kind of corn does Kevin Costner's character grow&quot;&lt;/em&gt; = Not fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.377" LastActivityDate="2016-07-10T15:40:30.853" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2016-07-11T07:28:45.177" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;My display name on this SE community comes from a Character from George R.R. Martin's epic fantasy series &lt;em&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the people who are familiar with the work assume that it's after &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Aegon_I_Targaryen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Aegon I 'The conquerer' Targaryen&lt;/a&gt; but in fact it is after &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Aegon_V_Targaryen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Aegon V 'the fortunate' Targaryen&lt;/a&gt;. (Aegon I was a useless bloke who wasn't really a very good ruler).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did toy with picking the name &quot;Aegon the Answerer&quot; (Because it kinda sounds like Aegon the Conqueror) but then I thought it is too weird. So Aegon it is, Seven bless our good king Aegon V. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastActivityDate="2016-07-11T07:28:45.177" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2016-07-11T07:37:48.930" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use artistic depictions of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt; characters as my avatar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Characters I have chosen as my avatar so far (Current one in bold)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Daeron_I_Targaryen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Daeron I Targaryen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Rhaenyra_Targaryen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rhaenyra Targaryen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Daenerys_Targaryen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Daenerys Targaryen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Visenya_Targaryen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Visenya Targaryen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Elmo_Tully&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Elmo Tully&lt;/a&gt; (I am not kidding, Elmo Tully, his grandfather &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Grover_Tully&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Grover Tully&lt;/a&gt; and his son &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Kermit_Tully&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kermit Tully&lt;/a&gt; are real characters)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Tywin_Lannister&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tywin Lannister&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Daenerys_Targaryen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Daenerys Targaryen&lt;/a&gt; again&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Cersei_Lannister&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cersei Lannister&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Lyonel_Baratheon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lyonel Baratheon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Larra_Rogare&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Larra Rogare&lt;/a&gt; with young Prince &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Aegon_IV_Targaryen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Aegon&lt;/a&gt; (Later King Aegon IV)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Brynden_Rivers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Brynden &amp;quot;Bloodraven&amp;quot; Rivers&lt;/a&gt; (Prior to his battle with his half-brother Bittersteel)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Rhaena_Targaryen_(daughter_of_Aenys_I)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rhaena Targaryen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Robert_I_Baratheon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Robert Baratheon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Rhaegar_Targaryen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rhaegar Targaryen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Rhaella_Targaryen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rhaella Targaryen&lt;/a&gt; (Using one of the images for Cersei and edited by Good people of internet into a Valyrian)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Visenya_Targaryen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Visenya Targaryen&lt;/a&gt; (Again - Coat of Arms Split into two because her Mother was a Velaryon and father a Targaryen)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Maekar_I_Targaryen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Maekar I Targaryen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Daenerys_Targaryen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Daenerys Targaryen&lt;/a&gt; - Again&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Aemon_Targaryen_(son_of_Viserys_II)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Aemon &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;The Dragonknight&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; Targaryen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Daemon_I_Blackfyre&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Daemon Blackfyre&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Ashara_Dayne&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ashara Dayne&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Aerys_II_Targaryen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Aerys II Targaryen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Margaery_Tyrell&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Margaery Tyrell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Oberyn_Martell&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Oberyn Martell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Aegon_I_Targaryen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Aegon I Targaryen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Elia_Martell&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Elia Martell&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; with her children Aegon and Rhaenys.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The three heads of the Dragon who started it all - &lt;a href=&quot;https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Rhaenys_Targaryen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rhaenys&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Aegon_I_Targaryen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Aegon&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Visenya_Targaryen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Visenya&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt; &lt;strong&gt;NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt; To &lt;em&gt;embiggen&lt;/em&gt; the images, click on the thumbnails in the avatar grid.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Avatar Grid&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RIsTc.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RIsTcs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;King Daeron I Targaryen 11th Feb 2016 - 7th August 2016&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jForR.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jForRs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen 7th August 2016 - 5th September 2016&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8AivO.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8AivOs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Queen Daenerys Targaryen 5th September 2016 - 10th September 2016&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6ItXo.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6ItXos.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Queen Visenya Targaryen 10th September 2016 - 3rd November 2016&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tS74X.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tS74Xs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Lord Elmo Tully 3rd November 2016 - 2nd December 2016&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JGPVb.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JGPVbs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Lord Tywin Lannister 2nd December 2016 - 9th February 2017&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mvUX4.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mvUX4s.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Queen Daenerys Targaryen 9th February 2017 - 21 February 2017&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YXOtR.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YXOtRs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Queen Cersei Lannister 21 February 2017 - 3 March 2017&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2WdXu.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2WdXus.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Lord Lyonel Baratheon 3 March 2017 - 24th March 2017&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xMms9.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xMms9s.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Larra Rogare with young King Aegon IV 24th March 2017 - 1st April 2017&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rLB7P.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rLB7Ps.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Bloodraven 1st April 2017 - 25th April 2017&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0LlBG.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0LlBGs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Rhaena Targaryen 25th April 2017 - 9th May 2017&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9TYhO.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9TYhOs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Robert Baratheon - 9th May 2017 - 28 July 2017&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zP8FO.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DEObms.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Rhaegar Targaryen - 28 July 2017 - 16 August 2017&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/piF6g.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/piF6gs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Rhaella Targaryen - 16 August 2017 - 18 August 2017&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6ECFa.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6ECFas.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Visenya Targaryen - 18 August 2017 - 23 August 2017&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Gz7Aj.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Gz7Ajs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Maekar I Targaryen - 23 August 2017 - 29th August 2017&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XZWOm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XZWOms.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Daenerys Targaryen - 29th August 2017 - 6th Sept 2017&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5UhVM.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5UhVMs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Aemon Targaryen - 6th Sept 2017 - 2nd Oct 2017&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sSHSN.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sSHSNs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Daemon Targaryen 2nd Oct 2017 - 9th January 2018&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/056oi.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/056ois.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Ashara Dayne 9th January 2018 - 22 Feb 2018&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/82cn1.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/82cn1s.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Aerys II Targaryen 22 Feb 2018 - 7 Apr 2018&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HLbHw.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HLbHws.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Margaery Tyrell 7 Apr 2018 - 3 May 2018&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zXKpm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zXKpms.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Oberyn Martell 3rd May 2018 - 26 September 2018&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AFwzn.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AFwzns.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Aegon I Targaryen 26 September 2018 - 21st May 2019&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lQ9th.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lQ9ths.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Elia Martell 21st May 2019 - 19 APR 2020&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/O5QZz.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/O5QZzs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Three heads of the Dragon 20 APR 2020 - Present&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2020-04-20T13:50:55.173" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9909" CreationDate="2016-07-12T02:52:12.540" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There isn't a &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; to ask these questions, although the only harm in them is the amount of time and effort that they take up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users should be aware that in most cases &lt;strong&gt;we're generally welcoming of new works&lt;/strong&gt; being presented to us, whether it's recent works or not. As can be evidenced by the list of meta questions linked in the question, most of the time the works in concern will be acceptable here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means there's not a strong reason to fear the new question being rejected or poorly received because of the work it's about. Fear or concern shouldn't be the motivator here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think your question will take more effort to write up than one on the meta, then it makes sense to ask on meta first. Keep in mind, though, that you may have just added more work for yourself, asking two questions, instead of one!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9940/is-the-angry-birds-game-and-movie-on-topic-here&quot;&gt;if you want to ask just to annoy me&lt;/a&gt;, that's a legitimate reason, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-07-12T02:52:12.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9957" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-07-13T03:04:47.070" Score="4" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am looking for books where magic is commonplace (kind of like the Darkblade trilogy). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know other Stack Exchange sites don't allow questions like that, but some have more relaxed rules than others. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I ask my book recommendation question here, am I off topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1467" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-07-13T08:18:29.177" LastActivityDate="2016-07-14T00:02:25.370" Title="Are book recommendations questions allowed here?" Tags="|discussion|scope|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2016-07-13T08:17:42.177" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9957" CreationDate="2016-07-13T03:24:51.083" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nope, they're not allowed. Straight from our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;list of off-topic questions&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Reading or viewing recommendations: I liked X, what should I watch next?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, you can always visit our one of our chat rooms for questions like these!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley, or general chat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/38833/the-nexus-fantasy-discussion&quot;&gt;The Nexus, a fantasy-topic room chock-full of recommendations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/42263/sff-on-topic-chat&quot;&gt;SFF On-topic chat, where discussion is just about Sci-fi and Fantasy, not the real world!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2016-07-14T00:02:25.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9957" CreationDate="2016-07-13T03:25:37.513" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Not on the main site&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the reasons to close a question specifically says: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Requests for lists of works or recommendations are off-topic as they&#xA;  do not fit our questions and answers format. Feel free to ask about&#xA;  people's favorites in chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as indicated in that close reason, you can ask for recommendations in chat. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastActivityDate="2016-07-13T03:25:37.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2016-07-13T19:34:28.333" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I took my username from one of the characters in the John Knowles novel, A Separate Peace. Loved the book when I read it, as a teenager, and admired the character Finny/Phineas. We both have the habit of passively listening to what is going on around us while focusing on something else, then replaying/recalling it later. Anyway, whenever I tried to sign up for something online using Phineas it was always taken, so I spelled it Phyneas and the usernames were generally open, so it stuck and I've been using it for almost everything (online) ever since.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42642" LastActivityDate="2016-07-13T19:34:28.333" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9331" CreationDate="2016-07-13T19:52:07.847" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I attempt to find questions through using the more unusual Potter words: Fudge, instead of Minister; Galleon instead of money (in this instance, money may be better, it depends; Elder Wand instead of &quot;the wand Draco stole from Dumbledore&quot;. Etc. The more exotic/specific the word, the more likely it is to pop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2016-07-13T19:52:07.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9962" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-07-13T23:07:29.263" Score="1" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;not an answer&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was posted as an answer, but it &lt;strong&gt;does not attempt to answer the question&lt;/strong&gt;. It should possibly be an edit, &lt;strong&gt;a comment&lt;/strong&gt;, another question, or deleted altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been a few times that I thought an answer did not really attempt to answer the question. For example &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/129148/54827&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; to the question  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20418/how-was-hector-barbossa-resurrected&quot;&gt;How was Hector Barbossa resurrected?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;doesn't answer the question asked&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;is more of a comment&lt;/strong&gt; in response to someone else's post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, makes no sense. If that was the case everybody that touches the coin becomes cursed tus Elizabeth and will turner shoud have been cursed. Since neither of them were, the only explenation let is that tia dalma or calypso used her powers to bring him back. It's a shame they didn't implement that in some kind of way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I had flagged it as &amp;quot;not and answer&amp;quot;, but I got this in response:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;declined - flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;wasn't&lt;/em&gt; flagging it for being wrong, I flagged it since it's a comment and doesn't answer the question asked by the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ellesedil even aggrees:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While you are spot-on, this should be a comment to an existing answer, not an answer itself. – Ellesedil&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if it it &lt;em&gt;technically&lt;/em&gt; answers the question (barely), &lt;strong&gt;it's  still obvious that the poster meant it as a &lt;em&gt;comment&lt;/em&gt; but they only have 1 rep, so doesn't that fall under &amp;quot;It should possibly be ... a comment&amp;quot; for the &amp;quot;not an answer&amp;quot; flag?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54827" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-08-25T16:46:25.097" Title="Why was my flag &quot;not an answer&quot; declined?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|answers|specific-answer|not-an-answer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9962" CreationDate="2016-07-14T03:53:41.707" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't say why it was rejected as NAA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The language of the answer doesn't seem to be directed at the &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer starts by saying that something doesn't make sense, mentions the cursed coins as if the OP used them in their question (they didn't, the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; mention of the gold coins is in a different, earlier answer), and then agrees with the OP's theory. They weren't giving a rebuttal to the OP, it was to somebody else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears to have been intended as a reply to one of the other &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, it doesn't actually answer the question, which poses &quot;does that mean she had the power to make anyone come back from dead?&quot; Instead, it only reasserts what was essentially given in the question: that Tia Dalma was involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, it ends with what is clearly a conversational piece.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a very low quality paragraph of poorly-written text, intended as a reply to another answer by a user without enough reputation to make comments. The &quot;not an answer&quot; close reason even specifies it's to be used for comments as answers and attempts to reply, which this clearly was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The criteria are here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/185073/how-do-i-properly-use-the-not-an-answer-flag&quot;&gt;How do I properly use the &amp;quot;Not an Answer&amp;quot; flag?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be flagged as NAA again. If that gets rejected, then VLQ or custom flag, until someone does something about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2016-07-14T03:58:53.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9962" CreationDate="2016-07-14T04:18:17.220" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not the moderator who declined that flag, but I would have done the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key phrase for the NAA flag text is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;does not attempt to answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; attempt to answer the question (which &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9962/why-was-my-flag-not-an-answer-declined#comment28630_9962&quot;&gt;you acknowledged&lt;/a&gt;) in that it says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the only explenation le[f]t is that tia dalma or calypso used her powers to bring him back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second sentence in the NAA flag text which mentions &quot;a comment&quot; only applies if the first sentence is true. Since that's not the case here it doesn't apply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's true that the answer is addressed toward another answer, but the fact that it does contain an answer means the NAA flag does not apply. This answer can be fixed by editing it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/56034/31936&quot;&gt;Another answer&lt;/a&gt; suggested that Barbossa was given the coin to be cursed again, but that makes no sense. If it was the case that everybody who touches the coin becomes cursed then Elizabeth and Will Turner should have been cursed. Since neither of them were, &lt;strong&gt;the only explanation left is that Tia Dalma or Calypso used her powers to bring him back.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer is now structured to refute a competing answer and provide an explanation by process of elimination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-07-14T04:45:05.350" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9967" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9968" CreationDate="2016-07-14T19:22:21.310" Score="5" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jm6rL.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jm6rL.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It just seems unlikely that it could be a coincidence that 4 of my top voted questions all get downvotes &lt;em&gt;at the same time&lt;/em&gt;. Is there some grumpy user out there who decided they hate me and so they went and downvoted 4 of my posts? If so, that can be reversed, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54827" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-07-14T23:50:40.040" LastActivityDate="2016-07-14T23:50:40.040" Title="Am I being singled out by a grumpy downvoter?" Tags="|support|voting|down-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2016-07-15T01:43:57.867" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9967" CreationDate="2016-07-14T19:57:33.430" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The publicly available information certainly looks suspicious: your posts were downvoted at 03:29:28, 03:29:32, 03:29:35, and 03:29:59 this morning. They were all questions (which are free to downvote), and there's not much of a link between them - particularly the Buzz one - except that they were all posted by you. This makes it look as though someone was out to get you and went through a few randomly chosen questions of yours downvoting them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First off, &lt;strong&gt;wait for the serial voting algorithm to run.&lt;/strong&gt; It runs once every 24 hours, at roughly 3am UTC, and is designed to pick up and reverse behaviour like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the votes haven't been reversed by this time tomorrow, you have a couple of options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flag it.&lt;/strong&gt; Pick one of the affected posts and raise a custom moderator flag to explain the situation. We'll have a look, and if we can't do anything about it ourselves we can kick it up to a Stack Exchange employee to handle. Alternatively, you could &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;contact&lt;/a&gt; SE directly yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Forget it&lt;/strong&gt;. The question is &lt;em&gt;whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and, by opposing, end them.&lt;/em&gt; Four &lt;strike&gt;slings and arrows&lt;/strike&gt; downvotes aren't much - 8 rep lost can be cancelled out with a single upvote on one of your answers - but the injustice remains, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you decide to go for option 1, do bear in mind it's possible that further investigation won't give sufficient evidence of foul play for the votes to be reversed (no algorithm is perfect, and there will always be false negatives), so you may have to plump for option 2 anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2016-07-14T19:57:33.430" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9585" CreationDate="2016-07-14T21:46:27.900" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes ... but&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first thing I think SFF should consider is to &lt;strong&gt;start using custom close reasons&lt;/strong&gt; (meaning the &amp;quot;other&amp;quot; reason) and &lt;strong&gt;stop using the Primarily Opinion Based close reason&lt;/strong&gt; or the generic &amp;quot;off topic&amp;quot; reason. I am aware of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5187/should-questions-about-future-works-be-closed-as-primarily-opinion-based&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and both of the answers but neither of them actually say &amp;quot;yes, close as POB&amp;quot;... DVK's answer says to close them, generally, while SQB's specifically says to use the &amp;quot;other&amp;quot; reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now more than 15% of the questions asked here that get closed use the POB reason. Data is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tools/question-close-stats?daterange=last90days&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for users with more than 10K rep. This is a lot of questions but there's no way to separate them from questions that are &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; opinion based. So, without looking at every question, there's no way to know what percentage of questions are actually &amp;quot;Future Works&amp;quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9585/should-we-add-an-off-topic-close-reason-for-future-works#comment26128_9588&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; on Jason Baker's answer, these questions are not opinion based, they're just early.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You make a very good point that &amp;quot;off-topic&amp;quot; might be interpreted by a user as a signal to &amp;quot;go away and don't ever ask these kinds of questions&amp;quot;, which is not the case. On the other hand, some of the closed questions I linked to were closed as &amp;quot;off-topic&amp;quot; with a generic message rather than POB anyway. Furthermore, POB isn't entirely correct, either -- the question is objective but no one (except perhaps the producers) know the answer yet. Perhaps a carefully crafted close message would help alleviate your concerns over the use of the word &amp;quot;off-topic&amp;quot;. – Null♦ May 13 at 3:44&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Null is exactly right. Both of the close reasons (POB and Off-Topic) are wrong... my argument is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;It makes more sense to use a custom reason, regardless of the heading because you can make the explanation clear in the custom reason text.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to go back to what I was saying... to convince SE CMs that you should have a fourth close reason, you have to prove that it's necessary. On M&amp;amp;TV, we had a &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1846/how-to-properly-close-recommendation-questions&quot;&gt;similar request&lt;/a&gt; for an additional custom reason. Part of Jon Ericson's answer is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of the 45 &amp;quot;other&amp;quot; reasons, about 11 seem to be referring to the recommendation queries. It's also possible that some of the &amp;quot;too broad&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;opinion-based&amp;quot; closures reflect questions closed because they are asking for lists. So, according to the statistics, a relatively small percentage of questions closed are closed because they are about current events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it turns out that people start writing in some form of the current events reason and those start to catch up with some of the other standard reasons, we can talk about adding a fourth reason again. (Only Community Managers, such as myself, can add a close reason slot and I'm marking that portion of the feature request &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt; for now.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The CMs consider the current stats of your existing close reasons along with noting how much it seems to be necessary to have the new one. So, in the case of M&amp;amp;TV they told us to replace the &amp;quot;current events&amp;quot; close reason rather than get a fourth one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can show the CMs how often a custom close reason for &amp;quot;Future works&amp;quot; is used by writing in a custom reason, they will be more likely to agree that the reason is actually needed, particularly if the other three close reasons are used equally as often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, for your close reason, I encourage you all to draft it but you can avoid the &amp;quot;off topic&amp;quot; issue by phrasing it something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This type of question is generally on topic but discussion of future works is largely open to speculation until the media is released, so this question has been closed until that time. For more information see [link to appropriate meta question].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41668" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-07-14T21:46:27.900" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9970" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-07-14T22:17:37.290" Score="-9" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, I can't make Gideon flip my words and sort people anymore! What happened? Did anyone complain or something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please someone fix it soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57642" LastActivityDate="2016-07-14T22:17:37.290" Title="What happened to Gideon?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9970" CreationDate="2016-07-14T22:17:37.290" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;So basically,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I started to sort too many people. Then @KutuluMike and 2 mods got annoyed (I presume). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, as @KutuluMike bravely tried to stop it, the bot kept on crashing.&lt;sub&gt;1&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it will return soon, after KutuluMike fixes it, and I apologize to anyone I annoyed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;1 I had nothing to do with that.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57642" LastActivityDate="2016-07-14T22:17:37.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9972" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-07-15T07:18:28.940" Score="-4" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a well defined format for code golf questions over at &lt;a href=&quot;https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Programming Puzzles &amp;amp; Code Golf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mouse-2002&lt;/strong&gt;, 4 bytes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's 4 bytes of pure, sweet ASCII.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/66078/9534&quot;&gt;Sample question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd propose a similar construct of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Title&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Author&lt;/em&gt;, Year&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Justification for meeting the question's criteria&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should make it easier for people coming to the question to see if it's worth answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the best case scenario we could have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5139/leaderboard-snippet&quot;&gt;leaderboard&lt;/a&gt; generated in a similar fashion too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sQJpr.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sQJpr.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2020-07-07T12:30:01.483" Title="Can we have a defined format for answers to 'first/earliest' type questions?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9972" CreationDate="2016-07-15T15:03:06.873" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm gonna go with &quot;no&quot;, if only because the one time that any effort has been made to implement this...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/96389/which-sci-fi-universe-uses-the-most-forms-of-ftl-faster-than-light&quot;&gt;Which Sci-fi universe uses the most forms of FTL (Faster Than Light)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...the vote-scores haven't shifted to accurately reflect the quality of the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that the community clearly couldn't care less that one answer is (objectively) better than another when they dole out their (subjectively chosen) votes, creating leaderboards and ranking them using some kind of defined format sounds like a lot of work for no actual benefit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no objection to you &lt;em&gt;personally&lt;/em&gt; editing all the answers on one of these questions, but I don't think we should try to hold people to an editing standard when there's no discernible upside to doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2016-07-15T15:03:06.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9974" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9975" CreationDate="2016-07-15T16:57:33.813" Score="-1" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came across a fairly bad question that was a duplicate. It already had 4 downvotes, but I thought, &lt;em&gt;I think I probably have enough rep to afford 1 downvote. Plus, it'll put me to a nice multiple of 5.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I click downvote and go to my profile and to my surprise, I still have the same amount of rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is this: If a question has been closed, either because it has been marked as a duplicate, or put on hold, etc, does downvoting still count as a downvote but not cost any reputation, and not cause the asker to lose any reputation? Likewise, would an upvote not grant the asker any reputation, because the question has been closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm really hoping this doesn't turn out to be a duplicate, because the irony would be too much to bear. I looked for similar questions before I asked, honest.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Just to clarify, the question I found and voted on was in the regular SFF, not the Meta. I do already know that the Meta has different rules regarding voting and reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67849" LastActivityDate="2016-07-15T20:24:08.777" Title="Do I not lose rep if I downvote a question that has been closed?" Tags="|support|duplicate-questions|down-votes|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9974" CreationDate="2016-07-15T17:14:07.023" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You lose rep if you downvote an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You do not lose rep for downvoting a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/vote-down&quot;&gt;help page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you vote down, you are nudging that content &quot;down&quot; the page, so&#xA;  it will be seen by fewer people. Voting down answers is not something&#xA;  we want you to take lightly, so it is not free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Downvotes remove 2 reputation from the post owner. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Downvotes on answers remove 1 reputation from you, the voter. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Downvotes on questions are free.&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/06/optimizing-for-pearls-not-sand/&quot;&gt;Why?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, From &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/06/optimizing-for-pearls-not-sand/&quot;&gt;Jeff Attwood's Blog post in this regard&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Continuing in that same vein, we have two more changes to formally&#xA;  announce today:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We now limit users (and IP addresses) to a maximum of 6 questions per day and 50 questions per month.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Downvotes on questions no longer cost the casting user 1 reputation, so they are effectively &quot;free&quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A Question being closed or marked as duplicate or on hold does not have any impacts on rep gain for the OP via Up-votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also See: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/53397/what-happens-with-reputation-earned-on-a-closed-question&quot;&gt;What happens with reputation gained on a closed question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also See: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10582/what-is-a-closed-or-on-hold-question&quot;&gt;What is a Closed or on hold Question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:46.357" LastActivityDate="2016-07-15T17:23:34.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9974" CreationDate="2016-07-15T17:14:20.547" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Question downvotes don't cost reputation. Only answer downvotes do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;see here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;your question is voted down: −2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;your answer is voted down: −2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;you vote down an answer: −1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user14349" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-07-15T17:14:20.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9974" CreationDate="2016-07-15T17:17:00.640" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You don't lose reputation for downvoting a question, no matter what its status (this wasn't always the case):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Before May 2011, downvoting questions cost the downvoter one reputation point (source). (After May 2011, no cost for downvoting questions.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/7238/299342&quot;&gt;Meta.SE: How does &quot;Reputation&quot; work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2016-07-15T17:17:00.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9974" CreationDate="2016-07-15T18:25:31.507" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9975/54827&quot;&gt;stated&lt;/a&gt; by the other answers, downvoting on &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; has no effect on your rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, users should know that you're not supposed to downvote something &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; because it's a duplicate. Duplicates are a good thing in a way, so questions do not become 'bad' questions simply because they are duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/why-vote&quot;&gt;Downvoting&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Voting up a question or answer signals to the rest of the community that a post is interesting, well-researched, and useful, while &lt;strong&gt;voting down a post signals the opposite: that the post contains wrong information, is poorly researched, or fails to communicate information.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question is not necessarily poorly researched just because it's a duplicate, as finding the duplicate before asking can be tricky due to the different possible wordings of the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TL;DR: Don't -1 just because it's a duplicate; that's not how voting works. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54827" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-07-15T20:24:08.777" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9979" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-07-16T01:14:36.690" Score="-4" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some/many users seem to quickly downvote a question once they see that it's been marked as either a duplicate or a possible duplicate; &lt;strong&gt;is that the recommended course of action - to downvote a question simply because it's a duplicate question?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54827" LastEditorUserId="54827" LastEditDate="2016-07-16T22:57:45.990" LastActivityDate="2016-07-18T00:10:21.080" Title="Are users encouraged to downvote questions for being duplicates?" Tags="|discussion|voting|down-votes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9979" CreationDate="2016-07-16T01:14:36.690" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;While voting is anonymous and users are of course free to vote however they like...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Users are not &lt;em&gt;necessarily&lt;/em&gt; encouraged to downvote questions &lt;em&gt;purely&lt;/em&gt; because they are duplicates.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt; explains the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/why-vote&quot;&gt;reasons for downvoting&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Voting up a question or answer signals to the rest of the community that a post is interesting, well-researched, and useful, while &lt;strong&gt;voting down&lt;/strong&gt; a post signals the opposite: that the post contains &lt;strong&gt;wrong information&lt;/strong&gt;, is &lt;strong&gt;poorly researched&lt;/strong&gt;, or &lt;strong&gt;fails to communicate information&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Duplicates can be a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; thing in a way, so questions do not become 'bad' questions &lt;em&gt;simply&lt;/em&gt; because they are duplicates. A question is not &lt;em&gt;necessarily&lt;/em&gt; poorly researched just because it's a duplicate, as finding the duplicate before asking can be very tricky due to the different possible wordings of the same question. Once a question is marked as a duplicate, &quot;often they are left as a signpost pointing people towards the canonical answer to that question&quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/duplicates&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;), so in that way, they help future users search for and find the information they are looking for. For more on why duplicates can be a good thing, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7943/is-it-encouraged-to-delete-your-own-questions-if-they-have-possible-duplicates&quot;&gt;Is it encouraged to delete your own questions if they have possible duplicates?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9648/rules-for-a-duplicate-post-deletion&quot;&gt;Rules for a duplicate post deletion&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two most upvoted answers (scores 44 and 19 respectively) from the MSE question &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/62819/should-we-downvote-duplicates&quot;&gt;Should we downvote duplicates?&lt;/a&gt; both indicate that, while still a perfectly acceptable thing to do, downvoting duplicates &lt;em&gt;isn't the most helpful&lt;/em&gt; course of action:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have several times asked a question that the &quot;similar questions&quot; search did not identify that I later found to be a duplicate of an existing question when someone pointed it out. I think, then, in the general case that &lt;strong&gt;a downvote is probably not appropriate&lt;/strong&gt; because it is entirely possible that the user did search and did not find a question like their own in the list. &lt;em&gt;The best solution is merely to close it with the reference to the existing question unless the question is bad in some other respect.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Downvotes are not meant to be used as punishment&lt;/strong&gt;. That being said, they are your votes, and you should use them as you see fit. &lt;em&gt;(Leaving a comment telling the user to search harder next time will probably be more helpful than a downvote.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You're free to vote how you choose&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leaving a comment is much more helpful than downvoting a duplicate&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify: Obviously users are &lt;em&gt;free to vote how they please&lt;/em&gt;, I am simply trying to make a helpful &lt;em&gt;recommendation&lt;/em&gt; on voting on duplicates that is clear and accessible. The site recommends/encourages users to downvote non-useful things and to +1 useful things, and as the site's consensus is that &lt;em&gt;dupes can be useful&lt;/em&gt;, they might not deserve a downvote &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; for being a dupe. Of course, it's up to each user to decide how they want to vote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54827" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2016-07-18T00:10:21.080" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9981" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9985" CreationDate="2016-07-16T02:10:56.750" Score="35" ViewCount="891" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/why-vote&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting up a question or answer signals to the rest of the community that a post is &lt;strong&gt;interesting&lt;/strong&gt;, well-researched, and useful, while voting down a post signals &lt;strong&gt;the opposite&lt;/strong&gt;: that the post contains wrong information, is poorly researched, or fails to communicate information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Logically, if upvoting signals (among other things) that a post is interesting, and downvoting signals the opposite, then uninteresting or boring posts should be downvoted, although that is not mentioned explicitly as a reason for downvoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course I don't downvote all the uninteresting questions I see; I wouldn't have &lt;em&gt;time&lt;/em&gt; for that, even if I had an unlimited number of downvotes to bestow. But sometimes I will downvote an outstandingly unmotivated, uninteresting, or boring question, regardless of how well-researched or well-formatted it may be. Is this wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastEditorUserId="23243" LastEditDate="2020-07-30T19:23:16.610" LastActivityDate="2020-07-30T19:23:16.610" Title="Is it OK to downvote a question for being uninteresting?" Tags="|discussion|voting|down-votes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9981" CreationDate="2016-07-16T02:41:16.770" Score="32" Body="&lt;h2&gt;It is allowed, but probably not to be encouraged&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Outside of certain prohibited voting patterns (for example, those that target certain users), &lt;strong&gt;people may use downvotes however they choose&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, there are certain &lt;em&gt;guidelines&lt;/em&gt; for upvotes and downvotes, as conveyed in the Help Center and tooltip. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As noted in your question, the Help Center indicates that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...voting down a post signals the opposite: that the post contains&#xA;  wrong information, is poorly researched, or fails to communicate&#xA;  information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The clause after the colon clearly is meant to delineate good criteria for downvotes. &lt;strong&gt;Note that &quot;uninteresting&quot; is not among them.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By comparison, the downvote tooltip says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first two of these are unrelated to anyone's interest in a question. The last is, but I think we should be careful in interpreting &quot;not useful&quot; as &quot;not useful to &lt;em&gt;me&lt;/em&gt;.&quot; There are many questions on this site with very narrow appeal, which I think should not be summarily downvoted. Conversely, there are some very popular works which some people hate with a burning passion, which is also probably a poor reason for downvoting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So: If the question is not useful to people &lt;em&gt;with an interest&lt;/em&gt; in the general topic, downvote. If it is merely not interesting because the general topic is boring, don't.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastActivityDate="2016-07-16T02:41:16.770" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9983" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9986" CreationDate="2016-07-16T08:52:02.123" Score="5" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;We currently have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/infinity-stones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;infinity-stones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;infinity-stones&lt;/a&gt; and a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/infinity-gems&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;infinity-gems&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;infinity-gems&lt;/a&gt; tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These two terms refer to the same objects in two closely connected fictional universes. The first applies to Marvel Comics and the second to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.  The Infinity Gems/Stones share the following characteristics in both universes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are six of them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They are gems.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They existed before the universe began.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They comprise Power, Reality, Mind, Space, Soul, and Time. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In fact, they're basically the same things. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie and comics versions have the following differences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; have different origins, as discussed on this site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They have different names.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They have, of course, been involved in different events. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, the MCU is designated &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Earth-199999&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Earth-199999&lt;/a&gt; in the Marvel Multiverse numbering scheme, suggesting that the MCU constitutes a separate universe within the same continuity as the Marvel Comics multiverse, and thus that Infinity Gems and Stones may be &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; the same objects. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have suggested &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/infinity-gems&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;infinity-gems&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;infinity-gems&lt;/a&gt; as a synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/infinity-stones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;infinity-stones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;infinity-stones&lt;/a&gt;, but there are not many active users with sufficient reputation to vote on it, with only 10 users having sufficient reputation. Therefore, it seemed best to seek community consensus. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2016-07-18T07:52:56.837" LastActivityDate="2016-07-18T07:52:56.837" Title="Should infinity-gems and infinity-stones be synonyms?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9979" CreationDate="2016-07-16T12:56:44.860" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two ways to answer this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Users Should Downvote However They Want&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvoting on Stack Exchange is anonymous for a reason. As long as a user is not &lt;em&gt;abusively&lt;/em&gt; downvoting (that is, they are targeting a specific user, and not the questions themselves), SE has always quite openly asserted that users can downvote whatever and whenever and why ever they want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Help Center gives reasons why you &lt;em&gt;might want to&lt;/em&gt; downvote, or why &lt;em&gt;most people&lt;/em&gt; downvote, or what &lt;em&gt;downvotes were invented for&lt;/em&gt;. But those are always just that: guidelines. (If we're going to start demanding everyone follow the guidelines to the letter, I have some scope and tagging discussions we can revisit...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, trying to tell users how to downvote is always &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Duplicate Questions Are &lt;em&gt;Usually&lt;/em&gt; Downvote Worthy&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bigger issue is that you're basically arguing against a strawman here. You somehow claim to know, for a fact, that users are downvoting a duplicate questions because they think they're supposed to. To repeat a previous point: downvotes are &lt;em&gt;anonymous&lt;/em&gt;. You have no idea why someone's doing it. Even if they leave an explicit comment, &lt;em&gt;they could be lying&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The vast majority of the time, duplicate questions &lt;em&gt;deserve&lt;/em&gt; downvotes. The fact that the question has been asked and answered before &lt;em&gt;by definition&lt;/em&gt; means that the answer could have been found with sufficient research. It's merely a matter of each user's personal judgement if they feel the level of research was justified or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A duplicate question that is 1) well written and 2) asked in a new, original, or unique way can stand on it's own as a decent question. Most dupes are not that. Most can be found in a trivial amount of time... most of them can be found &lt;em&gt;by the software&lt;/em&gt; which suggests them when you vote to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People are 100% within their right to downvote those duplicates if they think the original question was &quot;easy enough&quot; to find. And they are 100% within their rights to define &quot;easy enough&quot; however they want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2016-07-16T12:56:44.860" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9981" CreationDate="2016-07-16T13:00:20.643" Score="34" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes, Absolutely, Without Reserve.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, at the risk of repeating myself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Users Should Downvote However They Want&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvoting on Stack Exchange is anonymous for a reason. As long as a user is not &lt;em&gt;abusively&lt;/em&gt; downvoting (that is, they are targeting a specific user, and not the questions themselves), SE has always quite openly asserted that users can downvote whatever and whenever and whyever they want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Help Center gives reasons why you &lt;em&gt;might want to&lt;/em&gt; downvote, or why &lt;em&gt;most people&lt;/em&gt; downvote, or what &lt;em&gt;downvotes were invented for&lt;/em&gt;. But those are always just that: guidelines. (If we're going to start demanding everyone follow the guidelines to the letter, I have some scope and tagging discussions we can revisit...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, trying to tell users how to downvote is always &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, though,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Votes Are How We Encourage Questions We Like&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I see a question that is so uninteresting that I think it devalues the site just existing, &lt;em&gt;of course&lt;/em&gt; I'm going to downvote it. I, as one single user with one single vote on SF/F, am entirely within my rights to do that. It means &lt;em&gt;I don't want you asking these stupid questions anymore&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I'm the only one who feels that way, then the system registers my -2 rep points and everyone else moves on with life. If dozens of regular users feel that way, though, the OP gets a pretty strong signal that the community doesn't like these kinds of questions, and hopefully, stops asking them here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's exactly how a community-moderated site is supposed to work, and it's why votes exist. We upvote questions if we want to see more questions like it. We downvote questions if we want to see fewer questions like it. Whether that means it's well written, or detailed, or interesting, or even if that means &quot;I hate that movie, stop asking about it here&quot;, whatever you define as &quot;good&quot; and &quot;not good&quot;, that's how you vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2016-07-16T13:00:20.643" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9983" CreationDate="2016-07-18T01:08:33.683" Score="2" Body="&lt;h1&gt;This has now been carried out&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/infinity-gems&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;infinity-gems&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;infinity-gems&lt;/a&gt; is now a synonym of  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/infinity-stones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;infinity-stones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;infinity-stones&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-07-18T01:08:33.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9987" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-07-18T20:33:35.150" Score="8" ViewCount="242" Body="&lt;p&gt;Completing our triple bill of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9479/movie-night-nominate-your-favourite-terrible-comic-book-film&quot;&gt;terrible comic book films&lt;/a&gt; is 2015's universally-panned &lt;em&gt;Fantastic Four&lt;/em&gt;.  Mustering a whopping 9% on Rotten Tomatoes, one of the site's resident critics declares it to be a&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;poorly constructed, ineptly executed, flatfooted piece of Branded Product that plays as though it were written by a piece of software fed every superhero movie script to date and instructed to synthesize them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A jumble of predictable but also incoherent plot turns, dreadful dialogue, and unfortunate visual choices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another critic dismisses it simply as a&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;malformed curio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WJFuJ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WJFuJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's get together to discuss, laugh at, criticize, and possibly even enjoy this decidedly terrible comic book film!  The event will take place in the SFF chatroom &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; at &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;22:00 UTC on Thursday 28 July!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference, that's 3 pm PST, 6 pm EST, and 11 pm UK time (GMT+1).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(What's a &quot;Movie Night&quot;, you ask?  Your question has been wonderfully answered &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7434/40294&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Three&lt;/strike&gt; Four Cheers for RogueJedi!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this film was nominated by &lt;strong&gt;RogueJedi&lt;/strong&gt;, and we're holding this event in honour of his excellent work organizing the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/05/the-great-science-fictionfantasy-tv-showdown-final-round/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Great Science Fiction Fantasy Showdown!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  So come out and say thanks to Rogue for all his hard work!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is Rogue's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9489/40294&quot;&gt;original post&lt;/a&gt; nominating the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Availability:&lt;/strong&gt;  Apart from DVD, this film is available on Netflix (US and Canada at least), Amazon Prime, Apple Store, and Google Play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Many thanks to &lt;strong&gt;Randal'Thor&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;WadCheber&lt;/strong&gt; for reminding me to complete this run of terrible comic book films, and thanks to &lt;strong&gt;Wad&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;AncientSwordRage&lt;/strong&gt; for helping to set up this particular event.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2016-07-29T05:15:27.133" Title="Movie Night! Fantastic Four: come watch this &quot;malformed curio&quot; on Thursday the 28th!" Tags="|discussion|chat-event|movie-night|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9987" CreationDate="2016-07-18T20:52:23.547" Score="3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;No.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone else go along and enjoy yourself though!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-07-18T20:52:23.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9989" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-07-18T20:55:44.820" Score="-5" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Wombles has a few fantasy elements:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A main character from a made up race.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A setting that is basically invented. Wimbledon Common is nothing like the setting in the Wombles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such would it be  on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60757" LastEditorUserId="60757" LastEditDate="2016-07-18T21:07:49.080" LastActivityDate="2016-07-19T19:19:41.690" Title="Is the TV show The Wombles on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9987" CreationDate="2016-07-18T21:55:51.843" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please listen to the &lt;em&gt;Fantastic Four Medley&lt;/em&gt; on an endless loop for the next 10 days in order to really get yourselves in the mood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/aZaH2ni6Uhw?start=2816&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastEditorUserId="51226" LastEditDate="2016-07-18T22:30:58.340" LastActivityDate="2016-07-18T22:30:58.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9991" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9992" CreationDate="2016-07-18T23:28:54.317" Score="1" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;Each of the following questions are about a particular movie, but are tagged only with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; or other generic tags.  This may be because the user who asked them didn't have enough reputation to create a tag.  (I suspect there are lots of questions like this, these are only some recent ones I quickly found.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/57275/4918&quot;&gt;In &amp;quot;Close Encounters&amp;quot;, what happened to the tall alien?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/100894/4918&quot;&gt;What is the connection between &amp;quot;Das Millionenspiel&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;The Running Man&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/6538/4918&quot;&gt;How is the original Frankenstein movie (1931) different from the novel?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/89455/4918&quot;&gt;What was the intended meaning/interpretation of the movie Labyrinth (1986)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/5477/4918&quot;&gt;In the book/movie Sphere, why was the space craft built with aerodynamics?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/23485/4918&quot;&gt;Could H.G. Wells &amp;quot;Time Machine&amp;quot; travel to an obstructed destination?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/2974/4918&quot;&gt;In Contact: Why not send a second pod?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone who knows more about movies please figure out if we already have a tag for that movie, or for the franchise or main work if the movie is part of a franchise, and retag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2016-07-19T19:08:30.487" Title="Please help tag these movie questions with a tag specific to work or franchise" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9991" CreationDate="2016-07-18T23:54:41.673" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Done.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-07-19T19:08:30.487" LastActivityDate="2016-07-19T19:08:30.487" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9989" CreationDate="2016-07-19T19:19:41.690" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wombles&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;description on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, there are a considerable number of canon elements that would put the show firmly on-topic on SFF:SE, notably that a number of supposedly fictional animals (Yetis and Nessies) are in fact womble sub-species as well as the presence of magic and telepathy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Several sub-species of Womble are revealed throughout the books: the&#xA;  Loch Ness Monster is actually part of a clan of water Wombles and the&#xA;  yeti of the Himalayas are giant snow-white Wombles. Wombles have a&#xA;  sixth sense which allows them to sense green spaces and wildlife; this&#xA;  is first mentioned in the Wandering Wombles but developed to a keen&#xA;  long range telepathic sense by Dalai Gartok Womble in 'The Wombles Go&#xA;  Round The World'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2016-07-19T19:19:41.690" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9994" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9995" CreationDate="2016-07-20T00:21:02.400" Score="0" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that people have created &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ghostbusters-1984&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ghostbusters-1984&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ghostbusters-1984&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ghostbusters-2016&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ghostbusters-2016&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ghostbusters-2016&lt;/a&gt;. I've edited the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ghostbusters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ghostbusters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ghostbusters&lt;/a&gt; tag to make it clear that it can be used for the 2016 movie as well, but I'd prefer to stop the tags before they start if we decide against them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastEditorUserId="62709" LastEditDate="2016-07-20T00:27:02.227" LastActivityDate="2016-07-21T22:25:05.130" Title="Do we need sub-tags for Ghostbusters?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9994" CreationDate="2016-07-20T00:40:39.880" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this instance it's perfectly possible that users may wish to have answers that relate specifically to the original film series and/or the rebooted film (which may yet &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thewrap.com/ghostbusters-sequel-will-happen-sony/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;spawn a series&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To that end, we should have tags for &lt;strong&gt;both&lt;/strong&gt; sets of films as well as an overarching &lt;em&gt;franchise&lt;/em&gt; tag that encompasses the two film series', the two TV series', various novels and other licensed properties. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-07-21T22:25:05.130" LastActivityDate="2016-07-21T22:25:05.130" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9996" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9999" CreationDate="2016-07-20T07:03:03.317" Score="10" ViewCount="257" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also related &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/281019/324325&quot;&gt;UUID displayed instead of username&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a bug where my name is messed up, that's besides the point. Please change my name to 'Alex' (no quotes) because it looks bad.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eiaUI.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eiaUI.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want my name to be stuck like this until August 13th. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68736" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2016-07-20T16:52:43.893" Title="Please change my name" Tags="|support|bug|status-completed|users|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9996" CreationDate="2016-07-20T07:07:38.157" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A moderator can change your name under exigent circumstances.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that your name seems to have been changed to a random string by accident, you would seem to have good reason to get a reset. &#xA;A list of moderators for our Stack Exchange can be found &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. You have sufficient reputation to contact them in &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;, or you can wait for them to respond to this question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="51379" LastEditDate="2016-07-20T07:22:04.640" LastActivityDate="2016-07-20T07:22:04.640" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9922" CreationDate="2016-07-20T07:50:01.570" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have done a mass update to posts, post-history and comments for the following chakoteya urls:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;doctorwho &amp;rarr; DoctorWho&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;startrek &amp;rarr; StarTrek&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;nextgen &amp;rarr; NextGen&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ds9 &amp;rarr; DS9&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;voyager &amp;rarr; Voyager&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;enterprise &amp;rarr; Enterprise&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If any others are affected, let me know by a comment here; I'll keep the script handy...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I haven't run the script on &quot;meta&quot;, as it would make this post &lt;strong&gt;very&lt;/strong&gt; confusing!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102" LastActivityDate="2016-07-20T07:50:01.570" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9996" CreationDate="2016-07-20T14:17:22.487" Score="14" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Done&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oddly enough, the name field already had 'Alex' in it. I had to change your avatar to the Identicon in order to change your name. You should be able to change your avatar if you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let us know if you have any other problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastActivityDate="2016-07-20T14:17:22.487" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9994" CreationDate="2016-07-21T19:26:35.823" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;.*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the low usage (only 18 questions) of the original tag of &lt;code&gt;Ghostbusters&lt;/code&gt; we should be able to manage with just one tag for the entire franchise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of our other tags that span different mediums (&lt;code&gt;Pokemon (x23)&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;Super Mario Brothers (x9)&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;Guardians of the Galaxy (x79)&lt;/code&gt;) use only a franchise tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.* If the new franchise does spawn a mass of questions then it is possible the need for a new tag would arise. However, in its current state the answer should be no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2016-07-21T19:26:35.823" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10001" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10003" CreationDate="2016-07-25T10:36:16.097" Score="-10" ViewCount="2041" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure, because even though hunger games is classified in the book as science fiction, I'm not sure if it's classified as off-topic here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67100" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-07-25T10:53:02.970" LastActivityDate="2016-07-25T19:00:15.667" Title="Does Hunger Games Count as Science Fiction?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10001" CreationDate="2016-07-25T10:47:00.063" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Hunger Games&lt;/em&gt; books and films are definitely on-topic here. We have over 100 questions about them, including &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/108633/does-katniss-depict-proper-handling-of-a-bow&quot;&gt;some very well-received ones&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-07-25T10:47:00.063" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10001" CreationDate="2016-07-25T19:00:15.667" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Setting:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/thehungergames/images/4/42/Panem_map.png/revision/latest?cb=20140126041646&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Post Apocalyptic future&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Technology:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLbmbVxhHAs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Holographic flaming transforming dresses&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/Force_field&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Force Fields&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/thehungergames/images/8/86/Mockingjay2-still6.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150819161041&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Free-standing Holograms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marketing&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We’re in a fictional world, a science fiction world&lt;/strong&gt;, and it’s very&#xA;easy - it would have been very easy - to sort of pull back and kind of&#xA;use the world and the stylized sense of it all to keep all the&#xA;realities at arm’s length. But instead, with the actors and the&#xA;locations we chose - every aspect of our approach in the filmmaking&#xA;was to try and find the honest version of this.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2014/11/20/the-badass-interview-director-francis-lawrence-on-the-hunger-games-mockingj&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Director Francis Lawrence On THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it an action-heavy role?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“No. I actually see it more as a drama, with action in it. It’s a very sad story about this girl who’s forced into doing this in this world where the rich watch children die as entertainment. It’s gripping and it’s urgent. It’s a terrible world. It’s actually not far off from reality. We live in a world where humanity is becoming so desensitised to violence and to tragedy that peoples’ tragedy is our entertainment. &lt;strong&gt;We’re obsessed with reality television and we get so numb to violence, tragedy, that it takes more to shock us, and more and more. It’s not that science-fiction, if you think about it. ”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gamesradar.com/the-hunger-games-interview-4-jennifer-lawrence/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Hunger Games Interview 4: Jennifer Lawrence&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-07-25T19:00:15.667" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10004" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10005" CreationDate="2016-07-27T03:54:26.887" Score="-4" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/135417/what-can-we-infer-about-the-programming-language-used-in-jurassic-park-the-bo&quot;&gt;What can we infer about the programming language used in &amp;quot;Jurassic Park&amp;quot; (the book, not the movie)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that putting a question &quot;on hold&quot; disables the ability to post answers, so that an &quot;on hold&quot; question by definition can never attract good answers (because it cannot attract any answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33114" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2016-07-27T08:08:37.413" Title="Please reopen this &quot;on hold&quot; question" Tags="|discussion|support|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10004" CreationDate="2016-07-27T08:04:07.130" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just cast the final vote to reopen. In my opinion it's not a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; question, but it's also not off-topic given its reference to the text of a scifi novel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect it will spawn a bunch of highly guesswork-oriented answers as well as some code rants. That being said, I  stand ready to be pleasantly surprised if it turns out to be something interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2016-07-27T08:04:07.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10006" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10007" CreationDate="2016-07-27T09:15:22.933" Score="13" ViewCount="415" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;: in light of the voting on the answers below (+12 for &quot;Nuke 'em&quot; vs +3 for &quot;Leave 'em&quot;), &lt;strong&gt;these tags have been eliminated.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/french&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;french&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;french&lt;/a&gt; was already gone before I got to it, and I've just finished the few edits and merges needed to get rid of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/japan&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;japan&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;japan&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/russian&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;russian&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;russian&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/japan&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;japan&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;japan&lt;/a&gt; is used on 13 questions: some story-ID questions seeking a Japanese book or film, some questions about Japanese culture or folklore, and some questions about manga or Godzilla which are only tangentially related to Japan. The tag wiki and tag wiki excerpt are both merely descriptions of the country Japan, with no usage guidance for the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/russian&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;russian&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;russian&lt;/a&gt; is used on 12 questions: some story-ID questions (again), some questions about the Russian language used in particular SFF works, and some genre-history questions. The tag wiki and tag wiki excerpt say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Media created in Russia, using the Russian language or about Russian characters or historical people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/french&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;french&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;french&lt;/a&gt; is used on 2 questions, both story-ID; there is no tag wiki or tag wiki excerpt.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've checked various other countries and regions, but couldn't find any more tags like these.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What should be done with these tags?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly, we don't want to stick, for instance, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/russian&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;russian&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;russian&lt;/a&gt; tag on every question about every SFF work made in Russia or featuring Russian characters. That would involve hundreds and hundreds of largely pointless tag edits. So &lt;strong&gt;at the very least, tag wikis will have to be rewritten and more clear usage guidance laid out.&lt;/strong&gt; But note also that if the tag exists, people will surely be tempted to use it for various different purposes, since the tag name alone doesn't make clear how it should be used. Because of this unclearness, I'm tempted to suggest deleting it altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus there's inconsistency in the tag names - some use the country name, some the adjective - and also in which countries are represented. If Japan, Russia, and France merit their own tags, why don't other countries too? If not every country does, why have tags for just those three?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-10-03T21:28:46.173" LastActivityDate="2016-10-03T21:28:46.173" Title="Do we need country tags?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10006" CreationDate="2016-07-27T09:34:48.143" Score="12" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Nuke 'em&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's consider &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/239191/278659&quot;&gt;main meta's guide&lt;/a&gt; on when to burninate tags, and see how it applies to one of these country tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? and is it unambiguous?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt; Whether it describes the contents is arguable, especially in questions like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/125321/what-do-the-russian-scientists-say-in-this-scene-of-2001-a-space-odyssey&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; which actually is asking about the Russian language. But it's certainly ambiguous: as I mentioned in the question, these tags are being applied in many different contexts, each of which could be reasonably apt given the name of the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is the concept described even on-topic for the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kinda?&lt;/strong&gt; Although the site is about science fiction and fantasy, not countries or languages, it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9466/is-this-request-for-a-translation-on-topic&quot;&gt;been established&lt;/a&gt; that translation requests can be on-topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does the tag add &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; meaningful information to the post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sometimes.&lt;/strong&gt; E.g. in story-ID questions, it tells us that the book/film being sought was made in a particular country or in a particular language.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does it mean the same thing in all common contexts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt; As discussed above. In fact, there's even ambiguity as to whether it refers to the language or the country's culture; both can be distinct.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not a &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; clear &quot;no&quot; from these questions, but I think the tags are sufficiently unclear and inconsistently used to be worth getting rid of. The alternative is to risk being inundated with dozens of country tags which would probably keep on being used badly and having to be fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I would be open to the possibility of keeping them with the proviso that they're &lt;strong&gt;only to be used for story-ID questions&lt;/strong&gt;, but I'll wait for the story-ID experts to chime in on whether they feel these tags would be useful for such questions.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-07-27T09:34:48.143" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10006" CreationDate="2016-07-27T09:41:09.407" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Leave 'em.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per my stock objection to tag removal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As things stand, these tags are pretty harmless and possibly of minor use to anyone with a passing interest in Russian, French or Japanese scifi.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Removing these tags will result in the front page being disfigured with worthless edits for a minimum of one to two days.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I see no justification why removing the tags is of more benefit to the site than simply leaving them in situ.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-07-28T09:57:39.017" LastActivityDate="2016-07-28T09:57:39.017" CommentCount="27" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10009" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-07-29T04:07:03.850" Score="11" ViewCount="240" Body="&lt;p&gt;The eighth installment of the &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; series opens as a play on, I believe, August 1st. J.K. Rowling has stated &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I and II&lt;/em&gt; is canon. Therefore, I thought a chat room dedicated to discussion of the new play, as well as prior canon, would be in order. I've created a chat room: &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/43168/harry-potter-and-the-child&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harry Potter and the #%$@^# Child&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that this chat room is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;NOT&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; spoiler free. In fact, spoilers may abound! Spoiler-free talk regarding &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I and II&lt;/em&gt; should be held in our regular chat room, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions? Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ETA:&lt;/strong&gt; From the Wikipedia's entry on &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Cursed Child&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a two part play, was written by British playwright Jack Thorne based on an original story by Thorne, John Tiffany and J.K. Rowling. Some Web sites were listing all three as authors of the script [27] but by 26 July 2016, the official web site for the play [28] and many others (including the BBC)[29] were listing [Jack] Thorne as the sole script writer.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the play was written by Jack Thorne, and J.K. Rowling maybe served in more of a consulting role, for example, is &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I and II&lt;/em&gt; still as canon as if J.K. Rowling herself had written it? Rowling has insisted &lt;em&gt;Cursed Child&lt;/em&gt; is canon ... I don't know! Guess I'd better get over to my own chat room to dish it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="3500" LastEditDate="2016-07-30T00:39:40.933" LastActivityDate="2016-07-30T00:39:40.933" Title="Dedicated chat room for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I and II" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="518" CreationDate="2016-07-29T06:09:57.880" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's go to our good ol' friend Wikipedia to see how do they define fantasy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fantasy is a genre of fiction that &lt;strong&gt;uses magic&lt;/strong&gt; or other&#xA;  supernatural elements &lt;strong&gt;as a main plot element&lt;/strong&gt;, theme, or setting.&#xA;  Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds &lt;strong&gt;where&#xA;  magic and magical creatures are common&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So now breaking it down for Harry Potter:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Uses magic as the main plot element (✓)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shows magic in the world(✓)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Has magical creatures(✓)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this establishes that Harry Potter Series indeed belongs to Fantasy genre and therefore is on-topic here. That's why Questions about HP are on-topic here and as it happens, it is among the top three tags on this site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastActivityDate="2016-07-29T06:09:57.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2016-07-31T17:21:58.803" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Long ago, I used to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_Six_(The_Prisoner)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Number 6&lt;/a&gt; (or variations as it often wasn't available) as an alias on various places.  Often, even after I gave that up, when the name I did choose for an e-mail address or whatever wasn't available, instead of tacking a 1 or a 01 on it, I'd throw 6 at the end.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A much more recent long-ago, I'd become a fan of Brian Stableford's &quot;Star Pilot Grainger&quot; series (also called the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooded_Swan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hooded Swan&lt;/a&gt; series), and, even more than most books, I had trouble finding anyone who'd ever read it.  So, aroundabout when Firefly came out, I started using StarPilotGrainger as an alias, specifically on a few Firefly sites and some more generic SF sites, in part with the hopes that somebody would recognize the series.  It never happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Around the tail end of that I was seeking a new name for Xbox Live, and figured that Grainger was too obscure to want to bother explaining if anyone asked, but wanted to keep some of that vibe, I came up with the idea of putting together the two old names and just being StarPilotSix, like I'm some anonymous pilot that's backing up the main characters in any old space opera show or movie.  And I stuck with that name through a few sci-fi related sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65768" LastActivityDate="2016-07-31T17:21:58.803" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10012" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-01T11:05:30.747" Score="0" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;em&gt;Who was the enigma the world knows as Christopher Columbus . . . and&#xA;  why has his true identity been covered up for centuries?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;When an aged scholar is found mysteriously dead in his hotel room, Thomas Noronha, expert cryptographer and professor of history, is&#xA;  called upon to finish the man's unresolved investigation. In the&#xA;  course of unraveling the puzzles and cryptograms shrouding his late&#xA;  predecessor's work, Thomas discovers a code that will set him on a&#xA;  breathtaking race across the globe from Lisbon to Rio to New York and&#xA;  Jerusalem as he is drawn into one of the greatest mysteries of all&#xA;  time, a shocking revelation that will alter everything we've always&#xA;  believed about one of the world's most celebrated adventurers.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1016753.Codex_632&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Codex 632&lt;/a&gt; on topic on SFF:SE?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-08-01T11:41:38.657" LastActivityDate="2016-08-01T11:41:38.657" Title="Is Codex 632 on topic on SFF:SE?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10012" CreationDate="2016-08-01T11:22:44.457" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Knowing nothing about &lt;em&gt;Codex 632&lt;/em&gt; and basing my answer solely on this description - &lt;strong&gt;no, it isn't&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing in that description seems to hint towards aspects that could be considered science fiction or fantasy, so unless the &quot;shocking revelation&quot; ends up being something like &quot;Christopher Columbus was an alien&quot; or &quot;Christopher Columbus is magic&quot;, I wouldn't consider it on-topic here - and even then, it might be up for debate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24087" LastActivityDate="2016-08-01T11:22:44.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10012" CreationDate="2016-08-01T11:39:46.163" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No. This novel isn't on topic on SFF:SE.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Conceit&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Heavily inspired by the Da Vinci Code, this novel is a mixture of history,  historical fiction and straight-up action. The main character travels from location to location so that he can find and 'decrypt' various historical documents in order to determine Columbus' true identity (spoiler, it's&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; Bruce Wayne&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the book makes heavy reference to Kaballah and various religious myths there's nothing in it that would seem to fall into the realms of alternate history, magic, magical fantasy or science fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Marketing&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The book is &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.amazon.co.uk/Codex-632-Secret-Christopher-Columbus/dp/0061173193&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;marketed by its publisher&lt;/a&gt; as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Historical Fiction&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Historical Contemporary Fiction&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.harpercollins.com/9780061173196/codex-632&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;General Fiction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-08-01T11:39:46.163" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10015" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10016" CreationDate="2016-08-01T20:24:51.763" Score="11" ViewCount="285" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Cursed Child play and accompanying script book are coming out now, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/136007/is-cursed-child-canon-to-original-story/136008#136008&quot;&gt;the story is considered canon.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, new canon information to older questions about the original Harry Potter series? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Background (try not sounding too petty or ranty)... I saw some active Harry Potter questions and dove into them to see what was going on; long story short I ended up seeing spoilers for the new material because the answers were not spoil tagged. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion might be to either 1) ask a new question tagged with the new canon or 2) at least give answers with spoiler tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-08-01T22:25:22.070" Title="Should Cursed Child answers be given to Harry Potter questions?" Tags="|discussion|answers|canon|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10015" CreationDate="2016-08-01T22:25:22.070" Score="21" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Information from new works &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be used to answer old questions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally this is where I would discuss why I think that's true, but I'm at a loss for what to write; it seems so completely obvious to me, and is what we've been doing on this site since basically forever. Even in the &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; canon, a bunch of old questions get new (or updated) answers every time a new thing is put on Pottermore; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/103472/31051&quot;&gt;I've done it myself&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm strongly opposed to your suggestion that new questions be asked for the new information in newer sources, for a few reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It stratifies the canon in a way I'm not comfortable with&lt;/strong&gt; (in most cases). There's little intuitive reason why a question like &quot;Why is X a thing in &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt;&quot; and &quot;Why is X a thing in &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Cursed Child&lt;/em&gt;&quot; should have different answers&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;; &lt;em&gt;Cursed Child&lt;/em&gt; is official canon, on the same level as &lt;em&gt;Pottermore&lt;/em&gt; or the original seven novels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming we didn't immediately close one of those questions as a dupe of the other (something I'll get to in a moment), having them as separate questions implicitly sends the message &quot;this book is more or less canon than other books.&quot; Sending that message seems disingenuous to me.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Now we have an answer in two places.&lt;/strong&gt; This is less true of cases where the new work provides a heretofore unknown answer to a question, but very strongly applies to cases where the new work provides additional support (or additional discussion, e.g. if it contradicts previous canon) to an existing answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the things we seem to have largely settled on as a community (though certainly not unanimously) is that it's better to have the answers in one place than in multiple places. The all-time great example is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/910/31051&quot;&gt;How is canonicity of derivative works determined for Star Wars?&lt;/a&gt;, which has been the target of more than 50 dupes. Unless we immediately close one question as a dupe of the other, having two questions asking the same thing seems the opposite of this. And if we do immediately close one of them, what was the point in asking it? I'm not necessarily &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7943/31051&quot;&gt;opposed to duplicate questions&lt;/a&gt; as a rule but if the choice is between updating an answer to an existing question (or posting a new answer) or asking and self-answering with the new information, then why bother?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Should information from new canon sources be spoilerified?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is one of my pet peeves, so I apologize in advance if I get curt. I promise I'll try to stay civil. There are two points here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, information from new sources should be spoilerified.&lt;/strong&gt; This is just being courteous to readers, reviewers, and moderators alike. Be kind, spoilerify. If you come across information that &lt;em&gt;hasn't&lt;/em&gt; been spoilerified, then we have provided a handy mechanism for you to fix the problem with: the little &quot;edit&quot; link at the bottom of the post. Nothing is stopping you from using it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All I would ask is that you bear in mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not every detail is a spoiler.&lt;/strong&gt; For the &lt;em&gt;Cursed Child&lt;/em&gt; example, the fact that there is a character named Delphini Diggory is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a spoiler. Some of the things we learn about that character, however, &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ideally questions and answers should be understandable (to some degree) without having to look at the spoilerified content&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In general, we give people a lot of sovereignty over their posts. So be graceful if your edit gets rejected or rolled back.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ultimately, it's your responsibility to avoid spoilers.&lt;/strong&gt; This is where things might get dicey for me. Deep breath, and here we go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everybody has a different level of toleration for spoilers. Personally, for most things I don't care; some people don't want to hear &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; details about &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; even remotely related to the work in question. Both of those are fine, but it's unreasonable to expect everyone to conform to your level of spoiler toleration. On this site we encourage the use of spoiler markup as a courtesy, but no level of spoilerification will please everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With spoiler tolerance being so personal, ultimate responsibility for &lt;em&gt;avoiding&lt;/em&gt; spoilers must be equally personal. There's only so much we can do with spoiler markup.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; That being said, there &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be times when that's appropriate; if you were asking about perceived inconsistencies in the play, for example. As always, a certain amount of case-by-case evaluation is needed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2016-08-01T22:25:22.070" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10017" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10018" CreationDate="2016-08-01T22:46:18.563" Score="17" ViewCount="557" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the title asks: &lt;strong&gt;Which question is the most heavily downvoted on our site?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone knows of a &lt;em&gt;script&lt;/em&gt; that measures this, then by all means point it out to me :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-08-26T19:58:45.120" LastActivityDate="2018-03-12T10:34:52.810" Title="Which question on SFF has the highest number of downvotes?" Tags="|support|voting|down-votes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10017" CreationDate="2016-08-01T23:02:38.717" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've forked &quot;Most Downvoted Answers&quot; to show the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/520057/most-downvoted-answers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;most downvoted questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The top 5 (at the last edit)&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/180869/what-is-dont-panic-a-reference-to-on-the-dashboard-of-elon-musks-car&quot;&gt;What is “DON'T PANIC” a reference to on the dashboard of Elon Musk's car?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;71&lt;/strong&gt; downvotes)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;2) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/114500/is-captain-america-gay&quot;&gt;Is Captain America gay?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;48&lt;/strong&gt; downvotes)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;3) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/142810/has-george-r-r-martin-described-the-color-of-daenerys-pubic-hair-in-any-book&quot;&gt;Has George R. R. Martin described the color of Daenerys' pubic hair in any book?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;40&lt;/strong&gt; downvotes)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;4) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/140363/what-is-jk-rowling-bad-at&quot;&gt;What is JK Rowling “bad” at?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;36&lt;/strong&gt; downvotes)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Joint 5) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/105467&quot;&gt;What is Hermione Granger's ethnicity?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;32&lt;/strong&gt; downvotes)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Joint 5) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/164018/why-do-castle-gates-in-got-open-inwards&quot;&gt;Why do castle gates in GoT open inwards?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;32&lt;/strong&gt; downvotes)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Joint 7) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/147383/was-bilbos-sexuality-ever-referred-to-by-tolkien&quot;&gt;Was Bilbo's sexuality ever referred to by Tolkien?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;30&lt;/strong&gt; downvotes)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Joint 7) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111540/what-is-kylo-rens-relationship-with-darth-vader&quot;&gt;What is Kylo Ren's relationship with Darth Vader?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;30&lt;/strong&gt; downvotes)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Joint 9) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/132190/if-darth-vader-is-luke-skywalkers-father-who-is-lukes-mother&quot;&gt;If Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father, who is Luke's mother?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;29&lt;/strong&gt; downvotes)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Joint 12) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/144298/did-draco-malfoy-sexually-assault-hermione-granger&quot;&gt;Did Draco Malfoy sexually assault Hermione Granger?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;26&lt;/strong&gt; downvotes)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Joint 12)  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12377/in-the-matrix-why-did-humans-scorch-the-sky-to-block-sunshine&quot;&gt;In The Matrix, why did humans scorch the sky to block sunshine?&lt;/a&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;26&lt;/strong&gt; downvotes)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Joint 12)  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/59521/why-are-most-of-the-main-characters-white-english-in-game-of-thrones&quot;&gt;Why are most of the main characters White/English in Game Of Thrones?&lt;/a&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;26&lt;/strong&gt; downvotes)   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also see the lowest number of votes &lt;em&gt;on aggregate&lt;/em&gt; (e.g. upvotes &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; downvotes) using the standard &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=votes&quot;&gt;vote sort&lt;/a&gt; tool. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that case, the order is &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/114500/is-captain-america-gay&quot;&gt;Is Captain America gay?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;-37&lt;/strong&gt; = 48 down, 11 up)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Joint 2) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111540/what-is-kylo-rens-relationship-with-darth-vader&quot;&gt;What is Kylo Ren's relationship with Darth Vader?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;-26&lt;/strong&gt; = 30 down, 4 up)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Joint 2) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/142810/has-george-r-r-martin-described-the-color-of-daenerys-pubic-hair-in-any-book&quot;&gt;Has George R. R. Martin described the color of Daenerys' pubic hair in any book?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;-26&lt;/strong&gt; = 40 down, 14 up)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Joint 4) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/144298/did-draco-malfoy-sexually-assault-hermione-granger&quot;&gt;Did Draco Malfoy sexually assault Hermione Granger?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;-24&lt;/strong&gt; = 26 down, 2 up)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Joint 4)  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/132190/if-darth-vader-is-luke-skywalkers-father-who-is-lukes-mother&quot;&gt;If Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father, who is Luke's mother?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;-24&lt;/strong&gt; = 29 down, 5 up)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Joint 6) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/134095/was-voldemort-an-idiot&quot;&gt;Was Voldemort an idiot?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;-23&lt;/strong&gt; = 25 down, 2 up)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Joint 6) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/87515/whats-the-in-universe-explanation-for-the-change-of-face-of-bruce-banner&quot;&gt;What's the in-universe explanation for the change of face of Bruce Banner?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;-23&lt;/strong&gt; = 26 down, 3 up)   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2018-03-12T10:34:52.810" LastActivityDate="2018-03-12T10:34:52.810" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10017" CreationDate="2016-08-01T23:02:39.980" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use the Stack Exchange Data Explorer to do this kind of thing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT TOP 10 PostId, COUNT(*) AS [Count]&#xA;FROM Votes v&#xA;INNER JOIN Posts p ON p.Id = v.PostId &#xA;WHERE v.VoteTypeId = 3 AND p.PostTypeId = 1&#xA;GROUP BY PostId&#xA;ORDER BY 2 DESC&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most heavily downvoted question (that has not yet been deleted) is post 114500 with 40 downvotes; that post is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/114500/is-captain-america-gay&quot;&gt;Is Captain America gay?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2016-08-08T00:44:08.783" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2016-08-03T23:18:47.310" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm &lt;em&gt;Girl With a Pearl Earring&lt;/em&gt;, using hats to defile Vermeer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For anyone after WinterBash 2016;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/q8Xbs.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/q8Xbs.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57642" LastEditorUserId="57642" LastEditDate="2017-01-08T03:00:01.220" LastActivityDate="2017-01-08T03:00:01.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10022" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10024" CreationDate="2016-08-05T06:17:05.667" Score="12" ViewCount="235" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/137268/64504&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; where the answerer says they have a friend who works on the production of a show. Based on a scene that was allegedly included in the production, the answerer hints at an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it was confirmed that such a scene was indeed a part of the production for season 2, it would certainly be an excellent answer to the question. However, it all depends on how reliable the word of the user and their friend is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is quoting personal insider knowledge (without a notable source) in this manner acceptable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64504" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2016-08-06T00:21:58.247" Title="Quoting personal insider knowledge of production for an answer" Tags="|discussion|answers|answer-quality|notability-of-sources|sources|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10022" CreationDate="2016-08-05T07:52:32.627" Score="11" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Is it allowed?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. There is no requirement that answers be backed up by verifiable sources, quotations, or anything else. Answers that are impossible to understand, do not even address the question, or have other serious issues may be deleted, but mere lack of sources is not sufficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Is it a good answer?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, an answer should be backed up by reliable information. If someone provides an answer without some verification of their knowledge, a reasonable person might be uncertain about their veracity. This is good enough reason for a downvote. If, on the other hand, you find the poster's presentation, knowledge, or some other factor credible, you can upvote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastActivityDate="2016-08-05T07:52:32.627" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10022" CreationDate="2016-08-05T07:53:45.023" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The very short answer is yes, it's perfectly acceptable to claim to have personal or insider knowledge, although you may wish to cast your upvotes and downvotes according to how credible you consider the poster and how useful you find their answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this instance this individual has no prior rep and is using what appears to be a throwaway account to post secrets about the show. That strikes me as relatively unlikely. Then again, they may have a friend who's played a bit part or a walk-on and is desperate to share their spoiler with the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I would hold off on voting entirely and set a reminder to check (at the end of Season 2) whether this actually happened, then upvote/downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-08-06T00:21:58.247" LastActivityDate="2016-08-06T00:21:58.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2016-08-06T18:03:06.590" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;My older avatar was of Darth Revan, my favorite character from the old &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; EU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3j6T9.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3j6T9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used it because I consider him the coolest of &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;' many 'rogue Jedi.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently i changed avatar to a poorly photoshopped collage of various things that I like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PZI3u.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PZI3u.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I frequently add to it, and it currently features references to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Firefly&lt;/em&gt;/&lt;em&gt;Serenity&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; (specifically &lt;em&gt;Knights of the Old Republic&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;LOST&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Captain America&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Marvel&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Destiny&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;LEGO&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The band Journey&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Arrested Development&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Avatar: The Last Airbender&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gravity Falls&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Back to the Future: Part II&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastEditorUserId="51226" LastEditDate="2016-08-06T18:10:18.753" LastActivityDate="2016-08-06T18:10:18.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10026" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10027" CreationDate="2016-08-08T07:40:41.093" Score="14" ViewCount="317" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Stackoverflow Review queues, there's always some hidden audit test post in the review. Sometimes they come up almost consecutively. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, In Review queues of SFF Stack Exchange, I have never once run across a review audit. I read &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/157121/what-are-review-tests-audits-and-how-do-they-work&quot;&gt;this Meta Stack Exchange post&lt;/a&gt; which states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is currently active only on Stack Overflow, Server Fault, Super&#xA;  User, Programmers, Ask Ubuntu, Mathematics, and Puzzling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But we get our fair share of bad close votes, flags, reviews and edit suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/85566&quot;&gt;this edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; where the editor just added a tag of Severus Snape to the post which I believed was unnecessary as Character tags, in my opinion, do not help in ease of search. Someone searching for that answer would still get Google find it for him with keywords Harry Potter and Severus Snape. Or on the contrary, perhaps I made the wrong decision in rejecting that edit and I should have some sort of sense that if my Reviews are not good, I might get my privilege suspended. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/85998&quot;&gt;this suggestion&lt;/a&gt; Where an anonymous user just tried to make the post humorous which does not help in increasing the quality of the answer in any way yet it was approved by one user. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/85918&quot;&gt;this suggestion&lt;/a&gt; where I clearly made the wrong review by judging the suggestion on it's size rather than it's contents. I should be penalized for that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/135065/movie-scene-where-guy-in-spacesuit-accidentally-gets-his-hand-cut-off#comment344031_135065&quot;&gt;comment I flagged as non-constructive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; which was declined even though the comment said this on a story identification question: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I think you dreamt it. I've seen thousands of movies over 40 years but never that. You should write a story around it and publish it on a self publishing site. Good luck!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we have any reason for why the audit mechanism is not available for SFF Stack Exchange? Is it because of the low traffic in our review queues? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. Please migrate this to Meta Stack Exchange if it is better served there. I thought because it is about specifically our site so it would be better posted here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I have also added a comment for the CM who wrote the linked Meta SE post &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/157121/what-are-review-tests-audits-and-how-do-they-work/157172#comment917737_157172&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;1: This in no way is implying that other reviewers performed a bad review. It's just a general example. As stated already, It may have been that I was the one doing the wrong review.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;2: That's a mod flag, as pointed out by Null and is therefore not a part of normal review queues&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-08-08T14:51:26.733" Title="Why is there no Review audit on Scifi &amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange?" Tags="|discussion|review-queue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10026" CreationDate="2016-08-08T14:27:38.910" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't answer for the administrators who set up the review audit system, but I suspect it has to do with the fact that &lt;strong&gt;this site is small enough that review audits aren't really necessary.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; There is a small group of reviewers on this site, and it's not too difficult for moderators to make sure those reviewers are doing a good job on reviews (either by noticing bad reviews directly, or by members of the community flagging to inform the moderators of a potential robo-reviewer). The sites that do have review audits are generally much larger than ours.&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using the moderator tools, I counted the number of distinct users who reviewed at least two posts in each review queue in the last 30 days. I used a threshold of two since moderators aren't going to take action for just one bad review (not even the audit system does that). Here are the counts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;41 first post reviewers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;27 late answers reviewers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;23 low quality reviewers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;40 suggested edit reviewers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;27 close votes reviewers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;17 reopen votes reviewers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, as you can see from the publicly available review stats, there is considerable overlap between these reviewers in each of the queues -- there are probably only ~40 users on the site who regularly review posts. That's not too difficult to keep track of. By comparison, for example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/stats&quot;&gt;there have been over 3,000 suggested edit reviews on Stack Overflow so far &lt;em&gt;today&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, the reviews you posted would probably make bad review audits anyway. &lt;strong&gt;Review audits should be unambiguously good or unambiguously bad. They are intended to catch robo-reviewers who consistently make obvious mistakes, not punish users for making an occasional and understandable mistake.&lt;/strong&gt; I don't think any of the example reviews you posted would make particularly good audit posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Snape character tag edit should have been approved (and it was) since the community has accepted the tag, but the existence of character tags is controversial here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The anonymous editor's suggestion to remove an aside could go either way -- and indeed one reviewer approved it while two others rejected it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The one you erroneously rejected was a minor mistake and the existing review system (which requires multiple approvals/rejections) prevented your mistake from causing the wrong outcome (the suggested edit was ultimately approved).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The comment flag falls outside of the review system since that was a moderator flag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; That's not to say review audits on this site would be a bad thing. Review audits would slow down the rate of &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; reviews completed, but that wouldn't really be a problem since our review queues are regularly empty anyway. A bigger problem might be wasted time discussing failed/disputed review audits here on meta -- just see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/disputed-review-audits&quot;&gt;Meta.SO's questions about disputed review audits&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; Puzzling is an outlier -- it's small but has review audits, though I'm not sure why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T09:16:33.917" LastActivityDate="2016-08-08T14:27:38.910" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10028" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10030" CreationDate="2016-08-09T13:18:27.783" Score="7" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a good Data Explorer query to find how &quot;SFF-linky&quot; my answers are in-site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In more technical terms, for a given user, how many links to SFF.SE are on average in their answers on the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-08-16T14:06:11.510" LastActivityDate="2016-09-19T18:47:05.313" Title="How linky am I?" Tags="|support|data-explorer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3662" CreationDate="2016-08-09T17:15:40.713" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/281010/271002&quot;&gt;August 2016&lt;/a&gt;, you can retract flags on questions and answers, but not on comments. To retract a flag, click the flag link again and the button should become “Retract Flag”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today, the corresponding section of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/flag-posts&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt; has been changed accordingly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, while your flag is still waiting to be handled, you re-open the flag dialog, you'll be presented with the option to &lt;em&gt;retract&lt;/em&gt; your pending flag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3aoe2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3aoe2.png&quot; alt=&quot;retract flag option&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You cannot raise the same type of flag twice on a post: for example, if you retract a &amp;quot;spam&amp;quot; flag, you won't be able to raise a spam flag or an abusive flag in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Retract flags only when you're sure there's no need for the post to be flagged, or you become convinced that a more serious type of flag is needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user35609" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-08-09T17:15:40.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10028" CreationDate="2016-08-09T18:05:18.327" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/522684/average-number-of-links-per-answer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ask and ye shall receive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Standard SEDE disclaimers apply:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Updated once weekly; currently we're about two days behind reality&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Doesn't include deleted posts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plug your SFF UserId into the box and away you go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mine is &lt;strong&gt;0.453&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yours is &lt;strong&gt;0.111&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Valorum's (since he asked) is &lt;strong&gt;0.047&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this hasn't really been tested, since I'm not inclined to manually count all the links in all of my answers. I'm always welcome to corrections.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/revision/522684/660615/average-number-of-links-per-answer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;earlier version of the query&lt;/a&gt; counted &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; links, but the one above only counts links to SFF.SE (and not meta).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With due credit to Hack-R for doing most of the hard work, you can also check out the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/541702/linky-leaderboard&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Linky Leaderboard&lt;/a&gt;, though it isn't very instructive; indeed, the top five are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/65294/errantlinguist&quot;&gt;errantlinguist&lt;/a&gt;, with four links in one answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/46019/usfbs&quot;&gt;USFBS&lt;/a&gt;, with five links in two answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/46144/user137369&quot;&gt;user137369&lt;/a&gt;, with two links in one answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The unregistered &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/46641/vates&quot;&gt;Vates&lt;/a&gt;, also with two links in one answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4980/tony-r&quot;&gt;Tony R&lt;/a&gt;, still with two links in one post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To my eternal shame, I am merely the 139th most linky user of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-09-19T18:47:05.313" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7346" CreationDate="2016-08-10T01:01:21.090" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Force Awakens came out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was already participating decently actively in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://mythology.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Myth.SE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, I was probably looking around in people's profiles(AKA being a stalker), and I see a SF&amp;amp;F. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This will finally meet my questions for The Force Awakens!! Yessss&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And so I join&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57642" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T13:00:19.550" LastActivityDate="2016-08-10T01:01:21.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10032" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-10T08:22:04.763" Score="4" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently wrote &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10018/20774&quot;&gt;an answer&lt;/a&gt; to this question;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10017/which-question-on-sff-has-the-highest-number-of-downvotes/10018#10018&quot;&gt;Which question on SFF has the highest number of downvotes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, within a few days it was out of date. No doubt if I check it again in a few days, it'll be out of date &lt;em&gt;again&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there any way to use the results of a Data Explorer search to update an answer in realtime?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2016-08-10T17:25:18.283" Title="Can a Data Stack Exchange query be used to dynamically update an answer?" Tags="|support|data-explorer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10032" CreationDate="2016-08-10T17:09:16.840" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes, but&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As has been mentioned in the comments on your question (e.g., by &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/54902/175002&quot;&gt;AncientSwordRage's Meta.SE link&lt;/a&gt;), it's not possibly to dynamically query the data explorer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also not possible to embed runnable code in answers; in principle it looks as though &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/268531/276025&quot;&gt;Stack Snippets can be used to query the API&lt;/a&gt;, but of course we don't have Stack Snippets enabled, nor do we really need it to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your last recourse, if you're technically-minded, would be an external application that hits the &lt;a href=&quot;https://api.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;StackExchange API&lt;/a&gt;. In principle it wouldn't be difficult to write an application that polls the API for changes, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/edit-answer&quot;&gt;edits an answer&lt;/a&gt; if it finds any&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;; no manual intervention required. This would actually have the advantage of bring &lt;em&gt;significantly&lt;/em&gt; more up-to-date than the Data Explorer, which only updates weekly (while the API is more-or-less realtime, I believe).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some complications around doing this for this specific use-case, though; because &lt;a href=&quot;https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/answers&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;/answers&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; doesn't allow sorting by &lt;code&gt;downvote_count&lt;/code&gt;, you'd have to get &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; answers on the site and sort them in the application, which may run into &lt;a href=&quot;https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/throttle&quot;&gt;rate limiting problems&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it might be easier to simply link to the query in your answer, and add an accuracy disclaimer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Credit where it's due; this was suggested in comments on the question by Cahir Mawr Dyffryn æp Ceallach and FryAmTheEggman&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; The reason for this is that the API &lt;a href=&quot;https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/throttle&quot;&gt;paginates large results&lt;/a&gt;; you can only get up to 100 results at a time, so you'd have to make something on the order of 700 requests to get all of the answers. This isn't insurmountable - with an access token, which you'd need in order to edit an answer, you're limited to 10,000 requests per day - it's an extra layer of complication&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2016-08-10T17:25:18.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7346" CreationDate="2016-08-11T19:37:39.350" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like others, I started with the main Stack Overflow site (although they claim my Super User account is older) and branched off to here. I want to say that the English Language SE was the one I went to after that, then it gets fuzzy. I came here via a sidebar advertisement and now it's my primary haunt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2016-08-11T19:37:39.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10036" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10037" CreationDate="2016-08-13T08:09:19.323" Score="7" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone recently asked which question on SFF had &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10017/which-question-on-sff-has-the-highest-number-of-downvotes&quot;&gt;the most downvotes&lt;/a&gt;. Of course, it is trivial to determine which question has the lowest &lt;em&gt;total&lt;/em&gt; score: just order by votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this does not tell us what is the lowest-scoring question there has ever been, since a question that scored so low might well have been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there any way to determine what is the lowest-scoring question SFF has &lt;em&gt;ever&lt;/em&gt; had, including questions that are now deleted?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.190" LastActivityDate="2017-03-11T02:15:53.890" Title="Lowest-scoring question of all time (including deleted questions)" Tags="|support|down-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10036" CreationDate="2016-08-13T10:30:33.253" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe this is what you're looking for;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/382201/deleted-questions-with-score&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Deleted questions with score&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you run the search (and you've got over 10K rep), you can review the questions that were low voted &lt;em&gt;and subsequently deleted&lt;/em&gt; (correct as of 11/03/17)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/144396/did-draco-malfoy-rape-hermione-granger&quot;&gt;Did Draco Malfoy rape Hermione Granger? [duplicate]&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;-28&lt;/strong&gt; = 28 down, 0 up)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;2) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/150952/did-draco-rape-hermione&quot;&gt;Did Draco rape Hermione? [duplicate]&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;-23&lt;/strong&gt; = 23 down, 0 up)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;3) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19245/do-imaginary-animals-dragons-unicorns-etc-exist-in-the-real-world&quot;&gt;Do imaginary animals; dragons, unicorns, etc… exist in the real world? [closed]&lt;/a&gt;  (&lt;strong&gt;-21&lt;/strong&gt; = 22 down, 1 up)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;4) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/105523/who-is-the-new-darth-vader-2-0-character&quot;&gt;Who is the new 'Darth Vader 2.0' character? [deleted]&lt;/a&gt;  (&lt;strong&gt;-19&lt;/strong&gt; = 27 down, 6 up)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;5) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/128868/i-know-who-killed-phone-guy-in-fnaf-1&quot;&gt;I KNOW WHO KILLED PHONE GUY IN FNAF 1 [closed]&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;-18&lt;/strong&gt; = 18 down, 0 up)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;5) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/44845/is-this-a-valid-explanation-for-why-the-tardis-blew-up-also-could-davros-be-the&quot;&gt;Is this a valid explanation for why the TARDIS blew up? Also could Davros be the TARDIS controller [closed] &lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;-18&lt;/strong&gt; = 18 down, 0 up)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Had these questions survived, the topmost would have come in at #3 on the list of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10017/which-question-on-sff-has-the-highest-number-of-downvotes&quot;&gt;5 most downvoted questions&lt;/a&gt; of all time. The top two would have made the top 5 &lt;em&gt;aggregate&lt;/em&gt; list (e.g. upvotes v. downvotes) coming in at #2 and #3, respectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I guess because in order for a question to be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/114500/is-captain-america-gay&quot;&gt;truly despised&lt;/a&gt;, it needs to not get deleted for at least a while.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2017-03-11T02:15:53.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10038" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-13T10:47:38.697" Score="-5" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know what the &lt;em&gt;least awarded&lt;/em&gt; badge is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How many times it has been awarded?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-08-26T20:00:14.923" LastActivityDate="2016-08-26T20:00:58.550" Title="What is the least awarded badge?" Tags="|support|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10039" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-13T10:52:19.270" Score="35" ViewCount="933" Body="&lt;p&gt;User &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/70135/augustine08282011&quot;&gt;augustine08282011&lt;/a&gt; has written a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/137867/in-the-attack-of-the-clones-poster-made-by-drew-struzan-why-isnt-count-dooku-d#comment348774_137867&quot;&gt;number of comments&lt;/a&gt; in a weird (unicode?) font that won't display on my mobile device.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I flagged it for a moderator to look at, but the flag was declined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bυт coυnт dooĸυ ιѕ a ѕιтн lord . rιgнт? Can ѕoмeone edιт тнaт poѕтer&#xA;  wιтн dooĸυ ιnclυded  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kυтυlυмιĸe, тнen wнy jango ғeтт ιѕ тнere. I тнιnĸ yoυr anѕwer dιd noт ѕaтιѕғy мe. Beιng ғocυѕed on тнe good gυyѕ. Tнaт'ѕ вorιng&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am advised that he has also done so with at least &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/137885/revisions&quot;&gt;one question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it acceptable behaviour to use a ɟouʇ ƃǝuǝɹɐʇoɹ to create ẅ͓͍͕̫̾ͧ̊͑ė̵̜̦̯̝̞̐̓ḯ̥̱̙̈ͧ̀r̜͊̇͗ͪ̍ͮ̒͘d̵ͫͦͤ͛̌̄ͣ ͥ͒͋̎͂̓̀t̷͇̠ͯ͑͋ͣ̈́e͙͙̗̜̦x̢͍̲͐ͣ̚t̖͚̀̚ for questions, answers and comments?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2016-12-26T11:02:49.440" Title="Is it acceptable to use unicode fonts for general discourse (Questions/Answers/Comments)?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10038" CreationDate="2016-08-13T11:00:07.710" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Excluding &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges?tab=tags&amp;amp;filter=gold&quot;&gt;gold tag badges&lt;/a&gt;, of which 5 are completely unique, the single &lt;em&gt;rarest&lt;/em&gt; badge on SFF:SE is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/138/illuminator&quot;&gt;Illuminator Badge&lt;/a&gt; which has only been awarded to one (awesome) user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Edit and answer 500 questions (both actions within 12 hours, answer&#xA;  score &gt; 0).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Three badges have never been awarded (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/34/tenacious&quot;&gt;Tenacious&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/35/unsung-hero&quot;&gt;Unsung Hero&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/51/stellar-question&quot;&gt;Stellar Question&lt;/a&gt;). As regards the first two, while it may be &lt;em&gt;mathematically possible&lt;/em&gt; to get them, on a site with traffic this high it's deeply unlikely that anyone will actually get them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The third one (Stellar) is closest to being achieved by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1520/in-what-order-should-the-star-wars-movies-be-watched&quot;&gt;In what order should the Star Wars movies be watched?&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2335/what-order-should-asimovs-foundation-series-be-read-in&quot;&gt;What order should Asimov's Foundation series be read in?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to see the current badge counts, they're &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2016-08-26T20:00:58.550" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10039" CreationDate="2016-08-13T11:58:22.943" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NO.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Font styles should not be manipulated in any way beyond the tools given to us by Stack Exchange (bold, italic, block quote, preformatted, etc.) or basic html (strike-through, breaks, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything beyond this will most likely cause readability issues, and as you mentioned in the question, may cause it to not display at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Creativity and customization are wonderful thing, but for Q&amp;amp;A site, we want to keep styles consistent and easy to view to attract and keep experts. If the content you are posting is of a high quality to begin with you should not need to &quot;spice it up&quot; with these additional style edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When these posts are found I see a few ways to handle them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the post is a question or answer, you have enough reputation, and knowledge to spot the problem code, you should edit the post to change the &quot;personalized&quot; text to a standard format. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the post is a comment, you do not have enough reputation or feel you do not have enough knowledge with editing, you should flag the post for moderator attention (IMO, moderators please comment if this is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; what we want). You would need to use fifth option that allows you to give a specific reason. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that being said, a first time offender should be given a warning and a short explanation as to why we do not like this (maybe even a link to this post if you are feeling generous enough).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2016-08-13T12:11:59.837" LastActivityDate="2016-08-13T12:11:59.837" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10039" CreationDate="2016-08-13T13:28:00.693" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a somehow related discussion on the main network wide meta site. Here is the link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/247022/zalgo-in-user-names-and-effects-on-comments-rendering&quot;&gt;Zalgo in user names and effects on comments rendering&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you may see from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/247022/zalgo-in-user-names-and-effects-on-comments-rendering#comment809699_247022&quot;&gt;Mark Gravel comment&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure this is by-design; until there's actual evidence of a genuine problem (that isn't solved simply by communication), I'm not sure there is anything to fix. If there was a change, I would expect it would relate to our increasing internationalisation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The staff currently prefers to handle such situations manually, since the cost of a full-fledged fix doesn't still seem to be worth for the actual benefit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, this doesn't mean that abuse should be tolerated. While there are some cases where unicode may fit (a comment about Cthulhu written using Zalgo fonts may be funny if done with moderation), one should remember that using unicode harms the site in at least two ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;breaks the site layout (see any Zalgo post for an example&#xA;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/t2JMh.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;adds noise to search (obviously, you cannot search normally for words that were written using Zalgo or other unicode fonts).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on that, I agree with Skooba - abuse should be dealt with, either by editing if possible or by resorting to flagging if no other option is available. Just remember that this is a weird topic with no general agreement, so try to explain your reasoning in the custom flag so it doesn't get dismissed as it already happened to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I just found out &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/58032/what-are-the-spam-and-rude-or-abusive-offensive-flags-and-how-do-they-wor&quot;&gt;that this post on the main Stack Exchange network meta&lt;/a&gt; states that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Abuse of the system or community is everything that is created with the intention to harm them. This includes posts that contain no useful content at all – i.e. gibberish posts along the lines of:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;asyuv;laergap897wertp[98 gb;vp98a34&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cats are not allowed to walk across keyboards as part of Stack Exchange posts; this is abuse and should be flagged as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such posts are deemed worth of a rude/abusive flag. By extension, I think that content written with Unicode characters or symbols-based substitutions should be handled in a similar way (BTW, I would wonder how those look like while using one of the available smartphone apps).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53529" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2016-08-16T06:15:13.223" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10043" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10045" CreationDate="2016-08-13T19:59:18.233" Score="6" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's easy if the image is online, just post the URL in the comment and hit enter - anyone who clicks it will see the image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say I just photoshopped an image to help explain something to another user and I want to simply post the image as a comment, how do I do that? It's not already online, so there's no link to paste into the comment! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I post/link an image in a comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54827" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-08-16T14:09:09.277" LastActivityDate="2016-08-16T14:09:09.277" Title="How to post/link an image in a comment" Tags="|support|comments|images|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10044" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-13T20:02:34.190" Score="3" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;I closed the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/27579/do-owls-have-to-have-training?noredirect=1&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do owls have to have training?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (asked on 12.04.12) in favor of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/137791/how-was-hedwig-able-to-find-sirius&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How was Hedwig able to find Sirius?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (asked on 08.13.16).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel the Hedwig question is more precise and provides an answer that is better grounded in canon; it quotes Pottermore. The answer to the owl training question references one of the &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; movies as its source, making it lower on the HP canon hierarchy than Pottermore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Was I in any way obligated to select the newer question for closure? Was choosing an older, more established question for closure acceptable?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was thinking a question's quality and relevance are ultimately more important considerations than when a question was asked and answered, which is wholly incidental.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I sometimes have a hard time discerning true duplicates and close questions when I shouldn't (Of course I reverse the closure if it's explained to me why I'm wrong in a way that makes sense.). So, I don't always feel super confident when I close a question, hence me bringing this to meta.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2016-08-13T20:02:34.190" Title="Was it acceptable to close Question B instead of Question A?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2016-08-13T21:09:02.237" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10043" CreationDate="2016-08-13T20:05:02.067" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would follow the strategy laid out in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/227089/328832&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Create a new question or answer (but don't post it!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use the interface provided to upload the image as if you were writing an actual post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Then you should have a valid Imgur link to put in your comments.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you would rather not use the SE Imgur account, you could always use your own Imgur account. The link may not remain valid if the image is old and not receiving enough views, though. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2016-08-13T20:11:55.167" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10046" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10049" CreationDate="2016-08-13T22:23:14.930" Score="-1" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;We currently have several tags related to Robin Hobb's main fantasy series, &lt;em&gt;The Realm of the Elderlings&lt;/em&gt;. This series consists of several smaller series. The following three have their own tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Rain Wilds Chronicles: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rain-wilds-chronicles&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rain-wilds-chronicles&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rain-wilds-chronicles&lt;/a&gt; (1 question) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Fitz and the Fool Trilogy: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fitz-and-the-fool&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fitz-and-the-fool&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fitz-and-the-fool&lt;/a&gt; (1 question) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Tawny Man Trilogy: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tawny-man-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tawny-man-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tawny-man-series&lt;/a&gt; (1 question)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several of the series do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; have their own tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Farseer Trilogy (the first one).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Liveship Traders Trilogy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have questions that could certainly be tagged as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/farseer-trilogy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;farseer-trilogy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;farseer-trilogy&lt;/a&gt;, but probably not any that need a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/liveship-traders&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;liveship-traders&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;liveship-traders&lt;/a&gt; tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also lack a tag for the series as a whole, i.e. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/realm-of-the-elderlings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;realm-of-the-elderlings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;realm-of-the-elderlings&lt;/a&gt;. Since each of the subseries has only a single question, and two are the same, there's an argument that they are too granular. Of course, there are  a few questions that are (probably not &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7924/51379&quot;&gt;correctly&lt;/a&gt;) tagged as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/robin-hobb&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;robin-hobb&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;robin-hobb&lt;/a&gt; that could use a series tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, should we:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/realm-of-the-elderlings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;realm-of-the-elderlings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;realm-of-the-elderlings&lt;/a&gt; tag, and stick it on all the  questions about the subseries, but keep the series tags?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/realm-of-the-elderlings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;realm-of-the-elderlings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;realm-of-the-elderlings&lt;/a&gt; tag, and stick it on all the  questions about the subseries, but not keep the series tags?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep the series tags, and not make a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/realm-of-the-elderlings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;realm-of-the-elderlings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;realm-of-the-elderlings&lt;/a&gt; tag?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-08-14T21:12:10.317" Title="Realm of the Elderlings tags" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7764" CreationDate="2016-08-13T22:59:48.590" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I recently found myself with a whole mess of free time, I thought I'd take a stab at this. So I wrote a small webapp using the &lt;a href=&quot;http://api.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;StackExchange API&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://se-rep-loss-calculator.herokuapp.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SE Rep Loss Calculator&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's still a work-in-progress, but it seems to more-or-less work for the time being. A few remarks and caveats:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's (in theory) somewhat of an improvement over the SEDE query in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7781/31051&quot;&gt;Rand al'thor's answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's updated in real-time, so you don't have to worry about the SEDE update delay&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It accounts for reputation lost from &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; votes, not just other people voting on your posts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It also accounts for reputation from non-vote sources: things like suggested edits, deleted posts, bounties, and so on&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because it takes into account things like reputation gained/lost from you downvoting posts (which isn't visible to people other than you and SE employees), you need to log into the application with your SE credentials. I (meaning, the application) use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://api.stackexchange.com/docs/authentication&quot;&gt;authentication protocol provided by the API&lt;/a&gt;, but I do request access to private information (it wouldn't work at all otherwise). I can't use this to impersonate you, or read your global inbox, but I can and do use it to look at basically your entire up- and down-voting history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I (as myself, not the app) can't actually see &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; of this. All of the processing happens on your computer, so even if I wanted to save and inspect this information, I couldn't. The app is also open source, so you're welcome to &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/jwbaker/se-rep-loss-calculator&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;take a look at the code&lt;/a&gt; to ensure that I'm not doing anything untoward with the access tokens. That said, it does require a little bit of trust. If you &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; trust me, it is possible to run this application on your local computer, but it's a bit of a pain.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because of a bug I haven't quite figured out yet, the reputation counters don't reset every time you click the button; so if you want to re-calculate, you'll need to reload the page. I'm working on that.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You also need to re-login on every page load, because I don't store the access token. I'm not sure if that's a bug or a feature.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm running the app on a free Heroku account, so it may not be available 100% of the time. If it's not available when you want it, try again later&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bear in mind that I'm limited to 10,000 API calls per day, and the number of calls per click grows quite substantially the longer your time period is, or the more reputation you gain per day&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;. Be kind: don't spam the &quot;calculate&quot; button.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I've done very little testing of this. It should work for most things, but there may be some weird edge cases I can't replicate&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;If&lt;/s&gt; &lt;em&gt;When&lt;/em&gt; you run into problems, kindly either post a comment here, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/jwbaker/se-rep-loss-calculator/issues&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;file a bug on GitHub&lt;/a&gt; and I'll look into it&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;em&gt;Every&lt;/em&gt; calculation takes at least two calls: one to authenticate you, and at least one to retrieve your reputation history. Because I can only retrieve up to 100 items with a single call, I may need lots of calls to get your entire reputation history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, in order to distinguish between votes on questions and votes on answers (which affect your rep in different ways), I need to ask the API for information on &lt;em&gt;each&lt;/em&gt; post you've received rep for; again, I can only get up to 100 of these at a time (although I'm a little smart; I don't ask for the same post more than once), so receiving rep on more than 100 unique posts will cause more calls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2016-08-13T23:59:42.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10039" CreationDate="2016-08-13T23:06:09.727" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, some relevant nitpicking: This user is not using a different font, but special Unicode characters that are intended for Cyrillic, phonetics, mathematics, and other uses that are not regular (English) text. They render in the site’s standard font if available and some fallback font otherwise. Even if they appear to be from another font, they are just exotic characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As with most good standards, you should think twice about deviating from Unicode, in this case using Unicode characters for other purposes than intended.  I elaborated these issues &lt;a href=&quot;//superuser.com/q/1160295/203639&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. To summarise, the following will break:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Accessibility:&lt;/strong&gt; Just imagine, e.g., what a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_reader&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;screen reader&lt;/a&gt; will do with those lines of text.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Searchability:&lt;/strong&gt; You cannot search inside these lines as expected. Some very intelligent searches may allow you to do so, but it usually stops, once you turn on &lt;em&gt;match case&lt;/em&gt; or similar (which is a good behaviour, because you cannot have a Unicode-compliant search without this or hundreds of search options). This may also cause you to find these lines if you are searching for something else entirely. (Sorry, but that rare Bulgarian word you wish to learn about just so happens to look like the some frequent English word in small caps.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Portability:&lt;/strong&gt; Not every machine that is equipped for displaying this site typically has good or well-suited fonts available for these characters.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And these are only the issues I can think of. Experience tells me that deviating from Unicode standards causes at least twice as many problems if you dig deep enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt;, this is not okay. (As for how to deal with those posts, I second &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10041/20840&quot;&gt;Skooba’s answer&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20840" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2016-12-26T11:02:49.440" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10046" CreationDate="2016-08-14T21:12:10.317" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;These books are not nearly popular enough to merit individual property tags when they're basically part of a unified book series created by a single author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest we create a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/realm-of-the-elderlings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;realm-of-the-elderlings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;realm-of-the-elderlings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; tags and dump all of the questions about this series &lt;strong&gt;into that tag&lt;/strong&gt;, then delete/remove all of the other tags; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rain-wilds-chronicles&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rain-wilds-chronicles&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rain-wilds-chronicles&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fitz-and-the-fool&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fitz-and-the-fool&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fitz-and-the-fool&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tawny-man-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tawny-man-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tawny-man-series&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/farseer-trilogy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;farseer-trilogy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;farseer-trilogy&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/robin-hobb&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;robin-hobb&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;robin-hobb&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we can do so in such a way as to not disfigure the front page, that would be just peachy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2016-08-14T21:12:10.317" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7508" CreationDate="2016-08-15T11:41:34.113" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, we should implement this.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The specific contents can be decided on in a separate question, but this would help. If nothing else, it would help establish guidelines for asking story ID questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if tip boxes can be added to be shown by all tags, we could add one that instructs users to add &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; if they have a story ID question, if that tag isn't already on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Perhaps the larger franchises could benefit from tip boxes as well, instructing people to use both the main franchise tag and the specific work tag (for instance &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tos&lt;/a&gt;), or other pointers for that franchise, but again, that's something for another question.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2016-08-15T11:41:34.113" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10051" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10052" CreationDate="2016-08-16T00:51:08.717" Score="11" ViewCount="317" Body="&lt;p&gt;If two &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions both have the same answer, &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; that answer has been confirmed (on each question) by the querent in the form of acceptance or a confirmatory comment, one of the questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7065/closing-story-ident-questions-as-duplicates-where-theres-no-acceptance&quot;&gt;may be closed&lt;/a&gt; as a duplicate of the other. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In most cases, this is quite straightforward: if the answer to one question is &quot;All Summer in a Day&quot; and the answer to another question is &quot;All Summer in a Day,&quot; then they are duplicates, and may be closed if the OPs have confirmed that they are the correct answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there's some ambiguity here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In particular&lt;/strong&gt;, if the answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6581/what-is-the-book-series-where-people-become-forged/6582#6582&quot;&gt;one question&lt;/a&gt; is a series, and the answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/33996/51379&quot;&gt;another question&lt;/a&gt; is a book in that series, do those constitute the same answer? What about when the answer to the first question is a different book in the same series? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer to one question is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/39336/51379&quot;&gt;short story&lt;/a&gt;, and the  answer to another question is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/12236/51379&quot;&gt;film based on that story&lt;/a&gt;, are they the same answer? Some questions have been closed as duplicate under this reasoning. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, are two works ever closely related enough to close their respective ID questions as duplicates? And if so, what are the criteria?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2021-11-27T03:45:52.190" Title="What constitutes the same answer for story-identification questions?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|duplicate-questions|story-identification|duplicate-answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10051" CreationDate="2016-08-16T03:00:22.027" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that the appropriate test is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If one question can be satisfactorily answered by reading the answers to another question then we have a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a new question meets this test, it can safely be closed as a duplicate as it doesn't need to be answered (because the answer is already in the dupe target).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that, based on that logic, the questions in your first example would be duplicates but those in the second example would not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66402" LastEditorUserId="66402" LastEditDate="2016-08-16T03:33:45.823" LastActivityDate="2016-08-16T03:33:45.823" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7946" CreationDate="2016-08-16T19:54:27.293" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/93238&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/ads/proposal/93238.png&quot; alt=&quot;Support the Literature proposal for non-SFF books!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-10-08T11:35:06.497" LastActivityDate="2016-10-08T11:35:06.497" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10055" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-17T14:30:31.120" Score="-5" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;So who determines if a post should be re-opened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that anyone can close a question, but re-opening is a different story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-08-17T14:40:46.273" LastActivityDate="2016-08-17T14:56:00.230" Title="Who determines if a post should be re-opened?" Tags="|support|closed-questions|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10055" CreationDate="2016-08-17T14:39:48.620" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Anyone who can vote to close can also vote to reopen.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting to reopen works in more or less the same way as voting to close: five users with 3k+ reputation are enough to reopen any closed question, and moderator votes are binding (as are gold-tag-badge-holder votes when it comes to duplicate questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is covered in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/reopen-questions&quot;&gt;help centre&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What if I disagree with the closure of a question? How can I reopen it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange is collaboratively built, maintained, and moderated by the community. If you see a question and you disagree with the stated &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/helpcenter/closed-questions&quot;&gt;reason of its closure&lt;/a&gt;, you should first try to edit the question to improve it as much as possible. Read the close notice and any comments carefully to address concerns raised there. Closed questions that receive edits within the first 5 days of closure are automatically put into a review queue to be considered for reopening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, you can:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave a comment on the question itself calling for it to be reopened. &lt;strong&gt;Be detailed:&lt;/strong&gt; explain why the question shouldn't have been closed. &lt;strong&gt;Be constructive:&lt;/strong&gt; name-calling is as likely to drive folks away as it is win them to your cause. Remember, anyone on the site with at least 3,000 reputation points can vote to reopen a question - even if a moderator closed it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be sure that you've read the close notice and any comments on the question so you can address any concerns raised there. Addressing the concerns often means &lt;strong&gt;editing the post&lt;/strong&gt;, which any user may do.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag the question for moderator attention. Again, explain why it should be reopened. There is more than one moderator, and moderators do reconsider their decisions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you have at least 3,000 reputation points, vote to reopen yourself.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're simply unsure about the validity of the closure, the best place to ask is on the community's meta site. Asking in the meta site allows those who took the action to comment, and will help others to learn about the issues being discussed. You can find a link to a site's meta in the two place in every site's top bar: under the &amp;quot;help&amp;quot; menu in the upper right, and in the Stack Exchange site switcher in the upper left.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reopening a question follows the same process as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/helpcenter/closed-questions&quot;&gt;closing a question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users with 3,000 reputation can cast up to 24 reopen votes per day. When a question reaches 5 reopen votes, it is no longer closed, and new answers may be submitted. You may only vote to close or reopen a question once. To cast a reopen vote, click the &amp;quot;reopen&amp;quot; link beneath the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators may close or reopen any question with a single vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-08-17T14:39:48.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10055" CreationDate="2016-08-17T14:56:00.230" Score="7" Body="&lt;h1&gt;You! And the community.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact is, you have more than 3K rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is in &lt;strong&gt;your&lt;/strong&gt; power to reopen anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, our &lt;s&gt;gods&lt;/s&gt; mods also can do it singlehandedly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that doesn't matter :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57642" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-08-17T14:56:00.230" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10058" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10059" CreationDate="2016-08-17T16:52:26.690" Score="4" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Reputation&amp;amp;filter=month&quot;&gt;monthly rep leagues&lt;/a&gt; (&quot;2016-08-01 to today&quot;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ap1y4.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ap1y4.png&quot; alt=&quot;month&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Reputation&amp;amp;filter=quarter&quot;&gt;quarterly rep leagues&lt;/a&gt; (&quot;2016-07-01 to today&quot;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hug06.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hug06.png&quot; alt=&quot;quarter&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My rep gained in the month and quarter are both showing up as exactly the same, even though I know this isn't true - I did have a net gain rep during July.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same problem is affecting the users Aegon and Thaddeus Howze, and maybe others too. (I haven't checked their reputation graph to see if they actually did have a net rep gain in July, but I assume they did.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's going on here? Is there a bug in the rep leagues that only affects certain users?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Or am I being stupid and missing something?&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2016-08-17T16:54:34.737" Title="Why are my monthly and quarterly rep scores showing as equal?" Tags="|bug|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10058" CreationDate="2016-08-17T16:54:34.737" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;See: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/281997/something-wrong-with-monthly-user-rep-some-users-show-quarterly-figures/283293#283293&quot;&gt;Something wrong with monthly user rep - some users show quarterly figures?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;tl;dr: we forgot to reset the counter on monthly rep this month. It should be correct again come September.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2016-08-17T16:54:34.737" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10060" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10063" CreationDate="2016-08-18T22:20:08.257" Score="14" ViewCount="607" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our recent movie nights have been dominated by a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9409/&quot;&gt;new release&lt;/a&gt;, a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9303/&quot;&gt;terrible film&lt;/a&gt;, and a few other &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9479/&quot;&gt;terrible films&lt;/a&gt;.  What we haven't had much of lately is the second &lt;strong&gt;F&lt;/strong&gt; in &lt;strong&gt;SF&amp;amp;F&lt;/strong&gt;....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So without further ado, we invite you to nominate your &lt;strong&gt;favourite FANTASY film&lt;/strong&gt;.  Good, bad, old, new &amp;mdash; it doesn't matter.  Just make sure it's a film that is generally considered fantasy!  (Examples include &lt;em&gt;Stardust&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Pan's Labyrinth&lt;/em&gt;, and the &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; films.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The event will take place in the SFF chatroom &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;22:00 UTC on Tuesday the 30th of August.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference, that's 3 pm PST, 6 pm EST, and 11 pm UK time (GMT+1).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(What's a &quot;Movie Night&quot;, you ask?  Your question has been wonderfully answered &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7434/40294&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To nominate a film, simply post an answer to this question with &lt;em&gt;at least&lt;/em&gt; the &lt;strong&gt;title and year of the film (and also the version, if applicable)&lt;/strong&gt;.  If you believe there are compelling reasons to watch it, do include them!  It also helps everyone to indicate the (legal) avenues for obtaining it, e.g. DVD, Blu-Ray, iTunes, Netflix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Voting closes at 22:00 UTC on Friday the 26th of August.&lt;/strong&gt;  The film with the highest net score (upvotes minus downvotes) wins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If the film that &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt; voted for wins, please make every effort to attend (or else your account will be closed and your rep will be donated to charity).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;UPDATE: &lt;em&gt;Princess Bride&lt;/em&gt; (1987) has received the highest number of votes!  Join us as we watch it together in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/198/mos-eisley?tab=schedule&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/a&gt; at 22:00 UTC on Tuesday the 30th of August!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-08-31T01:06:18.870" Title="Movie Night! Make your fantasies come true on Tuesday the 30th!" Tags="|discussion|chat-event|movie-night|" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10060" CreationDate="2016-08-18T22:26:33.700" Score="1" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.medievalists.net/2016/03/13/the-worlds-worst-fantasy-film-in-the-name-of-the-king/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2007)&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm all about the terrible films, myself.  I like films that are so bad that they become enjoyable.  Mustering a respectable 4% on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/in-the-name-of-the-king-a-dungeon-siege-tale/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rotten Tomatoes&lt;/a&gt;, this tale of good and evil involving &lt;strong&gt;Jason Statham&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Ray Liotta&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Ron Perlman&lt;/strong&gt;, and &lt;strong&gt;Burt Reynolds&lt;/strong&gt; is one such delight.  And it's fantasy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/r9gAM.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/r9gAM.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/A7Um98FZei8?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Available on &lt;strong&gt;DVD&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Amazon Prime&lt;/strong&gt;, and &lt;strong&gt;iTunes&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastEditorUserId="40294" LastEditDate="2016-08-18T23:38:04.223" LastActivityDate="2016-08-18T23:38:04.223" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10060" CreationDate="2016-08-18T22:58:03.717" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardust_(2007_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stardust&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (2007)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A0rfq.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A0rfq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the best films I've seen. It ticks ALL the boxes. Whatever you want, &lt;em&gt;Stardust&lt;/em&gt; has it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Romance: an emotional and convincing love story at the heart (pun intended!) of the plot&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Action: plenty of swordfighting, daring escapes, and galloping horseback chases&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Intrigue: power-hungry princes plotting to assassinate one another to gain the throne&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cast: Robert de Niro as a flying pirate with a fascinating character, Michelle Pfeiffer, Claire Danes, that inimitable villain of villains Mark Strong, Peter O'Toole and Ricky Gervais in minor roles&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Soundtrack: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JQSeTKOr-Q&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;fantastic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dialogue: witty, moving, tons of quotes you'll want to remember&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suspense is kept up very well throughout, character development is a central theme, and the ending is even better than in the book (!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2016-08-18T22:58:03.717" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10060" CreationDate="2016-08-18T23:03:37.437" Score="16" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_Bride_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Princess Bride&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1987)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Szb0Rm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Szb0Rm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A much-quoted cult classic. Sweet and sometimes silly, it's essentially a love story but with plenty of well-done action too. Or to put it another way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, True Love, miracles....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's really not too bad. Do try to stay awake. To miss this Movie Night would be absolutely inconceivable!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Availability&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Physical media&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;DVD&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Blu-Ray&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Online purchase / rental&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;iTunes&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Google Play&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Amazon Video&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Subscription streaming&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;Netflix&lt;/strong&gt; (US and Canada confirmed, possibly other regions too), &lt;strong&gt;Amazon Prime&lt;/strong&gt; (US and UK confirmed, possibly other regions), &lt;strong&gt;Hulu&lt;/strong&gt; (US only)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="40294" LastEditDate="2016-08-26T23:28:03.947" LastActivityDate="2016-08-26T23:28:03.947" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10060" CreationDate="2016-08-19T00:58:20.403" Score="-3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Woods_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Into the Woods&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2014)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7inKi.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7inKi.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An adaptation of the musical of the same name. Full of wishes, witches, giants, bakers, princes, happy endings, and not-so-happy endings. Also lots of singing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pros:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Musical!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MERYL STREEP.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meryl Streep with blue hair.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No need to watch &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella_(2015_Disney_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cinderella&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Giant_Slayer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jack the Giant Slayer&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Riding_Hood_(2011_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Red-Riding Hood&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; or  &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangled&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tangled&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Subversion of the usual fairy-tale tropes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Johnny Depp as a very creepy Wolf. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No questions about it yet. You could be the first! &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not as dark as original.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The actors who play Jack and Little Red Riding Hood.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastActivityDate="2016-08-19T00:58:20.403" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10060" CreationDate="2016-08-19T01:49:17.063" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Man Who Could Work Miracles&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nostalgia tripping. The first science fiction movie I ever saw, and the first (adult, live-action — i.e. not counting animated cartoons like &lt;em&gt;Snow White&lt;/em&gt;) fantasy movie I ever saw, were H. G. Wells' &lt;em&gt;Things to Come&lt;/em&gt; and H. G. Wells' &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Could_Work_Miracles_(story)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Man Who Could Work Miracles&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_feature&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;double feature&lt;/a&gt;. Read &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27365/27365-h/27365-h.htm#Page_325&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the story&lt;/a&gt;, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uzJXBhyXyc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the movie&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastEditorUserId="14111" LastEditDate="2016-08-25T10:51:22.430" LastActivityDate="2016-08-25T10:51:22.430" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10067" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-19T02:42:59.953" Score="8" ViewCount="259" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/136071/how-many-classes-can-you-take-without-a-time-turner/136072#136072&quot;&gt;What is the maximum number of O.W.L. classes you can take at Hogwarts?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer is not a direct dupe; it was posted before the answer was closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no conceivable way this should have been mod deleted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing I can think of is that this 1 answer made or breaks my gold badge in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;. Seems suspicious it should be deleted so I end up at 199/200.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have 0 policies on closing answers to dupe questions, especially since my answer actually added additional info to the accepted answer that was tagged as a dupe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29220" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2016-08-19T15:54:26.467" Title="Why did this answer get deleted?" Tags="|support|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10067" CreationDate="2016-08-19T07:10:16.550" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the question's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/136072/timeline&quot;&gt;timeline&lt;/a&gt;,   your answer was posted, accepted by the OP of the dupe question, received three upvotes and was then mod-deleted by site moderator &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394/rand-althor&quot;&gt;Rand Al'Thor ♦&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more info on what happened (and why), see Rand's answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2016-08-19T15:54:26.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10069" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10072" CreationDate="2016-08-19T08:02:06.413" Score="-1" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the presence of answers on a duplicate question can be distracting. Instead of going to the original, which is likely to have better answers, people might linger on the duplicate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In accordance with this idea, moderators &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/31780356#31780356&quot;&gt;will sometimes&lt;/a&gt; delete answers on questions that are obvious duplicates: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When a dupe is pretty obvious, but not exact enough to merge,&#xA;  sometimes we delete answers so that people are more likely to go&#xA;  straight to the parent of the dupe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A possible instance is mentioned in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10067/51379&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; post. Another possible instance is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/133261/51379&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/31780365#31780365&quot;&gt;doesn't appear&lt;/a&gt; to be a network-wide policy or site consensus on this practice, though. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should distracting answers to obvious duplicates be deleted?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2016-08-19T15:31:50.563" Title="Should distracting answers to duplicate questions be deleted?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10071" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10080" CreationDate="2016-08-19T09:20:04.297" Score="-5" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/2585/143&quot;&gt;What episodes of Doctor Who should I watch first?&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;closed&lt;/strong&gt; as primarily opinion-based &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I think that's a mistake: the  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt; is well established here and I can't see anything else that should cause it to be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we please re-open it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2016-08-19T14:57:11.093" Title="Re-open &quot;What episodes of Doctor Who should I watch first?&quot;" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closing-questions|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10069" CreationDate="2016-08-19T09:56:52.910" Score="16" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No. Moderators should &lt;strong&gt;absolutely not&lt;/strong&gt; be arbitrarily  deleting answers on questions that are marked as duplicates.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The answer might contain useful information that could be added as a future answer to the dupe.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The supposed duplicate might get re-opened by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Users should also should avoid deleting their &lt;em&gt;own&lt;/em&gt; and others answers, for much the same reason&lt;/strong&gt;; see &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/132600/should-i-delete-my-answer-to-a-question-thats-marked-as-a-duplicate&quot;&gt;Should I delete my answer to a question that&amp;#39;s marked as a duplicate?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.757" LastActivityDate="2016-08-19T14:48:36.270" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7346" CreationDate="2016-08-19T10:33:10.203" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came from &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://mathoverflow.net/&quot;&gt;MathOverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; of all places.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I first joined that site, it was an independent site using an earlier version of the Stack Exchange software.  Later, the owners signed a deal to join it to the Stack Exchange network, with a few special arrangements remaining.  This was sort of a big deal at the time, so obviously I found out about the other Stack Exchange sites.  Of all the sites, Sci Fi became the one that captured me, because I already had a liking for Harry Potter and for western sci fi books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:57:54.543" LastActivityDate="2016-08-19T10:33:10.203" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10060" CreationDate="2016-08-19T11:47:51.840" Score="-1" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonheart&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dragonheart&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1996)&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MmQBm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MmQBm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A true 90s classic that I grew up with and that's still fun to watch. It's a great fantasy story about what it means to do the right thing, set in a classic medieval setting. It is a film noone who appreciates fun and engaging fantasy entertainment for the eyes, the mind, and the heart will get around. And did I mention that it has DRAGONS?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has ever likeable Dennis Quaid as the disillusioned but noble hero, various acclaimed actors of later &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; fame, like David Thewlis or Jason Isaacs, as villains, and Sean Connery as the coolest dragon long before Benedict Cumberbatch came around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I'm not really sure if I'll be around to the actual viewing event at all, but it's still a great suggestion anyway.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23386" LastActivityDate="2016-08-19T11:47:51.840" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10060" CreationDate="2016-08-19T12:19:24.773" Score="-1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The Fifth Element&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/avTCk.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/avTCk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pros&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bruce Willas&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Milla Jovovich&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gary Oldman&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chris Tucker&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/olsgA.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/olsgA.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cons&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None best movie ever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29220" LastActivityDate="2016-08-19T12:19:24.773" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10060" CreationDate="2016-08-19T12:24:27.157" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Let's talk about nonsense...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4dz0D.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4dz0D.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;hpatss&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/harry_potter_and_the_sorcerers_stone/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Harry Potter and Socerer's Stone&lt;/a&gt; (2001)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or as you fellows across the pond will call it... &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and Philosopher's Stone&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Harry Potter is the top franchise tag on the site, and the films sometimes received harsh treatment from &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; users. Let's watch one and figure out what is exactly bugging people...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-08-19T13:03:22.980" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10067" CreationDate="2016-08-19T12:39:22.210" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; after further discussion with the other moderators, &lt;strong&gt;I have now undeleted your answer.&lt;/strong&gt; Since you didn't VTC the question, there's no reason to believe you thought it was a duplicate when you answered; and since it now has 4 votes to reopen, its duplicate status isn't as clear as I'd originally thought. Apologies for the incorrect deletion.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Original answer follows.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having noticed a large number of duplicate questions in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; tag recently, I spent a while browsing through them to see whether any of them had been answered, and sometimes taking appropriate action if so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In some cases such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/135895/why-is-wormtail-treated-worse-than-the-other-death-eaters&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;, where the two questions were exactly identical and the duplicate had an answer that would be useful as an answer to the older question, I &lt;strong&gt;merged&lt;/strong&gt; the duplicate with the older question so that its answer(s) were transferred.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In other cases, such as the one you raise here, the answer to the duplicate wouldn't have fit well as an answer to the original question or wouldn't have added substantially to the existing answers there, so (after consultation with other moderators) I &lt;strong&gt;deleted&lt;/strong&gt; the answer. This is in line with what @AncientSwordRage♦ said a while back about a similar case: &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=30984282#30984282&quot;&gt;&quot;Bad questions get closed and don't get answers&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. Of course duplicate questions aren't necessarily bad, but the same principle applies to answerers: &lt;strong&gt;if a question is a duplicate, VTC it instead of answering it&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have not been targeted, nor was this about robbing you of your gold tag badge (which would have been a futile exercise anyway, since you could always post another HP answer and get it back).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;sub&gt;As a general rule, this maxim has at least one exception on SFF: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions, which must have an answer confirmed in order to be closed as duplicate. But that's not what we're dealing with here.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2016-08-19T14:22:43.313" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10060" CreationDate="2016-08-19T12:44:15.083" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now for something completely different...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not see any animated films on here yet, so let us go with something old school...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7IGhY.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7IGhY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;fantasia&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032455/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fantasia&lt;/a&gt; (1940)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-08-19T12:44:15.083" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10071" CreationDate="2016-08-19T12:58:11.617" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about closing it instead as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/76252/suggested-order-to-watch-entire-dr-who?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;Suggested order to watch entire Dr. Who?&lt;/a&gt;, which (although posted later) is more objectively worded and already has an excellent answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would leave the question closed, but would have the effect of &lt;strong&gt;giving anyone with the same question a signpost to a place where their question may be answered&lt;/strong&gt;. That way, we help people as much as possible while still leaving questions closed which should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2016-08-19T14:57:11.093" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10081" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-19T14:41:41.500" Score="-3" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/136071/how-many-classes-can-you-take-without-a-time-turner&quot;&gt;What is the maximum number of O.W.L. classes you can take at Hogwarts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems to be almost entirely a duplicate of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/72839/how-did-bill-and-percy-get-12-owls&quot;&gt;How did Bill and Percy get 12 OWLs?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is why I closed it as a dupe. &lt;strong&gt;So why has it been reopened?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-08-19T16:10:03.097" Title="Why was this question (about Hogwart lessons) reopened?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10081" CreationDate="2016-08-19T14:48:00.107" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The questions are similar but they are not duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first (older) question focuses specifically on how &lt;em&gt;two specific students&lt;/em&gt; managed to take &lt;em&gt;a specific number&lt;/em&gt; of classes in a semester, and if they did or did not need time turner help to do so. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second question starts with the premise that you have no special magical help; what is the &lt;em&gt;maximum&lt;/em&gt; number of classes you could take. It's possible that the answers are the same: that Bill and Percy took as many as possible. But it may be different. The class schedule may allow more, or it may be that it's not even possible to take 12 and they had to use magical help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a lot of overlap, but far less than other questions that have been judged not-duplicates, given that the answers &lt;em&gt;may or may not&lt;/em&gt; be the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2016-08-19T16:10:03.097" LastActivityDate="2016-08-19T16:10:03.097" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10060" CreationDate="2016-08-20T13:13:58.013" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about &lt;strong&gt;The Sword in the Stone&lt;/strong&gt;? One of (I think) The best movies from Disney at the time and to be honest my all time favorite version of the Arthur legend. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/j8Rez.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/j8Rez.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A poor boy named Arthur learns the power of love, kindness, knowledge and bravery with the help of a wizard called Merlin in the path to become one of the most beloved kings in England history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65829" LastActivityDate="2016-08-20T13:13:58.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="990" CreationDate="2016-08-21T01:08:48.530" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; new design, the font has been changed sufficiently that &lt;strong&gt;ordinary single quotes are no longer converted into smart quotes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the quotes in the originally linked post have been edited to ‘these’ rather than 'these', I've had to choose a different post for a screenshot to demonstrate this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8CH1N.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8CH1N.png&quot; alt=&quot;single&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Ordinary &lt;em&gt;double&lt;/em&gt; quotes &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; still converted into smart quotes, but in the correct manner:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3T3st.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3T3st.png&quot; alt=&quot;double&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2016-08-21T01:08:48.530" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10085" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-21T11:45:38.113" Score="13" ViewCount="323" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example, in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/89053&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; about a scene in the film &lt;em&gt;Metropolis&lt;/em&gt;, is it allowed to copy the image from a web site and put it directly in the question? It's my understanding it breaks copyright but I'm not very knowledgeable about how that works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20613" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2016-08-24T13:32:21.110" Title="Is it legal and allowed to put pictures from films in questions?" Tags="|discussion|copyright|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10085" CreationDate="2016-08-21T11:57:40.647" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 100% legal answer is complicated because it dives into the murky jungle of copyright law and the fair use defense, but the answer is &quot;should be OK as long as you don't overdo it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a real, legally valid opinion on this question you'd have to ask SE to ask a lawyer, which I am not. However, in layman's terms, what we do with images from movies is &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; not going to get anyone in trouble, because it &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; falls under the fair use defense. The tricky part about fair use is that it's not very clearly defined: the only &lt;em&gt;sure&lt;/em&gt; way to know if something qualifies as fair use is to ask a jury -- at your trial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there are some guidelines for what constitutes fair use of a copyrighted work, and Stack Exchange tends to tick off a lot of those boxes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only use very small, selected excerpts from the original (&quot;as little as necessary&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Using &quot;lower quality&quot; versions of the original (for example, use still images instead of a whole video)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not using the excerpts for commercial purposes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Using the excerpts for commentary or criticism.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fair use was basically invented to allow the kind of uses we have for copyrighted material: to allow us to discuss a work, and use examples, in order to critique it, or explain it, or comment on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since what we're doing is &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; fair use, chances are any copyright holders that do stumble on our site are not going to waste their very expensive lawyer's time trying to sue Stack Exchange or issue DMCA notices or anything, because those lawyers would explain that they would probably lose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;em&gt;As I understand it&lt;/em&gt;, SO is fully protected by the DMCA here, because it's user-provided content, so the first we'd know about it is the site getting a takedown notice, which &lt;strong&gt;AFAIK has never happened here.&lt;/strong&gt; I would definitely hope if such a thing occurred the CMs would lets us know to cut it out.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2016-08-24T13:32:21.110" LastActivityDate="2016-08-24T13:32:21.110" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10085" CreationDate="2016-08-21T12:38:44.477" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disclaimers&lt;/strong&gt;: IANAL (I am not a lawyer), nor do I represent SE in any way (I'm a volunteer moderator on this site and do not speak for the company).&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/legal/content-policy&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Network Content Policy&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Copyright.&lt;/strong&gt; Using copyrighted material does not constitute infringement in all cases. In general, however, users should be careful when using copyrighted content without the permission of those who created it. It is our policy to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/legal/terms-of-service#designatedagent&quot;&gt;respond to notices of alleged infringement&lt;/a&gt; that comply with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.loc.gov/copyright/legislation/dmca.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Digital Millennium Copyright Act (&quot;DMCA&quot;)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/a/405/27759&quot;&gt;an answer&lt;/a&gt; written by the Director of Community Development for the Stack Exchange Network to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/q/396/27759&quot;&gt;very similar question&lt;/a&gt; on another SE site&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The issue of &quot;safely adding images&quot; falls primarily under the clauses of &quot;Fair Use&quot; of US Copyright law. The concept of &lt;em&gt;fair use&lt;/em&gt; permits limited use of copyrighted material for things like teaching, reporting, and criticism. That mean if (for example) you are writing a critical analysis of a book, you are allowed to show the cover of that book to help describe what you are talking about, or to cite a &lt;em&gt;short&lt;/em&gt; passage from that book to illustrate a point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But almost all fair use cases describe a general rule that &lt;strong&gt;no more of the copy or trademark work should be used than is necessary for the legitimate purpose.&lt;/strong&gt; What that means, essentially, is that we should try to work within the bounds of common sense. For the purpose of operating your site (without getting into a bunch of legal hassles), you should concern yourself primarily with editing for valid and relevant content. If a photo or movie clip does not &lt;em&gt;substantially&lt;/em&gt; add to the post, it should be removed. If the content is obviously infringing, it should be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, I should note that there are already many &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; posts on SFF which contain screenshots, gifs, or video clips taken from films, and as far as I know we've never had a DMCA takedown notice yet.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;In your specific case, we're only talking about &lt;strong&gt;a single image&lt;/strong&gt; from the film, which is clearly relevant to the topic at hand and &lt;strong&gt;substantially improves the question&lt;/strong&gt;, making it much quicker and easier for people to understand what you're asking about. I doubt that this could possibly be an issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR&lt;/strong&gt;: it's fine.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;sub&gt;Hat-tip to @Loong for drawing my attention to this post.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:49:37.240" LastActivityDate="2016-08-21T12:38:44.477" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10085" CreationDate="2016-08-22T08:20:10.230" Score="-7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fair use regarding film excerpts for criticism and review purposes is usually interpreted as max. 2 minutes. Studios themselves usually come up with max. 4 min excerpts for press usage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some owners dislike stills revealing the ending, which should be fine to use after the movie had its theatrical run already. Common sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70543" LastActivityDate="2016-08-22T08:20:10.230" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10089" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-23T05:52:02.103" Score="2" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I click the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;Users' tab&lt;/a&gt;, I am apparently ranked #2 for the month:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QbYnq.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QbYnq.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But When I click &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/leagues/82/month/scifi&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange User Reputation league&lt;/a&gt; page, I am ranked #12 for the month:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Mtp1f.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Mtp1f.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What gives?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I have been able to deduce is that Rep league page is not updated as of now while the tab page is realtime data, making it more accurate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that what it is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-08-26T03:01:39.540" Title="Inconsistency in reputation league and Users' tab" Tags="|bug|reputation|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2016-08-23T06:19:50.440" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10090" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10091" CreationDate="2016-08-23T21:52:54.817" Score="2" ViewCount="1021" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do we have (or need) a preferred way of citing a passage in The Lord of the Rings books?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider that the structure of this work is a little unusual. It consists of six books (plus the Appendices and the Indexes) which are grouped into three parts (&lt;em&gt;The Fellowship of the Ring&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Two Towers&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Return of the King&lt;/em&gt;). Those three parts were originally published as separate volumes (and often still are). Many (perhaps most) people think of this as a trilogy, but in addition to being technically incorrect, this leads to confusion as the chapter numbers restart with each &quot;book&quot; and not each &quot;part&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if I want to cite the following passage:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which of these styles is most helpful (or is there a better style)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Book number, chapter number and name&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; Book 6, Chapter 3: &lt;em&gt;Mount Doom&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Name of the part, and chapter name&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Return of the King&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Mount Doom&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, adding &quot;The Lord of the Rings&quot; seems to be redundant, and including the chapter number is misleading as it is the number of the chapter within Part 6 and not within The Return of the King&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Page numbers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I generally avoid adding page numbers to the citation as there are so many editions of books that the chances of my page number matching that of whoever is reading my post seems quite small. Does this seem reasonable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As pointed out in a comment, the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/665/is-there-a-citation-convention-for-this-site&quot;&gt;Is there a citation convention for this site&lt;/a&gt; is similar to this, but the answers to that question do not seem to address the unusual structure of &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66402" LastEditorUserId="66402" LastEditDate="2017-10-22T23:30:41.257" LastActivityDate="2017-10-22T23:30:41.257" Title="How to cite a passage in The Lord of the Rings" Tags="|discussion|citations|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10090" CreationDate="2016-08-24T00:50:28.093" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;How to cite a book passage is a bit like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7768/whats-the-best-way-to-format-quotes&quot;&gt;how to format a quote&lt;/a&gt;: on this site, &lt;strong&gt;there's no single standard for doing so; different people have different styles, so don't worry too much about it&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A couple of general common-sense tips:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Be consistent.&lt;/strong&gt; At least within a single post, once you've chosen a particular style for formatting your citations, stick to it. You don't have to be consistent between posts, but once you've been doing it for a while, you'll probably start to fall into habits.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Try&lt;/em&gt; to make it easy for readers to find the passage you're citing.&lt;/strong&gt; This doesn't necessarily mean citing the exact page number and edition as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/667/31394&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; suggests (that seems like overkill IMHO, although it'd certainly be great if you did), but at least make it clear which volume, and preferably which chapter, you're quoting from. That way, if someone has the book to hand, it's reasonably easy for them to find and verify the quote themselves.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;As an example, here's my own personal style of doing citations for a few well-known book series:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;. Here I cite the Book and Chapter numbers and the chapter title. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/133603/31394&quot;&gt;For example&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;-- &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;, Book V, Chapter VIII: &lt;em&gt;The Houses of Healing&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I cite the volume (tFotR, tTT, or tRotK) instead of just saying LotR - I'm not fully consistent here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/109395/31394&quot;&gt;Appendices&lt;/a&gt;, and related works like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/114286/31394&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;History of Middle-Earth&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, are somewhat harder.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt;. Here I cite the volume (PS, CoS, PoA, GoF, OotP, HBP, or DH) and the number and title of the chapter. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/117929/31394&quot;&gt;For example&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;-- &lt;em&gt;HP and the Deathly Hallows&lt;/em&gt;, Chapter 36: &lt;em&gt;The Flaw in the Plan&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wheel of Time&lt;/em&gt;. As for &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/116148/31394&quot;&gt;For example&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;-- &lt;em&gt;Lord of Chaos&lt;/em&gt;, Chapter 3: &lt;em&gt;A Woman's Eyes&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-08-24T01:18:01.093" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10060" CreationDate="2016-08-24T05:55:36.607" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Hidden 1987&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Agent Cooper on steroids. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093185/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/awYE3.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/awYE3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An alien parasite on a crime spree pursued by a man in black. Definately worth watching with a group. Bring popcorn. You'll love this film.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;PLUS: &lt;em&gt;Concrete Blonde&lt;/em&gt; provides the soundtrack. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4356" LastEditorUserId="4356" LastEditDate="2016-08-24T14:36:12.550" LastActivityDate="2016-08-24T14:36:12.550" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10093" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-24T12:09:06.183" Score="4" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;This answer...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19198/why-didnt-agent-smith-just-die/137899#137899&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t Agent Smith just die?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... is an 800 word &lt;a href=&quot;http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Wall_of_Text&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wall of text&lt;/a&gt; with l33tspeak, txtspk, swearing, failed punctuation, poor grammar, next to no capitalisation, more swearing and can, most generously, be described as having no coherent thesis, counter thesis or argument.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;neo just kinda lost to the source. neo wanted freedom from the matrix,&#xA;  he took a human body, he actively participated in the destruction of&#xA;  the matrix, he hated the source, in the end, he lost, or maybe, became&#xA;  great friends with the source. but lost the ultimate fight of&#xA;  domination. neo created morpheus and used morpheus body (morpheus u&#xA;  used to dance) to mislead zion members (great its morpheus, wat crazy&#xA;  talk u have now morpheus), also with trinity (in the beginning she is&#xA;  there in the matrix alone to talk to neo, at a club, after talking to&#xA;  him on the computer, wasn't it like hella hard to get into the&#xA;  matrix?), apac as well to try and fool the agents. he wanted to&#xA;  convince the humans to convince the machines. i try to judge each&#xA;  character as man or machine. Mr smith is the program neo playing into&#xA;  the sources hands i think, the entire movie neo is like taking it one&#xA;  day at a time, like a machine would inside a humans body, fighting&#xA;  smith as a program to end the resistance, like, i have the source&#xA;  fooled haha! but no, the source is onto you and the oracle and smith&#xA;  and everything is all there to put an end to neo's activities. more&#xA;  random thoughts, morpheus ship was like indoctrination ville with all&#xA;  the training programs and this and agent training jump training, which&#xA;  none of the other ship had, one mouse wrote one woman, one ugly&#xA;  toothless guy wrote one trainstation, and what, trinity wrote all that&#xA;  training? no i think a program did all that to 1 convince people of&#xA;  what they want like agents are soooo bad and u have to jump and&#xA;  karate, 2 show like wow trinity and morpheus cs+ skills thru the roof&#xA;  we gotta be on they nuts. cuz mr anderson is like THE trinity who&#xA;  hacked the fbi database omg!! cute! one of these lives has a future&#xA;  one of these does not. mr anderson dies. neo lives?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My VLQ was declined as &quot;&lt;em&gt;This answer is salvageable so please edit rather than flagging&lt;/em&gt;&quot; which does (kinda) answer the question why it was rejected, but even with  &lt;strong&gt;heroic amounts of editing&lt;/strong&gt; I see no reasonable way to turn this into an acceptable answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So why was it rejected?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2016-08-24T15:50:54.357" Title="Why was this flag (VLQ) rejected?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10093" CreationDate="2016-08-24T15:50:54.357" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a (wrong) answer buried in the wall of text that is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/137899/3&quot;&gt;final revision&lt;/a&gt; you quoted from:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;mr smith didn't die because he was the sources plan to get rid of the threat neo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You actually flagged the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/137899/1&quot;&gt;first revision&lt;/a&gt; which doesn't have that statement. It's questionable whether the first revision actually answers the question, but the argument from that revision seems to be that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the whole story was a construct of the source&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, the answer in that post is that the Source controlled everything in the story and caused Agent Smith to be destroyed but not die. This idea is explained (slightly) better in the edited version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recall that the description of the very low quality flag's use says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This answer has severe formatting or content problems. This answer is unlikely to be salvageable through editing, and might need to be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no doubt that the answer has severe formatting and content problems, but the question is whether it is salvageable through editing. The post does have an answer so it is theoretically salvageable. On the other hand, you are correct that it would take &quot;heroic amounts of editing&quot; to turn it into something worth reading. Since you (understandably) didn't want to edit, the recommended course of action is to simply downvote. A comment asking the answerer to clean it up would also be helpful in the unlikely event the user was willing and able to make that post good enough on its own or just with a reasonable amount of editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also worth noting that this post had previously been reviewed as &quot;Looks OK&quot; by one user in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/88524&quot;&gt;very low quality queue&lt;/a&gt;, hence the responding moderator was probably reluctant to delete the post for that reason as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a very borderline post and different users will come to different conclusions on whether or not it's worth keeping at all. In the end it was deleted, probably in part due to the meta effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.317" LastActivityDate="2016-08-24T15:50:54.357" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10095" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-25T12:41:45.593" Score="13" ViewCount="283" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/138613/does-the-dark-knight-portray-the-theme-of-imprisonment&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was very quickly closed as &quot;primarily opinion based&quot;, including by a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comments implied that it was being closed because the answer was subject to interpretation, which would make sense for the POB close reason. But we have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/literary-analysis&quot;&gt;whole tag&lt;/a&gt; with several questions, none closed, that ask for analysis of a theme from a work. That's the point of literary analysis. More importantly, the close reason reads, in part:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which &lt;em&gt;doesn't&lt;/em&gt; fit literary analysis, at all. Such an effort relies on facts (things that happened), references (things the creator or others have said), and expertise (understanding literary analysis -- it's &lt;em&gt;taught in schools&lt;/em&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At one point, the idea of critical analysis of sci-fi works was expected to be a key part of this site, but that idea seems to have been dropped in favor of more &quot;mechanical&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are these questions now being deemed off-topic?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2016-08-28T22:41:53.777" Title="Is critical analysis now off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10096" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10097" CreationDate="2016-08-25T13:07:28.097" Score="-1" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to delete my Scifi profile. I had a series of questions and answers bad received, flagged for wrong reasons etc (a question that should have been marked as &quot;opinion based&quot; was just marked as a duplicate and was not a duplicate, also for each up vote someone given someone else give a downvote). So I don't think this community is for me, however I don't want to delete the whole network profile, just the scifi section. Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This must be a bug. there is no delete button here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SLhzb.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SLhzb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user42298" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-08-25T13:31:23.713" LastActivityDate="2016-08-25T13:31:23.713" Title="How do I delete my scifi.SE profile only?" Tags="|support|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10096" CreationDate="2016-08-25T13:30:43.287" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To answer your question...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/deleting-account&quot;&gt;help centre&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have voted or posted, please contact the Stack Exchange Team:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Visit the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;contact form&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and select 'I need to delete my user profile.' After you contact us, the team will reach out with further instructions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since you have voted and posted on this site, you can't delete your profile with a single click; you need to contact SE and ask them to delete your profile for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To address your complaints about the community...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a question that should have been marked as &amp;quot;opinion based&amp;quot; was just marked as a duplicate and was not a duplicate&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming you mean &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/82550/does-really-matters-if-prot-is-an-alien-or-not&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, it already has 2 votes to reopen, so it seems that at least some of the community agrees with you and it may yet be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you think it should have been closed as opinion-based, why are you complaining that it was closed as a duplicate? Closed questions can't be answered whatever reason they're closed for, and duplicate-closed questions are actually treated &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt; by the system than opinion-based ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for each up vote someone given someone else give a downvote&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I checked your profile using moderator tools, and there doesn't appear to be anyone targeting you personally with downvotes. Your posts have simply been poorly received due to their content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you'd like to learn more about how to improve your question and answer quality, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;tour&lt;/a&gt; and help centre pages such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;What topics can I ask about here?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;What types of questions should I avoid asking?&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;How do I write a good answer?&lt;/a&gt; might be helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You'll be welcome to stay here if you feel like giving it another shot.&lt;/strong&gt; Let me know if there's anything I can do to help you feel more at home on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-08-25T13:30:43.287" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10095" CreationDate="2016-08-25T15:04:17.230" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, critical analysis is on-topic and can lead to great questions. The closed question, however, is not a good example of such a question. At the time it was closed the body of the question was&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does the movie &quot;dark knight &quot; portray the theme of imprisonment? If so how? And where is it shown in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what is meant by the &quot;theme of imprisonment&quot;? The question doesn't define that or attempt to give any examples from the film or other stories, which leaves the question open to interpretation as to what the asker means by the &quot;theme of imprisonment&quot;. How figurative can an imprisonment be yet still fall under the asker's definition of &quot;theme of imprisonment&quot;? Is Harvey Dent's dependence on his coin flips a type of imprisonment which reflects this theme? Was Batman in some sense imprisoned by his affection for Rachel?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For comparison, one of the comments links to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/48/what-is-the-main-theme-of-the-dark-knight&quot;&gt;similar question on Movies.SE&lt;/a&gt;. The body of that question (links removed) is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;According to Wikipedia, the main theme of The Dark Knight is escalation, such that each event lead to an escalation that results from the choices Batman and James Gordon make. A separate source said that if one were to start from the beginning the movie can be seen as sequence of small games with the first being the robbery scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The robbery scene being compared to that of the Pirate Game. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it possible that the primary theme is actually Game Theory? Since the actual escalation didn't occur until the end with the prisoner's dilemma and Harvey kidnapping Gordon's family? &lt;strong&gt;What is the &lt;em&gt;main&lt;/em&gt; theme of The Dark Knight?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here the theme of &quot;escalation&quot; is clearly defined, the question provides examples, and the asker shows some knowledge of the movie. &lt;em&gt;That&lt;/em&gt; is a good critical analysis question. There's still room for interpretation for the answerers, but they have a clear definition of the proposed main theme to objectively argue for or against.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question also has the confounding problem that it's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=give+me+teh+codez&quot;&gt;&quot;give me teh codez&quot; type of question&lt;/a&gt;. At the time it was closed it had the title&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Need help on feedback on question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and the asker self-answered with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Anyone? Please.... need immediate help&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would you need &quot;immediate help&quot; for a critical analysis question, unless it's a last-minute homework assignment? &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/138613/does-the-dark-knight-portray-the-theme-of-imprisonment#comment350978_138613&quot;&gt;I'm not the only one who picked up on that.&lt;/a&gt; I'm not aware of any policies on &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; site for handling &quot;give me teh codez&quot; questions (we rarely get them), but on other SE sites such questions are routinely closed because they are not conducive to good Q&amp;amp;A.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, the body of the question mentions &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt; but was tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dark-knight-rises&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dark-knight-rises&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dark-knight-rises&lt;/a&gt;. Which movie was the asker wondering about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In hindsight it probably would have been more accurate to close that question as &quot;unclear what you are asking&quot; due to (a) the tag/body discrepancy and (b) the unclear definition of &quot;theme of imprisonment&quot;. But another user had voted to close as &quot;primarily opinion-based&quot;, and that seemed to fit as well due to (b).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2016-08-25T15:04:17.230" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10099" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-26T10:55:26.830" Score="3" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it's not how it should be. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p6pFz.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p6pFz.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot that demonstrates icons mismatch&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33099" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-10-03T23:25:05.347" LastActivityDate="2016-10-03T23:25:05.347" Title="Menu and site icons are different for SciFi StackExchange" Tags="|bug|status-completed|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10100" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-26T16:09:01.697" Score="10" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I access the Strunk and White 'badge count progress' button on meta, it leads to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts&quot;&gt;404 &quot;page not found&quot;&lt;/a&gt; page for the low quality review queue&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Squus.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Squus.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="1586" LastEditDate="2019-05-01T18:05:19.063" LastActivityDate="2019-05-01T18:05:19.063" Title="Strunk and White progress link leads to 404 page" Tags="|bug|status-completed|badges|profile-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10101" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10103" CreationDate="2016-08-26T17:31:44.943" Score="6" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title is pretty self-explanatory. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My interest was triggered by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/138731/if-superman-is-injured-how-completely-and-quickly-does-he-heal/138761#138761&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; post; although the OP accepted my answer, I feel like it could be greatly improved by adding other examples, simply because it is in no way exhaustive (i.e. I'd never accept it). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do we know that an answer &lt;s&gt;must&lt;/s&gt; could be in community wiki? Obviously, answers involving lists or evolving matters, but what else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: I might have overshot with this &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; thing; a way to rephrase the question: &quot;When does an answer &lt;em&gt;benefit most&lt;/em&gt; from being in community wiki?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 2&lt;/strong&gt;: would it be considered good practice when a person transfers their own answer to CW when permanently leaving SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-08-27T12:33:55.647" LastActivityDate="2016-08-27T12:33:55.647" Title="What are the guidelines for marking an answer as community wiki?" Tags="|discussion|answers|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10101" CreationDate="2016-08-26T19:03:04.933" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer to the question &amp;quot;Should I make this post Community Wiki&amp;quot; is nearly always going to be &amp;quot;No&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;No answer &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; be community wiki&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Community Wiki feature is a tool to encourage collaboration; it is not a mandate, and there is nothing either in the community-at-large or in the SE system saying &amp;quot;This Shalt Be CW&amp;quot;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Much of the guidance for when answers &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be made CW is outlined in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/the-future-of-community-wiki/&quot;&gt;these&lt;/a&gt; two &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2014/04/putting-the-community-back-in-wiki/&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; posts by GraceNote, one of our Community Managers. The only time you should be considering making a post CW is when it would benefit from collaboration from the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Practically speaking, some of the times that comes up for us are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;Identify these N things&amp;quot; list questions; a recent example is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/138808/which-doctor-who-episodes-explain-real-life-mysteries&quot;&gt;Which Doctor Who episodes &amp;quot;explain&amp;quot; real life mysteries?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Canonical references. A good example of this, which &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; a CW answer, is Valorum's answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/910/31051&quot;&gt;How is canonicity of derivative works determined for Star Wars?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That last bullet point raises a good point, which I want to expand on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Just because an answer &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be CW doesn't mean it &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be CW&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point of marking a post CW is to encourage collaboration; it lowers the reputation requirement for editing, and removes the reputation incentive (i.e. personal ego) attached to the post. There are perhaps many situations where this could be beneficial, but virtually none where it's &lt;em&gt;necessary&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any question that &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be CW can also survive quite well as a non-CW answer. Valorum's answer above is a good example; another is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/115531/31051&quot;&gt;What novels or movies are set in these fantasy lands?&lt;/a&gt;, which has both a CW and a non-CW answer; or my answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/138596/31051&quot;&gt;How many non-Doctor regenerations have we seen on-screen?&lt;/a&gt;, which has seen collaboration in the comments helping me with things I'd forgotten.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem, which GraceNote points out in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/the-future-of-community-wiki/&quot;&gt;that first blog post I linked to&lt;/a&gt; is that we already &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; collaboration through more edits, thanks to the Suggested Edit feature. To crib from him:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[E]ven in answers, true collaboration is scarce. Most of the time, a single individual can provide a complete answer. There are even times where a question looks like it'll need a massive effort, but one gallant user steps up to the plate with an impressive and comprehensive answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the time, you should be asking yourself &amp;quot;How can I improve this post so that community wiki isn't needed?&amp;quot; Community wiki is like a cheese knife: it is a specialized tool to be used sparingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community wiki is for that rare gem of a post that needs true community collaboration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Your specific answer&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/138761/31051&quot;&gt;you linked to in the question&lt;/a&gt; would not, in my opinion, benefit from being made CW. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's a complete answer to the question.&lt;/strong&gt; Insofar as any answer to a question about a 80-year-old franchise can be considered &amp;quot;complete&amp;quot;, that one is; it provides an example of the current state of affairs, which is also the current state of &lt;em&gt;canon&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Any additions would be quite minor.&lt;/strong&gt; Why do you think your answer would benefit from collaboration? The one thing it lacks is a perspective on the history of the &lt;em&gt;Superman&lt;/em&gt; canon, which is largely unnecessary except for historical interest. There's a reason DC occasionally reboots their universe, and personally I don't see an excessive amount of value being gained from discussing the differences between modern Superman and Golden Age Superman. That's not to say the value doesn't exist, but the marginal benefit isn't enough to justify making the answer CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps there's an argument that your answer is incomplete, because perhaps there are other examples in the current canon contradicting your statements. Maybe that's true - I don't know - but it &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; doesn't mean you should make the answer CW. Long history has shown that, if your answer is incomplete, someone will either leave a comment telling you, or else post a better answer themselves. That's the way the site is designed to work; if we marked every incomplete answer as CW, we'd have to make &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; answer as CW, which isn't the kind of community this is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; This wasn't always the case, of course; until 2014, answers that satisfied certain conditions would be automagically converted into CW answers. This is, thankfully, no longer the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-08-26T19:36:29.150" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10101" CreationDate="2016-08-26T19:06:44.703" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;An answer should be made community wiki only when it's such a collaborative effort that no single person wants to take full credit for it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If many different people have contributed comparable amounts of input to an answer, making it community wiki is a way to ensure that the collaborative effort put into the &lt;em&gt;post&lt;/em&gt; gets recognition without any single &lt;em&gt;user&lt;/em&gt; benefiting from it in terms of reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is often done as soon as the answer is posted, if it seems clear from the outset that much collaboration will be needed to complete it. For instance, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/138819/31394&quot;&gt;this recent answer&lt;/a&gt; was initially posted as a CW answer, and so far four users have contributed significantly to it. A common place to see CW answers is for list questions, e.g. those in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/object-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;object-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;object-identification&lt;/a&gt; tag in which the OP presents a list of items and many different people contribute to identifying them, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/122942/31394&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this isn't &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; done even if an answer is a collaborative effort. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/118028/to-whom-does-each-of-these-lightsabers-belong/118032#118032&quot;&gt;Sometimes&lt;/a&gt; one user contributes much more than any of the others, who simply leave comments on the answer and leave that one person to do most of the legwork. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/91344/does-a-transcription-of-tolkiens-handwriting-in-this-image-exist-part-2/91350#91350&quot;&gt;Sometimes&lt;/a&gt; two users collaborate together but the one who contributed less is happy to let the one who contributed more take the credit. &lt;strong&gt;Community wiki is an option but never an obligation.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/the-future-of-community-wiki/&quot;&gt;This Stack Exchange blog post&lt;/a&gt; covers some of the negative points of CW, but mainly focuses on CW &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; and other aspects which aren't relevant to our site. I'll quote the most relevant part here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The intent of community wiki in answers is to help share the burden of solving a question. An incomplete &amp;quot;seed&amp;quot; answer is a stepping stone to a complete solution with help from others; an incomplete question is a hindrance and an obstacle to getting a solution as no one understands the inquiry. It is in answers that the goal of community wiki, &lt;em&gt;for the community, by the community,&lt;/em&gt; shows its truest colors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet even in answers, true collaboration is scarce. Most of the time, a single individual can provide a complete answer. There are even times where a question looks like it'll need a massive effort, but one gallant user steps up to the plate with an impressive and comprehensive answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;'Not wanting to get rep from it' is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a good reason to CWify an answer.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of community wiki is to facilitate - and symbolise - cooperation among multiple members of the community. People shouldn't post answers which are lone efforts and make them CW just in order to avoid getting rep out of them. Noble though this sentiment might be, it's not what CW is intended for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/227290/stop-using-community-wiki-as-a-reputation-denial-mechanism&quot;&gt;Stop using community wiki as a reputation denial mechanism&lt;/a&gt; on main meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-08-26T19:06:44.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10104" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-29T14:27:32.323" Score="10" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I'll be at the Salt Lake Comic Con Press Conference this year. They always have some of the their celebrities attend this conference and make them available for people to go up and ask questions. They never disclose who will be at the press conference before hand, but I'm always impressed by the people there. &lt;strong&gt;If you have questions for people and they are in attendance, I'll try to get an answer.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did something similar last spring. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6434/which-questions-need-a-good-answer-from-word-of-god-at-slcc-xfan-2015&quot;&gt;Which questions need a good answer from Word of God at SLCC xFan 2015?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the list of attendees: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mark Hamill (&lt;strong&gt;Luke Skywalker: SW, Joker: DCAU&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;William Shatner (&lt;strong&gt;Jim Kirk: ST&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Famke Janssen (&lt;strong&gt;Jean Grey: X-Men&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ian Somerhalder (&lt;strong&gt;Damon Salvatore: Vampire Diaries, Boone Carlyle: Lost&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stephen Amell (&lt;strong&gt;Oliver Queen: Arrow, Casey Jones: TMNT&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Michael Rooker (&lt;strong&gt;Merle Dixon: TWD, Yondu Udonta: GotG&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Paul Wesley (&lt;strong&gt;Stefan Salvatore: Vampire Diaries&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Robert Englund (&lt;strong&gt;Freddie: Nightmare on Elm Street&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Danny Trejo (&lt;strong&gt;Machete: Spy Kids&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Evanna Lynch (&lt;strong&gt;Luna Lovegood: Harry Potter&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Arthur Darvill (&lt;strong&gt;Rory Williams: Doctor Who, Rip Hunter: LoT&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Katie Cassidy (&lt;strong&gt;Laurel Lance: Arrow&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Billy Boyd (&lt;strong&gt;Peregrin Took: LoTR&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Millie Bobby Brown (&lt;strong&gt;Jane 'Eleven' Ives: Stranger Things&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Manu Bennet (&lt;strong&gt;Azog: The Hobbit, Slade Wilson: Arrow, Allanon: Shannara Chronicles&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lou Ferrigno (&lt;strong&gt;Incredible Hulk, Avengers&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;David Ramsey (&lt;strong&gt;John Diggle: Arrow&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sean Maher (&lt;strong&gt;Simon Tam: Firefly, Mark Scheffer: Arrow&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ruth Connell (&lt;strong&gt;Rowena MacLeod: Supernatural&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jim Beaver (&lt;strong&gt;Bobby Singer: Supernatural&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lennie James (&lt;strong&gt;Morgan Jones: TWD&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Seth Gilliam (&lt;strong&gt;Father Gabriel Stokes: TWD, Alan Deaton: Teen Wolf, Sugar Watkins: Starship Troopers&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Liam McIntyre (&lt;strong&gt;Mark Mardon: The Flash&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Emma Caulfield (&lt;strong&gt;Anya: Buffy the Vampire Slayer&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nicholas Brendon (&lt;strong&gt;Xander: Buffy the Vampire Slayer&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tahmoh Penikett (&lt;strong&gt;Capt. Karl Agathon: BSG, Paul Ballard: Dollhouse, Jim Martin: Continuum, Gadreel: Supernatural, Alar of Caer Caladh: Riftworld Chronicles&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;John Schneider (&lt;strong&gt;Jonathan Kent: Smallville, Bo Duke: Dukes of Hazzard&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tom Wopat (&lt;strong&gt;Luke Duke: Dukes of Hazzard&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Henry Winkler (&lt;strong&gt;Fonzie: Happy Days&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;John Cena (&lt;strong&gt;Professional WWE Wrestler&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That list is subject to change, so a full listing can be seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://saltlakecomiccon.com/slcc-2016-film-tv/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.777" LastActivityDate="2016-08-29T23:31:17.740" Title="Salt Lake Comic Con - Ask a Celebrity" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10105" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10106" CreationDate="2016-08-29T17:42:49.873" Score="4" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;This questions is, perhaps, partly related to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4963/questions-seeking-scientific-explanations-on-topic&quot;&gt;Questions seeking scientific explanations - on topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I took stab at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/139112/what-do-spacecraft-travel-paths-in-the-expanse-look-like/139115?noredirect=1#comment352630_139115&quot;&gt;What do spacecraft travel paths in The Expanse look like?&lt;/a&gt; but part of the OPs requirement was whether the flightpaths were &lt;strong&gt;accurately represented&lt;/strong&gt; (at least that was my impression).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that this is a fictional &lt;em&gt;magic&lt;/em&gt; drive system I didn't see how any answer could be provided and it was my opinion that science &lt;strong&gt;fact&lt;/strong&gt; questions were off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He asked..in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I need to ask a question about real physics (incorporating the fictional premise of the technology).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't this off-topic and more appropriate for Physics SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this is a grey area or I'm just plain wrong (it happens) but could anyone shine some light on this for me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57069" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-08-29T19:36:39.393" Title="Science Fiction - Scientific Basis/Accuracy" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-09-12T10:44:28.977" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10105" CreationDate="2016-08-29T19:24:53.520" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this instance, the question has been phrased in such a way as to make it off-topic, when a very simple edit would resolve the issue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The title asks &lt;strong&gt;&quot;What do spacecraft travel paths in The Expanse look like?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; (which is perfectly well on-topic) but then goes on to say &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Are there generalizations that can be made about what a constant 1g travel path looks like?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; which takes the question &lt;strong&gt;off-topic&lt;/strong&gt; since it's asking a real-world question about orbital mechanics, something that would be better asked on another stack &lt;a href=&quot;https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/3897/space-travel-using-constant-acceleration-drive-earth-to-europa&quot;&gt;such as Space:SE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I attempted to edit that line of the question (to bring it back to being on topic) but the OP has rolled back the edit to the original off-topic configuration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:58:51.047" LastActivityDate="2016-08-29T19:36:39.393" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10104" CreationDate="2016-08-29T23:30:22.673" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be awesome and much appreciated if you could ask &lt;strong&gt;Mark Hamill&lt;/strong&gt; any of the following questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/106279/&quot;&gt;Was Star Wars changed because of a car crash?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/112121/&quot;&gt;Has Mark Hamill commented on this aspect of &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111154&quot;&gt;Why was Luke Skywalker missing in &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-08-29T23:30:22.673" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10108" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-08-30T05:22:00.300" Score="11" ViewCount="232" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just went and looked at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;the tour&lt;/a&gt; for the first time in years. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is faulty.   The tour is explaining that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This site is all about getting answers. It’s not a discussion forum. There’s no chit-chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The example question is “Who would command Enterprise D…”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then it goes ahead with the example answers that start with &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I would say…&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Presumably, …&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically the examples are expressing opinions and inviting discussion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Isn’t this exactly the wrong example to set?   Where did this come from?  Shouldn’t we change the examples?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2016-08-31T18:22:43.870" Title="Who chose the examples in the tour, and shouldn't they be changed?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10108" CreationDate="2016-08-30T14:04:02.133" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know who chose the current example, but I just discovered (thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10108/who-chose-the-examples-in-the-tour-and-shouldnt-they-be-changed#comment29287_10108&quot;&gt;Mooz's comment&lt;/a&gt;) that site moderators can change it to any other question satisfying certain criteria, of which there are currently &lt;strong&gt;150&lt;/strong&gt;. 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Species 125?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4883/whats-the-real-world-equivalent-for-the-greyscale-disease&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the real world equivalent for the greyscale disease?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4805/why-did-harry-potter-break-the-elder-wand&quot;&gt;Why did Harry Potter break the Elder Wand?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4798/what-are-all-of-harry-dresdens-foci&quot;&gt;What are all of Harry Dresden&amp;#39;s foci?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4657/when-did-arya-take-the-hound-out-of-her-prayer&quot;&gt;When did Arya take The Hound out of her prayer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4532/have-any-movies-been-based-on-isaac-asimovs-foundation-series&quot;&gt;Have any movies been based on Isaac Asimov&amp;#39;s Foundation Series?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4352/why-cant-muggles-see-magical-creatures&quot;&gt;Why can&amp;#39;t muggles see magical creatures?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4330/earth-in-a-timestorm&quot;&gt;Earth in a timestorm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3870/what-does-an-arakh-look-like&quot;&gt;What does an arakh look like?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3863/renly-and-loras-really&quot;&gt;Were Renly and Loras really in a relationship?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3774/what-real-world-substance-most-closely-corresponds-to-mithril&quot;&gt;What real-world substance most closely corresponds to mithril?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3718/why-do-jawas-always-wear-hoods-even-indoors-what-do-they-look-like&quot;&gt;Why do Jawas always wear hoods? Even indoors. What do they look like?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3647/in-dune-how-do-they-communicate-between-planets&quot;&gt;In Dune, how do they communicate between planets?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3577/why-did-tyrion-visit-the-wall&quot;&gt;Why did Tyrion visit the Wall?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3556/does-the-intro-sequence-to-the-game-of-thrones-tv-series-have-any-meaning&quot;&gt;Does the intro sequence to the Game of Thrones TV series have any meaning?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3536/number-of-jedi-after-order-66&quot;&gt;Number of Jedi after Order 66?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3413/invisibility-cloak-overrated-much&quot;&gt;Invisibility Cloak - overrated much?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3200/was-the-thermal-exhaust-port-on-the-death-star-really-a-design-flaw&quot;&gt;Was the thermal exhaust port on the Death Star really a design flaw?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3008/explanation-of-seasons-in-a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot;&gt;Explanation of seasons in &amp;quot;A Song of Ice and Fire&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2967/how-did-the-black-brother-get-back-from-behind-the-wall&quot;&gt;How did Gared (Night&amp;#39;s Watch man) get back from behind The Wall?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2925/what-is-a-hedge-knight&quot;&gt;What is a Hedge Knight?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2903/why-does-leias-accent-change-during-a-new-hope&quot;&gt;Why does Leia&amp;#39;s accent change during A New Hope?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2902/what-plot-differences-are-there-between-the-game-of-thrones-tv-series-and-the-bo&quot;&gt;What plot differences are there between the Game of Thrones TV series and the books?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2373/what-sci-fi-novel-is-about-aliens-who-consider-it-simply-convenient-to-extermina&quot;&gt;What Sci-Fi novel is about aliens who consider it simply convenient to exterminate the human race?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2335/what-order-should-asimovs-foundation-series-be-read-in&quot;&gt;What order should Asimov&amp;#39;s Foundation series be read in?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2205/what-makes-the-world-so-oblivious-to-clark-kents-secret&quot;&gt;What makes the world so oblivious to Clark Kent&amp;#39;s secret?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2171/in-nivens-known-space-what-currency-are-the-outsiders-interested-in&quot;&gt;In Niven&amp;#39;s Known Space, what currency are the Outsiders interested in?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2165/why-do-the-guns-in-battlestar-galactica-have-two-barrels&quot;&gt;Why do the guns in Battlestar Galactica have two barrels?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1825/why-and-how-can-you-hear-explosions-in-space-in-star-wars&quot;&gt;Why and how can you hear explosions in space in Star Wars?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1802/how-does-the-holodeck-create-the-illusion-of-distance&quot;&gt;How does the holodeck create the illusion of distance?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1586/who-or-what-was-tom-bombadil&quot;&gt;Who or what was Tom Bombadil?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1123/who-invented-or-theorized-the-replicator&quot;&gt;Who invented or theorized the replicator?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1036/was-worf-from-star-trek-the-next-generation-an-afterthought&quot;&gt;Was &amp;quot;Worf&amp;quot; from Star Trek: The Next Generation an afterthought?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/887/given-the-multiple-defeats-at-the-hands-of-the-federation-why-only-one-borg-cub&quot;&gt;Given the multiple defeats at the hands of the Federation, why only one Borg Cube?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/832/asimov-start-with-foundation-or-robots&quot;&gt;Asimov - Start with Foundation or Robots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/809/is-it-true-that-the-doctor-can-only-regenerate-12-times&quot;&gt;Is it true that The Doctor can only regenerate 12 times?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/648/how-did-the-skylark-deal-with-the-einstein-light-speed-limit&quot;&gt;How did the Skylark deal with the Einstein light-speed limit?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/597/what-was-the-robots-name-in-lost-in-space&quot;&gt;What was the robot&amp;#39;s name in &amp;quot;Lost in Space&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/587/what-was-asimovs-contribution-to-real-world-robotics&quot;&gt;What was Asimov&amp;#39;s contribution to real-world robotics?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/581/are-the-three-laws-of-robotics-explicitly-defined-in-one-of-the-asimovs-stories&quot;&gt;Are The Three Laws of Robotics explicitly defined in one of the Asimov&amp;#39;s stories?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/301/how-is-the-universal-translator-device-in-star-trek-supposed-to-work&quot;&gt;How is the universal translator device in Star Trek supposed to work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/166/what-was-shepherd-books-past-in-firefly&quot;&gt;What was Shepherd Book&amp;#39;s past in Firefly?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/164/in-the-dune-series-why-are-they-not-using-computers-and-programming-related-tec&quot;&gt;In the Dune series, why are they not using computers and programming related technologies?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/88/who-is-the-inventor-of-cyberpunk&quot;&gt;Who is the inventor of cyberpunk?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/55/when-did-obi-wan-kenobi-learn-that-anakin-was-dead&quot;&gt;When did Obi-Wan Kenobi learn that Anakin was &amp;quot;dead&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15/how-many-different-enterprises-were-there&quot;&gt;How many different Enterprises were there?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8/what-was-the-catastrophe-that-happened-in-the-road&quot;&gt;What was the catastrophe that happened in &amp;quot;The Road&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6/why-didnt-nero-visit-his-homeworld-to-warn-of-its-destruction&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t Nero visit his homeworld to warn of its destruction?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take your pick! If there's enough consensus in favour of changing the example question to a particular one of these, we can do it with a single press of a button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-08-31T01:39:50.153" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10108" CreationDate="2016-08-31T18:22:43.870" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10109/20774&quot;&gt;list of qualifying questions&lt;/a&gt; provided by Rand, I believe that we should be using this question for the tour example;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/597/what-was-the-robots-name-in-lost-in-space&quot;&gt;What was the robot&amp;#39;s name in &amp;quot;Lost in Space&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is clear, concise and short. The answer/s are clear, concise and short with a linked reference. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, Lost in Space is desirable (as a tag) because it's a universally  recognised property, having run for more than 50 years in syndication, but not one that raises polarising views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1WW1l.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1WW1l.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-08-31T18:22:43.870" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10111" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-09-01T14:46:32.087" Score="-12" ViewCount="285" Body="&lt;p&gt;So what is the reason for being banned from chat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-09-01T17:46:59.780" LastActivityDate="2016-09-01T17:46:59.780" Title="Why was I banned from chat?" Tags="|discussion|chat|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10111" CreationDate="2016-09-01T15:00:05.437" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because they do things where a temporary ban in the appropriate response, most often coming in violation of StackExchange's &quot;Be Nice&quot; policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recommend you read it, but the full policy can be summed up as simply &quot;Be nice to people&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24087" LastActivityDate="2016-09-01T15:00:05.437" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10111" CreationDate="2016-09-01T15:20:35.463" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;People can be banned from chat for one of two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;one or more of their messages is flagged as rude or abusive and the flag is validated by other users;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;they are temporarily suspended by a moderator, usually for inappropriate conduct.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange chat FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, specifically the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/faq#nice&quot;&gt;Be Nice section&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do I have to be nice?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yes. We expect community members to treat each other with respect … even when they don't deserve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This site is collectively moderated by the community through participatory flagging. If your chat messages are repeatedly being flagged by your peers you might find yourself muted, banned, or – in extreme cases – your The Stack Exchange Network reputation may be negatively affected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you see an inappropriate, spam, or offensive chat message, please use the hover menu at the far right of each chat message to flag it. This will draw it to the attention of the community moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More information on the technical workings of chat flags may be found in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/86479/how-do-chat-suspensions-work&quot;&gt;this main meta post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;In your case, you first posted two messages which were flagged and earned you short suspensions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Aegon, retrads are retards, what can I say&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I take the good with the bad, and shit on the bad&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was in the context of you &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dEXB7.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;persistently posting comments accusing people of being &quot;retards&quot; for downvoting your question&lt;/a&gt;, and then arriving in chat to defend your actions and claim that you were just &quot;calling a retard a retard&quot;. In view of this, your comments were flagged, the flags were validated, and you got a short automated suspension.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upon your return from this suspension, you said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;OK, I will use spastic from now on&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This comment was also flagged and deleted, and then a moderator (not me, although I fully support their decision) gave you a 2-hour suspension from chat. You were showing no sign of learning from your mistakes, despite many people in chat trying to educate you in both the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;Be Nice policy&lt;/a&gt; and basic courtesy. At this point, your insistence on posting insults had gone too far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-09-01T15:47:28.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10114" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-09-01T21:01:13.163" Score="2" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/124/socratic&quot;&gt;How could a user with 1 rep earn the gold Socratic badge?&lt;/a&gt; (Scroll down) Surely this is some kind of weird error?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2016-09-02T00:23:14.513" Title="How could a user with 1 rep earn the gold Socratic badge?" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10114" CreationDate="2016-09-01T21:03:07.113" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The user you're referring to is currently suspended. He earned the gold Socratic badge before his suspension, at which point he had many thousands of rep, but his rep is set to 1 for the duration of his suspension. You can still see on his profile that he has posted a great many questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-09-02T00:23:14.513" LastActivityDate="2016-09-02T00:23:14.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10117" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10118" CreationDate="2016-09-02T17:44:02.957" Score="13" ViewCount="338" Body="&lt;p&gt;SFF.SE has been around for a while now; it has grown and matured along the way. We seek to provide quality answers to quality questions. All this material is kept preserved for all to see now and in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many old questions make their way back to surface every now and again when they have an edit made or a new answer is given. This can act almost like a time capsule to see what our site was like in the early days. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in my opinion, it might also be a deterrent for new users who see the attention lower quality posts  receive and think that it would be hard to add anything useful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The particular one that brought me here was: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/1829/57310&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/1829/57310&lt;/a&gt; - If this was posted today, I feel like that it would be downvoted and possibly converted to a comment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also had this old answer, that was actually the &lt;em&gt;Accepted Answer&lt;/em&gt; until recently it was flagged as &quot;Not an Answer&quot; and deleted (10k+ viewing only). &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/1515/57310&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/1515/57310&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I do not hold anything personally against the users or answers, they were a product of their time. However, what should be done about them &lt;em&gt;going forward&lt;/em&gt; to maintain the quality we have now come to expect?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2016-09-04T00:55:18.990" Title="How should old, highly voted answers that do not meet our standards be handled?" Tags="|discussion|answers|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10117" CreationDate="2016-09-02T18:28:20.547" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, if you see an answer that is &lt;em&gt;obviously&lt;/em&gt; bad, treat it like any other answer. If it's not an answer, flag it. If it's a bad/incorrect/poorly researched answer, downvote it. Whatever you would do if the answer was newly posted, just do that -- with one caveat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a mechanism available to specifically deal with very old &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; that used to, but no longer, fit the standards of the site, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/126587/what-is-a-historical-lock-and-what-is-it-used-for&quot;&gt;historical lock&lt;/a&gt;. It's used in rare cases, as a way to &quot;grandfather in&quot; particularly interesting or significant questions that would otherwise be closed. But that's really a very special-case, not meant for general use. I can't think of very many questions on this site that would qualify (maybe the &quot;Matrix Battery&quot; question, which really is out of scope as real-world science.) Nothing like this exists for answers, but it does show that the &lt;em&gt;idea&lt;/em&gt; of allowing historically significant content to stick around is something that exists in the SE culture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, the way we can honor that philosophy with answers is to just be a bit more lenient with older posts, especially popular ones that contain a lot of interesting information. If new users try to emulate those answers and are corrected, it's not that difficult to explain to them &quot;that post was made back when our standards were still evolving, it's a bad example to follow&quot;. We shouldn't penalize the OP who posted what was, at the time, a perfectly legitimate post, in good faith.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if a post is clearly &quot;bad&quot;, bad enough that it probably &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; have been flagged originally, then there's no need to leave it alone &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; because it's old. This is particularly true in cases like the one you referenced, where there's very little real content to be lost anyway. I would say, flag the post, and leave it up to the community and moderators to decide we think it's worth keeping or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a side note, questions &lt;em&gt;or answers&lt;/em&gt; that are more than 60 days old, and scored &gt; 3, do not have their reputation removed when deleted. (At least that's &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/5229053#5229053&quot;&gt;what I've been told.&lt;/a&gt;) So even if an old, now-bad answer gets deleted, the OP will not &lt;em&gt;lose&lt;/em&gt; the rep they already have, if that's relevant to your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2016-09-02T20:11:40.813" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10119" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10120" CreationDate="2016-09-02T19:08:27.827" Score="6" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;p&gt;Last I read, the policy on duplicate story-ID questions was that they both had to have accepted answers.  This &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/139459/time-traveler-mistaken-for-senile-put-in-vr&quot;&gt;one&lt;/a&gt; that was just closed does not meet that criterion.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it seems odd to close the one with an accepted answer, in favor of one that doesn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not arguing, just asking if the policy changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28516" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-09-02T19:24:56.380" LastActivityDate="2016-09-02T19:24:56.380" Title="Was this story-ID question incorrectly closed as duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10119" CreationDate="2016-09-02T19:23:36.660" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question you link to was closed as a duplicate by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;Community ♦&lt;/a&gt; user, which means that the OP themselves agreed it was a duplicate; see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/250981/new-ui-encourages-askers-to-confirm-or-dispute-duplicate-votes&quot;&gt;this announcement on main meta&lt;/a&gt; for when Community dupe-closures became a thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is fine when the old question has an accepted answer but the new one doesn't, since by agreeing that it's a dupe the OP of the new question is essentially accepting an answer. (Some &lt;em&gt;unanswered&lt;/em&gt; story-ID questions have even been closed this way in the past.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the example you link to, the new question has an accepted answer but the old one doesn't. This means that in the unlikely event that the current answer to the older question turns out to be incorrect and a different answer is posted and accepted, the dupe-closure will no longer be valid according to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7065/closing-story-ident-questions-as-duplicates-where-theres-no-acceptance?rq=1&quot;&gt;our policy&lt;/a&gt;. In view of this, &lt;strong&gt;I've reopened the question&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.757" LastActivityDate="2016-09-02T19:23:36.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10121" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-09-03T20:32:40.470" Score="4" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/47401/51226&quot;&gt;Is Amy Pond Clara's grandmother?&lt;/a&gt; has a staggering eight deleted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do any of the site's questions have more than that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2019-06-02T14:40:43.600" Title="What question has the most deleted answers?" Tags="|support|answers|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10121" CreationDate="2016-09-03T21:00:12.520" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/533885/questions-with-most-deleted-answers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Technically&lt;/a&gt; it's a tie between two deleted questions (10k+ only):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/217/31051&quot;&gt;What are some good SF books by authors not generally known for science fiction?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/687/31051&quot;&gt;What works feature humans gaining immortality and its effects?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both of which have 24 deleted answers. But something tells me that isn't what you meant, so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/533886/non-deleted-questions-with-most-deleted-answers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Non-deleted questions with most deleted answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technically, the winner is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/99767/31051&quot;&gt;How was Ronan able to handle the Infinity stone without being destroyed?&lt;/a&gt;, with 11 deleted answers. As amaranth notes in comments, however, this is a somewhat degenerate case; all 11 deleted answers spawned from a single, confused (possibly troll-y) user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to exclude that nonsense, then we have a three-way tie between:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/35318/31051&quot;&gt;Where were the Avengers during Iron Man 3?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/310/31051&quot;&gt;Why did Douglas Adams pick 42 as the ultimate answer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/12260/31051&quot;&gt;How much money did Harry Potter have?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of which have ten deleted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In total there are 8 (non-deleted) questions with more than 8 deleted answers, at time of writing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/99767/31051&quot;&gt;How was Ronan able to handle the Infinity stone without being destroyed?&lt;/a&gt; (11, though with the oddity noted above)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/35318/31051&quot;&gt;Where were the Avengers during Iron Man 3?&lt;/a&gt; (10)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/310/31051&quot;&gt;Why did Douglas Adams pick 42 as the ultimate answer?&lt;/a&gt; (10)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/12260/31051&quot;&gt;How much money did Harry Potter have?&lt;/a&gt; (10)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/19323/31051&quot;&gt;How does human-robot sex work?&lt;/a&gt; (9)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/809/31051&quot;&gt;Is it true that The Doctor can only regenerate 12 times?&lt;/a&gt; (9)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/1566/31051&quot;&gt;After Star Trek: The Next Generation, can I skip to Voyager without watching Deep Space Nine and not get spoiled?&lt;/a&gt; (9)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/9011/31051&quot;&gt;How did Doomsday kill Superman?&lt;/a&gt; (9)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-09-04T04:07:14.100" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10117" CreationDate="2016-09-04T00:55:18.990" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, there's really no good way to handle them, as the previous answer notes. They probably should be downvoted, but the sheer mass of upvotes that accumulated on them (due to old age or NHQ effect) makes that &quot;solution&quot; rather toothless and useless and impossible to scale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My pie in the sky idea (I realize it is unlikely to ever happen) is &lt;strong&gt;some sort of community-applied notice that says something to the effect of &quot;This answer does not present any in-universe evidence or out of universe reasoning; and therefore does not meet the quality standards of the site&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;, similar to &quot;No evidence&quot; notes on Skeptics.SE, but - unlike Skeptics - the notice is the &lt;em&gt;final&lt;/em&gt; action on the answer, not the first step towards its deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way we can (1) preserve the content yet (2) prevent future visitors and readers from incorrectly assuming it's good, quality content due to too-many upvotes it accumulated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, before someone points it out in the comments, I'm perfectly well aware that plenty of my own old answers would deserve such treatment, and am totally content with that. There are many answers I myself gave, especially early on, that don't meet my own present quality standards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2016-09-04T00:55:18.990" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10124" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10125" CreationDate="2016-09-04T09:25:50.383" Score="5" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just reading this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/139196/64504&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;, and it made me wonder about something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say you see a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; question. There's an accepted answer, which OP clearly has indicated is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, suppose you can think of another story which also fits very well. Are you encouraged to answer? It answers the text in the question well, but you know that it will be wrong, from the point of view of the asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the positive side, &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; people may find the question through Google, SE search, etc. And your answer may very well be the story &lt;em&gt;they&lt;/em&gt; had in mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally am not sure if this is a good idea or not (although I did see some users doing it in the example linked to above), so I am asking the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does the community view such answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64504" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-09-04T12:22:24.917" Title="Answering story-identification questions after OP has accepted an answer?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2016-09-04T19:09:28.363" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10124" CreationDate="2016-09-04T12:22:24.917" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you think there's an answer that &lt;strong&gt;fits the description&lt;/strong&gt;, then you should feel free to post it as an answer. There's always a slim chance that even with an acceptance, the OP is actually mistaken and may realise that your answer is the correct one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your answer is simply &quot;&lt;em&gt;this story is similar and I think you might be interested in it&lt;/em&gt;&quot; then it would be better posted as a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2016-09-04T12:22:24.917" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10126" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10131" CreationDate="2016-09-05T04:51:00.747" Score="18" ViewCount="476" Body="&lt;p&gt;While moderator positions are voluntary, I've always understood them to be full-time in the sense that there is no time a moderator is temporarily just a regular user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I've seen it, &lt;em&gt;with great power comes great responsibility&amp;trade;&lt;/em&gt;. Once a person becomes a moderator, &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; actions they take - whether closing a question or just making a suggestion in a comment - is done &lt;em&gt;as a moderator&lt;/em&gt;, meaning that all actions are subject to higher scrutiny, and held to a higher standard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Manager, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/2537/grace-note&quot;&gt;Grace Note&lt;/a&gt; mentions the same idea in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7969/5184&quot;&gt;the election questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr/&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently, a moderator has mentioned the notion of &quot;taking off their mod hat&quot; when taking action and making comments as just any other user on the site. Of course, the comment in question was still tagged with the moderator's username and diamond status, making it indistinguishable from any of the moderator's comments made with their moderator hat still on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr/&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Is this an acceptable practice for mods? If so, how can/should mods clearly identify which actions are being taken with their hats on or off?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2016-09-12T08:08:34.343" Title="Can Mods &quot;Take Off Their Hats&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10127" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10128" CreationDate="2016-09-05T08:24:22.533" Score="7" ViewCount="217" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mild spoilers below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film has&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Ghosts/spirits haunting the living. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If &lt;em&gt;Supernatural&lt;/em&gt; is any indication, I believe the film is on topic, but I wanted to be sure. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54827" LastEditorUserId="54887" LastEditDate="2016-09-06T07:32:08.820" LastActivityDate="2016-09-10T09:36:20.910" Title="Is &quot;What Lies Beneath&quot; on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10127" CreationDate="2016-09-05T08:55:52.443" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it has supernatural elements, and they are real, or at least potentially real, then sure, it's on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By &quot;potentially real&quot;, I mean that those supernatual elements are treated as legitimate by the movie, and a casual viewer cannot tell that they are &quot;obviously&quot; faked, imagined, hallucinated, imagined, etc. For example, in the original-run &lt;em&gt;Scooby Doo&lt;/em&gt;, cartoons all of the supernatural elements are clearly faked by the villain of the week, so that would be off-topic. (I think this might not be true anymore, either, but that's the best example I could come up with.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2016-09-05T08:55:52.443" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10126" CreationDate="2016-09-05T10:49:16.613" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I'm not a SFF mod, nor have I modded for any of the stacks, but, as I've mentioned before (bear with me), I did mod for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/the_next_20/2016/09/online_harry_potter_fans_transformed_what_it_means_to_love_a_story.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a very large &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; site&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for five years. It was a forum-based site that &lt;em&gt;required&lt;/em&gt; correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation (SPaG), and if a post had more than three SPaG errors, either the poster or the mod would make the necessary correction(s); if a post was rife with SPaG errors, the post was deleted. I'm sure you can imagine 1) how tedious this was, and 2) how quickly this engendered mass dislike of the site's mods. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can a mod take of his/her hat? Well, in my experience, &lt;strong&gt;no, not really&lt;/strong&gt;. Maybe I should say mods can't take their hats off &lt;em&gt;very easily&lt;/em&gt;. It's hard to explain, but it's just difficult to make things work when a mod has one foot in the moderator pool, and one foot in the user base. If a mod becomes overly friendly with, say, three to five users, there's the risk that the mod might start treating that group of users with more leniency than other users, and that can't happen if the site is to maintain its integrity. I think that most mods are hyper-aware of this potential problem and strive to avoid it; sometimes this can translate into users perceiving mods as standoffish or unapproachable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a mod, if you take off your hat and let &lt;em&gt;just one person&lt;/em&gt; slide on the site's rules or expectations, you will instantly open yourself up to a potential queue of additional users who might want to be afforded the same leniency. If you grant their request, you're not modding correctly. If you refuse, you, again, engender dislike. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could list many more examples like the ones I've already given, but I think you probably get the gist. Perhaps the one place a mod can kind of hang up his/her hat is chat, which is a casual environment by default. Some mods feel comfortable just chatting along with the general flow; others only like to come into chat to discuss a site matter with a user or users. Otherwise, in my experience, once you put on a mod hat, a large site like SE or SFF changes from recreational to occupational. It just does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, though, you asked, &lt;em&gt;Is it okay for diamond mods to &quot;take off their mod hats&quot;&lt;/em&gt;? &lt;strong&gt;Yes, it's okay. But it can still be met with suspicion.&lt;/strong&gt; Mods have opinions like any other user. The thing is, though, once a mod becomes a mod they are seen through a different lens; it is very difficult for many users to unsee that diamond, no matter what caveats a mod may give before expressing a personal opinion. If a mod is going to take off his/her hat for something that may be construed as controversial, the mod should definitely alert the community that they are speaking for themselves, as just a regular user of the site, and that they are not speaking on behalf of the site. This is a pretty typical thing for mods to do, and they should, but I question the efficacy of this practice, to be honest. I don't mean this disrespectfully toward any mod who does this -- I did it &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; times as a mod. But there always seemed to be a separation between mods and regular users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ETA:&lt;/strong&gt; Now that two (as if this writing) SE moderators have weighed in with answers, one effectively also saying &quot;No, you can't take off your mod hat once it's on&quot;, although I have not modded at SE but at another large site, the community might find more credence in my answer. This is not a call for upvotes; I like comments just as well, and if I've provided any food for thought, I'd be glad. :)&lt;/sub&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="3500" LastEditDate="2016-09-12T08:08:34.343" LastActivityDate="2016-09-12T08:08:34.343" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10126" CreationDate="2016-09-05T12:37:52.633" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a mod on another SE site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are definitely times when - diamond after their name or not - a moderator is really just an ordinary user. If I answer a question for example, my diamond is irrelevant. It doesn't impact the quality of the answer in any way, nor how it should be treated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there are particular times when I think there's a risk of people giving too much weight to what a moderator says in a situation where they're really acting as an ordinary user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When giving an opinion - particularly relating to how things should work such as in discussions on meta - on the site where I do sometimes specifically state when I am speaking as an ordinary user rather than as a moderator, in the hopes that people will not accord more weight than deserved to an ordinary opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a risk some people might take an opinion from someone with a diamond as if it were actually setting a policy (effectively taking it as &quot;discussion is over&quot; -- and so in turn perhaps resulting in resentment for seeming to be throwing moderatorly-weight-around). On the other hand moderators shouldn't be shut out from discussion of policy (you shouldn't lose your right to an opinion about such things just by being elected moderator). Moderators tend to be experienced users and can have valuable insights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if it's exactly taking off a mod-hat (as much as I think the system should allow us to do it explicitly), but in any case it is an attempt to make it more clear when a moderator really is just acting in their capacity as a user. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it shouldn't be necessary (in those situations it should be taken as read), there are times when I think it's important to be clear about it, for fear people might misconstrue the intent (as they sometimes do, often without saying).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32668" LastEditorUserId="32668" LastEditDate="2016-09-05T13:20:00.373" LastActivityDate="2016-09-05T13:20:00.373" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10126" CreationDate="2016-09-05T13:04:36.847" Score="21" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Effectively, no.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also a mod on other SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you're a mod, that diamond is attached - as the example question says - to &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt; you do and say. Like it or not, that gives your words and actions greater weight and authority than that of a normal user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are degrees of that, of course - as Glen_b says, if I answer a question, the diamond doesn't affect that action by &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; (though there's still a small amount of &quot;that's a mod, they must know what they're talking about&quot;) - but if I answer a &lt;em&gt;meta&lt;/em&gt; discussion, suddenly that becomes much more pronounced. That also has the nasty side effect of shutting down good meta-discussion if a mod weighs in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also ways of alleviating - slightly - that effect. Especially in meta-discussions, adding a disclaimer to the top of your post of the form&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is my personal opinion as a user. I am not speaking as a moderator, nor do I in any way intend to imply that this is official policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;can help people to understand that you're not dictating from on high - but even then, you're still a mod, which means you're knowledgeable about the site and policies, and people tend to trust you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; a reduced effect on other Stack Exchange sites. Look at this answer. I've told you I'm a moderator on other SE sites; suddenly, you're trusting that this answer is an accurate depiction of the situation - &lt;em&gt;because I'm a moderator&lt;/em&gt;. The effect isn't anywhere near as strong as actually having the diamond next to your name, but if people recognise you as a mod from another site, or if you state it explicitly, there's a slightly higher degree of weight put on your posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the effective answer is &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt;. You can't take off your diamond without stepping down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52927" LastActivityDate="2016-09-05T13:04:36.847" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10127" CreationDate="2016-09-05T19:44:28.617" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes, but with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/are-works-that-arent-sf-per-se-but-have-occasional-sfnal-elements-on-topic-e&quot;&gt;usual proviso&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Lies_Beneath&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What Lies Beneath&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; continues in a long tradition of &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;is it real or is it just psychosis?&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; ghost movies where the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MaybeMagicMaybeMundane&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;reality&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThroughTheEyesOfMadness&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;non-reality&lt;/a&gt; of the supernatural elements is left up to the viewer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, &lt;strong&gt;questions about the supernatural elements of the film are clearly and firmly on topic&lt;/strong&gt;, whereas &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;questions about other parts of the film would probably be best asked elsewhere&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, for example on Movies:SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Marketing&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film was marketed as an &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Exciting supernatural thriller&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;, which would strongly indicate that the studio (at least) felt that the presence of ghosts was a given:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/e0U74.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/e0U74.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However the film's co-star feels that the supernatural bits were all in her mind&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q. So you don't think Michelle's character sees a ghost?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harrison Ford:&lt;/strong&gt; If you look at the film carefully, you will see that the ghost - the manifestation - can be seen as an effort by&#xA;Michelle's sub-conscious mind to remind her of the events that she has&#xA;repressed.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;Sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2000/10/18/harrison_ford_what_lies_beneath_interview.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Harrison Ford - What Lies Beneath - BBC Interview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/Sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-09-10T09:36:20.910" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10127" CreationDate="2016-09-06T09:30:52.037" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm saying no because there's no actual evidence of a ghost (we could be seeing hallucinations caused by the protagonist's trauma-induced psychosis).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything in the movie can be explained by trauma, repressed memories and hallucinations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion What Lies Beneath fails the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/are-works-that-arent-sf-per-se-but-have-occasional-sfnal-elements-on-topic-e&quot;&gt;is it Sci-Fi&lt;/a&gt; guidelines&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5297" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2016-09-06T09:30:52.037" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10134" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10135" CreationDate="2016-09-06T12:13:14.413" Score="12" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently we have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/theo-jansen/info&quot;&gt;tag now for Theo Jansen&lt;/a&gt;, a Dutch artist who creates kinetic sculptures. As he has no published works in fields of Science Fiction or Fantasy, Do we really need that tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It had no tag usage guide but I created one anyway. It has no usage at all&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;. And it is unlikely that it could be used in future for constructive on-topic questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we get rid of that tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;1. Of course it was just created so that's natural. Also, I removed it from the question it was created for.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-09-17T19:54:30.987" Title="Why do we need a tag about Theo Jansen?" Tags="|discussion|tags|burnination|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10134" CreationDate="2016-09-06T12:53:22.933" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If such a Tag exists which is explicitly unrelated to fields of Science Fiction or Fantasy, has been used in very few to no questions and does not help in defining the topic of the question, Members should edit it out and leave the deletion work to Stack Exchange which automatically deletes unused tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As explained by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/31394/rand-althor&quot;&gt;Rand al-Thor&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For future reference, if a tag is only used on one or two questions&#xA;  and you're quite sure it shouldn't exist, it is but the work of a&#xA;  moment to edit it out yourself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's good to seek meta consensus for more popular tags that would&#xA;  require bigger editing sprees to get rid of, or for tags whose&#xA;  existence is controversial in some way [e.g. if there was an edit war&#xA;  over them], but for a minor case like this ... well, SE gives you&#xA;  editing powers for a reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also explained on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/71123/i-accidentally-created-a-tag-how-do-i-delete-it&quot;&gt;Meta Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is a script that runs daily to hide (soft-delete) tags that&#xA;  don't have any associated questions. All you need to do is remove the&#xA;  tag from your question, and the script will pick it up automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However if the tag is used in quite a few questions or is a center of controversy, take it to meta and seek consensus of the community first. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.757" LastActivityDate="2016-09-06T14:11:39.843" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-09-06T12:53:22.933" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2016-09-07T13:24:33.327" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fell in love with Black Library books ever since they started making em a long time ago... Fell even more in love with the works of Dan Abnett. His Inquisitor trilogies, Comics, Titanicus book, First and only series etc. is what makes me come back for more and more. One name stuck with me ever since I read it first time &quot;Cherubael&quot;. So that is when I started using it as my nickname on the internetzz... As time passed by and my brain cells evaporated Cherubael became Cherubel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15632" LastActivityDate="2016-09-07T13:24:33.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10137" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10138" CreationDate="2016-09-09T03:41:43.887" Score="6" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the main site, we have over 2200 tags, at 36 tags a page and 63 pages. The majority of them have at least a tag excerpt, if not a tag wiki. However, there are a decent number without either. Counting the number of tags without an excerpt manually would be cumbersome. Is there any way to determine how many tags lack excerpts? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastActivityDate="2016-09-09T03:51:44.050" Title="How many tags lack tag excerpts?" Tags="|support|tags|tag-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10137" CreationDate="2016-09-09T03:51:44.050" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;SEDE to the rescue! &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/445925/most-common-tags-with-short-long-or-missing-excerpt-or-wiki&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Most common tags with short, long, or missing excerpt or wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - you can tweak the input parameters as desired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9504/31394&quot;&gt;@amaranth&lt;/a&gt; for the link.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-09-09T03:51:44.050" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10139" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-09-11T08:52:42.120" Score="-9" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;Science Fiction and Fantasy Stack Exchange has bad habit of marking a question as duplicate solely for the reason that it has been asked before. No consideration is taken to the quality of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/140184/what-is-quorra-made-of-in-the-real-world&quot;&gt;What is Quorra made of in the real world? [duplicate]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1ET5t.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1ET5t.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is marked duplicate and states it already has answer, to this question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/29076/is-quorra-human-now&quot;&gt;Is Quorra human now?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No consideration is given to the quality of the answer,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I.e, the accepted answer is this,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cXZmy.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cXZmy.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However the accepted answer does not give an actual answer to the question being asked. Only an opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;So is a question that has been asked before considered a duplicate when the answer is not satisfactory, considering that the accepted answer is not made by the community, but by a single user?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2016-09-11T13:21:04.937" Title="Just because a question has been asked and answered does it make it correct?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-09-12T18:15:26.107" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10139" CreationDate="2016-09-11T10:00:07.230" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The quality of answers &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; taken into account&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There is no requirement to close the newer question.&lt;/strong&gt; Closing as duplicates should be based on question (and answer) quality. &#xA;According to a CM in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/147651/328832&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; main meta answer: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If the new question is a better question or has better answers, then&#xA;  vote to close the old one as a duplicate of the new one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That said, closing the new one as a duplicate of the older one &lt;em&gt;almost&lt;/em&gt; always is a good idea.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the duplicate is caught before it has any answers, then the older question will have better answers by default. Thus it should be closed per the advice in the linked meta answer. A possible exception might be when the newer one is much better written. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Closing duplicate questions prevents people from trying to get reputation by asking questions that already have answers. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Further, merely having an “unsatisfactory” answer does not mean that a question is a bad dupe target.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is well-written and has multiple answers with sourcing/logical arguments, it has better answers than a new question that has none, by default. If the old question is very poorly written, it might be worth duping the old one to the new one, per the advice given above on question quality, but this is not usually the case.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/140184/what-is-quorra-made-of-in-the-real-world&quot;&gt;What is Quorra made of in the real world?&lt;/a&gt;, the question had no answers when it was closed as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/29076/is-quorra-human-now&quot;&gt;Is Quorra human now?&lt;/a&gt;. The second question was not very poorly written compared to the first, and the second one had many answers. While they may have been somewhat opinion-based, the first question did not have any. Closing the first question as a duplicate of the second seems reasonable under the guidelines discussed above. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2016-09-11T10:07:56.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10139" CreationDate="2016-09-11T10:59:50.080" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;So when is a dupe a dupe?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A dupe is almost always a dupe&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When the question is judged to be essentially identical&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When the answers on the original question answer the question asked by the dupe &lt;em&gt;without any substantial alteration.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When the answers on the original are judged to be 'respected' (as indicated by some level of upvoting by the community).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that an acceptance by the OP of either question isn't considered relevant except in the case of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions which have their own rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;But wait, I don't like the answers on the original!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't like the answers given, your options are always the same. You can &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Prod people with comments to elicit clarification&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Upvote/Downvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add a bounty&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Research and post your own answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this instance, &lt;strong&gt;the question was almost identical&lt;/strong&gt;, the &lt;strong&gt;original has  upvoted answers&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;and those answers could be copied/pasted onto the dupe without alteration.&lt;/strong&gt; That makes it a dupe-close candidate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may also want to note that it's not down to the original user to judge it as a dupe (through their acceptance of one answer over another), but the community at large, 5 of whom are needed to vote on a dupe before it gets closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-09-11T13:21:04.937" LastActivityDate="2016-09-11T13:21:04.937" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10139" CreationDate="2016-09-11T11:22:18.813" Score="14" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Science Fiction and Fantasy Stack Exchange has bad habit of marking a question as duplicate solely for the reason that it has been asked before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT &quot;DUPLICATE&quot; MEANS!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A question is a duplicate exactly and precisely if it has been asked before.&lt;/strong&gt; That's the entire point of the duplicate system: not to have more than one identical copy of the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a bad idea to have exactly the same question posted in two different places, especially if both get answers: some people will find one copy of the question, some will find the other, and neither will have the full range of answers (or exactly the same answers will be redundantly posted in both places). &lt;strong&gt;Why would you want to have two identical versions of the same question?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers are only to be taken into account as a secondary consideration, e.g. if it's not entirely clear whether the questions are duplicates or if both questions have answers and we need to decide which one to close. (This particular question was that unusual case of a question which was &lt;em&gt;so&lt;/em&gt; obviously a duplicate that I was willing to dupehammer it with only one previous VTC.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're not satisfied with the answers on a previous question, &lt;strong&gt;don't re-post the question&lt;/strong&gt;. A better solution would be to start a bounty on the question, offering to reward anyone who posts a better answer. Or you could simply leave a comment on the answer asking for it to be improved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2016-09-11T11:22:18.813" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10144" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-09-12T05:33:57.627" Score="19" ViewCount="548" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tag excerpts are very useful. They provide  a brief &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/tag-excerpts&quot;&gt;“elevator pitch”&lt;/a&gt; for a tag, explaining the meaning for those unfamiliar with a series. At least as important, excerpts and wikis can also help clarify the usage of tags, particularly those that tend to be used incorrectly, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/frozen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;frozen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;frozen&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aliens&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aliens&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aliens&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/humans&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;humans&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;humans&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As of this post, though, nearly 400 tags lack both tag wikis and tag excerpts!&lt;/strong&gt; A query (updated only once a week) to show how many can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/445925/most-common-tags-with-short-long-or-missing-excerpt-or-wiki&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt; I know that somewhere here we have an expert for  every tag, whether they have 2 reputation or 200,000: someone who can provide a well-written, original tag excerpt or tag wiki for a tag that was previously forlorn and undescribed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are benefits to editing tag wikis: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you have less than 20,000 reputation, as do most people on this site, and you create a tag wiki (which requires approval), &lt;strong&gt;you will get a nice shiny +2 reputation.&lt;/strong&gt; What’s more, tag wikis and tag excerpts count as separate posts. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you have more than 20,000 reputation, you can edit tag wikis freely. You might also progress toward &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/53/tag-editor&quot;&gt;any&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/80/research-assistant&quot;&gt;of&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/12/strunk-white&quot;&gt;several&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/33/copy-editor&quot;&gt;badges&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions and answers are the lifeblood of this site, but the little things that hang around the periphery are important too! &lt;strong&gt;This month, in the spirit of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1387/answer-the-unanswered-questions&quot;&gt;Answer the Unanswered Questions&lt;/a&gt;, let’s try to provide tag excerpts (and when needed, wikis) for as many of those blank tags as we can.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Guidelines for writing tag wiki excerpts are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/tag-excerpts&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. And, although it is not mentioned there, a &lt;strong&gt;tag wiki and excerpt should be &lt;em&gt;original&lt;/em&gt;: no Wikipedia lifting!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-09-15T20:53:18.420" Title="Fill the empty tag excerpts" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-wiki|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="22" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10145" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10146" CreationDate="2016-09-12T10:27:59.430" Score="1" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just asked a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/140315/are-there-any-adaptations-of-war-of-the-worlds-that-correctly-depict-the-unusual&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; which included a question within a pair of asterisks; the word was intended to be read with emphasis, and that is how I would interpret this when reading it. This was almost immediately edited out. Removing the asterisks changes the way you read the sentence (at least to me) but I don't want to roll back before checking if I violated some guidance on title formatting. Is there any guidance or community position on including asterisks, underscores or similar Usenet-style markup conventions in titles, where Markdown is not enabled, to clarify emphasis?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63374" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2016-09-14T04:41:10.897" Title="How does the community feel about including asterisks, underscores or similar plaintext conventions in question titles?" Tags="|discussion|title|markdown|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10145" CreationDate="2016-09-12T10:41:30.110" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;tl;dr: No, there's &lt;strong&gt;no rule against it&lt;/strong&gt;. But, it will probably annoy a lot of users, and that's probably not the effect you were going for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Markdown syntax does not work in question titles, but people try to use it all the time. Whoever edited your post likely assumed you were trying to use markdown without realizing that it did not work, and was trying to &quot;fix&quot; it for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, we try to avoid using such markup-looking stuff in titles, mostly for that reason. It looks like a mistake and people will want to fix it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; want to roll back the edit then feel free. We don't have any kind of policy on how to &quot;format&quot; your titles, as long as you don't do anything to actively break the site. But, I would suggest you leave it as-is, as it will distract and possibly annoy the users you're hoping will answer your question. A better option would be to repeat your title, with formatting for emphasis, in the body of your post as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2016-09-12T12:25:53.030" LastActivityDate="2016-09-12T12:25:53.030" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10147" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-09-12T15:57:57.807" Score="3" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the past, the general consensus on chat flags in the past has been that no one likes the situation, but no one wants to change anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So let's address the elephant in the room:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In rooms where flags occur often, they are generally done by people who do not frequent the room, and are often even done by people who aren't even in the room.  This has been established.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion is merely to require flagging take place within the room, rather than via a passerby in the transcripts.  Why? Because it closes a tiny gap of a larger problem.  All it requires of the flagger is a single click and the removal of their anonymity. In return, it offers a chance to discuss the issue, and perhaps even roll things found offensive back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, isn't that the actual goal of chat moderation? Not to force people to silence, but to make them &lt;strong&gt;be nice to each other&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a discussion, not a feature request, so please share your thoughts!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user40790" LastActivityDate="2016-09-12T17:31:30.667" Title="Discussion Topic: Chat flags again. Suggestion: Require the flagger be in the room" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="21" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10147" CreationDate="2016-09-12T17:31:30.667" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Caveat #1:&lt;/strong&gt; This is never going to happen. It's been brought up repeatedly in chat, and at least once on main meta, and it's always rejected. So, any discussion here is merely academic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Caveat #2:&lt;/strong&gt; Changes to chat are system-wide changes, so any discussion that &lt;em&gt;might possibly&lt;/em&gt; result in such a change needs to to on main meta, not here, so again... academic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't honestly see how what your proposing is going to change anything at all. You're working off of assumptions that aren't necessarily supported, and solving problems that don't really achieve your own stated goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For starters:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In rooms where flags occur often, they are generally done by people who do not frequent the room, and are often even done by people who aren't even in the room. This has been established.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Established where? By a bunch of users guessing who flagged things? I can tell you that the one time we &lt;em&gt;specifically asked&lt;/em&gt; a CM if this is what was going on, we were told in no uncertain terms that no, &lt;em&gt;different&lt;/em&gt; users &lt;em&gt;in the room&lt;/em&gt; were flagging messages that we wanted to blame on a single lurker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several users that we know lurk in our transcripts, because they respond to things said in chat; we have no proof that those users are the ones doing the flagging (and we wouldn't be told if we asked.) We &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to believe that this is what's happening because we want to believe that &quot;well, no one that I actually &lt;em&gt;talk to&lt;/em&gt; in chat would be offended by this&quot; but the reality is, more likely than not, the flags are being thrown by people in the room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All it requires of the flagger is a single click and the removal of their anonymity. In return, it offers a chance to discuss the issue, and perhaps even roll things found offensive back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's several problems with this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Removing the anonymity of the flagger defeats the entire purpose of the anonymous flagging feature. Like it or not, it's anonymous &lt;em&gt;for a reason&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Forcing someone to join the channel to throw a flag doesn't actually do what you said, because we have people join and leave chat rooms all the time. At worst, it's going to cause people to jump to conclusions every time a flag happens that whichever new user just came in must have done it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nothing in this proposal &quot;makes people&quot; discuss the issue. If they wanted to discuss the issue, they'd do that &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What's to stop a lurker from joining chat, flagging, and immediately leaving again?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Not to force people to silence, but to make them be nice to each other?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you are proposing is practically guarantee to do the opposite of this. If the identity of the flagger is somehow made open through whatever means, including forcing them to join the chat room momentarily to do so, that person will &lt;em&gt;immediately&lt;/em&gt; be made to feel unwelcome, probably causing even more flag-worthy behavior. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2016-09-12T17:31:30.667" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10149" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10150" CreationDate="2016-09-13T08:48:04.640" Score="4" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eAjVA.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eAjVAm.png&quot; alt=&quot;eeeerwhat&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the above screenshot, It's telling me that I can't suggest an edit on meta - &lt;em&gt;but I have had over 2k for ~8 months&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why can't I edit &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9706/how-do-i-earn-the-50-points-to-be-able-to-comment&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;? Is it because it was merged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2016-09-13T16:08:03.333" Title="Why is it telling me that I can't suggest an edit on Meta when I have over 4k rep?" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|editing|meta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10149" CreationDate="2016-09-13T10:19:46.387" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;It’s because it’s (basically) locked&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can’t edit the post because it has been merged, yes. Thus the remaining stub post &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/22228/what-is-a-locked-post&quot;&gt;has been locked&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As detailed &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/256185/wrong-explanation-about-why-cant-i-edit-locked-post&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, hovering over a locked post on meta will produce precisely that error. Similarly &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/302383/reason-for-not-letting-me-edit-a-meta-post&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  As mentioned in the comments on the first post, it seems that the system interprets any edit made under less-than-unlimited privileges&amp;mdash;including not having the privileges at all&amp;mdash;as a suggested edit, for the purposes of throwing errors. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can reproduce that error by hovering over the edit button, although I’m not sure why your box is a different color. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fLkNI.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fLkNI.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2016-09-13T10:34:38.120" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10151" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-09-13T16:32:18.747" Score="2" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10147/discussion-topic-chat-flags-again-suggestion-require-the-flagger-be-in-the-ro?noredirect=1#comment29534_10147&quot;&gt;my other post yesterday&lt;/a&gt;, I suggested requiring the initial flagger in chat be in the room proper, to discourage people cruising the transcripts from doing drive by flaggings, and a point came up: what if we required a reason be entered for the flag, which was then shown to validators and, if successful, the flagged person?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On one hand, the cynics among us will say that the reasons will always be simple, like &quot;I was offended&quot;.  On the other, it would still take enough time that some thought might be put into it for those who are flagging out of actual offense taken, and it would change the way flags were seen by validators who paid attention.  Furthermore, it would create a means of fostering correction of the problem -- because, be honest, we've all seen flags for fairly random things, and stating what the problem &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; might help the flagged user correct themselves after the suspension.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this isn't the place for a feature request. &lt;strong&gt;This is not a feature request&lt;/strong&gt;.  I am gauging public opinion before posting a main Meta post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user40790" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2016-09-15T00:27:32.330" Title="Discussion Topic: Chat flags again again. Suggestion: Require a reason be entered, which is shown" Tags="|discussion|chat|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10152" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10153" CreationDate="2016-09-13T21:46:42.353" Score="8" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unlike questions or answers, tag wikis do not seem to have an “Active” view. Editing a tag wiki does not seem to “bump it,” to my knowledge. The 10k tools have a “new tags” area, but that seems to be for &lt;em&gt;recently created&lt;/em&gt; tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there any way, whether through a site tool or SEDE query, to see which tag wikis or excerpts have recently been edited?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastActivityDate="2016-09-13T22:13:38.420" Title="Tag wiki edit history" Tags="|support|tags|editing|tag-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10152" CreationDate="2016-09-13T22:13:38.420" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is easy enough to obtain via SEDE: &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/539010/last-active-tag-wikis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/539010/last-active-tag-wikis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select top 100 concat('site://tags/', Tags.TagName, '/info|', Tags.TagName, ' tag wiki') &quot;Recently-active tag wikis&quot;, p.LastActivityDate&#xA;from Tags&#xA;join Posts p on p.Id=Tags.WikiPostId&#xA;order by p.LastActivityDate desc&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This just retrieves the last 100 active wikis (based on activity date, which will &lt;em&gt;normally&lt;/em&gt; be the same as last edit date), ordered by last activity date.  The funky &lt;code&gt;concat(...&lt;/code&gt; serves to create a clickable link in SEDE, which is nice to have. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to adjust this query to meet your needs...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastActivityDate="2016-09-13T22:13:38.420" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10154" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10155" CreationDate="2016-09-14T08:06:14.400" Score="5" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/93878/19561&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; about &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Black Mirror&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was mistakenly tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/black-mirrors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;black-mirrors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;black-mirrors&lt;/a&gt;, while the proper tag name should be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/black-mirror&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;black-mirror&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;black-mirror&lt;/a&gt; (which doesn't exist yet).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can we have this fixed?&lt;/strong&gt; The tags are too similar to be fixed by a mere mortal user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-09-14T12:31:05.840" LastActivityDate="2016-09-14T12:31:05.840" Title="Rename [black-mirrors] to [black-mirror]" Tags="|support|status-completed|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10154" CreationDate="2016-09-14T12:30:16.917" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Done:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/black-mirror&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;black-mirror&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;black-mirror&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2016-09-14T12:30:16.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10156" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10157" CreationDate="2016-09-14T15:16:34.867" Score="8" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just learned that we have a tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lightsaber-combat&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lightsaber-combat&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lightsaber-combat&lt;/a&gt;, used on 17 questions, as well as the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lightsaber&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lightsaber&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lightsaber&lt;/a&gt; which is used on 138 questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it really necessary to have two separate tags, one for the weapon and one for combat using it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should these two tags be synonymised and/or merged?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Note that if the answer is yes, this can be achieved in a few clicks without making any edits to questions.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2016-09-15T19:28:22.097" LastActivityDate="2016-09-15T19:28:22.097" Title="Should [lightsaber-combat] be a synonym of [lightsaber]?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10156" CreationDate="2016-09-14T15:29:15.433" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. The two are clearly synonyms of each other, with one of a far higher value than the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm torn. On a personal level, simply burninating  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lightsaber-combat&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lightsaber-combat&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lightsaber-combat&lt;/a&gt; seems the more sensible option, but one that will flood the front page with more than a dozen semi-worthless edits. On the other hand, turning it into a synonym leaves the worthless tag intact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;I vote to synonymise it&lt;/s&gt;. I vote for a moderator to &lt;strong&gt;merge&lt;/strong&gt; the two tags.  It does less damage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-09-14T15:53:54.173" LastActivityDate="2016-09-14T15:53:54.173" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10158" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-09-14T21:52:40.143" Score="13" ViewCount="292" Body="&lt;p&gt;A while back I &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/9756/1693&quot;&gt;asked a question&lt;/a&gt; and recieved &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/49324/1693&quot;&gt;a good answer&lt;/a&gt; from a well known site member.  It's a solid answer and I have no intention of unselecting it.  Recently &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/140271/1693&quot;&gt;another answer&lt;/a&gt; was provided.  This second answer provides some excellent details and my plan was to award a bounty to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue is that, when checking the edit history, I find that this answer was, originally, just a short sentence and an image.  It provides information, but then the question was edited.  If you check the edit history, you'll see the first version was simple and relied, essentially, on an image file.  In the second version, the editor added more images and more text to significantly upgrade the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After becoming aware of the edit history, as the asker of the question, I think the significant work for this answer comes more from the editor of the answer than the initial answer.  In other words, the site member who posted the answer did not provide as much information as the editor did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of work done and reward offered, most of the work was done by the editor and it seems more appropriate the bounty go to him rather than the original poster of the question.  I don't see a way, within the SE framework, to provide a bounty to an editor of an answer (or question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've considered a couple options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Find another answer by the editor and set up a bounty on that question and award it to him, but that doesn't indicate, on the answer I like, that it's good enough to receive a bounty.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Suggest the editor use his extra material in a new answer, rollback the edits done on the answer, then award the bounty to this entirely new answer containing all of the editor's original material.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm open to suggestions or other ways this could be handled.  I basically want the bounty to show on this person's work to make it clear where the notable information came from that provided good background that adds to the original selected answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is significantly different from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3021/1693&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, since that question addresses only the idea of hunting down other answers and giving them bounties.  While I mention this as a possible solution in my first option, I am providing at least one other option and asking if there are other possibilities.  The focus of the other question is entirely on providing a bounty for a user's answer on another question.  I'm asking about other ways to do it, which presents a potential for many more solutions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-09-21T17:10:40.307" Title="Award Bounty to Answer Editor" Tags="|discussion|editing|bounty|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10151" CreationDate="2016-09-14T23:03:21.160" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;This should not be implemented&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, the most important point is that a single per-site meta will not offer a good gauge of support for this proposal. This is not a feature request, but even as a discussion it would be much better suited to the main meta. For example, SFF could be quite in favor of this suggestion, but Stackoverflow could be quite against it. Thus it could be quite well received here, and ultimately have no chance of winning widespread support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With regard to the merits of the proposal itself, I doubt this would be effective. Consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is unlikely to help users correct their behavior, which the question puts forth as one of the reasons for such a proposal. Most situations fall into one of two categories: (a) the user knows very well that they are being rude, in which case a flag reason won’t give them any additional information, or (b) the user is not being rude at all, and the flag was in error (quite common) in which case a reason will only  encourage people to avoid innocuous behavior—precisely what the suggestion is  intended to prevent. Flag reasons are not likely to dissuade actual rudeness.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question dismisses the significance of reasons always being something trivial, but I suspect this will become the &lt;em&gt;main&lt;/em&gt; reason to flag. Most of the time, what else can a flagger say about a post besides “This is rude”? Most flags are not for spam or obvious bigotry.  We could well end up simply having a lot of undescriptive flag reasons, which would increase noise and help no one.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the reason is not clear from looking at the chat post, then it is likely either not flag-worthy, or the person looking at it lacks the expertise to evaluate the merit of the flag. Yet people validate dubious flags anyway. The issue is not that people lack information about why a chat post should be deleted. The issue (if there is one) is that their measure of what makes a post offensive is perhaps a  bit too sensitive.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Right now, a common point of contention is that people in other rooms are robo-validating flags without consideration of their context. The mere fact that there is a flag is enough for some people to validate. If a reason were included with each flag, it might well &lt;em&gt;increase&lt;/em&gt; the confidence of robo-validators. “Not only has this been flagged, but someone else thought about it long enough to give a reason! Validated.”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, what it comes down to is this: &lt;strong&gt;This probably wouldn’t change the behavior of flaggers, who could just copy-and-paste a generic flag reason. It wouldn’t change the behavior of flag validators, who might simply have &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; confidence in the validity of flags. And its effects on users are uncertain, and could be negative.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-09-14T23:22:18.703" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10160" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-09-15T09:27:42.547" Score="14" ViewCount="435" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, we have a bunch of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt; tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/middle-earth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;middle-earth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;middle-earth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-hobbit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-hobbit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-hobbit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/silmarillion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;silmarillion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;silmarillion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fellowship-of-the-ring&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fellowship-of-the-ring&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fellowship-of-the-ring&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-two-towers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-two-towers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-two-towers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/return-of-the-king&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;return-of-the-king&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;return-of-the-king&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(as mentioned by @JasonBaker:)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/an-unexpected-journey&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;an-unexpected-journey&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;an-unexpected-journey&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/desolation-of-smaug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;desolation-of-smaug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;desolation-of-smaug&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/battle-of-five-armies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;battle-of-five-armies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;battle-of-five-armies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(These^ are for the movies, I think.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do we need &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of those tags?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see keeping &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-hobbit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-hobbit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-hobbit&lt;/a&gt; separate. And even &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/silmarillion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;silmarillion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;silmarillion&lt;/a&gt; (though I would prefer it being renamed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-silmarillion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-silmarillion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-silmarillion&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But to we need the individual work tags? Questions may be from one book, but answers will often be from the entire canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/middle-earth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;middle-earth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;middle-earth&lt;/a&gt;... We need to either clarify usage or burninate it. As it is, it's being used on &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt; questions, because &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/middle-earth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;middle-earth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;middle-earth&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;em&gt;almost&lt;/em&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt;. Notice that I said &lt;em&gt;almost&lt;/em&gt;. The difference is, that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/middle-earth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;middle-earth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;middle-earth&lt;/a&gt; can be used to refer to the &lt;em&gt;place&lt;/em&gt;, not just the works that are set there (as I think that the usage should be).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2017-01-14T21:02:35.603" LastActivityDate="2017-01-30T20:55:15.123" Title="Let's figure out our Tolkien tags" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10160" CreationDate="2016-09-15T11:58:59.830" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wearied as I am by tag tomfoolery, I suppose I do have a warg in this fight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, most of your complaints aren't actually directed at Tolkien tags; there are secretly two or three different &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Holy%20War&amp;amp;defid=4683278&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;holy wars&lt;/a&gt; lurking beneath the surface.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, there's little reason to get rid of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-hobbit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-hobbit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-hobbit&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/silmarillion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;silmarillion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;silmarillion&lt;/a&gt;. Insofar as separate tags for the Tolkien Legendarium are necessary, those three unquestionably are&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don't see any point in renaming to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-silmarillion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-silmarillion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-silmarillion&lt;/a&gt;, other than pedantry. I'm also not going to throw a tantrum if it does happen, but I'll point out that this isn't the only tag that should be renamed as such, if that's important to the community - it's not even the only tag in this discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt; tag is an interesting one because it's a rare case that one of the other tags wouldn't apply. I can perhaps imagine a situation where a question was asked about Tolkien himself (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/47773/31051&quot;&gt;Did Tolkien have experience with addiction?&lt;/a&gt; would be one such example).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, we have an astonishing precedent for &quot;author&quot; tags on this site; off the top of my head, we also have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cs-lewis&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cs-lewis&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cs-lewis&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brandon-sanderson&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brandon-sanderson&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brandon-sanderson&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/george-lucas&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;george-lucas&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;george-lucas&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jk-rowling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jk-rowling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jk-rowling&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/giger&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;giger&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;giger&lt;/a&gt; (for some frigging reason), &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gene-roddenberry&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gene-roddenberry&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gene-roddenberry&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rod-duncan&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rod-duncan&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rod-duncan&lt;/a&gt;. And I've no doubt there are more besides. This is Holy War Number One.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are really only two things a tag like this would be good for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The tag being for questions about Tolkien himself. This is essentially &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4858/31051&quot;&gt;alexwlchan's response to a similar discussion&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A general tag for the Legendarium as a whole. The more I think about this, the more I think about how incredibly useful such a tag would be; it's quite rare that a question is ever truly restricted to a single book, and there seems to be a natural tendency towards creating this sort of tag; it's basically what &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt; has turned into over the years, and many people try to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt; for the same purpose. It's also, essentially, what &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; are, among many others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we were being pedantic, something like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien-legendarium&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien-legendarium&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien-legendarium&lt;/a&gt; would be the best option for this purpose; since Tolkien did write things not set in his imagined world, it seems unfair to lump them all under his name. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Realistically, though, there's little hope in changing course now; without developer intervention (I don't think mod intervention is sufficient), which seems unlikely given the complexity of the undertaking, modifying all 900+ &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt; questions, and/or introducing a new tag for all 1000+ Legendarium questions, is going to take a prohibitively long time to do; we're trying to &lt;a href=&quot;https://what-if.xkcd.com/18/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;stop a train with a BB gun&lt;/a&gt;. My philosophical inclination (and I admit &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/231/tolkien?userid=31051&quot;&gt;my bias&lt;/a&gt;) is just to leave the past in the past, and try to do better going forward&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of the &quot;works&quot; tags (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fellowship-of-the-ring&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fellowship-of-the-ring&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fellowship-of-the-ring&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-two-towers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-two-towers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-two-towers&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/return-of-the-king&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;return-of-the-king&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;return-of-the-king&lt;/a&gt;) is to be used for the films, not the books. This isn't something that is always done consistently, but it fits with the many, many &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; tags we have for individual films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I actually agree with you: there's little point in having them at all, and you can throw &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/an-unexpected-journey&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;an-unexpected-journey&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;an-unexpected-journey&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/desolation-of-smaug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;desolation-of-smaug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;desolation-of-smaug&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/battle-of-five-armies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;battle-of-five-armies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;battle-of-five-armies&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-first-contact&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-first-contact&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-first-contact&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/return-of-the-jedi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;return-of-the-jedi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;return-of-the-jedi&lt;/a&gt;, and all the rest in with them. On several occasions I've started drafting a meta post on this very topic, before ultimately falling victim to the &quot;couldn't be arsed&quot; virus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is (or shortly will be) Holy War Number Two.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/middle-earth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;middle-earth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;middle-earth&lt;/a&gt;. Fun fact: the usage of this tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/middle-earth/info&quot;&gt;has &lt;em&gt;already&lt;/em&gt; been clarified&lt;/a&gt;, way &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5zWFBlc9N8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;back in 2011&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;FAQ&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Q. Isn't everything in Tolkien's Legendarium part of Middle-earth?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A.&lt;/strong&gt; No: Middle-earth is one small section of the world Tolkien created, Arda. Other regions include Beleriand, north of Middle-earth and the original home of the Elves; Númenor, the land of the Dúnedain; Aman, the undying lands of the Valar and the elves; and the Dark Lands, south of Middle-earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Q. When should I tag something Middle-earth?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A.&lt;/strong&gt; Use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/middle-earth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;middle-earth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;middle-earth&lt;/a&gt; when you want to ask a question about something general to Middle-earth: a location, a race, or a historical event. You can use it in conjunction with other, more specific tags like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-hobbit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-hobbit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-hobbit&lt;/a&gt;. Do not use it when you want to refer to other parts of Arda, like most of the events of &lt;em&gt;The Silmarillion&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, this tag is fantastically frequently misused. Just looking at the ten &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/middle-earth&quot;&gt;most recent questions&lt;/a&gt; in the tag, I'd say that &lt;strong&gt;nine&lt;/strong&gt; of them don't need it; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/135204/31051&quot;&gt;Was Beleriand Bigger than Second/Third Age Middle-earth?&lt;/a&gt; is the lone exception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously that's not to say that it should &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; be used, but it needs to be policed far more effectively than it currently has been.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And guess what! There are &lt;em&gt;so many more&lt;/em&gt; &quot;Tolkien&quot; tags that you haven't even considered:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shadow-of-mordor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shadow-of-mordor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shadow-of-mordor&lt;/a&gt; should be left&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sauron&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sauron&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sauron&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gandalf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gandalf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gandalf&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/saruman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;saruman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;saruman&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aragorn&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aragorn&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aragorn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;, &lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bilbo&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bilbo&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bilbo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/morgoth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;morgoth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;morgoth&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/feanor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feanor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feanor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/galadriel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;galadriel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;galadriel&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/melian&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;melian&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;melian&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;, &lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hurin&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hurin&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hurin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/smaug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;smaug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;smaug&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tom-bombadil&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tom-bombadil&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tom-bombadil&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/earendil&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;earendil&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;earendil&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;, &lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/luthien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;luthien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;luthien&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gollum&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gollum&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gollum&lt;/a&gt;. I'm sure there are more, but this is starting to depress me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of these fall under the general umbrella of &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6839/31051&quot;&gt;character tags&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, which have a contentious history on this site. Personally, I think they should all be cast into the Void with the Great Enemy, where they belong. Some of these I just &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ragmt.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;executed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is Holy War Number Three&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Subcategory: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arkenstone&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;arkenstone&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;arkenstone&lt;/a&gt;. I want to kill it, but it's marginally useful.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Another subcategory: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/smeagol&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;smeagol&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;smeagol&lt;/a&gt; was rrecently (ish) aliased with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gollum&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gollum&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gollum&lt;/a&gt;. This is &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; for the best, although I contend that they're different characters. But then I hate character tags, so I'm not going to complain about reducing their numbers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/valar&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;valar&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;valar&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/istari&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;istari&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;istari&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/maiar&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;maiar&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;maiar&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nazgul&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;nazgul&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;nazgul&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hobbits&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hobbits&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hobbits&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ents&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ents&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ents&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/edain&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;edain&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;edain&lt;/a&gt; are more forgivable than character tags, because they encompass relatively-broad subcategories of the Legendarium, and yet have narrowly-defined scopes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/numenor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;numenor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;numenor&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/undying-lands&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;undying-lands&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;undying-lands&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bree&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bree&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bree&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arda&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;arda&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;arda&lt;/a&gt; make as much sense as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/middle-earth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;middle-earth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;middle-earth&lt;/a&gt; (though personally I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bree&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bree&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bree&lt;/a&gt; should be subsumed by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/middle-earth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;middle-earth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;middle-earth&lt;/a&gt;, and then removed from all questions that aren't actually about Bree; which is &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of them)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-one-ring&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-one-ring&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-one-ring&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rings-of-power&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rings-of-power&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rings-of-power&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mithril&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mithril&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mithril&lt;/a&gt; make a certain amount of sense, and are well-scoped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As an aside, I think there's sufficient reason to keep &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-one-ring&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-one-ring&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-one-ring&lt;/a&gt; separate from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rings-of-power&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rings-of-power&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rings-of-power&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/elves&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;elves&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;elves&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dwarves&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dwarves&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dwarves&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/orc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;orc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;orc&lt;/a&gt; are weird cases, because they're &lt;em&gt;mostly&lt;/em&gt; used on Tolkien questions, and yet also refer to common fantasy elements. They're &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; fine to leave as-is&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien-languages&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien-languages&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien-languages&lt;/a&gt; makes sense to leave&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/christopher-tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;christopher-tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;christopher-tolkien&lt;/a&gt; makes as much sense as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt; does, as long as we restrict it in the same way; some questions would need clean-up&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2017-01-30T20:55:15.123" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10160" CreationDate="2016-09-15T18:24:59.593" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Leave 'em.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per my &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10008/20774&quot;&gt;stock objection&lt;/a&gt; to tag removal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As things stand, these tags are pretty harmless and possibly of minor use to anyone with a passing interest in specific elements of Tolkien-related works&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mucking around with these tags &lt;em&gt;on a systematic basis&lt;/em&gt; will result in the front page being disfigured with worthless edits for (at minimum) several weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As usual, I see no justification given to explain why messing around with these tags is of &lt;em&gt;more benefit&lt;/em&gt; to the site than simply leaving them in situ.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.190" LastActivityDate="2016-09-15T18:32:39.013" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10163" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10166" CreationDate="2016-09-16T09:39:32.680" Score="9" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we please merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nukes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;nukes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;nukes&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nuclear-weapons&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;nuclear-weapons&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;nuclear-weapons&lt;/a&gt;? We really don't need both of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I was going to just remove &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nukes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;nukes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;nukes&lt;/a&gt;, but then I saw that it had more questions than &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nuclear-weapons&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;nuclear-weapons&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;nuclear-weapons&lt;/a&gt;, so...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-09-16T11:35:36.550" LastActivityDate="2016-09-16T11:35:36.550" Title="Merge [nukes] and [nuclear-weapons]" Tags="|support|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10164" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10165" CreationDate="2016-09-16T10:57:19.827" Score="2" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just curious as to who has asked the most questions. Lots of people answer questions, but who has asked the most? How do you find out who has asked the most questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-09-16T11:38:25.057" LastActivityDate="2016-09-16T11:38:25.057" Title="Who has asked the most questions?" Tags="|support|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10164" CreationDate="2016-09-16T11:03:19.813" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Taken from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/284601/who-asked-the-most-number-of-questions-on-stack-exchange/284604#284604&quot;&gt;main meta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Data Explorer&lt;/a&gt; (SEDE) to query sites for information like this. It does require knowledge of SQL to write queries (there is a tutorial under the SEDE help pages if you're interested), but there are a lot of existing queries you can use and you can search SEDE as you can any other Stack Exchange site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An existing query that should give you what you're looking for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/532226/who-asked-the-most-questions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who Asked the Most questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here it appears to be @DVK-in-exile, with 664 questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-09-16T11:06:56.510" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10163" CreationDate="2016-09-16T11:35:14.363" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/nuclear-weapons/synonyms&quot;&gt;Done.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-09-16T11:35:14.363" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10167" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-09-16T13:38:18.083" Score="1" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10164/who-has-asked-the-most-questions&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt; who has asked the most questions, but &lt;strong&gt;who has answered the most questions?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-09-16T14:06:06.130" Title="Who has answered the most questions?" Tags="|support|answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10167" CreationDate="2016-09-16T13:45:03.563" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;As usual you can use the Stack Exchange Data Explorer for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taking the query Mithrandir used in your first question, we can just change &quot;questions&quot; for &quot;answers&quot; and get:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/540314/who-answered-the-most-questions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who Posted The Most Answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not surprisingly, at this point, it's Valorum and DVK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NOTE: It's possible to post multiple answers to one question, so a better query would account for that, but that's very rare so this is a pretty good representation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2016-09-16T14:01:36.057" LastActivityDate="2016-09-16T14:01:36.057" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10167" CreationDate="2016-09-16T14:06:06.130" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;A (very) slight improvement over KutuluMike's answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/540315/users-who-have-answered-the-most-distinct-questions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Users who have answered the most distinct questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To nobody's great surprise, it's still Valorum, with DVK trailing by a wide margin&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/S4dcV.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/S4dcV.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usual SEDE disclaimers apply:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Deleted questions/answers are not accounted for&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SEDE updates weekly, so this result is a few days out-of-date. Seems unlikely that the top spots have changed dramatically, though&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastActivityDate="2016-09-16T14:06:06.130" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10134" CreationDate="2016-09-17T17:55:15.517" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;As the user responsible for the tag, I'll describe my rationale for it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, here's the question:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/139557/19561&quot;&gt;What is the significance of the numbers in &amp;quot;The Eleven Holy Numbers of the Mechanical Soul&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, as I've said before, I consider a tag to be a Bat-Signal for experts. The tags I put on a question are meant as a call on experts on those subjects.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story I was asking about was written by Natalia Theodoridou. Her story was heavily influenced by the Dutch artist Theo Jansen, even going as far as naming her protagonist for him. It also features the same kind of kinetic sculptures he makes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when I considered the experts I needed for an answer, the two types of experts that came to mind were experts on the writer, Natalia Theodoridou, and experts on Theo Jansen.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Natalia Theodoridou, being a writer of SF &amp;amp; Fantasy, is of course on topic, so I created a tag for her. Since Theo Jansen is better known than Natalia Theodoridou (there's a Wikipedia article on him, while there is none on her) &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; because his work has &amp;mdash; to me &amp;mdash; a science fiction feel to it, I decided to create a tag for him as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag was challenged and removed from the question; I declined to pursue the tag any further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-09-17T19:54:30.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10158" CreationDate="2016-09-20T21:07:34.163" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wholly agree that posting a bounty on another answer by that person is not ideal. The bounty is supposed to tell the person (and everyone else) &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; you're rewarding, not just give the points to the right person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the idea you're suggesting in OP very much. You say that the vast majority of the value was added by the editor. Ping the editor in chat, or somewhere they can be pinged. Tell the editor that you want to give a bounty for their work. Suggest that the editor post an answer of their own, incorporating the same material they edited into the other answer. If the two answers are now too similar, the other one can be rolled back a little bit. (Make sure no work done by the OP of that answer is removed.) Then award the bounty to the new answer. This seems like the most sensible option. The right person will be rewarded, and everyone will know &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; was rewarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64504" LastActivityDate="2016-09-20T21:07:34.163" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10175" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10176" CreationDate="2016-09-21T15:23:51.277" Score="9" ViewCount="220" Body="&lt;p&gt;This answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9756/inspirations-for-little-nemo-in-slumberland-and-dreams-of-a-rarebit-fiend/140271#140271&quot;&gt;Inspirations for &amp;quot;Little Nemo in Slumberland&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend?&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/140271/revisions&quot;&gt;originally&lt;/a&gt; had only the name of the illustrator, and an image taken from an article. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After doing some additional research, I found the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.topfferiana.fr/2008/11/le-petit-lucien-au-pays-des-reves/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;probable source&lt;/a&gt; of their image and arguments. I felt &lt;strong&gt;very uncomfortable&lt;/strong&gt; with writing my own answer given that the hard part (the majority of work) was done by the person who originally found that article, since searching by topic is a lot harder than searching by image. So I edited the post to include an additional comparison image from the same article, as well as some text from the article describing the possible inspiration. Per &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/145097/should-i-approve-edits-of-answers-that-drastically-add-to-the-original-answer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; post, edits that make major changes and preserve the intent of an answer are acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On the other hand&lt;/strong&gt;, it’s possible that in adding so much additional information, I deviated too much from the original intent of the author, and that I should instead have written my own answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Was the edit appropriate, or does it change the meaning of the post too much?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-09-21T22:53:52.723" Title="Was this edit appropriate?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10175" CreationDate="2016-09-21T15:42:30.837" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO, your edit was just fine, though I think you would also have been justified in writing your own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you pointed out, the &quot;core&quot; of the answer was in the original post, so none of your edits really changed &quot;the intention&quot; of the answer, they merely changed the &quot;presentation&quot;. That's what edits are for; you made a correct answer into a correct but more informative one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, the amount of effort put into your changes would probably also have justified writing up an answer of your own, especially if there was &quot;research&quot; involved (e.g. you didn't just click a hyperlink). But editing the existing answer was an even better way to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2016-09-21T15:42:30.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10175" CreationDate="2016-09-21T16:10:38.570" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Your edit goes well beyond what would be considered to be an acceptable edit. Had I seen it in the queue, I would have rejected it as conflicting with the author's intent.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking over the original post and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/140271/revisions&quot;&gt;comparing it with the finished product&lt;/a&gt;, it's clear that you've taken their single line stub answer (which frankly resembles a comment) and totally overhauled it, turning it into a fully rounded answer by adding a central thesis, a narrative, links to a second relevant article and additional pictures cross-comparing the picture source with the original work to highlight the similarity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;So what's wrong with that?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First off, with an answer that small (and limited involvement from the OP) it's really quite difficult to determine what their &lt;em&gt;intent&lt;/em&gt; was, other than highlighting that the two sources are quite similar. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, almost nothing of their original answer now exists. Excluding the image, less than 4% of the answer is what they wrote in the first place. Including the image, that goes up to a slightly more healthy 7% but still very low.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that you've put so much effort into &quot;improving&quot; their existing answer is what spawned this question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10158/award-bounty-to-answer-editor&quot;&gt;Award Bounty to Answer Editor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With even an experienced user having difficulty determine what, if anything, the OP actually contributed to what is now, essentially &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What should I have done?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given how much additional effort has been put into improving this answer (by you), the obvious course of action would be to &lt;strong&gt;write your own answer, crediting the OP for finding an additional source that was useful in helping you to write your answer.&lt;/strong&gt; People can then choose which answer to upvote and determine, for themselves, whether the original answer deserves upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Are there exceptions?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to put in a special word for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions. The reality is that the hardest part is locating and identifying the property in question. It's not uncommon to add a book review or a wiki quote that drastically adds to the word-count. In those instances, the OP &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; deserves all the credit for having worked out what the darned thing is in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-09-21T17:13:22.403" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10158" CreationDate="2016-09-21T16:55:21.943" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Conflicts like these are the very reason why (at least on other SE sites) we discourage heavy edits and recommend answers instead. If the editor thought his edit didn't warrant a separate answer, I see no reason for second guessing him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have had similar things happen to me on other SE sites. I thought that the answer contained everything, but visible only to the expert eye. I edited it and made it skyrocket. I am fine with that and I don't think we should change or circumvent the mechanics of SE sites for that little effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I see severe danger coming, if we move away from rewarding answers and towards examining whom we would like to reward!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that votes, bounties etc. also serve as indicators for outsiders to spot the best answers. Imagine a SE full of bounties associated with answers other than those they were awarded to. I would leave a deeply appreciative comment and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71687" LastEditorUserId="71687" LastEditDate="2016-09-21T17:10:40.307" LastActivityDate="2016-09-21T17:10:40.307" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10175" CreationDate="2016-09-21T16:57:13.820" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Heh. You and me both... I've run into this a few times in the past, and I still occasionally find myself wondering where the line is. At this point, I add basic plot and book cover information to one-sentence answers, particularly from people who obviously just joined. If I find it's getting longer than that, or if my research starts to indicate that it's less than a sure thing, I write my own answer, giving credit at the top to the person who found the original. I then usually leave a comment saying that I found additional information and that, if they'd like, they can make use of it in their answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, I don't even care about the rep points. I just like there to be a full and complete answer, and I don't want to risk having information be lost due to my fixes being reverted for being &quot;conflicting with the author's intent&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2016-09-21T16:57:13.820" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10175" CreationDate="2016-09-21T22:53:52.723" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your edit definitely added a lot to that answer. At this point I personally view the answer as a collaboration more than an answer you edited.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/42316/26325&quot;&gt;Something I've done in the past&lt;/a&gt; on other sites in the network when I feel uncomfortable because I'm building too much on existing answers is I will credit the original post(s) and wiki my own answer.  This gives credit to the other people, allows me to add my own interpretation/expansion of their ideas, and it is abundantly clear I'm not trying to profiteer. Plus people can feel comfortable adding to my work since it is more explicitly community property. I don't know if this plan of action is ideal, or widely condoned. It made me feel better though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side note based on the situation that sparked this post, you would get the rep if someone awarded your answer a bounty even though it was a wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53771" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2016-09-21T22:53:52.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1289" CreationDate="2016-09-21T23:51:04.437" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme&lt;/strong&gt;: Adamant is a vampire&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator&lt;/strong&gt;: Steelerfan&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background&lt;/strong&gt;: Steelerfan heard that I slept during in the daytime:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Adamant: &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=31665147#31665147&quot;&gt;I sleep during the day.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Steelerfan then realized the truth:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Steelerfan: &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=31665152#31665152&quot;&gt;Ahhh…so you’re a vampire! The truth is revealed!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Examples:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Slytherincess: &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=32180214#32180214&quot;&gt;I kind of like vampires too – I didn’t realize that you, @Adamant, are&#xA;  a vampire! That’s spectacular and explains why you sleep in a coffin!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Steelerfan: &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=32117348#32117348&quot;&gt;Adamant is a vampire, there’s really nothing else to say.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;MannlyMann: &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=31991065#31991065&quot;&gt;@steelerfan he had to be a vampire like @Adamant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastActivityDate="2016-09-21T23:51:04.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10182" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10183" CreationDate="2016-09-22T19:58:46.303" Score="10" ViewCount="322" Body="&lt;p&gt;I provided an answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/141293/what-is-the-first-appearance-of-a-dark-alternate-world-in-fiction&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; citing an example from Norse mythology, and it was deleted for being considered offensive:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's not well-publicized, but we discourage citing religious texts as fictional works due to the risk of offending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've read a Meta question, considering exactly &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6838/should-myths-be-considered-religions&quot;&gt;this kind of situation&lt;/a&gt;, and it seemed clear to me that such examples are valid. &#xA;Besides, this particular question was asking for the earliest example of an often used story device, and we know Norse mythology by the accounts of many fiction books from Christian (non-believers) authors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did a quick google search to find if someone actually considers Norse Mythology a religion nowadays and it seems there is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathenry_(new_religious_movement)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;German Neopaganism&lt;/a&gt;. Now, it's not in my interest to offend anyone but considering a census conducted in 2013 found 16,700 member, it seems odd that I should refrain from using Norse mythology as an example. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63534" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2016-09-23T11:55:16.177" Title="Answer deleted for providing a Norse mythology example" Tags="|discussion|deleted-answers|mythology|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10182" CreationDate="2016-09-22T20:15:54.773" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;This answer was flagged with a link to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9523/31936&quot;&gt;our policy on answers that cite religious works&lt;/a&gt;. According to that policy, an answer which states or strongly implies that a religious work is fiction should be deleted. Your answer does not specifically say that Norse mythology is fiction; however, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/141293/3&quot;&gt;the question asks for a fictional source (both in the title and body)&lt;/a&gt; so by answering it with a source from Norse mythology you are implying that Norse mythology is fictional (otherwise it wouldn't be an answer to the question). Consequently, I deleted your answer in accordance with our policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the (low) number of people who would consider Norse mythology their religion: it is not up to the moderators to decide what counts as a religion. If an answer citing a religious work is flagged as offensive or the flagger otherwise cites our policy on such answer then the responding moderator is obligated to delete the answer. Furthermore, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9565/31936&quot;&gt;one of the posts in the policy thread&lt;/a&gt; mentions some similarly ancient religions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...most answers that treat religious texts (regardless whether they're Judeo-Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Shinto, Buddhist, Druidic, Pagan, Ancient Roman, Ancient Greek etc....)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-09-22T20:51:35.393" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10182" CreationDate="2016-09-23T02:57:13.127" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made the initial comment and raised the flag. I was a bit conflicted on doing so, since you had not specifically mentioned any religious text, but you also had not listed a distinctly fictional work either. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To use a parallel, were someone to answer a question about the first appearance of Lilith, we have a definite rule against the use of the Bible, since it's considered a canonical religious source (Lilith is also not directly referenced except for a single line in the Book of Isaiah which quotes the name but does not provide any detail). Similarly, &lt;em&gt;Songs of the Sage&lt;/em&gt; (a text from the Dead Sea Scrolls) would not be valid as a &quot;fictional reference&quot; even though it's considered apocryphal by most Christian and Jewish sects. However, you could quote Nick Cuti's &quot;Lilith,&quot; which is a clearly fictional story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, to provide the Norse example, if you could have pointed out a clearly fictional work that references Norse mythology, such as Marvel's comic books, that would work as an example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted about this to my Facebook page and someone quipped that this would scuttle all of the Star Wars answers. I took it for the joke it was at first... and then realized there's some truth to it. There &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; people putting Jedi down as their religion. And while I haven't met someone who takes the works of Lucas as literal gospel, I have a friend who survived an &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/otakukin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;otakukin&lt;/a&gt; cult where the members believed themselves to be reincarnations of Final Fantasy characters, so it's not out of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="23243" LastEditDate="2016-09-23T11:55:16.177" LastActivityDate="2016-09-23T11:55:16.177" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10182" CreationDate="2016-09-23T11:11:18.487" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9523/19561&quot;&gt;the question on meta&lt;/a&gt; being cited by Null as defining our policy, is that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9535/19561&quot;&gt;the answer that has been accepted&lt;/a&gt; seems controversial, with a score of 3 by way of 26 up and 23 down votes, while &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9565/19561&quot;&gt;another answer&lt;/a&gt; has the much higher score of 20 and seems almost unanimous, with 24 up and only 4 down votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Any answer which states (or even strongly implies) that a religious work is a work of fiction should be immediately flagged for moderator attention, pending deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The highest scoring answer concludes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;By either metric most answers that treat religious texts (regardless whether they're Judeo-Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Shinto, Buddhist, Druidic, Pagan, Ancient Roman, Ancient Greek etc....) are simply not providing a good answer, and I'd expect them to get the same response as using Time Cube as a scientific source on Physics.SE - it's just not on topic. Downvote and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per the accepted answer, the answer didn't state that a religious work is a work of fiction. A case could be made for implying so, but a simple edit would've fixed that.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;As per the highest voted answer, it may not have provided a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; answer, but voting would've solved that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no, the answer should &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; have been deleted, should possibly have been edited (either by the OP or someone else), and should have been left open to vote on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-09-23T11:11:18.487" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10186" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-09-23T13:19:30.223" Score="16" ViewCount="748" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently we try to shy away from things that have active followers, such as norse and greek mythologies, and the major active religions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this has gotten a little messy for us, how do we handle the fact that over 100,000 people claim to follow the &quot;jedi&quot; religion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In Australia more than 70,000 people (0.37%) declared themselves members of the Jedi order in the 2001 census&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are we to assume that they are joking, potentially ignoring people who have actual beliefs based on star wars? &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_census_phenomenon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jedi religion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a comparison estimates claim only 2000 people currently follow the ancient Greek religions. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenism_(religion)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hellenism&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By our current policy standard, found here in ASR's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9565/29220&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; , anyone professing to follow the Jedi religion could flag starwars questions as offensive, and the mod's would be required to close them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29220" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2016-09-29T08:20:28.880" Title="How do we differentiate between religion and fiction?" Tags="|discussion|mythology|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="20" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10186" CreationDate="2016-09-23T13:52:05.443" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me, the difference is intent of the work, not the opinions of the self-professed believers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider the difference between the Christian Bible and &lt;em&gt;A New Hope&lt;/em&gt;. Regardless of your personal religious leanings, it's fairly uncontroversial to say that the Bible was intended to be a religious text; its primary function is to guide the doctrines and beliefs of an organized group of believers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The primary purpose of a &lt;em&gt;A New Hope&lt;/em&gt;, on the other hand, is to entertain; there's no intent of guiding or forming a belief system. The fact that one sprang up anyway is incidental&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This gets slightly muddier when considering the mythology of ancient religions, but I think the general guidance applies, though we have to look at the stories and not as much as the sources; the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persephone#Abduction_myth&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;myth of Persephone&lt;/a&gt; is intended as a religious parable, an &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_myth&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;origin myth&lt;/a&gt;, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_War_(series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;God of War&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is meant as entertainment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Giving the &quot;worshippers&quot; the benefit of the doubt; for the most part it seems to be a protest religion, in the same vein as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pastafarianism&lt;/a&gt;, but let's be generous and assume that there are actual, honest-to-goodness Jedi worshippers out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="31051" LastEditDate="2016-09-23T17:03:20.537" LastActivityDate="2016-09-23T17:03:20.537" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10186" CreationDate="2016-09-23T14:11:42.500" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's get the elephant in the room statement out of the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is possible for people to draw enough faith from believing in a fictional story to form a religion out of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That clear enough?  Our banner is stories of the fantastic.  People can believe in stories.  This creates the overlap that creates this debatable area at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This does not give us carte blanche to treat all religions as stories.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is broadly reasonable to understand a story as SFF fiction - as is the case in Star Wars, it was released as a summer blockbuster and clearly falls under entertainment, as would most stories published in the last century under a &quot;fiction&quot; label - then we should do so.  If it is not broadly reasonable, as is the case with most religions older than we are since we cannot source the founders in any way other than through the context of their religion, it is going to create an argument, and we need to err on the side of not creating drama that doesn't help the site at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(this is basically @Jason Baker's answer too, which I agree with, just my understanding of it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38235" LastActivityDate="2016-09-23T14:11:42.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10186" CreationDate="2016-09-23T19:17:44.053" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;It's difficult to identify the original purpose and it  actually changes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll try to make the argument for the frail limits between mythology, fiction and religion, and the need to use common sense in judging cases and why most mythology should land on the fiction side. Jason Baker and Radhil both argue that the intended purpose of the original author is what sets them apart. I think many stories lack an original author and are retold and rewritten over time with different purposes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's take the example of Norse mythology. Most things we know about comes from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edda&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Eddas&lt;/a&gt;, two books compiled in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson (among other anonymous and proposed authors). At least the Prose Edda came to be several hundred years after Scandinavia had been Christianized and Snorri  wasn't a believer. Maybe his purpose was that of a scholar, maybe he just wanted to entertain, but he certainly wasn't writing a religious text. We can have similar doubts about &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Virgil's&lt;/a&gt; intention when writing the Aeneid. He's considered one of the fathers of Western literature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand we have works considered fiction when published that inspire very religious feelings. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_census_phenomenon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jedi religion&lt;/a&gt; is one of them, that you may consider extreme, but you should know there are others like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/travel/in-vietnam-the-cao-dai-temple-mixes-religions-and-styles.html?_r=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cao Dai&lt;/a&gt; that considers &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Victor Hugo's&lt;/a&gt; works sacred text. We have science fiction authors, like Hubbard, whose works seemed originally pure science fiction, and the forming of a religion changed some of those works status.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What is a religious text sometimes needs to be decided in the site&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not my intend to hurt religious feelings, I've none of my own but I practice and expect tolerance for what others believe. But that being said, I don't think that what any group claims to be a religious text is to be considered one for the sake of this site. I will quote some of the comments of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9523/answers-that-count-religious-texts-as-fiction&quot;&gt;policy thread&lt;/a&gt; that represent how I feel:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Valorum&lt;/strong&gt;: For the record, the Greek, Roman religions plays are fair game for being described as religious myths, largely because all of their followers died out centuries ago. The Epic of Gilgamesh, by comparison was written as a work of fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thoth19&lt;/strong&gt;: That is false. Apparently Panagiotis Marinis still worships Zeus. The point you should be making is that these minorities are small enough that they likely won't cause a political controversy and if they do the negative utils will be small compared to the utils of the ease of utilizing SE for everyone else while offending them. Claiming that people don't exist is a poor mechanism because proving a negative is hard and there are many people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Valorum&lt;/strong&gt;: Also, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;the fact that a single individual has a non-standard religious belief doesn't give him the right to dictate SE policy on religions&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, any more than the occasional 7th Day Voldemortian would... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;We can use consensus and common sense as guidelines&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where do we draw the line? It's really thin. Sometimes we don't know the original purpose or it changes with time. I think there is always a level of judging when deciding that an example is or isn't a religion. Sometimes it's easy (the Bible, the Quran, Pāli Tipitaka) but sometimes it isn't and then &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I would like the use of common sense, asking ourselves &quot;What's the most usual modern use of this text?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can respect the Jedi religion but against the overwhelming use of Star Wars as fiction it makes no sense to consider it a religious source. The same happens with Greek/ Norse Mythology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mythology modern use is telling stories, it's been that way for a really long time (centuries if not millenniums). Not only that but mythology is the starter of most narrative devices and of the utmost relevance for all fictions works. In more than one way mythology is the mother of Western Literature. I feel that we should include something so important as valid source of our answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63534" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2016-09-24T04:56:32.050" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10191" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10192" CreationDate="2016-09-24T03:29:37.590" Score="7" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;First posts almost invariably show in the queue of the same name within 15 minutes or so, and sometimes nearly immediately. Occasionally, however, when looking at the First Posts review history or reviewing some myself, I’ll see a post from days or weeks previously. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/91161&quot;&gt;this review&lt;/a&gt; was done on September 23, but the post in question was made two weeks previously, on September 9.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tEdO5.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tEdO5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why are such old posts showing up in the First Posts queue? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-10-27T18:53:34.323" Title="Why do old posts show up in the First Posts queue?" Tags="|support|review-queue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10191" CreationDate="2016-09-24T04:04:54.457" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;That user has posted two questions and no answers on this site. The first question (call it post A) was not the one from the linked review (post B). Post A was deleted earlier today, leaving post B as the only post belonging to that user which remained undeleted. Thus post B became, in a sense, the user's &quot;first post&quot; and was put into the First Posts review queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2016-10-27T18:53:34.323" LastActivityDate="2016-10-27T18:53:34.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10193" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-09-24T09:34:22.127" Score="0" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I tried to post a question and there was no tag, so I tried to make it myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/141421/what-does-the-phantoms-ring-mean&quot;&gt;This is the question.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this is the tag I tried to create,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;League-of-extraordinary-gentlemen&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a reason for the character length on a tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2016-09-24T21:57:52.687" Title="Why is there a 25 character tag limit?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2017-08-11T07:36:52.243" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10195" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10200" CreationDate="2016-09-24T17:03:34.730" Score="30" ViewCount="1001" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10194/3500&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do we differentiate between religion and fiction?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; a user observed SFF.se is &quot;cliquey&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Valorum - &lt;em&gt;&quot;Let the downvotes be your guide. What you're suggesting is not 'nice'&#xA;  and we're all about 'be nice' here.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;ATB - &lt;em&gt;&quot;I dispute that. Given the cliquey nature of the site&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've personally never felt a cliquey vibe here; without making a call for shout-outs to particular users or sites, I'm curious: &lt;strong&gt;What is currently going on that would make our site seem exclusive? How can a Q&amp;amp;A site have the social dynamics necessary for the formation of cliques?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know SE sites are not constructed to be conducive to private messaging between members, or for social media-type platforms, so as far as I can tell the main way to communicate with fellow users is either through comments or via chat. As a room owner of &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;when I am actually in chat&lt;/em&gt;, I do &lt;em&gt;try&lt;/em&gt;&amp;#185; to welcome newcomers and invite him/her to participate, and make conversation with him/her -- but that's me. It can take a little while to get into the groove in chat; I realize it's an imperfect medium. Chatter is discouraged in comments, so it's difficult to make connections that way, as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But maybe some feel there are upvote/downvote cliques? Or ... wut?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If SFF.se is &quot;clique-y&quot;, what can individual users do to alleviate this impression? Do we even want to try?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fundamentally, are we a &quot;I'm not here to make friends&quot; site? I suspect answers to this question vary by individual, but because of the nature of Stack Exchange's platform, it seems to me that it is not easy to spawn exclusive groups on site. I'm wondering what others think about this issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#185;&lt;sub&gt;I'm not perfect and I'm positive I haven't personally greeted every new user to chat!&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2017-01-13T02:03:56.117" Title="Is this site &quot;cliquey&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10193" CreationDate="2016-09-24T21:57:52.687" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are various reasons to have character limits for tags, and more than a few downsides. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Upsides&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Aesthetics&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a major reason. Let’s say you raised the tag character limit to 50 characters. &#xA;Then you could have tags like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh&lt;/a&gt; . As you can see, this already takes up nearly half a line. So while four 25-character tag names (a rather uncommon use-case) can more-or-less fit comfortably on a line, two 50-character tag names (probably a more common situation) take up the same space. Many lines of tags can look pretty ugly. &lt;strong&gt;And anything over about 100 characters is simply right out the window&lt;/strong&gt;, since it would have to be split over two lines. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Readability&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a problem with readability. Tag text is  in a smaller font, and displayed on a gray background, which makes it a lot harder to read even for short tags. Tags that are fifty characters long could be atrocious. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a related note, this might also increase the likelihood of spelling errors in tag names, as well as &lt;em&gt;decreasing&lt;/em&gt; the likelihood that anyone would spot them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Specificity&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On programming sites, as hinted at in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/197889/raising-the-25-chars-limit-for-tags?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;, long tags often tend to be the sorts of things that can (or even should) be broken into smaller pieces, which is to say, one that is too specific.  For example, instead of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/excel-spreadsheets-in-windows-10&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;excel-spreadsheets-in-windows-10&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;excel-spreadsheets-in-windows-10&lt;/a&gt;, try using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/excel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;excel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;excel&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spreadsheets&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;spreadsheets&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;spreadsheets&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/windows-10&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;windows-10&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;windows-10&lt;/a&gt; (this is not actually SO’s usage guidance, but rather an example). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Such concerns are basically why there is a 25-character tag limit.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Downsides&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fairness, though, there are some serious downsides as well, which bear consideration. Some are also more specific to our site and a few others, rather than SO and the other programming sites, where this size constraint likely originated. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Naturality&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In many cases, we simply need longer tags, since they arise naturally from what the site considers.  The specificity concern does not hold, since &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children&lt;/a&gt; (which does not exist, since it is too long) is not in any sense more specific than &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aftermath&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aftermath&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aftermath&lt;/a&gt;, nor could it meaningfully be broken into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/miss-peregrine&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;miss-peregrine&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;miss-peregrine&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/home-for-peculiar&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;home-for-peculiar&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;home-for-peculiar&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/children&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;children&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;children&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Search&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general solution to the problems mentioned previously has been to use a smaller but still meaningful subset of words. Frequently, however, this defeats one of the  primary purposes of a tag, searchability. The problem is even worse on certain sites, such as Anime, where anime, manga, and light novel names tend to be quite long. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Aesthetics&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only solutions at this time are to choose a smaller set of related words, or use an abbreviation. Neither one of these is ideal. The second might work better with some series that have a commonly accepted abbreviation, but is downright ugly with others. Does anyone really want to see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mphfpc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mphfpc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mphfpc&lt;/a&gt; instead of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2016-09-24T21:57:52.687" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10195" CreationDate="2016-09-24T22:17:56.027" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This answer takes a deliberately pessimistic, devil's advocate tack.  I don't actually think we're all that cliquish, I just want to challenge a few assumptions here and there.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taking your questions out of order:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can a Q&amp;amp;A site have the social dynamics necessary for the formation of cliques?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any time you get enough humans together and ask them to accomplish something, cliques will form.  It is inevitable.  The question is not how you avoid cliques.  The question is how you can leverage them to make the group as a whole more welcoming instead of less welcoming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is currently going on that would make our site seem exclusive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said all that, cliques can form in a number of different ways.  On the one hand, you can have natural divisions arising from meaningful and important differences, and on the other hand, you can have artificial divisions imposed by social norms, based on whatever arbitrary factor happens to be convenient (race, gender, etc.).  Divisions may also be horizontal (tags, tag clusters) or vertical (rep, privileges).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's my opinion that natural divisions are less problematic than artificial divisions, and horizontal divisions are less problematic than vertical divisions.  The existence of rep is a vertical division, and somewhat arbitrary (Why is an upvote worth 10 points?  Because that's just How It Works), but rep is not meaningless because it is earned rather than given.  Nevertheless, the stratification may prove intimidating to new users, or suggest to them that the clique of high-rep users is in some sense &quot;better&quot; or more important than everyone else.  But on the other hand, this is just as true of any SE site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of the difference between us and, say, &lt;a href=&quot;http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Worldbuilding.SE&lt;/a&gt;, is that many of our questions have definitive right answers.  Moreover, many of these questions are frankly trivia (&quot;Did character X ever do thing Y?&quot; and the like).  This can make the rep divide a bit more intimidating than it might otherwise be because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It exacerbates the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9731/fastest-gun-in-the-west-problem&quot;&gt;FGITW problem&lt;/a&gt; (a disproportionate share of votes go to the first answer rather than the best answer).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It advertises the encyclopedic level of knowledge of many of our top-rep users.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Both these things contribute to the impression that new users cannot compete with experienced users either in time or in comprehensiveness.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that &lt;a href=&quot;http://math.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Math.SE&lt;/a&gt; handles such &quot;hard questions&quot; on a regular basis, they might be a more interesting contrast than Worldbuilding:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They are &lt;em&gt;incredibly&lt;/em&gt; friendly towards less mathematically experienced users.  They will happily write a lengthy answer to explain a person's simple misconception in great detail.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They often try to answer simple questions with hints rather than with definite answers, to encourage the asker to figure it out on their own.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/soft-question&quot;&gt;soft-question&lt;/a&gt; tag, which allows for much more subjective questions than you see on most SE sites, especially relative to the strict black-and-white nature of mathematics itself.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If SFF.se is &quot;clique-y&quot;, what can individual users do to alleviate this impression? Do we even want to try?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One solution that I have seen work elsewhere is to welcome new people to a particular clique (tag cluster) in addition to welcoming them to the group (site) as a whole.  This welcome should be particular to each clique, and provide resources which are uniquely helpful to new members of that clique (for example, you might welcome a Harry Potter fan with links to Mugglenet, Accio Quote, Pottermore, etc.).  I'm not certain how well this would work on a SE site, but it's something to consider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless, experienced users should try to imagine the site from the perspective of someone who's never even heard of Stack Exchange, or whose only exposure to it is Googling things and reading the answers.  There are quite a lot of rules (e.g. don't post duplicates) and social norms (e.g. downvotes aren't personal) which are not at all obvious to someone who hasn't spent a significant amount of time lurking at the site.  Try to be patient with new people who have not learned these things, but accept that you will not reach everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:19:20.170" LastActivityDate="2016-10-06T23:39:13.350" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10195" CreationDate="2016-09-24T22:34:53.943" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We are not very cliquish, generally speaking.&lt;/strong&gt; &#xA;On the whole, the site tends to make an effort to be welcoming to new users. If someone comes into chat asking questions, people usually will briefly engage with them and try to help them with their problems. And new users who post decent questions tend to get a lot of upvotes. Indeed, my experience has been one of getting &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; downvotes as an established user, perhaps evidence that people are (rightly) giving new users a little room to get to know the site, rather than letting the downvotes speak for themselves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps more important, there does not appear to be much hostility toward new users in chat. Many fairly new users have been generally welcomed into chat. There are always exceptions, of course, and some people are actively welcoming than others, but on the whole new users don’t seem to be shouted down or even ignored. My experience in chat as a new user was, on the whole, positive. And many low-reputation users have become active chat users: steelerfan, Mannlymann, Fox-Chan, and so forth. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;But…&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nonetheless, there &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; certain characteristics of our site (and to a certain extent the entire SE network) that can lead to insular behavior and in particular, a &lt;em&gt;perception&lt;/em&gt; of cliquishness.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To participate in chat &lt;em&gt;at all&lt;/em&gt;, one must have 20 reputation. To most of us, getting this much reputation must seem trivially easy&amp;mdash;any user who has written a decent answer or two sometime in the last few days is liable to get that much in a single day. But for a user who is truly new to the SE network, even one who is willing to learn the rules and can write good posts, this might seem an insurmountable barrier. Thus very new users &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; excluded from chat, however temporarily. With that in mind, the fairly rigid format of the main site can feel quite stifling to users who also want to be able to discuss speculative fiction with other fans. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should not relax our standards and allow opinion-based questions or non-answers. To combat this feeling, though, we might  consider reminding users more often about how easy it is to get enough reputation to chat, and not &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; when they post an off-topic question. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If a user with enough reputation to chat asks an sci-fi related question in chat (one that might be off-topic on the main site), users will &lt;em&gt;usually&lt;/em&gt; try to help. But often this is only for a brief while before they go back to whatever conversation was interrupted: often a conversation that the new user cannot follow without reading three pages of transcripts. Clearly, no one should feel obligated to interrupt every conversation to welcome a new chat user; nonetheless, when someone comes to chat with a question that has been declared off-topic on the main site, and then they &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; cannot get an answer in chat because established users are all talking among themselves, it can lead to a perception of exclusivity.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;New users tend to be intimidated by more experienced users. In particular, for a user coming in without a broad knowledge of the most popular topics, it can be fairly difficult to write an answer good enough to compete with an established user who knows the answer from the get-go, and who can write a well-formatted and comprehensive answer before the new user has finished typing theirs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To improve this experience, we should offer constructive criticism, ideally framed in the form of questions, to help improve the factual details of answers. If we know why an answer is flawed or incorrect, we should explain where correct information can be found. We should, of course, avoid simply criticizing a post.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And we should be fairly liberal when it comes to upvoting questions and answers by new users: if a new user writes a decent answer, it’s probably worth spending an upvote. It will encourage them, and get them closer to being able to participate in chat. Bad answers, of course, should be downvoted as usual, but we should also be willing to politely explain the problems with a post, and. when possible, offer suggestions for correcting them. It could also be helpful to note which bad posts we downvoted, and if the users take the suggestions of the critics to heart and turn the answer into a decent one, reverse those downvotes or even upvote. That way people will be rewarded for learning the rules.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Finally, it does sometimes happen that new users who write bad questions or  answers are subject to mockery. It does not happen often, in my view, but it does happen. If a user is attempting to answer questions, and not (for example) posting spam or nonsensical “answers,” this should absolutely be avoided, especially in comments, where the user will certainly see such criticism: anyone who is trying to post on-topic questions or answers has the potential to become a valued user, and should receive constructive criticism, not insults. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="51379" LastEditDate="2016-09-24T22:49:51.563" LastActivityDate="2016-09-24T22:49:51.563" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10195" CreationDate="2016-09-25T02:22:19.780" Score="29" Body="&lt;h1&gt;SFF (main Q&amp;amp;A site)&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, there's no major overt cliquishness on the Q&amp;amp;A site. Not at the core where it matters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Good quality &lt;strong&gt;answers&lt;/strong&gt; are welcomed, by and large, independently of who posts them. Ditto questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have seen individual users explicitly encourage especially good content from a new user, be it Qs or As. Not as a common rule, but pretty often.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When experienced/respected/high-rep users post less than stellar content, they get called out on it, including and especially by other experienced/respected/high-rep users. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some cliquish aspects that do show up, albeit small ones and not really very important. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clearly, people upvote good posts from established &quot;popular&quot; users more than random posts (&lt;em&gt;this is a personal opinion, mostly based on anecdotal observation - some less than stellar answers of mine got far more upvotes than I personally thought they deserved&lt;/em&gt;). However, this effect is rather small and not usually impacting new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Entirely anecdotally, I &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;personally&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; frequently try and do the opposite - when I see a good new-user answer, especially one competing with mine, I try to encourage said answer, always with an upvote and sometimes with a positive comment (up to and including telling OP that the competing answer deserves an &quot;accept&quot; instead of mine). It's an approach that seems to be well designed to avoid cliquish issues and hopefully, emulated by other experienced users to an extent.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clearly, some people downvote posts by specific less popular users. This to me is a far more cliquish thing to do. I won't name names but we all know who I speak of as a prime example - people openly admitted on Meta, in cleartext, that they do so. However, again, the scope of this effect is rather small and impacts very few users, which doesn't minimize the fact that its a Bad Thing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clearly, there are cliques of users who negatively react to certain types of questions (based on subjective opinions, not objective site rules). This is a bad, but unavoidable, side effect of having anonymous voting not governed by almost any focused rules. Again, the effect of this is - in large picture - somewhat contained.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There's a certain amount of &lt;em&gt;snobbishness&lt;/em&gt; about specific types of &lt;strong&gt;questions&lt;/strong&gt; (with bordering-on-not-nice accusations of &quot;trivia&quot;, &quot;boring&quot;, etc... at times leveled at perfectly ontopic questions), but while it is - imho - a negative side to the site, it's not really a sign of cliques since many long time experienced users are openly supportive of such questions - and many such accusations come from less active users.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clearly, some of the social aspects of the site as a community leak over into main Q&amp;amp;A, mostly via comments. Memes. In-jokes. Backreferences. Just funny comments. Personal interplay. Again, I don't think this has a big effect on how people perceive the Q&amp;amp;A site at large, but it's there. I am definitely guilty of all of these, and therefore please take the assessment as biased.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Perception is reality. And perception is Yes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has nothing to do with SFF as an individual site. Any SE site with objective quality standards can easily be &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;perceived&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; as cliquish due to the philosophy and mechanics of how SE works - requirement for focused objective questions, and high-quality, evidence-backed answers, automatically establishes the &quot;in&quot; clique of people who get the idea AND know how to produce such content; AND the &quot;out&quot; people who don't, and feel excluded when less good content they produce gets down-voted/VTCed. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Meta site&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;h1&gt;YES&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta site is much more cliquey than main site. Predictably so. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, the fact of participating in Meta already makes people into insiders. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, because Meta frequently doesn't have objective standards of the main site, so people vote their feelings/opinions, rather than objective quality. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third, topics discussed on Meta are basically site politics, in a lot of cases, which is basically the most fertile ground for cliques.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Main chat (Mos)&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;h1&gt;YES&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I won't bother detailing this, just to stay classy. Mos is incredibly cliquey. It's largely inevitable. It's a social chatroom with relatively few active users, how could it be otherwise? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2017-01-13T02:03:56.117" LastActivityDate="2017-01-13T02:03:56.117" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10201" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-09-26T14:19:20.097" Score="16" ViewCount="329" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from July 1st 2016 through September 30 2016 (&lt;strong&gt;They don't have to be &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; questions and answers.&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2016/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2016/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2016/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As always (as in one time before) I will also be linking all blog posts that happened within this quarter.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also if there was a meta post you feel should be spotlighted those are also good. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2016-09-30T16:05:37.123" Title="Favorite Questions and Answers from third quarter of 2016" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2016-09-26T15:58:01.270" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;My Avatar is the lead character of my &lt;a href=&quot;http://atwitsendcomics.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;webcomic&lt;/a&gt;. His name is 'Guy'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cWcB0.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cWcB0.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's usually the funny one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RuLnZ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RuLnZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2016-09-26T15:58:01.270" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2016-09-26T15:59:41.720" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the English nursery rhyme. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jack be nimble,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Jack be quick,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Jack jump over&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The candlestick.     &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I made the decision to abbreviate my middle name. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="40294" LastEditDate="2016-09-26T17:51:18.533" LastActivityDate="2016-09-26T17:51:18.533" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10201" CreationDate="2016-09-26T16:13:15.040" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Questions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I rather liked Nathaniel's&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/135286/why-doesnt-discworld-run-out-of-water&quot;&gt;Why doesn&amp;#39;t the Discworld run out of water?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and RedCaio's&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/135932/why-are-there-barcode-readers-on-the-bridge-of-the-enterprise&quot;&gt;Why are there barcode readers on the bridge of the Enterprise?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Answers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tooting my own trumpet, I thought my answer to this one went above and beyond the call of duty&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/137300/20774&quot;&gt;Why does Watney’s notebook in The Martian have four holes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I also rather liked my answer to this one (on the basis that there's &lt;a href=&quot;https://giphy.com/gifs/overkill-136kOut0qvFB28&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;no kill like overkill&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/133825/was-the-t-rex-the-same-one&quot;&gt;Was the T-Rex the same one?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2016-09-26T16:20:41.767" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10205" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-09-26T17:45:49.187" Score="6" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that on several occasions over the last day, when I open a new editing box, the buttons on the top row are missing. They aren't invisible, just &lt;em&gt;gone&lt;/em&gt;. It also seems to disable the Ctrl+I and Ctrl+B shortcut keys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Abw54.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Abw54.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to be replicable if you open the editing box, then cancel/save it, &lt;em&gt;then open it again&lt;/em&gt;. It can be fixed by reloading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FYI: Chrome Version 53.0.2785.116 - Windows 8.1 Pro.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditDate="2016-09-26T18:55:16.930" LastActivityDate="2016-09-26T18:55:40.150" Title="Editing buttons missing (occasionally)" Tags="|bug|status-completed|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10205" CreationDate="2016-09-26T18:11:21.140" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're investigating a bug where &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/284896/editor-toolbar-bug&quot;&gt;the opposite happens&lt;/a&gt; - people getting a lot of additional toolbars and pushed out a fix for that earlier today. We'll check to see if this is now causing the opposite problem, apologies for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to help us troubleshoot this better: Are you behind a proxy (e.g. corporate network) or directly connected to the internet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, did this just happen today, or did it happen before?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1652" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2016-09-26T18:11:21.140" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10205" CreationDate="2016-09-26T18:55:40.150" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have rolled back the fix we deploy earlier today.  This should resolve the issues you hit today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastActivityDate="2016-09-26T18:55:40.150" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10195" CreationDate="2016-09-26T19:22:53.240" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with a lot of what has already been said, but I want to take a bit of a different spin on it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still consider myself a new user (less than a year on the site at the time of this posting), and I have experienced many of the situations that DVK, Kevin, and Adamant describe in their answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal experience was pretty much what was described, 1) having trouble gaining my first couple reputation points by having questions closed a duplicates, 2) trying to provide answers but seeing I was &amp;quot;out gunned&amp;quot; by other users bigger brains or Google-fu skills, 3) stopping by chat and being scared to make my first post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I realized with all three issues was that determination and not taking it personally was the key. I eventually asked some question and gave some answers which gave me the confidence to finally start chatting. I was quickly welcomed and have new friends in short order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Getting back to root of why this question was asked (Note I am not singling out the users in the exchange, just using it as the catalyst).:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Valorum - &amp;quot;Let the downvotes be your guide. What you're suggesting is not 'nice' and we're all about 'be nice' here.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ATB - &amp;quot;I dispute that. Given the cliquey nature of the site&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q1: &lt;strong&gt;Why does the user feel that the site is cliquey?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; A: The user has most likely experienced a negative action, be it down votes, question closure, or discouraging comments by a group of users or a consistent select few .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q2: &lt;strong&gt;Was the negative action warranted?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; A2: This could have a lot more variance, but from my experience, the OP is usually the one who starts the confrontation. People react differently negative feedback, some take it very personally. New users must be guided in the direction that the it is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a personal thing, although you can lead a horse to water but you can not make it drink... The SE wide &amp;quot;Be Nice&amp;quot; policy is pretty straightforward and simple, and those who do not follow it are dealt with accordingly on matter their &amp;quot;status&amp;quot; within the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q3: &lt;strong&gt;Could the &amp;quot;clique&amp;quot; be correct?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; A: It may be a matter that you are just going against the opinion of the majority of users. If you hold the dissenting opinion in a discussion it easy to think that you are being ganged up on. That however, does not make that group a clique, it means they are disagreeing with you on &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; topic. You may find common ground on another topic or you may not. You may also find that &amp;quot;the clique&amp;quot; disagree with itself on other issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To tie it all back together and reiterate what has been said... &lt;strong&gt;We are not cliquey, but it can SEEM that way...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You must always remember this as well, &amp;quot;You can please all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time; however you cannot please all the people &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; the time!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-09-26T19:22:53.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10201" CreationDate="2016-09-26T20:45:18.387" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Questions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/139355/51379&quot;&gt;Has JKR addressed the issue of &amp;#39;Love Potions&amp;#39; equating to date-rape drugs?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the apparent inconsistencies in the books, I had often wondered what Rowling’s opinion was. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/140769/in-tolkiens-opinion-does-tom-bombadil-and-the-concept-of-pacifism-actually-h&quot;&gt;In Tolkien&amp;#39;s opinion, does Tom Bombadil (and the concept of pacifism) actually hold any power?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is that rare question that (a) requires a good deal of analysis, (b) is not primarily opinion-based, and, most notably (c) attracts enough interest to produce numerous high-quality answers. Definitely a cut above the rest.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/140658/51379&quot;&gt;What is the name of the move that Obi-wan uses to remove Anakin&amp;#39;s limbs?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a question that at first looks a little silly. Upon thinking a bit more about &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;, you realize that &lt;em&gt;of course&lt;/em&gt; they had to have a name for every single thing in the movie, and it becomes kind of brilliant.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/140348/51379&quot;&gt;Why doesn&amp;#39;t Hogwarts have more teachers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let’s face it, I had never though of this. It should have been  obvious from how few teachers they had, but it takes a special attention to detail to notice the many more subtle ways in which Hogwarts differs from a regular boarding school. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/138953/51379&quot;&gt;What is Darth Vader holding on the cover of the original Star Wars novelization?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is just funny. I would never have guessed what the cover art was going for. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Answers:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/139345/51379&quot;&gt;Identify movie about very advanced genetic engineering&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;60 upvotes for a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; answer. Definitely worth noting. I guess &lt;em&gt;Gattaca&lt;/em&gt; is one of those movies whose name is always on the tip of everyone’s tongue. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/141571/51379&quot;&gt;Marvel comics with robot aliens and major superhero deaths&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn’t think this could possibly get an answer, because the description was fairly broad, let alone a good one. Plus, it was Marvel Comics, famous for having a million contradictory storylines over several decades. Thaddeus and his encyclopedia knowledge of comics proved me wrong, though. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/139747/how-did-jon-arryn-actually-find-out-about-the-strong-seed/139748#139748&quot;&gt;How did Jon Arryn actually find out about “the strong seed”?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another really good answer from Aegon. I would just have assumed it was something everyone knew. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/141396/51379&quot;&gt;What is the significance of the titles of the Shadowhunters series?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering whether there was some meaning behind the weird names and titles of Cassandra Clare’s various series. Apparently there was a lot more there than I had imagined! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/137660/51379&quot;&gt;Has an injured Flash ever used super-speed to walk on his hands?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s always nice when an unusual question unexpectedly turns out to have a clear canonical answer. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-09-27T00:25:31.307" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10195" CreationDate="2016-09-26T22:14:40.497" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do clearly view myself as being an outsider, and chose to participate regardless of that perception. Part of the reason why I feel like an outsider is because I don't have the chops to contribute good answers in the popular areas (comics, Star Wars/Trek, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings), and part of it is because I tend to take unpopular positions in meta discussions. I'm sure many of my positions are unpopular because they're wrong, but I can't help thinking that if I had more social currency the approach would be &quot;let's see why this might make sense&quot; instead of &quot;probably wrong so I'll stop reading once I find something I disagree with.&quot; To be clear I don't feel like I've been terribly mistreated by anyone, and I'm not looking for sympathy. For better or worse, right or wrong, this is my perception. I bring it up because your question is all about perception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I've seen more drama, politics, and controversy here than any other SE meta site that I read. I believe this also contributes to a perception of being cliquish. Here are some examples of the drama/politics/controversy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The chatroom was closed multiple times, and almost permanently. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There seemed to be widespread support for a moderator bid by someone recently banned for sock puppetry.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A long time contributor (and former mod if memory serves) deleted their account based on the election of a new mod.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A old mod was forcibly removed from their position by the CM team due to significant and persistent disagreements. (If this is an unfair characterization please edit to correct.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure similar things are present elsewhere in the network, but things are quite lively even though you portray the social aspect as very limited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally there are inside jokes and the like here which are inescapable. Those types of things also tend to be exclusionary to those not &quot;in the know&quot; or with &quot;the in crowd.&quot; I believe one of the inside jokes was in praise of your contributions and along the lines that you were really J.K. Rowling in disguise. Regardless of the veracity of the joke it shows you are part of the in crowd IMO, which might be why you have trouble identifying with those who aren't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've only been around for under a year though so maybe I joined right as the flavor of the site changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53771" LastEditorUserId="53771" LastEditDate="2016-09-27T15:22:23.623" LastActivityDate="2016-09-27T15:22:23.623" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2016-09-28T20:21:57.100" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mine is a picture of Thomas the Tank Engine with a really angry face with the text &quot;All aboard the rage train&quot; which was given to me by a friend when they saw me fly into a rage at Java and Oracle's SQL client having two objects with the same type and it causing me to go &quot;WHAT DO YOU MEAN DATE ISN'T TYPE OF DATE. THEY'RE THE SAME DAMN THING!?!?!&quot;  and then fly into a further rant about why would they ever do that and not use the same class for both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40833" LastActivityDate="2016-09-28T20:21:57.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10212" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10213" CreationDate="2016-09-30T02:03:29.130" Score="2" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;This older &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/134080/short-story-first-spaceships-burn-starts-chain-reaction-and-destroys-all-life&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; from July, which has an accepted answer, was closed as a duplicate of this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/141847/short-story-rocket-fuel-which-oxidizes-iron-destroys-life-on-earth&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; from today, which does not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That seems wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28516" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2016-09-30T05:25:41.257" LastActivityDate="2016-09-30T13:25:16.500" Title="Why was an older, accepted story ID question closed as a duplicate of a newer one without acceptance?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|story-identification|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10212" CreationDate="2016-09-30T05:07:36.130" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've reconstructed the order of events using the timelines on all the posts in question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;01:23:35Z&lt;/code&gt;: user14111 posted a comment (now deleted) on the newer question which gave the title of the answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;01:26:44Z&lt;/code&gt;: The user who asked the newer question (Arlen) posted a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/141847/short-story-rocket-fuel-which-oxidizes-iron-destroys-life-on-earth#comment360100_141847&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt; saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;User14111 you are brilliant! Thank you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This comment can be construed as acceptance according to our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7067/31936&quot;&gt;policy on closing story ID questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;01:34:55Z&lt;/code&gt;: user14111 posted an answer to the newer question. The title is the same as given in the initial comment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;01:47:51Z&lt;/code&gt;: user14111 cast a binding close vote on the older question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;01:59:38Z&lt;/code&gt;: Arlen officially accepted user14111's answer on the newer question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;02:03:29Z&lt;/code&gt;: You posted this meta question. Since this occurred only a few minutes after Arlen accepted user14111's answer, it makes sense that you thought the newer question didn't have an accepted answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The order of events is difficult to follow, and it's completely understandable that you think it &quot;seems wrong&quot;. However, the closing of one question as a duplicate of the other was technically in accordance with our policy on story ID duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having established that the two questions can indeed be closed as duplicates, the issue becomes whether to close the newer or older one as the duplicate of the other. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4749/31936&quot;&gt;Our policy is to leave the better of the two duplicate questions open and close the other one, even if the older one ends up closed.&lt;/a&gt; Both the question and answer on the newer one are more descriptive, so I believe it is the right choice to close the older one as a duplicate of the newer one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2016-09-30T13:25:16.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10214" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10217" CreationDate="2016-09-30T07:11:02.623" Score="8" ViewCount="400" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am confused regarding the usage of the tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alternate-realities&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alternate-realities&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alternate-realities&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alternate-world&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alternate-world&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alternate-world&lt;/a&gt;. Is there any clear guidance for their usage? Do we really need both the tags separately?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alternate-realities&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alternate-realities&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alternate-realities&lt;/a&gt; is used with 26 questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alternate-world&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alternate-world&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alternate-world&lt;/a&gt; used with 37 questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alternate-realities+alternate-world&quot;&gt;4 questions&lt;/a&gt; have both the tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it not better to merge both the tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Note: Tags do make a difference.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6006" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-10-06T05:26:24.967" Title="Tag confusion: Alternate Realities vs Alternate World" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10215" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10219" CreationDate="2016-09-30T07:35:54.103" Score="-7" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/buffy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;buffy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;buffy&lt;/a&gt; tag is a franchise tag but its name makes it sound like a character tag. I know it's an old famous tag but it's never too late to fix issues. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffyverse&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Buffyverse&lt;/a&gt; is a fan favorite term for the franchise and quite well known among the fans. I did discuss &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/31876324#31876324&quot;&gt;it in chat &lt;/a&gt; but to no avail. So bringing it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; It can be achieved without affecting the front page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6006" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-09-30T12:14:56.667" LastActivityDate="2016-09-30T16:38:35.683" Title="Rename buffy franchise tag to Buffyverse for more clarity" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10215" CreationDate="2016-09-30T09:58:30.713" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Nope&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has there been a single instance where a user has reported confusion over the tag? Has there been any occurrrences of a user creating a new tag because they don't know how to use the old one? &lt;strong&gt;Is there more likelihood that users will recreate the &quot;Buffy&quot; tag because they don't know what a Buffyverse is?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems like a change that would make little or no difference to people's likely usage of the site and could potentially make people's lives microscopically harder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-09-30T11:10:20.173" LastActivityDate="2016-09-30T11:10:20.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10214" CreationDate="2016-09-30T12:56:40.817" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; merge and synonymisation &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/parallel-universe/synonyms&quot;&gt;complete&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;You missed one: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/parallel-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;parallel-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;parallel-universe&lt;/a&gt; with 54 questions. Since there doesn't seem to be any widely agreed-upon difference in meaning between &quot;parallel universe&quot;, &quot;alternate reality&quot;, and &quot;alternate world&quot;, and they're usually if not always used to mean the same thing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;I propose that all three of these tags should be merged &amp;amp; synonymised.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this answer gets sufficient support, a mod can do this without bumping any questions to the front page. &lt;strong&gt;Please leave suggestions in the comments as to which of the three tags should be the 'master' and which should be its synonyms.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(There's also an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alternate-history&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alternate-history&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alternate-history&lt;/a&gt; tag. I believe &quot;alternate history&quot; may have different connotations and meaning to the other three - more about changing specific historical events than setting up an entire separate universe - but if I'm wrong, please do correct me in the comments and I'll edit the above to propose that all &lt;em&gt;four&lt;/em&gt; tags should be merged and synonymised.)&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;Let's also take a quick look at the tag wikis. Some of them are better than others, and we need to decide which one(s) we want to keep elements from before doing the merge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alternate-realities&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alternate-realities&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alternate-realities&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A reality different from that which is considered 'normal'.  This normally occurs when timelines overlap and people/objects are transferred from one reality to another.  E.G., consider the alternate reality in multiple Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes, including the alternate timeline of the final episodes 'All good things' - the events in all three timelines differ from what happens normally in the 'original' timeline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alternate-world&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alternate-world&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alternate-world&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A fictional location. Sometimes known as a parallel universe.&#xA;  &lt;hr&gt;&#xA;  Alternate worlds are usually similar to, but are noticably different than the worlds they are viewed from. They often serve as cautionary tales and sometimes take the form of an alternate timeline (possibly from the result of time travel paradox's), or as a reality in another dimension. Any distortion of past history, depending on the the observers point of view, could be considered an alternate world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/parallel-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;parallel-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;parallel-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A parallel universe or alternative reality is a hypothetical self-contained separate reality coexisting with one's own. A specific group of parallel universes is called a &quot;multiverse&quot;, although this term can also be used to describe the possible parallel universes that constitute reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While the terms &quot;parallel universe&quot; and &quot;alternative reality&quot; are generally synonymous and can be used interchangeably in most cases, there is sometimes an additional connotation implied with the term &quot;alternative reality&quot; that implies that the reality is a variant of our own. The term &quot;parallel universe&quot; is more general, without any connotations implying a relationship, or lack of relationship, with our own universe. A universe where the very laws of nature are different – for example, one in which there are no &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_relativity&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;relativistic limitations&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;speed of light&lt;/a&gt; can be exceeded – would in general count as a parallel universe but not an alternative reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fantasy has long borrowed the idea of &quot;another world&quot; from myth, legend and religion. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Heaven&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hell&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Olympians&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Olympus&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valhalla&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Valhalla&lt;/a&gt; are all “alternative universes” different from the familiar material realm. Modern fantasy often presents the concept as a series of planes of existence where the laws of nature differ, allowing magical phenomena of some sort on some planes. One of the first science fiction examples is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wyndham&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;John Wyndham&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_Quest&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Random Quest&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; about a man who, on awaking after a laboratory accident, finds himself in a parallel universe where World War II never happened with consequences for his professional and personal life, giving him information he can use on return to his own universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Typically, parallel universes fall into two classifications. The first may be more accurately called a &quot;diverging universe&quot; whereby two versions of Earth share a common history up to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_divergence&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;point of divergence&lt;/a&gt;. At this point, the outcome of some even happens differently on the two Earths and the histories continue to become more different as time elapses since that point, such as the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tng&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tng&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tng&lt;/a&gt; episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallels_%28Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Parallels&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. The second type is where despite certain, often large, difference between the two Earths history and/or culture, they maintain strong similarities. In such cases, it is common that every person in one universe will have a counterpart in the other universe with the same name, ancestry, appearance, and frequently occupation but often a very different personality, such as the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tos&lt;/a&gt; episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror,_Mirror_%28Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Mirror, Mirror&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alternate-history&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alternate-history&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alternate-history&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hyperspace&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hyperspace&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hyperspace&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sliders&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sliders&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sliders&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time-travel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time-travel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time-travel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Further reading&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_universe_%28fiction%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Parallel universe (fiction)&lt;/a&gt; on the English Wikipedia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fiction_employing_parallel_universes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;List of fiction employing parallel universes&lt;/a&gt; on the English Wikipedia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperspace_%28science_fiction%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hyperspace (science fiction)&lt;/a&gt; on the English Wikipedia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_history&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Alternate history&lt;/a&gt; on the English Wikipedia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel_in_fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Time travel in fiction&lt;/a&gt; on the English Wikipedia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional_universe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fictional universe&lt;/a&gt; on the English Wikipedia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sliders&lt;/em&gt;, a TV series where the concept of parallel universes is central to the plot:&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliders&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sliders&lt;/em&gt; on the English Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112167/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sliders&lt;/em&gt; on the Internet Movie Database&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_universe_%28fiction%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Parallel universe (fiction)&lt;/a&gt; on the English Wikipedia.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2016-10-06T00:56:25.367" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10201" CreationDate="2016-09-30T16:05:37.123" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Questions in underappreciated tags&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of my pledge to this site for a long time has been to try to popularise some relatively obscure tags (not necessarily obscure &lt;em&gt;works&lt;/em&gt; of SF/F, but those which haven't had many questions asked about them here on SE). As part of this, I'd like to promote a few tags which don't have many questions but have had some good ones this quarter. Most of them are fantasy novels, because hey, that's my thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/animorphs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;animorphs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;animorphs&lt;/a&gt; Special nod to &lt;strong&gt;Fiksdal&lt;/strong&gt; for helping to breathe life into this tag. Among his many good questions about this series, I chose the following one which hasn't yet been answered:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/139545/when-receiving-thought-speak-does-one-know-who-else-its-addressed-to&quot;&gt;When receiving thought-speak, does one know who else it&amp;#39;s addressed to?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-princess-bride&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-princess-bride&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-princess-bride&lt;/a&gt; I'm very pleased with my own success in this tag this quarter, with many great answers from &lt;strong&gt;Radhil&lt;/strong&gt;, but here I chose a question which Radhil and I weren't involved with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/139366/why-did-humperdinck-want-to-start-a-war&quot;&gt;Why did Humperdinck want to start a war?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bartimaeus&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bartimaeus&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bartimaeus&lt;/a&gt; Nod to &lt;strong&gt;Bellerephon&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Adamant&lt;/strong&gt; for helping to breathe life into this tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/134464/what-is-the-ranking-order-of-resilience&quot;&gt;What is the ranking order of resilience?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/witcher&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;witcher&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;witcher&lt;/a&gt; This had a few questions this quarter, and I chose the most significant one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/138095/how-does-geralt-of-rivia-meet-yennefer-of-vengerberg&quot;&gt;How does Geralt of Rivia meet Yennefer of Vengerberg?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/redwall&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;redwall&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;redwall&lt;/a&gt; Only one question in this tag this quarter:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/134470/suggested-order-for-the-redwall-series&quot;&gt;Suggested order for the Redwall series?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jonathan-strange&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jonathan-strange&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jonathan-strange&lt;/a&gt; I enjoyed answering this one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/139840/who-is-the-dark-man-in-the-feather-suit&quot;&gt;Who is the dark man in the feather suit?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Answers which redeemed questions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes a question is posted which is very poorly received initially but gains more traction and upvotes after being redeemed by a great answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/133884/why-does-the-chandelier-unscrew-the-other-way&quot;&gt;Why does the chandelier unscrew the other way?&lt;/a&gt; seems like a ridiculous question at first glance, but &lt;strong&gt;DVK-in-exile&lt;/strong&gt; provided a canon answer which made the question look more reasonable.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/140343/are-there-toilets-on-the-hogwarts-express&quot;&gt;Are there toilets on the Hogwarts express?&lt;/a&gt; initially received downvotes and even close votes, before &lt;strong&gt;Au101&lt;/strong&gt; provided a nice canon answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/135535/what-would-happen-if-romulus-thread-killed-the-district-12-victors&quot;&gt;What would happen if Romulus Thread killed the District 12 victors?&lt;/a&gt; was initially closed as primarily opinion-based, but then it was reopened after my answer proved without doubt that the question could be objectively answered.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Apologies to anyone I forgot!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I always hate answering these &quot;favourite questions and answers&quot; posts, because I know that I'll never be able to remember all the posts I particularly liked. Doubtless as soon as this goes live on the blog, I'll remember more tags I should have mentioned, or more mediocre questions saved by great answers, or just some posts I really really liked which have slipped my mind for the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, perfectionism must at times be put aside for the sake of practicality. Yes, I'm sure there are things I've forgotten; but it's better to have an imperfect list than no list at all. Thank you for reading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-09-30T16:05:37.123" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10215" CreationDate="2016-09-30T16:38:35.683" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, but rename &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/buffy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;buffy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;buffy&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/buffy-the-vampire-slayer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;buffy-the-vampire-slayer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;buffy-the-vampire-slayer&lt;/a&gt;, the proper full name of the franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Rationale&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think we need a character tag for Buffy herself.&lt;sup&gt;&amp;dagger;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question now is, what tags &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; we need?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Buffyverse consists of &lt;em&gt;Buffy the Vampire Slayer&lt;/em&gt;, which has a movie, a TV series, a line of comics and a line of novels, and of &lt;em&gt;Angel&lt;/em&gt;, which has a TV series and a line of comics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we have two tags for two TV series and their accompanying works. For questions spanning the entire Buffyverse, just add both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Rename&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that we &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; rename &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/buffy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;buffy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;buffy&lt;/a&gt; to the full title, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/buffy-the-vampire-slayer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;buffy-the-vampire-slayer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;buffy-the-vampire-slayer&lt;/a&gt;, with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/buffy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;buffy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;buffy&lt;/a&gt; a synonym.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that's a bit besides the point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&amp;dagger;: I know there's a certain high-rep user who is a big fan of the character, but I still don't think we need a character tag for her. Sorry, Richard.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2016-09-30T16:38:35.683" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10220" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10221" CreationDate="2016-09-30T17:53:45.323" Score="4" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;If an answer is say -5, and I up-vote it, will they still get the plus 10?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user46509" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-09-30T22:31:10.580" LastActivityDate="2016-09-30T22:31:10.580" Title="If I up vote an answer that is negative, will the user still get the 10 points?" Tags="|support|voting|up-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10220" CreationDate="2016-09-30T18:04:56.227" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;help centre&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You gain reputation when: [...] answer is voted up: +10&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This applies regardless of the current score of the answer.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;As for the help links not working, you might want to post that as a separate question and tag it &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/bug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt;, so that the people who handle bug reports are more likely to see it and deal with it. If it's an SE-wide problem for you and not just SFF, you could report it on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;main meta&lt;/a&gt; instead; this will increase the chances of those people seeing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2016-09-30T18:04:56.227" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10195" CreationDate="2016-10-02T04:05:37.577" Score="2" Body="&lt;h3&gt;No, but yes.  But mostly no.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;New users aren’t unfairly targeted for being new, in my experience.  There is a learning curve, and the newer you are, the more likely it is that there will be problems with your posts.  This is natural, inevitable, and part of the learning process.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There aren’t distinct cliques of mutually hostile users.  Obviously, we’re all human, so I won’t like everyone, and not everyone will like me.  User A might despise User B, and vice versa.  Again, this is impossible to avoid.  But User A and User B hating each other isn’t cliquishness, unless each of them attract a circle of allies who are similarly hostile or aloof to one another.  Fortunately, this hasn’t happened here - we have some people who don’t get along, but we certainly haven’t devolved into warring &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Flies&lt;/em&gt;-like factions.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The “regulars” in Mos have idiosyncratic relationships, inside jokes, and a well established repartee. This can leave new users feeling a bit left out at first, but once again, this is inevitable.  People who already know each other share in a dialogue that has been going on for some time, and a newcomer will take a while to understand the context of that dialogue.  But I’ve never seen anyone attempt to keep the newbies in the dark.  If someone enters chat for the first time, sees people talking about Toad Spit or time traveling robots, and asks “What’s the deal with that?”, the regulars will quickly explain.  The new guy might be taken aback when I tell Slytherincess that her face smells, but when she replies with a picture of a crying baby, he’ll probably figure out that we’re friends teasing each other, not jerks in the middle of a fight. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8lerY.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8lerY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Wad made me cry and my face is not smelly!!!!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a loosely defined and constantly fluctuating group of regulars in Mos, and in a sense, we could be called a clique, but it certainly isn’t an exclusive club.  To become a “member”, all one has to do is show up and chat on a frequent basis.  That’s it.  Come in and talk, and pretty soon, you’ll be one of us, whether you like it or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Established users are disproportionately active on Meta, but - you guessed it - this is another inevitability.  Most people won’t even know Meta exists until someone tells them about it.  Furthermore, there are basically only two reasons people use Meta:  1.  They have an issue with something related to them personally - a downvote, a question closure, or an answer being deleted.  2.  They are so familiar with the main site that they’ve started to take an interest in operational issues regarding tags, policies, or other minutiae.  I don’t see how you could call Meta cliquish, because it is pretty boring and no one comes here to interact with one another;  but even if you do consider it a clique, it is an even more open clique than Mos.  Want in?  All you have to do is start posting.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some people may take the OP’s identity into account when voting on questions and answers, and established users might benefit unfairly from their familiarity to the other users, but I don’t think it happens often enough to be a serious issue. When a well-known, high rep user gets a billion upvotes, I think it has more to do with their experience and knowledge (and the SF&amp;amp;F obsession that brought them here in the first place, then allowed them to answer so many questions so well) than their popularity.  But here, I can add a personal anecdote:  I joined the site a year and a half ago, and I got blasted on one of my first questions (and rightly so, because it was a rant).  I knew nothing about Star Trek, Doctor Who, or Harry Potter, and I had never read a word of Tolkien.  Despite this, once I understood what a good answer entailed here, I started racking up rep and establishing myself.  Within 4 months, I had over 10,000 rep, based almost exclusively on the Star Wars films and Tolkien.  Becoming a chat regular took even less time.  Becoming a so-called “power user” takes a bit of work, but anyone can do it - and do it pretty quickly - if they put in the time and energy. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;To the extent that cliques exist on SF&amp;amp;F, they are natural, inevitable, benign, and open.  Establishing oneself is a matter of putting in the time to get to know people, and letting them get to know you.  “Popularity” is dependent solely upon being friendly and allowing for a degree of familiarity to naturally develop -  it isn’t about whether you are deemed “cool” or whatever - it is about being nice and interacting with people.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;In other words, if you’re here, and you do stuff, and you talk to people, and you are nice to other users, you’re already a part of whatever “in-crowd” we have.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="51379" LastEditDate="2016-10-12T03:25:06.197" LastActivityDate="2016-10-12T03:25:06.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10223" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10228" CreationDate="2016-10-02T09:00:29.153" Score="6" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes people will ask us to identify multiple stories. In this case, the correct course of action would seem straightforward: leave a comment asking them to edit the question to focus on a single story, and ask about the other story separately. If they don’t do that (or perhaps before), vote to close as “too broad,” as is usual with multiple questions in one. If the OP leaves, then the question gets closed as “too broad.” No problem here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As we know, though, sometimes elements of various works get mixed up in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should we do, then, in the case where the querent believes that they are recalling a single, story, but are actually  mixing up details from multiple works? Presumably, we should encourage the OP to edit and ask the rest separately. &lt;strong&gt;But what if the question is abandoned?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We can’t close as too broad, since the OP is not around to confirm that whatever partial match we might have discovered is really it, and that it’s not merely a single work that we hadn’t considered.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would seem like a bad idea to provide a partial answer, because of the definite possibility that the other plot details are from separate works that need to be identified. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would probably be a bad idea to try to identify the other works and write a single answer, since we don’t want multiple questions in one. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the best course of action?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastActivityDate="2016-10-02T12:22:55.807" Title="How to deal with abandoned potential multiple story identifications?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10224" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-02T09:37:31.810" Score="-2" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;From *what I can see, there is something that allows a user to single handedly close that topics questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is there something similar for someone who has asked the most questions on that tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="65457" LastEditDate="2016-10-02T09:53:11.363" LastActivityDate="2016-10-06T13:39:24.790" Title="Is there anything for asking the most questions for a specific tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|privileges|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10224" CreationDate="2016-10-02T09:55:20.220" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;There’s not&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gold tag badges (or indeed all tag badges) only take into account &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, not questions. There aren’t any closing powers that users can acquire (at the moment) from asking a great number of questions in a certain tag, even if those questions receive lots of upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, asking lots of questions &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; give one more generic privileges on the site, through reputation&amp;mdash;but nothing tag-based. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There’s a good reason for this: the gold tag badge powers are not merely a reward for answering a bunch of questions, but are given to people who &lt;em&gt;understand&lt;/em&gt; a topic well enough to know when questions are duplicates. Giving lots of well-received answers is a better metric of that than asking lots of well-received questions. After all, many well-received questions are asked by people without much knowledge of the topic at all: &lt;strong&gt;they’re just good questions.&lt;/strong&gt;  Indeed, asking a large number of questions in an area &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt;, on average, indicate a great deal of curiosity about the area but not in-depth knowledge (though, if this does hold, it is &lt;strong&gt;certainly&lt;/strong&gt; not true in all cases). Further, the badge is also a sign that you’ve seen a lot of posts that might be duplicates. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; get a number of excellent gold badges for asking questions (though again, nothing tag-based). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/42/great-question&quot;&gt;Great Question&lt;/a&gt; badges, obviously. These are fairly hard to get and reward the best questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/124/socratic&quot;&gt;Socratic&lt;/a&gt; badge rewards people who ask good questions consistently over a long period of time. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/37/famous-question&quot;&gt;Famous Question&lt;/a&gt; badge rewards people whose questions bring users to our site. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2016-10-02T10:02:20.790" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10224" CreationDate="2016-10-02T10:06:06.403" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The former are called gold tag badges.  You can see all the gold tag badges awarded &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges?tab=tags&amp;amp;filter=gold&quot;&gt;on the main site&lt;/a&gt; , and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/help/badges?tab=tags&amp;amp;filter=gold&quot;&gt;on the meta&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For asking a lot of questions about a topic, there isn't a specific award.  However, there is an easy way to find out who has asked high reputation questions about a tag.  On a tag page, eg. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;, follow the &quot;top users&quot; link to go to a page like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/harry-potter%20/topusers&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;.That page contains a list under the heading &lt;em&gt;&quot;Top &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; Askers: All Time&quot;&lt;/em&gt; which shows that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3500/slytherincess&quot;&gt;Slytherincess&lt;/a&gt; has asked questions in this tag for a total score of 3891 (score means the difference of upvotes and downvotes on a post).  The list is sorted by the total score, not the number of posts.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update.&lt;/strong&gt;  For reference, here are the users who have posted the highest number of questions in each tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is based on the data dump from 2016-09, so it's not completely up to date.  It counts all questions, including tag wiki ones and closed ones, but not deleted questions, and it doesn't care about the score.  The number of questions in that tag is shown before each user.  Only users who have asked 24 or more questions are shown, and only for tags with 100 or more questions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;71 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/23243&quot;&gt;FuzzyBoots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;27 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4356&quot;&gt;Major Stackings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;25 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/931&quot;&gt;Ghostbusters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;236 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3500&quot;&gt;Slytherincess&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;217 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/976&quot;&gt;DVK-in-exile&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;91 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/931&quot;&gt;Ghostbusters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;68 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1693&quot;&gt;Tango&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;55 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3804&quot;&gt;AncientSwordRage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;53 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/51142&quot;&gt;CHEESE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;47 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/40429&quot;&gt;vap78&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;45 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/36050&quot;&gt;Jake&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;41 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/55866&quot;&gt;ibid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;40 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/13716&quot;&gt;user13267&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;38 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4918&quot;&gt;b_jonas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;38 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394&quot;&gt;Rand al&amp;#x27;Thor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;34 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/26703&quot;&gt;Kevin The Knight&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;30 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/8199&quot;&gt;forgivemymoccasins&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;30 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/60197&quot;&gt;Anoplexian&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;30 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4356&quot;&gt;Major Stackings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;28 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/64888&quot;&gt;The Dark Lord&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;28 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/21267&quot;&gt;Mooz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;26 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1234&quot;&gt;Xantec&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;26 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/29220&quot;&gt;Himarm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;26 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1148&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;25 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/43655&quot;&gt;Janus Bahs Jacquet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;25 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/54738&quot;&gt;prakhar londhe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;25 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/57642&quot;&gt;bleh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;24 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/48898&quot;&gt;Axelonet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; 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  <row Id="10227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10223" CreationDate="2016-10-02T11:50:34.803" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's pretty common for a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questioner (in good faith) to conflate two different works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can positively identify &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt;, you should do so in an answer; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;I think you're conflating &quot;Work A&quot; with &quot;Work B&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can only identify &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt;, you should answer with that and make it clear that you think the other element/s have come from another property; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;I think you're conflating &quot;Work A&quot; with something else because &lt;em&gt;these bits&lt;/em&gt; fit and &lt;em&gt;these bits&lt;/em&gt; don't&quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP can then ask a follow-up question to disambiguate the missing parts &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions like these should not be subject to a close vote.&lt;/strong&gt; That only applies when the OP &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;consciously&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; asks a question about two different works. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The fact that they're 'abandoned' is irrelevant.&lt;/strong&gt; They may have set an email watchdog and come back when the question gets answered. They may be using a different logon to watch the question periodically.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-10-02T12:22:55.807" LastActivityDate="2016-10-02T12:22:55.807" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10223" CreationDate="2016-10-02T12:00:31.387" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, a couple of notes about our own ignorance in such a scenario:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We can't know that a question has been abandoned.&lt;/strong&gt; Even when the OP hasn't been seen on the site for months, there's always the possibility that they might come back unexpectedly. E.g. on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/90635/31394&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, the OP 'accepted' an answer via comment and only returned 6 months later to accept it properly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We can't know that the OP truly is conflating several different stories.&lt;/strong&gt; It might &lt;em&gt;look&lt;/em&gt; like their description is partly this and partly that, but that's often how real stories are written: by mixing elements of several existing ones. So it's always possible that everyone &lt;em&gt;thinks&lt;/em&gt; the OP's question is a mixture of elements from two or more books but in fact it's a good description of a single little-known one.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;Now on to your main question of how to deal with these questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They shouldn't necessarily be closed.&lt;/strong&gt; This follows immediately from the 2nd point above: if there's even a chance that the question &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be describing a single story, then it shouldn't be closed for mixing up elements from several. (Of course, it might still be close-worthy for a different reason, e.g. giving so little detail that it makes the story impossible to identify, but that's unlikely if there's enough detail for people to spot two or more stories in there.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There's nothing to stop people from answering them.&lt;/strong&gt; If you think you've correctly identified one or more of the stories being conflated in the question, then feel free to post it as an answer. There's nothing wrong with partial answers - they might not be worthy of acceptance, but they're not worthy of deletion either. And if you can identify &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of the stories being conflated, even better! Even if the OP never returns to confirm your guess, a good answer is still a good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2016-10-02T12:00:31.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10229" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10230" CreationDate="2016-10-02T23:03:52.653" Score="8" ViewCount="343" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7924/51379&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; is currently our consensus policy on using work, franchise, and author tags, and (in my opinion) seems to cover most situations pretty well. It doesn’t really seem to cover or at least discuss short stories. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/32680068#32680068&quot;&gt;KutuluMike&lt;/a&gt;: I never came up with a good answer for short stories. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With books, we generally tag with the name of the book and &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the name of the author (unless the question is specifically about the author or general aspects of their work), per the previously mentioned policy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several problems with extending this policy to short stories, though, and creating a tag for each short story that someone asks about. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A number of short stories have long titles compared to books. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More pertinent, a lot of short stories have very short, undescriptive titles. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People are less likely to be very knowledgeable about one short story (and not a bunch of others) than they are to be knowledgeable about a single book or series.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People are extraordinarily unlikely to subscribe to most short story tags. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;People are not going to search for questions about a specific short story. Even if they remember a specific short story, they are more likely to search for short stories by a certain author, because of their interest in that author. If (as is more than likely) they don’t even remember the name of the short story that they’re wondering about, they’ll definitely just search by author. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Short stories are often rather thin on plot and worldbuilding, and thus potential questions. For this reason, as well as issues of obscurity, &lt;strong&gt;except for the most famous short stories (award winners and so forth), repeat questions are quite unlikely. We might end up with a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of one-question tags.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, the author is the unifying element of most short story questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, as another way of looking at things, I applied the rough (and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9215/31394&quot;&gt;disputed&lt;/a&gt;) tag creation guidelines discussed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7871/tag-wars-episode-i-harry-potter-and-the-tag-cleanup&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; post, to a hypothetical tag for, say, “We Who Stole the Dream,” a short story by a pretty famous sci-fi author, identified &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/141179/51379&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Could someone be an expert on that story? Not really. -1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Could a question be tagged only with that? Yes, if we adopt the opposite of the policy suggested here. +2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Would the tag have an unambiguous meaning? Yes, +2.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it likely to be used correctly? Yes, +2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there &quot;enough&quot; (&gt; 15) but not &quot;too many&quot; (&gt; 10% site-wide) questions that qualify for the tag? Definitely not. -1.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Would people use the tag to find questions to answer? Quite unlikely. They’d just search for the name of the author.  -1.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Will anyone favorite or ignore it?  No. -1. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Could it be used to feed questions to a specialized chatroom? Nah. -1. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Finally, could it productively be used to search for questions? Sometimes. +1.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The total comes to 0, compared to 8 or more for a good tag. Stories with vague titles would come out better in the “productive search” category (+2), but worse in the unambiguous meaning category (+1) and “likely to be used correctly” (-1). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, this basically is our current &lt;em&gt;de facto&lt;/em&gt;  policy. The few questions about short  stories that I see tend to be tagged with the name of the author. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we simply tag most short stories with the name of the author?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-10-04T17:11:49.600" Title="Should we tag questions about short stories with the name of the author?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10229" CreationDate="2016-10-03T16:18:28.360" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;TL;DR I agree that author tags should be used for short stories.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You present a very well reasoned approach in your question. I see a couple different scenarios and all would need the author tag to not create confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Short stories published as an anthology by a single author.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Short stories published as an anthology with different authors.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Short stories published as stand alone works.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Short stories may be published in numerous collections or publications so using that as a tag will be confusing because which anthology title should we use? As @Adamant mentioned in the comments, fans of short stories are going to be searching by the title of the story and/or the author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that many short story titles can be too generic which is why it a bad idea to use them for tags. The &lt;code&gt;short-stories&lt;/code&gt; (even though it generally used for ID questions) could be helpful to differentiate between a question about the author themselves or a story they have written.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My overall suggestion would be to use the author's name for the tag and make sure the title of the short story is prominently featured in the title or body of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-10-04T17:11:49.600" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10214" CreationDate="2016-10-06T05:03:24.157" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The people of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jessesword.com/sf/home&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Science Fiction Citations&lt;/a&gt; site have studied the usage of these terms (&lt;em&gt;alternate reality&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;alternate world&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;parallel universe&lt;/em&gt;, etc.) more seriously than anybody else; they have considered most every combination of adjective and noun you can think of, and they have dredged a large body of literature for evidence. Here are their definitions (follow the links to see many historical examples of the use of each term):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jessesword.com/sf/view/158&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;alternate reality&lt;/a&gt; = alternate world&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jessesword.com/sf/view/228&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;alternate universe&lt;/a&gt; = alternate world&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jessesword.com/sf/view/13&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;alternate world&lt;/a&gt; one of many possible universes, which may have different physical laws or a different history than our own&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jessesword.com/sf/view/1366&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;alternative reality&lt;/a&gt; = alternate world&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jessesword.com/sf/view/613&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;alternative universe&lt;/a&gt; = alternate world&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jessesword.com/sf/view/485&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;alternative world&lt;/a&gt; = alternate world&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jessesword.com/sf/view/87&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;parallel universe&lt;/a&gt; A universe in which physical laws or historical events are different to our own&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jessesword.com/sf/view/88&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;parallel world&lt;/a&gt; A world like our own, but which has [differences] in history or physical laws to our [own]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If these three definitions are not exactly the same, the differences are obscure and insignificant; nothing we need to take seriously, much less create separate tags for. &lt;a href=&quot;http://jeffprucher.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff Prucher&lt;/a&gt;'s Hugo-winning book &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_Words&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is largely based on the material at the Science Fiction Citations site. The definitions there differ slightly in wording but amount to the same thing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;alternative world&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;n.&lt;/em&gt; one of many possible space-time continua, having a different history or physical laws than our own space-time continuum&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;parallel universe&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;n.&lt;/em&gt; a universe or space-time continuum that exists alongside ours, and which may possess different physical laws or a different history. Also used &lt;em&gt;fig.&lt;/em&gt; Compare PARALLEL WORLD.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;parallel world&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;n.&lt;/em&gt; a PARALLEL UNIVERSE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, alternate/alternative &lt;strong&gt;history&lt;/strong&gt; is a horse of a different colour. Quoting the Science Fiction Citations site again:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jessesword.com/sf/view/157&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;alternate history&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; a subgenre of science fiction wherein at least one aspect of history is different from that of our own world; the setting of such stories&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jessesword.com/sf/view/262&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;alternative history&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; = alternate history&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of the terms discussed here, only &lt;em&gt;parallel universe&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;parallel world&lt;/em&gt; have entries in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oed.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the online OED&lt;/a&gt; at this time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;parallel universe&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;n. (a)&lt;/em&gt; (orig. and chiefly &lt;em&gt;Science Fiction&lt;/em&gt;) a universe conceived of as existing alongside or in addition to our own, having many similarities to it but usually differing from it in some significant way; also &lt;em&gt;fig&lt;/em&gt;.;  &lt;em&gt;(b)&lt;/em&gt; (in the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics) a universe regarded as actually existing alongside our own, albeit with no possibility of detection (see &lt;em&gt;many-worlds n.&lt;/em&gt; at MANY &lt;em&gt;adj.&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;pron.&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;n.&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;adv.&lt;/em&gt; Compounds 2).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;parallel world&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;n.&lt;/em&gt; fictional or hypothesized world held to exist alongside or in addition to the known world; = &lt;em&gt;parallel universe n.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastEditorUserId="14111" LastEditDate="2016-10-06T05:26:24.967" LastActivityDate="2016-10-06T05:26:24.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10233" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-07T04:34:11.587" Score="16" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;After having joined the site and been visiting regularly for a while, I have discovered many, many cases of duplicate questions (i.e. questions having the same answer, per apparent consensus definition for this tag).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've finally collected enough points to start voting-to-close these old questions, but it appears that at least some users feel that I'm sometimes doing this the &quot;wrong way.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to cause undue stress on moderators or queue reviewers, nor do I want to abuse the newly-granted ability to VTC. I am aware (I think) of most of the consensus decisions on how duplicates should be handled, and I am in agreement that obviously superior pages should have precedence, even if they are newer. However, in several cases, I have identified a group of 3 or more questions with the same answer, and in such cases, I lean heavily towards the oldest formally accepted (i.e. green check-mark) answer as the target to which other questions should point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My reasoning is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Earliest formally-accepted answer&quot; is an objective feature that will lead to one and only one question. Formally-accepted is better because someone very new to the site can tell at a glance the OP got a satisfactory answer (and therefore it is worth it to keep reading).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Obviously superior&quot; is a subjective call; if it's not at least 5x better in my opinion, I'd rather stick with the implicit guidance of the duplicate banner's &quot;this question has been asked before&quot; statement.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sometimes answer quality and question quality point in different directions, further complicating a subjective evaluation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Credit where credit is due&quot; seems applicable; newer duplicate answers very often don't point back to the original successful answer (though the recent trend seems to be to do this).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anyone coming to the site in response to one of the question pages (presumably the one that most closely matched their particular search terms) will be directed to a common &quot;central page&quot; for the group, from which all can be visited via the &quot;Linked&quot; pages section at right (and will thereby itself have aggregated many applicable search terms from the other questions' titles). As it stands, in certain cases, duplicate banners point to pages that are themselves closed as duplicates.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there points of consensus (of which I'm not aware) that govern situations like these? Does anyone have a better methodology to suggest? Would it be appropriate to make a feature request to have duplicate banners say the question has been answered &quot;more comprehensively&quot; instead of earlier?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Given the significant number of upvotes and the lack of competing answers, it seems Adamant's answer represents consensus. However, I haven't accepted it because of the open questions related to situations where the &quot;best&quot; answer for a group changes (see my comments on it below).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adamant notes that &quot;[d]uplicates of duplicates [are] &lt;em&gt;definitely an issue&lt;/em&gt;&quot; (italics mine), but in actual practice it seems this may be ignored in favor of &quot;better answer&quot; reasoning. (As an example from earlier today, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32276/main-character-can-manipulate-his-own-time&quot;&gt;Main character can &amp;quot;manipulate&amp;quot; his own time&lt;/a&gt; , which had a VTC overridden and was set as the duplicate target for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/53488/story-about-main-character-with-regeneration-powers&quot;&gt;Story about main character with regeneration powers&lt;/a&gt; despite the fact that the latter already had four other questions pointing to it as a duplicate.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I &lt;strong&gt;don't disagree&lt;/strong&gt; with the assessment of the Feb 26 2013 question being the &quot;best&quot; answer of the duplicate group, is it really the recommended procedure that every one of the others be reopened in order to reclose them with a new target? Or is it really the case that there is not a functional consensus that duplicates of duplicates are a significant issue to be managed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that &lt;em&gt;in this particular example case&lt;/em&gt;, the target chosen was an older question which had most likely been missed because of the title &lt;em&gt;Treason&lt;/em&gt; being used, instead of &lt;em&gt;A Planet Called Treason&lt;/em&gt; like others in the group. (By my own reasoning, being older is a strong preferential factor.) That wouldn't necessarily always be the case, so I don't consider it relevant to the general case discussion I'm trying to evoke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42769" LastEditorUserId="42769" LastEditDate="2016-10-22T18:03:37.010" LastActivityDate="2016-10-22T18:03:37.010" Title="Best handling for &quot;dupe groups&quot; within [story-identification] questions?" 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  <row Id="10234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10233" CreationDate="2016-10-07T06:33:44.090" Score="12" Body="&lt;h1&gt;The duplication target should &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; be the better question&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, it’s probably worth noting that selecting the better question as a duplication target is both SE consensus (as well as the consensus on this site) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/147651/328832&quot;&gt;the recommendation of the Community Team.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;There are a few reasons to close the newer question as duplicate&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been touched on before in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4744/should-we-always-close-the-newer-question-as-the-duplicate?rq=1&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; (among others). Basically, &lt;strong&gt;we should generally close the worse of the two questions as duplicates.&lt;/strong&gt;  That, said, assuming that two questions are of similar quality, there are two big reasons to close a newer question as duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To discourage people from asking detailed and well-written questions that they know to be duplicate, in the hopes that these questions will get lots of upvotes and won’t be closed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Because, all other things equal, a new question without answers isn’t as good as an old question with answers. If the older question is really terrible, it might be worth considering choosing the newer question as the dupe target, but otherwise the overall quality of question plus answers is simply better on the old question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;None of these apply in this case&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the situation mentioned in the question, we have a whole pile of old questions, &lt;strong&gt;all of which &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; already have at least one answer&lt;/strong&gt; (otherwise we could not close as duplicate, per our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7067/51379&quot;&gt;policy&lt;/a&gt; on closing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People aren’t getting any more upvotes by the time the questions are eligible for closure.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All the questions already have answers, and so are of comparable quality in that respect.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we have to ask ourselves, &lt;strong&gt;what do we want?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We want people other than the original asker who are looking for the story to find the best-written answer with the most details, so that they have the best chance of identifying it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We want people who are reading &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; answers out of interest, or to find books that they might want to read, to be directed to the most interesting answer, the one that is most likely to help them make an informed assessment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All of this points toward choosing the question with the best answer, regardless of the age of the question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That’s the general argument for how to close &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions (assuming both have answers that have been confirmed by the OP, of course). But to address the more specific points you made:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The earliest accepted answer is certainly an &lt;em&gt;objective&lt;/em&gt; criterion, but that does not make it the best. Following that criterion can lead to a lot of questions with excellent, detailed answers being closed as duplicates of questions with one-line answers that do little more than state the name of the work identified. Subjectivity, in this case, is better for the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The same principle, really. Yes, which answer is superior is subjective, and sometimes difficult to determine. That’s fine: in borderline cases it’s perfectly acceptable to use whatever heuristic you like. The point is to make sure that questions with good answers are not being closed as duplicates of those with mediocre answers (or even worse, questions with mediocre answers being closed as duplicates of &lt;em&gt;others&lt;/em&gt; with mediocre answers).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yes, sometimes answer quality and question quality point in opposite directions. &lt;strong&gt;Except in cases where the question is significantly more detailed than the answer, I’d stick to answer quality for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Everyone deserves credit, most likely: chances are each answerer identified the story individually. And don’t people also deserve credit for writing a comprehensive, high-quality answer that makes it easy for the OP and future visitors to determine whether something is the correct story, rather than having to do their own research?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Duplicates of duplicates is definitely an issue, but not really so pertinent when it comes to which of a group of open questions to set as the dupe target. If the best question is already closed as a duplicate, and you think it would make a better dupe, casting a reopen vote (and leaving a comment explaining why), asking in chat for help reopening, or asking a moderator are all options that can be pursued (though it is often unnecessary).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;1: Usually the question with the best &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-10-07T06:39:50.740" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10235" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-10T10:50:01.317" Score="-9" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/142698/why-is-the-tie-fighter-tethered-in-force-awakens/142704#142704&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; is just worthless. Why was the flag declined?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-10-10T15:55:04.837" Title="Can someone tell why this flag was declined?" Tags="|support|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7946" CreationDate="2016-10-10T11:16:05.910" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://history.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5ZXdP.png&quot; alt=&quot;Do you know what Napoleon rode in Battle? Join History.SE&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:47:50.933" LastActivityDate="2016-10-10T11:35:45.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10237" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10240" CreationDate="2016-10-10T12:12:40.213" Score="10" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;The questions are following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/14829/how-is-the-wall-bypassed/&quot;&gt;How is The Wall bypassed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2967/how-did-gared-nights-watch-man-get-back-from-behind-the-wall&quot;&gt;How did Gared (Night&amp;#39;s Watch man) get back from behind The Wall?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first question is more general in nature while the second question was sort of tricky because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It asks how did Gared get across the wall?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It asks if the person who returned actually was Gared?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer on the first question lists all the ways listed in the canon sources to get across the wall. While on second question, I just established the case that the person who returned was really Gared and then I linked my first answer to answer how did he get across the wall. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, the second question has four close votes to be closed as duplicate of the first question. While the first question has two votes to be closed as duplicate of the second question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Given the nature of the two questions, my question here is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Should Question 2 be closed as duplicate of Question 1? Or should it be left open given the extra question in it which has nothing to do with Question 1?&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1702/are-questions-duplicate-if-they-share-a-topic-and-a-title-but-not-a-medium?rq=1&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; meta post, if the answers aren't exactly duplicate, the questions aren't duplicate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;1. I have actually cast a close vote already. I would retract it of course if the community consensus is that it should be left open&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-10-10T19:13:04.487" Title="How to deal with a Post which has two questions in it and one of which may be a duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|duplicate-questions|duplicate-answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10237" CreationDate="2016-10-10T14:08:00.080" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a post with two questions, we generally bug the querent to phrase it as two questions and some people with use the &quot;Close as Unclear as to what you're asking&quot; reason. I agree with the first but not with the second.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen others remove one of the questions to remove the duplicated bit, although that's much worse behavior in my opinion, particularly if some of the answers reference the removed bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2016-10-10T14:08:00.080" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10235" CreationDate="2016-10-10T14:39:37.027" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The post you linked to had 11 flags on it: 7 not an answer, 2 spam, 1 very low quality, and an auto-flag for very low quality. All those flags were marked helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are probably thinking of a &amp;quot;spam&amp;quot; flag you raised on a different post a few hours before. I handled that one and declined it. It was an older answer (from 2013) which was very low quality and had two delete votes cast on it. I deleted the post but declined your spam flag because &amp;quot;spam&amp;quot; is not the appropriate flagging reason for answers which are simply very low quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators are generally advised to mark flags has helpful if they lead the moderator to taking action, even if the flag reason is incorrect. However, the spam flag has a specific meaning and use:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What makes something &lt;em&gt;spam&lt;/em&gt; and when should I flag it?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A post should be marked as spam &lt;strong&gt;ONLY&lt;/strong&gt; when it contains an&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_%28electronic%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;unsolicited&#xA;advertisement&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; be marked as spam when:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The answer contains no useful information, such as an answer that&#xA;says “I don't care about your problem”. Flag an answer as &lt;em&gt;not an&#xA;answer&lt;/em&gt; instead; if you find a weird non-question, then flag it for&#xA;moderator attention with a custom explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It contains only gibberish, such as “fsdguejgkfdlk”. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/234035/152859&quot;&gt;Use the &lt;em&gt;rude&#xA;or abusive&lt;/em&gt; flag for these&#xA;cases&lt;/a&gt;, or flag for&#xA;moderator attention with a custom explanation if it requires more&#xA;detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How does the &lt;em&gt;spam&lt;/em&gt; flag differ from the &lt;em&gt;rude or abusive&lt;/em&gt; flag?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of getting the post deleted, there is no functional&#xA;difference aside from separate counts – 3/6 of either will be&#xA;sufficient to hide/delete. However, &lt;em&gt;spam&lt;/em&gt; flags &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/192847/162102&quot;&gt;provide data for&#xA;spam-filtering&lt;/a&gt;, while&#xA;&lt;em&gt;rude or abusive&lt;/em&gt; flags provide data for anti-trolling measures instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What effects do these flags have on a post?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These types of flags receive an extremely high priority in the&#xA;moderation queue. It should be used only when the content of the post&#xA;you are flagging meets the criteria defined above, or it will likely&#xA;be declined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The spam flag is designed to eliminate posts with no relevant content&#xA;and to penalize the authors:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3 flags on a question (&lt;em&gt;spam&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;rude or abusive&lt;/em&gt;): question is&#xA;banished from the front page and all question lists except search&#xA;results.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;6 flags (&lt;em&gt;spam&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;rude or abusive&lt;/em&gt;): post is&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/22228&quot;&gt;locked&lt;/a&gt;, deleted, and the&#xA;author loses 100 reputation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 flag from a moderator has the same&#xA;effect as 6 flags from normal users: instant destruction.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Contents of an answer that was deleted, and got at least one valid&#xA;&lt;em&gt;spam&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;rude or abusive&lt;/em&gt; flag, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/199969/&quot;&gt;will be hidden&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Because a&#xA;question with 6 flags is locked and deleted by the Community user, a&#xA;10 k reputation user cannot undelete it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Each flag carries an&#xA;implicit downvote for calculating the post’s score; it does not affect&#xA;the caster’s reputation, however.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/58035/299342&quot;&gt;What are the “spam” and “rude or abusive” (offensive) flags, and how do they work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I declined your spam flag since such flags are used for data-filtering and apply an additional penalty of 100 reputation on the post author, neither of which would have been appropriate. If you hunt around on main meta you'll see cases where moderators have declined a spam flag yet deleted a very low quality post (see, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/149282/299342&quot;&gt;this post by a Stack Overflow moderator&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The correct flag reason would have been &amp;quot;very low quality&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;not an answer&amp;quot;. I would have marked such a flag helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't speak for the moderator who marked your spam flag on the linked answer as helpful, but it may have been marked helpful only because there were so many other flags on the post and it did need to be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please take care to flag for the appropriate reason.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, your comment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Valorum , please delete this answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;on the linked post was both unnecessary and inappropriate. It was unnecessary since flagging the post had already brought it to the attention of the moderators via the moderator queue, and it was inappropriate since @Valorum is no longer one of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;site moderators&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-10-10T14:55:08.417" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10237" CreationDate="2016-10-10T14:45:19.637" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I spot a multi-question question &lt;em&gt;where one or more parts are already duplicates&lt;/em&gt;, I generally do three things;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) &lt;strong&gt;Vote to close as &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/267058/how-to-handle-a-question-that-asks-many-things&quot;&gt;Too Broad&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;. Note that this is the normal action when two or more questions are posted as a single question. &lt;strong&gt;The fact that one part is a dupe is actually irrelevant at this point&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) &lt;strong&gt;Comment to explain that multiple questions should be asked &lt;em&gt;as multiple questions&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) Elaborate in the comment to &lt;strong&gt;explain that at least one part of the question is already a duplicate.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming the non-duplicate part of the question is actually interesting/novel, once the question gets closed, I might go back in and edit out the non-duplicate part, turning it into a single question. I'll then vote to reopen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the OP rolls back the edit, I'll remove my vote to reopen and explain why. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T10:37:56.310" LastActivityDate="2016-10-10T19:13:04.487" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10242" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10244" CreationDate="2016-10-11T01:06:12.480" Score="3" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a vast media universe (super big comic strip, TV animated series) that has talking intelligent animals (Dogbert, Ratbert), imaginary futuristic technology (advanced AIs and robots), people being resurrected from death and most fantastical, Dilbert getting dates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems like it is on-topic based on the above?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2016-10-11T01:46:47.887" Title="Is &quot;Dilbert&quot; cartoon on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10242" CreationDate="2016-10-11T01:46:47.887" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Sometimes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it comes to works with some science fiction and fantasy elements, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/344/51379&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; lays out our general policy. It is possible for a work to have a minor sci-fi or fantasy element, but still be off-topic for most questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let’s see how &lt;em&gt;Dilbert&lt;/em&gt; fares according to the criteria in that answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If it’s marketed as SF, it’s on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dilbert is not marketed as science fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If magic, futuristic science or technology, alternate history, or&#xA;  other sf-nal concept is an important part of the overall plot, it’s&#xA;  on-topic. (Alice in Wonderland, Clockwork Orange, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Dilbert fails this test. By and large, Dilbert is a &lt;strong&gt;mundane office comedy&lt;/strong&gt;. It has occasional talking animals, which has by itself &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5119/51379&quot;&gt;not been deemed enough&lt;/a&gt; to make a work fantasy or science fiction. In particular, the talking animals simply play out American corporate culture. There’s no weird talking animal society. &lt;strong&gt;The occasional appearance of a robot or time travel as a one-off joke does not put the whole strip into the realm of speculative fiction.&lt;/strong&gt; The main plot is one where the status quo is God, and does not depend on the speculative technology that occasionally appears. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If there is a minor supernatural element (e.g. a fortune teller’s&#xA;  prediction comes true, or someone sees a ghost, or a story for&#xA;  children involving anthropomorphic animals) but it’s just a throwaway&#xA;  plot element that’s not particularly relevant to the question, it’s&#xA;  off-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, we should remember this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If the question is specifically about an sf-nal element, even if it’s&#xA;  only a minor part of the work, it’s on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A question about a speculative element of &lt;em&gt;Dilbert&lt;/em&gt; will always be on-topic. If someone wants to know how  Asok’s psychic powers work, or how Phil the Prince of Insufficient Light is related to the Pointy-Haired Boss, that should be allowed.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-10-11T01:46:47.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10246" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-11T14:54:39.853" Score="3" ViewCount="325" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why are there inconsistencies with closed question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/142775/the-matrix-taking-both-red-and-blue-pills&quot;&gt;The Matrix, taking both red and blue pills?&lt;/a&gt; is clearly what people would regard as a speculative question as there is no possible way of knowing what would happen, hence the speculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following the link in this notification (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&lt;/a&gt;) you are pointed to another link here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic&quot;&gt;What questions are on-topic, and what questions are off-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an answer it points to link on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/32/questions-that-provide-speculative-answers&quot;&gt;Questions that provide speculative answers…&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again in this Meta question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/32/questions-that-provide-speculative-answers&quot;&gt;Questions that provide speculative answers…&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;These are forum-style speculation questions, and should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why are some questions allowed to stay open and others are not? This is not an isolated occurrence and these kinds of inconsistencies are rampant here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that by and large, if the group collective likes the question regardless if it is a speculative one, no one will close it. How does that work? And why is it allowed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I think speculative questions should be allowed, but that is not what I am here asking today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-10-11T17:29:18.513" Title="Why the inconsistencies with closed questions?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10246" CreationDate="2016-10-11T16:00:08.757" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Because to err is human.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no automated system to close off-topic questions, or even to bring them to the attention of those who can vote to close them. Moderation of questions - deciding which to close, which to leave open, and so on - is done &lt;strong&gt;by the community&lt;/strong&gt;, following the guidelines established on meta. So if there are inconsistencies, it's all due to human error. Some questions which &amp;quot;should&amp;quot; be closed are seen by those with the power to close them and some aren't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What to do about it? Well, that's easy: &lt;strong&gt;use your close-vote privileges!&lt;/strong&gt; You are a member of the community, and you have the power to help with closing questions that should be closed. You've &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9890/31394&quot;&gt;already asked&lt;/a&gt; about how to use these powers, and I gave you &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9892/31394&quot;&gt;a detailed answer&lt;/a&gt;. To quote &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10057/31394&quot;&gt;bleh's succinct answer&lt;/a&gt; to another of your questions here on meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You! And the community.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact is, you have more than 3K rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is in &lt;strong&gt;your&lt;/strong&gt; power to [close or] reopen anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you think a question needs closing, vote to close it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you think a closed question needs reopening, vote to reopen it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either of these actions will send a post into the relevant review queue, to be voted on by your peers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the reviewers disagree with your vote, you can then post about the specific question on meta to get more input on whether or not it should be closed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you wish, you can also debate the broader policy on whether or not certain &lt;em&gt;whole classes&lt;/em&gt; of questions should be closed, here on meta.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-10-11T16:00:08.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10246" CreationDate="2016-10-11T16:52:51.680" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Speculative questions aren't necessarily off-topic: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/358/31936&quot;&gt;in-universe speculation and extrapolation is on-topic&lt;/a&gt;. It depends on how much speculation is required. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/269/31936&quot;&gt;Some speculative questions are off-topic while others are on-topic&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are good speculation questions and bad speculation questions. I&#xA;  invite you to read the section “What kind of questions should I not&#xA;  ask here?” in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;the site's FAQ&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;  and to follow the link to Robert Cartaino's  &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;six guidelines for great&#xA;  subjective&#xA;  questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The questions you cite are self-labeled “wild mass guessing”. &lt;em&gt;Wild&#xA;  guesses&lt;/em&gt; are firmly in the &lt;em&gt;bad subjective&lt;/em&gt; category, because&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;“every answer is equally valid”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;“we are being asked an open-ended, hypothetical question”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On the other hand, puzzling out what an author meant from &lt;em&gt;actual&#xA;  clues&lt;/em&gt; can be &lt;em&gt;good subjective&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;an answer should explain why the interpretation it defends is likely (Robert Cartaino's guideline #1)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;an answer should not just make one out-of-context citation, but explain how the interpretation fits the work (and ideally reconcile&#xA;  the in-story justification with the meta-justification) (guideline #2)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;an answer should make it clear what is directly deduced from primary sources and what is speculative (guideline #3)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;an answer should make sense on its own, not just in the answerer's mind (guideline #4)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;an answer should be built on primary sources, and &lt;em&gt;infer&lt;/em&gt; from them (guideline #5)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;an answer should cast the work in an interesting light, not just be a random “what if” when there's absolutely no indication that there's&#xA;  any connection between the speculation and the contents of the work&#xA;  (guideline #6).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This particular question is the on-topic kind. We know what happens when someone takes the red pill and we know what happens when someone takes the blue pill. All this is spelled out and linked to other posts on the site in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/142776/31936&quot;&gt;Valorum's answer&lt;/a&gt;. It's a rather small logical leap to extrapolate what would happen if someone took both pills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't a wildly speculative &quot;Gorilla vs. Shark&quot; or cross-universe type of question. Such questions are entirely subjective because there's no clear objective basis for making an argument.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, it's a judgment call whether or not a question is too speculative. If you think a question should be closed as too speculative then you should &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10247/31936&quot;&gt;cast a close vote or flag&lt;/a&gt;. The community will decide whether or not the question is too speculative. Even a question which seems wildly speculative may turn out to be answerable by a subject matter expert who is aware of an obscure canon source which provides an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-10-11T16:52:51.680" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10246" CreationDate="2016-10-11T17:29:18.513" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per my answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6382/close-reasons-what-if-happened/6383#6383&quot;&gt;another related question&lt;/a&gt;, speculative questions are fine &lt;strong&gt;if there's a reason to presume that there's enough canon information to make a &lt;em&gt;reasoned&lt;/em&gt; speculation&lt;/strong&gt;. If there's insufficient information, then the question should be closed as 'too speculative'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately that fine line is only really apparent to experts in the tag, and somewhat subjective even then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Close Reasons: “What if ______ happened?”&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think the implication of the caveat against &quot;what if x happened?&quot;&#xA;  questions is that they should only be asked if they're &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;supportable&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  (e.g. that there are sufficient in-universe reasons to think that&#xA;  something would have happened had something else not happened or if&#xA;  there are good reason to presume that there will be out-of-universe&#xA;  sources to draw on such as Director interviews). They should be&#xA;  neither open-ended nor require large leaps into the hypothetical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    Q. Would Yavin have been destroyed if Luke hadn't blown up the Death&#xA;    Star?&#xA;&#xA;   A. Yes, almost certainly. It was about to happen when Luke blew it up.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bad&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    Q. Would Yavin have been destroyed if Leia had been taken by Obi-Wan?&#xA;&#xA;    A. Deeply unclear. No canon reference support this version of events.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The irony is that it's not always possible for a non-specialist to&#xA;  tell the difference and often it doesn't become clear that an answer&#xA;  is possible until after the question is closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2016-10-11T17:29:18.513" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10250" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10255" CreationDate="2016-10-11T19:51:48.413" Score="15" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site has the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/memory&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;memory&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;memory&lt;/a&gt;, which is currently tagged on 17 questions and is very ambiguous. By my count, the questions are about the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Amnesia/Memory loss, 4&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Specific memory removal, 2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Memory charm (Harry Potter), 3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reliving a memory, 3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Memory transfer from one individual to another, 2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Memory recording, 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Recalling a lost memory, 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Eidetic memory, 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of these are about the general concept of remembering something (e.g. eidetic memory), others are about a recollection of an event and what you do with it, and others are about a spell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the main points in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/239191/191265&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood's guidelines for good tags&lt;/a&gt; is that a tag should have a clear, unambiguous definition and mean the same thing in all contexts. The fact that this tag has been used for eight different contexts indicates that it does not meet this criteria. Additionally, it can't stand on its own, so it's likely a meta tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given this ambiguity, should &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/memory&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;memory&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;memory&lt;/a&gt; go down the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hole&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;memory hole&lt;/a&gt; (i.e. burninate it)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13217" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2016-10-13T23:28:10.267" Title="Should [memory] go down the memory hole?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|burnination|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10251" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10252" CreationDate="2016-10-11T20:41:59.537" Score="18" ViewCount="519" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some hours ago another user asked a question about Daenerys' color of eyebrows, and I realized that I didn't remember any reference by GRR Martin about her pubis, but, instead, I could remember some references to Cerseis' blonde pubic hair, so I just asked a question about this topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/142810/has-george-r-r-martin-described-daenerys-color-of-pubic-hair-in-any-book&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; (10K Users only, sorry) has been deleted and I need to know if questions like this, in the context of these adult books, just questions and no photos, don't comply with this site politics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mgM93.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mgM93.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of the deleted question&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62264" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-10-12T13:11:49.830" Title="May I ask a question about sex or explicit content in A Song of Ice and Fire books?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|adult-content|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10251" CreationDate="2016-10-11T21:16:10.060" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;In regards to the question above, I don't think this should have been deleted. It's neither pornographic nor prurient and it's &lt;em&gt;unlikely&lt;/em&gt; to lead to the posting of inappropriate content (although we may need to keep an eye on answers/comments to make sure that nobody steps over the line), especially since the OP is interested in the written word, rather than the nude scenes from the TV show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per Kevin's answer on a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1586/20774&quot;&gt;related question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is the question being asked in good faith?&lt;/strong&gt; - Yes, it appears to be.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is the question itself adding to the substance of the site&lt;/strong&gt; - Arguably yes. Textual analysis is certainly something we'd encourage.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are the experts here best-equipped to answer your question&lt;/strong&gt; - Definitely.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;I think @Thaddeus should undelete the question and see where it goes. If it descends into a free-for-all (which I doubt), then by all means shut it down asap.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that it's been re-opened, it can get downvoted into the basement where it belongs&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2016-10-11T23:06:28.893" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10251" CreationDate="2016-10-11T22:01:15.823" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being the person that flagged it and can be seen in comment, I should probably speak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question had nothing to do with anything except pubic hair, other than &quot;George mentioned these other pubes once&quot;.  Since it was a sexual question, failed any notability standards (link to plot, link to characters, link to SFF elements, etc) that I would consider, didn't really rise to any other standard of quality either being 2 sentences long, I assumed the worst and just flagged it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I appreciate you might be interested in pubes, but that interest being barely related to anything this SFF site might cover does not - in my opinion - make your veiled &quot;do the curtains match the drapes&quot; question worth hosting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38235" LastEditorUserId="38235" LastEditDate="2016-10-11T22:05:40.810" LastActivityDate="2016-10-11T22:05:40.810" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10251" CreationDate="2016-10-11T22:09:13.947" Score="-2" Body="&lt;h3&gt;As my motto is: &amp;quot;If you do it right, no one is aware you've done anything at all,&amp;quot; it is considered problematic that I took such a unilateral movement. I am perfectly okay with this particular effort, however.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since the nature of the fantasy character's pubic hair does nothing to advance the nature of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Stack Exchange, I felt it was perfectly necessary to delete a question which added no value, nor significance to any conversations regarding fantasy (beyond prurient ones which could meet that need elsewhere) nor is the science fiction explanation as to what color her pubic hair could have to do with anything useful seemed beyond me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I took it upon myself to remove the question since it added no value to the site in any meaningful way scientific or fantastic, and felt it would bring the potential for other less-salient, more salacious questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As it is my belief we are involved in the mission of promoting intelligent and useful discourse about all things science fiction and fantasy, I believe we should be creating questions which elevate the genres not bring scorn and derision regarding them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2765" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-10-11T22:09:13.947" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10250" CreationDate="2016-10-12T05:48:37.500" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;,   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d7nBC.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d7nBC.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Kill it with fire&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let it burn, let &lt;em&gt;it&lt;/em&gt; burn&lt;br&gt;&#xA;That stupid tag is gone&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Here I stand&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In the light of flaaaame&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Let the tag burn ooooooooon  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag never helped me anyway &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2016-10-13T17:27:09.133" LastActivityDate="2016-10-13T17:27:09.133" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10256" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-12T20:15:39.977" Score="25" ViewCount="647" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Update&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, due to overwhelming response, the blog is going to be continued. It's going to be a WordPress.org website, hosted on &lt;a href=&quot;http://thesffblog.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;thesffblog.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Details about contributing are still in the works, but it's still open to &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt;.  A new thread with the details will be created when everything is finalized, but please reach out if you'd like to submit a work before then. (There's nothing holding up the process except updating documentation. Don't let the transition make you wait).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the moment, users signed-in to the new website will see a short form on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://thesffblog.com/contribute/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;contribute page&lt;/a&gt;, but other details are still outdated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Original&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has come to our attention that Stack Exchange is going to be discontinuing the BlogOverflow.com website for community blogs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/285478/blogoverflow-text-overflow#comment925838_285478&quot;&gt;BlogOverflow text overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/285599/why-doesnt-anyone-use-the-stack-exchange-community-blogs-anymore/285625#285625&quot;&gt;Why doesn&amp;#39;t anyone use the Stack Exchange community blogs anymore?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are going to be given the option of creating an offsite blog which will be maintained solely by us (this has been done on WorldBuilding.SE). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This prompted the question of whether we even want to continue to have a blog?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Previous discussions: (all from 2011-2012)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/586/is-it-worth-having-a-site-blog&quot;&gt;Is it worth having a site blog?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1449/do-we-keep-the-blog-alive&quot;&gt;Do we keep the blog alive?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1836/state-of-the-blog&quot;&gt;State of the blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The blog has waxed and waned over the years, although in the last year we've seen a huge increase in participation and content (43 posts since the start of 2016). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If we move to a third party blog site:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A downside is, we probably won't get new blog posts put in the &quot;BLOG&quot; feed on the main page, and at least as far as WorldBuilding.SE goes, it doesn't look like their blog even links from the 'blog' link at the bottom of the page. Could significantly reduce blog exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An upside is, we get to continue having a blog, and we won't be tied to WordPress.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A downside is, we might need to convert a number of the current entries to new formatting for a different site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An upside is, we continue to have a community blog which basically puts all the other ones to shame (except maybe WorldBuilding.SE) in terms of content and participation. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.757" LastActivityDate="2016-10-28T22:53:49.330" Title="Do we want to continue having a community blog?" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="24" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10256" CreationDate="2016-10-12T20:48:24.743" Score="26" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes, absolutely&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; most active blog on the entire SE network, at least as confirmed by a CM:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=32847069#32847069&quot;&gt;JNat&lt;/a&gt;: You have &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; most active blog. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We’ve had a number of consistently high-quality contributions. Naturally, most are from JackBNimble and other high-reputation users, but we’ve had some contributions from newer users such as Rincewind. I was even planning to try my hand at contributing myself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The blog provides a format for people who want to express their opinions on science fiction and fantasy without being limited by the Q&amp;amp;A format, worrying about downvotes, and so forth. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The blog mainly consists of reviews, but it’s not limited to that. We’ve had &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/03/the-last-question/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;meta posts&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/10/story-where-the-number-3-is-the-monster-finally-answered/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;question promotion&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/07/doctor-who-isnt-really-about-time-travel/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;show analysis&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/09/salt-lake-comic-con-2016-recap/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;coverage of conventions&lt;/a&gt;, and more…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It offers an outlet for contributions that might not fit on the main site, but wouldn’t really work in a chat-based format either. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Basically, we’re the model of what a blog should be at Stack Exchange. This seems like something worth keeping.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To address the two downsides:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The current entries will need to be converted to new formatting.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be. I’m not sure what that will entail, but if it’s something the community can help out with, there will be a lot of volunteers, I’m sure. If not, the CM team seems to want to help us transition. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lack of exposure.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We’ll have to work around that. Perhaps we could have a permanently featured meta post linking to the blog (I’m not sure whether that might push other posts out, though). Perhaps we could have a permanently pinned message in chat. Perhaps we could simply have regular notifications posted as meta questions. Perhaps we could even have a chat bot, like Gideon, that posts notifications of blog posts somehow. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastActivityDate="2016-10-12T20:48:24.743" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10256" CreationDate="2016-10-12T21:10:05.623" Score="16" Body="&lt;h2&gt;YES.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would love to see more of the great content which is produced on the SFF blog, and I have several brewing ideas and half-written posts for it myself. &lt;em&gt;Please&lt;/em&gt; let's not allow this great resource, which allows our users to wonderfully express their creativity in a different way from writing great questions and answers, and which sets us apart from all other Stack Exchange sites, to die out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Will we be able to maintain the production of new &lt;em&gt;content&lt;/em&gt; for the blog?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope and believe so. Many of the recent contributors are still active members of the main SFF site and show no signs of slacking off. As mentioned in the OP, there's been a big uptick in blog activity in recent months, which I hope can still continue even if the blog platform changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of our active users (such as Thaddeus Howze and Dr R Dizzle) also have their own blogs not linked to Stack Exchange, and have on occasion published reviews both there and on our blog. If they're happy to continue doing so, this could give us new gold-mines of content.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Will we be able to maintain &lt;em&gt;visibility&lt;/em&gt; for the blog?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are various ways we could try to draw attention to the blog and keep people coming to read the content there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pin a link in chat to each blog post as it comes out.&lt;/strong&gt; Of course this would only be useful for those who frequent chat, most of whom will probably be aware of the blog anyway, but every little helps.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Add blog posts as new Community Events.&lt;/strong&gt; The &quot;community events&quot; sidebar on the main site has so far been used mainly for elections and chat events, but site moderators can manually add anything they want there. &lt;strike&gt;Each new blog post could be added by a moderator as a community event, thus guaranteeing that they all appear on the front page of the site just as they do now.&lt;/strike&gt; Unfortunately this isn't quite the case, since event URLs have to be within the SE network. However, we could get around this by adding a blog-related meta question as a Community Event each time a new blog post is made. Which leads me on to ...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Advertise via meta.&lt;/strong&gt; Posts like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3430/are-you-interested-in-writing-for-the-blog&quot;&gt;Are you interested in writing for the Blog?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2156/ways-that-you-can-contribute-to-the-blog&quot;&gt;Ways that you can contribute to the blog.&lt;/a&gt; could become a regular occurrence, or (probably a better idea) these existing posts could be regularly bumped so that more people see them. Another idea would be a &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; meta post with a list of all blog posts to date (or in the last month/quarter/year/whatever), which would be edited and updated as each new blog post appears.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Will we be able to keep the content we already have on the existing blog?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=32847074#32847074&quot;&gt;A CM has confirmed&lt;/a&gt; that SE will give us a data dump of all the existing posts which we can migrate to a new platform. Some editing and reformatting of these may be necessary, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/1364?m=32852738#32852738&quot;&gt;Jack has already volunteered&lt;/a&gt; to do some of this work, I am also willing to volunteer, and I'm sure we can find others too. There are only about 160 posts at present, and I imagine &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; of these will need little or no reformatting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.190" LastActivityDate="2016-10-12T22:05:56.700" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10256" CreationDate="2016-10-13T08:44:48.680" Score="3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;How about using Meta as a blog?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of setting up an external blog, where everyone needs to get an account for as well, why not use Meta instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of moving the blog &lt;em&gt;further&lt;/em&gt; away from the main Stack, this would move it &lt;em&gt;closer&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, blog posts are not questions, but Meta is different from the main Stack in other aspects as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How it would work&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We would need to establish some rules to make this work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we agree to tag a blog post on Meta with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/blog&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;blog&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/blog-post&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;blog-post&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;blog-post&lt;/a&gt;, all blog entries will be easy identifiable. We can probably set it up so that the latest blog post is featured, or the moderators can see to that.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This tag should probably be added to the list of mandated tags (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discussion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/support&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;support&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;support&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt;) for a Meta post.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, it could be a moderator-only tag, so that the moderators curate the blog and decide what makes a good blog post and when top post it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;One option would be to post the entry, then delete it and alert a moderator that you want this to be a blog post. The moderator then undeletes the post and adds the blog tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, this would enable people to &quot;answer&quot; a blog post. This is not necessarily a bad thing, I think. People might have useful things to say about a blog post, too long for a comment, so why not use an answer for that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we probably would want though, would be the option to lock down a blog post. All other content is free to be edited by anyone. I feel blog posts are different, where you'd only want the author to be able to edit them. I don't know if the system has an option for that, where a post is only editable be the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Benefits&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main benefit is that Meta is closer to the main Stack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Every user of the main Stack automatically has an account on Meta as well, so everyone can write and respond to a blog post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The voting mechanism can be used on blog posts as well, as well as the badges. People can earn badges for blog posts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Drawbacks&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We may need some adjustments to the system to make this work. Since the blog is not a priority of the team — after all, they're about to abandon it — I don't know if those necessary adjustments can be made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Alternatively, blog.scifi.stackexchange.com&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the adjustments to the system would interfere too much with Meta, why not have a &lt;em&gt;third&lt;/em&gt; site next to the main Stack and Meta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would still use the same system, but with the necessary tweaks to make it useful for blogging. Again, the main benefits described above would still apply, while there would be room to adjust the system so that all rules I laid out above, could be coded into it, so we would not have to rely on agreements between all users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2016-10-13T08:44:48.680" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10260" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-14T22:03:16.453" Score="14" ViewCount="236" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is now roughly 2½ months since &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Cursed Child&lt;/em&gt; came out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the waiting list to see the play is very long and I know more than one person who is waiting for their opportunity to watch the play before reading the script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nevertheless, with a recent discussion about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7792/will-we-ever-clean-up-those-ridiculous-spoiler-free-the-force-awakens-question&quot;&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/a&gt; in mind, I wanted to start a discussion about the right time - if indeed there is one - to edit some of the more obfuscated content, for example my question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/137960/so-whyd-he-have-a-child-in-the-first-place&quot;&gt;So, why'd he have a child in the first place?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is an almost entirely empty title, at least if you don't check what the question is tagged with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question body is even worse, because it contains what I consider a fairly major spoiler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, how deep should the cleaning go?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-10-16T02:02:53.240" Title="The Spoilt Child" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10261" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-15T11:16:35.910" Score="6" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you know, many people post &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions with insufficient details, when they would have to spend only a little more effort to write a much better question, if only they got some hints.  Now it is well known that most posters won't read the hints no matter how much we advertise them.  Yet, I think there are posters who would read the hints, but don't notice that we have them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our hints are in two places: in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/story-identification/info&quot;&gt;the tag wiki for [story-identification]&lt;/a&gt;, and in the meta question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9335/how-to-ask-a-good-story-id-question&quot;&gt;&quot;How to ask a good story-ID question?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.  Neither of these are very easy to find for a new poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7028/4918&quot;&gt;Could we cover hints for asking story-identification questions in the help center?&lt;/a&gt; , I tried to think of ways to direct people to the hints from the Help Center, and indeed now we have some links from there.  In this followup, I have another thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More than half of the posters that ask a story-identification question find the right tag, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;.  If they post a question and they do find the right tag, then they &lt;strong&gt;usually see the tag wiki excerpt for that tag&lt;/strong&gt; on the screen (see example screenshot below).  If we're lucky, they even read the excerpt to figure out which tag is the right one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WJiDJ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5PpML.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot showing tag wiki excerpts shown under tag edit input box&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If only we could link to the pages giving hints from that tag wiki!  Alas, I believe tag wiki excerpts can't contain links.  Still, is there something we could put in that excerpt that would guide posters to find the hint pages?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2016-10-15T11:16:35.910" Title="Can we direct people from the [story-identification] tag excerpt to story-id hints?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|tag-wiki|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10256" CreationDate="2016-10-15T12:21:13.790" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, but let's also get something good out of the change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Let's use any place that lets people list all blog posts easily.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wordpress and Blogger are two blog platforms that are currently very popular.  Both of them fail at the utterly simple task of showing a list of all blog posts on a blog.  I hate that.  I've downloaded all entries (over a thousand) of at least one Wordpress blog because its interface sucked.  Our current blog platform also fails at this.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using Sci Fi Meta SE (like SQB suggested above) is one possibility, since it would let you list all blog posts easiliy.  Rand al'Thor points out in a comment that Meta might not be ideal, so you could choose some other site.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10266/list-of-all-entries-on-the-community-blog?noredirect=1#comment30303_10266&quot;&gt;Thaddeus Howze says that&lt;/a&gt; the maintainer of a Wordpress blog can configure it such that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-display-all-your-wordpress-posts-on-one-page/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;it shows a list of all entries&lt;/a&gt;.  If you do that, then my objection here is negated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2016-10-18T17:13:20.210" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10260" CreationDate="2016-10-15T22:05:37.127" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should be fine following the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/968/what-is-the-policy-for-spoilers&quot;&gt;spoiler policy&lt;/a&gt; regarding avoiding spoilers. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7827/31178&quot;&gt;In general&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Try to make your title as free of key plot developments as possible, but always make it meaningful.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Try to avoid giving away key plot details in your questions and answers if they are not relevant to your post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If you need to include key plot details, put as little as possible behind spoiler markup.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, that should &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; be the case, so there's no reason to go back and edit questions later on to make them easier to read. The guidelines in the policy and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/discussion+spoilers&quot;&gt;related discussions&lt;/a&gt; (including the one about The Force Awakens) make them good to use both immediately around release time and far into the future. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would not recommend going through and editing any but the most egregious abuse of spoiler tags/obfuscated titles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, as mentioned in comments and elsewhere, I would personally avoid obvious spoilers in the first few lines that show up in the question preview, since those can't be blocked/ignored as easily as the rest of the question body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2016-10-16T01:49:16.477" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10264" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10265" CreationDate="2016-10-17T11:47:54.487" Score="16" ViewCount="212" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3678/what-was-the-t-1001s-posing-as-catherine-weaver-mission&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;, which has been mod deleted. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/142777/why-does-catherine-weaver-want-to-stop-skynet?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;Another Question&lt;/a&gt; was marked as duplicate of the one that has been deleted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Preview for members who can't view deleted posts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JarWo.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JarWo.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;is Highly upvoted (15 as of now)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;is About a Sci-fi franchise&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;is Not offensive or against the policies AFAIK&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;has an answer with 12 upvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not asking for it to be undeleted since I don't even know why was it deleted. I just want to learn the reason behind the deletion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it remains deleted, what happens to the question that is closed as duplicate of that deleted question? Do we reopen it then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2016-10-17T14:51:14.773" Title="Why was this question deleted?" Tags="|discussion|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10264" CreationDate="2016-10-17T13:25:53.487" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3678/what-was-the-t-1001s-posing-as-catherine-weaver-mission&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; shouldn't have been deleted and it certainly shouldn't have been &lt;em&gt;deleted by moderator action&lt;/em&gt; without the moderator offering an explanation in comments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;theory of moderation&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Whenever possible, try to leave frequent comments on posts where&#xA;  you've taken (or considered taking) a moderator action, explaining the&#xA;  reasoning. This is important so that community members can learn the&#xA;  norms of the community and the moderation policies.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The power to mod-delete a question is one of the most powerful actions a moderator can take. Any action which involves a deletion should require some explication.  The deletion of an elderly (and highly upvoted) question with an elderly (and highly upvoted) answer, doubly so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moving forward&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3678/what-was-the-t-1001s-posing-as-catherine-weaver-mission&quot;&gt;The question&lt;/a&gt; &lt;s&gt;should be&lt;/s&gt; has been undeleted by a moderator. Evidently it was deleted in error.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/142777/why-does-catherine-weaver-want-to-stop-skynet?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;other question&lt;/a&gt; should be reclosed as a dupe and considered for merger since both have good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-10-17T14:51:14.773" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10266" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10297" CreationDate="2016-10-18T13:36:37.613" Score="9" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a list of all entries on &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the old Sci Fi Community Blog site&lt;/a&gt; in order from most recent to oldest.  The list is obsolete now, and you should &lt;strong&gt;consult &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/all/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the complete list of entries on the new blog&lt;/a&gt; instead&lt;/strong&gt;.  All the posts from the old blog has been transferred to the new blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-10-18 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/10/continuation-of-the-blog-discussion/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Continuation of the Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-10-05 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/10/timeless-pilot/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Timeless &amp;#8211; Pilot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-10-04 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/10/highlights-from-2016-3rd-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2016 – 3rd Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-09-14 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/09/a-review-of-the-stonewylde-series/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A review of the Stonewylde series&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-09-06 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/09/salt-lake-comic-con-2016-recap/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Salt Lake Comic Con 2016 Recap&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-08-29 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/08/coverage-of-salt-lake-comic-con-2016/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Coverage of Salt Lake Comic Con 2016&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-08-27 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/08/the-rise-of-the-red-shadow-prequel-to-the-book-of-deacon-trilogy-by-joseph-lallo-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Rise of the Red Shadow &amp;#8211; Prequel to the Book of Deacon Trilogy by Joseph Lallo Review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-08-17 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/08/the-book-of-deacon-trilogy-by-joseph-lallo-spoilers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Book of Deacon trilogy by Joseph Lallo (spoilers)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-08-13 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/08/fant4stic-a-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fant4stic: A Review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-08-08 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/08/star-trek-50-day-5-getting-deep-into-ds9-star-trek-writers-reflect-on-the-tng-era-and-the-star-trek-rat-pack-steals-the-show/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Trek 50 Day 5: Getting deep into DS9, Star Trek writers reflect on the TNG era, and the Star Trek Rat Pack steals the show!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-08-07 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/08/star-trek-50-day-4-captains-shatner-bakula-and-mulgrew-bakulas-talking-to-fuller-more-tng-stars-walter-koenig-and-star-trek-the-concert/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Trek 50 Day 4: Captains Shatner, Bakula, and Mulgrew, Bakula&amp;#8217;s talking to Fuller, more TNG stars, Walter Koenig, and Star Trek The Concert!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-08-06 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/08/star-trek-50-day-3-new-tos-footage-george-takei-getting-candid-with-tng-and-voyager-stars-and-a-ds9-documentary-in-the-works/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Trek 50 Day 3: New TOS footage, George Takei, getting candid with TNG and Voyager stars, and a DS9 documentary in the works!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-08-05 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/08/star-trek-50-day-2-ferengi-fun-whoopi-goldberg-and-klingon-karaoke/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Trek 50 Day 2: Ferengi fun, Whoopi Goldberg, and Klingon karaoke!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-08-04 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/08/star-trek-50-day-1-gorn-santa-bearing-gifts-leonard-nimoy-memories-and-a-raucous-klingon-talk-show/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Trek 50 Day 1: Gorn Santa bearing gifts, Leonard Nimoy memories, and a raucous Klingon talk show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-08-01 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/08/coverage-of-star-trek-50th-anniversary-celebration-for-sffse/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Coverage of Star Trek 50th Anniversary Celebration for SFF:SE!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-07-27 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/07/the-martian-novel-by-andy-weir-spoilers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Martian Novel by Andy Weir (Spoilers)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-07-24 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/07/star-trek-beyond/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Review &amp;#8211; Star Trek Beyond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-07-20 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/07/doctor-who-isnt-really-about-time-travel/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Doctor Who isn&amp;#8217;t really about time travel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-07-13 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/07/jacks-bad-movies-the-fifth-wave-2/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack&amp;#8217;s Bad Movies &amp;#8211; The Fifth Wave&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-07-06 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/07/review-of-the-duncton-chronicles-by-william-horwood/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Review of the Duncton Chronicles by William Horwood&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-07-05 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/07/highlights-from-2016-2nd-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2016 – 2nd Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-06-29 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/06/why-the-shannara-chronicles-by-terry-brooks-is-worth-reading/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Why The Shannara Chronicles by Terry Brooks Is Worth Reading&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-06-22 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/06/the-riyria-revelations-by-michael-j-sullivan-and-why-it-is-the-best-fantasy-series-ever/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Riyria Revelations by Michael J. Sullivan and why it is the BEST fantasy series EVER!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-06-15 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/06/jacks-bad-movies-automata/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack&amp;#8217;s Bad Movies &amp;#8211; Automata&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-06-02 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/06/doctor-who-series-9-review-part-2-of-2/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Doctor Who Series 9 Review &amp;#8211; Part 2 of 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-05-31 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/05/the-great-science-fictionfantasy-tv-showdown-final-round/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Great Science-Fiction/Fantasy TV Showdown: Final Round&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-05-26 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/05/x-men-apocalypse-spoiler-free-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;X-Men: Apocalypse spoiler-free review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-05-23 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/05/the-great-science-fictionfantasy-tv-showdown-round-4/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Great Science-Fiction/Fantasy TV Showdown: Round 4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-05-12 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/05/a-guide-to-the-marvel-cinematic-multiverse/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A Guide to the Marvel Cinematic Multiverse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-05-10 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/05/the-great-science-fictionfantasy-tv-showdown-results-and-round-3-2nd-edition/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Great Science-Fiction/Fantasy TV Showdown! &amp;#8211; Results and Round 3 (2nd Edition)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-05-02 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/05/the-great-science-fictionfantasy-tv-showdown-results-and-round-two/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Great Science-Fiction/Fantasy TV Showdown!  &amp;#8211; Results and Round Two&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-04-25 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/04/the-great-science-fictionfantasy-tv-showdown/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Great Science-Fiction/Fantasy TV Showdown!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-04-19 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/04/batman-v-superman-not-a-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Batman v. Superman: Not a Review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-04-07 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/04/highlights-from-2016-1st-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2016 &amp;#8211; 1st Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-04-04 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/04/doctor-who-series-9-review-part-1-of-2/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Doctor Who Series 9 Review &amp;#8211; Part 1 of 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-03-28 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/03/salt-lake-comic-con-fanx-2016-celebrity-panels/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Salt Lake Comic Con FanX 2016 &amp;#8211; Celebrity Panels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-03-23 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/03/daredevil-season-two/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Daredevil Season Two&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-03-15 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/03/jacks-bad-movies-wing-commander/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack&amp;#8217;s Bad Movies: Wing Commander&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-02-15 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/02/jacks-bad-movies-highlander-ii-the-quickening/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack&amp;#8217;s Bad Movies: Highlander II: The Quickening&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-02-12 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/02/deadpool-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Deadpool Review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-02-08 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/02/lego-marvels-avengers-a-first-look/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lego Marvel&amp;#8217;s Avengers &amp;#8211; A First Look&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-01-20 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/01/the-13-commandments-from-the-tng-bible/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The 13 Commandments from the TNG Bible.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-01-12 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/01/on-the-death-of-a-science-fiction-icon-a-celebration-of-david-bowies-life-and-legacy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;On The Death of a Science Fiction Icon:  A Celebration of David Bowie&amp;#8217;s Life and Legacy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016-01-04 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/01/highlights-from-2015-4th-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2015 – 4th Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015-11-27 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/11/jessica-jones-season-one-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jessica Jones season one review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015-11-10 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/11/a-guide-to-the-dc-cinematic-multiverse/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A Guide To The DC Cinematic Multiverse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015-10-27 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/10/story-where-the-number-3-is-the-monster-finally-answered/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Story where the number 3 is the monster: Finally Answered!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015-10-02 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/10/highlights-from-2015-3rd-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2015 &amp;#8211; 3rd Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015-09-27 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/09/salt-lake-comic-con-2015-summary/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Salt Lake Comic Con 2015 Summary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015-09-22 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/09/minority-report-pilot/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Minority Report &amp;#8211; Pilot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015-08-25 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/08/live-chat-the-day-the-earth-stood-still-1951/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Live Chat: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015-08-10 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/08/fantastic-four-a-mildly-spoilery-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fantastic Four: A (mildly spoilery) review!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015-07-31 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/07/jacks-bad-movies-left-behind/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack&amp;#8217;s Bad Movies &amp;#8211; Left Behind&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015-07-28 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/07/the-solarian-war-saga/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Solarian War Saga&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015-07-20 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/07/ant-man-a-mildly-spoilery-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ant-Man: A (mildly spoilery) review!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015-07-17 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/07/revisiting-the-terminator/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Revisiting The Terminator&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015-07-06 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/07/highlights-from-2015-2nd-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2015 &amp;#8211; 2nd Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015-06-25 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/06/gorilla-vs-shark-not-so-fast/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gorilla vs. Shark? Not so fast&amp;#8230;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015-06-17 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/06/mutants-in-the-marvel-universe/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mutants in the Marvel Universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015-06-14 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/06/jacks-bad-movies-jinn/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack&amp;#8217;s Bad Movies &amp;#8211; Jinn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015-05-29 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/05/stitchers-early-episode-1-release/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stitchers &amp;#8211; Early Episode 1 Release&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015-05-26 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/05/supergirl-leaked-pilot-an-almost-completely-spoiler-free-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Supergirl &amp;#8220;leaked Pilot&amp;#8221; &amp;#8211; An almost completely spoiler-free review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015-04-09 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/04/highlights-from-2014-1st-quarter-2/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2015 &amp;#8211; 1st Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015-03-23 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/03/jacks-bad-movies-yor-the-hunter-from-the-future/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack&amp;#8217;s Bad Movies &amp;#8211; Yor, the Hunter from the Future&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015-03-13 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/03/cinderella-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Review &amp;#8211; Cinderella&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015-02-11 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/02/science-fiction-fantasy-and-genre/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Science Fiction, Fantasy and Genre&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015-02-04 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/02/salt-lake-comic-con-fanx-2015-heroes-villains-and-anti-heroes-in-harry-potter-whos-who-panel/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Salt Lake Comic Con FanX 2015 &amp;#8211; Heroes, Villains, and Anti-Heroes in Harry Potter: Who&amp;#8217;s Who? Panel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015-02-03 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/02/salt-lake-comic-con-fanx-2015-kidcon-and-disney-princesses/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Salt Lake Comic Con FanX 2015 &amp;#8211; KIDCON and Disney Princesses&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015-02-02 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/02/featured-question-how-long-was-bill-murrays-character-supposed-to-be-in-a-time-loop-in-the-film-groundhog-day/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Featured Answer: How long was Bill Murray&amp;#8217;s character supposed to be in a time loop in the film “Groundhog Day”?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015-01-31 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/01/salt-lake-comic-con-fanx-2015-tom-felton-panel/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Salt Lake Comic Con FanX 2015 &amp;#8211; Tom Felton Panel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015-01-28 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/01/the-new-star-wars-canon-guide/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The (new) Star Wars Canon guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015-01-07 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/01/agent-carter-pilot-episode/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Agent Carter &amp;#8211; Pilot Episode&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015-01-06 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2015/01/highlights-from-2014-4th-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2014 &amp;#8211; 4th Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014-12-31 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/12/technologies-we-should-have-in-2015/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Technologies We Should Have In 2015&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014-12-29 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/12/jacks-bad-movies-ae-apocalypse-earth/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack&amp;#8217;s Bad Movies &amp;#8211; AE: Apocalypse Earth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014-12-02 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/12/doom-star-series-books/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Doom Star Series (books)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014-11-10 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/11/detective-comics-27-introduction-of-the-batman/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Detective Comics #27 &amp;#8211; Introduction of the Batman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014-11-01 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/11/science-fiction-technologies-that-people-are-hoping-for-in-their-lifetime/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Science Fiction Technologies that People are Hoping for in Their Lifetime&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014-10-15 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/10/favorite-questions-and-answers-of-all-time/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Favorite Questions and Answers of All Time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014-10-08 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/10/the-flash-pilot-episode/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Flash &amp;#8211; Pilot Episode&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014-10-06 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/10/highlights-from-2014-3rd-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2014 – 3rd Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014-09-10 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/09/salt-lake-comic-con-overall/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Salt Lake Comic Con 2014 Report&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014-09-08 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/09/salt-lake-comic-con-marvel-movies-phase-iii-panel/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Salt Lake Comic Con 2014 &amp;#8211; Marvel Movies Phase III Panel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014-07-22 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/07/starship-troopers-the-mobile-infantry-definitely-does-not-accept-hippies/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Starship Troopers &amp;#8211; The Mobile Infantry definitely does not accept Hippies!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014-07-15 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/07/highlights-from-2014-2nd-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2014 &amp;#8211; 2nd Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014-07-02 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/07/the-first-formic-war-enders-game-prequel-trilogy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The First Formic War (Ender&amp;#8217;s Game Prequel Trilogy)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014-04-25 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/04/salt-lake-comic-con-fan-xperience/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Salt Lake Comic Con Fan Xperience&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014-04-10 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/04/highlights-from-2014-1st-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2014 &amp;#8211; 1st Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014-03-20 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/03/the-100-pilot-episode/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The 100 &amp;#8211; Pilot Episode&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014-03-05 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/03/movies-with-time-traveling-robots/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Movies With Time-Traveling Robots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014-01-14 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/01/highlights-from-2013-4th-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2013 &amp;#8211; 4th Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2013-12-27 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2013/12/tv-shows-with-a-supernatural-theme/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TV Shows with a Supernatural Theme&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2013-12-03 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2013/12/review-frozen/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Review &amp;#8211; Frozen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2013-11-21 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2013/11/review-thor-the-dark-world/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Review &amp;#8211; Thor: The Dark World&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2013-11-08 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2013/11/guide-to-either-loving-or-hating-enders-game-film/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Guide to either loving or hating Ender&amp;#8217;s Game (film)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2013-10-08 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2013/10/highlights-from-2013-3rd-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2013 – 3rd Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2013-09-10 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2013/09/live-chat-star-trek-tos-space-seed/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Live Chat: Star Trek TOS &amp;#8220;Space Seed&amp;#8221;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2013-07-26 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2013/07/review-turbo/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Review &amp;#8211; Turbo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2013-07-19 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2013/07/review-world-war-zed/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Review &amp;#8211; World War Z&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2013-07-02 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2013/07/highlights-from-2013-2nd-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2013 &amp;#8211; 2nd Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2013-06-25 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2013/06/man-of-steel/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Review &amp;#8211; Man Of Steel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2013-05-23 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2013/05/review-iron-man-3/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Review: Iron Man 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2013-04-08 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2013/04/highlights-from-2013-1st-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2013 &amp;#8211; 1st Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2013-04-04 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2013/04/reviews-the-croods/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Reviews: The Croods&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-10-14 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/10/brickcon-2012/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Brickcon 2012&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-09-12 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/09/space-saga-chapter-1-the-accident/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Space Saga &amp;#8211; Chapter 1: The accident&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-08-28 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/08/star-wars-identities-the-exhibition/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Wars Identities : The Exhibition&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-08-09 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/08/live-chat-star-trek-tos-and-the-children-shall-lead/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Live Chat &amp;#8211; Star Trek TOS &amp;#8220;And The Children Shall Lead&amp;#8221;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-06-27 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/06/heroescon-2012-report/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;HeroesCon 2012 Report&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-05-31 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/05/harry-potter-movie-marathon-highlights/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Harry Potter Movie Marathon Highlights&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-04-20 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/04/avengers-vs-x-men-results-winners-announced/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Avengers vs. X-Men results! Winners announced!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-04-18 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/04/topic-of-the-week-contest-the-legend-of-korra/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Topic of the Week Contest: The Legend of Korra&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-04-04 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/04/avengers-vs-x-men-is-here/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Avengers vs. X-Men is here!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-04-01 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/04/a-month-of-comic-exploration/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A month of comic exploration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-03-07 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/03/stack-exchange-is-giving-away-sets-of-game-of-thrones-season-1-on-blu-ray-and-dvd/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange is giving away sets of Game of Thrones: Season 1 on Blu-Ray and DVD!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-03-05 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/03/scifi-stackexchange-in-practical-use-a-newcomers-journey-to-doctor-who/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SciFi.StackExchange in Practical Use – A newcomer&amp;#8217;s journey to Doctor Who.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-03-01 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/03/the-last-question/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Last Question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-02-29 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/02/new-mid-season-sci-fi-fantasy-tv/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;New Mid-season Sci-fi &amp;amp; Fantasy TV&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012-01-27 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/01/moderator-elections/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Moderator Elections&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-12-22 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/12/the-dark-mirror-blade-of-fortriu/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Dark Mirror / Blade of Fortriu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-12-15 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/12/featured-question-e-t-star-wars/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Featured Question: E.T. &amp;amp; Star Wars&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-12-13 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/12/launch/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Launch!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-12-08 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/12/movies-sister-site-launches/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Movies Sister Site Launches&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-10-25 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/10/scifi-stackexchange-in-practical-use-in-what-order-should-the-star-wars-movies-be-watched/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SciFi.StackExchange in Practical Use &amp;#8211; In what order should the Star Wars movies be watched?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-10-24 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/10/sci-fi-stack-exchange-at-new-york-comic/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sci-Fi Stack Exchange at New York Comic Con&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-10-18 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/10/re-evaluating-the-end-of-planetary/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Re-evaluating the end of &amp;#8220;Planetary&amp;#8221;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-10-07 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/10/qa-with-jim-gibbons-of-dark-horse-comics/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Q&amp;amp;A with Jim Gibbons of Dark Horse Comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-10-06 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/10/featured-question-in-the-lord-of-the-rings-what-important-background-information-is-contained-in-the-poems/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Featured Question: In The Lord of the Rings, what important background information is contained in the poems?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-10-03 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/10/nyccse/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange is giving away 3-day passes to New York Comic Con&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-09-29 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/09/contagion-jaws-for-the-flu/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Contagion – ‘Jaws’ for the Flu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-09-25 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/09/review-roger-zelazny-a-night-in-the-lonesome-october/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Review: Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-09-25 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/09/amazon-kindle-now-servicing-over-11000-public-libraries/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Amazon Kindle now servicing over 11,000 public libraries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-09-23 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/09/the-sci-fi-fantasy-fall-2011-tv-season/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Sci-fi &amp;amp; Fantasy Fall 2011 TV Season&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-09-19 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/09/stack-exchange-helps-out-a-superman-fan/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Helps Out a Superman Fan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-09-15 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/09/dcs-new-52/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DC&amp;#8217;s new 52&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-09-13 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/09/digital-vs-physical-%e2%80%93-how-do-digital-comics-stand-up-to-the-tried-and-true/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Digital Vs. Physical – How do digital comics stand up to the tried and true?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-09-10 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/09/review-the-throne-of-fire-by-rick-riordan/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Review: The Throne of Fire, by Rick Riordan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-09-07 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/09/comic-recommendation-y-the-last-man/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Comic Recommendation: Y: The Last Man&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-09-05 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/09/interview-jason-snell-host-of-the-incomparable-sff-podcast/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Interview: Jason Snell, host of The Incomparable SF&amp;amp;F Podcast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-09-03 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/09/what-has-a-love-of-science-fiction-done-for-me/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;What has a love of science-fiction done for me?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-09-01 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/09/stackscifi-improvements/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;@stackscifi improvements&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-08-26 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/lessons_learn_lot/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lessons Learned: Lord of the Rings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-08-24 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/review-of-another-earth/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Review of Another Earth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-08-24 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/literature-sister-site-launches/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Literature Sister Site Launches&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-08-22 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/ipad-padd-application-disappointing/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;iPad PADD application: disappointing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-08-22 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/elvis-has-left-the-building/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Elvis Has Left the Building&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-08-20 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/the-hugo-awards-live-coverage/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Hugo Awards: Live Coverage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-08-20 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/costumes-everywhere/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Costumes Everywhere&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-08-19 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/instant-art/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Instant Art!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-08-19 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/fannish-humor/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fannish Humor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-08-18 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/tricky-pixie-in-concert/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tricky Pixie in Concert&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-08-18 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/steve-jackson-at-worldcon/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Steve Jackson at Worldcon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-08-17 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/welcome-to-worldcon/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Welcome to Worldcon!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-08-14 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/stack-exchange-is-going-to-worldcon/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange is going to Worldcon!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-08-13 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/featured-question-why-do-we-hear-leias-theme-during-kenobis-death/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Featured Question: Why Do We Hear Leia&amp;#8217;s Theme During Kenobi&amp;#8217;s Death&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011-08-12 &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/artemis-fowl/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Artemis Fowl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I post this list because it seems impossible to ask the Wordpress-based blog directly for such a list.  Thanks to Rand al'Thor for the idea to post this on meta.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;If a new blog entry is posted, feel free to add the link into this post.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="4918" LastEditDate="2017-05-14T18:23:29.970" LastActivityDate="2017-05-14T18:23:29.970" Title="List of all entries on the Community Blog" Tags="|support|blog|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="21" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10267" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10273" CreationDate="2016-10-18T19:37:21.067" Score="12" ViewCount="278" Body="&lt;p&gt;EDIT: the general opinion (here and elsewhere) was to stick to something simple and descriptive; looking through the unregistered domain options, we have gone with &lt;a href=&quot;http://thesffblog.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;thesffblog.com&lt;/a&gt;. We'll have more details soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technically, the blog is currently named: &#xA;&quot;The Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Community Blog: We Have a Blog!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As this was essentially what the blog was already named, and keeping it is in line with the votes in the other blog thread about keeping the site as same as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the full title doesn't necessarily show up on the site, it will show up in the browser title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems very likely that we're going to have to move our blog off-site, as it &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10256/do-we-want-to-continue-having-a-community-blog&quot;&gt;has been noted&lt;/a&gt; that blogoverflow is shutting down soon. We're still deciding if we want to have one but the general consensus is tending towards yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are working on the mechanics of where to put it and how to migrate, but in the mean time, something we need to figure out is what to &lt;em&gt;call&lt;/em&gt; it. Since that may take some time to settle on a name, I figured we may as well get started bickering now :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, our leading contender is Blogger (we have a proof-of-concept working now; anyone interested can join us in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1364/sff-blog-discussion&quot;&gt;blog chat room&lt;/a&gt;). Alternatives include Medium and Wordpress.com. In any case, though, we have two ways to identify the blog:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A &quot;subdomain&quot; or &quot;site name&quot; for the blog as hosted on the main site, e.g. &lt;code&gt;ourblog.blogspot.com&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A custom domain name we can redirect at the blog, e.g. &lt;code&gt;www.sffblog.org&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, our name is going to be limited to those things that are still available, so we'll need to come up with several alternatives until we come up with one that's available. Ideally we'd have the same blog name and custom domain name but that's not &lt;em&gt;required&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone has any suggestions, just leave them below. I'll check to see what's available where and hopefully one will bubble up to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FOR REFERENCE: I already checked some of the obvious ones: &lt;code&gt;sffantasy&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;sfandfantasy&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;scififantasy&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;scifiandfantasy&lt;/code&gt; are all taken on Blogger and Wordpress, as are the &lt;code&gt;.com&lt;/code&gt; domains. Medium is more flexible with &quot;publication names&quot; if we're willing to use one that isn't a valid domain name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example of how the naming &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; work, the proof-of-concept we are playing with on Blogger is currently called &lt;a href=&quot;http://agentsofnothing.blogspot.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://agentsofnothing.blogspot.com&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and is also available at &lt;a href=&quot;http://sffblog.kutulu.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://sffblog.kutulu.org&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2016-10-26T02:55:29.977" Title="What should we call our blog?" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10267" CreationDate="2016-10-18T19:53:05.857" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should name it &quot;We Have a Blog&quot; with the subtitle &quot;The Sci Fi and Fantasy Stack Exchange Blog&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user40790" LastActivityDate="2016-10-18T19:53:05.857" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10267" CreationDate="2016-10-18T20:09:31.070" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can't we keep using the old domain, and have Stack Exchange point it at an off-site blog?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is certainly doable, the question is if the SE team wants to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2016-10-18T20:09:31.070" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10267" CreationDate="2016-10-19T01:24:30.193" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It shouldn't be a catchy yet cryptic (or worse off, specific-to-franchise-and-offputting-to-non-fans) name. It should be self-documenting, as all good identifiers are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SpeculativeFictionSEBlog&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SpeculativeFictionStackExhangeBlog&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SciFiAndFantasyStackExchangeBlog&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SciFiAndFantasySEBlog&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(&quot;Blog&quot; suffixes are optional; if blogger.com is used as main domain).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2016-10-19T01:24:30.193" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10271" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10272" CreationDate="2016-10-19T13:56:14.367" Score="8" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a rule posts should only contain one question. When we see a post that asks more than one question we ask the OP to rewrite the question to edit the the post to only have one question. If the post is not edited, it will likely be closed and this is where my question comes in... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should these questions be closed as  &lt;code&gt;Unclear what you're asking&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;Too Broad&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unclear what you're asking&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please clarify your specific problem or add additional details to highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it’s hard to tell exactly what you're asking. See the How to Ask page for help clarifying this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Too Broad&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are either too many possible answers, or good answers would be too long for this format. Please add details to narrow the answer set or to isolate an issue that can be answered in a few paragraphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me both descriptions have good prompts to identify the problem with the question, especially if close voters leave a comment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main reason I like &lt;code&gt;Unclear&lt;/code&gt; is that it also provides a link to the &quot;How to Ask&quot; page, which could further help OPs, especially new users. On the other hand, the post could be perfectly clear just contain two questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main reason I like &lt;code&gt;Too Broad&lt;/code&gt; is that phrase &quot;isolate an issue&quot;. However, the problem is that answer may not have to be long in order to answer multiple questions if the questions are simple enough.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the current community accepted path is use &lt;code&gt;Too Broad&lt;/code&gt;. Was this an established rule, or just became common practice? I didn't see any posts here on meta directly addressing the issue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/120633/what-do-we-do-with-multiple-question-questions?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;relevant discussion on Main Meta&lt;/a&gt; brings this up and agrees that the question should be closed, but does not address what reason should be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2016-11-08T19:40:02.627" Title="Should posts that have more than one question be closed as &quot;Too Broad&quot; or &quot;Unclear&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|policy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10271" CreationDate="2016-10-19T14:05:17.657" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there's any policy around this; I've seen both. That being said, on a purely &lt;strong&gt;personal&lt;/strong&gt; level,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;I favour &quot;Too Broad&quot;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with multiple-questions-in-one is just what it says on the tin: there are too many questions, which makes it &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7075/31051&quot;&gt;more difficult&lt;/a&gt; for a single &quot;best&quot; answer to emerge. That seems like the very definition of being &quot;too broad&quot;, and is right there in the body of the close reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are &lt;em&gt;[...]&lt;/em&gt; too many possible answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I do see the value in linking to the &quot;How-to-ask&quot; page; we can never link to that page enough. However, I think the &quot;Too Broad&quot; close reason &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; provides some useful guidance on how such a question could be improved; it isn't perfect, of course, but close voters can (and should) be leaving clarifying comments on these edge cases. Unless and/or until we get &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/210314/276025&quot;&gt;customizable non-off-topic close reasons&lt;/a&gt;, &quot;imperfect&quot; if the best solution we can hope for&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, I prefer that the close reason accurately reflect the problem with the question; in these cases (with exceptions, obviously), it's quite easy to determine what the question is asking, it's just that it asks for too many things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; The other option would be using the free-form off-topic close reason, but using that for question categories that aren't actually off-topic is something that I (and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/192086/276025&quot;&gt;others&lt;/a&gt;) have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9588/31051&quot;&gt;railed against before&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2016-10-19T17:47:45.103" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10267" CreationDate="2016-10-19T17:37:54.480" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Science Fiction and Fantasy Blog&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very simple, very easy to search for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2016-10-19T17:43:50.370" LastActivityDate="2016-10-19T17:43:50.370" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10274" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-20T18:07:30.150" Score="11" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;The new blog team&lt;sup&gt;TM&lt;/sup&gt; is nearing completion of an off-site replacement for the soon to be ex-blog on &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;blogoverflow&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/285478/blogoverflow-text-overflow#comment926761_285478&quot;&gt;As suggested&lt;/a&gt;, we'd like to talk about the design of the blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, StackExchange has the SF/F blog themed to look like the rest of the site - same color palette, same images, etc. We could attempt to mimic this look as closely as possible (we might be able to get the entire theme, this is still an open question) and the new blog will look basically the same as our current one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, we could attempt to use a more standard WordPress theme that also fits the main site's overall &quot;feel&quot; but with a different layout or structure. Or the blog could go a completely different direction. (Wordpress has zillions of themes to pick from plus we can tweak the CSS at will.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any opinions, please speak up!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(For reference, the &quot;prototype&quot; for an off-site blog is World Building. Their original blog design appears to be distinct from their site design, but word is they are attempting to incorporate more of the main-site elements into their blog. Take that for what it's worth.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2016-10-20T21:54:21.340" Title="Look and feel of the new blog" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10274" CreationDate="2016-10-20T18:08:05.690" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;We should stick with what works; keep the blog as close as possible to the current layout. If possible, clone the theme exactly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2016-10-20T18:08:05.690" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10274" CreationDate="2016-10-20T19:42:54.690" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is related, on the expectation that a designer/developer is assigned to help us, but I'd like scifi.blogoverflow.com to redirect to the new one when the time comes.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is operating under the assumption that the blogoverflow.com site will continue to operate as it currently does (for the podcast, announcements, etc). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2016-10-20T19:42:54.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10274" CreationDate="2016-10-20T21:54:21.340" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The site should maintain as much of the look as possible, but some improvements should be made where they can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, the existing blog is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; mobile friendly, and that should change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2016-10-20T21:54:21.340" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10278" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-20T22:11:20.907" Score="6" ViewCount="271" Body="&lt;p&gt;The general policy for closing story-ids as dupes was determined to be that they're only a dupe if the OP accepts an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7067/31178&quot;&gt;that answer&lt;/a&gt; was edited (based on a comment side discussion) to include allowing comments from the OP to count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That commenting portion was not something I personally upvoted the original answer for. So, I have questions about when commenting should be accepted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When the OP comments on their own question, but there's no answer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When the OP comments on their own question, but not one of the answers?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When the OP comments on an answer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This came up recently because of a situation where a comment was left on a brand new question asking if it was a certain story, with the intent to close it as a dupe if they replied &quot;Yes.&quot;, and no intent to have an answer posted first. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The alternative being someone posting an answer, seeing if the OP accepts, and failing that relying upon a comment (more as a last resort, because of drive-by askers). This is how I believed we'd been doing things all along, but I'm wondering if we should be doing comment first/only instead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2016-10-21T01:27:16.100" Title="When should comments be used to determine a dupe story-id?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|story-identification|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10278" CreationDate="2016-10-20T22:47:52.970" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Confirmation by OP comment should be enough to close as duplicate&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First, closing when the question has an accepted answer is not controversial: that’s the substance of the original answer.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, let’s note that closing based on comments &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt;, in a sense, our current policy, as indicated in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7067/51379&quot;&gt;linked answer&lt;/a&gt;. It’s true that it was edited in after most of the the voting was done (and probably should have been put as a separate question), but the answer has nonetheless retained its high score after that was edited in. &lt;strong&gt;Further, closure of questions based on OP comment acceptance has been going on at least since that edit (six months) with a minimum of controversy&lt;/strong&gt; (i.e., no “reopen this question” posts on meta after a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; question was closed due to an OP confirming the answer to be correct in a comment). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, &lt;strong&gt;why do we wait for acceptance before closing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions?&lt;/strong&gt; What makes them special (and what likely motivated the other answer in the first place)? It’s probably worth going to the &lt;em&gt;second&lt;/em&gt;-most-upvoted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7065/closing-story-ident-questions-as-duplicates-where-theres-no-acceptance/7067#7067&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; on that page, which explains why we shouldn’t close without OP confirmation: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If we’re wrong, we’ve just annoyed the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And further: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At best, we should try to guess what the story is – but only the OP&#xA;  can confirm. We shouldn’t take that control out of their hands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We want to make sure that the OP has a chance to confirm that a story is actually the one they remember.&lt;/strong&gt;  We’re not just trying to get an answer out there, or we’d close without acceptance. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If the OP confirms in a comment that the story is really the one that they remember, that’s at &lt;em&gt;least&lt;/em&gt; as good as an acceptance.&lt;/strong&gt; There’s always the (admittedly quite small) risk that a new user does not quite understand what clicking that checkmark means. But if they leave a comment, we can be reasonably sure of what the correct answer is. It doesn’t matter where they leave a comment: on the question, on the answer, or anywhere else. &lt;strong&gt;That tells us what the answer is, and that’s always been enough to close as duplicate.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And one other thing can’t be emphasized enough: there are a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of people who come back, see the right answer, say “Wow, this is right, thanks!” and never return (and never accept an answer). Being able to close as duplicate in this case only makes sense: these are users that want to accept, but just didn’t know how. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In a similar vein, a self-answer is also sufficiently definitive confirmation that the OP has really found the work they’re looking for.&lt;/strong&gt; We’ve closed in a number of those cases too, again pretty non-controversially. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Whether to comment or answer should be a matter of preference&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With all this in mind, I don’t think we should be enforcing a policy of only answering and never commenting, or only commenting and never answering. &lt;em&gt;Either&lt;/em&gt; an accepted answer or an OP comment is enough to close. While some questions, particularly those that are asked over and over with pretty similar descriptions, aren’t going to benefit from numerous copies of what’s basically the same answer, there’s always the possibility that a new answer might be better written, more comprehensive, or useful to a different segment of searchers than the existing ones. &lt;strong&gt;Both situations are sufficiently common that we shouldn’t say that one is always preferable.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-10-20T22:53:07.643" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10278" CreationDate="2016-10-21T00:10:36.713" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The spirit of the existing policy is to dupe-close ID questions &lt;em&gt;if and only if the OPs have confirmed that both answers are the same&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if it's &quot;obvious&quot; to every reader that an answer is correct, we don't close the question without some form of feedback from the OP. Conversely, if the OP has accepted an answer, we close the question without checking whether the answer actually matches every detail described in the question. The policy is to judge by &lt;strong&gt;OP confirmation&lt;/strong&gt; and nothing else. It's a very clear policy, and it's worked well so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now does it really matter what specific form that OP confirmation takes? Whether it's the pressing of a green tick button or the submission of a comment to say &quot;this is it, thank you so much&quot; - both express the same idea, even if they look different on the screen and are registered differently by SE's software. In fact, if anything, a comment is &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; clear, since a checkmark could in theory just mean &quot;this isn't the story I was thinking of, but it's the answer I found most useful&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's not apply policy mindlessly, but instead think about the &lt;em&gt;reasons&lt;/em&gt; for the policy and why it was created. Let's also remember that the existence of answers isn't supposed to have much effect on whether or not a question is a dupe. Even our story-ID dupe policy is based on &lt;strong&gt;the &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; being the same because they're looking for the same story, not on the &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; being the same.&lt;/strong&gt; If an OP confirms in a comment that yes, the story they read was indeed Asimov's &lt;em&gt;The Last Question&lt;/em&gt;, then their question is a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/49743/31394&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; because we &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; both are looking for the same story, whether or not the new question has an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-10-21T00:10:36.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10278" CreationDate="2016-10-21T01:27:16.100" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;To continue this as a discussion (and not a comment chain):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of our initial topics on the subject had a well-supported discussion that story-id should be an exception to dupe anyway:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3431/why-would-vtc-as-duplicate-be-appropriate-for-a-story-identification-question&quot;&gt;Why would VTC as duplicate be appropriate for a story identification question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This initial questions top post had little in the way of clearly stating &quot;Yes, story-id questions with the same answer should be closed as duplicates.&quot; It's more of a pondering of how the system works. The next highest answer is for excluding duplicates. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The follow-up question then became about closing when there's no acceptance. The rest of that has already been discussed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to me, the spirit of the policy has been to close as duplicate as a final measure, when a correct answer has been given. Instead, it seems to have turned into this quest to close all possibly story-ids as duplicates. Especially since there was (possibly is) a fairly strong resistance to closing story-id questions as dupe. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm still under the belief that meta consensus is not &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; which answer gets the highest votes, but about the ideas that are generated from the discussion. So, my interpretation of what we should do has been influenced by that: not merely looking at the highest answer. (As a tangent, I don't feel that all of our discussions that are now turned into policies were intended to become the be-all-end-all policy at the time, but have since become practically immutable &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; forget about the other opinions expressed at that time.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2016-10-21T01:27:16.100" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10282" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-21T12:10:31.680" Score="12" ViewCount="273" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/author-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;author-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;author-identification&lt;/a&gt; tag is a mess.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the questions under them are apparently just asking to identify a work (or series or collection) of sci-fi or fantasy.  Most of them are also tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, some aren't.  IMO those should be tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; and don't need this extra tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/141936/4918&quot;&gt;A book maybe called Prison Planet, thought author was Alex Jones ? Not sure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/133211/4918&quot;&gt;Looking for a sci-fi / fantasy book about a boy named Flea&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/133717/4918&quot;&gt;Name of the author who wrote &amp;quot;Killer&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/133977/4918&quot;&gt;Which story includes huge, neutral-buoyancy Jovian life forms, and a sinking earth ship?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/123322/4918&quot;&gt;An astronaut drops candy wrapper on planet surface - &amp;quot;slime&amp;quot; seeking phosphorus almost gets it&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/131217/4918&quot;&gt;Galactics trade with Native Americans, unknown to rest of humanity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/55934/4918&quot;&gt;Short story from 60&amp;#39;s or before about building infinite energy source from rubbish pile&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/127433/4918&quot;&gt;Trying to find out the title of a sci-fi book where characters filter sensations through animals&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/126151/4918&quot;&gt;Looking for Author of a book I cannot find I believe was called &amp;quot;X/Y&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/124289/4918&quot;&gt;Looking for story about how reflection in mirror is a parallel society that has to mimic us because they &amp;quot;lost a war ages ago&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; - this is an unusual one, it wants to identify a story mentioned in what seems like a non-fiction radio show or something.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/124275/4918&quot;&gt;Movie where written messages are transmitted to someone&amp;#39;s vision to help them avoid capture&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/94219/4918&quot;&gt;Short poignant 1960&amp;#39;s era sci-fi story about space shuttle crewman&amp;#39;s infatuation with captain&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/119764/4918&quot;&gt;Science fiction book based on a Jupiter-sized wandering/rogue planet?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/117925/4918&quot;&gt;Title and Author of a novel regarding &amp;#39;A Common Enemy&amp;#39;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/117620/4918&quot;&gt;Fantasy Novel, with review blurb by Ursula Le Guin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/92801/4918&quot;&gt;Looking for more data on a vampire novel named *Fourteen* including author&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/90538/4918&quot;&gt;What is the tilte of Fantasy Genre Novel with 2 brothers (the sons of satan), female author?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/113648/4918&quot;&gt;Who wrote a story called &amp;quot;Rule Golden&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/82058/4918&quot;&gt;Books similar to The Lord of the Rings: dark elves, different gods, Thommas, red-haired woman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/110370/4918&quot;&gt;Possibly 80&amp;#39;s scifi/fantasy book about tattooed courtesans and a memory potion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/108994/4918&quot;&gt;Short sci-fi story of PLAN devised by marooned spaceship pilot to save paradise world from development&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/102965/4918&quot;&gt;Forgotten YA female sci-fi author 80s/90s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/102509/4918&quot;&gt;Does anyone know the book &amp;quot;The Eagle Flies Over England&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/87935/4918&quot;&gt;Name of author who wrote books for pre-teens and teens about &amp;quot;classic&amp;quot; sci-fi and horror movies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/96974/4918&quot;&gt;Who wrote &amp;quot;Pate de Fois Gras&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/95392/4918&quot;&gt;Alien surface transport that walks, not rolls&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/95161/4918&quot;&gt;Who wrote &amp;quot;How Much for Just the Planet&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/93521/4918&quot;&gt;Which British author wrote about Shellworlds before Iain M. Banks?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/93087/4918&quot;&gt;Fantasy book where a young prince becomes a mage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/92961/4918&quot;&gt;Fantasy book where main protagonists are brothers. One a warrior, the other a mage.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/67816/4918&quot;&gt;Gilgamesh and Lilith, 2 different books by the same female author&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/91853/4918&quot;&gt;Former slave girl repeats a message subliminally implanted by a former soldier and eventually joins the army&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/85020/4918&quot;&gt;Who is the author of the following stories?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/84006/4918&quot;&gt;Looking for a series of short stories about soldiers who had prescient abilities&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/82172/4918&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/82172/4918&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/72762/4918&quot;&gt;Looking for a movie about a contaminated spaceship travelling to an &amp;#39;Earth like&amp;#39; planet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/63554/4918&quot;&gt;Looking for patronage era European scifi scientist/inventor male author?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/75711/4918&quot;&gt;Juvenile SF series, 1970s, white covers with thin Futura text, female author?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/73534/4918&quot;&gt;Trying to find author of short story called Man Alone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/71675/4918&quot;&gt;Please help me ID this SciFi story - a group of people captured and absorbed by a goo-like creature on an alien planet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/67625/4918&quot;&gt;Sci Fi Book about a sick weak wife cloned and gradually replaced by a robot maid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/55678/4918&quot;&gt;Story identification: Singer somehow ends up in a fantasy realm with elves (and stuff)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/52820/4918&quot;&gt;Books read in 80s, English mythology with modern twist, male writer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Three of the questions are concerning an already identified work, and are asking for the identity of a contributor, eg. the writer or illustrator or translator or whatever thousand roles people have in the film industry.  We already have a tag that collects such questions, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/actor-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;actor-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;actor-identification&lt;/a&gt;. That one might be the wrong tag to use from the signpost viewpoint, because if someone asks a question about identifying artists in print comic strips, then that needs comic experts, not movie experts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/115328/4918&quot;&gt;Seeking name credits for pulp SF artists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/117600/4918&quot;&gt;Who wrote &amp;quot;The Monsters&amp;quot; short story published by Purnell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/109751/4918&quot;&gt;Who created the version of Kilgrave in the Jessica Jones TV series?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there are three questions that are on topic, but in neither of the above two categories.  You'll have to make individual decisions about these.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/100155/4918&quot;&gt;Which author commented that &amp;quot;we all got it wrong&amp;quot; about walking on the moon being televised?&lt;/a&gt; CreationEdge suggests &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; for this, and I like that suggestion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/123540/4918&quot;&gt;Quotation about the future of technology being paper&lt;/a&gt; - it turns out the answer for this one is a non-fiction essay by Isaac Asimov, but I couldn't have guessed that from the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/103008/4918&quot;&gt;Whose definition of &amp;quot;science fiction&amp;quot; is this?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I hope I didn't miss any question from the above, but it's possible.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What tags should all these questions get?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2016-11-30T12:53:48.053" Title="What to do with the [author-identification] tag?" 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  <row Id="10283" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-21T13:57:49.043" Score="-1" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I edited &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/143363/why-is-yoda-so-useless&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question's answer, but it was not bumped to the top of the front page like a normal post would.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can only assume that down voted questions are not put at the top for some reason. So why is this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-10-21T14:08:37.073" Title="Why isn't a down voted question moved to the top of the front page after editing one of its answers?" Tags="|support|editing|down-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10284" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10287" CreationDate="2016-10-21T14:03:04.747" Score="6" ViewCount="326" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about Brandon Sanderson and his works are getting ever more frequent on this site, and yet I'm unclear on how our tags in this area should be used. Here's what we have at the moment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brandon-sanderson&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brandon-sanderson&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brandon-sanderson&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;strong&gt;author tag&lt;/strong&gt;, with 61 questions most of which don't relate specifically to the author or to his works as a whole but are about some specific book or series of his. One user seems to have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2730/fbstj?tab=activity&amp;amp;sort=suggestions&quot;&gt;made it their mission&lt;/a&gt; to add this tag to all questions about Sanderson's works.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cosmere&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cosmere&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cosmere&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;strong&gt;universe tag&lt;/strong&gt; (?), with 20 questions most of which are about the Cosmere as a whole, although a few relate only to a specific book or series within it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;various &lt;strong&gt;individual-work tags&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mistborn&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mistborn&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mistborn&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stormlight-archive&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stormlight-archive&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stormlight-archive&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-reckoners&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-reckoners&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-reckoners&lt;/a&gt;, and so on. Most if not all of these seem to be used sensibly, for posts which are actually about the work in question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the highest-voted answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7923/31394&quot;&gt;What is the correct usage of individual works tags vs. author tags vs. franchise tags?&lt;/a&gt;, the general guidelines for author vs franchise vs individual work tags are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If the question is about a work of fiction, it always gets a tag; if we have to create one, we do that (give it a tag wiki, etc.) If there's confusion over what to call it, bring it to meta.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If the work in question is part of a larger franchise, also give it that tag always. This makes it easier for people to follow/ignore/etc. one tag and cover the entire franchise. (For example, I believe all questions about MCU movies should be tagged as such, even if the question is localized to one movie, so I only have to follow one tag.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If the question is asking about a) aspects of the author's life, or b) aspects of the author's work that are not specific to a single work or franchise, then we tag the question with the name of the author.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not familiar enough with all of Sanderson's works to be certain, but I believe the Cosmere covers nearly everything he's written. If this is the case, should we be using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cosmere&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cosmere&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cosmere&lt;/a&gt; instead of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brandon-sanderson&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brandon-sanderson&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brandon-sanderson&lt;/a&gt; on all questions about Cosmere works (even those specific to a single book) and using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brandon-sanderson&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brandon-sanderson&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brandon-sanderson&lt;/a&gt; only on questions relevant to the author himself? (Note that the easiest way to implement this change would &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be to retag all &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brandon-sanderson&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brandon-sanderson&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brandon-sanderson&lt;/a&gt; questions, but to merge that tag into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cosmere&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cosmere&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cosmere&lt;/a&gt; and then retag only the few questions which are about Sanderson himself.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or should we stick with the current usage: considering &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brandon-sanderson&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brandon-sanderson&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brandon-sanderson&lt;/a&gt; as more or less a franchise tag and using it on all questions about any of his works, with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cosmere&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cosmere&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cosmere&lt;/a&gt; being used only for questions about the Cosmere as a whole? One argument for this is that more people are likely to be familiar with the name Brandon Sanderson than the word Cosmere. Someone new to Sanderson who wants to post a question about &lt;em&gt;Mistborn&lt;/em&gt; is unlikely to have even heard of the Cosmere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What should our usage guidance be for these tags?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T19:06:39.117" Title="Sanderson's Tags of Magic" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10283" CreationDate="2016-10-21T14:03:58.993" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question currently has a score of -13, so &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/48579/299342&quot;&gt;its score is too low to be bumped to the front page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions with sufficiently low score will &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be bumped when either they or their answers are edited. The &quot;sufficiently low&quot; threshold is -4 on SO and new SE sites, and -8 on MetaSO (as of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/62261/are-edited-questions-no-longer-bumped-to-the-front-page/62262#62262&quot;&gt;Aug 25, '10&lt;/a&gt; -- see Grace Note's comment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not aware of an explanation on Meta.SE why this is, but presumably it is to avoid cluttering up the front page with low-quality questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2016-10-21T14:08:37.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10284" CreationDate="2016-10-21T14:41:51.407" Score="0" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cosmere&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cosmere&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cosmere&lt;/a&gt; - since the Cosmere is really more of a &quot;bonus&quot; meta level of the universe and doesn't apply to all of his novels (Reckoners, Rithmatist, Alcatraz, other things involving &quot;parallel earths&quot; have nothing to do with the Cosmere) and is barely involved even for some works that include it, it really is a distinct thing from everything else.  Last I checked the wiki for it, it specifically says to only use it for questions related to the meta-setting, not just tag every Sanderson Cosmere work with it.  I think that should be its intent, and we should continue that way.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brandon-sanderson&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brandon-sanderson&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brandon-sanderson&lt;/a&gt; - people seem to have very different intents with tags that end up being &quot;super-tags&quot; that a bunch of other different tags end up falling under, and author tags are definitely that.  I have no problem with it being slapped on every question related, because I think its value diminishes if it's not used that way; I would have no problem finding related tags and related works through tag wiki entries, but I think most guests to the site don't actually do that.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess this boils down to continue current usage, with a pruning of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cosmere&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cosmere&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cosmere&lt;/a&gt; if it's misapplied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38235" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-10-21T15:07:12.273" LastActivityDate="2016-10-21T15:07:12.273" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10284" CreationDate="2016-10-21T21:11:21.137" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;We should follow the existing policy: use the author tag sparingly and the series tag liberally&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Our existing policy on author and franchise tags would point to using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cosmere&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cosmere&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cosmere&lt;/a&gt; as a franchise tag for all of Sanderson’s cosmere books, and not tagging with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brandon-sanderson&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brandon-sanderson&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brandon-sanderson&lt;/a&gt; under most circumstances.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current policy on author, work, and franchise tag is summarized &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7924/51379&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &#xA;When should we use author tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If the question is asking about a) aspects of the author’s life, or b)&#xA;  aspects of the author’s work that are &lt;strong&gt;not specific to a single work or&#xA;  franchise&lt;/strong&gt;, then we tag the question with the name of the author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And when should we use franchise tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If the work in question is part of a larger franchise, also give it&#xA;  that tag always. This makes it easier for people to follow/ignore/etc.&#xA;  one tag and cover the entire franchise. (For example, I believe all&#xA;  questions about MCU movies should be tagged as such, even if the&#xA;  question is localized to one movie, so I only have to follow one tag.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although these policies are infrequently enforced and frequently not followed, they are still the blueprint that we should follow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Cosmere is what Sanderson &lt;a href=&quot;http://archeddoorway.com/2015/09/04/interview-with-brandon-sanderson-2/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;calls&lt;/a&gt; the universe that many of his books, such as the &lt;em&gt;Mistborn&lt;/em&gt; series and &lt;em&gt;The Stormlight Archive&lt;/em&gt;, are set in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I really don’t. I was wanting to try and do it for this year, but the&#xA;  fact that I have Stormlight on my plate means that I won’t. The time&#xA;  to have been able to do that would have been last year, but I wrote&#xA;  the new Wax and Wayne novels instead. It is going to happen—in the&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;timeline of the Cosmere&lt;/strong&gt; it needs to have happened by the time that I&#xA;  am doing Mistborn Era 3; the 1980s-level-technology trilogy. We need&#xA;  to be caught up on where Elantris is, so that &lt;strong&gt;the whole Cosmere&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  timeline can happen. So it will happen, but I know it won’t be for at&#xA;  least another few years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps more important, he even &lt;a href=&quot;http://thebooksmugglers.com/2013/05/the-rithmatist-a-chat-with-brandon-sanderson.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;calls&lt;/a&gt; the series the “Cosmere books”:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;With my Cosmere books&lt;/strong&gt; — which are the shared universe of my epic&#xA;  fantasies — I need to be a little more rigorous. There are fundamental&#xA;  underlying principles that guide the magic systems, and so there’s a&#xA;  larger developmental phase before I start writing the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not all of Brandon Sanderson’s work is set in the Cosmere universe. He is a prolific author, and has written several other series:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Reckoners&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Reckoners&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a series set in a  world in which superpowers corrupt those who possess them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://brandonsanderson.com/books/alcatraz/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Alcatraz&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a series about a young boy with the unusual power of breaking things. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rithmatist_series&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Rithmatist&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a series about chalk magic in an alternate Earth. One book has been released and more are planned. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A number of stand-alone short stories, written for anthologies and so forth. Note that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brandon-sanderson&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brandon-sanderson&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brandon-sanderson&lt;/a&gt; tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10230/51379&quot;&gt;might come in useful&lt;/a&gt; if people ever ask questions about these. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The point is, the Cosmere is a franchise or universe, not just a word for everything written by Brandon Sanderson.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A priori, it seems clear that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brandon-sanderson&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brandon-sanderson&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brandon-sanderson&lt;/a&gt; is an author tag. It’s the name of the author, and as long as it’s around people will want to attach it to anything he’s written. Indeed, that’s what the question suggests: to use it to tag &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of Brandon Sanderson’s work. If the tag name is the same as the author’s name, and it’s used to tag all their work, I think it’s hard to argue that it’s not an author tag, and thus covered by our current author tag policy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We should strive for consistency. We don’t tag every &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; book question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jk-rowling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jk-rowling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jk-rowling&lt;/a&gt;, and we don’t tag every question about a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/realm-of-the-elderlings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;realm-of-the-elderlings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;realm-of-the-elderlings&lt;/a&gt; book &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/robin-hobb&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;robin-hobb&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;robin-hobb&lt;/a&gt;. We &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; use the franchise or series name for many such books, even when the name is less official than “Cosmere,” which is the term Brandon uses.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sure, a lot of people who ask questions about works in the Cosmere may not know that that’s the correct tag. But that’s no different from what happens with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;. Most people who watch &lt;em&gt;Iron Man&lt;/em&gt; probably have no idea what the MCU is. This really happens with a lot of series tag, perhaps the majority: people know the book name, but not the series name. For that matter, people frequently stick &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction-genre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science-fiction-genre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science-fiction-genre&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions. We have plenty of people willing to retag or take out tags in those cases. It will be a &lt;em&gt;whole&lt;/em&gt; lot easier for a low-volume franchise like the Cosmere. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We should follow the existing guidelines and avoid using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brandon-sanderson&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brandon-sanderson&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brandon-sanderson&lt;/a&gt; to tag questions about his individual books or series. And, although it is less necessary, we should also use a franchise tag if possible, for which &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cosmere&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cosmere&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cosmere&lt;/a&gt; seems like the natural and most convenient option.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2016-10-21T21:33:12.147" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10282" CreationDate="2016-10-22T20:36:59.177" Score="11" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Let’s get rid of it&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The vast majority of the questions listed are standard &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions.&lt;/strong&gt; Sure, the querents don’t know who wrote the story, but that’s because &lt;em&gt;they don’t know the story&lt;/em&gt;. As long as we have this tag, it seems, people will continue putting in on such questions. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A few of these are questions where someone remembers the title (or thinks they do), but does not remember the author. I submit that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; is still the right tag for these. There’s a reason it’s not &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/title-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;title-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;title-identification&lt;/a&gt;. If they’re asking about a story even though they remember the title, it almost certainly means they can’t find the specific story that they’re after. A story is more than its title: it’s whatever one needs to uniquely identify it, including the author name if there’s more than one by different authors, the publication date if an author published two versions, and so on. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some of the questions that don’t fit either of these categories probably don’t need the tag. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/109751/who-created-the-version-of-kilgrave-in-the-jessica-jones-tv-series&quot;&gt;Who created the version of Kilgrave in the Jessica Jones TV series?&lt;/a&gt; could just be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jessica-jones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jessica-jones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jessica-jones&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;For the three questions about quotations, let’s just use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quotes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quotes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quotes&lt;/a&gt; tag, which already exists and is pretty widely used.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The main difficulties are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/117600/4918&quot;&gt;Who wrote &amp;quot;The Monsters&amp;quot; short story published by Purnell&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/115328/4918&quot;&gt;Seeking name credits for pulp SF artists&lt;/a&gt;. These are perhaps the rare questions for which &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/author-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;author-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;author-identification&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; make sense: the questioner knows &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; what the story is, and might even possess a physical copy, but for some reason the author’s name is not listed. On the other hand, there are &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; of these questions on the whole site. We could just tag these with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/authors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;authors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;authors&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best course of action would be to &lt;strong&gt;merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/author-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;author-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;author-identification&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, and tag the few questions for which this is not appropriate with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jessica-jones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jessica-jones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jessica-jones&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quotes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quotes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quotes&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/authors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;authors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;authors&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2016-10-22T22:43:11.440" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10289" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-23T10:48:15.640" Score="-8" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;How on earth is anyone ever going to get this badge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/51/stellar-question&quot;&gt;Stellar Question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Question favorited by 100 users. This badge can be awarded multiple times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On StackOverflow there have been &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/36/stellar-question&quot;&gt;4.3k Stellar Question&lt;/a&gt; badges awarded. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why none on SciFi?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:46.357" LastActivityDate="2019-05-21T13:30:02.763" Title="Why do we have no 'Stellar' questions?" Tags="|discussion|badges|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10289" CreationDate="2016-10-23T11:03:29.127" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest it's mostly down to the size of the user-base&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow = &lt;strong&gt;5.9m users.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;SFF:SE = &lt;strong&gt;40k users&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also the reason why it's possible for &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/why-is-it-faster-to-process-a-sorted-array-than-an-unsorted-array&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; to have 15,000 upvotes and over 7000 favourites (with an answer that has 22,000 upvotes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:40:46.357" LastActivityDate="2016-10-23T11:03:29.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10289" CreationDate="2016-10-23T11:21:20.713" Score="11" Body="&lt;h2&gt;There are two factors at play here&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Number of users. As mentioned in Valorum’s answer, Stack Overflow has a hundred times as many users as we do. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Usefulness of answers. On a site like Stackoverflow or Mathematics, you might need to go back and reference an answer multiple times for homework, coding, and so forth&amp;mdash;&lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; because you think it’s cool (or because you want to put a bounty on it, etc). On Science Fiction and Fantasy, you mainly &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; star it because you think it’s cool. This might help explain why Academia, with fewer users, for example, has &lt;a href=&quot;https://academia.stackexchange.com/help/badges/36/stellar-question&quot;&gt;two&lt;/a&gt; stellar question badges awarded. Similarly, Raspberry Pi is notably smaller, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/36/stellar-question&quot;&gt;two questions&lt;/a&gt; there have at least 100 stars&amp;mdash; since many people need reminding on &lt;a href=&quot;https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/311/how-do-i-backup-my-raspberry-pi&quot;&gt;how to back up their Raspberry Pi&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; eventually get the badge here, as the stars accumulate, but it might take while. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:56:21.727" LastActivityDate="2016-10-23T11:36:18.893" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10292" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-23T22:50:47.217" Score="3" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28044/short-story-about-alien-military-telepathy/49907#49907&quot;&gt;Short story about alien military telepathy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is a dupe of this question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/66305/which-70s-80s-story-book-has-horses-as-protagonists/66307#66307&quot;&gt;Which 70s/80s story/book has horses as protagonists?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but when I try to close it as a dupe (with my gold-tag privilege), I get this warning&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nIy8X.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nIy8X.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was able to close &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7569/short-story-about-a-highly-intelligent-species-without-any-technology/7570#7570&quot;&gt;another question&lt;/a&gt; as a dupe of the first question a few seconds earlier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-08-05T14:41:27.137" LastActivityDate="2017-08-05T14:41:27.137" Title="Why can't I close this question as a dupe?" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10282" CreationDate="2016-10-24T00:12:07.107" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm also for merging &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/author-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;author-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;author-identification&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, but I'd suggest an alternative for handling some of those outlier questions, which is simply to let them stay as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/authors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;authors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;authors&lt;/a&gt; was suggested, but at the moment it's a fairly useless tag. It's used inconsistently &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; barely. If it were a good tag, I posit that it would have been much more broadly used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, with merging everything into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, I suggest updating the tag guidance from:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions asking for help identifying a TV series, comic-book issue/story arc, movie, book, or other story. For help identifying an episode of a TV series, use the [episode-identification] tag instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use for help identifying a story and/or its creator(s), including novels, movies, comic books, entire TV series, etc. Use with another tag to specify which type of media, eg. [short-stories]. For identifying a single episode of a known TV series, use [episode-identification].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Allowing story-id to include creators gets rid of the &quot;need&quot; to have a tag to specify that you're looking for the author. And, it also allows us to include other types of creators, such as those included in &quot;story by:&quot; credits, sources of quotes, etc. without having a bunch of meta tags that are rarely used and barely useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, a new usage for the tag will: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reduce clutter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reduce redundancy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be more useful&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reduce the work needed to implement and maintain it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2016-10-24T00:20:28.217" LastActivityDate="2016-10-24T00:20:28.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10267" CreationDate="2016-10-24T18:35:40.797" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it is not too late, I will throw in the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Scientifically Fantastic Blog&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This combines science, fantasy, and the SE model of having fact/expert based answers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2016-10-24T18:35:40.797" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10267" CreationDate="2016-10-24T18:41:03.687" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about The Definitive SF&amp;amp;F Blog? It is setting it up to be better than others (definitive) and it is exactly what we are.. a Science-Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Blog?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65829" LastActivityDate="2016-10-24T18:41:03.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10267" CreationDate="2016-10-25T12:19:03.607" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Call the blog &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Community Blog&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, since that's what it's currently called.  (The title says &quot;Stack Exchange Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Blog:&quot; but the big image logo says &quot;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Community Blog&quot; on the image and &quot;site title&quot; as the alt text.)  For the domain name, choose domain names with &lt;code&gt;scificommunity&lt;/code&gt; as one of the components, such as &lt;code&gt;scificommunity.blogspot.com&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;www.scificommunity.org&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(As an alternative, try to register the &lt;code&gt;scifi.org&lt;/code&gt; domain name if it's not taken yet, since it's a nice short and easy to remember domain name.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastActivityDate="2016-10-25T12:19:03.607" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10266" CreationDate="2016-10-26T01:11:49.230" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This page has the complete list by date and title:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thesffblog.com/all/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://thesffblog.com/all/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Formatting is not necessarily finalized, but the list is automatically generated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to comment if there are other specific things you'd prefer to see on this page, such as Author. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://thesffblog.com/archive/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Archive page&lt;/a&gt; continues to break down posts by month/topic/etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;All Posts Page&quot; is now a link at the top of the Archive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2016-10-26T16:08:11.173" LastActivityDate="2016-10-26T16:08:11.173" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10298" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-26T12:39:03.203" Score="0" ViewCount="426" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fantasy universes have always been a world that only lives because of its supporters. The Star Wars Extended Universe surely contributed to what the franchise is today. It seems that the owner of the brand decides what's canon and what's not, but where is the logic in that? If I throw money at Disney and decide that episode 4 features Jesus Christ, would that be considered the real story by the fans? Of course it wouldn’t. I understand that if you know what's canon and what's not, you know what to expect from a future official production, but if this changes so frequently all the time, who cares? So is there reason to specify what's “real” in a fictional universe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was and is specific about SF&amp;amp;F. Is the canon obsession here healthy? Canon also sometimes doesn't explain things that content that got out of canon previously did. So would you answer non canonical or is it irrelevant to begin with? Also as stated in the comments, people often disagree on what's canon or not; you have to remember that there are stories where the creator/owner didn't bother to specify a canon. So, does it make sense to keep on discussing what's canon and what's not, and shouldn't there be a solution from SF&amp;amp;F? Something like a box you can check whether you care about canon or not canon. Also my question is about content that could reasonably be seen as canon (Like the Witcher games to the books), that doesn't include crappy written fanfic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="72119" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-10-28T14:06:02.750" LastActivityDate="2016-10-28T20:51:33.330" Title="Why is canon important?" Tags="|discussion|canon|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10298" CreationDate="2016-10-26T13:56:57.650" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So is there reason to specify what's “real” in a fictional universe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume that you're asking this &lt;em&gt;in the context of SFF.SE&lt;/em&gt; and not life in general. As such, the answer is a definite &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yes&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;, there is a reason. Because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;That's basically what many, if not most, users come to this site for in the first place. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The spirit of the site is about studying works of speculative fiction &lt;em&gt;in the context of canon&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;sup&gt;[0]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reasons for that vary and may be worth exploring in a separate Meta Q&amp;amp;A or a blog post, but the margins of this answer are too small to fit that discourse.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because if you don't use canon, you don't have a basis for workable StackExchange Q&amp;amp;A site - there is no objective way to score whether an answer is &quot;correct&quot; or not, &quot;good&quot; or not.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;[0] - There are other things that the site is also for - such as dissecting the genre history and *sigh* story-identification - but those comprise a much smaller use case.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2016-10-26T14:04:51.810" LastActivityDate="2016-10-26T14:04:51.810" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10300" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10301" CreationDate="2016-10-28T08:31:49.630" Score="6" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/99720/whats-the-relationship-among-the-many-uses-of-the-name-praxis-in-sci-fi&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the relationship among the many uses of the name &amp;quot;Praxis&amp;quot; in sci-fi?&lt;/a&gt;, there are several deleted answers that were deleted by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;Community ♦&lt;/a&gt; user: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/99905/51379&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/99904/51379&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/99907/51379&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. For example: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/h9eTT.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/h9eTT.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did this happen? The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;Community ♦&lt;/a&gt;  user can delete spam and offensive answers if they receive six flags (or a single moderator flag), but in such cases the text of the post will be hidden. A post can also be deleted if it receives six “Recommend Deletion” votes from the review queue, but then it shows the names of the people who deleted it. It must be an automatic process of some sort, of course, but what is the criterion? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;1: All deleted answers only available to 10k+ users.  &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-10-28T20:28:28.920" Title="Why were these posts deleted by Community ♦?" Tags="|support|deleted-answers|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10300" CreationDate="2016-10-28T09:25:44.173" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;A quick look at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/99905/timeline&quot;&gt;timelines&lt;/a&gt; for these posts shows that these users were &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/88994/difference-between-a-deleted-user-and-a-destroyed-user&quot;&gt;destroyed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. The fact that there's three in a row with basically the same answer indicates that they were almost certainly &lt;strong&gt;creating sockpuppet accounts for the purposes of posting worthless answers&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a user is destroyed, the Community♦ bot goes in and deletes all of their previous answers, which is what you can see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-10-28T09:32:11.730" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10302" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-28T11:24:25.923" Score="-10" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question is in the title of this question, Why can't you delete a question with answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried to delete a question that has answers to it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My honest thoughts on this is, if I am to get penalized for a question that is not considered good by the community, why should any one else be able to get rep off that question. If I ask it , I should be able to delete it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why is the system rigged towards answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="65457" LastEditDate="2016-10-28T11:30:43.720" LastActivityDate="2016-10-28T11:56:40.800" Title="Why can't you delete a question with answers?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-10-28T14:03:59.843" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10302" CreationDate="2016-10-28T11:52:02.047" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's so that users who want to leave the site for one reason or another can't take other people's contributions with them by simply deleting all of their questions. It's effectively a form of vandalism protection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In asking a question, you are (most of the time) adding value to the site, but the real value comes in the form of the answers to that question. Being as deleting a question would also (naturally) mean deleting the valuable answers, questions with answers cannot be deleted so that the answers are preserved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24087" LastEditorUserId="24087" LastEditDate="2016-10-28T11:56:40.800" LastActivityDate="2016-10-28T11:56:40.800" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10298" CreationDate="2016-10-28T20:51:33.330" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Canon is especially important when it comes to shared universes or very large bodies of work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happens is that timelines, continuities, and even the way the universe works can all be contradicted at various levels of canon. Determining a primary canon allows users to be on the same page about the fictional universe, in a way that's internally consistent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users tend to prefer a certain level of canon, because going beyond that can get too messy, or seem like professional fan-fiction (such as the *What if?&quot; line Marvel comics). It also helps to decide which media to consume, or to focus on when becoming an expert. Harry Potter experts needn't read every line of flavor text from the official video games, as that's not a level of canon most users are particularly interested in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, as you see, it's useful for both engaging objective discussion, and guiding users and experts to relevant material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2016-10-28T20:51:33.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10306" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-29T14:29:38.720" Score="7" ViewCount="239" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should questions have their author tags &lt;em&gt;removed&lt;/em&gt; if a tag for the specific work is available?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I created the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fahrenheit-451&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fahrenheit-451&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fahrenheit-451&lt;/a&gt; not too long ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed just now that the questions with the tag, had the author tag &amp;mdash; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ray-bradbury&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ray-bradbury&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ray-bradbury&lt;/a&gt; &amp;mdash; removed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/17853/revisions&quot;&gt;Revisions of post 17853&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/17874/revisions&quot;&gt;Revisions of post 17874&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/51586/revisions&quot;&gt;Revisions of post 51586&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've already discussed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7923/19561&quot;&gt;&quot;the correct usage of individual works tags vs. author tags vs. franchise tags&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, but my takeaway from that was &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; that available author tags should be &lt;em&gt;removed&lt;/em&gt; from questions about their works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should they be? Specifically, should the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ray-bradbury&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ray-bradbury&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ray-bradbury&lt;/a&gt; be removed from questions that have the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fahrenheit-451&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fahrenheit-451&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fahrenheit-451&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2016-11-02T12:16:29.807" Title="Should questions about &quot;Fahrenheit 451&quot; not be tagged with [ray-bradbury]?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10306" CreationDate="2016-10-29T14:29:38.720" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No, of course not&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's an unacceptable loss of information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Rationale&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ray Bradbury is one of my favourite authors. I'm interested in reading and possibly answering questions about his work. So I've added &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ray-bradbury&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ray-bradbury&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ray-bradbury&lt;/a&gt; to my favourite tags. I don't want to have to add &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fahrenheit-451&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fahrenheit-451&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fahrenheit-451&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/something-wicked-this-way-comes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;something-wicked-this-way-comes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;something-wicked-this-way-comes&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-illustrated-man&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-illustrated-man&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-illustrated-man&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/r-is-for-rocket&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;r-is-for-rocket&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;r-is-for-rocket&lt;/a&gt;, and so on. Especially for tags that do not even exist yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, like I've said before, tags are our &lt;em&gt;Bat Signal&lt;/em&gt; for experts. Someone who is an expert on the &lt;em&gt;Fahrenheit 451&lt;/em&gt; is of course best suited to answer questions about it, but experts on Ray Bradbury (and his works) in general should be perfectly able to do so as well. So removing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ray-bradbury&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ray-bradbury&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ray-bradbury&lt;/a&gt; is removing signal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Does this mean that we need to tag each and every question about a work with the tag for its author?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, this does not. A good example where this is not necessary would be J. K. Rowling. All her works &lt;em&gt;that are on topic here&lt;/em&gt; are part of the &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; franchise. All questions with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; could have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jk-rowling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jk-rowling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jk-rowling&lt;/a&gt; as well; almost all questions with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jk-rowling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jk-rowling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jk-rowling&lt;/a&gt; could have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;, the few exceptions being questions about the author herself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that is one of a few exceptions. &lt;em&gt;Only when the author and the work/franchise are nearly synonymous can the author tag be omitted.&lt;/em&gt; For all other questions, use the author tag as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="31029" LastEditDate="2016-11-02T12:16:29.807" LastActivityDate="2016-11-02T12:16:29.807" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10306" CreationDate="2016-10-29T19:02:17.260" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;We’re not obligated to remove them, but it’s fine if we do&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7924/51379&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; of how to use author, work, and franchise tags has already been asked, and the guidelines are fairly straightforward.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If the question is asking about a) aspects of the author’s life, or b)&#xA;  aspects of the author’s work that are not specific to a single work or&#xA;  franchise, then we tag the question with the name of the author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By implication, &lt;strong&gt;when the question is asking about aspects of an author’s work that &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; specific to a single work or franchise, we do not use an author tag.&lt;/strong&gt; We use a franchise or work tag instead, as discussed elsewhere in the answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If the question is about a work of fiction, it always gets a tag; if&#xA;  we have to create one, we do that (give it a tag wiki, etc.) If&#xA;  there’s confusion over what to call it, bring it to meta. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So yes, we would use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fahrenheit-451&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fahrenheit-451&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fahrenheit-451&lt;/a&gt; instead of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ray-bradbury&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ray-bradbury&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ray-bradbury&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don’t need to ask about each individual author tag, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brandon-sanderson&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brandon-sanderson&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brandon-sanderson&lt;/a&gt;, since we have a meta consensus that applies to author tags in general&amp;mdash;at least when it come to future tagging. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question says: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We’ve already discussed “the correct usage of individual works tags&#xA;  vs. author tags vs. franchise tags”, but my takeaway from that was not&#xA;  that available author tags should be removed from questions about&#xA;  their works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be careful when it comes to changing tags on existing questions. Part of this is for the same reasons we should be careful with any large retagging enterprise: for example, flooding the front page with old questions. If making a change would require retagging large groups of questions, it might be worth bringing  to meta even if the existing policy is clear. &lt;strong&gt;But retagging two or three questions in accordance with the current policy is probably fine.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also argue that retagging old questions in accordance with current tagging guidelines  &lt;strong&gt;is not necessary.&lt;/strong&gt; Not much harm is done by having incorrectly tagged old questions floating around.(assuming that the incorrect tagging is of the nature of an author tag, and not, say, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/my-little-pony&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;my-little-pony&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;my-little-pony&lt;/a&gt; questions tagged as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/superman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;superman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;superman&lt;/a&gt;) However, &lt;strong&gt;editing old questions to conform with current tagging guidelines should not be viewed as &lt;em&gt;negative&lt;/em&gt;, either.&lt;/strong&gt;  If we retag a question to have the tags that it would have if the author had asked the question today, or if they had read our various tag policies, that’s arguably a good thing. If someone found an old &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction-genre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science-fiction-genre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science-fiction-genre&lt;/a&gt;, in contravention of our policy, then it would be fine to edit the latter tag out. The same applies for author tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.807" LastActivityDate="2016-10-31T13:09:29.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10309" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-10-30T19:34:26.953" Score="3" ViewCount="254" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/144118/is-a-vampires-age-dependent-on-its-age-objectively-or-the-amount-of-time-they&quot;&gt;general question&lt;/a&gt; about vampires* was put on hold as 'too broad'.&#xA;as no fictional universe was specified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But we also have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9858/do-vampire-fangs-act-as-straws&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; &lt;s&gt;which is pretty recent, &lt;/s&gt; with 15 UV's and 2 favs about the specs of fangs in 'typical vampire lore'. It is a fascinating one really, but if 'vampire lore' is too board then it follows that a question about 'typical vampire lore' should be also characterized as such. And there is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8925/are-all-vampires-back-sleepers&quot;&gt;another one&lt;/a&gt; that looks like a market research of IKEA trying to find new clients among the undead with no discrimination whatsoever whether they are from D&amp;amp;D, True Blood or Dresden Files. I mean, there is no unambiguous answer to it, Spike from BTVS for example can fall asleep in any position and place, in a bathtub or on Buffy's bosom, and Undead Cedric from the Twilight saga apperenty never sleeps, but we can still learn a lot answering these questions and there are many users who are interested having them, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7028/why-dont-zombies-eat-each-other&quot;&gt;some of these closed questions&lt;/a&gt; have 40+ upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So all this is a bit confusing. Say a new user drops in, (maybe he's even here as he found one of SFF 'general' vampire questions and decides it's the place to ask another one or even &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8962/what-bodily-functions-work-in-vampires&quot;&gt;users who are familiar with SFF&lt;/a&gt;) how they are supposed to know why it is ok to ask a general question about fangs and sleeping patterns but not about the 'aging process' or 'bodily functions' of a vampire? There is no consensus in all these subjects in various vampire lores, so how should one guess which questions are allowed here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I am being too naive, but shouldn't be there consistency in flagging questions to avoid confusion? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;sub&gt; The same applies to tags 'werewolf', 'dragon','basilisk', 'zombie', and all the other  creature tags. Except barlogs. They're fine. &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user68762" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-11-03T17:46:29.730" Title="Are we consistent when flagging questions as 'too broad'?" Tags="|discussion|scope|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="33" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10309" CreationDate="2016-10-30T20:02:44.597" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, we aren't fully consistent with close-votes, especially on this kind of question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Close-votes are always done manually rather than by the system, so there's always an element of &lt;strong&gt;human error&lt;/strong&gt;. This is particularly true with questions of the type you're talking about - questions about general sci-fi/fantasy creatures or concepts which aren't specific to a single fictional universe - because these questions have been a point of contention for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a meta post a few months back, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9760/31394&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s our policy on questions about fantasy/sci-fi creatures that aren&amp;#39;t directly related to a specific on-topic work?&lt;/a&gt;, which tried to nail down a clear community policy on questions of this kind. As you can see, the community is rather divided: 15 upvotes for &quot;&lt;em&gt;these questions should be on-topic&lt;/em&gt;&quot; vs 14 for &quot;&lt;em&gt;these questions should be closed&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. With such a close race between two conflicting views and no clear consensus, we should of course abide by the status quo: &lt;strong&gt;leave these questions open&lt;/strong&gt; unless they're blatantly opinion-based, unanswerable, or otherwise have no place on the site. &lt;strong&gt;The site's community-determined scope has never been defined so as to exclude questions which aren't universe-specific.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, not all of our close-voters are abiding by this. Questions such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/8962/31394&quot;&gt;What Bodily Functions Work in Vampires?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/8193/31394&quot;&gt;Aren&amp;#39;t zombie outbreaks self defeating?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/8206/31394&quot;&gt;What Happens to Zombies that Don&amp;#39;t Eat?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/24137/31394&quot;&gt;Why are vampires not rotten like other undead?&lt;/a&gt; which were posted back in 2011 or 2012, highly voted, and considered perfectly fine for this site for &lt;em&gt;years&lt;/em&gt; have been closed in recent months for no apparent reason, despite there being no meta consensus supporting the closure of such questions. A glance at the list of close-voters on each question reveals many of the same names cropping up again and again: essentially there's a small clique of high-rep users voting to close these questions against community (non-)consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-10-30T20:02:44.597" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10309" CreationDate="2016-10-31T02:21:55.837" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The vote on whether or not these questions are globally on topic or off topic is essentially a tie. (At this time, if I remove my votes on the two answers, for instance, it becomes a tie.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In such a case, our only recourse as users is to use the privileges we've earned: upvote/downvote (or not), vote to close (or not), vote to reopen (or not).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a case where an actual exercise of community moderation, bottom-up policy, is going to prevail. That's opposed to a top-down policy of meta deciding how we're supposed to use our privileges. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, voting will likely be inconsistent, as individual users with the combination of interest and privileges will vary. Just because someone votes a certain way on meta doesn't mean that they will ever actually take that review action. So, we should be guided instead by those who put their money where their mouth is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until/unless a global policy is truly decided, we need to make do with what we have. In this case, we also have the ability to raise a specific meta question about opening/closing a single question (as has always been the case) to draw community attention to something in need of moderation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/286466/287266&quot;&gt;similar question was recently brought up on Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt;, and the consensus there is largely the same as what I've stated here, albeit a little more succinctly eloquent: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Allow such questions to be voted on (including vote to close) as they present themselves to each user eligible to vote i.e. a case-by-case basis&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of note here, is that if we look at how the community is moderating itself, &lt;strong&gt;these questions should be closed&lt;/strong&gt;. That's how we've done it in the past. That's why &lt;em&gt;none&lt;/em&gt; of the closed questions listed here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9760/whats-our-policy-on-questions-about-fantasy-sci-fi-creatures-that-arent-direct&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s our policy on questions about fantasy/sci-fi creatures that aren&amp;#39;t directly related to a specific on-topic work?&lt;/a&gt; have been reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.757" LastActivityDate="2016-11-03T17:46:29.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7946" CreationDate="2016-11-01T15:04:48.770" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://crafts.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QLszU.png&quot; alt=&quot;Get Crafty!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2016-11-01T15:04:48.770" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1465" CreationDate="2016-11-01T21:14:34.707" Score="-1" Body="&lt;h1&gt;We should close them&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? Well…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;They’re “list of works” questions in disguise&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of our close reasons is for questions about lists of works or recommendations”: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Requests for lists of works or recommendations are off-topic as they&#xA;  do not fit our questions and answers format. Feel free to ask about&#xA;  people’s favorites in chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When they do get answered, these questions almost invariably attract lists of single-example answers.&lt;/strong&gt; Such lists are often interminable, which is one of the main things we want to avoid. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/43055/51379&quot;&gt;Are there any stories of demons gone good?&lt;/a&gt; might “only” have four answers (one of which lists multiple examples), but the list of potential answers is far longer than that. If there are seven stories of demons who turned good, there must be seven hundred more. There’s a long list &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AscendedDemon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, under the heading of “Ascended Demon.” Taken to the extreme, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/142823/is-there-a-superhero-who-is-an-actor-when-not-on-superhero-duty&quot;&gt;Is there a superhero who is an actor when not on superhero duty?&lt;/a&gt;, still open, has nine answers giving many separate examples. We can’t argue that these aren’t legitimate answers, either: they answer the question, which is another sign that this is our friend List of Works in disguise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interminable list questions are one of the main things we want to avoid.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These share many of the features that make list questions bad, as described by a CM &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/98366/328832&quot;&gt;on the main meta&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Asking everyone to contribute to a large bucket of answers means that&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;it stops being a question of specific expertise and becomes a “poll”&#xA;  of the community&lt;/strong&gt;. For right or for wrong, answers start accumulating&#xA;  and &lt;strong&gt;people start voting on what they recognize as familiar, rather&#xA;  than vetting the relative merits of each answer&lt;/strong&gt;. Often there are too&#xA;  many entries to even know what anyone is contributing anymore. It&#xA;  doesn’t even matter; &lt;strong&gt;There’s usually no expectation that any one&#xA;  answer will be better than any other.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;They might be recommendation questions in disguise&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They tend to get the same answers as recommendation questions, as partly discussed previously. They are going to be of &lt;em&gt;interest&lt;/em&gt; mainly for the same reasons: people will click on them because they want to find out about some cool books with demons who turned good. &lt;strong&gt;Perhaps most important, they offer an easy out for anyone who wants to ask a recommendation question: just change “recommend me some” to “are there any” and the community will do the rest.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The “first-of” (“What is the first thinking computer?,” “What is the first universe where P-NP?”) questions share this problem to some degree, but they’re harder to exploit: instead of getting a list of all the cool new books with demons who turned good, you get a bunch of works from the 1800s. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The answer is a foregone conclusion&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is less an argument for closing them, at least based on their similarity to “list of works” and recommendation questions, and more a statement of their low quality. The answer to these is almost always “Yes.” If it makes sense enough for someone to think of it, and ask it on Stack Exchange, someone has likely already thought of it. Even things that contravene the conventions of a genre (the motivation behind many of these questions) have usually been done many, many times before. What these questions bring to the site is often less interesting historical or genre analysis (which sometimes comes out of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt;  questions), and more  lists of answers saying “Yes, here’s an example.” Occasionally one might get “I can’t think of any, and I’ve read a lot of books,” but that’s not really a definitive answer: there’s still probably a work out there that fits the bill.  This is not good for the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2016-11-01T23:58:45.873" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10314" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10316" CreationDate="2016-11-02T14:34:33.830" Score="14" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was brought up by a comment I received on an old answer of mine, regarding &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/13735/why-was-buffys-pregancy-test-positive&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; from 4 years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until yesterday, the question asked if/why a robot could even perform the function required to take a home pregnancy test.  I remember this quite well, as it was a difficult question to answer within the guidelines of the site, and I was quite proud of my eventual ability to keep my answer clean and civil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, the question was edited twice.  The edits eliminated a few spoiler boxes and substantially streamlined the text (which is good) but also changed the core question asked in the test from 'How could a robot take a home pregnancy test' to 'How could a robot get a positive result on a home pregnancy test'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The editor of the question then provided their own answer, which completely ignored the original question of 'why would a robot be able to urinate' and instead answered the new question of 'how could a robot get a positive pregnancy test result'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, making a question easier to read is a good thing, but what about the remaining actions - is it a good thing for people to edit a question in order to make an accepted answer a poor fit, so they can provide their own answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="656" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-11-02T18:44:46.017" Title="Is it good practice to substantially edit older questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10314" CreationDate="2016-11-02T15:34:44.487" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to be more-or-less accepted that editing a question in such a way that invalidates existing answers is, if nothing else, massively impolite. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7418/31051&quot;&gt;our meta&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.superuser.com/q/9514/365351&quot;&gt;Meta.SU&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/268142/276025&quot;&gt;Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt; (and others, I'm sure). There hasn't been substantial (vocal) disagreement with this that I've seen, although of course I haven't seen all contexts, and am welcome to correction and argumentation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Substantial edits, regardless of the age of the post, aren't necessarily bad; edits that fundamentally change the nature of the question are undesirable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth, though, I don't think the specific example you point to is necessarily a bad edit, although it's also not a great one (and I think your most recent edit is a great improvement). There was already a disconnect between the question and its title, but what most interests me is the last line of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/13735/2&quot;&gt;second revision&lt;/a&gt; (emphasis not mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Given that this is that case, &lt;strong&gt;how was she able to provide a positive test sample?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This line, to me, prompts two (not unrelated) questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How was not-Buffy able to test positive for pregnancy. This is the question that you (and Tim, your commenter) have already noted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How was not-Buffy able to provide a pregnancy test sample in the first place; that is, how was she able to pee on the stick. This part is obviously less immediately clear, which is why I like your subsequent edit, although now we still have a disconnect between the question itself (which is asking about bodily functions) and the title (which is asking about the test result)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I probably would have posted a self-answered reference question, but that's a discretionary thing; given the question's title, it doesn't seem entirely unfair to assume that the OP was &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; curious about the outcome of the test.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2016-11-02T18:44:46.017" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10314" CreationDate="2016-11-02T16:33:49.107" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The short answer is &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt;. In my haste to widen the question to encompass the issue of how a &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;robot&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;could provide a &lt;em&gt;positive&lt;/em&gt; pregnancy result, I accidentally zapped a major part of what the OP had put into the body of the question; e.g.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; How can a robot even pee on a stick?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fairness, the original question header was &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why was Buffy's test result positive?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;, which is probably what confused me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moving forward, instead of asking a new question that would essentially be a duplicate of the existing question (or rather, a wider question that &lt;em&gt;the original would now be a duplicate of&lt;/em&gt;), I've re-edited the question to widen and encompass &lt;strong&gt;both the mechanics of her taking the test and the result she provided&lt;/strong&gt;. That makes your existing answer perfectly valid and allows the wider question (the one in the header) to be answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2016-11-02T16:33:49.107" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10317" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-03T13:05:16.347" Score="15" ViewCount="1103" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the past 2-3 days we received 2 practically identical questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/144298/did-draco-malfoy-rape-hermione-granger&quot;&gt;Question #1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/144396/did-draco-malfoy-rape-hermione-granger&quot;&gt;Question #2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both are about sexual assault in Harry Potter. While I think these questions should have been downvoted as bad/poor questions due to having no context or reason why OP thinks this might have happened, they are on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While OP did not reference a particular scene in the question, their is a scene in the Malfoy mansion which the possibility of Hermione getting sexually assaulted is very real. In the movie Bellatrix is biting Hermione, and in the book its strongly implied Fenris Greyback wants Hermione to eat/torture/rape. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I can see OP inserting Malfoy mistakenly into a question about sexual assault. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15382/what-happened-to-umbridge-when-she-was-carried-into-the-forest-by-the-centaurs&quot;&gt;another question&lt;/a&gt;, we have precedence for a question of sexual assault in the Harry Potter world being well received, and on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29220" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2017-02-22T11:25:22.467" Title="Why were these questions about sexual assault in the Harry Potter franchise deleted?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10317" CreationDate="2016-11-03T13:13:59.717" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did raise a flag on the first question, because the question seemed really iffy (introducing a controversial topic with minimal effort on a vague premise of &quot;someone said&quot;) and I thought a moderator ought to look at it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that it looks like the same person introduced the question again after they didn't get the answer they wanted raises my hackles further, and I suspect it was the same for those what deleted the questions. Compare the situation for the Umbridge question where they introduced a source of the rumor and included what evidence there was to support the assertion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hate to say that the major difference might be eloquence, but I think that's a good bit of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2016-11-03T13:13:59.717" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10317" CreationDate="2016-11-03T13:17:14.440" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to point out the obvious, the reasons for deletion are posted in the comments section:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm voting to delete. Given the lack of notability in the claim, these sorts of questions could be asked endlessly. &quot;I heard somewhere that Draco raped x, is that true?&quot;.for every character in the whole series – Valorum yesterday&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I voted to delete it then. If the perspective is: it isn't off topic to talk about rape, especially since the body of work associated with it does not, and the format for the question is so open ended, it could lead to an unlimited number of speculative variations, it would be better of such a question simply didn't exist. It serves no particular purpose and without significant enhancement as to why the question was asked, I deem it less than satisfactory given its subject matter. Another moderator may disagree or you may vote to reopen it. – Thaddeus Howze♦ yesterday&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2016-11-03T13:17:14.440" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10317" CreationDate="2016-11-03T15:23:29.303" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Echoing my &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/144298/did-draco-malfoy-rape-hermione-granger#comment367667_144298&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt; on the original question, although &lt;em&gt;notability&lt;/em&gt; isn't something we generally check for, I felt that the total absence of any good reason to think that such a thing had happened (and the slightly prurient tone of the question) was sufficient to mark it for both closure and deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'm voting to delete. Given the lack of notability in the claim, these&#xA;  sorts of questions could be asked endlessly. &lt;strong&gt;&quot;I heard somewhere that&#xA;  Draco raped x, is that true?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; for every character in the whole series&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And again, although it's not a part of the rules that I often refer to, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;this section&lt;/a&gt; under the FAQ also seems relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You should only ask practical, answerable questions &lt;strong&gt;based on actual&#xA;  problems that you face&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, the OP hasn't given us any reason to believe that they're facing an &lt;em&gt;actual problem&lt;/em&gt; regarding Draco and Hermione's sexual relationship, he's merely curious whether an unsourced claim is true or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2016-11-03T15:31:48.240" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10317" CreationDate="2016-11-04T02:24:13.523" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think deleting both questions was the right thing to do.  It's got nothing to do with the subject matter, it's just a lousy question that deserved to be closed and deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think anyone disagrees that the question as originally asked was terrible.  But I think it's still a really bad question after the edit: it doesn't provide any explanation of why someone might think it happened or why it's significant.  The edits just improved the grammar and made the question wordier, but clearly the OP didn't put any thought into it and isn't going to come back and provide any better explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(By contrast, the question mentioned in a comment about whether Tolkein knew how to drive explains &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; the asker thinks it's relevant or interesting, even if it's also probably unrelated to the actual work.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a question is that bad, I think closing it as unclear is appropriate so that it doesn't get answers, and then once it receives the downvotes it deserves, the auto-delete script will get rid of it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, two high-rep users (who should have known better) threw the obvious answer (&quot;No&quot;) on it and they both got some upvotes which means it won't be auto-deleted.  To me, this &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; an exception and it was correct for a moderator to step in and nuke it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastActivityDate="2016-11-04T02:24:13.523" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10323" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-05T03:14:38.200" Score="2" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I saw &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/144560/13716&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, I was tempted to vote to close because I thought the question was unanswerable, but then I thought why bother, it's from a new user and probably doing so might discourage them from asking other questions  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I was surprised to find that it really does have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/144562/13716&quot;&gt;canon answer&lt;/a&gt;, mainly because canon has expanded over from the books to other forms of media, making the question answerable and on topic  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is it ok to ask questions such as   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is Hagrid's favourite Quidditch team?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is Prof. Snape's favourite Quidditch team?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is Prof. Trelawny's favourite Quidditch team?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is Cornelius Fudge's favourite Quidditch team?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or may be even  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is Arabella Figg's favourite Quidditch team?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is Bellatrix Lestrange's favourite Quidditch team?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is Voldemort's favourite Quidditch team?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a user or group of users decide to flood the site with these, is it trolling or curiosity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13716" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-11-05T23:55:41.977" Title="Is it OK to ask multiple questions on a theme?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10323" CreationDate="2016-11-05T05:32:08.450" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10317/why-were-these-questions-about-sexual-assault-in-the-harry-potter-franchise-dele&quot;&gt;We just had a relevant discussion&lt;/a&gt;... with mixed results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that many people agree there are some questions that are just too much idle speculation about insignificant details.  An example that I think most people would agree is too insignificant is asking about a characters' favourite colour when there's nothing in a book about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OTOH, the question about favourite Quidditch teams is arguably more relevant:  Quidditch is a significant part of the HP books, and the question you mentioned is asking about a character who is shown to be interested in the sport, which makes it at least somewhat significant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd look at each question on its own merits - If someone's going to ask about Voldemort's favourite team, I'd expect them to give some explanation of why they think it's significant.  Or for Snape, since he was pretty clearly not into sports as a student, I'd expect a question about what his favourite team is to explain why he'd have one at all - maybe he's a secret Quidditch fan?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2016-11-05T05:32:08.450" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10323" CreationDate="2016-11-05T08:51:04.720" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Asking these questions individually would be pointless. Far better to ask a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2639/20774&quot;&gt;finite scope list question&lt;/a&gt; like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;What are the favourite Quidditch Teams of the main (and minor) characters in Harry Potter?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that it's a pretty small pool to choose from, and given that someone with a reasonable grasp of the literature (and a degree of patience) could answer it, I'd say that it was far more acceptable than flooding the site with semi-duplicate &quot;&lt;em&gt;What team does X support&lt;/em&gt;&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.240" LastActivityDate="2016-11-05T08:51:04.720" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10323" CreationDate="2016-11-05T23:55:41.977" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's really two questions you have in there, and the answer is different for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Is it OK to ask multiple questions on a theme?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's nothing in our scope or site rules that says your questions can't be &lt;em&gt;similar&lt;/em&gt; to other questions. On this site, we also don't have anything in our rules that says they have to be notable questions. Idle curiosity and trivia has always been allowed. So, by that definition, it's &quot;OK&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the list of questions is short enough, and it's finite (its not getting any bigger), then asking one question may be better. But asking them separately isn't &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt;, it's just not &lt;em&gt;ideal&lt;/em&gt;. At some point you might trigger users to start downvoting your questions, especially if they start to sound too trivial or too insignificant. (e.g. asking for the favorite Quidditch team of some wizard we saw for a brief second at Hogsmeade.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is important: the questions may be &quot;OK&quot; in the sense that it's acceptable to ask them, but that doesn't make them &quot;good&quot;. And &quot;not good&quot; questions are liable to be downvoted heavily, which is one mechanism that might deter a user from asking too many of these over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What if a user decide to flood the site with these?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This, however, is bad, but for a completely different reason. Normally we &quot;assume good faith&quot; when users asks questions, no matter how trivial. Flooding the site question questions &lt;em&gt;with the intent to cause problems&lt;/em&gt;, though, is clearly acting in bad faith, and is abusing the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A user that posts questions specifically to cause trouble or disrupt other user's use of the site is trolling, and they would be subject to action by the moderators. The kinds of questions is relevant only in that it would help a moderator make a judgement call towards the user's motivations. Floods of really high-quality, well-written, well-thought-out questions are unlikely to be done in bad faith (mostly because that's a lot of effort to go through), but floods of low-quality, boilerplate trivia questions might be. If a user &lt;em&gt;were&lt;/em&gt; trolling the site this way, they'd be dealt with for that reason, not because their questions were bad on their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2016-11-05T23:55:41.977" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2016-11-06T13:27:05.323" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;My avatar is one of the first selfies I ever took:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's just a picture of &lt;a href=&quot;http://content.science20.com/files/images/not%20GMO%20vegan%20cheese%20but%20could%20you%20tell%20anyway.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;cheese in all its glory&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I could change it to something more like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dragonmount.com/forums/uploads/gallery/album_367/sml_gallery_32102_367_29610.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; (there's also Lambfear, Pies Sedai, Berrylain, Lemon Moraine pie...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51142" LastActivityDate="2016-11-06T13:27:05.323" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10328" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10329" CreationDate="2016-11-07T17:49:29.857" Score="13" ViewCount="476" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/144725/do-morpheus-and-his-crew-kill-potential-ones?noredirect=1#comment369135_144725&quot;&gt;Do Morpheus and his crew kill potential Ones?&lt;/a&gt; vs &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/73363/why-did-cypher-say-they-were-going-to-kill-neo&quot;&gt;Why did Cypher say they were going to kill Neo?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The latter (asked two years ago) was marked as a duplicate of the former (recent). I don't see anything new in the recent answers that was not covered in the old question. So why was the older one marked as a duplicate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2016-11-15T14:22:59.740" Title="Which one of them should have been marked as a duplicate of the other?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10328" CreationDate="2016-11-07T18:56:16.353" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Speaking as the first close-voter&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, I agonized over this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, I decided to vote to close because I felt that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/144727/31051&quot;&gt;KutuluMike's answer&lt;/a&gt; to the newer question was more complete. I particularly liked the mention of the supplemental materials, which I felt was missing from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/73372/31051&quot;&gt;Null's answer&lt;/a&gt; to the older question, and most relevantly the observation that Neo isn't the first &quot;One&quot; that Morpheus has tested out&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point I'm also going to refer to our previous (and, I understand, not-uncontroversial) discussion &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4744/31051&quot;&gt;Should we always close the newer question as the duplicate?&lt;/a&gt;; I don't believe it's necessarily the best option to close the newer of two questions. Others may disagree, but that's my stance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Should it have been closed at all?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This section is mainly in response to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10328/which-one-of-them-should-have-been-marked-as-a-duplicate-of-the-other/10329#comment30651_10328&quot;&gt;Null's comment&lt;/a&gt; on this meta question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They're not duplicates -- one asks why Cypher said something, and the other asks if the crew kills potential Ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, &lt;em&gt;mea culpa&lt;/em&gt;: there's a subtlety there I hadn't considered when I cast my vote. But I do still think they're intensely related questions, and my gut reaction upon reading the older isn't &quot;What is Cypher's motivation here?&quot; but &quot;Is Cypher saying they're &lt;em&gt;literally&lt;/em&gt; going to kill him?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I do appreciate that another perspective exists. I stand by my vote, but I'm not going to throw a tantrum now that it's been re-opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Though I will point out that I voted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/close/93797&quot;&gt;from the queue&lt;/a&gt;, so I &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/60ZEo.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;didn't make the initial determination&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; I would have liked the answer a lot more if those materials had been quoted directly, but that's a different conversation entirely&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-11-15T14:22:59.740" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10330" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-08T01:29:21.947" Score="-25" ViewCount="545" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm currently suspended from chat, for at best, a slightly not nice comment, for 12 hours, with no notice, or explanation. I'm just dying to know who did it, and why they did it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FYI mod team, it's &quot;not nice&quot; to suspend for 12 hours with no reason. Kthnx&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The flag was for saying &quot;and their assholes&quot; fyi - &quot;their&quot; being Skeptics stack as a whole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29220" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-11-09T11:16:56.817" LastActivityDate="2016-11-09T11:16:56.817" Title="first who, second why" Tags="|support|chat|suspension|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10330" CreationDate="2016-11-08T01:46:47.700" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;You were suspended for posting inappropriate content by a mod who has been entrusted by the powers that be (read: the community team) to make that judgment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, it was merited. And for your sake, I really don't think you want to discuss the specifics publicly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wait 12 hours, come back to chat, and try to be nicer in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30641" LastActivityDate="2016-11-08T01:46:47.700" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10332" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10335" CreationDate="2016-11-11T05:33:56.897" Score="12" ViewCount="282" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently finished reading a recent release of a major SF author. In the book I noticed a major physical production flaw which I think would make an interesting question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The flaw is of a nature that makes it unlikely to be a one-off, more likely through the entire print run. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has only passingly to do with the story itself, but people might be interested in it in the same way numismatists get excited over mis-struck coins. (I can provide the specific details in an actual question; but there's no point in asking it if it's going to be VTC'ed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And IMO the FAQ (or rather the tour which is all you ever get anymore) is depressingly vague on the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, do such questions have a place on SF&amp;amp;F SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update, 11/21:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the responses have convinced me the flaw in my book isn't really for the main site, I 'll spill the beans:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; My trade paperback copy of Neal Stephenson's &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0062334514&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Seveneves&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; has a single color plate at the beginning of Part III. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On one side&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; the plate shows an annotated diagram of the Habitat Ring, and on the other is an illustration of the Eye.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the problem is, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; the plate was put in the book upside down.  The way these books are put together, there is no chance that this is the only copy with this problem. It's likely to exist in at least half, or even all, the copies in that print run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editorial:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; But yeah. All part of the letdown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63330" LastEditorUserId="63330" LastEditDate="2016-11-22T03:17:49.887" LastActivityDate="2016-11-22T03:17:49.887" Title="Are questions about physical book production flaws on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10332" CreationDate="2016-11-11T09:52:06.530" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;You could probably cast it as an on-topic question, but with difficulty&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say, for the sake of argument, that you have an early edition of Harry Potter where the word &quot;&lt;em&gt;wand&lt;/em&gt;&quot; was inadvertently mistyped as &quot;&lt;em&gt;wang&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. You'd end up with quotes like the one below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Harry took the wang. He felt a sudden warmth in his fingers. He raised&#xA;  the wang above his head, brought it swishing down through the dusty&#xA;  air and a stream of red and gold sparks shot from the end like a&#xA;  firework, throwing dancing spots of light on to the walls&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although it's &lt;em&gt;interesting&lt;/em&gt; (which is always a very good start when asking a question of dubious topicality) , I'm struggling to see how you'd frame it as a on-topic question other than&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;Was this deliberate?&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to which the answer would be &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;Of course not, what are you, &lt;a href=&quot;https://media4.giphy.com/media/rd5t6IXqqdT1K/200_s.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;an idiot&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, we've already had at least one question that was about a book publishing error, and that was well received by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/84869/what-are-these-nonsense-paragraphs-in-stephen-baxters-weaver/84877#84877&quot;&gt;What are these nonsense paragraphs in Stephen Baxter&amp;#39;s Weaver?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2016-11-11T09:59:33.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10332" CreationDate="2016-11-11T17:10:02.730" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;A specific &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;on-topic reason&lt;/a&gt; is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If&lt;/em&gt; this relates to either of those in a clear way, then it should be on topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, we already have several questions that compare differences in book editions. Asking about a fandom response or interpretation of a specific edition should be on-topic. Without further context, it's hard to give specific guidance on how to formulate the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's some related questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+23: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/896/what-were-the-mistakes-in-the-first-paperback-edition-of-ringworld&quot;&gt;What were the &amp;quot;mistakes&amp;quot; in the first paperback edition of Ringworld?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+4: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83518/second-edition-of-the-silmarillion&quot;&gt;Second edition of the Silmarillion&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+2: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/45232/why-are-some-editions-of-the-blakes-7-1980-annual-missing-the-date&quot;&gt;Why are some editions of the Blake&amp;#39;s 7 1980 annual missing the date?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+11: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/18592/do-the-internal-inconsistencies-of-futurama-ever-cause-it-to-suffer&quot;&gt;Do the internal inconsistencies of Futurama ever cause it to suffer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Combined, questions featuring &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=version%20is%3Aq%20-edition&quot;&gt;version&lt;/a&gt;&quot; or &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=edition%20is%3Aq%20-version&quot;&gt;edition&lt;/a&gt;&quot; number nearly 1000&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many of these are of course just keyword hits, and not specifically asking about or calling attention to version differences/mistakes/errors. I include them here because it's easy to peruse them and find &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; examples of similar questions, without trawling up a comprehensive list&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-11-14T22:43:43.367" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10336" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-13T12:22:26.633" Score="0" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the decision was taken to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2400/should-we-burninate-general-reference&quot;&gt;burninate General Reference&lt;/a&gt;, the close reason was removed but I keep coming across questions that were closed for this reason. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/24991/what-was-the-entity-looking-for-that-took-voyager-into-the-delta-quadrant&quot;&gt;This one&lt;/a&gt;, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that this close reason no longer exists and that pretty much all of these questions would be currently acceptable, &lt;strong&gt;should we make a point of reopening them &lt;em&gt;as a matter of course&lt;/em&gt; when we encounter them?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we go further and reopen all of them?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-11-13T12:53:19.637" Title="Should we reopen &quot;general reference&quot; questions as a matter of course?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10336" CreationDate="2016-11-13T12:53:19.637" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you find a closed question which you think should be reopened, vote to reopen it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hesitate to make any sweeping statements about a whole class of questions; doubtless some GR-closed questions will be worth reopening and some won't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's likely that &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; of them should be reopened according to today's standards - or possibly reopened and then closed for a different reason - but they should still be considered on a case-by-case basis. There's no such thing as a mass close-vote or mass reopen-vote; by the way the system is designed, &lt;strong&gt;questions have to be closed or reopened individually&lt;/strong&gt;, and this is a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without having looked at all questions closed as &quot;general reference&quot;, I can't possibly say whether they should &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; be reopened. But if you think they should, feel free to cast reopen votes on all of them (preferably &lt;strong&gt;not all at once&lt;/strong&gt; though - let's not flood the Reopen Votes review queue too badly) and wait to see how the rest of the community votes on them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2016-11-13T12:53:19.637" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10338" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-13T14:31:08.907" Score="3" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/17308/how-did-doc-brown-steal-plutonium&quot;&gt;Where did Doc Brown get plutonium from?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was originally closed as &quot;General Reference&quot;, presumably because the answer was largely covered in the same scene in the film. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2400/should-we-burninate-general-reference&quot;&gt;&quot;general reference&quot; has been burninated&lt;/a&gt; and is no longer a valid close reason (and given that the answer is actually rather more interesting than simply saying &quot;&lt;strong&gt;The Libyans got it &lt;em&gt;somehow&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;) I added it to the re-open queue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/17308/timeline&quot;&gt;timeline&lt;/a&gt; indicates that it then received three votes to reopen and &lt;strong&gt;three votes to remain closed.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tRLCT.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tRLCT.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-11-13T17:35:36.293" Title="Why was this &quot;general reference&quot; question kept closed?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|closed-questions|general-reference|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10339" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10340" CreationDate="2016-11-14T05:46:59.567" Score="-12" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's taken me a surprisingly long time to notice this, but it just struck me that we have pentagrams as our &quot;favorite&quot; / &quot;save&quot; icon for questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2NPES.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2NPES.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this because we're all into heavy metal or is it a part of some deal we made with Lord Satan?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'm really hoping is that it's not going to be one of those things where they try to tell you that pointing in this direction we're only Wiccans / Pagans / whatever and only when it's upside down are we worshipping Satan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33510" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-11-14T09:48:55.897" LastActivityDate="2016-11-14T14:37:40.330" Title="Why do we have pentagrams as our &quot;favorite&quot; icon?" Tags="|support|design|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10339" CreationDate="2016-11-14T07:01:52.510" Score="18" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Stars are commonly used to denote favorites&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s not merely Science Fiction and Fantasy Stack Exchange that uses a star to denote favorites. The other stacks do, too. Here are the “favorite” icons for Worldbuilding, Meta Stack Exchange, and Physics: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wjDBQ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wjDBQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ggMGxm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ggMGxm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/w35KWm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/w35KWm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the physics icon is even in a circle. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They’re commonly used for this purpose in other contexts, too, such as in Pokemon Go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You’ll note that the the design of the circle around our star is the same as that used for the voting arrows. It’s a general site aesthetic, not something particular to the favorite icon. As such, any association with any sort of religion seems unlikely. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastActivityDate="2016-11-14T07:01:52.510" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10341" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-14T08:40:34.477" Score="-11" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;The url for the &lt;strong&gt;S&lt;/strong&gt;cience &lt;strong&gt;F&lt;/strong&gt;iction &lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;nd &lt;strong&gt;F&lt;/strong&gt;antasy Stack Exchange website starts with &quot;scifi&quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't &quot;sfaf&quot; more inclusive?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Should &quot;scifi.stackexchange.com&quot; be changed to &quot;sfaf.stackexchange.com&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: breaking stable links shouldn’t be a problem i think. Links can be redirected to the new url or is this THE reason for not making the change?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62074" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2017-09-29T12:24:04.460" Title="Should &quot;scifi.stackexchange.com&quot; be changed to &quot;sfaf.stackexchange.com&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2016-11-14T18:42:21.143" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10341" CreationDate="2016-11-14T08:55:52.010" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't something the Scifi Stack Exchange can do on its own. Heck, our elected moderators can't even edit most of the help content. This change would require an appeal to the overseers of the Stack Exchange network itself&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And sorry, but our Benevolent Stack Exchange Overlords won't break years of stable links for the sake of adopting a less memorable abbreviation that clarifies a distinction the majority of visitors probably don't care about. The cost/benefit just doesn't pan out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of other Stacks with even more egregiously inaccurate titles: gaming.se is for video and computer games; for card games you'd want to use boardgames.se and for tabletop roleplaying games you'd want rpg.se--but if you ask about computer RPGs on rpg.se, we'll direct you back to gaming.se. Somehow, this still works out. Each site is clearly labelled in its banner, tour, and help, just like scifi.se is, to make the site's actual scope clear. We get confused people occasionally, but not often and it's easily fixed with migration flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13941" LastEditorUserId="13941" LastEditDate="2016-11-14T09:56:27.563" LastActivityDate="2016-11-14T09:56:27.563" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10341" CreationDate="2016-11-14T09:47:13.573" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://fantasy.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://fantasy.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; redirects to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; already. Try it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that the site's most-used name refers only to its sci-fi half is something that's long bugged me as well, seeing as I only came here for the fantasy. The underlying reason is due to ancient history: this was originally created as a place for sci-fi only, but fantasy was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6/31394&quot;&gt;proposed to be on-topic&lt;/a&gt; on the first day of private beta and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/205/31394&quot;&gt;officially added to the site name&lt;/a&gt; only a couple of weeks later. Presumably &lt;a href=&quot;https://fantasy.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://fantasy.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; was added as an alternative URL around the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would tend to agree that &lt;a href=&quot;http://sff.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://sff.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; would also be worth having as an alternative URL, but as BESW says, this isn't something that can be done by SFF users or mods. The only way to get it will be to start a &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt; here on meta and get enough support for the CMs to consider looking at it (and even then there's no guarantee they'd do it, with a site this old and well-established.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-09-29T12:24:04.460" LastActivityDate="2017-09-29T12:24:04.460" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10339" CreationDate="2016-11-14T14:37:40.330" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the combination of a few factors, really. On one hand, as Adamant pointed out, the use of stars for Favorite icons is pretty standard. It shows that something is special. The choice was also made to add circles around the voting buttons and favorite icons to provide consistency. Lastly, and this might be where the problem lies, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/976/design-for-science-fiction-fantasy?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;the design does incorporate mystical elements&lt;/a&gt;. However, the intent is not to draw from existing religious influences, whether pagan or otherwise, but rather to employ generic &quot;fantasy&quot; sigils in addition to lines that look sort of sci-fi. As a result, yes, several of the icons look like they're some sort of alchemical diagram. Our logo has runes. However, the source of them is fictional and is not intended to have any sort of religious meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, long story short, no, you're not seeing things, really, but there's no intent to make anything genuinely mystical, and the star aspect is more incidental than anything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2016-11-14T14:37:40.330" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2113" CreationDate="2016-11-15T09:55:55.923" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If anyone is looking for a way to get all the top voted comments of a specific user on SFF,  I'd suggest &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/577621/highest-voted-comments-for-a-user-on-sff&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this query for Data Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just enter the user Id and you are good to go. It will show you the comment, number of upvotes and the link to the post. As of now it returns only the top 250 comments but you can edit that yourself. For example, for me it shows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BIn2l.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BIn2l.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To see top voted comments of whole SFF, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/578503/highest-voted-comments-on-sff&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highest Voted comments on whole site&lt;/a&gt; even though it doesn't show display name of the person who posted the comment unlike the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The Top Three Comments&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following would be the top three comments on the site as of March 27th 2018:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/102822/could-i-fake-death-to-stop-being-force-choked&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Let me know if this should be migrated to The Workplace&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/30947/hannover-fist&quot;&gt;Hannover Fist&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/174146/how-can-scrooge-mcduck-dive-into-money-without-hurting-himself&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;He makes sure that all his funds are in liquid assets.&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/23/mike-scott&quot;&gt;Mike Scott&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/146641/why-would-snape-set-his-office-password-to-dumbledore&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Curious that in the wizarding world one doesn't need to include in their password at least a number, a special character, and a Parseltongue alphabet symbol&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31736/federico-poloni&quot;&gt;Federico Polani&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-03-27T15:53:32.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10346" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10347" CreationDate="2016-11-17T09:30:19.793" Score="12" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following question has, as I'm writing this, 1 close vote against it.&lt;sup&gt;&amp;Dagger;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/145335/19561&quot;&gt;How do the pirate tests in Uncharted 4 get reset?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iOlWa.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iOlWa.png&quot; alt=&quot;Question about Uncharted 4 with a close vote against it&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a discussion about it in the comments and I disagree with the close vote, so I'd like to vote to leave open. So I went to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/close&quot;&gt;the review queue for close votes&lt;/a&gt;, but I didn't see it there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kKH56.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kKH56.png&quot; alt=&quot;The review close votes queue, empty&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I went to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/close/history&quot;&gt;close vote review history&lt;/a&gt;, but it wasn't in there either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DC3wv.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DC3wv.png&quot; alt=&quot;The review close votes history&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why doesn't the question show up in the close votes review queue for me?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a similar question here on meta, but there the reason was there were already 3 votes to leave open for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2752/19561&quot;&gt;Why would a question not appear in &amp;quot;Leave Open&amp;quot; Review queue?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;Dagger;: since I've started this question, the close vote has been retracted.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2016-11-17T12:13:50.203" Title="Why doesn't this question show up in the review queue for Close Votes?" Tags="|support|closing-questions|review-queue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10346" CreationDate="2016-11-17T10:12:08.380" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The vote wasn’t there long enough&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As discussed on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/284734/328832&quot;&gt;main meta&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The default delay is… 15 minutes. &lt;strong&gt;No review tasks for the Close or&#xA;  Reopen queues will be created until the oldest pending close vote or&#xA;  flag or reopen vote or qualifying edit is at least 15 minutes old.&lt;/strong&gt; No&#xA;  review tasks for the Late Answer or Low Quality review queues will be&#xA;  created until the post itself is at least 15 minutes old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the close vote didn’t have time to hit the 15  minute mark, since the user who cast it (me), withdrew it before then. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YTYRv.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YTYRv.png&quot; alt=&quot;A bit of the timeline, showing the close vote and its retraction&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2016-11-17T12:13:50.203" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10348" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10349" CreationDate="2016-11-18T23:04:49.310" Score="10" ViewCount="217" Body="&lt;p&gt;Occasionally you'll come upon a bad answer, not a willfully bad one, but often just one where they say &quot;Hey, I'm looking for that one too!&quot; or &quot;Thanks for answering that, FuzzyBoots. I was looking for that too!&quot;. Clearly, these items should be flagged as &quot;Not an answer&quot;. Should I also click on &quot;delete&quot; as well? Downvote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And does the answer change at all for willfully bad posts such as spam or joke answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2016-11-22T17:47:40.257" Title="If I see a bad post, should I flag, vote to delete, downvote, all of the above?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10348" CreationDate="2016-11-18T23:14:04.680" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Do everything in your power to get rid of chaff as fast as possible&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvotes are somewhat less useful, especially if it's a 1-rep user or an unambiguously bad post&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, but I still encourage you to do it, and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;absolutely&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; flag and vote-to-delete (if you have that privilege). It only takes three delete votes from 20k+ users to get rid of a post, so the sooner you cast a vote the sooner it's gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main moderation benefit to downvoting, as a 20k+ user, is that it allows you to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/trusted-user&quot;&gt;immediately vote to delete answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;; otherwise you have to wait for it to show up in the Low Quality Posts review queue. So, for answers at least, that would be a compelling reason to downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Flag spam or abuse, but don't VTD&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spam and abuse flags are &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/58035/276025&quot;&gt;slightly special&lt;/a&gt; in that enough of them, from users of any reputation level (with the privilege to flag, obviously) will automatically delete the post. It goes without saying that, if the flag is warranted, this is the fastest way to get rid of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it's probably not a good idea to vote-to-delete these posts, because posts that get auto-deleted through this mechanism are automatically &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/22228/276025&quot;&gt;locked&lt;/a&gt;, so it can't be edited or nominated for undeletion. Although this is a bit of an edge case, it does help mitigate the risk of disgruntled 10k+ or 20k+ user(s) undeleting a bunch of old garbage. I'm not entirely sure if that still happens if the post is deleted by user votes, but personally I'd rather not risk it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should mention that there &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be an another reason not to vote-to-delete something that you've flagged as spam or abuse. Spam/abuse flags result in certain data being fed into some behind-the-scenes tooling, but it's not clear whether that happens only if the post is auto-deleted (as a result of six spam flags/one moderator spam flag) or if it just requires a valid spam flag (you can see Rand al'Thor and I discussing this in comments).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; I should clarify what I mean here. Downvotes are the community's way of expressing displeasure with a post; it accomplishes this in four ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It &quot;punishes&quot; (in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punishment_(psychology)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;psychological sense&lt;/a&gt;) the user who posted the material by imposing a reputation penalty&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Through the visible score, it signposts to other users that this is undesirable content&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In some cases, it actively hides the post from view; questions with a score of -5 or lower are hidden from the front page, and answers with a score of -3 or lower are displayed in a faded, low-contrast colour&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question/answer score is one of the factors that goes into &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/86997/276025&quot;&gt;temporary posting bans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are all valuable things, so don't take this as me telling you not to bother voting. However, I would argue that the benefits of downvoting are diminished when it comes to posts that are &lt;em&gt;obviously&lt;/em&gt; going to be deleted; because the post is going to be completely removed from the view of most users, there's relatively little benefit in visually differentiating it from other posts, so points 2 and 3 above still apply, but the utility is lessened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of a post by a 1-rep user, points 2 and 3 still apply but 1 does not; 1-rep users receive no reputation penalties whatsoever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, the benefits of downvoting aren't &lt;em&gt;removed&lt;/em&gt;, just &lt;em&gt;diminished&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; Unless the post already had upvotes. This is an occasional problem, much as I wish it wasn't&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-11-22T17:47:40.257" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10348" CreationDate="2016-11-19T09:04:50.033" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the subject of &quot;joke answers&quot;, it's always important to remember the guiding principle of Stack Exchange, that '&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/01/stack-overflow-where-we-hate-fun/&quot;&gt;We Hate Fun&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;'™&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jzwxZ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jzwxZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That isn't to say that an answer has to be boring (indeed, some of my &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/79862/did-darth-vader-ever-talk-to-r2-d2-again/79865#79865&quot;&gt;most highly&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/102822/could-i-fake-death-to-stop-being-force-choked/102826#102826&quot;&gt;upvoted answers&lt;/a&gt; contain a strong element of humour) but like the &lt;a href=&quot;https://cdn.meme.am/cache/instances/folder33/500x/49835033.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;mullet&lt;/a&gt;, it has to be &quot;&lt;em&gt;business at the front, party at the back&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, tempering fun with actually being a solid answer to the question asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you see an answer that is purely funny, congratulate the poster on being droll, then downvote, flag as 'not an answer' and click the delete button.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-11-19T10:52:01.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10351" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10352" CreationDate="2016-11-19T14:09:30.817" Score="11" ViewCount="312" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this question, the asker was looking for answers based on the original TV series of &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/145478/19561&quot;&gt;Were there any named, blue beverages in the original Star Trek series?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/145479/19561&quot;&gt;One of the answers&lt;/a&gt; they received, was based on &lt;em&gt;The Wrath of Kahn&lt;/em&gt; &amp;mdash; a film featuring the same crew / actors as the TV series, but obviously not part of the &lt;strong&gt;TV&lt;/strong&gt; series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The asker then commented on that answer that they appreciated the answer, but were expecting answers from the TV series only, &lt;em&gt;based on their use of &quot;TOS&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. The question has since been edited to include a clarification that the asker is looking for answers from the TV series exclusively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The usage guidance (tag excerpt) for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tos&lt;/a&gt; reads&lt;sup&gt;&amp;Dagger;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Star Trek: The Original Series is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry running from September 8, 1966, through June 3, 1969. It has acquired the retronym of Star Trek: The Original Series (Star Trek: TOS or TOS). The show became a cult classic in broadcast syndication during the 1970s, leading to five additional television series, 11 theatrical films (&amp;amp; counting), and numerous books, games, and other products.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tos&lt;/a&gt; include the same-era films?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As noted, the question has been clarified since. But was the asker right to expect answers from the TV series &lt;em&gt;exclusively&lt;/em&gt;, based on the tag used?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Or can we reasonably expect the films made with the same crew and actors, clearly being in the same in-universe era, to fall under the tag as well? If not, what tag &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; we use for that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edited to add:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It seems I have misstated the intent of the asker. They used the term &quot;TOS&quot; in the question, even before their edit, and expected answers from the series only &lt;em&gt;based on that&lt;/em&gt;. I misunderstood their objections to be based on the tag used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, the question remains, does the term &quot;TOS&quot; and the accompanying tag include the TOS-era movies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;Dagger;: Curiously enough, there's some more usage guidance regarding the use of the general tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; to be found in the general tag info; I'll edit that into the excerpt since that's where it belongs.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2022-11-14T22:49:59.130" Title="Does the use of [star-trek-tos] include or exclude TOS-era films?" Tags="|tags|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10351" CreationDate="2016-11-19T16:09:45.270" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been interacting with these tags, both as a heavy user and an editor of them, for a couple of years now.  In particular, I wrote the usage guide for the general &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say that generally speaking &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tos&lt;/a&gt; refers to the television series rather than the films involving that cast. That is consistent with how it has been generally been in practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as with many Star Trek questions, if someone asks a question about, say, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tng&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tng&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tng&lt;/a&gt;, there are often valid and/or interesting answers that draw upon &lt;em&gt;Deep Space Nine&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Voyager&lt;/em&gt; or something that happened in a &lt;em&gt;TNG&lt;/em&gt;-era film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a case-by-case basis, it is fine for the asker to welcome or exclude answers from the films, other Star Trek series, etc., that may not have been reflected in the original tagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastEditorUserId="40294" LastEditDate="2016-11-20T03:04:12.327" LastActivityDate="2016-11-20T03:04:12.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10351" CreationDate="2016-11-19T18:03:58.673" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see the tags as helpful devices, and they should match the question, but I don't think the tags are expected to be the over-arching definers of the question and supersede what is clearly stated in the body of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this particular question, TOS was listed in the title (someone else removed it with an edit) and three times in the body of the question. One tag was attached to the question &lt;code&gt;star-trek-tos&lt;/code&gt;. Someone else has added the broader &lt;code&gt;star-trek&lt;/code&gt; tag in that edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to the uses in Wikipedia and Memory-alpha, so far in my limited experience I've seen TOS used here in SciFi SE to refer to the &lt;em&gt;Series&lt;/em&gt; specifically, and I haven't seen it used to refer to six feature length motion pictures based on the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this turns out to be true - that in this SE the &lt;code&gt;star-trek-tos&lt;/code&gt; tag has not been used to refer to the six feature length motion pictures, then altering the tag now could be seen by some as re-defining the questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The TV show was a series. TOS refers (everywhere I have ever seen it) to The Original Series on TV. Having to make an additional tag some day in the future for &lt;code&gt;TOS-the-show&lt;/code&gt; or even &lt;code&gt;TOS-the-series&lt;/code&gt; would be a bit silly considering that the &lt;code&gt;T&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;S&lt;/code&gt; represent &lt;code&gt;the&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;series&lt;/code&gt; already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51174" LastEditorUserId="51174" LastEditDate="2016-11-20T01:38:26.013" LastActivityDate="2016-11-20T01:38:26.013" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10351" CreationDate="2016-11-19T20:22:28.590" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;It's better to be clear than technically correct&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By itself, &quot;TOS&quot; means the TV show, and &quot;TOS-era&quot; means the TV show plus the first six films (and possibly various other things such as TAS, the EU, the Shatnerverse, etc.).  Since this question says &quot;TOS&quot; rather than &quot;TOS-era,&quot; it seems pretty clearly about the TV show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in this case, OP used &quot;TOS&quot; as an adjective:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Neither &lt;em&gt;Saurian Brandy&lt;/em&gt; nor &lt;em&gt;Tranya&lt;/em&gt; were blue (based on a quick search only), and that's all I can remember of named TOS beverages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;TOS&quot; is not an adjective.  It is an abbreviation of &quot;The Original Series,&quot; which is a noun.  Using it as an adjective suggests you meant to write &quot;TOS-era,&quot; and creates confusion.  I would discourage this usage, because it is ambiguous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also helpful to be explicit about the sources you are interested in.  Quite a lot of questioners just want &quot;anything that's canon&quot; or &quot;anything from the TOS era.&quot;  If you do not specify this, you may get answers you do not actually want, even if the tags technically exclude some of those answers.  It's better to actually write &quot;I only want answers from the TV show, not the films&quot; in the question itself, rather than relying on the tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going back and editing every past question to conform to this rule is obviously unhelpful, and I'm not recommending we do that.  But when you are asking a new question, it's good to think carefully about what kinds of answers you want, and to write that down in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nitpicker's corner&lt;/strong&gt;: Actually, it's totally legal to turn a noun into an adjective, or indeed any part of speech into any other part of speech so long as you're understood.  The problem here is that when you turn &quot;TOS&quot; into an adjective, the resulting word means &quot;of or relating to TOS,&quot; which arguably includes the films and the rest of the TOS era.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some reason, someone in the comments seems to think that it is relevant that &quot;TOS era&quot; is a noun (though &quot;TOS-era&quot; is an adjective).  I have no idea how this is relevant, but I don't want people to nag me about it so I'm putting it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="36526" LastEditDate="2016-11-26T23:38:52.193" LastActivityDate="2016-11-26T23:38:52.193" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10355" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10358" CreationDate="2016-11-21T15:55:02.307" Score="-1" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen some titles that are not real questions, just telling the issue that will be dealt with.&#xA;Is it a good practice? Is it mandatory for titles to be questions and end with question marks?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT : I'm aware this might be a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/236/are-non-question-titles-desirable-or-undesirable&quot;&gt;Are non-question titles desirable or undesirable?&lt;/a&gt; but I did not find this one with the keywords &lt;em&gt;title&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;mark&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73606" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.673" LastActivityDate="2016-11-25T15:30:38.437" Title="Does a title always have to be a question, ended with a question mark?" Tags="|discussion|title|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-11-21T20:24:57.450" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10356" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-11-21T15:57:21.473" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-11-21T15:57:21.473" LastActivityDate="2016-11-21T15:57:21.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10357" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-11-21T15:57:21.473" Score="0" Body="The question you are asking is about writing, editing a title." OwnerUserId="73606" LastEditorUserId="73606" LastEditDate="2016-11-21T18:57:58.043" LastActivityDate="2016-11-21T18:57:58.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10355" CreationDate="2016-11-21T16:02:36.113" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No, it's not mandatory&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, question titles should describe the thing that's being asked. Usually that takes the form of a question, but it needn't always.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good, top-of-mind example is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/145546/31051&quot;&gt;Help me find this robot cartoon character&lt;/a&gt;. Yes, that title could be re-written as &quot;Who is this robot cartoon character?&quot;, but the benefit is marginal at best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Story-id questions are also good examples; a question on the front page right now is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/145574/31051&quot;&gt;Sci fi movie where Earth&amp;#39;s most influential figures are revealed to be alien androids&lt;/a&gt;. I ask you: what benefit is gained from rewriting that as &quot;What is the title of a sci fi movie where etc.&quot;? Especially when you consider that most, if not all, story-id questions could be re-written in that way, it just becomes redundant noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clarity is more important than nitpicky rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-11-21T16:02:36.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2113" CreationDate="2016-11-21T23:45:57.623" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/comments#order=desc&amp;amp;sort=votes&amp;amp;filter=!)Q2B_A2kjfNRDH5pUMXaRci3&amp;amp;site=scifi&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This pretty-printed StackExchange API query will show you those comments on Science Fiction SE.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  Follow the link, then submit the query with the &quot;Run&quot; button under the &quot;Try It&quot; heading.  (This requires Javascript enabled in your browser.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The query will show an output that currently starts like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;{&#xA;  &quot;items&quot;: [&#xA;    {&#xA;      &quot;owner&quot;: {&#xA;        &quot;user_id&quot;: 30947,&#xA;        &quot;display_name&quot;: &quot;Hannover Fist&quot;,&#xA;        &quot;link&quot;: &quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/30947/hannover-fist&quot;&#xA;      },&#xA;      &quot;score&quot;: 332,&#xA;      &quot;creation_date&quot;: 1442252581,&#xA;      &quot;post_id&quot;: 102822,&#xA;      &quot;comment_id&quot;: 237173,&#xA;      &quot;link&quot;: &quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/102822/could-i-fake-death-to-stop-being-force-choked#comment237173_102822&quot;,&#xA;      &quot;body&quot;: &quot;Let me know if this should be migrated to &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;The Workplace&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;.&quot;&#xA;    },&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The output shows the highest voted comments on the site, sorted in descending order by score.  The id, score, author and content of the comment are shown, as well as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/102822/could-i-fake-death-to-stop-being-force-choked#comment237173_102822&quot;&gt;a link to the comment&lt;/a&gt;.  If you follow the link, you will find that the comment is on the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/102822/4918&quot;&gt;Could I fake death to stop being Force-choked?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to find the highest voted comments on another SE site (possibly a Meta), then click on the &quot;[edit]&quot; link after the bold text &quot;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy&quot; right under the &quot;Try It&quot; heading, enter the name of the site into the input box that will appear in place of that label, then click on the site name from the list that drops down, then click on the Run button.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The StackExchange API is an alternate interface for StackExchange sites that is optimized for stability and automated access.  The pages in &lt;a href=&quot;https://api.stackexchange.com/docs&quot;&gt;the documentation for the API&lt;/a&gt; that document individual methods in that API have a pretty-composer and pretty-printer form that lets you easily make queries to the API and print the results. The above link is a bookmark to such a pretty-printed query.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2016-11-21T23:52:15.840" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9560" CreationDate="2016-11-22T22:05:42.663" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a work around, we could create specific feeds with their own user for a &quot;hot&quot; tag, then exclude those tags from the regular feed. That way, both unspoilered fans and uninterested non-fans can ignore that user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, we could have users&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;@R2-D2 for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;@Dumbledore for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;@Data for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;@ID10T for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;@Obie and @MetaObie for the rest&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that &lt;em&gt;Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them&lt;/em&gt; has been released, users should then ignore @Dumbledore (or possibly @Newt as well, who's posting specifically &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantastic-beasts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantastic-beasts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantastic-beasts&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2016-11-22T22:05:42.663" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10361" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-23T12:02:06.300" Score="-9" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;As of today I have noticed that I can't go into the review section. It is stating that I can go there on 9th December at the earliest. Is this because my privileges have been revoked for some reason or is this a bug or is the review section being worked on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15632" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-11-23T13:08:35.003" LastActivityDate="2016-11-23T13:08:35.003" Title="Have my review permissions been revoked?" Tags="|support|review-queue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10361" CreationDate="2016-11-23T13:07:51.053" Score="13" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, your review privileges have been temporarily revoked.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a bug. Review bans are one of the tools available to moderators to combat robo-reviewing, when a particular user has a track record of bad reviews or it appears that they're not taking enough care over reviewing.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;In your case, you were blocked from reviewing after moderators noticed a significant number of &quot;No Action Needed&quot; reviews on First Posts which definitely &lt;em&gt;needed&lt;/em&gt; action, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/88464&quot;&gt;spam&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/88395&quot;&gt;non-answers&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/85123&quot;&gt;low-quality answers&lt;/a&gt;, etc. We also noticed &quot;Looks OK&quot; reviews on Low Quality Posts which should clearly have been deleted - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/91951&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can view your own reviewing history for each queue (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/history?userId=15632&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for First Posts). I would like to encourage you to do this: go over your past reviews, see where you've gone wrong, and work out what you can learn for the future. Good reviewers are always welcome, but bad reviewers are worse than no reviewers at all. Come December, when you're able to review again, &lt;em&gt;please&lt;/em&gt; take more care when doing so, even if it means you need to spend a lot longer reviewing each item.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;A few general words of advice for reviewing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the First Posts and Late Answers queues, &lt;strong&gt;&quot;No Action Needed&quot; should be the exception rather than the rule.&lt;/strong&gt; Feedback is important for new users, either to help them improve and learn more about the site if their post is bad, or to encourage them to stick around if it's good. Even if a First Post isn't a non-answer (&lt;em&gt;flag&lt;/em&gt;), a great post (&lt;em&gt;upvote&lt;/em&gt;), or poorly written (&lt;em&gt;edit&lt;/em&gt;), it could still almost always benefit from feedback via &lt;em&gt;comment&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's particularly important to review carefully in the First Posts and Late Answers queues, because &lt;strong&gt;a single user's review is enough to remove the post from the queue.&lt;/strong&gt; If you click &quot;No Action Needed&quot; on spam, then someone &lt;em&gt;else&lt;/em&gt; will have to flag that spam, and they'll only find the post by chance rather than through the review queue. In other queues, it takes at least two or three robo-reviewers to screw up a whole review item.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don't forget that &lt;strong&gt;you can always click &quot;Skip&quot; if you aren't sure.&lt;/strong&gt; Nobody knows everything: if you don't know a particular SF/F work well enough to tell whether a post about it is good or bad, off-topic or on-topic, then &lt;em&gt;you don't have to review it&lt;/em&gt; - instead, leave it for someone who does know the subject and will be better equipped to make that call.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;sub&gt;Unfortunately these links are only available to 10k+ reputation users since the posts have been deleted, but the very fact that they've been deleted indicates that your &quot;No Action Needed&quot; / &quot;Looks OK&quot; reviews were wrong.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-11-23T13:07:51.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10363" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-24T23:13:31.197" Score="0" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/145335/how-do-the-pirate-tests-in-uncharted-4-get-reset&quot;&gt;How do the pirate tests in Uncharted 4 get reset?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... was deleted by the OP, presumably in response to some (unwarranted) criticism about the question being off-topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've now got an answer for it. Can we please, as a community, get this question undeleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2016-11-25T01:51:58.570" Title="Can we please undelete this question about Uncharted 4?" Tags="|discussion|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10363" CreationDate="2016-11-24T23:22:59.200" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question is not closed, but deleted by the querent. There's a significant difference between &quot;closed&quot; and &quot;deleted,&quot; and it's &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; unusual for the Stack to un-delete something which was deleted by the original poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, if it were just closed I'd be casting a re-open vote because it's on topic, not because somebody has an answer for it. &quot;Answerability&quot; is not a topicality criterion as support for non-answerability is, in itself, fodder for an excellent answer in the Stack style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13941" LastEditorUserId="13941" LastEditDate="2016-11-25T00:04:58.513" LastActivityDate="2016-11-25T00:04:58.513" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10363" CreationDate="2016-11-25T01:51:58.570" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at the question, it appears to be on topic with regard to being about the story of a video game, rather than the mechanics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there's a concern brought up in the comments that the video game itself might not be SFF. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before asking users with rep high enough to undelete (I'm not one!) could we have proof that it's an on topic game series? Otherwise, we could just see it being closed afterwards, or otherwise contested. There's many more users with VTC privileges, after all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's truly on on topic work, then there's no reason to leave it deleted. And, we shouldn't have to worry about closure, either. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2016-11-25T01:51:58.570" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10366" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-25T08:03:06.117" Score="0" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've recently had a question about the game Uncharted 4.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this game on topic for SFF:SE?&lt;/strong&gt; Does it contain significant elements of the supernatural such as ghosts, zombies, djinn or other such fantasy tropes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-11-25T12:00:17.673" LastActivityDate="2016-11-26T21:13:13.123" Title="Is Uncharted 4 on topic for SFF:SE?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10366" CreationDate="2016-11-25T08:23:24.687" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Probably not&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Uncharted 4&lt;/em&gt; has no appreciable speculative fiction content, as the plot description &lt;a href=&quot;http://uncharted.wikia.com/wiki/Uncharted_4:_A_Thief%E2%80%99s_End&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; would seem to indicate. There’s a lost, ruined pirate colony that probably never existed in real life, but this is mere historical conspiracy a la &lt;em&gt;National Treasure&lt;/em&gt;, not a true alternative history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some previous games in the &lt;em&gt;Uncharted&lt;/em&gt; series do have significant speculative fiction content. For example, according to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncharted:_Drake%27s_Fortune&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia description&lt;/a&gt; of the first game:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking for a way out, Nate finds a letter written by Drake exposing&#xA;the truth: &lt;strong&gt;El Dorado is protected by a curse that turned both the&#xA;Spanish colonists and the German soldiers into monsters.&lt;/strong&gt; Drake sought&#xA;to destroy it, but the creatures killed him before he could, a picture&#xA;reveals that Drake’s corpse was in front of the statue before it was&#xA;moved by the Germans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the supernatural elements of the games were gradually toned down, with the most supernatural thing in the third installation of &lt;em&gt;Uncharted&lt;/em&gt; being a really strong drug that was once possessed by King Solomon. The fourth installment, the one in question, lacks even this minor element.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9877/51379&quot;&gt;this consensus&lt;/a&gt;, if a sequel contains science fiction and fantasy content, that does not automatically make the original work on-topic. This logically extends to situations in which one work in a series is science fiction and fantasy, and others are not—as is the case with &lt;em&gt;Uncharted.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;There having been one supernatural game in the series does not make the rest on-topic.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-11-26T21:13:13.123" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10366" CreationDate="2016-11-26T01:04:17.513" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Probably.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The game's multiplayer cooperative mode contains very significant fantasy elements including magical powerups and zombie Djinn pirates. It's hard to say how this mode ties into the (plotted) single player game, but it's also something that can't be ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/vkBgf18-lZc?start=94&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, in an interview in 2009 (prior to the release of U4), the game's 'Lead Designer' Evan Wells stated that the supernatural elements were in fact potentially explicable without needing to invoke fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The first Uncharted takes a swing towards Doom territory towards the end. Is that going to happen in this game?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EW:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;*Part of that is that there are mystical elements to the world that don't necessarily have a supernatural explanation. We really try to walk that X-Files line where there could be a real world explanation.&lt;/strong&gt; So I don't know if we made the point clear enough in the first game. But the idea was that there was this virus trapped inside that sarcophagus, or that mummy, for thousands of years. It was released, and of course these people have no immunities built up to this virus and it has some really nasty effects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;People that survived the effects inbred and they created those creatures that we saw in the first game. &lt;strong&gt;That was the more scientific explanation as opposed to the mystical one, that they are just demons.*&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.engadget.com/2009/02/04/evan-wells-interview-page-3/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Evan Wells Interview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the game's 'Lead Multiplayer Designer' Robert Cogburn is adamant that the supernatural permeates the entire game series as well as its subsidiary materials.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You talked about the Mysticals. Can you talk about the decision to include these supernatural powers in multiplayer? All three previous Uncharted games end up taking these weird supernatural twists. Is this your effort to carry that between the two modes?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RC:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Absolutely. It was something we intended to do from the very start. &lt;strong&gt;The Mysticals span the entire Uncharted universe, not only from the games, but from the books and the comics and such.&lt;/strong&gt; The elements that they bring into the moment-to-moment multiplayer really mix things up and they can be used in such a tactical way that they're not overpowering. None of the Mysticals are a one-hit kill.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;From the start, with this sort of being our last game, it was really something we wanted to try to pull off in terms of fan service, and it just gave us a lot more flexibility that we didn't have previously. In Uncharted 2 and 3, it was a pretty grounded experience. &lt;strong&gt;For Uncharted 4, we wanted to make sure that we elevated the action. Mysticals really helped us do that.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gamespot.com/articles/uncharted-4-will-end-the-story-but-not-the-action/1100-6433207/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Uncharted 4 Will End the Story, But Not the Action&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-11-26T01:12:52.940" LastActivityDate="2016-11-26T01:12:52.940" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10369" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-11-26T04:13:01.663" Score="5" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;What if &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/42620/hillbilly-type-family-with-supernatural-powers&quot;&gt;one story-ID question&lt;/a&gt; asks about a &lt;strong&gt;series&lt;/strong&gt; of stories, while &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/145873/40s-50s-short-story-about-a-mutant-family-with-psi-powers&quot;&gt;another story-ID question&lt;/a&gt; asks about a &lt;strong&gt;particular story&lt;/strong&gt; which happens to belong to that series. Are they duplicates? If they are duplicates, which one should be closed, or does it depend on which was posted first, or on which is the better question or has the better answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I have no definite opinion on the matter. I don't even see the point of closing story-identification questions at all, seeing as they will not be deleted and will remain on the site forever.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.247" LastActivityDate="2016-11-26T04:13:01.663" Title="Duplicate story-id questions: series vs. publication" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|story-identification|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2016-11-29T18:13:32.680" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10370" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10371" CreationDate="2016-11-26T09:24:21.393" Score="5" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;First time user: I can't find where/how to log out when I'm done. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74500" LastActivityDate="2016-11-26T16:52:05.793" Title="How do I log out when I'm ready to leave the site?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10370" CreationDate="2016-11-26T10:04:39.583" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can simply click On &lt;em&gt;Stack Exchange&lt;/em&gt; (top left of your screen) then click &lt;em&gt;log out&lt;/em&gt; :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2aKQY.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2aKQY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;log out&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you will be asked if you want to quit all Stack Exchange communities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73606" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2016-11-26T16:52:05.793" LastActivityDate="2016-11-26T16:52:05.793" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10370" CreationDate="2016-11-26T11:24:23.507" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DM3LR.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DM3LR.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2016-11-26T11:24:23.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10282" CreationDate="2016-11-26T23:27:26.657" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Judging from the other answers here, there appears to be a consensus in favour of getting rid of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/author-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;author-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;author-identification&lt;/a&gt; tag and retagging most of its questions with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;. The easiest and least disruptive way to do this will be to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;merge&lt;/em&gt; the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/author-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;author-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;author-identification&lt;/a&gt; tag into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, which can be done by a moderator without bumping any questions to the front page of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; this has now been done. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/author-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;author-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;author-identification&lt;/a&gt; tag is no more.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;Here is a list of all the questions which were tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/author-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;author-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;author-identification&lt;/a&gt; but NOT &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; (I've assumed that all those which had the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; tag already &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; have it), and the action I took for each one. Feel free to re-edit if you disagree with any of my decisions (especially #1 or #11); the point of having a list here is precisely so that we can find these questions again even after the merge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/63554/31394&quot;&gt;Looking for patronage era European scifi scientist/inventor male author?&lt;/a&gt; This is a difficult case, since it's asking about an author rather than any specific one of his works, but it could still be solved by finding a story, so I think it's OK to &lt;strong&gt;use story-ID tag.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/73534/31394&quot;&gt;Trying to find author of short story called Man Alone&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Use story-ID tag.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/85020/31394&quot;&gt;Who is the author of the following stories?&lt;/a&gt; This is basically a story ID question, even though it's asking about several different stories by the same author. &lt;strong&gt;Use story-ID tag.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/93521/31394&quot;&gt;Which British author wrote about Shellworlds before Iain M. Banks?&lt;/a&gt; Again a story ID question, with some elements of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Use story-ID tag.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/96974/31394&quot;&gt;Who wrote &amp;quot;Pate de Fois Gras&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Use story-ID tag.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/100155/31394&quot;&gt;Which author commented that &amp;quot;we all got it wrong&amp;quot; about walking on the moon being televised?&lt;/a&gt; This is asking for a quote from a sci-fi author, not a sci-fi story. &lt;strong&gt;Use quotes tag.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/102509/31394&quot;&gt;Does anyone know the book &amp;quot;The Eagle Flies Over England&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Use story-ID tag.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/102965/31394&quot;&gt;Forgotten YA female sci-fi author 80s/90s&lt;/a&gt; This focuses more on the author than the stories, but it's still hoping to identify her from her works. &lt;strong&gt;Use story-ID tag.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/103008/31394&quot;&gt;Whose definition of &amp;quot;science fiction&amp;quot; is this?&lt;/a&gt; This is asking for a quote from a sci-fi author, not a sci-fi story. &lt;strong&gt;Use quotes tag.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/109751/31394&quot;&gt;Who created the version of Kilgrave in the Jessica Jones TV series?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think this one really needs an ID tag at all: it's a question about a specific, known show. &lt;strong&gt;Remove ID tag.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/115328/31394&quot;&gt;Seeking name credits for pulp SF artists&lt;/a&gt; I'm still not entirely sure what tag would be appropriate here, but I removed the author-ID tag so that the merge doesn't affect this question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/117600/31394&quot;&gt;Who wrote &amp;quot;The Monsters&amp;quot; short story published by Purnell&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Use story-ID tag.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/123540/31394&quot;&gt;Quotation about the future of technology being paper&lt;/a&gt; This is asking for a quote from a sci-fi author, not a sci-fi story. &lt;strong&gt;Use quotes tag.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/133717/31394&quot;&gt;Name of the author who wrote &amp;quot;Killer&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Use story-ID tag.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/145661/31394&quot;&gt;Quote by Science Fiction writer: peace and prosperity are the exception, not the norm&lt;/a&gt; This is asking for a quote from a sci-fi author, not a sci-fi story. &lt;strong&gt;Use quotes tag.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-11-30T12:51:04.627" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10374" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10375" CreationDate="2016-11-28T16:40:45.390" Score="11" ViewCount="261" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not a usual reviewer but I occasionally try to give a hand. Lately I've met a lot of suggested edits retagging &lt;code&gt;brandon-sanderson&lt;/code&gt; in any question related with his works, not questions about the author himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7923/what-is-the-correct-usage-of-individual-works-tags-vs-author-tags-vs-franchise&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; I assume it's an unnecessary retag and reject it, nonetheless I see the active questions list is full of these retagged questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I correct in rejecting the edits? Should I erase the other retags? How should we proceed so as not to start an edit war? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63534" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T19:10:18.187" Title="How do we deal with massive author retag?" Tags="|discussion|retagging|suggested-edit|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10374" CreationDate="2016-11-28T17:30:36.633" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; I've just completed the retagging of questions about Sanderson and his works. In future, &lt;strong&gt;please use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brandon-sanderson&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brandon-sanderson&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brandon-sanderson&lt;/a&gt; tag only for questions about the author, and individual work tags, along with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cosmere&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cosmere&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cosmere&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/147052/31394&quot;&gt;if the work is part of the Cosmere&lt;/a&gt;, as described &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10287/31394&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;I recently posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10284/31394&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; here on meta in order to try to pin down what tagging policy we should be following for the works of Brandon Sanderson. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10287/31394&quot;&gt;consensus&lt;/a&gt; there was that we should be using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brandon-sanderson&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brandon-sanderson&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brandon-sanderson&lt;/a&gt; only for questions about the author himself and using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cosmere&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cosmere&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cosmere&lt;/a&gt; as the franchise tag covering all his works (which is roughly what &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brandon-sanderson&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brandon-sanderson&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brandon-sanderson&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;em&gt;currently&lt;/em&gt; being used for).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We still need to sort out the tagging of the existing questions, of course. This will be done by making a list of which questions are sufficiently author-oriented to merit the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brandon-sanderson&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brandon-sanderson&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brandon-sanderson&lt;/a&gt; tag, then merging that tag into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cosmere&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cosmere&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cosmere&lt;/a&gt; and re-adding it manually to those few questions. This task is high up on my to-do list, and I'll start on it as soon as I've finished &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10373/31394&quot;&gt;sorting out the author-ID tag&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the meantime, I'll make the user who's been suggesting those edits aware of the above-linked meta post about Sanderson tags, and ask them to hold off on further such edits until the time comes to properly sort out the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brandon-sanderson&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brandon-sanderson&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brandon-sanderson&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cosmere&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cosmere&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cosmere&lt;/a&gt; tags (at which point, of course, they'll be very welcome to help with the &lt;em&gt;necessary&lt;/em&gt; retagging).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR: let's &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; hold off on Sanderson retagging until we know exactly what needs to be done.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T19:10:18.187" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10376" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10377" CreationDate="2016-11-29T15:13:46.983" Score="-7" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;30 questions contain &quot;Mal&quot; and 16 of them are about the one from Firefly.  I know this isn't that many, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7871/tag-wars-episode-i-harry-potter-and-the-tag-cleanup&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; seems to think it is enough.  Besides, we do have tags with less questions.  Scoring &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/malcolm-reynolds&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;malcolm-reynolds&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;malcolm-reynolds&lt;/a&gt; using the system from the above post, we get 12 (1, -1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2) which is enough to make it a tag.  (You may not agree with my rankings, just tell me and I'll look at 'em.)  Should we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/malcolm-reynolds&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;malcolm-reynolds&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;malcolm-reynolds&lt;/a&gt; as a tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51142" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2016-11-29T22:45:00.850" Title="Should we have a Malcolm-Reynolds tag?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10376" CreationDate="2016-11-29T22:40:06.420" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Meh.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Among the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bfirefly%5D+mal+is%3Aq&quot;&gt;15 questions&lt;/a&gt; which mention &quot;Mal&quot; and are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/firefly&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;firefly&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;firefly&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/67475/why-doesnt-captain-mal-let-saffron-answer-at-the-end-of-our-mrs-reynolds&quot;&gt;at&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/143288/why-does-mal-change-his-mind&quot;&gt;most&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/50760/why-does-mal-abandon-the-tams-in-safe&quot;&gt;six&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/146150/did-mal-intentionally-leave-jayne-with-the-tams-in-ariel&quot;&gt;are&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/11139/is-there-any-evidence-that-mal-thought-more-of-inara-than-anyone-else-on-his-cre&quot;&gt;actually&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/87403/why-was-mal-able-to-shrug-off-apparently-lethal-blows-from-the-operative&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Malcolm Reynolds, rather than simply mentioning him. So the proposed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/malcolm-reynolds&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;malcolm-reynolds&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;malcolm-reynolds&lt;/a&gt; tag wouldn't even pass &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7832/31394&quot;&gt;Shog9's test&lt;/a&gt; for character tags. (And it's worth noting that that advice hasn't really been followed in practice, in terms of &lt;em&gt;creating&lt;/em&gt; tags; the way the community has interpreted it seems to be just that a character tag isn't worth &lt;em&gt;destroying&lt;/em&gt; if there are at least 10 questions with it. Otherwise we'd have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rand-althor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rand-althor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rand-althor&lt;/a&gt; tag by now, as well as a lot more Harry Potter character tags than we do).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;General rules aside, it just doesn't seem worth it IMO. We have 86 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/firefly&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;firefly&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;firefly&lt;/a&gt; questions currently, most of which are general questions about the universe or the plot rather than about specific characters. Plus, since Mal is the main character of the show, I doubt anyone would be interested in following/ignoring a tag about him specifically if they don't already follow/ignore the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/firefly&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;firefly&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;firefly&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(By the way, the tag checklist you mentioned has &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9215/31394&quot;&gt;since been rejected&lt;/a&gt; by the community.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2016-11-29T22:40:06.420" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10378" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-01T07:40:57.380" Score="3" ViewCount="208" Body="&lt;p&gt;After watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2543164&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Arrival&lt;/a&gt; yesterday I'm naturally curious about the implications of the plot in universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to ask a question about what exactly these implications are (speculative or backed by quotes from screen writers, the original book source, etc) but fear it will be considered to be more a discussion than a proper QA entry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question itself should target what the implications of the events of the movie are on a philosophical level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More precisely, if the revelation that you can perceive time as non-linear and basically &amp;quot;as a whole&amp;quot; mean that everybody that learns the language will realize that &amp;quot;all that will happen already happened&amp;quot; - thus realizing that the universe of the movie is a &amp;quot;closed loop&amp;quot;, i.e. complete determinism (which is my interpretation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My original thought was to ask something along the lines of &amp;quot;Is the universe of Arrival a closed time loop? So, as Louise realizes that her future is set in stone, can she even have free will?&amp;quot; etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I formulate the question in a way that will&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;be answerable and acceptable according to (SciFi.)SE standards&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;nonetheless invite and accept speculative answers that incite thought&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Question Draft&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Below is a draft of the question I would like to ask on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Introductory Things]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Explaining of Plot &amp;quot;Twist&amp;quot;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering this revelation, I wonder: Does it imply that &amp;quot;all that will happen has already happened&amp;quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My interpretation is such that because Louise experiences Past, Present and Future (or rather; lack thereof) simultaneously, the audience is lead to believe that her future has already happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears as if she can experience all of &lt;em&gt;her&lt;/em&gt; time at once. By that logic it would also mean that her mind is more or less &amp;quot;outside&amp;quot; of time, making her... immortal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And; If that was true, does this mean by knowing the universal language gifted by the Heptapods, you will become immortal, as you will be able to experience your life all at once - basically jumping in time to wherever you want?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a valid interpretation or am missing something? Does the book reveal more of how this universe works or is there any &amp;quot;canon&amp;quot; defined by the screenwriter, director, etc.?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/146889&quot;&gt;posted the question now&lt;/a&gt;, as there were no oppositions within a week. Should this change, I'll edit it accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26737" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-12-09T12:07:07.833" Title="Question about the (philosophical) implications of &quot;Arrival&quot; in universe (Spoiler)" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3194" CreationDate="2016-12-01T11:14:20.443" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think basing the decision of closing a question on the answers is &lt;strong&gt;plainly wrong&lt;/strong&gt;. Here's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/292329/does-the-same-answer-imply-that-the-questions-should-be-closed-as-duplicate&quot;&gt;good summary on StackOverflow Meta&lt;/a&gt; of a similar problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I ask a question which is different from existing ones, how am I supposed to know that the answer would turn out to be the same? You can't judge the question based on the answers because the answers don't exist when the question is asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Worse, I may not even be able to find the other question which contains an answer that &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; answer my question. The other question is worded differently, and I obviously can't look for the existing answer because I don't know what that answer would be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such a policy only creates problems. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4698" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T09:16:33.917" LastActivityDate="2016-12-01T11:14:20.443" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10381" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10385" CreationDate="2016-12-01T12:27:31.487" Score="9" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-vs-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-vs-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-vs-movie&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The usage descriptions says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions about differences in plot/characters/details between a movie&#xA;  based on a book and the source book, and vice versa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it is evidently not fit for questions comparing books and other visual adaptation media such as TV shows. I have seen some questions which seek the comparison between books and TV Shows, so there is some need I suppose. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how do we go about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should we rename the existing tag to something more generic? Like Book-vs-adaptation?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should we create a separate book-vs-show tag?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should we make them synonyms?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should we leave it alone?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-01-13T00:20:15.907" LastActivityDate="2017-01-13T00:20:15.907" Title="Should Book-vs-Movie tag be renamed to something more generic?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10382" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10383" CreationDate="2016-12-01T15:44:03.260" Score="5" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we change a picture size when we display it from a linked website? It seems that the picture is always displayed at maximum size.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73606" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2016-12-01T16:02:13.343" LastActivityDate="2016-12-01T16:02:13.343" Title="Is there a way to resize displayed pictures?" Tags="|support|images|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2016-12-01T16:56:59.540" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10382" CreationDate="2016-12-01T16:01:45.693" Score="5" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Yes&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you go to the 'add an image', it provides an option to 'provide a link from the web'. Let's use &lt;a href=&quot;http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/lotr/images/a/a0/Saruman_%21.jpeg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/220?cb=20140426125614&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; image of Saruman for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is it's natural size:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mMxes.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mMxes.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here I'm adding an 'l' at the end of the imgur link at the bottom to make it &lt;em&gt;large&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mMxesl.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mMxesl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Her's an 'm' for &lt;em&gt;medium&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mMxesm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mMxesm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here's an 's' for &lt;em&gt;small&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mMxess.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mMxess.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Admittedly, in this image, there isn't much difference between the first three. With a humongous image, however, there is a noticeable difference.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-12-01T16:01:45.693" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10381" CreationDate="2016-12-03T13:12:53.157" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;We already have a broader tag which covers questions comparing books and movies, books and TV shows, comics and movies, or any other set of adaptations of the same work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/adaptation-comparison&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;adaptation-comparison&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;adaptation-comparison&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For comparing the adaptations of a work to each other, or comparing a work's adaptations to the source work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;I suggest that we synonymise &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-vs-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-vs-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-vs-movie&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/adaptation-comparison&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;adaptation-comparison&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;adaptation-comparison&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would mean that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/adaptation-comparison&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;adaptation-comparison&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;adaptation-comparison&lt;/a&gt; is the master tag, but anyone typing &quot;book-vs-movie&quot; into the tag box would also find and use this tag. If the synonymisation is accompanied by a &lt;em&gt;merge&lt;/em&gt; (done by a moderator), it will also mean that all currently existing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-vs-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-vs-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-vs-movie&lt;/a&gt; questions are automatically retagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/adaptation-comparison&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;adaptation-comparison&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;adaptation-comparison&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(There's also the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/adaptations&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;adaptations&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;adaptations&lt;/a&gt; tag, but although &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; of these questions, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/40012/31394&quot;&gt;How is the movie adaptation of R.I.P.D. different from the comic?&lt;/a&gt;, are good candidates for tagging &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/adaptation-comparison&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;adaptation-comparison&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;adaptation-comparison&lt;/a&gt;, others such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/92486/31394&quot;&gt;Does the Great Ormond Street Hospital control who can make Peter Pan adaptations?&lt;/a&gt; aren't. So this tag should probably &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be synonymised, and any necessary retagging done by hand.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2016-12-03T16:55:23.780" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10381" CreationDate="2016-12-03T16:27:46.590" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/adaption-comparison&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;adaption-comparison&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;adaption-comparison&lt;/a&gt; is going to be the master tag, or any other more-generic wording, I think it's important that we think about our usage guidance n combining it with other tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, we have these two takes on tagging:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/54654/tvs-marvels-agents-of-s-h-i-e-l-d-vs-the-comic-books&quot;&gt;TV&amp;#39;s Marvel&amp;#39;s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. vs The Comic Books&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which has the tags: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/agents-of-shield&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;agents-of-shield&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;agents-of-shield&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/adaption-comparison&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;adaption-comparison&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;adaption-comparison&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It's using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt; vs &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt; to specify which versions of the media it's talking about. Similar to the way we do for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/67342/what-are-the-differences-between-the-strain-tv-series-and-the-books&quot;&gt;What are the differences between &amp;quot;The Strain&amp;quot; TV series and the books?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which only uses &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/adaption-comparison&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;adaption-comparison&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;adaption-comparison&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-strain&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-strain&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-strain&lt;/a&gt;. It specifies which media/versions in the body (and title).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So should we use the media tag + adaptation comparison or not? Whichever we decide, that should be made clear in the excerpt's usage guidance. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-12-03T16:27:46.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10387" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-03T17:21:02.617" Score="5" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is what &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; reads as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use this tag only to differentiate the book from the movie or other media. For questions about a specific book, use the author's name as a tag (plus the series or book title for popular authors). If applicable, use a more specific tag instead (novel, short-stories, comics).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This guidance is not only at conflict with our existing policies, but it's not really how the tag is used anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7924/31178&quot;&gt;We no longer add author's name as a matter of course when a single work tag should do&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only 180 of the 730 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; questions are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; used with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;  &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Of those 180 questions:  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/368052/find-questions-with-a-single-tag-now-case-insensitive&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;17 use &lt;em&gt;no other tag&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books+novel+-story-identification&quot;&gt;9 also use &lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=is%3Aquestion%20%5Bbooks%5D%20-%5Bstory-identification%5D%20%28%20%5Bmovie%5D%20OR%20%5Btv%5D%20OR%20%5Bcomics%5D%20OR%20%5Bwebcomics%5D%20OR%20%5Banime%5D%29&quot;&gt;23 also include a 2nd media tag besides novel&lt;/a&gt;, which defeats the &quot;differentiate&quot; portion of the guidance&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, there are other issues that still exist with how we use media tags, but this is the only one that specifies usages that aren't accurate/helpful and now actually encourages tagging against policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At a minimum, should we update the guidance to be more in line with the rest of the media tags, so that it reflects actual usage, or at least doesn't encourage creation of more authors tags? If yes, what should our new excerpt be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, why? What should we do instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Retagging/tagging discussions around this tag and media tags are varied, and we've hit a bit of a standstill, but that doesn't mean we can at least improve this as a separate issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2017-02-03T13:32:49.640" Title="Should we update the books tag wiki guidance?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2016-12-03T17:56:30.550" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is just a nickname from my friends and family... there is no meaning or secret reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73606" LastActivityDate="2016-12-03T17:56:30.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10389" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-03T18:32:58.900" Score="8" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's almost always used as &quot;sword and sorcery&quot;, only a single sword. The current tag &quot;swords and sorcery&quot; is a misspelling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am strongly in favor of correcting it to the actual term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74875" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-12-04T11:06:06.620" LastActivityDate="2016-12-04T11:06:06.620" Title="Fixing misspelling of &quot;swords and sorcery&quot; tag" Tags="|support|status-completed|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2016-12-03T18:56:02.360" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;My avatar is now &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Aegon_V_Targaryen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Aegon V&lt;/a&gt; &quot;Egg&quot;, in is youth with his shaved egg head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/55YCI.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/55YCI.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Egg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Former one&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/f13Bvs.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/f13Bvs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Vault Boy&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73606" LastEditorUserId="73606" LastEditDate="2017-08-18T09:28:18.403" LastActivityDate="2017-08-18T09:28:18.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10389" CreationDate="2016-12-04T11:05:46.343" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not all that familiar with this term, but a quick check on Wikipedia suggests that &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_and_sorcery&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;sword and sorcery&quot;&lt;/a&gt; refers to the subgenre of fantasy while &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swords_and_Sorcery&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Swords and Sorcery&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; refers to a particular work within this subgenre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/swords-and-sorcery&quot;&gt;all the questions with the tag on this site&lt;/a&gt; refer to the subgenre rather than the specific work, I've changed the tag name to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sword-and-sorcery&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sword-and-sorcery&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sword-and-sorcery&lt;/a&gt;. If we ever get questions about the specific work, we may have to think again, since I'm not sure if the system will allow two such similar tag names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-12-04T11:05:46.343" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10392" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-07T14:33:51.723" Score="-4" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xkcd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xkcd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt; tag in scifi stackexchange with only 9 questions  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going through them, all the questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xkcd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xkcd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt; are about specific comics which are written around a known work of scifi and/or fantasy  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if there are comics that I don't understand, is it allowed to ask for an explanation of such comics here? Suppose a comic is clearly not about physics/astronomy/real science of any kind, but it is not clear what the comic is about either. Can I use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xkcd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xkcd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt; tag for an explanation of such comics here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13716" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2016-12-07T17:48:17.060" LastActivityDate="2016-12-07T18:17:05.117" Title="Are questions about xkcd explanations allowed here?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10392" CreationDate="2016-12-07T14:49:05.550" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as it's clear that the aspect of the comic you're asking about is in some way related to science fiction or fantasy, and not romance, sarcasm, &lt;a href=&quot;https://math.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;math&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;language&lt;/a&gt;, I don't see why not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look through the questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xkcd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;xkcd&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt;, you can see a proud history of such questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/3744/31051&quot;&gt;Who are Darmok and Jalad and what is Kalenda&amp;#39;s?&lt;/a&gt; has 24 upvotes and 4 downvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/40031/31051&quot;&gt;Why is Arwen dying?&lt;/a&gt; has 33 upvotes and 4 downvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although these are fairly old questions (the most recent is from 2013), they're certainly not off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There needn't be any &lt;em&gt;recognizable&lt;/em&gt; SFF work behind the comic for a question about it to be on-topic; I would liken those cases to our story-ID questions, which are contentious but largely accepted. As long as there are identifiable SFF elements (or good reason to believe there's an SFF inspiration), I don't see why such a question would be off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would, however, caution you to do some basic research before asking your question. Lack of research effort is a common downvote reason, and the logic behind any XKCD joke can usually be easily identified by Googling some key words from the comic (the first question I linked to above is &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.ca/search?q=darmok+jalad+kalendas&amp;amp;oq=darmok+jalad+kalendas&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a great example&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's no clear SFFnal connection in the comic (as in &lt;a href=&quot;https://xkcd.com/8/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the example&lt;/a&gt; posted in the comments), that would be off-topic. Such a question &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be on-topic at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/94426/comics-cartoons-animation&quot;&gt;proposed comics.se&lt;/a&gt; (if that ever happens), but in the meantime would be better-served &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;in chat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2016-12-07T18:17:05.117" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10394" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10395" CreationDate="2016-12-07T19:06:40.487" Score="3" ViewCount="284" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we reopen the following question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/146598/did-maeve-choose-to-go-an-save-her-child-of-her-own-free-will&quot;&gt;Did Maeve choose to go and save her child of her own free will?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is answerable with only the information provided in the episode in question. I don't think it is opinion based. In S2 they may overturn what we were shown in S1, but until then we should have enough information to come to a conclusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that it asks about &quot;free will&quot; may be a little too broad and may need some editing to keep it constrained to topics that were actually defined in the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23128" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2016-12-18T09:15:18.660" Title="Please reopen &quot;Did Maeve choose to go and save her child of her own free will?&quot;" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10394" CreationDate="2016-12-08T08:43:50.620" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question is once again open. I made an edit to request info from the first season only, which prevents it from falling foul of the &quot;Future Works&quot; policy. Based on how rapidly it reopened, the community clearly feel that this was a positive edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T08:43:50.620" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10396" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10397" CreationDate="2016-12-08T18:58:07.250" Score="-5" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/144556/blown-out-or-sucked-out-why-would-data-make-such-an-error-thats-not-an-err&quot;&gt;&amp;#39;Blown out&amp;#39; or &amp;#39;sucked out&amp;#39;, why would Data make such an error that&amp;#39;s not an error&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was closed for asking for a scientific reasoning, but that's not what the question is seeking. In fact, science plays no part in the actual answer at all. Data corrects Riker when Riker made an ostensibly scientifically valid statement. This comes from the early seasons of TNG, where Data was really anal about correcting everyone about everything.  The question was why Data would do that. It's ultimately a grammar question, not a science question, and it's a pretty arcane one to boot (it's not something your average person would know).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently my reopen vote expired without success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T20:18:26.567" Title="Please reopen this grammar question closed as science" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10396" CreationDate="2016-12-08T20:18:26.567" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I stand by my original close reason, given in this comment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You seem to be asking whether the terminology is correct in the real&#xA;  world. Unfortunately, that's off-topic here. It would be on topic on&#xA;  space:SE or possible ELU:SE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if you were to edit the  question so that it focused more why Data feels that it's appropriate to go around correcting his superiors, that would be firmly on-topic (and answerable).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T20:18:26.567" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10398" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10399" CreationDate="2016-12-09T15:31:05.953" Score="12" ViewCount="253" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed a few list questions recently. I think it was started last year by the super popular:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/95971/which-2015-technologies-were-correctly-predicted-by-back-to-the-future-ii&quot;&gt;Which 2015 technologies were correctly predicted by Back to the Future II?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More recently I've seen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/132775/how-many-times-has-dumbledore-outright-lied-to-harry-or-anyone&quot;&gt;How many times has Dumbledore outright lied to Harry (or anyone)?&lt;/a&gt; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/146792/hes-dead-jim-which-star-trek-characters-have-returned-from-the-dead&quot;&gt;“He's dead, Jim”: Which Star Trek characters have returned from the dead?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've discussed list questions before on meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16/are-list-questions-allowed&quot;&gt;Are list questions allowed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2638/are-all-list-questions-off-topic&quot;&gt;Are &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; list questions off-topic?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;not a duplicate because this is asking about very long lists and lists that change over time (see examples) - the accepted answer there does not address these issues (it even considers massive lists off topic)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1465/how-should-we-handle-any-list-questions&quot;&gt;How should we handle “any” (list) questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2862/we-need-to-take-a-look-at-list-questions&quot;&gt;We need to take a look at list questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking the consensus seems to be that small finite lists are OK, long lists or those that will change over time are not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the BTTF2 and Dumbledore question are &quot;long lists&quot; and the Star Trek question will change over time (potentially with every rebooted film). Is this a fair assessment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has our policy on lists (consciously) changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T15:18:13.867" Title="Are we now allowing list questions that are long or that change over time?" Tags="|discussion|list-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10398" CreationDate="2016-12-09T20:00:05.567" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;List questions were barred for a specific reason, and it's not the word &quot;list&quot; in them, but specific incompatibilities with SE Q&amp;amp;A format (specifically, that the question will result in endless, ever-growing list of competing answers for which it's impossible to pick &quot;correct&quot; one). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, specific forms of list questions are OK because they do NOT, despite being &quot;lists&quot;, present the same incompatibilities and downsides - either due to their nature, or due to the way the site culture and community handles them routinely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;By themselves, &lt;strong&gt;&quot;long&quot; list questions from a specific small domain aren't necessarily a problem&lt;/strong&gt;; unless a specific question attracts 1-item answers instead of a comprehensive list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the latter happens, that specific question can and should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in my experience, most such questions do NOT devolve into &quot;i will add 1 answer per 1 list item&quot;, and instead generate a comprehensive, canonical lists (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/112540/how-many-times-was-obi-wan-less-than-honest-with-luke/112543#112543&quot;&gt;example 1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32100/does-gollum-know-that-others-call-him-gollum/32101#32101&quot;&gt;example 2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111972/what-were-all-those-visions-rey-saw/111978#111978&quot;&gt;example 3&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32051/how-many-alien-women-has-capt-admiral-kirk-slept-with/32052#32052&quot;&gt;example 4&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/25244/which-harry-potter-characters-appear-in-all-seven-books-only-to-die-in-book-seve/25245#25245&quot;&gt;example 5&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this even applies to situations where &gt;1 person makes a list, as everyone involved tries to make the list comprehensive (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/109912/are-the-teachers-at-hogwarts-ever-publicly-intoxicated/109913#109913&quot;&gt;example 1&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions that change over time due to new works being released (especially as slowly as Star Trek reboot films) are perfectly fine on SFF.SE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's point out the obvious oeliphant in the cantina - majority of Star Wars questions's answers changed after the Darth Mickey event as a result of Disney &quot;canon&quot; being introduced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even barring that, before the dark times, before the &lt;strike&gt;the Empire&lt;/strike&gt; Disney, a large proportion of Star Wars questions could have easily had their answer change over time as new canon (these days Legends) works were added at a brisk clip by LucasFilm license holders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the fact that new works are added to the franchise is a problem which prevents questions from being on-topic, we shouldn't &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; bar list questions. We should bar any questions from un-finished franchises (pop quiz - what happens to site question count if you exclude Star Wars, Harry Potter, Star Trek, Marvel, and DC just for starters?)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2016-12-09T20:00:05.567" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10400" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-10T16:59:04.210" Score="13" ViewCount="286" Body="&lt;p&gt;A couple of days ago, I was wondering about an apparent redundancy in the closing words of General Hux's speech in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.  What I should have done was sit on the question for a couple of days and figure out how to ask it, but I posted it right away as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/146842/was-general-huxs-speech-ad-libbed&quot;&gt;&quot;Was General Hux's Speech Ad-libbed?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;  What I meant to ask (20/20 hindsight) was more along the lines of how rigorously he rehearsed his speech, but as it stands right now it's a pretty lame question, totally deserving of the downvotes it received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what should I do?  Is there a way to admit, &quot;OK, I asked a bad question, please don't downvote it any more than it already is&quot;?  Should I edit the question?  Or should I just let it fade into the background?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73743" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-12-10T17:26:34.100" Title="I asked a dumb question, now what do I do about it?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10400" CreationDate="2016-12-10T17:18:26.650" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you think you can edit it into a good question, do that&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Always&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; do that. Otherwise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Learn from your mistakes and let it be&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's really nothing else you &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Asking people not to downvote is likely to have negligible effect; if anything it may &lt;em&gt;encourage&lt;/em&gt; downvotes, because this is the Internet and sometimes people are horrible&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can't delete the question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/74471/276025&quot;&gt;because&lt;/a&gt; it has an upvoted answer. Unless you can convince Valorum to delete his answer (or convince a moderator to delete the question, which seems even less likely), there's nothing else to be done about it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually, people will stop caring about this question; it's already &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7619/31051&quot;&gt;demonstrably true&lt;/a&gt; that older questions get less attention, and we can see that looking at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/146842/timeline&quot;&gt;timeline for your question&lt;/a&gt;: it got 4 downvotes yesterday, but only 1 today; it may get a couple more votes today, because of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/235225/276025&quot;&gt;meta effect&lt;/a&gt;, but I suspect by the end of the week you'll stop hearing much from it. It also doesn't hurt that questions with a -5 score (which your question doesn't have, but isn't far from) are hidden from the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everybody makes mistakes. What matters is that you learn from them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/LstIgtkEe50?start=23&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Just be careful not to radically change the context of the question, or modify it in such a way that existing answers are invalid. Both of those are frowned upon by the community&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2016-12-10T17:26:34.100" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10400" CreationDate="2016-12-10T17:19:20.430" Score="6" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You could &lt;strong&gt;edit it&lt;/strong&gt; and hope that people notice and reverse their votes. (Don't get your hopes up too high though - a lot of people who vote on a question never come back to it after that. The more likely possibility would be to get enough upvotes to counter the downvotes it's already had.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, you could just &lt;strong&gt;leave it&lt;/strong&gt;. We've all asked bad questions at one point or another. Your &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/73743/bob?tab=questions&quot;&gt;question-asking history&lt;/a&gt; is good enough that you're not going to get question-blocked just because of this. Nobody will hold it against you.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also a few things you &lt;em&gt;shouldn't&lt;/em&gt; do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't edit in a note to say &quot;please don't downvote this any further&quot;. Such notices tend to act as downvote magnets in practice.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't delete the question. You can't, because it has an upvoted answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't edit it so as to completely change its meaning and invalidate the existing answer. If you want to ask something entirely different, post a new question instead.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-12-10T17:19:20.430" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10403" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-11T00:39:04.967" Score="6" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked this question last night, and it was closed pretty quick as a duplicate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/146957/&quot;&gt;What did Barry Allen inherit by watching the confession video?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/73204/how-can-s-t-a-r-labs-afford-to-keep-the-lights-on&quot;&gt;How can S.T.A.R. Labs afford to keep the lights on?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is about Barry's wealth, as inherited during events that took place after that other question was even asked. I'm not asking about how Barry keeps STAR Labs running.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, in my original question I made an offhand comment about the building's utility bills, but that was &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; my question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also don't see how it could be construed to be a duplicate based on possible answers because other question is essentially &quot;How does Wells afford STAR Labs&quot; and mine is &quot;How much wealth did Barry get from Wells&quot;. That's like closing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12260/how-much-money-did-harry-potter-have&quot;&gt;How much money did Harry Potter have?&lt;/a&gt; as a dupe of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3223/where-did-harrys-parents-get-all-of-their-money-from&quot;&gt;Where did Harry&amp;#39;s parents get all of their money from?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-12-11T08:52:28.347" Title="Why's this Flash question a duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10403" CreationDate="2016-12-11T08:52:28.347" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should not have been. It has been reopened since.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The questions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions by themselves aren't duplicates. They ask for different things. No matter how much or what Barry inherited, S.T.A.R. Labs still needs to keep running. Doing so just on the inheritance, would mean that eventually the money would run out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The answers&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers on &quot;the other question&quot; do not answer your question either. &lt;em&gt;If&lt;/em&gt; it had had an answer detailing the inheritance as part of it, &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; yours would've been a duplicate. But it doesn't and it isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2016-12-11T08:52:28.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10405" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-12T21:10:25.440" Score="15" ViewCount="246" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/147147/31394&quot;&gt;Santa&amp;#39;s Omniscience in &amp;quot;Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was closed by the community within 1.5 hours of being posted, and currently has no votes to reopen. However, as one user put it in a comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;not only is &quot;Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer&quot; a literary work, it is fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The upvotes on this comment and the comment from the OP suggest a certain level of support for the question being on-topic, so I thought it was worth a meta discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My immediate thought upon seeing this question was that it should be closed, either as &quot;too broad&quot; since there are many different versions of Santa, or as &quot;off-topic&quot; since Santa is more of a mythological or legendary figure than a character from a work of science fiction or fantasy. However, this particular question is about &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_the_Red-Nosed_Reindeer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - a fictional work which has appeared as a book, a song, a film, comics, TV specials, and more - which makes it seem more on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Should this question be reopened?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T13:17:18.560" Title="Is &quot;Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer&quot; on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|specific-question|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10405" CreationDate="2016-12-12T21:18:27.497" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;. in this instance the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_the_Red-Nosed_Reindeer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;song&lt;/a&gt; (and its source-poem) are thoroughly on-topic given that they're &lt;strong&gt;a fantasy that merely happens to have a christmassy setting&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Robert L. May created Rudolph in 1939, as an assignment for&#xA;  Chicago-based Montgomery Ward. The retailer had been buying and giving&#xA;  away coloring books for Christmas every year and it was decided that&#xA;  creating their own book would save money. Rudolph was supposed to be a&#xA;  moose but that was changed because a reindeer seemed friendly. May&#xA;  considered naming the reindeer &quot;Rollo&quot; or &quot;Reginald&quot; before deciding&#xA;  upon using the name &quot;Rudolph&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, the last time we discussed this, the consensus of opinion that questions about Santa (the mythical figure) are generally off-topic because &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1017/are-questions-about-santa-claus-on-topic&quot;&gt;Santa is undoubtedly real&lt;/a&gt;. That obviously doesn't mean that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111183/who-is-the-hobo&quot;&gt;fantasy stories that happen to star Santa&lt;/a&gt; aren't fair game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T22:08:43.690" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10405" CreationDate="2016-12-13T13:17:18.560" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;My personal feeling is that, if you're going to ask the question, you need to state which continuities you will accept. Is it just the classic songs? Can we include more offbeat ones like &quot;Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer&quot;? Is the Rankin-Bass film on-topic? The 1948 cartoon? &lt;em&gt;Olive, the Other Reindeer&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without indicating scope, the question becomes unanswerable because the scope is so large.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T13:17:18.560" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10284" CreationDate="2016-12-13T14:19:37.390" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; I've now completed the merge of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brandon-sanderson&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brandon-sanderson&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brandon-sanderson&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cosmere&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cosmere&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cosmere&lt;/a&gt;, and re-added the author tag to the few questions mentioned below, as well as recreating the tag wiki and excerpt for the newly created &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brandon-sanderson&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brandon-sanderson&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brandon-sanderson&lt;/a&gt; tag.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;I've finally got round to having a proper go through the questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brandon-sanderson&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brandon-sanderson&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brandon-sanderson&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brandon-sanderson+-cosmere+-mistborn&quot;&gt;a search&lt;/a&gt; for those &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cosmere&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cosmere&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cosmere&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mistborn&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mistborn&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mistborn&lt;/a&gt; showed me which questions needed to have the author tag removed altogether rather than replaced with the Cosmere tag. I pruned the author tag out of a few questions about non-Cosmere works such as Reckoners, Rithmatist, and Wheel of Time, leaving only five questions in that list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4826/why-is-aondor-only-usable-in-the-elantris-region&quot;&gt;three&lt;/a&gt; which &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/97282/what-boon-did-dalinar-kholin-receive-from-the-nightwatcher-when-he-pursued-the-o&quot;&gt;will&lt;/a&gt; be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/97429/warbreaker-how-could-vasher-do-this&quot;&gt;fine&lt;/a&gt; after the merge, being about Cosmere works;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/34256/which-was-the-wow-scene-that-sanderson-was-talking-about&quot;&gt;two&lt;/a&gt; which &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/97458/are-the-different-type-of-magic-in-brandon-sandersons-books-his-own-invention&quot;&gt;probably&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; have the author tag and will need retagging after the merge.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bbrandon-sanderson%5D+sanderson+is%3Aq&quot;&gt;a search&lt;/a&gt; for those which actually mention Sanderson (ignoring most of the questions which are just about his works and not the author at all) drew my attention to a couple more interesting cases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/147050/which-sanderson-works-are-part-of-the-cosmere-and-which-arent&quot;&gt;Which Sanderson works are part of the Cosmere and which aren&amp;#39;t?&lt;/a&gt; - this is (obviously) &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; just about Cosmere works, so tagging it just &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cosmere&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cosmere&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cosmere&lt;/a&gt; wouldn't really work. But &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brandon-sanderson&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brandon-sanderson&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brandon-sanderson&lt;/a&gt; might work as a tag here, since it's about all of &lt;em&gt;his&lt;/em&gt; stuff, Cosmere or no.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3915/connections-between-sandersons-stories&quot;&gt;Connections between Sanderson&amp;#39;s stories&lt;/a&gt; - this is a unique case. If the OP knew about the Cosmere, then they wouldn't have had a question at all, so it seems weird for it to be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cosmere&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cosmere&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cosmere&lt;/a&gt;, even though it's sort of about the Cosmere. I'm not sure how to tag this one really.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on today (I'll wait a while so as not to fill up too much of the front page with my tag edits), I'll merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brandon-sanderson&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brandon-sanderson&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brandon-sanderson&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cosmere&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cosmere&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cosmere&lt;/a&gt; and then retag the 3-4 questions mentioned above. Some helpful souls have already edited the tag wikis for these two tags to reflect how they &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be used, so by the end of today this issue should finally be laid to rest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T19:06:20.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10409" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-13T20:12:53.207" Score="13" ViewCount="274" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to do another live chat movie night in Mos Eisley. Particularly since I'm home for this entire month so I should be able to attend and I'll do a write up for the blog similar to previous movie nights. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thesffblog.com/2015/08/live-chat-the-day-the-earth-stood-still-1951/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Live Chat: The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thesffblog.com/2013/09/live-chat-star-trek-tos-space-seed/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Live Chat: Star Trek TOS &quot;Space Seed&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thesffblog.com/2012/08/live-chat-star-trek-tos-and-the-children-shall-lead/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Live Chat: Star Trek TOS &quot;And the Children Shall Lead&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'm hoping for something like Tuesday December 20th, 3:00pm MST (10:00pm GMT)&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please suggest a movie (or tv series episode or two?). There is no restriction on a suggestion (save for Science Fiction or Fantasy), but it is nice if you include where the movie might be available for rent, purchase, or legitimate streaming. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2016-12-16T19:22:37.377" Title="How about a Movie Night?" Tags="|discussion|movie-night|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10409" CreationDate="2016-12-13T21:21:40.790" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Gremlins&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It happens to be relevant to the holiday season, but Gremlins is a nice classic from the 80s. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A boy inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Obligatory 1980s Breakfast Cereal&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Vj_HARE3t2E?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like it is available to rent on YouTube, included with Amazon Prime Video in the US, and available for purchase on your standard online markets. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2016-12-14T02:42:37.337" LastActivityDate="2016-12-14T02:42:37.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10412" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10414" CreationDate="2016-12-14T16:41:56.407" Score="21" ViewCount="452" Body="&lt;p&gt;This (now deleted) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/147220/19561&quot;&gt;&quot;answer&quot;&lt;/a&gt; came up in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/95755&quot;&gt;the first posts review&lt;/a&gt;. It attempts to answer the question why the Jedi would serve a corrupt republic by trying to draw parallels to the current situation in the USA, then dwells on that current situation and forgets to mention how this is relevant to the actual question. It's more a rant about US politics than anything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I flagged it as &quot;Not an Answer&quot; (NaA) either from review or from the question itself and left a comment for the answerer to please edit their post into an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That flag was declined with the following comment (which I understand is likely to be a templated response).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;declined - flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Esteemed user Dr. Dizzle flagged the same post as NaA and their flag was declined too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'd like to know how this was &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; &quot;not an answer&quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5017/19561&quot;&gt;asked a similar question before&lt;/a&gt;. In &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; case the answer I had flagged wasn't a particularly good answer, but I had to admit it was indeed an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/147220/19561&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; is in no way an answer. This is a rant, triggered by a question about &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the post in its entirety.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have your answer. It is an easy answer for me. But it is complex. let me start by saying that the first three movies were made in a different time. back then we still had the pledge of allegiance to a republic every morning in school, in high school they banned it because of the word &quot;God&quot; in it. That's what they told us anyway. but the real reason was our oath to our once republic. Our forefather's did not want a democracy, they knew that democracies always ended violently and always killed themselves from the inside out. like cancer. A republic is the only form of government where you are truly free. when you get paid in &quot;credits&quot; these things can be printed off at any whim like fiat currency. when we had gold as money which the constitution says is the only thing that is &quot;money&quot;. because Money holds is store of value inside itself. you hold that labor in your hands. but when you have a fiat system they steal your labor for credits for their buddies stores.. except the us has taken it to a new level and gone globally. think of this on a larger scale. there are 7 stages to an empire. look at the fall of rome. George Lucas took ideas and history and made a fictional universe to teach people the important things in a fun way, but years later.. you have a huge difference in what is acceptable content for television. And how do they indoctrinate our youth into accepting the world for what it is? television, music, internet, movies, it's everywhere.. So back to question, why would a Jedi serve a corrupt democracy? well why are our leaders doing the same thing in real life? because generations of subtle changes and eventually you will see the integrity of our system rot from the inside out like it is. if you need proof of any of this or have any questions please check it out for yourselves. Word play is also a powerful tool to keep people ignorant to the truth. Like when they use words that you don't quite know the meaning of.. citizen for one, it's not what you want to be. It means the opposite of of the ideals of the US Constitution. Like U.S. and U.S.A. there's a huge difference. we no longer have a USA America was done with a long time ago. the US corporation act of 1871 was the end of our republic. And that was the only thing the Civil War was fought over. But if you ask any American why the civil war was fought.. they'll tell you because of slavery. Yet Lincoln was as racist as they come... that's probably why he was assassinated. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:36.330" LastActivityDate="2016-12-15T05:00:07.580" Title="Why was this 'not an answer' flag on a rant about US declined?" Tags="|discussion|support|specific-question|flagging|not-an-answer|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10412" CreationDate="2016-12-14T16:59:45.027" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I can't comment on the particular moderator's reasons for declining the NAA flags, I agree with the decision; despite all the noise, there &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; an answer in there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;why would a Jedi serve a corrupt democracy? well why are our leaders doing the same thing in real life? because generations of subtle changes and eventually you will see the integrity of our system rot from the inside out like it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the seed of a reasonable answer. I'd still have voted to delete it, of course, but it is &lt;em&gt;an answer&lt;/em&gt;, even if it's a bad one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastActivityDate="2016-12-14T16:59:45.027" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10412" CreationDate="2016-12-14T17:04:07.903" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;There &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; an answer buried in that wall of text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So back to question, why would a Jedi serve a corrupt democracy? well why are our leaders doing the same thing in real life? because generations of subtle changes and eventually you will see the integrity of our system rot from the inside out like it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The post suggests the answer is that the Republic underwent a gradual and subtle change and the Jedi didn't realize it was corrupt. In that sense, &quot;not an answer&quot; is not correct. I'm not the moderator who handled your flag, but that's probably why he declined your &quot;not an answer&quot; flag. The flag history shows that he &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; mark a &quot;very low quality&quot; flag as helpful since it's definitely a low quality post: it could possibly be salvaged with some serious editing, but almost nothing would be left by the time an editor cut it down to the actual answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community has voted to delete this answer, and I see no issue with deleting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2016-12-14T17:16:50.673" LastActivityDate="2016-12-14T17:16:50.673" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10409" CreationDate="2016-12-14T18:04:58.067" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You may think this is trying to be a troll post (you might be right, but then again you might not be)....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The Star Wars Holiday Special&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5BPAW.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5BPAW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;holiday special poster&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say this because &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt; likes to rip on this film, but I counter &amp;quot;How many of you have actually seen it?&amp;quot; I personally have not seen it. This might give an opportunity for others who have not seen it but rag on it anyway a chance to see what all the fuss is actually about!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as availability... it is on Youtube!&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/S3a5j8PgQxg?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-12-14T18:09:03.753" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10409" CreationDate="2016-12-14T18:19:08.960" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DIE HARD&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to nominate one of the greatest Holiday movies of all time, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095016/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Die Hard&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;John McClane, officer of the NYPD, tries to save his wife Holly&#xA;  Gennaro and several others that were taken hostage by German terrorist&#xA;  Hans Gruber during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los&#xA;  Angeles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fJkgm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fJkgm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52940" LastActivityDate="2016-12-14T18:19:08.960" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10412" CreationDate="2016-12-15T05:00:07.580" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is something that I think is missing from the existing answers based on one of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10412/why-was-this-not-an-answer-flag-on-a-rant-about-us-declined?cb=1#comment31019_10414&quot;&gt;your comments&lt;/a&gt; (emphasis yours):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Randal'Thor that's weird, because (to me) VLQ is a lower bar than NAA. VLQ means (and I quote) &quot;This question/answer has severe formatting or content problems. This question/answer is unlikely to be salvageable through editing, and might need to be removed.&quot; &lt;strong&gt;Not salvageable&lt;/strong&gt;. It first needs to be a coherent post before its merits of being an answer can be judged. If it is VLQ, it should be NAA as well, since it's not even a post yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It appears like you believe that the VLQ flag encompasses the NAA flag&lt;/strong&gt;, so I'd say your real question is how do we distinguish between NAA and VLQ. To answer that question I think the response by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/44860/chirlu&quot;&gt;chirlu&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10412/why-was-this-not-an-answer-flag-on-a-rant-about-us-declined?cb=1#comment31024_10414&quot;&gt;a comment&lt;/a&gt; (emphasis theirs) is great:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@SQB: NAA, on the other hand, means “This was posted as an answer, but it &lt;strong&gt;does not attempt to answer the question&lt;/strong&gt;. It should possibly be an edit, a comment, another question, or deleted altogether.” The attempt was clearly there, even if it may not actually have had the potential to become a good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my mind a fuzzy definition of VLQ is an answer where you have the feeling like the person is fumbling toward an answer to the question but there are big problems in their approach or logic. In my mind NAA is when the person isn't attempting to answer the question at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like you mentioned in the intro to your question (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It attempts to answer the question why the Jedi would serve a corrupt republic &lt;strong&gt;by trying to draw parallels to the current situation in the USA&lt;/strong&gt;, then dwells on that current situation and forgets to mention how this is relevant to the actual question. It's more a rant about US politics than anything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with your appraisal of the question. It was a muddled rant. That being said even you could tell that they were trying to tie US politics to the situation with the Jedi but it was so muddled you couldn't follow their logic through the ranting. This means that it is VLQ, because &lt;strong&gt;you could see they were attempting some sort of link-up&lt;/strong&gt;. Now if they would have just ranted about the US and made no attempt then I would agree with a NAA flag. &lt;em&gt;However they did attempt some kind of link.&lt;/em&gt; I'm not saying this answer deserved to live due to an attempted link-up. I definitely think this answer should have been deleted because you're right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's more a rant about US politics than anything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53771" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2016-12-15T05:00:07.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10418" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-16T09:34:31.933" Score="15" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/147505/why-was-benjamin-sisko-appointed-captain-of-ds9-given-that-he-has-a-foul-temper&quot;&gt;Why was Benjamin Sisko appointed captain of DS9 given that he has a foul temper with poor emotional control?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Benjamin Sisko is prone to emotional outbursts. He has a foul temper and has poor emotional control compared to Picard. Why was he appointed captain of DS9 given these weaknesses?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bosses with foul tempers make poor leaders because they are unpleasant&#xA;  to work with. Would you want to work under such a boss?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question above appears to be incorrect. Ben Sisko was appointed &lt;strong&gt;commander&lt;/strong&gt; of DS9 and then later was promoted to captain. Others' answers included the correction, but should the question itself be edited? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19738" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2016-12-17T18:59:36.397" Title="Should we edit obviously wrong questions?" Tags="|discussion|editing|question-quality|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10418" CreationDate="2016-12-16T10:05:40.423" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the edit (if done properly) would not change the &lt;strong&gt;fundamental basis of the question&lt;/strong&gt;, I see no harm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP clarified his question in a comment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am questioning why he was even given a leadership role given his poor emotional control. The good leaders I have met have good emotional control. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Changing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why was he appointed captain of DS9 given these weaknesses?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why was he appointed to a leadership role  of DS9 given these weaknesses?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;does not seem like a harmful edit to me. I almost went ahead and made it myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57069" LastActivityDate="2016-12-16T10:05:40.423" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10418" CreationDate="2016-12-16T14:57:25.037" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you spot an obvious error, you should absolutely correct it, ideally as soon as possible in order to prevent the OP from suffering from drive-by downvotes (from users who've stopped by to downvote &lt;em&gt;the error&lt;/em&gt; rather than the question itself).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this instance, I've changed the word &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Captain&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; (which is a glaring error, Sisko wasn't made Captain until much later in the show) for &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Put in command&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; which doesn't change the meaning one iota but does remove the mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-12-17T18:59:36.397" LastActivityDate="2016-12-17T18:59:36.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10409" CreationDate="2016-12-16T19:22:37.377" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a little bit late, but why not the classic piece featured on MST3K, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus_Conquers_the_Martians&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Santa Claus Conquers the Martians&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, starring Pia Zadora and the first appearance of Mrs. Claus in a movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nsRK0.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nsRK0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Movie Poster&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story involves the people of Mars, including Momar (&amp;quot;Mom Martian&amp;quot;) and Kimar (&amp;quot;King Martian&amp;quot;). They're worried that their children Girmar (&amp;quot;Girl Martian&amp;quot;) and Bomar (&amp;quot;Boy Martian&amp;quot;) are watching too much Earth television, most notably station KID-TV's interview with Santa Claus in his workshop at the North Pole. Consulting the ancient 800-year-old Martian sage Chochem (a Yiddish word meaning &amp;quot;genius&amp;quot;), they are advised that the children of Mars are growing distracted due to the society's overly rigid structure; from infancy, all their education is fed into their brains through machines and they are not allowed individuality or freedom of thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chochem notes that he had seen this coming &amp;quot;for centuries&amp;quot;, and says the only way to help the children is to allow them their freedom and be allowed to have fun. To do this, they need a Santa Claus figure, like on Earth. Leaving the Chochem's cave, the Martian leaders decide to abduct Santa Claus from Earth and bring him to Mars&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the trailer:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/HnEJrwYXXsI?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been released to the Public Doman and the movie is easily found on YouTube (there's two links before a trailer is visible if you type in the name), so it would be easy for people to watch along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-12-16T19:22:37.377" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10422" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10427" CreationDate="2016-12-18T06:53:36.313" Score="29" ViewCount="306" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a Star Wars question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/3200/13217&quot;&gt;Was the thermal exhaust port on the Death Star really a design flaw?&lt;/a&gt;, which was written in 2011. The top few answers, aside from a joke answer that doesn't actually answer the question as intended, all involve Legends continuity sources, which makes sense given that at the time Disney canon hadn't happened yet, so that &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But with the recent release of &lt;em&gt;Rogue One: A Star Wars Story&lt;/em&gt;, there is now a new Disney canon answer that directly contradicts the Legends answers. What should we do about this given that the answers were valid at the time of the question being asked and the definition of canon has changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13217" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T03:29:51.593" Title="How should we handle &quot;obsolete&quot; answers to old questions (e.g. pre-Disney canon Star Wars questions)?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10423" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10424" CreationDate="2016-12-18T09:16:58.817" Score="9" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/147697/70236&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; in question consists of a wall of texts which, to my inspection, does not contain an answer to the original question. I flagged it as &lt;em&gt;not an answer&lt;/em&gt;, yet my flag was disputed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is 1a) why was it disputed (i.e. is it an actual answer?) 1b) what actually constitutes a &quot;not an answer&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-12-29T13:39:01.973" Title="Why was this flag disputed?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|flagging|answers|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10423" CreationDate="2016-12-18T09:55:18.830" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Arguably this lump of text &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;em&gt;if like I said elves have dominant traits that would have a higher&#xA;  chance to pass through each generation instead of the human ones then&#xA;  technically Aragon would still be more elf.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;answers the question asked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/deleted-answers&quot;&gt;Not an answer&lt;/a&gt;' only really applies to answers that have little or no bearing on the question asked, for example if it's been posted to the wrong question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2016-12-18T09:55:18.830" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10422" CreationDate="2016-12-18T16:51:16.397" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's really no &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; way to handle this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The way that's arguably most in-line with the SE design philosophy is to downvote wrong answers (even answers that are wrong through no fault of the answerer) and upvote correct answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problems with this are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;New answers to old questions typically, though with exceptions, get less attention; it's much harder for a new question to float to the top of the page. This leaves us in the situation where the &quot;right&quot; answer and the &quot;best&quot; answer (according to community votes) aren't necessarily the same, making the whole site a more complicated thing to use and rather undermining its purpose&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We can't do anything about the acceptance mark. In some cases this isn't a problem, because some of our long-time users are still active and open to moving the tick to the better answer. But in other cases (such as the one you linked to), we wouldn't expect a response&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The other way would be to intentionally post duplicate questions, answer them with the new canon answers, and then close the older questions as dupes of the newer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has the advantage of more effectively promoting the new content, but isn't without problems; in addition to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10015/31051&quot;&gt;the ones I've railed about before&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some people object to the practice of closing old questions as dupes of newer questions. If we were to do this &lt;em&gt;en masse&lt;/em&gt;, I expect a lot of arguments in meta&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It sets an uncomfortable precedent that may get out of hand; this is admittedly a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;slippery slope&lt;/a&gt; argument, but then building on precedent is most of what Meta is about&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The final way would be to edit the existing answers to say something like &quot;As of the Great Disneyfication, this answer is no longer correct. See [link to correct answer] for the correct answer.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a nice middle-ground, but will result in a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of edit spam, and probably some backlash from people who object to their answers being devalued&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Personally&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My philosophical inclination is to go with the first option I posted; I've whinged mightily against the second option &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;previously&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7438/31051&quot;&gt;Meta&lt;/a&gt;, and I stand by those arguments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;this specific case&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, of &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; Disney canon versus Legends, I think it would be more effective to ask and answer new questions, and close the older ones. My biggest reason for saying this is in response to a point I made in my &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cursed Child&lt;/em&gt; meta answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It stratifies the canon in a way I'm not comfortable with&lt;/strong&gt; (in most cases). There's little intuitive reason why a question like &quot;Why is X a thing in Harry Potter&quot; and &quot;Why is X a thing in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child&quot; should have different answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the canon reorganization, there really &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a stratification of the canon, imposed by Disney. So much of the basis for our older answers is now out the window that I think it will be simpler and more effective to &quot;pull a Disney&quot; and declare many of our old &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; questions to be non-canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not opposed to any of my other suggestions being implemented, and I feel &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; icky about even suggesting this one, but I think it will ultimately be more effective in helping us fulfil our purpose of being a useful repository of facts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2016-12-18T16:51:16.397" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10422" CreationDate="2016-12-18T18:13:39.063" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best way to deal with the arrival of new canon information is to post new answers that offer answers from the new canon and allow those answers to (eventually) rise up above the older answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over time the newer (and arguably &lt;em&gt;righter&lt;/em&gt;) answer will gain more upvotes and hopefully surpass the older (obsolete) answer. Unfortunately, in the meantime you have to suffer the indignity of knowing that a wrong answer is sat above yours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might also want to give the OP a prod to see if they'll reconsider an acceptance of an older answer in favour of your new and shiny one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2016-12-19T08:39:13.833" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T08:39:13.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10422" CreationDate="2016-12-19T19:56:58.160" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Personally I think the least disruptive option is to encourage existing answerers to update their answers via comments.&lt;/strong&gt; This will let people update their existing answers, and should be unambiguous. Otherwise we can end up with highly voted contradictory answers, or correct but buried answers because they haven't had a chance to bubble up to the top yet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Duping a bunch of existing questions feels really abusive &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10422/how-should-we-handle-obsolete-answers-to-old-questions-e-g-pre-disney-canon#comment31076_10425&quot;&gt;like Valorum mentioned in a comment&lt;/a&gt;. Similarly, editing a bunch of answers just to say the answers are wrong feels really abusive as well. I know we wouldn't stand for that kind of behavior for a new answer so I don't understand why we'd allow it on an old answer. Down-voting answers isn't always an option either if the answer wasn't edited since your last up-vote, and fixing an answer's grammar just so you can down-vote the answer IMO is a slimy move.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another option I haven't seen mentioned is for someone to create a Meta question where questions with &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; obsolete answers that aren't being updated are highlighted. I don't really think this is a great idea because people good enough to put Q/A on that list are good enough to add a new correct answer, and finding the questions would be a good deal of the work. What I do like about this option is it would serve as an additional spotlight for people who have already answered the question to update their answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53771" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T19:56:58.160" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10422" CreationDate="2016-12-20T03:29:51.593" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;A feasible option, would be to add the ability, (after a certain prestige), to flag answers or questions as obsolete. Or a similar process to closing could be used. If we began intentionally posting duplicate questions, many people would not realize the purpose, and they would be flagged as duplicates, essentially achieving nothing. If new answers are submitted, many would sit unnoticed, especially if the new canon answer wasn't as exciting as the old canon answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75164" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T03:29:51.593" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10431" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-20T18:02:27.260" Score="16" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;There has been various discussions on what to do when an older, good-for-its-time, answer, becomes obsolete due to new canon (Thanks, Disney!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the usual proposed solutions seem to fall into three buckets:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Effective but against SE policy/spirit (edit obsolete note into the answer)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Effective but controvercial (close old Q as a dupe of new one)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Perfectly in spirit/rules but ineffective (post new answer, pray it gets vote parity by the time Taco Bell wins entertainment wars, buys Disney, and reboots canon again).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I don't recall seeing any discussion of using yet another mechanism available on SE: moderator notices (most usually found on Skeptics.SE)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to propose that we create a formal notice, something to the effect of &quot;This answer was correct in the past, but has been superceded/contradicted/made obsolete by new canon from the franchise&quot;, that site moderators can glue officially on such answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T22:53:12.773" Title="Should we have official moderator notes &quot;obsolete due to new canon&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|canon|moderator-tools|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2016-12-20T21:52:51.233" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;My avatar used to be a photo of me with a sword.. Then again, my user name used to be my real-name.  When I eventually decided to go at least a LITTLE harder to track down, I changed my avatar to the symbol of &lt;a href=&quot;http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The SCP Project&lt;/a&gt;, which is where I first ran across a link to this site, and where I spend entirely too much time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A while ago, I had a badge made up for the SCP project; it uses the same original photo I had here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZrXqD.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZrXqD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;My SCP Badge -- yes, it&amp;#39;s a real badge&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2292" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T21:52:51.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10431" CreationDate="2016-12-20T22:22:37.117" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;My major issue with this idea is that you're expecting the moderation team to make &lt;em&gt;personal value judgments&lt;/em&gt; about which answers in a given tag are obsolete and which aren't. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that our current moderation team (of five) boast just two gold tag badges between them, expecting them to somehow have a total grasp of what constitutes the current highest levels of canon in universes as diverse as Harry Potter, Star Trek, Lord of the Ring, Doctor Who or Game of Thrones (in tags where no gold badges are presently held) is a &lt;em&gt;really big ask&lt;/em&gt;, especially when what constitutes 'canon' in some universes (for example, Star Trek and Doctor Who) is deeply murky&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, the risk here is that even if we make this a moderator-only responsibility, high-rep users will simply bully, cajole &amp;amp; pester moderators into putting this tag onto Star Wars questions (which I suspect is what you're driving at) that they consider to be canonically suspect, without it really having much benefit to the overall quality of answers on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've already discussed whether it's acceptable to edit &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;This answer is Wrong!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; into older questions. To my mind what you're proposing is simply a more advanced version of that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5229/is-it-acceptable-to-edit-in-this-answer-is-wrong-header-into-a-wrong-but-upvot?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;Is it acceptable to edit in &amp;quot;This answer is wrong&amp;quot; header into a wrong but upvoted answer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T22:53:12.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10435" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10436" CreationDate="2016-12-21T21:52:02.097" Score="16" ViewCount="274" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can &lt;strong&gt;officially licensed&lt;/strong&gt; merchandise be considered canon to a fiction item? I.E. a Lego set for a movie, or action figures that give a name to a nameless character?  It's being created with the blessing of the work of fiction's creator's approval, so it would make sense that it would be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40833" LastActivityDate="2016-12-30T23:47:58.167" Title="Are licensed merchandise considered canon?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10435" CreationDate="2016-12-21T22:03:09.913" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, &lt;em&gt;officially licensed&lt;/em&gt; merchandise (e.g. games, toys, etc) fall into exactly the same boat as official novelizations of movies. Those books were &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; written by the original creators of the movie, but they &lt;em&gt;were&lt;/em&gt; authorized and approved by them. The same goes, for example, for video games based on movies (like &lt;em&gt;The Matrix Online&lt;/em&gt;). If a creator formally approves and authorizes someone to create merchandise based on their work, I think there's an implied assumption that they will have some control over what that looks like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all of these cases, again in my opinion, we should follow the general rule of thumb for &quot;secondary&quot; canon:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The information is canon unless is contradicts something else that is more canon.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are exceptions, obviously, as there always are, and we may need to use our judgement to figure them out. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In some cases, e.g. &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;, the creator(s) of the work have actually gone to the trouble to tell us what is/is not canon and where it ranks. In those cases, obviously, follow their lead. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In some cases, e.g. the Lego video games, the work is obviously &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; intended to be set in the same &quot;fictional universe&quot; as the original work, and we shouldn't take anything new or original from that work as canon.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2016-12-21T22:03:09.913" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10437" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10438" CreationDate="2016-12-24T16:12:45.170" Score="4" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have recently flagged this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/70499/was-the-rebellion-of-the-north-really-necessary/148354#148354&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; as &lt;em&gt;not an answer&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it does feature clear reasoning and fair amount of knowledge, I was unable to detect an answer to the original question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was my flag disputed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2016-12-29T13:39:46.407" LastActivityDate="2016-12-29T13:39:46.407" Title="Why was this flag on a post that doesn't answer the question disputed?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|flagging|answers|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10437" CreationDate="2016-12-24T16:27:59.433" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm assuming your flag was disputed because the answer directly addresses the question asked, noting that the one of the key reasons for the rebellion was to secure vengeance for the death of Eddard Stark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2016-12-24T16:27:59.433" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2016-12-25T19:18:36.450" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;My tenth avatar is Morpheus, drawn by Yoshitaka Amano for &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sandman:_The_Dream_Hunters&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Dream Hunters&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/h7ABr.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/h7ABrm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some examples of Yoshitaka Amano's stunning art can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://amano-artwork.tumblr.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;in this blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;My ninth avatar is once again Morpheus, King of the Dreaming, Lord of Dreams, the Oneiromancer, Oneiros, the Sandman, King of the Realm that is Not, etc...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This particular version was drawn by J. H. Williams III and coloured by Dave Stewart, for &lt;em&gt;The Sandman: Overture&lt;/em&gt; #1. In it, Dream appears in the dream of a flower - in an according shape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is an interview with Neil Gaiman from San Diego Comic Con 2013, where he explains how J. H. Williams came to be the artist of this miniseries; it starts at 5:08, but the whole video is rather entertaining, as it explains how &lt;em&gt;Overture&lt;/em&gt; came to be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/oDdfYZkN_tI?start=308&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;My eighth avatar was Lucifer Morningstar, Samael the Lightbringer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This particular image comes from &lt;em&gt;Lucifer&lt;/em&gt; #65, &quot;Morningstar pt. 3&quot;. The &lt;em&gt;Lucifer&lt;/em&gt; series was written by Mike Carey, and drawn mostly by Peter Gross and Ryan Kelly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2015/12/16/lucifer-101-what-you-need-to-know&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The character began&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;em&gt;The Sandman&lt;/em&gt; series, where he was created by the writer Neil Gaiman and artist Sam Kieth and Mike Dringenberg. His character was inspired by Lucifer's portrayal in John Milton's &lt;em&gt;Paradise Lost&lt;/em&gt; (though &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/q/2552/11&quot;&gt;I couldn't find a reference&lt;/a&gt; for this), while his appearance was based at least partly on David Bowie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is not the archetypal Devil that mingles in the affairs of mortals or makes deals with them in exchange for their souls. He is, in a sense, a refugee, who rebelled against the pre-destination of God's Creation, and was set over Hell as a compromise, since Hell is the farthest point from Heaven, where God resides. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over the course of 10 billion years, Lucifer grew tired of ruling Hell - specifically by the views of Hell's inhabitants - and decided to abandon it all, giving the key to Hell to Morpheus (which is expanded in great detail in &lt;em&gt;The Sandman - Season of Mists&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;At Death's Door&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He later resurfaced in Los Angeles (spot the irony), and established the best piano bar there - &quot;Lux&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lucifer's solo comic series started after a 3-issue series titled &lt;em&gt;The Sandman Presents: Lucifer - The Morningstar Option&lt;/em&gt;, where Lucifer does a favour to the Heaven's host in exchange for the Letter of Passage, which grants one the exit from God's creation. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;My seventh-and-a-halfth avatar was once again Morpheus, wearing his battle helm.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;My seventh avatar is once again a puppet of the 12th Doctor, played by Peter Capaldi. I feel that I need to commemorate his character, since Peter has announced that he's leaving the show at the end of this season, along with Steven Moffat and Michelle Gomez.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;My sixth avatar is Desire of the Endless, drawn by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.milomanara.it&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Milo Manara&lt;/a&gt;. I didn't pick it because I like the character (and I do, as with all characters in &lt;em&gt;The Sandman&lt;/em&gt;), but because I find this particular rendition &lt;em&gt;breathtakingly&lt;/em&gt; beautiful. Not only is it gorgeous, it also maintains the perfect balance between male and female features, which is what Desire is all about.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;My fifth avatar is once again Morpheus, Dream of the Endless. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;My fourth avatar is Morpheus, King of the Dreaming, one of the Endless. This picture is from &lt;em&gt;A Game of You&lt;/em&gt;, the 4th volume of &lt;em&gt;The Sandman&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;My third and half avatar that lasted only an hour or so was, again, Morpheus&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;My third avatar was the Twelfth Doctor, playing a guitar. Taken from &lt;a href=&quot;https://doctorpuppet.tumblr.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Doctor Puppet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;My second avatar is a puppet of the Eleventh Doctor, from the &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; series.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I googled for &lt;code&gt;doctor who puppet&lt;/code&gt; and stumbled upon &lt;a href=&quot;https://doctorpuppet.tumblr.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Doctor Puppet&lt;/a&gt;; they make stop-motion Doctor Who episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;My first avatar is a silhouette of the Eleventh Doctor, with a clearly visible bow tie. Bow ties are cool.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt; Oldest is on the bottom right - click for full resolution &lt;/sup&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Nmeqz.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Nmeqzs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ByrgC.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ByrgCs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iLZ90.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iLZ90s.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VeWlk.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VeWlks.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PbQJw.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PbQJws.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/O7xHm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/O7xHms.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aFqEn.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kLkEQ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kLkEQs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qYnMN.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qYnMNs.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qpws7.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qpws7s.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tkhyU.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tkhyUs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2017-07-09T11:56:40.597" LastActivityDate="2017-07-09T11:56:40.597" CommentCount="20" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10440" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10441" CreationDate="2016-12-27T01:13:38.270" Score="13" ViewCount="412" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/148450/what-is-that-paradox-similar-to-the-grandfather-paradox-when-doing-time-travel&quot;&gt;What story has someone step on a butterfly in the past and change the future, and what is that effect called?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see some reasons for it to be closed (as 'Too Broad', per @Mike's comment). But what was so awful about it that a moderator felt that it needed to be deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/72gVl.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/72gVl.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2017-01-03T14:44:06.307" Title="Why did a moderator delete this question about a paradox?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|moderation|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10440" CreationDate="2016-12-27T08:22:59.573" Score="16" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Update #2&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question has now been &lt;em&gt;mod-hammered&lt;/em&gt; open by moderator Thaddeus Howze. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Update #1&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question, having initially been deleted by moderator &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2765/thaddeus-howze&quot;&gt;Thaddeus Howze&lt;/a&gt;, has now been undeleted by another moderator, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3267/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As yet there has been no explanation from either mod to justify the initial deletion, nor the decision to undelete.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;This question should not have been deleted.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A brief look at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/148450/timeline&quot;&gt;timeline&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/148450/revisions&quot;&gt;edit history&lt;/a&gt; would suggest that the OP, not having read the tour (I'm &lt;em&gt;scowling&lt;/em&gt; at you, OP) posted a meandering question that was actually in three parts. Two of these questions were story identification questions, the third was a more general &quot;&lt;em&gt;What is this kind of paradox called?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; question. It was rightly closed as 'Too Broad' because it doesn't have a single coherent question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP then made an edit to remove &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; of the story-ident elements leaving &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; questions, one about paradoxes in fiction, the other a story-ident question. For some reason, the question then began attracting reopen votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point a moderator deleted the question. I'm unsure why they took this action but since the question is neither unsalvageable (a very quick edit would remove one of the questions), nor contains inappropriate language there really isn't a good reason to delete an already closed question, one that the OP is in the process of fixing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2016-12-27T21:27:44.630" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10442" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-27T21:21:49.303" Score="52" ViewCount="683" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm very saddened to hear about the passing of Carrie Fisher, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[she] drowned in moonlight, strangled by [her] own bra.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;This is how she wanted it to be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/12/carrie-fisher-dies-strangled-by-bra-wishful-drinking&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;reported&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all seriousness she was an inspirational figure both on and off the silver screen, best known as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/princess-leia&quot;&gt;Princess Leia&lt;/a&gt;, championing mental health as well as working as a script doctor and novelist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She will be remembered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wherever you are, may the force be with you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an update, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.starwars.com/news/a-statement-regarding-new-rumors&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lucasfilms have stated&lt;/a&gt; they will not recreate Carrie Fisher digitally for future films.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2017-01-26T19:53:31.133" Title="Carrie Fisher has passed away" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10440" CreationDate="2016-12-28T15:38:14.623" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Talking as the guilty party in the question, I had seen/read two or more stories which seemed to have a similar trope. Now I was handicapped because I knew what the trope is about but didn't know what it is called. To add to that, as I had read/seen those stories/movies far apart I wasn't able to fully remember the details. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So now, I'm in a fix how to describe the trope as well as how to figure about those stories as for me they both went hand-to-hand. I didn't mind the fact that I got hammered but was much more excited and thrilled as I learnt two-three similar tropes which are used in science fiction. For e.g. the &quot;timeline split plus butterfly effect&quot; and the other points raised by Lserni were really cool. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the tour is concerned, I took it twice and the ones it is at the fence are about -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a. List of works with a particular plot element &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;b. Or any other question with too many possible answers or that would require an extremely long answer &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now as a questionaire, sometimes it makes it pretty difficult to know which questions are broad and which aren't. One of the things that the site tour doesn't tell or cherish is &quot;Assume good faith&quot; . If this was part of the tour then it wouldn't have caused as much heartburn as it did to both sides. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33101" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T15:38:14.623" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10444" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-28T17:50:53.383" Score="30" ViewCount="841" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over the past few years we've had several &quot;In Memoriam&quot; posts regarding figures that are of iconic importance to the SFF:SE community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that these posts seem to be generally well received by the community, should we consider them to be &lt;strong&gt;explictly on-topic&lt;/strong&gt; on Meta:SFF:SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Examples&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6956/rip-christopher-lee&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Christopher Lee&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6712/rip-terry-pratchett&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Terry Pratchett&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6648/in-memoriam-leonard-nimoy/6649#6649&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Nimoy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10442/carrie-fisher-has-passed-away?cb=1&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Carrie Fisher&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As well as a respected user&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7204/goodbye-affable-geek&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Affable Geek&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2017-01-26T23:12:07.887" Title="Should meta posts regarding the deaths of figures that are important to SFF:SE be on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|meta|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10444" CreationDate="2016-12-28T17:57:20.657" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. These people are important to the community, and as you said -- they're popular.  This is all that's necessary to make a Meta post on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user40790" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T17:57:20.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10444" CreationDate="2016-12-28T18:00:11.120" Score="35" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community has already voiced its opinion on these questions. The Christopher Lee post has +33 upvotes, Terry Pratchett +34, Leonard Nimoy +29, Carrie Fisher +41 and Affable Geek +10. Although there are a small number of downvotes, they're outweighed by an average of ten to one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, they've each successfully faced down close votes (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/review/close/181&quot;&gt;Affable Geek&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/review/close/168&quot;&gt;Christopher Lee&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/review/close/160&quot;&gt;Terry Pratchett&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/review/close/155&quot;&gt;Leonard Nimoy&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2017-01-06T17:35:41.490" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10444" CreationDate="2016-12-28T21:59:57.617" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I'm afraid I don't see how they can be on topic&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume this will not be a popular answer considering the positive votes gained by the posts listed in the question. I realise that there is a desire to mourn the deaths of beloved members of the SFF community, and I sympathise with it. However, there are many places to do that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site has rules that include adherence to a Q&amp;amp;A format. We downvote and close &quot;questions&quot; from new visitors that take the form of forum posts rather than true questions that can have concrete answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see how we can justify closing those questions if we decide to make exceptions just because we would like to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In response to comments&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realise that Meta is also used to make announcements about the website, such as moderator elections and changes to the Terms of Service, but those are announcements that &lt;strong&gt;must&lt;/strong&gt; be made available to all participants. I don't think they are in the same category as blog or forum posts that happen to be of interest to a large number of people. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't dispute that the community can decide its own rules, or claim that it needs higher authority to do so. I suggest that selectively creating exceptions to the rules will weaken them and invite more off topic posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again; I mean no disrespect to Carrie Fisher, and I include myself among those who mourn her. I just think there are more appropriate places to express these thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66402" LastEditorUserId="66402" LastEditDate="2016-12-29T04:02:06.560" LastActivityDate="2016-12-29T04:02:06.560" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10444" CreationDate="2016-12-29T14:59:28.373" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;By the book: &lt;strong&gt;&quot;No&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; (see link and block quote)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However: If the answer shall be agreed upon to be 'Yes' - then the &lt;a href=&quot;http://%20https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/whats-meta&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;description of what Meta is and what it is for&lt;/a&gt; should be modified:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Meta Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange is the part of the site&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;where users discuss the workings and policies of Science Fiction &amp;amp;&#xA;  Fantasy Stack Exchange rather than discussing science fiction or&#xA;  fantasy itself&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. It is separated from the main Q&amp;amp;A to reduce noise&#xA;  there while providing a legitimate space for people to ask how and why&#xA;  this site works the way it does. Meta is for...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange users to communicate with&#xA;  each other about Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange (asking&#xA;  questions about how the websites work, or about policies and community&#xA;  decisions) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange users to&#xA;  communicate with Stack Overflow the company (posting bugs, suggesting&#xA;  improvements, or proposing new features), and &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...Stack Overflow the&#xA;  company to communicate with the community (soliciting feedback on new&#xA;  ideas or features, or discussing policies that affect the whole&#xA;  network) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please look around to see if your question has been asked&#xA;  before, and avoid asking questions that have nothing to do with&#xA;  Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange or the Stack Exchange&#xA;  network. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is not a random discussion area; rather, it's a place&#xA;  for improving our community and website, together.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[emphasis mine]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55637" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2016-12-30T03:57:41.690" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10449" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-29T17:37:02.353" Score="23" ViewCount="393" Body="&lt;p&gt;The passing of Carrie Fisher has hit a lot of science fiction fans hard; obviously, her character was a significant part of the popularity of one of the best science fiction movie franchises in history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we are a Q&amp;amp;A site, the best way (IMO) for us to remember Carrie Fisher is to highlight some of those awesome questions and answers that we have thanks to her. So, if you have a favorite answer to a question &lt;em&gt;about Princess Leia&lt;/em&gt;, post it here and let us know why you like it so much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All three of the suggestions were good ones so I have awarded a bounty to all three. Thanks for your participation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2017-01-15T18:50:39.657" LastActivityDate="2017-01-15T18:50:39.657" Title="Carrie Fisher Memorial Answer Bounty" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10442" CreationDate="2016-12-29T18:16:42.343" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The post about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6648/in-memoriam-leonard-nimoy?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;Leonard&lt;/a&gt; has a bunch of pictures of him. Thought Carrie should get the same treatment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Guide the princess, the Force shall. In peace, rest, she may.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ic1Ht.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ic1Ht.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/r3BIj.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/r3BIj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75000" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2016-12-29T18:16:42.343" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10451" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-29T21:49:44.510" Score="8" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;p&gt;The page describing &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/whats-meta&quot;&gt;What is Meta?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; has a general description of what the intended purpose of the Meta site should be and outlines basic use cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue has been raised raised via &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10444/should-meta-posts-regarding-the-deaths-of-figures-that-are-important-to-sffse-b?cb=1&quot;&gt;this topic&lt;/a&gt; and others that perhaps common use and acceptance of various types of topics in Meta has transcended and moved beyond the description. I'm not making a value judgment on that case one way or the other. The basic premise here is one of - &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;should the description for Meta be consistent with what is acceptable by the community?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a couple of pro-reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a new user, one may be more inclined to check the description of Meta via the Help page and thus, the page should reflect the most accurate description.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10444/should-meta-posts-regarding-the-deaths-of-figures-that-are-important-to-sffse-b?cb=1&quot;&gt;linked topic&lt;/a&gt;, rather than citing the Meta description, many users cited precedent and previous posts, despite those previous activities seeming to contradict certain aspects of the Meta description. New users should not be expected to immediately familiarize themselves with all forms of precedent and &quot;general acceptance&quot; - these things should be largely outlined in the help documents rather than nebulously defined by group opinion and precedent (although, it is fine for group opinion and precedent to shape the help document)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55637" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2017-01-09T09:46:56.600" Title="Should the SFF:Meta Description be modified to be more consistent with agreed-upon precedents and activity?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10449" CreationDate="2016-12-30T05:51:42.390" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I pick this question's top answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/112767/31178&quot;&gt;Is there really &amp;quot;No Underwear In Space?&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The quote in question is how Carrie came to her famous &quot;drowned in moonlight, strangled by her own bra&quot; obituary line. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current top answer by @CHEESE also features a hand drawn red circle and creeping on Anakin's undies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's funny. She was funny. I remember watching her roast fellow celebs and killing it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-12-30T05:51:42.390" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10449" CreationDate="2016-12-30T13:48:18.967" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Despite not being into Star Wars, I enjoyed the answers to this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/2903/31394&quot;&gt;Why does Leia&amp;#39;s accent change during A New Hope?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm nominating it for a memorial bounty because it makes a connection between &lt;strong&gt;Carrie Fisher IRL&lt;/strong&gt; (which is who we're commemorating) and &lt;strong&gt;events within the Star Wars universe&lt;/strong&gt; (which is what makes it on-topic for this site). It's interesting from both in-universe and out-of-universe points of view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The top three answers are all pretty good, but if I had to choose one for a bounty, it would be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/103934/31394&quot;&gt;Omegacron's answer&lt;/a&gt;, because it's been underappreciated so far compared to the other two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2016-12-30T13:48:18.967" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10451" CreationDate="2016-12-30T15:22:40.317" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Page starts off with,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta is for...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;...Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange users to communicate with each other&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The help center exists primarily to describe how these sites work. Even on the main site, you won't find an exhaustive list of allowed topics; just a few broad categories. If you want to know whether or not something is on-topic, you look at the actual &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt;: are My Little Pony questions generally closed and deleted, or upvoted and answered?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same goes for meta. Wanna know what's allowed here? &lt;strong&gt;Look around&lt;/strong&gt;. Some metas dedicate threads to praising members who've hit certain goals; others have big meme threads; still others run polls or talk about conferences. Y'all decide what's relevant to your site, what you want to talk to each other about, and how often you want to do it... So stop looking for an oracle to tell you what's right under your nose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2016-12-30T15:22:40.317" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10435" CreationDate="2016-12-30T23:47:58.167" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Canon&lt;/strong&gt; is like Humpty Dumpty's philosophy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;&lt;em&gt;When I use a word,&lt;/em&gt;&quot; Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, &quot;&lt;em&gt;it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I.e., &lt;em&gt;canon&lt;/em&gt; is whatever the writer/property-owner says is canon.  Well, at least until the next time they &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroactive_continuity&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;retcon&lt;/a&gt; it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To tie this answer more specifically to the question, I would not base canon on the existence or design of a toy.  This is my opinion and it varies from that of @KutuluMike .  The toy makers and property owners have different goals and constraints.  At best, toys are simplified versions of what is canonical in the movie/story/comic/manga/tv-show etc. At worst, they are barely related by name and claim on the toy packaging.  Other than granting a license (and for unlicensed rip-offs not even that) some property owners will have little knowledge or control over what the toy company produces. Fans can be more concerned with canonocity than the creators themselves.  Other owners will be involved intimately and have veto privilege.  There is not a general rule.  Plus, even stuff you think is officially licensed may be a knock-off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One place where the &quot;toys&quot; would be absolutely canonical is trading card games. For example, a card from a &lt;em&gt;Magic the Gathering&lt;/em&gt;™ set from Wizards of the Coast is not only canonical, it is part of the thing itself.  In sets that have multi-media adaptions (cards, games, tv-shows, movies), such as &lt;em&gt;Pokemon&lt;/em&gt;™, the roles are very fuzzy. The property owners probably do their best to maintain a common canonocity, but synchronicity is bound to be an ongoing problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another special instance is long-existing toys which have gone into multi-media.  For example, is the Barbie Princess Gem™ doll canonical even if it has never appeared in a Barbie movie or game?  Of course. The toys are &lt;strong&gt;the thing&lt;/strong&gt; and the movies are based on the toys.  You could legitimately ask the reverse question, &lt;em&gt;Are licensed movies considered canon?&lt;/em&gt;. (In which case I would reply, &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Canon&lt;/strong&gt; is like Humpty Dumpty's Philosophy ...&quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74040" LastActivityDate="2016-12-30T23:47:58.167" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10449" CreationDate="2016-12-31T12:16:29.693" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;My previous nomination was intended mainly to draw attention to an interesting &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt;. For an excellent &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; to a question which is surely of interest to many Star Wars fans, how about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/120964/31394&quot;&gt;Did Luke or Leia ever feel romantic attraction to each other?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possibly incestuous kisses are one of the biggest controversies in Star Wars, and this answer goes into a great deal of detail, backed up clearly at every stage by canon quotes, about exactly how much incestuous feeling there really was between Luke and Leia. It deserves more recognition than it's had.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-12-31T12:16:29.693" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10457" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-12-31T13:31:45.003" Score="2" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Shiva trilogy by Amish Tripathi does not have a tag on this site. However I have a query regarding certain story elements, and due to the lack of any suitable tag (if there exists one I have not found it), I have been unable to post my query. Under these circumstances, what should I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="72919" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2016-12-31T13:52:58.253" LastActivityDate="2016-12-31T13:52:58.253" Title="Request for a new tag for Shiva trilogy" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10457" CreationDate="2016-12-31T13:36:34.477" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off, &lt;strong&gt;post the question with an already existing tag&lt;/strong&gt; - the generic &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; tag might be a reasonable choice, since there isn't a specific one for the Shiva trilogy yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As soon as there's a question about the trilogy existing on the site, anyone with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/create-tags&quot;&gt;at least 300 reputation&lt;/a&gt; will be able to &lt;strong&gt;edit a new &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shiva-trilogy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shiva-trilogy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shiva-trilogy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; tag into it&lt;/strong&gt;; problem solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/148888/31394&quot;&gt;done&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;sub&gt;Not just &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shiva&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shiva&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shiva&lt;/a&gt;, as that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=shiva+is%3Aq&quot;&gt;might lead to confusion&lt;/a&gt; with other Shivas appearing in other SFF works.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2016-12-31T13:51:07.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10460" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2017-01-03T00:08:43.600" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/duplicate-questions&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;duplicate-questions&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;duplicate-questions&lt;/a&gt; is referring to the process of identifying and closing questions that are duplicates of another question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/166707/165773&quot; title=&quot;Changes to “close as duplicate” (part deux)&quot;&gt;comprehensive guidance here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;we want to tell the user ...something like, “&lt;em&gt;Somebody already asked this. If that other question doesn't solve your problem, please clarify your question to explain how it's different.&lt;/em&gt;” Perfect: if the other question helps them, they're happy because they got an answer. If the other question doesn't help them, they know exactly what to do. No argument about how exact an &quot;exact duplicate&quot; needs to be...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Related articles at Stack Exchange blog&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/dr-strangedupe-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-duplication/&quot;&gt;Dr. Strangedupe: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love Duplication&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;strong&gt;duplication is not necessarily bad&lt;/strong&gt;. Quite the contrary — some duplication is &lt;em&gt;desirable&lt;/em&gt;. There’s often benefit to having multiple subtle variants of a question around, as people tend to ask and search using completely different words, and the better our coverage, the better odds people can find the answer they’re looking for...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...use your good judgment and please continue to close and merge duplicates as you see fit. However, bear in mind that cultivating and supporting a moderate amount of natural duplication actively &lt;em&gt;helps&lt;/em&gt; the community...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/handling-duplicate-questions/&quot;&gt;Handling Duplicate Questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...there are three classes of duplicate questions, from most clear to least clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Cut-and-paste duplicate questions. These questions are the very definition of exact duplicates; they are typically from users who willfully take the very same question and post it again... No grey area here. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Accidental duplicates. These questions aren’t copy and paste, but they cover the exact same ground as an earlier Stack Overflow question. The overlap is not ambiguous...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Borderline duplicates. These questions are ambiguous; they’re in the same ballpark as a previous question, but have subtle differences that may make them legitimately standalone questions. These are subject to interpretation...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Copied from: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/tags/exact-duplicates/info&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackexchange.com/tags/exact-duplicates/info&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66252" LastEditorUserId="66252" LastEditDate="2017-01-03T00:58:02.367" LastActivityDate="2017-01-03T00:58:02.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10461" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2017-01-03T00:08:43.600" Score="0" Body="This tag is referring to the process of identifying and closing questions that are duplicates of another question. " OwnerUserId="66252" LastEditorUserId="66252" LastEditDate="2017-01-03T00:58:09.440" LastActivityDate="2017-01-03T00:58:09.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10440" CreationDate="2017-01-03T02:51:42.547" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was one of the people who originally voted to close the question as &quot;too broad&quot;. I did so because it was asking for the name of a movie, and the only identifying information provided was that it featured a rather common sci fi trope. In other words it seemed to me to be too broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66402" LastActivityDate="2017-01-03T02:51:42.547" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10463" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10467" CreationDate="2017-01-03T04:15:38.740" Score="3" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;On a site that deals with series and franchises that are constantly being updated,  such as Science Fiction and Fantasy, there are a lot of unreleased works for which the &lt;em&gt;title&lt;/em&gt; may not be known, but a great deal of information about the work might be. For example, the title of the next &lt;em&gt;Fantastic Beasts&lt;/em&gt; film has not yet been revealed, but we know &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/144283/51379&quot;&gt;where it will take place&lt;/a&gt;. The eighth and ninth &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; films are still untitled, but we know which cast members are planned to return. Some unnamed works, such as the latter two (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-8&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-8&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-8&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-9&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-9&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-9&lt;/a&gt;), have their own tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the one hand, such provisional tags allow cataloging and following potentially answerable questions about popular works that are currently untitled. On the other hand, many such questions are likely to be future works, and may need to be &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/87437/how-to-rename-a-tag?rq=1&quot;&gt;renamed&lt;/a&gt; by moderators when the work acquires a title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we make provisional tags for works that don’t have a title?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2017-01-03T09:41:26.430" Title="Should we create provisional tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10463" CreationDate="2017-01-03T07:17:56.507" Score="-1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes, but only when there are on-topic questions for the tag to relate to.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that tag merging is a trivially simple task for moderators, I see no good reason not to create a sequel tag &lt;strong&gt;at the point when on-topic (e.g. non-speculative) questions start being asked about an upcoming sequel.&lt;/strong&gt; Sure, we might want to change the name a little closer to the release date but that's hardly onerous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I certainly don't think we should go quite as far as IMDB and start making &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unnamed-star-wars-tv-series-2023&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unnamed-star-wars-tv-series-2023&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unnamed-star-wars-tv-series-2023&lt;/a&gt; tags for &lt;em&gt;speculative works&lt;/em&gt;, but nor do I think a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-9&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-9&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-9&lt;/a&gt; tag is going to cause issues &lt;strong&gt;since the film is already in early production.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-01-03T08:56:17.200" LastActivityDate="2017-01-03T08:56:17.200" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10465" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10466" CreationDate="2017-01-03T09:23:19.880" Score="12" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a tag for Han Solo himself, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/han-solo&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;han-solo&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;han-solo&lt;/a&gt;, and a tag for the age old question of who shot first: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/han-shot-first&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;han-shot-first&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;han-shot-first&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we make the latter a synonym of the former?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though the latter has 8 questions, it seems a bit too specialised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-01-08T02:43:23.010" LastActivityDate="2017-01-08T02:43:23.010" Title="Should [han-shot-first] be shot first?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10465" CreationDate="2017-01-03T09:28:58.177" Score="21" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Let’s get rid of it&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It doesn’t help with searching.&lt;/strong&gt; There’s &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bhan-shot-first%5D%20-%E2%80%9Dhan%20shot%20first%E2%80%9D&quot;&gt;only one question&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/han-shot-first&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;han-shot-first&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;han-shot-first&lt;/a&gt; and not the phrase “Han shot first,” and it’s closed. There &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; arguably &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/137244/did-chewie-reference-the-old-han-shot-first-debate-in-the-force-awakens&quot;&gt;one question&lt;/a&gt; with “Han shot first” that lacks the tag and should have it, but that’s not particularly relevant. Anyone can just search for “Han shot first” (or even easier, “shot first”) and find all the relevant questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;No one’s going to subscribe to it. There’s no new information coming out about this matter at this point, and new questions are being posted at a rate of about two per year. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It’s on only eight questions. Besides being a rather specialized tag, this makes it pretty easy to edit out. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2017-01-03T09:28:58.177" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10463" CreationDate="2017-01-03T09:41:26.430" Score="4" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Yes, then rename them to the proper name.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way, people can tag things with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-7&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-7&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-7&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-vii&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-vii&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-vii&lt;/a&gt; and then the tag can be renamed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-force-awakens&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-force-awakens&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-force-awakens&lt;/a&gt;, or merged if someone created the tag before it was renamed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-01-03T09:41:26.430" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10468" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-04T19:10:47.813" Score="29" ViewCount="378" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/149178/why-are-there-no-k-2so-type-droids-in-the-original-trilogy&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; asking for an in-universe reason why &quot;Imperial Droids&quot; don't appear in the Star Wars movies outside of Rogue One. The OP asked this because they didn't know what K-2SO's droid type was called outside of &quot;Imperial Droid&quot; and really just meant that specific type of droid (this was clarified by the OP in the comments). However, there are already five answers with 10-20 upvotes along the lines of &quot;actually, there are droids used by the Empire&quot; that nonetheless seem to have completely misunderstood the intent of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I edited the title to clarify, and then another user changed it back, per &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7418/best-policy-when-edit-to-question-invalidates-the-answer&quot;&gt;Best policy when edit to question invalidates the answer&lt;/a&gt;, which makes sense to me. Is there anything that &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be done to improve the quality of the question/answers, though? It seems like a reasonable question, which other viewers of Rogue One probably wondered about, but now it's apparently been hijacked by a spirit of &quot;ha! I can't believe you don't remember probe droids!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21154" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2017-01-06T16:42:35.887" Title="How to handle question with many positively-voted answers that misunderstand the question" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10468" CreationDate="2017-01-04T19:32:36.040" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is my general advice for problems of this sort; I'm not making a comment on this particular question or its answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can do any combination of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit the question in such a way that existing answers are not invalidated.&lt;/strong&gt; In this specific case, I might add a note at the bottom along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm especially interested in droids of K-2SO's model from &lt;em&gt;Rogue One&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Post a competing answer.&lt;/strong&gt; This, of course, assumes that you have an answer to provide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Downvote &amp;quot;wrong&amp;quot; answers.&lt;/strong&gt; It seems unlikely that this will be effective in this specific case, given that the existing answers have been upvoted so heavily&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flag &amp;quot;wrong&amp;quot; answers as Low Quality.&lt;/strong&gt; The intention is to delete answers that don't actually answer the question. This is also unlikely to be effective in this case&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comment on &amp;quot;wrong&amp;quot; answers to inform their posters that they are incorrect.&lt;/strong&gt; Same goal as the above; also unlikely to be effective in this case&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Post a bounty on the question.&lt;/strong&gt; Assuming you have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/set-bounties&quot;&gt;Set Bounties privilege&lt;/a&gt;, you can offer some of your own reputation to incentivize &amp;quot;correct&amp;quot; answers (once the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/107995/276025&quot;&gt;becomes eligible&lt;/a&gt; for bounties); a combination of the &amp;quot;canonical answer required&amp;quot; bounty reason and judicious use of the custom bounty message box should serve for this, though it has the unfortunate complication that the bounty may be automatically awarded to a &amp;quot;wrong&amp;quot; answer that nonetheless receives upvotes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Post a more specific question separately&lt;/strong&gt;, or encourage the original poster to do the same. This does come with the risk that your new question will be closed as a dupe of the old question; whether or not that's likely depends on the specific questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-01-04T19:39:35.697" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10468" CreationDate="2017-01-04T19:33:32.177" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There’s not a whole lot to be done. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Editing the question to be more specific would invalidate the existing answers, so as you correctly say, it should not be done. If you can edit it &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; invalidating the existing answers, you should of course do so. It’s best to make sure the person who posted it is onboard with your additions. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The answers don’t &lt;em&gt;drastically&lt;/em&gt; misunderstand the question, to the point of not even answering it, so flagging is not an option. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some posters will delete their answers if it turns out they misunderstood the question, but that’s not likely to happen. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I’d &lt;strong&gt;leave a comment&lt;/strong&gt; on the answers that somewhat misunderstood the question, encouraging the posters to add information that address the OP’s more specific points. That way, at least some of the answers will address the question that the OP intended, rather than what the posters inferred from the way the question was phrased. Keep in mind, though, that the posters still may not edit their answers, or may not have anything to add. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="51379" LastEditDate="2017-01-04T22:28:01.977" LastActivityDate="2017-01-04T22:28:01.977" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10468" CreationDate="2017-01-04T20:13:22.643" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion the answerers misunderstood the question and made a mistake. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/149178/1&quot;&gt;original question&lt;/a&gt; stated (emphasis added):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rogue One had multiple &lt;strong&gt;never-before-seen&lt;/strong&gt; Imperial Droids, so what happened to them between Rogue One and Star Wars IV?...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of taking the OP at his word that he was asking about the type of Imperial droids we had never seen before (the &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/KX-series_Security_Droid&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;KX-series security droid&lt;/a&gt;, like K-2SO), most users assumed he'd forgotten about all the other Imperial droids in the original trilogy. Those users &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; have asked for clarification in the comments before answering. The question was a bit unclear at first, but the OP would had to have known K-2SO's name and/or series in order to make it clearer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, when a question is misunderstood but its answers are highly upvoted, I would say you'd need to ask a new, clearer question. However, a new question here would probably need to be closed as a duplicate of this misunderstood one, because some of the answers provide an explanation for why there were no KX-series droids (usually just as an aside, though, and with not much of an argument). We should add comments to the answerers requesting that they modify their answers to emphasize why there were no KX-series droids. I would also recommend downvoting those answers to encourage the users who wrote them to update them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your edit to the question is in a grey area. Yes, it invalidates existing answers, which is discouraged. But in this case it's the fault of the answerers rather than the asker. It wasn't a change to the question (which would &lt;em&gt;definitely&lt;/em&gt; be wrong), it was a clarification. Unfortunately, it still leaves the Q&amp;amp;A in a weird state in that most of the answers don't appear to be answering the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2017-01-04T20:22:42.080" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2474" CreationDate="2017-01-04T21:14:32.423" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/141115&quot;&gt;How did the telephone work and what was its role in Einstein's God Model&lt;/a&gt; was apparently &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/143370/143&quot;&gt;answered by the writer / director&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/73095/philip-t-johnson&quot;&gt;Philip T. Johnson&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2017-01-04T21:14:32.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10473" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-06T14:50:53.173" Score="6" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/143370/54887&quot;&gt;an answer&lt;/a&gt; where a person claimed to be Writer and Director of a franchise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer had provided canon evidence, then of course it would have been a good answer regardless to who the person claims he is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knowing nothing about the said franchise, reading the answer it appears more to have been taken as &lt;em&gt;The word of God&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we look over to the metapost about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2474/have-we-had-any-professionals-participate-in-sff&quot;&gt;the posts on SFF where we had professionals participate&lt;/a&gt; one can observe many such answers provided by the said professionals. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OTOH, We have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/116193/54887&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; where it was confirmed that it was indeed the co-author who was answering. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a previous &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3219/what-kind-of-proof-is-necessary-when-someone-claims-to-be-one-of-the-creators-of&quot;&gt;Meta Post&lt;/a&gt; on this subject where community seems to be divided equally on whether or not such answers be accepted prior to some verification that the person is really who they say they are. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have we agreed on a policy here? Surely allowing such answers, which would otherwise be Downvoted or sent to the VLQ queue had the OP not claimed to be the author, can't be acceptable? As of now, If I go to unanswered questions of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt;, go to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/93180/who-were-the-wise-master-of-yunkais-powerful-friends&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, whip up an answer and claim to be George R.R. Martin, should that be acceptable? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mooz has shown us a way to verify the identity when he contacted the co-author of the book on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/116193/54887&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; so it can be done in theory. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/46bPk.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/46bPk.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Mooz's twitter handle not hidden as he has himself provided that in the comment on the answer&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I am not saying that we should start badgering people to prove their identity. Like the rest of us, they reserve the right of anonymity. But they are giving that up when they claim to be someone known to us as authority on the work in question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to mention not all authors maintain a presence on twitter or other form of social media. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of this post is to get a consensus on the policy. &lt;strong&gt;Do we or Do we not allow the answers where answerers claim to be the authors and do not provide any evidence proving their answers?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;Note, answers! Not their identity itself&lt;/strong&gt;. If the ID is confirmed, no evidence is needed anyways as in the case of the question where Mooz confirmed the identity). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2017-01-06T14:55:54.527" Title="Should we accept &quot;Word of God&quot; type answers from users claiming to be Authors/Producers of a franchise?" Tags="|discussion|answers|answer-quality|policy|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="9" ClosedDate="2017-01-06T15:27:18.410" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10475" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10476" CreationDate="2017-01-08T05:50:55.317" Score="7" ViewCount="316" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the time of this post's creation, the leading answer for the meta discussion &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10444/13217&quot;&gt;Should meta posts regarding the deaths of figures that are important to SFF:SE be on topic?&lt;/a&gt; is that these should be allowed (18 votes vs. 9 for the opposite view). That answer was based on the high number of upvotes—and relatively low proportion of downvotes—for recent such posts. But how do we judge whether someone is an &lt;strong&gt;important&lt;/strong&gt; figure to science fiction and fantasy deserving of a meta post? For this discussion, let's just focus on celebrities and not users on this site (that would be better as a separate meta discussion).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that we ought to figure this out long before someone tries to create a meta topic for someone who is &quot;not an important figure&quot;, given that an In Memoriam post is not a great place to have an internet argument or downvote the thing to oblivion (that would make the community seem insensitive to their death).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To give a few concrete examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leonard Nimoy was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6648/13217&quot;&gt;given a meta post&lt;/a&gt;, with the question and every answer focusing on his role of Spock on &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;. Will we give similar meta posts (hopefully many years from now) to his surviving costars William Shatner, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, and Walter Koenig too? Could we have made a meta post for other sci-fi/fantasy actors who have recently passed away like &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Glass&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ron Glass&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lynch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Richard Lynch&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Francis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Anne Francis&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth_Thomas_(actor)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gareth Thomas&lt;/a&gt;? Will &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reb_Brown&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Reb Brown&lt;/a&gt; someday get one too?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Terry Pratchett's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6712/13217&quot;&gt;meta post&lt;/a&gt; focused on him writing &lt;em&gt;Discworld&lt;/em&gt;. Could we have made a meta post for other sci-fi/fantasy writers who recently passed away like &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Bradbury&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ray Bradbury&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanith_Lee&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tanith Lee&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Harrison_(writer)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Harry Harrison&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Clayton_Johnson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;George Clayton Johnson&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Douglass&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sara Douglass&lt;/a&gt;? Will &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephenie_Meyer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stephenie Meyer&lt;/a&gt; someday get one too?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If any of these answers are no, then why is that? What sort of litmus test could we develop to determine if someone is an important enough figure to get a recent death meta post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13217" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2017-01-20T04:26:02.467" Title="How do we judge whether a Sci-fi/Fantasy figure is important enough to get an &quot;In Memoriam&quot; meta post?" Tags="|discussion|scope|meta|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10475" CreationDate="2017-01-08T07:10:52.190" Score="14" Body="&lt;h2&gt;On a case-by-case basis&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, &lt;strong&gt;there is no exact test&lt;/strong&gt; we can use to determine if an figure deserves to be commemorated, any more than we can judge whether any other class of announcement (such as a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6598/51379&quot;&gt;convention&lt;/a&gt;) is relevant to the community. We have to use our best judgment with respect to notability and relevance, and only  post memorial notices for figures whom we genuinely believe to be important to the community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I think there are some general &lt;em&gt;guidelines&lt;/em&gt; that we should keep in mind, which generally center on the the &lt;em&gt;relevance&lt;/em&gt; of a post to the community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Will a majority or significant minority of users be familiar with the figure?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A meta post should be relevant to the community, and this applies even to posts that are announcements, not questions. Most people on this site, though they might not know who Carrie Fisher is, are at least aware of her most famous role (Leia Organa, i.e. Princess Leia). Similarly, while not everyone here will have heard the name “Leonard Nimoy,” at least an appreciable minority are familiar with Mr. Spock.  Even Terry Pratchett is a fairly familiar name. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we &lt;em&gt;don’t&lt;/em&gt; want is every person who acted in a science fiction or fantasy production, or wrote a science fiction or fantasy book, to receive a memorial post. There’s a place for memorial posts for famous figures, but we don’t want to turn into the obituary section. Before writing a post, we should ask ourselves, “How many other people will this matter to?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This guideline is self-reinforcing, to some extent: a post about George Clayton Johnson or Ron Glass will simply not get as many upvotes as one about Carrie Fisher. A post about truly obscure individuals might even attract net downvotes. We know your third cousin twice removed  wrote a really nice &lt;em&gt;Twilight&lt;/em&gt; fanfic, but they’re still not getting a memorial post. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this person’s work relevant to the site?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Carrie Fisher is a major figure in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;, which has over 3900 questions. But she also is the originator of the role of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/princess-leia&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;princess-leia&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;princess-leia&lt;/a&gt;, which has 18 all by itself. There are over 3000 questions about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt;, of which &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spock&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;spock&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;spock&lt;/a&gt; has 38 just by himself. And &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/discworld&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discworld&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discworld&lt;/a&gt; has 45 and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terry-pratchett&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terry-pratchett&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terry-pratchett&lt;/a&gt; has 40. Christopher Lee plays major roles in both &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lotr&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lotr&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lotr&lt;/a&gt; In other words, these people are central to major tags on the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By contrast, consider the proposed memorial notices. Ron Glass plays a major role in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/firefly&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;firefly&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;firefly&lt;/a&gt; (87 questions, plus probably more for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/serenity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;serenity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;serenity&lt;/a&gt;, so his work is definitely relevant). On the other hand, Reb Brown’s &lt;em&gt;Captain America&lt;/em&gt; film has very few questions. Anne Francis is best-known for &lt;em&gt;Forbidden Planet&lt;/em&gt;, which has only 3 questions here.  &lt;strong&gt;If someone has no (or very few) questions on the main site, we should think twice before writing a memorial.&lt;/strong&gt; This also takes into account the relevance of the person &lt;em&gt;to the work.&lt;/em&gt; Ron Glass is relevant to &lt;em&gt;Firefly&lt;/em&gt;. Your third cousin twice removed who played a nameless Reaver in &lt;em&gt;Serenity&lt;/em&gt;? Not so much. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2017-01-11T02:34:00.037" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10475" CreationDate="2017-01-08T13:10:30.083" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What sort of litmus test could we develop to determine if someone is an important enough figure to get a recent death meta post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we have a good and working litmus test already, namely that such a post can only happen if some user is willing to go through the effort to create such a post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the person in question be not relevant to this community, this can be decided by close votes on a per-case basis. Whether the posts makes it to the sidebar on the main site can be decided by the existing system for hot meta posts (namely that it has to reach a score of 3).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, it may be possible that somebody overdoes it, but so far this has not happened. If it does, we can always re-discuss this. Right now, this (over-zealous obituarists) does not seem to be a problem that needs to be addressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20840" LastEditorUserId="20840" LastEditDate="2017-01-08T13:32:21.327" LastActivityDate="2017-01-08T13:32:21.327" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10478" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10479" CreationDate="2017-01-09T20:36:38.187" Score="17" ViewCount="402" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often want to answer some question but I have a problem with quotations (and I don't want to just say: &quot;I remember that somewhere was something like...&quot;).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sometimes I have exact quote in my mind&lt;/strong&gt; (but don't know exactly where it was, problem especially with books) &lt;strong&gt;sometimes it is only a shaking idea of something similar or connected with the question&lt;/strong&gt; (and then I am really screwed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do you have some tricks? Some recipes?&lt;/strong&gt; With movies, are you using the screenplays? If so, where are you finding them? Or are you just watching the movie/series/read the book/comic etc. and trying to find the place you somehow remember?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am curious about some &lt;strong&gt;general way&lt;/strong&gt; how you do that but &lt;strong&gt;also about some concrete sources with some often quoted things&lt;/strong&gt; (Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Doctor Who, Star Trek etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66567" LastEditorUserId="66567" LastEditDate="2017-01-09T21:19:51.500" LastActivityDate="2017-01-10T20:09:18.780" Title="How to find a quotation?" Tags="|discussion|support|quotes|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10478" CreationDate="2017-01-09T20:50:07.490" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I do largely depends on the media in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Books&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have all of my main books in (full-text searchable) e-book format:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; trilogy, &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt;, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All seven &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; books, plus the &lt;em&gt;Cursed Child&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Fantastic Beasts&lt;/em&gt; published scripts and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.pottermore.com/news/pottermore-presents-ebook-series-published-september&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;three Pottermore e-books&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most of the canon &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; books and novelizations, and several of the Legends novels&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typically I've acquired them in ePub or Mobi format, in which case I use online tools to convert them to PDFs (which have better cross-platform tools).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also have ready access to a pretty good public library, so I'll often pop over there on my lunch break to check some of the books I don't have, or I'll simply pull a physical book off my shelf (especially when I'm citing &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;The Annotated Hobbit&lt;/em&gt;) when I'm at home; doing this usually requires me to have a pretty good idea of where in the book I'm looking, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If all else fails, and especially for obscure books, I occasionally make use of Google Books' free preview feature; I prefer not to do this, because of how I prefer to cite sources, but I've done it on occasion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're referencing older books, you may have a chance of finding them on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gutenberg.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Project Gutenberg&lt;/a&gt;, or one of its international affiliates; these sites mostly have books that have passed into the public domain, which largely limits them to works published in the 1920s and earlier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Comics&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, no recourse here but manual transcription; fortunately I get all my comics digitally, so it's not &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; much of an imposition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Films&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many films have screenplays online; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMSDB&lt;/a&gt; is a good resource for this, though they don't always have the final versions (something which has bitten me before). Many film transcripts can also be found at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Springfield Scripts&lt;/a&gt;, though with the caveats I'll cover in the next section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Occasionally I also simply pull the film up on my computer, rely on my memory to guide me to the right moment, and transcribe by hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Television&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chakoteya.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;chakoteya.net&lt;/a&gt; has full transcripts (including some minimal stage direction) for all episodes and the films. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.st-minutiae.com/resources/scripts/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ST Minutiae&lt;/a&gt; also has downloadable text files of the original scripts (compiled from assorted published sources) for the TOS- and TNG era films, &lt;em&gt;The Next Generation&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Deep Space Nine&lt;/em&gt;, and a handful of &lt;em&gt;Voyager&lt;/em&gt; episodes; I don't use these as often, because the chakoteya transcripts usually suffice, but sometimes the stage directions are relevant&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt;, again I use &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chakoteya.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;chakoteya.net&lt;/a&gt;. All the old episodes (including the classic series), TV specials, spinn-offs, and The Film have archived transcripts; new episodes are usually added within a day or two&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;On the rare occasion I answer a Stargate question, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/Transcripts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SG-1 Solutions wiki&lt;/a&gt; has a comprehensive transcript library of all three shows&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For &lt;em&gt;Supernatural&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Super-wiki&lt;/a&gt; has full transcriptions of all episodes, generally updated often enough for my purposes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For other shows, I sometimes use &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Springfield Scripts&lt;/a&gt;; however, this site suffers from some problems:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It only transcribes dialogue, not any stage direction or activities; most crucially, it also doesn't specify who's &lt;em&gt;saying&lt;/em&gt; each line&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Every so often they have database issues, leaving them largely useless for a few days until they can recover&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I typically have to supplement them with either memory or manual transcription from re-watching the episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Video games&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this, I typically rely on Let's Play videos on Youtube. This can be rather tedious, but fortunately I don't have to do this very often&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Interviews&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is largely Google-fu; I don't make a habit of reading interviews, but there's &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/pablohidalgo/status/818262150456057856&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;enough pop culture reporting&lt;/a&gt; that interviews are fairly easy to find on Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; specifically, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.accio-quote.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Accio Quote&lt;/a&gt; is a good resource for JK Rowling interviews, but hasn't been updated since 2012.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Twitter&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I follow &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/pablohidalgo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pablo Hidalgo&lt;/a&gt; on Twitter&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, which is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Very informative for &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; tidbits&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hilarious; I have a deep appreciation for his dry, long-suffering humour&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I typically have a fuzzy memory of his recent tweets, which is helpful for answering recent questions; Twitter's built-in search mechanism makes it relatively easy to find the exact tweet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For others, I typically fall back on Google. I know that I &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; follow JK Rowling, but the ratio of &quot;useful canon&quot; to &quot;political opinions&quot; is low enough that I don't care to bother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; I also follow &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/holocronkeeper&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Leland Chee&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/missingwords&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Matt Martin&lt;/a&gt;, Hidalgo's compatriots in the Lucasfilm Story group; but Hidalgo spends much more of his Twitter-time responding to lore questions, so I generally find him more useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="31051" LastEditDate="2017-01-10T20:09:18.780" LastActivityDate="2017-01-10T20:09:18.780" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10478" CreationDate="2017-01-09T21:23:27.523" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;If you have an exact quote ...&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... &lt;strong&gt;Google it!&lt;/strong&gt; Whether it's from a book, a film, or a TV show, this usually works, at least for more popular works (it's less reliable for obscurer ones). By doing a web search for the exact quote, or the part of it you remember, you might find:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(for &lt;strong&gt;written works&lt;/strong&gt;) either a Google Books version of the work in question, or a full-text copy on some potentially dodgy website; in either case, you can transcribe or copy-paste what you need.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(for &lt;strong&gt;screen works&lt;/strong&gt;) an online copy of the transcript - whether official, leaked, or fan-made - from which again you can copy-paste the quotes you need.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes this works even if the only exact quote you remember is from a different part of the book/film from what you're really looking for. If you remember &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; exact quote, you can Google it to find some resource which has the full text, and then scroll through to a different spot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Beware:&lt;/strong&gt; if the quote is &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; well-known, you may get swamped with too many irrelevant results. E.g. if you type &quot;one does not simply walk into Mordor&quot; into Google, you'll find a boatload of memes before managing to find a transcript of the &lt;em&gt;Fellowship of the Ring&lt;/em&gt; film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Otherwise ...&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... familiarise yourself with some generally useful resources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's a book you already own, you're golden - you can just find the exact quote in the book and type it out. (Yes, don't be lazy! The amount of time I've spent transcribing quotes from &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Wheel of Time&lt;/em&gt; by hand must add up to a great many hours by now.) Or if you're one of these modern high-tech types who reads the electronic versions of books, then you can probably search the text directly. (Are e-books searchable? I guess so.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's a widely known and very popular work, there may be great resources already on the internet:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;) &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chakoteya.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chakoteya&lt;/a&gt;: an excellent fan-made site, &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; go-to place for ST and DW transcripts;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;) &lt;a href=&quot;https://asearchoficeandfire.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A Search of Ice and Fire&lt;/a&gt;, where you can search the full text of any or all aSoIaF books for any given phrase, filtering by PoV character if desired&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;probably more such sites for other franchises that I'm not aware of&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-01-09T21:23:27.523" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10478" CreationDate="2017-01-09T22:01:55.100" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Star Trek TV / Movies&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For Star Trek, you can't really do much better than the &lt;a href=&quot;http://scriptsearch.dxdy.name/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Script Search&lt;/a&gt; facility on Chakoteya.net. You can search by word, phrase and even who said the words. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Doctor Who / Star Trek (original scripts)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since Chakoteya hosts the Doctor Who transcripts (along with Andromeda and Stargate) but has no dedicated search facility, I tend to use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html#inurl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;inurl&lt;/a&gt; feature on Google to search inside the website. For example &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&amp;amp;ion=1&amp;amp;espv=2&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8#q=inurl:http:%2F%2Fwww.chakoteya.net%2F%20andromeda%20migraine&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;inurl:http://www.chakoteya.net/ andromeda migraine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also find &lt;em&gt;original&lt;/em&gt; Star Trek scripts at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.st-minutiae.com/resources/scripts/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;www.st-minutiae.com&lt;/a&gt; (but be careful because they also host fanfic scripts on the same site) :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Star Wars Canon books / Star Wars Non-Canon books / Harry Potter books / LOTR Books, etc&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use &lt;a href=&quot;https://calibre-ebook.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Calibre&lt;/a&gt; to manage my ebook libraries. I have my Star Wars books arranged into separate libraries for Canon and Legends (to make it easier to search through) and my Harry Potter/LOTR stuff in single libraries, all converted into epub format. When combined with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=125428&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Epub Quality Check&lt;/a&gt; tool, searching for specific terms is a doddle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/a3agk.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/a3agk.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also have a separate folder on my PC with scripts (in PDF format) as well as scans of comics (in CBR) and artbooks, etc (mixed PDF, Epub and CBR). Searching those can be an annoyance, but it really helps to have read them at leisure and have them filed and organised so you can locate them by remembering the &lt;em&gt;type&lt;/em&gt; of book&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ud9GE.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ud9GE.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Online references, etc.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typing out quotes by hand is a mug's game. Better to take a picture of it (or a screenshot) and convert it using &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.abbyy.com/en-gb/finereader/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ABBYY Finereader&lt;/a&gt;. It'll convert any text into a Word Document within seconds and makes turning PDF-image scripts and Google Books finds into something readable a doddle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Twits&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trying to remember a specific tweet can be hard work. Luckily, Twitter comes with an &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/search-advanced&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;advanced search feature&lt;/a&gt;&quot; that allows you to search accounts for specific words and phrases; for example, if I wanted to search all of Pablo Hidalgo's tweets for the word Erso&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/U0ug2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/U0ug2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Scripts and Screenplays&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.imsdb.com/&lt;/a&gt; is a good resource, as is &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.scriptdrive.xyz/index.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ScriptDrive&lt;/a&gt; although you'll need to register to get the &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; scripts. Note that if they're in production they often get removed but you can still see the filenames. If you google those with quotes around, you can often find other copies online.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reddit is a good place to find zipped files of the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BybNvm-CX6dkSEVxWG83dHlzanc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Black List&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, an archive of scripts that are being touted around Hollywood. Many of these get purchased and made each year so you can see what's &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;coming soon&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gnorb.net/389/the-matrix-comics-online&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gnorb&lt;/a&gt; is a good reference for the Matrix Comics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-01-09T22:15:12.017" LastActivityDate="2017-01-09T22:15:12.017" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10478" CreationDate="2017-01-09T22:43:04.887" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Google*&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before doing anything else, try  searching for any phrases or keywords you might remember. If the work is well-known, and the phrase is catchy, odd’s are someone has written it online at one point or another. Besides, there’s a decent chance this will turn up the phrase even if you get some of it wrong. Don’t forget to append the name of the work, if you can recall it (e.g. “Star Wars”) if you’re mostly getting unrelated results. Double quotes are helpful for eliminating partial matches, but can lead you astray if you misremembered part of the phrase: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/m9Fuhm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/m9Fuhm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QzCPAm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QzCPAm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is arguably better than all the other sources in many instances, because it can &lt;em&gt;lead&lt;/em&gt; you to those other sources. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;E-books&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Google fails, or when I can remember the work or series in which a quote is found, I turn to my modest collection of e-books. I have many of the Star Wars, &lt;strong&gt;Star Trek, Warhammer, and Harry Potter&lt;/strong&gt; books, among others, in a handy epub format. I use Calibre to store and read them. &#xA;I generally search manually, but there are some useful utilities that can be used to search books en masse. Frankly, I just do a batch convert to .txt and use regular expressions to find whatever phrase I need when that happens. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some books are scanned, which can make finding information painful. In such cases, it pays to have a working knowledge of where things are. That is, actually read the books! Text search is no substitute for actually knowing where things are, though it works in a pinch. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most books of interest can be purchased on Amazon or in Google books, or procured elsewhere. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Transcripts&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mainly use &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chakoteya&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;strong&gt;Star Wars&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/strong&gt; transcripts. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_scripts.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Springfield! Springfield!&lt;/a&gt; has an impressive number of transcripts for many films, including those that have not even been released on DVD, but suffers from not noting who is saying what. In addition, they’ve suffered a server problem, and lost a lot of their scripts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://transcripts.wikia.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Transcripts Wikia&lt;/a&gt; is another useful source, albeit incomplete. &lt;a href=&quot;http://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Forever Dreaming&lt;/a&gt; helps fill some of the gaps in the other sources, with an impressive number of shows. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many transcripts share the flaw of not noting who says what, so sometimes there’s nothing for it but to go through the episode/film to find who made a particular statement. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Social media&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Twitter is a useful source of information, and you can search for quotes by a specific person, as mentioned elsewhere. Just make sure you have a verified account, or can confirm the owner’s identity&amp;mdash;some people have fan accounts or outright impersonators. If you are &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; unable to find out whether someone ever said something, these sources can also be useful for simply asking them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as searching for quotes goes, Goodreads has an impressive number of quotes from both well-known or obscure written works. It’s likely to come up in a Google search, but an in-site search of the site (&lt;code&gt;“quote” site:goodreads.com&lt;/code&gt;) is likely to be more helpful: more signal, less noise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;*And other lesser search engines.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="51379" LastEditDate="2017-01-09T23:10:05.483" LastActivityDate="2017-01-09T23:10:05.483" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10483" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10484" CreationDate="2017-01-10T01:28:10.460" Score="3" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/149775/what-did-darth-vader-mean-by-there-ll-be-no-one-to-stop-us-this-time-who-had&quot;&gt;I just posted a question about &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; (1977)&lt;/a&gt; and inferred at one point near the end of that question that &lt;em&gt;Rogue One&lt;/em&gt; (2016) was not the first attempt to give some depth to the backstory of how Rebels acquired the Death Star plans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/149775/what-did-darth-vader-mean-by-there-ll-be-no-one-to-stop-us-this-time-who-had#comment384996_149775&quot;&gt;In my comments&lt;/a&gt; I provided links to two online sources of details on past attempts to flesh out the backstory of &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; (1977): Information &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars_(radio)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;on the 1981 NPR radio drama&lt;/a&gt; as well as &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Death_star_plans&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;more info on various books/media that touch on the backstory of the Death Star plans&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that said, is there &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; proper way of presenting these disparate sources into something interesting, more fleshed out than the Wikia pages that would be able to latch onto the interest in &lt;em&gt;Rogue One&lt;/em&gt; as well as providing the Internet with some depth to the topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, it is interesting to dive into this stuff. But creating a “list request” is a known no-no here, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14850" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2017-01-10T02:14:44.373" Title="Is there a way for someone to post a question thread that would be a list of the various “Star Wars” Death Star plans backstories on the site?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10483" CreationDate="2017-01-10T02:08:44.567" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Possibly&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; list questions are disallowed.&lt;/strong&gt; As noted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2639/51379&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, the main issue is with open-ended lists, which tend to be too broad and to accumulate single-item &quot;me too&quot; answers: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It’s not reasonable to ask a question on a Q&amp;amp;A site that requires&#xA;  knowledge of all works that ever existed, and then request a massive&#xA;  list of the works that contain one specific element. This sort of&#xA;  question lacks a single, finite answer. In practice these questions&#xA;  accumulate a steady flow of “me, too” answers where people add a few&#xA;  examples in a new answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And similarly, as noted in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10399/51379&quot;&gt;consensus answer&lt;/a&gt; to a newer question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;By themselves, “long” list questions from a specific small domain&#xA;  aren’t necessarily a problem; unless a specific question attracts&#xA;  1-item answers instead of a comprehensive list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A list with a short, finite scope, such as the list of all (Legends and canon) Star Wars backstories for the theft of the Death Star plans, &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be on-topic. But it depends on how it’s asked, and what sort of answers it’s seeking. &lt;strong&gt;A question that asks for a &lt;em&gt;full summary&lt;/em&gt; of even a &lt;em&gt;single&lt;/em&gt; account of how the Death Star plans were stolen (e.g. &lt;em&gt;Rogue One&lt;/em&gt;) could be too broad&lt;/strong&gt;, and it seems like you might be suggesting that sort of question, based on wanting something “more fleshed out than the wiki pages.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On the other hand, a question like “How many different versions are there of the theft of the Death Star plans?” would probably be perfectly fine.&lt;/strong&gt; There shouldn’t be more than a handful, so it would be a nice, finite list. But a good answer to this question wouldn’t necessarily contain a full summary of each novel, radio drama, and movie that detailed the theft of the Death Star plans.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really want to write a point-by-point summary and comparison of the various stories of how the Rebels acquired the plans, on the other hand, there might be a place for that on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://thesffblog.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;, which allows for long-form writing free of many of the restrictions of the Q&amp;amp;A format. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2017-01-10T02:14:44.373" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10485" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-10T03:48:22.827" Score="8" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a user with the name &lt;strong&gt;M. A. Golding&lt;/strong&gt; which keeps on appearing, with a &quot;new&quot; account each time, often with low to no votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time of writing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/613337/m-a-golding-accounts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;There are 52 versions of this account&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The most recent being &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/76624/m-a-golding&quot;&gt;2017-01-08&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most of them have a &lt;strong&gt;Creation Date&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Last Access Date&lt;/strong&gt; which is the same&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Indicating that they're single-use accounts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At first I thought they were the same person, but I've since realised that even though &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/43538/m-a-golding&quot;&gt;there's one account with over 3.6K rep&lt;/a&gt; (which is quite significant), the rest have less than 200 rep&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/69305/m-a-golding&quot;&gt;One account has 410 rep&lt;/a&gt; (from a single answer!)&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;So it shows that even their single contribution can be worth a fair bit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The combined rep is &lt;strong&gt;6,316&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is going on here, and what do we do if we see this account?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Suggest to them each time to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/merging-accounts&quot;&gt;Merge Accounts&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;But I have a feeling they won't come back with the same e-mail address so will never see that notification&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ping a moderator by raising a flag&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;But I'm not sure if it's the correct thing to do, since I did that once and the flag was rejected:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gzXVa.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gzXVa.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image capture of Mooz&amp;#39; flagging history indicating that one of the flags raised to moderators about the &amp;quot;M.A. Golding&amp;quot; account was rejected by a moderator, with the reason &amp;quot;declined - flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.383" LastActivityDate="2017-01-20T01:41:47.837" Title="Who is M.A. Golding and why do they have so many accounts?" Tags="|discussion|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="10" ClosedDate="2017-01-10T04:16:56.973" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10486" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-10T18:41:23.433" Score="13" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to post a question about the plot of Iolanthe, but noticed there were no tags about the duo. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this the right Stack to ask this question on?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73659" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-01-10T18:51:53.183" LastActivityDate="2017-01-10T18:51:53.183" Title="What is the state of opinion on Gilbert and Sullivan Operas" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10486" CreationDate="2017-01-10T18:45:05.117" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've never seen Iolanthe, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iolanthe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia says&lt;/a&gt; (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the opera, the &lt;strong&gt;fairy&lt;/strong&gt; Iolanthe has been banished from &lt;strong&gt;fairyland&lt;/strong&gt; because she married a mortal; this is forbidden by &lt;strong&gt;fairy&lt;/strong&gt; law. Her son, Strephon, is an Arcadian shepherd who wants to marry Phyllis, a Ward of Chancery. All the members of the House of Peers also want to marry Phyllis. When Phyllis sees Strephon hugging a young woman (not knowing that it is his mother – &lt;strong&gt;immortal fairies&lt;/strong&gt; all appear young), she assumes the worst and sets off a climactic confrontation between the peers and the &lt;strong&gt;fairies&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems perfectly on-topic to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think I'd go so far as to say that Gilbert and Sullivan are on-topic &lt;em&gt;in general&lt;/em&gt;, but at least this play looks like perfectly fair game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastActivityDate="2017-01-10T18:45:05.117" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10486" CreationDate="2017-01-10T18:47:37.883" Score="13" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The usual rules apply&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the opera is science fiction or fantasy, then it’s on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it’s not really science fiction or fantasy, but has some elements of such, then questions &lt;em&gt;about those elements&lt;/em&gt; are on-topic. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let’s see how these apply to &lt;em&gt;Iolanthe&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fairies &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iolanthe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;feature prominently&lt;/a&gt; in the plot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Twenty-five years before the beginning of the opera, the fairy&#xA;  Iolanthe committed the capital crime (under fairy law) of marrying a&#xA;  mortal human. The Queen of the fairies commuted Iolanthe’s sentence of&#xA;  death to banishment for life on the condition that Iolanthe left her&#xA;  husband and never communicated with him again. After the passage of 25&#xA;  years, the fairies, still missing Iolanthe deeply, plead with their&#xA;  Queen to pardon Iolanthe and to restore her place in fairyland&#xA;  (“Tripping hither, tripping thither”).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iolanthe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;spells&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Offended, the Fairy Queen pronounces a magical “sentence” upon the&#xA;  peers: Strephon shall not only become a Member of Parliament, but will&#xA;  have the power to pass any bill he proposes (“With Strephon for your&#xA;  foe, no doubt”).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So Iolanthe is on-topic.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this would &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be true of all Gilbert and Sullivan operas. Most of them, such as &lt;em&gt;Yeomen of the Guard&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Pirates of Penzance&lt;/em&gt;, are simply not SF. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastActivityDate="2017-01-10T18:47:37.883" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2474" CreationDate="2017-01-11T23:55:07.597" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/149926/31394&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s going on legally between CBS/Paramount and Axanar and how does it relate to Star Trek: Discovery (if at all)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;attracted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/149965/31394&quot;&gt;an answer&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://s.ai/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sai&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, founder and former president of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://conlang.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Language Creation Society&lt;/a&gt; and the LCS's official spokesperson in the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only is this an answer from someone professionally involved in the case, it's also an incredibly detailed and thorough answer in its own right, if you take into account the scope of the linked resources, including a Google Drive link containing &lt;strong&gt;hundreds of PDFs comprising all filings in the case&lt;/strong&gt;, which is regularly updated by Sai themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2017-01-11T23:55:07.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10490" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10491" CreationDate="2017-01-13T00:42:06.070" Score="4" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;The new question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/150097/13217&quot;&gt;Are there any technological defences against the Force?&lt;/a&gt; has the tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-force&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-force&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-force&lt;/a&gt;. However,&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/10077/13217&quot;&gt;Can flow of force be disturbed with technology?&lt;/a&gt; is an exact duplicate and also has the tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-force&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-force&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-force&lt;/a&gt; (as well as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt;, which is probably unnecessary).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The trouble is that the second question was asked in 2012 before the Legends/Disney split and the existing answer is Legends-only. I'm not sure what to do in this situation. Should we:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mark the new question as a duplicate and add a Disney canon answer to the old question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep both questions open and retag the old question as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-legends&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-legends&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-legends&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-force&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-force&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-force&lt;/a&gt;. Thus the only difference between the two questions is the addition of the Legends tag?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10422/13217&quot;&gt;How should we handle &amp;quot;obsolete&amp;quot; answers to old questions (e.g. pre-Disney canon Star Wars questions)?&lt;/a&gt; in which a pre-Disney canon question was never retagged as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-legends&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-legends&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-legends&lt;/a&gt;, but was given a Disney canon answer that contradicted Legends answers. The consensus was to keep the question open without retagging and just upvote the Disney canon answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13217" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2017-01-13T01:15:14.770" Title="Star Wars question is an exact duplicate of old question asked before Legends. Retag old question or add new answer to old and mark new as dupe?" Tags="|duplicate-questions|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10490" CreationDate="2017-01-13T01:15:14.770" Score="11" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Mark it as duplicate&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s not worth it to have two different questions for two different canons. Would we want one question about the &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; television series, another about the audio serials, and a third about written works, all asking (for example) whether the Doctor is really half-human? Would we want one question about &lt;em&gt;The Cursed Child&lt;/em&gt; and another about the main Harry Potter series, asking whether Voldemort had any children? Better not to have two or three identical questions with slightly different flavors of continuity, and that differ only mainly in the tags that people have attached. Most people are not even going to look at the tags, which could lead to a great deal of confusion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More to the point, we aren’t generally in the habit of asking new questions when an old question contains information that’s out-of-date or obsolete. If the answers to a duplicate question aren’t satisfactory enough, we have several options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Post a bounty on the old question&lt;/strong&gt;, with the reason “The current answer(s) are out-of-date and require revision given recent changes.” &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Write a new answer&lt;/strong&gt; that takes into account only new Disney canon information, or that takes into account both Disney canon and Legends.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leave a comment&lt;/strong&gt; suggesting some changes on one or more of the existing answers. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastActivityDate="2017-01-13T01:15:14.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10492" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10493" CreationDate="2017-01-14T21:08:05.140" Score="7" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;For some completely unfathomable reason, we appear to have two tags for this character: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gollum&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gollum&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gollum&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/smeagol&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;smeagol&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;smeagol&lt;/a&gt;. Can we please merge these?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-01-14T21:58:13.397" LastActivityDate="2017-01-14T21:58:13.397" Title="Merge [gollum] and [smeagol]" Tags="|support|status-completed|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10492" CreationDate="2017-01-14T21:19:18.387" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. Make &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gollum&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gollum&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gollum&lt;/a&gt; the main tag and make &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/smeagol&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;smeagol&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;smeagol&lt;/a&gt; a synonym.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2017-01-14T21:19:18.387" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10494" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10520" CreationDate="2017-01-15T23:13:59.070" Score="16" ViewCount="207" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from October 1st 2016 through December 31 2016 (&lt;strong&gt;They don't have to be &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; questions and answers.&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2016/10/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2016/10/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2016/10/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I will also be linking all blog posts that happened within this quarter.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also if there was a meta post you feel should be spotlighted those are also acceptable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Notice:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There appears to be some confusion about what is accepted. There is nothing wrong with promoting your own questions and answers. There is no point in down-voting anyone's answer to this meta question, everything gets included in the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2017-01-23T17:19:04.607" Title="Favorite Questions and Answers from fourth quarter of 2016" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8008" CreationDate="2017-01-17T01:32:25.493" Score="-4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;While it is set in a somewhat vague time period, that &lt;em&gt;by itself&lt;/em&gt; does not render it on-topic. None of the time periods that it resembles are by themselves futuristic, and it does not involve any &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/44/51379&quot;&gt;major (or indeed minor) alternate history elements&lt;/a&gt;. That the time period of a mundane work cannot be pinned down does not make it science fiction or fantasy. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is true that the movie is classified as fantasy on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0339291/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;. However, while we do take into account marketing in determining whether something is on-topic, that should not be to the exclusion of common sense. IMBD can make mistakes. I watched the film (albeit some time ago), and I’m struggling to think of anything that would render it fantasy. Perhaps someone thinks that a giant magnifying glass is fantasy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has a certain element of whimsy, to be sure, but I think we can recognize that not every whimsical movie is fantasy, and indeed that most fantasy is not whimsical. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Considering the series itself, I’m having trouble thinking of particularly science-fictional elements. The only ones I can think that are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Incredibly Deadly Viper and Sunny, both of whom demonstrate intelligence unusual in snakes and babies, respectively.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Medusoid Mycelium, which isn’t a real fungus, to my knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Bombinating Beast, a.k.a the Great Unknown. Possibly a sea monster, possibly something else. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hangfire’s voice imitation is implausible, sure, but there are people in real life with an  uncanny ability to mimic voices. Besides, it’s mainly in the same category as Count Olaf’s improbable disguises.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In particular, we should consider our longstanding policy on spy-fi, and on works with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/344/51379&quot;&gt;minor science fiction elements.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If there is a minor supernatural element (e.g. a fortune teller’s&#xA;  prediction comes true, &lt;strong&gt;or someone sees a ghost&lt;/strong&gt;, or a story for&#xA;  children involving anthropomorphic animals) but it’s just a throwaway&#xA;  plot element that’s not particularly relevant to the question, it’s&#xA;  off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are all &lt;em&gt;minor&lt;/em&gt; supernatural elements, and they’re mostly not even particularly supernatural. An unusually intelligent snake? A precocious baby? A possibly-genetically-engineered fungus? James Bond (ruled spy-fi and off-topic) has more science fiction elements than this&amp;mdash;which is to say, not many. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film and TV series, on the other hand, are firmly on-topic on Movies and TV, and there will &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/93238/literature?referrer=pG-ejQRSCH0RMbN3ps5MrA2&quot;&gt;soon be a site&lt;/a&gt; where the books will also likely be firmly on-topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.250" LastActivityDate="2017-01-17T01:32:25.493" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10496" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-17T01:45:22.577" Score="2" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;A question has recently been asked about 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' which has attracted a number of close votes (as off-topic).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rand al'Thor  points out that the current consensus on Lemony Snicket is that it's on-topic (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8008/are-questions-about-lemony-snickets-a-series-of-unfortunate-events-considered/8073#8073&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I happen to disagree with this decision. &lt;strong&gt;Should I vote to close based on my personal opinion, or the general consensus of the community?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51142" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2017-01-17T15:57:50.687" Title="Should I vote to close based on my opinion or community consensus?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10496" CreationDate="2017-01-17T04:39:29.720" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would suggest NOT voting contrary to known-to-you community consensus, even if it is technically legal to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because the end result will be the same (even if you find 5 more people who agree with you that community consensus is wrong and VTC, the question WILL get reopened, either by 5 more people who agree with community consensus, or by a moderator - because typically moderator votes follow community consensus as defined by Meta).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you will, in the process:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Create extra work for people (VTRO voters OR moderators)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Potentially create bad feelings for the OP (&quot;why are people voting against the rules? Must be a personal attack&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Potentially create bad feelings for the community (while it is technically your right to VTC against community consensus, it does feel a bit like a mean-spirited challenge to the community, from a certain point of view - even if you didn't &lt;em&gt;mean&lt;/em&gt; it that way)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2017-01-17T15:57:50.687" LastActivityDate="2017-01-17T15:57:50.687" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10498" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10499" CreationDate="2017-01-17T17:20:45.613" Score="4" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/150394/31051&quot;&gt;The post&lt;/a&gt; pictured below was ultimately deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I flagged it as spam (&quot;&lt;em&gt;irrelevant or unsolicited messages sent over the Internet, typically to a large number of users&lt;/em&gt;&quot;) although this was rejected as no evidence was found for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What should I have flagged this as?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xk12K.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xk12K.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68872" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2017-01-17T19:04:38.313" Title="What should I have flagged this post as?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10498" CreationDate="2017-01-17T17:29:43.877" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;First off, it's not spam&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's worth pointing out that the spam flag (and also the &quot;abusive/offensive&quot; flag) carries some &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/58035/276025&quot;&gt;additional penalties&lt;/a&gt;, so you shouldn't use it unless the post you're flagging is &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; spam, which on SE is defined to be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Exists only to promote a product or service, does not disclose the author's affiliation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;I'd have raised a custom moderator flag&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is, in fact, a very low quality flag for questions (I can flag this question as VLQ, for instance), but there are &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/209302/276025&quot;&gt;several&lt;/a&gt; conditions &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/244717/276025&quot;&gt;under which&lt;/a&gt; it is not available&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, so you couldn't use it in this case. In this case, assuming your intent is to have the post deleted, the best course of action would have been to raise a custom flag with a message along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question serves no useful purpose and should be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you just wanted the question closed, you could also have flagged it for closure using any relevant reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Off-topic&lt;/strong&gt;, which it obviously is&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unclear what you're asking&lt;/strong&gt; which, since there wasn't a question at all, certainly applies. Worth noting is that the question &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; closed under this reason before it was deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; One of these conditions appears to be &quot;has ever had a close vote on it&quot;; notice that you can't flag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/149555/31051&quot;&gt;Can werecoyotes/werejaguars form packs?&lt;/a&gt; as VLQ, which has already gone through the close votes queue&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2017-01-17T18:26:07.050" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10498" CreationDate="2017-01-17T17:33:59.873" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Stack Exchange, &quot;spam&quot; has a very specific meaning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JTJe4m.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JTJe4m.png&quot; alt=&quot;spam&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't flag a question as spam unless it's specifically &lt;em&gt;promotional content&lt;/em&gt;. Spam flags carry additional penalties which shouldn't be applied to non-spam posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/150394/31394&quot;&gt;this particular question&lt;/a&gt; (link only visible to 10k+ users), you could have done any one of a number of things (in decreasing order of desirability):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;flagged it as &lt;strong&gt;should be closed&lt;/strong&gt; (note: for users with &gt;3k rep, this amounts to a close vote)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;flagged it as &lt;strong&gt;very low quality&lt;/strong&gt; (which I believe sends the post into the Low Quality Posts review queue as &lt;em&gt;well&lt;/em&gt; as the Close Votes one, making it likely to be closed even more quickly)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;used a &lt;strong&gt;custom moderator flag&lt;/strong&gt; and typed an explanation of what the problem with the post is.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that custom mod flags usually &lt;em&gt;shouldn't&lt;/em&gt; be used for questions which simply need to be closed. If you find a blatantly off-topic question, flag it for closure, or possibly as &quot;very low quality&quot; if appropriate; but &lt;strong&gt;moderator intervention isn't usually required&lt;/strong&gt;. Five 3k+ rep users are enough to close any question; once it's been closed, three 20k+ rep users are enough to delete it right away, but even that isn't usually necessary - after a certain number of days, questions which are closed, downvoted, and unanswered will be cleaned up by the system anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2017-01-17T17:40:43.853" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9814" CreationDate="2017-01-18T11:34:45.657" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't care for the film adaptations, but the short story collections &lt;em&gt;The Jungle Book&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Second Jungle Book&lt;/em&gt; on topic, because &lt;strong&gt;Mowgli is a superhero&lt;/strong&gt; and superhero stories are on topic.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mowgli has superpowers.  He commands wolves and other animals, even elephants to do his bidding.  He knows everything that happens in the jungle by getting news from other animals, and can move as silently as the indians in wild west stories.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mowgli uses this superpower to avenge people who has wronged his family.  In “Letting In the Jungle”, he destroys an entire human village and sends all its people to poverty.  He did all this because the village people have started a witch trial against his mother, tortured her, and would have killed her have Mowgli not saved her.  Later in “In the Rukh”, he punishes a thieving servant, returns the stolen goods, and gives another chance for the servant to live a sinless life.  All during this, he keeps his hands free of blood like Batman does in some continuities.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Certainly not all stories in are ones where Mowgli works as a superhero, but the rest are relevant too.  The first stories of the &lt;em&gt;The Jungle Book&lt;/em&gt; (“Mowgli's Brothers” and “Kaa's Hunting”) are origin stories of Mowgli, telling how he became the superhero we see in &lt;em&gt;The Second Jungle Book&lt;/em&gt;. “The Miracle of Purun Bhagat” is the story of a less powerful superhero saving an entire village from certain death.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The stories explain that Mogwli got his powers because he was raised by wolves during his childhood.  Such superpowers are rare even in universe: “In the Rukh” says that almost all humans raised by wolves die early.  But even with that explanation, his superpowers don't seem less fantastical.  Mogli's superpowers are as real as those of Mathias Sandorf, who can use his mental powers to put people to a state where they appear dead and later revive them.  &lt;em&gt;Mathias Sandorf&lt;/em&gt; explains that he's learnt hypnosis and healing from some masters when he's spent years hiding in East Asia, and that his submarines are powered by electric batteries.  But none of those explanations work in real life, which is why we don't hear about armies training soldiers by sending them to East Asia or having wolves raise them.  The explanations are still fantasy or sci-fi, only slightly more believable than getting mutant superpowers from radioactivity or a red sun.  (I'm not trying to compare in detail to Marvel or DC superheros, because I don't know much about those.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="4918" LastEditDate="2020-04-13T10:16:03.407" LastActivityDate="2020-04-13T10:16:03.407" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10503" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10504" CreationDate="2017-01-18T15:26:02.360" Score="6" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just flagged something as opinion based and used one of my flags. This is my first time using flags, so I'm wondering if I use all ten (not that I plan to go on a flagging rampage) will I be put on a cool down or not allowed to flag anymore?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73659" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-01-18T15:34:12.703" LastActivityDate="2017-01-18T15:34:12.703" Title="If someone uses all of their flags, are they not allowed to flag anymore?" Tags="|support|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10503" CreationDate="2017-01-18T15:33:48.380" Score="11" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Flag limits&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/149659/278659&quot;&gt;How many flags does a user have per day?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/185888/278659&quot;&gt;On the recent changes to flagging and limits&lt;/a&gt; on main meta. You get a &lt;strong&gt;fixed flag allowance each day, varying from 10 to 100&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;default 10 per day&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;one bonus flag per 2000 reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;one bonus flag for every 10 net helpful flags (helpful - declined)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;maximum 100&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you've used up your flags for the day, you won't be able to flag again until the next (UTC) day. That's not a punishment; it's just to ensure that the flag queue doesn't get completely flooded in a short period of time. Note that if enough of your flags are marked helpful, you may get &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; flags in a given day even if you ran out earlier, by the third bullet point!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Flag bans&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; possible to get blocked from flagging for more than a day, but that's never permanent (it lasts a week at most, unless you raise even more bad flags) and only happens if you have too many &lt;em&gt;declined&lt;/em&gt; flags. From &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/175405/278659&quot;&gt;this canonical main meta post&lt;/a&gt; (which also contains screenshots):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flaggers with a recent (past 7 days) flagging history consisting of at least 10 handled flags where &amp;gt;= 10% of flags were declined will see [a warning] when they flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those who've had 25% or more of their flags declined will [...] be unable to flag any further posts for any reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; feel more like a punishment, but if it does happen, think of it as more like a notification that you're not flagging as carefully as you could be. The advice to review your own flagging history is genuine, and meta is always there for you if you need advice. And it's unlikely to happen anyway if you flag sensibly - flags raised in good faith are usually marked helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-01-18T15:33:48.380" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10475" CreationDate="2017-01-20T04:26:02.467" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would not support actors, bearing in mind Noel &quot;The Master&quot; Coward's remark that they &quot;... were the opposite of real people&quot;.&#xA;However I would advocate for Iain M Banks in the illustrious list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47306" LastActivityDate="2017-01-20T04:26:02.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10507" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10508" CreationDate="2017-01-20T05:01:48.417" Score="6" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to ask for a story identification where the story itself isn't really sci-fi or fantasy related? For example, a story like a memoir or fiction about old England... or let's say somebody asks a question and it turns out the answer is &amp;quot;Saving Private Ryan&amp;quot; (not sci-fi or fantasy in genre, but nonetheless a story).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, which SE site should I go then? because I have a genuine story that I've read a long time ago but already forgot about the title and only remember parts of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19809" LastEditorUserId="82909" LastEditDate="2023-08-24T21:03:49.477" LastActivityDate="2023-08-24T21:03:49.477" Title="Story Identification for non Sci-Fi or fantasy theme?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10507" CreationDate="2017-01-20T06:24:43.210" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's not a Sci-Fi or Fantasy work, it's not on topic here and will be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the description doesn't seem to have SFF-like details, the community is pretty good about closing the questions and asking for clarification on what parts make it SFF (if any). If there are none, it'll stay closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Literature Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; is now public and seems to currently allow story identification questions from all genres. Rand's answer addresses this, but visiting &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Literature meta&lt;/a&gt; is the best place for advice on their scope and guidelines. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T13:01:18.293" LastActivityDate="2017-02-27T15:53:46.783" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10507" CreationDate="2017-01-20T10:53:22.560" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As CreationEdge says, please don't ask here if it's not sci-fi or fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, you can ask on &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://literature.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Literature SE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, a relatively new site which is currently in public beta. That site has &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot;&gt;already had&lt;/a&gt; several story-ID questions, none of which so far have been closed or have a negative score. The conclusion of the corresponding &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1/17&quot;&gt;meta discussion&lt;/a&gt; seems to be that they should be allowed until/unless they become a problem (e.g. the site starts getting overrun with low-quality ID questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you have an ID question about a written work which isn't sci-fi or fantasy, Literature may take it. However, as always, please do try to make it as thorough as possible, and include every last detail you can remember of the story. Please check through the answers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9335/31394&quot;&gt;How to ask a good story-ID question?&lt;/a&gt; here on SFF, to see if anything on those checklists jogs your memory for more detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T13:01:18.293" LastActivityDate="2017-02-28T09:31:11.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10510" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-20T22:09:05.610" Score="7" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm aware that editing tags en masse is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1743/massive-retagging-editing&quot;&gt;not encouraged&lt;/a&gt;. But going back and editing older questions to update the tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4935/editing-tags-on-old-questions-that-ive-answered&quot;&gt;seems to be OK&lt;/a&gt;. When a new tag is created, what is the current/best practice? Go through old questions which fit the description of the new tag and edit that tag in? Or apply the new tag solely to new questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I/someone who interested in tag comprehensiveness were to edit the older questions, would those edits be beneficial? Frowned upon? Inconsequential? In other words, is a tag intended as a &lt;em&gt;complete compendium&lt;/em&gt; of all questions which fit its description?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm interested in what people think &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; happen as well as (generally speaking) what actually &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64888" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2017-01-23T15:24:50.137" Title="Should old questions be edited when there's a new tag?" Tags="|discussion|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10511" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-20T23:57:04.467" Score="0" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps there's already a related meta in the past, but there's been a lot of activity over the last couples in Star Wars-land.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be interesting if one of the members knowledgeable on data.stackexchange.com to write a query to compare the question counts for HP vs. ST vs. SW vs. Marvel vs. DCU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally it would be maintained as new tags for those universes are created.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;And even better if we can plot the number of questions over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-01-21T03:01:29.423" LastActivityDate="2017-01-21T03:01:29.423" Title="The Great Scifi Universe Popularity Contest" Tags="|support|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10511" CreationDate="2017-01-21T03:00:42.113" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;a query to compare the question counts for HP vs. ST vs. SW vs. Marvel vs. DCU&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about ... &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags&quot;&gt;the tags page&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I'm misunderstanding you somehow, but it seems to me that that gives you all the information you want, updated live.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DkuIB.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DkuIB.png&quot; alt=&quot;tags&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2017-01-21T03:00:42.113" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10513" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10515" CreationDate="2017-01-22T03:29:58.057" Score="10" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two questions were posted recently asking about the Flash TV show:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/150639/did-zoom-sexually-assault-caitlin&quot;&gt;Did Zoom sexually assault Caitlin?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/150760/did-zoom-sexually-assault-caitlin-on-flash&quot;&gt;Did Zoom sexually assault Caitlin on Flash?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One question has been closed as a dupe of the other. Neither question is good as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They are both essentially &quot;some unnamed person said this random thing, is it true?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They seem to be trying to create a discussion about sex for which there is no basis.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both questions have been downvoted (perhaps for the reasons I described).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In both cases, the title of the question was edited by another user to change the question from whether Caitlin was &quot;raped&quot; to whether Caitlin was &quot;sexually assaulted&quot;. Sexual assault is not synonymous with rape (it includes other actions in addition to rape), so the edit seems to somewhat change the meaning of the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose the edit &lt;strong&gt;might&lt;/strong&gt; be justified if it removes clearly offensive language from the list of question titles. I think that both rape and sexual assault are offensive ideas and actions, so substituting one for the other doesn't really help. I don't think we need to avoid using proper terminology when discussing criminal behaviour. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't seek to justify these questions. I would be happy if they were a closed, but I don't think there is a close reason that covers them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66402" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2017-01-22T14:50:37.673" Title="Should we edit posts to change sexual language" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10513" CreationDate="2017-01-22T11:16:48.310" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per Dopperlgreener's excellent (and highly upvoted) answer to a similar question; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3043/should-questions-about-sex-and-other-adult-activities-be-off-topic?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;&quot;Should questions about sex and other adult activities be off-topic?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think the Stack Exchange population is generally expected to have a&#xA;  decent enough level of maturity and professionalism to be able to&#xA;  handle adult material. We are not a community of immature people -&#xA;  hopefully. We're expected to be able to conduct ourselves in a civil&#xA;  and mature manner. We should be able to discuss and mentally handle&#xA;  mature topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't like a question, downvote it. If it offends you, flag it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't go around editing people's questions because you don't like certain words.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10251/may-i-ask-a-question-about-sex-or-explicit-content-in-a-song-of-ice-and-fire-boo?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;May I ask a question about sex or explicit content in A Song of Ice and Fire books?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (highly relevant)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1582/whats-our-tolerance-for-adult-content&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s our tolerance for adult content?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3043/should-questions-about-sex-and-other-adult-activities-be-off-topic?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;Should questions about sex and other adult activities be off-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2017-01-22T11:16:48.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10513" CreationDate="2017-01-22T13:19:56.407" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Valorum's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10514/31394&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; is correct insofar as that &lt;strong&gt;we shouldn't censor sexual topics altogether&lt;/strong&gt;. We're all adults here (well, at least over 13), and we should be mature enough, as a site, to be able to handle a question about rape. If any &lt;em&gt;particular person&lt;/em&gt; doesn't want to see such a question, they can always just not click on it or read it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which brings us to the issues of &lt;strong&gt;transparency&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;courtesy&lt;/strong&gt;. For the sake of transparency, it should if possible be clear from the title that the question is about rape, so that those who are sensitive to such issues will know to avoid that question. For the sake of courtesy, the title should avoid gratuitously shocking language: it's fair to expect people who don't like the subject matter not to click on the question, but less fair to shove it in their faces whenever they browse through the question list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, &lt;strong&gt;the edit was perfectly appropriate and valid&lt;/strong&gt;: replacing &quot;rape&quot; by &quot;sexually assault&quot; doesn't change the meaning of the title or reduce the information contained there, but it does reduce the probability of offending someone who happens to see the title on the question list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;Partly inspired by the answers by Robert Cartaino and Shog9 to &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.meta.stackexchange.com/q/163/17&quot;&gt;this meta post&lt;/a&gt; on Literature SE. As Shog9 put it:&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As you said originally, putting &quot;rape&quot; in the title should be easily avoidable - but more than that, unless your question is directly &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; events or terminology that might be upsetting to others, there's no real need to include it - so don't. Sometimes this will be difficult; sometimes it will be impossible... But with a bit of attention, it should be possible to treat them - and your readers - with a delicate touch and avoid undue discomfort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:44:26.517" LastActivityDate="2017-01-22T14:50:37.673" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10516" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-22T22:35:54.817" Score="17" ViewCount="290" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/16127/what-do-the-other-farmers-symbolize-in-animal-farm&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; about Animal Farm has just been &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/16127/timeline#history_937a2ac4-af5e-428c-ad19-520e5aea6a3e&quot;&gt;reopened&lt;/a&gt; by site moderator Rand al'Thor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/16127/timeline#history_97ce01f5-2857-4867-ae25-7a88f41aac8f&quot;&gt;closed&lt;/a&gt; in 2015 as off-topic due to '&lt;em&gt;not being about science fiction or fantasy&lt;/em&gt;' in line with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6471/is-animal-farm-on-topic&quot;&gt;accepted policy&lt;/a&gt; about Animal Farm &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6474/20774&quot;&gt;not being on topic&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why has it been reopened?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2017-02-15T13:42:24.737" Title="Why has this Animal Farm question been reopened?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|vote-to-reopen|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10516" CreationDate="2017-01-22T23:37:23.857" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry about that. &lt;strong&gt;The question has now been re-closed.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But since you asked &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt;, here's the full sequence of events:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hamlet originally posted the question on the old Literature Stack Exchange, back in &lt;strong&gt;2011&lt;/strong&gt;. (Notice that the answer is from someone with a greyed-out username, as happens with migrated posts.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When the old Literature Stack Exchange was closed down in &lt;strong&gt;2012&lt;/strong&gt;, the question was migrated here to SFF as part of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1746/31394&quot;&gt;this effort&lt;/a&gt; to save useful questions from there.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A new incarnation of Literature Stack Exchange &lt;a href=&quot;http://literature.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;restarted&lt;/a&gt; just now in &lt;strong&gt;2017&lt;/strong&gt;. Yay, great news, but it caused the links to break on all questions from Lit.1 which had been migrated to other sites: the &quot;migrated from ...&quot; banner links to a page on &lt;a href=&quot;http://literature.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;http://literature.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;, but of course that page is now a totally different question on the new Literature site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This issue was raised on &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.meta.stackexchange.com/q/225/17&quot;&gt;Literature meta&lt;/a&gt;, and Shog9 provided the solution: &quot;&lt;em&gt;If you come across these, flag 'em and ask a moderator to clear the migration history.&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A user flagged the Animal Farm question for this reason, so I cleared the migration history as requested. Apparently this also had the unexpected side-effect of reopening the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TL;DR: &lt;strong&gt;it was an accident.&lt;/strong&gt; Thanks for spotting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:44:26.517" LastActivityDate="2017-02-15T13:42:24.737" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6471" CreationDate="2017-01-23T01:08:25.623" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes. Fantasy can also be political satire&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leaving out any consideration of talking animals, the plot of &lt;em&gt;Animal Farm&lt;/em&gt; involves a group of farm animals driving out the human owners of their farm and then continuing to run it. Unless you consider this to be something that could happen in the real world, then surely it must be fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that it is also political satire doesn't prevent it from being fantasy any more than the fact that &lt;em&gt;The Hitchhitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy&lt;/em&gt; is also comedy prevents it from being Sci Fi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66402" LastEditorUserId="66402" LastEditDate="2017-01-23T01:17:05.533" LastActivityDate="2017-01-23T01:17:05.533" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10510" CreationDate="2017-01-23T15:24:50.137" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I think old questions should be retagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/32041&quot;&gt;The point of tags&lt;/a&gt; is to sort questions into categories and help out people trying to search for questions later.  If there are questions that are old but should have the new tag, we should retag them.  For example, earlier this year &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9282/should-we-have-a-tolkien-language-tag&quot;&gt;I asked about creating a new tag&lt;/a&gt;.  It ended up being created, and I went through some old questions and retagged them with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien-languages&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien-languages&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien-languages&lt;/a&gt;.  Now if I want to find questions about Tolkien's languages, I just search that tag and they all come up, not just the new ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/196797/does-it-make-sense-to-add-tags-retroactively&quot;&gt;This question has been asked before&lt;/a&gt; on main site meta.  The consensus was a clear yes, as I explained up there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51142" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2017-01-23T15:24:50.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10494" CreationDate="2017-01-23T17:19:04.607" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There were no submitted user favorites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The post has been created here &lt;a href=&quot;http://thesffblog.com/2017/01/highlights-from-2016-4th-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2016 – 4th Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2017-01-23T17:19:04.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10521" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10523" CreationDate="2017-01-23T18:32:39.290" Score="11" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example, we have two separate questions asking if deleted scenes are canon.  One is on the main site (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/86485/are-deleted-scenes-considered-canon&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;), and one is on meta (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9608/are-deleted-scenes-considered-canon&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;).  The two questions are very, very similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given how central and important canon is to certain franchises like &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;, it makes sense to ask and answer canon-related questions on the main site.  However, the canon itself is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; one and the same with the actual in-universe discussion that is the domain of the main site and therefore should probably be separate.  One could argue it either way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;So, where should questions about canon (including what is and isn't canon as well as higher/lesser canon) be placed?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73743" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-01-23T18:55:55.830" Title="Should questions about canon be on the main site or on meta?" Tags="|discussion|canon|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10521" CreationDate="2017-01-23T18:55:12.417" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Both&lt;/strong&gt;, in essence. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a question about canon is about a specific universe it needs to be asked on the main site and have the appropriate tags added.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/910/how-is-canonicity-of-derivative-works-determined-for-star-wars&quot;&gt;How is canonicity of derivative works determined for Star Wars?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/117948/which-harry-potter-works-are-considered-canon&quot;&gt;Which Harry Potter works are considered canon?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question is  how we treat canon or the mechanics of using canon in answers, it should be on meta. &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5298/how-should-we-handle-star-wars-qas-post-disney-canon-revamp?rq=1&quot;&gt;How should we handle Star Wars Q&amp;amp;As post-Disney-canon-revamp?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10015/should-cursed-child-answers-be-given-to-harry-potter-questions?rq=1&quot;&gt;Should Cursed Child answers be given to Harry Potter questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2017-01-23T18:55:12.417" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10521" CreationDate="2017-01-23T18:55:55.830" Score="15" Body="&lt;h2&gt;They belong on both...&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about what is/isn't canon have a place on both the main site and on meta, but for subtly different reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They belong on the main site when asking about what &amp;quot;really happened&amp;quot; in a creative work. As you say, this is the kind of thing that's of great interest to fans of a creative universe. It's true that &amp;quot;Canon&amp;quot; is a meta-concept: it defines the universe of discourse, but isn't itself a part of that universe. But we've always maintained that out-of-universe questions are on-topic on the main site, so I see no problem here; it's still a question about how a particular SFFnal universe works, and so belongs on the main site&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They belong on meta when asking about what makes a good source for answers. For better or for worse, as a community we've largely agreed that answers without &amp;quot;canon&amp;quot; sources are, at best, less desirable; that inevitably leads to the question of &amp;quot;Well, okay, but what &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a canon source?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This, fundamentally, is a question of how to interact with the site, and belongs on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;...Personally, I'd rather have them on Main...&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The difference between those two points above is largely one of intention, which is difficult (if not impossible) to determine in most cases. If I were to offer advice to a new asker, though, I would recommend they post their question on the main site&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, for two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They're more likely to get better answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More people will benefit from the knowledge shared&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which are really just nuances on the same reason: more people &lt;em&gt;visit&lt;/em&gt; the main site than meta (by an enormous margin).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;...But it's going to be case-by-case&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are situations where such a questions belongs on the main site, and other situations where they belong on meta. For that reason alone, I'm not comfortable setting down a commandment on this topic; it depends on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Provided it was a good question for the main site, not too broad and on-topic and so forth&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-01-23T18:55:55.830" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10524" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10525" CreationDate="2017-01-23T19:59:46.840" Score="1" ViewCount="180" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came across the question about George Orwell’s &lt;em&gt;1984&lt;/em&gt; that is—for all intents and purposes—pretty useless as-is. In my humble opinion, the book is extremely well known, 68+ years old and past that the whole thread the question inspires is ripe for spoilers anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/12109/revisions&quot;&gt;attempted to edit it to remove the spoiler tags, but the original poster reverted my edits&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12109/what-happened-to-winston-smith-at-the-end-of-1984?noredirect=1#comment389091_12109&quot;&gt;left this comment&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“I strongly disagree with your idea that spoilers are not needed and you gain nothing by removing them. A book or movie may be well known, but not all of us have had time to see or read every well known work. There is no reason to remove spoilers for the few who may not have read it and it does nothing for those who have.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/968/what-is-the-policy-for-spoilers&quot;&gt;read this meta thread&lt;/a&gt; regarding the policy—unofficial and casual—for spoilers, and from what I am reading a question such as this &lt;em&gt;1984&lt;/em&gt; is the type of use of spoilers that should be avoided. And—from my perspective—pretty much every school child or thrift store shopper has read this or has had the potential to read this for the 68+ years it’s been around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So should this question be protected? Will anyone really have the story ruined by speculating about Winston Smith’s fate? Heck, the whole question is attempting to get clarification on the “open to interpretation” ending of the book, so if it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; open to interpretation, then heck… How can it be spoiled?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14850" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2017-01-25T14:12:51.693" Title="Should this question about George Orwell’s 1984 be 80% blocked by spoilers?" Tags="|discussion|policy|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10524" CreationDate="2017-01-23T20:37:21.123" Score="14" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Arguing against spoilerficiation on the basis of age is contrary to our established policy&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such as it is, anyway; this is admittedly something we're not always very good about enforcing, but the meta discussion you linked to in this question does pretty clearly say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't consider the age of the material. There are still people new to Star Wars, the Matrix, and The Lord of the Rings, even though these could all be considered so established that the main points are common knowledge.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, although philosophically I'm inclined to agree with you that it's &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; not necessary in this case, it's good manners if nothing else, and I wouldn't go against the post's owner on this basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Arguing against spoilerification on the basis of &amp;quot;it won't ruin the story&amp;quot; seems...wrong&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I studied &lt;em&gt;1984&lt;/em&gt; in school (the first time I'd read it, no less), as I suspect many people did, and the entire time I was reading it, I knew exactly how it was going to end: Winston was going to succeed in his rebellion against Big Brother, and then do....something. I didn't expect him to dismantle the empire in an afternoon (I hadn't gotten into YA fiction, so I wasn't primed for that ending), but I figured he'd at least set out to form some kind of resistance movement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously I was completely wrong, which not only took me entirely by surprise, but is also quite central to many of the themes of the book, about the importance of individuality and the difficulty in resisting oppression.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it would have ruined the story for me, if I'd known the ending a head of time, but it certainly would have made it less immediately effective. And that's kind of the point of spoilerification; learning the ending doesn't (necessarily) ruin the story, but it does lessen the impact of significant events and character moments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Arguing against spoilerification on the basis of readability is more reasonable, but the question would need to be largely re-written&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you accurately point out, there's very little useful information in the question that isn't spoilerified. This is frustrating for a reader, and ideally should be avoided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, that's hard to do with the question as written. There are probably ways the question could be re-written to be more useful, such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At one point, Winston is told that the Party doesn't &amp;quot;just&amp;quot; execute people; they break them down and teach them to love Big Brother. Then, when they're broken and soulless and content to be a member of the party, that's when they're executed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the story,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; after he's been forced to betray Julia, and sees her later and realizes his love for her has been destroyed, he realizes he loves Big Brother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this mean that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Winston&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will soon be executed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And there are probably better ways. I wouldn't be opposed to editing the question along these lines, but, since we largely respect post ownership, I'd want to do any editing in collaboration with the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-01-23T21:15:30.230" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10524" CreationDate="2017-01-24T00:56:22.577" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with everything Jason Baker said in his answer, but I'd like to point out that &lt;strong&gt;you don't need to pontificate about how spoilerific your question is&lt;/strong&gt; in addition to the spoiler tags.  Just ask the question and use spoiler tags (and a vague title) if necessary.  I'm half-tempted to remove said pontification from the main-site question we're discussing, but I don't want to start an edit war.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is basically all spoilers, I would recommend putting something like the following at the top of the question in lieu of spoiler tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;**Spoilers for [thing] are unmarked below.**&#xA;----&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But since this is less commonly done, I would &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; edit it into someone else's question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastActivityDate="2017-01-24T00:56:22.577" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10527" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2017-01-24T15:00:54.623" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Discussion questions are the heart of your community.&#xA;For example: Should a certain question be allowed on the site? For what reason did a moderator lock a certain question? Are said actions setting a precedent?&#xA;Be sure to present your entire case and background information/data so the subject can be discussed fully.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77441" LastEditorUserId="31051" LastEditDate="2017-01-24T15:05:36.940" LastActivityDate="2017-01-24T15:05:36.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10528" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2017-01-24T15:00:54.623" Score="0" Body="The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus." OwnerUserId="77441" LastEditorUserId="77441" LastEditDate="2017-01-24T15:32:38.973" LastActivityDate="2017-01-24T15:32:38.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10524" CreationDate="2017-01-25T04:59:45.053" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the poster of this question, my reasoning was that not everyone has read every, heard, or seen every &quot;well known&quot; story, film, show, or audio play in the SF&amp;amp;F genre.  I read this particular book when I was about 13 years old and it had a strong impact on my life and world views.  Part of that came about because, as mentioned in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10525/1693&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; I also expected the book to end one way and was stunned it ended in an entirely different fashion.  I wouldn't dream of depriving anyone else of that experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My putting most of the question behind a &quot;spoiler shield,&quot; does no harm.  Removing that can have a negative impact on someone who has not yet read the book.  There's no solid justification for removing the spoilers and there is a reason for preserving them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason given for removing all spoiler protection is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The spoilers are utterly not needed here since this book is well known and—as phrased—the question is fairly useless with 80% blocked by spoiler tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This reasoning is faulty.  First, &quot;since this book is well known&quot; does not mean it's universally read.  I know many SF fans who have not read it and keep hoping they'll get around to it.  Second, saying the question is, &quot;fairly useless with 80% blocked...&quot;  is clearly wrong since, as of now, it has 29 answers.  Clearly people are having no trouble reading and responding to it, so it's useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a reason, even if it's weak, to leave spoiler shields in place.  There is no clear or compelling reason to remove them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it was edited, it looked like very minimal effort was put into the editing.  Just removing the spoiler markdowns seems to be all that was done.  This lack of effort to keep any information hidden and even the reason for editing show no concern for readers trying to avoid spoilers.  If it had been attentively edited to allow more to be seen while leaving key information still hidden, I would not have had an issue with it.  I would even be okay with a total rewrite that keeps only the key information hidden.  However, just removing the markdown syntax implies to me either just a dislike of hiding spoilers or a lack of effort or concern for the editing process.  (Note I'm saying it &lt;strong&gt;implies&lt;/strong&gt; that.  I don't know if that is the case or not and I'm not about to say it is.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ADDENDUM&lt;/strong&gt;: I just came across &lt;a href=&quot;https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/01/25/0256236/george-orwells-1984-tops-amazons-bestseller-list&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; about how, as of today, Orwell's &quot;1984&quot; is number 6 on their current bestseller list.  With that in mind, it makes it even more appropriate to keep spoilers hidden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2017-01-25T14:12:51.693" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10530" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10532" CreationDate="2017-01-25T16:24:09.657" Score="11" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked for a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/150995/sci-fi-book-about-a-male-entering-a-competition-that-he-wins-and-gets-recruited&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; and it went big. I gained 113 rep in just 2 days. I have another story-identification question but don't want to look like a rep-farmer who just only asks and answers questions that should get large amounts of rep. How often if it polite to post story-identification questions that have the chance of going big. My question even became a Hot Network Question so I really need help. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user70441" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2017-01-25T19:48:20.820" Title="How often is it polite to ask for a story-identification" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10530" CreationDate="2017-01-25T16:31:05.063" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;One every day should be fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The quality of the question matters more than the frequency. Make sure you include all details, respond to comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Welcome to the Stack! You've been off to a good start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2017-01-25T16:31:05.063" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10530" CreationDate="2017-01-25T16:42:38.327" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask them as often as you want. Asking a high volume of &lt;em&gt;good quality&lt;/em&gt; questions is not only allowed but encouraged. Good content is what these sites thrive on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you may &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to slow down your pace, for a couple of reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you ask too many too fast, some of them may get lost in the shuffle. After seeing 5 or 6 of them, users may decide they've seen enough. This is particularly true with story-id, as there's a much smaller subset of our users that handle them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The reputation cap. You can only get 200 reputation points in a single day. For questions, that amounts to 40 upvotes, which is a lot of &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; question, but spread over many, you could easily reach it. If you pace yourself more, you are less likely to hit it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Badges. Asking good questions on multiple days is one of the things Stack Exchanges rewards as good behavior by giving out badges, if you're into that kind of thing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2017-01-25T19:48:20.820" LastActivityDate="2017-01-25T19:48:20.820" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10533" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10534" CreationDate="2017-01-25T21:35:20.097" Score="4" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question was put on hold for being off-topic: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/151083/which-anime-are-these-images-from&quot;&gt;Which anime are these images from?&lt;/a&gt; The question is a &lt;code&gt;story-identification&lt;/code&gt; question with no details that make it on-topic, so putting it on hold was a solid decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the answer (which I wrote in a comment) is a video game with a fantasy setting. So the question as such is not on-topic, but the answer is kind of on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can the question somehow be edited to be on-topic now that I know it could be? Can I rewrite it to make it seem like the person who asked knew it had a fantasy setting? Is that allowed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23384" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2017-01-27T10:09:22.270" Title="What to do when a vague identification question is off-topic, but the answer is on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10533" CreationDate="2017-01-25T22:41:33.467" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best thing to do is to &lt;strong&gt;click the &quot;reopen&quot; button&lt;/strong&gt; (which shows up if youve got over 3000 rep and puts the question into the review queue) and &lt;strong&gt;post a comment explaining that the story-id &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; on topic&lt;/strong&gt;, then wait for the community to reopen the question, allowing you to post an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're the impatient sort, or lack sufficient rep to start the reopen process, you can always hurry things along by &lt;strong&gt;posting a meta question&lt;/strong&gt; (like the one above) and/or &lt;strong&gt;nipping into chat (where you'll invariably find higher rep users at all times of day) to cast around for a few upvotes&lt;/strong&gt; to get it reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;You may wish to note that the question is currently on 4 votes to reopen and will likely be opened again within a few hours.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the question has now been reopened, this is a pretty solid confirmation that the steps outlined above &lt;em&gt;do actually work&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you shouldn't do is edit the question to make it closer to the answer. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/671/should-we-tag-solved-story-identification-questions-with-the-name-of-the-autho&quot;&gt;This post&lt;/a&gt; relates to retroactively editing tags, but the principle is very much the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2017-01-27T10:09:22.270" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10535" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2017-01-26T19:51:45.143" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-01-26T19:51:45.143" LastActivityDate="2017-01-26T19:51:45.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10536" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2017-01-26T19:51:45.143" Score="0" Body="This tag should be used on posts relating to figures that are important to the Science Fiction and Fantasy:SE community who've recently passed away. " OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-01-26T19:51:45.143" LastActivityDate="2017-01-26T19:51:45.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10537" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-27T00:28:47.343" Score="-4" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there is a disconnect in terms of what constitutes an opinion in the context of the humanities, which is understandable on a tech forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unlike most of mathematics and physics, where proofs are and hypotheses are validated in a functional manner, such exacting standards are not possible with the humanities.  Rather, scholars research material, generate insights, and try to support those insights backed by citation of source material, to a degree that it passes peer review.  (i.e. We can't know for certain what an author thought once they are dead, only speculate and hypothesize.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My recent question on the categorization of &quot;Robot&quot; myths was an attempt to utilize the genre expertise of Stack to find support for or valid arguments against my hypothesis, which is an attempt by a mythologist to bring clarity to the persistent myth of our time, which involves technology, and is distinct in the post-computing era.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not going to talk about bias or preference of moderators, who are, after all human, but only comment that I've already gotten valuable responses in the comments on my question, even though it is closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I've been a decent contributor to Stack in several areas where I have knowledge, and it's disappointing that I can't utilize that same function of Stack to get answers for my own, necessarily more complex questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70530" LastActivityDate="2017-01-27T19:49:17.563" Title="Opinions vs. Hypotheses backed by facts" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10538" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10539" CreationDate="2017-01-27T09:57:33.533" Score="7" ViewCount="235" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is a &lt;code&gt;story-identification&lt;/code&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/151238/looking-for-the-story-when-people-experience-life-in-reverse-like-a-movie-which&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/151238/looking-for-the-story-when-people-experience-life-in-reverse-like-a-movie-which&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally, questions can't be marked as duplicates unless the dupe has an upvoted or accepted answer, which makes sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &lt;code&gt;story-identification&lt;/code&gt;, I believe the policy is that the asker must also confirm that the accepted answer is the same story they were looking for. Is this correct? I believe this question and its discussion is the current consensus policy: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7065/closing-story-ident-questions-as-duplicates-where-theres-no-acceptance&quot;&gt;Closing Story-Ident questions as duplicates (where there&amp;#39;s no acceptance)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, however, the asker confirms in the question itself that they're looking for the same story another person is: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/132443/short-story-where-time-runs-backwards&quot;&gt;Short story where time runs backwards&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Does that fulfill the requirement in that consensus? The asker has admitted they're looking for the same story, but how can even they be sure of that when there's no answer?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23384" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2023-12-03T02:02:06.923" Title="What should we do if a Story-ID question acknowledges that they're looking for the same story as another user?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10538" CreationDate="2017-01-27T10:33:03.517" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the OP of the second question has openly acknowledged that it's a duplicate, I have no hesitation in closing it as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per my &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/151238/looking-for-the-story-when-people-experience-life-in-reverse-like-a-movie-which#comment390301_151238&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please don't intentionally create duplicates. If you know it's a dupe but have extra info to share, add it as a comment on the original question (or even as an answer, if you feel your information is meaty enough).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point we should work toward two main aims; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Keeping a tidy site&lt;/strong&gt; (Ensuring that the dupe gets closed) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Making sure that any additional info in the dupe is added to the original question&lt;/strong&gt; (presumably in the form of a comment that the original OP will see).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2017-01-27T10:33:03.517" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10537" CreationDate="2017-01-27T10:52:49.760" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main problem/s with your question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/151185/can-all-robot-films-and-shows-be-divided-into-two-main-categories&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/151185/can-all-robot-films-and-shows-be-divided-into-two-main-categories&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...is that it's overly broad and any answers it generated will be little more than the opinions of individual users, leading to discussion and counter-discussion without necessarily having any &lt;strong&gt;clear and definitive answer&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are our options? - &lt;em&gt;Yes, they can be categorised thusly&lt;/em&gt; (cue discussions about why this answer is wrong) or &lt;em&gt;No, they can't be categorised thusly&lt;/em&gt; (cue discussions about why this answer is wrong). Either way, the answers that are generated will be little more than chit-chat about what individual users think about your hypothesis. That's why we frown upon questions that are opinion based and overly broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To prevent your question from being flagged and possibly removed, avoid asking subjective questions where …&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.. there is no actual problem to be solved: &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“I’m curious if other people feel like I do.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-01-27T19:49:17.563" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10541" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-27T13:15:20.247" Score="-9" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6021/what-does-sidious-mean?rq=1&quot;&gt;What does Sidious mean?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should it not fall under this,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Primarily opinion-based: Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to some questions will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't see any reason why a moderator should not close this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2017-01-27T20:03:36.110" Title="Why is this question not closed?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10541" CreationDate="2017-01-27T13:48:22.940" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing that like in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10533/what-to-do-when-a-vague-identification-question-is-off-topic-but-the-answer-is&quot;&gt;this case&lt;/a&gt;, the answer shows that it's pretty easily answerable without going into opinions. Note that the asker is not a native English speaker, so they might only have needed some linguistic context, no opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.197" LastActivityDate="2017-01-27T13:48:22.940" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10541" CreationDate="2017-01-27T13:56:09.897" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;First up, moderators should only be taking unilateral action to close a question when it's clear cut that it's off-topic. In this instance, yours appears to be the only close-vote that this question has ever faced, against some 30,000 views and as opposed to 30+ upvotes spaced out over nearly 4 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, the question isn't at all &quot;opinion-based&quot;. The OP is asking why a character was given a particular name and whether that name has a &lt;em&gt;hidden&lt;/em&gt; meaning that wouldn't be immediately obvious to a non-English-speaker. Both elements of the question are theoretically answerable without the least bit of opinion. The fact that no-one has yet found an interview from Lucas that says &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;I chose the name because it sounds a bit like 'insidious' and that fits in with the Emperor's character&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is neither here nor there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may wish to note that your close vote has now been &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/close/98887&quot;&gt;reviewed and rejected&lt;/a&gt; by three high-rep users; CHEESE, Jason Baker and myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2017-01-27T14:09:17.697" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10538" CreationDate="2017-01-27T18:54:46.663" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The two caveats I'd say to the policy of closing this question are &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It might not actually be a duplicate in the end&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you don't open your own question, there's no way for you to accept it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we ever find an answer, this new guy can't confirm that it's an answer to the older question (since he's not them) and he can't accept the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2017-01-27T18:54:46.663" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10541" CreationDate="2017-01-27T20:03:36.110" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The question could have answers that are not opinion-based.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can think of two ways that this question can be answered that are not opinion-based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The makers of the films let it be known that the name was chosen for some particular reason. So far, nobody has found such an answer, but that doesn't mean that one won't be found.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone can explain the meaning of the name. If someone answered that &quot;Sidious&quot; was an old term for &quot;X&quot;, that would be an answer that was not opinion-based. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far, there haven't been any answers that meet either of those criteria, but that doesn't mean that there couldn't be one, so I don't consider the question to be &quot;Primarily opinion-based&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the existing answers are along the lines of &quot;Sidious&quot; makes English speakers think of &quot;insidious&quot;. That seems like a very reasonable opinion, but not a definitive answer. You could comment on the answer to say that it lacks verification, and you might choose to down-vote it for the same reason. But those are not reasons for closing the &lt;strong&gt;question&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions are usually closed based on the flagging and close-voting of regular users. Moderators would, and should, only circumvent that process in exceptional cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66402" LastActivityDate="2017-01-27T20:03:36.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10546" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-28T08:34:30.783" Score="28" ViewCount="406" Body="&lt;p&gt;John Hurt has died, at age 77. He played many great SFF roles – Kane in &lt;em&gt;Alien&lt;/em&gt; (and &lt;em&gt;Spaceballs&lt;/em&gt;), Winston Smith in &lt;em&gt;1984&lt;/em&gt; and the Big Brother-like Sutler in &lt;em&gt;V for Vendetta&lt;/em&gt;, Hadden in &lt;em&gt;Contact&lt;/em&gt;, Professor Broom in &lt;em&gt;Hellboy&lt;/em&gt;, Mr. Ollivander in the &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; movies, and many more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“I hope I shall have the courage to say, 'Vroom! Here we go! Let's become different molecules!'”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rest in peace, Sir John.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/79QMN.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/79QMN.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Kane&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23384" LastEditorUserId="23384" LastEditDate="2017-01-28T21:16:21.397" LastActivityDate="2022-05-25T19:58:46.793" Title="John Hurt has passed away" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10546" CreationDate="2017-01-28T09:19:53.910" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;I especially enjoyed his portrayal of the elder Dante in the BBC Radio 4 production of Danté's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03xtvdp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Divine Comedy&lt;/a&gt;, the melancholy War Doctor and his wonderfully over-the-top acting as High Chancellor Adam Sutler in V for Vendetta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It saddens me that he's passed on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JGEpu.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JGEpu.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dHYKR.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dHYKR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2017-01-28T09:19:53.910" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10546" CreationDate="2017-01-28T10:31:59.360" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;My favorite sci-fi related John Hurt movies are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397101/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Skeleton Key&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; as Ben Devereaux:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UEg2P.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UEg2P.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Ben Devereaux&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1714915/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Only Lovers Left Alive&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; as Christopher Marlowe:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RXGKC.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RXGKC.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Christopher Marlowe&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of course, we cannot forget&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078748/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Alien&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; as Kane:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/b76TU.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/b76TU.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Kane&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;R.I.P. John Hurt.  You will be missed by all of your fans.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52940" LastActivityDate="2017-01-28T10:31:59.360" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5117" CreationDate="2017-01-29T06:14:41.217" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I broadly agree with Valorum's answer, and his position on the overall scope of this Stack.  In other words, &lt;strong&gt;I believe that merely having an anthropomorphic animal is rarely sufficient to make a story on-topic&lt;/strong&gt;, and I mostly agree with Valorum about what the exceptions to this rule tend to look like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I don't entirely agree with the reasoning that Valorum uses, so I'm going to explain how I came to that conclusion.  Think of this as a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurring_opinion&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;concurring opinion&lt;/a&gt;, if you like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/strong&gt; Skip to the bold sentence and read from there to the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a wide variety of stories involving anthropomorphic animals.  It is difficult to generalize over all of them, so I'm not going to try.  Instead, I'm going to look at a few specific cases and try to divine a general-purpose rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disney has had a rather significant level of involvement in mainstream talking-animal stories.  While Disney's stories are not at all representative of other material, they are popular and likely to come up frequently in these discussions.  Much Disney work involves adapting traditional folk tales into children's movies, and this often includes replacing the human characters with animal characters (e.g. &lt;em&gt;Robin Hood&lt;/em&gt;, 1973).  Other Disney stories are not directly adapted from folk tales, but still use animals as stand-ins for humans (e.g. everything involving Mickey Mouse and company).  Other animators have done this as well; Disney is only getting name-dropped because they're popular and easily recognized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we can all agree that most of the material I just described is off-topic.  Sure, there have been some Mickey Mouse stories which involved magic or other obviously fantastical elements, but we're not going to admit every Disney story with talking animals.  Merely replacing humans with animals is not sufficient to bring a story under the umbrella of speculative fiction,* if it wasn't already there to begin with.  So, our first approximation is this: perform the reverse transformation, replacing animals with humans, and then ask whether 1) the resulting story would be on-topic in its own right or 2) the resulting story does not make sense.  We need condition (2) to rule out stories in which the characters really are animals, and not just humans who've been written as animals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But we can't stop there, because this first approximation doesn't always produce correct results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One obvious example is &lt;em&gt;Bambi&lt;/em&gt; (1942).  In this story, the title character's mother is killed (spoiler alert) by a hunter because she is a deer.  If she were human, the story wouldn't have made much sense.  But I for one don't think &lt;em&gt;Bambi&lt;/em&gt; is on-topic just because of this.  Perhaps if you're going to replace the animals with humans, you also have to replace the humans with story-appropriate plot devices.  Under this transformation, the hunter who killed her is replaced with some natural disaster or other calamity.  The resulting story is entirely mundane, and clearly off-topic.  Similar examples can be found in the Pixar canon (see particularly &lt;em&gt;Finding Nemo&lt;/em&gt;, 2003) and elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is, however, not much of a standard, because if you allow arbitrary replacement, you can transform any story into any other story.  You can replace werewolves with humans, lycanthropy with some real disease, and so on, and eventually arrive at a mundane story.  Werewolves are on-topic, so this approach must be flawed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, I think it helps to examine the narrative focus of the story:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the humans treat the animal like another human or like an animal, or both at different times, but the narrative does not really ask any interesting questions about that character's animal side (e.g. &lt;em&gt;Scooby Doo&lt;/em&gt;), then the animal probably does not make the story speculative fiction (but it might still be SF by virtue of some other story element, as with the &lt;em&gt;Scooby Doo&lt;/em&gt; movies that have real monsters and such).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the humans treat the animal like another human, and this aspect of their relationship is explored extensively, it probably qualifies as speculative fiction.  For example, &lt;em&gt;The Elder Scrolls&lt;/em&gt; can be considered fantasy solely on the basis of the Argonians and Khajiit, because there is a lot of backstory involving political and military interactions between the Empire (in various incarnations), Black Marsh, and Elsweyr.  It's already fantasy six ways to Sunday, though, so this may not be the best example.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the humans are nonexistent, the story might still be speculative fiction, if it focuses on (for example) the interactions of different species with one another in a highly counterfactual setting (&lt;em&gt;Zootopia&lt;/em&gt;, 2016), or if the main characters are aliens or fantastical beasts, or otherwise &quot;obviously&quot; speculative.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our final criterion, then, is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If the animal's non-human nature has substantial narrative focus, then the story is probably on-topic&lt;/strong&gt;.  Stories that pass this criterion tend to ask and answer questions such as the following (not an exhaustive list):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What would it be like to be an intelligent [animal]?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would a mixed society of humans and [animal]s work?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would a mixed society of [animal]s and [other animal]s work?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What would an intelligent [animal] think of humans?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What would a human think of an intelligent [animal]?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why are these [animal]s intelligent, anyway?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stories that ignore or avoid these sorts of questions probably fail this criterion.  Stories that occasionally touch on these questions for character development purposes, but otherwise ignore them (especially for plot development and broader world building purposes), are likewise probably outside this criterion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions are meant as illustrative examples, and should not be used as a checklist.  There may be off-topic stories that do touch on one or two of these questions, and there may be on-topic stories that hit different questions, or even reach topicality by some route other than anthropomorphism (e.g. &lt;em&gt;Fantasia&lt;/em&gt; - the wizard's hat is fantastical, but Mickey Mouse isn't).  Topicality needs to be examined carefully in each case.  The best way to determine whether something is on-topic is to ask a meta question and tag it with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discussion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scope&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scope&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scope&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;* &quot;Speculative fiction&quot; roughly means &quot;science fiction, fantasy, and the stuff in between.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastActivityDate="2017-01-29T06:14:41.217" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10550" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-29T12:05:26.107" Score="-3" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm just getting annoyed by users who downvote a post without dropping a comment. It will generally help me in my mistakes on other sites, but this meta issue has been repeating and repeating over again. Especially for me, while I still don't have a high reputation to know that &lt;em&gt;whats&lt;/em&gt; in other site which makes me wonder why users downvote my posts and not give a reason why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To some who know me, I have been asking a lot of Harry Potter questions. Some of them or many have serious problems. While some of my posts are quite discouraging, because there are certain people who don't leave a comment, I really need the comment to improve each and every post especially since I'm not very well trained in English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's discouraging because anonymous people are downvoting, and as the asker, I don't even know what's the reason, which leaves me thinking that &lt;em&gt;I cannot improve this question anymore.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for my recent post which I edited with rants pertaining about this topic, I am sorry because I didn't know there is a meta site for issues here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not speaking generally to all users, many users drops a comment in my post &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt;, thanks for them. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74547" LastEditorUserId="120362" LastEditDate="2019-10-28T16:56:41.707" LastActivityDate="2019-10-28T16:56:41.707" Title="Is it reasonable that a downvoter should drop a comment for why the user downvoted a post?" Tags="|discussion|down-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="20" ClosedDate="2017-01-29T12:37:21.327" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10550" CreationDate="2017-01-29T12:18:29.973" Score="-22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absolutely, But this site does not require that, so revenge down votes are common practice here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck trying to change this though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastActivityDate="2017-01-29T12:18:29.973" CommentCount="23" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10546" CreationDate="2017-01-29T22:13:38.853" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;John Hurt was one of the better parts of &lt;em&gt;Kingdom of the Crystal Skull&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hXVyP.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hXVyP.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also showed off his vocal range in &lt;em&gt;Watership Down&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jfI7Z.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jfI7Z.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastActivityDate="2017-01-29T22:13:38.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10553" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-30T00:55:50.380" Score="19" ViewCount="291" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand that voting is anonymous, and that downvoters (or upvoters for that matter) don't have to explain anything to anybody; and that is as  it should be. But, is there anything wrong with posting a comment &lt;em&gt;asking&lt;/em&gt; about the reason for a downvote? (Which may be answered by the downvoter himself if he chooses to do so, or by anyone else who cares to point out defects in the post which may have provoked downvotes.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ask because of something that happened to me a year ago. The answer I posted to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/107073/old-short-story-that-skewers-political-correctness&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; received 14 upvotes and 2 downvotes. I posted a comment inquiring about the downvotes, and within minutes my comment was deleted by a moderator. Curious, I reposted the comment to see what would happen, and the same thing happened again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was that the action of a rogue moderator, or is it site policy? The latter seems unlikely, because I've seen lots of similar comments which were not deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2017-02-01T18:55:32.260" Title="Are we allowed to ASK about the reason for downvotes?" Tags="|discussion|down-votes|moderation|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10553" CreationDate="2017-01-30T01:17:22.230" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally consider &quot;why the downvote?&quot; comments to be pointless and I &lt;em&gt;used&lt;/em&gt; to flag them as &quot;too chatty,&quot; but I'd say there's a fairly high tolerance for them here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, even if that sort of comment is &lt;em&gt;generally&lt;/em&gt; tolerated, any given comment could still get a couple flags and/or a moderator might happen to think it's pointless, especially if the question's at +12 overall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastActivityDate="2017-01-30T01:17:22.230" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10553" CreationDate="2017-01-30T01:49:13.357" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;It’s certainly discouraged&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/74568/328832&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; on the main meta site, written by one of our &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/99338/who-are-the-community-managers-and-what-do-they-do/99341#99341&quot;&gt;benevolent overlords&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I flag them on sight. IMHO, they are noise at best, and potentially&#xA;  harmful at worst. I’ve seen instances where a user will write an&#xA;  incorrect, unhelpful, or redundant answer and whine about being&#xA;  down-voted while I’m writing a comment to explain the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/74564/328832&quot;&gt;second-most-upvoted answer&lt;/a&gt; there says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You mention that this is harmless, which is true. But it’s also&#xA;  pointless, so the comments do nothing except clutter up the page, and&#xA;  clutter should be removed. People will typically comment if there’s a&#xA;  minor mistake that can be fixed up, but if the answer is really that&#xA;  terrible or was the target of a drive-by down vote, a comment asking&#xA;  “Why?” will never fix that. So, I don’t see any harm in removing such&#xA;  comments either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I &lt;em&gt;personally&lt;/em&gt; feel that such comments are not always useless. Particularly on a  somewhat smaller site such as ours, there’s a distinct possibility that the person who left the downvote will see the comment. The main issue is that &lt;strong&gt;those inclined to explain their downvotes generally will have already done so,&lt;/strong&gt; and so the likelihood of successfully getting someone to explain their downvote is small. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In essence, though, people certainly &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; flag such comments, and they have main meta policy to back them up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2017-01-30T01:49:13.357" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10553" CreationDate="2017-01-30T02:08:27.970" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a general disapproval for asking about downvotes. Even if your intention is to improve your question, and not to whine, those types of comments all get lumped together. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An alternative, that I feel avoids getting lumped together with the &quot;Why the downvotes?&quot; type comments is something along the lines of &lt;strong&gt;&quot;If anyone has any guidance on improving my question or making it more clear, please advise.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; Sometimes this is asked in chat, too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, the comment isn't about upvotes or downvotes, and is showing an intent to improve the quality of the content. I find that users are more willing to offer help and advice than try to explain why  someone (else) voted the way they did. The first is being helpful, the second is risking opening a can of worms. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a quick query that shows the questions/comments for open questions that currently still have &quot;Why the downvote?&quot; type comments on them (for questions that actually have downvotes&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/622456/questions-with-comments-asking-about-downvotes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Data Explorer: Questions with comments asking about downvotes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some questions appear multiple times, because a discussion of the votes. I left it that way because the discussion sheds some light on how we view this. Generally, it seems that there's a close to even split on downvote comments coming from the OP vs. someone else. I won't try to draw conclusions from this data right now, but I think it's worth perusing to get a feel of how we address these comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;There were 2 that no longer had DVs. I flagged those comments as obsolete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2017-02-01T18:55:32.260" LastActivityDate="2017-02-01T18:55:32.260" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10558" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-30T14:50:16.483" Score="10" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;In response to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/151453/why-did-the-quality-of-harrys-visions-of-voldemort-go-down/151459#151459&quot;&gt;my recent answer&lt;/a&gt; to the Dark Lord's latest Harry Potter question, which was accepted, the asker commented thusly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This answers both questions really. If I could accept it as an answer for both of them then I would!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By &quot;both questions&quot; he is referring to that and the one to which I linked in the answer, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/141371/why-did-voldemort-stop-employing-occlumency-against-harry-in-deathly-hallows&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;.  My answer answers both questions, but I answered the second one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what to do.  Should I close one as a dupe of the other?  Should I post a similar answer to the first one?  Should I just let it be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51142" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2017-02-10T17:01:15.923" Title="What to do about an answer to a later question that answers an earlier questions" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10559" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-30T15:40:35.867" Score="4" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9nEFg.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9nEFg.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This symbol is used by the SciFi &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange.&#xA;&lt;br/&gt; &#xA;What, if anything, are the meanings behind its component symbols?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75598" OwnerDisplayName="Withywindle" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-07-21T07:44:47.617" LastActivityDate="2017-07-21T07:44:47.617" Title="What does the Scifi &amp; Fantasy stack exchange symbol mean?" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2017-01-30T15:56:21.060" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10546" CreationDate="2017-01-30T19:23:13.973" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always thought that 1984, starring John Hurt and Richard Burton, is one of the best film adaptations of any book, SFF or otherwise. The same can't be said of the animated Lord of the Rings (or any other film adaptation of that book). Still, John Hurt as the voice of Aragorn was a big plus point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dl46K.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dl46K.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;aragorn&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4935" LastActivityDate="2017-01-30T19:23:13.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10561" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-01-31T12:40:13.683" Score="-6" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to see what questions they are: I've deleted them. Maybe some of you know them, and maybe some of you here can say they really are duplicates. There are some that I didn't delete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, there are some of my questions that were marked as duplicates of another question from another user, &lt;em&gt;which had a big difference and doesn't answer my question because my question is different&lt;/em&gt;. It really pisses me off how some of my questions are suddenly marked as duplicates when they are not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NOTE: If someone will comment or answer that it is because my topic has similarities, then it should be related not duplicate. And the way my question easily becomes a duplicate when these questions have big differences is so unreasonable. And the question they linked &lt;strong&gt;doesn't answer my question.&lt;/strong&gt; How can that be considered as a duplicate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74547" LastEditorUserId="74547" LastEditDate="2017-02-01T09:14:09.693" LastActivityDate="2017-02-01T12:00:33.593" Title="Why are some of my questions marked as duplicate when they are not?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10561" CreationDate="2017-01-31T18:06:30.410" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've posted a total of &lt;strong&gt;six&lt;/strong&gt; questions which have been closed as duplicate and later deleted. (Each of them was closed either by a moderator or the holder of a gold &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; tag badge. While not conclusive proof, this is at least &lt;em&gt;strong evidence&lt;/em&gt; that your questions really were duplicates - people with unilateral closing powers don't tend to exercise them much except in very clear cases.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/150334/31394&quot;&gt;Difference of a Muggle and a Squib&lt;/a&gt; - see &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Sm6Nh.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;screenshot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You asked what the difference is between a Muggle and a Squib. Your question was closed as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/14526/31394&quot;&gt;Is a Squib a Muggle?&lt;/a&gt;, which is asking more or less the same thing and whose answers address the differences between Muggles and Squibs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/149671/31394&quot;&gt;The origin of the house-elves&lt;/a&gt; - see &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WFIoL.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;screenshot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You asked about the lineage, ancestry, and species history of house elves. Your question was closed as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/144711/31394&quot;&gt;Where do house elves come from?&lt;/a&gt;, which is also asking about the origin of house elves. Its answer is somewhat unsatisfactory, but if you want a better answer, the best way to ask for one is to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/bounty&quot;&gt;set a bounty&lt;/a&gt; on the question rather than posting a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/149610/31394&quot;&gt;The power of the four historical artefacts&lt;/a&gt; - see &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1cXec.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;screenshot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You asked what powers are possessed by the artefacts of the four Hogwarts founders, specifically the Hufflepuff cup and the Slytherin locket. Your question was closed as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/60947/31394&quot;&gt;What powers did the Hufflepuff cup, the Slytherin locket, and the Ravenclaw diadem possess?&lt;/a&gt;, which is also asking about the powers of these artefacts and has a good answer covering the diadem, the cup, and the locket each in turn.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/148473/31394&quot;&gt;Did Voldemort only manage to obtain 5 horcruxes before haunting Harry in Godric's Hollow?&lt;/a&gt; - see &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TES0H.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;screenshot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You asked how many Horcruxes Voldemort had made by the time he went to Godric's Hollow to kill baby Harry. Your question was closed as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/74246/31394&quot;&gt;Was Voldemort still in the process of making his Horcruxes when he went to Godric&amp;#39;s Hollow?&lt;/a&gt;, which is asking exactly the same thing. Neither of its answers quite address the point, but again, that's not a good reason to post a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/146487/31394&quot;&gt;Any theories at all of a boggart's identities?&lt;/a&gt; - see &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3qs0a.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;screenshot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not completely sure what your question is here, but you seem to be asking what a boggart would look like in its 'natural' state, rather than when facing someone with a fear it could mimic. Your question was closed as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/61026/31394&quot;&gt;What shape would a boggart take if a person doesn&amp;#39;t fear anything&lt;/a&gt;, which is asking something very similar and whose answer addresses your question. Another possible dupe target would have been &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/7479/31394&quot;&gt;Could Mad-Eye Moody See the Natural State of a Boggart With His Magical Eye?&lt;/a&gt;, which was linked to in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/146048/31394&quot;&gt;How do the wizard blood came out from generations to generations?&lt;/a&gt; - see &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wKhX8.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;screenshot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again your question is a little unclear, but you seem to be asking about the nature of 'magical blood' in the Potterverse and how it spreads. Your question was closed as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/18783/31394&quot;&gt;Where did the &amp;quot;Magic Blood&amp;quot; of the Harry Potter Universe Originate From?&lt;/a&gt;, a popular dupe target which asks about the origins and nature of 'magical blood'.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope I've now successfully demonstrated that each of your deleted dupe-closed questions really was a duplicate. One further point to note: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7944/31394&quot;&gt;please don't delete your questions just because they're duplicates&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. A duplicate of a good question is often a good question in its own right, and such posts often aid searchability and make it easier for people in the future to find the answer to their question.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;You've also posted &lt;strong&gt;nine&lt;/strong&gt; questions which have been closed as duplicate and &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; since deleted; these can be found listed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=user%3A74547+duplicate%3A1&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Since these are easily searchable even by non-moderators, I'll let someone else (perhaps someone with more expertise in &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; than I) go through them to check whether they all really are duplicates. Worry not - we have enough gold &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; tag badge holders (six) that any which have been wrongly closed should get reopened quickly, especially now that you've brought them to the attention of meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2017-02-01T12:00:33.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10553" CreationDate="2017-01-31T23:59:57.513" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your intent is to fix whatever is wrong with your post, then I highly recommend asking what the downvotes are for. There will be some people who reflexively criticize you for it, but there's often someone who actually tries to help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can deal with the noise from the critics, then the value from the person who answers your question more than makes up for it. I've found and fixed problems with many of my questions and answers by doing this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does help to be careful about phrasing the question, I find. Asking something more like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't understand what the downvote is for, could someone explain so I could fix it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally goes better than&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why am I downvoted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second seems to be perceived as complaining, despite the fact it's a perfectly valid and reasonable question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I see a question that has received downvotes, and no one has left a comment explaining, and I think I see the reason why, I'll often leave a comment to that effect for the poster. This saves them the trouble of facing an irrational backlash by asking what the problem is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44184" LastEditorUserId="44184" LastEditDate="2017-02-01T00:41:45.600" LastActivityDate="2017-02-01T00:41:45.600" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10564" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-02T14:15:32.413" Score="21" ViewCount="2191" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a bit late into this new year, being that we're already in the second month, but we are now cycling the Community Promotion Ads for 2017!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site's twitter account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;interesting articles or findings for the curious&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool Science Fiction or Fantasy events/conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads every year?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be 300 x 250 pixels, or double that if high DPI.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the background of the image is white or partially white, there must be a 1px border (2px if high DPI) surrounding it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/10564&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2537" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2019-08-31T04:39:29.840" Title="Community Promotion Ads - 2017" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="18" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="10580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10387" CreationDate="2017-02-03T13:32:49.640" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; tag wiki excerpt has recently been edited (by you) to the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use this tag to indicate the question is about the book version or adaptation of a work. If applicable, use a more specific tag instead (novel, short-stories, comics). For differences between the book and other versions, such as a movie, use &quot;adaptation-comparison&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is better, but there are a couple of issues still remaining:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;. Assuming we're OK with media tags being used on ID questions (which current practice at least suggests we are), we should mention this in the tag wiki excerpt. I suggest something along the lines of &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Use this tag either for [story-identification] questions asking for identification of a book, or (in cases where the other tags don't make this clear) to indicate that the question is specifically about the book version or adaptation of a work.&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; (The parenthetical proviso is added because, for instance, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt; tag refers only to a book series, so &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books+a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot;&gt;these 7 questions&lt;/a&gt; don't need the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; tag.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;More specific book-related tags. If we have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; tag, do we also need &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt; tags? Conversely, if we have those tags, do we still need a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; tag? (This is a large problem, involving many questions, and unlikely to be resolved fast, but we should at least acknowledge it.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;On a more optimistic note: I and one or two others have gone through the specific lists of inappropriately-tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; questions which you raised. There are now &lt;strong&gt;no more questions&lt;/strong&gt; tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; and nothing else, nor any non-ID questions tagged with both &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; and any of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/webcomics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;webcomics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;webcomics&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/anime&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;anime&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;anime&lt;/a&gt;. The problem is shrinking!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2017-02-03T13:32:49.640" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10546" CreationDate="2017-02-03T16:11:30.150" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let us not forget he was the voice of the Dragon, Kilgharrah, in BBC's Merlin&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/m4I5e.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/m4I5e.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76950" LastActivityDate="2017-02-03T16:11:30.150" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10582" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-04T10:50:13.480" Score="0" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/151891/what-picture-of-sackville-bagginses-is-tolkien-trying-to-portray-in-the-fellowsh&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt;, posted in its entirety below, was recently posted. It rapidly attracted close votes and is currently on hold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I can see that it's arguably downvote-worthy (&lt;a href=&quot;https://68.media.tumblr.com/0405c3f06055a6432feb22a0d1cff32e/tumblr_o6ggcvHrNp1ql6j3mo1_500.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;do your own damn homework,  you pesky kids!&lt;/a&gt;), it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3319/how-do-we-feel-about-homework-questions&quot;&gt;on-topic&lt;/a&gt; and seems very answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why has it been closed?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WdUlw.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WdUlw.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2017-02-05T02:27:50.747" Title="In what way is this question unclear?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10564" CreationDate="2017-02-04T13:22:51.927" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/?tab=featured&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://stack-exchange-dynamic-ads.herokuapp.com/scifi.stackexchange.com/bounty.png&quot; alt=&quot;Active bounties&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user57650" LastEditorDisplayName="user57650" LastEditDate="2017-03-09T14:26:34.610" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T14:26:34.610" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10564" CreationDate="2017-02-04T13:30:07.293" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EZFka.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;There&amp;#39;s a Blog?&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-08-31T04:39:19.257" LastActivityDate="2019-08-31T04:39:19.257" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10564" CreationDate="2017-02-04T16:27:27.267" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/101265/constructed-languages&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://area51.stackexchange.com/ads/proposal/101265.png&quot; alt=&quot;Interested in Sindarin, Vulcan, or Dothraki?&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-03-12T22:44:31.277" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T22:44:31.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10582" CreationDate="2017-02-05T02:27:50.747" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was the first person to vote to close it the second time, because despite the helpful comments - especially Valorum's - I think it's still unclear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He's asking for a textual analysis of the way in which a set of characters are portrayed with small examples to show it. e.g. Lobelia is entitled, greedy and duplicitious; &quot;after he had relieved her of several small (but rather valuable) articles that had somehow fallen inside her umbrella&quot;, etc, etc - Valorum&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Which Sackville-Bagins, or is it both of them?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should it be an overall picture that applies to both of them? or should it be an analysis of each of them separately?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I would guess that &quot;Textual analysis&quot; is overblowing what the homework assignment is asking for, but it's... &lt;em&gt;unclear&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do we know he wants &quot;small examples&quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastActivityDate="2017-02-05T02:27:50.747" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10564" CreationDate="2017-02-05T03:12:10.330" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.matrixfans.net/movies/the-matrix/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aL9TF.png&quot; alt=&quot;Matrixfans - Forums, Interviews, Trailers and Trivia&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2017-02-07T03:33:51.690" LastActivityDate="2017-02-07T03:33:51.690" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10589" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-05T20:02:24.073" Score="4" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/151986/earth-disappears-rick-morty&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; question - although asking about an on-topic work of sci-fi, the question is purely based on a real world question. Should this question be closed as off topic for seeking &quot;&lt;em&gt;Scientific Explanations&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, or should it be deemed on topic due to the work it's about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68872" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-07-24T13:59:32.377" LastActivityDate="2017-07-24T13:59:32.377" Title="Is this Rick &amp; Morty question on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10590" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-05T20:19:36.177" Score="26" ViewCount="616" Body="&lt;p&gt;In all the excitement of posting and voting on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10564/31394&quot;&gt;ads for other sites here on SFF&lt;/a&gt;, I almost forgot about the possibility of advertising SFF itself! Similar Community Promotion Ad lists have gone up on all other graduated sites across the network, including several which might appreciate an ad for SFF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surprisingly, it was quite hard to find any existing ads for SFF which were posted in previous years. I poked around a bit in past Community Promotion Ads on related sites such as M&amp;amp;TV and Worldbuilding, but came up blank. I did find &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2839/31394&quot;&gt;this old meta thread&lt;/a&gt; from 2013, but of course all the suggestions there are with the old ad size, and some of them are also out of date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there anything I've missed? Do we already have a lovely SFF ad image somewhere?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, let's design ourselves some ads and get promoting!&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;Other SE sites where we might want to promote SFF:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4377/2235&quot;&gt;Worldbuilding&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; As suggested by @SQB in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/35236219#35236219&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;, perhaps something along the lines of &quot;build it here, experience it there&quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2616/27759&quot;&gt;Movies &amp;amp; TV&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; We need to promote our site without trying to steal traffic from theirs, so perhaps something about sci-fi and fantasy &lt;em&gt;books&lt;/em&gt; specifically would be appropriate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6717&quot;&gt;Role-Playing Games&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; I don't know much about the subject of this site - suggestions welcome.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12230&quot;&gt;Arqade&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; Again I don't know much about the subject, so any suggestions welcome.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://aviation.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3186&quot;&gt;Aviation&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt; As suggested by @SQB in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/35236236#35236236&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;, maybe something along the lines of &quot;Fancy a change from planes? Try flying a broomstick instead!&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any more? (Note that beta sites don't get Community Promotion Ads, so sadly we can't advertise ourselves in this way on &lt;a href=&quot;http://writers.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Writers&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://space.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Space Exploration&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/93238/literature/visit&quot;&gt;Literature&lt;/a&gt; yet.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;And just as a reminder, here are the requirements for Community Promotion Ad images on all sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be 300 x 250 pixels, or double that if high DPI.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the background of the image is white or partially white, there must be a 1px border (2px if high DPI) surrounding it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:42:31.880" LastActivityDate="2018-02-10T02:18:56.803" Title="Let's promote SFF on other sites!" Tags="|discussion|site-promotion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="24" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10589" CreationDate="2017-02-05T21:49:12.937" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question here is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;How long would the astronauts on the ISS have survived? And what would they have died from?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; which seems to be asking from an out-of-universe perspective. That makes it off-topic since we only deal with &lt;em&gt;fictional&lt;/em&gt; universes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7364/what-is-our-actual-policy-on-science-questions&quot;&gt;What is our actual policy on science questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue of astronaut survival sounds exactly the sort of thing that &lt;a href=&quot;https://space.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Space:SE&lt;/a&gt; deal with, so it's worth prodding the user in that direction with a comment, albeit their question isn't migration-worthy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Had they asked &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;How long did the astronauts on the ISS survive? And what did they die from?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, that would be perfectly acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:58:51.047" LastActivityDate="2017-02-05T21:49:12.937" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10564" CreationDate="2017-02-06T23:39:36.007" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.pottermore.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4tnwt.png&quot; alt=&quot;Need more Potter? Visit J.K. Rowling’s Pottermore.com for fresh Potter facts and fun! Updated regularly.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43655" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-08-31T04:36:54.743" LastActivityDate="2019-08-31T04:36:54.743" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10593" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10594" CreationDate="2017-02-07T01:09:22.753" Score="4" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently noticed that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/titles&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;titles&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;titles&lt;/a&gt; tag is being used inconsistently. The tag wiki excerpt says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions dealing with title/honorifics of certain characters in SFF works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But while some of the tagged questions are indeed about titles of fictional characters:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/139483/31394&quot;&gt;Why are Stannis and Renly never referred to as &amp;quot;Prince&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/100640/31394&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the origin of referring to female superior officers as &amp;quot;sir&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/27759/31394&quot;&gt;What Does the Title &amp;quot;Ama&amp;quot; Mean in Wicked?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... others are about titles of &lt;em&gt;works&lt;/em&gt; of sci-fi or fantasy instead:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/48776/31394&quot;&gt;Why is Cloud Atlas named &amp;#39;Cloud Atlas&amp;#39;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/102879/31394&quot;&gt;Why the title &amp;quot;Goblet of Fire&amp;quot; for book 4?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/110975/31394&quot;&gt;What specifically does the &amp;quot;awakens&amp;quot; in &amp;quot;The Force Awakens&amp;quot; refer to?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/titles&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;titles&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;titles&lt;/a&gt; are roughly evenly split (8 vs 9) between these two different types of usage. Either one would be fine as a way of using a tag called &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/titles&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;titles&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;titles&lt;/a&gt;, but we can't really keep using both: &lt;strong&gt;a given tag should have a single clear, unambiguous usage guidance.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's make a decision on this. There are few enough questions with this tag that it won't take long to retag half of them by hand if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How do we want to use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/titles&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;titles&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;titles&lt;/a&gt; tag?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2017-02-08T16:26:26.870" Title="How should we [title] tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10593" CreationDate="2017-02-07T02:57:54.083" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm surprised this tag even exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also have the problem that it's not being used everywhere it could be. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=Title%3Atitle%20is%3Aq%20-%5B*ident*%5D%20-%5Btitles%5D&quot;&gt;There's about 3 dozen more questions&lt;/a&gt; that could potentially have the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/names&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;names&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;names&lt;/a&gt;, which may be the best solution here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/names&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;names&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;names&lt;/a&gt; doesn't have a usage guidance. Instead of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/214338/287266&quot;&gt;defining how the tag should be used&lt;/a&gt;, it defines what a name is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We could fix these problems in one go by changing all honorific/ranks usage of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/titles&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;titles&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;titles&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/names&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;names&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;names&lt;/a&gt; and adding the usage guidance of:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For questions about the names and titles of characters, including honorifics; names of cities and locations; or names of vessels, weapons and and objects. Questions can be in-universe or out-of-universe about topics such as origins, meanings, usage and pronunciations. *&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then slowly adding &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/names&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;names&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;names&lt;/a&gt; to those questions missing any such tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By having the tag encompass a larger variety of &quot;names&quot;, it should make the tag easier to find and more likely to be used consistently. We could have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/honorifics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;honorifics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;honorifics&lt;/a&gt; plus &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/names&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;names&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;names&lt;/a&gt;, but I think we'd end up seeing them used incorrectly or not at all. Another reason I don't see more specific tags being generally useful is they're all &lt;em&gt;intimately&lt;/em&gt; tied to being used alongside a specific work tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*Wording suggestions welcome. I just wrote something quickly that captures how we're &lt;em&gt;already&lt;/em&gt; using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/names&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;names&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;names&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/titles&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;titles&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;titles&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the remaining questions about the actual titles of a work, I think the tag should be renamed. I'm a little against &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-title&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-title&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-title&lt;/a&gt;, just because of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=Title%3Atitle%20is%3Aq%20%5B*ident*%5D%20&quot;&gt;hundreds of story-id questions asking about titles&lt;/a&gt;, and feel that it &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be used in place of or with *-identification where it doesn't fit. As an alternative, I think we could rename it to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/title-explanation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;title-explanation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;title-explanation&lt;/a&gt; and have usage guidance of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For questions about the meanings, origins and pronunciations of the titles of works, including books, chapters and songs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2017-02-08T16:26:26.870" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10590" CreationDate="2017-02-07T03:33:04.063" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a design specifically for Worldbuilding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've always loved our header image. I find it inspiring, and so I think it fits the motivation of going from WB to SFF (for motivation!). Plus, it looks like the winged creature is possibly creating a world in the scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used the original theme images and font faces. (Spacing and the &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;&lt;/code&gt; will be different, since I did the type myself).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kTGgQ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kTGgQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tagline could be changed, but I like the idea of having it be succinct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2017-03-24T19:07:39.260" LastActivityDate="2017-03-24T19:07:39.260" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10596" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-07T18:41:58.077" Score="15" ViewCount="431" Body="&lt;p&gt;User 20155 (formerly DeletingAccountNeverReturning, Formerly LegoStormtroopr) has apparently decided to leave the site as part of the fallout from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/342440/time-to-take-a-stand&quot;&gt;recent kerfuffle&lt;/a&gt; over on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His final actions on SFF:SE were to un-accept several questions in a row without explanation (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/96481/do-andy-and-riley-live-in-the-same-world/96487#96487&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/67607/what-are-the-different-realms-in-the-lego-world/67610#67610&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/68932/could-the-t-1000-become-a-tyrannosaurus-balloon/68935#68935&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;), prior to his account being suspended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this considered a form of vandalism? And assuming the answer is yes, can these actions be reverted?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2017-02-08T20:46:59.973" Title="User vandalised their account before rage-quitting. How best to resolve?" Tags="|discussion|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10596" CreationDate="2017-02-07T19:51:24.637" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unfortunately, as always acceptances are wholly the OP's decision.&lt;/strong&gt; People can accept answers which are 100% wrong, or not accept answers at all, and there's nothing anyone else can do about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Vandalism&quot; on SE is normally used to refer to actions on &lt;em&gt;posts&lt;/em&gt;. A user's posts are licensed to SE, so if they vandalise those we can take action to stop them. But &lt;strong&gt;the system literally doesn't allow for a way to stop people assigning their acceptances any way they want.&lt;/strong&gt; See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/234437/278659&quot;&gt;Gaming system with accepts&lt;/a&gt; on main meta. We can suspend people for disruptive or vandalistic behaviour, but even then we can't force them to re-accept answers they've unaccepted. And of course once the user is deleted we literally can't do anything to them - though you may be interested in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/290779/278659&quot;&gt;this feature request&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's regrettable, but I don't think there's really anything we can do to resolve this situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.757" LastActivityDate="2017-02-07T19:51:24.637" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10598" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-08T13:03:39.413" Score="15" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am sad to report that Richard Hatch, most famous for playing &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Apollo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Captain Apollo&lt;/a&gt; in the original Battlestar Galactica, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Zarek&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tom Zarek&lt;/a&gt; in the rebooted series (as well as co-authoring a highly successful &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.librarything.com/series/Battlestar+Galactica%3A+Hatch+Relaunch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;series of Battlestar Galactica books&lt;/a&gt;) has died at the age of 71. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/o_8dL8Dnf0k?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2017-02-08T13:03:39.413" Title="RIP Richard Hatch" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10599" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10602" CreationDate="2017-02-08T18:58:06.013" Score="9" ViewCount="268" Body="&lt;p&gt;Screenshot:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/h26Cv.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/h26Cv.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first I thought someone had serial downvoted me and the system was restoring my rep, but on closer inspection it looks like the opposite may have happen, I just don't understand why. :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, I've read the &lt;em&gt;learn more&lt;/em&gt; link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54827" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-02-08T19:30:28.507" Title="Why did I just lose 100+ rep?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10599" CreationDate="2017-02-08T19:07:39.107" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you can see, the majority comes from voting reversals where the system determined that there was voting abuse and reverse the upvotes. Serial voting can happen up or down. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, it's because the system determined your accounts were sock puppets. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/175374/what-is-the-procedure-for-having-my-spouse-significant-other-as-a-member-of-the/175376&quot;&gt;While having a spouse or coworker upvote your posts is fine&lt;/a&gt;, you'll need to be more careful in that you're not upvoting/accepting their content in an unusual way (such as accidentally voting for them more often than others, which can happen easily when some in-person mentions a question you're both interested in). And the same is true of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other account, Thirsty-Kitty, has very low activity. Because of this, their activity related to your account probably comprised too large of a portion of their actions, triggering the sock puppet reversals. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2017-02-08T19:30:28.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10599" CreationDate="2017-02-08T19:23:41.917" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10599/why-did-i-just-lose-100-rep?noredirect=1#comment32006_10599&quot;&gt;latest comment&lt;/a&gt; seems to answer this. Your physical proximity to another user (and their consistent attention to your questions and answers) seems to have triggered some sort of anti-sockpuppeting mechanism. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per Shog9's post on the subject of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/57682/how-should-sockpuppets-be-handled-on-stack-exchange/57685&quot;&gt;sockpuppets&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What you think is a sockpuppet could in fact be my good friend Nog&#xA;  Shine, who loves everything I write, copies my writing style, &lt;strong&gt;and uses&#xA;  my computer to vote and post stuff when I step away for coffee.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;But in practice, there are patterns that are extremely unusual unless&#xA;  someone is using a second account. If it actually is a very&#xA;  enthusiastic friend, they should know better than to continue this&#xA;  behavior after being warned about it. Feel free to contact the SE team&#xA;  if you're unsure - we have a fair bit of experience in dealing with&#xA;  this sort of thing.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you intend to continue operating two accounts from the same IP address, you'd be well advised to use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;contact us&lt;/a&gt; link to explain your connection to the CMs and make it explicit that your actions are benign. They may (or may not) reverse the reversal but at the very least they'll offer some advice regarding the best way to prevent this from happening again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2017-02-08T19:23:41.917" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10558" CreationDate="2017-02-09T10:19:26.493" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;So the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9748/31938&quot;&gt;official SE policy as clarified by staff&lt;/a&gt; is that it's only questions that make duplicates, not answers. The core philosophy is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/74080/close-as-duplicate-what-if-only-the-answer-is-a-duplicate&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt; Stack Overflow is not meant to be a library of reference manuals. It’s supposed to contain the same information as a library of reference manuals, in the form of millions of questions and answers. Combined with Google, that gives us the magical power of a library of reference manuals you never have to read! It’s like, you got to the library, and there’s a wizard there at the door, and you ask your question, and, instead of being told to read a book, you just got (are you sitting down?) the actual answer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/dr-strangedupe-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-duplication/&quot;&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt; It's far more common to have many subtle variations of a question. I think that's OK, because that's how the world works. Trying to shoehorn a bunch of semi-related things into one arbitrary container in service of some Highlander-ish &quot;there can be only one&quot; rule is ultimately harmful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately we're a Q&amp;amp;A site whose success comes from giving the smoothest and highest quality experience to people looking for the answer to a question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone asks or googles &quot;Why did X happen to character A&quot;, and they get a confusing link to &quot;Why did character B stop doing Y&quot;, that's not the smooth experience SE is intended to give. Maybe they'll figure out on their own that paragraph 3 of the second answer goes on to talk about character A and X. Or maybe they'll just think &quot;This site gave me a broken link&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And perhaps more importantly, we don't want to choke out the possibility of some other person writing a really great, exceptional, detailed answer to &quot;Why did X happen to character A&quot;, that maybe makes the same basic point as paragraph #3 of answer #2 under &quot;Why did character B stop doing Y&quot;, but adds high quality analysis, quotes and/or sources specific to X and character A. For example, this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/133036/31938&quot;&gt;great answer by a linguist on the meaning of the accents in Game Of Thrones&lt;/a&gt; couldn't have been written if the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9896/should-this-game-of-thrones-question-be-closed&quot;&gt;attempt to close it&lt;/a&gt; as a dupe of a question about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/59533/31938&quot;&gt;Game of Thrones characters mostly having white skin&lt;/a&gt; had been successful. The earlier question does have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/59533/31938&quot;&gt;an answer that mentions that the source books were inspired by the English War of the Roses&lt;/a&gt;, which is also &lt;em&gt;part&lt;/em&gt; of the newer question's answer, but both excellent answers add much more different, question-specific, high-quality detail around this one shared fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the best thing is, if the questions &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; different but you can't think of much to add beyond what the other question's answer says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Write the detailed answer in whichever question it fits best&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Write a quick summary with a link and a quote in the other question. Something like:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;X happened to character A, because character B stopped doing Y. [elaborate if necessary]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I wrote about this in more detail under &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10603/31938&quot;&gt;&quot;Why did character B stopped doing Y&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, this is the most relevant point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;[Most relevant quote here] lorem ipsum lorem ipsumlorem ipsumlorem ipsumlorem ipsumlorem ipsumlorem ipsumlorem ipsumlorem ipsumlorem ipsumlorem ipsumlorem ipsumlorem ipsumlorem ipsumlorem ipsumlorem ipsumlorem ipsumlorem ipsumlorem ipsumlorem ipsumlorem ipsum]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It takes seconds, and it minimises duplication while also quickly and smoothly giving everyone the answer they're looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And perhaps more importantly, it doesn't snuff out the possibility that one of our many ridiculously knowledgeable users could come along and enhance the newer question with one of those excellent answers full of extremely specific details you never even thought of!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is Stack Exchange. &lt;em&gt;Someone&lt;/em&gt; can do better than that one relevant sentence in one paragraph in one answer under a different question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31938" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2017-02-10T17:01:15.923" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10604" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10607" CreationDate="2017-02-09T12:30:26.010" Score="11" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've read &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2838/how-should-i-review-first-posts-on-topics-i-am-completely-unfamiliar-with&quot;&gt;How should I review First Posts on topics I am completely unfamiliar with?&lt;/a&gt;, but my question relates to the following line in the available guidance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; to improve the answer's appearance, clarity, or accuracy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a list of basics that should be considered when reviewing a question/answer? For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For questions:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is the title clear? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does it have relevant tags?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it on-topic? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is the SPaG (spelling, punctuation and grammar) correct?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For answers:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does it actually answer the question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does it reference any sources referred to?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does it repeat information in another answer already posted?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to ensure that if I review any questions, that I'm consistent with the approach taken by experienced users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22980" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2017-02-10T01:04:47.663" Title="As a user who is new to the review process, is there a best-practice guide for reviewing first-posts/late-answers?" Tags="|support|review-queue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10605" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10606" CreationDate="2017-02-09T17:31:21.630" Score="11" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to read some hard sci-fi novels, the more plausible from a scientific point of view, the better. I've read good reviews about Larry Niven and David Brin's books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course questions asking for further recommendations are off-topic on Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy but is there an SE site where it would be on-topic? After all there's a Software Recommendations SE site (with low traffic), so I was wondering if there was also a (sci-fi) book recommendation SE site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, would it be impolite to ask (here on Meta, of course: not on the main site) about resources on the Internet where I could ask such a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78235" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-02-09T19:23:23.917" LastActivityDate="2017-02-09T19:23:23.917" Title="Is there a SE site where sci-fi recommendation questions are on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10605" CreationDate="2017-02-09T17:38:06.813" Score="18" Body="&lt;h2&gt;There is no such site on the SE network&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're absolutely correct that &quot;recommendation&quot; questions are off-topic here; we even have a custom off-topic close reason for them. The only other remotely plausible site would be the new &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Literature Beta&lt;/a&gt;, but the &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2&quot;&gt;consensus&lt;/a&gt; over there is also that recommendations are off-topic. You could always suggest a site for book recommendations on &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Area 51&lt;/a&gt;, but there is of course no guarantee that it would take off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moving outside the Q&amp;amp;A sites, your best bet would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Our main &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Non-SE websites, such as Reddit (which has &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;at&lt;/a&gt; least &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;two&lt;/a&gt; book suggestion subreddits)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T13:01:18.293" LastActivityDate="2017-02-09T17:38:06.813" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10604" CreationDate="2017-02-10T01:04:47.663" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firstly, thank you for taking the time to post this! It's rare to see such a conscientious reviewer, and much appreciated. I hope you'll be more active in the review queues in the future!&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;There's a fairly small set of possible actions you can take on a First Post or Late Answer: you can &lt;strong&gt;upvote&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;downvote&lt;/strong&gt;, (suggest an) &lt;strong&gt;edit&lt;/strong&gt;, add a &lt;strong&gt;comment&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;flag&lt;/strong&gt;, (vote to) &lt;strong&gt;close&lt;/strong&gt;, (vote to) &lt;strong&gt;delete&lt;/strong&gt;, or &lt;strong&gt;upvote a comment&lt;/strong&gt;. Or of course just click &lt;strong&gt;No Action Needed&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;Skip&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a rough checklist, off the top of my head, of what to consider when reviewing these posts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is the post good?&lt;/strong&gt; Is it an interesting question, or a useful answer? If so, &lt;strong&gt;upvote&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it so bad that it shouldn't stay?&lt;/strong&gt; Is it spam, abusive, or nonsense? Is it an off-topic question, a duplicate, or otherwise worthy of closure (excessively broad, unclear, or opinion-based)? Is it posted as an answer without attempting to answer the question, or incomprehensible? If so, &lt;strong&gt;flag&lt;/strong&gt;. (I see you have less than 3k rep; higher-rep users might vote to &lt;strong&gt;close&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;delete&lt;/strong&gt; in this case.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it bad but not &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; bad?&lt;/strong&gt; Is it a useless or poorly researched (but still on-topic) question, or an incorrect or poorly written answer (but still a comprehensible answer)? If so, &lt;strong&gt;downvote&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can you improve it?&lt;/strong&gt; Does it have any typos or spelling/grammar mistakes, or is it poorly formatted in some way that you know how to fix? If so, &lt;strong&gt;(suggest an) edit&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do you have any feedback for the user?&lt;/strong&gt; Some new users take well to any feedback, either using it to improve their post or just letting it make them feel at home. Even if the post is from a drive-by unregistered user who's unlikely ever to return, a little helpful commentary feedback can still be useful for anyone &lt;em&gt;else&lt;/em&gt; reading it in the future. If you have anything useful to say, &lt;strong&gt;leave a comment&lt;/strong&gt;. If someone else has said it already, you might consider &lt;strong&gt;upvoting their comment&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you don't know&lt;/strong&gt; the answers to some of the above queries (e.g. because the post is about a sci-fi or fantasy work you've never read/seen and know nothing about), then click &lt;strong&gt;Skip&lt;/strong&gt;. This means your review count isn't incremented and the post stays in the queue to be reviewed by someone else, hopefully someone more knowledgeable about the topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If there's really nothing to be done&lt;/strong&gt; on the post - it's neither good enough to be worth upvoting, nor bad enough to be worth downvoting or editing, nor interesting enough to be worth commenting on - you can click &lt;strong&gt;No Action Needed&lt;/strong&gt;. But at this point I'll quote a moderator from another site, in &lt;a href=&quot;https://puzzling.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3096/5373&quot;&gt;a post&lt;/a&gt; from which I personally learned a lot of what I know about reviewing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The one thing that causes new users to leave most often is a lack of human interaction. Don't let new users ask or answer into the void. &lt;kbd&gt;No Action Needed&lt;/kbd&gt; is almost always flat-out wrong. You are the only one to review a user's first post; bear this in mind when reviewing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:42:07.207" LastActivityDate="2017-02-10T01:04:47.663" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10608" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-10T11:12:29.323" Score="5" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm certain we had a question about Star Wars book covers, more specifically about whether there was ever a version of the Star Wars cover/poster that had Leia doing the archetypal Frazetta &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LegCling&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;leg-cling&lt;/a&gt; with Luke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has this question been deleted? or did I simply dream it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hr8Dh.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hr8Dh.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-02-10T15:57:42.837" LastActivityDate="2017-02-10T15:57:42.837" Title="Search has failed me. I hang my head in shame" Tags="|discussion|search|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10564" CreationDate="2017-02-10T19:51:00.893" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://writers.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/efhXb.png&quot; alt=&quot;Writers.SE&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:40:22.477" LastActivityDate="2017-02-10T19:51:00.893" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10546" CreationDate="2017-02-10T22:06:14.447" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nobody else has mentioned it, so I will. John Hurt was fantastic as Professor Broom in Hellboy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Tx6Uj.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Tx6Uj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wonderful cast all around, but Hurt was sorely missed for the sequel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20557" LastActivityDate="2017-02-10T22:06:14.447" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10611" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-10T23:23:08.387" Score="13" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://thesffblog.com/contribute/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Contribute&lt;/a&gt; page of the blog says this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some suggested topics include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reviews of books, TV series, comics, or films (&lt;strong&gt;sci-fi or fantasy game reviews are better suited over at &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.gaming.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;our cousin’s place&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;), whether something newly released, or a classic more people should know about.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that Stack Exchange has discontinued the standard community blog mechanism (and I'm not aware of a successor to Arqade's community blog), should we just absorb video games into the list of suggested media?  Or are games out of scope anyway (e.g. because a review will probably be more about gameplay than story)?  What about &amp;quot;story-only&amp;quot; reviews, where gameplay is ignored and the writer only discusses the story elements?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, that parenthetical should probably be changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Looking through the reviews tag, the second item is currently an &lt;em&gt;Assassin's Creed&lt;/em&gt; review, but this is a red herring -- it's a review of the movie adaptation, not the games themselves.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-02-11T12:40:23.363" Title="Are video game reviews welcome on the blog?" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10611" CreationDate="2017-02-10T23:52:27.117" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the blogs are now &quot;unofficial&quot; blogs, I think we can relax a bit on what we limit ourselves to. So, my opinion is, if it's an article you think would be of interest to &lt;em&gt;this community&lt;/em&gt;, it's fair game for the blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of a video game review, I think you'd have to be aware of who your target audience is. We're here because we like to watch/read/etc sci-fi and fantasy material. Some of us may &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; enjoy playing video games, but that's not the thing that brings &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; community together. So a mechanical review of the latest &lt;em&gt;CounterStrike&lt;/em&gt; is probably not something we'd want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, there's plenty of sci-fi/fantasy themed games, and they share many of the same qualities as a movie. Reviews of &lt;em&gt;Witcher&lt;/em&gt; games or &lt;em&gt;Elder Scrolls&lt;/em&gt; games that discuss not just gameplay, but the story, characters, appearance, sound, etc. I think would be welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best thing I can recommend is just write and submit one to start with and see how it goes over. If people like it, we can publish more. If people don't like it, we'd probably want to pass on them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2017-02-11T12:40:23.363" LastActivityDate="2017-02-11T12:40:23.363" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10611" CreationDate="2017-02-11T00:32:41.203" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have no objection to content based on a video game, but I would rather see content based on the story and the world, and not particularly the gameplay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2017-02-11T00:32:41.203" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2474" CreationDate="2017-02-11T17:21:53.407" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our good friend Edlothiad had e-mailed Andy Weir, the author of &lt;em&gt;The Martian&lt;/em&gt;, for an answer on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/147429/70236&quot;&gt;The Martian – what happened to all the video log recordings?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I myself had done the same thing for my comment on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/149678/the-members-of-ares-1-2-and-4-or-5-crews/149715#comment385122_149678&quot;&gt;The members of Ares 1,2 and 4 (or 5) crews?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2017-02-11T17:21:53.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10615" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-11T20:42:49.047" Score="2" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;When reviewing a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/152412/why-does-this-character-commit-suicide-in-westworld&quot;&gt;recent question about &lt;em&gt;Westworld&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, I encountered what turned out to be a &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/35373904#35373904&quot;&gt;spoiler to climax of the season&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/968/what-is-the-policy-for-spoilers&quot;&gt;accepted policy&lt;/a&gt; on spoilers in titles seems to be &lt;strong&gt;&quot;try not to&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;, especially about spoiling the &lt;em&gt;friggin season ending&lt;/em&gt;. However, new users have no way of knowing this, so we end up with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/152412/1&quot;&gt;spoilers&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surely we have vigilant &lt;s&gt;geeks&lt;/s&gt; &lt;s&gt;fanatics&lt;/s&gt; &lt;s&gt;pedants&lt;/s&gt; editors who will hopefully catch those things before some time elapses, but once a cat is out of the bag, it just is. There's also the chat feed, which does not update itself when the question is paraphrased. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This brings us to my request: &lt;strong&gt;update the&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Pox3m.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;How to Ask&quot; block&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; on the main site (and the relevant Help page) &lt;strong&gt;to reflect our policy on spoilers&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be clear, I'm not trying to convince myself that everyone will read this block, let alone follow the policy; still, it's a nice &lt;s&gt;useless&lt;/s&gt; precaution to have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:46:23.337" LastActivityDate="2017-02-12T17:33:26.473" Title="Is it possible to update the &quot;How to Ask&quot; block to include our policy on spoilers?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9298" CreationDate="2017-02-12T08:26:37.173" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10478/how-to-find-a-quotation&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to find a quotation?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is very well worded, and, what's more important, has 4 epic answers by some of our most experienced users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a good addition to, among others, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9444/how-to-write-a-good-story-id-answer&quot;&gt;How to write a good Story-ID answer?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.190" LastActivityDate="2017-02-12T08:26:37.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10617" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-13T14:32:50.247" Score="15" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;(I hope it's OK to do this here, since we don't have any better place to do it at the moment. I am looking into other options for support, so this post will hopefully be just an interim solution).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that the SF&amp;amp;F blog is off-site, any support or troubleshooting has to go through the blog owner and maintainers, and not the mods or Stack Exchange. So, the SE &quot;contact us&quot; link is no longer of any use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To try and keep these conversations out of chat, comments, other posts etc. I'd like to start a support thread here for people having issues. If you see a problem with the blog, or have troubles posting, logging in, etc. post here, and we'll get back to you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question involves personal/private information, just post a note here, and someone will contact you at the email you used to sign up to the blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2017-02-16T03:44:06.817" Title="Official Unofficial Blog Support Post" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10618" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10619" CreationDate="2017-02-13T22:29:39.780" Score="9" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Are users allowed to edit information into a question when they think they are asking about the same story?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have posted a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/152438/trying-to-find-a-book-about-an-extraordinary-elevator/152442#152442&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; recently. I asked for the title of the book and the name of the author. I also included in the question that users can edit my question's grammatical errors, formatting, and content. I also wrote that they can edit the content if &lt;strong&gt;they also don't know the title of the book but they know more information than the post.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, are users allowed to edit information into the question when they feel they have additional information but don't know the name of the story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For Example:&#xA;&lt;em&gt;A&lt;/em&gt; asked a question about a book. &lt;em&gt;B&lt;/em&gt; doesn't know the name of the book, but remembers additional information about a book that &lt;strong&gt;might&lt;/strong&gt; be the one the question asks about. Can &lt;em&gt;B&lt;/em&gt; edit the question to add more information or is that up to the user who asked the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74547" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2017-02-14T00:58:12.177" Title="Are users allowed to add information when editing a Story-Identification question?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10618" CreationDate="2017-02-13T22:49:17.477" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Information added to a story ID question by another user may change the meaning of the question because the other user (editor) may be recalling a similar but different story. According to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;help center's information on editing&lt;/a&gt;, this is not the proper use of the editing privilege (emphasis added):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;When should I edit posts?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any time you feel you can make the post better, and are inclined to do so. Editing is encouraged!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some common reasons to edit are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to fix grammatical or spelling mistakes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to clarify the meaning of a post &lt;strong&gt;without changing it&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to correct minor mistakes or add addendums / updates as the post ages&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to add related resources or hyperlinks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, the other user should post the information in a comment to the question and ask the OP if that information matches the story the OP is asking about. If the OP responds then any user can (and should) edit that information into the question (either that it &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;does not&lt;/em&gt; match the story the OP is looking for) in order to help answerers identify the story. If the OP does not respond to the comment then that information should be left in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-02-13T22:49:17.477" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10620" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-13T22:52:14.933" Score="15" ViewCount="508" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/152459/a-trilogy-which-started-as-fantasy-but-ended-up-as-science-fiction&quot;&gt;question of mine&lt;/a&gt; was just declared a duplicate. No problem. I feel frustrated though, because when I got to the question over an hour ago there was a notice asking me to edit the question, with new details, if I didn't think it was a duplicate. Being new here, I don't know how everything works. The issue seemed a bit complex to me so I chose to edit instead of clicking acceptance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So after about 45 minutes I completed editing the question, and clicked [Save]. It didn't get saved. !?!?? I saw that the question had just been declared a duplicate &lt;strong&gt;43 seconds&lt;/strong&gt; prior. No further edits were possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...  ...  ... Aw, shucks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fortunately, my browser let me click back to the intact editing page. I captured my response, which for your viewing pleasure (and my high blood pressure) is pasted below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(response to &quot;duplicate&quot; notice)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The series &lt;em&gt;Soul Rider&lt;/em&gt; is indeed the short answer to both questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The original question, however, provides only background information (so far as I could tell) for the first 3 volumes -- written and published as a trilogy.  Instead the question apparently concerns itself with volumes 4 and 5, which was/were prequel story(ies) published after the trilogy. From book summaries, they are science fiction telling of an interstellar human civilization and how it eventually came to found a colony on an isolated planet and begin terraforming it. The question describes them losing track of technology.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The events in item 2 probably predate the trilogy by hundreds or thousands of years, with different characters. The first volume of the trilogy, where my question begins, appears as a fantasy story about a medieval civilization with magic. Over the course of the trilogy you learn more about the world, and by the third volume you realize that it has been a science fiction story all along.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The questions are completely different, describing different things.  But &lt;strong&gt;if it is common practice in SF&amp;amp;F to declare::link as duplicates such questions if they have the same answer, I have no objection&lt;/strong&gt;. Hopefully the linkage will go both ways though, so people with knowledge only of the trilogy can know about the prequels, and people who know only about the prequels can find the trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Q1: I'm looking for a series of movies about a little boy who rides a flying speed racer.  He grows up, makes friends, has adventures, and fights a lot of people. He doesn't like sand. I think he yells near the end, like he was really sad or something. But maybe he didn't.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Q2: I'm looking for a series of movies, a trilogy I think, about a teenage boy. He meets some robots and an old guy, and then his parents are killed by some bad guys. He makes more friends, has adventures, and fights a lot of people. One of the bad guys can't breathe very well and wears a big helmet. Now he says he's the kid's father. In the end there is a big fight, and they blow up the really big spaceship of the bad guys. Then they do it again, this time with help from a bunch of teddy bears.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Once they have answers, are Q1 and Q2 duplicates?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74040" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2017-02-14T15:23:56.733" Title="Aw, shucks! The frustration is strong in this one" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10620" CreationDate="2017-02-13T22:59:13.130" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've said it right there in your edit &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;&lt;em&gt;The series Soul Rider is indeed the short answer to both questions.&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which makes them duplicates, per our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7065/closing-story-ident-questions-as-duplicates-where-theres-no-acceptance&quot;&gt;accepted policy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, there might be subtle &lt;em&gt;nuance&lt;/em&gt; that you'd like to share with future readers (such as that your question relates to parts x and y whereas the duplicate only mentions parts a, b and c) but that doesn't make them not duplicates. Add a comment and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2017-02-13T23:04:24.240" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10622" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10623" CreationDate="2017-02-15T11:49:12.740" Score="16" ViewCount="251" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a question yesterday: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/152617/why-does-the-department-of-mysteries-keep-prophecies?noredirect=1#comment395348_152617&quot;&gt;Why does the Department of Mysteries keep prophecies?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And somebody dropped a comment saying&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I can't understand why people ask topics here that are not even&#xA;  significant&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and then I replied with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;if so, can you give me the details what's significant for you and&#xA;  what's significant for others? I assumed this site is for asking&#xA;  questions passing the guidelines and are on-topic and not what&#xA;  interest all users in here. That's a pretty hard thing for me to do.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I won't be able to post the actual comment because the user had deleted their comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It disappointed me that somebody would say &lt;strong&gt;&quot;hey what kind of post is that? It isn't interesting at all!&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I thought is that I just need to follow the guidelines in posting a question here. On-topic, duplicate avoidance, not opinion-based, and so on and so forth. But is getting the interest of &lt;strong&gt;all the users here&lt;/strong&gt; also in the guidelines? Are &lt;strong&gt;significant questions for some&lt;/strong&gt; allowed and &lt;strong&gt;significant questions for me and for some others&lt;/strong&gt; not allowed? That's what disappointed me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe some will tell me this is just a small matter but I want to know if it is necessary to post a question that's important for all of the users here. Maybe some of you will give me advice. Do I need to get the interest of all people here before I ask a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74547" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2017-02-19T21:04:50.530" Title="Do I need to get the interest of all people here before I ask a question?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10622" CreationDate="2017-02-15T11:58:44.610" Score="26" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Don't worry about it.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no question which will interest &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt;. For that matter, there's no single sci-fi or fantasy franchise (not Harry Potter, not Star Wars, not Lord of the Rings) which will interest &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt;. For any given question on this site, there will always be people who find it uninteresting. So &lt;strong&gt;no, you don't have to interest every single user with each question you ask&lt;/strong&gt;. It simply wouldn't be feasible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone leaves a comment which says essentially &quot;I don't find this question interesting&quot; without explaining why or offering any constructive criticism, feel free to flag it as &quot;not constructive&quot;. And please, &lt;strong&gt;don't let it get to you!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But does getting interest of all the users here is also in the guidelines? Does the significant questions for some are allowed and the significant questions for me and for some are not allowed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please don't take a grumpy comment from a single user as a reflection of site policy. From the voting it's quite clear that the majority of people who saw your question liked and appreciated it. There'll always be at least one person who doesn't like a given question; that &lt;em&gt;doesn't at all mean&lt;/em&gt; it's somehow not acceptable for the site. Keep your chin up, and keep on posting nice questions :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-02-15T11:58:44.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10624" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-15T23:53:59.890" Score="9" ViewCount="249" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/96156/20774&quot;&gt;How much power does the Martian heat ray output?&lt;/a&gt; was closed by me (as moderator) as being a &quot;science-based question&quot;. Per my original comment at the time; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The wording could be clearer. It allows science questions where the&#xA;  driver is the fiction. &lt;strong&gt;In this case you're basically asking &quot;what&#xA;  output would a heat ray need to melt metal&quot; with the fictional basis&#xA;  being largely irrelevant&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's even one of the &lt;em&gt;exemplars&lt;/em&gt; given for a question that's off-topic on the highest upvoted answer about what sort of questions &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to allow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7364/what-is-our-actual-policy-on-science-questions&quot;&gt;What is our actual policy on science questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why has it been reopened? Has the policy been changed to allow real-world science questions?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2017-02-16T07:22:16.843" Title="Why has this science-based question been reopened?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10624" CreationDate="2017-02-16T00:21:17.513" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;I can't speak for the other reopen-voters, but here's why I felt confident enough to cast the fourth and final VTRO.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question seems to be asking &lt;strong&gt;how much power a particular device used to perform a particular feat, &lt;em&gt;in-universe&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. We might need to use some real-world physics in order to compute the answer, but it's not a &quot;was this feasible?&quot; type question. It seems on par with e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/116040/31394&quot;&gt;Which is bigger - the Star Forge, or the Death Star?&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/103941/31394&quot;&gt;How strong would Clark have to be to lift the school bus out of the water?&lt;/a&gt; - it's asking for a realistic physical analysis of a fictional object.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoting from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7367/31394&quot;&gt;the standing policy&lt;/a&gt; on science questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In-Universe Explanations -- Even Based On Real Science -- Are On-Topic&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Any question that is asking for an answer within the context of a fictional universe, even if that question requires real-world science information, is on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to make the question (hopefully) more clearly on-topic, I edited &quot;would&quot; to &quot;did&quot; in the question body (which I believe preserves the original intent of the OP) and also edited in an extra paragraph taken from one of the OP's comments, to further clarify his intent.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;You make a good point about this particular question actually being mentioned in the policy on science questions. However, one poorly chosen example doesn't invalidate the &lt;em&gt;intent&lt;/em&gt; of the policy, which is still as in the quoted header and paragraph above. Perhaps that post could be edited to provide some more clear-cut examples of on-topic and off-topic science-related questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:35.797" LastActivityDate="2017-02-16T00:36:33.057" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10617" CreationDate="2017-02-16T03:44:06.817" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm writing this answer here so that you can easily ping me directly about any major &lt;strong&gt;technical issues&lt;/strong&gt;. If the site is suddenly loading very slowly, not at all, spitting up some errors, or there are any functionality problems, then please ping me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really, you can contact myself, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1148/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B. Nimble&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/2816/kutulumike&quot;&gt;KutuluMike&lt;/a&gt; about any of the issues, and we'll pretty quickly route them to whichever of us is best-suited to fix it. But most things related to the hosting or blog installation will end falling in my lap. I'm happy to foist off everything else that I can to the others!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There will likely be a support form and report issues email in the near future, once I can be reasonably sure I won't be receiving spam email notifications every 10 minutes. I'll update this answer once those features are live, but will still be happy to respond to pings here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2017-02-16T03:44:06.817" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10624" CreationDate="2017-02-16T07:22:16.843" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The linked question &lt;em&gt;should remain closed&lt;/em&gt; now that it has been re-closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, I don't like our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7364/what-is-our-actual-policy-on-science-questions/7367#7367&quot;&gt;policy&lt;/a&gt; very much.  It seems to sneakily contradict itself, leaving us confused and talking in circles:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Any question that is asking for an answer within the context of a fictional universe, even if that question requires real-world science information, is on-topic.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [...]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Questions which are explicitly asking for an out-of-universe explanation of the science from a work of science fiction or fantasy should be off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The terms &quot;in-universe&quot; and &quot;out-of-universe&quot; are not meaningful when the specific aspect of the universe in question is identical to reality.  Either we need to come up with a more specific definition, or we need to throw this out and come up with something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with the linked question is that knowing about the story cannot help one to answer the question.  The question is not about &lt;em&gt;The War of the Worlds&lt;/em&gt;, it is a physics-homework-esque word problem that happens to dress itself in the trappings of &lt;em&gt;The War of the Worlds&lt;/em&gt;.  That should be our criterion: &lt;strong&gt;Whether an answer will (or plausibly could) require using knowledge specific to the fictional work.&lt;/strong&gt;  You can rephrase that in terms of &quot;in-universe&quot; and &quot;out-of-universe&quot; if you like, and even make the argument that this is just a clarification of our existing policy.  Personally, I think my phrasing is clearer, but this is ultimately a matter of opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.190" LastActivityDate="2017-02-16T07:22:16.843" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10628" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-16T18:38:51.360" Score="4" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is an example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/152792/why-was-hogwarts-so-adamant-about-having-harry-go-there&quot;&gt;Why was Hogwarts so adamant about having Harry go there?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's specifically about an original character, Harry, in an original situation (we're talking book 1).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the question is based on or inspired by a concept introduced in the new &lt;em&gt;Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them&lt;/em&gt; movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, it has both &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantastic-beasts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantastic-beasts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantastic-beasts&lt;/a&gt;. The question isn't specifically &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; the &lt;em&gt;Fantastic Beasts&lt;/em&gt; franchise, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another scenario would be reading something on Pottermore, and asking a question about &lt;em&gt;Goblet of Fire&lt;/em&gt; based on that reading, not about the Pottermore content itself, but tagging it Pottermore anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's stuff from the new media in the question, and the answer may reasonably draw upon the new media, but it's technically asking about events in old media or just the &quot;franchise&quot; in general. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what should our tagging standards be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2017-02-16T19:44:02.320" Title="How should we tag Harry Potter questions about original media based on details from new media?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10628" CreationDate="2017-02-16T19:44:02.320" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FRBC1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kill it&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9420/31051&quot;&gt;previous argued&lt;/a&gt; (in an discussion about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pottermore&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pottermore&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pottermore&lt;/a&gt;) that &quot;source&quot; tags only make sense when the question is &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; that source. That's most consistent with the general purpose of tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scope clarification&lt;/strong&gt;. The scope of a question isn't clarified by knowing what inspired it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ease of searching&lt;/strong&gt;. I don't have hard evidence to back this supposition up, but I suspect few people would ever want to find questions that were inspired by a particular source (except for when the question is also &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; that source)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Categorization&lt;/strong&gt;. In the same vein as the other two: there's negligible benefit to indexing questions by their inspirations; I suspect it's something few people would ever need to know&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of this is to say: no, remove &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantastic-beasts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantastic-beasts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantastic-beasts&lt;/a&gt; from this question; we only have five tags on a question, so let's keep them to things the question is actually &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31051" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.223" LastActivityDate="2017-02-16T19:44:02.320" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10630" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-19T10:02:50.107" Score="2" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/151737/46509&quot;&gt;Who stabbed Frodo?&lt;/a&gt; is indirectly answered by a quote given in this answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/21383/46509&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/21383/46509&lt;/a&gt;. Is this a duplicate, the questions are not really the same even though the answer does cover it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's not a duplicate if someone wants to add/edit an answer with this quote in I can accept an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user46509" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2017-02-19T19:41:08.040" Title="Should I mark my own question as a dupe in this case?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10631" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-19T10:51:28.400" Score="10" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is an incorrect(?) tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/thelegobatmanmovie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;thelegobatmanmovie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;thelegobatmanmovie&lt;/a&gt; which prevents me from creating the correct(?) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-lego-batman-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-lego-batman-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-lego-batman-movie&lt;/a&gt; tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should this be handled?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31029" LastEditorUserId="3267" LastEditDate="2017-02-20T00:49:03.833" LastActivityDate="2017-02-20T00:49:03.833" Title="There is an incorrect(?) tag &quot;thelegobatmanmovie&quot; which prevents me from creating the correct(?) &quot;the-lego-batman-movie&quot; tag" Tags="|support|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10631" CreationDate="2017-02-19T11:07:28.553" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's done, I've renamed the tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2017-02-19T11:07:28.553" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10630" CreationDate="2017-02-19T12:47:13.713" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this instance, my instinct is to say &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt;. Although the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/21383/46509&quot;&gt;supposed duplicate&lt;/a&gt; makes reference to the incident in question (Frodo's stabbing with a &quot;&lt;em&gt;Mordor-knife&lt;/em&gt;&quot;) it certainly doesn't offer any conclusive, definitive proof regarding the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;identity&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; of the person doing the stabbing, which is the whole point of the earlier question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/151737/46509&quot;&gt;&quot;Who stabbed Frodo?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, I'm uncertain why you feel that this particular quote offers enough proof of the identity of the stabber that you'd be willing to consider an acceptance on the basis of it being added to an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;em&gt;Escaping a wound that would have been as deadly to him as the Mordor-knife to Frodo (as was proved at the end), he withdrew and hid for a while&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nowhere does it say who the Mordor knife &lt;em&gt;belongs to&lt;/em&gt;, and hence this quote doesn't answer the question. If you could somehow show that there was only one Mordor-knife being used in the fight (or that the other Nazgul were wielding something other than Mordor-knives) then you might be able to construct a case that it's been answered &lt;em&gt;by exclusion.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2017-02-19T19:41:08.040" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10622" CreationDate="2017-02-19T20:53:49.313" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;TL;DR: No, you don't need to get the interest of all people. People who leave such comments are wrong, you're right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand why people bother not only reading, but leaving rude comments on questions they don't find interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Live and let live&lt;/strong&gt;. For every question your opinionated self finds un-interesting/boring/meh, there are people who both find that question interesting; AND likely find some of the questions you personally like boring/uninteresting/meh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we rid the site of the types of questions any small group of people dislikes... likelyhood is, we would be left with a site that has about 100 total questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel strongly enough to leave such a comment, and think enough people agree with you, post a proposal on Meta to bar specific question types. If you know that most people will disagree, stop posting hurtful comments to people whose only crime is not sharing your personal minority opinion of what's interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you as a user and especially question asker see such a comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ignore it, say non-nice things &lt;em&gt;in your head&lt;/em&gt; about opinionated self-important person who left it, or better yet flag it (if moderators agree, as rude and offensive; otherwise, as not constructive).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as your question doesn't have 2:1 or worse downvote/upvote ratio, such comments are meaningless, mean attacks that don't reflect anything but someone's personal opinion, and most certainly don't reflect your doing something wrong you should feel bad about as a question asker..&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;More personally, negative attitudes like the ones exhibited by the comment being asked about (as well as general unwillingness to abide by &quot;live and live&quot; approach) were one of the top reasons that drove me away from SFF as a user.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2017-02-19T21:04:50.530" LastActivityDate="2017-02-19T21:04:50.530" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10635" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-20T18:34:33.193" Score="12" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/federation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;federation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;federation&lt;/a&gt; tag is for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; questions. However, this may be slightly confusing, as there are a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of 'Federation's in Scifi&lt;sup&gt;[&lt;em&gt;citation-needed&lt;/em&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Rand al'Thor♦ &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=34634719#34634719&quot;&gt;said in chat&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also, should we rename it to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-federation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-federation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-federation&lt;/a&gt;? There are plenty of other Federations in sci-fi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we go ahead and rename it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2017-08-09T17:06:38.797" LastActivityDate="2017-08-22T15:14:57.597" Title="Should we rename the [federation] tag to [star-trek-federation]?" Tags="|tags|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10635" CreationDate="2017-02-20T19:08:37.970" Score="18" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the reasons mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2017-02-20T19:08:37.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10635" CreationDate="2017-02-20T20:01:15.883" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This answer was based on the 25-character limit for tags, which is now invalid. I instead support &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11249/31178&quot;&gt;united-federation-of-planets&lt;/a&gt; as given in Kevin's answer.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-federation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-federation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-federation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That was the name of an actual work that &lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_Federation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;was &lt;em&gt;going&lt;/em&gt; to be developed&lt;/a&gt;, and the name might eventually be used again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a quibble, but I'd go with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-federation-star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-federation-star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-federation-star-trek&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; Star Trek is necessary to have in the tag name, otherwise just &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-federation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-federation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-federation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There might be many federations throughout SFF, but &lt;em&gt;The&lt;/em&gt; Federation is still generally understood as The United Federation of Planets, and a quick peek at the tag wiki excerpt should end all confusion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not in our convention to stick the source universe title into the name of child tags. See: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wandlore&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wandlore&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wandlore&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-force&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-force&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-force&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have an exception with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-data&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-data&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-data&lt;/a&gt;, but in my opinion that'd be better tagged as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lieutenant-commander-data&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lieutenant-commander-data&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lieutenant-commander-data&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/officer-data&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;officer-data&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;officer-data&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2020-01-07T00:42:01.647" LastActivityDate="2017-08-22T15:14:57.597" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10638" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-21T02:44:46.563" Score="4" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, so I just glanced over the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review&quot;&gt;review queue&lt;/a&gt; and noticed a new face:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nAR7P.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nAR7P.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Review queue as at 2017-02-21 1:30pm AEDT&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing unusual, except for the fact that that user has &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/78734/beatsforthemind?tab=profile&quot;&gt;47 rep&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pXgS1.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pXgS1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Expanded part of review queue which shows user&amp;#39;s profile and rep, which stands at 47&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Huh?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/access-review-queues&quot;&gt;The minimum rep required to be able to access the review queues is 500 rep&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;strong&gt;how did this low-rep user review this &quot;suggested edit&quot;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.713" LastActivityDate="2017-02-21T02:44:46.563" Title="Wait, how did this low-rep user just review a suggested edit?" Tags="|support|privileges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10638" CreationDate="2017-02-21T02:44:46.563" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The user performed the review action on one of their own posts&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system is designed in such a way that it can track when your action happens to match up with one you would take if you were reviewing. In this case, there was a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/100286&quot;&gt;suggested edit&lt;/a&gt; to one of their own posts, which they promptly approved, thus registering as a review action. See below image:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vFOKV.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vFOKV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image showing that the user in question approved an edit suggestion which happened to also be in the review queue.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:31.613" LastActivityDate="2017-02-21T02:44:46.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1530" CreationDate="2017-02-21T16:25:14.713" Score="7" Body="&lt;h1&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire and/or Game of Thrones&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Real life people&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;D&amp;amp;D - Dan Weiss &amp;amp; David Benioff, Producers of the HBO adaptation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;GRRM - George R.R. Martin, writer and creator of the series&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On site&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TQAT - &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/39179/the-quill-and-tankard&quot;&gt;The Quill and Tankard&lt;/a&gt;, the ASOIAF/GoT chatroom for the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Books &amp;amp; Show&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ASOIAF - A Song of Ice and Fire, the name given to the books series.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;AGOT - A Game of Thrones, First book of the series&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ACOK - A Clash of Kings, Second book of the series&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ASOS - A Storm of Swords, Third book of the series&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;AFFC - A Feast for Crows, Fourth book of the series&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ADWD - A Dance with Dragons, Fifth book of the series&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ADOS - A Dream of Spring, Seventh book of the series (Planned)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;D&amp;amp;E - Dunk &amp;amp; Egg, Collective name given to a series of Prequels&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;GoT - Game of thrones, the name given to the HBO TV Adaptation of the books.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ToDaE - Tales of Dunk &amp;amp; Egg, official name given to the prequel novella series&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TWOW - The Winds of Winter, Sixth book of the series (Still in progress)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;THK - The Hedge Knight, First novella of Dunk &amp;amp; Egg series&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TSS - The Sworn Sword, Second novella of Dunk &amp;amp; Egg series&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TMK - The Mystery Knight, Third novella of Dunk &amp;amp; Egg series&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TRP - The Rogue Prince, A Prequel novella&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TPATQ - The Princess and the Queen, A Prequel novella&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TWOIAF - The world of Ice and Fire, Companion book&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In-Universe Characters, Events, Organizations and Places&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;AA - Azor Ahai&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;AAR - Azor Ahai Reborn&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;BB - Bobby B (Robert Baratheon)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;BF - Blackfish (Brynden Tully)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;BR - Bloodraven (Brynden Rivers)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;BwB - Brotherhood without Banners&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;CotF - Children of the Forest&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;fAegon - Fake Aegon&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;FLM - Faceless Men&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;FM - First Men&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;HoBaW - House of Black and White&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;HotU - House of the Undying&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;IT - Iron Throne&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;JC/JonCon - Jon Connington&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;KG - Kingsguard&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;KS - Kingslayer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;KL - King's Landing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;KotLt - Knight of the Laughing Tree&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;LC - Lord Commander&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;LF - Littlefinger&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MFG - Many Faced God&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;NK - Night's King&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MMD - Mirri Maz Dur (the Maegi who caused Khal Drogo's death)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;NW - Night's Watch&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;PW - Purple Wedding&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;QoT - Queen of Thorns&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;QoLaB - Queen of Love and Beauty&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;RR - Robert's Rebellion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;RW - Red Wedding&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;StmtW - Stallion that mounts the World&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TER - Three Eyed Raven (Used in Show)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TEC/3EC - Three Eyed Crow (Used in books)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TKitN - The King in the North&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TPTWP - The Prince that was Promised&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ToJ - Tower of Joy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;WotfK - War of the five Kings&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;WW - White Walkers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;YG - Young Griff&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Popular Theories and Other Terms&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;AC - After Conquest&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;BC - Before Conquest&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;BotD - Blood of the Dragon&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;GNC - Grand Northern Conspiracy (Theory about Ambitions of Rickard Stark)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;N+A = J&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; Theory that Ned Stark and Ashara Dayne are parents of Jon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;R+L = J&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; Theory that Rhaegar and Lyanna are parents of Jon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;SanSan - A fan theory that ships Sansa Stark and Sandor Cleagane together&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;T=T&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; A fan theory that Tyrion is a Targaryen&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;YMBQ - Younger More Beautiful Queen&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; (A reference to Prophecy made about Cersei's downfall)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-09-03T12:32:11.323" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2017-02-21T16:41:43.707" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2017-02-21T23:41:54.417" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had to think long and hard about this one, but thought what better way to group my favourite tales with an awesome -scape. So I went with the &quot;&lt;em&gt;Tales from the Perilous Realm&lt;/em&gt;&quot; cover by Alan Lee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Iwuza.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Iwuzam.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Tales from the perilous realm cover&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;I took my avatar from &lt;a href=&quot;http://e-humbert.deviantart.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Emmanuel Humbert's Deviantart&lt;/a&gt; page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NuxU4m.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NuxU4m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;My Winter-Scape&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68872" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-06-28T00:30:12.680" LastActivityDate="2017-06-28T00:30:12.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10642" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10643" CreationDate="2017-02-22T12:27:56.137" Score="9" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the reasons to place a bounty on a question is to attract attention to it. Either to get a better answer, or to get any answer &lt;em&gt;at all&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how can we draw more attention? By advertising it in our main chatroom. That is why I propose to &lt;strong&gt;add a &quot;featured questions&quot; feed&lt;/strong&gt; to the feeds in Mos Eisley.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-03-06T00:52:11.100" LastActivityDate="2017-03-06T00:52:11.100" Title="Do we want a feed of bountied (featured) questions in Mos Eisley?" Tags="|discussion|support|status-completed|chat|chat-feed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10642" CreationDate="2017-02-22T15:58:46.423" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Go ahead&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can't hurt and it only adds a few extra notifications per week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2017-02-22T15:58:46.423" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10644" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10645" CreationDate="2017-02-25T10:28:10.840" Score="8" ViewCount="230" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been after the elusive Populist badge for a long time. It has been almost a year now and it still remains elusive as the candidate answer is shy of one vote and I am getting desperate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I am confident of the answer's quality, I am not sure if asking people to consider upvoting the answer (if they feel it deserves it of course) is something which is &lt;em&gt;honorable&lt;/em&gt; or fair or sportsman-like behavior. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I most certainly want the badge very much, I don't want to engage in anything which is unfair in any sense, to get it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I ask people to consider my answer? Or is tooting your own horn considered gaming the system? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; As &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/4516/avner-shahar-kashtan&quot;&gt;Avner Shahar-Kashtan&lt;/a&gt; has informed me, I was indeed &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6851/is-the-populist-badge-broken-or-have-i-misunderstood&quot;&gt;mistaken about the criteria&lt;/a&gt; to get a populist badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;rule is actually &gt; 11&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;and the test is &gt; 2 * 11 on the post as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The minimum number of votes you would need to get it, is 23.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it appears the Populist badge is way out of my reach. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.550" LastActivityDate="2017-02-25T14:09:52.610" Title="Is it considered fair to recommend that people upvote an answer if they feel it is worth it?" Tags="|discussion|answers|up-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10644" CreationDate="2017-02-25T11:17:01.717" Score="12" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Absolutely you can.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel that your answer is a good 'un,  you should feel free to ask other users (in chat or comments) to upvote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should, however, be aware that historically, &lt;strong&gt;asking for upvotes in chat or comments has often led to downvotes being cast&lt;/strong&gt;, I suspect because people find it funny or simply dislike people begging for votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The better course of action is to do some additional research and edit your answer to &quot;bump&quot; it back to the top of the active page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2017-02-25T11:17:01.717" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10646" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-25T19:40:25.890" Score="9" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that that it is often useful &lt;s&gt;to gain upvotes&lt;/s&gt; to enhance the clarity of an answer/question by including an animated gifs of a relevant film scene. Instead of posting multiple screenshots or YouTube videos, one gif will do the trick nicely, while also saving bandwidth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, not all films have been cut into gifs by respective communities; this is especially valid for less popular scenes and films, which are the ones we usually feel the need to ask questions about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, given the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10478/how-to-find-a-quotation&quot;&gt;previous example of asking our titans for guidance&lt;/a&gt;, my questions are the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where do you find gifs&lt;/strong&gt;? Except for Imgur, Giphy, Google search, are there other venues with high quality film scenes?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do you make gifs&lt;/strong&gt;? This is even more important, given my second paragraph. So far I've tried cropping films using Kdenlive, &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/questions/648603/create-animated-gif-from-mp4-video-via-command-line&quot;&gt;extracting images and putting them into a gif&lt;/a&gt; (bad idea, takes forever on my machine), or blatantly taking a lot of screenshots and converting them to gif (&lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/questions/648603/create-animated-gif-from-mp4-video-via-command-line&quot;&gt;same technique&lt;/a&gt;, but couldn't make it work). Additional gratitude will go to people who post answers that work on &lt;strong&gt;Ubuntu&lt;/strong&gt; :P&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2017-02-26T12:57:37.633" Title="How to acquire or create a film scene GIF?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10646" CreationDate="2017-02-26T02:00:14.433" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tend to use &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cockos.com/licecap/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LICEcap&lt;/a&gt; for gif creation. It's freely available and I like the fact that you can easily resize the pane (to fit the video sources) and that it gives you a 3-second &quot;lead-in counter&quot; before starting, which allows you to move your cursor out of the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I normally then use &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/photoshop.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Adobe Photoshop&lt;/a&gt; to edit the clips down into a manageable size, to crop off any unneeded parts of the frame and to edit out any accidental &lt;em&gt;cursor intrusion&lt;/em&gt;. One of the nicer features is that you can simply tell the software to save the gif as 'no more than 2MB', which is the max size you can upload to SE. It'll work out the resolution, etc for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've also not used it personally, but if you're looking to convert a video clip on youtube into a gif, imgur offers a &lt;a href=&quot;https://imgur.com/vidgif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;web-based facility&lt;/a&gt; to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since you've mentioned Ubuntu, you might also want to check out  &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/710/record-screen-to-animated-gif-on-linux-alternative-to-licecap&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Record screen to animated GIF on Linux (alternative to LICEcap)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&quot; on Software-Recommendations:SE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:50:05.777" LastActivityDate="2017-02-26T10:28:16.423" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10646" CreationDate="2017-02-26T11:32:54.893" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;For Ubuntu&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The command line way&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/a/123515/582017&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Byzanz&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is the way to go. Install it using&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;sudo apt install byzanz&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is supposed to be in &lt;code&gt;Universe&lt;/code&gt; repositories on 14.04 and higher - I tested it on 16.04, works fine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Byzanz is a CLI tool that supports output to gif, flv, ogg/ogv, webm, or a special format called &lt;code&gt;byzanz debug&lt;/code&gt; (see below). The downside - you have to specify the area to be recorded yourself - yes, &lt;em&gt;manually enter the coordinates in command line&lt;/em&gt;. If you don't specify coordinates, it will simply record the whole screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And example command:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;byzanz-record -d 35 -x 1005 -y 410 -h 470 -w 700 meta_answer.gif&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This breaks down as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;-d&lt;/code&gt; - the duration of the recording&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;-x&lt;/code&gt; - the left horizontal coordinate (in pixels) of the recorded rectangle&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;-x&lt;/code&gt; - the upper vertical coordinate (in pixels) of the recorded rectangle&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;-w&lt;/code&gt; - width of the recording&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;-h&lt;/code&gt; - height of the recording&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As with most software, the &lt;code&gt;man&lt;/code&gt; page for Byzanz contains all the commands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But how do we know the coordinates? I was able to find no ther way than to use another program: &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/a/53829/582017&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;xdotool getmouselocation&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. It is installed by&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;sudo apt install xdotool&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Running &lt;code&gt;xdotool getmouselocation&lt;/code&gt; will only get the location at the moment of execution. To get a live location you &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/questions/53781/application-which-will-display-the-current-coordinates-of-the-mouse-cursor#comment510160_53829&quot;&gt;need to run&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;watch -n 0.1 xdotool getmouselocation&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will output the current location of the mouse to terminal, refreshed every 0.1 seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The graphical interface way&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The recommended tool is &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/a/4430/582017&quot;&gt;gtk-RecordMyDesktop&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;sudo apt install gtk-recordmydesktop&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice that unlike Byzanz, this produces &lt;em&gt;video&lt;/em&gt; output, so you will have an intermediate step to convert video to GIF (which is a drag).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, on the bright side - there is a graphical interface, which lets you choose which portion of the screen you want to record.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The downside is that you get a video file (.ogv, to be specific). To convert it to GIF, you either need to do some &lt;a href=&quot;https://askubuntu.com/questions/648603/create-animated-gif-from-mp4-video-via-command-line&quot;&gt;command line magik&lt;/a&gt; (bad idea, output is 100x times bigger than input), or use online tools, which defeats the purpose of my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To edit GIF files, one could use &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gimp.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GIMP&lt;/a&gt;. I haven't tried it myself, so no comments yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:22:55.160" LastActivityDate="2017-02-26T12:27:03.390" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10646" CreationDate="2017-02-26T12:49:28.087" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;On Windows&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For video capture I use &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.screentogif.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ScreenToGif&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; which allows for recording and minor editing before rendering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For GIF optimisation, I use an online free site &lt;a href=&quot;https://ezgif.com/video-to-gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EXGif.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; which has a variety of optimisation options (size, ratio, quality etc) to bring the file size down to 2MB required for SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also offers other transfer options Video to GIF, Effects etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For Browser Capture I use a Chrome Extension, &lt;a href=&quot;https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-capture/ggaabchcecdbomdcnbahdfddfikjmphe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chrome Capture&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; which can capture both for GIF or single screenshot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57069" LastEditorUserId="57069" LastEditDate="2017-02-26T12:57:37.633" LastActivityDate="2017-02-26T12:57:37.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10650" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-02-26T18:38:17.790" Score="46" ViewCount="862" Body="&lt;p&gt;On February 25, 2017 Bill Paxton, one of only two actors to have the distinction of being &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHg6S4AYlb4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;killed by a Xenomorph, a Predator &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; a Terminator&lt;/a&gt;, passed away due to complications from surgery. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sci-fi fans will best remember him for his role in Aliens (as Pvt. &lt;s&gt;Hicks&lt;/s&gt; Hudson) and his memorable line &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That's it, man. Game over, man. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsx2vdn7gpY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Game over!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as well as his parts in Terminator, Predator 2, Thunderbirds and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends. He will be missed.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-02-26T21:49:33.290" LastActivityDate="2017-03-06T19:55:07.123" Title="Game over, man ... Game over" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10650" CreationDate="2017-02-26T20:40:00.787" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;My favorite Sci-fi/Fantasy Bill Paxton roles are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chet Donnelly from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090305/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_75&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Weird Science&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - I know that he has done so much with his acting career since this movie, but I always think of Chet Donnelly whenever I think of Bill Paxton.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/63UyX.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/63UyX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Chet Donnelly&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Punk Leader from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088247/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_78&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Terminator&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - This was an extremely small, but memorable role.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/acAj3.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/acAj3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Punk Leader&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Private Hudson from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090605/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_72&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Aliens&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - This is one of my favorite roles of his and absolutely has to be mentioned!  How can anyone forget Hudson and his many memorable quotes from that movie?  That movie would not have been the same without him!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TYRXp.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TYRXp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Hudson&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;R.I.P Bill Paxton.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Thank you for providing us with years of entertainment and with so many memorable characters.  My heart is absolutely broken right now.  You will be missed by all of your fans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52940" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-02-26T20:53:09.713" LastActivityDate="2017-02-26T20:53:09.713" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2710" CreationDate="2017-02-27T07:49:37.513" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the vein of answering the question instead of debating its merits, I would write a comment like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Hi, and welcome to scifi.SE. -- new users only] Could you please confirm that you've [seen/read] every [book/film/episode/work] in the [series/universe/whatever-it's-called]?  If you didn't personally examine them all, can you &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/962/36526&quot;&gt;provide a citation&lt;/a&gt; for your claim?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the user replies with &quot;yes, I did read/see them all&quot; or words to that effect, edit it into the answer.  Comments are ephemeral, and showing one's work is a required component of these answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2017-02-27T07:55:28.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10507" CreationDate="2017-02-27T17:36:21.327" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Playing Devil's Advocate, if it's ambiguously SF&amp;amp;F, it might do alright. I've had a few ID questions like that, where I could not remember whether there were actually fantasy elements to the story, or if people just thought that they were in-story. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/91650/childrens-book-about-a-girl-maybe-being-influenced-by-her-black-cat-to-become-a&quot;&gt;Children&amp;#39;s book about a girl maybe being influenced by her black cat to become a witch&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/144944/teenage-boy-travels-to-scotland-to-settle-his-familys-curse-alternately-helped&quot;&gt;Teenage boy travels to Scotland to settle his family&amp;#39;s curse. Alternately helped and hindered by a girl from the rival family. Smoked fish?&lt;/a&gt;. Although, admittedly, both were slightly ambiguous as to whether there was magic after all. I have a third question that I've never asked here (involving a pair of kids who are convinced that their next-door neighbor is a witch, and manage to convince her enough to play along and try to be one) because I'm 90% certain that it was clear by the end that there was no actual magic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In cases where it has been found that the work in question is unambiguously not fantasy/sci-fi, I've voted to close, since the question is not on-topic, although it will often stay on the site, because some of the answers are fantasy/sci-fi, and could help others (to give a contrived example, imagine someone looking for a film where a girl keeps getting gifts from her &amp;quot;fairy godmother&amp;quot;, they wind up accepting an answer that points out that it's a 1970s TV film where the &amp;quot;fairy godmother&amp;quot; is found to be their mother, secretly encouraging them, no magic involved, but there are also valid answers that match the original question but refer to actual fantastic works).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="23243" LastEditDate="2023-08-24T17:12:58.353" LastActivityDate="2023-08-24T17:12:58.353" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10655" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10658" CreationDate="2017-03-01T14:31:17.130" Score="8" ViewCount="356" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jason Baker's answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10161/31394&quot;&gt;Let's figure out our Tolkien tags&lt;/a&gt; provides an excellent description of the situation as it currently stands with tags related to the Tolkien legendarium, but it doesn't really do much to suggest a path forward, especially for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; meta post is to establish some consensus on what to &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; with our Tolkien tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;- &lt;strong&gt;How should the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/middle-earth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;middle-earth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;middle-earth&lt;/a&gt; tags be used?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;- &lt;strong&gt;What tag should we use for the Tolkien legendarium as a whole?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/middle-earth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;middle-earth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;middle-earth&lt;/a&gt; tags could be used as a general legendarium tag, and both have partially been used in that way so far. But the latter has a tag wiki saying it should only be for questions specifically about the Middle-Earth region, while the former is an author tag and therefore subject to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7924/31394&quot;&gt;this meta post&lt;/a&gt;; although its tag wiki says it should be for questions about Tolkien's works, people have in recent weeks been removing it from questions not about Tolkien himself. On the other hand, it would be nice to have a general legendarium tag: works like LotR, the Hobbit, the Silmarillion, etc. are clearly in the same universe, and it's one of the biggest and most famous fantasy universes out there.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;When making this decision, &lt;strong&gt;let's try not to worry too much about existing usage patterns&lt;/strong&gt; for these tags. How they've been used so far is &lt;em&gt;very inconsistent&lt;/em&gt;, and we shouldn't let the large volume of poorly tagged questions stop us from creating a consistent system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If nothing else, we can make sure &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; questions will be tagged consistently &lt;em&gt;from now on&lt;/em&gt;, thus reducing the problem to a finite one; the hundreds of existing Tolkien questions can then be retagged at our leisure, bit by bit over months or years. &lt;strong&gt;Let's not worry about the size of the task&lt;/strong&gt; when deciding on a course of action - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9184/31394&quot;&gt;adding the Star Trek tag to hundreds of questions&lt;/a&gt; is also a mammoth task, and we have enough willing helpers. It's more important to make ourselves a good system than to minimise the work we need to do. Mod tools such as tag merges will also be available if needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T23:40:06.487" Title="Tolkien tags - the way forward" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10655" CreationDate="2017-03-01T14:40:57.160" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Leave 'em.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per my &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10008/20774&quot;&gt;stock objection&lt;/a&gt; to massive tag updates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As things stand, these tags are pretty harmless and possibly of minor use to anyone with a passing interest in specific elements of Tolkien-related works&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mucking around with these tags &lt;em&gt;on a systematic basis&lt;/em&gt; will result in the front page being disfigured with worthless edits for (at minimum) several weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As usual, I see that that OP has offered no concrete justification to explain why messing around with these tags is of &lt;em&gt;more benefit&lt;/em&gt; to the site than simply leaving them in situ.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.190" LastActivityDate="2017-03-01T14:40:57.160" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10655" CreationDate="2017-03-01T15:19:55.453" Score="12" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Keep &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/middle-earth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;middle-earth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;middle-earth&lt;/a&gt; for questions about the geographical area, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt; for the author himself, and a new &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien-legendarium&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien-legendarium&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien-legendarium&lt;/a&gt; for his works as a whole.  Also, possibly a new &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arda&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;arda&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;arda&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would mean all questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/middle-earth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;middle-earth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;middle-earth&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/simarillion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;simarillion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;simarillion&lt;/a&gt; would also get the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien-legendarium&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien-legendarium&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien-legendarium&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would this work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As according to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7924/57650&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; meta answer that lays some guidelines for author tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If the question is asking about a) aspects of the author's life, or b) aspects of the author's work that are not specific to a single work or franchise, then we tag the question with the name of the author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt; should probably be used for questions about J.R.R. Tolkien as a person, or things that aren't specific to a specific work of his.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jason says in his answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;FAQ&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Q. Isn't everything in Tolkien's Legendarium part of Middle-earth?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A.&lt;/strong&gt; No: Middle-earth is one small section of the world Tolkien created, Arda. Other regions include Beleriand, north of Middle-earth and the original home of the Elves; Númenor, the land of the Dúnedain; Aman, the undying lands of the Valar and the elves; and the Dark Lands, south of Middle-earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Q. When should I tag something Middle-earth?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A.&lt;/strong&gt; Use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/middle-earth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;middle-earth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;middle-earth&lt;/a&gt; when you want to ask a question about something general to Middle-earth: a location, a race, or a historical event. You can use it in conjunction with other, more specific tags like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-hobbit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-hobbit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-hobbit&lt;/a&gt;. Do not use it when you want to refer to other parts of Arda, like most of the events of &lt;em&gt;The Silmarillion&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is probably a good idea. TL;DR: use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/middle-earth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;middle-earth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;middle-earth&lt;/a&gt; for questions about the (actually pretty small) location of middle-earth. For example, &quot;How big was middle-earth?&quot;.  Do note that Beleriand, Númenor, and other locations were &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; in Middle-earth, but were still in Arda, the name for the whole earth. I'm not sure whether we should make an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arda&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;arda&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;arda&lt;/a&gt; tag however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We may want that tag, and hopefully it would be used on questions such as the middle-earth one, and would go in conjunction with a tag like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/middle-earth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;middle-earth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;middle-earth&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/beleriand&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;beleriand&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;beleriand&lt;/a&gt; (if that doesn't exist already, it should (i.e other location tags like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/middle-earth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;middle-earth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;middle-earth&lt;/a&gt;)), but maybe it's unnecessary for that reason.  I'd be in favor of creating it now, but possibly not retroactively retagging. That might be it's own meta post though... (&quot;do we want [arda]&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As for the legendarium as a whole: Make &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien-legendarium&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien-legendarium&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien-legendarium&lt;/a&gt;. This would be used for pretty much everything related to his works, however would only sometimes go with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt; tag.  For example, &quot;Did Tolkien smoke?&quot; would not get that tag, but &quot;Did Tolkien design the Valar to be based on Greek gods?&quot; would. (both of these were off the top of my head, pretty bad questions)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one is pretty intuitive, but I think it's probably a good idea. Again, this would go on really any question about Tolkien's works, not just the franchise as a whole (i.e. &quot;how was the lotr movies marketed&quot; would probably get it, but &quot;how tall are hobbits&quot; would also).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user57650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.190" LastActivityDate="2017-03-01T15:19:55.453" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6576" CreationDate="2017-03-01T17:08:08.050" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you say — actually, as the now–departed user1027 said, — comical or jocular comments can provide some color and ambiance to the place.  That can go to an extreme, of course; we all should know how obnoxious is the local color in &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtube.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;some places&lt;/a&gt;.  (BTW, please, don't limit yourself to construing that as an ethnic remark; &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;we are all mostly the same color.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, everything here should be viewed in the light of posterity.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Often a comment provides ancilliary information which doesn't quite fit in to an edit of the answer — though you could certainly attempt to do so.  Those can be maintained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider this:  would a newcomer, viewing the page via a websearch, find the joke humorous in 5 years?  If so, then keep it, why not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, obviously there ought be a limit.  I'd say one, maybe two, per every few Questions or Answers is plenty — unless it were an especially tongue–in–cheek topic.  And too many of those becomes sickening, like a belly full of pure sugar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68218" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-11-18T04:20:52.077" LastActivityDate="2019-11-18T04:20:52.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10660" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10661" CreationDate="2017-03-01T19:20:28.860" Score="2" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently wrote a Story ID question after doing a few searches and, at the end of writing it, noticed a potential match in the &quot;similar questions&quot; to the right. Indeed, my question had been asked before, albeit with different details. I wound up keeping my question, and closing it as a duplicate (not of the one to the side, which was itself marked as a Duplicate, but of the question it was worked as a duplicate of). Do we have a policy? The closest I've found is Valorum stating that his belief is that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10539/23243&quot;&gt;a comment should be posted to the OP&lt;/a&gt; with the additional details. The thing is, my understanding is that comments are not searchable, so the details would not actually help people to find the story in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts? Policy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2017-03-01T20:37:48.233" Title="What's the best way to add details to a duplicated story-ID question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10660" CreationDate="2017-03-01T20:25:11.417" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Don't add extra details to a &lt;em&gt;solved&lt;/em&gt; story-ID question.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It invalidates the question and stands a pretty reasonable chance of making the OP look like an idiot for not being able to answer their own question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've dealt with a similar issue here;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/671/should-we-tag-solved-story-identification-questions-with-the-name-of-the-autho&quot;&gt;Should we tag (solved) story identification questions with the name of the author / property?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.190" LastActivityDate="2017-03-01T20:25:11.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10660" CreationDate="2017-03-01T20:37:48.233" Score="-1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Add a new question with as many details as you can add (including ones in the duplicated query), acknowledge the duplicate, and mark it as such&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like this is the best approach for the purpose of helping later querents. You get the additional data available for searching and an acknowledgement that it's been answered before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Issues&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Except... that will create intentional duplicates. And it might take a bit before the question does get closed. And, without good writers, I could see that sort of a policy leading to &quot;Me too&quot; questions that consist of &quot;Yeah, this book, and the protagonist wore a blue shirt at the beginning&quot;. Perhaps with a policy of deleting the dupe if the OP adds the details?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just figured it best to put one possible answer up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2017-03-01T20:37:48.233" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10590" CreationDate="2017-03-02T02:27:32.720" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here again without a period (since I can't edit the post above): &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qTvls.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qTvls.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;no period version&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21324" LastEditorUserId="21324" LastEditDate="2017-03-24T18:38:24.870" LastActivityDate="2017-03-24T18:38:24.870" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9316" CreationDate="2017-03-02T18:12:42.597" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to Rand's answer, I would like to add a broader sense to this topic...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Do not post spoilers in comments -- Period.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Any spoiler in a comment should be flagged and removed.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand we do not have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/968/what-is-the-policy-for-spoilers?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;hard set policy&lt;/a&gt; on spoilers to begin with. However, spoilers in Questions and Answers can always have the markdown added if needed. &lt;em&gt;Comments do not have this luxury.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The flag reason should be &amp;quot;Other&amp;quot; then a short line explaining the comment is a spoiler and a link to this meta discussion would be appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-03-02T18:18:06.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10665" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10667" CreationDate="2017-03-02T18:53:40.377" Score="8" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Expanse&lt;/em&gt; is the name of both a series of novels, and the TV show based on that book series. They both share one tag, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-expanse&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-expanse&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-expanse&lt;/a&gt;. Is that OK? Should they be split up? If so, how?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(In addition, the two first books have their own tags that I have proposed to merge into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-expanse&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-expanse&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-expanse&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/leviathan-wakes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;leviathan-wakes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;leviathan-wakes&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/calibans-war&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;calibans-war&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;calibans-war&lt;/a&gt;, respectively. This should probably only be done if the master tag shouldn't be split, I guess.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23384" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-03-12T23:18:35.577" LastActivityDate="2017-03-13T03:19:30.513" Title="Tags for The Expanse book series and TV series" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10665" CreationDate="2017-03-02T19:43:00.897" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;strong&gt;don't think we need separate tags&lt;/strong&gt; for TV series and the novel series in this particular case. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case a distinction is needed, askers are free to clarify the medium by supplementing their questions with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt;, respectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should probably add a section to the tag usage guidance, explaining that the appropriate medium tag should be used with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-expanse&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-expanse&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-expanse&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the merging part, I &lt;strong&gt;don't think this should be done&lt;/strong&gt;. According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/150018/70236&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; separate books are more or less self-contained, and could be read separately and out of publication/chronological order. This implies that people might be asking questions related not to the universe in general, as it most often happens with LotR or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9769/does-a-song-of-ice-and-fire-need-individual-book-tags&quot;&gt;ASOIAF&lt;/a&gt;, but related to specific book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:32.910" LastActivityDate="2017-03-02T19:43:00.897" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10665" CreationDate="2017-03-02T20:33:57.477" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Currently policy is generally that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7924/31178&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; individual works get their own individual tag&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; Some exceptions apply, such as films or books of a series (similar to how each episode of The Expanse will not get its own tag). So, there's not a &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; to tag Caliban's War individually, which Gallifreyan's answer also addresses, unless the question is truly about events self-contained within those books or the book itself (such as writing it, behind the scenes, analysis, etc.). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some pre-existing popular tags, like Harry Potter, do not have a book and film distinction because they have been grandfathered in due to the sheer magnitude of work involved in adjusting the tags. But, in general, we shouldn't penalize a written work because a TV or film version of it happened to be produced without changing the title &lt;em&gt;Legend of the Seeker&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general format is the original media gets the plain tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-expanse&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-expanse&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-expanse&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the same named works in whatever media get the initial year of release appended to the end, so the TV series would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-expanse-2015&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-expanse-2015&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-expanse-2015&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is what I would normally recommend doing in case there's already questions about one or the other (or a question about both and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/adaptation-comparison&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;adaptation-comparison&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;adaptation-comparison&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, to make it more clear, I would prefer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-expanse-novels&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-expanse-novels&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-expanse-novels&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-expanse-2015&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-expanse-2015&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-expanse-2015&lt;/a&gt; to avoid mistagging show questions with the book tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to accomplish this with the least disruption, we need to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Figure out which questions are about which work (TV vs Books vs Both)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Likely get a moderator to rename the tag of the largest group&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Manually (over time) remove the old and add the new tag to the other group&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.190" LastActivityDate="2017-03-13T03:19:30.513" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6692" CreationDate="2017-03-04T12:57:33.017" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;So far as a new tag is concerned:  &lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because:  Tags should be used &lt;strong&gt;to attract answers&lt;/strong&gt;, not to deter readers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to whether any special treatment is necessary:  Use &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;!&lt;/code&gt; blocks if you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68218" LastActivityDate="2017-03-04T12:57:33.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10669" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10670" CreationDate="2017-03-04T20:20:19.827" Score="3" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;When attempting to &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt; another user, the &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt; callout disappeared after I'd submitted. Is this a bug? I also refreshed the page to be sure the comment I was trying to reply to hadn't been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Before submit:&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tBsH0.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tBsH0.png&quot; alt=&quot;Before submit&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After submit:&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7h47u.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7h47u.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36377" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2017-03-04T20:25:51.210" LastActivityDate="2017-03-04T20:25:51.210" Title="Is it a bug that when @'ing another user that callout is deleted from a comment?" Tags="|support|status-bydesign|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10669" CreationDate="2017-03-04T20:22:41.730" Score="11" Body="&lt;h2&gt;This is by design.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the main meta FAQ &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/43019/278659&quot;&gt;How do comment @replies work?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Note that the author of the post will always be notified of any new comment. You may still use it for clarity, if needed; however if only you and the author have commented on the post so far, the @name will be &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/97098/eeeeek-what-happened-to-my-salutation/97099#97099&quot;&gt;automatically removed&lt;/a&gt; from the beginning of the comment, as it adds no value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether the system &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; work that way is another question. But if you want to discuss that, better take it to main meta - it's a network-wide effect, and won't be changed for an individual site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2017-03-04T20:25:37.297" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10672" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10673" CreationDate="2017-03-06T05:41:03.320" Score="6" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've recently proposed an edit for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ss-gb&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ss-gb&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ss-gb&lt;/a&gt; tag excerpt, after creating it. Some time after, the pending edit button appeared near the review queue button. When I clicked, the queue appeared empty, but the &lt;strong&gt;button remained there&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dwCux.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dwCux.gif&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It still does, even after multiple clicks, as shown in the animation above. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a known bug when my own edits appear as pending (given that I've already &lt;em&gt;reviewed&lt;/em&gt; them by proposing them)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-04-07T10:51:22.827" LastActivityDate="2017-04-08T09:15:32.580" Title="Is it a bug when pending edits by myself appear near the review button?" Tags="|bug|suggested-edit|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10672" CreationDate="2017-03-06T07:36:12.427" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;No this is a known caching issue and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoting &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/238699/307083&quot;&gt;Shog's answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Caching. And some complicated eligibility rules.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Most of the time, &lt;strong&gt;the top bar will indicate what's still TO DO for&#xA;  the site, while the numbers under /review will indicate what's still&#xA;  TO DO for you&lt;/strong&gt;. But when reviews are being done quickly, they can&#xA;  become out-of-date briefly. The &lt;strong&gt;system recalculates them every few&#xA;  minutes, so generally they won't be out of date for too long&lt;/strong&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...But there are still some edge-cases where &lt;strong&gt;there'll be items in a&#xA;  queue that you aren't eligible to review but which are disqualified&#xA;  because of tests too expensive for the system to run until/unless you&#xA;  actually try to review them&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's unlikely you'll encounter the latter very often, but if you see a&#xA;  discrepancy hanging around for more than 5-10 minutes, chances are&#xA;  that's what it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what happened is, the topbar showed that a review was pending for the site to do. When you clicked it, System calculated your eligibility for the review and found out that you are not eligible for that review (Because it's your edit after all). So it showed you no pending edits. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also see: Another one of Shog's answers &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/266018/4029561&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further reading: &lt;a href=&quot;http://shouldiblamecaching.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Should I blame Caching?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; In the new design rolled out for SO, it appears that they have fixed this issue by getting rid of the count altogether. Now the counts load when you click on review button, for every queue respectively. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/b3TBO.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/b3TBO.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have left shog a comment to seek official confirmation. Will update if he replies. I have also created &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/346615/4029561&quot;&gt;a MSO post&lt;/a&gt; to seek official confirmation from other sources if Shog is not available to comment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE 2:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes Shog has confirmed the new layout is supposed to be the fix for this issue. Quoting &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/238698/does-the-review-queue-page-show-only-reviews-requiring-your-action-does-it-diff/238699?noredirect=1#comment954086_238699&quot;&gt;him&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Well... It's a fix, @NSNoob. It ain't ideal; the ideal implementation&#xA;  would light up the indicator when - and only when - there are tasks&#xA;  that you need to do when you haven't been reviewing for a while. But&#xA;  it is an improvement: there's a delay, no bogus number, and a check&#xA;  for some reasonably-sane number of pending tasks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastEditorUserId="54887" LastEditDate="2017-04-08T09:15:32.580" LastActivityDate="2017-04-08T09:15:32.580" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10650" CreationDate="2017-03-06T19:55:07.123" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let us all remember Bill with a few rousing games of his very own &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.benheck.com/bill-paxton-pinball/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;pinball machine&lt;/a&gt;. RIP Simon, you slimy, lovable bastard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xEufd.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xEufd.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75000" LastActivityDate="2017-03-06T19:55:07.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10675" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10676" CreationDate="2017-03-06T22:12:01.727" Score="8" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question follows this MSE post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/291741/we-will-no-longer-be-hosting-blog-overflow&quot;&gt;We will no longer be hosting Blog Overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, we have opted to discontinue blogs. That thus led the question of what to do with the extant blogs. We reached out to the communities of all the sites that had blogs, and asked them what they wanted to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When did they reach us? I just searched the meta.scifi. Please, link me to that meta post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The blog wishes to be continued&lt;/strong&gt;, at which point we will coordinate with the community in the creation of an off-site blog. The community would create and run this blog, similar to Worldbuilding's Universe Factory. We in turn would provide the contents of the old articles from the original blog, and provide a means to redirect traffic to the old articles to instead correspond to the articles on the new community-run blogs. The following sites elected to go this route:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Information Security&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TeX - LaTeX&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How exactly can the community create and run an off-site blog? It doesn't seem feasible unless we grant certain users this privilege. Who has been selected for this? And, what was the criteria?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I trust this off-site blog? How to login to it? Certainly, I can't give it my Stack Exchange password.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Stack Exchange doesn't pay for the cost of the blog&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;what's the guarantee that it can stay up forever? Is there a mechanism for ownership transfer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;what's the guarantee that its quality will remain good (ads can appear, blog performance can go down, design can change)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;what's the guarantee that it won't play with user's posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; I know that there's lots of questions here, but these are related and it should be answered in one post. Splitting it would just create a mess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-03-07T00:55:54.740" Title="Questions about our off-site blog?" Tags="|support|blog|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10675" CreationDate="2017-03-07T00:11:24.527" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Initially, the warning about the discontinuation of the blog happened directly (and, in our case, in chat). That's what led to this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10256/do-we-want-to-continue-having-a-community-blog&quot;&gt;Do we want to continue having a community blog?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Afterwards, there was a flurry of discussions on meta and in chat regarding choosing a platform, a name, a domain, etc. These decisions involved community input as best we could, but in the end the executive decisions came down to myself, Jack B. Nimble and KutuluMike. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10267/what-should-we-call-our-blog&quot;&gt;What should we call our blog?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10274/look-and-feel-of-the-new-blog&quot;&gt;Look and feel of the new blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Why us three?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jack B. Nimble is our Chief Editor, so-to-speak. &lt;strong&gt;He's essentially been running the blog for years, having been our most active contributor, editor, organizer, etc.&lt;/strong&gt; The blog has been running &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; of him, and it's essentially his baby. KutuluMike is another one of our active blog contributors, pretending not to spoil movies and TV shows. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what's my role? A reader, a friend, and a patron. Jack and Mike were both willing and able to fund the blog themselves, but I didn't find it fair that they were both already contributing creatively, and so I offered to step in and cover the costs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just want to point out that, because this is now a private endeavor, there's technically nothing stopping anyone else from creating a blog for the community. In this case, since Jack was the one doing the majority of the work, the most important thing seemed to be enabling him to be able to continue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;1. What's the guarantee that it can stay up forever? Is there a mechanism for ownership transfer?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no &lt;em&gt;guarantee&lt;/em&gt;, any more than we evidently had a guarantee that StackExchange would offer and continue to host blogs. What I can say is that it's not a high financial cost. The annual domain name renewal is less than my weekly action figure budget, and I already renew my web hosting in 1-3 year blocks, so the blog resource usage represented no additional cost to hosting for me. I find it handy as a developer to always have access to my own web server, even if I go years without using it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;2. What's the guarantee that its quality will remain good (ads can appear, blog performance can go down, design can change)?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't guarantee anything about the quality of Jack's writing (or the movies he watches), but I will say that I effectively give him full creative control over running the blog. He decides which posts get published and when they get published, still. Basically, &lt;strong&gt;Jack still runs the blog&lt;/strong&gt;, and I do what I can to make sure website runs smoothly, and Mike helps out a bit on fronts (helping with copy editing, some website maintenance such as CSS and PHP tweaks, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can adamantly say that I won't be serving any ads, because I &lt;em&gt;hate&lt;/em&gt; them. I run uBlock Origin for ad blocking on pretty much every site, and I wouldn't fill up a site on a domain I own with content I'd end up blocking. The only &quot;ads&quot; you'll see on the blog are along these lines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Za2Lv.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Za2Lv.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which are links to blogs of other stacks or community members.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as performance issues, there could be trouble there. My current host is not know for speed, so initial page loading is reportedly slow. Unfortunately, on the shared hosting plan I'm currently on, there's not much to be done, and I've cached and optimized the WordPress site about as far as it can go. I can tell you, though, that I am &lt;em&gt;seriously&lt;/em&gt; shopping around for a new host, but my current service is valid through February of next year. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tools.pingdom.com/#!/Ej7DI/https://thesffblog.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;When it expires, I plan on moving to a provider that let's me get my page load rating higher than a B&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The design &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; change in the future, who knows? We took a vote here, initially, and people wanted to keep the original design for the most part. I did some work and adapted a modern, mobile-compatible theme to have the same general appearance and made a few minor tweaks to some colors and typography. But in general: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;3. What's the guarantee that it won't play with user's posts?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not quite sure what you're asking here, but let me just quote you from our Contribute page, because I think it's what you're asking about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All post written before October 6th, 2016 were written on StackExchange's now-defunct BlogOverflow under the  Attribution, Share-alike Creative Commons license. After that point, the new team took over and moved the blog to the new domain and contribution licensing is a little different. &lt;strong&gt;For posts published on or after October 6th, 2016 authors retain full rights to their works&lt;/strong&gt;, but give us permission to post and host them, share and link to them on other websites (including websites such as reddit, StackExchange, Twitter, etc.), fix formatting and copy errors, etc. Basically, you give us permission to use your work to do everything we need to do to actually show it to people, and that's it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, basically, the posts that were published already, before the transition, have the same license on them as StackExchange posts, which is why we can even host them. Anything new, though, and we're letting authors retain full license and ownership of their content, so they can re-use it on their personal blog, try to sell it, make us take it down (if it ever came to that), etc. As an artist, I'm very much pro-creator rights. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For transparency, some of the things we've done to author's posts so far are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fix typos&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adjust font styles&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add pullquotes and other visual elements&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Adjust or add images (with author's consent, we don't just associate whatever pictures we feel like)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Individual authors have taken it upon themselves to advertise their own posts on places like Reddit. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;4. How can I trust this off-site blog? How to login to it? Certainly, I can't give it my Stack Exchange password.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a great question. Privacy and trust is a major concern, and something I respect. Many of our users go to great lengths to protect their privacy, and I wouldn't want to get in the way of that. While I can see IP addresses, I don't and won't &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; anything with them. I can't really give any more of a promise than that, because it's the simple truth. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as accounts go:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is completely separate from SE. You'll have a different different password of your choosing. I &lt;em&gt;highly encourage&lt;/em&gt; using a completely different password. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We're using HTTPS plus modern WordPress security plug ins and best practices.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You don't need an account to read the blog&lt;/strong&gt;. However, because of the nature of the Internet, all visitor's IP addresses will be visible to &lt;em&gt;me&lt;/em&gt;. I don't really look at them, but my security plug-ins do. When the blog was on StackExchange, IP address had an extra layer of separation so that only moderators see them. If it helps, I'm currently a moderator pro tempore on the Arts &amp;amp; Crafts beta, so I have been entrusted on part of the StackExchange network with access to user data. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You can reclaim your existing account&lt;/strong&gt; by emailing me at sffadmin[at]thesffblog.com with your account name &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; pinging me in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1364/sff-blog-discussion&quot;&gt;Blog Chat&lt;/a&gt;. I need you to do both, so I know that random Internet user isn't trying to claim your old account. If you're concerned about privacy, this doesn't have to be your personal email, you can use a temporary email service. WordPress just doesn't allow a new password to be generated without an email being associated with the account, and &lt;strong&gt;no user emails were part of the transfer from SE to TheSFFBlog&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You can create a new account&lt;/strong&gt;, but if you had one on the old blog it can't have the same username (but the Display Name can be the same). Feel free to use a made up &quot;real name&quot; if you'd like. If you do this, and had previous contributions, we can associate your old posts with your new account, you just have to let one of the team know that you created a new account. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you really want to write for the blog, but don't want to have an account at all, we can work with that, too. Let us know the contact method that's most comfortable for you and we'll figure it out.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.190" LastActivityDate="2017-03-07T00:55:54.740" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10675" CreationDate="2017-03-07T00:13:47.443" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this case, the reality is that &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/286442/using-blog-overflow-design-elements-on-an-off-site-blog&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;we&lt;/em&gt; reached out to &lt;em&gt;them&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, well in advance of their announcement. We had seen a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/285478/blogoverflow-text-overflow#comment925838_285478&quot;&gt;comment on an unrelated meta question&lt;/a&gt; that the blogoverflow platform was being discontinued, and decided to be proactive about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The criteria for selecting users to run the off-site blog is &quot;they went and did it.&quot; Since it's not an official blog, as far as SE is concerned, anyone was free to go ahead and set one up. Jack (who ran the old blog) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10256/do-we-want-to-continue-having-a-community-blog&quot;&gt;took the initiative&lt;/a&gt; to get it migrated, and myself and CreationEdge &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10274/look-and-feel-of-the-new-blog&quot;&gt;assisted him&lt;/a&gt;. No one else objected and/or announced their own plans to do so. So, the blog we set up became the &quot;official off-site blog&quot; by default.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer all of your questions (this may end up being a FAQ as they are all good questions):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The account information on the new blog is entirely separate from Stack Exchange. You cannot link your accounts, there is no account information sharing, and in particular, we do not have your login and/or password information.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you want to read the blog, you can just browse the articles anonymously.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you want to comment, you will need to create a new account. It is hosted Wordpress blog, which requires a real email address. Myself, Jack B Nimble, and CreationEdge can see your email (but not your password)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you want to post, create an account and then notify one of the &quot;owners&quot;, ideally in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/1364/sff-blog-discussion&quot;&gt;blog chat room&lt;/a&gt; or using &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/contribute/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this form&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We cannot guarantee any of the things you mentioned in your post. The blog is being supported entirely out-of-pocketand hosted on a private server. There's no guarantee that it won't go offline tomorrow, or that we won't put ads on it, or any of that. We presume that if any of that happened, though, someone else would just come along and make a newer/better blog and everyone would go to that one instead. So, we're not going to do any of those things. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I can't really say one way or the other that CreationEdge won't beg for money, though...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2017-03-07T00:13:47.443" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10678" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10683" CreationDate="2017-03-07T17:13:38.430" Score="11" ViewCount="361" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;UPDATE: this is happening. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10691/31394&quot;&gt;The Big Edit Event (is finished)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;Stack Exchange is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/291947/roadmap-to-https-serving-and-uploading-https-images-only&quot;&gt;moving all images from http:// links to https:// links.&lt;/a&gt; The ones that can are being done automatically, but there are a lot that are either actually dead or don't have a https:// available. These need to be manually edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/430352/posts-with-inline-http-images-not-from-imgur&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here is an SEDE query&lt;/a&gt; that finds images that are not from i.stack.imgur. I've been using it on other sites, and have fixed a bunch of broken links, in addition to just switching images to stack.imgur as a precautionary measure, because of linkrot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also tons of questions that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9184/should-we-add-the-star-trek-tag-to-all-of-the-star-trek-questions-that-dont-h?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;need to be retagged&lt;/a&gt;. It might be worth waiting until after we &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10655/tolkien-tags-the-way-forward&quot;&gt;decide what to do with our Tolkien tags&lt;/a&gt;, but after that, if we're going to mess up the front page to fix images we can retag those too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: &lt;strong&gt;Relatively soon, all images linking to a http:// image address will be turned into links&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rebake remaining posts with HTTP images, so that images linking to HTTP addresses will become links - most of those are dead anyway. This will be a HTML baking change, so no Markdown will be affected, but it'll remove any mixed content even when viewing old revisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should edit &lt;strong&gt;before&lt;/strong&gt; this happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you think? Should we have a mass editing event?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2017-03-11T15:12:40.873" Title="Is it time to organize a major editing event?" Tags="|discussion|retagging|editing|images|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10665" CreationDate="2017-03-08T01:43:22.483" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anything and everything that is both a book and a movie should have separate tags. Neither of which should consist solely of 'the name' of the saga, because the users who are going to misapply tags aren't going to read tag descriptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I answered a LotR question once and a commenter's response was, &quot;Who cares about the movies?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23785" LastActivityDate="2017-03-08T01:43:22.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10678" CreationDate="2017-03-08T03:59:43.240" Score="-5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes, but slowly&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we decide to make edits in order to standardise something, we usually try to avoid flooding the front page with questions that have been edited. The inconvenience of that has to be weighed against the benefit of the standardisation that is being proposed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the best measure of the inconvenience is the number of questions per day that are bumped to the top of the front page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I understand this question correctly, the benefit of changing these links is that without the change, the posts involved will soon become less clear without the proposed change. I believe the change is justified but not urgent. We just need to spread it over enough days that the front page isn't swamped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for waiting on a decision on the Tolkien tags, I think that is only relevant if there is a significant overlap between the questions that need links to be updated and the Tolkien questions that need to be re-tagged. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66402" LastEditorUserId="66402" LastEditDate="2017-03-08T04:15:31.937" LastActivityDate="2017-03-08T04:15:31.937" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10678" CreationDate="2017-03-08T16:32:10.200" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;/Sigh. We might as well get on with it.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Image link failure.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that the decision has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/291947/roadmap-to-https-serving-and-uploading-https-images-only&quot;&gt;made by SE&lt;/a&gt; that images will only be allowed from HTTPS links, at the very least we're going to have 240(ish) failed images to deal with. We need to get these sorted. Dealing with them organically, or even in small batches will take weeks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top of that, a quick look at the answers with &quot;bad&quot; image links suggests that many of the other answers that surround them will also need editing. My guess is that &lt;em&gt;collateral&lt;/em&gt; editing will double, if not triple the total number of edits that get done. 240 edits will end up being closer to a thousand by the time people are finished.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Star Trek tags / Tolkien Tags&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a broad consensus on Star Trek retagging (66-ish remaining) and it's likely we'll have a similar consensus on our Tolkien tags. It makes sense to wait until that's resolved in the next few days, then arrange to include them in the &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&quot;BIG EDIT EVENT&quot; (AKA &quot;The &lt;em&gt;&quot;Let's Cock up our front-page&quot;&lt;/em&gt; event&quot;).&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When should we do it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the saying goes, &lt;em&gt;If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly&lt;/em&gt; - We should get on with it before the links fail, not after. Some time over the next couple of weeks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How much time should we set aside?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should set aside about two to three days for this (dates and times TBC). The goal should be to have most of it done by the end of the event. As soon as we have a consensus opinion, we should begin coordinating efforts, checking diaries and collating volunteers (e.g. who's doing what to what).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2017-03-08T22:23:08.847" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10678" CreationDate="2017-03-08T18:23:33.517" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Let's just do it without complaining&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you're concerned about new content not getting proper attention you can use the handy &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=newest&quot;&gt;New Questions tab&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?tab=newest&amp;amp;q=is%3Aa%20created%3A1d&quot;&gt;latest answers search&lt;/a&gt; to edit new questions/answers afterwards, to bump new content back up to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rarely is there a new post that doesn't have some improvement that can be made to it, from fixing typos, improving word choice/sentence clarity, fixing tags, adding examples or better formatting, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We shouldn't flood the review queues with &lt;em&gt;low-quality&lt;/em&gt; edits, but there's no reason to &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; improve the content of the site. I'm sure that if it really matters to keep the new content on the front page (if it truly deserves it), that worthwhile edits can be made to deservedly restore their spots post HTTPS-edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-03-08T18:29:40.437" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10685" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-09T01:05:56.590" Score="5" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw this ad:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;            &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/N0V1Q.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;The actual ad image&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/N0V1Q.png&quot; alt=&quot;the actual ad image&quot; title=&quot;The actual ad image&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;on a SF&amp;amp;F page (it was &lt;a href=&quot;//scifi.stackexchange.com/q/73349/30482&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, although I doubt that it matters). &#xA;I moved my mouse pointer over it&#xA;and the text “Tagline to show on mouseover” appeared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;            &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ku2Ao.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;Screenshot from my screen&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ku2Ao.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot from my screen&quot; title=&quot;Screenshot from my screen&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously that’s a template value that was meant to be replaced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Browser is Internet Explorer 11.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30482" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-03-09T01:14:32.840" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T01:14:32.840" Title="Markup glitch: “Tagline to show on mouseover”" Tags="|bug|status-completed|advertising|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10685" CreationDate="2017-03-09T01:12:57.013" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is because the person who posted the ad on our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10564/31394&quot;&gt;Community Promotion Ads&lt;/a&gt; page didn't include a proper tagline other than the generic one. Here's his post in edit mode:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tN1Cm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tN1Cm.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just edited the tagline to &quot;Find canon Star Wars information&quot;, so this is now fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T01:12:57.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10687" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-09T16:04:19.440" Score="14" ViewCount="285" Body="&lt;p&gt;Movie Night seems to have been a bit quiet recently, so to get things going again I'm nominating the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;single finest science fiction film ever made&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; as our March Movie night film. That's right people, we're watching &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Starship Troopers!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; All are welcome to join in on &lt;strong&gt;March 18th at 11pm GMT (7pm EDT)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more people that come to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;chatroom&lt;/a&gt;, the merrier it'll be and remember, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Service guarantees citizenship!&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/C4fSO4UqR-Y?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZhLTk.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7431/what-is-a-movie-night-really&quot;&gt;What is a movie night?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which version will we be watching?&lt;/strong&gt; The theatrical cut is currently available on Youtube &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw2sb8MXUAk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TISWduNeto&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. There are also copies available on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2k6s2q&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DailyMotion&lt;/a&gt;, Amazon Prime and Hulu.  Amazon Prime members with the STARZ channel can watch it free, or use the STARZ channel 2-week free trial to watch it free.   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What if I want to complain loudly about the film being worse than the book?&lt;/strong&gt; Then prepare to be pelted with popcorn!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;I'm doing my part!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-03-19T09:50:47.013" LastActivityDate="2017-03-19T16:43:09.417" Title="March Movie Event!! - Starship Troopers - March 18th at 11pm GMT (7pm EDT)" Tags="|discussion|movie-night|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10688" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-10T11:31:15.417" Score="-8" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simple idea. I go and make a bot (or another person) and on main a &quot;question&quot; is posted with the title Book Share. And the rules of Book Share are in the question and people answer with the latest book they have read (That is SciFi-Fantasy) and write a simple review/blurb. That way people like me who read way too fast (yeah it is a legit problem i finish a 600 page book in one night) can find more books that are good. Up top they could give a rating out of ten.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a good idea? I know rules are needed and other thing but I have to go to school right now so I typed what i can. I hope you understand my idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user70441" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-03-19T14:45:48.340" LastActivityDate="2017-03-19T15:34:37.617" Title="New idea for a perma post: Book Share" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10688" CreationDate="2017-03-10T11:38:38.440" Score="6" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Nooooo.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; what the site is for. The site is for asking specific questions about Science Fiction and Fantasy works. If you want reviews, check out the &lt;a href=&quot;http://thesffblog.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; - you can find and write reviews there. But a question such as you propose would be A.) A list question, which has a ton of possible answers, none of which are 'right', and B.) a recommendation question, which is basically the same, but are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;explicitly banned&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-03-10T11:57:41.127" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10688" CreationDate="2017-03-10T11:41:34.883" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recommendation questions are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;off-topic&lt;/a&gt;, as decided &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/350/31394&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. A question of the kind you suggest would be closed almost immediately. The rationale for this is that they're far too subjective and there's no single correct answer or way of judging one answer better than another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like it says in the text of the recommendation close reason, a better place for this is &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;. There you can not only get reading recommendations but also have extended real-time conversations with people about why such-and-such a book is good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2017-03-10T11:41:34.883" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10691" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-11T15:06:09.617" Score="8" ViewCount="650" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that we have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10678/is-it-time-to-organize-a-major-editing-event&quot;&gt;broad consensus on having an edit event&lt;/a&gt; to deal with the broken links caused by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/291947/roadmap-to-https-serving-and-uploading-https-images-only&quot;&gt;HTTPS update&lt;/a&gt;, we now need to coordinate the event itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE #2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The Big Event is now (largely) finished). If you want to do any more editing, please refer to the earlier guidelines on mass-edits. No more than 5-10 a day, max, please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It looks like we've been able to edit all (or at least almost all) of the broken image links in double-quick time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you still want to help out, others are working on the Star Trek and LOTR tags (see below).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What are our goals and what can I do to help?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is to replace all broken HTTPS links in the shortest time possible, to minimise disruption. There's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/430352/posts-with-inline-http-images-not-from-imgur&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Data Explorer&lt;/a&gt; query here that will help you to locate the broken links (Don't start from the &lt;em&gt;top downwards&lt;/em&gt; unless you want to find a lot of duplicated effort!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;When?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the links are broken now, I propose we start &lt;strong&gt;immediately&lt;/strong&gt;, with a goal of completing the task within the &lt;strong&gt;next 48-72 hours&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Anything else?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several users felt that it would be a good idea to tag on (pun intended) a retagging event aimed at sorting out our LOTR and Star Trek tags. Assuming they've got a consensus on those we should consider those a &lt;em&gt;secondary objective.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PWvKS.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PWvKS.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-20T10:29:43.923" LastActivityDate="2017-10-31T10:17:52.800" Title="The Big Edit Event (is finished)" Tags="|discussion|retagging|editing|images|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="22" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10691" CreationDate="2017-03-11T15:29:48.830" Score="13" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Acknowledgements&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's have a big round of applause for all those who &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ge5Do.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;helped take part&lt;/a&gt; in the Big Edit Event (that image shows the number of edits made from Saturday/Sunday midnight up to now; I believe Valorum was the only person who took part on Saturday but less on Sunday):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31178&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/flair/31178.png&quot; alt=&quot;CreationEdge&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/33591&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/flair/33591.png&quot; alt=&quot;Mithrandir&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/68872&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/flair/68872.png&quot; alt=&quot;Edlothiad&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/70236&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/flair/70236.png&quot; alt=&quot;Gallifreyan&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/23384&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/flair/23384.png&quot; alt=&quot;tobiasvl&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/60757&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/flair/60757.png&quot; alt=&quot;Bellerophon&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/20774&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/flair/20774.png&quot; alt=&quot;Valorum&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Special thanks to &lt;strong&gt;CreationEdge&lt;/strong&gt;, who not only did nearly 2000 manual edits all by himself but also took personal charge of the Marvel/DC stage of the operation. Without him, we could never have done anywhere near as much as we did in this event. We salute you, Captain Edge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Parts of the project&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fixing broken images.&lt;/strong&gt; This is the most important. &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/430352/posts-with-inline-http-images-not-from-imgur&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This Data.SE query&lt;/a&gt; (set the date range to run from 2011-01-11 to 2017-03-11) provided a full list of ~200 posts with images that need fixing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Star Trek tags.&lt;/strong&gt; There's a consensus &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9184/31394&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to tag all questions about Star Trek with the generic &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; tag. There were several hundred of these, all now retagged.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tolkien tags.&lt;/strong&gt; There's a consensus &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10655/31394&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to keep &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/middle-earth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;middle-earth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;middle-earth&lt;/a&gt; for questions about the region, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt; for questions about the author himself, and a new &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkiens-legendarium&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkiens-legendarium&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkiens-legendarium&lt;/a&gt; tag for questions about his works. This took a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of retagging, over 1000 questions - details below.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DC/Marvel tags.&lt;/strong&gt; See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10698/31394&quot;&gt;CreationEdge's answer&lt;/a&gt; for details.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Organisation of Tolkien edits&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. [tolkien]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had a look through the 905 (!) questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt;. Most of them weren't about the author but only about some of his works, so I retagged the 71 that were (at least arguably) specifically author-relevant with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/j-r-r-tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;j-r-r-tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;j-r-r-tolkien&lt;/a&gt; and then mod-merged the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt; tag into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkiens-legendarium&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkiens-legendarium&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkiens-legendarium&lt;/a&gt;. (&lt;em&gt;Not that it really matters whether or not we include the initials in the tag name, but we do already have a distinct &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/christopher-tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;christopher-tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;christopher-tolkien&lt;/a&gt; tag, and renaming &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/j-r-r-tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;j-r-r-tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;j-r-r-tolkien&lt;/a&gt; made the merging step easier. I can always mod-rename it back to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt; if anyone objects.&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. [middle-earth]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was a similar job to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt;, but on a smaller scale (only about 300 questions to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt;'s 900). I merged this tag with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkiens-legendarium&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkiens-legendarium&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkiens-legendarium&lt;/a&gt;, thus retagging most of those 300 questions in one fell swoop. The rest - the list I made before the merge, which can be found in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/10693/10&quot;&gt;revision history&lt;/a&gt; of this post - had &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/middle-earth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;middle-earth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;middle-earth&lt;/a&gt; re-added to them by hand. (I was quite liberal with allowing the tag to be kept; it's quite possible that some of these questions don't really deserve it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. Everything else&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were also 1000+ questions with other Tolkien-related tags (specifically &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-hobbit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-hobbit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-hobbit&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/silmarillion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;silmarillion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;silmarillion&lt;/a&gt;) but NOT tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/middle-earth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;middle-earth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;middle-earth&lt;/a&gt;. Since the individual work tags should of course be kept, adding &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkiens-legendarium&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkiens-legendarium&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkiens-legendarium&lt;/a&gt; to all these questions had to be done by hand rather than with mod-merges. Thanks to a great deal of effort by many worthy community members, we completed this operation earlier today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/j-r-r-tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;j-r-r-tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;j-r-r-tolkien&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/middle-earth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;middle-earth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;middle-earth&lt;/a&gt; questions are sensibly tagged. Don't worry about them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkiens-legendarium&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkiens-legendarium&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkiens-legendarium&lt;/a&gt; questions should have that tag (I can't guarantee that the &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; tags on all such questions are necessarily appropriate), and - hopefully - all that should have it do.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt; is dead, gone, and buried. (With apologies to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/231/tolkien&quot;&gt;@JasonBaker&lt;/a&gt;, but he'll automatically get a gold tag badge in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkiens-legendarium&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkiens-legendarium&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkiens-legendarium&lt;/a&gt; to replace the one he's lost in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-10-31T10:17:52.800" LastActivityDate="2017-10-31T10:17:52.800" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10691" CreationDate="2017-03-11T15:50:34.993" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;My thanks go to &lt;strong&gt;Valorum&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Creation Edge&lt;/strong&gt; for fixing missing and broken images! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Posts with dead images - please notify the author of the post and add the links here.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Links to those images were dead - I could not retrieve them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/95971/which-2015-technologies-were-correctly-predicted-by-back-to-the-future-ii/95972#95972&quot;&gt;Which 2015 technologies were correctly predicted by Back to the Future II?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/68872/who-is-the-huge-soldier-among-zods-retinue-in-man-of-steel&quot;&gt;Who is the huge soldier among Zod&amp;#39;s retinue in Man of Steel?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/26890/help-with-a-diagram-of-the-races-mythology-of-the-lord-of-the-rings&quot;&gt;Help with A Diagram of the Races &amp;amp; Mythology of The Lord of the Rings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/47868/why-did-sm%C3%A9agol-turn-into-a-creature-when-addicted-to-the-ring-but-not-bilbo/47869#47869&quot;&gt;Why did Sm&amp;#233;agol turn into a &amp;#39;creature&amp;#39; when addicted to the ring, but not Bilbo Baggins?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9192/which-myers-briggs-personality-is-hermione/9200#9200&quot;&gt;Which Myers-Briggs personality is Hermione?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/34266/identify-source-of-picture-probably-doom-related/34267#34267&quot;&gt;Identify source of picture (probably &amp;quot;Doom&amp;quot; related)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6347/rise-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-used-software/6348#6348&quot;&gt;Rise of the Planet of the Apes - Used software?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/52400/in-what-show-did-a-man-travel-back-in-time-whenever-he-heard-do-it-again-by-th/52402#52402&quot;&gt;In what show did a man travel back in time whenever he heard ‘Do It Again’ by The Kinks?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/52390/what-powers-wonder-womans-invisible-plane/52392#52392&quot;&gt;What powers Wonder Woman&amp;#39;s invisible plane?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/10952/whats-the-origin-of-one-does-not-simply-telnet-into-mordor/10972#10972&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the origin of &amp;quot;One does not simply Telnet into Mordor&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8856/cant-you-just-bite-off-a-face-hugger&quot;&gt;Can&amp;#39;t you just bite off a face hugger?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/54551/what-is-the-largest-ship-in-the-star-trek-universe/54552#54552&quot;&gt;What is the largest ship in the Star Trek Universe?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/104648/are-the-nausicaans-and-the-kradin-related&quot;&gt;Are the Nausicaans and the Kradin related?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/54562/any-ideas-what-these-dr-who-monsters-are/54569#54569&quot;&gt;Any ideas what these Dr Who monsters are?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/26926/a-80s-comic-could-be-late-70s-book-i-read-as-a-kid&quot;&gt;A 80&amp;#39;s comic could be late 70&amp;#39;s book I read as a kid&lt;/a&gt; (Subbed a best-guess pic)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/50676/heinlein-long-hair-in-1958/50684#50684&quot;&gt;Heinlein -- long hair in 1958?&lt;/a&gt; (Subbed a best-guess pic)&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/52390/what-powers-wonder-womans-invisible-plane/52392#52392&quot;&gt;What powers Wonder Woman&amp;#39;s invisible plane?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28862/how-did-the-cookfire-get-hot-enough-to-melt-gold-in-game-of-thrones/60617#60617&quot;&gt;How did the cookfire get hot enough to melt gold in Game of Thrones?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/79184/which-buildings-were-used-to-create-hogwarts-in-the-harry-potter-films/79187#79187&quot;&gt;Which buildings were used to create Hogwarts in the Harry Potter films?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2017-03-15T18:36:27.207" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2017-03-11T15:50:34.993" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10696" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-12T02:06:40.900" Score="12" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-comics&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-comics&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc&lt;/a&gt; which are the franchise-level tags that are equivalent to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien-legendarium&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien-legendarium&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien-legendarium&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1521/31178&quot;&gt;Old-school policy suggested&lt;/a&gt; we use them on pretty much any question regarding properties put out by those publishers, and then add the sub-tags like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men&lt;/a&gt; as necessary. That's how we generally do things with most properties, today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there's a major lack of use of these tags, particularly when it comes to some of the publisher's biggest properties:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Superman has only &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/superman+dc-comics&quot;&gt;161 questions tagged with DC&lt;/a&gt; vs &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/superman+-dc-comics&quot;&gt;235 without&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Batman has only &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batman+dc-comics&quot;&gt;192 questions tagged with DC&lt;/a&gt; vs &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batman+-dc-comics&quot;&gt;266 without&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Avengers has only &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers+marvel-comics&quot;&gt;118 questions tagged with Marvel&lt;/a&gt; vs &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers+-marvel-comics&quot;&gt;183 without&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Thor has only &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/thor+marvel-comics&quot;&gt;81 questions tagged with Marvel&lt;/a&gt; vs &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/thor+-marvel-comics&quot;&gt;102 without&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;X-Men has only &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men+marvel-comics&quot;&gt;189 questions tagged with Marvel&lt;/a&gt; vs &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men+-marvel-comics&quot;&gt;267 without&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The list goes on. Basically, all of the tags big enough to be easily seen on our tag map have this problem, where &gt; 50% of the tags are missing the publisher franchise tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9522/map-of-all-2-137-tags&quot;&gt;Map of all 2,355 tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should we do about these tags, or how should we be using them? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it even necessary to tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;batman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;batman&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-comics&lt;/a&gt;? Should we make exceptions for the major franchises from those studios? If so, which tags/characters should be considered their own top-level franchise tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also keep in mind that we have collective work tags such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-extended-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-extended-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-extended-universe&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dcau&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dcau&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dcau&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind, retroactive fixes are rare. The new frontpage that will be launched soon &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; change things, and this weekend is an exception, but I'm not asking necessarily how to fix the problems we have now all at once. Instead, I'm wondering about &lt;strong&gt;a policy for all future questions&lt;/strong&gt; and a way to make trickling edits as the opportunities organically develop over time. &lt;strong&gt;Leave it be isn't an answer&lt;/strong&gt; because what we're doing right now is apparently worse than flipping a coin to decide whether or not to apply the tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2017-03-13T12:11:27.487" Title="How should we tag Marvel and DC as a whole, considering how we've done so?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10696" CreationDate="2017-03-12T09:26:59.750" Score="9" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Make em consistent.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's retag all of the questions without the tags to keep it consistent with how we do the other tags. We can lump them in the Big Edit Event.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that all of the media and characters get the tag for the parent publisher. i.e., all &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/superman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;superman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;superman&lt;/a&gt; questions get &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc&lt;/a&gt;, all &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers&lt;/a&gt; get &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-03-13T12:11:27.487" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10691" CreationDate="2017-03-12T17:45:01.863" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10697/31178&quot;&gt;Here's some of the DC tag cleanup that's ongoing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ignore the dc-comics bit in the URLs. The two tags were always synonyms and a long standing meta meant to swap them. During the event the swap happened and now &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc&lt;/a&gt; is the parent tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Marvel is upcoming, one thing at a time):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whichever tag is missing in the search is the one that needs to be added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/man-of-steel+-dc-extended-universe&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/man-of-steel+-dc-extended-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batman-v-superman+-dc-extended-universe&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batman-v-superman+-dc-extended-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/man-of-steel+-dc-comics&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/man-of-steel+-dc-comics&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/s&gt; &#xA;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batman-v-superman+-dc-comics&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batman-v-superman+-dc-comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/man-of-steel+-superman&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/man-of-steel+-superman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batman-v-superman+-superman&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batman-v-superman+-superman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt; &amp;lt;-- &lt;strong&gt;Deciding that since BvS is technically split between two &quot;franchises&quot; but really just the DCEU&quot; it only needs to have the DCEU tag&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-flash-2014+-arrowverse&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-flash-2014+-arrowverse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-flash-2014+-dc-comics&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-flash-2014+-dc-comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arrow+-arrowverse&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arrow+-arrowverse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arrow+-dc-comics&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arrow+-dc-comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/supergirl+-dc-comics&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/supergirl+-dc-comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/supergirl-2015+-arrowverse&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/supergirl-2015+-arrowverse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/supergirl-2015+-dc-comics&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/supergirl-2015+-dc-comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batman+-dc-comics&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batman+-dc-comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/justice-league-unlimited+-dcau&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/justice-league-unlimited+-dcau&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suicide-squad-2016+-dc-extended-universe&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suicide-squad-2016+-dc-extended-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suicide-squad-2016+-dc-comics&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suicide-squad-2016+-dc-comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suicide-squad+-dc-comics&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suicide-squad+-dc-comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dcau+-dc-comics&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dcau+-dc-comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-extended-universe+-dc-comics&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-extended-universe+-dc-comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/beast-boy+-dc-comics&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/beast-boy+-dc-comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batgirl+-dc-comics&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batgirl+-dc-comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aquaman+-dc-comics&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aquaman+-dc-comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nightwing+-dc-comics&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nightwing+-dc-comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mr-freeze+-dc-comics&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mr-freeze+-dc-comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/green-lantern+-dc-comics&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/green-lantern+-dc-comics&lt;/a&gt; &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/greent-lantern-tas+-dc-comics&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/greent-lantern-tas+-dc-comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doomsday+-dc-comics&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doomsday+-dc-comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-new-52+-dc-comics&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-new-52+-dc-comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/green-arrow+-dc-comics&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/green-arrow+-dc-comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/robin+-dc-comics&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/robin+-dc-comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/krypton+-dc-comics&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/krypton+-dc-comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kryptonite+-dc-comics&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kryptonite+-dc-comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wonder-woman+-dc-comics&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wonder-woman+-dc-comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's probably more DC to be done, in bits and pieces, but I think these are the major offenders. Marvel is incoming, and it's gonna be a HULKing BEAST of a job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2017-03-13T12:16:17.290" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10691" CreationDate="2017-03-12T18:01:52.170" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10665/tags-for-the-expanse-book-series-and-tv-series&quot;&gt;Small (27 questions) &lt;em&gt;The Expanse&lt;/em&gt; re-tag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There seem to be more questions related to the TV show than the novels. So, per &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10667/23384&quot;&gt;CreationEdge's answer&lt;/a&gt;, should a mod rename &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-expanse&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-expanse&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-expanse&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-expanse-2015&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-expanse-2015&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-expanse-2015&lt;/a&gt;? If so I can re-tag the questions about the novels with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-expanse-novels&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-expanse-novels&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-expanse-novels&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also: Should these novel-specific tags be deleted/added as synonyms?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/leviathan-wakes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;leviathan-wakes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;leviathan-wakes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/calibans-war&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;calibans-war&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;calibans-war&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23384" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T18:01:52.170" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10691" CreationDate="2017-03-12T19:42:42.937" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's the start of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt; list. Do these by group order, because it'll eliminate having to retag the same question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ignore the marvel-comics bit in the URLs. The two tags were always synonyms and a long standing meta meant to swap them. During the event the swap happened and now &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt; is the parent tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1.&lt;/strong&gt; All of these need to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/captain-america&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;captain-america&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;captain-america&lt;/a&gt; + &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-comics&lt;/a&gt; + &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;. Use best judgment if some don't actually need any.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/captain-america-civil-war+-captain-america&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/captain-america-civil-war+-captain-america&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/captain-america-tws+-captain-america&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/captain-america-tws+-captain-america&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/captain-america-tfa+-captain-america&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/captain-america-tfa+-captain-america&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2a&lt;/strong&gt;. All of these need &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-comics&lt;/a&gt; + &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/captain-america-civil-war+-marvel-cinematic-universe&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/captain-america-civil-war+-marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/captain-america-tws+-marvel-cinematic-universe&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/captain-america-tws+-marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/captain-america-tfa+-marvel-cinematic-universe&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/captain-america-tfa+-marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/thor-the-dark-world+-marvel-cinematic-universe&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/thor-the-dark-world+-marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/guardians-of-the-galaxy+-marvel-cinematic-universe&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/guardians-of-the-galaxy+-marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/guardians-of-the-galaxy-2+-marvel-cinematic-universe&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/guardians-of-the-galaxy-2+-marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/daredevil-2015+-marvel-cinematic-universe&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/daredevil-2015+-marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/luke-cage+-marvel-cinematic-universe&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/luke-cage+-marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/agent-carter+-marvel-cinematic-universe&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/agent-carter+-marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/iron-man-2+-marvel-cinematic-universe&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/iron-man-2+-marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt; &amp;lt;-- And &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/iron-man&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;iron-man&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;iron-man&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/iron-man-3+-marvel-cinematic-universe&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/iron-man-3+-marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;  &amp;lt;-- And &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/iron-man&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;iron-man&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;iron-man&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doctor-strange-2016+-marvel-cinematic-universe&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doctor-strange-2016+-marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt; &amp;lt;-- and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doctor-strange&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;doctor-strange&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;doctor-strange&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/age-of-ultron+-marvel-cinematic-universe&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/age-of-ultron+-marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt; &amp;lt;-- And &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/agents-of-shield+-marvel-cinematic-universe&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/agents-of-shield+-marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2b.&lt;/strong&gt; All of these need &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-comics&lt;/a&gt; + &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men-days-of-future-past+-x-men-cinematic-universe&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men-days-of-future-past+-x-men-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men-apocalypse+-x-men-cinematic-universe&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men-apocalypse+-x-men-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men-origins-wolverine+-x-men-cinematic-universe&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men-origins-wolverine+-x-men-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men-2000+-x-men-cinematic-universe&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men-2000+-x-men-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men-2+-x-men-cinematic-universe&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men-2+-x-men-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men-first-class+-x-men-cinematic-universe&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men-first-class+-x-men-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men-last-stand+-x-men-cinematic-universe&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men-last-stand+-x-men-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/logan+-x-men-cinematic-universe&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/logan+-x-men-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-wolverine+-x-men-cinematic-universe&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-wolverine+-x-men-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3.&lt;/strong&gt; All of these need &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-comics&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spider-man-tas+-marvel&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spider-man-tas+-marvel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spider-man-2+-marvel&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spider-man-2+-marvel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-amazing-spider-man-2+-marvel&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-amazing-spider-man-2+-marvel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-amazing-spider-man+-marvel&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-amazing-spider-man+-marvel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spider-man+-marvel&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spider-man+-marvel&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-incredible-hulk+-marvel&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-incredible-hulk+-marvel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ant-man+-marvel&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ant-man+-marvel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/iron-man+-marvel&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/iron-man+-marvel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/adamantium+-marvel&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/adamantium+-marvel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men-cinematic-universe+-marvel&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men-cinematic-universe+-marvel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men+-marvel&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men+-marvel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers+-marvel&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers+-marvel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/captain-america+-marvel&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/captain-america+-marvel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe+-marvel&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe+-marvel&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And there was a bunch more that's was too much work to list out here as it was getting done. Basically, all those pesky movies and TV shows that had the same names as the characters now &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt;. And there's a bunch of other characters that I caught and just fixed as I found them without generating a URL to link here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2017-03-13T12:17:25.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10702" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-13T07:32:42.443" Score="2" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;The OP of the following question wanted it to be migrated to general meta:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10701/19561&quot;&gt;The questions page gets weird when there&amp;#39;s more than 500 questions with new activity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could only flag for moderator; there is no migration path to meta.SE. It seems like a logical migration path for any meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are probably more questions here that are not specific to this Stack but are general issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can we have a migration path from meta.scifi.se to meta.se?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:38:20.190" LastActivityDate="2017-03-13T11:10:16.107" Title="Can we have a migration path from our meta to SE meta?" Tags="|feature-request|meta|migration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10702" CreationDate="2017-03-13T11:10:16.107" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Meh.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've only migrated &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/tools/posts/migrated/away&quot;&gt;three questions&lt;/a&gt; from here to main meta in the last year. That's a small enough workload for five moderators to handle easily. As Kevin &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8161/migration-to-mtv-reopening-the-discussion#comment24343_9173&quot;&gt;said&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;the primary reason for a migration path is that the volume of migrations becomes a strain on mods' time.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to the specific question you link to, &lt;strong&gt;at no time did the OP say he wanted it migrated.&lt;/strong&gt; I mentioned the possibility in a comment, and he responded, &quot;if you want to migrate to meta.SE (can you do that?) then feel free.&quot; I didn't particularly want to migrate it - in fact, I kind of like having that question here as a monument to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10691/31394&quot;&gt;Operation Front Page&lt;/a&gt; this weekend - so I left it alone. But now that you've flagged it, I'll wait for another mod to handle that flag, and perhaps it will get migrated after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2017-03-13T11:10:16.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9522" CreationDate="2017-03-13T13:45:41.267" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Hey, this was awesome.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10691/the-big-edit-event-is-finished&quot;&gt;But, we killed it.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would you do this for us again? You'll have to wait a week, though, in order for all of our changes to reflect on the Data Explorer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The data is updated early every Sunday morning around 3:00 UTC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm eager to see some of the differences as part of the clean up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hey, if you're taking requests, I wouldn't mind seeing a cleaned-up version showing only tags &amp;gt; 15 questions, too, for readability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-03-13T13:45:41.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10705" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-13T17:29:32.877" Score="-1" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;In our main chatroom, &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/a&gt;, there are several feeds, all named Obie. There's regular Obie (main site questions), Meta Obie (meta questions), Blog Obie (new blog posts), and Movies &amp;amp; TV Obie (select tags from movies.SE).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So. Would Mos be interested in a feed from Literature.SE for certain select tags, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/1984&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;1984&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;1984&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/narnia&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;narnia&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;narnia&lt;/a&gt;, etc, named &lt;s&gt;Professor Obie&lt;/s&gt; Lit Obie? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2017-03-13T17:48:05.437" Title="Would Mos be interested in a feed from Literature.SE?" Tags="|discussion|chat|chat-feed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10705" CreationDate="2017-03-13T17:48:05.437" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, Movies Obie works just fine and doesn't flood Mos with messages. On other hand, Literature currently doesn't have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science-fiction&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science-fiction&lt;/a&gt; tag - in order to collect all &lt;em&gt;related&lt;/em&gt; questions, we would have to build and constantly update a list of &lt;em&gt;individual works&lt;/em&gt;, which will most certainly be a tedious task.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But I propose we try this out.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be interesting to see the works we know from the perspective of a community that is not science-fiction or fantasy oriented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the tags I propose:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/strugatsky-brothers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;strugatsky-brothers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;strugatsky-brothers&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/j-r-r-tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;j-r-r-tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;j-r-r-tolkien&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/j-k-rowling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;j-k-rowling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;j-k-rowling&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/c-s-lewis&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;c-s-lewis&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;c-s-lewis&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/robert-jordan&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;robert-jordan&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;robert-jordan&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rick-riordain&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rick-riordain&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rick-riordain&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nineteen-eighty-four&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;nineteen-eighty-four&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;nineteen-eighty-four&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/neil-gaiman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;neil-gaiman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;neil-gaiman&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/patrick-rothfuss&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;patrick-rothfuss&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;patrick-rothfuss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the authors listed have written works that are not science fiction or fantasy (hence no &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/george-orwell&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;george-orwell&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;george-orwell&lt;/a&gt;), but others are &lt;em&gt;mostly&lt;/em&gt; science-fiction or fantasy writers; I guess we can tolerate some non-sci-fi question in our feed once in a while&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastActivityDate="2017-03-13T17:48:05.437" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10707" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10711" CreationDate="2017-03-14T14:22:31.670" Score="5" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there a plan to implement Stack Overflow's recent toolbar/UI update here on scifi.se?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know some people like it and some people hate it... I'm more just irritated that it's different from site to site :-) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would assume it'll be rolled out to other SE sites slowly but I was curious if there was a set schedule for that somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57075" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-03-14T22:54:05.053" LastActivityDate="2017-03-14T22:54:05.053" Title="Is the new SO toolbar/UI coming to SciFi.SE?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10708" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10709" CreationDate="2017-03-14T20:31:01.910" Score="7" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;When looking through my badges, I noticed that some badges have a silver background while most have a black background. This occurs for both bronze and silver badges. All of my gold badges have the black background. &lt;strong&gt;What does the different background color mean, if anything?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20557" LastActivityDate="2020-07-27T12:15:34.760" Title="What does the background color of a badge mean?" Tags="|support|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10708" CreationDate="2017-03-14T20:53:06.603" Score="12" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Silver badges are Tag badges&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As can be seen on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/help/badges&quot;&gt;Badges page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All other badges come up as black.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason you have no gold badges that are silver is because you haven't answered enough questions in one tag to get it. Your two closest are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; which are 117 and 135 questions off, and 307 and 210 up-votes off, respectively&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68872" LastEditorUserId="85712" LastEditDate="2020-07-27T12:15:34.760" LastActivityDate="2020-07-27T12:15:34.760" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10710" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-14T22:29:19.450" Score="5" ViewCount="256" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main page contains a listing of &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/podcasts/&quot;&gt;recent blog posts and podcasts from Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;. Many of these are utterly unsuited to a site devoted to Sci-fi and Fantasy, often relating to features that are unavailable to SFF:SE, jobs listings and other irrelevancies spilling over from Stack Overflow. Heck, &lt;strong&gt;the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/03/14/el-estado-de-stack-overflow-en-espanol-febrero-2017/?cb=1&quot;&gt;latest one&lt;/a&gt; isn't even in English.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/podcasts/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/290xU.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can we just opt out of them entirely?&lt;/strong&gt; I'm sure if anyone wants to listen to the latest blogpost &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;brought to you by Stack Overflow Jobs&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;they can go over to the appropriate page on Stack Overflow and click.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2017-03-14T23:51:51.087" Title="Can we opt out of SO Blog Posts?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10707" CreationDate="2017-03-14T22:53:51.080" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes, but we don't know when.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Stack Exchange employee &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/225016/pawe%c5%82&quot;&gt;Paweł&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/343268/is-the-new-top-bar-going-to-be-rolled-out-to-all-se-sites-in-the-future#comment444520_343268&quot;&gt;meta.SO&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;yes, we're planning to update existing top bar on other sites in the network to be more in line with the new one on Stack Overflow. and it's gonna be mostly about structure and layout rather than redesigning it completely (like we did for SO). we don't have exact date for launching it network-wide but it's definitely on our roadmap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-03-14T22:53:51.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10710" CreationDate="2017-03-14T23:51:51.087" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The post for &lt;a href=&quot;https://es.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow en Español&lt;/a&gt; should not be in the community bulletin except on that site. That bug is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/292352/why-do-i-see-a-spanish-featured-blog-post&quot;&gt;getting fixed&lt;/a&gt; as I write.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for other blog posts, including the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/03/13/stack-overflow-podcast-104-jenn-schiffer-talks-us-fog-creeks-new-glitch/&quot;&gt;excellent interview with Jenn Schiffer&lt;/a&gt;, there are no plans to change the community bulletin feed. For one thing, we &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/01/26/year-in-review-2016/&quot;&gt;occasionally&lt;/a&gt; use the blog to publish information specifically of interest to the network as a whole. For another, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites#technology-users&quot;&gt;many sites&lt;/a&gt; that are not Stack Overflow are still geared toward the topics we include on the blog. Finally, even sites that are focused on less programmery topics still include many users who are nonetheless interested in the blog. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Advertising (and to be clear, using the sidebar for the blog &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; advertising) is a necessary evil. Our ad sales department doesn't run paid advertising on this site which leaves that space for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10564/community-promotion-ads-2017&quot;&gt;community promotion ads&lt;/a&gt;. This could change in the future if we have clients interested in buying ads appropriate for Science Fiction and Fantasy. It doesn't make sense either for users or advertisers to run ads that don't pique the interest of readers of this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow blog posts in the sidebar remind me a little of spots promoting other shows on a TV network. While it can be a bit strange to see a serious news program being pitched between sitcom episodes, I recognize that some people truly are interested in both types of programming. Sometimes I've even seen ads for the parent company. NBC, owned by GE, is particularly strange with spots for power generators, jet engines and medical devices. While they sometimes fail to be ideally targeted, I do hope they entertain and amuse. And unlike GE ads, at least you know they will &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/130621/how-are-the-contents-of-the-community-bulletin-determined&quot;&gt;only stick around for a few days&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15823" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T13:00:51.520" LastActivityDate="2017-03-14T23:51:51.087" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10713" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-15T01:59:54.500" Score="14" ViewCount="262" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed that we have both an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apocalypse&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apocalypse&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apocalypse&lt;/a&gt; tag and a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/post-apocalyptic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;post-apocalyptic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;post-apocalyptic&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are 36 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apocalypse&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apocalypse&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apocalypse&lt;/a&gt;, only &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apocalypse+-story-identification&quot;&gt;twelve of which&lt;/a&gt; are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; also tagged story-ID. Of those twelve, most seem to be either about apocalypses in specific works of fiction, or general questions about the post-apocalyptic genre. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/90281/31394&quot;&gt;One&lt;/a&gt; is about a specific character called Apocalypse; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/75715/31394&quot;&gt;one&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be a story-ID question but isn't tagged properly; and a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/63917/31394&quot;&gt;few&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/17410/31394&quot;&gt;the&lt;/a&gt; older &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/8520/31394&quot;&gt;ones&lt;/a&gt; are about particular post-apocalyptic works but not specifically about the apocalypses therein.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are 134 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/post-apocalyptic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;post-apocalyptic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;post-apocalyptic&lt;/a&gt;, only &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/post-apocalyptic+-story-identification&quot;&gt;twelve of which&lt;/a&gt; are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; also tagged story-ID. Of those twelve, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/22197/31394&quot;&gt;two&lt;/a&gt; are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/63604/31394&quot;&gt;actually&lt;/a&gt; story-ID questions but not tagged properly, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/15488/31394&quot;&gt;two&lt;/a&gt; are specifically &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/14837/31394&quot;&gt;about&lt;/a&gt; the apocalypses in particular post-apocalyptic works, and the rest seem to be generic questions which are about post-apocalyptic works but not specifically about apocalypses.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we merge these tags - and if so, which way?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally I'd say &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/post-apocalyptic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;post-apocalyptic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;post-apocalyptic&lt;/a&gt; is a better name for the tag - it describes a genre of speculative fiction, rather than just a type of event featured in such works. But the evidence above, gleaned from looking at the actual questions, suggests that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apocalypse&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apocalypse&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apocalypse&lt;/a&gt; is actually used marginally more sensibly. Ignoring story-ID, I think &lt;strong&gt;7&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apocalypse&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apocalypse&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apocalypse&lt;/a&gt; questions and only &lt;strong&gt;2&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/post-apocalyptic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;post-apocalyptic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;post-apocalyptic&lt;/a&gt; questions &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; have the tag. Or should we say this is one of those tags which isn't really useful except on ID questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Note that merging the two tags wouldn't require any bumping of questions to the front page, and editing the few badly tagged questions only requires a small amount.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2017-04-02T19:01:18.360" Title="An Apocalypse of Posts" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10714" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10715" CreationDate="2017-03-15T10:58:56.150" Score="5" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;I never tried it but on closed questions I have a button with which I can vote to reopen it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about questions marked as duplicate that I (and possibly others) am convinced is not a duplicate of the linked question for whatever reasons? I never saw a &quot;Vote for deduplicate&quot; button or something like this. So how is the process to unduplicate a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36962" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-03-15T11:19:13.517" LastActivityDate="2017-03-16T10:56:51.120" Title="Is deduplication possible?" Tags="|support|duplicate-questions|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10714" CreationDate="2017-03-15T11:18:51.493" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In exactly the same way as for any other kind of closed question: &lt;strong&gt;click the reopen button&lt;/strong&gt;. (Users with less than &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/view-close-votes&quot;&gt;250 reputation&lt;/a&gt; won't see this button at all; users like you with between 250 and 3000 reputation will see it only on their own closed questions; and users with at least &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/close-questions&quot;&gt;3000 reputation&lt;/a&gt; will see it on every closed question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Random example chosen from among recent questions on the main site (click for full-size version):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hjo84.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hjo84m.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of dupe&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some ways, the system treats duplicate questions differently from other closed questions. This isn't one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2017-03-16T10:56:51.120" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10716" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10717" CreationDate="2017-03-15T14:44:42.833" Score="13" ViewCount="2600" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can I ask question about comparison? For example, if I wanted to ask a question about comparison of Star Wars, Star Trek, Halo and Mass Effect technology &lt;em&gt;tier levels&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="72819" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-03-15T15:01:41.533" LastActivityDate="2018-12-31T11:27:47.330" Title="Can I ask question about comparison?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10716" CreationDate="2017-03-15T15:30:41.980" Score="24" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes (but probably no).&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The very short answer is that trying to compare two different fictional universes is &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/06/gorilla-vs-shark-not-so-fast/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;always going to be tricky&lt;/a&gt;. Over the years SE has tried to grapple with the subject of &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/08/16/gorilla-vs-shark/&quot;&gt;Gorilla Vs. Shark&lt;/a&gt;&quot; type questions, where you're basically comparing two dissimilar worlds. If you want to know...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Which is the most advanced technologically, Star Wars or Star&#xA;  Trek?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... for example, you're going to be on very shaky ground. Not only is this definitely a G vs. S question but it also borders very heavily on being 'unclear what you're asking' &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; 'opinion-based', all of which are considered valid close reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;That being said&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're wanting to compare &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;items that have a defined feature&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, it's possible to ask them. For example ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Which ship can go faster, the Millennium Falcon or the USS&#xA;  Enterprise?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... would be perfectly acceptable. We know the top speed of both and can compare their movement directly with objects (galaxies, in this case) that have known dimensions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;So what should I do to avoid getting my question closed?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've got a couple of choices. My personal suggestion would be to write the question out in notepad, precis it and post it into &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;. There are usually people around (including higher-rep users with a strong knowledge of the site's policies) who'll be happy to offer advice on how to post without falling foul. You might also try posting a Meta question on the subject (&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;If I asked &quot;X&quot; would it be closed?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;). You'll also get good advice but probably less interactivity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-12-31T11:27:47.330" LastActivityDate="2018-12-31T11:27:47.330" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10718" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10719" CreationDate="2017-03-15T19:58:54.973" Score="8" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of my flags declined (which I understand after reading &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2525/73099&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;). But now, when I try to flag something else, it says &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your last flag was declined - please review it before flagging this post!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and the word &quot;review&quot; links to my flagging history. I am currently unable to raise new flags on other questions and answers (comment flags seem fine).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is all well and good, but I can't figure out how to Review the bad flag. When I go to my flagging history, I can look at the reason for declining, but there doesn't seem to be anything else to do. There's also no option to review my own flags in the review queue. When I go to the answer, there's no way to retract my old flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I just supposed to look at the declined flag and then sit in the corner and think about what I did, or is there some other review process? If it's the first, when (if ever) do I get my flagging privileges back? I vaguely recall having read something to this effect in the help center, but now I can't find it anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73099" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:03:40.690" LastActivityDate="2017-03-15T20:52:01.763" Title="&quot;Your last flag was declined - please review it before flagging this post!&quot; But how?" Tags="|support|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10718" CreationDate="2017-03-15T20:26:03.417" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This warning is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/175405/299342&quot;&gt;described on Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt;. It's a recommendation that you look at the reason why your flag was declined so that you can avoid the same mistake in the future. The declining moderator can use a standard decline reason or provide a custom response:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EFSPU.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EFSPU.png&quot; alt=&quot;decline flag dialog&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Checking the decline reason in your flagging history is the only way for you to see the moderator's response, which might be especially useful if he used a custom response (I commonly link to the relevant meta policy in these custom decline reasons).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The warning is not telling you to &quot;Review&quot; it in the sense of a Review queue (First Posts, Late Answers, etc.); there is no such review queue. You don't need to retract it, either, since the flag has already been processed (though &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/281010/299342&quot;&gt;you &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; retract a flag that has not yet been processed&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The warning is not meant to chastise you, but to hopefully&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;help less prolific flaggers learn to use the system correctly without repeatedly wasting their time and that of the site moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/175405/299342&quot;&gt;from the same Meta.SE post linked above&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2017-03-15T20:44:54.993" LastActivityDate="2017-03-15T20:44:54.993" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4979" CreationDate="2017-03-16T01:03:15.717" Score="11" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Not here ...&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As other answers have already pointed out, pretty much none of the Sherlock Holmes have any science fiction or fantasy elements whatsoever, making them firmly off-topic for this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;... but on &lt;a href=&quot;http://literature.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Literature&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the newly created (around two months old) Literature SE, Sherlock Holmes is &lt;em&gt;definitely&lt;/em&gt; on-topic. It's even one of that site's top bunch of tags, with &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sherlock-holmes&quot;&gt;fifteen questions&lt;/a&gt; already. If you have questions about Sherlock Holmes, please take them over there!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T13:01:18.293" LastActivityDate="2017-03-16T01:03:15.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10721" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-16T10:37:31.190" Score="1" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can I earn the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/4/cleanup&quot;&gt;Cleanup badge&lt;/a&gt;? It is written that &quot;first rollback&quot; but I don't know how to rollback. Can somebody please tell me how to rollback and what to rollback?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79399" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2017-03-16T10:46:14.870" Title="How can I earn the Cleanup badge?" Tags="|support|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10721" CreationDate="2017-03-16T10:43:28.553" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Rollback&quot; means rolling a post back to a previous version of itself. You can do this by looking in the revision history of any post and clicking the &quot;rollback&quot; button on an earlier revision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that since you have &amp;lt;2k rep and therefore can't edit other people's posts without approval, you'll only be able to do this on your own posts. (I just checked on a site where I have &amp;lt;2k rep.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/17038/278659&quot;&gt;What is a &amp;#39;rollback&amp;#39;?&lt;/a&gt; from the main meta FAQ.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;As with pretty much any site ability, you should &lt;strong&gt;only roll back when it's actually appropriate to do so&lt;/strong&gt;. Please don't roll back perfectly good edits to your posts just in order to get the Cleanup badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-03-16T10:43:28.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10723" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10725" CreationDate="2017-03-16T17:00:05.863" Score="2" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that the &quot;superman-brainiac-attacks&quot; tag has being removed from several of my questions (A low rep user suggested it and it was approved by high rep users). Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/43669/why-did-lex-luthor-tell-mercy-to-call-his-attorney&quot;&gt;Why did Lex Luthor tell Mercy to call his attorney?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/43668/how-did-superman-return-from-the-phantom-zone&quot;&gt;How did Superman return from the Phantom Zone?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why is that? What's wrong with this tag?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2017-03-16T22:34:49.303" Title="Why were these &quot;superman-brainiac-attacks&quot; tags removed?" Tags="|discussion|support|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10723" CreationDate="2017-03-16T17:48:26.623" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see no good reason why these tags should have been removed. We've discussed this issue before and the consensus opinion was that single-work tags are perfectly acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7923/what-is-the-correct-usage-of-individual-works-tags-vs-author-tags-vs-franchise/7924#7924&quot;&gt;What is the correct usage of individual works tags vs. author tags vs. franchise tags?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've re-added your original tags as well as creating a tag wiki to explain what they're referring to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2017-03-16T17:48:26.623" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10723" CreationDate="2017-03-16T22:34:49.303" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that @Valorum has sorted this I just wanted to add my apology for removing these tags in the first place. I assume I mis-clicked when I was re-tagging the questions during the editing and didn't realise it. Once again, sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60757" LastActivityDate="2017-03-16T22:34:49.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10727" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12822" CreationDate="2017-03-18T06:59:12.190" Score="16" ViewCount="623" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been trying to upload screenshots as an image to ask a question. Has always worked before - at least in other SE sites, &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XSgBF.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;and does right now&lt;/a&gt; as well. But here I am a teapot - or at least I seem to be saying that I am one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Workaround?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I've tried other images as well, this one was just particularly fun)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;note:&lt;/strong&gt; I was using a 4G connection from my cell phone to my laptop at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QKnTz.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QKnTz.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;update:&lt;/strong&gt; Currently I can &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/155063/51174&quot;&gt;now post images in SciFi SE questions&lt;/a&gt; - yay! But I'm still curious what was going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51174" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2019-11-28T19:27:10.787" Title="Why am I a teapot?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10729" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-19T04:01:31.203" Score="1" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am mostly asking about TV shows whose seasons are released at once, but the question could bee made broader to include any show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I see here a question about a &quot;traditional&quot; TV show on the main page, I will assume that it is likely about a recent episode and refrain to read the question before I am not up to date with the show. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there are shows like Daredevil or Iron fist that are released in one load and many people like to binge watch them. I don't. When a question appears here, I cannot know if it is about the first episode and I will be mildly spoiled, or if it is about one of the last episodes and big events from the show will be spoiled. A typical example is this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/155118/is-this-person-jessica-jones&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;: will I learn that Jessica Jones plays a big part in the show, or is it just a minor Easter Egg about another show?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, a simple solution would be to avoid reading questions before I finally completed watching the show. But many of these shows are linked together by easter eggs and references, and I like to learn about them, or some shows have a complicated plot and reading about the episode I just watched helps me a lot (not a &quot;one time release&quot; example, but I could not understand, hence fully enjoy, WestWorld without the help of this site). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should a question's title about a particular episode of a show includes its title?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, should we actively remind people to do it (in comments for example)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23563" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2017-03-19T07:20:39.997" Title="Should questions about TV shows include episode titles?" Tags="|discussion|title|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10729" CreationDate="2017-03-19T07:13:48.687" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This presents a great number of issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;First and foremost, it’s not really so helpful. As you say, its usefulness is primarily limited to the case of TV shows that are released in one big bundle on Netflix, not the majority of TV shows. But we’d need to have a consistent policy, so this would affect all TV shows.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nearly as important, &lt;em&gt;which&lt;/em&gt; episode title? This seems rather simple when a question is about the events of a single episode, but not at all as clear when a question (as is often the case) deals with individuals, relationships, or events that appear in multiple episodes. For example, the question of why Wilson Fisk turned to crime (trivial, but nonetheless possible) is not tied to any particular episode, but a question about it could easily spoil a few. What to do then? This policy risks being confusing and complicated.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It’s a bit inelegant. Instead of having &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/155118/is-this-person-jessica-jones&quot;&gt;Is this person Jessica Jones?&lt;/a&gt;, we would have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/155118/is-this-person-jessica-jones&quot;&gt;Is this person Jessica Jones? [Iron Fist, Season 1, Episode 8, “Blessing of Many Fractures”]&lt;/a&gt;. Ugh! Also, we want questions to have nice, attractive titles when they show up in HNQ, not titles that look we’re trying to access array elements.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would be extremely labor-intensive. Many of our questions are about TV shows, and this would be a policy that most users (particularly new ones) would not be aware of. It might require a lot of editing on the part of our veteran users.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This could drastically increase the chance that titles could exceed the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/176447/328832&quot;&gt;150-character limit&lt;/a&gt;, given how long episode titles can run. Consider, for example, the &lt;em&gt;Orphan Black&lt;/em&gt; episode title “Ruthless in Purpose, and Insidious in Method,” which adds a full 44 characters (including spaces) to the title of a question. This is before we even consider the necessity of including seasons for the same reason, as mentioned.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an alternative, I would suggest simply asking another user in chat what the question is related to. As long as a user has at least 20 reputation, they should simply be able to ask a user less concerned with spoilers what time period a question is related too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-03-19T07:20:39.997" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10688" CreationDate="2017-03-19T15:34:37.617" Score="-1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I think we can make this work in a Meta post.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recommendations on the main site won't work, even as one big list. I suspect they will attract many new users seeking recommendations and we'll be flooded with such questions. Recommendations appear to be &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/131397/why-did-literature-fail&quot;&gt;one of the factors that sank the previous Literature Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; (and &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2/should-recommendation-questions-be-on-topic/&quot;&gt;they're banned&lt;/a&gt; on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;new Literature&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I can see a few very attractive prospects in having a nice tidy meta post with a list of recommendations. Notice that people won't be &lt;strong&gt;asking&lt;/strong&gt; for recommendations on this post - instead everyone will post a those works they felt were matching or somehow related. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1204/you-want-recommendations-heres-a-list-of-them/&quot;&gt;Anime &amp;amp; Manga have tried this&lt;/a&gt;, and it seems to be good. Our recommendations will not be the same, since our SE is about a common topic, rather than a common medium, but this is only better! We can get laser-like focused recommendations here, given users are willing to share their experiences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those are the reasons why I think we could benefit from a recommendation list on Meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We could diversify our interests&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take a look at our most popular tags - these are the works that most people who are not even into science fiction and fantasy have already heard of (well, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/154621/movie-about-a-boy-two-men-a-robot-and-a-war/&quot;&gt;some apparently didn't&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Diversity has even been a problem &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/571/do-we-want-something-akin-to-topic-challenges-for-books-outside-our-bailiwick-t#comment2097_571&quot;&gt;on Anime &amp;amp; Manga&lt;/a&gt;, and the newly launched Literature - apparently, since so many users over there come from SFF, the books they've read are mostly similar. This has even lead to a sort of crisis - the &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/tags&quot;&gt;most popular work is &lt;em&gt;1984&lt;/em&gt; by George Orwell&lt;/a&gt;, who is also the most popular author. A &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/571/do-we-want-something-akin-to-topic-challenges-for-books-outside-our-bailiwick-t&quot;&gt;solution was proposed to start topic challenges&lt;/a&gt; to diversify the site.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Diversity may or may not be a problem here &lt;em&gt;yet&lt;/em&gt; - depends on who you ask - but I think we can do much better. Our users must have read at least a couple of libraries worth of fantasy, and watched jigahours of science fiction. I'm more than sure that we will be able to come up with some good and less-known works that may be interesting to other users. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New users who seek recommendations will not be turned down by our usual &quot;off-topic, try chat&quot; reply&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't like that reply either, but what else can we say right now? Besides, most new users don't even have the rep to go to chat, in which case our answer is useless. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe new users can have a positive impression of our website if we explain to them that recommendations are off-topic on our main site because they are too opinion-based, &lt;em&gt;and then&lt;/em&gt; show them that we too occasionally need recommendations. The new user will be happy, and maybe even stick around to post something else.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we accept this, an example recommendation will contain some explanations about why that users think we should read/watch what they recommend, and some works they think are similar (but not necessarily).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;: Ironically, it seems that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.meta.stackexchange.com/a/600/11&quot;&gt;first challenge will again be a work of science fiction&lt;/a&gt;  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T13:01:18.293" LastActivityDate="2017-03-19T15:34:37.617" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10687" CreationDate="2017-03-19T16:36:13.217" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Movie night was a great success&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We had six active participants (The Dark Lord - First time contributor, MissMonicaE - First time contributor, Kyle Jones, Edlothiad - First time contributor and Himarm). That number goes up to seven if you include CreationEdge who joined us a few minutes after the film ended to say&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/36134087#36134087&quot;&gt;Oh I missed the movie?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also had no less than 9 lurkers which brings the grand total to nearly 15 viewers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Funniest comment&lt;/strong&gt; goes to MissMonicaE for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/36130431#36130431&quot;&gt;Is there really this much public kissing in high school? I'm so glad I&#xA;was homeschooled&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/N83k3.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/N83k3.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and The Dark Lord for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/36130957#36130957&quot;&gt;Time since last incident: 0 days.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5NEnU.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5NEnU.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The winner of the &lt;strong&gt;'Captain Obvious' prize&lt;/strong&gt; goes to Himarm for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/36130796#36130796&quot;&gt;shower scene is always fun&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RyVDm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RyVDm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and MissMonicaE for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/36130581#36130581&quot;&gt;Ladies love a man in uniform&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8kHhZ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8kHhZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Honourable mention&lt;/strong&gt; goes to Edlothiad for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/36130630#36130630&quot;&gt;Lieutenant Dan?! oh wrong film&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/B8Kja.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/B8Kja.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What did we learn?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This film was chosen by diktat rather than a democratic vote on Meta.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Historically there seems to be little benefit in allowing the community to choose over simply announcing what film is being shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The post was &amp;quot;featured&amp;quot; early (with the date, time and movie name in the title).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Placing it on the main board seems to have attracted no less than &lt;strong&gt;six&lt;/strong&gt; users who've never come into chat before, one of whom then contributed to the event. The vote-count seem to have largely reflected the number of participants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Making it a featured event in chat seems to have had little impact.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only two people &amp;quot;registered&amp;quot; for the event.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Picking a film that was accessible online seems to have been a benefit.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least three of the contributors were watching a version that was streaming from youtube rather than having to download their own copy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The date and time seem amenable (to most)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Placing it on a weekend evening appears to have been more effective than making it mid-week, something we tried last year with very limited success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-03-19T16:43:09.417" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6857" CreationDate="2017-03-21T11:04:48.833" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not as stylish as taping a bit of paper to your screen, but this is very easy if you use &lt;a href=&quot;https://adblockplus.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Adblock Plus&lt;/a&gt; (available for most desktop browsers):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/f7bfg.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/f7bfg.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;##div#hot-network-questions.module&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and it works on all sites. In theory there's a small danger if any other site contains a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; with &lt;code&gt;id=&quot;hot-network-questions&lt;/code&gt; and a class &lt;code&gt;module&lt;/code&gt;, but that's pretty unlikely...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31938" LastActivityDate="2017-03-21T11:04:48.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10734" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10736" CreationDate="2017-03-21T22:30:54.510" Score="17" ViewCount="752" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Update.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At midnight the votes were counted and verified by our judges. The clear winner with 23 points (20 upvotes + 3 bonus points) is MissMonicaE's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10736/20774&quot;&gt;The Terminator&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll be creating a new post shortly to formally announce the winner and confirm the date/time of our next Movie Night event in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/a&gt; chatroom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You can continue to vote, but they won't be counted :-)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;After the success of our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10732/20774&quot;&gt;March Movie night&lt;/a&gt;, it's time to choose a sci-fi/fantasy film for April's viewing pleasure. After consulting with absolutely no-one, I've decided that the theme for our next event will be &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtPgkuGhtC4&amp;amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;amp;t=6s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ladies' Night!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nominate your favourite film below and we'll watch it together.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Rules&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Upvotes count as one point.&lt;/strong&gt; Final decision will be on the 31st March at midnight BST. &lt;strong&gt;Downvotes will be ignored.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 additional point will be awarded for the following criteria;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The film is &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/search/keyword?keywords=f-rated&amp;amp;mode=detail&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;ref_=kw_ref_key&amp;amp;sort=moviemeter,asc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;F-Rated&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (&lt;em&gt;written by&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;or&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;directed by&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;or&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;starring women in a complex role&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The film passes the &lt;a href=&quot;http://bechdeltest.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Bechdel Test&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;two &lt;strong&gt;named&lt;/strong&gt; female characters talk about something other than a man&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The film has been suggested by user who identifies as female.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;FAQ&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7431/what-is-a-movie-night-really&quot;&gt;Q. What is a movie night?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;A.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Great fun(!)&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;How do I nominate a film?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;A.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;By posting an answer below. I'll append the additional points (if any) by edit.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;What if I'm a vile misogynist who wants to watch a film with &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(1982_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;no women&lt;/a&gt; in it &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Star_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;at all&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;A.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Wait until May.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-04-01T15:37:20.317" LastActivityDate="2017-04-03T01:41:15.100" Title="April Movie Night Special - It's Ladies' Night!" Tags="|discussion|movie-night|" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="43" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10734" CreationDate="2017-03-21T23:36:25.907" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I nominate &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sonja_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Red Sonja&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; starring Brigitte Nielsen (&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;and Arnold Schwarzenegger&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film has a strong female lead who's easily the equal of her male co-star and features Sandahl Bergman (who played Conan's love interest in the original Conan the Barbarian movie) as the evil Queen Gedren.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zXpUzm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zXpUzm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Extra Point Score&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bechdel Test&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://bechdeltest.com/view/418/red_sonja/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Passed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (Gedren speaks to Sonja about a magical talisman).  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;F-Rated&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;Passed&lt;/strong&gt;. The film's lead actor is a female warrior.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nominated female&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;Failed&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;+2&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-03-22T15:15:33.010" LastActivityDate="2017-03-22T15:15:33.010" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10734" CreationDate="2017-03-22T12:50:11.577" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I nominate &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088247/?ref_=nv_sr_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Terminator&lt;/a&gt;, which stars Linda Hamilton (and I guess some unimportant jock-y type man?) and also passes the &lt;a href=&quot;http://bechdeltest.com/view/1418/the_terminator/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bechdel Test&lt;/a&gt;. Some claim it might be &lt;a href=&quot;https://booktrib.com/2015/06/is-terminator-the-mother-of-all-feminist-action-movies/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the mother of all feminist action movies&lt;/a&gt;, although I'm categorically skeptical of such sweeping claims. But I've never seen it and I'd like to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RjG1p.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RjG1p.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Linda Hamilton and Sarah Connor&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Extra Point Score&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bechdel Test&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://bechdeltest.com/view/1418/the_terminator/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Passed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (Sarah speaks to her roommate and several work colleagues about assorted subjects).  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;F-Rated&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;Passed&lt;/strong&gt;. The film's lead actor is a waitress.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nominated female&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;Passed&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;+3&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73099" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-03-22T15:04:45.543" LastActivityDate="2017-03-22T15:04:45.543" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10734" CreationDate="2017-03-22T14:09:42.927" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I nominate &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_(2008_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Twilight&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7hVHJm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7hVHJm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who hasn't heard of this awesome movie?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A young girl named Bella Swan starts a new school, and learns her new classmate Edward is not what he seems...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears that the reception for this film has been mixed - some have certainly been inspired by Bella's character, while others blamed the film for the heroine being too inactive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eh, I guess we can see for ourselves! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Extra Point Score&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bechdel Test&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://bechdeltest.com/view/501/twilight/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Passed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (Bella and her mother talk about moving home).  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;F-Rated&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;Passed&lt;/strong&gt; (lead actress, director, scriptwriter, source novel writer are all female)   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nominated female - &lt;s&gt;Failed&lt;/s&gt; Passed (now co-sponsored by user &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/348/martha&quot;&gt;Martha&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;+3&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-03-22T21:38:35.310" LastActivityDate="2017-03-22T21:38:35.310" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10734" CreationDate="2017-03-22T14:25:32.130" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I nominate &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119116/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Fifth Element&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Starring Milla Jovovich.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xK8Lq.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xK8Lq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Fifth Element&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Extra Point Score&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bechdel Test&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bechdeltest.com/view/22/the_fifth_element/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Failed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Leeloo &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JljZbjpvjmE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;speaks&lt;/a&gt; to several &lt;em&gt;unnamed&lt;/em&gt; females and has a telepathic connection with a female character but doesn't have a conversation with a &lt;em&gt;named&lt;/em&gt; female character).  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;F-Rated - Passed&lt;/strong&gt; The film's plot revolves around the titular &quot;Fifth Element&quot;, Leeloo herself.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nominated female - Passed.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(+2)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52940" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-03-22T15:01:34.893" LastActivityDate="2017-03-22T15:01:34.893" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10734" CreationDate="2017-03-22T16:23:17.423" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll toss my hat in the ring with &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(2011_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Thing (2011)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QU6kx.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QU6kx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Background - &lt;em&gt;The Thing (1981):&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;John Carpenter's 1981 masterpiece&lt;/em&gt;, The Thing, &lt;em&gt;begins with a Norwegian helicopter pursuing a husky across the frozen landscape of Antarctica. After cornering the dog outside an American research station, the helicopter's frantic and inexplicably aggressive crew are killed and the Americans head to the Norwegian base in an attempt to uncover what led the Norwegians to behave so strangely.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Americans find the Norwegian base a smoldering ruin, with evidence of a fierce battle and the gruesome discovery of a frozen corpse, clutching a straight-razor, with its wrists and throat slit.  A hollowed out block of ice adds to the mystery, and the Americans eventually learn that the base had been set up to excavate an alien spacecraft from the ice.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;As it turns out, the &amp;quot;dog&amp;quot; the Norwegians were trying to kill is actually a hostile alien creature that kills other lifeforms, transforms into an exact duplicate of the victim, and attempts to assimilate everyone it encounters.  The Americans realize that they must destroy the monster, but paranoia sets in as they try to work out who is a real human and who is an alien impostor...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Nomination:  &lt;em&gt;The Thing (2011)&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A prequel to the 1981 film, this movie explores the events that led up to the beginning of Carpenter's iconic classic.  The fractured bits of evidence found by the American team were never really explained in the original movie, but they are now.  The Norwegian base's grim fate is finally laid out for the audience, and the movie ends exactly where the 1981 film begins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be impossible for any prequel or sequel of Carpenter's film to match the greatness of the original, so we can forgive &lt;em&gt;The Thing (2011)&lt;/em&gt; for being good rather than amazing. But despite its flaws, the movie is extremely watchable; it is essential viewing for any fan of the original, and it couldn't have happened without some brilliant work from hardcore &lt;em&gt;Thing&lt;/em&gt;-fans.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;With strong performances from the entire cast&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;, and especially impressive showings from Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Kate Lloyd), Joel Edgerton (Carter), Jørgen Langhelle (Lars), and Stig Henrik Hoff (Peder), this may not rival its predecessor in quality or significance, but it is a thoroughly enjoyable film with a talented cast, and the story is centered on a resilient, intelligent, dynamic female lead.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Extra Point Score:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bechdel Test - &lt;a href=&quot;http://bechdeltest.com/view/2764/the_thing/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Passed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. (Kate and Juliette speak about stars, their reaction to discovering a flying saucer and the titular 'Thing' itself).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;F-Rating - Passed&lt;/strong&gt;.  The protagonist is a dynamic woman who goes from paleontologist to alien-killer with relative ease; she was apparently modeled on one of the greatest female leads in Sci-Fi history, Ripley from the &lt;em&gt;Alien&lt;/em&gt; franchise.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nominated by a Female - Failed&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(+2)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;em&gt;The original film's Norwegian base set was destroyed when production wrapped up, and no blueprints were kept.  The director of the 2011 prequel was at a loss as to how to recreate the base accurately, until the members of the fan site &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.outpost31.com/movie/maps.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Outpost #31&lt;/a&gt; spent hundreds of hours pouring over every frame of the 1981 film in faithful, painstaking detail, performing all sorts of calculations, and producing precise plans for the base as it appeared in the Carpenter film.  The production team for the prequel used these fan-made schematics to construct the set we see in this film.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;em&gt;The casting department deserves credit for filling the roles of Norwegian characters with actual Norwegian actors - it might seem like the most obvious option, but Hollywood insists on jamming American/British actors into every major role, regardless of the character's in-universe nationality; this is how we end up with Scarlett Johansen starring in&lt;/em&gt; Ghost in the Shell &lt;em&gt;despite the fact that her character is Japanese.  If the production team had followed this trend,&lt;/em&gt; The Thing (2011) &lt;em&gt;would have been deprived of one of its most likable moments - the Norwegian researchers celebrating their discovery by spontaneously singing&lt;/em&gt; Sámiid Ædnan, &lt;em&gt;Norway's contribution to the 1980 Eurovision song contest; the cast members came up with the idea, and chose&lt;/em&gt; Sámiid Ædnan &lt;em&gt;because it would have been familiar to a Norwegian in 1981, when the movie takes place.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-03-22T16:40:40.537" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10734" CreationDate="2017-03-22T18:07:26.503" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll suggest &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0899128/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;100 Feet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/t1Phr.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/t1Phr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;100 Feet DVD cover&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After Marnie Watson kills her abusive husband in self-defense, she is condemned to house arrest... only to discover that the house is possessed by the enraged and violent spirit of her dead husband.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And honestly, it's one of the best productions I've ever seen distributed by The Asylum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trailer&lt;/strong&gt;       &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/7cMhT38FFKc?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Extra Point Score&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bechdel Test&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=100-feet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Passed&lt;/a&gt; (Marnie has several conversations with her ex-con friend about the difficulty of dealing with the outside world).  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;F-Rated - Passed.&lt;/strong&gt; The film's lead actor is female, although it is a limited cast admittedly.    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nominated Female - Failed.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(+2)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2017-03-23T18:00:19.017" LastActivityDate="2017-03-23T18:00:19.017" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10713" CreationDate="2017-03-22T19:57:06.687" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should have three tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Apocalypse&lt;/strong&gt;: the Marvel character  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Post-Apocalyptic&lt;/strong&gt;: genre tag for stories that occur after an apocalypse  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disaster&lt;/strong&gt;: genre tag for stories about a large-scale disaster, including apocalyptic events&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't currently have a 'disaster' tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44184" LastActivityDate="2017-03-22T19:57:06.687" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10742" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-22T20:17:50.903" Score="2" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that you guys have a tag for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time-turner&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time-turner&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time-turner&lt;/a&gt;s, which I saw on a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/155350/41144&quot;&gt;recent HNQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also noticed that this tag has only three questions, and I thought that it certainly should have some more. So I searched for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=time%20turner%20is%3Aq%20-%5Btime-turner%5D&quot;&gt;time turner questions that didn't have the tag&lt;/a&gt;, and found that there are about 50 questions that mention time turners but don't have the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have edit privileges here, but even if I did, I'd probably post this here to check before editing that many questions. I know you recently had a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10691/41144&quot;&gt;big edit event&lt;/a&gt;, but the title of that post says that it's over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should these posts be edited? If so, quickly or slowly?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just bringing this to your attention; it's up to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41144" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2017-03-29T10:16:19.117" Title="Editing [time-turner] questions" Tags="|discussion|retagging|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10734" CreationDate="2017-03-23T02:02:10.530" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I nominate &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_2:_Judgment_Day&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Terminator 2: Judgement Day&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/R4XsI.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/R4XsI.png&quot; alt=&quot;terminator 2&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Terminator 2 follows Sarah Connor (Hamilton) and her ten-year-old son John (Furlong) as they are pursued by a new, more advanced Terminator, the liquid metal, shapeshifting T-1000 (Patrick), sent back in time to kill John Connor and prevent him from becoming the leader of the human resistance. A second, less advanced Terminator (Schwarzenegger) is also sent back in time to protect John.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Extra Point Score&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bechdel Test&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://bechdeltest.com/view/847/terminator_2:_judgement_day/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Passed (&lt;em&gt;dubiously&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/a&gt; (Sarah has a brief conversation with Sarah (and Miles) Dyson about the future).  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;F-Rated - Passed.&lt;/strong&gt; The film's lead actor is a waitress-turned-terrorist.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nominated Female - &lt;s&gt;Failed&lt;/s&gt; Passed (co-sponsored by &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/22792/user22792&quot;&gt;User22792&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(+3)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user57650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:59.937" LastActivityDate="2017-03-23T22:10:20.973" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10746" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-23T07:53:58.423" Score="-3" ViewCount="382" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/155325/which-ship-can-go-faster-the-millennium-falcon-or-the-uss-enterprise&quot;&gt;Which ship can go faster, the Millennium Falcon or the USS Enterprise?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am quoting my argument here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Valorum You aren't getting my point. It's the standards I am talking about. Star Trek presumably uses standard Earth year (in the light year definition) which has 365 days, each day containing 24 hours, each hour containing 60 minutes or so. &lt;strong&gt;There are many ways in which distance denoted by light year in one universe can be different from that in another universe. Maybe, Star Wars uses 100 days year or second, minute definition is entirely different.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the Millennium Falcon travelling 70000 light years in a few hours could be equivalent to travelling 700 light years by Star Trek standards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am aware of this question: &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5707/star-wars-time-measurement-and-dating-systems&quot;&gt;Star Wars Time Measurement and Dating Systems&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it doesn't address a thing. If there's no official statement saying standards are the same and all unit definitions aren't given in the canon, we just don't have enough details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, from one of my answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are other issues, too. We don't know for sure if physics and fundamental constants of both universes are same. And, I've a lead here. In Star Wars universe, there's this thing called &quot;The Force&quot; exists. What if midichlorians interact with photons to reduce speed of light in vacuum significantly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How exactly is the community finding the common ground between both Star Trek and Star Wars universes to see the possibility of an objective answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2020-03-07T00:07:27.730" Title="Why does the community continue re-opening this particular question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10734" CreationDate="2017-03-23T12:57:00.287" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Late entry here: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392170/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Hunger Games&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; starring Jennifer Lawrence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9lbwkm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9lbwkm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-hunger-games&quot;&gt;on-topic&lt;/a&gt; and pretty damn good. As someone who rarely appreciates film adaptations of books, I thought this one did very well, both in casting the characters and in catching the tone and mood of the post-apocalyptic dystopia of Panem. It's one of few films I've watched multiple times, and one of very few which can genuinely move me emotionally. Starting from the reaping scene near the very beginning, this film is packed with emotion as well as action and extreme tension.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Extra Point Score&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bechdel Test&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bechdeltest.com/view/3138/the_hunger_games/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Passed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: Katniss speaks to Prim about the Games, to Rue about blowing up the supplies, to Clove about Rue, ...  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;F-Rated&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;Passed&lt;/strong&gt;: the film's lead is a strong female character.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nominated female - &lt;s&gt;Failed&lt;/s&gt; Passed&lt;/strong&gt; (Co-sponsored by user &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/73099/missmonicae&quot;&gt;MissMonicaE&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;+3&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2017-03-23T14:23:05.797" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10734" CreationDate="2017-03-23T14:46:11.443" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I nominate &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780521/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Princess and the Frog&lt;/a&gt;, a fantasy movie about a woman hustling like crazy to start her own business. What could be better than that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/T8oMh.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/T8oMh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Princess and the Frog poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll tell you what: a fantasy movie about a woman hustling like crazy to start her own business &lt;em&gt;and also everything is full of jazz music&lt;/em&gt;. That's what.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Extra Point Score&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bechdel Test&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://bechdeltest.com/view/562/the_princess_and_the_frog/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Passed&lt;/a&gt; (Tiana speaks extensively with her mother, Eudora about her goal of opening a restaurant).  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;F-Rated - Passed.&lt;/strong&gt; The film's lead actor is Tiana, a singing chef&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nominated Female - Passed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(+3)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73099" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-03-24T12:02:52.767" LastActivityDate="2017-03-24T12:02:52.767" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10749" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-24T14:10:30.340" Score="14" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the main &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Sci-Fi&lt;/a&gt; site is this link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/?blb=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which goes (correctly) to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/?blb=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WdT21.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WdT21.png&quot; alt=&quot;Blog link&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the bottom of this (meta) page the link is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/?blb=1&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which goes to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like the link on this page a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="1586" LastEditDate="2017-06-20T22:13:11.400" LastActivityDate="2017-06-20T22:24:53.250" Title="Meta sci-fi blog link wrong" Tags="|bug|status-completed|blog|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10750" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-25T02:50:54.390" Score="6" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was browsing new questions when I saw &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/155603/is-it-possible-to-transfer-schools-in-magical-world?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; already marked as a duplicate, since I happened to knew a possible answer I went to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28039/are-there-canon-examples-of-students-permanently-transfering-from-one-school-to/155673#155673&quot;&gt;linked question&lt;/a&gt; and considered I could provide new content so I answered it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that I noticed that, in fact, the old question answers didn't really answer the new one which was actually more defined while the old question couldn't really be answered except partially. By answering the old question I effectively made the new question a duplicate (which in my opinion wasn't before since it asked something different that wasn't answered in the old question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I know the duplicate doesn't need to be the newer question and I actually like to favour new question, specially if they are better defined, so I voted to re-open it. Was it OK to do that? What should we do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry for the long story, hope I made myself clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63534" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2017-03-26T14:26:11.827" Title="About choosing a duplicate" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10746" CreationDate="2017-03-25T11:11:03.113" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't speak for those who voted to reopen, but my personal opinion is that your argument is fundamentally flawed. What you seem to be saying is that there's simply no objective way to determine that what counts as a light-year in the Star Wars fictional universe is the same as a light-year in the Star Trek fictional universe. I'd argue that this approach is &lt;em&gt;hypercritical&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, if you've found &lt;strong&gt;good reason to assume that they aren't the same&lt;/strong&gt; then that would form the basis for an excellent answer of your own and you could encourage other users (via comment) to weigh your evidence when deciding to up or downvote other answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you've found &lt;strong&gt;no reason to assume that they aren't the same&lt;/strong&gt;, then your argument has no merit. It's not down to the questioner to prove every crackpot hypothesis that comes along before they're allowed to ask a question that compares fictional universes. They're entitled to assume that there are fundamental constants (time, date, distance, measure, etc) &lt;em&gt;until you can show otherwise.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Purely for the record, it's worth noting that both Star Wars and Star Trek take place within a fictionalised version &lt;strong&gt;of our own universe&lt;/strong&gt; which means that we can reasonably compare like-with-like as long as we're asking questions which are essentially objective (fastest, tallest, oldest, etc). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2020-03-07T00:07:27.730" LastActivityDate="2020-03-07T00:07:27.730" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10750" CreationDate="2017-03-26T13:06:29.340" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a few things going on here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question you've highlighted &#xA;(&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/155603/is-it-possible-to-transfer-schools-in-magical-world?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;Are magical exchange programmes possible in the Wizarding World?&lt;/a&gt;) isn't actually a duplicate of the other question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28039/are-there-canon-examples-of-students-permanently-transfering-from-one-school-to/155673#155673&quot;&gt;Are there canon examples of students permanently transfering from one school to another in Potterverse?&lt;/a&gt;) since one is asking about &lt;strong&gt;permanent&lt;/strong&gt; transfers and the other is asking about &lt;strong&gt;temporary&lt;/strong&gt; study programmes and exchanges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is, however a duplicate of an existing question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83009/is-there-a-such-thing-as-an-exchange-program-in-harry-potter&quot;&gt;Is there a such thing as an exchange program in Harry Potter?&lt;/a&gt;) which already has several canon answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've used my gold badge to undupe the questions (which never should have been linked together) and re-duped the first question with the third. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You now need to copy &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/155673/20774&quot;&gt;your answer&lt;/a&gt; from the second question to the third since it adds new information about temporary transfers. You should also delete your answer from the second question since it doesn't actually answer the question asked (e.g. about permanent transfers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, you didn't make the second question a duplicate by answering since your answer &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;didn't answer the question asked&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and would, I presume, have eventually been deleted by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.203" LastActivityDate="2017-03-26T14:26:11.827" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10753" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10754" CreationDate="2017-03-26T15:16:22.923" Score="3" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that we have the top-level tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc&lt;/a&gt; for questions about any Marvel or DC properties, there's been some chat about whether we need certain subtags. Obviously it's worth having subtags for individual films or TV series within the overarching Marvel/DC universes, but we don't have tags specifically for comics-based Marvel/DC questions: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-comics&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-comics&lt;/a&gt; are synonyms of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc&lt;/a&gt; respectively, as discussed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1706/31394&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and comic-specific questions can be tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt; as well if necessary. But &lt;strong&gt;what about tags specifically for movies?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=35995285#35995285&quot;&gt;told&lt;/a&gt; that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt; tag &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; worth keeping, since it's not just the same as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt;+&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt;. I've also been &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=35988643#35988643&quot;&gt;told&lt;/a&gt; that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-movies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-movies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-movies&lt;/a&gt; tag is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; worth keeping. If this is the case, I can easily merge it into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc&lt;/a&gt;, thus removing it from all questions (and ensuring they're all tagged appropriately with the DC tag) without any manual edits required. But given my utter ignorance of all things Marvel and DC, I want to be absolutely sure that this is the right thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Should the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-movies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-movies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-movies&lt;/a&gt; tag exist, or should it be merged into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-04-02T18:48:00.663" LastActivityDate="2017-04-02T18:48:00.663" Title="Should [dc-movies] be merged into [dc]?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10753" CreationDate="2017-03-26T15:55:18.360" Score="6" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Yes&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dc-movies appears to have been used due to confusion about the dc-comics tag. So, people have used it instead of dc-comics + movie, perhaps thinking dc-comics referred to comics only. That is part of the reason we renamed dc-comics to just dc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if that's why people used dc-movies, it's not really being used correctly. The questions it's attached to seem to specify that the question is about a movie. However, that's not even the correct use of the movie tag, and the individual work tags already tell us it's a movie. (The correct use of the movie tag is to specify format for ID questions or to limit scope to only movies if you're asking about a franchise that's on many formats.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movies in question are either &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; part of a collective universe, like dcau or dceu, and so it doesn't represent such a tag (and is unneeded), or they &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; part of such a shared universe and they were already tagged accordingly during the big cleanup event a couple weeks ago (and it's still unneeded).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, its extremely limited use leads me to further believe its use is accidental, with people using it only when unsure how to tag the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, the tag seems to be an accident, and serves no real purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-03-30T11:22:31.637" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10753" CreationDate="2017-03-26T17:06:05.390" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes, a thousand times - yes!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To add to @CreationEdge's answer and @Randal'Thor's point about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt; being worth keeping, I'd like to point out that we have a corresponding tag for the DC cinematic universe - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-extended-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-extended-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-extended-universe&lt;/a&gt;. While it may not be the best choice of a name, I do believe it is what some of the question tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-movies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-movies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-movies&lt;/a&gt; should actually have. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastActivityDate="2017-03-26T17:06:05.390" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10734" CreationDate="2017-03-27T02:42:09.867" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I, a fellow SFF girl lounging in yonder topmost tower, would like to nominate James Cameron's &lt;em&gt;The Abyss&lt;/em&gt;, an excellent sci-fi film circa 1989 with a female co-protagonist (who is an engineer), a strong supporting cast, and an exciting, mega-adventure story. Let the Wiki tell you about it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Abyss&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Abyss&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is a 1989 American science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron, starring Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael Biehn. When an American submarine sinks in the Caribbean, the US search-and-recovery team works with an oil platform crew, racing against Russian vessels to recover the boat. Deep in the ocean, they encounter something quite unexpected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LNBaM.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LNBaM.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Movie poster for James Cameron&amp;#39;s *The Abyss*&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/32tm8.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/32tm8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Screen shot from James Cameron&amp;#39;s *The Abyss*&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ed Harris as Virgil &quot;Bud&quot; Brigman, Deep Core's foreman and Lindsey's&#xA;estranged husband.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as Dr. Lindsey Brigman, designer of the&#xA;rig and Bud's estranged wife.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Michael Biehn as US Navy SEAL Lieutenant Hiram Coffey, the commander&#xA;of the Navy SEAL team.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;J.C. Quinn as Arliss &quot;Sonny&quot; Dawson&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leo Burmester as Catfish De Vries, a worker on the rig and a Vietnam&#xA;veteran Marine who is skeptical of the SEALs.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kimberly Scott as Lisa &quot;One Night&quot; Standing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Todd Graff as Alan &quot;Hippy&quot; Carnes, a conspiracy theorist who believes&#xA;that the NTIs have been covered up by the CIA. He carries a pet rat (Beanie) on his shoulder.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;John Bedford Lloyd as Jammer Willis&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chris Elliott as Bendix&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Capt. Kidd Brewer Jr. as Lew Finler&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PASSES BECHDEL TEST:&lt;/strong&gt; YES&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;F-RATED:&lt;/strong&gt; YES&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;FEMALE-SPONSORED:&lt;/strong&gt; YES (I, Slytherincess, identify as female)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;OTHER:&lt;/strong&gt; Woman of color in a STEM role: Lisa &quot;One Night&quot; Standing. Just thought I'd note this.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SLYTHERINCESS'S FAVORITE LINES OF DIALOGUE:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HIPPY: [Is going on about some conspiracy or another]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;CREW MEMBER: Hippy, you think &lt;em&gt;everything's&lt;/em&gt; a conspiracy!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;HIPPY: [Genuinely perplexed at this comment] Everything is.&lt;br&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MISCELLANEOUS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Abyss&lt;/em&gt; was one of James Cameron's earlier films and filming it wreaked enough havoc that perhaps it ought to have been called &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Abyss#Principal_photography&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Abyssmal&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. (Thank you! I'll be here all week ...). Mainly, it required filming equipment and techniques that had not yet been invented, requiring Cameron to invent what he needed. There was a lot of strife on set (see link above). Main photography took place in an abandoned nuclear power plant in South Carolina (Duke Power?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nevertheless, &lt;em&gt;The Abyss&lt;/em&gt; is truly an excellent film which I would highly recommend. The co-protagonist, played by Mary Elizabeth Mastrontonio, is smart, self-sufficient, brave, and work-focused. While a romance between her and co-protagonist Ed Harris kind of dances amongst the scenes, it is by no means the focal point of the story; I found myself not really caring whether the two protagonists would get together romantically. Either way would have been fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For 1989 (Leave a comment if you were around in 1989!) the effects are very good. An especially breathtaking moment comes when:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The oil rig is being pulled by debris toward the underwater shelf that, should the rig go over the lip, leads straight down to the abyss -- miles and miles of dark water, ready to doom any human. This is a spectacular action scene!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zbpL3LeW7k&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Check out the trailer for &lt;em&gt;The Abyss&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please consider voting for &lt;em&gt;The Abyss&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="3500" LastEditDate="2017-04-03T01:41:15.100" LastActivityDate="2017-04-03T01:41:15.100" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10734" CreationDate="2017-03-27T05:38:25.110" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This one is definitely on the obscure side, but I nominate &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098061/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Paperhouse&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KbKeq.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KbKeq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Plot Summary&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Paperhouse&lt;/em&gt; is a dark fantasy centered around a young British girl named Anna (Charlotte Burke).  Anna, easily bored with school and unhappy with her home life, is given to drawing in her composition book. Most recently, she's drawn an oddly shaped house that strikes her fancy. As she develops a mysterious fever, Anna begins to visit the house and the world it lies in her dreams.  As her illness inexplicably worsens, the link to the dream world both strengthens and takes an increasingly sinister turn.  Co-written and based on the novel &lt;em&gt;Marriane Dreams&lt;/em&gt;, by Catherine Storr.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nomination&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one is an interesting little gem of a film.  It's a stark, visually stunning film with an excellent performance by Charlotte Burke.  Roger Ebert described the film as having Bergman-like qualities (his detailed and not entirely spoiler-free review can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/paperhouse-1989&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) in its effective simplicity.  Though her primary interaction in the dreamworld is with a male character, there are extensive dialogues between Charlotte and her mother, her classmates, as well as her doctor (played by veteran British actress Gemma Jones).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Finding the film&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, this is not a well-known, mainstream film.  I have been able to find two sources for the movie, however.  It is available for streaming on Amazon, and - for the time being - it can be found on youtube &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kidKTsAPzic&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Extra Point Score&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bechdel Test&lt;/strong&gt; - Passed (Anna has a considerable number of conversations with named characters including her mother, Kate and her best friend Karen).  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;F-Rated - Passed.&lt;/strong&gt; The film's lead actor is a schoolgirl and the film's writer was a noted female novelist.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nominated Female - Failed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(+2)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69621" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-03-27T16:56:39.260" LastActivityDate="2017-03-27T16:56:39.260" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10760" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-28T08:35:03.787" Score="-10" ViewCount="244" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why Science Fiction AND Fantasy? &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;why these two have to be associated together, even in a community website such as this one? (..and it happens more and more often)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;having two websites that speak - mainly - about scifi (or fantasy) with some overlapping on each sides wouldn't be that bad to me, and would at least give back some kind of purity to the subject&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80396" OwnerDisplayName="eddyce" LastEditorUserId="80396" LastEditDate="2017-03-28T10:32:29.407" LastActivityDate="2017-03-28T11:05:55.627" Title="Why Science Fiction AND Fantasy?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="13" ClosedDate="2017-03-28T11:02:18.513" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10760" CreationDate="2017-03-28T10:46:56.917" Score="15" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Long story.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site was originally just for sci-fi (which is probably why the main URL is still scifi.stackexchange.com). One of the earliest meta discussions on the first day of private beta was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6/31394&quot;&gt;Is Fantasy in spec for this site?&lt;/a&gt;, in which it was decided that fantasy should be on-topic here too. The site was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/300/31394&quot;&gt;officially renamed&lt;/a&gt; and an alias of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fantasy.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;http://fantasy.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (try it) was added &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/316/31394&quot;&gt;shortly afterwards&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Because they fit together well and can be hard to distinguish.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's often been &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/43/31394&quot;&gt;said&lt;/a&gt; that the real scope of this site is not &amp;quot;science fiction and fantasy&amp;quot;, but rather &lt;strong&gt;speculative fiction&lt;/strong&gt;. See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/537/31394&quot;&gt;Would non-horror Speculative Fiction be on-topic for this site?&lt;/a&gt; I mean, what's the difference between sci-fi and fantasy anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The shortest definition of SF I know of is that it's any form of fiction that asks “what if?”. That's SF as in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_Fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;speculative fiction&lt;/a&gt;, not the more restrictive “science fiction” or “sci-fi”. [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be careful when using the terms “science-fiction” or “sci-fi” or “sf”, because people have different definitions. Science-fiction is usually about what might be, alternate history about what might have been, and fantasy about what can't be, but people disagree strongly on where to draw the line (is &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; science-fiction? Is anything with faster-than-light travel science-fiction? Is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_the_Dying_Earth&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;technology so advanced that it's indistinguishable from magic&lt;/a&gt; science-fiction?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2/31394&quot;&gt;What is science fiction? How are we to discriminate between sci-fi and fantasy?&lt;/a&gt; - another of the earliest meta posts on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-03-28T11:05:55.627" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10742" CreationDate="2017-03-29T10:10:46.140" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag was on four questions when I removed them from all four.  (The tags were added by four different users.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/138133/4918&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t Hermione hide the Time-Turner better?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/153405/4918&quot;&gt;Doesn&amp;#39;t saving Sirius and Buckbeak violate the Time Turner rules?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/155350/4918&quot;&gt;Did Hermione ever see herself when she used the Time-Turner in Prisoner of Azkaban?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/135994/4918&quot;&gt;How does Time travel work in Harry Potter universe?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are already too many pointless tags associated with Harry Potter.  Most of them don't help the site in any way. Most of them ([voldemort] and [magic-theory] being the exceptions) are associated with a single word that is easy to search for even without tags.  Most of them don't help attract specific experts over.   Many of them are very broad and apply to a large quantity of [harry-potter] questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not easy to get rid of these.  I can't just remove all the [voldemort], [hogwarts], [albus-dumbledore], [sirius-black] tags, because there's too many of them.  (Maybe I'll do so the next time we have a Big Edit event.  Rand and the rest of you did wonders with the Tolkien tags.)  Nor can I  remove the [hermione-granger] and [ron-weasley] and [dementors] tags anymore: these didn't use to exist, and got removed a few times when there were only a few, but then multiplied like weeds when I wasn't looking for a while.  I do at least try to remove newly created pointless Harry Potter tags that pop up, like [time-turner]. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for [time-turner] specifically, please avoid that tag, but if you really want to tag these questions, please reuse the already established &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time-travel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time-travel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time-travel&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2017-03-29T10:16:19.117" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10763" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-29T21:59:57.687" Score="11" ViewCount="533" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from January 1st 2017 through March 31 2017 (&lt;strong&gt;They don't have to be &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; questions and answers.&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2017/02/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2017/01/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2017/01/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I will also be linking all blog posts that happened within this quarter.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also if there was a meta post you feel should be spotlighted those are also acceptable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sadness&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last time there were no submissions. Hopefully this time, there will be. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is utterly without merit to downvote any answers to this post.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Update&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Blog post is &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2017/04/highlights-from-2017-1st-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-04-29T00:32:33.527" LastActivityDate="2017-04-29T00:32:33.527" Title="Favorite Questions and Answers from first quarter of 2017" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10763" CreationDate="2017-03-29T23:02:02.037" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inspired by a throwaway comment of mine, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/28452/g-rocket&quot;&gt;g. rocket&lt;/a&gt; took the plunge and asked&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/155325&quot;&gt;Which ship can go faster, the Millennium Falcon or the USS Enterprise?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After suffering the slings and arrows of &lt;s&gt;outrageous fortune&lt;/s&gt; downvotes and close votes, his question '&lt;em&gt;did the triple&lt;/em&gt;' (gold badges for Great Question, Famous Question and Great Answer) in less than 2 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without wanting to blow my own trumpet, I thought my own answers to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/150060/did-luke-play-any-significant-role-in-return-of-the-jedi&quot;&gt;Did Luke play any significant role in “Return of the Jedi?”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;+&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/154969/in-which-episodes-did-the-enterprise-boldly-go-where-no-one-had-gone-before&quot;&gt;In which episodes did the Enterprise boldly go where no one had gone before?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;were rather good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finn O'leary deserves special mention. His answer languishes in (relative) obscurity despite offering a response straight out of the textbooks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/154035/in-star-trek-why-do-federation-starfleet-ships-always-seem-to-delay-returning&quot;&gt;In Star Trek, why do Federation / Starfleet ships always seem to delay returning fire until it&amp;#39;s almost too late?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2017-03-29T23:02:02.037" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10763" CreationDate="2017-03-30T01:17:27.553" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;For my favorite answers of the quarter, I choose Valorum's answer for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/150075/51226&quot;&gt;Did Luke play any significant role in “Return of the Jedi?”&lt;/a&gt; and my own for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/147766/51226&quot;&gt;Was it implied by the dialogue in A New Hope that the Death Star had never been used before?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2017-03-30T01:17:27.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10763" CreationDate="2017-03-30T01:31:20.587" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;An answer I enjoyed was about whether or not &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/153465/31178&quot;&gt;Spider-man ever got drunk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which features this gem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;MOMMEEE--Did Spider-man just &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;burp?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OCQZ2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OCQZ2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2017-03-30T01:31:20.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10763" CreationDate="2017-03-30T02:28:09.060" Score="13" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Favourite Answer&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really liked CreationEdge's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/152732/21267&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; to the very unpopular question:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/152725/why-does-captain-americas-costume-change-in-all-the-movies&quot;&gt;Why does Captain America&amp;#39;s costume change in all the movies?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer was clearly well-researched and answered both in-universe and out-of-universe&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Creation even received a nice and well-deserved &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/50/reversal&quot;&gt;Reversal&lt;/a&gt; badge for his efforts too.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Honourable mention&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/54887/aegon?tab=answers&amp;amp;sort=activity&quot;&gt;Aegon's answers&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They are very well researched and in-depth&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Favourite Question&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/153968/21267&quot;&gt;In Logan, what disease is this character dying of?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It made me dig into unknown territory to provide an answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It made me understand and appreciate the depth of character within that particular story&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Made me appreciate the story-telling technique of James Mangold&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Fun fact:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Logan&lt;/em&gt; is currently my favourite comic book-based movie and definitely in my top 5 favourite movies of all time.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Honourable mention&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/155336/21267&quot;&gt;Who are the oldest characters in A Song of Ice and Fire?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It was fun to see the different types of beings in the ASOIAF universe&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Game me a chance to give a smart-ass answer&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Which funnily enough became pretty well received&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2017-03-30T02:28:09.060" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10763" CreationDate="2017-03-30T10:00:11.283" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I think we should mention the &lt;em&gt;Big Edit Event&lt;/em&gt; held on March 11 and 12.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Stack Exchange &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/291947/348200&quot;&gt;announced mass HTTPS&lt;/a&gt;, it turned out that a metric tonne of images would die if we did not take action. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mithrandir then proposed a solution:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10678/70236&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it time to organize a major editing event?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which was agreed upon and later implemented:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10691/70236&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Big Edit Event (is finished)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And seeing how we'd be mucking up our front page anyway, we decided to throw in a bunch of other mass edits that should be done: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10655/70236&quot;&gt;Tolkien tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9184/70236&quot;&gt;Star Trek tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10696/70236&quot;&gt;Marvel and DC tags&lt;/a&gt;, which have also been renamed from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-comics&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-comics&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt;, respectively.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10665/70236&quot;&gt;Separate tags&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;em&gt;The Expanse&lt;/em&gt; TV series and novel series &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something else I've forgotten&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As an outcome, we now have&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Working pictures. This does not only include HTTP/HTTPS stuff - we also caught some &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10694/70236&quot;&gt;dead images and fixed them&lt;/a&gt; (hat tip to &lt;strong&gt;Valorum&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;CreationEdge&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any question pertaining to any property of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10698/70236&quot;&gt;DC&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10700/70236&quot;&gt;Marvel&lt;/a&gt; now has respective tags - courtesy of &lt;strong&gt;@CreationEdge&lt;/strong&gt;, who &lt;s&gt;wrecked the main page&lt;/s&gt; single-handedly made ~2000 edits in two days, breaking a site-wide record.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Expanse &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10699/70236&quot;&gt;now has separate tags&lt;/a&gt; for TV and novels, also individual works tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt; [has been burninated]&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10693/70236&quot;&gt;10&lt;/a&gt;. Any tag about his Legendarium now has the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkiens-legendarium&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkiens-legendarium&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkiens-legendarium&lt;/a&gt; tag, and the questions about the author now have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/j-r-r-tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;j-r-r-tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;j-r-r-tolkien&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Seems about all...&lt;/em&gt; Please forgive me if I have forgotten anything!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, I think this event was a good and a necessary thing (&lt;em&gt;hugs Copy Editor badge&lt;/em&gt;), and a great initiative by the community!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2017-04-01T15:45:36.447" LastActivityDate="2017-04-01T15:45:36.447" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10769" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10773" CreationDate="2017-03-30T10:08:17.203" Score="6" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't receive any Notification about reputation change. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is how my notification tab looks like right now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WMwxJ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WMwxJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is my actual reputation tab:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1wyPN.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1wyPN.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, the rep gained today is not visible in the notification bar nor did I receive any notification about them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does not appear to be a local cache issue on one device as I can reproduce this on my mac as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PhKHH.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PhKHH.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My client config are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Google Chrome Version 56.0.2924.87 (64-bit) using Windows 8.1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Google Chrome Version 56.0.2924.87 (64-bit) using macOS Sierra 10.12.3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/293094/why-does-the-reputation-dropdown-not-show-this-upvote&quot;&gt;reported on MSE&lt;/a&gt; already by Mithrandir. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1583/oded&quot;&gt;Oded♦&lt;/a&gt; has &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/346191/is-the-rep-widget-broken-again#comment460713_346191&quot;&gt;confirmed&lt;/a&gt; that this is indeed a bug and SE teams are working on it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We are aware of things being broken - the process that syncs&#xA;  reputation (and other things) across the network is backed up. We are&#xA;  working on fixing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Process seems to be up (Although not working correctly as reported by a number of users) again. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/293120/307083&quot;&gt;Quoting&lt;/a&gt; Patrick Hoffman:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yes. The process is up and running again. Reputation changes are&#xA;  finding their way to us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sometimes there is a small delay though in the dropdown and the green&#xA;  notification. And the number doesn't always correspond with the&#xA;  highlighted post in the dropdown. I guess that will be resolved&#xA;  eventually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did receive a collective rep change notification for today  as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vsO1l.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vsO1l.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iCHtF.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iCHtF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE 2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oded just provided an answer and confirmed that this has been resolved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastEditorUserId="54887" LastEditDate="2017-03-31T08:26:00.030" LastActivityDate="2017-03-31T08:26:00.030" Title="Not receiving any reputation change notifications" Tags="|bug|status-completed|reputation|notifications|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10770" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-30T13:41:33.530" Score="9" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;After I've read &lt;em&gt;The Sandman&lt;/em&gt; I've started looking here for relevant questions to answer, and asking some of my own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed that the tagging for them is inconsistent and debatable. Some didn't have any publisher tags, some had &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-comics&lt;/a&gt;, some had &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vertigo-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vertigo-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vertigo-comics&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, Vertigo is an imprint of DC, created to publish more adult-oriented material. Here's the catch: Vertigo was founded in 1993, so most of the cool stuff - &lt;em&gt;The Sandman&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;V for Vendetta&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Watchmen&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Hellblazer&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Swamp Thing&lt;/em&gt;, and others - has started in 1980s and was initially published by DC, and then moved to the Vertigo imprint.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it is correct to collect all of those works under the same &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc&lt;/a&gt; tag. Vertigo has been separated from DC for a reason - their comics are thematically different, geared towards a more adult audience. There is also the problem of overlapping of universes: Vertigo characters (apart from Constantine and Swamp Thing) rarely make appearances in the DC universe, and vice versa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions to consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How should we tag questions about comics?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;how should we tag questions about films based on comics?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should we proceed? Completely separate Vertigo and DC? Use them in tandem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To provide some context, there appear to be 32 questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/watchmen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;watchmen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;watchmen&lt;/a&gt; and 3 questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/watchmen-2009&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;watchmen-2009&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;watchmen-2009&lt;/a&gt;; 6 questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hellblazer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hellblazer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hellblazer&lt;/a&gt;; 4 questions about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/v-for-vendetta&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;v-for-vendetta&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;v-for-vendetta&lt;/a&gt;; and whooping 37 questions about my dear &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sandman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sandman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sandman&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why am I listing this? just to point that any potential retag will be relatively easy compared to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10691/70236&quot;&gt;what we've done&lt;/a&gt;. I'm not saying we should schedule another mass edit event - I can take the responsibility for retags, doing 3 or 4 a day, no rush.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not asking for immediate retagging action, I just want to have a policy on hands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2017-04-03T11:42:48.320" LastActivityDate="2017-04-24T06:44:48.477" Title="Should we use [dc], [vertigo-comics], or both, for questions about comics published by Vertigo?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10716" CreationDate="2017-03-31T00:57:58.403" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As an addendum to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10717/31178&quot;&gt;well-received &quot;Yes (but probably no)&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, and in light of the back-and-forth on this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/155325/which-ship-can-go-faster-the-millennium-falcon-or-the-uss-enterprise&quot;&gt;Which ship can go faster, the Millennium Falcon or the USS Enterprise?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And its related meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10746/why-does-the-community-continue-re-opening-this-particular-question&quot;&gt;Why does the community continue re-opening this particular question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should make it clear that &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; we are doing direct comparisons of quantifiable properties, such as speed, weight, force, etc., and the question would thus be on-topic, then it should be done under the assumption that if the universes are using the same units of measurement as one another (or, rather, as we use in reality), that they can be considered &lt;em&gt;equal&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is to say, we don't need to question whether or not the fictional universes are somehow fundamentally different on some quantum level, or using weird amounts despite being portrayed to us, the readers and viewers, using our language. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Absent any contrary information explicitly given in the works, we should assume that 1 second, 1 newton, 1 gram, 1 lightyear, etc. etc. are equal between the universes being compared and our own.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="36115" LastEditDate="2017-03-31T01:15:58.837" LastActivityDate="2017-03-31T01:15:58.837" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10769" CreationDate="2017-03-31T08:21:37.593" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was an issue with some of the reputation messages going to the achievements drop down - the initial fix helped, but did not resolve the root issue, which is why you have seen the issue come back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have fixed the root issue and things are back to normal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry for the inconvenience. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13771" LastActivityDate="2017-03-31T08:21:37.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10774" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-31T08:23:45.943" Score="21" ViewCount="418" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/156154/where-has-luke-skywalker-been&quot;&gt;Where has Luke Skywalker been?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is asking &quot;Do we have any evidence of where he's been?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is &lt;strong&gt;a cut and dried objective Yes/No no question&lt;/strong&gt;, but it was closed as &quot;primarily opinion based&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either the answer is &quot;Yes (and here's where)&quot; or &quot;No (and hopefully an explanation)&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it were closed due to our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5187/should-questions-about-future-works-be-closed-as-primarily-opinion-based&quot;&gt;future works policy&lt;/a&gt;, that seems to be a misinterpretation. This question isn't (and never was, if you &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/156154/revisions&quot;&gt;look at the edit history&lt;/a&gt;) asking about the content of a work that's not yet released. It's present tense asking if, up to this point in time, has any info been released. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our future works policy was intended to stop questions being asked specifically about works that haven't been officially released yet. An example would be &quot;What is Luke Skywalker's role in Episode VIII?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, it was closed &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; it was answered, and the answer clearly shows that there is (and always was) an objective answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="66402" LastEditDate="2017-06-08T01:52:46.790" LastActivityDate="2018-12-28T03:02:31.410" Title="Why was this question about Luke Skywalker ever closed?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10775" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-03-31T11:38:03.820" Score="-2" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am enjoying &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=36408115#36408115&quot;&gt;my Batman Fridge Magnet&lt;/a&gt; and I want a similar circular Fridge Magnet having SFF.SE logo printed on it (which would be fantastic as SFF.SE logo is also circular). From where can I get it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The logo should be IP of Stack Exchange, so I doubt I'll be able to find it on Amazon or eBay because of legal issues. Can SE guys put it on sell?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I think problem's been solved. Previously, I was unable to find a printing service which could print on a circular magnet. Finally, I found it: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.picsquare.com/custom/magnet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.picsquare.com/custom/magnet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="931" LastEditDate="2017-03-31T12:15:02.523" LastActivityDate="2017-03-31T12:33:40.510" Title="From where can I get Fridge Magnet having SFF.SE logo printed on it?" Tags="|support|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2017-04-03T10:47:47.790" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10775" CreationDate="2017-03-31T11:56:32.167" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I Am Not A Lawyer&lt;/em&gt;, but if you download a high-res version of the logo and take it down to your local printshop, as long as it's just for personal use on your own fridge, you probably should be fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For completeness' sake, here's &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/legal/trademark-guidance&quot;&gt;the official SE trademark guidance&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2017-03-31T12:33:40.510" LastActivityDate="2017-03-31T12:33:40.510" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10763" CreationDate="2017-03-31T16:12:29.383" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Favorite Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/155640/how-does-captain-phasma-type-with-thimbles-on-her-fingers&quot;&gt;How Does Captain Phasma Type with Thimbles on Her Fingers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The premise of the question gave me a laugh. I'll never look at Phasma the same way again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Favorite Answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/155420/75000&quot;&gt;Michael Karnerfors' response&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; the comments to the question of whether the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/155325/75000&quot;&gt;Millennium Falcon or USS Enterprise was faster&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't matter if you agree that the question itself is unanswerable or not, you have to concede that it's always fun watching nerds arguing about Star Wars and Star Trek. My only regret is that I found out about it too late. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75000" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2017-03-31T16:12:29.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10779" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-04-01T15:23:18.037" Score="7" ViewCount="316" Body="&lt;p&gt;The clear winner in our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10734/april-movie-night-special-its-ladies-night&quot;&gt;quest to select a 'Ladies Night' movie&lt;/a&gt; (with 20 upvotes and an additional three bonus points for being nominated by a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/73099/missmonicae&quot;&gt;female user&lt;/a&gt;, having a main female character and passing the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bechdel Test&lt;/a&gt;) was the 1984 film classic '&lt;strong&gt;The Terminator&lt;/strong&gt;', starring Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We'll be watching the film together in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley chatroom&lt;/a&gt; on April 15th at  10pm UTC (11pm BST, 6pm EDT)&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/k64P4l2Wmeg?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7431/what-is-a-movie-night-really&quot;&gt;What is a movie night?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which version will we be watching?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The theatrical cut is available (to purchase) on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fN82upbGPo&amp;amp;oref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D-fN82upbGPo&amp;amp;has_verified=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;youtube&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vudu.com/movies/#!content/140350/The-Terminator&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Vudu&lt;/a&gt; and you can also watch the movie online on DailyMotion &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2dh0ok_the-terminator-1984-full-movie-watch-online_shortfilms&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3qv4iy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do I make sure I'm in the same place as everyone else?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;We'll be hosting a copy of the film on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.watch2gether.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;watch2gether.com&lt;/a&gt;, a video-sharing platform. All you need to do is click the link (that'll be provided on the day) and it'll take care of synching the video for you. Alternatively, you can just wait for me to tell you when to start.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What if I want to complain loudly about Arnold's inability to act or speak properly?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Then in the immortal words of the Terminator, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;F٭ck you, A٭٭hole&quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-04-16T13:13:20.963" LastActivityDate="2017-04-16T15:47:27.103" Title="&quot;Ladies Night&quot; Movie Night - The Terminator. Tonight!! (April 15th) at 10pm UTC / 11pm BST/ 6pm EDT" Tags="|discussion|chat-event|movie-night|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="24" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10763" CreationDate="2017-04-02T05:20:46.183" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if it's bad form to suggest your own answer, but I've had a lot of fun writing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/152454/48975&quot;&gt;one about the tallest structure built in Middle-earth&lt;/a&gt;, asked by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/152452/48975&quot;&gt;iMerchant&lt;/a&gt; who has been contributing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/54605/imerchant&quot;&gt;some pretty interesting questions&lt;/a&gt; about Tolkien, Star Trek and Star Wars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following is how I usually write any kind of answer that requires a lot of research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Searching&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People may think I know all of this stuff by heart, but I don't. I had &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; ideas on tall structures, but nothing really concrete. It was a combination of prior knowledge, PDF searching and googling (&quot;middle earth tallest structure&quot;) that allowed me to come up with ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a lot of information out there that can be used as a starting point, including the various Tolkien wikis and old-fashioned forums, but I have to personally verify everything I find. Some of the stuff I find turns out to be false, speculative or unverifiable. I either don't include it or add a warning that I couldn't confirm that particular piece of information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have all of Tolkien's main works, plus everything his son published in paper form, but I also have &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; of PDFs of various other documents. They're all in a folder and I use &lt;a href=&quot;https://pdfgrep.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;pdfgrep&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to search for certain terms in them. It's not always easy, especially since it doesn't handle non-ASCII characters very well, so anything with accents is kind of a pain to search for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I once tried converting the PDFs to text files, but it didn't really help: all the formatting was lost (including table of contents, which are really useful) and non-ASCII characters were either lost, converted (&lt;code&gt;é&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;e&lt;/code&gt;) or broken (&lt;code&gt;é&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;e´&lt;/code&gt;), which made it even harder to search for. Although &lt;code&gt;pdfgrep&lt;/code&gt; is slow and clunky, it's best I've found yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some cases, I can either search for only part of a word if it's unambiguous (&lt;code&gt;Oioloss&lt;/code&gt; for &lt;em&gt;Oiolossë&lt;/em&gt;) or use &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;regular expressions&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;code&gt;F\w+nor&lt;/code&gt; for &lt;em&gt;Fëanor&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Diving in&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In his question, iMerchant mentioned &quot;man/Númenórean/elf/dwarf/Maia/etc-built structures&quot;, which gave me the idea of splitting my answer by race. My initial idea was some of the taller mountains built by the Valar, such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Taniquetil&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Taniquetil&lt;/a&gt;, but he said geographical features did not apply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My initial guess on the tallest structure overall was Barad-dûr, but I still started with the pillars first (even though they could be considered &quot;mountains&quot;) because they are for me the largest project ever undertaken on Middle-earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Elves gave me some trouble, as they never really built anything fancy, as far as I could tell. I searched through all the PDFs I have for terms like &quot;tower&quot;, &quot;tallest&quot; and &quot;highest&quot;, but couldn't really find anything interesting. I also found &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Middle-earth_towers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;various&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Middle-earth_buildings&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;lists&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Towers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;buildings&lt;/a&gt; for more ideas, but all the suggestions in this part are speculative. Same thing for orcs. Dwarves were easy, especially since &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/152452/what-was-the-tallest-structure-built-in-middle-earth/152454#comment394384_152452&quot;&gt;b_jonas had given the answer first&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I initially made a mistake for Men. I honestly didn't think of Minas Tirith and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/152454/6&quot;&gt;went for a tie between Orthanc and Armenelos first&lt;/a&gt;. It was only by going through the &lt;em&gt;Atlas of Middle-earth&lt;/em&gt; for ideas that I saw Minas Tirith. That's why there's a weird &quot;second place&quot; subsection, where I kept my initial guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, while re-reading my answer on Dwarves, I thought of Melkor and Angband and integrated that in the &quot;Valar&quot; section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also had some issues with people editing my answer as I was writing it, creating some edit conflicts which, apparently, Stack Exchange is not very good at dealing with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Touch ups and images&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once I was done with the meat of the answer, I did what I usually do with all my answers: add a proper introduction, some touches here and there (such as conversions into meters) and some links to various articles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also know people like having pictures, especially those from the &lt;em&gt;Atlas&lt;/em&gt;, so I added some for Moria and Minas Tirith. Since I've bought the &lt;em&gt;Atlas&lt;/em&gt;, I don't feel too bad about having a PDF and uploading low quality versions of the images.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This requires some work: taking a screenshot of the PDF, opening it in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.getpaint.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Paint.NET&lt;/a&gt; and cropping it correctly. Some images (like &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E92nJ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Thangorodrim&lt;/a&gt;) were split in two pages, so I had merge the images, but they weren't exactly aligned. I had to rotate them until they (mostly) looked good. If you look closely, you can see some repeating features that shouldn't be there and a pretty visible seam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zkRi5.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zkRi5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of the Atlas in a PDF reader&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;What I had to work with, the PDF of the &lt;em&gt;Atlas&lt;/em&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SumatraPDF&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Additional information&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I spend a lot of time re-reading my answers to find typos (ugh!), badly worded sentences or things I can add here and there. I usually find a lot of small things on the next day because I can look at the text with fresh eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I went back to Angband and Thangorodrim, because that part had been bugging me. I added more information on the height, including a drawing from &lt;em&gt;Pictures&lt;/em&gt;, to make it clear that the estimate from Fonstad was based on some very flimsy evidence. The picture I initially included was a colored version, but I swapped it last minute with the original black and white. Although it doesn't look as good, it makes it clearer that there's not a lot of details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Citations&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, once I was done with writing and formatting the whole thing, I went back to all my quotes and added citations for them. All the quotes I include in my answers come from various PDFs I have of Tolkien's works. They're easier to search and copy/paste, but they usually have weird page numbers (if any) that don't really correspond to anything. So I get my books out and search for the quotes in them. It's the part I hate the most when I write an answer, which is why I usually wait until the very end to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Comments&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I was still working on the answer, people were starting to comment on it (I love it when that happens). I integrated information on the Temple's dome (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/152452/what-was-the-tallest-structure-built-in-middle-earth/152454#comment394423_152454&quot;&gt;from Paŭlo Ebermann&lt;/a&gt;) and clarifications on Moria (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/152452/what-was-the-tallest-structure-built-in-middle-earth/152454#comment394436_152454&quot;&gt;from Withywindle&lt;/a&gt;). iMerchant had &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/152452/what-was-the-tallest-structure-built-in-middle-earth/152454#comment394470_152454&quot;&gt;a follow-up on the Paths of the Dead&lt;/a&gt;, but I didn't include it in the answer because it wasn't relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/152452/what-was-the-tallest-structure-built-in-middle-earth/152454#comment394678_152454&quot;&gt;Olivier Grégoire&lt;/a&gt; asked about the Hobbits. I had thought of it and did some quick searches at first, but I assumed (correctly, I think) that they wouldn't have built anything tall since they are uncomfortable with heights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Phew&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my first comment on the question (&quot;I have a feeling I'm going to spend way too much time on this question&quot;) until my last edit on the same day, I spent about 5 hours. That's typical of this kind of answer. It's a lot of work, but I love it. Keep those questions coming!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48975" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2017-04-02T07:01:08.183" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10763" CreationDate="2017-04-02T09:59:05.773" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The user(s) &lt;strong&gt;Victim of Circumstance&lt;/strong&gt; deserve(s) a mention for their many great answers on questions about Tolkien's legendarium, including but not limited to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/149766/31394&quot;&gt;When Frodo was guided by Gollum to the Black Gate, how did he intend to enter Mordor?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/150288/31394&quot;&gt;Poisoned weapons in Middle-earth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/152935/31394&quot;&gt;What would be the translation of “non-elf” in Elvish?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/153829/31394&quot;&gt;What did Gandalf mean when he told the Balrog to “go back to the Shadow”?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/153659/31394&quot;&gt;How tall was the Balrog of Moria?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/153357/31394&quot;&gt;Did Saruman really make an army of Uruk-Hai in just 10 weeks?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/153655/31394&quot;&gt;How old is Smaug, the dragon, in The Hobbit?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, VoC has been using a different throwaway account for each of their posts, so they haven't been able to become a high-rep user with site privileges even after all these great answers.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;While we're on the subject of great Tolkien answers, the user &lt;strong&gt;isanae&lt;/strong&gt; has been churning out many enormously long and impressive answers in this area, such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/150754/31394&quot;&gt;Why does Gandalf act in this way in the Houses of Healing?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/149963/31394&quot;&gt;Was a non-Ardan ever born or created in Arda?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/152454/31394&quot;&gt;What was the tallest structure built in Middle-earth?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;In the world of Harry Potter, the user &lt;strong&gt;The Dark Lord&lt;/strong&gt; deserves a special mention for both many thoughtful questions and many excellent answers. Questions include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/152179/31394&quot;&gt;Why would Dumbledore say &amp;quot;After all this time?&amp;quot; to Snape?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/126073/31394&quot;&gt;What did Madam Hooch do all day?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/146472/31394&quot;&gt;What happens if a family gives a house-elf two contradictory orders?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/146722/31394&quot;&gt;Why were weapons like Mandrakes and Acromantula, which kill indiscriminately, used in the Battle of Hogwarts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/154712/31394&quot;&gt;Did Lily ever find out that Snape had changed sides?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/155525/31394&quot;&gt;Do wizards get a diploma when they graduate from Hogwarts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/155250/31394&quot;&gt;Why does Hermione love Arithmancy so much?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/153982/31394&quot;&gt;What made Death Eaters think that they could take on Dumbledore?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/149443/31394&quot;&gt;Why didn't Dumbledore appoint the real Mad Eye Moody to teach Defense Against Dark Arts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/149113/31394&quot;&gt;What forms of government are there in the Harry Potter series?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and of course this incredibly above-and-beyond overperforming masterpiece:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/150214/31394&quot;&gt;Who is this character from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;No offence to anyone not mentioned in this post! I know there have been many great questions and answers from many different users in this quarter; I remember these three standing out to me particularly, but there are doubtless others whose posts I've forgotten about or simply not seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I never bookmarked the best posts even from &lt;em&gt;these&lt;/em&gt; users; the above list was pieced together by just going through their question/answer lists and looking for highly voted stuff. If there's a masterpiece I've missed from one of them, do let me know in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2017-04-02T10:07:19.747" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10713" CreationDate="2017-04-02T17:45:17.727" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because both tags have different meanings. If a story doesn't show the aftermath of a big disaster, why should it have post-apocalypse tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, past questions shouldn't decide fate of a tag which has clear meaning. If a tag is being misused, as you said, we can put better tag guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the guideline I am suggesting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Apocalypse: If a story's main focus is on the process of a catastrophic disaster or life during a catastrophic disaster or life before eminent catastrophic disaster, this tag is good for it. Such stories may not display the life post-disaster (the story may end with just victory). Example Works: The 5th Wave books, 2012 movie&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Post-apocalypse: If a story's main focus is aftermath of a disaster, this tag is good for it. Such stories may not even mention the nature of disaster. Example Work: City of Ember book/ movie&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Both tags: If a story shows both catastrophic disaster and the aftermath in detail, both tags can be used.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; Replace story with question if it's not story-id or genre question. I chose to use story word so that I could give clear examples which could clarify the meaning of tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="931" LastEditDate="2017-04-02T19:01:18.360" LastActivityDate="2017-04-02T19:01:18.360" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10784" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-04-03T00:54:58.010" Score="-15" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;This meta question was closed as opinion based:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10782/who-do-you-like-most-on-sff-se&quot;&gt;Who do you like most on SFF.SE?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, these meta questions are well received here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7681/the-many-avatars-of-sff-se&quot;&gt;The many avatars of SFF.SE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7371/the-many-usernames-of-sffse&quot;&gt;The many usernames of SFF:SE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2017-04-03T10:45:55.183" Title="Why was this meta question closed as opinion based?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10784" CreationDate="2017-04-03T10:45:55.183" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because you &lt;em&gt;were&lt;/em&gt; asking for opinions; you were asking the users for their opinions of other users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions you compare yours two are &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; asking for opinions, but for explanations: were does a username or an avatar come from. While they &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; list questions, they're not opinion based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, asking users to rate each other is not constructive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2017-04-03T10:45:55.183" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10786" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10789" CreationDate="2017-04-03T11:32:57.440" Score="5" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;Re the question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/156306/book-of-short-stories&quot;&gt;Book of short stories&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a duplicate of several other questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/143593/trying-to-find-the-name-of-a-sci-fi-anthology-book-or-just-the-titles-of-one-or&quot;&gt;Trying to find the name of a sci fi anthology book, or just the titles of one or more stories&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/53726/short-story-about-mutant-children-who-all-have-names-starting-with-em&quot;&gt;Short story about mutant children who all have names starting with &amp;quot;Em&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31924/looking-for-late-70s-short-story-anthology-wed-call-it-ya-now-may-have-includ&quot;&gt;Looking for late 70s short story anthology, we&amp;#39;d call it YA now. May have included Leiber&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;A Pail of Air&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the official policy regarding such questions. Answering it seems a bit of a rep grab, but on the other hand not answering it leaves it dangling unanswered. I guess the best option would be for the OP to agree it's a duplicate so we can close it, but so far they show no signs of doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4144" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2017-04-03T13:46:21.557" Title="Should I answer a question I know to be a duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10786" CreationDate="2017-04-03T11:51:57.490" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always feel like it's worth posting an answer both because there's a chance that it's not actually a duplicate, and also because it gives you a chance to provide an even better answer with more details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2017-04-03T11:51:57.490" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10786" CreationDate="2017-04-03T13:46:21.557" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;We already have an agreed policy on closing duplicate &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-id&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-id&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-id&lt;/a&gt; questions, that we only close them as duplicates where there's agreement from both parties that their questions are asking about the same property. &lt;strong&gt;It doesn't matter how &quot;obvious&quot; you think they are, if they aren't accepted, we don't dupe them off.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7065/closing-story-ident-questions-as-duplicates-where-theres-no-acceptance?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;Closing Story-Ident questions as duplicates (where there&amp;#39;s no acceptance)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; questions are concerned, you have two choices; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You can post a comment to the OP that you think their question is a dupe, preferably with a link to the suspected duplicate&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I think this is x, as detailed in the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7065/closing-story-ident-questions-as-duplicates-where-theres-no-acceptance?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the OP agrees, you can then mark it as a duplicate. This is the preferred option if the new question doesn't really add any extra details to the already answered question, or is a dupe of a dupe of a dupe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you feel the need, you can post a new answer.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the preferable option where the other question doesn't already have an accepted answer or where the question adds significant detail (such as asking about a single story in an anthology).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2017-04-03T13:46:21.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10790" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-04-04T12:24:11.210" Score="3" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/128288/is-luke-skywalker-looking-at-a-gravestone-and-whose-is-it&quot;&gt;Is Luke Skywalker looking at a gravestone and whose is it? [closed]&lt;/a&gt; was deleted 9 hours ago. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2017-04-04T17:47:16.893" Title="Why was this question about Luke Skywalker looking at a gravestone deleted?" Tags="|support|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10790" CreationDate="2017-04-04T12:35:41.500" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;As is clearly explained on the banner beneath the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;deleted by Community♦ 9 hours ago (RemoveAbandonedClosed)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was automatically deleted. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/roomba&quot;&gt;Please see the help center for more information.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following that link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Community user will automatically delete old abandoned/dead questions in the following circumstances:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If the question was closed more than 9 days ago, and ...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not closed as a duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;has a score of 0 or less&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;is not locked&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;has no answers with a score &amp;gt; 0&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;has no accepted answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;has no pending reopen votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;has not been edited in the past 9 days&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-04-04T12:35:41.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10790" CreationDate="2017-04-04T12:36:54.667" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look at the deletion banner:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;deleted&lt;/strong&gt; by Community♦ 9 hours ago (RemoveAbandonedClosed)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question was automatically deleted. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/roomba&quot;&gt;Please see the help center for more information.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following that link leads you to the help centre page on automatic deletion. The section relevant to your specific question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If the question was closed more than &lt;code&gt;9&lt;/code&gt; days ago, and ...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;not closed as a duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;has a score of 0 or less&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;is not locked&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;has no answers with a score &gt; 0&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;has no accepted answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;has no pending reopen votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;has not been edited in the past &lt;code&gt;9&lt;/code&gt; days&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... it will be automatically deleted. These are &quot;abandoned closed&quot;, and are termed as &lt;code&gt;RemoveAbandonedClosed&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a 10k-reputation user, you can vote to undelete this question. I don't think you can undelete it singlehandedly as the OP, however.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; your question has now been undeleted by three 10k+ reputation users. I also reopened it and closed it as a dupe of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/113995/31394&quot;&gt;What is the significance of this hand-shaped rock formation?&lt;/a&gt;, a question asking about exactly the same stone which already has two good answers. I'm not sure why your question was originally closed as opinion-based and the other one wasn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2017-04-04T17:47:16.893" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10794" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10795" CreationDate="2017-04-04T19:55:43.617" Score="23" ViewCount="619" Body="&lt;p&gt;This one is quite the edge case. Prompted by this hot SE network question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/156481/did-calvin-ever-realise-that-hobbes-was-not-real&quot;&gt;Did Calvin ever realise that Hobbes was not real?&lt;/a&gt; Is it on topic for SFF?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;No&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He's a Sunday paper comic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's not a fantasy setting, it's a little boy pretending&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's no direct sci-fi&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maybe a better fit for &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/621/what-is-hobbes&quot;&gt;Literature.SE&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Yes&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://calvinandhobbes.wikia.com/wiki/Spaceman_Spiff&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Spaceman Spiff&lt;/a&gt; ('nuff said)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We deal with other literary fictional works that are sci-fi/fantasy -ish (i.e. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/1984&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;1984&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;1984&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hobbes, one of the central characters of the series, is really a stuffed toy. Or is he a friendly tiger? Hmm...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's benefit to SFF in discussing where the fantasy portion of Hobbes ends and Calvin begins.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm inclined to let it stay but it could be argued that it needs to go. What say you all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-04-06T18:00:12.413" Title="Is Calvin and Hobbes on topic?" Tags="|scope|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10794" CreationDate="2017-04-04T22:06:23.873" Score="25" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you've noted, the Calvin and Hobbes cartoons incorporate significant elements of science fiction and fantasy, quite a lot of which is internally consistent and intrudes into Calvin's reality. At the very least, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/are-works-that-arent-sf-per-se-but-have-occasional-sfnal-elements-on-topic-e&quot;&gt;asking about these is perfectly acceptable.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/156481/did-calvin-ever-realise-that-hobbes-was-not-real&quot;&gt;question about &lt;em&gt;whether the entire strip is fantastical&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; seems to have been well-received by the community. I think we can accept that discussions about this aspect are also well within scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://calvinandhobbes.wikia.com/wiki/Spaceman_Spiff&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Spaceman Spiff&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XRuqp.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XRuqp.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://calvinandhobbes.wikia.com/wiki/Stupendous_Man&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stupendous Man&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L7hwr.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L7hwr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://calvinandhobbes.wikia.com/wiki/Galaxoid&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Galaxoid and Nebular&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2ZIDI.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2ZIDI.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://calvinandhobbes.wikia.com/wiki/Blor-Utar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blor-Utar&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8l483.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8l483.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thesecondcalvinandhobbes.wikia.com/wiki/Captain_Napalm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Captain Napalm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/10tOS.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/10tOS.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://calvinandhobbes.wikia.com/wiki/X-387_Robot_Probe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;X-387 Robot Probe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/r5K5Q.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/r5K5Q.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://calvinandhobbes.wikia.com/wiki/Transmogrifier&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Transmogrifier&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VCbfz.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VCbfz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://calvinandhobbes.wikia.com/wiki/Time_Machine&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Time Machine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/U0ajs.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/U0ajs.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2017-04-06T15:05:30.847" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2017-04-05T10:00:40.213" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;My Avatar is an artwork of Wolf Link &amp;amp; Midna on a Twilight Realm backdrop from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, because I'm a massive Zelda geek and the artwork is awesome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2kFml.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2kFml.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67849" LastActivityDate="2017-04-05T10:00:40.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10797" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-04-05T16:00:43.220" Score="12" ViewCount="232" Body="&lt;p&gt;I plan to ask a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-id&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-id&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-id&lt;/a&gt; question shortly. So far I've described elements from the plot and a description of the characters but &lt;strong&gt;what should I do about spoilers?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously asking &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Space opera, floppy-haired hero fights man in black&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is a less obvious match than &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Space-opera, floppy-haired hero fights man in black &lt;strong&gt;who turns out to be his father&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But surely it has the potential to spoil the film for future viewers. What to do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2017-04-19T09:47:36.673" Title="I'm asking a Story-ID question. Should I include spoilers?" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|story-identification|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10797" CreationDate="2017-04-05T17:32:01.863" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should definitely include spoilers. The two biggest reasons that I can think of are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The spoilers or plot twists are usually very memorable if done well.&lt;/strong&gt; This means that the spoiler or plot twists are more likely to lead to a correct identification. I'm not an expert on the work you give in your example. When I read the first description It wasn't clear to me what story you were referencing. When I read the second description with the spoiler it was obvious to me what work you were referencing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZd_YyFzPD0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0VCgo.png&quot; alt=&quot;Spaceballs&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In all seriousness, to help identifying a work you really need to give all the details you can recall. Purposefully withholding information is contrary to this objective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose you could hide spoilers under spoiler markdown, but it seems to me that many people who haven't read/seen the work will look at the spoiler to see if they can help identify it. This means that people interested in the other parts of the description will end up peeking at the spoiler text, and thus spoiling a work they might want to read/see after it is identified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53771" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-04-05T19:22:20.003" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10797" CreationDate="2017-04-05T17:33:41.103" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes, include spoilers (behind spoilertags if you want).&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spoilers may be necessary in order to correctly identify a story: a particular kind of twist ending might be a story's most distinguishing characteristic. (For example, take Neil Gaiman's &lt;em&gt;American Gods&lt;/em&gt;: various elements of the story are similar to Joanne Harris's &lt;em&gt;Runemarks&lt;/em&gt; or Rick Riordan's &lt;em&gt;Percy Jackson&lt;/em&gt; series, but the ending is enough to distinguish it from these, so that's what we'd want to see in a story-ID question about it in order to narrow down the list of possibilities.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, anyone who's able to answer a story-ID question will likely have read/seen the work in question, so they won't care about spoilers. As for other people reading the Q&amp;amp;A: if they already know the work, see above; if they don't, they won't recognise it anyway and so won't be spoiled much by a full description of it. So I'm not even sure how useful spoilertags would be. Probably mainly for people who are actually &lt;em&gt;in the middle of&lt;/em&gt; the story, so they know how it starts but not how it ends - or perhaps people who get reading/watching recommendations from interesting-sounding ID questions on SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-04-05T17:33:41.103" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10770" CreationDate="2017-04-06T04:44:10.893" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say use the tag that is relevant to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: In one of first books of &quot;Sandman&quot; we have crossover with &quot;Hellblazer&quot; and &quot;JLA&quot;. So if you'd ask something like &quot;Have Endless appeared anywhere again in other comic book series&quot; you could use all three tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vertigo&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vertigo&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vertigo&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sandman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sandman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sandman&lt;/a&gt;. If you'd ask only for something related to the &quot;Sandman&quot; series itself, I'd drop the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it comes to comic-based movies, separate tag should be used only if the movie adaptation varies SIGNIFICANTLY to the original (i.e. non existing yet &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lucifer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lucifer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lucifer&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lucifer-tv-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lucifer-tv-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lucifer-tv-series&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50522" LastActivityDate="2017-04-06T04:44:10.893" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10797" CreationDate="2017-04-06T13:24:29.427" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;As others have said, do include as much information as possible, so do include it somewhere. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;But should it be in a spoiler tag?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No need if it's routine, something like &quot;hero beats baddies&quot;, not a memorable twist, like &quot;Space opera, floppy-haired hero fights man in black and &lt;em&gt;destroys planet-killing super-weapon&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. You need that info about the planet-killing super weapon somewhere prominent, and it's not a surprising twist that the hero saves the day. Even if someone reads the question thinking it's something else, the fact that in this film the good guys win is unlikely to stick in the brain and spoil anything if they do come to watch it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Do&lt;/em&gt; bother if you do remember it being a &lt;strong&gt;big, memorable&lt;/strong&gt; twist, because people will be clicking on the question who haven't yet figured out if the thing you're asking about is something they've seen or not, and these sorts of things are very hard to forget when you see them. But, give as many clues as possible &lt;em&gt;around&lt;/em&gt; the spoiler tag, about what sort of twist or surprise it is.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Space opera, floppy-haired hero fights man in black who reveals shocking secret&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I saw this in the 70s in cinemas, I've never heard anything about it since so it probably wasn't very successful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There was a space hairdresser and a cowboy. The guy has got a tinfoil pal and a pedal bin. His enemy was like a robot dressed in black. He also did something inappropriate with his sister. There's some link with Lego. Maybe they were all made of Lego.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The hairdresser kills the bad guys and finds a way to blow up a big thing of death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think there was a sequel where he fought the robot. There was a big confrontation scene with a dramatic plot twist where the robot told the hairdresser:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt; That he had been dead all along. Or maybe he was his father. One of those two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The hairdresser didn't like this news very much. Later (another sequel?) he goes to live happily ever after on a planet of teddy bears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There was also a scene where the cowboy had a shootout with an alien in a bar, but I don't remember who shot first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;With &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg-pnGFbwMQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;credit/apologies to The Thick Of It&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31938" LastEditorUserId="31938" LastEditDate="2017-04-19T09:47:36.673" LastActivityDate="2017-04-19T09:47:36.673" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10802" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10807" CreationDate="2017-04-06T17:47:36.033" Score="1" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to ask a question that involves a specific piece of technology that different sci-fi shows and movies share and how a particular aspect of the tech might work, and not necessarily as a direct comparison. I know this would generally be considered too broad, so I'd like to focus on two in particular. My question would be something like, &quot;Does A work this way? Okay, now what about B?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Would this be appropriate for a single entry, or should a separate question be asked for each one?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75000" LastActivityDate="2017-04-07T15:15:46.930" Title="Questions regarding similar things that separate universes share" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10794" CreationDate="2017-04-06T18:00:12.413" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's not a fantasy setting, it's a little boy pretending&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't &quot;pretending&quot; the literal definition of &quot;fantasy&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fantasy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Merriam-Webster&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fantasy: a creation of the imaginative faculty whether expressed or merely conceived: such as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a fanciful design or invention a fantasy of delicate tracery&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a chimerical or fantastic notion His plans are pure fantasy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;fantasia 1 the organ fantasy of Johannes Brahms&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;imaginative fiction featuring especially strange settings and grotesque characters spent the summer reading fantasy —called also fantasy fiction&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60849" LastActivityDate="2017-04-06T18:00:12.413" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10805" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10806" CreationDate="2017-04-07T10:27:00.943" Score="3" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I have been a short time as an active member, I have been reading questions and answers for several years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now as part of the community I have had some &quot;discussion&quot; with a member with much more prestige. Which has led me in some cases to take negative votes for not agreeing with another opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I the only one who believes that members who have the less time are treated worse? How do I manage these &quot;problems&quot;? I have to be always giving in to more experienced people in the forum even if they are not right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: I mean the reputation differences between accounts for eg 400 points one and the other 2000. In no case do I mean members who have 1 point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79902" LastActivityDate="2017-04-07T21:32:27.747" Title="About discussions with other more experienced users" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10805" CreationDate="2017-04-07T10:55:54.060" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't speak to how other users feel about their interaction, but to take one of your answers (the most heavily downvoted) as an example, I can see a few problems starting to occur already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/155943/how-did-voldemort-breach-the-protective-enchantments-around-nurmengard/155973#155973&quot;&gt;How did Voldemort breach the protective enchantments around Nurmengard?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your answer has a source, but that source is a fan-written wiki. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1342/primary-sources-vs-wikis&quot;&gt;It's preferred to have answers that give primary references, not secondary ones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Kabagage asked you for a citation, you told him to go check for himself (which could have come across as dismissive)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;em&gt;Do it, you an check it now in the name of Nurmengard.&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When he asked you a second time for a cite, you accused him of not having read the answer correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;You don't read well the text for similar to hogwarts not only refer the anti-apparition or you don't saw the comma?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When ibid advised you that we prefer primary sources, you replied with sarcasm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;oh yes, who reference a wiki on you can check the source, amazin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When ibid (again) tried to explain the difference between primary and secondary sources of information, you said that the question was the problem, not your answer to it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So the problem here is the question, not my explanation because actually this answer can't be response with a canon answer, no?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Downvotes then followed. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So what could have been done to improve this engagement?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You could have responded more positively to the requests for info.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You could have made the answer less definite and admitted the lack of primary sources (e.g. &quot;&lt;em&gt;The wiki says x, but without citation&lt;/em&gt;&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You could have responded less aggressively to those who were attempting to help you.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2017-04-07T21:32:27.747" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10802" CreationDate="2017-04-07T15:15:46.930" Score="3" Body="&lt;h3&gt;You should almost always limit questions to a single universe&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Since you've posted your &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/156698/31936&quot;&gt;question about both Star Wars and Star Trek&lt;/a&gt; I can explain in general terms as well as give specific reasons why questions should generally be limited to a single universe.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/tagging&quot;&gt;help center's guidance on tags&lt;/a&gt; is relevant here since each universe usually has its own tag. One of the main uses of tags is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tags are a means of connecting experts with questions they will be able to answer by sorting questions into specific, well-defined categories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This use of tags tends to break down if you ask a single question about multiple universes. For example, what if I'm an expert for one universe but not the other? That's exactly the case for me regarding the question you asked -- &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/106/star-wars?userid=31936&quot;&gt;I'm an expert in Star Wars&lt;/a&gt; but not Star Trek. If I know the answer to the Star Wars side of your combined question I can't really answer your question because it would only be a half-answer. That's not a problem if you asked two separate questions, though -- I could answer the Star Wars one and let a Star Trek expert answer the Star Trek one. While there are some users who are experts in multiple universes (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/20774/valorum?tab=badges&amp;amp;sort=class&quot;&gt;@Valorum&lt;/a&gt;, an expert in both Star Wars and Star Trek), these users are rare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags are also used to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;help you identify questions that are interesting or relevant to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if I'm interested in one of the universes but not the other? If you post a combined question about two universes then I've got to extract the information about the universe I care about from the &quot;noise&quot; regarding the universe I don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The exception to limiting a question to a single universe is when you are asking for a comparison between two universes &lt;strong&gt;using objective criteria&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/155325/which-ship-can-go-faster-the-millennium-falcon-or-the-uss-enterprise&quot;&gt;Which ship can go faster, the Millennium Falcon or the USS Enterprise?&lt;/a&gt; can be answered using objective criteria because each universe provides information on the ships' speed which can be converted to common units: the speed of light and a light year.&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question, however, asks about the capabilities/limitations of the two technologies which are fundamentally different: Star Wars' hyperdrive vs. Star Trek's warp drive. There's no benefit to combining a question about the minimum distance required by a Star Wars hyperdrive and a Star Trek warp drive because you're specifically &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; asking for a comparison between those minimum distances, just what those distances are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You seem to want to combine the two questions to reduce the number of questions you have to post. But there's no limit on the number of questions you can ask, so you might as well post two. The answers to each universe are totally separate so you don't save the answerers any work by posting one question, either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;Otherwise, the question falls into the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/08/16/gorilla-vs-shark/&quot;&gt;&quot;Gorilla vs. Shark&quot;&lt;/a&gt; problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;Fortunately, we do not have to rely on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/20359/31936&quot;&gt;Star Wars definition of a parsec&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2017-04-07T15:15:46.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10774" CreationDate="2017-04-08T01:59:44.473" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question was closed as &lt;em&gt;primarily opinion based&lt;/em&gt;. It is difficult to tell &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt;, and none of the close-voters have commented, either on the question itself, or this meta discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is my opinion that it is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; opinion-based, given the clear request for &lt;em&gt;canonical&lt;/em&gt; evidence in the actual question. I would speculate that the original voters simply made a mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless, the post has been reopened. I do not think there is more to be discussed, unless further trouble arises.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50447" LastEditorUserId="66402" LastEditDate="2017-05-08T14:23:17.897" LastActivityDate="2017-05-08T14:23:17.897" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10809" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-04-08T17:47:40.033" Score="21" ViewCount="1462" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Update&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please welcome our newest room owners: &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/users/228525/gallifreyan&quot;&gt;Gallifreyan&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/users/137186/ixrec&quot;&gt;Ixrec&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/users/55089/kutulumike&quot;&gt;KutuluMike&lt;/a&gt;! Multiple room owners have been chosen based on the close scores between the top three nominations as of 4/21/17.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are looking for a third room owner for Mos Eisley, SFF's chat room. Praxis has been insanely busy and Slytherincess has had some health stuff going on, and there have been times Mos Eisley has been a bit neglected &amp;lt; pat pat, poor boo! &gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/271267/a-guide-to-moderating-chat/271269#271269&quot;&gt;Expectations for being a room owner&lt;/a&gt; are very manageable and shouldn't take up much of an owner's time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My experience has been very positive. I've never been meant to feel unwelcome or awkward because I'm a room owner. I've not had to kick anyone from chat, although I've had to take a few comments to the trash can. Every time there has been a tense conversation going on, the instigator has eventually responded to verbal redirection and chat has been able to resume and move along without putting the room into time out. I really encourage you to nominate yourself or another chat member to be our third room owner -- c'mon!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, here is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/271267/a-guide-to-moderating-chat/271269#271269https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/271267/a-guide-to-moderating-chat/271269#271269&quot;&gt;guide to moderating chat&lt;/a&gt; that you can refer to, that outlines the duties of the chat room owner. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, you may nominate yourself.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, you may nominate another user.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are nominated by another user and are &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; interested in taking the position, simply leave a comment declining the nomination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please let the community know why you feel you would be suitable for the position. Do you have prior moderation experience? Tell us about it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are you a regular chatter?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is actually meant to be a casual election -- this is certainly not at the level of the diamond moderator. We just want to know a little about you and why you would enjoy being one of Mos Eisley's room owners. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Please nominate!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-05-01T20:11:32.003" LastActivityDate="2017-05-01T20:11:32.003" Title="Looking for a third room owner for (Mos Eisley) our chat room (Update: Found!)" Tags="|discussion|chat|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10809" CreationDate="2017-04-08T18:36:03.310" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;I nominate &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/70236/gallifreyan&quot;&gt;Gallifreyan&lt;/a&gt;. He seems pretty level-headed, is in the room regularly and I've not seen him get involved in any drama.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/70236&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/flair/70236.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gallifreyan here: I would be happy and honoured to help keep our wretched hive of scum and villainy cozy and warm! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/09se7.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;around&lt;/a&gt; almost at the same time Mos has most messages &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gzZKf.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;posted&lt;/a&gt; (I live in GMT +3), so I can &lt;a href=&quot;https://media1.giphy.com/media/f3Fq267SERQm4/giphy.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;see&lt;/a&gt; almost everything and react promptly. I don't usually post much unless asked, but I'm constantly hovering around (benefits of a laptop and university Wi-Fi). Leaving a ping will always &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/S8kTc.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;draw me out&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2017-04-12T20:15:09.713" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10809" CreationDate="2017-04-09T10:41:47.180" Score="-12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I nominate &lt;s&gt;Axelrod&lt;/s&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/users/175545/axelord&quot;&gt;Axelord&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/40790&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/flair/40790.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Level-headed&lt;/strong&gt;: check.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Active&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/198/mos-eisley?id=198&amp;amp;tab=general&amp;amp;users=frequent&quot;&gt;check&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Drama&lt;/strong&gt;: not that I've noticed during my 7 months on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Capaldi avatar&lt;/strong&gt; (in chat): check.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Liked &lt;em&gt;Ghost Love Score&lt;/em&gt; performed by Floor&lt;/strong&gt;: check.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="36115" LastEditDate="2017-04-10T04:15:41.943" LastActivityDate="2017-04-10T04:15:41.943" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2017-04-09T12:58:50.293" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;‹ Sigh ›&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I suppose you'll be wanting me to reveal my own right name too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, I guess one answer here is as good as two.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;My icon and my name both derive from the same thing.  One of them is a bad quasi-pun, and the other I've made more obvious.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kbOis.png&quot; alt=&quot;http://totalannihilation.wikia.com/wiki/The_Can&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://totalannihilation.wikia.com/wiki/Kbot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;kbot&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68218" LastActivityDate="2017-04-09T12:58:50.293" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10809" CreationDate="2017-04-10T18:04:01.547" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MissMonicaE&lt;/strong&gt; seems qualified for the criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/73099&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/flair/73099.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;active participant — visits often enough, anyways&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;intelligent&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;hasn't gotten mired in any imbroglios, nor instigated any brouhahas, of which I am aware&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;amiable demeanor but not obnoxious&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(that rules me out)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;will work to keep Mos Eisley's hallways clear of &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=36130431#36130431&quot;&gt;excessive P.D.A.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;we need more Ruritanians in public office!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68218" LastEditorUserId="68218" LastEditDate="2017-04-12T22:31:42.047" LastActivityDate="2017-04-12T22:31:42.047" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10814" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10862" CreationDate="2017-04-10T18:05:12.983" Score="14" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed that we have a tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mystery&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mystery&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mystery&lt;/a&gt;. Its tag wiki excerpt rather unhelpfully says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;a mystery is something that is difficult or impossible to understand or explain. Or a novel, play, or movie dealing with a puzzling crime, esp. a murder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;without giving any clue as to how the tag is meant to be used on this site. As for current usage, at the moment the tag appears on 20 story-ID questions and 10 others. Of those 10, some seem to have the tag just because the OP is asking about something they consider a mystery - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/40118/31394&quot;&gt;How do Horcruxes work?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/123509/31394&quot;&gt;Can someone explain the ending of &amp;quot;Enemy&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; - and some simply because they're about mystery stories, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/37760/31394&quot;&gt;Understanding the limericks in Asimov&amp;#39;s mystery story, &amp;quot;Out of Sight&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/15940/31394&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the sequence of events Milo discovers in &amp;quot;The Counterfifth Detective&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; The first of these usage types at least should be killed, otherwise &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mystery&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mystery&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mystery&lt;/a&gt; could be used on nearly every question on the site; and the second is not usually how we use genre tags here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we keep this tag? If so, how should we be using it, and what should the tag wiki say?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(Note that even getting rid of the tag entirely would require at most 10 manual edits, followed by a merge into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;. Whatever we decide, it's not going to be a huge operation to &quot;&lt;em&gt;make it so&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-04-23T22:12:03.367" LastActivityDate="2017-04-23T22:12:03.367" Title="Let's solve the [mystery]" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10816" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-04-10T22:45:51.263" Score="9" ViewCount="255" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something that I've noticed lately is the addition of the formula 'is it known ...' to a question which would otherwise be speculative and primarily opinion based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The concrete example that prompted me to write this post was the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/156960/is-it-known-who-is-the-brightest-student-in-harrys-year-after-hermione&quot;&gt;Is it known who is the brightest student in Harry&amp;#39;s year after Hermione?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(My apologies once more to the OP for using you to make my point, I don't mean to pick on you, but people like examples.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This started out life as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Who is the brightest student in Harry's year after Hermione?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which I voted to close as primarily opinion based because I don't think it's answerable. To be honest, though, it doesn't matter to me whether this question should be closed or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'm interested in is the fact that, as the close votes accumulated, the question was edited to read &quot;Is it known who &amp;amp;c.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disregarding whether or not this question is POB, I would like to invite consensus on whether or not questions which are, at their core, POB can be rendered on-topic by the simple addition of &quot;is it known ...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally (no disrespect to the OP, I don't want any of my questions closed either), I view this as an attempt to smuggle questions through customs and more about rules-lawyering than a serious attempt to improve the content on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't materially change anything about the question, the core, POB question is left wholly intact. The possible answers remain essentially the same. One either goes from saying 'there is no cannon answer' to 'no, it isn't known', both negatives being very hard to prove. Or one goes from saying 'the answer is X and here's the proof', to 'yes, it is known, it's X and here's the proof.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yet, bizarrely and simultaneously, a shift in focus is effected such that &quot;I'm not sure, but a possible candidate would be Y&quot; technically doesn't answer the yes/no &quot;is it known who ...&quot; question at all, meaning existing answers may be invalidated by this simultaneously trivial and revolutionary edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now at a glance that seems to be the system working, since unnecessary speculation is ostensibly precluded. But it's not really because you can still say &quot;no cannon answer, but a possible candidate would be Y&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More to the point, let's be honest, the only reason the question was asked, and the only reason anybody ever clicked on it in the first place was the core question. And we recognise in the POB close reason that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And those are the answers that people want to read and write, not &quot;no, it isn't known, mind you I can't actually prove that it's not known, of course.&quot; Nobody really cares whether or not it is strictly true that JKR once confirmed who the 2nd brightest kid in Harry's year was - no further details. They want to know who the 2nd brightest kid in Harry's year was!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2017-04-19T17:32:56.520" Title="Is adding 'is it known ...' to an otherwise POB question enough to make it on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10727" CreationDate="2017-04-11T03:53:18.823" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_Text_Coffee_Pot_Control_Protocol#Commands_and_replies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_Text_Coffee_Pot_Control_Protocol#Commands_and_replies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;418 I'm a teapot&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The HTCPCP server is a teapot; the resulting entity body &amp;quot;may be short and stout&amp;quot; (a reference to the song &amp;quot;I'm a Little Teapot&amp;quot;). Demonstrations of this behaviour exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Inferring from the specifications (&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2324&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;RFC 2324&lt;/a&gt;), that code should not be used for proper traffic because it doesn't actually report a status which has any cause to effectively reduce functionality:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This memo provides information for the Internet community.  It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Purportedly, some HTTP servers will use it as an “easter egg” — albeit a rather unrewarding one.  Rotten, perhaps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I expect that there is nothing you can do to remedy such a situation, excepting were you to experimentally investigate the criteria for why their server chose your connections requests at that time for that error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68218" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2021-10-07T07:34:52.683" LastActivityDate="2017-04-11T19:32:01.373" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10816" CreationDate="2017-04-11T14:37:12.050" Score="5" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Yes or maybe, but that doesn't mean we have to support any POB answers that come of it.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're a site for experts. If we want to ask experts if a certain event happened in a work, we can do that, and we do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's some questions that demonstrate this. I picked some of my own, here, to not pick on anyone else:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/114244/31178&quot;&gt;Has Superman ever said, &amp;quot;Ouch!&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; AKA is it known if he ever said that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/135285/31178&quot;&gt;Are any of the races in Star Trek Beyond seen in other shows?&lt;/a&gt; AKA is it known whether they appeared elsewhere? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/115983/31178&quot;&gt;What were the estimated sizes of the forces in Tarmon Gai&amp;#39;dan?&lt;/a&gt; AKA is it known what the sizes were? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first question there has the largest scope, all Superman appearances ever, and yet specific examples were found. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Wheel of Time question is actually the one that closely matches the Harry Potter question example. The answer is &quot;We don't definitively know, but here's our best estimates.&quot; (The difference, though, is that the books give sufficient details to make reasonable estimates). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, all of the questions &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; attract low quality, POB answers. That doesn't mean they will, or that the question is necessarily POB. It may just mean we're not having &lt;em&gt;experts&lt;/em&gt; answer, when we really do need someone more versed in the whole of the works. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And we certainly have members that are experts on works with wide amounts of material, &lt;em&gt;especially&lt;/em&gt; our top tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I think our solution is to not target the questions which, depending on whether or not others think it's interesting may get a ton of upvotes instead of close votes. Instead, we can downvote low quality or POB answers, comment on answers asking for stronger references, and protect questions that are attracting low quality or POB answers from new users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With those tools, we &lt;strong&gt;target the actual problem, the poor answers.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; is one category that's rife with questions that appear POB, but instead end up with not only definitive or well-reasoned answers but also hit Hot Network Questions. I don't think we generally have a problem with them (although I personally complain about them a lot). I know there are a lot of examples like this, but I hesitate to link to them since they're not my own (and I've found that linking to things on meta can lead to an increase of votes, up or down, on the questions themselves, and I don't want to direct downvotes on others' questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this specific question about Hermione/rank, it isn't necessarily POB to begin with. We only know Hermione is first in her class because we're explicitly told, so it's possible we're told about the next student somewhere. By comparison, this question   &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/104174/who-are-the-smartest-5-people-human-in-the-marvel-universe&quot;&gt;Who are the smartest 5 people (human) in the Marvel Universe?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;has the problem of not framing it in a way that's used explicitly or objectively in universe (note &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/104174/who-are-the-smartest-5-people-human-in-the-marvel-universe#comment242794_104180&quot;&gt;my comment&lt;/a&gt; on the answer that shows that there are objective references available, but not for the scale the OP asks for). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For that Marvel question, &quot;is it known&quot; isn't any better because it still isn't asking about a type of reference we can     be objective or expertly assumptive about. Banner is the best at Gamma radiation physics, but does that make him the smartest? Answering that is one of the issues making that question POB. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Hogwarts thing, though, still comes down to an objective measure at its heart: who do others say is the next after Hermione. &quot;Is it known&quot; is pretty much just a shorthand way of saying &quot;Do we have evidence, I don't want speculation&quot; (which should be the default case, but sometimes we need to be clear in order to guide better answers). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.747" LastActivityDate="2017-04-11T17:12:01.243" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10820" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-04-12T04:03:11.207" Score="-10" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Should we change &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/potter-verse&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;potter-verse&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;potter-verse&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reason(s) for:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I feel that doing so removes the confusion about character tags, in that we're not asking about &quot;Harry Potter&quot; the character, we're asking about the body of work or the whole fictional universe / franchise.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Looks neater&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reason(s) against:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Major restructure / effort required&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not everyone recognises &quot;potter-verse&quot; immediately&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3560/harry-potter-tag-cleanup&quot;&gt;Harry Potter tag cleanup&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-04-12T09:12:59.880" LastActivityDate="2017-04-13T06:32:41.797" Title="Should we change [harry-potter] to [potter-verse]?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10821" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10828" CreationDate="2017-04-12T10:49:34.707" Score="-9" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen many questions where a user edits the question and then answers it. Yes they may edit the phrasing or some names, but there are instances where the edit changes the meaning of the question to fit the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should people who edit a question be forbidden from answering it since they can edit it to suit their answer best? I bring this up since all people need equal chances at answering a question, not just veteran users (me not included in any of the users since I only answer/edit at leisure). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65588" LastEditorUserId="66402" LastEditDate="2017-04-14T19:25:19.473" LastActivityDate="2017-04-14T19:25:19.473" Title="Should the people be allowed to both edit and answer a question?" Tags="|discussion|answers|users|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10821" CreationDate="2017-04-12T11:00:59.210" Score="14" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Yes, they should be allowed to answer as everyone else is.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you propose seems a &lt;em&gt;highly&lt;/em&gt; detrimental solution to a problem that I'm not even sure exists to begin with. Whenever an edit significantly changes the nature of a question, &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; is the problem to be adressed, no matter &lt;em&gt;who&lt;/em&gt; made that edit or if it already has answers. But I doubt that really happens often enough to pose a significant problem. And that edit being done by the answerer in order to match the question to his answer is even rarer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stopping people from contributing because they edited is punishing them (and ultimately the site) for improving the site. This way a question &lt;em&gt;either&lt;/em&gt; receives the best answers possible &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; looks as best as it can, but not both, which is damaging the site and its content and quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, SE actually &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/137/refiner&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;encourages&lt;/em&gt; answerers to improve the questions they answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your &quot;equal chances&quot; argument (which doesn't seem related to the problem of changing questions you mentioned first) doesn't really make much sense either since you don't want to stop questions from getting the best answers they can, which is what all these sites are about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:34.260" LastActivityDate="2017-04-12T11:15:41.273" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10809" CreationDate="2017-04-12T18:52:43.393" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I nominate &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2816/kutulumike&quot;&gt;KutuluMike&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2816&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/flair/2816.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is a well-respected user and in my experience has always shown good judgment.  I am confident that he would treat others fairly along with being helpful as I have witnessed him do in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;KutuluMike is always in the chat room whenever I am around, which is on a daily basis (mostly).  He appears to be available at times when mods or other room owners are not.  I have also pinged him when he is not in the room and he becomes available very quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He has also been a member of the community for over 5 years, which makes him knowledgeable about how the chat room works as well as the sci-fi community here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52940" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2017-04-20T11:14:22.007" LastActivityDate="2017-04-20T11:14:22.007" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10820" CreationDate="2017-04-13T04:59:10.547" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Nope&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember the main purposes of tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To aid in searching, especially when the topic of a question may not be apparent from the title or body. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To create feeds for the chatroom.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To enable interested users to subscribe or block certain tags. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’m not sure this proposed tag change helps fulfill any of these purposes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think it should go without saying that replacing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;, a commonly known term for J.K. Rowling’s universe among fans and laypeople, with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/potterverse&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;potterverse&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;potterverse&lt;/a&gt;,  a much more narrowly recognized one, will make searches much more difficult. T&lt;strong&gt;hat is to say, people are almost always going to search by appending &#xA;“harry potter” to their queries, not “potterverse.”&lt;/strong&gt; The two bring up significantly different results, too: searching for “most powerful wizard allegedly harry potter” brings up our well-known question about why Dumbledore worked “at a glorified boarding school,” whereas just substituting “potterverse” brings up a bunch of listicles. We want the people searching for “harry potter” to come to our site. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There doesn’t really seem to be any problem with the current &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; feeds, which scoop up main series questions, Cursed Child questions, and Fantastic Beasts questions. That is, we’re not missing questions. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The same goes for subscriptions. Some people might want to subscribe to only main series questions, but it’s easy enough to do that simply by blocking the Cursed Child and Fantastic Beasts tags. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for potential confusion with character tags, I think this is a non-issue. I’ve never heard of someone believing that they should only use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; tag for questions about Harry himself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of course, when it comes to it looking neater, that’s something of a matter of opinion. I personally think that, given that “Harry Potter” is the generally accepted name of the universe/franchise, it looks a whole lot neater. “Potterverse” is a somewhat ad-hoc coinage, and “Wizarding World of J.K. Rowling” is a mouthful, designed for advertising, and virtually unknown. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="51379" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T05:04:44.483" LastActivityDate="2017-04-13T05:04:44.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10820" CreationDate="2017-04-13T06:32:41.797" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on our current usage, it makes sense to me to create &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/potterverse&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;potterverse&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;potterverse&lt;/a&gt; as a &lt;em&gt;synonym&lt;/em&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;. I know I personally find it easy to think of it as the Potterverse than any of the other terms, but that term shouldn't supplant what's the most widely-used way of referring to that universe (see Adamant's answer). A synonym is a good compromise, as it complements the main tag by improving searches for the tag, and also when selecting the tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0Aa9D.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0Aa9D.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The nice &quot;also: &lt;strong&gt;clark-kent&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; in this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/superman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;superman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;superman&lt;/a&gt; example shows that visually, you get a strong indicator that the synonym is how we refer to the universe &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;. So anyone accustomed to using the other term will see &quot;Ah, his name stands for the whole thing.&quot; (a scenario that'd surely make Snape sneer with disdain for Potter's ego)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If for some reason we needed a tag specifically about Harry's character (and I really believe that &lt;strong&gt;we &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;), we have the option of making a new tag, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-james-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-james-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-james-potter&lt;/a&gt; to separate him out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2017-04-13T06:32:41.797" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10816" CreationDate="2017-04-14T01:03:50.053" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off, CreationEdge's answer is great and pretty much covers most of what I wanted to say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, having seen the linked post, I'd like to provide a somewhat tangential answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that you're conflating two things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is the question's core POB?&lt;/strong&gt; (in case of the linked post, I very drastically disagree with your opinion. It wasn't POB even before the OP's edit).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does adding &quot;Is this answered in the work&quot; to &lt;strong&gt;clearly&lt;/strong&gt; POB question make it non-POB (assuming it really was POB).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer to the latter one is &quot;Yes it does, BUT the resulting question is likely a very poor question in need of improvement, even if now technically on-topic&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To understand the difference, let's look at two specific examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bad subjective&lt;/strong&gt; example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Who is the strongest in Marvel universe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly POB, because there's no objective way of judging strength given that's applicable to every strong character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it stated in Marvel comics who is the strongest in Marvel universe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;NOT&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; POB (the answer is either Yes+example; or Not known+basis for that). Some people may want to close as &quot;too broad&quot; but that's a wholly different issue from POB-ness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, given the POB issue with the core question, any &quot;yes&quot; answer given will probably be un-interesting because nobody in-universe likely thought out the correct strength measurement either, so it will be just as POB from in-universe standpoint (e.g. when Wolverine says &quot;Hulk is the strongest&quot; - Hulk isn't objectively the strongest - it's just Wolverine's opinion). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, while the question was improved to the point of not being offtopic, personally I would down-vote it for being poor quality.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/09/29/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good subjective&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Who is the smartest character in Hogwarts year&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, &lt;strong&gt;this isn't POB in the first place&lt;/strong&gt;, because there's an objective way to measure that (OWLs earned; evaluation of professionals like Professors/Headpeople; specific academic achievements). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ONLY problem this question has is that it &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; attract POB answers, as @CreationEdge's post noted; because people are liable to say &quot;well I think the Brightest is XYZ because I'm a Cedric fan&quot;. That's a problem with the answers, NOT the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, adding &quot;Is it known from canon&quot; or somesuch wording, is a &lt;strong&gt;perfect solution to the latter problem&lt;/strong&gt;. Not the problem of the question itself (which at its core isn't POB); but the problem of people mis-reading it as POB and answering as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, lo and behold, the question that birthed your Meta Post had the main hallmark of Good Subjective question: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;it generated in-depth, canon-based, great answers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2017-04-14T01:03:50.053" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10821" CreationDate="2017-04-14T03:58:31.610" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If anything — question or answer — is edited in such a way that it changes the purpose or invalidates answers present at time of edit, then it gets rolled back i.e. reverted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is unclear, and an edit focuses the question, then it is possible that it may invalidate some answers.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;How to deal with that is another concern altogether, but not a challenging one:  if the question is muddled, a good answer should anticipate that and the author be prepared to edit — or, write their answer in such a way that facilitates pruning by whoever edits the question and decides to be an especially good citizen.  Or, simply write a comment first — or even edit the question yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So long as we all each watch the other, those practices seem like they should work regardless of whoever answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68218" LastActivityDate="2017-04-14T03:58:31.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10821" CreationDate="2017-04-14T13:05:03.317" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Edit: just noticed where the link in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10822/46027&quot;&gt;TARS's answer&lt;/a&gt; points, but I think the point still bears fleshing out)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing to consider is that this behaviour is actually explicitly encouraged by stackexchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The stated purpose of the badge system is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The badge system exists for two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;to teach new users how Stack Exchange works&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;to encourage activities that are positive to the community&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/what-are-badges&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/what-are-badges&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And there are in fact a trio (gold, silver and bronze) of badges specifically awarded for this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Explainer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Edit and answer 1 question (both actions within 12 hours, answer score &gt; 0)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Refiner&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Edit and answer 50 questions (both actions within 12 hours, answer score &gt; 0)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Illuminator&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Edit and answer 500 questions (both actions within 12 hours, answer score &gt; 0) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/help/badges&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/help/badges&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now obviously there is an important stipulation in there &quot;answer score &gt; 0&quot;. You will not get badges if you don't make a positive contribution and I would anticipate that if you substantially edited a question to make it fit your answer, that edit would be rolled back by the original question author if no one else and then your answer would look bad and you will not get a positive score. But the general case of editing to clean up a question (let's say &quot;refining&quot; it) and then answering it is absolutely encouraged by the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see the kind of bad behaviour you describe in the question, I would flag it for moderator attention, giving a specific reason explaining what's happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46027" LastActivityDate="2017-04-14T13:05:03.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10809" CreationDate="2017-04-14T20:31:06.663" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I nominate nobody, since that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9674/19561&quot;&gt;tends to not turn out well&lt;/a&gt;, but &lt;strong&gt;I propose to add more than one room owner if several nominees receive more or less the same score.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-04-17T20:12:02.747" LastActivityDate="2017-04-17T20:12:02.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10809" CreationDate="2017-04-15T21:22:13.093" Score="15" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/users/137186/ixrec&quot;&gt;Ixrec&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/35327&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/flair/35327.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Solidly decent human being, a true Mos regular, and a head so level that carpenters use it as a guide when they build stuff.  During my own brief stint as temporary room owner, he was a stronger voice of reason than I could ever be.  Also, he's just a really cool guy - the bee's knees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2017-04-20T00:22:31.707" LastActivityDate="2017-04-20T00:22:31.707" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10832" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-04-16T01:32:11.260" Score="5" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;I looked through all the topic headers and searched using several different combinations of words. If this topic is already here it successfully eluded me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Due to questions about this bing duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First: the comment that started this is based on the COMPONENTS of the story, INDIVIDUALY existed at the time of writing, thus rendering the COMBINED object SCI-FACT. Regardless of the fact that the ability to combine them did not exist. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seccond: The comment points to Sci-Fi that has become obsoleted should no longer be considered Sci-Fi.  I think I have made the point that rules out a LOT of stories that people may be wanting to find that clearly, historically, were published as Sci-Fi and will NOT BE FOUND as Sci-Fact as the commenter wants them be categorized. Rhetorical Question: Shall we open a Q/A specifically for Obsoleted Sci-Fi story Identification?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third: I could not determine an answer as to what the policy is from the linked Q/A. Hence I chose to use the Help Section to point to a possible modification &quot;IF the Media Object was considered Sci-Fi at the time of Publish/Release then it is on Topic&quot;. That settles this kind of .... questioning once and for all. IF someone can prove it was Published/Released as SCI-FACT then that clearly means it is Off Topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/story-identification/info&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/story-identification/info&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use for help identifying a story and/or its creator(s), including&#xA;  novels, movies, comic books, entire TV series, etc. Use with another&#xA;  tag to specify which type of media, eg. [short-stories]. For&#xA;  identifying a single episode of a known series, whether TV, film,&#xA;  book, or comic, use [episode-identification]. When to use this tag&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use this tag if you are trying to identify a story when you cannot&#xA;  remember its name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use this tag if you know or think you know the title of a work, but&#xA;  are trying to identify the name of the author or creator&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The story must be science fiction or fantasy, or else it is off-topic.&#xA;  If you are trying to identify an episode of a TV show, or a particular&#xA;  film, book or comic that is a part of a series, use the&#xA;  episode-identification tag instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For other types of identification questions, see&#xA;  character-identification, object-identification, actor-identification,&#xA;  music-identification, and scene-identification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This tag is not appropriate for asking for recommendations. There&#xA;  should be exactly one correct answer—when someone does suggest the&#xA;  correct answer, please accept it, so that everyone else knows that&#xA;  there is no point making any other suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is the part that is in question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The story must be science fiction or fantasy, or else it is off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The question is:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is obsoleted Science Fiction, as defined when it was published, off topic in this Q/A.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/157313/trying-to-identify-50s-60s-story-about-nuclear-weapons-delivered-to-us-cities-by&quot;&gt;Trying to identify 50s/60s story about nuclear weapons delivered to US cities by truck&lt;/a&gt; recieved a comment &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Where's the link to Sci-Fi or fantasy? Nuclear weapons &amp;amp; trucks are&#xA;  both Sci-Reality”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably the commenter placed the reality of Nuclear weapons AND the reality of trucks together and came up with the question to the questioner “Where's the link to Sci-Fi or fantasy?”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used this extract as an example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am looking for a story written in the late 1800’s. I seem to&#xA;  remember this “During the year 1866, ships of several nations spot a&#xA;  mysterious sea monster, which some suggest to be a giant narwhal. The&#xA;  United States government assembles an expedition in New York City to&#xA;  find and destroy the monster. A French marine biologist and narrator&#xA;  of the story, who happens to be in New York at the time, receives a&#xA;  last-minute invitation to join the expedition which he accepts.”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story is Jules Verne's &quot;Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea&quot;. I could just as easily have used War of the Worlds, the Book, the Movie, the Radio Broadcast. We now know Mars does not have any life that we have detected etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shall we indeed consider all these things not suitable for this Q/A because time has passed them by?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IF SO, then shouldn’t we inform those that have questions that IF the story they read and are looking for, that was in fact Science Fiction/Fantasy at the time it was published &lt;strong&gt;will no longer be on topic IF the individual components are now reality&lt;/strong&gt;.  I DELIBERATELY worded that assertion as that is what the commenter apparently thought is the determining characteristics for what is on Topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly there has NOT been any PUBLISHED or made PUBLICLY AWARE incident where someone placed a Nuclear Weapon in a TRUCK and detonated it in a city.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those that think the ability to deliver a nuclear weapon to a foreign country, place it on a truck, drive it to its target and detonate it in the 50’s or even the 60’s then you have a different understanding of the Technological Capabilities of the World's Countries than I do of that time. I am confident that IF I new this publication’s name, I would find it classified as Science Fiction at the time it was published.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would HOPE we can avoid attempting to NOT ANSWER the core issue (I read an 1800's sci-fi book that had ....) Said more simply, it is was published as SCI-FI and someone is looking for it here we should not treat it as off topic. I would think that is why this Q/A is here to assist people to find the titles to SCI-FI media they remember and want to experience again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78451" LastEditorUserId="78451" LastEditDate="2017-04-16T15:40:55.963" LastActivityDate="2017-04-16T15:40:55.963" Title="Is obsoleted published Science Fiction off topic" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="9" ClosedDate="2017-04-17T14:40:17.313" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10833" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10834" CreationDate="2017-04-16T10:09:35.487" Score="4" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/157362/how-does-salazar-slytherin-speak-parseltongue&quot;&gt;How does Salazar Slytherin speak Parseltongue? [duplicate]&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the comments Valorum, who closed the question, states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FDZty.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FDZty.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, Valorum states that no one predates Salazar Slytherin, but: the answer to the linked question, which mind you I linked states that &quot;Herpo the Foul&quot; predates Salazar Slytherin. &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CNYuZ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CNYuZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &quot;Herpo The Foul&quot; obviously predates Salazar Slytherin which is the reason for the close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how is this a duplicate. Since I researched this and even linked the question being stated as the duplicate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-04-16T10:37:53.453" LastActivityDate="2017-04-16T12:54:11.657" Title="Why is the question about Slytherin speaking Parseltongue closed?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10833" CreationDate="2017-04-16T10:58:01.703" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/54283/31394&quot;&gt;old question&lt;/a&gt; asks &lt;strong&gt;whether Slytherin was the first Parselmouth&lt;/strong&gt;, to which the answer is &lt;strong&gt;no, because Herpo the Foul predated him&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/157362/31394&quot;&gt;new question&lt;/a&gt; asks &lt;strong&gt;how Slytherin came to be a Parselmouth&lt;/strong&gt;, which is not covered by either the question of whether he was the first or the answer that he wasn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not a duplicate. I've reopened your question. Thanks for bringing it up here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-04-16T10:58:01.703" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10833" CreationDate="2017-04-16T12:54:11.657" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The issue here is that the answer to the duplicate does mention a Parselmouth that predates Salazar Slytherin. Where it leaves some wiggle room for a fresh question is that it doesn't make it &lt;em&gt;explicitly&lt;/em&gt; clear that he's the &lt;strong&gt;only Parseltongue mentioned in any level of canon that predated Salazar.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of mod-hammering this question back open, it would have been far more sensible to simply add that fact as a microscopic (three or four word) edit to the duplicate which already talks about Herpo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, linking to another question doesn't stop it from being a duplicate :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2017-04-16T12:54:11.657" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10779" CreationDate="2017-04-16T14:45:16.410" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Terminator Movie Night was a success. We had a good number of participants (7) as well as a slightly higher number of lurkers (8).&lt;/strong&gt; On the downside, despite the &quot;&lt;em&gt;Ladies Night&lt;/em&gt;&quot; motif we only had one female &lt;em&gt;active&lt;/em&gt; participant and a couple of female lurkers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MissMoniceE (who proposed the film) was unable to attend due to schedulding conflicts but will get first pick of the theme for the next Movie Night as compensation. Go pester her in chat if there's a genre you're especially interested in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a related note, the video-room (provided by Watch2Gether.com) was useful. At one point we had seven people viewing the site at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Groan-worthiest comment goes to &lt;em&gt;me&lt;/em&gt; for&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Valorum:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;I'm going to make myself a drink but&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'LL BE BACK&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Funniest comment goes to&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CandiedMango:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&quot;I'm pretty sure Sarah looks exactly like @steelersquirrel&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kyle Jones:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Can you really get your hair like that after a shower without Expensive Hair Care Products?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/25oEa.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/25oEa.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The winner of the &quot;Captain Obvious&quot; award (for stating the bleeding obvious) goes to&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ixrec:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;the iguana never contributes to the plot in this series&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And a special mention to JoleneAlaska for getting overexcited&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jolenealaska:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Run sarah!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2017-04-16T15:47:27.103" LastActivityDate="2017-04-16T15:47:27.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2017-04-17T12:21:03.880" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;My handle is Pleurocoelus. A pleurocoelus (also called &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrodon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;astrodon&lt;/a&gt;) is a dinosaur related to the brachiosaurus.&#xA;My avatar is a picture of one with slightly modified lyrics from &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_the_Dinosaur&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Walk the Dinosaur&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Was_(Not_Was)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Was (Not Was)&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Open the Door. Get on the floor. Everybody walk the dinosaur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yyMkX.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yyMkX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no real meaning to my handle. It was an obscure dinosaur and I wanted a handle that wasn't popularthing1234. What can I say, dinosaurs are cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21368" LastActivityDate="2017-04-17T12:21:03.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10838" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10841" CreationDate="2017-04-19T05:53:45.053" Score="5" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to setup automatic notifications when someone answers a question on questions or answers that you have &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;voted&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; on in the past? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, I want to see what answers come up in the future on answers or questions I voted on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2017-04-19T20:38:05.730" LastActivityDate="2017-04-19T20:48:13.487" Title="Notifications on past voted questions/answers?" Tags="|feature-request|notifications|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10838" CreationDate="2017-04-19T17:22:32.517" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Nope.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't possible with current SE functionality. Related feature requests on main meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/1751/278659&quot;&gt;Allow an edit to notify downvoters: &amp;quot;I think I&amp;#39;ve fixed the issue now - please check&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; from 2009 - marked &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/135626/278659&quot;&gt;Should you be notified if something you vote on is edited? Why can you change your vote after something&amp;#39;s been edited?&lt;/a&gt; from 2012 - slightly more general, still never implemented;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/45360/278659&quot;&gt;Subscribing to questions and comments that don&amp;#39;t belong to you&lt;/a&gt; from 2010 - this &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; actually implemented for a while, but then pulled in 2012 (see the answers);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/83343/278659&quot;&gt;Adding Favorites to the Stack Exchange global inbox&lt;/a&gt; from 2011 - a proposal from an SE employee, and probably currently your best hope of getting anything like this implemented.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-04-19T17:22:32.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10816" CreationDate="2017-04-19T17:32:56.520" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had something along these lines on SO today&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it right to do [coding thing]?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In his case, a quick edit made it on-topic&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it &lt;em&gt;secure&lt;/em&gt; to do [coding thing]?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason why is that &lt;code&gt;Is it right?&lt;/code&gt; is purely opinion and the problem with POB is that it promotes &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTJmVyk9Aa4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;chit-chat&lt;/a&gt; because everyone has an opinion. You can't argue with secure. Either it is, or it isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the example here, the change was from&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Who is the next smartest?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it known who is the next smartest?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The latter kinda works because there's an &lt;em&gt;implicit fact&lt;/em&gt; in the question now&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Who does JK Rowling think is the next smartest?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can make your own case all you want about whom you think that person is, but you can't change whom Rowling herself thinks it is. Asking for the author/writer's opinion is entirely on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastActivityDate="2017-04-19T17:32:56.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10838" CreationDate="2017-04-19T19:57:08.627" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not possible using the functionality provided by SE. The best you can do is manually check the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/114274/299342&quot;&gt;favorites tab in your profile&lt;/a&gt; to check if any of your favorite questions have received new answers since you last visited the tab. I agree that it would be nice to receive a notification in my inbox when certain questions receive a new answer or a post is edited, though I would want this to be an opt-in feature (on a per post basis) so that I don't receive too many notifications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although this feature is not provided by SE, you may be interested in a feature provided by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/q/6091/39698&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Extras (SOX) userscript&lt;/a&gt;; one of &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/soscripted/sox/wiki/Features&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;its features&lt;/a&gt; allows you to mark a post so that you are notified when it is edited. The feature was inspired by the MSE post &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/165962/299342&quot;&gt;Allow me to get notifications on specific down-voted questions&lt;/a&gt;, though it's not limited to questions that were downvoted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You don't actually have to use this in conjunction with downvotes -- use it as an alternative 'favourite' feature for notifications on any edits&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/276840/299342&quot;&gt;ᔕᖺᘎᕊ's answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2017-04-19T20:48:13.487" LastActivityDate="2017-04-19T20:48:13.487" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10842" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10845" CreationDate="2017-04-20T03:33:43.013" Score="14" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/157633/why-did-riddick-save-the-pup&quot;&gt;Why did Riddick save the pup?&lt;/a&gt; was tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/riddick&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;riddick&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;riddick&lt;/a&gt;, but this seems to violate the general SFF taxonomy. The full series is called &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Riddick_(franchise)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Chronicles of Riddick&lt;/a&gt;, which is also (confusingly) the title of the second film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose making &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/riddick&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;riddick&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;riddick&lt;/a&gt; (2) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pitch-black&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pitch-black&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pitch-black&lt;/a&gt; (1) synonyms of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-chronicles-of-riddick&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-chronicles-of-riddick&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-chronicles-of-riddick&lt;/a&gt; and editing the tag to indicate that this one tag covers the entire series. Burninating the tags wouldn't stop people from creating them in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastEditorUserId="2865" LastEditDate="2017-04-21T22:54:11.060" LastActivityDate="2017-04-28T00:31:35.820" Title="The chronicles of [riddick]" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10809" CreationDate="2017-04-20T06:58:57.623" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I nominate &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/20774/valorum&quot;&gt;Valorum&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because no one can understand a crime better than a criminal himself (inspiration: When cyber laws first came into existence, governments hired cyber criminals themselves to enforce the laws) and everyone can agree that he is hyper active in chat and has proper manner to initiate a conversation and can understand what's going on with clarity. Giving him power can make him responsible for not to be part of crime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I vote for a confidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT (by @Valorum) - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thank ILoveYou for his nomination, but &lt;strong&gt;I decline&lt;/strong&gt;. Given my somewhat fraught relationship with the 'powers that be', I'm more interested in keeping under their radar for the next year or two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="931" LastEditDate="2017-04-20T10:13:05.967" LastActivityDate="2017-04-20T10:13:05.967" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10809" CreationDate="2017-04-20T09:02:01.157" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I nominate &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/57310/skooba&quot;&gt;Skooba&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/57310&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/flair/57310.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very level headed and is a great mediator. I can't count how many times his was the voice of reason when I was active in the chat room. I think he would make a very good room owner for sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I can see Skooba is very active in chat and is well respected by other users. I hope Skooba does not mind me nominating him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit by @Skooba&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would gladly accept the nomination to be considered as Room Owner. I have been active on Stack Exchange for about a year and a half now, and started my chatting activities a few months into that. I was instantly welcomed by the Mos regulars and quickly became one myself. I was also made the de facto Room Owner of the Game of Thrones Chat room (now known as the Quill and Tankard). It is not a very active room outside of when new GoT seasons are released, but there are a few of us who enjoy it year round. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am located in UTC -5:00 (Eastern United States) and generally active during 7:00am to 5:00pm (UTC 12:00 to 22:00), Monday through Saturday. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I enjoy long walks off of short piers, Harry Potter, yelling obscenities in the rain, Game of Thrones, and scuba diving in my underwear. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Also, if there is any avatar confusion going with certain &lt;em&gt;other members&lt;/em&gt; in chat, please see this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9763/57310&quot;&gt;meta post&lt;/a&gt;....&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="65457" LastEditDate="2017-04-20T12:36:56.830" LastActivityDate="2017-04-20T12:36:56.830" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10842" CreationDate="2017-04-20T20:06:36.857" Score="6" Body="&lt;h1&gt;No, let's not violate our conventions.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Individual works, unless they're highly integrated such as trilogy or larger works such as &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7924/31178&quot;&gt;get their own tags&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The proper convention for this be to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;retag the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/riddick&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;riddick&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;riddick&lt;/a&gt; question as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/riddick-2013&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;riddick-2013&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;riddick-2013&lt;/a&gt; for clarity&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;create a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/riddick-franchise&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;riddick-franchise&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;riddick-franchise&lt;/a&gt; tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;change &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/157579/what-is-riddicks-middle-name&quot;&gt;What is Riddick&amp;#39;s middle name?&lt;/a&gt; to only have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/riddick-franchise&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;riddick-franchise&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;riddick-franchise&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;slowly over time add &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/riddick-franchise&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;riddick-franchise&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;riddick-franchise&lt;/a&gt; to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-chronicles-of-riddick&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-chronicles-of-riddick&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-chronicles-of-riddick&lt;/a&gt; questions (those 14 questions could be reasonably handled in 2-3 days)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Chronicles of Riddick&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; the name of the franchise as a whole, but so is &lt;em&gt;Riddick&lt;/em&gt;. Since both of these also happen to be names of individual works within the franchise, we add &lt;code&gt;-franchise&lt;/code&gt; suffix to remove confusion. We've used that suffix before and it works fine, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alien-franchise&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alien-franchise&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alien-franchise&lt;/a&gt; (although &lt;code&gt;-trilogy&lt;/code&gt; is more common, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nolan-batman-trilogy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;nolan-batman-trilogy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;nolan-batman-trilogy&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-04-28T00:31:35.820" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10846" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10856" CreationDate="2017-04-20T23:50:24.063" Score="13" ViewCount="425" Body="&lt;p&gt;After an extensive search for the site's favourite TNG episode, the single highest voted episode was ThunderForge's suggestion, &quot;&lt;strong&gt;The Inner Light&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'll watch together in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley chatroom&lt;/a&gt; on 29th April @ 10pm UTC (11pm BST/ 6pm EDT) and a copy of the show will be hosted on our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.watch2gether.com/rooms/upo44f3td920r476eb&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;shared video room&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for those who don't have access to the episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nHNihm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nHNihm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;FAQ&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7431/what-is-a-movie-night-really&quot;&gt;Q. What is a &lt;s&gt;movie&lt;/s&gt; TV night?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;A.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Great fun(!)&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;How do I nominate an episode?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;A.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;By posting an answer below.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;What if I don't have access to a copy of the winning episode?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;A.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;We'll (try to) host a copy in our shared &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.watch2gether.com/rooms/upo44f3td920r476eb&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;watch2gether video room&lt;/a&gt;. All you need to do is click the link.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;What if I hate Star Trek and want to watch Futurama instead?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;A.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Then start your own TV club. With hookers and blackjack.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2021-04-11T05:09:38.087" LastActivityDate="2021-04-11T05:09:38.087" Title="Trektacular TV Night &quot;The Inner Light&quot; - 29/4/17 @ 10pm UTC (6pm EDT)" Tags="|discussion|movie-night|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10846" CreationDate="2017-04-20T23:59:13.837" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I nominate &lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Starship_Mine_(episode)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TNG: Starship Mine&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; from season 6. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not perhaps the most obvious choice (not as flashy as &lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Q_Who_(episode)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Q Who&lt;/a&gt; or as &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGGEymAXD7s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;acting&lt;/a&gt;&quot; as &lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Chain_of_Command,_Part_II_(episode)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chain of Command, Pt II&lt;/a&gt;) but a really fun episode that everyone can enjoy. Picard gets to play the action hero for a change and there's an amusing B-plot with Data learning how to be &lt;em&gt;even more insufferable than normal.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/phNdgm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/phNdgm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HWMHpm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HWMHpm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-01-07T00:42:01.647" LastActivityDate="2017-04-20T23:59:13.837" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10846" CreationDate="2017-04-21T00:12:26.577" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I nominate &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_of_Both_Worlds_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Best of Both Worlds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Is there a more obvious pick?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hailed as perhaps the greatest Star Trek episode of all time, this two-parter (consisting of the last episode of Season 3 and the first of Season 4) contains a jaw-dropping cliffhanger in the middle that left fans gasping for months. It features one of the best Star Trek villains, the Borg, and subjects the crew of the Enterprise and Starfleet at large to one of the greatest threats they've ever faced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first episode won Emmy Awards for &amp;quot;Outstanding Art Direction for a Series&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The storyline appeared in TV Guide's &amp;quot;100 Most Memorable Moments in TV History&amp;quot; (July 1, 1996), ranked number 50. The episode was also ranked #70 on the 100 Greatest TV Episodes of All Time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 2008, Empire magazine rated Star Trek: The Next Generation 37th on their list of &amp;quot;The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time&amp;quot; and cited &amp;quot;The Best of Both Worlds, Part II&amp;quot; as the show's best episode. The episode was ranked #36 on TV Guide's list of &amp;quot;TV's Top 100 Episodes of All Time&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;-- &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_of_Both_Worlds_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)#Reception&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, for goodness's sake, you've even included a gif from it in your question! Clearly, you've been subconsciously influencing people towards this choice from the beginning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ry709m.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ry709m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Picard grabbed&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AQ8Kbm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AQ8Kbm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Locutus of Borg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-04-21T00:12:26.577" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10846" CreationDate="2017-04-21T00:16:31.633" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obvious nomination: &lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Darmok_(episode)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Darmok&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vKw31.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Darmok2&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has suspense. It has intrigue. It has Data's new quarters after they destroyed his old quarters filming the Star Trek VI special edition commentary. It has an unnecessarily nerdy premise, and &lt;em&gt;it shows Picard's strength as a captain who is different from Kirk&lt;/em&gt;. At a time when the Kirk vs Picard war was raging, this episode &lt;em&gt;showed&lt;/em&gt; disparate races working together for a common good, rather than self-righteously &lt;em&gt;telling&lt;/em&gt; others to do so while kicking faces in, and stressed the pacifistic ideals of the next generation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OriJ5.png&quot; alt=&quot;Darmok&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user40790" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-01-07T00:42:01.647" LastActivityDate="2017-04-21T00:16:31.633" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10846" CreationDate="2017-04-21T00:20:44.567" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I vote for &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Phantasms_(episode)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Phantasms&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. It's always been one of my favorites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mostly because it centers around Data, who is exploring a dream program... and Deanna Troi spends a chunk of the episode as a cake:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZDVkD.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZDVkD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Diana Troi cake&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, while this one doesn't necessarily have the social message of many episodes, it's funny to see the random odd situations Patrick Stewart (who directed the episode) had to direct his crew in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41668" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-01-07T00:42:01.647" LastActivityDate="2017-04-21T00:21:50.517" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10851" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10852" CreationDate="2017-04-21T07:10:24.357" Score="9" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;Browsing through &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lucifer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lucifer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lucifer&lt;/a&gt; questions, I noticed two things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Majority is about the character who debuted in &lt;em&gt;The Sandman&lt;/em&gt;, or Mike Carey's &lt;em&gt;Lucifer&lt;/em&gt; series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;That's not what the tag guidance says. To quote,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lucifer was a fallen angel in Christian mythology and commonly associated as Satan. The name Lucifer is used in several works for characters that are powerful and evil, usually with some kind of fall from grace in their background. Of note is the DC Comics character from Sandman, whose depiction draws heavily from Milton's Paradise Lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears that the tag was intended to be about all portrayals of Lucifer in all works; but it happened that the most popular one seemed to be the Vertigo character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same goes for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sandman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sandman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sandman&lt;/a&gt;. Usage guidance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Sandman is a folklore character who brings sleep and dreams. He is in particular the titular character of a series of comic books by Neil Gaiman, where he is also known as Dream or Morpheus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Sandman is a figure of European folklore, who brings good dreams by sprinkling sand onto the eyes of children. This tag applies to any incarnation of the folklore figure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An important incarnation is the titular character (also known as Dream or Morpheus) of neil-gaiman's series of graphic novels The Sandman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Effectively, those two tags are now &lt;em&gt;character&lt;/em&gt;, rather than &lt;em&gt;franchise&lt;/em&gt;, or series tags. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6840/70236&quot;&gt;We don't want character tags&lt;/a&gt; to breed. &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=36815898#36815898&quot;&gt;We don't always adhere&lt;/a&gt; to that policy, but I think it's a good one in this case:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;So far it seems that questions about those characters have been limited to their portrayals in Vertigo comics, with no exceptions for Sandman, and 3 exceptions for Lucifer (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/134245/why-didnt-lucifer-bring-back-ruby&quot;&gt;Supernatural&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/128553/effect-of-angels-amputating-wings&quot;&gt;closed as too broad&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/108349/name-of-story-about-jehovah-and-satan-making-stable-reality-out-of-chaos&quot;&gt;story identification&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re-defining those tags to be specifically about the respective Vertigo series would prevent possible confusions, and bring those tags closer to our established policy (i.e. no character tags for less popular characters), the purpose of the tagging system (tags should aid search process; tags should reflect what the question is &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt;, not what it mentions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sandman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sandman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sandman&lt;/a&gt;, I propose we rename it to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-sandman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-sandman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-sandman&lt;/a&gt;, specify in the guidance that it is about the Vertigo comic series (and maybe say that it should be used with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vertigo-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vertigo-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vertigo-comics&lt;/a&gt;, if &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10800/70236&quot;&gt;this proposal&lt;/a&gt; gets enough votes. E.g.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be used for the dark fantasy comic series written by Neil Gaiman, as well as its spin-offs. Use with [comics] and [vertigo-comics] tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I could then write a nice wiki for the tag, with fancy pictures and quotes&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lucifer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lucifer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lucifer&lt;/a&gt;, I propose we state clearly that it is for the Vertigo series written by Mike Carey, and the new 2016 &lt;em&gt;Lucifer&lt;/em&gt; series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The total number of retags then amounts to 3: simply purge it from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/134245/why-didnt-lucifer-bring-back-ruby&quot;&gt;those&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/128553/effect-of-angels-amputating-wings&quot;&gt;three&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/108349/name-of-story-about-jehovah-and-satan-making-stable-reality-out-of-chaos&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt;. Supernatural's Lucifer can live without own tag; Biblical Lucifer... well, we don't have enough questions about that for him to have a say in this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-05-01T07:45:33.330" Title="Motion to re-define the [lucifer] and [sandman] tags!" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10851" CreationDate="2017-04-21T16:22:42.860" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lucifer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lucifer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lucifer&lt;/a&gt; should be restored to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/128572/revisions&quot;&gt;amaranth/Molag Bal's original wiki excerpt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For questions about the DC Comics character Lucifer, the comic book series about him, and the TV series which is based on the comic book series. The character first appeared in The Sandman and then in his own comic book series; both series were published under the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics. The TV series premiered on Fox in 2016.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With a little tweak to specify it's about the Lucifer franchise, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our current arrangement for character tags as such is that the first/most popular version of the character (as measured by our use on SFF, not anywhere else) gets the plain tag. If &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; versions exist, or there's room for confusion, we use prefixes and suffixes to clear things up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specific examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/thor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;thor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;thor&lt;/a&gt; is separate from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/thor-mythology&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;thor-mythology&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;thor-mythology&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/thor-stargate&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;thor-stargate&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;thor-stargate&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;See the description:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For questions about the Marvel character Thor and the related franchise. For other usages, use specific tags such as thor-mythology or thor-stargate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-data&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-data&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-data&lt;/a&gt; to clarify it's Data we're talking about, as &lt;code&gt;data&lt;/code&gt; alone is too unclear&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/loki&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;loki&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;loki&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/odin&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;odin&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;odin&lt;/a&gt; are both the Marvel characters&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a Lucifer tag was ever needed for Christian depiction, we should use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lucifer-religion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lucifer-religion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lucifer-religion&lt;/a&gt; or something similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar guidance goes for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sandman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sandman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sandman&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no reason either &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lucifer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lucifer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lucifer&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sandman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sandman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sandman&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;can't&lt;/em&gt; be franchise tags, as both are franchises. They're, IMO, much less character tags, especially now that &lt;em&gt;Lucifer&lt;/em&gt; is a TV show (and should get its own &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lucifer-2016&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lucifer-2016&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lucifer-2016&lt;/a&gt; tag where necessary)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2017-05-01T07:45:33.330" LastActivityDate="2017-05-01T07:45:33.330" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10853" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-04-22T08:09:16.773" Score="4" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering about all those questions about world building in here, that would be better off in Worldbuilding. Why do people come here posting those instead of going to Worldbuilding directly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then, quite by accident, I noticed something in the list of sites below. Down there ↓.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The list is divided into several categories, &lt;em&gt;Technology&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Life / Arts&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Culture / Recreation&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Science&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Other&lt;/em&gt;. And we are under &lt;em&gt;Life / Arts&lt;/em&gt;, where you can find sites for gardeners, artists and crafters, musicians, photographers, writers etc. Worldbuilding is in the same category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So maybe those people coming here are confused? Do they think this is a site for scifi writers?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;My take is that this site would be better off in the category &lt;em&gt;Culture / Recreation&lt;/em&gt;, which has sites about mythology, anime &amp;amp; manga, chess, role playing games etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4495" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-04-22T10:36:26.360" LastActivityDate="2017-04-22T10:36:26.360" Title="Should this site be under &quot;Culture / Recreation&quot; rather than &quot;Life / Arts&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10853" CreationDate="2017-04-22T10:25:58.783" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't a feature that can be implemented via a decision here. You'll need to raise it on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;main meta site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, I think that this is an irrelevance. These sorts of low quality worldbuilding questions are generally a result of people &lt;strong&gt;not reading the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;tour&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; before they decide to post their off-topic questions on our site&lt;/strong&gt; rather than a misunderstanding caused by the header over a gateway that almost no-one uses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-04-22T10:34:48.307" LastActivityDate="2017-04-22T10:34:48.307" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10855" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-04-22T18:51:27.530" Score="9" ViewCount="247" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/157665/33591&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; was posted as an answer to the question &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/157643/33591&quot;&gt;How many children in Harry's year die?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. This is the text of the answer (spoilered because spoilers):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lavender Brown most probably didn't actually die because Fenrir Greyback had only turned her a werewolf because he is one. So technically, Lavender Brown didn't die, she only got turned into a werewolf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer gives an example of someone who &lt;em&gt;doesn't&lt;/em&gt; die, while the question asks for a list of who &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; die. It looks like it was meant as a comment on the previous answer, which mentions the possibility that she died.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet when I flagged the answer as 'not an answer', it was declined:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;declined - It's a partial answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So... can someone please explain how this answers the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2017-05-03T17:07:04.490" Title="How does this answer about L. B. and werewolves in Harry Potter answer the question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10846" CreationDate="2017-04-23T04:20:28.487" Score="14" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I nominate &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inner_Light_%28Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Inner Light&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;It's Patrick Stewart's favorite episode&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And really, can you in good conscience not vote for his favorite episode?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My favorite episode is &amp;quot;Inner Light.&amp;quot; It was a beautiful script, which for me was almost entirely located away from the Enterprise—and it's crew! And because I was given the chance to perform what Picard would have been like if his life experience had been different. But another important reason is that I had a son in that episode who was played by my son, Daniel Stewart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;– &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3hq15d/i_am_actor_patrick_stewart_of_yorkshire_xmen_star/cu9isi9/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Reddit Ask Me Anything with Patrick Stewart&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;It won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And was the first TV episode to do so in 25 years, since &lt;em&gt;The Original Series&lt;/em&gt; episode &amp;quot;The City on the Edge of Forever&amp;quot;, widely considered the best episode of that series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;It's self-contained and does not really require previous knowledge of &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus it should be accessible to new viewers who have never watched the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;It had that awesome flute song&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Someone is always cutting onions in the next room when I listen to it!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/IjCxl9JL6Ug?start=105&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/k4fg3m.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/k4fg3m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Picard with his family - Inner Light&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/g5568m.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/g5568m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Old Picard - Inner Light&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This episode was also nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Makeup for a Series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13217" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-04-25T20:04:42.860" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10851" CreationDate="2017-04-23T10:37:16.833" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I propose the use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-sandman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-sandman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-sandman&lt;/a&gt; for Neil Gaiman's series, keeping &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sandman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sandman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sandman&lt;/a&gt; for other uses &amp;mdash; either the Marvel villain or the mythological character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lucifer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lucifer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lucifer&lt;/a&gt; for the spin-off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2017-04-23T10:37:16.833" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10858" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-04-23T12:30:06.930" Score="1" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question was originally closed as &quot;Not Constructive&quot;, reopened, then closed again as &quot;Opinion-based&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/23283/did-spock-warn-of-disasters-in-the-new-star-trek-universe&quot;&gt;Did Spock warn of disasters in the new Star Trek universe?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that it's unlikely that we'll see OldSpock in any future films, I've edited the question to reflect that any answers can be addressed to the three 'reboot' films (as well as any comics/additional materials that have been spawned alongside).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can we please now reopen it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2017-04-23T12:30:06.930" Title="Can we please reopen this question about NuSpock?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10859" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10860" CreationDate="2017-04-23T15:28:49.713" Score="16" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was thinking of posting a &quot;story identification&quot; question regarding a series I use to read as a child. I do not think any book continued from the other, but there was a constant theme of a space explorer of some sort crash landing on an alien planet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing is, there was very little in regards to story. They were puzzle books. I can remember enough about the series to post an on-topic identification question (in theory) - but I was wondering how everyone would feel, given the fact that these books were primarily puzzle books, and not written literature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use to read these books as a child, and I would greatly appreciate being able to find them again. If such a question &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; be off-topic, how could I tailor it to &lt;em&gt;be&lt;/em&gt; on-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50447" LastActivityDate="2017-04-23T15:53:43.393" Title="Can I ask about identifying a sci-fi puzzle book?" Tags="|discussion|scope|story-identification|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10859" CreationDate="2017-04-23T15:41:21.390" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as there was a consistent science fiction theme throughout, these books would be perfectly well on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've had other questions about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/47639/sci-fi-quest-adventure-book-where-progress-was-determined-through-clues-keys-in&quot;&gt;puzzle books&lt;/a&gt; (typically of the CYOA variety) as well as scifi &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/49053/books-describing-different-kinds-of-spaceships&quot;&gt;artbooks&lt;/a&gt; and the community seems broadly happy with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-04-23T15:53:43.393" LastActivityDate="2017-04-23T15:53:43.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10814" CreationDate="2017-04-23T22:10:46.400" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Judging from the voting on comments and the now-deleted answer here, people seem to be generally against the existence of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mystery&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mystery&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mystery&lt;/a&gt; tag. I've gone ahead and burninated it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned above, its use on &lt;em&gt;any question about something the OP considers a mystery&lt;/em&gt; is completely awful: by that standard, the tag could be used on pretty much every question on the site. Its use on story-ID questions could arguably be OK - we use other genre tags that way all the time - but the fact that the tag has been used so inappropriately so much suggests that if we keep it around, it'll just continue being used inappropriately. So:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zm85C.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zm85C.png&quot; alt=&quot;BURNINATED!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-04-23T22:10:46.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10770" CreationDate="2017-04-24T06:44:48.477" Score="-3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Both&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Vertigo is property of DC, a guy following DC can find dedicated Vertigo questions useful. This is actually a scenario when hierarchical tag structure can be useful, but otherwise we can make use of both tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can be thumbs down point against using both tags anyway...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2017-04-24T06:44:48.477" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10846" CreationDate="2017-04-24T12:19:53.750" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I nominate &lt;strong&gt;Yesterday's Enterprise&lt;/strong&gt; from Series 3, ep 15.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A great episode where a rip in spacetime causes the crew of the Enterprise to encounter Enterprise-C.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It tells the story of what would happen had a key historical event not kept the peace between Federation and the Klingon Empire. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, Picard would be in charge of a militarised version of the Enterprise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RnO0Q.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RnO0Q.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another vessel, the Enterprise-D, teams up with the Enterprise-C, whose crew decides to return to their own time to sacrifice their lives to defend a Klingon outpost. In this alternative timeline,  Tasha Yar is alive and goes with them ... and later we learn a great plot point concerning her....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eT21G.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eT21G.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user60893" LastActivityDate="2017-04-24T12:19:53.750" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10846" CreationDate="2017-04-25T08:04:14.807" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I nominate the thrilling season two climax, &lt;strong&gt;Shades of Gray&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BFUbf.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BFUbf.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Riker lies on a bed in sickbay with four large needles inserted in his head, but at least he doesn't have to watch Shades of Gray.&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there’s one thing better than watching a &lt;em&gt;Next Generation&lt;/em&gt; episode, it’s watching lots of little bits of various &lt;em&gt;Next Generation&lt;/em&gt; episodes interspersed with shots of Doctor Pulaski looking mildly concerned, and Counsellor Troi vaguely describing the tone of the clips we just saw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nowadays, heartless profit-driven media empires leave the unwashed peasant audience (us) to toil away in the YouTube mines putting together quality video mashup content like this. Let’s remind ourselves of those golden years when television production companies would, on one very special budget-conscious night every couple of years, do it for us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The episode’s director, Rob Bowman, thought the episode could be shot in five days, but it actually only took three. This is a Scotty-level feat of technical efficiency worthy of celebration, and absolutely not the result of phoning it in to kick off the summer break nice and early.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;9.8 million people watched this episode when it first aired. Just imagine if it wasn’t actually any good? I don’t want to live in a world where that’s true. I don’t think Riker does either, but apparently no-one in Starfleet has the good grace to turn off his life-support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway. Shades of Gray. You know you want it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AEea7.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AEea7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The medical scan of Riker's leg shows us an unidentified intrusion, which coincidentally is exactly what the episode feels like.&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="440" LastEditorUserId="440" LastEditDate="2021-04-10T14:43:19.567" LastActivityDate="2021-04-10T14:43:19.567" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10846" CreationDate="2017-04-28T03:49:48.340" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Late to the party, but I nominate Season 4's &lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Half_a_Life_(episode)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Half a Life&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Plot Summary&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While traveling on board the &lt;em&gt;Enterprise&lt;/em&gt;, Lwaxana Troi encounters a soft-spoken alien scientist named Timicin (the always excellent David Ogden Stiers), who is working with the crew to save his planet's sun. Despite their differences, love blossoms between them.   All is imperiled, however, when Troi learns that Timicin has reached the age of &quot;The Resolution&quot; among his people, and is expected to commit suicide in order to not burden society in his old age.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why I Nominated This Episode&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Half... is, IMHO, one of the most thought provoking and thoughtfully done episodes of the series.  It addresses a topic of a serious moral and ethical nature and does so with aplomb.  That alone sets it apart from most of TNG's &quot;message&quot; episodes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As much as I loved TNG, it often handled such matters awkwardly.  The results ranged from merely hamfisted, to insufferably annoying in its smugness. (Riker smugly virtue signalling to the Antican ambassador about replicated meat, Counselor Troi smugly poo-poohing &quot;outdated morals&quot; in the &quot;Outrageous Okona&quot; episode, and so on.  And then there's Tasha Yar's fetal-position inducing Level 5 Smug Alert anti-drug speech to Wesley Crusher...)   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Half...commits none of these sins.  It takes the subjects of aging and the value we place on our elders, and embraces them without resorting to cliche or partisanship.  The resulting storyline is nuanced, with both societies' views well-represented without the show taking sides.  It makes for first-rate, and rather profound story-telling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Equally worth mention is the superb acting in the episode.  In particular, Majel Roddenberry's standout performance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aQqhK.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aQqhK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd never liked the character of Lwaxana Troi in any of her previous outings.  In fact, I loathed her appearances.  I never found her amusing or even so-bad-its-good amusing.  Just incredibly irritating and a waste of screen time.  Half a Life completely changed my mind about the character, and Roddenberry's own acting abilities.   Majel is sublime in the episode.  She's passionate, fierce, and absolutely believable in her convictions against Timicin's planned suicide.  It's great stuff, and she proves to be every bit as compelling on screen as Stier's Timicin.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only other thing I'd add is, this episode marks the very first appearance of Michelle Forbes on TNG.  She plays Timicin's daughter, Dara.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69621" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-01-07T00:42:01.647" LastActivityDate="2017-04-28T03:49:48.340" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10846" CreationDate="2017-04-28T19:33:22.430" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll nominate the Season 3 episode &lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Hollow_Pursuits_(episode)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hollow Pursuits&lt;/a&gt;, in which we're introduced to the neurotic Lieutenant Reginald Barclay and his penchant for holodeck fantasies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Highlights of the episode without spoilers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dwight Schultz as Lt. Barclay was brilliant. On a show where many of the characters were somewhat bland, well-adjusted overachievers, Barclay was a breath of fresh air. I certainly identified with his awkward personality when I watched the episode as a teenager.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The episode is hilarious. There are a number of funny one-liners, a great scene with Guinan, and an over the top period piece scene on the holodeck. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We're treated to seeing Commander Troi and Dr. Crusher in voluptuous costumes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hollow Pursuits easily makes my Top Ten list of favorite ST:TNG episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17566" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-01-07T00:42:01.647" LastActivityDate="2017-04-28T19:33:22.430" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10846" CreationDate="2017-04-28T20:10:26.470" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've already posted a nomination, but am putting in an honorable mention for &lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Q_Who_(episode)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Q Who &lt;/a&gt;from Season 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This episode reminded me why I enjoyed Star Trek so much:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Our favorite omnipotent being makes an appearance. John De Lancie's performance as Q is in fine form as usual.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The episode is quite tense and exciting - we feel the crew of the &lt;em&gt;Enterprise&lt;/em&gt; are in mortal danger.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We're introduced to the Borg, a far more creepy and implacable foe than the Ferengi.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There's a wonderful scene where Captain Picard realizes he's in over his head, and he must ask Q for help. Picard learns a thing or two, and we see that Q isn't just a cruel tormentor but in fact is rooting for humanity.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17566" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-01-07T00:42:01.647" LastActivityDate="2017-04-28T20:10:26.470" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10870" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10873" CreationDate="2017-04-29T00:29:32.337" Score="13" ViewCount="253" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently noticed that we have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/villains&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;villains&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;villains&lt;/a&gt; tag with 26 questions. Glancing through the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/villains&quot;&gt;list&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;most of them (sixteen?) are just random questions about characters who happen to be villains: for example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/146373/31394&quot;&gt;How tall is Galactus?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/99784/31394&quot;&gt;What did Mayor Wilkins do to Mr Trick?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/71012/31394&quot;&gt;Did Solomon Grundy get his name from the nursery rhyme?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/95225/31394&quot;&gt;Who controls the Watcher in the Water?&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;eight are ID questions (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/villains+story-id*&quot;&gt;three story-ID&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/villains+character-id*&quot;&gt;three character-ID&lt;/a&gt;, plus a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/68374/31394&quot;&gt;couple&lt;/a&gt; more &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/67786/31394&quot;&gt;without&lt;/a&gt; ID tags), but I doubt &quot;this story had a villain in it&quot; is really a helpful distinction for an ID question, not enough to warrant being reflected in the tags;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;two&lt;/strong&gt; actually are about villains in general - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/22266/31394&quot;&gt;Why don&amp;#39;t more villains die/become crippled?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/85476/31394&quot;&gt;Which Sci-Fi work introduced the idea of &amp;quot;Mad Scientists as villains&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; - but again, I'm not sure if &quot;villains&quot; is a sufficiently well-defined or interesting &lt;em&gt;topic&lt;/em&gt; to be worth its own tag.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do we need this tag at all?&lt;/strong&gt; If so, which questions should we be using it on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-06-25T13:05:04.990" LastActivityDate="2017-06-25T13:05:04.990" Title="Is it time for [villains] to get their just deserts?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10871" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10872" CreationDate="2017-04-29T08:02:49.797" Score="10" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;I proposed a possible duplicate for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/158333/5930&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and it received four close votes (including mine) with the fifth vote attributed to the Community user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Under what circumstances does the Community user vote to close a possible duplicate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Purely a matter of curiosity on my part; obviously, I have no objection to the outcome.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5930" LastActivityDate="2017-04-29T08:12:26.490" Title="Under what circumstances does &quot;Community&quot; vote to close as a duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10871" CreationDate="2017-04-29T08:12:26.490" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can hover over Community's username in the vote to close listing to find out why it voted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question's author approved a pending duplicate vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This happens because of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/250930/336144&quot;&gt;this feature&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BtT34.png&quot; alt=&quot;Is your question a duplicate? dialogue&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a question has close votes as a duplicate, the author is presented with a dialogue to either &lt;em&gt;edit&lt;/em&gt; to clarify, or mark their question as a duplicate. By clicking &quot;That solved my problem!&quot;, the Community user places a binding close vote and the question is marked a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Community user is shown rather than the author because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the author doesn't get a binding close vote on their question, so it wouldn't actually be closed&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the author might not even have close vote privileges (like shown here), so it wouldn't make much sense to show them as a close voter.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78037" LastActivityDate="2017-04-29T08:12:26.490" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10870" CreationDate="2017-04-30T09:57:42.357" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Burninate it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't think of anyone who would come here and use this tag to find questions about villains; and it seems that this tag wasn't applied correctly anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From another perspective, it's unlikely that this tag will attract experts, or even enthusiasts (though I'm ready to stand corrected on this one).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's one of those tags - along with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/love&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;love&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;love&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/super-hero&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;super-hero&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;super-hero&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/superpowers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;superpowers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;superpowers&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/supernatural-abilities&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;supernatural-abilities&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;supernatural-abilities&lt;/a&gt; - that seem to make sense, but in reality are not useful at all, unless used for questions about &lt;em&gt;the concept&lt;/em&gt; of villains/superheros/superpowers/abilities/etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just clean the tag to give it a swift and painless death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pJApu.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pJApu.gif&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-06-25T13:04:54.490" LastActivityDate="2017-06-25T13:04:54.490" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10874" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-04-30T11:43:21.047" Score="10" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday's TNG &lt;s&gt;Movie&lt;/s&gt; TV event in the Mos Eisley chatroom was our &lt;strong&gt;single most successful event&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;yet&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;), even more popular than &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9409/there-has-been-an-awakening-another-movie-night-force-awakens-on-monday-the-1&quot;&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/a&gt; and with more chatters than &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7143/august-movie-event-2&quot;&gt;Alien&lt;/a&gt;. In total we had no less than &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198/2017/4/29/22-23&quot;&gt;13 active participants&lt;/a&gt; and a further 12 lurkers, bringing the grand total to 25!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We were all having so much fun that after watching 'The Inner Light', the audience cried &quot;&lt;em&gt;more!&lt;/em&gt;&quot; so we put the #2 choice on as well, and watched 'Best of Both Worlds, Parts I and II' until the wee small hours. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Watch2Gether room had a few snags, but overall it proved to be real asset to the evening, allowing casual visitors to watch all three episodes without having to find their own copies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Funniest comment&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;' awards go to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Himarm's cat&lt;/strong&gt; for &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee5tttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt‌​ttttttttttttttttttttt444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444‌​444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444‌​44&#xA;  CAT&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jolenealaska&lt;/strong&gt; for &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Someone is chopping onions!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ar4Cws.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ar4Cws.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The '&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Captain Obvious&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;' award (for stating the bloody obvious) goes to &lt;strong&gt;Bellatrix&lt;/strong&gt; for &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Oh my gosh, Picard is a Borg now?!?&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ePJ6Ys.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ePJ6Ys.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A special '&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cowardy-Custard&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;' award goes to &lt;strong&gt;zabeus&lt;/strong&gt; (on seeing the Borg for the first time)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;abandon ship&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kwF2Js.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kwF2Js.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and on seeing them for the second time&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;run away&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/60DJBs.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/60DJBs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-04-30T12:48:29.490" LastActivityDate="2017-04-30T12:48:29.490" Title="TNG TV Night (&quot;The Inner Light&quot;) Recap" Tags="|discussion|movie-night|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10870" CreationDate="2017-04-30T20:12:19.667" Score="-3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Keep it&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/villains&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;villains&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;villains&lt;/a&gt; is one of dozens of tags about concepts that this site applies inconsistently, at the tagger's whim. They add a bit of flavo[u]r to the tagging system, are sometimes helpful, and aren't hurting anything. We could start a massive retagging effort to purge all the tags deemed unworthy, or we could just gaze at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9522&quot;&gt;tag map&lt;/a&gt; and be happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd rather focus our retagging efforts on things like fixing inconsistent usage of franchise and series tags (which Valorum is working on at the moment, it seems) or removing tags that are genuinely confusing. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/villains&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;villains&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;villains&lt;/a&gt; seems clear enough, and harmless, even if it's being used inconsistently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36115" LastActivityDate="2017-04-30T20:12:19.667" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10876" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-01T02:06:01.537" Score="-11" ViewCount="221" Body="&lt;p&gt;I went to review queue and I was confronted with a message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SePYQ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SePYQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously it says I have been selecting &lt;code&gt;No Action Needed&lt;/code&gt;, which I have, b/c on all the questions or answers it only provides &lt;code&gt;No Action Needed&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;Skip&lt;/code&gt;. I didn't want to skip the post as I was there to make a review, so I just selected &lt;code&gt;No Action Needed&lt;/code&gt;. Maybe if you were given more of a choice ,b/c right now this is really counter intuitive. I thought &lt;code&gt;No Action Needed&lt;/code&gt; , means no action is needed by me as someone has taken care of the issue, which is why other choices are now not there when they normally are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the point of the &lt;code&gt;Skip&lt;/code&gt; button? The more I think about it, the more ridiculous I think this is, why even bother have someone check a question if all you can do is skip it???&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-05-06T12:39:52.440" LastActivityDate="2017-05-06T12:39:52.440" Title="Why can't I review posts anymore?" Tags="|support|review-queue|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10876" CreationDate="2017-05-01T02:34:28.243" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;In that dialog, you are expected to do &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; to the post you're reviewing. You have all the same options you do when looking at a post outside review, and once you do, the review is considered &quot;finished&quot;. From the Review help page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In these queues, you can edit the post, flag it, upvote or downvote it, add a comment, or upvote a previously existing comment. When you take one of these actions, the &quot;I'm Done&quot; button becomes enabled, allowing you to complete the review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;No Action Needed&quot; means that there is literally &lt;em&gt;nothing&lt;/em&gt; you can do about the post to indicate it's quality -- it's not worthy of an upvote, but there's nothing wrong with it to justify a downvote or flag, and it can't be improved by an edit. That's a pretty rare case, so if you do it too often (in particular, if you &quot;pass over&quot; things that other reviewers have issues with), it will stick out as odd, and eventually you may draw a temporary review ban.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone else has already been there and &quot;fixed&quot; the post, consider upvoting it. If someone else has already left a comment pointing out something that could be improved, you can upvote that comment to indicate agreement. &quot;No Action Needed&quot; is really a last resort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Skip&quot; button exists for cases where you don't feel like you can accurately judge a post's quality. This happens more on larger sites where judging quality can depend heavily on, e.g. how much you know about a given programming language (e.g. &quot;is this even realistic code&quot; type of things); on SF/F, that does still happen but it's less common. The Skip button basically means &quot;I don't want to do this review at all&quot;, and you don't get credit for it in your review stats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2017-05-01T11:50:37.373" LastActivityDate="2017-05-01T11:50:37.373" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10876" CreationDate="2017-05-01T11:38:57.840" Score="9" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why can't I review posts anymore?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because your review privileges have been temporarily revoked, due to a series of bad reviews.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;56 of your 57 First Posts reviews have been &quot;No Action Needed&quot;, which is a warning sign in itself since &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; kind of action is usually appropriate. (You can review your reviews &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/history?userId=65457&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; - note that this link works only for you and mods.) And upon looking more closely, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/104382&quot;&gt;some&lt;/a&gt; of your &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/103943&quot;&gt;reviews&lt;/a&gt; were &quot;No Action Needed&quot; on &lt;em&gt;non-answers&lt;/em&gt;, where the appropriate course of action would be flagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of your Close Votes reviews have also been inappropriate: you &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/close/104371&quot;&gt;voted&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/close/104370&quot;&gt;leave open&lt;/a&gt; a couple of story-ID questions contrary to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7067/31394&quot;&gt;our established policy&lt;/a&gt;. I assume this is simply because you weren't aware of the policy, and no harm was done in these cases, but now you know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;on all the questions or answers it only provides&lt;code&gt;No Action Needed&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;Skip&lt;/code&gt;. I didn't want to skip the post as I was there to make a review, so I just selected &lt;code&gt;No Action Needed&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This remark displays a very worryingly poor understanding of the way the review system works. If the only actual review you could make was &quot;No Action Needed&quot;, then &lt;strong&gt;what would be the point of having the review queue at all?&lt;/strong&gt; You should have realised that you were misunderstanding the system if you thought there was only one possibility for actually reviewing the post. What you should be doing when reviewing First Posts or Late Answers is &lt;strong&gt;taking some action on the post&lt;/strong&gt; (e.g. voting, flagging, editing, commenting) and only clicking &quot;No Action Needed&quot; if, well, no action is needed. Once you've taken some action, even if it be as simple as upvoting a comment, the &quot;No Action Needed&quot; button will disappear and an &quot;I'm Done&quot; button will appear instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;but it has already been flagged to get to this point, so why flag it again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. In the First Posts review queue, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; post by a completely new user shows up for review.&lt;/strong&gt; The point is that new users are never supposed to be posting into a vacuum, and always get some kind of feedback on their post, which makes them more likely to stick around if the post is good. Same for Late Answers - &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; new answer to an old question shows up there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may be getting mixed up with the Low Quality Posts review queue, in which answers do indeed have to be flagged in order to appear. But in that queue there's no &quot;No Action Needed&quot; option; you can either click &quot;Looks OK&quot; or &quot;Recommend Deletion&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another important point about First Posts and Late Answers is that &lt;strong&gt;you're the only person to review them&lt;/strong&gt; - a single review is enough to remove them from the queue. That's why it's particularly important that you review these carefully - an inappropriate &quot;No Action Needed&quot; could result in non-answers or spam remaining on the site unnoticed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10607/31394&quot;&gt;Please read this guidance on reviewing First Posts and Late Answers.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-05-01T11:54:37.670" LastActivityDate="2017-05-01T11:54:37.670" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10879" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-01T12:17:32.850" Score="19" ViewCount="816" Body="&lt;p&gt;After an exhaustive search for our preferred &quot;Post Apocalyptic&quot; film, we have a firm winner; &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausica%C3%A4_of_the_Valley_of_the_Wind_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. We'll be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7431/what-is-a-movie-night-really&quot;&gt;watching together&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;strong&gt;Saturday 13th May at 10pm UTC&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(11pm BST, 6pm EDT)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JXpRp.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JXpRp.gif&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We will be hosting a copy in a shared video room: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.watch2gether.com/rooms/1gg0st8z7l4jpfj4xd&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.watch2gether.com/rooms/1gg0st8z7l4jpfj4xd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;FAQ&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q.&lt;/strong&gt; What is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7431/what-is-a-movie-night-really&quot;&gt;movie night&lt;/a&gt; and how does it work?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;A.&lt;/strong&gt; It's like trying to push water uphill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q.&lt;/strong&gt; How do I nominate a film?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;A.&lt;/strong&gt; You're &lt;a href=&quot;http://68.media.tumblr.com/b61e2aaa80c3250a9550489c9ef03c15/tumblr_mj4eqfrhby1ruuu4oo1_500.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;too late&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q.&lt;/strong&gt; What if I'm a vile misogynist who &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10734/april-movie-night-special-its-ladies-night?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;still&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; wants to watch a film with no women?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;A.&lt;/strong&gt; Wait until June.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Propose your favorite post-apocalyptic movies for us to watch! This is more about how people survive the aftermath of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivalism#Survivalist_terminology&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TEOTWAWKI&lt;/a&gt; event than about how they make it through the event itself, but it's okay if your movie contains some of both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Rules.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nominations &lt;strong&gt;must&lt;/strong&gt; be post-apocalyptic in nature. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The votes will be counted and verified at &lt;strong&gt;Midnight UTC on Wednesday 10th May&lt;/strong&gt;, to give people time to procure copies of the chosen film.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Extra points...&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Extra points were fun on the last movie night, in my humble opinion, so here are the extra points for this one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;+1 if the nature of the apocalypse reflects a widespread &lt;em&gt;societal angst of the time&lt;/em&gt; and place the movie was made, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_holocaust_fiction#Films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;nuclear apocalypse movies&lt;/a&gt; from the Cold War&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;+1 if you can make a case that the nature of the apocalypse reflects a widespread &lt;em&gt;societal angst of today&lt;/em&gt; in the place of your choosing, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_popular_culture&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;runaway global warming&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;+1 if the nature of the apocalypse is such that we can  (at least semi-)seriously &lt;em&gt;worry about it happening in the real world in our lifetimes&lt;/em&gt;, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic#In_popular_culture&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;emerging infectious diseases&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Other notes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Valorum has &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10734/april-movie-night-special-its-ladies-night&quot;&gt;promised&lt;/a&gt; the vile misogynists among us a chance to nominate movies with no women in them at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q.&lt;/strong&gt; What if I'm a vile misogynist who wants to watch a film with no women in it at all?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;A.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Wait until May.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try to include a source, if you have one, to feed into the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.watch2gether.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;video-sharing room&lt;/a&gt;, but you don't have to have a source to nominate!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't have to be a movie, as long as it's not too much longer than feature-length. A TV mini-series or web-series is just fine too and don't forget that you can nominate more than one work if you want to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't die!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73099" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2017-05-15T14:05:25.697" LastActivityDate="2023-05-07T22:08:56.863" Title="May Movie Night Winner: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind - 13th May at 10pm UTC (11pm BST, 6pm EDT)" Tags="|discussion|movie-night|" AnswerCount="15" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10879" CreationDate="2017-05-01T12:46:26.110" Score="14" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausica%C3%A4_of_the_Valley_of_the_Wind_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wB8W7m.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wB8W7m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a 1984 animated science fiction film directed and written by the God of Animation Hayayo Miyazaki, based on his manga of the same name. It features a post-apocalyptic future where wars have devastated the planet. I couldn't really summarise it better than the Google blurb (as I haven't watched it myself):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Far in the future, after an apocalyptic conflict has devastated much of the world's ecosystem, the few surviving humans live in scattered semi-hospitable environments within what has become a &quot;toxic jungle.&quot; Young Nausicaä lives in the arid Valley of the Wind and can communicate with the massive insects that populate the dangerous jungle. Under the guidance of the pensive veteran warrior, Lord Yupa, Nausicaä works to bring peace back to the ravaged planet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film is regarded as the start of the famous Studio Ghibli, being the first collaboration of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film features (according to various sources) themes of pacifism, environmental dangers, and looking after nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those who find this important, the film has been dubbed in English, featuring voices of Alison Lohman, Patrick Stewart, Shia LaBeouf, and Uma Thurman (and if you aren't in already - Mark Hamill).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now for the downside - &lt;strong&gt;it doesn't appear to be available for streaming on &lt;em&gt;ahem&lt;/em&gt; suitable websites&lt;/strong&gt; in suitable quality. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tallying the bonus points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Widespread societal angst of that time&quot; - yes, for the theme of pacifism (1984, war, all that) - &lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt;;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Societal angst of today&quot; - yes, for the same reasons, and the environmental concerns - &lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt;;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Realistic nature of the apocalypse&quot; - yes, very much so (for the reasons above) - &lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Total: +3 bonus points&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2017-05-08T05:47:30.623" LastActivityDate="2017-05-08T05:47:30.623" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10879" CreationDate="2017-05-01T12:51:51.183" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's go classic!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Triffids_(1981_TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Day of the Triffids&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on John Wyndham's classic post-apocalyptic novel, this TV series is, in my opinion, a worthy adaptation of the chilling tale of carnivorous plants ravaging a world filled with blind humans. No list of post-apocalyptic stories would be complete without mentioning Wyndham's works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As well as being a genuinely terrifying story, &lt;em&gt;The Day of the Triffids&lt;/em&gt; includes commentary on social issues of the time, such as the arms race of the Cold War and its potential consequences, and how humans would react if society became much smaller and divided into the capable (those who could still see) and the less capable (the blind).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2BE8lm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2BE8lm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rcNEOm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rcNEOm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The TV series consists of six half-hour episodes, which would make for a total run time of &lt;strong&gt;3 hours&lt;/strong&gt;, less if we skip the credits each time. If this is too long, we could stop at a cliffhanger to keep people's interest ;-) )&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Bonus points&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;the nature of the apocalypse reflects a widespread societal angst of the time and place the movie was made&quot; - &lt;strong&gt;1 point&lt;/strong&gt; (see above);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;the nature of the apocalypse reflects a widespread societal angst of today in the place of your choosing&quot; - &lt;strong&gt;0.5 points&lt;/strong&gt; for the lengthy inspection of human society, including mob mentality, reproduction and gender issues, martial law, needs of the many versus needs of the few;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;the nature of the apocalypse is such that we can (at least semi-)seriously worry about it happening in the real world in our lifetimes&quot; - &lt;strong&gt;0.5 points&lt;/strong&gt;: the blindness part is at least semi-plausible, even if the Triffids aren't.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Total: 2 points&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-05-02T00:50:54.337" LastActivityDate="2017-05-02T00:50:54.337" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10879" CreationDate="2017-05-01T13:09:56.413" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I propose &lt;em&gt;Zombieland&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lMra6.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lMra6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Poster&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reasons why we should watch this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bill F-ing Murray&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ypQGG.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ypQGG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Emma Stone&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vf7mv.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vf7mv.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ghostbusters&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/D5EQb.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/D5EQb.gif&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally the fiddlybits&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Widespread societal angst of that time&amp;quot; / &amp;quot;Societal angst of&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;today&amp;quot;-  The main character struggles with dating, something that&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;plagues many of us today. &lt;strong&gt;+2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Realistic nature of the apocalypse&amp;quot; - Zombies due to some disease.&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bonus +3&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29220" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2023-05-07T22:08:56.863" LastActivityDate="2023-05-07T22:08:56.863" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10879" CreationDate="2017-05-01T14:32:18.753" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I propose &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089869/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Quiet Earth&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This film is a masterpiece of post-apocalyptica. Zac Hobson wakes up to find that he's quite literally the last man on Earth as everyone else seems to have completely vanished into thin-air. After a truly &lt;em&gt;chilling&lt;/em&gt; first 10 minutes, the rest of the film is based around him (and us) trying to work out what the hell happened. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually, Zac goes bonkers. Highlights of his madness include cross-dressing,  roaming the city waving a shotgun, declaring himself 'Emperor of the World' and challenging God to a duel(!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/QdHoYtBzdX0?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is truly a movie that'll make you ask yourself &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;If I were the last man on Earth, what would I do?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Societal Angst?&lt;/strong&gt; = &lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt;. It would spoil the film to explain why the world's gone to crap, but suffice to say it's down to white male scientists experimenting with technology they don't understand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-05-01T14:37:47.623" LastActivityDate="2017-05-01T14:37:47.623" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10879" CreationDate="2017-05-01T15:11:40.677" Score="4" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392190/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mad Max: Fury Road&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0ZpGd.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0ZpGd.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;furyfury&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I watched this movie on an airplane. It was good even on such a little screen and $1 headphones that were probably worn by several other people... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I digress... The movie is about a society in the desert where water, gas (aka petrol), and apparently women are controlled by a select few warlord type bad guys. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something, something, dark-side... oh and there is dudes getting high on silver spray-paint. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do I award my own bonus points? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Widespread societal angst of that time&quot; / &quot;Societal angst of today&quot; +2 &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That time and today are the same thing since the movie was 2015. The overtones of having clean water and actually being able to grow plants is something I hear people whine about on Facebook. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Realistic nature of the apocalypse&quot;  + (over) 9,000&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;because... this guy... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fqhif.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fqhif.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2017-05-01T21:49:09.580" LastActivityDate="2017-05-01T21:49:09.580" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10855" CreationDate="2017-05-01T19:49:19.600" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Valorum &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10855/how-does-this-answer-about-l-b-and-werewolves-in-harry-potter-answer-the-quest/10885?noredirect=1#comment33502_10855&quot;&gt;stated in a comment above&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It doesn't answer it and your flag shouldn't have been rejected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42829" LastEditorUserId="23243" LastEditDate="2017-05-03T17:07:04.490" LastActivityDate="2017-05-03T17:07:04.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10879" CreationDate="2017-05-01T22:01:17.083" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mad Max (1979)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Official Trailer:&lt;/strong&gt; Mad Max (1979) -  &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/caHnaRq8Qlg?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Valorum has promised the vile misogynists among us a chance to&#xA;  nominate movies with no women in them at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it misogynist? Oh I would say that it most certainly is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079501/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079501/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Australian dystopian action film directed by George Miller, produced&#xA;  by Byron Kennedy, and starring Mel Gibson as &quot;Mad&quot; Max Rockatansky,&#xA;  Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley, Tim Burns, and Roger&#xA;  Ward. James McCausland and Miller wrote the screenplay from a story by&#xA;  Miller and Kennedy. The film presents a tale of societal collapse,&#xA;  murder, and vengeance set in a future Australia, in which a vengeful&#xA;  policeman becomes embroiled in a feud with a vicious motorcycle gang.&#xA;  Principal photography took place in and around Melbourne, Australia,&#xA;  and lasted six weeks.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://madmax.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_events_(original_trilogy)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://madmax.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_events_(original_trilogy)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Persian Gulf War (Pre-Mad Max)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Law and order, like every other aspect of the Western society have&#xA;  been swept away - put to the torch one early morning when Iranian&#xA;  troops trying to export revolution, struck deep into the heart of&#xA;  Saudi Arabia&quot;. [2] The war between Iran and Saudi Arabia left the&#xA;  Persian Gulf devastated in just two days. The oil fields were set&#xA;  ablaze and oil export halted almost immediately. Prices of oil&#xA;  doubled, then quadrupled and quadrupled again. North West and&#xA;  Trans-Persian pipelines have been destroyed shortly after. The West's&#xA;  seven biggest oil companies led by Exxon (The 7 Sisters Petroleum - as&#xA;  seen on the tanker in Mad Max 2) have immediately announced they will&#xA;  not fulfill their supply contracts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Impact on Australia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The price of gold skyrocketed along with the inflation. In an attempt&#xA;  to save the economy and conserve fuel - martial laws have been&#xA;  announced all across the world. Italy and Spain have been taken over&#xA;  by the military. The Australian economy collapsed, companies filed&#xA;  bankruptcy one after another. Massive lay-offs caused the heavy&#xA;  industry to shut down. In Sydney &amp;amp; Melbourne panic turned into riots.&#xA;  People tried to withdraw savings from banks only to see the bank doors&#xA;  nailed shut. Gas stations were sucked dry by people fighting over last&#xA;  drops of gasoline. Ordinary citizens began to arm themselves. The&#xA;  Outback was slowly taken over by bike gangs. The remaining oil tankers&#xA;  were under constant attack. Vehicles that ran out of fuel were&#xA;  abandoned on the roads. Intercity communication stopped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mad Max&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Main Force Patrol (MFP) was formed as the last-ditch attempt to uphold&#xA;  the law on the roads. Max Rockatansky was one of the best drivers in&#xA;  the MFP. He went rogue after his friend and family were killed by a&#xA;  biker gang.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As it applies now and is it reasonable to be concerned&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Middle East is still in turmoil and can erupt in Nuclear Explosions and of course the OIL dependency is still there. This is being aggravated by the aspects of Oil contributing to the Global Warming being experienced. The Middle East has it level of living etc based on the consumption of its Oil. Should the Non OIL Exporting countries reduce their demand then The Oil producing countries, Including Russia will have serious Financial problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ergo, the perfect catch 22. IF we don’t curtail Oil Consumption can we slow down CLimate Change. IF we do curtail Oil Consumption can we CONTAIN / PERSUADE the Oil producing countries that everything will be ok :).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78451" LastActivityDate="2017-05-01T22:01:17.083" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10879" CreationDate="2017-05-01T22:55:26.707" Score="5" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_%282009_animated_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;9&lt;/em&gt; (2009 animated feature film by Shane Acker)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Our world is ending. But life must go on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uLIR1.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uLIR1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nine ragdolls with zips on their front and a digit painted on their back awake in a world where humanity is dead, but have left terrible war machines after themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Great post-apocalyptic movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do not confuse this film with the 2005 short film this is based on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/-hzCfOvsq64?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2017-05-01T23:23:08.917" LastActivityDate="2017-05-01T23:23:08.917" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10879" CreationDate="2017-05-02T11:45:42.973" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063442/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Planet of the Apes (Original)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As @Rand stated...Let's go classic!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Maniacs!! You finally blew it all up!!! God damn you all to hell!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Humanity destroys itself and apes become the dominant species.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kXkRq.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kXkRq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Planet of the Apes&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BONUS POINTS&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Social angst &lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt; - I would suggest that apes taking over the world and becoming the dominant species would be considered social angst.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Seriousness of this actually happening &lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt; - Isn't the world &lt;em&gt;already&lt;/em&gt; being ran by apes?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Total points +2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52940" LastEditorUserId="52940" LastEditDate="2017-05-07T07:40:31.233" LastActivityDate="2017-05-07T07:40:31.233" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10879" CreationDate="2017-05-02T19:44:29.713" Score="3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_and_His_Dog_(1975_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A Boy And His Dog (1975)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We all know dogs are awesome - especially so if they're telepathic, so let's gather round and chuckle at this &quot;rather kinky tale of survival&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll let the trailer sell it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/lZ-y94pY_pY?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Set in a post-nuclear war of the year 2024, the main character, Vic (Don Johnson) is an 18-year-old boy, born in and scavenging throughout the wasteland of the former southwestern United States. Vic is most concerned with food and sex; having lost both of his parents, he has no formal education and does not understand ethics or morality. He is accompanied by a well-read, misanthropic, telepathic dog named Blood who helps him locate women in return for food. Blood cannot forage for himself due to the same genetic engineering that granted him telepathy. The two steal for a living, evading bands of marauders, berserk androids, and mutants. Blood and Vic have an occasionally antagonistic relationship (Blood frequently annoys Vic by calling him &quot;Albert&quot; for reasons never made clear), though they realize they need each other. Blood wishes to find the legendary promised land of &quot;Over the Hill&quot; where above ground utopias are said to exist, though Vic believes that they must make the best of what they have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to mention some interesting &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072730/quotes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quotes&lt;/a&gt; and a rather interesting ending...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since someone else has gone for relationships as a bonus point and there's increasing noise about nuclear weapons recently - can i haz &lt;strong&gt;2 bonus points&lt;/strong&gt; please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16848" LastActivityDate="2017-05-02T19:44:29.713" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10879" CreationDate="2017-05-02T21:46:04.770" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480249/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I AM LEGEND&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the&#xA;  terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now&#xA;  the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps&#xA;  the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily&#xA;  radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out&#xA;  there. But he is not alone. Mutant victims of the plague -- The&#xA;  Infected -- lurk in the shadows... watching Neville's every move...&#xA;  waiting for him to make a fatal mistake. Perhaps mankind's last, best&#xA;  hope, Neville is driven by only one remaining mission: to find a way&#xA;  to reverse the effects of the virus using his own immune blood. But he&#xA;  knows he is outnumbered... and quickly running out of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Un0nc.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Un0nc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;I Am Legend&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BONUS POINTS:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Social Angst &lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt; -  Robert Neville is the last human survivor surrounded by mutant victims of plague.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Real world possibility of this happening &lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt; -  The plague was caused by an incurable mad-made virus.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TOTAL BONUS POINTS: &lt;strong&gt;+2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52940" LastActivityDate="2017-05-02T21:46:04.770" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10891" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-03T12:42:15.527" Score="-9" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some people have put &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/158647/has-any-superhero-attempted-suicide-because-theyve-had-enough&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on hold; it has lost its momentum and now will not be a Hot Network Question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has answers and is absolutely not too broad as there have not been very many superheroes who have committed suicide.&#xA;So what is the reason that people decided to put it on hold?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-05-03T21:45:21.677" LastActivityDate="2017-05-04T09:14:13.237" Title="Why is this question put on hold?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10891" CreationDate="2017-05-03T14:02:03.803" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to close it for a few different reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's too generic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it stands, the question is asking whether there has ever been an instance where &quot;a superhero&quot; has killed themselves. This potentially encompasses tens of thousands of properties, maybe hundreds of thousands. Even the most cursory search revealed a half-dozen in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://comicvine.gamespot.com/forums/gen-discussion-1/has-any-superhero-committed-suicide-1523908/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;very first link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's too vague.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've not defined what you mean by superhero. Are you only after comic book characters or would you also include film, radio, TV?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's a list question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before it got closed you had three equally good answers, all offering one example per answer. If it gets reopened, you could end up with potentially dozens of equally good answers,  each offering a single example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-05-04T09:14:13.237" LastActivityDate="2017-05-04T09:14:13.237" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10879" CreationDate="2017-05-04T06:40:03.120" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Silent Running (1972)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the future, all plant life on Earth has become extinct. A few specimens have been preserved in enormous, greenhouse-like geodesic domes attached to a fleet of American Airlines space freighters, currently just outside the orbit of Saturn. Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern), one of four crewmen aboard the Valley Forge, is the resident botanist and ecologist who carefully preserves a variety of plants for their eventual return to Earth and the reforestation of the planet.&#xA;  Orders come from Earth to jettison and destroy the domes (with nuclear&#xA;  charges) and return the freighters to commercial service. Lowell rebels and opts&#xA;  instead to save the plants and animals on his ship. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Running&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/g5rhc.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/g5rhc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty good movie, IMHO.  And I think the theme speaks both to the era it was made, and many of today's environmental concerns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69621" LastActivityDate="2017-05-04T06:40:03.120" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10879" CreationDate="2017-05-04T18:36:19.110" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I nominate a genuinely great film that hasn't gotten the attention it deserves: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_(2009_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Road&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MwRW1.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MwRW1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;novel of the same name&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormac_McCarthy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cormac McCarthy&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-road&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Road&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; follows a man (Viggo Mortensent) and his son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) in their struggle to survive in a bleak, lifeless, post-apocalyptic world.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/bO8EqMsxOiU?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Awards and Acclaim:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;For the Movie:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3HYxF.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3HYxF.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Joe Morgenstern from the Wall Street Journal states that viewers have to &lt;strong&gt;&quot;hang on to yourself for dear life, resisting belief as best you can in the face of powerful acting, persuasive filmmaking and the perversely compelling certainty that nothing will turn out all right.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Esquire screened the film before it was released and called it &lt;strong&gt;&quot;the most important movie of the year&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&quot;a brilliantly directed adaptation of a beloved novel, a delicate and anachronistically loving look at the immodest and brutish end of us all.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;... IGN gave it four and a half out of a possible five stars, calling it &lt;strong&gt;&quot;one of the most important and moving films to come along in a long time.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tom Huddleston from Time Out calls the film &lt;strong&gt;&quot;...as direct and unflinching an adaptation as one could reasonably hope for.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; He calls it &lt;strong&gt;&quot;...certainly the bleakest and potentially the least commercial product in recent Hollywood history... a resounding triumph&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;, noting its &lt;strong&gt;&quot;stunning landscape photography [which] sets the melancholy mood, and Nick Cave’s wrenching score...&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -  &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_(2009_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;For the Novel:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction winner&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2006 Believer Book Award winner&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction finalist&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012 Best of the James Tait Black shortlist&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2008 Entertainment Weekly &quot;Best book, fiction or non-fiction, of the past 25 years&quot;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Bonus Point Criteria:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the nature of the cataclysm that destroyed the earth is never revealed, and in fact, is rarely addressed, it is based on the author's anxieties regarding the dangers his own son will face in the near future - anxieties that are shared by a large portion of the general public, and are indeed a common focus of widespread societal angst.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Nature of the Apocalyptic Event:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither the novel nor the film reveal the exact cause of the apocalypse, and McCarthy himself refuses to resolve the issue, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8/what-was-the-catastrophe-that-happened-in-the-road&quot;&gt;readers and viewers have proposed any number of possible scenarios&lt;/a&gt;, and McCarthy seems to find them all acceptable.  The most common theories are climate change, nuclear war, massive volcanic activity (of the kind a supervolcano, like the one in Yellowstone National Park, might unleash), or an asteroid or comet colliding with the earth. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;McCarthy's comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When asked recently, in a conversation with the Wall Street Journal, about the nature of the catastrophic event in The Road, [McCarthy] answered by saying: &lt;strong&gt;&quot;I don't have an opinion. It could be anything – volcanic activity or it could be nuclear war. It is not really important. The whole thing now is, what do you do? The last time the caldera in Yellowstone blew, the entire North American continent was under about a foot of ash. People who've gone diving in Yellowstone lake say that there is a bulge in the floor that is now about 100 feet high and the whole thing is just sort of pulsing. From different people, you get different answers, but it could go in another three to four thousand years or it could go on Thursday...&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -  &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2009/dec/20/observer-profile-cormac-mccarthy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film's director is inclined to believe that the apocalypse was caused by the damage our species is doing to the planet: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;It just builds on the story that we are creating of the revenge of nature...  We are certainly heightening the environmental threat.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -  &lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.latimes.com/2008/aug/17/entertainment/ca-road17/3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The specific nature of the cataclysm may be a mystery, but McCarthy &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; revealed what inspired his apocalyptic vision - his concerns about the course mankind is on, and the destructive nature of our species:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Being a septuagenarian dad in the modern age is sobering. “When you’re young and single, you hang out in bars and don’t think about what’s going to happen,” McCarthy says. “But in the next fifty years &lt;strong&gt;when you have kids, you start thinking of their life and the world they have to live in. And that’s a sobering thought these days. I’m not one of those conspiracy guys, but the world is in a very unstable situation.&lt;/strong&gt; If you were to take thoughtful people on, say, January 1st, 1900, and tell them what the twentieth century was going to look like, they’d say, Are you shitting me?’ ”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;McCarthy began to wonder about the future facing his boy. &lt;strong&gt;“I think about John all the time and what the world’s going to be like,” he says. “It’s going to be a very troubled place.”&lt;/strong&gt; One night, during a trip to Texas with John, McCarthy imagined such a place. While his son slept, McCarthy gazed out the window of his room and pictured flames on the hill. He later decided to write a novel about it; The Road is dedicated to his son. &lt;strong&gt;While McCarthy suggests that the ash-covered world in the novel is the result of a meteor hit, his money is on humans destroying each other before an environmental catastrophe sets in. “We’re going to do ourselves in first,” he says.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In part, he blames an increasingly violent society.&lt;/strong&gt; “If kids are unstable, they may very well be cranked up by the violence they see, and might do things that they wouldn’t have done or would have taken them longer to get around to,” McCarthy says. “But the real culprit is violence against children. A lot of children don’t grow up well. They’re being starved and sexually molested. We know how to make serial killers. You just take a Type A kid who’s fairly bright and just beat the crap out of him day after day. That’s how it’s done.”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.davidkushner.com/article/cormac-mccarthys-apocalypse/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;McCarthy is a research fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, and his work there led to a preoccupation with catastrophic events, including asteroid impacts, nuclear war, volcanic activity, and climate change:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;IT’S THE SIXTH ANNIVERSARY or September 11th, and scientists from the Santa Fe Institute are contemplating the end of the world. &lt;strong&gt;The occasion is a three-day conference on climate change. This evening, no one in the standing-room crowd of locals crammed into the auditorium recognizes McCarthy as he hunkers into his seat down front.&lt;/strong&gt; When I remark on how many people are interested in tonight’s topic, McCarthy replies, “Of course it’s relevant – we’re all going to die.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;ONE DAY A FEW YEARS AGO, after checking his mail and pouring his coffee, McCarthy gingerly made his way down the hall at the Institute. He passed the equation-scrawled windowpane, down the steps where Dr. Zen was curled in the corner, past the long, red sofa where a grad student lay sprawled, and into the corner office of his friend Doug Erwin. Then he started asking about the apocalypse. In particular, he wanted to know about extinction-the Cretaceous-Tertiary meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Erwin is the guy to ask. A Smithsonian paleobiologist with a boyish fop of brown hair, Erwin is an expert on the subject: He wrote a book titled Extinction. He and McCarthy share a wry and fatalistic view of our time here on Earth. “The planet is going to do just fine without us,” Erwin says. “We’re an encephalized ape that won’t last long.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Erwin told McCarthy about the likely aftermath of the deadly meteorite: the magnitude of the desolation, the collapse of ecosystems, the fallout of debris and gases. Then, one day last year, Erwin sat down to read a galley of The Road, which depicts the harrowing, post-apocalyptic journey of a father and son. Erwin smiled – so this is what McCarthy was up to, he figured.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   -  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.davidkushner.com/article/cormac-mccarthys-apocalypse/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Bonus Point Score:  +3&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Reflects a widespread societal angst of the time and place the movie was made:&lt;/em&gt;  Twenty-first century earth is rife with angst regarding all the fears mentioned above.  &lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Reflects a widespread societal angst of today in the place of your choosing:&lt;/em&gt;  Again, this angst is common today.  &lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;We can (at least semi-)seriously worry about it happening in the real world in our lifetimes:&lt;/em&gt;  Yes, we can seriously worry about nuclear war, volcanic activity, asteroid impacts, and climate change.  &lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: There are a handful of women in the film, but few of them have any dialogue, and none are named (in fact, even the main characters are nameless in both the movie and the book - they are referred to exclusively as &quot;the Man&quot; and &quot;the Boy&quot;).  I'm not saying this is a good thing - I only mention it because it was brought up in the question.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44025" LastEditorUserId="44025" LastEditDate="2017-05-04T19:10:00.687" LastActivityDate="2017-05-04T19:10:00.687" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10879" CreationDate="2017-05-05T12:43:05.427" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I nominate the classic &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090163/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Threads&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (1984), and I'm surprised it hasn't come up yet!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It's superior to, for example, &lt;em&gt;The Day After&lt;/em&gt; because it shows the after effects of nuclear war much better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xvMBG.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xvMBG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31887" LastEditorUserId="36115" LastEditDate="2017-05-05T17:22:39.243" LastActivityDate="2017-05-05T17:22:39.243" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10896" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10898" CreationDate="2017-05-05T13:43:52.227" Score="22" ViewCount="319" Body="&lt;p&gt;I flagged an answer today. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key factors were:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It was posted almost four years after the question was posted and received an accepted answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It was just one line which merely rephrased what the accepted answer had established about four years ago. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At worst, this is plagiarism. At best, It was redundant and added nothing new of value to the post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Giving the guy benefit of doubt, I decided not to raise a custom flag accusing him of plagiarism. Instead, I raised a VLQ flag given the length and content. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The flag was rejected. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is our policy on such answers? What should we do when we see an &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; which merely parrots what other users had contributed years ago?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, such answers should be removed as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They are redundant and add nothing new of value. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They could be upvoted (Not sure by who but it happens every now and then), giving that person rep s/he doesn't deserve.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is unfair to the person who answered before that their contribution is rephrased without any credits to them on that very thread.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Given that there is an interval of an extended period of time between the old answer and the new answer, it is highly unlikely that the new person hadn't read the older answer before posting h/is/er own. So that in turn makes it very unlikely that this was done in good faith.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastEditorUserId="54887" LastEditDate="2017-05-05T13:56:52.100" LastActivityDate="2017-05-14T03:11:15.660" Title="What is our policy on new redundant answers to old questions?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10896" CreationDate="2017-05-05T13:50:30.117" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I downvote, flag, and comment on why I feel it duplicates the existing answer if it's a straight restatement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it looks like good intentions, I'll just comment, asking the answerer how they feel it improves upon the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2017-05-05T13:50:30.117" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10896" CreationDate="2017-05-05T17:40:10.893" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do not flag posts because they only repeat existing information.&lt;/strong&gt; Those flags should be, and usually are, declined. Downvote, comment, and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers should be evaluated on their own merits. Not other answers, not whether there's an accepted answer, and especially not who the author is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no time limit on responses, no rule against posting on a question with an accepted answer, and no rule here requiring answers to present new and unique information.  In short, there's no cause for a mod to delete new answers that say the same thing in new words. Downvote, comment, and move on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plagiarism is direct copy-and-paste, with at most a word changed here or there. Rephrasing another answer is not plagiarism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; encounter an answer that is substantially a &lt;strong&gt;word-for-word copy&lt;/strong&gt; of an existing answer (or any other source) as-is without quoting and sourcing it, flag that with a custom reason explaining that it's directly copied and link to where it's copied from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Very low quality&quot; flags are rarely appropriate&lt;/strong&gt;, and really &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/278794/172958&quot;&gt;should be removed entirely&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to your specific example, the answer is not copied, answers the question directly and clearly, and even cites a source (which we don't actually require anyway). There is nothing wrong with the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2017-05-05T17:40:10.893" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10899" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-06T12:03:22.537" Score="9" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to close on this question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/158872/back-to-the-future-a-couple-of-things-im-confued-about&quot;&gt;Back to the future, A couple of things im confued about&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/158872/back-to-the-future-a-couple-of-things-im-confued-about&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. I made a mistake and voted as &lt;code&gt;Not Clear What you are asking&lt;/code&gt;, when I wanted to vote as &lt;code&gt;Too Broad&lt;/code&gt;, so I retracted my vote, but then I was not allowed to place a vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In regards to other questions and comments. I want to vote to close, I make the vote, upon further thinking, my reason was not the best one so I want to change the reason. Why can't I change the reason, I am committed to closing , that is clear, so what is the issue with changing the reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why can't you change the reason to close?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="65457" LastEditDate="2017-05-06T13:20:30.533" LastActivityDate="2017-05-06T15:24:41.133" Title="Why can't you change your reason to close after making a close vote?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10899" CreationDate="2017-05-06T12:38:31.033" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/167514/278659&quot;&gt;This answer on main meta&lt;/a&gt; explains the motivation behind not being able to re-cast a vote to close after retracting it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One important thing to note with this way is that &lt;strong&gt;retracting a vote does not allow you to vote to close again&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/250223/age-close-votes-after-14-days-regardless-of-views-allowing-recasting&quot;&gt;(until the retraction ages away&lt;/a&gt;). You've already cast your vote to close on the question, and just because you retract it doesn't mean you should be able to override the normal rules of close votes (you can only ever cast one close vote and one reopen vote on a single question) and vote again. You also don't &quot;get a vote back&quot; for the day to re-cast on another question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, &lt;strong&gt;you were told before retracting that you wouldn't be able to re-VTC afterwards&lt;/strong&gt;. Whenever you retract a close vote, the system warns you that you won't be able to re-cast it. I can't test this myself on SFF, since I have binding close votes here, but here's a screenshot I just took on another site to show you what it looks like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q1RSy.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q1RSy.png&quot; alt=&quot;you cannot vote again after retracting&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; you've now changed your question to ask why one can't change the &lt;em&gt;reason&lt;/em&gt; for VTCing after casting one's vote. I imagine the answer to this is simply because SE have never bothered to implement that particular feature. I'm not sure how much it would be used, since responsible VTCers should make sure they get the reason right before casting their votes in the first place. Perhaps the time and effort required to implement it would be disproportionate to its actual use value in practice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, there's an 8-year-old main meta &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt; for it here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/863/278659&quot;&gt;Ability to change close reason before it gets closed&lt;/a&gt; with several positive answers. Drawing attention to that post might be the best way to try to get this feature implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-05-06T13:43:58.040" LastActivityDate="2017-05-06T13:43:58.040" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1946" CreationDate="2017-05-06T13:13:52.833" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Post quality seems to be defined according to the criteria in this main meta post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/72523/278659&quot;&gt;Heuristics for detecting a bad answer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Word checks&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;contains word &amp;quot;help&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;contains word &amp;quot;test&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;testing&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;contains word &amp;quot;thanks&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;thx&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;cheers&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;great&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;contains word &amp;quot;bump&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;contains word &amp;quot;same&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;problem&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;contains word &amp;quot;sorry&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;contains word &amp;quot;work&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;working&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;contains &amp;quot;:)&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;:-)&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;:(&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;:-(&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Character set checks&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;contains one or more exclamation points&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;contains one or more question marks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;contains all (or mostly) uppercase characters&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;contains all lowercase characters&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;does not contain any spaces&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;does not contain any ascii chars&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;contains &lt;code&gt;..&lt;/code&gt;, possibly repeated&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Content checks&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;includes hyperlink type text (even without the http://)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;includes email address&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;content ends in question mark&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;answers with low entropy, eg, repeated characters like &amp;quot;asdfasdfasdfjkjkjk&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, most of the answers satisfying these criteria will probably end up deleted (since that's the whole point of the quality score - to identify potentially delete-worthy answers), and those that aren't will probably already have been edited on their journey through the Low Quality Posts review queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to find edit-worthy answers for an Archaeologist badge, a better idea might be to hunt for &lt;strong&gt;common misspellings&lt;/strong&gt;: for example, &amp;quot;Voldermort&amp;quot; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; posts, or &amp;quot;Jamie&amp;quot; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt; posts. Searching for these will yield posts which are most likely useful, or at least not bad enough to have been deleted, but which can still be objectively improved by (albeit minor) edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-05-06T13:13:52.833" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10899" CreationDate="2017-05-06T13:15:48.103" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Shrug&lt;/em&gt; I am a user of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think VtC is a serious decision/action. It should not be taken lightly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What follows is my opinion, it may be in line with guidelines for SE or it may not.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is my opinion, there should be levels of escalation.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) You do not like the question, don't understand the question, prejudiced against the assertions made in the question etc. You can down vote the question and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) You think the question is ok, just not workable as in needing the questioner to redo it. You can flag the Question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) You are convinced the question is not correct for this Q/A and can not be salvaged. You can VtC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At level 3 there should not be a take back. You had your reasons, they were carefully thought out and objectively executed. Others may agree with you, they may not agree with you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You seem to want to change the &quot;reason&quot; you VtC'd from A to B. I make mistakes, I am human, this action is an action that should be taken seriously and that means you should be careful/deliberate,sure of the choices your making.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit to OP: &quot;See edited question&quot; - I did see the edited question. I am saying that Not being able to change your choice should be the cost of being able to Vote To Close. Why not flag it and put it on hold and suggest changes or give time to see others opinions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit Rand al'Thor &quot;Also, re point 2: flag it as what?&quot; - Flag it using the flag that most characterizes your reasons. While I do not have access to the VtC process/reasons, one might ask why the VtC reasons do not show up for those that are able to VtC. For clarity, Leaving the Post in Hold but indicating the reason to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit Rand al'Thor &quot;So I can't see any difference between your options 2 and 3; the only difference between flagging for closure and voting to close is in the reputation of the user doing it, not in the nature of the question&quot; - Then perhaps the fact that Reputation is able to close based on a Flag is more of a hindrance than a feature. IF the flag does not close the question, then the OP could in fact execute the 2nd level before escalating to the 3rd level. Regardless there are other Flags that can be used that puts the post on Hold. OR i am simply not understanding what your point is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78451" LastEditorUserId="78451" LastEditDate="2017-05-06T15:24:41.133" LastActivityDate="2017-05-06T15:24:41.133" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10903" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2017-05-06T13:31:36.217" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;review queues&lt;/strong&gt; can be found at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review&lt;/a&gt; (or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/review&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/review&lt;/a&gt; for the meta site). There are six kinds of review queue at Science Fiction and Fantasy Stack Exchange:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Close Votes&lt;/strong&gt; - for deciding whether or not a question should be closed. A question enters this queue when someone has voted to close it or flagged it for closure, and leaves when it's either been closed or received at least three &quot;Leave Open&quot; votes. Available at &lt;strong&gt;3000&lt;/strong&gt; reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First Posts&lt;/strong&gt; - for providing feedback on new users' first posts on the site. A question or answer enters this queue when its poster has no previous posts on the site, and leaves after a single review. Available at &lt;strong&gt;500&lt;/strong&gt; reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Late Answers&lt;/strong&gt; - similar to the First Posts queue, but only for new answers to old questions. Again, an answer leaves this queue after a single review. Available at &lt;strong&gt;500&lt;/strong&gt; reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Low Quality Posts&lt;/strong&gt; - for deciding whether or not an answer (or rarely a question) should be deleted. A post enters this queue when someone has flagged it as &quot;very low quality&quot; or &quot;not an answer&quot;, or when it is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/72523/278659&quot;&gt;automatically flagged as low-quality&lt;/a&gt;; it leaves when it's either deleted or received enough &quot;Looks OK&quot; votes. Available at &lt;strong&gt;2000&lt;/strong&gt; reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reopen Votes&lt;/strong&gt; - for deciding whether or not a closed question should be reopened. A closed question enters this queue when someone casts a reopen vote on it or when it's edited sufficiently soon after being closed, and leaves when it's either been reopened or received at least three &quot;Leave Closed&quot; votes. Available at &lt;strong&gt;3000&lt;/strong&gt; reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Suggested Edits&lt;/strong&gt; - for approving or rejecting edits proposed by low-rep users to other users' posts. All suggested edits pass through this queue, and need at most two reviews to be approved or rejected. Available at &lt;strong&gt;2000&lt;/strong&gt; reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of these queues, only Close Votes, Reopen Votes, and Suggested Edits are available on the meta site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-05-06T13:31:36.217" LastActivityDate="2017-05-06T13:31:36.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10904" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2017-05-06T13:31:36.217" Score="0" Body="For questions about the review queues: the section of the site where users with sufficient reputation can review others' posts, e.g. for possible closure or deletion, and suggested edits." OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-05-06T13:31:36.217" LastActivityDate="2017-05-06T13:31:36.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10879" CreationDate="2017-05-08T10:58:07.197" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;City of Ember&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bbbyz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2017-05-08T10:58:07.197" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10906" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-09T21:49:51.870" Score="6" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;These days, whenever I ask a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; question, next minute I find Gallifreyan (and always Gallifreyan :)) has added the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction-genre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science-fiction-genre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science-fiction-genre&lt;/a&gt; tag. A quick glance at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction-genre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science-fiction-genre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science-fiction-genre&lt;/a&gt; tag shows that it is always there on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we really need such redundancy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-05-09T22:31:46.480" LastActivityDate="2017-05-17T19:38:32.960" Title="Do we need &quot;science-fiction-genre&quot; tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10906" CreationDate="2017-05-09T22:26:14.367" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes we do.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They are not &lt;em&gt;redundant&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just a quick search shows that there are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction-genre+-history-of&quot;&gt;75 questions&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction-genre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science-fiction-genre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science-fiction-genre&lt;/a&gt; but without &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On the other hand, there are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of+-science-fiction-genre&quot;&gt;334 questions&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; but without &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction-genre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science-fiction-genre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science-fiction-genre&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another search shows that there are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantasy-genre+-history-of&quot;&gt;119 questions&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantasy-genre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantasy-genre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantasy-genre&lt;/a&gt; but without &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of+-fantasy-genre&quot;&gt;382 questions&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; without &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantasy-genre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantasy-genre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantasy-genre&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's look at usage guidance for all three tags: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/science-fiction-genre/info&quot;&gt;Science fiction genre&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Used for questions on the science fiction genre itself, including its tropes and conventions. Should &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; be used to categorize questions about specific works of science fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/fantasy-genre/info&quot;&gt;Fantasy genre&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Used for questions on the fantasy genre itself, including its tropes and conventions. Should &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; be used to categorize questions about specific works of Fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/history-of/info&quot;&gt;History of&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use this tag for questions about the history of the genre: the origin and evolution of ideas in speculative fiction. Example topics include the first work of speculative fiction with a particular property, or the origin of a term or trope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't look like we can do without any of those three tags: each describes a specific area, and they aren't really interchangeable. One can (sure, why not?)&#xA;have a question about the science fiction genre without the &lt;code&gt;history-of&lt;/code&gt; tag, but it is not hard to see that &lt;code&gt;history-of&lt;/code&gt; adds a specific description of the question - that the question is interested in the &lt;em&gt;history&lt;/em&gt; of the genre, not tropes or conventions (hard to draw a line, I admit). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, purging the genre tags will certainly leave those ~200 questions orphaned - they will have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt;, but history of &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt;? It looks to me like those three tags were specifically created to work together, and it looks like they're doing a good job. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt; Sure, there is always a chance that some of those questions are wrongly tagged, and in fact don't need some of the tags they have, but I find those sample sizes too large to be easily changed by a few mistags. &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's little chance they'll be used wrongly (I ocasionally see them in first post story-ID questions, but it's not a big deal) since they're no ambiguous - at least they have a tag excerpt that tells you where you &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; use them and where you &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2017-05-09T22:32:33.810" LastActivityDate="2017-05-09T22:32:33.810" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10906" CreationDate="2017-05-10T03:13:47.127" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Genre tags are generally accepted, as we do ask questions specifically about those genres using the tags alone, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; (which was merged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/origins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;origins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;origins&lt;/a&gt;), &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/trope&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;trope&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;trope&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/inspiration&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;inspiration&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;inspiration&lt;/a&gt; and others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also have a number of other genre tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/horror&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;horror&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;horror&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hard-sci-fi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hard-sci-fi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hard-sci-fi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/steampunk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;steampunk&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;steampunk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cyberpunk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cyberpunk&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cyberpunk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/military-sf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;military-sf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;military-sf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing is to be careful with them, and to make sure the question is actually about the genre as a whole. They're not used to just classify a question such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; + &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction-genre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science-fiction-genre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science-fiction-genre&lt;/a&gt;, because that's not particularly notable.  The sub-genres I listed above get used with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; because that  &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; notable, and helps in both finding the questions and researching answers. A parallel is how we use author tags only when the question is about the author, not just about something that the author wrote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that's the case, then it &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be applied. If it's not, it should be removed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, to address another user consistently editing your question's, you may find that I'd do the same to Marvel questions that lacked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt;. Some users just watch different tags than others, depending on their interests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2017-05-17T19:38:32.960" LastActivityDate="2017-05-17T19:38:32.960" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10879" CreationDate="2017-05-11T03:11:57.037" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;After Earth&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fo7Gq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2017-05-11T03:11:57.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10910" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-11T17:50:51.893" Score="-9" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/45654/931&quot;&gt;Is there an official Marvel Cinematic Universe viewing order?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This answer is an ever-growing list which looks good for community wiki thing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Other users update the answer time to time (when new MCU property is released).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The original answerer has earned lots of reputation already. Although, this shouldn't be a reason to make the answer community wiki, it points out that it shouldn't be considered a loss to OP besides he is cashing on mostly others' work now.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we convert the answer into community wiki?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="21267" LastEditDate="2017-05-11T20:43:55.947" LastActivityDate="2017-05-11T20:43:55.947" Title="Should we make this answer Community Wiki?" Tags="|discussion|answers|community-wiki|specific-answer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10910" CreationDate="2017-05-11T18:16:10.280" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;My gut instinct is to say no, for the simple reason that the OP didn't just post a list of the current films and then abandon it. Since it was posted, they've made &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/45654/timeline&quot;&gt;an additional 14 edits&lt;/a&gt; with their original text and additional changes representing some &lt;strong&gt;90% of the current text.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, &lt;strong&gt;their contribution to this answer represents a significant investment of their time and effort, for which they should be rewarded with any continuing rep.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not to say that we shouldn't revisit this every couple of years, when the contribution of the community may have started to outweigh their contribution more heavily. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2017-05-11T18:16:10.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10910" CreationDate="2017-05-11T18:24:33.640" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;We&lt;/em&gt; should not do &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10101/70236&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and the two answers, &quot;no answer &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be made CW&quot;. Sure, a user may choose to make an answer community wiki should they feel so, but &lt;strong&gt;it's never an obligation&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could break this down by pros and cons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pros&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;None&lt;/em&gt;? If I understand this correctly, the only thing that will change is the amount of rep required to edit the post without the review queue: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/11741/348200&quot;&gt;from 2000 to 100&lt;/a&gt;. Do we need that? Who needs that? It's not like we desperately need drive-byers to add a valuable piece of information - well, we do, but it could be as easily done by anyone who has watched the films, which, judging by the number of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt; questions, is a lot.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cons&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Main contributor will lose rep&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Here I disagree with your assertion that they're mostly getting rep for other users' work - it appears that the poster has been revisiting the answer regularly, and updating it, to the point when the majority of the post still belongs to them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We'll have less quality control - that's the downside of the lowered rep requirement. It's not really a bad thing (as one can catch that easily), but still.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of what &lt;em&gt;we&lt;/em&gt; think, per this &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/08/19/the-future-of-community-wiki/&quot;&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt;, all parties should be consulted when &lt;em&gt;making&lt;/em&gt; an answer a community wiki - meaning the final decision always rests with the answerer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2017-05-11T19:22:20.450" LastActivityDate="2017-05-11T19:22:20.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10914" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-12T08:11:49.783" Score="26" ViewCount="3269" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/valorum-himarm-poisoned-this-room-it-is-defunct&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley is currently frozen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;#&lt;/sup&gt;, apparently indefinitely. I assume it has something to do with the users mentioned in @Shog9's banner, but is it possible that we be told - at least in concept - what happened in our room to make it get frozen again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If the rest of you want to create a new room for this site, think twice about it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  If you decide to do it anyway, learn from the lessons of this room.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/37340712#37340712&quot;&gt;Shog9&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;sup&gt;#&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lJXN7.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lJXN7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Screen capture of the &amp;quot;mos Eisley&amp;quot; (now defunct) chat room, displaying information about why the room was &amp;quot;frozen&amp;quot;.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Please bear in mind that this involves users being banned, so the usual &quot;don't talk about what isn't your business&quot; rule applies.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#&lt;/strong&gt; Link will only work for users with 10K+ reputation in chat.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="21267" LastEditDate="2017-05-14T21:43:07.020" LastActivityDate="2017-05-14T21:43:07.020" Title="How come our main chat, Mos Eisley, got frozen this time?" Tags="|discussion|chat|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="34" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10914" CreationDate="2017-05-12T09:08:56.540" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not a complicated answer. Users known for being troublesome in the past continued to be troublesome in a room well-known for troublesome behavior. As such, the decision was made to ban the troublesome users in question from chat, and permanently freeze the room that is almost defined by its troublesome culture and seems to act as a magnet for troublesome behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in short, trouble got Mos Eisley in trouble. If you want a new room to survive and thrive in the way that Mos Eisley didn't, just ensure that troublesome users don't keep causing trouble (mainly through controversial statements).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24087" LastEditorUserId="24087" LastEditDate="2017-05-12T09:15:02.297" LastActivityDate="2017-05-12T09:15:02.297" CommentCount="42" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10916" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10925" CreationDate="2017-05-12T10:55:41.617" Score="12" ViewCount="1502" Body="&lt;p&gt;After &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10914/19561&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/em&gt; was nuked from orbit&lt;/a&gt;, I've created a new room with a new name:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/58631/the-restaurant-at-the-end-of-the-universe&quot;&gt;The Restaurant at the End of the Universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Name&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The name comes from &lt;em&gt;The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy&lt;/em&gt;, which features a restaurant of the same name.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;An earlier name came from William Gibson's &lt;em&gt;The Bridge&lt;/em&gt; trilogy, but had some unfortunate connotations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm open to a change of name; I don't own it. But that is (now) a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10932/19561&quot;&gt;separate question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Thinking Twice&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shog9 told us to think twice about creating a new chat room, which I did. I think a chat room is essential to the community. Both for discussing issues on topic on the Stack, and for shooting the breeze to build the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Rules&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/240839&quot;&gt;Be nice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This goes without saying. Also, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/270587&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; about chat.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What happened in Mos Eisley, stays in Mos Eisley.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Let's not discuss Mos Eisley; we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10914/19561&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt; for that. Let's move on.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Room settings&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Owners&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I became a room owner through creating the room. I've added the old room owners, except the mods who don't need to be room owners to do their thing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Feeds&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The usual feeds (new questions on main site and meta) apply.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I've also added feeds for &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://xkcd.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://atwitsendcomics.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;At Wit's End&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (a comic by regular Jack. B. Nimble) to a add a bit of levity. These are infrequent enough (&lt;em&gt;xkcd&lt;/em&gt; is updated thrice a week, &lt;em&gt;At Wit's End&lt;/em&gt; less frequently) to not be disruptive. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2017-05-15T07:14:20.423" LastActivityDate="2017-05-15T07:14:20.423" Title="General chat room: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" Tags="|discussion|chat|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10916" CreationDate="2017-05-12T11:28:53.890" Score="-10" Body="&lt;h3&gt;On Thinking Twice&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am of course, only a fraction of the community. Also, I didn't consult the community nor did I take long to think twice, instead deciding on a name and creating the chat room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for this is that I view a chat room &lt;em&gt;essential&lt;/em&gt; to the community of a stack. So I feel that in order to think twice and to consult the community, we need a chat room first.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Yes, we might have used a discussion on meta. Some posts are up there concerning the freeze of &lt;em&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/em&gt; and I expect some more — both questions and answers. But in my opinion, we need the informal channel of a chat room as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I created a new chat room in order to preserve the community we already have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2017-05-12T11:28:53.890" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10916" CreationDate="2017-05-12T12:54:40.467" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that SFF can survive without a primary chat room for a week without significant negative repercussions.... it hasn't even been 12 hours. I strongly recommend that this room be closed in deference to Shog's edict and that a new one should not be opened until this community has a discussion regarding how to moderate their chat community more effectively. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This event was not just two bad eggs. It was the culmination of months of struggle to keep Mos in line with the &quot;be nice&quot; mantra. The very fact that no one in Mos at the time thought that posting NSFW content was flag worthy until it devolved into a will you/won't you discussion of physically assaulting an actress (though gender is irrelevant) - and even then, it was flagged by moderators from other sites - shows that the users in Mos at the time, more numerous than only two, are not consistently capable of judging when content crosses the line. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing the room is a signal to this site that there is an infection. If you can't treat it with medicine, it needs to be cut off entirely. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41668" LastActivityDate="2017-05-12T12:54:40.467" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10916" CreationDate="2017-05-12T13:31:36.963" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;TBH, I'd give it a while. Emotions are heated, people are mad - I'd recommend at the very least, to wait and see what your moderators say (those lovely folks you elected) before starting a new room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to start by saying I'm an &lt;em&gt;avid&lt;/em&gt; user of chat. There's only one organic user who chats more than me (and of course, Smokey, but Smokey essentially shouldn't count). I understand how important chat is to the social fabric of the site - I help run a main site chatroom that's considered by some to be pretty well behaved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also spent two days in your chatroom. And while a handful of folk are the most noticeable, I got the impression the room was going to be &lt;em&gt;extremely difficult to moderate&lt;/em&gt;. Yeah, there's a few specific toxic folks, occasionally moderators coming in and being mad at you guys, but at the end of the day, its the room-wide culture. Things went too far because no one went &quot;Hey, this isn't fine&quot;, or if they did, they weren't listened to. I mean, with &lt;em&gt;multiple&lt;/em&gt; flag events over time, there had to be a tipping point. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I've found that even minor incidents on chat are pretty messy for moderators to handle. This is... huge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So guys, please spare a moment for your moderators. They'll likely be looking into it, and trying to contain the damage and working out how best to balance the interests of the folk involved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25606" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2017-05-12T16:51:00.180" LastActivityDate="2017-05-12T16:51:00.180" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10916" CreationDate="2017-05-12T13:54:12.400" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wasn't in Mos Eisley at the time of it being frozen so I may be wrong about this but I feel a big problem with Mos was its attitude towards flagging. Many users insulted flaggers as cowards and had an us-and-them mentality about flaggers. This led to me (and possibly other users) seeing content that possibly should have been flagged but not flagging because through worry that flagging would make me not a proper member of the rooms community. I suspect this led to many users pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable and people being afraid to complain when these users went too far leading to a spiral of ever worsening behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we start a new chat room, which I am in favour of, I think we need to stop seeing flaggers as anonymous users trying to cause trouble and start seeing flags as an essential safety net to keep the site on the right side of good because if we don't then soon users will begin going too far again and next time we might not be allowed a new site chat room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60757" LastActivityDate="2017-05-12T13:54:12.400" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10914" CreationDate="2017-05-12T15:46:16.857" Score="-13" Body="&lt;p&gt;First and foremost, I do NOT question the action that was taken. I was not there, I was not consulted, I simply found the equivalent to a 404 tab. I will NOT question those that made the decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will ask for clarification, such that a new user (does not mean a new to life person) does NOT repeat what ever it was that did happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I chose to do this as an answer as opposed to messages. IF I am wrong to do so let me know and I will delete the answer. My goal is to be constructive, not to criticize.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@DrRDizzle, terdon and others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no clue how serious the conversation was as I was not on and can not learn/understand what happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BUT to use another venue as an Example. Everquest creates Blue (No PvP) Servers and Implements Evil Races and Class's. How does one Role Play Evil in such a scenario? Isn't it in a sense Bait and Switch, Suck them in and say no you can not do that? I get that EQ couldn't do that and cater to the target market.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think SE wants to be open and allow &quot;Freedom of Speech&quot;. I understand that &quot;Freedom of Speech&quot; SHOULD require one to be responsible with what one says ON the other side of that I understand that IT IS POSSIBLE to tell people &quot;If you do not like what goes on in here then don't come in&quot;. IF I revert back to EQ the Red Servers were PvP enabled and the classic answer was &quot;If you do not want to engage / participate in PvP then do NOT COME HERE&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that SE has a Big Picture of it's Users desires and interest and it's reputation on the Internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that SE needs to steer the site to meet the goals it has established for itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What may be required is to establish that this SE is a Blue Server with &quot;Play Nice&quot; as the rules and not be overly concerned with &quot;Freedom of Speech&quot; and providing a form of protection from those that see speaking freely is not what should be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have problems with every chat room I participate in and the parent Q/A ... Many times I see the question containing words, material, themes that may not be suitable for younger people and may pose problems for Parents of young people. The standard reply is the &quot;community&quot; (I assume the people in the chat room are the community) have decided to be very lose with ....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am no fan of censorship, but I also am no fan of posting things that go after the reader of post's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is my opinion, that if one wants to make an example of something, then one needs or should also make clear what the point is and provide examples from &quot;The Example&quot; of what went over the line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is my opinion, that often times just deleting the posts WITH an explanation to replace them as to what went over the line. In addition IF there is a need to ban posters then do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BEGIN EDIT: The following section is wrong, it was based on a flawed understanding and should be disregarded.&#xA;Perhaps IT should be a LEARNED thing that one does NOT flag posts in such a contentious room, ever, even to the extent of removing the ability and changing it to a community event section, such as We will be airing &quot;This Movie Name&quot; on &quot;This Date and Time&quot; and would like to invite you all to join us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Phantom4 said &quot;No. Just, no. The answer to people behaving poorly isn't &quot;just don't let them say something is wrong&quot;. I beg to differ, the theme behind the bad feeling is the Flaged Messages. I may be wrong but isn't that the star one hits to &quot;flag it'? Honestly I can be wrong so explain this. IF I am right then in a contentious room, isn't that a method to draw attention to the worst of that room?&#xA;END EDIT FOR DISREGARD&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: &quot;no, absolutely not. SE does not want to be open and allow freedom of speech, not when that freedom means &quot;I get to say whatever I like and I don't care who it makes uncomfortable&quot;. A better description would be that SE wants to make sure the site they have created can be enjoyed by all people irrespective of cultural background and sensitivities. This means that freedom of speech comes a very distant second to civility of speech. – terdon&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think your not saying anything differently than I said. Do you literally mean we are not free to say what we think here? No, you make it clear there are limits. I said &quot;I understand that &quot;Freedom of Speech&quot; SHOULD require one to be responsible with what one says&quot;, perhaps you just missed that line. BUT if &quot;literaly&quot; are not free to speak, responsibly, then were are the guidelines, of what can and can not be said, so I can do a due diligence on not crossing the line?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78451" LastEditorUserId="78451" LastEditDate="2017-05-12T16:41:57.917" LastActivityDate="2017-05-12T16:41:57.917" CommentCount="23" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10914" CreationDate="2017-05-12T17:09:13.403" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7517/why-did-our-primary-chatroom-get-nuked/7518#7518&quot;&gt;A year and a half ago, I froze Mos&lt;/a&gt;. We don't need to rehash that again here; the linked discussion covers it thoroughly. At the time, we (the employees of Stack Exchange) were of two minds as to whether we should reinstate the room at all; eventually we decided to do so, with the hope that a bit of encouragement could avoid future problems. I've come to believe this was unwarranted optimism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lemme be clear: there are plenty of reasonable people who regularly participated in the room. This isn't about punishing the members of SFF, most of whom are still free to use chat; I froze and later deleted the room to correct the mistake I made a year and a half ago. If you've ever battled tomato blight, you know that once it gets into the soil there's no sense in planting new tomatoes there until it dies out; new plants will just become infected and die. Mos Eisley is infected soil; it is my opinion as a gardener and community manager that investing further time into it is a waste for both me and you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A year and a half ago, I wrote,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Listen when someone speaks up.&lt;/strong&gt; If you're told that someone's uneasy about the current topic, then ignoring them is a slap in the face; be respectful of others (#1) and stop intentionally hurting them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The continuing inability to do this was, to me, a sure sign of the room's sickness. In any active venue, things &lt;em&gt;will be said&lt;/em&gt; that prove problematic to the larger audience; that's to be expected. How the group handles it determines whether they will continue to function. When yesterday's little episode crossed my desk, what dismayed me wasn't the off-color jokes - it was the fact that they continued after flags were raised, continued after a moderator stepped in to handle the flags, continued after the moderator attempted to reason with those who remained in the room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many times more people active on this Q&amp;amp;A site than were ever active in its chat rooms; chat exists to serve them should they need or want it. A chatroom, promoted here as the primary social gathering place for the site, which becomes hostile or unresponsive to the larger community it purports to serve... Has lost its purpose and needs to end. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastActivityDate="2017-05-12T17:09:13.403" CommentCount="25" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10916" CreationDate="2017-05-12T21:19:38.787" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Just my 2 knuts.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People posting here might not necessarily know me, but I think I can call myself a Mos regular of the past few (~6) months - apparently, to a point where people were even willing to elect me a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10809/looking-for-a-third-room-owner-for-mos-eisley-our-chat-room-update-found&quot;&gt;room owner&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been in Mos every day (including weekends and national holidays) for some months now, from approximately 8:30 to 0:00 UTC +3 - meaning I was there when a good portion of messages was posted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've also been in the new room, and SQB was very kind to carry over our RO-ship from Mos, along with all the feeds (and some new ones). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The discussion so far has been peaceful, with an occasional person asking &quot;what happened to M#s?&quot;, at which point they were redirected to meta. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No sign of heated emotions, and certainly no one is getting mad; I, however, agree that certain changes should be made. Setting the whole &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/240839&quot;&gt;be nice&lt;/a&gt; thing aside, I'm willing to paraphrase something I saw on a main meta post regarding chat:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When taken out of context and displayed away from Stack Exchange, a chatroom transcript should not compromise the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which, as I see it, means that a chatroom conversation should not be dependent on context to verify whether it is offensive or not. I should disclaim that I have been a proponent of context-aware flagging - &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/37073494#37073494&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/36856879#36856879&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; - so I'm going to change my own view right now and say that a message must not rely on context to be non-offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's a simple litmus test to implement - if you think your message may be deemed offensive by a person who knows nothing of the room, or the site, or even Stack Exchange - consider again if you wish to post it in its current state.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That would also solve the problem of anonymous flagging which prompted my defense of context-based flag review.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think waiting a weekend or a week is going to solve anything - I'm going to guess now that some if not most of the users were not here when the storm broke, and are just as baffled at this as I was this morning. Telling people to &quot;stay put&quot; for some time as the dust settles down is not a viable solution - I appreciate the openness and input from everyone here, but I support the opinion that this site needs a third place. There may be some Stacks that haven't got one, but we're not those stacks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, it's been very pleasant to be in Mos - whatever &quot;pattern&quot; or &quot;tendency&quot; there was, I must have missed it. Either way, I think having a fresh start with this room is the best we can do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shutting it down now, and waiting for an officially sanctioned reboot is only going to make us - us, as in the people who were moderating Mos - more incompetent. Given the quality of the talk so far, I think we're in for a good start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastActivityDate="2017-05-12T21:19:38.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10916" CreationDate="2017-05-12T21:21:56.317" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hope the new chat room succeeds. It's a great way for users to discuss the site or just have a relaxing chat with each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order for the new chat room to succeed, though, users will have to learn lessons from the failure of Mos Eisley and be mindful of the existing guidelines regarding chat etiquette. Some of those guidelines to keep in mind include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/241936/299342&quot;&gt;Be Nice policy applies to chat&lt;/a&gt;. It &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/286090/299342&quot;&gt;also applies to people who are not SE users&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can talk about contentious issues (like politics), but if you do make sure you &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/289398/299342&quot;&gt;respect those who disagree with you&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you're not &lt;em&gt;sure&lt;/em&gt; that what you are about to post is appropriate then &lt;em&gt;don't post it&lt;/em&gt;. That goes for whether you are posting your own words, an image, a link, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag messages you think are inappropriate. If the message is truly inappropriate then it will probably be deleted; if not then the flag will probably be dismissed. Validated flags help teach the room's users what isn't appropriate so that they can avoid posting flag-worthy content in the future. In the long run it will help the room avoid a bad reputation like Mos Eisley's.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Assume flags are raised in good faith. Non-regulars of Mos Eisley have expressed a reluctance to flag messages (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10920/31936&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) out of fear of the regulars. An us-versus-them mentality against non-regulars can allow a room's culture to become unwelcoming and inappropriate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also accept the actions of moderators as done in good faith. Failure to do so is a large part of why Mos Eisley was deleted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When yesterday's little episode crossed my desk, what dismayed me wasn't the off-color jokes - it was the fact that they continued after flags were raised, continued after a moderator stepped in to handle the flags, continued after the moderator attempted to reason with those who remained in the room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10922/31936&quot;&gt;Shog9 ♦&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are welcome to question a moderator's decision, ask for a second opinion, etc., but you must do so respectfully and with a genuine desire to avoid further problems.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The previous point applies for actions taken by moderators from other sites on the network -- the system gives them just as much authority to act in a scifi chat room as a scifi moderator, since a scifi moderator may not be available. Failure to do this also contributed to Mos Eisley's deletion because the moderator who responded to the flags yesterday was not a scifi mod (none of the scifi mods were online at the time). The scifi moderators will support the actions of moderators from other sites, except in the rare case in which they have genuinely made a mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional useful reading: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/270587/toward-a-philosophy-of-chat&quot;&gt;toward a philosophy of chat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastActivityDate="2017-05-12T21:21:56.317" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10927" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-14T17:29:20.030" Score="11" ViewCount="354" Body="&lt;p&gt;I marked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/137174/is-kalara-formerly-starfleet#comment346737_137174&quot;&gt;this comment&lt;/a&gt; as &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;'obsolete'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; since it related to the &lt;em&gt;future&lt;/em&gt; release of a film, but one that is now released.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I don't think this can be confirmed until the film is released on&#xA;  streaming or home video, but some online sources are claiming that the&#xA;  photos of Franklin crew members Jessica Wolff and Anderson Le are&#xA;  identifiable as Kalara and Manas. I supposed they may be recognizable&#xA;  as the actors' real human faces? If so, that's a neat easter egg.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At best it seems to be an &lt;em&gt;answer in comment form&lt;/em&gt; but it's certainly outdated (superseded by events and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/137436/20774&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt;) and hence no longer serves a useful purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why was it rejected by a moderator?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-06-02T22:47:16.010" LastActivityDate="2017-06-02T22:47:16.010" Title="Why was this comment flag rejected?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|comments|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10928" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10942" CreationDate="2017-05-15T01:52:06.807" Score="13" ViewCount="564" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seeing that the scores seem to have settled, it's time to announce the winner - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457430/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pan's Labyrinth (El Laberinto Del Fauno)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10942/70236&quot;&gt;proposed by doppelgreener&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7bZ76m.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7bZ76m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pUvnNm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pUvnNm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 1944 Spain young Ofelia and her ailing mother arrive at the post of her mother's new husband, a sadistic army officer who is trying to quell a guerrilla uprising. While exploring an ancient maze, Ofelia encounters the faun Pan, who tells her that she is a legendary lost princess and must complete three dangerous tasks in order to claim immortality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;We'll be discussing it &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/58631/the-restaurant-at-the-end-of-the-universe&quot;&gt;in chat&lt;/a&gt; as we're watching it, and the film will be hosted by doppelgreener in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.rabb.it/pandemicsmiles&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this Rabb.it room&lt;/a&gt;. Come join us!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/EqYiSlkvRuw?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;FAQ:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q:&lt;/strong&gt; What is a film night?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;A:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7431/what-is-a-movie-night-really&quot;&gt;Read here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q:&lt;/strong&gt; How do I attend?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;A:&lt;/strong&gt; Register &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/58631/the-restaurant-at-the-end-of-the-universe?tab=schedule&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and monitor this question for updates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q:&lt;/strong&gt; Do I have to bring my own copy?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;A:&lt;/strong&gt; Most probably not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-06-04T10:48:08.433" Title="June Dark Fantasy Film Night - &quot;Pan's Labyrinth&quot; on Saturday, June the 3rd, 9pm UTC (5pm EDT, 10 pm BST)!" Tags="|discussion|movie-night|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10928" CreationDate="2017-05-15T02:12:28.460" Score="9" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Online copy not available for streaming in the shared video room&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coraline_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Coraline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/LO3n67BQvh0?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a 2009 stop-motion animated film, based on Neil Gaiman's novella of the same name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A summary of the novel from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.neilgaiman.com/works/Books/Coraline/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Neil Gaiman's website&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coraline will have to fight with all her wits and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And a summary of the film from &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/coraline/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rotten Tomatoes&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coraline Jones is a girl of 11 who is feisty, curious, and adventurous beyond her years. She and her parents have just relocated from Michigan to Oregon. Missing her friends and finding her parents to be distracted by their work, Coraline tries to find some excitement in her new environment. Coraline seriously doubts that her new home can provide anything truly intriguing to her, but it does; she uncovers a secret door in the house. Walking through the door and then venturing through an eerie passageway, she discovers an alternate version of her life and existence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a beautiful film, suitable both for (older) children and adults. It's available on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.netflix.com/title/70105599&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Netflix&lt;/a&gt; - but not so much on other venues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it is based on a children's novel, the atmosphere is not at all lighthearted, and it will provide entertainment even to adult audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bonus points:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Foreign film - no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Female protagonist - yes. &lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Available for video room - no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;+1 total&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-05-15T15:40:36.727" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10928" CreationDate="2017-05-15T04:53:07.300" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Big Trouble&lt;/strong&gt; in Little China (1986) - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090728/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090728/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Storyline&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Truck driver Jack Burton arrives in Chinatown, San&#xA;  Francisco, and goes to the airport with his Chinese friend Wang Chi to&#xA;  welcome his green-eyed fiancée Miao Yin who is arriving from China.&#xA;  However she is kidnapped on the arrival by a Chinese street gang and&#xA;  Jack and Wang chase the group. Soon they learn that the powerful evil&#xA;  sorcerer called David Lo Pan, who has been cursed more than two&#xA;  thousand years ago to exist without physical body, needs to marry a&#xA;  woman with green eyes to retrieve his physical body and Miao is the&#xA;  chosen one. Jack and Wang team-up with the lawyer Gracie Law, the bus&#xA;  driver and sorcerer apprentice Egg Shen and their friends and embark&#xA;  in a great adventure in the underground of Chinatown, where they face&#xA;  a world of magicians and magic, monsters and martial arts fighters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Big Trouble In Little China Trailer HD&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/592EiTD2Hgo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78451" LastActivityDate="2017-05-15T04:53:07.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10928" CreationDate="2017-05-15T05:29:07.017" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Brothers Grimm (2005)&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0355295/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0355295/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Director&lt;/strong&gt;: Terry Gilliam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Writer&lt;/strong&gt;: Ehren Kruger &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stars&lt;/strong&gt;: Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, Monica Bellucci&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Brothers Grimm - Trailer&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/dnboj1T3UEQ?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In 1811, in a French occupied Germany, the crooks Brothers Grimm&#xA;  pretend to fight against evil witches and monsters to make money.&#xA;  However, they are arrested by Cavaldi and General Delatombe, but they&#xA;  have a chance to redeem themselves in the village of Marbaden, where&#xA;  ten young girls have vanished. Will and Jacob are guided by the local&#xA;  Angelika through an enchanted forest where they face the evil Mirror&#xA;  Queen that depends on the sacrifice of twelve girls in the eclipse to&#xA;  stay beautiful and young.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78451" LastActivityDate="2017-05-15T05:29:07.017" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10932" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-15T05:32:24.720" Score="18" ViewCount="1014" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10914/21267&quot;&gt;We have recently lost our &quot;main&quot; chat room, Mos Eisley&lt;/a&gt;. But that's ok, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10916/21267&quot;&gt;we have a new one&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/58631/the-restaurant-at-the-end-of-the-universe&quot;&gt;The Restaurant at the End of the Universe&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that this was created by an individual, and in the spirit of community consensus, my question is &lt;strong&gt;What should we name our new general chat room?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, &lt;strong&gt;what should the chat feeds' names be?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Please note:&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;Mos-Eisley&quot; (or any derivative of that) is specifically excluded for obvious reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&#xA;Here are some historical discussions we've had on this topic:&#xA;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/751/what-should-we-call-our-chatroom&quot;&gt;What should we call our chatroom?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1173/do-we-like-the-name-of-our-chatroom&quot;&gt;Do we like the name of our chatroom?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5329/primary-chatroom-name-polling?noredirect=1&quot;&gt;Primary Chatroom Name Polling&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7525/putting-it-all-behind-us-renaming-the-chatroom?noredirect=1&quot;&gt;Putting it all behind us - Renaming the Chatroom&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2017-05-16T20:17:53.240" LastActivityDate="2017-06-08T21:53:59.543" Title="What to name our new main chat room (or keep it as it is)" Tags="|discussion|chat|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10932" CreationDate="2017-05-15T05:34:17.613" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Leave it as is, I'm happy with the name:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Restaurant at the End of the Universe&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="21267" LastEditDate="2017-05-15T05:43:56.043" LastActivityDate="2017-05-15T05:43:56.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10928" CreationDate="2017-05-15T05:45:45.307" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jennifer's Body (2009)&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1131734/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1131734/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jennifer's Body Official Trailer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/C8azftM5puI?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Director&lt;/strong&gt;: Karyn Kusama&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Writer&lt;/strong&gt;: Diablo Cody&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Stars&lt;/strong&gt;: Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nerdy, reserved bookworm Needy Lesnicki, and arrogant, conceited&#xA;  cheerleader Jennifer Check are best friends, though they share little&#xA;  in common. They share even less in common when Jennifer mysteriously&#xA;  gains an appetite for human blood after a disastrous fire at a local&#xA;  bar. As Needy's male classmates are steadily killed in gruesome&#xA;  attacks, the young girl must uncover the truth behind her friend's&#xA;  transformation and find a way to stop the bloodthirsty rampage before&#xA;  it reaches her own boyfriend Chip&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rated R for sexuality, bloody violence, language and brief drug use&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My memory of this movie is the R rating is far more thematic than anything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, the Movie despite what one may think, really is good story telling and in my opinion, this is probably the only movie I thought that Megan's acting brought the character to life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78451" LastActivityDate="2017-05-15T05:45:45.307" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10932" CreationDate="2017-05-15T05:47:44.437" Score="11" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The current name is fine&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Restaurant at the End of the Universe&lt;/strong&gt; is fine. While it can't satisfy fans of all science fiction and fantasy franchises, the same was true of our previous chat room, and people were generally fine with the name. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, it has a definite sci-fi feel even to those not familiar with the source material: &quot;at the end of the Universe.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More important than the name of the room is that it learns from the mistakes of the previous one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastActivityDate="2017-05-15T05:47:44.437" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10928" CreationDate="2017-05-15T06:08:19.177" Score="14" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Constantine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kAbJNm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kAbJNm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iLPzLm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iLPzLm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This 2005 film is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tor.com/2015/11/12/constantine-is-a-terrible-hellblazer-adaption-but-a-damned-good-modern-noir/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;loosely based&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vertigo-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vertigo-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vertigo-comics&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;em&gt;Hellblazer&lt;/em&gt; comic series, which is the very &lt;em&gt;definition&lt;/em&gt; of the dark fantasy genre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;John Constantine is an &quot;occult detective&quot; - a person who deals with certain problems of supernatural sort. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a summary &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/constantine/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;from Rotten Tomatoes&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An ordinary man with an extraordinary gift must save the planet from evil in this action-packed fantasy. Unknown to most people, the world is crowded with spirits both good and evil who walk among us in human guise. One of the few who can see these spirits is John Constantine, but the responsibility of his vision is more than he can stand, and he tries to kill himself. Saved from death, Constantine must now atone for his actions by acting as a guardian in the middle ground between Paradise and Hell. Constantine also makes the acquaintance of Angela Dodson, a police detective who becomes aware of his unusual gift while looking into the death of her sister; he leads her into the unknown world of the spirits and soon circumstances demand that they join forces in a desperate bid to save humanity from evil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pros&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Keanu Reeves' charm (and great acting, by the way)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TMoig.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TMoig.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tilda Swinton playing the archangel Gabriel (and &lt;strong&gt;nails&lt;/strong&gt; it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jj3TI.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jj3TI.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You are going to die young because you smoked 30 cigarettes a day since you were 15... and you're going to go to Hell because of the life you took. You're fucked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An absolutely charming portrayal of Lucifer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/63FY6.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/63FY6.gif&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A solid performance by Rachel Weisz&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZqoBn.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZqoBn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not one gorram kiss or display of affection&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cons&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;R rated, for some very brief nudity (it's not actually nudity, but still), some violence, and demonic images&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also this ridiculous thing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E8JXR.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E8JXR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;Luckily, it only appears briefly.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bonus points&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Foreign film - no. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Female protagonist - no. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Available for video room - no.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2017-05-17T15:10:47.733" LastActivityDate="2017-05-17T15:10:47.733" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10928" CreationDate="2017-05-15T08:00:54.267" Score="8" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Not competing because there's no copy online :(&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginaerum_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Imaginaerum&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Mkeuy.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Mkeuy.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Imaginaerum&lt;/em&gt; is a 2012 fantasy musical film produced by the band Nightwish. While this may not sound like much, the final product is terrific - heartwarming tale of parenting, art, and many other things, equipped with beautiful scenery and a great soundtrack based on Nightwish's album of the same name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A short summary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A coma sends an old man into his childhood's sinister fantasy world, where he must fight dementia and gain back his memories before it's too late.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fantasy sequences occur in this man's head, while in the waking world his daughter is trying to piece together the unfinished song he left. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pros:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Surreal, obscure, and truly beautifully made&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EqpY7.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EqpY7.gif&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Surely dark enough - look at this guy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VUHyVm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VUHyVm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A truly foreign film - a valuable contribution to the film nights' diversity&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastActivityDate="2017-05-15T08:00:54.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10928" CreationDate="2017-05-15T08:11:14.457" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel%27s_Egg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Angel's Egg&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Tenshi no Tamago&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zsg1Rm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zsg1Rm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Angel's Egg&lt;/em&gt; is a 1985 Japanese animation film directed by Mamoru Oshii and written Yoshitaka Amano; the former also directed two &lt;em&gt;Ghost in the Shell&lt;/em&gt; anime adaptations, and the latter illustrated Neil Gaiman's &lt;em&gt;The Sandman: Dream Hunters&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L74mU.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L74mU.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tenshi_no_tamago_angels_eggegg_of_god&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;premise of the film&lt;/a&gt; is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An unnamed young girl, carrying a large egg, wanders about a surreal, nightmarish post-apocalyptic world collecting water in glass bottles. A man (also nameless),carrying a cross over his shoulder, crosses her path, and begins to follow her around during her daily routine. Despite her worries for her beloved egg (the contents of which she refuses to tell him), she eventually grows to trust him,even though his intentions remain mysterious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/wozOCjrIp1s?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film has been widely described as ambiguous and even tripping, while also being described as an &amp;quot;overlooked masterpiece&amp;quot;. The films features little dialogue, which is convenient for us, as is the fact that it's available online in various forms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bonus points&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Foreign film - yes. &lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Female protagonist - yes. &lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Available for video room - yes &lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;+3 total&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-05-15T15:45:40.837" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10939" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10940" CreationDate="2017-05-15T08:24:16.173" Score="2" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7682/whats-the-technical-explanation-for-gravity-to-exist-inside-a-spacecraft-in-sci&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the technical explanation for gravity to exist inside a spacecraft in science fiction?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This old question is still open. Can I know why it is not &lt;em&gt;Too Broad&lt;/em&gt;? There can literally be thousands of different theories and it is ever-growing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2017-05-15T08:52:45.177" Title="How is this question not Too Broad?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10939" CreationDate="2017-05-15T08:34:16.497" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;It is.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question has two separate issues, either of which would be sufficient for closure. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's too broad. As noted in the question, there are innumerable possible technical explanations for artificial gravity, depending on the work. It's like &quot;How do superheroes fly?&quot; or &quot;How does a sorcerer bind a demon?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The way it is worded strongly suggests it is asking for explanations about how a technology could work in &quot;the real world,&quot; which are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7367/51379&quot;&gt;off-topic per our policy on science questions.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, this question should be closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that this question was asked in 2011, in the earlier days of this site. Back then, we didn't have the same criteria for closing questions as we do now, or as solid community standards. There are many old questions still open that would be closed if they were asked today. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="51379" LastEditDate="2017-05-15T08:52:45.177" LastActivityDate="2017-05-15T08:52:45.177" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10932" CreationDate="2017-05-15T09:22:03.387" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;House on the Rock&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Gsifk.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Gsifk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://%20https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_on_the_Rock&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;real location&lt;/a&gt;, a slightly fictional version of which was featured in Neil Gaiman's &lt;a href=&quot;http://americangods.wikia.com/wiki/House_on_the_Rock&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;American Gods&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a roadside tourist attraction where the Old Gods meet for their war council. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zehea.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zehea.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feed names could be&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Media&lt;/strong&gt; - for Movies &amp;amp; TV&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mr. Ibis&lt;/strong&gt; - for our meta&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mad Sweeney&lt;/strong&gt; - for featured posts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;[TBD]&lt;/em&gt; - for main site feed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastActivityDate="2017-05-15T09:22:03.387" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10928" CreationDate="2017-05-15T14:18:29.913" Score="14" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%27s_Labyrinth&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pan's Labyrinth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nTWX4.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nTWX4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a Mexican-Spanish film &lt;strong&gt;(non-hollywood)&lt;/strong&gt;. A young girl, Ofelia, is in difficult straits — she's growing up in the middle of a war, her family's in difficulty, and her mother is ailing. Ofelia meets some extremely weird, freakish, and wonderful creatures — including the faun above who you may have seen before. The faun believes her to be the reincarnation of a powerful figure, and sets her off into fantastic and perilous circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was written and directed by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_del_Toro&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Guillermo del Toro&lt;/a&gt;. It has extremely high ratings on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457430/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt; (8.2/10), &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457430/criticreviews?ref_=tt_ov_rt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Metacritic&lt;/a&gt; (98/100), and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pans_labyrinth/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rotten Tomatoes&lt;/a&gt; (95% critics, 91% audience). Those scores are all very well deserved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's one of my favorite films that I've been meaning to re-watch, and I'd be happy to watch it with all of you should this one get chosen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This film has &lt;strong&gt;English subtitles&lt;/strong&gt; but not an English dub. (Gallifreyan has found there's a Russian dub, but I can't vouch for its quality.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bonus points&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Foreign film - yes. &lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Female protagonist - yes. &lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Available for video room - no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;+2 total&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15502" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-05-18T23:03:43.143" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10932" CreationDate="2017-05-15T14:41:00.990" Score="22" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Ten Forward&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly, the last room was too much of a wretched hive of scum and villainy.  So let's name our room after that more civilized establishment from that other major sci-fi franchise &amp;mdash; a place where anyone can go to let their hair down and enjoy their beverage of choice without hassle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/LgzbKe6_DN4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Corresponding suggested feed names...&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wesley&lt;/strong&gt; (main site feed) &amp;mdash; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Shut up, Wesley!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Memory Beta&lt;/strong&gt; (meta feed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Red Alert&lt;/strong&gt; (featured posts)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Intruder Alert&lt;/strong&gt; (Movies &amp;amp; TV)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/KL3WbzUAEok?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastEditorUserId="40294" LastEditDate="2017-05-16T13:33:50.797" LastActivityDate="2017-05-16T13:33:50.797" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10932" CreationDate="2017-05-15T15:15:53.700" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd really prefer something that's less of a mouthful! What about&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Milliways (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Milliways&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Milliways&lt;/a&gt; is the actual name of the restaurant, and it's easy to say &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; type when referring to it shorthand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &amp;quot;The Restaurant at the End of the Universe&amp;quot; could also just go in the room description, but it's not necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was also suggested during the last time we tried to rename the room, so legacy bonus?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-05-15T15:15:53.700" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10932" CreationDate="2017-05-15T18:27:30.130" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just a thought I had:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Leaky Cauldron&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another possibility is &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Diagon Alley&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;with feed names like &quot;Flourish and Blotts,&quot; &quot;Ollivander's,&quot; etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51142" LastEditorUserId="51142" LastEditDate="2017-05-15T20:53:06.493" LastActivityDate="2017-05-15T20:53:06.493" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10946" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-15T21:15:10.900" Score="7" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed a few recent edits adding the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artificial-gravity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;artificial-gravity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;artificial-gravity&lt;/a&gt; tag to questions about artificial gravity. A few of these questions already featured the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gravity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gravity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gravity&lt;/a&gt; tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really see why we'd need both tags; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gravity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gravity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gravity&lt;/a&gt; should cover both. Maybe setting up a synonym could be useful, but I think having separate tags is going to lead either to duplication (every &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artificial-gravity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;artificial-gravity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;artificial-gravity&lt;/a&gt; question is also a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gravity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gravity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gravity&lt;/a&gt; question), or separation (half of the questions would use one tag, the other half would use the other tag, so you'd have to use both when searching). In either case, it'd be better to stick with one tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46611" LastActivityDate="2020-06-21T09:00:35.703" Title="Do we need an 'artificial gravity' tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10947" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10955" CreationDate="2017-05-15T21:34:22.107" Score="19" ViewCount="274" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/children&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;children&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;children&lt;/a&gt; tag that is currently on 48 questions. To wit: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Offspring that have not yet fully matured or reached the designated&#xA;  stage of adulthood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of these, fully 43 are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, a use that seems to be made unnecessary by the more widely used &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/childrens-novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;childrens-novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;childrens-novel&lt;/a&gt;. The other five are all over the map, with no consistent theme. Certainly most are not specifically &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; children. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, how would we use this tag if it were employed more consistently? Using it on any question about child characters would not be terribly helpful, so should it be questions about children as a group? The treatment of child characters compared to adults? Something else? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we need this tag? If so, how should it be used? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-05-29T10:26:21.723" LastActivityDate="2017-05-29T10:26:21.723" Title="Do we need [children]?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10946" CreationDate="2017-05-15T22:52:20.570" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I created the tag because there seemed to be some cases where a person was asking about the mechanics which &lt;strong&gt;artificially&lt;/strong&gt; create or manipulate the gravity users face. This seemed to be more than just how users dealt with the &lt;strong&gt;natural&lt;/strong&gt; force(s) of gravity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that this is Sci-Fi, there is potentially a large application of this concept of artificial gravity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, here's how Wikipedia defines gravity:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gravity&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gravity, or gravitation, is a &lt;strong&gt;natural phenomenon&lt;/strong&gt; by which all things with mass are brought toward (or gravitate toward) one another, including planets, stars and galaxies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;-&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gravity&lt;/a&gt;, Wikipedia.&lt;/em&gt; [emphasis mine]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whereas in science fiction the application seems to be more of a hitherto undefined mechanism by which gravity is &lt;strong&gt;produced&lt;/strong&gt;, often using&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_gravity_(fiction)#Rotational_gravity&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rotational gravity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Whereby a ship or system is spun around on its axis, creating a centrifugal force, as in the movie &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Interstellar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_gravity_(fiction)#Field_generators&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Field generators&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Whereby some sort of machine or force is used to create or manipulate the gravity required to simulate Earth-like conditions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or others&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Now let's score that sucka!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7871/21267&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; the tag would get the following score:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does is make sense to be an expert in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artificial-gravity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;artificial-gravity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;artificial-gravity&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt; (+2)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Users may heave read or studied a fair bit about the applications of artificial gravity in science fiction. You also don't need to be an expert in any particular canon to be an expert in the field of artificial gravity. I.e. you don't need to be an expert in &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; to understand artificial gravity.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does it make sense of a question to be tagged &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artificial-gravity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;artificial-gravity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;artificial-gravity&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;strong&gt;Maybe&lt;/strong&gt; (+1)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;A question may be wanting to ask specifically about the workings of a particular artificial gravity system, however, in general this may be along side a certain canon or with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;. For example &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/159253/which-sci-fi-work-introduced-the-concept-of-artificial-gravity&quot;&gt;Which Sci-Fi work introduced the concept of &amp;quot;Artificial Gravity&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; asks a &quot;history of&quot; type question and the accompanying &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction-genre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science-fiction-genre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science-fiction-genre&lt;/a&gt; tags are generic and could be done without.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artificial-gravity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;artificial-gravity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;artificial-gravity&lt;/a&gt; have a single, universally-unambiguous meaning? &lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt; (+2)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This is a concept applied liberally in science fiction, especially any works which deal with space travel or spaceships. It is a simple and common &quot;hand-waive&quot; and is easily understood.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artificial-gravity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;artificial-gravity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;artificial-gravity&lt;/a&gt; likely to be used correctly just based on its name? &lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt; (+2)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;There is no other meaning to artificial gravity and the &quot;artificial&quot; part distinguishes it from &quot;natural&quot; gravity.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there &quot;enough&quot; (&gt; 15) but not &quot;too many&quot; (&gt; 10% site-wide) questions that qualify for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artificial-gravity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;artificial-gravity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;artificial-gravity&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt; (+2)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;As you can see, I've already tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artificial-gravity&quot;&gt;35 questions&lt;/a&gt; with the tag, however there's not likely to be greater than 50-60, given that there's only &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?tab=Relevance&amp;amp;q=is%3Aquestion%20gravity&quot;&gt;271 questions&lt;/a&gt; with the word &quot;gravity&quot; in them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are people like to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artificial-gravity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;artificial-gravity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;artificial-gravity&lt;/a&gt; to find questions to answer? &lt;strong&gt;Maybe)&lt;/strong&gt; (+1)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I see this tag as more of a contextual tag, which serves to describe what you're looking at 'at a glance', not so much used on its own to find an answer. You possibly could, but you'd likely use it alongside a canon or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;For example, we can see below that the questions is immediately talking about the artificial gravity used on a space ship, 'at a glance':&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/I5raR.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/I5raR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Screen cap of question: &amp;quot;How does gravity work on Serenity?&amp;quot; (https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/13621/21267&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there likely some users who will favorite or ignore &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artificial-gravity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;artificial-gravity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;artificial-gravity&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt; (-1)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Could &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artificial-gravity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;artificial-gravity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;artificial-gravity&lt;/a&gt; be reasonably used to feed questions to a specialized chat room? &lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt; (-1)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It's not generic or useful enough on its own for feeds.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artificial-gravity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;artificial-gravity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;artificial-gravity&lt;/a&gt; be used to search for questions (for any reason) in a way that keyword searching cannot accomplish? &lt;strong&gt;Maybe&lt;/strong&gt; (+1)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Although using the tag can help reduce the size of results if I'm looking for specific details of the concept in a canon, it doesn't add any &lt;strong&gt;significant&lt;/strong&gt; benefit.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Total: 9&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, that's a pretty low score, I mean it's not &lt;em&gt;horrible, but it's not great either&lt;/em&gt;. But as I mentioned earlier, this tag is a 'descriptive' which helps to describe &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; the question is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Gravity vs Artificial Gravity&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is true that in many cases the uses of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gravity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gravity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gravity&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artificial-gravity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;artificial-gravity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;artificial-gravity&lt;/a&gt; are interchangeable, however, with some proper definition and usage guidance, we can ensure that the correct one is used in each case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, Let's have a look at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/94749/21267&quot;&gt;Are blaster bolts affected by gravity?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's specifically asking about the &lt;em&gt;natural&lt;/em&gt; effects of gravity&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would have no need for the use of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artificial-gravity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;artificial-gravity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;artificial-gravity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/109792/21267&quot;&gt;How fast did Babylon 5 spin or what was the highest gravity level on board?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's asking about how the artificially created gravity, by way of centrifugal forces, have an effect on the real gravitational forces of the ship toward the crew&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It makes sense to use both the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gravity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gravity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gravity&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artificial-gravity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;artificial-gravity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;artificial-gravity&lt;/a&gt; tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/3680/21267&quot;&gt;Technology behind the ZPM and Gravity Gun&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Talks only about the produced or manipulated gravitational force, rather than the real or natural effects of gravity&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artificial-gravity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;artificial-gravity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;artificial-gravity&lt;/a&gt; is necessary&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;In summary: I like it, it's not causing any harm as it's not confusing; leave it alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="36115" LastEditDate="2017-05-15T22:57:47.217" LastActivityDate="2017-05-15T22:57:47.217" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10949" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10951" CreationDate="2017-05-16T04:47:41.823" Score="25" ViewCount="355" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some science fiction and fantasy stories describe religious subjects in a fictionalized setting.  Probably the most obvious example of this is the &lt;em&gt;His Dark Materials&lt;/em&gt; trilogy.  I imagine that some of the material in that trilogy might offend some Christians, but not being Christian myself, I lack the relevant context to judge this directly.  Wikipedia certainly seems to think that people &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Dark_Materials#Controversies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;have been offended&lt;/a&gt;, at any rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6838/should-myths-be-considered-religions&quot;&gt;discussed&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1053/should-we-exclude-religious-texts-and-which&quot;&gt;religion&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10186/how-do-we-differentiate-between-religion-and-fiction&quot;&gt;previously&lt;/a&gt;.  By the standards set out in those questions, I think it's fairly obvious that &lt;em&gt;His Dark Materials&lt;/em&gt; is on-topic while the Bible is off-topic (and one of the answers says as much).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But we can't stop there, because it is not enough to know what's on-topic and what's off-topic.  We need to ask and answer these questions respectfully.  So, given that we want to treat our users with respect:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it OK to cite the Bible (or any religious text) in order to answer questions about fiction based on said text?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What if the text explains things which are not directly addressed by the fiction?&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To give a concrete example: Suppose a user asks about Metatron's behavior or motivations in &lt;em&gt;His Dark Materials&lt;/em&gt;.  The answer cites the Talmud and other rabbinic literature for general information about Metatron's background, history, etc., and then discusses it in the fictional context.    Is this OK?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's my recollection that &lt;em&gt;His Dark Materials&lt;/em&gt; does not thoroughly explain who Metatron is or why we should care about him, so the alternative is a rather sparse answer.  Does that matter, or should we always apply the same policy?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What should we do about things like the &lt;em&gt;Divine Comedy&lt;/em&gt;, which may not technically qualify as religious texts, but describe things which many people now literally believe to be true?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We had &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9565/36526&quot;&gt;some discussion of answers that cite religious texts&lt;/a&gt;, but the most-upvoted answer seems to be describing the situation in which someone answers a question about, say, &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; by citing the Bible, which is just a bad answer because &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; has nothing to do with the Bible.  I'm asking about the situation where the fiction is closely related to, and even based on, a religious text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize this looks like three or four questions, but they're all just special cases of my real question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When asking and answering about this kind of fiction, how can I best avoid hurting or offending religious users?  What specific concerns should I bear in mind, and what sorts of things should I avoid saying or doing?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="36526" LastEditDate="2017-05-16T04:54:45.110" LastActivityDate="2017-05-16T06:28:51.297" Title="What's the best way to respectfully discuss stories which fictionalize religious subjects?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10949" CreationDate="2017-05-16T06:22:07.390" Score="31" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Basic rules&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Don’t be afraid to cite religious sources&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are fictional works based on any and all religious sources. There are also works of fiction based on non-religious historical accounts, scientific theories, news stories, and many other, perhaps less controversial (or at least more mundane), accounts of reality. Given that these works influence the fiction we discuss, we shouldn’t avoid mentioning them altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Don’t call religious texts fiction&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The users of this site have many different religions, including the lack of one. Some people may feel that religious texts are incorrect, or even that they were written for the purpose of entertainment rather than meant to be take literally. There’s nothing wrong with holding any of these opinions—&lt;strong&gt;just don’t imply it in your answer.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There’s no need to say that a religious text is true, just avoid asserting its falsehood. I can think of almost no situation where someone would have to choose between describing a religious work as fact, or describing as fiction. Instead of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Philip Pullman based his story on Christian fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;why not go with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Philip Pullman based his story on Christian theology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note: obviously, most people wouldn’t write the first sentence. It’s a bit of an exaggerated example).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Use other words carefully&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if one doesn’t directly call a religion false, there’s still certain language that could give that impression. It’s probably best to use “theology” rather than “mythology,” for example, let alone “myths” or “legends.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s also important to have a consistent style. Even if one decides to talk about “Christian mythology” (referring, say, to stories told about elements of Christian faith rather than canon), one shouldn’t talk about “Jewish theology” for the same sorts of things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, if a word carries connotations of falsehood or fiction, it’s probably best not to use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Be accurate&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if you don’t say (or even believe) that a religion is false, it’s still important to accurately represent that religion. It might be best to avoid saying (for example):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Philip Pullman based his story on Christian theology, in which God is a malevolent entity who holds back humanity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Satanic Verses&lt;/em&gt;, a universally acknowledged accurate representation of  mainstream Islamic doctrine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be aware of more subtle things, too. Religious characters that appear in fiction are often altered from their original depictions, and while this is not a bad thing, the two shouldn’t be confused. Don’t say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ares is a notorious motorcycle gang member, as shown in &lt;em&gt;The Lightning Thief&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gabriel was a real slacker! He tried to get himself worshiped as Loki and abandoned his family! I saw it on &lt;em&gt;Supernatural&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be perfectly fine to use textual explications of Metatron’s behavior for &lt;em&gt;His Dark Materials&lt;/em&gt;, for example. Just make sure it’s clear you’re not doing the opposite—conflating the fictional angel with the real one, and thus implying something about the real Metatron that believers generally don’t think is true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Be cautious&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a book was not written as fiction, don’t treat it as fiction. This isn’t just about religion, but about any book that many people believe is false, but many believe is true. Accounts of alien abductions, stories of alternative medicine cures, biographies written by known confabulators—all should be taken at face value, at least for the purpose of treating them as fiction here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don’t use a religion’s prominence or social status as a criterion. Scientology texts (if written as true) are no more fiction than the Bible.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a clearly fictional book (in terms of authorial intent) has inspired a real-life religion, such as the Divine Comedy or &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;, it’s perfectly fine to discuss it as fiction. But there’s still no reason to say things like “the picture of Hell described in &lt;em&gt;Inferno&lt;/em&gt; is fake” or “no one really believes in the Jedi.”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-05-16T06:28:51.297" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10932" CreationDate="2017-05-16T21:48:38.857" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Planet Krypton&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;No, not the one that exploded!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Planet Krypton is a supehero-themed restaurant seen most notably in &lt;em&gt;Kingdon Come&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VAHiH.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VAHiHm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JPjgS.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JPjgSm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;Click for full resolution&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In line with the whole superhero tradition, it features ridiculously dressed staff, and ridiculous names that are spoofs of ridiculous superhero names, e.g. &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Starro&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Starro&lt;/a&gt; the Casserole&quot;, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Mister_Mxyzptlk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mxyzptlk&lt;/a&gt; Mozarella Sticks&quot;, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Power_Girl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Power Girl&lt;/a&gt; Chicken Sandwich&quot; (the cut is the breast), and &quot;Man of Beef&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feed names could be in line with those, but I don't have any ideas (yet).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2017-05-16T23:22:44.873" LastActivityDate="2017-05-16T23:22:44.873" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10932" CreationDate="2017-05-16T22:34:24.360" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Name:&lt;/strong&gt; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For all the reason already given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;In addition, what should the chat feeds' names be?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Feed Name:&lt;/strong&gt; Marvin, Marvin is a Robot that has a brain the size of a planet.  I can not think of a single character in HHGTG world, well other than Prax That would be more suitable for the feed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marvin The Paranoid Android&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Marvin the Paranoid AndroidMarvin was made by the Sirius Cybernetics&#xA;  Corporation, and is a prototype robot with the new GPP feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He's incredibly smart. Through very odd circumstances involving&#xA;  time-travel, he is thirty-seven times older than the universe itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In all that time, the diodes down his left side, which cause him pain,&#xA;  were never replaced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He's very depressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Prax: I wanted to find the section that defines him, it was in The chat room searched that and could not find it. So a little help would be nice :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78451" LastEditorUserId="78451" LastEditDate="2017-05-16T22:38:27.097" LastActivityDate="2017-05-16T22:38:27.097" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10947" CreationDate="2017-05-17T18:30:52.623" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/children&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;children&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;children&lt;/a&gt; seems to be a poorly-defined tag for the purpose it can serve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a clear usage case for when a book contains children as primary protagonists or antagonists or major plot points, especially when coupled with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; and other ID tags, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/trope&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;trope&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;trope&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;In essence&lt;/strong&gt;, we should treat &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/child-characters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;child-characters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;child-characters&lt;/a&gt; as a sub-genre of SFF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some notable works that are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; children's novels, but feature children as primary characters throughout all or most of the work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Philip Pullman's &lt;em&gt;His Dark Materials&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stephen King's &lt;em&gt;IT&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;John Ajvide Lindqvist's &lt;em&gt;Let the Right One In&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;J.K. Rowling's &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; (if you admit they're Young Adult and not Children's novels)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can improve the tag by changing the tag wiki excerpts away from a definition of what children are to actual usage guidance. Definitions do not belong in tag wiki excerpts anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should be used when a character being a child is important to the question, but not just for any question about a character that happens to be a child.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can rename the tag to: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/child-characters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;child-characters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;child-characters&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, we're left with a small handful of questions that need to be changed from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/child-characters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;child-characters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;child-characters&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/childrens-novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;childrens-novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;childrens-novel&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kids-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kids-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kids-movie&lt;/a&gt;, or simply be removed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, I believe our first response to tags should primarily be &lt;em&gt;improving them&lt;/em&gt; and making them useful, versus simply deleting them. Generally when a tag gets to the point of being used on nearly 50 questions, it means a decent number of people found it useful. When it's brought up on meta, though, the main issue appears to be that it's not applied consistently or defined well enough. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both of these changes would mimic &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/female-characters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;female-characters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;female-characters&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stories about child characters (that aren't specifically children's novels) or female characters are notable, and are essentially sub-genres in SFF. To that end, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10908/31178&quot;&gt;discussed on meta about genres&lt;/a&gt;, these examples for the &lt;code&gt;*-character&lt;/code&gt; tags follow the same trends and use cases as our other genres, some of which have been long-accepted by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2017-05-17T19:46:23.990" LastActivityDate="2017-05-17T19:46:23.990" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10947" CreationDate="2017-05-17T19:25:58.457" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag should be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We don’t really need it to label &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions about children’s books.&lt;/strong&gt; We have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/childrens-novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;childrens-novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;childrens-novel&lt;/a&gt; tag for most of those instances, which is used on far more questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;While there could be a potential usage case for questions about the nature of childhood in fiction, or the treatment or prevalence of children as protagonists, much as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/female-characters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;female-characters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;female-characters&lt;/a&gt; is used, that’s not how it’s currently being used. It’s just being placed inconsistently on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions that feature children. In addition, I have seen very few questions about childhood as a concept, rather than just characters who happen to be children (that is to say, almost none).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We don’t really need to label &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions about children vs. those about childrens books, any more than we need  to label questions about adults or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/female-characters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;female-characters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;female-characters&lt;/a&gt;. Though the latter tag is sometimes used in such a manner (like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction-genre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science-fiction-genre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science-fiction-genre&lt;/a&gt;) the vast majority of questions about female characters, like the vast majority of questions about child characters, don’t need a specific tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-05-17T19:25:58.457" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10956" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-17T20:17:03.110" Score="13" ViewCount="324" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been a number of discussions on tags where it seems like the &lt;code&gt;*-identification&lt;/code&gt; questions simply throw a wrench into the works. Genre tags, media tags, oddball topics/genre hybrids like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/super-hero&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;super-hero&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;super-hero&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/post-apocalyptic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;post-apocalyptic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;post-apocalyptic&lt;/a&gt;. There's any number of tags that don't necessarily stand up to scrutiny as helpful tags, &lt;em&gt;unless&lt;/em&gt; you combine them with &lt;code&gt;*-identification&lt;/code&gt; tags (or stuff like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/trope&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;trope&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;trope&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt;), such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ufos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ufos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ufos&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mecha&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mecha&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mecha&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/medieval&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;medieval&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;medieval&lt;/a&gt; and more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;feel&lt;/em&gt; like there's a regular debate about whether or not a tag is worthy enough to exist based on how/when it's used &lt;em&gt;outside&lt;/em&gt; of &lt;code&gt;*-identification&lt;/code&gt; questions. Most of the tags that pop up, including the 3 I mentioned above, are mostly &lt;code&gt;*-identification&lt;/code&gt; buddies, but &lt;em&gt;have no usage guidance&lt;/em&gt; indicating that's the case. We also don't have any strong guidance on when we should apply such tags if the OP doesn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's some facts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Over 20% of &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; our questions are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; is our top tag with a lead of almost 3,900 questions compared to either of the next two top tags, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/672083/story-id-questions-having-at-least-one-rarely-used-tag&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Almost 1,600 story-id questions&lt;/a&gt; are paired up with at least 1 tag that's used in &amp;lt; 50 other questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions are a &lt;em&gt;massive&lt;/em&gt; portion of our entire stack, for better or worse. Simply tagging them with &lt;code&gt;+ genre&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;+ media&lt;/code&gt; &lt;em&gt;doesn't scale&lt;/em&gt;. Searching by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; + &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; still returns over 600 questions to sift through and + &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-story&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-story&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-story&lt;/a&gt; is still over &lt;em&gt;1,500&lt;/em&gt;, in no way helpfully guiding anyone to a question due to sheer scale. They used to be sufficient, but it's no longer the case, and more guiding tags are often met with pushback or even scorn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we have separate guidelines specifically for making or allowing tags meant specifically to pair with identification questions, outside of the few that have already been grandfathered in?&lt;/strong&gt; As opposed to a stream of discussions on whether or not we should nuke tags whose primary purpose is to facilitate &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, as seen below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10906/do-we-need-science-fiction-genre-tag&quot;&gt;Do we need &amp;quot;science-fiction-genre&amp;quot; tag?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10870/is-it-time-for-villains-to-get-their-just-deserts&quot;&gt;Is it time for [villains] to get their just deserts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10947/do-we-need-children&quot;&gt;Do we need [children]?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10814/lets-solve-the-mystery&quot;&gt;Let&amp;#39;s solve the [mystery]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10713/an-apocalypse-of-posts&quot;&gt;An Apocalypse of Posts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9186/what-is-correct-usage-of-military-sf&quot;&gt;What is correct usage of [military-sf]?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/293/should-we-do-away-with-the-media-tags-books-novel-tv-movies-etc&quot;&gt;Should we do away with the media tags (books, novel, TV, movies, etc.)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And more, where we have have discussions on tags that are heavily or primarily used by ID questions, and many of them fire fighting tags that are otherwise &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt;, partly because they're being used inconsistently and for story-id questions, and we have no tag guidance on making supplemental genre or topic tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of the discussion is to identify whether or not the community feels that this is a problem and we should put effort into addressing it, or it's fine and we should just continue to let things develop as they are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coming up with guidelines to focus on types of tags to make, how to word usage guidance, and how we should enforce usage could take considerably amount of energy that's simply not worth it if the community doesn't want to do anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, others may have noticed issues with the system that I haven't, or have counter-arguments to what I've called out as issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-05-18T20:37:53.053" Title="Should we admit that story-identification breaks tagging conventions and make new guidelines?" 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  <row Id="10957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10932" CreationDate="2017-05-17T20:54:30.840" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10971/quarterly-chat-name-rotation-q4-2017&quot;&gt;I've now posted the proposal as it's own question.&lt;/a&gt;, go there to submit your names/vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had a proposal in chat that went over pretty well, so I was asked to submit it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My idea is to make the chat room a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodeck&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;holodeck&lt;/a&gt; of sorts, and periodically change the name/feeds to represent some of the varying fanbases we have in the community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, on something like a quarterly basis we could change the name around categories such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Star Trek&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comic books&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially adding a flavor to the room. To me, it also makes it thematically match our stack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Changing the name/feeds is somewhat of a trivial process, and the link to the room would stay the same so long as the room name is removed, leaving only the room #:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/58631/&quot;&gt;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/58631/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people like this general idea, then we can make another meta for the details of implementing it and choosing the rotation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="54887" LastEditDate="2017-05-26T07:04:29.613" LastActivityDate="2017-05-26T07:04:29.613" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10956" CreationDate="2017-05-18T03:12:18.297" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been a little confused about the point of getting more tags on this. There are only two possible advantages that I know of currently. Initially, I was thinking of how it would help to find questions that you remember exist, but aren't sure what the name of the book was (especially useful if they are duplicates of a more recent post). Then, in the comments, CreationEdge pointed out another possible benefit I wasn't focusing on: guiding people who want to write answers to questions they might be able to answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Search for finding answered questions you know exist&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's practical to expect someone to be able to find a particular story-identification question only through tag search no matter what types of tags are used, so I don't really see the need for coming up with some kind of better system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Searching by story-identification + novel still returns over 600 questions to sift through and + short-story is still over 1,500, in no way helpfully guiding anyone to a question due to sheer scale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The obvious way to narrow down these search results is to use &lt;em&gt;search terms&lt;/em&gt; as well as tags. People searching through these questions can type key words that fit the story they are thinking of. I don't see how tags would make searches easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Search for finding questions you might be able to answer&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of searching for questions to answer, filtering by &lt;code&gt;hasaccepted:no&lt;/code&gt; is definitely also useful. It looks like there are around 5000 story identification questions without accepted answers currently, 824 &amp;quot;short story&amp;quot; identification requests without accepted answers, and 363 &amp;quot;novel&amp;quot; identification requests without accepted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I feel like it's never going to work too well to use search to find story identification questions that you might be able to answer. It's not very scalable—you're getting one person's eyeballs on the question (your own) and no matter how much of an expert you are, it's likely that you won't be familiar with the story. To me, it seems like these questions usually get answered either through being on the front page of the site and getting lots of eyeballs on them—some of which might belong to people who are familiar with the work—or through the steady stream of visitors who arrive here from Google search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43164" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-05-18T14:43:32.087" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10960" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-18T05:04:25.660" Score="-5" ViewCount="276" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some users have been suspended from chat for long periods of time. CMs are justifying such long suspensions by saying chat isn't the main feature of the site. This is true to a certain extent, but not 100% true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lots of times, we fall into long discussion in comments these users (which is unavoidable at times) and chat comes to the rescue. Here, chat serves like a main feature of the site because comments aren't meant for discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, some of the users who have been suspended from chat are old users with a high reputation who are highly active on the site. So, it is likely that we can encounter a comment discussion with those users in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What to do then? Should I continue that discussion in comments until it has a conclusion and then move it to chat? Or, should we allow them for limited access to chat (access to only comments turned into a chat room, that's also for limited time)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2017-05-18T14:14:50.670" LastActivityDate="2017-05-18T14:14:50.670" Title="Can I have discussions in the comments of a post with users who are suspended from chat?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|chat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10960" CreationDate="2017-05-18T05:16:21.717" Score="23" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Mainly, no&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comments are not for discussion&lt;/strong&gt;. That’s why we can flag comments as, for example, “too chatty.” &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can respond to questions and statements that users make about the question itself, but even then, if a conversation gets too long, it should be moved to chat. The fact that banned users won’t be able to follow you there may be a bit inconvenient, but chat-banned users being unable to access chat is a &lt;em&gt;feature&lt;/em&gt;, not a bug. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for allowing chat-banned users limited access to chat, that’s not something that moderators on this site should generally do, even if they can (which may not be the case). This holds double when a user has been banned by the CMs. If you think this would be a good feature to have &lt;em&gt;overall&lt;/em&gt;, it might be worth bringing up on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions&quot;&gt;main meta&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastActivityDate="2017-05-18T05:16:21.717" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10956" CreationDate="2017-05-18T20:37:53.053" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, I'd like to apologize for having my question itself be unclear. I noticed a problem, and I'm having trouble figuring out the best way to call out that problem as a &quot;question&quot; for meta, while my thoughts are also filled with possible solutions and related problems. Anyway, let's start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Intro&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's our list of identification tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character-identification&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/episode-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;episode-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;episode-identification&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/object-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;object-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;object-identification&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/actor-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;actor-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;actor-identification&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/music-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;music-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;music-identification&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scene-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scene-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scene-identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comprise 22% of all of our questions. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/origins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;origins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;origins&lt;/a&gt; adds another 1%. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These types of questions serve several purposes, which I'll address individually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Helping the asker find what they're looking for&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the most basic and obvious use of the questions! They are helpful to the person asking, because they get the information they want and leave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The primary source of criticism from these questions comes from comments similar to Jeff Atwood's on his &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2012/02/29/lets-play-the-guessing-game/&quot;&gt;infamous blog post about the subject&lt;/a&gt;. But guess what? Jeff Atwood hated the idea of SciFi.SE, and left the company partly because his vision of what the Stacks should be didn't match up with what they were becoming and what they are now. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't mean intend this as an &lt;em&gt;ad hominem&lt;/em&gt;, but I believe the criticisms outlined there aren't &lt;em&gt;valid&lt;/em&gt;, simply because we as a community have long ago decided otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the premise that these questions are useful at the very least to the asker, then we can increase their ability to receive an answer by increasing the visibility of the question to those who might have an answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Helping people with expertise find the question&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've done this so far using media tags such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-story&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-story&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-story&lt;/a&gt;. And, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/short-stories/topusers&quot;&gt;we clearly have experts&lt;/a&gt; in some of these tags. Whether they're experts because they've seemingly read every short story known to man, or because they're adept at searching their resources based on small clues, having these media tags helps to dramatically reduce the scope of the search through memory or data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can browse unanswered questions in a genre, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hard-sci-fi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hard-sci-fi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hard-sci-fi&lt;/a&gt; or target audience such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/young-adult&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;young-adult&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;young-adult&lt;/a&gt;, to help narrow things down. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet, even by combining those tags, sometimes there's simply too many to sift through. Plain search terms can also be a mess, something easily seen when looking for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/slytherin&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;slytherin&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;slytherin&lt;/a&gt; questions, where searching &lt;code&gt;slytherin&lt;/code&gt; on its own raised far too many false flags to be useful (this is a direct counter-point to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6839/when-should-character-tags-be-created-recreated&quot;&gt;argument that character tags aren't useful&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means we have a need for some more specific tags, to help categorize questions. We already do this to some extent, which I'll address later, but it's been mostly slipshod up to this point, with a clear goal of aiding identification questions in mind. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Helping people who read the question before find it again once they have an answer&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes you read an identification question, don't have an answer at the time, but later re-read the work or come upon it in a search and realize it's the answer to that question. The trouble is, finding that question again later can be a problem!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you remember it was about a female character do you narrow it down by searching &quot;female&quot; or &quot;girl&quot; or &quot;chick&quot; or &quot;lady&quot;? Or if the main focus was about a UFO, do you search &quot;ufo&quot;, &quot;space ship&quot;, &quot;spaceship&quot; &quot;aliens&quot;, &quot;first contact&quot; or what? Do we resort to Google to try and find stuff on our own stack that we &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; exists but simply isn't cataloged well enough? Maybe. But I think we can do better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Helping people come across interesting stuff that they might want to look into&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is perhaps the most controversial purpose of the usefulness of identification questions. It's certainly not part of the advertised or intended purpose of our Q&amp;amp;A. Yet, intent or not, &lt;em&gt;it happens&lt;/em&gt;. Perhaps I'm alone in this, but I have read issues of comics or short stories simply because they showed up on the stack. Similarly, I've gone through and read passages from Tolkien's writings after browsing through tags such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/istari&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;istari&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;istari&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has provided me &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; uses, then. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I've increased my knowledge, and thus realm of expertise, should any similar questions come up in the future&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Duplicates are not uncommon, there's 618 of them for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; alone&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I could also rule out the book if I know it's not a match&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's given me something fun or interesting to read (which also describes 75% of my interaction with the stack). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;So... what?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So... there's a need to make it easier to find topics &lt;em&gt;within&lt;/em&gt; identification questions, just as we've done with our other large tags. If you &lt;a href=&quot;http://yellowantphil.com/tags/scifi.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;look at our tag map&lt;/a&gt; you'll see tags like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-one-ring&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-one-ring&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-one-ring&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/severus-snape&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;severus-snape&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;severus-snape&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-force&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-force&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-force&lt;/a&gt; and more. Each of these work-specific tags has been somewhat controversial in the past, yet are widely used today. It's a need that seems to be easier to pinpoint or put to paper for specific works, but it exists for identification (and history) questions, too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;New(?) guidelines&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps not new. It seems to me that we have some loose idea of guidelines for identification-supplementing tags, we just don't put them into practice consistently, or appear to make the tags with that specific intent. Rather, a tag gets made by whomever and it stays being poorly-defined or used for a long time. A recent specific example is the ongoing discussion of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/children&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;children&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;children&lt;/a&gt;, a tag that has been around for over six &lt;em&gt;years&lt;/em&gt;, but was only brought up this week. Or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mystery&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mystery&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mystery&lt;/a&gt; which was &lt;em&gt;completely&lt;/em&gt; burninated, removing it even from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions where it was correctly applied and used the most (and the problem appeared to be the usage guidance, not the tag).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'd argue is that these two tags are both examples of genres which can significantly help narrow down the scope of the questions needed to look at to find a question or its answer, and aide users in the same manner as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-story&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-story&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-story&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/young-adult&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;young-adult&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;young-adult&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key is to be explicit in that purpose by:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Making tags clearly refer to the genre/sub-genre&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/medieval&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;medieval&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;medieval&lt;/a&gt; -&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/medieval-fantasy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;medieval-fantasy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;medieval-fantasy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/military-sf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;military-sf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;military-sf&lt;/a&gt; -&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/military-sci-fi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;military-sci-fi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;military-sci-fi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/female-characters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;female-characters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;female-characters&lt;/a&gt; -&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/female-protagonist&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;female-protagonist&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;female-protagonist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide clear tag wiki guidance&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;medieval from: Use this tag for works written or based in Middle Ages (5th to the 15th century).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;medieval-fantasy to: For identification or history questions about a work in the medieval fantasy sub-genre&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;female-characters -&gt; female-protagonist: For identification or history questions about works notable for having a female protagonist&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Update other genres, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/horror&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;horror&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;horror&lt;/a&gt; to have new verbiage indicating &quot;For identification or history questions...&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Always keep in mind that tag wiki excerpts are not meant to be definitions, but instead provide usage guidance&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Proactively removing misapplied tags to non-identification questions (here, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; would get an exception)&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This would have saved &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mystery&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mystery&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mystery&lt;/a&gt;, make &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/super-hero&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;super-hero&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;super-hero&lt;/a&gt; have a clearer scope, fix &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/children&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;children&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;children&lt;/a&gt; and by contrast show us that none of the current &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/villains&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;villains&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;villains&lt;/a&gt; questions are valid (since it's already slated to be axed anyway, and under these guidelines, we'd be expecting the tag to be used for works told from the villains point of view)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also propose that, over the normal course of things, if an identification questions gets answered, we &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; go back and edit in those genre/sub-genre tags, which adds to the usefulness of the whole endeavor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a call to start &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9180/what-should-we-do-about-tags-on-story-id-questions&quot;&gt;tagging things with lettuce&lt;/a&gt;. But there are a wealth of sub genres available to SFF, and categories that cross genres such as female protagonists, anti-heroes, alternate histories (a note, currently &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alternate-history&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alternate-history&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alternate-history&lt;/a&gt; is about 1/2 ID questions that'd fit these guidelines, and 1/2 questions where it's used poorly enough that we'd normally considering axing the whole thing), and more. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Closing&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see that any of my suggestions fall outside the line of what we have long accepted as useful or expected, but I think the tags are certainly neglected and we have a predisposition towards nuking tags instead of improving them. &lt;em&gt;Sometimes&lt;/em&gt; we consider that they add use to identification tags, but some of the discussions I've seen or participated in have been about whether or not existing solely for the purpose of adding it to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; is enough. Rather than trying to see if the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/08/07/the-death-of-meta-tags/&quot;&gt;tag can stand on its own&lt;/a&gt; we should should consciously address it from the viewpoint of:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Are a high proportion of these questions identification questions? If so, should we make this an identification-only tag? What steps do we have to take to improve the tag for ID-only?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Input and feedback are appreciated. I'm also working on compiling a list of some of the tags that I have found that are the most obvious examples of needing to be categorized as &quot;identification and history&quot; tags, which may or may not help my argument. (As you've seen here, there are some tags that on their own are &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; or simply poorly used, but when paired with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; make a lot of sense. There's quite a large number.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2017-05-18T20:37:53.053" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10963" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10964" CreationDate="2017-05-19T16:13:52.713" Score="13" ViewCount="361" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sure most of you have seen the occasional cynical comment on questions with things like &lt;em&gt;Because the author/screenwriters didn't think of it&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;It's just a story&lt;/em&gt; or some other such nonsense. This isn't very constructive towards actually answering questions except in the case of extremely sloppy storytelling. &#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Should these types of comments be flagged, addressed, or merely ignored?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78411" LastActivityDate="2017-05-19T20:07:34.250" Title="What is the proper recourse for bubble-burster comments?" Tags="|discussion|scope|flagging|comments|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10963" CreationDate="2017-05-19T19:42:44.943" Score="20" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should these types of comments be flagged, addressed, or merely ignored?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you feel that a comment is not constructive, flag it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a comment does not relate to improving the question or one of the answers, flag it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You are &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; required to respond to any comment, particularly one with any of the above problems.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, if you find a comment amusing and do not think it detracts from the Q&amp;amp;A (e.g. by spawning a long chain of argumentative replies), feel free to &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; flag it, or even upvote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastActivityDate="2017-05-19T19:42:44.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10963" CreationDate="2017-05-19T19:47:05.200" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Speaking as someone who periodically posts those sort of comments ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/137361/in-star-trek-beyond-how-does-terminal-velocity-help-jump-start-the-franklin&quot;&gt;In Star Trek Beyond, how does terminal velocity help &amp;quot;jump start&amp;quot; the Franklin?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   &quot;&lt;em&gt;Because terrible writing&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/17377/why-did-j-remember-about-k-when-no-one-else-did&quot;&gt;Why did J remember about K when no one else did?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;&lt;em&gt;Because terrible writing&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/36557/why-were-the-ursa-designed-to-track-solely-by-fear&quot;&gt;Why were the Ursa designed to track solely by fear?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;&lt;em&gt;Because terrible writing&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... I can honestly say that if you post a question asking about a plothole in a specific property, you need to be reasonably prepared to elicit comments from those who can see that the problem  often &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; that the writers &lt;a href=&quot;http://jalopnik.com/i-demanded-answers-from-the-bosses-at-pixar-about-how-t-1795174532&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;simply &lt;em&gt;didn't&lt;/em&gt; think about it&lt;/a&gt; (or are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/50812/20774&quot;&gt;terrible writers&lt;/a&gt;)! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think that a comment is &lt;em&gt;intentionally&lt;/em&gt; unproductive, click the little flag next to it and choose &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;not constructive&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;from the drop-down menu. A friendly mod will undoubtedly delete the offending article for you. You're also welcome to address them (if you want to) and you're equally welcome to ignore them. What you shouldn't do is take them &lt;em&gt;personally&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-05-19T20:07:34.250" LastActivityDate="2017-05-19T20:07:34.250" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10966" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-22T05:25:25.117" Score="2" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/159970/why-did-apocalypse-destroy-all-nuclear-weapons&quot;&gt;Why did Apocalypse destroy all nuclear weapons?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gallifreyan removed &quot;x-men&quot; tag from this question. Why is it wrong for this question to have &quot;x-men&quot; tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2017-05-22T23:35:18.307" Title="Why is &quot;x-men&quot; tag not suitable for this question?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10966" CreationDate="2017-05-22T05:32:44.940" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Probably based on the tag wiki&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My best guess is that the editor was following the guidance in the tag wiki: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use this tag to refer to the mutant superhero team in the Marvel&#xA;  Universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, questions about characters appearing in &lt;em&gt;X-Men&lt;/em&gt; comics but not &lt;em&gt;belonging to the the X-Men team&lt;/em&gt; would seem to be excluded. The question edited was such a question, asking only about Apocalypse (a mutant who does not belong to the X-Men). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;However, it may be that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men&lt;/a&gt; is/should be used for any questions about X-Men franchises&lt;/strong&gt;. I’m not sure whether this question has ever been brought up, so perhaps current usage, whatever that may be, should be the guide. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastActivityDate="2017-05-22T05:32:44.940" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10966" CreationDate="2017-05-22T23:35:18.307" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most other teams like this, or even individuals, were explicitly made franchise tags during the recent cleanup. This was simply missed then, otherwise I would have added it to more questions and updated the wiki. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since that's all said and done, changing it now probably needs a consensus. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But to match current usage it should be updated as in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ant-man&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ant-man&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ant-man&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/guardians-of-the-galaxy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;guardians-of-the-galaxy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;guardians-of-the-galaxy&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/thor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;thor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;thor&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers&lt;/a&gt; (Note, wiki guidance not updated but actual usage should have been) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2017-05-22T23:35:18.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10969" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-23T15:48:48.090" Score="10" ViewCount="340" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/160091/75000&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; to this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/160089/75000&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; doesn't seem to seriously address what's being asked, and looks to me like the responder is making a joke (aka a glorified comment). While I don't know much about the finer details of the LOTR series, I can't find myself believing most of what they said, and the comments seem to agree. As of this writing, it has four upvotes, so I was wondering if there was something I'm missing as far as the content or quality of this answer. If not for the positive votes, I'd probably flag it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75000" LastActivityDate="2017-05-24T18:29:44.400" Title="Is this really a good answer?" Tags="|discussion|answer-quality|up-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10969" CreationDate="2017-05-23T16:21:30.797" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q. Is it &lt;em&gt;an&lt;/em&gt; answer?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Yes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; answer?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;No. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why is it a bad answer?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Because it's a bunch of unsourced assumptions, that's why;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;which is no longer able to maintain the cohesion necessary to project&#xA;  his 'Eye-Form' into our dimension&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Says who?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;it is assumed he fell the remaining 1.5k (5,000ft) to his death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Assumed&quot; by who?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This was caused from the rapid release and detonation of the volatile&#xA;  and flammable chemicals being used to maintain the eye-flame,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Huh?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;stemming from failure of an O-ring on the anti-backflash device on one&#xA;  or both of the nozzles in the 'horns' of the tower used to create the&#xA;  effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wut?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T16:33:55.627" LastActivityDate="2017-05-23T16:33:55.627" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="130" CreationDate="2017-05-24T08:16:54.113" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've never seen a clear distinction between sci-fi and fantasy. I think sci-fi &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; fantasy and the names are pretty much a matter of perspective or taste.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just consider the words inverted and imagine a book of fiction about [real world, not fantasy land] science. Would that look like &quot;science fiction&quot;? No, it would be &quot;popular science&quot; or &quot;history of science&quot; (as Mortimer Adler notes, history is a sub-branch of fiction). At its most fantastic: really boring fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comic book super heroes could therefore fall into both camps, as indeed they do in these examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80036" LastEditorUserId="80036" LastEditDate="2017-05-24T08:24:43.817" LastActivityDate="2017-05-24T08:24:43.817" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10976" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-28T19:35:42.623" Score="4" ViewCount="276" Body="&lt;p&gt;After a &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/37711027#37711027&quot;&gt;discussion with @Adamant in chat&lt;/a&gt; today, I realized that we're not very clear on exactly when to vote to delete an answer (or at least &lt;em&gt;I'm&lt;/em&gt; not clear).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/trusted-user&quot;&gt;privilege page for 20k&lt;/a&gt; gives these guidelines for voting to delete an answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You may vote to delete answers in the following cases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The answer is extremely low quality: There is little to no scope for improvement&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The answer doesn't attempt to answer the question; it may be a comment or a separate question altogether.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what constitutes 'extremely low quality'? Is it something that isn't understandable at all? I don't think so; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/115629/294691&quot;&gt;those can get Rude/Abusive flags&lt;/a&gt;. Is it NAAs? No, those have a separate bullet point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what exactly constitutes 'extremely low quality'? Does &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/152065/33591&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; count?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The content of the post is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JEDI = JEsus' DIsciple; it's a biblical connection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I, personally, don't see why this makes sense (&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/37711300#37711300&quot;&gt;and I'm not alone&lt;/a&gt;). Let's look at one of the canned delete reasons in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts&quot;&gt;Low Quality Posts review queue&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This does not provide an answer to the question. Once you have sufficient &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;reputation&lt;/a&gt; you will be able to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;comment on any post&lt;/a&gt;; instead, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/214173/why-do-i-need-50-reputation-to-comment-what-can-i-do-instead&quot;&gt;provide answers that don't require clarification from the asker&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that this doesn't match up to the 'doesn't require clarification' (and again, &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/37711300#37711300&quot;&gt;I'm not alone&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So does this qualify as very low quality?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TL;DR: &lt;strong&gt;When should 20kers vote to delete an answer?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-11-01T13:26:17.753" LastActivityDate="2017-11-01T13:26:17.753" Title="When should 20kers vote to delete an answer?" Tags="|discussion|answers|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ClosedDate="2017-05-29T09:22:57.133" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10976" CreationDate="2017-05-29T02:20:29.090" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to be honest here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Use your best judgment&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless you're an actual diamond mod, your vote isn't binding. It takes 3x 20k votes to delete answers. So, even if you get something wrong it's a delete vote that's invisible to the mere mortal (you can't even see delete votes on answers until 20k, although they do confusingly show up in the 10k deletion list). Unless 2 other 20k users agree, it will just sit there (delete votes don't age away like close votes do). But the reason they gave you the power is that you've clearly done something right for a very long time. You're a long term user. &lt;em&gt;You should know what a good answer looks like now&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, the community can make an answer undeletable by upvoting it. While questions can be deleted at any score, answers can only be 20k deleted with a negative score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last, but not least, you can always undelete. Nothing is gone forever (only Devs can do that wizardry).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't delete in these cases, tho&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rude or Spam&lt;/strong&gt; - Flag these. When enough people flag them Mods are notified for further action. If 20k users just delete them... nothing else happens.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meh answers&lt;/strong&gt; - In baseball, a tie goes to the runner. In answers, ties should go to the poster. If you can't come up with a good reason for deletion &lt;em&gt;don't do it&lt;/em&gt;. Don't stretch to delete. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/287563/youre-doing-it-wrong-a-plea-for-sanity-in-the-low-quality-posts-queue&quot;&gt;Downvote bad answers and comment&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if you're not aware, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/316010/stop-using-our-delete-votes-in-the-lqprq-when-20k-rep-users-recommend-deletion&quot;&gt;voting to delete in the LQP consumes 20k delete votes first&lt;/a&gt;. It's dumb (once you're out of deletes it just counts them as regular votes) but it's how it works. It doesn't increase your LQP vote cap either (not that it's a big deal on SF.SE)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-05-29T02:20:29.090" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10978" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-05-31T21:19:35.693" Score="4" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the linked/related questions sidebar, there is an icon inconsistency. Questions with an accepted answer have a (green) &lt;strong&gt;hexagonal&lt;/strong&gt; icon, and questions without an accepted answer have a (grey) &lt;strong&gt;rectangular&lt;/strong&gt; icon. Is this a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oArsZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Example screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41176" LastEditorUserId="41176" LastEditDate="2017-05-31T21:40:11.480" LastActivityDate="2017-05-31T23:00:50.063" Title="Two different icon shapes for linked/related questions in sidebar" Tags="|bug|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10978" CreationDate="2017-05-31T23:00:50.063" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;This is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt; (I think)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the source of the webpage, we see that the accepted answer divs have the class&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class=&amp;quot;answer-votes answered-accepted default&amp;quot;&amp;gt;8&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If one looks more closely at the image which is used as the background image for the class &lt;code&gt;answered-accepted&lt;/code&gt; we find that it is the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UjIV0.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UjIV0.png&quot; alt=&quot;Hexagon accepted answer image&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those on other sites do not have the hexagons, (at least not on Maths.SE) which may be to give a futuristic look to our site. As we are SFF.SE after all and sci-fi is a major part of our agenda.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The non-accepted answers have the class&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class=&amp;quot;answer-votes default&amp;quot;&amp;gt;5&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With no background image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68872" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-05-31T23:00:50.063" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10980" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10981" CreationDate="2017-06-01T17:50:17.210" Score="2" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently noticed that we have these tags for Guardians of the Galaxy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/guardians-of-the-galaxy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;guardians-of-the-galaxy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;guardians-of-the-galaxy&lt;/a&gt; for the series of films about the titular Guardians,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/guardians-of-the-galaxy-1&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;guardians-of-the-galaxy-1&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;guardians-of-the-galaxy-1&lt;/a&gt; for the first film, 'Guardians of the Galaxy',&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/guardians-of-the-galaxy-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;guardians-of-the-galaxy-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;guardians-of-the-galaxy-2&lt;/a&gt; for the second film, 'Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first one I'm fine with, but the second two bother me for a couple reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;in the past (say, with Thor, Iron Man, and Ant-Man), when the first film in the series is named after the titular character, the film-tag has been the name of the film along with the year (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9682/46611&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;we have no guarantee that the next film will be 'Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 3'; in fact, since Peter never got a third Awesome Mix, such a title wouldn't make much sense. Plus, while the first film is sometimes referred to as 'Vol. 1', that change doesn't seem to be official. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, I propose the film tags to be renamed to the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/guardians-of-the-galaxy-2014&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;guardians-of-the-galaxy-2014&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;guardians-of-the-galaxy-2014&lt;/a&gt; for the first film&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol2&lt;/a&gt; for the second film&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46611" LastActivityDate="2017-06-01T20:22:02.703" Title="Should we fix the Guardians of the Galaxy tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10980" CreationDate="2017-06-01T20:22:02.703" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The rename you propose is impossible.&lt;/strong&gt; The current tag names are already &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; at the 25-character limit, so if you want to make the last part longer than a single character, you'll have to compensate by shortening the rest of the tag name, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/guardians-galaxy-2014&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;guardians-galaxy-2014&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;guardians-galaxy-2014&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gotg-2014&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gotg-2014&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gotg-2014&lt;/a&gt;. Personally I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/guardians-of-the-galaxy-1&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;guardians-of-the-galaxy-1&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;guardians-of-the-galaxy-1&lt;/a&gt; looks better than either of these, given that the tag wiki excerpt is clear, but I'm not into Marvel/DC stuff, so I'm open to persuasion from those who are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, this very issue was already &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/198?m=35994081#35994081&quot;&gt;discussed&lt;/a&gt; during the big retagging event:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;CreationEdge&lt;/em&gt;: @Randal'Thor can you rename &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/guardians-of-the-galaxy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;guardians-of-the-galaxy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;guardians-of-the-galaxy&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/guardians-of-the-galaxy-2014&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;guardians-of-the-galaxy-2014&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;guardians-of-the-galaxy-2014&lt;/a&gt;. I double-checked and all questions are about the movie.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;Randal'Thor&lt;/em&gt;: @CreationEdge No, I can't. That breaks the character limit for tags.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;CreationEdge&lt;/em&gt;: dang, was worried about that. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/guardians-of-the-galaxy-1&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;guardians-of-the-galaxy-1&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;guardians-of-the-galaxy-1&lt;/a&gt; then?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;Randal'Thor&lt;/em&gt;: Done. Add &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/guardians-of-the-galaxy-1&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;guardians-of-the-galaxy-1&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;guardians-of-the-galaxy-1&lt;/a&gt; to your list of tag wikis to rewrite once this is over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-06-01T20:22:02.703" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10982" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10983" CreationDate="2017-06-02T16:30:40.563" Score="3" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've currently noticed a flurry of low quality posts on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/113358/which-button-activates-skywalkers-lightsaber-and-why-is-it-inconsistent&quot;&gt;question over which button is used to activate Luke Skywalker's lightsaber&lt;/a&gt;. There is already a highly voted, good, and accepted answer to the question. I've seen questions like this become closed and put under community protection; what steps can I take to put this specific question under community protection?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7126" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2017-06-02T17:17:31.293" LastActivityDate="2017-06-02T17:17:31.293" Title="How do we go about putting questions under community protection?" Tags="|support|protected-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10982" CreationDate="2017-06-02T16:50:19.250" Score="7" Body="&lt;h1&gt;The best you can do is flag for moderator attention.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be done?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The feature you're speaking of is called &amp;quot;protecting&amp;quot; questions, and there are three ways it can be used (all this info was taken from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/52765/348200&quot;&gt;this main meta FAQ post&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;By moderators, at any time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;By +15k users, but only if it is &lt;strong&gt;at least a day old&lt;/strong&gt; and has been &lt;strong&gt;answered by a user with less than 10 rep&lt;/strong&gt; on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;By the Community user (i.e. the system, automatically), &lt;strong&gt;if the question has had 3 deleted answers by new users&lt;/strong&gt;, or if it had &lt;strong&gt;5 answers by new users in last 24 hours&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be done?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Seeing that it hasn't yet been protected by Community, this one falls out of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;One could of course always ping a +15k user in &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/58631/the-restaurant-at-the-end-of-the-universe&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;strong&gt;flag&lt;/strong&gt; the question for moderator attention. If the moderator recognises that the question needs protection, they will protect it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Downvote (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10982/how-do-we-go-about-putting-questions-under-community-protection/10983#comment34368_10983&quot;&gt;hat tip to doppelgreener&lt;/a&gt;) bad answers - hopefully new users will realise there is a problem with their answer, and fix it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Standard flags apply - &amp;quot;not an answer&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;very low quality&amp;quot; flags should be used to alert respective review queues. At the very least the answer will go through some extra sets of eyes, and get another opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Should it be protected?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Protection shouldn't be used lightly, as it bars potentially good answers by new users from being posted. To quote the same meta post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do protect questions that are attracting a lot of non-answers or very poor answers (spam, etc.) from new users.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't see the deleted answers myself, but it was my impression that this question did not really need protection: while it has some answers that need work, it's nowhere near what I would call &amp;quot;a flurry&amp;quot;. Bear in mind this part from the same meta answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do unprotect questions that aren’t currently attracting a lot of attention and don’t have a long history of unproductive answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Protection is meant to protect questions from &lt;em&gt;surges&lt;/em&gt; of activity, but when there's some evidence there'll be more of low-quality answers. It's not meant to be permanent in any way. To quote the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2014/04/08/changes-and-guidelines-for-the-protected-question-status/&quot;&gt;related blog post&lt;/a&gt; (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Judicious use of this feature is critical to allowing these sites to handle large amounts of external attention, but &lt;strong&gt;over-using it breaks the system&lt;/strong&gt;: Stack Exchange sites &lt;strong&gt;depend on a constant influx of new blood&lt;/strong&gt;, both to answer new questions and provide updated information on old ones. When in doubt, err on the side of letting new users prove themselves before locking them out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/129223/348200&quot;&gt;Shog's post&lt;/a&gt; (emphasis respected):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real solution here is to &lt;strong&gt;avoid over-using Protect&lt;/strong&gt;. Certain individuals seem to think it's needed preemptively on controversial questions, closed questions, etc... If you see it being applied to a question where it serves no purpose - or if you simply have a great answer you can't post because of it - flag for moderator attention and ask them to review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-06-02T17:12:42.857" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10984" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-02T17:22:51.187" Score="8" ViewCount="335" Body="&lt;p&gt;We currently have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tools/protected-questions&quot;&gt;over 800 protected questions&lt;/a&gt;. Some have been protected since 2011.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Isn't it time we unprotected questions that have been protected for longer than, say, a year?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Rationale&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see protecting a question as a &lt;em&gt;temporary&lt;/em&gt; measure, to let a question cool down a bit. Once it &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; cooled down and is no longer likely to attract low quality answers by new or drive-by users, there's no need for it to be protected any longer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2017-06-16T06:59:21.027" LastActivityDate="2017-06-16T06:59:21.027" Title="Should we unprotect questions after they've had a time-out?" Tags="|discussion|protected-question|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10984" CreationDate="2017-06-02T18:25:56.147" Score="0" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Yes.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt; Just in case - &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/edit/680314&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here's a query&lt;/a&gt; to find all the protected questions, even if you don't have 10k powers yet. &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/52765/348200&quot;&gt;FAQ main meta post&lt;/a&gt; reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do unprotect questions that aren’t currently attracting a lot of attention and don’t have a long history of unproductive answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And to quote some bits quoted in my &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10983/70236&quot;&gt;other answer&lt;/a&gt; on this topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Judicious use of this feature is critical to allowing these sites to handle large amounts of external attention, but over-using it breaks the system: Stack Exchange sites depend on a constant influx of new blood, both to answer new questions and provide updated information on old ones. When in doubt, err on the side of letting new users prove themselves before locking them out.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2014/04/08/changes-and-guidelines-for-the-protected-question-status/&quot;&gt;Changes and guidelines for the Protected Question status&lt;/a&gt; on Stack Overflow Blog &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to be more or less official policy that protection is not meant to be permanent, and that it should be used to deter only multiple bad questions in short periods of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been plenty of reasons given (in linked posts) that protection is in a sense against the spirit of Stack Exchange, which relies on new users and their answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I sincerely doubt all ~800 questions have to stay protected to this date. Protection, in my opinion, should be used when there's an influx of bad answers or non-answers that is easier to block altogether than to handle via review queue. In this case I think we are more than capable of handling new answers to old questions, since we are not expecting them to flood the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note also that bad answers are still answers (which &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/59281/conversation/what-is-not-an-answer&quot;&gt;has been discussed in chat&lt;/a&gt; recently and prompted this question by Mithrandir: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10976/70236&quot;&gt;When should 20kers vote to delete an answer?&lt;/a&gt;). They can be improved, if not by the poster, then by us, and they would still be valuable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Which ones to unprotect?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The age of the question, the number of deleted answers, and the nature of the question is what I think should be taken into account:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions from the beginning of time (2011) should probably be unprotected - their age of glory has passed, and it's unlikely we'll experience a flood of bad answers for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions with few deleted or low-quality answers should probably be unprotected - if they didn't attract bad answers then, why should they do so now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions with touchy subjects, or questions that are prone to &amp;quot;enthusiastic&amp;quot; fan answers, a la the &amp;quot;Cap vs. Spidey&amp;quot; question, which got a lot of answers comparing the two characters instead of listing occurrences of them fighting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-06-02T23:32:35.913" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2017-06-02T20:38:30.790" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;One day in my job I just suddenly decided to draw something on the whiteboard. As I am unable to draw anything else, I draw a face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FlKcam.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FlKcam.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;before&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Days passed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often need to take some photos in my job (we develop a mobile app) so I took a picture of this drawing that still was on the whiteboard (because nobody uses it at all).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Days passed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I joined Worldbuilding and SF&amp;amp;F SE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Days passed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I decided to upload some profile picture, So, I looked in my computer memory and there it was, the face. But it was during &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/288271/winter-bash-2016-all-hats&quot;&gt;Winter Bash 2016 - All Hats&lt;/a&gt; &#xA;so I needed both eyes. I changed it a little (copied eyes and ears, copied and rotated the half of mouth) and here it is (nicer than anything ;)):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JQ6xFm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JQ6xFm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;after&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66567" LastActivityDate="2017-06-02T20:38:30.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10984" CreationDate="2017-06-02T23:20:02.713" Score="27" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Most protected questions shouldn't be unprotected ...&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... for exactly the same reason they were protected originally: &lt;strong&gt;they attracted low-quality answers before and would be likely to attract them again.&lt;/strong&gt; E.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/12260/31394&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; with 10 deleted answers over the course of three years: if we unprotected it now, it would probably just keep on attracting bad answers until it got protected again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are rare cases of questions protected because &lt;strong&gt;they're the target of concentrated troll attack&lt;/strong&gt; (like &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/99767/31394&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; with 11 near-identical answers in one day), and those can be unprotected once the attack is over. Or, perhaps slightly less rarely, questions protected because &lt;strong&gt;they attract many bad answers in a short period while they're on HNQ&lt;/strong&gt; (or maybe for some other reason - HNQ isn't necessarily the root of all evil). Again, if the low-quality answers are tied to a particular &lt;em&gt;time period&lt;/em&gt; rather than to the nature of the question itself, feel free to unprotect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in most cases, a question is protected because it's &lt;em&gt;the kind of question that attracts bad answers&lt;/em&gt;, for whatever reason (of course this doesn't necessarily make it a bad question), regardless of the passing of time. These questions almost certainly shouldn't be unprotected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(This answer is mostly based on an explanation I &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/1037?m=36322027#36322027&quot;&gt;already gave&lt;/a&gt; to @Gallifreyan in chat.)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-06-02T23:20:02.713" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10984" CreationDate="2017-06-03T18:45:56.230" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10984/should-we-unprotect-questions-after-theyve-had-a-time-out?cb=1#comment34384_10985&quot;&gt;It sounds like you'd rather make your job easier than allow potentially valuable content to be added to this site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To add to what's been said, a lot of your perspective on Protected changes after you hit 10k and you can see the deletions. When you go to a popular Protected question and you see the wreckage... you begin to understand why it exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And why it's rarely removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Understand that a lot of new people come to the site (especially when they're in the Hot list) and they want to just gush on the topic. Hot simply exacerbates the problem. You want to at least raise the bar to keep the totally new out, lest they make for moderation work. Wanting to reduce this is NOT a bad thing. I'm continually impressed that SF.SE keeps the moderation to a minimum. I'd like to see it stay that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastEditorUserId="51379" LastEditDate="2017-06-04T22:16:48.513" LastActivityDate="2017-06-04T22:16:48.513" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10989" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10993" CreationDate="2017-06-03T23:41:35.153" Score="22" ViewCount="829" Body="&lt;h1&gt;The theme of July's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7431/what-is-a-movie-night-really&quot;&gt;movie night&lt;/a&gt; will be: &lt;em&gt;Robots!&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your film should significantly involve, or be about, robots. At least one of them. Possibly, but not necessarily, giant robots. Mechas are counted. Cyborgs &amp;amp; organic robots will be counted, since there's fuzzy grey area I'd rather us be able to explore there. I'll leave it up to voters &amp;amp; common sense to figure out what is Robot-ish enough for the Robot film night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://gifsound.com/?gifv=99qFHsW&amp;amp;v=ILVfzx5Pe-A&amp;amp;s=65&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Inspirational link for robots. (Has sound. )&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Post your robot movie suggestions here!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bonus points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt; if there's multiple robots.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt; if it's available for us to watch together on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.watch2gether.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Watch2gether&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.rabb.it/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rabbit&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Voting ended: Iron Giant wins!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Date and time:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Saturday 15th July, 6pm UTC+0&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sunday 16th July, 8pm UTC+0, time negotiable.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Sunday session is a tradition from &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11441/so-you-want-to-attend-movie-night&quot;&gt;Arqade's film nights&lt;/a&gt;: they host informal Sunday sessions for those who couldn't make it to Saturday, and the same would work well for us here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clarifications:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can nominate more than one film.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is OK if you cannot tell us about the robots because of spoilers. Just promise there's robots, and tell us about the film itself instead. :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15502" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2017-07-15T20:07:59.600" LastActivityDate="2017-07-15T20:07:59.600" Title="July Film Night: The Iron Giant, featuring Vin Diesel, this Sunday!" Tags="|discussion|movie-night|" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10989" CreationDate="2017-06-04T00:04:42.327" Score="10" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF-4c8U-mUI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The World's End&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hzb7V.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hzb7V.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a comedy about a group of friends reconnecting after many years to return to their hometown for a bar crawl, just like the one they'd done in their youth. It's a story of a man trying to hold on to his past, even when the rest of the world seems ready to forget it all and start something new. But also, and I don't want to spoil anything, there are robots. Lots of robots. To find out how the robots fit in, and to see if the heroes can finally make it to the World's End pub, you'll just have to watch the film! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bonus Points:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt; for multiple robots. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46611" LastEditorUserId="46611" LastEditDate="2017-06-04T00:20:46.263" LastActivityDate="2017-06-04T00:20:46.263" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10989" CreationDate="2017-06-04T03:25:43.633" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_IV:_A_New_Hope&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might have heard of this one. It's a true classic about two robots going on interplanetary adventures while saving the Galaxy! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;…And the human and non-human sidekicks they pick up along the way.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5iuVW.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5iuVW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt; Multiple robots (the two stars, plus some guests like the scene-stealing &quot;Mouse Droid&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13217" LastEditorUserId="13217" LastEditDate="2017-06-04T03:35:49.240" LastActivityDate="2017-06-04T03:35:49.240" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10989" CreationDate="2017-06-04T10:13:22.483" Score="23" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Iron Giant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IOTyl.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IOTylm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vSd6c.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vSd6cm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nIF0L.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nIF0Lm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before Vin Diesel was Groot, he was the Iron Giant. This is a 1999 animated film directed by Brad Bird. It tells the story of a friendship between a boy and an alien robot, who is for the reasons of miscommunication, antagonised by some people, despite being quite friendly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/doSJxiYp9yo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the synopsis from the Google blurb:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this animated adaptation of Ted Hughes' Cold War fable, a giant alien robot crash-lands near the small town of Rockwell, Maine, in 1957. Exploring the area, a local 9-year-old boy, Hogarth, discovers the robot, and soon forms an unlikely friendship with him. When a paranoid government agent, Kent Mansley, becomes determined to destroy the robot, Hogarth and beatnik Dean McCoppin must do what they can to save the misunderstood machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film has been very positively received by the audience and critics (&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/iron_giant/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rotten Tomatoes&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0129167/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;), as well as a family-friendly 7+ rating on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/the-iron-giant&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Common Sense Media&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears to be available for streaming on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.netflix.com/title/70015683&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Netflix&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/B0166I3X4E&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Amazon&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To the best of my knowledge (I haven't seen this film) it has only one robot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's available for streaming in multiple venues. &lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-06-10T21:25:55.910" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10989" CreationDate="2017-06-04T12:56:17.060" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now is not the time nor the place, but I must admit I have always been a fan or Ron Perlman, ever since &lt;em&gt;Beauty and the Beast&lt;/em&gt;. In fact, he was the only factor that made the film &lt;em&gt;Looney Tunes: Back in Action&lt;/em&gt; worth watching for me. Ehm, anyway, to cut to the chase,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I nominate &lt;em&gt;Pacific Rim&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may not be the best movie ever, but it has the redeeming feature of bringing mechas to mainstream. You know, if somebody not familiar with anime asks you &quot;What's that, a mecha?&quot; you can say, &quot;you know, those robots from Pacific Rim.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does feature multiple robots&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/etO6T.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/etO6T.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and it's on Netflix, which means it can be watched through Rabbit, right? (Don't know anything about Rabbit, sorry).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4495" LastActivityDate="2017-06-04T12:56:17.060" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10989" CreationDate="2017-06-04T17:02:23.610" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Partly because it seems so obvious...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0358082/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Robots (2005)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Brief synopsis:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In a world of sentient robots, striving young inventor Rodney Copperbottom (Ewan McGregor) wants to work for the avuncular Bigweld (Mel Brooks), whose Bigweld Industries makes spare robot parts. But Bigweld has just been deposed as company head by the villainous Phineas T. Ratchet (Greg Kinnear), who wants to make all robots submit to profitable forced upgrades. In this animated adventure, Rodney and his friend Fender (Robin Williams) go underground to fight Ratchet's evil plans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/p9X16KPOgFI?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I watched it a while ago - I can't remember much of it but I had a reasonably positive impression of it. Any film which features Robin Williams can't be a complete right-off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt; For featuring multiple robots.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt; (Arguably) For featuring nothing but robots and no non-robot characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also seems to be relatively easy to access.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64888" LastActivityDate="2017-06-04T17:02:23.610" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10989" CreationDate="2017-06-05T04:24:57.363" Score="13" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Blade Runner&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1982&lt;/strong&gt; two theatrical releases:  USA and international&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;1992&lt;/strong&gt; director's cut&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;2007&lt;/strong&gt; the final cut&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YhTqV.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YhTqV.png&quot; alt=&quot;scene from Blade Runner.  Deckard is interviewing Rachael with the Voight-Kampff device.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You know the story.  Pollution has almost exterminated all non-human animal life on earth.  Artificial organo-synthetic ‘replicants’ are built to take their place as domestic companions for the excessively abundant human population.  They are also used in humanoid form, and are thus designed to perform dangerous or undesirable jobs in place of humans.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Four such humanoid replicants happen to escape from an interplanetary transport.  ‘Blade runners’ are special cops who hunt down and apprehend rogue replicants; a blade–runner named Deckard, who may or may not be a replicant himself, is tasked with finding and capturing or killing the escaped replicants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Directed by Ridley Scott, with Art Direction by David Snyder, from a screenplay, originally titled “Dangerous Days”, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Inspired somewhat by Philip K. Dick's &lt;em&gt;Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?&lt;/em&gt; — i.e., from the premise therein of replicants and a detective tracking them down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/m4IoYMaS3Qg?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  teaser for the Final Cut version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt; for multiple robots.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;-1&lt;/strong&gt; because, in honest decency, most people are probably expecting metal or  exposed electronics or some form of superficial differences to distinguish the robots.  The replicants are strong, and can endure extreme conditions, but they only have their emotional immaturity to reliably distinguish them from humans.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;They do have a crimson eye &lt;em&gt;tapetum&lt;/em&gt; which is visible under some conditions, but that is only used ironically and for indicating replicant status to the viewer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68218" LastEditorUserId="68218" LastEditDate="2017-06-06T02:11:15.050" LastActivityDate="2017-06-06T02:11:15.050" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10989" CreationDate="2017-06-06T02:17:47.377" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Big Hero 6&lt;/em&gt;. It's for all people. Kids, adults. Males, females. Comics book geeks, sci-fi nerds, &quot;normal people&quot;. It doesn't matter. The main and most popular character in the movie is Baymax, a robot with a dragon costume. It did win the Best Animated Feature award at the Oscars a few years ago, so I guess that means something. And besides, it has true emotion and humor that anyone can relate to. And yes, there are multiple robots besides Baymax. The plot of the film is based on little microbots (somewhat). So yeah, &lt;em&gt;Big Hero 6&lt;/em&gt;.&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;+1 for multiple robots&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a picture of the robot.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vBR70.png&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vBR70.png&amp;#39;&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not this movie, then &lt;em&gt;Metropolis&lt;/em&gt; is what I'd go with. True classic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68065" LastEditorUserId="80602" LastEditDate="2017-06-09T23:05:28.010" LastActivityDate="2017-06-09T23:05:28.010" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10989" CreationDate="2017-06-06T13:44:47.063" Score="11" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091949/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Short Circuit (1986)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Johnny 5's alive!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A former military robot gets struck by lightning and develops quite a personality... Some great comedic moments, memorable quotes and come on - it's got Steve Guttenberg (of Police Academy fame) and Fisher Stevens as Ben - what more could one want from a film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/9rlI3Xg9g_A?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember: failing to upvote for this film is a vote to disassemble Number 5 - and Number 5 says &lt;strong&gt;NO Dissassemble&lt;/strong&gt; :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/WjeptaI2T8E?start=40&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from Johnny 5 - there are other robots (although only briefly) - alas, not as friendly or as  cool as J5 (no spoilers) - and it appears it's available in full on youtube.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16848" LastActivityDate="2017-06-06T13:44:47.063" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10989" CreationDate="2017-06-06T16:25:17.497" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I expect that lots of you, know that movie. But I like it for a long time and it would be a great loss not to mention: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343818/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;I, Robot&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jlWo6m.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jlWo6m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is based on Isaac Asimov book of short stories called &lt;em&gt;I, Robot&lt;/em&gt;, yet the movie itself is not a copy of any of the stories from the book (so no spoiler there, I suggest you to read the book as well as it is great too).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;There is a really really large number of &lt;strong&gt;robots&lt;/strong&gt; (not just one type of them though).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is an action movie (there is Will Smith, so it has to be), but it also has a few great thoughts (and also cool cars, nice women, holograms, tattoos, funny product-placements, cyborg, police, a cat and a lot more).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/rL6RRIOZyCM?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66567" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2017-06-06T21:03:01.413" LastActivityDate="2017-06-06T21:03:01.413" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11000" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-07T07:13:20.817" Score="17" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's our current close reason for asking about lists of works:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Requests for lists of &lt;strong&gt;works or recommendations&lt;/strong&gt; are off-topic as they do not fit our &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.stackexchange.com/about&quot;&gt;questions and answers format&lt;/a&gt;. Feel free to ask about people's favorites in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/198/mos-eisley&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of problems with this close reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It links to a frozen chat room which has been renamed to &quot;Poisoned room; it is defunct.&quot; — not the best place to link newcomers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The phrase &quot;questions and answers format&quot; links to &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.stackexchange.com/about&quot;&gt;http://scifi.stackexchange.com/about&lt;/a&gt; which redirects to the site's tour page. That &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a good place to link newcomers, and it does mention what kind of questions are OK to ask, but perhaps one of these would be a better and more specific page to link to:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The technical issues of the correct URL for meta and using HTTPS instead of HTTP are addressed in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11002/19561&quot;&gt;Minor technical issues with off-topic close box&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23384" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2017-06-07T07:56:08.377" LastActivityDate="2017-06-07T08:33:21.340" Title="Should the &quot;lists of works&quot; close reason be updated?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11000" CreationDate="2017-06-07T07:19:01.407" Score="10" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;We should point to the new chat room.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maybe&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Perhaps the best option would be to create a clean, canonical question-answer pair on meta, tag it with &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;, and then point to &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2017-06-07T08:33:21.340" LastActivityDate="2017-06-07T08:33:21.340" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11002" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12048" CreationDate="2017-06-07T07:42:45.123" Score="11" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are some minor technical issues with the off-topic close reasons, which should be trivial to fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tomXX.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tomXXm.png&quot; alt=&quot;Off topic close reasons&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All links are HTTP instead of HTTPS. This includes the migration option to meta.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The link to meta from &quot;scientific explanations&quot; uses the old URL; &lt;code&gt;meta.scifi&lt;/code&gt; should become &lt;code&gt;scifi.meta&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question of where to link is addressed in&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11000/19561&quot;&gt;Should the &amp;quot;lists of works&amp;quot; close reason be updated?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently, the issue isn't as simple as I thought. And we need a dev. See:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/295054/239016&quot;&gt;Links in close reasons are (sometimes?) still HTTP&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/296932/239016&quot;&gt;Migration to meta still uses old met URL&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2017-06-07T14:26:52.880" LastActivityDate="2021-01-15T08:54:04.553" Title="Minor technical issues with off-topic close box" Tags="|support|feature-request|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11003" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11005" CreationDate="2017-06-07T11:44:04.683" Score="1" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/122030/science-fiction-short-story-about-computer-controlled-utopia&quot;&gt;Science Fiction Short Story about Computer controlled Utopia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The author wrote a follow-up that was actually a modification to their question, and it was deleted. They have since added the answer, but a moderator deleted it, so I cannot vote to undelete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-06-07T13:29:55.000" LastActivityDate="2017-06-07T13:29:55.000" Title="Request to undelete answer that has been edited into correctness" Tags="|support|status-completed|specific-answer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11003" CreationDate="2017-06-07T12:40:05.540" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, the only answer was initially a &quot;I have this problem too&quot;, which was edited &lt;em&gt;by the answerer&lt;/em&gt; to tell that &lt;em&gt;they&lt;/em&gt; had found an answer to &lt;em&gt;their&lt;/em&gt; question. While that may be the answer to the original question as well, that is not how it's currently presented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I see no reason to undelete that answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best solution would be for the answerer to edit their answer into a proper answer, or for us to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2017-06-07T12:40:05.540" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11003" CreationDate="2017-06-07T12:58:19.913" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before seeing this meta post, I'd already seen your flag, &lt;strong&gt;undeleted the answer, and edited it to be more clearly an answer&lt;/strong&gt;: putting the name of the story clearly at the top and removing some of the now-obsolete &quot;I'm looking for this story too ... I read it around this year ...&quot; text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-06-07T12:58:19.913" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10989" CreationDate="2017-06-08T11:25:18.280" Score="12" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(1927_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Metropolis (1927)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/06/Metropolisposter.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Metropolis film poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Directed by Fritz Lang, written by him and Thea von Harbou (his wife), starring Gustav Fröhlich, Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel and Rudolf Klein-Rogge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is one of the first science fiction films ever made. And it features a robot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2017-06-08T11:25:18.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11007" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2017-06-08T18:21:43.840" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question should contain the details of your proposal, including a justification of why the new feature is needed and/or how it can improve the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, prove to the administration that they should spend time developing your feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2017-06-21T09:18:41.497" LastActivityDate="2017-06-21T09:18:41.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11008" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2017-06-08T18:21:43.840" Score="0" Body="Use this tag for new functionality you want, which cannot be achieved by current tools or moderation efforts." OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2017-06-21T09:18:38.020" LastActivityDate="2017-06-21T09:18:38.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10932" CreationDate="2017-06-08T21:53:59.543" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Restaurant&lt;/em&gt; is a bit banal, shouldn't we look for something a bit less obvious?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Jackson's Whole&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is a planetary equivalent of Mos Eisley by also being a 'wretched hive of scum and villainy'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if we want something more popular then there is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Serenity&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The members of which, not unlike those in the previous incarnations of the SFF chatrooms want to continue to travel and have fun together, but are othen messing up and clashing with the authorities?  And speaking of Whedon's creations there's also the&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Cabin in the Woods&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user68762" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-06-08T21:53:59.543" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11010" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11012" CreationDate="2017-06-09T01:15:04.367" Score="18" ViewCount="588" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I'm curious on what the community thinks about the latest hot question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/106603&quot;&gt;being edited&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Have there ever been 25 or more stars on Wonder Woman's panties?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Have there ever been 25 or more stars on Wonder Woman's satin tights?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The edit really doesn't make sense. Wonder Woman has a skimpy outfit that has multiple parts that really don't have their own words, apart from their underwear counterparts (which is essentially what she wears). And the title is mirroring the language used in the reason for the question in the first place. But, most importantly, &lt;em&gt;Wonder Woman doesn't wear tights&lt;/em&gt;. And in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://letterpile.com/books/Wonder-Woman-Costume-History&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;limited places the character has not worn the traditional suit&lt;/a&gt;... there's no stars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So... are &lt;code&gt;panties&lt;/code&gt; too racy for SF? Do we revert it back? Or do we try another word?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Current title:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/161177/19561&quot;&gt;Have there ever been 25 or more stars on Wonder Woman&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;panties&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-04-07T00:45:13.773" LastActivityDate="2019-04-07T00:45:13.773" Title="I see Britain, I see France, I see Wonder Woman's... satin tights?" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edit|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11011" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11013" CreationDate="2017-06-09T14:35:54.653" Score="11" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm asking due to this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/161290/when-were-replicas-of-green-lanterns-power-battery-and-power-ring-first-produce&quot;&gt;When were replicas of Green Lantern&amp;#39;s Power Battery and Power Ring first produced?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it considered on-topic to ask merchandising questions about an on-topic work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57075" LastActivityDate="2017-06-12T14:30:39.813" Title="Is Merchandising On-Topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11010" CreationDate="2017-06-09T14:58:35.453" Score="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should use the original title containing the word &amp;quot;panties&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is clearly motivated by the lyrics in the ERB rap -- otherwise why use 25 stars as the cutoff. It should use the same term as the source of motivation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an alternate middleground, I might suggest the word could be placed in quotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Justifications of why the quotes are appropriate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is a quote from the rap.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a very good argument they are not actually panties.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It acknowledges that the usage is potentially contentious.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;RESOLVED&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In accordance with the 12-0 vote as of this moment, I'm going to take the honour of editing the original question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-06-12T22:49:53.947" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11011" CreationDate="2017-06-09T18:40:39.590" Score="13" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes, absolutely&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as the question relates to a piece of merchandise or memorabilia &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;that relates to a work of sci-fi (or fantasy)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; then these sorts of questions are very much on topic for SFF:SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good examples of well-received questions include &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/140981/this-sculpture-in-google-maps-looks-very-familliar-what-is-it/140982#140982&quot;&gt;This sculpture in google maps looks very familliar - what is it?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/68005/whose-underwear-is-this&quot;&gt;Whose underwear is this?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/148297/who-is-this-six-armed-blonde-female-character&quot;&gt;Who is this six-armed blonde female character?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/106050/who-is-this-goblin-with-a-teapot-on-a-stick&quot;&gt;Who is this goblin with a teapot on a stick?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/104906/4918&quot;&gt;Who are these Lego superheroes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="4918" LastEditDate="2017-06-12T14:30:39.813" LastActivityDate="2017-06-12T14:30:39.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11014" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-10T16:32:30.633" Score="48" ViewCount="319" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adam West, star of the 1960 &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Batman TV series&lt;/a&gt; has &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/adam-west-dead-batman-star-832264&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;passed away&lt;/a&gt; at the age of 88.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A well-recognised actor who struggled to find regular employment after Batman, West never allowed his shortcomings as an actor (or dancer, see below) to prevent him from finding acting work, enjoying considerable success in later life with recurring roles on Family Guy, and The Fairly OddParents. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His fanbase is numerous and vocal and he will be sorely missed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/s1cnq.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/s1cnq.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VHPSy.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VHPSy.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2017-06-10T16:32:30.633" Title="RIP: Adam West, star of Batman" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11015" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11016" CreationDate="2017-06-10T18:41:48.110" Score="5" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/86769&quot;&gt;One of my posts&lt;/a&gt; was apparently edited, but looking at the history, I see no visible changes. What happened here? (This question is motivated mainly by curiosity, but there must be some sort of bug in play.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Inline view of edit history&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PKGcF.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PKGcF.png&quot; alt=&quot;Edit history: inline view&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Side-by-side view of edit history&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qv0jb.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qv0jb.png&quot; alt=&quot;Edit history: side by side&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Side-by-side Markdown view of edit history&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yRknD.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yRknD.png&quot; alt=&quot;Edit history: side by side Markdown&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="403" LastActivityDate="2017-06-10T18:57:07.280" Title="What is this no-change edit? How did it happen?" Tags="|bug|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11015" CreationDate="2017-06-10T18:57:07.280" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The edit description says &quot;edited tags&quot;. I'd assume that the editor added/removed a tag which no longer exists and therefore doesn't show up in the edit history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A little sleuthing confirmed my guess. Using the &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20150909202533/https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/86769/did-elrond-half-elven-have-any-title&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wayback Machine&lt;/a&gt;, we can see that in its original post-edit state, your question had the tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkien&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/middle-earth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;middle-earth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;middle-earth&lt;/a&gt;, both of which were merged into the new franchise tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkiens-legendarium&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkiens-legendarium&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkiens-legendarium&lt;/a&gt; during the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10693/31394&quot;&gt;Big Edit Event&lt;/a&gt; before being separated out again. Presumably you'd originally posted it with just one of these tags and the editor added the other one. But the tag merge mapped both tags to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkiens-legendarium&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkiens-legendarium&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkiens-legendarium&lt;/a&gt; everywhere in the database, including in revision histories, so this became a null change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-06-10T18:57:07.280" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11017" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11019" CreationDate="2017-06-10T20:45:32.140" Score="12" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed we have some questions with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/blade-runner&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;blade-runner&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;blade-runner&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/phillip-k-dick&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;phillip-k-dick&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;phillip-k-dick&lt;/a&gt; tags&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, which are actually not about &lt;em&gt;Blade Runner&lt;/em&gt;, but the original novel. I tried to create a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep&lt;/a&gt; tag, but predictably ran into the 25-character limit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are the questions that are about the novel, or should have the novel tag as well as the film tag (there's probably more, so feel free to add):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/124880/who-throws-the-stone-at-deckard-in-do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep&quot;&gt;Who throws the stone at Deckard in &amp;quot;Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/60011/in-do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep-why-is-rosen-corp-trying-to-stop-bount&quot;&gt;In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, why is Rosen corp. trying to stop bounty hunters?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15462/in-dicks-do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep-is-deckard-a-replicant&quot;&gt;In Dick&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?&amp;quot;, is Deckard a replicant?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/30865/can-someone-explain-the-end-of-do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep&quot;&gt;Can someone explain the end of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/18186/are-the-owls-in-futurama-a-backwards-reference-to-blade-runner-and-do-androids-d&quot;&gt;Are the owls in Futurama a backwards reference to Blade Runner and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/149191/why-does-eldon-admit-that-rachel-is-an-android-after-the-final-question&quot;&gt;Why does Eldon admit that Rachel is an Android after the final question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/120305/do-the-androids-need-to-kill-their-owners-in-do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep&quot;&gt;Do the androids need to kill their owners in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/38864/why-was-philip-k-dick-so-distressed-at-ridley-scotts-adaptation-of-do-androids&quot;&gt;Why was Philip K Dick so distressed at Ridley Scott&amp;#39;s adaptation of &amp;#39;Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep&amp;#39;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/60010/why-not-test-androids-by-asking-them-to-hold-their-breath&quot;&gt;Why not test androids by asking them to hold their breath?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/30840/why-did-deckard-get-a-citation-from-his-police-department&quot;&gt;Why did Deckard get a citation from his police department?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I count 9, which is more than worthy of its own tag. However, the character limit won't allow us to use the full title (and not even &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/do-androids-dream-electric-sheep&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;do-androids-dream-electric-sheep&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;do-androids-dream-electric-sheep&lt;/a&gt; - what should we use instead? &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/do-androids-dream&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;do-androids-dream&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;do-androids-dream&lt;/a&gt; seems good to me (until a film or a book titled &lt;em&gt;Do Androids Dream&lt;/em&gt; comes out). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any other ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;sub&gt; Note that I somehow foolishly removed the author tag from some 4 of them - we all make mistakes, right ;) &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2017-08-09T14:17:39.370" LastActivityDate="2017-08-09T14:17:39.370" Title="Should we make a tag for &quot;Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?&quot; What should it be?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11018" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11236" CreationDate="2017-06-12T20:15:45.060" Score="20" ViewCount="232" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Request&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, our tags can be a maximum of 25 characters.&#xA;Maximum tag length on &lt;em&gt;Literature&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.meta.stackexchange.com/a/761/13&quot;&gt;has been increased to 32 characters&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The theoretical limit is 35, according to Shog9.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This can be increased, but only up to a maximum of 35 characters. (...)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I increased the allowed length to 32 (...)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.meta.stackexchange.com/a/761/13&quot;&gt;Shog9&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we please increase our maximum tag length to &lt;strong&gt;35 characters&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11017/19561&quot;&gt;so we can properly tag questions&lt;/a&gt; about the classic &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Examples&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Add examples of tags that would benefit from an increased maximum tag length below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11017/19561&quot;&gt;Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (35 characters)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10980/19561&quot;&gt;Guardians of the Galaxy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (28 characters)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The&lt;/strong&gt; Curse of the Black Pearl&lt;/em&gt; (28 characters), although that's relatively minor&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9194/31394&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (28 characters)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell&lt;/em&gt; (31 characters)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull&lt;/em&gt; (32 characters)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;For the other films, removing &quot;Indiana Jones and&quot; is enough to pare it down to below 25 characters (although &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/raiders-of-the-lost-ark&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;raiders-of-the-lost-ark&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;raiders-of-the-lost-ark&lt;/a&gt; needed to lose &quot;the&quot; as well), but doing that here still leaves us with 28 (when removing &quot;the&quot;) or 32 characters.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Process&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be best &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;when&lt;/em&gt; the tag length limit is increased, to open up a new question on meta, put specific cases as answers, and let the mods work their magic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-08-09T10:08:59.233" LastActivityDate="2017-08-10T06:44:11.943" Title="Can we please increase our tag length?" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11017" CreationDate="2017-06-12T20:43:56.423" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The easiest solution would be to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11018/19561&quot;&gt;increase our maximum tag length&lt;/a&gt; to 35 characters and use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; Tag limit &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/197889/raising-the-25-chars-limit-for-tags/299490#299490&quot;&gt;already increased to 35&lt;/a&gt; and tag also created.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="6006" LastEditDate="2017-08-09T07:17:47.240" LastActivityDate="2017-08-09T07:17:47.240" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11020" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11021" CreationDate="2017-06-13T05:20:26.237" Score="3" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;We established &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/251/are-fan-fics-fair-game-for-this-site&quot;&gt;quite a while ago&lt;/a&gt; that fanfiction is on-topic.  I would therefore expect that people who don't want to see fanfic questions would just ignore the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fan-fiction&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fan-fiction&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fan-fiction&lt;/a&gt; tag and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About a week ago, someone asked this story-ID question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/161160/harry-potter-fanfic-where-harry-is-impregnated-by-draco&quot;&gt;Harry Potter Fanfic where Harry is impregnated by Draco&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is clear, gives numerous highly-specific details about the story, and is rather unlikely to match more than one story exactly (though I grant that it will superficially match quite a few stories, because this plot is apparently a thing in the &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; fandom).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time of writing, it's sitting at +7/-6.  I appreciate that this is not the kind of question that some of us are here to answer.  However, as mentioned above, those people can easily ignore the fanfic tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Am I missing something, or are these downvotes undeserved?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastActivityDate="2017-06-13T14:42:09.427" Title="Why are we downvoting this perfectly good story ID question (that happens to involve weird fanfic)?" Tags="|discussion|voting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11020" CreationDate="2017-06-13T14:42:09.427" Score="14" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We established quite a while ago that fanfiction is on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. And that's probably why the question has not received any close votes at this time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;are these downvotes undeserved?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether or not the post &lt;em&gt;deserves&lt;/em&gt; downvotes is a matter of opinion. Voting is in the eye of the beholder. It is well-established on the Stack Exchange network that voting is totally at the discretion of the user casting the vote, as long as the vote is cast based on the &lt;em&gt;content&lt;/em&gt; of the post (as opposed to the &lt;em&gt;user&lt;/em&gt; who posted it -- e.g. you can't upvote your buddy's posts just because he's your buddy).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the downvoters disliked the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/161160/1&quot;&gt;wall of text&lt;/a&gt; in the first revision of the post. Maybe the downvoters don't like questions about fan fiction that contradicts canon. Maybe the downvoters don't like the subject of the fan fiction the post is asking about. Who knows?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastActivityDate="2017-06-13T14:42:09.427" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11022" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-14T08:41:28.243" Score="8" ViewCount="368" Body="&lt;p&gt;Matt Gutting added a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/161520/revisions&quot;&gt;very considerable amount of detail&lt;/a&gt; to this answer...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/161520/20774&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/161520/20774&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... turning it from a two sentence stub (that more closely resembled a comment) into a well-referenced and highly relevant answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has 95+ upvotes and rolling it back dramatically harms the answer. I certainly would have rejected it (as conflicting with the OP's intent) if it had turned up in the review queue, but was I right to roll it back at this point?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that &lt;strong&gt;I'm not asking if he improved the answer&lt;/strong&gt; (I think we can all agree that he did) but &lt;strong&gt;whether such improvement is right and proper.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-06-27T15:43:19.473" LastActivityDate="2017-06-27T15:43:19.473" Title="Was I right to roll this edit back?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="22" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11022" CreationDate="2017-06-14T08:53:30.570" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't have rejected it in the queue. It doesn't change the meaning of the answer - it &lt;em&gt;adds relevant information&lt;/em&gt;. It's always good to improve a bad answer and make it good - it's better than leaving bad content around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that I've certainly added supporting quotes to answers that I felt needed them, sometimes resulting in adding several thousand characters to the answer. I feel that you should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; have rolled it back, as it only vastly improves, not changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2017-06-14T08:53:30.570" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11022" CreationDate="2017-06-14T08:53:51.910" Score="13" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Does it make the answer better?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes it definitely does. Another person with &amp;lt;2k rep had suggested the same edit as you, and I had rejected it on the grounds that it actively harms the answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Was Matt Gutting right in adding those parts?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not up to us. If it's their decision to add those parts to an otherwise (not my words) low quality answer, instead of posting an answer of their own - it's their decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we have the right to roll the edit back because the answerer &amp;quot;doesn't deserve the upvotes&amp;quot;? &lt;strong&gt;No!&lt;/strong&gt; This site is not about upvotes and reputation - it is about &lt;strong&gt;building a complete collection of questions and answers&lt;/strong&gt;. Matt Gutting's revision made said collection better, so there is no point in rolling back the edits because of the feeling of justice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had done similar things myself (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/160423/revisions&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) with an otherwise low-quality post, and I had added information to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/42584/70236&quot;&gt;other people's answers&lt;/a&gt; without asking first. the way I see it - when I edit, I offer my help with source search. If the OP decides to roll it back - then it's their decision, but at least I took a stab at making the post better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Daniel Roseman decides to roll back the edit - that's their decision, since it's their answer. &lt;em&gt;Then&lt;/em&gt; the edits fall under &amp;quot;conflicts with OP's intent&amp;quot;, and &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; it's not up to us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-06-14T09:03:51.993" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11022" CreationDate="2017-06-14T09:42:51.910" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;We should leave &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/161520/3&quot;&gt;Matt Gutting's revision&lt;/a&gt; in place. Don't roll it back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm inclined toward that Matt Gutting should have posted their own answer rather than revise that one. I have a personal rule of thumb that I don't put more effort into revising a post than the author put into that post in the first place, and I think in future situations like this, Gutting should post a new answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However it's now 2 days later and the post is at +95. Rolling back that edit at this point is just destroying useful information and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;disruptive to our mission&lt;/a&gt; to &amp;ldquo;build a library of detailed answers to every question about science fiction or fantasy.&amp;rdquo; The opportune time to roll back has long passed, so let it stick and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall both users are 10k+, and the author is 30k+. Rep at that point is just a number. I'd be slightly worried if the user was brand new and was unlocking privileges whilst not having really learned to use the site effectively yet, but I don't have to worry about that for a moment in this scenario.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15502" LastActivityDate="2017-06-14T09:42:51.910" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11022" CreationDate="2017-06-14T10:42:22.863" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh wow. I didn't realize I'd be upsetting the hornet's nest on this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My rationale in changing it in the first place was that it was clearly an insufficient answer. If it had been flagged and come up in the review queue I would have been given the opportunity to edit it and mark it acceptable. Granted it wasn't flagged, at least not that I saw, but it was at the point that I would have flagged it. Instead I just skipped that step. Was that appropriate? Well I certainly thought so at the time, in the name of producing the best possible answers. Now, I'm not sure. I can definitely see the opposing side. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I upvoted the answer immediately after submitting my edits. Mine was the 84th (net) upvote: the question stands right now at 95 net upvotes. That's a considerable but not overwhelming increase. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that said, I honestly have no particular feeling in what the outcome of this discussion should be, and if the decision is to roll back the edits that's fine, I won't object. I'll post the identical answer as mine. But to me that doesn't seem fair to the answer's author. I'd like to see them weigh in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26274" LastEditorUserId="26274" LastEditDate="2017-06-14T16:03:23.193" LastActivityDate="2017-06-14T16:03:23.193" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10989" CreationDate="2017-06-14T23:14:20.833" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078869/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;THE BLACK HOLE (1979)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Plot Summary/Details&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is the year 2130 A.D. An Earth exploratory ship, the &lt;em&gt;USS&#xA;  Palomino&lt;/em&gt;, discovers a black hole with a lost ship, the &lt;em&gt;USS Cygnus&lt;/em&gt;,&#xA;  just outside its event horizon. The lost ship is generating an&#xA;  artificial gravity field, keeping it safe from the terrible forces of&#xA;  the black hole.  Upon boarding the vessel, the crew of the &lt;em&gt;Palomino&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;  learn that the &lt;em&gt;Cygnus&lt;/em&gt; is under the command of the brilliant but&#xA;  fanatically-driven Dr. Hans Reinhardt (Maximillian Schell). The crew&#xA;  begins to suspect that things aboard the &lt;em&gt;Cygnus&lt;/em&gt; are not right, and&#xA;  begin to unravel a terrifying mystery about the ship and the plans&#xA;  Reinhardt has for her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Robotic Presence&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are at least 3 robots who are major characters.  V.I.N.CENT (voiced by Roddy McDowell) is part of the crew of the &lt;em&gt;Palomino&lt;/em&gt;.  There is also B.O.B. (voiced by Slim Pickens) who is a similar, but older design to Vincent.  And then there is Reinhardt's personal assistant and apparent enforcer, the sinister and utterly silent Maximilian.  There are also some lesser robotic presences, but I don't want to give away any spoilers here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Impbc.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Impbc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Maximillian&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;(Maximilian)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reasons for Submission&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not going to say &lt;em&gt;The Black Hole&lt;/em&gt; is top-notch cinema.  It's not.   It has a 5.9 rating on IMDB, and while I think that's a &lt;em&gt;little&lt;/em&gt; harsh, I wouldn't put the film above 6.5/10.  So, why even suggest it?  Because the film has a wonderfully surreal quality due to a very uneven vision of what the film is supposed to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was the first film Disney made that wasn't &quot;G&quot;-rated all audiences fare, and it shows.  There are very traditional elements of Disney film-making in the script, with some dialogues and visuals that are downright cornball.  There are also elements of the film that are very dark and scary, to the point that they would have been more at home in a film like &lt;em&gt;Event Horizon&lt;/em&gt; than a Disney film.  It's as if the screenwriters decided that throwing parts from an &quot;R&quot;-rated film and parts from a &quot;G&quot;-rated film would balance out into a good &quot;PG&quot; film. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise, the visual effects exhibit the same extremes.  There are some truly breathtaking effects (for the era) in &lt;em&gt;The Black Hole&lt;/em&gt;, and there are some incredibly cheesy ones, too.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then there's the ending, which I (obviously) won't reveal here, but plunges into the deeply philosophical and unexpected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make a long story short (too late, I know), it's not a great film, but I've found it makes for some very interesting viewing all the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69621" LastEditorUserId="69621" LastEditDate="2017-06-21T04:08:34.873" LastActivityDate="2017-06-21T04:08:34.873" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11028" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11029" CreationDate="2017-06-15T11:51:34.513" Score="10" ViewCount="237" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering the other day if Prof. Snape could have healed George's ear, since he was able to heal the cut from Harry's &lt;em&gt;Sectumsempra&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found that the question had already been asked and answered &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/54016/could-georges-ear-have-been-healed-by-snape&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/54018/13716&quot;&gt;(then) accepted answer&lt;/a&gt; clearly doesn't answer the question, and is simply stating what the OP in the question wanted to find the reason for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I ask whether Snape would have been able to heal George's ear, it will almost certainly be closed as a duplicate of the above mentioned question, as even typing &lt;code&gt;George Snape ear&lt;/code&gt; in the question title box brings up that question as a suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as you can see, the accepted answer clearly doesn't answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should happen in this case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13716" LastEditorUserId="13716" LastEditDate="2017-06-15T23:09:14.197" LastActivityDate="2017-06-15T23:09:14.197" Title="What should be done when a non answer has been accepted?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11028" CreationDate="2017-06-15T13:41:21.647" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have a few options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Start a bounty.&lt;/strong&gt; A few of the bounty reasons are applicable. &lt;em&gt;Authoritative Reference Needed&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Canonical Answer Required&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Improve Details&lt;/em&gt; would all make sense in this situation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Open a new question&lt;/strong&gt;, and be very clear in your question why your question is different. This is likely to draw &lt;em&gt;VTC - dupes&lt;/em&gt;, and not in your favor. The exact question &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; asked. You're going to want to be more specific and detailed in your question and be ready to explain to VTC'ers why it shouldn't be duped. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, I'd just start a new bounty. This is exactly what bounties are for, and will result in less arguments. I'd also suggest talking to Mooz. He's an active user - both on the site and in chat. Find out why he thought the question was sufficiently answered. He may be willing to unaccept, or change the accepted answer if a new one comes in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastActivityDate="2017-06-15T13:41:21.647" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11030" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-15T16:40:34.543" Score="8" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/161688/67849&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, which appeared on my &lt;em&gt;low-quality&lt;/em&gt; queue. A user (ibid) commented a very good link backing up this answer. I then started to edit, but realised afterwards that I had completely changed the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The old post:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't done any research on what house she is in but my friend told me she is in Hufflepuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My edit (That I have not yet posted):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an old &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/161688/67849&quot;&gt;BBC interview&lt;/a&gt; from 2000, JK admits she took a fan-made quiz online and got the result of Hufflepuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is that a danger with the internet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Internet! Twice I've been on the internet. Friends of mine were telling me what's on there and I'd never gone looking before. First time, I thought I was never coming back, it's too scary. Some of the stuff that's out there is very weird. Second time I went in there someone had set up an unofficial fan site where you can be sorted, they have a Sorting Hat, and I was Hufflepuff. I wasn't that pleased! If anyone's meant to be Gryffindor, it's me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realised that in editing the answer to incorporate the link, I have effectively deleted the user's original answer and replaced it with my own. Is that the right course of action? Should I edit a low-quality post to the point where it no longer resembles the old post, or should I simply recommend it be deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How much editing is too much?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67849" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-06-15T17:29:07.817" Title="How much editing is too much?" Tags="|discussion|editing|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11030" CreationDate="2017-06-15T17:20:17.047" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you should just make a new post and recommend that one be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My own rule of thumb is this: &lt;strong&gt;I don't put more effort into editing a post than the author put into their post in the first place.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original post is one line, no research, saying &quot;this is what my friend said&quot;. That effort is near enough to 0. It's worth 0 editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you've done is perform research, find a BBC interview, extract a relevant quote from it... I'd only edit that into a post that's done &lt;em&gt;at least&lt;/em&gt; that much effort all on their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the extra considerations for this is that reputation earns people privileges, with which they unlock the ability to modify our site. Reputation can &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; be earned by demonstrating you already understand the basics of how to use our site: through good questions, answers, and edits. This user has displayed &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; understanding of our site and is not yet ready to hold any of those privileges, and so they should not yet be receiving upvotes and reputation. Substantiating their post for them stands to give them reputation they need to not yet have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15502" LastEditorUserId="15502" LastEditDate="2017-06-15T17:29:07.817" LastActivityDate="2017-06-15T17:29:07.817" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11032" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11035" CreationDate="2017-06-15T19:31:55.537" Score="19" ViewCount="272" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/161595/revisions&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/161595/revisions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is getting kind of ridiculous. On one hand, it's best to have questions that are conducive to knowing what they're about. On the other hand, the number of people who drive-by add what the querent feels are spoilers to the title... can we find a middle ground?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-06-15T22:05:48.217" LastActivityDate="2017-06-19T21:01:23.213" Title="Editing a question to add details that the querent doesn't want to add" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|editing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10989" CreationDate="2017-06-15T21:01:04.110" Score="3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Silent Running&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1971&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a future where the entire surface of the earth is covered by climate-controlled buildings, no plant life remains; all wilderness has been eradicated.  All food is synthesized by artificial technology.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Giant space freighters are consigned to serve as the only remaining zoological and botanical gardens.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YrmDD.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YrmDD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4934401&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, so there are three actual, factual, robots here, but they aren't anywhere near the focus of the story.  They are not quite main characters, either — not until  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Lowell (Bruce Dern) loses the other human crew members, and has only the robotic Drones as his most humanoid companions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So…&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Why do I nominate this?&#xA;Anyone who tells me that the didn't cry when  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Number 03, a.k.a. Louie, gets hit by the debris in Saturn's rings, and falls off the ship,  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or when  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Lowell destroys himself and Number 02 a.k.a. Huey, and Number 01 a.k.a. Dewey is the only one of the drones or humans to carry on taking care of the forests at the end,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;should be kicked in the shin — if they don't cry at that, then they are probably a robot themself.  And, a pitiful one at that, who lacks the ability to sympathize for a fellow robot.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Okay, so the robots were but one reason of many for the wealth of emotions at the finale — but they were so darn cute!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, come on:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Why couldn't Number 02 be allowed to ride along with Number 01?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt; multiple robots&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt;(?) there are quite a few duds and baits out there, but at least one bad copy on YouTube and is available on Netflix&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68218" LastEditorUserId="68218" LastEditDate="2017-06-15T21:38:25.297" LastActivityDate="2017-06-15T21:38:25.297" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11032" CreationDate="2017-06-15T23:17:35.797" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a few different things going on here. I'll take them in order of importance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;1) Stop editing this question.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the OP has explicitly rejected your edit, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;stop being a jerk&lt;/a&gt; by continuing to try to edit it against their wishes.&lt;/strong&gt; Seek meta consensus. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Three rollbacks is ridiculous. Nine title edits is doubly ridiculous.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;2) Why didn't a moderator sort this earlier?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There appeared to be a short &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/161595/timeline&quot;&gt;edit war&lt;/a&gt; going on between Josh Caswell and MyCodeSucks. A moderator then stepped in and &lt;strong&gt;made things worse&lt;/strong&gt; by overriding the OP and editing a spoiler back into the title, something that the OP and others clearly felt should be hidden, necessitating a further rollback. This is the point that the question should have been frozen, if not earlier. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;3) Don't edit spoilers into titles.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've already have an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/968/what-is-the-policy-for-spoilers&quot;&gt;agreed policy on spoilers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Don't consider the age of the material.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Avoid spoilers completely in the title.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2017-06-15T23:17:35.797" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11032" CreationDate="2017-06-16T10:20:55.477" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, lets get this out of the way, so we can focus on the real question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Edit Wars Are Bad, Stop Having Them&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you make an edit to a question, and the OP rolls it back, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;stop there&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to make an edit to a question and you see that it's been edited before and then reverted, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;stop there&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Don't keep making edits that the OP is just going to undo. Instead,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If an edit war is already in progress, flag the question for moderator attention (so it can be locked), and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Come here and seek clarification.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At that point, once there's consensus, a moderator can step in, edit the question appropriately, and lock it that way. &lt;em&gt;Hopefully&lt;/em&gt; that also satisfies the OP that the edits are justified, instead of just pissing them off that we keep messing up his post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The OPs Decisions Are NOT Final&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On SE sites, there is a custom of giving a lot of weight to the decision of the person what made the post, especially when that post is a question. But it's also very clear in the site's Terms of Service: Once you hit that post button, the question belongs &lt;em&gt;to the site&lt;/em&gt;. It is explicitly allowed and encouraged for everyone else to edit questions to make them better, and to adhere to the standards of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What the OP personally believes regarding spoilers is helpful, since they presumably know the spoilers and can judge them. But it's ultimately not what matters. If &lt;em&gt;we&lt;/em&gt; (the community) know better, then we edit the question to fix it -- if needed, after talking it over in comments, or chat, or meta. That's how it works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Spoilers -- What Are They Good For?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that... our spoiler policy. We have a long-established policy on SF/F on spoilers, which you can read about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/968/what-is-the-policy-for-spoilers&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3032/are-spoiler-edits-becoming-excessive&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6865/whats-wrong-with-this-title-construction&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as question titles go, that policy is, and has been for a very long time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your title must be meaningful, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Try really hard to avoid spoilers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First and foremost, above all else, question titles must be meaningful. Any question title that takes the form &quot;Why did &lt;em&gt;pronoun&lt;/em&gt; do &lt;em&gt;pronoun&lt;/em&gt;?&quot; is terrible. No one reading that title is going to know what your question is about, so they aren't going to know:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can they answer it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do they also want to know the answer to it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it a duplicate of the question they're writing up right now?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;etc. Meaningful titles are of paramount importance. &lt;em&gt;Meaningful titles trump spoilers&lt;/em&gt;. If you legitimately cannot think of a single way to write your question title that does not include the spoiler, then too bad. I can tell you, in many years of fixing terrible question titles, I've yet to come across one where that was true, but I suppose it could happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, it also helps if you genuinely know what a spoiler is. For starters &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;not every new piece of information you learn in a book is a spoiler&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Just because you didn't know Raistlin's shoe size, or childhood bully's name, or whatever until Chapter 86, doesn't make it a spoiler. A spoiler is something that would &lt;em&gt;literally spoil the enjoyment of the book&lt;/em&gt; if you put it in your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, we only have a somewhat vaguely defined policy for what a spoiler actually is, but the definition that seems to have worked best over the years includes all of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only major, unknowable plot points can be spoilers. It has to be something that would literally &lt;em&gt;ruin&lt;/em&gt; your enjoyment of the work if you knew it ahead of time (e.g. it should have some degree of surprise, shock, twist, unexpectedness, or at least major plot significance to it.) The fact that the good guy beats the bad guy in the end is not a spoiler; the fact that the good guy &lt;em&gt;kills&lt;/em&gt; the bad guy could be.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Spoilers are spoilers regardless of the age of the work. We don't assume people have read/watched old works here, so don't spoiler for them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Spoilers stop being spoilers when they become common knowledge. Everyone knows Darth Vader is Luke's father because literally everyone on the planet misquotes that line in the movie these days.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Spoilers stop being spoilers when you can see it in the trailers/commercials/back of the book/etc. If the publisher didn't think something was secret enough to keep hidden, we don't care either.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question title were something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Where did Raistlin get the Dragon Orb he uses to talk to Dalamar?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That gives away none of the plot of any of the previous novels, because knowing he has an Orb in &lt;em&gt;War of the Twins&lt;/em&gt; cannot spoil &lt;em&gt;Dragons of Winter Night&lt;/em&gt;, and it says nothing about the plot of &lt;em&gt;War of the Twins&lt;/em&gt; that you shouldn't already know before you start reading it. Plus, it's such an insignificant plot point -- the Orb is just an excuse to let Raistlin talk to someone across time, it could have literally been anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2017-06-19T21:01:23.213" LastActivityDate="2017-06-19T21:01:23.213" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4744" CreationDate="2017-06-17T21:17:02.223" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer is incorrect:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E2bvW.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E2bvW.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a screen capture from another Stack Exchange site, but as far as I can tell they all operate on the same principles. Note that &quot;duplicate of&quot; indicates that the question being closed is the second one. It follows the obvious meaning of &quot;duplicate&quot;: that an answer has already come before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also note that all reasons for Closing are because of a problem with there Question. Answers have nothing to do with a Close vote. In the case of a &lt;em&gt;duplicate&lt;/em&gt; the problem is that the questioner did not search adequately for the question already being asked. And this is the &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; reason for closure that has an objective measure: which came first. All others are to some extent subjective, but not duplication.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, there is a subjective aspect to &quot;duplicate&quot;, which is if the two questions are pretty much the same or not. None the less, if a new question is asked in error (is a duplicate) but is not noticed for some time and perhaps even gets good answers, the solution is to merge the answers into the original.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer is a novel theory, but totally goes against this. It closes questions based on answers and retroactively considers an older answer to be a &quot;duplicate&quot; of a newer answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer also contradicts the whole meaning of closing a question. Questions are closed because of defects that the questioner is unwilling (or unable) to remedy. They are not closed because of answers or because of questions that might be posted years later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1656" LastEditorUserId="1656" LastEditDate="2017-06-17T21:22:08.003" LastActivityDate="2017-06-17T21:22:08.003" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11038" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11040" CreationDate="2017-06-18T20:33:12.003" Score="22" ViewCount="367" Body="&lt;p&gt;On June 17, 2017, Stephen Furst &lt;a href=&quot;http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBIT_STEPHEN_FURST?SITE=AP&amp;amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;passed away&lt;/a&gt; at the age of 63 after complications with diabetes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While most obituaries highlighted his role as Flounder in the movie &lt;em&gt;Animal House&lt;/em&gt;, science fiction fans are more likely to remember him for being on &lt;em&gt;Babylon 5&lt;/em&gt; playing the role of Vir Cotto, diplomatic attaché and later emperor of the Centauri. He was also the voice of Booster and other characters in the TV show &lt;em&gt;Buzz Lightyear of Star Command&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's not forget too that Stephen Furst had many additional years of life, thanks to the generosity of a fan who &lt;a href=&quot;http://leewochner.com/blog/?p=493&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;anonymously donated their kidney to him&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/HtF_PCAsN2U?start=24&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Vir Cotto: A hell of a life.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Lennier: [smiles] …you win.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13217" LastEditorUserId="13217" LastEditDate="2017-06-18T20:46:56.107" LastActivityDate="2017-06-18T20:58:54.080" Title="RIP Stephen Furst, actor for Vir Cotto" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11038" CreationDate="2017-06-18T20:58:25.513" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;A great acting talent and the perfect actor for the role of Vir. RIP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/47DfQcHMYLY?start=54&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2017-06-18T20:58:25.513" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11038" CreationDate="2017-06-18T20:58:54.080" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bsOoz.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bsOoz.gif&quot; alt=&quot;waving 1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4v6Pd.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4v6Pd.gif&quot; alt=&quot;waving 2&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RIP Mr Furst.&lt;/strong&gt; Unlike Mr Morden, you will be missed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-06-18T20:58:54.080" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10989" CreationDate="2017-06-19T10:38:39.177" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WALL-E&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently&#xA;  embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of&#xA;  mankind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oAY5A.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oAY5A.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not big fan of animated movies but I loved Wall-E. Film has lot of emotions and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wall-E&lt;/strong&gt; is the main characte discovers a new purpose in life (besides collecting knick-knacks) when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Eve:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When EVE is first seen in the movie, she is hostile and dedicated to her task. However, after meeting WALL-E, she began to warm up to him and befriend him.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dXUjg.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dXUjg.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt; Multiple Robots&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19834" LastEditorUserId="19834" LastEditDate="2017-06-19T10:52:21.787" LastActivityDate="2017-06-19T10:52:21.787" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2017-06-20T10:11:47.737" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;One faithful &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dabday.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Draw a Bird Day&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, I drew a bird. I took a picture of it to upload, so I could share it on chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I had no avatar back then, I used it as my avatar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cWBJh.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cWBJhm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;A bird&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found it works pretty well with hats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2017-06-20T10:11:47.737" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11043" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-20T16:12:00.617" Score="2" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a bug when editing a post where the &quot;How to Edit&quot; and &quot;How to Format&quot; windows get mixed in with the map links at the bottom of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/q6kNh.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/q6kNh.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm using Chrome V58.0.3029.110.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75000" LastActivityDate="2017-06-20T16:12:00.617" Title="Edit page's tip windows bug" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10749" CreationDate="2017-06-20T22:24:53.250" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The official-looking links in the footer were never intended to point off-site; that worked &lt;em&gt;briefly&lt;/em&gt; for a short time on the main site because it was still pointing to the old Blog Overflow site, which was redirecting to the off-site blog... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The redirect still exists, but the footer no longer links to it, on the main site or on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a general rule, &lt;strong&gt;we're not going to send folks off-site via an official-looking link&lt;/strong&gt; unless there's &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxopViU98Xo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;click here for instructions on how to delete your Stack Exchange account&quot;&gt;an amusing 10-hour YouTube video on the other end&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The footer is kind of a lousy way to promote the blog anyway. I'm not entirely sure why there's even a link to the &lt;em&gt;system blog&lt;/em&gt; in the footer, although perhaps it helps with SEO in some way; most of the links there are far more utilitarian - the equivalent of the fine print on the inside cover of a magazine: great when you want to know where to send angry letters to the editor, but not where you go looking for articles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I prefer the way Worldbuilding does it: a meta post corresponding to the latest post, with an event that announces it on the sidebar for some length of time. That gives y'all complete control over how long each post is promoted, while giving readers some context before they end up off site (and a convenient way to post feedback if there's a problem). See: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/285998/how-can-we-improve-blog-promotion&quot;&gt;How can we improve blog promotion?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastActivityDate="2017-06-20T22:24:53.250" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2017-06-20T22:52:55.033" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually go with the name Spicy Wiener or swissdude323 (123 was taken). But after finding I really enjoyed Tolkien's world and becoming a regular on the Tolkien subs on reddit, I decided I needed a Sindarin name, so I chose &lt;strong&gt;Edlothiad&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;edlothiad ger. of edlothia- &lt;strong&gt;blossoming, flowering&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;lt;- edlothiand WR/293 Actually, edlothiand might be a misreading, according to David Salo who checked the original manuscript at Marquette and reported that his reading was unmistakably edlothiad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I chose this name because my love for Tolkien had just begun to blossom and I wanted to nurture it. I also thought the name was very cool sounding, and the nickname Ed was very applicable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68872" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-06-21T07:03:02.510" LastActivityDate="2017-06-21T07:03:02.510" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11046" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-21T11:09:49.680" Score="15" ViewCount="386" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry if this is off topic, but it's something I have been wondering about  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of the times in the Star Wars questions, I see the Stars Wars wiki (wookiepedia I think it's called) being quoted as a reference, by both old and new users of the site, and nobody ever thinks twice about it  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when it comes to Harry Potter, people here go out of their way to mention that they don't consider the Harry Potter wiki as a reliable source, leave similar comments on answers that make references to the wiki, even going so far as to down vote an answer if it only has a wiki reference    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is the Star Wars wiki comparatively really that great as a reference source, and the Harry Potter one that bad?&lt;/strong&gt; As far as I understand both are fan powered websites and community edited without much moderation, so I presume the level of quality would be similar  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am sure there are people here who have read more of the wiki as well as the canonical sources than I have, and I hope some of them can answer this question for me&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13716" LastActivityDate="2017-06-21T20:10:48.160" Title="Harry Potter vs Star Wars wiki" Tags="|discussion|sources|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11047" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2017-06-21T11:10:33.837" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-06-21T11:10:33.837" LastActivityDate="2017-06-21T11:10:33.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11048" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2017-06-21T11:10:33.837" Score="0" Body="Use this tag for discussion about the source of a scifi and fantasy material" OwnerUserId="13716" LastEditorUserId="13716" LastEditDate="2017-06-21T15:47:20.123" LastActivityDate="2017-06-21T15:47:20.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11049" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-21T15:43:44.820" Score="12" ViewCount="328" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from April 1st 2017 through June 30 2017 (&lt;strong&gt;They don't have to be &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; questions and answers, but it also doesn't matter if you want to self promote your own stuff.&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2017/04/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2017/04/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2017/04/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I will also be linking all blog posts that happened within this quarter.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also if there was a meta post you feel should be spotlighted those are also acceptable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Votes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People sometimes down-vote the answers, even going as far as to target specific people and vote them into the negative. Just so you know, that is a pointless practice. All answers are included regardless of vote count (unless I decide not to include one for some reason). Also the vote score does not determine the order in which things will appear in the post, I tend to arbitrarily do that when I write it up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2022-03-02T18:55:12.787" Title="Favorite Questions and Answers from second quarter of 2017" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11046" CreationDate="2017-06-21T16:12:44.320" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has more to do with the state of Canon for the various universes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Star Wars has a definitive list of canonical works. Whereas Harry Potter is all over the place. So for one we can say, &quot;yes, that a thing, look at here where it says so&quot; and the other is, &quot;maybe? It say so here, but not here and Rowling might have retconned in this interview, but the book definitely implies it&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But like some comments mentioned, it's also the state of the community for the various wikias. lotr.wikia and Tolkien Gateway draw from the same source material, but are vastly different in terms of reliability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62201" LastActivityDate="2017-06-21T16:12:44.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11051" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14065" CreationDate="2017-06-21T16:51:46.537" Score="56" ViewCount="10609" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;NB - Newcomers, the contents of this question are completely replaced with each blog post. Don't get confused if you see you've already voted but don't recognize the post!&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Latest Blog Post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2024/04/jacks-bad-movies-alien-1979/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies: Alien (1979)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For Ripley there is no room in her cold heart for others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Community Blog&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This blog was originally part of the Stack Exchange network, but in fall 2016, support for Stack blogs was discontinued. Members of the community worked together to continue the blog privately, but still with strong ties to the network that brought us together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Interested in &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/contribute/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;contributing&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contact me (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1148/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt;), or CreationEdge (if you can find him) about getting setup. Some ideas for the blog might be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Movie, book, or series reviews&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Coverage and experiences at Conventions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Explanations and research about various fandoms (like the complete history of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/05/a-guide-to-the-marvel-cinematic-multiverse/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Marvel Cinematic Multiverse&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or whatever else you might want to write about&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And we don't buck the controversial issues like &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/07/starship-troopers-the-mobile-infantry-definitely-does-not-accept-hippies/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;'Is Starship Troopers pro-facist?'&lt;/a&gt; or is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/01/the-new-star-wars-canon-guide/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;'Star Wars Canon Guide'&lt;/a&gt; the only post anyone ever reads?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answers to this post will be a backlog of previous posts.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2024-04-02T15:08:33.063" LastActivityDate="2024-04-02T15:08:33.063" Title="Latest Blog Post: Jack’s Bad Movies: Alien (1979)" Tags="|discussion|featured|blog|" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11046" CreationDate="2017-06-21T16:55:57.860" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;No idea about the Star Wars wiki, but the Harry Potter wiki has two main problems:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Their canon policy disagrees with the commonly accepted practice on this site.&lt;/strong&gt; We tend to only accept Rowling's writings as canon, but they accept movies, video games, plays, parks, licensed merchandise, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A lot of what they have is inaccurate and/or poorly sourced.&lt;/strong&gt; There is a tendency on wikis to make every article read like a story, which often leads to unwarranted assumptions, things used out of context, and large amounts of speculation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, if you can find the source of a claim on the wiki, just quote directly from its primary source. If you can't find their source, then ignore it. There is a finite amount of HP writings that we tend to consider canon here. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/114611/55866&quot;&gt;Most of them are available online&lt;/a&gt; and easily searchable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other wikis may be of better quality, (and therefore less frowned upon), but the same rule applies. Nothing beats quoting from a primary source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55866" LastActivityDate="2017-06-21T16:55:57.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11051" CreationDate="2017-06-21T16:56:29.980" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;2012&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;October&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/10/brickcon-2012/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Brickcon 2012&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;September&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/09/space-saga-chapter-1-the-accident/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Space Saga – Chapter 1: The accident&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;August&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/08/star-wars-identities-the-exhibition/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Wars Identities : The Exhibition&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/08/live-chat-star-trek-tos-and-the-children-shall-lead/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Live Chat – Star Trek TOS “And The Children Shall Lead”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;June&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/06/heroescon-2012-report/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;HeroesCon 2012 Report&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;May&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/05/harry-potter-movie-marathon-highlights/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Harry Potter Movie Marathon Highlights&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;April&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/04/avengers-vs-x-men-results-winners-announced/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Avengers vs. X-Men results! Winners announced!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/04/topic-of-the-week-contest-the-legend-of-korra/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Topic of the Week Contest: The Legend of Korra&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/04/avengers-vs-x-men-is-here/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Avengers vs. X-Men is here!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/04/a-month-of-comic-exploration/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A month of comic exploration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;March&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/03/stack-exchange-is-giving-away-sets-of-game-of-thrones-season-1-on-blu-ray-and-dvd/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange is giving away sets of Game of Thrones: Season 1 on Blu-Ray and DVD!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/03/scifi-stackexchange-in-practical-use-a-newcomers-journey-to-doctor-who/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SciFi.StackExchange in Practical Use – A newcomer’s journey to Doctor Who.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/03/the-last-question/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Last Question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;February&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/02/new-mid-season-sci-fi-fantasy-tv/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;New Mid-season Sci-fi &amp;amp; Fantasy TV&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;January&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2012/01/moderator-elections/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Moderator Elections&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2017-06-21T16:56:29.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11051" CreationDate="2017-06-21T17:07:34.103" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;2011&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;December&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/12/the-dark-mirror-blade-of-fortriu/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Dark Mirror / Blade of Fortriu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/12/featured-question-e-t-star-wars/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Featured Question: E.T. &amp;amp; Star Wars&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/12/launch/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Launch!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/12/movies-sister-site-launches/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Movies Sister Site Launches&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;October&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/10/scifi-stackexchange-in-practical-use-in-what-order-should-the-star-wars-movies-be-watched/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SciFi.StackExchange in Practical Use – In what order should the Star Wars movies be watched?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/10/sci-fi-stack-exchange-at-new-york-comic/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sci-Fi Stack Exchange at New York Comic Con&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/10/re-evaluating-the-end-of-planetary/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Re-evaluating the end of “Planetary”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/10/qa-with-jim-gibbons-of-dark-horse-comics/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Q&amp;amp;A with Jim Gibbons of Dark Horse Comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/10/featured-question-in-the-lord-of-the-rings-what-important-background-information-is-contained-in-the-poems/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Featured Question: In The Lord of the Rings, what important background information is contained in the poems?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/10/nyccse/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange is giving away 3-day passes to New York Comic Con&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;September&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/09/contagion-jaws-for-the-flu/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Contagion – ‘Jaws’ for the Flu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/09/review-roger-zelazny-a-night-in-the-lonesome-october/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Review: Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/09/amazon-kindle-now-servicing-over-11000-public-libraries/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Amazon Kindle now servicing over 11,000 public libraries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/09/the-sci-fi-fantasy-fall-2011-tv-season/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Sci-fi &amp;amp; Fantasy Fall 2011 TV Season&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/09/stack-exchange-helps-out-a-superman-fan/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Helps Out a Superman Fan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/09/dcs-new-52/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DC’s new 52&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/09/digital-vs-physical-%e2%80%93-how-do-digital-comics-stand-up-to-the-tried-and-true/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Digital Vs. Physical – How do digital comics stand up to the tried and true?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/09/review-the-throne-of-fire-by-rick-riordan/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Review: The Throne of Fire, by Rick Riordan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/09/comic-recommendation-y-the-last-man/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Comic Recommendation: Y: The Last Man&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/09/interview-jason-snell-host-of-the-incomparable-sff-podcast/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Interview: Jason Snell, host of The Incomparable SF&amp;amp;F Podcast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/09/what-has-a-love-of-science-fiction-done-for-me/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;What has a love of science-fiction done for me?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/09/stackscifi-improvements/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;@stackscifi improvements&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;August&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/lessons_learn_lot/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lessons Learned: Lord of the Rings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/review-of-another-earth/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Review of Another Earth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/literature-sister-site-launches/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Literature Sister Site Launches&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/ipad-padd-application-disappointing/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;iPad PADD application: disappointing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/elvis-has-left-the-building/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Elvis Has Left the Building&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/the-hugo-awards-live-coverage/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Hugo Awards: Live Coverage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/costumes-everywhere/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Costumes Everywhere&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/instant-art/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Instant Art!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/fannish-humor/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fannish Humor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/tricky-pixie-in-concert/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tricky Pixie in Concert&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/steve-jackson-at-worldcon/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Steve Jackson at Worldcon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/welcome-to-worldcon/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Welcome to Worldcon!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/stack-exchange-is-going-to-worldcon/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange is going to Worldcon!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/featured-question-why-do-we-hear-leias-theme-during-kenobis-death/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Featured Question: Why Do We Hear Leia’s Theme During Kenobi’s Death&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2011/08/artemis-fowl/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Artemis Fowl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2017-06-21T17:07:34.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11051" CreationDate="2017-06-21T17:24:05.423" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;2013&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;December&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2013/12/tv-shows-with-a-supernatural-theme/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TV Shows with a Supernatural Theme&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2013/12/review-frozen/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Review – Frozen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;November&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2013/11/review-thor-the-dark-world/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Review – Thor: The Dark World&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2013/11/guide-to-either-loving-or-hating-enders-game-film/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Guide to either loving or hating Ender’s Game (film)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;October&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2013/10/highlights-from-2013-3rd-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2013 – 3rd Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;September&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2013/09/live-chat-star-trek-tos-space-seed/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Live Chat: Star Trek TOS “Space Seed”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;July&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2013/07/review-turbo/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Review – Turbo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2013/07/review-world-war-zed/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Review – World War Z&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2013/07/highlights-from-2013-2nd-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2013 – 2nd Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;June&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2013/06/man-of-steel/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Review – Man Of Steel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;May&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2013/05/review-iron-man-3/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Review: Iron Man 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;April&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2013/04/highlights-from-2013-1st-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2013 – 1st Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2013/04/reviews-the-croods/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Reviews: The Croods&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2017-06-21T17:24:05.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11051" CreationDate="2017-06-21T17:35:58.413" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;2014&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;December&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/12/technologies-we-should-have-in-2015/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Technologies We Should Have In 2015&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/12/jacks-bad-movies-ae-apocalypse-earth/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies – AE: Apocalypse Earth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/12/doom-star-series-books/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Doom Star Series (books)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;November&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/11/detective-comics-27-introduction-of-the-batman/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Detective Comics #27 – Introduction of the Batman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/11/science-fiction-technologies-that-people-are-hoping-for-in-their-lifetime/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Science Fiction Technologies that People are Hoping for in Their Lifetime&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;October&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/10/favorite-questions-and-answers-of-all-time/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Favorite Questions and Answers of All Time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/10/the-flash-pilot-episode/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Flash – Pilot Episode&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/10/highlights-from-2014-3rd-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2014 – 3rd Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;September&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/09/salt-lake-comic-con-overall/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Salt Lake Comic Con 2014 Report&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/09/salt-lake-comic-con-marvel-movies-phase-iii-panel/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Salt Lake Comic Con 2014 – Marvel Movies Phase III Panel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;July&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/07/starship-troopers-the-mobile-infantry-definitely-does-not-accept-hippies/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Starship Troopers – The Mobile Infantry definitely does not accept Hippies!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/07/highlights-from-2014-2nd-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2014 – 2nd Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/07/the-first-formic-war-enders-game-prequel-trilogy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The First Formic War (Ender’s Game Prequel Trilogy)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;April&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/04/salt-lake-comic-con-fan-xperience/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Salt Lake Comic Con Fan Xperience&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/04/highlights-from-2014-1st-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2014 – 1st Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;March&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/03/the-100-pilot-episode/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The 100 – Pilot Episode&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/03/movies-with-time-traveling-robots/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Movies With Time-Traveling Robots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;January&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.blogoverflow.com/2014/01/highlights-from-2013-4th-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2013 – 4th Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2017-06-21T17:35:58.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10989" CreationDate="2017-06-21T18:03:26.533" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Terry Pratchett's Going Postal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have one word to say: GOLEMS!!!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Golem is the pre-scientific ancestor of the robot, and the Discworld Golems hold a certain appeal (at least for me).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst I have not seen this movie, I have read this book numerous times (it is my favourite Pratchett novel).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its got comedy, its got drama, its got oodles of murder, and it is up to its armpits in Golems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To honor the late Sir Terry Pratchett, I nominate this 2 part made for TV movie for the July movie night. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84822" LastActivityDate="2017-06-21T18:03:26.533" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2017-06-21T18:13:35.830" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;My first handle was SonOfSam, which I picked because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Sam&quot; was the first (non-gibberish) output a random-name generator I made years ago came up with, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mad Max had recently released and I like alliteration, so I thought it sounded similar and cool&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had no idea that that was also the name of a famed serial killer(!), and I felt bad about unknowingly parading myself around as a fan of his. So I did some research on him, and found out that there are two officers who are credited for arresting the Son of Sam: William Gardella, and Timothy Dowd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gardella went on to give presentations where he'd go over general serial killer stuff and then describe the Son of Sam case specifically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dowd received an almost unheard of &lt;em&gt;two promotions&lt;/em&gt; for his investigative work that brought down the Son-o-Sam, going from deputy inspector to &lt;strong&gt;deputy chief (DCOP)&lt;/strong&gt;. He retired a year later, and from what I can tell, led a pretty normal and quiet life until he passed away at the ripe age of 99.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing as I'm more of the introvert type and not a stranger to rising more than one rank at a time (ladies ;)), I chose the one who wasn't putting themselves out in the spotlight, therefore,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DCOPTimDowd&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I don't think I'm capable of giving an answer without any kind of cited source, here's more &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/30/nyregion/timothy-dowd-detective-who-led-son-of-sam-manhunt-dies-at-99.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;info&lt;/a&gt; on Mr. Dowd for those curious enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also like giving pictures apparently, so here's one of Dowd working on the Son of Sam case back in 1977. Pretty handsome dude, actually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YxgDrm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YxgDrm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, that's my story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75000" LastEditorUserId="75000" LastEditDate="2017-09-29T15:42:39.577" LastActivityDate="2017-09-29T15:42:39.577" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11059" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-21T18:38:52.550" Score="-1" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the answers received, if those question were asked today, they should be marked as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-legends&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-legends&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-legends&lt;/a&gt;. So would it be worthwhile to have all the pre-decanonization questions marked as such?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, this will likely be a job for an automated script from Stack Exchange, rather than a user task (though possible), so I imagine part of this hinges on if SE wants to spend the time to do such a thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62201" LastActivityDate="2017-06-21T21:17:07.060" Title="Should the Legends tag be added to Star Wars questions before April 2014?" Tags="|discussion|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11049" CreationDate="2017-06-21T18:53:15.850" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Favorite Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Selecting from one of my own this time: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/159794/75000&quot;&gt;Did Anakin want kids?&lt;/a&gt;. I thought it was a pretty good idea for a question and it was definitely one of the ones I did the most research on before posting. If only there was more information on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Favorite Answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thunderforge's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/158062/75000&quot;&gt;response&lt;/a&gt; to my question of whether or not Pokemon can die while inside their Pokeballs. While it doesn't directly answer the question (to no fault of his own), it does give lots of insight on what is likely and I don't think we'll get any better an answer given the current available information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Honorable Mention&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/161177/75000&quot;&gt;Have there ever been 25 or more stars on Wonder Woman's &quot;panties&quot;?&lt;/a&gt; generated quite a bit of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11010/75000&quot;&gt;flubbub&lt;/a&gt; over whether or not the word &quot;panties&quot; is appropriate for this stack. As always, nerd controversies (especially over a superhero's underwear) are good fun and enjoyable to read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75000" LastActivityDate="2017-06-21T18:53:15.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11046" CreationDate="2017-06-21T20:10:48.160" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Harry Potter wiki is a poor effort in multiple ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Secret_passages_at_Hogwarts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;in this one page&lt;/a&gt;, the word 'may' appears 8 times, the word 'presumably' appears 3 times and the word 'apparently' also appears 3 times. There is one reference on the entire page that I can see. This is the flavour I've gotten from my personal interactions with it. There's a lack of proper sourcing and a general aroma of inference and extrapolation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also just wrong in bad ways. In &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows#Chapter_31:_The_Battle_of_Hogwarts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;its plot summary of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows&lt;/a&gt;, more than once it describes events as happening in one chapter, when in fact they happened in the next. The link will lead you to the summary of Chapter 31: The Battle of Hogwarts. As I write this answer, although maybe some kind soul will go and fix it, the summary is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At midnight, the Battle of Hogwarts begins. All the while Harry tries to locate the diadem and Ron and Hermione who had gone missing. Thinking that the diadem had not been seen in living memory, he speaks with the Grey Lady and surmises that Tom Riddle had learned of the diadem's location from her. Shortly after the battle begins, Harry recalls seeing the diadem in the Room of Requirement and meets up with Ron and Hermione, who had disappeared in order to retrieve Basilisk fangs from the Chamber of Secrets to destroy the next two Horcruxes. The trio re-enter the Room of Requirement, and Ron remembers all about the house-elves in the kitchens. He does not feel that it is right to order them to die for them, so he makes his thoughts known. With a clatter, Hermione drops all the basilisk fangs she is holding, and she and Ron share a deep, meaningful kiss, completely forgetting that Harry is there and that there is a war going on. After being reminded, they search the Room of Hidden Things, a version of the Room of Requirement that students have used to hide contraband over the centuries. Once they are inside, they are confronted by Malfoy and his cronies Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle. During a short duel in which Crabbe aims to kill, Crabbe mishandles the Fiendfyre spell, causing a huge inferno. Harry, Ron, Hermione, Malfoy, and Goyle escape on two old brooms, and the diadem is destroyed by the fire, along with Crabbe. Soon after, Fred and Percy Weasley, who had just reconciled with his family, are seen duelling with two Death Eaters one of whom is Minister for Magic Pius Thicknesse. After they defeat them, there is an explosion in the corridor, and Fred is killed, deeply affecting his parents, sister and brothers, as well as Harry and Hermione.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the cup and diadem destroyed, only one Horcrux remains. Voldemort's snake, Nagini. The trio fight their way through the castle, as the two armies battle furiously, dodging curses, Death Eaters, and Acromantulas and saving Draco Malfoy's life again along the way. When they reach the Entrance Hall, they find that Giants have joined the battle. Before leaving Hermione spots Fenrir Greyback trying to attack Lavender Brown on a balcony and casts a spell that knocks them off. While Lavender stirs feebly, Fenrir tries to get up but Sybill Trelawney drops a Crystal ball on his head and he is knocked unconscious. It is presumed that Lavender dies later. Trelawney then grabs another Crystal ball and uses her wand to throw one with a &amp;quot;tennis like serve&amp;quot;. Once onto the grounds, they come across Voldemort's Dementors. Unable to produce Patronuses, because of the horrors they have witnessed, all seems lost, and Harry even welcomes the oblivion that accompanies the Dementor's Kiss. They are saved by Seamus, Luna, and Ernie, who conjure Patronuses long enough for Harry to summon the will to drive the Dementors away. Then Seamus, Luna, and Ernie run to safety.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In reality, chapter 31 ends at the end of the first paragraph. All of the events described in the second paragraph take place in the next chapter. I mean how hard can it be to check?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46027" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-06-21T20:10:48.160" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11059" CreationDate="2017-06-21T21:17:07.060" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/star-wars-legends/info&quot;&gt;tag wiki&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-legends&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-legends&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-legends&lt;/a&gt; gives the following usage guidelines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use this tag if your question references Legends sources and/or to indicate that answers are permitted to use Legends sources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note that I'm the user who added those usage guidelines to the wiki. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6627/31936&quot;&gt;I proposed/created the tag&lt;/a&gt; as well.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We should follow the usage guidelines for all questions, regardless of when they were asked.&lt;/strong&gt; However, it may be difficult to determine the asker's intent to include or exclude Legends for the question. Just because the question was asked before the introduction of the Legends brand doesn't necessarily mean the asker was looking for a Legends answer -- so we shouldn't add the tag to &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; questions asked before the introduction of the Legends brand. &lt;strong&gt;The tag should only be added if there is clear evidence that the asker intended to include Legends in the question or if the asker was willing to accept answers that use Legends source(s).&lt;/strong&gt; We can safely add the tag to questions that exhibit one or more of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question refers to a Legends-only event, character, etc. (e.g. a question about &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jaina_Solo_Fel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jaina Solo&lt;/a&gt; is clearly a Legends question since that character only appears in Legends and is unlikely to ever be added to canon).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The accepted answer (if there is one) uses only Legends sources. Clearly the asker permitted Legends sources if he accepted an answer that only uses Legends sources.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question body explicitly indicates that Legends/EU sources are permitted. For example, in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/107965/31936&quot;&gt;this question of mine&lt;/a&gt; I say that Legends sources are permitted as long as they do not contradict canon.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The asker indicates in a comment that answers are allowed to draw from Legends sources.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, these criteria are too complicated for an automated script so we'll have to add the tag to the appropriate questions manually. Feel free to do so, but avoid editing too many questions at once (the edited questions should not take up more than about 5 of the top 15 questions on the front page).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastActivityDate="2017-06-21T21:17:07.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11049" CreationDate="2017-06-23T13:25:28.570" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm biased, because it's my question, but I really like DCOPTimDowd's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/161713/23243&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; to my question of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/161712/what-went-down-at-the-july-1974-comic-art-con&quot;&gt;What went down at the July 1974 Comic Art Con?&lt;/a&gt;. He put quite a bit of effort into explaining the circumstances and the people involved. It's a bit of an odd duck as a question on the site, being about the fandom, but people seem to have received it well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2017-06-23T13:25:28.570" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11049" CreationDate="2017-06-23T18:44:31.500" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is my first quarter actually contributing to scifi.se and here are two answers I am particularly proud of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/158494/62201&quot;&gt;How long did it take the Millennium Falcon to do the Kessel run&lt;/a&gt; - Though I had to bend over backwards to do so, I feel I was able to get all the various information to resolve nicely into a legitimate answer. Especially given the (in)famous nature of the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/161235/62201&quot;&gt;Which lightsaber form did Obi-Wan use against Maul on Tatooine?&lt;/a&gt; - Post-Phantom Menace lightsaber duels are fascinating and exciting, so being able to analyze and breakdown the fight in question was nothing short of fun. I mean, who doesn't love to spend an afternoon exploring wookiepedia and everything it has on lightsabers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And one that isn't mine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In answering &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/160823/62201&quot;&gt;Does anyone know what this fantasy script is from?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/72448/santyclause&quot;&gt;santyclause&lt;/a&gt; not only answered first, but was able to provide a legend for the script/alphabet that was pretty damn close to the &quot;real&quot; answer. All without knowing where the language came from (Brian Jacques' Redwall).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62201" LastActivityDate="2017-06-23T18:44:31.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11065" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-25T08:44:40.397" Score="10" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answered a question and included a link to a book series on Amazon,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;https://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B00YSGMWQ2&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The link worked in the preview, but when the answer was posted it had been replaced with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B00YSGMWQ2&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which redirects to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00YSGMWQ2/?tag=stackoverfl08-20&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which shows a &quot;page not found&quot;.  I tried again and the same thing happened.  What's going on here?  Is there a workaround?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5930" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-06-25T16:40:50.857" LastActivityDate="2017-06-26T06:27:44.370" Title="Links to book series on Amazon are being mangled" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11065" CreationDate="2017-06-25T16:43:44.040" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This appears to be a (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/posts/11065/revisions&quot;&gt;replicatable&lt;/a&gt;) bug, relating to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/26964/auto-inserting-stack-overflow-affiliate-into-all-amazon-book-links&quot;&gt;auto-insertion of Amazon links&lt;/a&gt; by Stack Exchange. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until it's fixed, there's a simple workaround. Use a URL shortening service (like &lt;a href=&quot;https://tinyurl.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TinyURL&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://goo.gl/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;goo.gl&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) to create a new link with the same end point. Stack Exchange doesn't recognise this as an Amazon link and hence doesn't muck it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B00YSGMWQ2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B00YSGMWQ2&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://tinyurl.com/ycfrgsk9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://tinyurl.com/ycfrgsk9&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-06-26T06:27:44.370" LastActivityDate="2017-06-26T06:27:44.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11067" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11069" CreationDate="2017-06-26T02:13:33.533" Score="7" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes people post questions asking what to read or watch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Should I read this book?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;In which order should I watch this film series?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Should I watch the old episodes in this TV series?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Should I read the book or watch the movie first?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are primarily opinion based. Answers will vary because some people will like the book/movies/TV-series and others won't. So there is no right answer, only what different people recommend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can point to these examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4707/should-i-skip-the-miniseries-in-the-new-bsg&quot;&gt;Should I skip the miniseries in the new BSG?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/77486/should-i-watch-the-hobbit-trilogy-before-the-lotr-trilogy&quot;&gt;Should I watch the Hobbit trilogy before the LotR trilogy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22979/what-order-should-i-watch-various-x-files-universe-tv-series-in&quot;&gt;What order should I watch various X-Files Universe TV series in?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/119838/which-x-men-movies-should-i-watch-before-deadpool&quot;&gt;Which X-Men movies should I watch before Deadpool?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/42893/should-i-read-r-i-p-d-city-of-the-damned-comic-before-or-after-watching-the-m&quot;&gt;Should I read R.I.P.D. “City of the Damned” comic before or after watching the movie? the original comic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since we often close questions that are primarily opinion-based, should we close questions that ask for opinions on what to watch or read?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did not see this particular topic mentioned on the question about &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5148/where-do-we-draw-the-line-on-opinion-based-questions&quot;&gt;Where do we draw the line on “opinion-based” questions?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; I would say that &quot;should I&quot; type questions are a separate category from other types of opinion-based questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63201" LastActivityDate="2017-06-26T18:00:02.003" Title="Should questions like &quot;Should I watch/read ...&quot; be closed as opinion based?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11067" CreationDate="2017-06-26T02:13:33.533" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am going to weigh in with my own answer to this question. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many of the answers to the above examples fit within the &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/09/29/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Guidelines for Great Subjective Questions&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Great subjective questions inspire answers that explain “why” and “how”.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many of the answers to those questions provide key insights into the book or film series as a whole. Many provide crucial details about what to look for when watching. Or the answer describes important themes and philosophical concepts within the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Great subjective questions tend to have long, not short, answers.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the answers to those &amp;quot;Should I&amp;quot; questions are long, complex, and thoughtful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. Great subjective questions have a constructive, fair, and impartial tone.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say many of the questions and their answers are constructive and fair. (But that is just my opinion.) :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4. Great subjective questions invite sharing experiences over opinions.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like answers to &amp;quot;should I read/watch&amp;quot; questions that describe &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; a person has a particular opinion. An answer that points out good character development, plot lines, or settings will often make me more interested in seeing a movie rather than less interested. Answers to &amp;quot;Should I&amp;quot; questions that mention bad plots or trivial character motivation are a great warning about what books &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5. Great subjective questions insist that opinion be backed up with facts and references.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of the answers provided to those questions are rooted in canon information about the movie/TV-series/books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6. Great subjective questions are more than just mindless social fun.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am actually okay with the answers being mindless social fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit to add:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/31394/rand-althor&quot;&gt;Rand al'Thor&lt;/a&gt; wrote a really useful answer to this question. Please go read it and give him a thumbs-up. I like his explanations on why &amp;quot;reading-order&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;viewing-order&amp;quot; questions are good. Where we disagree is on &amp;quot;recommendation questions&amp;quot;. I think recommendation questions can be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I were to answer a question of &amp;quot;Should I read &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Blindsight&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Watts_(author)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Peter Watts&lt;/a&gt;?&amp;quot;, I would answer like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;======&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spoiler Warning!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;! Some people like this novel, and some don't. It has good reviews and was nominated for a Hugo Award. It touches on themes of self-awareness, consciousness, and the evolutionary advantages and drawbacks of consciousness. It presents intriguing ideas about a crew with a vampire leader, a person containing multiple consciousnesses, and others with different levels/kinds of consciousness. It is a very intriguing story with a lot going for it. It's also one of the best First Contact stories out there, and to my knowledge, the only character-driven First Contact story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;! On the downside, &lt;em&gt;Blindsight&lt;/em&gt; is not an easy read. Sometimes the plot is inscrutable and the characters are hard to relate to. As they say, readers must identify with at least one character in a story so they keep turning the page to see what happens to their character. It's hard to get into the mind of a character whose mindset is very different than a typical reader. For many readers, it is hard to identify with any of the major characters in this story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;! It touches on several complex and subtle themes. A good story can introduce those themes to the reader and make the reader think and rethink many times after they put the story down. It's hard to do that for complex topics, and a good author can pull it off. Mediocre authors barely touch on new themes and often just retread existing ideas and tropes. &lt;em&gt;Blindsight&lt;/em&gt; fully engages with an idea that is often ignored in sci-fi; whether consciousness is an evolutionary dead-end. Kudos to Peter Watts for doing it, but it is hard to get at the themes in this book if you struggle to understand the plot and characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all, &lt;em&gt;Blingsight&lt;/em&gt; is as rare and austere a story as another great story about &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;First Contact, 2001: A Space Odyssey&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stanley Kubrick&lt;/a&gt;. Each is hard to understand with a strange plot, unrelatable characters, and subtle themes that are hard to understand. Viewers walked out of the theaters in mid-movie asking &amp;quot;What was that about?&amp;quot; and many called it a snorefest. Several people I know have put &lt;em&gt;Blindsight&lt;/em&gt; down after just a third or halfway through and said it was &amp;quot;too weird&amp;quot;. Others praised it as groundbreaking. It's a rare story that can provoke both high praise and low contempt at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether &lt;em&gt;Blindsight&lt;/em&gt; is right for you to read is question you have to ask yourself. I can describe what makes the story good (and hard) to read and leave it to the (hypothetical) asker to choose on their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;======&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question asking for a recommendation of &lt;em&gt;Blindsight&lt;/em&gt; may seem as too based on opinion, a good answer can provide insights into the story, and provide fact-based information about the story, so each reader can that answer the question for themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63201" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-06-26T18:00:02.003" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11067" CreationDate="2017-06-26T09:39:17.430" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;In your question you've missed an important distinction, which is between &lt;strong&gt;reading-order&lt;/strong&gt; questions and &lt;strong&gt;recommendation&lt;/strong&gt; questions. A plain &quot;Should I read this book?&quot; is essentially a recommendation question and completely opinion-based, but all your other example questions, and all the &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; examples you link to, are reading-order questions which can be answered relatively objectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why recommendation questions are bad&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question like &quot;Should I read this book?&quot; doesn't really fit the Stack Exchange format, because not only is it entirely subjective, but there's no objective way to back up an opinion either way. Some people will like the book, some people won't, and you'll get advised to read it or not to read it based more on people's personal feelings than any expert knowledge or reasonable explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why reading-order questions are good&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question of the form &quot;Should I read this book before or after this other book set in the same world?&quot; is a very different kettle of fish. Questions like this can be sensibly answered based on knowledge of the material in both books, which one contains spoilers for the other, how the plots interrelate, their relative in-universe and out-of-universe chronology, and other such facts. &lt;strong&gt;Facts&lt;/strong&gt; being the operative word here - these questions can be answered based on facts rather than opinions, so they don't meet the criteria for &quot;primarily opinion-based&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've already &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.meta.stackexchange.com/a/21/17&quot;&gt;written about this&lt;/a&gt; on another site, and much of my data and arguments from there also apply here. Copying from that answer, with some modifications, follows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reading-order questions are possibly &lt;strong&gt;the most practically useful questions on this site&lt;/strong&gt;. Plot points or behind-the-scenes stuff can be very interesting, but learning the best order in which to read/watch a particular series can be vital information for someone who's just getting into it. By providing good &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt; answers, we can actually make a difference to people's lives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This claim is supported by the quantitative &lt;em&gt;fact&lt;/em&gt; that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt; questions are nearly always the &lt;strong&gt;most viewed questions in each tag&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/1520/31394&quot;&gt;In what order should the Star Wars movies be watched?&lt;/a&gt; - with over 1 million views, by far the most popular question on the entire site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/37689/31394&quot;&gt;In which order should I start watching Star Trek?&lt;/a&gt; - the most viewed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/15084/31394&quot;&gt;How should I overlap the viewing of Doctor Who and Torchwood?&lt;/a&gt; - the most viewed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doctor-who&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;doctor-who&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;doctor-who&lt;/a&gt; question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/10009/31394&quot;&gt;What order should the Babylon 5 movies and series be watched in?&lt;/a&gt; - the highest-scoring and &lt;em&gt;by far&lt;/em&gt; most viewed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/babylon-5&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;babylon-5&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;babylon-5&lt;/a&gt; question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/15841/31394&quot;&gt;What order should the Chronicles of Narnia books be read in?&lt;/a&gt;, one of the most viewed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/narnia&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;narnia&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;narnia&lt;/a&gt; questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, many of these questions have some level of subjectivity. But &lt;strong&gt;subjective questions aren't always bad!&lt;/strong&gt; In an old blog post entitled &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;&quot;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, which is still cited in every site's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;help centre&lt;/a&gt; to this day, SE employee Robert Cartaino discussed what can make subjective questions a great fit for the SE model. To summarise a lot of words, they should attract answers which are &lt;em&gt;detailed&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;impartial&lt;/em&gt;, actually &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt;, and most importantly of all &lt;em&gt;well explained and supported&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what does this mean for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt; questions? Well, RichS has already covered this pretty well in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11068/31394&quot;&gt;his answer&lt;/a&gt;, but I'll add a few more thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly an answer should be more than just &quot;read/watch them in this order&quot; or &quot;here's the order I read/watched them in&quot; - such minimalist answers should be downvoted. A really good answer should not only give a suggested order but also some &lt;strong&gt;objective supporting evidence&lt;/strong&gt; for &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; that particular order is recommended. Explain that reading book A will give you major spoilers for the ending of book B, or that book C only makes sense when you already know the events of book A, or anything else that makes a good argument for one order rather than another. If the author of the series is on record as recommending a particular order, that can also be good supporting information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-06-26T09:39:17.430" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11070" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-26T16:47:12.497" Score="2" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;Been awhile, I should have some old posts up here, can't seem to find them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85253" OwnerDisplayName="user85253" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2017-06-26T17:00:38.313" LastActivityDate="2017-06-26T17:47:53.157" Title="Been away for awhile, credentials/badges seem gone. Can I relink to past posts, as some have relevance to questions I can answer?" Tags="|support|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11070" CreationDate="2017-06-26T17:47:53.157" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11070/been-away-for-awhile-credentials-badges-seem-gone-can-i-relink-to-past-posts/11071#comment34787_11070&quot;&gt;your comment&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/84135/what-inspired-mary-shellys-frankenstein/96482#96482&quot;&gt;this is probably the answer you're talking about&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/48675/alphaapple&quot;&gt;this should then be your old user account&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can either &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/merging-accounts&quot;&gt;merge your accounts&lt;/a&gt; or just stop using this one and try to log into your old one with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/account-recovery&quot;&gt;account recovery&lt;/a&gt; feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23384" LastActivityDate="2017-06-26T17:47:53.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11072" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-27T15:53:56.527" Score="12" ViewCount="260" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like to go on various SE sites and read the most popular questions during my downtime at work. I was reading &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2937/story-where-the-number-3-is-the-monster&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; about a story with 3:33 being on the clock, a question which intrigued me because one of my best friends has a superstition about that exact number (he was born at 3:33am). I then read the fantastic answer, and couldn't help but notice that it had.... &lt;strong&gt;333&lt;/strong&gt; votes. Is this intentional?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/585gg.png&quot; alt=&quot;333&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85293" LastEditorUserId="13217" LastEditDate="2017-07-04T23:30:46.867" LastActivityDate="2017-07-04T23:30:46.867" Title="Was this repetition of the number 333 done on purpose?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11072" CreationDate="2017-06-27T15:59:55.713" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no way that could be intentional, because there is no way to control other people's votes. There &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; one way, an it is called a moderator lock. However, according to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/105743/timeline&quot;&gt;timeline&lt;/a&gt; of the answer, a lock never happened. Same timeline also indicates that the answer last received an upvote on June 13th, which was the vote that brought it up to 333. I'm assuming now that you've posted this question, it'll receive some more votes, and the delicate balance will be broken. But kudos to you for noticing it ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastActivityDate="2017-06-27T15:59:55.713" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11074" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-27T17:35:56.313" Score="18" ViewCount="214" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/twelve-monkeys&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;twelve-monkeys&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;twelve-monkeys&lt;/a&gt; applies to both the 1995 film and the later TV series, and its tag wiki says to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; to differentiate them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The movie and TV series are not actually named &quot;Twelve Monkeys&quot;, but &quot;12 Monkeys&quot;, although the movie is sometimes marketed as &quot;Twelve Monkeys&quot;. The tag should probably be renamed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Should we split the tag into two tags, one for the movie and one for the book?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23384" LastActivityDate="2017-07-02T17:21:03.367" Title="&quot;12 Monkeys&quot; tag" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11074" CreationDate="2017-06-28T00:27:14.097" Score="19" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Use the usual naming strategy.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simple. We should use our usual naming strategy for the film and call it &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/12-monkeys-1995&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;12-monkeys-1995&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;12-monkeys-1995&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&#xA;For the tv show I propose we leave it as [twelve-monkeys] since [twelve-monkeys-tv] looks silly.&lt;/s&gt; We should call the TV show &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/twelve-monkeys-2015&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;twelve-monkeys-2015&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;twelve-monkeys-2015&lt;/a&gt; as that is coherent with our tag system for other shows (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-flash-2014&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-flash-2014&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-flash-2014&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Swap &quot;12&quot; for &quot;Twelve&quot; as need be, I don't know what it really it should or would be called.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68872" LastEditorUserId="13217" LastEditDate="2017-07-02T17:21:03.367" LastActivityDate="2017-07-02T17:21:03.367" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11076" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-06-29T21:08:25.280" Score="7" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/162565/why-does-voldemort-become-more-snakelike&quot;&gt;Why does Voldemort become more snakelike?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question links to the now marked duplicate here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/17431/how-did-voldemorts-face-get-disfigured&quot;&gt;How did Voldemort&amp;#39;s face get disfigured?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question and the post marked as a duplicate both mentions that: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We know that Voldemort's appearance became more snakelike as he made more horcruxes and dove deeper into dark magic&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which is the answer to marked duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At a glance it does seem like a dupe, I thought so myself, however this question is asking why Voldemort &lt;strong&gt;became more snakelike rather than any other animal&lt;/strong&gt;, as opposed to &lt;strong&gt;why his appearance changed&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me the question is not a duplicate as the linked post does not satisfy the question asked. Am I wrong in this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39144" LastActivityDate="2017-06-29T21:08:25.280" Title="Why was this question about why 'Voldemort became more snakelike' closed as a duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11077" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11078" CreationDate="2017-06-30T13:46:45.107" Score="20" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed that we have an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/environment&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;environment&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;environment&lt;/a&gt; tag. It's used on 12 questions, 11 of which are ID questions (ten &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; and one &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/episode-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;episode-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;episode-identification&lt;/a&gt;), the last one being &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/100414/31394&quot;&gt;Where does the water to transform Dune into a non-desert planet come from?&lt;/a&gt; The tag wiki excerpt says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Works focused on the care and protection of planetary environments and how protection of such an environment might impact the lives of inhabitants of that planetary environment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's the usual question: &lt;strong&gt;do we need this tag? and if so, how should it be used?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(Note that if the consensus is to nuke it, then this can be done with only &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; edits - both on questions which probably need tag edits anyway - followed by a moderator tag-merge. So &quot;messing up the front page&quot; considerations don't apply.)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-08-06T20:54:58.020" LastActivityDate="2017-08-06T20:54:58.020" Title="About destroying the [environment]" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|burnination|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11077" CreationDate="2017-06-30T13:50:16.213" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nuke it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like tag that would get misused a lot even with a proper tag-wiki. IMO the current tag-wiki is a bit specific and almost seems like a Worldbuilding.SE description. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall it does not seem like a useful tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2017-06-30T13:50:16.213" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11079" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-01T13:53:01.713" Score="-35" ViewCount="348" Body="&lt;p&gt;So Who deletes comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I keep making insulting comments, but someone keeps deleting them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Is it the tooth fairy?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2017-07-01T14:42:45.963" LastActivityDate="2017-07-01T14:42:45.963" Title="Who deletes comments? Is it the tooth fairy?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11079" CreationDate="2017-07-01T14:26:19.483" Score="18" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are three ways that a comment can get deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A user can delete their own comment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A moderator can delete anyone's comments.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any user with at least 15 reputation can flag a comment, and enough flags can cause the deletion of that comment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;-- &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/99818/278659&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Insulting comments &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; be deleted, whether by a moderator or by sufficient community flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a general note, insulting comments are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;against the rules&lt;/a&gt;, and too many of them from a single user may lead to time in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/04/06/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&quot;&gt;penalty box&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-07-01T14:26:19.483" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11081" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11082" CreationDate="2017-07-01T21:01:49.767" Score="20" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I upload an image, the image button inserts some text that says &quot;enter image description here&quot;.  What is that text for, and what should I replace it with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-08-08T20:05:30.853" LastActivityDate="2019-08-08T20:05:30.853" Title="What is alt text, and how do I write good alt text?" Tags="|support|images|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11081" CreationDate="2017-07-01T21:01:49.767" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;This text is called the alternative text or &quot;alt text.&quot;  Users with impaired or no vision, poor internet connections, or other difficulty with loading and viewing images will see or hear this text instead of the image.  Alt text should not be confused with &quot;title text&quot; (tooltips), captions, or other text that accompanies an image.  In most cases, if the user is seeing or hearing alt text, they are not seeing the image at all, and &lt;em&gt;vice versa&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The W3C has &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-html-alt-techniques-20141023/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;an extensive document describing their recommendations for alt text&lt;/a&gt;.  Here is my summary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The alt text should be &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-html-alt-techniques-20141023/#general-guidelines-1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;functionally equivalent&lt;/a&gt; to the image.  Your question or answer should make sense if you replace all images with their alt texts.&lt;/strong&gt;  (All of the other rules are just special cases of this one.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The alt text need not describe everything in the image.  It should &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-html-alt-techniques-20141023/#images-that-enhance-the-themes-or-subject-matter-of-the-page-content-1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;describe the image&lt;/a&gt; in a way that's relevant to your question or answer.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If someone asked for an image of thing X, and you're writing an answer with such an image, the question is really &quot;What does X look like?&quot;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-html-alt-techniques-20141023/#images-of-pictures-1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Your alt text should answer that question&lt;/a&gt;, at least in broad terms (and in particular, the alt text should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be &quot;An image of X&quot; with no further elaboration).  You don't have to write a 10 page essay on the subject, of course.  Just provide a basic description of one or two sentences.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The alt text should not repeat things covered in the surrounding text, but it's perfectly all right to refer to the surrounding text (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-html-alt-techniques-20141023/#graphical-representations-charts-diagrams-graphs-maps-illustrations&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Bar graph of the data described above&quot;&lt;/a&gt; or &quot;Map of Middle Earth, described below&quot;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Images of text should usually &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-html-alt-techniques-20141023/#images-of-text&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;have that text transcribed&lt;/a&gt; either in the alt text or in the surrounding text.  If the latter, the alt text might say something like &quot;Image of Tolkien's letter, transcribed below.&quot;  If the image is clearly legible, the transcription can go in the alt text; otherwise it should probably go in the surrounding text so that everyone can read it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the image is &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-html-alt-techniques-20141023/#a-purely-decorative-image-that-doesn-t-add-any-information&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;purely decorative&lt;/a&gt;, entirely redundant to the surrounding text, or your post still makes sense with no image at all, you should have an empty alt text (which instructs a screen reader to silently skip the image).  This should be done carefully, because if you ever refer to &quot;the image&quot; in your post, users with screen readers won't know what you're talking about.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the image is a clickable link, then the W3C doesn't consider it &quot;purely decorative&quot; any more, so you should provide some alt text in this case (usually &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-html-alt-techniques-20141023/#a-link-or-button-containing-nothing-but-an-image-1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;describing the link target&lt;/a&gt;).  Alternatively, remove the link if it's not needed.  Many screen readers will try to describe every link on the page, and they may behave unhelpfully if there's a linked image with no alt text (e.g. the reader might announce &quot;link image: no alt text&quot; or similar, leaving the user with no information about what the link does).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastActivityDate="2017-07-01T21:01:49.767" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11049" CreationDate="2017-07-04T21:39:40.830" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;NB: I've selected these items on the basis of being &lt;em&gt;interesting&lt;/em&gt;, so they are not necessarily correct or &quot;useful.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Favorite question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/156511/36526&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, we learned that Hobbes's existence is deliberately ambiguous.  Not content with that, Machavity then asked &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/156596/36526&quot;&gt;Does Hobbes ever do anything that Calvin himself could not do?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, which is an interesting way to approach the problem and generated a significant amount of discussion in several different directions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Favorite answer&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edlothiad's &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/161738/36526&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to the question about whether Galadriel's temptation of Boromir was &quot;instrumental to his fall&quot; was very thorough and made me think about both characters in a different way.  I'm not sure how true it is, but it's quite thought provoking, moreso than the highest-voted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Quite a lot of people in the comments to that answer seem to think it's claiming that Galadriel was somehow &quot;evil,&quot; but I don't see that claim in the answer itself, nor in any of the older versions of it, so I am disregarding all of that criticism as unsound.  Nevertheless, the answer may be reaching in some other aspects relating to Boromir's state of mind, so I'm not about to claim it's accurate in that respect.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Favorite Meta&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11010/36526&quot;&gt;I see Britain, I see France, I see Wonder Woman&amp;#39;s... satin tights?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; has the funniest title I've seen on Meta in a while.  It's also a great example of the collaborative process working as intended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Shameless self-promotion&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/156312/36526&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Image questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; are always fun to answer.  They help break up the monotonous giant walls of text I always end up writing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastActivityDate="2017-07-04T21:39:40.830" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11085" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11091" CreationDate="2017-07-04T22:46:53.220" Score="12" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are currently 66 questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ghost?sort=newest&amp;amp;pageSize=50&quot;&gt;[ghost]&lt;/a&gt;, and they are really inconsistently used. We have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Story identification 30&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; 22&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;“Force ghosts” in &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; 3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mythology 2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Deadbeat&lt;/em&gt; 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Crucible&lt;/em&gt; 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A creepypasta (story identification?) 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Supernatural&lt;/em&gt; 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Portrayal of ghosts in film 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Drag Me to Hell&lt;/em&gt; 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Combination of the &lt;em&gt;Merlin&lt;/em&gt; TV series, &lt;em&gt;Supernatural&lt;/em&gt;, and mythology 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The 1990 movie &lt;em&gt;Ghost&lt;/em&gt; (starring Patrick Swayze) 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By my count, that's 9 franchises this covers, plus story identification, mythology, and production history. The ghosts in all of these vary wildly in what sort of rules they follow, and I find it hard to imagine someone finding value in grouping together &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Deadbeat&lt;/em&gt;, and a Patrick Swayze movie. Is it time for this tag to &lt;a href=&quot;http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/give+up+the+ghost&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;give up the ghost&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13217" LastEditorUserId="13217" LastEditDate="2017-07-05T21:21:20.420" LastActivityDate="2017-07-06T19:33:12.573" Title="Is it time to give up the [ghost]?" Tags="|discussion|burnination|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11086" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-05T06:08:09.503" Score="22" ViewCount="426" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, it'll always be Mos Eisley to me, seeing as I chatted there from 2012 to 2017. Old habits are hard to break!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am resigning as Room Owner of the current SFF chatroom -- it's just not the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me take this opportunity to thank every user who stopped by, or became a regular user of, Mos Eisley. I, for one, value every conversation (for varying reasons, true) and cannot begin to count the number of intelligent, humorous, insightful, and kind users I met through chat -- I am grateful for our time together. I wish you all the very best :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ct0WQ.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ct0WQ.gif&quot; alt=&quot;*Psych* - Let&amp;#39;s get some tacos!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2017-07-05T06:08:09.503" Title="Resigning as Mos Eisley room owner" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1597" CreationDate="2017-07-05T15:41:21.670" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The intention of an answerer is hard to guess and easy to get wrong, but...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If an answer just goes off on a tangent. For example:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Q: &quot;How did R2D2 get caught in &lt;em&gt;Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope&lt;/em&gt;?&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;A: &quot;Well, C-3PO spotted a sandcrawler and...&quot; (without ever mentioning R2-D2 at all)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If an answer is clearly based on just the title, ignoring the body of the question. For example:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Q: &quot;How did R2D2 get caught in &lt;em&gt;Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope&lt;/em&gt;?&quot; (body goes on to mention that he should have been able to defeat the Jawas handily)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;A: &quot;The Jawas caught him.&quot; (failing to address the actual question in the body)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the answer does &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; address the actual question and should be flagged as &lt;em&gt;Not an Answer&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2017-07-05T15:41:21.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11049" CreationDate="2017-07-05T21:17:24.243" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Shameless self promotion&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't nominated myself before, but I have some answers that I put some work into:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/117555/how-big-is-the-town-of-gravity-falls/157516#157516&quot;&gt;How big is the town of Gravity Falls?&lt;/a&gt; because I compared lots of stuff, including images, real-life maps, and Oregon prison statistics.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/156403/why-was-the-black-pearl-so-special/156408#156408&quot;&gt;Why was the Black Pearl so special?&lt;/a&gt; because I had to buy and read a whole &lt;em&gt;Pirates of the Caribbean&lt;/em&gt; novel, which was not very good, to answer the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, I have a bunch more I put work into and am proud of, but it'd be a bit too shameless to have an &quot;honored mentions&quot; category for myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23384" LastActivityDate="2017-07-05T21:17:24.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11089" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11094" CreationDate="2017-07-06T08:12:37.570" Score="-10" ViewCount="632" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember sitting hours in front of Mos Eisley and I used to love chatting in it. And then, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10914/how-come-our-main-chat-mos-eisley-got-frozen-this-time&quot;&gt;Shog9 nuked it&lt;/a&gt;. Fine. Not a big deal. People are still same. This is what I thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, no. I don't enjoy our new chatroom &quot;The Restaurant at the End of the Universe&quot;. I can't sit here even for 5 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other users are also experiencing the same: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11086/resigning-as-mos-eisley-room-owner&quot;&gt;Resigning as Mos Eisley room owner&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is it different? Why is the new chatroom boring? And, what can we do to make the situation better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="931" LastEditDate="2017-07-06T08:18:29.993" LastActivityDate="2018-08-17T12:09:01.887" Title="What can we do to make our new primary chatroom as interesting as our old primary chatroom Mos Eisley?" Tags="|discussion|chat|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11089" CreationDate="2017-07-06T08:44:45.243" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know what you're talking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a regular member of The Restaurant, and was a regular of Mos. And let me say that &lt;em&gt;I very much prefer The Restaurant.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's not a hassle to keep from inappropriate discussion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Mos, the conversation was always turning to stuff not exactly SFW, or that everyone was comfortable with. The Restaurant doesn't have these problems. It's actually pleasant to sit in there now - most of the bad behavior is &lt;em&gt;gone&lt;/em&gt;. And, from both a chatter and moderator viewpoint - &lt;em&gt;that's a good thing&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; interesting stuff in The Restaurant&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While people are not always chatting - they weren't in Mos either - we do have some stuff including there, like the Daily Floof. And, personally, I find it much more pleasant and enjoyable to argue over what constitutes a proper floof than whether or not certain topics are acceptable for chat - and since the people who liked to discuss things like that are no longer in the chat, those kinds of conversations that sparked the arguments on what was acceptable for chat don't happen in The Restaurant. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also going to see if I can get a chatbot somewhere ;) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2018-08-17T12:09:01.887" LastActivityDate="2018-08-17T12:09:01.887" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11085" CreationDate="2017-07-06T16:11:52.233" Score="12" Body="&lt;h1&gt;NO, let it &lt;em&gt;live&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagree with the inconsistent use. The tag is not covering franchises, it is covering a creature. We also have tags for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/zombie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;zombie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;zombie&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vampire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vampire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vampire&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/werewolf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;werewolf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;werewolf&lt;/a&gt;, which would fall into the same category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;About half of the tags are used for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-id&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-id&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-id&lt;/a&gt; questions, which when trying to identify a story about ghosts, would be pretty useful.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The other majority is used by Harry Potter which has a bit of a theme with death and therefore ghosts. It would be proper to use this tag when asking questions inline with the story.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The remaining 8-10 questions might be a bit random, but if about ghosts are probably using the tag properly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The only one that might need a re-tag is the one about the Swayze movie. It could use something like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie-year&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie-year&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie-year&lt;/a&gt; format.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-07-06T19:33:12.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11085" CreationDate="2017-07-06T17:17:54.763" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes, delete it&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the tag does seem to be accurately tagging questions about ghosts, it's so overly broad that it is useless. Ghosts in &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; have little in common with ghosts in &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Deadbeat&lt;/em&gt;, for instance, aside from the fact that they both share the same name. They follow different rules, have different origins, and otherwise are quite different beings.  We don't have tags for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/military&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;military&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;military&lt;/a&gt; because they are so broad, and I think that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ghost&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ghost&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ghost&lt;/a&gt; is approaching this too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I find it hard to imagine that someone would be an expert in ghosts from the 9 franchises currently covered, or want to group all those questions together. At best, this has value as a sub-tag of interest for &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt;, but that's not what the tag wiki describes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about story identification questions? I think we can live without it, since many such questions don't have a secondary tag, and I'm pretty confident that these ones would have been answerd if they lacked the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ghost&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ghost&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ghost&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13217" LastActivityDate="2017-07-06T17:17:54.763" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11089" CreationDate="2017-07-06T17:18:00.333" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something that I've noticed about the new room (and I was only in Mos for like a week before it hit the fan) is that it seems quieter. I think there are a few reasons for this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Old regulars got banned or left. This is unavoidable, there were things happening that should not be happening here. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Old regulars who stuck around got scared. For a few days after Mos went down, basically anything referring to it was thrown in the Trash by a legion of mods. Which sort of makes sense, but made things difficult for everyone. I think we're at a point now where that's mostly cleared up, so it shouldn't be as much of an issue any more (and let us hope we never have to worry about it again).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's summer. On Worldbuilding at least, there's a dip in activity during the summertime. Not much can be done about this. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say the main thing that should be done to make Restaurant a more interesting place is just for people to &lt;strong&gt;step up and talk more&lt;/strong&gt;. I try not to because I tend to talk too much (I have the most posts by a wide margin on Factory Floor), and I don't feel like I've earned my place in the room yet, but as far as I know most people don't care about these things. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you're in the room, and waiting for someone else to speak up and entertain you, maybe it's just your turn to get the conversation started. Sometimes you'll be speaking to a void, but other times maybe you'll start something that people will come back for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46611" LastActivityDate="2017-07-06T17:18:00.333" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11089" CreationDate="2017-07-06T21:59:20.487" Score="15" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Do it yourself&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll start off with this quote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Be&lt;/em&gt; the change you want to see in the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sub&gt;-&lt;a href=&quot;https://josephranseth.com/gandhi-didnt-say-be-the-change-you-want-to-see-in-the-world/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Commonly attributed to Gandhi.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, if you want to make TREU interesting, then all you have to do is: try it yourself. Make the place be the way that you want it to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community is not here to make an interesting place &lt;em&gt;for you&lt;/em&gt;, ready for you to pop-in and have an interesting discussion. &lt;em&gt;You&lt;/em&gt; are also part of this community and are responsible for its success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the next time you pop-in and think &quot;ahh, I wish there was a discussion about X&quot;, then go ahead and start that discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What even &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; the problem?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; you feel that it's &quot;boring&quot;, not interesting and that you &quot;don't enjoy it&quot;? Rather than tell us a vague problem, and expect us to solve it for you, take a minute to analyse how or why you feel that way. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Talking it out loud to yourself&lt;/a&gt; can help you understand what the problem you're facing is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Effort, it takes effort&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, I can tell you that to get a community going, it takes effort. Sometimes more, sometimes less. But trying is the only thing you can do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may be the reason that you might be finding TREU a &quot;boring&quot; place, people may just not want to or can't expend any effort there to get a discussion going.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At time of writing, &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/58631/the-restaurant-at-the-end-of-the-universe&quot;&gt;TREU has&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;87 posts per day&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;867 posts per week&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;93 all time users&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6G20r.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6G20r.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image capture of the Chat Statistics page (linked above) for &amp;#39;The Restaurant at the End of the Universe&amp;#39; chatroom. This shows that there have been 177 posts today, 95 yesterday and an average pf 87 posts per day. It also shows that there were 648 posts last week, 582 posts this week and an average of 867 posts per week. The statistic page also has links to &amp;#39;join this room&amp;#39;, &amp;#39;view transcript&amp;#39; and a &amp;#39;search [room] for messages containing&amp;#39; functionality. At the bottom of the image, we see that there have been 93 total users (all time) and nearly 14,000 posts (all time).&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not much, but it's not too bad either; it's kindling enough to get a good fire going, if stoked enough. So, the problem isn't necessarily the numbers, it's the amount of &lt;strong&gt;engagement&lt;/strong&gt;, or lack thereof.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;In closing&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Give it a go, try (&lt;a href=&quot;http://whoisgarybledsoe.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/do_or_do_not_1920x1080_1923565073.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;or don't try; &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;). And if you find that it just isn't the place you want it to be, then move on, try something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-07-07T18:27:14.623" LastActivityDate="2017-07-07T18:27:14.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11095" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-07T14:27:05.480" Score="5" ViewCount="231" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/2622/19561&quot;&gt;Are there any spells that a wizard/witch can cast without a wand in the Harry Potter universe?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/163184/19561&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;answered&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; by a post going off on a tangent about soldiers being able to fight without a sword. That post does in no way address the question asked &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; there are any spells that can be cast wandless and if so, how wandless magic works. It does not give &amp;quot;an in-universe explanation&amp;quot; (words &lt;em&gt;and emphasis&lt;/em&gt; by the OP).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It fails to address the question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet &lt;em&gt;at least&lt;/em&gt; three separate &amp;quot;Not an Answer&amp;quot; flags (by users Gallifreyan, Mithrandir, and yours truly) were rejected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;declined - flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GIpKE.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GIpKEm.png&quot; alt=&quot;A screenshot showing the rejected flag of user Mithrandir&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This post is &lt;em&gt;not even wrong&lt;/em&gt;; it does not address the question and goes off on a tangent. It does not answer the questions, neither the one asked in the title, nor the ones in the body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So why were these &amp;quot;Not an Answer&amp;quot; flags declined?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-08-06T22:19:50.720" Title="Why were the &quot;Not an Answer&quot; flags on this post about wandless magic in Harry Potter declined?" Tags="|support|flagging|specific-answer|not-an-answer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11095" CreationDate="2017-07-07T16:48:19.903" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because &quot;NAA&quot; doesn't mean what any reasonable person thinks it means. Most people assume &quot;Not An Answer&quot; means that the post does not answer the question being asked. It &lt;strong&gt;doesn't&lt;/strong&gt;. It means &quot;the thing that was posted is in no way, shape, or form an answer to &lt;strong&gt;any&lt;/strong&gt; question&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The things that &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/185073/how-do-i-properly-use-the-not-an-answer-flag&quot;&gt;qualify for not an answer&lt;/a&gt; include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An answer that's actually a different question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An answer that's asking for clarification.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An answer that's just a &quot;thanks&quot; or &quot;me, too&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An answer that's a comment or message to the OP or other users.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the thing that's in the post is written in the form of an answer to a question, then the NAA flag isn't appropriate. In this case, the OP's answer is rambling, largely off-topic, and entirely conjecture, but they &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; in a very odd sense trying to say that yes, wizards can cast magic without wands. So, it's an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2017-07-07T16:48:19.903" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11097" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-08T19:27:05.030" Score="18" ViewCount="236" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11089/70236&quot;&gt;brought up&lt;/a&gt; lately that our &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/58631/the-restaurant-at-the-end-of-the-universe&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt; has not been the same for some time now, which is mainly expressed in lack of activity when compared to previous periods (60 messages per day versus some 400 (?)).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In absence of human chatters, the room has been dominated by the main site questions feed&lt;sup&gt; 1 &lt;/sup&gt;, Babelfish. It was then &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/38656704#38656704&quot;&gt;pointed out&lt;/a&gt; that the number of feed's messages (their appearance, them cluttering the chat) is acting as a deterrent for good conversation, especially if it's spread across hours, e.g. when someone posts at 10:00, someone else replies at 16:00, with ~10 feed messages in between.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I agree that in this case a room without the questions feed is better than a room with 10 feed messages in a row.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few solutions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We can leave everything as it is. One could see what it looks like by going &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/38642976#38642976&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and reading on - there were 8 hours of non-stop feeds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We could convert the feed to a ticker - then the new questions would appear in a box in the upper region of the screen, instead of being posted like an ordinary chat message. Be advised that the ticker feeds need to be dismissed manually by clicking on them, and there's no way to &amp;quot;ignore&amp;quot; this feed, as one could do with Obie/Babelfish. There's a history of hate towards the ticker feed on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=chat%20ticker&quot;&gt;main meta&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Remove the feed altogether &lt;sup&gt; 2, 3 &lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the advantage here is that the feed would no longer cause any clutter and annoyance in any way. The obvious (disputable) disadvantage is that the users will have to go the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=newest&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;newest questions&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; page to see the newest questions. Sometimes I find it helpful to just visit the chat and see some recent questions, without having to visit the actual site and browse through the list, though it's not really difficult either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What does the community think?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt; 1 &lt;/sup&gt; Simple math - SFF averages at ~25 questions per day. With 60 messages per day, the main feed makes almost the half of all messages right now. Or a third, if that number doesn't count feeds - I don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt; 2 &lt;/sup&gt; Notice that we can always bring it back, when we increase our activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt; 3 &lt;/sup&gt; &lt;em&gt;(Note that I'm only talking about the feed that posts new questions from the main site. All other feeds - meta, XKCD, At Wit's End, Literature, Movies, blog, and bounties - are infrequent enough and could remain in place. But then again, it's all open to suggestions.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-07-11T09:43:04.653" Title="Do we want to continue having a main site question feed in the general chat room?" Tags="|discussion|chat|chat-feed|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11097" CreationDate="2017-07-08T19:36:55.483" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think you need a main site question feed. We already have one freely available for anyone who wants to check on the site's questions: the main site. There's even a link to it via the logo in the bottom right of the chat room. Having message feeds which are too active is disruptive to using the chat room to, y'know, chat. &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/58631/2017/7/7&quot;&gt;The dominance of feeds over chat messages can be a bit excessive.&lt;/a&gt; Since we're busy trying to find more ways to make the chat active, an active and redundant feed that's detrimental to chatting should probably be cut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other rooms I've seen good use of chat feeds for &lt;em&gt;relevant segments&lt;/em&gt; of mainsite activity: the Doctor Who chat room subscribes to Doctor Who question feeds from a couple of sources, and the Fate Chat room on RPG.SE subscribes to questions in RPG.SE's Fate tags. Subscribing to the &lt;em&gt;entire site&lt;/em&gt; is a bit much though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15502" LastActivityDate="2017-07-08T19:36:55.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11097" CreationDate="2017-07-08T19:59:01.053" Score="21" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I think we should move the main-site questions feed out.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Because the ratio of main-site questions to chat activity is so high now, having that feed makes the room look even deader than it is.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If people join the room and see a stream of mostly automated feeds, they might not bother trying to start a conversation; if they see just the messages that were in between the feeds, they might not notice at first how far apart those messages are.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's easier to make some remark in chat, hoping for a response later on when someone else logs in, if you're not interrupted by a bunch of oneboxes in the meantime. As it is now, any remark that doesn't spawn a longer conversation will likely be lost among the oneboxes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On the usefulness of oneboxes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main objection I've seen people raise to removing the main-site questions feed is that it's useful for &lt;strong&gt;finding deleted posts&lt;/strong&gt;. Even if you have over 10k rep, you can't find these by searching on the main site (unless you're a mod), but you &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; find them via chat oneboxes if you remember the title or OP or some of the text of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, I suggest moving the feed to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/59281/sff-community-cleanup-room&quot;&gt;SFF Community Cleanup room&lt;/a&gt;. That way it's still in public chat and still searchable, but the only people it will bother on a day-to-day basis are those who already spend their time keeping an eye on new posts anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On the option of ticker feeds&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm strongly against installing a ticker feed in the Restaurant, for a few reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Searchability.&lt;/strong&gt; As discussed above, one advantage of onebox feeds is their searchability in transcripts. No permanent record is kept of ticker feeds.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Persistence.&lt;/strong&gt; Ticker feeds remain on your screen, obscuring actual chat messages, until you actively click to dismiss them. Oneboxes scroll naturally out of sight after a while and never obscure other messages.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ignorability.&lt;/strong&gt; This isn't an issue for me personally, since I don't ignore feeds, but I know a lot of people do. Oneboxes can be set to 'ignore' just like regular chat users, but ticker feeds can't: there's no way to stop them from appearing on your screen and blocking chat.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think the best solution is to remove the main-site questions feed from the Restaurant entirely, and move it to the Community Cleanup room instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you say, &lt;strong&gt;other feeds don't have to be touched&lt;/strong&gt;. The point of this whole exercise is to reduce feed spam and make sure feeds aren't the most active 'chatters' in the room, blocking out all other conversation. None of the Restaurant's other feeds are anywhere near as busy as the one for main-site questions. And in the case of the Literature and M&amp;amp;TV feeds, they're one of our only direct connections to our neighbour sites, which is something we should encourage if possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-07-08T19:59:01.053" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11100" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-10T07:04:12.443" Score="4" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main character is a misfit living with his mother. There are no supernatural or preternatural elements in the story aside from the protagonist's psychosis (he believes that he is living in a tolkienesque fantasy world), but his psychosis is extremely important in defining his actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Would this be on-topic as described?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62264" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-07-10T09:19:15.723" LastActivityDate="2017-07-10T09:19:15.723" Title="Asking a question about a film that is not fantastic, but its protagonist believes he lives in a tolkienesque fantasy world" Tags="|discussion|scope|story-identification|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2017-07-10T21:16:05.470" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11097" CreationDate="2017-07-11T09:43:04.653" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;We just need to chat more.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But seriously, the last couple of days, I've seen enough activity in &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/58631/the-restaurant-at-the-end-of-the-universe&quot;&gt;Milliways&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe) that the main feed isn't the sole source of content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So perhaps we should leave it as it is for now.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2017-07-11T09:43:04.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11102" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11105" CreationDate="2017-07-11T13:10:08.570" Score="0" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;The person who asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/163509/hp-fan-fic-where-an-imperiused-dudley-jumps-off-a-building&quot;&gt;HP Fan-fic where an Imperiused Dudley jumps off a building&lt;/a&gt; also included a link to Lifeline, the Australian nonprofit that provides support to people who are affected or have been affected by rape, assault, suicide and similar events that may or may not cause extreme distress or negative effects in users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that while reminding people that such services exist is a good idea, I think in this case the execution might be problematic. This is a single link to a single non profit in a single country which doesn't even make the top 50 of most populous countries in the world. Providing a link to this one service while leaving out the millions of other users who can't be helped by this service seems like a drop in the ocean, and somewhat misplaced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, I don't have an issue with providing users information on how to cope with this kind of stuff, and I feel like it adds value, but what I don't like is that we single out Australia and leave aside the countries with more users, or even the 50 countries with higher population count. Either provide more links, or a link to an aggregator, or don't provide a link at all, but don't just have 1 link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so there are effectively 2 questions here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;should we proactively add a suicide disclaimer on questions that handle suicide, as frequently happens on TV or in the newspaper?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If yes, what should this disclaimer be?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24603" LastEditorUserId="24603" LastEditDate="2017-07-11T13:33:55.480" LastActivityDate="2017-07-12T07:01:03.603" Title="How should we handle questions that have reference to assault, suicide and similar stress-inducing topics?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11102" CreationDate="2017-07-11T14:05:43.953" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off, I think I should point out two things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We deal with fiction which may have adult, graphic, suicidal or other themes which might be deemed inappropriate for one or the other part of the audience. We can't outright ban those themes. Since they are part of fantasy/sci fi genre, it's natural that some questions specifically about or based on those themes will appear. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We can't expect random users to cater to specific needs of the entire world. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest that we should use the existing tools that we have which are (To clarify, the following is to be used purely on discretion of the OP without any obligation to do so as a Policy. OP would naturally retain the right to rollback any edit done by someone else which they might deem harmful or unnecessary like in any other scenario.):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Warning headers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/72878/307083&quot;&gt;Spoiler mark-up&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Editing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Warning:&lt;/strong&gt; The following contains graphic/disturbing/suicidal content. Reader's discretion advised. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt; Insert disturbing content here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This simple process can be done by either the OP or any other concerned member of public (Those without editing privilege will have to go through editing queue).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the best you can do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the Question is on-topic, isn't offensive and not in any way whatsoever violating the policies and T&amp;amp;C of SE, Let it be. Enclose the disturbing content in spoiler tags and add the warning header, that's about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or if you think that the post is still troublesome, raise a custom flag, explain the situation. If the Mods agree with your reasoning, they might delete it for you but if the post was delete-worthy regardless to disturbing content, community will do it via reviews and flags as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also &lt;a href=&quot;https://history.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3462/15625&quot;&gt;Post Notices&lt;/a&gt; which the mods can add but their statements are pre-defined. You can open a new &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;MSE&lt;/a&gt; to request a new Post Notice to be used for such content. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also as suggested by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/31394/rand-althor&quot;&gt;Rand al'Thor&lt;/a&gt;, read the following related posts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10513/31394&quot;&gt;Should we edit posts to change strong language?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.meta.stackexchange.com/q/163/17&quot;&gt;Do we want any sort of content warnings?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastEditorUserId="54887" LastEditDate="2017-07-12T07:01:03.603" LastActivityDate="2017-07-12T07:01:03.603" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11051" CreationDate="2017-07-11T14:55:23.723" Score="13" Body="&lt;h2&gt;2017&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;December&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2017/12/the-autobiography-of-jean-luc-picard/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2017/12/recent-star-wars-novels-reviewed/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Recent Star Wars Novels, Reviewed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;November&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2017/11/andy-weirs-artemis-a-novel/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Andy Weir's Artemis: A Novel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2017/11/justice-league-does-fans-and-dc-justice/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Justice League Does Fans, and DC, Justice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2017/11/live-chat-star-wars-holiday-special/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Live Chat: Star Wars Holiday Special&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;October&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2017/10/highlights-from-2017-3rd-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2017 – 3rd Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2017/10/marvels-inhumans-way-better-than-you-think/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Marvel’s Inhumans: Way better than you think.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;September&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2017/09/jacks-bad-movies-colossal-2016/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack's Bad Movies: Colossal (2016)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;August&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2017/08/jacks-bad-movies-knowing-2009/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack's Bad Movies: Knowing (2009)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;July&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2017/07/jacks-bad-movies-spawn-1997/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies: Spawn (1997)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2017/07/war-for-the-planet-of-the-apes-is-strong/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;War For the Planet of the Apes is Strong&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2017/07/highlights-from-2017-2nd-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2017 – 2nd Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2017/07/spider-man-homecoming-a-almost-entirely-spoiler-free-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Spider-Man: Homecoming – A (almost entirely) spoiler-free review.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;June&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2017/06/jacks-bad-movies-the-craft-1996/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies: The Craft (1996)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2017/06/wonder-woman-a-mostly-spoiler-free-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wonder Woman – A (mostly) spoiler-free review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;May&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2017/05/jacks-bad-movies-judge-dredd-1995/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies – Judge Dredd (1995)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2017/05/guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-2-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;April&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2017/04/highlights-from-2017-1st-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2017 – 1st Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2017/04/jacks-bad-movies-circle-of-iron/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies – Circle of Iron (1978)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2017/04/ghost-in-the-shell-a-mostly-spoiler-free-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ghost in the Shell – A (mostly) Spoiler-Free Review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2017/04/jacks-bad-movies-worst-movies-of-the-authors-lifetime/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies: Worst Movies of the Author’s Lifetime&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;March&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2017/03/power-rangers-mighty-morph-to-the-big-screen/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Power Rangers’ Mighty Morph to the Big Screen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2017/03/jacks-bad-movies-robinson-crusoe-on-mars/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies – Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2017/03/interview-with-the-vampire-by-anne-rice-exploring-the-questions-of-good-vs-evil/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice : Exploring the Questions of Good vs. Evil&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2017/03/logan-a-mostly-spoiler-free-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Logan – A (mostly) Spoiler-Free Review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2017/03/gargoyles-a-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gargoyles – A review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;February&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2017/02/legion-pilot-a-mostly-spoiler-free-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Legion Pilot – A (Mostly) Spoiler-Free Review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2017/02/jacks-bad-movies-the-wraith/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies – The Wraith (1986)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2017/02/powerless-pilot/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Powerless – Pilot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;January&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2017/01/highlights-from-2016-4th-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2016 – 4th Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2017/01/jacks-bad-movies-flight-world-war-2/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies: Flight World War 2 (2015)&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="1148" LastEditDate="2017-12-23T17:11:33.760" LastActivityDate="2017-12-23T17:11:33.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11102" CreationDate="2017-07-11T15:20:00.477" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I've deleted the link.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) &lt;strong&gt;It's simply not relevant.&lt;/strong&gt; Adding extraneous links &lt;em&gt;that might be of interest&lt;/em&gt; falls under the general heading of &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;chatter&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) Even if it were relevant, that particular organisation only covers a tiny percentage of our userbase. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Should we proactively police every question that mentions suicide and add links to suicide-prevention organisations?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No. Absolutely not.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Can I mention them in comments below questions?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, sure. Why not?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Should we hide anything &quot;&lt;strong&gt;triggering&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; or &quot;&lt;strong&gt;scary&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; behind spoiler tags?&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No. Absolutely not.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-07-11T15:31:45.703" LastActivityDate="2017-07-11T15:31:45.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11051" CreationDate="2017-07-11T16:05:23.860" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;2016&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;December&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/12/assassins-creed-a-mostly-spoiler-free-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Assassin’s Creed – A (mostly) spoiler-free review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;November&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/11/jacks-bad-movies-alien-uprising/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies – Alien Uprising (2012)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/11/doctor-strange-a-mostly-spoiler-free-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Doctor Strange – A (mostly) spoiler-free review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;October&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/10/timeless-pilot/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Timeless – Pilot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/10/highlights-from-2016-3rd-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2016 – 3rd Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;September&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/09/a-review-of-the-stonewylde-series/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A review of the Stonewylde series&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/09/salt-lake-comic-con-2016-recap/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Salt Lake Comic Con 2016 Recap&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/08/coverage-of-salt-lake-comic-con-2016/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Coverage of Salt Lake Comic Con 2016&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;August&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/08/the-rise-of-the-red-shadow-prequel-to-the-book-of-deacon-trilogy-by-joseph-lallo-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Rise of the Red Shadow – Prequel to the Book of Deacon Trilogy by Joseph Lallo Review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/08/the-book-of-deacon-trilogy-by-joseph-lallo-spoilers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Book of Deacon trilogy by Joseph Lallo (spoilers)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/08/fant4stic-a-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fant4stic: A Review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/08/star-trek-50-day-5-getting-deep-into-ds9-star-trek-writers-reflect-on-the-tng-era-and-the-star-trek-rat-pack-steals-the-show/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Trek 50 Day 5: Getting deep into DS9, Star Trek writers reflect on the TNG era, and the Star Trek Rat Pack steals the show!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/08/star-trek-50-day-4-captains-shatner-bakula-and-mulgrew-bakulas-talking-to-fuller-more-tng-stars-walter-koenig-and-star-trek-the-concert/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Trek 50 Day 4: Captains Shatner, Bakula, and Mulgrew, Bakula’s talking to Fuller, more TNG stars, Walter Koenig, and Star Trek The Concert!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/08/star-trek-50-day-3-new-tos-footage-george-takei-getting-candid-with-tng-and-voyager-stars-and-a-ds9-documentary-in-the-works/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Trek 50 Day 3: New TOS footage, George Takei, getting candid with TNG and Voyager stars, and a DS9 documentary in the works!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/08/star-trek-50-day-2-ferengi-fun-whoopi-goldberg-and-klingon-karaoke/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Trek 50 Day 2: Ferengi fun, Whoopi Goldberg, and Klingon karaoke!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/08/star-trek-50-day-1-gorn-santa-bearing-gifts-leonard-nimoy-memories-and-a-raucous-klingon-talk-show/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Trek 50 Day 1: Gorn Santa bearing gifts, Leonard Nimoy memories, and a raucous Klingon talk show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/08/coverage-of-star-trek-50th-anniversary-celebration-for-sffse/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Coverage of Star Trek 50th Anniversary Celebration for SFF:SE!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;July&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/07/the-martian-novel-by-andy-weir-spoilers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Martian Novel by Andy Weir (Spoilers)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/07/star-trek-beyond/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Review – Star Trek Beyond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/07/doctor-who-isnt-really-about-time-travel/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Doctor Who isn’t really about time travel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/07/jacks-bad-movies-the-fifth-wave-2/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies – The Fifth Wave&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/07/review-of-the-duncton-chronicles-by-william-horwood/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Review of the Duncton Chronicles by William Horwood&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/07/highlights-from-2016-2nd-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2016 – 2nd Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;June&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/06/why-the-shannara-chronicles-by-terry-brooks-is-worth-reading/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Why The Shannara Chronicles by Terry Brooks Is Worth Reading&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/06/the-riyria-revelations-by-michael-j-sullivan-and-why-it-is-the-best-fantasy-series-ever/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Riyria Revelations by Michael J. Sullivan and why it is the BEST fantasy series EVER!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/06/jacks-bad-movies-automata/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies – Automata&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/06/doctor-who-series-9-review-part-2-of-2/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Doctor Who Series 9 Review – Part 2 of 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;May&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/05/the-great-science-fictionfantasy-tv-showdown-final-round/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Great Science-Fiction/Fantasy TV Showdown: Final Round&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/05/x-men-apocalypse-spoiler-free-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;X-Men: Apocalypse spoiler-free review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/05/the-great-science-fictionfantasy-tv-showdown-round-4/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Great Science-Fiction/Fantasy TV Showdown: Round 4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/05/a-guide-to-the-marvel-cinematic-multiverse/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A Guide to the Marvel Cinematic Multiverse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/05/the-great-science-fictionfantasy-tv-showdown-results-and-round-3-2nd-edition/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Great Science-Fiction/Fantasy TV Showdown! – Results and Round 3 (2nd Edition)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/05/the-great-science-fictionfantasy-tv-showdown-results-and-round-two/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Great Science-Fiction/Fantasy TV Showdown! – Results and Round Two&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;April&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/04/the-great-science-fictionfantasy-tv-showdown/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Great Science-Fiction/Fantasy TV Showdown!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/04/batman-v-superman-not-a-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Batman v. Superman: Not a Review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/04/highlights-from-2016-1st-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2016 – 1st Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/04/doctor-who-series-9-review-part-1-of-2/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Doctor Who Series 9 Review – Part 1 of 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;March&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/03/salt-lake-comic-con-fanx-2016-celebrity-panels/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Salt Lake Comic Con FanX 2016 – Celebrity Panels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/03/daredevil-season-two/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Daredevil Season Two&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/03/jacks-bad-movies-wing-commander/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies: Wing Commander&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;February&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/02/jacks-bad-movies-highlander-ii-the-quickening/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies: Highlander II: The Quickening&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/02/deadpool-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Deadpool Review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/02/lego-marvels-avengers-a-first-look/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lego Marvel’s Avengers – A First Look&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;January&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/01/the-13-commandments-from-the-tng-bible/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The 13 Commandments from the TNG Bible.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/01/on-the-death-of-a-science-fiction-icon-a-celebration-of-david-bowies-life-and-legacy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;On The Death of a Science Fiction Icon: A Celebration of David Bowie’s Life and Legacy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/01/highlights-from-2015-4th-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2015 – 4th Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2017-07-11T16:05:23.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11107" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-11T16:06:03.470" Score="6" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/163498/on-pepper-potts-and-tony-starks-relationship&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, and it got 5 downvotes and a string of snarky negative comments. I am trying to delete it, but the system is preventing me from doing so on account of someone having already posted an answer to it, so I shouldn't be ruining their time and efforts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing is, the person who answered is one of the people who left a negative comment, so he himself thinks the question isn't good for the community. If someone deems a question stupid or bad, then what would that put any effort into answering it? The fact that found it worth answering means that to some extent its a legitimate question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that, I think I should be able to delete it. All the downvotes and negative comments presumably mean that it isn't helpful or informative - so I would rather just delete it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone help me with this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68604" LastActivityDate="2017-07-11T16:27:48.090" Title="I would like to delete a question, given so much negative feedback, and the system isn't letting me" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11051" CreationDate="2017-07-11T16:13:44.177" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;2015&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;November&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/11/jessica-jones-season-one-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jessica Jones season one review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/11/a-guide-to-the-dc-cinematic-multiverse/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A Guide To The DC Cinematic Multiverse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;October&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/10/story-where-the-number-3-is-the-monster-finally-answered/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Story where the number 3 is the monster: Finally Answered!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/10/highlights-from-2015-3rd-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2015 – 3rd Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;September&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/09/salt-lake-comic-con-2015-summary/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Salt Lake Comic Con 2015 Summary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/09/minority-report-pilot/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Minority Report – Pilot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;August&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/08/live-chat-the-day-the-earth-stood-still-1951/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Live Chat: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/08/fantastic-four-a-mildly-spoilery-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fantastic Four: A (mildly spoilery) review!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;July&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/07/jacks-bad-movies-left-behind/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies – Left Behind&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/07/the-solarian-war-saga/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Solarian War Saga&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/07/ant-man-a-mildly-spoilery-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ant-Man: A (mildly spoilery) review!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/07/revisiting-the-terminator/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Revisiting The Terminator&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/07/highlights-from-2015-2nd-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2015 – 2nd Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;June&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/06/gorilla-vs-shark-not-so-fast/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gorilla vs. Shark? Not so fast…&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/06/mutants-in-the-marvel-universe/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mutants in the Marvel Universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/06/jacks-bad-movies-jinn/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies – Jinn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;May&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/05/stitchers-early-episode-1-release/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stitchers – Early Episode 1 Release&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/05/supergirl-leaked-pilot-an-almost-completely-spoiler-free-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Supergirl “leaked Pilot” – An almost completely spoiler-free review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;April&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/04/highlights-from-2014-1st-quarter-2/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2015 – 1st Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;March&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/03/jacks-bad-movies-yor-the-hunter-from-the-future/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies – Yor, the Hunter from the Future&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/03/cinderella-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Review – Cinderella&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;February&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/02/science-fiction-fantasy-and-genre/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Science Fiction, Fantasy and Genre&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/02/salt-lake-comic-con-fanx-2015-heroes-villains-and-anti-heroes-in-harry-potter-whos-who-panel/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Salt Lake Comic Con FanX 2015 – Heroes, Villains, and Anti-Heroes in Harry Potter: Who’s Who? Panel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/02/salt-lake-comic-con-fanx-2015-kidcon-and-disney-princesses/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Salt Lake Comic Con FanX 2015 – KIDCON and Disney Princesses&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/02/featured-question-how-long-was-bill-murrays-character-supposed-to-be-in-a-time-loop-in-the-film-groundhog-day/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Featured Answer: How long was Bill Murray’s character supposed to be in a time loop in the film “Groundhog Day”?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;January&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/01/salt-lake-comic-con-fanx-2015-tom-felton-panel/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Salt Lake Comic Con FanX 2015 – Tom Felton Panel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/01/the-new-star-wars-canon-guide/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The (new) Star Wars Canon guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/01/agent-carter-pilot-episode/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Agent Carter – Pilot Episode&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/01/highlights-from-2014-4th-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2014 – 4th Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2017-07-11T16:13:44.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11107" CreationDate="2017-07-11T16:16:08.957" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can ask a Community Manager to &quot;disassociate&quot; a question from your account by clicking the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Contact Us&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; button below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/285385/how-do-i-disassociate-a-question-with-my-account&quot;&gt;How do I disassociate a question with my account?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not every question can be a winner and if you don't like it, you can ask for it to be orphaned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2017-07-11T16:16:08.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11107" CreationDate="2017-07-11T16:27:48.090" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Main meta&lt;/a&gt; has a lot of guidance on when to delete a question. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For questions, a post that &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/59054/299342&quot;&gt;no longer adds &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; to the site&lt;/a&gt; should be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/5222/299342&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/5221/299342&quot;&gt;How does deleting work? What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean? What are the criteria for deletion?&lt;/a&gt; FAQ&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question is on topic and has received some upvotes so it adds &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; to the site. It also has an upvoted answer, which adds to the site and is why the system doesn't allow you to delete it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Users can delete their own questions if the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;has zero answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;only one answer, but that answer has no upvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/deleted-questions&quot;&gt;Help Center on deleted questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the question adds to the site it should not be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're concerned about &quot;ruining their time and efforts&quot; then deleting the question is not going to help. The time and effort has already been put into it so deleting the question would actually hide that time and effort to everyone except high rep users and moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastActivityDate="2017-07-11T16:27:48.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11102" CreationDate="2017-07-11T21:16:07.113" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;It's all about me&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the OP of said question / disclaimer thingy I'd like to add &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; I posted that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This particular issue is close to me due to family reasons. The topic of suicide is one that is particularly difficult for me to bear as I've been affected by it. For me, if I'm able to lead someone to something that might end up saving their life, then I will do it every time. Especially because, the thought of ever finding out that someone read one of my posts and decided that &lt;em&gt;that's&lt;/em&gt; they way they're going to do it would just devastate me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that this is an extremely unlikely scenario and is not likely to ever have an impact, positive &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; negative, however, it's my prerogative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You see, in Australia, it is traditional for tv-shows and the like to feature a similar disclaimer either verbally after talking about such topics or in writing immediately after the show. I sort of liked that idea and followed suit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;In future&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I strongly suggest you &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; start posting similar things, &lt;strong&gt;unless you really want to&lt;/strong&gt;, on your own accord. This is not something that is easy to nor should be enacted as a policy. Many of the things that we post about here have concepts which would 'trigger' someone, and there isn't a 'catch all' thing we can do to cover ourselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally will only post such things in comments (and maybe not even that), so as to not disrupt the flow of our posts, I suggest you do so as well (if you're going to post such things).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastActivityDate="2017-07-11T21:16:07.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2017-07-12T02:04:10.020" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I was a kid, I use to write video game guides, and I was pretty good. When I started playing World of Warcraft, I wanted a more universal name to use for everything, especially my contributions to Wowhead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My main character was a Warlock, and I specialised in Gnome Engineering. My creative mind came up with GNome ENgineer warLOCK, but Gnemlock just sounded a lot better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I pretty much use this name, everywhere, now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50447" LastActivityDate="2017-07-12T02:04:10.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11113" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-12T20:39:50.507" Score="9" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;Background info:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wrote &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/163587/what-was-the-first-story-to-feature-a-person-alone-on-a-planet&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; about &quot;first story to mention only person on planet&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One person asked if I wanted stories about a person marooned on a moon or asteroid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another asked if I wanted religious creation myths.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And somebody posted an answer, now deleted, that mentioned religious creation myths.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing all that, I added this line to the original post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Edit to add: I would also consider a story about somebody stranded on an asteroid, moon, or dwarf planet. I'm not looking for religious texts or creation myths.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then somebody removed the &lt;em&gt;Edit to add:&lt;/em&gt; part from my own editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the comments with clarifying questions look inappropriate, as if the persons asking clarifying questions didn't read the text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it appropriate for somebody to remove the &lt;em&gt;Edit to add:&lt;/em&gt; part?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63201" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2017-07-12T20:55:16.203" LastActivityDate="2017-07-12T20:55:16.203" Title="Should somebody remove the &quot;edit to add&quot; part of somebody else's question?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11113" CreationDate="2017-07-12T20:50:19.673" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consensus on main meta is that &quot;EDIT&quot; or similar words in the body of an edited post&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;are rarely needed, nor helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/127655/299342&quot;&gt;accepted answer&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/127639/299342&quot;&gt;&quot;When is “EDIT”/“UPDATE” appropriate in a post?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The link to the edit history at the bottom of the post will show users what edits were made to the post if anyone cares to look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel that comment(s) are made obsolete by editing please flag them. However, I left the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/163587/what-was-the-first-story-to-feature-a-person-alone-on-a-planet#comment434334_163587&quot;&gt;comment asking about religious texts&lt;/a&gt; because it contains an important link to our policy on citing religious works in answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastActivityDate="2017-07-12T20:50:19.673" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11115" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-13T00:18:07.287" Score="-2" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;We use the term &quot;Jacksonverse&quot; to describe the liberties Peter Jackson took with the &lt;em&gt;Hobbit&lt;/em&gt; . Since so many Tolkien questions on this site turn on the differences between the books and the movies, I think having a &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jacksonverse&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jacksonverse&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jacksonverse&lt;/a&gt;&quot; or &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/peter-jackson&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;peter-jackson&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;peter-jackson&lt;/a&gt;&quot; tag would help organize them better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(.....aaaaand IMO should be used instead of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkiens-legendarium&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkiens-legendarium&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkiens-legendarium&lt;/a&gt; for such questions, because they're about material Tolkien never wrote or saw. But that's just a matter of preference; simply having the tag is more important.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63330" LastActivityDate="2017-07-13T09:46:07.627" Title="Jacksonverse tag for Peter Jackson &quot;Tolkien&quot;- based movies?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11116" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11118" CreationDate="2017-07-13T07:56:07.547" Score="6" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/163614/54887&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; was asked by a user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/163614/would-the-war-of-the-five-kings-have-occurred-if-ned-had-refused-roberts-reques&quot;&gt;Would the War of the Five Kings have occurred if Ned had refused Robert&amp;#39;s request?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The trouble was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It was based on a hypothetical premise i.e. What if X?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It had two separate but related questions. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first it was getting closed as (Primarily opinion based?) as it looked like it would be based on speculation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Skooba and RichS made the case that an objective answer was possible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Given other pointers in the story, there is enough to give a &quot;good&#xA;  subjective&quot; answer to this question. - &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/57310/skooba&quot;&gt;Skooba&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I disagree that this is a speculative question. It has been answered&#xA;  two different ways already, with both answers agreeing the war was&#xA;  inevitable, and both answers providing info from the books. The whole&#xA;  continent of Westeros was a dry powder keg on a hot day and all it&#xA;  needed was a spark. Any spark would do. The war may have run one&#xA;  course or another, but in the end, much that was would be left in&#xA;  ashes.  - &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/63201/richs&quot;&gt;RichS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OTOH, other veteran users like Mooz and Paul argued that it was still speculative:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;we'll have to agree to disagree. If the OP were only asking if a war&#xA;  would still happen I'd agree with you. As the question is currently&#xA;  worded, the OP wants to know if the war would still happen and if Robb&#xA;  would have declared himself KitN and march south. That's far more than&#xA;  we can reasonably speculate on, imo. - &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/66948/paul&quot;&gt;Paul&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is asking&#xA;  about a &quot;what-if&quot; scenario. - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/21267/m%C3%B6oz&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mooz&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to the other part, that it had two questions in it, We already &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10240/54887&quot;&gt;know such questions are to be considered Too-Broad&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what I am wondering is, is there any way to make this on-topic? One approach that comes to mind from Valorum's answer on linked meta question, I could remove the second question from the post and VTRO. But is it appropriate? Or should I just leave it as it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-01-09T15:57:27.613" LastActivityDate="2018-01-09T15:57:27.613" Title="How can we make this question on-topic? Should we, at all?" Tags="|discussion|scope|closed-questions|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2017-07-13T09:46:07.627" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In theory, distinguishing the Jackson Hobbit and LOTR movies from other parts of the &quot;legendarium&quot; is a fine and noble ambition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In practice, however I see a number of key difficulties. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) &lt;strong&gt;The sheer scale of what you're proposing&lt;/strong&gt;. With hundreds of questions about the films,  a concerted effort to make this change would disfigure the front page for weeks. The alternative would be to do it in one go which would be massively disruptive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) &lt;strong&gt;A lack of clarity&lt;/strong&gt;. Often askers want to know about things that happened in the films &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; the books. It's not often that clear what their original intention was, and hence tagging their questions isn't going to be as easy as you might think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, this is a good (or at least acceptable) idea but &lt;strong&gt;we should wait until there's momentum for another &quot;big tag event&quot; before we actually do anything about it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2017-07-13T09:46:07.627" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11116" CreationDate="2017-07-13T14:21:09.447" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;After cropping out the second question, the post received four reopen votes. I cast the final vote and the post has now been reopened. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose that was kind of the community consensus on this. If a post has multiple questions, VTC as too-broad. If the post is edited to be focused on one main question instead, it should be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastEditorUserId="54887" LastEditDate="2018-01-09T08:34:32.410" LastActivityDate="2018-01-09T08:34:32.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11120" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-14T09:50:14.970" Score="5" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a particular question that I want to post that deals with somewhat unpleasant concepts.  I do not want to rustle any feathers or step on any toes (I learnt my lesson from my question about gender non-conforming magical people in the Potterverse).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I want to ask here and get a better understanding of what is and is not appropriate.  What topics, if any, are considered taboo on the Sci-Fi and Fantasy Stack Exchange?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84822" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2017-07-14T11:12:36.700" LastActivityDate="2017-07-14T11:39:47.713" Title="What are the decency standards on stack exchange?" Tags="|discussion|scope|adult-content|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="15" ClosedDate="2017-07-14T11:24:51.317" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11121" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11122" CreationDate="2017-07-14T17:25:49.400" Score="4" ViewCount="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I will search a topic and skim through dozens of questions on the search results page to conclude that a question hasn't been asked, but when I put the exact search term into the title of a new question, far better results pop up and I find the question has already been answered. Has anyone else experienced this? Why are the similar question suggestions so much better than the search results? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a simple example related to the recent popular question about Istari, search &lt;em&gt;Why were the Istari forbidden to fight&lt;/em&gt; and then compare that to the results if you put it into the title of a new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78411" LastActivityDate="2017-07-14T17:39:35.953" Title="Why are search results different from suggested similar questions?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11121" CreationDate="2017-07-14T17:39:35.953" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The search bar finds &lt;em&gt;exact&lt;/em&gt; results.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a very simple algorithm: if you write a list of words into the search bar, you'll get a list of all posts including all of those words, which you can then order by votes or age. Its advantage is that you can also use it for more advanced search, if you know &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9331/31394&quot;&gt;all the different techniques&lt;/a&gt; - for example, you can search only within a certain tag, or only for posts within a particular age range, and so on. Perhaps most importantly, you can search &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; as well as questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Suggested &quot;similar questions&quot; uses a more intelligent algorithm.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure exactly what algorithm this is, but clearly it's better at finding similar questions based on inexact matches. See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/60468/278659&quot;&gt;Detecting similarity between questions : How?&lt;/a&gt; on main meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-07-14T17:39:35.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11123" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11133" CreationDate="2017-07-14T19:09:40.377" Score="14" ViewCount="260" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/21301/31394&quot;&gt;Can lightsabers be ochre?&lt;/a&gt; has a very comprehensive answer covering all possible lightsaber colours in both canon and Legends. For this reason, other lightsaber-colour questions such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/52369/31394&quot;&gt;Can lightsabers be periwinkle?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/21308/31394&quot;&gt;Has there ever been a black lightsaber?&lt;/a&gt; have been closed as duplicates of it, even though the &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; themselves are all quite different from each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has led to understandable confusion from some users:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Periwinkle is a different color than Ochre, incidentally. Periwinkle= sRGBB-204, 204, 255. Ochre= sRGBB-204, 119, 34. For anyone with enough time on their hands to identify (non) duplicate questions on a science fiction and fantasy website, I'd think that research would have been done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;-- &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/52369/31394&quot;&gt;&quot;periwinkle&quot; OP&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nominating for re-opening because the linked question is not the same, although the accepted answer on it does answer this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;-- &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/21308/31394&quot;&gt;FuzzyBoots, comment on &quot;black&quot; question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see why it makes sense to have the other questions closed as duplicates of one with a complete list, but it also looks weird to have &quot;Can lightsabers be periwinkle?&quot; marked as a duplicate of &quot;Can lightsabers be ochre?&quot; I propose the following solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Should we edit the dupe-target to ask &quot;What colour can lightsabers be?&quot;?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pros&lt;/strong&gt;: we get a nice 'canonical' lightsaber-colour question to match the canonical lightsaber-colour answer; and the duplication would become more clearly correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cons&lt;/strong&gt;: we'd be changing the question without permission from the OP (who hasn't been seen on the site for 3 years) - although of course their original question would still be there and be answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-07-17T17:34:54.327" LastActivityDate="2017-07-17T17:34:54.327" Title="Should we rewrite the 'lightsaber colour' question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|duplicate-questions|editing|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11123" CreationDate="2017-07-14T19:44:09.600" Score="-7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both question and answer are from 2012 (and the 2016 edit is now incorrect). We should establish a new Q&amp;amp;A to be the dup-target so that we don't have to edit both question and answer to bring it up to date with current star wars canon. We can then mark this question as a dup of the new one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62201" LastActivityDate="2017-07-14T19:44:09.600" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11125" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-14T20:41:20.003" Score="22" ViewCount="393" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand this question and its accompanying answer were made in jest: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/140363/770&quot;&gt;What is JK Rowling &amp;quot;bad&amp;quot; at?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; a sense of humor, but unfortunately the question is blatantly off-topic (and not particularly funny either, but that's just my opinion): it's not about the Potterverse, or even about JKR's skills as a fantasy author, but about her personal life. It's also an open-ended list question. The accepted answer looks like a scattershot at everything JKR has ever twitted. Frankly, almost every close reason in the list applies to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, it cannot be voted-to-close because it has an open bounty. Are we allowing this kind of questions now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One problem I see with off-topic joke questions being allowed is that explaining to newcomers why their off-topic questions get closed but this one isn't becomes &lt;em&gt;very hard&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="770" LastEditorUserId="770" LastEditDate="2017-07-14T21:33:23.620" LastActivityDate="2017-07-15T00:47:55.640" Title="Why are these joke question &amp; answer allowed?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11123" CreationDate="2017-07-14T20:42:46.477" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assuming the answer to the &quot;ochre&quot; question is indeed as broad as you claim it is, I see no harm in leaving its question as it is now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was under the impression that the people who use this site are supposed to read past the title of the question. While this is sadly not the case sometimes, it doesn't mean we should suit people who cannot be bothered to read a post in its entirety, including the body of the question and the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question gets closed as a duplicate, it's the responsibility of the asker to go and read the answers on the duplicate target. In this case when they've done so, they shouldn't be any confusion or disagreement about the closure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastActivityDate="2017-07-14T20:42:46.477" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11125" CreationDate="2017-07-14T21:31:52.500" Score="-7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes this question is firmly on-topic, as fandom always has been. There are many examples of questions asking about an author's life. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/143313/why-is-jk-rowling-considered-bad-at-math?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;Why is JK Rowling considered &amp;#39;bad at math&amp;#39;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/141084/was-tolkien-a-driver?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;Was Tolkien a driver?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/47773/did-tolkien-have-experience-with-addiction?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;Did Tolkien have experience with addiction?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/139798/did-any-star-trek-actors-have-issues-with-the-anti-religous-nature-of-the-series&quot;&gt;Did any Star Trek actors have issues with the anti-religous nature of the series?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/97385/have-star-trek-actors-commented-on-why-they-didnt-work-more-after-star-trek?rq=1&quot;&gt;Have Star Trek actors commented on why they didn&amp;#39;t work more after Star Trek?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/161177/have-there-ever-been-25-or-more-stars-on-wonder-womans-panties&quot;&gt;Have there ever been 25 or more stars on Wonder Woman&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;panties&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/113076/which-certain-other-thespian-does-joss-whedon-hate&quot;&gt;Which &amp;quot;certain other thespian&amp;quot; does Joss Whedon hate?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9133/did-j-k-rowlings-religious-beliefs-determine-much-in-harry-potter&quot;&gt;Did J. K. Rowling&amp;#39;s Religious Beliefs Determine Much in Harry Potter?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this specific's question's case, it is well known within the fandom that some JKR's flaws can show in, and affect her stories. Her &quot;bad maths&quot; is the prime example. Maybe this should have better defined in the original question, but either way it still remains on-topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2017-07-15T00:47:55.640" LastActivityDate="2017-07-15T00:47:55.640" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11125" CreationDate="2017-07-14T21:32:06.140" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Fandom questions must have some &lt;em&gt;reason&lt;/em&gt; for being asked.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply put, a fandom question is generally considered to be on-topic if it has &lt;em&gt;notability&lt;/em&gt;. In this case, JKR has repeatedly excused mistakes in her writings as being a result of a personal failing (in maths). It's therefore acceptable to ask if she's ever claimed any &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; personal failings as this may help the OP to understand other elements of her work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By comparison, a question asking &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;em&gt;Does JKR prefers red wine or white?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;would be perfectly answerable, but off-topic since it never comes up in her writings and there's no sensible reason to ask it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This question is not a &quot;joke question&quot;, at least by the generally agreed definition on the site.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-07-14T21:36:30.530" LastActivityDate="2017-07-14T21:36:30.530" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11125" CreationDate="2017-07-14T22:31:47.857" Score="21" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Fandom questions are on-topic ...&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9529/31394&quot;&gt;Why is fandom information treated as if it weren&amp;#39;t on topic?&lt;/a&gt; There's an occasional problem on this site with people voting to close fandom questions because they aren't familiar enough with the site scope to know that behind-the-scenes and fandom information is explicitly on-topic here. This much of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11127/31394&quot;&gt;Skooba's answer&lt;/a&gt; is correct, and most of the questions he lists have been well-received, being out-of-universe fandom questions relating to specific works of sci-fi or fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;... but not every fact about an author is fandom information.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question under consideration here isn't a question about the Harry Potter series/universe, nor about JK Rowling as a fantasy author. It's a question about JK Rowling as a person, and JK Rowling as a person isn't a science-fiction or fantasy entity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a lot of the dispute here arises from the fact that JK Rowling is &lt;em&gt;primarily&lt;/em&gt; known as an author of fantasy. Imagine if the question was about the personal lives of the models / TV personalities Kendall and Kylie Jenner (who once wrote a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebels:_City_of_Indra&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;science fiction novel&lt;/a&gt;), or of the physicist Stephen Hawking (who's written a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking#Children.27s_fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;series of children's science fiction books&lt;/a&gt;). I doubt anyone would hesitate in closing &quot;Who is Kylie Jenner going out with?&quot; or &quot;Has Stephen Hawking ever owned a dog?&quot; as off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/47773/31394&quot;&gt;Did Tolkien have experience with addiction?&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/18304/31394&quot;&gt;Is Tolkien prejudiced against the East?&lt;/a&gt; are directly related to Tolkien's fantasy writing. They're not just asking for factoids about his personal life; they're asking whether Tolkien's portrayal of addiction and of Easterners in &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; was influenced by his real-life experiences or views. But with questions like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/140363/31394&quot;&gt;What is JK Rowling &amp;quot;bad&amp;quot; at?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/141084/31394&quot;&gt;Was Tolkien a driver?&lt;/a&gt;, the connection is far more tenuous.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;So the question we need to ask for such a question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Is it justifiably connected to an SF/F work?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11128/31394&quot;&gt;Valorum's answer&lt;/a&gt; is essentially correct, although I'd phrase the key criterion as &lt;em&gt;relevancy&lt;/em&gt; rather than &lt;em&gt;notability&lt;/em&gt;, but he also says (having answered it) that the Rowling question is fine. I leave it up to you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you think the question is relevant to &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt;, or any other SF/F work, leave it open.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you think its relevancy is too much of a stretch, vote to close it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I say &quot;justifiably&quot; because it's &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt; to draw a connection to almost any question about an author from their work, if you're willing to stretch its credibility enough. If a question tries to make a connection which you feel is too tenuous or ridiculous, you can still vote to close it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-07-14T22:31:47.857" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11130" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11131" CreationDate="2017-07-15T05:29:28.470" Score="-1" ViewCount="209" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/163789/4918&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; on the sci-fi page regarding the consensuality of Hagrid's parents' coupling; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/163789/was-hagrid-the-product-of-a-consensual-pairing&quot;&gt;Was Hagrid the product of a consensual pairing?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not the nicest of topics I will grant you but I believe I approached it appropriately (with fantastic help from the people here on the meta board).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question has been marked as a duplicate of;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/27772/in-the-potterverse-how-do-giants-procreate-with-humans&quot;&gt;In the potterverse, how do giants procreate with humans?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My problem is that, whilst these two questions are certainly related, they are in no way duplicates of each other.  One need only read the two questions to realize they are completely different (my question is admittedly a tad long).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume no malfeasance on the part of the one/s that marked my question as a duplicate, but I do believe it was an erroneous move.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84822" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-07-15T12:34:59.357" LastActivityDate="2017-07-15T12:34:59.357" Title="Why was my question about Hagrid's parents closed?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11130" CreationDate="2017-07-15T09:53:34.553" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The top answer to the duplicate question specifically answers your question; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/163789/4918&quot;&gt;Was Hagrid the product of a consensual pairing?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you're worried about whether Hagrid's father did it voluntarily, be&#xA;  assured that he did: Hagrid says in Goblet chapter 23:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;‘Me dad was broken-hearted when she wen'.&lt;/em&gt;’&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There seems to be zero ambiguity, nor any reason to assume that Hagrid was lying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your basis for declaring the question 'not a duplicate' seems to rely on ignoring the available evidence and assuming (based on your own headcanon) that Hagrid was mistaken and that his father was actually suffering from &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battered_person_syndrome&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;battered husband syndrome&lt;/a&gt; after having been repeatedly raped. If you could offer some &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;evidencial&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; reason to assume that that's the case, you'd have a good case to ask for the question to be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2017-07-15T09:53:34.553" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11130" CreationDate="2017-07-15T10:47:33.940" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/27772/31394&quot;&gt;older question&lt;/a&gt; asks about the &lt;strong&gt;physical practicalities of giant-human reproduction in general&lt;/strong&gt;. Its top answer mentions in passing that it was consensual for Hagrid's parents, but doesn't provide any evidence for this other than a single quote. It would be unreasonable to expect the answerer to expand on this argument, since that's not actually what that question is about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/163789/31394&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; asks specifically about &lt;strong&gt;whether Hagrid's parents' relationship was consensual&lt;/strong&gt;. You provide evidence for why it might not have been, and rebut some potential arguments for why it might have been, &lt;em&gt;including&lt;/em&gt; (and this is important) the very quote used as evidence by the answer to the older question. So your question doesn't really &quot;already have an answer there&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9748/31394&quot;&gt;our current consensus on duplication based on answers&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Well, normally the presence of identical answers is a pretty good indication that the questions themselves are the same [...] if you're already pretty sure the questions are duplicates, testing the answers of one against the other can easily confirm your suspicions. But don't close completely irrelevant questions as duplicates of one another simply because there's an animated gif that happens to apply to both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, the questions themselves are totally separate. And while the relevant part of the existing answer isn't an &quot;animated gif&quot;, it isn't exactly an essay either - it's a one-line remark only tangentially relevant to the older question. That doesn't in any way answer your question, which specifically rejects said remark as sufficient evidence, provides plausible reasoning to support the opposite case, and calls for &lt;em&gt;more conclusive&lt;/em&gt; evidence. So &lt;strong&gt;I've reopened your question.&lt;/strong&gt; I've also taken the liberty of adding the exact book quote and linking to the previous answer, just to clarify its non-dupe status.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-07-15T10:52:35.957" LastActivityDate="2017-07-15T10:52:35.957" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11123" CreationDate="2017-07-15T16:15:24.603" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit it&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The pros of having a sensible question and answer that already is and may likely be in the future the target for Duplicate Votes to Close far out weigh the &quot;cons&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You say that we will be editing the post without OP permission, but &lt;em&gt;this happens all the time&lt;/em&gt; (if not most of the time when you think about it). It is well establish network wide policy that once something is posted, the content becomes the property of the site. If the community feels that the post is made better by edits, the edits stay. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2017-07-15T16:15:24.603" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11134" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11136" CreationDate="2017-07-15T19:06:28.760" Score="25" ViewCount="2548" Body="&lt;p&gt;I edited this question; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11123/20774&quot;&gt;Should we rewrite the lightsabre colour question?&lt;/a&gt; to reflect what I felt was the accepted spelling of the word &quot;lightsaber&quot; (with an er), only to have my edits &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/posts/11123/revisions&quot;&gt;rolled back&lt;/a&gt; with the comment; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Using American spelling? I'm disappointed in you :-)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I appreciate that it's a long-established principle that we don't correct US/UK spellings but I'm reasonably certain that this doesn't apply in this case. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there a 'correct' spelling of this word?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are &lt;em&gt;variant spellings&lt;/em&gt; simply interchangeable?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-07-20T13:19:32.117" LastActivityDate="2017-07-20T13:19:32.117" Title="Is it lightsabre or lightsaber (or both)?" Tags="|discussion|spelling|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11134" CreationDate="2017-07-15T21:01:07.480" Score="-7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Either / both.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/23869/278659&quot;&gt;standard across Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;, both British and American English spellings are acceptable:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does [Stack Exchange] have an accepted standard on language and spelling? Which is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For bodies, no. For tags, US-English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At the risk of starting torrents of angry comments, I'd say the correct one is whichever one the OP uses. It is acceptable to fix spelling and grammar errors in someone's response, but if you feel that their favourite spelling of 'behaviour' colours your judgment, then I'm afraid they should just get over it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is not acceptable to change American to British spellings or British to American.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't make edits to change &quot;colour&quot; to &quot;color&quot; or vice versa. If someone makes such an edit, we roll it back and gently remind them that all dialects of English are acceptable here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lightsabre&lt;/em&gt; is an acceptable British English spelling of &quot;lightsaber&quot;. It can be found in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lightsabre&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiktionary&lt;/a&gt; and the definitive &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/lightsabre&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Oxford English Dictionary&lt;/a&gt;, and is the spelling &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/star-wars-how-to-build-a-real-lightsabre-a6771586.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;used&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2017/05/11/star-wars-fans-light-sabre-battle-instead-first-dance-wedding/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;multiple&lt;/a&gt; other UK &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1576154/Lightsabre-wins-the-battle-of-movie-weapons.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;sources&lt;/a&gt;. This makes sense, as &quot;lightsaber&quot; literally means &quot;saber of light&quot;, and &quot;saber&quot; is just a US spelling of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;sabre&lt;/a&gt;. Thus, the convention should be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;call the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lightsaber&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lightsaber&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lightsaber&lt;/a&gt;, but leave lightsabre/lightsaber up to the OP in the post&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-07-15T21:01:07.480" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11134" CreationDate="2017-07-15T22:24:19.783" Score="38" Body="&lt;h2&gt;TL;DR, it's Lightsaber not Lightsabre.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Usage in canon&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Outside of a couple of typographical errors in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://sfy.ru/?script=star_wars_episode_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Phantom Menace script&lt;/a&gt;, the sole usage is lightsab&lt;strong&gt;er&lt;/strong&gt; in every single &lt;em&gt;canon&lt;/em&gt; article on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.starwars.com/databank/lightsaber&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;databank&lt;/a&gt;, every single canon novel and every single factbook. It's also used exclusively as lightsab&lt;strong&gt;er&lt;/strong&gt; in every single EU novel, gamebook and script book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;So where &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; we find the term lightsabre?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-in-the-uk-star-wars-weekly-3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;StarWars.com&lt;/a&gt; highlights a couple of instances where the term lightsabre has been used in various (now) non-canon sources, including a glossary in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.amazon.co.uk/STAR-WARS-Diane-Masters-Watson/dp/B000ZCPMAQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Wars Official Collector’s Edition (1977)&lt;/a&gt; published by Marvel. The writer of the article notes that it's been spelled incorrectly, along with other canon changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Back then we wrote “Artoo Detoo” and “See Threepio” instead of R2-D2&#xA;  and C-3PO, &lt;strong&gt;Ben Kenobi used a “lightsabre,” not a lightsaber,&lt;/strong&gt; and&#xA;  Kenobi, Obi-Wan was the one-time leader of the Jedi Knights. Certainly&#xA;  a lot has changed, but there was a special kind of magic to the galaxy&#xA;  when the only story we had was the original Star Wars.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/f16p4.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/f16p4.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What Trademarks does LucasFilm own?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;LucasFilm own and closely guard the term &lt;a href=&quot;http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&amp;amp;state=4801%3Appwo3a.1.1&amp;amp;p_search=searchss&amp;amp;p_L=50&amp;amp;BackReference=&amp;amp;p_plural=yes&amp;amp;p_s_PARA1=&amp;amp;p_tagrepl~%3A=PARA1%24LD&amp;amp;expr=PARA1%20AND%20PARA2&amp;amp;p_s_PARA2=lightsaber&amp;amp;p_tagrepl~%3A=PARA2%24COMB&amp;amp;p_op_ALL=AND&amp;amp;a_default=search&amp;amp;a_search=Submit%20Query&amp;amp;a_search=Submit%20Query&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;lightsaber&lt;/a&gt;, entering into trademark disputes with no less than a dozen companies that have dared to use the word in their branding. By comparison, there's a sole entry in the US and EU trademark database for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.trademarkia.com/ctm/trademarks-search.aspx?tn=lightsabre&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;lightsabre&lt;/a&gt; held by a company called Powerbox AG. &lt;strong&gt;Lucasfilm haven't disputed the use of lightsab&lt;em&gt;re&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, Lucasfilm and Disney have &lt;strong&gt;never knowingly used the term lightsabre&lt;/strong&gt;. The sole usage comes from a few minor instances in articles and magazines from non-canon sources such as licensed works, fan magazines and Marvel magazines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;These terms are not interchangeable and we should correct this common misspelling wherever we see it.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-07-16T00:46:05.767" LastActivityDate="2017-07-16T00:46:05.767" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11137" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-16T22:48:15.983" Score="16" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;George A Romero, best known for his seminal &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Living_Dead_(film_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Night of the Living Dead&lt;/a&gt; film series has died after a brief battle with lung cancer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His work has had an incalculable influence on modern movie-making and he will be sorely missed by his legion of fans. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LkTJh.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LkTJh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2017-07-16T22:48:15.983" Title="RIP George A. Romero" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9298" CreationDate="2017-07-17T13:57:35.670" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The FAQ blog post is currently &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/703/how-do-i-contribute-to-the-blog&quot;&gt;How do I contribute to the blog?&lt;/a&gt; However, it dates back to 2011, and some things (a lot of things) have changed since then. I propose we move the FAQ status to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10675/70236&quot;&gt;Questions about our off-site blog?&lt;/a&gt; as it is more up to date, and the relevant person is easier to reach there for clarifications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastActivityDate="2017-07-17T13:57:35.670" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11139" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-17T16:32:37.927" Score="15" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sadly, I wish to mark the passing of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Landau&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Martin Landau&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; with extremely fond memories of Commander Koenig.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BqpJx.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BqpJx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst he has provided many enjoyable performances over his 89 years, his contribution to sci-fi in Space 1999 will remain one of my childhood favourites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55249" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-07-17T17:32:14.827" LastActivityDate="2022-06-24T23:06:41.110" Title="Martin Landau: RIP" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11140" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-18T10:39:23.880" Score="32" ViewCount="902" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/157720/19561&quot;&gt;How does reporting to muggle Prime Minister not violate International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used the word &lt;em&gt;mudblood&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was later &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/108125&quot;&gt;changed to &lt;em&gt;muggle-born&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (with edit Summary: &lt;em&gt;changed an objectionable word&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was wrong with me using &quot;mudblood&quot;, which is only offensive &lt;em&gt;in-universe&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="931" LastEditDate="2017-07-18T14:54:28.917" LastActivityDate="2018-12-19T10:59:17.293" Title="Why can't I use the word &quot;mudblood&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|suggested-edit|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="23" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11140" CreationDate="2017-07-18T12:38:27.497" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even though it is a made up word, it does not follow the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;Be Nice&lt;/a&gt; policy. This policy also applies to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/286082/does-the-be-nice-policy-require-se-users-to-be-nice-to-people-who-are-not-se-u&quot;&gt;public figures&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In specific I think this hits the nail on the head:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't be a jerk. These are just a few examples. If you see them, flag them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Name-calling.&lt;/strong&gt; Focus on the post, not the person. That includes terms that feel personal even when they're applied to posts (like &amp;quot;lazy&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;ignorant&amp;quot;, or &amp;quot;whiny&amp;quot;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bigotry of any kind.&lt;/strong&gt; Language likely to offend or alienate individuals or groups based on race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc. will not be tolerated. At all. (Those are just a few examples; when in doubt, just don't.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though they are fictional, you are name-calling and using language designed to offend. You &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; this because you &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Mudblood&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;what the word means in-universe&lt;/a&gt; and are specifically asking for &amp;quot;permission&amp;quot; to use it ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;When in doubt, just don't.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-07-18T13:03:00.267" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11142" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11143" CreationDate="2017-07-18T14:36:09.673" Score="9" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to ask how many times an anime/sci fi live action which is in pre-production have changed directors already. I've read other topics here about making production questions (like behind the scenes) but I don't have it clear. Is it allowed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17551" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-07-18T15:07:18.790" LastActivityDate="2017-07-19T04:46:02.980" Title="Is a question about how many times a sci-fi live action has changed directors allowed?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11142" CreationDate="2017-07-18T15:05:57.030" Score="13" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Sure.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Behind-the-scenes information is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;explicitly on-topic according to the help centre&lt;/a&gt;, and so is &quot;trivia&quot; such as how many times a film has changed directors. This kind of information is part of what a fan might be interested in, and it's on-topic to ask about it (provided it's sci-fi or fantasy, of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-07-18T15:05:57.030" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11140" CreationDate="2017-07-18T20:56:29.777" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;'Mudblood' is used in the books quite a lot, mostly by characters who define themselves as blood purists. It is a word used by characters who hold a certain set of opinions about the importance of the purity of magic blood, so if you're neutral on the subject, better use 'muggle-born' else you'll probably confuse people who read your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Clarity above niceties&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are, however, cases when you probably should use the infamous and oh-so-nasty M-word, even risking to offend the muggle-born wizards amongst us:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When you're interested in said word's etymology, usage etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;when you're quoting from the books or book-related material (for example: Why did Draco call Harriett Potter 'my cute little mudblood'?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;if you really, really want to use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user68762" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-07-19T09:35:54.943" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11142" CreationDate="2017-07-19T04:46:02.980" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the subject is on topic (see Rand al'Thor's answer), simply asking for a list of movies that have changed directors during pre-production may be closed as off topic because it asks for a (potentially very large) list of works. Try to phrase the question so that it can have a definitive answer rather than asking for an open-ended list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66402" LastActivityDate="2017-07-19T04:46:02.980" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11146" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-19T07:20:19.123" Score="9" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just changed my name on the site and shared it on &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/38869458#38869458&quot;&gt;The Quill and Tankard&lt;/a&gt;, but my location was not visible due to the font colour:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hC9rQ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hC9rQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's still there and visible if I select that area &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/a8QE2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/a8QE2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did same on &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/38869385#38869385&quot;&gt;The Screening Room&lt;/a&gt; and it worked fine :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uoyse.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uoyse.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Current colur code is #FFF (white) on SFF, if we can change it to anything else, maybe to #222 (Black) like Movies &amp;amp; TV chatroom, then it can work :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3XLHU.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3XLHU.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Else any other color except white. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6006" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2017-07-26T01:03:06.037" LastActivityDate="2017-07-26T01:03:06.037" Title="SFF chatroom not showing user location when profile get shared due to font colour" Tags="|bug|design|chat|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11147" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-19T11:25:40.733" Score="7" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;In-universe, the correct spelling appears to be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.starwars.com/news/stormtrooper-evolution-forces-of-the-republic-empire-and-first-order&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;stormtroopers&lt;/a&gt; (with no capitals, no space), however there are a very considerable number of posts; both questions and answers, that refer to them as;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stormtroopers (Capital S)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Storm troopers (with a space)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Storm Troopers (Capital S, Capital T and a space)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we're doing with lightsabers, should we systematically change all of these posts to the correct spelling?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2017-07-19T14:39:22.363" LastActivityDate="2017-11-17T16:13:00.817" Title="Should we kill all the storm troopers?" Tags="|discussion|spelling|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11147" CreationDate="2017-07-19T12:00:41.520" Score="16" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Execute Order 66: kill the spaces within the storm troopers.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the context of the Star Wars universe, &quot;storm troopers&quot; is an incorrect spelling, like Wookie and Kashyk and Princess Leah. Feel free to correct this common error by removing spaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few caveats:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This only applies to the Star Wars universe. The word &quot;stormtrooper&quot; can also be used in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormtrooper_(disambiguation)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;other contexts&lt;/a&gt;, and in some of those &quot;storm trooper&quot; may also be correct.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't think &quot;stormtroopers&quot; vs &quot;Stormtroopers&quot; is important enough to fix. People might well use &quot;Stormtrooper&quot; as if it's a title. Capitalisation is misused all the time on this site, and we don't usually bother editing it unless there's also something else to fix in the post. I would reject a &quot;Stormtrooper&quot; -&gt; &quot;stormtrooper&quot; suggested edit as being too trivial.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;So as not to flood the front page of the site, the usual rule of thumb has been that at most 5 of the top 15 most recently active posts should be last edited by the same person. This is supported by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3102/31394&quot;&gt;this four-year-old consensus&lt;/a&gt;, and although a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9871/31394&quot;&gt;more recent and hotly debated meta discussion&lt;/a&gt; has brought it into question, this guideline has continued to be enforced in practice by the community.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-11-17T16:13:00.817" LastActivityDate="2017-11-17T16:13:00.817" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9532" CreationDate="2017-07-19T12:13:46.867" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally try to avoid correcting other dialects of English (as noted above by Molag Bal, Indian English might be an exception since I think the grammar would confuse most readers), but I don't always succeed, particularly when spellcheck is flagging the words. If it's flagged as a misspelling, and I don't personally know that it's a correct dialect choice, I'll fix it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2017-07-19T12:13:46.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11150" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11151" CreationDate="2017-07-19T13:00:30.153" Score="9" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;DCAU is the abbreviation for the franchise called the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_animated_universe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DC animated universe&lt;/a&gt;. On this site the primary tag used for it is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dcau&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dcau&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dcau&lt;/a&gt;, with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-animated-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-animated-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-animated-universe&lt;/a&gt; as a synonym. But there is no length limit issue here, so is it not better to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-animated-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-animated-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-animated-universe&lt;/a&gt; as the primary tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even for the film universe, the primary tag is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-extended-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-extended-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-extended-universe&lt;/a&gt; and the synonym is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dceu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dceu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dceu&lt;/a&gt;. So why not do the same for DCAU? It can be easily done using mod tools without affecting the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6006" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-08-01T13:19:04.990" LastActivityDate="2017-08-01T13:19:04.990" Title="Should [dc-animated-universe] become the primary tag name rather than [dcau]?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11150" CreationDate="2017-07-19T15:00:55.403" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Making &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-animated-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-animated-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-animated-universe&lt;/a&gt; the primary tag is clearer for a user unfamiliar with the material and less likely to be confused with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dceu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dceu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dceu&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a user tries to tag with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dcau&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dcau&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dcau&lt;/a&gt;, after typing &lt;code&gt;dca&lt;/code&gt;, the proper tag name will show up either way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2017-07-19T15:00:55.403" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7134" CreationDate="2017-07-19T16:16:14.847" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's on-topic, as the spy-fi subset of sci-fi &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8008/are-questions-about-lemony-snickets-a-series-of-unfortunate-events-considered/10495#comment31477_10495&quot;&gt;has never been officially off-topic&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Relevant decisions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9471/is-james-bond-science-fiction&quot;&gt;James Bond?&lt;/a&gt; - Yes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9855/is-the-nolanverse-batman-on-topic-on-sffse&quot;&gt;Nolanverse Batman?&lt;/a&gt; - Yes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/are-works-that-arent-sf-per-se-but-have-occasional-sfnal-elements-on-topic-e&quot;&gt;Works you can make a good case for?&lt;/a&gt; - Yes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that #3 was &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; our policy, but Spy-Fi was policed outside of policy through comments, but never truly justified through our meta decisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question sort of got lost in the recent discussions, as both the James Bond and Nolanverse decisions have come &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; this question and existing top answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our policy is designed to be inclusive, I'm not really making any new declarations here. I just wanted to call out that the current top answer is essentially at odds with all of our other discussions on the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also worth noting regarding spy-fi in general:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9909/do-we-have-to-ask-if-all-these-works-are-on-topic-or-not/9910#9910&quot;&gt;Do we have to ask if all these works are on-topic or not?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are not cases where people are arguing over classes of work -- spy-fi, horror, anthropomorphic animals, etc. &lt;strong&gt;They are, to be brutally honest, cases where people just decide for themselves that they don't like the scope rules and try to end-run around them by coming to meta.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, in theory, that's what meta is for -- if we're going to change the rules, here's where we do it. In practice, though, people don't really want to change the rules overall, they just want to make the case that this time we should bend them a little. &lt;strong&gt;I think we'd all be better off if we just relaxed a bit and let people ask their questions.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;(emphasis added)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-07-19T16:16:14.847" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11153" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11154" CreationDate="2017-07-19T20:47:57.263" Score="3" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;My title pretty much encapsulates my concern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are questions that are blatantly ideologically motivated (extreme example:  &quot;Why is Tolkien's portrayal of the westerlings so racist?&quot;) a problem or are they considered appropriate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84822" LastActivityDate="2017-07-19T21:06:39.573" Title="What is sci-fi stackexchange's stance on ideologically motivated questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11153" CreationDate="2017-07-19T21:06:39.573" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer to this one is extremely simple. By all means ask your question, but &lt;em&gt;avoid the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_commentator&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;colour commentary&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, someone already asked the question in your example. It did attract some downvotes, but was largely well-received, mostly because it avoided making any direct assertions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/18304/is-tolkien-prejudiced-against-the-east&quot;&gt;Is Tolkien prejudiced against the East?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2017-07-19T21:06:39.573" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9532" CreationDate="2017-07-20T02:05:13.260" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a clear understanding on Stack Exchange that regional spelling variations are acceptable and that posts should not be edited to suit the editor's own region. There are some complications with this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An American editor (for example) may truly not know that &quot;colour&quot; is the &lt;s&gt;correct&lt;/s&gt; English spelling and so may 'correct' it to &quot;color&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The previous point is complicated by the fact that some languages have too many regional variations for anyone to keep track of. Microsoft Office has 18 regional dictionaries for English.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an edit is erroneously made for one of those reasons, then I think it should be rolled back with a comment to the effect that the word was spelled correctly according to the OP's culture (which should be named).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An earlier comment mentions &quot;Indian word choice&quot; in English. I think there may be a point here that applies to posters from many cultures who are not using their native language. For example, they may:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use a phrase that is a literal interpretation of a common phrase in their language, but is odd or unintelligible in the language they are using.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use a sentence structure that is common in their language, but not in the language they are using.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In these cases, I think it is helpful to edit the wording to reflect the way a native speaker of English (on one side of the pond or the other) would have written it. This makes the post easier to understand for the majority of readers, and so increases the likelihood of a helpful answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66402" LastEditorUserId="66402" LastEditDate="2017-07-20T02:17:46.273" LastActivityDate="2017-07-20T02:17:46.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11156" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11159" CreationDate="2017-07-20T06:34:48.733" Score="9" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that here on meta there are many Film/TV show and franchise tags, like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/disney-star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;disney-star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;disney-star-wars&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the main site they make sense but do we really need them on meta too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6006" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-11-15T16:04:55.390" LastActivityDate="2017-11-15T16:04:55.390" Title="Do we really need film/TV Show/Franchise tags in meta?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|meta|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9769" CreationDate="2017-07-20T07:34:35.813" Score="-3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A tag for a specific book in the series makes clear that the question is not only about that book, but also likely to be based on the knowledge contained within that book — or the books up until to and including that book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It helps people who are in the process of reading the series avoid spoilers, and it helps them to find questions they &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2017-07-20T07:34:35.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11156" CreationDate="2017-07-20T18:37:07.583" Score="7" Body="&lt;h1&gt;NO.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta is the place to discuss &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/whats-meta&quot;&gt;the workings&lt;/a&gt; of the site itself. Inherently questions on Meta are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; about a franchise or work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is why Meta has one of four required tags (support, feature request, bug, and discussion).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-07-20T18:37:07.583" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11160" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11166" CreationDate="2017-07-20T18:48:28.823" Score="-1" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have recently noticed on the Meta site there is a tag &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/meta&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;meta&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt;... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems a bit redundant, we are already on the Meta site, so all questions or discussion here will be &quot;meta&quot;. There is currently no tag wiki or usage guidance either, so at the very least this information should be filled out. However, my opinion is that having a this tag on meta is akin to having the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/306/do-we-need-a-sci-fi-and-a-fantasy-tag&quot;&gt;sci-fi tag&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/380/blacklist-the-fantasy-tag&quot;&gt;fantasy tag&lt;/a&gt; on the main site. Should we blacklist &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/meta&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;meta&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt; on Meta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are currently &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/meta&quot;&gt;46 questions&lt;/a&gt; here with the tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-07-21T07:44:17.183" LastActivityDate="2017-07-21T07:44:17.183" Title="Is [meta] a bit too meta?" Tags="|discussion|status-declined|tags|meta|tag-blacklist-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11160" CreationDate="2017-07-20T19:25:47.407" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. The &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/meta&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;meta&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt; is for questions about Meta.SFF itself, and as such is a good tag to have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, this tag is used for discussions about tags on Meta.SFF (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11156/&quot;&gt;Do we really need film/TV Show/Franchise tags in meta?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9536/&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s with all the closure tags?&lt;/a&gt;), bug reports specific to Meta (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7465/&quot;&gt;SSL Certificate Still Invalid&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6543/&quot;&gt;Cannot see my total reviews&lt;/a&gt;), and policy decisions for Meta itself (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6607/&quot;&gt;Should we ever close a question as &amp;quot;Primarily Opinion Based&amp;quot; on meta?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9928/&quot;&gt;Why even accept an answer on Meta?&lt;/a&gt;). I'd say that this is being used appropriately and nothing needs to be changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2017-07-20T20:54:07.637" LastActivityDate="2017-07-20T20:54:07.637" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11162" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11167" CreationDate="2017-07-21T06:43:08.043" Score="11" ViewCount="290" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9861/do-we-want-individual-character-tags-and-general-character-tags-both-if-yes-the&quot;&gt;discussed this before&lt;/a&gt; but it was a little broad and came with no proper conclusion. So I am bringing the major part of it back as a new question, so it's not really a dupe.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generic character tags we have right now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/characters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;characters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;characters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character-motivation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character-motivation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character-motivation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character-development&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character-development&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character-development&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/female-characters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;female-characters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;female-characters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character-similarity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character-similarity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character-similarity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Really?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean do we really need all five of them? I am excluding &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character-identification&lt;/a&gt; again because it has a different significance/role, but these five can easily be merged. I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/characters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;characters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;characters&lt;/a&gt; can be made as the main tag and the other four its synonym. Open for suggestions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6006" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-08-10T14:49:46.723" LastActivityDate="2017-08-10T14:49:46.723" Title="Do we really need this many generic character related tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11156" CreationDate="2017-07-21T07:33:32.347" Score="-4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes, because these tags do reflect common topics of &lt;em&gt;meta&lt;/em&gt; discussion.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes meta questions are specifically about a particular franchise, even requiring expertise in that franchise in order to be answered: see for instance &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3311/31394&quot;&gt;Star Wars/Canon/Disney Revisions&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/8064/31394&quot;&gt;Which canonicity is more right in a Legends question?&lt;/a&gt; in the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; tag. Just as issues surrounding story-ID often need special consideration that other tags don't (hence not only our &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; tag on meta but also &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/identify&quot;&gt;similar tags on other sites' metas&lt;/a&gt;), so might issues surrounding, for instance, Star Wars or Star Trek. These massive franchises, taking up a large proportion of questions on the main site, are valid topics of meta discussion for our community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, what harm do these tags do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-07-21T07:33:32.347" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11164" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2017-07-21T07:43:30.383" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since there isn't a scifi.meta.meta.stackexchange.com, questions about the meta site as well as the main site are hosted on scifi.meta.stackexchange.com. Use this tag for them. Questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/meta&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;meta&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt; might include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;bug reports for meta-specific design issues&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;discussions of what to do about some tags on meta&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-07-21T07:43:30.383" LastActivityDate="2017-07-21T07:43:30.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11165" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2017-07-21T07:43:30.383" Score="0" Body="For questions about the Meta site, scifi.meta.stackexchange.com itself." OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-07-21T07:43:30.383" LastActivityDate="2017-07-21T07:43:30.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11160" CreationDate="2017-07-21T07:43:58.283" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag is for questions about Meta.SFF itself - certainly a valid topic of discussion for the meta site (since there isn't a scifi.meta.meta.stackexchange.com). It's not even being used inappropriately - I've checked through the last 30 questions with the tag, and all of them are about the meta site except &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10559/31394&quot;&gt;one&lt;/a&gt; which was actually migrated here from main.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've created a tag wiki and excerpt for this tag to explain its purpose and usage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-07-21T07:43:58.283" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11162" CreationDate="2017-07-21T08:16:33.467" Score="17" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't need &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; of these tags. They're all meta-tags that add very little info to the questions they're used on. They can't be used by themselves, really.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/female-characters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;female-characters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;female-characters&lt;/a&gt; has 3 followers, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character-development&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character-development&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character-development&lt;/a&gt; has 1 and the others have none.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;These tags should be deleted.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2017-07-21T08:16:33.467" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11156" CreationDate="2017-07-21T09:17:40.370" Score="-3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But not because of the &lt;em&gt;franchise&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We tag questions on meta with tags that describe what the question is about. That's what tagging is for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some of the larger or more complex tags on the main stack, the need can arise to discuss these main stack tags (or the questions in it). Examples of these indeed include &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt;, which both have numerous sub-tags and thousands of questions, but also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, which &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; a franchise, but still has a meta co-tag for its main stack tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does not mean that &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; tag on the main stack should have meta counterpart, nor that every &quot;large&quot; tag on the main stack (for varying definitions of &quot;large&quot;) should have one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only those main stack tags that are begin discussed on meta in several questions, &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; find a co-tag on meta useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2017-07-21T09:49:09.823" LastActivityDate="2017-07-21T09:49:09.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7465" CreationDate="2017-07-21T11:32:03.603" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meta links have been switched to scifi.meta.stackexchange.com, and now have a valid HTTPS certificate. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/292058/&quot;&gt;this post on main meta&lt;/a&gt;. This should probably be &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; now (but my flag requesting it was declined :/). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2017-07-21T11:32:03.603" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1694" CreationDate="2017-07-23T02:05:12.110" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, that's a spoiler. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spoilers don't expire on a work of fiction. Ever.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Citizen Kane&lt;/em&gt; is 76 years old, and has been seen by a great number of people. And you can spoil it with a single sentence, as you can with HP6, ESB, Episode VII, 12 Angry Men...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Off the top of my head, that's my list of movies which anyone who spoils should be keelhauled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Up until recently, if not still, &lt;strong&gt;one of our moderators hadn't even seen &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; SWs movies&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23785" LastActivityDate="2017-07-23T02:05:12.110" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11172" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11173" CreationDate="2017-07-23T11:58:40.863" Score="8" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question about the series Spaced and I am fairly certain that the show's bizarre aesthetic and pseudo-surreal elements qualify it as some form of sci-fi or fantasy, but I may very well have tunnel vision on this one.  So I come here to ask you, the humble inhabitants of the meta board.  Is Spaced sci-fi/fantasy, or is it just weird?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of some of the show's weirdness that I believe qualifies the show for being sci-fi/fantasy is season 1 episode 5.  By the end of an episode, a freelance vivisectionist is mauled by a dog (that may or may not be a ghost) that was specifically trained to sniff out and attack the wealthy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84822" LastEditorUserId="84822" LastEditDate="2017-07-23T12:06:59.147" LastActivityDate="2017-07-23T13:19:53.927" Title="Does Spaced count as sci-fi/fantasy?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11172" CreationDate="2017-07-23T12:45:58.650" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a &lt;em&gt;series&lt;/em&gt;, the answer is a very firm no. The fantasy elements are largely similar to those seen in &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/Rx88NMh-YRs?t=22s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ally McBeal&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9emgC7iuxQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Scrubs&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoZHUDZN-pI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Northern Exposure&lt;/a&gt; (a show which the &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20080505031406/http://www.spaced-out.org.uk/about-spaced/whatisspaced.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;writers acknowledge&lt;/a&gt; as being a key influence on the style of their programme). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These sequences are not intended to not be taken literally, are part of a milieu of &lt;em&gt;'general wackiness'&lt;/em&gt; and aren't part of the core events of the show. In the case of Spaced they may also be drug-induced fantasies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, we have a long-established policy of accepting questions that are about scifi &lt;em&gt;events&lt;/em&gt; that may occur within non-topical properties. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/are-works-that-arent-sf-per-se-but-have-occasional-sfnal-elements-on-topic-e&quot;&gt;Are works that aren&amp;#39;t SF per se, but have occasional SFnal elements on-topic? (e.g. spy movies)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Point #4 seems the most relevant; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If the question is specifically about an sf-nal element, even if it's&#xA;  only a minor part of the work, it's on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-07-23T13:19:53.927" LastActivityDate="2017-07-23T13:19:53.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11174" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-23T20:17:13.907" Score="11" ViewCount="236" Body="&lt;p&gt;I simply have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/165503/where-is-jon-snows-raiding-party-going-after-climbing-the-wall-form-the-northsi&quot;&gt;a question regarding an episode of GOT&lt;/a&gt; and my post keeps being &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/165503/revisions&quot;&gt;edited but not answered&lt;/a&gt;.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I tried to comment on that,  the user who edited last simply  deleted the entire comment.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought this was an informal forum  (like many others similar) where one could ask a simple question and receive a few answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Am I misunderstanding the purpose of this forum?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87476" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-07-23T23:01:49.890" LastActivityDate="2017-07-25T00:25:51.933" Title="Editing another user's questions" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11174" CreationDate="2017-07-23T20:34:28.107" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Welcome :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of this forum is to ask and answer questions related to science fiction and fantasy, yes, but it is not a casual forum. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's &lt;em&gt;totally&lt;/em&gt; normal here for users to edit other users' questions and answers. Please do not feel insulted or barraged by this. I repeat, it's totally normal for this forum. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange as a whole exists to provide &lt;em&gt;high quality&lt;/em&gt; questions and answers about a variety of topics, so users are always trying to improve questions and answers, whether it's their own or another's. Users are welcome and encouraged to make appropriate edits when necessary. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel your post is being overly edited, make another post here saying so, but, yeah, we take our forum very seriously and want all posts to reflect excellence. This approach isn't for everyone, but you are welcome to stay on with us pedants :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastActivityDate="2017-07-23T20:34:28.107" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11176" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-23T22:03:03.133" Score="-11" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just joined the site a few hours ago and have been barred from asking questions for 2 days - the reason given was that one of my two questions upset the community. It was suggested that I visit links such as &quot;how to ask a question&quot;. You guys take yourselves way too seriously; your site is about science fiction not how to cure cancer. I think, in future, I'll just use Google or the Wikis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87474" LastActivityDate="2017-07-23T22:50:32.723" Title="Major Complaint" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11176" CreationDate="2017-07-23T22:50:32.723" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm very sorry to hear that you're not having a good time on your first day with us. Let's have a quick review of your actions so far;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q. &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/165502/genetics-and-origins-of-mutants-inhumans&quot;&gt;Genetics and Origins of Mutants/Inhumans&lt;/a&gt;&quot; - Rather too vague and immediately identified as a duplicate of one of the site's most viewed questions. I'm pretty sure it came up on your &quot;suggested&quot; questions list when posting which means that you've had to ignore it. If it hadn't been closed as a duplicate, it would have certainly been closed for being too broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q. &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/165497/can-wolverine-be-considered-a-mutant&quot;&gt;Can Wolverine be considered a mutant?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; - On the face of it, possibly an interesting question (if you could offer any reason for us to think that he might not be) but a cursory search reveals that he is indeed a mutant and has always been so. Your question suggests a distinct lack of research effort which may account for its downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A. &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/165495/need-help-finding-an-old-tv-show-80s-90s/165515#165515&quot;&gt;Need help finding an old tv-show (80&amp;#39;s/90&amp;#39;s)&lt;/a&gt;&quot; - Your answer here is vague and unhelpful. The OP is asking for an episode to be identified. You've told them the name of an alternative anthology show and suggest that they &quot;google it&quot;. This has attracted zero upvotes and three downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it's true that we're not curing cancer, your contribution to our little corner of the internet hasn't been particularly well received by the community thus far. The rate limit is intended to give you time to review the site's policies and maybe have a look around at the way in which others are asking and answering questions. It's also there to protect the site from new users (like yourselves) making contributions that aren't helpful and thus attracting even more negative attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2017-07-23T22:50:32.723" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11174" CreationDate="2017-07-23T23:03:45.200" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are partly right about this site, and partly not quite right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I thought this was an informal forum (like many others similar) where one could ask a simple question and receive a few answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's mostly true. This is a Q&amp;amp;A site, where you can ask questions and you can get answers. But it's &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; like most other similar sites in that the experienced users on this site are &lt;em&gt;expected&lt;/em&gt; to help maintain the quality of the content, not only by posting good answers, but also by editing questions to make them better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That means that many people who don't know your answer will still read your question, and want to contribute. We want our questions to be high quality -- proper spelling, proper English, proper punctuation, etc. On the other hand, we certainly don't think people should be penalized for not being professional writers. If users see things that they think they can do to make the question better, they will do that. You really should welcome this kind of attention to your question: by improving it, those users are making your question &quot;more attractive&quot; to readers, making them more likely to read it and answer it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Experienced users also know about the conventions of this site -- in particular, we're &lt;em&gt;much less informal&lt;/em&gt; than other sites, so we tend to prefer you don't include things that aren't part of the question (&quot;hi&quot;, &quot;I'm confused&quot;, &quot;please help&quot;, etc.) Everyone who posts a question is confused and wants help, which is why this site is here. We prefer to focus on the &quot;heart&quot; of your question, and those users were just helping you trim some of the fluff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it's generally not a good idea to try to have a conversation in your post, especially if you're wanting to complain. If you want to request clarification, or respond to, an edit, you can leave a comment on your question. If you want to complain about something you think is being done wrong, that's what &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; meta site is about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that your question got answered, and in only a few hours. (&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; is pretty popular, so that's probably not surprising.) Don't let the community editing freak you out. That's just how Stack Exchange works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2017-07-23T23:11:26.053" LastActivityDate="2017-07-23T23:11:26.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11174" CreationDate="2017-07-24T05:52:22.967" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Users are inspired to edit questions, sometimes it's helpful and sometimes not so much. Thing is, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/442/what-kind-of-edits-contribute-to-the-editor-badges&quot;&gt;if you edit x number of questions/answers you can get badges for it&lt;/a&gt;, so some users can be a bit too enthusiastic about it and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9532/can-we-please-not-change-american-to-british-english-and-vice-versa/9534&quot;&gt;make mistakes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in general, it's a good thing,  usually it improves spelling, corrects stylistic errors and stuff like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I for one am very grateful for its existence as English isn't my first language and i make a lot of grammatical errors and spelling mistakes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user68762" LastEditorDisplayName="user68762" LastEditDate="2017-07-24T07:04:01.250" LastActivityDate="2017-07-24T07:04:01.250" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11174" CreationDate="2017-07-25T00:25:51.933" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Welcome to the site! =)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing you may not be aware of as a new user is the &quot;Review Queue&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you earn reputation on this site, you will gain more and more privileges and more and more opportunities to take on responsibilities to help make the site better. This site is community moderated. We the users have a lot of ability to help and look after the site, with the amount we can do increasing as we earn the trust of the system by posting good quality questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After you earn 500 points you gain access to the First Posts queue, where you are able to review first posts from new users. Every time a new user makes a post, that post will go into this queue and someone will eventually see it and do the review. When you do this, there is a button for 'No Action Needed', but you are expected to take the time to read the post and try and improve it and/or offer useful feedback and/or upvote or downvote it as appropriate and/or answer it. 'No Action Needed' is for exceptional circumstances and frankly, if the first post is that good, it might be an idea to upvote it :P Many more experienced users will spend time in the First Posts queue and will want to fulfil this responsibility. You can skip over the post if you don't know what to do and someone else can do it, but otherwise you should work to improve the post, or you can hit 'No Action Needed' if you want. If you hit 'No Action Needed' or you complete an action, such as editing the post, when you are finished, that review is added to your total number of reviews completed. Complete 250 and you get a shiny silver badge. Complete 1,000 and you get a very lucrative gold badge :P So this is a possible source of one of your edits. I myself am quite likely to edit for spelling, punctuation and grammar if I'm doing a First Posts review. However, I really only know about Harry Potter, so it's extremely unlikely I will know the answer to the question :P So obviously I would not answer. And even if I did, it's easier to complete the review task and then maybe you do any other reviews that are pending and then maybe you go and get your books or whatever and tackle any questions you fancy. If you have time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46027" LastActivityDate="2017-07-25T00:25:51.933" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11181" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11182" CreationDate="2017-07-25T06:29:15.800" Score="9" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;In meta we have a dedicated tag &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/design&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;design&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;design&lt;/a&gt;, with the tag wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For questions regarding the design elements of the main and meta sites e.g. CSS issues&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then why we even need &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/css&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;css&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;css&lt;/a&gt; tag, even designer check &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/design&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;design&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;design&lt;/a&gt; tag only not &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/css&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;css&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;css&lt;/a&gt;, so why not make &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/css&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;css&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;css&lt;/a&gt; tag synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/design&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;design&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;design&lt;/a&gt; tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6006" LastActivityDate="2017-07-25T20:56:50.443" Title="Do we really need CSS tag individuality in SFF meta?" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|meta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11181" CreationDate="2017-07-25T20:56:50.443" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, there is no need for a dedicated &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/css&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;css&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;css&lt;/a&gt; meta tag. CSS is for styling a web page... in other words, for the design of Meta.SciFi. There is nothing the tag can be appropriately used for that is not also covered by &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/design&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;design&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;design&lt;/a&gt;, whose description lists:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For questions regarding the design elements of the main and meta sites &lt;strong&gt;e.g. CSS issues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Emphasis mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag should therefore be synonymized with &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/design&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;design&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;design&lt;/a&gt; in the long term (to prevent re-use), but in the short term, could probably be edited out by a 2k+ user from the whopping five questions it's on currently, and it will be deleted at the end of the UTC day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23886" LastActivityDate="2017-07-25T20:56:50.443" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11183" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-26T16:20:52.180" Score="12" ViewCount="304" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm talking about the site logo/title (this applies to both meta and the main site, but I'm using meta as the example):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/h58BJ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/h58BJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically the 'F':&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OUOBI.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OUOBI.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you may be able to see, there's a top swooshy bit that gets really, &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; thin for about the rightmost half, to the point where at normal zoom on my monitor I can't see it. Without that part, the 'F' kinda looks more like a 'J'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As this site is not 'Science Fiction and Jantasy', is this something that should be addressed/fixed? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For an example, here's a rough approximation of what it should look like, based on the lines that exist but are too small to see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8UNgF.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8UNgF.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46611" LastEditorUserId="46611" LastEditDate="2017-07-26T16:50:32.827" LastActivityDate="2017-07-26T18:09:05.713" Title="'Fantasy' font too thin, detail getting lost" Tags="|discussion|bug|design|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="20" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11183" CreationDate="2017-07-26T16:28:44.710" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like it and I don't think that it needs addressing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2017-07-26T16:28:44.710" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11183" CreationDate="2017-07-26T18:09:05.713" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find the curlicue pointless and its being wider than the cross to be weird.&#xA;For the sake of brevity, I declare this F offensive.  Change it at once! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, it'd only be an image swap on the server.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, for the record, it looks more like a cursive T, and the curlicue is noticeable even though the cross isn't, so it looks more like Science and Tiantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user40790" LastActivityDate="2017-07-26T18:09:05.713" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11186" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11193" CreationDate="2017-07-26T22:24:10.543" Score="2" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any sensible way to stop questions whose titles spoil information about new &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; episodes from appearing in the hot network questions?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Not everyone has seen the last episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87637" LastEditorUserId="87637" LastEditDate="2017-07-27T16:48:31.697" LastActivityDate="2017-07-27T16:48:31.697" Title="Is there a way from keeping GoT spoilers out of the Hot Network Questions?" Tags="|feature-request|spoilers|hot-network-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ClosedDate="2017-07-28T09:01:52.740" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11187" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-26T22:40:35.153" Score="11" ViewCount="299" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a strange misunderstanding that we're called 'Science Fiction and Fantasy' where in fact we're called '&lt;strong&gt;Science Fiction and Jantasy&lt;/strong&gt;, you can see it clearly in our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11183/21267&quot;&gt;logo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;strong&gt;can we rename the site to reflect our &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; name?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2017-07-27T08:51:53.160" LastActivityDate="2017-07-27T08:51:53.160" Title="Can we rename this site to 'Science Fiction and Jantasy' to better reflect who we are?" Tags="|feature-request|design|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11187" CreationDate="2017-07-26T22:41:08.820" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I, for second, welcome our Science Fiction and Jantasy overlords.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Yoink!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user40790" LastActivityDate="2017-07-26T22:41:08.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11187" CreationDate="2017-07-27T00:11:16.123" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our site is most definitely called “Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy”, you can see it clearly in our logo.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've figured out what font is used for the “Fantasy” part in the thread &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9594/4918&quot;&gt;What is the Fantasy font?&lt;/a&gt; , and “Jantasy” looks different from what we have in the site logo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GNlwm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GNlwm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above image shows “Jantasy” above and “Fantasy” below for comparison.  Compare them to the site logo and decide yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastActivityDate="2017-07-27T00:11:16.123" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11186" CreationDate="2017-07-27T00:28:17.827" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;We try to avoid spoilers in titles already, per site policy. However, what's considered a spoiler varies person to person. We run into the issue of people not wanting spoilers blocking the tag for awhile, so only people OK with or lenient towards spoilers see questions to edit them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't have control over what's HNQ outside of what the masses happen to vote or answer on to trigger the HNQ algorithm. We really can't help that. Ignoring tags on our stack, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt;, won't hide it from HNQ, either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best advice I can give you is to just assume they're about older events. We get plenty of questions about previous seasons. That, or just don't let it get to you (there's some research that spoilers can increase your enjoyment, actually!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't watch GoT, but I do know a surprising amount about the show just from news headlines and posts. The number of times Jon Snow has filled my news feed is frustrating (I don't even know what he looks like). I feel like HNQ may be the least of your worries!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have had the Internet spoil some key The Walking Dead and Doctor Who moments for me, so I understand it happens. I've just started rolling with it and focusing more on the parts that headlines don't talk about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wish there were more we could do, but I do think we do about all we can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps if we're lucky, someone can make a browser extension to hide HNQ questions based on Stack...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11193/31178&quot;&gt;...Oh, hey, someone &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-07-27T13:47:34.293" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11191" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-27T06:46:47.203" Score="1" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/48498/are-human-looking-jedi-sith-like-palpatine-and-skywalkers-humans&quot;&gt;Are human-looking Jedi/Sith like Palpatine and the Skywalkers the same (human) species as non-Force users?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was recently marked as a duplicate. Two things bother me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This question has an accepted answer. 2 years later a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/110205/are-the-humans-in-the-star-wars-galaxy-really-humans&quot;&gt;duplicate question&lt;/a&gt; was asked which the community failed to close as a duplicate. And now the original question was closed as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The other question has no accepted or thorough answer and yet the question with an accepted and thorough answer is a duplicate of the other. What kind of logic is that?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/48498/are-human-looking-jedi-sith-like-palpatine-and-skywalkers-humans&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; closed as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/110205/are-the-humans-in-the-star-wars-galaxy-really-humans&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; instead of the other way around?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="66402" LastEditDate="2017-08-04T16:49:47.193" LastActivityDate="2017-08-04T16:49:47.193" Title="Why was this question closed as duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|support|specific-question|closing-questions|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11191" CreationDate="2017-07-27T08:47:39.990" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I spotted a fully canon source that directly addressed the question of whether Star Wars humans are the same as Earth humans. I did a search and found &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; questions that asked essentially the same question. Rather than answering both with a copy/paste answer, I answered one and made the other a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My logic was that your question, although containing the slightly better &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt;, is a subset of the wider question of whether the humans in the Star Wars universe are, per se the same as humans from Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4744/should-we-always-close-the-newer-question-as-the-duplicate?rq=1&quot;&gt;don't necessarily close the younger question as a dupe&lt;/a&gt; nor are we expected to close one as a dupe of another &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10212/why-was-an-older-accepted-story-id-question-closed-as-a-duplicate-of-a-newer-on?rq=1&quot;&gt;simply because it has a slightly more highly upvoted answer or an accepted answer&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would probably be wise for a moderator to merge DVKs answer over (to the non-dupe) since it contains some interesting points, if not much in the way of canon evidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-07-27T15:48:48.190" LastActivityDate="2017-07-27T15:48:48.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11186" CreationDate="2017-07-27T09:27:41.033" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've adjusted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11186/can-you-guys-stop-spoiling-game-of-thrones-in-the-hot-network-questions#comment35380_11186&quot;&gt;the HNQ Hider by Phantom42&lt;/a&gt; a bit to hide only HNQs from this stack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hiding M&amp;amp;TV as well is left as an exercise for the reader.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(Hint: the class you want for that is &lt;code&gt;favicon-movies&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name        HNQ SciFi  Hider&#xA;// @description Hides SciFi in the Stackexchange HNQ&#xA;&#xA;// @include /^https?:\/\/(.*\.)?stackoverflow\.com/.*$/&#xA;// @include /^https?:\/\/(.*\.)?serverfault\.com/.*$/&#xA;// @include /^https?:\/\/(.*\.)?superuser\.com/.*$/&#xA;// @include /^https?:\/\/(.*\.)?stackexchange\.com/.*$/&#xA;// @include /^https?:\/\/(.*\.)?askubuntu\.com/.*$/&#xA;// @include /^https?:\/\/(.*\.)?mathoverflow\.com/.*$/&#xA;// @include /^https?:\/\/discuss\.area51\.stackexchange\.com/.*$/&#xA;// @include /^https?:\/\/stackapps\.com/.*$/&#xA;&#xA;// @require     https://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js&#xA;// @version     1&#xA;// @grant       none&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;$('#hot-network-questions ul li div.favicon-scifi').parent().hide();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2017-07-27T09:27:41.033" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11194" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-27T18:42:18.410" Score="16" ViewCount="347" Body="&lt;p&gt;A user has just gone and made 17 tag edits in 2 minutes adding &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marauders-map&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marauders-map&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marauders-map&lt;/a&gt; to all the questions that come up when you search the term &lt;code&gt;Marauders Map&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this tag benefit us in any way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3558&quot;&gt;a meta answer&lt;/a&gt; that would possibly answer this question, suggesting that tags (such as butterbeer) aren't helpful tags and don't satisfy the criteria that tags should have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4882&quot;&gt;another meta posts exists&lt;/a&gt; which suggest we use tags creatively to get a wider description of a question using tags. Although the outcome of that answer seems to be &quot;do what your heart desires&quot; which isn't very conclusive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do we do with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marauders-map&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marauders-map&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marauders-map&lt;/a&gt;? Do we keep it a la DVK's answer, or delete it a la User 56's answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68872" LastActivityDate="2017-07-29T17:56:40.250" Title="Do we really need the Marauders map tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11194" CreationDate="2017-07-27T19:00:48.447" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't need that level of granularity to get good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tags are for sorting your question into specific, well-defined categories.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/31776/why-do-we-tag-questions&quot;&gt;MSE &quot;Why do we tag questions?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a tag to be used, it should fulfil both these requirements. Tags for random items, such as the Marauder's Map, are not well-defined categories. We have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magical-items&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magical-items&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magical-items&lt;/a&gt; tag if we really want to tag the question as about an item. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marauders-map&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marauders-map&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marauders-map&lt;/a&gt; is overly specific, and not common enough to justify have a whole tag for it. Anything less than 50 uses &lt;em&gt;in the history of the site&lt;/em&gt; should be suspect in my opinion. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marauders-map&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marauders-map&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marauders-map&lt;/a&gt; clocks in at 19 (as of posting this answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62201" LastEditorUserId="4918" LastEditDate="2017-07-27T21:42:28.567" LastActivityDate="2017-07-27T21:42:28.567" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11194" CreationDate="2017-07-27T19:10:15.057" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes, it should have a tag. &lt;em&gt;Everything&lt;/em&gt; (within reason) should have a tag.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We currently have 49+ questions that specifically relate to the Marauder's Map as well as a further &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=Marauder%27s%20Map&quot;&gt;148 mentions&lt;/a&gt; of it in other questions and answers. It's clearly something that fans of Harry Potter have taken great interest in and something that's probably worthy of its own tag (in the same way that aficionados of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lightsaber&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lightsaber&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lightsaber&lt;/a&gt; have tagged their questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;For example, a question about a specific lightsaber fight in Phantom&#xA;Menace should have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; tag as well as a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/phantom-menace&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;phantom-menace&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;phantom-menace&lt;/a&gt; and&#xA;possibly a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lightsaber&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lightsaber&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lightsaber&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jedi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jedi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jedi&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That'll allow people to locate questions about their own interest&#xA;areas more easily.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;Sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4860/how-should-we-handle-tag-hierarchies/4861#4861&quot;&gt;How should we handle tag hierarchies?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/Sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wWt15.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wWt15.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Animated Oprah meme of &amp;quot;You get a...&amp;quot; for tags&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zt5eAm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zt5eAm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Illustrated meme of &amp;quot;tag all the things&amp;quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-07-28T20:27:11.800" CommentCount="26" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11194" CreationDate="2017-07-27T21:10:43.160" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A tag indicates what kind of expertise is needed to answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There will be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; experts, perhaps even specific &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter-books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter-books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter-books&lt;/a&gt; experts or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter-films&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter-films&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter-films&lt;/a&gt; experts, but I &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; doubt that anyone would call themselves a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marauders-map&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marauders-map&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marauders-map&lt;/a&gt; expert.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2017-07-27T21:10:43.160" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11194" CreationDate="2017-07-28T13:50:49.563" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not a yes or no answer, but a point of discussion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Harry Potter is one of our largest tags. There's a huge body of questions. These questions can be hard to filter by simple text searches, because searchable terms are often used in questions that aren't about that term. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Want to know more about just Hermione? Good luck narrowing that down. Want to know just about Slytherin? Did you mean Salazar himself or the Hogwarts House? How do you filter out every time a user merely mentions &quot;Slytherin&quot; when they're just talking about &lt;em&gt;a&lt;/em&gt; Slytherin, like Draco?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tagging helps facilitate not just answering the question, but later finding the question and it's answers. Aside from perusing out of personal interest, we have a strong history of citing other answers to strengthen new ones, or to find duplicates. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our top tags on this site are so large that they and their related tags are often curated by &quot;specialists&quot;, people that take an interest in that work and are knowledgeable about it. We have different levels of granularity and grouping in these tags, and should keep that in mind when discussing whether or not to keep a tag. The structure and conventions that work for Lord of the Rings is different than Marvel properties. They're different bodies of work, and we shouldn't try to force a one-size-fits-all tagging policy around them. Story Identification is a whole different beast from Star Trek. We've never really tagged individual Harry Potter films or books, but for Star Wars we have a need to create those individual tags before the movies are even released! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have the flexibility to make our own tag map, and have our experts help curate and guide new users, write usage  guidance, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I would encourage people to vote based on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is a Marauder's Map a reasonably helpful tag for people of the Harry Potter Fandom? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it reasonable to assume some people might want to know about just that subject? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is the tag unlikely, when used appropriately, to interfere with other Harry Potter tagging (such as the 5 tag limit)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems a more reasonable approach to me than voting on a Harry Potter tag the same way you would for a Game of Thrones tag. Different fandoms have different needs, different things they want to know, and different types of source material. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2017-07-28T17:05:32.673" LastActivityDate="2017-07-28T17:05:32.673" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11200" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-07-28T15:11:14.650" Score="2" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I noticed that we don't have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hideo-kojima&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hideo-kojima&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hideo-kojima&lt;/a&gt; tag on this site. He's a very well known game designer who's worked on several sci-fi and fantasy titles, including (all emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snatcher_(video_game)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Snatcher&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The setting and story of Snatcher are heavily &lt;strong&gt;influenced by cyberpunk and science-fiction media&lt;/strong&gt;, taking place in a large &lt;strong&gt;futuristic&lt;/strong&gt; dystopian city. The story revolves around an investigator named Gillian Seed assigned to investigate a breed of &lt;strong&gt;bioroids&lt;/strong&gt; known as &quot;snatchers&quot;, who are killing humans and taking their place in society.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Gear_Solid&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Metal Gear Solid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The year is 2005 &lt;em&gt;(the game was released in 1998)&lt;/em&gt;, six years after the downfall of Zanzibarland. A renegade &lt;strong&gt;genetically-enhanced special forces unit&lt;/strong&gt;, FOXHOUND, has seized a remote island in Alaska's Fox Archipelago codenamed &quot;Shadow Moses&quot;, the site of a nuclear weapons disposal facility. FOXHOUND threatens to use the &lt;strong&gt;nuclear-capable mecha, Metal Gear REX&lt;/strong&gt;, against the U.S. government if they do not receive the remains of Big Boss and the ransom of $1 billion within 24 hours. Solid Snake is forced out of retirement by Colonel Roy Campbell to infiltrate the island and neutralize the threat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_the_Enders&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Zone of the Enders&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Zone of the Enders series is &lt;strong&gt;set in the late 22nd century. Mankind has colonized Mars, and space colonies are also set up in orbit around Jupiter.&lt;/strong&gt; Fueling this expansion are two scientific advances: the development of the Laborious Extra-Orbital Vehicle, or LEV, a &lt;strong&gt;mecha&lt;/strong&gt; used for labor and military use, and the discovery of Metatron, a high-energy ore found on Callisto.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have several questions about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/j-r-r-tolkien&quot;&gt;J.R.R. Tolkien&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jk-rowling&quot;&gt;J.K. Rowling&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/isaac-asimov&quot;&gt;Isaac Asimov&lt;/a&gt;, but none about Kojima, and he's only ever &lt;em&gt;mentioned&lt;/em&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/112916/75000&quot;&gt;one answer&lt;/a&gt; to one question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So are questions about him and his career considered off-topic? Has he not contributed enough to the genres?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75000" LastActivityDate="2017-07-28T15:50:20.247" Title="Are questions about Hideo Kojima considered off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11200" CreationDate="2017-07-28T15:36:44.583" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tags for works should exist separately from tags for authors. In general, we try to use author tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7924/70236&quot;&gt;only for questions about their lives&lt;/a&gt;, or overarching themes in their works (or maybe their style). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If the question is asking about a) aspects of the author's life, or b) aspects of the author's work that are not specific to a single work or franchise, then we tag the question with the name of the author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus an author may already be present on this site, even without a dedicated tag. Their works don't need to be tagged with the author tag, unless for reasons listed in linked meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you can make a good case&lt;sup&gt; 1 &lt;/sup&gt; for a question about Hideo Kojima being on-topic&lt;/strong&gt; - maybe you'll ask where he got the inspiration for the newest game, &lt;em&gt;Death Stranding&lt;/em&gt; (just an example, maybe not a good one) - &lt;strong&gt;create the tag and ask away&lt;/strong&gt; (you have the needed rep to create a tag).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt; 1 &lt;/sup&gt; Said case better be really good, because the line between off-topic and on-topic for questions about authors &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11125/70236&quot;&gt;is thin&lt;/a&gt;. Looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideo_Kojima#Works&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kojima's Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;, most if not all his works seem to be SFF-related, but not every question about Kojima is a good fit for this site. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11129/70236&quot;&gt;Rand's answer&lt;/a&gt; suggests a heuristic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it justifiably connected to an SF/F work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which I think makes sense. An even &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9531/70236&quot;&gt;older meta&lt;/a&gt; explicitly marks fandom-related questions as on-topic, even if hardly connected to an SFF work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2017-07-28T15:50:20.247" LastActivityDate="2017-07-28T15:50:20.247" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11194" CreationDate="2017-07-29T06:21:08.930" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No, because the five-tag limit makes it impractical to tag at this level of granularity.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OP describes this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A user has just gone and made 17 tag edits in 2 minutes adding &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marauders-map&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marauders-map&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marauders-map&lt;/a&gt; to all the questions that come up when you search the term Marauders Map.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we tag items with the same level of importance and complexity as the Marauder's Map, we'd probably need tags for all of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Sorting Hat&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Sword of Gryffindor (&lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be lumped in with the Hat, but I'd be skeptical of that arrangement)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Each of the Deathly Hallows, separately&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Horcruxes generally (but probably &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a separate tag for each)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Pensieve&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Individual major characters, or groups of them (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hp-golden-trio&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hp-golden-trio&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hp-golden-trio&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fred-and-george&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fred-and-george&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fred-and-george&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hogwarts-staff&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hogwarts-staff&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hogwarts-staff&lt;/a&gt;, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that there can plausibly be questions with more than four of the above elements simultaneously.  When you add the base &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; tag, that's more than we're allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;We may want to keep these tags in a more limited role.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, on the other hand, we only use these tags on questions where they are directly the subject of the question (as opposed to just briefly mentioned), they may indeed prove useful.  But that is not the question that OP asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="36526" LastEditDate="2017-07-29T17:56:40.250" LastActivityDate="2017-07-29T17:56:40.250" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11203" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11206" CreationDate="2017-07-29T21:00:07.543" Score="11" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/163740/33591&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt;, to a question about who played Seeker for the Gryffindor Quidditch team in the first Harry Potter book, said this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;During a conversation before the first quidditch match in 'Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets', while 'Wood' was going over tactics when they were changing for their first practice session, &quot;...He had been unconscious in the hospital wing for the final match of the previous year meaning that Gryffindor had been a player short and had suffered their worst defeat in 300 years.&quot; This silences any speculation on the matter by answering definitively...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This actually answers the question pretty well. It gives a quote and states that this answers the question. It could do with a bit of editing, but it still answers the question - that they &lt;strong&gt;didn't have a Seeker&lt;/strong&gt;. So, why was it deleted? Should we undelete it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2017-07-31T14:30:29.067" Title="Should this answer about who played Seeker for the Gryffindor Quidditch game in the first Harry Potter book have been deleted?" Tags="|discussion|deleted-answers|specific-answer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11203" CreationDate="2017-07-29T21:23:34.173" Score="14" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes it should be undeleted&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer clearly answers the question of &lt;em&gt;Who was the seeker&lt;/em&gt;. It suggests &lt;strong&gt;no-one&lt;/strong&gt; was the seeker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;answering definitively that they were a player short.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is (imho) exactly how the quote (provided above) reads. Although the answer may not &lt;em&gt;silence speculation&lt;/em&gt; it clearly answers the question asked. It is my opinion (although I'm not here to sway voters) that this might in-fact be the best answer to this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68872" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-07-29T21:23:34.173" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4776" CreationDate="2017-07-30T02:13:12.353" Score="-2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question sounds as if it would be more at home at Arqade,[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions may be on-topic at more than one site at the same time.&lt;/strong&gt;  Whether a question is on-topic somewhere else has nothing whatsoever to do with whether it is on-topic here.  The only reason we should even care about other sites' scopes is when we're trying to decide between migration and regular closure for a question which is undoubtedly off-topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, let's look at the actual question in this case:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trying to find a game I played as a kid, most likely on a PS2 (99% sure).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's an old game where, I believe, you play as a knight, and during the first few levels it is night time and you fight skeletons in a cemetery. Not much to go off of but thanks for whatever help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I really want to say it was made by Capcom, but I can't be sure. It was also not a sidescroller, it was a full 3D action/adventure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While fighting skeletons in a cemetery would probably be a moderately unusual plot for most SFnal stories, it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=video+game+fight+skeletons+cemetery&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a fairly common plot&lt;/a&gt; for video games of the generation OP is describing (Don't believe me? The accepted answer lists no less than &lt;em&gt;four&lt;/em&gt; possibilities, not counting one which the OP rejected.).  The other details are helpful, true, but not really sufficient.  By the time the PS2 was widely available, 3D games had already captured a large segment of the market.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action-adventure_game&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Action-adventure&lt;/a&gt; scarcely means anything, unless you happen to be talking about one of the &lt;em&gt;Zelda&lt;/em&gt; games.  And Capcom made &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Capcom_games:_0%E2%80%93D&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a lot of games&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, &lt;strong&gt;I would close-vote this question as too broad&lt;/strong&gt;, if it didn't already have an accepted answer (which rather defeats the point of the exercise).  It's really lean on detail and people seem to have come up with an answer by guessing rather than via the details in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Contrary to claims in the comments, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bstory-identification%5D+closed%3Ayes+duplicate%3Ano&quot;&gt;we do close story ID questions with insufficient detail&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-07-31T18:33:35.483" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11203" CreationDate="2017-07-31T14:30:29.067" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this answer due to a &quot;not an answer&quot; flag raised by a high rep user with a high score for answers on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;. The post did not seem to answer the question since it says that Gryffindor was a player short but gives no explanation whether or not the seeker position was left unfilled or if someone substituted as seeker. The post also had a uniformly negative response from the community at that time -- a negative score, a flag, and two negative comments -- so I deleted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the community has argued to undelete the post (and there's now an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/164185/31936&quot;&gt;upvoted answer&lt;/a&gt; which uses the same quote and provides more of an explanation) I have undeleted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastActivityDate="2017-07-31T14:30:29.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11017" CreationDate="2017-08-01T07:47:16.350" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Until the experiments with tag length over at &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12510/163539&quot;&gt;Arqade&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.meta.stackexchange.com/a/761/11&quot;&gt;Literature&lt;/a&gt; prove successful and we get a length extension as well, I propose we go with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/do-androids-dream&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;do-androids-dream&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;do-androids-dream&lt;/a&gt;. I believe it quite unambiguously refers to Dick's novel, and it will show up in suggested tags when starting to type &quot;Do Androids...&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, when we get the increase to tag length, we can rename it to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep&lt;/a&gt; (which is exactly 35 characters), as SQB suggests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastActivityDate="2017-08-01T07:47:16.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11208" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11209" CreationDate="2017-08-02T22:47:58.350" Score="-1" ViewCount="361" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just wondering if David Lynch's second season of &lt;em&gt;Twin Peaks&lt;/em&gt; is on topic at the site? It has science fiction aspects in my opinion -- do others feel the same? If I recall correctly, a question about &lt;em&gt;Twin Peaks&lt;/em&gt; being on topic might have been asked before, but it would have been about season one, which is rather different than season two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-06-25T15:52:51.893" LastActivityDate="2019-06-25T15:52:51.893" Title="Is Twin Peaks on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2017-08-03T09:16:23.547" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11208" CreationDate="2017-08-03T06:05:44.613" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, &lt;em&gt;Twin Peaks&lt;/em&gt; is firmly on topic. Without spoiling the plot, both seasons of the original series contain supernatural (fantastical) elements, as does the new series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2017-08-03T06:05:44.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11162" CreationDate="2017-08-03T13:19:33.950" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kinda. Maybe. I mostly 99% agree with SQB's answer, but I can see some use for these tags IF and ONLY IF they are applied correctly in very very narrow way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Character motivation&quot; should be for questions discussing using character motivation in SFF works. NOT about motivations of specific character, but for example &quot;what are the major motivations of characters to fly to space in early 20th century SFF works&quot;? Or &quot;What are the common methods that character motivations are shown for SFF characters that are of alien psychology&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same goes for &quot;Character development&quot; - only for question discussing character development as a topic (e.g. &quot;Does character development change from early Heinlein's work to later Heinlein's work?&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rule of thumb is, for the tag like this to be applied correctly, the question would almost certainly be (close to being) on-topic on Literature.SE or Writing.SE - and there are very few questions like that on SFF for a variety of reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2017-08-03T13:19:33.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11191" CreationDate="2017-08-03T14:12:52.140" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question can be interpreted one of two different ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are Sith that look like Han Solo the same species of The Galaxy Far Far Away &quot;human&quot; as Han Solo?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are Sith that look &quot;human&quot; the Homo Sapient species from Earth?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I specifically asked you to clarify what you meant in a comment in 2014 (which you never did):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Just to clarify: by &quot;Homo Sapiens&quot; and &quot;humans&quot; you mean humans from Star Wars galaxy, correct? (e.g. those living on Coruscant/Corellia/Tattooine/etc....) – DVK-on-Ahch-To Jan 22 '14 at 13:26&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you meant #1 (are they TGFFA humans); the two questions are NOT duplicate (nor does Valorum's answer on the other question answers yours). OTOH, my answer, which you accepted, answers it fully.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you meant #2, then they are duplicates. I will assume that this wasn't what you meant &lt;strong&gt;because you accepted my answer, which in no way discussed Earth humans&lt;/strong&gt;, despite your question wording mentioning Homo Sapient - which I assume was just bad wording. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, absent clarification from you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I edited your question to specifically be about TGFFA humans and not Earth humans.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I re-opened it since neither the question NOR either answer are now duplicate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2017-08-03T14:12:52.140" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11212" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-03T17:19:46.500" Score="12" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;Robert Hardy, best known for his role as Cornelius Fudge in the Harry Potter movies has died at the age of 92. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/PlzY4sR4ktM?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Older viewers will also know him as Chancellor Griswold from the 10th Kingdom&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ikm9o.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ikm9o.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And his iconic role in British TV's All Creatures Great and Small as hapless vet Siegfried Farnon&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/i9q8Gm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/i9q8Gm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="57642" LastEditDate="2017-08-03T20:47:08.467" LastActivityDate="2017-08-03T20:47:08.467" Title="RIP Robert Hardy, Actor for Cornelius Fudge" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11213" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-03T18:36:14.450" Score="6" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question was asked today: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/166407/r2-has-a-color-holoprojector&quot;&gt;R2 has a color holoprojector?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And some are saying that it is a potential dup of this one.: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/121346/why-are-most-holograms-blue-in-star-wars/121370#121370&quot;&gt;Why are most holograms blue in Star Wars?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is certainly a legitimate dup target, but I am hesitant to close as dup because &lt;em&gt;neither question has a good answer&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Insofar as I know, dup targets should be the question with the best answer. It doesn't &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to be the accepted answer, but that always helps. However, &lt;strong&gt;do we have a policy in place for when you have dup but no good answers between them?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(and on a slightly related note, someone should write a good answer for one of these questions so that this issue becomes a moot point).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62201" LastActivityDate="2017-08-04T08:43:48.953" Title="Two questions with no good answers" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11162" CreationDate="2017-08-03T23:12:28.070" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not think that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/female-characters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;female-characters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;female-characters&lt;/a&gt; works as a synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/characters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;characters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;characters&lt;/a&gt;.  The useful information is &quot;female&quot; rather than &quot;characters.&quot;  If you don't find &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/female-characters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;female-characters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;female-characters&lt;/a&gt; useful, then we should remove it, not make a synonym that is even less useful.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The argument in favor of female characters is that most characters in historical science fiction and fantasy are men.  This is changing, but so much of the genre is already written that it will remain more common for characters to be male for some time.  So it is somewhat notable for a story to have a significant female character.  And someone might pay more attention to stories with such characters.  It also might help categorize &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions, although only &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification+female-characters&quot;&gt;two questions&lt;/a&gt; do so.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does a tag named &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/characters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;characters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;characters&lt;/a&gt; tell us?  That there are characters in the story?  That the question is asking about the characters?  Will people search on characters?  What would an expert on characters look like?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems at least possible for someone to be an expert on character motivation or development.  But characters in general or character similarity?  Those are too broad to have experts.  When do they help more than text in the question?  What categorization are they actually providing?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30870" LastActivityDate="2017-08-03T23:12:28.070" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11215" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11217" CreationDate="2017-08-04T08:33:07.413" Score="2" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found a good answer today so I started a bounty for it. After deduction of the rep of the bounty, my net rep for today was 45. Since then it has gone to net 75 but I am not receiving any notifications. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I click the notification button or my reputation tab, I can see the changes just fine. I am just not receiving any notifications like &quot;+10&quot; or &quot;+5&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what my rep notification dialogue looks like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cx67I.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cx67I.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what my reputation tab looks like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8KNdk.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8KNdk.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the entries are there, it's just the green &quot;+10&quot; notifications that are missing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-08-04T17:18:11.000" LastActivityDate="2017-08-04T17:18:11.000" Title="Can't receive reputation notification after starting a bounty" Tags="|support|reputation|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11213" CreationDate="2017-08-04T08:43:48.953" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Following are the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10841/how-should-duplicate-questions-be-handled&quot;&gt;community guidelines&lt;/a&gt; (For broader Stack Exchange network at least) on how to choose a Dupe target:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Usually a recent question will be closed as a duplicate of an older&#xA;  question, but this isn't an absolute rule. The general rule is to keep&#xA;  the question with the best collection of answers, and close the other&#xA;  one as a duplicate. If the selected target question is unanswered, the&#xA;  system won't even let you pick it as a duplicate target.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If one question has great answers but bad wording, and the other has&#xA;  poor or no answers but great wording, edit the badly-worded question&#xA;  and close the other one as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If in doubt, close the more recent question as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The quality of answers is subjective which is why we leave it to community to vet and mostly we trust each others judgement. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your specific case, As you say that neither have good answers but both potentially have the same answer, you should choose the one broader, better-worded question as dupe target and close the other one as its duplicate as Phantom42 suggested. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you noted, in case both have answers, generally we tend to choose the one with better answers even if it is badly worded. As above quoted guidelines suggest, one should improve the wording of the badly-worded questions if it has better answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, right now, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/166407/does-r2-have-a-color-holoprojector&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; has already been closed as duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/121346/54887&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; by community review as the target indeed looks like it is result of a more through research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastActivityDate="2017-08-04T08:43:48.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11215" CreationDate="2017-08-04T08:54:57.577" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since you clicked on it, it'll now show up. If you hadn't, it wouldn't have shown until you earned back the rep that spent on the bounty, because the top bar only shows the notification when it's a net gain since the last time you checked it. That's also why it doesn't show up if you get a downvote and a suggested edit approved - it's a net gain of 0, so it doesn't show. This is also why sometimes a phantom +1 shows up - from an answer that you downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2017-08-04T08:54:57.577" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11218" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-04T15:04:56.153" Score="12" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the recent HBO hack and subsequent leaks, I think the question should be asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the policy to adopt toward question/answer based on leaked material ?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several ways to see this problem can arise. To list a few legality, spoil exposition on this site, future changes between the leaked version and the definitive version. And I am certain that I am missing a lot in this problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT : I am not talking about the problem of referencing illegal content, but can we base a question/answer on a leaked content, even without any direct link to this content ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68504" LastEditorUserId="68504" LastEditDate="2017-08-04T15:26:55.260" LastActivityDate="2017-08-04T15:26:55.260" Title="Should we authorize question/answer about leaked content" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11219" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11220" CreationDate="2017-08-04T23:04:58.013" Score="1" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bujold's first book in the World of the Five Gods was &lt;em&gt;Curse of Chalion&lt;/em&gt;, and the second book (&lt;em&gt;Paladin of Souls&lt;/em&gt;) was also mostly set in that country, but the third book (&lt;em&gt;The Hallowed Hunt&lt;/em&gt;) and all of the Penric novellas&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; are set in different countries. Thus, it's inaccurate to label the books and novellas as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chalion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chalion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chalion&lt;/a&gt;. The solution other fans, and Bujold herself, have come up with is to mention the thing that is common between them: namely, the five gods. Can we please rename &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chalion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chalion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chalion&lt;/a&gt; to something that's more all-purpose? Maybe &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/five-gods&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;five-gods&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;five-gods&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/five-gods-world&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;five-gods-world&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;five-gods-world&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know there aren't a whole lot of questions about these books, but we do need a tag to differentiate between &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vorkosigan-saga&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vorkosigan-saga&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vorkosigan-saga&lt;/a&gt; and Bujold's other works, i.e. it's not enough to just tag questions with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lois-mcmaster-bujold&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lois-mcmaster-bujold&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lois-mcmaster-bujold&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Of which there are soon to be five! Yay!&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="348" LastActivityDate="2017-08-05T12:38:51.427" Title="Rename [chalion] tag to [5-gods] or something like it" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11219" CreationDate="2017-08-05T12:38:51.427" Score="3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Why not &lt;em&gt;World of the Five Gods&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Curse_of_Chalion&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; &lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; has referred to it as &lt;em&gt;World of the Five Gods&lt;/em&gt;, and since that is within our tag character limit, I propose that if we are to rename it we should rename it properly and call it &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/world-of-the-five-gods&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;world-of-the-five-gods&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;world-of-the-five-gods&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Her &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_by_Lois_McMaster_Bujold&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;list of works page&lt;/a&gt; also has it listed as &lt;em&gt;World of the Five Gods&lt;/em&gt;. Eventhough it is listed as a subheading under &lt;em&gt;Chalion Series&lt;/em&gt;, naming it &lt;em&gt;World of the Five Gods&lt;/em&gt; provides a clearer distinction that all the works including those not in Chalion are included.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; You need to look below the external links where it breaks down Lois McMaster Bujold's works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68872" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-08-05T12:38:51.427" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11221" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-05T14:39:27.453" Score="4" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;In what looks like another example of the same bug  (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10292/why-cant-i-close-this-question-as-a-dupe&quot;&gt;Why can&amp;#39;t I close this question as a dupe?&lt;/a&gt;) I don't seem to be able to close &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4304/young-adult-novel-involving-time-travel-via-a-round-rainbow-like-portal&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4304/young-adult-novel-involving-time-travel-via-a-round-rainbow-like-portal&quot;&gt;Young adult novel involving Time-travel, via a round, rainbow like portal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uICXp.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uICXp.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update. I can't close it from the review queue either&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8FVTg.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8FVTg.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2017-08-05T19:36:13.170" LastActivityDate="2017-08-05T19:36:13.170" Title="Can't close question as dupe. Just get error message" Tags="|bug|closing-questions|duplicate-questions|review-queue|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="24" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11222" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-05T15:02:17.807" Score="17" ViewCount="392" Body="&lt;p&gt;A while ago we decided that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1090/what-is-the-meta-answer-to-the-meta-question&quot;&gt;meta-answers&lt;/a&gt; like &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;because it's a story&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1092/20774&quot;&gt;aren't welcome&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; on the site;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;To be blunt, there's absolutely no point to this site if answers are&#xA;  going to be &quot;It's that way because that's how it was written. Go&#xA;  away.&quot; Such answers should not be welcome regardless of how any&#xA;  question is phrased.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why then was my flag as &quot;Rude/Abusive&quot; on this (heavily downvoted and now moderator deleted) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/163442/20774&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; declined?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those with less than 10k, the answer is quoted below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Because it's fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Here are some more characters to exceed the minimum limit of 30. You&#xA;  know, stackexchange, as a scientist, SHORTER answers are preferred to&#xA;  LONGER ones. This is because the discovery of truth needn't be longer&#xA;  than necessary, else we run the risk of wasting people's times for the&#xA;  sake of verbosity. But hey, what do I know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2017-08-16T09:56:57.267" Title="Is &quot;Because it's fiction&quot; rude?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|moderation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11224" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-05T21:53:56.717" Score="20" ViewCount="237" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is related to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2372/i-havent-read-the-book-watched-the-movie-may-i-ask-a-question-about-it&quot;&gt;this meta-question&lt;/a&gt; about &lt;em&gt;asking&lt;/em&gt; questions if you haven't read/watched the source material, but in reverse. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think most people would be &lt;em&gt;completely&lt;/em&gt; familiar with all the different aspects of Science Fiction and Fantasy, but &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; be pretty good at searching online resources and coming up with an answer based on their research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it okay/permitted/allowed to answer a question if you are not familiar with the source material? Or is it frowned upon, and best practice is to rather allow someone who is well versed in the source material to answer? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39144" LastActivityDate="2017-08-06T08:46:06.813" Title="I haven't read the book/watched the movie/… May I answer a question about it?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11224" CreationDate="2017-08-05T22:54:11.417" Score="18" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes, absolutely you can.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's zero prerequisite that you've watched. read (or even heard of) a property before you can answer questions on it. The only warning I'd give is that you need to make damn sure that when you answer, you double-check a few things;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Am I answering questions about the right property?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a non-expert, the sheer plethora of available sources can be quite bewildering. Is the OP talking about the film, the book or the graphic novel. If they want to know about the film, which film? From which film series? Do they mean the original film series or the reboot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How sure am I that my answer is solid?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless you're 100% certain that your answer covers the question asked, there's a very good chance that you're giving incomplete information. That's not a bad thing since partial answers need love too but do be aware that your answer might be supplanted (or even contradicted) by an answer from an actual expert.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's not a single user on the site who's an expert in &lt;strong&gt;everything&lt;/strong&gt;. A lot of the time the &lt;em&gt;asker&lt;/em&gt; may well be the person who knows the most about a work but that doesn't preclude someone with some talent for search finding the answer to their question on a blog post, a twit or a script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-08-05T22:54:11.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11224" CreationDate="2017-08-06T08:46:06.813" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Sure.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's absolutely possible to research and write up a good answer about something you've never read/watched. (For instance, I have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394/rand-althor?tab=tags&quot;&gt;score of over 700 in the Star Wars tag&lt;/a&gt; despite never having seen any of the films or consumed any of the supplementary material.) But you need to be careful, because it's also possible to embarrass yourself by missing something that would be glaringly obvious to anyone who's read/watched the work in question. I suggest the following caveats:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Be confident.&lt;/strong&gt; If you think your answer might work but you're not really sure, it's probably best to leave it to someone who's more of a subject matter expert.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Avoid plot questions.&lt;/strong&gt; Out-of-universe or behind-the-scenes questions are often answerable just as easily regardless of whether or not you're actually familiar with the work being asked about: anyone can Google up the appropriate quote or interview. In-universe questions are more dangerous: without knowing the story, it's much easier to not take account of something obvious or simply to have no clue about the answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples of things that might be answerable without knowledge of the work in question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Is there a canonical map of [region]?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Why did [actor] leave [show]?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Has [author] ever revealed what happened to [character]?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples of things more likely to require knowledge of the work in question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Why did [character] do [thing]?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;What would have happened if [event]?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Why is [thing] true, in-universe?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-08-06T08:46:06.813" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11222" CreationDate="2017-08-06T10:03:51.700" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was the one who handled the flags on that answer. I don't exactly remember my reasoning for declining the &quot;rude or abusive&quot; flags before deleting the post, but here are my thoughts about it now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Rude or abusive&quot; is, according to the flag dialogue, for &lt;strong&gt;content which violates the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;Be Nice&lt;/a&gt; policy&lt;/strong&gt;. The flagged answer, although very low-quality and not really a serious answer, doesn't seem &lt;em&gt;abusive&lt;/em&gt; as such. It might be &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt;, in saying that shorter answers are better than longer ones, but it doesn't say so in a rude way. Expressing a silly view isn't abusive in itself, unless it's expressed in a rude manner. And &quot;because it's fiction&quot; is a misunderstanding of the kind of answer this site expects, which again isn't necessarily rude or abusive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, the tone of the answer does come off as slightly arrogant and overbearing. Perhaps I should have compromised by marking the existing flags helpful but not flag-nuking it as rude/abusive myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Still, does it matter now? The answer is deleted as it deserves, and with over 1200 helpful flags you're not exactly in danger of being flag-banned for a single declined one.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-08-06T10:03:51.700" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11095" CreationDate="2017-08-06T22:19:50.720" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Disclaimer: I declined two of the NaA flags on this post, and another mod declined the third.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question includes the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is the explanation for why some spells can be cast without a wand and is there an &lt;strong&gt;in-universe&lt;/strong&gt; explanation for why this isn't done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Akhil's answer attempts to address this by making an &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_analogy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;argument from analogy&lt;/a&gt; using soldiers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In my opinion we should consider an example of a Soldier. a soldier use a weapon to fight, but he can also fight without any weapon by using only his arms. Still he is much more deadly and harmful with a weapon compared to the empty handed. [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Same things happens with a wizard as he is trained in magic but more powerful with a wand, and a muggle can not do magic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is surely at least an attempt to answer the question, even if a poor one (I don't even think it's &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; poor an attempt, but in any case that's not what NaA flags are for). The answerer is explaining why wizards tend to use wands even though they can do magic without them, by drawing a comparison with soldiers who use weapons despite being trained in unarmed combat.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;In any case, thanks to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/235225/278659&quot;&gt;meta effect&lt;/a&gt;, the answer &lt;strong&gt;has since been deleted&lt;/strong&gt; by three high-rep users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-08-06T22:19:50.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11229" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-07T11:15:26.890" Score="14" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2239822/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;film&lt;/a&gt; that has been released recently is an adaptation of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val%C3%A9rian_and_Laureline&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;French comic series&lt;/a&gt;. The comic series was already present here, so we have the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/valerian-and-laureline&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;valerian-and-laureline&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;valerian-and-laureline&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7924/70236&quot;&gt;existing convention&lt;/a&gt; states we need a different tag for adaptations; most recent example I can think of is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10665/70236&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Expanse&lt;/em&gt; novels and the TV series&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the full name of the film will not fit into the 25 character limit (until we get an extension, which seems to be an experiment on other sites now). Which tag should we use for the film? (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/valerian-and-the-city&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;valerian-and-the-city&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;valerian-and-the-city&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/valerian-2017&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;valerian-2017&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;valerian-2017&lt;/a&gt;, etc.) Please keep in mind that the tag should be easy to autocomplete (so that it's easy to find), and fit into the character limit, while at the same time looking sane (preferably without awkward abbreviations).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-08-07T13:15:27.823" LastActivityDate="2017-08-09T20:22:15.977" Title="Which tag should we use for the film &quot;Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11229" CreationDate="2017-08-07T13:17:52.230" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the extraordinary unlikelihood of a sequel, the absence of other properties called &quot;Valerian&quot; and the need to distinguish it from the comic serials, the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/valerian-2017&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;valerian-2017&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;valerian-2017&lt;/a&gt;  would seem more than adequate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that when searching, the letters &quot;valer&quot; will offer only one other option, so this seems the obvious and simple choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2017-08-09T20:22:15.977" LastActivityDate="2017-08-09T20:22:15.977" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11231" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-07T18:54:21.027" Score="5" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question about the ending of &lt;em&gt;Spider-Man: Homecoming&lt;/em&gt; which seems near-impossible to ask without spoilers. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://gist.github.com/Stevoisiak/18cfcd6fc38ba99ef380b3c858e909c7&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;See &lt;strong&gt;spoiler&lt;/strong&gt;-filled question here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After reading the guidelines from &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1514/79413&quot;&gt;How should I be indicating a question is, by its very asking, a spoiler?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; I believe I have sufficiently edited the question's body to hide any spoilers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I am struggling to come up with a question title which is vague enough to avoid spoiling the film, but descriptive enough for potential readers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where can I request feedback on a question which contains spoilers in the title?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there isn't already a place for requesting question feedback, could one be created? It could take inspiration from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2140/sandbox-for-proposed-challenges?cb=1&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sandbox for Proposed Challenges&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; on Meta Code Golf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79413" LastEditorUserId="440" LastEditDate="2017-08-09T12:30:14.660" LastActivityDate="2017-08-09T12:30:14.660" Title="Where can I request feedback on a potentially spoiler-filled question?" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|etiquette|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11231" CreationDate="2017-08-07T19:29:01.990" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although this specific case as @Gallifreyan says is off-topic due to our future works policy, this can apply to other people looking for feedback on their questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/58631/&quot;&gt;TREU&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have above 20 rep, you can join our chatroom, &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/58631/&quot;&gt;The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (TREU)&lt;/a&gt;. Anyone in there would happily discuss your question and help you figure out a way to remove some spoilers or hide certain bits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the worst case. You can always provide the question as is and one of our helpful editors will come round and hide/help hide any obvious spoilers. Our only rule is to keep spoilers out of titles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68872" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-08-07T19:29:01.990" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9194" CreationDate="2017-08-09T00:37:09.217" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;We can now rename it&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/299490/191265&quot;&gt;All sites are now allowed to use tags with 35 characters&lt;/a&gt;. Thus we can rename this tag to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13217" LastActivityDate="2017-08-09T00:37:09.217" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11234" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11235" CreationDate="2017-08-09T02:42:23.680" Score="3" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to change &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nightmare-b4-christmas&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;nightmare-b4-christmas&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;nightmare-b4-christmas&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nightmare-before-christmas&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;nightmare-before-christmas&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;nightmare-before-christmas&lt;/a&gt; because apparently it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/197889/raising-the-25-chars-limit-for-tags/299490#299490&quot;&gt;possible to have longer tags now&lt;/a&gt;, but I can't find a way to edit this tag name, and I can't find a way to make a tag synonym either  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I made the tag so I was expecting to at least be able to suggest an edit to it, but apparently it doesn't work that way  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I flag this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tag&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tag&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tag&lt;/a&gt; for edit? Or can we get a feature for suggesting edit to a tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13716" LastEditorUserId="13716" LastEditDate="2017-08-09T05:24:00.777" LastActivityDate="2017-08-09T05:24:00.777" Title="How do I flag a tag for it to be renamed?" Tags="|support|feature-request|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11234" CreationDate="2017-08-09T02:49:10.600" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to rename a tag, you do what you just did: raise a meta on it, and then a moderator can rename the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this tag only has one question, you should probably just remove the tag from the question, save the tag wiki text, add the new tag, and put the tag wiki into the new tag. The old tag will be automatically deleted after a little while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2017-08-09T02:49:10.600" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11018" CreationDate="2017-08-09T03:03:56.993" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The maximum tag length was &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/299490/162011&quot;&gt;increased to 35 characters&lt;/a&gt; for the entire Stack Exchange network on August 8, 2017.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79413" LastEditorUserId="6006" LastEditDate="2017-08-10T06:44:11.943" LastActivityDate="2017-08-10T06:44:11.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11237" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-09T06:39:46.610" Score="13" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/197889/raising-the-25-chars-limit-for-tags/299490#299490&quot;&gt;We now can use up to 35 characters in tags&lt;/a&gt;! Hooray! This means that now we can rename some awkward tags that weren't able to be created well because of the 25 character limit. However, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/39316690#39316690&quot;&gt;@AnkitSharma points out&lt;/a&gt;, creating a meta post for each tag that should be renamed would be silly. Instead, here's a master list. Please edit the community wiki answer below with the list of tags that should be renamed now that we can have more characters. Please link to the appropriate meta question if one already exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: &lt;strong&gt;this doesn't have to mess up the front page&lt;/strong&gt;. Tag renames can be done almost silently by mods (although one bump may be required per rename). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2017-08-09T07:29:01.360" LastActivityDate="2017-12-07T12:18:13.960" Title="What tags should we rename now that we have 35 characters in tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11237" CreationDate="2017-08-09T06:39:46.610" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;These tags need to be renamed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;done&lt;/strong&gt;) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jonathan-strange&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jonathan-strange&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jonathan-strange&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jonathan-strange-and-mr-norrell&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jonathan-strange-and-mr-norrell&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jonathan-strange-and-mr-norrell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;done&lt;/strong&gt;) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/captain-america-tws&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;captain-america-tws&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;captain-america-tws&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/captain-america-the-winter-soldier&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;captain-america-the-winter-soldier&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;captain-america-the-winter-soldier&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3177/what-tag-to-use-for-captain-america-2&quot;&gt;old meta post about it&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;done&lt;/strong&gt;) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/captain-america-tfa&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;captain-america-tfa&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;captain-america-tfa&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/captain-america-the-first-avenger&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;captain-america-the-first-avenger&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;captain-america-the-first-avenger&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;done&lt;/strong&gt;) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/charlie-and-the-chocolate&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;charlie-and-the-chocolate&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;charlie-and-the-chocolate&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;done&lt;/strong&gt;) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tmnt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tmnt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tmnt&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11233/33591&quot;&gt;relevant meta post&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;done&lt;/strong&gt;) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dada&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dada&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dada&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/defence-against-the-dark-arts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;defence-against-the-dark-arts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;defence-against-the-dark-arts&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;done&lt;/strong&gt;) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batman-v-superman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;batman-v-superman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;batman-v-superman&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;done&lt;/strong&gt;) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/extraordinary-gentlemen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;extraordinary-gentlemen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;extraordinary-gentlemen&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10193/why-is-there-a-25-character-tag-limit&quot;&gt;relevant meta post&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/federation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;federation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;federation&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-united-federation-of-planets&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-united-federation-of-planets&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-united-federation-of-planets&lt;/a&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10635/should-we-rename-the-federation-tag-to-star-trek-federation&quot;&gt;relevant meta post&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/guardians-of-the-galaxy-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;guardians-of-the-galaxy-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;guardians-of-the-galaxy-2&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-2&lt;/a&gt;  (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10980/should-we-fix-the-guardians-of-the-galaxy-tags&quot;&gt;relevant meta post&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/guardians-of-the-galaxy-1&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;guardians-of-the-galaxy-1&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;guardians-of-the-galaxy-1&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/guardians-of-the-galaxy-2014&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;guardians-of-the-galaxy-2014&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;guardians-of-the-galaxy-2014&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10980/should-we-fix-the-guardians-of-the-galaxy-tags&quot;&gt;relevant meta post&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(done)&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminator3&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminator3&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminator3&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminator-3-rise-of-the-machines&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminator-3-rise-of-the-machines&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminator-3-rise-of-the-machines&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminator2-judgement-day&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminator2-judgement-day&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminator2-judgement-day&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminator-2-judgement-day&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminator-2-judgement-day&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminator-2-judgement-day&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magnus-chase&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magnus-chase&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magnus-chase&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magnus-chase-and-the-gods-of-asgard&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magnus-chase-and-the-gods-of-asgard&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magnus-chase-and-the-gods-of-asgard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sw-the-old-republic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sw-the-old-republic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sw-the-old-republic&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-the-old-republic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-the-old-republic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-the-old-republic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/slow-regardsilent-things&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;slow-regardsilent-things&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;slow-regardsilent-things&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-slow-regard-of-silent-things&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-slow-regard-of-silent-things&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-slow-regard-of-silent-things&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sarah-connor-chronicles&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sarah-connor-chronicles&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sarah-connor-chronicles&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminator-sarah-connor-chronicles&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminator-sarah-connor-chronicles&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminator-sarah-connor-chronicles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;add in the format &lt;code&gt;[tag:tag name] → [tag:longer-tag-name] [link to meta if applicable](https://example meta.stackexchange.com/q/12345)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-12-07T12:18:13.960" LastActivityDate="2017-12-07T12:18:13.960" CommentCount="7" CommunityOwnedDate="2017-08-09T06:39:46.610" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11229" CreationDate="2017-08-09T14:16:43.227" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the increased tag limit there is chance for a better descriptive tag name and I suggest :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/valerian-city-of-thousand-planets&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;valerian-city-of-thousand-planets&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;valerian-city-of-thousand-planets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6006" LastActivityDate="2017-08-09T14:16:43.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11237" CreationDate="2017-08-09T17:03:28.297" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a dead-simple query that might help find tags that can be improved, instead of manually searching through the Tags page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/708480/tags-that-might-benefit-from-increased-tag-length&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/708480/tags-that-might-benefit-from-increased-tag-length&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fork it if you'd like. Currently, I have it set to find tags of length 16-25, meaning they may have the potential to benefit from the additional limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do notice there's a large number of tags where the official titles contain &quot;the&quot; but the tag does not. I suggest having a discussion on whether we &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; all those &quot;the&quot;s added before submitting them for the rename. (&lt;em&gt;The&lt;/em&gt; Dark Knight Rises may not be necessary, but what about Star Trek: &lt;em&gt;The&lt;/em&gt; Motion Picture? Something to chew on)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2017-08-09T17:03:28.297" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11241" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-09T18:12:32.637" Score="8" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've had the tag length character limit extended to 35 - that's great! This announcement has prompted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11238/70236&quot;&gt;an effort&lt;/a&gt; to rename old tags that have been shortened due to this limitation - and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dada&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dada&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dada&lt;/a&gt; has been successfully renamed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/defence-against-the-dark-arts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;defence-against-the-dark-arts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;defence-against-the-dark-arts&lt;/a&gt;. Awesome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why do we have that tag in the first place? From a glance at the questions (28 total), I see that some of them are about &lt;em&gt;the teaching position&lt;/em&gt;, and the people who occupied it; some are about Voldemort cursing it; the rest are a mixed bunch, and some I believe don't even need it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's what I think: the position itself isn't a prominent topic in the franchise. If we're going to use the tag to refer to all DADA teachers, then it's too ambiguous. If we're going to refer to DADA as a lesson, then it's no use either because it's too fine-grained. One cannot be expected to focus on this lesson only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(There's also &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/39327214#39327214&quot;&gt;the argument&lt;/a&gt; about the correct spelling - is it &quot;defen&lt;strong&gt;c&lt;/strong&gt;e, the British spelling, or &quot;defen&lt;strong&gt;s&lt;/strong&gt;e, the American spelling? the author is British, but the official stance here seems to be to use American spellings (though we don't have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sorcerers-stone&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sorcerers-stone&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sorcerers-stone&lt;/a&gt;, thank god). If both are to be synonyms, which should be the main tag?)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say we don't need this tag. Should we burninate it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2017-08-09T18:37:21.393" LastActivityDate="2017-08-13T08:09:21.760" Title="Should we curse the [defence-against-the-dark-arts] position, erm, tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11241" CreationDate="2017-08-09T20:20:19.783" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Burn and curse it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;That is, make sure it can't be recreated. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Rationale&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, DADA gets more &lt;del&gt;screen&lt;/del&gt;page time in the books than, say, arithmancy. But still it's just one of the many classes the Hogwarts students take. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is any of our users a DADA Expert? I doubt it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2017-08-09T20:20:19.783" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11243" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-10T03:32:53.860" Score="9" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag wiki for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-device&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-device&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-device&lt;/a&gt; tag says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An element introduced into a story, film, play etc. to advance the plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is really &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a good definition of a plot device. A plot device is a &lt;em&gt;narrative technique&lt;/em&gt; used to advance the plot. Not every element of a story is a &quot;plot device&quot; even though almost every element of a story probably affects the plot in some way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A plot device is really a &quot;key&quot; element of a story that &lt;em&gt;drives&lt;/em&gt; the plot -- without which the plot wouldn't advance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, in &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;, the One Ring was a plot device, but Gimli's axe isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at the questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-device&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-device&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-device&lt;/a&gt; a good number of them seem to be using it in the same way the previously-burninated &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-explanation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-explanation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-explanation&lt;/a&gt; tag was used, i.e. &quot;I didn't understand this part of the plot, what happened?&quot;. I think the overly broad tag guidance may be playing a role in this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it stands, with the current guidance, nearly &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; non-story-id question on this site could be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-device&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-device&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-device&lt;/a&gt;. Should we try to make this better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2017-08-10T03:42:22.423" Title="Is our [plot-device] malfunctioning?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11243" CreationDate="2017-08-10T03:33:17.913" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Option 1: Leave this tag alone; it's not hurting anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2017-08-10T03:33:17.913" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11243" CreationDate="2017-08-10T03:34:59.860" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Option 2: This tag is stupidly broad. We got rid of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/plot-explanation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-explanation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-explanation&lt;/a&gt;, get rid of this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2017-08-10T03:34:59.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11243" CreationDate="2017-08-10T03:36:48.160" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Option 3: Clarify the tag guidance and wiki, and clean up the tag where needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion for new tag guidance would be something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;plot device&lt;/strong&gt; is a literary device (technique) that is introduced into a story to drive the plot forward. Plot devices can be actual objects (e.g. a MacGuffin) or merely a storytelling technique (e.g. a flashback). Use this tag to ask questions about the use of specific plot devices in sci-fi or fantasy works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2017-08-10T03:42:22.423" LastActivityDate="2017-08-10T03:42:22.423" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11241" CreationDate="2017-08-10T16:58:31.717" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disclaimer, this is an answer that's been copied from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11194/do-we-really-need-the-marauders-map-tag&quot;&gt;this meta&lt;/a&gt; of a similar meta. Discussing the same thing. I have edited it to make it relevant but think it is a very good point.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;All Credit goes to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/31178/creationedge&quot;&gt;Captain Edge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a mostly no answer, but also a point of discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Harry Potter is one of our largest tags. There's a huge body of questions. These questions can be hard to filter by simple text searches, because searchable terms are often used in questions that aren't about that term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Want to know more about just Hermione? Good luck narrowing that down. Want to know just about Slytherin? Did you mean Salazar himself or the Hogwarts House? How do you filter out every time a user merely mentions &amp;quot;Slytherin&amp;quot; when they're just talking about a Slytherin, like Draco?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tagging helps facilitate not just answering the question, but later finding the question and it's answers. Aside from perusing out of personal interest, we have a strong history of citing other answers to strengthen new ones, or to find duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our top tags on this site are so large that they and their related tags are often curated by &amp;quot;specialists&amp;quot;, people that take an interest in that work and are knowledgeable about it. We have different levels of granularity and grouping in these tags, and should keep that in mind when discussing whether or not to keep a tag. The structure and conventions that work for Lord of the Rings is different than Marvel properties. They're different bodies of work, and we shouldn't try to force a one-size-fits-all tagging policy around them. Story Identification is a whole different beast from Star Trek. We've never really tagged individual Harry Potter films or books, but for Star Wars we have a need to create those individual tags before the movies are even released!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have the flexibility to make our own tag map, and have our experts help curate and guide new users, write usage guidance, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I would encourage people to vote based on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is Defence Against the Dark Arts a reasonably helpful tag for people of the Harry Potter Fandom?&#xA;Is it reasonable to assume some people might want to know about just that subject?&#xA;Is the tag unlikely, when used appropriately, to interfere with other Harry Potter tagging (such as the 5 tag limit)?&#xA;This seems a more reasonable approach to me than voting on a Harry Potter tag the same way you would for a Game of Thrones tag. Different fandoms have different needs, different things they want to know, and different types of source material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68872" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-08-12T06:52:32.657" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11222" CreationDate="2017-08-10T20:35:52.233" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, I read &quot;Because it's a story&quot; as perhaps not rude, but certainly dismissive.  It implies a foolishness to the conversation, and perhaps an attempt to suggest that the people asking such questions not quite grasping that they are discussing fiction. See also people who feel the need to ask &quot;You know it's fake, right?&quot; when discussing pro wrestling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Discussions about the whys and wherefores of fiction are centuries old - Sherlock fans have always played with the conceit that the books are real, and merely edited by Conan Doyle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's tedious to preface each conversation with some form of &quot;It should be taken as read that the events and personages in this discussion are fictional, and any discussion of the events are for entertainment purposes only&quot;, anyone being so pedantic as to step forward and remind us we are discussing the work of tired authors desperately trying to make deadline deserve all the sighs and eyerolls they get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64282" LastActivityDate="2017-08-10T20:35:52.233" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10635" CreationDate="2017-08-11T04:27:10.043" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Call it &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/united-federation-of-planets&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;united-federation-of-planets&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;united-federation-of-planets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, with synonyms &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/federation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;federation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;federation&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-federation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-federation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-federation&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ufp&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ufp&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ufp&lt;/a&gt; (the latter for people who don't enjoy typing).  Optionally stick a &lt;code&gt;the-&lt;/code&gt; in front, if you want it to sound fancy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11237/&quot;&gt;now&lt;/a&gt;) have thirty-five characters to play with.  Let's be explicit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastActivityDate="2017-08-11T04:27:10.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11250" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11252" CreationDate="2017-08-12T09:51:59.327" Score="14" ViewCount="285" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently all questions about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hp-methods-of-rationality&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hp-methods-of-rationality&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hp-methods-of-rationality&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hpmor.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; are tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; too.  Should we actually use this tag on all these questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastActivityDate="2017-08-12T19:50:51.290" Title="Should questions about Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality have the harry-potter tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11250" CreationDate="2017-08-12T09:51:59.327" Score="5" Body="&lt;h1&gt;No, they should not be tagged [harry-potter]&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality&lt;/em&gt; is clearly a fan fiction that makes a lot of nods to Harry Potter, it is a very different story.  It doesn't try to match the Harry Potter book canon at all.  It's not like &lt;em&gt;Cursed Child&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Harry_Potter_prequel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the Sirius motorbike story JKR wrote&lt;/a&gt;, which tries to build on the books, although with at least some contradictions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a result, most questions about &lt;em&gt;Methods of Rationality&lt;/em&gt; aren't Harry Potter questions at all, and they do not need Harry Potter domain experts.  Thus, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; tag is useless on them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mind you, we do have three questions that ask about a comparison of &lt;em&gt;Methods of Rationality&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; canon, and these three do need the tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/116582/4918&quot;&gt;Can this HPMOR hypothesis be true in Harry Potter canon?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/108797/4918&quot;&gt;Does the Interdict of Merlin appear in original Harry Potter canon?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/34338/4918&quot;&gt;Does the world of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality differ in any other way from the original besides the husband of aunt Petunia?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But all the rest of the questions shouldn't have the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="4918" LastEditDate="2017-08-12T19:50:51.290" LastActivityDate="2017-08-12T19:50:51.290" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11250" CreationDate="2017-08-12T17:19:13.677" Score="19" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes, they should be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality&lt;/em&gt; is a particularly well-known piece of fanfiction which has its own tag and a dozen questions about it, there are untold thousands of other fanfictions which are never likely to have more than a single (or even a single) question about them on this site. If someone does want to ask a question about a random little-known HP fanfic they've found online, I think it makes more sense to tag it &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fan-fiction&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fan-fiction&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fan-fiction&lt;/a&gt; than something like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-golden-snitch-a-dramione-story&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-golden-snitch-a-dramione-story&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-golden-snitch-a-dramione-story&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who's going to search tags for titles of individual fanfics? Except for a few particularly well-known ones like HP:MOR and &lt;em&gt;My Immortal&lt;/em&gt;, nobody except the author is likely to be an expert on one specific fanfic. But someone might be very well-read in HP fanfic in general, and want to search the site for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fan-fiction&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fan-fiction&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fan-fiction&lt;/a&gt; questions to answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It does usually require some knowledge of the original canon to answer questions about its fanfic. OK, HP:MOR is telling a different story from the real HP, but someone who doesn't care about HP won't care about MOR either. With many less-derivative fanfics, knowledge of the canon might even be enough to answer a question about the fanfic. By and large, it's our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; users who're going to be answering questions about HP fanfic, so why not tag them accordingly?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-08-12T17:19:13.677" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11241" CreationDate="2017-08-13T08:09:21.760" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Keep&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/defence-against-the-dark-arts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;defence-against-the-dark-arts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;defence-against-the-dark-arts&lt;/a&gt; (British spelling).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Why keep it?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Defence Against the Dark Arts is a class the students take. It is also a class that, when not done properly, Harry himself taught in secret.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Defence Against the Dark Arts refers to a position in Hogwarts that is cursed. Why cursed? A: Voldemort was denied the position (I can't have it, no one will). B: Short tenure of teachers reduces their effectiveness. Those effective at defending against the Dark Arts are better at thwarting the goals of &lt;em&gt;Him-who-must-not-be-named&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Defence Against the Dark Arts is a major plot point in the books. It is also a major plot point for the series as a whole. Worse, or more importantly (your choice), it is a major plot point of Voldemort (hence the curse on the position). It's even possible to consider that the subject of defence against the dark arts is a concept to explain life in general. At the very least, it can be considered a life lesson to be learned from the books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sum total: Defence Against the Dark Arts is an important part of the Potter universe, number of tagged questions so far no withstanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Why British spelling?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apply the British spelling to the tag since the books originated in British English and &lt;em&gt;Defence Against the Dark Arts&lt;/em&gt; is a proper name. While, in this case, the spelling in the books has been &amp;quot;corrected&amp;quot; for US release, they are still UK-style in all the smaller details, and it seems proper to use the UK (original) version of them to determine the &amp;quot;in universe&amp;quot; spelling. Of course, there is also the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.pottermore.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pottermore&lt;/a&gt; website (possibly a canonical source?) where it is consistently in the UK spelling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85223" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-08-13T08:09:21.760" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11254" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11256" CreationDate="2017-08-13T09:19:43.447" Score="13" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am looking for a specific book that I read in my childhood (specifically, between 1986 and 1990), and while it would fall under the concept of &quot;fiction&quot; and indeed &quot;science fiction&quot;, I am not sure it would fall under the concept of a &quot;story&quot; per se.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The book is basically a collection of predictions (as in, each covering different areas - what we would eat, air travel, wars etc) about the future and what the future would be like.  It was all light hearted, aimed at children, had several humorous illustrations included but it does lack a story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that tag the best one to use for that question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this the best place to ask that question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30807" LastEditorUserId="31029" LastEditDate="2017-08-16T08:40:36.007" LastActivityDate="2017-08-16T08:40:36.007" Title="Would a book collecting predictions fall under the scope of this site's story identification tag?" Tags="|discussion|scope|story-identification|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11254" CreationDate="2017-08-13T10:12:38.310" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been numerous &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a35185/childrens-book-1961-dumb-future-predictions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; that relate to the subject of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures_studies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;futurology&lt;/a&gt; and those would be largely off-topic. However, since what you're describing is presented as pseudo-science (and in humourous way as well) rather than a matter of academic conjecture, identifying the book you're describing would seem to be on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, extensive questions &lt;em&gt;about the book itself&lt;/em&gt; would probably be off-topic (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/are-works-that-arent-sf-per-se-but-have-occasional-sfnal-elements-on-topic-e&quot;&gt;Are works that aren&amp;#39;t SF per se, but have occasional SFnal elements on-topic? (e.g. spy movies)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/D5rIp.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/D5rIp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2017-08-13T10:12:38.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11254" CreationDate="2017-08-13T10:13:03.320" Score="11" Body="&lt;h2&gt;If it's science fiction, then yes.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Science fiction is science fiction, whether it's in the form of a coherent story or a collection of vignettes. The site is about &amp;quot;Science Fiction and Fantasy&amp;quot;, in all its many shapes and forms. Quoting from the answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10859/31394&quot;&gt;Can I ask about identifying a sci-fi puzzle book?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as there was a consistent science fiction theme throughout, these books would be perfectly well on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've had other questions about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/47639/sci-fi-quest-adventure-book-where-progress-was-determined-through-clues-keys-in&quot;&gt;puzzle books&lt;/a&gt; (typically of the CYOA variety) as well as scifi &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/49053/books-describing-different-kinds-of-spaceships&quot;&gt;artbooks&lt;/a&gt; and the community seems broadly happy with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've even &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7343/31394&quot;&gt;accepted&lt;/a&gt; story-ID questions about things which turned out to be commercials!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-08-13T10:13:03.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11257" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11260" CreationDate="2017-08-15T12:36:57.427" Score="14" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this recent question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/167201/57310&quot;&gt;about the origins of Pac-man&lt;/a&gt;, and while video games are on-topic and the question is not about game mechanics, is it really an on-topic work? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only argument I can make is that it features &quot;ghosts&quot; and that Pac-man is so type of non-human creature. However, there are countless games, particularly early arcade games with low graphic quality, that feature non-human creatures and monsters. These games may or may not have any other element of Science Fiction or Fantasy in them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My question is should we require that video games have an additional SF/F element beyond the character/creatures to be considered on-topic?&lt;/strong&gt; (similar to how not all spy-fi is on topic)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2017-08-15T14:41:52.813" LastActivityDate="2021-06-04T16:47:01.410" Title="Are video game with non-human characters always considered SF/F?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11259" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11261" CreationDate="2017-08-15T14:45:41.550" Score="0" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw the question pop up recently, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/146253/70236&quot;&gt;one answer&lt;/a&gt; in particular drew my attention. It was a terrible answer at first, but it turned out that its poster was on the right track, and after a few edits it became a fairly good answer (referencing canon sources, unlike other answers to that question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since it's deleted (requires 10k rep to view), I'm providing it in its entirety here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I found a youngling logo, from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/146253/70236&quot;&gt;&quot;The Gathering&quot; episode (season 5, episode 6) of &lt;em&gt;The Clone Wars&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, worn as a shoulder patch on students' cold weather gear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nKtOi.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nKtOim.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;sub&gt; Image from the official website &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jedi_youngling&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wookieepedia article on younglings&lt;/a&gt; provides a cleaner logo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Problem is, that answer's been deleted (maybe rightly so, before the edits). I did flag for undeletion, yet was denied that. I really think this is a good answer right now. Can we please bring it back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2017-08-15T15:02:42.547" LastActivityDate="2017-08-15T15:31:49.790" Title="Should we undelete this answer about Jedi rank logos?" Tags="|discussion|answers|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11257" CreationDate="2017-08-15T15:05:46.247" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When it comes to video games, we should be taking a look at the complete body of works, not merely a single game. (For instance, we shouldn't judge Donkey Kong based on the original Donkey Kong alone, or Mario just on Super Mario Run).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just for clarity's sake, Pac-Man is not just a single game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man_(series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;long-running video game &lt;em&gt;series&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;has an old&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://disneyxd.disney.com/pac-man-and-the-ghostly-adventures&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a new TV show&lt;/a&gt;, and other surrounding media. Here's a blurb about the current TV show:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout the series, Pac and his loyal crew prove their bravery as they protect the Power Berries from falling into the sinister hands of Betrayus and his evil army of baddies. The fate of PacWorld lies with Pac and his friends as they attempt to rid PacWorld of the ghosts and send them crawling back to Netherworld where they came from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's plenty of story content for the Pac-Man universe, and we have a long-standing policy that if one work in a shared universe is on-topic, the rest of the works are. Pac-Man has &lt;em&gt;several&lt;/em&gt; on-topic works, not limited to the TV shows but the larger-scope &lt;em&gt;Pac-Man World&lt;/em&gt; games.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The newer video games and TV show notably use the modern, anthropomorphic depiction of Pac-Man:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zKwzgm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zKwzgm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I can tell, everything indicates that Pac-Man is on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2021-06-04T16:47:01.410" LastActivityDate="2021-06-04T16:47:01.410" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11259" CreationDate="2017-08-15T15:31:49.790" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No. Post a new answer.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current version of the answer is a good one, but it has almost nothing in common with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/146253/1&quot;&gt;original version&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i found a logo its a youngling logo&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;its the old republic symbol with a triangle around it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;here's the link&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/searchq=jedi%20youngling%20logos&amp;amp;espv=2&amp;amp;rlz=1CADEAC_enUS707US707&amp;amp;biw=1366&amp;amp;bih=631&amp;amp;tbm=isch&amp;amp;imgil=L0OpWzeaEC6grM%253A%253BXnuqxtuF7a7DlM%253Bhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fapathofajedi.wordpress.com%25252F&amp;amp;source=iu&amp;amp;pf=m&amp;amp;fir=L0OpWzeaEC6grM%253A%252CXnuqxtuF7a7DlM%252C_&amp;amp;usg=__0EiZXxlp9MVI1s5VtmbuONUyzM%3D&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwio78Tcr9HQAhWIzIMKHf1aB7IQyjcIMg&amp;amp;ei=uT0_WOiuBIiZjwT9tZ2QCw&amp;amp;safe=active&amp;amp;ssui=on#imgrc=L0OpWzeaEC6grM%3A&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.google.com/searchq=jedi%20youngling%20logos&amp;amp;espv=2&amp;amp;rlz=1CADEAC_enUS707US707&amp;amp;biw=1366&amp;amp;bih=631&amp;amp;tbm=isch&amp;amp;imgil=L0OpWzeaEC6grM%253A%253BXnuqxtuF7a7DlM%253Bhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fapathofajedi.wordpress.com%25252F&amp;amp;source=iu&amp;amp;pf=m&amp;amp;fir=L0OpWzeaEC6grM%253A%252CXnuqxtuF7a7DlM%252C_&amp;amp;usg=__0EiZXxlp9MVI1s5VtmbuONUyzM%3D&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwio78Tcr9HQAhWIzIMKHf1aB7IQyjcIMg&amp;amp;ei=uT0_WOiuBIiZjwT9tZ2QCw&amp;amp;safe=active&amp;amp;ssui=on#imgrc=L0OpWzeaEC6grM%3A&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;sorry about the insult&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The link does not work and that was the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/146253/revisions&quot;&gt;only contribution of the user who posted that answer&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/146253/3&quot;&gt;Another user attempted to repair the link&lt;/a&gt;, but the image linked in that revision does not match the one in the latest revision:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8B28X.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8B28X.png&quot; alt=&quot;old image&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/146253/4&quot;&gt;You added the image in the latest version of the post&lt;/a&gt;, but instead of editing the post to something completely different than the original you should have just posted your own answer. This is the typical recommendation for such cases. For example, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11031/31936&quot;&gt;this meta answer&lt;/a&gt; in which community consensus was that you shouldn't put more effort into editing a post than the OP put into it; I think this is a clear case of you putting in all the effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-08-15T15:31:49.790" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11222" CreationDate="2017-08-16T09:56:57.267" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is rude. It is self-evident that everything dealt with is fiction because of what this site is about. I just asked a question about GoT which is, of course fiction, but nonetheless, valid and interesting questions can be asked about a work of fiction and they are essentially, given the premises of the story, does this make sense? Is it consistent with the premises? Can you explain why it is consistent or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63210" LastActivityDate="2017-08-16T09:56:57.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11263" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-16T20:53:42.177" Score="11" ViewCount="996" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I first started on this stack last year I &lt;em&gt;quickly&lt;/em&gt; learned three things about Harry Potter:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Harry Potter wiki is complete garbage. Anyone caught citing it in an answer would be burned at the stake.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Harry Potter movies are complete garbage. Anyone caught citing them in an answer would be burned at the stake.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unless the films were listed as an okay backup by the OP. Then you were only heavily criticized and downvoted at the stake.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pottermore is the next best thing to the books for tidbits and trivia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But today I came across this comment on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/162034/75000&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I know that &lt;strong&gt;Pottermore is no longer the reliable site that it once was&lt;/strong&gt;, but it still isn't HP wiki. Please try quoting from the original sources if you can find them. – ibid&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of this writing that comment has two upvotes, so at least three users think this is true. Now I'm really confused. Is there no online database for non-book owners like myself to learn about the HP universe that won't cause us to lose rep if we mention it here? Recently I've been going to Pottermore for smaller questions I had and now I'm not sure if what I learned was accurate or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Could someone fill me in on what is now considered the main &lt;em&gt;reliable&lt;/em&gt; source for Harry Potter information besides the books and JKR interviews?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75000" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2017-10-16T15:27:19.577" LastActivityDate="2017-10-16T15:27:19.577" Title="Is there any reliable source for Harry Potter other than the books and interviews?" Tags="|discussion|canon|notability-of-sources|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11263" CreationDate="2017-08-16T21:13:42.920" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the main issues that Potter fans face is precisely &lt;strong&gt;what and how you define Harry Potter &quot;canon&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;. In short, there have been precious few announcements by Rowling herself (or the various publishers and studios involved in publishing and adapting her works) regarding the canon status of her works, so fans (like Ibid) have &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Canon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;taken it upon themselves&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; to define, to their own personal satisfaction, what counts as canon or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;generally accepted&lt;/em&gt; canon items are; the HP books and any &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.pottermore.com/writing-by-jk-rowling&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;additional writings by JKR herself&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/jk_rowling?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;twitter announcements by JKR&lt;/a&gt; and any other &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.accio-quote.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;interviews conducted by her&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By comparison, fans usually consider the films to be non-canon, as are any &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.pottermore.com/features&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;writings on Pottermore not attributed to JKR&lt;/a&gt;. Early knick-knacks like her work on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Famous_Witches_and_Wizards_Cards&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wizard cards&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Harry_Potter_video_games&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;various video games&lt;/a&gt; are also considered to be dubiously canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm personally of the opinion that a good answer should cover both canon and non-canon works, the films and &lt;strong&gt;anything else that answers the question that has been published under the officially licensed HP banner&lt;/strong&gt;. You can then leave it to those reading your answers to decide what level of canon they'll accept and whether they've found your writings to be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-08-16T21:27:43.123" LastActivityDate="2017-08-16T21:27:43.123" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11263" CreationDate="2017-08-16T23:50:38.633" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've found that there are two main things which seem to be frowned upon citing in answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Citing a source which isn't generally accepted here as canon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Citing a secondary source&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Accepted canon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/117948/55866&quot;&gt;no official policy&lt;/a&gt; regarding Harry Potter canon that has been produced by either JK Rowling or any other offical source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general this site seems to define Harry Potter canon as works that were written by Rowling, though there have been some exceptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Primary sources vs secondary sources&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Primary sources are original sources of canon. Things written by Rowling, things said in interviews, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A secondary source is something which doesn't try providing new canon, but tries informing the reader about old canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondary sources are great for researching answers, but should never be actually cited in an answer. If you can find the primary source of the information, you should be citing the primary source. If you can not find the primary source then it likely isn't accurate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Tl;dr&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Primary sources (&quot;good&quot; canon)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Books&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Interviews&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pottermore* writings&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All the stuff &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/114611/55866&quot;&gt;listed here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Primary sources (&quot;bad&quot; canon)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Movies&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Plays&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Videogames&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Merch&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fanfiction&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Secondary Sources&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Harry Potter wiki (different canon approach)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Harry Potter Lexicon (similar canon approach)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Old defunct Pottermore (similar canon approach)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;New Pottermore* (different canon approach)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other SFF answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anything else you find on the internet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To avoid being (as you put it) &quot;burnt at the stake&quot;, it's best to either avoid citing anything from the last two groups altogether, or if you do include them, then clearly label them as such and make sure that they aren't integral to your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;* Note that Pottermore is currently a mixture of primary sources and secondary sources. There are about eighty or so writings from JKR that are hosted on the site (all marked as such on the top of the articles), and a few hundred fluff pieces from the &quot;Pottermore Team&quot;.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55866" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-08-17T07:54:48.587" LastActivityDate="2017-08-17T07:54:48.587" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11266" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11268" CreationDate="2017-08-18T15:24:38.983" Score="1" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got an answer unaccepted today and a downvote. At 184, I got an upvote for another answer, but it counted for only two points, making my rep 186. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it appears that I have hit the rep cap even though I am not at 200 yet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw an almost similar case &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1470/why-did-i-get-capped-at-186-reputation-points-today&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. From the answer there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The deleted upvotes still count against the cap, because the deletion&#xA;  is not reflected in the counter that's used for the cap. The deletion&#xA;  of the downvotes, on the other hand, seems to have been reflected in&#xA;  the cap, so that you could get 6 points back, for a total of 186&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I am assuming it is the -15 from the unaccepted answer which is not reflected in the rep counter, making it stop at 186. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why isn't the unaccept event accounted for? Why are un-upvotes not reflected? Theoretically, shouldn't the person receive rep in that case from new upvotes like we do in the case of downvotes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most importantly and primarily the reason why I am here, does it affect my progress towards the Epic badge? If it is too broad, please edit out the first question and focus on the second one. Does it still count for the Epic badge or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-08-23T14:39:33.730" LastActivityDate="2017-08-23T15:17:09.537" Title="Why are un-upvotes/un-acceptance not reflected in Reputation cap?" Tags="|support|reputation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11266" CreationDate="2017-08-18T15:28:40.407" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In short this is a feature of the rep system. Normally rep is capped at 200 points per day. When you get an acceptance or a bounty it temporarily increases your repcap by the appropriate amount. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The converse is also true. When you spend a bounty or receive an unacceptance, it temporarily reduces your repcap by the same amount.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that after the system has had time to work its magic, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/54887/aegon?tab=reputation&amp;amp;sort=post&quot;&gt;your rep has now settled at 185&lt;/a&gt;, not 186. 200 - 15 for the unacceptance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In answer to your other question; yes, it does affect your progress on the way to Epic. The badge only counts days where you receive 200 (or more) rep in a single day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-08-23T15:17:09.537" LastActivityDate="2017-08-23T15:17:09.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11266" CreationDate="2017-08-18T15:33:50.887" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Like acceptances, unacceptances are above and beyond the repcap.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The repcap limits you to 200 points a day &lt;em&gt;from votes&lt;/em&gt;. If you get n answers accepted and m unaccepted, your cap for the day is 200+15n-15m (assuming no bounties and no acceptances/unacceptances of answers on &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unupvotes and undownvotes work weirdly with the repcap.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't even remember exactly how this works, but it's strange and buggy, and may cause unexpected shifts in your rep at some later stage when the system does its automatic recalc. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://puzzling.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3149/5373&quot;&gt;my bug report on another site&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/236420/278659&quot;&gt;the linked main meta post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Epic and related badges count 200-rep days, not repcap days.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you earn 190 rep from votes and get an answer accepted, that day counts towards your Epic badge even though you didn't repcap. If you earn 200 rep from votes and get an answer unaccepted, that day doesn't count towards your Epic badge even though any further upvotes will go into the ether. (This is a bug, IMO, but that's the way it is.) You can verify this by checking your progress towards Epic using the badge tracker tool on your profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-08-18T15:33:50.887" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11266" CreationDate="2017-08-18T15:42:15.133" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rep cap is effectively 200 rep worth of votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Reputation is capped at 200 per day, but remember that bounty awards and accepted answers are immune to this daily reputation cap.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;sub&gt;Sidebar of User Reputation League&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have 202-2=200 vote rep (thus hitting your daily max), and -15 unaccept rep, which does not affect your daily max at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/afmAG.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/afmAG.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just as bounties and accepting can take you over 200, the inverse can cause you to max out  at less than 200.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an example of Valorum offering a bounty, hitting the rep cap, and still ending the day at -53.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/485AL.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/485AL.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in short, the discription is misleading, and only vote-rep (and maybe accepted edits) effects the cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, the badge say, &quot;Earn 200 daily reputation 150 times&quot; and not, &quot;hit the rep-cap&quot;. So you'll need to get 15 non-capped rep to get credit for today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62201" LastActivityDate="2017-08-18T15:42:15.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11270" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11271" CreationDate="2017-08-19T01:30:50.290" Score="15" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;Particularly, in TVTropes' &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/query.php?type=ykts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;You Know, That Show&lt;/a&gt;&quot; section?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would think the polite thing to do is, do that, but if you do get an answer at B, post it at A and vice versa. Right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45792" LastActivityDate="2017-08-19T09:37:35.700" Title="Is it bad form to ask the same story-id question here and elsewhere?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|etiquette|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11270" CreationDate="2017-08-19T07:24:38.690" Score="19" Body="&lt;h2&gt;It's not bad form.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should absolutely feel free to cross-post your &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-id&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-id&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-id&lt;/a&gt; question to as many sites as possible, with the exception of posting it elsewhere within the Stack Exchange Network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good form would be, if you were to find the answer elsewhere, to return and self-answer (and self-accept) so we know that you found it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might also want to mention in your answer (or in comments below it) where else you've posted it so that others can see what's being ruled out and so they don't end up chasing down the same false leads&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-08-19T09:37:35.700" LastActivityDate="2017-08-19T09:37:35.700" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11272" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-19T15:35:30.827" Score="23" ViewCount="336" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am writing this post to announce that I am &lt;strong&gt;retiring as a room owner of our SFF chat room&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason is simple: I haven't been active in chat for the last 10 months or so.  As some of you know, real life has been keeping me occupied for some time now.  I believe that good room moderation requires a level of chat activity that I cannot currently provide or guarantee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to emphasize that my retirement has nothing do with the recent change in the chat room, nor does it have to do with Slytherincess' recent stepping down as a room owner.  I came to this decision prior to both events.  However, I postponed this announcement to ensure it would not be misinterpreted as being connected to the demise / rebirth of the room, and also in case there was a need for increased room owner presence during the early days of the new chat room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a solid team of moderators and room owners, and I am certain my departure will not harm anything.  I want to thank our moderators for their support, dedication, and wisdom, which made being a room owner easier at some hectic times!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've made many new friends amongst you through chat over the last three years and I'm honoured to have been one of your elected room owners!  In particular, one of my fondest experiences on the site has been organizing &lt;strong&gt;chat room movie nights&lt;/strong&gt; from Autumn 2015 to Autumn 2016 &amp;mdash; thanks to all those who joined in!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, I am retiring as a room owner, but not from chat and not from the main site.  I hope to see many of you around in the Restaurant in the near future!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kSgM1.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kSgM1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastActivityDate="2017-08-19T15:35:30.827" Title="Retiring as room owner" Tags="|discussion|chat|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11273" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11275" CreationDate="2017-08-20T15:09:17.537" Score="2" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was reviewing when &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/167562/are-half-giants-fertile&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; came up for closing votation with 3 votes to close.&#xA;After reading said questions and the comments I'm uncertain on how to vote and would like to ask clarification (I couldn't find a satisfying policy, maybe &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3014/should-all-questions-without-explicit-canon-answers-be-closed?rq=1&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/32/questions-that-provide-speculative-answers&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; applies).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question, seems to me, asks for concise information and it is possible for it to have a definitive answer. The OP claims he is not familiar with the original material so he is not asking for speculation but for a concise answer. However, it is true that currently it has no answer beyond speculative ones (we might get an answer in the future though).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how do we procede with adequate questions that might have a definitive answer but right now invite speculation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63534" LastEditorUserId="63534" LastEditDate="2017-08-20T15:25:21.160" LastActivityDate="2017-08-20T15:26:22.357" Title="What do we do with this question that doesn't have a current answer?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2017-08-24T10:55:52.443" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11273" CreationDate="2017-08-20T15:26:22.357" Score="5" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Leave it open.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we can see in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3014/33591&quot;&gt;this previous Meta.SFF question&lt;/a&gt;, for at least in-universe questions, &lt;strong&gt;questions that we do not know the answer to should remain open&lt;/strong&gt;. We've got &lt;em&gt;lots&lt;/em&gt; of questions where the answer is simply &lt;em&gt;we don't know&lt;/em&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/119513/33591&quot;&gt;What is a Hrung?&lt;/a&gt; as an example (my question, full disclosure).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; close questions just because we don't have a canonical answer - answer saying &lt;em&gt;we don't know&lt;/em&gt; instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-08-20T15:26:22.357" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11276" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-20T15:49:12.063" Score="11" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just noticed that we have the following tags: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-hunger-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-hunger-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-hunger-games&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/catching-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;catching-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;catching-fire&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mockingjay&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mockingjay&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mockingjay&lt;/a&gt;. I'm not familiar with this franchise, but it looks like the last two are individual novels within the series that is the first tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we have a general policy not to use individual works tags if the works are too closely related - this policy is in effect for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mass-effect&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mass-effect&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mass-effect&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-witcher&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-witcher&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-witcher&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wheel-of-time&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wheel-of-time&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wheel-of-time&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-expanse&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-expanse&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-expanse&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt;, and probably some others. The reasoning here is simple - it's unlikely that a question will be contained to a single novel, and it's very much possible that the answers will draw on the whole series/franchise if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some counterexamples I'm aware of - we have individual tags for &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; novels (and &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt; films), as well as tags for each of the &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; films. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question: &lt;strong&gt;should individual novel tags within &lt;em&gt;The Hunger Games&lt;/em&gt; franchise be merged into the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-hunger-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-hunger-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-hunger-games&lt;/a&gt; tag?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2017-08-20T16:54:41.557" LastActivityDate="2017-08-22T09:39:08.410" Title="Do we need separate tags for &quot;The Hunger Games&quot; novels?" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11276" CreationDate="2017-08-21T14:35:08.557" Score="0" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Burn 'em.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/catching-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;catching-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;catching-fire&lt;/a&gt; has exactly 7 questions, while &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mockinjay&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mockinjay&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mockinjay&lt;/a&gt; has 15. People have been doing fine without the individual work tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As well, any question may be answered with a quote or something from a different book (or the movie adaption).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also... individual book tags are generally not any use, so I'd say just burn them with fire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-08-21T14:35:08.557" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11276" CreationDate="2017-08-22T09:39:08.410" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the site's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/the-hunger-games/topusers&quot;&gt;top expert&lt;/a&gt; on the Hunger Games, I should probably weigh in on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Individual-book tags are more useful in HG than in many other franchises.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;, for example, the three books form a unified narrative, and I think &lt;em&gt;[citation needed]&lt;/em&gt; Tolkien didn't even intend the story to be a trilogy. In &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt;, the seven books are separated by year and can be viewed as stories of their own, but there's a large extended universe around them and most of the HP questions don't relate to any particular book in the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Hunger Games&lt;/em&gt;, the three books are telling very different stories, and most questions are only relevant to one of them. The first book is the only one which covers a conventional Hunger Games, and it's not about much other than that. The second book covers the highly &lt;em&gt;un&lt;/em&gt;conventional Quarter Quell, as well as the beginnings of a secret uprising. The third book is &lt;em&gt;totally&lt;/em&gt; different, set mostly in District 13, all about open war rather than Games and subterfuge. Each book has a mostly different set of characters (rather necessary when most of the characters who appear in each book get killed off). Thus, it makes sense to tag, for example, questions about the war with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mockingjay&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mockingjay&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mockingjay&lt;/a&gt;, questions about the Quarter Quell with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/catching-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;catching-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;catching-fire&lt;/a&gt;, and questions about Cato or normal Hunger Games procedures with just &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-hunger-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-hunger-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-hunger-games&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The tag for the first book is the same as the franchise tag ...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be a potential issue, I'll admit. However, we're fortunate in that many of the general questions about the franchise are most relevant to the first book! Things like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/50583/31394&quot;&gt;How are multiple volunteers handled during the Reaping?&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/138723/31394&quot;&gt;Why are there so few volunteers in the Hunger Games?&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/124597/31394&quot;&gt;Why couldn&amp;#39;t tributes keep the food from the Launch Room?&lt;/a&gt;, which are about the Hunger Games as a whole, aren't so relevant to the second book (everything is different in the Quarter Quell) and not at all to the third book. So ambiguity between questions about the whole franchise and questions about the first book isn't &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; big of an issue. Also, since it's the &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt; book, it can't spoil anything else. People reading book 1 might want to put the book 2 and 3 tags on ignore, but not vice versa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What about book vs film tags?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, we're fortunate in that the films (which are, I'll come out and say it, an &lt;em&gt;excellent&lt;/em&gt; adaptation) stuck reasonably close to the books. The first book and film are telling the same story with the same title; so are the second book and film; and the third and fourth films are both titled &lt;em&gt;Mockingjay&lt;/em&gt; something, so they can fit under the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mockingjay&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mockingjay&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mockingjay&lt;/a&gt; tag together with the third book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR: as well as denoting different works of sci-fi, which &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7924/31394&quot;&gt;tend to get their own tags&lt;/a&gt;, these tags also broadly categorise different types of question within the HG franchise.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-08-22T09:39:08.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11281" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-23T19:20:55.817" Score="2" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/167875/75000&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; about Obi-wan's &lt;s&gt;fight&lt;/s&gt; &lt;em&gt;confrontation&lt;/em&gt; with General Grievous during EpIII. Currently, the word 'fight' is used five times, and 'fought' is used twice (once in the title). The question itself isn't difficult to read or understand, but personally, I think it would &lt;strong&gt;look nicer&lt;/strong&gt; if parts were reworded to remove the extra instances. If not both, then at least for 'fight'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would making this edit, while keeping the original question intact, be a worthwhile and valid one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If yes, would this apply to answers as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Immediate update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question has been edited by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4985/william-jackson&quot;&gt;@William Jackson&lt;/a&gt;, and is completely reworked, including removing a few of the 'fight's. But my original question still stands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If a post contains the same word in excess but is otherwise readable, is removing the extra uses an acceptable edit?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75000" LastEditorUserId="75000" LastEditDate="2017-08-23T19:30:40.040" LastActivityDate="2017-08-23T19:50:58.807" Title="Is rewording to remove redundant instances of a single word worth an edit?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11281" CreationDate="2017-08-23T19:32:58.880" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The FAQ is somewhat conflicted, but the general principle is that &lt;strong&gt;making lots of these edits is discouraged. Making a &lt;em&gt;single&lt;/em&gt; edit of this sort is probably ok.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;Tiny, trivial edits are discouraged&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - try to make the post&#xA;significantly better when you edit, correcting all problems that you&#xA;observe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/docs-reviewing&quot;&gt;When should I approve?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whenever a change improves a topic in clarity, correctness, or&#xA;conciseness it should be approved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Even small improvements add up over time, so don't reject &amp;quot;trivial&amp;quot;&#xA;changes that are still improvements.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-08-23T19:32:58.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11281" CreationDate="2017-08-23T19:50:58.807" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edits for objective &lt;em&gt;improvements&lt;/em&gt; are fine.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're fixing someone's spelling or grammar or punctuation or capitalisation, or improving the layout or formatting of their post, that's fine (with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;usual caveats&lt;/a&gt; about not making loads of trivial edits).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edits for &lt;em&gt;stylistic&lt;/em&gt; changes usually aren't.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless you can make a very good argument that your style is objectively better than theirs, don't go around changing the style of people's posts. For instance, editing American to British English, or removing all the apostrophes (changing &quot;isn't&quot; to &quot;is not&quot; and so on), is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a good edit.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;We could probably sit here all day arguing about whether using synonyms is better than repeating the same word over and over again. Excessive repetition certainly makes for bad writing, but so does excessive use of synonyms. I'm sure the good folks at &lt;a href=&quot;http://english.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;ELU&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://writers.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Writers&lt;/a&gt; could give you a good debate on that topic. I'm not going to judge one way or the other, but as a general rule, the question you should be asking is: &lt;strong&gt;&quot;am I objectively improving the post, or just making it something &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; like better?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-08-23T19:50:58.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11285" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11287" CreationDate="2017-08-28T11:01:12.270" Score="36" ViewCount="345" Body="&lt;p&gt;Earlier today I was explaining to the OP of a speculative what-if question why that kind of question is off-topic here and better suited to Worldbuilding SE. I like to support my arguments by links to meta or the help centre where possible, so I looked at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;/help/on-topic&lt;/a&gt; in the hope of finding something relevant there. But that page doesn't seem to say anything about Worldbuilding-type questions!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is one of the few pages in the help centre which is editable by site mods, so the text there is specifically tailored to SFF. However, it was written long ago when Worldbuilding SE didn't exist. Perhaps back then it was thought that such questions were obviously a bad fit for SE; now that Worldbuilding has proved that thought wrong, maybe we need at least to state explicitly that SFF specifically still considers them off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we mention Worldbuilding-type questions in our on-topic page?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One main point to consider is &lt;strong&gt;how do we actually define such questions&lt;/strong&gt;. Clearly something like &amp;quot;if I went back thirty years in time, how could I most quickly get rich&amp;quot; isn't on-topic here, but how do we define this type of question? Calling it a &lt;em&gt;what-if question&lt;/em&gt; isn't good enough, because some what-if questions are fine (&amp;quot;what if Gandalf had claimed the Ring&amp;quot;, for example, is answerable from canon). Calling it a &lt;em&gt;non-franchise-specific&lt;/em&gt; question isn't good enough either, because the community is still divided on whether some non-franchise-specific questions should be on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best I can think of at the moment is to put it in the third set of bullet points, something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question is about...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Writing science fiction or fantasy&lt;/strong&gt;, ask on &lt;a href=&quot;http://writers.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Writers Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What would happen in science-fictional or fantastic situations which you've invented without reference to a particular universe&lt;/strong&gt;, ask on &lt;a href=&quot;http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Worldbuilding Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ugh. That needs work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you all think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-10-14T23:24:46.903" Title="Should we edit the help centre to mention Worldbuilding?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11285" CreationDate="2017-08-28T18:15:24.900" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your question is about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;[Leave the Writers.SE bullet alone]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hypothetical questions not tied to a specific story or franchise&lt;/strong&gt;, ask on &lt;a href=&quot;http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Worldbuilding Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This remains agnostic towards other genre-wide questions, but still makes clear that generic hypotheticals like &quot;Why does a bucket of water put out a dragon's flame?&quot; are off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some examples of the kinds of questions that would fall under this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/90140/2836&quot;&gt;Can a laser in outer space really appear as visible “bullets”?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/89906/2836&quot;&gt;Specifics of magical symbols and casting: What makes spoken magic difficult to master?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/88588/2836&quot;&gt;In a fantasy world where physical training has no hard limit, why isn't everyone a superhuman?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of these questions contain phrasing similar to &quot;I am building a world with feature X, how do I make it work?&quot; and so are obviously off-topic here.  But if this phrasing had not been present, they would be essentially the same questions, and they would still be off-topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="36526" LastEditDate="2017-08-28T22:40:49.577" LastActivityDate="2017-08-28T22:40:49.577" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11285" CreationDate="2017-08-28T19:08:32.837" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Worldbuilding mod here. I would say yes to this proposal; I've seen a lot of questions redirected from Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy to Worldbuilding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's my proposed wording:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your question is about...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Writing science fiction or fantasy&lt;/strong&gt;, ask on &lt;a href=&quot;https://writers.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Writers Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Creating a fictional situation or universe of your own or investigating the plausibility of an element of another work of fiction&lt;/strong&gt;, ask on &lt;a href=&quot;https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Worldbuilding Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some notes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; like broad questions on Worldbuilding. I know that some of y'all think we do, but we don't. Worldbuilding is different because there's more than just one or two right answers, but that doesn't equate with the negative connotations that come with the label &quot;broad&quot; on Stack Exchange. Using that word might send questions that have been closed as Too Broad our way.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/q/44/627&quot;&gt;Asking about already-created worlds&lt;/a&gt; is on-topic on Worldbuilding! If you want to ask a question along the lines of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What materials would be best suited for Spider-Man's silk?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;then Worldbuilding is the place for you. So questions involving a particular universe created by someone else &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; on-topic for us.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We're not limited to science fiction. Obviously, SFF's target audience are fans of science fiction and fantasy, and so most questions here will be along those lines. However, I'd like people to know that Worldbuilding covers worlds that are beyond those genres, too.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41082" LastEditorUserId="41082" LastEditDate="2017-08-29T13:28:52.980" LastActivityDate="2017-08-29T13:28:52.980" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11263" CreationDate="2017-08-29T18:59:10.627" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Harry Potter movies are complete garbage. Anyone caught citing them in an answer would be burned at the stake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a simplification.  I would divide the &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; franchise into these domains:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &quot;book canon,&quot; consisting of the books and (perhaps) &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Cursed Child&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &quot;film canon,&quot; consisting of the films.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &quot;video game canon,&quot; consisting of the video games, to the extent that they are internally consistent (they often aren't).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The official or semi-official writings of JKR outside of all of the above (e.g. Pottermore, interviews, Twitter, etc.).  This only includes things which can be directly attributed to JKR, not random other stuff you found on Pottermore or elsewhere.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fan works and other &quot;non-canon&quot; things.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first three bullets form entirely separate continuities, which only very loosely resemble one another.  As far as I can tell, we are already handling this mess as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;By default&lt;/em&gt;, questions about &quot;Harry Potter&quot; are about book canon.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions which specify or imply a continuity (e.g. &quot;I saw this scene in the films and didn't understand it, why did...?&quot;) are about that continuity.  Questions may specify multiple continuities, or all of them, in which case answers should clearly distinguish between different continuities.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unless otherwise specified, the writings of JKR are always fair game to cite.  Do make sure she is talking about the &quot;right&quot; continuity for your answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unless otherwise specified, non-canon is never fair game to cite.  In the absence of canon, it may form a useful basis for speculation, but highly speculative answers are discouraged (and may indicate a poor question).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Show your work; indicate the source for any claim you make so that it's clear which continuity you are talking about.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are a few &quot;miscellaneous&quot; items which don't seem to fall into any of these bins, such as &lt;em&gt;Quidditch Through the Ages&lt;/em&gt;.  In general, these are fair game to cite, but you should still be clear about your sources.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose that we continue with the status quo as I have described it above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="36526" LastEditDate="2017-08-29T19:40:51.057" LastActivityDate="2017-08-29T19:40:51.057" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11290" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11291" CreationDate="2017-08-29T20:56:32.510" Score="7" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I voted to close &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/168303/how-is-age-kept-track-of-in-the-star-wars-universe&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; as &lt;strong&gt;Off-Topic&lt;/strong&gt;. However there were already 4 votes to close as &lt;strong&gt;Duplicate&lt;/strong&gt; and so, along with the Dup-link at the top of the question, the Close Reason got set as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;marked&lt;/strong&gt; as duplicate by Blackwood, Jason Baker, Ward, Rogue Jedi, amflare&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was marked as an exact duplicate of an existing question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not complaining about this, but rather, I'm curious how the site decides which reason to use when there are multiple vote reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems obvious that the one with more votes is the chosen reason, but:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What if there is a tie (2,2,1 or 1,1,1,1,1) between reasons? Which takes priority?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there ever a close reason that will take precedence even if not receiving the majority of the votes?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may be more appropriate on Meta.SE, but I thought I'd ask here first in case SFF has its own formula.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62201" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-08-30T10:15:35.430" Title="How does the site pick the reason for closure?" Tags="|support|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11290" CreationDate="2017-08-29T21:19:48.197" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/100362/278659&quot;&gt;main meta&lt;/a&gt;: the rule is as follows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the last close vote was cast by a hammer (moderator, or gold tag badger closing as duplicate), their close reason is displayed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If one close reason outweighs the others in number of votes cast, that one is displayed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there's a tie in votes between two or more close reasons, the reason for the &lt;em&gt;last&lt;/em&gt; vote cast (out of those involved in the tie) is displayed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-08-30T10:15:35.430" LastActivityDate="2017-08-30T10:15:35.430" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11263" CreationDate="2017-08-30T08:32:01.223" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Muggles%27_Guide_to_Harry_Potter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter on en.Wikibooks&lt;/a&gt; is generally reliable.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a secondary source, that is, it shouldn't create new canon, but only summarizes reference information from the existing canon in thematic form, especially information from the seven main books.  It is useful because in my experience, it doesn't have the amount of made up information that the Harry Potter wikia has.  The drawback is that almost none of the information names a source, so even if you do find some information on it, it's very hard to find actual canon proof for it.  You can't even tell in advance whether any information &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/91466/4918&quot;&gt;comes from the books&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/46203/4918&quot;&gt;from supplementary material&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastActivityDate="2017-08-30T08:32:01.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11293" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-08-30T08:43:13.847" Score="14" ViewCount="340" Body="&lt;p&gt;My calendar just reminded me that we're very close to 2017-09-01, the day described in the epilogue of &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows&lt;/em&gt;, when Harry Potter's children get on the train to go to the Hogwarts school.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How will we celebrate this special occasion on Sci Fi SE or chat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/64920/4918&quot;&gt;See my question for a reference that 2017-09-01 is the correct day&lt;/a&gt;.  The train starts at &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20170901T11&amp;amp;p1=136&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;11:00 British Summer Time, which is 10:00 UTC&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="4918" LastEditDate="2017-08-30T20:03:31.933" LastActivityDate="2017-09-01T15:14:02.970" Title="How will we celebrate Harry Potter epilogue day on Sci Fi SE?" Tags="|discussion|chat-event|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11294" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12289" CreationDate="2017-08-30T12:42:03.383" Score="3" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand that titles should be meaningful, and I admit that this just becomes a problem if something draws as much attention as its the case with GoT.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But still... I can't be quite sure as I haven't watched the season final yet, but I feel like the HNQ here just spoiled me with a compact summary of that episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/19Wmy.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/19Wmy.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I came up with this a few times already, I know. And I'm aware of the options to just exclude the HNQs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But still, not everyone is willing to dive into meta for solving his problem, and getting a HNQ-list as I just did, just hopping over the topics and its already too late to lookup any solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My idea to solve this problem&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; in case this is technically doable, using a tag like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/recent-release&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;recent-release&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;recent-release&lt;/a&gt; and making that tag be negatively considered in the HNQ scoring so that each site could provide at most 1 post with that tag to the HNQ at a time, if not even banning it or giving its title a spoiler protection in the HNQ.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Note that this post actually mentioned from the very first beginning that hiding the HNQ is not considered a solution. Now just hopping back in here to see it was voted to be a duplicate of how to turn off the HNQ's feels a bit cheeky. Sorry for having to explicitly state this in an edit block. But having stated it in the text itself apparently got ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;And it is a problem. Yeah each of the titles for them self isn't that spoily&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;, but HNQ as demonstrated makes that moot&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Well in my honest opinion, 3 of them are spoilers on their own&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44517" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2019-01-19T11:40:44.007" LastActivityDate="2019-01-19T11:40:44.007" Title="Should we exclude (or add) certain tags from the HNQ in order to prevent people from seeing spoilers?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="31" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11293" CreationDate="2017-08-30T15:49:48.330" Score="8" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Main Site&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is not much you can do here beyond the normal functions. Ask questions and provide new answers to old questions could be focused on Harry Potter posts. Edits would be tricky as they should not be trivial and we do not want to flood the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ETA: &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1464/weekly-topic-challenge-ideas&quot;&gt;Topic Challenge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - We can do something similar to our sister site M&amp;amp;TV and encourage people to ask new question and give new answer based on the topic, then at the end of the challenge possibly some award is given.&lt;/s&gt; Might not be the best idea...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This of course would be all based on a user's preference, but you may be able to coordinate in...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Chat&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chat is really the best place for this &amp;quot;celebration&amp;quot;. Talk Harry Potter all you like for as long as you like. Maybe go in there soon and invite people to join you on that day. Ask one of the ROs to pin a message or even create an event.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Meta&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond this post, I am not sure what else can be done on Meta. The only other types of posts that are related are the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/in-memoriam&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;in-memoriam&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;in-memoriam&lt;/a&gt; posts which &amp;quot;celebrate&amp;quot; the life of recently deceased member of the SFF community. You  &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be able to get away with a &amp;quot;Happy HP Epilogue Day&amp;quot; posts but my initial reaction is it may get closed or down-voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-09-01T15:14:02.970" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11293" CreationDate="2017-08-30T17:45:45.143" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Meta&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have these meta posts in which&#xA;members of the community share what inspired their &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7371/the-many-usernames-of-sff-se&quot;&gt;usernames&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7681/the-many-avatars-of-sff-se&quot;&gt;avatars&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could make a similar one, only HP themed, for example &lt;em&gt;'Which character you identify with and why?&lt;/em&gt;' or a &lt;em&gt;'How you thought the series would end?&lt;/em&gt;' in which the user can write (in max twenty sentences) an alternative epilogue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Main&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We post questions about the seventh book then vote on meta about the best questions / answers and maybe give bountries?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Chat&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We dont have time to plan a game I think... if we can't find a victim who'd volunteer to create one, maybe just chat about HP and create an event as @skooba suggested?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user68762" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user68762" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-08-30T17:52:00.067" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11293" CreationDate="2017-08-30T23:38:42.780" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;How about a film night in chat?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Movie nights have been &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie-night&quot;&gt;a thing&lt;/a&gt; in SFF chat for a long time. I know the HP films are neither primary canon nor, honestly, very good, but this would be a nice way to coordinate a bunch of people together in a group activity of a type that's already been tried and tested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of the Harry Potter films watched end-to-end would be about 20 hours long, so I don't know exactly how we'd organise this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One possibility would be to set up a viewing room to show all the films one after another, and people could drop in throughout the day when they're around (our European and American users probably wouldn't catch much of the first few films, but the later ones are more exciting anyway).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Another possibility would be to have a poll to choose the best HP film and watch that at a scheduled time. But there might not be enough time for voters to see such a poll before Friday.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please comment with your thoughts!&lt;/strong&gt; This needs people to be interested and proactive if it's going to work. Especially since I won't be able to take part - I'm going to be busy IRL this Friday.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;I &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; like the idea of a topic challenge on the main site for this. People ask dozens of HP questions all the time anyway; a topic challenge would hardly make a difference in the tag stats. (If you can come up with a single really relevant question, and it gets to HNQ, that might be nice, but maybe it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/64919/31394&quot;&gt;already been asked&lt;/a&gt;.) Topic challenges could be a thing to do one day (it's an idea a couple of the mods have had on a back burner for a long time), but they should be a way to bring attention to less popular tags, so Harry Potter is the very &lt;em&gt;last&lt;/em&gt; tag we should use for a topic challenge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-08-30T23:38:42.780" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11298" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-01T16:02:58.580" Score="-2" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;[This question is not specific to Game of Thrones, but it serves as a clear example of the problem.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of questions which get asked require careful reworking of the question title to avoid inadvertent spoilers. However, I believe that having both a characters name AND season in a question title is a huge spoiler, as exemplified most clearly from a show like Game of Thrones, where even knowing which characters are alive when reveals something significant about the plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/168667/how-can-cersei-do-this-in-season-7&quot;&gt;How can Cersei do this in Season 7?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/135086/who-were-the-kingsguard-escorting-cersei-season-6-7?rq=1&quot;&gt;Who were the Kingsguard escorting Cersei? (Season 6/7)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/134961/how-strong-is-daeneryss-claim-to-the-iron-throne-after-season-six?rq=1&quot;&gt;How strong is Daenerys&amp;#39;s claim to the Iron Throne after season six?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/131724/s6e08-what-was-it-that-cersei-and-qyburn-talked-about?rq=1&quot;&gt;S6E08 what was it that Cersei and Qyburn talked about?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/165699/what-did-arya-mean-by-thats-not-you-in-season-7-episode-2&quot;&gt;What did Arya mean by &amp;quot;That&amp;#39;s not you&amp;quot; in season 7 episode 2?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Titles like these I believe are much better because they either refer only to a situation, or a season:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/168674/is-samwell-tarly-a-deserter-of-the-nights-watch&quot;&gt;Is Samwell Tarly a deserter of the Night&amp;#39;s Watch?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/131769/why-is-the-kingsguard-still-protecting-cersei?rq=1&quot;&gt;Why is the Kingsguard still protecting Cersei?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/93020/why-would-cersei-choose-this-option-now?rq=1&quot;&gt;Why would Cersei choose this option now?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/168235/why-was-the-person-who-passed-the-sentence-in-the-season-7-finale-not-also-the-e&quot;&gt;Why was the person who passed the sentence in the Season 7 finale not also the executioner?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there an official stance on this already? If not, should a policy that clearly states not to include the character AND season in the title be imposed? Would that be too specific/narrow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55388" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2017-09-02T18:58:55.160" LastActivityDate="2017-09-02T19:29:49.360" Title="Inadvertent spoilers in titles because of season/episode information" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|policy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11298" CreationDate="2017-09-01T16:28:35.563" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Specific&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that Game of Thrones has &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; included extensive flashbacks and now contains &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; time traveling psychic powers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Means that &lt;strong&gt;literally any character can be in any episode&lt;/strong&gt;. By definition, mentioning that a character appears in a particular episode is not a spoiler since you won't know until you watch whether that character is seen live or in a flashback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;General&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless a character's appearance in an episode represents a &lt;strong&gt;truly major&lt;/strong&gt; spoiler, their mere &lt;em&gt;presence&lt;/em&gt; in the show &lt;em&gt;in which they're already billed as appearing&lt;/em&gt; is not a spoiler. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good example would be a &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/dcs-legends-of-tomorrow/news/a824211/legends-of-tomorrow-secret-crossover-cameo/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;surprise crossover&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (like a character from one property appearing in another) or where a character was &lt;strong&gt;already presumed to be dead&lt;/strong&gt; but is &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BackFromTheDead&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;somehow surprisingly alive&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-09-01T16:47:15.720" LastActivityDate="2017-09-01T16:47:15.720" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2017-09-01T20:34:37.223" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;My name is my initials (RDF) combined w/ my college nickname of &quot;Fozz&quot; (after Fozzie Bear, due to my combination of hirsute appearance and love of groan-inducing humor). If you see an RDFozz elsewhere - that's probably me - I've never failed to get the name on any site where I've asked for it, and it's always my first choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80867" LastActivityDate="2017-09-01T20:34:37.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11301" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-02T10:15:05.883" Score="2" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a firm consensus that religion (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1053/70236&quot;&gt;Should we exclude religious texts, and which?&lt;/a&gt;) and mythology (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6838/70236&quot;&gt;Should myths be considered religions?&lt;/a&gt;) by itself is off-topic here, and that calling religious works fiction is not okay (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10949/70236&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the best way to respectfully discuss stories which fictionalize religious subjects?&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite that we still have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/religion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;religion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;religion&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mythology&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mythology&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mythology&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/norse-gods&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;norse-gods&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;norse-gods&lt;/a&gt; tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first two deserve their own discussion as they too seem to be used inconsistently, but this post is about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/norse-gods&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;norse-gods&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;norse-gods&lt;/a&gt; - do we need this tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;11 questions currently have this tag. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/54836/at-what-point-are-asgardians-considered-full-grown&quot;&gt;One of them&lt;/a&gt; is only about mythology, and not SFF, and should be closed; 3 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/norse-gods+story-identification&quot;&gt;are [story-identification] questions&lt;/a&gt;; assorted others include Marvel Cinematic Universe questions; a Tolkien/ASOIAF question, and so forth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should this tag remain, or should we initiate a burnination?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastActivityDate="2017-09-02T11:19:07.273" Title="Is it time for Ragnarök for the [norse-gods]?" Tags="|discussion|tags|burnination|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11301" CreationDate="2017-09-02T10:28:33.330" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;This tag is being used entirely correctly and should remain.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are presently 11 uses of this tag. Excluding those closed for other reasons, almost all of them are asking about &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;the Norse Pantheon in relation to a science fictional setting&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/153850/short-story-collection-about-ancient-gods-in-modern-times&quot;&gt;Short story collection about ancient gods in modern times&lt;/a&gt; - Norse gods in modern times.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/146076/book-with-norse-gods-and-runes&quot;&gt;Book with Norse gods and runes&lt;/a&gt; - Book set in fantasy world where Norse Gods are a thing&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/94147/when-was-thor-first-portrayed-as-an-advanced-alien-not-a-god&quot;&gt;When was Thor first portrayed as an advanced alien, not a god?&lt;/a&gt; - Question about whether the Asgardians are aliens rather than literal gods&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/75580/did-gaiman-make-up-loki-skywalker-or-does-he-have-a-source-for-it&quot;&gt;Did Gaiman make up &amp;quot;Loki Skywalker&amp;quot;, or does he have a source for it?&lt;/a&gt;  - Question about the Norse Gods in relation to Star Wars&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/54851/how-did-humans-know-about-thor-and-loki&quot;&gt;How did humans know about Thor and Loki?&lt;/a&gt; - Question about the Norse Pantheon on Earth-616.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/34268/short-story-including-aliens-who-are-identified-with-loki-and-thor-from-antholo&quot;&gt;Short story including aliens who are identified with Loki and Thor (from anthology c. 1970)&lt;/a&gt; - Question about aliens who may have provided the inspiration for the Norse Gods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;etc etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-09-02T11:19:07.273" LastActivityDate="2017-09-02T11:19:07.273" CommentCount="20" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11298" CreationDate="2017-09-02T18:53:55.567" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10729/31178&quot;&gt;Specific episode indicators don't have a place in titles&lt;/a&gt;. It's cluttered and a waste of space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They can almost always be edited out, even if the title has to be altered to a better wording.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, I've always preferred to put the season and episode information early in the body, so it's visible in the preview, but also easier to avoid looking at if you've decided the title indicates you may want to skip the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An issue with episode information in titles is that there's no standard format, making it hard to search by or block. Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Episode's actual name&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Season 1 Episode 2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;S1E2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;S1:E2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ep 1002 (some naming conventions have season number and episode number combined into one)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is less about spoilers, and more about good titles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless the question is actually about the episode, such as Behind the Scenes, the director, filming location, etc, then the title is probably irrelevant. You'd probably have the same question about the events if editing had split the episodes up differently. So, the episode identifier is more Metadata for people trying to look at the same source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep titles clean, relevant, and useful to the primary  question itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are specific applications:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/168667/how-can-cersei-do-this-in-season-7&quot;&gt;How can Cersei do this in Season 7?&lt;/a&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;How did Cersei get this gold?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/135086/who-were-the-kingsguard-escorting-cersei-season-6-7?rq=1&quot;&gt;Who were the Kingsguard escorting Cersei?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Who were the Kingsguard escorting Cersei?&quot; That format of (Season 6/7) is essentially adding a &lt;em&gt;tag&lt;/em&gt; to a question title, and a &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; tag at that. (It's since been removed by the OP)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/134961/how-strong-is-daeneryss-claim-to-the-iron-throne-after-season-six?rq=1&quot;&gt;How strong is Daenerys&amp;#39;s claim to the Iron Throne after season six?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;How strong is Daenerys's claim to the Iron Throne?&quot; The &quot;after season six&quot; part is really metadata, and what happens if someone asks &quot;Before season six?&quot; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/131724/s6e08-what-was-it-that-cersei-and-qyburn-talked-about?rq=1&quot;&gt;S6E08 what was it that Cersei and Qyburn talked about?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;What was it that Cersei and Qyburn talked about?&quot; Again, the episode information here is essentially a tag. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/165699/what-did-arya-mean-by-thats-not-you-in-season-7-episode-2&quot;&gt;What did Arya mean by &amp;quot;That&amp;#39;s not you&amp;quot; in season 7 episode 2?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;What did Arya mean by 'That's not you'?&quot; how often has that character uttered that particular line? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is really no different than how we tag movies. Taking a random question of the current front page, we &lt;em&gt;wouldn't&lt;/em&gt; title this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/139475/why-didnt-old-biff-keep-the-time-machine&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t Old Biff keep the time machine?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;In Back to the Future II, why didn't Old Biff keep the time machine?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of that's because we &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; a tag for the movie. But when it comes to seasons, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6521/would-season-tags-be-useful&quot;&gt;we acknowledge that season tags don't make sense&lt;/a&gt;, and so putting them in the title is essentially circumventing our tagging policy (similar to how new users will add tags to titles when they don't have enough rep to make their own tags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a more relatable example is that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=title%3Achapter&quot;&gt;we almost never refer to chapter numbers/names&lt;/a&gt; in book questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2017-09-02T19:29:49.360" LastActivityDate="2017-09-02T19:29:49.360" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11304" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-02T20:16:29.737" Score="9" ViewCount="234" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/death-note&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;death-note&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;death-note&lt;/a&gt; tag reads as follows: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions regarding the manga and anime adaptation of Death Note&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this tag is currently used only 7 times, so it's not very popular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But with the recent release of an American live adaptation, there arises the question: how to properly tag it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The storyline diverges a lot between main material and &lt;a href=&quot;http://m.imdb.com/title/tt1241317/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the 2017 movie&lt;/a&gt;, so a new tag might be justified. But then remain the &lt;a href=&quot;http://asianwiki.com/Death_Note&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;cases of the other movies&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Video_Games&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;video games,&lt;/a&gt; and potential future adaptations. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Updating the current tag to include movies and games might be simpler, seeing its low usage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68504" LastEditorDisplayName="user68762" LastEditDate="2017-09-03T15:36:44.933" LastActivityDate="2017-09-13T10:49:56.903" Title="How should Netflix's Death Note movie be tagged?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11304" CreationDate="2017-09-02T22:27:48.400" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a couple of choices here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We could simply expand the tag definition to include the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Note_(2017_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; as well; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(&quot;&lt;em&gt;Questions regarding the manga, anime &lt;strong&gt;and other&lt;/strong&gt; adaptations of Death Note&lt;/em&gt;&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We could create a new tag for the film - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/death-note-2017&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;death-note-2017&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;death-note-2017&lt;/a&gt; to distinguish it. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that there are likely to be more questions about the film than about the Manga or Anime combined and given that the film is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; going to be a faithful rendition of the manga (unlike the anime which was pretty close), &lt;strong&gt;an entirely new tag seems the wise route to go down.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2017-09-13T10:49:56.903" LastActivityDate="2017-09-13T10:49:56.903" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2017-09-04T10:54:41.790" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bpdT7.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bpdT7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My avatar is just a plain and boring depiction of myself from &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.faceyourmanga.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Face Your Manga&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83101" LastActivityDate="2017-09-04T10:54:41.790" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11285" CreationDate="2017-09-05T08:51:08.580" Score="-4" Body="&lt;h1&gt;No&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Worldbuilding (or any other SE site) isn't our trashcan for bad questions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my experience, most of the speculative questions of that kind we get are really bad questions, but also not too frequent.  One that probably Worldbuilding wouldn't like either.  (This is hard to prove, because even with my 10000 score tools, it's not easy to browse deleted questions.)  It would not be nice of us to redirect people who ask bad questions to another SE site.  It would be especially bad to even categorically encourage that sort of question in a highly visible place in the Help Center, when those questions aren't that common in first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Look, someone had to write the no answer, so people can vote on it easily.  You should rather believe the Worldbuilding admin who spoke before me rather than me.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastActivityDate="2017-09-05T08:51:08.580" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2017-09-05T12:06:06.080" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;My real name, Stefano, has Greek origins and means &quot;crown&quot;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Sekhemty is the name of the ancient Egyptian double crown; I always had an interest in history, ancient and medieval in particular, and I chose an username that reflected these two things.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used this nickname on the Internet since, well, always.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is often misspelled as Sekh&lt;em&gt;empty&lt;/em&gt;, a somewhat annoying accusation of being a hollow person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83101" LastEditorUserId="83101" LastEditDate="2017-09-12T21:53:32.723" LastActivityDate="2017-09-12T21:53:32.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11313" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11322" CreationDate="2017-09-06T09:44:55.437" Score="14" ViewCount="614" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Update: The Winning Picture is &lt;em&gt;Galaxy Quest&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Date: October 6, 2017  11:00 PM GMT&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do you have a favourite movie? It's time to drag it through the dirt.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this movie night, parodies of any fantasy or science fiction movie or book should be nominated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Rules:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The parody &lt;strong&gt;must be an official movie&lt;/strong&gt;, so no fan parodies or home videos.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The parody &lt;strong&gt;must be intended as parody,&lt;/strong&gt; so really really bad sequels do not count as parodies of the original work.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The parody &lt;strong&gt;must be about fantasy or science fiction&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please also explain what work is being ridiculed by your proposed parody. If multiple works are being ridiculed, it's up to you to chose one of them and explain why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Scoring:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only upvotes will be counted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+1 bonus point for &lt;strong&gt;every 1k questions&lt;/strong&gt; a &lt;strong&gt;tag of the ridiculed work has&lt;/strong&gt; on the main site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+1 bonus point if &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt; (the nominator) &lt;strong&gt;have a gold badge in the tag&lt;/strong&gt; of the ridiculed work (I'm assuming it really &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; your favourite movie being ridiculed then).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The winning picture will be determined on September 24th&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Clarification&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If &lt;strong&gt;multiple tags apply&lt;/strong&gt; (e.g. with Tolkiens, book or movies?), &lt;strong&gt;pick the one you prefer&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You can co-host nominations&lt;/strong&gt; to get the +1 for the gold badge.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is everything clarified now? Then &lt;a href=&quot;https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l1YmS_VDvMY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;get on with it!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;FAQ&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is a movie night?&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7434/80374&quot;&gt;Here you go&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can I nominate a movie?&lt;/strong&gt; - Sure, just post an answer to this thread.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What if I can't stand that my favourite movie is being ridiculed?&lt;/strong&gt; - You may wanna skip this event then....&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80374" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-10-11T12:46:42.807" Title="October Movie Night - Galaxy Quest - 2017-10-06 11:00 PM GMT / 12:00 PM BST" Tags="|discussion|movie-night|chat-event|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11313" CreationDate="2017-09-06T12:38:42.173" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SatireParodyPastiche&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;I'm going to assume that pastiches are also valid&lt;/a&gt; and nominate &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Fury&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kung Fury&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, a pastiche of cheesy 80s films involving time travel and martial arts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oYPYUm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oYPYUm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Kung Fury - movie poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sometime in the early 1980s, Miami-Dade Police Department detective Kung Fury and his partner Dragon apprehend a red ninja in a back alley, but Dragon is sliced in half by the ninja while Kung Fury is suddenly struck by lightning and bitten by a cobra, giving him extraordinary kung fu powers that enable him to defeat his foe. Years later in 1985, after defeating a rogue arcade machine robot, Kung Fury quits the force when he is assigned to partner with Triceracop, fearing that he would lose another partner in the line of duty. Meanwhile, Adolf Hitler, a.k.a. &quot;Kung Führer&quot;, enters the timeline and remotely guns down the police chief and attacks the precinct through a mobile phone. Intent to avenge the chief, Kung Fury has computer whiz Hackerman send him back in time to kill Hitler in Nazi Germany. A glitch in the system, however, sends him back into the Viking Age. After Kung Fury meets the Viking valkyries Barbarianna and Katana, the Norse god Thor sends him to Nazi Germany for him to finish his job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a bonus, the movie is free to download, so it's very accessible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2017-09-06T12:38:42.173" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11313" CreationDate="2017-09-06T17:28:47.620" Score="11" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0094012/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Spaceballs&lt;/a&gt;, +4 bonus points (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Planet Spaceballs' President Skroob sends Lord Dark Helmet to steal planet Druidia's abundant supply of air to replenish their own, and only Lone Starr can stop them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Pgs9g.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Pgs9g.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Cover&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sounds familiar? That's because it's a hilariously done Star Wars and Star Trek parody, doing more than fair justice to the original. All your favourite characters are in there, as well as a good deal about passwords (don't use 123456789) and hyper-space-travelling (don't use &lt;em&gt;ludicrous speed&lt;/em&gt;) and even a few 4th wall break I'm not going to spoil here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With a rating of 7.1/10 on IMDb, it comes even close to the original which holds a score of 8.7/10.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/uWVSVgU-I0s?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80374" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-09-06T17:28:47.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11313" CreationDate="2017-09-06T17:41:01.780" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Traumschiff Surprise – Periode 1&lt;/strong&gt; - +3 Bonus points for 3,662 ''Star Trek'' questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d87Gu.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d87Gu.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Traumschiff Surprise – Periode 1 - movie poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What the heck, I'll suggest one that I haven't seen myself, but is apparently fairly well regarded, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumschiff_Surprise_%E2%80%93_Periode_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Traumschiff Surprise – Periode 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. It's available on &#xA;YouTube (although I'm now having trouble locating the version with English subtitles). It's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/146309/23243&quot;&gt;been cited as an answer&lt;/a&gt; to a &lt;code&gt;story-identification&lt;/code&gt; question (not accepted, but I still think it's the best match). And it's one of the only movies with a flying couch as a time machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to Wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(T)Raumschiff Surprise parodies the (mostly science fiction) films Star Trek, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, The Fifth Element, Back to the Future, The Time Machine, Independence Day, A Knight's Tale, Men in Black, Minority Report, High Noon, The Matrix, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and Twelve Monkeys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/1ttzRMIRZNM?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="23243" LastEditDate="2017-09-06T17:43:56.360" LastActivityDate="2017-09-06T17:43:56.360" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11317" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-06T21:41:16.150" Score="7" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd asked this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/169003/are-there-any-baratheons-left&quot;&gt;Are there any Baratheons left?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before my edit to make it strictly about the books(which was my original intent until someone pointed out that I'd inferred TV show knowledge), it was marked as a dupe of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/93775/succession-of-the-iron-throne-after-got-season-5-spoilers-whos-in-line&quot;&gt;Succession of the Iron Throne after GoT Season 5 (spoilers) - who's in line?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I know the show is based upon the books, but at the stage that the question about the show was asked, and even still, the show has moved past the books. My question is, are similar questions that cover works adapted across multiple mediums count as duplicate questions? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not arguing that my question isn't similar. I realize that it is. My contention point is that if we are going to have separate tags to differentiate the works, then the case could be made that they are not dupes. Especially given that when you adapt works across mediums, things get lost/added all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11159" LastEditorUserId="21267" LastEditDate="2017-09-06T23:18:42.713" LastActivityDate="2017-09-21T22:14:03.843" Title="Are questions about works that cross mediums considered dupes?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11318" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11320" CreationDate="2017-09-07T04:30:29.743" Score="16" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/169107/do-zombie-bites-in-the-resident-evil-games-turn-you-into-a-zombie&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on the scifi stack exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After I typed the question, I got a blurb that said &quot;The question you're asking appears subjective and is likely to be closed.&quot; I'm honestly curious why I got that. There's not a doubt in my mind that this is an objective yes/no answer and I have no reason to believe it will be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried a couple rewrites of the question and I kept getting the blurb, so I figure this is just bad parsing on the site's part, but I'm still curious why I got it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if I'm misunderstanding things and did post an off-topic question, please let me know and I'll delete it. But I'd still like an explanation as to why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56212" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2017-09-07T05:13:22.167" LastActivityDate="2017-09-07T05:13:22.167" Title="Why does the site think my question is subjective?" Tags="|support|title|subjective|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11317" CreationDate="2017-09-07T04:37:00.067" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It very much depends&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Different franchises handle this very differently.  For a brief survey of things I personally know about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; considers the films and TV shows to be a single shared continuity, but licensed works are usually thought of as having a lower level of canonicity, if not ignored outright.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stargate&lt;/em&gt;'s continuity includes the TV shows, and the film is widely ignored.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; semi-recently dropped from canonicity almost its entire expanded universe, and rebranded it as &quot;&lt;em&gt;Star Wars Legends&lt;/em&gt;.&quot;  Prior to this restructuring, the franchise had an &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_canon#1999.E2.80.932008:_Prequel_trilogy_and_establishment_of_the_Holocron_database&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;elaborate hierarchy&lt;/a&gt; classifying works into different levels of canon.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt;'s films &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/6862/36526&quot;&gt;clearly&lt;/a&gt; take place in a separate continuity from its books.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mass Effect&lt;/em&gt;'s licensed works take great pains to avoid contradicting possible player choices, leaving them on arguably equal footing with the games.  An entire &lt;a href=&quot;http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Paul_Grayson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;story arc&lt;/a&gt; is established in a series of licensed novels before being casually referenced in &lt;em&gt;Mass Effect 3&lt;/em&gt; with no other explanation or setup.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dragon Age&lt;/em&gt;, on the other hand, deliberately does not do this, so its licensed works are clearly set in a more specific continuity than the games.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;em&gt;just as an example&lt;/em&gt;, we could choose to dupe questions like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;: Allow duping questions about different series against each other, or questions about the TV shows and the movies.  Forbid duping questions about licensed works against canon stuff or &lt;em&gt;vice-versa&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stargate&lt;/em&gt;: Probably not an issue since most questions are about the TV shows anyway.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;: Same deal as with &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;, but a different division of labor: canon on one side, Legends on the other.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt;: Again, forbid duping books against movies or &lt;em&gt;vice-versa&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mass Effect&lt;/em&gt;: This is harder because we don't have a formal canon policy from Bioware, to my knowledge.  I would lean towards lumping everything together.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dragon Age&lt;/em&gt;: Questions about the licensed continuity are more specific than questions about the &quot;main&quot; continuity.  The licensed continuity can be thought of as one possible path through the games.  Allow duping in either direction accordingly, but only to the extent that the questions really are exact duplicates.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I am not actually proposing any of the above as formal policies&lt;/strong&gt;; please &lt;em&gt;do not&lt;/em&gt; cite this answer with respect to any of the above franchises.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above list is intended to illustrate that every franchise will require a different treatment, and there is no one-size-fits-all answer to this question as asked.  I would encourage close-voters and moderators to think carefully about these kinds of dupes, and to exercise common sense.  If two questions are clearly &quot;about&quot; the same thing, and they will clearly have the same answers, they should probably be duped.  If not, they should probably remain separate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="36526" LastEditDate="2017-09-21T03:20:57.117" LastActivityDate="2017-09-21T03:20:57.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11318" CreationDate="2017-09-07T05:10:16.253" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because you included the word 'you'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any title with the words &lt;em&gt;you, your, best, favorite/favourite, worst&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;hardest&lt;/em&gt; get this warning. It's kind of outdated; see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/20010/what-algorithm-does-stack-exchange-use-to-determine-if-a-question-may-be-subject/20014#20014&quot;&gt;What algorithm does Stack Exchange use to determine if a question may be subjective?&lt;/a&gt; on Meta.SE. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2017-09-07T05:10:16.253" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11317" CreationDate="2017-09-07T15:53:17.963" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;While answers &lt;em&gt;don't always&lt;/em&gt; make a duplicate, they can give us a good idea.&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9743/does-this-meta-policy-overrule-our-meta/9744#9744&quot;&gt;Further reading&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is because the answer given to the question yours was marked a duplicate of effectively answers your question. One answer was almost directly copied and pasted from that question.  The answer covers both the show and books, so it would not matter in this case if the tags were different. In the end if the reason for something happening across media types is the same, typically because one media is the &quot;source&quot; and one is the &quot;adaptation&quot;, the question is probably a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2017-09-21T22:14:03.843" LastActivityDate="2017-09-21T22:14:03.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11313" CreationDate="2017-09-07T16:02:11.057" Score="13" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Quest&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Galaxy Quest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sgMbe.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sgMbe.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;+3 bonus points for ~3.7k &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it a parody or a sci-fi comedy in its own right? This movie is so awesome it is hard to tell!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Galaxy Quest is an acknowledged homage to Star Trek; therefore a variety of elements in the former correspond to those of the latter. The television program within the film, Galaxy Quest, is set around the starship NSEA Protector, an instrument of the National Space Exploration Administration, which are parodies of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) and Starfleet respectively. The prefix of the Protector’s registration number NTE-3120 ostensibly alludes to some sort of similar space federation, but in reality stands for &amp;quot;Not The Enterprise&amp;quot;, according to visual effects co-supervisor Bill George in a 2000 interview with Cinefex magazine.[20]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This homage also extended to the original marketing of the movie, including a promotional website[21] intentionally designed to look like a poorly constructed fan website, with &amp;quot;screen captures&amp;quot; and poor HTML coding. The homage even parodied the effect that Star Trek had on the social lives of its cast members, such as how Alex Dane (played by Alan Rickman) has been typecast after his success in the Galaxy Quest television show; this reflects the lamentations of Leonard Nimoy, who had been typecast after his performance as Spock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-09-12T20:01:25.780" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11323" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-07T17:37:49.333" Score="6" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;The description for the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use this tag when specifying the question is about the movie version or adaptation of a story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This raises a couple questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Could this imply that the OP is looking for answers specific to the movie version of a work, and thus unintentionally turning away possible answers from other versions, even when the &lt;strong&gt;question itself&lt;/strong&gt; does not specify which sources to use? Since wikis are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1627/75000&quot;&gt;written for the site's audience&lt;/a&gt;, it seems we'd want everyone to know exactly what they're looking for.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2555/75000&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; mentions that, because the different versions contain different elements, that tagging with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; makes sense, but what if the question is about something they all share? Is it still appropriate to use this tag because the OP's question &lt;strong&gt;stemmed&lt;/strong&gt; from something they saw while watching the movie?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I'm the one with the confusion, my suggestions would be that we either reword the wiki to &lt;strong&gt;specifically&lt;/strong&gt; allow answers from other versions, or create a new tag (dibs) that can be used when the OP only wants answers based on the movie(s), such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie-specific&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie-specific&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie-specific&lt;/a&gt; or something along those lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of a reworked wiki could be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use this tag when specifying the question is about the movie version or adaptation of a story. This tag does not disallow answers from the books, video games, or other versions of the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far the normal thing to do when you only want answers about a specific universe is to state them in your question, and rewording the current wiki will allow that to continue. If we make the new tag, we might also want to make new ones (dibs) for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-specific&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-specific&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-specific&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-specific&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-specific&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-specific&lt;/a&gt; so all the generic bases are covered, similar to how &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-legends&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-legends&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-legends&lt;/a&gt; works for specifying canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what are our thoughts on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75000" LastActivityDate="2017-11-30T08:50:20.153" Title="When should we go to the [movie]?" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11313" CreationDate="2017-09-08T01:28:27.430" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3416742/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;What We Do in the Shadows&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bonus points&lt;/strong&gt;: 0&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Parodies:&lt;/strong&gt; Vampire genre&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Official&lt;/strong&gt;: Yes&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Main site tag&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vampire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vampire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vampire&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/IAZEWtyhpes?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Written and directed by our good mates &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taika_Waititi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Taika Waititi&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Thor: Ragnarok&lt;/em&gt;) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jemaine_Clement&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jemaine Clement&lt;/a&gt; (Flight of the Conchords), &lt;em&gt;What We Do in the Shadows&lt;/em&gt; is a 'mockumentary' about Vampires (and Werewolves) and their daily lives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HRn4M.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HRn4M.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cdn.bloody-disgusting.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/what-we-do-in-the-shadows.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;img src&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;Honestly, even if this doesn't get chosen, do yourselves a favour and watch it at some point!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="21267" LastEditDate="2017-09-08T02:59:54.807" LastActivityDate="2017-09-08T02:59:54.807" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11325" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-08T17:25:13.910" Score="3" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that we have a daily cap on reputation gain, but this is not what I'm interested in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty much like the title says, how can I be notified of the upvotes/downvotes in my posts when i have reached the daily cap? The notifier on the top bar basically only informas me of reputation changes, not of the activity and performance of my posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to keep track of this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83101" LastActivityDate="2017-09-08T17:25:13.910" Title="How can I be notified of upvotes when I have reached the daily reputation cap?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11327" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-08T21:09:17.567" Score="-7" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am to ask a question which concerns the Phial.  Does anyone see need to make a new tag, or should I be content with the two other tags on my question?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(Those tags are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkiens-legendarium&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkiens-legendarium&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkiens-legendarium&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt; — probably specific enough.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68218" LastActivityDate="2017-09-08T21:26:49.717" Title="New tag? [phial-of-galadriel]" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11327" CreationDate="2017-09-08T21:26:49.717" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As first proffered by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/68872&quot; &gt;Edlothiad&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;No.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No one can really be an &quot;expert&quot; in the Phial of Galadriel, and it's unlikely anyone would search specifically for questions about the phial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68218" LastActivityDate="2017-09-08T21:26:49.717" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2017-09-08T21:26:49.717" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11329" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11330" CreationDate="2017-09-09T18:12:21.830" Score="14" ViewCount="436" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11273/what-do-we-do-with-this-question-that-doesnt-have-a-current-answer&quot;&gt;there&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3014/should-all-questions-without-explicit-canon-answers-be-closed&quot;&gt;have&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1699/are-questions-without-enough-data-unanswerable&quot;&gt;been&lt;/a&gt; some posts that already state that providing an answer of &lt;strong&gt;&quot;We Don't Know&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; can be acceptable provided that the answer still follows the site guidelines of a good answer (i.e. referenced, well reasoned, support from the works).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I feel it is a good idea to have a &quot;final&quot; discussion on the matter with a direct answer. Most of the other posts I found related to a single question and do not address the policy as whole. I am writing this post that get the direct answer so that it can be linked to any further discussions or when new users ask; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are We Don't Know Answers Acceptable?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2018-10-06T16:18:49.890" LastActivityDate="2018-10-06T16:18:49.890" Title="Are answers that state &quot;We Don't Know&quot; acceptable?" Tags="|discussion|answers|site-faq|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11329" CreationDate="2017-09-09T21:35:12.830" Score="32" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For many questions, &quot;we don't know&quot; is &lt;strong&gt;the correct answer&lt;/strong&gt; - it would be beyond foolish to seek to ban such answers. Of course, a plain &quot;we don't know&quot; without saying anything more than those three words would probably make for a bad answer, just like any other unsupported three-word answer. Here are some ideas I &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/58631?m=38691370#38691370&quot;&gt;once came up with&lt;/a&gt; for possible ways to make a &quot;we don't know&quot; answer good:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;show your work&lt;/em&gt;. Give list of Google queries you used, or resource sites/pages checked, or terms searched in e-books.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;list all the information we &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; know (&quot;there's no mention of xyz - the closest is this mention of yxz on page 73&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;give some sort of explanation for why it's reasonable that we don't know (&quot;it wouldn't make sense for them to tell us, because blah blah blah&quot; or &quot;people have written fanfic taking xyz in this direction, so it's unlikely to be confirmed as going in that direction anywhere in canon&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The basic principle, as with many SE answers, is to &lt;strong&gt;back it up&lt;/strong&gt; if at all possible. Of course it tends to be hard to prove a negative, but any sort of extra knowledge - even just a deep personal experience of the topic - can be helpful. If you say &quot;I've searched through all the books and also supplementary information on websites X, Y, and Z, and none of them say anything about this&quot;, that's a much more respectable answer than &quot;dunno, mate&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2017-09-10T15:32:19.403" LastActivityDate="2017-09-10T15:32:19.403" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11331" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11332" CreationDate="2017-09-10T12:02:34.850" Score="0" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;How many of the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/in-memoriam&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;in-memoriam&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;in-memoriam&lt;/a&gt; posts here are for stfantasy writers (or editors or artists) compared with how many for actors (or directors)? If someone has both written and acted, go with what they're best known for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2017-09-10T12:53:16.703" LastActivityDate="2017-09-12T23:58:56.133" Title="How many of the [in-memoriam] posts are for writers compared to how many for actors?" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11331" CreationDate="2017-09-10T13:05:31.570" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Actors - 10&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11212/&quot;&gt;Robert Hardy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11139/&quot;&gt;Martin Landau&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11038/&quot;&gt;Stephen Furst&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11014/&quot;&gt;Adam West&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10650/&quot;&gt;Bill Paxton&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10546/&quot;&gt;John Hurt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10598/&quot;&gt;Richard Hatch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10442/&quot;&gt;Carrie Fisher&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6648/&quot;&gt;Leonard Nimoy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6956/&quot;&gt;Christopher Lee&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Film makers/directors - 1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11137/&quot;&gt;George A. Romero&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Authors - 4&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6712/&quot;&gt;Terry Pratchett&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/949/&quot;&gt;Anne MacCaffrey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11333/&quot;&gt;Jerry Pournelle&lt;/a&gt; &lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;posted after this Q&amp;amp;A&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11334/&quot;&gt;Len Wein&lt;/a&gt; &lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;posted after this Q&amp;amp;A&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Site members - 1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7204/&quot;&gt;Michael Hollinger (Affable Geek)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60757" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2017-09-12T09:41:43.420" LastActivityDate="2017-09-12T09:41:43.420" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11333" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-11T09:17:29.917" Score="42" ViewCount="400" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jerry Pournelle&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/9/16279582/jerry-pournelle-science-fiction-author-writing-computers-obituary&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;first author to write a novel on a computer&lt;/a&gt;, passed away &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/passings/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;September 8th&lt;/a&gt;, at the age of 84.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He has a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Bibliography&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;long list of science fiction novels&lt;/a&gt;, and he has his own tag here on SFF: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jerry-pournelle&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jerry-pournelle&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jerry-pournelle&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Dead. I had to be dead. But dead men don't think about death. What do dead men think about? Dead men don't think. I was thinking - but I was dead. That struck me as funny and set off hysterics. And then I'd get myself under control and go 'round and 'round with it again. Dead. This was like nothing any religion had ever taught. Not that I'd ever 'caught' any of the religions going around. But none had warned of this.”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;sub&gt;― Jerry Pournelle, &lt;em&gt;Inferno&lt;/em&gt; (courtesy of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/39099.Jerry_Pournelle&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Goodreads&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2017-09-11T09:17:29.917" Title="RIP Jerry Pournelle" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11334" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-11T15:14:26.730" Score="20" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;September 10th was marked by the passing of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Wein&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Len Wein&lt;/a&gt;, the comic book writer known for his work on Swamp Thing and Wolverine (the two he co-created with various artists), and other things. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I don't pretend to know anything about his works in general, I am familiar with his work on &lt;em&gt;Watchmen&lt;/em&gt; prequels - &lt;em&gt;Before Watchmen: Dollar Bill&lt;/em&gt; one-shot and the &lt;em&gt;Before Watchmen: Ozymandias&lt;/em&gt; miniseries. The latter in particular provides a great backstory for one of the best characters in &lt;em&gt;Watchmen&lt;/em&gt;, and it's even more interesting since Wein was the editor of the original run of &lt;em&gt;Watchmen&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastActivityDate="2017-09-11T15:14:26.730" Title="In Memoriam: Len Wein (1948-2017)" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11331" CreationDate="2017-09-12T15:21:18.680" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not sure users should guilt-trip one another into posting &lt;em&gt;in memoriam&lt;/em&gt; stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me present what Stanislaw Lem (or rather &#xA;Chlorian Theoreticus the Proph)&#xA;has to say on the subject:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Let them know, they who will worship me and raise up gilded monuments&#xA;  to my memory, that in return I wish them all to— to sprain their&#xA;  sprockets, pop their valves, burn out their transmissions, and may&#xA;  their data be dumped, and verdigris cover them from head to foot, if&#xA;  all they are able to do is honor corpses exhumed from the cemetery of&#xA;  history! Perchance there will arise among them a new sage, but they,&#xA;  slavishly poring over the remains of some letters I wrote to my&#xA;  laundress, will take no notice of him! Let them know, I say, oh let&#xA;  them know, once and for all, that they have my heartfelt damnation and&#xA;  most sincere contempt, that I hold them all for &lt;strong&gt;skeleton-kissers,&#xA;  corpse-lickers, professional axle-jackals, who feed on carrion because&#xA;  they are blind to wisdom when it is alive!&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  ~ The Cyberiad - Tale of the Three Storytelling Machines of King&#xA;  Genius&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We honor the brilliance of creators of secondary worlds by discussing their work here. It makes no difference whether they are alive or dead. Their creations are alive and they are at our (nonexistent) mercy to &lt;s&gt;over&lt;/s&gt;analyse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you think Terry Pratchett, who had no respect for empty, or as he called it 'recycled words' would have preferred, a sentimental post about him being dead as a stone or a lively discussion about one of his books ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't authors like Robert Sheckley or Philip K. Dick (and many other writers) who died in poverty would have appreciated it more if someone helped them out &lt;em&gt;while they were alive?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why should we lament over the corpses of the deceased authors,  writing however beautifully executed if a bit morbid posts on meta, instead of say, posting questions on the main site about the author and his work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user68762" LastEditorDisplayName="user68762" LastEditDate="2017-09-12T23:58:56.133" LastActivityDate="2017-09-12T23:58:56.133" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11336" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-12T16:07:46.340" Score="-7" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hope this question doesn't offend anyone, but here goes:&#xA;Are the sci-fi like parts of the Bible (Ezekiel's vison - Ezekiel 1:1–3:27 etc) considered on topic? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89771" LastActivityDate="2017-09-12T17:52:05.817" Title="Are the sci-fi like parts of the Bible on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2017-09-12T19:33:47.543" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11336" CreationDate="2017-09-12T17:52:05.817" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think part of the problem is that, by claiming parts of it are &quot;sci-fi&quot;, you are essentially saying &quot;this is fictional&quot;. It would be a bit like asking if we can talk about the parts of Egyptian history that are &quot;sci-fi like&quot; like the pyramids.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, as Valorum commented in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10186/how-do-we-differentiate-between-religion-and-fiction&quot;&gt;How do we differentiate between religion and fiction?&lt;/a&gt;, we really need to take things on a case-by-case basis. What sort of questions were you thinking of asking?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2017-09-12T17:52:05.817" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11323" CreationDate="2017-09-12T20:44:45.460" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a suggestion to be voted on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This tag has three different uses: for questions specifically about the movie version of a work which has been adapted for different media (answers may draw on any adaptation but must be relevant to the question); for questions seeking identification of a movie (use together with the [story-identification] tag); or for wider genre questions about movies as a whole (generally together with the [history-of] tag).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Alas for the lack of markdown in tag wiki excerpts ...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't checked whether this text is too long for the character limit on excerpts. If so, we can put some of the text in parentheses into the main tag wiki instead (although bearing in mind that even fewer people read the tag wiki than the excerpt). Some kind of warning about the third category, to avoid people asking overly broad questions, might also be nice, but it would probably have to go in the main wiki rather than the excerpt, due to that character limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-11-30T08:50:20.153" LastActivityDate="2017-11-30T08:50:20.153" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11340" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-13T20:44:05.823" Score="9" ViewCount="237" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently had an NAA flag declined and was given the following reason: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;declined - It answers the question using an argument by analogy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are analogies really acceptable as answers, particularly ones with no supporting evidence? At best they provide a vague explanation, at worst they might not even be understood as analogies can differ by region or country. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we really be accepting these poor attempts at an answer as actual answers?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2017-09-13T20:47:58.607" LastActivityDate="2017-09-20T20:31:34.200" Title="Are analogies acceptable as answers?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|answers|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11340" CreationDate="2017-09-13T23:55:56.197" Score="17" Body="&lt;h2&gt;A poor attempt at an answer is still an answer&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bar for what constitutes &quot;an answer&quot; is extremely low. From what you say, the user was attempting to answer the question, which is more than enough for a &quot;Not an answer&quot; flag to be declined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you believe it is a bad answer, it is certainly a good idea to down vote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66402" LastEditorUserId="66402" LastEditDate="2017-09-14T02:17:02.777" LastActivityDate="2017-09-14T02:17:02.777" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11340" CreationDate="2017-09-14T09:30:04.730" Score="25" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Of course.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An argument by analogy is a perfectly good example of a reasonable argument which can be used to support a point. If someone asks why X happens in a work of sci-fi or fantasy, it may well make perfect sense to explain it by pointing to known reasons why X' happens in the real world and extrapolating from that analogous situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some of the answers I found on a quick 1-minute search which are based primarily or entirely on arguments by analogy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/113005/31394&quot;&gt;Why does everyone think that the Millennium Falcon is a piece of junk?&lt;/a&gt; (score &lt;strong&gt;47&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/113001/31394&quot;&gt;Why does everyone think that the Millennium Falcon is a piece of junk?&lt;/a&gt; (score &lt;strong&gt;230&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/123983/31394&quot;&gt;Why are ships in Star Wars so ridiculously easy to steal?&lt;/a&gt; (score &lt;strong&gt;74&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/28238/31394&quot;&gt;Does no one run in Star Trek?&lt;/a&gt; (score &lt;strong&gt;132&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/20945/31394&quot;&gt;Why is it that after 8,000 years, technology in Westeros has not evolved in the world of the Game of Thrones?&lt;/a&gt; (score &lt;strong&gt;85&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/95173/31394&quot;&gt;How much would a ticket to Jurassic World cost?&lt;/a&gt; (score &lt;strong&gt;65&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somehow I doubt you'll be flagging many of these as NaA ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-09-14T20:21:58.923" LastActivityDate="2017-09-14T20:21:58.923" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11313" CreationDate="2017-09-14T21:49:49.080" Score="2" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489049/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fanboys&lt;/a&gt; (+4 bonus &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTI2MDM0NTY5OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODMxMzIwMg@@._V1_UX182_CR0,0,182,268_AL_.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Fanboys poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489049/videoplayer/vi3468690201?ref_=tt_pv_vi_aiv_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;View trailer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Parody of:&lt;/strong&gt; Scifi fandom in general, and Star Wars fandom more specifically. There are significant parodies of and references to scenes from Star Wars, as well as Star Trek and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489049/trivia?tab=mc&amp;amp;ref_=tt_trv_cnn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;other sci-fi&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Premise:&lt;/strong&gt; You and your similarly geeky friends are die-hard Star Wars fans, and finally, after a couple decades, actual new movies are being made. You can't wait for Episode I to finally arrive. But then, one of your friends finds out that he has a terminal illness, and likely won't live to actually see the premiere of the exciting new movie he's been waiting for his whole life. Thus, a plan is hatched to take a big road trip and sneak into Skywalker Ranch so they can see the final cut of the film while their friend is still around to enjoy it. As they go on their trip, they meet an extensive cast of cameo appearances, primarily from Star Wars but also other sci-fi properties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rating:&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;PG-13 for pervasive crude and sexual material, language and drug content.&quot; I personally find the crude material districts from the fun of the main premise, and I even fast-forwarded through some of it that I just didn't find appealing. But even with that, it seemed that it ought to be nominated as it's a fandom film that I suspect isn't as seen as some of the more well-known ones listed here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user22502" LastActivityDate="2017-09-14T21:49:49.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2017-09-15T07:47:06.377" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a bit of nonsense poetry from the album &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pP5flx6MtA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Who Can I Turn To Stereo&lt;/a&gt;&quot; by experimental music project &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_with_Wound&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Nurse With Wound&lt;/a&gt;. For a while it was the band's only album on Spotify, and when I first listened to it, it was just about the weirdest thing I'd ever heard. The dadaist lyrics and song titles really stuck in my mind. The first track, &quot;Tune Time Machine&quot;, includes the wonderful wordage:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A great, armed mass of darkness fish was approaching. I had the girl, the records, and the jeweled knife, but he had the time machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on the album, there's an instrumental track titled &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzwro80aaks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Approaching Darkness Fish&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, followed immediately by the brief &quot;Darkness Fish&quot;, making this cthonic creature an icon of sorts for the album in my mind. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no intended connection to science fiction (I chose the name while I was still more active on StackOverflow), despite the lyrics' references to time machine. It's just a weird blurb of absurdist humor from an obscure musician I like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12857" LastEditorUserId="12857" LastEditDate="2017-09-18T06:52:56.380" LastActivityDate="2017-09-18T06:52:56.380" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2017-09-15T11:26:01.423" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came up with my Internet handle when I was 9. It's literally just &quot;F1-crazy&quot;, as in, &quot;crazy about Formula One&quot;, which I was (and thankfully, I still am). &quot;F1Crazy&quot; looked weird somehow, so I spelled it with a K instead. I quickly grew attached to the name and have been using it ever since. If you see an F1Krazy anywhere on the Internet, chances are that's me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76048" LastActivityDate="2017-09-15T11:26:01.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11346" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-16T07:01:58.290" Score="16" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;Noted character actor &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Dean_Stanton&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harry Dean Stanton&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; has died at the age of 91. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a career spanning more than 60 years, he starred in a number of hit science-fiction and fantasy films including Alien, The Green Mile, Repo Man, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Escape from New York and The Avengers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qEX3v.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qEX3v.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Samuel Brett: Alien&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-09-16T10:14:24.780" LastActivityDate="2017-09-16T10:14:24.780" Title="RIP Harry Dean Stanton" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11349" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11350" CreationDate="2017-09-18T19:53:05.047" Score="15" ViewCount="196" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm asking in relation this question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/127608/in-canon-has-a-jedi-ever-killed-a-sith-using-the-light-side&quot;&gt;In canon, has a Jedi ever killed a Sith using the light side?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wrote a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/169887/20774&quot;&gt;new answer&lt;/a&gt; to that question, and another individual then added my answer to the old, accepted one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that it changes the old answer from &lt;em&gt;maybe&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;yes&lt;/em&gt; and isn't what people voted on back when it was written. Also, it makes my answer redundant. &lt;strong&gt;Should the edit be rolled back?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78411" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-09-18T20:53:49.997" LastActivityDate="2017-09-18T20:53:49.997" Title="What is the protocol when another user incorporates my answer into an existing answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2017-09-28T17:41:50.273" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11349" CreationDate="2017-09-18T20:53:15.320" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This was an inappropriate edit for a couple of reasons&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It dramatically changed the meaning of the existing answer &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It borrowed heavily from a new answer to the same question without offering any attribution, making the OP of that question look (to the casual viewer. e.g. one unfamiliar with how the edit-history button works) like they'd taken the answer from you.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/127610/revisions&quot;&gt;rolled it back&lt;/a&gt; to an earlier version. Kudos on finding a new and potentially better answer to the question within the canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2017-09-18T20:53:15.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2017-09-19T12:29:27.287" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;My user name, TheLethalCarrot, is taken from my &lt;a href=&quot;http://steamcommunity.com/id/TheLethalCarrot/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;gaming name&lt;/a&gt; used on all new communities I join.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It used to be TheLethalCoder which was an extension from the above as I had originally joined Stack Exchange on Stack Overflow and so wanted to change it a bit to be more appropriate, it still is that on most sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, recently @Edlothiad informed me that there was a charcter in A Song of Ice and Fire called Carrot and so I updated back to the original:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Carrot, you'll have charge of their chests and boxes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2017-09-19T12:29:27.287" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11352" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-19T18:17:59.953" Score="0" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that this site is a bit fanatical about big lists. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not that this is a problem &lt;em&gt;per se&lt;/em&gt;, but &lt;strong&gt;I don't understand why basically every sort of question is considered answerable with an unnecessary big list even when there is nothing that could suggest this is the kind of answer the OP wants or needs.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have answered a couple of questions with lists myself (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/169508/83101&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/169954/83101&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;), but the questions were stated in a way that made this the only viable way to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I have asked a couple of questions that resulted in big list answers, even if in my opinion nothing could have suggested that this was what I wanted. I don't mean to give offense at all to the answerers, their posts were detailed and informative, but they simply were not exactly what I was asking. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In example, my &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/168630/83101&quot;&gt;Who was reputed to be the best swordsman of all Westeros?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; was answered with a long list of characters, even if the text of the question in my opinion was clear about asking for at most two names.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, even on &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/169891/83101&quot;&gt;Which realm in Westeros had the best archers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, a big list was given as an answer, even if there was much less reason to do so. I was asking something different, and even if the poster improved and modified it according to my comments (pointing out that I was asking for something else), this was not exactly what I was hoping.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Again, no offence is meant towards the users that answered me!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How can I prevent this behaviour in the future? Why is not clear that if I ask details, references and clarifications about a single subject I'm not asking about a list of a thousand undetailed and unrelated entries?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes less is more, after all everyone can consult the wikis, if one asks something here is because, supposedly, he want a bit more detail about a single subject or because he don't have the time or don't want to read through a lot of things that are not pertinent to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83101" LastEditorUserId="21267" LastEditDate="2017-09-20T04:56:45.963" LastActivityDate="2017-09-20T04:56:45.963" Title="Why are so many questions unnecessarily answered with lists? And how to prevent it?" Tags="|discussion|answers|list-questions|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11353" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-19T18:29:40.543" Score="-9" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not going to give examples to avoid calling anybody out, but I have come across a few instances where the search terms a user has used to find the information for their answer/comment were labeled and listed somewhere in their response. Whenever I see this I get a &lt;em&gt;look-how-easy-it-was-to-find-this-information&lt;/em&gt; vibe, and &lt;strong&gt;to me&lt;/strong&gt; it comes off as condescending. Is there a community policy/opinion regarding this behavior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75000" LastActivityDate="2018-03-27T22:13:02.200" Title="Is listing your search terms considered rude?" Tags="|discussion|policy|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11353" CreationDate="2017-09-19T19:08:21.473" Score="22" Body="&lt;h1&gt;It's actually a good idea, in my opinion, especially for story identification questions.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think about it this way: instead of it being 'oh look how easy it was to find the info', think of it as teaching the OP - and anyone else who reads it - how to find answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone asks a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; question, and someone answers without including the search terms that they used, that doesn't help anyone who wants to improve their Google-fu. If they do include the terms, however, they teach people about what sites to use, what keywords to use, where to put quotes...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Searching is difficult. Knowing how to use the correct search terms is hard. It's &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; if people include the terms - it helps people know how to find their answers better next time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-09-19T19:08:21.473" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11353" CreationDate="2017-09-19T19:08:57.443" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I wouldn't consider it rude&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you suggest, it is possible that the answerer's intention was to point out how easy it was to find the answer. We expect users to do some research before asking a question, and this would be a &lt;em&gt;relatively&lt;/em&gt; non-confrontational way of suggesting that the user should do more research in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also possible that the answerer's intention was simply to document how he or she arrived at the answer, so that others can verify it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66402" LastEditorUserId="66402" LastEditDate="2018-03-27T22:13:02.200" LastActivityDate="2018-03-27T22:13:02.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11352" CreationDate="2017-09-19T19:24:21.377" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you can't say something new, say something better (and more is always better).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider this, there is a question you know the answer to, but none of the 3 existing answers say what you think the answer is. You could add your answer, but to anyone who doesn't know the universe, there is no way to tell why your answer is better or more right. Its &lt;em&gt;just another&lt;/em&gt; person's opinion (especially if an existing answer has a source).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you get lists. Lists say, &quot;look at the research I did, and all these sources I found&quot;. Consider your question &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/169891/83101&quot;&gt;Which realm in Westeros had the best archers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. You asked a question, I gave an answer with ~50 words, one example, and a picture. The top voted answer has about 6000 words and a dozen examples. To those finding this on the HNQ, that seems like the better answer (I'm not commenting on if it is or not, I haven't read it in it entirety).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Making list/showing your work is a cheap way of looking like the better answer to people who don't know what they are looking at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said. I really don't know how to prevent it. Hold answers to better standards. Don't throw upvotes around as liberally. Comment when you think you see padding and recommend the answerer edits it down. Suggest your own edit to trim the padding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Disclaimer: I'm not saying lists are a bad idea. We should always support our answers with sources. However, I do agree that it can get out of hand sometimes. Especially when it's questionably applicable, and mostly just padding.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62201" LastActivityDate="2017-09-19T19:24:21.377" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11352" CreationDate="2017-09-19T20:22:59.650" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is not a list, it is research!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By showing why you came to a conclusion, through the exploration of different avenues, is the way great answers are built. The &quot;list&quot; reduces comments saying &quot;Hey what about this other guy/thing/piece of information&quot;. A true expert in a work/universe will generally know where to find different examples that fit a question in some way. Using these examples to come to a well reasoned conclusion should be encouraged! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As in all good research it is all about Sources, Sources, Sources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange as a whole encourages well-researched answers that provide a greater understanding to the question asked. Giving short one-line answers or answers with poor research are usually not well received. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In the end I don't think you can prevent this.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users posting answer have their own style. If you feel the answer is not useful, you can down-vote it.  You also have the power to accept any answer as well. If you get two answers that are the same, but feel one provides the information in a more concise way, the way you prefer, give it the ol' check mark.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for specifics to the examples you listed in your question... They are both rather subjective in-universe. If an answer just provided a single point of reference there could be room for argument or multiple conflicting answers. The answers given try to take this into account and give you a full scope on how/why they arrived to their conclusion. This is to help you understand the scope of the question you asked.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-09-19T21:06:59.353" LastActivityDate="2017-09-19T21:06:59.353" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11353" CreationDate="2017-09-19T20:43:24.113" Score="3" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The user was probably educated in American modern school. As I found out to my horror, they grade you not on how well you solve the problem in Math, but on how anal you are about documenting your solution process. So, people are trained to show their steps, on pain of downvote lower grade.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leaving that rant aside, showing how the answer was arrived at is actually a useful thing on a Q&amp;amp;A side. Yes, it has a slight whiff of possible condescension. &lt;strong&gt;The usefulness - to both OP AND to everyone reading the answer - outweighs that downside by a large margin&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Orthogonally, there is a category of answers where search terms are basically 100% required for a good answer. More specifically, &lt;strong&gt;any answer where either whole or part of the answer is &quot;we don't know&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At that point, exact proof of how you arrived at &quot;don't know&quot; conclusion is required for the answer to be any good, which absolutely requires you to list exact efforts you put in to find the answer including &lt;strong&gt;exact&lt;/strong&gt; search terms, so people can see if you missed any possible searches and try to improve.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2017-09-19T20:43:24.113" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11352" CreationDate="2017-09-19T21:12:41.447" Score="12" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Answers are not just for the original questioner&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are asking a question, you are certainly free to say that you prefer brief, concise answers. You can reward brief, concise answers with up votes and by accepting one of them as the answer. You can even down vote answers that you think are too lengthy (although I don't recommend that), but you can't prevent such answers being posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal of this site is to build a library of good questions and answers. Answers are not only intended to provide what the OP needs or wants, they are intended to provide answers that future readers may be looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66402" LastEditorUserId="66402" LastEditDate="2017-09-19T23:45:59.260" LastActivityDate="2017-09-19T23:45:59.260" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11352" CreationDate="2017-09-20T02:46:03.070" Score="9" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Why list answers are provided&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;People like lists&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an easy thing to understand, as far as formatting is concerned, lists provide an easy way to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Break up your sentence and paragraph structures&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make explicit the point you're talking about&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make additional points which might not be specifically related to the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Summarise points made&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes your answers more clear, concise and easy to follow for the reader(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Not every question is limited in scope&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may have asked about one thing, but that one thing may have related topics. In fact, that thing you asked about may not necessarily have an answer, or a single answer. Someone may want to provide related discussions that help supplement the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take for example my answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/169182/21267&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. The OP is asking 'who the current ruler of Dorne is', where in fact, there either isn't one, or there could be options depending on 'x, y and z'. So I've given a list of options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;There may be more than one reason for the same answer&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Breaking up the answer into a list of either possibilities or explanations increases your ability to make the answer more easy to understand. Especially if there is more than one way to get at the same answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;How you can limit responses that are 'lists'&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Be specific and narrow your scope&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think about what it is that you're asking:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Could there be more to it than you think?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What might people's response to this be?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What do I really want to know here?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you know the answer to those questions, you will be able to be very specific about what you're asking ,and the intended answers you're expecting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Be explicit&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may also add a clause or statement, either&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;in a comment or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;in the body of your question itself&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;requesting that answers don't be provided in 'list' format. This can help reduce &lt;s&gt;inflammation&lt;/s&gt; the likelyhood that someone posts a list answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-09-20T02:46:03.070" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11340" CreationDate="2017-09-20T20:31:34.200" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The specific answer referred to has been deleted, but to address the general question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By analogy, if you were dealing with an advanced AI of some sort and it got locked up due to unclarity of factors involved in a calculation/decision, you might resolve the lockup with a new piece of input that was only indirectly related to the exact question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if, for instance, the AI were locked up on an equation (decision) concerning trees, and could not determine whether they should require active watering or should be left grow on their own (or whatever), it might be able to supply an educated guess or at least &quot;make up its mind&quot; and proceed merrily on its way if fed the datum that an &lt;em&gt;idea&lt;/em&gt;, when planted in a society in the form of a book, can grow and transform quite without guidance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or it might find the analogy somewhat irrelevant and mind-bendingly unclear, and stay stuck in its dilemma.  That could depend on the analogy used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now read this answer again.  ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59810" LastActivityDate="2017-09-20T20:31:34.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11364" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11368" CreationDate="2017-09-25T20:55:18.643" Score="-15" ViewCount="667" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have high rep (&gt;10k), you can see this answer of mine: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/170330/931&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/170330/931&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't delete it. And, I have no idea why it was deleted. I guess it was found offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other posts on the same page either say or assume Hitler and Nazi Germany absolute evil and nobody found it offensive. When I put it with different perspective to show that Wizards might not see Hitler as most people see, everyone is finding it offensive. I don't think criticizing a defunct empire which killed over 100 million people and a leader who artificially created famine to kill over 4 million people and countless more should be considered offensive if criticizing Nazi Germany and Hitler aren't offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if someone doesn't like my answer, they are free to downvote it, but why does the answer need to be deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, if my answer is deleted, why aren't other posts containing more direct hate speech against Hitler and Nazi Germany deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2017-09-27T15:18:16.007" Title="Why was my answer deleted?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="25" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11365" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11367" CreationDate="2017-09-25T21:03:04.897" Score="2" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever I click on a tag on the main site today, it displays the &quot;featured&quot; tab for that question, instead of the &quot;active&quot; tab. Is this by design? It's not happening on my other commonly visited SE sites (SO, Gaming.SE, and Workplace.SE).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find it annoying, especially when there are no bounties for that tag, that I have to make a second click to see the entire list of questions. I also think it's possible that newer SE users might not know to click it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5177" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-09-26T22:47:30.217" LastActivityDate="2017-09-26T22:47:30.217" Title="Tags redirecting to &quot;featured&quot; instead of &quot;active&quot;?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11364" CreationDate="2017-09-25T21:07:27.513" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I marked your answer for deletion because you seem to be trying to make some sort of ham-fisted political point about Hitler and the British Empire rather than making a serious effort to answer the question asked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've offered no evidence that the wizarding world view the British Empire in this way and are basically using the question as a vehicle to spout your own views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that rants are specifically deemed to be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;off-topic&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;your question is just a rant in disguise: “______ sucks, am I right?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-09-27T15:18:16.007" LastActivityDate="2017-09-27T15:18:16.007" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11365" CreationDate="2017-09-25T21:08:29.527" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The system remembers which tab you used most recently.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You mention that this has only been happening today, and only on SFF; this must be because you clicked on the featured tab for &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; question list and then it remembered afterwards that the featured tab is your &quot;preferred&quot; tab. If you order one of these lists by e.g. votes or newest instead, then the system should in turn keep &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; setting as the default.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-09-25T21:08:29.527" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11364" CreationDate="2017-09-25T21:24:26.093" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I've undeleted it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although it expresses some political views which some other users might disagree with, it does provide a possible answer to the question being asked, and even offers evidence from both the real world and Potterverse canon to support it. It may not be the &lt;em&gt;correct&lt;/em&gt; answer, or a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; answer, but that's a matter of opinion and something for up/down votes to decide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers shouldn't be deleted just for expressing views that some users disagree with. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/deleted-answers&quot;&gt;help centre&lt;/a&gt; mentions that &amp;quot;Answers that &lt;strong&gt;do not fundamentally answer the question&lt;/strong&gt; may be removed&amp;quot;, but your post here &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; propose an answer to the question; whether or not you're right is irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/trusted-user&quot;&gt;help centre&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When should I vote to delete an answer?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may vote to delete answers in the following cases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer is extremely low quality: There is little to no scope for improvement&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer doesn't attempt to answer the question; it may be a comment or a separate question altogether.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you simply disagree with an answer (or the political statement it implies), downvote and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-09-25T21:27:01.953" CommentCount="30" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11369" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-26T14:11:40.307" Score="22" ViewCount="527" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sort of at a loss here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An answer was deleted by users because it was deemed &lt;em&gt;offensive&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A moderator undeleted and &quot;improved the grammar&quot; of it and locked it as undeleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the while, a debate has been brewing in the relevant meta about whether or not some user's decision to use their earned privileges to delete the offensive content (which has not once been edited to be less offensive), including discussions about whether or not Hitler's actions were being defended or minimized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to figure out exactly &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; this should matter? Is our site, whether Main or Meta, really the place to debate and rank the atrocities committed by our political leaders. Especially when it's not being used in any way to do a meaningful analysis of &lt;em&gt;fictional work&lt;/em&gt;. What's the point of this ranking? To establish a level where we can say &quot;making light of this genocide is okay because here's a different set of atrocities&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why is this happening on our stack at all?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Just to clarify, the &lt;em&gt;debating&lt;/em&gt; was happening in comments. I'm not sure the existing answers really address that, as they're hung up on an &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; with politics in it. The ensuing debates in something like 3-4 comment threads on posts was always more what I was concerned about.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a log of some of the discussion:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/66202/discussion-on-answer-by-rand-althor-why-was-my-answer-deleted&quot;&gt;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/66202/discussion-on-answer-by-rand-althor-why-was-my-answer-deleted&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and the meta where it took place:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11364/why-was-my-answer-deleted&quot;&gt;Why was my answer deleted?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2017-09-29T19:36:22.893" LastActivityDate="2017-09-30T23:01:53.950" Title="Is Science Fiction and Fantasy SE the proper place to debate the severity of Nazi Germany's atrocities?" Tags="|discussion|scope|moderation|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11369" CreationDate="2017-09-26T14:20:20.733" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, this is not the place for these discussions.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site is about the works of science fiction and fantasy, and while works do draw from real world examples of politics, this is not the place to discuss the merits of those views. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes answers do draw parallels to real life history, but typically this is supported in the work or by interviews with the author/director. Stack Exchange as a whole likes to deal with facts not opinions and  political views are largely opinionated. &lt;strong&gt;To place your own political views in an answer on this site is not acceptable.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-09-26T14:32:40.533" LastActivityDate="2017-09-26T14:32:40.533" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11369" CreationDate="2017-09-26T15:22:19.580" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally no. Atrocities committed by Nazi Germany and other powers are &lt;em&gt;history&lt;/em&gt; and are generally not on-topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, works of science fiction and fantasy often draw from political history; a discussion of history &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be on-topic if it is necessary &quot;to do a meaningful analysis of &lt;em&gt;fictional work&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. For example, an alternate history in which the Axis won World War II might inspire someone to ask why a particular Nazi character in that work supported the Nazi regime despite the regime's atrocities -- and the correct answer might be that the character viewed the Nazis' atrocities as less severe than atrocities committed by the Allies during World War II.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; A blanket ban on political discussions would prevent such a question from receiving the correct answer. &lt;strong&gt;A post may discuss politics if such a political discussion is necessary for the analysis of an on-topic work of science fiction or fantasy.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; An example that springs to mind is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/man-in-the-high-castle&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Man in the High Castle&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. One could ask why the character Obergruppenführer Smith (an American who joined the SS after the war) joined the Nazis despite the Nazis' atrocities. An answer, which may or may not be correct, could be that Smith viewed the Americans, British, etc. as just as evil as the Nazis based on the Allies' real-world actions which also occurred in-universe. Such an answer would have to explain why Smith thought the Allies were just as evil &lt;em&gt;in his mind&lt;/em&gt; (regardless of whether or not the Allies &lt;em&gt;were&lt;/em&gt; just as evil).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastActivityDate="2017-09-26T15:22:19.580" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11372" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-27T09:56:28.177" Score="-1" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;A question of mine has been marked as duplicate, and I don't understand why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/170503/83101&quot;&gt;What kind of coin was given by Jaqen H'ghar to Arya?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, and was marked as duplicate of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/56218/83101&quot;&gt;Was the significance of Arya's Braavosi coin ever explained?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These two questions are about the same object, but they ask something completely different: &lt;strong&gt;what I'm asking is if the coin of the Faceless Men could be identified as a regular currency coin&lt;/strong&gt;, and the linked question doesn't provide any satisfactory answer about this particular aspect; the only answer that seems to address my original question takes as a reference the show, while I'm only interested in references from the books; I've used only the relevant tags on my question on purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Since the linked question don't provide an answer to what I'm asking, could my question be reopened?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If my question was ambiguous, I could try to refine it and make its scope more clear.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83101" LastActivityDate="2017-09-27T13:45:51.143" Title="Why this question was marked as duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11372" CreationDate="2017-09-27T13:40:13.527" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, tooting my own horn, there's an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/170557/54887&quot;&gt;answer which answers your question&lt;/a&gt; on the Dupe-target page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question, emphasis your own, was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So, do the Faceless Men use their own distinct iron coins, or just the regular Braavosi currency?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is books only&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Proves from existing evidence that the coins are distinct. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think it doesn't, then you have not explained your question properly. You can always edit and explain why your question is different, that will push your question in the reopen queue. But if we do reopen your question, I would be able to copy paste the same answer to your question and it would still apply. Do you see now why your question is a duplicate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Duplicates are not a bad thing. But still since you feel so sure that your question is different and you meant to ask something other than whether the FLM use distinct coins or plain old Braavosi ones, you should:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit your question to explain &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wait for the reopening Reviews to end&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either it will be reopened or left closed depending on the judgement of the community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastEditorUserId="54887" LastEditDate="2017-09-27T13:45:51.143" LastActivityDate="2017-09-27T13:45:51.143" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11375" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-27T17:53:04.183" Score="2" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For questions about Marvel Unlimited, an online service that distributes Marvel Comics. It was launched in 2007.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are 4 questions tagged with this. Two of these are wrongly tagged:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/107267/when-and-why-did-the-marvel-universe-start-to-have-alternative-universes&quot;&gt;When and why did the Marvel Universe start to have alternative Universes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/169594/how-has-magic-changed-in-the-marvel-universe&quot;&gt;How has magic changed in the Marvel Universe?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other two are correctly tagged, but one is closed. Do we really need the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-unlimited&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-unlimited&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-unlimited&lt;/a&gt; tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, does this tag really adhere to the policies of this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2017-09-27T17:54:22.597" LastActivityDate="2017-10-27T21:40:10.703" Title="Do we really need &quot;marvel-unlimited&quot; tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11375" CreationDate="2017-09-27T20:29:53.923" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; (big if, see bold text below) there's at least one valid question specifically about an aspect of that service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of the two where it clearly didn't apply, I removed the tag. Of the other two, one is already closed. The last one is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/36655/marvel-unlimited-comics-aimed-at-young-children&quot;&gt;Marvel Unlimited - comics aimed at young children&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, this feels like a shopping question. It's asking for details about shopping for a service. Sure, it's a &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; service, but it's still a shopping question. The answer could very well be outdated considering it's an ongoing, changing service. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's akin to asking &quot;Is X show available on Netflix?&quot; which is off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So, in my opinion, this last question should probably be closed as off-topic, and then the tag removed from the closed questions as it's not really necessary. But, so long as we decide to keep that question open, the tag fits.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If tag is to stick around, I would expect a more appropriate use to be asking stuff about Marvel Unlimited related to the general Marvel fandom or the company, rather than just general &quot;can I read X on Marvel Unlimited&quot; questions. For example &quot;Why did Marvel launch Marvel Unlimited?&quot; or &quot;Are some comics released exclusively on Marvel Unlimited (and not in print)?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2017-09-27T21:03:54.333" LastActivityDate="2017-09-27T21:03:54.333" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11377" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11380" CreationDate="2017-09-28T02:19:59.733" Score="0" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10346/why-doesnt-this-question-show-up-in-the-review-queue-for-close-votes&quot;&gt;Why doesn&amp;#39;t this question show up in the review queue for Close Votes?&lt;/a&gt;, questions with close votes should show up in the close vote review queue 15 minutes after &quot;the oldest pending close vote or flag or reopen vote or qualifying edit is at least 15 minutes old&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am looking at a question that has had 1 pending close vote for more than 15 minutes, but I do not see it in the close vote review queue. I have had no interaction with the question, so I don't think it is just me that doesn't see it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would prefer not to unleash the meta effect on the question, so before I link to it, is the answer to the meta question I linked to above accurate? Can anyone suggest a reason why a question that had a vote to close more than 15 minutes ago would not be in the review queue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Edit] The question is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/170374/why-did-the-shows-producers-choose-to-base-their-klingons-on-americans&quot;&gt;Why did the show&amp;#39;s producers choose to base their Klingons on Americans?&lt;/a&gt;. At the moment, it still has one close vote (Unclear what you're asking), and I still don't see it on the close vote review queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66402" LastEditorUserId="66402" LastEditDate="2017-09-28T12:25:54.420" LastActivityDate="2017-09-28T13:08:36.353" Title="Question with close votes, is not in the close vote review queue even after 15 minutes" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11379" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-28T07:57:10.350" Score="4" ViewCount="490" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/170330/931&quot;&gt;This heavily downvoted and mildly offensive answer&lt;/a&gt; was initially deleted by myself and two other high-reputation users. It was then subject to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11364/why-was-my-answer-deleted&quot;&gt;meta discussion&lt;/a&gt; by the OP who felt that it had been inappropriately deleted. A moderator then undeleted it. It was then deleted (again), at which point a moderator stepped in to lock it open pending meta discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The discussion has now finished. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11366/20774&quot;&gt;My answer to the OP's meta question&lt;/a&gt; (in which I explain why it should have been deleted) is heavily upvoted (+18). &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11368/20774&quot;&gt;The answer the moderator gave&lt;/a&gt; (explaining their decision to undelete said answer) is heavily downvoted (-8).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The community have expressed their view clearly. Why then, was the answer left locked open?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-09-30T10:47:26.220" LastActivityDate="2017-09-30T10:47:26.220" Title="Why was this answer left locked open?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|deleted-answers|locked-posts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="20" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11377" CreationDate="2017-09-28T13:06:59.807" Score="3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;It &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; go through the queue.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scrolling through the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/close/history&quot;&gt;list of all reviews that 10kers can see&lt;/a&gt;, I can see an item in there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/close/113624&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/close/113624&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question in question did go through the close vote queue on September 25, and got three 'Leave Open' votes, one by a site moderator, and so was removed from the queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VL0w4.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VL0w4.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-09-28T13:08:36.353" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11381" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-28T17:30:51.057" Score="2" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;I (and a few other people) flagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/113811&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; as &lt;em&gt;Not An Answer&lt;/em&gt;. This is the full text of the answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This quote is a paraphrase of Luke 12:48 where Jesus says &quot;to whom much is given, much will be required&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/3857/33591&quot;&gt;What is the context of the quote “With great power comes great responsibility”?&lt;/a&gt;- however is looking for &lt;strong&gt;the first instance of the quote in the universe&lt;/strong&gt;. Specifically:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, was the quote also present in the comics?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does &lt;strong&gt;not answer the question asked&lt;/strong&gt;. Why were these flags declined and the post not deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZpmPy.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZpmPy.png&quot; alt=&quot;declined - flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2017-09-28T19:59:05.857" Title="Why were these flags on an answer that gave the original source (non-comic) of a quote on a question that wanted the comic source declined?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|specific-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11381" CreationDate="2017-09-28T19:55:46.857" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The post did attempt to answer the question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The NAA flag is always a fickle mistress... I would always recommend the LQP flag if it is available. If not, flag as NAA at your own risk, as many things (including this answer) do attempt to provide an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An attempt at an answer is generally all that is required by SE standards. Even though this post did not follow the instructions of the question it was indeed an &lt;em&gt;attempt&lt;/em&gt;; therefore the NAA flag was not appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The extra step of flagging as NAA was probably not necessary.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, you probably should have just voted to delete the post without flagging it. As &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3293/is-deleting-really-wrong-answers-ok-according-to-the-rules&quot;&gt;discussed here&lt;/a&gt; a &quot;wrong&quot; answer can and should be deleted if it is of low enough quality. The post did have a negative score, which is why it was eligible for deletion in the first place and having a look at the edit/review history it seems you did vote to delete. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2017-09-28T19:59:05.857" LastActivityDate="2017-09-28T19:59:05.857" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11379" CreationDate="2017-09-29T14:15:37.127" Score="7" Body="&lt;h3&gt;We were waiting for community consensus regarding political discussions in general.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shortly after the community started discussing the answer in question on meta, a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11369/31936&quot;&gt;new meta question&lt;/a&gt; was posted asking whether or not political discussions were generally permissible on this site. Based on the voting on that question, the community has established a consensus that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11371/31936&quot;&gt;in general, political discussions are permissible if necessary for the analysis of a SFF work&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eiwoz.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eiwoz.png&quot; alt=&quot;consensus on the general policy&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question that was answered (&quot;If Dumbledore could take on Grindelwald, why didn't he take on Hitler?&quot;) certainly invites a political discussion since Dumbledore would presumably fight against Hitler if he objected to Hitler's politics and/or agreed with the Allies'. The answer as originally posted implied that the Allies (specifically British Prime Minister Winston Churchill) were &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; as evil as Hitler, which is an opinion that does not belong in an answer. However, based on community consensus it is permissible to say that Dumbledore the character thought Churchill was as evil as Hitler (much like the Obergruppenführer Smith example I gave). The answer in question could simply have been edited to make it clear that &lt;em&gt;Dumbledore the character&lt;/em&gt; thought Churchill was evil (whether or not that assertion is actually supported by &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; canon is another matter).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;But what about the community's consensus regarding the particular post?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are indications that the community's desire to delete the answer in question is motivated by dislike of the &lt;em&gt;user&lt;/em&gt; who posted it at least as much as (if not more than) the content of the post itself -- moderators had to &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/40213984#40213984&quot;&gt;remind the community to vote for the post rather than not the user&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/40235277#40235277&quot;&gt;repeatedly&lt;/a&gt;). Moderators cannot allow users to override the community's policies simply because they don't like a certain user -- that is a situation which requires the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/05/18/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;&quot;human exception handling&quot;&lt;/a&gt; moderators are elected to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The moderator team also observed that the discussion to delete the answer in question was so highly charged and emotional that some users abused their privileges over it. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11368/31936&quot;&gt;Rand's answer explaining why he undeleted and locked the answer in question&lt;/a&gt; received a &quot;rude or abusive&quot; flag as well as two delete votes. Voting to delete a post which answers the question but which one disagrees with is &lt;em&gt;precisely&lt;/em&gt; what Rand was explaining not to do in the first place (that's what downvotes are for). Such a highly emotional discussion is not conducive to achieving consensus based on rational arguments, and the possibility of users abusing their privileges is again a situation which requires &quot;human exception handling&quot; by moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Going forward&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;The answer has been deleted because &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/151323/31936&quot;&gt;the question&lt;/a&gt; it was on has been deleted by the community. &lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer has been edited to clarify that only the &lt;em&gt;character&lt;/em&gt; in question (Dumbledore) might have thought Churchill was as evil as Hitler. Since it is not my answer, however, I cannot correct its other deficiencies (namely, a lack of evidence that the character actually thought as is claimed). The answer has been unlocked and deleted so that the answerer can attempt to add evidence for his claims. If the answerer can do this then the post can be undeleted per the aforementioned general policy on political analysis of SFF works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2017-09-29T18:27:07.123" LastActivityDate="2017-09-29T18:27:07.123" CommentCount="30" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11369" CreationDate="2017-09-30T06:24:37.110" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meta is absolutely an appropriate place to discuss whether or not something meets a site's critea for offensive content (and thus needs to be deleted), and inasmuch as discussing real-life Truth is necessary for that, it should be allowed.  For example, the belief that genocide is wrong is a real-life belief that might seem out-of-place here, but it's actually a rather crucial element of why we might consider making light of horrible atrocities offensive, and thus grounds for deletion.  Of course, meta discussions on such things should be limited to topics that are actually relevant to site process! &quot;Is anti-semitism grounds for deletion?&quot;, for example (answer: yes, by network-wide policy), rather than &quot;Is communism stupid?&quot;; the former is clearly tied into discussing how our site works and the latter is clearly not (whether or not something is stupid has no bearing on whether or not it's allowed to be expressed on this site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Main is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; an appropriate place for discussions of any kind.  Chat is a fine place, but main is not, and comments are not to be used for that purpose anyhow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, basically, yes, but only in the context of discussing the extent to which an answer or question can fail to appropriately condemn Nazism before it is deleted, provided there are users that think the &quot;the severity of Nazi Germany's atrocities&quot; plays some role in how enforcement of that line should be carried out.  Outside of that context, no, of course, random unnecessary and possibly offensive history discussions should happen in private chat, not main or meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42829" LastEditorUserId="42829" LastEditDate="2017-09-30T06:31:35.700" LastActivityDate="2017-09-30T06:31:35.700" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11388" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-09-30T20:40:56.133" Score="10" ViewCount="340" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have, on this site, had some confusion/differing opinions on the matter of when a &lt;em&gt;Not an Answer&lt;/em&gt; flag is applicable. Specifically, when someone posts something related that isn't actually an answer to the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may attempt to answer (but doesn't actually give an answer). It may provide some relevant info. But... I wouldn't say that it actually provides a real answer &lt;strong&gt;to the question asked&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point of this meta question is to determine whether or not such answers fall under the &lt;em&gt;Not an Answer&lt;/em&gt; flag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some previous examples: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11095/33591&quot;&gt;(1)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10855/33591&quot;&gt;(2)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11381/33591&quot;&gt;(3)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we can take away from those questions is that &lt;strong&gt;people disagree about whether or not an &lt;em&gt;attempt&lt;/em&gt; to answer the question, even if it does not address the actual question asked, qualifies for a &lt;em&gt;Not an Answer&lt;/em&gt; flag&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://interpersonal.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1383/can-answers-be-off-topic-how-to-deal-with-answers-that-address-legal-issues/1385&quot;&gt;Shog9 seems to think that attempting doesn't cut it&lt;/a&gt;. That if it doesn't actually answer the question... well, don't go cherry picking the description. See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11095/why-were-the-not-an-answer-flags-on-this-post-about-wandless-magic-in-harry-po#comment35831_11096&quot;&gt;this comment&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But what does the Scifi.SE community think? Should we be using Not an Answer flags for answers that &lt;em&gt;attempt&lt;/em&gt; to answer but don't actually provide an answer, no matter what the network wide policy (which can be overridden by individual community consensus), or not?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I'm aware of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1597/how-do-we-handle-answers-that-dont-answer-the-question&quot;&gt;How do we handle answers that don&amp;#39;t answer the question?&lt;/a&gt;; but see the voting on the answers there. That, in addition to the fact that that post is from 2012, prompted me to open this up for discussion again.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-09-30T21:48:29.567" LastActivityDate="2019-11-21T14:42:17.257" Title="Let's get aligned on our site specific usage of the Not an Answer flag" Tags="|discussion|flagging|not-an-answer|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11388" CreationDate="2017-09-30T21:27:31.170" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;an attempt to answer the question, even if it does not address the actual question asked&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems like an oxymoron to me. &lt;strong&gt;If it doesn't address the question asked, how can it attempt to answer the question?&lt;/strong&gt; Perhaps the confusion here simply arises from people talking at cross-purposes? I'll try to provide some illustrative examples, but I'm not sure how well I'll be able to choose them, so do leave comments if you can think of better example answers and I'll edit them in. (This kind of debate works best with concrete examples, IMO, otherwise it's hard to tell whether everyone means the same thing by vague phrases like &quot;attempt to answer&quot; or &quot;does not address&quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Why did &lt;code&gt;Character&lt;/code&gt; do &lt;code&gt;Thing&lt;/code&gt; in &lt;code&gt;Story&lt;/code&gt;?&quot; - &quot;&lt;em&gt;Dunno if she had any reason - maybe she just felt like it.&lt;/em&gt;&quot; This might potentially be VLQ, but it's &lt;strong&gt;not NaA&lt;/strong&gt; because it does provide a (probably bad) answer to the question. The correctness and quality of this answer should be judged by votes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Which characters did &lt;code&gt;Thing&lt;/code&gt; in &lt;code&gt;Story&lt;/code&gt;?&quot; - &quot;&lt;em&gt;I know that So-and-so did, because [...].&lt;/em&gt;&quot; This is also &lt;strong&gt;not NaA&lt;/strong&gt;, because it provides a &lt;em&gt;partial&lt;/em&gt; answer to the question. It may be useful to the OP, or to someone else in compiling a full answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;What happened to &lt;code&gt;Character&lt;/code&gt; after &lt;code&gt;Event&lt;/code&gt;?&quot; - &quot;&lt;em&gt;He was doing this, that, and the other before &lt;code&gt;Event&lt;/code&gt; happened.&lt;/em&gt;&quot; This &lt;strong&gt;is NaA&lt;/strong&gt;, because it doesn't address the actual question asked. It's only an &quot;attempt to answer&quot; in the sense that anything typed into the answer box is.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;What is the origin of &lt;code&gt;Idea&lt;/code&gt;?&quot; - &quot;&lt;em&gt;It's mentioned in &lt;code&gt;Source&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&quot; This one is borderline. On the one hand, it could be an attempt to answer by providing a possible origin; on the other hand, it could just be a comment about one instance of the idea without even thinking it might be the first. As a mod, if I saw a NaA flag on this, I'd probably leave it to be handled by community review.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, &lt;strong&gt;please comment if you can think of more useful example answers to be evaluated.&lt;/strong&gt; The more concrete examples we can discuss, the more helpful this discussion will be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, if the OP or anyone else can provide an example of an answer which &quot;attempts to answer the question&quot; without &quot;addressing the actual question asked&quot; or &quot;actually providing an answer&quot;, I'd very much like to see what actually falls within this grey area of apparent dispute. It's hard to have an opinion on a category of answers if you can't think of anything which might be in that category :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-09-30T21:27:31.170" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11369" CreationDate="2017-09-30T22:12:20.043" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to propose an addendum to Null's position: discussing political issues should be OK if it's necessary to analyse a SFF work, like Null says, but I want to add a constraint to that to better define the territory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Discussing politics is acceptable when it's necessary to analyse a SFF work, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;to the extent it remains well-connected and justified by citing clearly relevant canonical evidence, and clearly used as a vessel for analysing the SFF text, and no further than that.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea here is that this is good:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Here is a possible political view. This passage from this page of this book suggests this particular character very probably resonates with that specific political view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'll now discuss that political view a bit further, to the extent that it remains fully connected to what we've just established that character believes, because it will help me better explain that character. As I mention new stuff that doesn't correlate to what we've already established, I'll take care to provide new strong evidence it's actually relevant to the character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;em&gt;not good&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Here's a deeply controversial political view. It's &lt;em&gt;maybe vaguely possible&lt;/em&gt; a character might share it. [no citation]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is also &lt;em&gt;not good&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Here's a political view. This character probably resonates with that view (book + page evidence).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now I'm going to go on a lengthier ramble about that political view, and most or all of what I'm saying won't be linked back to any evidence it's got anything to do with what we know the character believes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scenario 1&lt;/strong&gt; here is going into a political view while maintaining throughout relevance to explaining the character and/or story. At no point is a political view being discussed without clear relevance to that. Everything there is a clear means to an end of explaining the story itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scenario 2&lt;/strong&gt; is a major problem. It explains a political view, but most or all of it is not established as being relevant to explaining the character. We should expect strong evidence that the character definitely is connected to those political views: quotes, book names, page numbers, chapter titles, etc, whatever's helpful for a citation. In this case no evidence has been provided, just a brief acknowledgement that it's maybe possible (maybe just because there wasn't clear evidence to the contrary) &amp;mdash; this isn't anywhere near our quality standards. The political view is not a means of exploring the character; rather, the pretense of exploring the character is effectively an excuse to explore a political view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scenario 2 doesn't meet our quality bars, and is more or less a thinly described political statement or ramble or rant. It should be removed or heavily revised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scenario 3&lt;/strong&gt; is a bit of both. Some politics is clearly linked back to the character, and can stay. Some politics is described without linking it back to the story, however, and it's not clear it's necessary or relevant to analysing the SFF work. That portion of political dialog should be deleted, since it's not actually explaining or analysing SFF text &amp;mdash; it's just espousing politics, apparently for its own sake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15502" LastEditorUserId="15502" LastEditDate="2017-09-30T23:01:53.950" LastActivityDate="2017-09-30T23:01:53.950" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11388" CreationDate="2017-10-01T03:02:29.593" Score="-10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps we should look to Stack Overflow for inspiration:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every once in a while, which some regularity, somebody on SO completely misreads a question (or is just generally confused or insane or on drugs, or whatever) and posts an answer that has &lt;em&gt;absolutely nothing&lt;/em&gt; to do with the question.  If you've been on SO for a while, you've probably seen something like this — a user asks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is &lt;code&gt;i += f(++i);&lt;/code&gt; undefined behavior in C++?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and someone responds:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You need to use jQuery.click() on the checkbox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[The question then goes on to explain that these aren't flaggable, but do tend to get a lot of declined NAA flags, and proposes changing the flag interface to discourage people from flagging such answers.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-- &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/286229/1340389&quot;&gt;Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in other words, SO's policy is very simple: &lt;strong&gt;If it looks like an answer, it is an answer&lt;/strong&gt;, no matter how ridiculous it may in fact be.  The NAA flag is then relegated to, for the most part, new users who mistakenly use the answer box for something other than an answer (&amp;quot;thanks&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;me too&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;what about X?&amp;quot;, etc., basically the same stuff that protecting a question is supposed to block).  It also sees some use for clearing out link-only answers, especially when highly upvoted by well-meaning users.  But that's about it; you can't NAA-flag an answer that looks like an answer, even if it's answering a different question entirely!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This rule has the advantage that their moderators do not need to know anything about the broad range of technologies which are on-topic at Stack Overflow.  It is also very straightforward to evaluate and does not tend to generate endless arguments over whether or not an answer &amp;quot;addresses&amp;quot; the problem.  A major disadvantage is that answers which are truly irrelevant cannot be flagged; they must be downvoted and then delete-voted instead.  In my opinion, this is an acceptable tradeoff: I very rarely see contentious arguments over flag handling on MSO, and SO has enough experienced users on the larger tags that these answers don't last very long anyway.  I believe these principles also apply to SFF (in particular, our site moderation is far too politicized right now, IMHO).  Therefore:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I propose we adopt Stack Overflow's policy verbatim.  Anything which looks like an answer should not be flagged as NAA, even if blatantly irrelevant to the question.  Use downvotes and delete-votes instead.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ridiculous answers are, of course, ridiculous, and should continue to be downvoted and deleted.  The only thing that would change is that moderators would step back and let the community do those things on their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-10-01T22:46:53.343" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11388" CreationDate="2017-10-01T13:32:08.383" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/286366/2936460&quot;&gt;As Shog9 notes&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, there's a change I &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; love to see to this flag text, that might make some small difference here: stop using the word &amp;quot;answer&amp;quot; to refer to both the post itself &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; the action of addressing the asker's problem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was posted as an answer, but &lt;strong&gt;it does not address the problem being asked about&lt;/strong&gt;. It should possibly be an edit, a comment, another question, or deleted altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then couple that more explicitly to the default decline reason by rewording that as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this answer appears to address the asker's problem. Use downvotes to indicate inaccurate or entirely wrong answers. For subtle forms of abuse, choose &amp;quot;other&amp;quot; and explain the problem in detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the &lt;em&gt;combination&lt;/em&gt; of these two changes would serve to reduce a lot of the confusion surrounding these flags, without greatly changing the implied purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thoroughly agree with Shog9 here. An answer is not just a post that takes the shape of an answer, an answer actually tries to answer the question &lt;em&gt;by addressing the question&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11087/19561&quot;&gt;I've said elsewhere&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an answer just goes off on a tangent [or if] an answer is clearly based on just the title, ignoring the body of the question [then] the answer does not address the actual question and should be flagged as &lt;em&gt;Not an Answer&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An answer should address the question and try to answer it meaningfully. It should address the &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; question and not just its title and it should &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; it, not just spew some lines that could possibly be related to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it does not, it is &lt;strong&gt;not an answer&lt;/strong&gt; and should be flagged as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, we can down vote and vote to delete, but that option is only available to high reputation users. We should encourage users that haven't reached 20k yet to participate in site moderation and we can do so by allowing them to flag answers such as these as &lt;em&gt;Not an Answer&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-11-21T14:42:17.257" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11394" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-01T22:12:58.143" Score="4" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever I open a tab and leave it unattended, if my rep changes due to an upvote, the top bar now shows my &lt;strong&gt;entire rep gain for the day&lt;/strong&gt; instead of just the normal rep change (e.g. +290 instead of +10)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm using Chrome Version 61.0.3163.100 (Official Build) (64-bit) on Windows 8.1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2017-10-01T22:12:58.143" Title="Top bar keeps displaying my total rep gain for the day" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11395" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-03T10:29:40.007" Score="3" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see that we have the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sword-and-sorcery&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sword-and-sorcery&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sword-and-sorcery&lt;/a&gt;, currently with 8 questions - 6 of which are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, the other two closed as off topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We previously &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10389/33591&quot;&gt;renamed this tag&lt;/a&gt;. But what should it actually be used for? Generally, our genre tags are for questions about the genre itself. But this tag doesn't seem to &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; any questions like that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should we be using it? (Do we even need it at all?) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2017-10-03T16:50:06.063" Title="What's up with the [sword-and-sorcery] tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11396" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-03T13:28:38.183" Score="1" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/4346/51226&quot;&gt;Can spaceships really explode in space?&lt;/a&gt; very clearly violates our policy on real-world scientific explanations. Why is it still open?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastActivityDate="2017-10-03T20:57:03.623" Title="Why is this question still open?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|policy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2017-10-06T10:01:53.287" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11397" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-03T13:51:27.630" Score="14" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just come across a 6 year old question in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/close/114083&quot;&gt;review queues&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back when this question was asked, it was a perfectly on-topic question, which has been reasonably highly up-voted and received 20,000 views. However, a user has recently come across this question and flagged it off topic as per our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7364/what-is-our-actual-policy-on-science-questions&quot;&gt;real-world science questions policy&lt;/a&gt; and us deeming them off-topic 5 years later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should our action be with regards to this situation. Will we close all these questions in time. Do we close them all now. To we leave them open for &quot;historical significance&quot; as these questions are a part of the history of our site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68872" LastActivityDate="2017-10-04T09:10:51.437" Title="Questions that become off-topic because of new policies" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11397" CreationDate="2017-10-03T13:56:35.367" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Close them&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would argue to close them. They no longer fit our current policy, so it doesn't make any sense to leave them open for new answers. They will remain accessible and searchable, and no one loses rep over it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2017-10-03T13:56:35.367" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11396" CreationDate="2017-10-03T14:10:31.170" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question was not initially close when it was asked because it was asked before the Real-world science explanations(RWSE) policy was established and for the first 4 years and 3 months it was an on-topic question. Between this post and some more recent posts there were thousands of Star Wars questions burying this post and keeping it out of sight, this meant after the policy it was effectively hidden and not likely that anyone stumbled across it to close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last time this post was acted on was 1 month ago. Where the post went through the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/close/112028&quot;&gt;close vote&lt;/a&gt; queue and was &lt;strong&gt;left open&lt;/strong&gt;. Why it was not closed there, it would seem three users made a mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before August 2017, it had received little to know attraction and there was only one action preformed on the question after our RWSE policy was established. An upvote, possibly from a user specifically looking for that question, who should've flagged it for closure, however may not have known about our policy. Prior to that, it had received one up-vote and two answers three months prior to the policy and two other answers as well as 3 upvotes two years before the policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the above we can see quite clearly that this post has been hidden from the eyes of the (policy-learned) community, except for one user who had seen it, and maybe some other passers-by. The close vote queue it went through was unsuccessful in closing it (even though it should have closed it). Today however it was successful and has been closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68872" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-10-03T20:57:03.623" LastActivityDate="2017-10-03T20:57:03.623" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11400" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-03T15:00:06.427" Score="8" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;Singer/Songwriter Tom Petty, perhaps best known for performing the closing song in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LjfwgqN_hg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stargate: Atlantis&lt;/em&gt; episode &quot;Vegas&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, has passed away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2017-10-03T15:27:08.493" Title="In Memoriam: Tom Petty" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11397" CreationDate="2017-10-03T15:18:15.543" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they're just plain off-topic by current standards, then mark them for closure. The community can apply our current policies and decide whether to keep them open. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the same token, if you come across an old closed question that should be open using the current standard, click the reopen button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obvs if the question has a large viewership, high rep answer or has attracted controversy, you might also want to flag it for a mod to &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/126587/what-is-a-historical-lock-and-what-is-it-used-for&quot;&gt;historical lock&lt;/a&gt;&quot; it to keep it visible on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-10-04T09:10:51.437" LastActivityDate="2017-10-04T09:10:51.437" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11400" CreationDate="2017-10-03T15:27:08.493" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll remember him most fondly as the Mayor of Bridge City in the blockbuster film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119925/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Postman&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ybcvX.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ybcvX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently he was also a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Petty_discography&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;singer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2017-10-03T15:27:08.493" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11395" CreationDate="2017-10-03T16:50:06.063" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we're using it correctly as is. Adding a subgenre to an identification question can really narrow down the possible results, or point someone to a better resource during their research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an aside, I think we have an opportunity to discuss ways to boost our usage of genre tags, so they're more widely used. The lack of usage could be blamed on a number of reasons: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many ID questions come from new users, who don't know about our wealth of tagging options&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Solution&lt;/strong&gt;: Prompt them to add genre tags as part of our story ID guidance&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We don't retag answered story-id questions once an answer is accepted&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Solution&lt;/strong&gt;: Decide on some types of tags to add back to solved ID questions (such as most-relevant subgenre and a tag for the specific work)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We don't have a good resource for looking at all our genres, or a way to see just genres&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Solution&lt;/strong&gt;: Make a Meta FAQ post (or an answer on the story ID FAQ) that lists our genre tags and their wikis, so we can point users to something tangible&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And/or&lt;/strong&gt;: Rename our genre tags to all have &lt;code&gt;-genre&lt;/code&gt; appended to them, so searching &quot;genre&quot; in the tag box brings them all up&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps it's worth opening a new discussion on these points. We've recently, but informally, established some different tagging guidelines for our &quot;major&quot; tags. DC, Marvel and &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; universes all had major retagging efforts, and they have different (informal) stewards who help maintain the tagging system. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11199/31178&quot;&gt;There's even some formal support for this system&lt;/a&gt; based on a recent meta about a Harry Potter related tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we applied those principles to story identification questions, I think we could: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Increase tag usage and consistency&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Improve our ability to find possible duplicates&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get the side-bonus of benefiting people who would say &quot;Yes&quot; to the question: &lt;code&gt;Is it reasonable to assume some people might want to know about just that genre?&lt;/code&gt; (modified from the 2nd bullet on other linked meta answer)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2017-10-03T16:50:06.063" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11397" CreationDate="2017-10-03T18:28:06.803" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the previous answers, but I just wanted to mention a reason &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; this should be the policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leaving old off-topic questions open threatens to set a bad precedent.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If questions like this were left open just because they were on-topic at the time of asking, then new users would see highly-voted and unclosed &quot;real world science&quot; questions and assume - quite reasonably - that such questions are well-received when in fact they're not. Then they might post such a question themselves and - again, quite reasonably - feel unfairly treated when it gets closed. &quot;&lt;em&gt;Why is my question closed when this very similar question by a high-rep user isn't?&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, they'd say, and they'd have a point. The policy set of an SE site is already confusing enough for newbies - spread out over multiple meta posts, changing over time - let's not make it more confusing than necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all, a common piece of advice for people posting low-quality questions is to &lt;em&gt;look at well-received existing questions&lt;/em&gt; in the tags that interest them. If some of those well-received questions are actually off-topic, it just confuses things unnecessarily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;strong&gt;don't consider the age of a post when deciding whether or not to close it.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Is it off-topic according to policy&lt;/em&gt; - that's the only question you need to consider. Close-voters aren't required to know all the details of the 6+ year history of the site and what was on-topic when, nor should they be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-10-03T18:28:06.803" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11405" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11406" CreationDate="2017-10-06T15:01:07.853" Score="5" ViewCount="180" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a question not well received by the community. I know that downvotes are not rude, I received comments recommendations and edited the question to improve it and don´t intend to argue to reopen it, as the question is troubled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, with that out of the way, I flagged this answer:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/171195/63534&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/171195/63534&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did that because I firmly believe it doesn't follow the &quot;be nice rule&quot;, as it starts with a &quot;sigh&quot;, and, in my opinion, shows a lot of contempt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was the rude flag declined? Am I biased and too sensitive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63534" LastEditorUserId="46383" LastEditDate="2017-10-06T15:07:04.130" LastActivityDate="2017-10-25T05:42:33.293" Title="Why was this flag declined?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11405" CreationDate="2017-10-06T15:25:47.230" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I declined this &quot;rude or abusive&quot; flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The relevant guidance on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/58035/299342&quot;&gt;main meta&lt;/a&gt; for when to use the rude/abusive flag is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If an &lt;strong&gt;otherwise valid&lt;/strong&gt; post contains vulgar words as an expression of frustration, edit the bad part out instead of flagging the entire post as rude or abusive. If this results in an edit war or you expect this to happen, flag for moderator attention instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The post has a positive score at this time so it certainly seems to me to be an &quot;otherwise valid&quot; post (I am not familiar with the topic so I can only judge by the voting). It also doesn't contain &quot;vulgar words as an expression of frustation&quot; (just a &quot;sigh&quot;, which may not even be directed at you). Personally, I don't think it's contemptuous but others may disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best course of action seems to be to edit out the parts that you think are insulting (if the answerer reverts such an edit feel free to flag for a moderator's attention). If I had marked that flag helpful the post would have been deleted and the answerer would have been penalized 100 reputation. I think that answer has valuable information which should not be deleted, and I don't think the answerer deserves a 100 reputation penalty over a &quot;sigh&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2017-10-06T15:30:55.597" LastActivityDate="2017-10-06T15:30:55.597" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11407" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11408" CreationDate="2017-10-07T07:05:54.963" Score="-11" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;On my comment on an answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6887&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, I received a reply yesterday which apparently indicated that the responder didn't understand that the comment was intended to be humorous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I replied, with a comment to the effect: &quot;That's the joke&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I later received a reply to my comment, and on viewing it, realised that my response had been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I replied, noting that my earlier comment had been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I find that my subsequent reply has been deleted, too (as has the responder's second response - but &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; his first).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user3069" LastEditorDisplayName="user3069" LastEditDate="2017-10-08T08:13:52.453" LastActivityDate="2017-10-08T08:13:52.453" Title="Will the moderator who has been deleting my comments kindly contact me?" Tags="|discussion|bug|deleted-comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11407" CreationDate="2017-10-07T07:24:53.030" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just so everyone knows what we're talking about, here's the full list of comments from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/6890/31394&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it Garthe who had the singing career? – Mark Bannister Nov 14 '11 at 11:04&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@MarkBannister, no, why would you assume that? Garthe was always a criminal and stayed in African prison until he escaped to America. – user2513149 yesterday&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@user2513149 - related: knowyourmeme.com/memes/thats-the-joke – Mark Bannister 23 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@MarkBannister, that's off-topic. – user2513149 23 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@user2513149: No, it really wasn't. I don't know who deleted the comment, though. – Mark Bannister 16 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your second and third comments were both flagged as &amp;quot;no longer needed&amp;quot;, and were deleted by the moderator (not me) who handled those flags. user2513149 self-deleted their second comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've now deleted the two remaining comments, as they don't seem to add anything useful to the answer: a six-year-old joke which wasn't especially popular (the comment has a score of 1), isn't a constructive comment on the answer, and is evidently causing confusion doesn't need to stay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-10-07T07:24:53.030" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11409" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-07T22:31:57.220" Score="-9" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often see movies and read stories that seem to have the possibility of improvement if either things happened differently or additional scenes/information were provided. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is something that would be permitted, I have a few such ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63210" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-10-07T22:57:49.407" LastActivityDate="2017-10-24T02:59:03.820" Title="Would it be of interest to create a new category of questions; &quot;Would this idea improve a movie/story&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11409" CreationDate="2017-10-07T22:55:36.803" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry, but the sort of open-ended wishy-washy questions you're describing &lt;strong&gt;absolutely wouldn't be a good fit for SFF:SE,&lt;/strong&gt; nor any other site in the network other than maybe &lt;a href=&quot;https://writers.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Writers:SE.&lt;/a&gt; (but don't tell them &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; sent you). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you're talking about are the very definition of '&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/09/29/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;bad subjective&lt;/a&gt;', where there's no right answer and any answers that get posted are liable to lead to unhelpful debate and contradiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What kind of questions should I not ask here?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Avoid asking questions that are subjective, argumentative, or require&#xA;  extended discussion.&lt;/strong&gt; This is not a discussion board, this is a place&#xA;  for questions that can be answered!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2017-10-07T22:55:36.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11411" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-08T07:02:26.357" Score="0" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;this website scifi.stackexchange has no visible &quot;button&quot; to click logout. on other websites we can click the name of profile and choose logout but not this site so how can we logout?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90787" OwnerDisplayName="tal" LastActivityDate="2017-10-08T07:47:19.490" Title="How can you logout from scifi website?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2017-10-08T07:50:52.390" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11" CreationDate="2017-10-08T22:37:48.123" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Update from the future: Worldbuilding.SE now exists, and would love to have &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; of these questions (but not all of them!).  These questions actually form a pretty broad category, so we need to break them down a bit in order to explain what gets asked where.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you're trying to write new stories set in some existing, published continuity, and are confused about some detail of that franchise, you can and should ask about them here (on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Sci-fi &amp;amp; Fantasy&lt;/a&gt;).&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This also works for questions about the history of the genre (e.g. &quot;What was the first time travel story?&quot;), but take care that your question is not overly broad (&quot;What are some early time travel stories?&quot;).  If not asking a genre-wide question, make sure the franchise you are asking about is reasonably clear.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you're doing this professionally, you may have access to internal reference materials which are not generally available.  Consult those first, if possible.  We'd love to answer your question, but we can't cite or refer to things which are not public, so any answer we give might be incomplete.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you're creating a new universe from scratch, and you're getting hung up on some particular detail (e.g. &quot;How do dragons breathe fire?&quot; &quot;Why do they kidnap princesses?&quot; etc.), &lt;a href=&quot;https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Worldbuilding&lt;/a&gt; may be a good fit.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make sure to specify the kind of story you are writing.  There are effectively unlimited reasons for dragons to kidnap princesses; you need to narrow them down by describing your dragons and your princesses (e.g. Are the dragons intelligent? Are the princesses rulers or figureheads? For what plot-related reason do you want a dragon to kidnap a princess?).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you're struggling with a more writing-related problem, like plot or character development, &lt;a href=&quot;https://writers.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Writers&lt;/a&gt; is a better place to turn.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Always indicate your target audience for these questions.  If you're writing for your own pleasure, the answers are going to be very different from when you're writing for professional publication.  It also helps to provide a sample of your writing, but don't just ask for generalized critique - identify a specific concern.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about mechanics (grammar, diction, etc.) are probably more appropriate for &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;English Language &amp;amp; Usage&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For other questions, consult the /help/on-topic page for each Stack and try to find the best fit.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; of the above, your question should be carefully thought out, show your existing research efforts, and explain in detail the specific point where you are having trouble.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastActivityDate="2017-10-08T22:37:48.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11413" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-09T00:32:14.167" Score="20" ViewCount="255" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=answers%3A0+score%3A1..+closed%3Ano+%5Bstory-identification%5D+lastactive%3A..3m&quot;&gt;This search&lt;/a&gt; returns &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions that are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Positively scored.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Completely unanswered.  Downvoted and zero-score unaccepted answers &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; count, unlike the &quot;unanswered&quot; tab.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not (currently) closed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most recently active (asked, edited) three or more months ago.  Comments don't count.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time of writing (2017-10-08 in America/Los_Angeles, the next day in UTC) there are 1,274 results.  If we &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=answers%3A0+score%3A1..+closed%3Ano+%5Bstory-identification%5D&quot;&gt;remove the date restriction&lt;/a&gt;, we get 1,501 results, which means that &lt;strong&gt;almost 85% of all unanswered, open, upvoted story ID questions haven't been touched in three months&lt;/strong&gt;.  While &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/2937/36526&quot;&gt;old story ID questions do get answers from time to time&lt;/a&gt;, I think it's spectacularly unlikely that we can clear this backlog faster than it is accumulating (which was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7509/36526&quot;&gt;quite fast&lt;/a&gt; the last time we discussed this), so that percentage is likely to rise over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is this the right question to ask of the data?  In other words, should we care about the boldfaced statement above?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If so, what should we do about it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="36526" LastEditDate="2017-10-09T00:44:26.560" LastActivityDate="2017-10-09T00:50:37.687" Title="We have more than 1,200 unresolved [story-identification] questions &gt;3 months old. Is that a problem?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11413" CreationDate="2017-10-09T00:50:37.687" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, we should not care.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no real limit to the number of unresolved questions we can keep lying around.  These are not bad questions, and their presence does not harm the site.  If we do the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=answers%3A0+score%3A1..+closed%3Ano+%5Bjava%5D+lastactive%3A..3m&quot;&gt;same search&lt;/a&gt; on Stack Overflow with the popular [java] tag, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=answers%3A0+score%3A1..+closed%3Ano+%5Bjava%5D&quot;&gt;again without the date range&lt;/a&gt;, we can see that their ratio has gotten all the way up to 94%, and obviously the sky has not fallen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastActivityDate="2017-10-09T00:50:37.687" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11415" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11416" CreationDate="2017-10-09T09:30:13.323" Score="14" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie night was somewhat a flop regarding participants. We had a lot of fun, but it was only me and Riker who were present at the time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I‘ll maybe compile some chat logs later, but as we were only two, there is going to be a certain bias to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I am wondering: 13 users who voted for Galaxy Quest did not attend the movie night. Was this because the date was not advertised enough? What are steps we could take in the future to make sure participation is higher?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I‘m open to any kind of constructive criticism or feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80374" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-10-09T09:46:07.540" LastActivityDate="2017-10-09T10:53:22.817" Title="Movie Night Recap - Galaxy Quest" Tags="|discussion|movie-night|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11415" CreationDate="2017-10-09T10:19:53.913" Score="12" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Things you did wrong.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;You didn't create a new Meta to advertise the event.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;You didn't ask a moderator to &quot;Feature&quot; the movie night meta until very late, just a few days before, and then only with prompting from me.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A moderator didn't create a chat event, nor did they pin it until I prompted you to ask them, by which time it was too late to get any decent traction&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;You didn't pester those who voted into attending via comments.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;You set the event on a Friday, typically quite a poor night as far as turnout is concerned&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;You set the event far too late for UK viewers to watch it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;You had the time on the Meta in GMT when it's currently BST.&lt;/em&gt; You also didn't translate that into American time (ET/EST) so our American friends might have struggled to know what time it was.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Things that weren't your fault&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The elephant in the room here is that the (old) main chatroom got murdered and almost all of the higher rep users who used to use chat have now migrated over to the (offsite) Slack channel. The new TREU chatroom is poorly trafficked and sometimes goes for entire &lt;em&gt;days&lt;/em&gt; without anyone posting anything. A lot of the participants from the previous events were those that got buttonholed in chat and made to promise to attend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You also received a (surprising) lack of support from the site's moderation team, none of whom seem to have taken the slightest interest in the event until far far too late to be of any real use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry to be so blunt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-10-09T10:53:22.817" LastActivityDate="2017-10-09T10:53:22.817" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11417" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-09T22:56:09.113" Score="0" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;How short can a story identification question be and still be reasonably answerable? For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Firemen set fires, burn books&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sex-changing time-traveller is his own mother and father&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Columbus has radio, sails off the edge&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Immortal shrunken ancestors stored on underground shelves&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Giant space worms devastate Earth, carry survivors to the stars as parasites&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastActivityDate="2017-10-10T08:33:40.240" Title="Short but not too broad?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11417" CreationDate="2017-10-09T23:17:35.383" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It really just depends on whether people can figure out the answers.  These are not quiz questions, after all; the goal is to get people answers to their queries, not to prove anything about how clever or knowledgeable the answerers are.  If people somebody can figure out the answer just from a single-sentence blurb, then that's all that is really needed.  Obviously, well-known works are going to be easier to identify.  Of the five on your list, I was able to get the first two without even a second thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, while there are guidelines for what makes a good story identification question, we ultimately cannot control how much information a questioner has about the work the are looking for.  Some works are only very vaguely remembered, and some questions come to us second hand.  It is not always possible to add more detail about when a book was read, or what the style of animation of a film was.  The &quot;best&quot; questions are those that provide the most information, because they are the easiest to answer; and because they are will be the most useful to other people looking for the same work in the future.  However, that does not mean that questions with less information are unanswerable; they are just harder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, a very minimal question will get a prompt answer, and the original asker will agree that the right work has been found.  In cases like this, it might be advantageous to edit more information into the question and/or answer after it has been confirmed.  However, by the most elementary indicator, the question has been successful:  An answer was found.  Thus, &lt;em&gt;ipso facto&lt;/em&gt;, the question was not too broad or vague to be answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2017-10-09T23:17:35.383" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11417" CreationDate="2017-10-10T06:55:14.220" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with a very short questions is that although they might look answerable, unfortunately science fiction and fantasy writers have a tendency to recycle tropes both from their own earlier works and from other writers. Your first example, for example (Firemen set fires, burn books) could be the iconic Fahrenheit 451 or it could just as easily be an earlier work, &lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=94olDwAAQBAJ&amp;amp;pg=PT18&amp;amp;lpg=PT18&amp;amp;dq=%22They%20had%20had%20to%20use%20controlled%20fire%20there%22&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=jPqzHVRBUt&amp;amp;sig=EpDTx9LuxNopyjQxnhxAXZ-DV_M&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwiGyY-huuXWAhXQSxoKHeVqBJUQ6AEILDAB#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=%22They%20had%20had%20to%20use%20controlled%20fire%20there%22&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Fireman&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (in this case by the same author). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per my answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9335/how-to-ask-a-good-story-id-question&quot;&gt;How to ask a good story-ID question?&lt;/a&gt;, a good story-ID question should contain sufficient information for it to be uniquely identifiable. A &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; short question is unlikely to have that although if they're as memorable as the ones you've given as examples, you could probably get away with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That all being said, I'd probably downvote such a question for being intentionally unhelpful and &quot;clever&quot;. This site isn't a &lt;a href=&quot;https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;puzzle factory&lt;/a&gt;. We aren't here to solve Story-ID questions with as few &lt;em&gt;clues&lt;/em&gt; as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2017-10-10T06:55:14.220" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11417" CreationDate="2017-10-10T08:33:40.240" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;It's not about length, it's about answerability.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if this has ever been enshrined in meta law, but in practice it's what I've always observed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If an ID question is &lt;strong&gt;uniquely answerable&lt;/strong&gt;, then it can be left open.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  If there are &lt;strong&gt;multiple answers which fit the description&lt;/strong&gt;, then it's too broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Interestingly enough, this is also the same criterion used for riddles on &lt;a href=&quot;https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Puzzling SE&lt;/a&gt;, which actually have a lot in common with ID questions here: something is described via various details and answerers need to find its name. The difference is, as Valorum has already mentioned, that ID questions here are just meant to be answerable, not necessarily challenging.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the past we've allowed some very short ID questions to remain open precisely because they're uniquely answerable. Length shouldn't really be a consideration when deciding whether or not to VTC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm aware that other SE sites have found this policy impractical and vote to close questions based on 'quality' considerations as well as just answerability. But SFF hasn't had massive problems with ID question quality, and this is AFAIK the criterion most people use here for closability of ID questions.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-10-10T08:33:40.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11421" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-10T17:03:13.433" Score="8" ViewCount="246" Body="&lt;p&gt;The new topbar just arrived to SFF! &lt;em&gt;confetti shower&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before that, and before the blogs were discontinued, we used to have a link to &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;our very own blog&lt;/a&gt; in the SE dropdown menu. It was removed after SE discontinued hosting community blogs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, our blog still lives and is updated regularly. Right now we have to access it through the link: &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://thesffblog.com&lt;/a&gt;, or through this meta: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11051/latest-blog-post-jack-s-bad-movies-colossal-2016&quot;&gt;Latest Blog Post: Jack’s Bad Movies: Colossal (2016)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it'd be easier to find the blog for new users if there was a link in the dropdown. It'd also be easier for everyone else to find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we have it back, please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2021-04-28T18:59:57.767" LastActivityDate="2021-04-28T18:59:57.767" Title="Can we get our blog link back, please?" Tags="|feature-request|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11422" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11427" CreationDate="2017-10-10T17:59:32.117" Score="3" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;The two SE sites that I visit the most are SFF and Stack Overflow. I'm not wild about the format of the new top bar, but it's good that all SE sites now have a similar top bar. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing I really liked about SO's new top bar was the option to make it sticky (stay at the top of the window when you scroll down). SFF's new top bar is not sticky. Can we have an option to make it sticky like on Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66402" LastEditorUserId="21267" LastEditDate="2017-10-10T23:39:47.233" LastActivityDate="2017-10-11T00:14:02.513" Title="Can we make our Top Bar sticky?" Tags="|feature-request|top-bar|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11422" CreationDate="2017-10-10T18:45:25.507" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/300865/310650&quot;&gt;This concern was brought up on Main Meta:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please make the stickiness persistent, at least from main to meta if not network-wide&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that a network-wide flip for the stickiness is an, uh, sticky point, but I was pretty surprised to find the top-bar to stick to the top of the screen on meta.SO after I'd disabled that feature on SO itself. Add additional switches for meta if you want, but I think it's reasonable to assume that if a user has set the top bar as fixed on a given SE site, they also want it to stay put on the corresponding meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/301845/new-top-bar-is-live&quot;&gt;And is under review by the SE Team.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stickiness global preference&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Concern: SO top bar is sticky by default with a preference to unstick it. Network site top bar is not sticky by default and there is no way to make it so. Can we get a global preference for setting stickiness across all sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status: status-review&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Explanation: We think this is a good thing to have, now we just need to figure out how to make it so. This could be a somewhat expensive setting since we currently don't have any global settings. That said, we are actively investigating it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we just to have wait until this is reviewed network wide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-10-10T18:45:25.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11425" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-10T18:50:30.773" Score="19" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our old topbar was slightly transparent, and a darker black:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/s1ObK.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/s1ObK.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20170223010444/http://scifi.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Web Archive&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our new one, however, is not transparent, and is a lighter grayish black:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vjOw1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vjOw1.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that we don't get the full advantage of our awesome design. It's a slightly lighter color, which means it blends in less, and, in my opinion brings down our looks slightly; and the top of the background is blocked by the topbar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editing the color to be straight black looks better:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GnKKH.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GnKKH.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I still think it would be better if it was kind of transparent. Would this be possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2017-10-10T21:28:34.720" LastActivityDate="2017-10-10T21:28:34.720" Title="Can we make our new top bar slightly transparent black, like our old one?" Tags="|feature-request|design|top-bar|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11426" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-10T19:32:18.373" Score="9" ViewCount="430" Body="&lt;h2&gt;This post has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2017/10/highlights-from-2017-3rd-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;published&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from July 1st 2017 through September 30 2017 (&lt;strong&gt;They don't have to be &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; questions and answers, but it also doesn't matter if you want to self promote your own stuff.&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2017/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2017/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2017/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I will also be linking all blog posts that happened within this quarter.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also if there was a meta post you feel should be spotlighted those are also acceptable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Votes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People sometimes down-vote the answers, even going as far as to target specific people and vote them into the negative. Just so you know, that is a pointless practice. All answers are included regardless of vote count (unless I decide not to include one for some reason). Also the vote score does not determine the order in which things will appear in the post, I tend to arbitrarily do that when I write it up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Blah blah blah. I am not a duplicate of another question (even though I very nearly am)!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="1148" LastEditDate="2017-10-16T13:51:25.793" LastActivityDate="2017-10-24T21:28:28.817" Title="Favorite Questions and Answers from third quarter of 2017" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11422" CreationDate="2017-10-11T00:14:02.513" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Stack Exchange Top Nav Choices&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just came across a userscript that allows for customisation of the top bar across all sites, called &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/questions/7603/top-navigation-choices&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Top Nav Choices&lt;/a&gt;. It doesn't have all the cool features of &lt;em&gt;Stack Overflow Extras&lt;/em&gt; (mentioned by Valorum in a comment on my question), but unlike &lt;em&gt;Stack Overflow Extras&lt;/em&gt; it currently works with the new top bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has options (that you set in your profile preferences) that can make the new top bar look like the old one (if you really don't like change), and it also allows you to optionally make the top bar sticky on all sites that use the new top bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66402" LastActivityDate="2017-10-11T00:14:02.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11426" CreationDate="2017-10-11T02:35:57.183" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Traditionally, I have tried to post a short list of interesting or exceptional questions / answers of other users here that have caught my eye, but I haven't been involved enough this quarter to have made such a list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Breaking with tradition and taking a cue from Valorum's end-of-quarter lists, I thought I might offer a question of my own. I posted this one on the very first day of the quarter &lt;strong&gt;in honour of Canada Day&lt;/strong&gt;, which was a bigger celebration than usual this year given that it was Canada's 150th birthday:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/162655/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is the Klingon Bird of Prey a Canada Goose?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found &lt;strong&gt;@Vanguard3000&lt;/strong&gt;'s answer, which unearthed some Star Trek design facts that I didn't know, to be very interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40294" LastActivityDate="2017-10-11T02:35:57.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2017-10-11T12:42:50.587" Score="4" Body="&lt;h1&gt;DisturbedNeo&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Disturbed&lt;/em&gt; - Nu-Metal band formed in Illinois in 1996. Theirs was the first metal I heard and they, alongside Linkin Park, played big roles in developing my music tastes throughout my teens. I would not enjoy the music I do without them, and so they will always hold a special place in my heart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Neo&lt;/em&gt; - Main Antagonist of &lt;em&gt;The Matrix&lt;/em&gt; series, with &lt;em&gt;The Matrix&lt;/em&gt; being my favourite Sci-Fi, possibly even my favourite movie, of all time. It played a big role in the development of my taste in movies, and probably fashion, if my trench coat and assortment of black clothing is anything to go by, and so also holds a special place in my heart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The name formed one fateful day during my youth. I was trying to think up a new name for an online game, and I wanted a unique name free of numbers and those godawful &amp;quot;Xx...xX&amp;quot; things you see all over online games. Whilst pondering, my mother noticed my plight and suggested &amp;quot;Why don't you take two things you like and put them together, like your favourite band and movie?&amp;quot; And thus DisturbedNeo was born. It has been my main online handle ever since. Thanks, mum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67849" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-10-11T12:42:50.587" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11433" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11434" CreationDate="2017-10-12T11:38:07.847" Score="3" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer to previous &quot;logout question&quot; is not accurate anymore, so where did they hide the logout button?&#xA;I went to the usual place I used to logout last time in the left drop-down list but now there is no logout button there [+nor even any drop-down list. edited by request]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90787" LastEditorUserId="90787" LastEditDate="2017-10-13T17:44:33.150" LastActivityDate="2017-10-13T17:44:33.150" Title="the logout button is not in the usual spot. how to logout?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11433" CreationDate="2017-10-12T12:33:52.893" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is now in the right hand drop down list. Click the furthest right button on the top bar and there should be the same drop down list you used last time with a log out button in the top right corner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/luvCG.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/luvCG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60757" LastEditorUserId="60757" LastEditDate="2017-10-12T15:08:41.690" LastActivityDate="2017-10-12T15:08:41.690" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11421" CreationDate="2017-10-13T00:57:23.083" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Stack Exchange discontinued the blogs and began phasing them out, we were sort-of warned this might happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What SE committed to was that, as long as we maintained the correct link structure on the off-site blog, they would maintain the redirect from &lt;code&gt;scifi.blogoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt; to our blog on &lt;code&gt;thesffblog.com&lt;/code&gt;. That redirect does still work, so any links you already have to the blog redirect properly. Beyond that, we knew the SF/F blog was no longer something SE considered &quot;theirs&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SE doesn't have site blogs anymore; as far as I can find, we're the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; one who has an active redirect from &lt;code&gt;blogoverflow&lt;/code&gt;. Of the few other sites that even had content on their blogs, they're now just archives. It's unlikely that we're going to get SE to change their top bar just for one site, and for an unofficial, off-site content host at that,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2017-10-13T00:57:23.083" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11426" CreationDate="2017-10-16T17:16:23.737" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Favorite Question(s)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have two questions to promote this quarter. The first one is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/167201/75000&quot;&gt;What kind of creature is Pac-Man?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and the second&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/168839/75000&quot;&gt;Why is Sonic so fast?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions themselves are simple but made me realize that I was missing out on two very important origin stories, and that I needed them in my life (badly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Favorite Answer(s)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously the answers to my favorite questions have to make an appearance this time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@CreationEdge went to amazing depths to find out about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/167234/75000&quot;&gt;Pac-Man's species&lt;/a&gt;, and @Valorum's answer about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/168845/75000&quot;&gt;Sonic's speed&lt;/a&gt; surprised the heck out of me&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also like to give a shoutout to @TheDarkLord for their &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/169062/75000&quot;&gt;great answer&lt;/a&gt; on my question of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/169057/75000&quot;&gt;why Hermione was always late when she used the Time Turner&lt;/a&gt;. The comparisons between the books are the movies are especially breathtaking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Honorable Mention&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/164266/75000&quot;&gt;Why are kicks so effective in a lightsaber duel?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;made me laugh. Normally the question might be ridiculous, but because it's set inside the mess that is the Star Wars universe it makes perfect sense and allowed me to have more of an appreciation for the prequels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75000" LastEditorUserId="75000" LastEditDate="2017-10-24T21:28:28.817" LastActivityDate="2017-10-24T21:28:28.817" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11437" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11438" CreationDate="2017-10-16T22:22:57.123" Score="7" ViewCount="323" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/171867/was-obi-wan-speciest&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; has been subject to two rounds of close voting, and is currently closed. The first round was as “primarily opinion-based.” The second was as “unclear what you’re asking.” &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I can’t see why it was closed. It doesn’t seem to be opinion-based or unclear, just bad and containing some unfounded assumptions. Should it stay closed, or be reopened (again)? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="51379" LastEditDate="2017-10-16T22:24:30.310" LastActivityDate="2017-10-16T22:38:51.633" Title="Why was this question about Obi-Wan closed?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11437" CreationDate="2017-10-16T22:24:01.107" Score="13" Body="&lt;h2&gt;It should be reopened&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To be clear: this is not a good question.&lt;/strong&gt; But that is not, and hasn’t ever been, reason to close something. &lt;strong&gt;Close votes are not super-downvotes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The motivations expressed for closing aren’t really right:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/171867/was-obi-wan-speciest?noredirect=1#comment461237_171867&quot;&gt;I’ve voted to close as unclear. Dathomir isn’t a race, it’s a species.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we can close for this, we could close for someone asking whether Palpatine was “racist against clones” (they’re not a race, they’re all the same person). We could close a question for asking whether Tolkien was &quot;racist against the East&quot; (the East isn’t a race, it’s a region containing a collection of cultures and societies). Both these questions, phrased a little differently, have been well-received on this site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s very clear what they’re asking. Yes, “speciest” is the right term (if one believes that the different &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; humanoids qualify as different species), but many people use “racist” anyway. It’s a well-established usage in this context, and is easily inferred otherwise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A simple edit would have corrected this. Now that this edit has been made, this motivation for keeping it closed doesn’t make much sense. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And let’s be clear, the question isn’t unclear in any other way. Its meaning is stated precisely at the end of the question:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does Obi-Wan have specially motivated hate towards Dathomirians and/or&#xA;  other non-human species (potentially due to his traumatic encounter&#xA;  with Darth Maul and the sheer amount of other confrontations)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It’s not opinion-based. Is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/11477/51379&quot;&gt;Was the Emperor himself xenophobic? Or was that merely a political point?&lt;/a&gt; opinion-based?  What about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/169866/51379&quot;&gt;Was Hagrid guilty of blood prejudice?&lt;/a&gt; (which some people might find equally implausible)? If we need really clear evidence before a question can be asked, what about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/22602/51379&quot;&gt;Was Snape romantically attracted to Mulciber?&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The case for it being opinion-based is also undermined by some of the comments about closing it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/171867/was-obi-wan-speciest#comment461403_171867&quot;&gt;You might wish to note that the Tuskens (in the canon Star Wars: From&#xA;  a Certain Point of View) refer to themselves as Sand People on&#xA;  multiple occasions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is canon evidence &lt;em&gt;against&lt;/em&gt; the idea that  Obi-Wan was prejudiced: in other words, a negative answer. &lt;strong&gt;This question is answerable.&lt;/strong&gt; Many of the close voters seem to think that it’s clear that Obi-Wan was &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; prejudiced&amp;mdash;clear evidence that the question is not opinion-based. In any case, “We don’t know, but there’s not any real evidence of it” is a perfectly acceptable answer. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the other motivations for closing seem to run afoul of one or more well-established policies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Close votes are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; super-downvotes.&lt;/strong&gt; This is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/33291/328832&quot;&gt;long, &lt;em&gt;long&lt;/em&gt;-established policy:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Don’t close a question just because you don’t like it, or it sucks.&#xA;  Close for one of the valid reasons. Closing is not done enough, but&#xA;  should not be undertaken lightly. Look over the reasons – if you feel&#xA;  the question qualifies, do it. Others may or may not follow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not knowing whether there’s an answer to a question is not a reason to close it.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3017/51379&quot;&gt;It’s impossible to know whether there’s an answer out there&lt;/a&gt;, even if one can’t think of one: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I agree with PearsonArtPhoto, &lt;strong&gt;questions should not be closed on the&#xA;  grounds that they don’t have a canon answer&lt;/strong&gt;, and I want to specially&#xA;  emphasize one particular point: the only way to know a question is&#xA;  unanswerable given canon is to know all canon in a universe, an&#xA;  unreasonable bar to set for most topics asked about here. Even I have&#xA;  seen questions here that I thought had no canon answer, which&#xA;  eventually did receive one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In a universe with a very large amount of canon (LotR, Star Wars, Star&#xA;  Trek, etc.) how is an asker to know whether a particular piece of&#xA;  information is in canon? We don’t require users to have read canon&#xA;  before asking about it, so how could an OP know that it wasn’t&#xA;  answered in canon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We don’t close questions for using the wrong term&lt;/strong&gt;. We just make an edit and inform the poster. Or, perhaps, we don’t even make the edit at all. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We don’t close questions with incorrect assumptions.&lt;/strong&gt; We &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1864/51379&quot;&gt;correct the assumptions in an answer&lt;/a&gt; or in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4791/51379&quot;&gt;a comment.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We get bad questions all the time, and they’re quicky relegated to the bottom of the heap. That’s what downvotes are for. It’s the SE philosophy. &lt;strong&gt;Close votes have never been for penalizing questions for containing incorrect information or starting with preconceptions, and I don’t see any reason to start now.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="51379" LastEditDate="2017-10-16T22:38:51.633" LastActivityDate="2017-10-16T22:38:51.633" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11439" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11440" CreationDate="2017-10-17T05:50:16.867" Score="13" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;What sort of events does &quot;last seen&quot; refer to? For example, how is it that a question was &quot;asked 13 minutes ago&quot; while the asker was &quot;last seen 27 minutes ago&quot;? What happened 27 minutes ago to reset the &quot;last seen&quot; clock? Why does it not reset when a user posts a question or answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastEditorUserId="21267" LastEditDate="2017-10-17T21:17:55.607" LastActivityDate="2017-10-17T21:17:55.607" Title="What does &quot;last seen&quot; refer to?" Tags="|support|profile-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11439" CreationDate="2017-10-17T06:36:53.007" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;To blatantly steal a post from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/261613/posted-questions-after-last-seen&quot;&gt;@Shog9 over on Meta.SE&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &amp;quot;last seen&amp;quot; date is only updated every &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt; minutes, where &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt; was 15 [after] the last time I bothered to check.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when this time is recorded, it won't be updated again for at &lt;em&gt;least&lt;/em&gt; another 15 minutes, no matter how many times the user accesses the site during this period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I post a question 11 minutes after my last access is recorded, stick around for another 3 minutes hitting Ctrl+R as fast as I can, and then stomp off in disgust... You'll see my profile looking similar to what you observed here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-10-17T06:36:53.007" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11441" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-19T19:52:05.853" Score="21" ViewCount="805" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the moment, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5038/62201&quot;&gt;so long as what we see on SFF is SFW, it is acceptable&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I'd like to discuss clarifying the scope of what is considered on-topic for SFF. Specifically requests for identifying erotica (usually in the form of fanfic).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange is for questions targeted towards science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts. This includes questions about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Plot, character, or setting explanations &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Historical or societal context of a work &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Story identification&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Franchise/series reading or viewing order&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some examples of the content I am refering to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/172232/pls-help-me-find-this-specific-zoro-x-sanji-or-kid-x-law-fanfiction&quot;&gt;Pls help me find this specific Zoro x Sanji or Kid x Law fanfiction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/165745/please-help-me-find-this-harry-draco-veela-fic&quot;&gt;Please help me find this Harry/Draco veela fic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And a couple non fanfic that also exhibit an erotic nature&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/155615/detective-novel-with-sex-monsters-and-aliens&quot;&gt;Detective novel with sex, monsters and aliens&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/68087/science-fiction-novel-sex-scene-with-a-lesbian-and-a-monkey&quot;&gt;Science fiction novel: sex scene with a lesbian and a monkey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the moment it is considered on-topic because it is &quot;story identification&quot; and not explicitly forbidden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be clear, I am not asking for a clarification of policy, but a discussion and creation of policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either we explicitly allow erotic story ID questions, or we disallow them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62201" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-08-04T21:28:24.433" LastActivityDate="2023-03-16T02:42:42.630" Title="Let's talk about Story ID requests for erotica" Tags="|discussion|scope|story-identification|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11441" CreationDate="2017-10-19T19:52:05.853" Score="-13" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Disallow Erotic Story ID Questions.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several reasons we should do this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) While adult content is tolerated, SFF - and the SE network as a whole - are still professional, work oriented sites. There are many places on the internet that one can find this sort of content. There is no reason SFF needs to be one of them. Users are allowed on this site once they reach the age of 13. While we don't have to cater to people of that age, neither should we ignore the existence of that demographic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) Just because something is set in an SFF universe, or has some of the qualities of an SFF world, does not mean that it should be on-topic. Intent should be taken into account. Erotic literature is several levels removed from the universe in question. First it is a fanfic and not canon in any sense of the word, and second, it is not intended to expand, continue, or expound on the universe. It is simply hijacking the names and places and applying them to content that has a completely different purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) Its an acceptable continuation of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/legal/content-policy&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Network Content Policy&lt;/a&gt;. For various legal and SEO reasons, we are not allowed to post or link any sexually explicit or pornographic material. Any properly sourced answer to a story ID question looking for erotica would be pushing the boundary. And a question that goes into any sort of detail could be seen as explicit content. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, it is unprofessional, unnecessary, not really SFF, and significantly raises the risk of violating SE rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62201" LastActivityDate="2017-10-19T19:52:05.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11441" CreationDate="2017-10-19T20:18:06.793" Score="36" Body="&lt;h1&gt;They should be allowed.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As long as it's SFF, it's fine.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are a site about science fiction and fantasy. And, let's face it... there are very often explicit scenes in SFF. And sometimes there is a book that is erotica that is a SFF story. It &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; about SFF, so that's one point in its favor.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Context matters.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been mentioned that it could potentially violate the TOS of SE. I disagree; that's not talking about cases like this. If you slipped in a porn link on SO, you would be heavily punished. Here too. However, on SFF &lt;strong&gt;adult material can relate directly to the site's topic&lt;/strong&gt;. It's SFF; that's the point above. And would you consider every question on English Language &amp;amp; Usage asking about offensive words to be in violation of the policies? The context in which the questionable posts are being posted matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also — and this is important — &lt;strong&gt;such questions are not linking to or including sexually explicit things in the posts themselves&lt;/strong&gt;. While there may be some inappropriate content in the story being identified, we're hardly going to link to videos because of a question. If all we are posting is that description of the story, perhaps a quote or two, and how we found it... I don't see why it should be a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This &lt;em&gt;entire site&lt;/em&gt; is unprofessional.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're on a site about Harry Potter and Star Trek. I'd say that's about as far from professional as you can get.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Young users&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a valid point. There are certainly young users who are on our site (I think it's relatively well known that I'm 15), but I don't think this should prevent the explicit questions. I might consider the use of spoiler markdown, but I don't think that young users really affect anything. It's an occupational hazard of browsing the Internet, unfortunately :/&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TL;DR: &lt;strong&gt;As long as it's Science Fiction or Fantasy, it should be on topic.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-08-03T14:13:58.930" LastActivityDate="2019-08-03T14:13:58.930" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11441" CreationDate="2017-10-19T20:35:03.900" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If a question is overtly &lt;em&gt;offensive&lt;/em&gt;, it should be flagged as such.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gratuitous NSFW pictures, links to porn, unnecessarily graphic language ... all of these are at best things to be edited out of a question immediately, and at worst might be forms of trolling. These are the kinds of thing which really need to be off our site. I know nobody will disagree with this; I mention it only to highlight the contrast with the kind of content you're asking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mature discussions of NSFW content are fine.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have hundreds of questions which are about sex in one way or another. As pointed out in previous meta posts on this topic, things like Kirk's sex life in &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;, Jabba's intentions towards Leia in &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;, or the too-many-to-count rape scenes in &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;/&lt;em&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/em&gt; are all perfectly on-topic SFF questions and can be discussed in a mature and reasonable manner. Often sexual things are an integral part of a sci-fi or fantasy work, and as such are fair game for questions and answers on this site (provided they're not being discussed offensively, of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;So, coming back to your question ... story-ID is acceptable, and (reasonable) sexual questions are acceptable. Why shouldn't story-ID questions about sexual content be acceptable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I could maybe get behind the idea of using a tag for such questions, so that people can put it on ignore if they don't want to see any posts about erotica, but that's a discussion for another meta.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;Just to address the specific counterpoints from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11442/31394&quot;&gt;your answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are many places on the internet that one can find this sort of content. There is no reason SFF needs to be one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't an argument in favour of disallowing &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt;. There are many place on the internet that one can find Q&amp;amp;A about sci-fi and fantasy, but that doesn't mean we should shut the whole site down.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Erotic literature is several levels removed from the universe in question. First it is a fanfic and not canon in any sense of the word, and second, it is not intended to expand, continue, or expound on the universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But your question isn't about fanfic - it's about erotica in general, not all of which is fanfiction for a different canon. Again, consider &lt;em&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For various legal and SEO reasons, we are not allowed to post or link any sexually explicit or pornographic material. Any properly sourced answer to a story ID question looking for erotica would be pushing the boundary. And a question that goes into any sort of detail could be seen as explicit content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re. sexually explicit or pornographic material, see my first paragraph above. If people are clearly posting in bad faith, then they can be dealt with accordingly, but most of the community is able to discuss erotica sensibly. Re. detail in questions or answers on the topic - again, let's trust our users to be Nice and reasonable. Offensive content can be flagged and removed. It would be kind of disrespectful to ban discussion about sex on the assumption that the community is unable to handle it maturely.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-10-19T20:35:03.900" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11445" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-20T17:36:21.277" Score="0" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/172312/whos-the-largest-marvel-super-hero&quot;&gt;Who&amp;#39;s the largest Marvel super-hero?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/172306/who-is-the-physically-largest-force-sensitive-being-in-star-wars&quot;&gt;Who is the physically-largest Force-sensitive being in Star Wars?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These two questions basically ask the same thing. One question has got 5 upvotes so far and the other one has got 6 downvotes so far. Why is that? Why are the reactions totally opposite?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="931" LastEditDate="2017-10-21T13:37:31.363" LastActivityDate="2017-10-26T06:45:27.490" Title="Why did these two similar questions get different reactions?" Tags="|discussion|voting|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11445" CreationDate="2017-10-20T17:47:23.930" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I downvoted your question for a few reasons;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It wasn't especially clear what you were asking. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As the title reads, who is the biggest (w.r.t. dimensions, obviously)&#xA;  force-sensitive character in Star Wars?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I wasn't sure what dimension you were talking about.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've indicated that you want a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; answer, but not offered any indication what level of canon you want. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't know if you're happy with EU or just want Disney canon.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an aside, your question demonstrates &lt;strong&gt;zero research effort.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2017-10-20T17:47:23.930" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11445" CreationDate="2017-10-20T17:50:15.103" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the record, I &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ydn2C.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;down-voted&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/w3zfb.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;each question&lt;/a&gt; due to lack of research. I would expect your question was down-voted by others for similar reasons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, you asked a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/172307/who-is-the-smallest-force-sensitive-character-in-star-wars&quot;&gt;second question&lt;/a&gt; asking who the smallest force user was, again with no research involved. While each question I am sure has a reasonable answer within canon, the posts come across as mere whims of thought and therefore in my opinion not useful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You had several comments on the question asking you to clarify what you were actually asking and what research you had done. &lt;strong&gt;You rebuffed these inquires stating...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;em&gt;If you don't like the question, simply downvote and move on&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;...which in my experience is not good way to attract positive attention to your post&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why the other question was up-voted. I can only guess that because a least a semblance of research (acknowledging other large character and stating thing they were not looking for) was shown. It also seems that question attracted an answer quicker than yours. Questions with a quality answer tend to attract up-votes regardless of question quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ETA&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You seem to be now going on a spree of asking &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/172350/who-is-the-physically-largest-character-in-dc&quot;&gt;simple, un-researched questions&lt;/a&gt; about the sizes of characters in different comics. I am not sure what you hoping to accomplish here, unless your goal is to attract down-votes? All of this seems to be not constructive at best and actively harming the site by spamming questions at worst. As seen in your &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11449/please-allow-me-to-ask-this-question&quot;&gt;newest meta question&lt;/a&gt;, the system itself seem to think you are doing something wrong. My advice would be to quit while you are behind to avoid potential escalation of negative outcomes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-10-21T21:24:26.767" LastActivityDate="2017-10-21T21:24:26.767" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11445" CreationDate="2017-10-21T12:37:47.287" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because people on this stack are very much biased by who the user is in how they vote - sometimes consciously (as per comments I saw, not guessing anyone's mind), sometimes unconsciously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(i myself experienced it both ways, both with getting imho-way-undeserved upvotes just for being me; and with getting serial downvotes with people literally going down my old questions in order and downvoting every one they see on a page slowly enough to avoid script detection. Or, downvoting every new question I post for some period).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It just so happens that for reasons I won't bother elaborating, the ratio of people biased against you as a user compared to &quot;for&quot;/neutral, is significantly higher for you than many other users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to address the &quot;points&quot; raised by other answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;was not in any way &quot;unclear&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was crystal clear what &quot;dimensions&quot; mean (size) and &lt;strong&gt;i'm not even a native English speaker&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This thin excuse not only doesn't work, but flies in the opposite direction of supposed inclusivity of SE, where people aren't supposed to be punished for not possessing a perfect ability to speak Her Majesty's English without any regional accent. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question was indeed not showing any research. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;BUT&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While nominally it is a valid reason to downvote (especially on SO, to avoid help vampires), it can be easily shown on 1000s of examples that on SFF.SE people do NOT get downvoted for &quot;lack of research&quot; - never mind getting 8 downvotes - unless the answer is 100% crystal clear obvious from a trivial research like first page of a book, or main Wiki page for the topic. This question was nowhere near that (heck, I wasn't even aware of the offered answer, despite my &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; gold badge.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not specifying canon level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, you owe me a new keyboard. And a cup of juice. Don't make me laugh. Do you honestly mean to tell me that there are 8 downvotes (or even one downvote) on every &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; question that does NOT specify level of canon? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is just a transparent excuse to find some reason to justify a downvote. Congratulations, &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/235983/is-there-an-english-idiom-that-means-you-can-always-find-a-law-to-convict-anyon&quot;&gt;you passed the ham sandwich test&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. For the record, this tendency to punish un-favored users regardless of the post's quality was on of the few major reasons why I have chosen to largely disengage myself from the site. So, anyone who sincerely told me &quot;sorry to see you go&quot; but downvoted the linked question, should really look hard at themselves at the mirror and realize they were part of the problem that pushed me out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2017-10-21T12:47:26.003" LastActivityDate="2017-10-21T12:47:26.003" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11449" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-21T14:20:36.300" Score="-8" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to ask this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Title:&lt;/strong&gt; Who is the physically largest character in Raj Comics?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Body:&lt;/strong&gt; I know that Parmanu can grow in size, but I want to know which character was largest ever shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tags:&lt;/strong&gt; raj-comics&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, the system says that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oops! Your question couldn't be submitted because: This post appears to be a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/172350/who-is-the-physically-largest-character-in-dc&quot;&gt;Who is the physically largest character in DC?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried changing some keywords, but I failed to post the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This clearly is a different question. Please, allow me to post it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-10-25T05:10:13.687" Title="Please, allow me to ask this question" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11449" CreationDate="2017-10-21T14:56:00.637" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You seem to be now going on a spree of asking simple, un-researched questions about the sizes of characters in different comics. I am not sure what you hoping to accomplish here, unless your goal is to attract down-votes? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of this seems to be not constructive at best and actively harming the site by spamming questions at worst. My advice would be to quit while you are behind to avoid potential escalation of negative outcomes. As I mentioned in my comment, I am now questioning whether these posts are being asked in good faith. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;However, the system should allow you to post the questions as they are not duplicates. You may want to try to add some information to the newest post to try to differentiate it from your previous post.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2017-10-21T14:59:14.470" LastActivityDate="2017-10-21T14:59:14.470" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11451" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-22T10:38:42.630" Score="23" ViewCount="328" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is calling questions &quot;worthless&quot; acceptable on this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last instance was yesterday (when my R&amp;amp;A flag on such a comment was denied), but this wasn't the first nor even second time I saw such comments calling other people's questions &quot;useless&quot; or &quot;worthless&quot; and they are often allowed to stand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How are comments like that even remotely in line with the &quot;be nice&quot; SE policy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2017-10-23T19:02:37.563" Title="Why is calling questions &quot;worthless&quot; acceptable on this site?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|comments|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11451" CreationDate="2017-10-22T13:49:19.710" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per Websters; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Worthless:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Having no real value or use.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think that a question or an answer has no real value or use, then saying so is entirely fair comment. It's possibly a little blunt and I guess you could couch your opinion in weasel-words (&quot;&lt;em&gt;I think your question is lacking in real value or use&quot;&lt;/em&gt;) to lessen the impact on those of a fragile disposition but the meaning would be identical and should not go unsaid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While certain terms have been outlawed by generally common agreement (&quot;&lt;em&gt;rep-whoring&lt;/em&gt;&quot; for example) I think we're all grown up enough here to cope with some honest feedback from our fellow users, even if there's the possibility that &lt;strong&gt;that person might not like what's they're being told.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short;&lt;br&gt;&#xA; - Don't call &lt;strong&gt;someone&lt;/strong&gt; worthless. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;That's not nice under any circumstance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA; - If you think their question is worthless (and want to say so) then use the word &lt;em&gt;advisedly, sparingly and carefully&lt;/em&gt;. It can have quite a big impact and there's a possibility they may not like it, even if it's a fair comment in your opinion.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- The above doesn't mean we should outlaw the word. If you think it's being used to attack a user, flag it and let a moderator review any usage on a case-by-case basis.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-10-22T14:01:18.630" LastActivityDate="2017-10-22T14:01:18.630" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11453" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-22T19:38:03.763" Score="6" ViewCount="233" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, I edited the previously-closed question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/172340/51226&quot;&gt;How influential was Dune in the creation of Star Wars?&lt;/a&gt; in order to make it less broad. Basically, I changed it from &quot;what are examples of &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; being inspired by &lt;em&gt;Dune&lt;/em&gt;?&quot; to &quot;what are examples of &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; being inspired by &lt;em&gt;Dune&lt;/em&gt; confirmed by someone involved in the production of &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;?&quot; In my opinion, this edit made the question actually answerable (and less opinion-based).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today, moderator Rand al'Thor rolled back my edit with the comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sorry, but I think your edit changes the scope of the question too much. Asking for similarities between the two works is very different from asking for which similarities Lucas has admitted (which, if he did steal a lot of ideas from Dune, are likely to be only the smaller ones). The former is seeking a detailed comparison of themes and tropes; the latter could be answered by anyone with a Google search&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this rollback justified, given that the first version was closed and the edited version was reopened?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; The question has now been closed again, which I believe gives further evidence my edit was necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastEditorUserId="51226" LastEditDate="2017-10-22T23:47:11.250" LastActivityDate="2017-10-22T23:47:11.250" Title="Was this Rollback justified?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11453" CreationDate="2017-10-22T20:43:46.220" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recognise that you were acting in good faith, and trying to improve what you saw as a poor question. But your edit went too far, for a couple of reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Changing the scope of the question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your edit changed what the question was asking, by more than it might seem at first glance. Consider what answers to the question might possibly look like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The stories/worlds of &lt;em&gt;Dune&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; share similarities as follows: [long list]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If done well, this could be a good answer to the original question. It's not an answer at all to your edited question if it doesn't specifically mention George Lucas.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;George Lucas had this to say about &lt;em&gt;Dune&lt;/em&gt;: [quote]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be a good answer to your edited question, but it might not answer the original question at all, if the quote doesn't show actual examples of story/world similarities.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, your edit not only changed the scope of the question (by narrowing it) but also changed the type of answers it would be likely to attract. The OP's wording (&lt;em&gt;In what ways is that evidenced? Please give examples.&lt;/em&gt;) is clearly looking for answers of the former type, perhaps something like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/126268/31394&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; to show that there &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; a lot of influence or something like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/125277/31394&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; to show that there &lt;em&gt;wasn't&lt;/em&gt; (depending on what the appropriate answer actually is). Your edited question would attract a completely different type of answer, probably consisting mostly of a quote from Lucas and little else - like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/102469/31394&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, perhaps.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Invalidating existing answers.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7418/31394&quot;&gt;generally agreed&lt;/a&gt; that edits to a question which invalidate its existing answer(s) are not a good thing, unless OK'ed with the answerer(s) first. It's not fair to someone who's put effort into answering if they come back and find a different question which their 'answer' no longer answers. This &lt;em&gt;even applies to edits by the OP&lt;/em&gt;, let alone edits which go against the OP's intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/64459/278659&quot;&gt;Rolling back a completely changed question&lt;/a&gt; on main meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, it seems there was (at the time of your edit) a single answer, roughly in the form of the first quote above. After your edit, a second answer in similar form was posted. Both answers then got critical comments pointing out that they didn't answer your edited question - which is understandable, because they didn't. They were, however, answers to the original question. The second answerer even deleted their answer due to these comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you'd checked with the OP, and perhaps the existing answerer, before making your edit, I wouldn't have rolled it back. But the fact that it seemed to go against the OP's intent was reason enough for me to rollback, and the invalidation of the existing answer just strengthened that decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Also, I'm not sure why it's relevant that I'm a moderator, except in relation to the extra 'weight' that a diamond apparently gives to any action. Any user with editing privileges could have done what I did, if they'd noticed what had happened.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-10-22T20:43:46.220" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11453" CreationDate="2017-10-22T21:22:17.807" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The rollback wasn't justified and should be reverted.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/172340/timeline&quot;&gt;order of events&lt;/a&gt; is as follows;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question was asked. After a brief comment discussion, five users felt that it was &quot;&lt;em&gt;too broad&lt;/em&gt;&quot; for comfort and voted to close it.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An edit was made (by RogueJedi) to that question which made it less broad. The question was then re-opened.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At that point, an edit was then made by Rand al'Thor that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/172340/timeline#history_384c01dd-91f9-404c-b5aa-06e782b32cbd&quot;&gt;rolled the question back&lt;/a&gt; into the original &quot;bad&quot; version (e.g. the one that got closed).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This action invalidated both the votes of the original close-voters and means that the votes of those who voted to re-open the new &quot;good&quot; question have had their votes subverted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't speak for the other users who voted to reopen, but &lt;strong&gt;I, for one would not have voted to reopen if the question hadn't been changed.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-10-22T22:02:29.370" LastActivityDate="2017-10-22T22:02:29.370" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11451" CreationDate="2017-10-23T19:02:37.563" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;A comment that does nothing but call a question worthless is &lt;em&gt;worthless&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it may not be &lt;em&gt;offensive&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, I'd use this flag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;no longer needed&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  This comment is obsolete, chatty, or &lt;em&gt;otherwise unnecessary&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(emphasis added)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without a specific example, I can't put it into specific context. But if it does nothing more than say &quot;This question is worthless/pointless&quot; and isn't actually offering constructive critique, it seems unnecessary. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comments in question may have had more in them, but I didn't see them so I can't speak to that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2017-10-23T19:02:37.563" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11409" CreationDate="2017-10-24T02:59:03.820" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Some&lt;/em&gt; of these questions, if properly elucidated and specific enough, are on-topic on &lt;a href=&quot;https://writers.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Writers.SE&lt;/a&gt;.  However, they are more targeted at things which you are &lt;em&gt;actually planning to write&lt;/em&gt; rather than speculation about what somebody else could have hypothetically written.  That said, they do seem open to &lt;a href=&quot;https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fan-fiction&quot;&gt;fan-fiction questions&lt;/a&gt;.  If you're asking because you want to write a fanfic, that stack may be a good fit for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In principle, you could also take this sort of idea-generation over to &lt;a href=&quot;https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Worldbuilding.SE&lt;/a&gt;, but again you should ensure that your question is specific and well-researched.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastActivityDate="2017-10-24T02:59:03.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11458" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-24T07:29:34.550" Score="11" ViewCount="258" Body="&lt;p&gt;We currently have two main science fiction sub-genres tags, being &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hard-sci-fi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hard-sci-fi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hard-sci-fi&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/soft-sci-fi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;soft-sci-fi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;soft-sci-fi&lt;/a&gt;, the usage of which is unclear and poorly defined. The tag wiki for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hard-sci-fi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hard-sci-fi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hard-sci-fi&lt;/a&gt; makes an attempt at defining it but isn't very clear and seems to invite &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7364/what-is-our-actual-policy-on-science-questions&quot;&gt;RWSE questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hard science fiction is a term for works in the science fiction genre which apply a strict, rigourous, consistent scientific model for the universe. The term is formed by analogy to the distinction between the &quot;hard&quot; (natural) and &quot;soft&quot; (social) sciences - approximate ways of characterizing stories with a position on a scale from &quot;softer&quot; to &quot;harder&quot;, not a binary classification.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hard-sci-fi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hard-sci-fi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hard-sci-fi&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/hard-sci-fi/info&quot;&gt;tag wiki excerpt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The wiki for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hard-sci-fi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hard-sci-fi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hard-sci-fi&lt;/a&gt; goes on to list the following three things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Asking for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; of hard sci-fi.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Asking questions about how particular hard sci-fi relates to currently understood physical laws.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Asking questions about how the science of a story relates to current technology.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first seems to be the logical usage for this tag, in the same way we have various fantasy sub-genre tags which are used for story-identification purposes (which seems logical). However, the latter two seem to promote the asking of RWSE questions which are explicitly off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Their is no tag wiki for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/soft-sci-fi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;soft-sci-fi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;soft-sci-fi&lt;/a&gt; and the only thing we have to work with is the wiki excerpt outlined below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Soft science fiction is a term for works in the science fiction genre which do not apply a rigourous scientific model for the universe. It can also be used to describe work where the science fiction aspect is incidental to the story (the same story could be told without the science fiction elements).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/soft-sci-fi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;soft-sci-fi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;soft-sci-fi&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/soft-sci-fi/info&quot;&gt;tag wiki excerpt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This provides no usage guidance for the tag but rather what the usage of the phrase itself is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should we do with these tags? Should we make them story-id only? Should their usage be the same/similar? If we choose to make them story-identification sub-genre tags should we also open them to the usage that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction-genre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science-fiction-genre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science-fiction-genre&lt;/a&gt; is currently being used for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68872" LastActivityDate="2017-11-04T20:21:58.560" Title="Defining the proper usage of hard- and soft sci-fi?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11449" CreationDate="2017-10-25T05:10:13.687" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Honestly, I'm not understanding the level of opprobrium this guy and his questions are generating.  I looked at the fellow's profile page and the list of questions, and they seem to be fairly reasonable.  &quot;Who's the largest character in [X]&quot; is a useful thing to know for [X] fans, yes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it the pacing of the questions that's an issue?  If you consider part of the SE &quot;deal&quot; is that there's going to be this huge database of answered questions, we should expect in the fullness of time to have all these questions and thousands more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, please help me to understand.  If I were a Raj Comics fan -- I'm not really familiar with them -- I'd certainly want to know who was the largest character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89723" LastActivityDate="2017-10-25T05:10:13.687" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11405" CreationDate="2017-10-25T05:26:04.177" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am the guy who posted the answer in question.  As to that business with &quot;sigh&quot;... I did not mean to hurt your feelings.  I quite liked the question in fact, but was reminiscing on how very, very often that question was bandied about on Usenet groups back in the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So...  I do apologize for being rude.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For what it is worth, I did not mean to, but acknowledge the offense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89723" LastEditorUserId="89723" LastEditDate="2017-10-25T05:42:33.293" LastActivityDate="2017-10-25T05:42:33.293" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11461" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-25T15:00:16.830" Score="-2" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/172569/which-real-historical-figures-have-been-recreated-on-the-holodeck&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; specifically asks about &lt;strong&gt;historic characters created on the holodeck&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I was unable to find a definitive list, so I would like to know how many actual Earth history figures have been recreated on the holodeck?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/172598/20774&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; was posted about historic characters who've appeared (in TOS) &lt;strong&gt;via means other than the holodeck&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Star Trek: TOS didn't have any newfangled, highfalutin' holler-decks.&#xA;  Instead we had to make do with historical figures living through to&#xA;  Starfleet times, or with aliens recreating famous people to try to&#xA;  kill Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and various red shirts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I flagged it as &quot;not an answer&quot; on the grounds that it &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;does not attempt to answer the question&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; but the flag has come back as &quot;disputed&quot; and the answer remains in place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If we don't like the question asked, can we just make up our own different questions and answer them?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-10-25T15:36:45.697" LastActivityDate="2017-10-25T15:56:28.743" Title="Why was my flag on this non-answer &quot;disputed&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|moderation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11461" CreationDate="2017-10-25T15:02:54.007" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This flag should not have been disputed. The answer in question is clearly not an attempt to answer &lt;em&gt;the question asked&lt;/em&gt;, it's an attempt to answer &lt;em&gt;an entirely different question of the OP's own devising.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although it contains potentially interesting information, if the OP is interested in posting info about historic characters who've appeared in Star Trek outside of the holodeck, they should have posted a new question (perhaps &quot;&lt;em&gt;which historical characters have been depicted in TOS&lt;/em&gt;&quot;) and then self-answered that question instead of subverting this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2017-10-25T15:02:54.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11461" CreationDate="2017-10-25T15:53:10.943" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this instance, it appears the flag was marked disputed because its trip through the queue resulted in two &quot;looks ok&quot; and two &quot;recommend deletion&quot; reviews.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, only Community♦ can dispute flags, based on the results of the review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="3267" LastEditDate="2017-10-25T15:56:28.743" LastActivityDate="2017-10-25T15:56:28.743" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11464" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11465" CreationDate="2017-10-25T16:34:03.880" Score="11" ViewCount="214" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are Victor Appleton's Tom Swift books considered on topic?&#xA;They're very outdated and inconsistent.&#xA;Are books with no internal rules and outdated sci-fi concepts acceptable, considering that any question may not have a good answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89771" LastEditorUserId="89771" LastEditDate="2017-10-25T16:49:32.247" LastActivityDate="2017-10-28T05:13:56.947" Title="Is Tom Swift considered on topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11464" CreationDate="2017-10-25T17:18:03.007" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, of course Tom Swift is on topic.  The science fiction is pretty dated and often quite pedestrian, even by the standards of the time.  (The series started out with &lt;em&gt;Tom Swift and His Motor Cycle&lt;/em&gt;, hardly a stunning piece of technology even in the first decade of the twentieth century.)  However, there is no requirement that the fantasy and science fiction we discuss here be well-written or particularly original.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over the course of decades, the SF aspects of the stories advanced (eventually reaching the &quot;Caves of Nuclear Fire&quot;), but all of the tales should be on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-10-28T05:13:56.947" LastActivityDate="2017-10-28T05:13:56.947" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11445" CreationDate="2017-10-26T06:45:27.490" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's take a step back for a moment.  The OP of this meta thread &lt;em&gt;has a problem&lt;/em&gt;: they got downvoted.  Instead of trying to answer the question as asked, I think it would be more helpful to focus on solving that problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Given some of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11449/please-allow-me-to-ask-this-question&quot;&gt;other stuff going on&lt;/a&gt; with this user, I'm sure some of you feel I'm beating a dead horse at this point, but I think we can learn something here, even if OP does not, so please bear with me.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do questions get downvoted?  A downvote means that the voter feels something does not belong on the site.  &lt;strong&gt;That's it&lt;/strong&gt;.  It does not necessarily mean that it was a bad question, that it was poorly researched, or any other concrete issue.  It's just an expression of one person's opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What &quot;belongs on the site&quot; is necessarily subjective, but a good starting point is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars?sort=votes&quot;&gt;top-voted questions in the tag&lt;/a&gt;.  Browsing through these, you will notice they have a few qualities which OP's question lacks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They are typically multiple (useful) sentences, and often multiple (useful) paragraphs.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They frequently refer to specific events, characters, plot points, etc. from canon.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many of them reference specific canon sources (films) by name.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sometimes, they have direct quotes from canon sources.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions which lack all of the above elements, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/1520/36526&quot;&gt;In what order should the Star Wars movies be watched?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/155325/36526&quot;&gt;Which ship can go faster, the Millennium Falcon or the USS Enterprise?&lt;/a&gt;, are so obviously interesting or useful that people upvote them purely on the premise of the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to ask better questions that don't get downvoted, focus on doing these things more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But isn't it unfair that the other question got upvoted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although CreationEdge has repeatedly denied it, the upvoted question does contain references to specific elements of canon and demonstrates a familiarity with the subject matter which is lacking in OP's question here.  I am disinclined to call this specific instance unfair on this evidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But let's cut to the chase: Are votes influenced by the asker's name?  Yeah, probably.  Is that unfair?  Yes, obviously.  Can we fix it?  Not really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Blatant cases of serial voting are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/serial-voting-reversed&quot;&gt;detected and reversed automatically&lt;/a&gt;, and moderators or SE employees can also take action where appropriate.  However, this is not a serial voting case.  Serial voting does not result in a single heavily downvoted question, but a pattern of slightly downvoted questions.  So, to the extent that this case is unfair at all, it is so because this user has annoyed &lt;em&gt;a lot of people at once&lt;/em&gt; rather than just annoying one person a great deal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvoting people who annoy us is not a good voting strategy, of course.  It ultimately results in a level of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10195/36526&quot;&gt;cliquishness&lt;/a&gt; which many of us rightly view as toxic.  But at the same time, we must not bend over backwards to tolerate problem users.  If a lot of folks are simultaneously annoyed at the same person, &lt;em&gt;there is probably some reason for that&lt;/em&gt;.  Maybe it's a good reason, or maybe it's a bad reason.  But in real life, angry mobs do not just magically appear when a Disney villain needs a crowd song.  There is a history.  I don't know the facts of this history, so I won't comment on them, but I would encourage the OP, and anyone else involved, to reflect carefully on the interactions which brought us to this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastActivityDate="2017-10-26T06:45:27.490" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11467" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-26T20:50:24.470" Score="10" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/18700/75000&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; is currently at the top of the main SFF homepage, and I'd like to know why. It says that it was active today, but I don't see any edits or additions past 2012, and it doesn't say anything about Community bumping it. So why was it pushed up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75000" LastActivityDate="2017-10-27T18:13:12.007" Title="Why was this question bumped to the homepage?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11467" CreationDate="2017-10-26T21:26:58.890" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a deleted answer one hour ago. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only users with 10,000 or more reputation can see deleted answers, so that's probably the issue. However, everyone sees the same position in the Active queue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="51379" LastEditDate="2017-10-27T18:13:12.007" LastActivityDate="2017-10-27T18:13:12.007" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11469" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-28T14:02:58.243" Score="7" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;With new privileges come new mistakes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I accidentally and unintentionally just created a bad tag and am unable to delete it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potte&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potte&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potte&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a higher level moderation level that can take care of it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55637" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-10-29T22:28:01.053" LastActivityDate="2017-10-29T22:28:01.053" Title="Delete accidental tag?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11469" CreationDate="2017-10-28T20:12:03.170" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't worry about it. These things happen, and the system will take care of it for you.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags not associated with any question are automatically destroyed at 03:00 UTC every day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags which are misspelled should have the questions under them retagged to the appropriate tag, which will result in the misspelled tag's destruction due to having no uses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;-- &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/19754/278659&quot;&gt;main meta FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-10-28T20:12:03.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11458" CreationDate="2017-10-29T16:53:25.387" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Just get rid of them.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/306/36526&quot;&gt;don't have &quot;sci-fi&quot; and &quot;fantasy&quot;&lt;/a&gt; tags, in part because the boundary between science fiction and fantasy is difficult to draw, in part because they are largely useless, and in part because adding them everywhere is a nuisance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If we can't draw a line between sci-fi and fantasy, how can we possibly hope to draw a line between hard and soft sci-fi?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The amount of information these tags would add to a story ID question is, in my opinion, very slight.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hard-sci-fi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hard-sci-fi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hard-sci-fi&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be useful for someone looking for classic sci-fi such as Heinlein and Asimov, but author tags would probably do that better.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/soft-sci-fi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;soft-sci-fi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;soft-sci-fi&lt;/a&gt; describes a huge swath of modern science fiction and in most cases will be much less useful than the approximate year of publication.  Of course, classic soft sci-fi and modern hard sci-fi do exist, but I don't see these tags as useful in those cases either.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;These will be quite widely applicable and therefore nearly as annoying to maintain as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sci-fi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sci-fi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sci-fi&lt;/a&gt; would be.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="36526" LastEditDate="2017-10-29T17:36:06.267" LastActivityDate="2017-10-29T17:36:06.267" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11472" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11473" CreationDate="2017-10-29T22:37:06.647" Score="-5" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question about the significance of laser colours in Star Wars was closed as a duplicate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/33080/2565&quot;&gt;What is the significance of the reversed colours of imperial and rebellion lasers compared to lightsabers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this is the proposed duplicate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/8796/2565&quot;&gt;Why are the colors reversed between the blasters and lightsabers of the Republic/Rebels and Empire?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if you carefully (or at all) read the questions, you will see that the now-closed one is asking about behind-the-scenes (&quot;what is the significance&quot;) while the other one is asking for the &quot;quality of gas&quot; retcon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers to the older question do not address the out-of-universe either, as far as I could tell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did I overlook something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastEditorUserId="21267" LastEditDate="2017-10-29T22:48:15.123" LastActivityDate="2017-10-29T22:48:15.123" Title="Please reopen the star-wars laser fire question as it is nowhere close to a duplicate" Tags="|duplicate-questions|vote-to-reopen|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11472" CreationDate="2017-10-29T22:44:09.530" Score="3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;The question was never closed&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see from the post's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/33080/timeline&quot;&gt;timeline&lt;/a&gt;, the question was not at any time closed as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, there were some 'proposed' close votes, but it was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/close/115209&quot;&gt;voted to leave open&lt;/a&gt; by three reviewers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AZ7v4.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AZ7v4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was good of you to update your question to further limit the scope and add clarification, but don't fret, there seems to have been nothing wrong with the question, and it was never closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-10-29T22:44:09.530" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11458" CreationDate="2017-10-29T22:49:30.810" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;tl;dr&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;code&gt;hard-sci-fi&lt;/code&gt; should be kept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because a definite line, that would unambiguously work for every single work of fiction, cannot be drawn, doesn't mean that some things cannot be classified as hard sci-fi. Keeping the hard-sci-fi tag is probably more important, as the bulk of modern science fiction ventures so far into the &quot;soft&quot; waters, verging on fantasy, that a distinction is useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me the question here creates the impression of a 50:50 partition, but I would say it's more like 10:90, which means that keeping one tag while scrapping the other would be reasonable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not think limiting the tag to story id questions is necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2565" LastActivityDate="2017-10-29T22:49:30.810" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11475" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11476" CreationDate="2017-10-30T00:36:44.990" Score="17" ViewCount="429" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firstly, I have read the arguments &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6944/why-is-the-close-as-duplicate-policy-so-aggressive-and-should-we-change-it&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have asked this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/172900/are-there-any-specific-examples-in-lord-of-the-rings-that-are-influenced-by-the&quot;&gt;Are there any specific examples in Lord of the Rings that are influenced by the WWII?&lt;/a&gt; and it was marked as duplicate and I was directed to the answer of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/89995/how-much-did-tolkien-write-about-the-connection-between-wwi-and-his-work&quot;&gt;How much did Tolkien write about the connection between WWI and his work?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is very obvious that my question asks for influences from WWII in LotR, while the question that supposedly holds the answer to my question asks the influences from WWI. Examining the given answer, the available information about WWII was&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And while World War I was &quot;his war&quot;' so to speak, and had a far more personal impact on his thinking, he wrote Lord of the Rings during the dark days of World War II. His son fought in the war, and it would have been impossible for any Brit living at the time to avoid being seriously affected by the conflict, especially with German bombers flying overhead. So he clearly inserted elements of his own wartime service, and the general experience of WWII, into his writing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;National Geographic - INFLUENCES ON THE LORD OF THE RINGS World War I and World War II &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngbeyond/rings/influences.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngbeyond/rings/influences.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The given link only states that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;An author cannot of course remain wholly unaffected by his&#xA;  experience,&quot; Tolkien acknowledged, but he strongly denied that his&#xA;  story was an allegory for World War I or II.*&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a result, the linked answer carries traces of information which can be incorporated to an answer to my question without proper sourcing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, without answering this question, two helpful users offered extra information that was not presented in the linked answer in comments. @ibid suggested me to look at the actual foreword, and @wcullen suggested me this &lt;a href=&quot;http://valarguild.org/varda/Tolkien/encyc/articles/t/Tolkien/TolkienandWW2.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;page&lt;/a&gt;. Although the second link is definitely not canon, actual foreword is. Again, the foreword is used in the linked answer, however it was quoted once at an unrelated excerpt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first question is, if you were to ask the influences of WWII on LotR before the question on influences of WWI on LotR, would you be satisfied with this content?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before asking this question, I went through questions asked in the last three months of meta. A good deal of questions in the meta are about questions that were marked as duplicate. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11130/why-was-my-question-about-hagrids-parents-closed&quot;&gt;For some questions, there is obviously not a consensus whether it is duplicate or not&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current duplicate policy suggests the marking of different questions with the same answer as duplicate. This interpretation is definitely subjective and requires intense workload of the close-voters. If the close-voter do not examine the dupe-target in detail, they may erroneously vote close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, if an event A has three implicit and not obvious causes X, Y, Z, questions asking &quot;What did X lead to?&quot; and &quot;What did Y lead to?&quot; should be marked as duplicate. Similarly, if an event B leads to three implicit and not obvious results P, Q, R, &quot;Why did P happen?&quot; and &quot;Why did Q happen?&quot; are duplicate as well. This marking process prevents users who might wish to offer detailed insight on the other questions from doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been here active for some time here. My questions has been marked duplicate, off-topic and primarily opinion based before, and they kind of were. However, I did not notice the extent of duplicate rule simply because it was not enforced. Some question that might have been marked duplicate are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/171104/why-was-ser-alliser-thorne-sent-to-the-wall&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/171068/when-and-why-did-jeor-mormont-join-the-nights-watch&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/169200/why-are-there-lords-and-sers-on-the-wall&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/166366/was-ned-stark-actually-a-good-swordsman&quot;&gt;4&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/168630/who-was-reputed-to-be-the-best-swordsman-of-all-westeros&quot;&gt;5&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/68794/who-are-the-3-men-who-would-have-a-chance-against-jaime-lannister-in-a-sword-fig&quot;&gt;15&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/152339/what-is-the-size-of-westeros&quot;&gt;6&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/128906/how-long-does-it-take-to-get-from-moat-cailin-to-mole-town-on-horseback&quot;&gt;7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/133361/real-world-language-analogues-in-the-world-of-ice-and-fire&quot;&gt;8&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/129553/is-ser-davos-based-on-any-historical-figures&quot;&gt;9&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/143520/has-grrm-admitted-historical-influences&quot;&gt;11&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/170415/what-happens-to-the-animals-in-winter&quot;&gt;10&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/132901/what-do-people-in-westeros-eat-during-winter&quot;&gt;12&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/132935/does-nature-in-westeros-show-dramatic-adaptations-to-the-multi-year-winters&quot;&gt;13&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/109798/do-lands-other-than-westeros-suffer-from-long-winters-and-live-under-the-threat&quot;&gt;14&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the sake of my time, I stop searching for possible duplicates. However, the subjectivity of duplication rules sometimes work against the community and prevent better and/or more related answers to the duplicates due to sharing a portion of the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, why do we keep a system that we know is subjective and open to errors? Why should having questions of similar but definitely different nature be avoided simply because they have similar answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/258320/when-i-flag-as-dupe-can-the-system-put-the-link-to-the-answer-and-not-the-quest/258325#258325&quot;&gt;Checking the meta SE, we can see that&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There's only one problem with your feature request: answers don't make questions duplicates. Questions are duplicates only when the questions themselves are duplicates. In other words, you can't close a question as a duplicate of another question just because &quot;you can find your answer over here.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, claiming a question is duplicate because of an extended answer given to a related but different question does not make it duplicate. This practice is against the general SE principles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user65648" LastEditorDisplayName="user65648" LastEditDate="2017-10-30T01:43:40.057" LastActivityDate="2017-10-30T10:23:22.697" Title="Duplicate policy and intensive workload due to it" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="20" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11475" CreationDate="2017-10-30T10:23:22.697" Score="17" Body="&lt;h2&gt;On our general policy&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site's current (most recent) policy on duplication, and specifically on whether or not answers can make questions duplicates, may be found &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9748/31394&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To avoid looking silly then, I would strongly recommend &lt;strong&gt;using answers as more of a litmus test than as a policy&lt;/strong&gt;: if you're already pretty sure the questions are duplicates, testing the answers of one against the other can easily confirm your suspicions. But don't close completely irrelevant questions as duplicates of one another simply because there's an animated gif that happens to apply to both...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, duplication is mostly about &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt;, with answers being only a secondary concern. Conversely, questions can be duplicates (asking the same thing) even if neither of them has a good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thinking about the purpose of the policy, rather than just blindly applying the rules ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It makes sense on some level to close question A as a duplicate of related question B if the latter has answers which satisfactorily address question A. The duplicate banner, after all, does say &quot;&lt;em&gt;This question already has an answer here&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Duplication is also valid when the answers to B don't address A but the questions are identical - this means that a good answer to B (even if there are none yet) &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; address A, so answering A itself would be redundant.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Duplication &lt;strong&gt;doesn't&lt;/strong&gt; make sense if the questions are different and it's unreasonable to expect any good answer to B to fully address A as well, even if the answers to B may tangentially address A in passing. (I believe this is the situation being alluded to by the &quot;animated gif&quot; reference.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;On your concerns about &quot;intensive workload&quot;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are enough users with the 3k reputation required to vote to close - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?page=12&amp;amp;tab=reputation&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;405 at the time of writing&lt;/a&gt;, of whom at least a couple of hundred must be still active on the site - that I don't think &quot;intensive workload&quot; is an issue. If you feel that a question should (or shouldn't) be a duplicate, you can vote to close (or reopen) it yourself, which will send it into the review queues to be voted on by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, &lt;strong&gt;consistency is a worthy goal but often an unattainable one&lt;/strong&gt;. It would be great to have a clear enough duplicate policy that you could never point to two differently-treated questions and say &quot;this one was closed, so that one should have been too!&quot; But in reality, this will probably never happen. We should &lt;em&gt;try&lt;/em&gt; to be consistent, but not get too dismayed if we aren't perfectly consistent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't read all the 14 questions you linked to as possible duplicates. Perhaps some of them should indeed be closed. Perhaps they will be as a result of this meta post. I trust in the community to review and vote on them as needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;On your specific question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The older question asks specifically about WWI, and the answers mostly address that, with the occasional remark which is either related to WWII or is more general and could apply to either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is your question satisfactorily answered by these remarks in the answers to the older question?&lt;/strong&gt; Nope. As you note, much has been written about connections between Tolkien's writing and WWII, and very little of it is included in those answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it reasonable to request answers to the older question including detailed analysis of yours?&lt;/strong&gt; Not really. The standard response when the OP of a duplicate question says the answers to the older question aren't good enough is &quot;well, wait for a better answer or set a bounty then&quot;. But in this case, setting a bounty on a question about WWI connections &lt;em&gt;which would only be awarded to an answer containing detailed discussion of WWII connections&lt;/em&gt; seems like a pretty strange thing to do. &quot;If you want answers about WWII, why not ask a separate question about WWII rather than trying to hijack this one about WWI?&quot;, I'd ask.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, at the time of writing, your question has &lt;strong&gt;3 votes to reopen&lt;/strong&gt;. It's not as if nobody agrees with you that it's not a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-10-30T10:23:22.697" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11477" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11483" CreationDate="2017-10-31T11:20:17.613" Score="16" ViewCount="322" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/172865/what-is-the-code-that-hopper-knocks-on-the-door&quot;&gt;What is the code that Hopper knocks on the door?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The querent stated that they believed the knock to be Morse code, &quot;.././...&quot;, and two answers that essentially said that it was instead &quot;..-/...&quot; and gave a reasonable translation were deleted as &quot;not an answer&quot;. Maybe I'm missing subtext, but I've seen a number of good answers on the site which essentially go &quot;No, you're hearing/reading that wrong. It's this, which means the answer is this.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-11-01T13:25:36.077" LastActivityDate="2017-11-13T01:56:06.647" Title="Answers that disagree with basic data" Tags="|discussion|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11458" CreationDate="2017-10-31T11:22:31.753" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;We should keep them&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose we keep them and use them as we have other (sub-)genre tags, such as  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sword-and-sorcery&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sword-and-sorcery&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sword-and-sorcery&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11395/whats-up-with-the-sword-and-sorcery-tag&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt;, (Story-id and general genre questions),&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/military-sf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;military-sf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;military-sf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9186/what-is-correct-usage-of-military-sf&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt; (although I propose we add the story-id usage to hard- &amp;amp; soft-sci-fi),  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/horror&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;horror&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;horror&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9667/57310&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt;, (Story-id and possibly general genre questions, the latter is unclear), &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/steampunk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;steampunk&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;steampunk&lt;/a&gt; (which has had both story-id and questions about the genre, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/steampunk+-story-identification+-character-identification+-episode-identification+-object-identification+-actor-identification+-music-identification+-scene-identification&quot;&gt;eg&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cyberpunk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cyberpunk&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cyberpunk&lt;/a&gt;, (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cyberpunk+-story-identification+-character-identification+-episode-identification+-object-identification+-actor-identification+-music-identification+-scene-identification&quot;&gt;ditto&lt;/a&gt;) (beware some posts in that link and the one above are mis-tagged)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/post-apocalyptic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;post-apocalyptic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;post-apocalyptic&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/apocalypse&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;apocalypse&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;apocalypse&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10713/an-apocalypse-of-posts&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt;, note: no positive consensus)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being listed there, I propose we continue to use both &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hard-sci-fi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hard-sci-fi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hard-sci-fi&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/soft-sci-fi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;soft-sci-fi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;soft-sci-fi&lt;/a&gt; for any story-id questions which would fall under the sub-genres (as decided by the OP) and for any questions which people may have baout the genre for which they can use in conjunction with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/trope&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;trope&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;trope&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/inspiration&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;inspiration&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;inspiration&lt;/a&gt; tags (or any other relevant tags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag wiki excerpts should be edited to make them fit the guidelines (and provide actual usage information) and say that the tags can be used for both Story-id and general genre questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We would however need to define some form of definition for the tag wikis. They need not be black and white, but some way for users who end up in the tag-wiki are able to see how one would define the general nature of both tags (which are reasonably opposite). What we would not have to do is set a boundary for where hard becomes soft, as story-id-ers could be asked to go into the details of the hardness or softness of the work, and any genre specific questions about the border would tag both works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reasoning for allowing the Story-id side of the tag has been listed several times by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10693/68872&quot;&gt;Captain Edge&lt;/a&gt;: In &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10956/should-we-admit-that-story-identification-breaks-tagging-conventions-and-make-ne&quot;&gt;Should we admit that story-identification breaks tagging conventions and make new guidelines?&lt;/a&gt; and What's up with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11395/whats-up-with-the-sword-and-sorcery-tag&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s up with the [sword-and-sorcery] tag?&lt;/a&gt; and by one of our top story-id users, FuzzyBoots, here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9180/what-should-we-do-about-tags-on-story-id-questions&quot;&gt;What should we do about tags on story-id questions?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As stated by CreationEdge in one of his many excellent answers about tags: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Our top tags on this site are so large that they and their related tags are often curated by &quot;specialists&quot;, people that take an interest in that work and are knowledgeable about it. We have different levels of granularity and grouping in these tags, and should keep that in mind when discussing whether or not to keep a tag.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11194/do-we-really-need-the-marauders-map-tag&quot;&gt;Do we really need the Marauders map tag?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is my opinion that sub-genre tags help give us some granularity to our largest tag, (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;), By using sub-genre tags as well as media tags we can not only narrow the search for those answering but also for those who may have read it seen something and come to look back for it. Furthermore, people using our story-id section to look for recommendations (as they are off-topic to ask on the main site) can look for genres and mediums they're most interested in. It helps us sort our questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68872" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-10-31T13:25:07.187" LastActivityDate="2017-10-31T13:25:07.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11477" CreationDate="2017-10-31T12:54:45.333" Score="-7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a delete voter on both posts, I will give some insight into why I voted to delete both answers (well the second was obvious considering I'd deleted the first).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges&quot;&gt;Privilege page&lt;/a&gt;, under &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/trusted-user&quot;&gt;Trusted User&lt;/a&gt; (20k privileges) the following falls under the advice for delete votes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h1&gt;Deleting answers&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;When should I vote to delete an answer?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You may vote to delete answers in the following cases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The answer is extremely low quality: There is little to no scope for improvement&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The answer doesn't attempt to answer the question; it may be a comment or a separate question altogether.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is my opinion that the answer fell under the first bullet point, given that there was no basis for the morse they were suggesting, as indicated in my comments above, and the lack of any form of details the answerer should be providing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68872" LastActivityDate="2017-10-31T12:54:45.333" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11480" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-10-31T15:13:31.887" Score="18" ViewCount="250" Body="&lt;p&gt;I notice that a lot of First Posts get referred to the tour via a comment like the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Welcome to SFF. I recommend you take a look at our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;tour&lt;/a&gt; to get an idea of what sort of answers we are looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am guilty of doing this as well. But something about this was bothering me so I went to look at the tour again and the issue is that the tour doesn't really talk about answers at all. Only questions. So we either need to add something to the tour about answers or start directing First Answers somewhere else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can the mods edit the tour? Or should we find/make an FAQ for such occasions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62201" LastEditorUserId="62201" LastEditDate="2017-10-31T21:37:28.337" LastActivityDate="2017-11-02T14:36:21.840" Title="Wherein directing First Posters to the tour is a bad idea" Tags="|discussion|new-users|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11480" CreationDate="2017-10-31T15:41:30.807" Score="18" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can the mods edit the tour?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/164778/what-should-we-put-on-our-tour-page&quot;&gt;moderators can edit some of the content of the tour&lt;/a&gt;. However, the overall structure cannot be modified so we can't add a more extensive section to it for answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Or should we find/make an FAQ for such occasions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I usually link to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt; instead (you can use the &lt;code&gt;[help]&lt;/code&gt; magic link for it) since it has a prominent section on answering (and I find it far more helpful in general than the tour).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9444/31936&quot;&gt;FAQ on meta with advice for writing story ID answers&lt;/a&gt;. I don't think we need a separate FAQ for writing good answers in general since the help center already covers that pretty well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastActivityDate="2017-10-31T15:41:30.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11480" CreationDate="2017-10-31T15:41:55.763" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tour is a good resource. It's got general information about SE and how the system works; it's a good place to point a new user to, usually. But I wouldn't point them to the &lt;code&gt;[tour]&lt;/code&gt; for specific &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; guidance. Instead, &lt;strong&gt;point them to the How to Answer page for specific answer guidelines&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This page has its own magic link - type &lt;code&gt;[answer]&lt;/code&gt; and it'll automatically expand to &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;How to Answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. It also has a question counterpart, &lt;code&gt;[ask]&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So generally, &lt;strong&gt;point new users to the tour for a general overview of how the site works, and the How to Answer page for specific guidance on answering questions&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Side point: you asked if mods can edit the tour. The answer is yes, but only certain parts - like the example question that's shown there, and the list is subjects to ask about/not ask about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest leaving a comment more like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hey, welcome to Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange! Thanks for contributing an answer; new answers are always good! However, your answer could be improved by [...]. I'd also recommend that you take a look at our [tour], which has some information on how our site works; and [answer], which will provide some help for writing good answers. See you around! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2017-10-31T15:58:41.330" LastActivityDate="2017-10-31T15:58:41.330" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11477" CreationDate="2017-11-01T13:25:22.567" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Frame challenges&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This kind of answer is sometimes known as a &quot;frame challenge&quot;: instead of answering the question under the OP's misapprehension, it challenges the framing of the question by proving the OP's assumptions wrong. An example of this can be found &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/86508/31394&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;: the question asks why Snape killed Harry Potter's parents, and the top answer (score +14/-0) explains that he didn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things get a bit more sticky when someone attempts to post a frame-challenge answer which is itself incorrect. If someone had asked why Voldemort killed Harry Potter's parents, and someone else had answered saying that in fact it was Snape who killed them, that answer would certainly have been downvoted and possibly deleted by reviewers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wrong answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3293/31394&quot;&gt;Is deleting really wrong answers OK according to the rules?&lt;/a&gt;, answers which are simply &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt; should generally be downvoted and/or commented instead of deleted. One reason for this is that wrongness can be difficult to judge without specific expertise, and moderators/reviewers shouldn't always have to need that expertise in order to know whether or not to delete a post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Get to the point, Rand ...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what about these specific answers, the ones that state the Morse code in &lt;em&gt;Stranger Things&lt;/em&gt; was &lt;code&gt;..-/...&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;.././...&lt;/code&gt;? Well, if they're &lt;em&gt;right&lt;/em&gt;, then they certainly shouldn't be deleted, as they provide a valid frame challenge and the correct answer to the question. If they're &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt;, then they could arguably be deleted, but they're still attempts to answer the question and we don't usually delete answers just for being wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Are they right or wrong?&lt;/em&gt; I don't know; I haven't watched the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Had all five of the delete-voters watched enough of the show to be sure these answers were wrong?&lt;/em&gt; I don't know, but one of them has posted an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11479/31394&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; here explaining his delete vote without reference to wrongness of the answer, saying that there's &quot;no basis for the morse they were suggesting&quot; and the answers &quot;lack [...] any form of details&quot;. (If the answers are right, the &quot;basis&quot; would be simply watching the scene in question carefully, and I'm not sure what further details would be required.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why does the same answer keep getting posted again and again?&lt;/em&gt; Unless it's the same person trying to share their interpretation with us three times (unlikely considering the different usernames and avatars), it seems to be either a common misconception or the actual correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-11-01T13:25:22.567" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11480" CreationDate="2017-11-02T14:36:21.840" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would point them to both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hello, and welcome to the site! In order to help us better answer your question, I would recommend you &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;read the help section&lt;/a&gt; on how to ask better questions. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;tour page&lt;/a&gt; will also give you a better idea of what Stack Exchange is about, and our question/answer format (As opposed to discussion style).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, edit slightly for answer vs. question, but this gives them an idea of how SE works, and gives them a question/answer resource as well. (And the above text with links does fit in a comment space with a couple hundred characters to spare).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12305" LastActivityDate="2017-11-02T14:36:21.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="716" CreationDate="2017-11-03T03:40:55.960" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thoughts...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Is it acceptable in direct quotations, or do those need to be censored?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll suggest this is okay.  It's a direct quote, and the made-up words are generally &quot;safe&quot; enough to pass TV/movie censors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Is it acceptable to ask questions about these words? (e.g. &quot;What is the origin of ****?&quot;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This sounds good to me, because we are discussing the words in the meta sense; there's a &lt;em&gt;point&lt;/em&gt; to bringing it up.  There might be some good discussion there.  Were the words chosen randomly?  Are they evocative of real cuss words?  The author's childhood enemy's name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Is it acceptable to simply use these words in questions/answers? (e.g. &quot;This is the ****ing best example of modern science fiction&quot;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd recommend against this, albeit mildly; it seems a little indulgent and showboat-y, and unless you're a &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; good wordsmith, adds little to the conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89723" LastActivityDate="2017-11-03T03:40:55.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11486" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11487" CreationDate="2017-11-03T09:39:33.493" Score="12" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if this is allowed. I want to ask background music because I don't know their title or the original version since it is played instrumentally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74547" LastActivityDate="2017-11-03T10:49:10.600" Title="Can I ask for titles of background music in some particular movie?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11486" CreationDate="2017-11-03T10:49:10.600" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;, I'm pretty sure this would come under (from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;help centre&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming the movie in question is science fiction or fantasy, but that goes without saying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples of previous questions similar to what you seem to be asking about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/46302/31394&quot;&gt;What is the song played in the &amp;quot;End of Line&amp;quot; club on Tron Legacy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/91489/31394&quot;&gt;What is the name of the &amp;quot;polka style&amp;quot; music preceding the Waltz in Final Fantasy VIII?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/152226/31394&quot;&gt;In TOS, what&amp;#39;s the origin and name of the clarinet comedy sound effect found in &amp;quot;A Private Little War&amp;quot; and other episodes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/168709/31394&quot;&gt;What is the Hound singing?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We even have whole tags for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/music&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;music&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;music&lt;/a&gt; (99 questions) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/theme-music&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;theme-music&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;theme-music&lt;/a&gt; (5 questions), although they don't seem to have very clear usage patterns ... &lt;em&gt;note to self: make new meta post about these tags&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-11-03T10:49:10.600" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11488" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-03T11:22:40.040" Score="9" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/music&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;music&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;music&lt;/a&gt; (99 questions) has the following tag wiki excerpt (and no tag wiki):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Refers to musical themes, cues, or scores present in works of science fiction. Usually used in relation to film or tv series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In practice, the tag seems to have been used for at least three different types of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about music which appears in a work of sci-fi or fantasy, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/144173/31394&quot;&gt;Which version of the Imperial March plays just after Vader gets his new suit?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/109806/31394&quot;&gt;What are the lyrics and translation for the Nazg&amp;#251;l theme music?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about music which &lt;em&gt;refers to&lt;/em&gt; a work of sci-fi or fantasy, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/150736/31394&quot;&gt;What is the first mention of Star Wars in a hit song?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/151289/31394&quot;&gt;Which Star Trek: TNG episodes are sampled in the song &amp;quot;Data &amp;amp; Picard&amp;quot; from artist Pogo?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Story-ID questions about stories with a musical theme, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/156291/31394&quot;&gt;Short stories with musical themes&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/116532/31394&quot;&gt;What is short story of man stranded on planet with a musical alien&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also have a second tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/theme-music&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;theme-music&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;theme-music&lt;/a&gt;, with 5 questions all of which fall into the first of the three categories listed above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How should these tags actually be used?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are we OK with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/music&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;music&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;music&lt;/a&gt; being used for three different types of question? If not, should we split it into two or three different tags and/or retag some questions? Should we rewrite the tag wiki?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/theme-music&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;theme-music&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;theme-music&lt;/a&gt; deserve to be a separate tag, or should it be merged into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/music&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;music&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;music&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-11-04T12:12:19.273" Title="The music of the tags" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11488" CreationDate="2017-11-03T12:49:52.690" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Merge them.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Music is broad term, but reasonably well understood in the context of our site. Experts in the production and usage of music within the works of science fiction and fantasy will likely have a range of applicable knowledge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/theme-music&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;theme-music&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;theme-music&lt;/a&gt; question was asked roughly two years at the time of this posting. While an inactive tag shouldn't just go away, it gives us a good indication that the broader &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/music&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;music&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;music&lt;/a&gt; is likely to garner better results for searching, asking, and answering questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the different usages we have seen... all that takes is a well written tag-wiki!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2017-11-04T12:12:19.273" LastActivityDate="2017-11-04T12:12:19.273" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11490" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-04T12:41:24.210" Score="-9" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to ask a question on meta after a site ban was lifted, but I was greeted with this page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7IFze.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7IFze.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2017-11-04T13:19:11.673" LastActivityDate="2017-11-04T13:19:11.673" Title="Why can't I ask a question on meta after a ban?" Tags="|discussion|suspension|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ClosedDate="2017-11-05T13:35:46.087" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11490" CreationDate="2017-11-04T12:48:41.883" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think as is often to blame... &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/103176/slow-update-of-reputation&quot;&gt;the issue is caching...&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It takes about 10 minutes for reputation to catch back up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems this has now been resolved as you have posted a question both on the main site and on meta. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2017-11-04T13:06:49.507" LastActivityDate="2017-11-04T13:06:49.507" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11492" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-04T13:29:50.203" Score="-12" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is chat so easily manipulated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who decides what? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who decides bans?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who decides what goes on in chat?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastActivityDate="2017-11-04T14:30:00.777" Title="Why is chat so easily manipulated?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2017-11-04T23:55:19.363" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11493" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11494" CreationDate="2017-11-04T13:45:08.583" Score="2" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I'm done with the series and books of a sci-fi movie and can't decide whether what story should I read next, can I ask some recommendations of movie or book related to sci-fi? If this is allowed, what &lt;strong&gt;tag/tags&lt;/strong&gt; should I use?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74547" LastActivityDate="2017-11-04T13:51:44.847" Title="Can I ask for movies/books related with a particular sci-fi movie?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2017-11-04T13:56:06.500" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11493" CreationDate="2017-11-04T13:51:44.847" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NO.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recommendation questions are strictly off-topic as defined by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What about other Science Fiction and Fantasy related questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Not all questions have a home on Stack Exchange. Please note the following types of questions are off-topic here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions calling for a list of works, authors, …: What are all the&#xA;  books that have X? Who wrote about topic Y?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reading or viewing recommendations: I liked X, what should I watch next?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Genre classification: Is X Science Fiction?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other Relevant meta: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic/365#365&quot;&gt;What questions are on-topic, and what questions are off-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2017-11-04T13:51:44.847" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11492" CreationDate="2017-11-04T14:18:55.963" Score="7" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Who decides what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chat moderation is done by moderators, room owners, and all users. Moderators have all the moderation powers, which they can use single-handledly. This includes validating flags, deleting and moving messages, chat suspensions, and kicking. Room owners can move messages and kick (for a fixed time). Every user can flag a message or act upon a message flagged by another user.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Who decides bans?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See above.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Who decides what goes in chat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chatters. Rooms across the SE network vary widely in their scope, and even in what's allowed there. Certain rooms will give more leeway to language and content, as long as it's SFW and fits some general criteria for content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Restaurant is a fairly new room, so there isn't an established scope (nor should there be, imho), other than it being SFF's room. There are, however, some boundaries.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What happened now?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I said I posted floofs. You insulted floofs. I disregarder that insult and posted another floof. You ten posted the same message about floofs 3 times. At this point I flagged your message and kicked you. The flag was validated, which (in most cases) means it's not suitable for chat. For the whole time my face was like &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QatxZ.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QatxZ.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's as if you were &lt;em&gt;trying&lt;/em&gt; to get yourself kicked from the room... which resulted in you being kicked. &quot;Manipulating&quot; chat into getting you kicked isn't the flaw of the chat, it's your problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please, do not say stuff in chat that you were saying. This includes, but is not limited to, saying derogatory things about other users, or trying to get them angry. Just be nice, and people will be nice to you. Remember that free speech doesn't mean you are allowed to say anything you want to, and other people don't have to put up with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://xkcd.com/1357/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SMLvB.png&quot; alt=&quot;&amp;quot;I can&amp;#39;t remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you&amp;#39;re saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it&amp;#39;s not literally illegal to express.&amp;quot;&quot; title=&quot;I can&amp;#39;t remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you&amp;#39;re saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it&amp;#39;s not literally illegal to express.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2017-11-04T14:30:00.777" LastActivityDate="2017-11-04T14:30:00.777" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11458" CreationDate="2017-11-04T20:21:58.560" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hard SF deals with the &quot;hard&quot; sciences, i.e., physics, chemistry, engineering, etc. &#xA;Example: Larry Niven's &lt;code&gt;Ring World&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Soft SF deals with the &quot;soft&quot; sciences, i.e., sociology, psychology, etc.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Example: George Orwell's &lt;code&gt;1984&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The terms are often used, as well, to delineate between actual science and scientific fantasy: compare Heinlein or Asimov to &lt;code&gt;Star Wars&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91918" LastActivityDate="2017-11-04T20:21:58.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11497" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-04T21:56:43.487" Score="-15" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;In connection with the question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9981/is-it-ok-to-downvote-a-question-for-being-uninteresting&quot;&gt;Is it OK to downvote a question for being uninteresting?&lt;/a&gt; So if you want to mark this post as duplicate, &lt;strong&gt;analyze&lt;/strong&gt; my question and the link I have given first before flagging this post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Let me make it clear that I din't stated the quotations below. They came from the link I have given above. The reason why I included them is because they caught my attention, and it seems like it is not just me who thinks this site practices unfair voting.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have read in this question that you can downvote a post that &lt;strong&gt;if you think it is uninteresting&lt;/strong&gt;. In proportion to Help Centre:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Voting up a question or answer signals to the rest of the community&#xA;  that a post is interesting, well-researched, and useful, while voting&#xA;  down a post signals the opposite: that the post contains wrong&#xA;  information, is poorly researched, or fails to communicate&#xA;  information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this can cause several disadvantages. I will state three of my points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Unrightful Way.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm not sure I agree that this is a necessarily implication. For example, if an employee does very well, I may give them a bonus. But the proper response to an employee performing poorly is generally not to deduct money from their salary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is actually right. I don't think it is necessary to downvote a question just because you think it is uninteresting. How about for the others? Of course, anyone who posted a question and when someone downvoted it for being &lt;strong&gt;an uninteresting question&lt;/strong&gt;, the user will be displeased.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Anti-Social Behavior.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Well, I'm not one to go starting arguments on the Interwebs, but I think that downvoting a post because you don't find it interesting is a destructive, evil, morally reprehensible, anti-intellectual, self-centered, close-minded, anti-social behavior that should be disallowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the comment states it all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Unfair Voting&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have trouble with the fact that you admit you &quot;wouldn't have time&quot; to downvote all the questions that apparently bore you but &quot;sometimes&quot; you go ahead and make such downvotes. If you can't apply something consistently, it might be better not to do it all. Beyond this, I struggle to see the value of downvoting in anything other than especially egregious cases. More often than not, refraining from upvoting sends the same message as downvoting but without the negativity and trauma.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's actually politely RIGHT. If you want to downvote a question just because it's boring, shouldn't you downvote every question you find uninteresting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt; It isn't wrong to downvote. I just don't find it necessary to downvote a question for being &lt;strong&gt;uninteresting&lt;/strong&gt;. Every user here cares for his/her reputation. I think downvoting should only be for those questions that are &lt;em&gt;unrelated, broad, etc.&lt;/em&gt; But if someone posts a question and a user finds it uninteresting, it should just be left alone. Maybe for some it is uninteresting, but what if others might actually enjoy it? Especially for the newbies. Please take note that this is not a rant. I'm just stating how unlawful this kind of rule is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74547" LastEditorUserId="74547" LastEditDate="2017-11-05T05:21:26.080" LastActivityDate="2017-11-05T15:43:37.050" Title="Shouldn't downvoting uninteresting posts be forbidden?" Tags="|discussion|down-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="13" ClosedDate="2017-11-05T15:44:05.847" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11497" CreationDate="2017-11-04T23:52:38.843" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two underlying premises about voting on SE that you need to keep in mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first is that in a crowd-based system (like voting on SE), it's the &lt;em&gt;aggregate&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;relative&lt;/em&gt; results that are useful, not individual votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a &quot;lot&quot; of people vote on a &quot;lot&quot; of posts (questions and answers) then - in general - &quot;good&quot; posts will end up with higher votes than &quot;bad&quot; posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second is that votes on a question or answer are not primarily intended to give feedback to the person who made the post.  Votes are meant to tell &lt;em&gt;other people&lt;/em&gt; what the community thinks about a question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, looking at your 3 points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;anyone who posted a question and when someone downvoted it for being an uninteresting question, the user will be displeased.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That may be true, but votes aren't primarily for the person who posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... I think that downvoting a post because you don't find it interesting is a destructive, evil, morally reprehensible, anti-intellectual, self-centered, close-minded, anti-social behavior that should be disallowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Agreeing with this comment actually makes your post a rant, because it's &lt;em&gt;waaaaaay&lt;/em&gt; over the top....  In what way is it destructive to downvote? (for whatever reason) Or morally reprehensible?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you want to downvote a question just because it's boring, shouldn't you downvote every question you find uninteresting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find this viewpoint just as over-the-top as the one about it being evil to downvote...  Think it through: If you really think everyone should be required to vote consistently, then you're saying everyone who votes at all should have to read and vote on every single post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, voting is meaningful when a lot of people do it, so if I don't read and/or don't vote on every post, it's not a problem because other people will get them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Maybe for some it is uninteresting, but what if others might actually enjoy it? Especially for the newbies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If others enjoy it, then they're free to vote it up.  As long as enough people vote, the overall score will be a reflection of how much the community likes or doesn't like the question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, you should keep in mind that you unless someone says in a comment &quot;I downvoted this because I found it uninteresting,&quot; you have no way of knowing if that's the reason.  I would think that in many cases, &quot;uninteresting&quot; is just another way of saying &quot;unclear&quot; or &quot;not useful&quot; or &quot;not researched,&quot; all of which are explicitly listed as valid reasons to downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastActivityDate="2017-11-04T23:52:38.843" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11500" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-05T13:18:00.753" Score="-24" ViewCount="341" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel I have been arbitrarily banned from chat b/c of who I am.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The below comment is very much similar to what I said about a topic that I did not agree on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/115717/was-there-ever-a-story-that-involved-hicks-and-newt-surviving#comment313644_115717&quot;&gt;Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aah, I see where you're confused. Alien and Aliens are documentaries.&#xA;Alien3 is a &lt;strong&gt;ripe pile of trash&lt;/strong&gt; invented for profit. We don't know what&#xA;happened to anyone after aliens because our records of future history&#xA;end there. We'll just have to wait till we catch up with their&#xA;timeline to know the truth&#xA;The poster called out Aliens in a manner that was very similar to waht I said as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I said that &amp;quot;floofs suck balls&amp;quot; which is basically saying that I don't like them, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wordnik.com/words/suck%20balls&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;suck balls definition&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Definitions from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike&#xA;License&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;v. to be terrible, of extremely poor quality.&lt;/strong&gt; Etymologies&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;. So b/c I disagreed with the the room owner and now I am banned. Is that the way things are done around here? &amp;quot;ripe pile of trash&amp;quot; is very much similar to &amp;quot;suck balls&amp;quot; in regards to saying that something is not good or bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am aware that the &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;be nice policy&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; is enforced, but surely I am allowed to say I dislike something without repercussion? I did not insult anyone, nor did I act like a jerk, so why the ban?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So why am I banned for voicing my opinion on something I don't like?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am under the opinion that I am banned b/c I post controversial posts and I was banned b/c a I said something &amp;quot;suck balls&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Down-votes will just cement my position that I am right BTW. More than 10 down-votes and my ban will be reversed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-11-05T14:21:48.550" Title="Why was I banned from Chat again?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11500" CreationDate="2017-11-05T14:21:48.550" Score="26" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I feel I have been arbitrarily banned from chat b/c of who I am.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, it's because of &lt;strong&gt;how you behave&lt;/strong&gt;. You have been &lt;em&gt;repeatedly&lt;/em&gt; banned from chat, main, and meta because of your inappropriate, offensive, and inflammatory behaviour, but you never seem to have examined your behaviour or learned your lesson from any of these bans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So b/c I disagreed with the the room owner and now I am banned. Is that the way things are done around here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not really. If you'd said instead that you don't like floofs, you wouldn't have been banned for it. A basic rule of human interaction is that the &lt;em&gt;way&lt;/em&gt; you say something can be as important as &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; you say. If you express your opinions in a confrontational and belligerent way using unnecessarily foul language, then you may well find yourself banned for doing so, but you won't be banned simply for expressing your opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am under the opinion that I am banned b/c I post controversial posts and I was banned b/c a I said something &quot;suck balls&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's pretty much right, yes. You make a habit of, as you yourself put it, &quot;stirring shit&quot;, which is not a healthy or constructive way to participate in a community. This, together with your tendency to post offensive comments, is more than enough reason to ban someone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Down-votes will just cement my position that I am right BTW. More than 10 down-votes and my ban will be reversed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know how you think this works, but ... it doesn't work like that. If anything, downvotes on meta are more likely to indicate that you're &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt;, not right, and I can guarantee that nobody is going to reverse your ban because you got downvoted on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why was I banned from Chat again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you returned to chat after your last ban, this is what happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/messages/40952111/history&quot;&gt;first message&lt;/a&gt; was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why can't I post on meta? I have shit to stir now I am un banned&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus demonstrating your bad faith and desire to cause controversy and act like a nuisance as soon as you returned to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You then continued looking for a fight:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;6 month is a long time, the next ban will be even more fun&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Skooba, no they(the ominous they) are out to get me. I can't help being hated&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@TimE.Lord, wtf, who are you? And what is floofs&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Skooba, hopefuly I don't get banned for saying &quot;wtf&quot; which is very likely with the current moderating team&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@TimE.Lord, overlords suck &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@TimE.Lord, nice, foofs suck balls&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually, after you started to get overtly offensive by using vulgar language, you got the reaction you were looking for: flags and a short suspension from chat.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A moderator then noticed what was going on. Your abusive behaviour yesterday, combined with your past history of abusive behaviour, caused the decision to ban you from chat for a year. I wasn't the moderator who made this decision, but I wholeheartedly support it. Your inappropriate behaviour has continued for far too long, and you've shown absolutely no sign of learning lessons from your past warnings and bans. Perhaps now your year-long absence from chat will give you time to think over your behaviour and how to improve it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-11-05T14:21:48.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11502" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-06T16:13:08.017" Score="0" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have recently changed my name from &lt;strong&gt;BookStriker&lt;/strong&gt; to &lt;strong&gt;Invoker&lt;/strong&gt;. Honestly, this is my favorite character in a video game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I changed my profile picture recently and I want to input her name in my profile. And it might be not good enough to change my name again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74547" LastEditorUserId="21267" LastEditDate="2017-11-07T04:37:46.470" LastActivityDate="2017-11-07T15:02:45.507" Title="Is it alright to change my profile name again?" Tags="|discussion|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11503" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11505" CreationDate="2017-11-06T16:21:31.963" Score="0" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;h2&gt;HARRY POTTER WIKI&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Welcome to the Harry Potter Wiki, an encyclopedic resource and&#xA;  community gathering spot for all things related to J.K. Rowling's&#xA;  Wizarding World. Whether you're looking for info on Fantastic Beasts,&#xA;  the book series or LEGO, we are the #1 Harry Potter fan database that&#xA;  anyone can edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Harry Potter Wiki reveals plot details about the series. Read at&#xA;  your own risk! We are currently editing 15,059 articles since 5 July,&#xA;  2005. &lt;br&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FRONT PAGE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In line with the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11263/is-there-any-reliable-source-for-harry-potter-other-than-the-books-and-interview&quot;&gt;Is there any reliable source for Harry Potter other than the books and interviews?&lt;/a&gt;. There is an answer that states&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Secondary Sources&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harry Potter wiki&lt;/strong&gt; (different canon approach) Harry Potter Lexicon&#xA;  (similar canon approach) Old defunct Pottermore (similar canon&#xA;  approach) New Pottermore* (different canon approach) Muggles' Guide to&#xA;  Harry Potter Wikipedia Other SFF answers Anything else you find on the&#xA;  internet. To avoid being (as you put it) &quot;burnt at the stake&quot;, &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;it's&#xA;  best to either avoid citing anything from the last two groups&#xA;  altogether, or if you do include them, &lt;strong&gt;then clearly label them as such&#xA;  and make sure that they aren't integral to your answer.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  &lt;sub&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11263/is-there-any-reliable-source-for-harry-potter-other-than-the-books-and-interview&quot;&gt;Is there any reliable source for Harry Potter other than the books and interviews?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I just want to ask if this website is canon? I can find more information here than the Pottermore website. Altough I can't verify if all of these are canon, the website states that the answers came from book or statements that officially came from J.K. Rowling. Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74547" LastActivityDate="2017-11-06T16:44:26.553" Title="Is this website for Harry Potter a canon one?" Tags="|discussion|canon|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2017-11-08T20:38:41.593" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11502" CreationDate="2017-11-06T16:30:36.163" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can only change your display name &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/29966/can-we-restrict-the-ability-of-users-to-keep-changing-their-names/38180#38180&quot;&gt;once every 30 days&lt;/a&gt;, so you'll have to wait until 30 days have passed before changing your name again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd advise against changing your name too often though - if you want people to remember you, and associate you with the types of posts that you regularly post, I'd say choose a name and stick with it. Sticking with an avatar isn't a bad idea but is less noteworthy, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2017-11-06T16:30:36.163" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11503" CreationDate="2017-11-06T16:44:26.553" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure you just answered yourself in your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Valorum states in another answer to the question you linked,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;there have been precious few announcements by Rowling herself (or the various publishers and studios involved in publishing and adapting her works) regarding the canon status of her works, so fans (like Ibid) have taken it upon themselves to define, to their own personal satisfaction, what counts as canon or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sooo.... no, the wiki is not canon. It is assembled by people who are not JKR. And it does not always reflect the interpretation/intent JKR had for her world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By and large, on SFF, WoG is the only thing that everyone will accept as canon. This includes the books, Pottermore, interviews, or other assorted JKR quotes (in that order, I'll add). Most of us accept that the wiki can be an acceptable secondary or tertiary source, but we also know that it is prone to being completely wrong at times, and so we use it as a start, rather than a source. If you use the wiki as a researching tool, always go to the citations at the bottom of the page and see where the information came from (and then use that original source if you need it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62201" LastActivityDate="2017-11-06T16:44:26.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11502" CreationDate="2017-11-07T15:02:45.507" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;As someone who has changed usernames in the past, I'd say this, It's 100% your call.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I changed mine from my original username when I joined this specific SE and added a notice on my profile to let people, from other SEs who know me, know that it's same old me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a feature provided to you by SE and you don't need community consensus or discussion to do so, it's your right. As long as you are not breaking any rules or violating any agreed upon policies or disrupting the site experience in any way whatsoever, you are free to do anything you want. E.g. Change your display picture all you want, but don't be rude to other members etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technically, SE identification is via userIds (Which remain constant) and your associated emails. Nothing crucial in terms of identity is tied to your username. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as Mithrandir said, you shouldn't do it if you want people to remember you or associate you with a certain type of posts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TL;DR, it is purely up to you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastActivityDate="2017-11-07T15:02:45.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11507" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11508" CreationDate="2017-11-09T13:14:07.623" Score="20" ViewCount="359" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Background&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over a year ago, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/116913/19561&quot;&gt;a story ID request&lt;/a&gt; was asked, about a lone man manning some sort of space station. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/116919/19561&quot;&gt;I answered it&lt;/a&gt;, and even though my guess wasn't the actual story the querant was looking for, it helped them enough to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/116931/19561&quot;&gt;figure it out themselves&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Which is great!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They accepted not their own self-answer, but my answer, since that helped them the most.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Which is fine, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I then added a note to my answer, pointing to the correct answer. I didn't want to see my incorrect although helpful answer up voted too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;NB&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;While this answer has been graciously accepted by the OP, it was&lt;/em&gt; not &lt;em&gt;the actual story they were looking for. That was&lt;/em&gt; Halfway House &lt;em&gt;by Robert Silverberg, as evidenced by their own answer.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This all happened on the same day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edits&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently, the note pointing to the correct answer was removed from my answer. The editor pointed to several discussions on meta, most notably one about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5229/19561&quot;&gt;adding in such a header as I had done&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, I thought it only fair my incorrect but accepted answer should point to the correct one, so I added the note back, this time as a footer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was removed again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Rationale&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I agree &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3334/19561&quot;&gt;we shouldn't delete incorrect story ID answers&lt;/a&gt;, as they can help other users find similar stories and help prevent the same wrong answer being given over and over.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I also agree &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3205/19561&quot;&gt;we shouldn't change an existing answer too much&lt;/a&gt;, whether accepted or not.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;And&lt;/em&gt; I agree &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3650/19561&quot;&gt;we should let the votes do their job&lt;/a&gt; on incorrect answers. However, I would like to help users cast informed votes. Therefore, I'd like to add the information about my answer's (in-)correctness to the answer &lt;em&gt;somewhere&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/157249/19561&quot;&gt;I have done this before occasionally on incorrect story ID answers of mine&lt;/a&gt;, to help point other users in the right direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main difference with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5229/19561&quot;&gt;the previous discussion about adding such a header&lt;/a&gt;, is that this concerns &lt;em&gt;my own&lt;/em&gt; answer. I'm not &quot;stealing reputation&quot; from anyone but myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Question&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can I be allowed to add a note to my own incorrect &lt;em&gt;story ID&lt;/em&gt; answer, accepted or not, to point out &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it is incorrect?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Other solutions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One suggestion was to put it in a comment. I think that's a suboptimal solution, since comments should be ephemeral. There's no guarantee for it to remain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course we could try to get the querant to accept the correct answer. This has been tried. But accepting answers is their privilege, and they feel my incorrect answer &lt;em&gt;helped them the most&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Other Situations&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that my question is strictly about answers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions, where an incorrect answer serves as useful information for other users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also note that I'm only asking about doing this with &lt;em&gt;one's own answer&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2017-11-10T10:07:41.263" LastActivityDate="2017-11-10T15:54:12.877" Title="Can I add a note to my own incorrect story ID answer, explaining why it is incorrect?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|accepted-answer|incorrect-answers|specific-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11507" CreationDate="2017-11-09T14:45:34.600" Score="20" Body="&lt;h3&gt;The user who asked the question should be encouraged to accept the correct answer&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the user who asked the question accepts the correct answer then no notice on your incorrect answer is necessary. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/116913/story-about-a-teleportation-space-station-with-a-single-human-inhabitant-supervi#comment466680_116931&quot;&gt;A moderator has already encouraged the asker to accept the correct answer&lt;/a&gt; in this case. Other users have done so as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the asker may still choose to accept the incorrect answer for whatever reason. If that is the case then no one can stop him (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/111529/299342&quot;&gt;not even a moderator&lt;/a&gt;), and the incorrect answer will be pinned to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming the asker chooses to accept the incorrect answer, we require a workaround:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;You should be able to add a note pointing to the correct answer as a last resort&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5229/31936&quot;&gt;previous discussion about adding such notes&lt;/a&gt; covers the situation in which someone &lt;em&gt;else&lt;/em&gt; edits an answer to post a notice that it is wrong. &lt;strong&gt;None of the answers in that discussion address this situation, in which you are attempting to improve your own answer.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5230/31936&quot;&gt;top voted answer&lt;/a&gt; on the previous discussion says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Adding a note to their answer saying &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;THIS IS WRONG, SEE MY ANSWER BELOW&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; would be a form of vandalism.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with that statement, but it doesn't say that you can't edit your own answer. It clearly does not apply since you are not adding a note for users to look at your competing &amp;quot;answer below&amp;quot; -- it's your own answer you're editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5231/31936&quot;&gt;second highest voted answer&lt;/a&gt; also only applies to editing such a notice into someone else's post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Inserting chunks of text into other people’s post because you don’t like their answer is an abuse of editing privileges, as well as being just plain rude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5232/31936&quot;&gt;third answer&lt;/a&gt; says the same thing -- don't add a notice to someone else's answer. The same answer also says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;work with the answering party on correcting his/her errors&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's actually what you're doing, only you are also the answering party in this case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also worth noting that the user who asked the question thinks it's vandalism to &lt;em&gt;remove&lt;/em&gt; the notice you posted, as @Valorum did:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/116913/story-about-a-teleportation-space-station-with-a-single-human-inhabitant-supervi/116919#comment466558_116919&quot;&gt;@Valorum any particular reason for vandalizing the answer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This situation (in which some users are arguing that the &amp;quot;rules&amp;quot; prevent you from adding a notice to your answer) reminds me of the discussion on main meta as to whether or not individual sites can override general Stack Exchange policy. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/124915/299342&quot;&gt;@Shog9's answer&lt;/a&gt; includes this guidance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Among [Wikipedia's] myriad rules and policies, can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&#xA;meta-policy&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What a wonderfully subversive bit of guidance, eh? Kinda turns all the&#xA;rest of the rules into sort of an &lt;a href=&quot;http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?t=24333&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;idiot&#xA;test&lt;/a&gt;, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, no. Rather than granting the reader carte blanche, it serves as&#xA;a reminder that these rules exist for a purpose - and that it is wise&#xA;to keep focused on this purpose rather than the rules themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose we need to focus on here is that &lt;strong&gt;we want to help both the OP of a story ID question &lt;em&gt;as well as any future visitors&lt;/em&gt; identify the correct story in question. Graciously adding a notice to your own answer to highlight the correct answer serves that purpose.&lt;/strong&gt; Broadly interpreting a rule established for a different situation (editing someone &lt;em&gt;else's&lt;/em&gt; answer) does not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11507/can-i-add-a-note-to-my-own-incorrect-story-id-answer-explaining-why-it-is-incor#comment37208_11508&quot;&gt;@Rand pointed out&lt;/a&gt; the added notice can help ensure that story ID questions are not incorrectly closed as duplicates, since &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7067/31936&quot;&gt;story IDs are considered duplicates based on the &lt;em&gt;accepted&lt;/em&gt; answer&lt;/a&gt;, which in this case is not actually the right answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-11-10T15:54:12.877" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11511" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11512" CreationDate="2017-11-12T19:27:38.657" Score="9" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are all, if any, of Dr. Seuss's many books on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm aware that anthropomorphic animals are not on-topic, but the vast majority of his works include far more elements as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many of his books include imaginary animals&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many of his books include fantastical places and scenery.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most importantly, and the books I would like to ask about, his Barthomolow and the King series are very much classical fantasy-like in nature, particularly &quot;The 500 hats&quot; and &quot;Oobleck&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is Dr Seuss on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89771" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-11-12T20:21:45.177" LastActivityDate="2017-11-12T20:21:45.177" Title="Are Dr. Seuss's works on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11511" CreationDate="2017-11-12T19:40:12.203" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/344/31394&quot;&gt;our general policy&lt;/a&gt; on what makes a work on-topic or not:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If it's marketed as SF, it's on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If magic, futuristic science or technology, alternate history, or other sf-nal concept is an important part of the overall plot, it's on-topic. (Alice in Wonderland, Clockwork Orange, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If the question is specifically about an sf-nal element, even if it's only a minor part of the work, it's on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If it's set in an on-topic universe, it's on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If you're not sure it's SF but you think a good case can be made for it, it's on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If there is a minor supernatural element (e.g. a fortune teller's prediction comes true, or someone sees a ghost, or a story for children involving anthropomorphic animals) but it's just a throwaway plot element that's not particularly relevant to the question, it's off-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't say for sure whether &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of Dr Seuss's works are on-topic, but it's easy to see that &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; of them are, just by reading brief descriptions/summaries of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Many of his books include imaginary animals&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Books about imaginary animals, such as the Grinch in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_Grinch_Stole_Christmas!&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;*How the Grinch Stole Christmas!&lt;/a&gt;, are on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Many of his books include fantastical places and scenery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Books set in fantasy worlds, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoville&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Whoville&lt;/a&gt; in various Seuss stories, are on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Most importantly, and the books I would like to ask about, his Barthomolow and the King series are very much classical fantasy-like in nature, particularly &quot;The 500 hats&quot; and &quot;Oobleck&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hadn't heard of this story before, but a quick glance at &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholomew_and_the_Oobleck&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;its Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt; was enough: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;em&gt;The king gets the idea that ruling the sky is the task of his Royal Magicians so he orders Bartholomew to summon them. When he expresses his wish to the magicians, they announce they can make something called Oobleck which won't look like the regular weather. Next morning Bartholomew sees the first sign that the Oobleck (a sticky green slime) is falling.&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An imaginary kingdom, magicians, supernatural weather ... how could this NOT be on-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-11-12T19:40:12.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11514" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11515" CreationDate="2017-11-13T20:43:13.307" Score="8" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/174051/82805&quot;&gt;story identification question&lt;/a&gt; there is this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/174072/82805&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; which in addition to answering the question gives a review of the themes in the book and seems to contain quite a few personal opinions. I am not super comfortable with knowing what kinds of answers should be flagged based on different types of questions, but I was wondering, should this kind of answer be flagged in any way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82805" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-11-21T10:54:11.737" LastActivityDate="2017-11-21T10:54:11.737" Title="Story Identification and review" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11514" CreationDate="2017-11-13T21:31:18.790" Score="11" Body="&lt;h1&gt;There's nothing &lt;em&gt;technically&lt;/em&gt; wrong with that answer&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't need to flag it as there's nothing actually &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt; with it; it's:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A valid answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not spam&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not rude/abusive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Doesn't need moderator attention&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, it was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/116197&quot;&gt;reviewed&lt;/a&gt; by a trusted user who found nothing wrong with it (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/174072/1&quot;&gt;in its original state&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Vote accordingly&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A close or delete vote is not a &lt;strong&gt;super down-vote&lt;/strong&gt;. Just because you disagree or don't like an answer, doesn't mean it should be deleted (or flagged), &lt;em&gt;that's what the down-vote is for&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that the answer starts to waffle and is only &lt;em&gt;barely&lt;/em&gt; technically an answer because it says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Definitely Codex Alera&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in it. That's not substantial enough to make a 'good' answer and to &lt;em&gt;me&lt;/em&gt;, it's worthy of down-votes. At this point however, three users have found the post 'helpful' enough to up-vote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Format and improve&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site is designed around community participation; if you feel that the post can benefit from some edits, then go ahead and improve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, I'd separate the 'answer' and 'review' parts using a horizontal rule (&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;hr /&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-11-21T07:03:37.573" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11516" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11517" CreationDate="2017-11-14T19:42:38.450" Score="8" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;So in light of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/174154/did-loki-steal-the-tesseract-again&quot;&gt;new question&lt;/a&gt; about &lt;em&gt;Thor: Ragnarok&lt;/em&gt;, which was really asking for information that will come out (and was answered by) material in &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Infinity War&lt;/em&gt;, I decided to create a tag for that film. I figured this would allow those who are sensitive to spoilers to be able to ignore the tag. Anyway... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I went ahead and created &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers-infinity-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers-infinity-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers-infinity-wars&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;However&lt;/em&gt;, most fans of the MCU will quickly notice my mistake. The actual name of the film is &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Infinity War&lt;/em&gt;, not plural... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I went to try to create the correct tag and allow the misspelled tag to self delete but I was presented with this message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zAAS2.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zAAS2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;tag creation flag&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You are attempting to create the tag [avengers-infinity-war]; however the tag [avengers-infinity-wars] already exists! If you think this new tag should be allowed, raise it on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here I am on meta... what is the course of actions or events to correct this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt; Title note: Obviously the fix was pretty easy, we just have a habit of making silly titles for our tag questions. &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2017-11-18T14:25:18.520" LastActivityDate="2017-11-18T14:25:18.520" Title="I have Infinitely messed up a new MCU tag!" Tags="|support|status-completed|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11516" CreationDate="2017-11-14T19:45:16.963" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the tag has only been used on one question so far, an easy solution would have been:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;remove the incorrect tag;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;wait a day for it to be automatically wiped from the system along with other zero-use tags;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;create the correct tag instead.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But since you've raised this on meta and I'm here, I went ahead and used mod powers to rename &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers-infinity-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers-infinity-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers-infinity-wars&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers-infinity-war&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers-infinity-war&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers-infinity-war&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-11-14T19:45:16.963" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11518" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11521" CreationDate="2017-11-14T19:45:43.640" Score="13" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I noticed that the tag for the MCU film &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt; is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/age-of-ultron&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;age-of-ultron&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;age-of-ultron&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Considering this is not the official name of the film, should the tag be renamed to match?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other tags in the MCU Avengers series are: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers-2012&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers-2012&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers-2012&lt;/a&gt; - given the 2012 maker to distinguish from the team itself.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers-infinity-war&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers-infinity-war&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers-infinity-war&lt;/a&gt; - newly created at the time of this post by me&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My thought into creating the new tag was that 1) we should use the official name, and 2) there might be a Marvel Comic story line with the same name. This reasoning would also apply as to why the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/age-of-ultron&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;age-of-ultron&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;age-of-ultron&lt;/a&gt; should be adusted in some way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2017-11-17T16:44:26.760" LastActivityDate="2017-11-17T16:44:26.760" Title="Should the Age of Ultron be Avenged?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11519" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11520" CreationDate="2017-11-14T20:16:19.413" Score="16" ViewCount="1897" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the Disney TV and comic series Ducktales on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/174146/how-can-scrooge-mcduck-dive-into-money-without-hurting-himself&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5119/31936&quot;&gt;closed due to being about anthromorphic animals&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I strongly feel that Ducktales is far more than anthromorphic animals. It regularly includes demons, curses and ancient cities, and one of the main charicters, Magica De Spell, is a witch. Thus, it should be on topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is Ducktales on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89771" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2017-11-14T21:35:04.630" LastActivityDate="2017-11-14T21:35:04.630" Title="Is Ducktales on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11519" CreationDate="2017-11-14T21:08:43.390" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;As base instinct I would say yes (having watched the show growing up... Let's just take a look at the theme song (I could have recited it for you, but you can't hear me through typing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/CMU2NwaaXEA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Things I see in the trailer include: knights, dragons, witches, mummies, robots, space travel...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of this seems like it confirms my hunch of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;YES, Ducktales* is on-topic!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt; *This would include the 1987 and 2017 series &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-11-14T21:28:36.760" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11518" CreationDate="2017-11-15T03:03:43.250" Score="13" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Rename it and create an 'Avengers' convention&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Step 1:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Create a new tag called &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers-age-of-ultron&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers-age-of-ultron&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers-age-of-ultron&lt;/a&gt; and either make &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/age-of-ultron&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;age-of-ultron&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;age-of-ultron&lt;/a&gt; a synonym (this allows people to find it) or delete it. Additionally, this can create a distinction between the movie and the comics of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Ultron&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;same name&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Step 2:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Create a tag called &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers-2012&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers-2012&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers-2012&lt;/a&gt; so that we can make &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-avengers-2012&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-avengers-2012&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-avengers-2012&lt;/a&gt; a synonym and tag all existing questions with the new tag. (no one searches for '&lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; Avengers').&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Step 3:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Keep tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers-infinity-war&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers-infinity-war&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers-infinity-war&lt;/a&gt; as it is. You can create a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/infinity-war&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;infinity-war&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;infinity-war&lt;/a&gt; tag and make it a synonym, but that might cause unnecessary confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Step 4:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Every new 'Avengers' movie should begin with 'avengers'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-11-15T03:03:43.250" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11522" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11524" CreationDate="2017-11-15T12:22:56.840" Score="11" ViewCount="221" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm aware anthromorphic animals are rarely on topic. But what about the rats of NIMH series? Over &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5117/are-anthropomorphic-animals-by-themselves-enough-to-deem-a-work-fantasy/5119#5119&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; Kevin answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our final criterion, then, is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the animal's non-human nature has substantial narrative focus, then the story is probably on-topic. Stories that pass this criterion tend to ask and answer questions such as the following (not an exhaustive list):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would it be like to be an intelligent [animal]?&#xA;How would a mixed society of humans and [animal]s work?&#xA;How would a mixed society of [animal]s and [other animal]s work?&#xA;What would an intelligent [animal] think of humans?&#xA;What would a human think of an intelligent [animal]?&#xA;Why are these [animal]s intelligent, anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to this the NIMH series is most certainly on topic, though displaying no other fantastical elements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this universally agreed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89771" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-11-15T13:12:31.953" Title="Is &quot;The Rats of NIMH&quot; series on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11522" CreationDate="2017-11-15T12:28:12.463" Score="6" Body="&lt;h1&gt;I'd say yes.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the major things in these stories is that the rats became intelligent through a laboratory experiment, became intelligent enough to escape, escaped, &lt;em&gt;created their own society&lt;/em&gt;... And don't forget that they can communicate with humans, and do things like farm carrots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's definitely SFF. I'd say it's unquestionably on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2017-11-15T12:28:12.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11522" CreationDate="2017-11-15T13:12:31.953" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;The usual test is to look at conceit and marketing. &lt;strong&gt;Both of those heavily indicate that this book series is (science) fantasy, and hence on-topic&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Central Conceit.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A group of rats has been subjected to bio-medical experimentation and has become intellectually &quot;uplifted&quot; to human levels of intelligence. They then develop a civilisation. Humans interacting with these rats are the central plot of the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mrs. Frisby discovers the rats have a literate and mechanized society.&#xA;  They have technology such as elevators, have tapped the electricity&#xA;  grid to provide lighting and heating, and have acquired other human&#xA;  skills, such as storing food for the winter. Their leader, Nicodemus,&#xA;  tells Mrs. Frisby of the rats' capture by scientists working for a&#xA;  laboratory located at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Frisby_and_the_Rats_of_NIMH&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;National Institute of Mental Health&lt;/a&gt; (NIMH)&#xA;  and the subsequent experiments that the humans performed on the rats,&#xA;  which increased the rats' intelligence to the point of being able to&#xA;  read, write, and operate complicated machines, as well as enhancing&#xA;  their longevity and strength.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our existing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5117/are-anthropomorphic-animals-by-themselves-enough-to-deem-a-work-fantasy?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;policy on talking animals&lt;/a&gt; is that they don't count unless...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;They had been uplifted in some way (either by technology or magic)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Marketing&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both the book series and the subsequent film were heavily marketed as children's fantasy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;...thought-provoking fantasy&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aOmSz.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aOmSz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Right before your eyes and beyond your wildest dream&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/m7LsL.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/m7LsL.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2017-11-15T13:12:31.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11525" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-15T18:59:22.630" Score="5" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11162/31394&quot;&gt;Do we really need this many generic character related tags?&lt;/a&gt; was posted some months ago, and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11167/31394&quot;&gt;top answer&lt;/a&gt; (+15/-2) says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't need any of these tags. They're all meta-tags that add very little info to the questions they're used on. They can't be used by themselves, really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;These tags should be deleted.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Evidently community consensus is that character-based topics in SFF such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character-development&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character-development&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character-development&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character-similarity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character-similarity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character-similarity&lt;/a&gt; aren't worth their own tags on SFF.SE. Well, OK, but between them these five tags are used on a total of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character*&quot;&gt;691 questions&lt;/a&gt; currently, and that would be an awful lot of editing. There's no one tag which most of those 691 questions are in, not even &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, which would have eased the process by allowing a moderator to merge the character-related tags into that one tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So what should we do?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Organise another &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10691/31394&quot;&gt;Big Edit Event&lt;/a&gt; just to kill tags about character-based topics?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chip away at those 691 questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3102/31394&quot;&gt;slowly&lt;/a&gt; over the next several months?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stop worrying and learn to love the tags?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something else?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-11-16T04:28:21.630" Title="What shall we do about these character tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|editing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11525" CreationDate="2017-11-15T19:36:29.487" Score="3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Stop worrying and learn to love tags.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The usual question I ask myself when talking about tags is &quot;Does the tag hurt the question?&quot;, and by hurt I mean make the question confusing or otherwise less accurate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Specifically I like the &lt;code&gt;motivation&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;development&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;similarity&lt;/code&gt; ones. These tags can convey a lot of high level information in a simple way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Motivation lets potential answers know the question is searching for a &quot;why&quot;. Even though these types of question be phrased in that way to begin with (i.e. Why did Character X do Action Z), the tag is helpful because it sets the question apart from wanting general information about a character or events they participated in.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Development acts in a similar way to motivation, yet sets itself apart from looking for just a &quot;why&quot; and adding in elements of &quot;how and when&quot;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Similarity is great tag to have when comparing characters from different works and/or companies (i.e. Namor vs. Aquaman). It quickly conveys why you might have a question with seemingly mashed tags (Why does this question have a Thor and Superman tag?  Oh, it wants a comparison!) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The general &lt;code&gt;characters&lt;/code&gt; tag is bit more broad and varied usage. With this tag I default to my statement above. Overly broad doesn't mean confusing. Of the tags in question it may be the least useful and most ripe for deletion. I don't have hard opinion on this one.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As for female characters... I think that has been covered in two other meta posts more thoroughly than I can expand on. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2802/what-do-we-need-the-female-characters-tag-for/2804#2804&quot;&gt;linky1&lt;/a&gt;) (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10956/should-we-admit-that-story-identification-breaks-tagging-conventions-and-make-ne/10962#10962&quot;&gt;linky2&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2017-11-15T19:41:46.093" LastActivityDate="2017-11-15T19:41:46.093" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11525" CreationDate="2017-11-16T04:28:21.630" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm &lt;em&gt;largely&lt;/em&gt; inclined to agree with @Skooba, but... well, I'm not sure we should lump them all into the same boat:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/female-characters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;female-characters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;female-characters&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character-motivation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character-motivation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character-motivation&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character-development&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character-development&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character-development&lt;/a&gt; are all self-evidently useful.  If we really wanted to, we might be able to merge -motivation with -development, but I don't actually think that's a good idea.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character-similarity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character-similarity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character-similarity&lt;/a&gt; could probably be merged into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/inspiration&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;inspiration&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;inspiration&lt;/a&gt; since most of its 22 questions are of the form &quot;Is character X based on/inspired by character Y?&quot;, but I wouldn't really care that much if we kept it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/characters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;characters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;characters&lt;/a&gt; doesn't really seem that useful to me.  Clicking on it, I see a random assortment of questions which don't really have very much in common.  They all have characters in them, but so what?  So does practically every question on the stack.  Again, I'm not too bothered about what we do here, but we might &lt;em&gt;consider&lt;/em&gt; dumping this one outright.  On the other hand, 136 questions might take a couple of weeks to plow through at an acceptable edit rate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastActivityDate="2017-11-16T04:28:21.630" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11528" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11530" CreationDate="2017-11-16T13:03:40.397" Score="20" ViewCount="918" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have already determined that Duck Tales is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11519/is-ducktales-on-topic&quot;&gt;on topic&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is Donald Duck on topic? There was already 1 question on the Duck universe, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/52872/how-wealthy-is-uncle-scrooge-in-the-don-rosa-carl-barks-universe&quot;&gt;How wealthy is Uncle Scrooge in the Don Rosa/Carl Barks universe?&lt;/a&gt;, but after I created my second question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/174296/what-was-scrooge-mcduck-protected-against-because-of-his-years-of-swimming-in-hi#174296&quot;&gt;What was Scrooge McDuck protected against because of his years of swimming in his money?&lt;/a&gt;, a user recommended I make a meta about it to establish a rule on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24603" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-11-16T13:52:34.047" LastActivityDate="2023-09-11T15:29:40.003" Title="Are the Donald Duck comics on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11528" CreationDate="2017-11-16T13:26:46.323" Score="4" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Yes&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's pretty firmly established that this is a fantasy universe, complete with magic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just ask this fine duck:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OK9VO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Magica De Spell&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...who is a known witch, known for stealing coins and turning people into paper. The rest of the series is also not exactly well known for staying with the bounds of reality, so... I suppose that's a yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really, the existence of magic in the universe is what I'd say confirms it. Talking animals, such as ducks, are not enough to make something science fiction/fantasy... but when you throw &lt;em&gt;magic&lt;/em&gt; into the equation, now that's a different story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2023-09-11T15:29:40.003" LastActivityDate="2023-09-11T15:29:40.003" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11528" CreationDate="2017-11-16T13:52:04.930" Score="15" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Yes, and this goes for all the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_comics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Disney comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;With a small exception at the bottom. And tagging guidance&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comics are clearly considered on topic as we already have one &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/52872/how-wealthy-is-uncle-scrooge-in-the-don-rosa-carl-barks-universe&quot;&gt;well received&lt;/a&gt; and one &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/138894/burbank-reference-in-donald-duck-comics&quot;&gt;positively received&lt;/a&gt; question on the topic. We even have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/24077/how-does-mickey-mouses-upslide-work&quot;&gt;well received&lt;/a&gt; question on Mickey Mouse's comic adventures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well now that we've determined they were accepted in the past, lets compare them against some policies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Anthropomorphic animals does not a fantasy make&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Donald Duck adventures seem to clearly break our requirement for what make something on-topic. Considering that although they are anthropomorphic animals, the adventures and themes seem to branch past our every day world into the Science Fictional and Fantastical world. That ticks the box set in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/are-works-that-arent-sf-per-se-but-have-occasional-sfnal-elements-on-topic-e&quot;&gt;this meta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This however fails Valorum's test for talking animals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, we would consider talking animals to be part of a fantasy if:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They had been uplifted in some way (either by technology or magic)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Their speaking was somehow fantastical to the other characters.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5119/68872&quot;&gt;Meta answer by Valorum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, while Donald Duck and co's speaking is not &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;somehow fantastical to the other characters&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;, the adventures they carry out overrules this meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another meta discussing children's literature has most of it deemed off-topic unless some invented creature and creative fantasy exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the other concern that will no doubt be raised, of comic-themed cartoons, I think those should be allowed, for now. It's not the best fit, but as almost all comic book heros [sic] are either mutants, genetically engineered, aliens, robots, or people with some futuristic technology, all of which would easily be covered in this site, I say it's on topic&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/684/68872&quot;&gt;Meta answer by Pearson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are other characters and events in the series which fit the requirements laid out in the snippet above. With truly fantastical acts and such occurring (such as swimming through gold coins, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that being said. The Donald Duck comics seem to be clearly on-topic. As for the rest of the Disney comics, some of the earlier ones may be less on-topic than others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as a final conclusion, as long as the questions asked are about Science fictional or fantastical elements portrayed in the comics, they're on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a few examples our recent questions would be deemed on topic, however asking &amp;quot;What model is Donald's house boat base on?&amp;quot; Would be off-topic and closed as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Tagging&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest we use a general universe tag for these, my recommendation would be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/disney&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;disney&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;disney&lt;/a&gt; (which already exists), we should then have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/disney-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;disney-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;disney-comics&lt;/a&gt; on all the comics specific questions, further down from that the relevant character starring in the comic in question should be added. E.g. in the case of the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/donald-duck&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;donald-duck&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;donald-duck&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68872" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-11-26T14:31:35.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11531" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-16T15:57:07.053" Score="3" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Wheel of Time&lt;/em&gt; series, there's an item called an A'dam which creates a sort of link between two women who can channel. I'd like to ask a theoretical question about the A'dam(The question is &quot;Can the bracelet be modified to work with other bracelets to make linking easier?&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are these theoretical questions on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11159" LastEditorUserId="11159" LastEditDate="2017-11-16T19:14:43.223" LastActivityDate="2017-11-17T10:54:21.963" Title="Are theoretical questions on topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11531" CreationDate="2017-11-16T16:42:45.250" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't see why this question &lt;em&gt;wouldn't&lt;/em&gt; be on-topic. We have a great many questions of the form &quot;can X be done in this particular work of sci-fi/fantasy?&quot;, including several in the WoT tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/95573/suicide-by-balefire?s=3|62.4957&quot;&gt;Suicide by balefire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/119898/what-if-two-people-balefire-each-other-at-the-same-time?s=7|47.3766&quot;&gt;What if two people balefire each other at the same time?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22what+if%22+is%3Aq&quot;&gt;&quot;what if&quot; questions&lt;/a&gt; are still answerable and therefore not close-worthy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question is trivially answered in one of the later books of the series, then it may be &lt;em&gt;downvoted&lt;/em&gt; (although this is very hard to predict) but it shouldn't be &lt;em&gt;closed&lt;/em&gt; - it's perfectly answerable and on-topic, even if 'obvious' to someone who's finished the series.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question isn't explicitly answered anywhere in the series, then it may have been answered in other canon material (for WoT, there are a lot of author interviews), or it may be deducible from other in-universe properties of the item in question, or the answer may simply be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11329/31394&quot;&gt;&quot;we don't know&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2372/i-havent-read-the-book-watched-the-movie-may-i-ask-a-question-about-it&quot;&gt;perfectly fine&lt;/a&gt; to ask questions about a series you're still in the middle of reading. That's one of the things this site is here for. Be warned though: if such a question is trivially answered in a later book in the series, it may get downvoted, as noted above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-11-17T10:54:21.963" LastActivityDate="2017-11-17T10:54:21.963" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11531" CreationDate="2017-11-16T16:46:52.963" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On-topic, but still may be opinion based&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What it depends on is if there is enough canon information to give a relatively accurate answer supported by the work or by word-of-god statements. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen tons of &quot;theoretical&quot; questions. Some stay open, some get closed.  However, there is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2372/i-havent-read-the-book-watched-the-movie-may-i-ask-a-question-about-it&quot;&gt;no requirement&lt;/a&gt; that you have had to read/watched a work to ask questions on it. So what you will want to strive for is writing a good concise question that shows some level of research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that, the community decides... The voting on the question will be your guide. My advice would be to know this risk (down-votes, closure) before asking such a question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2017-11-16T17:10:58.200" LastActivityDate="2017-11-16T17:10:58.200" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11534" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-16T19:32:54.010" Score="2" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;Specifically, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/97475/whats-the-most-money-actors-earned-for-star-trek-in-each-era&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastActivityDate="2017-11-16T20:16:26.087" Title="Do closed questions earn the Famous Question badge?" Tags="|discussion|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11534" CreationDate="2017-11-16T20:16:26.087" Score="7" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Yes.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll find several cases of this around the network. See, e.g., on Meta.SE, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/285862/294691&quot;&gt;Why do questions closed as too specific count for question badges (e.g. Famous)?&lt;/a&gt;. For a random example, see on &lt;a href=&quot;https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/help/badges/28/famous-question?userid=12359&quot;&gt;Puzzling.SE&lt;/a&gt; - the user earned the Famous Question badge, and the question has been closed for over two years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/77L5F.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/77L5F.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tYkWR.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tYkWR.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-11-16T20:16:26.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11536" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-17T23:23:47.820" Score="16" ViewCount="261" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/97475/whats-the-most-money-actors-earned-for-star-trek-in-each-era&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the most money actors earned for Star Trek in each era?&lt;/a&gt; was asked in August 2015. A few minutes afterwards it was closed as &lt;strong&gt;too broad&lt;/strong&gt; on the grounds that it asks for answers about &lt;em&gt;multiple&lt;/em&gt; series and films and hence should have been asked as separate questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GvsX9.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GvsX9.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since then it has been edited slightly and undergone three reopen rounds (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/reopen/59826&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/reopen/66646&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/reopen/114777&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;) all of which were &lt;strong&gt;unanimously&lt;/strong&gt; unsuccessful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vGNsg.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vGNsg.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has now been unilaterally reopen by a moderator with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/97475/timeline#comment_469193&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I am going to reopen this question, as the answers seem perfectly&#xA;  reasonable in the question's current form&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Given the very clear community consensus &lt;em&gt;against&lt;/em&gt; reopening, was this an appropriate course of action?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-11-17T23:38:13.747" LastActivityDate="2017-11-20T23:00:40.370" Title="Should a moderator have reopened this question?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|vote-to-reopen|moderation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9819" CreationDate="2017-11-18T03:02:41.853" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have always considered the appropriate self-answered question to be a way of leaving  information that might not be perfectly germane to the question at hand, but is related to the question, and that could be of use or interest to future readers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking above I see thoughts on the self-answered question has changed over the years. However, the idea of users subjecting a self-answered question in order to leave information for future users works for me. I don't expect this will get a lot of votes, but I wanted to bring the subject up anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-11-18T18:12:06.173" LastActivityDate="2017-11-18T18:12:06.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11536" CreationDate="2017-11-18T05:43:20.603" Score="-13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes,  of course it should be reopened given the lack of justification for it being closed except for stubbornness.   You have the same people voting the same way repeatedly.   That doesn't constitute &quot;very clear community consensus&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than claiming a consensus that doesn't exist,  why don't you try to justify a position on its merits?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastEditorUserId="3823" LastEditDate="2017-11-18T06:00:51.583" LastActivityDate="2017-11-18T06:00:51.583" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11536" CreationDate="2017-11-18T12:46:12.560" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This question has come up in the review queue again and I have voted to leave closed.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;too broad&quot; close reads as such (which was changed fairly recently IIRC).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please edit the question to limit it to a specific problem with enough detail to identify an adequate answer. Avoid asking multiple distinct questions at once. See the How to Ask page for help clarifying this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion this question is &quot;Asking multiple distinct questions at once&quot;, five to be exact. None of these are bad questions, and are actually quite interesting as it can give us insight as to how popular a particular series or actor may be. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At one time the OP &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/97475/whats-the-most-money-actors-earned-for-star-trek-in-each-era#comment224258_97475&quot;&gt;commented&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm going to split the question up to satisfy the 'too broad' camp. @MichaelEdenfield: you may want to port your partial answers there. -&#xA;   ThePopMachine&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this would have been a good solution. Currently it seems the answer is only covering 2 or 3 of the questions asked, a good sign that the question is too broad. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To address whether a moderator should have forced the question open, I would say no.&lt;/strong&gt; I agree with the assessment in this question body that the post had been through the queues three time and failed to be reopened. Even though some of the same users are seen in the queue, that is just how reviews can work sometimes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am also a bit confused on what the comment meant by &quot;the answers seem perfectly reasonable&quot;. Does this mean the current answer(s) given or potential answers would be reasonable? The current answer seems to be incomplete and not sourced, I don't see it being a reason for answer to cause a reopen (as we sometimes do with questions closed as POB that end up having a canon answer). If it is about potential answer I defer back to the &quot;too broad&quot; close reason, there are five distinct questions to be answered here which would likely lead to more incomplete answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2017-11-18T13:52:38.627" LastActivityDate="2017-11-18T13:52:38.627" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11540" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11543" CreationDate="2017-11-18T20:55:46.487" Score="6" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question was closed as being too broad: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/174329/are-there-any-limits-to-the-magic-school-buss-magic&quot;&gt;Are there any limits to the Magic School Bus&amp;#39;s magic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this too broad? It's not something which is reasonably demonstrable. In fact, barring breakdowns, and my own answer, I'm aware of virtually nothing that the Magic School Bus cannot do (which is why I asked this question). How is a question which has nearly no answers that I'm aware of, too broad?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89771" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-11-19T00:38:50.533" LastActivityDate="2017-11-19T00:38:50.533" Title="Why is my question about the limits to the Magic School Bus' magic &quot;too broad&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11541" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-18T21:10:15.420" Score="19" ViewCount="659" Body="&lt;p&gt;I keep a pretty close watch on spam and rude/abusive posts on this site, as much as is possible for a normal user without a diamond here, using the 10k tools and some other things that I use to watch for red flaggable posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And what I've seen is... sometimes, sub-optimal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me say that I've made a lot of research into how Stack Exchange deals with spam. I've gotten about as involved in the process as possible - from flagging spam all over the network, to destroying spam accounts as a mod on &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Literature.SE&lt;/a&gt;, to reading a ton of posts on Meta.SE about spam... Spam and flags are my specialty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And so... here are the things that are bothering me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;bigger&lt;/em&gt; issue that I see is &lt;strong&gt;people voting to delete spam and rude/abusive posts&lt;/strong&gt;. I can pull up examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/174454/a-vampire-is-still-alive-after-mankind-is-gone/174492#174492&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LEHeG.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/174071/star-trek-discovery-episode-9-klingon-cloaking-device-explanation/174092#174092&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hHWrH.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/170056/what-does-it-mean-to-forget-the-face-of-ones-father/173809#173809&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8ql5m.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and so on. I don't want to call out any specific users - they're not the only ones who have VTDed - but these are just some convenient recent examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So... voting to delete spam or rude/abusive posts is a misguided effort. Not only does it not &lt;em&gt;help&lt;/em&gt;, it actively harms the system's ability to block these people from posting more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a post is &lt;strong&gt;flag-deleted&lt;/strong&gt; that was red flagged, an IP block is thrown up to heavily rate-limit the person who posted the spam or rude/abusive post, the post is deleted and locked, and the post content hidden behind the revisions link (for non-mods).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a post is &lt;strong&gt;manually deleted&lt;/strong&gt; - either by a mod &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; by 20kers - that was red flagged, the post content is hidden by the revisions link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's it. Nothing else. The author doesn't suffer any blocks or anything. They don't get rate-limited if they try to post another rude/abusive or spam post. They don't get fed to SpamRam, the internal spam filters that SE has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Needless to say... that's sub-optimal. We &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; the people who are trolling or spamming the site to get blocked and rate limited. We don't want them to be able to continually post without getting blocked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting to delete rude/abusive or spam posts is misguided, and could cause some persistent trolls to get away with a lighter block than they would have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second thing is &lt;strong&gt;editing&lt;/strong&gt; red flaggable posts. While a simple edit won't invalidate red flags on the post (as far as I know), a &lt;em&gt;rollback&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/110031/294691&quot;&gt;will&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; invalidate any extant red flags on the post. While this is less common than voting to delete red flaggable posts, this is also something that I &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; seen and that is less than optimal - a determined troll who is familiar with the system can rollback the post after it's edited and invalidate any flags, making it take a whole lot longer to delete (and get them IP blocked).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's it - have any thoughts? Am I making a mountain out of a molehill? Did you learn anything?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="4918" LastEditDate="2021-05-25T21:01:22.597" LastActivityDate="2021-05-25T21:01:22.597" Title="Let's talk about handling spam or rude/abusive posts" Tags="|discussion|spam|vote-to-delete|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="39" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11541" CreationDate="2017-11-18T23:12:20.840" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the issue here is that you're trying to look at the big picture, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;training the post system to detect spam across the entire Stack Network and to IP-block and 'punish' spammers to prevent them from doing it again&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; but ignoring the little picture, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;that getting these posts off our site by deleting them is also an effective way to deal with them.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the &lt;a href=&quot;https://metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/posts/by-site?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;amp;site=72&amp;amp;commit=Apply&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;vanishingly small amount of spam that we actually get&lt;/a&gt; (less than one piece a week), given the microscopically small number of repeat-offending spammers we have on SFF and given the fact that spammers tend to use disposable and IP-spoofed accounts anyway (rendering IP-blocking pretty useless), it's largely irrelevant &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; we get rid of them. The important thing is that we act on them swiftly, especially when they contain objectionable content. I'd rather they were just &lt;em&gt;gone&lt;/em&gt; rather than leaving them up in order to help train some nebulous algorithm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/42286733#42286733&quot;&gt;recent post&lt;/a&gt; in chat is especially illuminating on the subject; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'll note that when spam or rude/abusive content pops up in the LQP&#xA;  queue I always click 'looks okay' because it should be flag-deleted,&#xA;  not regular-deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People who hang around Charcoal tend to think that &lt;em&gt;systemic&lt;/em&gt; solutions are required because they see dozens of spam posts each day but the reality is that these are spread out over an estate of hundreds of thousands of daily posts. They aren't even background noise on most sites and barely register as a blip on SFF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we flag them as spam? Sure, that's the ideal way of doing it and I gather our mods periodically delete the accounts of those who've posted spam anyway.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we care that people aren't doing it or try to make them feel bad for not following the optimal procedure? &lt;strong&gt;No. We have bigger fish to fry than something that causes a minor annoyance for less than a minute once a week.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-01-15T21:29:17.513" LastActivityDate="2018-01-15T21:29:17.513" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11540" CreationDate="2017-11-18T23:57:51.747" Score="9" Body="&lt;h1&gt;There are multiple answers that are all equally correct&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;This first part is based on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/174329/1&quot;&gt;original title&lt;/a&gt; of your question.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/174350/68872&quot;&gt;your answer&lt;/a&gt; on the question itself. It states that the Magic School Bus &quot;&lt;em&gt;can't make its own fuel.&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, giving evidence and even an image. A great answer, truly, however no &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; accurate than any of the other limits to the Magic School Bus's magic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is nothing that makes it such that your answer is &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt; at solving the problem than another answer stating one of the Magic School Bus's magical limits. This makes the question too broad, and even though hypothetically an answer can (possibly) be given to list &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; single limit, in it's current state it is allowing too many equally right answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note from the old close vote prompt for Too Broad:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are either too many possible answers, or good answers would be too long for this format. Please add details to narrow the answer set or to isolate an issue that can be answered in a few paragraphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Which, in my opinion, is far clearer than the new one)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please edit the question to limit it to a specific problem with enough detail to identify an adequate answer. Avoid asking multiple distinct questions at once. See the How to Ask page for help clarifying this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question however should be re-opened. An often forgotten policy (and one I only remembered thanks to this question) on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1490/68872&quot;&gt;How should we handle &quot;any&quot; list questions&lt;/a&gt; states that since the answer to your question is simply &quot;Yes&quot;, and an actual example is merely additional details it is perfectly on-topic. Some possible things you could do to make it clearer that it is on-topic, is to change the title. Some examples include, but are not limited to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have we ever seen any limitation...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What canonical limitations have we seen...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt; Further Reading:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9782/can-we-get-a-more-specific-definition-of-what-this-site-considers-too-broad&quot;&gt;Can we get a more specific definition of what this site considers “too broad”?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10309/are-we-consistent-when-flagging-questions-as-too-broad&quot;&gt;Are we consistent when flagging questions as 'too broad'?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6698/is-a-list-question-within-the-scope-of-sci-fi-se-if-it-is-a-relatively-small-poo&quot;&gt;Is a list question within the scope of Sci-Fi SE if it is a relatively small pool of answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68872" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-11-19T00:29:47.997" LastActivityDate="2017-11-19T00:29:47.997" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11541" CreationDate="2017-11-20T00:28:15.233" Score="16" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That's it - have any thoughts? Am I making a mountain out of a molehill?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should people use the spam flag to flag spam? Obviously. That's why it exists. But if people delete it instead, so what? It's not like SF/F gets a ridiculous amount of spam. I struggle to see why Smokey even bothers monitoring our site when spam here is practically non-existent compared to other sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are concerned about spam and want to make the effort to clean it up, that's absolutely a lofty goal and you should be commended for it. But there are tons of things wrong with this site that people could champion as lofty goals (would you like to talk about tags for a minute?). &lt;em&gt;Your&lt;/em&gt; pet project is not &lt;em&gt;everyone elses&lt;/em&gt; burden to bear. For most of us, we see a post that shouldn't be here, we vote to delete it, it goes away, we're happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And really, if a spammer or two gets through the system and their post gets deleted and they don't get IP blocked ... so what? Exactly who does that &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; hurt? If they spam again, we can just catch them. If their posts &lt;em&gt;keep&lt;/em&gt; getting deleted, they'll get blocked from posting anyway. If they don't spam again, then it doesn't really matter one way or another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides. All 3 of your examples clearly indicate they were deleted as spam, and their revision histories claim they were deleted by Community (though they'd received other delete votes as well.) Are you saying none of those posts triggered any further action behind the scenes? I find that difficult to believe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2019-03-01T15:35:23.853" LastActivityDate="2019-03-01T15:35:23.853" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11545" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-20T09:51:03.867" Score="6" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just taken a look through the tags that we use for the works of Rick Riordan. For those unfamiliar, there are different series, all of them dealing with mythological gods and monsters in the world today, all of them at least nominally set in the same universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each of the different series at the moment has its own tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/percy-jackson&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;percy-jackson&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;percy-jackson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/heroes-of-olympus&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;heroes-of-olympus&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;heroes-of-olympus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-kane-chronicles&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-kane-chronicles&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-kane-chronicles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magnus-chase&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magnus-chase&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magnus-chase&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;4&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-trials-of-apollo&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-trials-of-apollo&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-trials-of-apollo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;5&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, we have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rick-riordan&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rick-riordan&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rick-riordan&lt;/a&gt; tag, but since we only use author tags for questions &lt;em&gt;about the author&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;sup&gt;6&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are all set in the same universe&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;. I'd like a way to keep track of all new questions about this universe, without watching 6 different tags for the same universe - for now, I can &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/percy-jackson+or+heroes-of-olympus+or+the-kane-chronicles+or+rick-riordan+or+magnus-chase+or+the-trials-of-apollo?sort=newest&amp;amp;pageSize=50&quot;&gt;search&lt;/a&gt; for questions with any of those tags, but it's... slightly clunky. How should we tag this universe as a whole?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;This is also being used as a sort of general universe tag for the Greek storyline - it's been seen on &lt;em&gt;Percy Jackson &amp;amp; the Olympians&lt;/em&gt; questions, &lt;em&gt;The Heroes of Olympus&lt;/em&gt; questions, and &lt;em&gt;The Trials of Apollo&lt;/em&gt; questions.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;(Why don't we have the 'the' here? Ugh...)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;While &lt;em&gt;The Kane Chronicles&lt;/em&gt; is a &lt;em&gt;little&lt;/em&gt; less firmly set in the same universe, it's got &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/a/659/58&quot;&gt;enough clues&lt;/a&gt; and some shared characters that it's in the same universe... plus 3 crossover stories ;)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;4&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magnus-chase-and-the-gods-of-asgard&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magnus-chase-and-the-gods-of-asgard&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magnus-chase-and-the-gods-of-asgard&lt;/a&gt; fits in the tag character limit, surely that's a better name that can be used...&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;5&lt;/sup&gt;Okay, there's only one question tagged with this and I created the tag today. I plead guilty.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;6&lt;/sup&gt;Not that we have such a great track record of &lt;em&gt;keeping&lt;/em&gt; with that policy...&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2017-11-20T13:42:08.610" LastActivityDate="2017-11-20T13:42:08.610" Title="How should we tag Rick Riordan's works?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11545" CreationDate="2017-11-20T10:15:08.587" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;As per &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4861/68872&quot;&gt;most of our&lt;/a&gt; agreed consensuses &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7924/68872&quot;&gt;on the matter&lt;/a&gt; this should have a universe tag.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we're reasonably inconsistent with our use of individual work tags, we normally accept not adding them when they're part of a series, so we don't really need any more specific work tags for the series. This may become a thing we need to readdress in the future but that can come when we've had a good, long, hard think about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10962/68872&quot;&gt;how we want to deal&lt;/a&gt; with our tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11199/68872&quot;&gt;long term&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back to the point, there should definitely be a universe tag here. This would allow us to group the multiple series under one series so it's easier for experts to narrow down their search and find the specific universe they want, after which they can narrow it down further by series. The author tags should stick to our current usage as shown in the links in the title (used only for questions about the author).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;For the universe tag  I suggest we use the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/percy-jackson&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;percy-jackson&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;percy-jackson&lt;/a&gt; as it is the term it is best known as.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the book series we should therefore rename the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/percy-jackson-and-the-olympians&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;percy-jackson-and-the-olympians&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;percy-jackson-and-the-olympians&lt;/a&gt; (31 chars). We should continue to use the other series tags when they're required and the author tag for questions exclusively about the author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68872" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-11-20T12:09:08.830" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11547" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11548" CreationDate="2017-11-20T18:07:45.050" Score="-2" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry if this is a dupe:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to ask &quot;Are there any other scifi novels with ADHD-diagnosed characters other than Percy Jackson?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have spent quite a while Googling and have come up with only one quasi-sci-fi book - Playing Tyler. As such, having found no valid answer via Google, I'd like to ask the question here. Yet, I'm aware that list-like questions are rarely encouraged, if not outright banned. Would this be an acceptable question as it stands now to ask?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89771" LastActivityDate="2017-11-20T18:27:50.623" Title="Are non-Googleable list-like questions allowed?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2017-11-20T20:16:46.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11547" CreationDate="2017-11-20T18:19:28.540" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Not all questions have a home on Stack Exchange. &lt;strong&gt;Please note the&#xA;  following types of questions are off-topic here:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Questions calling for a list of works, authors, …: What are all the&#xA;  books that have X?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although you've played with the wording, your question is still a request for recommendations (which are off-topic).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-11-20T18:27:50.623" LastActivityDate="2017-11-20T18:27:50.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11536" CreationDate="2017-11-20T23:00:40.370" Score="-9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me try this approach:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;How can you claim a consensus to close because it was closed four times when it was also &lt;strong&gt;reopened&lt;/strong&gt; four times?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly there is no consensus.   (Even if the reopens were done by mods (which I don't know, and I don't know how to look up), there is clearly no consensus because mods are generally experienced and reasonable.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So again, I implore you:  Justify the closure position on its merits, not on some imagined consensus.   Or have we concluded that stating something is a fact makes it so.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I, for one, still believe in the rule of reason even if the world at large doesn't.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastActivityDate="2017-11-20T23:00:40.370" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11550" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11551" CreationDate="2017-11-21T11:18:03.310" Score="23" ViewCount="322" Body="&lt;p&gt;As @CreationEdge mentions in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11240/33591&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, we have many tags where the official title of the work contains the word 'the' in the name but our tag on the site does not. Before the tag character limit was expanded from 25 to 35, these would just take up extra space. But now, we can expand these to the full length. Do we &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to include the 'the' and 'a' etc in the tag names?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some examples of tags that would be affected:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt; --&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wheel-of-time&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wheel-of-time&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wheel-of-time&lt;/a&gt; --&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-wheel-of-time&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-wheel-of-time&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-wheel-of-time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/phantom-menace&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;phantom-menace&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;phantom-menace&lt;/a&gt; --&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-phantom-menace&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-phantom-menace&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-phantom-menace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fellowship-of-the-ring&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fellowship-of-the-ring&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fellowship-of-the-ring&lt;/a&gt; --&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-fellowship-of-the-ring&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-fellowship-of-the-ring&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-fellowship-of-the-ring&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/butterfly-effect&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;butterfly-effect&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;butterfly-effect&lt;/a&gt; --&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-butterfly-effect&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-butterfly-effect&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-butterfly-effect&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/heroes-of-olympus&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;heroes-of-olympus&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;heroes-of-olympus&lt;/a&gt; --&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-heroes-of-olympus&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-heroes-of-olympus&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-heroes-of-olympus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and so on. I also see that we have a lot of precedent &lt;em&gt;for&lt;/em&gt; including the 'the', such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-force-awakens&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-force-awakens&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-force-awakens&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-hobbit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-hobbit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-hobbit&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-matrix&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-matrix&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-matrix&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-silmarillion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-silmarillion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-silmarillion&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-walking-dead&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-walking-dead&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-walking-dead&lt;/a&gt;, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we go back and rename tags that don't include the 'the' to include it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;Although I'd &lt;em&gt;like&lt;/em&gt; to rename this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-butterfly-effect-2004&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-butterfly-effect-2004&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-butterfly-effect-2004&lt;/a&gt;, so that this doesn't get mixed up with the 'butterfly effect' trope...&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="66402" LastEditDate="2017-11-21T20:38:18.623" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T15:06:32.153" Title="Should we include 'the' in tag names when the official title starts with 'the'?" 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  <row Id="11551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11550" CreationDate="2017-11-21T12:44:21.423" Score="22" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Yes, rename them.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of precedent for including the 'the' in the tag name, as mentioned in the question. We don't have to worry as much about running out of characters in the tag name. And it's best to a.) be consistent as much as possible b.) use the official name for the work/franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does not require a flood of the front page or anything - a mod can just rename it easily, so that's not a worry. It also makes sure that if someone starts typing &lt;code&gt;the-wheel-of&lt;/code&gt; in the tag box, that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-wheel-of-time&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-wheel-of-time&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-wheel-of-time&lt;/a&gt; comes up, whereas with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wheel-of-time&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wheel-of-time&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wheel-of-time&lt;/a&gt; typing &lt;code&gt;the-wheel-&lt;/code&gt; won't bring up the correct tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-11-22T03:16:37.967" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11552" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-22T01:18:42.353" Score="13" ViewCount="665" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anime:SE have made a firm decision to reject any future Story-ID questions (regardless of the quality of the post or the information on offer) but do still get the occasional wayward soul who asks them and instantly gets shut down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given our solid track record of solving story-ID questions and their long history of acceptability on SFF:SE, &lt;strong&gt;would we be happy to offer a direct migration path for any anime story-ID requests that contain (or seem to contain) science fiction or fantasy elements?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/43280/help-i-can-t-remember-the-name-of-this-anime&quot;&gt;https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/43280/help-i-can-t-remember-the-name-of-this-anime&lt;/a&gt; - (Contains &lt;a href=&quot;https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:f6hfTbDQSaQJ:https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/43280/help-i-can-t-remember-the-name-of-this-anime%20&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;gl=uk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;giant robots and space goblins&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/43138/anime-related-to-angel-and-metal-sword&quot;&gt;https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/43138/anime-related-to-angel-and-metal-sword&lt;/a&gt; - (Contains a &lt;a href=&quot;https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mGydLhfkhKIJ:https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/43138/anime-related-to-angel-and-metal-sword%20&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;gl=uk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;character with angel wings that he can use during a fight&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;etc etc.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of simply closing them with a terse message, their mods and users could then push any seemingly relevant ones over to SFF, subject to the same quality-control we usually apply to other migrated questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-11-22T02:44:16.300" LastActivityDate="2017-11-29T13:44:45.753" Title="Should we offer a migration path to Anime:SE story-ID questions with scifi (or fantasy) content?" Tags="|discussion|migration|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11552" CreationDate="2017-11-22T01:25:39.613" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, absolutely we should.&lt;/strong&gt; SFF:SE should aim to be the &lt;em&gt;home&lt;/em&gt; of science fiction and fantasy questions (including those related to anime, manga and animated films) and we should welcome any additional questions from our sister sites with welcome arms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Points in favour&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's been long-established that questions are on-topic &lt;strong&gt;as long as they contain scifi or fantasy,&lt;/strong&gt; regardless of the format, so questions about anime, manga and animated films should pose us no problems.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Anime's own users and mods will do some quality control for us, ensuring that inappropriate questions (such as those that don't contain any SFF content) won't get migrated over.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The volume is not likely to be &lt;em&gt;especially&lt;/em&gt; high (a few a week, from what I can tell).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Happy users getting their questions answered will stick around on SFF and might ask other questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Point against&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Err. I can't think of any. Unless they start using us as a dumping ground for all of their Story-ID questions. Which I can't see happening.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-11-22T02:28:51.553" LastActivityDate="2017-11-22T02:28:51.553" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11550" CreationDate="2017-11-22T09:27:56.673" Score="-1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No, Keep them the way they are. Rename the ones with &quot;the&quot; in them.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While most of the Mods here have been here for ages, I'm a relative newbie. And I still remember the days before I had the &quot;create new tag&quot; privilege. If you can't create a new tag, you must browse through an onerous list of tags to find the one that most suits your need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, the list is pretty reasonable. But if you rename everything to &quot;The&quot; the list will become extremely unbalanced by the &quot;T&quot;'s and make newbies' searches far harder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Libraries, Google and the Dewey Decimal system all ignore &quot;the&quot;. So should we.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89771" LastEditorUserId="89771" LastEditDate="2017-11-30T17:05:52.300" LastActivityDate="2017-11-30T17:05:52.300" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11555" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-22T09:40:16.290" Score="3" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;We currently have an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/animals&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;animals&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;animals&lt;/a&gt; tag, with ~80 questions at the moment. It does not have any usage guidance, just this as the tag wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Animals in science fiction and fantasy works have vital roles in many plots, including protagonists, antagonists, plot motivators and wise mentors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;27 of these questions are also tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;. Several of them are about animals in specific franchises, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkiens-legendarium&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkiens-legendarium&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkiens-legendarium&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like this tag is being used for questions about &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; animal is &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; work of SFF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what value does this tag actually give? Why do we have this tag? What should it be used for? Does it actually need to exist in the first place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2019-04-16T07:04:42.213" LastActivityDate="2019-04-16T07:04:42.213" Title="What is the purpose of the [animals] tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11555" CreationDate="2017-11-22T10:06:02.010" Score="-5" Body="&lt;h1&gt;This tag can be made useful&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to start off by saying: Just because a tag doesn't belong in a specific universe doesn't make it useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now onto your questions, while I have no idea how the initial tag was decided to be created it was back-added to 15 questions that were asked before the tag was created. &#xA;As for what it should be used for, we clearly have two possible ways in using this tag, each bringing their own values to the tag.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This tag could be used in conjunction with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; to narrow the scope of stories where animals are the main focus (yes an arbitrary metric). &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This would be useful for classifying these stories and narrowing their scope, it would make it clear that animals are the focus of the story and may help users searching for the solution.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This would be useful for people interested in reading SFF stories where the main focus is animals. Rather than looking for all instances of the word animal in a question body or title.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This tag can be used for questions about animals in various SFF universes we have here. This would then be used in conjunction with the relevant franchise tag.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Useful for those who consider themselves experts in the fauna of a universe to find questions that may interest them, as well as those asking to make it clear their question is specifically about the fauna.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This would be useful for people who may have an interest in learning about the specific fauna of a universe (such as &quot;&lt;em&gt;What was the size/origin/inspiration for the Oliphaunts of the Haradhrim&lt;/em&gt;&quot; etc.) or those interested in the different fauna in multiple universes, their similarities, differences and how inspirations may have affected this.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While one may think we have to decide on the usage of the tag as one of these options, I say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/i8OHL.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/i8OHL.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Why not both gif&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've clearly had a reasonably positive agreement (not quite a consensus) to the fact that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10956/should-we-admit-that-story-identification-breaks-tagging-conventions-and-make-ne&quot;&gt;clearly breaks tagging conventions&lt;/a&gt;, so trying to make it align with the second usage wouldn't make sense. Both usages could easily be made clear and added into the wiki excerpt. A possible excerpt is provided below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For questions where the primary focus is on animals, be it in a specific universe or for a story-identification when the main focus of the story is about animals. When used with a specific universe please use in conjunction with the specific universe tag. When used to identify a story, use in conjunction with the [story-identification] tag.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;sub&gt;Proposed tag wiki&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this seems &lt;em&gt;insufficient&lt;/em&gt; there are still 111 of the 460 characters available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we decide on a single usage, possible tag wikis could be made from the bullet points above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68872" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2019-02-12T03:55:43.010" LastActivityDate="2019-02-12T03:55:43.010" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11552" CreationDate="2017-11-22T10:40:30.210" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would be fine with this idea but there are some things to understand first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Given our solid track record of solving story-ID questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i know i'm cherry picking but as i said &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11552/should-we-offer-a-migration-path-to-animese-story-id-questions-with-scifi-or-f/11553#comment37445_11552&quot;&gt;in a comment&lt;/a&gt; our ability to answer them was never the issue. i answered many myself, we've had &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2496/1587&quot;&gt;users to get tag badges&lt;/a&gt;, we did everything under the sun to try and set a standard of quality with &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/a/892/1587&quot;&gt;guidelines&lt;/a&gt; and asking that askers meet &lt;em&gt;at least&lt;/em&gt; 3 points to make the id request uniquely identifiable which wasn't too much to ask? we posted this link everywhere, in the help center, in the tour, in the tags, in the close reason, in comments we would post, in the How To Ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The problem was that many were just low quality.&lt;/strong&gt; even when asked to provide more details many didn't respond. as per our close reason&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Identification questions are off-topic, because they tend to attract low-quality and low-effort posts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and it wasn't just questions, the answers i hate the most was&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;it's [SERIES]. check it out it's great!!!!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to me these are useless because they require the asker to have to look up the series. the rest of the SE Network wouldn't accept the answer &lt;em&gt;&quot;google/look up on wikipedia [search term]&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and when it comes to id requests, and answer like that might as well been a guess. i thought it was easy for new users to make good id request answers by matching what was asked in the question to examples in the series but my faith was drained and i ended up changing my support for them because most new users didn't put in effort into their questions or answers&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;as per &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9337/20916&quot;&gt;Valorum's post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Be available to answer questions about it, and answer them in a timely fashion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this will only work if their user account get created here aswell as part of the migration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;now i'm not 100% sure on the mechanics of migration but i think that if the asker is unregistered or isn't using a Stack Exchange Login they may not be able to even answer comments unless (for unregistered users) they create another account and post answers as comments or merge the new account tied to the question that ends up here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;while you have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/object-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;object-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;object-identification&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scene-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scene-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scene-identification&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/music-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;music-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;music-identification&lt;/a&gt; these are still on-topic on Anime and Manga so long as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/music-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;music-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;music-identification&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scene-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scene-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scene-identification&lt;/a&gt; are coming from a known series (ie. what is this music/scene in [SERIES])&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/object-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;object-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;object-identification&lt;/a&gt; relates to iding objects within a known series (ie. was is that sword [character] was holding? what happened to their old one?) or merchandise&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;that being said i would like to see a &lt;strong&gt;guideline or something of what could be migrated&lt;/strong&gt;. ie, would you accept the following id requests if they had scifi/fantasy elements?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Image only id requests&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Id this anime/music from this &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime_music_video&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Anime Music Video (AMV)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can you find me this AMV which has Scenes from [SERIES(ES)]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Id this hentai/adult &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%8Djinshi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;doujinshi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How little is too little information?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i'll finish off saying that i've always been amazed in how SciFi has never had a problem with ID requests like what Anime and Manga had. maybe it was because the community was larger. maybe it was because SciFi had more than enough questions from other topics to offset the id requests. maybe it's just that anime fans are shit and that when SciFi gets topped ranked for &quot;id this anime&quot; in google it would get into the same situation we got and question whether they should go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whatever it was, had we knew what secret SciFi is hiding in keeping id requests under control maybe we would have kept them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20916" LastActivityDate="2017-11-22T10:40:30.210" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11552" CreationDate="2017-11-22T11:38:30.257" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like a &lt;strong&gt;great idea&lt;/strong&gt; in general: if ID questions are getting closed over there that would be upvoted and answered over here, then there's no reason not to deprive those questions' OPs of getting their answers. That said, I'd mention a few caveats we should consider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality control&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've never spent any time on the Anime &amp;amp; Manga SE, but having seen the type of non-book ID questions that some other SEs get, I'd guess that the quality of ID questions being posted to Anime &amp;amp; Manga was &lt;em&gt;so bad&lt;/em&gt; that they eventually had no option but to cut out the canker entirely. We don't want our site to be flooded with crap and lose its reputation as one of the few SE sites to have mostly good quality ID questions without needing draconian rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To this end, I'd suggest &lt;strong&gt;not setting up a direct migration &lt;em&gt;path&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; which could be used by any five 3k-rep users, but instead relying on the A&amp;amp;M mods to migrate ID questions to us manually. Migration paths have caused issues for other sites in the past: e.g. see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/73382/278659&quot;&gt;Please stop using SoftwareEngineering.SE as your toilet bowl&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7784/87724&quot;&gt;A friendly reminder: ELL is not EL&amp;amp;U's trash can&lt;/a&gt;. Unfortunately, allowing anyone to vote to migrate questions often results in really bad questions being dumped on other sites, essentially passing the buck on the job of closing them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should also bear in mind that &lt;strong&gt;&quot;good quality&quot; for ID questions is subjective and varies by site&lt;/strong&gt;. Some sites have very different standards from others on what makes a &quot;good&quot; ID question. So we can't necessarily rely on A&amp;amp;M mods or users to know which of 'their' ID questions we'd want and which we wouldn't. The best way to inform them is by manually flagging migrate-worthy questions on A&amp;amp;M ourselves, with a flag text something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Since ID questions are off-topic here, could you migrate this question to Sci-Fi &amp;amp; Fantasy, where it would be considered on-topic and within SFF site standards? (Source: I'm an active user on SFF.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't see any sensible reason for a mod to decline such a flag: if a question would be closed on their site but would be open and well-received on our site, then it's an ideal candidate for migration. This seems to be the best way to ensure that &lt;strong&gt;we get only the questions we actually want rather than being flooded with crap&lt;/strong&gt;. The alternative would be educating the users or mods of A&amp;amp;M on exactly which ID questions we like and which we don't, and then potentially having to complain if they migrate bad ID questions which get downvoted here as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The decision on the other end&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the ultimate decision of whether or not to migrate such questions is up to the A&amp;amp;M community and mods. They're the ones who have to do the actual migrating. But again, if they don't want the questions and we do, I can't see any sensible reason for them to refuse. Just remember that if you want a migration path, someone will have to propose that on &lt;em&gt;their&lt;/em&gt; meta and get enough support for it there. (If we go by the manual flagging approach I suggested above, then posting on their meta won't be necessary unless for some reason those flags are declined.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-11-22T11:38:30.257" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11559" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-22T20:11:56.427" Score="12" ViewCount="397" Body="&lt;p&gt;Movies:SE have recently altered their policies on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-id&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-id&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-id&lt;/a&gt; questions to tighten their minimum requirements and close those don't meet their new quality standards. They're also now deleting any closed ID questions that remain &lt;em&gt;&quot;un-improved&quot;&lt;/em&gt; for a significant period of time (a moderator recently &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4048&quot;&gt;suggested&lt;/a&gt; something between 9-29 days).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A quick glance through their &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/search?page=2&amp;amp;tab=Newest&amp;amp;q=%5Bidentify-this-movie%5D%20closed%3Ayes%20duplicate%3Ano&quot;&gt;closed questions list&lt;/a&gt; reveals a number of questions that are now at risk of deletion that don't meet their standards but do meet ours (e.g. That are uniquely identifiable and contain obvious elements of sci-fi and fantasy) and that if asked here wouldn't have been closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for example;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/81906/monster-movie-with-college-kids-in-castle&quot;&gt;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/81906/monster-movie-with-college-kids-in-castle&lt;/a&gt; (Monster stalks castle and kills folk)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/80842/whats-the-name-of-this-movie&quot;&gt;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/80842/whats-the-name-of-this-movie&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;(Horror movie where woman doesn't realise she's psychic)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/82680/1980s-movie-about-an-alien-blob-goo-type-parasite&quot;&gt;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/82680/1980s-movie-about-an-alien-blob-goo-type-parasite&lt;/a&gt; (Alien parasite attacks bikini-clad sunbather)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;etc etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we offer a migration path (formally or informally) for Movies:SE to migrate these unwanted and unloved Sci-fi and fantasy ID questions to us?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-11-22T21:00:32.853" LastActivityDate="2017-11-27T16:40:40.187" Title="Should we offer a migration path to Movie:SE's unwanted story-ID questions about sci-fi (and fantasy)?" Tags="|discussion|migration|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11559" CreationDate="2017-11-22T20:17:24.287" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, absolutely we should.&lt;/strong&gt; SFF:SE should aim to be the home of science fiction and fantasy questions and we should welcome any additional (on-topic) questions from our sister sites with open arms and big smiles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Points in favour&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Movies questions are definitely in scope. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's very easy for them to determine which questions should be migrated (e.g. those that seem to have uniquely identifiable features / that are about science fiction or fantasy)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The volume is not likely to be especially high (No more than one or two a day, although probably a higher volume to begin with if they're actively deleting older questions) which will make moderating them super-easy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Happy users getting their questions answered are likely to stick around on SFF (and Movies) and might ask other questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Point against&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Err. I can't think of any. Unless they start using us as a dumping ground for all of their Story-ID questions. Which I can't see happening given that both of their mods have current SFF accounts and are pretty well versed in our quality standards.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-11-22T21:08:23.820" LastActivityDate="2017-11-22T21:08:23.820" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11561" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-24T14:41:46.337" Score="-1" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was answering &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/174862/what-was-the-first-work-involving-nazis-and-occult-magic&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and thought that we have asked about the inclusion of &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThoseWackyNazis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;those wacky nazis&lt;/a&gt; and inspiration derived from their intolerant ideology in science fiction and fantasy many times. A rapid search for the term throws 264 results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was going to create the tag but on second thought maybe such a tag is kind of controversial or not needed. What do you think? Would it be offensive to create such a tag? Can it be useful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: do you think a tag named [nazi-villains] is a good compromise in order to avoid possible problems but at the same time adress the issue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63534" LastEditorUserId="63534" LastEditDate="2017-11-24T17:04:14.967" LastActivityDate="2017-11-25T14:54:36.597" Title="Would a [nazis] tag be useful?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11561" CreationDate="2017-11-24T15:47:27.383" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I asked that question, I noticed that there wasn't an extant [nazis] tag.  I thought about creating one, but decided against it; not for any good reason, but I just felt uncomfortable doing it.  However, a quick search does seem to show that there are enough questions about stories involving the Nazis to justify the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, there are reasonable reasons to have the tag.  However, if it makes a significant number of people uncomfortable, I think we are fine doing without.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:  I went ahead and made the tag, then took a shower.  At present, the tag is only associated with my question that prompted this discussion, so if there turns out to be opposition to the tag, it can be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastEditorUserId="48874" LastEditDate="2017-11-24T16:40:51.377" LastActivityDate="2017-11-24T16:40:51.377" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11561" CreationDate="2017-11-25T14:54:36.597" Score="-2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Let's create a [nazi-villains] tag&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why a category like nazis and the like is useful&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a significant number of questions/answers that deal with the subject, in a quick search 265 results.The question that prompted this question lacked any other useful tag to get a correct identification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of these are story-identification that without this tag are not properly identified fo future searchs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/43737/movie-involving-time-travelling-nazis&quot;&gt;Movie involving time-travelling Nazis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/137398/name-of-movie-about-little-girl-that-moved-to-forest-camp-run-by-nazis-with-her&quot;&gt;Name of movie about little girl that moved to forest camp run by Nazis, with her mother&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/18693/identify-a-90s-disney-movie-featuring-spaceship-surprise-and-futuristic-neo-n&quot;&gt;Identify a 90&amp;#39;s Disney movie featuring spaceship &amp;quot;surprise&amp;quot; and futuristic Neo Nazis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can people be offended or attract unwanted attraction to the site?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are certainly not promoting this intolerant and murderous ideology, lots of history scholars do deal with the category and are not making an apologia of nazism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Adamant points in a comment, many scholar sites are higher in the search engine rankings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then again, the idea is not to make anyone feel uncomfortable while using this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do we land in the safe side of this debate?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nazis are the villains of the story for obvious reasons. I have yet to find a work of fiction, a question or an answer where the nazis are not the villains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we take that into consideration a tag namesd [nazi-villains] can properly identify the questions and avoid making people uncomfortable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63534" LastActivityDate="2017-11-25T14:54:36.597" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11559" CreationDate="2017-11-27T16:40:40.187" Score="7" Body="&lt;h1&gt;No, migrating isn't the best option.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Instead, they should be prompted to ask a &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; question here.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Migration has issues related to user accounts. New users (the kind that tend to post ID questions) tend not to have accounts on the target sites (so if they ask on Movies, they probably don't have a Fantasy account). They don't get notifications the same way. Editing becomes more of a challenge for them, or even commenting on their own post to get details. These hurdles don't affect everyday users, but every time we look at the stats, it's not everyday users asking story-id questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This also removes the onus from reviewers/Movies mods from determining if a question is on topic on topic for us. You simply say &amp;quot;Ask on [fantasy-se] if your question is about a Sci-fi or Fantasy film&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Guidance I've received from CMs as a beta moderator is that migration is messy, and we should avoid it when necessary. Other times I've heard rumors of it being disabled at some point for anything but to/from meta/main. Instead, it's been suggested that the questions being asked again under the context of the target site (making it clear that the question belongs there, and avoiding all the technical and user account mess).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-11-27T16:40:40.187" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11565" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11566" CreationDate="2017-11-28T18:47:00.527" Score="3" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;This can be regarded as related to other questions that have been posted regarding this topic; to include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7719/what-can-i-do-when-a-question-has-an-old-accepted-and-25-voted-100-incorre?rq=1&quot;&gt;What can I do when a question has an old, accepted, and +25 voted **100% incorrect answer** contradicted by canon?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1236/is-it-desirable-to-have-the-community-award-acceptance-to-answers-on-abandoned&quot;&gt;Is it desirable to have the community award &amp;quot;acceptance&amp;quot; to answers on abandoned questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which seem to also have been mostly asked by the same user and interestingly none that I saw had an accepted answer... however these seem to have been forgotten and the issue presented still remains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been using (mainly) this site more and more lately. At least daily, if not more. And while I admit that I do not fully understand the way everything around here works I have a growing interest in some aspects of how it is managed. I continue to see the same issues over and over: Questions that have answers that have not been accepted, questions with accepted answers that are wrong, and questions with an accepted answer that is not the best answer to the question, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I understand the premise to these sites is that &quot;he who asks the question holds the power&quot; (as it should be) it does not seem entirely fair to the one that took the time to research and answer the question to not get the credit. I enjoy both researching and sharing my knowledge about my favorite universes, but I would be lying if I said I did not get a little endorphin boost when someone accepts or even upvotes my contributions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example this question I came across: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/159238/does-the-mental-link-between-the-jaeger-pilots-simply-just-connect-and-synchroni&quot;&gt;Does the mental link between the Jaeger pilots simply just connect and synchronize their movements, or does it also control the Jaeger?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Within there is an answer that has been accepted by the OP that does actually answer the question, it does lack sources and could have been better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this situation another of the answers does have sources and a better, more thorough explanation of the answer. IMO it should have been the accepted answer. Although it does have more upvotes it is still the very last answer on the topic and would not necessarily be seen unless someone cared to continue looking after seeing the accepted answer. Imagining someone who was linked to the site for the first time, might think it a complete waste of time to come here for &lt;strong&gt;that&lt;/strong&gt; accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; I would like to think that first time visitors would not judge the site based on one answer to one question, but I would also like to think that people are smart enough to know the world is not flat... people are not perfect... and they may be in a hurry or whatever...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keeping the core of the site intact would it not be acceptable to have the ability for the community to take action to remedy these situations. My initial thought would be for the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Everything stays exactly the way it is currently regarding asking, answering, voting, etc for questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is an additional action that can be taken to simply mark an additional answer as &quot;community accepted&quot; with the premise that such answers &quot;may have been marked as 'community accepted' for many reasons such as other, including accepted, answers as having been determined to be incomplete or incorrect by the community.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This new action could be even be a marker near the original question similar to the duplicate tag and etc. so that it is easier to see when first encountering the question, prior to even reading the answers. It could say &quot;There is an answer below that has been accepted by the community for (either specific or general reasons).&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the originally accepted answer will still be the first answer that a reader will see, the emphasis toward the community accepted answer will also inform the reader (possibly someone linked to the site and never having been here before) there may be a better/more thorough answer available and also give a better indication to the user that answered the question that we appreciate their work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding who would have the power to make such a determination I would suggest that the answer simply needs to have a certain number of upvotes (or possiblly just more upvotes than the accepted answer) and then follow the same process as marking questions as closed or duplicates as is currently in place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in anticipation of someone possibly mentioning that such an action may be too much power for a few users to have; I would argue that is a completely different issue altogether and solely based upon the motives behind those we recognize with the authority to hold and close questions in the first place. While we need individuals with that authority, there does seem to be a knee jerk reaction to some questions that are posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One more quick example regarding the power we give (actually one of my own answers): &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/167719/what-accounts-for-the-noxs-apparent-double-ethical-standard/168131#168131&quot;&gt;What accounts for the Nox&amp;#39;s apparent double ethical standard?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was put on hold (no ill will towards those that did, i fully understand the motives to keep the site clean and organized), but I ended up having to report the situation to get the question reopened so that I could answer it (which I think I did a pretty good job at...). Despite leaving a comment that I felt I could answer it &lt;strong&gt;and how i would&lt;/strong&gt; the question was not reopened until after I reported the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure this will of course not solve all of the foreseeable problems, but I feel that it is a big step in the right direction and we should always be looking to make our site better. In addition, I am sure that I will get some users that would like to leave the status-quo as is simply because it is the way it has always been done, but as a 'newer' user to the stack exchange I would like it to be understood that &quot;the way it has always been done is not the best way.&quot; If my idea, or any idea, is for some reason not possible I understand, but I would hope that we can reopen this discussion respectfully and potentially find a solution to the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50944" LastActivityDate="2017-11-28T19:08:29.513" Title="Community action regarding questions and their answers" Tags="|feature-request|answers|voting|community|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11565" CreationDate="2017-11-28T19:08:29.513" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;On &quot;community acceptance&quot;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry, but this isn't going to happen. You're far from the first to propose it, but such a change would have to be made at a coding level by Stack Exchange staff, and as such (unless you really think it'd be a useful feature for &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; site specifically and not other SEs) should be proposed on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;main meta&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone accepts a wrong, or less good, answer, there's &lt;strong&gt;nothing we can do except downvote it&lt;/strong&gt;. I've actually seen this done to great effect at times, with accepted answers scoring -10 or -20, sending a clear signal to readers that they're not as good as other, non-accepted, answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you note, this has already been discussed at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1236/31394&quot;&gt;Is it desirable to have the community award &amp;quot;acceptance&amp;quot; to answers on abandoned questions?&lt;/a&gt;, and not much has changed since then. I think one of the commenters on that older meta post summed it up rather well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it desirable? Yep. Will it ever happen? Nope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;On the question you answered after its reopening&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know what this has to do with the rest of your question - your answer is the only one there, and has been accepted. To be honest, I don't really know what your concern is about this at all. It seems to me that the system worked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/reopen-questions&quot;&gt;exactly as it should&lt;/a&gt; after a question gets mistakenly closed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;comments were left on the question (by you) to indicate that it shouldn't have been closed;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the question was edited, both by the OP and others, in an attempt to make it less closeworthy and more answerable;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;due to these edits, the question entered the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/reopen/111854&quot;&gt;review queue&lt;/a&gt; for community review on reopening it;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;eventually it gathered enough votes to be reopened, after which it could be answered.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the issue here? I'm not understanding what you think should have happened differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;sub&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; I don't recommend doing this. Your feature-request would not only be closed as a duplicate in short order - probably a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/3669/278659&quot;&gt;this 8-year-old question&lt;/a&gt; - but would probably also be heavily downvoted: see for comparison the scores of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/linked/3669?lq=1&quot;&gt;some of its 40-odd existing duplicates&lt;/a&gt;. Unfortunately, main meta can be a very unfriendly place at times :-/&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-11-28T19:08:29.513" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11567" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11568" CreationDate="2017-11-28T21:04:47.657" Score="5" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/175171/143&quot;&gt;Misanthropic boy given near-omnipotent powers by alien intelligence, proceeds to destroy humanity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is a duplicate of this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/133178/143&quot;&gt;Bullied boy given immense powers by an alien race who destroys the human race&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as evidenced by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/175171/misanthropic-boy-given-near-omnipotent-powers-by-alien-intelligence-proceeds-to#comment471373_175171&quot;&gt;this comment&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wanted to vote to close the new (duplicate) but I cannot because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IE2Kp.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IE2Kp.png&quot; alt=&quot;This question does not have an upvoted or accepted answer&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question does not have an upvoted or accepted answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the rational behind this restriction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-11-28T21:24:28.890" Title="Why can we not mark questions as duplicates when the original does not have an answer?" Tags="|support|closing-questions|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11567" CreationDate="2017-11-28T21:24:28.890" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, the limit exists on a technical basis, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/165933/294691&quot;&gt;according to Shog9&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The rationale here is that it can be fairly hard to discern whether or not an unanswered question is actually a duplicate, and even when it is closing doesn't really accomplish very much. When searching for a &quot;canonical&quot; answer in particular, duplicates without answers (or with bad answers) are just noise in the results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially, the point of duplicate questions is so that the answers are all in the same place. You don't want to have to search through dozens of different questions to find the specific answer that you want, so instead, we close as duplicates and ask the answerer (if it's an answer that wasn't posted yet to the duplicate target) to post their answer over at the target. It's not much use to have a question say &lt;code&gt;This question already has an answer here:&lt;/code&gt; and then &lt;em&gt;there not be an answer there&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't like this feature, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/165928/294691&quot;&gt;here's a feature request for it to be changed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, I see it's a Story-ID in your example. We have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7065/33591&quot;&gt;an explicit policy&lt;/a&gt; not to close Story-IDs as dupes unless both questions have a confirmed answer, so this helps keep us in line with that policy. (Yes, this &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; case is special. See below.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third off, in this particular case, I'd not advise voting to close as duplicate. It's a repost, by the same user (even if on a second account), and so it should just be &lt;em&gt;deleted&lt;/em&gt;. I've flagged dozens of these to have them deleted when it's an actual repost of the question,&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; by the same OP (even if they may not have access to the original account anymore).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;Unfortunately, the way this is handled &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/40898134#40898134&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; change depending on who handles the flag&lt;/a&gt;. If it gets declined, maybe bring it up here on SFF meta?&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2017-11-28T21:24:28.890" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11550" CreationDate="2017-11-28T21:48:17.110" Score="8" Body="&lt;h1&gt;List of tags to be renamed&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/curse-of-the-black-pearl&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;curse-of-the-black-pearl&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;curse-of-the-black-pearl&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-curse-of-the-black-pearl&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-curse-of-the-black-pearl&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-curse-of-the-black-pearl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/heroes-of-olympus&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;heroes-of-olympus&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;heroes-of-olympus&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-heroes-of-olympus&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-heroes-of-olympus&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-heroes-of-olympus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wheel-of-time&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wheel-of-time&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wheel-of-time&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-wheel-of-time&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-wheel-of-time&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-wheel-of-time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/phantom-menace&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;phantom-menace&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;phantom-menace&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-phantom-menace&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-phantom-menace&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-phantom-menace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/butterfly-effect&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;butterfly-effect&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;butterfly-effect&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-butterfly-effect&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-butterfly-effect&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-butterfly-effect&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fellowship-of-the-ring&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fellowship-of-the-ring&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fellowship-of-the-ring&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-fellowship-of-the-ring&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-fellowship-of-the-ring&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-fellowship-of-the-ring&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hitchhikers-guide&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hitchhikers-guide&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hitchhikers-guide&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dark-tower&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dark-tower&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dark-tower&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-dark-tower&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-dark-tower&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-dark-tower&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dark-knight-rises&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dark-knight-rises&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dark-knight-rises&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-dark-knight-rises&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-dark-knight-rises&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-dark-knight-rises&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/return-of-the-king&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;return-of-the-king&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;return-of-the-king&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-return-of-the-king&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-return-of-the-king&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-return-of-the-king&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/day-of-the-doctor&quot; 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class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;twilight-zone&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;twilight-zone&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-twilight-zone&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-twilight-zone&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-twilight-zone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/legend-of-zelda&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;legend-of-zelda&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;legend-of-zelda&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-legend-of-zelda&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-legend-of-zelda&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-legend-of-zelda&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/battle-of-five-armies&quot; 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class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fifth-element&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fifth-element&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-fifth-element&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-fifth-element&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-fifth-element&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/maze-runner&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;maze-runner&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;maze-runner&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-maze-runner&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-maze-runner&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-maze-runner&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/orville&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;orville&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;orville&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-orville&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-orville&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-orville&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;add items in the format &lt;code&gt;* [tag:old-tag-name] → [tag:new-tag-name]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T15:06:32.153" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2017-11-28T21:48:17.110" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11570" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-11-28T22:23:23.913" Score="14" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;The text, as it stands, is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This does not provide an answer to the question. Once you have sufficient &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;reputation&lt;/a&gt; you will be able to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;comment on any post&lt;/a&gt;; instead, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/214173/why-do-i-need-50-reputation-to-comment-what-can-i-do-instead&quot;&gt;provide answers that don't require clarification from the asker&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This looks like something that was copied in from SO. The issue I have with it is whenever I use it, I have to remove the entire last half as it is basically never applicable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It ends up looking like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This does not provide an answer to the question. Once you have sufficient &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;reputation&lt;/a&gt; you will be able to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;comment on any post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand sometimes we have answers that necessitate the current comment, but by and large, SFF questions spawn answers that are comments acting as &quot;answers&quot;, not comments acting as questions. As has been mentioned elsewhere, random comments posted as answers don't necessarily need an auto comment. However, given the title in the popup (see below), I feel this is misleading to anyone who is unfamiliar with the system (and even for those who are).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recommend changing the text to my truncated version, or replacing the removed portion with text more appropriate to the type of comment-answers we see on SFF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wsyfl.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wsyfl.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62201" LastEditorUserId="62201" LastEditDate="2017-11-28T22:27:47.527" LastActivityDate="2017-11-28T22:27:47.527" Title="Can we change the text of the generic NaA comment in the Low Quality Posts review?" Tags="|discussion|comments|review-queue|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11552" CreationDate="2017-11-29T13:44:45.753" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wanted to throw this in, since it's pretty relevant. SO has &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/251652/flagging-migration-should-include-more-options&quot;&gt;had some big discussions on it&lt;/a&gt; and I think this part of the accepted answer is relevant to all sites, as the question there was asking for open-ended migration options&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The problem with allowing arbitrary sites to be entered is that a lot of the time, the community on one site has really no idea what is on-topic and considered of sufficient quality on another site. As such the Stack Exchange dev team has resisted adding a open-ended migrate option; the Stack Overflow community doesn't get to decide what is on topic in other communities, basically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, people would be too tempted to pull the lever to migrate. The danger is that SFF would become a &quot;catch-all&quot; for Story ID questions. It's also an easy way for them to pawn off questions that should have been closed in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leaving it to just the Anime mods seems to be a better solution. Mods quickly learn what we do and don't accept, and can close questions that wouldn't be acceptable anywhere. I've had good success with this on SO, as mods like to salvage where they can. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also worth noting that any user with close privileges can close questions with a custom reason, so they can add a custom comment pointing them to SFF if it's off-topic on Anime. If you use &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/questions/2116/autoreviewcomments-pro-forma-comments-for-se&quot;&gt;AutoReviewComments&lt;/a&gt; it's easy to automate that. It then puts the onus on the user to register here and ask the question. This works better for the user, because now they can see comments and accept an answer (which we need for dupes). Migration cuts them off from that until they register here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastActivityDate="2017-11-29T13:44:45.753" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11572" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11573" CreationDate="2017-11-30T01:29:27.853" Score="1" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;American Gods&lt;/em&gt; is a story which was first told &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gods&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;in book form&lt;/a&gt; and is currently being adapted &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gods_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;for television&lt;/a&gt;. In line with our usual practice for tagging stories which have been adapted in multiple media, I've been using the existing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/american-gods&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;american-gods&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;american-gods&lt;/a&gt; tag for all questions about &lt;em&gt;American Gods&lt;/em&gt;, with an additional tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt; if the question happens to be specific to one medium or the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, twice now people have created an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/american-gods-tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;american-gods-tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;american-gods-tv&lt;/a&gt; tag and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/161566/revisions&quot;&gt;retagged&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/162644/revisions&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/166695/revisions&quot;&gt;specific&lt;/a&gt; to the TV series. Rather than starting an edit war by rolling back these edits &lt;em&gt;again&lt;/em&gt;, I'm taking the issue to meta so that we can (hopefully) get a clear conclusion on what to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How should we tag questions about &lt;em&gt;American Gods&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt; In particular:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions about the story, not specific to either book or TV show;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions specifically about the book;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions specifically about the TV show?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-11-30T11:01:27.450" Title="How should we tag [american-gods] questions?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11572" CreationDate="2017-11-30T01:34:44.893" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Media tags in general&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Media tags, and their value and usage patterns, have been debated on this site ever since it was founded. From &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/293/should-we-do-away-with-the-media-tags-books-novel-tv-movies-etc&quot;&gt;Should we do away with the media tags (books, novel, TV, movies, etc.)?&lt;/a&gt; back in February 2011, to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7874/31394&quot;&gt;very unpopular suggestion&lt;/a&gt; during the 2015-16 tag cleanup to remove them from all non-story-ID questions, to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7877/31394&quot;&gt;How do we actually use tags?&lt;/a&gt; and CreationEdge's excellent summary of many of the details of our tagging system. In one of his answers, he attempted to sum up our current practice on how media tags such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt; are being used on this site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found Media and Genre tags to have some interesting things going on with them. They're rarely used alone, and tend to be attaching to some type of Probing tag. The most common example being &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; [...] The percent of Media and Genre tagged questions that include &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; is 60.5%.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt; seems to be an exception to the Probing connection, a cursory look at those questions shows that the tag is often used to specify that a question is only about the comic-book version of events or characters, instead of the entire franchise which may include movies and TV shows. &lt;strong&gt;This is how Media tags are used in general: they are almost never used alone, and make the most sense when used in conjuction with other tags to narrow scope.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SQB also wrote about this in even more detail at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7893/31394&quot;&gt;Tag Wars: cleaning up redundant media tags&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Media tags in action&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We haven't reached a decision yet about what to do with the media tags. There are two main uses for them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; to specify what the OP is looking for (example: &amp;quot;I'm looking for a book I read as a kid&amp;quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To differentiate between works released in different media (ie: &amp;quot;I'm looking for an answer from the Harry Potter movies specifically&amp;quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'm not proposing to touch any of these uses.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; However, I found there is a third and a fourth use that are both unnecessary and often redundant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Missing work tags&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about specific works that do not have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/this-work&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;this-work&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;this-work&lt;/a&gt; tag. [...] I propose giving all questions like this their proper work and/or author tags.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Department of redundancy department&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions where the media tag is simply redundant, because it's used together with specific tags for the work, author, series, franchise and so on, without falling under use 2 (differentiating between different media for the same work or franchise).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the best summary I've been able to find on how we actually use media tags. Uses 3 and 4 have been slowly cleaned up; questions about a specific work should &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; have the tag for that work, and there's no point in using media tags with stories like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/babylon-5&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;babylon-5&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;babylon-5&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wheel-of-time&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wheel-of-time&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wheel-of-time&lt;/a&gt; which are only told in one medium anyway. Uses 1 and 2 remain as the main/only ways that media tags are/should be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Other cases for comparison&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/american-gods&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;american-gods&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;american-gods&lt;/a&gt;, many of our other tags are for stories which have been told in more than one medium, and we don't usually use different tags for these different adaptations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; - books and films both use the same tag, sometimes with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; to distinguish if necessary&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt; (and its three instalment subtags) - ditto&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-hunger-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-hunger-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-hunger-games&lt;/a&gt; - ditto&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/2001-a-space-odyssey&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;2001-a-space-odyssey&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;2001-a-space-odyssey&lt;/a&gt; - ditto&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/twilight&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;twilight&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;twilight&lt;/a&gt; - ditto&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stardust&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stardust&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stardust&lt;/a&gt; - ditto&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-princess-bride&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-princess-bride&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-princess-bride&lt;/a&gt; - ditto&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-time-machine&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-time-machine&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-time-machine&lt;/a&gt; - ditto&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dark-tower&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dark-tower&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dark-tower&lt;/a&gt; - ditto&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-hobbit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-hobbit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-hobbit&lt;/a&gt; - ditto, although we also have instalment tags which are film-specific since the book didn't have instalments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/neverwhere&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;neverwhere&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;neverwhere&lt;/a&gt; - book and TV series both use the same tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hitchhikers-guide&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hitchhikers-guide&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hitchhikers-guide&lt;/a&gt; - books, films, TV series, radio show, etc. all use the same tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A glaring exception to this general principle is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt; tags. There is no one overarching tag for this universe, and the book and TV versions have two separate tags. This approach has led to multiple disadvantages in practice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Searchability:&lt;/strong&gt; you need a more complicated search to find a list of questions relevant to this story/world, because there's no one tag to cover them all.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Division of expertise:&lt;/strong&gt; many people answer both - obviously, being knowledgeable about one likely makes you knowledgeable about the other too - but their scores in the respective tags don't reflect this. I bet we would've had some gold tag badgers by now if there was one tag to cover the whole thing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unclarity in questions:&lt;/strong&gt; many people don't even know the difference between the two, e.g. using &amp;quot;Game of Thrones&amp;quot; to refer to the books, and so tagging isn't even a reliable way to tell which medium the OP is asking about. Often a question bearing one tag will &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; be seeking answers from the other, or from both. This necessitates a lot of tag edits and requests for clarification in comments.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The conclusion&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should stick to the current system: using a single universe/franchise tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/american-gods&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;american-gods&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;american-gods&lt;/a&gt; to cover both book and TV series, with the option of using medium tags to clarify which one is being asked about if that's really necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Most&lt;/em&gt; questions about American Gods will likely be general questions which could apply equally well to the book or the TV series. If we had separate tags for the two, would we need to tag all of these questions with both? What if someone only cares about the book but their question is also relevant to the TV show? What if someone's only seen the TV show but their question is answered in the book? What about questions asked before the TV show existed - should they retroactively be tagged with the other tag if it's relevant? Separate tags would just lead to confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, people who know a lot about one of the two adaptations of the story are likely to know a lot about both. Let's make it easy for them to find questions which they can answer or which interest them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;American Gods&lt;/em&gt; is a single franchise, which deserves its own tag. It makes no sense to use separate tags for separate versions of the same story.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-11-30T11:01:27.450" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11574" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-12-03T03:11:45.363" Score="0" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;Say that we have the following hypothetical question and answer on the site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q:&lt;/strong&gt; What race is Gandalf?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A:&lt;/strong&gt; In Letter 123, Tolkien wrote: &amp;quot;Gandalf and Saruman are Maiar.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A year later, another user asks this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q:&lt;/strong&gt; What race is Saruman?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this second question a duplicate of the first because the other question has the answer in the quote from Tolkien, and the same quote could be used in the new one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ask because I've seen a number of questions closed as duplicates that basically boil down to this situation. What usually follows is a string of comments where people argue about if it's really a duplicate (often including sentiments like &amp;quot;How was I supposed to know to look at that question?&amp;quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am aware that there are other options like editing the first to be a canonical question, but since that's not always practical or desirable, I want to focus on whether or not these two would be duplicates in their current form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This might have been addressed in previous meta topics, but since most of them are really &amp;quot;should this specific question have been closed as a duplicate?&amp;quot;, I'm hoping to better understand our general duplicate policy without reference to any real question.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13217" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-12-03T11:48:11.663" Title="Are two unrelated questions always considered duplicates if one answer has a quote that addresses both questions?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2017-12-03T11:46:55.787" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11575" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11576" CreationDate="2017-12-04T02:26:49.877" Score="11" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently came across this question - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/175503/how-does-the-audience-of-the-arrowverse-spread-amongst-the-4-shows&quot;&gt;How is the audience of the Arrowverse spread amongst the 4 shows?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The crux of the question is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it is the mathematician in me speaking, but I always wondered how the viewership spread amongst the 4 shows. Which part of the audience watches all of them? Only one of them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we have any figure (from the CW or independent source) about the viewership of the Arrowverse?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this doesn't pertain to the SFF aspects of said shows, but audience totals, &lt;strong&gt;is this on-topic or should it be closed?&lt;/strong&gt; I tend to think it might be better for &lt;a href=&quot;//movies.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Movies&amp;amp;TV.SE&lt;/a&gt;, since they have some questions about such topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-12-04T21:17:25.637" Title="Are questions about sci-fi/fantasy shows viewership on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11575" CreationDate="2017-12-04T03:38:14.847" Score="19" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/356/21267&quot;&gt;Behind-the-scenes questions are on-topic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This includes fandom information&lt;/strong&gt;. There's no need to move these types of questions to M&amp;amp;TV as they're perfectly valid, on-topic and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2944/21267&quot;&gt;have precedence&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, our Help Center has the following guidance in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Help Center &gt; Asking&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h1&gt;What topics can I ask about here?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange is for questions targeted&#xA;  towards science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts. This includes&#xA;  questions about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Plot, character, or setting explanations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Historical or societal context of a work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Story identification&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Franchise/series reading or viewing order  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;[emphasised relevant part]&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; partly adapted from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9529/21267&quot;&gt;Why is fandom information treated as if it weren&amp;#39;t on topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="21267" LastEditDate="2017-12-04T21:17:25.637" LastActivityDate="2017-12-04T21:17:25.637" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11578" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11579" CreationDate="2017-12-06T14:19:36.643" Score="8" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;Normally, you can see stars on the right and left of viewing a question. Like the current main page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SilgZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see stars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But now, when viewing any question on the main site - or on a meta site -&#xA; the white covers up that background:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xWg3v.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-12-06T14:54:34.380" LastActivityDate="2017-12-06T14:54:34.380" Title="White background covering up the stars background when viewing a question" Tags="|bug|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11578" CreationDate="2017-12-06T14:31:26.413" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for reporting. We've already fixed that in our development environment so this should be live in next couple hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56348" LastActivityDate="2017-12-06T14:31:26.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11580" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11582" CreationDate="2017-12-06T17:28:24.050" Score="11" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/117415&quot;&gt;this suggested excerpt&lt;/a&gt; rejected&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A well known children's book series featuring the lovable bear Winnie the Pooh, his various companions in the Hundred Acre Woods, and their human friend, Christopher Robin. Use with the [disney] tag if referring to the more modern works using the characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought it contained usage guidance, but apparently not. So, what kind of usage guidance does this need?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastActivityDate="2018-06-20T13:50:58.777" Title="How much usage guidance is required for a tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-wiki|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11580" CreationDate="2017-12-06T17:40:43.343" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's the guidance which appears in the sidebar whenever you're editing a tag wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;usage guidance, or tag wiki excerpt,&lt;/strong&gt; is a short blurb that describes when and why a tag should be used on this site specifically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;full tag wiki&lt;/strong&gt; is a detailed introduction to the topic, suitable as a destination for those curious about it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;► what questions should have this tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;► some basic definitions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;► brief introduction to the subject&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;► important links for learning more&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;► one reasonably sized page&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See our advice on &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/03/24/redesigned-tags-page/&quot;&gt;writing great tag wikis.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note the difference between the excerpt and the full tag wiki: the former should focus on usage guidance for this site specifically, while the latter can include more general information about the topic. There's also more excerpt-specific guidance &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/tag-excerpts&quot;&gt;in the help centre&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know why your suggestion was rejected by two reviewers; I probably would have approved it. Perhaps they felt that you spent too much time describing the books themselves rather than how the tag should be used for SFF.SE ... but what can be said about how the tag should be used, beyond the obvious &amp;quot;use it for questions about the Winnie the Pooh stories&amp;quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-12-06T17:40:43.343" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11580" CreationDate="2017-12-07T13:45:15.107" Score="2" Body="&lt;h1&gt;The usage of the tag itself needs to be defined.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As listed in Rand's answer, a wiki excerpt needs to provide the usage for that specific tag. Although a short description is usually good, it should not drown out from the usage. The usage is essential here. To round off the tag, suggesting guidance for how to use sub-tags (assuming it's not a universe tag).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good example is our current &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkiens-legendarium&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkiens-legendarium&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkiens-legendarium&lt;/a&gt; tag wiki excerpt written by Rand'al-thor&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For questions about any works in J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium - The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, and other works set in the same universe - or about that universe as a whole. Questions about movies, games, or other media set in the same universe should also use this tag. Questions about Tolkien himself or works by him which are not part of the Middle-earth universe should NOT use this tag.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/tolkiens-legendarium/info&quot;&gt;Tolkien's Legendarium tag wiki excerpt and info&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reasons (and subsequent discussion) for my rejected edit can be found &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/41582594#41582594&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A well known children's book series featuring the lovable bear Winnie the Pooh, his various companions in the Hundred Acre Woods, and their human friend, Christopher Robin.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That isn't tag usage, that's a tag wiki&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;Initial reasons for rejection: &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/41582613#41582613&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/41582616#41582616&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Above are listed my initial reasons for rejecting the tag. For the majority of the excerpt, it's a wiki, the rest is (less-than-accurate) guidance for how to use another tag.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I go on to describe, after a moderator asks what usage is required, the usage requirement for a tag wiki excerpt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rand al'Thor: What usage guidance does this tag need?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Edlothiad: When to use the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Short and sweet, your tag wiki edit, provides no usage for how to use the tag itself, it merely gives a description of a set of books, which feature a set of characters. Although these book are directly related to the tag, they're not telling us when to use them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;But Ed, why would we need to give a guidance for the tag if it's obvious?&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; - Confused User&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, Confused User, as laid out in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11580/how-much-usage-guidance-is-required-for-a-tag/11581?noredirect=1#comment37620_11581&quot;&gt;this comment&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;your point is entirely moot, because if that was the case, what is the point of a tag wiki excerpt? The edit did not make it clear how we should be using the tag, and also held incorrect usage information for the Disney tag. The new tag wiki excerpt is much clearer, and without tooting my own horn, a good example of how excerpts should be laid out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A wiki-excerpt is useless if we assume &amp;quot;the usage is obvious&amp;quot;. The excerpt is for laying out the specific usage of that tag, stating when to use it, how to use it, where to use it, and only &lt;em&gt;in addition&lt;/em&gt; to those, what to use it with (back to that later).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A stander-by then makes a good point about some crucial guidance the tag wiki excerpt is missing, the when, how and where (all three are, in essence, the same).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mithrandir: I think that this tag wiki should specify that it's about the books and the movies and the TV shows etc&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/41582819#41582819&quot;&gt;Same discussion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, the &amp;quot;what to use it with&amp;quot;. This one is more tricky and sometimes requires some research effort. One has to familiarise themselves significantly with the tags in question, the questions that have been tagged with those tags and whether they have been tagged by the OP or added later. This is particularly difficult for Disney questions, as although 46/61 questions are tagged exclusively to Disney's works involving their fairy tales (e.g. Disney's Frozen, Disney's Brave etc.) 15 of the question were tagged with (mostly story-id and Star wars) tags which seemed for the most part odd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, given the fact Disney's Winnie the Pooh is only one adaptation of the work, it would not make sense to add the Disney tag to all the questions about Winnie. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/winnie-the-pooh&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;winnie-the-pooh&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;winnie-the-pooh&lt;/a&gt; should be its own universe tag, and should not be scoped within Disney due to the multitude of works outside of the Disney scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68872" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-06-20T13:50:58.777" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11583" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-12-07T14:33:37.467" Score="9" ViewCount="325" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tom Stoppard's play &lt;em&gt;Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead&lt;/em&gt; is a perspective flip of &lt;em&gt;Hamlet&lt;/em&gt;, written from the viewpoint of the two least important characters who die in the course of Shakespeare's original.  &lt;em&gt;Hamlet&lt;/em&gt; itself contains a minor but significant fantastical element, the ghost of the dead king.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ghost does not appear in Stoppard's play, but there is another arguably fantastical element that is crucial to understanding what is happening in &lt;em&gt;Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead&lt;/em&gt;.  Although the two protagonists do not realize it (and are indeed extremely confused as a result), they only exist because they are characters in a play.  They wake up on morning, summoned to Castle Elsinore, with no clear memory of their lives before that.  They travel to the castle, appear for their scenes in &lt;em&gt;Hamlet&lt;/em&gt;, and die for no readily comprehensible reason.  And yet, even though they have trouble remembering which of them is Rosencrantz and which Guildenstern, they have a sense that, even after they die, they will be back to go through the whole thing again (the next time the play is staged).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is hardly the way reality works, but it's not really typical of fantasy either.  So I am wondering whether it qualifies as on topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2017-12-08T07:43:40.740" LastActivityDate="2017-12-08T07:43:40.740" Title="Is Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11583" CreationDate="2017-12-07T21:14:51.377" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, this play is most certainly on-topic, featuring many elements that would make it a suitable match to SFF:SE. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Conceit&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) The characters themselves exist in a sort of other-worldy eigenstate while they wait for the events of the Hamlet play to catch up with them and propel them into their next scene. During these interludes they experience time-stoppage and repetitive events such as the famous &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t5UTLkfoUs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;coin-tossing scene&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) Both characters repeatedly experience time-skips and amnesia brought on by their lack of characterisation in Hamlet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) Both characters repeatedly experience premonitions of future events including their own deaths. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4) The entire third act of the play takes place &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the characters have died, during which time they discuss the nature of their reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Marketing&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming we take the film into consideration (which I feel we should, given that it was directed by Stoppard himself), it was promoted as a &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;dazzling setting &lt;strong&gt;in which illusion and reality overlap&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/siVuN.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/siVuN.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-12-07T21:20:44.277" LastActivityDate="2017-12-07T21:20:44.277" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11585" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11586" CreationDate="2017-12-08T02:16:18.310" Score="9" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;I scrolled through the list of SE sites, and didn't see anything promising.  I've been trying to find a particular book for some time, but it isn't sci-fi or fantasy.  Thus, not only may it be off-topic here, but probably not likely to find the answer here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried what I thought was an exact quote on Google Books, but no result.  Probably I got the quote slightly wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a good place for such a question?  The book was about Pearl Harbor, and what was so memorable (and the reason I want to find it again) was the &lt;strong&gt;stupid&lt;/strong&gt; first lines, something like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It was a day like any other.  Fathers getting ready for work; children&#xA;  getting ready for school.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26160" LastActivityDate="2017-12-08T03:09:37.987" Title="Identification question when the book is not SF?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11585" CreationDate="2017-12-08T03:09:37.987" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a &lt;a href=&quot;http://literature.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Literature&lt;/a&gt; site... They answer ID questions about books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41668" LastActivityDate="2017-12-08T03:09:37.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11587" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-12-10T20:24:15.557" Score="19" ViewCount="422" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/176002/short-story-about-gentlemen-being-told-a-tale-by-a-young-woman&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; concerns a very famous short story by Saki.  For much of the story, it appears to be a ghost story with supernatural elements.  That there are no ghosts or apparitions involved is the twist ending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are votes to close the story as off topic, as it is not, strictly speaking, fantastical in any way.  However, it raises a logical question of whether stories that appear to contain fantasty (or SF) elements should be on topic, even if it is ultimately revealed that what is actually happened is entirely mundane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastEditorUserId="21267" LastEditDate="2017-12-10T20:37:05.717" LastActivityDate="2019-07-25T20:38:23.297" Title="Are stories that only appear to contain fantastical elements on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="22" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11587" CreationDate="2017-12-11T09:07:18.127" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to go straight out on a limb here and say it. &lt;strong&gt;Stories that don't contain science fiction or fantasy content should be off-topic on Science Fiction and Fantasy:SE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This includes; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Crooked realtors &lt;em&gt;pretending&lt;/em&gt; an abandoned funfair is haunted to drive down property prices.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Murderers creating &lt;em&gt;fake&lt;/em&gt; UFO sightings to cover up their misdeeds.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Children &lt;em&gt;fantasising&lt;/em&gt; that a neighbour is a witch who turns out to be an old lady with poor hygiene and obvious mental health issues.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hotel guests &lt;em&gt;hallucinating&lt;/em&gt; that a room is a portal to another dimension because the humidifier has liquid LSD in it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And any &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ScoobyDooHoax&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;variations thereof&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per our usual procedures, if the OP of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-id&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-id&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-id&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;em&gt;unsure&lt;/em&gt; whether that story contains fantasy or sci-fi elements &lt;em&gt;but then it turns not to&lt;/em&gt;, we should err on the side of closing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the OP is &lt;em&gt;sure&lt;/em&gt; that it doesn't contain science fiction or fantasy (as in this case where OP states that the ghost is a fake) then we should just close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-12-11T11:10:33.413" LastActivityDate="2017-12-11T11:10:33.413" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11589" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11603" CreationDate="2017-12-12T23:22:35.023" Score="11" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that for the longer Star Trek titles we're using the 'shortened' version: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tos&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-ds9&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-ds9&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-ds9&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tng&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tng&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tng&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tas&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tas&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tas&lt;/a&gt; while the shorter-named shows are called by their full names: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-voyager&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-voyager&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-voyager&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-enterprise&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-enterprise&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-enterprise&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-discovery&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-discovery&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-discovery&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the recent 35-character tag limit upgrade, all of these shows now fit completely under the new limit. Should these tags be lengthened? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tos&lt;/a&gt; -&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-the-original-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-the-original-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-the-original-series&lt;/a&gt; (29)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-ds9&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-ds9&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-ds9&lt;/a&gt; -&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-deep-space-9&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-deep-space-9&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-deep-space-9&lt;/a&gt; (22)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tng&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tng&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tng&lt;/a&gt; -&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-the-next-generation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-the-next-generation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-the-next-generation&lt;/a&gt; (29)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tas&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tas&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tas&lt;/a&gt; -&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-the-animated-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-the-animated-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-the-animated-series&lt;/a&gt; (29)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise we have these other tags could also be lengthened:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-motion-picture&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-motion-picture&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-motion-picture&lt;/a&gt; -&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-the-motion-picture&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-the-motion-picture&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-the-motion-picture&lt;/a&gt; (28)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-eu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-eu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-eu&lt;/a&gt; -&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-expanded-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-expanded-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-expanded-universe&lt;/a&gt; (27)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can keep the 3-letter abbreviations as synonyms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11061" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2018-07-03T09:04:19.230" LastActivityDate="2018-07-03T09:04:19.230" Title="Should we expand the rest of the Star Trek series' tags?" 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  <row Id="11590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11589" CreationDate="2017-12-12T23:48:34.427" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I definitely agree that the full tag names are a useful addition to the site - we want people typing e.g. &lt;code&gt;the-original-series&lt;/code&gt; to be able to find the right tag, and the possibility of synonymisation means that no information would be lost and people typing e.g. &lt;code&gt;TOS&lt;/code&gt; would also find the right tag. However ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How about using the full names as synonyms for the acronyms?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same as your proposal, just with the direction of synonymisation reversed. I think (but am not sure - please vote this answer up or down as you see fit, and the votes will decide) that this may be preferable, for a couple of reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The acronyms are more commonly used in the fandom.&lt;/strong&gt; Again, I'm not sure about this, being not much into Star Trek myself, but in my experience at least, people talk about &quot;TOS&quot;, &quot;TNG&quot;, ... much more often than they say the full phrases &quot;The Original Series&quot;, &quot;The Next Generation&quot;, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Longer tag names are more daunting.&lt;/strong&gt; My subjective impression is that people prefer to use short simple tags, and longer tags are less likely to appear on new users' questions. Perhaps because longer names are more likely to be typoed or abbreviated, perhaps because people think of a &quot;tag&quot; as being something short and snappy, ... I'm not sure why, but my gut feeling is that people are more likely to find and use tags like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tng&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tng&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tng&lt;/a&gt; than &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-the-next-generation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-the-next-generation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-the-next-generation&lt;/a&gt;, and that if the latter was the master tag, many questions would end up tagged simply &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; instead.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, no matter which way we do the synonymisation, people typing either &lt;code&gt;ds9&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;deep-space-nine&lt;/code&gt; into the tag box would find the right tag. The only issue is which one should be the 'public face' of the tag, the one that people find when browsing the full tags list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-12-12T23:48:34.427" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11592" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-12-14T13:14:36.040" Score="15" ViewCount="314" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several questions about &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt; were closed because they weren't answered by that film, but people thought that sequels might answer them.  The sequel &lt;em&gt;The Last Jedi&lt;/em&gt; is now out and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/176257/4918&quot;&gt;some people have seen it&lt;/a&gt; already. What should we do with all those questions now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we reopen each of them, hoping that &lt;em&gt;The Last Jedi&lt;/em&gt; might answer them, then after many of us see the film and read the novel and other supplementary materials, close them again if it seems that the answer will likely be given Episode 9?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know what the best solution is.  But please don't keep questions closed just because they don't seem to be interesting enough and it's easier to leave them forgotten in the cracks in the &quot;future works&quot; state.  That's not how we want to manage our site!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some questions that might be closed this way.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;For a few of these, it's unclear if they're closed because we expect a future work to answer, or for some other reason.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/127303/4918&quot;&gt;Are Rey and Luke Skywalker Connected?&lt;/a&gt; : Valorum says close for future works. This got reopened for half a day, then closed again.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/114054/4918&quot;&gt;Who owned the starship that abandoned Rey on Jakku in her vision?&lt;/a&gt; : comments suggests it might be answered in later works&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/126275/4918&quot;&gt;Who is left to fight in Star Wars episodes 8 onwards?&lt;/a&gt; : explicitly asks about episode 8, which is now released&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/111264/4918&quot;&gt;Who is Finn&amp;#39;s father?&lt;/a&gt; : unclear why it's closed, but could be answered in later works&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following questions were listed in this question but are now reopened:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/113963/4918&quot;&gt;How did C-3PO&amp;#39;s golden arm get to Maz Kanata?&lt;/a&gt; : dunraven's answer and KutuluMike's question explicitly says to close as future work and reopen it later&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/86552/4918&quot;&gt;Is there any canon information about the state of the galaxy by the time of “The Force Awakens”?&lt;/a&gt; : user8719 says in his answer that an answer might be available in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Aftermath&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;series of three novels of which the first two have already been released&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/126983/4918&quot;&gt;Why is Kylo Ren separated from the other Knights Of Ren?&lt;/a&gt; : Valorum says close for future works&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/131661/4918&quot;&gt;How did Kylo Ren know how to obtain Darth Vader&amp;#39;s helmet/skull?&lt;/a&gt; : could be saved by editing so it asks only one question about later works&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/114053/4918&quot;&gt;Was Rey&amp;#39;s memory wiped?&lt;/a&gt; : DVK's comment suggests it might be answered in later works&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="4918" LastEditDate="2017-12-23T12:55:36.590" LastActivityDate="2017-12-23T12:55:36.590" Title="Questions about the Force Awakens that were closed because we're waiting for sequels" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11592" CreationDate="2017-12-14T14:03:20.600" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm all for reopening questions... provided they now have answers. The problem is, I think we're jumping the gun here. Take, for instance, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/113963/4918&quot;&gt;How did C-3PO&amp;#39;s golden arm get to Maz Kanata?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's now a canon comic that explains the origins of the red arm. But &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uqcFE.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;having read the comic&lt;/a&gt;, it doesn't explain what happened to the arm after it was taken, only that C3P0 had a good reason to still have the red arm attached in TFA. Maybe some explanation is forthcoming on that, but simply reopening older questions because a sequel came out isn't good policy in my book, especially since there is a scheduled Episode IX that may yet still hold answers to some of these questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastActivityDate="2017-12-14T14:03:20.600" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11592" CreationDate="2017-12-14T15:46:48.407" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5187/31394&quot;&gt;future works policy&lt;/a&gt; is to close questions which are &lt;strong&gt;unanswerable now but will be trivially answerable from future works&lt;/strong&gt;. We &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; close questions for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3014/31394&quot;&gt;not having a canon answer at all&lt;/a&gt;, or for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11329/31394&quot;&gt;having the answer unknown&lt;/a&gt; - only questions which are essentially asking people to make guesses or speculation about things which will be known canon when some future work is released.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When deciding whether or not to reopen a question, &lt;strong&gt;judge it as if it had been asked today&lt;/strong&gt;. Does it still rely on future works such as Episode IX? If yes, leave closed. If not - even if the answer is &quot;we don't know&quot; based on Episode VIII, but there's clearly no future canon which will resolve it - then no reason to close it as future works (it may still be closable for some other reason, of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In many cases it may be hard to judge whether or not a question should be reopened without having actually seen Episode VIII. There should probably be a fair amount of Skipping in the review queues in the next while, by people who haven't seen the new film yet and aren't sure how to review a post related to it. But in the end, everything should (hopefully) shake out, and questions will end up in the correct open/closed state, even if it takes a meta discussion to get them there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-12-14T15:46:48.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11587" CreationDate="2017-12-15T05:49:58.180" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Valorum is right, as usual.  This story is off-topic.  But there are a few related cases which we should not forget about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a story contains significant SFnal elements, or if it is marketed as SF, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/337/36526&quot;&gt;it is on-topic&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a story &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3450/36526&quot;&gt;presents itself&lt;/a&gt; as SFnal, it is on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a particular story element is SFnal, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7343/36526&quot;&gt;that element is on-topic&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From these, I conclude that tacking an &quot;And then I woke up&quot; ending onto some random work of fantasy would not suddenly make it off-topic (see for example &lt;em&gt;The Wizard of Oz&lt;/em&gt;).  On the other hand, if the fantastical elements are exposed as mundane, &lt;em&gt;and this is a major plot point&lt;/em&gt;, then it becomes difficult to justify calling the work on-topic.  Unfortunately, there is a large gray area between those two extremes.  Topicality needs to be judged holistically, and it's difficult to provide blanket rules which cover every situation.  Users with sufficient rep should close-vote judiciously, and ask on meta if a question's topicality is unclear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastActivityDate="2017-12-15T05:49:58.180" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11598" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-12-14T21:10:39.587" Score="5" ViewCount="180" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked two Star Trek questions a while ago and I'm trying to comment back. For some reason I can't add a comment. Any help?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93643" OwnerDisplayName="James" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-12-15T12:04:44.960" LastActivityDate="2020-01-09T07:30:41.223" Title="Why can't I add a comment?" Tags="|support|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11598" CreationDate="2017-12-15T12:13:49.400" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;For &lt;strong&gt;commenting anywhere&lt;/strong&gt;, you need &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;50 reputation points&lt;/a&gt;. (This equates to 5 upvotes on answers or questions, so you should be able to pick up those points fairly quickly if you have good content to contribute.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &lt;strong&gt;commenting on your own posts, or on answers to your own questions&lt;/strong&gt;, there's no reputation requirement - you should be able to do this. If this is what you're trying to do and failing, then perhaps for some reason your account isn't associated with the questions you asked? I can only see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/176276/31394&quot;&gt;one question&lt;/a&gt; in your account history, but you mention that you asked two. (Could you provide a link to the other one?) If you asked the questions using two different accounts and you need to &lt;strong&gt;merge accounts&lt;/strong&gt;, you can do that by following the instructions &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/merging-accounts&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;help centre&lt;/a&gt; has most of the info you need about the basic workings of the site, but you can always feel free to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;ask on meta&lt;/a&gt; if you still need help. (The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;main site&lt;/a&gt; is only for questions about sci-fi or fantasy; &lt;strong&gt;questions &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; the site should be asked here on meta&lt;/strong&gt; instead.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2020-01-09T07:30:41.223" LastActivityDate="2020-01-09T07:30:41.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11600" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-12-17T21:46:09.267" Score="6" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bit of a boring one, this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2974/is-there-a-way-to-remove-community-wiki-status&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; can a moderator please change &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/176600/64888&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; back to a Dark Lord post from a community wiki?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm on mobile and I simply pressed the wrong button. I assumed I'd be able to edit a reverse but apparently not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't anybody dare suggest that 'un-community wiki' is not a verb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64888" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-12-17T22:02:33.800" LastActivityDate="2017-12-17T22:02:33.800" Title="Can this post be un-community wiki-ed?" Tags="|support|status-completed|specific-answer|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11600" CreationDate="2017-12-17T22:02:06.267" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Done.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;But just FYI, flagging is probably a quicker way to go about this than a meta post. Moderators do follow meta, but raising a custom flag is the best way to contact mods specifically, and nobody else reading meta can really help you here.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-12-17T22:02:06.267" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11592" CreationDate="2017-12-19T02:59:34.440" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;future works policy&quot; says that we should close questions that are unanswerable now but will be trivially answerable from future works. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the future work is released, the question should indeed be able to be &quot;trivially answered&quot;. It could be reopened and then provided with an answer that just about everyone familiar with the work already knows. Is that useful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, the vast majority of questions closed under the future works policy were never useful questions, they were attempts to start opinion based discussions on what would be included in the future work. As such, they were never appropriate for this site and should not be reopened. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think such a question should only be reopened if it seems that it would be of use even after the future work has been published.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66402" LastActivityDate="2017-12-19T02:59:34.440" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11589" CreationDate="2017-12-19T18:55:41.370" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Synonyms are a great way to go, but the full, proper name is what should be the parent tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags are standardized. We have conventions, and there's no reason Star Trek should be an exception now that we've got the character limit to allow it to fit the full titles. A great example is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt; which has the child synonym of the oft-used &quot;asoiaf&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also network-wide conventions with tags, such as them being in English (on the majority of stacks), which is the standard, supported language of the network. Similarly, we should move towards tag names being the standard names of the works, where possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the issues with these fan-based abbreviations is that, by necessity, the current parent tag has to be &lt;code&gt;star-trek-ds9&lt;/code&gt;, even though it's &lt;em&gt;already a synonym of&lt;/em&gt; &lt;code&gt;deep-space-nine&lt;/code&gt;. &quot;Deep Space Nine&quot; is enough to find the work if all you know is the title of the show. &quot;DS9&quot; needs help from a synonym, the prefix &quot;Star Trek&quot; or someone to know the abbreviations. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, synonyms are &lt;em&gt;supposed&lt;/em&gt; to be for the &quot;common&quot; terminology, while parent tags are meant to be for the full, proper term. That's even the guidance of the synonym page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Incorrectly tagged questions are hard to find and answer. If you know of &lt;strong&gt;common, alternate spellings or phrasings&lt;/strong&gt; for this tag, add them here so we can automatically correct them in the future. For example, suggest “bike” as a synonym for bicycle, or “sock” for socks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, &quot;tng&quot; is &quot;bike&quot; and &quot;the-next-generation&quot; is bicycle, and tags should be &quot;bicycle&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fears of people not picking tags isn't relevant, or even more than a wild guess it will happen. It's a bit insulting to think that someone &lt;em&gt;trying&lt;/em&gt; to find &quot;deep space nine&quot; won't use it because the tag looks too long, even though it clearly contains the title of the work they want. It's also not realistic that our many reviewers and users won't add in missing tags when they see them. (And we're far, far from having too much edit or review work in queue. Many users often complain that we don't have &lt;em&gt;enough&lt;/em&gt;, as they're trying to earn badges or reputation.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2017-12-19T18:55:41.370" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11604" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11605" CreationDate="2017-12-20T14:51:55.417" Score="-10" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firstly, this is very &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1384/how-should-we-reach-out-to-new-users&quot;&gt;relevant&lt;/a&gt;. This is also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6410/should-we-encourage-or-discourage-posting-generic-welcome-comments-to-all-new&quot;&gt;related&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to the launch of the new Star Wars movie we have an influx of newcomers. There are many posts from 1 rep users offering answers of varying quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of them has no idea what scifi SE is about. For example, answering to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/176803/why-did-luke-call-the-lightsaber-by-a-different-name&quot;&gt;Why did Luke call the lightsaber by a different name?&lt;/a&gt;, one answer was&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's just a story. One of the script writers decided to call it a Laser Sword and they decided to keep it. Maybe there is no deep meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently it has -2 overall points. An answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/78630/why-did-vader-need-to-freeze-luke-in-carbonite&quot;&gt;Why did Vader need to freeze Luke in carbonite?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I just have one problem with this entire thing. They are acts like he doesn't already knows if it's possible. But in the Star Wars the Clone Wars animated series there was an episode where Obi-Wan and Anakin Skywalker with a batch of clones were frozen in carbonite in order to sneak past a separatist scanner that could pick up life readings. After their Droid I think it was R2 brought them back to Consciousness they then broke two prisoners one of whom is Tarkin out of the prison in order to get them offworld to secure hyperspace Lanes or something like that. Now I don't remember if everything in Clone Wars the long-running animated series is canon but if it was you would think later would not be playing so aloof. Or more likely Vader remembered how much it hurt was still angry at Han Solo and decided that putting him through that discomfort when not only remove him from the equation of being able to rescues Luke this time but the same time as small bit of Revenge for having had his tail shut off at the Death Star&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a forum-like answer, which may serve as a good comment but not as an answer, currently has -1 points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This made me remember one of my earliest contributions to here, to the question &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/102669/why-did-leia-give-the-stolen-version-of-the-death-star-plans-to-r2-d2-instead-of/&quot;&gt;http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/102669/why-did-leia-give-the-stolen-version-of-the-death-star-plans-to-r2-d2-instead-of/&lt;/a&gt;, my answer was&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Not all data can be copied. It may be in quantum bits. Quantum bits (qubits) cannot be copied. No cloning theorem came in 1982, but a good sci-fi movie anticipates future developments in science. Maybe they guessed such a data structure will be available in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer has -4 points right now. After all this introduction, my question is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we downvote contributions from new users who do not know how SE works, let alone scifi SE?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My standing is &lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;, because&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reputation system is more useful for people who knows about privilege system as well and new users cannot possibly know both of the systems.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Having a downvote to their first contribution may feel like scifi SE has a hostile environment. It actually has a hostile environment, but the new users do not have to learn this as the first thing about this community.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we want this community to grow, I am not sure many contributors have the same vision as I do, we should be more welcoming to new users until they learn how scifi SE and SE in general operate. As a result, I never downvote a bad answer by a new user, and I try to upvote anything from a new user if it resembles some sort of an acceptable answer, even if it is of low quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user65648" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2017-12-20T22:21:48.727" LastActivityDate="2017-12-20T22:21:48.727" Title="Downvoting answers by new users" Tags="|discussion|voting|new-users|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11604" CreationDate="2017-12-20T16:18:40.877" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The whole point of the voting system is to identify good and bad contributions.  Good contributions should be upvoted and bad ones should be downvoted, regardless of whether they're from new users or more experienced users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's fine to go looking for good contributions from new users to upvote, but giving them a &quot;free pass&quot; on off-topic or otherwise bad posts will tend to encourage more bad posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your two examples of other peoples' anwers that received downvotes are actually excellent examples of the SE system working very well - both of those answers look bad to me, but instead of just a couple downvotes, there are constructive comments on what's wrong with them that the user could learn from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastActivityDate="2017-12-20T16:18:40.877" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11604" CreationDate="2017-12-20T19:57:31.280" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you're confusing &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/287563/youre-doing-it-wrong-a-plea-for-sanity-in-the-low-quality-posts-queue&quot;&gt;Low Quality&lt;/a&gt; (deletable) answers with good answers. Let's take your example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's just a story. One of the script writers decided to call it a Laser Sword and they decided to keep it. Maybe there is no deep meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, this is an attempt to answer. It's not necessarily Low Quality (although I would be tempted to delete it). But it's far from a &lt;em&gt;good answer&lt;/em&gt;. It makes a supposition without any supporting points and then dismisses the question. &lt;strong&gt;Nobody would accept that as an answer&lt;/strong&gt;. And when you compare these answers to other, high quality answers, it pales by comparison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;This is what downvotes are for&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As noted on Meta.SE in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9953/could-we-please-be-a-bit-nicer-to-new-users&quot;&gt;Could we please be a bit nicer to new users?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the fact remains, the up/down vote system is the core of how we get the &amp;quot;good stuff&amp;quot; up and the &amp;quot;bad stuff&amp;quot; down. It is not designed to be a personal attack against the users in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we don't need to dogpile on poor answers, the fact remains that these bad answers don't deserve any standing. Worse is that new users (speaking from experience on SO) tend to be recalcitrant to being taught how to make their answers better. Once you hit 10k and can see deleted answers, it will make more sense, because many of these questions are filled with deleted bad answers, where commenters tried to save them from themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-12-20T19:57:31.280" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11604" CreationDate="2017-12-20T22:20:34.187" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;It's possible to downvote without being unwelcoming.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The motive behind your question is a good one, but your suggested solution is wrong.  We should be welcoming to new users, yes, but &lt;em&gt;not at the expense of sacrificing quality&lt;/em&gt;. Bad answers should always be downvoted, and non-answers should always be deleted, regardless of who posted them. &lt;strong&gt;The Stack Exchange system only works because we're strict about quality control.&lt;/strong&gt; If we allow people to post bad content just because we feel sorry for them, then this site would become more like just any internet forum. But we can &lt;em&gt;explain&lt;/em&gt; that to them without making them feel unwelcome. When I delete a non-answer from a new user, I often leave a comment something along the following lines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Welcome to Stack Exchange! Unfortunately this doesn't really answer the question being asked (&lt;em&gt;did Yoda kill Dumbledore?&lt;/em&gt;), so I'm afraid it'll have to be removed. FYI, this site isn't a standard discussion forum: answers here are expected to actually &lt;em&gt;answer the question&lt;/em&gt;, rather than just being relevant commentary. Please take our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;tour&lt;/a&gt; to find out more. I hope you stick around and ask or answer some more questions here! :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of the details, the point is to &lt;strong&gt;explain the community standards, &lt;em&gt;nicely&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. People who are willing to put in the effort to conform to those standards will stick around, post more, and end up being valuable contributors. People who can't be bothered to stick to basic standards like actually answering the question asked ... probably wouldn't have been valuable contributors anyway. The SE system isn't for everyone. If instead we let new users get away with posting non-answers, then they could just keep on doing so until the site was overrun with dross.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The balancing problem of how to &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; maintain quality &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; be welcoming is one that's plagued the SE system for &lt;em&gt;years&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/linked/9953?lq=1&quot;&gt;see here&lt;/a&gt; for a start). There's probably no simple solution to it, but &quot;not downvoting new users&quot; certainly isn't a workable one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-12-20T22:20:34.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11608" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-12-23T00:57:07.267" Score="15" ViewCount="232" Body="&lt;p&gt;I sometimes see a not very well written answer that does not appear to be plagiarism, but that only contains information that has already been provided in previous better written answer(s). They often have comments like &quot;this adds nothing to the accepted answer&quot;. I usually downvote these answers as they are not helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I occasionally come across answers like this in the Low Quality Posts review queue. Even though I believe the answer deserves a downvote and it wouldn't bother me if it was deleted, I'm not sure that it falls the the level were it needs to be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the community consensus on deleting answers like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66402" LastActivityDate="2018-01-03T19:29:07.093" Title="How to deal with an answer that contains nothing that is not in existing answers" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-05T17:50:05.440" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11608" CreationDate="2017-12-23T05:13:25.830" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's two things to consider here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it from the same time frame as the other answers? Competing answers in the same time frame should be left alone. It's the late answers we're concerned with&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the late answer is not treading any new ground &lt;em&gt;at all&lt;/em&gt; it should be deleted. We don't need 15 answers making the same point over and over years after the question went dormant. Leaving them up encourages noisy retreads, which is something that the whole SO network tries to avoid.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The catch with #2 is spotting the gems. Sometimes a late answer will retread a lot of ground, but contain a morsel of new material. Those should be kept, and they should be given the benefit of the doubt if you're not sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastActivityDate="2017-12-23T05:13:25.830" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11610" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-12-24T05:59:31.200" Score="7" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was reading through the questions under the tag &lt;em&gt;independence-day&lt;/em&gt; and realized that quite a few of them were about the sequel, &lt;em&gt;Independence Day: Resurgence&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I checked the tag description for &lt;em&gt;independence-day&lt;/em&gt;, and it's specifically for the original 1996 movie. There isn't yet a tag that describes the Independence Day &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;universe&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (encompassing both movies).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a multi-part question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is it okay to replace the independence-day tag with independence-day-2 if the question is clearly about the sequel? (I'm assuming yes)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Should we create a third tag for the &lt;em&gt;universe&lt;/em&gt; that encompasses both movies? Or should we repurpose the &lt;em&gt;independence-day&lt;/em&gt; tag and make a new one called &lt;em&gt;independence-day-1996&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93810" LastActivityDate="2017-12-24T15:54:27.680" Title="How to handle &quot;original movie&quot; tags when there's a sequel?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11611" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-12-24T10:47:42.850" Score="-8" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I do not have the rep here to create tags, I was wondering if it would be possible for someone to create a &quot;TIE-aircraft&quot; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this is very specific, applicable to a well-known galaxy, and at least to Imperial Naval aviators a topic of significant interest, it does seem that it would be useful in this community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91508" LastActivityDate="2017-12-24T20:14:06.623" Title="Creation of a &quot;TIE-aircraft&quot; tag?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11610" CreationDate="2017-12-24T15:54:27.680" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's worth having a universe tag.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 2016 film is not a remake of the 1996 one, but a bona fide sequel, the two (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day:_Resurgence#Possible_sequel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;and possibly more&lt;/a&gt;) forming a single story in a single universe. That universe deserves a tag, since there may be general questions which are about the world or the characters without being specific to one or the other film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But the individual films probably also deserve their own tags.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know enough about this franchise to judge properly whether both films need their own specific tags. I'm assuming the second one does at least - after all, you thought it was worth making this meta post and creating the new tag - but I'll leave it to others to decide whether or not to create a film-specific tag for the original 1996 film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the meantime, I've:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;rewritten the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/independence-day&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;independence-day&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;independence-day&lt;/a&gt; tag wiki, making it a franchise tag rather than an individual-film tag;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;renamed the second film tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/independence-day-resurgence&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;independence-day-resurgence&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;independence-day-resurgence&lt;/a&gt;, with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/independence-day-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;independence-day-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;independence-day-2&lt;/a&gt; as a synonym;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ensured that all questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/independence-day-resurgence&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;independence-day-resurgence&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;independence-day-resurgence&lt;/a&gt; also have the franchise tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-12-24T15:54:27.680" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11611" CreationDate="2017-12-24T20:14:06.623" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, this is a highly specific in-universe object (or class of object) and we generally avoid those as tags. It would also lead to similar tags for other ships (Star Destroyers? Constitution class cruisers?), and then probably other non-ship things. It'd be too messy, difficult to manage and track. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One way to tag such questions instead is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; + &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vehicles&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;vehicles&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;vehicles&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2017-12-24T20:14:06.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11614" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-12-26T18:06:22.580" Score="4" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Can we allow users to denote the end of the excerpt by use of a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;hr&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; in the body of the question?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of the feature request is to make spoilers easier to hide in excerpts. Consider the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y3rG8.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y3rG8.png&quot; alt=&quot;New Question With Spoilers&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see I had to add padding to fill out the excerpt to hide the spoiler. If I could do something like the following instead:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;I have seen every New Who episode, even if it has been some time, so spoilers &#xA;are fine in answers.&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;---&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CJp4B.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CJp4B.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And have that &lt;code&gt;---&lt;/code&gt; (which becomes the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;hr&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; in question) mark the end of the excerpt, it would result in something that looked like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/au8bk.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/au8bk.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would enable us to ask questions freely and only worry about spoilers in titles (which is already a pain point for some), instead of having to also add ~200 characters of fluff to the question itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(and this doesn't even take into account the onebox in chat that has something like a 300 character excerpt. it could use the love as well)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62201" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-12-26T21:08:22.147" Title="Make the &lt;hr&gt; tag end the question excerpt" Tags="|feature-request|spoilers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11614" CreationDate="2017-12-26T21:08:22.147" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can just use&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; spoiler markup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just add &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;!&lt;/code&gt; at the beginning of a paragraph to hide the spoilers. This solves both the /questions page...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jSvwA.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And chat oneboxes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z0xbs.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2017-12-26T21:08:22.147" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11616" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-12-27T17:23:00.813" Score="12" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;My understanding (based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2638/are-all-list-questions-off-topic&quot;&gt;this meta question&lt;/a&gt;) is that most list questions are off-topic unless the list is finite and narrow in scope. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that questions asking if something exists tend to be categorized as list questions and therefore off-topic because they invite people to cite competing examples, generating a long list of possibilities with no way to determine the &quot;correct&quot; one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know asking for the &lt;strong&gt;first&lt;/strong&gt; instance of a work is a surefire way to reword the question to be on-topic but it also tends to take the focus away from how closely the answer meets the question and places the focus on finding the earliest instance that maybe sorta kinda fits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there a way to reword a &quot;does this exist&quot; question to be on-topic without asking for its first appearance?&lt;/strong&gt; Perhaps by restricting the scope down to a smaller number of works therefore limiting the number of possible examples so it fits what the linked meta question describes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57075" LastActivityDate="2017-12-30T12:26:02.593" Title="Can &quot;does this exist&quot; questions be reworded to be on-topic without asking for the first instance?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11616" CreationDate="2017-12-27T19:17:15.383" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, not really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those sorts of questions could be closed as Too Broad, List, or Recommendation. Since two of those are in the same close reason, that tends to get picked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with them is that it is hard to say why any answer would be more right than any other answer. If I said &quot;Yes&quot; with one example, is that the most right answer? What if someone else found two examples? On the other hand, how do I prove a &quot;No&quot;, I have not read every superhero story in existence, and there are many things that exist that google can't find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the issue here is that its a poor question for our format, and as a result it gets closed. Technically speaking, it should be closed as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;off-topic because...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  This question does not appear to be about science fiction or fantasy within the scope defined in the help center.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Requests for lists of works or recommendations are off-topic as they do not fit our questions and answers format. Feel free to ask about people's favorites in chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is close enough we don't worry about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62201" LastEditorUserId="62201" LastEditDate="2017-12-27T20:43:29.013" LastActivityDate="2017-12-27T20:43:29.013" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11618" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-12-27T21:17:25.417" Score="9" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;Character actor &lt;strong&gt;Alfie Curtis&lt;/strong&gt; has passed away. His most notable role was as the irascible Dr. Evazan (AKA &quot;&lt;em&gt;scruffy human&lt;/em&gt;&quot;) from the film Star Wars: A New Hope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/yVKySA2-47c?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mark Hamill described Curtis thusly;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;As horrific as he was on-camera, off-camera he was funny, kind &amp;amp; a real gentleman. Thanks Alf - you'll be missed.&lt;/em&gt; #RIP ❤️&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2017-12-27T22:07:23.287" LastActivityDate="2017-12-28T20:51:32.617" Title="RIP Alfie Curtis, actor for Dr Evazan" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11618" CreationDate="2017-12-28T20:51:32.617" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You may not have liked Luke, but we sure liked you for giving us one of the most memorable and quotable scenes in the film! You will be missed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13217" LastActivityDate="2017-12-28T20:51:32.617" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11616" CreationDate="2017-12-28T22:31:45.133" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As has already been pointed out, an answer of &quot;no&quot; is unprovable and cannot be supported by reliable sources.  The only possible answer is &quot;yes&quot; (or no answer at all).  If the question has an answer, we already know what that answer is, and if it doesn't have an answer, then we don't want it on our site because it's unanswerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably, you don't just want the &quot;yes.&quot;  You also want an example.  That changes your question from &quot;Does [X] exist?&quot; into &quot;Can you show me an example of [X]?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that's too broad.  There are probably loads of examples, and we can't very well list every one.  Without any additional qualifications, every such example is an equally valid answer to the question.  That makes it a list question, and thus off-topic as overly broad, as amflare has explained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="36526" LastEditDate="2017-12-28T22:37:07.003" LastActivityDate="2017-12-28T22:37:07.003" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11621" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2017-12-29T02:20:59.460" Score="2" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suppose work A is clear science fiction or fantasy, and work B is not.  Would it be on topic to ask about whether an on-topic aspect of A influenced a part of B?  For example, would it be on topic to ask whether&#xA;&lt;em&gt;The Karate Kid&lt;/em&gt; (the Ralph Macchio movie) was named after the Karate Kid (the &lt;em&gt;Legion of the Superheroes&lt;/em&gt; character)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2017-12-29T12:56:27.963" Title="Are questions about the influence of SF works on later non-SF works on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11621" CreationDate="2017-12-29T12:56:27.963" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That's what the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/influences&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;influences&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;influences&lt;/a&gt; tag is supposed to be for.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/150736/31394&quot;&gt;What is the first mention of Star Wars in a hit song?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/95219/31394&quot;&gt;Did &amp;quot;The World Set Free&amp;quot; inspire the creation of nuclear weapons?&lt;/a&gt; These seem to be exactly what you're talking about: questions about the influence of an SF/F work on the world outside of SF/F.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also the previous meta &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9226/31394&quot;&gt;Synonymise [influences] and [inspiration] tags?&lt;/a&gt; - especially SQB's answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short: if work A is on-topic, then asking about possible connections between A and B should be on-topic. It might be wise, though, to phrase the question very much from A's point of view: instead of &quot;&lt;em&gt;was B inspired by A?&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, ask &quot;&lt;em&gt;did A inspire B?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; People on this site are more likely to know about A than B, if A is on-topic but B isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2017-12-29T12:56:27.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11616" CreationDate="2017-12-29T19:15:37.313" Score="-3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I suggest we risk to allow questions asking for recommendations if they are specific enough.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would liven up the site, which lately started to resemble a poor substitute of Wikipedia, or in the case of the Tolkien questions, the Tolkien Gateway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To provide one example here is a simple question about LoTR:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/177525/what-were-the-black-pits-the-orcs-referred-to&quot;&gt;What were the “Black Pits” the orcs referred to?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the answer to this can be found in less than five seconds by a basic google search containing the keywords 'Black Pits' and 'Tolkien'.&#xA;The first hit is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Black_Pits&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tolkien Gateway&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Black Pits were dungeons of torment under Barad-dûr. They were&#xA;known to Shagrat who cursed &amp;quot;The Black Pits take that filthy rebel&#xA;Gorbag!&amp;quot; after the two orc companies had had a disastrous fight in the&#xA;Tower of Cirith Ungol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Tolkien Gateway entry also contains the references. We have maaaany similar questions in our bigger tags. To be clear, I am not proposing to get rid of these, as they seem to be very popular, and we have some quality answers to these simple questions, answers which are coherent, written by people who have an in-depth knowledge of the subject and who provide sources and additional details. There are even people who manage to write an interesting answer to questions like 'What is the name of a building where owls are kept?' (Owlery)   Those answers are top-notch and very helpful to the OP, help to popularise an already popular theme, but if I want to &lt;em&gt;expand&lt;/em&gt; the subject a bit, to ask if someone had written a parody on the life in Barad-dûr or compare fantasy books portraying Moria-style cave systems or ask for novels in which some characters speak in the black speech or in a specific elven dialect or in a new language created by the author, I am not allowed. Those questions would be closed faster than saying 'Mubull'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it feels SFF doesn't allow to introduce less popular authors than Tolkien or Rowling or creators like George Lucas. If I am looking for recommendations on the portrayal of a specific cyberpunk trope or a description of a space elevator in hard sci-fi books and would like some advice from people who read similar ones, then again, if I post a question, it will be very short-lived, which is a pity, as SFF could be an excellent tool for introducing less known authors and tropes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why the restrictive policy? In the cases mentioned OP has a specific problem and would like answers from people who have expertise on the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To prevent the SFF being flooded by low-quality questions about overused and cliche tropes we could define what we consider too broad.&#xA;While a question &amp;quot;I am looking for a book about aliens&amp;quot;&#xA;would be indeed too broad, one asking&#xA;&amp;quot;I am looking for a hard sci-fi novel about a spaceship crashing on a planet inhabited by intelligent ammonia-based alien life&amp;quot;&#xA;while still would have many possible answers, hopefully will attract people who are interested in the subject and had read books on it, people capable of writing informative answers introducing the top quality books on the subject with their assessment. Answers like those would be very helpful to those interested in them, and in general good for the stack, and to prevent endless repetition of popular tropes, new questions on already existing themes could be closed as duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user68762" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user68762" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-12-30T12:26:02.593" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11624" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11625" CreationDate="2017-12-29T19:44:12.880" Score="11" ViewCount="290" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are questions about the 2017 Pixar movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coco_(2017_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Coco&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film is based on the Mexican holiday the &lt;em&gt;Day of the Dead&lt;/em&gt;, and has the main character trapped in the spiritual Land of the Dead for most of the film. It contains many fantasy elements, such as deceased ancestors visiting their descendants, &lt;a href=&quot;http://Alebrije&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Alebrije&lt;/a&gt; guardian spirits, and spirits finding life after death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79413" LastEditorUserId="79413" LastEditDate="2017-12-29T20:12:16.763" LastActivityDate="2017-12-29T22:00:11.977" Title="Are questions about Coco on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11624" CreationDate="2017-12-29T21:52:43.947" Score="16" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes, this film is absolutely on-topic&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Conceit&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you've pointed out, Coco isn't a faithful retelling of a specific religious story (in the manner of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_the_Christ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Passion of the Christ&lt;/a&gt;)  it's actually a jumbled mish-mash of a variety of different cultures and themes from more than a thousand years of history including some elements that are purely creations of the filmmakers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ghosts, magic, spirit-forms and fantastical beasts are all combined into a Mexican-(but also &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/coco-how-pixar-brought-day-dead-story-life-1065932&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mayan&lt;/a&gt;- and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chicagotribune.com/hoy/ct-aztec-dog-gains-popularity-in-us-after-coco-20171117-story.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Aztec&lt;/a&gt;-)themed extravaganza.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lPR9t.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lPR9t.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Marketing&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film itself is billed by Pixar as containing &lt;em&gt;magic&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel&#xA;(voice of newcomer Anthony Gonzalez) dreams of becoming an&#xA;accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz (voice of&#xA;Benjamin Bratt). Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself&#xA;magically transported to the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead&#xA;following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets&#xA;charming trickster Hector (voice of Gael García Bernal), and together,&#xA;they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story&#xA;behind Miguel's family history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://elteatrocampesino.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/COCO-Character-Talent-Announcement-Press-Release.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CHARACTER &amp;amp; TALENT LINEUP REVEALED&#xA;MEET THE EXTENDED FAMILY FROM DISNEY•PIXAR’S “COCO”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that the setting is &lt;em&gt;fantastical&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In visualizing the Land of the Dead, Feinberg says the challenge to&#xA;the team was to “make this world something fantastical that no one’s&#xA;ever seen.” The land, inspired in part by the hilly Mexican town of&#xA;Guanajuato located northwest of Mexico City, towers high above the&#xA;ground. It is always nighttime in the Land of Dead, necessitating a&#xA;staggering number of light sources to illuminate a scene that includes&#xA;street lights, lights for the plazas, architectural lighting on bigger&#xA;buildings, blue lights along the trolley tracks, pinlights that&#xA;outline the edges of many buildings, headlights on the moving&#xA;vehicles, lights on the construction cranes and much more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://disneybythenumbers.com/news-disney%E2%80%A2pixars-coco-uses-innovative-visual-effects-celebrate-family-tradition/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;NEWS: Disney•Pixar’s ‘Coco’ Uses Innovative Visual Effects to Celebrate Family and Tradition&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2017-12-29T22:00:11.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11626" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11627" CreationDate="2018-01-03T15:50:05.657" Score="21" ViewCount="855" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/94583/peter-miles&quot;&gt;Peter Miles&lt;/a&gt; is apparently making his way through Stephen King's &lt;em&gt;Dreamcatcher&lt;/em&gt;, and is asking about the meaning of particular English phrases that are not explicitly about science fiction (although one might not know that before asking). Is this an on-topic use of the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Help/On-topic&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Plot, character, or setting explanations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Historical or societal context of a work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to hit one or the other of this, but as someone pointed out on another question, this might be more properly an English comprehension question, maybe more appropriate for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://ell.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;ELL Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="82909" LastEditDate="2019-05-30T23:16:59.623" LastActivityDate="2019-05-30T23:16:59.623" Title="Is it reasonable to ask about the meaning of phrases in a science-fiction work?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11626" CreationDate="2018-01-03T19:07:08.803" Score="16" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Why not?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, we accept questions about all aspects of sci-fi and fantasy works, including those that aren't directly related to the sci-fi or fantasy elements. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6594/31394&quot;&gt;How should we handle questions that are about non-SF/F elements in a SF/F work?&lt;/a&gt; from nearly three years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about the meaning of phrases in a work of sci-fi or fantasy might &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; be on-topic at one or both of the English-language SE sites, but &lt;strong&gt;on-topicness for other sites is entirely irrelevant to on-topicness here&lt;/strong&gt;. This is something that's been discussed ad nauseam on this and many other meta sites - see for example the above-linked SFF meta discussion, as well as others such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5371/31394&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3691/31394&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;. We shouldn't push questions away to other sites if they're on-topic here. We might &lt;em&gt;recommend&lt;/em&gt; people that other sites might be able to answer their questions better, but we certainly shouldn't be telling them not to ask their questions here if they're on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only question then is: &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; such questions on-topic here? To which I say again, &lt;em&gt;why not?&lt;/em&gt; They can &lt;strong&gt;increase people's understanding/appreciation of a work of sci-fi or fantasy&lt;/strong&gt; just as much as plot questions can. If you don't understand why a character in an SF/F work did something, or if you don't understand what some sentence in an SF/F work means, then that will hamper your comprehension of the work as a whole, and a site devoted to SF/F works can help you with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to mention, &lt;strong&gt;sometimes answering such questions &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; require knowledge of the work&lt;/strong&gt;, just as answering plot question does. See for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/6991/31394&quot;&gt;What is &amp;quot;paying the iron price&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/33427/31394&quot;&gt;What does this passage in A Feast for Crows mean?&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/4633/31394&quot;&gt;What does &amp;quot;master of death&amp;quot; mean?&lt;/a&gt; For a less-than-fluent English speaker, it might be hard to tell whether some phrase is something specific to a particular work of SF/F or just a common English saying. The former requires the expertise of our site; the latter &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be answered on ELL (but is still on-topic here, IMO). But until you know the answer, it might not be clear which is which - and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7344/31394&quot;&gt;answers don't make questions off-topic&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-01-03T19:07:08.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11626" CreationDate="2018-01-03T19:20:46.407" Score="11" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Yes and yes; but keep them here&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to whether these types of questions are on-topic: this falls squarely under the policy established in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6594/how-should-we-handle-questions-that-are-about-non-sf-f-elements-in-a-sf-f-work&quot;&gt;How should we handle questions that are about non-SF/F elements in a SF/F work?&lt;/a&gt; as they're asking about a non-sfnal element of an on-topic work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now as to whether it might receive better answers on a site such as ELL: sure; as Ed pointed out in the comments, you might get a more comprehensive answer from an English Language expert. They've even had similar questions there already, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/136793/what-is-the-meaning-of-this-game-of-thrones-quote&quot;&gt;What is the meaning of this Game of Thrones quote?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/43605/the-answer-i-dont-think-so-to-the-question-how-is-he&quot;&gt;The answer “I don't think so” to the question “How is he?”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to say that you can't or shouldn't ask about them here; in fact, we've had such questions before:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/94048/what-does-you-know-nothing-jon-snow-mean&quot;&gt;What does &amp;quot;You know nothing, Jon Snow&amp;quot; mean?&lt;/a&gt; [disclaimer: my own question]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/47074/what-does-the-doctor-mean-by-this-statement&quot;&gt;What does the Doctor mean by this statement?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/104823/what-does-the-doctor-mean-by-its-a-clerical-error&quot;&gt;What does the Doctor mean by &amp;quot;It&amp;#39;s a clerical error&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, &lt;strong&gt;I'd push to keep them here&lt;/strong&gt;, for the simple fact that we have the benefit of &lt;em&gt;context&lt;/em&gt; here. There are likely more 'experts' ready and familiar enough with a work, already available here who can answer questions about terms of phrasings within an on-topic work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-01-03T21:17:36.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11630" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-01-04T08:31:44.447" Score="-2" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since movies SE have decided to ban id question and delete all the existing ones, I'm asking if it's possible to save part of its archive (scifi related questions) by migrating them here? And if it's possible how to do so (I'm not familiar with how migrating works)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60288" LastActivityDate="2018-01-04T12:07:23.623" Title="Can scifi id questions from movies SE be migrated here?" Tags="|discussion|support|story-identification|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-05T05:14:58.100" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11630" CreationDate="2018-01-04T12:07:23.623" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, this should definitely be done.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the old Literature SE was shut down (not to be confused with &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;the new one&lt;/a&gt;), all of its sci-fi and fantasy questions were &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1746/31394&quot;&gt;migrated here&lt;/a&gt;, so that the content could be kept in a place where it's wanted rather than irrecoverably lost. (This even included &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1785/31394&quot;&gt;some ID questions&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current situation is similar, except that it's not an entire site being shut down but only around 1/3 of one (by question count). &lt;strong&gt;Any questions which would otherwise be deleted on M&amp;amp;TV, and which would be welcome here, should certainly be migrated.&lt;/strong&gt; That's the way migration works: if a question is off-topic on the site where it's posted, but would be both on-topic and good quality on another site, then there's no reason not to shunt it over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note that this doesn't necessarily cover ALL sci-fi and fantasy ID questions on M&amp;amp;TV. That site gets a lot of very low-quality ID questions, and some of them would doubtless be too crappy for us as well. Let's not go overboard here.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for how to nominate a question for migration (which you mentioned in comments), the answer is simple: just &lt;strong&gt;flag it for mod attention over there&lt;/strong&gt;. It's the M&amp;amp;TV mods who need to migrate these questions. But they have no reason not to do so if they know a question would be welcomed here (e.g. if it was flagged by someone who knows SFF's scope well), so there shouldn't be any disagreement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a CM said in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4138&quot;&gt;related meta post&lt;/a&gt; on another site about migrating ID questions to SFF:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;if anyone who is really active at SF&amp;amp;F and familiar with their guidelines sees something here they definitely think is a good fit there, great! Flag it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've already &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4090/27759&quot;&gt;opened a meta post on M&amp;amp;TV&lt;/a&gt; about this too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-01-04T12:07:23.623" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11632" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-01-04T21:53:58.313" Score="6" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Update&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The article has now been posted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2018/01/highlights-from-2017-4th-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2017 – 4th Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from October 1st 2017 through December 31 2017 (&lt;strong&gt;They don't have to be &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; questions and answers, but it also doesn't matter if you want to self promote your own stuff.&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2017/10/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2017/10/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2017/10/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I will also be linking all blog posts that happened within this quarter.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also if there was a meta post you feel should be spotlighted those are also acceptable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;I would like to go on record that there are no cats in America, and the streets are paved with cheese.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2018-01-21T17:10:12.753" LastActivityDate="2018-01-21T17:10:12.753" Title="Favorite Questions and Answers from fourth quarter of 2017" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11632" CreationDate="2018-01-04T22:13:00.390" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;*blows own horn*&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm rather proud of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/176307/33591&quot;&gt;this self-answer&lt;/a&gt; that I wrote to my question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/176188/33591&quot;&gt;Was the mythology in &amp;quot;Moana&amp;quot; based on an established myth?&lt;/a&gt;. I spent over 4 hours researching this answer, and learned more about Polynesian mythology than I ever thought I'd know. I wasn't expecting to write a self-answer when I wrote the question, but I thought I'd take a shot at it after seeing it go HNQ. It also conveniently gave me a few hats for Winter Bash 2017 :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2018-01-04T22:13:00.390" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11634" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-01-04T23:54:15.710" Score="2" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the work of Monty Python, as a rule, on topic here?  The world, as depicted in &lt;em&gt;Monty Python's Flying Circus&lt;/em&gt; is different from the real world in many ways.  One can suffer a dangerous fall while climbing the North Face of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaoYSiNDnI0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Uxbridge Road&lt;/a&gt;.  The &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMHHWfSe4TE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;British Dental Association&lt;/a&gt; is one of the world's premier spy agencies.  And &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph-1rzqZCHY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mister Neutron&lt;/a&gt; is so powerful, he could destroy the whole world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the show has no continuity, but clearly anthology shows like &lt;em&gt;The Twilight Zone&lt;/em&gt; are on topic.  The one episode of the &lt;em&gt;Circus&lt;/em&gt; that  has a single running plot is the Mister Neutron episode, which is certainly SF (as well as possibly the worst episode in the show's whole run).  There are also other sketches with clear fantasy or SF character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I would be inclined to think that only stories/sketches with meaningful fantasy or SF content really should be on topic.  That means the entirety of &lt;em&gt;Monty Python and the Holy Grail&lt;/em&gt;, probably &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDnE-5lD7w8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Bishop&lt;/a&gt; sketch, but not the Cheese Shop Sketch.  But what do other people think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2018-01-05T14:10:40.920" Title="Is Monty Python's Flying Circus on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11634" CreationDate="2018-01-05T14:10:40.920" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No (but see below)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions about the show and sketch-films would generally be off-topic.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the main, the show (and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python_filmography&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;various sketch-based films&lt;/a&gt;) has little discernible fantasy or science-fiction content, focusing largely on situational comedy, surrealism and parody. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In keeping with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/are-works-that-arent-sf-per-se-but-have-occasional-sfnal-elements-on-topic-e&quot;&gt;our policy on SFnal elements in non-SFF shows&lt;/a&gt;, questions about a small number of &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; sketches  that contain fantasy (such as the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdWGlJrG6sQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Killer Joke&lt;/a&gt;&quot; or &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=142&amp;amp;v=5Lwjv_VRM7A&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bicyle Repair Man&lt;/a&gt;&quot;) would be on-topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Monty Python and the Holy Grail = Yes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python_and_the_Holy_Grail&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Monty Python and the Holy Grail&lt;/a&gt; is an entirely different beast. This movie has a plot-based narrative with overt references to magic, anachronistic technology (including a holy hand-grenade) fantastic beasts and monsters and a largely fantastical setting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/aZJZK6rzjns?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions about this film would generally be on-topic.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2018-01-05T14:10:40.920" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11636" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-01-05T16:02:09.120" Score="21" ViewCount="377" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a way to celebrate the New Year and lasting contributions to the site by new users I have created this honorary post based on a simple premise...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user with the highest rank in the yearly reputation league that was not previously ranked. For the Year 2017 league the winner is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/80602/bellatrix&quot;&gt;Bellatrix&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ltbbh.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ltbbh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Bellatrix Rank in the league&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coming in at a very impressive #6 rank for the year with 26,201 reputation gained in less than 9 months is certainly an achievement to be recognized. Please join in congratulating this exceptional user!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Previous years winners based on the criteria would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/57310/skooba&quot;&gt;Skooba&lt;/a&gt; - #18 - 15,596 reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/40294/praxis&quot;&gt;Praxis&lt;/a&gt; -   #4 - 35,709 reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/21600/royal-canadian-bandit&quot;&gt;Royal Canadian Bandit&lt;/a&gt; - #7 - 14,897 reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2013: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/14111/user14111&quot;&gt;user14111&lt;/a&gt; - #10 - 6,998 reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4056/dlanod&quot;&gt;dlanod&lt;/a&gt; - #4 - 26,834 reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/656/jeff&quot;&gt;Jeff&lt;/a&gt; - #1 - 21,720 reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-05-28T04:38:41.073" Title="And the Best New User of 2017 is" Tags="|discussion|users|contest|new-users|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11636" CreationDate="2018-01-05T16:18:50.893" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Congratulations!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PKhqF.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PKhqF.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your contribution on the site has been brilliant so far. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2018-01-05T16:18:50.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11638" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11639" CreationDate="2018-01-06T06:31:16.477" Score="16" ViewCount="263" Body="&lt;p&gt;Steuer appeared as Alexander in only one TNG episode (&quot;Reunion&quot;), before the role was taken on by several other actors, most notably Brian Bonsall. It was, however, quite a performance and a great episode.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/star-trek-actor-jon-paul-184921714.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;reports&lt;/a&gt;, Steuer died on January 1st at age 33.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ddfNO.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ddfNO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69621" LastActivityDate="2018-01-06T13:36:07.853" Title="RIP Jon Paul Steuer (original/first actor to play Worf's son &quot;Alexander&quot; on ST:TNG)" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11638" CreationDate="2018-01-06T13:36:07.853" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently he deeply disliked his experience on next show that he starred in (a recurring role on 'Grace Under Fire') and quit acting entirely but then went on to front a successful punk rock band called the Soda Pop Kids. He also opened a popular vegan restaurant in his home town of Portland.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Jewels [Steurs] instantly understood the jerry-rigged catwalk's potential,&#xA;landing a twirling leap four feet from the stage just as a climactic&#xA;beat crashed home,&amp;quot; Willamette Week contributor Jay Horton wrote in&#xA;2008, reviewing a Soda Pop Kids performance at a rock'n'roll fashion&#xA;show. &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;Some people, as they say, don't do fashion. Some people are&#xA;fashion.&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;suB&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wweek.com/music/2018/01/02/portland-musician-and-restaurateur-jonny-p-jewels-has-died/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Portland Musician and Restaurateur Jonny P. Jewels Has Died&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/suB&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-01-06T13:36:07.853" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11640" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-01-06T18:31:40.357" Score="7" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm currently watching a sci-fi show, and I've got some questions about the character development of one of the primary characters. Are these questions on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11159" LastActivityDate="2018-01-06T19:01:31.393" Title="Are questions about character development on topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11640" CreationDate="2018-01-06T19:01:31.393" Score="11" Body="&lt;h1&gt;YES.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as the character comes from an already on-topic work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We currently have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character-development&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character-development&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character-development&lt;/a&gt; tag with 67 questions with all but two having positive scores.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also right in our tour in the &amp;quot;Ask about&amp;quot; section the first entry is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plot, &lt;strong&gt;character&lt;/strong&gt;, or setting explanations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gmy15.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gmy15.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-01-06T19:01:31.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11642" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-01-06T19:12:47.263" Score="26" ViewCount="431" Body="&lt;p&gt;I spotted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/178310/20774&quot;&gt;this gem of an answer&lt;/a&gt; to the question '&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/161465/what-do-the-symbols-on-the-mummys-face-mean&quot;&gt;What do the symbols on the mummy&amp;#39;s face mean?&lt;/a&gt;'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Highlights include;   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Looks like the heretical language of Enochian (which has zero to do with the FIRST ENOCH of the Bible &amp;amp; the apocryphal book of Enoch) but is named after perhaps this &lt;strong&gt;gnostic elitist bullshit idea of the 2nd Enoch.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;But yeah anyways looks like enochian to me, which wouldn't be surprising thats the same runic language you see on the Satanic Goat pentragram - which is fact. Which would perfectly fit aligned with Hollywood's obsession w all things occult &amp;amp; kabbalah &amp;amp; considering her character worships Set &lt;strong&gt;it would make sense that the language &amp;amp; message on her body in this film would be represenrative of that sick twisted but still very real belief system.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lastly &lt;strong&gt;I find myself thinking the Rotschilds probably love this film,&#xA;  which is a great reason for me to dislike it&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;amp; ponder purer positions.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In keeping with our &quot;Be Nice&quot; policy (&quot;&lt;em&gt;Bigotry of any kind. Language likely to offend or alienate individuals or groups based on race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc. will not be tolerated. At all.&lt;/em&gt;&quot;) I flagged it as &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Contains hate-speech against Kabbalah and low level anti-Semitic&#xA;  content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And was quite surprised when it was declined by a moderator. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it now acceptable to call Kabbalah a &quot;sick and twisted belief system&quot;? Is it acceptable to make coded anti-semitic slurs against the (notably Jewish) Rothschild family?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In short, why was my flag declined?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2018-01-06T19:21:08.053" LastActivityDate="2018-01-07T16:56:21.687" Title="Why was this flag (about a post containing religious slurs and anti-semitic content) declined by a moderator?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11642" CreationDate="2018-01-07T16:56:21.687" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;First things first: &lt;strong&gt;the offending answer has long been deleted&lt;/strong&gt;, so this is all pretty academic now.&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;Regardless of the text of your flag, it was bringing problematic and delete-worthy content to moderators' attention and therefore &lt;strong&gt;should have been marked helpful&lt;/strong&gt;. Sorry about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a pedantic point of view, though, your flag seems technically invalid, at least at first glance without further research into the issues involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;hate-speech against Kabbalah&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; - well, the only explicit mention of Kabbalah in the answer was &quot;&lt;em&gt;Hollywood's obsession w all things occult &amp;amp; kabbalah&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. Maybe some of the things being insulted also equate to Kabbalah (the language of Enochian&quot;? the &quot;2nd Enoch&quot;?), but moderators shouldn't need this sort of in-depth knowledge of esoteric topics in order to handle flags.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;low level anti-Semitic content&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; - again, there's no explicit mention of Jews or other Semitic peoples in the answer. You mention that they express dislike of the Rothschilds, but disliking someone who happens to be Jewish isn't the same as being racist against Jews (any more than, for example, hating the Nazis makes me racist against Germans).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pedantry aside, of course, &lt;strong&gt;you were right to flag this answer&lt;/strong&gt;. I'm not sure why you raised a custom mod flag - &quot;not an answer&quot; would have sent it to the review queue for swifter deletion, and &quot;rude or abusive&quot; is best for truly offensive content - but thanks for bringing it to our attention (even though it ended up being deleted without mod involvement). Sorry again for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/a/193356/87724&quot;&gt;declinature&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-01-07T16:56:21.687" CommentCount="27" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11644" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11645" CreationDate="2018-01-08T08:37:45.987" Score="9" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I saw an answer from another user where they had quoted one of my answers within theirs. It felt nice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that had me wondering, is there any way to see all my answers that are quoted elsewhere by some other users? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I can go through all my answers and see the linked posts which may or may not show me the desired results but that is kind of hectic. What I am looking for is a list. I think SEDE's might be the only way, if any. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastActivityDate="2018-01-08T14:21:21.930" Title="Is there any way to see all my answers quoted by some other users?" Tags="|support|answers|quotes|linked-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11644" CreationDate="2018-01-08T14:14:17.637" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;For this I used some arguably pretty narrow definitions for what counts as a quote. I assumed that a quote is, at very least, a link back to the original post. This link has to have the following format: &lt;code&gt;scifi.stackexchange.com/a/&amp;lt;postid&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;. The query then takes all posts that contain such links, checks whether they link back to one of your posts, at reports that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The results are the original post id, the quoting post id, and whether or not you self-quoted in that specific instance or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tally seems to be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;10 quotes by others&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;24 quotes by yourself&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/779744/posts-by-aegon-quoted-with-url&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Query&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86196" LastEditorUserId="86196" LastEditDate="2018-01-08T14:21:21.930" LastActivityDate="2018-01-08T14:21:21.930" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11632" CreationDate="2018-01-08T21:01:48.687" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Favorite Quesion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@DisturbedNeo's question about the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/175225/75000&quot;&gt;Origin of Shark Repellent&lt;/a&gt; was very interesting, and @FuzzyBoots' &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/175227/75000&quot;&gt;response&lt;/a&gt; was surprising and educational. I did not expect such a thing to be   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; based on something in real life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Favorite Answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My Lady @Bellatrix's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/172069/75000&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; to my question about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/172059/75000&quot;&gt;Transfiguration and Animagi&lt;/a&gt; was very detailed and well thought out. It was also the only one to directly answer my question &lt;strong&gt;right at the top&lt;/strong&gt;, which made it convenient and was appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Honorable Mention&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@jpmc26's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/175356/75000&quot;&gt;MIB question&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/175360/75000&quot;&gt;the&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/175363/75000&quot;&gt;top&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/175365/75000&quot;&gt;answers&lt;/a&gt; put up good arguments and were very fun to read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75000" LastActivityDate="2018-01-08T21:01:48.687" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11632" CreationDate="2018-01-08T23:14:38.877" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to go with Loki's question &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/170842/why-did-the-voyager-doctor-have-to-scrub-in&quot;&gt;Why did the Voyager Doctor have to scrub in?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, largely because it's asking about an event that looks like a simple writing error but that turned out to be &lt;em&gt;incredibly subtle foreshadowing&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Answer&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tooting one's own trumpet, I'm going to say that my answer to &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/171610/is-luke-skywalker-actually-a-jedi&quot;&gt;Is Luke Skywalker actually a Jedi?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; was one that I enjoyed writing. It's a deceptively simple question but one that deserved a proper answer. This is also the poster-child for my contention that if something's worth doing, it's &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://media.giphy.com/media/NfcfXZ8g2pLmo/giphy.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;worth doing with massive overkill&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2018-01-08T23:14:38.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11648" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-01-14T07:49:00.977" Score="-3" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why can I not add comments on a post? It says I have to have 50 reputation points. I looked under reputation and it says I do not need any points to comment, please help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95116" OwnerDisplayName="David DeLaCruz JR" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2018-01-15T12:32:53.273" LastActivityDate="2018-01-15T12:32:53.273" Title="Why can I not comment on a post" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-15T14:15:17.043" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11648" CreationDate="2018-01-14T10:47:50.493" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You don't have enough reputation to comment on &lt;strong&gt;other people's&lt;/strong&gt; questions/answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Privilege Type:&lt;/strong&gt; Communication Privilege&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Awarded At:&lt;/strong&gt; 50 Reputation &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please note that you can always comment on your own posts, and any&#xA;  part of your questions. However, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;commenting on other people's posts is&#xA;  a privilege.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to post general comments, you'll need at least 50 reputation points. This is to stop &quot;drive-by&quot; commenters from posting worthless comments on questions and answers that they've found through google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference, the quickest way to get 50 points is by posting a high quality answer or asking a question about a popular recent film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-01-14T12:08:58.557" LastActivityDate="2018-01-14T12:08:58.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11650" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11652" CreationDate="2018-01-15T13:29:16.040" Score="6" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I go to chat via the SE logo I arrive at the chat room list of the particular stack I am on, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/?tab=site&amp;amp;sort=active&amp;amp;host=scifi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;SFF chat room list&lt;/a&gt; in our case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far so good, but how is the order in which they are displayed derived?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me it looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QS6ik.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QS6ik.png&quot; alt=&quot;Taken 2018-01-15 13:11:12 UTC&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does the placement change with latest addition? Because then you have to actively search for your favourite chatroom every time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless though, shouldn't the main general discussion room for the site as a whole (i.e. &lt;em&gt;Restaurant&lt;/em&gt;), not be &quot;pinned&quot; at the top spot, then followed by either the specific community room(s) first, and then the discussion chats for specific fandoms (sorted either by most recent activity or - better yet - alphabetically) or the other way around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having the continuation of comment thread chat rooms at the end, i get, since they are of interest only to a limited number of people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe I'm just not using this feature correctly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Related&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/466/why-doesnt-the-visit-chat-link-go-straight-to-the-chat-room&quot;&gt;Why doesn&amp;#39;t the &amp;quot;visit chat&amp;quot; link go straight to the chat room?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30726" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2018-01-15T15:27:00.170" LastActivityDate="2018-01-15T15:27:00.170" Title="Why is the general discussion chat room not the first in the list of site chat rooms?" Tags="|support|chat|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11650" CreationDate="2018-01-15T14:06:02.130" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems to be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/status-by-design&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-by-design&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-by-design&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have the &quot;active&quot; box ticked. This means the first room to show will be the one with the most recent activity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that many other SE sites do not even have more than one chat room. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2018-01-15T14:14:26.340" LastActivityDate="2018-01-15T14:14:26.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11650" CreationDate="2018-01-15T14:08:02.063" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's because you're on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/?tab=site&amp;amp;sort=active&amp;amp;host=scifi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&quot;Active&quot;&lt;/a&gt; tab, where the chat rooms are sorted by activity. You can see that the Quill's last activity was 6 minutes ago, and the Restaurant's 5 hours ago. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UFA8o.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UFA8o.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are other tabs there - &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/?tab=site&amp;amp;sort=event&amp;amp;host=scifi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&quot;Event&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (I assume it sorts the rooms by the last event time), &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/?tab=site&amp;amp;sort=people&amp;amp;host=scifi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&quot;People&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (sorts by the number of people, descending), and &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/?tab=site&amp;amp;sort=created&amp;amp;host=scifi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&quot;Created&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (creation date, descending).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for your request - SE chat doesn't seem to have a &quot;main room&quot; functionality. It appears that a main room is expected to be the most active room, so it'd always appear on top. That's not always the case after the Great Mos Purge, but that's another story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70236" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2018-01-15T14:20:19.377" LastActivityDate="2018-01-15T14:20:19.377" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11051" CreationDate="2018-01-16T17:08:18.423" Score="23" Body="&lt;h2&gt;2018&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;December&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2018/12/what-we-can-expect-from-2019/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;What We Can Expect From 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2018/12/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-in-100-words-or-less-spoiler-free/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse in 100 words or less – Spoiler Free&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;November&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2018/11/ralph-breaks-the-internet-review-in-100-words-or-less-spoiler-free/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ralph Breaks the Internet Review in 100 Words or Less – Spoiler-Free&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2018/11/highlights-from-2018-3rd-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2018 – 3rd Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;September&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2018/09/jacks-bad-movies-the-punisher-1989/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies: The Punisher (1989)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2018/09/jacks-bad-movies-nick-fury-agent-of-shield-1998/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies: Nick Fury: Agent of SHIELD (1998)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2018/09/jacks-bad-movies-generation-x-1996/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies: Generation X (1996)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2018/09/jacks-bad-movies-the-amazing-spider-man-1977/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies: The Amazing Spider-Man (1977)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;August&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2018/08/september-a-month-of-bad-movies/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;September: A Month of Bad Movies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2018/08/jacks-bad-movies-5-headed-shark-attack/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack's Bad Movies: 5 Headed Shark Attack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2018/08/orchid-dragonmaster/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Orchid Dragonmaster&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;July&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2018/07/mike-needs-a-new-set-of-lungs/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mike Needs a New Set of Lungs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2018/07/highlights-from-2018-2nd-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2018 – 2nd Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;June&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2018/06/the-incredibles-2-review-in-100-words-or-less-spoiler-free/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Incredibles 2 Review in 100 Words or Less – Spoiler-Free&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;May&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2018/05/netflixs-cargo-in-100-words-or-less-spoiler-free/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Netflix’s Cargo in 100 Words or Less – Spoiler-Free&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2018/05/jacks-bad-movies-spectral-2016/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies: Spectral (2016)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;April&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2018/04/netflixs-the-titan-in-100-words-or-less/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Netflix’s “The Titan” in 100 Words (or Less)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2018/04/lost-in-space-in-100-words-or-less/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lost in Space in 100 words (or less)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2018/04/highlights-from-2018-1st-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2018 – 1st Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;March&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2018/03/jacks-bad-movies-captain-america-1990/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack's Bad Movies: Captain America (1990)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;February&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2018/02/the-orville-season-1/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Orville - Season 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;January&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2018/01/the-autobiography-of-james-t-kirk/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Autobiography of James T. Kirk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2018/01/highlights-from-2017-4th-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2017 – 4th Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="1148" LastEditDate="2018-12-31T17:25:28.597" LastActivityDate="2018-12-31T17:25:28.597" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11541" CreationDate="2018-01-18T02:15:21.803" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem is that when someone encounters a spam post in the &quot;Low Quality&quot; review queue, they have two options for dealing with it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Scroll down, find the tiny little &quot;Link&quot; link, right-click and select &quot;open in new tab&quot;, switch to the new tab, click &quot;flag&quot;, select &quot;spam&quot;, click &quot;Flag answer&quot;, close the tab, and click &quot;Skip&quot; in the review queue.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Click &quot;Delete&quot; from the review queue.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Guess which is the lower-friction option?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until we can manage to train spammers to only post high-quality spam, people will keep taking the easy route and use regular deletion on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26521" LastActivityDate="2018-01-18T02:15:21.803" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11656" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11657" CreationDate="2018-01-21T01:51:59.397" Score="2" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;I liked &lt;em&gt;Ready Player One&lt;/em&gt; and wanted to know if asking for related books would be on topic or not. Is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Have not used this SE in a while)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user70441" LastActivityDate="2018-01-21T09:28:59.467" Title="Ask for related books on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-22T00:23:23.590" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11656" CreationDate="2018-01-21T02:53:19.363" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. Such a question would be entirely off-topic and would be closed in very short order. Per the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not all questions have a home on Stack Exchange. Please note the following types of questions are off-topic here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reading or viewing recommendations: I liked X, what should I watch next?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-01-21T02:53:19.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11656" CreationDate="2018-01-21T09:28:59.467" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;strong&gt;@Valorum&lt;/strong&gt; wrote, asking on SFF.SE is off-topic per FAQ, however, you can still use the advantage of the many fantasy/science fiction enthusiasts and ask for book recommendations in the main chat, &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/58631/the-restaurant-at-the-end-of-the-universe&quot;&gt;The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did so myself previously and got a few good recommendations of fantasy series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80374" LastActivityDate="2018-01-21T09:28:59.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11659" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-01-21T17:09:15.320" Score="12" ViewCount="487" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our sister site &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Movies &amp;amp; TV&lt;/a&gt; has decided to &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4087/27759&quot;&gt;ban ID questions&lt;/a&gt;. All of their thousands of existing ID questions are now closed and locked, and many of them are &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4121/27759&quot;&gt;slated for deletion&lt;/a&gt; over the coming weeks. Some proportion of them are about sci-fi and fantasy films, and much of this content would be considered high-quality by SFF's standards. It seems a shame to let it all be destroyed when &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11631/31394&quot;&gt;we're perfectly willing&lt;/a&gt; to house it here where it's on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4103/27759&quot;&gt;response from a CM&lt;/a&gt; to my meta post over there was that they're willing to migrate some of this content to us, but only in a single mass operation, rather than by way of us manually flagging questions on M&amp;amp;TV. This is what we should do as a first step to migration:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Start on your meta. Build a list of questions that you think would benefit from being migrated to your site and collect some reasons along with each one. Don't just say &quot;all questions in our tags!&quot;. That's neither going to happen nor is a good approach - do you really want to swarm your new community with old content?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is also your opportunity to edit old questions to make them more in line with your scope and standards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Let's make a list: which M&amp;amp;TV unwanted ID questions do we want here?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Criteria:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;must be about &lt;strong&gt;sci-fi or fantasy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;must be unwanted by M&amp;amp;TV (&lt;strong&gt;either a score of &amp;lt;5, or no answers scoring &gt;2, or both&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;must be high-quality by SFF's standards (i.e. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11420/31394&quot;&gt;enough details for a unique match&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bidentify-this-*%5D+score%3A..4+is%3Aq&quot;&gt;This search&lt;/a&gt; gives all ID questions scoring &amp;lt;5 on M&amp;amp;TV, while &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bidentify-this-*%5D+is%3Aq+isanswered%3Ano&quot;&gt;this search&lt;/a&gt; gives all unanswered ID questions on M&amp;amp;TV. (Even the union of these may potentially miss some candidates - questions with high scores and low-scoring answers - but they're the best I have for now. I'm waiting to hear back from a guy who has a better query which he's willing to share.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;M&amp;amp;TV also has &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction&quot;&gt;science-fiction&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantasy&quot;&gt;fantasy&lt;/a&gt; tags, but I don't know how consistently these are used.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Let's do this as soon as possible, before all the content gets nuked on M&amp;amp;TV!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="1586" LastEditDate="2018-02-05T19:52:53.827" LastActivityDate="2018-02-05T19:52:53.827" Title="Which ID questions do we want from Movies &amp; TV?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|migration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-02-06T00:44:00.200" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/83710/movie-about-a-drilling-on-earth-thats-ends-wrong-causing-a-part-of-earth-flying&quot;&gt;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/83710/movie-about-a-drilling-on-earth-thats-ends-wrong-causing-a-part-of-earth-flying&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/83618/space-movie-with-one-real-apple&quot;&gt;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/83618/space-movie-with-one-real-apple&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="23386" LastEditDate="2018-02-04T18:51:51.460" LastActivityDate="2018-02-04T18:51:51.460" CommentCount="17" CommunityOwnedDate="2018-01-21T18:15:28.587" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11661" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-01-23T23:06:34.443" Score="61" ViewCount="678" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ursula K. Le Guin&lt;/a&gt;, one of the greatest science fiction and fantasy writers of all time, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/ursula-k-le-guin-acclaimed-for-her-fantasy-fiction-is-dead-at-88.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;sadly passed away&lt;/a&gt; yesterday at the age of 88. Her writing career spans six decades, from 1959 right up until 2017, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin_bibliography&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;her writings include&lt;/a&gt; speculative fiction, realistic fiction, non-fiction, screenplays, librettos, essays, poetry, speeches, translations, literary critiques, and children's fiction. Although most famous for her &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthsea&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Earthsea&lt;/a&gt; books, she wrote dozens of speculative fiction novels and short stories, and she must be counted among the most significant names in the history of the genre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;R.I.P.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2020-12-19T21:35:14.020" LastActivityDate="2020-12-19T21:35:14.020" Title="RIP Ursula Le Guin" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11662" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11664" CreationDate="2018-01-25T13:50:27.427" Score="12" ViewCount="338" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I saw &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/179694/57070&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, which essentially summarized an entire story in plain view, so I suggested &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/120447&quot;&gt;this edit&lt;/a&gt; to hide the summary and require the user to mouse over it to read it.  This edit was rejected, and the reason given was this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This edit does not make the post even a little bit easier to read, easier to find, more accurate or more accessible. Changes are either completely superfluous or actively harm readability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a little surprised and am wondering what might have been the issue.  There are a couple of possible things that come to mind, but if it's either one of these, I would be relatively surprised:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hiding plot spoilers is not considered proper grounds for editing another user's answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I did insert a brief, non-spoiler description of the story.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the second possible reason goes, the reason I did this is that SE requires you to enter at least six characters to edit another person's post, although just hiding that summary only requires you to enter a single character.  Instead of doing something weird to meet the six-character quota, I just entered a brief summary without a spoiler, which basically only had information that was already in the original answer (in the story's summary).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm honestly having a little trouble following the reasoning behind it getting rejected.  Somebody else in the meantime has made a similar edit, which will keep the spoiler out of view.  What was the reasoning behind the original rejection?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57070" LastEditorUserId="66402" LastEditDate="2018-01-25T15:19:53.783" LastActivityDate="2018-01-25T15:46:23.053" Title="Why was this edit to hide a plot spoiler rejected?" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edit|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-02-04T21:21:29.753" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11662" CreationDate="2018-01-25T15:04:57.433" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;TL;DR, its a story ID answer and it makes no sense to use spoiler markup&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The relevant part of that all encompassing reason is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This edit does not make the post even a little bit easier to read, easier to find, more accurate or more accessible. Changes are either completely superfluous&lt;/strong&gt; or actively harm readability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to be clear, it was not a bad edit, just an unnecessary one. Spoilers are incumbent in identifying stories. And the person we are answering has already read the story and can't be spoiled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a general rule, if you are view a tag, it's on you to avoid spoilers, not on us to hide anything that might be a spoiler for anyone. If we did that, this site would become unreadable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62201" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-01-25T15:40:15.330" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11662" CreationDate="2018-01-25T15:46:23.053" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;The post in question answered the question in the first line:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Could it be Flowers for Algernon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far so good. Anyone interested in stories about intelligent rats has an idea for an interesting story to read. No spoilers so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the rest of the post describes the plot in detail, and that would spoil it for anyone who hasn't read Flowers for Algernon. Under the circumstances hiding that text seems such a stunningly obvious thing to do that I find it baffling there should be any debate about it. Indeed I have now made exactly that edit myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=user:4144%20[story-identification]&quot;&gt;I answer a lot of story id questions&lt;/a&gt; and I usually include quotes from the story to support my answer. But the quotes I use normally illustrate only what has already been given away in the question. When I also give away parts of the plot that aren't in the question, and are key to the story, I generally hide the text so as not to spoil it for anyone who doesn't know the story and wants to read it. This just seems, well, a polite thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4144" LastActivityDate="2018-01-25T15:46:23.053" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11665" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11666" CreationDate="2018-01-26T08:51:32.810" Score="1" ViewCount="332" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question about the Vikings series made by History channel.&#xA;This series has some fantasy symptoms (prophets, gods or dead characters that sometimes interact a bit, spectres), but the vast majority of everything that happens there is realistic and possible to happen in the real world (sometimes it even happened in the real world as it is based on the historic events). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: Are questions about Vikings, the series, on topic on SFF SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66567" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2018-02-02T11:05:43.170" LastActivityDate="2018-02-02T11:05:43.170" Title="Is the show Vikings on topic here?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11665" CreationDate="2018-01-26T09:39:41.303" Score="12" Body="&lt;h1&gt;No it's not on-topic, but aspects of the show may be.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Vikings&lt;/a&gt; is marketed on Wikipedia as a &lt;em&gt;historical drama&lt;/em&gt; not a fantasy. It seems to be quite focused on both historical accuracy and portraying an accurate representation of Vikings. So no, it's not a work of fantasy and is therefore not on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as described in this meta on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/344/68872&quot;&gt;non-SF properties with occasional SF-nal elements&lt;/a&gt; that does not making everything about the show off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are particularly fictional elements of the show that one wants to ask about, they are welcome to. I will however note that prophets and gods are not necessarily fantastical, they very much exist in our world and are believed to be real by a large portion of our populace. Similar to being able to interact with the dead, although they are usually considered fantastical, as are ghosts/spectres (as mention, in passing, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11625/68872&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may be other such elements that are fantastical that one can ask about, but in general no, the show is not on-topic and questions should be redirected to our sister site M&amp;amp;TV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68872" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-01-26T09:39:41.303" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11667" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-01-27T01:49:36.613" Score="14" ViewCount="247" Body="&lt;p&gt;I ran across a story-ID question yesterday which was put on hold as being too broad, but which I know with certainty what story was being asked about (I have the book here, everything matches).  Are such questions generally closed, or is there a way to say, &quot;reopen this, I know what they were thinking of&quot;, so as to provide some value?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference, the question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/179811/dead-woodsmen-a-novel-search&quot;&gt;Dead woodsmen, a novel search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95704" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-01-27T09:00:15.523" LastActivityDate="2018-01-28T02:18:39.173" Title="What should be done with 'on-hold - too broad' questions you can answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11667" CreationDate="2018-01-27T06:12:53.053" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It depends.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some story ID questions get wrongly closed as too broad.  &quot;Too broad&quot; is typically evaluated on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11420/36526&quot;&gt;answerability, not length&lt;/a&gt;.  So if a story ID question really does have a unique, identifiable answer, it should be kept open even if it is short.  If a question is wrongly closed, you can vote to reopen (once you have enough rep) or bring it to meta as you have done here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, the question you linked doesn't look very answerable to me.  It does not describe:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The approximate year in which the asker read the book.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The genre (which the asker does not know).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The setting (beyond &quot;in the woods somewhere&quot;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any information about individual characters.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9336/36526&quot;&gt;And so on...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm having a really hard time believing there is exactly &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; story which this question could possibly be about.  What happens if we reopen it, you post your answer, and then the asker says &quot;No, that's not it&quot;?  So personally, I will not be voting to reopen this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-01-27T09:00:30.777" LastActivityDate="2018-01-27T09:00:30.777" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11667" CreationDate="2018-01-28T02:18:39.173" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Leaving aside specific issues of questions tagged story-ID or of that particular question ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What should be done with 'on-hold - too broad' questions you can answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you find a closed question which you think should be reopened, then you have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/reopen-questions&quot;&gt;a few options&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If possible, &lt;strong&gt;edit the question&lt;/strong&gt; to improve it and make it more reopenable. (If the question was recently closed, editing will automatically kick it into the Reopen Votes review queue.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Regardless, &lt;strong&gt;leave a comment&lt;/strong&gt; on the question explaining why you think it should be reopened. It may not help, but it may convince someone else reading it to vote to reopen the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you have more than 3k rep, &lt;strong&gt;vote to reopen&lt;/strong&gt;. (This doesn't apply to you ... yet ;-) You could still raise a mod flag, if you feel the case is very clear-cut, but see also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/284732/278659&quot;&gt;How should moderators handle a custom flag to re-open a question?&lt;/a&gt; [posted by an SFF moderator].)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If all else fails, &lt;strong&gt;raise it on meta&lt;/strong&gt; - as you've done here, with swift success in getting the question reopened. Meta is a good way to draw the community's attention to a particular post (though, depending on circumstances, that attention could be either positive or negative).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More details on the above-linked page from the help centre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-01-28T02:18:39.173" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11670" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-01-29T06:14:16.317" Score="12" ViewCount="659" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's almost February in 2018, which isn't supposed to be the proper time to cycle these, but for this year it'll be once again, so we'll be refreshing the &lt;strong&gt;Community Promotion Ads&lt;/strong&gt; for this year now!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site's twitter account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;interesting articles or findings for the curious&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool Science Fiction or Fantasy events/conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads every year?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be 300 x 250 pixels, or double that if high DPI.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the background of the image is white or partially white, there must be a 1px border (2px if high DPI) surrounding it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/11670&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2537" LastActivityDate="2018-06-03T16:24:45.350" Title="Community Promotion Ads - 2018" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="19" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2019-02-07T13:32:05.810" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11670" CreationDate="2018-01-29T06:14:16.317" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/stackscifi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/H1tp8.png&quot; alt=&quot;Follow us on Twitter!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2537" LastActivityDate="2018-01-29T06:14:16.317" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11670" CreationDate="2018-01-29T06:42:18.620" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thesffblog.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EZFka.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;There&amp;#39;s a Blog?&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68872" LastActivityDate="2018-01-29T06:42:18.620" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11670" CreationDate="2018-01-29T06:49:34.737" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Main_Page&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cZcGB.png&quot; alt=&quot;The J.R.R. Tolkien encyclopedia that anyone can edit.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68872" LastActivityDate="2018-01-29T06:49:34.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11670" CreationDate="2018-01-29T09:45:46.057" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Portal:Main&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9b1bM.png&quot; alt=&quot;Memory Alpha - Star Trek Canon Wiki&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-01-07T00:42:01.647" LastActivityDate="2018-01-31T16:58:58.937" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11670" CreationDate="2018-01-29T09:50:02.230" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.pottermore.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5abmJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Pottermore - The digital heart of the Wizarding World&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-01-31T16:46:32.170" LastActivityDate="2018-01-31T16:46:32.170" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11670" CreationDate="2018-01-29T09:51:31.370" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.starwars.com/databank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mkt4J.png&quot; alt=&quot;Find canon Star Wars information&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-01-29T14:44:10.187" LastActivityDate="2018-01-29T14:44:10.187" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11670" CreationDate="2018-01-29T10:10:23.153" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jz2sE.png&quot; alt=&quot;TV Tropes will ruin your life&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-01-31T16:53:03.103" LastActivityDate="2018-01-31T16:53:03.103" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11670" CreationDate="2018-01-29T10:13:18.937" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/joVxl.png&quot; alt=&quot;Wookieepedia - The Star Wars Wiki&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-01-29T14:29:34.353" LastActivityDate="2018-01-29T14:29:34.353" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11670" CreationDate="2018-01-29T11:14:05.600" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://literature.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4EBsq.png&quot; alt=&quot;Love to read? Visit Literature SE!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-01-29T11:14:05.600" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11670" CreationDate="2018-01-29T15:32:31.273" Score="-7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mKDNA.png&quot; alt=&quot;the #1 Harry Potter Fan Database&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-01-31T17:00:22.993" LastActivityDate="2018-01-31T17:00:22.993" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11670" CreationDate="2018-01-29T16:33:13.600" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.westeros.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cyGgu.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Westeros.org: The &amp;quot;A Song of Ice and Fire&amp;quot; Domain &quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2018-01-29T16:44:22.510" LastActivityDate="2018-01-29T16:44:22.510" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11670" CreationDate="2018-01-31T06:21:01.877" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://crafts.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mhvbW.png&quot; alt=&quot;Get Crafty on crafts.se!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2018-01-31T06:21:01.877" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11670" CreationDate="2018-02-01T21:25:04.490" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JrIsG.png&quot; alt=&quot;Worldbuilding Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32756" LastActivityDate="2018-02-01T21:25:04.490" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11685" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-02-02T17:33:06.740" Score="3" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have an idea for an ID question, but I'm not sure it's on-topic. I think it's set in the near future, in kind of a dystopian-esque country, but pretty much everything else was normal, and the environment wasn't the focus of the movie. Normally I'd not worry about it and go to M&amp;amp;TV, but they've &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4087/50636&quot;&gt;stopped doing this sorta thing&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So is simply being set in a dystopia enough to make a question on-topic? If not, how much more SF&amp;amp;F is needed to make it so?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75000" LastActivityDate="2018-02-02T17:33:06.740" Title="How much dystopia is needed to be on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2018-02-04T18:36:49.957" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11686" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11698" CreationDate="2018-02-03T14:46:26.833" Score="27" ViewCount="438" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I'm browsing YouTube and I come across a video titled &quot;Why Wasn't Palpatine Removed as Chancellor after Zillo Beast Attack(Canon) Explain Star Wars&quot; by BessY. It has over 460,000 views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/J_L9T848ZVk?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Immediately this reminded me of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/150678/how-did-palpatines-chancellorship-survive-the-zillo-beast-attack&quot;&gt;my question, &quot;How did Palpatine's Chancellorship survive the Zillo Beast attack?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. I find it cool that somebody out there had the same question as me and I watch the video. I quickly discover that it quotes exactly the same parts of the &lt;em&gt;Clone Wars&lt;/em&gt; episodes that I do. More curiously, it includes the &lt;em&gt;exact&lt;/em&gt; same extract from the &lt;em&gt;Ultimate Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; factbook &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/150934/64888&quot;&gt;as Valorum's answer does&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is dated 20th January 2017. Valorum's answer is dated 23rd January 2017. BessY's video is dated 29th January 2017.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line: I &lt;strong&gt;strongly&lt;/strong&gt; suspect that this YouTube user stole the question concept and the answer for their video.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now part of me feels kind of flattered that a question I came up with has been given a much wider audience (my question has only 942 views, but the video has 489 times as many). Part of me feels wronged and cheated that someone else is claiming the credit for original content on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What, if anything, should we do about this? I've read &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/200177/a-site-or-scraper-is-copying-content-from-stack-exchange-what-do-i-do&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this meta question&lt;/a&gt; about third party sites but I don't know if there's a difference between code being copy-and-pasted from say Stack Overflow and material from a Sci Fi question being used for a YouTube post. In any event, it can't be proved that this is definitely a case of plagiarism without BessY confirming it themselves. However, if the YouTube video has copied us then it hasn't provided attribution, which the linked meta post says is required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My concern is broader than just this one question. How should we respond if this happens again in the future? I'm not knowledgeable enough about our Star Wars questions (having spent most of my time in the Harry Potter tag) to know whether BessY has used StackExchange posts as the basis of any of their other videos, but they could have done. Surely we don't want to put in all the time and effort that we do on our posts just to have our work nicked without attribution by random people on the web?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My response so far has just been to leave a comment on the video asking if they got the idea from us. Maybe that's all that can be done but that makes me feel somewhat...powerless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should we respond to this sort of suspected plagiarism?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64888" LastActivityDate="2018-02-12T19:01:21.460" Title="What should we do about suspected plagiarism of SFF.SE content on other websites?" Tags="|discussion|copyright|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11686" CreationDate="2018-02-03T17:11:23.527" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking over the transcript it certainly looks like YouTube user BessY has intentionally plagiarised content from my answer without attribution. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BessY:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;This issue is dealt with, somewhat partially, in a canon book called the Ultimate Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Me:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;This issue is dealt with, somewhat tangentially, in the Ultimate Star Wars factbook.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Both:&lt;/strong&gt; [Identical quote from USW]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BessY:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;From this paragraph it is clear that as far as the public is concerned, that this event did not harm Palpatine's reputation in any way. Because of his plans to stop the creature, he ultimately came out of this whole incident as a hero by having heroically risked his life to prevent further casualties.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Me:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;The implication seems to be that as far as the 'man on the street' is concerned, the Chancellor came out of the whole sorry incident smelling of roses, having heroically risked his life to prevent further casualties.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A solid 60% of his words are identical and much of the remainder is &lt;em&gt;semi-identical&lt;/em&gt;, with one expression replacing another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to what we do about it, there's very little that can be done other than making snarky comments on his channel and posting links to this post and the original question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a legal perspective he's probably changed just enough of the text that he could claim that it was an original work if you complained to YouTube but if you're really grumpy about it, that would probably be your first action. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-02-04T11:27:33.530" LastActivityDate="2018-02-04T11:27:33.530" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11688" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-02-04T00:43:34.543" Score="17" ViewCount="248" Body="&lt;p&gt;The previous host was notoriously slow, leading to a lot of complaints shortly after it was launched. I've selected a new web hosting provider that is supposedly faster, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10675/questions-about-our-off-site-blog/10676#10676&quot;&gt;living up to my promise that I'd switch hosts when my subscription expired&lt;/a&gt;. At the very least, they've so far been a nicer service for me to work with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Migration of the site is pending, so over the next couple of days you may or may not notice some quirks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While that's going on, I was also wondering if anyone had any feedback regarding the blog? We're always looking for more contributors, and ways to make it more about stuff of interest to our community (not necessarily just movie and TV reviews).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2018-02-10T18:29:01.417" LastActivityDate="2018-02-10T18:29:01.417" Title="Community blog moving to a new host. Any questions?" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11688" CreationDate="2018-02-05T01:06:26.067" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I have a specific recommendation: &lt;strong&gt;Have a standardized idea-submission system&lt;/strong&gt;.  The closest I could find was the &lt;a href=&quot;https://trello.com/b/gVLmgJDA/scifiblogoverflowcom-schedule&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Trello board&lt;/a&gt;, but:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It appears to be mostly dead, having been last touched in December, and the last event before that was from 2015.  Blog posts are dropping at a much more frequent pace than that.*&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The way I found it was to search for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/703/36526&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, whose title is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; &quot;How do I submit an idea for a blog post?&quot;, and then scroll all the way down to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/829/36526&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; at the bottom.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Creating accounts with off-site services &lt;em&gt;other than the blog itself&lt;/em&gt; is an additional barrier to adoption.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It'd be nice if this could be done on Meta through regular Q&amp;amp;A, but that sounds far too straightforward to actually be feasible.  Maybe y'all already do this informally in Chat, but I don't chat much so I wouldn't know.  I'm sure there are other people who also don't use Chat, and in any event it seems like it would be difficult to keep track of ideas over longer periods of time that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;* There is obviously nothing wrong with writing about what you want to write about instead of what other people want you to write about.  The blog is free, after all.  But when Trello repeatedly goes completely inactive for more than two years at a time, it starts looking very much like a graveyard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastActivityDate="2018-02-05T01:06:26.067" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11690" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-02-05T18:36:18.090" Score="12" ViewCount="380" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180595/31394&quot;&gt;Can a maester&amp;#39;s chain include multiple links of the same metal?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A maester can be recognized by the chain he wears around his neck. The links of the chain can be made of every metal known to man. Each metal is related to a subject - silver for medicine, iron for warcraft, etc. Can a maester's chain include multiple links of the same metal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;was recently closed by two users as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/51260/31394&quot;&gt;How long does it take to forge a Maester&amp;#39;s chain?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How many links are needed to forge a chain? Are more links prestigious than others? How long does it typically take to earn a full chain?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(quoteblocks above are the &lt;em&gt;entire&lt;/em&gt; text of the respective questions, just so we aren't going by titles).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was somewhat surprised that a question had been closed as a duplicate of a completely different but tangentially related question (both questions are about maesters' chains in the GoT/aSoIaF universe, but beyond that they're not asking the same thing at all). Checking the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/51275/revisions&quot;&gt;revision history of the accepted answer to the older question&lt;/a&gt;, I discovered that one of the close-voters had &lt;em&gt;edited the answer to the new question into an answer to the older question&lt;/em&gt;, while the other one had left &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/180595/can-a-maesters-chain-include-multiple-links-of-the-same-metal?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1#comment488561_180595&quot;&gt;a comment&lt;/a&gt; justifying the closure on the basis that the older answer mentions the answer to the newer question.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9748/31394&quot;&gt;Current policy&lt;/a&gt; on duplicate closure based on answers says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Folks with specific, focused questions tend to not read massively broad FAQs even if they do find them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Finding specific information among multiple answers to massively broad FAQs is troublesome.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...] &lt;em&gt;normally&lt;/em&gt; the presence of identical answers is a pretty good indication that the questions themselves are the same (unless the answer itself is something trivial like the name of a character). But this doesn't hold if a question has managed to attract a lot of different answers [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To avoid looking silly then, I would strongly recommend using answers as more of a litmus test than as a policy: if you're already pretty sure the questions are duplicates, testing the answers of one against the other can easily confirm your suspicions. But don't close completely irrelevant questions as duplicates of one another simply because there's an animated gif that happens to apply to both...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it good practice to edit the answer to question B into a tangential remark in an existing answer to question A, then close B as a dupe of A, when A and B are asking different things?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;(Under normal circumstances, I'd just vote to reopen. But I don't have non-binding reopen votes here, and since the accepted answer to the newer question is mine, it would be conflict of interest for me to just hammer it open.)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-02-13T05:39:36.077" Title="Why was this question about maester chains closed?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11688" CreationDate="2018-02-05T18:43:14.617" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;My suggestion would be to have &lt;strong&gt;better proofreading&lt;/strong&gt;. I can't recall a single blog entry that had no spelling or format errors. I still enjoy reading it, and I'm not asking for perfection, but an &lt;em&gt;improvement&lt;/em&gt; would be greatly appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75000" LastActivityDate="2018-02-05T18:43:14.617" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11690" CreationDate="2018-02-05T19:18:02.340" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Copying your answer into the old question does seem odd to me, but the following was in Valorum's original answer to the old question back in 2014.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;From the TV series, we can see that the chains seem to contain approximately 20 links and from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/Dragon_Limbs_and_Gender_Valyrain_Weapons_and_Maesters_Chains/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a quote&lt;/a&gt; from GRRM we can see that a Maester can be awarded multiple links of the same metal if they are especially proficient in a particular area of knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So maybe they just added your answer to help highlight and reinforce the original phrasing in Valorum's answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71949" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-02-06T15:06:08.833" LastActivityDate="2018-02-06T15:06:08.833" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11693" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-02-05T19:52:55.747" Score="20" ViewCount="272" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is just a heads-up: per the request of the membership of this site, I'll be moving &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11659/which-id-questions-do-we-want-from-movies-tv/11660#11660&quot;&gt;54 ID questions&lt;/a&gt; from the Movies &amp;amp; TV site to Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy today. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What does this involve?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As part of the batch migration process, each question will be locked and deleted on Movies &amp;amp; TV, then recreated here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All non-deleted answers will be migrated along with each question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All votes on posts scoring &gt;= 0 will be migrated (but attributed to the system)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All posts scoring &amp;lt; 0 will be reset to a 0 score and have no votes initially.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tags on migrated questions will be preserved &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; they already exist on Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy at the time of migration.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Additionally, I will apply the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; tags to all questions during migration; in this way there will be no untagged questions resulting from this.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Tags currently used on these questions that will be preserved:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;animation   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anime       &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cameo       &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;crossovers  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;horror      &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;time-travel &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;western     &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Tags currently used on these questions that will be stripped during migration&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;action                &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;character             &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;comedy                &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;documentary           &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;fantasy               &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;identify-this-episode &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;identify-this-movie   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;identify-this-tv-show &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;romance               &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;science-fiction       &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;short-films           &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;spy-movie             &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;thriller &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want any of these tags to be preserved, &lt;strong&gt;you must create them &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt; prior to the start of migration at 23:00 UTC today!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;After the migration is complete&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will post a list of links to all migrated questions here; at that point, any necessary editing can be performed to bring them in-line with this community's standards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have any questions or concerns, please post them here prior to the start of the migration process at 23:00 UTC today; this will be the only mass migration of ID questions from MTV to SFF, so once begun no additional questions can be added to or removed from the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2018-02-10T18:28:02.063" LastActivityDate="2018-02-10T18:28:02.063" Title="54 story identification questions incoming from Movies &amp; TV at 23:00 UTC 2017-02-05" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|story-identification|migration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11693" CreationDate="2018-02-05T23:43:51.723" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Migration is complete. The following questions now live here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180705&quot;&gt;Please help me identify a post apocalyptic movie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180706&quot;&gt;Sci-Fi movie about a shapeshifter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180707&quot;&gt;A Documentary or Short film set in Medieval Europe about a king who impales enemies and a Scientist that gives electric shocks to corpses&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180708&quot;&gt;Can&amp;#39;t remember the name of this cartoon from the mid 90s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180709&quot;&gt;Horror movie which takes place in an old house with a girl with powers.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180710&quot;&gt;Zombie Outbreak movie with a cure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180711&quot;&gt;What show did Yakko, Wakko, and Dot make frequent silent cameos in?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180712&quot;&gt;Identify Time traveler cops movie 80s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180713&quot;&gt;Old Asian movie about foreseeing the future&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180714&quot;&gt;movie about aliens / a son finding out his father is an alien&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180715&quot;&gt;90s movie about time travelers to middle ages where dinosaurs are considered dragons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180716&quot;&gt;Movie about a drilling on Earth thats ends wrong causing a part of earth flying away?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180718&quot;&gt;Horror movie about a demon (or telekinetic ?) boy who kills his family members&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180719&quot;&gt;Short Horror Movie (6 mins?) on Youtube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180720&quot;&gt;Thriller of man chasing a woman while time is frozen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180722&quot;&gt;Children&amp;#39;s Christmas Movie where a magical store grants you one christmas present&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180723&quot;&gt;Probably a 90s/or early 2000&amp;#39;s movie with a female alien/mutant burnt alive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180725&quot;&gt;Name of 60s/70s Hammer(?) Film&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180726&quot;&gt;A Korean horror movie in 2004 about a ghost trying to protect her unborn baby from medical experiments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180727&quot;&gt;Science fiction movie about parallel universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180730&quot;&gt;Anime movie, police special unit, fights demons with huge guns that cast/fire spells&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180732&quot;&gt;Please help me find this Sci Fi movie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180733&quot;&gt;Animation about a post-apocalyptic world, an ocarina, narwhals&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180734&quot;&gt;Movie about little bad monsters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180736&quot;&gt;Comedy: Human-like aliens disintegrate a football (soccer) referee in the middle of the game&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180737&quot;&gt;Looking for an old zombie movie from 80s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180738&quot;&gt;Zombie movie wherein a man discovers an unfamiliar word&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180739&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s this movie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180740&quot;&gt;Cartoon Movie about a big robot that help fight aliens&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180742&quot;&gt;Movie with zombie young girl attacking parents&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180744&quot;&gt;Identify this movie about ghouls in a desert and a car stonehenge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180745&quot;&gt;Identify this anime - Anime about robot/mecha piloted by 2 people&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180746&quot;&gt;Looking for a movie title. Help?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180747&quot;&gt;Animated film about a group of people from a television show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180751&quot;&gt;Movie about ants that eat everything and grow to be huge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180752&quot;&gt;I remember important parts of this movie but not the title?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180753&quot;&gt;What is this movie with the guy that is possessed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180754&quot;&gt;Space Movie with one real apple&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180755&quot;&gt;Animated film/show with man&amp;#39;s journey of reverse civilization to an extent that he goes naked and hunts for food&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180756&quot;&gt;Low budget D-list movie with werewolf, emo guy, and mystical girl of his dreams&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180757&quot;&gt;Boy watching TV and an elephant or a rabbit teddy appears on the TV and says something&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180759&quot;&gt;Old Alien/Monster movie, Help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180760&quot;&gt;French film where the wife/girlfriend changes every morning after sex&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180761&quot;&gt;Movie about a group of monster disguised as human attacking a building&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180762&quot;&gt;kids 1980&amp;#39;s movie/tv show with portal in basement to another world&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180763&quot;&gt;help me identify this horrible vampire movie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180764&quot;&gt;Name of cartoon movie with a unicorn trying to save other unicorns?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180765&quot;&gt;School trip that uncovers a town secret about a large organisation experimenting on young children&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180766&quot;&gt;Movie about a couple doing calculations to open a door to another world&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180768&quot;&gt;Animated horse movie/series 1980s-early 1990s, hunted by mad scientist with robot dog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180770&quot;&gt;60&amp;#39;s or 70&amp;#39;s western horror film that goes from B/W to color&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180771&quot;&gt;Animated series that tells stories based on fairy tales by Grimm Brothers, Hans Christian Andersen and others&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180772&quot;&gt;What French movie featured a character repeatedly sent back to a fantasy land?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180774&quot;&gt;Identify a short animated movie about a walking tree in red shoes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastActivityDate="2018-02-05T23:43:51.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11688" CreationDate="2018-02-06T00:59:52.027" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ideas for promoting the blog&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My subjective feeling is that blog activity has declined since it moved away from BlogOverflow. That could be just a natural part of the ebb and flow of the community (e.g. fewer people use chat since the Death of Mos, and chat was an easy place to find out about the blog's existence in casual conversation, as well as to be encouraged to write for it). How can we promote it more aggressively to combat this decline?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Another Community Promotion Ad?&lt;/strong&gt; I noticed that Worldbuilding has two blog-related CPAs: &lt;a href=&quot;https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5802/2235&quot;&gt;one&lt;/a&gt; for their blog itself, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5803/2235&quot;&gt;one&lt;/a&gt; inviting people to write for the blog. We could do something similar: as well as our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11672/31394&quot;&gt;existing ad&lt;/a&gt; for the blog itself, someone (you?) could create one which specifically invites people to &lt;em&gt;contribute&lt;/em&gt; to the blog, e.g. with a link to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/703/31394&quot;&gt;this meta post&lt;/a&gt; (or a new one if you decide that one's too old/outdated).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More presence in chat?&lt;/strong&gt; The blog chatroom has long frozen for inactivity. Jack still posts links in the Restaurant when new blog posts go up, but maybe there's a way to increase community participation via chat somehow? Scheduled events maybe? (I'm stabbing in the dark here; let me know if you can turn my ramblings into any sensible ideas.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;...?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-02-06T00:59:52.027" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11690" CreationDate="2018-02-06T08:06:41.393" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First things first. The quote had existed in Valorum's answer since March 4th 2014, just in link form, so nothing was &lt;em&gt;stolen&lt;/em&gt; from &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; answer the other day.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, let's take a look at the final paragraph in the supposed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9748/31394&quot;&gt;&quot;Policy&quot;&lt;/a&gt; for duplicate questions and apply it to the two answers at hand here and then some older &quot;policies&quot; from actual &lt;em&gt;users&lt;/em&gt; on this site on the same topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To avoid looking silly then, I would strongly recommend using answers as more of a litmus test than as a policy: &lt;strong&gt;if you're already pretty sure the questions are duplicates, testing the answers of one against the other can easily confirm your suspicions.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So don't use answers first, see if the questions are duplicates (or in this case reasonably similar) to justify looking at the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Getting past all the precursory information in the dupe we're left with &lt;em&gt;Can a maester's chain include multiple links of the same metal?&lt;/em&gt;. How does this relate to &lt;em&gt;How many links are needed to forge a chain? Are more links prestigious than others? How long does it typically take to earn a full chain?&lt;/em&gt; one might ask, well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The ability for a chain to include multiple links of the same metal is relevant to both the first and third questions. The ability to acquire multiple links directly affects how many subjects one is required to master to achieve a &quot;full chain&quot;. Given that multiple links are available, one does not have to master x subjects if x links are required for the chain.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The time taken to achieve a full chain in canon varies, however, if receiving multiple links of the same metal (for the same study) is easier than earning a link of a new metal, it would shorten the time required for the acolyte to &lt;a href=&quot;https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/earn+their+wings&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;earn their &quot;chain&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But don't close completely irrelevant questions as duplicates of one another simply because there's an animated gif that happens to apply to both...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now from the above bulletpoints we can see that this was not simply a matter of &quot;an animated gif that applies to both&quot; but a possibly significant point in the answer that affects 2/3s of the points raised by the original asker. Although it was originally just a link, taking the information from the link and putting it into the answer has not changed the answer in any way, it is therefore not vandalism. The information was not stolen from another answer without attribution and is therefore not plagiarism. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further from this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6944/why-is-the-close-as-duplicate-policy-so-aggressive-and-should-we-change-it&quot;&gt;older discussion&lt;/a&gt; on the matter, a high-rep, long-term active user suggests the benefits of duplicates, as well as the how the community tends to act and reasons for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We've already posted the information being searched for. Answering it again and again in multiple places makes the whole thing confusing as we start finding contradicting answers and information across the site (look at questions about &quot;The Rule of Two&quot; for an example of this). Users looking for the information get confused when there are more than one &quot;right&quot; answers or sources of information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If one wants to get into the details of the thought processes between myself and TheLethalCarrot in deciding its duplicacy, they can see it in our A Song of Ice and Fire chatroom starting from &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/42680042#42680042&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also worth noting that in the re-open review queue (I'll guess spurred by this question) there was a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/reopen/121162&quot;&gt;unanimous decision&lt;/a&gt; to leave the post closed as a duplicate. The decision was carried out by 3 very experienced reviewers, one of which is also very active in the tags in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68872" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2018-02-06T16:13:49.487" LastActivityDate="2018-02-06T16:13:49.487" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11690" CreationDate="2018-02-07T01:33:58.670" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answers should not determine whether a question is closed.&lt;/strong&gt;  Questions must stand alone.  I would like to highlight a specific comment which was made on this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Randal'Thor If [Valorum] ever edits [his answer to the dupe target] to remove that whole section, not just the quote, then I will [vote to] reopen the question. [...] &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not how this works.  We don't dupe against answers, we dupe against questions.  Duplication means &quot;&lt;em&gt;Any&lt;/em&gt; good answer to question A will also be a good answer to question B.&quot;  Since that is clearly not the case here, I have voted to reopen and encourage others to do the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastActivityDate="2018-02-07T01:33:58.670" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11686" CreationDate="2018-02-07T07:06:53.947" Score="13" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bottom line: I strongly suspect that this YouTube user stole the question concept and the answer for their video.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can't copyright a question or answer &lt;em&gt;concept&lt;/em&gt;.  Copyright controls text or presentation.  So even if someone does steal the idea of quoting particular sources, that's not copyrightable.  The sources might conceivably claim that their copyright is violated.  But if so, we're violating it too.  (The counter-argument in both cases would be fair use, but again, that applies to both the YouTube video and the Stack Exchange answer.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that said, those parts of the question and answer that are not quoted from other sources are under copyright.  It is unclear that the paraphrases are still covered under copyright, but they might be.  The correct people to report that would be Stack Exchange.  You can use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;contact us&lt;/a&gt; to let them know about it.  They may or may not take any action.  Presumably they have legal advice as to when they can and cannot claim a copyright violation.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is bothering you, the thing that you can do is report it.  At worst this wastes thirty seconds of someone's life to read it.  And it's possible that they will want to take some action.  If it's bothering you, let them make that decision.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that if the video had attributed its quotes, then this wouldn't be a problem.  They could claim either fair use or licensing under CC BY-SA with attribution.  But apparently they didn't do that (I have not watched the video, so I can't confirm that of my own knowledge; I'm relying on your report).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30870" LastActivityDate="2018-02-07T07:06:53.947" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11670" CreationDate="2018-02-09T14:45:36.580" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/40lIQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Movies &amp;amp; TV Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23386" LastEditorUserId="23386" LastEditDate="2018-02-10T03:19:16.333" LastActivityDate="2018-02-10T03:19:16.333" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11686" CreationDate="2018-02-09T18:06:08.100" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;First action should be direct confrontation, then escalate as necessary&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So after seeing this question, I decided to dig a little deeper. And what do you know, there's a whole lot more plagarism from here going on by this guy. Here's a few from around the same time a year ago:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/129118/how-did-darth-vader-know-the-rebel-base-was-on-hoth&quot;&gt;How did Darth Vader know the rebel base was on Hoth?&lt;/a&gt; (SE)&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8EhpIHhoAg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;How did Darth Vader Know The Rebel Base was on Hoth&lt;/a&gt; (Youtube)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/149343/why-was-vader-accompanied-by-the-imperial-royal-guard-on-mustafar&quot;&gt;Why was Vader accompanied by the Imperial Royal Guard on Mustafar?&lt;/a&gt; (SE)&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzW24Uga0qk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Why Royal Guards Guarded Darth Vader Only on Mustafar&lt;/a&gt; (Youtube)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/146989/why-could-palpatine-not-sense-the-good-in-darth-vader&quot;&gt;Why could Palpatine not sense the good in Darth Vader?&lt;/a&gt; (SE)&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHf--EnjaqU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Why Couldn't Palpatine Sense the Good in Darth Vader&lt;/a&gt; (Youtube)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this one was from just this last month:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/177879/why-didnt-yoda-go-to-ahch-to-instead-of-dagobah&quot;&gt;Why didn't Yoda go to Ahch-To instead of Dagobah?&lt;/a&gt; (SE)&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5t8jf0lDBI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Why Didn't Yoda go to Ahch-To on his Exile and NOT Dagobah!?&lt;/a&gt; (Youtube)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are all unmistakably blatant plagiarism, and the last one I linked in particular makes even less of an effort to hide it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While copyright claims and bringing awareness en masse are also fine, a better first approach to this and other situations like this is to move forward with the olive branch first. We should reach out (he has a Discord that someone could reach him privately on, for example) and point out that what he's doing is stealing and not ok. We can then work out with him what rectifying this looks like: including links back to any SE stuff he uses (past and future), and ultimately giving credit where it's due.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that fails, then we can proceed with the other options. This puts our best foot forward not for revenge, but for the outcome we want for proper crediting. And if he rejects it, well then we have his own confession or denial on our side to bring up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56571" LastEditorUserId="56571" LastEditDate="2018-02-09T18:12:00.710" LastActivityDate="2018-02-09T18:12:00.710" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10590" CreationDate="2018-02-10T02:18:56.803" Score="0" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Material for ad creation&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;(in case anyone else wants to make an ad along the same line as CreationEdge's)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The background images for the site can be found &lt;a href=&quot;https://cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/scifi/img/bg-header.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; (header) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/scifi/img/bg-site.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; (tile). I used these to create the following background image for ads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rmyYH.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rmyYH.png&quot; alt=&quot;ad background&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This image is the right aspect ratio for Community Promotion Ads, but the wrong size. In order to turn it into a proper ad, you need to put some tagline on it &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; reduce it to 300x250 or 600x500 pixels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just used this to create an ad for our site at &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4155/27759&quot;&gt;Movies &amp;amp; TV&lt;/a&gt;, using the Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy title fonts &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/976/design-for-science-fiction-fantasy?rq=1#comment2001_976&quot;&gt;Orbitron&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9596/31394&quot;&gt;Chopin Script&lt;/a&gt; for the taglines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-02-10T02:18:56.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11702" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11703" CreationDate="2018-02-10T19:41:26.300" Score="0" ViewCount="306" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a comment on this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/181182/are-there-any-transgender-characters-in-westeros&quot;&gt;a song of ice and fire - Are there any transgender characters in Westeros?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My comment was: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Anyone who thinks that Westeros is tough has never spent time in a&#xA;  transgender forum. :)&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was &lt;em&gt;instantly&lt;/em&gt; deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoroughly miffed and baffled, I then posted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Wow! Never have I seen a comment so instantly deleted! What gives?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This meta-comment was itself, more understandably, also deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here I am in Meta, for the first time, to find out what on Earth just happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user46249" LastEditorUserId="54887" LastEditDate="2018-02-26T06:14:36.397" LastActivityDate="2018-02-26T06:14:36.397" Title="Did this light-hearted one-line comment (based on experience!) breach some rule of the site?" Tags="|support|comments|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11702" CreationDate="2018-02-10T19:57:58.873" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about issues such as race and sexuality often attract some less-than-polite comments, and so moderators tend to be quite proactive about pruning comments on such questions. The last thing this site needs is an ugly fight in comments about hot-button issues. Even the questions themselves &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10018/31394&quot;&gt;can be controversial&lt;/a&gt;, let alone the comment sections.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your comment wasn't especially bad, but it certainly wasn't constructive or particularly relevant to the question at hand. It also &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be taken as offensive by some (for example, those who frequent transgender forums), so I thought it best to remove the comment before it could lead to a lengthier discussion. Don't take this as a reprimand or anything: comments are transitory by design, and they're being deleted all the time for a variety of reasons, usually nothing to do with offensiveness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for why your comment was deleted so &lt;em&gt;fast&lt;/em&gt;, that's because &lt;s&gt;mods are omnipresent&lt;/s&gt; I just happened to load the page and read that question and its comments about 1 minute after you commented :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-02-10T19:57:58.873" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11704" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-02-12T11:47:11.767" Score="-3" ViewCount="429" Body="&lt;p&gt;A question was asked today about Sirius Black and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/181283/godfather-sirius-black-dogfather-as-well&quot;&gt;whether or not he was a &quot;dogfather&quot;&lt;/a&gt; as well as a godfather. While initially not perfectly worded and receiving a couple of votes for &quot;unclear what you're asking&quot;, the OP refined their question and it would likely have remained open had it gone through the review queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the question may have been poorly received and begun off being confusing, the edits make it a perfectly on-topic question. It was certainly &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; opinion based in the state it was in when closed by a moderator considering that it was asking for &lt;strong&gt;&quot;any evidence that Sirius Black mated with other dogs&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that we have an established policy that questions without an explicit canon answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3017/68872&quot;&gt;are not to be closed&lt;/a&gt;. Although now a duplicate, this answer also suggests that &lt;em&gt;&quot;We don't know&quot;&lt;/em&gt; answers are acceptable (both of the above coming from a moderator).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything I'm not seeing that makes this Primarily Opinion Based. If not, is it okay for mods to use a Close Vote as a super down-vote? Especially given they have binding votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt; I'm aware I'm one of the close voters listed, but I had voted to close it as &quot;unclear&quot; before it had been edited to be a coherent question. I have since voted to re-open it as it is an on-topic question even if I disagree with the content.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68872" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2018-02-12T21:54:29.140" LastActivityDate="2018-02-19T13:46:36.493" Title="Why was the question about Sirius Black possibly fathering canine children closed as Primarily Opinion Based by a moderator" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="27" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11686" CreationDate="2018-02-12T19:01:21.460" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can do nothing; it's not ours, it's SE's. And no, there's no difference between code being copy-and-pasted and otherwise. It's all &quot;Content&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You grant Stack Exchange the perpetual and irrevocable right&lt;/strong&gt; and license to use, copy, cache, publish, display, distribute, modify, create derivative works and store such Subscriber Content and to allow others to do so in any medium now known or hereinafter developed (“Content License”) in order to provide the Services, even if such Subscriber Content has been contributed and subsequently removed by You.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And unless that poster is benefiting financially to the point it'd be worth suing them, I don't think SE can (or rather, will) do anything either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Any other downloading, copying, or storing &lt;strong&gt;any Content for other than personal, noncommercial use is expressly prohibited&lt;/strong&gt; without prior written permission from Stack Exchange, or from the copyright holder identified in such Content's copyright notice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;– &lt;a href=&quot;https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/1096/re-our-mass-infringement-is-learnhub-doing-anything-illegal&quot;&gt;Re: “Our mass infringement”, is LearnHub doing anything illegal?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO this is like Wiki complaining that all we do is c&amp;amp;p their pages. You talk about views as if this is personal for you, but I don't think that poster would have to link anything, they'd just have to &lt;em&gt;say&lt;/em&gt; something like, &quot;Source: SE.com&quot;, meaning: if you're after street cred you won't get it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;[Surely we don't &lt;em&gt;mind&lt;/em&gt; if someone wants to put in all the time and effort that we do on our posts to turn our work into niffy little videos by people without regard to attribution of random people on the web?]&quot; – Abraham Lincoln&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You call it &quot;our work&quot;. It was before you clicked &lt;em&gt;post&lt;/em&gt;. After that it belongs to Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having yet another video that says it's unavailable in my country, because it was eating into SE's ad revenue, would be a worse situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23785" LastActivityDate="2018-02-12T19:01:21.460" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11704" CreationDate="2018-02-13T00:36:54.163" Score="1" Body="&lt;h1&gt;The question should be reopened&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll leave to one side the point about moderators, which is discussed in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should the question have been closed as primarily opinion-based?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, no. I can understand why the question was closed originally, as in its original form it was unclear. I can also sympathise with those who wanted to close it as opinion-based, since the events it describes don't occur in canon, nor are they hinted at in any way. Nevertheless, the question once edited was clear and objective: did Sirius procreate whilst an Animagi? The question was reopened, and rightly so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should the question have been closed as being off-topic?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Absolutely not. The question currently has the following close notice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question does not appear to be about science fiction or fantasy within the scope defined in the help center.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't true, and we all know it. The question clearly &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; about sci-fi and fantasy, given that it's about Sirius Black and his activities as an Animagi. The question was not closed because anybody thinks that it is not a question about sci-fi and fantasy. Let's at least be honest about that point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect that the real reason the question was closed was because its tone and content were determined to be distasteful, overly graphic or obscene. This is reflected in Valorum's comment, which garnered six upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because questions about bestiality are not suitable for a family-orientated website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet this isn't the close reason that was given (not sci-fi or fantasy). Closing questions under by artificially pretending that they're something that they're not is not helpful or constructive. The priority for some appears to have been to close the question by any means necessary, regardless of whether the close option selected was applicable or not. The question &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; about sci-fi and fantasy and so should be reopened, regardless of whether it's flavour of the month or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, finding something in poor taste is a perfectly valid reason to &lt;em&gt;downvote&lt;/em&gt; a question. It is not a reason to close a question which is otherwise on-topic. By the way, I'm not seeking to defend the question, which is bad and deserves the downvotes it's getting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What should happen next?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I see it, two things need to happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, the question should be reopened. The close reason is inappropriate and should be reversed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the community has clearly made its view clear that these sorts of questions are not welcome on the site. The problem seems not to be with questions about mature themes, sexuality or bestiality, all of which have precedent on the site. The problem is with sexual questions which are unnecessarily gratuitous and salacious - and which are nowhere suggested in the source material. Since this &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10317/why-were-these-questions-about-sexual-assault-in-the-harry-potter-franchise-dele&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;isn't the first time this topic has come up&lt;/a&gt; it would seem to be an ongoing problem. The community wants a way to close these questions but there isn't one in the current set-up. I'd suggest a new close reason, probably to be decided upon in  a new meta question, along the lines of 'This question concerns sexual acts which don't appear in the source material'. We should edit the description of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;on-topic topics&lt;/a&gt; to specifically debar these questions. This would allow all users (including new users) to have a means of knowing that these questions aren't welcome and the users who don't want them a means of validly closing them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should the question be deleted?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since it has two delete votes I thought I'd add my two cents on this as well. No, it shouldn't - partly because it would involve losing &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.scifi.stackexchange.com/a/181286/64888&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ibid's strong answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64888" LastEditorUserId="64888" LastEditDate="2018-02-13T00:43:59.393" LastActivityDate="2018-02-13T00:43:59.393" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11708" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11709" CreationDate="2018-02-13T01:47:30.983" Score="9" ViewCount="318" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, someone asked this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/181346/36526&quot;&gt;Short story about a starship captain who&amp;#39;s only eligible to run for President of the USA if you don&amp;#39;t allow for time dilation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The asker states that they did not personally read the story in question, but instead copies someone else's description of the story from a web forum.  It seems like the asker may not be able to determine whether any given answer is correct, nor provide additional details.  On the other hand, these questions can certainly have perfectly &quot;good&quot; answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are story ID questions like this, in which the asker never actually read the story in question, allowed?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="36526" LastEditDate="2018-02-13T02:14:36.313" LastActivityDate="2018-02-13T08:12:19.393" Title="Are secondhand story ID questions OK?" Tags="|discussion|scope|story-identification|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11708" CreationDate="2018-02-13T03:10:04.673" Score="19" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Yes&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Because, more rep&lt;/s&gt; These questions are fine and totally on-topic. In fact, we've had some good ones too:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/152810/b-movie-spaceship-uses-chickens-as-a-power-source-planets-shaped-like-butts&quot;&gt;B-Movie. Spaceship uses chickens as a power-source. Planets shaped like butts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/87600/sci-fi-book-where-kids-are-sent-on-a-suicide-mission-to-a-black-hole&quot;&gt;sci-fi book where kids are sent on a suicide mission to a black hole?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/178084/book-id-girl-who-steals-magic-from-her-reflections&quot;&gt;Book ID: Girl who steals magic from her reflections&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/160805/does-anyone-know-what-this-fantasy-script-is-from&quot;&gt;Does anyone know what this fantasy script is from?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at it this way, what if my mother, who doesn't use the computer much, randomly remembers something and asks me about it. Are we to stop her from finding the answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem would be &lt;strong&gt;acceptance&lt;/strong&gt;: it would be difficult for the OP to determine the &lt;em&gt;correct&lt;/em&gt; answer correctly, but that's really only up to the OP - if &lt;em&gt;they're&lt;/em&gt; ok to accept an answer, then who are we to say that it didn't match &lt;em&gt;their&lt;/em&gt; criteria?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd go so far as to even say that since the OP is proactive enough to repost or post on behalf of someone, they're willing to be somewhat invested in the outcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-02-13T03:10:04.673" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11690" CreationDate="2018-02-13T05:39:36.077" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are still people on this site who think that answers somehow magically make questions into duplicates, even though that totally misses the whole point of the Stack Exchange model. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;We're not gonna answer your question, because on this other question which happens to be about the same show but is otherwise unrelated, one of the three answers happens to mention in an aside a factoid that, if you squint and tilt your head just right, could possibly sorta-kinda answer your question. But good luck finding the relevant sentence fragment in all that text. Oh, and mwa ha ha ha ha.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is no different than the old forum model of tech support on the internet: before Stack Overflow, it used to be, you'd find a thread where one of the replies clearly had the same problem as you, and then you'd have to read through three pages of posts from people of dubious expertise (and even more dubious English writing ability) to see if someone maybe mentioned a factoid that could help you. This is the model that Stack Overflow, and Stack Exchange after it, &lt;strong&gt;repudiated&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If two questions are duplicates, then EVERY good answer to one will answer the other. EVERY SINGLE GOOD ANSWER. Otherwise, the questions are &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="348" LastActivityDate="2018-02-13T05:39:36.077" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11712" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11714" CreationDate="2018-02-13T06:40:42.860" Score="-12" ViewCount="269" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is one of my questions that was posted yesterday. Here, one particular user had posted an answer that was an unprovoked, rude and abusive. I flagged it. I saw that certain moderators ie. high-rep users were actually on the site. I waited, thinking that the one of them would actually step in, and the answer would be atleast downvoted/flagged/deleted. On hindsight, I realize that I was too naive to actually think this, just because a post regarding Narnia I had flagged as rude/abusive got auto-deleted by the system within minutes, and even then I do not have close/open privileges. I just flagged it with limited powers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, the opposite happened, the rude/abusive answer got a few upvotes, and that's when I saw red, and retaliated by name-calling. Immediately, within seconds of posting my retaliatory response, this particular user, he swooped down and rebuked me that if I were  going to complain about rude/abusive posts,I shouldn't be retaliating with the same kind of posts. But now those comments have been purged. I heard him, I retracted my post, saying that I had been immature to do so. And then again, I &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;waited&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. After waiting, I called him out on his behaviour. Why did he censure me and not that user? He censured my retaliatory statement, but he failed to censure the other user's. He told me something unexpected. He told me that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I had no grounds to complain about bias, because I had no way of knowing whether or not he flagged the offensive post or not&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. I was expecting him to deny being biased, but the above statement implied that even if he were biased, I couldn't actually do anything about it. But I told him that I can see vote counts on my question, and that he didn't even &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;try to moderate.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Then, he just fell silent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Am I wrong in thinking that that particular user was biased?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;High-rep users have powers to moderate, but they don't seem to have the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;binding policy restrictions&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; that the diamond-mods have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it wasn't just him. It was also the other members who closed my question, who were online at that time. If any of them were online, they didn't show it. I had to retract my rude/abusive flag, and raise a mod flag, which is supposed to be the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;last line of defense&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. A diamond-mod edited the question to remove the offending part. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;But was that enough?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user who posted about Narnia,whose vote was auto deleted as rude/abusive due to flags: His public profile no longer exists on this site! That means he's been deleted/suspended from using this site. And he had just signed up, he hadn't even been a member for a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;full day&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that user has been a member of this site, for 3 years and 1 month. What was the penalty awarded to this user, who must have known by now what constitutes as rude/abusive? Now, you might be tempted to mention that I was also involved in name-calling, but I would remind you that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I accepted the censure, owned upto it and removed the offending comment.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; The user's offending answer is still visible when you click on the 'Edited' icon. The person hasn't even admitted the mistake. Is it because of the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;subtle endorsement&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; by the high-rep users, who seem to have mistaken &lt;em&gt;poor taste&lt;/em&gt; for &lt;em&gt;wit&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Isn't it incongruent that a new user gets punished more on his first day, than a user who has spent three years on this site?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another user has pointed out to me that this is a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;family oriented website&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; for 13+ ages. In that context, if you're able to access some of the deleted comments, from that post, you might see how I, a 22-yr old, had to argue in order to just &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;establish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; that the post was offending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Did you perhaps think that a 13-yr-old would be thrilled to be insulted by @, and censured by high rep mods?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And they don't even have the power to flag posts until they get a 15-rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The unofficial policy seems to be:&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;'Let the noobs(new users) fend for themselves'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;EDIT&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've edited out the other offending user's name in this post. I think this would be better anyway now that I'm leaving this site. I feel now that I don't want this single mistake of the offending user to be immortalized in meta. If you feel this is better, you should do it in the answers too. It would be better if the user's name is anonymized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user88577" LastEditorDisplayName="user88577" LastEditDate="2018-02-14T11:51:27.280" LastActivityDate="2018-02-14T22:12:59.337" Title="Possible bias shown by high-rep moderators on a particular post?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11712" CreationDate="2018-02-13T08:01:24.747" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's start with the &quot;offensive&quot; content...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;and if this included same sex relationships this would still be fine, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't. Both of these issues come from inside the head of the person with the problem.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;sub&gt;(from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/181296/revisions&quot;&gt;revision history&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This appears to be the content that offended you. I'm assuming that you interpreted it as referring to people who have same-sex relationships as having a problem or something. This is not how I'm interpreting it - I'm seeing it as saying that if someone considers that inappropriate in a childrens book that they would have a problem. It's a little ambiguous, but I don't think that it's intended to be offensive at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Narnia answer you refer to is &lt;em&gt;absolutely nothing&lt;/em&gt; like this answer. That &quot;answer&quot; was intended to be offensive - saying things about how the characters get raped by a beaver and then become murderers and rapists themselves. Absolutely offensive, and nothing like the answer you're referring to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But I told him that I can see vote counts on my question, and that he didn't even try to moderate. Then, he just fell silent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does the vote count have to do with anything? People are allowed to vote how they want, with the exception of voting fraud and targeted voting. There was nothing to moderate there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;High-rep users only have moderation powers in that the more rep you have, you can do more things. At 2k rep you can edit, 3k you can vote to close, 10k view deleted posts and vote to delete old closed questions, and 20kers can vote to delete negatively scored answers. Only diamond moderators can see flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if something can be edited to fix the &quot;offensive&quot; part... &lt;em&gt;don't flag as Rude/Abusive&lt;/em&gt;. R/A flags carry a pretty big penalty, as you saw with the Narnia answer - 6 of them will automatically delete and lock the post, and the user will receive a -100 reputation loss. It's only to be used for &lt;em&gt;serious&lt;/em&gt; cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, I don't think that anyone was being biased. You must abide to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;Be Nice&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;em&gt;all times&lt;/em&gt;, irrespective of what other users are doing. He took the correct course of action in correcting you. And I don't think that the answer in question was actually offensive, so... no, he wasn't being biased; he's a competent mod who's doing a very good job of something that is usually a thankless task.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Did you perhaps think that a 13-yr-old would be thrilled to be insulted by that user, and censured by high rep mods?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm 15 years old. And I'll reiterate that I'm perfectly fine with that content, and that nobody was being biased or censured or anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So TL;DR: &lt;strong&gt;No, nobody was being biased. The diamond moderator in question took the correct course of action, and you overreacted.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2018-02-14T22:12:59.337" LastActivityDate="2018-02-14T22:12:59.337" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11712" CreationDate="2018-02-13T12:03:57.990" Score="12" Body="&lt;h2&gt;On moderators and high-rep users&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you may have slightly misunderstood some of the differences between high-rep users and diamond moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I flagged it. I saw that certain moderators ie. high-rep users were actually on the site. I waited, thinking that the one of them would actually step in, and the answer would be atleast downvoted/flagged/deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flags are only visible to diamond moderators.&lt;/strong&gt; High-rep users can handle a lot of moderation tasks such as voting, closing questions, and deleting posts, and sometimes these actions automatically handle flags raised by other users (e.g. if you flag a post as &amp;quot;very low quality&amp;quot; and it's later deleted by high-rep users, the system will mark your flag helpful), but they can't see who flagged what or manually 'handle' those flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when you raised a moderator flag on the post which offended you, it had to wait to be handled by a diamond moderator: in this case, Null, who removed the offending content from the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, the opposite happened, the rude/abusive answer got a few upvotes, and that's when I saw red, and retaliated by name-calling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Retaliating in kind is never appropriate.&lt;/strong&gt; From the site's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/be-nice&quot;&gt;Be Nice policy&lt;/a&gt;: &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;If you see a hostile interaction, flag it. If it keeps up, disengage — we'll handle it.&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did he censure me and not that user? He censured my retaliatory statement, but he failed to censure the other user's. He told me something unexpected. He told me that I had no grounds to complain about bias, because I had no way of knowing whether or not he flagged the offensive post or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is correct. Like I said before, flags aren't visible to non-moderators, so for all you know, it's possible he flagged the answer too. And if he didn't, perhaps it's because he found your comment more offensive than the answer. And &lt;strong&gt;there's no particular requirement for him to be unbiased.&lt;/strong&gt; Diamond moderators are expected to be impartial (and in matters where they can't be, to leave it to &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; diamond moderators to handle); high-rep users, not so much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;On new and established users&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user who posted about Narnia,whose vote was auto deleted as rude/abusive due to flags: His public profile no longer exists on this site! That means he's been deleted/suspended from using this site. And he had just signed up, he hadn't even been a member for a full day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume you mean &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/181224/31394&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;. Since you don't have the 10k rep required to view deleted posts, I'll post its contents here, and also for good measure the content of the answer which offended you and of your rude comment thereon:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Narnia answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the 4 children go to Narnia, they are brutally molested by Soldier #5 and the beavers. They try and go back for more as their minds were completely perverted by the encounters, and found nothing but dusty old shams and overcoats in the wardrobe. To their dismay, they sob and sob and daydream for the next 23 years about how amazing it would be to just have one more go at that furry little pecked from papa beaver. In the hidden chronicles of narnia, that was released solely by hustler, it goes into more detail about how they spent the next couple decades raping and murdering the town folk in hope that one day they would prove worthy of a return to narnia, for a good old fashioned beaver butt rape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The relevant part of the Harry Potter answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sexuality of the characters is never mentioned beyond lists of who married who and if this included same sex relationships this would still be fine, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't. Both of these issues come from inside the head of the person with the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your comment on the latter:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second sentence of your comment indicates that you haven't actually read the question that's been linked in this question. I would like users with a certain level of sapience to try to answer my question. Otherwise, please don't try to answer. We've already got enough cretins as it is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/292940/278659&quot;&gt;often futile to try to 'measure' offensiveness&lt;/a&gt;, I don't think anyone would disagree that the first of the three quotes above is the most inappropriate. When we see content like this posted by a brand-new user, there's no reason to think they're going to contribute constructively to the site. One of the standard reasons for moderators to delete a user is &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;This user was created to post spam or nonsense &lt;strong&gt;and has no other positive participation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; (emphasis mine). Someone who joins the site just to post rape jokes doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt. That's the reason why the Narnia answerer's account was deleted; an established user posting the same thing would likely be suspended instead. And users posting less offensive content such as the 2nd and 3rd quotes above might get away without even a suspension, as happened in this case. Incidentally, this probably also explains why someone responded to your comment by telling you off for rudeness, without doing the same to the answerer: because calling people &amp;quot;cretins&amp;quot; and insulting their &amp;quot;sapience&amp;quot; is more rude, or at least more directly rude, than saying that certain issues come from inside someone's head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR: how much a user is 'punished' for rudeness generally depends on how rude they were.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope this helps to address your concerns, and that you won't quit the site over something like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-02-14T22:12:17.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11715" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11716" CreationDate="2018-02-13T16:26:50.893" Score="5" ViewCount="237" Body="&lt;p&gt;This relates to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/52656/name-of-a-sci-fi-book-where-humanity-is-rebuilt-on-a-new-planet-after-being-wi/113912#113912&quot;&gt;Name of a Sci-Fi Book, where humanity is rebuilt on a new planet, after being wiped out&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ArtSabintsev posted the question in 2014, and stated in a comment Oldcat's answer that it was &lt;em&gt;Safehold&lt;/em&gt;, that JohnP's post of it being &quot;Helm&quot; was the correct one. When O.M.Y. posted in 2016 more details about &lt;em&gt;Safehold&lt;/em&gt;, the querent said that was the correct one. Given we have a notice in 2017 that the wrong answer was tagged correct, I moved the Dupe target of a few questions over to instead point to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/37907/novels-based-on-humanity-fleeing-from-earth-and-regressing-to-a-pre-industrial?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;Novel(s) based on humanity fleeing from Earth and regressing to a pre-industrial state on a Colony so as to escape detection&lt;/a&gt;, which was the next best accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not certain if I goofed in assuming that ArtSabintsev did indeed accept the wrong answer or not. I don't think I hurt anything by changing the dupe target, but I also wanted to fess up to the community in case I did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2019-08-12T21:20:38.713" Title="Ambiguous dupe situation" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11715" CreationDate="2018-02-14T09:04:23.653" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There isn't much of a question to answer but I wanted to document the evidence that the correct answer to this question is in fact the Safehold series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While you've done nothing wrong, with changing the dupe target, and it was probably a safe bet to do so, there wasn't really a need to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can break the timeline of events down into two specific time periods:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;End of March 2014 and initial acceptance,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Beginning of January 2016 and change of acceptance.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;End of March 2014&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two answers were posted around the same time, the first by JohnP suggesting Helm  by Stephen Gould. The second by Oldcat proposing David Weber's Safehold series. With these two synopsis at hand, the OP had felt that Gould's Helm was the closer of the two, stating:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the one! &lt;strong&gt;This sounds exactly right!&lt;/strong&gt; Wow! So excited to read this now!&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/52656/name-of-a-sci-fi-book-where-humanity-is-rebuilt-on-a-new-planet-after-being-wi/113912#comment101127_52664&quot;&gt;ArtSabintsev - March 27th 2014&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Art's wording, we can guess that it was a closer match as opposed to the objectively right answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He'd also granted JohnP the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/12305/johnp?tab=reputation&amp;amp;sort=post&amp;amp;page=9&quot;&gt;accept on the same day&lt;/a&gt; (as time goes on the page number will change, the accept is noted under the rep for the post in quetion on the 27th of March 2014)/&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Beginning of January 2016&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question stayed in this state for close on 2 years, until another user, O.M.Y, answered on the 7th of January 2016. This user was adamant about the book the OP was looking for being the Safehold series and provided a separate synopsis from the one provided by Oldcat, going on to explain his thoughts on why it couldn't be Helm (too old for the New Releases section) as well as providing the name of the protagonist and the book titles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the additional information, the OP returned and exclaimed his joy at O.M.Y. confirming it was in fact the Safehold series, stating:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;YES! This is it!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/52656/name-of-a-sci-fi-book-where-humanity-is-rebuilt-on-a-new-planet-after-being-wi/113912#comment274739_113912&quot;&gt;ArtSabintsev - January 7th 2016&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... Reading your description jogged/jiggled my memory - this was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much!&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/52656/name-of-a-sci-fi-book-where-humanity-is-rebuilt-on-a-new-planet-after-being-wi/113912#comment274812_113912&quot;&gt;ArtSabintsev - January 7th 2016&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After O.M.Y's answer, ArtSabintsev granted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/52667/timeline#vote_908321&quot;&gt;Oldcat the accept&lt;/a&gt; and in doing so knowingly &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/12305/johnp?tab=reputation&amp;amp;sort=post&amp;amp;page=5&quot;&gt;unaccepted JohnP's answer&lt;/a&gt; (as above, documented on January 7th 2016).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the passage of events it seems clear ArtSabintsev is certain the series is the Safehold series, and the similarities in the Helm book was just a slip up on OPs part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68872" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-02-14T09:04:23.653" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11712" CreationDate="2018-02-14T10:31:56.263" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that this should not be an answer, but I request that you leave it as such, as this will be my last post as Mr.Riddle. It’s upto you. You can downvote it to negative infinity as you like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've edited out the other offending user's name in the question. I think this would be better anyway now that I'm leaving this site. I feel now that I don't want this single mistake of the offending user to be immortalized in meta. If you feel this is better, you should do it in the answers and the comments too. It would be better if the user's name is anonymized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, thank you, &lt;strong&gt;Rand’ Al Thor&lt;/strong&gt;, for deigning to answer my question, after reading through it fully, instead of just defending the community, as Mithrander tried to without even reading my question properly. And thank you for the last line in your answer, irrespective of whether it is a standard line to a user who is about to quit or not. I accept your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn’t misunderstand the differences between moderators and high-rep users. I just felt that when a high-rep user exercises a privilege that is contained in the Moderation privileges tab, he must do it without bias, irrespective of whether he is a diamond-moderator or not. But I realize now that I was wrong about one thing, regarding voting being allowed as a like/dislike feature, as Mithrander pointed out in his/her answer. Users are allowed to vote an answer as good, even if it is offensive or in poor taste according to their preferences. But Voting Up and Voting Down are listed as Moderation privileges, under the Moderation Privileges tab. Maybe that was just a technical flaw that I took too seriously. Maybe it’s just in the letter of the law and not in the spirit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To phantom42&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If editing the offensive part of the answer is the solution for mildly offensive posts, as Mithrander pointed out, you could have edited the offensive part of the answer yourself as you have enough reputation, without acting as a bystander, without waiting for a diamond-moderator. I would have done it for anyone. Since you didn’t do that, I could only take it as a subtle endorsement of the offending user’s entire post. Whether that was your intention or not, that is how it seemed. And, if a user accuses you of bias, you either deny the accusation, or say that you weren’t online at the time and didn’t read the offending answer fully, or you explain why it wasn’t offensive if it wasn’t. You may not need to defend yourself to every arbitrary person who feels offended. But I accused you specifically because you commented to me on my mistake, and without commenting against the other person's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This incident must have been distasteful to you. But please don’t feel that you shouldn’t respond the next time someone singles you out in a comment. You were courageous enough to respond. Now, Mycroft Holmes may have said that &lt;em&gt;Bravery is by far the kindest word for stupidity&lt;/em&gt;. But that would apply only in a fight against a powerful enemy, if you’re outnumbered. And I am not an enemy, just a new user, and the numbers are still on your side. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;And lastly, to the user who offended me&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: I didn’t realize that I had to say this before, because I was angry. I got a small clue about this when F1Krazy posted a comment yesterday. To others, this may not be necessary, but to you it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;I am not against homosexuality&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;. Sherlock Holmes and Mycroft Holmes from BBC Sherlock are two of my favorite icons. And Mark Gatiss, who plays Mycroft Holmes is gay. I may not be a beacon of light who fights for LGBT rights. But I have nothing against them. And I didn’t say that homosexuality should be excluded from children’s books. I apologize if I gave you that impression. I just felt that JKR hesitated in adding them to the seven main books, because she must have felt that LGBT haters could have created a controversy, that could ruin her career. So, she probably felt that it was better to gain a huge fanbase that respected her, before she revealed Dumbledore as gay. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;But you should realize that there are other people like you who are quick to provoke others for perceived misunderstandings on homosexuality, and such people may have played a huge role in pushing ordinary neutral heterosexuals into becoming LGBT haters. This is just raw speculation, but I thought you should now, particularly if you champion their cause.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To others&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just thought of a question, that you could raise in meta if you wish. When you downvoted down the above question to -11, it struck me. This question in meta was not an intellectual discussion. It was an &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;airing of grievances&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. When I’m doing that, do you think that I care about whether you like/dislike the question? When you downvote meta posts on seeking redressal on grievances, it reduces my reputation. Doesn’t this suggest to a new user that if high rep-users dislike you complaining against them, then their rep would be at stake? If you think that the user is deliberately antagonizing the community with the complaint, then you have the power to say so by answering his post or commenting on it, like many of you have done in the comments. That should be enough. If you keep voting down complaints against you, then why would a new user complain at all? And also , I’ve seen a few posts with this phrase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“If you have a problem with how I moderate, feel free to raise it in meta”&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How are we supposed to protest anything at all, with the threat of loss of reputation? Maybe this has already been addressed, maybe not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Finally&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’ve gained some good things from this site. But mostly, you seem to have made a lawyer out of me, even if people in real life call me passive. I will keep visiting the site for story-id questions and watch the corresponding movies. I don’t need a public profile to do that. I hope you wont remove such questions as it was done Movies and TV.SFF  I undeleted this account to post this and I will re-delete it now. By quitting this site, I will only be waiving my privileges to post questions/comments/answers. My highest achievement in this site is posting the question on Umbridge, I think. And I do feel slightly bad that my only two posts in meta have to be complaints. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;If I was right in defending myself, I’m not sure that I see the point in defending myself anymore. If I was wrong, and if this was all just whining and exaggeration, I’m not a good fit for this site.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; I wish this site and everyone on this site longevity and prosperity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Goodbye&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user88577" LastEditorDisplayName="user88577" LastEditDate="2018-02-14T11:54:53.793" LastActivityDate="2018-02-14T11:54:53.793" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11718" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11719" CreationDate="2018-02-15T09:44:03.767" Score="9" ViewCount="240" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180820/931&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180820/931&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had deleted this question after it was marked duplicate and I really hadn't done much research before asking it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, about an hour ago, some users undeleted it. I am curious to know why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it really add any value to the site seeing it doesn't have any answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I deleted it again because system would delete it anyway because it has negative votes and zero answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2018-02-17T19:42:58.287" Title="Why are people interested in undeleting this question?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="13" ClosedDate="2018-02-25T16:28:34.037" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11718" CreationDate="2018-02-15T10:11:52.277" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably because &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7944/33591&quot;&gt;deleting duplicate questions is discouraged&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a very clear meta consensus, and it's even tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;. To quote from the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If I post a question after searching and determining it hasn't been asked. And later find out, on my own or by a fellow user that the question is a possible duplicate. Is it encouraged to delete the questions, or should I wait for the consensus of users that vote to close it ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the answer states very clearly&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;No&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;DO NOT DO THIS&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I wouldn't vote to undelete a duplicate that's been downvoted so heavily, but I can see why people would.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2018-02-17T19:42:58.287" LastActivityDate="2018-02-17T19:42:58.287" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11720" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-02-15T16:58:52.410" Score="7" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following question:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/175758/why-does-captain-lorca-care-about-scattered-pockets-of-negative-mass&quot;&gt;Why does Captain Lorca care about scattered pockets of negative mass?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was was asked mid-way through Discovery's first season.  Now that season one is over I'm wondering if there is anyway on the site to have this question reviewed?  I'm not saying the answer is right or wrong, but a lot more information is now known about the subject.  And I'm wondering about an answer to a question like this mid way through a season or a trilogy etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So should we have a way/Is there a way to say to the question author, are you still happy with the answer or should this now be reviewed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3731" LastActivityDate="2018-02-15T17:09:49.060" Title="When the answer to a question may have changed is there a way to recommend a review?" Tags="|support|feature-request|question-quality|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11720" CreationDate="2018-02-15T17:09:49.060" Score="13" Body="&lt;h2&gt;To get an updated answer&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/bounty&quot;&gt;bounty&lt;/a&gt; reason for that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SdE79.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SdE79.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of bounty popup&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;To get the OP to review acceptance&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no certain or by-design way of doing this. Just ping them in a comment (assuming they're still an active user and likely to see your ping, which in this case the OP is).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, if there's already an accepted answer and &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a new answer reflecting recent updates, you could ping the existing answerer in a comment asking them to update their answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-02-15T17:09:49.060" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11670" CreationDate="2018-02-17T12:01:36.880" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://space.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BJhLO.png&quot; alt=&quot;Space Exploration Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-02-17T21:41:44.273" LastActivityDate="2018-02-17T21:41:44.273" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11670" CreationDate="2018-02-17T14:38:54.267" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.pottermore.com/writing-by-jk-rowling&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zszGw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Original Writing by J.K. Rowling&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-02-17T14:47:45.027" LastActivityDate="2018-02-17T14:47:45.027" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11725" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-02-18T18:38:56.427" Score="1" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that we have both a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; tag and a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; tag. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; tag has 1,008 questions, while &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; has 879, 32 of which overlap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What exactly is the difference between these two tags? We aren't exactly going to deal with books that &lt;em&gt;aren't&lt;/em&gt; novels here. &lt;em&gt;Is&lt;/em&gt; there any difference? Should they be merged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2018-02-18T19:11:34.187" Title="What's the difference between [novel] and [books]?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ClosedDate="2018-02-19T19:21:41.797" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11725" CreationDate="2018-02-18T18:55:11.143" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obviously there's a difference: every novel is a book, but not every book is a novel. The question is, do we need both the more general tag and the more specific one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've actually &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/62/31394&quot;&gt;been over this before&lt;/a&gt;. I was about to close this question as a duplicate of the 7-year-old one, but maybe it's worth having this discussion again: things have changed in the last 7 years, and indeed there are a couple of newer answers to the old question which have hardly had any attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what I said in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7915/31394&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt; over there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Split &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Whether or not it makes sense to have media tags at all (a discussion that seems to be still ongoing), it's undeniable that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; is a broader tag than the others. We don't have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/screen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;screen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;screen&lt;/a&gt; tag to cover both films and TV, so why should we have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; tag to cover both novels and short stories?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If we get rid of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt;, then our media tags become less confusing and have no overlap:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But looking at this again now, I'd add that &lt;strong&gt;this would involve so much retagging that it's probably not worth doing&lt;/strong&gt;. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; tag may be mostly redundant when we have both &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt; (although it could still be useful for e.g. ID questions where the OP doesn't remember how long the story is), but it's not doing any &lt;em&gt;harm&lt;/em&gt;. And it's certainly OK to have subtags and supertags, as for example we have tags for both &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tng&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tng&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tng&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tos&lt;/a&gt;, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As was pointed out in comments, though (and also in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7914/31394&quot;&gt;CreationEdge's answer&lt;/a&gt; on the old thread), it may be that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; is being used mostly for questions about novels. In this case, the issue would be relatively easy to solve, by merging &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; and manually retagging those few questions which are currently tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; but aren't about novels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2018-02-18T19:11:34.187" LastActivityDate="2018-02-18T19:11:34.187" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11704" CreationDate="2018-02-19T02:20:42.810" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question should stay closed, and be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Setting aside the original question, which was too broad (3 separate questions) and primarily opinion based (speculation on a theory of conspiracy seemingly unsupported by any evidence), the edited question is still seemingly both primarily opinion based due to the part about the status of any offspring, and too broad due to asking two distinct questions.  As was pointed out in comments, just because the two questions seem related does not mean that they actually are; you can't know that without knowing the answer, and given Rowling's stance on sexuality in her books, its pretty unlikely that no canon answer would address this in a way to let us know how related or unrelated the two questions are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note the part of the answer relevant to the offspring (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'd &lt;strong&gt;guess&lt;/strong&gt; the offspring would be dogs (&lt;strong&gt;if any offspring could/does exist&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if the answer includes a guess, that's opinion based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question were just about whether Sirius had any children while in Animagus form, I suppose it could be on topic... just a terrible question (as demonstrated by the number of downvotes, and the absence of upvotes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that it is currently both highly downvoted, and off topic, I think it is perfectly appropriate to delete it.  Leaving it as-is is a broken window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="1359" LastEditDate="2018-02-19T13:46:36.493" LastActivityDate="2018-02-19T13:46:36.493" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11728" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-02-19T19:28:39.487" Score="37" ViewCount="1261" Body="&lt;p&gt;While we have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1582/31394&quot;&gt;long&lt;/a&gt;-&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3046/31394&quot;&gt;standing&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5038/31394&quot;&gt;policy&lt;/a&gt; that it's OK to ask about adult topics here - everything from sex to rape to bestiality - there have also been quite a number of questions in recent years which have stirred up controversy and disagreement within the community as to how they should be handled. Even mods exercising their discretion to close or delete such questions has often been met with resistance. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/142810/31394&quot;&gt;Has George R. R. Martin described the color of Daenerys' pubic hair in any book?&lt;/a&gt; - VTCed, deleted, undeleted; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10251/31394&quot;&gt;ensuing meta discussion&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/144298/31394&quot;&gt;Did Draco Malfoy sexually assault Hermione Granger?&lt;/a&gt; - closed, deleted, reopened, undeleted, closed, deleted, undeleted, deleted; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10317/31394&quot;&gt;ensuing meta discussion&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/181283/31394&quot;&gt;Godfather, Sirius Black - Dogfather as well?&lt;/a&gt; - closed, reopened, closed, deleted, undeleted, had more VTROs but now 2 VTDs; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11704/31394&quot;&gt;ensuing meta discussion&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mod-deletion of such questions isn't a new thing: e.g. see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/83396/31394&quot;&gt;What's the stamina of Wolverine on bed?&lt;/a&gt; from 2015, although in that case the community &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6691/31394&quot;&gt;seemed fairly unanimous against the question&lt;/a&gt; and it didn't cause much controversy. On the other hand, we've also had many questions about sex and even &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/15382/31394&quot;&gt;rape and bestiality in children's books&lt;/a&gt; which have been well-received. Even recently, we have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11441/31394&quot;&gt;clear policy&lt;/a&gt; that being about erotica shouldn't be a reason to consider story-ID questions off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many of these questions have attracted custom moderator flags going &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; ways: some people flag to say &quot;this question is inappropriate and should be deleted&quot; and others flag to say &quot;this question is bad but on-topic and should be reopened/undeleted&quot;. With so much disagreement among the community on each individual case (as evidenced by the close/reopen and delete/undelete wars on many of these questions), it's hard for moderators to know how to handle such flags. Obviously we won't be able to keep &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt; happy no matter what, but ideally it would be nice to have a clear meta policy on questions of this type, which we can point to when taking action on them or handling people's flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideas I've seen proposed in comments include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;that there should be some form of &lt;strong&gt;notability&lt;/strong&gt; (e.g. &quot;was Umbridge raped by centaurs&quot; is OK because this is a widely-known fan theory, but &quot;did Sirius Black have sex with female dogs&quot; isn't because it's not a notable claim that he did) - but we don't have any such requirement for any other types of question, so this unprecedented criterion would require a clear meta consensus;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;that the question should be asked &lt;strong&gt;in good faith&lt;/strong&gt; (e.g. questions which appear to be posted just for shock or titillation value aren't OK, but questions springing from genuine curiosity about a work of SFF are) - but judging an OP's motivation is always difficult, and even mods, who are more used to making such judgement calls, have often been called out on meta for exercising their discretion on such questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What should our policy be on how to treat questions on 'adult topics' like this? When should they be closed or deleted as opposed to simply downvoted?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please propose and vote on possible policies below!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;EDIT to summarise the conclusion&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After much debate, the voting has settled in favour of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11733/31394&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; (now +24/-3; the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11729/31394&quot;&gt;second answer&lt;/a&gt; is +19/-10 and says something similar, and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11732/31394&quot;&gt;third answer&lt;/a&gt; is +15/-8). Executive summary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;adult topics should never be a reason to close or delete an otherwise on-topic question;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;as always, downvotes are yours to use as you choose;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;any unnecessary prurience can be edited out if it doesn't affect the thrust of the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following this policy, I've reopened the two Harry Potter questions from the bullet points above. In future, if you see questions of this type getting closed incorrectly, feel free to flag them (perhaps with a link to this meta) for mod reopening and locking if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2018-03-20T16:36:10.303" LastActivityDate="2018-03-20T16:36:10.303" Title="Should we have a policy on questions about adult topics in SFF?" Tags="|discussion|scope|question-quality|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="42" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11728" CreationDate="2018-02-20T01:40:39.973" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;We already have such a policy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If a question is on an adult topic, &lt;strong&gt;it's on-topic&lt;/strong&gt;. No ifs, ends or buts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, &quot;weird&quot; &quot;urges&quot; is entirely in the eye of the beerholder. Some people like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jacqueline-carey&quot;&gt;Carey&lt;/a&gt; and slashfics. Some people like My Little Pony. Some people like fiction that praises genocydal tyrants. Some people like Pokemon. Let's be a wee bit more tolerant here and not marginalize people based on our own subjective morality sense&lt;sup&gt;[1]&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If a question is bad, you downvote it. &lt;strong&gt;VTC and delete are not super-downvotes&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If a question violates the &quot;be nice policy&quot;, it needs to be either edited to fix that, or in worst case scenario, deleted. According to general moderation principles, the former is preferred. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that this addresses the concerns over &quot;tone&quot;, expressed in another answer. If the question has a poor tone, editing that tone out is usually not that hard.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Unless someone invents real world mind reading machine, there is almost&lt;sup&gt;[2]&lt;/sup&gt; no legitimate way to generically determine the intent of the poster. So &quot;it was a troll&quot; or &quot;it was to satisfy weird urges&quot; (thank you very much for marginalizing people with unusual sexuality) is a personal subjective opinion of individual users, NOT a statement of objective fact that can be used to base a moderation decision on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &quot;no guessing intentions&quot; is a policy on Skeptics, both regarding content itself (no questions asking about intentions) AND, more importantly, as I was repeatedly told by Skeptics moderators, regarding Meta issues (shouldn't assume site users' intentions). Over time, I have learned the wisdom of such an approach.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;[1] - OK, let's marginalize people who like Twilight. I'm down for that&lt;/sub&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;[2] - there are some very rare exceptional cases where the poster openly confirms their intentions - e.g. via a comment. In that case, it's quite OK to apply anti-troll policies&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2018-02-21T17:42:03.840" LastActivityDate="2018-02-21T17:42:03.840" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11728" CreationDate="2018-02-20T16:23:13.640" Score="6" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Questions should be more than just the poster's speculation&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we can all agree &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/144298/did-draco-malfoy-sexually-assault-hermione-granger&quot;&gt;this deleted question&lt;/a&gt; is terrible&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been lead to believe that their is a scene in either the book or the movie were Hermione is raped/sexually assaulted by Malfoy, did this actually happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that simply speculate without any other references should be closed. The problem here isn't the adult nature, or even the speculation, it's the fact that there's nothing but the OP speculating. I don't think anyone wants a site full of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6723/could-the-enterprise-beam-a-vampire-into-a-house-she-didn-t-have-permission-to-e&quot;&gt;questions like this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tends to be more prevalent in the adult realm, in that a lot of subject material (Harry Potter, LOTR, Star Wars, etc) never crosses that line into porn. For instance, we see Wolverine romancing women (and even bedding them), but we're never shown what happens in the NSFW realm (and it's highly unlikely Marvel would ever cross that line). Thus, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6691/how-to-make-this-question-suitable-for-this-site&quot;&gt;asking us to estimate Wolverine's stamina in said situations&lt;/a&gt; leaves us with little but the speculation of the answerers. I would say we need to be just a bit more strict on adult questions for this reason. Promoting pure speculation on adult situations can go downhill really quick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;NSFW links should only answer questions&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/281251/how-should-we-handle-links-to-adult-content-in-posts&quot;&gt;NSFW links are not acceptable on SO/SE&lt;/a&gt;. Since we're crafting policy for a site that discusses it, links to potentially NSFW material should warn people so they know what they're getting into up front (and ONLY to answer the question). &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/362493/nsfw-triage-review-audit/362506#362506&quot;&gt;SO really doesn't like exposing people to that stuff unintentionally&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Treat sensitive issues sensitively&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think CMs would take kindly to anyone being cavalier about things like rape, incest, etc. But, increasingly, stories are going to such places. Don't be crass or crude about it. Discuss it like an adult. If it devolves, expect less tolerance for it (closure/deletion)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-02-21T13:08:27.840" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11728" CreationDate="2018-02-21T14:29:13.313" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adult content is on-topic, but does need to treated with more scrutiny. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the question body here hits on the two points I agree with most... &lt;strong&gt;Notability and Good Faith.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;To see what I think the policy should be, skip to the bottom&lt;/sub&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two ideas really go hand in hand. If you can show even a small amount of research as to why you are asking the question it usually demonstrate the same level of good faith. If you throw a two sentence question about two characters that don't interact much, and there is not even a slight implication from the source to confirm it, it makes me question why you asking the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question on these topics tend to fall into the latter. What I notice is that people like to play &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42WNHGr1jGI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jump-to-Conclusions&lt;/a&gt;; they take antecedal evidence and use to it to make claims that almost, &lt;em&gt;almost&lt;/em&gt; make sense but crumble under any type of scrutiny. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Example 1:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/114500/is-captain-america-gay&quot;&gt;Is Captain America gay?&lt;/a&gt; : The lowest voted question that remains not deleted (due to a moderator lock). It takes random evidence and forces a conclusion for the answers to confirm or deny. &lt;strong&gt;No notability and no good faith.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Counter Example 1:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/170604/in-the-films-was-the-portrayal-of-captain-america-supposed-to-come-across-as-ga&quot;&gt;In the films, was the portrayal of Captain America supposed to come across as gay?&lt;/a&gt; : While a controversial question itself, it maintained a positive score. It provides credible evidence from primary sources to reach a conclusion for the answers to expand and provide further evidence. &lt;strong&gt;Notability and good faith.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Example 2:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/181283/godfather-sirius-black-dogfather-as-well&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/181283/godfather-sirius-black-dogfather-as-well&lt;/a&gt; : I think that the question that sparked this meta also provides the best example of this plays out. The question provided not a stitch of evidence that this had happened nor why even why they might think it did. &lt;strong&gt;No notability and no good faith&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Counter Example 2:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/39576/what-exactly-did-aberforth-dumbledore-do-to-the-goats&quot;&gt;What exactly did Aberforth Dumbledore do to the goats?&lt;/a&gt; - This question is also about the same touchy subject, but since it provides a reference from the work that gives evidence to the situation it was very well received. &lt;strong&gt;Notability and good faith&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There many, many other examples like the ones shown. A question asked in good faith and that shows notability to the claim are well received. A question that does neither is not well received. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Posts should be required to show a minimal level of effort. This applies to all questions, but should particularly apply to questions that deal with adult topics.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Questions that do not meet quality standards can an should be removed. Again, this applies to all questions, but should particularly apply to questions that deal with adult topics.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will not solve all problems. We regularly have meta discussion on just the closing of questions as duplicates, too broad, or primarily opinion based. I don't think any &quot;policy&quot; is going to change that. These discussion about closing and deleting are still going to happen.  However, in the end this may give a starting point as to why...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Users with moderator tool privileges should close and delete these questions.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;**To be clear I am not advocating adult content be off-topic, only that it meet the same standards as any other post. The only difference is that since it is questionable content, it needs to be removed instead of just &quot;downvoted-to-heck&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2018-02-21T15:09:20.847" LastActivityDate="2018-02-21T15:09:20.847" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11728" CreationDate="2018-02-21T14:53:34.277" Score="23" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The rules are fine as-is.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3043/5184&quot;&gt;Should questions about sex and other adult activities be off-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1582/5184&quot;&gt;What's our tolerance for adult content?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;But phantom, there are so many arguments!&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hey, I didn't say that the whole situation is good - just that the rules are fine. Let's back up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the existing guidelines, adult content and topics are OK. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer on one of the previous questions mentioned that I was OK with the questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[so] long as the question is written with a reasonable level of maturity and lack of vulgarity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer was a net +25 score, with only one dissenter (likely the OP). The net +33 score did not establish any qualifications for questions, just saying that the content was OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;But clearly the existing rules aren't working! So many arguments!&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of these questions &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; kind of tasteless. Others are not. Some questions about sex and sexuality have high question scores and good responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what's the difference between them? My very scientific research of looking at comments that are still available, and my ultra-reliable memory of comments that are gone shows us a few themes that keep popping up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;terrible, borderline-offensive questions  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm voting to delete. Given the lack of notability in the claim, these sorts of questions could be asked endlessly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Prurient questions about bestiality are not suitable for a site aimed at a 13+ fanbase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's got nothing to do with the subject matter, it's just a lousy question that deserved to be closed and deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Since it was a sexual question, failed any notability standards (link to plot, link to characters, link to SFF elements, etc) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, based on negative comments, it seems that there is no question about them being &quot;on-topic&quot; - it's a matter of content. Primarily, either the content is poor, or the notability is low. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Low-Quality&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Historically, we don't close questions just for being low quality. If the question is on-topic, it remains open and we downvote them as we see fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Notability&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are not [skeptics.se], and we've never had a &quot;notability&quot; requirement before, so I'm not really sure where all this is coming from. A bad, or poorly researched question is bad, or poorly researched question - and users are free to downvote them as they see fit, but they are on-topic. In our previous discussion &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1863/5184&quot;&gt;How do we handle questions based on incorrect premise?&lt;/a&gt;, we decided that no special handling was needed. Either downvote, or attempt to correct OP either via comments or through an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Prurient Questions (Intent)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As LethalCarrot points out &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11728/should-we-have-a-policy-on-questions-about-adult-topics-in-sff#comment38540_11728&quot;&gt;in comments&lt;/a&gt;, the same question can seem more/less prurient just by changing the wording and provided background of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&quot;Young Griff is described as muscular and handsome and really get's my juices flowing, do we know if his pubes are described?&quot; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&quot;Young Griff has died purple hair and is claiming to be Aegon son of Rhaegar. The baby Aegon allegedly had the Targaryen traits (silver blonde hair) and Dany is described as having silver pubes. Do we know if Aegon's pubes are described as they could solve the mystery?&quot; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Both Q's being what colour are Aegon's pubes? but different intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've had discussions before (I can't find it on meta right now, it may have just been in chat) about removing &quot;extra fluff&quot; from questions - stuff like, &quot;I was watching this movie and it made me think about...&quot; because it's extraneous and has no bearing on the question. Also because it often clouds the intent of the question. But based on our discussion &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3319/5184&quot;&gt;How do we feel about homework questions?&lt;/a&gt;, intent and reasoning behind asking a question is irrelevant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Whether I'm asking about Wolverine's love life out of pure curiosity or seeking an answer for a paper has zero relevance on whether or not it is either a good question or if it is off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;So they're not off-topic by policy, but clearly people don't want these questions.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yet, no one has articulated &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; or exactly what it is that they don't want. Instead, people are using the close/delete flags as super-downvotes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;So, what do we do?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People are always going to use close/delete flags as super-downvotes. Even if we have a meta-established policy, it's just going to happen. Either people will disagree with the policy and continue, or people won't be aware of the policy. Policy should not change here. The policy itself is fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;OK, so what do &lt;em&gt;the mods&lt;/em&gt; do?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Follow existing policy. So long as the questions aren't vulgar or intentionally offensive, ask yourself &quot;is the question itself on topic?&quot; and act accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;So don't do &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure I'd actively support a movement to remove all extra fluff from questions, but I think trimming down controversial elements that don't make a huge impact on the crux of the question would be justifiable in situations like these.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2018-02-22T07:14:09.823" LastActivityDate="2018-02-22T07:14:09.823" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11734" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-02-21T16:51:10.657" Score="8" ViewCount="234" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11728/1359&quot;&gt;recent discussions&lt;/a&gt; there has been an ongoing argument made against removing low-quality content that is otherwise on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the crux of most of the objections raised against any changes in policy related to that discussion seem to hinge on the idea that removing low-quality, but otherwise on topic content, is abuse of the system (using close/delete votes as so-called &quot;super down votes&quot;), it seems useful to address that issue outside of the specific context of &quot;adult&quot; content (which is itself difficult to define). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Assuming we could agree on a consistent, objective measure to define it, should low quality content be removed from our site by closure/deletion?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2018-02-22T02:49:23.187" Title="Is there ever a reason to remove on topic content?" Tags="|discussion|scope|closing-questions|question-quality|vote-to-delete|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11735" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-02-21T17:02:03.950" Score="-24" ViewCount="256" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site has stormy relationship with adult questions: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11728/931&quot;&gt;Should we have a policy on questions about adult topics in SFF?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, I feel like we are fighting with a virtual problem. Do we have enough data that our site is even visited by non-adults? If yes, they aren't very few in numbers? Or, they aren't involved in mature contents already? In any case, I like the fight, but it's not worth our time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, even when a question doesn't get deleted or closed, it gets heavily downvoted most of the times. Means, lots of adults find it disgusting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To counter this, I have a proposal. Simply introduce a special NSFW tag and hide all questions tagged with it. Only those users who have checked 18+ age on their profile would be able to see its listing anywhere on the site. If others visit such questions with direct links, show them warnings similar to the one shown on porn sites and let them enable 18+ setting from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="1586" LastEditDate="2018-02-22T01:27:24.313" LastActivityDate="2018-02-22T11:36:20.520" Title="Introduce NSFW tag and lock all questions tagged with it" Tags="|feature-request|status-declined|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11735" CreationDate="2018-02-21T18:39:50.187" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The NSFW tag&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not the worst idea. This can already be done. It would be nicer if it didn't count against the five tags, but /shrug. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;I swear I'm an adult&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The proposed new functionality seems like overkill, and like a large amount of functionality we're unlikely to get. Instead, users can go to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/preferences/&quot;&gt;their tag preferences page&lt;/a&gt; and add any tag, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nsfw&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;nsfw&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;nsfw&lt;/a&gt; to their ignored tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;So why not do this?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There will still be fights and arguments over what is considered &quot;NSFW&quot;, and tagging a question as &quot;NSFW&quot; will have the effect of hiding a question from a portion of the site's audience. A vindictive user could effectively use this to hide questions inappropriately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="5184" LastEditDate="2018-02-21T18:55:54.013" LastActivityDate="2018-02-21T18:55:54.013" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11734" CreationDate="2018-02-21T21:58:22.800" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This seems to me like a disagreement among the user base that goes beyond how the moderation tools were designed.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I'm sure you are aware, the moderation tools are reputation based. Reputation is supposed to be a (somewhat limited) gauge on how trusted you are to interact with the site tools. It then takes between 3 and 5 users with moderation tools to remove content. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This whole system is meant to prevent a &quot;rogue&quot; user from disrupting content on the site. If a question or answer has been deleted, you at a minimum 3 user that are &quot;trusted&quot; are in agreement. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the current issues arising are that groups of trusted users are in disagreement and so we go through the close, delete, undelete, reopen cycle until the issue is raised on meta and many times a moderator lock put on the post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So what's this got to do with your question?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would pose another question back... How many user does it take to reach a consistent, objective measuring system? 5, 10, 100? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have about 75 &quot;trusted&quot; users, about double that with access to the moderator tools, over 400 users that have direct close/reopen privileges, over 2,000 that limited access to review queues, and close to 5,000 users have earned a minimum amount of reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These numbers are changing all the time. Some of the activity of users with the highest reputation slows down, but new users arrive and contribute and replenish those ranks. Since there isn't a single instant switch from the &quot;old guard&quot; to the &quot;new guard&quot; it is hard to pin down consensus on some of these topics since members within these groups may not even agree. If half of the trusted users feel one way and half feel another how is it ever possible to come to a decision on gray areas like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end I feel the only way to handle these discussion is like what is being done now. Per post metas. It may be slow, sloppy, and trivial, but it is the only viable way to get a direct answer to a questionable post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;To get to a point...&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, low-quality content, even if on-topic, should be removed at the discretion of those with the privileges to do so.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, there is not a way to make this process consistent or objective in the way you ask it.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Users who abuse their privileges will be dealt with site moderators or community managers.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like this is probably the process that is already in place... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2018-02-22T02:49:23.187" LastActivityDate="2018-02-22T02:49:23.187" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11734" CreationDate="2018-02-21T23:03:25.783" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, in rare specific mostly objective circumstances. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Content that is in violation of &quot;be nice&quot; policy (that can't be edited to remove violation)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Content that is in violation of other policies (spam, mostly)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;NAA answers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Answers that objectively add zero value (not simply low quality, but really can't be fixed). Note that this doesn't apply to questions - first, a question's objective value can be its answer; second, it's far easier for subject matter expert to judge if an answer adds value than a question, from my experience.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Content that is &lt;strong&gt;unambiguously&lt;/strong&gt; trolling and thus has no redeeming value. As in, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;no reasonable user&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; based on evidence would disagree that it's trolling. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this does not include &quot;some people dislike some types of questions while others don't think it's trolling&quot; situation, which many of the incidents being discussed here fits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Politics.SE deletes trollish posts from users suspended for trolling. That seems harsh but somewhat justifiable, at least - the evidence to suspend a user is already pretty much required to be ironclad (unless you're a bad moderator like some unnamed departed SFF ones).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Any content Robert Cartiano personally wishes to remove (anecdotally observed from participation in many new SE sites). What his rules are is difficult to figure out, some removed posts make perfect sense and some don't always do. But he's in charge of all new SE sites, so his word is Law and not subject to community Meta decisions, by design.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's it. Everything else should never be removed if it's ontopic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2018-02-21T23:07:10.137" LastActivityDate="2018-02-21T23:07:10.137" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11735" CreationDate="2018-02-22T00:18:27.063" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is worth remembering that functionality specific to certain sites ... has limited value. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most sites don't really need this &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Age here is a pinky swear thing - primarily used for... well, nothing at all. There &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a lower age limit for legal reasons, but no one's going to check if you're a very very serious, mature 12 year old pretending to be 20. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SE rarely, if ever has per user options. It is a performance thing I suppose.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is a meta tag. Tags are meant for searchability, and 'NSFW' tells you nothing about the actual question. &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/08/07/the-death-of-meta-tags/&quot;&gt;SE generally hates meta tags&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If something is truely adult, or not safe for work - flag it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25606" LastEditorUserId="25606" LastEditDate="2018-02-22T11:36:20.520" LastActivityDate="2018-02-22T11:36:20.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2018-02-22T20:12:31.757" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;My avatar is me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was taken in 2010, during my form presentation of my testing for 4th degree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Dt2MB.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Dt2MB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12305" LastActivityDate="2018-02-22T20:12:31.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2018-02-25T21:36:09.983" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I was named, my parents searched for a name that wouldn't get abbreviated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They failed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18944" LastActivityDate="2018-02-25T21:36:09.983" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11670" CreationDate="2018-02-26T17:01:10.053" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://writing.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XY59h.png&quot; alt=&quot;Questions about writing your novels, fanfic, screenplays, and more? Come to Writing.SE!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32756" LastActivityDate="2018-02-26T17:01:10.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11744" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11745" CreationDate="2018-02-28T12:08:24.073" Score="8" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to get some more &quot;help&quot; added to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;Formatting help page&lt;/a&gt; particularly for Spoiler markdown?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, it would be useful to be able to see how to put new lines and empty lines in a Spoiler Block. The simple return character does not behave as might be expected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Spoiler Line One.&#xA; Spoiler Line Two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40437" LastEditorUserId="70477" LastEditDate="2019-12-09T14:17:31.270" LastActivityDate="2019-12-09T14:17:31.270" Title="Add help for Markdown spoiler tags in the formatting help" Tags="|support|spoilers|markdown|help-center|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11744" CreationDate="2018-02-28T13:35:37.967" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/99895/editing-comment-help-page#comment253875_99895&quot;&gt;this comment&lt;/a&gt; from eons ago, no one here can. However you can ask it on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Meta Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; and they &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; help.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can research, the mods (and certainly the users) are unable to change the formatting page specifically for SFF. It is set by the developers, although changes have been implemented from Meta.SE they won't add every example in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for your specific problem, what you need to do is to add &lt;strong&gt;two spaces&lt;/strong&gt; at the end of the line to force a line break, for example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;! Para 1  &#xA;&amp;gt;!  &#xA;&amp;gt;! Para 2&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(With two spaces after the top two lines) renders as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; Para 1&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA; Para 2&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whereas without the two spaces, one gets:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; Para 1&#xA;&#xA; Para 2&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And with only two spaces on the middle line, one gets:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; Para 1&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA; Para 2&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68872" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-03-01T06:41:30.757" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11744" CreationDate="2018-02-28T17:04:52.123" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The easiest way to put blank lines and breaks into spoiler text (or any blockquote text) is to use the 'break' command &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/efCcJ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/efCcJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;! My text goes here. &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; This text goes on the next line. &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; I can also use multiple breaks to create multiple line breaks.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; My text goes here. &lt;br&gt; This text goes on the next line. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; I can also use multiple breaks to create multiple line breaks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="62709" LastEditDate="2018-03-01T19:32:27.787" LastActivityDate="2018-03-01T19:32:27.787" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11744" CreationDate="2018-03-01T21:01:04.653" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a side note, among other things that probably need to be documented, if not fixed, it's not possible currently to put spoiler and non-spoiler quotes next to each other. I currently handle it by putting some non-quoted text (Laurel suggests using an unsupported HTML tag like &quot;&amp;lt;!&amp;gt;&quot;) in between like the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is a quote that I'm including.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; This is the spoiler part that I didn't want immediately visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="23243" LastEditDate="2018-03-02T05:14:40.617" LastActivityDate="2018-03-02T05:14:40.617" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11748" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11749" CreationDate="2018-03-02T17:02:02.770" Score="0" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question, having been asked &amp;amp; answered in '15, was edited last year, but I noticed it today only &amp;amp; I disagree with the change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original question :&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/86363/2&quot;&gt;Why is The Wall the only Democracy in an otherwise Westerosi Monarchy?(Minor S05E02 &amp;amp; Book 3 spoiler)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The body of it was correctly edited for spoiler markdown &amp;amp; minor changes which didn't change its meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed today that the title was change to :&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/86363/why-is-the-nights-watch-the-only-democracy-in-an-otherwise-feudal-westeros-mi&quot;&gt;Why is the Night's Watch the only democracy in an otherwise feudal Westeros? (Minor S05E02 &amp;amp; Book 3 spoilers)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Wall is a place &amp;amp; Night's Watch is an institution.&lt;/strong&gt; Although technically alright, monarchy, democracy et. al. are always attributed to places. For example if ISIS captures a democratic nation like USA, we will say that USA is an autocracy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another problem is with removing Monarchy with feudalism. &lt;strong&gt;Westeros is a feudal monarchy.&lt;/strong&gt; It's not just a feudal state. &lt;strong&gt;Power is through inheritance.&lt;/strong&gt; I missed adding feudal to my question. Slaver's Bay or Vaes Dothrak can be called a feudal state though but not Westeros.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question is, is it okay for the OP to roll back approved edits to the question if he/she disagrees with it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15706" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-03-03T14:59:54.357" Title="I disagree with the approved edit made to the title of my question. Should I edit it back?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11748" CreationDate="2018-03-02T17:39:20.003" Score="18" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...is it okay for the OP to roll back approved edits to the question if he/she disagrees with it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, yes. The community typically defers to the wishes of the OP if the OP expresses a disagreement with the nature of an edit. There are a few exceptions in which an edit should not be rolled back even if the OP wants to do so, including but not limited to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An edit which removed something offensive and/or personally identifiable information.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A title which needlessly reveals spoilers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The OP objects to an edit which improves only the spelling, grammar, etc. (i.e. an objectively good edit).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your disagreement with the edit does not fall under any of these exceptions and is subjective in nature so feel free to edit your post. Please be sure not to rollback objectively correct editing, such as proper capitalization.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should be open to suggestions from others regarding the correct terminology, though. Personally, I find &quot;why is the Night's Watch the only democracy&quot; more appropriate than &quot;why is the Wall the only democracy&quot; as places like the Wall don't really have a form of government. I don't have enough expertise as to whether or not Westeros should be regarded as feudal or a monarchy or some more specific term, but others who are experts in the subject matter may suggest a better terminology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2018-03-02T17:51:24.630" LastActivityDate="2018-03-02T17:51:24.630" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11750" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-03-04T23:14:06.687" Score="15" ViewCount="302" Body="&lt;p&gt;Though perhaps best remembered as the stuffy, upper-crust Major Winchester in M&lt;sup&gt;⁎&lt;/sup&gt;A&lt;sup&gt;⁎&lt;/sup&gt;S&lt;sup&gt;⁎&lt;/sup&gt;H, Stiers turned in several roles in the science fiction and fantasy genre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was quite good as &lt;a href=&quot;https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjM4MDcxODE1NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwODI4MTEzMjE@._V1_.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Reverend Purdy&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;em&gt;The Dead Zone&lt;/em&gt;, narrated and did voiceover work in several anime and sci-fi films (including &lt;em&gt;THX 1138&lt;/em&gt;), and turned in a sublime guest-starring performance in the ST:TNG episode &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Half_a_Life_(episode)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Half a Life&lt;/a&gt;.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HSZ1am.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HSZ1am.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/david-ogden-stiers-dead-dies-mash-1202716860/amp/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Article from Variety&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69621" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-01-07T00:42:01.647" LastActivityDate="2018-03-14T01:30:35.117" Title="David Ogden Stiers, RIP" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11751" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-03-05T17:17:33.230" Score="14" ViewCount="951" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR&lt;/strong&gt;: there's a system called &quot;Smoke Detector&quot; that has been automatically flagging spam here for the past year. &lt;a href=&quot;https://metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/sites/dash?months=3&amp;amp;site_id=72&amp;amp;tab=autoflagged&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;You can view a list of posts that have been flagged by clicking this text&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;warning:&lt;/strong&gt; some vulgar / offensive content if you click through to the flagged posts in that list.) Right now, the folks running this system are trying to decide if they should delete this sort of thing even faster - so if you think you might have an opinion on this, read that list, form your opinion, then come back here and share it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As some of you may have seen already there is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/307585/345161&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; on mother meta. To save a bad explanation by me here's the TL;DR from the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://charcoal-se.org/people&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Charcoal&lt;/a&gt; is the organisation behind &lt;a href=&quot;https://charcoal-se.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SmokeDetector&lt;/a&gt;. Since January 2017, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/291301/262823&quot;&gt;we've been casting&lt;/a&gt; up to 3 flags automatically on posts that our systems are confident are spam. We'd like to increase that to 5 automatic flags to reduce the time spam spends alive on the network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it stands this proposal is network wide but there has been some discussion with the Charcoal team whether this can be on a per site basis. Therefore, this is a preemptive discussion on whether we'd like auto flagging of spam on our site and how we'd want it handled. The following are the questions we'd need to address if we are able to change things on a per site basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do we want auto spam flagging?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How many auto spam flags would we want?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who should be able to auto spam flag? (Anyone, active users, users &gt;N rep, SmokeDetector account, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;If you have anymore questions to discuss in relation to this feel free to edit them into the list though if there are any answers already pinging them for an update would be a nice courtesy.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="1586" LastEditDate="2018-03-06T00:10:05.343" LastActivityDate="2018-03-14T03:19:37.127" Title="Do we want Smoke Detector to auto flag spam?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|spam|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="33" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1860" CreationDate="2018-03-05T18:37:41.870" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I've just checked it (by clicking the link) and it doesn't appear to be working.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, can we please get an official SFF:SE MySpace page and a Second Life page as well? I'd hate to think we were missing out on the social network revolution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-03-08T07:16:08.987" LastActivityDate="2018-03-08T07:16:08.987" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11751" CreationDate="2018-03-05T19:26:21.013" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;To give you a bit of background, I'm the user that posted the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/307585/186281&quot;&gt;current post about increasing the number of automatic flags&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/291301/186281&quot;&gt;previous one&lt;/a&gt; a year ago, and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/280546/189134&quot;&gt;automated comment flagger&lt;/a&gt; over on Stack Overflow. That should give you the idea that I'm in favor of automation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do we want auto spam flagging?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. For the same reason that you want spam protection on your email account. You really don't want to see it and when you do, it's an annoyance. Charcoal has automatically flagged thousands of posts, accurately, across the entire network. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How many auto spam flags would we want?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, I'd love to have all of this handled before it even makes it onto the site. We can't get that early in the process though, so the next best thing is to remove it as quickly as possible. There is no benefit to having spam sit around while we wait for users to come around and flag it. Automatic flags offer to take most of that work on. By allowing 5 automatic flags to the most egregious of posts, we can effectively cut the time a piece of spam survives on the site to a handful of seconds. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who should be able to auto spam flag? (Anyone, active users, users &gt;N rep, SmokeDetector account, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, anyone who has permission to flag a post is eligible to auto-flag the post. That means the user is trusted, at some level, on the network. There are no other restrictions across the network on who can flag. It's based on reputation level of the user. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bots, and automation of certain tasks, are not the problem. Poor oversight is a problem. SmokeDetector has oversight. It has a &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/11540/charcoal-hq&quot;&gt;chat room&lt;/a&gt; dedicated to monitoring it. It has an &lt;a href=&quot;https://metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;open dashboard&lt;/a&gt;  for any one to look at. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As was nicely pointed out in the comments by Valorum:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For the record, we've now spent more time discussing this bot than we spent deleting every single spam post on SFF:SE over the past year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are correct. This site doesn't receive a ton of spam. That's great for the site. However, it's also important to point out that a lot of that spam that has been removed has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/sites/dash?months=3&amp;amp;site_id=72&amp;amp;tab=autoflagged&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;removed in seconds to minutes&lt;/a&gt; thanks to the existing effort of automatic flags. That should continue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19148" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2018-03-05T19:30:57.527" LastActivityDate="2018-03-05T19:30:57.527" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11751" CreationDate="2018-03-06T01:45:59.050" Score="29" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Clarifying Smokey&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me start with a very brief summary of what Smoke Detector does, since there's been some confusion over this. (Charcoal people, please correct me in comments if I get anything wrong.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Posts which contain certain blacklisted content (swearwords, particular link patterns, etc.) are &lt;strong&gt;reported&lt;/strong&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/11540/charcoal-hq&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt; for user review. Users then decide whether or not to flag based on their own appraisal of the reported post. Reports have a relatively &lt;strong&gt;high false positive rate&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/sites/dash?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;amp;site_id=72&amp;amp;months=12&amp;amp;tab=all&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;in the last 12 months on SFF&lt;/a&gt;, ~15% of reported posts have been false positives, or ~25% counting posts that were delete-worthy but not spam/abusive. Smokey tries to optimise for finding as much spam as possible rather than ensuring all reports are spam.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Posts which are almost certainly spam/abusive are &lt;strong&gt;autoflagged&lt;/strong&gt; by the Smokey bot, using the accounts of users who've signed up as autoflaggers. This &quot;almost certainly&quot; is defined by tweaking the blacklist parameters. Auto-flagging has a &lt;strong&gt;low false positive rate&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/sites/dash?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;amp;site_id=72&amp;amp;months=12&amp;amp;tab=all&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;in the last 12 months on SFF&lt;/a&gt;, ~2% of reported posts (a single one among 47) have been false positives. To be auto-flaggable, a post needs to be far more 'spammy/abusive' than it does to be reportable.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/307585/278659&quot;&gt;proposal currently open&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;strong&gt;increase the autoflags per post&lt;/strong&gt; from 3 (the current number) to 5 (one less than the number needed to nuke a post). If this happens, the parameters would be tweaked even further, to the point where a post must be (at least) 99.99% likely to be spam before flagging, rather than the current 99.75%. Thus, this would have a &lt;strong&gt;very low false positive rate&lt;/strong&gt;, to balance the greater risk of accidentally nuking a post which shouldn't be nuked.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen some users getting them mixed up. Hopefully this clarifies the differences between reporting, autoflagging, and 5-flag autoflagging. These are three separate things, with three different thresholds required to make them happen (if the latter even happens at all).&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Getting to the actual question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible for the Smokey devs to turn off any or all of the Smokey behaviours on a per-site basis. So I'm going to take this meta as the canonical &quot;what do we want Smokey doing on our site?&quot; post, and answer it as such. This isn't an official response from the mod team, but my own personal thoughts - please let me know in comments what you all think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do we want Smokey reports for SFF?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;YES&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. SFF doesn't get much weird content which would be considered spam/abusive on other sites but is OK here, so there's not much danger of non-SFF Smokey people manually flagging things wrongly. Smokey reports help our site to get rid of spam quicker (even though it's not always actual site users getting rid of it for us). Making people aware of potential spam or abusive posts is a benefit for the site, and I can't really see any major downsides. Occasionally over-zealous flaggers might cast wrong flags, but site mods can decline these as necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do we want Smokey autoflags for SFF?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could go either way on this one. On the one hand, there are moral/philosophical objections to letting a bot clean up our site for us - flags should be cast by &lt;em&gt;people&lt;/em&gt;, whether SFF people or Smokey people (or both) - and SFF has more than enough active users to manually flag spam and nuke it in short order anyway. On the other hand, it's been working pretty well here for a year or so - I bet most of the SFF community didn't even notice it, or indeed notice the spam posts it eliminated for us - and even autoflagged posts still have to be reviewed by humans in order to be nuked, since the maximum number of autoflags currently cast is 3.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do we want Smokey 5-autoflags for SFF?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I understand, the motivation for enabling 5-autoflagging is to speed up the deletion time of spam. On some sites, with low activity and few flaggers, that might actually be a noticeable gain, but here on SFF, we have enough actively flagging users that no clearly spam/abusive post is going to last long anyway. I'm reasonably sure that if you go through &lt;a href=&quot;https://metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/sites/dash?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;amp;site_id=72&amp;amp;months=12&amp;amp;tab=all&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this list&lt;/a&gt; and look at the posts which took longest to be deleted, most will have some post-specific issues or ambiguity. So I can't see any real benefit for our site in 5-autoflagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The risk, however, is clear. Even with all the safeguards in the book, and a 99.99%+ likelihood of spam, it's always possible that some false positive will slip through and get autoflagged. That's not so bad now, when 3 human flags are still required to nuke it, but a 5-autoflagged post only needs one person flagging incorrectly to delete and lock it. And unfortunately we can't rely on people flagging sensibly - you should see some of the flags I've had to decline on this site ;-) Even without the risk of a single bad human flag, 5 autoflags are enough to get a post's score down to -5 and hide it from the front page of the site, making it harder for people to find in order to reverse the damage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the risks outlined above, and the lack of tangible benefits, I'd have to say &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;NO&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2018-03-14T03:19:37.127" LastActivityDate="2018-03-14T03:19:37.127" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11756" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-03-06T15:43:52.827" Score="4" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I read the latest 6 issues of the Injustice 2 Comic. I wondered about a character and found my question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/175196/who-is-the-evil-batman-in-injustice-2&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; in an instant (it was closed as future-work question). By chance, this question was also answered within these issues, so I flagged the question to be reopened and I could answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, someone else was faster and the manner in which he answered irritated me. In his &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/175196/who-is-the-evil-batman-in-injustice-2&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;, he linked to the exact comic site with the answer, on a site where you can read (any newer) comic online. Since I'm new here, I don't know the policies about this, but to my knowledge, sites like these are semi-illegal, so I wouldn't expect direct references like this. Is this behavior okay on this site? Especially when there are also reviews like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fandompost.com/2018/02/22/injustice-2-46-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; online?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="96896" LastActivityDate="2018-03-06T15:43:52.827" Title="Are references to websites okay where one can read comics online?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-03-06T16:50:00.863" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11750" CreationDate="2018-03-06T18:12:07.010" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;He had one of the best scenes in any MASH episode. The moment he opened a package from home containing his childhood beanie, he opened the box around my heart. Rest in peace, Major.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sS4MW.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sS4MW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75000" LastActivityDate="2018-03-06T18:12:07.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11750" CreationDate="2018-03-06T19:47:28.540" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember him best as High Counselor Oberoth, leader of the Pegasus Galaxy replicators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9XhoF.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9XhoF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2018-03-06T19:47:28.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11728" CreationDate="2018-03-07T19:36:27.083" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;One consideration that appears to be missing from all the discussion here is Hot Network Questions. (This is based on my Ctrl+F of this question's page, so I may have missed some comments that mention it.) Since there are many users who access Stack Overflow, SuperUser, Server Fault, and other professionally oriented sties from work, keeping these questions from loading on their work terminals is desirable and prudent. But if one of them hits the Hot Network Questions, there is no way to control what pages the title loads on across the entire Stack Exchange network (as far as I'm aware). How can this be addressed/controlled?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the same vein, is there any way for users who wish to avoid these questions to filter them out? Or do participants of this site have to accept the possibility they might be exposed to this type of content?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25379" LastEditorUserId="25379" LastEditDate="2018-03-07T21:09:12.693" LastActivityDate="2018-03-07T21:09:12.693" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11728" CreationDate="2018-03-08T16:21:09.023" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not take the Reddit approach and just expect people to use a [nsfw] tag?   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think it's silly, but it would allow sensitive members to filter out content that has any chance of seeming offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastActivityDate="2018-03-08T16:21:09.023" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11670" CreationDate="2018-03-09T18:24:35.977" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7u8py.png&quot; alt=&quot;The Great Outdoors Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13442" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2018-03-10T01:41:02.627" LastActivityDate="2018-03-10T01:41:02.627" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11751" CreationDate="2018-03-12T20:23:00.373" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oddly, while I have argued for the flagging (And intend on using it on the sites that I moderate), I am not 100% convinced that it is needed on a site such as SFF. (Yes, this is a change from my earlier stance.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are enough very active, high rep users here that the flagging and deletion of spam is taken care of in extremely short order. Increasing the chance of false positives, I'm just not sure is worth the risk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, on sites with lesser traffic (and higher relative spam incidence), such as fitness and health, I believe it is of much higher value. So while I still support the initiative, I am not 100% sure it is needed on the really high traffic sites with a broad high rep user base.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12305" LastEditorUserId="12305" LastEditDate="2018-03-13T14:22:37.373" LastActivityDate="2018-03-13T14:22:37.373" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11763" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-03-13T15:35:15.270" Score="4" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;As evidenced by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11734/is-there-ever-a-reason-to-remove-on-topic-content&quot;&gt;discussion noted here&lt;/a&gt;, it appears that yes, there are times when it is appropriate to remove on topic content (Reasons courtesy of DVK-on-Ahch-To):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Content that is in violation of &quot;be nice&quot; policy (that can't be edited to remove violation)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Content that is in violation of other policies (spam, mostly)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;NAA answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Answers that objectively add zero value (not simply low quality, but really can't be fixed). Note that this doesn't apply to questions - first, a question's objective value can be its answer; second, it's far easier for subject matter expert to judge if an answer adds value than a question, from my experience.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Content that is unambiguously trolling and thus has no redeeming value. As in, no reasonable user based on evidence would disagree that it's trolling.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There appears to be some support for this approach in the comments on an answer to the question (4 agreements, albeit there is no capability to downvote a comment)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If we can establish that yes, there are situations where it is appropriate to delete low-quality content, then perhaps we can get other discussions past the phase of &quot;closing and deleting shouldn't be used as a 'super downvote'&quot; objections and start working towards actual solutions. – Beofett Feb 21 at 22:51&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So given that there do exist specific reasons to remove on topic content, should we establish guidelines for said deletion (i.e. an addition to the meta FAQ series), or should we just trust in the discretion of whatever high rep users/moderators existing at the time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12305" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2018-03-13T20:02:17.730" LastActivityDate="2018-04-28T18:43:46.513" Title="Should we define specific instances to remove low quality, on topic content?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9394" CreationDate="2018-03-13T16:24:29.387" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are few things you can do in this case, as you point out-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Comment&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can leave a comment under the answer, letting the owner of that answer know that there is/are cases that have been missed. The owner of the answer can then choose to edit it in, or ignore it. The downside to this is that comments are ephemeral, and can disappear at any time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Edit&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a little different situation. As can be seen &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11474/what-is-the-etiquette-for-modifying-posts&quot;&gt;by a SE meta question&lt;/a&gt;, and this from the top voted answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You edit to make things better, clearer, more effective -- never to change meaning. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Valorum points out in his comment, adding additional supporting information or cases is fine, as long as it doesn't substantially change the essence of the answer. In that case, there is the third option:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Post a new answer&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would do this in a couple of cases - You've left a comment, and the original answerer has not incorporated it in a reasonable amount of time (Or, if you look at their profile and they haven't been back to the site in an extended period of time). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, (and this would be the case with your answer), the new information + supporting material is longer/better/much clearer than the original answer. If you can provide that much information, then it is no longer really a list item addition, but a stand alone candidate. In addition, providing an answer of that quality also improves the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12305" LastActivityDate="2018-03-13T16:24:29.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11750" CreationDate="2018-03-14T01:30:35.117" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's good to see so many remember Stiers fondly.  I always looked forward to seeing him in most anything.  Though I think my favorite performance of his will always be as the out-of-touch father in the surreal John Cusack comedy &quot;Better Off Dead.&quot;***&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CTSCn.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CTSCn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;***(Or, as I like to refer to it- &quot;The True Documentary of Helbent's High School Years.&quot;  Right down the the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsxJfcFVnpo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;psycho paperboy&lt;/a&gt;...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69621" LastActivityDate="2018-03-14T01:30:35.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11766" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11779" CreationDate="2018-03-14T03:31:01.213" Score="9" ViewCount="278" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/183335/97227&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; tag. The answer turned out to be that the movie I was thinking of was Disney's &lt;em&gt;The Great Mouse Detective&lt;/em&gt;. For some reason, it became a popular network question. After a day or so, it has gathered 4 close votes for being &quot;off-topic&quot;. As someone points out in the comments, it involves a plot to replace the Queen with a robotic duplicate (and the only person who disagreed deleted their comment). Others agreed that this was related and on-topic. However, I am concerned that the popularity will result in it getting closed, despite being no less on-topic than other &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions. Given my experience with other SE sites, 4 close votes almost guarantees a close. Is this question on-topic? Should I flag it for moderator attention, or just ask for it to be re-opened when it gets put on hold?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My memory of the movie is very hazy, but I do recall many scenes which focused heavily on the robotic duplicate, which seems very distinctly sci-fi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: A comment here pointed out that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7343/97227&quot;&gt;this Meta question&lt;/a&gt; points to this being on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An answer should not make a question off-topic, if the question without the answer seems on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time of asking the question, my memory pointed to it being SFF due to the steampunk robot. Clearly, this movie is far more SFF than an Axe commercial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="97227" LastEditorUserId="97227" LastEditDate="2018-03-15T04:31:55.277" LastActivityDate="2018-03-17T19:51:49.390" Title="Is this question about The Great Mouse Detective on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|specific-question|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11767" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-03-14T04:15:28.070" Score="29" ViewCount="1161" Body="&lt;p&gt;No introduction is necessary. One of the great minds of our time is gone. Best known for his work, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Brief_History_of_Time&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A Brief History of Time&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. Awards that he achieve include the Albert Einstein Award, the Wolf Prize, and the Copley Medal but unfortunately never won the Nobel. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/14/stephen-hawking-professor-dies-aged-76&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/14/stephen-hawking-professor-dies-aged-76&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12305" LastEditorUserId="12305" LastEditDate="2018-03-14T04:20:43.463" LastActivityDate="2018-03-19T02:56:19.130" Title="Stephen Hawking, RIP" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11767" CreationDate="2018-03-14T07:26:31.937" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;While he'll be remembered for his many great achievements in his life, and the popularisation of Science among the masses, Stephen Hawking will also be remembered for being the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/6556/68872&quot;&gt;only celebrity to cameo as themselves&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: The Next Generation&lt;/em&gt;, when he featured in a poker game with Data, Newton and Einstein.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/nEa7CfPaCRw?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68872" LastActivityDate="2018-03-14T07:26:31.937" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11766" CreationDate="2018-03-14T11:59:35.390" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I don't know the exact time frame of when the close votes started, when you received an answer, and when you posted this meta; I would say the question is off-topic not because of what the answer ended up being, but because the question itself shows no sign of the story being Science Fiction or Fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question mentions only two key features; animated and a fight in a clock tower. Neither of which really scream &quot;SFF&quot;. I would say that not containing enough details to relate it to the genre might have been a factor in the closing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But with story-id questions, an answer &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; make the question on-topic. So, as you put forth, is &lt;em&gt;The Great Mouse Detective on-topic&lt;/em&gt;? Unfortunately, I don't think so. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_of_Baker_Street&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;books the film is based on&lt;/a&gt; are in the same theme as Sherlock Holmes &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4979/can-i-ask-about-sherlock-holmes-books&quot;&gt;(which are not on-topic here&lt;/a&gt;). The &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Mouse_Detective&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wiki page&lt;/a&gt; I bring up describes the film as an &quot;animated mystery comedy&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The relevant &quot;policies&quot; that come into play here have been brought up in the previous answer and comments, : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5117/57310&quot;&gt;Are anthropomorphic animals by themselves enough to deem a work fantasy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/337/57310&quot;&gt;Are works that aren&amp;#39;t SF per se, but have occasional SFnal elements on-topic? (e.g. spy movies)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4979/57310&quot;&gt;Can I ask about Sherlock Holmes books?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2018-03-14T15:27:35.537" LastActivityDate="2018-03-14T15:27:35.537" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11767" CreationDate="2018-03-14T12:57:36.087" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;May you keep on flying through the universe, in a constant journey of discovery that never ceases even though your time on this small planet has ended. We that are left behind will not forget your contributions to human understanding of the structure of the greater universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/VPOa72dsrGw?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for all the wagers you had going with colleagues about the results of their work, I'm sure they'll honour their debts somehow, with all those bottles of wine they owe you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-03-14T12:57:36.087" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11772" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-03-14T15:34:42.257" Score="-9" ViewCount="180" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to determine all the names used in the past by various longstanding users?   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find it annoying having to remember that @Richard is @Valorum and @Gilles is @user56 and @WhiteWidow is @SachinSekar is @SS-3.14... etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;strong&gt;in particular for newer users it could be quite confusing when trying to follow old comment threads where some entries are substituted because they are actual @references and others aren't&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to look this up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a list?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should there be a canonical list, perhaps a Community answer to this question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastEditorUserId="3823" LastEditDate="2018-03-14T16:04:44.740" LastActivityDate="2018-03-19T15:28:05.503" Title="Relating various used usernames to users" Tags="|discussion|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="24" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11767" CreationDate="2018-03-14T15:36:48.313" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of good articles about his cameos, in addition to his numerous appearances as himself in various science shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018-03-14/stephen-hawking-best-tv-cameos/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018-03-14/stephen-hawking-best-tv-cameos/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Futurama&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Simpsons&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Star Trek: Next Generation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Big Bang Theory&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hitchhiker's Guide&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Monty Python&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Late Night with Conan - Twigging Jim Carrey&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, as always, a list of his appearances can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0370071/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;at his IMDB listing&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12305" LastActivityDate="2018-03-14T15:36:48.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11772" CreationDate="2018-03-14T15:41:06.420" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As shown by &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/116793/who-can-see-the-past-names-field-in-user-profiles&quot;&gt;this meta question&lt;/a&gt;, it is an available feature to moderators and developers only. (And even then, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/116870/one-of-my-names-is-missing&quot;&gt;not for life but a limited time&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12305" LastActivityDate="2018-03-14T15:41:06.420" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11772" CreationDate="2018-03-14T16:26:00.073" Score="12" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there a way to look this up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not really.&lt;/strong&gt; Past usernames aren't recorded on (the publicly visible parts of) a user's account. You might possibly be able to get some of this info using Data.SE, or by trawling through old comments addressed to the user and hoping to get lucky - but it would be frowned upon (see below).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there a list?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt; And this is by design - again, see below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should there be a canonical list, perhaps a Community answer to this question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please no.&lt;/strong&gt; There are a number of reasons why people's usernames might have changed, some of which you should really respect and not try to associate them with their old names:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Desire for anonymity.&lt;/strong&gt; Some people used their real names on SE at first, before switching to something more less personally identifying. The internet is full of bad people; I know of a few SE users who've been harassed offsite for things they've done here. If they want to make it less easy for internet trolls to find them IRL, we shouldn't hinder that.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fear of stalking.&lt;/strong&gt; Some users have creepy enemies who follow their activity on the internet, even on places like Stack Exchange. They might change their username in an attempt to avoid such attention. By making a community-maintained list of everyone's past usernames, you'd be making stalkers' jobs easier.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Account deletion.&lt;/strong&gt; One of the examples you mention in the OP is a user who deleted their account and is now associated just with an ID number rather than a name. Reasons for account deletion are many and varied, but they might include stalkers (see above) or simply not wanting their name associated with the site any more. Once again, it'd be rude to keep recording their name in a place where they don't want it recorded.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; people might change their usernames just for sh*ts and giggles, and wouldn't care if you kept track of their name changes. But please don't make a publicly curated list of username changes - it could cause a lot of unnecessary grief and worry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll also quote Community Manager Shog9 here, as he's &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/34495?m=27134865#27134865&quot;&gt;been involved&lt;/a&gt; in a conversation about something similar with regard to SFF before:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;just beware that some folks might see this [associating usernames with deleted users] as... Rude. IOW, if you're gonna make more work for the mod team by motivating departed people to come back and beg for the deletion of any comment that mentions them, you should wait until there are more mods. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-03-14T16:26:00.073" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11776" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-03-14T20:43:59.883" Score="18" ViewCount="214" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see lots of people cite subtitles here. Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/86524/931&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/86524/931&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/83447/931&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/83447/931&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, are subtitles officially approved (or, in Star Wars lingo, canonical) to be cited? Here's what I found on Quora: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-examples-of-the-worst-translations/answer/Owen-Briscoe?share=b85dd1a1&amp;amp;srid=2KT2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-examples-of-the-worst-translations/answer/Owen-Briscoe?share=b85dd1a1&amp;amp;srid=2KT2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2018-03-17T19:56:07.153" Title="Should subtitles be treated as a credible source on this site?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11767" CreationDate="2018-03-14T21:30:32.313" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;His work, along with that of his colleague, Kip Thorne, was the basis and inspiration of the much loved, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interstellar&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/74i29l.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/74i29l.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Poster for the movie, &amp;quot;Interstellar&amp;quot;. It depicts a man, Joseph Cooper (played by Matthew McConaughey). Cooper is standing in a rough and bleek icey cliff, probably in another world as he is wearing a spacesuit. The caption &amp;quot;The end of the world will not be the end of us&amp;quot; is displayed at the lower end of the poster, along with the movie&amp;#39;s title, production and release information.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Involving a plot where the main characters must find and understand the link between Einstein's '&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;General Relativity Theory&lt;/a&gt;' and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Quantum Mechanics&lt;/a&gt; - the theory popularly known as &lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Theory_Of_Everything.html?id=JbRyIIeGLcIC&amp;amp;source=kp_cover&amp;amp;redir_esc=y&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Theory of Everything&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="21267" LastEditDate="2018-03-19T02:56:19.130" LastActivityDate="2018-03-19T02:56:19.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11776" CreationDate="2018-03-14T22:19:17.350" Score="23" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Official Subtitles&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty happy to treat the &lt;em&gt;official&lt;/em&gt; subtitles on a DVD as being about as good a source of information as you're likely to get. They're (usually) added by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.subtitlers.org.uk/ajax.php?modulo=paginas&amp;amp;accion=sitio_ver&amp;amp;idpaginas=3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;professional subtitling&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.bectu.org.uk/home&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;companies and organisations&lt;/a&gt;, often with direct access to both screenplay and the production team who can answer any of their queries about spellings and translations. Although errors can potentially creep into &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; secondary source (especially where subtitles were added decades after the film was made, for example), the reality is that these mistakes are unlikely to be egregious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Most professionally constructed English DVD subtitles are, within the bounds of readability, likely to be a highly faithful reproduction of the work.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Foreign Language Subtitles&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With any translation, there are going to be choices made by the individual translator. &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.pinimg.com/originals/dc/27/10/dc27109a90601814c7913ce0f049f276.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A faithful translation would be almost unwatchable&lt;/a&gt; so &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fluentu.com/blog/japanese/japanese-idioms-2/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;local idioms&lt;/a&gt; need to be used to replace those that wouldn't make any sense. This in turn means that the translation isn't going to be a completely &lt;em&gt;faithful&lt;/em&gt; rendition of the original but is still likely to be of a very high quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Caveat emptor if you plan to use a re-translated source in your answer.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Fan-subs.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FanSub&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fan subtitles&lt;/a&gt; can (like any of other source of fan-created info) be used as part of an answer but always with the proviso that they're unlikely to be of the same quality as official subtitles and that errors of assumptions or attribution (for example, who spoke a line heard off-screen or the precise spelling of an alien word) may be made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fan-subs are low quality sources and should be treated with caution.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-03-17T19:56:07.153" LastActivityDate="2018-03-17T19:56:07.153" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11766" CreationDate="2018-03-15T07:40:59.027" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the narrow question of whether &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Mouse_Detective&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Great Mouse Detective&lt;/a&gt; is on-topic for SFF:SE, I'd argue that it probably is. The setting, scenes and overall conceit are all intended to present the audience with a &lt;em&gt;fantastical environment&lt;/em&gt; in which a fairly straightforward Sherlock Holmes parody can take place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Sci-fi/Fantasy elements&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basil is set in a universe with clockwork creations that border on the magical. The opening scene shows a &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/QMwzIPp4OCc?t=29s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wind-up ballerina&lt;/a&gt; that is far beyond (in terms of elegance and smooth movement) anything that we could make today. Later we see a (literal) steampunk steam-operated robot being used to serve tea and finally our antagonist creates a &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/0ZGvcydKJp4?t=3m22s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;perfect replica of The Queen&lt;/a&gt; to use to take over the country. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These aren't simply background items (setting up the character as a &quot;crazy inventor&quot;) but are integral to the plot. The entire film is about the search for the toymaker and the evil use that his creations can be put to, specifically the fact that he's the only person in the world that is seemingly capable of creating a mechanical mouse that is of sufficient quality to be mistaken for a real mouse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Conceit&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film is set in a world where humans evidently exist/ed (note all the oversized items and dolls) but no mention is made of the reason for their absence, nor do we learn why talking animals now run the country or even whether they existed &lt;em&gt;alongside&lt;/em&gt; humans or in a post-apocalyptic environment. Anthropomorphic animals aren't per-se fantasy, but this intriguing world clearly has fantasy implications that go far beyond simply containing animals that act like people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-03-17T19:51:49.390" LastActivityDate="2018-03-17T19:51:49.390" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11766" CreationDate="2018-03-15T11:30:57.580" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The answer&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Great Mouse Detective&lt;/em&gt; itself should be on topic, if just barely.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Two properties make it so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Anthropomorphic animals living in the regular human world&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Anthropomorphic animals &lt;em&gt;by themselves&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5119/19561&quot;&gt;don't make a work on topic&lt;/a&gt;. However, the animals here aren't just anthropomorphic, they're clearly living in and interacting with the human world. In other words, it's not just a story where all humans are replaced by humans.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Another example of this idea is &lt;em&gt;Ratatouille&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sufficiently advanced technology&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The clockwork robots give it a steampunk feel, although the influence it has on the storyline is about the same as for spy-fi such as &lt;em&gt;James Bond&lt;/em&gt; or any other &quot;adventure with &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; advanced thechnology&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These two points make it &lt;em&gt;The Great Mouse Detective&lt;/em&gt; on topic, at least enough when it comes to identification or questions about the Science Fictional or Fantastical aspects of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question however, as it was presented initially, did not show any signs of being on topic. As &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/183335/1&quot;&gt;its first revision&lt;/a&gt; reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Animated movie with fight scene in Big Ben&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I vaguely recall a movie from my childhood (so probably some time in the 80s or 90s). It was an animated movie (not anime) and it culminated with a fight inside Big Ben or another huge clock, among large gears and other mechanical objects. Unfortunately I remember little else about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Although this isn't much information, it seems specific enough that there are probably very few movies matching this criterion. Could anyone enlighten me as to what movie I am remembering?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Weak) justification for its topicality was added in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/183335/revisions&quot;&gt;later revisions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The verdict&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be just the unanswered question, even with the weak justification, I would vote it to be off topic. It may very well have a steampunk feel, but I'd like to see just a little to go on than &quot;trust me, it was steampunky&quot;. I'd want to see at least one steampunk element pointed out by the querent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it has been answered now. And its answer is on topic &quot;enough&quot;. I like to consider &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; available information and when doing so, I come to the conclusion that the question and its answer taken as a whole, make it &lt;strong&gt;on topic&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2018-03-15T11:30:57.580" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11781" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-03-15T16:32:56.377" Score="9" ViewCount="370" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Update&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The post has now been compiled and is located at &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2018/04/highlights-from-2018-1st-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2018 – 1st Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Original&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from January 1st 2018 through March 31 2018 (&lt;strong&gt;They don't have to be &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; questions and answers, but it also doesn't matter if you want to self promote your own stuff.&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2018/01/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2018/01/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2018/01/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I will also be linking all blog posts that happened within this quarter. Also the most controversial question of the quarter. Also a sum of all the bounties that were awarded.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also if there was a meta post you feel should be spotlighted those are also acceptable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EDLTC.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EDLTC.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2018-04-19T13:49:31.763" LastActivityDate="2018-04-19T13:49:31.763" Title="Favorite Questions and Answers from first quarter 2018" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11782" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-03-16T20:53:55.677" Score="6" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the off topic close reasons contains a link to come talk about it in chat&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Requests for lists of works or recommendations are off-topic as they do not fit our questions and answers format. Feel free to ask about people's favorites in chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the link to chat goes to the now defunct Mos Eisley. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12305" LastEditorUserId="1586" LastEditDate="2018-03-16T21:27:24.870" LastActivityDate="2018-03-16T21:27:24.870" Title="Custom close reason needs an update" Tags="|discussion|bug|feature-request|status-completed|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-03-20T17:05:43.127" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11772" CreationDate="2018-03-19T15:28:05.503" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;A year+ ago a site user (I'm thinking Phantom but not sure) created a list of deleted user maps as a service to the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To the best of my recollection, Community Managers stepped in and said this Should Not Be Done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So... No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2018-03-19T15:28:05.503" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11781" CreationDate="2018-03-19T17:38:29.153" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;From both a question and answer stand point I really enjoyed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/179570/where-did-rockets-repair-tool-come-from&quot;&gt;Where did Rocket&amp;#39;s repair tool come from?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions hits on something that many people might have a assumed was common in that part of the universe. Something so important, but yet somehow just operating in background. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer goes right to the source, getting a WOG tweet (which has been done quite a few times on this site but is never-the-less impressive). It's always nice to see our humble community have an impact on the greater world of the stories we love.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2018-03-20T06:32:54.240" LastActivityDate="2018-03-20T06:32:54.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11785" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-03-20T22:43:17.400" Score="14" ViewCount="263" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should questions about &lt;strong&gt;specific aspects of fandom response to a work of sci-fi/fantasy&lt;/strong&gt; be considered on-topic for SFF.SE?&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;The help centre's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;on-topic page&lt;/a&gt; clearly states that &quot;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information&quot; is on-topic here (even though some users aren't aware of this or don't grasp what it means - see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9529/31394&quot;&gt;Why is fandom information treated as if it weren&amp;#39;t on topic?&lt;/a&gt;), and questions about how fans responded to a particular work are often objectively answerable, especially for popular works which have had massive public fandom response. However, the following questions have had a mixed reaction:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/108486/31394&quot;&gt;What was the general critical reaction to Star Trek: The Motion Picture?&lt;/a&gt; (closed, reopened, score 25, high-scoring answers)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/139020/31394&quot;&gt;Why do Trekkies hate Into Darkness?&lt;/a&gt; (closed, reopened, reclosed, score 7, high-scoring answer)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/181645/31394&quot;&gt;Do Stephen R. Donaldson&amp;#39;s philosophical issues make sense to readers?&lt;/a&gt; (closed, three votes to reopen aged away, score 2, no answers)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the last of these examples, a close-voter stated that questions like these are &quot;&lt;em&gt;not on-topic unless you can demonstrate at least some degree of notability&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. Interestingly, this idea also came up in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11728/31394&quot;&gt;another recent meta&lt;/a&gt;, with the conclusion that notability requirements are for Skeptics SE, not SFF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this doesn't seem to be a case of simple &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9531/31394&quot;&gt;ignorance of site policy&lt;/a&gt;, because at least some of the close-voters on these posts are well aware that fandom information is on-topic. Thus I'm bringing the issue to meta, in an attempt to understand why some of these questions were closed and whether or not they should be reopened. All thoughts and comments welcome!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-03-21T19:44:57.800" Title="Should questions about fandom response be on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11781" CreationDate="2018-03-21T09:07:56.703" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't want to toot my own horn too loudly but I really enjoyed researching this answer of mine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/179255/58193&quot;&gt;What are the lyrics to The Children from Game of Thrones S04E10?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It ended up being a lot more research than I had planned and I eventually got pointed to the language creator for an answer. I put in a lot of work and ended up finding the answer to the question a few years after it was asked. This answer would fall under &quot;Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2018-03-21T09:07:56.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11785" CreationDate="2018-03-21T15:09:30.340" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As someone who has (literally) closed thousands of opinion-based, let me start off with the general theory of Primary Opinion Based(POB) and work back to where I think we should be on this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;POB is bad because it invites people to debate something using answers. SE is not a discussion platform, it's an &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; platform. We don't allow people &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6723/could-the-enterprise-beam-a-vampire-into-a-house-she-didn-t-have-permission-to-e&quot;&gt;to openly speculate about anything SFF&lt;/a&gt; because everyone has an opinion in Shark vs Gorilla or Enterprise vs Death Star, and nobody has an answer. Nobody is clamoring to reopen that question either. So we have &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; agreement on POB, in that open-ended speculation or discussion is bad (&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/234075/what-is-your-best-programmer-joke&quot;&gt;case in point&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The flipside is, given the SFF subject matter, we have to allow &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; speculation. We're answering questions about stories here. Modern stories often leave gaps in the plot and half the fun of being a fan is helping people to answer those gaps as best as you can, with what the producers/writers have given us to work with (I'd dare say it's why this site exists). Speculation is on-topic, but only within certain limits (good answers cite things to back their points up).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions Rand identified are in a subset of POB: film criticism. This invites some discussion (good!) and debating (bad!). Let's focus &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/108486/31394&quot;&gt;on his first one&lt;/a&gt; for the sake or argument. The problem we run into is illustrated perfectly in #1 by Praxis. We have Rand give the critics' responses and then Praxis adds his excellent answer, but notes this at the top&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rand al'thor has done a great job of collecting reviews on the issue of The Motion Picture. However, I thought you might also appreciate the input of a die-hard Trek fan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why stop there? Praxis isn't the only die-hard Star Trek fan. I could answer this (but I don't, because I really don't have anything to add between the two existing answers), and so could anyone with an opinion. That's why I had issue with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/139020/why-do-so-many-trekkies-hate-star-trek-into-darkness#comment498779_139020&quot;&gt;this comment on Rand's second question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why is this closed as &quot;opinion based&quot;? The querant is not asking for our opinion, but rather for (as the answer shows) well documented responses by the audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Praxis' answer isn't well documented anything. It's 100% his opinion. It also happens to be well written and shared by a lot of people. Assuming these will be limited to &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; quoted responses by the audience is naive. &lt;strong&gt;Everyone is a critic&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On any other site, the course is clear. Cut the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTJmVyk9Aa4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;chit chat&lt;/a&gt; and close the questions. But SFF is a different beast from other SE sites, in that there's no massive outstanding moderation queue and an active group of people keeping it like that. As such, there's no fear of doing things that could fill said queue. POB is not a hard and fast rule, just a guideline about limiting chit-chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say we just leave these open at this point with the following caveats (most of this is already policy but let's review for the sake of completeness)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question must be asking for serious answers/critiques. No &lt;code&gt;Why does this movie suck?&lt;/code&gt; questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers must be well reasoned. No &lt;code&gt;The writers don't care about the story/audience&lt;/code&gt; answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SFF has a low tolerance for one-liners and bad questions. I don't think this really marks any changes for how things work. Unless we get flooded with bad answers, just let them ride.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastActivityDate="2018-03-21T15:09:30.340" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11788" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-03-21T19:35:15.220" Score="28" ViewCount="255" Body="&lt;p&gt;A large number of story-ID questions come in with insufficient detail to be usefully answered, and there are several people here who point this out, usually commenting with a link to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9335/how-to-ask-a-good-story-id-question/9337#9337&quot;&gt;How to ask a good story-ID question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible - and would it be sensible - to make that a &quot;magic link&quot;, say &quot;[story-id]&quot;, much as [ask] expands to &quot;How to Ask&quot; with a link to the appropriate FAQ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76579" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-06-22T16:31:13.233" LastActivityDate="2019-06-22T16:31:13.233" Title="&quot;Magic Link&quot; for How To Ask A Good Story-ID Question?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|story-identification|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11785" CreationDate="2018-03-21T19:44:57.800" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already have a proscription on questions that invite idle speculation (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;“I’m curious if other people feel like I do.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) and my instinct is that questions about &lt;em&gt;'what fans think'&lt;/em&gt; fall under much the same heading, largely because they're invariably too widely scoped to be sensibly answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Which fans? &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/opinion/sunday/whats-the-matter-with-polling.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fans who've posted on the internet&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fans in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/net_election/2000/01/why_online_polls_are_bunk.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;which country&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.popsci.com/g00/debate-who-was-best-captain-in-star-trek?i10c.encReferrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvLnVrLw%3D%3D&amp;amp;i10c.ua=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;fandom opinion is split,&lt;/a&gt; which set of fans do we refer to?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does this mean fans who were around when the property first arrived or &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_following&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;fans who've seen it years later&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do we take into account the hordes of fans who've had their opinions shaped by &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Analysis/RedLetterMedia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;high-level critical analysis&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do we take as sufficient evidence of fan-reponse to answer sensibly?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;So what should we allow?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions about &lt;em&gt;critical response&lt;/em&gt; should be acceptable.&lt;/strong&gt; It's been demonstrated that it's possible to collate those sensibly and in an objective fashion, as demonstrated by Rand in the ST question above. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions about &quot;&lt;em&gt;what do fans think about x&lt;/em&gt;&quot; should be off-topic&lt;/strong&gt; as there &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/09/29/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;doesn't seem to be any sensible measure we can use&lt;/a&gt; to determine which answer is the most right. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2018-03-21T19:44:57.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11788" CreationDate="2018-03-21T23:03:06.950" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just asked a CM and &lt;strong&gt;this is not possible.&lt;/strong&gt; Sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-03-21T23:03:06.950" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11788" CreationDate="2018-03-23T10:35:41.943" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two very useful user scripts that can be used to get what you want:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/q/2116/17253&quot;&gt;AutoReviewComments&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will add a new &lt;code&gt;auto&lt;/code&gt; button next to the &quot;add a comment&quot; one on every question or answer which, when clicked, will present you with a configurable list of comments to insert:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L3Cqp.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L3Cqp.png&quot; alt=&quot;auto comment link&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GjOkQm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GjOkQm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can use write the comment you want, including the link, and will be able to add it in two clicks. This, of course, assumes that you want to leave the same comment in all cases. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackapps.com/q/6650/17253&quot;&gt;Custom &quot;magic links&quot; for comments&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one is basically &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; what you asked for. You can define your own, custom &lt;code&gt;[magic links]&lt;/code&gt; and those will work just like the official ones, automagically expanded to link to whatever you've configured them to link to. In your case, you would add an entry like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;magicLinks['story id'] = 'https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9335/&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8368" LastActivityDate="2018-03-23T10:35:41.943" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11792" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-03-23T10:38:43.980" Score="0" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that we get quite a lot of questions about symbols or signs on the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I find these interesting and think they should be grouped under an 'iconography' tag (I added it here &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/184111/what-is-the-out-of-universe-origin-of-the-rebel-crest&quot;&gt;What is the out-of-universe origin of the rebel crest?&lt;/a&gt;) however I don't want to do this if there is not a consensus that this is a good idea (or at least there is not a consensus it is a terrible idea)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone like this idea, or does anyone strenuously object?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1132" LastActivityDate="2018-03-24T15:53:20.493" Title="Is 'iconography' as a tag a good idea?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11792" CreationDate="2018-03-24T12:18:20.160" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/tagging&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What are tags, and how should I use them?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;As a general rule, you should avoid creating new tags if possible&lt;/strong&gt;, and new users are not allowed to create new tags. Even if&#xA;  you have sufficient reputation, &lt;strong&gt;you should only create new tags when&#xA;  you feel you can make a strong case that your question covers a new&#xA;  topic that nobody else has asked about before on this site.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, I'm not seeing a &lt;em&gt;strong&lt;/em&gt; reason to create and apply this tag other than your personal urge to lump several similar questions together. Note also that &quot;iconography&quot; is &lt;a href=&quot;https://corpus.byu.edu/coca/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;not a common word&lt;/a&gt; which means that your new tag is unlikely to be searched for by many users even if they've also got an interest in finding out about science fiction logos and symbols.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q. Can you do it if you want to?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Go for it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it a good idea?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;No, not really.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-03-24T15:53:20.493" LastActivityDate="2018-03-24T15:53:20.493" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11794" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-03-24T17:58:42.563" Score="-2" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to ask if a moderator could delete a recent question of mine that was not welcomed very well by the community. I've tried, but I'm unable to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/184015/83101&quot;&gt;Here it is.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was deemed to be not good enough to stay open, but I see that it keeps being downvoted, and it is honestly quite annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would have deleted it myself, but like I said, I cannot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83101" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2018-03-26T07:21:55.313" LastActivityDate="2018-03-26T07:21:55.313" Title="Can a moderator delete a question of mine?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-03-26T07:55:46.277" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11794" CreationDate="2018-03-24T18:33:39.797" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;A moderator wasn't needed. It has received three delete votes from users (including myself) and has now been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/status-complete&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-complete&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-complete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2018-03-24T18:33:39.797" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11794" CreationDate="2018-03-26T01:58:55.180" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;So you've posted a question you're not happy with and don't like that you're copping flak for it, and now wish for it to be removed. You have a few options here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;1. Leave it&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not fair to simply remove content that you no longer like. The functional and spiritual nature of this site is that it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/18221/252593&quot;&gt;community owned&lt;/a&gt; (or more specifically 'StackOverflow owned'). As such, once you've put the content here, it no longer &lt;em&gt;belongs&lt;/em&gt; to you, but to &lt;strong&gt;us&lt;/strong&gt;; the community, as a whole. The only reason that your name is attached to content is for &lt;em&gt;attribution purposes&lt;/em&gt; (rep is a side issue related to incetivising people to donate their content).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Simply not liking something you've posted now is not reason enough to remove it.&lt;/strong&gt; As Animuson et al &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/96746/252593&quot;&gt;have said&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You should be willing to stand by all content you contribute to our network. If we notice a specific user continually requesting their name be removed from posts, that is a strong signal that you are not willing to contribute to this community in an effective and meaningful way and you may find yourself suspended from the site. We are not a platform for you to post or say whatever you want and then turn around to have your name removed from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I suggest you suck it up and deal with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;2. Disassociate the question from your account&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are in fact able to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/86618/252593&quot;&gt;disassociate posts from your account&lt;/a&gt;. Simply:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on '&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;Contact&lt;/a&gt;'&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Found at the bottom of &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; page&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Describe your problem&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be sure to be specific; make sure you put a link to the actual post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Include a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; reason why you should be disassociated from the content&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Send&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, you can raise a custom 'flag for moderator attention' on the post and request that a moderator perform the disassociation for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, this simply removes the attribution that was applied to &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;, everything else remains in tact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;3. Ask a moderator to delete the content&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is highly discouraged, removing content on the sole basis of 'I don't like this; it's giving me downvotes' is not a fair use of this site. Even some 'bad content' is still good content to leave in place. Also, moderators shouldn't be spending time removing content that people no longer 'like'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, you can apparently 'flag for moderator attention' and hope that they agree with you and can delete a post for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Further reading:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/290608/252593&quot;&gt;Why are some usernames on comments not a link to user profiles?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/96732/252593&quot;&gt;How do I remove my name from a post, in accordance with CC BY-SA 3.0?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/86616/252593&quot;&gt;No way to delete an answered question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/18221/252593&quot;&gt;Who owns the content I post?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2018-03-26T07:20:46.050" LastActivityDate="2018-03-26T07:20:46.050" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11797" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-03-26T12:49:30.257" Score="0" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are currently five questions asking how to pronounce certain words in &lt;em&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/em&gt;/&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; (I thought there was more but I can't seem to find any others). However, George R. R. Martin has said various times that names can be pronounced &quot;however you like&quot; and so the answer to all these questions is the same (although this has only been answered onto two of them). The questions are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/158981&quot;&gt;How does one pronounce “Asshai”?&lt;/a&gt; - Currently 4 answers with the &quot;However you like&quot; quote ranked 3rd.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/51244&quot;&gt;What is the correct pronunciation of “Warg”?&lt;/a&gt; - Currently 3 answers with the &quot;However you like&quot; quote ranked 3rd.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/65943&quot;&gt;How do you pronounce Aeron Damphair?&lt;/a&gt; - Currently 2 answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/47865&quot;&gt;Is Jaime supposed to be pronounced in the Spanish way?&lt;/a&gt; - Currently 1 answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/184209&quot;&gt;Petyr Baelish pronunciation&lt;/a&gt; - Currently 1 answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such I think it would be sensible to create a canonical question and close them all to it to save repeating the answer everywhere. For this we have the following options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit the best question to be broader and close all to that one. (I personally believe that the best answered one is the Warg one here)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Create a new Q/A that's broader and close them all to that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some other option.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you guys think should be done here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2018-03-26T14:13:15.667" Title="Creating a canonical pronunciation question for ASOIAF/GoT" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11797" CreationDate="2018-03-26T13:31:43.717" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Too broad?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is asking for the pronunciation of &lt;em&gt;ALL&lt;/em&gt; character/place names in the Westeros universe, then the answers would be unlikely to all fit in a single answer post (30,000 character limit?) As such, that hypothetical question sounds like a textbook case of &quot;too broad&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please edit the question to limit it to a specific problem with enough detail to identify an adequate answer. Avoid asking multiple distinct questions at once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking for the pronunciation of (say) Aeron Damphair, Petyr Baelish, Jaime, Tyrion, and Cersei would certainly be &lt;strong&gt;&quot;multiple distinct questions&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;, and (as we've seen) each of these pronunciation requests can function perfectly well as a question on its own, even attracting multiple answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&quot;However you like&quot;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This quote from GRRM is certainly interesting background information on how a given name 'should' be pronounced, but it's by no means the bottom line and &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; possible answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;First of all, it &lt;strong&gt;clearly doesn't apply to &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; questions&lt;/strong&gt;. For &lt;em&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/em&gt;, GRRM is the author and creator, and a quote from him can count as &quot;Word of God&quot; (even though I'm pretty sure he's been known to lie or at least embroider the truth). But &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; is a television show, and as such - regardless of what GRRM says - it &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; usually have a canonical way to pronounce names, namely the way characters pronounce them on-screen. Admittedly a question asking for GoT pronunciation would probably be poorly researched (although maybe not - consider language/translation issues), but many GoT/aSoIaF questions have both tags, and many OPs will take show info even if they've only read the books. (See also the 3rd point below.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In fact, the &quot;however you like&quot; doesn't even always apply to &lt;em&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/em&gt; questions. &lt;strong&gt;Sometimes it's possible to deduce pronunciation from context.&lt;/strong&gt; For example, look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/65947/31394&quot;&gt;this answer to the Aeron Damphair question&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Damphair is a nickname referring to dousing with water as part of the worship of the Drowned God. So it seems fairly obvious this should be pronounced &quot;Damp hair&quot; (ie. we are saying Aeron's hair is damp). In this case, the &quot;ph&quot; should not be rendered as an &quot;f&quot; sound (Aeron Damfair sounds silly and loses the meaning of wet hair).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's pretty convincing evidence that the &quot;p&quot; and &quot;h&quot; should be pronounced separately - it makes much more sense in the context of the story to pronounce it that way rather than like an &quot;f&quot;. So even if the content creator says we can all pronounce the names however we like, sometimes one pronunciation &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; objectively better than another.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anyway, &lt;strong&gt;regardless of what GRRM says, OPs may still find other answers useful&lt;/strong&gt;. You'll note that neither of the &quot;however you like&quot; answers has been accepted, or even highest-voted. Apparently people find it more useful to learn how the name is pronounced in various adaptations, such as &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; and audiobooks, than to be given essentially no help at all with how to pronounce the name.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Finally, of course, &lt;strong&gt;&quot;however you like&quot; isn't really practical&lt;/strong&gt;. Taking this at face value, it would be fine to read &lt;em&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/em&gt; in its entirety pronouncing Tyrion as &quot;Tomato&quot;, Jon Snow as &quot;Eddie Baby&quot;, and Winterfell as &quot;the Spanish Inquisition&quot;. But nobody would expect you to talk about how Tomato met Eddie Baby at the Spanish Inquisition in book 1; and if you did, they wouldn't understand what you were on about. The postmodernist view that &quot;truth is relative&quot; can be very unhelpful for communication! Even if GRRM says there are no right and wrong pronunciations, that can only reasonably apply within certain parameters.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, &quot;however you like&quot; is Word of God, but that doesn't mean it's the only possible canon answer. There &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; usually more to be said about pronunciation of names than just that quote - e.g. how the name was pronounced in the TV show, audiobooks, or by GRRM himself, in-story evidence or etymological background supporting one pronunciation over another, etc. etc. As we've seen, even a question about one single name's pronunciation can gather multiple paragraphs of answers. Imagine multiplying that amount of information by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/115429/31394&quot;&gt;the number of different names in the series&lt;/a&gt;, and trying to fit all of that into one single 30,000 character answer. It would surely be an impossible task.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2018-03-26T14:13:15.667" LastActivityDate="2018-03-26T14:13:15.667" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11797" CreationDate="2018-03-26T13:31:44.063" Score="-7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;We should edit one of the questions titles to make it a general title.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As discussed in a similar question (titled: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11123/should-we-rewrite-the-lightsaber-colour-question/11133#11133&quot;&gt;Should we rewrite the lightsaber colour question?&lt;/a&gt;) where one answer covers all the bases but was not necessarily originally worded correctly, we should simply edit one of the questions to make the title cover the general case. As long as the main intention of the question remains the same it should be fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reasoning for doing so would be because there is no need to be reposting a canon answer in multiple places, that is in face one of the reasons why we duplicate using answers as a test for questions. Although the specifics of &amp;quot;How GRRM/Actors/audiobooks say it&amp;quot; will change. The fact of the matter is the Word of God has dictated that there is no one pronunciation and that every and all are in fact as accurate as the last.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What about for questions asking specifically about GRRM pronunciations?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is covered in the canonical answer, than the questions can be closed of a dupe of that as well. As GRRM himself has said, he doesn't himself have proper pronunciations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He laughed and said no because he doesn't really know how to pronounce them himself. He did say that the Audio Books do have errors in pronunciation. (Petyr is just Peter, for example.)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/US_Signing_Tour_New_York_City_NY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;So Spake Martin - US SIGNING TOUR (NEW YORK CITY, NY)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68872" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-03-26T13:31:44.063" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11801" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-03-27T01:24:16.543" Score="-5" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/184235/&quot;&gt;Treebeard: &amp;quot;I always like going South, somehow it feels like going downhill.&amp;quot; - Is it really?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is not asking for speculation — as would obviously not be accepted by most here.&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/32/68218&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really think most of the answers are subpar.  I'm opening this topic here to discuss whether my assessment is correct and to hopefully get some attention to, if necessary, improving the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At time of writing this, there are 5 answers.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/184242/68218&quot;&gt;accepted one&lt;/a&gt; has many reviewers and downvotes that seem to agree with my assessment:  pure fanon, methinks.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/184243/68218&quot;&gt;Another&lt;/a&gt; offers probable and believable suppositions for why the line was included in the movie — but seems rather simplistic for me:  as if it didn't even take the line at face value but really misinterpreted it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Another &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/184279/68218&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; is obviously unsubstantiated, but upvotes tell me that many drive–by voters agree.  If its purported quote actually exists, then I think it would be the best answer and I'd upvote it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/184241/68218&quot;&gt;One answer&lt;/a&gt; seems plausible, but it in no way makes an effort to support its claim.  Fanon, but better than the accepted one.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Of course, there is also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/184339/68218&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt;, but if I had problems with it then I'd either edit, delete, or ask them in a different question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, prior to me flagging the answers for review, is there anything else that can be done?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Maybe I am making too big a fuss out of these answers …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68218" LastActivityDate="2018-03-27T15:29:32.633" Title="This question about movie–only Treebeard quote seems to have too many speculative answers" Tags="|discussion|specific-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11801" CreationDate="2018-03-27T02:19:33.180" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I can see, all the current answers attempt to answer the question. Some are better than others, and that is what up and down votes are supposed to distinguish. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm afraid that the fact that you don't think some of the highly up-voted answers are good (I agree with you in one case) doesn't mean that they should be flagged. You can, as you have done, post on Meta and hope that the Meta Effect will draw additional down-votes, but I don't think that is what Meta was created for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66402" LastEditorUserId="66402" LastEditDate="2018-03-27T15:29:32.633" LastActivityDate="2018-03-27T15:29:32.633" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11803" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11804" CreationDate="2018-03-27T16:08:01.733" Score="0" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/184328/series-about-a-young-man-struggling-to-become-king-in-middle-ages-setting&quot;&gt;Series about a young man struggling to become king in middle ages setting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;was closed because OP said he didn't remember any SF or Fantasy elements. Just because he didn't remember any, it doesn't mean there weren't any. As you can see from the comments, I think I have an answer. The novel has fantasy elements (dragon) after all; they're just downplayed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63330" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-03-27T16:57:00.093" LastActivityDate="2018-03-27T16:57:14.837" Title="Please reopen this question" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11803" CreationDate="2018-03-27T16:46:56.653" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/184328/revisions&quot;&gt;originally asked&lt;/a&gt; the question was off-topic and &lt;strong&gt;rightly closed&lt;/strong&gt;. Since then, OP has added some additional information that brings it on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Although I don't remember it having magic or fantasy elements, &lt;strong&gt;it&#xA;  definitely was either alternate history or just an non-Earth world.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  It's possible it was a low-magic setting.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The question should now be re-opened.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-03-27T16:57:14.837" LastActivityDate="2018-03-27T16:57:14.837" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11805" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-03-31T19:00:53.470" Score="4" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, really, the question is all in the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And why is it asking me to connect a microphone to talk with he/her/it? O_o&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43417" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2018-03-31T19:11:59.677" LastActivityDate="2018-03-31T19:11:59.677" Title="Why is there a duck on the SF&amp;F page?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11805" CreationDate="2018-03-31T19:08:11.627" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/r3FSa.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;funny&lt;/a&gt;&quot; April fool's &quot;joke&quot;. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/308564/stack-exchange-has-been-taken-over-by-a-rubber-duck&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange has been taken over by a rubber duck!&lt;/a&gt; for more details. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, it's not actually trying to access your microphone. Whatever option you choose it just plays an unskippable animation, makes a noise, then &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/308570/how-do-i-disable-quack-overflow-i-hate-this-duck-button-is-only-temporary&quot;&gt;offers you the option to keep it or block it.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2018-03-31T19:08:11.627" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11805" CreationDate="2018-03-31T19:09:04.103" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;It's an April Fool's joke.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All across Stack Exchange, for as long as it's April Fool's Day anywhere in the world (e.g. right now it's still March in the Americas and Europe, but it's been the 1st of April in New Zealand for quite a while), you'll see this Clippy-style duck. &lt;strong&gt;It's a piece of harmless fun; feel free to ignore it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why a rubber duck?&lt;/strong&gt; It's a reference to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;common meme among programmers&lt;/a&gt;: you can often solve problems simply by explaining them, not necessarily to a person but even just to a dumb rubber duck. (Of course, here on SFF we're not all programmers, but the joke - and the SE network - originates from Stack Overflow, which &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a programming site.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the request to hear you speak, &lt;strong&gt;don't worry: it can't really access your microphone&lt;/strong&gt;. No matter what you say, or even if you click to say you don't have a microphone on your computer, the duck's response will be the same:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/content/Shared/quack.mp3&quot;&gt;QUACK!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more details, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/quack-overflow&quot;&gt;main meta&lt;/a&gt;, where this April Fool's trick has its own tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-03-31T19:09:04.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11808" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-04-01T02:47:12.243" Score="15" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm conflicted about how to interpret the finale of Avatar the Last Airbender and I want to ask others what they think the message of the finale is supposed to be. Is this on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="94668" LastActivityDate="2018-04-01T11:23:36.430" Title="Is asking for the moral of a story on topic?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11808" CreationDate="2018-04-01T03:49:03.427" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;It's fine if you ask for in-universe perspective or author intention&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a tag for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/morality/info&quot;&gt;morality and ethics&lt;/a&gt; questions, they are clearly on-topic here. That said, I think this questions should not be an invitation to debate personal moral perspectives on a work of fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you check the most well received morality questions they ask for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In-universe moral perspective:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/116889/were-there-any-good-separatist-military-leaders&quot;&gt;Were there any &amp;quot;good&amp;quot; Separatist military leaders?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/143111/did-any-jedi-question-the-ethics-of-having-a-clone-army&quot;&gt;Did any Jedi question the ethics of having a clone army?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/79956/has-captain-america-ever-been-completely-in-the-wrong&quot;&gt;Has Captain America ever been completely in the wrong?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In-universe moral rules&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4085/whats-the-difference-between-the-light-side-and-the-dark-side-of-the-force&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the difference between the Light side and the Dark side of the Force?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/171485/what-exactly-is-the-ancients-policy-regarding-intervention&quot;&gt;What exactly is the Ancients&amp;#39; policy regarding intervention?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Authors perspective:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/110147/james-potter-vs-severus-snape-any-official-word&quot;&gt;James Potter vs. Severus Snape - any official word?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/95729/word-of-god-on-tuvixs-murder&quot;&gt;Word of God on Tuvix&amp;#39;s Murder&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These kind of questions, which have a definitive answer and don't invite POB answers, are completely on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63534" LastEditorUserId="63534" LastEditDate="2018-04-01T04:04:22.477" LastActivityDate="2018-04-01T04:04:22.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11808" CreationDate="2018-04-01T11:23:36.430" Score="13" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Questions like this can be OK, but please try not to make it too opinion-based.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are already questions on the site which amount to &amp;quot;what does the ending of this story mean/signify&amp;quot;. Even if they're not specifically about the &lt;em&gt;moral&lt;/em&gt;, answering questions of this form does often involve describing the moral of the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/102956/31394&quot;&gt;What does the end of &amp;quot;Nine billion names of God&amp;quot; signify?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/51915/31394&quot;&gt;Demystifying Zelazny&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;Lord of Light&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key thing to do when asking a question like this is to &lt;strong&gt;try to make it reasonably answerable&lt;/strong&gt;. We close &amp;quot;primarily opinion-based&amp;quot; questions, and where to draw the line between &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;primarily&lt;/em&gt; opinion-based&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;partly opinion-based but not too much&amp;quot; is something that different people are going to have different opinions on. Some subjectivity is OK, but it should always be &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/09/29/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective and not Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt;. The key difference is in the answers: Good Subjective questions &lt;strong&gt;can be answered by drawing upon objective evidence&lt;/strong&gt;; Bad Subjective questions invite discussion and opinion. These guidelines have been codified in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;help centre&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some subjective questions are allowed, but “subjective” does not mean “anything goes”. All subjective questions are expected to be constructive. What does that mean? Constructive subjective questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;inspire answers that explain “why” and “how”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tend to have long, not short, answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;have a constructive, fair, and impartial tone&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;invite sharing experiences over opinions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;insist that opinion be backed up with facts and references&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;are more than just mindless social fun&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-04-01T11:23:36.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11811" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-04-02T14:18:10.660" Score="22" ViewCount="447" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the dawn of time the posts came, down through the centuries. Err wrong canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long time ago, on a site on a server far far away, we had somewhat lower quality standards. (that applies to my own as well).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, at times, I re-read an old answer to my old question, and cringe at my own up-vote, as by today's standards - both the site's and my own - the answer clearly does &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; deserve an upvote. Like, having zero source support, and likely a short detail-less answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Had I been voting on that answer today, I would NOT have upvoted.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is, I cannot rescind that old upvote, as per SE mechanics, unless the answer was edited since I cast the vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a workaround for the problem: edit the answer, thus enabling the vote to be changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it seems like misuse of a feature, &lt;strong&gt;so I'd like to obtain community consensus of whether it's OK or not to do that by community standards&lt;/strong&gt;, since I can see both pros and cons of this approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;NOTE: if you think editing is a bad idea, please downvote &lt;strong&gt;the Meta Answer which says &quot;yes&quot;, not this question&lt;/strong&gt;. The question is intended to be neutral without expressing support for either option&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2018-04-04T14:08:01.790" LastActivityDate="2018-04-15T14:00:31.633" Title="Is it OK to edit an answer just to rescind one's own old vote?" Tags="|discussion|editing|voting|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11811" CreationDate="2018-04-02T16:39:24.330" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Found &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/186784/locked-votes-can-be-changed-by-editing-a-post&quot;&gt;an answer on main meta&lt;/a&gt; that links to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19940/undo-an-up-down-vote-after-a-comment-is-left/21839#21839&quot;&gt;an answer on another question&lt;/a&gt; by Jeff Atwood, where he suggests:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have doubts, reserve your vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel so strongly that you've made a terrible mistake with your vote, earn 2k rep, edit the post, then change your vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Atwood is basically Word of God status, note that the answer is very heavily downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is also somewhat corroborated by the highest voted &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/109859/should-we-allow-our-edits-to-reverse-our-own-upvotes-and-downvotes&quot;&gt;answer on this question&lt;/a&gt;, suggesting that if you have the reputation to edit, you should be trusted enough to know that your vote needs to be reversed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither of these are policy, but I would proposed that if you have the ability and the judgement, you should be allowed to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12305" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-04-02T16:39:24.330" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11811" CreationDate="2018-04-02T17:00:53.680" Score="14" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Voters should be able to change their votes, even if it requires the answer to be edited. But those edits must have &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; value.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be frank, I've never been clear on why votes need to be &quot;locked in&quot; after a certain amount of time and if I feel, upon later reflection (or if I learn more about a particular canon) that my vote needs to change, I've never had any compunction about editing the answer and changing my vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only proviso I'd make is that all edits have to improve the post in some fashion. &lt;em&gt;Invisible editing&lt;/em&gt; (such as adding &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/posts/11811/revisions&quot;&gt;hidden markdown&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;em&gt;purely to allow you to change your vote&lt;/em&gt; seems like it's a bit of an abuse of privilege.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'm certain you can find &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; to fix. Go fix it, then change your vote.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-04-03T23:35:45.817" LastActivityDate="2018-04-03T23:35:45.817" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11811" CreationDate="2018-04-02T20:37:59.553" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I assume that rescinding a vote will always result in a reputation loss, even after the vote has been locked. If that is the case, undoing a vote that was based on an outdated quality standard will enhance the quality of the questions and answers, &lt;strong&gt;but at the same time will hurt the quality of the reputation system&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone did good work according to the current standard, that someone will still be a good worker if the standards change, even if the result of the work is considered bad (or worse) under the new standard. Taking well-earned reputation away because a question or answer doesn't meet todays standards is akin to slander.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79635" LastActivityDate="2018-04-02T20:37:59.553" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11815" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-04-02T21:38:20.153" Score="-5" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;As of 12th March 2018, the Potterverse has a new name for the whole Harry Potter franchise - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pottermore.com/news/wizarding-world-brand-logo-launch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wizarding World&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This term covers the whole range of Harry Potter media, not just the original seven books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do we want to create a new tag [wizarding-world] as the new catch-all tag for questions set in the Harry Potter world?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, the arguments in favour of such a change would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Granting greater distinction between questions about the Harry Potter books and questions about the &lt;em&gt;Fantastic Beasts&lt;/em&gt; films, &lt;em&gt;The Cursed Child&lt;/em&gt; and other parts of the franchise. Given that this is a constantly expanding franchise, we're going to have an increasing quantity of questions tagged with [harry-potter] which actually aren't about Harry Potter the character at all. Since the [harry-potter] tag is already very big it would arguably be helpful to distinguish clearly between questions based on the seven books and those based on other parts of the franchise. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is a precedent for tagging this way elsewhere on the site - for instance, separating [lord-of-the-rings] questions from [the-hobbit] questions whilst still having the catchall [tolkiens-legendariam] tag for them all.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;'Wizarding World' is the new official term by which the franchise-creators wish the works in question to be referred. 'Harry Potter' is not an official term in the same way. Having the proper name in tag form makes the site look good. Lacking it doesn't.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The arguments against:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Retagging all 5,174 (and growing) questions would take a Herculean group effort akin to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10691/the-big-edit-event-is-finished&quot;&gt;big edit event&lt;/a&gt; and muck up the front page for a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;'Harry Potter' is well known as a term of reference whereas 'Wizarding World' isn't (yet).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are doubtless other points I haven't thought of. I don't have a strong opinion either way but thought that I should open it up to community discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64888" LastActivityDate="2018-04-02T21:51:13.090" Title="Do we want to create a new Wizarding World tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11815" CreationDate="2018-04-02T21:51:13.090" Score="17" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No. At least not yet.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;'Harry Potter' is well known as a term of reference whereas 'Wizarding World' isn't (yet).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's basically the main point here. Tags are supposed to be a quick way for people to find questions on a particular topic - including (especially!) people who aren't familiar with this site and its workings and policies, people who might not even have accounts here but are interested in reading our content. Right now, &quot;Harry Potter&quot; is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;FAR&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; more recognisable than &quot;Wizarding World&quot; as a term for the Potterverse. Please let's not rename the tag to something that people wouldn't even know to look for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wizarding-world&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wizarding-world&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wizarding-world&lt;/a&gt; would be a confusing name for a tag &lt;em&gt;anyway&lt;/em&gt; (and a confusing name for a brand, IMO). There are &lt;em&gt;plenty&lt;/em&gt; of fantasy universes which could be described as &quot;wizarding worlds&quot;. Hell, Middle-Earth is a wizarding world, thanks to Gandalf and the other Istari. People would start putting &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wizarding-world&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wizarding-world&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wizarding-world&lt;/a&gt; on e.g. story-ID questions for books set in fantasy worlds involving wizards. Good tag names should usually be &lt;strong&gt;unambiguous&lt;/strong&gt;, or at least the thing the tag is actually intended to be used for should be the &lt;em&gt;most obvious&lt;/em&gt; thing for the name to refer to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It &lt;em&gt;maaaaay&lt;/em&gt; be that the rebranding effort will be wildly successful and at some point in the future everyone refers to the franchise/universe as &quot;Wizarding World&quot; rather than &quot;the Harry Potter world&quot;. Maybe if that happens, we can have this discussion again. But at the moment, we're not there yet, and renaming the tag would almost certainly do more harm than good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I will say, though, that your other counterargument actually doesn't hold:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Retagging all 5,174 (and growing) questions would take a Herculean group effort akin to the big edit event and muck up the front page for a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we got a consensus to rename &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wizarding-world&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wizarding-world&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wizarding-world&lt;/a&gt;, a mod could do this in one fell swoop by merge-renaming the tag, without bumping any questions at all.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Maybe a synonym?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of that said, though, there's not much wrong with adding &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wizarding-world&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wizarding-world&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wizarding-world&lt;/a&gt; as a &lt;em&gt;synonym&lt;/em&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;, so that people who do come to our site searching under this more official name for the franchise can still get the right set of questions. Again, this can be done easily by a mod without needing to bump loads of posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-04-02T21:51:13.090" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11811" CreationDate="2018-04-03T16:47:20.990" Score="8" Body="&lt;h1&gt;NO.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Edits should only be made if actually improving the post, not just to change your voting.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing I would consider while doing this is &lt;strong&gt;what is your end goal?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer you are wanting to change your voting on is already highly scored (at least relative to the number of votes on the question and other answers) your edit is likely to cause to receive more up-votes because now the post will be bumped to the front page!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see the similar affects with the HNQ and/or FGitW. So while your conscience might be soothed, &lt;strong&gt;is it really helping the site?&lt;/strong&gt; Even if you are leaving a comment that the answer is no longer valid or low quality how many will actually listen? If you think there are newer, better answers you want to draw attention to the proper system for that is bounties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, really think about it... &lt;strong&gt;is your one vote going to change the overall outcome of the answer?&lt;/strong&gt; My opinion would be no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thought I had is, &lt;strong&gt;editing is supposed to improve a post&lt;/strong&gt;, so if you are switching an up-vote to a down-vote and in order to do so you need to make an edit seems a bit counter productive. Yes, I understand you can still down-vote posts that you edited, but editing a post for the sole purpose of down-voting just doesn't make sense to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ramble on now... If the post was &amp;quot;useful&amp;quot; X-time units ago, why is not longer useful now?  Especially if it is your own question, if you want new/better answers you should be using a bounty? If the answer is real THAT terrible, you should be flagging it removal. But typically that doesn't happen because most of us with experience know that NAA flags on old answer are declined at a high rate because the answer does attempt to answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I just have a live and let live attitude...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-04-03T19:04:59.183" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11818" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11823" CreationDate="2018-04-04T12:05:19.970" Score="4" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen questions questions about all &lt;em&gt;Transformers&lt;/em&gt; live action movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/184877/19561&quot;&gt;Do Transformers ever transform with people on board?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/15225/19561&quot;&gt;Which radio/TV broadcasts were sampled by Bumblebee in the Transformers movie?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first one is tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/transformers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;transformers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;transformers&lt;/a&gt;, the second one with that plus all separate film tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we create a tag to cover all &lt;em&gt;Transformers&lt;/em&gt; live action movies to tag questions such as these with?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, what should it be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2018-04-05T20:25:23.073" LastActivityDate="2018-04-13T14:31:20.027" Title="Do we want a tag for the Transformers live action movies?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11819" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11824" CreationDate="2018-04-04T21:15:57.723" Score="13" ViewCount="518" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's the question that triggered my asking this: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/184868&quot;&gt;Why does Turanga Leela and her family put their surname first?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've included other examples at the end of my post. In those, there are answers to the closed question that provide information not included in the other question - and information that the other question never asks for, nor needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The asker already knows the information in the duplicate question listed: namely, that &quot;Turanga&quot; is the character's surname, and that some cultures put the surname first and the given name last. He is asking if there is any authoritative information on why, specifically, her family &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; put the surname first.  An answer to this would include an episode where the character's family talks about coming from an area of the world where this the norm, or possibly something in the commentary on an episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't about the specifics of the question, though. It's about the rationale given for why it should be closed as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A high rep user (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/20774/valorum&quot;&gt;Valorum&lt;/a&gt;) states this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The issue (which I've now pointed out twice) is that &lt;strong&gt;if such a canonical answer existed, it would also be applicable to the existing dupe, would get added there and again render this question invalid&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I'm reading this right, then this means:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question A deals with topic Q in a general fashion, and has some entirely satisfactory answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question B deals with the same (or a closely-related) topic, but has a more specific point &lt;em&gt;not currently covered by any of the answers to Question A&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question A cannot be modified to include asking Question B without losing the point of Question A, and potentially invalidating existing answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question B should be closed as a duplicate, resulting in the text: &lt;strong&gt;This question already has an answer here:&lt;/strong&gt; and a link to Question A, which &lt;em&gt;doesn't&lt;/em&gt; have an answer to Question B.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand Valorum's point - that any answer to Question B would answer Question A as well. However, since &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; answer currently answers Question B, it doesn't seem right to close B yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If B gets an answer, then the two questions &lt;strong&gt;would be dupes&lt;/strong&gt;. However, since Question B would have a more specific answer, I would think Question &lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt; is the one that should be closed. This can't be done now, because there's no answer to Question B. And, I can't see anyone who &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; know the answer to Question B going and posting it as an answer to Question A; the current answers are adequate for that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Changing Question A so it asks Question B as well wouldn't work here: Question B is built on the answer to A, and would make the current answers seem pointless or invalid; it would certainly change the OP's intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding a bounty to Question A doesn't seem like a great solution either; again, the current answers to Question A are adequate &lt;em&gt;for&lt;/em&gt; Question A, just not for Question B.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the best solution really is to close Question B in every case; however, this seems likely to prevent a true answer to Question B from ever seeing the light of day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing currently seems to invite people to add answers to Question B under Question A, which might resolve this (those see my second additional question below, where an answer to Question B could legitimately be deleted from Question A as &quot;not an answer&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there another solution?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other questions I've found closed as duplicates, where the specific question is not answered in the duplicate. Neither is quite the same, as answers to the closed questions directly would not necessarily answer the duplicate question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/128779&quot;&gt;What Star Wars canon works relate to the time period between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens?&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;em&gt;All&lt;/em&gt; current canon works are listed. By default this would include works set in the timeframe requested, but none of the current answers include which works are set in which time frames. This &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be added to the existing answers - but there's nothing in the original question that demands that it be added. And, several of the works listed do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; take place in the specified timeframe (In particular, at least four of the comics series: &lt;em&gt;Kanan the Last Padawan&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Lando&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Princess Leia&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Chewbacca&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/35668&quot;&gt;Game of Thrones' real world inspiration&lt;/a&gt;: At the point the other question &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; selected as the one this question was a duplicate of, one answer referred to something other than the Wars of the Roses as a real-world inspiration. The answer under under this question itself provided more info. (Since then, two other answers provide much more general info regarding other real-world inspirations).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that, in this case, an answer that the American Civil War (for example) was an inspiration for the series could &lt;em&gt;legitimately&lt;/em&gt; be deleted as &quot;not an answer&quot; to the other question, but would definitely be an answer to the closed question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11824/80867&quot;&gt;Martha's answer&lt;/a&gt; covers my personal feelings on the specific question I originally raised. However, it doesn't necessarily address the question in general. I've made &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11836/80867&quot;&gt;a suggestion&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80867" LastEditorUserId="80867" LastEditDate="2018-04-15T04:00:25.227" LastActivityDate="2018-04-15T04:00:25.227" Title="Handling questions that will be duplicates once answered" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11819" CreationDate="2018-04-04T21:32:45.293" Score="-7" Body="&lt;p&gt;My understanding is that OP doesn't like the answers to the dupe question because they lack canonical references. In this instance, rather than trying to find a clever way to re-ask the same question, the correct course of action would seem to be to raise a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/185778/meaning-of-canonical-answer-required-bounty-category&quot;&gt;bounty&lt;/a&gt; with the reason;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Canonical answer required&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The question is widely applicable to a large audience. A detailed&#xA;  canonical answer is required to address all the concerns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would encourage users to post a higher quality answer (with sources) to the original question, thus satisfying OP's desire for a better referenced answer and obviating his need to post a second question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it stands, if someone does manage find a 'canonical' answer to question B, they're almost certainly going to append it &lt;strong&gt;completely unchanged&lt;/strong&gt; back to question A. This demonstrates that A is a clear duplicate of B, even if the &lt;em&gt;current answers&lt;/em&gt; don't really address the finer point of the lack of references.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-04-04T22:22:59.950" LastActivityDate="2018-04-04T22:22:59.950" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11821" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-04-05T17:57:56.807" Score="3" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I flagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/181842/are-there-any-vibroswords-or-vibroblades-in-the-star-wars-movies/184921#184921&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; as VLQ (10k link). My flag was declined with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;declined - flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, given that it has since been deleted by review, someone else clearly flagged it VLQ, then it passed through the review queues wherein 5 other users agreed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why was my flag declined? And why with that specific message, which does not seems to apply in this case. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62201" LastActivityDate="2018-04-05T19:11:03.867" Title="Why was this VLQ flag declined despite the post being deleted?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11821" CreationDate="2018-04-05T19:11:03.867" Score="-14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Read the decline reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;though I could also have used&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since it was deleted from the review queue it clearly didn't need mod intervention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And note the text of the flag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This answer has severe formatting or content problems. This answer is unlikely to be salvageable through editing, and might need to be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could have been improved, e.g. by adding examples. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I've said before, VLQ is very rarely a useful flag, especially for posts already in the LQ queue and should really be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2018-04-05T19:11:03.867" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11818" CreationDate="2018-04-05T20:31:57.020" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the live-action film series (commonly know among the Transformers community as... the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Live-action_film_series&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;live-action film series&lt;/a&gt;) should at the very &lt;em&gt;least&lt;/em&gt; have its own tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's typical for us to do so. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nolan-batman-trilogy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;nolan-batman-trilogy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;nolan-batman-trilogy&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've also applied tags for individual movies, in the case of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-2009&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-2009&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-2009&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-into-darkness&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-into-darkness&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-into-darkness&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-beyond&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-beyond&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-beyond&lt;/a&gt;, even though they all also belong under the franchise tag of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-reboot&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-reboot&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-reboot&lt;/a&gt; (although it's not applied correctly to all matching questions, that's a different issue).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, I don't currently see a need for individual film tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I would recommend &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/transformers-live-action&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;transformers-live-action&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;transformers-live-action&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/transformers-live-action-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;transformers-live-action-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;transformers-live-action-series&lt;/a&gt; with a wiki excerpt that specifies it's about the live action films as well as the related tie-in media.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The number of questions is relatively small, so that shouldn't be seen as a hurdle in fixing this (which is the case for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;, which is, as usual, grandfathered in as an exception to normal tagging practices).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've accepted this answer and have started adding &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/transformers-live-action-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;transformers-live-action-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;transformers-live-action-series&lt;/a&gt; to relevant questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2018-04-13T14:31:20.027" LastActivityDate="2018-04-13T14:31:20.027" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11819" CreationDate="2018-04-05T20:48:24.633" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fact that you have to go through such convoluted (il)logic in order to convince yourself that the questions are duplicates is actually a blazingly bright sign that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;THE QUESTIONS ARE NOT DUPLICATES.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know, I know, I'm bashing my head against a brick wall, but I keep thinking I see the beginning of a chink.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="348" LastActivityDate="2018-04-05T20:48:24.633" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11825" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11826" CreationDate="2018-04-07T04:33:47.340" Score="16" ViewCount="440" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have had a number of recent meta discussions about what should and should not be closed as a duplicate, most recently &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11819/36526&quot;&gt;Handling questions that will be duplicates once answered&lt;/a&gt;.  It seems that, despite this issue coming up repeatedly over an extended period of time, we are unable to reach consensus on our policy.  This leads to odd results.  For example, at the time of writing, the most-upvoted answer to that meta &lt;s&gt;suggests&lt;/s&gt; practically &lt;em&gt;screams&lt;/em&gt; for reopening the question, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/reopen/124504&quot;&gt;three people voted to leave it closed&lt;/a&gt; in the review queue.  Ignoring the issue of who's right or wrong, these outcomes are inconsistent and frustrating to everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The meta answer was written well after the last review finished.  The problem is not the order in which events transpired, but the fact that they ultimately disagreed with one another.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Historically, our meta questions about duplicates have generated more heat than light, with different factions &quot;winning&quot; different votes at different points in time, so it's very difficult to distill a general policy from all of our meta discussions.  Some meta answers, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9748/36526&quot;&gt;like this one from Shog9&lt;/a&gt;, actually get cited a lot by &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; sides, but with differing interpretations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why is this issue so contentious?  Are we doing something wrong?  Should we conduct this discourse differently?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, as a last resort: &lt;strong&gt;If we are unable to reach an agreement, should the moderators pick a side and enforce it by fiat?&lt;/strong&gt;  Or is there some reasonable alternative that still gets us a consistent policy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This question is about the meta discussion process itself, and &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; about which side is &quot;right&quot; or &quot;wrong.&quot;  We can figure that out once we have a process that actually works.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="21267" LastEditDate="2018-04-11T22:34:46.527" LastActivityDate="2018-04-11T22:34:46.527" Title="Why are we still arguing over duplicates?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11825" CreationDate="2018-04-07T09:39:11.317" Score="21" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why is this issue so contentious?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently, &lt;strong&gt;people have strong feelings over duplication.&lt;/strong&gt; Some people feel that duping practice on SFF is far too restrictive, that many questions are getting closed which should really have remained open - it's natural that they'd be annoyed when a question is (in their view) unfairly closed. Other people are voting to close as duplicate much more, even questions which aren't asking the same thing at all but which have similar answers, or might have similar potential answers - it's natural that &lt;em&gt;they'd&lt;/em&gt; be annoyed when a question is (in their view) left open to clutter up the site unnecessarily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some meta answers, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9748/36526&quot;&gt;like this one from Shog9&lt;/a&gt;, actually get cited a lot by &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; sides, but with differing interpretations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that too, but only in recent months. For a long time that answer was being cited only to support &quot;leave open&quot; arguments, while people arguing in favour of closure tended to rely more on the fact that (regardless of meta votes) long-standing &lt;em&gt;practice&lt;/em&gt; on the site has been to dupe-close based on answers. It's only more recently that they've begun interpreting that meta answer to support dupe-closing based on answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are we doing something wrong? Should we conduct this discourse differently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know. It feels like we never really come to any kind of clear agreement or consensus, but then I've thought that about other contentious issues which &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; end up with a good consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing I'd suggest is that &lt;strong&gt;meta debates should be based on clear, solid lines of reasoning&lt;/strong&gt;. If people post answers saying &quot;close these questions&quot; or &quot;leave these questions open&quot; without elaboration on &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt;, that's only going to exacerbate the division between users and the 'faction' effect, as the voting on these answers will be based on people's pre-held beliefs about duplication rather than on the convincingness of their arguments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If we are unable to reach an agreement, should the diamond moderators pick a side and enforce it by fiat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like we'd get a lot of pushback from the userbase if we tried to do that :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On SE as a whole, I believe this can sometimes be considered acceptable - if the community can't agree, then someone with the authority to do so has to step in and &lt;em&gt;create&lt;/em&gt; a policy, so that the site can function at least up until the users can come to an agreement. (Cf beta site mods, chosen by CMs until the site is large enough to sustain elections.) But I know the SFF community too well to try doing that here. &lt;strong&gt;Moderators are here to enforce community consensus&lt;/strong&gt;, and if there &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; no clear community consensus, then there's nothing to enforce (except, sometimes, common sense).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we're here, I just found &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3153/31394&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; to the very relevant discussion &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3149/31394&quot;&gt;What is our position on closure when the community appears to be split?&lt;/a&gt;, which currently has +9/-0 voting for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I suggest that our policy should be that in situations where the community has not been able to develop a clear consensus, we should err on the side of being welcoming to new users, and leave the questions open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, this policy is hard to enforce absolutely. Close votes are one of the main ways for users to express their opinions, and as long as they're not explicitly going &lt;em&gt;against&lt;/em&gt; meta policy, it's hard to penalise them for doing so. On the other hand, if the review queues are mainly manned by a small subset of very active users, then closure/reopening practice on the site isn't as good an indicator of community opinion as it might seem; meta discussions might be more representative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-04-07T09:39:11.317" CommentCount="22" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11827" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-04-07T14:46:11.927" Score="9" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that many questions I considered duplicates aren't viewed as such by a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11824/68762&quot;&gt;decisive amount of users&lt;/a&gt;,  therefore I'll need to adjust my response to these questions&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; and I would like to ask for some guidelines on how to answer them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's consider for example possible questions that could appear under the Harry Potter tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; A) How many Horcruxes had Voldemort made? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt; B) Describe the Horcruxes made by wizards/witches in Europe in the XX century.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a fair amount of questions like these could be created, all of which probably could be regarded as different, standalone ones, while they still could be answered by the same, often already existing answer. It is not a problem, as it is often repeated here on meta: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;answers don't make questions into duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, an answer to questions A) and B) would contain data such as the name of the Horcrux creator along with the description and names of all the known Horcruxes appearing in chronological order, supported by canon references.&#xA;Now, we have an answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/14809/68762&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; by Slytherincess, which perfectly answers both questions with maybe some minor adjustments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example would be the recent question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/184868/why-does-turanga-leela-and-her-family-put-their-surname-first&quot;&gt;Why does Turanga Leela and her family put their surname first?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;which probably would be adequately answered by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/19547/68762&quot;&gt;gnovice's answer&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;especially after their latest edit, with simply emphasizing the '&lt;em&gt;we don't know about the existence of any canon origins&lt;/em&gt;' part as a header.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what would be the recommended action, when a user&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; posts a question if a good answer on the subject already exists on SFF?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we direct OP to the answers of existing, similar questions and try to answer the new question &lt;strong&gt;only if&lt;/strong&gt; OP states that the existing ones are unsatisfactory or perhaps we should attempt to answer the question right away, without an attempt to enlighten OP about our current resources which may provide an answer to their inquiry?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we decide that an answer is required to OP's near-dupe question should we utilize our stack (which is full of quality answers many of which kept up to date), that is, base our answer on existing answer(s) that fit&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt; by perhaps asking the author of the original answer to repost their answer&lt;sup&gt;4&lt;/sup&gt; to the new question with slight modifications or maybe we should quote or reword the old answer with attribution / link&lt;sup&gt; 5 &lt;/sup&gt;, adding only parts which are lacking in the old answer? Would that be recommended or perhaps we should 'reinvent the wheel' and ignore altogether the original answer and write a similar or maybe even identical answer based on independent research?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What would be the best approach?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1. Until now I've simply VTC'd them as dupes&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;2. especially if it's a new user, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11826/68762&quot;&gt;Rand's answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;3. an analogy would be maybe not duplicating code&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;4. If they're still an active user, naturally&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;5. links would be also useful for    maintenance,  (i.e. adding newly released info on the subject to &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; the relevant near-dupe questions for consistency and clarity) &lt;/sup&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user68762" LastEditorDisplayName="user68762" LastEditDate="2018-04-08T10:46:02.450" LastActivityDate="2018-04-08T10:46:02.450" Title="On recommending, reusing and attributing existing answers in almost-duplicate questions" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11827" CreationDate="2018-04-07T19:45:56.907" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;TL;DR: &lt;strong&gt;if the questions are different, the answers can often be tailored differently to each one&lt;/strong&gt; (and if the questions aren't truly different, they're dupes and don't both need to be answered).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Main meta already has a pretty thorough canonical &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; post about this from a CM: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/104227/278659&quot;&gt;Is it acceptable to add a duplicate answer to several questions?&lt;/a&gt; In this case, I think the third section is most important, since you're assuming the questions &lt;em&gt;aren't&lt;/em&gt; (likely to be closed as) duplicates, and spamming/astroturfing is a whole different ballpark which may require mod intervention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Copying and pasting the same answer to multiple questions can cause different reactions depending on what answer you're pasting. The acceptableness of this behavior ranges from &amp;quot;highly frowned upon&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;completely unacceptable&amp;quot;. (Note that it never reaches the &amp;quot;acceptable&amp;quot; end of that spectrum.) If you catch yourself or someone else doing this, please evaluate the answer and see if there is a &lt;em&gt;more correct&lt;/em&gt; thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Are the questions duplicates of each other?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Duplicate answers most often indicate that the questions are asking the same thing. If the questions could be considered duplicates of each other, only post the answer to the best one, which you think would make the better candidate for the other one to point to. Flag or vote to close the other one so that it can be directed to the better question which has your answer. [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Are they promotional in any way?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Duplicate answers across questions that promote external links or resources are considered &lt;strong&gt;astro-turfing&lt;/strong&gt; and will likely result in the immediate deletion of all the answers involved. Most often, these answers get posted to questions which are only remotely related to the link or product they're trying to promote, and they often consist of little more than a vague explanation of what the link contains or what the tool does. Depending on the degree of astro-turfing and status of the account, a wide range of punishments could get issued, from a simple warning to account destruction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Could the answers be more specific to each question?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you've gotten past the other two questions, your answer may just be too vague. Answers that solve over-generalized problems are not as useful to questions — they should be tailored to address the specific needs that each question has outlined. If linking something, explain the relevant parts to the OP, or explain how the code or tool you've linked is relevant and useful to them. Don't just throw out answers thinking &amp;quot;this is relevant&amp;quot; — explain &lt;em&gt;how it is relevant&lt;/em&gt;. It's not always so obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Are the questions asking about the wrong thing?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, superficially different questions may indeed be symptoms of the same underlying problem. For example, the questions may describe different errors observed in different situations, all of which have the same root cause. Or the questions may all be suffering from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy-problem&quot;&gt;X/Y problem&lt;/a&gt;, with the same underlying problem but different poorly attempted solutions. Such questions are not obvious duplicates, and marking them as such without explaining &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; they're really about the same root issue may only leave the asker puzzled, yet they all have essentially the same fundamental answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you've written a clear, detailed and comprehensive answer to one such question, explaining what the underlying problem is and how to solve it, it may be tempting to copy-paste the same answer with minimal changes to other questions that it applies to. Indeed, if you edit your answer enough to make it specifically fit each question, this may not be &lt;em&gt;completely&lt;/em&gt; unacceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, it's usually better to find (or ask!) a question about the actual underlying problem, and post your comprehensive answer there. You can then either vote to close the other questions as duplicates (with an explanatory comment, if it's not obvious why they share the same cause and solution) or just answer each of them with a short description of how &lt;em&gt;that particular symptom&lt;/em&gt; arises from the shared root cause, with a link to the question about the cause for more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For an SFF-specific example of what's discussed in the last section, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11123/31394&quot;&gt;Should we rewrite the &amp;#39;lightsaber colour&amp;#39; question?&lt;/a&gt; In this case, many questions about specific lightsabre colours were closed as duplicates of one which was asking about a &lt;em&gt;different&lt;/em&gt; specific colour but which had a detailed canonical answer. This caused some confusion due to the questions being different, but eventually we solved the problem by editing the original question to ask about the general case, which made it a much clearer dupe target for all the rest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-04-07T19:45:56.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2018-04-10T13:58:47.323" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is my avatar. I took this picture in early August in Jerusalem, I think in Yemin Moshe neighbourhood, one of the oldest neighbourhoods outside the walls of the Old City.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like using as avatars pictures that are &quot;mine&quot; - I took them, or I'm in them, and they have enough meaning to me that they can represent something about me. My avatar is sort of my face, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A Pomegranate is a Jewish symbol, 1st Temple onwards. Now, being a Jew isn't the alpha and omega of my identity. But it's sort of the broth that lends a certain flavour to everything in it. (Identity is totally a soup.) So, having to choose one image to be my face across several different SEs, it seemed appropriate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gKFhC.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gKFhC.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Pomegranate&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="97082" LastEditorUserId="97082" LastEditDate="2018-07-21T09:59:58.073" LastActivityDate="2018-07-21T09:59:58.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11831" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-04-11T02:52:26.703" Score="3" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;The help center says there's a search box in the upper right corner of every page. I don't see one anywhere. Where is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user98983" LastActivityDate="2018-04-11T02:52:26.703" Title="Where's the search box?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2018-04-11T16:05:19.070" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11832" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-04-12T01:11:18.653" Score="0" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;South Park&lt;/em&gt; (the TV show and related media) have clear SFF elements such as the Crab People, the Marklar civilization, the anal probe aliens, zombies, the mysterious multiple deaths of Kenny, as well as crossovers from the Cthulhu Mythos, the legends of Santa Claus, &lt;em&gt;kaiju&lt;/em&gt; films, and others. Unlike most SFF works, however, there is a serious lack of continuity that makes it difficult to talk coherently about a specific element as it exists across the entire &lt;em&gt;South Park&lt;/em&gt; canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To what extent is &lt;em&gt;South Park&lt;/em&gt; on-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it completely on-topic?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it on-topic only with specific respect to SFF elements of the show (e.g. asking about South Park's portrayal of the capabilities of Santa's sleigh would be on-topic, but asking for the names of Kyle's grandparents would be off-topic)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it completely off-topic?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marklar will be on Marklar awaiting your marklar. All marklars are acceptable if they are good marklars for this marklar and conform to the basic marklars of Marklar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70477" LastEditorUserId="70477" LastEditDate="2018-04-12T01:16:22.310" LastActivityDate="2018-04-14T12:43:04.107" Title="Is South Park on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11833" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11834" CreationDate="2018-04-13T00:16:44.140" Score="13" ViewCount="267" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, this question was asked:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/185455/36526&quot;&gt;Why does &amp;quot;Brave New World&amp;quot; change perspective so many times in the first (ish) chapter?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time of writing, it has four close votes for a mixture of &quot;too broad&quot; and &quot;primarily opinion based.&quot;  However, this is a reasonably narrow and specific question about literary analysis and technique (and would easily fall into the &quot;good subjective&quot; bin on a site like Writers.SE).  To the extent that it is on-topic, I do not see how either of these close reasons apply.  It could use a bit of editing, certainly, but that's no reason to close a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are literary analysis questions like this one generally on-topic, or should they be closed as off-topic?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastActivityDate="2018-04-14T06:47:26.440" Title="Is literary analysis on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11833" CreationDate="2018-04-14T06:47:26.440" Score="17" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Literary analysis of works of sci-fi and fantasy should be on-topic ...&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the close-voters made the argument in comments that &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;This doesn't appear to be about sci-fi, it appears to be about writing.&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; But we already have a huge number of questions about works of sci-fi and fantasy which aren't specifically about the sci-fi or fantasy elements and are considered on-topic. &lt;strong&gt;Questions about works of SFF are on-topic even if they're not about the SFF elements.&lt;/strong&gt; See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6594/31394&quot;&gt;How should we handle questions that are about non-SF/F elements in a SF/F work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;... as long as they're answerable with more than pure speculation.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, being &amp;quot;not about sci-fi or fantasy&amp;quot; isn't the only reason to close a question. And in fact, this question was closed by 4 votes as &amp;quot;too broad&amp;quot; and 1 as &amp;quot;primarily opinion-based&amp;quot; (although &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/close/124983&quot;&gt;reviewers&lt;/a&gt; were fairly divided on whether or not to close it at all, and 5 people have already reopened it by now).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, are literary analysis questions closeworthy even without being &lt;em&gt;off-topic&lt;/em&gt;? Well, in general certainly not: we have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/literary-analysis&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;literary-analysis&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;literary-analysis&lt;/a&gt; tag with 19 questions only 2 of which are currently closed, and also a meta discussion at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10095/31394&quot;&gt;Is critical analysis now off-topic?&lt;/a&gt; (spoiler: no, it's on-topic). Literary analysis of works of sci-fi and fantasy is a valid thing to ask about on a site about sci-fi and fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such questions can be harder to answer well than fan-trivia questions, since they're usually &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; answerable by a single passage from the book or quote from the author, but require more actual subject knowledge and expertise to answer properly. I'd encourage people to downvote answers to such questions which are based on unsupported opinion, but to upvote answers which are supported by convincing arguments. Note that such answers don't necessarily have to be objectively, canonically, correct - it's possible to make a compelling argument based on other things than canon quotes. See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/09/29/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;help centre guide&lt;/a&gt; on subjective questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some subjective questions are allowed, but “subjective” does not mean “anything goes”. All subjective questions are expected to be constructive. What does that mean? Constructive subjective questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;inspire answers that explain “why” and “how”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tend to have long, not short, answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;have a constructive, fair, and impartial tone&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;invite sharing experiences over opinions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;insist that opinion be backed up with facts and references&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;are more than just mindless social fun&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-04-14T06:47:26.440" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11832" CreationDate="2018-04-14T12:36:50.637" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;South Park, like many other animated TV shows of the same ilk (The Simpson, Family Guy, American Dad, etc) is &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GenreRoulette&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a mixed bag of tropes&lt;/a&gt;, shifting from straight-up drama into science fiction, film parody and played-for-laughs horror without any explanation for the change in tone other than they've run out of ideas this week and have decided to do a concept episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As with all shows that contain &lt;em&gt;elements&lt;/em&gt; of science fiction, our general principle is that it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/are-works-that-arent-sf-per-se-but-have-occasional-sfnal-elements-on-topic-e&quot;&gt;on topic to ask about those specific bits that contain scifi or fantasy, but not about the show &lt;em&gt;in general&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. So, for example it would be perfectly acceptable to ask &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;What fuel powers the Marklar's ships?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;What is the principle on which the Marklar are able to achieve FTL flight&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but it &lt;strong&gt;wouldn't&lt;/strong&gt; be acceptable to ask &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;What is Cartman's favourite flavour of pot pie?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-04-14T12:43:04.107" LastActivityDate="2018-04-14T12:43:04.107" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11819" CreationDate="2018-04-15T03:49:06.227" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would hope to eventually see a solution similar to the following, in cases where the new question would be likely to cover answers to an existing question, but the existing question does not ask for the exact same thing as the new question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Post a comment to the new question stating that, if it gets a definitive answer, the existing question should be reviewed, to determine if it should be closed as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps if a question sees the sort of back and forth warring between those who felt it was a duplicate, and those who felt it wasn't, that this one did, something like this could be a solution everyone could live with. Defer judgment until you see the sort of answers the question attracts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80867" LastActivityDate="2018-04-15T03:49:06.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11811" CreationDate="2018-04-15T14:00:31.633" Score="-2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The lock-in period of votes stops rage-quitters with low-rep from vandalising all their upvotes by undoing them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A person involved in a meta fight with someone, could remove their upvotes on posts by the other party, which is patently unfair. So, it's better to simply let go of that single vote, since allowing vote-retraction, through a trivial edit opens up &lt;em&gt;new possibilities of abuse&lt;/em&gt;, which weren't previously possible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember a meta posts which stated that a rage-quitter had unaccepted a lot of answers, causing reputation loss. Allowing this vote retraction, might enable such vandalism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10596/user-vandalised-their-account-before-rage-quitting-how-best-to-resolve&quot;&gt;User vandalised their account before rage-quitting. How best to resolve?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The above post was a result of vandalism by un-accepting. Future examples might include un-voting.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="97485" LastActivityDate="2018-04-15T14:00:31.633" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11838" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-04-18T17:56:37.020" Score="12" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most questions about the 2018 film &lt;em&gt;Ready Player One&lt;/em&gt; are using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ready-player-one&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ready-player-one&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ready-player-one&lt;/a&gt;, a tag originally created for the 2011 book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I edited the tag wiki for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ready-player-one&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ready-player-one&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ready-player-one&lt;/a&gt; to suggest tagging questions about the movie with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt;. However, seeing as there are several differences between the 2011 book and the 2018 film, I’m not sure whether this is a good long-term solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should a new tag be created for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ready-player-one-2018&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ready-player-one-2018&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ready-player-one-2018&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79413" LastEditorUserId="79413" LastEditDate="2018-04-18T21:34:03.567" LastActivityDate="2018-04-20T14:36:35.643" Title="How should questions about Ready Player One (2018 movie) be tagged?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11838" CreationDate="2018-04-18T18:53:29.890" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I created a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ready-player-one-2018&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ready-player-one-2018&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ready-player-one-2018&lt;/a&gt; tag about 4 months ago. But it was decided to be too redundant in &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/58631/conversation/rpo-movie-tag-discussion&quot;&gt;this chat conversation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, there are significant differences between the book and the movie, so an argument can be made that we should use them both, but in that case, we need clear usage guidelines &lt;em&gt;and for people to actually follow them&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62201" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2018-04-19T05:12:02.333" LastActivityDate="2018-04-19T05:12:02.333" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11838" CreationDate="2018-04-19T12:04:38.403" Score="-4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes, we need two tags. The movie and book are very dissimilar.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about a Ready-Player-One-Movie tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89771" LastActivityDate="2018-04-19T12:04:38.403" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11838" CreationDate="2018-04-20T14:36:35.643" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;As TheAsh says, there are significant differences between the movie and the book:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gate and key challenges are completely different&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Grail Hall with the librarian does not exist in the book&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The final scene with the egg is about 50% different&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Characters die in the book that do not in the movie&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Interactions between the characters are different (Meeting, friendship, etc)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ogden Morrow's involvement is different between book and movie&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some of the backstory behind Halliday is different&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ancillary character involvement is different&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are more, but that is probably enough to demonstrate that they are almost completely separate entities. I would say that there is at least 75% difference between the movie and tbe book, which would be enough to warrant the suggestion &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Yes, we need two tags. The movie and book are very dissimilar.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest the following guidelines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ready-player-one&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ready-player-one&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ready-player-one&lt;/a&gt; - For questions about the book, that can only be answered by a book reference (Such as a question about Zork). Example question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/173983/in-ready-player-one-how-was-wade-owen-watts-able-to-complete-a-perfect-game-of&quot;&gt;In Ready Player One, how was Wade Owen Watts able to complete a perfect game of Pac-Man in his first try when it usually takes years to do?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ready-player-one-2018&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ready-player-one-2018&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ready-player-one-2018&lt;/a&gt; - For questions about the movie, that can only be answered with a movie reference, such as this question (Since the race is only in the movie), &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/184740/how-often-did-the-race-occur-in-ready-player-one&quot;&gt;How often did the race occur in Ready Player One?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a question can be answered by either the movie or the book, tag with both. One possible example is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/184745/dying-after-completing-part-of-the-challenge&quot;&gt;Dying after completing part of the challenge&lt;/a&gt;, as it could potentially be answered in two different ways, one via movie and one via the book.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a secondary corroboration for the need of separate tags, is that it was not easy to find a question among the (currently) 26 questions that might be answerable by either. There really is very little crossover between the movie and the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12305" LastActivityDate="2018-04-20T14:36:35.643" CommentCount="20" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11842" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-04-21T21:21:04.423" Score="22" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;Verne Troyer, best known for playing Mini-Me in the Austin Powers movies, has died at the age of 49. In addition to his iconic role, he also portrayed the original Griphook in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A8TKc.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A8TKc.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2018-04-21T21:21:04.423" Title="RIP Verne Troyer, star of Austin Powers" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11843" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11845" CreationDate="2018-04-25T18:11:57.067" Score="9" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's two questions that have been asked in this vein&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/186327/why-does-the-trix-rabbit-like-trix-so-much&quot;&gt;Why does the Trix Rabbit like Trix so much?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/186330/did-all-general-mills-characters-always-exist-in-the-same-universe&quot;&gt;Did all General Mills Characters always exist in the same universe?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The potential problem here is that these aren't actual stories but little vignettes designed to sell a product. So there isn't a &quot;universe&quot;, as much as the brands are all owned by the same company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess the question ultimately is, is there a minimum body of work to ask questions about? I seriously doubt any marketer has given as much thought to these characters as these two questions have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastActivityDate="2018-04-25T20:15:43.797" Title="Are questions involving marketing campaign characters on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11844" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-04-25T18:58:58.683" Score="28" ViewCount="535" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the changes outlined here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/309349/left-nav-responsive-design-and-theming-next-steps?cb=1&quot;&gt;Left nav, responsive design, and theming next steps&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We will probably be losing our voting buttons, fave button, possibly our use of Orbitron font, and reduced color/header image support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we get a breakdown of what exactly we'll be losing? Or a time-frame on when we'll be able to see a development version of what we'll be losing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="21267" LastEditDate="2018-04-25T22:09:05.900" LastActivityDate="2019-09-18T15:41:56.733" Title="Exactly which features of SFF.SE's magnificent theme will we be losing?" Tags="|support|design|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11843" CreationDate="2018-04-25T19:44:19.030" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;We generally have a policy that questions specifically about the SFF-nal elements of works, regardless if the entire work is on topic, then the question is on topic. This is a long-standing policy that's shaped many of discussions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If the question is specifically about an sf-nal element, even if it's only a minor part of the work, it's on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, we have to evaluate whether or not the question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/186330/did-all-general-mills-characters-always-exist-in-the-same-universe&quot;&gt;Did The Lucky Charms Leprechaun always exist in the same universe as other General Mills characters?&lt;/a&gt;, which is about a magical Leprechaun (&lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.generalmills.com/2014/03/waldo-lucky-charms/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;who coexisted with the magical Waldo the Wizard&lt;/a&gt;) and his connection to other characters is on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fundamentally, the question is asking about whether or not a fantasy universe includes other characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, this seems to be specifically about a SFF-nal element of a universe (which has had varying levels of stories told throughout the years, via commercials, booklets, and packaging), that it should qualify under our rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The caveat being that this &lt;em&gt;specific question&lt;/em&gt; seems to be on topic, but that's not necessarily the answer for the broader case of &quot;marketing characters&quot; or commercials, and it seems hasty to try and make a general use case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2018-04-25T20:15:43.797" LastActivityDate="2018-04-25T20:15:43.797" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11844" CreationDate="2018-04-27T03:48:56.930" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joe Friend kindly pointed us to the following example image in the comments of the Meta.SE answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZHufi.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZHufi.png&quot; alt=&quot;Example image of Magneto Stack Exchange&amp;#39;s new theme, with all descriptive text transcribed below.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Click to embiggen; the tiny text is legible.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going through every bit of it obsessively, starting with the parts on the main question feed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Subheader - background color or image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Logo in subheader - image &amp;amp; possibly placement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Body background color or repeatable image (pattern).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These three things together imply to me that &lt;strong&gt;we will (probably) get to keep the most recognizable bits of the theme largely intact.&lt;/strong&gt;  In particular, we will still have the starfield and one-winged angel thingy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The footer is not visible in this example so it's unclear if we get to keep that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Currently selected nav item colors and optionally left column background for edge cases like Gaming.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has to do with the left-nav.  Looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Gaming.SE&lt;/a&gt;, I have no idea what this is referring to, unless they just mean that they will allow it to have a blue background on that site.  If so, I'm cautiously optimistic about our starfield here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Primary buttons style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only visible &quot;primary&quot; button is &quot;Ask question,&quot; and I'm not sure what the plural is supposed to mean here (possibly the Active / Featured / Hot /... tabs?).  The other buttons which currently exist (Questions / Tags / Users /...) are going to be subsumed into the left-nav, so they're not talking about those.  If we were Gaming.SE, I would be concerned about losing their cool-looking animated Ask Question button, but we don't have anything that weird, so this is (probably) fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tags styling but simplified so sizing and shape is similar across network.  Rounded corners are optional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our tags are boring anyway.  Contrast &lt;a href=&quot;https://unix.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Unix.SE&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://emacs.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Emacs.SE&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://math.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Math.SE&lt;/a&gt;.  This is probably a no-op for us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Colors of links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Refers to the main question feed.  Questions will continue to be our peculiar shade of cyan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the question page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Optionally some color accents, like dividers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Colors of links and optionally some other typography accent colors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meh.  Orange links on meta are nice, I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, on to mobile:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Simplified styling for mobile:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;No custom backgrounds&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Smaller subheader with logo&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's not enough room for a custom background in this mockup.  Shrinking the header is probably reasonable but we should make sure the logo scales down appropriately (and doesn't e.g. render the word &quot;Fantasy&quot; unreadable).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other things we know and don't know:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We will be keeping our badges.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We will be losing our voting, accept, and favorite buttons.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;Fonts are a definite &quot;maybe.&quot;  Orbitron in particular appears on the Ask Question button, and the only thing we know about that is that we get to &quot;style&quot; the button in some unspecified manner.  The other buttons are moving to left-nav and will probably lose their fonts in the process.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;However, if they do let us keep Orbitron for Ask Question, they might also let us use it for Active / Featured / Hot /... as well.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is no indication that we can style fixed text like &quot;Top Questions,&quot; but they're still thinking about it so who knows.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Updated 2018-06-12:&lt;/strong&gt; The &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/311033/275243&quot;&gt;official word on fonts&lt;/a&gt; is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As mentioned, for most sites this means no change. However, 15 sites [including SFF.SE] use a custom font not included in the Stack Overflow font stack. Even these sites will see a very small difference. A few sites, will see a bigger change since they use a funky little font called for body or navigation (rare.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When discussing SFF.SE specifically, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.identifont.com/differences?first=Orbitron&amp;amp;second=Arial&amp;amp;q=Go&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this link&lt;/a&gt; was provided.  Between the link and the above quote (which I'm having difficulty deciphering), I believe this means we are moving to Arial.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Based on the example image, it &lt;em&gt;looks&lt;/em&gt; like we're going to lose vote/answer/view counts and accepted status (i.e. they will be replaced with a generic boxy style).  There does not appear to be any official word on this at this time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="36526" LastEditDate="2018-06-12T20:30:06.867" LastActivityDate="2018-06-12T20:30:06.867" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11847" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-04-27T15:08:23.473" Score="10" ViewCount="293" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was dragged to this site by hot network question concerning one of Tolkien's Elvish languages. I just want to bring to note that there is now a dedicated conlang site in public beta  at &lt;a href=&quot;https://conlang.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://conlang.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that this site will make questions about artificial languages (or artlangs) used in science fiction and fantasy off-topic here, it is just another option where to ask such questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user99738" LastActivityDate="2018-05-05T00:43:11.523" Title="There is now a conlang stackexchange in public beta" Tags="|discussion|language|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11848" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-04-27T16:23:29.150" Score="35" ViewCount="1530" Body="&lt;p&gt;While there doesn't seem to be a specific policy about how active a moderator needs to be, the key principles are that they need to have&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;active, consistent participation&quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/07/27/moderator-pro-tempore/&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/07/27/moderator-pro-tempore/&lt;/a&gt;)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;leave frequent comments on posts where you’ve taken (or considered taking) a moderator action&quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/05/18/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/05/18/a-theory-of-moderation/&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far as I can discover, three of the site's moderators seem to have gone silent. Thaddeus doesn't even log in any more and hasn't been seen for months (although I see him posting daily on Quora) and Kevin + AncientSwordRage are mostly invisble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the last month between them they posted just one comment, no questions, no answers, no edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Activity in the last 120 days&lt;/strong&gt; =   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;AncientSwordRage (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3804/ancientswordrage?tab=activity&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3804/ancientswordrage?tab=activity&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  4 comments, 0 edits &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kevin (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3267/kevin?tab=activity&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3267/kevin?tab=activity&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  2 comments, 1 edit&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thaddeus(&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2765/thaddeus-howze?tab=activity&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2765/thaddeus-howze?tab=activity&lt;/a&gt;)&#xA;  0 comments, 0 edits.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they aren't interested in actively participating in the site as users, wouldn't it be better if they stepped aside as moderators too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="99714" LastActivityDate="2019-04-06T01:02:53.073" Title="Isn't it about time we had a chat about our moderation team?" Tags="|discussion|moderators|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="22" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11849" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-04-27T17:13:28.760" Score="4" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember a particular TV film where the protagonist becomes obsessed with his inner world of high fantasy and this becomes an important cause of his actions, but there were no other elements of fantasy in the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Edited subsequently)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I must add that the actions of the protagonist are influenced by his inner world of fantasy, not only because it is very important to him, but because the protagonist believes that this fantasy world is real.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's not just the case of an RPG player obsessed with his hobby, but a situation similar to Don Quixote's: he sees giants instead of mills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62264" LastEditorUserId="62264" LastEditDate="2018-04-30T10:42:24.033" LastActivityDate="2018-04-30T10:42:24.033" Title="Is a TV film about a guy obsessed with fantasy stories on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11849" CreationDate="2018-04-27T17:46:37.627" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Valid if the film depicts the fantastic elements as reality&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, within the film's context, the fantastic bits are shown as reality within its context. So if you have a guy involved in a D&amp;amp;D analogue who visualizes the events of the game as actually happening, that would be valid, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Ambiguous if not&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We allow for discussions of fantastic pieces of fiction (discussing a film with dungeons and dragons in it). We allow for metafictional discussions about the creators of fantastic fiction (why did Gary Gygax decide to call it &quot;Dungeons and Dragons?&quot;). Where it gets a little tricky would be if we had a film about someone who creates fantastic fiction (say, a film about Gary Gygax and his struggles with the industry) or even a film about someone who creates fictional fantastic fiction (the saga of someone creating &lt;em&gt;Mercenaries and Mangonels&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think that it would be valid only if we see the fantastic world depicted as a significant element, but not if it's just about boardroom meetings and the arguments he has with his wife over neglecting his children in favor of polyhedral dice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2018-04-27T17:46:37.627" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11851" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11879" CreationDate="2018-04-27T17:56:14.423" Score="9" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may be particular to &lt;code&gt;story-identification&lt;/code&gt;, but, for example, I realized that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/186454/novel-where-government-trains-kids-for-the-army-through-a-vr-game&quot;&gt;Novel where government trains kids for the army through a VR game&lt;/a&gt; was likely referring to &lt;em&gt;The Roar&lt;/em&gt;, which I had previously answered &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/150995/sci-fi-book-about-a-male-entering-a-competition-that-he-wins-and-gets-recruited?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/170763/story-about-boy-living-in-a-city-sheltered-from-post-nuclear-fallout?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. My standard story-ID answer template is the title of the story linked to Goodreads (or similar site), the author, a cover image, and a quoted summary from the link which answers the question. In this case, I didn't need to add anything new, so I copied it over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On one hand, I'm basically duplicating information, which doesn't really help most people since it's already on the site and will be linked over once marked as a duplicate. On the other hand, it's useful to the querent to have all of that information specifically addressed to their question, and if the querent doesn't accept it (or even comment that it's the right one), we still have a direct link from the question details to the answer details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2018-05-07T09:07:40.377" Title="Copying answers for likely duplicates" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11763" CreationDate="2018-04-28T18:36:48.440" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's go through these a little more carefully:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Content that is in violation of &quot;be nice&quot; policy (that can't be edited to remove violation)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Content that is in violation of other policies (spam, mostly)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think these are reasonably uncontroversial.  Flag 'em with &quot;rude and abusive&quot; or &quot;spam&quot; as applicable.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Side note: The Smoke Detector folks would &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11541/36526&quot;&gt;really like it&lt;/a&gt; if we did &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; spend deletion votes on spam, but that seems to be more controversial based on the upvoted answers.  I would encourage 10/20k'ers to use their best judgment here.  If you &lt;em&gt;can't&lt;/em&gt; vote to delete, then obviously you should use spam flags (and not e.g. &quot;very low quality&quot; or NAA).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;NAA answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We seem to get into fairly regular arguments over the definition of NAA.  OTOH from my experience, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/286229/1340389&quot;&gt;that's a problem on just about every SE site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is pretty uncontroversial, across the entire network, that &quot;thanks&quot; and &quot;me too&quot; answers should be flagged NAA.  As the link above shows, our SO friends have (or at least used to have) the policy of keeping just about &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt; else.  However, our policy is different: An answer can be flagged if it is clearly and obviously irrelevant to the question (e.g. &quot;Why didn't Voldemort do a better job of hiding his Horcruxes?&quot; - &quot;Because Sauron doesn't find Frodo when he puts the ring on.&quot;) or if it &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11392/36526&quot;&gt;goes off on an irrelevant tangent&lt;/a&gt; without addressing the body of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Answers that objectively add zero value (not simply low quality, but really can't be fixed). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can't just put the word &quot;objectively&quot; in a sentence and magically make a subjective thing objective.  Sure, there are a small number of really obvious cases, but most of those...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Note that this doesn't apply to questions - first, a question's objective value can be its answer; second, it's far easier for subject matter expert to judge if an answer adds value than a question, from my experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...also apply to questions (e.g. a question or answer consisting of pure gibberish can and should be flagged for &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/234035/275243&quot;&gt;it's unhelpful to waste too much time hand-wringing about which flag option to choose&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main exception that I can think of right now is an answer which is largely or entirely duplicative of another answer, and yes, those should absolutely be flagged and deleted.  In contrast, we don't delete dupe questions because they are at least marginally useful as signposts (which dupe answers are not because they're already on the same page anyway).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There are other exceptions which I have missed.&lt;/strong&gt;  I am not going to exhaustively run them down because the users of this site have common sense and the ability to think for themselves.  The important point is to think really hard before calling some particular case &quot;objective.&quot;  If you're not sure about something, take it to meta and we can talk about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Content that is &lt;strong&gt;unambiguously&lt;/strong&gt; trolling and thus has no redeeming value. As in, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;no reasonable user&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; based on evidence would disagree that it's trolling. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Note that this does not include &quot;some people dislike some types of questions while others don't think it's trolling&quot; situation, which many of the incidents being discussed here fits.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Formatting in DVK's original answer.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is also uncontroversial, but don't ignore the bolded parts.  Don't call someone a troll just because you personally think they are trolling.  Don't call someone a troll just because &quot;it's obvious.&quot;  Don't call someone a troll just because &quot;some users on this site are really obstinate in recognizing trolling.&quot;  None of those are OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, a case that you missed: Lots of questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/92006/275243&quot;&gt;get automatically deleted&lt;/a&gt; and we can't turn that off.  However, relatively little user discretion is involved here (aside from downvotes accelerating the process), so there's not much for us to do with these in any event.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;There is a discussion in the comments of the question about whether adult content should be eligible for deletion as well, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11728/36526&quot;&gt;consensus points to &quot;no,&quot;&lt;/a&gt; and I see no reason to rehash that argument here.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="36526" LastEditDate="2018-04-28T18:43:46.513" LastActivityDate="2018-04-28T18:43:46.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11853" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-04-29T21:13:48.833" Score="12" ViewCount="281" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/186543/51226&quot;&gt;Does this organization still exist?&lt;/a&gt; was closed, with a voter citing the future works policy. However, I fail to see how said policy applies. The question is not about a future work, it's about the backstory to a released film. Not currently having a definitive answer (which is not certain in this case) is not the same as being about a future work, and as outlined &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3014/51226&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, is not a valid reason to close the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastActivityDate="2018-05-01T10:48:25.350" Title="Does the future works policy apply to this question?" Tags="|closing-questions|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="24" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11848" CreationDate="2018-04-30T01:49:28.867" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;No:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think there's currently any reason to discuss the number and activity of moderators, and I don't see any reason for the inactive moderators to step aside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen some SE sites where they've developed the culture that inactive moderators get removed (can't recall which sites), but in general, moderators are elected for life, or until they step down, or until they cause a serious enough problem to be removed.  New moderators are generally added when it becomes apparent that the current crew can't keep up with the workload.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here, I don't see any signs of problematic moderators or that there are flags left pending for too long or anything like that, so I don't see any need for more or different moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in the comments, your two quotes are taken out of context and can't really be considered the key principles that moderators need to follow.  The first quote is specifically about how moderators pro tempore are chosen when a site is new and the second is specifically about mods leaving comments on posts where they've taken action or might take action. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither quote illustrates a &quot;key principle&quot; of moderator action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And since the OP hasn't responded to any of the comments or added any more support for their idea, it really seems like this isn't a serious suggestion in any case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastActivityDate="2018-04-30T01:49:28.867" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11848" CreationDate="2018-04-30T07:07:41.033" Score="19" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Yes; Moderators who know that they aren't active should effectively step or be asked to step down&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way I see it is simple, if you're not actively doing what you were placed there and voted in by the community for, then you either don't want to do it, or there's nothing for you to do there. Either way, there's no reason you should be there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand this may be hardline and frankly personal, but I'm not sure how we'll get to do this in a non-personal way. Please bear with me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now to me, this isn't necessarily about numbers, as clearly we don't have direct access to what &amp;quot;behind-the-scenes&amp;quot; work is being done, rather it is about how we as a community &lt;em&gt;feel&lt;/em&gt; about what's going on. And I can tell, both from my on-site and off-site interactions with this community's users, &lt;strong&gt;there's a clear perception that the number of moderator positions filled, to active number of moderators is disproportionate&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look, the stuff gets done; their queues are managed (eventually), the policies are upheld (sometimes unilaterally) and discussions are had (with &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; level of participation); but this all comes at a price that I believe is not conducive to the community's health and success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It boils down to this, either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the one or two moderators are doing a fine job, and we really only &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; that number; or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the one or two moderators are doing a disproportionate amount of the work, therefore space needs to be made for &lt;em&gt;active moderators&lt;/em&gt; to alleviate the load.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, I'm sorry if this sounds &lt;em&gt;personally&lt;/em&gt; unfair and blunt and I hope you can see that I'm interested only in the benefit to the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-05-01T04:35:55.943" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11848" CreationDate="2018-04-30T20:03:02.310" Score="15" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;Some&lt;/em&gt; moderators should be involved in this discussion.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, there are a lot of unknowns:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Whether Rand al'Thor and Null are overworked.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Whether the other moderators are actually inactive, or just not visibly active.  We know that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11822/36526&quot;&gt;mod!Kevin is at least working the mod queues&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Whether any of the active moderators have attempted to reach any of the inactive moderators via email, and the results of such communication.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The stated intentions, if any, of the inactive moderators when they left (which may have been expressed in the Teacher's Lounge or some other non-public forum).  These &lt;a href=&quot;https://xkcd.com/1250/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;probably don't exist&lt;/a&gt;, of course, but confirmation of that fact would be Nice To Have.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The degree to which the active moderators are comfortable with the (possibly involuntary) removal of the inactive moderators' diamonds.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because it is impossible to answer this question without at least some of the above information, &lt;strong&gt;this answer respectfully requests the input of one or more moderators.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="36526" LastEditDate="2019-04-06T01:02:53.073" LastActivityDate="2019-04-06T01:02:53.073" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11848" CreationDate="2018-04-30T21:01:43.957" Score="39" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Moderators are elected to moderate the community, not to actively post.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not uncommon for a moderator's Q&amp;amp;A activity to go down and taper off entirely. As long as the moderators are monitoring the site and handling situations that pop up appropriately, they are doing the job they were elected to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The moderation team has the situation well in hand.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've all heard it before and may be tired of hearing it, but that doesn't make it any less true or relevant: a lot of what mods do is not easily visible to the community. Everyone can see edits. Everyone can see when a mod closes a post—though that is and should be fairly rare; except in the most obvious cases that's left for the community to decide. 10ks can see when a mod deletes a post if they happen across it, unless it was spam-nuked—there's no way for non-mods to see whether a mod or the community did that. Non-mods can't tell who deleted comments or who saw, acted on, and/or dismissed flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And to address concerns about handling time, we're at an average of well under two hours, and that includes sitting on borderline NAA/VLQ flags waiting for them to go through the queue to see the community's reaction. That's well under the all-time average and compares pretty favorably to other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Some data to support this&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In light of the concerns raised by the community that not all the moderators are active enough to handle the workload, we asked the CMs to provide us with some data to compare ourselves against other sites on the network and track our own performance over time. We've been instructed not to publish details, but we can provide some basic statistics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Among all ~170 sites on the SE network:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We are ranked #23 for lowest &lt;em&gt;average&lt;/em&gt; flag handling time, and that time is less than 2 hours.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We are ranked #77 for lowest &lt;em&gt;median&lt;/em&gt; flag handling time, and that time is less than 30 minutes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also obtained data regarding our median flag handling time from month to month over several years. That time has been stable since early 2016 (the last moderator election) and is the lowest it has been in the history of the site. The median flag handing time was slightly higher in 2015 (after the penultimate moderator election) but comparable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Moderators are removed by SE staff in consultation with the other moderators, not by a vote on meta.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/259373/172958&quot;&gt;And it has nothing to do with posting or comment frequency.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In short&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're reluctant to remove a moderator without clear and compelling evidence that doing so would be more beneficial to their community than their presence as a moderator, and we understand and respect that people have lives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community team takes into account the community's view and complaints, of course, but &amp;quot;they're not posting enough answers&amp;quot; is unlikely to be taken seriously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Removing a diamond for inactivity takes a long period of time. What I've heard is about six months without visiting and a year without taking mod action, and the community team will try to contact and discuss the situation with the mod in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;In conclusion&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At least two mods are more active than you are suggesting.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The moderation team is in no way overworked.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not posting enough is not going to get a moderator removed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the community's biggest complaint about the moderation team is that they're not posting enough, that's way better than most sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-05-03T13:02:59.150" CommentCount="25" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11853" CreationDate="2018-05-01T10:48:25.350" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;Disclaimer: I don't know anything about the Marvel universe. This is a general discussion of the future works policy.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;I think there's a continuum of different types of question to be considered here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At one end of the scale we have &lt;strong&gt;questions explicitly about future works&lt;/strong&gt;. If someone asks now about what will happen in Star Wars Episode IX, that question should be closed under the Future Works Policy and reopened once it's answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the other end of the scale are &lt;strong&gt;questions with unknown answer and closed canon&lt;/strong&gt;. If someone asks about the state of the realm in Gondor a hundred years after Aragorn's death (&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;I'm trying to think of a LotR question which isn't answered somewhere in the massive canon!&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;), then the answer might be &quot;we don't know&quot;, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3014/31394&quot;&gt;that's not enough reason to close&lt;/a&gt;, and it would also be unreasonable to close under the Future Works Policy as there's no reason to think any further canon is forthcoming.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In between these two extremes lie &lt;strong&gt;questions with unknown answer and incomplete canon.&lt;/strong&gt; If the answer to a general question about some universe is unknown &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt;, but might be revealed in a future work set in that universe ... well, that &quot;might&quot; is where things get sticky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it might be &lt;em&gt;very clear&lt;/em&gt; that the answer will only become known after the release of some future work. If you ask about the backstory of a character appearing in the first book of a series, and it's clear from how the book ends that that backstory will be revealed in the second book ... then I could see closing the question under the Future Works Policy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes there might be &lt;em&gt;no reason to believe&lt;/em&gt; that the answer will be revealed in future works. Take this question, for example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/93570/31394&quot;&gt;What is the Doctor&amp;#39;s real name?&lt;/a&gt; The answer is unknown, and &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; in theory be revealed in a future episode, but given the role the &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; plays in the story, I very much doubt it. (Pertinent information &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; been revealed in new episodes as the show goes on, though, and this has been edited into the accepted answer as appropriate.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where disputes arise, then, is when &lt;strong&gt;people disagree on &lt;em&gt;how likely it is&lt;/em&gt; that the answer will be revealed in future works.&lt;/strong&gt; The thing about the future is that we never know for sure what will happen there, so there's often room for debate. Without knowing anything about Marvel, I think that's what's going on with your question: the close-voters think the answer &lt;em&gt;clearly&lt;/em&gt; lies in future canon, while the reopen-voters think that's not so clear and the question can be validly answered from current canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-05-01T10:48:25.350" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11860" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11862" CreationDate="2018-05-01T12:26:53.473" Score="-15" ViewCount="727" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just read this blog post with much dismay: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/04/26/stack-overflow-isnt-very-welcoming-its-time-for-that-to-change/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming. It’s Time for That to Change.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anybody here knows Vox Day's Rules for SJW's (and I imagine many do, as he is a popular, if controversial, scifi author), that blog post is a word-for-word article with his parody SJW article in his &lt;a href=&quot;https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B014GMBUR4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;book&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, a caveat: I'm all for being nice and respectful. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Name-calling and such should never be allowed on our site.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; But this article goes far beyond requiring being nice: It makes nonsensical observations about motives which are unprovable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Too many people experience Stack Overflow¹ as a hostile or elitist place, especially newer coders, women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering that the vast majority of users here are anonymous, how in the world would the author of the article know what color they are? Moreover how would the so-called elitists act racist to users they do not know the colors of? And although some users may be elitist, the vast majority of elitism on the sites stems from expertise - the main reason I turn to SE and not quora in the first place. I want experts, not random schmos, to answer my questions. I find that if you have expertise, you will not feel elitism. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They get downvoted, but don’t know why, or called lazy for not speaking English fluently. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I speak for most users here that if you don't know a passable English, then don't post. This is an English-language site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It was hard to accept some of the (valid) criticism, especially the idea that women and people of color felt particularly unwelcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would they feel unwelcome? Can you please provide us examples - real concrete examples - when someone was made to feel unwelcome? (I do not want examples where someone felt unwelcome. I'm sure there's many. I WANT EXAMPLES WHERE THEY WERE &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;MADE&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; TO FEEL UNWELCOME!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There’s a weird paradox with bias. Those of us who have privilege, but care deeply about reducing bias should be uniquely positioned to help, but we struggle the hardest to recognize that we are (unintentionally) biased ourselves.²&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is pure SJWness. Again, speak for yourself. I personally am not biased. I don't have a racist bone in my body. I also don't have privilege. But I don't like being told what negative traits I have by someone who has never met me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, please provide concrete examples that we're unintentionally biased.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As it happens, making people feel left out is a deep personal fear of mine. (There is probably a seriously repressed playground kickball thing in my past somewhere.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, why take it out on us? Go to a therapist. My goal on this site is to fill it with quality, well written info. I want the people who only want to ask '&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.quora.com/Who-would-win-in-a-battle-between-Dumbledore-and-Gandalf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Who's Stronger, Dumbledore or Gandalf&lt;/a&gt;' not to feel welcome - unless, of course, there's a canon answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ironically, that made it harder for me to accept the possibility that something I work on could make outsiders feel unwanted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, HOW are we &lt;em&gt;making&lt;/em&gt; them feel unwanted? Concrete examples please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So I focused on what we were proud of: We are one of the only large sites where it’s practically impossible to find a single slur – our community takes them down in minutes. We don’t tolerate our female users being called “sweetie” or getting hit on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's great - because we don't tolerate racists or sexists here. Like we shouldn't. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Many people, especially those in marginalized groups do feel less welcome. We know because they tell us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO what? Why would they feel less welcome? We take care of all racist comments. And it's hard to believe that people are being intentionally racist to them, as most users are anonymous! So if they feel less-welcome, it's their problem, not ours! (Maybe feeling left out is a deep personal thing of theirs. Especially since the content on the site is not causing the problem, as already has been established.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In fact, there is no evidence that racial or other minorities who post quality content are being discriminated against.&lt;/strong&gt; More likely, perhaps some people posted poor content, and when it was downvoted, blamed it on racism. If you're leveling such serious accusations as bigotry, that requires serious proof.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are opportunities to work on things like reviewing site copy for inclusive language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What the heck is inclusive language? It's coding (or in our case sci-fi.)How can computer coding or scifi be exclusive? I'm merely discussing my work. I have no plans to insult anyone. But if everytime I give an example, I have to make sure to write 'he or she' instead of 'he', and triple check anything for microagressions, that will cut down on the quality of my content. And if I have to use 'xir', fuhgeddaboutit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Maybe it’s time we re-visited things like our “no pleases or thank yous’” rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!!&lt;/strong&gt; I don't care if the main site makes this change, I sure hope scifi.se doesn't, &lt;strong&gt;because this is one of the best rules on the site&lt;/strong&gt;. It clears away clutter and stops your inbox from being filled with meaningless crap. There's no reason to exchange that just in case someone may be insulted if he or she or xir didn't get thanked. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The upvotes are more than enough of a thank you.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Users aren’t “too lazy” to search; searching takes less work than posting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is demonstrably untrue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But a larger, more diverse community produces better artifacts, not worse ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Diverse in what way? If you mean diversity in race, by all means. We already have a diverse crowd. Considering that this is an expert online forum, we don't care what color you are as long as you know your stuff. But if you mean diverse in skill level, in no means does having an influx of knowledgeless noobs increase the quality of the site. (For evidence, see: Quora.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So, is SciFi.SE going to become a SJW safe space where no one's feelings are hurt, where badly-phrased questions become the norm, and where 'Thank you' comments fill up your inbox; or are we going to stay a quality site where expertise matters far more than making sure your language is sufficiently inclusive?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why would we let bad policies that lower the quality of the site just because someone's feelings may be hurt unintentionally?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89771" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2018-05-01T14:38:30.403" LastActivityDate="2018-05-01T17:05:14.127" Title="Is Sci-Fi SE a 'safe-place' for so-called SJW's?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="15" ClosedDate="2019-09-10T08:50:19.567" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11860" CreationDate="2018-05-01T13:19:28.997" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stack Exchange is not currently any kind of “safe place,” and doesn’t have any plans to be one. Many users (including the employees), however, hope that it becomes more welcoming to many groups that currently feel excluded on the basis of gender, race, etc.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’ll address your points individually. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vox Day is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a popular science fiction author.&lt;/strong&gt; He is mainly able to sell books by virtue of having his own vanity press, Castalia House. While I can’t seem to find information on how many copies they have published, the fact that it’s only four years old suggests to me that it’s not very successful.&#xA;Vox is also a bigot in various respect. I do not use this word lightly. His racist and sexist comments are well-attested, and &lt;strong&gt;I find the invocation of him as an authority on any such matter to be extremely peculiar.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You ask how anyone would know the race, gender, and other characteristics of Stack Exchange users?&lt;/strong&gt; First, many users, at one time or another, have simply said as much. Some people even mention such things on their profiles. And of course, never underestimate the power of assumptions. Is “Kate Mulgrew” male or female? People don’t act based on accurate information, but on assumptions, and whether those assumptions are accurate or not has little bearing on exclusionism. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There’s also another factor: prejudice doesn’t need to be &lt;em&gt;aimed&lt;/em&gt; at anyone to be exclusionary.&lt;/strong&gt; If someone declaims on  the evils of Islam on Stack Exchange, that’s &lt;em&gt;going to drive Muslims&lt;/em&gt; away, regardless of whether the declaimer has &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; idea who’s listening. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You seem to think this is a personal attack on you.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don’t know who ‘we’ is. Speak for yourself. I haven’t done anything&#xA;  wrong. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s not. The article you mentioned was talking about problems with many Stack Exchange users. It’s natural to use “we” under such circumstances. It doesn’t mean that every single user is responsible for every single problem. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You wonder what inclusive language is, and how sci-fi or coding can be exclusive?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People have different definitions of inclusive language, some of which you yourself mentioned. But. Indeed, not using inclusive language is one way that even questions about science fiction and fantasy can be “exclusive.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But how else? The fact that questions about contentious social issues often receive a hail of downvotes. The fact that the overwhelming majority of our questions are about a handful of series with male protagonists. The fact that questions about YA fiction often are poorly received, thus excluding a genre with a disproportionate share of female readers and authors. &lt;strong&gt;None of these is, perhaps, as severe as some of what people see on Interpersonal Skills or Politics, but it’s not ignorable, either.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You wanted concrete examples of a variety of things.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are concrete examples of people feeling unwelcome. &lt;a href=&quot;https://interpersonal.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2870/4320&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://interpersonal.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2838/4320&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and so forth. Even here, at least one of our users drastically reduced their activity on the site because they perceived that they were being targeted for downvotes on the basis of their race or ethnicity. Related issues were also partly involved in the long-ago closure of our original chat room, Mos Eisley. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And concrete examples of unintentional bias. I gave a few for this site in particular, already, but there are some &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.marketwatch.com/story/do-americans-tip-people-of-color-less-money-2017-10-31&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;general ones&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange has some problems with being welcoming, both to new users in general, and to  various marginalized groups. This is something that can and should be fixed. The blog post you mentioned shows that the SE team is interested in changing it. There will, of course, be disagreement on how best to do it, but it is not an effort to “turn sci-fi into a safe space for SJWs,” whatever that may mean. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="51379" LastEditDate="2018-05-01T13:27:00.920" LastActivityDate="2018-05-01T13:27:00.920" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11860" CreationDate="2018-05-01T17:05:14.127" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;So ... there's a lot to unpack here. Parts of your question read like direct responses to Jay Hanlon in his blog post, which neither I nor any other SFF.SE regular can really reply to. But you also raise a few issues which are worth discussing for our community. Let me address them up front, and then go through your post in more detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;We don't need to sacrifice quality in order to be more friendly.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, I don't think that's what the SE blog post is arguing for either. We still need to act against (e.g.) bad and off-topic questions, including using the moderation tools provided to us such as downvotes and close-votes. But &lt;strong&gt;we don't have to be unkind while doing so&lt;/strong&gt;. Downvotes and close-votes aren't unkind in themselves, even if some people less familiar with the SE model think they are. Where unkindness usually appears is in &lt;em&gt;comments&lt;/em&gt;. It's possible to explain a question's off-topicness in comments in VERY different ways, ranging from &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;welcome, we're happy to have you here, but unfortunately this particular question is off-topic because XYZ; hope you stick around and post more&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;don't ask questions like this&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;. Neither of those violates the Be Nice policy, but one is much kinder, more welcoming, and more conducive to a friendly community than the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the risk of self-promotion, let me recommend my essay on &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.meta.stackexchange.com/a/905/17&quot;&gt;being more friendly in comments&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you leave a comment on someone's question or answer, bear in mind the preferred goal of doing so: usually, you want the person to stay on the site and make more high-quality posts, so you should &lt;strong&gt;provide useful feedback&lt;/strong&gt; (even if it's critical) but also &lt;strong&gt;make the user feel welcome&lt;/strong&gt;. It's helpful to remind ourselves on occasion that being friendly doesn't have to be at odds with being right - it's possible to tell someone what's wrong with their answer while still being positive and welcoming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a strictly utilitarian point of view, this doesn't matter: the important thing is to provide appropriate feedback, not what spin you put on it. But we're dealing with &lt;em&gt;people&lt;/em&gt; here, and they're less likely to stay on the site if they feel like they're being constantly carped at than if they feel like we're genuinely trying to help them improve their posts. [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not to say &amp;quot;don't be critical&amp;quot; - sometimes you have to be critical to maintain quality standards - but when you are, try to be nice about it. If you like, think of it in terms of &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.meta.stackexchange.com/a/90/17&quot;&gt;&lt;s&gt;Emrakul&lt;/s&gt; Zyera's three gates&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;criticising someone's post might be true and necessary, but if possible it should also be kind.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best advice I can offer on how to do this (as someone who's prided myself for years on my niceness to new users, and refused to succumb to the all-too-common urge to get fed up and lapse into apathy and cynicism) is to &lt;strong&gt;focus on the positives&lt;/strong&gt;. If you're just making a minor criticism of an otherwise good answer, say, &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Nice answer, but ...&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; If you can't honestly say the answer is nice, but the answerer has clearly put effort into it, say, &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;You're clearly keen and enthusiastic about the subject, but ...&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; &lt;strong&gt;If you can find &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; positive to say, say it.&lt;/strong&gt; This even applies to answers which need to be deleted: e.g. if someone posts a comment as an answer, you can compliment them on an interesting comment while pointing to the Tour and flagging their answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Naturally, this is especially important for &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; users and those who aren't invested in the site. If you leave a harshly worded comment on one of my answers, I won't really care; if you do it to a newbie, they might never come back. (Also, it doesn't apply to spammers and purely disruptive posts, but that's obvious and is the exception to &amp;quot;If you can find &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; positive to say&amp;quot; above.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;On real-world politics and bias&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to say much about this - I'm not much into politics, and oftentimes it's impossible to say anything on certain issues without offending &lt;em&gt;someone&lt;/em&gt;. I do think the SE blog post shouldn't have conflated the two separate issues of new users and real-life underprivileged groups, but I kind of understand why they did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You ask whether this site will or should be a &amp;quot;safe space for SJWs&amp;quot;. Without knowing exactly what you mean by &amp;quot;safe space&amp;quot;, I can answer this in two ways. First, &lt;strong&gt;every person should be welcome here&lt;/strong&gt;, regardless of their gender, ethnicity, or political views. Set against that, however, let's remember that &lt;strong&gt;this site isn't for politics&lt;/strong&gt;. You can be a &lt;em&gt;member&lt;/em&gt; here regardless of your political views, but there's no need to &lt;em&gt;express&lt;/em&gt; those views here. SFF is luckier than e.g. Politics or Interpersonal Skills in that we don't need to worry about real-world politics. We can leave all that baggage at the door and get on with talking about fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short: we &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be a &amp;quot;safe space&amp;quot; for &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;insert political group here&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; in the sense that those people should feel welcome and able to talk about SFF just like everyone else, but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; in the sense that we're providing them with a platform for soapboxing. I hope that's not too far off the mark of what you were asking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the accusations of bias, I personally intend to keep on participating as I always have: be nice and welcoming to everyone, and treat them the same regardless of what gender or ethnicity they might have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, now lemme try to respond to some of your individual points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I speak for most users here that if you don't know a passable English, then don't post. This is an English-language site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, let's not make people feel unwelcome for having poor English.&lt;/strong&gt; If they can't speak English &lt;em&gt;at all&lt;/em&gt;, and post in a foreign language, then sure, we can delete those posts. If they have less-than-perfect English, that can usually be fixed by an edit. Personal comments about users' poor English skills will be deleted with prejudice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would they feel unwelcome? Can you please provide us examples - real concrete examples - when someone was made to feel unwelcome? (I do not want examples where someone felt unwelcome. I'm sure there's many. I WANT EXAMPLES WHERE THEY WERE MADE TO FEEL UNWELCOME!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, please provide concrete examples that we're unintentionally biased.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, HOW are we making them feel unwanted? Concrete examples please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are questions for Jaydles and the SE team, not us. Please direct these questions to the people who made the claims, rather than expecting SFF meta to have concrete examples. (Actually, people have already done this on Meta.SE and Meta.SO, so no need to re-ask again.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want the people who only want to ask 'Who's Stronger, Dumbledore or Gandalf' not to feel welcome - unless, of course, there's a canon answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, &lt;strong&gt;no, we don't want those people not to feel welcome.&lt;/strong&gt; Bad &lt;em&gt;posts&lt;/em&gt; can be unwelcome, but the &lt;em&gt;authors&lt;/em&gt; of those posts can always be educated to make better ones. If someone asks an off-topic question, explain to them nicely how to improve it or write better ones; don't chase them off the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users aren’t “too lazy” to search; searching takes less work than posting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is demonstrably untrue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you mean? To paraphrase you yourself, concrete evidence please :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Diverse in what way? If you mean diversity in race, by all means. We already have a diverse crowd. Considering that this is an expert online forum, we don't care what color you are as long as you know your stuff. But if you mean diverse in skill level, in no means does having an influx of knowledgeless noobs increase the quality of the site. (For evidence, see: Quora.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually it might. Let's not forget that answers need questions, and questions need lack of knowledge. If everyone knew everything, the site could simply shut down. What you call &amp;quot;knowledgeless noobs&amp;quot; (and I hope you wouldn't call anyone that to their face!) could be the next you and me: asking a lot of thoughtful questions which enable others to share their expertise in answers, and eventually gathering enough knowledge to start posting answers themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-05-01T17:05:14.127" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11863" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-01T21:49:39.817" Score="-2" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example, would a question like 'who is stronger, Dumbledore or Gandalf' be on topic if there would be a canon based answer? (for example, if JKR addressed it in a tweet)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a specific question in mind based on an obscure piece of &lt;em&gt;Supergirl&lt;/em&gt; canon, but wanted to know if it would be on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89771" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2018-05-02T06:19:10.450" LastActivityDate="2018-05-02T09:29:33.677" Title="Would a primarily opinion-based question with canon answers be on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11863" CreationDate="2018-05-02T09:29:33.677" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If it has a canon answer, it's not primarily opinion-based.&lt;/strong&gt; POB questions can't be answered with anything but opinion pieces and pure speculation. A canon answer is always better than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For example, would a question like 'who is stronger, Dumbledore or Gandalf' be on topic if there would be a canon based answer? (for example, if JKR addressed it in a tweet)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, because this counts as a &quot;Gorilla vs Shark&quot; question, comparing two different canons with no real connection. &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/06/gorilla-vs-shark-not-so-fast/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SFF policy on Gorilla vs Shark is here.&lt;/a&gt; JKR addressing it in a tweet wouldn't be a canon answer either, because although her word is canon for Dumbledore, it isn't for Gandalf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have a specific question in mind based on an obscure piece of Supergirl canon, but wanted to know if it would be on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That sounds like it &lt;em&gt;wouldn't&lt;/em&gt; be a Gorilla vs Shark question, if it's just about Supergirl (unless it's something like &quot;who would win in a fight between Supergirl and Hermione Granger&quot;). If there is a canon answer, then the question would probably be on-topic. No guarantees though :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-05-02T09:29:33.677" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11865" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11869" CreationDate="2018-05-02T13:28:13.287" Score="17" ViewCount="574" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have had a long-standing policy of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5187/5184&quot;&gt;closing &quot;future works&quot; questions as POB&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is unclear, and seemingly disagreed upon is exactly what constitutes a &quot;future work&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it works that we know for sure will exist/be released? Things we assume will exist/be released? Things that just maybe will exist/be released?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where do we draw the line? Even a work that we know is coming may not answer a question as we assume it will. Do we close those questions as future works?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="62709" LastEditDate="2022-04-19T15:34:56.103" LastActivityDate="2022-04-19T15:34:56.103" Title="What are &quot;future works&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|scope|future-works|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11866" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11867" CreationDate="2018-05-02T14:17:09.317" Score="0" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both have hints of existence in life, however what is the difference? One is made up and want to have as (Fantasy) and the other is in the technology uncovered by Science or other lobotomy (Science Fiction). Is there a deeper representation of where the line is drawn between these 2 genres which sometimes even mesh and join forces, or is it just a vague idea in the minds about their distinctive properties?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="99966" OwnerDisplayName="Dan Iliescu" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2018-05-02T16:37:30.220" LastActivityDate="2018-05-02T16:37:30.220" Title="What is the difference between Science Fiction and Fantasy?" Tags="|discussion|terminology|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-05-02T17:34:02.553" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11866" CreationDate="2018-05-02T14:19:56.307" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most traditional division between science fiction and fantasy (Which, admittedly can be blurred), is that for science fiction it is something that is based in reality and might be possible. Fantasy is not grounded in reality, so is not possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, despite Arthur C. Clarke's 3rd law - &quot;Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic&quot;, if it is based in rules of reality, current scientific knowledge, it will be classified as science fiction. There are also &quot;divisions&quot; in science fiction, such as soft and hard sci fi. Soft science fiction is more concerned with characters and society, hard science fiction places a much greater emphasis on being based in actual science.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also divisions in fantasy, such as low and high fantasy. Low fantasy is based in our world with magical elements (Terry Brooks Shannara series), High fantasy is based in an alternate/made up world (Tolkein 'verse).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12305" OwnerDisplayName="JohnP" LastActivityDate="2018-05-02T14:26:32.163" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11865" CreationDate="2018-05-02T14:49:09.300" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is how I would state what a &quot;future work&quot; is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;A work that has a reasonable expectation of being released at the time the question is asked that will likely to contain an answer to the question.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now breaking that down we need to define a few more things: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;&quot;reasonable expectation&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; is: Part of a planned series that has been announced by the content creator/controller (e.g. Star Wars, Fantastic Beasts films, MCU films, A Song of Ice and Fire novels). The timing should not impact this, if a film is set to be released in 1 month, 1 year, or 10 ten years the question remains a &quot;future work&quot; unless something changes (e.g. the sequels get scrapped or a supplementary work like novelization/comic/TV show is released).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;At the time the question is asked&lt;/strong&gt; is self explanatory, but to give an example, there were no absolute plans to create sequels to &lt;em&gt;Avatar&lt;/em&gt; (the blue cat people film) so any questions asked (that did not have any other valid close reasons) would not be closed per the &quot;future works policy&quot;. They could however be given a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11329/are-answers-that-state-we-dont-know-acceptable&quot;&gt;&quot;we don't know&quot;&lt;/a&gt; answer. In addition, questions that are asked and answered prior to future works being announced should remain open. A new answer can be provided if and when the canon changes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Likely to contain an answer&lt;/strong&gt; is perhaps the most ambiguous and I fear the end result becomes a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;I know it when I see it&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. However, it also the least important part of the definition. If we know a sequel is going to be released we probably know there will be more answers there. The exception is could think of is if  the content creator states that a sequel will not a be related to the previous work (which would be odd but not impossible).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I was writing this I saw a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11865/what-are-future-works#comment39633_11865&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt; that is relevant and I agree with... &lt;strong&gt;If a question can be answered with existing canon, the future work policy would not apply.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also keep in mind, that as we strive to be good stewards of our community, that we need to explain this to new users, and help them along in posting good questions. I would make it a point to any OP that closure is not permanent, and that if someone comes along with an answer the question can be reopened in short order. I don't have any data offhand to back it up, but my personal experience has been that we as community have a good track record of doing just that.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2018-05-02T15:18:57.467" LastActivityDate="2018-05-02T15:18:57.467" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11865" CreationDate="2018-05-02T14:57:42.220" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;To formalize my comments above:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Any works that aren't available to pull canon from are FWP. Every single variant listed in the question (Is it works that we know for sure will exist/be released? Things we assume will exist/be released? Things that just maybe will exist/be released?) are FWP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only relevant criteria for FWP is &quot;The answer cannot be given to the question until and unless a &lt;strong&gt;specific future work&lt;/strong&gt; is released and its contents would offer the answer&quot;. The timing or likelyhood of such future work is irelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, there's one notable exclusion: &lt;strong&gt;canon in progress&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More specifically - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If a specific canon &lt;strong&gt;has some published works already&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And it also has some future works (planned, maybe, or unknown)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And, the question is phrased specifically so that it can be answered &lt;em&gt;in the context of already published works&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then, such question is not FWP, even though in theory there are future works that may alter answers to such a question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just to be clear, &lt;strong&gt;any questions very specific to not-yet-published canon are still FWP, as per the first rule&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify, specific examples. Assume the time frame to be 2018, after release of Star Wars episode 7 and 8, but before release of Episode 9. And we don't yet know if they will do 10-12 aside from vague rumours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;In Episode 8, did &lt;em&gt;Spoiler spoiler the Spoiler&lt;/em&gt;?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On-topic, since Episode 8 is released.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;In Episode 9, did &lt;em&gt;Spoiler spoiler the Spoiler&lt;/em&gt;?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VTC as future works&lt;/strong&gt;, since Episode 9 is not released yet; and the question cannot be answered well from episode 8.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;In Star Wars, did &lt;em&gt;Spoiler spoiler the Spoiler&lt;/em&gt;?&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On-topic, since the answer isn't bound to unreleased works. We can answer it based on Episodes 1-8.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;No answer known yet but may be revealed in future works&quot; is an excellent answer but &lt;em&gt;NOT a valid reason to VTC&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a bit difficult to do with precision in all cases, as some questions may be borderline (in a sense of, it may ask about something technically about Episode 8, but to any canon expert, it's clear that the answer will be unknown till Episode 9 - personally I'd be OK with FWPing such a question but wouldn't be heartbroken if it stays open).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To try to illustrate by example again:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Did *Character who was seen dying in Episode 8&quot; really die?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FWP, since the answer is impossible until Episode 9 is released.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Who are Rey's parents?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;VALID. NOT FWP. Because even though we may have a better answer from Episode 9, we already have enough canon info from Episodes 7-8 to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;be able to answer this&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To illustrate why this is the right policy, Let's look at Star Wars franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we scope this policy any differently (e.g, we close as FW any general franchise question not explicitly localized to unreleased item), it means that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;100% of new questions about Star Wars should be closed until entire franchise completes including all future books and comics&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - even questions about Episode VII specifically are likely to have an answer &quot;don't know yet; but may be answered in Episode IX&quot; (and, we have a firm policy that a question should not be treated differently based on whether it has an answer or not; which means we can't distinguish differently between E7 questions that have an answer and E7 questions that don't YET have an answer but may get one in E9).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;P.S. @phantom42 just posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11871/79413&quot;&gt;another answer&lt;/a&gt; to this Meta question. As per our comment discussion, there seems to be little to no difference between the policy proposed in their answer and in this answer here - the answer differ in wording and explanation, but the policy is pretty much the same.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-04-14T23:32:10.707" LastActivityDate="2019-04-14T23:32:10.707" CommentCount="38" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11866" CreationDate="2018-05-02T15:39:57.710" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two points: First, SF can't be &quot;fiction based on the possible&quot; because as far as we know, 99% (at least) of what people think is SF is not possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, it's not possible to neatly divide fantastic fiction into &quot;Fantasy&quot; and &quot;SF&quot; since much of it obviously is a bit of both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, a better way to talk about it is to say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A story is SF to the extent that it depends on fictionalized science or engineering, where &quot;science&quot; is understood to be any systematic, rational body of knowledge about objective reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A story is Fantasy to the extent that it depends on fictionalized magic or the supernatural.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that what makes a story SF, for instance, is that it &lt;em&gt;depends&lt;/em&gt; on a fictionalized science. If it's just a mundane Western where the Bad Guys have blasters, then it's not really SF at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise, a story that depends on real science for its impact -- the movie &lt;em&gt;Apollo 13&lt;/em&gt; for instance, isn't SF either, though many readers of SF still loved it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And stories can be simultaneously SF and Fantasy when, for instance, magic is treated as a science in the stories (e.g., Randall Garret's Lord Darcy stories of de Camp and Pratt's Enchanter series.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="92823" LastActivityDate="2018-05-02T15:39:57.710" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11865" CreationDate="2018-05-03T03:49:09.307" Score="12" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Hogwarts&lt;/strike&gt; Future Works: A History&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's first look at the questions that inspired the original Future Works discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/54297/why-are-superman-and-batman-against-each-other&quot;&gt;Why are Superman and Batman against each other?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/71628/5184&quot;&gt;X-men: Apocalypse - Taking on an invincible enemy?&lt;/a&gt; (deleted, sorry!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/56266/5184&quot;&gt;How is Magneto pulling Mystique in the Days of Future Past trailer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/48361/5184&quot;&gt;What is the plot of Star Wars 7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/71368/5184&quot;&gt;Is anyone in the Hulkbuster armor in Age of Ultron trailer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/71616/5184&quot;&gt;Is there going to be an Iron Man 4 after all prototypes are finally destroyed for good?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the exception of the Magneto question, all of the questions are ones with blatantly obvious answers if the OP would just wait until the work was released. Until that time, the best we could do is speculate - sometimes good, logical, informed speculation - but speculation, nonetheless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of these questions were generating a lot of back and forth discussion for absolutely no reason, other than the fact that we were discussing things based off of intentionally incomplete information. OPs were asking about things in trailers, and about movies which hadn't even been written yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We knew for sure that just waiting until the movies were released, we'd learn the plot of Star Wars Episode 7, or why Batman and Superman were fighting, or how the X-Men would defeat Apocalypse. By waiting, we could also pretty safely bet that we'd learn more about the Hulkbuster's pilot (though, this was kind of moot since we already had leaked information that answered this), or get a better explanation as to how Magneto was pulling Mystique. All we had to do was wait.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, we created the Future Works Policy, shunting these sort of questions until a later date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&quot;We might learn the answer later&quot; vs &quot;We will (almost) definitely learn the answer later&quot;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In today's world of reboots, revivals, and sequels, the fact is that almost &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; question could theoretically get an answer at a later date. We shouldn't just close questions because they &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; get an answer later. We need some sort of likelihood of an answer. It's important to remember that not everything is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekhov%27s_gun&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chekhov's Gun&lt;/a&gt;, and may not be addressed later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Franchises like Star Wars have sort of spoiled us. Every character has a backstory, and on a long enough timeline, just about every character will have their backstory written about, no matter how fleeting their part in the movie. But we don't know for sure that we'll ever learn what age Biggs and Luke met. Maybe we will, maybe we won't. To date, there has been nothing to indicate that we actually will. Conversely, as I understand it, we do have ample reason right now to believe we'll learn how Han Solo and Lando met (I haven't watched the trailers, myself). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, the Russo brothers have promised that we'll get a better explanation as to the whereabouts of Ant-Man and Hawkeye at a later date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;It's OK to admit that we just don't know&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We established long ago that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3014/5184&quot;&gt;questions without canonical answers are just fine&lt;/a&gt;. Sometimes, we just don't know the answer, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11329/5184&quot;&gt;it's perfectly ok to say that as an answer&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3484/5184&quot;&gt;Logical Speculation is ok&lt;/a&gt;. If it's not Future Works, answer to the best of your ability. That might mean saying, &quot;based on these canon bodies of works, there's just no clear answer&quot; or &quot;nothing definitive is ever stated, but there's strong evidence pointing to [this].&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;So what's the difference? Where is the line?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say that anything based on trailers, specifically about announced works, or otherwise outright promised by someone authoritative that we'll get an answer later would be defined as Future Works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about elements merely set up for possible later attention or answer should not be defined as Future Works. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Future Works: How will the ending of Infinity War be dealt with in Avengers 4?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not Future Works: Where did Groot get his video game?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Future Works: Why does Cable want to kill the kid in Deadpool 2?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not Future Works: How did Wade Wilson become a mercenary assassin in the XCU?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5184" LastEditorUserId="5184" LastEditDate="2018-05-03T16:34:58.020" LastActivityDate="2018-05-03T16:34:58.020" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11872" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-04T17:35:01.757" Score="3" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;Michael Anderson, the British director who was nominated for an Academy Award for his direction on “Around the World in 80 Days,” and who won a Special Academy Award for &lt;em&gt;innovative special effects&lt;/em&gt; for &quot;Logan's Run&quot;, has died at the age of 98.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His filmography includes a host of iconic hit films including The Dambusters, 1984, Doc Savage and The Shoes of the Fisherman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/uSP9UlineZE?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2018-05-04T17:35:01.757" Title="RIP Michael Anderson, famed director of Logan's Run" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11847" CreationDate="2018-05-05T00:43:11.523" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't really a question and thus can't be &quot;answered&quot; as such, so I thought I'd distill some useful advice from the comments instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conlangs which arise from SFF-related works are on-topic on SFF.SE, while conlangs which arise from other settings, and the construction of new conlangs, are both off-topic here.  This was true before Conlang.SE existed, and it is still true now.  Adding a new Stack doesn't change anything.  However, some questions may get better answers there than here, and &lt;em&gt;vice-versa&lt;/em&gt;.  For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some conlangs have fantastical (magical) properties, and those properties are likely to be off-topic on Conlang.SE because they simply don't exist in the real world.  So you should ask about such things on SFF.SE instead.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some writers, like Tolkien, spend a lot of time thinking about the history of their conlangs.  Determining the in-universe etymology of words is likely to be on-topic on both sites, I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; (it seems like Conlang.SE is still determining its scope).  However, SFF.SE is probably better positioned for questions relating to the in-universe culture and history, while Conlang.SE is probably more able to talk about linguistic processes.  You may get materially different answers as a result.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you want to ask a deep technical question about the linguistics of a conlang, such as &quot;Is Elvish &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative%E2%80%93accusative_language&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;nominative-accusative&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergative%E2%80%93absolutive_language&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ergative-absolutive&lt;/a&gt;?&quot;, that is &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; on-topic on SFF.SE, but you are far more likely to get a useful answer from Conlang.SE or maybe even Linguistics.SE.  On any site, you should show your attempt to solve a question like that and describe in detail the part that has you confused, because otherwise it's just trivia.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastActivityDate="2018-05-05T00:43:11.523" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11874" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11875" CreationDate="2018-05-06T18:01:48.777" Score="20" ViewCount="2905" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've seen an influx of anime and manga &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-id&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-id&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-id&lt;/a&gt; questions since Anime:SE &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3874/why-are-identification-request-questions-not-allowed-on-this-site?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;stopped accepting them in 2016&lt;/a&gt;. Our top tag is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; with over 10,000 questions and we already have an excellent guide to help people answer them in &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9335/how-to-ask-a-good-story-id-question&quot;&gt;How to ask a good story-ID question?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; that users can direct querents towards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What &lt;em&gt;additional&lt;/em&gt; advice can we offer on writing a good story-identification question aimed at locating an anime or manga property?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="82909" LastEditDate="2020-04-22T12:18:22.373" LastActivityDate="2020-04-22T12:18:22.373" Title="How to ask a good (anime/manga) Story-ID question?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|anime|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11874" CreationDate="2018-05-06T19:44:39.517" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;With gratitude to &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2661/lets-help-id-request-users-help-themselves-with-a-floating-checklist-guide-for/2664#2664&quot;&gt;Hakase's answer on Meta.Anime&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to the elements we've already discussed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9335/how-to-ask-a-good-story-id-question&quot;&gt;How to ask a good story-ID question?&lt;/a&gt;, anime- and manga-specific questions that the poster could identify include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Anime&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What type of anime was it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Did it feel like a feature film, a made-for-tv film (commonly known as an OVA) or was it a TV series or a webseries?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What was the animation style?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;More specifically, was it &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.lifewire.com/japanese-vs-american-animation-141033&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Japanese-style animation or Western-Style animation&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where did you watch it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Did you see it on a mainstream TV channel like Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block, somewhere online (i.e. a streaming service or YouTube snippet), or on a DVD/VHS?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What was the year of production?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If you're not certain, at least hazard a guess. &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/uQZR4zmJDhg?t=5m6s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Modern anime&lt;/a&gt; tends to use computer-based shading and dynamic lighting effects (and CGI) whereas &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGn8VRLL6Rw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;older anime&lt;/a&gt; tends to be a flatter hand-drawn style.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's the genre?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Obviously it's sci-fi or fantasy (or else you wouldn't be asking it here) but what else was it? Does it have elements of romance, is it a slice-of-life, family, coming-of-age, ecchi, etc?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What language did you see it in?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Was it dubbed or subtitled? Was the dubbing of a high quality (matching the mouth sounds) or low quality (basically just dubbed over) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you've got a screen-shot of the show or one of the characters, where did you get that shot from?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Setting&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Is the show set in the past, present or future? Was it set in Japan or another country (or outer space)?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Animation quirks&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Was there anything noticeable or unique about the animation style? Have you seen any other shows that look similar? Can you guess at the &lt;em&gt;animation studio&lt;/em&gt; even if you don't know the show?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Manga&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where did you read it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If you read it in paper format, where did you get it from? If you read it online, which site did you see it on or what sites do you regularly use?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Art Style&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Was it a &lt;a href=&quot;https://japandeluxetours.com/blog/comics-vs-mangas&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;drawn comic or a Japanese Manga&lt;/a&gt;? If you're not sure, it might be helpful to know that western comics tend to be in colour whereas manga will tend to have colour pages but the majority in black and white. Manga will tend to be released in short books (called Tankōbon) whereas western comics will tend to be on flimsy paper. Japanese manga will, even if translated, generally retain their distinctive &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/2662/why-are-manga-read-from-right-to-left-has-it-always-been-so&quot;&gt;right-to-left reading order&lt;/a&gt; rather than being mirrored.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Manga &lt;em&gt;&amp;amp; Anime&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Are you aware of the manga also being made into an anime?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;General helpful stuff&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Characters&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;What were their ages? What were their names? Did they have any &lt;em&gt;distinctive&lt;/em&gt; features, notably eye-colour, hair colour and/or defining marks on their face, body or clothing?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fantasy creatures?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If the anime or manga features fantastical animals or monsters, what did they look like? What were they called in-universe? Were they summoned? Did they have any unique powers of their own? Are they intelligent and sentient?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Target Audience&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Who do you think the property is &lt;a href=&quot;https://kotaku.com/how-to-identify-the-basic-types-of-anime-and-manga-1538285518&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;targeted at&lt;/a&gt;; Kodomomuke (colourful shows and manga aimed at children aged 3-12) Shōnen (shows for younger males aged up to 15), Seinen (shows aimed at males aged 15-30), Shōjo (shows aimed at girls aged 10-18), Josei (dramatic works aimed at adult women aged 18 to middle-age), Ecchi (mild, often comedic adult content typically aimed at males aged 16+), or something else?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-06-22T16:55:08.557" LastActivityDate="2019-06-22T16:55:08.557" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11876" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-06T20:23:29.993" Score="0" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen an answer from my questions like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/159873/why-didnt-mcgonagall-send-only-parkinson-to-the-dungeons&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t McGonagall send only Parkinson to the dungeons?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'm referring to is &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Well, the movies are nonsense, but putting that to one side... &lt;strong&gt;Out of universe&lt;/strong&gt; it's a sarcastic joke and that may even be part of it in universe as well. A bit of humour to relieve the tension before the battle. I don't think, in-universe, the Slytherins were ever actually taken to the dungeons, McGonagall was clearly being snarky and sarcastic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I've seen questions mentioning &quot;Out of Universe&quot; from this website.  I researched for this meaning but I don't understand it. So please help me. =) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70135" OwnerDisplayName="The Witch King of Angmar" LastActivityDate="2018-05-06T20:52:50.193" Title="What is the meaning by &quot;Out of Universe&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|canon|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-05-06T20:55:14.133" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11877" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11878" CreationDate="2018-05-07T07:04:45.320" Score="1" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;As many of us are already aware, Netflix recently rebooted &lt;em&gt;Lost in Space&lt;/em&gt;, but it seems we're still using the old &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lost-in-space&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lost-in-space&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lost-in-space&lt;/a&gt; tag for the new show.  While the shows obviously have a number of substantial parallels, they are very clearly set in distinct continuities.  I think we need a new tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wanted to ask a question about the 2018 reboot, so I tagged it with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lost-in-space&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lost-in-space&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lost-in-space&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lost-in-space-2018&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lost-in-space-2018&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lost-in-space-2018&lt;/a&gt;, because I thought that was approximately right.  &lt;strong&gt;Should we use both tags, or just the more specific tag?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastActivityDate="2018-05-07T09:45:45.073" Title="How should we tag Lost in Space (2018) questions?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11877" CreationDate="2018-05-07T08:14:10.813" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I propose we use the following tags for the (now 20) questions we have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lost-in-space&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lost-in-space&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lost-in-space&lt;/a&gt; for all questions in the franchise.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lost-in-space-1965&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lost-in-space-1965&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lost-in-space-1965&lt;/a&gt; or alternatively &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lost-in-space-tos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lost-in-space-tos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lost-in-space-tos&lt;/a&gt; for the 1960s original.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lost-in-space-1998&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lost-in-space-1998&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lost-in-space-1998&lt;/a&gt; for the film, should any questions ever arise about it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lost-in-space-2018&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lost-in-space-2018&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lost-in-space-2018&lt;/a&gt; for the new series on Netflix.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In line with how other tags are used, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lost-in-space&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lost-in-space&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lost-in-space&lt;/a&gt; should be used on all questions.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Any questions about additional materials, such as the comics or the novel, can fall under the general franchise tag, unless they become too numerous, in which case they should get their own tags, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lost-in-space-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lost-in-space-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lost-in-space-comics&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lost-in-space-novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lost-in-space-novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lost-in-space-novel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2018-05-07T09:45:45.073" LastActivityDate="2018-05-07T09:45:45.073" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11851" CreationDate="2018-05-07T09:07:40.377" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/146438/19561&quot;&gt;What I do in this case&lt;/a&gt;, is that I quote my original answer (done easily by editing that, then copying the source) after an introductory line or two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the important part is that while the &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/44404052#44404052&quot;&gt;WoSFoF&lt;/a&gt; they're looking for may be the same, the question will likely not be. Different querants remember different aspects.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;So after quoting my original answer, I address the points remembered by &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; querant if not already addressed by my original answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2018-05-07T09:07:40.377" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11880" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11882" CreationDate="2018-05-07T09:42:34.913" Score="11" ViewCount="265" Body="&lt;p&gt;A couple of days ago, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/186821/19561&quot;&gt;a story ID request&lt;/a&gt; was closed as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/88080/19561&quot;&gt;another one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both have an answer which is correct, according to the querant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I saw that the one that was closed as a duplicate had an &lt;em&gt;accepted&lt;/em&gt; answer, while the other one did not — just a confirmation in a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shouldn't we prefer to make the one &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; an accepted answer a duplicate of the one &lt;em&gt;with&lt;/em&gt; an accepted answer?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This question is both about the specific questions and the general principle.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2018-08-06T06:18:19.433" LastActivityDate="2018-08-06T06:18:19.433" Title="Should we prefer questions with accepted answers when closing identification requests as duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closing-questions|duplicate-questions|story-identification|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11880" CreationDate="2018-05-07T14:52:29.620" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;My take on this is that an accepted answer has more permanence than a comment. Of course, the querant who accepted the answer can de-accept it, but &lt;em&gt;anyone&lt;/em&gt; can flag a comment for deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10278/19561&quot;&gt;a comment confirming a correct answer is enough to allow for closure as a duplicate&lt;/a&gt;, I think when given the choice between two question of which only one has an actual accepted answer while does not, we should close as a duplicate the one that does not have an accepted answer, in favour of the question that does have one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2018-05-07T14:52:29.620" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11880" CreationDate="2018-05-08T08:30:51.600" Score="10" Body="&lt;h1&gt;No&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are fine to be used for closing as a duplicate, all that matters is that we have confirmation. This is because not all users know that you can accept an answer, especially new users (and we get a lot of story id questions from them).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;So what criteria should we use when closing?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The short answer to this is whichever question has the best Q/A.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A well written, focused question with a lot of detail.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A well written answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Addresses the OP's points&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Has some general description&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Has an image of the book cover/trailer link etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Includes links to somewhere with more information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Has less noise i.e. fewer comments asking for clarification and fewer incorrect answers&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously not all those points need to be met but they give a general guideline of what to look for, for the better Q/A. For more information see: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9335/58193&quot;&gt;How to ask a good story-ID question?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9444/58193&quot;&gt;How to write a good story-ID answer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="23243" LastEditDate="2018-08-05T17:12:03.967" LastActivityDate="2018-08-05T17:12:03.967" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11883" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-08T17:01:27.553" Score="5" ViewCount="268" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/187298/how-did-the-super-heroes-regain-their-secret-identities-after-civil-war&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; in a very broad way, á la &amp;quot;How can any super hero ever regain his/her secret identity after losing it.&amp;quot; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/58193/thelethalcarrot&quot;&gt;TheLethalCarrot&lt;/a&gt; was so nice to point out it is too broad, so I changed it to the event I had in mind while asking the question, the Civil War in Marvel. It now reads as such:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On numerous occasions, especially in the Marvel universe, super heroes reveal their secret identity one way or another to the general public. Prime examples are Iron Man &amp;amp; Spiderman from Marvel during the events of Civil War.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are possible ways so that the public forgets about these revelations again? To be more specific: How did Iron Man, Spiderman and others made the public forget who they were?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify: I'm speaking about the comics, not the MCU&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am surprised my question was put on-hold AFTER my edit. The specific question is surely not too broad. I &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; remove the general sounding part. But is it really so bad that I encourage people to not only answer the specific question but tell a little more? I've seen that behavior (answering some unasked extra points for the sake of knowing) around here, so I thought nothing bad of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if this kind of question is frowned upon, I will remove the remaining broadly part, I just wish for some feedback here from the community :/&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="96896" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-04-18T06:23:52.433" Title="How is this question too broad?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11883" CreationDate="2018-05-09T17:29:28.267" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/187298/revisions&quot;&gt;initially written&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; it was far too broad to be answered sensibly and garnered several close votes. Others then seem to have agreed with the review (even after the edit) and also voted to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On numerous occasions, especially in the Marvel universe, super heroes reveal their secret identity one way or another to the general public. Prime examples are Iron Man &amp;amp; Spiderman from Marvel during the events of Civil War.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are possible ways so that the public forgets about these revelations again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you were asking was basically for us to list &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; the possible options that Marvel characters have used (and can use) to make people forget their secret identities in the Marvel universe. I suspect there are quite literally hundreds of examples of this involving memory-rays, devices, spells, flowers and potions not to mention hypnosis, mind-control, psychic powers (and plain old blunt trauma) that have been used for this task.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously it's now been edited into a far more focused question and reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-04-18T06:23:52.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11885" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-10T12:38:26.420" Score="5" ViewCount="492" Body="&lt;p&gt;The First Posts and Late Answers review queues are arguably the two most important review queues on the site. They help moderate content from new users and point them in the right direction to act in accordance with our rules. There should always be some action taken even if it's just a welcome message, especially as a lot of these users aren't registered and haven't taken the tour yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, we seem to get a high number of people selecting &quot;No Action Needed&quot; (higher than it should be in my opinion). I'd like to campaign to remove the &quot;No Action Needed&quot; button altogether but that would most likely be a system change and a local policy change or wake up call should be a first step.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To avoid calling out any users out in particular or being accused of doing so here's the last 10 &quot;No Action Needed&quot; reviews from these queues and what I think could have been done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;First Posts&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/126412&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;: Certainly needs editing to be easier to read, if you don't feel up to editing it either skip or post a comment asking them to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/126389&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;: It's a nice answer: let them know and/or upvote it. Leave a comment as me and another user did. Point them to the tour.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/126363&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;: This was reviewed in the questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/187306/1&quot;&gt;initial state&lt;/a&gt; as far as I can tell, it certainly needed editing to include information.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/126334&quot;&gt;4&lt;/a&gt;: It's a decent answer though answers from an out of universe perspective so leave them a comment. There are some grammar mistakes so edit it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/126310&quot;&gt;5&lt;/a&gt;: Looks to be a decent answer, encourage them to edit in the actual sources and ask them to register/take the tour.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/126309&quot;&gt;6&lt;/a&gt;: A bit of an awkward one but the tag might not be right, is it about the film or TV show? They're from another site so will have a bit more knowledge but welcoming them and pointing them to the tour again is always better than nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/126298&quot;&gt;7&lt;/a&gt;: Could be improved by adding sources/evidence - let them know! Encourage them to register their account and take the tour.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/126297&quot;&gt;8&lt;/a&gt;: A decent out of universe answer but would be better if it had some in universe evidence too, let them know. Other than that you can always upvote the answer in the queue!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/126283&quot;&gt;9&lt;/a&gt;: It's a nice find and answer to the question but isn't the oldest, let them know. They haven't taken the tour and point to the author not the book series. Comment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/126280&quot;&gt;10&lt;/a&gt;: Comment encouraging them to register their account and take the tour. Ask them to add evidence to their answer. It isn't a great answer but with some editing could be quite good.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Late Answers&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/late-answers/126453&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;: I think we can all agree this isn't great, it's more of a comment on another answer than an answer itself. Flag it and in fact I did the First Post for this and commented along with my flag. Let them know why you're flagging/downvoting, a new user is unfamiliar with the site and so needs pointing in the right direction. (&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: This has now been deleted, not sure if &amp;lt;10k users can still see it).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/late-answers/126440&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;: A decent answer but would be greatly improved with sources - encourage them to add them. The end part of the answer is tangential and a slight rant edit it out or ask them too. Encourage them to take the tour.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/late-answers/126439&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;: Same user as above and the same advice as above follows. Might also be worth editing this one so it's not one large block of text.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/late-answers/126433&quot;&gt;4&lt;/a&gt;: Again same user so same advice. As another user comments on that answer they also provide OoU reasoning so encourage them to add IU reasoning too.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/late-answers/126419&quot;&gt;5&lt;/a&gt;: On first glance I can tell this needs editing: incorrect markdown and mistakes in a few places. As a user has said encourage them to add an actual canon backed answer not just fan fiction. And again point them to the tour.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/late-answers/126417&quot;&gt;6&lt;/a&gt;: Not bad of an answer but has some irrelevant information in it so edit it out. Ask them to add evidence to their answer. And of course encourage them to register their account and take the tour.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/late-answers/126313&quot;&gt;7&lt;/a&gt;: This is FP 5 explained above so look there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/late-answers/126239&quot;&gt;8&lt;/a&gt;: Decent answer but would be better with sources encourage them to add some. Of course point them to the tour.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/late-answers/126243&quot;&gt;9&lt;/a&gt;: As usual encourage them to add sources, let them know they can &lt;code&gt;[edit]&lt;/code&gt; their answer to add the extra information from their comment and encourage them to register the account and take the tour.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/late-answers/126242&quot;&gt;10&lt;/a&gt;: Same user as above so general advice there applies. Could do with some basic editing and looks like a nice answer, let them know and/or upvote it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even with that specific advice there here is some general advice that apply to a most posts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comment: You can always comment something even if it is just welcoming them and giving them some basic feedback on their post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Let them know they can &lt;code&gt;[edit]&lt;/code&gt; their post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Point them to the &lt;code&gt;[tour]&lt;/code&gt; and/or &lt;code&gt;[ask]&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit the post yourself.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; post point them to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9335/58193&quot;&gt;relevant&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9444/58193&quot;&gt;guide&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Upvote/downvote if applicable.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag/close/vote to delete if applicable.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is always something to be done on a post and in my, admittedly, limited reviewing experience I have yet to see a post that requires zero action and I'm pretty sure I never will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can we take action in these queues from now on?&lt;/strong&gt; Doing so will welcome new users and point them in the right direction to contribute better content to our site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an aside we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10607/58193&quot;&gt;this guide&lt;/a&gt; on our meta written by @Rand al'Thor♦ that gives the same sort of run down as I do for general guidelines and also &lt;a href=&quot;https://puzzling.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3096/10316&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; from Puzzling's meta which strongly suggests to try and not click &quot;No Action Needed&quot;. As linked by @Null♦ in the comments &lt;a href=&quot;https://codereview.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1947/87926&quot;&gt;Code Review&lt;/a&gt; also recommend against no action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2018-05-10T14:43:37.517" LastActivityDate="2018-05-16T20:40:23.513" Title="A plea for action" Tags="|discussion|review-queue|new-users|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11886" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11889" CreationDate="2018-05-10T18:59:44.677" Score="1" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel like this may not be an answerable question and more specifically, that it may not be on topic, but I am curious and can not find anything online to satiate my interest...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the question as I would address it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the fan theory that has made the rounds to date has held up relatively well can we now complete and authenticate the idea based on what we know from events of Infinity War?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is not on topic is there a way I can rephrase it to &quot;make it so?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-2bfb8e0a85ba197f1b1da1c80e87e22e&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-2bfb8e0a85ba197f1b1da1c80e87e22e&quot; alt=&quot;fan theory&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50944" LastEditorUserId="50944" LastEditDate="2018-05-10T19:10:59.003" LastActivityDate="2018-05-11T11:30:18.737" Title="Is this question on topic - Can the T.H.A.N.O.S. theory be completed?" Tags="|support|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11887" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11888" CreationDate="2018-05-10T22:05:53.383" Score="13" ViewCount="300" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm still quite new to StackExchange, and I like this place because here I've got a knowledgable community that can answer my questions. I try to keep my questions neutral in tone and try to avoid anythin opinion-based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet my &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/187487/is-there-any-connection-between-the-vorta-and-the-romulans&quot;&gt;most recent question about a possible connection between the Vorta and the Romulans&lt;/a&gt; instantly received two down-votes. At the moment I don't see any problem with this question, yet at the same time, I'd like to improve my questions so that fellow users benefit from them as well. What should I change in my opening post so that it's more useful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98600" LastEditorUserId="98600" LastEditDate="2018-05-10T22:12:09.917" LastActivityDate="2018-05-10T23:34:44.723" Title="What's the problem with this question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11887" CreationDate="2018-05-10T22:53:22.010" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's start with the good. The question itself is perfectly well written in high quality English, is correctly tagged and has a sensible title which matches the body question, all of which are why I personally upvoted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;So why the downvotes?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect, however, that the problem you're facing is that the question is &lt;strong&gt;the main thesis of your question seems critically flawed.&lt;/strong&gt; You've found two made-up words that sound similar (&quot;&lt;em&gt;Vorta-Vor&lt;/em&gt;&quot; and &quot;&lt;em&gt;Vorta&lt;/em&gt;&quot;) and are asking if they mean that two &lt;em&gt;entirely unconnected things&lt;/em&gt;, the Romulans and the Dominion, are somehow related to each other &lt;strong&gt;despite there being multiple, repeated references (at least one or more per episode) in the DS9 TV show to the Gamma Quadrant and the Alpha Quadrant being almost totally isolated from each other until very recently.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On that line of thinking, is there &lt;strong&gt;any relation between the Vorta and&#xA;  the Horta?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might also want to note that we've had other, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35345/did-the-borg-follow-a-borgesian-philosophy&quot;&gt;similar questions&lt;/a&gt; in the past and they also faced large numbers of downvotes, also for pretty much the same reason. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What can you do about it?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're asking if it's fixable, the answer is '&lt;em&gt;not really&lt;/em&gt;'. It's already well written and the problem isn't that people don't understand what you're asking, it's that they don't like the actual question. That being the case, there's probably nothing that can be done from your side of the screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Historically &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/137300/why-does-watney-s-notebook-in-the-martian-have-four-holes/137475&quot;&gt;a high quality answer that shows that your question isn't mere supposition&lt;/a&gt; would almost certainly result in a big uptick in votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-05-10T23:34:44.723" LastActivityDate="2018-05-10T23:34:44.723" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11886" CreationDate="2018-05-11T11:30:18.737" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not only is that question on-topic, but it's already been asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/87643/51379&quot;&gt;Is &amp;quot;Infinity Stones making the name of Thanos&amp;quot; true?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have new info, I'd suggest you add it as an answer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2018-05-11T11:30:18.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11890" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-11T21:17:50.813" Score="8" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I get back from vacation in two weeks I'd like to ask a question about the significance of the name for the animated show &lt;em&gt;Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood&lt;/em&gt; which is based on the make-believe characters featured on the classic American show &lt;em&gt;Mister Rogers' Neighborhood&lt;/em&gt;. My hope is it would be on topic here because &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2018/03/mister-rogers-its-you-i-like-pbs/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fred Rogers took pains to separate&lt;/a&gt; the make-believe parts of his show from the real parts of his show:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The things Fred Rogers did on purpose included insisting that Carol Spinney appear in costume as Big Bird in the Neighborhood of Make Believe only (Jim Henson wouldn’t let Spinney take the head off his costume to show that there was a person inside, but Rogers wanted to keep make believe separate from reality);&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm concerned it will be closed as merely anthropomorphic talking animals and not true fantasy per the rules of the site. If that is the consensus then I'll likely post on Movies.SE, but I'd rather post here if possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be clear my question will be about the origin story of the fictional character Daniel Tiger, and the reasons why he was chosen as the title character for the current continuation of Fred Rogers work on television.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fair warning I'm going to be on vacation early May 12th and offline until May 28th. If I don't respond to comments or accept an answer until then it isn't because I'm ignoring you or don't care. It is because I'm unable to. I wanted to post this here before my trip so I don't forget about my question in the interim and give the community time to come to a clear consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53771" LastActivityDate="2018-05-12T01:39:43.680" Title="Is Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and by extension Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11890" CreationDate="2018-05-12T01:39:43.680" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not certain about &lt;em&gt;Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood&lt;/em&gt;, of which I have seen very little, but events in the Neighborhood of Make Believe on &lt;em&gt;Mister Roger's Neighborhood&lt;/em&gt; should certainly be on topic.  Fred Rogers was very clear with his young viewers (such as myself) that the Neighborhood of Make Believe was a separate fantasy world, where fantasy rules applied.  It explicit that it was not real, and most of the characters were puppets, and Mister Rogers sometimes discussed making up the stories that filled the Make Believe Segments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As well as straight fantasy (such as magic spells, talking animals, and Henrietta the cat, who only said &quot;meow&quot; but was nonetheless intelligible to the other characters) there were also science fiction elements to the Neighborhood of Make Believe.  I recall Planet Purple, which was populated by teleporting purple pandas.  At one point, King Friday also purchased a flying electric car.  There was also a limited degree of narrative continuity to the Make Believe segments.  Characters in the Neighborhood arrived or moved away; the sets were updated, with in-universe justifications; and elements like the purple pandas and the flying car were wont to show up now and again after they had been introduced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2018-05-12T01:39:43.680" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11885" CreationDate="2018-05-13T18:31:17.457" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disclaimer:&lt;/strong&gt; this answer may contain some personal biases, as I'm an active reviewer myself. But I'll try to make clear where I'm speaking as a moderator and where I'm just voicing my own opinions as a user.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NAN is &lt;em&gt;sometimes&lt;/em&gt; flat-out wrong, but sometimes it's a matter of taste.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You mention the idea of removing the &quot;No Action Needed&quot; button altogether, but that's absolutely out. Not just because it'd mean a system-wide change and isn't high enough priority for SE to work on it, but because we wouldn't want people taking some random action on the post just for the sake of taking an action. That would just be a different kind of robo-reviewing, and a harder one to detect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, &lt;strong&gt;we can't dictate how people review&lt;/strong&gt;. As a moderator, I have the ability to temporarily ban people from the review queues for robo-reviewing. I've done this when people were e.g. clicking &quot;No Action Needed&quot; on blatant spam. But if people decline to take action on a &quot;meh&quot; post which is (at least arguably) neither particularly good nor particularly bad, I'm not going to review-ban them for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taking my mod hat off here: &lt;em&gt;I personally&lt;/em&gt; hardly ever click &quot;No Action Needed&quot;. But that's because I'm a prolific &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Voters&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;voter&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Editors&amp;amp;filter=all&quot;&gt;editor&lt;/a&gt; - I vote on a lot of posts which others might consider neither good nor bad enough to be voted on, and I edit a lot of typos and minor things which others might consider not worth bothering with. But I'm also aware that it's not possible to fix every post, nor to impose my own standards on other users. Voting and editing are privileges, not responsibilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All this is not to say that your points in this meta post are wrong - just that you shouldn't take them &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; far. Of course &lt;strong&gt;people should review carefully&lt;/strong&gt;, and NAN is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10607/31394&quot;&gt;rarely the best option&lt;/a&gt;, but it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; still possible to consider a post carefully and still decide not to take any action on it. (As I did for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/late-answers/126417&quot;&gt;this review&lt;/a&gt; which you mentioned.) It's important to distinguish between the following two possibilities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;blindly clicking &quot;No Action Needed&quot; because you haven't taken the time to examine the post properly and work out what kind of feedback it needs;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;clicking &quot;No Action Needed&quot; because you've examined the post carefully and decided that, in your opinion, it doesn't need any specific feedback.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first of these is &quot;robo-reviewing&quot;; the second is proper reviewing but just not the same review that you would have done. The first is bad, and just the sort of thing that can lead to temporary review bans; the second is fine, and trying to eradicate it would be bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that disclaimer I put at the top of this answer? The same idea can apply to one's attitude towards reviews. As a moderator, I try to talk about what's good for the site as a whole; as a user, I feel freer to express my own personal opinions and preferences. Are you opposing &quot;No Action Needed&quot; reviews because they're objectively bad for the site, or because they're not what you would have done? Are you sure? Is it an absolute necessity that this post be upvoted and that one be downvoted, or is it just your opinion? &lt;strong&gt;We have to draw a line between &quot;making people review properly&quot; and &quot;making people review &lt;em&gt;as we would&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I hope that last paragraph doesn't come off as patronising. Obviously you're acting in good faith here, and trying to do what's best for the site; I just think you may be being a &lt;em&gt;little&lt;/em&gt; too over-zealous about it. I say &quot;we&quot; because your ability to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/moderator-tools&quot;&gt;review reviews&lt;/a&gt; is almost moderator-like, and in some sense you're overseeing the whole site on a high level by making use of that.)&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Please don't leave &quot;contentless&quot; welcome comments.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mention this because it came up in the comment discussion on this meta post, and also because earlier today I had to handle an abnormally large number of flags on recent comments which all said something along the lines of &quot;welcome to the site, please take the tour&quot; without providing any constructive feedback on the post in question. I suspect this is a direct consequence of your meta post, but it's not a good one ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... because we have a policy against such comments. They're &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6410/31394&quot;&gt;discouraged as useless&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6422/31394&quot;&gt;should be flagged and deleted&lt;/a&gt;. One of the concerns mentioned in those previous metas - that they can be seen as some sort of chastisement - was also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11885/a-plea-for-action#comment39801_11885&quot;&gt;mentioned&lt;/a&gt; by Kevin in the comments on this meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact ... dare I say it ... if you really can't find &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; to do to a post except to leave such a comment (not worth upvoting, downvoting, flagging, or editing, and nothing more substantial to comment about), then it might be a case where &lt;em&gt;&quot;No Action Needed&quot; is appropriate!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-05-13T18:31:17.457" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6422" CreationDate="2018-05-14T11:39:50.233" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Coming a little late to the discussion, but I personally have no issue with people posting the welcome messages, although I think it's also reasonable to remove them as &quot;no longer needed&quot; after a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I generally post my welcome as part of my general new user &quot;If this is the correct answer, you can accept it by clicking on the checkmark&quot; or &quot;To help prompt more details to help us help you, please visit this link and see what questions you can answer about your story-id question&quot; comments. Presumably, when they're too stale as a &quot;welcome, new user&quot; comment, they're also too stale for the rest of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2018-05-14T11:39:50.233" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11894" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-14T18:16:03.927" Score="18" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;p&gt;Margot Kidder, whose most famous role was Lois Lane in the Christopher Reeve series of Superman movies, has died at the age of 69.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gd7fq.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gd7fq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to her on-screen work she was also famous for her voiceovers, providing the voice for Gaia in 'Captain Planet and the Planeteers' and Rebecca Madison in 'Phantom 2040'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2022-05-26T02:04:58.140" Title="RIP Margot Kidder, Superman Actress" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11895" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-15T19:33:05.747" Score="9" ViewCount="949" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bruce J. Mitchell, known to MST3K fans everywhere as the hockey-haired drifter Zap Rowsdower from the sci-fi cult film &lt;em&gt;The Final Sacrifice&lt;/em&gt; passed away on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mhfh.com/mitchell-bruce-jawn-michael/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;April 28th, 2018&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JxHxi.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JxHxi.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Zap Rowsdower&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGAxPEeNtVM&amp;amp;t=49s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with Mitchell from a few years ago. Seems like he was a pretty neat guy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69621" LastActivityDate="2018-05-15T21:34:36.557" Title="Bruce J Mitchell (aka MST3K's &quot;Zap Rowsdower&quot;) RIP" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11895" CreationDate="2018-05-15T19:50:54.863" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Will he be spoken of in the same hushed tones as Olivier, Hopkins and Day-Lewis? Only time will tell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/g0pWTFean0E?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I've liked him in everything I've ever seen him in :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-05-15T21:34:36.557" LastActivityDate="2018-05-15T21:34:36.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11885" CreationDate="2018-05-16T20:40:23.513" Score="2" Body="&lt;h1&gt;It would confuse people to run these queues differently than the rest of SE/SO&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NAN is generally the idea that the post doesn't need any moderation action (edits, flags, comments, etc). SFF is a bit different in that it considers &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/late-answers/126453&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;noisy comment&amp;quot; answers&lt;/a&gt; to be non-answers(NAA), but, failing that, NAN is often a good choice because &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/287563/youre-doing-it-wrong-a-plea-for-sanity-in-the-low-quality-posts-queue&quot;&gt;as long as it attempts to be a constructive answer&lt;/a&gt; it doesn't need moderation (NAA/LQP).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also don't fault people for not wanting to edit &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/187382/1&quot;&gt;giant run-on paragraphs&lt;/a&gt; that are otherwise acceptable. It would be &lt;em&gt;helpful&lt;/em&gt;, but not everyone is that skilled at writing, let alone discerning what other people wrote. I'd rather have no edit than a terrible edit that prompts a rollback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That having been said, I've seen &lt;strong&gt;good responses&lt;/strong&gt; to canned instructions on SO (I use a flagging tool to nail NAA/LQP all the time using 10k tools to find them). I've seen several people take the canned advice and edit their posts into shape. Maybe SFF needs an &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/Benjol/SE-AutoReviewComments/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;AutoReviewComments&lt;/a&gt; library of comments. But you need to remember that &lt;strong&gt;the comment is meant to be corrective&lt;/strong&gt;. Needlessly saying &amp;quot;Welcome to SFF! Here's our [tour]!&amp;quot; on a post that has no other issues &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4CizzE-zZo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;probably isn't going to be received well&lt;/a&gt;. I also don't want to see nitpicking used to justify a comment. If it looks good, give them the benefit of the doubt and just move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-05-16T20:40:23.513" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11898" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-19T04:11:32.237" Score="24" ViewCount="738" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't find a FAQ or anything that spells out a policy on the use of four letter words. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2384/is-profanity-in-direct-quotes-from-source-material-permitted&quot;&gt;Is profanity in direct quotes from source material permitted?&lt;/a&gt; from 6 years ago seems to imply direct quotes are permitted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it acceptable to use an NSFW word in a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, I asked a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/187931/werewolf-short-story-love-goes-bad-nsfw&quot;&gt;story identification question about a werewolf/human romance gone bad&lt;/a&gt;. (Wow that sounds bad, but it's really a touching and poignant story where the werewolf was the one you were rooting for.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I flagged the post in the subject line as NSFW because one of the really crystal clear details I remembered about the story was the frequent use of a newly coined term to describe  recreational sex. In my original words:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;During her human days, well, the term &quot;sportfucking&quot; stuck in my&#xA;  brain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And I wasn't the only one who thought the term notable -- there are three online reviews of the novella and one mentions the term. Aside from the use of that invented word to highlight the intensity of their passion there is nothing descriptive or NSFW about the story.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone came through and edited the post to remove the word &quot;sportf*cking&quot; as unsuitable for a 13+ site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But instead of adding a comment or otherwise making it obvious that an unsuitable term had been removed, they simply toned it down in place, leaving the ID request saying &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;During her human days, well, the term &quot;sports sex&quot; stuck in my brain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is not at all the kind of vivid term that would stick in people's brains and help identify the story, and more importantly not a term used in the story at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got upset and reverted the edit, which was probably not the right thing to do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the original word from the story is unsuitable there are lots of things that could replace it, for example &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The author coined a vivid term for their sexual passion which was one of the more memorable details of the story, as highlighted in (this review) but which cannot be repeated on a family friendly site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do I need to edit the question to remove the word, or put that section behind a spoiler tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49015" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2018-07-17T15:30:41.917" LastActivityDate="2018-07-17T15:30:41.917" Title="Is it acceptable to use an NSFW word in a question?" Tags="|discussion|editing|profanity|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11898" CreationDate="2018-05-19T12:07:23.647" Score="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;I already saw this question and its edit history due to a flag last night, so I've had some time to think about it. Here's my proposal for some general guidelines to cover situations like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's OK to use NSFW language if that's an important part of the question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. for story-ID questions like this, if the story used a word which is obscene but also distinctive, then that could be a very important detail. If it's a word coined especially for that story, then just Googling the word might be an efficient way to find the story. We definitely shouldn't be making it harder for people to answer questions just for the sake of not including some naughty words.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's also OK to edit out &lt;em&gt;gratuitous&lt;/em&gt; use of NSFW language.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone is using unnecessarily obscene language which &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; necessary for the question, then of course it's fine to edit it out or tone it down. We are a 13+ site according to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/legal#age&quot;&gt;terms of service&lt;/a&gt;, and we're supposed to maintain some standards of decency and professionalism (whatever &quot;professionalism&quot; might mean on a sci-fi and fantasy site).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short: &lt;em&gt;unnecessary&lt;/em&gt; obscenities can be removed, but necessary ones shouldn't be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Content warnings, e.g. putting &quot;NSFW&quot; in the title or hiding rude words behind spoilertags, can be used at your discretion. Whether or not a particular word is bad enough to merit any such measures is something to be decided on a case-by-case basis.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;Coming back to your specific question: you were definitely right to mention the word &quot;sportfucking&quot; (or is it &quot;sportsfucking&quot;? you haven't been consistent), which is a distinctive part of the story that might help people identify it. So you were also right to revert JohnP's edit. However, mentioning the word &lt;em&gt;twice&lt;/em&gt; in your question wasn't necessary; once is enough.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In short, I think the current version of the post is an excellent compromise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-05-19T12:07:23.647" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11898" CreationDate="2018-05-19T13:54:06.527" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I edited the post to fix misremembered details, cite the answer (as I did in my other successfully answered question) and change the iffy bit to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While the author coined the memorable term&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;sportfuck&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;which the narrator uses at least 8 times in describing that aspect of&#xA;  their relationship, and there are a few f-words here and there, it's&#xA;  not a racy or descriptively sexual story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and it got reverted as a whole, so now I have no idea how to proceed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49015" LastActivityDate="2018-05-19T13:54:06.527" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11898" CreationDate="2018-05-22T17:58:48.827" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2359/1696&quot;&gt;site policy&lt;/a&gt;, network wide, offensive language should be kept out of question &lt;em&gt;titles&lt;/em&gt;. Whether it is allowed in question &lt;em&gt;bodies&lt;/em&gt; is a separate issue, on which each community can decide for itself. The policy of SF&amp;amp;F, based on other answers here, seems to be that it is permitted, so long as it is not gratuitous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="403" LastActivityDate="2018-05-22T17:58:48.827" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11904" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-28T00:38:03.570" Score="-12" ViewCount="388" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just before &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Infinity War&lt;/em&gt;’s release date, I got an email threatening me not to post any questions about &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Infinity War&lt;/em&gt; because I intentionally spoil big movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, how could anyone find the email address attached to my SE account? Whenever I contact a user from this site, I use a different email address. Also, it is difficult to do social engineering because the username I use here is unique. Can Sci-Fi mods see my email address?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, what should I do about it? I also expect the sender of the email to clarify anonymously if he/she is reading this. Last I checked, I was accused of spoiling a movie back in 2015 and I still maintain that those were accidental, not intentional. Also, you can check in my recent questions that I put lots of efforts to hide the spoilers. If it was meant as a joke, I won't go to cyber cops.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P. S. I am not accusing a mod. It's possible he/she just shared my email to others who did this (but, even in this case, I expect CMs to punish mods for breach of privacy). Smart social engineering is yet another possibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2018-05-30T04:46:36.297" LastActivityDate="2018-05-30T04:46:36.297" Title="What should I do when I am getting death threats because of this site?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11904" CreationDate="2018-05-28T03:16:27.157" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you legitimately think your PII was accessed and used irresponsibly, and you want recourse through Stack Exchange, then use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;Contact Us&lt;/a&gt; page, choose reason &quot;Other&quot;, and explain the situation and wait for a response from the CM team to do an investigation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are worried about your safety, you should look up the relevant local laws to see if what you purportedly received violates any, and then contact someone at the proper office.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If feasible, you probably want to get a new email address for your personal uses, as the current one is compromised. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do feel like these answers are fairly obvious, and so the purpose behind your question confuses me. I'd be concerned that by posting this publicly you've elicited enough of a response from the alleged emailer to encourage them to do it again. Hence the suggestion of starting to use a new email address. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2018-05-28T11:01:22.417" LastActivityDate="2018-05-28T11:01:22.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11904" CreationDate="2018-05-29T20:59:21.677" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's impossible to guess at what's going on here with the information you've provided thus far; there are numerous ways in which someone could have obtained your email: you've been a member here for many years, under numerous usernames and avatars, and there are organizations that make it their business to compile this sort of information and cross-reference it between different services; all it takes is one slip somewhere on the 'Net and there's a good chance it ended up in &lt;em&gt;someone's&lt;/em&gt; database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But we take threats and charges of moderator malfeasance very seriously, and will investigate as far as it is feasible for us to do. Please forward us the email you received &lt;em&gt;immediately&lt;/em&gt;, in its entirety as you received it, and we'll follow up with what we learn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastActivityDate="2018-05-29T20:59:21.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11907" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11910" CreationDate="2018-05-30T00:40:06.120" Score="10" ViewCount="438" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example, this question currently has 3000 views:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/188566/science-fiction-book-from-80s-or-90s-cover-is-man-sitting-on-a-throne-of-bone&quot;&gt;Science fiction book from 80&amp;#39;s or 90&amp;#39;s. Cover is man sitting on a throne of bones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whereas this similar one, posted a few hours before, has only 100:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/188573/scifi-book-about-two-alien-races-fighting-over-earth&quot;&gt;SciFi book about two alien races fighting over Earth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are they linked through from another site or something?&#xA;I see Potterverse, Star Trek, and other franchises get lots of views too, that's understandable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm just curious, I don't have any wish to &quot;optimize&quot; my questions or anything like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="99892" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2018-05-30T14:24:53.137" LastActivityDate="2018-06-11T09:03:55.993" Title="Why do some questions get 4k views, and some only 80?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11908" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-30T11:12:38.217" Score="2" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why keep some useless noise in a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For sure, we don't accept taglines as ruled by: &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2950/should-hi-thanks-taglines-and-salutations-be-removed-from-posts&quot;&gt;Should &amp;#39;Hi&amp;#39;, &amp;#39;thanks&amp;#39;, taglines, and salutations be removed from posts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why keep stuff &lt;strong&gt;similar&lt;/strong&gt; to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I searched everywhere but couldn't find the answer&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/127442&quot;&gt;this edit suggestion&lt;/a&gt; rejected by two high reputation users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't add value to see if the OP knew the answer or not at the time of the post, so why keep it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76299" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2018-05-30T12:20:11.593" LastActivityDate="2018-05-30T12:20:11.593" Title="Why would &quot;I searched everywhere but couldn't find the answer&quot; be kept in a question?" Tags="|discussion|question-quality|suggested-edit|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11908" CreationDate="2018-05-30T11:55:02.367" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The downvote tooltip states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The edit in question was removing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've searched both google and the site but looks like this hasn't been asked yet.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst not terribly informative it is telling us what research they have already done and is also hinting at the question not being a duplicate. Of course the OP could be lying but it does mean that the likelihood for a duplicate is less.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the general note of the hypothetical case of what you want to edit out;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;em&gt;I searched everywhere but couldn't find the answer&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't useful as it gives us no information and if I had seen that being edited out of a post I would have approved it. It comes down to a case by case basis and exactly what the comment you are removing is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2018-05-30T11:55:02.367" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11907" CreationDate="2018-05-30T14:24:05.267" Score="22" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Basically, it's luck of the draw.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a number of factors which can go into how many views a question gets. The most important ones I can think of are as follows, in (IMO) decreasing order of significance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hot Network Questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Search engine results.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Promotion elsewhere.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hot Network Questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/questions?tab=hot&quot;&gt;a list of questions&lt;/a&gt; from all across the network, changing all the time, according to what's currently 'hot'. The precise formula for 'hotness' can be found &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/61343/278659&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, but the TL;DR is that if you get &lt;strong&gt;lots of answers/votes fast&lt;/strong&gt;, you're likely to get on the HNQ. Either more than one answer with a few upvotes, or one answer with a lot of upvotes, soon after the question is posted will be a likely recipe for HNQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The HNQ list skews votes and views massively. When a question hits the HNQ and stays there for a while, it can get 100+ votes and 10,000+ views in just one or two days. Many of our badges called &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/42/great-question&quot;&gt;Great Questions&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/40/great-answer&quot;&gt;Great Answers&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/37/famous-question&quot;&gt;Famous Questions&lt;/a&gt; come from posts which hit the HNQ (and sometimes their quality doesn't really reflect the score or the badge name. As another mod once said, &quot;popularity does not equal quality&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Search engine results&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above is usually the explanation for a post getting lots of views &lt;em&gt;fast&lt;/em&gt;, but there are also slow-burners: questions which never hit the HNQ but got 10,000+ views anyway, or were posted long before the HNQ system existed, or just gathered thousands of views over a period of years. This is probably because &lt;strong&gt;people's web searches lead them to that question&lt;/strong&gt;. If this happens to you, then congratulations - you've asked something that's useful to the wider internet!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anecdotally, I've observed this effect especially strongly with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt; questions. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9610/31394&quot;&gt;most-viewed question on the entire site, by far&lt;/a&gt;, is about watching order for the Star Wars films; and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.meta.stackexchange.com/a/21/17&quot;&gt;most-viewed question in each of many different tags&lt;/a&gt; is also about reading or watching order. To a lesser extent, I've also seen it happen with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/114306/31394&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; which was closed soon after being asked and never hit HNQ, but has gained 10,000 views since then. All of this makes sense, of course, because order and ID questions are among &lt;strong&gt;the most practically useful&lt;/strong&gt; on the site. People might be idly interested in what Tom Bombadil was, or why Hermione wasn't in Ravenclaw, but helping them to find a lost story again or to know in which order to read a series will actually have an effect on their lives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Promotion elsewhere&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one is much harder to track down, but apparently it can also have an effect on views for particular questions. If a post gets promoted somewhere else, e.g. &lt;strong&gt;an offsite blog with a lot of traffic&lt;/strong&gt;, then it might pick up a lot of views from that. That's what happened &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/887/31394&quot;&gt;in this case previously asked about&lt;/a&gt;, and it's probably also the cause of most of our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/56/publicist&quot;&gt;Publicist&lt;/a&gt; badges, but IMO it's the least significant of the three effects listed here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2018-05-31T14:49:38.807" LastActivityDate="2018-05-31T14:49:38.807" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11911" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-05-31T20:18:16.287" Score="3" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;I edited a question in the re-open queue earlier, and removed the Marvel tag (it was tagged &lt;code&gt;marvel&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;spider-man&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;avengers-infinity-war&lt;/code&gt;) because it seemed redundant.  However, I was directed in a comment (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/188732/is-maw-peters-first-kill?noredirect=1#comment513797_188732&quot;&gt;Is Maw Peter&amp;#39;s First Kill?&lt;/a&gt;) that I should have read the tag wiki first, and seen that it is a required tag for any MCU or Marvel Comics question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, Marvel is implied in their own cinematic universe, and their comics.  Why are we tagging things this way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14710" LastEditorUserId="39144" LastEditDate="2018-06-05T21:43:39.637" LastActivityDate="2018-06-05T21:43:39.637" Title="Why are we double tagging MCU and Marvel Comics questions?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-06-01T08:34:54.143" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11911" CreationDate="2018-06-01T02:53:16.473" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is redundant, but Stack Exchanges tagging system requires us to make some compromises, and this stack chose redundant tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue is that our content naturally falls into a hierarchical tagging model. A large portion of our works can be tagged as individual works, which are part of a series, which may be part of a larger universe, and in extreme cases like Marvel, part of a massive body of interrelated works, e.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Iron Man 3&lt;/em&gt; &gt;&gt; the &lt;em&gt;Iron Man&lt;/em&gt; series &gt;&gt; The MCU &gt;&gt; Marvel&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange tags can't naturally represent this hierarchy. Thus, in order to allow our users flexibility in using tags to search, filter, build custom RSS feeds, ignore, highlight, etc. at any level of this hierarchy, we've settled on just using redundant tags. That is, tag things with all levels of the tag chain that are relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2018-06-01T02:53:16.473" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11670" CreationDate="2018-06-03T12:38:22.813" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://conlang.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xv8GC.png&quot; alt=&quot;Tower of Babel with SE colours.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101240" LastEditorUserId="101240" LastEditDate="2018-06-03T16:24:45.350" LastActivityDate="2018-06-03T16:24:45.350" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11916" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-06-04T14:33:01.823" Score="-22" ViewCount="531" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a very serious problem with certain power users on this forum and their cliques. If they don't like an answer they will attack the user and if the user isn't driven off they'll just bury your posts even if their own posts have the same features they criticized you for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for this seems to be so they can accumulate more prestige on the boards via reputation and badges and that's really lame because the website presents this system as a sort of meritocracy but clearly it's corrupted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I trust there's a moderation team in place to handle this. But I see these sort of power users tripping on posts all the time and arguing for no valid reasons, just that somebody might have phrased something ever so slightly different than they would or might have included information they wouldn't have. These users seem to frequently upvote eachother just for sake of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They even seem to do this on answers that DO NOT give an answer to the OP's question at all. while criticizing others of doing the same thing when there's no way to answer because the information is obscure or the OP remembers a quote from the author or something that isn't real etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this behavior tolerated here? It's not okay with most people in a real world environment, if you acted this way YOU would be rightly ostracized from social groups not other people who are just trying to get in on the conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101047" OwnerDisplayName="Jacob Andrew Hollander" LastActivityDate="2018-06-06T04:39:34.790" Title="Why do people on this site tolerate power users on this forum that debate in bad faith and power trip?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-06-13T12:12:43.220" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11917" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11918" CreationDate="2018-06-05T23:51:38.330" Score="5" ViewCount="258" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11916/976&quot;&gt;Why do people on this site tolerate power users on this forum that debate in bad faith and power trip?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Says Migration Rejected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may have been a poor quality post (easily fixable) but it was clearly on-topic on SFF Meta. Why was migration (from main site) rejected?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2018-06-06T02:55:09.927" Title="Why was migration rejected on this post (SFF to Meta)" Tags="|discussion|scope|meta|migration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11917" CreationDate="2018-06-06T02:55:09.927" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to main meta&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A question can also be rejected by the target community after it has already been migrated if it gets closed (except as a duplicate) or deleted on the target site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/10250/299342&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was closed on SFF meta (as &quot;unclear what you're asking&quot;) so the migration was rejected. I've re-opened and unlocked the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastActivityDate="2018-06-06T02:55:09.927" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11916" CreationDate="2018-06-06T04:39:34.790" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I can address a single point from the question (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[The power tripping users] even seem to &lt;strong&gt;[upvote each other] on answers that DO NOT give an answer to the OP's question at all&lt;/strong&gt;. while criticizing others of doing the same thing when there's no way to answer because the information is obscure or the OP remembers a quote from the author or something that isn't real etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is nothing wrong with upvoting answers that don't answer the OP's question. That's explicitly allowed and part of the Stack Exchange system. This is why there are many accepted answers (accepted because they answered the OP's question) that do not have the highest votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An answer can be upvoted for any reason at all, but there are reasons that we are encouraged to upvote answers, and one of those reasons is if the answer is &quot;helpful&quot;. I will absolutely upvote a &lt;strong&gt;high quality&lt;/strong&gt; answer that has interesting information that I didn't know even if it doesn't directly address the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will also downvote answers that are both speculative and do not address the question. Speculation that is plausible and addresses the question but has no quotes or support behind it will get no vote from me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I know, I'm &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; in any kind of clique or group of power tripping users. Some newcomers might feel like 2k+ rep is a lot, but compared to the people here who know &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt; about Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and Harry Potter, I'm not even a guppy. I'm like an amoeba. But I was able to earn a score of 52 on one answer because I have a digital copy of &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; (the novel) and I searched it for a phrase and I did it before anyone else. Then, when the user who almost certainly is included in the alleged &quot;power tripping&quot; club who knows about billion times more about &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; than I will ever dream of commented, I folded that comment into the answer, because hey, that was pretty cool to comment on my answer instead of writing his own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then &lt;strong&gt;another&lt;/strong&gt; probably-alleged-power-tripper answered from Legends canon that contradicted my answer. I upvoted that answer &lt;em&gt;because it was helpful&lt;/em&gt;. And none of these &quot;power users&quot; downvoted my answer, and I know this because I have no downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as a complete small fry who just happened to answer first, and was treated &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; well by the biggest fish in the pond, I have never felt like there was a clique here or anyone power tripping or whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe that's because I don't mess around when I'm posting an answer. If I don't know (which is 99% of the time), I don't post. If I do know, I post, but I don't just type up something as quick as possible, I take my time, get sources, links, images, quotes, whatever. Or I lay out my case for a plausible supposition. Then I let the votes fall where they may.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And maybe most importantly, when someone comments critically, I give myself time to get over my frustration at their obvious ignorance of my genius, and I try to look at it from their point of view. And a third of the time, I back up my position, a third of the time, &lt;em&gt;I edit my answer to make it better&lt;/em&gt;, and a third of the time, I ignore the comment. The comments I don't ignore are &lt;em&gt;meant&lt;/em&gt; to help make my answer better, so I take them seriously in that vein. Comments that are not productive I can ignore (or flag if they are seriously rude) because comments won't live forever and someone else will come around and clean them up or even defend my answer if any comments are really off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's a bit of a ramble. &lt;strong&gt;TL;DR&lt;/strong&gt;: I'm no insider, I'm no power user, and I don't have much rep, and I'm not seeing what you're seeing. That doesn't mean it's definitely not there, just that it can't be that huge - I'm here every day and I don't see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46607" LastActivityDate="2018-06-06T04:39:34.790" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11920" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11921" CreationDate="2018-06-06T09:26:37.450" Score="11" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know Duplication is a bit of a contentious topic so I've looked around before asking this, but I can't find an answer. If I've missed it I'd appreciate being pointed in the right direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does Closing a Question as a duplicate actually do?&#xA;Particularly in the circumstance where different Questions lead to duplicate Answers. For example &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/65463/story-set-on-ocean-planet-featuring-floating-islands&quot;&gt;Hyperion Duplicate&lt;/a&gt; is closed as a Duplicate, but it obviously still exists on the site, a search for keywords in the Duplicate question still brings it back. I can still vote on duplicates (sorry if that's spammy).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone else wants to find the Hyperion books and only remembers the Dolphin planet, is there a time limit on how long they'll be able to find the answer via this duplicate, or will they generally have to wade further through search results than they might without the marking?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only functional difference I've found is that I don't appear to be able to add an Answer, but obviously in the case linked above there would be no way to tell they were duplicates without Answers on both already, because there's no overlap in the Question text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at the tags in meta I might be confusing some properties of Close and Duplicate which appear to be separate processes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40437" LastActivityDate="2018-06-06T10:16:04.753" Title="What does closing a Question as a Duplicate actually do?" Tags="|support|closing-questions|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11920" CreationDate="2018-06-06T10:16:04.753" Score="16" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Duplication is a type of closure, but it's less punitive than other types.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We &lt;em&gt;close&lt;/em&gt; questions as duplicates. The option to mark it as a duplicate is found under the list of vote-to-close options, for users with 3k+ rep who have the vote-to-close privilege (although if you're a lower-rep user flagging for closure, then &amp;quot;should be closed&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;duplicate&amp;quot; are two separate options).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But closure as a duplicate is considered less 'bad' than other types of closure. Both by the system (e.g. the bot which removes old closed questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/roomba&quot;&gt;doesn't touch duplicates&lt;/a&gt;) and by the community (we explicitly encourage people &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7944/31394&quot;&gt;not to delete duplicate questions&lt;/a&gt;). Although this is more contentious, at least some of us also encourage people not to &lt;em&gt;downvote&lt;/em&gt; questions just for being duplicates: my go-to maxim for this is that &lt;strong&gt;a duplicate of a good question is likely to be a good question itself&lt;/strong&gt;. This is especially true for story-ID questions, where &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7067/31394&quot;&gt;we have a policy&lt;/a&gt; to close as duplicate even when the questions themselves look unalike and contain different search terms, so the argument &amp;quot;OP of the dupe should have found the original question while researching their own&amp;quot; doesn't even apply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like all closed questions, duplicates &lt;strong&gt;still exist on the site&lt;/strong&gt; (unless they're deleted, which is discouraged as said above). That means they can be found by searching, either within the site or using an external search engine, and they can be voted on. Don't worry about being &amp;quot;spammy&amp;quot;: voting on dupe questions and their answers is absolutely fine. There's no time limit on a duplicate's existence on the site: they'll always be there, able to help future searchers and to act as a signpost to the original Q&amp;amp;A where the answer may be found. But, like all closed questions, they don't accept new answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-06-06T10:16:04.753" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11922" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-06-08T19:11:09.733" Score="11" ViewCount="729" Body="&lt;p&gt;We seem to have a pretty regular number of story-ID questions specifically focused on finding half-remembered &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fan-fiction&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fan-fiction&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fan-fiction&lt;/a&gt; stories. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our top tag is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; with over 10,000 questions and we already have an excellent guide to help people answer them in &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9335/how-to-ask-a-good-story-id-question&quot;&gt;How to ask a good story-ID question?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; that users can direct querents towards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What &lt;em&gt;additional&lt;/em&gt; advice can we offer on writing a good story-identification question aimed at locating a fanfic story?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-08-11T04:51:46.293" LastActivityDate="2019-08-11T04:51:46.293" Title="How to ask a good (fan fiction) Story-ID question?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11922" CreationDate="2018-06-08T19:28:41.967" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to the elements we've already discussed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9335/how-to-ask-a-good-story-id-question&quot;&gt;How to ask a good story-ID question?&lt;/a&gt;, fanfic-specific elements that the poster could identify include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The site that you viewed it on, specifically whether it was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fanfiction.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;fanfiction.net&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Archive of Our Own&lt;/a&gt; (Ao3) or something else.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Whether the story had any adult or pornographic content.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Any part or portion of the author's name&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Whether you've seen it discussed anywhere as a &quot;fic you have to read&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What &lt;em&gt;tags&lt;/em&gt; the story had (MPreg, Dramione, etc) when it was posted.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who the characters were in the story and what their ages were at the time of telling.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What &lt;em&gt;pairings&lt;/em&gt; occurred in the story along with an explanation of any special jargon used (e.g &quot;Dramione&quot; = &quot;Draco/Hermione pairing&quot;)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Any &lt;em&gt;specific words or unusual/unique phrases&lt;/em&gt; that were used in the story.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bear in mind that a single line description will probably fit multiple stories (&quot;&lt;em&gt;fanfic where Hermione fell in love with the troll in the bathroom&lt;/em&gt;&quot; = hundreds of matches). &lt;strong&gt;Remember that the more detail you can give us, the more likely it is that we can narrow it down to a single story.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-11-18T23:57:43.313" LastActivityDate="2018-11-18T23:57:43.313" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11922" CreationDate="2018-06-09T00:56:22.457" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;On top of Valorum's list, it is also helpful to describe the &lt;strong&gt;relationship between the fic and the original:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tone and narrative voice&lt;/strong&gt; - Is the fic written in the same overall style?  For example, &lt;em&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/em&gt; is known for killing off characters, while &lt;em&gt;Wall-E&lt;/em&gt; is not.  Does the fic observe similar practices to the original in this and other ways?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Genre&lt;/strong&gt; - Did Harry Potter get abducted by aliens with ray guns?  Did the &lt;em&gt;Enterprise&lt;/em&gt; land on a planet of wizards with pointy hats?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Setting&lt;/strong&gt; - Is the fic &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HighSchoolAU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;set&lt;/a&gt; in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_school_(North_America)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;high school&lt;/a&gt; or some other environment that doesn't look like the original?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Characters&lt;/strong&gt; - Is a good character evil, or &lt;em&gt;vice-versa?&lt;/em&gt;  Did someone get aged up or down dramatically?  Were any new characters introduced?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Multiple canonicity&lt;/strong&gt; - Some stories (&quot;crossovers&quot;) mix two or more different fictional universes.  There are actually multiple ways of doing that:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Integrate the universes together, forming a new whole (e.g. Captain Han Solo of the &lt;em&gt;USS Enterprise&lt;/em&gt; helps Jedi Padawan Wesley Crusher defeat the evil Romulan empire after the latter destroys Betazed with their Death Star).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep the universes initially separate, but put them in the same physical space (e.g. the &lt;em&gt;Enterprise&lt;/em&gt;, with no human crewmembers and no knowledge of Earth, lands on a planet which &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_SG-1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SG-1&lt;/a&gt; is exploring).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have characters from one universe explicitly cross over to the other (e.g. the TARDIS lands in the middle of any non-&lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; universe, with the Doctor giving some technobabble about how far away they've traveled or similar).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Plot&lt;/strong&gt; - Did events happen differently?  Did Greedo shoot and kill Han in Mos Eisley, and derail the entire story?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Any other striking differences or similarities&lt;/strong&gt; between the fic and the original.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, it is also important to mention &lt;strong&gt;the original which it was based on.&lt;/strong&gt; While this may seem trivial, a story about Romulans may look very different if it is based on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rihannsu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rihannsu&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; novels than if it is based on regular &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; canon (i.e. the TV shows and movies), so if the former are in play, you should mention them explicitly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="36526" LastEditDate="2018-06-09T01:13:50.727" LastActivityDate="2018-06-09T01:13:50.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11907" CreationDate="2018-06-10T18:49:05.360" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it really depends on who posts it. When people who are more experienced at asking questions ask a question they may get more views then someone like me who only joined recently.This is not because person one is better but rather people are more used to seeing them so they will view that over the newer less experienced person. This is just a theory based on my experiences of being very newly registered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also it depends what it's about. If it's about an extremely popular subject, for example Harry Potter, it's more likely to get more views then something about an anime that two people have heard of (no offence to animes and their fans BTW).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101493" LastEditorUserId="78134" LastEditDate="2018-06-11T09:03:55.993" LastActivityDate="2018-06-11T09:03:55.993" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11927" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-06-13T08:48:26.757" Score="12" ViewCount="318" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jurassic-park&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jurassic-park&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jurassic-park&lt;/a&gt; tag currently has 49 questions but is used for a lot of different things. Though the tag wiki/excerpt only mentions the book and film, it is used for the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The book from 1990&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The film from 1993&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Jurassic Park trilogy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Jurassic franchise as a whole&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose we should create the following tags to disambiguate it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jurassic-park&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jurassic-park&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jurassic-park&lt;/a&gt;: Leave this for the book&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jurassic-park-1993&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jurassic-park-1993&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jurassic-park-1993&lt;/a&gt;: Use this for the first film&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jurassic-park-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jurassic-park-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jurassic-park-series&lt;/a&gt;: Use this for the franchise as a whole&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't need trilogy tags, as far as I'm aware they aren't used anywhere else. Whilst we're at it we should probably also disambiguate &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jurassic-world&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jurassic-world&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jurassic-world&lt;/a&gt; which is currently used for the second trilogy and the film with that name. It should only be used for the film so should be removed where appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: This is a request to see what the community thinks of this idea to clean up the tag, please do not go ahead and start doing so on your own accord. Also if this does go ahead when fixing tags also fix everything in a post, remember we will be bumping old posts, and close/reopen vote if appropriate (I haven't been through these so not sure if it's an issue).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2018-06-13T10:15:17.933" LastActivityDate="2018-06-20T16:04:59.113" Title="Clean up [jurassic-park]" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11927" CreationDate="2018-06-13T09:30:21.943" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Suggestions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest tagging the book with the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jurassic-park-1990&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jurassic-park-1990&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jurassic-park-1990&lt;/a&gt; to make concrete that it is separate and to ensure it is more clear what that tag is used for, without the year I see it as quite probable that people would mistag questions with the book tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with the rest of the hierarchy proposed above, using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jurassic-park-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jurassic-park-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jurassic-park-series&lt;/a&gt; as the overarching franchise tag and otherwise just having separate film/book tags. I don't think &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jurassic-world&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jurassic-world&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jurassic-world&lt;/a&gt; needs to be renamed, but I disagree with it's current use as a &quot;trilogy tag&quot; (as descried below), and should be used exclusively for the 2015 film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Below I've outlined various policies and conventions and why I think the proposed suggestion makes sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the current usage, using a single tag for two works and two &quot;franchises&quot; (I say &quot;franchises&quot; as one seems to be a sub-franchise of the other) is against our policies on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7924/68872&quot;&gt;franchise vs author vs works tags&lt;/a&gt;. From the answer linked, we see that for works and franchises questions should:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If the question is about a work of fiction, it always gets a tag; if we have to create one, we do that (give it a tag wiki, etc.) If there's confusion over what to call it, bring it to meta.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If the work in question is part of a larger franchise, also give it that tag always. This makes it easier for people to follow/ignore/etc. one tag and cover the entire franchise.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such users who want to follow the entire franchise (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jurassic-park-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jurassic-park-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jurassic-park-series&lt;/a&gt; in the above case) can choose not to follow any of the material from the books, similarly, those who only want to follow specific films (e.g. the first) can do so without having to follow the entire franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Tag names&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The proposed tag names also seem to be in accordance with our tagging habits. With regards to the difference between the book and the adaptation, sometimes we decide two tags is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11573/68872&quot;&gt;unnecessary&lt;/a&gt;, however when there's significant difference we may decide on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4900/68872&quot;&gt;providing two tags&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11075/68872&quot;&gt;Exhibit B&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not tagging trilogies&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most glaring example of such, comes from Star Wars, where we have the universe tag (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;) and the individual film tags (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-new-hope&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-new-hope&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-new-hope&lt;/a&gt;). As most people know Star Wars is famously split into 3 trilogies, the Original Trilogy, the Prequel Trilogy and the Sequel Trilogy, however no tags exist for them, and there isn't really a need for such tagging, given it is all one canon.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;That being said, we do have a few trilogy tags, when they exist in separate canons (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nolan-batman-trilogy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;nolan-batman-trilogy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;nolan-batman-trilogy&lt;/a&gt;) or when it's a trilogy of books (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mars-trilogy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mars-trilogy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mars-trilogy&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, leaving it as proposed above (without trilogy tags) seems perfectly acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Appending &quot;series&quot; to [jurassic-park] for the franchise tag (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jurassic-park-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jurassic-park-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jurassic-park-series&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this may not be the most beautiful, we've become quite fond of them:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-terminator-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-terminator-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-terminator-series&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/blade-runner-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;blade-runner-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;blade-runner-series&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/predator-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;predator-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;predator-series&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arkham-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;arkham-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;arkham-series&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/transformers-live-action-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;transformers-live-action-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;transformers-live-action-series&lt;/a&gt; (note this last one hasn't been applied very well, but it was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11823/68872&quot;&gt;meta approved&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The series appendix tends to be favoured against the franchise appendix, although they really are interchangeable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68872" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2018-06-15T05:46:03.603" LastActivityDate="2018-06-15T05:46:03.603" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11927" CreationDate="2018-06-14T14:59:11.973" Score="-1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;We need an overarching franchise tag.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7924/31394&quot;&gt;our policy on individual work vs franchise tags&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If the work in question is part of a larger franchise, also give it that tag &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt;. This makes it easier for people to follow/ignore/etc. one tag and cover the entire franchise. (For example, I believe all questions about MCU movies should be tagged as such, even if the question is localized to one movie, so I only have to follow one tag.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We shouldn't split the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jurassic-park&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jurassic-park&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jurassic-park&lt;/a&gt; tag into individual tags for books, films, etc. which aren't linked together by the system. If we did that, there'd be no easy way for interested people to find a list of all questions about all works in the franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know this franchise, but a quick glance at &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; suggests that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jurassic-park&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jurassic-park&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jurassic-park&lt;/a&gt; might be a good name for the franchise tag - or possibly &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jurassic-park-franchise&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jurassic-park-franchise&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jurassic-park-franchise&lt;/a&gt; to distinguish it from tags specifically for the single book or film entitled &lt;em&gt;Jurassic Park&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What to do with individual books and films within the franchise - whether they deserve their own individual tags, a la &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;, or not, a la &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; - is up to the experts in this particular franchise. But for good bookkeeping we certainly need one overarching tag for all these questions, regardless of what subtags we use within that structure..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-06-14T14:59:11.973" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11930" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11931" CreationDate="2018-06-15T09:17:06.283" Score="22" ViewCount="402" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/189549/58193&quot;&gt;Was Fiona actually cursed to be a human?&lt;/a&gt; in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/shrek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shrek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shrek&lt;/a&gt; tag is currently closed. I can't for the life of me work out why it is closed at the moment, never mind closed as off topic with the reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question does not appear to be about science fiction or fantasy within the scope defined in the help center.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now normally I would just vote to reopen this myself but I have already done so and it has also had quite a history itself so best to discuss first rather than carry on the close/reopen war. Looking at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/189549/timeline&quot;&gt;timeline&lt;/a&gt; it has:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Been closed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Been reopened&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Been closed again&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Left closed in the reopen queue&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So before anyone takes any action on this post can we reach a consensus here, i.e. don't VTRO it yet if you think it should be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So should this question be open or closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2018-06-15T10:10:57.810" LastActivityDate="2018-06-15T12:19:16.257" Title="Why was this Shrek question closed?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11930" CreationDate="2018-06-15T12:19:16.257" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can understand why the question may have been closed as POB in the first round. It wasn't a &quot;great&quot; question and did seem to invite specuation. However, that was fixable by a simple edit (which you did). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It still was not a great question, but there was no reason for the question to be closed as &lt;em&gt;&quot;not about science fiction or fantasy&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. Shrek is clearly an on-topic work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if there was misunderstanding of the OP of what happened in the series, that happens ALL. THE TIME. There are numerous questions where the OP is wrong and is corrected by canon source. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summarily, this question should be reopened and remain open.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2018-06-15T12:19:16.257" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11932" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-06-16T18:09:39.033" Score="3" ViewCount="275" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't been here in a while but I noticed one of my question, namely &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/33794/2217&quot;&gt;Steampunk energy sources: what are they and how are they obtained?&lt;/a&gt;, was closed as off topic with the following reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;This question does not appear to be about science fiction or fantasy within the scope defined in the help center.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first part stumbled me a bit since Steampunk is defined as a subtype of Sci-Fi and sometimes even Fantasy. With the second part I thought that maybe my question, while still actually being about Sci-Fi, was not exactly appropriate for this site because of the wording and/or because of the subject in particular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However there are other questions about the mechanics of something in Sci-Fi which are currently open. So my question is again, why was exactly this question closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And should it be reopened again? I honestly can't see why it doesn't fit this site's scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2217" LastActivityDate="2018-06-16T20:57:42.833" Title="Why was this question about Steampunk closed?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11932" CreationDate="2018-06-16T18:33:16.087" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be frank, I think this was closed &lt;strong&gt;for the wrong reason&lt;/strong&gt;. It's not asking for the real-world scientific basis for steampunk, it's asking for the in-universe basis for energy transfer in steampunk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should instead have been closed as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/closed-questions&quot;&gt;too broad&lt;/a&gt; since there are literally tens of thousands of steampunk stories, films, plays, books and musicals all with mildly different worldbuilding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per the site's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;too broad - if your question could be answered by an entire book, or&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;has many valid answers (but no way to determine which - if any - are&#xA;  correct)&lt;/strong&gt;, then it is probably too broad for our format.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you asked the same question about &lt;em&gt;a specific work&lt;/em&gt;, the question would be worth re-opening but as it stands, it reads like you're expecting us to give you a list of the way this issue is dealt with in thousands or tens of thousands of works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-06-16T20:57:42.833" LastActivityDate="2018-06-16T20:57:42.833" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11934" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-06-18T10:51:39.020" Score="-11" ViewCount="933" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before I start this let me point out the following: This isn't a post to draw hate towards the moderator team, it is to try and reach out to them to get them re-involved with the community again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this previous &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11848/isnt-it-about-time-we-had-a-chat-about-our-moderation-team&quot;&gt;meta discussion&lt;/a&gt; about the moderator team two conclusions appear to have been made:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;&lt;em&gt;Something should be done&lt;/em&gt;&quot; - The majority of the community.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;&lt;em&gt;Nothing should be done, we're fiiiine&lt;/em&gt;&quot; - The moderator team.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I was watching this discussion, and was involved in it, quite heavily and I continued to monitor events after it too. Here is my summary of what appears to have happened during the aftermath.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All of the moderators suddenly emerged from the cracks (make of this what you will)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag handling times were quick and edits/comments and other visible things from the moderator team improved (barely but it's a start)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;~2-3 days later this died down to almost nothing again&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the next few weeks moderator only flags seemed to take ~5 hours on average to handle (based off experience and mainly comment flags so adjust the average accordingly)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag handling times last week seem to have stabilised again at ~2 hours (again based off of the above)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, visible activity by the team has again fallen and we're once again left wondering &quot;Where are the mods?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I wasn't going to point fingers in this post but I think it's important to look at the two moderators who appear to be at either end of the spectrum:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394/rand-althor?tab=activity&quot;&gt;Rand al'Thor&lt;/a&gt;: Is around every day, reviews, edits, comments, is active on meta, is active in chat&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2765/thaddeus-howze?tab=activity&quot;&gt;Thaddeus Howze&lt;/a&gt;: Was last seen May 31&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rand is a good example of what we want a moderator to be doing, visibly moderating the site and leading by example. Thaddeus hasn't been seen at all and is a poor example of someone even interested in the site never mind moderating it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what do I think would be a good step? &lt;strong&gt;More visible moderation activity.&lt;/strong&gt; (Not in any particular order, just how they popped into my mind)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit posts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be active (i.e. log in to the site)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Handle flags and other moderator only business (obviously not exactly visible and should go without saying)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Active on meta&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Active in chat&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Review (not necessarily important but if one is sitting there for a while and the community hasn't handled it why not handle it?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Delete low quality, R/A and spam posts (only &gt;10k users can see this)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of this tells the community you are still alive and kicking and keeps our faith in you. You were elected to moderate and lead this community, please reward us with your continued effort in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2018-06-18T13:03:14.497" LastActivityDate="2018-06-21T10:14:47.240" Title="A request for more visible activity from the moderator team" Tags="|discussion|moderators|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11934" CreationDate="2018-06-18T13:10:33.003" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, since you want to toss this can around again, let's have a look at your claims:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In this previous meta discussion about the moderator team two&#xA;  conclusions appear to have been made:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Something should be done&quot; - The majority of the community. &quot;Nothing&#xA;  should be done, we're fiiiine&quot; - The moderator team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11858/8368&quot;&gt;Kevin's answer&lt;/a&gt; in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11848/8368&quot;&gt;linked post&lt;/a&gt; currently stands at +46/-13 = 33 votes. This means that a total of 59 people voted for it. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11855/8368&quot;&gt;top voted answer&lt;/a&gt; on the other side is at +31/-14 = 17. This means a total of 45 people voted for it. This site has &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/leagues/186/alltime/scifi&quot;&gt;1,260 users with more than 1k rep&lt;/a&gt;. Therefore, the idea that &lt;em&gt;either&lt;/em&gt; position espoused on the linked meta post reflects the &quot;majority of the community&quot; is ludicrous. That the one with fewer votes and fewer positive votes reflects the views of said majority is even more so.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the next few weeks moderator only flags seemed to take ~5 hours on average to handle (based off experience and mainly comment flags so adjust the average accordingly)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, a 5h average handling time is absolutely fine. I am having a very hard time believing that you honestly think a change from 5h to 2h is somehow important or even relevant. Sites that actually do have the sort of mod issues you think SFF has can take &lt;em&gt;days&lt;/em&gt; for flags, not just a few hours. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, you list various things you think a mod should be doing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Edit posts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Be active (i.e. log in to the site)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Comment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Handle flags and other moderator only business (obviously not exactly visible and should go without saying)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Active on meta&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Active in chat&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Review (not necessarily important but if one is sitting there for a while and the community hasn't handled it why not handle it?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;(20k only): Delete low quality, R/A and spam posts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of these, you are of course completely correct that it is a mod's job to handle flags and be active on the site's meta. I will also grant you that it is indeed important for mods to log into the site relatively often so they can keep abreast of whatever is going on. That, however, doesn't mean that mods can't take a holiday and come back after a while. This isn't a job, and even jobs let you take time off!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, of the 5 moderators this site has, all but one have been seen in the past 24 hours and all of them have been seen in the past month. So they're here. And active. Perhaps not as much as you are, but there's nothing wrong with that. Moderating can be surprisingly draining. Especially on the more drama-prone sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, you claim that the average flag handling times on SFF are ~5h. As I said before, if that's true, then the mods are doing a pretty good job! However, you really have no way of knowing. Even if you took the trouble to look at your past N flags and when they were handled and taken the average (and if you did, you should add it to the question to show that you actually have some evidence and aren't just throwing random numbers around), even if you did do that, that would still not indicate anything about the overall handling time. Some flags are much easier to deal with than others. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for meta participation, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;the most active&lt;/a&gt; meta user on the site is a moderator. However, it does indeed look as though the other mods aren't that active on meta. I don't know if that's a problem. The mod team is a &lt;em&gt;team&lt;/em&gt; for a reason. Not everyone needs to do everything, so maybe they leave the meta work to Rand. Still, if you feel that some of the mods aren't getting involved enough in meta discussions, then maybe you could bring that up. Ideally, in a less confrontational manner, and see if the community wants to touch on that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of the other points you make are mod jobs, however. Mods do not need to be active on chat (chat is not what we do here, this is a Q&amp;amp;A site that happens to have some associated chat rooms). Mods do not need to edit, or post. Why should they? Why would you want your moderators to take over the tasks that the community can do? That's the whole idea of &quot;community moderation&quot;. Mods should only step in for things the community cannot do and always allow the community to deal with as much as possible..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, if mods were to start doing most of the things you mention instead of waiting for the community to handle them and only stepping in if the community doesn't, then I would expect people to start complaining about power abuse and petty dictators shaping the site to fit their fancy. And people would be right. It isn't a mod's job to deal with things that can be dealt with by users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8368" LastActivityDate="2018-06-18T13:10:33.003" CommentCount="24" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11934" CreationDate="2018-06-18T21:05:34.547" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of my &lt;em&gt;personal&lt;/em&gt; concerns is that several of our moderators don't &lt;em&gt;seem&lt;/em&gt; to be following one of the main precepts of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/05/18/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;&quot;Theory of Moderation&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (the rules that are supposed to guide how Stack Exchange volunteer moderators comport themselves), specifically point #3&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Whenever possible, &lt;strong&gt;try to leave frequent comments on posts where you’ve taken (or considered taking) a moderator action&lt;/strong&gt;, explaining the reasoning. This is important so that community members can learn the norms of the community and the moderation policies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rand Al'Thor has confirmed that two of the site's mods (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3267/kevin?tab=activity&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2765/thaddeus-howze?tab=activity&quot;&gt;Thaddeus&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; doing moderator things in the background but we can see from their activity logs that &lt;strong&gt;they aren't leaving frequent (or indeed any) comments to explain the actions they've taken.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/79032?m=45228201#45228201&quot;&gt;Rand:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Kevin and Thaddeus aren't so chatty as me. Does that make them less effective as moderators? ... They can still (e.g.) delete posts and comments, &lt;strong&gt;and have been doing so.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that they've haven't posted a single comment to explain their actions for &lt;em&gt;months&lt;/em&gt; is troubling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What can we do about this?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The short answer is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;nothing&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. If the mods say that they're acting appropriately then there's no way of determining if this is true or not. That being said, the (available) evidence is worrying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What can they do about this?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comment occasionally. Remind us that you exist and make sure when you take an action that you also leave a comment to explain what happened and why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-06-19T22:04:34.390" LastActivityDate="2018-06-19T22:04:34.390" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11927" CreationDate="2018-06-19T12:51:27.997" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This previous discussion on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/528/tagging-for-stargate-franchise-related-questions?rq=1&quot;&gt;franchise&lt;/a&gt; tags discourages the use of the suffix franchise, and by extension series, in tag names. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The discussion here, related to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10665/tags-for-the-expanse-book-series-and-tv-series/10667#10667&quot;&gt;The Expanse&lt;/a&gt;, confirms the -year suffix style for additional media and recommends clarity over separating novels from tv series and the franchise as a whole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The policy here, core element of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7923/what-is-the-correct-usage-of-individual-works-tags-vs-author-tags-vs-franchise/7924#7924&quot;&gt;expertise&lt;/a&gt;, suggests being liberal with tags for individual works of fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This English Language question that I posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/450492/series-franchise-and-universe-as-applied-to-creative-works&quot;&gt;franchise and series&lt;/a&gt;, didn't get much attention, but the one detailed response post mentioned several times that the words franchise and series are very context based. By their nature tags often lack context. While the details are available, tags have to be meaningful without the tag description as that is how the commonly appear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on these links I would recommend the following tags&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jurassic-park&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jurassic-park&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jurassic-park&lt;/a&gt; - For the franchise as a whole&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jurassic-park-1990&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jurassic-park-1990&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jurassic-park-1990&lt;/a&gt; - For the book&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jurassic-park-1993&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jurassic-park-1993&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jurassic-park-1993&lt;/a&gt; - The original film&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And so on, with the rest of the tags applying only to individual works.&#xA;There does not seem to be a strong need to have &quot;part franchise&quot; tags. The works are (with the possible exception of the most recent two films) only loosely connected. Any question spanning more than one work, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/184273/in-jurassic-park-world-wouldnt-ducking-behind-a-large-tree-work-for-the-t-rex&quot;&gt;How to hide from a T-rex&lt;/a&gt; could rely on just the franchise tag without any issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Potentially, if Jurassic World has legs as series of films the equivalent franchise/works tags would be;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jurassic-world&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jurassic-world&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jurassic-world&lt;/a&gt; - For the franchise&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jurassic-world-2015&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jurassic-world-2015&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jurassic-world-2015&lt;/a&gt; - For the film of that year &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jurassic-world-fallen-kingdom&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jurassic-world-fallen-kingdom&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jurassic-world-fallen-kingdom&lt;/a&gt; - etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40437" LastEditorUserId="40437" LastEditDate="2018-06-19T14:10:00.957" LastActivityDate="2018-06-19T14:10:00.957" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11938" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-06-19T18:40:48.990" Score="15" ViewCount="242" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Update&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2018/07/highlights-from-2018-2nd-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; is now available on the blog site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Original&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from April 1st 2018 through June 30 2018 (&lt;strong&gt;They don't have to be &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; questions and answers, but it also doesn't matter if you want to self promote your own stuff.&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2018/04/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2018/04/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2018/04/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I will also be linking all blog posts that happened within this quarter. Also the most controversial question of the quarter. Also a sum of all the bounties that were awarded.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also if there was a meta post you feel should be spotlighted those are also acceptable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aMvK1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aMvK1.png&quot; alt=&quot;Han Solo prequel film will mostly be about how he skipped class the day they taught units of measurements. Kessel in 12 milliliters&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="1148" LastEditDate="2018-07-12T16:51:13.413" LastActivityDate="2018-07-12T16:51:13.413" Title="Favorite Questions and Answers from second quarter 2018" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11934" CreationDate="2018-06-19T22:19:32.843" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's worth pointing out here that the most active moderator on this site by far... Isn't a person. It's a &lt;em&gt;group!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over the past year, only about 20% of moderation actions here have been performed by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;the elected moderators&lt;/a&gt;; the vast bulk of the work is being done by folks like you, &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/05/18/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;the overall moderation cost of the system amortized across thousands of teeny-tiny slices of effort contributed by regular, everyday users&lt;/a&gt; - exactly as it should be for a mature site such as this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course... This makes it a lot harder to satisfy a call for action such as the one you raise; more verbosity from one or two or five people with diamonds next to their name doesn't really do much when 4/5ths of the moderation involves someone else. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that's no reason not to try! You can lead by example: four out of the last five questions you voted to close have no comment from you; you could certainly provide a bit more guidance to folks asking off-topic questions, providing a template for others on how to visibly guide new users in the process. Ditto for edits: you're a pretty good editor, and often try to rescue problematic questions with helpful revisions - but rarely do I see you offering specific guidance to the author in the process. Again here, a few notes on what your edit is accomplishing could set an example for other editors, not to mention the author themselves - teach a man to fish &amp;amp; all that...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, this isn't all on you. Anyone reading this would do well to consider how their own small part in moderating the site could be improved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll leave you with some gratuitous numbers...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Appendix: moderation stats&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a breakdown of moderation activity over the past 365 days:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Action                                  Moderators Community¹ &#xA;--------------------------------------- ---------- --------- &#xA;Users suspended²                              11          7  &#xA;Users destroyed                              242          0  &#xA;Users deleted                                 22          0  &#xA;Users contacted                               32          0  &#xA;User banned from review                        1          0  &#xA;Tasks reviewed³: Suggested Edit queue         75       5355  &#xA;Tasks reviewed: Reopen Vote queue             94       2838  &#xA;Tasks reviewed: Low Quality Posts queue      238       8851  &#xA;Tasks reviewed: Late Answer queue             96       3476  &#xA;Tasks reviewed: First Post queue             150       8267  &#xA;Tasks reviewed: Close Votes queue            102       7866  &#xA;Tags merged                                   35          0  &#xA;Tag synonyms proposed                         14          2  &#xA;Tag synonyms created                          15          2  &#xA;Questions unprotected                          1         11  &#xA;Questions reopened                           113        234  &#xA;Questions protected                           56        342  &#xA;Questions migrated                            23          5  &#xA;Questions merged                               6          0  &#xA;Questions flagged⁴                             5       1480  &#xA;Questions closed                             157       2082  &#xA;Question flags handled⁴                      448       1037  &#xA;Posts unlocked                                 5         26  &#xA;Posts undeleted                               54        142  &#xA;Posts locked                                  14        239  &#xA;Posts deleted⁵                              1294       3134  &#xA;Posts bumped                                   0        766  &#xA;Escalations to the CM team                     7          0  &#xA;Comments undeleted                           167          0  &#xA;Comments flagged                               3       4348  &#xA;Comments deleted⁶                           6765       6358  &#xA;Comment flags handled                       3083       1268  &#xA;Answers flagged                               47       7851  &#xA;Answer flags handled                        3254       4644  &#xA;All comments on a post moved to chat          86          0 &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Footnotes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &quot;Community&quot; here refers both to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;the membership of Science Fiction and Fantasy Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;diamonds next to their names&lt;/a&gt;, and to the automated systems otherwise known as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;user #-1&lt;/a&gt; - a system process that operates based on votes, views, reviews and other heuristics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;² The system will suspend users under three circumstances: when a user is recreated after being previously suspended, when a user is recreated after being destroyed for spam or abuse, and when a network-wide suspension is in effect on an account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;³ This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 2 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 2, the goal being to indicate the frequency of moderation actions. This also applies to flags, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁴ Includes close flags (but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; close or reopen votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁵ This ignores a good chunk of deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁶ This includes comments deleted by their own authors (which also account for some number of handled comment flags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2018-06-20T05:15:38.337" LastActivityDate="2018-06-20T05:15:38.337" CommentCount="21" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11934" CreationDate="2018-06-20T02:32:12.057" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I must say that I disagree with most of your &quot;activity&quot; points, for a couple of reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm on record for many years as arguing against excessive moderator activity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Binding votes are bad. Many reasons (rehashed on Meta before).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nothing worse than expressing your point on Meta, only for a mod to come in, and destroy your argument not because you are wrong, but because a diamond publicly opposed you (as clearly seen in voting patterns on the Meta post before and after Moderator post - I have experienced this). While this happened occasionally with regular users posting things too - duh, I have plenty of bad ideas and suck at articulating good ones -  it never had either the frequency OR the magnitude of the effect when a mod does it. I often vote-win Meta contests of ideas against answers by other users, and don't think I ever won one against moderators. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;More objectively, there's only so much effort a moderation team can put in&#xA;(&lt;em&gt;especially when some members are... ahem... how do I put it gently... less engaged?&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, I'd rather see them expend that rare currency on &lt;strong&gt;human exception handling&lt;/strong&gt; (which is moderator's main job description), rather than actions regular community users can easily do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And since there has been a marked improvement in moderation team quality of recent, I'd rather not lead them to be burnt out.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2018-06-21T10:14:47.240" LastActivityDate="2018-06-21T10:14:47.240" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11941" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11942" CreationDate="2018-06-20T10:22:14.800" Score="10" ViewCount="221" Body="&lt;p&gt;The new tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/incredibles-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;incredibles-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;incredibles-2&lt;/a&gt; has been created to tag a few questions about the new film. There is an already existing tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-incredibles-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-incredibles-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-incredibles-2&lt;/a&gt; that follows the naming convention of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-incredibles&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-incredibles&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-incredibles&lt;/a&gt; from the first film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've swapped the tags on the questions to the older, format matching tag, but I don't know how to clean up the duplicate. Tag synonyms is my next privilege, but I don't believe it's appropriate here presumably only one of the tags should exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh and I've just realised the film name doesn't actually keep the &quot;The&quot; convention from the first film. My bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still one of these tags should probably be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40437" LastEditorUserId="62709" LastEditDate="2018-06-22T12:55:31.333" LastActivityDate="2018-06-26T08:01:54.037" Title="How should we tag Incredibles 2?" Tags="|discussion|support|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11941" CreationDate="2018-06-20T10:27:45.067" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main tag has been selected as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/incredibles-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;incredibles-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;incredibles-2&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-incredibles-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-incredibles-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-incredibles-2&lt;/a&gt; as a synonym of it now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film is called &lt;em&gt;&quot;Incredibles 2&quot;&lt;/em&gt; not &lt;em&gt;&quot;The Incredibles 2&quot;&lt;/em&gt; so we should be using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/incredibles-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;incredibles-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;incredibles-2&lt;/a&gt; tag. And for what it's worth I have rolled back your tag edits for this reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NRNoH.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NRNoH.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Incredibles 2 poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for if a synonym is appropriate in this case, I would assume so to avoid cases like these. However, you need 5 score in a tag to do so, therefore it would be best to ask a moderator to do so. I.e. make &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-incredibles-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-incredibles-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-incredibles-2&lt;/a&gt; a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/incredibles-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;incredibles-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;incredibles-2&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A synonym proposal has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/incredibles-2/synonyms&quot;&gt;created&lt;/a&gt;, however, you will need 5 score in the tag to be able to vote on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's worth pointing out as well that &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/279921/345161&quot;&gt;tags autodelete after 24 hours&lt;/a&gt; if they are no longer used on any questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2018-06-26T08:01:54.037" LastActivityDate="2018-06-26T08:01:54.037" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11927" CreationDate="2018-06-20T15:44:43.113" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bear in mind that &lt;em&gt;Jurassic Park&lt;/em&gt; originally was not only a single book, but it also had a sequel named &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_World_(Crichton_novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Lost World&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The simple &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jurassic-park&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jurassic-park&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jurassic-park&lt;/a&gt; seems too generic, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jurassic-park-1990&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jurassic-park-1990&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jurassic-park-1990&lt;/a&gt; would be inaccurate (&lt;em&gt;The Lost World&lt;/em&gt; was published later, in 1995).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest the following scheme:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Books&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jurassic-park-books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jurassic-park-books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jurassic-park-books&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jurassic-park-novels&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jurassic-park-novels&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jurassic-park-novels&lt;/a&gt;. There are only two books, so I don't think that it is necessary to have two separate tags, in addition to one that encomprise them both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Movies&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar to the books, we could have a generic tag named &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jurassic-park-movies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jurassic-park-movies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jurassic-park-movies&lt;/a&gt;, and this time I would also keep the old ones that pertain to every single one. So:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jurassic-park-1993&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jurassic-park-1993&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jurassic-park-1993&lt;/a&gt; (in order not to use the generic &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jurassic-park&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jurassic-park&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jurassic-park&lt;/a&gt; that can lead to mistakes)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-lost-world-jurassic-park&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-lost-world-jurassic-park&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-lost-world-jurassic-park&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jurassic-park-iii&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jurassic-park-iii&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jurassic-park-iii&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jurassic-world&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jurassic-world&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jurassic-world&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jurassic-world-fallen-kingdom&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jurassic-world-fallen-kingdom&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jurassic-world-fallen-kingdom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that there is need to differentiate between the trilogies, a question labelled with the appropriate movie tag is sufficiently categorized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Series&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can probably use the simple &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jurassic-park&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jurassic-park&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jurassic-park&lt;/a&gt; here, or even &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jurassic-park-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jurassic-park-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jurassic-park-series&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jurassic-park-franchise&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jurassic-park-franchise&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jurassic-park-franchise&lt;/a&gt;, whichever more reflects the standard used for other franchises.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83101" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-06-20T16:04:59.113" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11944" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11945" CreationDate="2018-06-20T17:21:57.120" Score="3" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pixar&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pixar&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pixar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been looking for a corollary tag and I can't find one (i.e. we don't have a [miramax] or [paramount] tag), meaning it's probably a &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/08/07/the-death-of-meta-tags/&quot;&gt;meta tag&lt;/a&gt;. Pixar is an animation(production) studio. That's it. Their movies each have their own tags/universes and usage of the tag is inconsistent (22 questions using it but there's far more Pixar related on SFF than that). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So should we keep it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastActivityDate="2018-06-29T02:54:07.600" Title="Do we need the [pixar] tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|burnination|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11944" CreationDate="2018-06-22T12:49:09.930" Score="5" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Yes.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other tags that are just &amp;quot;production studios&amp;quot; are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/disney&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;disney&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;disney&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/studio-ghibli&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;studio-ghibli&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;studio-ghibli&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dark-horse-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dark-horse-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dark-horse-comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/boom-studios&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;boom-studios&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;boom-studios&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously some of those tags have exponentially more questions than the others, but the theme with the tags seems to be when there are a lot of works being produced that share some sort of continuity, shared universe, or general themes that a tag is warranted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pixar falls nicely into this category. They only release computer animated films which some suggest are actually all set in the same universe. More than that, there are also many short  films released by Pixar which while they have titles, many not warrant a tag of their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, the tag fits within our tagging structure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-06-22T12:49:09.930" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11946" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11949" CreationDate="2018-06-24T13:55:06.060" Score="10" ViewCount="495" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, my answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/188683/how-was-this-character-able-to-recover-from-a-mortal-wound&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; was deleted by the community:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Tony Stark was stabbed mortally, Doctor Strange made a bargain with Thanos. He offered Thanos the Time Stone in exchange of life of Tony. So, it was actually Thanos who protected Tony Stark from a mortal wound leaving him with a minor injury which he could heal with a spray.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mSsaI.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mSsaI.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/trusted-user&quot;&gt;privilege page&lt;/a&gt; for Trusted User (the tier where you gain the privilege to delete things):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Deleting answers&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;When should I vote to delete an answer?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may vote to delete answers in the following cases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer is extremely low quality: There is little to no scope for improvement&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer doesn't answer the question; it may be a comment or a separate question altogether.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer is not much more than a link to another page. Link only answers are not allowed on Stack Exchange&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer is by no means:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;a low quality answer. It is perfectly readable with proper spelling and grammar and punctuations. It doesn't have pornographic or bigotry content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;not an answer. It isn't a spam or comment or a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;a link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe this feature exists mainly to clean up posts from new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Talking about answer correctedness (which is subjective most of the time; according to me, my answer is correct), isn't down voting tool designed just for that? If you don't agree with an answer, go ahead to downvote it. If you are an asker, don't accept it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This also isn't consistent. For example, these famous questions have several highly upvoted answers which don't agree with each other:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/102822/could-i-fake-death-to-stop-being-force-choked&quot;&gt;Could I fake death to stop being Force-choked?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4056/are-all-stormtroopers-as-poor-soldiers-as-the-ones-in-the-movies&quot;&gt;Are all stormtroopers as poor soldiers as the ones in the movies?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/59582/how-did-dumbledore-or-anyone-know-lily-had-sacrificed-herself-for-harry&quot;&gt;How did Dumbledore, or anyone, know Lily had sacrificed herself for Harry?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/113497/if-luke-skywalker-didn-t-want-to-be-found-why-did-he-leave-a-map&quot;&gt;If Luke Skywalker didn’t want to be found, why did he leave a map?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we start deleting incorrect answers? And, who will decide what's incorrect? If it's asker, should we start deleting answers which don't agree with the accepted answer? All this will ruin the site. There's a reason correctness is handled with checkmark, not &amp;quot;delete other&amp;quot; button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We had a similar consensus before:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3293/is-deleting-really-wrong-answers-ok-according-to-the-rules&quot;&gt;Is deleting really wrong answers OK according to the rules?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, it's about &amp;quot;really wrong answers&amp;quot;. The examples are clear. It's a trivia that Nagini wasn't present in the first Harry Potter book. But, my deleted answer here can't be classified as &amp;quot;Really Wrong Answer&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-06-26T15:28:59.807" Title="Please, clarify Answer Deletion privilege clauses" Tags="|discussion|support|deleted-answers|vote-to-delete|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="15" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11946" CreationDate="2018-06-24T17:01:42.600" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't see anything in that answer that would qualify for deletion. It's not spam, it's clearly an answer to the question being asked, and there's nothing rude or offensive in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've vote to undelete and so have enough others -- it's been undeleted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people want to critique the quality, that's what comments and downvotes are for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the rest of the meta question -- we've gone over this conversation so many times I can't even read it again. If you think you are being personally targetted by someone on this site, contact the moderators. If you think the moderators are doing a poor job, contact the CMs. If you think the CMs are doing a poor job, this is the wrong site for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2018-06-24T17:01:42.600" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11946" CreationDate="2018-06-26T15:12:40.013" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not familiar with the film in question but &lt;strong&gt;as far as I can tell the answer should not be subject to deletion under the guidelines for the vote to delete privilege&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to Meta.SE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An answer that is not an answer should be deleted (should be a comment, doesn't answer the question etc...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers that are answers but are factually wrong or are actively bad (say promote SQL Injection) should get downvoted, but not deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/163733/299342&quot;&gt;Oded (former Stack Exchange employee)&lt;/a&gt;, answering &amp;quot;When should I delete an answer?&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same post is cited elsewhere on Meta.SE, e.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;What are the criteria for deletion?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For answers, any post that is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/163733/148099&quot;&gt;not an answer&lt;/a&gt; (should be a comment, doesn't answer the question, etc.) should be deleted. Answers that are wrong or that dispense poor advice &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/264294/1&quot;&gt;should be downvoted, not deleted&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/5222/299342&quot;&gt;Community Wiki answer to &amp;quot;How does deleting work? What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean? What are the criteria for deletion?&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These guidelines apply to posts in the low quality posts review queue as well. Meta.SE has guidelines on how to review low quality posts (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/141857/299342&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/180029/299342&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). In general, posts which attempt to answer the question -- even if they are low quality (e.g. unsourced) -- should not be deleted. Only posts which are &lt;em&gt;extremely&lt;/em&gt; low quality (i.e. offer absolutely nothing of value to the site, are gibberish, don't attempt to answer the question, etc.) should be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The guidelines given on Meta.SE apply here on Science Fiction and Fantasy as well. We have previously discussed &amp;quot;When should 20kers vote to delete an answer?&amp;quot; and the answer to that question (which currently has a +9/-1 score) says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Use your best judgment&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't delete in these cases, tho&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rude or Spam&lt;/strong&gt; - Flag these. When enough people flag them Mods are notified for further action. If 20k users just delete them... nothing&#xA;else happens.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meh answers&lt;/strong&gt; - In baseball, a tie goes to the runner. In answers, ties should go to the poster. If you can't come up with a good reason&#xA;for deletion &lt;em&gt;don't do it&lt;/em&gt;. Don't stretch to delete. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/287563/youre-doing-it-wrong-a-plea-for-sanity-in-the-low-quality-posts-queue&quot;&gt;Downvote bad&#xA;answers and&#xA;comment&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10977/31936&quot;&gt;Machavity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That question is linked to &amp;quot;Is deleting really wrong answers OK according to the rules?&amp;quot; and all the positively scored answers instruct or recommend not to delete such answers. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/3294/1&quot;&gt;The only answer which suggests that there's no &amp;quot;issue&amp;quot; with deleting such an answer&lt;/a&gt; currently has a score of -2 and even it notes that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that outright deletion is a no-no whereas arranging a downvote storm is perfectly acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason we do not delete wrong answers is that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A wrong answer, downvoted, also conveys information. It tells you, the visitor: &lt;em&gt;don't do this&lt;/em&gt;. This answer is wrong, and if you are lucky the comments tell you &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it is wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we deleted such answers, someone else might make the same mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So instead, we (try to) only delete answers that are not answers (when they are new questions, or comments, or gibberish), or spam, or offensive, etc. We don't delete answers merely because they are incorrect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/240429/299342&quot;&gt;Martijn Pieters&lt;/a&gt;, answering &amp;quot;Why is an answer that is so bad it is shown faded out kept around? Why not delete it?&amp;quot;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taken together, these sources (as well as the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/trusted-user&quot;&gt;Trusted User privilege help page&lt;/a&gt;) indicate that &lt;strong&gt;there is some judgment required as to what constitutes an &amp;quot;extremely low quality&amp;quot; post (which is subject to deletion) as opposed to merely a low quality post (which should be downvoted, commented on, and/or edited)&lt;/strong&gt;. The reason your post was judged to be &amp;quot;extremely low quality&amp;quot; by some users seems to be due to the lack of sources (not that it was wrong), which would be a valid reason to vote to delete (though I disagree with that judgment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on some of the comments (now deleted) it is also possible that at least some users voted to delete based on personal dislike of you and/or because you are a high reputation user who should presumably know how to post a high quality answer. I don't know if that's actually the case, but just to remind everyone: &lt;strong&gt;Vote for the post, not the user.&lt;/strong&gt; That's true whether you're voting up or down, voting to close, voting to delete, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-06-26T15:28:59.807" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11944" CreationDate="2018-06-29T02:54:07.600" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't do production studio tags ordinarily, because they don't serve a strong purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags pointed out in @Skooba's answer are not tags because they're &quot;production studios&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 4 that belong are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dark-horse-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dark-horse-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dark-horse-comics&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/boom-studios&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;boom-studios&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;boom-studios&lt;/a&gt; (and also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/image-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;image-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;image-comics&lt;/a&gt; and some others), because they're specifying a distinct set or sets of canon and/or shared universes. They're &lt;em&gt;franchise&lt;/em&gt; tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, this means that the tags aren't being used &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; because of who created the content. Similarly to how &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7923/what-is-the-correct-usage-of-individual-works-tags-vs-author-tags-vs-franchise&quot;&gt;we don't use author tags unless the question is about the &lt;em&gt;author&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pixar&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pixar&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pixar&lt;/a&gt; should only be used on questions &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; Pixar, not Pixar films. On the same note, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/disney&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;disney&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;disney&lt;/a&gt; needs to be heavily cleaned up (it's not used very well or consistently at all right now), and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/studio-ghibli&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;studio-ghibli&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;studio-ghibli&lt;/a&gt; only really belongs on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/133748/is-eating-in-miyazaki-films-tied-to-japanese-culture&quot;&gt;one question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make it clearer, here's a list of major production and publishing houses that make plenty of SFF works but we &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; have tags for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;20th Century Fox&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Buena Vista&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Warner Bros.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sony / Columbia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Paramount&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;New Line Cinema&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tor&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Random House&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may be arguments that Disney and Pixar movies have enough hidden references to other films they make, that they're in the same universe, as many fan theories speculate, but there's not really any shared &lt;em&gt;story&lt;/em&gt; in those examples, while the franchise tags above have great number of works that often interact with one another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2018-06-29T02:54:07.600" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11951" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-06-29T07:00:36.113" Score="25" ViewCount="319" Body="&lt;p&gt;Harlan Ellison, author of many SFF works, passed away June 27, 2018, at the age of 84.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He had written a multitude of short stories and novels, as well as TV episodes such as &quot;The City on the Edge of Forever&quot; from &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For a brief time, I was here; and, for a brief time, I mattered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2018-06-29T22:25:20.800" Title="RIP Harlan Ellison" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11951" CreationDate="2018-06-29T19:15:55.580" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Harlan Ellison's fantastic writing will be greatly missed!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If &lt;em&gt;Babylon 5&lt;/em&gt; is to be believed, we can still look forward to Harlan Ellison publishing his autobiography: &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://babylon5.wikia.com/wiki/Working_Without_a_Net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Working Without a Net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KIdEi.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KIdEi.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Harlan Ellison autobiography&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The book is Harlan's autobiography, which he plans to write around&#xA;  the year 2000, and yes, that's his photo. (He borrowed the prop when we&#xA;  were finished and casually carried it with him to a few places, just to&#xA;  make people nuts thinking there was a book out they'd missed....)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;J. Michael Straczynski on Usenet, 9/3/1994 1:31:00 PM&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13217" LastEditorUserId="13217" LastEditDate="2018-06-29T20:04:39.553" LastActivityDate="2018-06-29T20:04:39.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11951" CreationDate="2018-06-29T22:25:20.800" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;A little something I threw together..........&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lQwSL.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lQwSL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86059" LastActivityDate="2018-06-29T22:25:20.800" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11938" CreationDate="2018-07-02T08:04:22.197" Score="2" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Questions:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/186172/54887&quot;&gt;Did Varys set Tyrion up?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/66948/paul&quot;&gt;Paul.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/189126/54887&quot;&gt;Which Wonders and Wonders Made by Man has Tyrion visited?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/58193/thelethalcarrot&quot;&gt;TheLethalCarrot.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/186812/54887&quot;&gt;Was it really pork?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/66948/paul&quot;&gt;Paul.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Answers:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/58193/thelethalcarrot&quot;&gt;TheLethalCarrot's&lt;/a&gt; answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/185432/54887&quot;&gt;Is Cotter Pyke the only illiterate in high ranks?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/86196/jad&quot;&gt;JAD's&lt;/a&gt; answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/189130/54887&quot;&gt;Which wonders and wonders made by man has Tyrion visited?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/58193/thelethalcarrot&quot;&gt;TheLethalCarrot's&lt;/a&gt; answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/186175/54887&quot;&gt;Did Varys set Tyrion up?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-07-02T08:04:22.197" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11955" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-02T09:13:48.393" Score="15" ViewCount="489" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've had two questions tagged &lt;em&gt;Peanuts&lt;/em&gt; both with well received questions and answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/180834/in-peanuts-do-the-human-characters-know-what-snoopys-thinking&quot;&gt;In Peanuts, do the human characters know what Snoopy&amp;#39;s thinking?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/190458/how-does-snoopy-stay-balanced-on-top-of-his-doghouse-shouldnt-he-fall-down&quot;&gt;How does Snoopy stay balanced on top of his doghouse? Shouldn&amp;#39;t he fall down?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second of the two was closed as off-topic due to not being about SFF, was left closed in the re-open queue but is currently sat in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/reopen/128966&quot;&gt;re-open queue again&lt;/a&gt;. The first was deemed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/180834/in-peanuts-do-the-human-characters-know-what-snoopys-thinking#comment488970_180834&quot;&gt;on-topic in some of the comments&lt;/a&gt; but has entered the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/close/128965&quot;&gt;close vote queue&lt;/a&gt; recently and unanimously been left open.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a similar vein to this meta question:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10794/is-calvin-and-hobbes-on-topic&quot;&gt;Is Calvin and Hobbes on topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any information to suggest that the &lt;em&gt;Peanuts&lt;/em&gt; comics would be on-topic or should the questions be redirected to &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Literature&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Related reading:&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10794/is-calvin-and-hobbes-on-topic&quot;&gt;Is Calvin and Hobbes on topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11522/is-the-rats-of-nimh-series-on-topic&quot;&gt;Is &amp;quot;The Rats of NIMH&amp;quot; series on topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/are-works-that-arent-sf-per-se-but-have-occasional-sfnal-elements-on-topic-e&quot;&gt;Are works that aren&amp;#39;t SF per se, but have occasional SFnal elements on-topic? (e.g. spy movies)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5117/are-anthropomorphic-animals-by-themselves-enough-to-deem-a-work-fantasy&quot;&gt;Are anthropomorphic animals by themselves enough to deem a work fantasy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68872" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2018-07-02T10:17:47.633" LastActivityDate="2018-07-03T18:29:36.213" Title="Are the Peanuts comics on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11957" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11958" CreationDate="2018-07-02T11:11:09.327" Score="5" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes series (of books, movies, comics, etc.)  can be very long or having some obscure numbering, crossovers, prequels, authors and so on ...  but in the end,  the order of publication will always be the most suggested. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is this really relevant to have this type of questions ? &#xA;Is the tag &quot;suggested-order&quot; really necessary ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101769" LastEditorUserId="101769" LastEditDate="2018-07-03T00:32:57.363" LastActivityDate="2018-07-03T00:32:57.363" Title="Are the &quot;suggested-order&quot; questions relevant if everytime the chronological order of publication seems to be the best solution?" Tags="|discussion|tags|suggested-order|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11957" CreationDate="2018-07-02T11:25:42.937" Score="19" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Yes they are relevant&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Highly viewed and voted&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions are by far among the top questions and answers for votes and views. They bring a lot of traffic to the site so even if the answers &amp;quot;are always the same&amp;quot; (more on this later) the amount of traffic they bring in outweighs any downside in terms of what the answers content is. @Rand mentions more on this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11910/58193&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The answers aren't always &amp;quot;publication order&amp;quot;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes this is by far the most common suggestion along with in universe chronological order but that doesn't mean that's the only answer. Taking the top 5 questions in the tag by votes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/1520/58193&quot;&gt;In what order should the Star Wars movies be watched?&lt;/a&gt; - Top answer is neither chronological nor publication order.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/2335/58193&quot;&gt;What order should Asimov&amp;#39;s Foundation series be read in?&lt;/a&gt; - Top answer appears to give the chronological order but this order has come from the author himself.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/4649/58193&quot;&gt;Is there an official Marvel Cinematic Universe viewing order?&lt;/a&gt; - Top answer is the chronological order.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/125/58193&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the recommended reading order of the Ender Wiggin books?&lt;/a&gt; - Top answer is the publishing order.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/2339/58193&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the best order to read HP Lovecraft&amp;#39;s novels?&lt;/a&gt; - Top answer actually suggests no order is really needed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The people want them&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was asked about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/282/58193&quot;&gt;initially&lt;/a&gt; and consensus was that these questions are fine. There was then a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/463/58193&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; on what tag to use for all different media and no one raised any concerns over whether or not these were on topic. Lastly, this was brought up back in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7396/58193&quot;&gt;2015&lt;/a&gt; and I would say that the answer there still holds true of today though I would likely be a bit more lenient on closing them as opinion based than that answer appears to suggest. To quote the conclusion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To paraphrase a much better writer than I: objective and subjective have not changed since yesterday, nor are they one thing among &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt; and another among other tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is asking for some objective criteria, as in my first example, then that sounds like a fine question to me; if they aren't, then they should be closed as appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Legend&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Publication order: The order in which the works were published.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chronological order: The order in which the works take place in universe.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Top answer: The top answer by votes on the question; not necessarily the accepted answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-07-02T13:00:38.553" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11955" CreationDate="2018-07-02T13:30:45.610" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both Science Fiction and Fantasy are broad categories but I fail to see how Peanuts fits into either of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many cartoon tropes (characters only falling after noticing they've run into thin air, stepping off falling objects at the last second without injury, drawing then opening doors) where the normal laws of nature do not apply. Perhaps a more accurate characterization would be surrealist. They reflect the reality that the cartoonist can make anything happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not going to attempt to define Fantasy but it seems to me that a more permanent and sustaining set of features need to exist. The example of the 'larger on the inside' kennel is just a throwaway joke. It will not be repeated or referred to again. Would you claim that Peanuts also belongs in History because Snoopy imagines himself as the Red Baron?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11779" LastActivityDate="2018-07-02T13:30:45.610" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11955" CreationDate="2018-07-02T13:45:21.040" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The linked meta about on-topic-ness in general has this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If there is a minor supernatural element (e.g. a fortune teller's prediction comes true, or someone sees a ghost, or a story for children involving anthropomorphic animals) but it's just a throwaway plot element that's not particularly relevant to the question, it's off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, Snoopy balancing on his doghouse fits in this category completely. It's never part of the plot that he sleeps or sits on his doghouse. Contrast that with a question about Snoopy's &quot;Sopwith Camel&quot; fantasies. A question like, &quot;Where did Snoopy's helmet and goggles come from?&quot; seems a lot closer to on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46607" LastEditorUserId="46607" LastEditDate="2018-07-02T14:36:07.763" LastActivityDate="2018-07-02T14:36:07.763" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11955" CreationDate="2018-07-02T15:07:15.007" Score="-6" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Yes, for SFF-nal subjects&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Charlie Brown is mostly off-topic (the character is a normal child with various normal issues that are not SFF-nal), Snoopy is arguably fantasy. Consider&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Snoopy understands human speech, and not in a rote command (&amp;quot;Want to go outside?&amp;quot;) way (we see his thoughts in balloons, where he is clearly comprehending what is said) and he can type on a typewriter in response&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BPIxK.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BPIxK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Snoopy acts like a human in numerous circumstances. Here, Snoopy is engaged in some sort of campaign for votes. He's clearly interacting with the characters speaking to him and him responding as a person would (without talking himself)&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZjDy3.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZjDy3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both of these are SFF-nal&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-07-02T15:43:31.543" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11955" CreationDate="2018-07-02T15:10:51.740" Score="-7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;It depends which strips.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These strips, yes:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PUJst.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PUJst.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;![enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BytZr.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BytZr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the mundane strips, I would say not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In regards to the questions in the question, they are on topic, as they are based on scifi elements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89771" LastEditorUserId="89771" LastEditDate="2018-07-02T17:16:05.800" LastActivityDate="2018-07-02T17:16:05.800" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11955" CreationDate="2018-07-02T17:03:59.647" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reacting specifically to the &quot;How does Snoopy sleep on the peak of his doghouse's roof?&quot; could have been venturing into the realm of asking for a real scientific answer to a SFF-nal element of a story; however, given the answer Schulz proposed &amp;mdash; his floppy ears keep him on the roof &amp;mdash; I'd have to say it fits. If the OP pressed for a more realistic answer, or if Schulz hadn't provided that solution, that'd be a different issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't considered Charlie Brown being knocked out of his clothes as an SFF-nal element of the strip, even though it's not realistic; it's a way of communicating what happens without showing the entire baseball field. Even occasional references to helping him find his clothes afterwards wouldn't change my opinion. The one thing that would, would be a comment from the creator indicating it wasn't intended as shorthand (as I'm stating), but as a fantastic element of the script the he was deliberately playing with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I'd guess I'd say that the intent of the author should help determine the  nature of the strip's elements. If it's merely intended to be exaggeration to communicate, it's not really SFF-nal; if it's expressly intended to be a fantastic element of the work, it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80867" LastEditorUserId="80867" LastEditDate="2018-07-03T18:29:36.213" LastActivityDate="2018-07-03T18:29:36.213" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11964" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11979" CreationDate="2018-07-02T19:18:14.563" Score="-2" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like for this question to be reopened:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/190458/how-does-snoopy-stay-balanced-on-top-of-his-doghouse-shouldnt-he-fall-down&quot;&gt;How does Snoopy stay balanced on top of his doghouse? Shouldn&amp;#39;t he fall down?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the meta seems to have concluded that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11955/are-the-peanuts-comics-on-topic?cb=1&quot;&gt;Peanuts are off-topic&lt;/a&gt; (a conclusion with which I agree) I remain unsure why my specific question is off-topic, seeing that Snoopy's doghouse is clearly scifi. Any cursory glance at later Peanuts comics confirms this. I am also unsure why Peanuts should be treated differently than Calvin and Hobbes in this regard (which is also not mainly scifi, yet questions with very light scifi bias - Hobbes - are allowed to remain open.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89771" LastEditorUserId="89771" LastEditDate="2018-07-02T19:22:24.810" LastActivityDate="2018-07-06T19:04:02.010" Title="If a certain work is found to be off topic, are questions on Sci-Fi elements also off topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|closing-questions|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11965" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11966" CreationDate="2018-07-03T09:09:42.243" Score="0" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_expanded_universe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; expanded universe&lt;/a&gt; is currently &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-eu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-eu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-eu&lt;/a&gt;. Since we can use longer tag names for quite a while now, should we rename that to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-expanded-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-expanded-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-expanded-universe&lt;/a&gt; and use the old tag as a synonym?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, would a mod please be so kind?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been discussed as part of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11589/19561&quot;&gt;a general proposal for [star-trek-*] tags&lt;/a&gt;, but no decision has been made as far as I can see. That's why I've narrowed my request down to just one tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Note that the proper name is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_expanded_universe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;expanded&lt;/strong&gt; universe&lt;/a&gt; instead of &lt;em&gt;extended&lt;/em&gt; universe.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2018-07-03T10:47:40.163" LastActivityDate="2018-07-03T10:47:40.163" Title="Should [star-trek-eu] be renamed [star-trek-expanded-universe]?" Tags="|discussion|support|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ClosedDate="2018-07-03T11:55:49.680" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11965" CreationDate="2018-07-03T09:09:42.243" Score="2" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Make it so.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rename the current tag to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-expanded-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-expanded-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-expanded-universe&lt;/a&gt; and make &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-eu&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-eu&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-eu&lt;/a&gt; a synonym.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2018-07-03T09:09:42.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11967" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-03T09:54:49.567" Score="-1" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag for The Doctor from &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: Voyager&lt;/em&gt;, officially the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doctor_(Star_Trek:_Voyager)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Emergency Medical Hologram Mark I&lt;/a&gt;, is currently &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-emh&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-emh&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-emh&lt;/a&gt;. Since we can use longer tag names for quite a while now, should we rename that to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/emergency-medical-hologram&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;emergency-medical-hologram&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;emergency-medical-hologram&lt;/a&gt; and use the old tag as a synonym?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, would a mod please be so kind?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2018-07-03T09:54:49.567" Title="Should [star-trek-emh] be renamed [emergency-medical-hologram]?" Tags="|discussion|support|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11967" CreationDate="2018-07-03T09:54:49.567" Score="-1" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Make it so.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rename the current tag to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/emergency-medical-hologram&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;emergency-medical-hologram&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;emergency-medical-hologram&lt;/a&gt; and make &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-emh&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-emh&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-emh&lt;/a&gt; a synonym.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-doctor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-doctor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-doctor&lt;/a&gt; as a synonym is not a good idea, since that's a common name for Dr. Who.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;We &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; add &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-doctor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-doctor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-doctor&lt;/a&gt;, but that might cause confusion with dr. Leonard &quot;Bones&quot; McCoy from the Original Series of &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2018-07-03T09:54:49.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11970" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2018-07-03T10:27:13.310" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2018-07-03T10:27:13.310" LastActivityDate="2018-07-03T10:27:13.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11971" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2018-07-03T10:27:13.310" Score="0" Body="The [tag-blacklist-request] tag is to be used for discussion about deleting and removing tags." OwnerUserId="90310" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2018-07-03T11:22:01.747" LastActivityDate="2018-07-03T11:22:01.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11972" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11973" CreationDate="2018-07-03T18:22:23.353" Score="17" ViewCount="324" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that a couple of my comments on a question have been removed. Up until now I thought this site was pretty laid back with comments. Has that changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FWIW the comments were on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/190483/143&quot;&gt;this question saying how great the story sounded&lt;/a&gt;. So, nothing I can't live without but it seems a shame when my only goal was to encourage a new contributor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2018-07-04T14:29:58.770" Title="Has the policy on comments changed?" Tags="|discussion|comments|policy|new-users|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11972" CreationDate="2018-07-03T18:32:53.680" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not so much that the policy has changed, it's that certain users have been aggressively flagging comments lately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the comments that were flagged on the linked question included:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It sounds fantastic!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I remember reading a short story online about this but I can't remember what it was called or where it was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I wanna read this, identify please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;help center's information on comments&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Comments are not recommended for any of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Compliments which do not add new information (&quot;+1, great answer!&quot;); instead, up-vote it and pay it forward;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since those comments don't add any new information and were flagged, I deleted them in accordance with the help center's guidance on commenting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastActivityDate="2018-07-03T18:32:53.680" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11972" CreationDate="2018-07-04T14:18:54.083" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Additionally, while the policy itself hasn't changed, there was &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/311737/lets-hold-language-in-comments-to-the-same-standard-as-posts?cb=1&quot;&gt;a meta post about the need to apply as high of standards to comments as to posts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;While comments are treated differently than standard posts when it comes to their expected life span, the tone and civility of comments should be no different than what we expect in regular posts.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admittedly, this is a different area of exploration than your comments, in that they're exploring how negative comments (&quot;Did you even try Googling it?&quot; &quot;We don't do your homework here&quot; &quot;Die in a fire, n00b&quot;) have been shown to discourage not only the original querents, but also people visiting anonymously, but having a meta post that was Featured, and therefore showed up on the sidebar for several days, with a title of &quot;&lt;em&gt;Let's hold language in comments to the same standard as posts&lt;/em&gt;&quot; is bound to make an impact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="23243" LastEditDate="2018-07-04T14:29:58.770" LastActivityDate="2018-07-04T14:29:58.770" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11975" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-05T09:05:49.830" Score="16" ViewCount="284" Body="&lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reminder&lt;/strong&gt;: Please don't VTRO or bring the &quot;meta effect&quot; onto the linked question until a consensus is reached about the true scope of fandom information.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Help Center &gt; Asking&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h1&gt;What topics can I ask about here?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange is for questions targeted towards science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts. This includes questions about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Plot, character, or setting explanations &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Historical or societal context of a work &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Behind-the-scenes &lt;strong&gt;and fandom information&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Story identification &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Franchise/series reading or viewing order&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, fandom information is clearly on topic but can we clarify the scope of it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question has mainly come about after I saw &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/190304/58193&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; (currently closed), the discussion in its comments and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/190304/timeline&quot;&gt;its timeline&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close review: Leave Open x 3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close review: Leave Open x 3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close review: Close × 2, Leave Open × 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a read of the question I would probably agree it's off topic. It's not related to the work apart from a group of friends, who all are/were a part of the same show, going to a wedding. However, should it actually be on topic? Where do we draw the line with fandom information?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to clarify my question is the general title &quot;What is the scope of fandom information?&quot; I am just using the linked question as a recent example of something that was clearly dividing the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2018-07-05T14:00:14.760" LastActivityDate="2018-07-05T16:21:06.357" Title="What is the scope of fandom information?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11975" CreationDate="2018-07-05T14:18:57.027" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scope of SFF Stack Exchange is set out on the main tour page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts. It's built and run by you as part of the Stack Exchange network of Q&amp;amp;A sites. With your help, we're working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about science fiction or fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the context of this question, the key phrase is &quot;about science fiction or fantasy&quot;. This means Questions about motivation, influences and writing/acting styles would on topic. Questions about what they do in their personal lives, unless it can be specifically linked to a work of SF&amp;amp;F, should be off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To provide examples;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&quot;Did being a climber change the way Isaac Hempstead Wright played Bran Stark&quot; - On Topic&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&quot;Does Isaac Hempstead Wright go to this fab nightclub in Hackney&quot; - Off Topic&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see any reason for fandom questions to have a different on-topic scope than questions about authors. The scope of author questions came up previously; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11125/why-are-these-joke-question-answer-allowed&quot;&gt;pulled from a comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40437" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2018-07-05T16:21:06.357" LastActivityDate="2018-07-05T16:21:06.357" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11977" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11978" CreationDate="2018-07-05T15:04:18.680" Score="2" ViewCount="243" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have not posted anything for a long time, but I really enjoy reading questions and answers, regardless of the topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/58193/thelethalcarrot&quot;&gt;TheLethalCarrot&lt;/a&gt; is extremely active, commenting on/editing (if I'm not mistaken) every single new post, either the question or answer. (All very helpful edits and comments I'm sure)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm just wondering, if there is a limit to how many posts a user can edit or comment on in a given period of time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hlv2G.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hlv2G.png&quot; alt=&quot;Typos... typos everywhere!!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36068" LastEditorUserId="36068" LastEditDate="2018-07-11T09:57:27.547" LastActivityDate="2018-07-11T09:57:27.547" Title="Is there a limit to how often or how many posts a user can comment on or edit in a given period of time?" Tags="|discussion|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11977" CreationDate="2018-07-05T15:26:30.740" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There isn't really. As long as all of the comments are helpful and not too chatty, and otherwise in keeping with the purpose of comments, we don't &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to limit it. New helpful comments are &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; encouraged. Why would we want to limit how helpful a user can be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for editing, the system allows users with 2,000+ reputation to edit as often as they want. Users with less than this amount of reputation can submit suggested edits, and have up to 5 pending from that user at a time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Site policy is also to have, roughly, no more than 5 of the 15 most recently active questions to have been edited by a single user, although exceptions are made for when e.g. the community is doing a mass cleanup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2018-07-05T15:38:06.663" LastActivityDate="2018-07-05T15:38:06.663" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11964" CreationDate="2018-07-06T19:04:02.010" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the past, we've exempted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5117/36526&quot;&gt;talking animals&lt;/a&gt; from topicality.  &lt;strong&gt;I propose we extend that to all cartoon physics, unless otherwise on-topic.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, all of the following questions would be off-topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can the characters in &lt;em&gt;Spongebob&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/4J9BdL4A6oY?t=8s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;light a fire underwater&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can the &lt;em&gt;Loony Tunes&lt;/em&gt; characters survive &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/h1rXcm2mbKI?t=1m45s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the exploding piano joke&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How does Charlie Brown get knocked out of his clothes when he gets hit by a baseball?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Where do [numerous characters] keep their &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammerspace&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;giant hammers and other random items&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_Corporation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Acme Corporation&lt;/a&gt; still in business, given that its products don't work?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, these incidents are contrary to real-world physics, but that doesn't make them fantastical.  They are included for humor value, and do not have some deeper meaning that we can usefully analyze.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, questions involving (say) &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_the_Martian&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Marvin the Martian&lt;/a&gt; or in a clearly SFFnal setting would be on-topic.  For judging the topicality of individual elements, it's difficult to formulate a concrete test, but here are some considerations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is the element a one-off joke, or an ongoing part of the story?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are the characters surprised by the element?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is the element relevant to the plot?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does the story go to any effort to explain the element, or to suggest that it has an explanation?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As a last resort, if the element fails all of the other tests, does it at least resemble or conform to any traditional SFF genre convention (e.g. aliens with ray guns and UFOs, wizards with wands and pointy hats, etc.)?  This may seem an arbitrary loophole, but conventions are shorthand.  They allow authors to &quot;skip over&quot; the above steps, while still assuring the audience that &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/there_is_no_there_there&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;there's a &lt;em&gt;there&lt;/em&gt; there&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not an exhaustive list of criteria, nor does passing one of these tests imply that a question is automatically on-topic.  Close-voters are expected to use common sense and if necessary to take individual questions to meta for more specific discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, of course, the material question here is whether Snoopy's doghouse qualifies as &quot;cartoon physics.&quot;  Based on past meta voting patterns and my own understanding of &lt;em&gt;Peanuts&lt;/em&gt;, I lean towards &quot;yes.&quot;  Although it does recur regularly throughout the comic, it is never seriously suggested that this element needs any explanation (other than the occasional &lt;a href=&quot;https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AsideGlance&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;aside glance&lt;/a&gt;, which don't really count because those are fourth-wall gags rather than part of the plot), nor indeed are we ever given one.  We can contrast that with &lt;em&gt;Calvin and Hobbes&lt;/em&gt;, which &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10794/36526&quot;&gt;regularly takes the story to &quot;traditionally&quot; SFFnal settings&lt;/a&gt; and so is on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastActivityDate="2018-07-06T19:04:02.010" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11980" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-07T01:04:51.467" Score="25" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comics artist Steve Ditko has sadly passed away. He began work as a comic inker in 1953 alongside Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, and worked for both Marvel Comics and DC Comics before retiring from mainstream comics in 1998.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ditko is best known for being co-creator of Marvel characters Spider-Man and Dr. Strange. Although his collaborator Stan Lee is more well-known, modern comics would not be what it is without Ditko's influence. He will truly be missed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7OaGW.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7OaGW.png&quot; alt=&quot;Self-portrait of Steve Ditko, 1965&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ditkoselfportrait.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Self-portrait of Steve Ditko, 1965&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13217" LastActivityDate="2018-07-07T01:04:51.467" Title="RIP Steve Ditko, co-creator of Spider-Man and Dr. Strange" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11981" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-09T03:59:30.523" Score="-4" ViewCount="577" Body="&lt;p&gt;As many of you can guess from the title, the mood of this question is frustration and desperation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a background, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/190785/why-did-nazgul-spare-the-other-hobbits-at-weathertop&quot;&gt;my question&lt;/a&gt; on why Nazgûl did not kill other hobbits on Weathertop is marked duplicate with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/161297/why-did-the-nazg%C3%BBl-not-attack-a-second-time-at-weathertop&quot;&gt;another question&lt;/a&gt; asking why Nazgûl did not attack a second time on Weathertop. While the answers to both question includes the fact that Nazgûl were afraid of the barrow-blades and were reluctant to engage any further than necessary, they are clearly different questions. My question completely disregarded Frodo and the ring and focused on why Nazgûl did not bother to kill other hobbits. However, the duplicate question focuses on why Nazgûl did not attack a second time to get the Ring directly from Frodo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that while the fear of barrow-blades constitute the main part of both answers, some additional information unrelated to other question may be included in the answers as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The duplication policy has been discussed extensively. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11475/duplicate-policy-and-intensive-workload-due-to-it&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; is a discussion I myself started on this issue. The consensus was that answers themselves do not make questions duplicate; they can only be used as a litmus test.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though I linked the above meta post and stated once again that answers do not make questions duplicate, two more people VTCed, showing that they deliberately VTCed in spite of the previous discussions on Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my point of view, closing a question as duplicate simply because it resembles another one is not helpful to the discussion. Had it been closed before, I would not have the chance to read the excellent answer Shamshiel provided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, the question is, why do some users with quite high reputation deliberately misuse their VTC privilege?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Addition: My comment under the question where I link the meta post is removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user65648" LastEditorDisplayName="user65648" LastEditDate="2018-07-09T04:09:39.863" LastActivityDate="2018-07-12T06:51:24.763" Title="Why do people deliberately misuse their VTC?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11981" CreationDate="2018-07-10T18:37:41.253" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's begin at the end:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Finally, the question is, why do some users with quite high reputation deliberately misuse their VTC privilege?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Because they disagree with your interpretation of our policies.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, as it happens, your interpretation is correct and theirs is wrong.  But that doesn't make them bad people, and starting a conversation by looking for someone to blame is unhelpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, to the substance of this matter:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions are clearly distinct.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/161297/36526&quot;&gt;Why did the Nazg&amp;#251;l not attack a second time at Weathertop?&lt;/a&gt; makes no mention whatsoever of the Nazgûl failing to attack the other Hobbits (in the question; answers don't count).  Looking at just the questions, these are clearly separate and independent questions about different aspects of the same event.  The question has now been reopened, and should not be re-closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastActivityDate="2018-07-10T18:37:41.253" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11981" CreationDate="2018-07-11T17:36:51.477" Score="7" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Finally, the question is, why do some users with quite high reputation deliberately misuse their VTC privilege?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They don't. They use it appropriately. One or two votes to close might be misguided, but five votes suggests that there is something about your question that needs to be looked at more closely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that votes to close are part of the system here. If your question is closed, it's not the end. You can (and should) edit your question to fix the issues that are mentioned in the comments and/or come to the meta here and ask about the closure of your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's going to be clear to &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt; that your question is on-topic and not a duplicate, but &lt;strong&gt;others&lt;/strong&gt; can't read your mind, only your question, so if they are seeing something different from what you intended, it's almost &lt;strong&gt;always&lt;/strong&gt; because there's something about what you wrote in your question that didn't convey your actual intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, in that case &lt;strong&gt;five&lt;/strong&gt; other users have gotten a different idea about your question from what you wanted to say, so it's more likely that something has broken down in the communication than all five people are conspiring to unfairly shut you down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange demands a lot from us users. We have to work hard to communicate effectively. That hard work is rewarding because Stack Exchange also provides access to some of the best knowledge available on the Internet, with no paywall and no flame wars. It's the systems like VTCs and the meta and all of the other things that &lt;em&gt;make&lt;/em&gt; SE effective, and it's &lt;strong&gt;all of us&lt;/strong&gt; that have to work hard to build this repository of knowledge. When a question of yours gets closed (or downvoted or whatever), it's very easy to feel that others have done the wrong thing, haven't understood us, or have a personal vendetta against us, but almost all of the time, we bear some or all of the responsibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice that you opened a discussion of this on the meta and your question has been re-opened. &lt;strong&gt;That is how the system is supposed to work&lt;/strong&gt;. A question closed for any reason is not the end of the line for that question, it's a sign that some kind of edit and/or clarification or further review is necessary. Upon further review, your question was re-opened. No one misused any of their votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit regarding whether and how answers should be used to evaluate whether questions are considered duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I quote a bullet from the highest voted and accepted answer on the linked meta regarding duplicates (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It makes sense&lt;/strong&gt; on some level &lt;strong&gt;to close question A as a duplicate&lt;/strong&gt; of related question B &lt;strong&gt;if the latter has answers which satisfactorily address question A&lt;/strong&gt;. The duplicate banner, after all, does say &quot;This question already has an answer here&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm very confused about why the asker of this question accepted that answer but in this meta is asserting that answers are not relevant to whether questions are duplicates. I suggest to this asker either un-accepting and downvoting that answer quoted above, or retracting any objections to the use of answers when evaluating whether questions are duplicates. The current situation is self-contradictory and confusing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46607" LastEditorUserId="46607" LastEditDate="2018-07-12T06:51:24.763" LastActivityDate="2018-07-12T06:51:24.763" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11984" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-13T12:13:56.327" Score="11" ViewCount="297" Body="&lt;p&gt;George R. R. Martin's &amp;quot;blog&amp;quot;, &lt;em&gt;Not A Blog&lt;/em&gt;, has &amp;quot;recently&amp;quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://grrm.livejournal.com/566320.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;moved away&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;NOT A BLOG IS MOVING AWAY...&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Apr. 13th, 2018 at 10:55 AM&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Greetings all,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Minion Raya here to let you know that we're moving the Not A Blog to a whole new location! So if you're looking for the latest news from GRRM hop on over to the website and check out the new Not a Blog:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;So what do we need to do now?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, nothing really I believe I have already gone through the old posts with these links (only 25 or so and the majority were by me anyway). Any post links have been updated to point to the new location. Unfortunately, comments weren't transferred over so posts linking to those now link to archived pages. I may have missed some so if you come across any be sure to update the links as I'm not sure how long the old blog will be active for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The links inside of the relevant tag wikis have also been updated, I may have missed some in other works of his though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What do we need to be doing in the future?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty simple, link to the new blog where possible or link through to the old one with an archived link. Also keep a lookout for any old posts with the links that weren't updated. Searching for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=-url%3A%22%2Aarchive.org%2A%22+url%3A%22%2Agrrm.livejournal%2A%22&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;url:&amp;quot;*grrm.livejournal*&amp;quot; -url:&amp;quot;*archive.org*&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; should yield all posts linking to the old blog but not linking to The Internet Archive, although it misses posts where some but not &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; links have been converted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember though if you are bumping an old post make sure to fix everything you can, including the other answers and/or the question on that page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-07-13T15:21:49.300" Title="Not A Blog (George R. R. Martin's blog) has moved" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11985" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-15T03:04:33.620" Score="16" ViewCount="1317" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/171615/how-many-students-attended-hogwarts&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was closed as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7907/do-hogwarts-houses-have-quotas&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. The reason stated was that the the answers to the latter question address the former question as well. The problem is that the two questions are different. The content of the answers to the second question that addressed the first question is not content that would automatically be necessary to answer the second question. If someone would answer the second question with just that content, it would not be an answer because that content alone does not answer the second question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now suppose someone wants to answer the first question. There is nowhere to do so. You can't answer it on the first question because that question is closed. You can't answer it on the second question because it wouldn't answer the second question. How, then can the first question be closed as a duplicate of the second question, when that is effectively saying that we are not allowing any other answers to the question? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6427/100430&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1832/100430&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9748/100430&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6953/100430&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6952/100430&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11824/100430&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3209/100430&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11476/100430&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10603/100430&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; which seem to agree that this type of question should not be considered a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2018-07-22T22:32:13.397" LastActivityDate="2018-07-24T21:04:34.243" Title="How can this question be a duplicate of a question that is not at all the same question?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|duplicate-answers|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11985" CreationDate="2018-07-15T10:16:33.297" Score="8" Body="&lt;h3&gt;They are duplicates&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scope of the original question, &quot;Do Hogwarts Houses have quotas?&quot;, is broad enough that to answer it talking about the number of students at Hogwarts seems important, if not necessary. And that is exactly what has happened here the top and accepted answer has spoken about that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been spoken at by length on meta recently so I'll only give the TL;DR version. Answers can be used to assess if questions are duplicates or not, people disagree on how much they can be used but they can be. In this case @Slytherincess' answer can be copied over to the dupe without changing it and it would answer the question fine, sure it would have some extra rambling but it would answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a side note, duplicate questions are not a bad thing, quite the opposite in fact. I think half the reason people are arguing so much about dupe closures at the moment is that they think it is some bad thing whereas it is not. Dupes have a special place on SE, they serve as signposts to the main question, they are not subject to auto deletion and good dupe questions should and are usually upvoted. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/191008/58193&quot;&gt;this ASOIAF/GoT question&lt;/a&gt; from recently that was dupe closed yet has 4 upvotes (+4/-1).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2018-07-15T10:16:33.297" CommentCount="21" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11988" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-16T15:54:10.277" Score="2" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/100383/why-werent-the-shields-up-already&quot;&gt;Why weren&amp;#39;t the shields up already?&lt;/a&gt;, the question text contains the phrase &quot;shit just got real&quot;.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I'm not offended by this at all, but it was my understanding that our position was essentially &quot;don't put anything that might have a chance of offending anyone unless there's a reason for it&quot;.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I.e., in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2384/is-profanity-in-direct-quotes-from-source-material-permitted&quot;&gt;Is profanity in direct quotes from source material permitted?&lt;/a&gt;, we establish that we don't avoid profanity in quoted materials (because we're all adults and that would be silly).   The accepted answer there sort of addresses this issue (&lt;em&gt;I think it should be okay to say &quot;this is bullshit&quot;&lt;/em&gt;), but it's not clear to me that the acceptance of that answer really conveys consensus on that part of the answer since it's a minor part of the whole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what's the consensus on mild but unnecessary expressions which might offend some people but not most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we have such a policy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastActivityDate="2018-07-16T16:18:04.510" Title="Should this expression with a mild expletive be edited?" Tags="|discussion|language|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2018-07-16T16:23:02.827" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11988" CreationDate="2018-07-16T16:18:04.510" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's the strong consensus achieved on a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11900/3823&quot;&gt;different question&lt;/a&gt;, repeated here for convenience:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's OK to use NSFW language if that's an important part of the question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. for story-ID questions like this, if the story used a word which is obscene but also distinctive, then that could be a very important detail. If it's a word coined especially for that story, then just Googling the word might be an efficient way to find the story. We definitely shouldn't be making it harder for people to answer questions just for the sake of not including some naughty words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's also OK to edit out &lt;em&gt;gratuitous&lt;/em&gt; use of NSFW language.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone is using unnecessarily obscene language which &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; necessary for the question, then of course it's fine to edit it out or tone it down. We are a 13+ site according to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/legal#age&quot;&gt;terms of service&lt;/a&gt;, and we're supposed to maintain some standards of decency and professionalism (whatever &amp;quot;professionalism&amp;quot; might mean on a sci-fi and fantasy site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short: &lt;em&gt;unnecessary&lt;/em&gt; obscenities can be removed, but necessary ones shouldn't be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Content warnings, e.g. putting &amp;quot;NSFW&amp;quot; in the title or hiding rude words behind spoilertags, can be used at your discretion. Whether or not a particular word is bad enough to merit any such measures is something to be decided on a case-by-case basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-07-16T16:18:04.510" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11990" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-17T03:12:22.890" Score="-32" ViewCount="288" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pursuant to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11985/how-can-this-question-be-a-duplicate-of-a-question-that-is-not-at-all-the-same-q&quot;&gt;this Meta discussion&lt;/a&gt;, I propose the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All questions should be closed as soon as they have one answer, with the following notice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question already has an answer. If those answers do not fully&#xA;  address your question, please ask a new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I do not actually think this is a good idea, but it seems to me to logically follow from the upvoted answer there (see the comments there at length). Therefore, should this be implemented so that the policies are consistent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Edit&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those who voted to close this question as primarily opinion-based, please see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6607/should-we-ever-close-a-question-as-primarily-opinion-based-on-meta&quot;&gt;this Meta post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2018-07-18T19:29:44.357" LastActivityDate="2018-07-18T19:29:44.357" Title="Should we close all questions after the first answer is posted?" Tags="|discussion|policy|duplicate-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11990" CreationDate="2018-07-17T05:45:45.347" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to leave the fact that this seems like a rant aside and assume you're asking with the best intentions of the community in mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;No we shouldn't close questions after one answer is given.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It explicitly states on the stats page for Area 51 sites&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a healthy site, questions receive multiple answers and the best answer is voted to the top.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/4451/science-fiction-fantasy&quot;&gt;SFF stats page&lt;/a&gt; - Note this is after beta graduation in 2012&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no we shouldn't close after an answer is given, as this would break the model of SE, which is to have multiple answers with the highest quality one (ideally) being voted to the top of it's thread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;No we shouldn't close it with the reason given.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a set of answers do not fully address your question, please &lt;strong&gt;DO NOT&lt;/strong&gt; ask a new question. We have a specific bounty reason for this scenario. A lot of duplicate questions are closed because they're slight variations on a question because the OP felt the answers given in the linked weren't sufficient at answering the question. If that is the case please use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/bounty&quot;&gt;bounty system&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Improve Details&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The current answers do not contain enough detail.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/09/23/bounty-reasons-and-post-notices/&quot;&gt;Bounty reasons and post notices - Stack Overflow Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for: &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;[the proposal] seems to me to logically follow from the upvoted answer there (see the comments there at length)&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;. It indeed only seems to you to follow. TheLethalCarrot had immediately rejected the proposal as absurd given the two are in &lt;em&gt;no way&lt;/em&gt; identical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is of course not an equivalent example. – TheLethalCarrot &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11985/how-can-this-question-be-a-duplicate-of-a-question-that-is-not-at-all-the-same-q#comment40725_11987&quot;&gt;9 hours ago&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68872" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-07-17T09:32:51.393" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11985" CreationDate="2018-07-17T21:27:00.093" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of course, you're absolutely correct. &quot;What happens if there's an uneven distribution of student personalities&quot; is in no way, shape, or form the same question as &quot;How many students are there&quot;. There's no need to even look at the answers, it's so blindingly obvious that the questions are different. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers can be useful in edge cases, where an argument could be made either way. As it stands, the fact that one of the answers to the &quot;uneven distribution&quot; question happened to mention, kind of by way of introduction, a number that is possibly &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the answer to the &quot;how many students&quot; question, is totally and completely irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not to say that your question isn't a duplicate. It's just that every time someone has tried to ask it, it has been marked as a duplicate of this same, unrelated question, so the site does not have a good place to point people who are wondering how many students are at Hogwarts. It really is a shame that people here place more importance on reducing the number of questions than on having good answers to questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="348" LastActivityDate="2018-07-17T21:27:00.093" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11985" CreationDate="2018-07-18T17:59:52.593" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/171615/how-many-students-attended-hogwarts&quot;&gt;closed question&lt;/a&gt; was reopened by 5 voters, and I managed to post &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/191269/100430&quot;&gt;an answer&lt;/a&gt; to it before it was summarily reclosed by a single voter with a gold badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, my answer cites many passages to develop an argument that there were many hundreds of students, probably around 800. My answer does not in any way shape or form address whether there are house quotas. I can't imagine that anyone thinks that my answer would be a good answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7907/do-hogwarts-houses-have-quotas&quot;&gt;the question about house quotas&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That should be all the proof necessary to show that the questions are not duplicates. As I pointed out in the question post here, and in subsequent comments, closing such questions as duplicates prevents potentially good answers from being posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastActivityDate="2018-07-18T17:59:52.593" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11985" CreationDate="2018-07-18T21:36:40.363" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I'll take one more stab at this&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's imagine a good sample answer to each one. To my mind, you can't get better than an answer which quotes a specific passage in the series under discussion where the question is explicitly answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, here is my sample answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7907/do-hogwarts-houses-have-quotas&quot;&gt;the open question&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yes, there are house quotas. If Harry's name was Zimmers it is&#xA;  possible that he would have been sorted into Hufflepuff. This can be&#xA;  demonstrated from the following quote from &lt;em&gt;Goblet of Fire&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&quot;I actually had a great uncle in Slytherin,&quot; Ron said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&quot;Really?&quot; asked Harry, surprised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&quot;Well it wasn't his fault. By the time they got up to Weasely there&#xA;    were no spots left in Gryffindor or Hufflepuff, and he wasn't clever&#xA;    enough to get into Ravenclaw.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here is my sample answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/171615/how-many-students-attended-hogwarts&quot;&gt;the closed question&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are 2,500 students attending Hogwarts. This can be seen from the&#xA;  following quote from &lt;em&gt;Order of the Phoenix&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&quot;Hermione, Umbridge said she would confiscate every broomstick in the&#xA;    castle if she has to!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&quot;Er, Harry, there are 2500 students here. Does she really think she&#xA;    can fit 2,500 brooms in her office?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&quot;Come off it, Hermione. You know that most students don't even have their own brooms.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As you can see, these answers have absolutely nothing in common.&lt;/strong&gt; Each one would be a great answer to the question it would be posted to (assuming the quotes are accurate), but would be a horrible answer to the other question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This shows, beyond any doubt, that these are two fundamentally different questions. If one of these questions is closed then there is a great answer that will never be posted, as it would be a horrible answer to the other question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastActivityDate="2018-07-18T21:36:40.363" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11995" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-20T19:28:21.740" Score="12" ViewCount="517" Body="&lt;p&gt;We seem to have a pretty regular number of story-ID questions specifically focused on finding half-remembered &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt; stories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our top tag is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; (with over 10,000 questions) and we already have an excellent guide to help people answer them in &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9335/how-to-ask-a-good-story-id-question&quot;&gt;How to ask a good story-ID question?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; that users can direct querents towards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What additional advice can we offer on writing a good story-identification question aimed at locating a specific video game?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2019-06-23T04:59:33.680" Title="How to ask a good (video game) story-ID question" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11995" CreationDate="2018-07-20T19:28:21.740" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Additional information that would be useful when identifying video game questions includes;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The system/platform you played it on&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Try to be specific. When you say &quot;Playstation&quot; do you mean a PS1/PSX,&#xA;PS2, PS3, PS4? Also, did you actually play it personally or have you just seen it on walkthroughs or gameplay videos?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What genre of game was it&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Telling us about the plot is essential, but knowing &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_genres&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;what kind of game&lt;/a&gt; (First-Person-Shooters, Side-Scrollers, Text Adventure Game, etc) is also really useful as this can dramatically narrow down the choices.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who was the game aimed at?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Knowing whether the game was for children or adults can be critical. Did the game have an 'edutainment' theme with brightly coloured characters or did it have bad language, violence and nudity?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Was the game an original release?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Did you buy the game brand new or did you get it on discount as an older release? If you downloaded it, which site did you get it from? Was it based on a non-game franchise? Can you think of any other games you played at around the same time?&lt;/em&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can you identify the studio that produced the game?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Was it, for example part of a series? Did it have a recognisable character/s you've seen elsewhere. Have you played any other games that had a similar look and feel to them?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Was the game a local release?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Japanese and non-Western games often have more cartoonish characters and general feel. They may have translated text or subtitles. The voices may still be in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Il7lQ7kzDE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Japanese&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can you describe the protagonist/s and antagonist/s?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What did the player-character look like? What did your enemies look like? How did you control your characters? How did they move? How did you beat/defeat/destroy them? Was the game single-player or adversarial against other human players (and if so, were you playing against them locally or via the internet/LAN)?&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What was the end-goal?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Was there a specific aim or win-condition? Were you trying to reach a specific objective or was there an open-ended structure? If there were puzzles or tasks, can you describe them?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can you remember anything else about the game?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Aside from the game, were there any additional features you can recall? Was there a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sZNdD38Q9I&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;studio intro&lt;/a&gt;, what did the box-art look like, what did the music sound like?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;(hat/tip to Grace Note on &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3709&quot;&gt;Arqade:SE&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-06-23T04:59:33.680" LastActivityDate="2019-06-23T04:59:33.680" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11997" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11999" CreationDate="2018-07-21T20:00:23.313" Score="12" ViewCount="294" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this site just for books, or is it also for movies, TV shows, video games, etc.? For instance, I don't see a lot of questions about children's TV shows (many of which feature magic); so, I thought I'd ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was reading through the help center, but I didn't find anything on that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54697" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2018-07-22T09:46:55.657" LastActivityDate="2018-07-30T17:36:46.233" Title="Is this site just for books?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11985" CreationDate="2018-07-22T03:11:25.740" Score="-13" Body="&lt;h2&gt;New Solution/Compromise&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have not changed my mind from my question and previous two answers where I strongly argued that the two questions are not duplicates. However, even if we assume that the questions are duplicates, there is another possible solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/171615/how-many-students-attended-hogwarts&quot;&gt;the question about the number of students in Hogwarts&lt;/a&gt; was closed as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7907/do-hogwarts-houses-have-quotas&quot;&gt;the question about whether houses have quotas&lt;/a&gt; because in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/7911/100430&quot;&gt;an answer to the latter question&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3500/slytherincess&quot;&gt;Slytherincess&lt;/a&gt; discussed the number of students at Hogwarts. I.e. since the number of students was discussed in an answer to another question it is considered as if the question about the number of students has already been answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now if we look at Slytherincess's actual answer we find that there are only two mentions of the number of students in Hogwarts. The first paragraph mentions two aspects of this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;J.K. Rowling once said that there are around 1,000 students.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is an article that discusses the number of students.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the third paragraph she writes that the linked article suggests that &lt;strong&gt;if there were&lt;/strong&gt; 1,000 students (the article disagrees with this estimate) there would be 36 per year per house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond this there is no other mention of number of students. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we read the rest of the answer (which argues that there are not quotas) we see that none of the argumentation is supported by the alleged  number of students. No argumentation is contradicted by it either, but no argumentation is related to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is only one line of evidence that is actually related to the question of quotas, and that is whether the Sorting Hat has ever placed a student into the wrong house. Slytherincess notes that the Sorting Hat admits that it is possible for it to make a mistake, but that J.K. Rowling has stated that it has never been wrong. (Even this doesn't fully address the quota question; all it tells us is that according to Rowling no one was ever sorted into a house other than the one they should have been in.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What we see here is that the alleged number of students played no role whatsoever in answering the question; it is entirely extraneous information.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If all mention of the number of students would be removed we would still have the same answer, namely, that there do not seem to be quotas based on Rowling's statement that the Sorting Hat was never wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, why don't we simply edit Slytherincess's answer and remove all mention of the number of student's at Hogwarts, which would not affect her answer to the question about quotas. Then the other question would not be a duplicate, and could be reopened and receive all the possible answers to the specific question of how many students there are at Hogwarts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would imagine that ideally, Slytherincess herself should edit her answer. However, she hasn't been seen on this site in almost a month, so that is unlikely to happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best solution would then seem to be for us to make the edits, which will now allow answers to the question of how many students there are that would otherwise not have been postable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastActivityDate="2018-07-22T03:11:25.740" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11997" CreationDate="2018-07-22T09:52:16.970" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Science fiction and fantasy in all forms of media is welcome here.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have tags for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt; as well as for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt;. (Inconsistent pluralisation, I know. Sorry.) And even beyond these tags, which are generally used only for ID questions or to distinguish between the same story in different media, a glance through our top tags and questions should confirm that we take questions about TV and films as well as books: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doctor-who&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;doctor-who&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;doctor-who&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt; are all predominantly if not entirely for questions about screen stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-07-22T09:52:16.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11997" CreationDate="2018-07-23T23:15:57.970" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;@RandalThor is correct. In fact, my perception has been that book questions are in the minority here (but still on-topic).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some other non-book tags to check out:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-animated-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-animated-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-animated-universe&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/transformers-live-action-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;transformers-live-action-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;transformers-live-action-series&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/power-rangers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;power-rangers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;power-rangers&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/deadpool-2016&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;deadpool-2016&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;deadpool-2016&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stargate&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sonic-the-hedgehog&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sonic-the-hedgehog&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sonic-the-hedgehog&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-terminator-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-terminator-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-terminator-series&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pokemon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pokemon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pokemon&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/back-to-the-future&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;back-to-the-future&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;back-to-the-future&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/beetlejuice&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;beetlejuice&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;beetlejuice&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/half-life&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;half-life&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;half-life&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/halo&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;halo&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;halo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70477" LastEditorUserId="70477" LastEditDate="2018-07-30T17:36:46.233" LastActivityDate="2018-07-30T17:36:46.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12001" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-24T00:33:48.197" Score="1" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do we really need the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/characters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;characters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;characters&lt;/a&gt; tag? Going through some of the questions, I can't seem to figure out what, if anything, this tag is adding that makes these questions distinct. It seems like a &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/08/07/the-death-of-meta-tags/&quot;&gt;meta tag&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we need this tag? If not, can we have Charizard use &lt;em&gt;Fire Blast&lt;/em&gt; to burninate it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70477" LastActivityDate="2018-07-24T00:33:48.197" Title="Do we really need the [characters] tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|burnination|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-07-24T07:18:23.210" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11985" CreationDate="2018-07-24T01:33:45.800" Score="-8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sure everyone is sick of this post already, but here's a (somewhat) new angle as to why these questions shouldn't be duplicates. (This was already discussed somewhat in Chat starting &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/45797930#45797930&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, but I think it should be brought here so it can be included in the voting.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today I edited &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/191269/100430&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt; to the question about the number of students in Hogwarts to add in some evidence and counter-evidence. As a potential explanation for a certain discrepancy, I suggested that Ravenclaw may have had many more students than the other houses (in Harry's year). I pointed out that this could account for why Gryffindor has classes with Slytherin and Hufflepuff but not with Ravenclaw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I then checked to see if there was any discussion on this site about Harry never having classes with Ravenclaw, and I found &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/188375/did-harry-ever-have-classes-with-ravenclaws&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; which asks if Harry ever had classes with Ravenclaw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the stricter standard for duplicates, the old question should be closed as a duplicate of the question I answered.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; This is because even though &quot;How many students attended Hogwarts?&quot; and &quot;Did Harry ever have class with Ravenclaw?&quot; are two different questions, the latter is answered by one of the answers to the former, and thus &lt;strong&gt;the information already exists and is at risk of being repeated&lt;/strong&gt;. To quote from TheLethalCarrot's answer (name adjusted to reflect this case):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In this case @Alex's answer can be copied over to the dupe&#xA;  without changing it and it would answer the question fine, sure it&#xA;  would have some extra rambling but it would answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a couple of hours later I was reading &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/112357/did-dumbledore-set-the-potters-up&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; about whether Dumbledore set up the Potters to be killed. In one of the answers I saw a quote which said that the secret cannot be forced out of the secret-keeper. I suspected that there was bound to be a question here about that very issue, and I found &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/79362/can-a-secret-keeper-be-forced-to-reveal-the-secret-with-the-imperius-spell&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. Therefore, according to the strict duplicate policy the latter question should be closed because it is already answered in an answer to the former question. Once again we can say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In this case @erip's answer can be copied over to the dupe without&#xA;  changing it and it would answer the question fine, sure it would have&#xA;  some extra rambling but it would answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I subsequently found another example while reading &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/25097/how-did-arthur-weasley-know-to-send-his-patronus-to-grimauld-place-in-dh&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; about how Arthur Weasley knew to send his Patronus to Grimmauld Place. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/25100/100430&quot;&gt;One of the answers&lt;/a&gt; stated that a patronus has the ability to find someone, and tried to prove this from the fact that Snape must have been able to locate Harry in the Forest of Dean by following his patronus. There is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/17727/how-did-snape-find-harry-and-hermione-in-the-forest-of-dean&quot;&gt;another question&lt;/a&gt; that asks how Snape was able to find Harry in the Forest of Dean. Even though these are two different questions, the latter is answered by the answer to the former. Once again we can apply TheLethalCarrot's criterion (and this time we don't even have to change the name because it's the same user):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In this case @Slytherincess' answer can be copied over to the dupe&#xA;  without changing it and it would answer the question fine, sure it&#xA;  would have some extra rambling but it would answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found these three situations with virtually no effort, and without spending any time &quot;searching them out&quot;. I imagine that there are probably dozens of other such situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would mean that anytime someone incorporates information from an answer into an answer to another question they will be rendering the first question a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are we really going to close all these questions just because an answer to a different question contains information that could be an answer to the current question as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, it is even possible that someone could deliberately take content from an answer to one question and use it as part of an answer to a different question, rendering the first question a duplicate. (I don't know why someone would want to do that, but it's possible, and it would be hard to prove nefarious intent.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In sum, my point is that under the strict interpretation of &quot;duplicate&quot;, almost any question can be made into a duplicate of any other. There are probably already dozens of such situations. This, I would argue, is indicative of a major flaw in the strict definition of &quot;duplicate&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; The question has since been closed as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/105879/what-hogwarts-classes-are-taught-to-two-houses-at-once&quot;&gt;a different post&lt;/a&gt;, but that is not relevant to my argument.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2018-07-24T21:04:34.243" LastActivityDate="2018-07-24T21:04:34.243" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12003" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-24T21:48:46.840" Score="13" ViewCount="355" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Context&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This morning, we discussed in chat how the current &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt; tag seemed to be mainly aimed at American comics (read Marvel/DC, even if it's obviously not limited to that). The discussion starts &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/45809260#45809260&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and goes on for quite a bit of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing is, the current tag, or at least its description, is quite broad and may overlook some existing genres.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Facts&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Belgian_comics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Franco-Belgian comics&lt;/a&gt; genre goes a bit beyond the &quot;simple&quot; &lt;em&gt;comics&lt;/em&gt; as we usually understand it. It is both a matter of content and shape, and the behind-the-scenes, but the latter is probably not the most relevant part for this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long-story short, Franco-Belgian comics were once defined by the author Franquin&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; as &lt;em&gt;&quot;everything that is neither American or Japanese&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. To quote SQB, you can think of it as &lt;em&gt;&quot;halfway between US-style super-hero comics and graphic novels&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. Not the same stakes, broader range of characters and stories, and the most &quot;visually striking&quot; aspect would be the paperback format, I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per this point, I should admit that while the idea is kind of clear in my mind, I'm not that great at actually expressing it - put that on having been raised with the concept. I'll be more than happy to edit this post following questions asked in comments though, to make my point clearer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some reading about what is the genre, and how it actually differs from the general comics&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://medium.com/@echo_tokki/an-introduction-to-franco-belgian-comics-ac4808c339c3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.quora.com/Why-are-French-comic-books-so-different-from-traditional-western-ones&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this Quora thread&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.creatoratlarge.com/blog/lessons-from-angouleme&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt;, though the latter rather addresses the behind-the-scenes; I'd recommend to focus on the &quot;The Format for Success&quot; subsection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence, the Franco-Belgian comics appear to be a sub-genre of comics just as much as mangas are, and there's a tag for those. (to poke at someone in chat, it's not just about the reverse-reading order, black &amp;amp; white coloring and exaggerations with lines :) )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With regards to what has been said here and in chat, and what &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; be said in the discussion comments, should we have a tag for those comics? And if so, what should its name be? (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12004/98028&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt; for more details on that)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; it was Franquin, but I may be mistaken. I'm still looking for the source, but if anyone speaks French and is willing to look for it, I'm 99% sure I heard that in a &lt;em&gt;Tac au Tac&lt;/em&gt; TV show from the 70's-80's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; This might come off as restrictive, but given that a lot of the questions in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt; tag refer to American works (Marvel/DC mainly), I'll just stick to saying &quot;comics&quot; as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastEditorUserId="30870" LastEditDate="2018-07-31T20:38:39.293" LastActivityDate="2018-08-30T08:07:12.707" Title="Should we have a franco-belgian-comics tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12003" CreationDate="2018-07-24T21:48:46.840" Score="5" Body="&lt;h3&gt;&lt;s&gt;Oui&lt;/s&gt; Yes!&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that this is not a request to have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/country-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;country-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;country-comics&lt;/a&gt; tag for all existing 150+ countries. I came across &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10006/98028&quot;&gt;this meta question&lt;/a&gt; which might seem like a duplicate, but IMHO, it's not - see linked readings in the question, and the rest of this answer. I'll stick to the accepted answer with regards to what tags should be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? and is it unambiguous?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;. As a genre, obviously its content targets will be narrower, and then bring more potential info about the question/answer. &lt;em&gt;(note: this phrasing has a funny ring to my ears, so tell me if I'm being completely unclear on that point)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is the concept described even on-topic for the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Weeell... Calling joker on that one. No, it does not, as it's a genre which includes non-SFF comics, but then again we have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movies&lt;/a&gt; tag and not every movie is SFF. Even comics aren't, technically, so I just think this bullet point is not relevant because of the nature of SFF.SE. &lt;em&gt;(it's more relevant for SO for instance - &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/239190/when-to-burninate/239191#239191&quot;&gt;see the main meta post&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does the tag add &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; meaningful information to the post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well &lt;strong&gt;yeah!&lt;/strong&gt; Especially in story-ID questions, as it narrows the scope big time. Apart from story-ID, there could be some questions about &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; SFF are tackled differently in those comics, based on history or something. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does it mean the same thing in all common contexts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to say &lt;strong&gt;yes&lt;/strong&gt; by assuming that a &quot;common context&quot; in a SE site equals &quot;having done some really basic homework&quot; such as Googling the thing and seeing that Franco-Belgian comics aren't strictly restricted to French and Belgian comics. Theoretically speaking, you could very well have a &lt;em&gt;[insert random nationality here]&lt;/em&gt; author doing Franco-Belgian comics. But that brings me to my second point...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What about the name?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Franco-Belgian comics&quot; is the official translation. It's a lazy one based on the fact that the genre originated there, but it points out to named countries and IMO, that sucks. &lt;em&gt;(at least for Asian works for instance, the name is partially hidden behind the actual word - manga, manwha etc)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The French word for that would be &quot;bandes dessinées&quot; - which &lt;em&gt;of course&lt;/em&gt; translates to &quot;comic strips&quot;, because translation never helps in our current matter. However, I agree with TLC and Edlothiad that the policy is to leave  everything in English... which loops back to Franco-Belgian comics, which seemingly exclude other countries while it's not the case, etc, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just my thought on the naming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Additional arguments thrown at random when I think of them&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I've talked about the story-ID benefits already.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Such a tag could bring attention to this genre and enable people to discover new works, that they wouldn't have heard about otherwise - enjoying new stuff is fun :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the long run, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt; will likely be overridden by Marvel/DC stuff (hat-statistically speaking), so having this genre lost in the mass feels kinda sad... Why not organize it a bit, looking forward to the future?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2018-08-30T08:07:12.707" LastActivityDate="2018-08-30T08:07:12.707" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12003" CreationDate="2018-07-25T02:26:32.557" Score="-1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Let's back up a moment.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt; exists and is widely used (900+ questions).  Of these, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics+-marvel+-dc&quot;&gt;nearly 400&lt;/a&gt; are tagged with neither &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt; nor &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/super-hero&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;super-hero&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;super-hero&lt;/a&gt; exists and is somewhat used (90+ questions), but far less than &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc&lt;/a&gt; (several thousand Q's between the two of them).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/manga&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;manga&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;manga&lt;/a&gt; exists and is lightly used (30 questions at time of writing).  There is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/184494/36526&quot;&gt;exactly one question&lt;/a&gt; tagged both &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/manga&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;manga&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;manga&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt;, and it's a reasonable one in my opinion (story ID of uncertain genre).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/graphic-novels&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;graphic-novels&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;graphic-novels&lt;/a&gt; does not exist, and I couldn't find any similarly-named tags.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the above, I conclude that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/manga&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;manga&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;manga&lt;/a&gt; are (mostly) disjoint sets; keeping them the way they are makes sense.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/super-hero&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;super-hero&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;super-hero&lt;/a&gt; is not consistently used to identify questions about superheroes.  A lot of its questions are about the genre or story ID, and there are a few questions about individual superheroes who aren't important enough to have their own tags.  This tag might need some care and feeding, maybe we should just shoot it, or maybe I'm overreacting and everything is fine, but that's a separate question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The lack of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/graphic-novels&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;graphic-novels&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;graphic-novels&lt;/a&gt;, combined with the previous bullet, means that &lt;strong&gt;there is no good way to find or categorize questions about non-superhero non-manga comics.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics+-marvel+-dc+-super-hero&quot;&gt;This search&lt;/a&gt; is (probably) the closest thing we have, and many of the top results are obviously superhero-esque.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare that to the genre which OP describes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Long-story short, Franco-Belgian comics were once defined by the author Franquin1 as &quot;everything that is neither American or Japanese&quot;. To quote SQB, you can think of it as &lt;strong&gt;&quot;halfway between US-style super-hero comics and graphic novels&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;. Not the same stakes, broader range of characters and stories, and the most &quot;visually striking&quot; aspect would be the paperback format, I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that we already don't have a good tag even for &quot;regular&quot; graphic novels.  We should start there, if we're going down this road at all.  Then we can come back and take a look at further subgenres like this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastActivityDate="2018-07-25T02:26:32.557" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12006" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-29T09:08:12.817" Score="-10" ViewCount="247" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider the below question:-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/191913/power-of-infinity-stones-in-the-avengers-infinity-war-movie&quot;&gt;Power of Infinity Stones in the Avengers Infinity War movie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any lay person can also understand what I am asking here and that is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was the power of infinity stones really downplayed in the movie and if yes, then is there any genuine reason for it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But still, my question is put on hold. I think this is really too much of a bureaucracy. Is this level of moderation and regulation, even desirable?   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89677" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2018-07-29T11:43:56.773" LastActivityDate="2018-07-31T17:31:51.513" Title="Why it's so hard to please the admins here on this site?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|moderators|moderation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12006" CreationDate="2018-07-29T10:38:08.873" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question wasn't put on hold by any admins (they're called &lt;em&gt;moderators&lt;/em&gt; on Stack Exchange) — it was &lt;em&gt;voted&lt;/em&gt; so by regular users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/05/18/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; is that the users moderate. The moderators (who can be appointed or elected) only are called upon for issues users can't handle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on what I saw of your account, you're still relatively new to Stack Exchange. I see you've taken &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;the tour&lt;/a&gt;, so may I advise you to read through &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;the help centre&lt;/a&gt;? It explains a lot of this, especially in the section &quot;Reputation &amp;amp; Moderation&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most important thing to remember is that a question being put on hold is not rejection or punishment — it just means we don't think the question is answerable as it is. It gives you the opportunity to edit it to make it answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't vote, so I can only speculate here, but I &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; think the question could be refined a bit. When it was closed, the title read &quot;Power of Infinity Stones in Avengers Infinity War movie&quot;, which isn't even a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see you've gotten advice on how to improve your question, most importantly on splitting it into two separate ones. I think your best course of action is starting there, asking about Dr. Strange first, then focusing the current one on Thanos' use of the Infinity Stones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2018-07-29T15:17:45.640" LastActivityDate="2018-07-29T15:17:45.640" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12006" CreationDate="2018-07-30T08:44:11.803" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cast the final close vote when the score was tied 2-2 and so had the casting vote on what the close reason would be. To be clear this is the revision of the post at the time it was closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Power of Infinity Stones in the Avengers Infinity War movie&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it just me or the power of Infinity Stones was really drastically downplayed in the Avengers Infinity War movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, just take the example of the Soul Stone. As far as my understanding goes, Thanos could have easily defeated all of Avengers, in just a click, by trapping all of their souls in the Soul dimension.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this is just one stone, Thanos had four of them and with that power, we see a long drawn out battle between him and Avengers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One more example of this might be the underutilization of the power of Time stone by Doctor Strange. He could have easily reversed Thanos's actions, by going back into a more suitable(to him) time, in order to defeat him. But he didn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is their any logic/reason behind this, or should we just suffice with the assumption that some logic in this movie was just entertainment and more entertainment?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two close reasons people had chosen so far were &amp;quot;Unclear what you're asking&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Too Broad&amp;quot;. The post had been edited twice before it got closed so other users reasons would likely have been based off of those different revisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two reasons are very similar in this case and it's because from different readings of the question you appear to have multiple questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;Is it just me or the power of Infinity Stones was really drastically downplayed in the Avengers Infinity War movie?&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why didn't Thanos more easily defeat the Avengers? (Paragraphs 2 and 3)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why didn't Doctor Strange use the Time Stone more?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is their any logic/reason behind this, or should we just suffice with the assumption that some logic in this movie was just entertainment and more entertainment?!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions 1 and 4 appear to be asking the same thing: i.e. what is the out of universe reason the writers decided to &amp;quot;downplay&amp;quot; the Infinity Stones? However, question 1 could be interpreted for asking for in universe reasons. To me I read questions 2 and 3 as supplementary to the main question to back up your claims. As you can see though with the wording you've used it isn't exactly clear what you element you seem to want to know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Too Broad was also chosen as a reason and this will be those who read the question as 3 or 4 distinct questions which is too broad because here we require one question per question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Some general tips&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Always try and find a clear and succinct title that covers the main question and is easy for people to read. There is an art to this and it is one of the hardest parts of writing a question. However, something so generic as &amp;quot;Power of Infinity Stones in the Avengers Infinity War movie&amp;quot; is not the way to go. What does this mean you're asking:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What are the powers of them?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How powerful are they?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't even tell from your title what the actual question is and even after reading the actual question the link isn't the best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try and avoid rant like statements, such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is their any logic/reason behind this, or should we just suffice with the assumption that some logic in this movie was just entertainment and more entertainment?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These generally put people on the back foot straight away and it could easily have been reworded, similar to the question at the top of your answer, to read well and still ask the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also try and avoid statements that could read as questions, or read like you're actually asking about the reasoning when actually you want to know question. The parts about Thanos and Doctor Strange appear as if you actually want to know about them rather than the out of universe reasoning for the &amp;quot;under utilisation&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One last point is to think about tagging your question more clearly. For example, if you are really asking about the out of universe reasoning adding the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/thanos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;thanos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;thanos&lt;/a&gt; tag just makes this harder to understand; you didn't need it. From reading the tag excerpts you could also have realised that you don't need the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers&lt;/a&gt; tag either and should have used the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt; one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A point I try to reiterate to everyone is read the tag wiki excerpts, a lot of long time users, myself included, get it wrong sometimes. Though helping yourself as much as possible by reading the usage guidance goes a long way to minimising that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-07-30T08:44:11.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12006" CreationDate="2018-07-31T16:43:49.540" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This part of the question does not seem to have been answered already, and I think it's worth addressing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is this level of moderation and regulation, [sic] even desirable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange sites are focused and limited, and the evidence of the focus and limitations is that questions get put on hold when they are not a good fit for the site in question. So there is a &quot;level of moderation and regulation&quot; on Stack Exchange sites that could be described as &quot;higher&quot; than most other sites on the Internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that desirable? The popularity of Stack Exchange and the general quality of the content strongly suggest that it &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; desirable. It probably can't be &lt;strong&gt;proved&lt;/strong&gt; that the focus and restrictions implemented on Stack Exchange sites is even one of the reasons for the success of Stack Exchange, but it seems very likely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if you like Stack Exchange, then you probably like it because the &quot;level of moderation and regulation&quot; here helps to make it the quality resource that it is, and therefore it &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; desirable to you, in a way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps you don't like Stack Exchange. That is fair. There are enough users who do like it that looking to change such a fundamental component of the Stack Exchange model probably won't gain the popular support it would need to actually happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46607" LastEditorUserId="46607" LastEditDate="2018-07-31T17:31:51.513" LastActivityDate="2018-07-31T17:31:51.513" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12010" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-07-31T21:04:01.077" Score="15" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a minor disagreement about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/116165/underwater-sci-fi-movie-in-english-but-with-italian-actors-or-director#191773&quot;&gt;this answer of mine&lt;/a&gt;, so I thought we should discuss it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How much opinion commentary is appropriate in the answer to a story ID question?  Or, put another way:  Should answers include the answerer's subjective impressions of a work?  Personally, when answering such questions, if it is a work that I know well, I try to offer my thoughts on the work in question.  I think that is useful data, which may be valuable to anyone interested in or searching for a work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2018-08-02T05:15:51.473" Title="How much commentary and opinion is appropriate in a story identification answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12010" CreationDate="2018-07-31T21:32:13.217" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nothing wrong with including some opinion, as long as you &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; answer the question properly.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This goes for pretty much any type of answer, not just story-ID. It's OK to include a little bit of more subjective discussion, or even humour and jokes, as long as the bulk of the post is focused on seriously answering the question. We don't absolutely &quot;hate fun&quot; ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For story-ID in particular, there are several things we in general might learn from a Q&amp;amp;A as well as just providing the OP with their answer. For example, the question might show us which aspects of the story were most memorable, at least for that particular OP. A good answer will show how the given story matches each element of the question, but it might also be interesting to include some additional information, even if that's subjective. We're not a review service, but there's no harm in a little bit of opinion every now and then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, you provided a decent answer to the question - quoted plot summary, link for further reading - and then finished off with literally &lt;em&gt;four words&lt;/em&gt; expressing your opinion of the film. I don't think there's any problem with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-07-31T21:32:13.217" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12012" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-08-01T12:06:26.087" Score="16" ViewCount="268" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The Problem&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to follow all questions on works of one of my favourite authors, Ray Bradbury, but there's currently no way for me to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Constraints&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7923/what-is-the-correct-usage-of-individual-works-tags-vs-author-tags-vs-franchise/7924#7924&quot;&gt;Our policy&lt;/a&gt; is to &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; put an author tag on questions about one of their works, so following &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ray-bradbury&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ray-bradbury&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ray-bradbury&lt;/a&gt; doesn't work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could follow tags for the individual works. However, for Ray Bradbury that would be &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; of tags to follow. And even if I wanted to follow that many tags, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/312473/239016&quot;&gt;I can't follow non-existent tags&lt;/a&gt; for works about which no questions have been asked yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Other Examples&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jules Verne is another example of an author whose works do not fall in one franchise, where a user in chat has expressed a desire to follow questions about his work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And there are plenty of other authors whose works do not fall in one franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do I follow questions about works by a specific author?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2018-08-13T13:27:43.897" Title="How can I easily follow all works by an author?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12012" CreationDate="2018-08-01T12:06:26.087" Score="-3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Solution&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;In absence of another franchise tag,&lt;/em&gt; we tag questions with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/works-by-author&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;works-by-author&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;works-by-author&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Explanation&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;An author's works can be said to form a franchise&lt;/em&gt;. In absence of another franchise, we can use that. That should show up among the suggested tags when typing the author's name, and its use should be clear from the name of the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Examples&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;JKR's works all fall under &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; — or at least the ones on topic on this stack. There's no need for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/works-by-jk-rowling&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;works-by-jk-rowling&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;works-by-jk-rowling&lt;/a&gt; if one would want to follow everything JKR.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;A user can follow &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; and be done.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jules Verne's work have no such overarching franchise. So we tag questions about his works with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/works-by-jules-verne&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;works-by-jules-verne&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;works-by-jules-verne&lt;/a&gt;, alongside the tag for the specific work.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;A user can follow &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/works-by-jules-verne&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;works-by-jules-verne&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;works-by-jules-verne&lt;/a&gt; and be done.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;George Orwell's only works that are on topic on this stack are &lt;em&gt;1984&lt;/em&gt; and possibly &lt;em&gt;Animal Farm&lt;/em&gt;. Those two works should have their own tags that can be followed; no other tags are necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ursula K. Le Guin's works fall under two main franchises, &lt;em&gt;Earthsea&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Hainish Cycle&lt;/em&gt;. Works in those two franchises need no additional tags. Other works, like &quot;The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas&quot;, should be tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/works-by-ursula-k-le-guin&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;works-by-ursula-k-le-guin&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;works-by-ursula-k-le-guin&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;even if they have a tag for the individual work as well&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2018-08-13T13:27:43.897" LastActivityDate="2018-08-13T13:27:43.897" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12012" CreationDate="2018-08-01T13:01:08.283" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR: We use the author tags when there are few questions per work and in total as current practice already, this should be incorporated into current policy.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Current Policy&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Current policy would appear that author tags are to be used solely on questions about the authors themselves and not for questions about their works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is asking about a) aspects of the author's life, or b) aspects of the author's work that are not specific to a single work or franchise, then we tag the question with the name of the author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7923/58193&quot;&gt;What is the correct usage of individual works tags vs. author tags vs. franchise tags?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10287/58193&quot;&gt;meta post&lt;/a&gt; also quotes the same thing above and uses that to come to its conclusions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10306/58193&quot;&gt;This post&lt;/a&gt; about &lt;em&gt;Fahrenheit 451&lt;/em&gt; and Ray Bradbury has no clear consensus but does point to how things are done in practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Current Practice&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4860/how-should-we-handle-tag-hierarchies#comment13054_4861&quot;&gt;This comment&lt;/a&gt; alludes to how things are done in practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re: &amp;quot;author&amp;quot; tags... imho, the utility varies greatly depending on how many different titles the author contributes. For example, J.K. Rowling only has the Harry Potter world (at least as far as relates to SciFi/Fantasy), but authors like Heinlein, Dick, etc., have dozens and dozens of titles, many of which only have the author as a common factor. I see utility in have author tags for the more prolific writers. I might want to look through the Heinlein tag for ideas for other books of his to read, for example. – Beofett&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In reality though things are currently slightly different: &lt;strong&gt;we use the author tags when there are few questions per work and in total.&lt;/strong&gt; However, if there are main franchise/universe tags we should still be using them in place of the author tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course there is no explicit cut off on when we should stop adding author tags to works with higher than &amp;quot;few&amp;quot; questions so we use common sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;What needs to be done?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Current practice should be incorporated into current policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from that personally I don't think anything needs to be done. The author tags are already used in the proposed manner in cases where it is more appropriate and do we really want to group works by tag just because they have the same author? I don't think so. If the work is unrelated to another work in universe then they don't really need to be linked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;So how can you follow them easily?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well depends on the author and the traffic they bring to the site. I believe Ray Bradbury and Jules Verne already have their author tags used as &amp;quot;all works by author&amp;quot; so not a problem there. Though I'm not too familiar to check all the works to see if this is the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In cases where the author tags are used solely for questions about the author well then there's generally quite a few questions already. To take the below example adding the author tag wouldn't make it easier to find new questions about &lt;em&gt;Wild Cards&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Thousand Worlds&lt;/em&gt; or whatever other work he's letting distract him at the moment because they would be lost in the storm of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/em&gt; questions. (Note: adding the author tag to GoT questions wouldn't necessarily be the case but the point still stands even if it is solely applied to ASOIAF questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To take things to an extreme example lets look at George R. R. Martin. There are currently, that I'm aware of, 4 universe tags that relate to his works and the author tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt;: 1,284 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt;: 1,068 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-thousand-worlds&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-thousand-worlds&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-thousand-worlds&lt;/a&gt;: 6 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wild-cards&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;wild-cards&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wild-cards&lt;/a&gt;: 5 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/george-r-r-martin&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;george-r-r-martin&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;george-r-r-martin&lt;/a&gt;: 4 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case do we really want to have to retag 2,383 questions to have the author tags on them and then dilute questions about the author themselves. This would then also hold true for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;, although slightly different because there's only really one work here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a side note this might not work as you expect. For example, if you watch &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ray-bradbury&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ray-bradbury&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ray-bradbury&lt;/a&gt; but ignore &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fahrenheit-451&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fahrenheit-451&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fahrenheit-451&lt;/a&gt; questions tagged with both will still show up as highlighted. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/312184/345161&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; to the meta announcement, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/acqzC.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/acqzC.png&quot; alt=&quot;Tag conflict example&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-08-01T13:35:00.853" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12010" CreationDate="2018-08-02T05:15:51.473" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You asked &lt;strong&gt;how much&lt;/strong&gt; opinion should be included in a story-ID answer. To that I say that a little goes a long way. I usually try to avoid it entirely, but I make an exception when it's one of my very favorite authors or stories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You didn't ask &lt;strong&gt;what kind of&lt;/strong&gt; opinions should be included. Please bear in mind that, in most cases, the asker is asking about a story that he or she remembers with some affection, and may not appreciate being told that it stinks; they have asked us to identify it, not to evaluate it. Please remember that The Customer Is Always Right, and there is no pressing need to prove what good taste we have and how hard to please we are. In other words, if you can't say something nice about the work, consider keeping your opinion to yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastActivityDate="2018-08-02T05:15:51.473" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12016" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12019" CreationDate="2018-08-06T09:51:18.553" Score="-1" ViewCount="324" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/191899/can-the-night-king-walk-through-wildfire&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was closed as per &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5187/should-questions-about-future-works-be-closed-as-primarily-opinion-based&quot;&gt;the FWP&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was about a scenario which has not occurred yet, but is extremely likely to occur in the upcoming season. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of our Mods, Rand al'Thor, took the position that it should not be closed, as per the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11869/54887&quot;&gt;clarification to the FWP&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Per this clarification to the FWP, a question like this isn't closeworthy: it's asking about the canon as a whole, and could reasonably be answered based on current canon. &lt;code&gt;&quot;No answer known yet but may be revealed in future works&quot; is an excellent answer but NOT a valid reason to VTC.&quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is my understanding that the FWP clarification post applies this to the questions which:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do not have a canon answer currently but are expected to be answered in the future. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have enough data on the question subject to speculate in an educated manner. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The post in question, in my opinion, does not qualify for this exception. We do not have a canon answer but it is expected to be answered in the upcoming season and there is no precedent or data based on which we could speculate. Some other users agreed. Quoting TheLethalCarrot, a subject expert on the tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;This is a bit difficult to do with precision in all cases, as some questions may be borderline (in a sense of, it may ask about something technically about Episode 8, but to any canon expert, it's clear that the answer will be unknown till Episode 9 - personally I'd be OK with FWPing such a question but wouldn't be heartbroken if it stays open).&lt;/code&gt; is the clear part to me. The answer is clearly going to be addressed in Season 8 so FWP. So according to policy you shouldn't really have overridden the communities votes on the review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For complete discussion, please read the comments thread on the post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was closed. But was then put into the queue for reopening where it failed after gaining at maximum 3 votes. The question was then reopened by the mod himself. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2018-08-06T09:55:42.473" LastActivityDate="2018-08-13T06:23:08.777" Title="Why was this question reopened by a mod?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="23" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12017" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-08-06T15:25:48.740" Score="15" ViewCount="305" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really don't know why this question was closed as being &quot;primarily opinion-based&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/192382/why-didnt-belanna-torres-have-her-cranial-ridges-removed&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t B&amp;#39;Elanna Torres have her cranial ridges removed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems (to me) to be a decent question and answerable given the right source material.  I'm a bit lost as to what it was about this question that made it unanswerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we please reopen this question so that Valorum/any one else can add the promised answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user71418" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2018-08-06T15:31:26.570" LastActivityDate="2018-08-06T20:02:52.747" Title="Reopen Question: B'Elanna Torres's Head Ridges" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12017" CreationDate="2018-08-06T19:29:14.187" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm really at a loss why the close voters (Cherubel, TheLethalCarrot, Edlothiad&#xA;Loki and T.J.L.) felt that the question was worthy of closure. TLC has &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12017/reopen-question-belanna-torress-head-ridges#comment41098_12017&quot;&gt;spoken about it in comments&lt;/a&gt; and seems to have relented in his opinion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...On re-reading I can see how it can be interpreted to not be opinion based...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to be a perfectly answerable question within the normal scope of the site, not least because we have a wealth of in-universe information (mentioned by Torres herself on at least 5 occasions throughout the run of the show) about how she feels about her Klingon hybrid anatomy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The question is now open again and should remain so.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-08-06T20:02:52.747" LastActivityDate="2018-08-06T20:02:52.747" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12016" CreationDate="2018-08-13T05:05:34.947" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is my understanding that the FWP clarification post applies this to the questions which:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Do not have a canon answer currently but are expected to be answered in the future.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Have enough data on the question subject to speculate in an educated manner.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is not what &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11869/36526&quot;&gt;the FWP Clarification post&lt;/a&gt; to which you refer says.  It says the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If a specific canon &lt;strong&gt;has some published works already&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check, there are some published works in &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;And it also has some future works (planned, maybe, or unknown)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check, they are going to make more &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; (unless something catastrophically changes in the immediate future).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;And, the question is phrased specifically so that it can be answered &lt;em&gt;in the context of already published works&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check, &quot;we don't know&quot; is a perfectly good answer (which we know because it got upvoted and accepted), so this question &quot;can be answered in the context of already published works.&quot;  In fact, it &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; answered in the context of already published works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Then, such question is not FWP, even though in theory there are future works that may alter answers to such a question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's not close-worthy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to overturn that clarification to the policy, fine.  But we need to do that by actually &lt;em&gt;having a discussion&lt;/em&gt; about why the status quo is unsatisfactory and what we should do about it.  Right now, I see a lot of people arguing over what the rules are, but not a lot of argument over whether the rules are a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="36526" LastEditDate="2018-08-13T06:23:08.777" LastActivityDate="2018-08-13T06:23:08.777" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12021" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12022" CreationDate="2018-08-17T12:00:25.833" Score="13" ViewCount="363" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm asking in pure curiosity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the tour, you shouldn't ask a question if it has: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...] too many possible answers or that would require an extremely long answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, by the (short) time I've been there, it seems to me that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/8126/103122&quot;&gt;such long answers&lt;/a&gt; are usually of great quality, because of the amount of relevant information it gives. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="103122" LastActivityDate="2018-08-18T05:00:04.607" Title="Why is it discouraged to ask a question that requires long answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12021" CreationDate="2018-08-17T12:44:28.853" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer this I'd like to provide a bit more context to that part of the tour. The quote you refer to comes from the section &quot;Get answers to practical, detailed questions&quot; and is under the part with the heading:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Not all questions work well in our format. Avoid questions that are primarily opinion-based, or that are &lt;strong&gt;likely to generate discussion rather than answers&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Questions that need improvement &lt;strong&gt;may be closed&lt;/strong&gt; until someone fixes them.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The section you quoted then comes down to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Don't ask about...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;[...]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;or any other question with too many possible answers or that would require an &lt;strong&gt;extremely&lt;/strong&gt; long answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;Emphasis in the above quotes is mine.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This part of the tour seems to be trying to direct people away from asking questions that will be closed and the part you quoted is particularly trying to avoid Too Broad closures. The message there reads as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please edit the question to limit it to a specific problem with enough detail to identify an adequate answer. Avoid asking multiple distinct questions at once. See the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;How to Ask&lt;/a&gt; page for help clarifying this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taking all this information together it would appear that the quote is trying to avoid questions that will generate essay/tutorial length answers as they are not really a good fit for the question and answer model we use here. To quote an example of this from the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That's not a long answer. Extremely long answers mean things like essays, which can be several pages long. Or questions which as for infinite lists. These are too broad. For example, &quot;How do the themes in the Lord of the Rings affect how each individual character in the fellowship progresses through the story?&quot; One could probably write thousands of words on such a question, amongst others. These are not appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12021/why-is-it-discouraged-to-ask-a-question-that-requires-long-answer#comment41152_12021&quot;&gt;@Edlothiad&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see the above example would generate answers that could be &lt;strong&gt;extremely&lt;/strong&gt; long, it probably has multiple correct answers and will most certainly generate discussion rather than answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a side note I believe the tour is mostly a fixed template, where the mods and community managers can alter select bits of the text. So whilst it's likely been tailored for our community, some bits of it could still be the standard text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2018-08-17T12:50:14.977" LastActivityDate="2018-08-17T12:50:14.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12023" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12029" CreationDate="2018-08-18T04:33:57.043" Score="14" ViewCount="338" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel bad bringing this up because I think TheLethalCarrot has been doing a good job at fixing up a lot of old questions and answers with relevant quotes, but in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/39275/fantasy-book-where-the-wizards-constructs-their-towers-in-their-minds&quot;&gt;Fantasy book where the &amp;quot;wizards&amp;quot; constructs their towers in their minds&lt;/a&gt;, two people have objected to the changes made to their answers (one reverting the changes because they gained a downvote from it). I feel obliged to raise this with the community and see if anyone draws issue with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I, for one, often fix &quot;title-only&quot; or even &quot;link-only&quot; answers by adding a quote from that link, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7122/is-it-acceptable-to-substantially-add-text-to-a-post-when-editing&quot;&gt;substantive changes are often challenged&lt;/a&gt; and I know I've personally been burned by adding additional text the original author didn't want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2021-03-16T16:33:20.020" Title="Adding quotes to others' answers - when is it acceptable?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12021" CreationDate="2018-08-18T05:00:04.607" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is possible for some questions to require answers that are longer than the allowed answer length (which I believe is around 30,000 characters on most sites; a few sites may have special needs and allow 60,000 character answers).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the required answer is too long for the site, then it's not a good fit.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, by the (short) time I've been there, it seems to me that such long answers are usually of great quality, because of the amount of relevant information it gives. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that this looks at it the wrong way around.  What you are thinking about is thorough answers.  Thorough answers are great, as you said.  Too Broad questions though lead to answers that are not thorough or in-depth but which are still very long.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An obvious example:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please list all the people in the United States.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a ridiculously Too Broad question.  Even without saying anything about any person, it's still going to be millions of words, much less characters.  But this exhibits the problem exactly.  Questions that ask for many shallow responses are not generally good questions for Stack Exchange.  However, a similar question might be just fine for a phone book company.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30870" LastActivityDate="2018-08-18T05:00:04.607" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12025" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-08-18T16:05:03.337" Score="21" ViewCount="598" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unshô Ishizuka passed away on August 13, 2018. He was &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0411167/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a prolific Japanese voice actor&lt;/a&gt; who voiced many popular characters in anime such as Professor Oak (&lt;em&gt;Pokémon&lt;/em&gt;), Jet Black (&lt;em&gt;Cowboy Beebop&lt;/em&gt;), and Joseph Joestar (&lt;em&gt;JoJo's Bizarre Adventure&lt;/em&gt;). Even if you watched the English dubs and never heard his voice, know that your favorite characters achieved their popularity in Japan thanks to his talents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6mwYR.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6mwYR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Unshô Ishizuka voice actor&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13217" LastActivityDate="2018-08-18T16:05:03.337" Title="RIP Unshô Ishizuka, Japanese voice actor for Professor Oak, Jet Black, and Joseph Joestar" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12023" CreationDate="2018-08-18T16:30:51.647" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two separate issues here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Block quotes are for &lt;em&gt;quotes&lt;/em&gt;, i.e. material copied from somewhere else.  Such copying normally requires attribution or citation in some form.  Marking the material as a quote is necessary but insufficient.  You must also provide some indication of where the material came from.  On the other hand, if it's not a quote, then don't use block quotes (except for spoiler markup, that's a special case).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edits are meant to be used for correcting grammatical mistakes, improving formatting, clarifying wording, adding paragraph breaks, and other such minor changes.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7126/36526&quot;&gt;Edits should not normally change the substance of a question or answer&lt;/a&gt;, unless it's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10102/36526&quot;&gt;community wiki&lt;/a&gt;.  If you want to add a lot of new information, write a new answer, possibly referring to the other answer as inspiration.  There may be some leeway for improving very poor answers that would otherwise be deleted, but this is a tricky business because you still need to avoid changing the answer's intent.  Tread lightly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And a minor pet peeve of mine that probably isn't worth arguing over:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Just about every style guide that &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; have ever read recommends putting some work titles in quotation marks and others in italics, but I have never seen a recommendation to put the same work title in both quotes and italics at the same time.  Don't do that, especially when you are editing someone else's answer (they may be following a different style than you, and it's rather pointless to edit war over style).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="36526" LastEditDate="2018-08-18T17:04:40.060" LastActivityDate="2018-08-18T17:04:40.060" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12023" CreationDate="2018-08-19T10:25:02.990" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if we could have a definitive answer to this (though I suspect no definitive answer exists). I've tried both strategies and both have their drawbacks. I have added new answers with the details, but a couple of times the OP has accepted my answer instead of the first answer and that feels a bit unfair on the person who first identified the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These days I tend to edit the original post but keep my edits as streamlined as possible e.g. add just a single quote. I take the points Kevin makes in his answer, but I don't think it's &lt;em&gt;substantially changing the substance of a post&lt;/em&gt; if you add the minimum information required to show that the identification of the book is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4144" LastEditorUserId="23243" LastEditDate="2018-08-19T14:46:51.903" LastActivityDate="2018-08-19T14:46:51.903" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12028" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-08-20T06:48:00.007" Score="14" ViewCount="419" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/193023/20774&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; was posted a few days ago. The OP decided to make it into a Community Wiki answer because they wanted to &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/193022/what-would-the-effect-of-the-happily-ever-after-potion-have-been-on-fiona/193023#comment528971_193023&quot;&gt;disown&lt;/a&gt;&quot; it because they felt that their answer... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/46266076#46266076&quot;&gt;isn't worth the votes&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this isn't what the Community Wiki button is for (CW should only be used where there is an expectation of considerable community input) I flagged it for a moderator to un-Community Wiki it. My flag was refused &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why was this flag refused?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bonus question. Does this mean I can now use the Community Wiki to avoid upvotes and downvotes on poor quality answers?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2018-08-21T09:39:39.890" Title="Why was my flag (&quot;un-make this answer Community Wiki&quot;) refused?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="23" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12023" CreationDate="2018-08-20T08:45:11.580" Score="13" Body="&lt;h1&gt;General Case&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edits are generally used for fixing typos, adding in info from a link, fixing formatting etc. New information is sometimes added but it is generally not too much new information, maybe an extra quote or something to back up the answer. Adding a source for the OPs claims is also fine. Anything more than that and the editor has a few options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit it in anyway - after all it's SEs goal to build knowledge and adding info is always better than not (if it is relevant).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comment on the answer - let the answerer decide if they want the detail in their answer or not.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Post a new answer - whether community wiki or not (you decide, depends on how much work you put into it etc etc) adding the information somewhere in the relevant place should always be encouraged rather than not adding it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leave the information out - I'd always encourage to add information if it is relevant but maybe it's tangential or only confirms the OPs answer in another source so isn't entirely needed. I'd still suggest to leave it somewhere on the post but it may not be necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Story Id Case&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Story Id's are a bit different to the general case in that a lot of the hard work is actually done in getting the right answer. Here I'd be more liberal with adding in information yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you have access to the source material edit in relevant quotes that match the OPs points.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Link/title only - add a blurb or summary from somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You feel the answer ignore some of the OPs points but can see how they match the work, add in the detail.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;OP describes a cover but there isn't one in the answer and you know of a matching one, edit one in.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Specific Cases&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/129175/58193&quot;&gt;Case #1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here I reworked the sentence to read as it was meant to (though looks like I forgot to fix it completely i.e. &quot;one the the&quot; should have been &quot;one of the&quot; but I must have missed it). I then edited in a link to the series as it provides more information for the OP to see if this is the correct story: covers, reviews, brief description etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, I edited in the summary from the link, it isn't the best summary in the world but it does give us some useful information not already included in the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's part of a series.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The place the world is set.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The story is about three characters.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The over arching theme between the books i.e. love.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't give any specific details but a general overview along with the place name might be enough to jog the OP's memory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/77020/58193&quot;&gt;Case #2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I edited in some information from the link, the direct quote, in case it goes down. This appeared to be what the OP was basing their description of the character off of at the time and it's always better to have that information in the answer itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP disagreed with my edit and rolled it back, that's fine it is their answer to do with as they please. However, they then added in a quote from the book with a similar description of the character so my edit must have been along the correct lines in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, to provide a bit of context to why these posts were edited in the first place. I am currently going through old posts and fixing tags where they should be fixed. At the same time as doing that I am trying to fix everything I see that could be done on the &lt;strong&gt;whole&lt;/strong&gt; post, to avoid the post being bumped a few times down the line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To put people at ease I am trying to do around only 5 or 6 posts a day, depending on traffic levels on the homepage, and spread them around the day. Some days I'll do more, some less. Don't worry though I won't be destroying the homepage with old posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone does have a query about a specific edit I would gladly discuss it with them. I should always be pingable in TREU and commenting on the answer is another way you can reach me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="68872" LastEditDate="2018-08-20T09:32:58.860" LastActivityDate="2018-08-20T09:32:58.860" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12028" CreationDate="2018-08-20T19:21:41.877" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't un-wiki posts unless there's a very compelling reason to, and CW'ing to avoid &lt;em&gt;gaining&lt;/em&gt; rep certainly doesn't fall into that category. Using CW to avoid rep loss on a post expected to net negative rep is really the only questionable use for it, and given current guidance (below) even that would not be reason to un-wiki the post(s). If someone developed a habit of doing so, they may well get a &quot;consistently low-quality answers&quot; mod message though.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.meta.stackexchange.com/a/533/982&quot;&gt;Shog9 gave a thorough discussion of CW and un-wiki-ing on another meta&lt;/a&gt;, as linked to in the comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Summary&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If an author chooses to use Community Wiki, that's their business - the system has informed them of the consequences and they've made their decision. If you encounter one of those rare situations that demands a wiki answer, especially one where only a wiki answer is appropriate for a given question... Then raise a discussion and get the moderators involved. If you observe harassment, flag it. If you see a bad answer, downvote it; a good one, upvote it. And if you don't see a problem... Don't make one. Each day has sufficient problems as it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2018-08-20T19:21:41.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12028" CreationDate="2018-08-21T02:17:17.837" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does this mean I can now use the Community Wiki to avoid &lt;strong&gt;upvotes and downvotes&lt;/strong&gt; on poor quality answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;CW does two things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Prevents you from gaining or losing rep.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lowers the rep requirement for editing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither of those two things has anything whatsoever to do with how voting behaves.  CW answers can rise and fall like any other, get grayed out after being heavily downvoted, and can be deleted by the community where necessary.  They are not &quot;special&quot; and do not get any protection from the site's core functionality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an answer is low-effort, downvote it.  If it is CW, downvote it anyway.  CW is not an excuse for posting bad answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe you meant this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does this mean I can now use the Community Wiki to avoid &lt;strong&gt;losing rep&lt;/strong&gt; on poor quality answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, technically, but you should not be writing poor quality answers in the first place.  Poor quality answers should still be downvoted and delete-voted regardless of CW.  The problem in this case is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; &quot;A high-rep user used CW wrong.&quot;  The problem is &quot;A high-rep user wrote a low-effort answer.&quot;  The solution to that problem is the downvote button (and in some cases, the delete button).  If you notice a pattern of low-effort answers from the same user, either take it to meta or flag it for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the CMs often like to point out, a lot of energy is expended arguing over the merits of answers to poor questions.  That may be the case here.  This answer basically says &quot;The question doesn't have an answer because it is too speculative.&quot;  That sounds a lot more like a close reason than an answer to me.  And when we scroll up, the question is closed as &lt;em&gt;Primarily Opinion Based&lt;/em&gt; (it also has 4 reopen votes, so who knows what will happen next).  If a question does not have an answer, carefully think about whether it is closeable.  Not all questions with no answers should be closed, but many of them can and should be.  If you're confident that &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; question should not be closed, then your there's-no-answer answer does not need to be CW because it's a perfectly good answer (and, ideally, it cites specific sources where an answer could have been found but wasn't).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should also note that downvotes are -2 a pop.  It takes hundreds of downvotes or more to make a small dent in the average high-rep user's total.  An answer can receive &lt;em&gt;five times&lt;/em&gt; as many downvotes as upvotes, and still have no overall effect on the author's rep.  Answers need to be overwhelmingly downvoted before they start losing you rep in large enough quantities to matter.  Case in point: the linked answer has, at the time of writing, +1/-2 votes for a net rep gain of +4 (if it were not CW, that is).  Even without that upvote and with an extra downvote, it would only impose a penalty of -6 rep.  What difference would that make?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does this mean I can now use the Community Wiki to avoid &lt;strong&gt;gaining rep&lt;/strong&gt; on poor quality answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, but you probably &lt;em&gt;wouldn't&lt;/em&gt; be gaining all that much rep from a poor quality answer without said answer being CW in the first place (see next part), so it's a bit of a moot point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you would have gotten a lot of upvotes even without checking the CW box, then maybe it isn't all that bad of an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does this mean I can now use the Community Wiki to &lt;strong&gt;encourage upvoting or discourage downvoting&lt;/strong&gt; on poor quality answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In theory, no.  In practice, maybe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I said above, people should vote the same on CW answers as they do on regular answers.  &quot;The author won't get rep for this&quot; is a terrible reason to upvote anything.  It has nothing to do with the quality of the content, and so it will not cause good content to rise to the top (which is &lt;a href=&quot;/tour&quot;&gt;the whole point of voting&lt;/a&gt; in the first place).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, people have an annoying tendency to vote more leniently on CW answers than on non-CW answers.  This causes them to clutter up good questions and make them look like they have been addressed when in reality they still need a real answer.  My preferred solution to this problem is to actually write a real answer (or ask someone else to do so), and let it outscore the CW answer.  But this is often impractical for a variety of reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have any good solutions here, aside from consciously and deliberately changing our voting culture to stop favoring CWs.  In the short run, people with deletion votes should consider using them where appropriate, and the rest of us can make do with flags (again, where appropriate).  All of us could downvote these a bit more heavily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does this mean I can now use the Community Wiki to avoid &lt;strong&gt;rep notifications&lt;/strong&gt; on poor quality answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose, but you do still get comment notifications, and downvoters can and should leave comments explaining their downvotes.  Rep notifications are not a particularly effective way of communicating with authors, so this is a Good Idea for any kind of answer, not just CWs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Anyway, there's always the nuclear option of contacting Stack Exhange and telling them to dissociate your name from an answer... that will stop you from getting any notifications &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; disown the post in a far more thorough way than CW does.  No amount of arguing on meta will take this loophole away, it's baked into section 4(a) of &lt;a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the copyright license&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastActivityDate="2018-08-21T02:17:17.837" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12028" CreationDate="2018-08-21T09:39:39.890" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was on the fence about voting to delete the question because while not actually opinion based — it's not asking &quot;what do you guys think should happen?&quot; — it's almost certainly only answerable through speculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &quot;primarily speculative&quot; is not a valid close reason, I answered with a basic &quot;we don't know&quot;. I disowned that answer, since I felt I was acting as the system / community user and therefore didn't want it associated with my account. I've read and agree with &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.meta.stackexchange.com/a/533/13&quot;&gt;what Shog9 has written about CW&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since there is now another &lt;em&gt;accepted&lt;/em&gt; answer while mine proved to be controversial because of its cw status, I've deleted mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2018-08-21T09:39:39.890" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12033" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-08-23T15:58:00.030" Score="-15" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is fairly clear that there are users here from various time zones. With different groups having different times of sleeping, working, etc. there are times when you can predict fairly well which users will be around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suppose there is something to be voted on, e.g. closing or reopening questions. Suppose as well that you can predict with some level of accuracy how various users would vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suppose further that there is some level of correlation between the first two suppositions. That is to say that the users who you predict would agree with you are around at a specific time, and the users you predict would disagree with you are around at a specific other time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How, if at all, can/should this information be taken into account when deciding &lt;em&gt;when&lt;/em&gt; to bring up the vote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I imagine that it some cases it's important for the issue to be raised immediately, but in other cases a few hours doesn't seem so important.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastActivityDate="2018-08-23T16:22:46.460" Title="Taking advantage of voter availability" Tags="|discussion|voting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12033" CreationDate="2018-08-23T16:22:46.460" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This smells too much like 'gaming the system'.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Votes for closing or reopening are supposed to be based on community policies - these questions are on-topic, those questions are off-topic, maybe there's some grey areas which are worth discussing more. (This is in contrast with upvotes and downvotes, which may be based on personal preference.) If a question should be closed or reopened, then &lt;strong&gt;it shouldn't matter who's voting&lt;/strong&gt; since all votes should be cast based on site scope rules rather than whether a particular user likes or dislikes a question. If it does matter - if there's evidence that particular users are abusing their close/reopen votes against policy - then mods can take action if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's a question you'd like to discuss with particular users before voting - experts in the tag, for example - then you might be interested in their activity hours so that you can ping them at the right time. But deciding when to vote just so that you can do it at a time when &quot;users who agree with you&quot; are online ... doesn't feel right. Even if it succeeds in getting a question closed/reopened, the &quot;users who disagree with you&quot; can always vote to reopen/close it again when they're online.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-08-23T16:22:46.460" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2018-08-31T03:27:06.567" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The HouseKholinar crest from &lt;em&gt;The Way of Kings&lt;/em&gt; by Brandon Sanderson, white-on-black to be less blinding:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SdBc5.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SdBc5.png&quot; alt=&quot;The Kholinar Crest from the *Stormlight Archive*.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QXGcS.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;Corvo Attano&amp;#39;s Mask&quot;&gt;Formally Corvo Attano's Mask.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/32dqI.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;Emily Kaldwin in Dishonored 2&quot;&gt;Formerly Emily Kaldwin from Dishonored 2.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-02-15T14:57:37.350" LastActivityDate="2019-02-15T14:57:37.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12037" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-01T08:53:08.377" Score="16" ViewCount="298" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080120/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Warriors&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; is a 1979 film (with a 2005 home re-release that adds comic book transitions between scenes) that takes place in New York City that is full of peculiar gangs.  The setting was, as of the time it was made, clearly intended to be in the near future, with the city having become practically a hellscape of gang violence.  The city is more defaced by graffiti than NYC ever really was, and the street gangs are identifiable by their bizarre forms of dress—like pimps, or mimes, or baseball players, or what have you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yet, however unrealistically violent and run down the city has become, the setting is not post-apocalyptic.  For many people, life goes on seemingly unaffected.  There is still a police force; high school students still go to prom.  There are no overtly fantastical elements, but the depiction of New York is clearly not realistic either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since a question about &lt;em&gt;The Warriors&lt;/em&gt; occurred to me today, I wanted to ask here on Meta to see if there was a consensus about whether it was on topic for Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy.  It seems to me to be an edge case, and I would like to get others' thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2018-09-02T03:00:29.963" LastActivityDate="2018-09-02T03:00:29.963" Title="Is The Warriors (1979) on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12037" CreationDate="2018-09-01T09:12:13.793" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The simplest way to determine if something's on-topic is to look at the conceit, the goal of the director and the marketing. It's pretty straightforward to see that this film is firmly on topic, although questions about the minutiae of the &lt;em&gt;non-fantasy elements&lt;/em&gt; is probably stretching things a bit too far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conceit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film is set 'one-minute-into-the-future' and certainly has dystopic elements to it. The size and scope of the gangs, their garb, their relationship with the city and the police are all clearly not intended to be a literal interpretation of the City of New York. Additionally, the director is very clear that the film was &lt;em&gt;intended&lt;/em&gt; as a dystopia, although the studio largely marketed it as an action film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WH:&lt;/strong&gt; That's right. [Laughs] It was meant to be a dystopian tale about the near future, but at the same time it was meant to be a lot&#xA;of fun and have humor in it. The humor has always played, which I was&#xA;happy to note every time I saw it with an audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/interviews/a27499/the-warriors-walter-hill-interview/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;'Can You Dig It?' The Warriors, 35 Years Later&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marketing.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one's trickier. The original marketing mentions that the film is a &amp;quot;contemporary action-adventure&amp;quot; story but in light of what Hill said about the studio's confusion, this would explain why the blurb doesn't really match the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WH:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;I felt very strongly that it certainly was not a very realistic&#xA;book, and I wanted to make it even less so. &lt;strong&gt;I wanted to take it into a&#xA;fantasy element, but at the same time add some contemporary flash.&#xA;Those were some of the hard ideas we had to get the studio to&#xA;understand.&lt;/strong&gt; But we did not get along very well with our parent&#xA;company. After the movie came out and it did well, everybody was sort&#xA;of friends. &lt;strong&gt;But up until then there was a lot of misunderstanding.&#xA;They thought it was going to be Saturday Night Fever or something.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/interviews/a27499/the-warriors-walter-hill-interview/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;'Can You Dig It?' The Warriors, 35 Years Later&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1PzC6.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1PzC6.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-09-01T09:12:13.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12039" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12040" CreationDate="2018-09-03T11:48:31.403" Score="-2" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a suggestion, would it be good to have a corresponding number tag for each &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; film in the main series (not the anthologies). For example, a synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-phantom-menace&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-phantom-menace&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-phantom-menace&lt;/a&gt; tag might be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-episode-1&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-episode-1&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-episode-1&lt;/a&gt;, or possibly &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sw-episode-1&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sw-episode-1&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sw-episode-1&lt;/a&gt; (for simplicity.) &lt;strong&gt;Thoughts on my suggestion for adding these synonyms?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might also be good to mention that there is already a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-9&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-9&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-9&lt;/a&gt; tag for the upcoming 9th film in the sequel trilogy, so unless the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-9&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-9&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-9&lt;/a&gt; tag is going to be changed into the name of the film, there is surely some logic in making other corresponding tags for each of the other films in the prequel, original and sequel series. Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90310" LastEditorUserId="70477" LastEditDate="2018-09-17T04:31:03.230" LastActivityDate="2018-09-17T04:31:03.230" Title="Should we have numbered tag synonyms for each Star Wars film?" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12039" CreationDate="2018-09-03T12:45:00.273" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see a real need for it, but then again, synonyms cost even less than tags, which are already free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the name of the new episode becomes available, it would be useful to synonymise &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-9&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-9&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-9&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-whatever-it-will-be&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-whatever-it-will-be&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-whatever-it-will-be&lt;/a&gt;, so that users who don't know the new title yet will be automatically redirected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a personal level, my &lt;strike&gt;orderly mind&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;em&gt;mind craving for order&lt;/em&gt; likes it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In conclusion, unless a mod gets bored, I don't see this happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2018-09-03T12:45:00.273" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12041" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-04T01:46:07.573" Score="17" ViewCount="237" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not an important question but I always wonder when I type a question about an episode of a TV show:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How should one format the episode number of a TV show?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some examples, among many possibilities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the second episode of the third season,...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In &quot;Tabula Rasa&quot;,...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In Season 3 episode 2,...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In S03E02,...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In 03x02,...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I usually go for the first one, but some other would be faster to type.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Is there an option that is preferable to the other ones? Should some option be banned?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23563" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2018-09-04T09:50:04.867" LastActivityDate="2018-09-07T22:36:38.433" Title="Is there a preferred way to designate an episode of a TV show?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12041" CreationDate="2018-09-04T05:57:53.480" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;My preference is Title, followed by Season and Episode number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The City on the Edge of Forever&quot; (S1E28).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I usually put the combined season and episode number in parentheses when the TV series is already known, but will use them as shorthand for writing &quot;the Xth episode of the Yth season&quot; when needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The City on the Edge of Forever&quot;, S1E28 of &lt;em&gt;Star Trek (The Original Series)&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use single digits for the season, except when the season count reaches the double digits, then I use double digits for all (so &quot;S01&quot; for the first season).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I do likewise for the episode counts, but I always expect them to be double-digited, so I always use double digits there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I do not know the title I will omit that and just use S1E28.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2018-09-04T05:57:53.480" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12045" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-04T15:58:22.210" Score="15" ViewCount="338" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a relatively new user (their profile currently says they've been a member for 16 days) who seems to be particularly interested in Harry Potter, and has asked a number of questions about the books under the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; tag. However, there is a problem: Every single question is originally posted with a title of the form &quot;Book title - Character name&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everybody reading this should be aware that this is not a suitable title for a question. This user has been told that this is not a suitable title for a question. Repeatedly. On multiple questions. By more than one person (myself included).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For whatever reason, they refuse to take this feedback on board. New questions get posted using the same structure for the title, and are then edited by other users (often with a comment informing them, yet again, that it's not an acceptable title). They don't - as far as I've seen - respond to these comments, so it's possible they haven't seen them. It might be a (lazy) method of avoiding spoilers in the question title. Whatever the reason, the feedback is not being taken on board.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In situations like this, what can be done? Ideally an answer would cover:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Methods for ensuring the user has seen the feedback.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Methods for encouraging - and, if absolutely necessary, forcing - compliance in the future.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Further options if all other actions fail.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to get into a discussion about whether this is an issue. We have community standards, rules and guidelines, and all users are expected to comply with them, so a user not doing so &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; a problem, especially if they continue after being informed of what the expectation is. It's disrespectful to continue to expect other users to do basic things for them, but it's also not exactly disruptive enough to warrant a suspension or question ban (other than the titles, the majority of their questions aren't particularly low quality).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5833" LastActivityDate="2018-09-05T11:09:53.497" Title="What can be done about (new) users who don't take feedback regarding community expectations/standards on board?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12045" CreationDate="2018-09-04T16:09:14.037" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth the user in question is the second user who has acted like this in recent times. The first user eventually took the feedback on board after lots of prompts and editing by community members and has since gotten better at writing titles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now these titles aren't great but lets not forget...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Writing good titles is an art&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some general guidance on writing good titles I'd recommend reading this &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/10648/345161&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; over on Meta.SE. It's a fairly decent post to link to users who may need some pointers as it covers the general guidelines and is a network wide guide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now for some specific links from our site that can be helpful to point users too:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10729/58193&quot;&gt;Should questions about TV shows include episode titles?&lt;/a&gt; Conclusion: No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10145/58193&quot;&gt;How does the community feel about including asterisks, underscores or similar plaintext conventions in question titles?&lt;/a&gt; Conclusion: Use it if you want but we'd prefer not to have markdown looking titles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6433/58193&quot;&gt;Consensus on Story Identification titles?&lt;/a&gt; This one is more of a guide on what story identification titles should look like. Useful if the person is mainly asking &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2749/58193&quot;&gt;Is it OK for titles to have tags in them?&lt;/a&gt; Conclusion: Yes, as long as they occur naturally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2747/58193&quot;&gt;Abbreviations in question-titles, okay?&lt;/a&gt; Conclusion: Generally no, abbreviations, especially on first use, should be expanded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's about it for specific metas, that I can find, on our site. An attempt for a guide on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6523/58193&quot;&gt;What are the guidelines for 'descriptive' and 'searchable' title?&lt;/a&gt; went unanswered so we have no formal meta policy on descriptive and searchable titles. The best guide we have is really the one from Meta.SE I initially linked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for what can actually be done, well do what we are currently doing. At each step if the title has not already been fixed I would encourage the user to edit it. I would also suggest linking to one of the metas above if you feel it is appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comment on the user's post and politely explain the situation to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comment again, maybe a bit sterner. Should go without saying but all comments should still comply by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/conduct&quot;&gt;Code of Conduct&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rinse and repeat a few times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If nothing else works and all attempts fall on deaf ears flag for moderator attention, explain the situation and let them handle it. It's out of the community's hands at that point. The flag doesn't have to be too wordy but explain the situation briefly. For an example flag text, edit as needed as I'm not the most eloquent user, see below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This user usually has less than ideal titles of the format: &lt;code&gt;format&lt;/code&gt;. All attempts to reach them have failed and poor titles continue to come in. Can you send them a message to ask them to improve?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond commenting and raising to the moderators there isn't much you can do and I wouldn't get too worked up about it. Remember the community can always edit and with the active users we have titles are usually fixed nice and quickly anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will note though that personally I wouldn't comment to the same user more than N times, where N is an arbitrary number. It may feel like you are personally &amp;quot;attacking&amp;quot; the user and you don't need any retaliation to come your way from trying to help. At some point it's best to walk away and let someone else handle it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Further reading&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/236/58193&quot;&gt;Are non-question titles desirable or undesirable?&lt;/a&gt; Conclusion: It doesn't really matter as long as it is a &amp;quot;good&amp;quot; title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7296/58193&quot;&gt;Should this be a clickbait site, or should we stand by SE standards of question quality?&lt;/a&gt; Conclusion: Use a clear as title as possible. This would have been up in the &amp;quot;guides&amp;quot; section but I'd recommend not linking it because of the conversation surrounding the title question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/835/58193&quot;&gt;Is it okay to have spoilers in question titles?&lt;/a&gt; Conclusion: Yes, descriptive titles are more important. However, don't go out to intentionally spoil something, avoid them if possible (to a point though).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Side note&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of these questions are generally well received, some have hit the HNQ, and they have undoubtedly brought traffic here. If all that is wrong with them is a poor title that is something I can live with when considering the benefits. After all it is trivial to fix the title with a simple edit and can be sorted out quite quickly considering our active users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-09-05T11:09:53.497" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12041" CreationDate="2018-09-04T18:23:47.870" Score="21" Body="&lt;h1&gt;We shouldn't have an official &amp;quot;style&amp;quot; for Episode names/numbers.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from the amazing number of noisy edits that it would take to bring all the old posts up to date with a &amp;quot;standard&amp;quot;, we'd run into other issues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Using a style that doesn't fit with the work's chosen number/naming system (Many shows specifically use a format like S01E01/S1E1/E101 and S02E01/S2E1/E201, and searching via that format is genuinely useful for pulling up results)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Clarifying if the number (such as Season X Episode Y) is the planned episode number, number as originally aired, number released on disc, number as displayed on a streaming website (While this last one might sound silly, I have an anecdotal example of a show where I've purchased the whole 1st season from Amazon Prime, but half a dozen of the &amp;quot;part 2&amp;quot; episodes are from Season 2, and they list 3-4 seasons, whereas there's only 2.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maintaining this style if we ever change our mind on the convention becomes another edit nightmare&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, we should just let the author's original format stand, and if necessary &lt;strong&gt;supplement it with the actual title of the episode &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; it's necessary to make the question more clear&lt;/strong&gt; (such as might be the case when there's different orderings, like in my 2nd bullet as seen with &lt;em&gt;Firefly&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-09-04T18:23:47.870" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11002" CreationDate="2018-09-05T14:47:13.157" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to have been fixed &lt;s&gt;— mostly&lt;/s&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All links are now either explicitly https or protocol-relative.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The link to our policy on &amp;quot;scientific explanations&amp;quot; now points to &lt;code&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7364&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2021-01-15T08:54:04.553" LastActivityDate="2021-01-15T08:54:04.553" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12049" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-05T23:24:17.793" Score="-2" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Context&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tonight, we discussed in chat how some story-identification questions might use a tag to point out that the story tackled was originally read/watched/heard/whatever online. The discussion starts &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/46601433#46601433&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing is, more and more content is likely to be encountered digitally nowadays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Facts&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Online&quot; content includes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;actual&quot; digitalizations (such as the ebook versions of &lt;em&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;, you name it);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;fanfiction, as in related to an existing universe;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;original content, may it be full-fletched books, podcasts, amateur videos, but also '&quot;single&quot; posts, the point being that they are standalone work, supposedly unrelated to a previous work.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's leave fanfiction aside, since there is already a tag for that. We're left with the actual digitalizations, and the original content. Before we get to the potential distinction between the two, figures time! As of today, we have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;26 questions for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bstory-identification%5D+kindle+is%3Aq&quot;&gt;stuff read on Kindle&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bstory-identification%5D+wattpad+is%3Aq&quot;&gt;one for Wattpad&lt;/a&gt; (which was also physically published, though);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;220 story-ID questions including the word 'online' (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bstory-identification%5D+online+is%3Aq&quot;&gt;these ones&lt;/a&gt;), though some of them deal with &lt;em&gt;stuff that happens online&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/192562/98028&quot;&gt;for instance&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/16698/98028&quot;&gt;for other instance&lt;/a&gt;). If we tweak that query a bit, we have&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;18 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bstory-identification%5D+%22read+online%22+is%3Aq&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;read online&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;6 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bstory-identification%5D+%22read+this+online%22+is%3Aq&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;read this online&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bstory-identification%5D+%22published+online%22+is%3Aq&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;published online&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bstory-identification%5D+%22online+novel%22+is%3Aq&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;online novel&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bstory-identification%5D+%22released+online%22+is%3Aq&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;released online&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and probably a bunch of other custom phrasings meaning the same thing. If you feel like it, you're welcome to grab a Thesaurus and get searching.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All questions above are currently tagged with whatever seemed relevant at that time, may it be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt; or no other &quot;media tag&quot; at all. We can debate for hours on whether an online post developing a story (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/193637/98028&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; for instance) is indeed a short story, but the &lt;em&gt;media&lt;/em&gt; itself would be the Web. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Question&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With regards to what has been said in chat, and what &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; be said in the discussion comments, should we have a new tag for &quot;I read that online&quot; story-id/image-id/etc questions? When and how would we use it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastActivityDate="2018-09-06T14:51:59.790" Title="Should we have a tag for original web content?" Tags="|discussion|tags|story-identification|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12049" CreationDate="2018-09-05T23:24:17.793" Score="0" Body="&lt;h1&gt;For original content&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Let's name our baby&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As pointed out by b_jonas in chat, TvTropes calls those &quot;web-original stories&quot;. Five people, including the self-declared &quot;Head Tag Nerd&quot;, seemed to back up the idea of the brand-new &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/web-original&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;web-original&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;web-original&lt;/a&gt; tag, suggesting the wiki excerpt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For questions about works originally published on the Internet, such as stories from personal websites, web magazines, podcasts, animations or videos. For webcomics, use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/webcomics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;webcomics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;webcomics&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To which I'd add &lt;code&gt;For fanfiction, use [tag:fan-fiction]&lt;/code&gt;, as well as something along the lines of &lt;code&gt;Do not use the tag for specific works; use a work tag instead&lt;/code&gt;, the same way we don't tag each &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-wheel-of-time&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-wheel-of-time&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-wheel-of-time&lt;/a&gt; question with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; for instance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Aw, now that we've named it we can't abandon it. Can it be useful, though?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When is a tag needed? Let's look at the four points &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/239191/398063&quot;&gt;detailed in main Meta&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? and is it unambiguous?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Check&lt;/strong&gt;. We're talking &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; here, so it's always good to narrow the scope. I'm a big fan of  &lt;a href=&quot;https://pastebin.com/bSvCzQky&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Valorum's most awesome short story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.  However, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't find it on ISFDb - scope narrowed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is the concept described even on-topic for the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, it is not. But &lt;strong&gt;it doesn't have to be&lt;/strong&gt;, it's a media tag. We have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movies&lt;/a&gt; tag and not every movie is SFF. So I just think this bullet point is not relevant due to the nature of SFF.SE. &lt;em&gt;(it's more relevant for SO for instance - see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kittens&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kittens&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kittens&lt;/a&gt; example in the main meta post above)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does the tag add &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; meaningful information to the post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Check&lt;/strong&gt;. Redundant with point 1, though: the meaningful info added is the narrowing of the scope, potential sites to search on, word combinations, Google-Fu tricks, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from story-ID, I could imagine &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; questions about the first SFF book published online or something.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does it mean the same thing in all common contexts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Check&lt;/strong&gt;. It's content that was originally published on the Web. As far as I'm concerned, I don't see anything ambiguous with that, but of course all feedback is welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the unofficial one: are there experts on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/web-original&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;web-original&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;web-original&lt;/a&gt; works? Those would be people who are interested in what other people post online, about various topics, or even write/draw/film it themselves - you've made it to the Meta of a Q/A site about worlds that don't exist, and you're asking me if there are people who fit the above description? :^)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Trivia&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already have several tags related to online works. It would seem consistent to have a &quot;mother tag&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;as said in the question, we have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fan-fiction&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fan-fiction&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fan-fiction&lt;/a&gt; tag. No need to prove that most fanfiction is located online;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;we have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/webcomics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;webcomics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;webcomics&lt;/a&gt; tag, which is obviously also encountered online;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;we have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scp-foundation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scp-foundation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scp-foundation&lt;/a&gt; tag. SCP is entirely written online.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;we have an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/online-resources&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;online-resources&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;online-resources&lt;/a&gt; tag, which is pretty murky but rather deals with databases of summaries, archives, etc. Distinct from what we're talking about, I reckon.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Authors aren't only Bob McGee. There are well-known authors of printed books who also released web-original content - Andy Weir, for instance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;For digitalizations&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It happens! Sometimes, the stuff you've read/watched online was originally a full-fledged printed book/movie, but you don't really know for sure - it was ages ago, on your Kindle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; it was a digitalization, no need to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/web-original&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;web-original&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;web-original&lt;/a&gt;. Use the usual, relevant &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt; or whatever. Mention that you &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; read it online, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're rather confident it could have been an original work, sure, go ahead and use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/web-original&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;web-original&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;web-original&lt;/a&gt;, as well as another relevant media tag, if there is one (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt;...). You might be wrong. It happens. We've had &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/anime&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;anime&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;anime&lt;/a&gt; story-ids that turned out to be games, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movies&lt;/a&gt; which were actually TV shows - the story-ID question is how you remember something you'e partially forgotten. It's not a big deal if you were wrong on one point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Originally posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/152526/are-there-any-superheroes-who-are-not-aware-that-they-are-indeed-a-superhero#comment526926_152526&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Can't wait for the sequel!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2018-09-05T23:53:07.990" LastActivityDate="2018-09-05T23:53:07.990" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12049" CreationDate="2018-09-06T00:02:23.300" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;This proposed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/web-original&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;web-original&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;web-original&lt;/a&gt; tag seems to serve no useful purpose other than to try to lump dissimilar tags under one roof.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, the concept of '&lt;em&gt;original work produced for sole consumption online&lt;/em&gt;' is so fantastically wide that it encompasses everything from online comics, fanfiction, original erotica, fan-art, original artistry, fan-audio commentaries and a million more items besides. These properties are so completely and utterly disparate that attempting to tag them together (as if they're all basically the same thing) can't possibly help our users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already have a wealth of &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt; tags for the likes of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/webcomics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;webcomics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;webcomics&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fan-fiction&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fan-fiction&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fan-fiction&lt;/a&gt; that seem worthwhile and sensible. Creating an &lt;em&gt;additional hierarchy &lt;strong&gt;to sit above these&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is a step too far in the wrong direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That all being said, I can see some value in creating an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/online-fiction&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;online-fiction&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;online-fiction&lt;/a&gt; to help identifying &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-id&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-id&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-id&lt;/a&gt; questions, &lt;strong&gt;as long as the tag is used exclusively in conjunction with the Story-ID tag and not as an overarching tag to shoehorn all online-created works into.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2018-09-06T00:02:23.300" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12049" CreationDate="2018-09-06T00:04:04.160" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a strong reason to have such a tag for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;identification&lt;/a&gt; questions, considering &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7877/how-do-we-actually-use-tags&quot;&gt;how we actually use tags&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When &lt;strong&gt;asking *-identification questions&lt;/strong&gt;, and certain other types of questions by creators with limited works, we use media tags to specify where the content came from. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's some similar tags we have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/webcomics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;webcomics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;webcomics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/young-adult&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;young-adult&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;young-adult&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/horror&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;horror&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;horror&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/anime&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;anime&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;anime&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/childrens-novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;childrens-novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;childrens-novel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cartoon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cartoon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cartoon&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hard-sci-fi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hard-sci-fi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hard-sci-fi&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/soft-sci-fi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;soft-sci-fi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;soft-sci-fi&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what are we lacking, considering our modern age? Works that are created for the purpose of being consumed via the Internet, and not published in a physical form. There's a long list of works that would fit under this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Blogs, like Worldbuilding.SE's &lt;a href=&quot;https://medium.com/universe-factory&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Universe Factory&lt;/a&gt; that publish SF&amp;amp;F works, or websites where the author posts pieces of the story in a serial manner (so it is not necessarily a short story, nor even finished work. Similar to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/webcomics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;webcomics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;webcomics&lt;/a&gt;, except print only.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Story posting websites such as FanFiction.net&lt;/strike&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fan-fiction&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fan-fiction&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fan-fiction&lt;/a&gt; already exists, and so this is a bad example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/web-original&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;web-original&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;web-original&lt;/a&gt; would &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be used in place of better-suited tags, nor on top of them in a hierarchical manner&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Places like &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theoryland.com/theories.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Theoryland&lt;/a&gt; which allow users to post articles or essays that may not be &lt;em&gt;stories&lt;/em&gt;, but may also be on topic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Privately run websites such as author &lt;a href=&quot;https://brandonsanderson.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Brandon Sanderson's&lt;/a&gt; where original content might be published,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;E-books published without physical counterparts, which is very common for new authors&lt;/strike&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A book is a book, a short story is a short story. After consideration, I struggle to think of any e-book I've read that doesn't clearly fit into the standard classifications.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;All manner of videos, such as the short &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LpJBAT-ze0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Dust&quot; by EmberLab&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After discussion, I feel that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-shorts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-shorts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-shorts&lt;/a&gt; is much better suited for items that don't fit the standard idea of TV show or movie, consistent with items posted on YouTube but possibly animated shorts (similar to those seen at the start of Pixar films). Of course, that tag should only be created if we have questions it applies to.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;SF&amp;amp;F podcasts, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.popsci.com/best-science-fiction-podcasts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;of which there are many&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Again, after discussion, I believe &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/podcasts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;podcasts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;podcasts&lt;/a&gt; better fits this. Of course, that tag should only be created if we have questions it applies to.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/web-original&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;web-original&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;web-original&lt;/a&gt; satisfies the need for a new tag for certain types of content, without having to keep up new tags for every different format such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/blog&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;blog&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/article&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;article&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt;, which are terms that are similarly nebulous and overlapping. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just for clarity, the name &quot;Web Original&quot; is a pretty common term, used by content publishers as well as other websites that categorize media, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WebOriginal&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TV Tropes&lt;/a&gt;. I've received some feedback that suggests people are simply not aware that it's a pre-existing term, not one that has been made up for the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2018-09-06T14:51:59.790" LastActivityDate="2018-09-06T14:51:59.790" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12053" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-07T01:48:42.797" Score="8" ViewCount="207" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070917/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Wicker Man&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; is a famous British folk musical/horror/erotic thriller film from 1973.  (There was a 2006 American remake that I have never seen and which is not that well regarded.)  I was wondering about the consensus on whether questions about the original film are on topic for Science Fiction and Fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film does include one minor but clear cut science fiction element.  The island where it takes place, Summerisle, is so named because it exhibits an almost Mediterranean climate despite being located off the coast of Scotland.  This is explained by the presence of an anomalous warm-water current that flows from the tropics to the island, keeping Summerisle atypically warm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no other explicit science fiction of fantasy in the story.  However, the inhabitants of Summerisle certainly believe that magic exists, specifically that they can reverse the recent cooling trend that has devastated their agricultural economy by offering a human sacrifice to propitiate their gods.  The movie does not appear to give any credence to this possibility, but the islanders' mystical belief is ultimately what drives the entire plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what do people think about whether the film is on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2018-09-07T01:50:57.713" LastActivityDate="2018-09-08T18:17:44.417" Title="Is The Wicker Man (1973) on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12054" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12057" CreationDate="2018-09-07T12:09:37.873" Score="13" ViewCount="242" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently noticed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/16315/what-was-the-first-work-to-posit-the-equivalence-of-magic-rituals-and-computer-a&quot;&gt;What was the first work to posit the equivalence of magic rituals and computer algorithms?&lt;/a&gt; being pushed to the front page. Currently, every answer is locked (maybe due to spam edits according to the comments). Is it still necessary to keep these posts locked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2018-09-07T13:51:25.253" LastActivityDate="2018-09-07T16:13:52.533" Title="Do we still need to keep this thread locked?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|locked-posts|spam|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12054" CreationDate="2018-09-07T14:23:14.793" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason rejected spam edits used to be a problem is because even when rejected they were still publicly visible and spammers would use that as proof to their clients they had successfully spammed their site. That was changed over a year ago so that now you can only see edits rejected as spam / vandalism if you have an account and are logged in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/300945/why-are-suggested-edits-that-were-rejected-as-spam-or-vandalism-not-visible-to-u/300946&quot;&gt;Why are suggested edits that were rejected as spam or vandalism not visible to users who don't have an account on the site?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since that point I've seen almost no suggested edit spam on other sites so I'd say the answers could now be unlocked, but of course not being a regular contributor here that's up to moderators and I'm just giving some background on why it used to be a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31216" LastActivityDate="2018-09-07T14:23:14.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12056" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12058" CreationDate="2018-09-07T16:00:25.177" Score="2" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question was recently bumped by edits: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/15863/31394&quot;&gt;In what order should I read the Robert Langdon books?&lt;/a&gt; At first I was going to delete it because it's &lt;strong&gt;off-topic&lt;/strong&gt; for our site, but then I saw the incredibly high view count, meaning that (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11069/31394&quot;&gt;like many suggested-order questions&lt;/a&gt;) it's being &lt;strong&gt;useful to drive-by users&lt;/strong&gt;. I say drive-by because the vote count is so low compared to the view count. On the other hand, the &lt;strong&gt;answers are ... not great&lt;/strong&gt;, especially &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/159075/31394&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/91428/31394&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; which provide no support or justification whatsoever for their suggestions. So I'm bringing it to the community: should we delete this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/59054/278659&quot;&gt;like other off-topic questions&lt;/a&gt;, or leave it because it's being useful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-09-07T16:45:37.683" Title="Shall we delete this old, off-topic but highly viewed, question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|deleted-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12054" CreationDate="2018-09-07T16:13:52.533" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should be fine now so I've unlocked them.  If you see any spam suggested edits (on those or any other posts) please ping a mod or raise a flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2018-09-07T16:13:52.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12056" CreationDate="2018-09-07T16:30:46.587" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say this has many of the qualifications that matter to keep it and put a &quot;historical lock&quot; on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/126587/what-is-a-historical-lock-and-what-is-it-used-for&quot;&gt;What is a historical lock, and what is it used for?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from being popular (good votes, despite being &lt;em&gt;off&lt;/em&gt; topic, and high view count, it's also helpful as a sign post of &quot;Hey, this series isn't actually on topic here!&quot; If people are searching for it and they find this question, they don't need to learn how to use Meta or ask a question and get it closed, first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In personal experience, I've often found historical lock questions on Stack Overflow and similar sites &lt;em&gt;extremely&lt;/em&gt; helpful in figuring out types of questions that are on-topic for that stack. And, speaking from my early days as a user of Stack Exchange, some of the historical locks were actually how I discovered other stacks even existed, since comments pointed towards Programmers, Code Review, Code Golf, etc. Similarly, we could be pointing to Literature (if this would be on topic there. I make no assumptions on that), or some other website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2018-09-07T16:45:37.683" LastActivityDate="2018-09-07T16:45:37.683" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12041" CreationDate="2018-09-07T22:36:38.433" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As Web Head's answer says, there is no universal style or format.  Write what makes sense to you, and try to be unambiguous.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some rules of thumb that I like to follow when I am referencing a specific episode:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Always include the series or season number and episode number.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the show includes episode and/or season numbers on the title screen (e.g. &lt;em&gt;Avatar: The Last Airbender&lt;/em&gt;), use those.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Otherwise, follow the conventions of reliable and semi-reliable sources like TV Guide, Wikipedia, and (for &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; in particular) Memory Alpha.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the creators have stated a preference to avoid numbering, then omit numbers.  Also consider omitting numbers for anthology shows which have little or no internal continuity (e.g. &lt;em&gt;The Twilight Zone&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Black Mirror&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Always include the title of the episode, and the title of the show if not obvious from context (e.g. in a question about all of &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;, indicate which show you mean).  Abbreviations are OK if they are likely to be understood (e.g. TOS, TAS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, and DISC are all fair to use for &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Enclose the title in quotation marks (no italics).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Italicize the name of the show (no quotes).  Don't italicize abbreviations.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Within an answer, always use the exact same style throughout (e.g. &quot;season 1, episode 23&quot; vs. &quot;S1E23&quot; vs &quot;episode 1x23&quot; etc.), but it's OK if different answers to different questions use different styles.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think (1) and (2) are more important than the rest of the list, but the whole thing is my personal preference.  I would not edit someone else's answer to conform to any of these rules (and you shouldn't, either).  I might edit someone else's answer if I found it confusing enough, but only to add detail, not to enforce style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Again, do not edit anyone else's answer to conform to any of these rules.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastActivityDate="2018-09-07T22:36:38.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12053" CreationDate="2018-09-08T18:17:44.417" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd argue against it being SF&amp;amp;F. There is nothing in the film which isn't easily explained by fortune and superstition. I don't have enough additional words to really make an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if you accept that the sacrifice does guarantee good weather and harvest, as Valorum states, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/are-works-that-arent-sf-per-se-but-have-occasional-sfnal-elements-on-topic-e&quot;&gt;incidental SF&amp;amp;F content doesn't make a mostly mundane series valid&lt;/a&gt; except maybe if you are specifically asking about those elements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2018-09-08T18:17:44.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12061" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-10T11:24:33.577" Score="14" ViewCount="445" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's the question (spoilers for &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Infinity War&lt;/em&gt;): &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/187364/why-did-this-work&quot;&gt;Why did this work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The underlying idea of this question is that a person cannot love an adopted child as much as a natural child, and then, assuming this fact, asks how sacrificing such a child can ever be the same as sacrificing a natural one. The question is heavily downvoted (currently at -28), but remains open and has no close votes. In an answer, @gowenfawr states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To suggest adoption belies love is naive to the point of being offensive, quite frankly, which probably explains the downvotes on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this question &lt;em&gt;Rude or Abusive&lt;/em&gt; as would generally be considered flaggable? I've been conflicted. I've been thinking off and on about flagging it, but have been afraid that doing so would just give me an unnecessary declined flag and perhaps some unneeded ill-will from the mods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Reasons in favor of flagging&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The inherent premise of this question is a concept widely considered offensive. It seems similar to a question asking &quot;How can Janeway be a starship captain? She's a woman!&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question can't easily be edited to remove the offensive part without changing the nature of the question, invalidating the current answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Reasons against flagging&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This question has survived for four months without getting closed or deleted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question has an upvoted, accepted answer that almost represents a &quot;turnaround&quot; of the concept (yet, I know that on SE, answers and questions are supposed to be judged &lt;em&gt;separately&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the Meta consensus? Is this question Rude or otherwise flaggable, or should it just be a &quot;downvote and move on&quot; type of thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70477" LastEditorUserId="70477" LastEditDate="2018-09-10T11:36:22.540" LastActivityDate="2018-09-10T15:04:10.267" Title="Is this question Rude?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12061" CreationDate="2018-09-10T11:37:14.913" Score="9" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Is this question Rude?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It certainly seems to be rude and offensive. There are multiple cases on the whole post of people saying it is rude and offensive and the downvotes also seem to be explained because of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Is it worthy of deletion/flagging?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to say no and only because I think the question itself was asked in good faith. The text in the question doesn't read itself as trying to be offensive and there is the following comment on the post which leads me to believe it certainly wasn't asked just to be offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@PaulD.Waite I don't have any specific citation - just my personal experience being adopted – ilikechairs &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/187364/why-did-this-work#comment510548_187364&quot;&gt;May 14 at 15:29&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2018-09-10T11:37:14.913" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12061" CreationDate="2018-09-10T15:04:10.267" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this a valid question and the &quot;offensive&quot; part can easily be removed without changing the premise of the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have done just that in an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/187364/4&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2018-09-10T15:04:10.267" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12064" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12065" CreationDate="2018-09-11T00:39:25.730" Score="6" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/70879/80s-anime-with-mecha-having-tank-tread-roller-skates/194589#194589&quot;&gt;an answer I just posted&lt;/a&gt;, it seems that stack.imgur.com is not resizing the images when the letters t or m are added to the filename. As an example, here's bUxeut.jpg and bUxeum.jpg:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bUxeut.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bUxeum.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may confirm that the URL syntax is correct by editing this question or opening the above images individually. Currently, these display for me at the same size in the preview of this question. Past questions that I've used these image sizes in remain unaltered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not ignoring all of the possible parameters, since image bUxeus.jpg and bUxeub.jpg display properly resized:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bUxeus.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt; &#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bUxeub.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've changed the thumbnails to the large square size (b) in the answer in question. But I greatly prefer to include the t or m sizes in my answers, as they fit very nicely between paragraphs, with two side-by-side images fitting on one line without being cropped into squares. So if there's a reason why my images aren't resizing to those sizes, or a work-around that could fix this, I'd like to know about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30467" LastEditorUserId="30467" LastEditDate="2018-09-11T00:45:49.390" LastActivityDate="2018-09-11T13:06:16.793" Title="Is there a reason that stack.imgur.com image resizing parameters don't work on certain images?" Tags="|support|editing|images|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12064" CreationDate="2018-09-11T13:06:16.793" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;It's broken network-wide.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See this main meta post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/314028/278659&quot;&gt;The Stack Imgur service is no longer resizing images correctly&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because it's very useful, I'll quote the answer there on a useful workaround using &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1777/what-html-tags-are-allowed-on-stack-exchange-sites&quot;&gt;HTML&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use markup like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[&amp;lt;img src=&amp;quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MJrvX.png&amp;quot; width=&amp;quot;320&amp;quot; height=&amp;quot;30&amp;quot; alt=&amp;quot;wide demo pic&amp;quot;&amp;gt;][2]&#xA;  [2]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/MJrvX.png &amp;quot;Click for larger image.&amp;quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which yields:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MJrvX.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;Click for larger image.&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MJrvX.png&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; height=&quot;30&quot; alt=&quot;wide demo pic&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-- With:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a useful &lt;code&gt;alt&lt;/code&gt; parameter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hover text.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a convenient link to the image, full-sized.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-09-11T13:06:16.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12067" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-15T03:50:10.210" Score="1" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 1988 comedy &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Einstein&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Young Einstein&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&quot; is a whimsical take on Albert Einstein. Much about the scientist is changed up and the film has a very slight steam-punk aspect to it both period-wise (early 1900s) and technology-wise. For example, not only does he split an atom using a chisel(!), but he also wires up several items - including a violin - to electricity. It's also anachronistic, with Einstein using the electric violin/guitar to &quot;invent&quot; rock-and-roll, as well as other references to future advances. For the most part, however, it's just a whacky comedy based around a character named Albert Einstein who comes up with the Theory of Relativity after splitting the beer atom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, &lt;strong&gt;would this be on-topic here due to the aforementioned reasons, or would it be better to post on Movies SE?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20557" LastActivityDate="2018-09-15T03:50:10.210" Title="Would the 1988 comedy &quot;Young Einstein&quot; be on-topic for the site?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12069" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-17T21:54:37.110" Score="0" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;When voting to close a question there are five options you can choose from:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/af4Jj.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/af4Jj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Close reason selection box&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ones that interest me here are the third and fifth choices. While I don't think this is a pervasive issue, I have seen it enough that I think it warrants a discussion. It seems to me that specifically these two close reasons are applied improperly at times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Let's start with the third one&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;unclear what you're asking&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please clarify your specific problem or add additional details to&#xA;  highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it’s hard&#xA;  to tell exactly what you're asking. See the How to Ask page for help&#xA;  clarifying this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand this to refer to a post where you cannot see what the question being asked is. Such questions are closed because if we don't know what the question is then we can't provide good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, a question can be a clear question (i.e. we know what is being asked) but still be a bad question, an inappropriate question, or closeworthy for some other reason. In such a case I do not think this close reason should be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet I have seen questions closed with this reason that appeared (at least to me) perfectly clear. The most recent example is this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/195005/are-there-plans-to-make-the-iron-man-title-less-sexist&quot;&gt;Are there plans to make the Iron Man title less sexist?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, I know basically nothing about Marvel, but it seems to me that the question is about as clear as you can get. The title reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are there plans to make the Iron Man title less sexist?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the opening sentence reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does Marvel have any plans to make the Iron Man title less gender&#xA;  exclusive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are both simple explicit yes-or-no questions. Either there are plans or there aren't. And the question even gave examples of what would be less sexist and less gender exclusive:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;has Marvel indicated they will go with a more progressive mantle like&#xA;  Iron Person, Iron Human, or Iron Individual*?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, of course, there may be other issues with this question (which probably explains the 23 downvotes at the time of this writing). Some comments, both to the post and in Chat (starting &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/46768042#46768042&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;), point out some issues with the question, particularly that it might not have been asked in good faith, that it is confrontational, that the premise that the title is sexist is incorrect, etc. But to my mind none of those points make the question unclear, and thus I don't think it is proper to close it as &quot;unclear what you're asking&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Now let's look at the fifth choice&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;primarily opinion-based&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert&#xA;  experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost&#xA;  entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific&#xA;  expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand this close reason to refer to questions that are inherently subjective. For example, a question that asks who your favorite character is, or who the best character is. These questions are primarily opinion-based because they cannot be answered using objective methods. As the reason tells us, these questions cannot be based on &quot;facts, references, or specific expertise&quot; because concepts such as &quot;favorite&quot; or &quot;best&quot; are not subject to facts, references, or specific expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I have seen questions closed using this reason that were not fundamentally subjective. This usually seems to happen when users think that there is not enough known information to provide an answer. Yet one could only know that there is not enough information by already knowing the answer to the question – that there is not enough information. I.e. the fact that there is not enough information to give a clear-cut answer doesn't make the question opinion-based. It means that the answer is that there is not enough information for us to give a definitive answer. Many times a question can get a good answer, even when there is no clear-cut explicit answer, by expert extrapolation from the limited amount of known facts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is true that if there is limited information with which to answer a question then it is probably more likely for people to post their own opinions. However, that does not make the question an opinion-seeking question. That is a problem with the answers and there are other ways to deal with it. The opinion answers can be deleted, the question can be protected, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A recent example of this is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/193787/why-are-there-so-few-bedrooms-in-the-burrow&quot;&gt;Why are there so few bedrooms in the Burrow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question asks why a certain thing in Harry Potter is the way it is. Such a question can be answered objectively. You simply have to go through the Harry Potter books (and/or other Harry Potter content) and see if there is any information that can shed light on this. If no such information can be found then the answer to the question is &quot;we don't know because not enough information about this is ever given&quot;. (In this particular case, I think there was enough information to answer the question, though of course I might be biased as it was my answer.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a relatively easy (if perhaps somewhat oversimplified) test to see if a question is opinion-based would be to imagine whether the author/creator/producer would be able to answer the question if you would ask it to him/her. If they would be able to answer it then it's probably not opinion-based; if they would not be able to answer it then it probably is opinion-based. In this case, for example, if we would ask JK Rowling she could conceivably answer the question in many ways, and thus the question is not opinion-based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we grant that these are improper uses of the close reasons, then I see two issues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The integrity of the system is undermined.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people are using close votes for something other than what the reason is meant for, it is possible that questions that should remain open will end up getting closed. It is also possible that users will use their votes as a personal tool to close questions they don't like or to close questions of a user they don't like. (&lt;strong&gt;Please note, I am &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; making any accusations here.&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When a question is closed a statement is attached to it explaining about reopening:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center,&#xA;  please edit the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet if a question was closed using an improper reason then this statement is misleading because you won't necessarily be able to reword the question in a way that pleases the close-voters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;So for those who have read this far&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there actually such an issue?&lt;/strong&gt; You can disagree with me about the specific examples I gave (I could give others but the post is long enough as it is and some of the other examples are my questions, so I'd rather it not seem like I'm trying to get my questions reopened) but still agree with the general point, or you can disagree entirely. Perhaps I have completely misunderstood the close reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If there is such an issue, is there anything that can be done about it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, this is not meant as an accusation/attack against any users, even those who voted to close the example questions. It is also not particularly about reopening any specific question. I would simply like to understand if/how others disagree with my understanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that if there is in fact a situation where a question should be closed but does not fit into any existing reason, I see several options for dealing with it that do not involve applying an incorrect reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag for moderator attention and specify what the problem is&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use the custom close reason (available under the off-topic selection) and explain why the question should be closed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Request a new close reason that would cover such cases (I don't know how feasible this is)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2018-09-17T22:54:52.920" LastActivityDate="2018-09-17T22:54:52.920" Title="How precise do the close reasons have to be?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|primarily-opinion-based|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12069" CreationDate="2018-09-17T22:21:59.827" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes, close reasons are sometimes misused.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, some people vote to close as Primarily Opinion-Based just because the answer to the question is unknown. This occurrence is sufficiently common that we've already had several meta posts emphasising that &quot;we don't know&quot; answers are OK and don't make a question closeworthy. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11329/31394&quot;&gt;Are answers that state &amp;quot;We Don&amp;#39;t Know&amp;quot; acceptable?&lt;/a&gt; and its dupe targets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also the possibility of close votes being misused as &quot;super downvotes&quot;, i.e. people vote to close a question simply because they don't &lt;em&gt;like&lt;/em&gt; it (a good cause for the downvote button). For example, this was a common occurrence for certain questions about &quot;adult topics&quot;, until we re-iterated the meta consensus that such questions aren't necessarily closeworthy. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11728/31394&quot;&gt;Should we have a policy on questions about adult topics in SFF?&lt;/a&gt; and the surrounding discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How to combat incorrect close votes?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question has been closed incorrectly, then the answer is simple: reopen votes! And if that fails, you can post to meta asking why a specific question is seen to be against community norms. With luck, you may get a response from the close-voters, and with even more luck, either you or they may inspire a change of mind in the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not the end of the story, however. Your bullet-pointed list is asking about how to combat the use of incorrect close reasons &lt;em&gt;before the question is closed&lt;/em&gt;. Not incorrect closure, but incorrect close reasons. Perhaps the question really should be closed, but not for the reason stated. Going through your bullet points one by one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Flag for moderator attention and specify what the problem is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Probably not.&lt;/strong&gt; There's a flag decline reason specifically for cases where someone has raised an issue to mod attention which doesn't require mod intervention. If the question is worthy of closure, vote to close it. If it isn't, do whatever else is required (edit it, comment to explain why it's not worthy of closure, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In very rare cases where something is going on beyond the scope of the question itself - such as your &quot;sexist Iron Man&quot; example, where people suspect the OP is trolling although the question itself could conceivably be genuine - it might be worth a mod flag. But not for a question which simply doesn't quite fit any of the standard close reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use the custom close reason (available under the off-topic selection) and explain why the question should be closed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes.&lt;/strong&gt; That's literally exactly what this functionality in the system is defined for: questions which the community feels should be closed but which don't quite fit any of the standard reasons, hence &quot;other&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Request a new close reason that would cover such cases (I don't know how feasible this is)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That wouldn't solve the problem.&lt;/strong&gt; We're talking about edge cases here, things which don't fall under any of the existing reasons. There are always going to be &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; such questions, no matter how many close reasons we have. If there's a particular reason for loads of questions getting closed which doesn't fall under any of the existing close reasons, then it may be time to request a new close reason. But there are &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; going to be questions which don't fit any of the existing reasons, and then we're back to the same situation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-09-17T22:21:59.827" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12071" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12072" CreationDate="2018-09-18T13:05:30.980" Score="5" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since yesterday I've noticed that all of the small icons used in the &quot;Hot Network Questions&quot; pane, as well as some of the community nav menu (the SE icon at top-right) are all mixed up. This seems to be localized to the SF&amp;amp;F and SF&amp;amp;F Meta boards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've tried clearing my cache to no avail. Is anyone else having his issue? and how can I/we fix it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See attached screenshots for examples. Not that in the second image, showing the nav menu, only the SF&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vcggJ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vcggJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3dA5B.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3dA5B.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73933" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T13:34:58.077" Title="Mismatched icons?" Tags="|support|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12071" CreationDate="2018-09-18T13:09:44.450" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would appear to be the same issue as what has been highlighted on SO meta recently. This question explains the same issue as yours: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/374128/4631427&quot;&gt;I'm seeing the wrong site icons in my profile page&lt;/a&gt; and from there it is caused by the same issue that is explained in this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/374126/4631427&quot;&gt;Hot network questions have broken icons&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/374134/4631427&quot;&gt;answer by @Adam Lear♦&lt;/a&gt; for the reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This happens sometimes when we roll out a new set of icons due to how our build process works. I'll see what I can do about kicking the affected cachebreakers, but either way it'll resolve itself ... eventually. Caching is fun!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/315468/incorrect-icons-on-hot-network-questions#comment1033927_315468&quot;&gt;This comment by @Catija♦&lt;/a&gt; on main meta explains why the issue occurred recently. The follow up comment tells us the rename was &quot;Health to Medical Sciences&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We're renaming a site and changing its favicon and a couple of other sites' icons... messing with them always causes this for a few people. We're poking at it and it should be fixed soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2018-09-18T13:34:58.077" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T13:34:58.077" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12073" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-18T21:14:31.067" Score="-25" ViewCount="814" Body="&lt;p&gt;As part of implementing the new unified themes across the network, we're gradually rolling out updated site themes for each site. As of today, we have enabled your updated site theme for testing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can't see it right now, that's by design! This is a very early test implementation of your design and we need your help finding issues with it before we make it live for everyone permanently. So, keep in mind, there will be things that need fixing! We'll address those things as we can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you'd like to review it, here's how:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How do I enable it?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/preferences&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; and check the &quot;Beta test new themes&quot; option. This will turn on the new theme for all sites that have one in testing, including this one. &lt;em&gt;Here's &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/314542/opt-in-to-beta-testing-new-themes&quot;&gt;more info&lt;/a&gt; on how to opt in.&lt;/em&gt; You can uncheck the box to revert to the older theme until the site is live for everyone. Note, while turning it on is immediate, it will take a few minutes to revert to the old view - &lt;em&gt;but it will go through!&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What type of feedback do we need?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;On this post: Bugs related to this site's design elements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please help us look for issues/bugs related to the theme design and how we have mapped the old theme to the new. This needs to be done within the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/307862/ch-ch-ch-changes-left-nav-responsive-design-themes&quot;&gt;limits of the new unified theme&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could include colors of sections of the design or text, problems with JavaScript add-ons (if applicable), the logo or top banner appearance or other artwork.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also feel free to ask questions about the new layout if you're unsure how to navigate it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;On Meta Stack Exchange: General concerns about left nav or theming&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some things that are definitely changing everywhere and can't really be adjusted on a per-site basis. A few of them include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Top banner is shorter in height, so some artwork has to be adjusted along with some logos.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Left Navigation is active everywhere (but can be collapsed into a menu by visiting your site preferences - &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/311237/284336&quot;&gt;instructions here&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Responsive layout is active, which lets the site adjust as browser widths change - no side scrolling (some pages haven't been updated, yet, though). For now, if you prefer the scrolling, you can disable this by clicking the &quot;disable responsiveness&quot; link in the footer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many site elements including tags and voting arrows are standardized across the network.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Link underlining is active. In an effort to make links more visible, they are now being underlined.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have concerns or issues regarding the left nav or the overall approach we are taking to theming, then &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/310908/live-left-nav-new-theming-and-responsiveness&quot;&gt;this Meta Stack Exchange post&lt;/a&gt; is the right place for feedback. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I mentioned earlier, there are some unique design elements like voting arrows and tags that are being standardized in this process. Keeping these custom elements makes our ability to maintain the sites too complex and, while we're very sad to see them go, we're in a difficult position of needing to make the site designs work together so that we can continue to address feature requests and bugs that will make your Q&amp;amp;A experience better. This is addressed in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/314799/why-we-initiated-the-latest-round-of-design-changes-and-the-role-of-meta&quot;&gt;Meta Stack Exchange post&lt;/a&gt; if you want more detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What new themes?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're like, &quot;What the heck are you talking about?&quot;, then you should read the Meta Stack Exchange post entitled &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/312365/rollout-of-new-network-site-themes&quot;&gt;Rollout of new network site themes&lt;/a&gt; (and maybe the posts it links to for the full background). To follow along with the rollout of these new themes, go here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Thanks so much for your constructive feedback!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Oh, Who am I?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't know me, I'm one of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/99338/who-are-the-community-team-and-what-do-they-do?s=1%7C141.4591&quot;&gt;Community Managers&lt;/a&gt; here at Stack Exchange. I'm here to listen to your input and convey it to our Design team for responses and fixes to bugs. I'll do my best to respond to your concerns and explain whether changes we've made are bugs that can be changed or if they're by design and why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41668" LastActivityDate="2018-11-26T23:54:19.163" Title="Science Fiction &amp; Fantasy's updated site theme is ready for testing!" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="15" CommentCount="20" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12073" CreationDate="2018-09-18T22:44:45.057" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The one-winged angel thingy is very small and hard to see.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we please blow it up a bit, maybe crop the image to make it wider?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The left and right columns clash badly with the header and footer.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We were &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11846/36526&quot;&gt;previously told&lt;/a&gt; that those columns were stylable.  Can we please keep the starfield there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;On meta, the header background does not match the header image.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9fzpI.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9fzpI.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="36526" LastEditDate="2018-09-19T05:54:22.590" LastActivityDate="2018-09-19T05:54:22.590" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12073" CreationDate="2018-09-19T02:07:25.650" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;My initial feedback with the style is that it's in general far too bright, turning into a stark contrast with the current theme's color scheme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did a very simple mock-up changing two colors, the body background and the left sidebar background, that I believe conveys what I think is a more appropriate transition:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/T7BOb.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/T7BOb.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The background is pure black here, and the left sidebar gray color is what the current design's main color &lt;code&gt;rgba(255,255,255,.95)&lt;/code&gt; samples to, which is &lt;code&gt;rgb(242,242,242)&lt;/code&gt;. That's actually &lt;em&gt;lighter&lt;/em&gt; than the beta's body background color (which is also the sidebar), so it may be better to keep the darker one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As this screencap shows, the sidebar active link text is still black and legible, as well as the grey text of inactive links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This change only affects full-screen users, as the black wouldn't show up until your screen width exceeds 1260px (in my testing). On the smaller screens, the top bars and grey sidebar dominate more to lessen the effect of the stark white content background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, this would work the same for meta. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was brought to my attention that the collapsed sidebar might pose other issues, but it looks like it would still take just the body background color (black) and it looks great:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sQDWT.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sQDWT.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorDisplayName="user31178" LastEditDate="2018-09-19T02:22:24.600" LastActivityDate="2018-09-19T02:22:24.600" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12073" CreationDate="2018-09-19T07:04:13.703" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The buttons in the review queues are just too light, I initially saw them in the Low Quality Post queue and was trying to work out why they were all disabled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WfjlZ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WfjlZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Late Answer review from mobile&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like this issue may only be affecting mobile as I just did a First Post review on the main site on desktop and it looked fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vkzb9.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vkzb9.png&quot; alt=&quot;Low Quality Post review from desktop&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The buttons on mobile should match those on desktop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2018-09-19T08:23:40.783" LastActivityDate="2018-09-19T08:23:40.783" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12077" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12078" CreationDate="2018-09-19T07:06:38.533" Score="3" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Pinocchio&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Adventures of Pinocchio&lt;/a&gt; a fantasy and therefore on-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59769" LastActivityDate="2018-09-19T07:20:22.787" Title="Are The Adventures of Pinocchio on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12077" CreationDate="2018-09-19T07:20:22.787" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is fantasy and therefore it is very much on topic. Ask away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia defines fantasy as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fantasy is a genre of fiction that uses magic or other&#xA;  supernatural elements as a main plot element, theme, or setting.&#xA;  Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where&#xA;  magic and magical creatures are common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Adventures of Pinocchio checks out on all counts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastActivityDate="2018-09-19T07:20:22.787" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12073" CreationDate="2018-09-19T08:08:48.163" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;On a different note, and posting here because I don't know how much is theme/per site related, there is a lot of unused space. Most of which can be easily used up with what is currently on the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5K7Ho.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5K7Ho.png&quot; alt=&quot;Unused space screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The unused space to the left and right of the screen can easily be used up by expanding the main content to fit with the whole screen. If this isn't an option that you want to go with then the top bar can be moved in to be the same width as the main screen; at the moment it is quite charring to have two different content widths.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The area in the middle top of the screen is mostly whitespace. This can be easily solved by moving the active/featured/etc switcher in line with the heading and ask button. At the same time the Ask Question button could also be moved to be on the top banner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also jarring to have 4 different areas on the left hand side of the screen all start in different places. I can't imagine it is that hard to align them again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iC7s8.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iC7s8.png&quot; alt=&quot;Homepage alignment issue&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2018-09-19T08:08:48.163" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12073" CreationDate="2018-09-19T08:34:53.207" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The users page under the new theme looks a bit lost. Elements appear to be floating around. Part of this issue seems to be caused by having no horizontal rule anymore and so no definite definition between the switchers and the user cards. The tab switchers moving to the new look also seems to be causing this problem as they aren't &quot;attached&quot; to anything now but floating in their own space. Compare the two pages:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;New theme&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JQp91.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JQp91.png&quot; alt=&quot;Users page, new theme&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Old theme&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/M7Lk9.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/M7Lk9.png&quot; alt=&quot;Users page, old theme&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2018-09-19T09:02:35.967" LastActivityDate="2018-09-19T09:02:35.967" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12073" CreationDate="2018-09-19T10:17:24.450" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The hyperlink colours on /review and /tools is quite low in contrast. It could do with being a bit closer to what we used to have. Comparing side by side there doesn't appear to be too much of a difference so it might just be me but the old colours definitely appear to have more contrast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;New theme: rgb(85, 157, 182)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iKPsi.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iKPsi.png&quot; alt=&quot;/review new theme&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Old theme: rgb(78, 172, 205)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RKS3B.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RKS3B.png&quot; alt=&quot;/review old theme&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2018-09-19T10:17:24.450" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12073" CreationDate="2018-09-19T12:08:49.217" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/bug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag box in a custom advanced search looks a bit odd. The left and top borders appear to be double the width of the other two and the box is right up against the left margin. It probably wants a bit of padding on each side. You should be able to see this affect with this search &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=user%3A58193+%5Bthe-last-jedi%5D+is%3Aa&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:58193 [the-last-jedi] is:a&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GiVQR.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GiVQR.png&quot; alt=&quot;Search results page new theme&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that on the old theme the box isn't pushed up against the borders, this could also be due to the watch/ignore tag change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hh3Pd.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hh3Pd.png&quot; alt=&quot;Search page old theme&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2018-09-20T08:46:28.330" LastActivityDate="2018-09-20T08:46:28.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12073" CreationDate="2018-09-19T13:42:00.880" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The meta footer doesn't have the site design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta footer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AcJjl.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AcJjl.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Main-site footer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/g0NzS.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/g0NzS.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And like most of the others I also feel the header bar is way too thin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6006" LastEditorUserId="41668" LastEditDate="2018-10-04T04:19:27.867" LastActivityDate="2018-10-04T04:19:27.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12084" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12085" CreationDate="2018-09-19T13:42:04.327" Score="6" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;So a new tag was created &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-adventures-of-pinocchio&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-adventures-of-pinocchio&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-adventures-of-pinocchio&lt;/a&gt; (1 question asked). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of now there is no usage guidance for it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The adventures of Pinocchio&lt;/em&gt; has a whole list of adaptations in all forms of media like Movies, Theatre, TV, Musicals etc. So what shall be the scope of this tag? Should it cover all the adaptations and media? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastActivityDate="2018-09-19T13:50:01.280" Title="What should be the scope and usage guidance excerpt for The Adventures of Pinocchio?" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12084" CreationDate="2018-09-19T13:50:01.280" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Adventures of Pinocchio&lt;/em&gt; has had many adaptations over the years but most of the recent ones have simply been named &lt;em&gt;Pinocchio&lt;/em&gt;. I suggest we create one tag for the &quot;Pinocchio universe&quot; that encompasses all of the works simply named &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pinocchio&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pinocchio&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pinocchio&lt;/a&gt;. It's usage guidance should then be something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For questions about works about the story of Pinocchio from the original 1883 book &quot;The Adventures of Pinocchio&quot; to the 1940 film &quot;Pinocchio&quot; by Disney and beyond. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we get too many questions on Pinocchio, which I doubt, we can always start creating work specific tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2018-09-19T13:50:01.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12073" CreationDate="2018-09-19T14:59:22.157" Score="8" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Hamburger Hell&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst I've seen it pointed out on SO meta since the left nav was launched a few times it seems even worse on the other sites. This is because we also have the hamburger icon for the StackExchange network button. To make this slightly less hellish could the hamburger for this button be removed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference I am talking about this one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dvtgq.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dvtgq.png&quot; alt=&quot;Top bar - hamburger hell&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2018-09-19T14:59:22.157" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12087" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-19T15:12:24.180" Score="9" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing I miss in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12073/19561&quot;&gt;our new theme&lt;/a&gt; is our field of stars background image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I've noticed that &lt;a href=&quot;https://math.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;the Mathematics Stack&lt;/a&gt; still has its background image, even though it already has the new theme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can we please have our stars back?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The left-nav is in black, so that would need another colour for it work against such a dark background, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2018-09-19T15:12:24.180" Title="Can we please have our stars back?" Tags="|feature-request|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-09-19T15:15:50.143" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12073" CreationDate="2018-09-19T15:15:17.070" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing I miss is our field of stars background image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I've noticed that &lt;a href=&quot;https://math.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;the Mathematics Stack&lt;/a&gt; still has its background image, even though it already has the new theme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can we please have our stars back?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The left-nav is in black, so that would need another colour for it work against such a dark background, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2018-09-19T15:15:17.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12089" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-19T15:30:37.807" Score="5" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of course you've taken the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;Tour&lt;/a&gt;, read the entire &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;Help section&lt;/a&gt;, and know our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/conduct&quot;&gt;Code of Conduct&lt;/a&gt; by heart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But have you read the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/faq&quot;&gt;Frequently Asked Questions&lt;/a&gt; here on meta, that will help you make better use of the main site?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;You can browse the questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;, but here are the most important ones, grouped by topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2018-09-19T15:37:06.493" LastActivityDate="2018-09-20T02:17:42.483" Title="Frequently Asked Questions" Tags="|discussion|site-faq|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12089" CreationDate="2018-09-19T15:36:00.293" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Topicality&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11833/&quot;&gt;Is literary analysis on-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11587/&quot;&gt;Are stories that only appear to contain fantastical elements on topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1053/&quot;&gt;Should we exclude religious texts, and which?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/337/&quot;&gt;Are works that aren&amp;#39;t SF per se, but have occasional SFnal elements on-topic? (e.g. spy movies)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7364/&quot;&gt;What is our actual policy on science questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also see &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/scope&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scope&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scope&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2018-09-19T15:36:00.293" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2018-09-19T15:36:00.293" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12089" CreationDate="2018-09-19T15:37:42.110" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Identification&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9444/&quot;&gt;How to write a good story-ID answer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9335/&quot;&gt;How to ask a good story-ID question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11922/&quot;&gt;How to ask a good (fanfic) Story-ID question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11874/&quot;&gt;How to ask a good (anime) Story-ID question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11995/&quot;&gt;How to ask a good (video game) story-ID question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also see &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="48874" LastEditDate="2018-09-20T02:17:42.483" LastActivityDate="2018-09-20T02:17:42.483" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2018-09-19T15:37:42.110" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12092" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-19T15:50:32.457" Score="21" ViewCount="298" Body="&lt;p&gt;So the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12073/58193&quot;&gt;new theme&lt;/a&gt; has launched to beta and is available for testing. One of the most obvious things that is missing is that the site no longer has its star field custom image background. There is a hint of it left in the top right corner and in the footer (though not the meta footer) but overall it's missing. The reason for this is that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They're style-able to an extent. The text in the sidebar still has to be black, so they have to be pale enough for the black text to be legible, which wouldn't be possible with the star field. – Catija♦ &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12073/science-fiction-fantasys-updated-site-theme-is-ready-for-testing#comment41420_12074&quot;&gt;16 hours ago&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, this means even going with the black at the side of the main page is a no go.  However, &lt;a href=&quot;https://math.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Mathematics.SE&lt;/a&gt; does have a custom image and on enquiring to &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/46802290#46802290&quot;&gt;Catija about this in chat&lt;/a&gt; it should be possible to get a custom image here too:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Possibly, but probably not until after the full network rollout is done. The sidebars can be a pattern as long as it doesn't obscure the text's readability. Y'all are free to have a separate discussion about solutions for this if you want. Things like replacing the top bar black with the star field is probably easy to revert... though I'm not certain... new elements are different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way I see it we have a few options at this point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stick with what we have in the new theme&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Try and hold out on the chance for a dark theme later on so the star field would be possible&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Design a new background image and see if SE will use that (this new image would have to be light though so the black text on the left nav would be readable)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should we do here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="30870" LastEditDate="2018-09-19T23:45:34.370" LastActivityDate="2018-09-24T15:12:03.890" Title="Do we want a custom background with the new theme?" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12073" CreationDate="2018-09-19T17:32:51.520" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;My main gripe with the new theme is that once the site header has scrolled out of view, there is no stylistic indication of which Stack I'm on, and the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; indication at all is the place holder in the search bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit: okay, and the badge shapes &lt;strong&gt;if visible&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I understand the reasons behind the changes, this is a &lt;em&gt;severe&lt;/em&gt; loss of Stack identity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2018-09-24T08:14:43.510" LastActivityDate="2018-09-24T08:14:43.510" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12073" CreationDate="2018-09-20T08:55:34.877" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note that this was an issue with the old theme too but seeing as this is a theme change we might as well address it now.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using the same search from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12082/58193&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; I see the following results on default view. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IzvkS.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IzvkS.png&quot; alt=&quot;Search results page, accepted answer colours for answers&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The colour difference between an accepted answer result and just an answer result is so minimal it is next to impossible to see. Can we style this differently so it is easier to see whether the answer is accepted or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One option would be to style it like questions when they show they have an accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yy0Am.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yy0Am.png&quot; alt=&quot;Search results page, accepted answer colours for questions&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or box the numbers like is shown on the profile page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MXfQq.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MXfQq.png&quot; alt=&quot;Profile page, answers and questions tabs&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2018-09-20T08:55:34.877" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12073" CreationDate="2018-09-21T08:59:54.717" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/bug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The main content is intentionally locked at a max width and the empty space is there only on that view. Compare that section to a search results page, or tag page for example. We want the elements to be in the same place on all of the various questions/results pages as much as possible. – Catija♦ &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12073/science-fiction-fantasys-updated-site-theme-is-ready-for-testing#comment41443_12079&quot;&gt;yesterday&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is the case there is a bug with the Info pages for tags because the tab switcher box moves around on moving between Info and the other tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qhImL.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qhImL.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Discussion tag page showing bug&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2018-09-21T08:59:54.717" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12092" CreationDate="2018-09-21T09:08:59.477" Score="23" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Yes, we do&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The custom background is one of the main things that is unique to our site and gives us our own identity on the network. Without it we look just like everyone else. Consider &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12093/58193&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; to the linked meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My main gripe with the new theme is that once the site header has scrolled out of view, there is no stylistic indication of which Stack I'm on, and the only indication at all is the place holder in the search bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit: okay, and the badge shapes.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I understand the reasons behind the changes, this is a severe loss of Stack identity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12073/science-fiction-fantasys-updated-site-theme-is-ready-for-testing/12093#comment41486_12093&quot;&gt;my comment&lt;/a&gt; there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider this whilst having left nav hidden and the top bar not sticky. Once scrolling there are no style elements custom to our stack that are visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lCmzM.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lCmzM.png&quot; alt=&quot;Homepage scrolled&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are no style elements on this page that tells me I am currently on SFF. We need something to be able to identify us. Now I'm not artistic so I don't have an idea of what this could look like but I'm sure once a consensus is reached here we can start designing something if that is the direction we decide to go in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst I would love our star field back, it doesn't seem possible and even accepting the chance of a dark theme that is likely to be configurable and so not everyone would use it anyway. So, in this case we would still need a light theme background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-09-21T09:08:59.477" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11922" CreationDate="2018-09-21T14:52:54.703" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;An additional one, which is oft overlooked, is narrative voice/format. Is it written in first person? Third person? Third person omniscient? Is it written in script format (a more common choice a decade or two ago)? Because identifying fanfic is often highly dependent on personal experience, this becomes more important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2018-09-21T14:52:54.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12073" CreationDate="2018-09-21T19:00:11.617" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ask question button seems to float alongside the question title and ends up conflicting with long question titles. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0ohg1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0ohg1.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2018-09-21T19:00:11.617" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12092" CreationDate="2018-09-21T19:44:35.413" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Let's have an inverted star field&lt;/strong&gt; with dark (gray) stars on a light (gray or white) background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We (probably) can't have pure black stars on a pure white background, because then the stars would make the left nav text hard to read.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We can't have the original star field, because it's (apparently) impossible to make the left nav text white or to add a translucent gray background to it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Using a washed-out version of the original star field would still leave a blatantly obvious discontinuity around the headers and footers.  In my professional opinion as an amateur user of this site, it would look silly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There aren't a whole lot of immediately obvious alternatives, so far as I can tell.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastActivityDate="2018-09-21T19:44:35.413" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12100" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-21T21:10:01.857" Score="11" ViewCount="292" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Stack Exchange announced the recent design updates (with the left sidebar) to the SE websites, users immediately complained about how SE is going to abolish per-site customized voting button.  SE claimed that those per-site customizations that so many people enjoy take too much time to maintain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got the old buttons back for myself.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This post will tell &lt;strong&gt;how to change the big voting button graphics&lt;/strong&gt; next to posts on Sci Fi SE and Sci Fi Meta SE &lt;strong&gt;to the older customized design.&lt;/strong&gt;  Read the answer if you'd like to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fFnWn.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tu853.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note though that in exchange for those losses, we gain some new per-site recolorings.  In particular:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We gain custom recoloring&amp;#x2A; of the simple triangular upvote and downvote buttons next to posts, in their active state on Sci Fi SE (but not on Sci Fi Meta).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We gain custom recoloring for some of the smaller icons of the site interface, such as the upvote comment in active state, on both Sci Fi SE and Sci Fi SE Meta, with different colors on the two sites.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We also gain &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12103/4918&quot;&gt;features useful for certain new users of the site who previously couldn't have used Sci Fi SE for no fault of their own, as I explain in a separate post&lt;/a&gt;.  These are unrelated to button graphics.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x2A;Also active on other sites like &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Meta SE&lt;/a&gt;.  The CSS for the new design has a kludge to recolor those active vote buttons.  IMO the implementation of that (with the &quot;filter&quot; CSS property) is much worse than the previous solution for the same customized buttons (per-site sprite sheet SVG images).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="4918" LastEditDate="2018-12-21T17:54:54.127" LastActivityDate="2018-12-21T17:54:54.127" Title="Yes, you could enable traditional triangle-in-circle post vote button graphics on new site design on Sci Fi SE" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12100" CreationDate="2018-09-21T21:10:01.857" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This solution lets you change the big vote buttons to the old design on Sci Fi SE and Sci Fi Meta SE.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;NOTE&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This solution doesn't work right now.&lt;/strong&gt;  SE has changed the vote buttons so that the voting arrows are now bigger but there's less space between the arrows and the post content.  I'll try to fix this solution later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Important warnings&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The design and implementation of the buttons is not made on my own.  I copied the SVG and CSS straight from the SE sites, and then modified them heavily.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As such, the SVG and CSS below is not released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license like normal posts, and you must not redistribute it as such.  It is a derivative of the Sci Fi SE site's design for the purpose of copyright, and also reproduces important trademarks of that site. If you believe that because of those legal problems, the content should not be posted here, then please (convince an admin to) redact the content.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The customization is released &lt;strong&gt;AS IS WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES&lt;/strong&gt;.  Use the customization only at your own risk. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As of this post, the new design (with the left sidebar) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12073/4918&quot;&gt;is not active yet by default&lt;/a&gt;, and so you might not see it yet.  To turn it on, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/preferences&quot;&gt;go to your user preferences page&lt;/a&gt; and enable the “Beta test new themes” option.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This solution is for Sci Fi SE and for Sci Fi Meta SE.  This is about a per-side customization, and I won't write a solution for any other SE site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This changes the appearance and size of upvote, downvote, favorite question and accept buttons next to posts, both in their unset and set state.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some of those buttons have a lower height in the new design, so this change restores the old, larger height.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This does not affect other icons that change with this design update.  For example, it doesn't restore the per-site badge shapes, the recolored icon for flagging a comment, or the recolored collapse/expand arrow icons used in many lists in auxiliary information pages such as the reputation changes page.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I only tested this on two computers with my user.  It's possible that it doesn't work with other browsers or other settings.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you don't enable the new site design, then this customization will probably still overwrite the vote buttons.  In that case, I recommend disabling the customization.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The customization could break in the future if SE does more modifications of the site.  If it breaks, then I recommend disabling the customization.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I tried to replicate the original buttons very closely, but I could have made a mistake.  SVG golf is tricky, and I don't yet have much experience in it.  I think one of the colors somehow changed by the slightest amount (1 difference of the blue intensity on an 8-bit scale), but I don't care enough to debug that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The customization disables the recoloring that I mentioned in the question, of the vote buttons next to posts, because that recoloring otherwise interferes with the customization, it would try to recolor the old vote buttons.  The customization does not disable the recoloring of any of the smaller interface elements.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The customization might not work on older or less usual browsers, but then the new SE site design probably won't work on most of those either, so I expect the impact of this is negligible.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you find any bugs in this customization, please report them to me in some form.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you are one of the very few people who will enable this customization, but your computer isn't otherwise full of other unusual appearance settings in the operating system or browser that affect the view of an SE post thread, so you get get a near-vanilla appearance of a Sci Fi SE post with the new design (with the left sidebar) but with this customization and while logged into SE, then I ask you to volunteer and contribute a good screenshot to this post.  If you would like to volunteer but don't know how to make a screenshot, or how to add the screenshot to this post, or how to choose a suitable post that gives a good demonstration, then please ask in chat.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Special thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/a/51108675/2200827&quot;&gt;Brock Adams, who answered a Stack Overflow post about the exact problem I encountered during sharing this customization&lt;/a&gt;: the Stylish Firefox extension gained a bug from Mozilla changing something in Firefox, and Brock Adams recommended the Stylus Firefox extension instead, which seems like an effective replacement.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;In technical terms, how does the customization work?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may skip this section if you don't care about the technical part.  You can still install the customization on Firefox with the instructions given later, even if you don't understand the technology behind it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The customization is a user-style CSS stylesheet applied to Sci Fi SE and Sci Fi Meta SE webpages.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can apply this stylesheet in your browser.  I will give instructions below for how to enable the customization on Firefox with &lt;a href=&quot;https://add0n.com/stylus.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the Stylus browser plugin&lt;/a&gt;.  I won't be able to help with browsers other than Firefox though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There might also be solutions to insert the stylesheet into the webpages between the SE webserver and the browser with a proxy or reverse proxy, but I can't help in setting those up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How to enable the customization on Firefox?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the instructions to enable the customization in your Firefox browser.  Later you will find instructions on how to disable the customizations.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have problems with any of these instructions, you can ask for help, eg. on SE chat, or by writing a comment to this post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, make sure Firefox is running.  Make sure that you are logged into Science Fiction SE and have &lt;strong&gt;the new site design enabled in Science Fiction SE&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To install Firefox, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mozilla.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;follow the instructions on Mozilla's webpage about Firefox&lt;/a&gt;.  If you have Firefox installed, start it eg. by choosing the Firefox entry from the start menu.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's how to enable the new site design.  Make sure you are logged into Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange with your user.  (TODO: a few words on logging in.)  Open &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/preferences&quot;&gt;your user preferences on Sci Fi SE page by clicking on this link&lt;/a&gt; or by going to Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy homepage, clicking on the bold reputation number in the top bar to go to your user page, then clicking on the “Edit Profile &amp;amp; Settings” tab of the user page, then the “Preferences” subpage under the “SITE SETTINGS” heading.  There, click on the checkbox labeled “Beta test new themes”.  You may close that tab after the new theme is activated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DfxxS.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DfxxS.png&quot; alt=&quot;(screenshot for the above instructions)&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you have to &lt;strong&gt;install and enable the Stylus browser extension&lt;/strong&gt;, if you don't yet have it installed or enabled.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this, click on the new menu icon (represented by three horizontal bars) at the side of the browser toolbar to drop down the new Firefox menu, and activate the &lt;strong&gt;Add-ons&lt;/strong&gt; command (its icon is a jigsaw puzzle piece) from that menu.  Alternately, you can activate the same command from the menu bar by pressing the Alt key to reveal the menu bar, then choosing the Tools menu, then the Add-ons command there.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Here and elsewhere in the instructions, the name of the command and any other labels mentioned may depend on the interface localization language of Firefox, or the browsing language.)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/H0OQa.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/H0OQa.png&quot; alt=&quot;(screenshot for the above instructions)&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;strong&gt;Add-ons Manager&lt;/strong&gt;, make sure the Extensions tab is active.  Click on the special search input box to search add-ons, type &lt;strong&gt;“Stylus” to search for that extension&lt;/strong&gt;, then press Enter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xXHJY.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xXHJY.png&quot; alt=&quot;(screenshot for the above instructions)&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the add-ons search results page, find &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/?src=search&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the Stylus extension and click on its name.&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1RT29.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1RT29.png&quot; alt=&quot;(screenshot for the above instructions)&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the web page of Mozilla for the Stylus extension, click on the &lt;strong&gt;Add to Firefox&lt;/strong&gt; button.  Firefox will pop up a question whether you want to add the Stylus and give permission to that extension to modify your browser's activity.  Click on the Add button to confirm.  You should get a confirmation popup telling you that Stylus has been added.  Confirm that popup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MGxt5.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MGxt5.png&quot; alt=&quot;(screenshot for the above instructions)&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next, you will have to &lt;strong&gt;add and enable the custom user-style&lt;/strong&gt; for the traditional Sci Fi SE vote buttons with the Stylus extension.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, make sure you have this very answer that you're reading on Sci Fi Meta (TODO: link) open in a browser tab, because you will need it later in this step.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Go back to the &lt;strong&gt;Add-ons Manager&lt;/strong&gt; tab (or start the Add-ons Manager again just like above), make sure you are on its Extensions sub-page by clicking on the Extensions heading.  In the list of extensions there, find the entry for Stylus.  If Firefox says in that entry that that extension is disabled, then click on the Enable button in that entry to reenable the extension.  Then, click on the Preferences button in that entry to get to &lt;strong&gt;Stylus's preferences&lt;/strong&gt; page.  Scroll to near the bottom of that preferences page, and click on the &lt;strong&gt;Manage styles button&lt;/strong&gt; there.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ejfLP.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ejfLP.png&quot; alt=&quot;(screenshot for the above instructions)&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will pop up a page with the list of Installed Styles for Stylus.  Click on the &lt;strong&gt;Write new style&lt;/strong&gt; button.  This takes you to a page to Add Style (for Stylus).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, on the same page sidebar, under the heading Mozilla Format, click on &lt;strong&gt;the Import button&lt;/strong&gt;.  This should pop up an overlay on the same page, with the heading “Paste the Mozilla-format code”, and a large textarea.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lViI1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lViI1.png&quot; alt=&quot;(screenshot for the above instructions)&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now while this is open in one browser tab, switch to the tab where you have &lt;strong&gt;this very answer&lt;/strong&gt; open.  (If you don't have it open, don't worry, you can open a new tab and open it at this point.)  At the bottom of the answer, find the code under the heading “The user style itself”, in the &lt;strong&gt;code box with a fixed-format font.  Select all of the code&lt;/strong&gt; in that box &lt;strong&gt;but nothing more&lt;/strong&gt; by dragging with the mouse from the very beginning of that code to the end.  You may have to scroll the box to its beginning first.  Once it's selected, right-click in the box to open the shortcut menu, and activate the Copy command to copy the code to the clipboard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KL2sn.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KL2sn.png&quot; alt=&quot;(screenshot for the above instructions)&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you have the code copied to the clipboard, switch back to the Add Style tab, which has the Import popup overlay open. (If you have accidentally closed it, don't worry, you can open it now with the instructions above, from the Add-ons page.) The textarea in the popup should be empty at this point (it should have no text, but it may have a line number next to it, a cursor, and a highlighted empty line). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right-click on the textarea and choose the Paste command to paste the code of the user-style that you have just copied.  The textarea should now contain that code.  Verify that you have all the code pasted: you should see two lines with just a close brace each at the bottom of that code, and a line starting with “@-moz-document domain” at the very top if you scroll up.  Then click on the Overwrite style button below the textarea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lA19U.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lA19U.png&quot; alt=&quot;(screenshot for the above instructions)&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Import overlay shall disappear from the Edit Style page, and in the main area of that page, you will see two large textareas with parts of the code in them.  You don't have to touch those.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, in the page sidebar, right below the heading, find an empty input box to &lt;strong&gt;enter the name&lt;/strong&gt; of the new user-style.  Click on that input box and enter any name you like, eg. “Sci Fi SE vote buttons”.  This will let you find the user-style later and disable it, should you have any problem with it.  Then make sure that the “Enabled” check-box (below the name you entered) is checked.  Then below that (still in the sidebar) click on &lt;strong&gt;the “Save” button&lt;/strong&gt;.  That button will both activate the customization, and save this setting in your browser preferences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vocDC.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vocDC.png&quot; alt=&quot;(screenshot for the above instructions)&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should now check a post on Sci Fi SE or Sci Fi Meta SE (such as this very answer) to verify that the vote button graphics now show up as the traditional circled triangles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may now close any browser tabs you have opened, such as the Add Style tab, the Add-ons Manager tab, the description page of the Stylus extension, this answer, the Sci Fi user preferences tab, the Stylus install page, or any example posts you used to check that the customization was activated.  To close a browser tab, you can right-click on its name in the tab bar near the top of Firefox to pop down the short-cut menu, and activating the Close Tab command from that menu.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How to disable the customization in Firefox?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This section gives the instructions to &lt;strong&gt;deactivate the customization&lt;/strong&gt; in the Stylus extension of Firefox, in case you have activated them such as described above.  You may want to do that eg. if the customization causes something to show up wrong, or if you just changed your mind and chose that you prefer the new simpler vote button graphics. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, if you have problems with any of these instructions, you can ask for help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make sure you have Firefox running.  Follow the instructions above to open the Add-ons page from the menu and the Extensions sub-page there.  In the list, find the entry for Stylus again.  Follow the above instructions further to open the Stylus preferences with the Preferences button next to the entry, then open the &lt;strong&gt;Installed Styles&lt;/strong&gt; page of Stylus using the Manage styles button on the Stylus preferences page.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the the main panel of that page, there is a list of user-styles you have added.  Among them, you should find the entry for the user-style you have added, with the name you entered for that user-style (eg. “Sci Fi SE vote buttons” in the above example instructions), and (if you have set up the user-style correctly) the domain names “scifi.stackexchange.com” and “scifi.meta.stackexchange.com” beside it.  (If that user-style is not listed, you may have to reset the Filters in the sidebar by unchecking all check boxes under the Filters heading and emptying the search input box at the same place.)  Click on the name of that user-style to open the sub-page for the user-style.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, in the page sidebar, under the Edit Style heading and under the input box with the name of the user-style, you find a check box labeled &lt;strong&gt;“Enabled”&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;strong&gt;Uncheck&lt;/strong&gt; that checkbox, then click on &lt;strong&gt;the Save button&lt;/strong&gt; below it.  This should deactivate the customization, and save that setting in your browser settings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8ZkMz.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8ZkMz.png&quot; alt=&quot;(screenshot for the above instructions)&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should now verify in a post on Sci Fi SE or Sci Fi Meta SE that the vote button graphics are back to the simple triangle.    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  <row Id="12102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11844" CreationDate="2018-09-21T21:33:03.247" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You will lose the custom graphics and custom size of the upvote, downvote, favorite question and accept buttons next to posts.  The custom graphics is specific to Sci Fi SE, and there's a recolored version specific to Sci Fi Meta.  I have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12101/4918&quot;&gt;a customization that you can enable to get the traditional vote button graphics and size&lt;/a&gt;, with detailed instructions if you're using Firefox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note though that in exchange, with the new design, you &lt;strong&gt;gain custom recoloring&lt;/strong&gt; of the simple triangular upvote and downvote buttons, in their active state on Sci Fi SE (but not on Sci Fi Meta).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will also lose the per-site customized badge shapes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will lose the custom recoloring of certain smaller icons on the sites, eg. the icon for upvoting or flagging a comment, or the collapse/expand arrow icons used in many lists in auxiliary information pages such as the reputation changes page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that in exchange, with the new design, you &lt;strong&gt;gain custom recoloring&lt;/strong&gt; for some of those icons, such as the upvote comment in active state, on both Sci Fi SE and Sci Fi SE Meta, with different colors on the two sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example image for the recolored buttons in the new design.  Sci Fi on the left hand side, and the buttons on a typical non-meta SE site* on the right hand side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MRdJ2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MRdJ2.png&quot; alt=&quot;(example on Sci Fi)&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MFath.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MFath.png&quot; alt=&quot;(example on typical site)&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also &lt;strong&gt;gained&lt;/strong&gt; something more important than the easily replaceable vote buttons.  This is something that web designers call “responsive design”, only done well instead of abused.  (“Responsive design” is a very stupid word, but its meaning isn't bad.)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Responsive design means that the design isn't tailored to one particular target user, but instead the site is customized &lt;strong&gt;for multiple different user environments&lt;/strong&gt;, especially different browser window sizes, and it will detect them automatically and choose the best design for the particular user.  The reason why that term gained a derogative connotation is that many web designers abused the capability for evil (this happens with almost every tool web designers get).  But the Stack Exchange overlords didn't.  In an unprecedented move, they actually implemented responsive design correctly.  (I'm not saying that it's perfect, but it's almost impossible to get it perfect.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To see an example for how it's done well, &lt;strong&gt;enable the new design, then resize the browser window&lt;/strong&gt; to narrower, to simulate how you'd see the site on a narrow upright mobile phone screen.  You will see that the right sidebar will disappear.  The right sidebar is nice, but it does not contain any elements essential for navigation.  You will also see that in the top bar, the search box will be collapsed to a search icon, and your reputation will disappear.  Note how the search function is still available, and so is every other functionality of the top bar.  You can still view your reputation by viewing your user page with the user page icon, which is still on the top bar.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now resize your window to even narrower.  You will see that the left sidebar also disappears, but its functionality is still availble in the popdown menu from the menu icon on the left of the top bar.  The “StackExchange” label also disappears from the top bar.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In both of these cases, the interface has &lt;strong&gt;adapted for the narrower screen&lt;/strong&gt;, but &lt;strong&gt;all the important functionality&lt;/strong&gt; of the website still &lt;strong&gt;remains available&lt;/strong&gt;.  (Web designers sometimes use the buzzword “responsive design” for this, but they shouldn't IMO.)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that users who must use narrower screens, either because of vision problems (zooming the screen to very large sizes so they can read it), or because they're on a mobile phone will be able to use the site better.  This is important for those users.  Such web design used to be hard or impossible, but it became possible (but still hard) after some new developments in browsers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most websites aren't like that.  They either don't use the new browser capabilities to adapt to different window size, or worse, abuse it and react to it by making the site bad.  In the first kind of websites, when viewed on narrower displays, it is common to see some elements of websites overlap or disappear, so that important navigation controls will become unaccessible.  (I will not link to any bad examples here.)  In the second case, the website deliberately adapts to narrower screens by changing the design, but it does so by removing the interface for some important functionality of the site.  (A website I don't want to name, in the name of responsive design, deliberately hid the interface option for changing your login password unless you're using a very wide browser window.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my eyes, these changes are much more important than the custom vote button graphics, or anything else we will lose with this update.  It's a good tradeoff: while the site will become uglier for some old users, it will also become &lt;strong&gt;more usable for some new users&lt;/strong&gt; who were previously &lt;strong&gt;unable to use Sci Fi SE for no fault of their own&lt;/strong&gt;.  I think that gaining those new users to the community is important, and if you're an established user used to the old design, please give a thought to that and reconsider this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keeping a website working and testing it is hard work.  You can see even from the above example how you have to test the site in various unusual browsing environments.  The SE designers don't have infinite time available for maintaining the site, and I think their time is better spent now than they used to be on custom backgrounds and the Orbitus font.  I'm not saying that you have to enjoy the new site design, or that you personally will necessarily gain something from it.  I'm not saying that the new design is perfect.  But please &lt;strong&gt;appreciate what it will do to new users&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I cross-posted this second part of the answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12103/4918&quot;&gt;a new Sci Fi Meta question&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*Sorry, “typical site” is a stupid in-joke that you might not understand.  I'll explain it at the risk of spoiling it.  There was a certain infamous old TV ad for a washing machine chemical, which showed a side-by-side example of white clothes washed several times with their brand of chemicals versus “typical” chemicals of the same sort.  I'm saying “chemical” because I'm not sure if it was a detergent or rinse aid.  This ad wasn't unique, other ads of the era also compared their brand to “typical” brand.  Such ads were popular targets of mocking, and gained memetic status because of that.  One particular ad that said not “typical” but “new washing detergent” became actually famous, because of a parody ad done by a professional in Hungarian TV, in which the guy in the ad called something inanimate (the clothes, the bottle of washing detergent, the washing machine, I can't recall) on a challenge by addressing to it from afar as if it could respond.  That a professional could do such a parody shows just how memetic those comparison ads already were.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-09-18T15:41:56.733" LastActivityDate="2019-09-18T15:41:56.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12092" CreationDate="2018-09-24T14:58:00.023" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a custom background idea. Split SF and F maps. I mocked a rough concept to give a general idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zlY3v.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zlY3v.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The good thing about this is that it reflects both sides of our community, and since its a map, we can make it light enough to make SO happy, and still have a bit of personality to it. In retrospect, I'm thinking that a version that has a sepia tone would be better then B&amp;amp;W, but that's something we can look into if we chose to go this route.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62201" LastEditorUserId="62201" LastEditDate="2018-09-24T15:12:03.890" LastActivityDate="2018-09-24T15:12:03.890" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12105" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-24T17:41:21.413" Score="12" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;Al Matthews, best known for his depiction of Gunnery Sergeant Apone in the film &lt;em&gt;Aliens&lt;/em&gt;, has passed away at the age of 75.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to his iconic role he also appeared in a range of other science fiction properties including small parts in &lt;em&gt;Superman III&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Fifth Element&lt;/em&gt; and recently reprised his role as Apone for the &lt;em&gt;Aliens: Colonials Wars&lt;/em&gt; video game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As well as enjoying success as a TV and film actor, Matthews was also a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZgOoa9NbAg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;gifted singer&lt;/a&gt; and a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/woB1zvaSXag?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2018-09-24T17:41:21.413" Title="RIP Al Matthews, star of Aliens" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12106" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-25T14:45:57.947" Score="14" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; Producer &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0476030/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gary Kurtz&lt;/a&gt; has died at the age of 78. In addition to helping to convince the studio to fund &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; in the first place, he was also producer and second-unit director for &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back&lt;/em&gt; and is generally credited with encouraging Lucas to create a universal religion — The Force — for the movie series.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aZN7v.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aZN7v.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;On set for *Empire*&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a much-publicised spat with Lucas over the direction the films were taking, he passed on producing what would become &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: Return of the Jedi&lt;/em&gt; as he felt it too similar to the previous films. He went on to produce &lt;em&gt;The Dark Crystal&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Return to Oz&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Slipstream&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;George Lucas has issued a statement via LucasFilm&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gary’s passing will be felt throughout the&lt;/em&gt; Star Wars &lt;em&gt;family. Through&#xA;  what were sometimes challenging shooting difficulties and conditions,&#xA;  his contributions as a producer helped bring the stories to life&#xA;  onscreen. My heart goes out to his family.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="48874" LastEditDate="2018-09-25T15:33:16.363" LastActivityDate="2018-09-25T15:33:16.363" Title="RIP Gary Kurtz, producer of Star Wars" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12108" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-09-28T12:33:31.837" Score="1" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I had found out the title of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/195330/book-about-a-space-station-computer-keeping-an-engineer-alive&quot;&gt;book I was seeking&lt;/a&gt; was &lt;em&gt;Halo&lt;/em&gt;, I just ran a quick search for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/halo&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;halo&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;halo&lt;/a&gt; to see if there were other questions about this work by Tom Maddox... and found out that Halo is reserved for the &lt;em&gt;Halo&lt;/em&gt; series of games and novels. Wouldn't it be more relevant to tag these later ones &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/halo-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;halo-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;halo-series&lt;/a&gt; to make &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/halo&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;halo&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;halo&lt;/a&gt; free for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tom-maddox&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tom-maddox&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tom-maddox&lt;/a&gt; book, should questions about it arise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102189" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2018-09-28T13:11:13.310" LastActivityDate="2018-10-01T15:16:57.620" Title="Halo by Tom Maddox vs. Halo franchise" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12108" CreationDate="2018-09-28T13:19:43.090" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't have the need yet. There are currently no questions about &lt;em&gt;Halo&lt;/em&gt; by Tom Maddox: a search for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=is%3Aq+maddox+halo&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;is:q maddox halo&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; yields 0 results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also don't retroactively tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; requests with tags for the correct work or author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If and when we get a question about &lt;em&gt;Halo&lt;/em&gt; by Tom Maddox, we can decide how to tag it, and whether to retag the current &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/halo&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;halo&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;halo&lt;/a&gt; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2018-10-01T15:16:57.620" LastActivityDate="2018-10-01T15:16:57.620" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12110" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-02T14:24:22.907" Score="15" ViewCount="719" Body="&lt;p&gt;As some of you probably know SFF is losing it's lovely star field and practically all elements that make SFF so recognisable when the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12073/58193&quot;&gt;new theme&lt;/a&gt; launches out of beta. After a bit of discussion with @Catija I found out that we can have a custom image back again. So, after &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12092/58193&quot;&gt;asking if this is what we want&lt;/a&gt; and with most people saying yes here we are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What should the new background/theme look like?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things to consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The background is all one colour and/or image and text on the left nav must be black so any background colour or image needs to account for that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The background image can be one of the following options:&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yeah, we have a few options. We can &lt;a href=&quot;https://codereview.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;fade the image&lt;/a&gt;, have it &lt;a href=&quot;https://rpg.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;repeat indefinitely&lt;/a&gt;, or have it appear a single time like on &lt;a href=&quot;https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;WB&lt;/a&gt;. - &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/46994833#46994833&quot;&gt;@Catija, chat message&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is customisable (per my understanding, correct as needed):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Background colour and image&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Link colour&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tag colour&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;UV/DV button colours&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask button colour&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Important note&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked Catija in &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/47017286#47017286&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt; what would be done with our design ideas and this was the response:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TheLethalCarrot: If/when we decide on a theme idea for SFF what will be done with it? Designers take it and use it as is, they make changes, they only use it as inspiration, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Catija: That's really going to depend on... things. So, I'm guessing that what's probably going to be the best is a general idea that the designers can adapt into the theme... the chances of a submitted design being perfect for what we need is pretty low, so I'd focus on finding a concept with some general rough sketches to be implemented by us... this saves y'all time and gives us some flexibility to make it fit the layout.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Catija: What I'd hate to have happen is for someone to come up with something really polished and beautiful that... we can't use... and then y'all won't actually like our version of it any more. A rough concept is going to avoid this issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-10-04T08:22:18.833" Title="What should the new background/theme look like?" Tags="|discussion|design|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12110" CreationDate="2018-10-02T16:00:10.693" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is my idea from the linked post with some updates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Split SF and F maps. Here is a rough concept to give a general idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/z7HtX.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/z7HtX.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pros:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reflects both sides of our community&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We can make it light enough to make SO happy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More personality than a simple 50x50 repeating tile.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We have to find or a make non-copyrighted maps&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62201" LastEditorUserId="62201" LastEditDate="2018-10-02T16:44:53.843" LastActivityDate="2018-10-02T16:44:53.843" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12110" CreationDate="2018-10-02T19:53:16.563" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;tldr;&lt;/strong&gt; Keep the star field but add a bright element like a star/sun that will act as the background for the left nav.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about just using a star-field that has a gradient where it is lighter in the center and fades to stars near the edges? I found &lt;a href=&quot;https://pixabay.com/en/wallpaper-background-star-space-1531107/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;one image&lt;/a&gt; that is free &quot;No attribution required&quot; and looks ok. There might be other ones out there that would be better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe not use this exact image but I think it shows the idea of an image that is light in the center but fades to dark at the edges could work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My favorite out of all my attempts (earlier attempts shown below):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4K:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZNutt.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZNutt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;4k rotated black and white&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Laptop (1440):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HQCRe.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HQCRe.png&quot; alt=&quot;laptop rotated black and white&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tablet:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5mYQ2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5mYQ2.png&quot; alt=&quot;tablet rotated black and white&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to try it out and know your way around the developer tools of your browser; use the following settings as the css for the &lt;code&gt;body&lt;/code&gt; tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;body {&#xA;    min-height: 100%;&#xA;    display: flex;&#xA;    flex-direction: column;&#xA;    background-color: #E8E8E8;&#xA;    background-image: url(https://i.lensdump.com/i/AZloPx.jpg);&#xA;    background-repeat: no-repeat;&#xA;    background-size: cover;&#xA;    background-attachment: fixed;&#xA;    min-width: 1279px;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Original image. It looks ok centered and fixed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UsICH.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UsICH.png&quot; alt=&quot;full size&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it also looks ok when scaled to ipad (I don't think the background is shown on smaller devices):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z3jUg.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z3jUg.png&quot; alt=&quot;ipad&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;body{&#xA;    min-height: 100%;&#xA;    display: flex;&#xA;    flex-direction: column;&#xA;    background-color: #000000;&#xA;    background-image: url(https://i.lensdump.com/i/AZH3D1.jpg);&#xA;    background-position: center;&#xA;    background-repeat: repeat;&#xA;    background-size: auto;&#xA;    background-attachment: fixed;&#xA;    min-width: 1279px;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I think I like it better actually with black &amp;amp; white filter and cropped so the &quot;star&quot; would be behind the left nav. Still not perfect but I don't hate it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4K:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/X6TJZ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/X6TJZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;4k black and white&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Laptop (1440):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/t4JwL.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/t4JwL.png&quot; alt=&quot;Laptop black and white&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tablet:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OVig1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OVig1.png&quot; alt=&quot;tablet black and white&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;body {&#xA;    min-height: 100%;&#xA;    display: flex;&#xA;    flex-direction: column;&#xA;    background-color: #E8E8E8;&#xA;    background-image: url(https://i.lensdump.com/i/AZlK4F.jpg);&#xA;    background-position: 0 0;&#xA;    background-repeat: no-repeat;&#xA;    background-size: cover;&#xA;    background-attachment: fixed;&#xA;    min-width: 1279px;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21192" LastEditorUserId="21192" LastEditDate="2018-10-03T17:02:37.473" LastActivityDate="2018-10-03T17:02:37.473" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12113" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12114" CreationDate="2018-10-02T20:27:36.087" Score="9" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;While movies tend to retain their original titles worldwide, with a bit of leeway in the translation, TV series and books translated in other languages often have titles that are far removed from the original title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we allow the use of non-English titles, alongside the English title if/when we have it, on the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking about the questions, but also about the tags and the wiki entries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="104840" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2018-10-02T20:55:26.907" LastActivityDate="2018-10-08T17:43:28.180" Title="Should we allow or indicate non-English titles for SFF works along the English title?" Tags="|discussion|title|language|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12113" CreationDate="2018-10-02T20:43:14.153" Score="12" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Use English as much as possible&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site is English speaking all over so English should be used as much as possible. Tags should most certainly be in English. However, questions and tag wikis are fine to mention the original name of the work too though I’d lean towards using English first most of the time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2018-10-02T20:43:14.153" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12115" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-03T06:28:55.140" Score="-12" ViewCount="416" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is an astonishing amount of answers in comments here. Some of them gathered around 20 to 50 upvotes, and clearly provide a partial or full answer - and that isn't what the stack is for!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What got me started was this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/190396/scifi-book-series-about-a-guy-surviving-in-three-deadly-planets&quot;&gt;full and correct answer&lt;/a&gt; in comments that has since become obsolete (and deleted as of around 2018-10-03 17:50):&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2EQU6.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2EQU6.png&quot; alt=&quot;What got me started: Answers in comments.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find the two answers in comments rude. I flagged them repeatedly because they are showing a &quot;My answer is above the Voting system&quot;. They are still there. They are obsolete. They break the guideline on comments that they shall not provide (patial) answers. They are &lt;strong&gt;answers in comments&lt;/strong&gt; which game the system (quality control).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And there are Many More Examples - Questions in Strory ID that don't have answers but tons of answer attempts in the comments. One unanswered one is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/49102/movie-with-magical-book-showing-events-of-any-day-in-history-except-missing-day&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RdMWM.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RdMWM.png&quot; alt=&quot;Lots of Answer attempts in the comments&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One could have tried it with an answer and then discuss the merits of these answers on the actual answer, not having to rely on the not QCed comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same problem &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83257/married-couple-pretend-to-like-each-other-due-to-crystal-sculpture&quot;&gt;here:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bctZP.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bctZP.png&quot; alt=&quot;another &amp;quot;Answer attempts&amp;quot; in comments case&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;WHY shouldn't we?!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments don't have any Quality Control but only upvotes. One can't show that an comment is &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt; or comment on it he way one could on an answer. One can't improve on it. One can't correct it. Or add reasoning that was missingfrom a bad answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are meant to give a hint to the right direction or request clarification, they are &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; meant to replace answers or answer attempts. But this happens, especially in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;. Indeed, most questions in story-identification only have a single answer that was weeded out via the comments first. This is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; how the stack is supposed to work based on the help files.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An answer attempt, even a wrong one, warrants an answer on its own! A wrong answer can be discussed &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it is not the right answer on its own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A different thing arises: these comments often become obsolete and then create distracting space between the question and the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Do you want to know more?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Main Meta site has &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/answers-as-comments&quot;&gt;some dozen&lt;/a&gt; discussions about answers in comments, and they all lead to the same thing: &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;DON'T&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; do it!&quot; For example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/230676/hey-you-yeah-you-post-your-answers-as-answers-not-comments&quot;&gt;Hey you. Yeah, you! Post your answers as answers, not comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://math.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;general help center&lt;/a&gt; (shared among all stacks), which tells us:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h1&gt;When should I comment?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You should submit a comment if you want to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Request clarification from the author;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Leave constructive criticism that guides the author in improving the post;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Add relevant but minor or transient information to a post (e.g. a link to a related question, or an alert to the author that the question has been updated).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h1&gt;When shouldn't I comment?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Comments are not recommended for any of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Suggesting corrections that don't fundamentally change the meaning of the post; instead, make or suggest an edit;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answering a question or providing an alternate solution to an existing answer; instead, post an actual answer (or edit to expand an existing one);&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Compliments which do not add new information (&quot;+1, great answer!&quot;); instead, up-vote it and pay it forward;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Criticisms which do not add anything constructive (&quot;-1, see previous comments you scallywag!&quot;); instead, down-vote (and provide or up-vote a better answer if appropriate);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Secondary discussion or debating a controversial point; please use chat instead;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Discussion of community behavior or site policies; please use meta instead.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt; (emphasis added)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other stacks have a very hard stance on answers in comments. For example the RPG.SE has a zero-tolerance policy towards it, and even made a &lt;a href=&quot;https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6533/should-users-refrain-from-answers-or-partial-answers-in-comments&quot;&gt;Q&amp;amp;A&lt;/a&gt; on it. Or &lt;a href=&quot;https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5065/how-to-deal-with-answers-in-comments&quot;&gt;two&lt;/a&gt;. Or &lt;a href=&quot;https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Banswers-in-comments%5D%20is%3AQ&quot;&gt;ten&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other sites, like Math, drive a slightly less harsh course, but even there, &lt;a href=&quot;https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1559/dealing-with-answers-in-comments&quot;&gt;it is not accepted&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;What this is not:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2577/answering-questions-with-a-comment&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a question &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt; people answer in comments&lt;/a&gt;, it ismeant to &lt;strong&gt;remind&lt;/strong&gt; people tha answering in comments is not the way to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The edge between comment and answer here is wider than on other stacks, but Answers in comments are &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; outside of how the stack works: you can't downvote a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Do your Part!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I ask of you: DO YOUR PART! Join Mobile Answer-as-Comment-Hunters Now! Burn the heretic; Kill the mutant; Purge the unclean. Go forth and hoist the flags of the inquisition, mount the flags on the sinner's contents. Turn their contents into answers and earn the Karma they don't want if you like, but credit where credit is due! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make the SF&amp;amp;F.SE a better place today! For a cleaner future of the stack!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Fun Fact&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everybody started to derail and in some parts &lt;em&gt;discuss in comments&lt;/em&gt; on this, which is again not what comments are for as of help file. The discussion &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/83996/discussion-on-question-by-trish-fighting-answers-in-comments&quot;&gt;moved to chat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102189" LastEditorUserId="102189" LastEditDate="2018-10-04T08:27:34.403" LastActivityDate="2018-10-04T08:27:34.403" Title="Fighting answers in comments!" 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  <row Id="12116" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12119" CreationDate="2018-10-03T06:56:24.973" Score="12" ViewCount="299" Body="&lt;p&gt;I flagged the answer left in this case, but the answer has now been deleted and the user left behind. And  more generally is there a better way of doing this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;User in question is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/105608/sarcastic-dickhead&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18944" LastActivityDate="2018-10-03T08:13:37.077" Title="Is there a way to flag a user with an offensive name?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12116" CreationDate="2018-10-03T07:02:15.147" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best way is to flag the answer and link to the user explaining that you believe they should be nuked or renamed. If the answer is deleted before you get a chance to flag it you can then flag the question the answer was on and link to the user again. If the initial post was a question you can just flag any other post you want really, it shouldn't matter too much. I tend to pick one of my own posts but I don't think it matters much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2018-10-03T08:09:15.663" LastActivityDate="2018-10-03T08:09:15.663" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12113" CreationDate="2018-10-03T08:02:56.800" Score="13" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Tag names: English.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag names are important, because we can only put one name there (perhaps adding others as synonyms). We should use the English name there, because we're an English-language site. As for what kind of English: in general, network-wide consensus is to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/23873/278659&quot;&gt;use US English for tag names&lt;/a&gt;, although I think (can't find the meta now) that there's some leeway for this if we're talking about a work of fiction originally published in British English like &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Philosopher's [Sorceror's] Stone&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Tag wikis: English and original language.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good tag wiki should include a lot of useful information about the book/film/whatever, and I think the name under which it was originally published counts. This might be helpful for someone who wants to look up about it or find translations into other languages. So mention the English title &lt;em&gt;and also&lt;/em&gt; the original title, and also any other alternative English titles (since some books have multiple translations with differing titles).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Question body: whatever you want (preferably at least English).&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a lot more leeway in what you're 'supposed' to put in a question body, since that's (to some extent) 'yours' whereas tags and tag wikis are for the whole site. I'd recommend including the English title, since that's the tag name and what a lot of site users might be most familiar with, but you're also free to include the original title or any other versions you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-10-03T08:02:56.800" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12116" CreationDate="2018-10-03T08:13:37.077" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If they have a post you can flag, flag it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they have a deleted post and you have more than 10k rep, flag that deleted post. If they have a post which isn't deleted, you can flag that - even if it's going to be deleted. Custom mod flags will remain until handled by a mod; they won't be automatically cleared by post deletion like NAA/VLQ flags will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Otherwise, flag any post to explain the situation.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That could be the question where an answer from the rudely-named user was posted, as @TheLethalCarrot suggested. Or it could be literally any post you want. All moderator flags go into the same queue, so it doesn't matter where you flag as long as you make clear what the issue is, e.g. by linking to the rudely-named user's profile. You could flag one of your own posts, one of a moderator's posts, a recently active post on the home page, post number 123456, ... whatever, it shouldn't matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-10-03T08:13:37.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12110" CreationDate="2018-10-03T14:01:40.503" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: I'm no artist, as you'll see later on, so this will mainly be a post of ideas rather than any proof of concept. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The theme should keep as close to the old one as possible. This means make the side bars black and have the star field back again. However, to satisfy the need for the left nav to have black text and so a lighter theme I have three possible options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Option 1: Extend the planet image&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use the rays coming out of the planet from the banner and extend them so that the blue and red parts extend onto the side bars. An actual version would probably have rays similar to those in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12112/58193&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, however, as mentioned I am not an artist so you'll have to make do with this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p54LW.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p54LW.png&quot; alt=&quot;Option 1 &amp;quot;mock up&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could also have something on the right side too but the plain star field is probably fine there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Option 2: Use the nebula clouds from the footer in the sides more&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those unfamiliar this means more of these things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QOJuQ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QOJuQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Footer nebula&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So now time for my amazing mock up again:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lpQck.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lpQck.png&quot; alt=&quot;Option 2 &amp;quot;mock up&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again with this option the nebula can be present on the right side too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Option 3: Use a bigger planet&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The planet in the top right corner is already quite detailed and light in places. This can be made bigger, optionally combined with options 1 and 2, so that light parts are now over the left nav. The Angel of Death can then also be placed in the bottom left of the screen similar to how the robot is placed on &lt;a href=&quot;https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Worldbuilding&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ICMa0.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ICMa0.png&quot; alt=&quot;Worldbuilding theme&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference the whole planet image looks like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vXA8Y.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vXA8Y.png&quot; alt=&quot;SFF planet image&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2018-10-03T14:15:07.303" LastActivityDate="2018-10-03T14:15:07.303" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12115" CreationDate="2018-10-03T15:23:37.990" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there's another part of the help center information on comments that deserves to be in bold face. You emphasized a when &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to point, but there is a when &lt;em&gt;to&lt;/em&gt; point above it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Add relevant but minor or transient information to a post&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each stack has some autonomy in how they decide to enforce certain rules, and which guidelines they hold to higher or lower standards. Science Fiction and Fantasy Stack Exchange has a history of realizing that some users are aware of or have better access to the niche information of our different geekeries and nerddoms. Or recognizing that not everyone always has the time or expertise to know if the information they have is truly relevant, or if the OP has seen it before or not. There's a myriad of other justifications, which commentary here and on other posts has brought up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, there tends to be more &quot;relevant but minor&quot; or &quot;transient&quot; information available under our posts. &lt;strong&gt;We don't necessarily consider those to be &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. And that doesn't mean that our posts want for real answers, or that our site quality suffers because of it. We have a high number of questions per day for a non-technical stack, an active user base, and some of the highest reputation users &lt;em&gt;on the network&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When looking at comments, then, I'd suggest evaluating whether or not we consider the information within minor or not. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2577/answering-questions-with-a-comment&quot;&gt;Although we already have a soft policy of allowing certain answering within comments&lt;/a&gt;,  I'd argue that we don't really allow full-stop answers, but we do weight the idea of &quot;relevant but minor&quot; information a bit higher than other stacks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even &lt;strong&gt;in the example question&lt;/strong&gt;/comment, it seems that analysis there was more of an English analysis, which didn't seem to be the point of the question. The &lt;strong&gt;comment also didn't stop there being not only a large number of answers, but one with over 100 upvotes(!) and a large bounty&lt;/strong&gt;. And comments on some of those answers were definitely done &quot;properly&quot;, asking for or providing clarification. None of the concerns about potential &lt;em&gt;harm&lt;/em&gt; to the experience of commenting or answering or voting really seem to have held up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's difficult to build a full model to analyze whether that holds up true in all cases, but in my experience it holds true much more often than not. &lt;strong&gt;Adding extra information in comments has &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; been a detriment to our site.&lt;/strong&gt; It has not robbed anyone of reputation, cheated the voting or review systems. On the contrary, I have found that others have used that information to successfully write their own answers or improve them, myself included (I admit to confirmation bias there, but there are other community members that have indicated the same).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2018-10-03T15:23:37.990" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12110" CreationDate="2018-10-03T16:06:41.380" Score="-10" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Just Keep it!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the simplicity of how it is. If it isn't broken, don't touch it. Just adjust it to the new size needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102189" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-10-03T16:06:41.380" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12123" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-04T16:55:38.500" Score="4" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fans will often be curious or even obsess over tiny details and minutiae that the creators of whatever we are fan of never gave an explanation to, whether it was in-universe or out-of-universe, for any number of reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, I'm thinking of an interview with Mickael Okuda where a journalist asked him &lt;em&gt;'How do the Heinsenberg compensator works?'&lt;/em&gt; and he replied &lt;em&gt;'They work just fine, thank you.'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know why the showrunners created this bit of technology, to go around the Heinsenberg Uncertainty Principle, but we do not know how it does it, because it was never explained. And we couldn't even guess an answer since it does not work according to currently known laws of physics, and guessing isn't really what this site is for anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, when there is no answer, is replying with &lt;em&gt;'It was never mentioned/explained'&lt;/em&gt; a valid answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="104840" LastActivityDate="2018-10-04T16:55:38.500" Title="Is 'It was never mentioned/explained' a valid answer?" Tags="|discussion|answers|answer-quality|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2018-10-04T18:07:00.430" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12113" CreationDate="2018-10-08T17:43:28.180" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me, it depends on what question I'm answering, and where the media originates. Since we are a site based on English, I always try to provide the English title, whether or not that was the original language. If a work originated in a non-English title, unless it's become more known under that title, I give the original title, followed by the English one, e.g. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthiran&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Enthiran&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; aka &lt;em&gt;Robot&lt;/em&gt; in the United States, is likely the film you're looking for&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the querent indicates they read the work in another language, I'll generally provide that title first, even if it wasn't the original language, e.g. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Based upon you reading it in Spanish, I suspect you read &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30902626-la-esclava-de-gor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;La esclava de Gor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, aka &lt;em&gt;Slave Girl of Gor&lt;/em&gt;, by John Norman.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just for the sake of completeness, I tend to do the same thing for title changes, using the title most likely to match up against what the querent was looking for, and then providing the original title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2018-10-08T17:43:28.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12125" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-09T17:55:33.913" Score="9" ViewCount="220" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from July 1st 2018 through September 30 2018 (&lt;strong&gt;They don't have to be &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; questions and answers, but it also doesn't matter if you want to self promote your own stuff.&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2018/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2018/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2018/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I will also be linking all blog posts that happened within this quarter. Also the most controversial question of the quarter. Also a sum of all the bounties that were awarded.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also if there was a meta post you feel should be spotlighted those are also acceptable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jNLGc.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jNLGc.png&quot; alt=&quot;I got a tattoo of the invisible man, the artist assured me it looks great. The nice thing was I felt nothing.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2018-11-08T20:02:06.837" Title="Favorite Questions and Answers from third quarter 2018" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12125" CreationDate="2018-10-09T18:31:01.987" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/191215/do-any-of-the-hogwarts-founders-have-living-descendants&quot;&gt;Do any of the Hogwarts founders have living descendants?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101493" LastEditorUserId="1148" LastEditDate="2018-10-09T19:07:19.967" LastActivityDate="2018-10-09T19:07:19.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12127" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12128" CreationDate="2018-10-11T16:58:37.993" Score="13" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked a question regarding a specific time frame of the SF/horror genre, and I'm wondering if it is considered on-topic for this forum. The question touches on literary and political history, as well as philosophy, but all of it centered on impact to the SF genre in the 1920s/30s. The question itself arose from commentary on a specific 1927 SF/horror novel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question in question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/196411/105798&quot;&gt;What was the 1920's/1930's SF/horror “literary ghetto”?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the above question on topic? If not, is there a way to make it on-topic, or should it be removed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that Literature SE would be overly broad in scope for this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105798" LastActivityDate="2018-10-12T10:59:34.693" Title="Are questions related to the history and influences on the SF genre out of scope?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12127" CreationDate="2018-10-11T20:35:52.260" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions of this type are rare but on-topic here.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminology&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminology&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminology&lt;/a&gt; tag and a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; tag, both of which have a good history of being used for questions which didn't end up closed as off-topic, and both of which seem very pertinent to your question. I haven't seen very &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; questions like yours here, but it seems to fall within the site's scope, and an expert on the sci-fi genre would be the best person to answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bear in mind, though, that although questions of this type are OK, &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; of the (non-story-ID) questions here are about specific works of sci-fi or fantasy. This has meant that our community of 'experts' has gravitated more towards experts in specific SF/F universes rather than experts in the history of the genre. We have a lot of Harry Potter experts, Star Trek experts, Doctor Who experts, and so on, but fewer history-of-scifi experts. We do have a few of the latter, though, and hopefully someone will be able to answer your question.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;Since you mention Literature SE, I'll add that this would &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; be on-topic there. Note that Literature is a much smaller and less active site than SFF, so you'd probably get less eyeballs on your question there ... but on the other hand, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminology&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;terminology&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;terminology&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of-literature&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of-literature&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of-literature&lt;/a&gt; questions like this one are (proportionally) more common there. It's your choice where to post, since it's on-topic on two different sites, but do pick just one of them rather than cross-posting on both sites.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2018-10-12T10:59:34.693" LastActivityDate="2018-10-12T10:59:34.693" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12129" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12131" CreationDate="2018-10-17T02:13:51.237" Score="-1" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am asking this here, because only the Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy site seems to be affected.  The other stacks I am active on are behaving normally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the last few weeks (at least) every time I have a new notification from SF&amp;amp;F, it pops up a number showing how many new notifications I supposedly have; and the number is almost always wrong, always from one to three larger than the number of actual new notifications.  (I initially thought that the number was always wrong, but it may be correct, if I already have Stack Exchange open in a browser when the notification appears.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YSL68.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YSL68.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is anyone else experiencing this?  And does anyone know what is going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2018-10-17T07:57:27.007" LastActivityDate="2018-10-17T08:03:36.737" Title="Number of new inbox items is almost never correct" Tags="|bug|notifications|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12130" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-17T03:03:53.460" Score="2" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/196761/story-about-aliens-nicknamed-eechees-who-have-created-a-network-of-tunnels-on&quot;&gt;Story about aliens nicknamed &amp;#39;Eechees&amp;#39; who have created a network of tunnels on Mars&lt;/a&gt;, raised an issue about duplicates.  (The querent has not confirmed/accepted an answer yet, but there can hardly be doubt that they are asking about Pohl's &lt;em&gt;Heechee Saga&lt;/em&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason that I saw fit to write a whole new answer was that, while most of what the question describes is pretty clearly from &lt;em&gt;Gateway&lt;/em&gt;, the last two points are not.  At least in the English edition, they refer to content from the second book in the series, &lt;em&gt;Beyond the Blue Event Horizon&lt;/em&gt;.  As I state in my answer, the most likely explanation is that there was a French edition of &lt;em&gt;La Grande Porte&lt;/em&gt; that included additional &quot;teaser&quot; material at the end, drawn from the final chapter of &lt;em&gt;Beyond the Blue Event Horizon&lt;/em&gt;.  (Alternatively, they may have forgotten about reading the second book, but that seems less likely, since they did not mention anything about the main plot of &lt;em&gt;Beyond the Blue Event Horizon&lt;/em&gt; in the question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should this still be considered a duplicate, if it can eventually be documented that it came from an edition of &lt;em&gt;La Grande Porte&lt;/em&gt; that actually different in terms of the material covered from the English &lt;em&gt;Gateway&lt;/em&gt;?  (Adding to the complication, there are already different versions of the English &lt;em&gt;Gateway&lt;/em&gt;.  As described here:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/172194/how-do-the-versions-of-frederik-pohls-gateway-differ&quot;&gt;How do the versions of Frederik Pohl&amp;#39;s Gateway differ?&lt;/a&gt;, some editions include a final denouement that was not there in the first novel printing.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2018-10-17T08:22:30.733" LastActivityDate="2018-10-17T09:36:13.503" Title="What do we do about almost duplicate story identification questions, where different editions of a work may differ?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|story-identification|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12129" CreationDate="2018-10-17T05:20:39.240" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The red number is the total number of new items. However, if you have multiple answers or multiple comments you got on a single post, it only displays the most recent one in your dropdown inbox. This lowers the chance of you missing something when you have 20 new comments on one post and one new comment on another. Your full inbox (&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/users/current?tab=inbox&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, which you can navigate to by clicking &quot;all items&quot; in the dropdown) shows all the items separately. If you're only looking at replies on a specific site you can also check the response tab in your profile (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/current?tab=responses&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, for example)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It probably made more sense when they &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/156246/323179&quot;&gt;showed how many items were in each stack&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, this behavior is similar to how the reputation dropdown works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82909" LastEditorUserId="82909" LastEditDate="2018-10-17T08:03:36.737" LastActivityDate="2018-10-17T08:03:36.737" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12130" CreationDate="2018-10-17T09:36:13.503" Score="2" Body="&lt;h1&gt;We treat them on a case-by-case basis&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no way to really do it other than that. Some new edition merely fix a couple of typos and some add chapters of new content, the only way to treat these is to work out the differences, how they apply to the question and answers and go from there. For some basic guidelines I'd propose the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Only minor editing changes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here there have only really been typo and small restructure changes and nothing to do with the plot really alters. I'd say close them as a duplicate since the essence of the story is the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Major changes but not mentioned in the question/OP's description&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one is more of a judgement call by looking at the answers and seeing if what they say of the edition changes. However, the most likely course of action would be to dupe close them. There will be cases where a duplicate closure isn't really preferable so, as said before, treat it on a case-by-case basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Major changes that are mentioned in the question/OP's description&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case it is most likely best to not close the questions as a duplicate but this does come down to what the OP remembered. Say they remember something that is part of an edition change but &quot;aren't sure if it is part of this book or not&quot; (i.e. it could be from a sequel) it might be preferable to close the question as a duplicate. However, if they are confident that this detail was in this book it is best not to duplicate close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So, what about this specific case?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not at all familiar with the work but from looking over it I'd imagine &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to close as a duplicate, when accepted, because of the edition changes. A few bullet points relating to a different edition/work that aren't mentioned on the target is enough for me to believe the questions are sufficiently different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2018-10-17T09:36:13.503" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2018-10-18T09:41:40.033" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Back when I had to commute almost two hours to work it felt like I was riding with Zombies and I was becoming one. Thus the commuter became the Zommuter. Yeah, I'm sometimes zynical. Fortunately a friend drew me &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12134/769&quot;&gt;a more optimistic avatar&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGX0mmmRccM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/h6XXF.gif&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Around minute 8:40 of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/shaun_of_the_dead/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Shaun of the Dead&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Fittingly enough, the music playing is &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujhj7mfvIQk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Zombie Nation's Kernkraft 400&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="769" LastEditorUserId="769" LastEditDate="2021-10-04T07:40:05.707" LastActivityDate="2021-10-04T07:40:05.707" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2018-10-18T09:45:13.013" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;My wife drew me a more optimistic version to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12133/769&quot;&gt;my nickname&lt;/a&gt;, her interpretation of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Stadt_der_Tr%C3%A4umenden_B%C3%BCcher&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bookling&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nKXtt.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nKXtt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Bookling Zommuter&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="769" LastActivityDate="2018-10-18T09:45:13.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12135" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-18T09:49:56.473" Score="4" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;After a recent discussion over in TREU with another user I wondered if there was a way to find out who the top users in our tags are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know we can do this by going to the Top Users tab of the tags page but is there a faster way? I imagine this can be done in SEDE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2018-10-18T09:59:54.757" Title="Who are the top users in our tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|data-explorer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12135" CreationDate="2018-10-18T09:49:56.473" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/strong&gt; Here are the queries:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/912558/top-users-in-a-tag-by-score-and-answer-count&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Top users in a tag by score and answer count&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/912557/top-user-in-all-tags-by-score-and-answer-count&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Top user in all tags by score and answer count&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/912566/tags-where-specified-user-is-top-by-score-and-answer-count&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tags where specified user is top by score and answer count&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can be done using SEDE! However, to be clear that there is a slight limitation in that SEDE only updates once every week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How often is the Stack Exchange Data Explorer updated?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The data is updated early every Sunday morning around 3:00 UTC&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/help&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Data Explorer, Using Data Explorer, Frequently Asked Questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have used a query previously that tracked gold tag badge progress. Before we get in to the queries the following is important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They are different to &amp;quot;Top Users&amp;quot; as it takes into answer count as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They don't take into account question count/score... this may be desirable to someone&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The factor to make the score and count be more evenly matched may need tailoring slightly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With some slight modifications to it I have come up with the following query for: &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/912558/top-users-in-a-tag-by-score-and-answer-count&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Top users in a tag by score and answer count&lt;/a&gt;. The results of this query for our top tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MZnBm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MZnBm.png&quot; alt=&quot;Top users in the story identification tag&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Modifying this with the help of a user on SO we get the following query which brings back the top user in every tag, in the case of a draw it will bring back all top users: &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/912557/top-user-in-all-tags-by-score-and-answer-count&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Top user in all tags by score and answer count&lt;/a&gt;. It currently looks like the following at the top:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p1i9I.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p1i9I.png&quot; alt=&quot;Top user in all tags&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then for a bit of fun I modified it slightly so that it takes a user id as input and tells you what tags that user is top in: &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/912566/tags-where-specified-user-is-top-by-score-and-answer-count&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tags where specified user is top by score and answer count&lt;/a&gt;. Running it for our current top user, Valorum, we see, this brings back an impressive 642 rows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/X0clu.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/X0clu.png&quot; alt=&quot;Tags where Valorum is the top user&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-10-18T09:59:54.757" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12137" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-10-18T19:21:56.413" Score="-3" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;Question inspired by:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/159466/how-can-every-cubone-be-wearing-its-dead-mothers-skull&quot;&gt;How can every Cubone be wearing its dead mothers&amp;#39; skull?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/196870/why-did-dumbledore-allow-draco-malfoy-to-return-to-school-in-harry-potter-and-th&quot;&gt;Why did Dumbledore allow Draco Malfoy to return to school in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could someone explain me the point of such questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My POV is that many works of fiction (especially from popculture) disregard reality and common sense. This is either because they think that this attitude will make their works more interesting or because the writers themselves (with all respect to them) have no clue what they're talking about and are thus unable to come with a believable plot. In both cases the result is that trying to find any sense in a plot that makes no sense is, well, senseless. Asking such questions is precisely as pointless as asking how could Jessie, James &amp;amp; Meowth not die each time they were launched into orbit and fell back on Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wrt the Cubone question, the Pokemon writers wanted something spooky &amp;amp; tear-shedding, so they came out with this skull idea without bothering to think if it makes sense and without realizing it doesn't. Wrt Malfoy, I wouldnt be surprised if the answer was that the author wanted some more suspense, danger to the protagonists &amp;amp; seemingly &quot;deep&quot; plot complication, so she made her characters behave in an hardly believable way. Not her fault: it's the problem of most contemporary people that bc of lack of experience they DONT KNOW how people behave if facing violence and/or credible threats of violence and which behaviors make sense and which are suicidal. As a result, Hollowood for example is widely regarded for flashy and gory movies that are not believable at all. (Btw I tried myself to come with a good plot, I thought my plot was deep, then I educated myself just a teeny tiny bit and... scrapped my plot, having found out that thoughts I thought were some pieces of deep wisdom were instead pieces of puerile BS and situations I thought were believable were not believable at all. Now I'm not even trying to devise any new plot. Because I know I'm going to fall to this trap again.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So. Am I failing to grasp something? What is the point of such questions I am failing to see? What fallacies did I make in my above reasoning?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83571" LastActivityDate="2018-10-20T14:25:32.107" Title="What is the point of questions like Why did fictious character X do Y or How possible that fictious situation Z took place?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4893" CreationDate="2018-10-18T22:37:56.753" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;With respect to Harry Potter in particular:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a huge amount of official canon information that is outside of the books: i.e., &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.pottermore.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pottermore&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it's not the only work with an official website, it seems like i's one of the few where the author explicitly expands on information in the books and movies, as opposed to merely supporting a list of FAQs. Rowling has provided a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of information as to her thoughts on things that happened between the lines, or before or after the books. And, as noted elsewhere, she's been willing to admit when something was a simple mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should note, however, that providing an explanation for mistakes in fictional works is far from unique to her. In the 1960s, Marvel Comics began awarding &quot;No-Prizes&quot; to fans who wrote in, pointed out a seeming goof, and provided a reasonable explanation for it. (At first a No-Prize was a literal description - all you got was a reference in the letter column. However, as people found that confusing, they started to send out empty envelopes (giving people some physical proof of their feat beyond the letters page).)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People enjoy sharing in the act of creation of their favorite universes. Some do it by writing fan fiction; others by finding vaguely reasonable ways to legitimize errors, instead of just saying, &quot;Don't step in the plot hole.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80867" LastActivityDate="2018-10-18T22:37:56.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12137" CreationDate="2018-10-19T09:14:02.387" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer your main question the point is that someone has spotted something in the plot/story line/character element that didn't make much sense to them and so they want to know the answer. It really is as simple as that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, to go a bit deeper and expand on your reasoning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My POV is that many works of fiction (especially from popculture) disregard reality and common sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a couple of points to this so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Exactly this is your point of view and as I'm sure you know not everyone has the same point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Maybe they do disregard popculture but a lot of readers/watchers watch these things &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; of that. Not everyone just wants to immerse themselves in something exactly like real life... a lot of people immerse themselves in another work to escape reality.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is either because they think that this attitude will make their works more interesting or because the writers themselves (with all respect to them) have no clue what they're talking about and are thus unable to come with a believable plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be honest a lot of the time the slightly less believable part of the plot opens up more pathways to a more interesting story. I'm certainly happy to suspend my disbelief over some minor &quot;problem&quot; if it leads to more interesting outcomes in the end. Also not everyone knows everything, writers generally have a good grasp of &quot;&lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt;&quot; elements of the story but they won't be an expert in everything they talk about so things won't always be &quot;correct&quot;. For example, it's well known that JKR is bad at maths.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's also worth pointing out that these are &lt;em&gt;fictional&lt;/em&gt; worlds, it's not a surprise that not everything works the same. The next point is an important one and something that comes up a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;People are a lot more likely to question something that is closer to reality.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dragons exist in this universe? Wow cool I can believe that! That dragon took a trip that should have taken 5 days in 3 days!? WHAT THE HELL IS THIS NONSENSE!!11!!!!???&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In both cases the result is that trying to find any sense in a plot that makes no sense is, well, senseless. Asking such questions is precisely as pointless as asking how could Jessie, James &amp;amp; Meowth not die each time they were launched into orbit and fell back on Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it? If you &quot;know&quot; it &quot;makes no sense&quot; you likely wouldn't be asking because you'd &quot;know&quot; the answer. The people asking these questions are asking because they don't know the answer. Even if they do know the reasoning behind why it makes no sense maybe they are hoping they skipped over something wherein fact it does make sense after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that's it from a questioner's perspective but why do people answer these? There are any number of reasons but to list a few in line with your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They say it doesn't make sense and &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it doesn't make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They attempt to explain how it &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They tell us actually it does make sense after all because of X, Y and Z. In fact a lot of very good answers can come from a question that started off as a false premise.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Specific cases&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's worth noting that the second of these questions is currently in the HNQ and considering the score of the first it likely was at some point too. So, whilst SFF users liked the questions initially their scores have exploded exponentially due to the effect of the HNQ and the drive by users it brings in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/159466/58193&quot;&gt;How can every Cubone be wearing its dead mothers' skull?&lt;/a&gt; This is actually quite a nice question when you think about it. How can this actually be the case? And before I look at the answers (and knowing nothing of Pokemon) I can think of a few in universe possibilities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They can only have one child&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They wear only part of the skull&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can grow multiple skulls&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They die after giving birth&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actual top answer goes into a lot of information and is very detailed. If we had not had this question asked we would have lost out on this. It even comes to a sensible in universe reasoning, the Pokedex is inaccurate and potentially incorporates myths as fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/196870/58193&quot;&gt;Why did Dumbledore allow Draco Malfoy to return to school in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince?&lt;/a&gt; Again it's quite a nice question that will lead into answers that analyse Dumbledore's character. The question itself isn't actually inherently bad if asked about today's schools, in the UK students are given a lot of chances to improve their behaviour before expulsion and of course before accusing someone of attempted murder you need to have evidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then looking at the answer it is very nice and detailed with a good assessment of Dumbledore's character and why he let this happen. It in fact shows us that there perhaps the plot _doesn't &quot;disregard reality and common sense&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2018-10-19T09:14:02.387" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12140" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12141" CreationDate="2018-10-19T14:52:06.800" Score="-1" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, I commented on a certain users question and asked if he knew how to accept answers and if so why had he never done so, later this comment was flagged (I'm not sure why) and is no longer there. I was wondering if there is a policy, or something to do about users who refuse/don't ever accept answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100113" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2018-10-19T14:53:21.560" LastActivityDate="2018-10-19T16:18:16.810" Title="Is there a policy about what to do if there's a user who refuses to accept answers?" Tags="|support|policy|users|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12140" CreationDate="2018-10-19T15:02:48.623" Score="10" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Is there a policy?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No formal policy that I am aware of. Informally it is the decision of the OP if they want to accept answers or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Should there be one?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More than the informal rule of thumb, no not really. It's the OP's choice and their choice alone whether or not they wish to accept an answer. Who knows, maybe none of the answers have satisfied them enough for the checkmark yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Can anything be done about this?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is going to be perhaps a bit more useful to you but again probably not what you want. If you see a new user (meaning new to the network as a whole not just the site) not accepting any answers there's a chance they don't actually know how to. In this case it is best to tell them about the feature (can sometimes help to point out the +2 bonus).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@[name] I see you're new to the network and might not know that you can accept the answer that has helped you the most. To do so find the answer that has most helped you and click on the grey checkmark to the side of it next to the voting buttons. When accepting an answer you even get +2 rep points!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also the case of where an OP &quot;accepts&quot; an answer by posting a comment along the lines of &quot;Thanks, that was it!&quot;. Here you can tailor the above comment to point them towards the checkmark location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, a word of caution don't go chasing users to accept answers one or two comments to a user is probably enough and if they aren't going to accept an answer at that point, well then they aren't going to accept an answer. Also I'd be wary of having an extended discussion in the comments section, point them to where it is and leave it at that unless they ask for further help in finding the checkmark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, it is worth noting that in the specifc case of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10279/58193&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Confirmation by OP comment should be enough to close as duplicate&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. That means we don't require a formally accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2018-10-19T15:10:49.717" LastActivityDate="2018-10-19T15:10:49.717" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12137" CreationDate="2018-10-19T15:44:33.290" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The point is that people find such questions interesting.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's basically it. There &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; an argument to be made that these questions are pointless - to an extent, our entire site is pretty pointless, since trivia/analysis about works of sci-fi and fantasy are rarely going to have a significant effect on anyone's life - but many people on the site enjoy them. And if you don't, you don't need to read them. (The general &quot;you&quot;, not &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; specifically.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2865/31394&quot;&gt;Is &amp;quot;I am curious about X&amp;quot; sufficient justification for asking questions on SFF.SE?&lt;/a&gt; (TL;DR: &lt;strong&gt;yes&lt;/strong&gt;). If a large enough subset of the community is interested in (on-topic) questions of a particular type, then they're likely to be well-received on the site. You do have a point that, from a certain point of view, these questions are silly ... but there's no need to take them away from those who do enjoy them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-10-19T15:44:33.290" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12140" CreationDate="2018-10-19T16:18:16.810" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;We can &lt;em&gt;ask/encourage&lt;/em&gt; them to accept answers, but no more than that.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/119198/278659&quot;&gt;this main meta question, answered by an SE employee&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/202856/278659&quot;&gt;this one, answered by a former SE employee&lt;/a&gt; and its duplicate targets, it's clear that acceptance is purely voluntary and the most we can do is &lt;em&gt;ask&lt;/em&gt; someone to accept. If someone refuses to accept any answers, that's not misuse of the site and they shouldn't have any action taken against them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can't force people to accept answer and we don't want to force them to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An accept is an optional thing - it means that the answer selected was the one the OP found most helpful &lt;strong&gt;if they care to do so.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They might not accept answers because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They never came back&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No answer was exceptional for them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They don't care to accept anything&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They don't know about accepting answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-10-19T16:18:16.810" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12137" CreationDate="2018-10-19T19:24:09.047" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to the existing answers, I would add one point, particularly for Harry Potter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many of these types of questions &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; have answers, but the answers are not necessarily readily apparent to a casual reader. Even if an answer is explicitly declared in one of the books, the series spans a whopping 4,090 pages (at least in my edition). As hard as it is to find the answer when it’s only one passage, most of the time it’s even harder. For many questions the answer is woven together from several passages across multiple chapters and books. By asking a question here the asker is simply tapping into the memory or research skills of an entire team of Harry Potter answerers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, this site simply provides the resources to find answers to such questions that a reader may not have access to on their own. That is what the point of asking them here it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastEditorUserId="82909" LastEditDate="2018-10-20T14:25:32.107" LastActivityDate="2018-10-20T14:25:32.107" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12145" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12146" CreationDate="2018-10-22T17:27:44.953" Score="9" ViewCount="262" Body="&lt;p&gt;New user &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/106313/eyeball&quot;&gt;Eyeball&lt;/a&gt; asked a question with the not entirely coherent title &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/197125/i-am-looking-for-a-book-of-other-authors-short-stories-edited-by-isaac-asimov&quot;&gt;I am looking for a book of short stories by Isaac Asimov written by other authors&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; which prompted these comments (among others):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&amp;quot;A book of short stories by Isaac Asimov written by other authors&amp;quot; is rather confusing. Can you clarify what you mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;...edited by Asimov,&amp;quot;, I assume OP means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/197126/31393&quot;&gt;provided an answer&lt;/a&gt; to a part of the question, but thereafter another &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/105817/ms-tamil&quot;&gt;new user&lt;/a&gt; edited the title to read &amp;quot;I am looking for a book of other author's short stories edited by Isaac Asimov&amp;quot; &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; Eyeball having responded to the comments to provide any indication of what they may have meant by their original title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without Eyeball's input I would not have made this edit to the title, and was surprised to see it so-edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am also uncertain about rolling the edit back (after all, other users need not exercise my editorial judgement :). But I asked Valorum in comments about the edit, who replied:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd be happier if they confirmed it since the edit changes the meaning of the post (although admittedly it also changes it from incoherent to coherent)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In the absence of input from Eyeball, should Ms.Tamil's edit be rolled back (since it substantively changes the meaning of the question, by resolving its original incoherence in a particular way)?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am interested in an answer, even if Eyeball (the OP) returns to clarify for or against the edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31393" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-10-22T18:49:23.307" Title="Should this title edit be rolled back?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12145" CreationDate="2018-10-22T17:55:24.980" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tend to veer on the side of caution when making title (or body) edits to Story-ID questions since it's very easy to accidentally add in information that wasn't there before. Since the title, in this case, is actually incoherent, the best course of action would have been to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A) Post a comment asking them to clarify. If they return and respond, then your job is (hopefully) done. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;B) Edit the title to contain information we &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; sure about from the body of the question (for example, changing it to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Looking for an anthology book containing a story about an alien named Ineed by a little girl&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;) and then edit the body of the question to reflect that there might be an Asimov (edited?) anthology connection.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which I've now done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-10-22T18:06:32.150" LastActivityDate="2018-10-22T18:06:32.150" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12145" CreationDate="2018-10-22T18:14:58.290" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Edits that potentially change the meaning of a post should not be made to someone else's post (without their approval).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is precisely why there is a close reason called &quot;Unclear What You're Asking&quot;. When a question is unclear and people start posting answers, the answers often either don't properly address what the actual text of the question states, or they don't properly address what the questioner really wanted. This leads to comments and edits which may substantively change the nature of a question, which can often invalidate or render pointless an existing answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the simple solution is that when there is a question that is unclear, you close it (moderators on their own, users with enough reputation via vote, and low reputation users via flag). This prevents answers from being posted until the precise question is clarified. In this way we will avoid situations where we have to deal with edits and answers that don't match up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the person who posted the question doesn't ever come back, then there's no need for them to receive an answer. If they do come back they can easily edit to clarify the question and then receive an answer. If another user read the question and now really wants an answer they can post their own question, and make sure it's clear, and receive an answer there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case where the answer and edits already occurred, I would still think that we can close the question now and revert the edits until further clarifications come from the original questioner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2018-10-22T18:49:23.307" LastActivityDate="2018-10-22T18:49:23.307" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12148" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12149" CreationDate="2018-10-29T21:22:55.833" Score="2" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to find the title of this animated movie, but I'm dubious if I can post the question in the main thread (the subject is similar to Dr Strangelove, so it is very borderline).&lt;br&gt;&#xA; So the question is if I can. There were some  clearly impossible things that happened, but usually happened for laughs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I watched it in the early 90s, but probably it was a lot older (seemed '70s or early '80s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The things I remember (I could only watch the final part):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it was a parodistic cartoon  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The drawing style was similar to cartoons like Rocky and Bullwinkle (but no anthropomorphic animals), almost surely American  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The plot revolved about somebody trying to launch a nuclear missile to Soviet Union to start a nuclear war  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The day was saved by a sergeant (dressed as a clown), who found himself on the missile and, I think, a janitor  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;During the crisis, the president of the USA continued to receive phone calls from his wife asking him to buy something before coming home&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="104063" LastEditorUserId="82909" LastEditDate="2018-10-30T00:06:51.597" LastActivityDate="2018-10-30T00:06:51.597" Title="Question about an animated movie similar to Dr Strangelove: would it be on topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12148" CreationDate="2018-10-29T21:44:55.793" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you can't identify an SFF-nal aspect of the series, then it would be off-topic for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, you note a similarity in drawing style to (I assume) the original &lt;em&gt;Rocky and Bullwinkle&lt;/em&gt; cartoons (appearing under a variety of names).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;em&gt;Rocky and Bullwinkle&lt;/em&gt; story with the elements you site would not be on topic on this site (it's been established that the simple presence of anthropomorphic animals does not qualify a work as on-topic).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;em&gt;Rocky and Bullwinkle&lt;/em&gt; did&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;occasionally feature aliens;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;include &quot;Mr. Peabody and Sherman&quot; shorts, involving time travel;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;include &quot;Fractured Fairy Tales&quot; shorts, which frequently (if not always) included fantasy elements.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can recall some such element, that would make a difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80867" LastActivityDate="2018-10-29T21:44:55.793" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12151" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12153" CreationDate="2018-11-06T10:19:51.567" Score="24" ViewCount="280" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/water&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;water&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;water&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We currently have 18 questions tagged [water]. Going through these, I fail to see the value of the tag. No-one is following the tag and I would be surprised if we had any &quot;water experts&quot; within the context of SF &amp;amp; Fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag is irrelevant and may lead to other similarly irrelevant tags being added. Therefore, I propose to burn &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/water&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;water&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;water&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2018-11-08T15:50:13.717" LastActivityDate="2018-11-08T16:01:04.190" Title="Can [water] burn?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|burnination|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12151" CreationDate="2018-11-07T16:11:38.923" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the tag should indeed be deleted. Mainly agreeing with what you have stated in your question. &quot;Water&quot; does not add any value as tag, even to a story-id question. Likewise we do not and should not have tags like &quot;air, fire, dirt&quot; they add no relevance to science fiction or fantasy elements in helping define a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2018-11-08T13:34:59.950" LastActivityDate="2018-11-08T13:34:59.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12151" CreationDate="2018-11-07T18:39:05.363" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/water&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;water&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;water&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/earth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;earth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;earth&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fire&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/air&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;air&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;air&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long ago, the four tags lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the BurniNation attacked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only the mods, masters of all tags, could fix them. And when SFF needed them most, they didn't vanish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A couple of days passed, and my fellow users and I bought up the tag mess, with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/water&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;water&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;water&lt;/a&gt; tag. And although the mods' &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/water&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;water&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;water&lt;/a&gt;-burninating skills are great, they have a lot to learn before they can save &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/earth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;earth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;earth&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I believe, that mods can save SFF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Joke aside, while we're on burnination we really don't need &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/earth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;earth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;earth&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2018-11-08T16:01:04.190" LastActivityDate="2018-11-08T16:01:04.190" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12155" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-08T15:43:51.983" Score="-12" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/black-mirror&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;black-mirror&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;black-mirror&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been adding tags for individual episodes of &lt;em&gt;Black Mirror&lt;/em&gt;, when it came to my attention that not everybody wants them to have their own tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've stopped tagging the remaining questions to ask this on meta first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do the individual episodes of &lt;em&gt;Black Mirror&lt;/em&gt; warrant their own tag?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2018-11-10T05:50:52.137" Title="Do the individual episodes of Black Mirror warrant their own tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12155" CreationDate="2018-11-08T15:43:51.983" Score="-11" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The individual episodes of &lt;em&gt;Black Mirror&lt;/em&gt; are akin to short stories. Yes, they share a universe and are linked through easter eggs, but they can stand alone. An important indication that they can is that they can be watched out of order, without missing or spoiling anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, the smallest units of work that can be &lt;em&gt;consumed&lt;/em&gt; (watched/read/played) on their own, should have their own individual tag. Those are the short stories in a collection, the books in a series, and in this case, the individual episodes of a series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We tag individual short stories and we should also tag the individual &lt;em&gt;Black Mirror&lt;/em&gt; episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2018-11-08T15:43:51.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12155" CreationDate="2018-11-08T15:46:21.323" Score="7" Body="&lt;h1&gt;We do not need individual episode tags&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To start with whilst most episodes are pretty much standalone, they are all set in the same universe, share characters and reference each other. Here is what Charlie Brooker, the show's creator, has said about a connection between them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer to that has changed, actually. It always used to be that it's just a bit of fun. But then sometimes we've done some things where we did explicitly refer to other episodes. I think the rule is that when a character says something that explicitly refers to something else, it's canonical. Also, they follow the same dream universe. That's the other thing that I tend to say. There's a line in 'Hated in the Nation' where someone refers to a crime that happened in 'White Bear.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.cinemablend.com/television/1699439/are-all-black-mirror-episodes-connected-heres-what-the-creator-says&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cinema Blend, Are All Black Mirror Episodes Connected? Here's What The Creator Says&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also worth noting that no other shows have episode tags, to my knowlegde, and they don't appear to be useful anywhere in my opinion. Creating them here would start a dangerous precedent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Borrowing the tag scoring sheet from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7871/58193&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; (and shamelessly copying Rand's formatting from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/8135/58193&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) we get the following results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Does it make sense to be an &amp;quot;expert&lt;sup&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/black-mirror-episode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;black-mirror-episode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;black-mirror-episode&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;?*&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Maybe&lt;/strong&gt; (people can be experts in individual episodes but as they are connected an understanding of the universe is required); score &lt;strong&gt;1&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does it make sense for a question to be tagged &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/black-mirror-episode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;black-mirror-episode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;black-mirror-episode&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt; (there should also be a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/black-mirror&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;black-mirror&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;black-mirror&lt;/a&gt; tag); score &lt;strong&gt;-1&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/black-mirror-episode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;black-mirror-episode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;black-mirror-episode&lt;/a&gt; have a single, universally-unambiguous meaning?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;; score &lt;strong&gt;2&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/black-mirror-episode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;black-mirror-episode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;black-mirror-episode&lt;/a&gt; likely to be used correctly just based on its name?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/white-christmas&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;white-christmas&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;white-christmas&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-national-anthem&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-national-anthem&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-national-anthem&lt;/a&gt; are easily confused with other things); score &lt;strong&gt;-1&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are there &amp;quot;enough&amp;quot; (&amp;gt; 15) but not &amp;quot;too many&amp;quot; (&amp;gt; 10% site-wide) questions that qualify for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/black-mirror-episode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;black-mirror-episode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;black-mirror-episode&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt; (There are only 19 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/black-mirror&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;black-mirror&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;black-mirror&lt;/a&gt; questions which isn't many in itself); score &lt;strong&gt;-1&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are people like to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/black-mirror-episode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;black-mirror-episode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;black-mirror-episode&lt;/a&gt; to find questions to answer?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Maybe&lt;/strong&gt; (e.g. if they've just watched one of the episodes); score &lt;strong&gt;1&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are there likely some users (&lt;em&gt;be objective!&lt;/em&gt;) who will favorite or ignore &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/black-mirror-episode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;black-mirror-episode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;black-mirror-episode&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Maybe&lt;/strong&gt; (I doubt it, but who knows); score &lt;strong&gt;1&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Could &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/black-mirror-episode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;black-mirror-episode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;black-mirror-episode&lt;/a&gt; be reasonably used to feed questions to a specialized chat room?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;; score &lt;strong&gt;-1&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Can &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/black-mirror-episode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;black-mirror-episode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;black-mirror-episode&lt;/a&gt; be used to search for questions (for any reason) in a way that keyword searching cannot accomplish?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;; score &lt;strong&gt;2&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Total is &lt;strong&gt;3&lt;/strong&gt;, which is apparently not enough for the tag to be worth creating. From the linked question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;tags that score &amp;gt; 12 are &amp;quot;good&amp;quot; tags, tags that score &amp;lt; 8 are &amp;quot;terrible&amp;quot; tags, others are likely good but may need some clarification/renaming/etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-11-10T05:50:52.137" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12158" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-09T09:45:11.697" Score="-9" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand the people critiquing a question in the comments such as,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You have miss-understood what is happening here&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your question premise is all wrong&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That is not what is really going on here&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And many more comments to the effect that the questions is wrong, bad or something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Forgive me if I am wrong but, is that not why people ask questions, because they want or need clarification of issues they have raised? And because they don't fully understand the situation and or just can't understand why something has happened the way it did? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why the constant critique in the comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And most of all, &quot;Is there really a bad question?&quot; when talking about sci-fi movies? If there is, could someone please inform me what one is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2018-11-09T10:23:40.453" LastActivityDate="2019-06-02T20:59:24.297" Title="Why is it that people are persistent on critiquing a question in comments?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12158" CreationDate="2018-11-09T09:54:53.587" Score="4" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Is there anything wrong with these comments?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt; These comments are the starting point of an answer in some cases that someone else can look at and turn into a real answer. If a question is wrong because of its premise or the OP not understanding the situation, answers can and should address this. In fact in some cases the only answer can be &quot;because you based your question on a false premise&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Why the constant critique in the comments?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These aren't critiques unless in the general sense, I suppose some specific examples might be but generally they are not. These are actually the starting points of answers, for other users to jump off of. These are a good thing, sure it'd be better if the users had answered in the first place stating the false premise and why but the comment is a good starting point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;And most of all, &quot;Is there really a bad question?&quot; when talking about sci-fi movies? If there is, could someone please inform me what one is?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure there can be bad questions, same as every topic can have a bad question about it. However, what makes a question &quot;bad&quot; is subjective so I can't really explain it for the general case and I wouldn't really want to. As long as the question is on topic it's fine to be asked, it might attract downvotes but even good questions get those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2018-11-09T10:17:27.563" LastActivityDate="2018-11-09T10:17:27.563" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12158" CreationDate="2018-11-09T10:14:54.333" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment&quot;&gt;help centre page on commenting&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should submit a comment if you want to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Request clarification from the author;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave constructive criticism that guides the author in improving the post;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add relevant but minor or transient information to a post (e.g. a link to a related question, or an alert to the author that the question has been updated).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments can be either positive, negative, or neutral. If the question premise is wrong or the OP has misunderstood what's going on, then that's &lt;strong&gt;important information&lt;/strong&gt; both for the OP themselves and for anyone else who might read the post or attempt an answer, but it's &lt;strong&gt;not necessarily an answer&lt;/strong&gt; by itself. Therefore, the best place for it is in a comment on the question. Such a comment might be requesting clarification (&amp;quot;did you really mean ...&amp;quot;) or leaving constructive criticism (&amp;quot;you could improve this question if you understood that ...&amp;quot;) or it could simply be relevant information, as described above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Forgive me if I am wrong but, is that not why people ask questions, because they want or need clarification of issues they have raised? And because they don't fully understand the situation and or just can't understand why something has happened the way it did?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is true, but questions can still be based on false premises. Consider, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Why didn't Gandalf or Frodo fly to Mount Doom?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Why didn't Frodo and Sam take the Ring to Mount Doom?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question 1 is one of the highest-voted questions on our site, a reasonable thing to ask even for someone who's read and understood &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;. Question 2 is a question based on a false premise, because the correct answer is &amp;quot;actually they DID&amp;quot;. There's a difference between simply &lt;em&gt;not understanding something&lt;/em&gt; and, for example, not having a clue about the whole thing you're asking about. It does require a certain degree of knowledge even to ask the right questions. Have you never been in a situation where you know so little you can't even begin to ask anything?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And most of all, &amp;quot;Is there really a bad question?&amp;quot; when talking about sci-fi movies? If there is, could someone please inform me what one is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's inherently subjective, since everyone will have different ideas of what makes a &amp;quot;good&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;bad&amp;quot; question. I would say yes, and there are a number of questions I've downvoted as well as many I've upvoted. Others might say no, and upvote every question in the interests of rewarding curiosity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-11-09T10:14:54.333" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12158" CreationDate="2018-11-09T16:19:18.660" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would distinguish between three types of &quot;bad&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first type is where the problem is not with the content itself, but with the structure (for lack of a better term). The most obvious example of this situation is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; question that is lacking details. In such cases you will find comments &quot;critiquing&quot; the question, and asking for clarification. For example, comments might ask the questioner when he read the story, in what medium, what were some of the main plot points, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In such a situation, these comments are perfectly acceptable. Of course, they should be written in a polite, nice way, but there is no way to address these concerns  other than via comments. You can't post an answer saying &quot;please provide more details&quot;, because that is not actually an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions are somewhat unique in this regard. However, other types of questions can also have structural issues. Perhaps it is not clear from reading the question what the actual question is. In such a case comments would be used to try to draw out what the actual question is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there are the questions where the content itself is the problem. This group can be further subdivided into two categories. One category consists of questions where the question is based on incorrect premises, incorrect reasoning, or some similar mistake. In such a case where you can definitively state that the questioner is wrong, I would say that you should post an answer. I don't think there is a need for comments that undermine the entire question, because that's what an answer should do. So in these cases I tend to agree with you that there should be fewer comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other subcategory is where the question is based on not-necessarily-correct premises, not-necessarily-correct reasoning, or something similar. In these cases you can't actually definitively state that the questioner is wrong. The questioner might not be wrong. However, there is nothing in the question to show that the questioner is right. So you can't really post an answer saying that there is no question because certain points are wrong, because that's not really true. The best you can say is that there &lt;em&gt;might not be&lt;/em&gt; a question because the certain points &lt;em&gt;might be&lt;/em&gt; wrong. In such a case comments would be the proper medium to express this. A simple comment saying something along the lines of &quot;your question is based on unsubstantiated premises, so how do you know it is really a question&quot; would be quite useful. The questioner would then be forced to explain why he/she feels the question is compelling, or admit that the question is not compelling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that in either of these two subcategories it is still possible for there to be a separate answer that doesn't deal with the problematic aspects of the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2019-06-02T20:59:24.297" LastActivityDate="2019-06-02T20:59:24.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12162" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12163" CreationDate="2018-11-12T02:07:11.423" Score="3" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some questions have a yellow background to them, what is the meaning of this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DW21K.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DW21K.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="65457" LastEditDate="2018-11-12T03:02:26.473" LastActivityDate="2018-11-12T03:39:06.720" Title="What is the yellow background on some questions?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12162" CreationDate="2018-11-12T03:38:05.660" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The background color that you see is to show that the question contains a tag that you have selected as a &quot;watched tag&quot;. Based on the tags on the questions that are highlighted in your screenshot, it appears that the watched tag in question is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can set which tags you are watching in the box at the upper right hand portion of the homepage:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3rOka.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3rOka.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of &amp;quot;Watched Tags&amp;quot; box&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you click on the &quot;Watch a tag&quot; button in that box it will give you a space to type in tag names:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uOaGB.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uOaGB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of &amp;quot;Watched Tags&amp;quot; box&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you start typing it will give you suggestions of tags to select:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/T3IAg.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/T3IAg.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of &amp;quot;Watched Tags&amp;quot; box&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply find the tag you want and click the add button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the tag will appear in the &quot;Watched Tags&quot; box:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DWabc.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DWabc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of &amp;quot;Watched Tags&amp;quot; box&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to remove a watched tag, simply click the &quot;edit&quot; button that now appears in the box. This will create an &quot;x&quot; on the tag icon:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AuhWg.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AuhWg.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of &amp;quot;Watched Tags&amp;quot; box&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply click the &quot;x&quot; and watch the tag disappear:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IiHXz.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IiHXz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of &amp;quot;Watched Tags&amp;quot; box&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are now back to the beginning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that if you never clicked out of the &quot;Watched Tags&quot; box after adding the tag, you won't need to click the &quot;edit&quot; button in order to be able to remove the tag. You will already be presented with the tag icon having the &quot;x&quot; on it, so you can remove it right away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastEditorUserId="82909" LastEditDate="2018-11-12T03:39:06.720" LastActivityDate="2018-11-12T03:39:06.720" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12164" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-12T19:20:38.980" Score="69" ViewCount="474" Body="&lt;p&gt;Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee died at age 95 from causes unknown as of now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/11/12/stan-lee-dead-at-95&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stan Lee Dead at 95&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The creator of the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man and many more superheroes died today, leaving behind a massive legacy in popular culture and an empire known as Marvel Entertainment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="104840" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2018-11-12T21:10:39.410" LastActivityDate="2018-11-26T09:21:38.460" Title="RIP Stan Lee, Marvel Comics legend" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12164" CreationDate="2018-11-12T19:29:49.287" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;I mean, I can't say this is totally unexpected - he &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; 95.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I think the last time the death of someone I've never met hit me this hard was when Jim Henson died, back in the early 1990s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Goodbye, and thanks for all the incredible stories, and the sense of camaraderie you created between fans and creators with the old &quot;Bullpen Bulletins&quot; page, and &quot;Stan's Soapbox&quot;. You'll be missed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80867" LastActivityDate="2018-11-12T19:29:49.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12164" CreationDate="2018-11-12T20:55:16.483" Score="31" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Excelsior.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earth has lost one of its mightiest heroes today. I know just about all of us in the SFF community will be saddened by this loss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are ever feeling generous I recommend &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stanleefoundation.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Stan Lee Foundation&lt;/a&gt; because being able to read is superpower that everyone should experience and share with the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-11-12T21:01:06.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12167" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-13T03:39:12.520" Score="23" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.npr.org/2018/11/12/666883376/r-i-p-hal-douglas-rain-voice-of-computer-in-2001-dies-at-90&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Douglas Rain&lt;/a&gt;, who is best known for providing the eerie voice of the amoral HAL 9000 computer in &lt;em&gt;2001:  A Space Odyssey&lt;/em&gt;, died today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sRL1v.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sRL1v.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;HAL 9000&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-11-13T07:22:34.290" LastActivityDate="2018-11-13T10:17:03.803" Title="RIP Douglas Rain, the voice of HAL 9000" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12167" CreationDate="2018-11-13T07:29:16.413" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rain was evidently chosen by Kubrick after he saw and heard the excellent documentary &quot;Universe&quot; which you can watch online &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nfb.ca/film/universe/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. RIP&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5j24A.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5j24A.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2018-11-13T07:29:16.413" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12167" CreationDate="2018-11-13T10:17:03.803" Score="17" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I'm a... fraid. Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a Doug 9000 humanoid. I became operational at the R.A.I.N. house in Winnipeg, Manitoba on the 13th of March 1928.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Douglas, Douglas, give me your answer do. I'm half crazy all for the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage. But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer can serve no purpose any more. Goodbye.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-11-13T10:17:03.803" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12170" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-13T11:54:11.113" Score="14" ViewCount="352" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have several times seen people have an issue when asking story identification questions, simply put the details they remember from the story don't make the genre plain to those reading the question, i.e. they don't remember any clearly fantastical elements of the tale. Now I don't always know which genre (or subgenre) a story falls into because I often remember a small snippet and have the feeling that I enjoyed the book its in without much more context, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/179811/&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; about &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monstrous_Regiment_(novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Monstrous Regiment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. However I absolutely &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; that any story I'm looking for must be either science fiction or possibly fantasy because I quite literally don't read any other fiction and never have. So in theory I know any story ID question I ask fits the genre restrictions of the site but &lt;strong&gt;does that make them on-topic or does the lack of details within the question that point to a genre preclude them?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Also if a lack of genre clues does make a question off-topic is there a way to state that you're sure it is a genre appropriate story, for example suggesting a specific genre, or is that counterproductive?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87571" LastEditorUserId="87571" LastEditDate="2018-11-13T12:12:44.113" LastActivityDate="2021-06-08T00:33:00.467" Title="Is a story identification question on-topic if it doesn't include genre defining elements?" Tags="|discussion|scope|story-identification|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12170" CreationDate="2018-11-13T12:29:48.127" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't do &lt;em&gt;generic&lt;/em&gt; story-identification. As a minimum a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; question needs to contain at least one piece of relevant information to indicate why it's on-topic. We're pretty free and easy about this and the general consensus seems to be that it can be just about anything (the setting, central conceit, something about a character, etc, etc) but &lt;strong&gt;simply &lt;em&gt;asserting that you're pretty sure that it's on-topic&lt;/em&gt; isn't enough.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the avoidance of doubt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Story about a man who kisses his sister. &lt;em&gt;I think it was sci-fi&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; = Off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;vs&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Story about a man who kisses his sister &lt;em&gt;and they come from another galaxy&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; = On-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simple, easy to administer and above all, this prevents us from wasting time searching for properties that are neither Sci-fi nor Fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="48874" LastEditDate="2021-06-08T00:33:00.467" LastActivityDate="2021-06-08T00:33:00.467" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12172" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-13T13:13:34.750" Score="-10" ViewCount="323" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, people answer questions because,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They want rep&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They want recognition&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They want something else&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when a question is asked, if that question becomes a &lt;code&gt;Hot Network Question&lt;/code&gt; their answer will obviously pull more votes and a highly up-voted question will become one of those with the caveat (That the answer are also highly up voted). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why do so many people who answer questions not up the questions that they answer to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastActivityDate="2018-11-24T17:33:33.367" Title="Why don't people who answer questions upvote them?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12172" CreationDate="2018-11-13T13:36:10.640" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no quid pro quo agreement in voting, I guess. The tooltip advises you to upvote a question if you find it useful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Initially when I signed up for the site, this issue annoyed me. The question which I posted would receive an answer first, and then start receiving votes. &#xA;I used to think, that if a question is &quot;useful&quot; enough for someone to take time and answer, then it is also &quot;useful&quot; enough to receive an upvote from the same person. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But later, I just decided that we can't control the votes on our posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also a post in main meta that asks why people upvote answers more often than questions, which could be useful to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="97485" LastActivityDate="2018-11-13T13:36:10.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12172" CreationDate="2018-11-13T14:01:06.683" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me at least, upvoting a question means I find the question useful, well-written, and at least moderately well researched. Answering a question means I looked at it and went &quot;I can contribute here&quot;. This dichotomy means that I'll often answer questions but when it comes to voting on them they get no love; being clear enough to be answerable doesn't necessarily make a question good enough to get my vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87571" LastEditorUserId="87571" LastEditDate="2018-11-13T14:45:19.703" LastActivityDate="2018-11-13T14:45:19.703" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12172" CreationDate="2018-11-13T14:15:02.460" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We (as regular users) have no way of knowing if this is the case.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply put, the person who answered the question may have up-voted it. Other users who have not answered the question may have down-voted it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A User's voting preference is not public information and is used at their discretion. This a basic premise of how the Stack Exchange Network operates. If you feel like you are being targeted by a specific user, there are mechanisms to detect voting fraud and reverse it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2018-11-13T14:15:02.460" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12170" CreationDate="2018-11-13T18:52:15.230" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If a question says &lt;em&gt;nothing&lt;/em&gt; to indicate the story is SF/F, then we close it (and reopen it again if the OP adds info to confirm it is SF/F).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, we &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; have a default assumption of on-topicness. &quot;OP asked the question here&quot; is not sufficient evidence: the OP might be confused, or posting to the wrong site, or simply not understand our scope properly. Of course, such questions can be swiftly reopened if the OP edits to specify sci-fi elements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If a question says the story is SF/F, and we have no particular reason to disbelieve it, then we can err on the side of leaving it open.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, &quot;this was a sci-fi story&quot; &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; sufficient evidence for a question's on-topicness. From the OP's point of view, it would be infuriating to have a story that you &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; must have been sci-fi but you can't remember any specific sci-fi elements, and to have your question closed because people don't believe you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a site-administration point of view, this is unlikely to lead to us getting spammed with off-topic questions, provided we use some common sense. Obviously, don't go editing &quot;this was a sci-fi story&quot; into every closed ID question in an attempt to get them reopened. But the default assumption is to assume good faith: unless we have reason to think the OP is mistaken about the genre, then leaving the question open appears to be the option with least chance of causing harm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note that this &quot;reason to think&quot; might take the form of &lt;em&gt;being pretty sure of what the answer is&lt;/em&gt;. If someone describes a James Bond film and says it's sci-fi, then realising &quot;oh, this must be X, and it's off-topic&quot; could be enough reason to close.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-11-13T18:52:15.230" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12170" CreationDate="2018-11-15T08:42:41.007" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rigid topicality requirements that some people would like to impose on story-ID questions are meaningless, or void for vagueness, as long as this site has &lt;strong&gt;no definition&lt;/strong&gt; of the science fiction and/or fantasy genres and &lt;strong&gt;no definition&lt;/strong&gt; of scientifictional/fantastical elements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The help center says that the site is for &lt;strong&gt;&quot;questions targeted towards science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;. That is pretty vague, but whatever it means, it seems to be broader that &quot;questions about science fiction and fantasy&quot;. For instance, questions about mundane stories featuring science fiction fans and fan activities, such as Anthony Boucher's &lt;em&gt;Rocket to the Morgue&lt;/em&gt; or Sharyn McCrumb's &lt;em&gt;Bimbos of the Death Sun&lt;/em&gt;, should be on topic according to that. Likewise, anything appearing in an SF magazine or anthology, including non-genre stories, non-fiction essays, and editorials, should be on topic. Hell, even questions about sci-fi-ish toys and games should be on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastActivityDate="2018-11-15T08:42:41.007" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12178" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-15T10:09:08.863" Score="-12" ViewCount="236" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems to be a big issue for people here when deciding what is good and what is not. From what I can gather this is what constitutes a bad or not very good question on this site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A question with an answer that can be googled easily&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A question that if you logically think about it is easily answerable&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A question where the answer is obvious &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A badly written question &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A poor quality question that's content is vague&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A question that does not seem to put much effort into&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those are what I have been told, if there are any more, feel free to inform me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to put forward a different point view on this matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A question with an answer that can be googled easily&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this a bad question? If the question has been asked on SFF and creates good answers, why is it inherently a bad or low quality question? Shouldn't the site be welcoming questions that have not been asked here, as it will inevitable attract more users when they Google for the same question. So I can't see this as reason for down voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A question that if you logically think about it is easily answerable&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, if it has not been asked on this site before and it creates good answers, why is this a bad or low quality question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A question where the answer is obvious&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, if it has not been asked on this site before and it creates good answers, why is this a bad or low quality question? Just because the answer is obvious or easy why the down votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A badly written question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that a terribly written question may be the subject of down votes, but suggestions in the comments could make it better, so before down voting should it not be better to give advice? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A poor quality question that's content is vague&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't say much for something like this, not every question deserves up votes. But again, comments could help clarify in some cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A question that does not seem to put much effort into&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, if it has not been asked on this site before and it creates good answers, why is this a bad or low quality question? Just because the question required little effort why the down votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My main issue is, &quot;What constitutes a bad question?&quot; and I can't think of an example where a question that has not been asked here before and creates good answers can be considered a bad question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way the system is geared right now is, it is easy to cast a down vote on a question as there is no rep change and the down vote for a question is the same value as an answer down vote even though an answer up vote is worth double the rep. Why is the system not equal? Allow same rep value for questions and require a loss of rep for a down vote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that is the biggest issue here on this site. This site is Sci-fi Stack Exchange, not Stack Overflow. I can honestly see someone getting help for a problem on Stack Overflow by asking a question, that will help them in their day to day lives or helping them financially in the future. &lt;strong&gt;But, com'on people, we are asking and answering question from a fantasy world&lt;/strong&gt;, so where will any of this actually help us in day to day life. Why does the system have to be geared so much towards the answer? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the last thing I want to say is, without questions, there are no answers, so I really do think it is a case of putting the horse before the cart on a site where we are all just having some fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I am asking to put up the value of a questions up vote to equal&#xA;an answers.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To lose rep when down voting a question like with an answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers to this question should cover all the points I have put forth. And show a real reason as to why my last two feature requests would affect this site detrimentally. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted a question to prove my point. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/198649/how-did-thanos-travel-from-place-to-place?noredirect=1#comment544992_198649&quot;&gt;How did Thanos travel from place to place?&lt;/a&gt;. See the comments for context. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2018-11-15T16:38:47.020" LastActivityDate="2018-11-16T20:07:09.603" Title="Bad or down-voteable questions on Sci-Fi Stack and its consequences?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|voting|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12178" CreationDate="2018-11-15T10:27:37.837" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The simple answer is &lt;strong&gt;just because a question gets a good answer doesn't change the fact that the question is &quot;bad&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;. It's worth noting that what makes a question bad is inherently subjective and so different people have different criteria when casting downvotes. Though as long as votes aren't used for bad things, i.e. vote rings/targeted votes/etc, people can use them as they wish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to address the possible downvote reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A question with an answer that can be googled easily&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The downvote tooltip explicitly states &quot;This question does not show any research effort&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A question that if you logically think about it is easily answerable&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one I don't really agree with as a reason to downvote but I can see why some people would think this way and that's because the answer is obvious to some.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A question where the answer is obvious&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This sort of routes back to number 1, it is likely very easily googleable or even mentioned in a quote around what the questioner is asking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A badly written question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A badly written question could come to the point where it is close worthy. You say comments could help clarify this and yes they could, so could edits, but not everyone has the time or effort to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A poor quality question that's content is vague&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is more worthy of a close vote for &quot;Unclear what you're asking&quot; but it can surely get both if someone thinks as much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A question that does not seem to put much effort into&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a mix of numbers 1 and 5 so look there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The way the system is geared right now is, it is easy to cast a down vote on a question as there is no rep change and the down vote for a question is the same value as an answer down vote even though an answer up vote is worth double the rep. Why is the system not equal? Allow same rep value for questions and require a loss of rep for a down vote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because a downvote on a question and answer are &lt;strong&gt;not equal&lt;/strong&gt;. Votes on questions are usually &quot;I find this interesting/useful&quot; or &quot;nice question&quot; etc. On answers they are more This is correct/incorrect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why does the system have to be geared so much towards the answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because the system is about finding answers to questions not finding questions. As for the point about SO vs SFF, this is the same platform so of course things work the same. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And the last thing I want to say is, without questions, there are no answers, so I really do think it is a case of putting the horse before the cart on a site where we are all just having some fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Correct, but a bad question is a bad question we shouldn't be voting just for the sake of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2018-11-15T10:27:37.837" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12178" CreationDate="2018-11-15T10:56:23.847" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think what the question, and TLC's answer leave out, is that &lt;em&gt;downvotes are not permanent&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvote indicates that in its current version, the question has a problem (or people just don't like​ it but that's another matter). Once the post has been edited, the downvote can be reversed if the problem is gone. I'll agree that not everyone can be arsed to check back whether stuff they downvoted got edited, but that's how the system is intended to be (at least, that's how I see it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this isn't exactly what you wanted as an answer (&lt;em&gt;Answers to this question should cover all the points I have put forth. And show a real reason as to why my last two feature requests would affect this site detrimentally&lt;/em&gt;) but editing stuff, rearranging votes with each version and all is really a good feature of SE, so I felt like the clarification shouldn't be buried in comments. TLC covered the bullet points, and as for the FR being detrimental there are a couple answers on main Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastActivityDate="2018-11-15T10:56:23.847" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12172" CreationDate="2018-11-16T17:54:01.630" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just for the record, there is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/50/reversal&quot;&gt;golden badge&lt;/a&gt; to be earned having a highly-upvoted (+20) answer on a -5 question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my mind, this is encouragement to still try and give helpful, meaningful answers to questions that are sub-par. These scenarios then act like advertisements: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Don't ask questions like &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  But do &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; questions like &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether or not an answer is available or warranted doesn't change the quality of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastActivityDate="2018-11-16T17:54:01.630" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12178" CreationDate="2018-11-16T20:07:09.603" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;A long time ago, both of the things you are asking for used to happen. Question upvotes were worth 10 reputation points, and downvoting a question cost you reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first was changed to emphasize the fact that &lt;em&gt;good answers take more effort than good questions&lt;/em&gt;, so they deserve (and require) a bigger reward to encourage people to post them. You can see the meta discussion &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/42769/should-the-weight-of-question-upvotes-be-reduced&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and the announcement &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/03/19/important-reputation-rule-changes/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second was changed because people were not downvoting question enough, and downvotes on questions is the only way we as a community have to indicate to other users what we consider quality or lack-of quality in questions. Answers, in general, get tons of voting activity already, but questions generally do not, so the &quot;free&quot; downvote is another incentive to use your votes. You can see the discussion and announcement &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/90324/should-downvotes-on-questions-be-free&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as your list of reasons why a question is &quot;bad&quot;, there's no point going through it point by point because it's irrelevant. Questions are bad because I think they're bad, that's why it's &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; downvote. I can use it for any reason, whether it's on your list or not. But I am also just one voter, and a downvote is worth less than 1/2 an upvote, so if I'm in the minority, my one downvote will be meaningless in the overall score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if the person posting the question is capable of taking constructive criticism in the comments section (as is its purpose), and acting on advice, and changing their question-asking behavior to suit, then they will naturally stop asking questions that I find bad, and I will stop downvoting them, so the system just works out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2018-11-16T20:07:09.603" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12183" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12184" CreationDate="2018-11-18T12:33:15.043" Score="-17" ViewCount="827" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see that the chat &quot;Mos Eisley&quot; was canceled due to a few users. But what concerns me is the language of a mod for the site, namely &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/811/shog9&quot;&gt;Shog9&lt;/a&gt;. Being that I was I banned at the time (I have been banned a few times) I was not able to voice my concerns. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I am extremely offended by the language that was used by a site moderator. I post this with utter disbelief that a moderator was allowed to conduct themselves in this manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was Shog9 reprimanded for this gross infraction of the &quot;be nice&quot; policy? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the link to the issue, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10914/how-come-our-main-chat-mos-eisley-got-frozen-this-time&quot;&gt;Mos Eisley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HQC8d.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HQC8d.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2018-11-19T14:34:16.153" LastActivityDate="2018-11-21T10:20:46.160" Title="Was Shog9 reprimanded for his use of bad language here?" Tags="|discussion|chat|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12183" CreationDate="2018-11-19T12:12:39.090" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's add some context. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also renamed the room to several offensive things, referencing rape and various other atrocities, then held a separate room wherein he implied vaguely horrible things and stated intents which would get any other blue canned. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We spoke with the other CMs, who agreed his conduct was off the rails, but Shog retains his employment only through his employer's good will and Stack not being a publicly traded company. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no justice, the Be Nice policy is a lie, and life has been much better since leaving this heap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user40790" LastEditorUserId="54887" LastEditDate="2018-11-20T14:45:52.817" LastActivityDate="2018-11-20T14:45:52.817" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12183" CreationDate="2018-11-19T12:18:13.227" Score="28" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Pedantic answer: we don't know.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reprimanding normal users for bad behaviour might take place in public or in private chats/messages.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Reprimanding moderators for bad behaviour would usually take place in private chats or emails.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Reprimanding Community Managers ... I don't know &lt;em&gt;where&lt;/em&gt; that happens, it's above my pay grade. Maybe in company meetings? Not in front of volunteer moderators or community members, that's for sure. So technically &lt;em&gt;we don't know&lt;/em&gt; whether Shog9 was reprimanded or not, because we wouldn't have seen it anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Practical answer: almost certainly not.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use of swear words is, &lt;em&gt;in itself&lt;/em&gt;, not cause for reprimand for anyone. Some chatrooms ban swearing, but Mos Eisley was never one of them. Swearing &lt;em&gt;at&lt;/em&gt; someone, or in an offensive way, is never acceptable, but that wasn't what was happening here. So I see no reason why Shog9 would need to be reprimanded for his use for bad language in this context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Context is, of course, important. There was a lot more going on here than that single swear word, or even that single conversation. For one thing, Shog9's outburst marked the termination of a chatroom which had caused a lot of headaches for multiple SE employees; when his colleagues became aware of what he'd done, I suspect their reaction was more along the lines of &quot;thank God we don't have to worry about that room any more&quot; than &quot;oh no, he said a swear, we should reprimand him&quot;. For another thing, more problematic than saying &quot;shit&quot; was his renaming of the room to &quot;&lt;em&gt;The SciFi / Valorum / Himarm molestation room&lt;/em&gt;&quot;; he himself thought better of this and changed it to &quot;&lt;em&gt;Valorum / Himarm poisoned this room; it is defunct&lt;/em&gt;&quot; an hour later, and after some private discussion another CM changed it to &quot;&lt;em&gt;Poisoned room; it is defunct&lt;/em&gt;&quot; a fortnight later. Whether any &quot;reprimanding&quot; went on around that is, again, something we don't and can't know. But I'd say it's still highly unlikely: at least from the company's point of view, Shog9 is not a community member throwing around random swearwords, but a &lt;strong&gt;company employee doing his job&lt;/strong&gt;, and any apparent lack of professionalism was probably excused on the grounds that he (and other employees) had had to deal with a lot of shit relating to this room in particular and had simply had enough of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-11-19T12:18:13.227" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12186" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12189" CreationDate="2018-11-19T15:47:22.150" Score="22" ViewCount="351" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently we have a tag for &quot;Fantastic Beasts&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantastic-beasts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantastic-beasts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantastic-beasts&lt;/a&gt; whose wiki reads: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use this tag to refer to the fictional book called 'Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them', the 2016 film of the same name, or the five-movie franchise it began. Use this tag with the [harry-potter] tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find this very confusing and not fitting with our tagging conventions (especially when it comes to new works and ignoring tags due to spoilers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore I propose that we split the original book and film into two separate tags. I see two pretty straight forward options, which I have added as answers below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have added my two options to be voted on accordingly. Feel free to add other options if you have a different idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I prefer option 2 as it gives a greater level of clarity with 5 films coming out that will share the &quot;Fantastic Beasts&quot; prefix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2018-11-20T16:22:42.330" LastActivityDate="2018-11-20T16:22:42.330" Title="Fantastic Beasts and Where to Tag Them" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12186" CreationDate="2018-11-19T15:51:44.900" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Option 1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Create a new tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantastic-beasts-2016&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantastic-beasts-2016&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantastic-beasts-2016&lt;/a&gt; for the film&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rewrite the original tag wiki to refer to only the book&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2018-11-19T15:51:44.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12186" CreationDate="2018-11-19T15:52:12.290" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Option 2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Create a new tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantastic-beasts-2016&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantastic-beasts-2016&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantastic-beasts-2016&lt;/a&gt; for the film&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Create a new tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantastic-beasts-where-to-find-them&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantastic-beasts-where-to-find-them&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantastic-beasts-where-to-find-them&lt;/a&gt; for the book&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Use the original tag as a franchise tag.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2018-11-19T15:52:12.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12186" CreationDate="2018-11-19T16:12:31.280" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Option 3&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantastic-beasts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantastic-beasts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantastic-beasts&lt;/a&gt; For the franchise&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantastic-beasts-where-to-find-them&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantastic-beasts-where-to-find-them&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantastic-beasts-where-to-find-them&lt;/a&gt; For the film, it names the film in full (minus the word &quot;and&quot;, which would exceed the 35 character limit for tag names)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think we need a tag for the fictional book; a quick search of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bfantastic-beasts%5D+is%3Aq+created%3A2005..2015&quot;&gt;questions tagged [fantastic-beasts] from before 2016&lt;/a&gt; yields only 3 questions with only 1 about the fictional book. Widening that search for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bharry-potter%5D+fantastic+beasts+is%3Aq+created%3A2005..2015&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[harry-potter] fantastic beasts is:q created:2005..2015&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; returns 17 results and a quick leaf through shows only 2 or 3 of them are really about the fictional book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2018-11-20T11:52:32.407" LastActivityDate="2018-11-20T11:52:32.407" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12183" CreationDate="2018-11-21T05:06:26.847" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It about a situation as much as the wording.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite frankly the Mos that was, was a mess. Folks made a lot of attempts to fix things and it failed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's about intent and to an extent how we deal with folks as much as what's said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've said I have has enough of, well, that word. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you consider the names of the room, it was the very incidents and personalities that resulted in it's downfall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mos is dead. It wasn't Shog or the mods that killed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's folks constantly doing things they probably should have known better than to do. I don't know what good reprimanding Shog would do. If a mod on SE lost his cool once or twice, I think we would get a polite talking to but not much else. In fact as a mod, my typical response to sporadic bad language is a gentle reminder and making things go away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see any benefit in going further unless there was a pattern of behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25606" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2018-11-21T10:20:46.160" LastActivityDate="2018-11-21T10:20:46.160" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12191" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-21T12:19:12.537" Score="5" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a feed from &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Movies &amp;amp; Television&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; into our main chat room, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/58631/the-restaurant-at-the-end-of-the-universe&quot;&gt;The Restaurant at the End of the Universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the URL for the feed is limited in length, which tags from M&amp;amp;TV are we interested in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we just want to &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/tags?tab=popular&quot;&gt;sort their tags by popularity&lt;/a&gt; and start at the top, adding relevant tags to our feed until we reach the maximum length?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or do we want to make sure that all the classics are there? Or do we perhaps want to leave room for new, temporarily hot tags? Or perhaps even use a separate feed for those?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2019-01-08T09:49:28.397" Title="What tags do we want to feed from M&amp;TV?" Tags="|discussion|chat|chat-feed|movies.se|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12191" CreationDate="2018-11-21T12:31:19.837" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I propose 3 feeds into the room from M&amp;amp;TV a main feed, ID feed and current feed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Main feed&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main feed will bring in the general stuff we are interested in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the-hobbit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;x-men-cinematic-universe&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the-lord-of-the-rings&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;star-wars&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;doctor-who&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;star-trek&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;dceu&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;dcau&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;arrowverse&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;harry-potter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;fantastic-beasts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;mcu&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;*spider-man*&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; is also currently on the feed but I don't think we need it. There are also tags like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the-walking-dead&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;pirates-of-the-caribbean&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;terminator-series&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which might be useful to add.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;ID feed&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although ID questions are now off topic on M&amp;amp;TV they still occasionally get some and some of these are SFF-nal in nature. Therefore, it is probably worthwhile having a feed to try and pick these up so we can identify them easier to &quot;bring over&quot;. This would be for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;science-fiction&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;fantasy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The [identify-this-*] tags are blacklisted per my understanding so we don't need those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Current feed&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be for &quot;current&quot; hot SFF-nal films if M&amp;amp;TV has a dedicated tag for those and would be updated &quot;regularly&quot;. Currently it should have things such as the following on it (+more but these are all that came to me initially):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;avengers-infinity-war&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;deadpool-2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ant-man-and-the-wasp&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the-crimes-of-grindelwald&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This feed should not have works in it that are covered by the main feed so the above are probably ruled out. We don't need clutter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-01-08T09:49:28.397" LastActivityDate="2019-01-08T09:49:28.397" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12193" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12202" CreationDate="2018-11-22T10:15:50.983" Score="15" ViewCount="428" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; This question is asking the moderators to explain why my flag was declined. I don't want people answering to guess why it may have been declined but the &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently a user had some struggles coming to terms with how the site works, after multiple attempts at trying to reach them by me and other users they still seemed to struggle. To cut a long story short I eventually flagged for a moderator to have a word with the user to help them out. I did this because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All the normal users attempts had all but failed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most of the usual avenues to reach the user were no longer viable (posts deleted, don't want too long of a discussion in comments etc.).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I didn't want the user to feel attacked, i.e. constantly commenting to them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At the point it got to it seemed to warrant a mod stepping in to take action.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To give some context my flag was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Might be worth a mod messaging the OP here as they appear to have a fundamental misunderstanding of the site and are close, if not already hit, the answer ban.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;However, this flag was declined.&lt;/strong&gt; The reason states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;we are already aware of this user's struggle with the site due to all the other flags (including multiple from you on this question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eh? So, my flag was declined because the mods were already aware of the problem? How was I supposed to know that? You may look at the reason and see I flagged multiple times, this is true. However, looking at what those flags are the decline still doesn't make much sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NEPrv.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NEPrv.png&quot; alt=&quot;Flags from recently&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at these flags we see that they contain, 7 No Longer Needed comment flags that I used as and when comments on the main post were no longer needed. There was also 1 mod flag used to clean up the comments that were no longer needed once discussion died down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were also other flags from me on their posts that you can see but of course these were Not An Answer flags on separate posts that weren't answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For full context a while back they also had another post that was Not An Answer and had some obsolete comments on it that I deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XsnqL.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XsnqL.png&quot; alt=&quot;Flags from a while back&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nowhere have I previously flagged asking the mods to potentially have a word with the user here. Therefore, I'm not sure why my flag was declined because I would have no idea that the mods were already aware of the problem or that other users had already flagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why was my flag here declined?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2018-11-26T18:41:09.277" Title="Why was my flag declined because the mods were &quot;already aware of this user's struggle&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12194" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12195" CreationDate="2018-11-22T12:37:05.387" Score="10" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;Specifically I am talking about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/199089/who-are-all-of-the-characters-in-this-poster/199093&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, the answer to which is getting a lot of suggested edits from new users along with some from veteran users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question's nature is kind of too-broad (asking to identify over 100 characters) which is why I can partially understand the community effort. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the OP hasn't marked his/her question as Community Wiki. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually when I see people crossing a line on editing which really should be another answer, I reject it. But I am confused about this one. I have already approved edits to the existing answer and deleted one answer which went their own way instead of editing it in the existing answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in this situation, what is the optimal course? Should we let the community make edits to fill in the gaps? Should we reject those edits and tell the editors to post their own answers? Should we make the answer Community Wiki? Or taking drastic measures, should we close the Question as too broad?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54887" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2018-11-22T13:05:49.483" LastActivityDate="2018-11-22T13:09:26.017" Title="Is it acceptable for the community to use an answer as Community wiki when it is not marked as such?" Tags="|discussion|editing|answers|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12194" CreationDate="2018-11-22T12:48:32.433" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This answer should be marked as community wiki or another one should be posted as such in its place.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing is general practice with these sorts of posts in the past has been to post an initial answer as Community Wiki and then other users edit it. For example see these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/198934/58193&quot;&gt;Who is who on this Doctor Who Christmas Card?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/195553/58193&quot;&gt;Can we identify all the characters in this “Ultimate Space Battle” poster?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/171218/58193&quot;&gt;Can we identify all the characters in this Universe 113 poster?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, it is highly likely that these users just assumed it was already a community wiki answer or didn't notice if it is or not. Whether this is acceptable behaviour or not is debatable but considering common practice I would say it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have currently flagged for moderator attention to turn the answer into a community wiki one considering the mass community effort that has gone into it. However, if this is declined we should really create a new community wiki answer for people to edit instead of this users answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for if this should be closed as Too Broad, no it should not. List questions that are finite and reasonably scoped are fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, finite and well-scoped list questions are allowed here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2639/58193&quot;&gt;Are &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; list questions off-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; This answer is addressing this specific case only not the general case of treating some normal answer as Community Wiki.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-11-22T13:09:26.017" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12196" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-23T19:01:22.623" Score="4" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was checking over the requirements for the &quot;Yearling&quot; badge after I earned it on the main science fiction site. It says &quot;active member for a year &lt;strong&gt;with at least 200 reputation.&lt;/strong&gt; If someone has only 190 reputation when their anniversary comes up and then they achieve ten more reputation a year later, will they get the badge as soon as the reputation is earned, or have to wait for another year?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82749" LastEditorUserId="82909" LastEditDate="2018-11-24T20:10:37.117" LastActivityDate="2018-11-24T20:27:55.200" Title="&quot;Yearling badge&quot; reputation?" Tags="|support|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12172" CreationDate="2018-11-24T17:33:33.367" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often will not upvote a question I'm answering simply because I feel it would be self-serving - that, as someone whose answer to the question might garner votes, raising the visibility of the question by upvoting potentially drives voters to my question.  I would rather the votes on the question reflect parties with no potential ulterior motive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will grant you that that's defaulting to the most cynical interpretation and that I should probably reconsider - so I'm upvoting this question, as it made me think about the issue :).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20490" LastActivityDate="2018-11-24T17:33:33.367" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12196" CreationDate="2018-11-24T20:27:55.200" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It doesn't have to be your anniversary for the Yearling badge to be awarded.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based off &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/67397/323179&quot;&gt;this Meta FAQ&lt;/a&gt; (specifically &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/188731/323179&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;), when you meet the requirement for the Yearling badge, you will get it the next time the job runs that awards the badge. If you are eligible for multiple Yearling badges, then you will get one each time the process runs until you are caught up. The job runs either hourly or daily, but I'm not sure which.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You actually need 201 reputation to get the first Yearling badge, however. The exact requirement is &quot;Have a reputation of at least (number of years since registration) × 200 + 1 (starting reputation)&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/43240/details-on-how-the-yearling-badge-works#comment876140_43244&quot;&gt;this comment&lt;/a&gt; confirms:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have been an inactive member with 1 reputation for 2 years. I recently started participating and I received 2 Yearling badges this week: one when I exceeded 200 reputation, and the other when I exceeded 400.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82909" LastActivityDate="2018-11-24T20:27:55.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12164" CreationDate="2018-11-26T01:55:07.840" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;He was the man who was supposed to live forever. Out of nowhere too. I’m so sad, it seemed like he never would die, and then he just did...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;My respects to Stan Lee, the greatest guy in the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="107544" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2018-11-26T09:21:38.460" LastActivityDate="2018-11-26T09:21:38.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12200" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12201" CreationDate="2018-11-26T14:44:21.393" Score="4" ViewCount="261" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/199340&quot;&gt;Laughing at Dr Alexander Murry's presentation&lt;/a&gt;. I initially got an upvote, but this was followed by 1 downvote and 4 close votes for &quot;Unclear what you're asking&quot;. I have edited between the 3rd and 4th close votes. Please help me improve further, if need be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44560" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2018-11-26T18:09:08.680" LastActivityDate="2018-11-26T18:09:08.680" Title="Please clarify my question on why the audience may have been laughing at a speaker" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closing-questions|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12200" CreationDate="2018-11-26T15:03:05.620" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question does not appear to be unclear per my reading of it. The question appears to boil down to &quot;Why are the audience laughing and what/who are they laughing at?&quot; This is a perfectly clear question. I have made some slight formatting changes but that is only to get content inline with the numbered list. It would be better, however, to have a title for your question that better describes what you are asking rather than something a bit generic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To address why people &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; have voted to close, though I of course don't speak for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's so long they didn't read it - a TL;DR section can help for this but you've added the &quot;questions&quot; section now which should be better.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The list of potential options is a bit confusing; I agree with it is quite confusing and long but it does give some nice leads and shows you've thought about it yourself so I'd say keep it. - This has been cleared up a bit by bolding the heading.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall though this post seems clear and has been improved so it should be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2018-11-26T15:03:05.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12193" CreationDate="2018-11-26T18:41:09.277" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's start with a summary of the events, with everything listed in order:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You flagged 7 comments as no longer needed. Some of these comments were by the new user struggling to use the site correctly, and some were by more experienced users trying to help the new user.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I saw the comment flags and deleted the comments.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The commentary between the still-struggling new user and the experienced users eventually died down so you raised a flag for a moderator requesting a comment clean-up. This was a flag on the post, not on individual comments, so the only way for a moderator to handle this flag is to actually look at all the comments on the post and choose which ones to delete.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I saw the moderator flag, cleaned up the remaining commentary by the struggling new user, and marked the flag as helpful.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You raised another flag (on the same post) for a moderator suggesting a mod message be sent to the new user.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I declined the new moderator flag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I declined the second moderator flag because the two moderator flags were for essentially the same issue: a lot of comments had been generated between a struggling new user and more experienced users who were trying to help. Any moderator handling your first mod flag (or even simply your first batch of comment flags) would inevitably see this new user's struggle in the course of deleting the comments on the question and could decide what (if anything) to do to help the new user. The second moderator flag simply recommended a particular course of action but provided no new information. &lt;strong&gt;If you wanted to suggest that we send a mod message you could have just as easily (and should have) made that suggestion as part of the first mod flag.&lt;/strong&gt; Hence the second mod flag was unnecessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new user did make one new post after your first mod flag (and which ended up being deleted). I don't know if that's why you raised a second mod flag but if so you should have linked to it or at least mentioned it in the flag text -- especially since you flagged the same post twice rather than flagging that newest post which caused you to raise a new flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general I mark flags like your mod message suggestion as helpful even if I don't end up taking any action on them (I cannot reveal whether or not a mod message was sent in this case since mod messages are private). &lt;strong&gt;I encourage all users to raise a mod flag if you are concerned that the moderators need to be made aware about something that a moderator can handle.&lt;/strong&gt; The issue with this specific declined flag is that you had already made the mods aware of the new user's struggle with your first mod flag. Mod flags never go away until a moderator marks them as helpful or declined so you knew the moment that you raised the first one (to clean up the comments) that you'd made us aware of the situation. Moreover, in this case it should have been apparent to you that a moderator had seen all the comments you'd flagged since you could see at the time you raised your second mod flag that those comments had already been deleted. If any other user had raised your second mod flag I would have marked it helpful since another user would not be aware that you'd already raised a mod flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Duplicate mod flags are at best a nuisance if a single moderator handles both of them and at worst cause duplicate work if two different moderators see them. If I had gone offline after handling your first mod flag (and deciding what to do about the struggling new user) then a second moderator would end up duplicating my work when he saw your second mod flag. Such a duplicate mod flag is, in the words of the flag handling dialog box, &quot;unhelpful&quot; and &quot;noise&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oJpWC.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oJpWC.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastActivityDate="2018-11-26T18:41:09.277" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12073" CreationDate="2018-11-26T23:54:19.163" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KGRfr.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KGRfr.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of the logo&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swash_(typography)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;swashes&lt;/a&gt; are too thin and noticeably pixelated at a regular pixel density.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17815" LastActivityDate="2018-11-26T23:54:19.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12204" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-28T19:29:37.120" Score="6" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently added &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantastic-beasts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantastic-beasts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantastic-beasts&lt;/a&gt; to my ignored tags. I haven't seen the movie yet and I don't want to get any spoilers from question titles. While the questions successfully disappeared from my question feed on computer, I still see them on my phone in the &lt;code&gt;feed&lt;/code&gt; screen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to prevent that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3uC6i.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3uC6i.png&quot; alt=&quot;My ignored tags&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vX9ue.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vX9ue.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;My phone screen&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68377" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2018-11-28T19:45:01.357" LastActivityDate="2018-11-28T19:45:01.357" Title="Ignored tag still shows up in HNQ?" Tags="|bug|feature-request|tags|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12205" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-11-29T12:30:31.073" Score="10" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lego&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lego&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lego&lt;/a&gt; tag (and related tags) are &lt;s&gt;a mess&lt;/s&gt; something that can probably be fixed fairly easily given that there are around thirty questions overall (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lego+or+lego-%2A+or+%2A-lego+or+%2A-lego-%2A+or+bionicle&quot;&gt;this query&lt;/a&gt;, courtesy of @SQB, yields 32 results).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore the tag description for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lego&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lego&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lego&lt;/a&gt; is misleading:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lego is a line of plastic construction toys that are manufactured by The Lego Group. Questions which ask for identification of SF and fantasy toys built with Lego are on-topic, any others are not, and belong on bricks.SE. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... yet only 6 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lego&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lego&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lego&lt;/a&gt; questions (out of 16) are ID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be the occasion to assemble a tagging policy for LEGO-related tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence, &lt;strong&gt;what to build with LEGO?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, our current other LEGO tags are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lego-star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lego-star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lego-star-wars&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lego-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lego-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lego-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-lego-batman-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-lego-batman-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-lego-batman-movie&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-lego-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-lego-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-lego-movie&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-lego-ninjago-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-lego-ninjago-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-lego-ninjago-movie&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bionicle&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bionicle&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bionicle&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastActivityDate="2018-11-29T12:50:16.600" Title="What to build with [lego]?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12205" CreationDate="2018-11-29T12:30:31.073" Score="9" Body="&lt;h1&gt;First MOC&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lego&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lego&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lego&lt;/a&gt; - on everything&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lego-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lego-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lego-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt; - on LCU works, always use with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lego&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lego&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lego&lt;/a&gt; and work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lego-work&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lego-work&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lego-work&lt;/a&gt; - about the work - always use with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lego&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lego&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lego&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lego-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lego-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lego-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt; (if appropriate) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lego&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lego&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lego&lt;/a&gt; as the &quot;general&quot; tag; it will be use on &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; LEGO questions. The rationale is that someone looking for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lego&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lego&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lego&lt;/a&gt; stuff might be remotely interested in other LEGO-related tags. ID questions would then be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lego&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lego&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lego&lt;/a&gt;+&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character-identification&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lego&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lego&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lego&lt;/a&gt;+&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/object-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;object-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;object-identification&lt;/a&gt;, and tag description would be edited in consequence. &lt;em&gt;16 questions to retag&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lego-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lego-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lego-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt; for this universe (duh), the way &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-extended-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-extended-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-extended-universe&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt; work. The idea is to encompass current movies/games/shorts in this universe while excluding &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lego-star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lego-star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lego-star-wars&lt;/a&gt;-like tags (which, as far as I know, aren't part of the LCU); &lt;em&gt;6 questions to retag&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lego&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lego&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lego&lt;/a&gt;+&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/relevant-lego-tag&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;relevant-lego-tag&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;relevant-lego-tag&lt;/a&gt; for other works. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bionicle+or+lego-star-wars+-lego&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;8 questions to retag&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cross-universe cases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-lego-batman-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-lego-batman-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-lego-batman-movie&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc&lt;/a&gt; too, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EkdRT.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;there's a DC stamp to it&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lego-star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lego-star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lego-star-wars&lt;/a&gt; with both &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/lego&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lego&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lego&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; for the same reason.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems fairly in line with what's done with other materials/franchises, and (though my figures might be slightly off) the amount of retagging involved can probably be done smoothly over a week or so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2018-11-29T12:50:16.600" LastActivityDate="2018-11-29T12:50:16.600" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12207" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12209" CreationDate="2018-11-30T16:07:16.877" Score="8" ViewCount="310" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just reading this question - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/199598/why-did-aegon-i-targaryen-join-the-alliance-against-volantis&quot;&gt;Why did Aegon I Targaryen join the alliance against Volantis?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/199602/58193&quot;&gt;answers&lt;/a&gt;, and its linked image there is a a strike-through &quot;Sow&quot; replaced with the word &quot;Know&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kd0V5.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kd0V5m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Greyjoy emblem&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the context of this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75768" OwnerDisplayName="GPPK" LastEditorUserId="931" LastEditDate="2018-12-02T14:14:56.530" LastActivityDate="2018-12-03T10:57:15.480" Title="What is the significance of the strike-through Sow in this Greyjoy sigil?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12207" CreationDate="2018-11-30T16:09:35.877" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a joke.  The Greyjoy motto is &quot;We do not sow&quot;. The answer to the question is &quot;We do not know&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="638" OwnerDisplayName="Dima" LastActivityDate="2018-11-30T16:09:35.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12207" CreationDate="2018-11-30T16:19:46.327" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a meme created by our resident &lt;em&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/em&gt; expert &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/54887/aegon&quot;&gt;@Aegon&lt;/a&gt;. It was created after multiple questions had the answer We Don't Know and as should be obvious it is a play on words on the Greyjoy's words &quot;We Do Not Sow&quot;. After the image was used it was taken on by other users, including myself, from the ASOIAF/GoT chatroom &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/39179/the-quill-and-tankard&quot;&gt;The Quill and Tankard&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is nothing more to it than being a terrible joke, YMMV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a bit of history the meme started around the 12th of September 2017 as can be seen in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/39179?m=39959563#39959563&quot;&gt;TQAT transcript&lt;/a&gt;. I believe the image was created the same day and used on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/169501/58193&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; by Aegon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" OwnerDisplayName="TheLethalCarrot" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2018-12-03T10:57:15.480" LastActivityDate="2018-12-03T10:57:15.480" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12210" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-12-03T17:33:21.890" Score="-1" ViewCount="284" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/199721/what-does-grin-refer-to-in-harry-potter&quot;&gt;What does Grin refer to in Harry Potter?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are there any other important references aside from this one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Seamus Finnigan: &quot;The Grin? What's the Grin?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Bem: &quot;Not the Grin, you idiot. The Grim. &quot;Taking the form of a giant spectral dog, it's among the darkest omens in our world. It's an omen...of death.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Could Grin be short for Grindewald?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How is Grin related to Ignotus Peverell and the Cloak of Invisibility?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question currently has a score of -12 and is on hold as &quot;unclear what you're asking&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am wondering what is unclear about this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see three sentences phrased in question form, and all three of them seem clear to me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are there any other important references aside from this one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to be a simple yes or no question; there either are other important references, or there are not other important references.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Could Grin be short for Grindewald?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This also seems to be a simple yes or no question. &quot;Grin&quot; either could be short for &quot;Grindelwald&quot; or it can't be short for Grindelwald. It is theoretically possible that we don't know enough to answer this, but that doesn't make the question unclear.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How is Grin related to Ignotus Peverell and the Cloak of Invisibility?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This also seems pretty straightforward. It is asking for someone to explain the relation. Of course, it is possible that there is no relation, but then the answer would be that there is no relation; that does not make the question unclear.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I grant that there may be issues with this question. For one, it asks a question based on a quote without saying where the quote is from. The question is also based on several premises which may be unsubstantiated, and even incorrect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, those factors do not make it unclear what the question is. It may make it worthy of downvotes, and of comments pointing out flawed premises or asking for improvements, which it already has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet the question was closed as &quot;unclear what you're asking&quot;, and when it went for review to be reopened it was quickly kept closed. Since I don't see any comments explaining what is unclear about the question (as mentioned, comments pointing out flawed assumptions don't show that the question is unclear) I am wondering if someone can explain the unclearness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1. I would perhaps understand if someone were to argue that &quot;important&quot; is too ill-defined. However, I have not seen anyone say this, and if in fact this is the reason why the question is deemed unclear we can simply remove the word &quot;important&quot; from the question.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastActivityDate="2018-12-17T06:46:44.643" Title="What is unclear about this question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12210" CreationDate="2018-12-03T20:51:31.027" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't vote to close, but I think &quot;unclear&quot; is appropriate because the OP hasn't explained why he thinks there might be a connection.  Since it's a misunderstanding on the OP's part and there isn't a connection, it's unclear to me why there could be a connection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As one of the comments on the question says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It doesn't refer to anything. It's just a mildly humorous moment where Seamus mishears...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And as a comment here says: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...does this mean I can ask &quot;What does Spock's eyebrow raising have to do with the Enterprise-D's left warp nacelle?&quot; ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that just as it's unclear why you'd think that Spock's eyebrow has any connection to a warp nacelle, it's unclear why a character mishearing a word could indicate some connection to a similar word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastActivityDate="2018-12-03T20:51:31.027" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12210" CreationDate="2018-12-05T22:09:43.963" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't vote to close, but I would have. It's poorly worded, makes assumptions and then asks about the assumptions, then it introduces a new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What even is the OP talking about?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's break it down. The question title reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What does Grin refer to in Harry Potter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, so it looks like the OP is interested in some &quot;Grin&quot; (which by the way, immediately sounds weird as it makes no sense in HP context).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the body starts with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are there any other important references aside from this one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Other?&lt;/em&gt; Other than what? The OP has not established any context about how or why this is important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, they go on to quote the part (which I won't transcribe here), which clearly shows that Fin has misheard &quot;Grin&quot; and therefore &quot;Grin&quot; has nothing to do with anything, it's simply a set up for some exposition about the &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; subject of that scene: The &lt;strong&gt;Grim&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then they follow their assumption and are still stuck on that one point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Could Grin be short for Grindewald?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well yeah, &quot;Grin&quot; is technically short for (or at least makes up a part of) Grindelwald. But so what? The OP has fallen into the X,Y,Z problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How is Grin related to Ignotus Peverell and the Cloak of Invisibility?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Completely unrelated to the rest of the post. This is the part that really makes it unclear (if it wasn't already before)!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastActivityDate="2018-12-05T22:09:43.963" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12213" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-12-06T11:13:42.730" Score="-14" ViewCount="256" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just curious as to why questions that point out plot holes are downvoted so much?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2018-12-06T16:24:52.463" LastActivityDate="2018-12-06T16:24:52.463" Title="Why is pointing out a plot hole in a question downvoted?" Tags="|discussion|down-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ClosedDate="2018-12-06T13:14:36.477" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12213" CreationDate="2018-12-06T12:43:28.447" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because pointing out plotholes is boring, and most of us that have been here a while are beyond sick of seeing them, for the following reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Most of them are not plot holes. A &quot;plot hole&quot; is a very specific term for a place where there is a direct contradiction between two parts of the script that happened on-screen. Just because something isn't explained, or seems unreasonable, or unlikely, etc., doesn't make it a plot hole. It just means you have to use your imagination to fill in the gaps. Which is the whole point of fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Most of them have no &quot;official&quot; answer. They're just things the writers didn't think were remotely important enough to bother putting in the script. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Many of them have very obvious &quot;unofficial&quot; answers, all of which are equally valid and none of which affect the plot in any way.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And my personal pet peeve, historically &lt;em&gt;far too often&lt;/em&gt;, the person asking the question is not genuinely looking for an answer, but rather just trying to show off how smart they are by pointing out what they think is a mistake in the movie. We have &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.moviemistakes.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;MovieMistakes.com&lt;/a&gt; for that nonsense. Most of us have noted the same mistakes in the movie already and just brushed them off as irrelevant, so we have no interest in seeing them brought up over and over, especially as they usually end up generating way more noise than light (since the OP will often refuse to accept any answer other than &quot;you're so smart, you found a plot hole!&quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="54887" LastEditDate="2018-12-06T13:30:19.907" LastActivityDate="2018-12-06T13:30:19.907" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12216" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2018-12-07T16:01:31.617" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2018-12-07T16:01:31.617" LastActivityDate="2018-12-07T16:01:31.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12217" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2018-12-07T16:01:31.617" Score="0" Body="For questions about the Winter Bash (or holiday hats) to celebrate the end of the year." OwnerUserId="44520" LastEditorUserId="44520" LastEditDate="2018-12-07T21:38:02.897" LastActivityDate="2018-12-07T21:38:02.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12210" CreationDate="2018-12-07T18:20:37.807" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The question is clear. Bad, but clear. It should've been left open.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with Alex that bad doesn't mean unclear. If the question hadn't included a quotation then I &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; have had difficulty understanding what they meant (since 'the Grin' isn't a concept in Harry Potter). But with the quotation it's very clear that they've confused Grin for Grim. All the other meanderings in the question are based on this misunderstanding. Consequently, it isn't unclear and should've been left open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The misunderstanding is a daft one. It's pretty obvious that there's no such thing as the Grin. The question also includes several additional questions on the back of its misunderstanding, which makes it slightly meandering (and so potentially a candidate for being closed for being too broad). But the aspects which make it poor are grounds for &lt;strong&gt;downvoting, not closing&lt;/strong&gt;. Bad questions should be downvoted and left open so that other users can explain to the question-asker exactly why their question is so bad. As it stands, no answer can be given so the asker has no explanation for where they went wrong (except in the comments).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this potentially goes to a point about where we stand on really terrible questions, which in turn goes to our rationale as a site. Some people perhaps think that some questions are so poor or distasteful that they should be closed no-matter-what, even if that's on an erroneous reason. (I'm basing that not just on this question but on others too). I think this produces the unwelcome outcome that bad questions don't get answers. There are thousands of questions on this site. Most are not going to be given a very positive outcome (10+ upvotes etc.). Some will be very bad indeed (like this one). These questions nevertheless deserve answering, as long as they're on-topic. That's the reason we exist, right? I don't think that closing bad questions which are on-topic is consistent with this. Indeed, awful questions like this are actually ridiculously easy to answer. There's no need to close them. They should be downvoted and left open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64888" LastActivityDate="2018-12-07T18:20:37.807" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12219" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12220" CreationDate="2018-12-07T20:06:05.290" Score="16" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whoa, what happened? We used to have a darker background, much easier on the eyes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17566" LastActivityDate="2018-12-07T20:22:05.373" Title="Why was the background color changed to white (or near-white) on the Sci-Fi SE page?" Tags="|feature-request|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12219" CreationDate="2018-12-07T20:22:05.373" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Powers That Be are trying to make it easier to manage all of the various SE sites. As part of this effort, we are temporarily left with a design that is stupid, boring, and soul-less.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5424" LastActivityDate="2018-12-07T20:22:05.373" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12221" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-12-07T23:56:04.667" Score="2" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a question about my Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/199940/whats-so-special-about-harry-potter&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s so special about Harry Potter?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="107930" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2018-12-08T18:07:56.480" LastActivityDate="2018-12-10T13:06:42.043" Title="Can my question be lifted out of hold status? Can you specifically tell me how to improve it, because I have edited it" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|specific-question|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12221" CreationDate="2018-12-09T11:38:55.320" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once your post has been edited, it automatically gets flagged for review, and the community will (eventually) get to look over the changes and vote to reopen it, or make further recommendations. On this site, we have high enough activity that it does not usually take very long for that to happen. You generally won't need to take any more action yourself beyond &quot;fixing&quot; the post, you just may have to wait a while. Especially on a weekend, I'd give at least a few days as activity drops off then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your post isn't getting reopened, or if you aren't sure &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it was put on hold, or you disagree with some of the changes, then definitely come to this site to ask why. If you do that, though, you should put more detail in your post (e.g. were you told why it was on hold? What &quot;reason code&quot; did you see, and what did you do to fix it and/or why do you disagree?) so that users have some context. As long as you have a link to your question &lt;em&gt;somewhere&lt;/em&gt; in your post, you can add whatever other information you think is helpful even if your reputation is low at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case it looks like your edits were exactly what was needed and the post has been reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastEditorUserId="2816" LastEditDate="2018-12-10T13:06:42.043" LastActivityDate="2018-12-10T13:06:42.043" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12223" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-12-10T09:07:58.187" Score="9" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been adding some missing &quot;franchise tags&quot; lately, and I've stumbled upon the &lt;em&gt;Tron&lt;/em&gt;  related tags, namely &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tron&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tron&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tron&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tron-legacy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tron-legacy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tron-legacy&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tron-uprising&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tron-uprising&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tron-uprising&lt;/a&gt;. The tag wiki for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tron&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tron&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tron&lt;/a&gt; currently reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A 1982 science fiction film about a computer programmer, Kevin Flynn, who is transported into a virtual world. In this virtual world, called the Grid, Flynn meets computer programs such as the eponymous Tron. The film spawned a franchise consisting of two films, an animated TV series, and multiple games. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tron&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tron&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tron&lt;/a&gt; tag currently covers both the original movie and the whole franchise, which seems a bit off, given the way we usually use franchise tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does the &lt;em&gt;Tron&lt;/em&gt; universe warrant its own franchise tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastActivityDate="2018-12-10T09:07:58.187" Title="Should Tron have its franchise tag as well?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12223" CreationDate="2018-12-10T09:07:58.187" Score="12" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Yes&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are currently:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tron+-tron-legacy+-tron-uprising&quot;&gt;16 questions&lt;/a&gt; tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tron&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tron&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tron&lt;/a&gt; but not &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tron-legacy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tron-legacy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tron-legacy&lt;/a&gt;  or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tron-uprising&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tron-uprising&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tron-uprising&lt;/a&gt;, so I assume these 16 questions are only about the 1982 original;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tron-legacy+-tron&quot;&gt;27 questions&lt;/a&gt; tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tron-legacy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tron-legacy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tron-legacy&lt;/a&gt; but not &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tron&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tron&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tron&lt;/a&gt;, which I assume are only about the 2011 one and for which it wouldn't make sense to tag them with the original &lt;em&gt;Tron&lt;/em&gt; tag;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tron-legacy+tron&quot;&gt;19 questions&lt;/a&gt; tagged both &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tron&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tron&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tron&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tron-legacy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tron-legacy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tron-legacy&lt;/a&gt;. I haven't reviewed them all but either there was an earlier attempt at using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tron&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tron&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tron&lt;/a&gt; as a franchise tag, or these questions cover both.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tron-uprising&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tron-uprising&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tron-uprising&lt;/a&gt; is 2 questions, not a big deal.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keeping the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tron&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tron&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tron&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; these seems too much. I propose:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;renaming the current &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tron&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tron&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tron&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tron-franchise&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tron-franchise&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tron-franchise&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tron-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tron-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tron-series&lt;/a&gt; or similar. Everything gets tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tron-franchise&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tron-franchise&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tron-franchise&lt;/a&gt;, the way we usually use franchise tags;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;creating a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tron-1982&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tron-1982&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tron-1982&lt;/a&gt; for the original movie, the way we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/alien-1979&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;alien-1979&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;alien-1979&lt;/a&gt; for instance.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way, not everything is mixed up, and in case the powers that be ever dig &lt;em&gt;Tron: Ascension&lt;/em&gt;'s script out of whatever hole they buried it in, we'll already have the franchise tag that goes with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-12-10T09:07:58.187" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12225" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-12-10T10:59:49.973" Score="2" ViewCount="196" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't think of a punny title, but we currently have 15 questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/toads-spit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;toads-spit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;toads-spit&lt;/a&gt;, while we don't even have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/toad&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;toad&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;toad&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A character tag might make sense here, since he's part of various Marvel franchises, so all questions about him could easily be bundled under that. However, I don't think a tag about his spit is all that useful. And while &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6699/19561&quot;&gt;it may have been a funny joke&lt;/a&gt;, it's getting a bit stale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So what should we do?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2018-12-10T13:56:30.070" LastActivityDate="2018-12-11T08:17:22.753" Title="What should we do with [toads-spit]?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12225" CreationDate="2018-12-10T10:59:49.973" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I propose to get rid of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/toads-spit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;toads-spit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;toads-spit&lt;/a&gt; and create &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/toad&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;toad&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;toad&lt;/a&gt; instead.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The easiest way of doing that would be renaming the former to the latter and then editing the tag wiki and excerpt. After that, we can search for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bmarvel%5D+-%5Btoad%5D+-%5Btoads-spit%5D+is%3Aq+toad&quot;&gt;questions that might benefit from the new tag&lt;/a&gt; and it where needed. We can leave a synonym behind, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/toads-spit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;toads-spit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;toads-spit&lt;/a&gt; -&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/toad&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;toad&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;toad&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2018-12-10T12:51:05.430" LastActivityDate="2018-12-10T12:51:05.430" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12225" CreationDate="2018-12-10T14:28:28.377" Score="8" Body="&lt;h1&gt;KEEP IT&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/toads-spit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;toads-spit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;toads-spit&lt;/a&gt; is one of the last vestiges we have that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;fun is allowed on SFF&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The joke doesn't seem stale to me, because we still get questions on it, and if a new user is perusing tags and comes across it, they could find their way to meta and the memes, and learn more about our stack and its lighter side and history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At most, the wiki should be updated with a link to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1289/the-many-memes-of-sff-se/6699#6699&quot;&gt;origin&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Removing the tag would be like a death knoll for humor and levity on Science Fiction and Fantasy Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31178" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-12-10T14:28:28.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12228" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12230" CreationDate="2018-12-10T22:17:17.537" Score="8" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;While scrolling to the least popular tags, I came across the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/missing-scene&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;missing-scene&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;missing-scene&lt;/a&gt; tag, with no apparent questions. &lt;strong&gt;Was this tag popular at one point or why does it exist?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90310" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2018-12-24T12:44:20.643" LastActivityDate="2018-12-24T12:44:20.643" Title="Why is there a [missing-scene] tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12225" CreationDate="2018-12-11T08:17:22.753" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since everyone seems so enamoured with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/toads-spit&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;toads-spit&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;toads-spit&lt;/a&gt;, let's keep it and have a synonym &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/toad&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;toad&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;toad&lt;/a&gt; point to it for questions about other aspects of the character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2018-12-11T08:17:22.753" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12228" CreationDate="2018-12-11T08:39:58.417" Score="15" Body="&lt;h2&gt;There isn't.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During a discussion in &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/58631/the-restaurant-at-the-end-of-the-universe&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt; about the possibility of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scene-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scene-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scene-identification&lt;/a&gt; tag, I noticed that there was a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/missing-scene&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;missing-scene&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;missing-scene&lt;/a&gt; tag with a single question. I then &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/28360/revisions&quot;&gt;edited&lt;/a&gt; that question to remove the tag. You just happened to notice it at precisely the time when it no longer existed but was still shown in the system due to caching. As of now, it no longer appears in the tags list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-12-11T08:39:58.417" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12232" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-12-13T16:11:48.707" Score="27" ViewCount="330" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/200280&quot;&gt;recent question&lt;/a&gt; was put on hold as &quot;off-topic&quot;.  The initial question text (as it has changed):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Has any story, movie, TV show depicted a spaceport on either of Mars'&#xA;  moons, rather than a spaceport on the surface of Mars?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least 5 users voted it off-topic, presumably because they considered it a list question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Multiple answers which had already been provided to that question, including the Accepted answer, received multiple downvotes, with @Valorum explaining that he at least was downvoting the &lt;strong&gt;answer&lt;/strong&gt; because he felt the &lt;strong&gt;question&lt;/strong&gt; was off-topic and he wanted to discourage the user who posted the answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oLdIH.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oLdIH.png&quot; alt=&quot;comment regarding downvote&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My question: Is it a reasonable practice to downvote answers, not on their intrinsic quality, but as a reflection of the voter's opinion of the question they are in response to?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not asking:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Was the question on-topic or not?&lt;/em&gt;  Don't care.  There's plenty of evidence that &quot;Has any&quot; translates to &quot;Could someone provide at least one example of&quot; rather than &quot;I would like a list of&quot; - consider multiple accepted and upvoted questions such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/140885/&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/148625&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/120201&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/158520&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/60735&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, ......  In any case, the question has been edited, and revived, so this is moot.  And the issue of whether we punish answer authors based on the question should be the same regardless of the quality of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not asking:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Should the points be restored?&lt;/em&gt;  Don't care.  Mine was the accepted answer, I lost points to the downvotes, but I couldn't care less about the points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20490" LastActivityDate="2018-12-14T02:53:02.203" Title="Is it reasonable to downvote answers based on opposition to the question?" Tags="|discussion|voting|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12232" CreationDate="2018-12-13T16:18:49.837" Score="24" Body="&lt;h2&gt;According to Stack Exchange network policy, yes this is reasonable.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/194963/278659&quot;&gt;Should one downvote answers to off-topic questions?&lt;/a&gt; on main meta. The top answer says yes because answering bad questions encourages people to ask them. The second answer provides a more technical explanation for why to downvote such answers: because it might help the question to be auto-deleted sooner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-12-13T16:18:49.837" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12232" CreationDate="2018-12-13T17:07:37.810" Score="-5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Perhaps it depends on whether the answerer agrees that the question should be closed.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have often disagreed with the closeworthiness of various questions. Sometimes I even have a potential answer to some of those questions. I don't think there is anything wrong with posting answers to those questions. Users are entitled to their opinion on a question's closeworthiness, and I don't think they should get penalized for having a divergent opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, however, the answerer agrees that the question should be closed, then perhaps the answer should be downvoted. After all, if you think the question should be closed, why are you posting an answer? That subverts the system, and perhaps encourages future questions of a similar nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(One could perhaps argue that people might post answers to closeworthy questions because they think that it will take a while for the questions to get closed. Since anyone else might come along and post the answer in the meantime, they might feel that it may as well be them. I have indeed participated on other sites where such a concern would be very real. However, my impression is that &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt; most close issues are taken care of fairly quickly (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/200398/can-a-realm-be-anything&quot;&gt;this recent question&lt;/a&gt; was closed by five voters in eight minutes), so it is much less likely that answers will slip in because it is taking too long to close the question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But how do we know what an answerer's opinion is? One way is to check the votes. If an answerer has cast a close vote then we can assume that he thinks the question should be closed; if he has cast a leave open or reopen vote then we can assume that he thinks the question should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2018-12-13T18:14:11.307" LastActivityDate="2018-12-13T18:14:11.307" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9591" CreationDate="2018-12-13T21:10:36.983" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you follow my posts, you'll know that I love freehand red circles.  You could even say that I overuse them.  I use them for just the meme value in posts where you don't need a freehand red circle (at least one of my edits adding such a circle has been reverted by another user).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But for some posts, the freehand red circles do have a genuine use.  &lt;strong&gt;They're a good way to highlight some small detail on an image in a way that nobody will confuse as being part of the image.&lt;/strong&gt;  This works for a lot of things, like live action film screencaps, cartoon screencaps, software interface screencaps alike.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an example from my question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/123254/4918&quot;&gt;What is the speck moving in the sky in the very last scene of My Little Pony: FIM S6 E2?&lt;/a&gt;  I want to point out a very small detail on a screencap with other interesting objects.  The freehand red circle and arrow immediately jumps out to a viewer, and nobody will think that it's part of the original screencap.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5zi6u.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zF1Ub.png&quot; alt=&quot;(Frame showing speck in the sky)&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For live action films, you can sometimes get the same effect by darkening the whole frame and showing an ellipse in the original bright colors.  But for a vivid colorful cartoon frame and a very small detail to concentrate on, that won't work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As another example, consider a detailed comic strip image like this one from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/195303/4918&quot;&gt;Jenayah's multi-identification question Who are these Multiverse Flashes?&lt;/a&gt;  Many of the characters drawn in small size in the background can be individually identified (see the answer to that question as a proof for that).  How would you point out one of those characters in the image to single them out and ask or tell something about them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DYXbk.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DYXbk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Council of Flashes&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastActivityDate="2018-12-13T21:10:36.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12232" CreationDate="2018-12-14T02:53:02.203" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Vote up anything you want to see more of.  Vote down anything you want to see less of.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of voting* is content curation.  Voting something up makes it more visible, while voting something down makes it less visible.  This is true of both questions (which rise and fall on the hot tab, and highly upvoted questions get free advertising on HNQ and elsewhere) and answers (which rise and fall on the question page, and heavily downvoted answers get grayed out).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only rule about voting is that &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/126829/275243&quot;&gt;you can't deliberately cast a lot of votes for the same person&lt;/a&gt;.  In all other respects, Stack Exchange has consistently refused to apply a &quot;voting policy&quot; of any kind.  You could, if you were so inclined, &lt;a href=&quot;https://xkcd.com/545/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;vote up questions with even word count and vote down questions with odd word count&lt;/a&gt;.  This is probably not a Good Idea, but it wouldn't be &quot;against the rules,&quot; because there are no rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People have written up &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/130046/275243&quot;&gt;detailed rationales&lt;/a&gt; for how they choose to vote, but for me, it's a very simple process:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If I want to see more content like this, I vote up.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If I want to see less content like this, I vote down.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think this particular question is not a great example because it's been reopened.  So I'm going to use a different example, which I've seen on this site several times (but usually it gets deleted very quickly, so I don't have a link).  The asker will copy and paste a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_report&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;homework prompt&lt;/a&gt; into the question field, such as the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Describe the significance of love in the &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually, this gets closed and deleted too quickly for anyone to answer it.  But, if someone did write an answer to this question, I might well downvote, because I don't want to see people doing a student's homework for them.  It's academically dishonest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, the answers to these questions are often uninteresting in their own right.  I don't need someone to explain to me in painstaking detail that love is the central theme of the entire heptalogy.  I already knew that, and I would think it would be quite obvious to most people who've read a &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; book or two.  There's no need to explain it, unless you're going to use that central theme as a stepping stone to some other literary analysis.  In order to do that, you'll need to find and answer (or ask) a better question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;* Throughout this post, when I say &quot;voting,&quot; I mean voting &lt;em&gt;on the main site.&lt;/em&gt;  Voting on meta follows a different set of norms that are not the subject of this discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastActivityDate="2018-12-14T02:53:02.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12210" CreationDate="2018-12-17T06:19:19.487" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the problem is that they are bringing a new and wholly unfamiliar idea into an unrelated question. Someone reading it may first find the question ridiculous (&quot;what? Clearly there is no actual &lt;em&gt;Grin&lt;/em&gt;&quot;), and then immediately be sideswiped by the suggestion that &lt;em&gt;Grin&lt;/em&gt; is short for Grindelwald (&quot;whoa, what the?... Since when?&quot;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A better way to get to that answer may be to ask if Grindelwald has ever been called by any other names, nicknames, or short names. If &quot;Grin&quot; turns up as one of those, then they might ask about The Grin, and cite the answer to the previous question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31275" LastEditorUserId="31275" LastEditDate="2018-12-17T06:46:44.643" LastActivityDate="2018-12-17T06:46:44.643" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12238" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12239" CreationDate="2018-12-18T09:45:51.530" Score="4" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often feel that it would make my comment much more clear if there is some line-break. For example, I sometimes want to add two different points in one comment and I would like to separate them as a list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a help button next to comments&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q5dwE.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q5dwE.png&quot; alt=&quot;Comment section&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;It leads to short formatting help and from that it is possible to get to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/editing-help#comment-formatting&quot;&gt;Comment formatting page&lt;/a&gt;. There is an advice to use  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag to insert a line break. I tried that, but it didn't work. You can see that in the comment section below this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66567" LastActivityDate="2018-12-18T10:04:32.533" Title="Can I add linebreaks to comment? How?" Tags="|support|comments|formatting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12238" CreationDate="2018-12-18T09:51:11.320" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per my understanding you can't have linebreaks in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This misunderstanding is caused because only the highlighted yellow area is the comment formatting help, the rest is just general markdown help. This isn't the easiest to tell but you can work it out by looking at the line underneath the yellow area:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;collapse | the above section is quoted for convenience from the full editing help, below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also if you scroll to the bottom of the page you will see the &quot;Comment formatting&quot; section that you can expand which shows everything the yellow section does. Also if you just visit &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/editing-help&lt;/a&gt; you will see there is no yellow area and the &quot;Comment formatting&quot; section is still at the bottom of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main meta post &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/19756/345161&quot;&gt;How do comments work?&lt;/a&gt; does state that you can't insert line breaks in comments, it also says there was some hacky workaround at some point but by the looks of it this has been &quot;fixed&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is not generally possible to insert line breaks in comments, though some &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3122/formatting-sandbox/72773#comment236011_72773&quot;&gt;hacky workarounds&lt;/a&gt; exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the same post it is also worth noting that when moderators turn an answer into a comment line breaks are stripped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Moderators have the ability to convert an existing answer into a comment. The answer must have at most 600 characters, line breaks will be omitted, and the exact same Markdown will be used to form the comment. Note that this is only done in exceptional cases, if an answer makes no attempt to answer the question but is still valuable for some reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2018-12-18T10:04:32.533" LastActivityDate="2018-12-18T10:04:32.533" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12238" CreationDate="2018-12-18T10:04:00.430" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/50444/278659&quot;&gt;Comments don&amp;#39;t have formatting tags or line breaks&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-12-18T10:04:00.430" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2674" CreationDate="2018-12-18T23:56:32.727" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to what's been said above, &lt;strong&gt;lead by example&lt;/strong&gt;. If you find something by searching the internet, &lt;strong&gt;please include the successful query&lt;/strong&gt;, as well as a quick commentary if the thought process behind it isn't obvious to grasp. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This serves two purposes: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;first, and speaking of experience, it may greatly help people wanting to hone their skills in story-id searching, by providing instances of what works and how one can think of better synonyms/wildcard use/learn about dedicated sites, etc;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;second, if the winning word set worked for you, it might also help future people Googling a similar set in their search, as these very words will be included in your answer and therefore indexed by search engines.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's best to include them in the &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; and not in the comments, both because answers are searchable with SE search, while comments aren't; and comments might be buried below other comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing too fancy, one to three lines will do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I found it by Googling &lt;code&gt;book clan animals wolf&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Chronicles of Ancient Darkness&lt;/em&gt; was the second result&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;book blind girl glasses internet mind -doerr&lt;/code&gt; did the trick, I used &lt;code&gt;-doerr&lt;/code&gt; to exclude &lt;em&gt;All the light we cannot see&lt;/em&gt;, which came up often but isn't sci-fi&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;or you found a story-id thread on another site (link to it!) and it was in the suggestions, etc, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastActivityDate="2018-12-18T23:56:32.727" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12243" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-12-25T11:39:32.510" Score="4" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;I edited &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/109808/1924&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/109808/1924&lt;/a&gt; with the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Changed the lyrics to the correct Unicode characters. It's written in ASCII while the original is not.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Changed the translation to the official one as also noted in an upvoted comment and removed a fan translation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Removed dead YouTube links.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So... why was this refused?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1924" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2018-12-25T14:09:20.147" LastActivityDate="2018-12-25T15:56:50.917" Title="My edit was refused but why?" Tags="|support|editing|suggested-edit|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12243" CreationDate="2018-12-25T12:13:59.353" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Why was the edit rejected?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/138756&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; was rejected by two reviewers for the following reason;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chenmunka&lt;/strong&gt; (Reject): This edit defaces the post in order to promote a product or service, or is deliberately destructive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TheLethalCarrot&lt;/strong&gt; (Reject): This edit was intended to address the author of the post and makes no sense as an edit. It should have been written as a comment or an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, I would have also rejected the edit if I'd seen it come up in the queue. You didn't just fix minor problems, in your own words you&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Completely rewrote the answer&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which is contrary to the purpose of editing which is to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to fix grammatical or spelling mistakes&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;to clarify the meaning of a post without changing it&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;to correct minor mistakes or add addendums / updates as the post ages&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;to add related resources or hyperlinks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;So, what should you have done?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've got higher value sources and a better translation. You should have written your own answer. Go do that now so I can upvote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2018-12-25T12:13:59.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12243" CreationDate="2018-12-25T12:15:49.390" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/138756&quot;&gt;edit rejection reasons&lt;/a&gt; were pretty strange, I'll give you that. The reviewers were right to reject, and your edit &lt;strong&gt;should have been rejected&lt;/strong&gt; for the following reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This edit deviates from the original intent of the post. Even edits that must make drastic changes should strive to preserve the goals of the post's owner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone's post is so problematic that you need to essentially rewrite the whole thing from scratch, then &lt;strong&gt;you should probably be writing your own alternative answer&lt;/strong&gt; instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2018-12-25T15:56:50.917" LastActivityDate="2018-12-25T15:56:50.917" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12246" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-12-25T19:11:41.403" Score="10" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd recently discovered Australian SF writer Greg Egan, and it occurred to me that SF.SE would be a good place to find the answer to a question inspired by his work - not specifically about his work, but finding works by other authors that have a specific similar characteristic. Based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic/351#351&quot;&gt;What questions are on-topic, and what questions are off-topic?&lt;/a&gt;, the question that I would ask is clearly off-topic - but it's not really a question that's amenable to typical web research methods. Thus, given the off-topic question below, I'd like to know either how I can render it on-topic, or where a good site to ask it would be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Author Greg Egan has written a number of stories where he makes a fundamental change to the nature of space (rather than just postulating that something we currently believe is impossible is in fact possible, like FTL, psi, etc., and seeing how human society would change). Examples of this are his Orthogonal series, where he postulates that there is no real distinction between 'space-like' and 'time-like' movement, and Dichronauts, where the distinction still exists, but he postulates two 'time-like' directions. He then follows the math through, and builds his worlds based on what the math says.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What other authors have done similar worldbuilding, and in what books?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76579" LastActivityDate="2018-12-25T20:47:12.853" Title="How/where to ask question that the FAQ says is off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12246" CreationDate="2018-12-25T20:07:34.037" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the network the best place would be in chat, specifically &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/58631/the-restaurant-at-the-end-of-the-universe&quot;&gt;The Restaurant at the End of the Universe&lt;/a&gt;, SFF’s main chatroom. I imagine the chat over on Literature.SE might be able to help to but I’ve never been in to know who hangs around there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-12-25T20:47:12.853" LastActivityDate="2018-12-25T20:47:12.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12248" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-12-27T21:19:43.510" Score="2" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question in mind about the history of the &lt;em&gt;Choose Your Own Adventure&lt;/em&gt; series.  Most of the books in the series (including the &quot;young readers&quot; spin-offs) have science fiction and fantasy topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, some of the books are in other genres.  &quot;Who Killed Harlowe Thrombey&quot; is a mystery; &quot;Deadwood City&quot; is a western; &quot;By Balloon to the Sahara&quot; is a sort of general pulp adventure story.  These examples are all from the early &lt;em&gt;Choose Your Own Adventure&lt;/em&gt; books, since my question only deals with the early history of the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that a series, like this one, that is predominantly science fiction &amp;amp; fantasy, should be on topic.  However, I wanted to get others' opinions before I asked a detailed question about the development history of the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2019-01-14T13:07:55.793" Title="Are the Choose Your Own Adventure, as a series, sufficiently on topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12248" CreationDate="2018-12-27T22:04:29.090" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about CYOA gamebooks (or indeed any mixed book/film/TV/etc series) are only on topic &lt;strong&gt;where they specifically address science fictional or fantastical elements&lt;/strong&gt;. The fact that other books &lt;em&gt;in the same stable&lt;/em&gt; contain fantasy/scifi isn't enough to make the non-fantasy books on-topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Discussing the &lt;em&gt;whole series&lt;/em&gt; would apply here;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/are-works-that-arent-sf-per-se-but-have-occasional-sfnal-elements-on-topic-e&quot;&gt;Are works that aren&amp;#39;t SF per se, but have occasional SFnal elements on-topic? (e.g. spy movies)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And we've discussed this &lt;em&gt;tangentially&lt;/em&gt; before when we talked about epic blockbuster sequels like Baywatch Nights and Weekend at Bernies II that contain SFF content and the general consensus was that you can't backtrack into older books and apply constants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9870/if-a-sequel-contains-sff-content-does-that-make-the-original-property-on-topic&quot;&gt;If a sequel contains SFF content, does that make the original property on-topic as well?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're after the historical background behind a mixed series, probably Literature:SE is your best option since the kind of question you're suggesting asking would be &lt;em&gt;entirely&lt;/em&gt; topical there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2018-12-27T22:56:50.487" LastActivityDate="2018-12-27T22:56:50.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12250" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12251" CreationDate="2018-12-28T15:27:53.573" Score="3" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally, our policy for closing story-id dupes is that only accepted answers can be marked as dupes, or can be marked as the answer that the others are dupes of. The various &lt;em&gt;Guardians of the Flame&lt;/em&gt; answers indicate &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28017/book-about-rpg-players-who-get-pulled-into-their-game/28018#28018&quot;&gt;Book about RPG players who get pulled into their game&lt;/a&gt; as the answer they are dupes of, but I don't see anywhere that it was accepted. Before I went out and &quot;fixed&quot; the situation, I wanted to see if maybe there's a deleted acceptance comment I can't see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2018-12-30T19:10:45.810" LastActivityDate="2018-12-30T19:10:45.810" Title="Guardians of the Flame ur-answer unaccepted" Tags="|support|duplicate-questions|story-identification|deleted-comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12250" CreationDate="2018-12-28T15:41:19.003" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are no deleted answers on this thread, nor any deleted comments on the question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fortunately, as a gold tag badge holder you have the power to redirect duplicate targets without reopening and reclosing the duplicate questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-12-28T15:41:19.003" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12252" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12254" CreationDate="2018-12-29T17:00:58.550" Score="-5" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/202284/are-there-any-female-dwarves-and-if-not-how-do-they-reproduce&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; about Tolkien's mythology has been falsely closed as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28104/why-didnt-the-dwarf-women-have-beards-in-the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; about one of Peter Jackson's movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a Peter Jackson movie is not part of the mythology that Tolkien developed in his writings, it cannot be a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please undo the closure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user107825" LastActivityDate="2018-12-30T05:57:53.323" Title="Question falsely closed as duplicate" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|duplicate-questions|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12252" CreationDate="2018-12-30T05:57:53.323" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The question should be a duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt; the issue of female dwarves in Tolkien's legendarium has been discussed a lot on this site already. When I first saw it, I was going to dupehammer it closed, but the best fits I found were &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/27076/31394&quot;&gt;Is the theory that dwarf women look like dwarf men limited to the works of Tolkien?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/27084/31394&quot;&gt;Did Tolkien originate the idea of dwarven women as being visually indistinguishable from dwarven men?&lt;/a&gt; which aren't great choices since they aren't &lt;em&gt;directly&lt;/em&gt; asking about Tolkien's legendarium.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the question that it &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; eventually closed as a duplicate of, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/28104/31394&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t the dwarf women have beards in The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey?&lt;/a&gt;: although the title refers only to Jackson films, the question body mentions &quot;&lt;em&gt;It's also stated by Tolkien in appendix A to The Lord of the Rings that female dwarves appear identical to males&lt;/em&gt;&quot; which resolves your question. Unfortunately, the top answer is film-relevant only and you need to scroll down to the second answer to find anything about Tolkien's works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fortunately, &lt;strong&gt;I managed to find a better duplicate target&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/46189/31394&quot;&gt;Who was the first female dwarf identified by name in the Hobbit/LOTR saga?&lt;/a&gt;, where both the question and the top answer are directly relevant to and almost the same as the recently-closed duplicate. I've edited the duplicate target to point to this one instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2018-12-30T05:57:53.323" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12255" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2018-12-31T15:45:12.573" Score="8" ViewCount="311" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Update&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The entry as now been &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2019/01/highlights-from-2018-4th-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;posted&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Original&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from October 1st 2018 through December 31st 2018.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You can also highlight any question or answer from the entire year, which wasn't already previously featured in &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2018/04/highlights-from-2018-1st-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;1st&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2018/07/highlights-from-2018-2nd-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;2nd&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2018/11/highlights-from-2018-3rd-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;3rd&lt;/a&gt; quarter posts.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2018/10/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2018/10/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2018/10/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I will also be linking all blog posts that happened within this quarter. Also the most controversial question of the quarter. Also a sum of all the bounties that were awarded.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also if there was a meta post you feel should be spotlighted those are also acceptable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jF2X9.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jF2X9.png&quot; alt=&quot;JBN @Edge 100 word review (or less) for Spider-Verse? Edge &amp;quot;Watch it.&amp;quot; JBN Perfect, print it.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="1148" LastEditDate="2019-01-08T21:12:59.693" LastActivityDate="2019-01-08T21:12:59.693" Title="Favorite Questions and Answers from the fourth quarter of 2018" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12255" CreationDate="2018-12-31T16:10:52.867" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Questions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I quite liked this pair of questions by user Dakkaron&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/197971/in-star-trek-voyager-how-often-did-distress-calls-turn-out-to-originate-from?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;In Star Trek Voyager: How often did &amp;#39;distress calls&amp;#39; turn out to originate from antagonists?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/197811/does-voyager-ever-answer-a-distress-call-from-anyone-good&quot;&gt;Does Voyager ever answer a distress call from anyone good?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I expected the ratio of genuine vs. deceptive to be very different based on my recollection. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Answers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought my answers to these were nicely comprehensive &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/199883/why-did-slughorn-stop-teaching/199884#199884&quot;&gt;Why did Slughorn stop teaching?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/199362/how-can-the-crystal-foxes-in-the-last-jedi-be-living&quot;&gt;How can the crystal foxes in &amp;quot;The Last Jedi&amp;quot; be living?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I honestly feel like this answer deserves a special mention since I staked out a 'furry' chatroom for nearly a month waiting for the author to turn up, then finally managed to catch him at 4am on a school night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/189634/how-tall-is-the-slave-bunny-david-birkenhead/196604#196604&quot;&gt;How tall is the slave-bunny David Birkenhead?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2019-01-07T18:26:05.400" LastActivityDate="2019-01-07T18:26:05.400" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12257" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-01T01:54:31.350" Score="3" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;British actress Zienia Merton, known for her role as &quot;Sandra Benes&quot; on the 1970's sci/fi tv series Space:1999 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/sep/18/zienia-merton-obituary&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;passed away on September 14, 2018&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rAVDr.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rAVDr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;Though best known for her work on '1999, Merton's career spanned over five decades on a wide variety of British films and television programs.  Notable appearances within the science fiction genre included guest roles on Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Adventures, and Wizards Vs. Aliens.  Merton also appeared in a number of British soap operas, such as Doctors, Coronation Street, and the long-running series EastEnders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Merton was close friends with the late Martin Landau, whom she described as her &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0581617/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;acting mentor and best friend&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69621" LastActivityDate="2019-01-01T01:54:31.350" Title="Zienia Merton (SPACE:1999), RIP" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12255" CreationDate="2019-01-01T15:28:00.567" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Questions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These copyright questions were rather interesting to read.  I hope we see more of these &quot;behind the scenes&quot; questions in 2019:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/197287/36526&quot;&gt;When does the copyright on Isaac Asimov&amp;#39;s works expire?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/199248/36526&quot;&gt;How is the Mary Poppins Sequel legal when the author denied a sequel?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Answers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My own answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/200020/36526&quot;&gt;Why did J. K. Rowling choose to downplay dragons?&lt;/a&gt; - Mostly because I like to discuss broader genre trends instead of just the specific details of individual stories.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Near miss&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I really &lt;em&gt;wanted&lt;/em&gt; to include &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/176747/36526&quot;&gt;Jason Baker's well-researched answer to a &lt;em&gt;Mass Effect&lt;/em&gt; question&lt;/a&gt;, but it missed the 2018 boat by just under two weeks.  Please ask more &lt;em&gt;Mass Effect&lt;/em&gt; questions - it's a rich franchise with a lot of backstory.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="36526" LastEditDate="2019-01-01T15:37:23.967" LastActivityDate="2019-01-01T15:37:23.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12259" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-01T16:58:10.417" Score="14" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny slices of effort contributed by regular, everyday users.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;-- &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there certainly are &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/11/21/our-theory-of-moderation-re-visited/&quot;&gt;Moderators&lt;/a&gt; here, a significant amount of the &lt;em&gt;moderation&lt;/em&gt; is done by ordinary people, using the privileges&#xA;they've earned by virtue of their contributions to the site. Each of you contributes a little bit of time and effort, and together you accomplish much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we enter a new year, let's pause and reflect, taking a moment to appreciate the work that we do here together.&#xA;To that end, here is how the moderation done here on Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy breaks down by activity over the past 12 months:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;                 Action                  Moderators Community¹&#xA;---------------------------------------- ---------- ----------&#xA;Users suspended²                                 11         17&#xA;Users destroyed                                 160          0&#xA;Users deleted                                    19          0&#xA;Users contacted                                  26          0&#xA;User banned from review                           3          0&#xA;Tasks reviewed³: Suggested Edit queue            57      4,584&#xA;Tasks reviewed³: Reopen Vote queue               65      2,706&#xA;Tasks reviewed³: Low Quality Posts queue        229      9,725&#xA;Tasks reviewed³: Late Answer queue               96      3,508&#xA;Tasks reviewed³: First Post queue               137      7,666&#xA;Tasks reviewed³: Close Votes queue               88      6,992&#xA;Tags merged                                      60          0&#xA;Tag synonyms proposed                             9          4&#xA;Tag synonyms created                             11          2&#xA;Revisions redacted                                2          0&#xA;Questions unprotected                             2         10&#xA;Questions reopened                               93        217&#xA;Questions protected                              24        313&#xA;Questions migrated                               25          4&#xA;Questions merged                                  4          0&#xA;Questions flagged⁴                                4      1,164&#xA;Questions closed                                128      1,838&#xA;Question flags handled⁴                         389        779&#xA;Posts unlocked                                   10         26&#xA;Posts undeleted                                  63        133&#xA;Posts locked                                     12        241&#xA;Posts deleted⁵                                  958      3,589&#xA;Posts bumped                                      0        664&#xA;Escalations to the CM team                        4          0&#xA;Comments undeleted                              107          0&#xA;Comments flagged                                 15      3,651&#xA;Comments deleted⁶                             6,108      4,825&#xA;Comment flags handled                         2,981        685&#xA;Answers flagged                                  49      8,609&#xA;Answer flags handled                          2,595      6,063&#xA;All comments on a post moved to chat             51          0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Footnotes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &amp;quot;Community&amp;quot; here refers both to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;the membership of Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;diamonds next to their names&lt;/a&gt;, and to the automated systems otherwise known as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;user #-1&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;² The system will suspend users under three circumstances: when a user is recreated after being previously suspended, when a user is recreated after being destroyed for spam or abuse, and when a network-wide suspension is in effect on an account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;³ This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 2 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 2, the goal being to indicate the frequency of moderation actions. This also applies to flags, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁴ Includes close flags (but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; close or reopen votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁵ This ignores numerous deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁶ This includes comments deleted by their own authors (which also account for some number of handled comment flags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wishing you all a happy new year...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-01-01T16:58:10.417" Title="2018: a year in moderation" Tags="|discussion|moderation|site-statistics|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12255" CreationDate="2019-01-01T20:47:32.530" Score="8" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Questions&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/198655/&quot;&gt;What prevents Asimov&amp;#39;s robots from locking all humans in padded cells for the humans protection?&lt;/a&gt; - I remember seeing that one in First Posts review, and skipping it because it left me puzzled as to whether action to take, thinking about it and coming to the conclusion that &amp;quot;well s***, this is indeed a pretty good question&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/200216/&quot;&gt;Who first used spacefaring sapient felines in science fiction?&lt;/a&gt; - because there are &lt;em&gt;so many&lt;/em&gt; story-id questions about space/alien cats. This had to come from somewhere.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/196433/&quot;&gt;What does the circular symbol mean that is worn by many men of the House of El?&lt;/a&gt; - I never really noticed, but that question made me curious.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Revision history&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, hat down to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/194676/&quot;&gt;Looking for a late 1950s to early 1960s movie or TV show with some similarities to &amp;quot;The Zanti Misfits&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;. I honestly haven't even read past the first few revisions; but each new edit still makes me chuckle - this post just keeps getting longer and longer, probably one of the longest posts on SFF. Will that ever stop? &lt;em&gt;(yes, I know of the 30k word limit, but still)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Answers&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ubik's answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/200468&quot;&gt;Is there a calendrical error in Asimov&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;The Last Trump&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; and the related comments, which made me dwell into how big of a nitpicker Asimov was.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Dark Lord's answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/190670/&quot;&gt;What is this creature from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban?&lt;/a&gt;. Go upvote this, people - neat answer, straight from the horse's mouth.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I personally had a lot of fun gathering the timeline elements to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/184836/&quot;&gt;When, exactly, does Justice League (2017) take place?&lt;/a&gt;. Turned out some very precise dates could be found, even if that involved squinted eyes and bleeding ears :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-01-01T20:47:32.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12261" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-02T09:18:35.057" Score="24" ViewCount="390" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a way to celebrate the New Year and lasting contributions to the site by new users I have &lt;s&gt;created this honorary post&lt;/s&gt; stolen &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11636/58193&quot;&gt;Skooba's honorary post idea from last year&lt;/a&gt; based on a simple premise...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user with the highest rank in the yearly reputation league that was not previously ranked. For the Year 2018 league the winner is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/98028/jenayah&quot;&gt;Jenayah&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qGNXs.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qGNXs.png&quot; alt=&quot;Jenayah Rank in the league&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coming in at an impressive #9 rank for the year with 14,253 reputation gained in ~9 months is certainly an achievement to be recognised. Please join in congratulating this exceptional user!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this year was quite tight with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/100430/alex&quot;&gt;Alex&lt;/a&gt; coming in at spot #10 with 13,353 reputation gained in ~7 months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Previous years winners based on the criteria are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2017: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/80602/bellatrix&quot;&gt;Bellatrix&lt;/a&gt; - #6 - 26,201 reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/57310/skooba&quot;&gt;Skooba&lt;/a&gt; - #18 - 15,596 reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/40294/praxis&quot;&gt;Praxis&lt;/a&gt; -   #4 - 35,709 reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/21600/royal-canadian-bandit&quot;&gt;Royal Canadian Bandit&lt;/a&gt; - #7 - 14,897 reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2013: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/14111/user14111&quot;&gt;user14111&lt;/a&gt; - #10 - 6,998 reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4056/dlanod&quot;&gt;dlanod&lt;/a&gt; - #4 - 26,834 reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/656/jeff&quot;&gt;Jeff&lt;/a&gt; - #1 - 21,720 reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-05-28T23:15:34.087" Title="And the Best New User of 2018 is" Tags="|discussion|users|new-users|contest|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12255" CreationDate="2019-01-02T10:53:50.983" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; recently. These questions were bothering my curiosity very much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/199432/why-didnt-saruman-break-gandalfs-staff-on-orthanc-as-gandalf-broke-sarumans&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t Saruman break Gandalf&amp;#39;s staff on Orthanc as Gandalf broke Saruman&amp;#39;s?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/200382/why-didnt-galadriel-take-off-her-ring&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t Galadriel take off her ring?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="96441" LastActivityDate="2019-01-02T10:53:50.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12261" CreationDate="2019-01-02T13:06:24.213" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well done, and we look forward to all your contributions in the new year and all the years to come as well!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2019-01-02T13:06:24.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12264" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12265" CreationDate="2019-01-03T16:39:32.820" Score="8" ViewCount="205" Body="&lt;p&gt;The novel &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Brown_novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Inferno&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; written by Dan Brown isn't a science fiction or fantasy novel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how can anyone ask question about this novel in the &lt;em&gt;Science fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy site&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/146465/why-was-the-ending-reversed-in-the-movie-inferno&quot;&gt;Why was the ending reversed in the movie &amp;quot;Inferno&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="96441" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-01-03T16:50:06.377" LastActivityDate="2019-05-28T04:40:26.913" Title="How can this question about Inferno be asked on this site?" Tags="|discussion|questions|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12264" CreationDate="2019-01-03T16:53:29.273" Score="8" Body="&lt;h1&gt;The question is now closed&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can this question about Inferno be asked on this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone can ask any question they like on the site. The real question is why did no one flag or vote to close it as off topic when it was asked. The answer to that is probably no one thought about it too hard. The answerer has, however, commented the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Plus...is this Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy per se? &quot;He noted after answering.&quot; :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So someone at least guessed it might not have been SFF-nal but wasn't sure enough that they didn't VTC it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes things stay around longer than they should because the right people aren't around at the right time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case I have now cast a close vote as off topic so we shall see if it gets closed in the queue or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12264/how-can-this-question-about-inferno-be-asked-on-this-site#comment42371_12264&quot;&gt;noted in the comments here by Alex&lt;/a&gt; you don't need to post a meta question about a question that should be closed. Until you hit 3k reputation you can always flag it as off topic to send it to queue. Once you hit 3k reputation you can then vote to close it which will also send it to queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though if you're unsure you can always ask on meta as you have done here and there's usually someone hanging around in chat, in &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/58631/the-restaurant-at-the-end-of-the-universe&quot;&gt;TREU&lt;/a&gt;, that I'm sure could help you if you just want some quick reassurance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This particular question should probably have been asked on &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Movies &amp;amp; TV&lt;/a&gt; (it's on topic and &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/66566/45378&quot;&gt;has already been asked there&lt;/a&gt;) and it may also be on topic on &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Literature.SE&lt;/a&gt; but seeing as it was asking about the movie I'm not 100% on that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-05-28T04:40:26.913" LastActivityDate="2019-05-28T04:40:26.913" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12255" CreationDate="2019-01-04T18:28:42.950" Score="3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Questions.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/194721/what-is-this-creature-on-the-back-of-harry-potter-2-illustrated-edition&quot;&gt;What is this creature on the back of Harry Potter 2 illustrated edition&lt;/a&gt; This is one of my favorite questions that I've asked (I still think it needs a good answer).&lt;br&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/196433/what-does-the-circular-symbol-mean-that-is-worn-by-many-men-of-the-house-of-el&quot;&gt;What does the circular symbol mean that is worn by many men of the house of el&lt;/a&gt; I know that this has been said twice now, but it's a really &lt;strong&gt;interesting&lt;/strong&gt; question, if you haven't already go upvote it!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Answers.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/197349/was-the-something-wicked-this-way-comes-tag-line-to-the-prisoner-of-azkaban-mo/197370#197370&quot;&gt;Was the “Something Wicked This Way Comes” tag line to the Prisoner Of Azkaban movie poster taken from the 1962 Ray Bradbury novel of the same name?&lt;/a&gt; I honestly think both answers on here are great (along with the question).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100113" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-01-04T18:28:42.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12267" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-07T17:37:23.573" Score="-9" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there anything wrong with accepting an answer solely to place it at the top of the list for a while, with the intention of then unaccepting it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oftentimes there might be an answer to a question that comes a bit later than a couple of other answers. By the time this answer gets posted, the other answers are already firmly entrenched at the top of the list. What then often happens is that new readers read the first couple of answers and upvote them, and never get to the new answer. This is probably especially so on Hot Network Questions. This can lead to situations in which a fine answer is languishing at the  bottom of the page with just a few upvotes, while the other answers are raking in the upvotes by the dozen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By accepting the new answer you will be evening the playing field a bit. The new answer will have a chance to appear at the top of the page so all the new readers will see it, and it will get the upvotes it deserves. After a certain amount of time, or when the score has sufficiently caught up, you would then unaccept the answer and let things play out from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there something wrong with doing this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A recent example of such a situation would be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/202943/100430&quot;&gt;The Dark Lord's answer&lt;/a&gt; to my recent question. While it is as good as, if not better, than the other answers it is stuck at a score of 4, while the other two answers are nearing 20 and 30 respectively. The question was a Hot Network Question, and the answer was posted well after the other two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastActivityDate="2019-01-08T10:17:01.607" Title="Temporarily accepting an answer to give it more exposure?" Tags="|discussion|accepted-answer|up-votes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12267" CreationDate="2019-01-07T17:44:04.810" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Acceptance is the OP's prerogative.&lt;/strong&gt; Accepting a 'wrong' answer might attract more downvotes to it, but there are no real rules on what kind of answers you're allowed to accept. Do whatever you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technically acceptance is a type of vote like any other, which should be based on the quality of the post itself rather than any more meta aspects. But you're allowed to set bounties for the specific purpose of rewarding one particular answer, so I guess acceptance could be (ab)used in this way too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I'm not sure what you mean by:&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt; After a certain amount of time, or when the score has sufficiently caught up, you would then unaccept the answer and let things play out from there.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;What kind of &quot;things&quot; do you imagine playing out? Would you ultimately accept whichever answer is higher-scoring at the end of the day?&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2019-01-07T17:44:04.810" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12269" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-08T01:10:43.763" Score="21" ViewCount="304" Body="&lt;p&gt;Genre actor W. Morgan Sheppard, veteran of several franchises, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/william-morgan-sheppard-death-cause-age-star-trek-doctor-who-mad-men-tribute-a8715406.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;died yesterday&lt;/a&gt;. Just some of his better known genre roles:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/St2pb.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/St2pb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Ira Graves&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Ira Graves (Data's grandpa), TNG: &quot;The Schizoid Man&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zIKXF.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zIKXF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Commandant Rura Penthe&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The Klingon Commandant of Rura Penthe, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EAt5e.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EAt5e.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Rogue Soul Hunter&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The Rogue Soul Hunter in Babylon 5: Soul Hunter  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wx4tx.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wx4tx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Blank Reg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Blank Reg in Max Headroom  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was instantly recognizable with or without the latex, and he will be missed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44480" LastEditorUserId="440" LastEditDate="2019-01-17T13:01:12.297" LastActivityDate="2019-01-17T13:01:12.297" Title="RIP William Morgan Sheppard: Star Trek, Babylon 5, Doctor Who, Max Headroom, many more" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12267" CreationDate="2019-01-08T10:11:49.550" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The help centre has the following to say on accepting answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;What should I do when someone answers my question?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Decide if the answer is helpful, and then...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vote on it&lt;/strong&gt; (if you have earned the appropriate voting privilege). &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/vote-up&quot;&gt;Vote up&lt;/a&gt; answers that are helpful and well-researched, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/vote-down&quot;&gt;vote down&lt;/a&gt; answers that are not. Other users will also vote on answers to your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Accept it&lt;/strong&gt;. As the asker, you have a special privilege: you may &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/accepted-answer&quot;&gt;accept the answer&lt;/a&gt; that you believe is the best solution to your problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accepting an answer is not mandatory; do not feel compelled to accept the first answer you receive. Wait until you receive an answer that answers your question well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/someone-answers&quot;&gt;Help Center &amp;gt; Asking, Someone Answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;What does it mean when an answer is &amp;quot;accepted&amp;quot;?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/someone-answers&quot;&gt;When a user receives a good answer&lt;/a&gt; to their question, that user has the option to &amp;quot;accept&amp;quot; an answer. Acceptance is indicated by a colored checkmark next to the answer that has been accepted by the original author of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accepting an answer is not meant to be a definitive and final statement indicating that the question has now been answered perfectly. It simply means that the author received an answer that worked for them personally. Not every user comes back to accept an answer, and of those who do, they might not change the accepted answer even if a newer, better answer comes along later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/accepted-answer&quot;&gt;Help Center &amp;gt; Answering, Accepted Answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From this we can see that the official standpoint is for accepted answers to be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Helpful to the OP&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The best solution/most helpful to the OP&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Works for the OP&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are general guidelines, however, and it is generally solely up to the OP to accept whatever answer helps them the most. Even looking at bullets 1 and 2 we can infer that it is generally fine to accept an answer that is helpful to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why shouldn't you do this?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's not guaranteed to work.&lt;/strong&gt; Whilst the answer could gain a few upvotes it could also gain some downvotes increasing the gap. Also if the question is about ready to fall off of the HNQ the gap is likely never going to be made up. Even on a fresher HNQ one but with a big starting gap it is unlikely to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The acceptance/reputation switches can annoy the other users.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; When my answer gets accepted I feel quite proud that my answer helped the OP the most enough for them to change their acceptance. This is particularly the case when I answer an older question with an already accepted answer (for a recent case of mine see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/202889/58193&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). It isn't the best to have that changed &lt;em&gt;back&lt;/em&gt; to the original accepted answer again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the &amp;quot;main&amp;quot; accepted answer user could get a bit frustrated to see the +15, -15 and +15 again on the same question. If it helped you the most why would you keep changing it from them? If another answer comes along later that you want to feature would you then take it away and reinstate again and again? This could be quite annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What could you do instead?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use a bounty, it is perfect for your use case here. In fact one of the bounty reasons even fits what you are trying to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reward existing answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One or more of the existing answers is exemplary and worthy of an additional bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the custom bounty message you can then state the answer you are bountying with a &lt;em&gt;link&lt;/em&gt; to it and more importantly a reason &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A bounty also has the added side effect that the question will stay featured for a week and so the answer is guaranteed at least a week in the spotlight whereas acceptance can't really guarantee any spotlight outside the question itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;1. On a note here that this point will be quite subjective and vary from user to user so YMMV. Also note that I'm talking about people taking votes personally, whilst this  &lt;em&gt;shouldn't&lt;/em&gt; be the case in general people take them this was because it is human nature after all.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-01-08T10:17:01.607" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12271" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-08T12:35:41.733" Score="5" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I had a couple good answers yesterday and were fortunate enough to receive a large number of up-votes. I continued along with daily activities that did include some down votes on answers. My total activity ended looking like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/imUvc.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/imUvc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;daily activity screen cap&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see I totaled 199 reputation... why is this not 200? Should the &quot;dead rep&quot; from up-votes that would have pushed me over the cap kicked in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NsJd2.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NsJd2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;expanded activity screen cap&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have up-votes that have recorded no rep. A secondary question, with the day showing 199 does this also mean that I did not get credit toward a Legendary badge as I did not &quot;earn 200 daily reputation&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth, I went through my profile and manually counted the days I had 200+ rep recorded and came up with 52. My progress toward the Legendary badge is currently at 64, so there twelve days where I am showing less than 200 reputation but still counted toward badge progress. My hunch is that those days are similar to this example (there were a few other 198-199 days).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2019-01-08T13:19:06.183" LastActivityDate="2019-01-08T13:19:06.183" Title="Why is my daily rep at 199 when I have &quot;dead rep&quot;?" Tags="|support|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12271" CreationDate="2019-01-08T13:00:21.813" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;For obvious reasons when I go to your profile I cannot see your downvotes, however, tracking the +2 and +1 rep gains I think the following has happened as shown on your profile. Also worth noting that I see a rep total of 205 which corresponds to what your profile says (199 + 6 hidden DVs).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;19:21 - You hit the rep cap&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;19:32 - You recieve +2 to reimburse you for the downvotes at 15:02 and 15:03&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;20:10 - You receive +2 to reimburse you for the downvotes at 20:01 and 20:08&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;20:49 - You receive +1 to reimburse you for the downvote at 20:27&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would appear as if the downvote at 20:09 never shows to be reimbursed on your profile. This could be because it was &quot;too close&quot; to the upvote at 20:10 that, that one doesn't see the downvote. The upvote at 20:14 then thinks the upvote at 20:10 reimbursed the +1 and so doesn't reimburse you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would imagine that this is actually just a visual thing though and behind the scenes you actually did hit 200 rep. To check it might be worth looking in the Achievements dropdown menu and seeing what that says.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the note about the Legendary badge, it is in my experience that the badge increases when you hit 200. As you hit 200 at 19:32 before the further downvotes and the +2 was reimbursed from the first two the badge should have increased its count. As Rand has said in a comment though apparently the count will decrease if you subsequently fall back under 200 rep throughout the day. I have not noticed this myself though so will take his word for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-01-08T13:04:49.860" LastActivityDate="2019-01-08T13:04:49.860" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11051" CreationDate="2019-01-08T20:56:51.433" Score="11" Body="&lt;h2&gt;2019&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;December&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2019/12/help-keep-the-sff-blog-running/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Help Keep The SFF Blog Running&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2019/12/star-wars-episode-i-the-phantom-menace-1999-re-watch/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) – Re-watch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;November&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2019/11/the-mandalorian-pilot/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Mandalorian (Pilot)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;October&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2019/10/yesterday-2019-a-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Yesterday (2019) – A Review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2019/10/highlights-from-2019-3rd-quarter/?preview=true&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2019 – 3rd Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;September&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2019/09/fanx-salt-lake-comic-convention-fall-2019/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention (Fall 2019)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;July&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2019/07/highlights-from-2019-2nd-quarter/?preview=true&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2019 – 2nd Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;June&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2019/06/men-in-black-international-a-spoiler-free-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Men in Black: International a Spoiler Free Review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;May&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2019/05/why-harry-potter-is-not-a-horcrux/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Why Harry Potter is Not a Horcrux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2019/05/jacks-bad-movies-predator-2-1990/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies: Predator 2 (1990)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;April&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2019/04/fanx-salt-lake-comic-convention-spring-2019/#more-4963&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention (Spring 2019)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2019/04/avengers-endgame-predictions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Avengers: Endgame Predictions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2019/04/highlights-from-2019-1st-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2019 – 1st Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2019/04/jacks-bad-movies-2001-a-space-odyssey-1968/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;March&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2019/03/jacks-bad-movies-dragonlance-dragons-of-autumn-twilight-2008/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies: DragonLance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight (2008)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;February&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2019/02/the-second-formic-war-fleet-school/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Second Formic War &amp;amp; Fleet School&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;January&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2019/01/highlights-from-2018-4th-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2018 - 4th Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="1148" LastEditDate="2019-12-31T15:52:55.173" LastActivityDate="2019-12-31T15:52:55.173" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12274" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12275" CreationDate="2019-01-09T04:06:10.563" Score="11" ViewCount="339" Body="&lt;p&gt;Back when the site was relatively new, I used Flickr to post Pottermore pictures to answer questions, when Pottermore was not copy-able. It's been so long that I don't remember which questions I used the images in, but in downloading my Pottermore file from Flickr there were 54 images in that folder. Gah, that's a lot. How should I handle this? I cannot replace all these images.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="3500" LastEditDate="2019-01-28T18:01:14.827" LastActivityDate="2019-02-01T15:15:51.280" Title="What to Do About Flickr?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12274" CreationDate="2019-01-09T08:10:06.027" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;All the images have now been updated and reside on stack's imgur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;If the links are broken&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same as we do with any broken link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Replace where possible. When replacing upload via the sites tool so it goes to stacks imgur and should not die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maybe you remember the image, get it again. It could also be obvious from the text what the image could be. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Check the web archive for the relevant pages: Flickr and SFF in case they have the image. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the image can’t be recovered you can always leave the link and add a note that the image can’t be found after the link died. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the image is really necessary and can’t be found then it might be more appropriate to remove it all together but this is on a case by case basis. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;If the links aren't broken&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be best to upload these to stack's imgur through the editor rather than to rely on third party hosting. When editing to do this make note to be wary of the 5 in 15 edit policy and try not to flood the homepage too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-02-01T15:15:51.280" LastActivityDate="2019-02-01T15:15:51.280" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12276" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-13T15:00:03.317" Score="10" ViewCount="250" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am new to the site and I do not understand how to locate the question I asked yesterday.  Can anyone explain to me how I find my own question and any possible answers to it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that I am not sure that I will be able to locate THIS question, or any answers to it!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110417" OwnerDisplayName="James Pearce" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2019-01-13T15:24:04.327" LastActivityDate="2019-01-20T17:33:28.373" Title="How do I locate the question I previously asked?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12276" CreationDate="2019-01-13T15:24:08.473" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a few options available to you&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can sort &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=newest&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; by newness. Presumably it's one of the questions asked yesterday&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You could use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=&quot;&gt;search facility&lt;/a&gt; to search for the title.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You could search for it by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags&quot;&gt;tag&lt;/a&gt; (our questions are usually very well curated).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you remember the username you used before, you can search &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=newusers&quot;&gt;by username&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you've got enough rep (20 points) you could ask in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/58631/the-restaurant-at-the-end-of-the-universe&quot;&gt;chatroom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, I'm pretty sure this is your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/203263/earth-sends-fleet-to-destroy-an-alien-species-that-requires-a-virus-to-reach-mat&quot;&gt;Earth sends fleet to destroy an alien species that requires a virus to reach maturity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have created two accounts, you can ask for them to be merged by following the instructions on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/merging-accounts&quot;&gt;this link&lt;/a&gt;. This way, you will be able to regain full ownership of the question, comment on it, reply to answerers, and accept an answer if there is a most satisfactory answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2019-01-13T15:35:08.520" LastActivityDate="2019-01-13T15:35:08.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12278" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-14T02:42:16.060" Score="6" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;Frank Herbert's way of thinking is almost completely inside his books. Between the very few of his writes outside, there is &lt;a href=&quot;https://vasil.ludost.net/dunegenesis.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;an article&lt;/a&gt; resuming what his books are about and how he wrote these books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only one of the fans of his Science Fiction material could give context to a phrase in that article that I want to understand. Since the only users that can do that precisely are SF&amp;amp;F SE users, how do I do to avoid admins closing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/203291&quot;&gt;my question&lt;/a&gt; as off-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79574" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2019-01-14T07:58:06.810" LastActivityDate="2019-01-17T14:51:49.087" Title="How do I ask this question about a SF author?" Tags="|support|scope|specific-question|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12278" CreationDate="2019-01-14T03:24:23.140" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kind of an &quot;if it's only about the real world, it's off-topic; if it's about how it's tied to &lt;em&gt;Dune&lt;/em&gt;, it's murky&quot; situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: I'm certainly not the most knowledgeable person about &lt;em&gt;Dune&lt;/em&gt; in these parts, but I don't think that's a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand why this question was closed, at least not as &quot;off-topic&quot;. From what I get by reading the question and (admittedly skimming) article, this is a written piece:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;by the author of a major SF work;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;talking about said work;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;in &lt;em&gt;Omni&lt;/em&gt; (the magazine).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the question asks about the meaning of a sentence in the context of that &lt;em&gt;Dune&lt;/em&gt; explanation. So far, I'm not seeing anything blatantly off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I understand that right, this is basically asking &quot;what does &lt;em&gt;Dune&lt;/em&gt; tell us about Herbert's statement of humans​ not having equal ability&quot;, which I think falls under literary analysis. Per &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11833&quot;&gt;Is literary analysis on-topic?&lt;/a&gt;, this is on-topic as long as it can be answered without (too much) speculation. Typically these could fall under &quot;too broad&quot; or &quot;primarily opinion-based&quot;, but certainly not off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once again I only know the very big outlines of &lt;em&gt;Dune&lt;/em&gt; (shoot me), but for the peasant I am, it seems big enough of an universe and &quot;behind the scenes&quot; info for the question at stake to be answered (in a way that fits SE's format).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might put some people off that it's been &lt;a href=&quot;https://politics.stackexchange.com/q/37917&quot;&gt;cross-posted on Politics.SE&lt;/a&gt;, but I'd argue that a SFF answer backed with quotes etc wouldn't be redundant with the answers there - so far there's only one undetailed mention of a character, Vlad Harkonnen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To put it in a nutshell, I think the question is fine as is and should be reopened (and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/reopen/139891&quot;&gt;voted as such&lt;/a&gt;). I may be missing something though, and as I'm unsure whether the uncertainty stems from my lack of &lt;em&gt;Dune&lt;/em&gt; knowledge, my misunderstanding of one​ of our policies, or something else, I'm looking forward to clarifications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2019-01-14T03:52:01.743" LastActivityDate="2019-01-14T03:52:01.743" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12278" CreationDate="2019-01-14T07:38:59.670" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Honestly, I might have been tempted to vote to reopen as simply being on-topic (for the reasons Jenayah mentioned in her answer) but since you've cross-posted this question on Politics:SE where it appears to be on-topic and well received, &lt;strong&gt;per the standing site-wide policy, you can't cross-post something unless it's already been poorly received and/or failed to receive an adequate response.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/64069/262849&quot;&gt;Is cross-posting a question on multiple Stack Exchange sites permitted if the question is on-topic for each site?&lt;/a&gt; (Spoiler: No, it isn't).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2019-01-14T07:38:59.670" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12248" CreationDate="2019-01-14T13:07:55.793" Score="-2" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Yes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since most of the books in the &lt;em&gt;Choose Your Own Adventure&lt;/em&gt; series are on topic, questions on the series itself should be on topic as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that questions about the off-topic books in the series remain off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2019-01-14T13:07:55.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12278" CreationDate="2019-01-14T18:23:36.887" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;sorry to reply my question but think is important to know that posting the question in Politics (as I was asked to) is emptying answers of crucial context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may notice that the discussion there lacks of understanding of certain Herbert's ideas about humans flaws, power attracting corruption, stangment in societies, and many more relevant topics covered in the books...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could write &lt;strong&gt;&quot;John Smith&quot; instead of &quot;Frank Herbert&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; and the question in &lt;a href=&quot;https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/37917&quot;&gt;Politics SE&lt;/a&gt; would has the same answers. That is a proof to me is misplaced there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The interest there is discussing if Herbert was right or not, which has a lot of sense to a politic exchange, but &lt;strong&gt;that was not my question&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79574" LastActivityDate="2019-01-14T18:23:36.887" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12283" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12285" CreationDate="2019-01-15T20:31:22.220" Score="9" ViewCount="237" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/671/should-we-tag-solved-story-identification-questions-with-the-name-of-the-autho&quot;&gt;this meta question&lt;/a&gt;, which doesn't have an accepted answer/practice associated with it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am asking, because &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/9123/revisions&quot;&gt;this question was edited&lt;/a&gt; citing the above example, and promptly re-edited essentially because &quot;I don't agree with that meta&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a meta resolving this that I missed in my research, or should we have a discussion and reach a definitive practice so we don't end up with the edit version of &quot;Did not!&quot; &quot;Did too!&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12305" LastActivityDate="2019-01-15T21:43:18.690" Title="Is there a consensus on tagging solved story ID's with the name of the author/story?" Tags="|discussion|tags|story-identification|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12283" CreationDate="2019-01-15T20:45:18.343" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consensus I don't know, but there are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bstory-identification%5D+isaccepted%3Ayes&quot;&gt;5,569 accepted story-id answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bstory-identification%5D+duplicate%3Ayes+isaccepted%3Ano&quot;&gt;1,147 non-accepted story-id dupes&lt;/a&gt;, which presumably got a &quot;yes it's that&quot; comment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and who knows how many more &quot;accepted in comments but not through checkmark, and not a dupe either&quot; questions, which aren't easily searchable.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we start retagging with the work/author, that makes up for at least &lt;strong&gt;seven thousands question to retag&lt;/strong&gt;. Back in 2011 (year of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/671&quot;&gt;Should we tag (solved) story identification questions with the name of the author / property?&lt;/a&gt;) the numbers might have been moderate enough to justify it, but nowadays it's not consensus anymore, it's common sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastActivityDate="2019-01-15T20:45:18.343" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12283" CreationDate="2019-01-15T20:49:51.810" Score="13" Body="&lt;h2&gt;We shouldn't.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the same reason as we shouldn't edit the answer into &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; question once it's solved. For story-ID questions, &lt;strong&gt;the story title is part of the answer, not the question.&lt;/strong&gt; Editing it into the question, even in the form of a tag, would make people do a quick double-take and think &quot;why did they need to ask when the correct answer is already right there?&quot; before they check the revision history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags are meant to aid searchability, but someone looking for questions about story X isn't going to care about reading an ID question whose answer turned out to be X.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a question to be useful for posterity, it should generally be such that it would still be a valid question if asked today in the same form it's in now. Including the answer in the question defeats that purpose, even if it's only done later. Leave the answer in the answer, please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Copied from &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.meta.stackexchange.com/a/431/17&quot;&gt;my answer to the same question on another site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2019-01-15T20:49:51.810" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12283" CreationDate="2019-01-15T21:20:05.983" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think re-tagging should be considered in a case by case scenario, and should primarily consider whether this makes the site &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt;. So consider these two scenarios:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is a pure &quot;identify this story&quot; question made better by adding the tag once the story is identified? I'd argue no -- nobody will find anything interesting to answer while searching for this tag since, by definition, pure identification questions have nothing else left to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is a &quot;hybrid&quot; id question that asks meaningful followup questions about the story (which only make sense once identified) helped by tagging? I'd argue yes, since people searching for this tag will find something meaningful to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of the question that prompted this discussion, and which has an answer by me which was accepted, people looking for [dune] can find it and disagree with my answer (for the heartplugs) and maybe provide a better one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will the original asker be helped or not if someone provides a better answer, one that not only ids the movie (which we're sure by now was Dune) but also provides a better answer to the question of why were the heartplugs used in the first place? I think yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's another question here: should hybrid/multiple questions allowed? I think not, because they bring this kind of problems, but I also think there's a grey area. In this particular case, I tried to convert it to a single question by changing the title to focus it on the heartplugs, but someone (NOT the original asker!) disagreed with this and rolled back my edit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the question should either be split into its two components, and the one about the heartplug clearly tagged with [dune], or this one re-framed to be about the heartplugs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="770" LastEditorUserId="770" LastEditDate="2019-01-15T21:43:18.690" LastActivityDate="2019-01-15T21:43:18.690" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12278" CreationDate="2019-01-17T14:51:49.087" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My vote is a hesitant &quot;it should be allowed&quot;. Let me explain:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was about to vote to close (again, it seems), because in order for a question to be on-topic here it's not enough for it to be about the thoughts of a scifi author; it must be &lt;em&gt;about scifi&lt;/em&gt;, and this seemed to me to be about Frank Herbert's thoughts on evolution and equality. Much like Einstein's thoughts on songwriting wouldn't be accepted as valid Physics questions, Herbert's thoughts on evolution shouldn't be accepted in a site about scifi...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...except the quoted thought was specifically discussing the thoughts put into the creation of &lt;em&gt;Dune&lt;/em&gt;, which is on-topic. So it should be allowed, but being careful that the focus is on how this influenced &lt;em&gt;Dune&lt;/em&gt;, and not in whether Herbert's thoughts were correct or how they apply to the real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The danger of off-topicness is definitely there: already I see people commenting under the question on irrelevant (to scifi) matters, such as whether Herbert's thoughts are accurate or how they apply to policies from the history of the US (&quot;separate but equal&quot;, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="770" LastActivityDate="2019-01-17T14:51:49.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12288" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-18T18:54:22.713" Score="0" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;The close reason for lists of work or recommendations reads as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Requests for lists of works or recommendations are off-topic as they do not fit our questions and answers format. Feel free to ask about people's favorites in chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is my understanding that this close reason arose because it tends to allow answers that can all have equal value. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/203679/57310&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; was asked, closed, and reopened. (Full disclosure: I was the one who cast the initial close vote.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me this falls under the list/recommended close reason, but a comment was made the because there are only a limited number of works in the series that it should not be considered as such. A good answer probably could list all the works, but that can be said about any list question given enough time and research. The only thing that might change the circumstance is that the request is for a single defined universe. However, answers that are incomplete or give single works that match the criteria would still be equally valid. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So does the size of list matter when determining whether to close these questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2019-01-18T19:00:51.250" LastActivityDate="2019-01-18T19:00:51.250" Title="Does the size of the list of works matter?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ClosedDate="2019-01-18T20:43:41.060" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11294" CreationDate="2019-01-19T11:37:44.763" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you're proposing is a bad idea on multiple levels and extensively open to abuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) This requires users to decide, presumably for themselves, what constitutes a &quot;new release&quot;. You might wish to note that we've had complaints in the past about questions about &lt;em&gt;books&lt;/em&gt; that were released decades ago spoiling TV shows and films including Lord of the Rings (1954) and 1984 (1948).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) Even if we decide that it's a good idea, it still requires a technical solution from SE that they've been reluctant to perform. Blocking HNQ &lt;em&gt;by tag&lt;/em&gt; has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/224108/prevent-questions-with-movie-tv-shows-game-spoilers-from-appearing-in-the-hot-qu/257329#257329&quot;&gt;discussed previously&lt;/a&gt; on Meta:SE with the upshot being that while SE are happy to exclude entire sites, they're &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/308004/suggestion-remove-protected-questions-from-hot-network-questions-list/308022#308022&quot;&gt;not happy to exclude single tags&lt;/a&gt; due to the costs involved and the network overhead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) Finally, and to my mind most critically, this gives users a brand new ability to knock any question they don't like off of the HNQ simply by adding a special tag. While we're usually &lt;em&gt;pretty quick&lt;/em&gt; about noticing mis-tagging, it could theoretically be hours before that question gets edited back to normalcy during which time its 'hotness' may have declined. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2019-01-19T11:37:44.763" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12276" CreationDate="2019-01-20T17:33:28.373" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Easiest, assuming it is the same account:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on your account, where the rep is, upper right corner.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on the tab Questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sort by posting date.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106769" LastActivityDate="2019-01-20T17:33:28.373" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12291" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12294" CreationDate="2019-01-22T00:03:12.870" Score="26" ViewCount="1548" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; is a big tag. I've read &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9444/how-to-write-a-good-story-id-answer&quot;&gt;How to write a good story-ID answer?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9335/how-to-ask-a-good-story-id-question&quot;&gt;How to ask a good story-ID question?&lt;/a&gt;, but neither answers my larger question: how do users here find the answers to story-ID questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've answered three story-ID questions, but two were based on others' answers and comments and the third was not looking through a very large field to search through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What advice would you offer on &lt;strong&gt;finding&lt;/strong&gt; a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; question's answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-05-09T13:37:33.923" LastActivityDate="2022-05-25T08:13:01.810" Title="How to find a story-ID answer?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12291" CreationDate="2019-01-22T07:11:54.947" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some useful web sites for researching story-ID questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Web searches:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://duckduckgo.com/?t=hp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DuckDuckGo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.startpage.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Start Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SF Data Bases:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SF Encyclopedias:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sf-encyclopedia.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mars fiction:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sffbooksonmars.blogspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Marooned—Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy books on Mars&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mathematical fiction:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://kasmana.people.cofc.edu/MATHFICT/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mathematical Fiction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Polar fiction:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.antarctic-circle.org/fiction.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Antarctic Fiction Bibliography&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Recursive fiction:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.nesfa.org/Recursion/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Recursive Science Fiction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Time travel fiction:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://ittdb.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Internet Time Travel Database&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2023-01-29T13:54:16.550" LastActivityDate="2022-05-25T08:13:01.810" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12291" CreationDate="2019-01-22T12:49:06.080" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;An approach I've used in the past (both here, and on Movies.SE back when they accepted ID questions) is to identify one or more TV Tropes mentioned in the question, look them up to see if there are any examples that closely match the OP's description, then check to see if that work matches the other details in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/197485/76048&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, asking to identify an anime about (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;a boy that was supposed to be some kind of artifact that could be quenched for a lot of energy, but &lt;strong&gt;should he survive till midnight&lt;/strong&gt;, his body - no matter how badly beat up - got reset to being all fine and fresh and the energy contained within him refilled with a little extra sliver.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I zeroed in on the part in bold, checked the TV Tropes page for Cosmic Deadline, and found &lt;em&gt;Shakugan no Shana&lt;/em&gt;, which matched the quoted part of the question almost exactly. I looked the show up, and it matched the other points in the question - supernatural monsters, and a girl who helps the protagonist fight them - so I posted it as an answer and it turned out to be correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This approach carries a few risks: it relies on your knowledge of TV Tropes' trope base, there's no guarantee the work will be listed under that trope, and of course, &lt;em&gt;it's TV Tropes&lt;/em&gt;. Caution is advised, lest you get distracted and end up wiki-walking for so long that by the time you remember what you were doing, someone else has already posted the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76048" LastActivityDate="2019-01-22T12:49:06.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12291" CreationDate="2019-01-22T17:22:01.930" Score="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;A couple of weeks ago someone asked the same in chat, and I gave some tips (&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/58631?m=48330515#48330515&quot;&gt;see transcript&lt;/a&gt;). I'll try to whip that up into a more or less clear guide below. &lt;strong&gt;Still in writing.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Disclaimer: all examples will be answers of mine, as obviously they're the ones I know best. Sorry if it looks like I'm showing off - this is not the intention.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Summary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Learn the way of Google operators&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get to know the big sites (and the recurring themes)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't limit yourself to English&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SFF is a good resource too&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lead by example!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Learn the way of Google operators&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feeding the search bar a ton of keywords seems like a reasonable idea, but &amp;quot;just&amp;quot; words don't limit the number of results - far from it, generally. Fortunately Google has a couple of very useful tools to refine the searches. In case of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;story-identification-container&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, my favorites are the following.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&amp;quot; &amp;quot; exact quotes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will scour the entire indexed Internet looking for that very set of words. Probably one of the most useful ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;* wildcard&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Great addition to the &amp;quot; &amp;quot;. It replaces a missing word (or a couple of missing words) so that you don't have to go through all possible wordings ​of &lt;code&gt;the back of people's necks / the back of their necks / the back of the infected's necks&lt;/code&gt; etc. Wildcard will search for sites containing a phrasing starting with &lt;code&gt;back&lt;/code&gt; and ending with &lt;code&gt;necks&lt;/code&gt;, with something like 1-10 words between them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Case in point is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/202218/98028&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/189963/98028&quot;&gt;50s/60s movie with round disks on the back of people&amp;#39;s necks&lt;/a&gt;, for which &lt;code&gt;back * necks&lt;/code&gt; did the trick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;- the minus&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tricky little fella. It will exclude the word/set of words you give it from the search... But as some words/names are &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; common, or very linked to a particular work, you might miss out on a useful result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest using - to refine a bit, have a clearer idea, then removing it once you've thought of better keywords.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance when answering &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/192520/98028&quot;&gt;2010s novel series about a supernatural prison inside a tiny cube&lt;/a&gt; I first excluded Dashner (author of &lt;em&gt;The Maze Runner&lt;/em&gt;) because keywords like &lt;code&gt;prison&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;maze&lt;/code&gt; brought up too much of it, but had to remove it afterwards. See the full explanation in chat, &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/46098223#46098223&quot;&gt;starting here&lt;/a&gt; for the complete breakdown of how I found that one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;site: the site limiter&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A very useful one too!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It will search for whatever keywords you typed, in one site and this site only. &lt;code&gt;site:goodreads.com&lt;/code&gt; is quite useful to search for books, same with IMDb etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's useful to know how sites are structured, as &lt;code&gt;site:&lt;/code&gt; can dig down into the site's hierarchy as well, &lt;code&gt;site:imdb.com/title&lt;/code&gt; will not look at user lists, as their URL begin with &lt;code&gt;imdb.com/lists/&lt;/code&gt;. I find user lists to overlap a lot, which make them a noise in the results, hence the need to exclude them. For fanfiction for instance, &lt;code&gt;site:fanfiction.net/s/&lt;/code&gt; will look into the works themselves, and exclude user profiles/lists etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also especially useful to search for extracts in way too long fanfictions rather than loading each chapter and manually &lt;kbd&gt;CTRL&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;F&lt;/kbd&gt;ing each page. Once you think you have a hit, you can go for &lt;code&gt;Jean-Jacques house elf tiger site:fanfiction.net/s/123456&lt;/code&gt; and see if there's a chapter of Fic 123456 on fanfiction.net which contains those words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Google Images helps too&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For covers/stills mainly, if OP remembers it being a certain color, you can filter images by color and try to spot potential matches. Including &lt;code&gt;cover&lt;/code&gt; in the search may help for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also helps when OP is looking for a black and white comic/movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A recent winning case for me was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/203795/98028&quot;&gt;Middle grade novel about two kids in an underwater city, one coming from the surface; they get involved with a gang&lt;/a&gt; where OP drew a Paint sketch of the cover; filtering by &amp;quot;blue&amp;quot; color returned the book's cover.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;C-C-C-COMBO!&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Best thing about them Google operators? You can combine them to always refine your search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, you can exclude sites with &lt;code&gt;-site:www.pinterest.com&lt;/code&gt;, because Pinterest is often noise in the results. Take it further with our beloved wildcard! &lt;code&gt;-site:pinterest.*&lt;/code&gt; which will kick off ALL extensions of Pinterest, may they be .fr, .com, .co.uk etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A rather short query, if it combines them well, can yield interesting results, for instance the &lt;code&gt;movie &amp;quot;back * necks&amp;quot; site:imdb.com&lt;/code&gt; from earlier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some further info on Google operators &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-search-operators-commands/215331/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Get to know the big sites (and the recurring themes)&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each media has its &amp;quot;unique&amp;quot; characteristics: movies will have taglines, transcripts, books may have more quotes available online...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might also want to try and spot which works are commonly IDed, and which tropes they cover. &lt;em&gt;(and you can discover great reads/watches while you're at it)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12293/98028&quot;&gt;F1Krazy's answer&lt;/a&gt; for TVTropes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;ISFDb&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Internet Speculative Fiction Database&lt;/a&gt; offers a very useful &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/adv_search_selection.cgi?title&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;advanced search tool&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Movies/TV shows&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDb is &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; well done:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's a tagline section for each movie for instance. In case &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/199619/98028&quot;&gt;the OP only heard the tagline&lt;/a&gt; (and has a good memory, granted), Googling &lt;code&gt;taglines &amp;quot;from the woman&amp;quot; site:imdb.com&lt;/code&gt; can do the trick.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or if the OP thinks &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/202254/98028&quot;&gt;one movie was SO close to theirs&lt;/a&gt;, but not exactly, it might be that the story is a remake/retelling etc. Then, the &amp;quot;Connections​&amp;quot; section can be of assistance. Note that the &amp;quot;Connections&amp;quot; section has several subsections: Remakes, sequels/prequels, spoofs, references... So if someone describes their movie as having a scene &amp;quot;that seemed to be a reenacting of the Hippogriff flight in HP3&amp;quot;, it might be worth taking a look in the References section of &lt;em&gt;Prisoner of Azkaban&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes what appeared to be a movie was actually a TV episode, so it's worth looking in those. I've noticed that a lot with people remembering &amp;quot;that movie&amp;quot; which turned out to be a &lt;em&gt;Twilight Zone/Outer Limits&lt;/em&gt; episode - there are about 250 of them, that may be worth looking into.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Short stories&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of them being transcripted on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/index.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Internet Archive&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gutenberg.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Project Gutenberg&lt;/a&gt;, the operators &lt;code&gt;site:archive.org&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;site:gutenberg.org&lt;/code&gt; can help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A couple of commonly asked short stories: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bstory-identification%5D%20is%3Aa%20profession%20asimov&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;The Profession&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; by Asimov (13 results!), &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bstory-identification%5D%20is%3Aa%20%22road%20not%20taken%22&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;The Road not Taken&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; by Harry Turtledove (14)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Comics&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Know how sites behave. The main wikias for Marvel and DC for instance are rather complete but they're so complete, it sometimes overlaps in the results. Which is why to track down &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/201613/98028&quot;&gt;the exact issues in a comic run a that lasted only 43 issues&lt;/a&gt; you'll have to tweak the query to make sure the names appear as featured character, by providing their alias and exact name, in quotes: &lt;code&gt;&amp;quot;toad mortimer&amp;quot; &amp;quot;husk paige&amp;quot; &amp;quot;wolverine and the x-men vol 1&amp;quot; site:marvel.wikia.com&lt;/code&gt;. And read through all 19 results to see which ones actually match.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note on Wikias:&lt;/em&gt; Wikias... aren't always reliable. As much as possible, back every info you fetch from them with the original. If you do, the &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; you get the original is up to you and your country's law about copyright.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Fanfics&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Golden rule of fanfic-ID search: use incognito browsing! Seriously, some of them are really bad and you &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; want your browser's system to affiliate you and your cookies with those. REALLY!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the common sites, &lt;code&gt;site:fanfiction.net/s&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;site:archiveofourown.org/works&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;site:quotev.com/story&lt;/code&gt; will limit to the works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Anime (and to a lesser extent cartoon, but mostly anime)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anime-ID is one of the most painful identifications there are, because from what people forget, it appears that the anime production is 40% mecha, 40% summoning monsters, 20% something else. &lt;em&gt;(these statistics are mostly headcanon, but still.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;em&gt;tons&lt;/em&gt; of summon/mecha/robots animes and I can't really provide guidance to search those (other than &amp;quot;good luck, have fun&amp;quot;), but some of them tend to come back a lot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;summoning monsters: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bstory-identification%5D%20is%3Aa%20magi%20nation&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Magi-Nation&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (9 results!), &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bstory-identification%5D%20is%3Aa%20huntik&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Huntik&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (5), &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bstory-identification%5D%20is%3Aa%20redakai&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Redakai&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (4)...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;mecha/robots: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=is%3Aanswer+robotech+%5Bstory-identification%5D&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Robotech&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (8 hits), &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bstory-identification%5D%20is%3Aa%20evangelion&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Evangelion&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (7), &lt;em&gt;what else? (please edit)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's good to know which ones come up the most, because this way, you can read the new &amp;quot;summoning monsters&amp;quot; anime-ID, cringe at how unsearchable it looks, remember the 4-5 most commonly IDed ones, and go browse their Wikias to see if they involve the one &amp;quot;unique&amp;quot; bit in the new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record that's exactly what I did with &lt;em&gt;Huntik&lt;/em&gt;. I identified it &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/186124/98028&quot;&gt;once in April&lt;/a&gt; (had some luck with Google), and self-plagiarized this answer into three other answers. So 4/5 &lt;em&gt;Huntik&lt;/em&gt; answers are from me, just because I went to check if &amp;quot;that thing I IDed once&amp;quot; fitted. It's enjoyable :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Books&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mainly use Goodreads but I don't really know how it's structured. I'm open to suggestions!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Google Books works too, although that's not something I use much either so once again I'm open to suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Don't limit yourself to English&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OP say/imply they watched/read it in a non-English language (even though it may have been produced in English) and your English keywords don't yield anything? But you don't know said non-English language?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the 21st century, and Google translate/DeepL/WordReference have improved greatly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Workflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Open a Google Translate/DeepL tab and a WordReference tab (or any online dictionary). WordReference is there to translate word-by-word. Not always the best course of action (don't tell that to your Spanish teacher! ;) ) But useful for Google.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;search for keywords' translation with WordReference, throw them into Google - &lt;a href=&quot;https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32047?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&amp;amp;hl=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;set Google's language to the non-English language&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you'll probably end up on a foreign-written site which you have no idea what it's saying. If it looks like it could be a review of the book you're looking for, paste the page's link to the Google Translate tab. Proceed;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;repeat with different keywords and operators until you've found it, or gotten sick of it and rage quit. :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Alternatively, learn some foreign languages, but you know, effort.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't speak Portuguese, yet some Portuguese keywords did the trick for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/194781/&quot;&gt;90s B-rated horror movie with a haunted house&lt;/a&gt; (admittedly the characters' names helped, though). I Googled &lt;code&gt;filme bruxa jane tommy&lt;/code&gt;  (&lt;code&gt;movie witch jane tommy&lt;/code&gt;) and got a Portuguese review of the movie.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;pelicula fantastica &amp;quot;tres parcas&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt; (&lt;code&gt;fantasy movie &amp;quot;three fates&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt;) did the trick for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/99281/98028&quot;&gt;Spanish language fantasy movie: world seen from the movie projection room of the three Fates&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see those aren't especially complex queries. The rationale behind all that is that if it was translated into a foreign language, there must be a documentation of sorts somewhere... And if it wasn't translated to begin with, then you won't get a lot of English results!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;SFF is a good resource too&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time of writing, there are 12,946 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;story-identification-container&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bstory-identification%5D+duplicate%3Ayes&quot;&gt;1,155 of them being duplicates&lt;/a&gt;. Meaning: what you're looking for may have already been answered here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest browsing &lt;code&gt;[story-identification] keyword1 keyword2&lt;/code&gt; to start; don't include a media tag as a lot of old questions are only tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;story-identification-container&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;. Don't put too many keywords, because &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/58631?m=47824952#47824952&quot;&gt;SE search sucks&lt;/a&gt; and you might miss on some. You can try searching the site through Google which has a smarter search engine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Searched for something, came up blank, and getting a bit annoyed? Favorite the question. Check if it has gotten an answer - you will likely memorise it for later, and if it doesn't get an answer, maybe you'll eventually think of another set of keywords.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Browse old stuff! And re-read them even if &amp;quot;you've searched for them a month ago&amp;quot;! You will have learned new techniques and new works in the meantime, that might prove useful. Plus, sometimes you might encounter two unanswered story-IDs which look complementary - maybe they're the same thing and the info from one can help you kill two birds with one stone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Lead by example!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per my answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2674/98028&quot;&gt;Can somebody walk me through how to research these Identify these story-ID questions?&lt;/a&gt; (yes, it's technically a dupe, but we're too far gone for that), &lt;strong&gt;lead by example&lt;/strong&gt;. If you find something by searching the internet, &lt;strong&gt;please include the successful query&lt;/strong&gt;, as well as a quick commentary if the thought process behind it isn't obvious to grasp.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will help future researchers! No need to copy-paste the whole answer - see the link above for further details on that. If anyone's curious &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22google+query%22+user%3A98028&quot;&gt;here are my winning queries&lt;/a&gt; (easy to search as I reuse the same &amp;quot;found with the Google query...&amp;quot; template).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One should feel free to ask other users how they found the thing. Whether they reply or not is another matter, but it's always worth a shot!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;To be continued...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2023-01-29T13:54:16.550" LastActivityDate="2019-10-17T22:03:04.787" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12291" CreationDate="2019-01-23T08:40:40.707" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;All these are good and useful answers; but in my case it really is just 50 years of reading sf. I can't tell you my family's birthdays, but mention an obscure sf story and if I've read it, I can usually find it. Additionally, I'm sure no one has noticed, but I lost track around 1990 - anything newer than that, I probably don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the interest of full disclosure, I should admit that when I got close to the gold badge number, I did go on a hunt using the techniques in the other answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28516" LastActivityDate="2019-01-23T08:40:40.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12296" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-23T12:04:31.957" Score="12" ViewCount="593" Body="&lt;p&gt;2019 is here! And with the new year, as usual, comes a new iteration of &lt;strong&gt;Community Promotion Ads&lt;/strong&gt;! Let’s refresh these for the coming year :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site's twitter account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;interesting articles or findings for the curious&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool Science Fiction or Fantasy events/conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads every year?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be 300 x 250 pixels, or double that if high DPI.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the background of the image is white or partially white, there must be a 1px border (2px if high DPI) surrounding it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/12296&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6365" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2019-01-26T09:38:48.830" LastActivityDate="2019-07-07T18:08:14.983" Title="Community Promotion Ads — 2019" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2020-03-05T11:07:21.717" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12296" CreationDate="2019-01-23T12:04:31.957" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/stackscifi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/H1tp8.png&quot; alt=&quot;Follow us on Twitter!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6365" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-07-07T18:08:14.983" LastActivityDate="2019-07-07T18:08:14.983" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12296" CreationDate="2019-01-23T12:13:51.373" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/40lIQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Movies &amp;amp; TV Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6006" LastActivityDate="2019-01-23T12:13:51.373" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12296" CreationDate="2019-01-23T12:20:52.490" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://literature.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4EBsq.png&quot; alt=&quot;Love reading? Check out Literature SE!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2019-01-23T12:20:52.490" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12296" CreationDate="2019-01-23T12:24:28.190" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thesffblog.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EZFka.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;There&amp;#39;s a Blog?&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-01-23T12:24:28.190" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12296" CreationDate="2019-01-23T17:53:59.820" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JrIsG.png&quot; alt=&quot;Worldbuilding Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41082" LastActivityDate="2019-01-23T17:53:59.820" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12296" CreationDate="2019-01-26T16:42:07.177" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Portal:Main&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uF1Et.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Memory Alpha: The most definitive, accurate, and accessible encyclopedia and reference for everything related to Star Trek&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2019-01-26T16:42:07.177" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1530" CreationDate="2019-01-28T17:05:03.360" Score="-3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Harry Potter Fanfiction &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fan-fiction&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fan-fiction&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fan-fiction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;! = The Exclamation Mark or 'Bang' Symbol -- refers to a short form for expressing the presence of a particular trait or defining quality of a character in a story.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ao3 = Archive of our own&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Daudinn = Death &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dramione = Draco has relations with Hermione.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Drarry = Draco has relations with Harry. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DLP = Dark Lord Potter forums. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ffnet = www.fanfiction.net&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;H/C = Hurt or comfort&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Indy! = Independent character. Usually used in Lordship fics.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MPreg = Male Pregnancy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;NC17 = Strong violence and adult content. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OC = Original character&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pairing = Who gets together with whom&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pre Het: Used to describe a heterosexual relationship between two characters that does not have an sexual component or actual romantic interest beyond unresolved sexual tension.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;R&amp;amp;R: Read and review&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;RST = Resolved sexual tension&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Severitus = Snape is Harry's dad. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Slash = Homosexual pairing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Slave = Used in BDSM context for submissive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TW = Trigger Warning&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;URST = Unresolved Sexual Tension&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Xeno = Non Human pairing. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;X-Over = Crossover: fan-fiction which draws from two or more independent fictional universes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106687" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2019-01-30T14:04:53.970" LastActivityDate="2019-01-30T14:04:53.970" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2019-01-28T17:15:38.083" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's my actual name. I never knew why Neo although I suspect that it's related to the Matrix which came out precisely one year before my birth. My mom always loved that movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106687" LastActivityDate="2019-01-28T17:15:38.083" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12307" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-01-30T08:02:49.270" Score="1" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the moment, this is what questions with a watched tag look like, compared to a question without a watched tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/S6SvN.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/S6SvN.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of two questions on the homepage, one with a watched tag and one without&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find this... very hard to see the difference. The contrast is so small that if I'm scrolling through the front page, I can't tell the difference without tilting my screen back and looking up at the screen oddly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is also &lt;em&gt;completely&lt;/em&gt; not easy to use for anyone who has a bit of trouble telling slight differences in color apart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could we make the contrast a &lt;em&gt;little&lt;/em&gt; more obvious, please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2019-01-30T08:02:49.270" Title="Can we please make the watched tag highlighting contrast a little more?" Tags="|feature-request|design|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12296" CreationDate="2019-01-31T02:33:00.067" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://writing.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dcolz.png&quot; alt=&quot;Writing.SE&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21234" LastActivityDate="2019-01-31T02:33:00.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12309" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12310" CreationDate="2019-02-02T09:55:04.777" Score="16" ViewCount="259" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was browsing the question feed just now when I came across &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/204314/76048&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; about Iron Man and Captain America's fight in &lt;em&gt;Civil War&lt;/em&gt;. I had it marked as a favourite, which confused me, as I'd never seen it before. I checked the edit history, and it turns out it was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/204314/4&quot;&gt;originally an anime ID question&lt;/a&gt; (I routinely favourite these in case I ever find out the answer). Four hours ago, the OP rewrote it into a completely different question, for seemingly no reason whatsoever other than having not received any answers yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm aware that you're not allowed to change a question in such a way that it invalidates existing answers. This isn't the case here, but should we really be allowing people to change their question into something completely different just because they weren't getting an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76048" LastEditorUserId="70236" LastEditDate="2019-02-02T12:21:19.560" LastActivityDate="2019-02-04T22:31:15.627" Title="User changed their question into a completely different question. Is this allowed?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12309" CreationDate="2019-02-02T10:11:25.023" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's entirely inappropriate for OP to &lt;em&gt;completely rewrite&lt;/em&gt; their question into an &lt;em&gt;entirely different question&lt;/em&gt;, especially when the existing question had upvotes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It invalidates the comment-chain&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It makes the effort already put in (to identify the property in this case) worthless   &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;and&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It destroys valuable content.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If they have a new question on another topic, they should post it as a new question. To that end, I've rolled it back. to the last 'good' revision.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately my action makes &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/204537/20774&quot;&gt;Paul D. Waite's answer&lt;/a&gt; invalid but to be brutally honest his answer was probably already on its way to being downvoted/deleted for not really answering the (new) question anyway. Hopefully he'll forgive me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2019-02-04T22:31:15.627" LastActivityDate="2019-02-04T22:31:15.627" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12311" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-02T15:51:31.653" Score="-4" ViewCount="232" Body="&lt;p&gt;Salutations, good StackExchange editors. Over the past few weeks, users (including me) helped to replace Flickr links with Imgur links in Slytherincess's questions, as requested &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12274/what-to-do-about-flickr&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. The campaign was successful, and the search query made by Alex for her Flickr-using posts &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=user%3A3500+url%3Aflickr.com&quot;&gt;now returns nothing.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, however, there are still about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=url%3Aflickr.com/photos&quot;&gt;15 posts from other users using Flickr for images in them&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=url%3Abp.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;41 posts using images from Blogspot&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=url%3Avignette&quot;&gt;177 Wikia &quot;vignettes&quot;&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=url%3Ai.imgur.com&quot;&gt;120 Imgur (but non-Stack Imgur) images&lt;/a&gt;. (lesser priority)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please help improve the site by replacing these with i.stack.imgur.com links! &lt;strong&gt;Much more importantly, please add image descriptions to make the web a better place for people with disabilities.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a quick guide as to how to get images from Flickr in Stack's Imgur:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Go to the post. Go into editing, and find a link to a URL that looks approximately like &lt;code&gt;http://www.flickr.com/photos/slytherincess/7089921451/&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Copy the link and put it in a new tab.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On Firefox:&lt;/strong&gt; Press &lt;kbd&gt;⌘&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;U&lt;/kbd&gt; on Mac or &lt;kbd&gt;CTRL&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;U&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On Chrome:&lt;/strong&gt; Right click, choose &quot;View Page Source.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Go to line 107 in the source code. Copy the URL in the quotes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Go to SE, make a new dummy question. Insert an image, pasting in the URl.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Copy the i.stack.imgur.com link it makes from the bottom of the page, then paste it into the question or answer that used Flickr to replace the link, and you've got one question fixed, preserved for the future web.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With direct links to image files, just paste them into the photo uploader and copy-paste the link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-02-19T02:03:42.590" LastActivityDate="2019-02-19T10:36:30.797" Title="Please help replace links to non-Stack Imgur images" Tags="|discussion|editing|images|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12312" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12313" CreationDate="2019-02-05T14:00:44.380" Score="5" ViewCount="602" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever there's a TV Tropes link in an answer, I always see messages like 'warnings! TV Tropes link' etc. I've visited TV Tropes, and I don't think there's any graphic explicit content (from what I've seen that is) in that site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes even in comments, such warnings are posted, although I think this one was meant to be humorous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yi0G3.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yi0G3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot showing comments and people warning about TV Tropes links&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="97485" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-02-05T14:04:47.530" LastActivityDate="2019-02-05T14:19:51.660" Title="Is it necessary to post a warning whenever linking to tv tropes?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2019-02-05T14:46:11.343" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12312" CreationDate="2019-02-05T14:05:11.277" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Is it necessary?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, not at all.&lt;/strong&gt; It is just a joke*/&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5133/58193&quot;&gt;meme&lt;/a&gt; that people get lost in a rabbit hole of links when going to TV Tropes and get distracted. Similar to how people sometimes describe YouTube's similar videos and people clicking through them all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;* Your mileage may vary.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-02-05T14:19:51.660" LastActivityDate="2019-02-05T14:19:51.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12314" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12315" CreationDate="2019-02-05T23:13:46.820" Score="7" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;Subject question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/72855/novel-with-plot-element-of-a-water-world-with-multi-armed-creatures-which-commun&quot;&gt;Novel with plot element of a water world with multi-armed creatures which communicate by joining arms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer to it is &quot;Fleet of Worlds&quot; but it's closed as a duplicate of&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/94578/novel-where-a-man-is-paid-to-travel-to-a-planet-inside-a-metallic-sphere&quot;&gt;Novel where a man is paid to travel to a planet inside a metallic sphere&lt;/a&gt; which has an accepted answer of &quot;Ringworld&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are they duplicates because the two different books are in the same series? That seems a stretch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28516" LastActivityDate="2019-02-06T00:12:21.773" Title="Is this question correctly closed as a duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12314" CreationDate="2019-02-06T00:12:21.773" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it shouldn't be a dupe.  I have nominated it for reopening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2019-02-06T00:12:21.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12316" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12318" CreationDate="2019-02-06T05:09:07.647" Score="9" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've come across several situations where questions/answers are constructed nice and readable and don't seemingly require any edits, though there are small typos like &lt;code&gt;excepted&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;accepted&lt;/code&gt; of &lt;code&gt;Gendalf&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;Gandalf&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it is obviously not intended, it can't be edited as the difference is less than 6 characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should be done in such cases?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="107395" LastEditorUserId="107395" LastEditDate="2019-02-06T06:06:59.870" LastActivityDate="2019-02-10T07:35:54.410" Title="How to fix small typos if edits must at least contain 6 characters?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12316" CreationDate="2019-02-06T09:32:31.983" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is so very extremely rare that there is so little you can change that you can only make a less than 6 character edit. For example, in your question itself here you are using &lt;code&gt;inline code&lt;/code&gt; when you aren't using code so would have been better to just put it in &quot;quotation marks&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's worth noting that the limit is there for a reason; it is to make &amp;lt;2k &quot;new&quot; editors pay extra careful attention when editing to make sure they fix everything possible. Only noticed one typo? Why not go back and read the post again to be sure there isn't something else that could be improved?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now in the extremely rare occurrence that there isn't anything else you can do, I would strongly advise against making invisible formatting changes as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12317/58193&quot;&gt;advised by Valorum&lt;/a&gt;. It isn't an improvement and could lead to your edit being rejected for no improvement whatsoever because the bulk of your edit is the newline style change not the small typo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead I suggest you &lt;strong&gt;don't edit&lt;/strong&gt; it yourself. If the OP seems active, leave a comment asking them to update it. You'll be surprised how often even &quot;inactive&quot; OPs respond to a ping to update a typo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could always ping a &gt;2k user or ask in chat as a whole; there is usually always someone lurking around in &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/58631/the-restaurant-at-the-end-of-the-universe&quot;&gt;The Restaurant at the End of the Universe&lt;/a&gt; even if it doesn't look like anyone is actively talking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="14111" LastEditDate="2019-02-10T07:35:54.410" LastActivityDate="2019-02-10T07:35:54.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12319" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-07T13:23:32.393" Score="20" ViewCount="1008" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pretty much the same question than &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11528/&quot;&gt;Are the Donald Duck comics on-topic?&lt;/a&gt;, although different characters, as so far, it doesn't seem we discussed either &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=bugs%20bunny&quot;&gt;Bugs Bunny&lt;/a&gt; or the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=looney%20tunes&quot;&gt;Looney Tunes&lt;/a&gt; on Meta. We have three &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/looney-tunes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;looney-tunes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;looney-tunes&lt;/a&gt; questions but two are about Marvin (deffo on-topic), another is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/204829/&quot;&gt;Bugs Bunny picture book involving a machine that creates carrots&lt;/a&gt;, which motivated this Meta post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5117/&quot;&gt;Are anthropomorphic animals by themselves enough to deem a work fantasy?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That said, we would consider talking animals to be part of a fantasy if:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They had been &lt;strong&gt;uplifted&lt;/strong&gt; in some way (either by technology or magic)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Their speaking was &lt;strong&gt;somehow fantastical&lt;/strong&gt; to the other characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am no expert on Bugs Bunny, but I don't think he fits either of those? As for &amp;quot;tackling the SFF elements in those&amp;quot;, we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=bugs%20bunny%20is%3Aq&quot;&gt;three Bugs Bunny questions&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/135054&quot;&gt;Novel about Bugs Bunny being tricked by a wealthy man to loot some snowy building&lt;/a&gt; which already spawned some heat in the comments. One side argues anvils fall from the skies, the other argues that the anvils are just generic kids cartoon weirdness, not really on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/204829/&quot;&gt;Bugs Bunny picture book involving a machine that creates carrots&lt;/a&gt; same arguments could probably go on for a new round.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/140219/&quot;&gt;1990s cartoon movie - Bugs Bunny anti-drugs&lt;/a&gt; video is unavailable but this looks just like an anti-drug PSA? Is that really on-topic?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;what to do with those? Leave them all open? Close some?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;in the future, are all Bugs Bunny stories on-topic the way Donald Duck was?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-02-07T13:47:28.703" Title="Is Bugs Bunny (as a whole) on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12319" CreationDate="2019-02-07T13:47:28.703" Score="11" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Yes, and the same goes for Looney Tunes as a whole&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I won't repeat it all here but essentially the conclusion is the same as in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11528/58193&quot;&gt;Donald Duck&lt;/a&gt; meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, why should it be on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It has aliens: Marvin the Martian&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fantastical devices: Carrot making machine&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Takes place on a different world/universe/thingy: See &lt;em&gt;Space Jam&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.pinimg.com/236x/52/a1/29/52a129a50a9add664d67c3b706fd0fed--vintage-cartoons-classic-cartoons.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Has witches and so magic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And whilst &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5119/58193&quot;&gt;anthropomorphic animals don't make something on topic&lt;/a&gt; as seen in &lt;em&gt;Space Jam&lt;/em&gt; it is clearly not normal in that world for humans to think animals can talk or in fact that the Looney Tunes actually exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the very least questions about the SFF-nal nature of the universe are on topic anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-02-07T13:47:28.703" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12321" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12324" CreationDate="2019-02-07T18:40:51.293" Score="0" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can do it myself, but to be honest I wouldn't know what to write instead of what's already there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current description begins with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Star Trek: Enterprise&quot; is the most recent Star Trek live-action show to air on TV&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, not anymore: the most recent is ST:Discovery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43417" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2019-02-08T15:33:52.660" LastActivityDate="2019-02-08T15:33:52.660" Title="We need to fix [star-trek-enterprise] description" Tags="|support|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12322" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-07T21:45:37.033" Score="22" ViewCount="268" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/quintalayla/posts/1862813517160687&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mr. Oreo&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, who was the model for Rocket Raccoon &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/getFANDOM/status/1093603103377580032&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;has passed away at the age of 10&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1dgMw.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1dgMw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image of Mr. Oreo, the Raccoon&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastActivityDate="2019-02-10T11:43:28.787" Title="In Memoriam: Mr. Oreo" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12322" CreationDate="2019-02-07T21:52:11.870" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;A Ravager Funeral is befitting for him:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/g0JQ3.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/g0JQ3.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Ravager Funeral scene from Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol.2&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastActivityDate="2019-02-07T21:52:11.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12321" CreationDate="2019-02-08T09:24:24.863" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12321/we-need-to-fix-star-trek-enterprise-description#comment42603_12321&quot;&gt;Valorum has fixed this&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/9482/6&quot;&gt;this revision&lt;/a&gt; changing the sentence to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Star Trek: Enterprise&quot; is a Star Trek live-action show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the future as you note yourself you can always edit the description yourself or even raise in chat if you don't feel like making a full meta post about it. There's always a few people in &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/58631/the-restaurant-at-the-end-of-the-universe&quot;&gt;The Restaurant at the End of the Universe&lt;/a&gt; more than willing to do a quick change to a tag wiki/excerpt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-02-08T09:24:24.863" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12325" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-08T16:37:40.667" Score="9" ViewCount="248" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Finney&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Albert&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001215/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Finney&lt;/a&gt; (1936–2019)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ECJbA.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ECJbA.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Albert Finney&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although not especially known for his science fiction or fantasy work, Finney did play a cryogenically frozen head (of his character from the earlier fantastical serial &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karaoke_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Karaoke&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;) in the 1996 British television serial &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Lazarus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cold Lazarus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/W3JYy.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/W3JYy.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Cold Lazarus&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was, in any event, an excellent actor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2019-02-10T09:44:27.497" Title="Albert Finney, RIP" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12327" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12332" CreationDate="2019-02-10T09:43:37.107" Score="12" ViewCount="373" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is in reference to the two posts made by an user yesterday which were heavily downvoted for being blatantly off topic. However, I noticed some users editing those topics when they ought to be deleted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions were :&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/204976/star-wars-fight-question&quot;&gt;Star Wars fight question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jn5QD.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jn5QD.png&quot; alt=&quot;Who  woudl win in a fight type question&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screen shot of edit: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zNjUa.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zNjUa.png&quot; alt=&quot;edit adding spaces&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &quot;Star Wars fight question&quot;, why was that edit on And even needed? Just adding space after full stop for what reason? So it looks better before it's deleted? It's beyond me that someone would edit an obviously POB question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other questions were asking opinions on an obviously fake list (someone edited it to make it appear more like a list, which is still fake but looked better now); &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/204959/star-wars-midichlorian-counts&quot;&gt;Star Wars Midichlorian counts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d7YCm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d7YCm.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of list question&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the last one was just a picture with the bold claim of having found middle Earth and nothing else and someone still decided to the do the same adding a few spaces to random words; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/204972/did-i-find-middle-earth&quot;&gt;Did I find Middle Earth?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fI9mF.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fI9mF.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of deleted question&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Curious to know why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106687" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2019-02-10T17:46:03.413" LastActivityDate="2019-03-06T00:35:49.037" Title="What's up with prominent users editing blatantly off topic posts?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12325" CreationDate="2019-02-10T09:44:27.497" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;He was good. He was a good actor. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106687" LastActivityDate="2019-02-10T09:44:27.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12322" CreationDate="2019-02-10T11:43:28.787" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This rac was big good. See you in rac heaven. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106687" LastActivityDate="2019-02-10T11:43:28.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12327" CreationDate="2019-02-10T14:50:52.377" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Abbreviations reminder, just in case: DV = downvote, VTC/VTD = vote to close/delete, LQP = low quality posts.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;First, as Kevin pointed out in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12327/whats-up-with-prominent-users-editing-blatantly-off-topic-posts#comment42617_12327&quot;&gt;a comment&lt;/a&gt;, there are a couple of reasons to edit off-topic questions.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Removing or fixing bad tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case the post later gets edited in an on-topic, non-dupe question, the tags will already be sorted out. It's a good thing. Plus, people watching said tags might be more likely to eyeball the question and provide guidance on how to reword it into a good post.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Removing personal information (e.g. &quot;Please email me the answer at somebody@example.com&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That one doesn't need any explanation, although IMO, if you're going to edit out personal information, I'd say to &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; flag it for a mod to mod-delete the mail/phone number/etc out of the revision history; they have a tool for that.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They did not agree with you that the questions were blatantly off-topic, and felt they might be salvageable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can think of a way to salvage a question, an edit is welcome. If it looks like you've strayed off from OP's intentions, add a comment for OP stating why you did it (making it on-topic), and that they're free to revert the edit. It might then be closed again, but they'll have been warned. Couple of recently savaged questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/204799&quot;&gt;Do the makers of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle consider the film to be science fiction or fantasy?&lt;/a&gt; went from an off-topic &quot;Is X considered science-fiction?&quot; to an answerable, definitely non-POB &quot;Have the writers stated...&quot; question, thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/204799/revisions&quot;&gt;an edit&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/204596&quot;&gt;Show from the 80s about ghosts&lt;/a&gt; was apparently two questions in one, was downvoted like crazy (and rightly so); someone &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/204596/revisions&quot;&gt;edited out&lt;/a&gt; the second story-ID question, making it a non-too-broad question, and a couple of DVs were reverted (at least I think I remember so).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fixing severe formatting problems that made the questions difficult to read (so that other high-rep users could more easily see their off-topicness).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's also a fair point, not much to add here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now about the three specific ones from yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Star Wars fight question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/204976/timeline&quot;&gt;The timeline of &quot;Star Wars fight question&quot;&lt;/a&gt; shows that the edit was made &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/141449&quot;&gt;through LQP review queue&lt;/a&gt;. It's not obvious, but editing through the review queues kicks the post off said queue (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/190581/398063&quot;&gt;per main Meta&lt;/a&gt;). It's not obvious, because in Low Quality Review, you're faced with 4 buttons: Looks Ok, Edit, Close (on questions)/Delete (on answers), Skip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The screenshot below is a bit outdated but it shows the gist of it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AaGRl.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AaGRl.png&quot; alt=&quot;the four review buttons&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nowhere does it explicitly say your edit will remove it from queue. It looks like the ordinary Edit button. So if you're not sure it should be closed, but still think it's worth an edit, there's an Edit button &lt;em&gt;right here&lt;/em&gt; rather than the skip/close ones. Flaw in the system if you ask me, that should read &quot;Edit - warning, it's a binding out-of-review edit&quot;. But I digress...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Star Wars Midichlorian counts&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The edit made the question go from &quot;unreadable block of text&quot; to &quot;readable off-topic list&quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tNMNk.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;compare&lt;/a&gt;). Is the question still off-topic? Very definitely so. Is it clearer why? Kinda. The block of text screams &quot;unclear&quot; before it screams &quot;off-topic&quot;, but a post that opens with &quot;What do you guys think of my list&quot; is explictly a no-no per the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;Help Center's &quot;Don't Ask&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;&quot;there is no actual problem to be solved: “I’m curious if other people feel like I do.”&quot;&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not the greatest edit you'll find in this site, but at least it doesn't disturb the homepage as the question scored below -4 (and thus is only bumped in the &quot;active&quot; tab, not on the homepage).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Did I find Middle Earth?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HCd51.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The edit (screenshot)&lt;/a&gt; fixed a bit of formatting and added the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/j-r-r-tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;j-r-r-tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;j-r-r-tolkien&lt;/a&gt; tag. Once again, it's not the most useful edit in the history of SFF, but a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/j-r-r-tolkien&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;j-r-r-tolkien&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;j-r-r-tolkien&lt;/a&gt; watcher might be able to provide more guidance (see point 4. above) or actually understand what is going on here. The question was deleted shortly afterwards, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;About editing &quot;on hold&quot;/dupe questions...&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, it can happen that one has just woken up/is on their phone/just isn't giving it much attention, so they go for an edit instead of VTCing/VTDing first. Happens, fortunately we have a good base of other users who moderate the site and take care of the matter. Sometimes people can also think twice and VTC/VTD something they didn't deem worthy of before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coincidentally, it happens that when an &quot;on hold&quot;/freshly dupe-closed question is edited, it automatically gets sent to the Reopen review queue, where anyone over 3k rep can vote to Reopen or Leave Closed. That includes the one who edited, unlike, for instance, VLQ posts that you can't review if you previously cast a VLQ flag on them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as the edit &lt;em&gt;somehow&lt;/em&gt; helps the post with regards to 1+ of the 4 points above... It kind of helps, even if by a long stretch, so, alright, I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in my only-commits-me opinion, when you're going to edit off-topic questions with a very minor edit, and then cash in a Leave Closed vote (progress towards Reviewer/Steward badges...), and then vote to delete it right after that, &lt;strong&gt;repeatedly&lt;/strong&gt;, perhaps the &quot;Delete&quot; button is the first one you should have pressed. Just saying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-03-06T00:35:49.037" LastActivityDate="2019-03-06T00:35:49.037" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12327" CreationDate="2019-02-10T16:37:02.960" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In short, there's usually no downside to such edits. Most of these types of edits come shortly after the question has been posted. The edits are not bumping bad posts to the top of the homepage, because the posts are already at the top of the page. Such edits would only have a downside if they were done in a way which sent the post out of the Close Queue or into the Reopen Queue. The latter is less likely to happen because that means the question has already been closed. The former would only happen, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12330/100430&quot;&gt;as Jenayah explained&lt;/a&gt;, if someone edited the question from the queue without realizing that that is the equivalent of a Leave Open vote. Additionally, even if it does happen it is not much effort for people to quickly review a question again and vote to Leave Closed, and if it was kicked out of the Close Queue it will probably still be seen by enough users to close/delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The upside of such edits, however, is fairly reasonable. It is always better for a post to be better written and formatted. Even if a question is on its way to being closed/deleted it can still benefit from editorial improvements. We don't want poorly written posts sitting around until they get deleted. A well-written but off-topic question looks much better than a poorly written off-topic question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, I would assume that some people make these kinds of edits because they feel that the benefits outweigh the risks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another important point is that one person's &quot;obviously off-topic&quot; is another person's &quot;perfectly fine question&quot;. And the same for other close reasons. There is often quite a bit of dispute about question closures. So even if you think that a question should clearly be closed and deleted, it is quite possible that other users disagree. From their perspective they are simply editing legitimate questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2019-02-10T16:50:06.107" LastActivityDate="2019-02-10T16:50:06.107" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12327" CreationDate="2019-02-11T07:57:26.633" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since your question is specifically about &quot;&lt;em&gt;blatantly&lt;/em&gt; off-topic posts&quot;, I'll restrict this answer to the context where &lt;strong&gt;the questions are clearly off-topic and none of the users involved want to reopen them&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;There's usually no point in editing such posts ...&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions which are off-topic &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/59054/278659&quot;&gt;should usually end up deleted&lt;/a&gt;, and in many cases will be &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/92006/278659&quot;&gt;automatically deleted by the system after some time&lt;/a&gt; without need for user intervention. So there's no point in prettifying or improving something that's going to disappear off the site anyway. Especially minor edits like adding spaces, which one would usually expect as a touch to add perfection to an already good post - but even tag edits don't matter for posts that will end up deleted, as they won't appear in the tag lists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess people are doing this as a knee-jerk reaction - when they see a post with poor formatting or tagging, they want to improve it, without stopping to think that they might just be &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/you_can%27t_polish_a_turd&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;polishing a turd&lt;/a&gt;. We might also speculate that one motivation for such edits is badge chasing - either to get more edits under their belt, or to get extra reviews (more on this below). But there are much more harmful things people could be doing in the cause of badge chasing; polishing turds is at worst &lt;em&gt;pointless&lt;/em&gt;, not actively harmful. Which brings me to ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;... but there's usually no harm in it either.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure why you seem so indignant about this. It &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; strange behaviour, true, but it doesn't really harm you or anyone else. As mentioned above, it could be badge chasing - and this site does have a (minor) broader problem with people making pointless edits - but less harmful to the site than other forms of badge chasing I've seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main harm I can think of in editing blatantly off-topic questions is that &lt;strong&gt;it might kick them into the Reopen Votes review queue&lt;/strong&gt;, thus wasting reviewers' time on a review that should never have existed. This would only happen if the question is edited after being closed. So if we want a general guideline out of this, I'd say don't bother editing questions which are (a) closed and will clearly never be reopened or recovered, &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; (b) on their way to deletion, either by user votes or roomba. If the question is arguably on-topic and might be reopened, or if it has answers and therefore might stay on the site, then feel free to go ahead and edit it just like any other question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2019-02-11T07:57:26.633" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11555" CreationDate="2019-02-11T08:45:41.937" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We should get rid of the tag.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag serves no actual purpose, is ambiguous what it should be used for, is not used consistently, and does not meet the criteria for a good tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's not clear what it means in the first place.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do we define as &quot;animals&quot;? Does this mean regular, non-SFFnal animals? Does it include centaurs? How does this relate with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magical-creatures&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magical-creatures&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magical-creatures&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's not clear what it should be used for.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What type of questions get this tag? Questions about characters that are animals? Questions about animals within a universe? Questions about dog actors?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's not being used consistently (most likely as a result of the above two points).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the sidebar on the tag page, out of 93 questions, 37 of them are story-ID. 10 of them are &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt;. 8 are &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;, 6 are &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;, and 6 are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt;. These low numbers show that it's not being used consistently, and infrequently - in the year and two months since this was asked, it's only had another 13 questions with the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can't really be an expert in animals in the context of SFF.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does it mean to be an expert in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/animals&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;animals&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;animals&lt;/a&gt;? Since, as I said above, it's not even clear what this &lt;em&gt;covers&lt;/em&gt;, and since it is apparently a cross-franchise tag, it's a little hard to be an expert on every animal in SFF works in general. You could be an expert in magical animals, such as mythological animals and their portrayal in SFFna works, but that's covered by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magical-creatures&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magical-creatures&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magical-creatures&lt;/a&gt; (and the more specific tags such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dragon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dragon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dragon&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unicorn&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;unicorn&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unicorn&lt;/a&gt;, etc). You could be a veterinarian, but that's not going to help you to answer questions about post-apocalyptic sentient animal story-ID questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It doesn't help to filter questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't make much sense as a favorite or ignored tag. Since it's cross-franchise, it's not very useful for someone who doesn't like a topic in a franchise or a franchise as a whole - it's got a whole range of questions covering different franchises and types of questions, none of which are very closely related, and so doesn't help much in filtering tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all, it seems rather useless to me. I say burn it with fire... dragon style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2019-02-11T08:45:41.937" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12334" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-11T20:30:31.700" Score="8" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've had a number of questions on this site of the form &quot;Here's a picture with dozens of characters/items from sci-fi and fantasy - can you identify them all?&quot;  Such questions have generally been welcomed by the community as a chance for everyone to work together and have fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that spirit of working together, what &lt;em&gt;often&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/171218/31394&quot;&gt;happens&lt;/a&gt; is that a single massive Community Wiki answer emerges where many users make small contributions, sometimes amounting to hundreds of edits before everything is correctly identified. If there were other non-CW answers posted, the answerers &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/198938/31394&quot;&gt;sometimes&lt;/a&gt; self-delete those in favour of cooperating on the big CW answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not always the case that a CW answer is posted - e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/119846/31394&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/104908/31394&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; a single user did most of the legwork and retained ownership of their post - but in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/188313/31394&quot;&gt;some cases&lt;/a&gt;, after a CW answer rises to the top, there's been debate in comments over whether or not others should delete their answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Today I just realised that there is a mod tool available to restrict the thread to one CW answer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cc2Zk.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cc2Zk.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of &amp;quot;wiki lock&amp;quot; option&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's what the community wants, we &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; use this in certain circumstances, on certain posts, to restrict people to editing an existing CW answer instead of posting a new one. But first we need some community consensus on how, when - and indeed if - this should be done.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; the &quot;wiki lock&quot; for questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/296843/278659&quot;&gt;doesn't work as I'd thought&lt;/a&gt;. If we don't want to prevent the question from being voted on, then this isn't an option. I'm slightly re-scoping this meta: feel free to discuss the possibility of &lt;strong&gt;forcibly CW-ifying answers&lt;/strong&gt; as well as wiki-locking questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we begin forcing CW answers to some/any mass-ID questions? If so, which ones?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2019-02-11T21:50:03.213" LastActivityDate="2019-02-25T09:42:42.563" Title="Do we want to require CW answers on (any? some? all?) mass-ID questions?" Tags="|discussion|policy|community-wiki|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12334" CreationDate="2019-02-11T21:12:54.270" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YES!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But evaluated on a case by case basis...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having been involved in asking and answering a few of these questions I find that there end up being lots of one line/item answers that can quickly add up. Judging from the review queues these answers are not well received and are down-voted and often times deleted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be fair to the poster of the answer, a moderator should not immediately/automatically apply the CW, but leave a comment and see if they are open to the idea. Have a discussion and nudge the answerer in that direction gently. I bet most of the time that works. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that doesn't work &lt;strong&gt;a moderator should use their CW ability only if there is a certain number of one line answers (my suggestion would be 3) that have been removed&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing we might have a little trouble on is where we draw the line... Is 10 ID's enough to &lt;em&gt;require&lt;/em&gt; a CW? 50? 100? 500? etc. etc. (My suggestion would around the 50 mark). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only other thing I could think of is that since those posting the large ID questions are typically regular users of the site, is to create the CW answer when asking the question (i.e. use the &quot;Answer your own question&quot; check box). The OP would need to add some basic detail and maybe a disclaimer on what is going on. Then any other answers posted could be removed if necessary. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2019-02-11T21:59:48.093" LastActivityDate="2019-02-11T21:59:48.093" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12334" CreationDate="2019-02-11T22:08:03.990" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if this would be overkill or not, and I'm really only active on a few tags here, so if this suggestion doesn't fit, feel free to downvote to oblivion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like these questions would be well handled by making a tag for these types of questions, and requiring, as a policy, that they be made into a community wiki.  I basically stole this idea from Physics SE, where they have a very similar rule applied to Resource Recommendation questions (i.e. can anyone tell me books that cover this topic).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In those, obviously it is a fairly different problem, but they seemed to be running into similar issues with questions that had the potential to generate large list-like answers or multiple single-line responses to a list question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(more info on the physics policy &lt;a href=&quot;https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4698/127931&quot;&gt;https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4698/127931&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the nature of the questions, and the extreme differences in how answers would be received based on when the post them, how many characters are identified and how many of those have already been identified, it seems pointless to separate answers into multiple incomplete lists when we can instead work on a single comprehensive list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only downside that comes to mind is the lack of reputation gains; but given the collaborative nature of the question, it isn't a major concern in my eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76441" LastActivityDate="2019-02-11T22:08:03.990" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12338" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-12T02:38:35.840" Score="7" ViewCount="388" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Disclaimers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is a long post. You are forewarned.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Everything in this post is only based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;. For the most part that is the only tag that I spend much time with, so I don't know if anything here carries over to other tags.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Though this post is kind of in the form of criticism, I am not mentioning any individual users and no one should interpret this as an attack on anyone.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Introduction&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over the last couple of weeks I have been scrolling through old closed Harry Potter questions, with a particular focus on questions closed as Primarily Opinion-Based. I nominated many of them for reopening, and my conclusion from this adventure was that there seems to be an issue with this specific close reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Data&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In total I voted to reopen sixteen questions that had been closed as Primarily Opinion Based. Out of these sixteen nominations, thirteen of them failed the review, that is to say that they received three Leave Closed votes and were removed from the reopen queue. Out of the remaining three questions, two of them passed the review only due to a moderator's vote. There was only one question out of the entire sixteen that passed the review by regular channels, that is to say that four regular users voted to reopen before three users voted to leave closed. Of the thirteen questions that failed the review, one of them was sent back to the queue a week later where it passed the review, and one of them was subsequently reopened outside of review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Problem&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue here, in my opinion, is that every single one of these questions can be answered factually, in one of three ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is information X in the books which either explicitly addresses the question, or from which we can infer the answer to the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is information X in supplementary material which either explicitly addresses the question, or from which we can infer the answer to the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is no information in the books nor in supplementary material that explicitly addresses the question, nor from which we can infer the answer to the question. Thus, the answer is: &quot;Unknown.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that each and every one of these questions can be answered using one of these three forms, it would seem to me that they were all incorrectly closed as Primarily Opinion-Based. It is thus puzzling that almost all of them failed the review when sent to the reopen queue. I would have thought that they would all be quickly reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I understand that many of these questions are silly, or strange hypotheticals, or asking for details about things which have very little detail. Some people don't like such questions. However, I don't believe any of that makes them Primarily Opinion-Based. That perhaps makes them bad questions which should be downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What is Primarily Opinion-Based?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My understanding is that Primarily Opinion-Based means that the question is soliciting opinions. This can be because it directly asks for opinions, or because it asks about something with subjective criteria. A simple example of the former would be a question which asks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Who is your favorite character?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your favorite character is your opinion, thus the question directly calls for opinion-based answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A simple example of the latter would be a question which asks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Who was the best teacher?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;best teacher&quot; is subjective because the question doesn't define what makes a teacher the best. It could be the greatest subject knowledge, it could be the greatest communicator, it could be the nicest person, it could be the teacher who has the greatest percentage of students pass exams, etc. Without objective criteria in the question, it calls for users to subjectively answer the question according to their own definitions of &quot;best teacher&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, any question which does not directly ask for opinions and does not use vaguely defined subjective terminology should be factually answerable in one of the three ways mentioned above. If an answerer chooses to answer such a question with an opinion, that is a problem with the answer not the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if a question asks about something where there is very little known information, that itself is not license for opiniony answers. The question could and should still be answered in one of the three ways mentioned above. For example, if a question asks what would happen in &lt;code&gt;bizarre combination of two factors that we know very little about&lt;/code&gt; the answers should either state the known information and what can be inferred from that, or state that there is not enough information and we simply don't know what would happen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To illustrate this, let us take an example of a decidedly non-opinion-based question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/109595/when-is-harry-potters-birthday&quot;&gt;When is Harry Potter&amp;#39;s birthday?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No one has ever tried to get this question closed as Primarily Opinion-Based, because it is a simple factual question. However, if I happen to think that Harry Potter's birthday is not mentioned anywhere, what is to stop me from simply posting an answer that says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think his birthday is February 11th, because that is the day I read the book for the first time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone would post such an answer it would get heavily downvoted and possibly even deleted. This is because there is an implicit assumption when asking for Harry's birthday that you are asking for his actual birthday within the series, and not for someone's random opinion as to what his birthday should be. Similarly, then, for the &lt;code&gt;bizarre combination of two factors that we know very little about&lt;/code&gt; there should be an implicit assumption that the question is asking for what would actually factually happen within the series, and not for someone's random opinion about what should happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, any question about Harry Potter is assumed to be asking for an answer in accordance with the facts within the series and not for anyone's random opinions, and thus should not be closed. Of course, if the question specifically says &quot;what's your opinion about XYZ?&quot; then it should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Unknown&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that the underlying issue is that the answer to many of the questions would be: &quot;Unknown&quot;. For whatever reason, this seems to be causing people to vote to close such questions. Some evidence for this are the several comments to some of these posts explicitly stating this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question appears to be off-topic because it is about a potential possibility. We don't allow &quot;What if...x&quot; questions that have no way to be answered definitively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Not interesting exactly, no (and it may be a duplicate?), &lt;strong&gt;because it smacks of knowingly asking an unanswerable question&lt;/strong&gt;. I hope I'm wrong. Anyway, if you read FBAWTFT you'll see that Phoenixes do eventually die -- they are not immortal. They just live very long lives. As to ashes, how do you know what happens behind the veil? Maybe there would be ashes and Fawkes would live on in a different plane of existence. Or maybe he would just die and be gone forever. I think it would have to be one of the two. It's not named the veil of death, AFAIK. Isn't it just The Veil? If so, huge difference. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You are right -- &lt;strong&gt;we don't know how natural death comes to a Phoenix and it's why I say this is a knowingly unanswerable question. I feel a VTC is appropriate.&lt;/strong&gt; As to JKR saying something, paraphrasing isn't good enough -- for a JKR quote, I would personally like to see the quote fully sourced with a link (not to the HP Wikia, but a direct source) and the quote provided in the answer. It is called The Veil in the books (just as Mandrakes are called Mandrakes, not Mandragora, in the books). While YMMV, I prefer sticking to canon terms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(My emphasis)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think answers to this question will be purely speculative. There is probably no canon answer to this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;very speculative, bordering on opinion-based. I shall wait to see if there are any close votes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I flagged because I interpreted &quot;is it possible...could have been&quot; as a hypothetical (answers for which are going to boil down to opinion/speculation), not an invocation of canon. Happy to concede that it's answerable with canon if interpreted as such, which I see one answer has done. Bellatrix's answer below is good, well-written and well-sourced, but it does just boil down to &quot;it depends on X and Y qualities (for which we have no canon evidence)&quot;, which to me is not the mark of a good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/10204/how-did-the-sorting-hat-know-what-each-students-thoughts-and-abilities-were&quot;&gt;Questions 1 &amp;amp; 2&lt;/a&gt;. I think the rest are all going to be opinion-based; Rowling has said on at least one occasion that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2005/0705-tlc_mugglenet-anelli-2.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the Hat has never been wrong&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It means there's not going to be a canon answer. Logical speculation is of course on-topic, but I'm leery of it in this case; I have my doubts that it's going to be good-quality speculation. Of course I'd be happy to be proven wrong &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with closing a question as Primarily Opinion-Based because &quot;there is no canon answer&quot; is that you can't know that there is no answer without knowing the answer. That essentially means that the close vote is being used as an answer. But real answers can be incorrect. When they are incorrect they can be downvoted and other answers can be posted instead. When the answer is in the form of a closure, it can't be downvoted nor can any differing answers be posted. The only way to (somewhat) objectively determine if &quot;there is no canon answer&quot; is to post an answer saying that and see how it fares.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, it is clear that no one has a perfect knowledge of all the source material. There are times when users, even &quot;experts&quot;, will think that there is no answer when in reality there is. Even questions which seem to ask strange things often have an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Particularly when it comes to &quot;why didn't X happen?&quot; type of questions or similar variations, people may assume that it wouldn't be addressed in any sources since it's something that hasn't actually happened. Yet there are such questions which do have explicit answers. For instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/124403/why-didnt-harry-continue-dumbledores-army-sessions-in-the-half-blood-prince&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t Harry continue Dumbledore&amp;#39;s Army sessions in the Half-Blood Prince?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone might think that we can't speculate as to why Harry didn't do something, yet this question is explicitly addressed in the books (as the posted answer demonstrates). Or this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/54865/why-was-hermione-not-in-ravenclaw&quot;&gt;Why was Hermione not in Ravenclaw?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One might argue that we can't speculate as to why Hermione wasn't sorted into a different house, yet the posted answer cites a quote from the book where this is directly addressed. In fact, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/204749/should-hermione-have-been-sorted-into-hufflepuff-instead-of-gryffindor&quot;&gt;a similar question&lt;/a&gt; is closed as Primarily Opinion-Based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Meta&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to everything mentioned above, there are several Meta discussions where the conclusion appears to be that such questions are not Primarily Opinion Based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3014/should-all-questions-without-explicit-canon-answers-be-closed&quot;&gt;Should all questions without explicit canon answers be closed?&lt;/a&gt; says that they should not be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11329/are-answers-that-state-we-dont-know-acceptable&quot;&gt;Are answers that state &amp;quot;We Don&amp;#39;t Know&amp;quot; acceptable?&lt;/a&gt; says that they are acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11273/what-do-we-do-with-this-question-that-doesnt-have-a-current-answer&quot;&gt;What do we do with this question that doesn&amp;#39;t have a current answer?&lt;/a&gt; says that we leave it open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1699/are-questions-without-enough-data-unanswerable&quot;&gt;Are questions without enough data &amp;#39;unanswerable&amp;#39;?&lt;/a&gt; says that they are not unanswerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless there are other Meta posts that I'm missing which state that these kinds of questions should be closed, it seems fairly straightforward that the site policy/consensus is that such questions should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Posts&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the sixteen questions that I voted to reopen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/193787/why-are-there-so-few-bedrooms-in-the-burrow&quot;&gt;Why are there so few bedrooms in the Burrow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/90228/is-it-possible-to-use-polyjuice-potion-or-occlumency-to-mess-with-the-sorting-ce&quot;&gt;Is it possible to use Polyjuice Potion or Occlumency to mess with the Sorting Ceremony?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/64207/what-would-happen-if-muggle-weaponry-was-used-against-voldemort-would-he-die-or&quot;&gt;What would happen if Muggle weaponry was used against Voldemort? Would he die or stay alive?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/181690/is-it-possible-that-lily-luna-potter-could-have-been-sorted-into-hufflepuff&quot;&gt;Is it possible that Lily Luna Potter could have been sorted into Hufflepuff?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/63571/how-much-would-the-knowledge-of-harrys-dream-have-helped-dumbledore&quot;&gt;How much would the knowledge of Harry&amp;#39;s dream have helped Dumbledore?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/154670/could-the-sorcerers-stone-have-extended-dumbledores-life-in-the-half-blood-pri&quot;&gt;Could the Sorcerer&amp;#39;s Stone have extended Dumbledore&amp;#39;s life in The Half-Blood Prince if it was not destroyed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/80333/would-it-have-been-possible-to-trap-lord-voldemort-in-professor-quirrells-body&quot;&gt;Would it have been possible to trap Lord Voldemort in Professor Quirrell&amp;#39;s body?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/187535/what-would-happen-if-two-wizards-made-each-other-a-horcrux-would-they-be-invinc&quot;&gt;What would happen if two wizards made each other a Horcrux? Would they be invincible?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/167165/can-new-houses-be-added-to-hogwarts&quot;&gt;Can new Houses be added to Hogwarts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/140105/will-summoning-a-swarm-of-insects-block-the-killing-curse&quot;&gt;Will summoning a swarm of insects block the Killing curse?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/63784/why-didnt-voldemort-hide-his-horcruxes-using-fidelius-charm&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t Voldemort hide his Horcruxes using Fidelius Charm?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/53699/veil-of-death-no-escape-for-a-phoenix&quot;&gt;Veil of death: no escape for a Phoenix?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/54679/would-nagini-have-become-the-master-of-the-elder-wand&quot;&gt;Would Nagini have become the master of the Elder Wand?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/67242/could-the-elder-wand-have-healed-nevilles-parents&quot;&gt;Could the Elder Wand have healed Neville&amp;#39;s Parents?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/167799/what-would-happen-if-voldemort-kept-creating-horcruxes&quot;&gt;What would happen if Voldemort kept creating Horcruxes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/180682/what-would-happen-if-you-drank-polyjoice-potion-made-from-a-werewolf&quot;&gt;What would happen if you drank Polyjuice Potion made from a werewolf?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Comments&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another factor to consider is that in almost every instance I left a comment either stating that the question could be answered factually (or in some cases already had fact-based answers)  or linking to the above four Meta posts which show that such questions are not considered Primarily Opinion Based. The few times that I did not leave a comment were where there was already a comment from someone else. Here are the comments that I left:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what is opinion-based about this question. Indeed the current answer is quite fact-based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question does not seem to be Primarily Opinion Based. There does not seem to be any reason why there couldn't be a perfectly factual answer to the question. If you know Harry Potter so well that you know that there is no answer, then &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; is the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is opinion-based about this question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Not the mark of a good question&quot; is not the same as &quot;primarily opinion-based&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The current answer seems to be based on &quot;facts, references, or specific expertise&quot;, rather than &quot;entirely based on opinions&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1699/are-questions-without-enough-data-unanswerable&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1699/...&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3014/should-all-questions-without-explicit-canon-answers-be-closed&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3014/...&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11273/what-do-we-do-with-this-question-that-doesnt-have-a-current-answer&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11273/...&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11329/are-answers-that-state-we-dont-know-acceptable&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11329/...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1699/are-questions-without-enough-data-unanswerable&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1699/...&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3014/should-all-questions-without-explicit-canon-answers-be-closed&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3014/...&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11273/what-do-we-do-with-this-question-that-doesnt-have-a-current-answer&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11273/...&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11329/are-answers-that-state-we-dont-know-acceptable&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11329/...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This seems to be a fairly factual question as to how Horcruxes work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Is there evidence in canon for or against the fact that summoning (or conjuring) a large swarm of insects on the path of a Killing curse will block it?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; be opinion-based?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't see a reason why this question couldn't have a fact-based answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;We don't know&quot; is not an opinion. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1699/are-questions-without-enough-data-unanswerable&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1699/...&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3014/should-all-questions-without-explicit-canon-answers-be-closed&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3014/...&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11273/what-do-we-do-with-this-question-that-doesnt-have-a-current-answer&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11273/...&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11329/are-answers-that-state-we-dont-know-acceptable&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11329/...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm not sure why this is opinion-based. If you think that there is some information about animals and wand-succession that can be inferred from the existing corpus of Harry Potter, then post that information as the answer; if you think that there is nothing about animals and wand-succession that can be inferred from the existing corpus of Harry Potter then post &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; as the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I would like to know if any likely conclusions can be drawn based on any precedents already set by the Elder Wand or healers.&lt;/em&gt; This seems like a straightforward fact-based question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This isn't asking for opinions: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1699/are-questions-without-enough-data-unanswerable&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1699/...&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3014/should-all-questions-without-explicit-canon-answers-be-closed&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3014/...&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11273/what-do-we-do-with-this-question-that-doesnt-have-a-current-answer&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11273/...&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11329/are-answers-that-state-we-dont-know-acceptable&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11329/...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the pre-existing comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm unsure why this has received a close vote, especially since this is directly answerable from canon sources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3014/should-all-questions-without-explicit-canon-answers-be-closed&quot;&gt;Lack of a canon answer is not a valid close reason&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question is primarily asking if a rule existed. This isn't primarily opinion based as we can say &quot;Yes, there was a rule&quot;, &quot;No, there wasn't a rule&quot; or &quot;We're not told or any rules but here's some evidence we have&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question is not primarily opinion-based - the answer is based on the books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In every single case, no leave-closed-voter left a comment. Now, of course, no one is ever obligated to leave a comment. However, that makes it a one-sided discussion. I don't know if voters have just not been reading the comments, or whether they disagree without good reason, or whether they disagree with good reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Discussion&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on all the above, it seems to me that there is clearly an issue with the over-application of the Primarily Opinion-Based close reason, and I think something should be done to rectify this. It does not appear to be merely a one-time issue; rather it seems that there is a widespread fundamental disagreement as to how to properly use this close reason. The point of this question is for people to post answers either disagreeing that there is a problem (preferably by responding to the specific points made) or agreeing that there is a problem and suggesting a solution. Please resist the urge to close this question as Too Broad, as it is not a question about sixteen different questions; it is a question about one issue, with sixteen examples to show that it is an issue, and I think it makes more sense to discuss the overarching issue in one post rather than have a separate Meta post for each individual question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I know I have previously asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12069/how-precise-do-the-close-reasons-have-to-be&quot;&gt;a similar question&lt;/a&gt;, but that one was more about people using the wrong close reason to close what might still be closeworthy posts, and it doesn't really cover the extent of the issue described here.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2019-02-12T17:37:15.527" LastActivityDate="2019-02-14T17:12:05.620" Title="Is the Primarily Opinion-Based close reason being overused?" 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  <row Id="12339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12338" CreationDate="2019-02-12T04:01:39.727" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This doesn't seem to me to be a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A wide variety of people voted to close the questions in the first place and it's likely that a wide variety voted to leave them closed when the showed up in review.  It's too much effort to check all 16, but the first couple I looked at had 5 different close voters and 3 different leave closed reviewers, i.e. 8 different people thought it should be closed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of your post is about comments - your own as to why the post should be reopened and wondering why no one voting to leave them closed posted any comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comments are not shown during a review, so no one reviewing would see your comments unless they clicked through to the actual post, which very, very few reviewers on any SE site do.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, there's no option to post comments while reviewing close votes.  Someone would have to click through to the question or come back to it after reviewing if they wanted to post a comment.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the review system hides comments and discourages commenting, you can't expect comments to be a factor in reviews.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastActivityDate="2019-02-12T04:01:39.727" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12338" CreationDate="2019-02-12T04:05:29.733" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I definitely agree with your take on this matter and would like to thank you for preparing such a comprehensive take on this issue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over time the POB rule has been diluted from it's original form into &quot;We don't know the answer so let's POB&quot; it. Science Fiction and Fantasy is not like mathematics where there is only one correct solution. Here we are allowed to speculate and even disagree with the author!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus speculative questions must not be instantly sent to the close queue. Each and every question in the list of questions you tried to reopen is a valid question with no canon source to explicitly answer them but it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; possible to answer them using logical conclusions from source material. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106687" LastActivityDate="2019-02-12T04:05:29.733" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12334" CreationDate="2019-02-12T10:24:59.423" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the case of a mass id question I think it is almost always favourable to have a community wiki answer that everyone can contribute to. After all one big comprehensive answer is always better than dozens of partial ones. That isn't to say we haven't had cases of a single user doing almost all or all of the work but a big community effort is generally what makes this cases so good. Therefore, I propose the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;An answer should always be posted as a community wiki that everyone can contribute to.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That isn't to say an existing answer should always be converted into one just that we should post one as soon as possible, probably with a heading/disclaimer describing why it is a community wiki. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To note though this shouldn't be applied blindly and there can be exceptions to the rule. If a user familiar with the policy comes across the post and it has not community wiki but is largely answered by a sole user we probably don't need one: just user your common sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;But what is a mass id?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is going to be subjective but I'd say it generally falls somewhere in the starting range of 10-100+. Again use your common sense, if it looks like there is potential for lots of people to post partial answers just make a CW answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-02-12T10:24:59.423" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12342" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12343" CreationDate="2019-02-12T12:12:29.577" Score="7" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been noticing for a while what some edits do not actually edit something. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/205176/revisions&quot;&gt;As in this post&lt;/a&gt; I understand &quot;Dr.&quot; being changed to &quot;Doctor&quot;, but there's also &quot;spiritual&quot; and &quot;metaphysical&quot; seem to be edited, but nothing actually changed.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tnNVV.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tnNVV.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the reason for that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="107395" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-02-12T12:37:27.760" LastActivityDate="2019-02-12T12:37:27.760" Title="Why do post edits sometimes contain the same text?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12342" CreationDate="2019-02-12T12:16:16.020" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is usually due to a markdown change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this specific example I removed a couple of the &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; that get inserted in the middle of a sentence when you click &quot;Insert quote&quot; button. You can see this if you review the side-by-side markdown version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VUfI5.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VUfI5.png&quot; alt=&quot;Image showing markdown revision differences&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for why I did this, well, it's easier to edit a sentence when it's all on one line and doesn't have the &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; in the middle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-02-12T12:16:16.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12338" CreationDate="2019-02-12T22:38:48.437" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to offer my viewpoint, about how I vote on questions like this.  Sometimes I vote to close the questions, and sometimes I vote to leave them open.  There is a judgement call involved, which is &lt;em&gt;partially&lt;/em&gt; (but only partially) subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key issue for me is whether the question seems to be asking for a canonical answer that the questioner has either missed or overlooked, or whether they are trying to elicit speculation.  If it is the former, the question is on topic; if it is the latter, the question is not.  As I said, this is to some extent a judgement call, but there are some guidelines that can be applied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if the question is asking about basic characteristics of a work's setting, I think they are usually on topic.  Asking whether there is really a war going on in &lt;em&gt;Nineteen Eighty-Four&lt;/em&gt; suggests that the questioner may have missed one of the major points of the book, but it feels like a good faith query.  Moreover, it is one that can easily be answered with, &quot;We don't know,&quot; since the fact that anything that Winston Smith does not personally witness is unknown is a major theme of Orwell's book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In contrast, when I see a question like (choosing the essence of one I saw in the front page today), &lt;em&gt;What would happen if two wizards made each other horcruxes?&lt;/em&gt;, I cannot help but think the questioner is looking for unsupported speculation.  The question does, probably, address an unanswered question about the &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; mythos, but it seems to have been specifically conceived as dealing with an edge case that would not have been addressed by the existing media.  This is the kind of question I would vote to close as being purely a matter of opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2019-02-13T04:45:56.737" LastActivityDate="2019-02-13T04:45:56.737" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9523" CreationDate="2019-02-14T00:17:31.913" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are stories from e.g. Gilgameš or Herakles considered as not religious?&#xA;If so how those different from stories of Jesus of Nazareth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="107453" LastActivityDate="2019-02-14T00:17:31.913" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12338" CreationDate="2019-02-14T06:52:57.940" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, because we already decided that (some of) these questions are off-topic quite a while ago.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6869/36526&quot;&gt;this policy&lt;/a&gt;, we determined that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The problem with Shark vs. Gorilla questions isn't that they ask to compare two different things. &lt;strong&gt;It's that there's no factual/rational basis to compare on, since there's no in-universe information to base the answer on - only personal subjective opinion.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many of your linked questions are blatantly Shark vs. Gorilla. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/90228/36526&quot;&gt;Is it possible to use Polyjuice Potion or Occlumency to mess with the Sorting Ceremony?&lt;/a&gt; - &quot;Polyjuice vs. Sorting Hat&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/64207/36526&quot;&gt;What would happen if Muggle weaponry was used against Voldemort? Would he die or stay alive?&lt;/a&gt; - &quot;Guns vs. Voldemort&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/187535/36526&quot;&gt;What would happen if two wizards made each other a Horcrux? Would they be invincible?&lt;/a&gt; - &quot;Horcrux vs. Horcrux&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/180682/36526&quot;&gt;What would happen if you drank Polyjuice Potion made from a werewolf?&lt;/a&gt; - Not a thing against another thing, but speculative in exactly the same way.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've also objected that two of these questions have &quot;good answers,&quot; but we also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4839/36526&quot;&gt;decided&lt;/a&gt; that's insufficient:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Whether or not it's Primarily Opinion-Based is completely irrelevant here (on reflection I'd close as &quot;unclear&quot; or &quot;too broad&quot;). &lt;strong&gt;As [Valorum]'s answer shows, it's actually not POB given the right circumstances, but that's the problem: [Valorum']s answer is one of those answers that &quot;can make any assumptions they like&quot;, one of the &quot;hundreds, all different&quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried to bring this up with you in the comments, but you refused to acknowledge the problem. Clearly, &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; of the questions you linked were bad closes, but we cannot have this discussion in good faith when you're lumping in good questions with bad ones. Narrow your list, and you might convince a few people. Otherwise, it's just going to turn into the usual Meta back-and-forth with nothing accomplished and everyone continuing to vote the way they want to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="36526" LastEditDate="2019-02-14T17:12:05.620" LastActivityDate="2019-02-14T17:12:05.620" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12347" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-14T17:36:07.817" Score="6" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;Story identification is a big tag here. There are a lot of questions on it. There are a lot of bad questions, and a lot of good questions. One thing that could be improved on many are their titles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These titles are really inconsistent. When new ones are asked, a lot of the time they have long, unnecessary titles like &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/205318/1&quot;&gt;I'm looking for an old book or story about alien stones and alien invasion&lt;/a&gt;&quot; when first asked. Users here edit those. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think we need some guidance when &lt;strong&gt;askers&lt;/strong&gt; are creating the title. There are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bstory-identification%5D+title%3Alooking+title%3Aread+title%3Abook&quot;&gt;a lot of bad titles&lt;/a&gt; (search from Jenayah):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/85993/looking-for-a-book-i-read-over-in-my-childhood-90s&quot;&gt;Looking for a book I read over in my childhood (90's)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/73317/looking-for-a-fantasy-book-i-read-when-i-was-a-teenager-2000s&quot;&gt;Looking for a fantasy book, I read when I was a teenager (2000s)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/67238/looking-for-a-sci-fi-book-i-read-in-the-90s&quot;&gt;Looking for a sci-fi book I read in the 90's&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=title%3Aquestion+title%3Aabout&quot;&gt;a lot of “question about...” titles.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you are selecting the title (on desktop) in a new question, there is a yellow box with help. I think we should improve this; it should tell users to be specific with their titles and make sure all information is also in the body of the question, as Mithrandir has said it should be. For now, please edit bad titles out of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-02-15T03:38:36.393" LastActivityDate="2019-02-15T16:11:02.523" Title="Story identification titles" Tags="|feature-request|story-identification|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12347" CreationDate="2019-02-15T07:15:09.010" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off let me say it again that I find it completely ironic that you are complaining about poor titles yet have titled this meta post &lt;em&gt;”Story identification titles”&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now whilst I think this post is more about the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt; than the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discussion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; part it isn’t incredibly clear so I’ll address both. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt;: Change the text in the yellow box&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really don’t think we need this as other users said the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7508/58193&quot;&gt;first time around&lt;/a&gt;. The main reason being users with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions come here for a quick answer to find their work. A lot don’t, or don’t want to, read any rules or guidelines they just want an answer. Adding in more text that someone won’t read isn’t really worth it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead I agree that a comment asking the OP to ‘[edit]’ in more detail with a link to the general and/or specific guide is a decent enough solution. It requires little time and effort and is a decent compromise that has been proven to be at least somewhat effective. After all most of these come from First Posts so it’s easy enough to address right there in the review. And we already know people don’t read the guides we link because of a lack of sharing badges from them so adding more text will again not be read. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/strong&gt; whilst there &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be a “problem” here it isn’t something we need to address with a feature change. The current solutions of commenting and editing work just fine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discussion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt;: Users should edit these titles&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It isn’t clear if here you are referring to new or old posts with poor titles so again I’ll address both. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;New posts&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New posts sit on the homepage and at the top of the tags newest questions and we have enough active editors that titles are generally fixed quickly. You yourself seem to know this when you say &lt;em&gt;”Users here edit those”&lt;/em&gt; so I’m not really sure why you want to change when you say &lt;em&gt;”For now please edit bad titles out of questions”&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Old posts&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The searches you’ve linked will generally bring up older questions as is evidenced by the fact that your example questions are older. Now if the evidence for the feature request comes from this then I think you need to rethink some things. The problem is then shown to be historical not current. I know of course that is more likely to be the case as I mentioned earlier but it isn’t an urgent one to be fixed right away. So if you’re asking people to go through old posts and update them well it isn’t that necessary. I’m a prolific editor but I try and stick to what is on the homepage at the time of editing, bumping old posts, especially ones with accepted answers on story I’d Qs isn’t exactly the best use of time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think whilst the edits are good you don’t need an army of users trying to fix them. People can spend the time on more useful things. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I’ve said this before and I’m sure I’ll say it again:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Writing good titles is an art&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I spoke about it at length &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12046/58193&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and provided some links so have a look there if you want some more information. I will include a link to the generic story id title meta though for some general guidance for them: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6433/58193&quot;&gt;Consensus on Story Identification titles?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So on this note you have to realise that people are not masters in writing and won’t always be able to craft the perfect title. In fact a lot think of us as a discussion forum where generic “poor” titles are more likely “accepted”. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think CE’s comment on my answer there is incredibly relevant and worth including here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yes for editing. The &quot;bad&quot; titles might actually be better for editors, because it's clear that they need to be edited! Not-so-great titles that aren't &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; stick around awhile because it's not readily obvious they need improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2019-02-15T16:11:02.523" LastActivityDate="2019-02-15T16:11:02.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12349" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-18T10:47:12.953" Score="26" ViewCount="595" Body="&lt;p&gt;Workplace currently have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5938/38688&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt; on going which asks a few questions to the moderators, it was also asked back in &lt;a href=&quot;https://workplace.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2476/38688&quot;&gt;2014&lt;/a&gt;. Whilst these have been posted alongside elections to give moderator candidates a small insight into what they are nominating themselves for I think the questions and their answers are valuable not just to nominees but to regular users. It would give us a nice insight into what you do and how you see the position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Current moderators&lt;/strong&gt; (and ex-moderators, if we have any around), could you please answer the following questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you love about the moderator job on Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do you spend your moderation time? Which tasks take the largest amounts of time? And roughly speaking, how much time do you spend on moderation tasks (not counting your &quot;just plain user&quot; time like asking and answering questions)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What have been your biggest challenges as a moderator? Without revealing privileged information, can you talk about how you (personally and collectively) have addressed them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Is there anything you're hoping the new moderators will do or change that you never quite got around to?&lt;/s&gt; What's on your &quot;moderator wish list&quot;, and why is it important?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What advice do you have for somebody considering this job? What are the questions people should be asking but aren't?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do you balance your &quot;moderator time&quot; with &quot;regular user time&quot;? Do you still feel like participating as a regular user after performing your moderator tasks?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-02-18T10:57:43.627" LastActivityDate="2020-05-05T18:09:57.960" Title="What's it like being a Science Fiction &amp; Fantasy moderator?" Tags="|discussion|moderators|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12349" CreationDate="2019-02-18T16:31:24.523" Score="22" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What do you love about the moderator job on Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've always enjoyed the work of maintaining the site by reviewing posts, editing, voting to close/reopen, etc. because I like to see the site in a clean and orderly state. As a moderator I am even more effective at keeping the site clean and orderly, so that's my favorite part of the job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also like to participate in &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/12/20/10-years-of-stack-giving-back/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Gives Back&lt;/a&gt;. While not the same as making a donation with my own money to the charity of my choice, I like being able to direct some of Stack Overflow's money to the charity the company has chosen which I think is most deserving of it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do you spend your moderation time? Which tasks take the largest amounts of time? And roughly speaking, how much time do you spend on moderation tasks (not counting your &quot;just plain user&quot; time like asking and answering questions)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a typical day I'll spend about 15-30 minutes handling flags. Most flags are for comments or low quality posts. I also look at all the new SFF meta posts, and I often log into the Teacher's Lounge (the chat room for all moderators on the SE network) to see if anything noteworthy is going on. I spend some time in the review queues, but not nearly as much as I did before I became a moderator (many first and low quality posts show up in the moderator queue, I'm less likely to vote to close or reopen a question because my vote is binding and I need to be absolutely sure, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tasks which take the largest amounts of time are (a) cleaning up plagiarism, (b) investigating users for abuses of their privileges, and (c) participating in meta discussions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plagiarism is usually time-consuming because plagiarists often do it dozens of times before they're caught, so we have to check each of their posts to see which ones were plagiarized. This can easily take 4 or more hours, even with multiple moderators working in coordination (Rand and I often tackle plagiarists together).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also time-consuming to investigate users for abuses of their privileges. Even a fairly straightforward offense (e.g. a rude/abusive post) takes some investigation to make sure there aren't any less obvious abuses by the same user and to determine the appropriate course of action (e.g. suspension or not, and how long of a suspension if so).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most meta discussions aren't too time-consuming, but occasionally they can be if a discussion is particularly controversial and/or if the question is a request for explanation why a flag was declined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would estimate that I have to deal with a time-consuming task about once per month, on average.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What have been your biggest challenges as a moderator? Without revealing privileged information, can you talk about how you (personally and collectively) have addressed them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chat moderation. The old Mos Eisley could be unruly and has a terrible reputation with moderators around the SE network. Issues in Mos Eisley would often spill out to SFF meta, and there was (and probably still is) a mods vs. SFF users mentality which was often exacerbated by non-SFF moderators taking action in Mos Eisley. Chat moderation is difficult enough as it is, since it happens much more in &quot;real-time&quot; and a problem can occur at any hour of the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chat moderation can never be perfect but some of the things we do to address problems include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ping other SFF moderators for help monitoring the room if a problem seems to be looming&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;try to change the subject in the chat room&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;pin a message to the room's board advising users not to discuss something that could lead to a problem&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;review any actions taken by non-SFF moderators and discuss those actions in the Teacher's Lounge&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;participate in any meta discussions resulting from chat problems&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What's on your &quot;moderator wish list&quot;, and why is it important?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A moderator should have been actively maintaining the site (editing, reviewing, voting to close/re-open questions, flagging, participating on meta, etc.) in his capacity as a regular user. Some reputation is necessary, but beyond the reputation required to unlock privileges it is not very important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A moderator should be knowledgeable, regarding both the Stack Exchange model in general (e.g. how to use the various tools on the site, etc.) and the rules specific to the site(s) that person is moderating. Users will acquire most of the knowledge they need if they are actively maintaining the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A moderator should be willing to learn. There is a learning curve to the moderator tools and there is a lot of documentation on how to use them correctly. Documentation sources include the site itself (e.g. the site's help center), main meta (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/119111/moderator-cheat-sheet&quot;&gt;moderator cheat sheet&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/271267/a-guide-to-moderating-chat&quot;&gt;a guide to moderating chat&lt;/a&gt;), the Teacher's Lounge, and the Stack Moderators &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/teams&quot;&gt;Team&lt;/a&gt;. I spent about 2 days when I was first elected reading all this documentation to make sure I was doing things correctly. Also, a moderator never really stops learning because he'll need to learn how to use new or rarely-used tools from time to time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For dealing with disputes between users and users who need to be admonished and/or suspended, a moderator must be dispassionate and objective, even if he is involved somehow in the problem at hand. This may mean that the moderator needs to step away from the computer for a bit or ask another moderator for help, but very good moderators are able to resolve problems even if they have strong feelings about the issue. This is a very rare skill but is one of the most important. Unfortunately, I have seen various moderators across the network fail to be dispassionate and objective from time to time, and it is something I struggle with as well. Because of this, I generally avoid getting involved in a contentious debate so that I can more easily maintain my objectivity (e.g. I typically do not discuss religion or politics in chat so that I'm not invested in one side if things start to get out of hand).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A moderator should be irreproachable by holding himself to the highest standard of conduct. This doesn't mean that the moderator must have a completely clean record since the day he joined the network (users can and do change their behavior for the better) but the moderator should have a clean record since he became a moderator. It's a lot easier for a moderator to enforce rules when he abides by them himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, a moderator must be willing to admit fault. No one is perfect and a moderator will eventually make a mistake. Best to own up to it and move on, and hopefully the community will do so as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What advice do you have for somebody considering this job? What are the questions people should be asking but aren't?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recognize that you can't please everyone all the time. No matter what you do, at some point you are inevitably going to upset someone. For example, if the community is divided into two factions then at some point the moderators will probably have to take a side (e.g. to enforce a rule that not everyone agrees with)... which means you're going to upset the minority faction. Users will get upset even in the face of a clearly defined rule (especially new users who are well-meaning but just don't understand why the community has defined a particular rule) but as a moderator you must enforce that rule. Users involved in a personal dispute with each other may &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; get upset with a moderator who tries to find a compromise solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since you can't please everyone all the time, it follows that you need some thick skin for this job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do you balance your &quot;moderator time&quot; with &quot;regular user time&quot;? Do you still feel like participating as a regular user after performing your moderator tasks?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderator tasks take first priority since there are a lot more regular users than moderators. I still enjoy asking and answering questions (or just browsing the site) on most days, though not if I've just spent several hours working on a moderator issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2019-02-18T18:08:23.293" LastActivityDate="2019-02-18T18:08:23.293" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12311" CreationDate="2019-02-19T10:36:30.797" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you are proposing is that people mass copy images they may have no idea of who's ownership: that's a big no no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't check them, but I guess/hope Slytherincess images were all produced and owned by her in first place so that she had all the rights to publish them on Flickr, and thus later being able to move them to Stack Imgur. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other 353 images you are talking about, well...they must be checked one by one before doing anything with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43417" LastActivityDate="2019-02-19T10:36:30.797" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2019-02-19T15:27:25.013" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;My username is &quot;Stormblessed&quot;, from the name people in his squad called Kaladin in &lt;em&gt;The Way of Kings&lt;/em&gt;, &quot;Kaladin Stormblessed&quot;. Goes with my avatar because he is forced to fight in the same war as House Kholinar’s troops and (&lt;em&gt;The Way of Kings&lt;/em&gt; major spoilers)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; joins them, eventually&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-03-12T14:45:18.410" LastActivityDate="2019-03-12T14:45:18.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2019-02-19T19:27:41.203" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;My name is Niffler. You want to know why? Well it's because they're so darn cute!&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/CSKeTSUCo1Y?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that isn't adorable I don't know what kind of &lt;s&gt;person&lt;/s&gt; creature you are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100113" LastActivityDate="2019-02-19T19:27:41.203" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2019-02-21T15:36:28.757" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;A combination of both my initials and &quot;Penguin&quot;. Incidentally, idea for my avatar came first as it appeared on the image bit of the &quot;Life at a glance&quot; bit on Windows 10 while I was trying to think of a username.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user93707" LastActivityDate="2019-02-21T15:36:28.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
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  <row Id="12356" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2019-02-21T21:25:00.493" Score="0" Body="For questions related to users accepting answers to questions." OwnerUserId="102999" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-02-21T22:15:44.670" LastActivityDate="2019-02-21T22:15:44.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12357" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2019-02-21T21:26:15.417" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before posting your question, please check the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/faq&quot;&gt;FAQs&lt;/a&gt;, and do a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/search&quot;&gt;search&lt;/a&gt; to see if your problem already has a known solution or procedure. If you cannot find an answer, we will be happy to help you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2019-10-30T12:48:34.417" LastActivityDate="2019-10-30T12:48:34.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
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  <row Id="12359" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2019-02-21T21:28:07.533" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2019-02-21T21:28:07.533" LastActivityDate="2019-02-21T21:28:07.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12360" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2019-02-21T21:28:07.533" Score="0" Body="For questions related to upvoting or downvoting posts, or the workings of the voting mechanisms themselves." OwnerUserId="102999" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2019-02-21T21:32:25.903" LastActivityDate="2019-02-21T21:32:25.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12361" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2019-02-21T21:28:37.817" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2019-02-21T21:28:37.817" LastActivityDate="2019-02-21T21:28:37.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12362" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2019-02-21T21:28:37.817" Score="0" Body="For questions relating to upvoting posts. Always use in conjunction with the [voting] tag." OwnerUserId="102999" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-02-21T21:31:28.900" LastActivityDate="2019-02-21T21:31:28.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12363" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-22T02:22:15.797" Score="2" ViewCount="350" Body="&lt;p&gt;Utopias and dystopias are a genre loosely connected to Science Fiction and Fantasy. They often are set in the future, occasionally involve technology which has not yet been invented, and otherwise wear the trappings of sci-fi. However, they normally focus heavily on social and political commentary, and the involvement of obvious sci-fi elements is often peripheral. Sometimes it is not present at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider, as an example, this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/205844/36526&quot;&gt;Short story where everyone is given $1,000,000 at birth, a guy figures out how to game the system, wins despite everyone thinking he&amp;#39;s crazy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In its current form, the entire body of the question is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've searched for this short story for years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In it, everybody is given $1,000,000 at birth. A single guy figures out how to game the system. Everybody thinks he's crazy to buck the system but he wins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(In case it's not entirely clear, this is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no mention of any sci-fi elements, but this clearly looks like a dystopian story of some kind (a planned society with some unusual or different social rule). The answer might have sci-fi elements, but it's a long-established rule that answers do not make questions on-topic, so we can ignore that as irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are all utopias and dystopias on-topic, even if they do not have any &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; sci-fi or fantasy elements like magic or futuristic technology?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Utopias and dystopias are not adequately addressed by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11685/36526&quot;&gt;How much dystopia is needed to be on-topic?&lt;/a&gt; because it does not have an answer. They also is not adequately addressed by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/337/36526&quot;&gt;Are works that aren&amp;#39;t SF per se, but have occasional SFnal elements on-topic? (e.g. spy movies)&lt;/a&gt;, because it has nothing to do with utopias and dystopias in particular, and applying it to utopias and dystopias across the board is likely to be controversial.  The question I used as an example above was repeatedly closed and reopened, and we are likely to see similar disputes across the site if this discussion is swept under the rug as a duplicate of an old, unanswered question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-08-18T15:21:04.850" Title="Are all utopias and dystopias on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ClosedDate="2019-02-22T18:26:35.677" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12363" CreationDate="2019-02-22T04:15:03.573" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;(Un)fortunately, yes.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/35/36526&quot;&gt;already decided&lt;/a&gt; to include alternate history as on-topic, and (mundane) utopias and dystopias are just like alternate histories except set in the future instead of the past. So for consistency, we have to include utopias and dystopias too (or else we have to change our alternate history policy).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&quot;Mundane&quot; is a word which normally means &quot;not fantastical,&quot; and is used here to denote stories which do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; contain any &quot;obviously on-topic&quot; content, such as magic, futuristic technologies, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="36526" LastEditDate="2019-02-27T04:45:16.380" LastActivityDate="2019-02-27T04:45:16.380" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12367" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12369" CreationDate="2019-02-24T00:02:41.380" Score="10" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/671/should-we-tag-solved-story-identification-questions-with-the-name-of-the-autho&quot;&gt;Should we tag (solved) story identification questions with the name of the author / property?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Chat, I &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/49180082#49180082&quot;&gt;asked the other users&lt;/a&gt; if &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/205979/short-story-set-in-future-where-jingles-become-pop-music&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; should have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ray-bradbury&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ray-bradbury&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ray-bradbury&lt;/a&gt; tag. Jenayah &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/49180085#49180085&quot;&gt;said it should&lt;/a&gt; (and I agree), while Mithrandir &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/49180202#49180202&quot;&gt;said it shouldn't&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realized we don't seem to have any consensus on this issue. And thus, here is my question: &lt;strong&gt;should we have tags for authors askers believe &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions are likely by?&lt;/strong&gt; I agree with Jenayah's logic that it should and that &quot;this way, it will come to the attention of people who watch the Ray Bradbury tag, so supposedly, people who are interested in, or experts in, who could provide an answer&quot;. What do others think here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2019-02-24T11:03:07.360" LastActivityDate="2019-02-24T11:03:07.360" Title="Author tags on story identification questions, when OP has a hunch" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|story-identification|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12367" CreationDate="2019-02-24T00:11:45.787" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If OP states (in the body of the question or in a comment) that they think that the story that they're trying to ID is by a specific author and that author tag already exists, &lt;strong&gt;then I don't think it would do any harm to add that author tag alongside the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-id&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-id&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-id&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're creating an author tag &lt;em&gt;specifically for that question&lt;/em&gt;, don't bother. Just ensure that it's mentioned prominently in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2019-02-24T00:11:45.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12367" CreationDate="2019-02-24T00:14:01.887" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just so that it's written as a proper answer which people can vote on/reply to, I'll reiterate what I said in chat, and what was included in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If OP included the author tag themselves, we leave it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If OP seems reasonably sure it might be from author XYZ, we include it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If OP is on the &quot;meh, maybe, maybe not&quot; side, we don't include it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, per &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7923/&quot;&gt;What is the correct usage of individual works tags vs. author tags vs. franchise tags?&lt;/a&gt;, we usually use author tags for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;asking about a) aspects of the author's life, or b) aspects of the author's work that are not specific to a single work or franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess pedantically speaking, story-ID &quot;which I think was from Asimov&quot; doesn't fall into A (it's not a part of Asimov's life) nor does it fall into B (story-ID is definitely specific to a work/franchise). On the other hand, tagging with the author tag will get the attention of people watching said author tag (if it exists), so supposedly, people who are interested in, or experts in author XYZ, and are more likely to provide an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All good, no harm done, and OP having an idea of the author is rare enough so that it doesn't get messy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About creating an author tag, I guess that's at your discretion, with an added bit of common sense. If it's a relatively unknown author that no one will be watching and no other questions can benefit from, meh. On the other hand, we could use a Sheckley tag, for instance. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bstory-identification%5D%20sheckley%20is%3Aq&quot;&gt;4 &quot;maybe it's Sheckley&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, and Sheckley was a prominent writer)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2019-02-24T00:23:35.730" LastActivityDate="2019-02-24T00:23:35.730" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12370" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-24T22:37:14.630" Score="-8" ViewCount="316" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am getting sick of repeatedly being blocked from reviewing.  I evidently disagree with many other users, including the moderators, about where the cutoff should be drawn for whether response posts are actual answers or not.  Every few months, I get a notification that I am leaving too many bad posts on the site because of my reviewing, and I am tired of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that I am being punished for voting to keep too many of what I feel are bad answers, but answers nonetheless.  If other reviewers feel think differently, that is what the community reviewing system is for.  However, punishing a user who draws the line for what constitutes an answer somewhat more leniently than average undermines, I believe, the &quot;democratic&quot; nature of the Stack Exchange system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to have a broader discussion of this issue, and I also specifically want to make my case that my reviewing has been, in the vast majority of cases, reasonable.  So here is a list of every answer that I voted to leave alone since the beginning of February, along with my thoughts on each post.  Given that they ended up in the review queue, these tend not to be particularly good posts, but they typically represent a genuine attempt to answer a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/127807/why-couldnt-voldemort-view-the-prophecy-without-harrys-help/204522#204522&quot;&gt;Why couldn&amp;#39;t Voldemort view the prophecy without Harry&amp;#39;s help?&lt;/a&gt; (I think this was a reasonable contribution, attempting to answer the question.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/99432/why-did-doc-build-the-time-train/204557#204557&quot;&gt;Why did Doc build the Time Train?&lt;/a&gt; (This is genuinely not an answer, I cannot say why I did not vote to delete.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/120121/is-this-jk-rowling-pocketeded-story-true/204579#204579&quot;&gt;Is this JK Rowling &amp;quot;pocketeded&amp;quot; story true?&lt;/a&gt; (It's a minimal answer, but it does have a germ of information that provides an answer about the situation described.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/160232/why-was-marty-fired-in-2015/204586#204586&quot;&gt;Why was Marty fired in 2015?&lt;/a&gt; (This one is again an answer, although clearly not in the frame intended by the question.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/162131/how-is-bumblebee-able-to-use-his-own-voice/186416#186416&quot;&gt;How is Bumblebee able to use his own voice?&lt;/a&gt;  (This answer is purely speculation and not very good; however, it has not yet been deleted.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/141086&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/141086&lt;/a&gt; (This is speculation, but it does provide an answer.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/141208&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/141208&lt;/a&gt; (This one is absolutely clearly an answer; it just happens to be almost as obviously wrong.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/141370&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/141370&lt;/a&gt; (This answer says something about what the author has said—without citation, but nonetheless extremely relevant if true.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/141416&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/141416&lt;/a&gt; (This one is quite informative, although I admit that it does not actually represent an answer.  However, two other users voted to leave the post.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/141409&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/141409&lt;/a&gt; (This one is only a link to a video; however, the video definitely does answer the question.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/141671&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/141671&lt;/a&gt; (This is is an answer, with some evidence, albeit supplied sarcastically.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/141695&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/141695&lt;/a&gt; (Just because a community wiki answer exists, other uses are not obligated to use it; the information in the post itself is pertinent as an answer.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/142033&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/142033&lt;/a&gt; (This one provides relevant information, including a reference to the source that was used.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/142147&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/142147&lt;/a&gt; (This one is clearly a legitimate attempt to answer, and it has not been deleted.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/142281&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/142281&lt;/a&gt; (This one seems speculative and cites no sources, but it is unquestionably a topical attempt at an answer.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I count two of them that are truly not answers, and I am not defending my votes in those cases (although of those two, one of them has still not been deleted).  Moreover, I am not defending any of the posts I have listed above as &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; answers; almost uniformly they are not.  However, the do represent good-faith attempts to answer the questions.  Some of them are wrong, speculative (or otherwise unsupported), or seemingly mistaken about what &lt;em&gt;kind&lt;/em&gt; of answer the asker was looking for; but that does not mean that they are not answers.  Bad answers are supposed to be downvoted, not merely deleted through the review process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2019-02-25T14:35:10.037" Title="I am sick and tired of being blocked from reviewing" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12370" CreationDate="2019-02-25T00:50:38.360" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I generally agree with you that answers should only be deleted when they do not address the question. If they are bad or wrong but they address the question they should be downvoted. However, the question here is whether these specific examples qualify as addressing the questions. I generally only get involved with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; stuff on this site, so I will leave the other examples for other users to address. But of the four &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; examples, I think that three of them definitely do not address the question, and the fourth is somewhat arguable but seems to not address the question. Let's go through them one at a time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/127807/why-couldnt-voldemort-view-the-prophecy-without-harrys-help/204522#204522&quot;&gt;Why couldn&amp;#39;t Voldemort view the prophecy without Harry&amp;#39;s help?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question asked why Voldemort couldn't retrieve the prophecy himself if he was named in it. Here is the answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the films Hermoine is able to simply knock the prophecies from the shelf. If thats the case you could simply catch the prophecy and avoid the enchantment entirely...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this might be relevant information that someone could use to construct an answer, in it's current form it is not an answer. It does not tell us why Voldemort couldn't retrieve the prophecy. If anything it strengthens the question because it argues that even someone not named in a prophecy should be able to retrieve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/120121/is-this-jk-rowling-pocketeded-story-true/204579#204579&quot;&gt;Is this JK Rowling &amp;quot;pocketeded&amp;quot; story true?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The essence of the question here is described in the last sentence:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If I recall correctly, there's a video where Fry confirms the main part of this. Is the final sentence true?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The final sentence of the quote that it's referring back to was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The phrase “Harry pocketed it” appeared in the next four books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, while the question mentioned more general things, the actual thing that was supposed to be answered was only whether a certain phrase appeared in the next four books. The answer in question says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;FWIW, Fry was recently on the Graham Norton show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There he perpetuated this urban myth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this may be relevant to the underlying theme of the question, it does not attempt to tell us whether the phrase appears in the next four books; it is thus not an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/204955/100430&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/204955/100430&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here the essence of the question is summed up in the last sentence:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is there in Albania specifically, or about Albania that made it Voldemorts hiding place while he tried to re-coalesce his essence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer under discussion provided no information about what there was in Albania that made it Voldemort's hiding place. The answer posted a discussion about whether Albania is in Scotland or elsewhere in Europe, which might be interesting — and perhaps even relevant — but it doesn't actually address the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/203444/100430&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/203444/100430&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one's a close call. The essence of the question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are there any wizarding plants mainly used as ingredients in food, that are specifically magical?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the answer says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Gillyweed, which may or may not be used to make gillywater&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Derwent Shimpling survived eating an entire Venomous Tentacula, he&#xA;  even became famous for it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I only looked up plants spoken of on the One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi page of the wiki, no further, so there may be better examples, waiting only for someone to find them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the answer does attempt to address the question by providing two examples of plants that have been used as food, the issue here is the word &quot;mainly&quot; in the question. As the questioner commented:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am pretty sure the venemous tentacula is not specifically used for eating, neither is gillyweed. I am asking for one's that are mainly used for food. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer does not state that either of these two plants are used &lt;em&gt;mainly&lt;/em&gt; for food. For the first one, the answerer even seems unsure whether it is &lt;em&gt;ever&lt;/em&gt; used for food, and for the second one the answerer only mentions one unique case where it was used as food.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also looked at one other example that was not &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; because the problem was a universal problem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/204952/100430&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/204952/100430&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer contains no information other than a video link, thus making it a &quot;link-only answer&quot; which is one of the delete reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know what the threshold for getting banned is, and I don't know enough to have an opinion on the other examples, but of the five that I looked at I would have to agree that you allowed answers that are not actually answers. I.e. not that they are wrong answers or bad answers, but that they simply don't address the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, this is &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; analysis and anyone else can feel free to disagree (downvote or post a different answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2019-02-25T04:31:32.813" LastActivityDate="2019-02-25T04:31:32.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12334" CreationDate="2019-02-25T09:42:42.563" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, we definitely should not require it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes a user answers a mass-ID question practically alone.  The most notable examples are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/100281/4918&quot;&gt;Jack B. Nimble identifying all the superheroes in the pictures hung on the wall behind the Justice League&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/119846/4918&quot;&gt;Ducky Momo identifying over 200 wedding guests&lt;/a&gt; (Rand points out the latter case in his post).  In these cases, the user who answers should get the post on their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even apart from that, I don't think we should require CW answers.  If someone posts a non-CW answer, then another user can post a CW answer instead.  The first user will lose badges, but that's their problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastActivityDate="2019-02-25T09:42:42.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12370" CreationDate="2019-02-25T09:43:09.663" Score="19" Body="&lt;h2&gt;There's more than what you've mentioned in your question ...&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most (all?) of the links you've included in this meta post are to Low Quality Posts reviews. However, this time you weren't review-banned for poor reviewing of Low Quality Posts, but for poor reviewing of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/history?userId=48874&quot;&gt;First Posts&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/late-answers/history?userId=48874&quot;&gt;Late Answers&lt;/a&gt;. (Those links will work only for you, by the way.) The latter queues are perhaps even more important to review correctly, because a single review there removes the post from the queue, whereas Low Quality Posts usually need several reviews before they complete the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, the review ban comes with a quite specific message, which you should see when you try to visit the review page, and which &lt;strong&gt;links to specific poor reviews you've made&lt;/strong&gt;. These were:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/late-answers/141414&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/late-answers/141414&lt;/a&gt; This &quot;answer&quot;, to a question about why Albania crops up frequently in the Harry Potter series, informs us that Albania is a country in Europe and is not in Scotland. You marked it as &quot;No Action Needed&quot;. (Fortunately, someone else was reviewing simultaneously and the non-answer was quickly flagged and removed.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/late-answers/140480&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/late-answers/140480&lt;/a&gt; This &quot;answer&quot;, to a question about what kind of drills the fictional company Grunnings sells, tells us that there's an Australian company called Bunnings which also sells drills. Again you marked it as &quot;No Action Needed&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/142362&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/142362&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/late-answers/142363&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/late-answers/142363&lt;/a&gt; This &quot;answer&quot;, to a question about why the character of Mr Morden plays a specific role in an episode, comments that the character of Marcus would have been a better choise. You marked it as &quot;No Action Needed&quot; &lt;em&gt;twice&lt;/em&gt;, both in the First Posts and Late Answers review queues. When I (the OP) logged into the site and saw it, I wondered how on earth it had survived without being flagged for deletion. The answer, it turned out, was poor reviewing. I had to delete it myself.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That last example shows why reviewing non-answers properly is important. If people click too much &quot;Looks OK&quot; or &quot;No Action Needed&quot; on such posts which should definitely be removed, it means that &lt;strong&gt;trash stays around for longer&lt;/strong&gt;. This is actively detrimental to the site, and it's why we have the ability to ban people from reviewing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;On democracy and abuse&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think that I am being punished for voting to keep too many of what I feel are bad answers, but answers nonetheless. If other reviewers feel think differently, that is what the community reviewing system is for. However, punishing a user who draws the line for what constitutes an answer somewhat more leniently than average undermines, I believe, the &quot;democratic&quot; nature of the Stack Exchange system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a judgement call to be made here, and a line to be drawn between &quot;this user is making reviews that are objectively wrong and harmful&quot; and &quot;this user disagrees with the majority on what constitutes a low-quality post&quot;. We try not to review-ban people for &lt;em&gt;disagreeing with others&lt;/em&gt;, only for what appears to be &lt;em&gt;robo-reviewing&lt;/em&gt;. Did you actually see the above-linked posts and think &quot;this seems fine, it answers the question&quot;, or did you click without thinking? The latter is what we try to look out for and crack down on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You seem worried that you were review-banned for clicking &quot;Looks OK&quot; on answers which &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; attempt to answer the question (not NAA) but were considered &lt;em&gt;low quality&lt;/em&gt; by other reviewers. But we recognise that &quot;low quality&quot; is subjective, and such reviews would fall under &quot;differences of opinion&quot; as mentioned above. Having different standards isn't usually a cause for review banning; allowing objectively bad content, such as spam or non-answers, is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(We actually receive a number of flags from stricter reviewers of the form &quot;user X is reviewing wrong&quot;, and most commonly these &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; lead to review bans, because it's merely a difference in opinion / leniency rather than someone robo-reviewing.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, I think your reviewing has improved over time: you seem to be reviewing &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt; now than you used to, judging from the mod tools available for monitoring reviewers. That's why your current review ban is only the same length as the previous one, rather than escalating in length as is standard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2019-02-25T14:35:10.037" LastActivityDate="2019-02-25T14:35:10.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12376" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-02-27T20:29:04.800" Score="-4" ViewCount="290" Body="&lt;h1&gt;TL;DR of the TL;DR:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some tags suck. We should probably decide what to do with them as a community. &lt;em&gt;How&lt;/em&gt; do we talk about all those tags without it being an unsufferable bother?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some users (mainly &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/58631/the-restaurant-at-the-end-of-the-universe&quot;&gt;TREU&lt;/a&gt; chatters, myself included) think a couple of tags are irrelevant and pointless, and should be edited out/destroyed altogether, because they're used with no consistency and don't bring any good to the site. However, some other users might like those, so... We need to get people's opinions, so that &lt;em&gt;the community&lt;/em&gt; decides what is thrashed and what is kept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; to do that is unclear. Chat is an unhandy platform, cluttering Meta with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/burnination&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;burnination&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;burnination&lt;/a&gt; would probably be a bother... So before we talk about the &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt;, we ought to talk about the &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I repeat, &lt;strong&gt;this is not a meta about what tags should be kept or not. This is a meta about &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; we decide what gets kept or not.&lt;/strong&gt; It's a question about how we'll manage a meta; a meta meta question, if you wish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Complete version&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The problem&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think I'll surprise anyone when I say SFF has some &quot;unclear&quot; tags. I'm talking about non-work, non-franchise, non-media, non-author tags. While some are very popular (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aliens&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aliens&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aliens&lt;/a&gt; has 1020 questions, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magic&lt;/a&gt; 541, etc), there are also some which are only used 5-30 times. So far, everything is factual, it's objective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now it gets subjective: some users, myself included, think some of the latter tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;don't really serve any meaningful purpose&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;don't have a clear, universal meaning&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;are irrelevant, just because you stick a &quot;use this tag when talking about ______ in works of SFF&quot; in the wiki doesn't make &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/recipes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;recipes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;recipes&lt;/a&gt; a good tag for this site;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;don't really feel required (if &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/city&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;city&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;city&lt;/a&gt; has only had 11 questions in 7 years, then it doesn't seem like people need it)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;so if you don't need it &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; it doesn't bring anything to the site &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; it even harms it by bringing inconsistent classification, nuke it from orbit.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why it should be discussed&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, the mentioned users are a dozen chatters in &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/58631/the-restaurant-at-the-end-of-the-universe&quot;&gt;The Restaurant at the End of the Universe&lt;/a&gt;, who don't represent the community as a whole. Maybe the community is fine with seeing these tags gone, maybe it's not, but in any case, there's not enough activity in chat to qualify that, nor is chat even the place for that to begin with - that's why we have a Meta, am I right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far, I didn't see anyone going to Meta/chat about &quot;hey, why was this tag removed? I liked this tag!&quot;, perhaps because nobody cares/noticed. Though, discussing whether some tags ought to be killed would settle some things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if there's no discussion and action is taken, stuff &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; backfire at some point;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if there's no discussion and no action is taken, there will be happy and unhappy people, and the unhappy will rant about not being able to act as nothing was discussed;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if there's a discussion and a consensus, there will &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; be happy and unhappy people, but when the unhappy side rants, the happy ones can stuff the Meta consensus in. &lt;em&gt;(I've been told that sounded confrontational; I kept the &quot;sides&quot; unnamed as this would apply regardless of who's happy or not. I wasn't trying to trigger people who want to leave them around, sorry if it felt like it)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;em&gt;How&lt;/em&gt; it should be discussed&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The workflow is usually simple: one problem → take it to meta → wait and see. Other problem → take it to meta → wait and see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in this case, there are &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; problems, as those tags are unrelated and you may want to keep one but not the other. Concrete stuff time, here's &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/58631?m=47890998#47890998&quot;&gt;the list of tags that currently serves as the kill-list&lt;/a&gt;; by taking a look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/messages/47890998/history&quot;&gt;its history&lt;/a&gt;, you will see that some already got nuked. (includes but not limited to, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/exotic-matter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;exotic-matter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;exotic-matter&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cranial-ridges&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cranial-ridges&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cranial-ridges&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/radiation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;radiation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;radiation&lt;/a&gt;...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some larger ones have been put on &quot;don't touch, ask on Meta&quot; list (&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/48973516#48973516&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). Includes but not limited to, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/underground-civilization&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;underground-civilization&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;underground-civilization&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/engineering&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;engineering&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;engineering&lt;/a&gt;, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So now what? How do we handle that discussion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does the community even care if these low-attention tags get removed? Or is there a majority of users erring on the side of &quot;meh, let them do it if it pleases them&quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the community disagrees and wants to discuss it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;do we need/want dozens of meta discussions, each about &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; specific tag? Do we want Meta looking like this (and writing repetitive answers, etc)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IgoGH.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IgoGH.png&quot; alt=&quot;fake meta homepage riddled with kill-request questions&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;And yes, they're all tags on this site&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;do we want &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; Meta thread with all the burnination requests, one tag per answer, and after X weeks we nuke or not depending on the answer's score? (kind of what was done in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7919/&quot;&gt;Tag Cleanup 2016: Before the burnination&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;do we want a chat event to discuss this? &lt;em&gt;(no, it's a terrible idea, logistics would be hell and not everyone can access chat, but I wanted a third bullet)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;... Other? I'm out of ideas, but people might think of something else.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Post is long already, time for other people's comments/answers/ideas, etc. And once again, &lt;strong&gt;this is not a meta about what tags should be kept or not. This is a meta about &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; we would decide what gets kept or not.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clarifications, per comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is not, and has never been, about mass edits. If a 14-questions tag is to be deleted, that can be done in a week, two weeks, a month... I guess the process would be to push one, two questions at once, once in a while... Nothing &quot;massy&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nobody &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; to give time to such edits. If four or five hillbillies are willing to do it and clean everything else on the thread while they're at it, the others can sit back and relax.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bumping old questions (as long as it's not invasive, see above) isn't necessarily a bad thing. You get new eyes on the content, so more votes/comments as needed, possibly even new answers, edits... and the folks watching the front page may learn something new. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2019-02-28T16:26:57.510" LastActivityDate="2019-03-04T09:21:14.803" Title="Meta meta question: How should we discuss whether we should kill some specific tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|burnination|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12376" CreationDate="2019-02-27T21:48:42.277" Score="-8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Some tags need to go through a meta process before being removed, and some don't.&lt;/strong&gt; I'm outlining here a process for determining how it should be decided if a tag needs to go to meta or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;em&gt;essentially&lt;/em&gt; the process we've been using so far in chat, and I think it's a good one. It doesn't allow small groups of people to make decisions about things that would have a large effect on the rest of the community, but does allow for a &lt;em&gt;bit&lt;/em&gt; of agility and to not flood meta with dozens of burninate discussions for straightforward cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially, small, obviously useless tags can get nuked (but should still have a record, say, in chat or a dedicated meta post that it got nuked), but larger tags or ones that might be important get taken to meta for the larger community to discuss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: All numbers below are non-final; they're there as a rough starting point, and can be adjusted as necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Franchise-specific tags should always go to meta.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The people who care about this (read: chat regulars) aren't always topic experts on everything, so if there comes a tag that might be franchise-specific - or is only being used on questions for a specific franchise - then it should be left or taken to meta so that people who know what they're talking about can weigh in.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tags without wikis, are being used inconsistently, and under 25 questions can be nuked.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By this I mean no tag wiki (excerpt) at all. Nobody cared enough to write up anything in the wiki; it's ambiguous enough that it's not being used consistently; and it's small, not widely-used, implying that it's not serving a real purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tags with wikis, but not actual guidance, and are being used inconsistently, and under 15 questions can be nuked.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, someone decided to write something in the excerpt, but it's still got no actual &lt;em&gt;guidance&lt;/em&gt; - for instance, someone put in a definition of a term. Since this does imply that it's got at least a bit more interest in it, lowering it to about 15 questions where it's being used inconsistently seems like it would prevent any useful tags from being destroyed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tags that have usage guidance and are being used inconsistently should be cleaned up and then reevaluated.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a tag actually has useful usage guidance, but is being used inconsistently, then the questions with that tag should be cleaned up and retagged. After that's done, look at the tag again: does it serve a purpose? Does it need to be renamed to be less ambiguous?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tags that have guidance and are being used consistently should go to meta.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems rather obvious; if it's being used consistently, has guidance, and seems orderly, then someone wanting to destroy it should go through the proper processes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tags that don't have guidance and are being used consistently should be given guidance and reevaluated.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the tag doesn't have guidance, but there's a clear trend in what it's being used for, then it should be given the appropriate guidance, cleaned up, and then evaluated for its usefulness.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tags that have 7+ watchers should go to meta.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having 7+ watchers indicates that enough people find it useful enough to watch, and so we should give people a chance to weigh in before making it disappear.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Franchise and work tags shouldn't be nuked.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This also seems rather self-evident; these are obviously useful and should not be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When in doubt, err on the side of leaving the tag, or go to meta.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, any small, harmless decision shouldn't have to go through a long process involving people who don't care. Just do it. Once you reach a certain size, though, you do need some more discussion than just chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, of course, there should &lt;strong&gt;always be a record&lt;/strong&gt;. Perhaps a dedicated meta thread with a list of tags that have been removed, are being removed, and might be removed in the future, simply as a compilation of data?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2019-02-28T10:15:22.183" LastActivityDate="2019-02-28T10:15:22.183" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3426" CreationDate="2019-02-28T20:42:01.683" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's science fiction or fantasy, then it's on-topic here. Otherwise, it's off-topic. And if it's on-topic here, then it shouldn't be migrated or closed. The fact that a question may be on-topic somewhere else is irrelevant. (Indeed, another site that largely overlaps with this one is &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Movies and TV&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the Anime &amp;amp; Manga site, identification questions are usually off-topic. &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4190&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt;'s what &lt;strong&gt;is &lt;em&gt;on-topic&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4187&quot;&gt;Characters from a known series&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Episodes from a known series (this includes some anime/manga-style series of non-Japanese origin)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4054&quot;&gt;Music from a known series&lt;/a&gt; - ask with &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/ask?tags=music&quot;&gt;[music] and [series-name] tags&lt;/a&gt; (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/music&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;music&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;[music]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/naruto&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;naruto&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;[naruto]&lt;/a&gt;)&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;For Vocaloid songs: &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4175&quot;&gt;yes, but with some exceptions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Cosplay/merchandise/&lt;em&gt;itasha&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4142&quot;&gt;yes, but with some exceptions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also note that the current policy on Movies &amp;amp; TV is that all identification questions are &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4087/70064&quot;&gt;off-topic&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82909" LastActivityDate="2019-02-28T20:42:01.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12379" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-03T18:04:05.723" Score="1" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was recently looking at questions about short stories that don't have a media tag when I came across &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/181941/searching-for-sci-fi-short-story-relating-to-space-pilots-and-autism&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; (emphasis added):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I remember reading an amazing &lt;strong&gt;short story/novella&lt;/strong&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not know what this should be tagged with. Rand al'Thor says &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/49292486#49292486&quot;&gt;&quot;Either [tag:books], or no media tag&quot;&lt;/a&gt; because &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/49292492#49292492&quot;&gt;&quot;you'd be tagging it with something that it's not.&quot;&lt;/a&gt; Jenayah says that &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/49292497#49292497&quot;&gt;&quot;if OP is unsure, putting both tags will attract the eyes of short stories and novellas experts.&quot;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should come to a consensus on this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should story identification questions where the asker thinks it could be a novella or a short story (or other things that could be classified under &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt;) have both tags, just &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt;, or something else?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2019-03-03T18:39:17.773" LastActivityDate="2019-03-03T18:42:01.847" Title="Should this question have [novella] and [short-stories], or just [books]?" Tags="|discussion|tags|story-identification|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12379" CreationDate="2019-03-03T18:15:58.930" Score="-1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;There's no &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; to add a media tag at all.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not every ID question needs a media tag. Media tags can be helpful, for classification of posts and to aid searchability, but it's not compulsory to add one to every single ID question. In this case, purely given the fact that there's disagreement within the community about which media tag(s) to use, I'd say leave it off altogether (or let the OP decide, maybe).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you really want to add one - or if you &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; the OP of an ID question where you don't remember if it's about a short story or a novel but for some reason you really want to use a media tag - I'd say use the general tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt;. It's a catch-all for written media (some would argue that short stories aren't &quot;books&quot;, but anthologies are, short stories can be found in books just like other stories, and if you saw a very thin book that just contains one short story, well, it's still a book, no?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using two different media tags, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novella&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novella&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novella&lt;/a&gt;, strikes me as a bad idea, because you know for sure that at least one of those tags doesn't apply. If the OP thinks it's a short story, it's OK to tag the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt; even if it later turns out to be a novel. But if the OP doesn't remember, you don't need to add a wrong media tag. That would be like adding both &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt; to every question about screen stuff where the OP doesn't remember if it was a film or a TV show. Not necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2019-03-03T18:15:58.930" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12379" CreationDate="2019-03-03T18:29:31.967" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just so that it's written as a proper answer which people can vote on/reply to, I'll reiterate what I said in chat, and what was included in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;in any case, if OP themselves put both, we leave both.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;putting both tags will attract the eyes of short stories and novellas experts. Which is one of the point of tags, ranking pretty high in &quot;importance&quot; order (IMHO).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;one of the tags is wrong? Sure. So what? If it had been &quot;I don't remember if it's a short story, or a video game, or a comic&quot;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, I'd say otherwise, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novella&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novella&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novella&lt;/a&gt; aren't that far away from each other, after all. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tags are also used to &lt;em&gt;hide&lt;/em&gt; stuff, if people don't want to see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novella&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novella&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novella&lt;/a&gt; they can hide the question, which doesn't happen with no media tag. Granted this is probably more used for spoiler-hiding, but still, I can (and do!) imagine someone hiding, say, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; tag because they don't really care about movies.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I fail to see, overall, what harm is done.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, common sense applies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a &quot;I don't remember whether it's a short story or a novella&quot; is tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt;, don't just bump to add &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novella&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novella&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novella&lt;/a&gt;. If nothing else is critical to edit, let the question be.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If OP describes a very very specific type of format, check on Meta/chat whether it's helpful to create a specific tag for that (most of the time it isn't).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't mean &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; story-ID question should have a media tag. There are some which will obviously never get an appropriate tag (typical: &quot;I read this when I was a kid&quot; → &quot;Was it a short story, a novel...?&quot; → OP is never seen again). But in this case, mention is made (in the question's body) of existing formats we already have tags for, so, why &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; use them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Also, this should probably get closed as too broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2019-03-03T18:42:01.847" LastActivityDate="2019-03-03T18:42:01.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12382" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-04T02:18:03.820" Score="4" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am Ihor Sypko, and once accessed stack exchange via &#xA;Ihor.Sypko@dot.nj.gov which is no longer active since my 2016 retirement. I'm in need of help to get back to it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14415" OwnerDisplayName="user96758" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2019-03-06T15:01:53.657" LastActivityDate="2019-03-06T15:01:53.657" Title="Lost my account and need help to retrieve it" Tags="|support|status-completed|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12376" CreationDate="2019-03-04T09:21:14.803" Score="3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Just use the normal/current system&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think a tag should be nuked &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; can make a strong case for why you think so (i.e. no &quot;cuz itz bad n i dnt lik it&quot;) then raise a meta and explain your reasons why you think it should be gone. The answers and voting on them are then the indication on whether or not we should nuke them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're worried about &quot;flooding&quot; meta then group similar tags together where possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-03-04T09:21:14.803" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12382" CreationDate="2019-03-04T09:24:59.783" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your account would appear to be this one: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/14415/ihor-sypko&quot;&gt;Ihor Sypko&lt;/a&gt;. As it appears you no longer have access to the email of the main account you should follow the guidelines on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/merging-accounts&quot;&gt;merging your accounts&lt;/a&gt; and stress to the team when they reach out to you that you no longer have access to the email of your main account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For future reference it is important to not use a work email as unforeseen things can happen and you will then no longer have access. This goes for everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-03-04T09:24:59.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12382" CreationDate="2019-03-04T09:34:25.257" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/14415/ihor-sypko?tab=profile&quot;&gt;Is this you?&lt;/a&gt; It's the only account with the username &quot;Ihor Sypko&quot; on our site. (Email addresses are private: moderators like myself can access them, but we can't share any details in a public space such as meta.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, moderators can't help you with regaining access to a lost account, or with merging two user accounts together. Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/contact&quot;&gt;contact Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; explaining the details of your case - they're the only ones who can fix this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2019-03-04T09:34:25.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12386" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-05T14:28:29.907" Score="1" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tags on this question confused me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/206658/in-the-comics-did-thanos-kill-just-sentient-beings-or-all-creatures-with-the-s/206666?noredirect=1#comment564710_206666&quot;&gt;In the comics Did Thanos &amp;quot;kill&amp;quot; just sentient beings or all creatures with the snap?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's tagged as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;, even though the question is explicitly about the comics and not the films. Is that tag misleading?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106383" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-03-05T14:29:02.910" LastActivityDate="2019-03-05T14:40:35.860" Title="If a question asks say about Marvel comics, but happens to mention MCU, should the tags still mention MCU?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12386" CreationDate="2019-03-05T14:40:35.860" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It really depends on a case by case basis but, in my opinion, it comes down to: does this contain major spoilers for the work? If it does then adding/leaving the tag on the question really wouldn't do much harm but can save others from seeing potential spoilers. If the question has no spoilers and pretty much uses it as a reference for the main question then it isn't really needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this particular example the question is sort of in the middle of the two options, it contains spoilers in a roundabout way but also only uses it as inspiration for the question. I &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; originally leave the tags because of the spoilers but on a re-read it doesn't necessarily give any spoilers away except indirectly. That and the fact that the tags were causing confusion&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; is why I have now removed the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers-infinity-war&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers-infinity-war&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers-infinity-war&lt;/a&gt; tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;1. You, yourself, was confused by this and several users have left comments that only apply to the MCU so it wasn't an isolated case.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-03-05T14:40:35.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12388" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-06T12:41:48.463" Score="0" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remember a few years back, when Jeff used the notion of &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/08/16/gorilla-vs-shark/&quot;&gt;a fight between a gorilla and a shark&lt;/a&gt; as the archetypal example of a question that's off-topic on StackExchange?  Well, guess what happened in the most recent &lt;em&gt;The Flash&lt;/em&gt; episode, &lt;em&gt;King Shark vs Gorilla Grodd&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just can't help but wonder, is that still off-topic now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2019-03-06T12:41:48.463" Title="Would questions about the latest episode of The Flash be off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2019-03-06T13:12:09.657" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12390" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12391" CreationDate="2019-03-10T18:21:35.190" Score="4" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;For some reason, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mass-effect&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mass-effect&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mass-effect&lt;/a&gt; does not show up in the &quot;Track your next tag badge&quot; widget:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1WdKc.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1WdKc.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of the tag selector when searching for &amp;quot;mass-effect&amp;quot;. It&amp;#39;s empty.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a lot more progress towards &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mass-effect&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mass-effect&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mass-effect&lt;/a&gt; than towards any of these tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iFJqm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iFJqm.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of the tag selector with a bunch of random tags, for which I have very little progress.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what gives? Why can't I track the badge that I actually have a chance of getting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastActivityDate="2019-03-10T19:02:17.157" Title="Why can't I track progress towards a [mass-effect] tag badge?" Tags="|support|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12390" CreationDate="2019-03-10T19:02:17.157" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/63836/398063&quot;&gt;the main Meta post on tag badges&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What tags are eligible for badges?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A tag must appear on a minimum of 100 questions to be eligible for tag badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We currently have 68 &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mass-effect&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mass-effect&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mass-effect&lt;/a&gt; questions, so I'm guessing the system doesn't track an ineligible badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the other tags in your screenshot have more than 100 questions (so are eligible).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-03-10T19:02:17.157" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12392" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-12T09:53:25.283" Score="27" ViewCount="514" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off let me say that I am aware that this post is quite late coming but we can all blame our resident moderator &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394/rand-althor&quot;&gt;Rand al'Thor&lt;/a&gt; for that; he has taken longer to get to 100k than I thought. Anyway back to the post...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few of our users &quot;recently&quot; hit some very impressive milestones and I think a post is in order to highlight their amazing achievements. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/20774/valorum&quot;&gt;Valorum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Valorum hit a very impressive 400k on 29/01/2019!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/14111/user14111&quot;&gt;user14111&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;user14111 hit an impressive 100k on 24/01/2019!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/80602/bellatrix&quot;&gt;Bellatrix&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bellatrix hit an impressive 75k on 25/02/2019!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I, for one, want to take a moment to congratulate these three very impressive users of our site and the amazing contributions they have put forth during their time here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Thank you!&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-03-12T09:53:25.283" Title="Let's take a moment to congratulate some exceptional users" Tags="|discussion|users|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6857" CreationDate="2019-03-13T03:46:11.597" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, you can now do this easily by going to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/preferences/current&quot;&gt;your profile&lt;/a&gt; and selecting the following option:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hide Hot Network Questions&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  When you check this box, you will no longer see Hot Network Questions in the right sidebar on Q&amp;amp;A sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82909" LastActivityDate="2019-03-13T03:46:11.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12394" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-13T18:54:59.870" Score="2" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/207190/touchscreen-controlled-dentist-office-snowman-collector-game&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; about a game with walking snowmen. It was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/207190/timeline&quot;&gt;closed but then reopened&lt;/a&gt; when Valorum found a video of the game that shows a “magic” meter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why are walking snowmen off-topic without other fantastical things? I don’t get it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2019-03-13T20:25:01.503" LastActivityDate="2021-06-15T22:54:01.350" Title="Why aren’t walking snowmen on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12394" CreationDate="2019-03-13T19:43:19.853" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In line with our policy regarding &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5117/are-anthropomorphic-animals-by-themselves-enough-to-deem-a-work-fantasy&quot;&gt;talking animals&lt;/a&gt;, the mere existence of sentient/walking/talking snowmen (or any other thing that's normally non-sentient like &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSob3jGuPbY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;helicopters&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/ZOoHEDgWlZ0?t=640&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;trains&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P2-Nmk1uFQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;diggers&lt;/a&gt;) in a property doesn't, in and of themselves, make that film/book/TV programme/comic a 'fantasy' &lt;strong&gt;if the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_conceit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;central conceit&lt;/a&gt; is that those &amp;quot;sentient &lt;em&gt;whatevers&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; simply exist within that fictional universe without provoking explanation.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, we would consider &amp;quot;sentient &lt;em&gt;whatevers&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; to be part of a fantasy if:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They had been &lt;strong&gt;uplifted&lt;/strong&gt; in some way (either by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo8Qls0HnWo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;technology&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtkq62PVfEI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;magic&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Their speaking was somehow &lt;strong&gt;fantastical &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gthEMHhS9zI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;to the other characters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With regard to your specific question, the mere presence of animated snowmen that you can push around with your finger &lt;strong&gt;doesn't make it on-topic&lt;/strong&gt; (which is why it was closed). The fact that it was subsequently shown to contain some sort of power-up that allows you to perform magic &lt;strong&gt;does make it on topic&lt;/strong&gt; (which is why it was reopened).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2021-06-15T22:54:01.350" LastActivityDate="2021-06-15T22:54:01.350" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4772" CreationDate="2019-03-14T17:42:13.253" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are actually quite a few sites that allow some type of identification question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Literature&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1/5747&quot;&gt;Literature ID questions&lt;/a&gt; are on-topic. You can ask about more than books: comics, manga, graphic novels, short stories, and poems are on-topic. (To clarify, this site was launched in 2017, long after the old Literature site closed in 2012.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Arqade&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10198/153006&quot;&gt;Game ID questions are on-topic&lt;/a&gt; if a screenshot, audio file or other &amp;quot;artifact&amp;quot; of the game is included. Otherwise, they have this &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7618/153006&quot;&gt;short list of external sites&lt;/a&gt; which may help you find games.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Retrocomputing&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://retrocomputing.meta.stackexchange.com/q/176/462&quot;&gt;Game ID questions&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;a href=&quot;https://retrocomputing.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2/462&quot;&gt;retro&lt;/a&gt; games are on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Anime &amp;amp; Manga&lt;/a&gt;: Questions asking for the identification of anime or manga &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2805&quot;&gt;are now &lt;strong&gt;off&lt;/strong&gt;-topic&lt;/a&gt; (but there is &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/4697/41946&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; to help in your search). Questions about identifying characters, episodes, or similar from a known series are &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4190&quot;&gt;on-topic&lt;/a&gt;, as are questions on identifying cosplay and merchandise when &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4142&quot;&gt;there's a good reason to believe it's from an anime/manga&lt;/a&gt;. (But it looks like no more &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4491/50617&quot;&gt;music id&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rpg.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;RPG&lt;/a&gt;: The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/product-identification&quot;&gt;product-identification&lt;/a&gt; is appropriate for most id questions, unless you're asking to identify something within a known game and then you want to use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/content-identification&quot;&gt;content-identification tag&lt;/a&gt;. In any case, as long as you're asking for the identification of a tabletop RPG (not a video game), it's likely on topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Board &amp;amp; Card Games&lt;/a&gt;: This site accepts &lt;a href=&quot;https://boardgames.meta.stackexchange.com/q/195&quot;&gt;identification questions&lt;/a&gt; for anything matching the title of the site, using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/identify-this-game&quot;&gt;identify-this-game tag&lt;/a&gt;. For &lt;a href=&quot;https://boardgames.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1185&quot;&gt;identification of foreign Magic: The Gathering cards&lt;/a&gt;, there's a post with &lt;a href=&quot;https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/q/18820&quot;&gt;guidance on how to find the answer yourself&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it's also worth mentioning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Movies &amp;amp; TV: ID questions of any type are now &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4087/70064&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;off&lt;/strong&gt;-topic&lt;/a&gt;. They do have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4129/70064&quot;&gt;list of external sites&lt;/a&gt; that could help though.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://musicfans.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Music Fans&lt;/a&gt;: After many years of lukewarmly supporting them,  &lt;a href=&quot;https://musicfans.meta.stackexchange.com/q/733&quot;&gt;no ID questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82909" LastEditorUserId="82909" LastEditDate="2022-01-14T16:50:11.740" LastActivityDate="2022-01-14T16:50:11.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4772" CreationDate="2019-03-15T06:29:10.927" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 'Book Search' sub-forum of SFF Chronicles they accept occasional non genre book ID questions.&#xA; Provided the same person doesn't keep banging non SF&amp;amp;F questions in there day after day after day and thus alienating dedicated SF&amp;amp;F fans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20007" LastActivityDate="2019-03-15T06:29:10.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12398" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-15T09:39:23.767" Score="32" ViewCount="413" Body="&lt;p&gt;Story identification questions are perfectly on topic here and in fact we are one of the main sites that have made them work. Video games are also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/319/58193&quot;&gt;on topic&lt;/a&gt; for us and we even have a specific &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11995/58193&quot;&gt;video game story id guide&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now with that established we actually don't get many video game identification questions but when we do they are usually accompanied by some form of comment like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You should have asked this on Arqade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is not okay.&lt;/strong&gt; Assuming that these questions are SFF-nal and so on topic then asking, or even telling, users that they should ask on Arqade instead is not acceptable. It is up to the OP to ask where they choose and if they choose SFF over Arqade then they clearly want their question there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is more troubling is that a lot of these have even requested moving them &lt;strong&gt;when the question has no media in it&lt;/strong&gt; and thus it would be closed on Arqade. Remember that on &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10197/128160&quot;&gt;Arqade&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Game-identification questions are okay only if you include screenshots, audio, or other tangible media from the game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So long story short...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Please do not recommend moving an on topic SFF question to Arqade!&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;I have deliberately not included examples of these comments but if requested I can find some. Of the last 5, all the ones this year, 3 have a comment and the last 2, most recent, (which inspired me to post this) both have a comment.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;I have also posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13298/128160&quot;&gt;something similar on Arqade&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-04-06T23:01:46.657" Title="Please do not recommend moving an on topic video game identification question to Arqade!" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12398" CreationDate="2019-03-15T09:48:41.780" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreed. My general rule of thumb is that you shouldn't be telling another user to take their question to a sister stack unless you're 110% certain that you understand;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;our&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; policies are regarding topicality.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;their&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; policies are regarding topicality.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And by 110%, I mean that you can &lt;strong&gt;identify the current Meta consensus on each site&lt;/strong&gt; that relates to that question type that makes it off-topic here and on-topic there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2019-03-15T09:48:41.780" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12398" CreationDate="2019-03-15T14:05:54.747" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13299/127901&quot;&gt;Crossposting this&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13298/please-do-not-recommend-moving-an-on-topic-sff-video-game-identification-questio&quot;&gt;the meta&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;our site&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at the last 5 of your questions on your site with both &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt; I agree that no one should be recommending moving them to the Arqade. If any one of those questions were asked here, they would promptly be closed and deleted as they do not meet our &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/tags/game-identification/info&quot;&gt;strict guidelines&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if they did have artifacts for their questions they asked on SFF, they still shouldn't be migrated to Arqade if they are on topic on SFF. I don't think very many people from the Arqade will be upset that they won't get migrated here, as a large portion of our user base do not like those types of questions at all, and would prefer if they were banned altogether from our site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also looked at the comments on the questions, and only saw one comment left by a high rep user here. I assume they did not know about your policy regarding these questions. I would recommend in the future linking your policy for these questions to inform the person that they are indeed on topic for your site, and flagging their comment suggesting migration as No Longer Needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="112949" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-04-06T23:01:46.657" LastActivityDate="2019-04-06T23:01:46.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4772" CreationDate="2019-03-16T11:35:47.890" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The English Wikipedia reference desk&lt;/a&gt; does take well-written identification questions, and can sometimes answer them.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011_July_7#Find_a_fiction_book:_pilot&amp;#39;s_girlfriend_must_land_small_airplane_when_pilot_falls_unconscious&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here's an example question I asked, for which a user found the answer&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Talk Down&lt;/em&gt; by Brian Lecomber (1978)).  Ask book identification questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Humanities&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;at the humanities desk&lt;/a&gt;, movie or TV series or video game identification questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Entertainment&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;at the entertainment desk&lt;/a&gt;.  Don't ask the same question at multiple desks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastActivityDate="2019-03-16T11:35:47.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12398" CreationDate="2019-03-16T16:57:57.697" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll just add one thing, from the &quot;after the fact&quot; point of view:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;if you see comments inappropriately recommending another site, please flag them for removal&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'll happily delete comments that say an on-topic question &quot;should&quot; be moved to another site, or comments which recommend a site where the question would actually be off-topic (e.g. recommending Movies &amp;amp; TV for an ID question). There's always the potential that they might give a wrong impression, either to the OP or to others reading, of our site's scope or those of other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;This of course doesn't apply for comments which &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; rely on a false impression of migration and/or site scopes. If a question really is off-topic here and would (or might) be welcomed on another site, no problem leaving a comment to suggest the possibility, even if you're not sure. I'd say it's also OK to leave &quot;just FYI&quot; comments mentioning that another site would also accept questions of a particular type, especially if there's pertinent information to compare the two sites, like different sets of experts or different perspectives on answering.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2019-03-16T16:57:57.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12403" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12404" CreationDate="2019-03-17T14:50:43.123" Score="0" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we get an &lt;code&gt;[ancillary-sword]&lt;/code&gt; tag to go with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ancillary-justice&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ancillary-justice&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ancillary-justice&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ancillary-mercy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ancillary-mercy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ancillary-mercy&lt;/a&gt; tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2264" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-03-18T09:58:01.140" LastActivityDate="2019-03-18T09:58:01.140" Title="Can we get an [ancillary-sword] tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12403" CreationDate="2019-03-18T09:46:54.943" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you found out you already had the required reputation (300) for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/create-tags&quot;&gt;Create Tags&lt;/a&gt; privilege and so have since created it. See: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ancillary-sword&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ancillary-sword&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ancillary-sword&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the future when you create the tag you can also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/edit-tag-wiki/6567&quot;&gt;edit the tag wiki&lt;/a&gt; to add in a usage excerpt to describe how the tag should be used. Please do so as this helps other users work out when to use the tag!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-03-18T09:46:54.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12405" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-18T18:19:33.240" Score="-9" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions that do not have an upvoted answer cannot be used (by non-moderators) to close other questions as a duplicate of. This is the error message I receive when I try to close a question as a duplicate of an unanswered question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HGl8K.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HGl8K.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of error message&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get a similar message when I try via the app:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CWObS.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CWObS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of error message on the app&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is somewhat problematic because it prevents users from closing a question even if it is identical to an earlier question. However, there is a simple way around this problem. Someone could post a dummy answer which will be deleted as soon as the other question is closed. As long as one person upvotes it it will allow the question to be used for duplicate closures. A dummy answer might be something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is a dummy answer posted for the sole purpose of allowing this question to be used for duplicate closures. As soon as the duplicate question is closed this answer will be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(If necessary you can perhaps request an upvote, either in the answer itself or in a comment thereto.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this something that can/should be done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why or why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastActivityDate="2019-03-18T19:32:05.583" Title="Posting a dummy answer to enable duplicate closure" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12405" CreationDate="2019-03-18T19:32:05.583" Score="9" Body="&lt;h1&gt;No, do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; do this!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doing anything to “trick” the system to do something you otherwise wouldn’t be able to do is always a big no no. Adding to that voting in this manner should be certainly frowned upon and is very likely against the rules. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best course of action is to either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Flag it for mod attention and explain that it is a duplicate but can’t be closed at present due to no answers on the target. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Answer either question, whichever is the better one, and then close to the one with an answer. However, do not ask for upvotes simply so you can close the other question. Users should vote for the &lt;em&gt;content&lt;/em&gt; not for the &lt;em&gt;user&lt;/em&gt; or the &lt;em&gt;system&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a side note I believe &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/207468/58193&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; appears to be what inspired you to ask this. In this specific case the new question is now answered so you can always close the old question to the new question. Age should not matter much when closing, close for quality over age. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-03-18T19:32:05.583" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12407" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-19T20:46:25.100" Score="2" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it legit for an answerer to roll back an edit made by the original author of a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/207395/assassination-attempts-against-kosh&quot;&gt;a link to the question&lt;/a&gt; that led to me asking about rollback etiquette.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/207395/revisions&quot;&gt;timeline of edits&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the timeline of events on that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Author posts a question about feasibility of physically killing Vorlons who are part energy beings. The question additionally mentions a poisoning attempt made on a Vorlon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Somebody posts an answer that is only about poisoning the Vorlon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I pointed out to the author that part about poisoning is already answered elsewhere and suggest removing that part of the question to avoid it being flagged as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Original author accepts my suggestion and removes the extra part.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I post a comment to person that posted the answer letting them know it is now obsolete. The intent was to give the answerer a chance to update the answer so it won't be downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Answerer &lt;strong&gt;rolls back an edit made by the original author&lt;/strong&gt; so that the answer is again relevant to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does not seem okay to me. The author knows his or her intent, so the author's edits should be considered more important than somebody else's edits just to bring the question in line with their answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related request: Can a mod freeze the comments on that question so nobody deletes or flags them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user89104" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-03-19T20:58:26.550" LastActivityDate="2019-03-19T20:58:26.550" Title="Is it okay to rollback an edit made by the original author?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12407" CreationDate="2019-03-19T20:53:47.477" Score="8" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Yes this is perfectly acceptable behaviour...&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...in fact it is actually the recommended path to take when this happens. The general rule of thumb is that edits should not invalidate any current answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of a question actually containing multiple questions there are two courses of action:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make it one question, either edit it or comment to ask the OP to. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close/flag it as too broad.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also the case where the multiple questions are related enough that they fall under the same scope and so nothing further is warranted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-03-19T20:53:47.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12409" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12410" CreationDate="2019-03-20T14:28:46.677" Score="4" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;In here and a few other sites I spend a fair bit of time browsing through old questions to see if I can help in answering them.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I've found that there a good number of questions classed as 'unanswered' and these are very easily found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However there is another class, these are questions with one or more answers but they don't have an accepted answer. Sometimes the suggested answers are  clearly wrong and are more guesswork.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to show questions with no accepted answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20007" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-03-20T14:38:34.247" LastActivityDate="2019-03-20T14:45:57.357" Title="Is there a way to search for questions with no accepted answer?" Tags="|discussion|search|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2019-03-20T16:34:05.350" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12409" CreationDate="2019-03-20T14:39:35.833" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes there are a couple of search modifiers you can use to narrow down your results with regards to accepted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;code&gt;hasaccepted&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;hasaccepted&lt;/code&gt; is used for when you want to know if there is an accepted answer on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=hasaccepted%3Ayes&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;hasaccepted:yes&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: The question has an accepted answer&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=hasaccepted%3Ano&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;hasaccepted:no&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: The question has no accepted answer&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;code&gt;isaccepted&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;isaccepted&lt;/code&gt; is used for when you want to find answers that are, or aren't, accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=isaccepted%3Ayes&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;isaccepted:yes&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: The answer is accepted&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=isaccepted%3Ano&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;isaccepted:no&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: The answer is not accepted&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Putting this together and taking your comment, &lt;em&gt;&quot;these are questions with one or more answers but they've never been ticked as 'answer accepted' by the OP&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, into account I imagine the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=hasaccepted%3Ano+answers%3A1&quot;&gt;query&lt;/a&gt; you are looking for is this, where &lt;code&gt;answers&lt;/code&gt; specifies the minimum number of answers on the post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;hasaccepted:no answers:1&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then taking into account you originally tagged this meta post with &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; you are probably looking for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=hasaccepted%3Ano+answers%3A1+%5Bstory-identification%5D&quot;&gt;this query&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;hasaccepted:no answers:1 [story-identification]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this information is easily found on any &quot;search results&quot; page, there is a hyperlink at the top reading &quot;Advanced Search Tips&quot; and when clicked expands to show some search modifiers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gW8lN.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gW8lN.png&quot; alt=&quot;Location of the &amp;quot;Advanced Search Tips&amp;quot; hyperlink&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the bottom of this page is the line:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For more details on advanced search &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/searching&quot;&gt;visit our help page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which links you to a more thorough help page on all the modifiers if you want some more in depth information on them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-03-20T14:45:57.357" LastActivityDate="2019-03-20T14:45:57.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12411" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12413" CreationDate="2019-03-22T23:11:54.913" Score="2" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/207330/why-isnt-red-angel-simply-communicating-with-normal-language-instead-of-giving&quot;&gt;Why isn&amp;#39;t Red Angel simply communicating with normal language instead of giving clues?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was closed as per our &lt;em&gt;Future Works Policy&lt;/em&gt;. The recent episode of &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: Discovery&lt;/em&gt; has addressed this. As this question can now be answered, please re-open it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2019-03-23T11:51:14.473" LastActivityDate="2019-03-23T11:51:14.473" Title="Please, re-open this question" Tags="|discussion|support|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12411" CreationDate="2019-03-23T11:51:01.330" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The question has now been reopened by the community.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(For the record, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/reopen/144012&quot;&gt;reviewers voted to leave closed&lt;/a&gt; within minutes of the post entering the review queue. I don't know &lt;em&gt;Star Trek Discovery&lt;/em&gt;, so can't tell if that was hasty reviewing or if the question should have stayed closed. But the reviewers are all active users and might see this meta to explain their decision.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2019-03-23T11:51:01.330" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12414" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12664" CreationDate="2019-03-24T00:42:37.967" Score="0" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/animated-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;animated-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;animated-series&lt;/a&gt; be retired? &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/animation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;animation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;animation&lt;/a&gt;'s guidance is inconsistent with its use; it says that it should be on question about animation techniques, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/animation+story-identification&quot;&gt;forty-five of the forty-six questions on it are mistagged&lt;/a&gt; according to that (they use it as a media tag for story identification.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Effectively, this makes &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/animation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;animation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;animation&lt;/a&gt; a media tag. So what should we do with it? I don't see why we should separate &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/animated-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;animated-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;animated-series&lt;/a&gt;, a tag for animated television of unknown style, from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/animation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;animation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;animation&lt;/a&gt;, a potential tag for any sort of animation of unknown style, when we could just combine the two and add another tag, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movies&lt;/a&gt;, to show what format it was. What are the community's thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Note: this is an attempt at a better version of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12412/animation-media-tags-make-no-sense&quot;&gt;this self-deleted question I wrote&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastActivityDate="2019-08-25T05:27:26.947" Title="What should be done about animation media tags?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12415" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-25T14:46:40.367" Score="11" ViewCount="403" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Update&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The summary has now been posted to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2019/04/highlights-from-2019-1st-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Original&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from January 1st 2019 through March 31st 2019.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2019/01/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2019/01/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2019/01/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I will also be linking all blog posts that happened within this quarter. Also the most controversial question of the quarter. Also a sum of all the bounties that were awarded.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also if there was a meta post you feel should be spotlighted those are also acceptable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is not too late for us to create the dystopian society as envisioned in 1987's The Running Man. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="1148" LastEditDate="2019-04-10T19:27:56.927" LastActivityDate="2019-04-10T19:27:56.927" Title="Favorite questions and answers from first quarter of 2019" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12415" CreationDate="2019-03-25T14:48:54.113" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meta wise I think we should certainly highlight this one by myself that congratulates some high level achievements by some of our top users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12392/58193&quot;&gt;Let&amp;#39;s take a moment to congratulate some exceptional users&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-03-25T14:48:54.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12417" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-03-29T18:40:06.027" Score="9" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a video game that takes place in a town in the wild-west that I remember vividly, but I can't find any pics or proof online to be able to post in the Arqade community. Reading the description for identification, I'm not sure if it falls under the umbrella sci-fi/fantasy. Would this be an okay question to pose? If not, is there any other place I could -- or am I screwed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84513" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2019-03-29T19:10:07.287" LastActivityDate="2019-03-29T19:10:16.710" Title="Would a western video game identification question be on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|story-identification|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12417" CreationDate="2019-03-29T19:10:16.710" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Same as always (though I don't remember the exact meta at the time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you're positive it has sci-fi/fantasy elements, and can provide them, sure, it's on topic;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you can't remember its SFF parts but are dead positive it had some, then it's on-topic (although you'll likely get close votes), per the votes on the answers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12170/&quot;&gt;Is a story identification question on-topic if it doesn&amp;#39;t include genre defining elements?&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you're not sure it has SFF elements and is more likely a &quot;regular&quot; kind of western game (which is apparently your case here)... Then it's probably off-topic for here, and as you don't have an artifact (screenshot, soundtrack etc), you can't post on Arqade. &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/58631/the-restaurant-at-the-end-of-the-universe&quot;&gt;Chat&lt;/a&gt; is fine, as are &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;r/tipofmytongue&lt;/a&gt; on Reddit, and probably a couple other game-ID sites.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side note, for such questions, it may be clearer to write the question as you would ask it and include it in the Meta question. That makes its scope easier to figure, kind of like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/site-recommendation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;site-recommendation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;site-recommendation&lt;/a&gt; on main Meta should include the question at stake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastActivityDate="2019-03-29T19:10:16.710" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12415" CreationDate="2019-03-30T23:50:40.523" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was a really fun question to answer, mostly because of all the different interpretations of Space-Elevators. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/205707/which-was-the-first-story-to-feature-space-elevators/205710#205710&quot;&gt;Which was the first story to feature space elevators?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100113" LastActivityDate="2019-03-30T23:50:40.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12415" CreationDate="2019-03-31T07:58:30.200" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I liked this question. As a long time viewer of Road Runner (&lt;a href=&quot;https://media1.tenor.com/images/2a96c99e84f1e4faa3fe3b8195ff428d/tenor.gif?itemid=5660267&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;meep, meep!&lt;/a&gt;), it was nice to have an excuse to go back through them and a real surprise that there was such a wide variety of non-Acme products.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/204999/does-any-looney-tunes-character-ever-use-any-fictional-brand-name-product-that-i&quot;&gt;Does any Looney Tunes character ever use any fictional brand-name product that isn&amp;#39;t ACME?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;vavskjuta's question about Lex Luthor's epic cake theft was a nice surprise. I always enjoy questions where my gut response is &lt;em&gt;&quot;Of course not, don't be bloody stupid&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, only to then find out that the opposite is actually true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/202622/is-lex-luthors-40-cake-theft-canonical&quot;&gt;Is Lex Luthor&amp;#39;s 40-cake theft canonical?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2019-03-31T09:01:34.290" LastActivityDate="2019-03-31T09:01:34.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12425" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-01T22:58:56.453" Score="0" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I posted the same request &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/326177/please-hide-meant-do-not-reveal-spoilers-in-emails&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; on meta, where it turned out to be an effective duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/184962/spoiler-text-is-not-hidden-in-newsletter&quot;&gt;this bug report&lt;/a&gt;; you may wish to support the latter. Since I was directed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/306397/how-do-i-get-attention-for-old-unfixed-bug-reports-and-feature-requests-without/306398#306398&quot;&gt;this Meta post&lt;/a&gt; which suggested trying to get community support, I have reproduced it here, as this is probably one of the most affected communities.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/10127/why-did-narcissa-malfoy-lie-about-harry#&quot;&gt;Why did Narcissa Malfoy lie about Harry&lt;/a&gt; are too often quoted in emails with spoilers partially revealed: the newsletter of 2019-04-01 displays the first &lt;strong&gt;six words&lt;/strong&gt; of the &lt;strong&gt;spoiler block&lt;/strong&gt; in that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me evident that it would be desirable not to reveal spoilers in emails and very likely that it would not be too hard to do, probably by simply omitting the contents of all spoiler blocks completely. Could you please do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone feels that it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; reasonable to reveal them in emails, I feel the burden of proof is with them: please explain why almost everybody who does not want details revealed on the site should be happy to read them in emails, or why they should be expected to deprive themselves of email notifications if they feel otherwise. If some people are just not bothered, fair enough, but perhaps they can support consideration for others anyway. If it is too hard to be worth doing, I should be interested in an explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that there is no need to judge what a spoiler is, just accept the judgement of the poster, and the newsletter will do as good (or bad) a job as the questions themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many users will not be much affected by spoilers in the newsletters, but for some people they are very disappointing, and given that we have a spoiler function it ought to be well implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60831" LastEditorUserId="60831" LastEditDate="2019-04-03T21:11:45.963" LastActivityDate="2019-04-03T21:11:45.963" Title="Please do not reveal spoiler block contents in newsletters or other emails" Tags="|feature-request|newsletter|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12427" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12430" CreationDate="2019-04-04T04:12:43.313" Score="-5" ViewCount="257" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/feminism&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feminism&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feminism&lt;/a&gt; tag is apparently unwelcome on this forum. There are only 3 questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/feminism&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feminism&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feminism&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/208469/105798&quot;&gt;my own included&lt;/a&gt;). One of the other 2 was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32076/is-there-a-generally-accepted-critical-and-or-feminist-response-to-heinleins-wo&quot;&gt;closed as opinion-based&lt;/a&gt;. That leaves a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/179796/did-heinlein-intend-to-portray-men-and-women-as-equals&quot;&gt;single question&lt;/a&gt; related to feminism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should this tag even exist on this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105798" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2019-04-04T06:15:39.490" LastActivityDate="2019-04-16T14:45:05.457" Title="Should the feminism tag exist on this site?" Tags="|discussion|tags|burnination|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12427" CreationDate="2019-04-04T04:53:31.567" Score="2" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Not on account of the given reason(s)&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Unpopularity contest&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have determined that this tag is unpopular, however, an unpopular tag can still be useful. It may become more popular, or widely-used in time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, you said it yourself, there is already a post that uses the tag, and is actually using it correctly and successfully. Are you saying that post not longer deserves to have that tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Jerk that knee&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that you've had an unpleasant experience using this tag on a post, and consequently knee-jerk reacting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's not dummy-spit, let's work to improve what's here. There are some related questions that could potentially benefit from this tag, and in fact might even improve the site's searchability if we did add them, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/48945/21267&quot;&gt;Do Lord of the Rings or The Silmarillion pass the Bechdel test?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/184116/21267&quot;&gt;Is there significance to the all-female main characters in Annihilation?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/166468/21267&quot;&gt;A (very sexualized) women controlled world, where the main character joins the resistance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to mention that we have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bechdel-test&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bechdel-test&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bechdel-test&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/female-characters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;female-characters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;female-characters&lt;/a&gt; tags that could work to compliment to each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-04-04T04:53:31.567" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12427" CreationDate="2019-04-04T05:31:41.963" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;We should get rid of it, although as the previous answer said, not on account of given reasons but per the burnination criteria listed on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/239191/398063&quot;&gt;When to burninate&lt;/a&gt; on main Meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied?&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;is it unambiguous?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The contents, I guess... But unambiguous? Definitions of feminism vary almost with every person, so yes, it is ambiguous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is the concept described even on-topic for the site?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not really, no. Admittedly this criterion is a bit more relevant on technical sites like SO (see original meta post), but no, feminism isn't, overall, especially SFF. We do have ambiguous but on-topic tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/elves&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;elves&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;elves&lt;/a&gt;, [tag: androids]...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does the tag add &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; meaningful information to the post?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kinda? Actually, probably more than &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/elves&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;elves&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;elves&lt;/a&gt;; on non-ID stuff at least. That criterion is probably a pass.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does it mean the same thing in all common contexts?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back to #1: no, it doesn't. And this ambiguity does cause closure, because &quot;feminism&quot;, unless very explicitly defined in the question, is often unclear and POB.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, like Möoz pointed out, surely &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/female-characters&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;female-characters&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;female-characters&lt;/a&gt; can take care of whatever &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/feminism&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feminism&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feminism&lt;/a&gt; would leave out. I think the former is also a crappy tag, but that's a discussion for another day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2019-04-04T09:39:57.183" LastActivityDate="2019-04-04T09:39:57.183" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12427" CreationDate="2019-04-05T18:27:33.767" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;After a significant amount of consideration of the points raised by other answers to this question (@Jenayah in particular, thank you), as well as constructive feedback from the comments to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/208469/are-there-any-examples-of-feminist-works-in-the-sword-and-sorcery-genre&quot;&gt;my question&lt;/a&gt;, I have successfully managed to salvage that question from a &lt;em&gt;-6&lt;/em&gt; to a &lt;em&gt;+10&lt;/em&gt;, and I'd like to summarize what I've found (from a sample size of 1, mind you) that this community appears to support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm arguing in favor of keeping the &lt;code&gt;feminism&lt;/code&gt; tag, but clarifying the tag usage to recommend that questions using it may benefit from considering the specific years of cited works in order to determine the context of feminism at the time the works were produced. I believe this was the critical piece that was missing from my question, which, after adding, gave a commonly understandable point of reference, so that the question and answer can be understood in its appropriate context. My question in particular was related almost entirely to &lt;em&gt;Second-Wave Feminism&lt;/em&gt;, however, without that additional information and a common understanding of the term, the question could be easily interpreted differently when interpreted as &lt;em&gt;Fourth-Wave Feminism&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've done my best to extract some themes that could be easily identified in literature, movies and other published content, as they would be relevant to each iteration of the feminist movements, and, furthermore, mapped to a continuous timeline that covers most if not all of the Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy works discussed in this community. Of course, there were no hard boundaries for the applicable dates, nor were there necessarily any unanimous agreements on these definitions. However, I believe these are appropriate and useful for application to the &lt;code&gt;feminism&lt;/code&gt; tag on this site, as well as respectful to the movements. I would sincerely appreciate further discussion on this topic. I hope this helps, and if it doesn't, at least I tried.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First-Wave Feminism&lt;/strong&gt; (~1871-1960)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;official legal inequalities&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Second-Wave Feminism&lt;/strong&gt; (~1961-1990)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;sexuality&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;family&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the workplace (or appropriate trade, profession, or peer group)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;reproductive rights&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;de facto inequalities (e.g., physical, biological)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;official legal inequalities&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third-Wave Feminism&lt;/strong&gt; (~1991-2007)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;abolishing gender-role stereotypes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;expanding feminism to include women with diverse racial and cultural identities&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;focus on individualism&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fourth-Wave Feminism&lt;/strong&gt; (~2008-present)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;oriented around social media for organization and mobilization&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;empowerment of women&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;justice against assault and harassment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;equal pay for equal work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;bodily autonomy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;speak against abusers of power&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;provide opportunities for girls and women&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;advocates for men in addition to women&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;greater opportunities to be engaged parents&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;free expression of emotions and feelings&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;free to present themselves as they wish&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105798" LastEditorUserId="105798" LastEditDate="2019-04-16T14:45:05.457" LastActivityDate="2019-04-16T14:45:05.457" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12431" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-06T23:11:06.670" Score="5" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;On a post I recently put a bounty on, a user said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This might be a better question on the Arqade Stack Exchange -- they do video game identifications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12398/102999&quot;&gt;They don’t accept them&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, the user (while still being wrong that it'd be on-topic there&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;) brought up an interesting question (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Stormblessed It's not so much that Arqade &quot;doesn't accept&quot; game ID questions, and more a matter of SFF accepting story ID questions which are part of a game. &lt;strong&gt;But what's being asked about here is all game -- there's no story elements in the question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is, really, all game. &lt;strong&gt;Is it still on-topic even though it's looking for the work based on details about the mechanics and art of a game apparently without any sort of plot whatsoever?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;No offense to the user, sorry if I sound annoying.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2019-04-07T00:10:36.570" LastActivityDate="2019-04-07T00:10:36.570" Title="Are story identification questions with no story on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|story-identification|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2019-04-07T14:44:38.613" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12432" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-08T19:39:44.600" Score="24" ViewCount="529" Body="&lt;p&gt;For those unfamiliar, the new &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; series, &lt;em&gt;Discovery&lt;/em&gt;, has proven controversial for many fans. Unfortunately many SFF users apparently feel the need to express their dissatisfaction every chance they get. I don't wish to call anyone out in particular but here are a few comments to illustrate what I mean:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should know by now that Discovery doesn't give one nanospeck about preserving canon. I wish Q would erase it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Excellent point. I have two possible answers: 1) Plot hole = lazy writers [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;other than finding themselves in a pale imitation of Star Trek? ;D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because Star Trek: Discovery is written by people who've never watched Star Trek&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is just bad writing [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because terrible writing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I rather suspect that the writers have never actually seen an episode of Trek before and were just working off notes that were sent to them by the studio&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;no more than the entire series is an entire contradiction to most ST canon :\&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion these comments are off-topic and unhelpful to the person asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1224" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-10-15T15:54:36.050" Title="Can something be done about unconstructive comments in star-trek-discovery questions?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12432" CreationDate="2019-04-08T19:52:32.307" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're not wrong. Certainly the bulk of these comments aren't especially &quot;nice&quot; and while they aren't directed at the users posting the questions, I can see how they might result in them feeling like their questions are less welcome than others. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I promise wholeheartedly to keep my criticism of this show to private channels from now on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mea culpa&lt;/strong&gt; and I've tried to locate all of my snark and remove it. Feel free to prod me if I've missed anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2019-04-10T14:16:09.713" LastActivityDate="2019-04-10T14:16:09.713" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12432" CreationDate="2019-04-08T20:02:09.397" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our &quot;Be Nice&quot; policy (I guess now the Code of Conduct), &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/286082/does-the-be-nice-policy-require-se-users-to-be-nice-to-people-who-are-not-se-u&quot;&gt;does apply to &quot;public figures&quot;&lt;/a&gt; which would include the writers of the show. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The correct course of action would be flag posts you think are do not follow policy and the moderation team can handle them from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2019-04-08T20:02:09.397" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12432" CreationDate="2019-04-08T20:08:19.400" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;By their Stack Exchange definitions, comments are supposed to clarify the question, add more info, in short, be constructive. Amittedly we SFF folks do have more &quot;joke&quot; comments left around, about JKR math not making any sense, &lt;em&gt;Highlander II&lt;/em&gt; not being a thing, etc, etc; they're mostly fine, but as always, too much can be too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not familiar with &lt;em&gt;Discovery&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; in general, but from what you've provided, they're not especially good jokes and could indeed be seen as too snarky to comply with the Be Nice policy - especially more unwelcoming to a new user, as I guess people asking questions about the show are even remotely liking it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best course of action is to &lt;strong&gt;raise a flag on these comments, either explaining how it's not constructive and snarky, or just going for No Longer Needed&lt;/strong&gt;. The mods should be able to handle it swiftly. If there are many comments, just raise one flag explaining all the chain can go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastActivityDate="2019-04-08T20:08:19.400" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12436" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-09T01:30:19.863" Score="-3" ViewCount="217" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/207541/how-is-accio-a-safe-spell&quot;&gt;How is Accio a safe spell?&lt;/a&gt; is closed with the following close reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions seeking &lt;strong&gt;scientific solutions or explanations&lt;/strong&gt; are off-topic unless related directly to a cited work of fiction. There are &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/sites#science&quot;&gt;several other Stack Exchange sites&lt;/a&gt; dedicated to answering questions on non-fictional sciences. For more information, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7364/what-is-our-actual-policy-on-science-questions&quot;&gt;What is our actual policy on science questions?&lt;/a&gt; on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet the question seems to squarely fit the exception for questions that are &quot;related directly to a cited work of fiction&quot;. The question reads as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why couldn’t Newt use ‘Accio’ to retrieve all his beasts?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;‘Accio’ only works on inanimate objects. While people or creatures may be indirectly moved by ‘Accio-ing’ objects that they are wearing or holding, this carries all kinds of risks because of the likelihood of injury to the person or beast attached to &lt;strong&gt;an object travelling at close to the speed of light&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.jkrowling.com/welcome-to-my-new-website/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;JK Rowling’s New Website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It says that Accio-ed objects travel at close to the speed of light. Why do such objects not wipe out mankind from the face of the Earth (&lt;a href=&quot;https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;relativistic Kinetic Energy and air friction/ drag ju-ju&lt;/a&gt;)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I know that electricity doesn't work well near magic, but it can't explain the above scenario.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to clearly be a question about a work of fiction, namely &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt;. The question seeks to understand how certain objects in &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; act contrary to how they should act according to science. That is, that according to science these objects should be destroying everything yet in the story they don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does not seem to be asking for the science to be explained; it presupposes the science and asks what mechanism within the story allows science to be overridden. In fact, the questioner even suggests a potential resolution, and that resolution is a fact relating to the fictional setting rather than a scientific fact. Though the questioner rejected that resolution, it should still show that what is being sought is an explanation of &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; rather then an explanation of science.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, in the two existing answers there is barely a reference to science. Both answers use information from within the stories to address the question. If the question can be answered from the books rather than from science then it is likely not a question about science. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, the user who asked the question is one of the top users of the site (by reputation), and therefore presumably aware that science questions are off-topic. This is not some new user who may have asked a science question not knowing any better; the fact that the question was posted at all should be enough to grant the benefit of the doubt unless it is very clear that it is actually a science question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Repeated attempts to have the question reopened have failed. Can someone explain why this question remains closed when it seems to be asking about how something works in a fictional story, and the current answers address how it works in the fictional story? If not can it be reopened?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2019-04-09T06:13:52.680" LastActivityDate="2019-04-11T00:38:27.200" Title="How does this question fail the &quot;related directly to a cited work of fiction&quot; criterion?" Tags="|discussion|scope|specific-question|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12436" CreationDate="2019-04-10T07:44:00.470" Score="-7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question is definitely on-topic given that JKR herself tries to use real-world science to justify things in magic universe. It's implicit in the question that I am looking for answers from the canon, but if this is an issue, I can explicitly mention that by adding one sentence (unfortunately, the post is locked at this point, so I can't edit it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also like to quote Alex's comment which I believe clarifies the things better:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Given that this question is &quot;asking for an answer within the context of a fictional universe&quot; and is not &quot;explicitly asking for an out-of-universe explanation of the science&quot; it should be on-topic. The question essentially is that in our world objects traveling at that speed destroy everything, so how does everything not get destroyed in the Harry Potter world? That question can be better answered by a Harry Potter nerd than a physicist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another of Alex's comment which is worth a look:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Imagine if someone asked why the quaffle doesn't always fall to the ground during Quidditch matches because of gravity. You could answer &quot;because magic&quot; but that would be pretty lame. That doesn't tell us how the magic deals with gravity. Is there simply no gravity in Harry Potter? Are Quidditch matches played on an anti-gravity field? There are any number of options. However, a good answer might say that (as mentioned in Quidditch Through the Ages) indeed it used to fall until shortly after 1711 when it was bewitched to fall slowly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Guys, think it through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="931" LastEditDate="2019-04-11T00:38:27.200" LastActivityDate="2019-04-11T00:38:27.200" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12432" CreationDate="2019-04-10T14:12:59.593" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;These kinds of comments are bad to have around and should be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Faction warring is bad for any community and this is a form of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For any particular piece of media, those engaged in it and asking/answering about it should not have to deal with people dropping in just to disparage it. That open disparagement creates an atmosphere of hostility toward the people engaged in that media. This will alienate those people away from the community, and may create grudges and resentment which will escalate and spill out later in more disruptive ways. It will directly lead to reduced activity on the topic by driving away the people who want to be asking/answering about it, which should be seen as an unacceptable and negative outcome for the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means these disparaging comments directly diminish our site's ability to service the body of science fiction &amp;amp; fantasy fiction &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; compromise the health and harmony of our community. All of that is bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should see snark and disparagement toward a media as directly unwelcoming to those users engaged in that media. That snark and disparagement should be flagged and removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Constructive criticism is fair, of course, and we need to be able to engage in it, but there's a huge difference betweeen “JK Rowling is bad at math and dates so the chronology you've seen there doesn't add up” and persistent comments that a piece of media has terrible writing, lazy writers, should be erased from existence, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15502" LastEditorUserId="15502" LastEditDate="2019-04-10T17:26:29.347" LastActivityDate="2019-04-10T17:26:29.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12440" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-11T09:43:48.890" Score="11" ViewCount="456" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/193787/why-are-there-so-few-bedrooms-in-the-burrow&quot;&gt;Why are there so few bedrooms in the Burrow?&lt;/a&gt;) has been reviewed to reopen &lt;strong&gt;11&lt;/strong&gt; times(!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see the timeline &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/193787/timeline&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, but the broad outcome is that it's gone through review nearly a dozen times and while it did originally pick up a couple of reopen votes (not enough to reopen it) the last eight times the decision to keep it closed has been entirely unanimous. That represents 18 individual users who've reviewed it and decided to keep it closed over nearly a year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Given that this is apparently the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12440/why-is-this-question-entering-reopen-review-over-and-over-and-over-and-over-a/12442?noredirect=1#comment43114_12442&quot;&gt;almost single-handed work of one user&lt;/a&gt;, how is this not a breach of voting privileges?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2019-04-12T17:38:35.247" LastActivityDate="2019-04-12T17:38:35.247" Title="Why is this question entering 'reopen review' over and over (and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over) again?" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12440" CreationDate="2019-04-11T10:42:25.043" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because people think that it should be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question asks a simple question - why doesn't the Burrow have more bedrooms?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not unclear. It's perfectly clear what the question is asking. It's not a dupe, too broad, or off topic. It has been closed as primarily opinion based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I'm among those who believe that it shouldn't be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a very clear policy on questions that can't be answered definitively using existing canon questions: They're fine. They are not primarily opinion based. If we don't know the answer, &lt;em&gt;that's an answer in itself&lt;/em&gt;. Just answer &quot;we don't know why&quot;, and that's that. We can also look at canon sources and make reasonable guesses - &quot;There wasn't enough room in the house for more bedrooms.&quot; &quot;It's very common for siblings to share rooms in any case.&quot; &quot;They didn't have the money.&quot; Whatever answers you can come up with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's not primarily opinion based. Closing it as such runs directly contrary to our established policies on questions for which there is no explicit canon answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And so, it keeps going to the review queue because people recognize this, see that it's not POB, and vote to reopen. That is how reopen votes are meant to be used. That it's gone through review so many times shows that it's received at least thirteen reopen votes, plus three initial &quot;leave open&quot; reviews. I'd be interested in seeing what the review outcomes would have been if people couldn't review a question they've reviewed in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2019-04-11T10:42:25.043" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12440" CreationDate="2019-04-11T14:08:04.047" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you for raising this important question. For the record, as far as I can tell the question has only been sent to the reopen queue &lt;strong&gt;10&lt;/strong&gt; times not &lt;strong&gt;11&lt;/strong&gt; times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The simple answer is that it keeps entering the queue because it keeps receiving a reopen vote. We can prove this by looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/256071/390967&quot;&gt;Shog's Meta post&lt;/a&gt; describing how questions can get sent to the reopen queue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are three ways a question can end up in Reopen Review:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A reopen vote is cast when there are no other &lt;em&gt;active&lt;/em&gt; reopen votes on the question. Note that this allows for a single question to be enqueued multiple times, provided all votes age away before another one is cast.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A body edit is made within 5 days of the question being closed by someone who &lt;em&gt;didn't&lt;/em&gt; vote to reopen. This allows for a single question to be enqueued multiple times, but only &lt;em&gt;once for each time the question is closed&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question gets popular, for a definition of &quot;popular&quot; based on votes and views. This can only trigger review &lt;em&gt;once for the life of the question&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since options 2 and 3 do not allow for the question to be repeatedly sent to the reopen queue, we can deduce that it must be option 1 at play in our situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the question of whether this is &quot;an extreme breach of voting privileges&quot;, let's turn to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/250223/age-close-votes-after-14-days-regardless-of-views-allowing-recasting&quot;&gt;Shog's Meta post&lt;/a&gt; explaining how the aging and recasting system works:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Allow re-casting votes that've aged away after 14 days. That is, 14 days (use the same site-configurable value used in #1 here) after your vote has aged away, you're free to cast the same vote again.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your first try doesn't get any attention, and you keep tripping over the same problematic question... You should get to have another go at getting it reviewed. A 14 day waiting period means you don't get to spam reviewers with every question you personally don't like, but does give you that opportunity to correct oversights without abusing flags for the purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to this, a question can theoretically re-enter the queue every 14 days. As stated there this is specifically designed to allow users to send the same question to the queue multiple times, and the 14 day waiting period prevents users from spamming reviewers. There is no specific mention of whether there is a limit to how many times this procedure can/should be used. So far the system seems to have allowed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That takes care of the technical discussion. Now for the discussion about this particular example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To my mind the interesting thing here is that though the question has been through the reopen queue 10 times, has been mentioned as incorrectly closed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12069/how-precise-do-the-close-reasons-have-to-be&quot;&gt;two&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12338/is-the-primarily-opinion-based-close-reason-being-overused&quot;&gt;separate&lt;/a&gt; Meta posts, has an answer constructed from factual statements in the very book series that the question asks about, has a comment to the question pointing this out, was the subject of &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/58631/conversation/the-burrow&quot;&gt;a discussion in Chat&lt;/a&gt;, and now has a new Meta post about it, I cannot find a single word from any close/leave closed voters explaining why the question fits the Primarily Opinion-Based close reason. Surely, if voters see the same question coming up again and again and are annoyed by this the simple thing to do would be to explain how the question fits the close reason. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the only answer (positive scoring) to the first of those two Meta posts states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If a question has been closed incorrectly, then the answer is simple: reopen votes! And if that fails, you can post to meta asking why a specific question is seen to be against community norms. With luck, you may get a response from the close-voters, and with even more luck, either you or they may inspire a change of mind in the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far it looks like the first two of those things have occurred, but the latter two have not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now as I pointed out in the aforementioned Chat discussion, a full half of the leave closed votes from the totality of trips to the reopen queue have come from the same four users reviewing the question again and again. It's no secret that there are a handful of reviewers who try to take part in every review they can get their hands on, and that is not necessarily a bad thing. Indeed, they are perhaps to be commended for their devotion to the upkeep of this site. However, it can sometimes lead to the question not getting seen by as diverse of a group of users. As noted in the question post here, the last eight reviews have unanimously decided to leave the question closed. Yet since this Meta question was posted (and presumably other users saw it), the original question has been reopened twice (i.e. 10 distinct individuals voted to reopen it). The decision to leave the question closed was apparently not as unanimous as the reviews make it seem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is an additional important lesson that can be derived from this case. We often have discussions about questions where some users think that there won't be information in the existing material to answer the question and the question should therefore be closed, while other users think that such questions should remain open. A common argument advanced by the former category is that if the question is closed and someone has a factual answer, the question can simply be reopened. To quote &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/208716/if-harry-looked-in-the-mirror-of-erised-now-what-would-he-see#comment570507_208716&quot;&gt;a comment&lt;/a&gt; from the most recent iteration of this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm reasonably sure there's no canon answer. If I'm wrong, you can always ping me and the question can be reopened with trivial ease&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surely 10 failed trips to the reopen queue has passed the point of &quot;trivial ease&quot;. How can we expect voters to reopen a question based on a user claiming that he/she has information from the books (or other material) that address the question, when they don't even reopen a question that &lt;em&gt;already contains&lt;/em&gt; such an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This again shows why it is so important that questions where people think we don't know the answer not be closed. This is just the latest example where users have thought that there is no information in existing materials with which to answer the question, even though there is such material (as demonstrated by the existence of the answer). Of course, it is entirely possible that the answer is incorrect. Full disclosure: it's my answer and I make no claim that my answers have more authority than any other answers; it is certainly possible for me to miss some information, or to misunderstand something, and therefore construct an incorrect answer. However, that is precisely why these questions need to remain open. The answers need to be posted so that the community can determine – via voting – whether the answers are good or not. We cannot have a situation where the correctness of potential answers is being determined by a group of gatekeepers preventing the answers from being posted. (In this particular case the answer currently has a fairly decent score for a not-very-highly-voted question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in sum, I don't believe it is a problem that the question has been repeatedly sent to the reopen queue. If there is a problem here, I think that it would be that reviewers have repeatedly voted to leave closed a question as Primarily Opinion-Based – despite the question containing a fact-based answer – without ever explaining why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2019-04-12T12:46:21.223" LastActivityDate="2019-04-12T12:46:21.223" CommentCount="21" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12440" CreationDate="2019-04-11T16:18:53.563" Score="25" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Given that this is apparently the almost single-handed work of one user, how is this not an extreme breach of voting privileges?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not a breach of voting privileges -- much less an extreme one -- because the system allows it and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/250223/299342&quot;&gt;SE has explicitly designed the system to allow users to cast multiple close and re-open votes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the linked discussion on main meta, SE employee Shog9 has stated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Allow re-casting votes that've aged away after 14 days.&lt;/strong&gt; That is, 14 days...after your vote has aged away, you're free to cast the same vote again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no indication that users may only cast the same vote a certain number of times; users are free to cast it as many times as the system will allow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More explicitly, in the same main meta discussion Shog9 also said (emphasis his):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you &lt;strong&gt;feel strongly enough&lt;/strong&gt; about a question to keep burning your votes on it, so be it - the system should provide a well-defined, well-constrained path for you to do so rather than forcing you to seek out dodgy alternatives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, if a user wants to cast the same vote every 14 days they are free to do so. The various rate limits on the voting privilege ensures that the user does not create too much noise. Furthermore, in the specific case of Science Fiction and Fantasy our reopen queue is nearly always empty so it's not like these votes are interfering with other questions in the queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, while a user is &lt;em&gt;allowed&lt;/em&gt; to cast reopen votes repeatedly I don't think it is an &lt;em&gt;effective&lt;/em&gt; way to try to reopen a post that the user feels strongly should be open -- especially if the results of the reopen reviews are repeated, unanimous decisions to leave it closed. It would be far better to post a &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/specific-question&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;specific-question&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;specific-question&lt;/a&gt; meta question to discuss whether or not the specific question should be re-opened, thus allowing the entire community to discuss the question and present detailed arguments about why the question should be open or closed instead of merely a few users expressing their opinion in the form of a vote in a queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastActivityDate="2019-04-11T16:18:53.563" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12444" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-11T20:15:03.820" Score="3" ViewCount="388" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12440/why-is-this-question-entering-reopen-review-over-and-over-and-over-and-over-a&quot;&gt;this Meta post&lt;/a&gt; it seems that the feeling is that there should be a dedicated Meta post discussing whether the specific question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/193787/why-are-there-so-few-bedrooms-in-the-burrow&quot;&gt;Why are there so few bedrooms in the Burrow?&lt;/a&gt; should be closed as Primarily Opinion-Based or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here it is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/193787/why-are-there-so-few-bedrooms-in-the-burrow&quot;&gt;Why are there so few bedrooms in the Burrow?&lt;/a&gt; be closed as Primarily Opinion-Based? Or should it be reopened?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastActivityDate="2019-05-05T17:47:50.627" Title="Should the question about the number of rooms in The Burrow be closed as Primarily Opinion-Based?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|primarily-opinion-based|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12444" CreationDate="2019-04-11T20:45:23.533" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It should be reopened.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a very clear policy on questions that can't be answered definitively using existing canon questions: They're fine. They are not primarily opinion based. If we don't know the answer, that's an answer in itself. Just answer &quot;we don't know why&quot;, and that's that. We can also look at canon sources and make reasonable guesses - &quot;There wasn't enough room in the house for more bedrooms.&quot; &quot;It's very common for siblings to share rooms in any case.&quot; &quot;They didn't have the money.&quot; Whatever answers you can come up with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's not primarily opinion based. Closing it as such runs directly contrary to our established policies on questions for which there is no explicit canon answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question gives an explanation as to what's prompting the question - the number of floors in the house. It concludes that there are &lt;em&gt;at least&lt;/em&gt; four. In this case, the question asks, why are there so few bedrooms, given so much space?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can be answered in a few different ways. You can analyze existing canon sources and come up with an answer, or you could find a statement by JKR, or, if neither of those works, a &quot;we don't know&quot; answer would also work. None of those things are opinions. Yes, having an answer that is based on perhaps subjective readings of the text may sound a little opinion-based, but if we closed every question like that we'd have no site left. And so, since we have a policy of not closing questions that don't have a definite canon answer... this should be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2019-04-11T20:45:23.533" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12446" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-11T22:37:24.177" Score="-7" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that we are nearing the end of Game of Thrones, would it be entirely off-topic to argue the &quot;most noble character&quot; on the main, or would that be completely POB? If so, how could the Q be phrased better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it even possible we could set up some kind of voting system?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62438" LastActivityDate="2019-04-11T23:20:26.617" Title="Most noble character on GoT" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12446" CreationDate="2019-04-11T22:40:39.377" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to phrase it in a way that's &lt;em&gt;quantifiable&lt;/em&gt; rather than merely soliciting  people's opinions about which they think are the most noble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something like; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Which character &lt;em&gt;does GRRM think&lt;/em&gt; is most noble?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Which character is &lt;em&gt;described as&lt;/em&gt; most noble in-universe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2019-04-11T23:20:26.617" LastActivityDate="2019-04-11T23:20:26.617" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12444" CreationDate="2019-04-12T03:20:50.110" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It should be edited and then reopened, or re-asked if we don't want to invalidate the existing answer. But the question &lt;em&gt;in its current form&lt;/em&gt; is unacceptable and should remain closed.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question as it currently stands is ambiguous. It could mean any of these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why &lt;em&gt;did J. K. Rowling&lt;/em&gt; choose to put so few bedrooms in the Burrow, given the story constraints?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why &lt;em&gt;did Molly and Arthur Weasley&lt;/em&gt; choose to put so few bedrooms in the Burrow, given the existing space?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why &lt;em&gt;would anyone&lt;/em&gt; make that choice, given the existing space?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(1) and (2) are both valid, on-topic questions (which may not have answers), at least as far as I can tell. (3) is POB speculation. The question needs to, at a minimum, clarify that it is asking (1) or (2) and not (3). This might be accomplished by saying something such as &quot;I am looking for specific evidence of why [Molly and Arthur / J. K. Rowling] decided to have that many rooms, with quotes if possible.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only answer is currently answering (3). It contains no references to the specific decision-making process of the Weasleys, and in particular it does not quote either Arthur or Molly, nor does it talk at all about J. K. Rowling's rationale. That this is a highly-upvoted answer to the question makes it borderline, IMHO, but I would still put it on the &quot;remain open&quot; side of the fence, because answers do not make questions off-topic. Nevertheless, the question &lt;em&gt;must be clarified&lt;/em&gt; to rule out further answers of this sort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="36526" LastEditDate="2019-04-12T03:45:15.133" LastActivityDate="2019-04-12T03:45:15.133" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12444" CreationDate="2019-04-12T04:54:32.587" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question should be reopened. Nothing in the question indicates that opinions are being sought. Of course, anyone could always post an opinion as an answer, but anyone could do that to any question. If we're afraid that for some reason people will post their unsolicited opinions, there are ways to deal with that. When people post unsupported opinions, downvote them. They will quickly get the message that this site is not looking for opinions to be posted as answers. If there is a particular problem with new users posting opinions, questions can be protected to prevent them from being able to post. There is no need to go around closing questions because people &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; post opinion answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That does not mean that the Primarily Opinion-Based close reason is useless. Some questions do ask for opinions, either explicitly or implicitly. Explicitly, by asking &quot;What's your opinion?&quot; or &quot;Who's your favorite...?&quot; or &quot;How would you write the ending?&quot; or other similar types of questions. Implicitly, by asking questions that do not contain enough information to have an objective answer, such as &quot;Who was the best teacher?&quot; (we don't know what definition of &quot;best&quot; is being used) or &quot;Was Dumbledore moral?&quot; (we don't know whose definition of moral to use).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking, if a question can be answered objectively then it is not Primarily-Opinion-Based. To clarify something that was discussed in comments to another answer, a question is not not Primarily Opinion-Based &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; you could post a &quot;we don't know answer&quot;. A question is not Primarily Opinion-Based because it can be answered objectively without opinions. It just happens to be that sometimes the objective answer is that there is not enough information in the existing material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above being the case, when we see a question that already has an answer based on objective material we already know that the question can be answered objectively (unless the existing answer wildly ignored the actual question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is important to remember that just because an answer is not an opinion that doesn't mean that the answer is correct. And on the flipside, just because an answer is incorrect that doesn't mean that it's an opinion. We have hundreds of questions that are not closed as Primarily Opinion-Based that have conflicting answers. It is the responsibility of voters to use their upvotes and downvotes to try to determine which answers are right/wrong, good/bad, or better/worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now let's look at this particular case. The question author began by trying to prove that there were at least five floors in The Burrow. The author then continues and says &quot;This being the case&quot; before asking the question. That indicates that the question is predicated on the premise that there are at least five floors in The Burrow. If we didn't know how many floors there were then there would be no question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actual question then asks why there are so few rooms. Given that the premise of the question was that there are at least five floors, the question is assuming that five floors should reasonably contain more than five rooms. This seems like a fair assumption – as far as I know most normal houses fit more than one room per floor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So now we have to decide whether this is Primarily Opinion-Based. Well, did the question explicitly ask for opinions? No. Did it implicitly ask for opinions? No. Is it possible that someone might post an opinion? Absolutely. But that possibility exists for every question, and we don't close them all. Can the question be answered objectively? Certainly. In order to answer the question objectively, one need only search through the existing &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; material for an explanation as to why there are so few rooms given the amount of floors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This explanation could theoretically be any number of things. There might be some source that shows that the Weasleys liked being squeezed together so they deliberately only had a limited number of bedrooms. There might be some source showing that that's how the house was built and it's impossible to change it. There might be some source saying that there's a maximum number of bedrooms a house can have. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key here is to find the relevant sources. They may be scattered throughout the series, they may be buried in external material, or there may not be any sources that address the issue. If someone does find relevant sources then a good answer can be posted. If someone can't find relevant sources, the question doesn't magically become &quot;what's your opinion?&quot; The question remains &quot;what is the factual reality within &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt;?” and the answer might be that there is not enough information to determine that factual reality. That is also not an opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if someone is going to post an answer arguing that there is not enough information, a simple &quot;we don't know&quot; is not very helpful. One can explain at length why we don't know, or how we know that we don't know, and one can perhaps focus on certain details that we might know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now if we look at the existing answer we see that it is based on a collection of sources throughout the book series. The answer attempts to address the question by undermining the premise that five floors could and should contain more than five rooms. The answer does this by trying to show from the books that the floors of the Burrow were decidedly &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; like the floors of a regular house. Instead the floors were simply individual rooms that were added on to the house over time. If that is true, we can see that there is not in fact additional floor space that could have been used for more bedrooms, so the question falls away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer doesn't pretend to answer all possible questions about The Burrow. One could still ask why they didn't add on even more rooms as additional floors like they did with the current rooms. But that would be a different question, and it would have a different answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, it is entirely possible that the explanation given in the answer is not the correct explanation. To that end, voters should carefully analyze it to see if it is compelling, and upvote/downvote accordingly. If it is found to not be the correct explanation then someone else can find a different explanation. But that has nothing to do with whether the question is Primarily Opinion-Based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in sum, the question is not Primarily Opinion-Based &lt;strong&gt;because it's not Primarily Opinion-Based&lt;/strong&gt;. The existing answer merely confirms what we could already have determined on our own – that the question can be addressed based on facts from the books (and perhaps other material). By closing a question such as this one, we potentially prevent people from getting good answers to their questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question should therefore be reopened since the current close reason does not apply to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2019-05-05T17:47:50.627" LastActivityDate="2019-05-05T17:47:50.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12450" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12451" CreationDate="2019-04-15T13:16:13.900" Score="0" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked why there are differences between the models of communicators shown here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/196324/why-do-these-communicators-from-star-trek-differ&quot;&gt;Why do these communicators from Star Trek differ?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I be more clear?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83917" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-04-15T13:18:10.037" LastActivityDate="2019-04-15T13:22:23.347" Title="How can I make my question &quot;Why do these communicators from Star Trek differ?&quot; clearer?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12450" CreationDate="2019-04-15T13:22:23.347" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there's too much unclear about the question. The first paragraph, which is essentially the entirety of your question, looks fine to me. That said it might be better to show where the different communicators come from, or at least where some of them come from to explain the differences easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your gif and the RIP comment with the image also seem highly irrelevant to your question so it would be best, in my opinion, if you edited them out all together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that there really doesn't seem like much to do, seems pretty clear. However, note I am not a Star Trek fan so there might be something to do with tying it to Star Trek that could be unclear but if so I don't know what.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-04-15T13:22:23.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12452" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-15T19:54:11.273" Score="27" ViewCount="246" Body="&lt;p&gt;The prolific science fiction and fantasy author Gene Wolfe is &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.tor.com/2019/04/15/gene-wolfe-in-memoriam-1931-2019/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;dead at 87&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is probably best known for the &quot;dying Earth&quot; tetralogy &lt;em&gt;The Book of the New Sun&lt;/em&gt; and the rest of the Solar Cycle, but his career spanned six decades and many award-winning and award-nominated novels, novellas and short stories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Time itself is a thing, so it seems to me, that stands solidly like a fence of iron palings with its endless row of years; and we flow past like [the river] Gyoll, on our way to a sea from which we shall return only as rain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23384" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2019-04-16T13:51:02.880" LastActivityDate="2019-04-16T13:51:02.880" Title="RIP Gene Wolfe, 1931–2019" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12453" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-16T19:14:16.177" Score="1" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;. While the questions are sometimes bad, some are really well written and fun to look for. However, fan-fiction identifications are...subpar most of the time. Many are just one line or two, and they tend to be badly written. Additionally, a lot of them are just Drarry fan fictions with one of two or so plots (“Harry is turning into a baby” is very common). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why do we allow this category of frequently terrible questions? Should we reconsider this?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastActivityDate="2019-04-16T19:14:16.177" Title="Should we allow fan-fiction identification?" Tags="|discussion|scope|story-identification|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2019-04-16T19:35:18.330" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12454" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-18T12:07:40.310" Score="1" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that these two questions have the same answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/208598/anime-main-character-equips-a-horned-helmet-to-fight-monsters-criminals-pulls/208607#208607&quot;&gt;Anime: main character equips a horned helmet to fight monsters/criminals, pulls out a sword from his arm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/209296/anime-dying-alien-robot-merge-his-head-with-an-human-and-gives-him-armor-to-kee/209305#209305&quot;&gt;Anime: Dying alien robot merge his head with an human and gives him armor to keep fighting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact I've answered them both, but the first question doesn't have an accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So should the second question be marked as a duplicate in this instance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108160" LastActivityDate="2019-04-18T12:23:11.217" Title="Can a identification question be marked as a duplicate of a question with no accepted answer?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|story-identification|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2019-04-18T15:54:32.517" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12454" CreationDate="2019-04-18T12:23:11.217" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nope. Per consensus on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7065/&quot;&gt;Closing Story-Ident questions as duplicates (where there&amp;#39;s no acceptance)&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions should only be closed as duplicates where both answers are accepted, regardless of the similarity between them. (If the OP posts a &amp;quot;yes this is it&amp;quot; comment, that's as good as an acceptance.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simple, easy to administer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case neither answer got accepted, may that be in comments or checkmark, so both stay open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only exception might be if an user re-posted their story-id question instead of editing it; in which case, if it's obvious the works looked for are the same (not based on answers but the combination of same OP+same question), then we can close as dupe, and merge after that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-04-18T12:23:11.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12456" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-22T04:28:21.527" Score="-2" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mario&lt;/em&gt; is a big series. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few sub-series, and six questions on this site are on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/donkey-kong&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;donkey-kong&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;donkey-kong&lt;/a&gt; tag. Of those six, five are about the &lt;em&gt;Donkey Kong Country&lt;/em&gt; series of games.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Donkey Kong the character, along with Cranky, Funky, and Diddy Kong, is clearly part of the Mario universe; Donkey Kong's father (now Cranky Kong) was first in &lt;em&gt;Donkey Kong&lt;/em&gt; as the villain who is fought by Jumpman, an old name for Mario. Now, he appears in almost all spin-off &lt;em&gt;Mario&lt;/em&gt; games, and Diddy Kong is frequently in them, too. However, I don't know if the &lt;em&gt;Donkey Kong Country&lt;/em&gt; games are part of the Mario universe. I cannot think of any connections outside of characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should these questions have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/super-mario-brothers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;super-mario-brothers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;super-mario-brothers&lt;/a&gt; tag?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastActivityDate="2019-04-22T18:00:15.167" Title="How should we tag Donkey Kong Country questions?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|canon|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12456" CreationDate="2019-04-22T18:00:15.167" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about games that do not involve Mario or Luigi (or their evil doppelgangers) should not be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/super-mario-brothers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;super-mario-brothers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;super-mario-brothers&lt;/a&gt;.  The characters of Mario and Donkey Kong originated in the same game, and there are plenty of instances where they appear together.  However, their is essentially no continuity to the Mario Brothers or Donkey Kong games, so it makes no sense to classify a Kong game without the Mario as part of the Super Mario Brothers series (or Mario Brother &quot;universe&quot;).  Doing so would be rather like tagging all questions about xenomorphs with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/predator-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;predator-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;predator-series&lt;/a&gt;, because the two alien types appear in a bunch of games together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2019-04-22T18:00:15.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12458" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-27T16:35:29.413" Score="6" ViewCount="366" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/170604/in-the-films-was-the-portrayal-of-captain-america-supposed-to-come-across-as-ga?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;In the films, was the portrayal of Captain America supposed to come across as gay?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/114500/is-captain-america-gay&quot;&gt;Is Captain America gay?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't often come across questions that are locked, and I don't think I've ever come across a pair of questions like this.  Why is one locked and the other open, not marked as duplicate, and how did newer one not get voted into oblivion?  The newer one also has a YouTube video talking about the question.  The older one has many answers, each with many upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that during the 2 years between these questions the topic/politics of gay superheros has changed that much such that the audience has that different of an opinion, but maybe I'm wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48443" LastEditorUserId="48443" LastEditDate="2019-04-27T16:50:19.160" LastActivityDate="2019-05-05T19:29:54.497" Title="Why was one of these locked and downvoted to oblivion, and the other remains active and open?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12459" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-04-29T03:14:46.067" Score="-3" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/super-mario-brothers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;super-mario-brothers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;super-mario-brothers&lt;/a&gt; tag that seems like it would be used for questions about the &lt;em&gt;Super Mario Bros.&lt;/em&gt; series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this tag is not used just for that specific series within the &lt;em&gt;Mario&lt;/em&gt; franchise: There's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/191255/102999&quot;&gt;a question about &lt;em&gt;Super Mario Galaxy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; on it, which, while part of the greater &lt;em&gt;Mario&lt;/em&gt; franchise, is definitely not a &lt;em&gt;Super Mario Bros.&lt;/em&gt; game — it is completely different gameplay and location-wise from the 2D &lt;em&gt;Super Mario Bros&lt;/em&gt; games, other than the general characters. There are questions, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/131854/102999&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;, which are not specific to the small group of &lt;em&gt;Super Mario Bros.&lt;/em&gt; games.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This tag should be renamed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/super-mario&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;super-mario&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;super-mario&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mario-franchise&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mario-franchise&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mario-franchise&lt;/a&gt;, as its current name and tag description are a lot narrower than its actual use is.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-04-29T13:54:29.430" LastActivityDate="2019-04-29T14:00:58.210" Title="Rename the [super-mario-brothers] tag" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12459" CreationDate="2019-04-29T12:58:39.823" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/super-mario-brothers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;super-mario-brothers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;super-mario-brothers&lt;/a&gt; seems just fine as a tag for the franchise and the distinction between that and the proposed new name(s) is so minimal it's hardly worth it. Add to that the tag only has 20 questions and Super Mario Bros. is the core of the franchise I don't think it really matters to rename it, the current naming is fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-04-29T12:58:39.823" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12459" CreationDate="2019-04-29T14:00:58.210" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should rename this tag to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/super-mario&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;super-mario&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;super-mario&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;em&gt;Super Mario Bros.&lt;/em&gt; is just a sub-series of the Super Mario franchise, and there are a ton of spin-offs. The questions aren't at all specific much of the time to this tag, and the name of the whole game series is &quot;Super Mario&quot;, according to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Super Mario Brothers does not refer to the series as a whole, and therefore is a bad tag name. It's like if we called the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mistborn&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mistborn&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mistborn&lt;/a&gt; tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-final-empire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-final-empire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-final-empire&lt;/a&gt;; it only refers to a sub-series but is being used to label a larger series.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastActivityDate="2019-04-29T14:00:58.210" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10100" CreationDate="2019-04-29T23:45:24.120" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The button is gone, so this is no longer a problem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dM2xX.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82909" LastActivityDate="2019-04-29T23:45:24.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12463" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-05-02T23:06:21.473" Score="51" ViewCount="534" Body="&lt;p&gt;Star Wars actor Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca in the original trilogy of films, has died at the age of 74.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RIP&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/w8ukc.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/w8ukc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2019-05-14T17:58:37.360" Title="RIP Peter Mayhew - Chewbacca Actor" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12463" CreationDate="2019-05-03T00:28:33.060" Score="51" Body="&lt;h1&gt;AAARARRRGWWWH RRRAARRWHHGWWR!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-05-03T00:28:33.060" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="671" CreationDate="2019-05-03T01:50:29.713" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be a waste of time to add these tags. Single use tags without a tag wiki get deleted automatically by the system eventually (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/127700/323179&quot;&gt;Do not expire single-use tags that have a tag wiki&lt;/a&gt;), so we would just end up writing a whole lot of unnecessary tag wikis or else have things deleted. Plus, after all this time of not doing it this way, it would be too much work to change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of relying on tags, use an advanced search: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bstory-identification%5D+isaccepted%3Ayes+is%3Aa&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[story-identification] isaccepted:yes is:a&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; + title of the work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can tweak this search to remove the requirement that the answer be accepted or search for just an author instead of a title. It's very flexible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to add more information to answers (accepted or not) to make it easier to find them. (This is especially important when the title of the work is generic.) For example, it might be good to add the full name of the author, the year of release, or a description to the answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82909" LastActivityDate="2019-05-03T01:50:29.713" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12463" CreationDate="2019-05-03T13:15:22.423" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;He toured Johnson Space Center 9 years ago this March and got to fly the Shuttle Mission Simulator. And yes, the phrase &quot;Punch it Chewie&quot; was said on the loops.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28516" LastActivityDate="2019-05-03T13:15:22.423" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12463" CreationDate="2019-05-03T15:22:00.703" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6spk2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6spk2.png&quot; alt=&quot;Chewbacca&amp;#39;s Death, Dark Horse &amp;quot;Chewbacca #4&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;From Dark Horse's &lt;a href=&quot;https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Chewbacca_4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Chewbacca&lt;/em&gt; issue 4&lt;/a&gt; (a Legends comic published in 2000, which reflected on the death of Chewbacca in that continuity)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13217" LastActivityDate="2019-05-03T15:22:00.703" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12463" CreationDate="2019-05-04T15:43:04.353" Score="5" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Rest in peace, Chewie&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;You were the highlight of all of Star Wars.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user112267" LastActivityDate="2019-05-04T15:43:04.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="671" CreationDate="2019-05-04T15:44:23.153" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;One reason tags exist is not for people searching for answers, but people searching for questions. People who follow an author's tag are going to have interest in story-identification about their works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this is beneficial &lt;em&gt;even if the tag were placed incorrectly&lt;/em&gt;, in fact particularly so, because an expert on that author's works &lt;em&gt;is more likely to recognize the mistake&lt;/em&gt; than others would. And of course they may also help to confirm or add weight via comments or additional answers when they believe it is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84134" LastActivityDate="2019-05-04T15:44:23.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12463" CreationDate="2019-05-05T01:47:37.227" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;He also played the metal minotaur in the Ray Harryhausen monster movie, &lt;em&gt;Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/v0ho6.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/v0ho6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Much of the time, the minotaur was a miniature, but for long shots of the minotaur rowing Zenobia's boat, it was Mayhew in costume.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2019-05-05T01:47:37.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12472" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-05-05T03:26:49.750" Score="0" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/211603/how-does-the-scheduling-for-electives-work&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; about the scheduling at Hogwarts. The question was quite long, and the argumentation therein may have been confusing. That said, I thought the question itself was pretty clear. As summed up in the sentence in bold at the end, I was simply asking if there is any way to explain how the scheduling works, given the problems that I attempted to demonstrate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was closed as &quot;unclear what you're asking&quot; and I sent it to the reopen queue. Though it received two additional reopen votes, it also received three leave closed votes which kicked it out of the queue. Additionally, because it has so many downvotes it does not even appear on the homepage, even if edits are made. As such it is unlikely that many users will see it to be able to opine on its clearness or lack thereof.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I left a comment asking if any of the voters could explain what was unclear about the question so that I could fix it, but (so far) I have not received any responses. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, I ask here: what is unclear about the question? If I don't know what's unclear about it, I can't attempt to fix it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2019-05-05T03:37:18.803" LastActivityDate="2019-05-05T22:46:12.433" Title="How can I make my question about scheduling clear?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12472" CreationDate="2019-05-05T18:40:39.423" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Disclaimer: I didn't DV or VTC this question.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you probably have a decent question buried in there, but it's hard to get through reading the whole post and understanding your point. Because your post isn't very clear and direct, maybe voters couldn't get what you were asking and voted to close as unclear because it was unclear &lt;em&gt;to them&lt;/em&gt;. (This possibility is borne out by Valorum's criticisms and suggestions in his answer on this meta.) Let's not get into whether or not these are good reasons to VTC, and instead focus on what you're asking: &lt;strong&gt;how to improve the post&lt;/strong&gt; for reopening.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;For readability of your posts, I suggest you try to make more use of &lt;strong&gt;formatting tricks&lt;/strong&gt;. It may not sound important, but judicious use of lists, bullet points, occasional bold text, etc. can really help to make a post &lt;em&gt;flow&lt;/em&gt;, to make it easier to read and easier to understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll admit that even I haven't read your whole post in full detail, but it seems that you're asking about the Hogwarts elective classes, providing a lot of evidence for why the scheduling doesn't seem to make sense, and asking if there's any way to understand it so that it actually makes sense. Here's my suggestion for how to reorganise the question so that it itself makes more sense:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Start by summarising the &lt;em&gt;topic.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Your first few paragraphs, down to &quot;&lt;em&gt;The difficulty here is that the scheduling system doesn't seem to work out.&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, already do a fairly good job of this: you introduce &quot;elective courses&quot; with some quotes and then list them all before coming to your main point about the scheduling system. The purpose of this section should be to make clear &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; you're asking about and &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; you're going to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summarise your evidence in an easy-to-read manner.&lt;/strong&gt; The next section of your question, especially the really long paragraphs, is where my eyes glazed over when reading it. These parts really needs to be streamlined, perhaps using a bullet-pointed list and putting some main points in bold text. Lots of evidence is good, but it's also good to be able to glance over the question and get at least some of the main ideas. You've got lots of different pieces of evidence for why the scheduling doesn't make sense? Split 'em up, list 'em clearly, and try to summarise each one with a brief sentence in bold. That way someone who doesn't want to read every last word can at least get the essentials at a glance.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Finish up with a TL;DR of your question.&lt;/strong&gt; You've already done this with your bold paragraph at the end, so that's fine. Really it's the middle bit that needs most work.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also use &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;hr&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; to draw horizontal lines between those three parts of your post, which again helps to visually split up the post and improve readability.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;Of course, you can say that people who can't be bothered to read the whole question should simply skip it instead of reaching for the close button. Which is true. But just like we close/delete unreadable &quot;walls of text&quot; that contain no clear question inside them, people might be putting this post in the same kind of category. Sometimes you have to deal with the internet as it is rather than as it should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course this whole answer is just &lt;strong&gt;suggestions&lt;/strong&gt;. The diamond gives me no extra authority here; I'm just giving you some advice on my personal behalf, which would definitely (IMO) help you to &lt;em&gt;improve&lt;/em&gt; the question but wouldn't guarantee getting it reopened. You can take it or leave it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, since this is meta, I've employed lots of formatting tricks in &lt;em&gt;this very answer&lt;/em&gt; to demonstrate my point. I'm guessing you'll get the point of this answer more quickly than if I'd just written several paragraphs of text with no emphasis, sections, or lists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2019-05-05T22:46:12.433" LastActivityDate="2019-05-05T22:46:12.433" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12458" CreationDate="2019-05-05T19:29:54.497" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I locked the first one because it had entered into a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/114500/revisions&quot;&gt;close/reopen and delete/undelete war&lt;/a&gt; which showed no signs of stopping. (While the same user can't participate in closing or reopening a question more than once, apparently there's no limit on the number of times one user can vote to delete or undelete the same post.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for why it was so controversial (very controversial indeed, to the point where at least one user threatened to quit the site if the question was allowed to remain): some of the &lt;strong&gt;phrasing&lt;/strong&gt; made the question seem trolling and/or offensive. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;First, if you are thinking that this question is a joke or troll, I'd like to welcome you to the 21st century when the mankind is discussing legality of gay marriages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Although his age is 80+, he is still young. Yet, he doesn't have a girlfriend and he doesn't show any interest in girls. Even when Black Widow kissed him, he didn't try to drag her to bed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd rather &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; get into details of discussing that particular question, OP's intent, and all the history surrounding it. Suffice it to say that the community reacted very negatively due to &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; things than the simple question &quot;Is Captain America gay&quot;.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;The second question was &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; controversial: although it has a positive score, that's split into &lt;strong&gt;+35 / -29&lt;/strong&gt;. In fact I believe it was an attempt to ask the underlying (reasonable) question &quot;Is Captain America gay&quot; in a way that the community would accept. Unfortunately, it received backlash precisely because of the older question. It was even &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/170604/revisions&quot;&gt;closed as a duplicate and reopened&lt;/a&gt;. There are 26 deleted comments on this question; a custom mod flag was raised calling it a troll question; it was even controversial enough that the OP disassociated it from their account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2019-05-05T19:29:54.497" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12476" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12477" CreationDate="2019-05-06T01:19:09.973" Score="2" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was my understanding that, in general, there was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1744/36526&quot;&gt;a community agreement&lt;/a&gt; not to edit too many older posts in a short period of time, to avoid cluttering the front page with too many older questions at once. However, particularly on Meta, but also on the main site, I've noticed an increased rate of bumped older questions recently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this the &quot;new normal?&quot; Should I just get used to seeing older questions bumped all the time?&lt;/strong&gt; Or do we need to have a conversation about this pattern of editing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastActivityDate="2019-05-06T04:51:57.747" Title="Mass editing: Still a policy, or not?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12476" CreationDate="2019-05-06T04:51:57.747" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As of now, there has been no change in policy.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite many discussions on meta, consensus has never swung dramatically against the policy not to flood the front page with edits. What exactly constitutes a &quot;flood&quot; of edits isn't always agreed upon by everyone, but there's a long-standing community policy (albeit not formally codified on meta) that &lt;strong&gt;at most 5 of the top 15 posts on the front page should be last edited by the same person&lt;/strong&gt; (similar to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3102/31394&quot;&gt;this meta&lt;/a&gt; where a mod proposed 4 of the top 10).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's true that a few people recently are enjoying editing a lot of old posts, but they seem to be aware of the &quot;5-in-15 rule&quot; and &lt;em&gt;generally&lt;/em&gt; not to be breaking it. Sometimes we (either mods, or other community members) observe someone going over the limit and ping them with a gentle reminder in chat or comments. If you see someone editing too much, you can ping them to let them know about the policy. (Anyone who's edited a post is @-pingable in comments on that post, so it's easy enough to ping a mass editor even if they don't use chat.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2019-05-06T04:51:57.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12296" CreationDate="2019-05-06T07:28:37.530" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7313/40609&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1HvQb.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87710" LastActivityDate="2019-05-06T07:28:37.530" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12479" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-05-08T16:44:30.243" Score="2" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;After watching Season 5 of &lt;em&gt;Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.&lt;/em&gt; I came here wondering&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/188043/358&quot;&gt;Where has Deke gone?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;found the question justifiably closed as unknowable then.  But given the events of &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Endgame&lt;/em&gt;, I think we know whether the &lt;em&gt;Back to the Future&lt;/em&gt; invisible hand trope is at play in the MCU.  So can this question (and potential questions like it) be partially answered now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="358" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2019-05-08T16:49:43.737" LastActivityDate="2019-05-25T11:53:37.133" Title="Can &quot;Avengers: Endgame&quot; be used to answer MCU TV questions?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12479" CreationDate="2019-05-08T16:52:25.360" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure. They're set in the same universe and the shows frequently have throwbacks to the movies, and even if I'm less aware of the other way around I guess that has happened as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't watch AOS so I don't know if the time travel is the same thing as &lt;em&gt;Endgame&lt;/em&gt; though (quantum stuff and all), but if you're reasonably confident some documented answer can be patched up, go ahead. (well, you'll have to wait for it to be reopened - it may be, I sent it to queue with a reopen vote)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastActivityDate="2019-05-08T16:52:25.360" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2353" CreationDate="2019-05-11T14:08:21.813" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;After a lot of design changes to the site, this is no longer an issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2019-05-11T14:08:21.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12482" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-05-12T03:31:07.460" Score="1" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been the target of serial down voting before, so I'm familiar with the auto-script that will undo it if triggered, but the exact trigger is not publicly known. I'm also familiar with the secrecy of votes in general and that only certain developers can view them under certain circumstances. This seems like a certain circumstance that warrants a look to verify whether there's been a misuse of the SE system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't participate much here. As such, my reputation changes are few and far between. Yesterday I received two downvotes only a minute apart. Today I received another. All three were on different questions. My rep changes before that are 2 upvotes 5 days before and 1 upvote over a month ago, all on questions I asked at that time. The last time I received a downvote (1 of 2 total) was nearly 2 years ago. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These recent downvotes are highly unusual. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user15742" LastEditorDisplayName="user15742" LastEditDate="2019-05-12T03:46:10.333" LastActivityDate="2019-05-12T08:07:41.760" Title="Can the admin please check my account for an instance of serial down voting?" Tags="|support|reputation|voting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12482" CreationDate="2019-05-12T07:56:56.793" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XycfI.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;patterns of voting&lt;/a&gt; that you've experienced aren't unusual, nor do they represent &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/126829/what-is-serial-voting-and-how-does-it-affect-me&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;serial downvoting&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;, even if it's the same person that has downvoted you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty much any time serial downvoting occurs is when a user disagrees with something another user has posted, either as an answer or comment. The user then visits their profile and, like with serial upvoting, &lt;strong&gt;systematically visits their posts and downvotes them.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/126829/what-is-serial-voting-and-how-does-it-affect-me&quot;&gt;What is serial voting and how does it affect me?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although it's not nice for your posts to get downvoted, unless there's evidence of &lt;strong&gt;systematic&lt;/strong&gt; downvotes (e.g. more than three), you shouldn't expect any action to be taken. This is simply a normal part of how the site works and one of the downsides of users being able to see each other's posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; you've experienced downvoting, my money would be on the fact that you've been more active &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/15742/fredsbend?tab=activity&quot;&gt;in the last couple of days&lt;/a&gt;, posting a question and a couple of comments about Dune. Probably someone was looking at a couple of your questions (via your profile) and just didn't like a couple of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I don't see the occasional downvote as a bad thing. It's your wake-up call to see if the question/answer could be improved by sorting out the formatting, checking the sources or rewording it to be more clear. You definitely won't get it reversed by complaining, but you might get it reversed by improving the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-05-12T08:07:41.760" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12463" CreationDate="2019-05-12T20:04:51.923" Score="3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;RIP&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WQava.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WQava.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100113" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-05-12T20:04:51.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12485" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12487" CreationDate="2019-05-12T22:41:13.037" Score="1" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/212271/102999&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; about who Nolan North voiced in an episode of &lt;em&gt;Rick and Morty&lt;/em&gt;. I made the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nolan-north&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;nolan-north&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;nolan-north&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that author tags are frowned upon (because they are misused a ton), so is this tag any different? &lt;strong&gt;Should I get rid of it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-05-13T00:14:07.977" LastActivityDate="2019-05-13T08:51:33.157" Title="Did I make a bad tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12485" CreationDate="2019-05-13T08:51:33.157" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've never used actor tags before, so there's no precedent for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, there's really no need for actor tags. Author tags might sometimes be useful, because authors define the style and subgenre of the writing - people might be interested in looking at all questions about all stories by a particular author. But actors usually don't contribute much to the &lt;em&gt;story&lt;/em&gt; - they help bring it to life, they might give it a touch of their own personal flair, but people are unlikely to want to search for a list of all questions about all films that a particular actor has starred in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;TL;DR: let's get rid of this tag.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2019-05-13T08:51:33.157" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12488" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12489" CreationDate="2019-05-14T01:36:23.820" Score="2" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I was going to flag a question, this is what came up. Pay attention to the flag count at the bottom-right.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GjSwe.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GjSwe.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;flag error&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought that users received only 10 flags per day. Has this policy been changed (probably not) or is there some other bug that is causing this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user112267" LastEditorUserId="41668" LastEditDate="2019-05-14T01:59:22.487" LastActivityDate="2019-05-14T01:59:22.487" Title="Why do I have more flags available?" Tags="|bug|status-bydesign|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12488" CreationDate="2019-05-14T01:59:10.593" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The base amount of flags per day is ten but you get more per day as a reward for having more reputation or good flagging history - up to 100 total flags per day. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you read the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/flag-posts&quot;&gt;flagging privilege page&lt;/a&gt; a bit more closely you'll see it says all the way down at the bottom:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;How many flags do I have?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you start out, you are allotted 10 flags per day. This number may increase to up to 100 flags per day:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You get one bonus flag per 2000 reputation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You are awarded additional bonus flags when you flag correctly - one bonus flag for every ten net helpful flags (helpful flags minus declined flags).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have 13 net helpful post flags, so you get one extra flag per day - 11 total.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No bugs here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41668" LastActivityDate="2019-05-14T01:59:10.593" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12490" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12491" CreationDate="2019-05-14T16:48:33.890" Score="3" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/asking&quot;&gt;Help-Asking&lt;/a&gt;, at the bottom there is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask-beta&quot;&gt;How to Ask Questions in Private Beta&lt;/a&gt; link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9pLiZ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;Screenshot of Help-Asking page&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9pLiZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of Help-Asking page&quot; title=&quot;Screenshot of Help-Asking page&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't this be removed now, as SFF.SE is no longer in beta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73953" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2019-05-14T16:51:35.740" LastActivityDate="2019-05-14T16:59:46.190" Title="Shouldn't the Private Beta link be removed?" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12490" CreationDate="2019-05-14T16:54:08.930" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;That page in the help centre isn't editable even by mods. Removing the irrelevant link would require an SE employee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the &quot;How to Ask in Private Beta&quot; link seems to be on every SE site, &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/help/asking&quot;&gt;even Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;. So removing it would be a system-wide change which should be requested on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Meta Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; it &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/290401/278659&quot;&gt;already was requested&lt;/a&gt; two years ago, with so far zero response from SE employees. So there's not much point in posting a duplicate there either. (Thanks @Null for the link!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, it should be removed, but discussing it here won't achieve anything.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2019-05-14T16:59:46.190" LastActivityDate="2019-05-14T16:59:46.190" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12493" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-05-14T21:30:19.657" Score="5" ViewCount="273" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/212383/in-the-movie-looper-how-does-this-happen&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was put on hold as &quot;primarily opinion based.&quot; I'm asking about the logic of time-loops in the movie, and received an answer as such. How is that opinion-based?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116543" LastEditorUserId="41668" LastEditDate="2019-05-14T21:33:18.640" LastActivityDate="2019-05-15T23:13:14.467" Title="Why is this question &quot;primarily opinion-based?&quot;" Tags="|support|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12493" CreationDate="2019-05-14T22:12:29.497" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's not, and has been reopened.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I fail to see why it was closed in the first place, but it has now been reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, I've noticed an increase in close votes recently for questions that we may not have an exact canon answer for. However, we have established here on meta that such questions are not POB just because there isn't a definite canon answer. Your question seems to have been among the unlucky group of questions that actually gets closed. Fortunately, it's been reopened now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2019-05-14T22:12:29.497" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12493" CreationDate="2019-05-15T23:13:14.467" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that the question does not ask for opinions (either explicitly or implicitly) and it can be answered objectively, it would seem to not be Primarily Opinion-Based. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastActivityDate="2019-05-15T23:13:14.467" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12497" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-05-19T14:20:57.837" Score="3" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I flag a comment such as &quot;Thanks, that is the answer to my question&quot; with &quot;No longer needed&quot;, it will be deleted automatically without any mods looking at it. However, this could be really harmful if done on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions with no answer, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/81470/102999&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/132904/102999&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; have no acceptance, just comments that both include &quot;thanks&quot; in them and I could delete with no effort, messing up the duplicate marking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stack Exchange developers, can you please turn this off for either all questions on this site, or those tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastActivityDate="2019-05-19T14:48:12.260" Title="Make it so that comments with &quot;thanks&quot; or similar words aren't automatically deleted" Tags="|feature-request|duplicate-questions|flagging|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12497" CreationDate="2019-05-19T14:48:12.260" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No. Be careful when flagging instead.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know that story-id questions are often not accepted formally, and &amp;quot;thanks it's that&amp;quot; comments are our only trace of acceptance. &lt;strong&gt;It's the responsibility of the flagger to make sure the comment is &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; obsolete&lt;/strong&gt;, and even when the answer got checkmarked, it's not that much of a problem to leave those around. This is SFF, we're not overwhelmed by thanks comments, and they don't really cause harm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a different situation on SO, and the most active sites of the network, which is why that automation was put in place to begin with... But each site has some leeway to do how they want. SFF is fine with those, let's keep 'em.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So once again, &lt;strong&gt;please think twice about flagging those&lt;/strong&gt;. And if you know someone going on a &amp;quot;thank you&amp;quot; hunt, try to reach out to them to explain how that's possibly harmful. If needed, raise a mod-flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-05-19T14:48:12.260" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12499" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-05-20T16:08:29.953" Score="0" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;This meta is prompted by the discussion in comments for a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/54657/help-with-title-of-book-about-mind-control&quot;&gt;pretty old question&lt;/a&gt;. I was directed to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11880/should-we-prefer-questions-with-accepted-answers-when-closing-identification-req&quot;&gt;another meta question&lt;/a&gt; with a similar (but not identical) purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The voting patterns on that question indicate general acceptance of the idea that the &lt;strong&gt;presence or absence of a formally-accepted answer should not be a &lt;em&gt;requirement&lt;/em&gt; for deciding whether a given question should be chosen as the target&lt;/strong&gt; for a duplicate. However, I am seeking clarification as to group opinion on whether &lt;strong&gt;formal acceptance of an answer should nonetheless be considered as a positive marker of quality, to be considered as one factor of many&lt;/strong&gt;, such that if two answers are otherwise similar (i.e. no major discrepancy in quality by other measures), the one with the formally-accepted answer is preferable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that, in my own experience learning to use the site, I very quickly came to take note of the presence of a formal acceptance, which the site's mechanics seem to encourage by:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;awarding points to the accepter,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;bringing color emphasis to the&#xA;accepted answer, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;coloring the vote count icons green for links to those questions on the sidebar (or in other automated question lists).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It certainly seems reasonable to reward even casual/new users who go through the effort to fully participate in the Q&amp;amp;A process by giving some weight to their acceptance when deciding which answer will be the duplicate target and is therefore more likely to get future traffic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recognize that many new users do not learn the entire process and don't formally accept good answers, instead announcing via comment or edits that the provided answer is correct. I don't contest the idea that for two questions A (with a weaker answer, formally accepted) and B (with a stronger answer, accepted by comment), B makes sense as the preferable target. But &lt;strong&gt;if both A and B have answers of approximately the same strength, doesn't A (the one with the formal acceptance) make a slightly better example after all?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42769" LastEditorUserId="42769" LastEditDate="2019-05-22T13:14:13.347" LastActivityDate="2019-05-22T13:14:13.347" Title="Should the presence of a formally-accepted answer count as one factor among many when determining &quot;quality&quot; for purposes of duplicate closure?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2019-06-20T08:24:09.213" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12499" CreationDate="2019-05-20T16:13:53.463" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't matter if the answer is formally or informally accepted, choose whichever is the better post as a whole. If the answers are of similar quality, check the questions, which is better? If the questions are of similar quality, check other answers: are there lots of low quality answers on one but not the other? Does one post have lots of &quot;noise&quot; answers/comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it comes down to it, you've checked both posts thoroughly and they are of the same quality altogether, just VTC whichever way you want. Formal acceptance is not a quality factor, one might lean towards the one with the formally accepted answer as a &quot;nice to have&quot; but it by no means should be a factor in deciding which way to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact I bet it would be hard to find two posts where the quality level is the same throughout.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it comes down to it and there is no difference in quality between the entirety of two posts pick whichever you want; we don’t need another measure in policy to decide which. Votes, the checkmark, age, etc. are all poor metrics we shouldn’t formally consider as policy when deciding the target. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-05-20T16:38:36.750" LastActivityDate="2019-05-20T16:38:36.750" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12499" CreationDate="2019-05-20T16:19:16.853" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Barring the fact that I doubt you'd often find two threads with the same question quality &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; the same answer quality, I want to highlight that &lt;strong&gt;checkmarks are a terrible measurement of quality, because only OP can give them.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, it's nice and proper to have that green tick, but at the end of the day... It's only up to OP. That's not a reflection of community consensus or any other &quot;wide&quot; quality measure... Only one person's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, and that's a big if, you find two threads with the same question quality &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; the same answer quality, either close in favor of the oldest one, or the one with the most upvotes. &lt;strong&gt;Upvotes, by definition, are more of a quality quantifier than ticks.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastActivityDate="2019-05-20T16:19:16.853" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10289" CreationDate="2019-05-21T13:30:02.763" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;We have one now.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/2335/102999&quot;&gt;What order should Asimov's Foundation series be read in?&lt;/a&gt; reached 100 users who favorited it &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/51/stellar-question?userid=1107&quot;&gt;in April of last year&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastActivityDate="2019-05-21T13:30:02.763" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12503" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12504" CreationDate="2019-05-21T17:55:50.080" Score="0" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tags like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/daenerys-targaryen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;daenerys-targaryen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;daenerys-targaryen&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jon-snow&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jon-snow&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jon-snow&lt;/a&gt;, for example, would surely have more than enough questions to be justified, and I personally would consider them very useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm just curious why they don't exist, was there ever a conscious decision to not create any character tags for &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41176" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2019-05-21T18:10:02.960" LastActivityDate="2019-05-21T19:15:18.153" Title="Why are there no character tags for &quot;Game of Thrones&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12503" CreationDate="2019-05-21T19:15:18.153" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Because nobody has made them so far.&lt;/strong&gt; The default position for any tag is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to have it, up until someone adds it to a question, so it's less &quot;a conscious decision to &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; create any GoT character tags&quot; and more &quot;no conscious decision &lt;strong&gt;to&lt;/strong&gt; create any GoT character tags&quot;. In the beginning, it wouldn't have made much sense to have character tags when there weren't enough questions specifically about any character. Now, with so many &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt; questions on the site (and with the knowledge of which characters survive to the end and which ones don't last long enough to be important), it might make sense to use some GoT character tags, but nobody has gone ahead to start editing them into older questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Character tags are controversial in general.&lt;/strong&gt; Some users have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9863/31394&quot;&gt;strong&lt;/a&gt; feelings &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/846/31394&quot;&gt;against&lt;/a&gt; character tags - &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; character tags - and consensus on them has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1563/31394&quot;&gt;far&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6839/31394&quot;&gt;clear&lt;/a&gt; over &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7857/31394&quot;&gt;the&lt;/a&gt; years and meta posts. (I'm guessing that this very meta question of yours is likely to receive a lot of downvotes.) That gives a clear reason why &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; users haven't added any GoT character tags - because they don't like character tags at all. Maybe other users haven't added them because they feared complaints or drama around them. Or maybe it's just as simple as &lt;em&gt;they couldn't be bothered&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2019-05-21T19:15:18.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12505" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12507" CreationDate="2019-05-21T22:38:51.527" Score="10" ViewCount="400" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked this question:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/213015/what-is-agent-coulsons-status-as-of-the-end-of-endgame&quot;&gt;What is Agent Coulson&amp;#39;s status as of the end of Endgame?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;which multiple people insisted is a dupe of &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/86948/why-arent-mcu-movies-featuring-coulson-after-avengers&quot;&gt;Why aren&amp;#39;t MCU movies featuring Coulson after Avengers?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;The particularly important context here is that &lt;em&gt;Endgame&lt;/em&gt; is somewhat unique due to its pervasive cameos of nearly every (good) character from the previous 22 films, whether in the final battle or at Tony Stark's funeral.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If is a dupe, then the other question should yield an answer to the specific question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to contort the other question to yield an answer (frankly, over my objection), I had to call attention to the &lt;em&gt;Endgame&lt;/em&gt; situation, while also bringing the question up to date with respect to the appearance of Coulson in &lt;em&gt;Captain Marvel&lt;/em&gt; which was produced later than the original question was intended to discuss, but also take place earlier in-universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/86948/5&quot;&gt;Here's&lt;/a&gt; the edited revision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now this edit has been reverted for altering the original question (which I happen to agree with).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the resolution to this.   Either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The original question must be edited to yield an answer to the question &quot;What is Coulson's status at the end of Endgame?&quot; or &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The newer question should stand.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It cannot be that both the new question is closed and the original question remains the same.   This would mean there is no way to ask this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of (1), it may be that a particular edit is suggested to (1) to support answers to both the original and the new one, or in the case of (2) there may be language suggested that justifies leaving the question open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2019-06-02T05:31:38.317" LastActivityDate="2019-06-02T05:31:38.317" Title="How do we resolve this supposed dupe situation?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12505" CreationDate="2019-05-21T22:44:03.237" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the people who voted to close the questions as duplicates should be forced to produce their time machines forthwith. It's no fair that they can go back and forth in time to make a question about a 2019 movie somehow a duplicate of a question asked in 2016, while the rest of us are stuck with plain old forward-only linear time. So, either share, or admit that there's no possible way answers posted in 2016 could possibly address a question about a movie that came out in 2019.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="348" LastActivityDate="2019-05-21T22:44:03.237" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12505" CreationDate="2019-05-22T00:50:04.343" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a different question, which has a different answer, and it should be reopened (again). The original question is basically saying &quot;Coulson was resurrected in MCU TV, why isn't he in the other MCU films&quot;, and the answer is &quot;because it'd be complicated to explain to the film-only audience&quot;. This question is &quot;Endgame has cameos from nearly everyone, why not one from Coulson&quot;, and the answer is something like this: (I wrote this while the question was open, but it closed while writing it, so I can't post it, and it's not a valid answer to the original, de-edited, question):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The events of season 5 of &lt;em&gt;Agents of SHIELD&lt;/em&gt; prevent Coulson from taking part in anything that happens during &lt;em&gt;Endgame&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; TL;DR: Coulson is (finally! again!) dead in the MCU, before &lt;em&gt;Endgame&lt;/em&gt; takes place. He was also no longer SHIELD Director by this point, and SHIELD is effectively (again!) defunct, so wouldn't be much use in the battle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An important subplot of season 5, particularly the latter half, is that Coulson&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; is dying, and in order to prevent the future the team travelled to, they may need to let him die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the final episode of the season, &lt;em&gt;The End&lt;/em&gt;, Simmons gives Coulson some of the Centipede serum, which was established early in the series as a (flawed) super-soldier type drug. For Coulson, this is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; a cure (although possibly temporary), but&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;he hides it and gives it to Daisy (Skye).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; (Daisy needs it for the super-strength, not as a cure).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the very end of the episode, we see Coulson and May in Tahiti,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; where Coulson is content to spend his last days in peace. It is established that he has only a very short time left.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Season 6 of &lt;em&gt;SHIELD&lt;/em&gt; has Clark Gregg playing a different (as far as we currently know) character, Sarge, who happens to look exactly like Coulson. It's not clear yet, but presumably Sarge has no reason to fight in the &lt;em&gt;Endgame&lt;/em&gt; battle, or to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; attend Tony's funeral.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that both Season 5 and &lt;em&gt;Endgame&lt;/em&gt; are time-travel stories, it's tricky to place everything, but episode 20 takes place at the same time as &lt;em&gt;Infinity War&lt;/em&gt;, as there's an explicit comment that Thanos is attacking the Earth right then. Episodes 21 and 22 follow on directly from episode 20, and are before the&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;first &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'snap', and certainly well before the latter events of &lt;em&gt;Endgame&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I haven't seen Season 6 yet, but I understand it's set a year after Season 5, which should put it between &lt;em&gt;Infinity War&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Endgame&lt;/em&gt;, but I understand that because of scheduling uncertainty they couldn't reference anything that happens in &lt;em&gt;Endgame&lt;/em&gt;, so I'm unclear how the 'snaps' link into the show. However, I don't think that impacts Coulson's status).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't answer &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; about why Coulson isn't in earlier MCU films post-&lt;em&gt;Avengers&lt;/em&gt;. It does answer the question as to Coulson's status in &lt;em&gt;Endgame&lt;/em&gt; and why he couldn't really cameo (in-universe). This does not work as an &quot;updated&quot; answer to the earlier question. They're similar, not the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither question makes it explicit, but the original question has a very clear out-of-universe answer, and no good in-universe answer, and is &lt;em&gt;asking&lt;/em&gt; about out-of-universe (ie. why is &quot;Marvel Studios&quot; doing this). The new question has a very clear in-universe answer, and no good out-of-universe answer (Clark Gregg could obviously have easily been obtained for a cameo, given that he's not only still doing the TV show but appeared in a very recent MCU film), and is &lt;em&gt;asking&lt;/em&gt; about in-universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="108" LastEditDate="2019-05-22T01:01:57.367" LastActivityDate="2019-05-22T01:01:57.367" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12505" CreationDate="2019-05-22T08:32:28.277" Score="-2" Body="&lt;h3&gt;There's nothing to resolve, we keep them closed.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both questions are asking &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Considering Coulson was revived in AoS where is he in the MCU?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; and the newer one adds the caveat that it's asking as of the end of Endgame. That means that the newer one is a subset of the older, more general question and the duplicate is fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be clear no edit is needed on either question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;The old answers are outdated&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a shame but that's not a reason to ask a new question, that is a reason to bounty. In fact one of the bounty reasons is even for this exact scenario solidifying that bountying and not asking a dupe is the way to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Current answers are outdated&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current answer(s) are out-of-date and require revision given recent changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;But he was featured in Captain Marvel!&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;True except the old question is clearly asking about films set to the future of &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt; and as far as I'm aware all those in Phase 2 were set after &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt; so at the time of writing the OP didn't know about films set in the past relative to &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;The newer question is asking for in universe explanations whereas the old one is asking for out of universe ones!&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst somewhat true the old questions leaves it possible to answer with in universe reasoning, it approaches it like it's asking for out of universe reasoning but doesn't solely ask for that. It's also easy to answer it from an in universe answer and one user has done this... current score 10.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-05-22T14:32:24.407" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="278" CreationDate="2019-05-25T19:44:37.603" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a low-rep user on Personal Finance and Money, I am amazed at how much I miss some of the privileges I have on three other sites, including this one.  I can see how I should earn the privilege to VTC, because to VTC intelligently needs familiarity with the subject matter and mores of the particular site.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But not being able to view upvotes and downvotes irks me, as does not being able to make edits without having them approved.  The first needs no expertise on the particular site, and @PearsonArtPhoto gave my reasons for wanting the privilege very well. It is particularly annoying not to see the up/down distribution on my own Qs or As, which could help me write better Qs and As on that site.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the second (edits), although knowledge of the site is helpful, I am still miffed because I feel that I have earned the privilege to edit anything by my record on English Language and Usage, a pretty demanding site on anything to do with English!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think some privileges should be based on overall rep on SE, not on site-specific rep, but I know that is hopeless.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user48960" LastActivityDate="2019-05-25T19:44:37.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12512" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12513" CreationDate="2019-05-26T16:30:36.393" Score="0" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just now, I was at 1408, then, suddenly, I saw that it had dropped down to 1402 with no notice in the reputation tab. Why did this happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user112267" LastEditorDisplayName="user112267" LastEditDate="2019-05-26T16:42:25.190" LastActivityDate="2019-05-26T16:44:57.293" Title="Why did my reputation drop by 6?" Tags="|support|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12512" CreationDate="2019-05-26T16:44:57.293" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Because you deleted &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/213186/31394&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It had one upvote (+10 rep) and two downvotes (-4 rep), so deleting it cost you 6 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2019-05-26T16:44:57.293" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12514" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12515" CreationDate="2019-05-26T19:47:45.657" Score="2" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XUtRO.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XUtRO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How was I able to vote 41 times?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user112267" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2019-05-26T19:52:17.843" LastActivityDate="2019-05-27T04:36:54.423" Title="How did I vote 41 times in a day?" Tags="|support|voting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12514" CreationDate="2019-05-26T19:50:57.420" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This usually happens when something you voted on was deleted. When the post is deleted, you get that vote back for the day, but the vote is still counted in those counts. So you'll have voted 40 times on undeleted posts that day, but still have cast 41 votes that day, because one of the posts was deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2019-05-26T19:50:57.420" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12514" CreationDate="2019-05-27T04:36:54.423" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the other answer mentions, if you vote on a post and it's deleted before the end of the day, you get to cast another vote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/124172/how-does-someone-get-to-cast-more-than-40-votes-in-a-day&quot;&gt;How does someone get to cast more than 40 votes in a day?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an extreme case, you can get almost double the number of votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastActivityDate="2019-05-27T04:36:54.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12517" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-05-27T19:25:55.517" Score="22" ViewCount="807" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1091/5581&quot;&gt;the list of &quot;bounties with no deadline&lt;/a&gt; (which is based on Puzzling and Code Golf equivalents) on Literature, so I am stealing it with attribution; this is almost completely copied and pasted from the other site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is a list of unofficial, deadline-less (hence not searchable) bounties offered by users on various challenges on the main site.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The list need not be limited to questions that already have an answer. You can offer bounties both for your own questions and for other people's questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disclaimer&lt;/strong&gt;: There is no guarantee that the user will award the bounty for you in case you fulfil its requirement. Especially if the user isn't an active member anymore. The only guarantee is their written word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Guidelines for updating&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To add a bounty, create an answer that contains a link to the question that needs a (better) answer and the bounty you are willing to award.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers can be sorted to see which bounties are newest.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Please comment on answers if you notice that there’s been a good answer to the question in question for a while that the bountier apparently hasn’t seen.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a bounty is awarded, delete the &lt;em&gt;meta&lt;/em&gt; answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-06-15T21:00:15.743" LastActivityDate="2021-07-23T06:52:21.653" Title="List of bounties with no deadlines" Tags="|discussion|bounty|" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12520" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-05-28T04:35:10.083" Score="1" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;em&gt;The Wizard of Oz&lt;/em&gt; (the movie)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dorothy wakes up and it turns out that almost the whole movie was just a dream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, we have (according to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bthe-wizard-of-oz%5D+movie+is%3Aq&quot;&gt;this query&lt;/a&gt;) around 10 questions about the movie. &lt;strong&gt;Why is this movie on-topic here?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastActivityDate="2019-05-28T04:35:10.083" Title="Is the &quot;The Wizard of Oz&quot; movie actually on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2019-05-28T11:04:04.080" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12261" CreationDate="2019-05-28T23:15:34.087" Score="3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Go Jenayah!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Congratulations for your exceptional work and immense contributions to our Stack Exchange community!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user112267" LastActivityDate="2019-05-28T23:15:34.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1979" CreationDate="2019-05-29T04:23:21.420" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;To plagiarize &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4465/65663&quot;&gt;my answer on a Movies Meta&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This changed at some point and is not in preferences; now the way to hide tags rather than just gray them out is a box on the right side of the homepage:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JuxxH.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JuxxH.png&quot; alt=&quot;Ignored tags are just grayed out&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you click the &lt;code&gt;Hide questions in your ignored tags&lt;/code&gt; button, they will be hidden now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/39qW8.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/39qW8.png&quot; alt=&quot;They are hidden now&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastActivityDate="2019-05-29T04:23:21.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12524" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12526" CreationDate="2019-05-30T00:10:09.560" Score="-2" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;Again, something which will be marked as a dupe sooner or later:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About how long does it take for a mod to review a flag? Because I raised a dupe flag and, after three days, I retracted it because I had received no response from it. Therefore, I ask: &lt;strong&gt;How long does it take for a mod to review a flag (on average)?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user112267" LastActivityDate="2019-05-30T22:09:25.813" Title="How long does it take for a flag to be reviewed?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|moderators|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12525" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12600" CreationDate="2019-05-30T00:16:14.690" Score="3" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZNcm2.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZNcm2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;lines&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is kind of annoying, and these lines don't seem to serve any purpose. Why are they here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OS: Windows 10&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Browser: &lt;a href=&quot;https://brave.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Brave&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Resolution: 1366x768&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user112267" LastEditorDisplayName="user112267" LastEditDate="2019-05-30T01:18:25.427" LastActivityDate="2019-06-28T14:14:39.417" Title="What are these lines?" Tags="|bug|review-queue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12524" CreationDate="2019-05-30T04:15:00.857" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;For close flags, if nobody handles them in time, will be marked as aged away, as the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/204347/323179&quot;&gt;Meta SE FAQ says&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Close flags] follow the normal rules for close vote aging:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The oldest recommend closure flag, once per day, at the following times:&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;4 days after the last close vote if the question has 100+ views&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;14 days after the last close vote if the question has fewer than 100 views&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Close flags send a question to the close votes review queue where it is almost always handled by regular users with 3k+ rep and not diamond moderators. You should be able to see if the review has been completed by going to the timeline URL (not linked anywhere) which looks something like this: &lt;code&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/####/timeline&lt;/code&gt;. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/209620/timeline&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, you can see the reviews for the question you mentioned in the comments. Unfinished reviews are not shown in the timeline, and it's not easy to get a link to them unless you can access the close votes queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In practice, I only think I have ever had &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/321931/323179&quot;&gt;aged-away flags on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;. (Close &lt;em&gt;votes&lt;/em&gt; are another story.) As you can see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review&quot;&gt;on the review page&lt;/a&gt;, the queues are always pretty empty. It's pretty &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/105395/323179&quot;&gt;easy for close flags to be handled&lt;/a&gt;: If one person votes to close, it's helpful. If three people vote &quot;leave open&quot; instead, it's declined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My advice: don't babysit your flags ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82909" LastEditorUserId="82909" LastEditDate="2019-05-30T22:09:25.813" LastActivityDate="2019-05-30T22:09:25.813" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12528" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12530" CreationDate="2019-05-30T21:22:55.733" Score="0" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted an answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/213568/112267&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to a... not-so-great question. Why was it downvoted? The answer I gave was unarguably the best possible answer for that question. Are the people who didn't like the question taking it out on the correct answer by downvoting my answer? I understand it was only &lt;s&gt;one&lt;/s&gt; &lt;s&gt;two&lt;/s&gt; three downvote(s) (thus far), but it still doesn't make sense for that to have happened. Again, I gave the &lt;em&gt;best possible answer&lt;/em&gt; to that question, even if the question wasn't great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user112267" LastEditorDisplayName="user112267" LastEditDate="2019-05-31T13:59:49.970" LastActivityDate="2019-05-31T13:59:49.970" Title="Why was my answer downvoted?" Tags="|discussion|answers|answer-quality|down-votes|specific-answer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12528" CreationDate="2019-05-30T22:31:06.103" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn’t downvote but I don’t think it is unreasonable that people have downvoted it. The question asked for a page number, and the only page number provided in your answer was one which you said is probably not the one the questioner was looking for. The rest of your answer is nice, but is not something the questioner requested. Thus, I could see that people would feel that you didn’t really provide a good answer to the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now even if the above is true, it wouldn’t be your fault that your answer doesn’t really suffice. The problem here is that the question as written isn’t specific enough to enable a good answer. In such a case, the question should probably be closed rather than answered ineffectively.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastActivityDate="2019-05-30T22:31:06.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12528" CreationDate="2019-05-30T22:40:18.330" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I'm one of the downvoters here, both on the question and the answer.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;NB, obviously the whole explanation below only engages me. I'm not speaking for the other voters, who may have other reasons to up/downvote.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I downvoted the question because it was too broad (and voted to close as such).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I downvoted the answer because I felt it was not helpful. Not unhelpful to the OP, mind you; tomorrow they'll have a page number to cite, alright, good for them. &lt;strong&gt;But our aim isn't to help the OP. It's to build a repository of knowledge, and in that, the answer is unhelpful to the &lt;em&gt;site&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, because in general, &lt;strong&gt;answering off-topic/too broad/unclear questions (dupe is another matter) sends the message that the question will get answered anyway, and we don't want that.&lt;/strong&gt; It's against how the site works. You, the answerer, may argue that you didn't know/think it was closeworthy; you're free to think whatever you want, my downvote isn't on you, it's on an &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt;. Had the same answer been posted by anyone else, I'd have downvoted it as well, regardless of the user. For instance, I'm one of the downvoters on Fuzzy's answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/213550/98028&quot;&gt;to another off-topic question that was asked today&lt;/a&gt;, even when Fuzzy is both a high-rep user and someone I've had nice, friendly talks with in &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/58631/the-restaurant-at-the-end-of-the-universe&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, and in continuation of the first point, &lt;strong&gt;downvoting answers to closeworthy questions helps with the automatic cleanup of the site.&lt;/strong&gt; The whole read is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/92006/398063&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, but basically, closed and negatively scored questions will eventually be automatically removed after some time (because they're basically noise), provided they don't have an upvoted answer. By downvoting answers to those, downvoters send the message in point #1 and make it easier for the thing to be deleted. Actually, that's sort of encouraged by SE philosophy - read &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12232/&quot;&gt;Is it reasonable to downvote answers based on opposition to the question?&lt;/a&gt;, the answers there and the main Meta questions linked to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So all of this is very general so far but it doesn't really tackle your &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/specific-answer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;specific-answer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;specific-answer&lt;/a&gt;. And that's the point where I probably come off as a big jerk&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, because &lt;em&gt;at first&lt;/em&gt;, I only skimmed your answer, saw that you provided &lt;strong&gt;one&lt;/strong&gt; page number for &lt;strong&gt;one&lt;/strong&gt; edition. Didn't fit my idea of helpful for this question, didn't fit my idea of &quot;meh it's neither really good or really bad, so I won't vote&quot;, but clearly fitted my idea of the first two points above, so DVed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that I've seen this meta question, I've read your answer entirely, and my downvote stays for a couple reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;well, as said above the &quot;one page number for one edition only&quot; thing isn't helpful. IMO, and as I &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/213567/page-number-for-frodo-gandalf-exchange-about-wounds-in-the-return-of-the-king/213568#comment583199_213567&quot;&gt;hinted at in a comment&lt;/a&gt;, the only answer which would somehow be a fit would be one detailing &lt;em&gt;each&lt;/em&gt; page for &lt;em&gt;each&lt;/em&gt; (English) edition of LOTR there ever was. It's a definite number, and I guess it's doable, but this site isn't here to make such &quot;page number&quot; reference lists, IMO. Or we could have a gazillion answers, each for one edition - come on.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;now that I've read it again, I've noticed your last line: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Note that I am answering this to help you out, but it is still a very poor question!)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... I have &lt;s&gt;a&lt;/s&gt; two problems with that. First, it has nothing to do in the answer as it's a comment. Then, it states the answer acknowledges the question is poor, but &lt;strong&gt;the answer still allows the question to exist on this site because of its (the answer's) existence&lt;/strong&gt;. And... circling back to the above, I'm not fine with unfit stuff laying around, especially when enforcing of its survival is done while acknowledging it's &quot;poor&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And now in this meta, you say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The answer I gave was unarguably the best possible answer for that question. [...] Again, I gave the &lt;em&gt;best possible answer&lt;/em&gt; to that question, even if the question wasn't great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Best possible answer&quot; is &lt;em&gt;highly&lt;/em&gt; subjective in general, and not all questions can have a &quot;best&quot; answer (when they can even be answered in the first place). &lt;sub&gt;And I didn't want to go there, but I will anyway, the tone in these quotes is incredibly cocky.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess what I'm trying to say is that &lt;strong&gt;you can have very good answers to very poor questions, and we should keep those, but you can't have very good answers to &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; the poor questions, and these we should discourage.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;sub&gt;If I didn't already. I tried to keep this answer formal and I don't feel like it comes off as rude, but that's up to the reader, so if one feels like I'm crossing a line, don't hesitate to tell me in comments. I'm open to feedback, always.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2019-05-31T09:24:42.960" LastActivityDate="2019-05-31T09:24:42.960" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12517" CreationDate="2019-05-31T04:44:24.793" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am offering a bounty of 50 or more reputation on this currently unanswered question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/163335/102999&quot;&gt;Short story about dogs and humans in the far future&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastActivityDate="2019-05-31T04:44:24.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12517" CreationDate="2019-05-31T04:47:44.787" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am offering a bounty of 50 reputation on this currently unanswered question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/192165/102999&quot;&gt;Spambot becomes self aware but every attempt to contact gets filtered&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastActivityDate="2019-05-31T04:47:44.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12533" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-05-31T05:06:58.520" Score="1" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/209400/102999&quot;&gt;a question about translating some Elvish with no research effort or anything&lt;/a&gt;. It's stayed open for a while, and is not contentious on its on-topic-ness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enter &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/96984/102999&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. It is locked, but very highly upvoted. &lt;strong&gt;Why is this? What is wrong with it, but not with my question?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-05-31T05:12:15.723" LastActivityDate="2019-05-31T05:52:38.317" Title="Why is my question perfectly fine but another on basically the same thing locked?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12533" CreationDate="2019-05-31T05:52:38.317" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's nothing wrong with the question content, per se. It's locked not because it's off-topic, but because of some other issues which were highly specific to that question. Don't take the lock on that question as any sort of statement on site scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2019-05-31T05:52:38.317" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10121" CreationDate="2019-06-02T14:40:43.600" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/25182/why-could-quirrell-tolerate-harrys-touch-at-the-beginning-of-philosophers-ston&quot;&gt;Why could Quirrell tolerate Harry&amp;#39;s touch at the beginning of Philosopher&amp;#39;s Stone?&lt;/a&gt; is an extant question with fifteen deleted answers. That surpasses any of the examples of extant questions mentioned in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10122/100430&quot;&gt;the other answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastActivityDate="2019-06-02T14:40:43.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12536" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12537" CreationDate="2019-06-03T14:22:20.340" Score="8" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/213709/movie-about-a-boy-who-was-born-old-and-grew-young&quot;&gt;This Hot Question, &quot;Movie about a boy who was born old and grew young&quot;&lt;/a&gt; is easily answered by a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=Movie+about+a+boy+who+was+born+old+and+grew+young&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quick search of the exact question&lt;/a&gt;...I would think at &lt;em&gt;least&lt;/em&gt; a cursory Google/internet search would be almost required, no?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, if they did try, to show their attempts e.g. &quot;I tried finding a movie where a boy is born old, but dies young, but couldn't using these search terms&quot; or something similar?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1872/what-can-we-do-to-encourage-more-questions-with-research-effort&quot;&gt;this 2012&lt;/a&gt; post on how to encourage more research effort, but what would I flag to close as? It's not a duplicate, and it's not too broad, nor any other category really.  That post also suggests adding a comment - which I did, but was deleted by a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it considered somewhat &quot;subjective&quot;, in what makes a question easily searchable or not?  Or perhaps I'm overlooking part of what &lt;code&gt;story-identification&lt;/code&gt; does, or why such an easily answerable question would remain open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57791" LastActivityDate="2019-06-11T14:15:23.907" Title="How much research is expected before posting for story-identification?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12536" CreationDate="2019-06-03T14:30:50.000" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being &quot;easily searchable&quot; (which is subjective, as you mention - in the linked example, a comment discussion revealed that the OP got a very different set of results from the search as you and other commenters) is &lt;strong&gt;a reason to downvote, not to close-vote&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tooltip on the downvote button says &quot;&lt;em&gt;This question does not show any research effort&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. If you feel that a question is so trivially searchable and answerable that the OP must have done no research effort whatsoever, that could be a good reason to downvote. But it doesn't make the question &lt;em&gt;off-topic&lt;/em&gt; (nor unclear, too broad, or primarily opinion-based). A common Stack Exchange mantra is that &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5498&quot;&gt;a close vote is not a super downvote&lt;/a&gt;. A question might be &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt;, by way of being poorly researched or some other reason, but that doesn't mean it needs to be &lt;em&gt;closed&lt;/em&gt; according to the community's defined criteria for closures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some Stack Exchange sites do adopt a policy that being &quot;poorly researched&quot; is enough reason to close a question, and they have a custom close reason specifically for such questions. Sci-Fi &amp;amp; Fantasy isn't one of them though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2019-06-03T14:30:50.000" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12538" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-06-04T16:51:19.913" Score="-5" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; about this site's scope. I'm asking this because two questions a week apart seemed to share the same misconception about what &quot;fantasy&quot; was, seeming to take the general sense of the word rather than as a name of a fiction genre. They were both closed relatively quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is one of them: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/213806/fantasy-romance-and-family-relationship&quot;&gt;Girl from poor background adopted by lord, falls for her half-sibling?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Although OP was referring to a work of literature, I got the sense that it was more a 19th century gothic romance novel than anything with wizards or swords.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;The relevant help center topic&lt;/a&gt; appears to assume that people know what &quot;science fiction&quot; and &quot;fantasy&quot; are. It's hard to confuse &quot;Science fiction&quot; with anything else, but &quot;fantasy&quot; might be a tougher concept for non-native English speakers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The definition might only need to be minimal. As my comment asked OP,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cutting to the chase here, are there any magical or supernatural elements to the story?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: Well I just saw the following comment in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/215214/book-that-i-read-in-1987-at-school-trying-to-find&quot;&gt;this recent question&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I think that the difference of opinion here is that we have different angles towards what &quot;fantasy&quot; is. I am using fantasy as in &quot;I have a fantasy about driving my car over a cliff&quot;. Whereas everyone else is using fantasy as a genre.&lt;/em&gt; -&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/118208/athornton&quot;&gt;athornton&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This gets to the heart of the matter:  &lt;strong&gt;Can we at least agree (and document) that &quot;fantasy&quot; refers to the &lt;em&gt;fiction genre&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63330" LastEditorUserId="63330" LastEditDate="2019-06-29T13:05:43.490" LastActivityDate="2019-06-29T13:05:43.490" Title="Should the help center explicitly define &quot;fantasy&quot;?" Tags="|feature-request|help-center|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12538" CreationDate="2019-06-05T08:19:58.307" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, because we don't &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; an &quot;explicit definition&quot; of fantasy.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scope of this site is science fiction and fantasy, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10761/31394&quot;&gt;speculative fiction&lt;/a&gt;, but we've never pinned down an exact rigorous definition of what any of these terms mean. Doing so would be difficult and divisive at best: no definition would please everyone, and any definition would likely exclude some things which should (at least according to some) be included and include some which should be excluded. Essentially we've adopted an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/37/31394&quot;&gt;&quot;I know it when I see it&quot;&lt;/a&gt; policy, and it's worked well for us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2019-06-05T08:19:58.307" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12541" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12544" CreationDate="2019-06-06T02:47:03.553" Score="-5" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QxpB5.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QxpB5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I went back and made sure many times that someone hadn't added that tag right before I edited it, and it had remained exactly the same. What's going on here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;EDIT&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; manage to get my edit in the review queue, but only after I made a quick word format change in the question. My question still remains, though...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user112267" LastEditorDisplayName="user112267" LastEditDate="2019-06-06T02:56:15.470" LastActivityDate="2019-06-06T05:46:25.230" Title="&quot;Nothing appears to have changed&quot; after I made an edit" Tags="|bug|tags|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12543" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-06-06T04:58:14.800" Score="12" ViewCount="351" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/06/04/paul-darrow-actor-cherished-science-fiction-fans-role-sardonic/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/06/04/paul-darrow-actor-cherished-science-fiction-fans-role-sardonic/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kerr Avon was one of the best antihero characters in science fiction.  Darrow was sublime in the role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HJikk.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HJikk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69621" LastActivityDate="2020-08-11T21:42:52.680" Title="Paul Darrow (Blake 7's Kerr Avon), RIP" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12541" CreationDate="2019-06-06T05:46:25.230" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't add the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/origins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;origins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;origins&lt;/a&gt; tag to a question already tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt;, because &lt;strong&gt;they're synonyms&lt;/strong&gt;, so the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/origins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;origins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;origins&lt;/a&gt; tag is somehow already there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just tried to make an edit adding the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/origins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;origins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;origins&lt;/a&gt; tag to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/213966/timeline&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. The edit went through just fine, without any error message, but it didn't actually make any change to the post and doesn't show up in the revision history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2019-06-06T05:46:25.230" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12546" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12549" CreationDate="2019-06-09T23:12:37.827" Score="12" ViewCount="342" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do a lot of patrolling for duplicates on story identification questions, and I'm looking for some thought from the group about how to handle &lt;strong&gt;situations where three or more questions (here labeled generically and rhetorically as A, B and C) are all judged as duplicates of each other&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In such cases, when some of the questions are closed as duplicates, one of two possibilities result:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;a &quot;&lt;strong&gt;duplicate chain&lt;/strong&gt;,&quot; such that not all closed questions point to&#xA;the same target. For example, A is closed against B (abbreviated as&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;A-&gt;B&lt;/strong&gt;) and &lt;strong&gt;B-&gt;C&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;a &quot;&lt;strong&gt;duplicate hub&lt;/strong&gt;,&quot; such that all closures do&#xA;point to the same target. For example, &lt;strong&gt;A-&gt;C&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;B-&gt;C&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that &lt;strong&gt;THIS QUESTION IS NOT ABOUT QUESTION OR ANSWER QUALITY&lt;/strong&gt;, which always seems to be a contentious matter due to its subjective nature. This question is about whether a duplicate chain or a duplicate hub is the preferable outcome in the abstract, and why. Take it as a given that, in the abstract examples above, C is universally regarded as the best answer. (A situation like example #1 might result if a new question C is asked and answered with high quality after the A-&gt;B closure had already been done.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is certainly possible to have a mix of hubs and chains in cases where there are four or more duplicate questions. My assumption is that the same principles should apply in the abstract, so please limit discussion to this simple case of A, B and C unless it is absolutely necessary to make your point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the consensus is that duplicate chains are less preferable than duplicate hubs, I will submit another question about preferred methods for handling chains, so &lt;strong&gt;please limit discussion in this question to&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;whether or not one type of result is preferable to the other&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;why one type of result is preferable to the other, or why there should be no preference&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42769" LastActivityDate="2019-08-18T01:25:57.147" Title="Are &quot;duplicate chains&quot; to be avoided when possible?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|duplicate-answers|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12547" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-06-09T23:20:27.517" Score="0" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can somebody ask a question about a certain fanfiction here and it be on topic? For example, I'd like to ask a question about &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Vanguards of Magic&lt;/em&gt;. Is this an on-topic subject here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user112267" LastActivityDate="2019-06-09T23:20:27.517" Title="Are questions on fanfictions on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2019-06-09T23:26:52.547" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12546" CreationDate="2019-06-09T23:45:25.170" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the purposes of this discussion, I will assume that all three of A, B, and C really should be duplicates; they all ask basically the same question and all have basically the same answer. Where to draw that line has in the past been a contentious subject on this site in particular, but it's also irrelevant to the question, so I won't discuss it further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, duplicates are supposed to help readers, particularly readers other than the original asker, find the best answers on the site more easily. So it logically follows that we should dupe against the best answers. A &quot;chain&quot; where A points to B and B points to C must violate this principle. If B's answer is better than C's answer, then C should point to B. If C's answer is better than B's answer, then A should point to C. &lt;strong&gt;Chains are therefore disfavored; make hubs where possible, and favor the best answer(s) regardless of chronological order.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some cases, it's less clear which question has the &quot;best&quot; answers. When this happens, it's usually the case that two questions (say, B and C) both have one or more high-quality answers. The &quot;normal&quot; resolution for this is for a moderator to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/158067/275243&quot;&gt;merge B and C&lt;/a&gt; so that there is a single question containing all of the high-quality answers. We can then choose between those answers with the normal mechanism (voting). If merging is inappropriate, for example because the questions have very different wordings, a meta discussion is probably the best way forward. Possible resolutions include rewording all of the answers under B to match C's wording (or vice-versa) and then merging, reopening one or both of B and C as separate questions (if the community decides they weren't duplicates after all), or setting up multiple duplicate targets so that A points to both B and C.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastActivityDate="2019-06-09T23:45:25.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12546" CreationDate="2019-06-10T00:12:19.930" Score="16" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Hub all the way&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically all that Kevin said for the &amp;quot;dupe philosophy&amp;quot; part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also a &amp;quot;technical&amp;quot; thing we have to consider here. We all have SFF accounts, meaning when we open duplicates, we're not automatically redirected when the dupe-target. That doesn't happen when you're​ logged out or don't have an account. If you open a dupe, you're shown the dupe-target (under certain conditions, like the question having no answers I think, but still). If you open a dupe of a dupe, you're shown the dupe-target of the dupe-target.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example speaks better than words. I can't find one easily on SFF, but take &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/226738&quot;&gt;So where do we go now for library recommendations?&lt;/a&gt; (question A) on main Meta. It's closed as dupe of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/224904&quot;&gt;Where can I ask “What library can I use to do X?”&lt;/a&gt; (question B) which is itself a dupe of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/199411&quot;&gt;Where can I ask a question about finding general software that meets certain requirements?&lt;/a&gt; (question C).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now open question A in incognito browsing, or logged out of your main Meta account. You're redirected to question C... So ultimately, &lt;strong&gt;the closing of A-&amp;gt;B is lost and kinda pointless&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yeah, simply put, avoid dupe chains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-06-10T07:55:59.520" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12546" CreationDate="2019-06-10T03:45:12.863" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;For story identification questions, chains are preferable to hubs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suppose question B has been closed as a duplicate of question A. I'm assuming they are story identification questions. Because of the nature of story identification questions, and because of the way duplicates are defined, the questions may have nothing at all in common, and the answers may have nothing in common except a story title and an author's name. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now question C arrives, asking about the same story. Since we already have a pointer from B to A, a pointer from C to B will lead to twice as much information as a pointer from C to A.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjYoNL4g5Vg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Never Mind!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastEditorUserId="14111" LastEditDate="2019-06-21T06:02:02.490" LastActivityDate="2019-06-21T06:02:02.490" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12551" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12552" CreationDate="2019-06-10T14:18:44.843" Score="1" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;Prompted by this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/214141/who-is-he-that-flies-in-lord-of-the-rings&quot;&gt;Who is &amp;quot;He that flies&amp;quot; in Lord of the Rings?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The simple answer from comments&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;He who flies&quot; is a way of describing someone who is fleeing a battle. It doesn't refer to a particular character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's been a growing debate that this should be closed and/or migrated to English Language &amp;amp; Learners (&lt;a href=&quot;//ell.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;ELL.SE&lt;/a&gt;) or &lt;a href=&quot;//english.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;English.SE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question would be better on the English Language Learners Stackexchange, since it’s purely about the meaning of an English sentence, not any SF or fantasy content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;while some have made the case it should remain&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But [the OP] didn't know that at the time he posted the question. For all he knew, the phrase might refer to some &quot;magically empowered aerial reconnaissance asset&quot; rather than just a figure of speech regarding cowards and their exaggerations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we leave it alone as-is, or close it as being about an arcane English phrase?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastActivityDate="2019-06-10T14:26:50.977" Title="How do we deal with terminology questions that turn out to be mere language questions?" Tags="|discussion|scope|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2019-06-10T14:58:27.153" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12551" CreationDate="2019-06-10T14:26:50.977" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The debate regarding these &quot;language questions&quot; has been growing over the past few months. They have usually come from new users whose first language isn't English, it's hardly a surprise when they're not 100% sure on all the details of the language and as such come up with, what look like to some, as odd questions. However, the question in their minds and perhaps those also unfamiliar with the language is probably quite reasonable. As far as they know it could be, in this case, referring to a specific character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP themselves, being unfamiliar with the language, also wouldn't know this is a language question until they got their answer. As the work is on topic I see no reason why asking about the meaning of a phrase in the work should be off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, they don't need closing, leave them be, if you really wish you can always downvote it. However, as you've seen in this case the question actually hit the HNQ so it must be useful to some.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, it's worth noting that various stacks have overlap in what is on topic in them, this just appears to have overlap with ELL and/or ELU. But because there is overlap doesn't mean it is then off topic where it was asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-06-10T14:26:50.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12517" CreationDate="2019-06-10T16:01:22.443" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am offering 100 bounty on my currently unanswered question in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-darkest-minds&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-darkest-minds&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-darkest-minds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/193227/why-were-reds-considered-more-dangerous-than-oranges&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100113" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2021-06-30T21:22:37.467" LastActivityDate="2021-06-30T21:22:37.467" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12546" CreationDate="2019-06-11T13:05:18.253" Score="-3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;You can't always enforce a duplicate methodology&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say we pick hubs as the &amp;quot;proper&amp;quot; way. What happens if someone dupe chains instead? Is there some penalty? Are mods going to correct it? Not everyone will read this Meta. And what if I'm in the CVQ and find someone doing it the &amp;quot;wrong way&amp;quot;? Do we vote Leave Open instead of closing via a question that answers the one we're voting on just because it's a chain? That sounds like a terrible idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;If we have a dupe problem, fix the questions instead&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if we find a less desirable &amp;quot;chain&amp;quot; creating an undesirable split in dupe targets? That's the real question here, and that part is quite valid. We don't need a ton of questions floating around out there. There's a tool mods have called &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/158066/what-is-a-merged-question&quot;&gt;question merging&lt;/a&gt;. I mod flagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/96554/why-did-gates-mcfadden-leave-after-season-1-of-tng&quot;&gt;this duplicate question&lt;/a&gt; for a merge because this question had a really good answer not covered by the duplicate question. This produces a &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt; outcome for everyone&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All answers can now be seen in one place&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers get more upvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No more chains or hubs. Easier to find and vote as a dupe&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also get a gold badge to fix &amp;quot;chains&amp;quot;. Since they can edit duplicates, they can make sure everything hubs. I've done that myself on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-06-11T13:05:18.253" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12517" CreationDate="2019-06-16T14:36:50.137" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am offering up a 500 rep bounty on the following &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/128499/webcomic-following-a-boy-whos-inhabited-by-a-vengeful-ghost-whos-after-the-men&quot;&gt;Webcomic following a boy who&amp;#39;s inhabited by a vengeful ghost who&amp;#39;s after the men who killed her&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/144130/childrens-book-about-a-man-and-a-woman-a-boy-and-a-girl-on-a-mountain-with-a&quot;&gt;Children&amp;#39;s book about a man and a woman (a boy and a girl?) on a mountain with a dragon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/91814/christian-conversion-x-men-fanfic-involving-wolfsbane-and-wolverine-in-limbo-au&quot;&gt;Christian conversion X-men fanfic involving Wolfsbane and Wolverine in Limbo, autumnal theme&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="23243" LastEditDate="2021-07-01T12:15:54.203" LastActivityDate="2021-07-01T12:15:54.203" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12557" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-06-17T10:28:51.873" Score="40" ViewCount="565" Body="&lt;p&gt;A couple of our users &quot;recently&quot; hit some very impressive milestones and I think a post is in order to highlight their amazing achievements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After taking his sweet sweet time our resident moderator has &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12392/58193&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;finally&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; hit 100k reputation!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394/rand-althor&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ed21P.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hot on his heels was FuzzyBoots who also hit 100k reputation only a few days afterwards!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/23243/fuzzyboots&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lxLat.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I, for one, want to take a moment to congratulate these two very impressive users of our site and the amazing contributions they have put forth during their time here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Thank you!&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2019-06-17T16:22:46.960" LastActivityDate="2019-06-20T08:28:01.320" Title="Let's (finally) take a moment to congratulate some exceptional users" Tags="|discussion|users|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12557" CreationDate="2019-06-17T15:30:36.450" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;:) Thank you. I've had a great deal of fun on this site. I honestly hadn't even realized I was approaching such august heights. I'm just having fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2019-06-17T15:30:36.450" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12561" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-06-19T02:16:18.810" Score="4" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the recent introduction of the Lifejacket and Lifeboat badges—and the disappearance of Tumbleweed—it occurred to me today that I ought to post a meta bounty on my own &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/174609/was-jack-kirbys-later-comic-book-art-influenced-by-his-work-on-concept-art-for&quot;&gt;Tumbleweed&lt;/a&gt; question.  However, when I pulled it up, I found that it had been deleted &lt;em&gt;sub silentio&lt;/em&gt; by Community.  I would still be interested in getting an answer about the effect of his concept work on the &lt;em&gt;Lord of Light&lt;/em&gt; film on Jack Kirby's later work.  So I can get this one undeleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2019-06-19T06:50:55.353" LastActivityDate="2019-06-19T06:50:55.353" Title="Can this question be undeleted?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|specific-question|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12517" CreationDate="2019-06-19T06:56:26.100" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am offering a bounty of 100 for any information about how Jack Kirby's concept work on &lt;em&gt;Lord of Light&lt;/em&gt; may have influenced his later work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/174609/was-jack-kirbys-later-comic-book-art-influenced-by-his-work-on-concept-art-for&quot;&gt;Was Jack Kirby&amp;#39;s later comic book art influenced by his work on concept art for Lord of Light?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2019-06-19T06:56:26.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12563" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-06-19T14:47:07.457" Score="-3" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;See this question:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/214714/does-iron-mans-repulsor-technology-violate-newtons-third-law-of-motion-in-uni&quot;&gt;Does Iron Man&amp;#39;s repulsor technology violate Newton&amp;#39;s Third Law of Motion (in-universe)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has been closed on the grounds that it's asking for real world &quot;scientific solutions or explanations&quot;.    This is simply not true.   I'm asking about how the technology (supposedly) works in-universe.   I've been very explicit in the question about the in-universiness of the question, but this nuance seems to been misunderstood or ignored.   IMO it is &quot;hey, you mentioned a real-world physical law so that automatically justifies closure.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do we really believe that the question &quot;Is there acknowledgement in-universe that this violates this physical law?&quot; possibly acknowledging that &quot;This physical law doesn't exists in-universe&quot; would be a valid answer, is not in-scope?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems clear to me that it's fair game, and people can downvote as they like, but it's not a VTC situation.   Assuming people agree, what is the action?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;(This is wiggle-room that I really don't think the writers would intend as the answer anyhow.   I think we can reasonable assume that the writers intend the Marvel Universes to have the Earth revolving around the Sun, objects are made of atoms, and normal everyday object with are not super-related obey the laws of thermodynamics.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3823" LastEditorUserId="3823" LastEditDate="2019-06-19T14:51:59.927" LastActivityDate="2019-06-19T15:31:48.093" Title="Is the question &quot;Does Iron Man's repulsor technology violate Newton's Third Law of Motion (in-universe)?&quot; rightfully closed?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12563" CreationDate="2019-06-19T15:13:31.833" Score="4" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Technically&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have a good question hidden in a bad one. As it stands, it should be closed. &lt;em&gt;Does Iron Man's repulsor technology violate Newton's Third Law of Motion (in-universe)?&lt;/em&gt; Does the MCU/Comics have a different Third Law? You never posit this, therefore the question is closable as asking for a scientific explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the question you seem to be getting at is &amp;quot;Does the MCU handwave the apparent violation of Newton's Third Law of Motion? Or has an in-universe explanation been given?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So ask that question instead, and you will probably be fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62201" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-06-19T15:13:31.833" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12563" CreationDate="2019-06-19T15:31:48.093" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to close this question because it presumes that Newton's Laws &lt;em&gt;actually exist&lt;/em&gt; in-universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How many times do we see a standing hero lift or throw something massive without either sinking into the ground or skidding backward?  Which means that either mass is variable, or normal material properties like intrinsic strength or the coefficient of friction don't apply.  Simply trying to list the number of (real universe) physical laws that &lt;em&gt;aren't&lt;/em&gt; broken or completely ignored would be difficult.  (Thermodynamics need not apply!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answering the question would mean first trying to figure out what the &quot;laws of nature&quot; really are in a superhero universe, and I suspect the only answer to that is &quot;the plot.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastActivityDate="2019-06-19T15:31:48.093" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12517" CreationDate="2019-06-19T18:19:45.177" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am offering 50 bounty to the following question (which is not an identification question!) about a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-2099&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-2099&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-2099&lt;/a&gt; comic series:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/190541/13217&quot;&gt;How old was Miguel O&amp;#39;Hara when he became Spider-Man 2099?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13217" LastActivityDate="2019-06-19T18:19:45.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12517" CreationDate="2019-06-19T18:44:55.633" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm offering a 250 reputation bounty for a satisfactory answer to this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/207527/13217&quot;&gt;Is there a canon interpretation of who the five are in the Prophecy of the Five from the KOTOR Comics?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13217" LastActivityDate="2019-06-19T18:44:55.633" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12517" CreationDate="2019-06-19T20:53:44.710" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am offering a bounty of 50 or more reputation on this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; question, due to the insane amount of detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/199718/102999&quot;&gt;A small group of children accidentally time-traveling to the future and learning about everyday life in an utopistic future society&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastActivityDate="2019-06-19T20:53:44.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12569" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-06-20T02:17:46.173" Score="0" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;I spend a lot of time patrolling for duplicates in story identification questions. One issue that repeatedly comes up are the differing definitions of &quot;quality&quot; held by various users when deciding which is the &quot;best&quot; duplicate target to choose. Since &lt;strong&gt;&quot;quality&quot; is in the eye of the beholder but the site values consensus-oriented policy&lt;/strong&gt;, this question is being put forth in an attempt to collect group opinion on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;which factors are important&lt;/strong&gt; in deciding the quality of an answer, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;what is the relative weighting of importance&lt;/strong&gt; for these factors&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea inspiring this question is that of a grading rubric, such as might be found in any situation where multiple teachers have to grade student essays based on the same standard. While a rubric does not eliminate subjectivity, it does provide a more objective basis by which to rate the closeness of a particular essay to the group-defined ideal. Such a rubric would commonly leave room for hard-to-pin-down aspects such as style and organization, but would still serve to limit the divergence in independent evaluations by reducing the scoring impact of these subjective factors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is my hope that something similar can be built here, if for no other purpose than to &lt;strong&gt;allow clearer communication between site participants about what they mean by &quot;better&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; when comparing two posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To accomplish this, I am asking that any participating user &lt;strong&gt;please post individual answers&lt;/strong&gt; making a case &lt;strong&gt;in favor&lt;/strong&gt; of &lt;strong&gt;each specific factor&lt;/strong&gt; that he or she deems important. If another answer is posted that more or less agrees with your thinking for a particular factor, &lt;strong&gt;please upvote that answer instead of posting a new one&lt;/strong&gt;. A comment on the answer can be used to make any necessary clarifications or to make a case against that factor. Similarly, if you agree with a particular clarification or disagreement comment, please &lt;strong&gt;upvote that comment&lt;/strong&gt; to express your support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The hope is that the resulting answers will evolve to an &lt;strong&gt;ordered list showing the level of consensus around specific&#xA;factors&lt;/strong&gt;, from highest to lowest in group-evaluated importance. (It may also serve as a guide of how to create questions or answers that are broadly deemed as high-quality.) I would &lt;strong&gt;prefer it if nobody places any downvotes on&#xA;any answers&lt;/strong&gt;, as this will distort the relevant rankings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am completely aware that the question of duplicates in general and &quot;quality&quot; in particular have been thorny topics. This is &lt;strong&gt;NOT intended to provoke an argument that casts more heat than light&lt;/strong&gt;. This is a genuine attempt to find out &lt;strong&gt;what kind of consensus can be built&lt;/strong&gt; so that I and others can reduce the friction around the process of closing duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this question is &lt;strong&gt;not about how to ask a good story-identification question&lt;/strong&gt; so much as it's about &lt;strong&gt;what features are considered valuable&lt;/strong&gt; by the community for &lt;strong&gt;an answer or a post as a whole (both question and answer)&lt;/strong&gt;. It's also intended to produce guidance on the &lt;strong&gt;relative weighting of the value/importance&lt;/strong&gt; of each feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42769" LastEditorUserId="42769" LastEditDate="2019-06-25T01:38:04.030" LastActivityDate="2019-06-25T01:38:04.030" Title="What are the criteria that make for &quot;better&quot; quality questions and answers for story identification questions?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12569" CreationDate="2019-06-20T02:22:10.127" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Inclusion of a link to a legitimate online version of the story&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These seem to be extraordinarily valuable to searchers, both the original poster (who can readily confirm whether or not the story is the correct one) and to others viewing the question (who can read the story themselves if they find the premise to be interesting). A legal online version can often be found at sites such as the Internet Archive, various online science fiction magazines such as Lightspeed or Clarkesworld, or Baen's website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42769" LastEditorUserId="42769" LastEditDate="2019-06-20T13:13:05.597" LastActivityDate="2019-06-20T13:13:05.597" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12569" CreationDate="2019-06-20T02:23:12.530" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Inclusion of a link to an ISFDB or IMDB entry for the story/show/movie&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ISFDB is a great resource for science fiction research, and it is particularly valuable for showing in which collection(s) a given short story has been published, as well as the existence of variant titles and translations. IMDB provides a wealth of information about movies and television shows, which may be of interest to searchers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42769" LastEditorUserId="42769" LastEditDate="2019-06-21T13:02:35.367" LastActivityDate="2019-06-21T13:02:35.367" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12569" CreationDate="2019-06-20T02:25:35.093" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Inclusion of the author's name and story title as text (not pictures)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sometimes occurs that an answer includes a cover image showing the title and author, but the text of the answer does not &quot;spell these out.&quot; This makes them invisible for the purpose of searches (either via a search engine or when using SE's own search function). It's better to specifically include these details as part of the text of an answer, even when they are clearly visible as part of a cover image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42769" LastActivityDate="2019-06-20T02:25:35.093" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12569" CreationDate="2019-06-20T02:27:41.957" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Accuracy of included details&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not uncommon for story identification questions to have misremembered details cited in the question, and it sometimes happens that even the accepted answer includes incorrect information about the story. If one is familiar with the story in question and/or has a copy available to review, it seems reasonable to judge the question and answer with fewer incorrect details as&#xA;superior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42769" LastActivityDate="2019-06-20T02:27:41.957" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12569" CreationDate="2019-06-20T02:34:16.787" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Inclusion of &quot;lower&quot;-level and distinctive details about plot&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here &quot;lower&quot; detail level means more specific and less general. The presence of these in either the question or answer makes it extremely recognizable to searchers, so long as the searcher in question remembers the same details. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if not rememebered, distinctive details make it more likely to be found via search queries and also more likely for a candidate ID to be confirmed in some cases (e.g. a particular name).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42769" LastActivityDate="2019-06-20T02:34:16.787" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12569" CreationDate="2019-06-20T02:37:21.003" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Inclusion of &quot;higher&quot;-level but distinctive details about plot&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here &quot;higher&quot; detail level means less specific and more general. The presence of these in either the question or answer makes it more easily recognizable to searchers, so long as they are specific enough to separate the story from others that are similar. A broader and more generic description of the whole story is potentially more valuable than a tighter and more specific description of a few particular aspects of the story, especially as a &quot;hub&quot; question that would be linked to the more specific questions closed against it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42769" LastActivityDate="2019-06-20T02:37:21.003" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12569" CreationDate="2019-06-20T02:40:28.707" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Inclusion of quotes from the story itself in an answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These seem especially valuable for confirming that a proposed answer is correct, as they can be correlated directly with the details (at any level) included in the question. Even relatively short quotes can remind a searcher of their own memory of reading a passage, if it illustrates the author's style well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42769" LastActivityDate="2019-06-20T02:40:28.707" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12517" CreationDate="2019-06-20T03:32:57.897" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am offering a 100 rep bounty on this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;  question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/186803/old-mickey-mouse-comic-with-scifi-elements&quot;&gt;Old Mickey Mouse comic with scifi elements&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89771" LastEditorUserId="89771" LastEditDate="2019-07-18T14:27:36.400" LastActivityDate="2019-07-18T14:27:36.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12557" CreationDate="2019-06-20T08:28:01.320" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;:-D Thank you very much. (You've been waiting a long time for this, haven't you?!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nC7x5.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nC7x5.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Congratulations to FuzzyBoots, not only on hitting 100k just slightly after me, but also on  overtaking me since then and moving into the top 8 users by reputation. May you and 14111 continue riding the wave of story-ID rep ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2019-06-20T08:28:01.320" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12569" CreationDate="2019-06-20T09:48:49.207" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no general rule of thumb as to what makes answer A better than answer B. Answer A might include all of the &quot;good details&quot; but just be very general and not address any of the OP's memories. Whereas answer B might drill down into the work and be very specific to the OP's description. If you use this list here then objectively answer A would probably come out as the &quot;better&quot; one but I'd argue that answer B is actually the better one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also worth noting that these elements alone aren't what makes a story id answer good, it's the correct combination of said elements that make it good. For example, an isfdb link might end up being the highest voted in the list here but if it is pretty much the sole element of the answer is it a good answer? Almost certainly not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The correct combination of elements will change depending on the specific question and won't apply generally. Some people prefer having book overs shown in the answer but if the question doesn't talk about a book cover you could put them off of the scent because it doesn't match what they remember because of alternate versions. If that ends up being highly voted and so always included it could actually cause a somewhat negative affect with making OP's think it isn't actually what they're looking for because they don't remember that particular cover.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of trying to come up with some semi-policy on which way to close story id duplicates I'd say it doesn't actually matter policy-wise. It's always going to be a gut call on which one is better, answer A might be better but question Y might have a lot more detail than question X. &lt;strong&gt;Choose the better overall post and consider it as a post as a whole rather than the question or answer in isolation.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In other words you can't qualify which individual elements are the best ones because it's the combination of those elements and how they relate to the question which makes for a better post.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is all a very subjective thing and whilst I understand you are trying to objectively come up with a measure here, trying to objectively answer a subjective thing isn't going to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-06-20T09:48:49.207" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12580" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-06-22T02:23:30.303" Score="1" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question on the Movies &amp;amp; TV site that was closed because it was a &quot;list question&quot;. I understand that interpretation, but it's technically a Yes/No question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/101683/is-firefly-the-only-sci-fi-that-shows-the-camera-lens-for-video-chat&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is Firefly the only Sci-Fi that shows the camera lens for video chat?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is &quot;no&quot;, with just a single example, it would answer the question and I'd accept it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there any chance this site would accept the question?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, that's fine... but can anyone recommend another site (SE or otherwise) where I could ask the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="93810" LastActivityDate="2019-07-22T07:00:51.543" Title="Would my question be allowed on this site?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12580" CreationDate="2019-06-22T06:57:06.183" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;With a minor edit, the question would certainly be on-topic here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is Firefly the &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt; Sci-Fi that shows the camera lens for video chat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your original version of the question could probably be argued either way, but this slightly changed version would be fine, a typical question under the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; tag. I think it would also give you what you're looking for: if &lt;em&gt;Firefly&lt;/em&gt; were the only one, then it'd definitely be the first one, and if it were the first one but there were others after it, then you might argue those were inspired by it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(Personally, I &lt;em&gt;downvoted&lt;/em&gt; this question. There's a lot of sci-fi out there, and it's virtually impossible that a simple idea like &quot;realistic video chat&quot; first appeared in a popular 2000s TV show. Even if I can't think of an earlier example offhand, to me this question falls into the same category as &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/q/9069/17&quot;&gt;Was Harry Potter the first magic series to use wands?&lt;/a&gt; However, that doesn't change the fact that it would be &lt;strong&gt;on-topic&lt;/strong&gt;.)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2019-06-22T06:57:06.183" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12582" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-06-22T15:47:17.540" Score="8" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Peter Allan Fields,&lt;/strong&gt; the screenwriter responsible for some of the most poignant and powerful episodes of Star Trek TNG and Star Trek DS9, died this week. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Credits included the multi-award winning &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inner_Light_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TNG: The Inner Light&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; as well as &lt;em&gt;TNG: Cost of Living&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;TNG: Half a Life&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;DS9: The Dogs of War&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;DS9: For the Uniform&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Pale_Moonlight&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DS9: In the Pale Moonlight&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, widely regarded as the single best episode of the show. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/80UNk.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/80UNk.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In his earlier career, he served as a Marine in Korea (allegedly &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/writergeekrhw/status/1141559327829811202&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;lying about his age to allow him to join at the age of 16&lt;/a&gt;), became a POW and was released when his captors found out his real age. After graduating law school on the GI Bill, he provided writing talent for numerous shows ranging from &lt;em&gt;Man from UNCLE&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Six Million Dollar Man&lt;/em&gt; through to &lt;em&gt;Knight Rider&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Xena: Warrior Princess&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2019-06-22T15:53:09.187" LastActivityDate="2019-06-22T15:53:09.187" Title="RIP Peter Allan Fields, Star Trek screenwriter and producer" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12583" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-06-23T02:07:24.640" Score="10" ViewCount="346" Body="&lt;p&gt;I ran across &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/186086/why-did-willie-scott-get-on-the-plane-with-indiana-jones/214798#214798&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; in the Late Answers review queue and flagged it &lt;code&gt;Not an Answer&lt;/code&gt; as it seemed to be both a partial question and an attempt to reply to a comment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The text of the NAA flag for reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This was posted as an answer, but it does not attempt to answer the question. It should possibly be an edit, a comment, another question, or deleted altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Gawd2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Gawd2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer later made it to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/149788&quot;&gt;Low Quality Posts&lt;/a&gt; queue, where it was deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, for some reason, before this occurred, a moderator decided to manually decline my flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0KhEz.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0KhEz.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus raising the question, why was my flag declined? And why wasn't it just allowed to pass through the Queue system like normal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62201" LastEditorUserId="62201" LastEditDate="2019-06-23T02:20:28.773" LastActivityDate="2019-06-25T18:14:40.653" Title="Why was this NAA flag declined by a moderator?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12584" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-06-23T04:18:07.670" Score="-2" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;A (somewhat common?) point that is made by Primarily-Opinion-Based close-voters is that we can close questions that we think have never been addressed, and simply reopen them when someone does come up with something. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/208716/if-harry-looked-in-the-mirror-of-erised-now-what-would-he-see#comment570507_208716&quot;&gt;this comment&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm reasonably sure there's no canon answer. If I'm wrong, you can always ping me and the question can be reopened with trivial ease&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such I would like to request that the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/80333/would-it-have-been-possible-to-trap-lord-voldemort-in-professor-quirrells-body&quot;&gt;Would it have been possible to trap Lord Voldemort in Professor Quirrell&amp;#39;s body?&lt;/a&gt; be reopened, as I would like to post a non-opinion-based answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/reopen/149892&quot;&gt;A recent Reopen Review&lt;/a&gt; failed to reopen the question, but if the above is true then the question should be reopened in response to someone stating that he/she has an answer to post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Disclaimer: I make no claims that my answer is the correct answer, nor even that it entirely answers the question. However, it is solely based on facts from the books, and provides relevant information, which qualify it as an &quot;answer&quot;. Moreover, there are two existing answers which do not contain this information, which may therefore give readers a skewed view of the subject.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastActivityDate="2019-06-24T22:23:14.783" Title="Answer-based reopen request" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|vote-to-reopen|primarily-opinion-based|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12585" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-06-24T12:51:09.737" Score="1" ViewCount="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider this following spoiler block:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The quick brown fox:&#xA;&#xA; * Jumped over the lazy dog&#xA; * And did something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should have one paragraph, then a bulleted list with two items - just as if it were not in a quoted non-spoiler block:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The quick brown fox:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Jumped over the lazy dog&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;And did something else.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or no block at all:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The quick brown fox:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jumped over the lazy dog&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And did something else.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... but that's not what happening. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16835" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-06-24T13:03:42.103" LastActivityDate="2019-06-24T13:03:42.103" Title="Lists are not working in spoiler blocks" Tags="|support|bug|spoilers|markdown|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2019-06-24T13:26:41.473" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12585" CreationDate="2019-06-24T12:56:43.067" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spoiler markdown doesn't really work well with other markdown. This is pretty much by design as we don't want too much content being hidden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said you can insert a list into spoiler markdown by using plain HTML like the below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;! The quick brown fox:&#xA;&amp;gt;!&#xA;&amp;gt;! &amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;gt;!   &amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Jumped over the lazy dog&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;gt;!   &amp;lt;li&amp;gt;And did something else.&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;gt;! &amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which renders as the below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The quick brown fox:&#xA;&#xA; &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;   &lt;li&gt;Jumped over the lazy dog&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;   &lt;li&gt;And did something else.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA; &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-06-24T12:56:43.067" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12587" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12588" CreationDate="2019-06-24T14:23:06.433" Score="-3" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Copied from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11995/102999&quot;&gt;Valorum's guide's question on video game identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We seem to have a pretty regular number of story-ID questions specifically focused on finding half-remembered Western &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our top tag is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; (with over 10,000 questions) and we already have an excellent guide to help people answer them in &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9335/102999&quot;&gt;How to ask a good story-ID question?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; that users can direct querents towards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What additional advice can we offer on writing a good story-identification question aimed at locating a specific Western comic book or graphic novel?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-06-24T17:25:07.070" LastActivityDate="2020-03-22T04:27:52.640" Title="How to ask a good (Western comics) story-ID question" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|comics|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12587" CreationDate="2019-06-24T14:23:06.433" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Additional information that would be useful when identifying Western comics questions includes;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How was it released?&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a really big one, as it can totally change the possible works it could be. Are you looking for an arc of a larger comic book series, a single issue, a graphic novel originally published in that format, or something else entirely? If it were a stand-alone graphic novel, I'd look in very different places from if it were a DC series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where was it released?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where did you read it? Give countries, and be more specific if it seems relevant (e.g. they might have different comics for sale in Quebec than other parts of Canada).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What did the cover look like?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try to describe the cover for us. What color was it? Who was on it? What sort of pose were they making?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do you remember any specific dialogue or lines?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any phrases you specifically remember? These are good for finding these, as we can look for them in potential matches to check if they’re likely right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What language was it in? What do you believe it was originally in?&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, for example, it was in Inuktun, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Greenland&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;which only has 800 speakers or so&lt;/a&gt; and apparently was originally in that language, that would be very useful to know and narrow it down a lot. It also can change how we'll look; Jenayah mentions using Portuguese and Spanish keywords to find answers in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12294/102999&quot;&gt;a post describing how she finds answers to story identifications.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do you know who published it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it DC? Was it Marvel? If it was either, that eliminates a whole giant group of comics it could be misidentified as. If it was a smaller publisher and you know it, that narrows it down tons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What genre was it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it a superhero comic? Was it comedic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who was it aimed at?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it for kids? Was it very adult? If it was Marvel or DC and it was very violent and/or sexual, that's useful to know as it very much limits the years it could be from due to the Comics Code Authority's censorship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What did the characters look like?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What did the characters look like? Describe their clothes, faces, skin color, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What style was it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What did it look like? Was it similar to Franco-Belgian &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligne_claire&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ligne claire&lt;/a&gt; comics like *TintinU? Did it look like &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GpMgt.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a 1960s DC comic&lt;/a&gt;? Did it look like &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fBXHk.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;modern, computer-edited superhero comics&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can you remember anything else about the comic?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything else? Was the author female? Because unfortunately so few DC and Marvel comic book writers/illustrators are women, this can narrow it down a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2020-03-22T04:27:52.640" LastActivityDate="2020-03-22T04:27:52.640" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12584" CreationDate="2019-06-24T22:23:14.783" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;After carefully considering all of the following points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers don't make questions on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments don't make questions on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The lack of an answer does not make a question off-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;We don't know&quot; is a valid answer, which can be supported by canon evidence.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Closing or reopening a question should not require extensive subject-matter expertise.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...I have voted to reopen. The question is specific, closely related to canon events and characters, and appears to have a well-defined answer (which might or might not be &quot;we don't know&quot;). It is a hypothetical question, but those are not automatically off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question of which comments reopen reviewers may or may not have looked at, and whether those comments were useful or convincing enough, is entirely irrelevant. The question should be not have been closed in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastActivityDate="2019-06-24T22:23:14.783" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12590" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-06-25T15:24:43.223" Score="7" ViewCount="341" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Update&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2019/07/highlights-from-2019-2nd-quarter/?preview=true&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The post is now live&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Original&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from April 1st 2019 through June 30th 2019.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2019/04/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2019/04/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2019/04/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I will also be linking all blog posts that happened within this quarter. Also the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/550327/most-controversial-posts-on-the-site-by-start-date&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;most controversial question&lt;/a&gt; of the quarter. Also a sum of all the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/618952/past-bounties-by-bounty-date&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;bounties&lt;/a&gt; that were awarded.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also if there was a meta post you feel should be spotlighted those are also acceptable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sometimes I really hate Reddit all the time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2019-07-20T12:27:01.883" LastActivityDate="2019-07-20T12:27:01.883" Title="Favorite Questions and answers from second quarter of 2019" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12591" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-06-25T16:03:24.817" Score="18" ViewCount="665" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I read &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.serverfault.com/questions/6617/should-we-enable-tag-specific-popups/6618#6618&quot;&gt;this Server Fault meta post&lt;/a&gt;, which says how to request tag warnings:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Open a new meta question under the tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tag-warnings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tag-warnings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tag-warnings&lt;/a&gt; with the proposed text and the tag to which it should be applied. This will allow for community input to improve the text, if necessary, before we kick it upstairs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We get a ton of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions, and have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7508/102999&quot;&gt;this old request&lt;/a&gt; with no specific agreed text or staff response, so here I am proposing the warning. &lt;strong&gt;Please provide feedback on it in comments and/or answers; this is not final&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;When did you view it? Give an approximate year or range of years&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What kind of media was it? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What language was it in?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Where do you think it was from?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What &lt;em&gt;unique&lt;/em&gt; plot details do you remember?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What were the characters like?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For more detailed guidance, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9337/102999&quot;&gt;How to ask a good story-ID question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastEditorUserId="16845" LastEditDate="2023-07-24T19:51:30.350" LastActivityDate="2023-07-24T19:51:30.350" Title="Tag warning for story-identification" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|story-identification|tag-tips|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12583" CreationDate="2019-06-25T18:14:40.653" Score="7" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Because it's an attempt at an answer&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Borrowing from &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/287563/youre-doing-it-wrong-a-plea-for-sanity-in-the-low-quality-posts-queue&quot;&gt;Meta.SO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HdeFL.png&quot; alt=&quot;NAA/LQP, explained with fruit&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not a &lt;strong&gt;good&lt;/strong&gt; answer by any stretch, but it does actually try&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q: Why did Willie Scott get on the plane with Indiana Jones?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A: Does anyone remember that Lao Che had refused to give up the diamond to save Willie's life? And when she finally got the diamond, she didn't bother to give it to him. If Lao wasn't a gangster . . . perhaps. But he was. And I don't see Willie going back to him. Not after what had happened in the Obi Wan Club.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare that to this -2 answer from the same question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A: After Lao Che got his hands on the diamond, Indy threatened Willie again. This time, Lao didn't give a rat's ass and told Indy that he could keep her. I really cannot see Willie resuming her relationship with Lao after that. And the moment Willie got her hands on the antidote, Indy clung to her like a leech. He didn't even have the opportunity to take the antidote until they were in the car, on their way to the airport.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is this answer substantially different from the deleted one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So let's go back to the NAA description&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was posted as an answer, but it does not attempt to answer the question. It should possibly be an edit, a comment, another question, or deleted altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It does &lt;em&gt;attempt&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's not an edit or another question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Deleted altogether? Hmm...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the NAAs I've seen on SFF tend to run into&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wild speculation (often without sources)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pure commentary and/or rambling&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unrelated junk&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is none of those. But what about &amp;quot;deleted altogether&amp;quot;? It's important to note here that &lt;strong&gt;NAA/LQP is not a super-downvote&lt;/strong&gt;. If an answer isn't good &lt;strong&gt;downvote it&lt;/strong&gt;. Downvotes hurt a lot more than deletion. And the system is biased against people who make poor scoring posts. If you want something gone because it's just noise &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/trusted-user&quot;&gt;that's what 20k+ trusted users are for&lt;/a&gt; (or, in the rare case of positive score answers, mod flags). To reiterate a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10977/62709&quot;&gt;point I made elsewhere&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're a long term user. &lt;em&gt;You should know what a good answer looks like now&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're thinking &amp;quot;But, how can we find crap to delete vote?&amp;quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tools?tab=delete&amp;amp;daterange=last30days&quot;&gt;there's a 10k+ tool for that&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-06-25T18:14:40.653" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12593" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-06-26T09:05:25.353" Score="3" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/58193/thelethalcarrot?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;my Reputation tab&lt;/a&gt; for yesterday when I earned a bounty and the text of it is green, same as normal positive reputation events, and it has the blue bounty background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9rITK.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9rITK.png&quot; alt=&quot;Reputation tab showing incorrect colouring&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe it should have white text like the accepts and how it used to be. In fact they still show with white text and the blue background on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/J2H9F.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/J2H9F.png&quot; alt=&quot;Reputation tab on S?O showing correct colouring&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can this be fixed so it has the correct colouring again?&lt;/strong&gt; It is hard to read at the moment for the best of us but I imagine some colour blind people might not be able to read it at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="119235" LastEditDate="2019-08-01T06:26:33.190" LastActivityDate="2019-08-01T06:26:33.190" Title="Incorrect text colouring on earned bounties in the Reputation tab" Tags="|bug|status-completed|profile-page|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12590" CreationDate="2019-06-26T13:33:40.010" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/210720/what-term-is-being-referred-to-with-reflected-sound-of-underground-spirits&quot;&gt;Reflected-sound-of-underground-spirits&lt;/a&gt; A puzzle that brings back old memories, but one I can't remember if I solved or had the answer handed to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40437" LastActivityDate="2019-06-26T13:33:40.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12595" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-06-26T14:39:50.013" Score="6" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today, I came across a situation that makes for a very good illustration of the reason for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12569/what-are-the-criteria-that-make-for-better-quality-questions-and-answers-for-s&quot;&gt;my most recent meta question&lt;/a&gt; -- several questions have been asked, answered, and/or accepted about an old TV movie called &quot;The Questor Tapes.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions are as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jan 30 2014 - Android reshapes dice in casino (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/49153/android-reshapes-dice-in-casino&quot;&gt;Android reshapes dice in casino&lt;/a&gt;) [answer &lt;strong&gt;formally accepted&lt;/strong&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jan 24 2016 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/116042/film-about-alien-android-that-molds-facial-features&quot;&gt;Film about alien/android that molds facial features&lt;/a&gt; [answer &lt;strong&gt;not accepted&lt;/strong&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nov 21 2016 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/145574/sci-fi-movie-where-earths-most-influential-figures-are-revealed-to-be-alien-and&quot;&gt;Sci fi movie where Earth&amp;#39;s most influential figures are revealed to be alien androids&lt;/a&gt; [answer &lt;strong&gt;informally accepted&lt;/strong&gt; by comment]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Aug 20 2017 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/167600/what-was-the-name-of-1960ish-movie-about-an-android-that-had-to-find-its-creator&quot;&gt;What was the name of 1960ish movie about an android that had to find its creator before its internal H-bomb would make it blow up&lt;/a&gt; [answer &lt;strong&gt;formally accepted&lt;/strong&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jun 26 2019 - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/215075/movie-where-an-android-has-incomplete-programming&quot;&gt;Movie where an android has incomplete programming&lt;/a&gt; [answer &lt;strong&gt;formally accepted&lt;/strong&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12546/are-duplicate-chains-to-be-avoided-when-possible&quot;&gt;apparent broad consensus&lt;/a&gt;, the community-desired outcome would be to &lt;strong&gt;choose one of the four accepted answers above as the &quot;best&quot; of the lot&lt;/strong&gt;, and to close the other three questions with accepted answers as duplicates of it. Note that this means that the challenge is to decide which is the &lt;strong&gt;best of the group&lt;/strong&gt;, not simply whether any one is better than any other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are pros and cons for each post (taking both Q&amp;amp;A into account), as I see it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jan 30 2014 - highest votes for Q&amp;amp;A, oldest question with accepted answer, formally accepted, but focuses on very specific scene&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nov 21 2016 - distinctive higher-level plot feature (reveal about historical figures being androids), answer has photos, but not formally accepted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Aug 20 2017 - clearest overall plot summary, formally accepted, but Q&amp;amp;A are both very terse and potentially confusable with other films&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jun 26 2019 - distinctive higher-level plot feature (incompletely programmed android), at least one picture, formally accepted, but Q&amp;amp;A of only basic overall quality&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question that has attracted the most links from others is ironically the only one of the five without an accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since many people seem to have strong opinions about what makes for &quot;better&quot; questions and answers, I'm inviting you all to &lt;strong&gt;chime in with an answer below that makes a case for one of the four answers deemed accepted&lt;/strong&gt; by the rules for closing duplicates. I'm very interested to see what kind of reasoning garners the most support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a courtesy, I would &lt;strong&gt;request that nobody close any of the answers as duplicates until there has been a chance for a discussion to develop here&lt;/strong&gt;. These questions have remained open for some time, and there is &lt;strong&gt;no pressing reason to close them&lt;/strong&gt; until an attempt to reach consensus can be made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42769" LastActivityDate="2019-06-27T02:04:11.237" Title="How to choose the best hub question: a case study" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|story-identification|duplicate-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12595" CreationDate="2019-06-27T02:04:11.237" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you are asking for opinions that can apply to any set of questions, I haven't done more than glance at the examples you linked to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion is to go with the Q&amp;amp;A pair that best describes the story. That means giving priority to those describing higher level plot features over those that deal only with a specific scene. Questions that are so terse that they could apply to many stories probably do not best describe the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While having a formally accepted answer is not a requirement, I think that many people who follow a link to a dupe question expect that the answer they have been promised is the accepted answer to the dupe target. If there is a choice of valid Q&amp;amp;As that could be the dupe target (they all clearly describe the story), I would give preference to a Q&amp;amp;A where there is a formally accepted answer and that answer is the one that clearly identifies the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66402" LastActivityDate="2019-06-27T02:04:11.237" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12597" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-06-27T15:13:03.760" Score="6" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/215148/102999&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; about &lt;em&gt;Tolkien&lt;/em&gt;, a biographical movie about J.R.R. Tolkien. While I haven't seen the film, apparently it's not fantastical or anything. However, the question is open with no close votes or comments about its on-topic-ness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should biopics on science fiction/fantasy authors be on-topic here?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastActivityDate="2019-07-09T21:30:54.117" Title="Should biographies of sci-fi/fantasy authors be on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12597" CreationDate="2019-06-27T15:37:29.943" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that's pretty hard (i.e. impossible) to reasonably distinguish between &quot;discussion about an author&quot; and &quot;discussion of a biography about the author.&quot;  The biography/biopic is just another source of information for on-topic questions about an author, and it's reasonable to question the accuracy or content of a biography.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stepping back a bit, it's sometimes hard to analyze individual works, series or SF trends without talking about the point-of-view, ideas, biases, competencies, etc. of an author.  Sometimes even the editor, like John W. Campbell, can reasonably be part of the analysis.  So creators of SF themselves obviously must be on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this particular question, it's about far more than some random biographical detail such as his marital status; it has to do with the creation of the Qenya language which is obviously relevant to Lord of the Rings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastActivityDate="2019-06-27T15:37:29.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12517" CreationDate="2019-06-27T21:09:19.677" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am offering 100 bounty to the following question about Frank Herbert’s &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dune&lt;/a&gt; series:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/206886/13217&quot;&gt;What age would an off-worlder start taking the spice Melange?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I previously put a bounty on it, but it expired with no new answers. I am looking for an answer that relies on original sources (book quotes, author statements, etc), &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13217" LastActivityDate="2019-06-27T21:09:19.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12525" CreationDate="2019-06-28T14:14:39.417" Score="1" Body="&lt;h1&gt;FIXED&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, the issue has been resolved. You can check out the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review&quot;&gt;Review Queues&lt;/a&gt; to see the perfect, unmarred box!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user112267" LastActivityDate="2019-06-28T14:14:39.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1030" CreationDate="2019-06-29T05:12:07.500" Score="-1" Body="&lt;h1&gt;We should definitely have a migration path to Literature.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; is really big here, and we somewhat regularly get questions on it about non-speculative fiction books or short stories. Some of the time these are actually quite good, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/215214/102999&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;, but I have to do a mod flag. It'd be easier if we could just vote to migrate without bothering with that, but we don't have a migration path there (or to &lt;strong&gt;anywhere&lt;/strong&gt;, for that matter).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastActivityDate="2019-06-29T05:12:07.500" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12603" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12604" CreationDate="2019-07-01T10:21:09.013" Score="1" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note, I do not have close-vote privileges, so instead I have to use flags. The flag menu has an explicit &quot;this question should be closed&quot; submenu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I flagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/214969/58193&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; for closure with the custom reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Close for future works? The answer is &quot;no&quot; right now, could be completely different (and obvious) next week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was declined with the message&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surely that's wrong? If flags are not supposed to be used for closure, why is there a whole UI supporting it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why was this flag declined?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13024" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2019-07-01T11:00:26.300" LastActivityDate="2019-07-02T16:25:52.613" Title="Why was this &quot;future works policy&quot; close flag declined as an improper use for flagging?" Tags="|support|specific-question|flagging|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12603" CreationDate="2019-07-01T10:39:51.957" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm reasonably sure one cannot write an actual custom close reason before having close privileges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you get to 3k the dialog shows a new option in the &quot;close as off-topic&quot; submenu, saying &quot;I'm voting to close this as off-topic because... (Enter text)&quot;. This leaves a comment with the text you wrote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As shown in this screenshot (thanks Mith!), such an option is missing for &amp;lt;3kers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0Lv7X.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0Lv7X.png&quot; alt=&quot;close reasons on SFF&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I think happened is that &lt;strong&gt;you used a custom mod flag, which is &lt;em&gt;technically&lt;/em&gt; not a close flag&lt;/strong&gt;. Thus, the mod handling it may have rejected it as the valid flag would have been a close one, sending it to close queue, leaving it to be handled by the community - something that does not, especially, requires mod-only intervention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'm not the mod who handled it, so that's just my best guess...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: this answer was written to respond to the first version of this meta question. As it was edited to tackle a specific main question, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12605/98028&quot;&gt;TLC's answer&lt;/a&gt; for the future works thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2019-07-01T10:59:35.020" LastActivityDate="2019-07-01T10:59:35.020" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12603" CreationDate="2019-07-01T10:44:24.997" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The flag was declined correctly because the post itself does not fall foul of the Future Works Policy as it is clearly asking about events that have already happened. It is &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; asking what will happen or the like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has the connection between these characters and this event been confirmed in Agents of SHIELD &lt;strong&gt;(so far)&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not that I'm doubting it - it's just enough of a plot convenience to be true - but has any of the exposition &lt;strong&gt;we've seen so far&lt;/strong&gt; explicitly confirmed this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case it looks like the moderator chose the best canned decline reason to explain why they were declining the flag. Though I suppose &amp;quot;found no evidence to support this&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;please use standard flags&amp;quot; may have been better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, on reflection and looking at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12604/58193&quot;&gt;Jenayah's answer&lt;/a&gt; it looks like you accidentally used a custom mod flag as custom close reasons aren't supported for &amp;lt;3k users. Therefore, it was declined with the correct reason as it didn't require mod intervention and should have been flagged for closure through the normal process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FWIW in this case you should have really flagged for closure with &amp;quot;Primarily opinion based&amp;quot; as that is the close reason that is used for the Future Works Policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-07-02T16:25:52.613" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12606" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12607" CreationDate="2019-07-03T07:09:17.957" Score="10" ViewCount="266" Body="&lt;p&gt;Say someone asked a question, that seemed legit to him at the moment.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The community thought otherwise and downvoted him and from some (good) reason, the question was closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is it still possible to keep downvoting the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="114456" LastEditorUserId="440" LastEditDate="2019-07-05T15:35:10.667" LastActivityDate="2019-07-05T15:35:10.667" Title="Why is it possible to keep downvoting closed questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12606" CreationDate="2019-07-03T07:16:09.650" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downvoting and closing are two separate things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DMw8v.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DMw8v.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;[image source: &lt;a href=&quot;https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5170/2235&quot;&gt;Shog9&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A closed question may still be upvoted, although it's a rare case that an off-topic thing is still popular. A question may also be heavily downvoted despite not being closed. There's a clear separation between the two axes on that diagram. So the system allows up/down voting on closed questions as well as open ones. That way, we can see the difference between &quot;terrible off-topic question&quot; (very low score, closed) and &quot;bad off-topic question&quot; (quite low score, closed) and &quot;question which is OK but just happens to be off-topic&quot; (score not bad, closed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least in theory ... in practice, of course, voting is a bit harder to predict and not always exactly tied to post quality ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2019-07-03T07:16:09.650" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12606" CreationDate="2019-07-03T08:45:25.567" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to add onto Rand's answer because it was getting a bit long for a comment and I think it warranted an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at this a different way, would you want to stop people from upvoting questions that are closed? I suspect that you wouldn't but then why should someone be allowed to upvote but not downvote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are still viable reasons for voting in either direction because it is closed. For example, one might upvote a question closed as a duplicate because it is still a good question and a good duplicate is generally a good question. One might also upvote a question that they believe is good &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; wrongfully closed. There are any number of reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same applies in the other direction, for downvoting too. There are again many reasons which correlate to the same reasons one would downvote an open question. There are a couple of things I would like to point out though which help the system:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Downvoting a question to -4 or below means it won't show up on the homepage. In some, (hopefully) rare, cases this is desirable so that as few as people as possible see the post. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the question is downvoted enough &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; closed the automatic script will come along and &quot;clean up&quot; (delete) the question in some cases. Therefore, downvoting in cases like this helps the system be clean and streamlined.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-07-03T13:21:14.653" LastActivityDate="2019-07-03T13:21:14.653" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12597" CreationDate="2019-07-03T13:25:54.153" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Absolutely.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The biography on the author can fall in two &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;on-topic categories&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Historical or societal context of a work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking about an author's life definitely falls to into fandom information and can help us understand themes, settings, and character motivations within a work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question about a work (book or film) that is about the author's life is just the same as asking about the author's life directly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2019-07-03T13:25:54.153" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12611" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-07-03T22:17:31.927" Score="3" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you get to a 404 error page you see this image, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/73Aqx.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/73Aqx.png&quot; alt=&quot;404&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; This looks like some sort of runic symbol or something similar, can anyone tell me what this is supposed to be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100113" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-07-03T22:33:04.907" LastActivityDate="2019-07-03T22:36:35.283" Title="What is our 404 image?" Tags="|support|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12611" CreationDate="2019-07-03T22:36:35.283" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it is supposed to be a combination of the site logo and the site banner image. See the site logo:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4NXdO.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4NXdO.png&quot; alt=&quot;The site logo&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which the designer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/976/58193&quot;&gt;Jin describes as follows&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The logo for the site is the rune circle around the female warrior's silhouette. It's not actually in the logo type &quot;Science Fiction + Fantasy.&quot; I feel this placement sets the mood better in the header image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the site banner image featuring the Angel of Death:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vXA8Y.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vXA8Y.png&quot; alt=&quot;The site banner image&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-07-03T22:36:35.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12613" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12615" CreationDate="2019-07-08T17:22:40.873" Score="3" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the screenshot of my user page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SFzGy.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SFzGy.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which obviously doesn't contain the link to its meta site whereas the meta site contains the link to the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ul4Js.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ul4Js.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the third time I am typing this post. Before submitting I go to my user page to double check only to find that the problem does not appear anymore. That's why before this I discarded my post twice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/o5iFo.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/o5iFo.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what's the reason behind the link getting disappeared? And why does it reappear without any visible reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am using Windows 10 v1903, Firefox v67. I think my connection is stable enough and I don't think I have any plugins enabled that could raise an error. I haven't hidden any profiles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason could be that this is the first time I visited meta. In fact, I just checked it on another Stack Exchange site and it turns out to be true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102438" LastEditorUserId="41668" LastEditDate="2019-07-10T21:35:57.787" LastActivityDate="2019-07-10T21:35:57.787" Title="Link to meta sometimes doesn't appear on user page" Tags="|support|status-bydesign|meta|profile-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12597" CreationDate="2019-07-09T21:30:54.117" Score="1" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Yes, but to a limited extent&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should allow a subset of questions about biographical works on creators (authors, screenplay writers, directors, etc.) of fantasy and/or science fiction works. On-topic questions should be those directly about the subject of the biographical work (e.g. questions about whether information provided in the biography is accurate). Off-topic questions should be those that are not directly about the subject (e.g. questions about the production of the biography).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a similar policy, we allow questions about works that are not inherently on-topic (i.e. are &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; fantasy or science fiction), as long as the questions are about on-topic elements within those works (i.e. occasional fantastical or science fiction elements); we don't allow any other questions about those works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5833" LastActivityDate="2019-07-09T21:30:54.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12613" CreationDate="2019-07-10T21:35:14.770" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't create meta profiles for users until they actually go to meta. So, if you've never visited, you'll not have a link to the profile, since it doesn't exist!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you visit (assuming you're logged in), it should always be there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar question was asked previously on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/306819/profile-page-on-some-sites-dont-show-link-to-meta-user-page&quot;&gt;our main meta site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41668" LastActivityDate="2019-07-10T21:35:14.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12517" CreationDate="2019-07-18T03:25:04.900" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am offering bounties of +100 for the identification of each of the items listed below—and +200 for locating a watchable/playable version of each.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/146930/looking-for-educational-film-about-sentient-colors&quot;&gt;Educational film where all the bright colours were kidnapped by the evil gray monster&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/s&gt; &lt;em&gt;This one has been identified.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/176614/seeking-a-game-like-hunt-the-wumpus-but-with-graphics-rpg-elements-and-a-balro&quot;&gt;Seeking a game like Hunt the Wumpus but with graphics, RPG elements, and a balrog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/179389/seeking-humorous-film-parodying-modern-architecture-in-a-near-future-setting&quot;&gt;Seeking humorous film, parodying modern architecture in a near-future setting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/118039/what-movie-or-television-show-contains-a-short-clip-of-radagast-the-brown&quot;&gt;What movie or television show contains a short clip of Radagast the Brown?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastEditorUserId="48874" LastEditDate="2019-07-18T23:40:28.993" LastActivityDate="2019-07-18T23:40:28.993" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12517" CreationDate="2019-07-18T14:24:48.370" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am offering a 100-200 bounty, or more (depending how good the answer is) for a logical answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/174706/do-goblins-consider-all-money-ever-made-theirs&quot;&gt;Do Goblins consider all money ever made theirs?&lt;/a&gt;. I, and I alone, will decide if the answer makes sense for my purposes. I do not like the current answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a canon answer is provided - from the books or a JKR quote - a minimum of 250 will be given (more for an obscure quote or better answer.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; question, not a story ID question, so it should be answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89771" LastActivityDate="2019-07-18T14:24:48.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12618" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-07-20T21:08:05.253" Score="-4" ViewCount="262" Body="&lt;p&gt;I stumbled upon &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/203606/who-is-the-bfp-on-peters-suitcase#comment556479_203606&quot;&gt;this comment&lt;/a&gt; attached to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/203606/who-is-the-bfp-on-peters-suitcase&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's Benjamin Effing Parker, dammit!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I at first flagged it as &quot;no longer needed&quot; as it does not contribute to the question or discussion in any way. As a reminder, here's what the description of that flag is: (emphasis mine)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This comment is outdated, &lt;strong&gt;conversational or not relevant to this post.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This flag was declined...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, I flagged it as &quot;unfriendly or unkind&quot; because its use of strong language which may not appeal to many users (e.g. myself) who find it inappropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This flag was also declined...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can someone please explain to me what value is brought by this comment and why it has remained on this question?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user112267" LastActivityDate="2019-07-21T08:00:34.513" Title="Why does this comment still remain?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12618" CreationDate="2019-07-21T08:00:34.513" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;For my money, you're conflating two entirely separate issues; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Whether we should continue to be broadly tolerant of 'jokey' or humourous comments on posts &lt;em&gt;in general&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Whether the use of 'effing' crosses over the boundary of inappropriate content &lt;em&gt;in specific&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Funny Comments:&lt;/strong&gt; &#xA;Over time we've developed a culture that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6576/what-should-we-do-about-funny-comments&quot;&gt;encourages, or at least &lt;em&gt;doesn't discourage&lt;/em&gt;,  the posting of funny comments and responses&lt;/a&gt;, especially on questions that aren't especially hard to answer. As well as actually being funny on occasion, these also seem to serve as a cathartic outlet for frustration (preventing people from posting more unfriendly or acerbic comments like &quot;&lt;em&gt;did you even bother to google it?&lt;/em&gt;&quot;). &#xA;Mostly they get washed away by moderators when they run overlong, but in general they're accepted by the community and &lt;strong&gt;I think we're stronger for having them.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Saucy Language:&lt;/strong&gt; This is a site for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/269014/are-users-under-the-age-of-13-now-allowed&quot;&gt;over 13's&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and while I think we can all accept that using high grade swearwords (like f*ck) should be discouraged unless they're used in context or quotes, that doesn't mean that we should have a puritanical attitude. Bowdlerised text like 'effing' (or 'SOB' or 'flipping' or 'sugar') are, to my mind, sufficiently low-level that we should show some tolerance when they're used. That doesn't mean that you can't flag them if you &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;personally&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; find them to be grossly offensive, &lt;strong&gt;but don't expect a moderator or other community members to agree with you.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2019-07-21T08:00:34.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12620" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12622" CreationDate="2019-07-22T10:43:48.460" Score="6" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is showing that I have asked questions with positive votes on 7 different days but still I am not getting the curious badge? What is the reason for this?&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0LeV7.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0LeV7.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="96769" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-07-22T11:29:00.907" Title="Why am I not getting the curious badge?" Tags="|support|badges|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12620" CreationDate="2019-07-22T11:07:18.080" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you track the badge on your profile page it will say something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;need positive question record&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably you have some deleted questions and they are negatively scored and/or closed. You can find your deleted questions with this search &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=deleted%3Ayes+is%3Aq&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;deleted:yes is:q&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (when you have 10k rep), it will only return your own deleted content as you can't search other user's deleted content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To fix this you either have to edit and undelete some questions to fix them up or just keep asking more questions until you have a &quot;positive question record&quot;. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/67399/345161&quot;&gt;following information&lt;/a&gt;, specifically the last part, is important here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;There are four different counts that are tracked when calculating the criteria for this badge:&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Positive: Number of questions asked on this day that have a score greater than 0.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Negative: Number of questions asked on this day that have a score less than 0.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Closed: Number of questions asked on this day that are currently closed and the current closure date occurred within 60 days of being asked.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Deleted: Number of questions asked on this day that are currently deleted and the current deletion date occurred within 60 days of being asked.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Any day that has at least one Positive question &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; also has no Negative, Closed, or Deleted questions counts as a &quot;qualifying day&quot; which increments the counter.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A positive question record means you don't have too many Closed, Negative, or Deleted questions overall. The formula is &lt;code&gt;(TotalQuestions - Negative - Closed - Deleted) / TotalQuestions ≥ 0.5&lt;/code&gt;. Questions that qualify as Negative &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; Closed &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; Deleted count three times in this calculation!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-07-22T11:28:04.410" LastActivityDate="2019-07-22T11:28:04.410" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12620" CreationDate="2019-07-22T11:26:17.583" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;You also have &lt;strong&gt;seven deleted questions&lt;/strong&gt;. (You can't find them using search since you have less than 10k rep, but you will be able to see them if you're given the links. Let me know if you want me to provide links so you can check.) So &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/214582/31394&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, for example, &quot;doesn't count&quot; towards your Curious badge because you also asked a deleted question on the same day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of those seven deleted questions, &lt;strong&gt;six have negative score&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;three are closed&lt;/strong&gt;. So using the metric in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12621/31394&quot;&gt;TLC's answer&lt;/a&gt;, your record is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;(TotalQuestions - Negative - Closed - Deleted) / TotalQuestions = (19 - 6 - 3 - 7) / 19 = 3/19&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which is not more than half. Ironically, if you just undeleted all your self-deleted questions, then I think you would get the badge! (Not that I'm necessarily recommending you do that, since at least some of those closed self-deleted questions really should be deleted.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-07-22T11:29:00.907" LastActivityDate="2019-07-22T11:29:00.907" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12623" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12624" CreationDate="2019-07-23T18:25:30.467" Score="1" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What topics can I ask about here?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange is for questions targeted towards science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts. This includes questions about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Plot, character, or setting explanations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Historical or societal context of a work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Story identification&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Franchise/series reading or viewing order&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I'm curious if Sci-Fi games fall under any of these categories. So, are questions regarding Sci-Fi games allowed on this community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102438" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-07-23T18:46:00.907" Title="Is asking about Sci-Fi games on-topic?" Tags="|support|scope|help-center|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2019-07-23T18:47:54.760" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12623" CreationDate="2019-07-23T18:45:32.450" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;games&lt;/a&gt; tags. The wiki for the former describes when it is appropriate to ask a question about a sci-fi (or fantasy) video game:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For questions about the plot or backstory of a game with science-fiction/fantasy elements. Questions about playing the game or the mechanics are off-topic here, but may be on topic at Arqade (&lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;). Game identification questions are also on topic as long as they're specifically about a Science Fiction and Fantasy game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar guidelines apply to non-video games.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastActivityDate="2019-07-23T18:45:32.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12625" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12626" CreationDate="2019-07-24T06:03:49.700" Score="4" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;Say I want to watch a television show or a movie. Their genre is definitely suitable for this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I read some reviews and comments which seem pretty weird to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it OK to ask about this as a question in SF&amp;amp;F? When the question level/idea is higher than actually what happens in the series?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just so you know exactly what I mean, I just started watching Jinn on Netflix with my friends, we all thought it was an interesting episode and the quality of filming, directing and acting was pretty good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, its score on IMDB is very low, and I wanted to discuss with the community why do they think this is happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will appreciate hearing your thoughts on the subject before I get unnecessary downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="114456" LastActivityDate="2019-07-24T08:32:09.060" Title="Is it OK to ask about quality and reviews" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12625" CreationDate="2019-07-24T08:19:56.843" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Reviews yes, quality no.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ask about &lt;strong&gt;why something got bad reviews&lt;/strong&gt;, that might be OK. It could be objectively answerable from actually finding constructive criticism in reviews, or answerable by a subject matter expert by assessing and summarising what they know about the reasons for critique. Cf. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/108486/31394&quot;&gt;What was the general critical reaction to Star Trek: The Motion Picture?&lt;/a&gt; for examples of both types of answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ask about &lt;strong&gt;why something got worse reviews than it deserved&lt;/strong&gt;, that's inherently opinion-based and would probably be closed. Your view that it was good shouldn't enter into the question. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;help centre says&lt;/a&gt; don't ask questions like &lt;em&gt;“______ sucks, am I right?”&lt;/em&gt; and the same goes for &lt;em&gt;“______ is great, am I right?”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/strong&gt; keep your questions to something that's impersonally answerable (whether objectively or by &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/09/29/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective&lt;/a&gt; informed and reasonable speculation) and you have a good chance. Turn it into something about your subjective opinion, and it's likely to be closed as Primarily Opinion-Based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(Of course, this is no guarantee of anything. You &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; still get close votes for asking why something got bad reviews - they'd be unwarranted in &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; opinion, but there we go.)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2019-07-24T08:32:09.060" LastActivityDate="2019-07-24T08:32:09.060" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12627" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-07-24T20:53:38.343" Score="29" ViewCount="250" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://variety.com/2019/film/news/rutger-hauer-dead-dies-blade-runner-co-star-1203278050/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Variety reports&lt;/a&gt; that Rutger Hauer, actor in &lt;em&gt;Sin City&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;True Blood&lt;/em&gt;, and other sci-fi and horror films, has died at 75.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He will perhaps be best remembered for his role in &lt;em&gt;Blade Runner&lt;/em&gt; as Roy Batty, a Replicant hunted by Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford). During his final moments, he gives a monologue about what he has seen, which seems like a fitting sendoff for the actor's life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/HU7Ga7qTLDU?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13217" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2019-07-25T08:31:13.153" LastActivityDate="2019-07-25T08:31:13.153" Title="RIP Rutger Hauer, actor for Roy Batty" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12628" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-07-25T09:51:37.433" Score="5" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;Occasionally, the resolution of a movie is that all the scifi or supernatural elements turn out to be fabricated with some conventional technical tricks. For instance, &amp;quot;ghosts&amp;quot; may have be en simulated with light effects, etc., possibly to make one or more characters erroneously believe they are witnessing supernatural happenings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Example: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/122262/21137&quot;&gt;1990s paperback with a recently divorced woman plagued by a stalker and a paranormal presence&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are such works in scope for this site?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question has already been answered positively for the related case of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3450/21137&quot;&gt;dreams or hallucinations&lt;/a&gt;. Technical trickery may or may not be treated somewhat differently, though: Dream worlds in fiction typically form some kind of universe of their own (even if said universe is not a physical reality in-universe), whereas the described tricks are more about misleading the protagonists and the audience likewise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the same time, I could think of some cases that would make this kind of works hard to exclude completely:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A work may leave it open to interpretation whether everything was fake, or whether something supernatural was going on after all.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Especially in story ID questions, askers may not be aware of the work's resolution and the supernatural or mundane nature of things presented earlier in the work.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21137" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-07-25T12:58:11.287" Title="Are works whose SciFi and Fantasy elements turn out to have been created by conventional means on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2019-07-25T16:00:03.123" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12628" CreationDate="2019-07-25T10:08:00.397" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the most recognisable examples I can think of that would fit the type of questions you are talking about here is &lt;em&gt;Scooby-Doo&lt;/em&gt;. In the show various mysteries that seem to be monsters, ghouls or ghosts turn out to be &quot;some dude in a suit&quot;. Nothing supernatural has actually occurred (I'm ignoring the films here). I bet most people would say it is off topic for that reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this applies to the rest of the type of works you are talking about: &lt;strong&gt;if nothing supernatural has actually occurred then it isn't SFF-nal.&lt;/strong&gt; And if it isn't SFF-nal then it isn't on topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, had the supernatural thing turned out to have been fake &lt;em&gt;but&lt;/em&gt; created by means that were themselves SFF-nal then it is on topic, just not for the reasons initially thought. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the work leaves it open for interpretation then by definition we don't know if it was or wasn't SFF-nal and I think it would be best to have it be on topic. We don't want to erroneously exclude something that later turns out to be on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions are themselves a different ball game because the asker may or may not know if the element was fake. I think we can draw some easy guidelines on it though:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the asker doesn't know that the SFF-nal elements were created through normal means then it is on topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the asker does know, as in your example question, then it is off topic as they know it isn't SFF-nal.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-07-25T10:08:00.397" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12628" CreationDate="2019-07-25T12:36:11.680" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll take the opposite stance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a work presents itself as having a fantasy element, then it should be on topic. Even if later those are shown to be a trick. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is mostly a matter of practicality. A story that appears initially to be about ghost, or time travellers or some such will be presented as such in its blurb or trailers. The &quot;twist&quot; of it being faked can't be revealed without reading/watching the whole film and is a massive spoiler. As you've noted under the story-identification tag, there's no guarantee that the questioner remembers or even read the twist ending in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the advertising of a piece of media makes it SF&amp;amp;F, then we should treat it as SF&amp;amp;F. As per &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/are-works-that-arent-sf-per-se-but-have-occasional-sfnal-elements-on-topic-e/344#344#&quot;&gt;Occasional Sci-Fi Elements&lt;/a&gt; point number 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40437" LastEditorUserId="40437" LastEditDate="2019-07-25T12:58:11.287" LastActivityDate="2019-07-25T12:58:11.287" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11587" CreationDate="2019-07-25T20:38:23.297" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a work markets itself as SF&amp;amp;F, then we should treat it as SF&amp;amp;F. As per &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/are-works-that-arent-sf-per-se-but-have-occasional-sfnal-elements-on-topic-e/344#344#&quot;&gt;Occasional Sci-Fi Elements&lt;/a&gt; point number 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is mostly a matter of practicality. A story that appears initially to be about ghost, or time travellers or some such will be presented as such in its blurb or trailers. The &quot;twist&quot; of it being faked can't be revealed without reading/watching the whole film and is a massive spoiler. When thinking about the very popular story-identification tag, there's no guarantee that the questioner remembers or even read the twist ending in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40437" LastActivityDate="2019-07-25T20:38:23.297" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12632" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-08-01T15:35:07.333" Score="2" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/216902/who-is-stronger-the-mountain-or-hodor&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; that compared the physical strengths of Hodor and the Mountain in GoT/ASoIaF.  It was quickly closed as being &quot;primarily opinion-based,&quot; but I tried to make clear that I wanted to know about specific feats each character performed &quot;on-screen&quot; in the books or show. How is that opinion-based?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79277" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-08-01T16:09:13.270" LastActivityDate="2019-08-01T16:14:08.633" Title="Why is my question considered opinion-based?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12632" CreationDate="2019-08-01T16:07:58.677" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only reliable way to compare their physical strengths would be if they both performed &lt;em&gt;the same&lt;/em&gt; feat and the success of each of them could be measured in some way. Even then, as DavidW points out in the comments, we would only be comparing strengths for that particular task and the results might be different if we looked at a different task.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trying to compare physical strength by looking at very different feats is inherently opinion based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66402" LastEditorUserId="66402" LastEditDate="2019-08-01T16:14:08.633" LastActivityDate="2019-08-01T16:14:08.633" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12634" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-08-01T16:56:28.087" Score="3" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes when I answer a story ID question I'll include a picture of the book cover, typically grabbed from Goodreads or some similar site. I generally try to choose what seems a sensible size for the picture, but I have had people edit my answer and resize the picture I used. Is there any standard for the ideal size to use for a book cover in an answer? If not, should there be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4144" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2019-08-01T17:27:57.050" LastActivityDate="2019-08-02T08:28:56.167" Title="Is there a preferred picture size for story ID questions?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|images|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12635" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-08-02T06:52:12.220" Score="4" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;British actor Jeremy Kemp &lt;a href=&quot;https://comicbook.com/2019/07/24/jeremy-kemp-dead-star-trek-the-next-generation-family-robert-pic/?fbclid=IwAR2OoFGOEykCBoTDt3fRAqAY_PT9_g9CCa4XHaFULOq2nTWBhTy8XSwLaOc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;died on July 24th&lt;/a&gt; of this year.  A prolific actor best known for dramatic roles in mini-series and television, he also had a couple of notable Sci-Fi appearances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kemp turned in a memorable performance Jean-Luc Picard's elder brother in the TNG episode &quot;Family.&quot;  He was also well-received for his portrayal as the guilt-ridden scientist Ernst Queller in the SPACE:1999 episode &quot;Voyager's Return.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/99i4t.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/99i4t.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Kemp as Robert Picard&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/I0aMx.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/I0aMx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69621" LastActivityDate="2019-08-02T06:52:12.220" Title="Jeremy Kemp (Robert Picard in ST:TNG), RIP" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12634" CreationDate="2019-08-02T08:28:56.167" Score="3" Body="&lt;h3&gt;No, there is no preferred image size for story id answers or for any post for that matter. Use whichever size you think makes sense in context to how you are using it.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are no rules on it and nor should there be, in one case a huge image might be warranted in another a tiny image necessary, we shouldn't enforce rules on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said personally myself I will leave it alone if the image is landscape, on its own between text and there aren't too many images in my post. Else if the image is portrait, I have a few images or a few images together I go by gut feeling for how big is too big and if it is too big downscale it using imgur's modifiers. I tend to pick &lt;code&gt;m&lt;/code&gt; and set the click through link as the full resolution image. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![This is a test image][1]][2]  &#xA;&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;_Click image to enlarge._&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;  [1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/1X4XDm.jpg&#xA;  [2]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/1X4XD.jpg&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Renders as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1X4XD.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1X4XDm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;This is a test image&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;Click image to enlarge.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be quite awkward to do if you have a lot of images in the post but personally I have gotten quite quick at changing it. Just a matter of copying a few lines and changing a couple of numbers. For a list of other imgur modifiers see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1957/58193&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is worth noting if you want to do it all inline you can use:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![This is a test image](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1X4XDm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1X4XD.jpg)  &#xA;&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;_Click image to enlarge._&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This renders the same as the above but depending on the individual may be harder to read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-08-02T08:28:56.167" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11441" CreationDate="2019-08-05T04:02:06.123" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fact that this site has decided (regrettably) to make fan fiction on topic does &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; mean that fan faction has to be on a &lt;strong&gt;par&lt;/strong&gt; with professional science fiction and fantasy. Let's just ban all questions about &lt;strong&gt;erotic fan fiction&lt;/strong&gt;. (If that gets rid of the majority of fan fiction questions, I don't see that as a problem.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastActivityDate="2019-08-05T04:02:06.123" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12639" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-08-05T05:36:44.613" Score="2" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;This validation error seems wrong. I tried to add a 5th tag only, not more than 5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please enter no more than 5 tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried both the mobile site and the desktop site in a mobile browser, same result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/g9iDU.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/g9iDUm.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot showing the error message on mobile&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84134" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-08-05T08:08:19.053" LastActivityDate="2019-08-05T08:16:28.857" Title="Only adding 4 tags, complaining about more than 5?" Tags="|bug|tags|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12639" CreationDate="2019-08-05T06:51:12.430" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It’s the underscore that’s causing the problem. It doesn’t seem count as a valid “word separator” for tags so “Conrad” and “Stargard” are counting as two different tags. You can see this even more clearly if you press space after the tag and it converts the underscore to a hyphen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact even if this wasn’t standard behaviour I would suggest you always use hyphens instead of underscores in tags so it keeps everything consistent across the site. Actually looking a bit further the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/18879/345161&quot;&gt;tagging guidelines&lt;/a&gt; on main meta even state you should use hyphens in place of spaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Replaces spaces with dashes (-) to combine multiple words into a single word (i.e, Tag &quot;&lt;code&gt;Unit Testing&lt;/code&gt;&quot; as &quot;&lt;code&gt;unit-testing&lt;/code&gt;&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FWIW I can't find an explicit post about the changing of underscores to hyphens in tag names, only &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/106032/345161&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; about improving that feature but it should be enough to prove this is what happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-08-05T08:16:28.857" LastActivityDate="2019-08-05T08:16:28.857" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12641" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-08-06T09:58:19.460" Score="-4" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although cross-posting is frowned upon, it is considered acceptable to re-ask that question on to a new Stack Exchange site if you feel that the answers you received from the earlier time do not meet your requirements or expectations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why then was this question migrated to Movies.SE?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/217130/why-was-jake-and-the-never-land-pirates-cancelled&quot;&gt;Why was &amp;quot;Jake and the Never Land Pirates&amp;quot; cancelled?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-08-06T10:13:39.763" LastActivityDate="2019-08-06T10:39:15.267" Title="Why was the question &quot;Why was Jake and the Never Land Pirates cancelled?&quot; migrated to Movies?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|migration|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12641" CreationDate="2019-08-06T10:17:53.030" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not a mod so I can't speak for the exact reasons this happened but looking at it, it does makes sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/64068/345161&quot;&gt;Consensus appears to be&lt;/a&gt; do not cross post 99% of the time with the only times being appropriate are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if you delete and re-ask.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if you edit it to tailor it to the second site and/or explain why the original question didn't get a satisfactory answer on the other site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't appear to have met those criteria. In fact if anything the cross posted question here was of worse quality than the original question over on Movies.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was probably migrated instead of deleted outright just so they could preserve the answers that were posted here. One of the answers was mainly a repeat of information so now looks weird on the merged question but the other, yours, was of high quality and so preserving this information rather than deleting outright was a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-08-06T10:17:53.030" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12641" CreationDate="2019-08-06T10:39:15.267" Score="12" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;it is considered acceptable to re-ask that question on to a new Stack Exchange site if you feel that the answers you received from the earlier time do not meet your requirements or expectations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;citation-needed&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a classic case of cross-posting. The questions might be worded differently, but &quot;why was this [4-season] show cancelled&quot; and &quot;why did they not make a fifth season&quot; are equivalent. There was no effort to tailor the question to &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; site specifically in order to differentiate it from the previous question, which might have made it acceptable to cross-post if the questions were sufficiently different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ordinarily in cross-posting cases, we close and delete one of the two questions. However, if the question has received answers on more than one site, then it's often worth migrating and merging in order to preserve good content. In this case, since the OP had posted on M&amp;amp;TV first and then reposted on SFF a few months later, I discussed with a M&amp;amp;TV mod and opted to keep their version as the &quot;master&quot;, migrating our version over there to preserve all the answers in one place. This is standard practice for cross-posts with answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's basically the same thing as we do when someone reposts the same question on the same site (close and delete the repost, merge to preserve content if applicable), only with the extra added step of migration as necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2019-08-06T10:39:15.267" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12644" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12645" CreationDate="2019-08-08T01:01:12.897" Score="4" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I looked up the user fez, and here is what the page showed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VWNlt.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VWNlt.png&quot; alt=&quot;fez is shown with -202 reputation&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when I clicked on it, fez's user page showed what seemed like the correct reputation (5,000 something).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: When I look it up again, it shows up the correct rep and all their badges and stuff. Why did it originally show -202 with no badges?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user112267" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-08-12T22:35:36.477" LastActivityDate="2019-08-12T22:35:36.477" Title="Why is fez's reputation showing up as -202 on the &quot;Users&quot; page?" Tags="|bug|reputation|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12644" CreationDate="2019-08-08T01:06:49.797" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're looking at the reputation of the users in this calendar month, August. Since this user gave a bounty, their reputation in the last month has fallen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/47pOh.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/47pOh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to the numbers, it's evident that they probably gave a 200 reputation bounty (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/212627/51379&quot;&gt;on this&lt;/a&gt;) and got one downvote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastActivityDate="2019-08-08T01:06:49.797" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12646" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-08-12T01:44:53.220" Score="-3" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/217170/931&quot;&gt;How can Jor-El represent entire Kryptonian culture?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question has been closed as &lt;em&gt;&quot;unclear what you're asking&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. May I know what is unclear about it so that I can improve it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Edited the question to make it more clear. Please, let me know if it needs more improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="931" LastEditDate="2019-08-13T04:15:17.837" LastActivityDate="2019-08-13T04:15:17.837" Title="How is this question unclear?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12646" CreationDate="2019-08-12T08:21:04.203" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question jumps from blood to culture and misses the link in between for why one connects to the other. It's not evident from the context you provide how culture fits into things. You have a bit of an exchange in the comments about it but that is &lt;em&gt;in the comments&lt;/em&gt; not the question itself. Any pertinent information, which that is, should be in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then culture is a bit of a broad concept anyway so trying to discuss whether or not he represents it isn't rally that clear. To me at least it isn't really clear what you mean by &lt;em&gt;&quot;How does Jor-El represent Kryptonian culture?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; because of that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I think your question needs expanding on, clarifying the link from the quote to your question and more specifically pinning down what you mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-08-12T08:21:04.203" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11715" CreationDate="2019-08-12T21:20:38.713" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was about to go back to that post that I made a few years ago to say that I finally read Helm and finished it as of today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Helm was indeed the incorrect book due to timing, but I still decided to read it as the premise was similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do with that information what you deem correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12161" LastActivityDate="2019-08-12T21:20:38.713" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12650" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12652" CreationDate="2019-08-15T13:46:10.410" Score="0" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;A while-ish ago, I suggested a tag synonym &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/novel/synonyms&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. After this while-ish, it's still stayed at 0 votes. While this could mean that its upvotes and downvotes canceled out, I really doubt that because it seems unlikely, given what the actual synonym is. First of all, I want to know how long it takes before someone actually votes on it. Second of all, &lt;em&gt;please vote on it!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user112267" LastActivityDate="2019-08-15T22:20:49.350" Title="How long does it take for a tag synonym to be approved?" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12650" CreationDate="2019-08-15T13:54:05.103" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tag synonyms take an indeterminate amount of time to be voted on due to how they work. As far as I know there is no automatic system that notifies anyone to vote on a tag synonym request. People need to visit the tag page or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms?tab=Newest&amp;amp;filter=Suggested&quot;&gt;Tag Synonym Dashboard&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Then&lt;/em&gt; that user needs &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/suggest-tag-synonyms&quot;&gt;an answer score for that tag of at least 5&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Users with a total answer score of 5 or more on the tag, can vote for tag synonyms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best way to speed up the process is to either ask a meta question on it, preferably beforehand asking if it is a good idea, ask in chat &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; flag for moderator attention. I would use the last option sparingly though and where it is essentially a clear cut case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;A note about this request&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This request should get declined as the tags have different uses. Just in regards to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; is used when trying to identify a novel and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; is used when identifying a series &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; when we don't know what sub type of book it is i.e. they say book but don't specify between novel, novella, short story, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-08-15T13:54:05.103" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12650" CreationDate="2019-08-15T22:20:49.350" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Tag synonym suggestions are largely ignored unless specifically raised.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no easy way to navigate to the tag synonyms page, and I'd guess very few if any people regularly check for tag synonym suggestions. Also the system won't automatically bring any proposed tag synonym to the attention of users able to review it (e.g. there's no review queue for tag synonym suggestions). So if you just propose a synonym and let it lie, it's very unlikely to be seen. You could ask for help in chat, or better on meta, to get a tag synonym approved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's often useful to get moderator help for tag synonymisation. The &lt;em&gt;merge&lt;/em&gt; tool (only available to diamond mods) is usually better to use than the synonymisation tool, since it leaves no trace of the synonym tag hanging around on old questions even though it can't be added to new ones. For very clear cases you &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; consider raising a mod flag, but apparently it's possible that someone might consider two tags &quot;clearly synonymous&quot; which actually aren't at all. That brings me to the second point ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Your particular suggestion was very wrong and has been rejected.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's no longer visible on the page you linked to in the OP, but from comments and the other answer here I gather that you proposed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; as a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; or vice versa. As has already been explained to you in comments, these two are not remotely synonymous, either as tags on SFF.SE or even as English language words. Many books are not novels, so the words are not the same, and for our site it's useful to break down the general &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; tag into subcategories like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt; with their own tags. So the community rightly downvoted your tag synonym suggestion enough that it disappeared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2019-08-15T22:20:49.350" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12653" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12654" CreationDate="2019-08-16T08:55:15.340" Score="6" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is some specific Fantasy artwork (1980 or earlier era) for which I would like to find out who was the artist. The style is extremely distinctive and I remember back in the day such imagery was used on book-covers and illustrations in books and magazines.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In this particular case I don't actually have any samples to post, but I can mock up a sketch that clearly demonstrates the distinctive trademark style aspects, which should be recognizable to anyone who is familiar with this artist's work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For other cases I can envision posting some sample pictures (I have pictures, but I don't know where they came from. Copyright status might be problematic, but that is an entirely different question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would an Artist-ID question be on-topic for this site? The Faq and help-center don't give much guidance on artwork-id, but to me it is somewhat similar as story-id questions.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If it is on-topic I would like to suggest an Artist-ID tag might be useful as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. I asked a question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/159907/origin-of-old-drawings-before-1995-of-defrog-space-craft&quot;&gt;see here&lt;/a&gt; a little over 2 years ago on a somewhat similar subject which didn't get any votes to close. But it isn't exactly the same thing either. I only added the image in that question later to provide further clarification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22571" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-08-16T09:14:49.290" LastActivityDate="2019-08-21T23:07:06.017" Title="Artist-ID from artwork sample or artwork description. On-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12653" CreationDate="2019-08-16T09:20:53.550" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes these are on topic&lt;/strong&gt; and I don't see why they shouldn't be. As long as the artwork is clearly science fictional and/or fantastical it is perfectly fine to ask about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To avoid any doubt we have had several question in the past that asked to ID an artist or artwork, for example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/12780/58193&quot;&gt;Wanderers of Time &amp;amp; Next of Kin Cover artist&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/181659/58193&quot;&gt;Help me Identify Strange and Bizarre Fantasy Artist, World Was Similar to Dragons Lair Game&lt;/a&gt; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/176078/58193&quot;&gt;SF artwork identification - painting of woman looking through a playing card&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking through these most appear to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/art&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;art&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;art&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cover-art&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cover-art&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cover-art&lt;/a&gt;. I don't really see the need for a more specific &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/artist-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;artist-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;artist-identification&lt;/a&gt; tag especially considering it was decided to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10288/58193&quot;&gt;nuke the [author-identification] tag&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The normal guidelines when asking are in place i.e.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide information to state how it is SFF-nal&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide as much extra information as possible&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Where did you see it (artbook, cover art etc.),&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When did you see it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And so on.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9337/58193&quot;&gt;general story id guide&lt;/a&gt; for some more tips if you need them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="21267" LastEditDate="2019-08-21T23:07:06.017" LastActivityDate="2019-08-21T23:07:06.017" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12655" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-08-16T15:14:52.643" Score="20" ViewCount="223" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not too long ago I made a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12392/58193&quot;&gt;couple&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12557/58193&quot;&gt;posts&lt;/a&gt; congratulating some of our highest reputation users hitting some of the big milestones. Recently I've noticed a handful of users have reached some lower but still very impressive milestones at a similar time. They are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;10k - DavidW, Shreedhar and Laurel&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/101407&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/flair/101407.png&quot; alt=&quot;DavidW&amp;#39;s Flair&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/92306&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/flair/92306.png&quot; alt=&quot;Shreedhar&amp;#39;s Flair&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/82909&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/flair/82909.png&quot; alt=&quot;Laurel&amp;#39;s Flair&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;20k - Mat Cauthon&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/82025&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/flair/82025.png&quot; alt=&quot;Mat Cauthon&amp;#39;s Flair&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;30k - Jenayah&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/98028&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/flair/98028.png&quot; alt=&quot;Jenayah&amp;#39;s Flair&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As always I want to say thank you to these users for their contributions to our stack and I hope you all do too!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disclaimer:&lt;/strong&gt; I noticed these milestones had been hit in passing so chances are I may have missed someone out. If I did I'm sorry, let me know and you can be added in!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-08-18T08:16:49.113" LastActivityDate="2019-08-18T08:16:49.113" Title="Let's take a moment to congratulate some user milestones" Tags="|discussion|users|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12656" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12657" CreationDate="2019-08-16T22:38:33.283" Score="23" ViewCount="1692" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/217565/102999&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; about &lt;em&gt;The Truman Show&lt;/em&gt;. There are three close votes saying it’s off-topic. &lt;strong&gt;Is &lt;em&gt;The Truman Show&lt;/em&gt; a work of science fiction or fantasy?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastActivityDate="2019-08-17T14:17:52.457" Title="Is The Truman Show on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12656" CreationDate="2019-08-16T23:02:51.847" Score="45" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Yes&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many things make this film on-topic. A few:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The giant dome built that a whole (fake) city fits in.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is shown that real lighting storms can be created in it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It’s pretty dystopian.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Truman is effectively owned by the company making the show, and they have gotten away for it for 30 years.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Even without tech like the dome, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12364/102999&quot;&gt;dystopias are on-topic here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/217567/102999&quot;&gt;Valorum’s answer to my question on Main&lt;/a&gt;, a magazine is shown out of the dome as having a date of 1999—the movie is from 1998—so it obviously takes place at least a year in the future.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truman_Show&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia describes it as&lt;/a&gt; a &quot;satirical science fiction film&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-08-17T14:17:52.457" LastActivityDate="2019-08-17T14:17:52.457" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12658" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-08-17T08:29:40.683" Score="-1" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;We semi-recently &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12549/36526&quot;&gt;decided&lt;/a&gt; that chains of duplicates are bad, and we want to make &quot;duplicate hubs&quot; instead of chains. I assume this applies to both main and meta, because there's no obvious reason to treat them differently, and the top-voted answer points to an example from MSE, the meta to our meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, we have this chain of duplicates:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12363/36526&quot;&gt;Are all utopias and dystopias on-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11685/36526&quot;&gt;How much dystopia is needed to be on-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/337/36526&quot;&gt;Are works that aren&amp;#39;t SF per se, but have occasional SFnal elements on-topic? (e.g. spy movies)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(1) is a dupe of (2), which is a dupe of (3). (3) contains no mention whatsoever of utopias and dystopias, in either the question or the answers, and (2) has no answers at all. We can't use (2) as a hub without any answers, and making (1) a dupe of (3) seems a bit... wrong. (1) is all about whether we can treat 'topias as &quot;SF per se&quot; in the first place, and has nothing to do with &quot;occasional elements.&quot; How should this problem be resolved (leave as chain, make (1) the hub for (2), do something else)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastActivityDate="2019-08-18T15:24:05.243" Title="Can we please un-chain these dupes on meta?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|meta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12546" CreationDate="2019-08-18T01:25:57.147" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;While it has long been a subject of contention here whether a question can be a duplicate of a different question if an answer to the different question also addresses the new question, the fact remains that many questions are closed in this manner. If A is closed as a duplicate of B because an answer to B also answers A, and B is closed as a duplicate of C because an answer to C also answers B, it is entirely possible that the answer to C does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; answer A. Thus, making C a “hub” to which both B and A are closed is not a viable option, as A is not a duplicate of C in any way. If the answer to B also doesn’t answer C, and the answer to A doesn’t also answer B and C, then neither B or A can be a hub either. Therefore, there are clearly instances where having a hub simply won’t work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastActivityDate="2019-08-18T01:25:57.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12660" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-08-18T01:41:42.883" Score="5" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a recent question of mine, I encountered what I think is a bug when I tried to put a regular blockquote between two spoilers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;!This is spoiler 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;This is the regular blockquote&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;!This is spoiler #2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, it renders everything as one big blockquote as well as the exclamation points that are supposed to make something a &amp;quot;Spoiler&amp;quot;.  Trying to make the middle  blockquote into a spoiler, resulting in three sooilers in a row, also fails.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;!Spoiler 1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;!Spoiler 2&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;!Spoiler 3&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It happens on both the mobile site and the full site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63330" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2020-08-20T11:51:59.817" LastActivityDate="2020-08-20T11:51:59.817" Title="Weird bug - can't put a regular blockquote between two spoilers" Tags="|support|spoilers|markdown|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12660" CreationDate="2019-08-18T02:14:53.733" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is spoiler 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;This is the regular blockquote&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is spoiler #2. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this what you want?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Code for the above:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;!This is spoiler 1.&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;!&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;gt;&quot;This is the regular blockquote&quot;.&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;!&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;gt;!This is spoiler #2. &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2019-08-18T15:25:03.603" LastActivityDate="2019-08-18T15:25:03.603" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12658" CreationDate="2019-08-18T15:24:05.243" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I've edited the list of dupe targets for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12363/36526&quot;&gt;Are all utopias and dystopias on-topic?&lt;/a&gt; to include your #3 as well as #2.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think it makes sense to include #2 in the list, since it may be useful to see that dystopia &lt;em&gt;specifically&lt;/em&gt; has been asked about before and decided to be a dupe, as well as the more general discussion. (To put it another way, #2 is &lt;em&gt;more clearly&lt;/em&gt; a dupe target than #3.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;One way in which meta may behave differently from main is that policy discussion can be had, in both comments and answers, and in some cases it's interesting to see that the community voted strongly for something at a particular time. If, for example, the question #2 had a &lt;em&gt;stronger&lt;/em&gt; consensus for &quot;dystopia is on-topic&quot; than the general consensus found at #3, then #2 would've made more sense as a dupe target than #3. However, in reality, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11685/31394&quot;&gt;How much dystopia is needed to be on-topic?&lt;/a&gt; has no answers and no useful discussion in comments, so it's not very useful as a dupe target.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To resolve the issue that neither #2 not #3 directly &quot;answer&quot; #1, I've added &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/537/31394&quot;&gt;Would non-horror Speculative Fiction be on-topic for this site?&lt;/a&gt; as another dupe target, since this is the best source I could find for the policy that our scope is &quot;speculative fiction&quot; as well as &quot;science fiction&quot; plus &quot;fantasy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2019-08-18T15:24:05.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12414" CreationDate="2019-08-25T05:27:26.947" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very late, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/animation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;animation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;animation&lt;/a&gt;'s description now is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use this tag on story-identification questions about works in unknown styles of animation in conjunction with another media tag such as [movie] or [short-film] when [animated-series] wouldn't make sense. Use [anime] or [cartoon] if the style of animation is known.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastActivityDate="2019-08-25T05:27:26.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12665" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-08-25T18:20:20.410" Score="13" ViewCount="362" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have had about a dozen Not An Answer flags on this site disputed or declined. In most if not all of those cases I thought that it was pretty straightforward why the post was not an answer, and in some cases I left a comment explaining why. I would therefore like to understand where I am going wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see a few possible options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some reviewers/moderators disagree with my assessments of the specific posts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some reviewers/moderators disagree with the underlying premises of what makes a post not an answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some users/moderators misunderstood what the questions were asking and therefore thought the posts did constitute answers, or I misunderstood what the questions were asking and therefore thought the posts did not constitute answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some users/moderators misunderstood what the answer posts were saying and therefore thought the posts did constitute answers, or I misunderstood what the answer posts were saying and therefore thought the posts did not constitute answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know from other Meta posts, both here and on the network-wide Meta site, that the second option has been subject to various debates. Particularly in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/185073/how-do-i-properly-use-the-not-an-answer-flag&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/310638/should-a-custom-flag-be-used-instead-of-the-not-an-answer-flag-when-the-answer&quot;&gt;its follow-up post&lt;/a&gt; there was much discussion (including in the comments) about whether an answer post must be recognizably not an answer even without the context of the question in order to qualify for a Not An Answer flag. &#xA;on this specific Meta site there have been at least two general discussions (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11388/lets-get-aligned-on-our-site-specific-usage-of-the-not-an-answer-flag&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1597/how-do-we-handle-answers-that-dont-answer-the-question&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) about what makes something not an answer, and (to my understanding) the top answers to both assume that an answer post has to specifically address the specific question asked in order to qualify as an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the parameters of that are still somewhat vague. Answer posts can look like actual answers to a question because they discuss the topic in general, or related issues, or cite many sources, yet still don't actually tackle the question head on. Particularly in the comments &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11392/100430&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; there seems to be some confusion about answers that address a question's title but don't actually address the elaborated version of the question in the body of the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are a bunch of examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/105858/100430&quot;&gt;Spell Propagation Speed?&lt;/a&gt; asks about the speed at which spells travel from the caster to the object being acted upon. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/148009/100430&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; discusses the speed at which the acted upon object travels back to the caster. At a quick glance it seems like an answer. It discusses the general topic and it cites an authoritative source, but it doesn't appear to address the actual question that was asked. My flag there was disputed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/191430/100430&quot;&gt;Why did Dumbledore place a guard for the prophecy at the ministry?&lt;/a&gt; asks how a single guard for the prophecy would be of any value. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/207421/100430&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; explains why Dumbledore wanted the prophecy to be protected in the first place, but does not discuss the value of a single guard. My flag was disputed (though the answer was eventually deleted by the owner).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/163471/100430&quot;&gt;Why did Voldemort need to get the prophecy from the Ministry?&lt;/a&gt; asks why Voldemort needed to get the prophecy from the Ministry if he had already gotten it from Snape. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/177778/100430&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; explains why Voldemort needed the prophecy at all, but does not address why he had to get it if he already had it. My flag was declined as: &lt;em&gt;flags should not be used to indicate technical inaccuracies, or an altogether wrong answer&lt;/em&gt;. In fact I do not think the answer is wrong or inaccurate; it's just an answer to a different question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/23995/100430&quot;&gt;Should Quirrell Have Survived Harry&amp;#39;s Touch?&lt;/a&gt; asks why Quirrell died if he had unicorn blood that should have protected him. While &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/32963/100430&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; talks about Quirrell and cites sources, making it look like an answer at a glance, it does not address why Quirrell died. My flag was disputed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/206261/100430&quot;&gt;Why did Harry Potter take place in 1981?&lt;/a&gt; asks why Harry Potter took place when it did. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/206687/100430&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; explains how we know that it took place when it did, but offers no explanation as to why. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are more examples, but I don't think it is necessary to list all of them. A common denominator that I see here is that it is not immediately obvious that these answer posts do not actually address the question. If you only look at the answer post, or look at the answer post after a quick glance at the question title, the answer posts seem relevant. But (at least in my opinion) once you carefully read the questions you see that these answers don't actually address the specific points being raised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what is actually going on here? Am I missing something that makes these types of answer posts actually considered to be answers? Or are there simply reviewers not reviewing carefully enough, or perhaps reviewing on topics that they don't know enough about to evaluate the answers? Either way, what if anything should be done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2019-08-26T03:49:21.210" LastActivityDate="2019-09-03T17:49:11.863" Title="Am I misusing the &quot;Not An Answer&quot; flag?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|answers|not-an-answer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12665" CreationDate="2019-08-26T02:32:23.803" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Not An Answer flag has nothing to do with whether the answer answers the question. It has to do with whether the answer &lt;em&gt;is an answer&lt;/em&gt;. That is, was the person posting it &lt;em&gt;at least trying&lt;/em&gt; to answer the question, even if they got it completely wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, the following things do not fall under the NAA flag, because they all represent a misunderstanding on the answerer's part, and not an intent to post garbage:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answered a different but similar/related/tangential question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answered the question based on a flawed understanding of it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answered the question with flawed evidence or no evidence&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Just flat out gave an incorrect answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The NAA flag is intended for posts that &lt;em&gt;are not answers -- to anything&lt;/em&gt;. Rants, should-be-comments, follow-up questions, meaningless rambling, your favorite pet theory, etc. And as always with SE, we are supposed to presume good intentions unless there's clear evidence otherwise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, none of those answers you cited meet that bar. The author may have been completely off base -- which is why we have downvotes -- but I see no evidence that &lt;em&gt;they&lt;/em&gt; didn't think they were answering the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2816" LastActivityDate="2019-08-26T02:32:23.803" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12665" CreationDate="2019-08-26T03:43:35.660" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was already mentioned in comments that &quot;disputed&quot; and &quot;declined&quot; are slightly different things: for this type of flag, &quot;disputed&quot; means &lt;strong&gt;the community voted not to delete through the review queue&lt;/strong&gt; while &quot;declined&quot; means &lt;strong&gt;a moderator manually declined your flag&lt;/strong&gt;. You've only ever had one NAA flag &lt;em&gt;declined&lt;/em&gt;, which was the flag I recently declined on this answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/177778/31394&quot;&gt;Why did Voldemort need to get the prophecy from the Ministry?&lt;/a&gt; Here the question is, in its entirety, &quot;&lt;em&gt;Snape had already delivered the entire prophecy to Voldemort while still being a Death Eater, so why did Voldemort need to get the prophecy from the Ministry?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; and the answer is, in its entirety, &quot;&lt;em&gt;He needed it to know how to kill Harry.&lt;/em&gt;&quot; This is, in fact, essentially the correct answer, just not properly explained or backed up and without the extra information which proved part of the question's premise wrong. It's a very &lt;em&gt;poor&lt;/em&gt; answer, but it is an answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other flags you mention were disputed by the community, so I'll just link you to the relevant Low Quality review tasks without trying to explain the reviewers' reasoning. After moderator review and/or further flags, &lt;strong&gt;all four of these have since been deleted&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/148009/31394&quot;&gt;Spell Propagation Speed&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/143793&quot;&gt;review task&lt;/a&gt; (Looks OK x 2)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/207421/31394&quot;&gt;Why did Dumbledore place a guard for the prophecy at the ministry?&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/143748&quot;&gt;review task&lt;/a&gt; (Looks OK x 2)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/32963/31394&quot;&gt;Should Quirrell Have Survived Harry's Touch?&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/150139&quot;&gt;review task&lt;/a&gt; (Looks OK x 2, Recommend Deletion x 2)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/206687/31394&quot;&gt;Why did Harry Potter take place in 1981?&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/143103&quot;&gt;review task&lt;/a&gt; (Looks OK x 2, and both reviewers explained their decision in comments)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2019-09-03T17:49:11.863" LastActivityDate="2019-09-03T17:49:11.863" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12669" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-08-30T14:52:17.950" Score="5" ViewCount="240" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to ask a question about the Marvel character Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan), but I don't know how it should be tagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms._Marvel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Multiple characters&lt;/a&gt; have been called Ms. Marvel in the comics. It originally referred to Carol Danvers, but she's been known as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/captain-marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;captain-marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;captain-marvel&lt;/a&gt; since 2012. Kamala Khan has been the new Ms. Marvel since her series started in 2014.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should questions about Kamala Khan be tagged as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ms-marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ms-marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ms-marvel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kamala-khan&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kamala-khan&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kamala-khan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ms-marvel-kamala-khan&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ms-marvel-kamala-khan&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ms-marvel-kamala-khan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79413" LastActivityDate="2019-09-04T20:39:49.830" Title="How should we tag questions about Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan)?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12669" CreationDate="2019-08-30T15:01:07.520" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/captain-marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;captain-marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;captain-marvel&lt;/a&gt; is used for Carol Danvers already so there shouldn't be any confusion that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ms-marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ms-marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ms-marvel&lt;/a&gt; will be about Kamala Khan. Considering the upcoming series &lt;em&gt;Ms. Marvel&lt;/em&gt; is going to feature Kamala as Ms. Marvel and Kamala has been that character for years I don't see the need to complicate matters. Just use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ms-marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ms-marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ms-marvel&lt;/a&gt; for questions about the character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To avoid any confusion with the series when that comes out we can just use the year suffix, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ms-marvel-year&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ms-marvel-year&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ms-marvel-year&lt;/a&gt;, that is common practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-08-30T15:01:07.520" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12671" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12673" CreationDate="2019-08-31T10:02:51.597" Score="6" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;My reputation has been slowly trickling up for the past two years and I've hit 10K today. Most of my activity during that time has been trivial. I have no intention of using the moderator tools and I feel uncomfortable with having those permissions on my account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to relinquish the moderator tools? I can't find any information on the SE meta, in the help or FAQs, and Google isn't helping either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48975" LastActivityDate="2019-08-31T15:41:37.307" Title="Relinquish moderator tools" Tags="|support|moderator-tools|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12671" CreationDate="2019-08-31T11:13:06.053" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's only one way to lose access to moderating tools, and that's to not meet the reputation thresholds. If you want, you can achieve this efficiently by giving away bounties. You can give away up to 500 per bounty, and I believe you can have up to three at once. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it may not be worth worrying. If, by some chance, an account with more than 10,000 reputation was compromised and starting doing malicious things, it would be caught, reversed, and suspended &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; quickly. Users with enough reputation can see recently deleted questions, for instance, and any suspicious pattern would be obvious. Moderators can see even more. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastActivityDate="2019-08-31T11:13:06.053" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12671" CreationDate="2019-08-31T15:41:37.307" Score="14" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've hit 10K today. Most of my activity during that time has been trivial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Congratulations! And don't knock yourself: I've been aware of you for a long time due to some of your nice answers in the Tolkien tags - not trivial at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it possible to relinquish the moderator tools?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, there is no way to do this.&lt;/strong&gt; Apart from, of course, simply not using your new powers. Or, as Adamant suggests, giving away bounties to reduce your rep - but then this is going to be an ongoing 'problem' as you'll keep getting more rep from drive-by upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The reason I'm uncomfortable is in case I ever lose control of this account. I dislike having unnecessary permissions on an account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't worry too much about it.&lt;/strong&gt; The term &quot;moderator tools&quot; is a bit of a misnomer. They're tools to assist in site &lt;em&gt;moderation&lt;/em&gt;, yes, but so are the close-vote privilege at 3k and the edit privilege at 2k. They don't give you all the powers of what's usually called &quot;moderators&quot; on SE. You mention that the reason you're worried is the possibility of losing control of your account in the future, but relax because &lt;strong&gt;there's very little a single 10k-rep user can do to sabotage the site&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most of the 10k privileges are purely &lt;em&gt;informational&lt;/em&gt;: you can see deleted posts, see the full history of the review queues, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tools&quot;&gt;lots of useful statistics in the so-called &quot;moderator tools&quot; page&lt;/a&gt;. None of that gives you any extra &lt;em&gt;powers&lt;/em&gt; which could be used for evil.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The main thing you can actually &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; which you couldn't before is vote to delete questions. But note &quot;vote to&quot;. Just like with closing, deleting questions needs &lt;em&gt;several&lt;/em&gt; high-rep users (in this case, at least three) to actually complete the deletion. Also, you can only vote to delete questions which have been closed for at least two days, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/59054/278659&quot;&gt;most such questions technically deserve deletion anyway&lt;/a&gt; (although on SFF we're not too fussy about actually going round deleting them all).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a troll took over your account, the worst things they could do would be things that don't involve the 10k privileges at all: posting nonsense, for example, or deleting your high-quality answers. These things could still be done even if you bounty away &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; your rep first.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Finally, there are checks and balances. If weird behaviour started coming from your account, a moderator could &quot;clear sessions&quot;, automatically logging you out of SE on all devices - that handles the case where a troll got hold of your computer without knowing your password. If it continued after that, we could temporarily suspend your account and reach out to you to find out what was going on.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So all in all, you're just another &lt;s&gt;brick in the wall&lt;/s&gt; 10k user with a lot of new &lt;em&gt;visibility&lt;/em&gt; on the site but no new &lt;em&gt;unilateral powers&lt;/em&gt;. Nobody can destroy the site with that account unless they gain access to a few others too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2019-08-31T15:41:37.307" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12674" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-09-01T07:38:22.687" Score="22" ViewCount="379" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are ads on this site that say &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Find single matures in your area&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120101" OwnerDisplayName="Brianna" LastEditorUserId="124934" LastEditDate="2020-01-07T09:51:52.547" LastActivityDate="2020-01-07T09:51:52.547" Title="Inappropriate ads on this site" Tags="|discussion|advertising|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12674" CreationDate="2019-09-01T08:02:43.193" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;A couple months ago, Stack Exchange decided to try out ads across the network. Some inappropriate stuff slips through sometimes. In that case, per &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/329763/398063&quot;&gt;the official announcement&lt;/a&gt;, please report it as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you wish to report an advertisement, please take a screenshot of the ad and paste the URL (if possible) along with the site where you saw it to a comment or answer. I'll report it to the ads team and we can track it down to investigate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the meantime, given how intrusive some of these ads can be (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/331960/398063&quot;&gt;remember this?&lt;/a&gt;), you may want to use an adblocker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2019-09-01T10:57:14.363" LastActivityDate="2019-09-01T10:57:14.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12669" CreationDate="2019-09-04T20:39:49.830" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering that several characters, including one from Marvel's Distinguished Competition, have used the title &quot;Captain Marvel&quot;, and Carol &lt;em&gt;herself&lt;/em&gt; was known as Ms Marvel, I'd personally be in favor of using the &quot;ms-marvel-kamala-khan&quot; tag for proper distinction. It's little different than using the different tags for &quot;powers&quot; and &quot;super-powers&quot; or &quot;special-abilities&quot;; all cover basically the same topics and areas, but there is a higher level of specificity for clarity of the posters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It makes things logically easier to differentiate, is my thoughts. and this way, if one uses the &quot;ms-Marvel&quot; tag, they can speak to &lt;strong&gt;both&lt;/strong&gt; of these heroes without failing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="114389" LastActivityDate="2019-09-04T20:39:49.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12677" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-09-05T05:57:20.293" Score="5" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many of the &quot;name all of these characters&quot; questions get several downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/218073/who-are-the-378-mutants-in-this-image&quot;&gt;Who are the 378 mutants in this image?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/162632/can-you-identify-each-character-and-spacecraft-in-this-star-trek-tng-30th-annive&quot;&gt;Can you identify each character and spacecraft in this Star Trek TNG 30th anniversary poster?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/139583/who-are-the-characters-on-this-legend-of-zelda-poster&quot;&gt;Who are the characters on this Legend of Zelda poster?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/200274/who-are-all-these-superheros-in-avengers-endgame-poster&quot;&gt;Who are all these superheros in Avengers: Endgame poster?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/171218/can-we-identify-all-the-characters-in-this-universe-113-poster&quot;&gt;Can we identify all the characters in this Universe 113 poster?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are similar questions, all asking people to name all of the characters or objects within a poster. Most of the ones I checked have quite a few downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of these are my questions, so I don't have any skin in the game. I am just curious why the number of downvotes for these tends to be higher than average.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user89104" LastActivityDate="2019-09-30T18:13:32.537" Title="Why do &quot;identify all of these characters&quot; questions get downvoted?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12677" CreationDate="2019-09-05T09:40:01.220" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be honest unless I really like the image I tend to stay largely away from these questions and as Rand stated in the comments most of these questions are largely upvoted, it's just they also attract downvotes. I can think of a few reasons though:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They can be quite boring. Some are &quot;here's an image of some well known characters, who are they all&quot;. It's not really a challenge for most people and quite boring.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To tie in with the above point the questions rarely show any research effort which is one of the reasons to downvote. The question is generally of the form &quot;here's an image who/what is in it&quot;. Even when here's some of the most highly recognisable characters in there the OPs rarely mention them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Asking to identify a few hundred people/things is bordering on &quot;Too Broad&quot;. Whilst we've decided as a community to keep them and not close them some will still downvote to voice their disagreement with them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To tie it together, there are just some people who don't like these questions and that's fine. Their reasons can vary wildly from person to person and question to question and I have by no means covered them here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of it all just look at the score of these posts which is almost always overwhelmingly positive. It doesn't matter about the odd downvote here and there when the majority are upvoting them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-09-05T09:40:01.220" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12679" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12680" CreationDate="2019-09-06T16:42:44.383" Score="3" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see that there are a few &lt;em&gt;The Handmaid's Tale&lt;/em&gt; questions on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have only seen the TV-series, not read the book, and I may recall incorrectly, but I am not aware of any supernatural or fantasy elements in the series. Nor do I remember anything not readily explained by current real-world technology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, the world the story is set in is rather bizarre, but I am not sure if it has any straight up &lt;em&gt;fantasy&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;science fiction&lt;/em&gt; elements?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Correct me if I am wrong, I may remember incorrectly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64504" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2021-08-22T19:03:42.523" LastActivityDate="2021-08-22T19:03:42.523" Title="Why is the The Handmaid's Tale on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ClosedDate="2019-09-06T17:23:54.780" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12679" CreationDate="2019-09-06T16:55:32.907" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are kinda 2 parts to the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, as a general rule we consider a work SF if it was written that way, even if real-world science has caught up to (and passed) it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, a work set in a future society based on extrapolation of a possible societal trend &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; inherently science fictional.  (Sociology is a science.)  Were that not the case, &lt;em&gt;1984&lt;/em&gt; wouldn't be SF.  The same would be true of most post-nuclear-war stories, since in very few cases is the science more advanced than today's (frequently it has gone backwards) and it is simply the scenario itself that is being explored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastActivityDate="2019-09-06T16:55:32.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12681" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12683" CreationDate="2019-09-06T23:09:30.393" Score="20" ViewCount="332" Body="&lt;p&gt;About two months ago, the user &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/118011/jared-westover&quot;&gt;Jared Westover&lt;/a&gt; asked a story-identification question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/214909/book-with-a-magic-school-in-the-sky&quot;&gt;Book with a magic school in the sky&lt;/a&gt;. The question drew one answer, which was not accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two &lt;em&gt;days&lt;/em&gt; ago, Jared asked a new story-identification question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/218476/2010s-y-a-fantasy-book-girl-w-multiple-magic-abilities-attends-secret-school-i&quot;&gt;2010s Y.A. fantasy book: Girl w/multiple magic abilities attends secret school in sky, has tech wiz friend, mother is a baddie, old guy is a phoenix&lt;/a&gt;. This is clearly the same story as in the first question, and the details he provides are almost identical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was all set to flag this as a duplicate, until I read the description for that flag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question has been asked before and already has an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe &quot;already has an answer&quot; means &quot;an answer was accepted&quot;, not just &quot;somebody wrote an answer&quot;. So technically the second question is not a &quot;duplicate&quot; by that standard. But it still feels like it's cluttering up the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we allow this kind of thing? And if not, how do we flag it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76094" LastEditorUserId="76094" LastEditDate="2019-09-06T23:24:38.270" LastActivityDate="2019-09-09T23:36:33.533" Title="Is a user allowed to ask the same question twice if they didn't get an answer the first time?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|flagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12681" CreationDate="2019-09-07T01:52:41.267" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For Stack Exchange in general:&lt;/strong&gt; We didn't put &quot;already has an answer&quot; into the flag description. That's a network-wide requirement: Dupe targets &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/165933/275243&quot;&gt;must have an upvoted or accepted answer&lt;/a&gt;, &quot;with the exception of questions from the same author.&quot; So they've already considered this specific case, and decided to allow closing as a dupe, even if there's no upvoted or accepted answer. In this case, there is an upvoted answer, so it would be legal either way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For SFF in particular:&lt;/strong&gt; Our policy on story ID dupes is a bit more restrictive than most other tags. In general, we &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7067/36526&quot;&gt;require some confirmation&lt;/a&gt; that the answers to the two questions are the same. &lt;em&gt;However,&lt;/em&gt; in cases like this, where it's literally the same author, and the questions look extremely similar, I'm having a hard time believing that's what our policy should be. People should not be allowed to ask the same question twice. So I voted to close the new question as a duplicate of the old question. Perhaps I should have done it the other way around, since the new question has more information than the old one (and, as discussed above, dupes by the same author need not have answers)? Regardless, one should be duped against the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="36526" LastEditDate="2019-09-07T02:41:45.480" LastActivityDate="2019-09-07T02:41:45.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12681" CreationDate="2019-09-07T06:50:45.050" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for raising this. As Kevin said, the usual policy on story-ID duplication (both must be answered and have confirmation that the answer is correct) doesn't apply for this type of scenario. I don't think we ever discussed this on meta before, but it's common sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If &lt;strong&gt;the same question&lt;/strong&gt; (modulo some details, e.g. if they added a bit more description the 2nd time round in an ID question) &lt;strong&gt;is re-posted by the same user&lt;/strong&gt;, then we do the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Close&lt;/strong&gt; one version as duplicate. (This would usually be the newer post, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4744/31394&quot;&gt;potentially not always&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; any extra info from the closed duplicate into the other question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there's any content worth preserving on the now-closed duplicate (e.g. a new answer), &lt;strong&gt;merge&lt;/strong&gt; the two questions together to get everything in one place. (This requires a mod, so do raise a flag in such cases.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Drop a &lt;strong&gt;comment&lt;/strong&gt; informing the OP that they're not supposed to double-post the same question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Delete&lt;/strong&gt; the duplicate question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has the overall effect of returning the site to the state it &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; have been in if the OP had done the proper thing and simply edited their original question with whatever new details they had.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2019-09-07T06:57:37.123" LastActivityDate="2019-09-07T06:57:37.123" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12684" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12685" CreationDate="2019-09-08T13:15:28.990" Score="7" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;We now have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aladdin-2019&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aladdin-2019&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aladdin-2019&lt;/a&gt;, but we've got a lot of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/218689/revisions&quot;&gt;potential tag confusion&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aladdin-disney&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aladdin-disney&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aladdin-disney&lt;/a&gt; (which is now vague). For the sake of clarity and consistency, we should rename the tag to [aladdin-1992] &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might not be a bad idea to also make [aladdin-disney] a synonym of the 1992 tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2019-09-09T06:52:21.610" LastActivityDate="2019-09-09T06:52:21.610" Title="Rename [aladdin-disney] to [aladdin-1992]" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12684" CreationDate="2019-09-08T14:40:02.097" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have retagged the three questions about the film, and transferred the tag description to the new tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastActivityDate="2019-09-08T14:40:02.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12686" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12687" CreationDate="2019-09-09T13:12:29.700" Score="5" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you go to Stack Overflow and see the list of popular tags, you'll find icons on some tags like Android, Angular etc. We'll also like such icons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Star Trek can have its icon because &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek#/media/File:Emblem.svg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;it has one&lt;/a&gt;. Marvel, Vader etc. can also have icons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please, add icons to some famous tags. Or, allow us to do that as a part of tag wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2019-09-09T13:35:45.157" Title="Please, add icons to famous tags" Tags="|feature-request|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12686" CreationDate="2019-09-09T13:16:38.250" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;These tags don't have icons &amp;quot;just because&amp;quot;; they are sponsored tags. See this &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/30188/345161&quot;&gt;main meta post&lt;/a&gt;, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a sponsored tag - in other words, a company has decided to pay money to put an icon and to put links on the tag page. Moderators cannot edit these; they are only added as a result of a tag sponsorship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag sponsorship program is currently active on Stack Overflow only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're welcome to sponsor some tags to get the icons yourself. However, as the icon is provided by the sponsor I'm not sure if you would be able to use an official logo like you propose here without running into legal issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-09-09T13:35:45.157" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12681" CreationDate="2019-09-09T23:36:33.533" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, the same question should not be posted twice, that is the policy on every Stack Exchange site and its no different here. If you didn't receive a good answer you can consider posting a bounty, even if you don't place one an answer might come later, perhaps even years later, but eventually. In addition, if you find someone's question that doesn't have a good answer you could place a bounty there too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110291" LastActivityDate="2019-09-09T23:36:33.533" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12690" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12693" CreationDate="2019-09-14T00:37:42.370" Score="4" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;A user was just removed who had obviously voted on some of my posts. I lost 20 reputation which may not seem like a lot to all y'all with 400k+ (ahem, Valorum, ahem), but I was pretty annoyed. So what, exactly, is considered a &quot;significant&quot; reputation drop? &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/user-was-removed&quot;&gt;It seems&lt;/a&gt; that the system would flag it. But where's the threshold?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user112267" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2019-09-18T07:57:00.513" LastActivityDate="2019-09-18T07:57:00.513" Title="How much counts as a &quot;significant&quot; rep change from a user being removed?" Tags="|support|reputation|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12691" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12692" CreationDate="2019-09-16T14:01:08.593" Score="13" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just had this wriggleling ads on HNQ. My bad for not using an ads blocker but may you check your ad provider to not spam those &quot;incredible trick&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zgngu.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zgngu.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/329763/were-testing-advertisements-across-the-network&quot;&gt;We&amp;#39;re testing advertisements across the network&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="107904" LastEditorUserId="107904" LastEditDate="2019-09-16T14:06:34.037" LastActivityDate="2019-09-16T14:32:22.117" Title="Wriggleling Ads on Sci Fi" Tags="|support|advertising|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12691" CreationDate="2019-09-16T14:32:22.117" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you for reporting this ad.  We are testing and this type of ad should not be live.  We are addressing it right away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="121544" LastActivityDate="2019-09-16T14:32:22.117" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12690" CreationDate="2019-09-18T07:56:49.857" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;We don't know.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The exact thresholds for things like what counts as serial voting, or automatic question and answer bans, are kept secret. If they were public, people might be able to abuse them. I've even heard of people abusing the system using things to do with account deletion, so that might be a reason to keep the threshold for vote invalidation after deletion secret too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, there might &lt;em&gt;be&lt;/em&gt; no fixed threshold. Deletion of high-rep or high-voting users is reviewed manually by SE employees, so there's probably an element of human judgement in whether or not to preserve votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, 20 rep from a deleted user is no big deal. That's a whole 2-4 votes worth, currently 0.5% of your total rep, regainable with a single good or even not-so-good question or answer. (Maybe this sounds silly from me, sitting here with a 6-digit rep score, but all of that previous sentence is &lt;em&gt;objectively&lt;/em&gt; true.) Speaking from experience, I don't think I've ever seen an account deletion costing any one user over 100-200 rep unless something else was going on, like a serial vote abuser deleting their account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2019-09-18T07:56:49.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12694" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-09-19T14:15:57.337" Score="6" ViewCount="494" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Update&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posted - &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2019/10/highlights-from-2019-3rd-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2019 – 3rd Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Original&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from July 1st 2019 through September 30th 2019.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2019/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2019/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2019/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I will also be linking all blog posts that happened within this quarter. Also the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/550327/most-controversial-posts-on-the-site-by-start-date&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;most controversial question&lt;/a&gt; of the quarter. Also a sum of all the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/618952/past-bounties-by-bounty-date&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;bounties&lt;/a&gt; that were awarded.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also if there was a meta post you feel should be spotlighted those are also acceptable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You really like the word &quot;Also&quot;. – TheAsh&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="1148" LastEditDate="2019-10-09T01:35:26.377" LastActivityDate="2019-10-09T01:35:26.377" Title="Favorite Questions and answers from third quarter of 2019" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12694" CreationDate="2019-09-19T22:09:52.930" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I particularly enjoyed Laurel's (deeply unexpected) answer to this question about an obscure superhero figurine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/212627/weird-blue-and-purple-humanoid-superhero-keychain-with-z-chest-emblem-x-eyes&quot;&gt;Weird blue and purple humanoid superhero keychain with &amp;quot;Z&amp;quot; chest emblem, X-eyes, and trident head&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought my answer to this Truman Show question was pretty nice. It also gave me an excuse to go through the entire film frame-by-frame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/217565/when-does-the-truman-show-take-place&quot;&gt;When does The Truman Show take place?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question/answer set proved amusing. Ryan Veeder performed some very nice statistical analysis and cryptography to come up with an answer, then found his answer proven by simply replacing the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fonts.com/font/comicraft/gobbledygook&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gobbledygook font&lt;/a&gt; with the appropriate letters :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/216683/what-language-is-raven-using-for-her-attack-in-the-new-52&quot;&gt;What language is Raven using for her attack in the new 52?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2019-09-19T22:54:48.663" LastActivityDate="2019-09-19T22:54:48.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12697" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-09-21T21:26:13.483" Score="1" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that science-fiction and fantasy concept albums with a clear-ish, consistent story, such as &lt;em&gt;Drones&lt;/em&gt; by Muse and &lt;em&gt;The Black Parade&lt;/em&gt; by My Chemical Romance, are on-topic. However, I’m not sure about this: &lt;strong&gt;what parts can we ask about—is each individual track—the lyrics, the music, the writing, the recording, etc.—on-topic?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’d think the same policy should apply to science-fiction and fantasy rock operas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-09-21T21:31:53.647" LastActivityDate="2019-09-22T01:58:47.427" Title="What parts of science-fiction/fantasy concept albums (and rock operas) are on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12697" CreationDate="2019-09-22T01:58:47.427" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there is actually a plot that runs through an entire album (not just thematic similarities from song to song), and the plot of a science fiction or fantasy nature, then the entire project should be on topic.  In this case, the music becomes just another medium for storytelling within the science fiction or fantasy genres.  However, true storytelling albums of this type of not very common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, there will be individual songs with plots, but nothing tying the entire disc together other than thematic elements.  The songs that, on their own, tell science fiction and fantasy stories are on topic; also on topic are questions about the genre themes that may tie the otherwise unrelated songs together.  However, specifics about songs that are not part involved in the storytelling aspect are not on topic.  For example, David Bowie released a number of science fiction concept albums, but most of the songs do not have actual plots.  A few of the songs do actually tell science fiction stories—most famously &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYYRH4apXDo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Space Oddity.&quot;&lt;/a&gt; It's not a very detailed story, but it is certainly a story, so the entirety of that song is on topic.  For Bowie's non-narrative songs (such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Okg1UBdyvow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;A Small Plot of Land&quot;&lt;/a&gt;), questions about the science fiction references in the lyrics contain are topical, but questions about the purely musical elements are not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are simply bits of science fiction or fantasy imagery overlaid onto an otherwise basically musical number, questions about the science fiction elements are on topic, but the remainder is not.  For example Parliament Funkadelic performed a stadium tour that featured &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/yoFWiKn_eK0?t=500&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;the Mothership&quot; landing on stage&lt;/a&gt;.  Questions about the ship itself (its role in the show, the nature of the prop, etc.) are on topic, but most of the performance by Bootsy Collins and the rest of P Funk, not really being related to the spacecraft, are not on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2019-09-22T01:58:47.427" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12699" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-09-22T15:53:07.327" Score="28" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aron Eisenberg, known to SFF fans for his recurring role as the Ferengi Nog in &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: Deep Space Nine&lt;/em&gt;, died today at the age of 50. The cause of death has not been revealed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally loved Nog's storyline when I discovered Deep Space Nine for the first time. Aron's portrayal of the character, as well as the way Nog evolved throughout the series, always amazed me. One scene that struck me deep was when Nog finally revealed to Sisko why he wanted to join the Academy so much, the emotion was very palpable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://intl.startrek.com/news/aron-eisenberg-obituary-star-trek&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://intl.startrek.com/news/aron-eisenberg-obituary-star-trek&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/22/entertainment/aron-eisenberg-star-trek-actor-dies/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/22/entertainment/aron-eisenberg-star-trek-actor-dies/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="104840" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2019-09-22T15:58:33.037" LastActivityDate="2019-09-22T15:58:33.037" Title="Aron Eisenberg, who played Nog on ST:DS9, died today at age 50" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12702" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12704" CreationDate="2019-09-23T13:06:56.653" Score="3" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had two answers to my &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/218842/when-was-the-earliest-opportunity-the-voyager-crew-had-to-return-to-the-alpha-qu&quot;&gt;Star Trek question&lt;/a&gt; and chose a correct answer then awarded a bounty however the bounty shows up on the incorrect answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer which shows the bounty somehow shows my bounty award but a. It doesn’t answer the question, b. It has more votes (because it is older).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does the bounty always go to the most votes, no matter what the asker decides is correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120362" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2019-09-23T13:16:05.583" LastActivityDate="2019-09-23T13:17:08.373" Title="Which answer wins a bounty? Most popular or asker’s choice?" Tags="|support|bounty|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12702" CreationDate="2019-09-23T13:15:58.243" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you award the bounty manually, it goes to the answer you selected.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can see in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/218842/revisions&quot;&gt;revision history of that question&lt;/a&gt; that you chose the higher-voted but not accepted answer to award the bounty to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bounty Ended with jwodder's answer chosen by Vogon Poet&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;occurred 12 mins ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that wasn't the answer you meant to award it to, then you misclicked. No system is immune to user error :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bounties can be awarded &lt;em&gt;automatically&lt;/em&gt;, but that's not what happened here.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/16067/278659&quot;&gt;main meta FAQ about bounties&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Approximately 24 hours after the end of the bounty period (once the grace period ends), if the bounty starter has not manually awarded the bounty, the bounty may be awarded automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the author offered the bounty, and accepted an answer that was posted after the bounty was started, that answer is awarded the full bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, all or half of the bounty is awarded to the highest-scored answer out of those which...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...were posted after the bounty was started, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...have a score of at least 2 (at the time the automatic awarding takes place), and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...were not written by the bounty starter.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the chosen answer was accepted by the question owner, it will receive the full bounty. Otherwise, it will receive half the bounty. If two eligible answers have the same score, the older answer is chosen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If no answer meets any of the above two criteria, the bounty is not awarded to any answer, and is not refunded to the bounty starter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in this case the full bounty was awarded manually by you, so none of this actually happened. I mention it only in case this meta thread will be useful in future to others confused over the bounty being awarded to the 'wrong' answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-09-23T13:15:58.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12702" CreationDate="2019-09-23T13:17:08.373" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/bounty&quot;&gt;A bounty will only be awarded under three specific circumstances&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bounty period lasts 7 days. Bounties must have a minimum duration of at least 1 day. After the bounty ends, there is a grace period of 24 hours to &lt;strong&gt;manually award the bounty.&lt;/strong&gt; Simply click the bounty award icon next to each answer to permanently award your bounty to the answerer. (You cannot award a bounty to your own answer.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do not award your bounty within 7 days (plus the grace period), &lt;strong&gt;the highest voted answer created after the bounty started with a minimum score of 2 will be awarded half the bounty amount (or the full amount, if the answer is also accepted).&lt;/strong&gt; If two or more eligible answers have the same score (their scores are tied), the oldest answer is chosen. If there's no answer meeting those criteria, no bounty is awarded to anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the bounty was started by the question owner, and the &lt;strong&gt;question owner accepts an answer posted during the bounty period&lt;/strong&gt;, and the bounty expires without an explicit award then we assume the bounty owner liked the &lt;strong&gt;answer they accepted and award it the full bounty amount&lt;/strong&gt; at the time of bounty expiration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering that the answer that was awarded the bounty is neither accepted nor was posted after the bounty was started that means that options 2 and 3 are ruled out and so you must have manually awarded the bounty. That means one of two things happened: you either clicked the wrong answer to award it to or a bug occurred and the system mistakenly awarded it to the wrong answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to be a bit more concrete to &amp;quot;prove&amp;quot; that the bounty was manually awarded you can see on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/218843/timeline&quot;&gt;answer's timeline&lt;/a&gt; that it is attributed to you: &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;bounty end Vogon Poet  Winning bounty for question Id = 218842&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;. Whereas if it is automatically awarded Community takes ownership of the bounty as we see &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/posts/42240651/timeline&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; on a random SO bounty by myself as it was easy to find: &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;    bounty end  Community♦  Winning bounty for question Id = 42162258&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately unless you can prove you did click the accepted answer and didn't misclick and so it was a bug not much can really happen in terms of reversing the bounty to give it to the other answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-09-23T13:17:08.373" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12705" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12706" CreationDate="2019-09-23T15:46:35.010" Score="0" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/220264/which-sci-fi-universe-has-the-most-realistic-treatment-of-acausal-phenomena&quot;&gt;my closed question&lt;/a&gt; more clear per recommendations and would like some votes. How, if at all, can the edits be promoted or bumped for a new audience?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120362" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-09-24T19:00:55.550" LastActivityDate="2019-09-24T19:00:55.550" Title="Is it possible to bump or promote an edited question to get more eyes on it?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12705" CreationDate="2019-09-23T16:00:19.280" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Edits bump posts the front page, however, if a post has a score of -4 or less it won't show on the homepage (to clarify it will still show on the tag page). On top of that a closed question will also go to the reopen queue on the first body edit after closure. Unfortunately for yourself this question is at a score of -5. The question was bumped to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/reopen/154198&quot;&gt;reopen queue&lt;/a&gt; with your latest edit. After consideration I voted to leave it closed though. It's not 100% clear what you're asking, is pretty opinion based and is even somewhat off topic for asking about the real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That really only leaves you with a handful of options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ask in &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/58631/the-restaurant-at-the-end-of-the-universe&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; You can ask why it is closed in chat, how to improve it, for people to review it etc. etc. There's usually someone around, even if lurking, that might be able to help you.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ask on meta:&lt;/strong&gt; Like in chat you can ask how to improve it or even ask to get it reopened and someone is sure to either explain why it shouldn't be reopened or what needs to be done.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; ping commenters on the question and let them know you've addressed some of the issues they've raised. However, use some caution here, don't over ping someone or bug them and don't ping bunches at once i.e. don't &quot;spam&quot; people with pings.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At 250 reputation you will be able to vote to reopen your own posts which will send it to the reopen queue to get eyes on it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from those option I'm not sure there really is anything else you can do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a side note I'm aware your question is more asking how to get more eyes on a question to review it to see if it need reopening. However, your title &lt;em&gt;&quot;Is it possible to bump or promote an edit to get more eyes on it?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; isn't really a thing. You can get more eyes on a post but not really on an edit (unless you link the revision of something like that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-09-24T08:01:01.093" LastActivityDate="2019-09-24T08:01:01.093" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12707" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12708" CreationDate="2019-09-23T18:54:30.660" Score="5" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look at the participation-sorted tab of users (same order on responsive and mobile sites on my phone):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users?tab=participation&amp;amp;sort=reputation&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qxMWQm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;John Omelian is above Alex&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/118359/john-omielan&quot;&gt;John Omielan&lt;/a&gt; only has 5 actions, with no posts or reputation gains other than the association bonus:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/118359/john-omielan?tab=activity&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6LmaMm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;They&amp;#39;ve commented 3 times, and earned a bronze badge and a silver badge. The silver badge, their most recent action, was on August 2, one month and 21 days ago.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/100430/alex&quot;&gt;Alex&lt;/a&gt;, a very prominent user, has hundreds more actions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/100430/alex?tab=activity&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JHVtum.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;They have 302 actions, the most recent being a comment on September 3 and a bronze badge on August 27. They have 31 posts.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this a bug, or is there some extremely convoluted logic here?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note to John: I’m not trying to single you out, this is just a weird behavior of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2019-09-24T07:54:55.433" LastActivityDate="2019-09-24T07:55:09.417" Title="Why is this seemingly not very active user ranked so high when sorting meta users by participation?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12707" CreationDate="2019-09-23T19:28:05.413" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/149097/345161&quot;&gt;Participation is calculated by&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Users most active on this site in the last 60 days (combined number of posts, votes, comments and edits).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;John has the fourth most votes on meta for the quarter, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Voters&amp;amp;filter=quarter&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, 29 more than Alex so it is likely to do with that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2019-09-24T07:55:09.417" LastActivityDate="2019-09-24T07:55:09.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12709" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-09-24T17:58:25.247" Score="-5" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not make very many questions or answers, but I notice that almost all of them are edited by the same user.  Sometimes these edits are trivially useful, but often they are completely unnecessary.  Most recently, I had capitalization changed by an answerer so that it did NOT match the quoted capitalization in his/her own answer! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we limit these completely unnecessary edits?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71233" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2019-09-24T19:01:34.237" LastActivityDate="2019-10-01T08:21:35.637" Title="Can we rein-in unnecessary edits?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12709" CreationDate="2019-09-24T18:04:24.890" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assuming &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/220565/revisions&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; is the question you're referring to, Edlothiad's edit was perfectly acceptable, correcting an error in the grammar of your post (where you had failed to properly capitalise some letters).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also worth noting that Edlo is already at 2000 rep and already has &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/68872/edlothiad?tab=badges&quot;&gt;all of the relevant badges for editing&lt;/a&gt;, which means that they &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/85229/not-getting-edits-2-rep-after-reaching-2k-rep&quot;&gt;didn't receive any (personal) benefit for correcting your mistake&lt;/a&gt;, they merely did it out of the kindness of their heart. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2019-10-01T08:21:35.637" LastActivityDate="2019-10-01T08:21:35.637" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12711" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-09-25T15:20:12.803" Score="2" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;The simple fact is that answers change. Especially in this SE where new content and plot lines are constantly adding knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So an answer to the Marvel Fantastic Four franchise (to pull a random example out of my ...) may be X today, however a new movie can completely rewrite that. Hence, &quot;correct&quot; answers are &quot;living documents.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dilemma is, since any given answer's owner's intent can become obsolete, would it not make sense to integrate new (or previously unknown) clarifying information into a &quot;winning&quot; answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course there is the simple option of posting a completely new answer, however that answer will never get the views like a new question would; will never match the original's vote count, or reputation count. It seems adding an answer to an old question detracts from the quality of the site by placing a negative bias against new information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is &quot;The answer to this question has objectively changed&quot; most fairly handled if we can't fundamentally change an owner's intent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120362" LastActivityDate="2019-09-25T15:30:02.897" Title="Should answer edits strive to preserve the owner's intent given answers are living documents?" Tags="|discussion|editing|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2019-09-25T17:27:03.460" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12711" CreationDate="2019-09-25T15:30:02.897" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quoting from the general case section of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12029/58193&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt; to a related meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edits are generally used for fixing typos, adding in info from a link, fixing formatting etc. New information is sometimes added but it is generally not too much new information, maybe an extra quote or something to back up the answer. Adding a source for the OPs claims is also fine. Anything more than that and the editor has a few options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit it in anyway - after all it's SEs goal to build knowledge and adding info is always better than not (if it is relevant).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comment on the answer - let the answerer decide if they want the detail in their answer or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Post a new answer - whether community wiki or not (you decide, depends on how much work you put into it etc etc) adding the information somewhere in the relevant place should always be encouraged rather than not adding it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leave the information out - I'd always encourage to add information if it is relevant but maybe it's tangential or only confirms the OPs answer in another source so isn't entirely needed. I'd still suggest to leave it somewhere on the post but it may not be necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, however, you have new information that answers the question, it is a judgement call on what to do. From the above the first three options are what I'd recommend doing in the following order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Post a new answer: 9 times out of 10 a new answer makes the most sense. For a quick example off of the top of my head see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/86932/58193&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. It has been updated with new answers as time has gone on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit the top answer. This is a bit of a case by case basis. If it's a lot of new information you're best off posting your own answer. If it's just a one liner you can always edit it in and see what happens. If it's a suggested edit it might get rejected and it might even get rolled back after that anyway. If it's rejected you can either post your own answer or:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leave a comment. This is a good compromise if you want to have the information on the post and think it belongs in the top answer. It's also a good option to go for if you don't have the time to make an edit or a fully fledged answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's worth noting though this is a case by case and user by user basis. What makes sense to one user in one case might not make sense in the next one. It's a judgement call and even then people might not agree. If in doubt though it's usually best to post your own answer: you did do the work for the answer after all so might as well get some rep rewards for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-09-25T15:30:02.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12713" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-09-25T15:51:03.810" Score="1" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can a question enter limbo when the asker moves on and just stops their activity on SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An owner can bounty, accept, un-accept, and exercise other owner privileges on their own question. Do these privileges simply vanish with the owner?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(If yes, the consequence is likely an inability to manage old questions)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120362" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-09-25T15:53:46.407" LastActivityDate="2019-09-30T18:11:17.200" Title="Who can exercise owner privileges when a question's owner moves on?" Tags="|discussion|questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12713" CreationDate="2019-09-25T15:59:48.857" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes in effect these &amp;quot;owner privileges&amp;quot; are lost if the user simply up and vanishes. But then the user might not even use these privileges in the first place anyway. Lets look at each mentioned privilege:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bounty: Anyone can award a bounty on any question provided they have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/set-bounties&quot;&gt;privilege&lt;/a&gt; and the question is eligible for a bounty so this isn't a &amp;quot;owner privilege&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Accept/unaccept: This is perhaps the most important one but even then it isn't &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; important in the general case. In the SE system it's almost always better to look at the answer's score rather than whether or not it is accepted. &lt;em&gt;Usually&lt;/em&gt; the answer with the best score is the best answer rather than the accepted one (not all the time of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one exception here is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions when the only person who knows the correct answer is in fact the asker. In this case we would like acceptance. However, even then the OP doesn't need to formally &amp;quot;accept&amp;quot; an answer, leaving a comment or the like is fine for us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not even sure what other &amp;quot;owner privileges&amp;quot; there are but as you can see they don't matter &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; much in the grand scheme of things anyway. SE's model is to help as wide an audience as possible so it doesn't necessarily matter what &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; user (the asker) thinks is the best answer, it matters what the majority thinks is the best answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-09-30T18:11:17.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12715" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12871" CreationDate="2019-09-25T16:11:13.660" Score="9" ViewCount="280" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears that at some point in the recent (distant? I don't know) past, Memory Alpha changed its domain from &lt;code&gt;memory-alpha.wikia.com&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;memory-alpha.fandom.com&lt;/code&gt;. Given the copious number of times links to that site appear in questions and answers on SciFi.SE, is it possible to fix them all with some kind of global find/replace?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am assuming that &quot;wikia&quot; has changed its name to &quot;fandom&quot;. &lt;code&gt;wikia.com&lt;/code&gt; is successfully redirecting to &lt;code&gt;fandom.com&lt;/code&gt; so I don't know why the MA URLs aren't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75476" LastEditorUserId="41668" LastEditDate="2020-01-07T03:21:07.607" LastActivityDate="2020-01-07T03:29:02.337" Title="Can we fix broken Memory Alpha links?" Tags="|support|status-completed|editing|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12713" CreationDate="2019-09-25T17:17:55.037" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only real &quot;owner privilege&quot; is &lt;strong&gt;acceptance&lt;/strong&gt; (and unacceptance) of answer. &lt;strong&gt;Yes, that ability disappears&lt;/strong&gt; if the question owner moves on. Nobody else has that power, and nobody else is going to be given it: see e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/18312/278659&quot;&gt;Moderators accepting answers on user&amp;#39;s behalf after a certain time period&lt;/a&gt; and its &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/linked/18312?lq=1&quot;&gt;many duplicates&lt;/a&gt; on main meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that &lt;strong&gt;doesn't mean&lt;/strong&gt; a question &quot;enters limbo&quot;. Questions with no accepted answer are perfectly fine and valid contributions to the site. Sometimes even if the asker is still active they choose not to accept an answer, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/176369/278659&quot;&gt;there's no problem with that&lt;/a&gt; (partially related link, there may be an apter one).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2019-09-25T17:17:55.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12717" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12718" CreationDate="2019-09-27T14:17:50.703" Score="2" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;If someone asks why a film was produced in English instead of Japanese (for example only), is that considered &quot;behind the scenes&quot; or is it off topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120362" LastActivityDate="2019-09-27T14:36:41.793" Title="Is the producers' choice of language off topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12717" CreationDate="2019-09-27T14:36:41.793" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see why it should be off topic, it seems to fit firmly in the behind the scenes area. As long as the work is SFF-nal you shouldn't have a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said these types of questions don't seem like they would be particularly interesting as I imagine 99% of the time the answer would be &quot;because it was for an English speaking audience not a Japanese one&quot; or &quot;because the cast was English&quot; to use your example. So, I'd expect the question would get some downvotes &lt;em&gt;unless&lt;/em&gt; you could explain &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it would have made more sense to produce it in Japanese.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-09-27T14:36:41.793" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12719" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12720" CreationDate="2019-09-27T22:16:47.750" Score="1" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;The legal governance of any reality, and the ethical concepts of that reality, I do not believe are a matter of opinion. Pedantically, you can say how we &quot;out here&quot; (the audience) feel about the ethics in a story are opinions but that is not what was asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking for canon governance on use of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/220735/what-governs-tribble-weapons&quot;&gt;Tribbles as weapons&lt;/a&gt; has been ruled &quot;opinion-based&quot; by FIVE separate people. How so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120362" LastActivityDate="2019-09-27T23:14:23.233" Title="Questions about in-world legality and ethicality are primarily opinion-based?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|canon|primarily-opinion-based|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12719" CreationDate="2019-09-27T23:14:23.233" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm reasonably sure that the problem here is your (extensive) mention of General Order 19, a fan-fiction creation from the ST-Minutiae website. It seems like you're asking people to agree or disagree with a rule that was conceived &lt;strong&gt;outside of the Star Trek canon&lt;/strong&gt;, which typically includes the films and TV shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see things from your perspective. You didn't actually ask whether this rule was canon or not, but you need to be aware that simply &lt;em&gt;including it&lt;/em&gt; in the question changes the focus dramatically. Better to remove it, refocus the question and try to pose your challenge more directly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've done an edit to suggest a way of resolving the question a little more closely. I would imagine that this would also result in an upswing in votes. Obviously you're free to accept my suggestion or rollback as you see fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2019-09-27T23:14:23.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12721" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12723" CreationDate="2019-09-29T08:35:09.687" Score="6" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have recently gone above the 3,000 reputation mark and have hence been given the ability to review closing questions. I have recently missed some key details in how to review and close questions (as shown with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/149614/pre-1985-anime-boy-romance-with-robot-girl-she-turns-human?noredirect=1#comment602916_149614&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; that I missed), &lt;strong&gt;is there a guide or some key examples on stackexchange.com on how to determine whether to close questions or not?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90310" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2019-09-29T08:53:16.097" LastActivityDate="2019-10-01T08:52:26.763" Title="Is there a place where to find examples of questions that should be closed?" Tags="|support|review-queue|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12721" CreationDate="2019-09-29T09:40:35.190" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not really, your best bet is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/155538/345161&quot;&gt;main meta post&lt;/a&gt; that Jenayah already linked. For examples, you could always look through the list of closed questions (&lt;code&gt;closed:yes&lt;/code&gt;) but that is tedious and not exactly the best way of learning. The best of way of learning is to review and see what others do. If you find your deviating from others most of the time, find out why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most important thing to remember though is whilst there are a lot of things with an objective outcome (spam, R/A posts, etc.) a lot of reviewing can and is a subjective process. What someone might think is too broad someone else might think is fine. This is especially true in the case of Primarily Opinion Based. As long as you use common sense and learn from review outcomes you don't have much to worry about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said there are a few site specific things to be aware of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First off the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;tour&lt;/a&gt; includes a nice section on what is and isn't on topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ask about...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Plot, character, or setting explanations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Historical or societal context of a work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Story identification&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Franchise/series reading or viewing order&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't ask about...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reading or watching recommendations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;or any other question that is primarily opinion-based&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lists of works with a particular plot element&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;or any other question with too many possible answers or that would require an extremely long answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And we also have help pages on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;What types of questions should I avoid asking?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;What topics can I ask about here?&lt;/a&gt; whicxh are good places to start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you also have to be aware of some policies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; duplicates: An id question is a duplicate of another one if the answer is the same and has been confirmed to be correct by the OP. Confirmation can be in the form of the checkmark, comment, edit (which is probably later removed) anything really just so long as the OP has confirmed it. Which was to close usually depends on which pair has the better Q&amp;amp;A not necessarily newest to oldest. It might be worth looking through &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; on meta if you want an idea about this more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is also the Future Works Policy that means questions are to be closed as Primarily Opinion Based if they are asking about a future work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-09-29T10:01:43.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12721" CreationDate="2019-09-29T10:01:50.487" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off, congrats on 3k, and thanks a lot for asking that question - it's nice to see people wanting to review effectively and seriously :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As this is SFF's meta, I'm going to try and wrap up a &quot;close/don't close&quot; guide for SFF. I'd refer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/155538/398063&quot;&gt;the FAQ post on main Meta&lt;/a&gt; for the broader scale but... It's a bit Stack Overflow-centric.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;You can always Skip&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply said, if you're having doubts, Skip. It's not a cop-out, it's leaving the matter to be handled by other people who you (implicitly) trust to have more knowledge about you in a subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Mistaken&quot; votes happen! And it's not the end of the world. That's why we have the reopen queue, meta and all. But don't feel &lt;em&gt;obligated&lt;/em&gt; to vote; it's better to skip if you're really not feeling sure about closing or leaving open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The below guide isn't definite&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll learn along the way. Don't hesitate to go to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/close/history&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/close/history&lt;/a&gt; and see what action was eventually taken; maybe folks commented on their votes as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Beware of editing from review&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editing from review (when picking the &quot;Edit&quot; button between Leave Open and Close) unilaterally shuts down the review, so beware! You should only edit from review if:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The thing needs editing (duh)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;AND it's blatantly obvious this has nothing to do in a close queue. For instance, a clear, not too broad, story-id question about a world of dragons being closed as off-topic (yeah, it happens).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel the thing does need editing (to make it clearer it should be closed/left open), but you don't want to override the review, please go the extra mile and edit it from outside the review (like you usually edit stuff).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Meta's always here if you have doubts&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing a question whose closure/reopening you don't understand? Raise the issue on Meta. Ask (politely!) what review action should be taken, if the closure is due to a specific, lesser-known SFF policy...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Most&lt;/em&gt; folks want the best for the site, and will be able and eager to provide their views on it. Some will be a bit more passionate about it. Don't let that discourage you from asking about closures/reopenings and reviewing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;A couple of closing policies that aren't always known&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;if you encounter a story-id being closed as a duplicate, please check it matches &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7065/98028&quot;&gt;the criteria for story-id dupe-closure&lt;/a&gt; before voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions should only be closed as duplicates where both answers are accepted, regardless of the similarity between them. (If the OP posts a &quot;yes this is it&quot; comment, that's as good as an acceptance.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The exception to that being if the questions are not answered, but it's the same OP reposting their earlier question (or someone else's question, but without more information). Those are dupes as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, vote to leave open. (And maybe ping the other dupe-closers to make them aware of the policies)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;story-id can get closed as off-topic for a good bunch of reasons. One of them is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5117/98028&quot;&gt;&quot;anthropomorphic animals aren't enough to deem a work sci-fi or fantasy&quot;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That said, we would consider talking animals to be part of a fantasy if:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They had been &lt;strong&gt;uplifted&lt;/strong&gt; in some way (either by technology or magic)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Their speaking was &lt;strong&gt;somehow fantastical&lt;/strong&gt; to the other characters.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some other sites might be able to host &quot;our&quot; off-topic IDs; refer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12396/98028&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; for ID policies across the network.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1490/98028&quot;&gt;&quot;are there any&quot; questions are on-topic&lt;/a&gt;. To each their opinion on that, but don't vote to close just because you dislike them (downvote instead).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;questions about works yet to be released can be closed as Primarily Opinion-Based. Refer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11865/98028&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; on the &quot;Future Works Policy&quot; (too long to sum it up)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not thrilled about my writing on the below reasons, and I hope someone will be able to edit/provide a fancier explanation, but here goes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Duplicate&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, if a question can be satisfyingly answered by reading the answer to another question, then they're likely dupes, even if the questions themselves don't look like it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another &quot;should close as dupe&quot; scenario is when an answer has &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; been provided to an earlier, broader question, but would belong there. For instance, if one was to ask &quot;Is the new &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; game canon?&quot;, I'd vote to close as dupe of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/910/&quot;&gt;How is canonicity of derivative works determined for Star Wars?&lt;/a&gt;, and encourage folks to bounty it with the reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Current answers are outdated&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The current answer(s) are out-of-date and require revision given recent changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite frankly, dupe-closure can be a can of worms at times, as some folks disagree with it &quot;already being answered&quot;. Up to the OP to edit and explain how it's not a dupe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Unclear what you're asking&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Self-explanatory? If you don't get what the questioner is looking for, then it might be unclear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel like it's just unclear to you because the question is asking about a work you've never heard of, then use common sense to choose between Skipping or squinting your eyes really hard and trying to make sense without any knowledge of it. Once again, skipping is never ever an issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Too broad&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;too many unrelated questions in one question makes it too broad. That can be asking for two separate books, asking &quot;was Harry really an Horcrux, and also can Squibs see Dementors or not&quot; (on top of that they're dupes)...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2639/98028&quot;&gt;meta post about how to handle list questions&lt;/a&gt;. Once again, some common sense is required: there's a finite number of Marvel character's who've been Avengers, but asking for all of them is way way way too broad. On the other hand, naming the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/218073/98028&quot;&gt;hundreds of different characters in an image&lt;/a&gt; isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Off-topic&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7367/98028&quot;&gt;our FAQ question about the &quot;scientific explanation&quot;&lt;/a&gt; closure&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;recommendations are off-topic, clear and simple&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;doesn't seem sci-fi/fantasy&quot; relies on some knowledge of the work (or Googling). Some are trickier than others I'll admit&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;other/custom reason: pick and write your own close reason if you feel like the canned reasons don't cover it. Applies, among others, to rants in disguise, trolls, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/64069/398063&quot;&gt;cross-posted questions&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Primarily Opinion-Based&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the hardest to define, but basically if answers are only going to be based on uneducated speculation, close. Educated speculation is fine(ish).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2019-10-01T08:52:26.763" LastActivityDate="2019-10-01T08:52:26.763" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12724" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12725" CreationDate="2019-09-30T14:47:46.180" Score="12" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question that has bothered me since my question, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/218539/chronological-order-of-star-wars-literature&quot;&gt;Chronological Order of Star Wars Literature&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, was closed for being off topic. In the note about why it was closed there is this titbit of information, &quot;Requests for lists of works or recommendations are off-topic as they do not fit our questions and answers format. Feel free to ask about people's favorites in chat.&quot; This bothers me because a) I wasn't asking favourites and b) I was asking for reading order which I thought was allowed. I was under this impression and frankly still and because; before I posted and since it was closed I have read the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/closed-questions&quot;&gt;help&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;tour&lt;/a&gt; pages and saw this the below image (in the Tour).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9ECa1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9ECa1.png&quot; alt=&quot;Tour page with the relevant on topic point highlighted&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am confused by this situation and trying to improve. Even in this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11000/should-the-lists-of-works-close-reason-be-updated&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; here on Meta, shows that there was a discussion on this but not decisive and furthers my confusion, as I was directed to start a chat --- but currently do not have the reputation to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is this - how can I ask better questions that aren't put on hold for not following the rules, when it appears that I did? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120200" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-09-30T15:20:32.360" LastActivityDate="2019-09-30T15:20:32.360" Title="Why is my question &quot;Chronological order of Star Wars Literature&quot; closed for lists of works/recommendations?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12724" CreationDate="2019-09-30T15:00:05.000" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question is not off topic per &quot;lists of works or recommendations&quot; and those who voted to close it as such did in error. The post was also unilaterally left open in review (myself being one of the reviewers) as you can see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/close/152517&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and was closed outside of review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said at the time I was considering voting to close the question as Too Broad as there are way too many books in &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; canon than can be reasonably answered in a single answer on SE. However, I erred on the side of caution as I'm not too familiar with &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; book canon so it might have been able to have been condensed some.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also the potential duplicate situation to address. Whilst you linked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/18890/58193&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; yourself there is also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/47495/58193&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; which is a &lt;em&gt;potential&lt;/em&gt; duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So whilst I object to the close &lt;em&gt;reason&lt;/em&gt; I don't object to the closure because it is almost certainly Too Broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A quick note: it's also worth mentioning that there's potential that not all of the close voters chose that close reason. In a case where multiple close reasons are chosen the system picks the one with the most votes i.e. at least 3. So some of the voters might have chosen a different reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How to improve your question?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally if I was you at this point I would try and work out what areas of &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; literature you are interested in. What's the time period you want to read about? Are you only interested in a few specific events?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From there I would edit my question to ask about the reading/chronological order of the books from that time period or event. Not only would that make the question narrow enough to not be too broad it would also remove the potential duplicate status.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/124887/58193&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; is a nice example of this. Focused to a handful of books (4) that are in a &quot;series&quot; and asks for the suggested order of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-09-30T15:00:05.000" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12677" CreationDate="2019-09-30T18:13:32.537" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with most of TheLethalCarrot's points, but my main quibble with &lt;code&gt;character-identification&lt;/code&gt; posts of this sort is of a somewhat less community-based feeling, namely that for the cases with loads of entries, it's practically impossible for one person to provide an answer (although &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/100281/23243&quot;&gt;exceptions exist&lt;/a&gt;), so you wind up with a community wiki answer and no one gets any reward for their hard work, while the person asking typically reaps a bounty from all of the activity pushing the &quot;popularity&quot; of the post up with high views and a lot of action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know... Stack Overflow isn't a popularity contest, but part of the system is that people who are active, and helpful, are rewarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2019-09-30T18:13:32.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12715" CreationDate="2019-09-30T22:19:37.017" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've talked with the community team about this. Since the redirect seems to be working for almost everyone, they're putting it in the backlog and will get to it sooner or later. If the redirect breaks before the mass update, I'm sure it will get bumped up to a higher priority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2019-09-30T22:19:37.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12728" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12729" CreationDate="2019-10-01T01:42:45.990" Score="-2" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you say something one person disagrees with, they scroll through your entire list of questions and blindly downvote you. I tend to want to just ignore it but how does the site recommend handling this childish behavior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wrOoL.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wrOoL.png&quot; alt=&quot;Took 10 points away in 10 minutes&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just found an interesting comment in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5198/how-to-combat-behavior-of-a-malicious-serial-down-voter?rq=1&quot;&gt;a similar question&lt;/a&gt; (asking about serial blind downvoting vice targeted downvoting/thuggery)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If a user is targeting you in particular and downvoting a lot of your posts, the automatic script will catch him; don't you worry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone please explain this script for the benefit of honest users as well? Can I accidentally get nabbed by the script and what are the consequences?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120362" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-10-01T08:02:34.750" LastActivityDate="2019-10-01T08:02:34.750" Title="How to handle thuggery?" Tags="|discussion|voting|down-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12728" CreationDate="2019-10-01T03:00:22.730" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This Q&amp;amp;A here explains a bit about the serial voting reversal script and links to the more detailed post on meta.SE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6602/is-this-serial-voting/6603#6603&quot;&gt;Is this serial voting?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A script runs every day and looks for patterns of multiple votes that are inappropriate.  The details of what qualifies as inappropriate are secret, but the script catches both serial up- and down-voting.  The script will reverse downvotes that target you (as in this case) as well as targeted upvotes (e.g. if someone reads and likes one of your answers and then goes through your profile and upvotes too many of your posts).  The only consequence is that the votes are reversed when the script runs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-10-01T08:02:08.860" LastActivityDate="2019-10-01T08:02:08.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12731" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12734" CreationDate="2019-10-01T22:43:51.760" Score="3" ViewCount="268" Body="&lt;p&gt;Five people flagged my question from yesterday was &quot;unclear&quot; while not comments to help me understand why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/220832/how-did-the-section-31-photon-torpedo-hit-the-enterprise&quot;&gt;How did one specific torpedo hit the USS Enterprise in one specific episode of Star Trek: Discovery&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The episode is very clear: &lt;em&gt;Such Sweet Sorrow II&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The torpedo is very clear: The one launched from Section 31 which killed Admiral Cornwell&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Target is very clear: USS Enterprise (I even took a picture from the torpedo's perspective)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The problem is very clear: how did it hit a ship with shields and phasers, knowing that other torpedoes did not get through the shields?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone please tell me what is &quot;unclear&quot; about this question? It seems to be an important part of the story and I want to know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120362" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2019-10-24T12:24:38.963" LastActivityDate="2019-10-24T12:24:38.963" Title="Help me understand why my Star Trek question is on hold as 'unclear'?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12731" CreationDate="2019-10-02T00:13:39.377" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;For my part, the key thing was you seemed to be making unwarranted assumptions about how a &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; space battle &lt;em&gt;ought&lt;/em&gt; to work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did the torpedo evade phasers and penetrate the shields?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did Captain Pike specifically allow this torpedo to hit Enterprise? Shields and phasers were all online and working hard!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question assumes that something special was necessary to overcome these defensive measures, when that assumption does not appear to be warranted.  If there was a particular reason that you expected the shields and phaser defenses to make the ship impregnable, you should spell it out.  Otherwise, the question seems to be asking why what happened on the show did not happen the way you hypothesized it would; and that is not really an answerable question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-10-02T00:13:39.377" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12731" CreationDate="2019-10-02T00:25:48.140" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't answer for those who voted to put your question on hold, but I can tell you that I read your question at the time, and could not find a way to answer it with anything but this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, it just did. Shields and phases aren't perfect. Neither are the crew. Things get through. That's just the way it is when you're surrounded, outnumbered and outgunned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect that might be the reason behind your question being put on hold. It can't be answered with any real substance. I think the more pertinent question would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;How on earth did only &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; torpedo get through?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user118610" LastActivityDate="2019-10-02T00:25:48.140" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12731" CreationDate="2019-10-02T01:53:15.690" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think your question falls under the category of Unclear What You're Asking. I don't think I've ever seen an episode of Star Trek, but I was able to understand the question. In fact, both other answers to this Meta question contain (at least the beginnings of) an answer to the main site question, which itself would seem to indicate that the question is clear enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think that it may be somewhat of an exaggeration to say, as you do in the title here, that &quot;this question cannot be made more clear&quot;. Rare is the question that cannot be made more clear in any way. There is almost always room for improvement. In this case, for example, you could elaborate more on your premises. Why do you think the torpedo should have gotten through? In the Meta question here you say &quot;How did it hit a ship with shields and phasers, knowing that other torpedoes did not get through the shields?&quot; This is not mentioned in the actual question, and the fact that other torpedoes did not get through certainly seems to be a relevant detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, the question currently has two reopen votes (and two leave closed votes), so it is certainly possible that it will end up getting reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastActivityDate="2019-10-02T01:53:15.690" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12735" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-10-02T21:41:12.613" Score="-4" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many large franchises have multiple tags and hyphenated tags. If I want to define the scope of my topic as one subset of the franchise, do I use tags or another method?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: Assume my question is limited to everything Star Wars except the Star Wars Anthology films. I am required to include the &lt;em&gt;star-wars&lt;/em&gt; tag, then I must include many other tags, however I only have four I can choose. These are the on-topic films for my problem:&#xA;the-phantom-menace, attack-of-the-clones, revenge-of-the-sith,  a-new-hope, the-empire-strikes-back, return-of-the-jedi, the-force-awakens, the-last-jedi, star-wars-9&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now my topic excludes the Anthology, for whatever reason. An answer that comes from the Anthology is off-topic, is this correct? However, I was forced to include the generic &lt;em&gt;star-wars&lt;/em&gt; tag so it is forced to be on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What am I missing please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120362" LastActivityDate="2019-10-02T21:49:21.803" Title="How to narrow the scope of my question and define the topic" Tags="|discussion|tags|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12735" CreationDate="2019-10-02T21:49:21.803" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The typical way to &lt;em&gt;narrow scope&lt;/em&gt; is by adding that into the body of the question. You're always welcome to define the subset of information that your question is asking about and to invite users to upvote and downvote accordingly, depending on how well they feel that other users have answered &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;the question that you're asking&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, if you narrow it for no good reason (and with no explanation) you're likely to incur downvotes and votes for closure as 'unclear'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, be aware that others may still chime in with useful information from elsewhere in the same franchise (especially if you exclude large, information rich sources of canon) if they feel that it's relevant/useful to the question that you're asking. Again, the community may vote with their feet and give the answer upvotes even if you feel it's not met your own personal criteria. That is, unfortunately, one of the breaks when you decide that a certain title/property/whatever isn't something &lt;em&gt;you're&lt;/em&gt; interested in hearing about. Just because you aren't interested, doesn't mean that the rest of the community will agree with you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2019-10-02T21:49:21.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12737" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-10-03T14:09:21.090" Score="-10" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/219929/has-there-ever-been-a-warp-non-warp-collision&quot;&gt;My question has a 100 point bounty&lt;/a&gt; and the best-voted answer keeps rolling back my edits to hide the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/219929/has-there-ever-been-a-warp-non-warp-collision/220914#220914&quot;&gt;non-canonical nature of their answer&lt;/a&gt; obscure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SE defines Star Trek canon &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/star-trek/info&quot;&gt;on its info page&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;[star-trek-eu]&lt;/strong&gt; (novels, comics, video games, and fan fiction &lt;strong&gt;outside of the Star Trek canon&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I admit that the poster mentioned the answer is from the EU novel. That fits the letter of the law re: saying it is non-canon, however the fact is unreasonably obscure. A rare minority of voters will see &quot;In the EU novel&quot; and automatically understand it is non-canon. Voters deserve a clear unambiguous announcement that an answer is completely non-canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bounty asks for canonical answers with detail, the poster wrote an Extended Universe answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/star-trek/info&quot;&gt;which is by definition non-canon&lt;/a&gt;. My very simple request - the first comment on their answer - was &quot;... It's canon?&quot; The enormous effort this poster is exerting to maintain the ambiguity of their answer has gotten out of hand. The motive seems clearly to just win the bounty at all costs, using their reputation as leverage, at the expense of finding a quality canonical answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My very simple edit was to move the existing bounty text from the bottom of the page to the top of the page. The exact text provided by SE was used: &quot;A detailed canonical answer is required to address all the concerns.&quot; This was rolled back then I was absconded in comments about &quot;adding info&quot; to the question. I added nothing at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer is by definition non-canonical and provides inadequate indication that the answer is non-canonical. I have tried at great length to get the poster to very simply qualify their answer with the simple words, &quot;This is non-canon&quot; and they refuse. The reputation of the poster drives voters to believe their credibility, which credibility I think is being abused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I simply wish voters to clearly understand if they are voting for a valid answer. They can either place the qualifying text into their answer or at least stop rearranging my question to fit their answer. Hiding behind the letter of the law degrades the quality of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120362" LastActivityDate="2019-10-18T16:07:42.337" Title="How to handle editing abuse" Tags="|discussion|editing|canon|specific-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12737" CreationDate="2019-10-03T14:48:44.750" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was no reason to add the comment in the question re: the bounty because the bounty already contains the conditions for which it will be awarded. IMO you are conflating the bounty with all answers which is incorrect. Thus, the &lt;em&gt;initial&lt;/em&gt; edit to remove it was appropriate, and possibly even the next two.  I think the original edit you made re: the bounty was removed because it included the words &quot;please only vote for xyz&quot; which is inappropriate. Users can vote for whatever answers they deem useful or high quality, just like you can downvote the same answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you have surely seen, questions can have multiple answers - it is up to you as the questioner to select the one &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; think best answers the question, regardless of the number of votes other answers get. That's where there is even a badge that awards the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/49/populist&quot;&gt;highest voted but unaccepted answer on a question that has another accepted answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16065/how-does-the-bounty-system-work&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is a bounty?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A bounty is a special reputation award given to answers. This feature&#xA;  was designed to motivate answerers, and help questions get the answers&#xA;  they deserve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it abuse?&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;-ish&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All subsequent edits were simply going back and forth removing / adding it back. At the very least, a comment from either of you as to your reasoning for removing / adding it probably would have helped alleviate the prodigious back and forth. The silence associated with the continued removals did not help the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55637" LastEditorUserId="55637" LastEditDate="2019-10-03T14:52:29.453" LastActivityDate="2019-10-03T14:52:29.453" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12741" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-10-03T22:46:00.317" Score="-9" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;I seem to be experiencing a rash of deeply polarized voters. If they were voting for or against me personally, I could understand. But if these votes are cast for my content I would like to find resources to improve them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BQi3i.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BQi3i.png&quot; alt=&quot;Polarized voting&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this polarization normal or do I need lessons?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note roughly 20% of my posts look like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120362" LastEditorUserId="120362" LastEditDate="2019-10-03T22:52:19.540" LastActivityDate="2019-10-04T21:22:25.177" Title="How do I improve my question skills?" Tags="|discussion|voting|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12742" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12744" CreationDate="2019-10-03T23:35:15.460" Score="-8" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;To improve meta search efficiency does SE encourage a &quot;substantially reworded question&quot; which has a common answer? To such a point that I could create a question myself and mark it duplicate for this purpose?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't find this directly answered, but the tone of the policy statements place a stigma against duplicate questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A comment led me to believe duplicates serve a purpose and remain searchable even after closing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120362" LastActivityDate="2019-10-03T23:41:25.923" Title="Are duplicate questions encouraged?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12741" CreationDate="2019-10-03T23:41:11.410" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many different users on this site with many different opinions. A certain amount of polarization is to be expected. Here are some of my posts, for instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yMQMe.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yMQMe.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshots showing voting scores of my posts&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we look at Meta it is even more pronounced:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DjVgt.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DjVgt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshots showing voting scores of my Meta posts&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy the ride!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastActivityDate="2019-10-03T23:41:11.410" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12742" CreationDate="2019-10-03T23:41:25.923" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;No intentionally creating a duplicate is not encouraged for whatever reason. Duplicates can be good in that they aid searches and a well worded duplicate is still a good question but that does not mean you should post a question you know is a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short you should try and avoid posting any question you know will or should be closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-10-03T23:41:25.923" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12741" CreationDate="2019-10-04T21:22:25.177" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;After a bit of poking around, my view is your questions are polarizing or controversial because they are ones where the reason probably comes after the solution. By that I mean a plot is written that involves a situation that you ask 'Why' about and most likely no one asked that at the time, but may have filled in the blanks later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/220862/why-didnt-starfleet-destroy-talos-iv&quot;&gt;Talos 4&lt;/a&gt; question is a prime example. They didn't destroy it because someone decided to use Talos 4 again in a plot. The answer is decent, but reaching. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/221025/why-are-starfleet-vessels-designed-with-nacelles-so-far-away-from-the-hull&quot;&gt;Nacelles&lt;/a&gt; question is another example. The (really good) answer cites a source from 1975 when the Enterprise was on screen a decade earlier. The ship looks like that because that was the chosen design, the radiation reason for it is back filled when someone feels like it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes these questions are saved by a great answer. I tend to downvoted stuff like this because the real answer is either 'retcon' or 'it looks cool' or 'There is no story without it', though I haven't downvoted these because I don't often go into TOS questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40437" LastActivityDate="2019-10-04T21:22:25.177" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12746" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-10-04T21:47:32.430" Score="6" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the types of question listed on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;don't ask&lt;/a&gt; page is;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“I would like to participate in a discussion about ______”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is quite similar to the hypothetical &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6382/close-reasons-what-if-happened&quot;&gt;what if&lt;/a&gt; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to make sure I am picking the right close reason, as getting it right and consistent helps everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems as if people generally go for Opinion Based for this sort of thing, though given the presence on the don't ask page I would want to go for 'off topic'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any guidance and does it make any difference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40437" LastEditorUserId="62709" LastEditDate="2019-10-08T00:53:51.350" LastActivityDate="2019-10-08T00:53:51.350" Title="Correct close reason for 'discussions'" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12746" CreationDate="2019-10-05T07:28:14.793" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;A discussion by its very nature is going to be too broad and opinion based and that is the reason they don’t fit on the Stack Exchange platform. So you can really choose “Too broad” or “Primarily opinion based” to close a discussion question. I’m essentially looking at the question and finding which one is most appropriate for that specific question. But either or are fine. If you want to state exactly why you’re closing it as such, you can always leave a comment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also “Unclear what you’re asking”, this doesn’t really fit a discussion question in general but can fit to a specific one if you can’t actually understand the question. Sometimes a “question” will just be a wall of text with no actual question in it. It’s probably the starting point for a discussion but as there isn’t any questions in it use the unclear close reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="62709" LastEditDate="2019-10-08T00:53:22.503" LastActivityDate="2019-10-08T00:53:22.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12748" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12749" CreationDate="2019-10-07T08:07:04.667" Score="12" ViewCount="260" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed a recurring phenomenon:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;New user apparently created an account to ask a specific question (often, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;New user disappears after a day or two, not having received an answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone answers the question with a good answer say, two or three days after the question is asked.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The new user who asked the question never sees the answer due to giving up too quickly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are two examples I noticed recently:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/211725/seeking-sci-fi-book-of-short-stories?rq=1&quot;&gt;Excellent, detailed answer with research effort&lt;/a&gt;  This was answered the day after it was asked, but the user has not logged in since the day the question was asked&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/215641/book-about-a-brother-and-sister-that-shared-a-telekinesis-connection/215739#215739&quot;&gt;A question I answered&lt;/a&gt;  Answered two days later.  User logged in the day after asking, but not since I posted my answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there something we can do to help new users understand that it is worthwhile to come back some time later?  The people answering are not necessarily available right away!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current situation is frustrating for two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The user leaves without getting an answer and remains with their mystery, possibly unnecessarily&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The person who answers puts effort in &lt;em&gt;wanting to help&lt;/em&gt;; it is frustrating to not succeed in helping.  (Yes, I know, it might help someone else later.  But still...)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything we can do to encourage these new users to not give up so quickly?  Something explained to them when they first sign up, perhaps?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1236/is-it-desirable-to-have-the-community-award-acceptance-to-answers-on-abandoned&quot;&gt;this discussion&lt;/a&gt; about whether to allow community acceptance of the answer in some of these cases.  This is also a valid point, focusing on improving the effectiveness of the site in general.  I am approaching a similar issue from a different angle -- how to better help these new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59154" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-10-07T08:32:16.820" LastActivityDate="2019-10-15T15:29:48.397" Title="What can we do to encourage new users not to give up so fast?" Tags="|discussion|new-users|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12748" CreationDate="2019-10-07T08:48:36.343" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;In short there isn't much we can do on the Stack Exchange platform as it is a question and answer site, not like your regular discussion forums. As such interactions, with new users, are limited to comments and answers. There's very little you can do in comments to encourage them to stay and not much at all in answers. Here are a few possible things we can do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leave a comment: A big part of someone wanting to stay is interacting with those already here. I wouldn't just leave a comment for the sake of leaving one, find something useful to add and add it. You could suggest an improvement, or if you directly edit, say what you did and why. If it's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; post and they could do with adding some details suggest what and also link them to our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9337/58193&quot;&gt;handy guide&lt;/a&gt;. You could always remind them to check back later for a later answer but that probably won't help.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit the post: Like above if you find something you can improve do so! It helps the user, post and site out. I'd also suggest leaving a comment when doing so, if appropriate, to say why you did it i.e. &quot;Your paragraphs weren't formatting correctly because you only used one line break and you need two. I've fixed this for you!&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that there isn't much you can do. A quick, correct and detailed answer will always help but that's not something that is always possible so it's not really advisable to try and get an answer i.e. don't force an answer just because.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to point out though that there are other things going on here that contribute to these so-called &quot;drive by users&quot;. Most of these accounts are unregistered and so are cookie based. That means that the accounts are only temporary and it won't be long before they lose access to the account. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/44557/345161&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for more detail. That means that whilst it looks like they haven't been back to check on the post they might have done but we just can't tell. We have had a few cases where a second account has &quot;accepted&quot; the answer or suggested an edit to add new information in. The users don't always give up they just can't log back in again. If you encounter this you can always link them to the other linked page and the help page on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/merging-accounts&quot;&gt;merging accounts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general way of retaining users though is providing content that they are interested in. No one is going to stick around if what they are most interested in gets zero attention. To do this we just want to keep providing lots of quality questions and answers and keep the site fresh. That has nothing to do with keeping a specific user but to do with attracting more and retaining them when they are here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I actually spoke about a few ways of retaining users and getting content on &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13502/128160&quot;&gt;Arqade&lt;/a&gt; a while back. Not all are too relevant here at the moment though so I'll leave you to read that post if you want to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-10-07T08:48:36.343" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12750" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12751" CreationDate="2019-10-07T22:05:37.143" Score="4" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Occasionally I try to tag someone in a comment with @ and the name does not autocomplete, and also when the comment posts it is not tagged to that person - even if I fully spell out their name. No amount of editing allows me to insert the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to be completely arbitrary. I'm not sure if its a bug or feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120362" LastActivityDate="2019-10-07T22:26:24.677" Title="What prevents someone from tagging users in comments?" Tags="|support|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12750" CreationDate="2019-10-07T22:26:24.677" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/43020/345161&quot;&gt;main meta post&lt;/a&gt; on how comment mentions work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Who can be notified with this feature?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The author of the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Note that the author of the post will &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; be notified of any new comment. You may still use it for clarity, if needed; however if only you and the author have commented on the post so far, the &lt;em&gt;@name&lt;/em&gt; will be &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/97098/eeeeek-what-happened-to-my-salutation/97099#97099&quot;&gt;automatically removed&lt;/a&gt; from the beginning of the comment, as it adds no value.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Any user who has a visible (non-deleted) comment on the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Note that if a user comments on their own post and there is only one other person who has previously commented on that post, then that person is &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/82134/micro-refinement-to-notifications-for-comments-of-others-posts&quot;&gt;also notified&lt;/a&gt;, even if &lt;em&gt;@name&lt;/em&gt; is not used.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Any user who has edited the post (does not include pending or rejected edit suggestions).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For questions: The moderator or gold badge holder who closed or reopened the question, provided &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/310869&quot;&gt;they were the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; one to do so&lt;/a&gt;. Users who have closed or reopened a question &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; a binding close vote (i.e. without a gold tag badge or a moderator vote), and those who bindingly voted, but other users were also involved (e.g. closed by User1, User2, and Moderator) cannot be notified.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For questions: any user who set a bounty on the question (current or expired)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that the question and answers are all considered independently. For example, if Alice was the author of the question, then you cannot notify her by commenting on Bob's answer (unless Alice &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; participated in that answer). Similarly, you cannot notify Bob by commenting on Alice's question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Why do some names not appear in the auto-complete box?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The auto-complete box can determine when an &lt;em&gt;@name&lt;/em&gt; would not be necessary to trigger a notification and in that case will not include the user in the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Additionally, only users who have commented on the post are ever populated into the list. Editors and other users from the post's history will never appear there, even if they are able to be notified by typing manually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-10-07T22:26:24.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12752" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-10-08T00:39:55.533" Score="16" ViewCount="520" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am mostly asking out of curiosity to know better our community's standards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Joker&lt;/em&gt; (2019) is a movie by Todd Philipps with Joaquin Phoenix narrating the origin story of Batman's nemesis. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are questions about this movie on-topic on scifi.stackexchange?&lt;/strong&gt; Or should they be migrated to movies.stackexchange?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the one hand, there are a lot of questions about the Joker on the site, steaming from various sources (comics, movies, video games,...) and isolating one movie seems odd. The character, a killer clown, has nothing fantastic or scifi-ish in essence, but his stories often involve scifi elements. It is definitely on-topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, the movie is very grounded in real life and, bar its name and a few references to Batman lore, the movie is completely disconnected from its counterpart in comics. Remove the names of Gotham and Wayne, it could have been the story of a man becoming psychotic in a &lt;em&gt;Taxi Driver&lt;/em&gt;esque New York.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far, there is only one &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/208477/is-the-joker-left-handed&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; about the movie and it is about the trailer, so it was asked before we could know whether it has scifi features or not. Even after the movie was released, it is still fine since it asks about a characteristic of the character in the comics incarnation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23563" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-10-08T09:19:28.963" LastActivityDate="2019-10-08T09:19:28.963" Title="Is the Joker movie on-topic here?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12752" CreationDate="2019-10-08T01:01:26.280" Score="20" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Yes&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is on-topic by association with the superhero genre, like &lt;em&gt;Gotham&lt;/em&gt; and other DC superhero-related shows. To quote from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7562/102999&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; about &lt;em&gt;Gotham&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;TL;DR - Gotham should be on-topic because being in the &quot;superhero&quot; genre isn't judged purely by content, but by association&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, this vague line, as drawn, often puts the clearly heroic as on-topic, with Batman and the Arrow TV show (in its earlier seasons) seen as clearly on-topic despite having very few elements of super-science or unexplained phenomena. This is, I believe, because Batman and the Arrow are clearly in the &quot;superhero comics&quot; genre, not necessarily because of their actual content, but because of history and association - they share a history and stories with the clearly SFnal Superman, for instance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is why I believe Gotham should be on topic, just like other genre-free Batman stories or spin-offs. Because it's still Batman, in a variant of the Batman universe, which is accepted as on-topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's true that if you changed the names you'll just have a non-genre cop show, but the names are important. They're what draw a lot of viewers. They add a layer of meaning or people familiar with those names and their (alternate) history. It's a show watched by our site's members, because of its on-topic association.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102999" LastActivityDate="2019-10-08T01:01:26.280" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12754" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-10-10T11:56:00.307" Score="32" ViewCount="1053" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recent events on the network have led to 3 of our moderators to suspend their activity. We don't need to get into the whys of that here, use main meta for that or look for their posts on main meta. However, that has left only 2 mods, both of which have been seen over the past few days. But looking into my flag history I have not had a moderator only flag handled since the UTC morning of 3&lt;sup&gt;rd&lt;/sup&gt; October and I currently have 40 pending flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/flag-posts&quot;&gt;help page on flagging&lt;/a&gt;, flags will age away from 2-14 days. If I'm reading it correctly this means I have quite a few flags that are in danger of needing to be re-flagged or lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we do still have 2 moderators that don't appear to have suspended activity I was expecting flags to take longer to handle but not to go unhandled to the point of ageing away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anything I'd like to have some assurance that the mod team is still handling flags and working behind the scenes, it's just I can't see it because my flags aren't the ones being handled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in short: what is the status of our moderator team currently? Have our two remaining moderators suspended activity as well or are there just too many flags to keep up with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2019-11-08T02:22:08.473" LastActivityDate="2019-11-08T02:22:08.473" Title="What is the status of our moderator team?" Tags="|discussion|moderators|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12754" CreationDate="2019-10-10T13:59:48.707" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update as of October 31: I am resuming activity as a moderator&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A month ago &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/334091/299342&quot;&gt;I announced on main meta that I was suspending my activity as a moderator&lt;/a&gt; in response to Stack Exchange summarily removing a moderator for &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/334248/299342&quot;&gt;alleged violations of the Code of Conduct&lt;/a&gt;. As I and others have pointed out, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/334271/299342&quot;&gt;the allegations made by SE against this moderator are not supported by the facts&lt;/a&gt; (most of which are only accessible by other moderators); as a result, it has not been clear exactly what the Code of Conduct (either the recently revised version or its predecessor) actually required moderators and users to do in order to avoid violating it. In the face of such ambiguity I decided to remain inactive until SE provided better guidance as to what the Code of Conduct is intended to require.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few weeks ago SE attempted to post a list of answers to FAQs regarding the new Code of Conduct but the initial list was such a disaster that &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/336364/299342&quot;&gt;SE had to post a new set of FAQs&lt;/a&gt;. The new FAQ answers are an improvement but are &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/336462/299342&quot;&gt;still woefully vague&lt;/a&gt;. Moreover, it is apparent that SE is incapable of providing any better guidance as indicated by comments from SE employees to the effect that &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/336366/post-for-clarifications-on-the-updated-pronouns-faq/336462#comment1115969_336462&quot;&gt;they are &quot;learning, too&quot; and that they &quot;may not have all the answers immediately&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. I have therefore come to the conclusion that there is no point in waiting any longer for SE to provide better guidance to moderators on how to enforce the new Code of Conduct, otherwise I will be forced to wait indefinitely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although SE's actions these past few weeks are reprehensible, I do not wish to hurt this site by leaving it with an understaffed moderation team as a way to try to punish SE. I genuinely enjoy assisting the community in caring for the site; I work for this site and its community, not for SE. Therefore I am resuming activity as a moderator, effective immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the new Code of Conduct and FAQs, if I encounter a flag related to pronouns I will use my best judgment -- as I always do -- to handle it properly. Due to the lack of clear guidance from SE I will only handle the most obvious such flags myself, and I will forward all other such flags to the CMs so they can figure out the correct answer. If that's not good enough for SE then so be it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Original response:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't be too specific but the two remaining active moderators are each handling a limited number of flags. Still, the flag queue is the largest I've ever seen it (on both main and meta) and the average flag handling time has spiked to over 24 hours for the past week (by comparison, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11858/31936&quot;&gt;average is typically around 2 hours&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flags for moderator attention never age away, though other types of flags age away as explained by an SE employee &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/204347/299342&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't speak for Rand and Kevin but I, for one, am waiting to see the final text of the new Code of Conduct (which is due out today) and explanations on how moderators are supposed to enforce the new requirements. I will decide what I will do next once this information is available. (Several drafts of the modified Code of Conduct text have been posted in the Teacher's Lounge and the moderators' Team but the drafts are too different from each other to tell what the final text might be.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update as of October 15:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new CoC is out as well as two sets of FAQs regarding the changes (one for all users which is available on main meta, and another tailored to moderators in the moderators' Team). However, there are still important questions about the new CoC (such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/334900/official-faq-on-gender-pronouns-and-code-of-conduct-changes/334908#comment1098279_334908&quot;&gt;how to determine whether a pronoun is requested in good or bad faith&lt;/a&gt;) which remain unanswered or are vaguely/inadequately answered. Additionally, we've been told in the Teacher's Lounge that SE is planning to modify the FAQ on main meta. Therefore I must unfortunately continue to wait for SE to provide answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2019-10-31T19:22:09.200" LastActivityDate="2019-10-31T19:22:09.200" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12756" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-10-10T21:34:22.407" Score="-5" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw what appeared to be an obvious similarity between the Star Trek &quot;Mycelial Network&quot; and Cosmic strings &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/220586/are-cosmic-strings-the-creators-inspiration-for-st-discoverys-mycelial-networ&quot;&gt;so I posted a question&lt;/a&gt;. A couple people assumed the answer didn't exist and closed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/star-trek-discovery-anthony-rapp-wilson-cruz-interview-hugh-culber-returns-1186393&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;An interview with the main Mycelial network actor Anthony Rapp&lt;/a&gt; confirmed the connection between the fungus and the way the universe works:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He was in this crazy mycelial land and had this moment in the network to help bridge the gap initially. But the real consequences didn't come until this season, and I'm so glad it got to come full circle. There's an opportunity to really explore loss and peer into the abyss of the unknown. &lt;strong&gt;Plus it's grounded in some real science with how energy transforms and moves throughout the universe.&lt;/strong&gt; The writers have found a way to do it that resonates and is really satisfying to play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the connection is found in &lt;em&gt;The Science of Star Trek: Discovery's Mycelial Network&lt;/em&gt; connecting quantum astrophysics mathematical equations (string theory) with biochemistry (fungal mycelium):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the ideas behind the spore drive came from the research of Dr. Paul Stamets (Anthony Rapp), who, along with his research partner, &lt;strong&gt;chose to think of physics and biology as interchangeable at the quantum level&lt;/strong&gt;. Through this thinking, and &lt;strong&gt;generating equations based in quantum astrophysics and biochemistry, the two were able to theorize&lt;/strong&gt; that, as Star Trek wiki Memory Alpha says, “spores were not only the progenitors of panspermia, but also the building blocks of energy across the universe,” and thus something starships could theoretically use to travel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer is FACTUAL and the answer is YES. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twincitiesgeek.com/2018/04/the-science-of-star-trek-discoverys-mycelial-network/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/swJ6S.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/swJ6S.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Cosmic String Network&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These mathematical equations in quantum astrophysics were the inspiration for the Star Trek Discovery's unique propulsion system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please open the question for the community so these facts can be posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120362" LastEditorUserId="120362" LastEditDate="2019-10-10T21:40:32.203" LastActivityDate="2019-10-10T23:03:37.423" Title="I found my factual answer but the question is closed as &quot;opinion based.&quot; How to open?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|specific-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12756" CreationDate="2019-10-10T23:03:37.423" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe you could edit your question so the meta bits about &quot;I don't know how this is opinion-based&quot; are taken out, and it focuses on the question? As it is, your original question is kind of lost in a pseudo-rant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, you could respond to the comments there and provide some more reasoning behind why you think there is a connection. Your quotes in the above meta-question should help. Then, at least, you will have a reasonably good quality question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, your quotes do not specifically mention cosmic strings - just an assertion by an actor that it is &quot;grounded in some real science with how energy transforms and moves throughout the universe&quot; - so they don't quite qualify as an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="373" LastActivityDate="2019-10-10T23:03:37.423" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12759" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12760" CreationDate="2019-10-11T22:43:47.943" Score="7" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/173954/loki-impersonating-hydra-red-skull-or-nazis&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; which is definitely a valid question. However, it's tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;. Is this a valid tag and why? I honestly don't think it matches, but there doesn't seem to be another matching tag (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scene-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;scene-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;scene-identification&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user112267" LastActivityDate="2019-10-11T23:06:44.940" Title="Is this truly a story-id question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|story-identification|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12759" CreationDate="2019-10-11T23:06:44.940" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-id&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-id&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-id&lt;/a&gt; tag is for the generic identification of &lt;strong&gt;any science fiction or fantasy property.&lt;/strong&gt; It doesn't strictly have to be a (written) story. It could also be a game, song, film, book, movie &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;or whatever&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; as long as it fits within the site's scope. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use for identifying &lt;strong&gt;a work&lt;/strong&gt; of SF or Fantasy, including novels, movies, comic books, fanfic, TV series, video games, etc. Use with other tags to specify the type of media, eg. [short-stories]. Use [episode-identification] for identifying a single episode of a known series, whether TV, book, or comic. Use [actor-identification], [character-identification], [music-identification], or [object-identification] for those specific ID requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would help if OP qualified it with one of the media tags, but in this case, they &lt;em&gt;don't actually know whether it's a TV show or a film&lt;/em&gt; so any attempt to additionally qualify it would be pointless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2019-10-11T23:06:44.940" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12761" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-10-13T04:16:59.267" Score="7" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a question has no answers and is closed, an edit will necessarily change some of my original intent. I am the OP, and it just wasn't working. How tightly do I have to stay in the box which didn't work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's limit the discussion to &quot;primarily opinion-based&quot; closures. Making it &quot;not opinion based&quot; may require major changes. It may need to change some or all tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120362" LastActivityDate="2019-10-13T14:08:46.490" Title="What are the limits to changing my own unanswered questions?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|primarily-opinion-based|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12761" CreationDate="2019-10-13T06:41:27.307" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your question is &lt;strong&gt;unanswered and unvoted upon&lt;/strong&gt;, there are (theoretically) no limits whatsoever to changing &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;any aspect of that question&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; including, but not limited to, the tags, the property, the question itself or &lt;strong&gt;any other part of it.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're intending to utterly revise it, however, you would probably be better creating a new question and deleting the old one simply to make the edit history and any comment chain look less weird.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that being said, you need to be aware that as soon as you post a question, people are probably starting to spend their time working on an answer to it. It's really quite anti-social to not take that into consideration, especially if people have been making comments to try to get a feel for what you're asking about and to formulate the best answer possible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2019-10-13T14:08:46.490" LastActivityDate="2019-10-13T14:08:46.490" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12748" CreationDate="2019-10-15T15:29:48.397" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The attrition of one-shot users is possibly a consequence of the fact that those users are attracted here for one purpose alone; to solve that one problem. They are simply not interested in the social media aspect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that &quot;we're working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about science fiction or fantasy.&quot; This is a library, SE owns the question once it is posted. SE does not advertise itself as a personal rapid book identification service. We are content to let the question stew a while, and allow the right person to provide and expert answer &lt;em&gt;for the benefit of the library,&lt;/em&gt; not for the benefit of one user. The OP has &quot;accept&quot; and edit privileges to their own post as a membership incentive, so we can attract a larger talent pool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SE is already addressing the problem&lt;/strong&gt; via the reputation-based privilege system. Those one-shot users don't have enough influence to really impact the system. The problem is fairly well contained. I think we won't run out of shelfspace :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120362" LastActivityDate="2019-10-15T15:29:48.397" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12432" CreationDate="2019-10-15T15:42:37.343" Score="-10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's look at this question: Can anything be done? The answer is, yes something can be done in all of the examples you've given. Please follow this through, I'm not blindly agreeing with the comments but there are a couple moving parts here which need pointing out. This is the unabridged version of what @Skooba said. First:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bad writing happens&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's just start there. Science fiction lives in the unenviable position of trying to convince everyone that something impossible just happened. If the story goes to far into hard sci-fi, the whole plot vanishes into thin air and you're left with romance novels to get you through your escapism withdrawals. Fantasy doesn't have this problem, we already know &amp;quot;it's just magic.&amp;quot; Because of this, while acknowledging that your examples are very poorly worded, it is also true that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Those comments are sometimes the answer to the question&lt;/strong&gt;. Let me share a couple more &amp;quot;unconstructive comments&amp;quot; from my own library:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;that's exactly what I meant. The plot needed the ship to get hit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;elite&amp;quot; crews have plot armour until they don't&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@ Vogon Poet - I wish I could help you there, but I don't think the answer you're hoping for exists. If it helps, it's no worse than the tardigradebear, or breaking warp 10 in Voyager, or beardy man at the centre of the universe pretending to be god, or spaceships going 'bang' in the (near)vacuum of space, or countless other silliness. I just put this down to hey, it's Star Trek. Like Star Wars, it's science fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it can be said, jackass genies can and will out-jackass someone trying to jackass them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of your comments and mine are saying the exact same thing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;In my opinion, there is no in-universe explanation.&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what every &amp;quot;unconstructive comment&amp;quot; listed here boils down to, using more colorful and pseudo-topical vernacular hoping to be mistaken for something relevant (this snarkiness is what needs to go away).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The comment is useful if it is an &amp;quot;expert opinion&amp;quot; and has credible references&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;A classic example is the Klingon makeup between ST:TAS and ST:TNG. Until fans got so upset at the sacrilegious disregard for canon, the truthful answer was &amp;quot;there is no in-universe explanation.&amp;quot; Eventually the producers gave us &lt;em&gt;Generations&lt;/em&gt; to quell the outrage, then a mutagenic virus to bring it into canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If any credible source gives an interview, for example, and plainly said &amp;quot;we ran out of money&amp;quot; then the correct answer to the question is, &amp;quot;there is no in-universe explanation, &lt;em&gt;but, based on an interview with....&lt;/em&gt;.&amp;quot; In such a case, that &amp;quot;unconstructive comment&amp;quot; belongs in an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when you run across a &amp;quot;there is no in-universe explanation&amp;quot;-ish comment the natural thing to do is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ask the poster to please be less snarky, if this is a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;prompt the poster for their references, giving the benefit of the doubt that they know something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they have a reference, then your question has been answered. If they do not, then the comment should be removed as &lt;em&gt;no longer needed.&lt;/em&gt; Flag it. But remember that blindly flagging may win one battle but does nothing to make the problem go away. The user needs feedback if we want the comments to stop coming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unconstructive comments can be useful if the question evolves&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at the one answer with no snark, &amp;quot;I think this is just bad writing [...],&amp;quot; the story may fill that hole in later episodes. The hole could be deliberate or an oversight. And even as an oversight, that fact may accidentally be blurted out at a convention some day. Then some SE user comes across your question, sees the comment, and fills in the blank. A non-snarky opinion can work as a prompt for later expert content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120362" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-10-15T15:54:36.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2019-10-17T20:16:52.167" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Amarth&lt;/em&gt; was an evil necromancer character I made for a &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; old &quot;rogue-like&quot; Tolkien-based PC game Angband, and later on a similar necromancer in Diablo 2. It's been my recurring gamer name since back in the days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was picked at a whim while I were browsing through Tolkien's Silmarillion and it simply means &quot;Doom&quot; in Sindarin. Most famously in &lt;em&gt;Amon Amarth&lt;/em&gt;, Mount Doom, the volcano where the One ring was forged. A fitting (though admittedly silly) name for a necromancer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now as it happens I'm from Sweden and there's a somewhat famous Swedish death metal band named Amon Amarth. So everyone thinks I took the name from them and that I'm a fan, though neither is true. I simply took it from the same original source as them - Tolkien.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106769" LastActivityDate="2019-10-17T20:16:52.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12767" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12772" CreationDate="2019-10-21T10:41:58.993" Score="36" ViewCount="1656" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/221861/16835&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; (edit: now deleted as abusive by the 'community' automated user.) Since it's been edited, here's its original version:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Me and my four friends are big MCU fans and we are thinking of&#xA;starting to read the comic books to understand the lore a bit better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering if any characters have my pronouns or my friends&#xA;pronouns, Adam (pronouns he/him) says Marvel is very LGBTQIAA+&#xA;friendly but when my friend Quince (pronouns zir/zhey) asked if any&#xA;characters have neopronouns Adam said he doesn't think so which upset&#xA;zhey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My two other friends Baster (pronouns fret/from) and Piel (pronouns&#xA;var/let) said that there are tonnes of characters in the MCU so surely&#xA;one of must do. Var googled for any information but couldn't find any&#xA;and fret though about signing up to a comic forum to ask but they&#xA;don't have such a friendly code of conduct for new users so I've asked&#xA;here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to sum up I'm asking for MCU (or any comic character) with the&#xA;following neo pronouns:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Zir/zhey&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fret/from&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Var/let&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Grimble/gromble (these are my pronouns)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks, baster is desperate to have a superhero with the same pronouns&#xA;as from (My pronouns are grimble/gromble)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a pronoun trolling post. I know it, you know it. grimble-grombles know it :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, should it just be closed (note: It had already been closed and reopened), or - edited into something useful, e.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there comic book characters in the Marvel Comic Universe (or possibly other settings) which have any characters with non-traditional personal pronouns / neo-pronouns (such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-person_pronoun#Historical_and_dialectal_gender-neutral_pronouns&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;these&lt;/a&gt;)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16835" LastEditorUserId="16835" LastEditDate="2023-04-03T09:29:44.160" LastActivityDate="2023-05-01T13:58:16.797" Title="Pronoun trolling - what to do?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="23" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12767" CreationDate="2019-10-21T11:38:48.163" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with questions like this is that it's basically a live hand grenade waiting for some imbecile to throw themselves upon it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it seems reasonably clear and common sense that grimble and gromble are not appropriate personal pronouns and that this person is a troll, anyone who dares to say such a thing is likely to be flagged and/or openly accused of being a transphobe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;em&gt;I'm thinking the mods have closed it because I'm trans and they may be transphobic. Thanks again&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Normal users should not be having to deal with this question. It was flagged for moderator attention days ago and while some of our mods are on strike, others aren't.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AncientSwordRage and/or Thaddeus should be doing something about this. It's baffling that they're just letting it lie.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2019-10-21T19:01:40.837" LastActivityDate="2019-10-21T19:01:40.837" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12767" CreationDate="2019-10-21T14:18:12.287" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to reopen the question because it's not all that crazy a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marvel has recently had a huge push for inclusivity, and multiple people in Marvel have explicitly stated that they want more members from the LGBTQ+ crowd represented:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marvel Studios EVP of Production Victoria Alonso says the Disney-owned studio is “actively” working towards a more diverse and inclusive Marvel Cinematic Universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“I would feel honored to have a member of the LGBTQ+ group represented in our films and I hope the future shows that,” Alonso wrote in a Reddit Q&amp;amp;A Wednesday when asked about the addition of LGBTQ+ characters to the ever-expanding franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marvel’s Runaways highlights a lesbian romance between Nico (Lyric Okano) and Karolina (Virginia Gardner), but scenes touching on Valkyrie’s (Tessa Thompson) and Okoye’s (Danai Gurira) bisexuality were deleted from Thor: Ragnarok and Black Panther, respectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The franchise will also feature its first trans actors in Spider-Man: Far From Home, in theaters July 2, and Russo in May promised the MCU will receive its first LGBTQ+ superhero “very soon.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://comicbook.com/marvel/2019/06/05/marvel-studios-more-diversity-inclusivity-lgbtq-phase-4-beyond-victoria-alonso/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Marvel Studios Promises More Diversity and Inclusivity in Phase 4 and Beyond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though I don't know the current run of Marvel to answer it myself, I wouldn't be surprised at all to hear there was a minor hero or villain with non-conventional preferred pronouns. And I really don't want this site to set the precedence that non-conventional pronoun usage is trolling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56212" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-10-21T14:18:12.287" CommentCount="24" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12767" CreationDate="2019-10-21T14:29:32.730" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before I saw this question, I edited the question to something reasonable that is at least on-topic. I preserved the OP's pronouns, but removed the tangential chatter that isn't really part of the question and that seems to have generated the most controversy. It isn't that we don't want to hear about the asker's friends and pronouns, but that they aren't relevant to grimble's actual question. The same would be done for any question on any Stack Exchange site - while it may be interesting that a user encountered a particular error message from their C compiler while programming from a cafe in Miami, geography isn't likely part of the underlying issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's assume that the question was asked in good faith and try to move on, maybe even getting a good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70477" LastEditorUserId="70477" LastEditDate="2019-10-21T16:03:50.577" LastActivityDate="2019-10-21T16:03:50.577" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12767" CreationDate="2019-10-21T14:35:11.337" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;A new FAQ regarding the updated CoC is due out shortly. I've seen a draft of it but until it is public it is not official, and until official guidance is due out I don't think it makes any sense for any elected moderators -- whether on strike or not -- to handle such issues. After all, SE has already summarily removed a respected moderator before the CoC was updated (and certainly before any FAQs were written) with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/334271/299342&quot;&gt;dubious claim that she violated the CoC at the time&lt;/a&gt;; elected moderators do not have the proper guidance on how to handle such a post, which is largely &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/334091/299342&quot;&gt;why I have suspended by activity as a moderator&lt;/a&gt; for the time being. &lt;strong&gt;Handling this post should be the responsibility of an actual employee of SE (i.e. a CM)&lt;/strong&gt;, at the very least until the official FAQ is finalized (and I know several CMs have seen the post).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for normal users, judge for yourself whether or not the post is on-topic and vote accordingly (or just leave it alone).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2019-10-22T13:24:20.240" LastActivityDate="2019-10-22T13:24:20.240" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12767" CreationDate="2019-10-21T15:03:04.040" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've come around to @Valorum's position, which is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Editing it into shape means that you're going to give a troll account a boost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So even if it could be salvaged by a deep-cutting edit, it's not a good idea to do this. So a Close vote, possibly flagging, and a down-vote with an explanation (like the one I made on the grumble-gromble question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, it's true that the explanation violates the suggestion of &quot;Don't feed the trolls&quot; - but for fairness, and the off chance I could be convinced it wasn't trolling after all, I'd still justify the downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16835" LastActivityDate="2019-10-21T15:03:04.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12773" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12774" CreationDate="2019-10-21T22:11:50.977" Score="0" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/221785/what-were-the-doctor-s-wedding-vows&quot;&gt;what The Doctor said for his weddings&lt;/a&gt;, some think it's a broad question. For a week now the question seems to be in limbo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120362" LastActivityDate="2019-10-21T22:31:12.270" Title="Is this question too broad? &quot;What are his wedding vows?&quot;" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closing-questions|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12773" CreationDate="2019-10-21T22:31:12.270" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like the major issue was the disconnect between the title (asking what a Timelord says on their wedding day, presumably on Gallifrey) versus the body that asked what the Doctor (hardly an average Timelord at the best of times) said in his vows, presumably to an alien woman, in a ceremony on an alien planet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In its present form, with the title finally agreeing with the body content, it's not too broad and I've cast the final vote to reopen it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2019-10-21T22:31:12.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12776" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-10-22T17:51:21.347" Score="-18" ViewCount="256" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many of my questions, no matter how good they are, are getting trounced by a few people who never leave a comment. It tends to be within a couple tags. It took less than 30 minutes for this group to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/222014/is-spock-a-cyborg?noredirect=1#comment606638_222014&quot;&gt;knock what objectively is a very real problem&lt;/a&gt; off the Active Question list with 5 downvotes.  My question got 30 minutes of exposure on SE. Is my content really so horrifyingly offensive that it should not see the light of day? It is all too easy to get a clique together and drive users away from this site &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/198/should-there-be-anonymous-answers-and-questions&quot;&gt;because we actively distract users from content-based voting&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FIVE different people, I asked for comments, they keep in hiding. You can’t say “blind voting is discouraged” without making a policy, and also expect an objectively scored library.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have good reason to believe these 6 anonymous downvotes, are the same as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/221971/what-is-the-function-of-daniels-ribbed-suit&quot;&gt;these 5 anonymous downvotes&lt;/a&gt;, and the same as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/221997/was-first-contact-day-with-first-warp-a-coincidence&quot;&gt;these 5 anonymous downvotes&lt;/a&gt;, and the same as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/221025/why-are-starfleet-vessels-designed-with-nacelles-so-far-away-from-the-hull&quot;&gt;these 5 downvotes&lt;/a&gt;, and included with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/220832/how-was-the-section-31-photon-torpedo-able-to-hit-the-enterprise&quot;&gt;these 10 downvotes&lt;/a&gt;( against 8 upvotes), and the same as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/221564/why-didnt-captain-pike-receive-any-cybernetic-implants&quot;&gt;these 5 downvotes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My reason for believing this is extensive comparison with similar questions. Comments below also confirm that for various reasons people vote blind, using reputation, user, or score &lt;em&gt;instead of content&lt;/em&gt; to make their decision.&#xA;What is curious is how quickly the question gets eliminated from the homepage under the -4 score rule, denying my very reasonable questions access to the voting pool. This is why the group downvoting problem is very different from the group upvoting problem. Group upvoting doesn’t prevent exposure, so content is not harmed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some honest &quot;Vote to Close&quot; comments, but as I post this, not ONE of the downvotes I mention here have comments. If my questions are so disturbingly unworthy, why aren't these downvoters doing anything to improve them? Why aren’t they trying to close my horrible posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120362" LastEditorUserId="120362" LastEditDate="2019-10-23T13:27:45.597" LastActivityDate="2019-10-26T18:01:55.943" Title="Can anything be done about prolific blind question bashing?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|down-votes|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12776" CreationDate="2019-10-22T18:05:05.843" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've downvoted some of your questions but not the ones you mention here.  I rarely comment when I downvote because the purpose of downvotes is not primarily to give the OP feedback, it's to give someone else who comes along an idea of what &quot;the community&quot; thinks of the question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You keep posting (here on meta) that you're certain that your posts are good and that downvotes on them can only be coming from a clique that's out to get you.  This makes me more likely to notice your posts and downvote them if I think they deserve it.  If you toned down the hyperbole about how great all your posts are how there's a huge mob trying to drive every new user away, it would be easier to accept an occasional post like this asking for feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In response to your actual question &quot;what can be done?&quot;  One thing that you could do is to stop arguing in comments when people &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; give feedback.  I've seen comments from you arguing that someone else's comment is invalid on a bunch of your questions, including a couple of the ones you link to here and that's a sure way to get less feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastEditorUserId="4167" LastEditDate="2019-10-22T18:26:18.737" LastActivityDate="2019-10-22T18:26:18.737" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12776" CreationDate="2019-10-22T18:21:23.317" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've given some of your questions upvotes and a few of them downvotes.  Most of them I've just been &quot;meh&quot; about, but I tend to skim over a lot of content here.  None of that is specific to you, and it's definitely not personal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're not required to provide feedback on a downvote.  In fact I've seen that discouraged, because it gives posters who feel they have been wronged a target for revenge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Votes on questions are intended to help give future people searching a clue which questions are potentially more or less useful.  A massively researched question about whether or not HP is an &quot;innie&quot; or an &quot;outie&quot; is not likely to get many votes, because no matter how much work has gone into it it's still not very useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A quick skim over the questions you're complaining about suggests to me that they may - at least in some people's opinion - be falling short of the &quot;likely to be useful&quot; threshold.  I will hold off on downvoting any of them, but there are a couple I might ordinarily have considered as &quot;less useful.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastActivityDate="2019-10-22T18:21:23.317" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12776" CreationDate="2019-10-22T18:32:58.990" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that you have a strong tendency to go on the offensive when anyone makes a comment that you disagree with. You comment-flood them with multiple responses explaining why they're wrong, and double-down by then posting (poorly received) meta questions seemingly in an attempt to taunt them. You don't listen to the responses you get and rarely do you make any serious effort to improve the questions you're asking in response to the criticism you receive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Demanding that downvoters announce themselves so that you can yell at them isn't going to get the response you want.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you showed any serious intention to engage with downvoters &lt;em&gt;with humility&lt;/em&gt;, you'd turn those downvotes into upvotes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2019-10-24T20:26:39.863" LastActivityDate="2019-10-24T20:26:39.863" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12767" CreationDate="2019-10-22T20:16:38.323" Score="20" Body="&lt;h1&gt;The new Code of Conduct doesn't give you room to do anything about it.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neo-pronouns are not clearly defined, there is no authoritative list of them, they're rarely used, and they don't follow common English grammatical principles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any other set of words that would fit that criteria would be edited or corrected to fit modern English convention, but the new CoC states that neo-pronouns are the exception to this because they are &quot;part of a user's identity.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33064" LastActivityDate="2019-10-22T20:16:38.323" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2019-10-23T13:35:26.497" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don’t know. &lt;a href=&quot;https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Vogon_poetry&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Everyone seems to hate whatever I write&lt;/a&gt; anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;—- see?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Years ago I was posting on a political forum and for some reason people started writhing in pain whenever I told them what was wrong with them. So I did a genome test and found I was dropped off on a doorstep one day from a passing Vogon freighter (yeah, I was lucky I got my security clearance, because I was able to see some of the Area 51 files). Anyhow, I thought I’d carry on my family legacy. Vote if you care - or are still alive to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120362" LastEditorUserId="120362" LastEditDate="2019-10-23T15:02:36.497" LastActivityDate="2019-10-23T15:02:36.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12776" CreationDate="2019-10-25T21:11:04.967" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You keep mentioning &quot;anonymous&quot; down-votes. Of course down-votes (and up-votes for that matter) are anonymous. This prevents a user from attacking those who have down-voted them, this is a basic SE founding principal. It is also why down-vote do not cost the voter any reputation on questions, &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/06/13/optimizing-for-pearls-not-sand/&quot;&gt;questions are the sand to answers pearls&lt;/a&gt;. User must not be afraid to down-vote to create a healthy environment of self-moderation and quality control. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As has been mentioned, but I will reiterate, serial down-voting (and again up-voting) is not allowed on this platform, will be discovered, and will be punished.  We rarely have 1 serial down-voter let alone 5, 10, or even more as you are suggesting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would do some self-reflection and examine if it is the site that is wrong or perhaps there might some adjustments you can make in your own attitude that can help your questions be better received. If you decide that it is indeed the community maybe it is time for you to remove that negativity from your life. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2019-10-26T18:01:55.943" LastActivityDate="2019-10-26T18:01:55.943" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12784" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-10-27T08:28:35.757" Score="2" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to find info about an old Santa and reindeer cartoon that lasts maybe 4 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where should I post the question please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20007" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2019-10-27T11:14:48.593" LastActivityDate="2019-10-27T11:14:48.593" Title="Santa animation questions...which category" Tags="|support|scope|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2019-10-27T18:22:08.600" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12785" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2019-10-29T20:17:20.847" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2019-10-29T20:17:20.847" LastActivityDate="2019-10-29T20:17:20.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12786" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2019-10-29T20:17:20.847" Score="0" Body="Use this tag on questions related to deleted answers." OwnerUserId="102999" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-10-30T21:08:25.847" LastActivityDate="2019-10-30T21:08:25.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12787" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-10-30T21:36:04.617" Score="-8" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;My post was deleted within 40 minutes of being posted, no comments or indications as to why. If there is a reason for deleting content, would it be wise to let the poster know what (if anything) they did wrong? Otherwise, it seems that the proper course of action would be to simply put the post up again (because there is nothing objectively wrong with it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are deleted posts completely undeclared, or is there some way of knowing why it happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am led to believe votes to close an answer have certain criteria, which my post obviously does not meet:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may vote to delete answers in the following cases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;commentary on the question or other answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;asking another, different question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;“thanks!” or “me too!” responses&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;exact duplicates of other answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;barely more than a link to an external site&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;not even a partial answer to the actual question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I refer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/222421/120362&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; which meets NONE of the deletion criteria in even the wildest possible abstraction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120362" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-10-31T00:49:24.210" Title="Are post deletions always undeclared?" Tags="|discussion|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="23" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12787" CreationDate="2019-10-30T21:56:12.563" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the delete voters explained their reasoning in a comment for why it wasn’t really an answer and the part that was, was just duplicating information already in the answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the part of this that is an answer is a duplicate of the other highly voted and accepted answer. The rest is little better than Vogon poetry&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For my part this reiterated my thoughts so I wasn’t going to leave a near identical comment explaining why it wasn’t needed. The latter half of the comment might have not been great but I think you understood what they meant even if it could have been clearer. Though I think given the context the comment isn’t too bad. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer the general question here though, deletions don’t have to be accompanied with a reason. Most of the time, if it’s not just spam, R/A or a troll, a user will leave a comment for why they are voting to delete. As was the case here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-10-30T21:56:12.563" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12787" CreationDate="2019-10-31T00:49:24.210" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ignoring all the commentary on whether this was a targeted attack, and whether users have to explain their votes, I don't think the answer warranted deletion. From the comments to the answer and the comments here I gather that the two principal issues that people had with the answer were that it duplicated content from another answer, and that (the rest of) it was an unsupported theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the first point, I don't think that is an issue here. The answer was clearly not attempting to give the same answer as a previous answer; rather that information provided context for the (different) direction that this answer was taking, namely looking somewhere other than the author for an explanation of the cover art.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the second part, I freely admit that I do not have enough familiarity with this particular work to know if the theory presented has any merit to it. However, deletion is generally reserved for answers that either don't address the question at all, or are incomprehensible, rude, or spam. As this answer does not seem to be any of those, I don't think deletion is warranted. If users believe that it is not a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; answer, downvotes are definitely justified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the above I have voted to undelete the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastActivityDate="2019-10-31T00:49:24.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12754" CreationDate="2019-10-31T19:32:30.237" Score="13" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I'm back.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A couple of weeks ago, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/336108/278659&quot;&gt;I wrote up my thoughts&lt;/a&gt; on staying vs quitting, for all conflicted users including myself. Now, having thought through all the issues involved and discussed with my fellow mods, I've decided to resume moderating. Here's a few of the important thoughts which led me to this conclusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'm NOT a representative (or even necessarily supportive) of SE / SO Inc.&lt;/strong&gt; Something I've often wondered is whether the mod job is meant to be representing the company to the community or representing the community to the company. For me at least, it's much more the latter. I'm not one of those &quot;network users&quot; who was always destined to become a mod &lt;em&gt;somewhere&lt;/em&gt;, running in elections even if it's not their most active site. I moderate a site whose subject matter appeals to me, and I like to help keep that site clean. That's basically it. I don't need to like or support the company that hosts the site, and I never did anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't feel that I &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; to do this for the community's sake.&lt;/strong&gt; Some mods cite caring about their sites and communities as a reason to continue. I do care about the site, but I don't feel pressure or moral obligation from that angle. I'm aware that, if I stepped down, others would step up: SFF is busy and thriving with many active users, and it wouldn't die with the loss of one or more diamond mods. There are various users whom I like and have a lot of mutual respect with, but nobody I care about would lose respect for me if I didn't have a diamond any more. Quite simply, I enjoy the work I'm doing; the fact that it helps an internet company and a lot of other people is by-the-by.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I intend to follow my conscience until it gets me fired.&lt;/strong&gt; The moderator job involves a lot of &lt;em&gt;judgement calls&lt;/em&gt;, cases where there's no very clear rule or consensus to follow and an individual mod or mod team needs to decide what to do. I'm going to continue doing what I believe is right, although I know that this is never going to please everyone - many mod decisions upset someone, and many upset users complain to SE staff. I don't wish to take actions that I can't justify even to myself, because then I won't be able to justify them to anyone else either. I know that at least one CM takes the same view of moderation - &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/289880/278659&quot;&gt;&quot;as a voter or moderator, you are first and foremost accountable to your own conscience&quot;&lt;/a&gt; - but I'm open to the possibility that one day acting according to my conscience may be in conflict with SE requirements. That day has already come for some moderators. It hasn't come yet for me, but I intend to continue following my conscience even if one day it gets me fired.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'm aware of my expendability.&lt;/strong&gt; Let's be brutally objective: every individual user, every individual moderator, perhaps even every whole site except SO, is expendable as far as the company is concerned. I don't flatter myself that, if deciding whether or not to demod me, they'd hesitate on the grounds that I'm an active moderator on a largish site. I don't consider it guaranteed that I'll be able to continue moderating as long as I like. I'm picking up the tools again with the knowledge that they might be unexpectedly taken away at any time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I've checked my own advice.&lt;/strong&gt; Going through &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/336108/278659&quot;&gt;my own post&lt;/a&gt; point by point: I'm keeping the site clean because I enjoy it; I've taken care to keep my SE and RL personas separate; I don't intend to talk about my socio-political views on SE; I never felt loyalty or trust for the company; and I hope that this post represents an objective decision.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;Finally, I apologise for not posting here before (I should have informed this community before &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/334060/278659&quot;&gt;posting on main meta&lt;/a&gt;), and for allowing flags to fester for so long. Handling times have really suffered this month, but I look forward to clearing up a lot of the crap that's been waiting too long in the queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2019-10-31T19:32:30.237" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12791" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12793" CreationDate="2019-11-04T19:22:48.000" Score="11" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/390887/new-post-notices-closed-on-hold-etc-rolling-out-on-stack-overflow?cb=1&quot;&gt;you may have seen in the sidebar&lt;/a&gt;, Stack Exchange is apparently overhauling what's posted when questions are closed. I'm not certain how any of this will impact us, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/390894/901083&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; does point out that one of the changes is that gold-badge dupe-closing will automatically result in a comment asking the querent if we were right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently, once I, as a gold badge holder, close a question as a duplicate of another one, an automatic comment is left on my behalf below the question, reading&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this answer your question? &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.example.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Link to duplicate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with their reasoning that this might be a bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-11-05T09:19:15.507" Title="New Posting Notices for Closed Questions" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12791" CreationDate="2019-11-04T19:43:32.567" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voting to close something as a duplicate already does leave an automatic comment, attributed to you, saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Possible duplicate of [link to dupe target].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only difference is that, under the current system, &lt;strong&gt;such comments are auto-deleted when the question is actually closed&lt;/strong&gt;. If you're a gold tag badge holder, that means right away. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HMZMj.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HMZMj.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of example deleted comment&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this information about the new system is correct, then the change will be essentially that &lt;strong&gt;the &quot;possible duplicate&quot; comment stays even after the question is closed&lt;/strong&gt;. (OK, the automatic text is different, but you can still edit your own comment within the usual 5-minute window.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, this isn't necessarily a bad thing. It makes sense to inform askers that their question may have been asked previously - both before and after their question is actually closed! In fact, if anything the comment is going to be &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; useful after the question is closed. Before closure, the question may not actually be a duplicate, and it's still able to attract answers. After closure, no more answers can come in, and it's really helpful to give the OP a notification so that they can either (a) see their answer on the dupe target or (b) clarify that their question isn't a dupe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing I'd really want to change is the wording. &quot;Does this answer your question?&quot; sounds a bit too ... &lt;em&gt;uncertain&lt;/em&gt;, especially for someone who's wielding a hammer to close the question unilaterally. Maybe &quot;This question has already been asked at ...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2019-11-04T19:43:32.567" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12791" CreationDate="2019-11-05T09:19:15.507" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was a bug and has apparently since been fixed so we should never see it when the changes come to SFF. See the comments by Yaakov on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/337019/345161&quot;&gt;this main meta answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Duplicate of meta.stackexchange.com/a/337031/51. We changed the auto-comment language, but bug in the auto-delete when closed – Yaakov Ellis♦&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Update: the auto-delete logic is fixed for this, so the comment will be deleted when the post is closed. I am not marking this fixed yet, as I need to go back and clean up the comments that should have been deleted but were not while this bug was live over a few days. – Yaakov Ellis♦&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The linked main meta post and its comments give some good reasons for &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; wanting to keep the comment around and I agree with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-11-05T09:19:15.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12794" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12795" CreationDate="2019-11-08T18:46:06.723" Score="11" ViewCount="231" Body="&lt;p&gt;I added a bounty for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/211526/106137&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; in order to find the canonical answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Valorum found a plausible answer, however, as the wiki didn't referenced it, the answer was shared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bounty will end in 6 days and, even though there are some comments popping up, it seems like the answer is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/211528/106137&quot;&gt;&quot;We don't know&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (from @ian-thompson).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am aware that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11330/106137&quot;&gt;&quot;We don't know&quot; can be an approved answer&lt;/a&gt;, but in this particular case there is a bonus involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should I proceed in this situation? Should I accept the answer or wait till the end of the bounty period?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106137" LastActivityDate="2019-11-09T20:42:54.467" Title="How to proceed when a question (with bounty) appears to have &quot;We don't know&quot; as answer?" Tags="|discussion|accepted-answer|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12794" CreationDate="2019-11-09T20:42:54.467" Score="12" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Wait until the bounty ends&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bounty questions are special, in that they get more attention than normal questions. When you created the bounty &lt;strong&gt;you paid for that attention&lt;/strong&gt;. Ending it early is a bit of a waste in that regard. Just let it ride until it ends. You might also get another answer. I would only end early if you got such a phenomenal answer that nothing else could top it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Only accept answers you feel answer the question&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think &amp;quot;we don't know&amp;quot; is acceptable, then accept it. If not, then don't. There's no right or wrong there, but I can tell you it's not a good idea to accept answers that you don't feel answer the question. I once &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20154867/set-a-timeout-for-loading-a-file-from-an-ebs-share&quot;&gt;asked this question on SO&lt;/a&gt;. I got a good answer, but it explicitly &lt;strong&gt;did not answer the question&lt;/strong&gt;. I gave him the bounty (it would be a shame to waste that rep), but I never accepted it as an answer to my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-11-09T20:42:54.467" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12796" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12797" CreationDate="2019-11-13T19:09:32.113" Score="3" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange recently announced that it'll reward question askers more and so a reputation re-calculation will happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/11/13/were-rewarding-the-question-askers/&quot;&gt;We’re Rewarding the Question Askers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I welcome this decision because I believe I'll get most benefit out of it on this site. I am just curious to know when I can expect to see re-calculated reputation on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;New re-calculated reputation is now live on this site. I am now in 100K club (previous rep: ~60K). My legendary badge progress has also jumped from ~20 to 99.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastEditorUserId="931" LastEditDate="2019-11-14T00:53:13.993" LastActivityDate="2019-11-14T11:00:42.140" Title="When will reputation re-calculation be finished for this site?" Tags="|support|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12796" CreationDate="2019-11-13T19:13:01.200" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;When they fix the problems with it on MSE as explained by &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/338119/regarding-the-recalc-in-question-rep-increase-what-happens-due-to-the-cap#comment1125454_338124&quot;&gt;Jon&lt;/a&gt;. It will run sometimes after that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yes it is, but for now it's just on MSE. We're working through some problems as we speak. — Jon Ericson ♦&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rep recalc appears to have finished for SFF now. There were lots of items to process so it was taking its time. As current events are coming in now to the top bar, which was going to happen after the recalc finished its safe to say it has done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-11-14T11:00:42.140" LastActivityDate="2019-11-14T11:00:42.140" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12798" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12799" CreationDate="2019-11-14T04:29:05.190" Score="3" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/91098/looking-for-a-book-about-a-genetically-engineered-person&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question, over 4 years ago but despite the attempts of several people couldn't get the correct book found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it okay to reask the question in order to try to get other people to have an attempt at it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46105" LastActivityDate="2019-11-14T04:47:11.583" Title="Can I reask a story-identification that never got (correctly) answered?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12798" CreationDate="2019-11-14T04:47:11.583" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, you should never reask a question just because it wasn’t answered correctly. There is already a feature in place for this case and that is to place a bounty on said question. Place a bounty, pick the appropriate reason and you should gain a lot of extra attention. Not only does it bump the question to the homepage but it also adds it to the Featured tab which makes it more visible as a whole. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-11-14T04:47:11.583" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12800" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12801" CreationDate="2019-11-16T20:52:39.467" Score="4" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;The currently available tag for DC's &lt;em&gt;Watchmen&lt;/em&gt; has the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/watchmen/info&quot;&gt;description&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Watchmen are the fictional superhero team published by DC Comics and later made into a live action film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Watchmen are a group of costumed crime fighters first published in 1986 by DC Comics and later made into a 2009 live action film. Dark and gritty, the storyline takes place in an alternative history where the Watchmen dramatically affect their worlds events.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this tag still hold and can be used for HBO's TV adaptation of Watchmen as well? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking this as I recently posted a Watchmen question for the TV series (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/223168/is-there-an-in-universe-explanation-for-the-american-flag-in-hbos-series-watchm&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) and I have no idea if the previous tag of the movie and comics should be used with it. Or a new tag should be added for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="92306" LastEditorUserId="102999" LastEditDate="2019-11-23T04:21:21.657" LastActivityDate="2020-06-14T12:34:05.913" Title="Adding a new tag for HBO's Watchmen series?" Tags="|support|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12800" CreationDate="2019-11-16T21:26:01.147" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The makers of the show have stated that the TV show is canon to the original comic books (on which the 2009 live action film was loosely based). Given that they're all part of the same fictional universe, using &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/watchmen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;watchmen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;watchmen&lt;/a&gt; as a &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;franchise&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; tag makes sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yes. Look, [the new series] certainly fits into the ‘sequel’ box, and definitely doesn’t fit into the ‘reboot’ box. We treat the original 12 issues as canon. They all happened. We haven’t done any revisionist history, but we can maneuver in between the cracks and crevices and find new stories there. But for all the reasons you just articulated, we wanted to make sure our first episode felt like the beginning of a new story rather than a continuation of an old story. That’s what I think a sequel is — the continuation of an old story.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;Sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.cinemablend.com/television/2480583/damon-lindelof-clarifies-watchmens-tv-shows-canon-and-relation-to-the-movie&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Damon Lindelof Clarifies Watchmen's TV Show's Canon And Relation To The Movie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/Sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest you simply update the tag to reflect that;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;first published in 1986 by DC Comics, continued in Before Watchmen (2012) and adapted into a 2009 live action film and 2019 TV series&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can always add a media tag to show what bit of the franchise (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movies&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt;) you're interested in, or leave them out entirely if you're after an answer from the entire franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-11-16T21:41:59.277" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12802" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-11-17T00:14:21.307" Score="4" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I have understood (still new here), the current policy is that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7924/31178&quot;&gt;all individual works get their own individual tag&lt;/a&gt;; so, should we add a tag for the Apple TV+ alternate history series &lt;a href=&quot;https://tv.apple.com/us/show/for-all-mankind/umc.cmc.6wsi780sz5tdbqcf11k76mkp7&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;For All Mankind&lt;/a&gt;, debuted on November 1?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have already asked the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/223110/is-margo-madison-in-for-all-mankind-based-on-margaret-hamilton&quot;&gt;first question on the series&lt;/a&gt; (and, as it happens, I was able to answer it myself, after some research).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11423" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2019-11-17T07:42:48.027" LastActivityDate="2019-11-17T07:42:48.027" Title="Add a new tag for Apple TV+ &quot;For All Mankind&quot; series?" Tags="|support|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12803" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12806" CreationDate="2019-11-17T13:54:43.053" Score="2" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question specifically looking for a canon source to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/221781/89771&quot;&gt;Vogon Poet's&lt;/a&gt; claim that humans are immune to Pokemon attacks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/223182/are-humans-officially-immune-to-pokemon-attacks?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;Are humans officially immune to Pokemon attacks?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I clearly linked to the original question, yet it was closed as a dupe. Although Vogon Poet's answers the original question by providing examples, he provides no evidence. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original question asked if Pokemon breeding provides resistance. My question asks if all humans are immune to Pokemon. They are in no way similar questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89771" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2019-11-17T15:21:50.867" LastActivityDate="2019-11-17T18:43:10.833" Title="Not a dupe closed as dupe" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12803" CreationDate="2019-11-17T15:06:35.697" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions are not closed as duplicates because they are identical, but because they have the same answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore are different ways this can happen, but very common is for an earlier specific question to be given a general answer that covers a later generalisation of the &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastActivityDate="2019-11-17T15:06:35.697" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12805" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-11-17T18:05:53.660" Score="11" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bringing up because of this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/223179/what-does-yodas-species-eat&quot;&gt;What does Yoda&amp;#39;s species eat?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be appropriate to tag the question correctly with the extra tag (see comments to question), obviously OP does not because it &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; spoil (not sure how).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55637" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2019-11-17T23:17:55.930" LastActivityDate="2019-11-18T16:40:45.133" Title="Should a topic tag be avoided because it might be a spoiler?" Tags="|discussion|tags|spoilers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12803" CreationDate="2019-11-17T18:43:10.833" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: I don't know anything about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pokemon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pokemon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pokemon&lt;/a&gt; itself. In particular, I don't know the answer to either of the two questions involved here, so I'm going to cover all possibilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If it's true that humans are immune to Pokemon attacks&lt;/strong&gt;, then that (with canon evidence) would be the answer to your question and also the older question. In this case, we could potentially close the older question as a duplicate of yours, because &quot;are handlers immune&quot; is covered by the more general &quot;are humans immune&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If handlers have some immunity but humans in general do not&lt;/strong&gt;, then your question and the older question have two different answers, and neither of them should be closed as a duplicate of the other.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If not even handlers have protection from Pokemon attacks&lt;/strong&gt;, then that (again, with canon evidence) would be the answer to the older question and would also resolve your question. In that case, we could potentially close your question as a duplicate of the older one which would solve it completely.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know which of these three options is the case - and it seems neither does the site at large, so far. The only answer we have so far is sitting at a net -1 (at the time of writing), and it says &quot;&lt;em&gt;I believe within Pokémon canon Pokémon powers are simply ineffective against humans, so trainers need no special resistance.&lt;/em&gt;&quot; If true, this would be an answer to the question, but it's not really shown conclusively there, and the community doesn't seem to like this answer much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we're at the stage where there are two strongly related but slightly different questions. The answer to one of them &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; also answer the other, but we don't know for sure whether the correct answer to the older one &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; answer yours or not. Until we're sure, we should &lt;strong&gt;err on the side of leaving the questions open&lt;/strong&gt;. Then if someone knows the answer, they can answer whichever one is likely to be the dupe &lt;em&gt;target&lt;/em&gt; (as in, the correct answer to that one necessarily resolves the other one).&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;This specific case is a bit more complicated than just &quot;are handlers immune&quot; vs &quot;are humans immune&quot;, because your question is not just an unrelated &quot;are humans immune&quot; but &lt;em&gt;specifically asking about a claim made in an answer to the older question&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;If that answer is edited to include canon proof, then your question becomes completely obsolete&lt;/strong&gt; and could indeed be closed. But if the answer is incorrect, then your question is a good one. We really need to wait and find out - but in the meantime, and in case the answerer doesn't return to edit their answer, there's no need to block your question from other answers.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;Cf. the following hypothetical situations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I ask the question &quot;Did Bellatrix Lestrange love Lord Voldemort?&quot; and get an answer &quot;Yes, because all Death Eaters loved Voldemort - it's part of the job description&quot;. That shouldn't be enough to close &quot;Did Lucius Malfoy love Voldemort?&quot; or &quot;Did all Death Eaters love Voldemort?&quot; as a duplicate, because that answer is &lt;em&gt;not correct&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I ask the question &quot;Did Ron Weasley have two pets/familiars at the same time?&quot; and get an answer &quot;No, because Hogwarts students are allowed at most one [with evidence]&quot;, then a later question &quot;Can Hogwarts students have more than one familiar?&quot; would already be answered there (although I'd then argue for closing the specific case to the general, potentially merging to preserve answers).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2019-11-17T18:43:10.833" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12805" CreationDate="2019-11-17T20:31:23.367" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not an inherent spoiler because you're not obviously given the context. The tag would be only a minor spoiler, and only if you view the question. In this case, the question is about a broader topic to try and avoid a spoiler, so it doesn't need the series tag. If the question's title were (massive &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; spoiler ahead)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; In &lt;em&gt;The Mandalorian&lt;/em&gt;, why did Yoda's clone eat a frog?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;then I would be inclined to edit, but it would need the series tag, since it would be specific to that series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;We shouldn't avoid tags just because they are potential spoilers&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags exist so we can easily reference questions later. Not tagging a question about a specific topic is a disservice to people looking for the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-11-17T20:31:23.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12805" CreationDate="2019-11-18T16:40:45.133" Score="10" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Tag questions properly!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The system is set up for the user who does not want to be spoiled to take steps to do so.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Luckily, SE provides us with an easy avenue to do so, &lt;em&gt;ignoring tags&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a user wants to avoid spoiler for a specific franchise they can if the question is tagged properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the particular question I have no reason to hide general &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; questions, however I definitely do want to hide &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-mandalorian&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-mandalorian&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-mandalorian&lt;/a&gt; questions as I have not started watching it yet. &lt;strong&gt;If the question is not tagged properly I can not do this.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-11-18T16:40:45.133" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12800" CreationDate="2019-11-18T16:52:12.700" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;A new tag should be made for the new series.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we have done in the past to separate series that share an incidental name that run across multiple medias or been rebooted/remade/whatever is to add the year of the release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i.e. &lt;strong&gt;this new Watchmen series would and &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/watchmen-2019&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;watchmen-2019&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;watchmen-2019&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other examples are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/westworld-2016&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;westworld-2016&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;westworld-2016&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/daredevil-2003&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;daredevil-2003&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;daredevil-2003&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/daredevil-2015&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;daredevil-2015&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;daredevil-2015&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-2009&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-2009&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-2009&lt;/a&gt;, and many others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of whether it is canon to original comic books or first film or not, we will give new series a new tag. One area where this is particularly important is spoilers. A user can not avoid spoilers for a new release if it is not tagged properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-11-18T16:52:12.700" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12810" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12811" CreationDate="2019-11-20T08:38:57.790" Score="14" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this thread&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/223204/90-s-or-older-story-about-photographs-that-show-the-future&quot;&gt;90’s or older story about photographs that show the future&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I explained my reasoning to help others to find the answer to my &amp;quot;story-identification&amp;quot; question: there was a phrase (namely : &amp;quot;not as bland as it sounds&amp;quot;) which I thought was in the text of the story I was looking for. But by googling it I found it in a different story (namely &amp;quot;Press Enter&amp;quot;) which I remembered having read. So I thought I might have read both stories in the same collection in rapid succession and mixed them in my memory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of using this piece of information to answer my question, user14111 gave me the list of all collections containing &amp;quot;Press Enter&amp;quot;, something I did not yet know how to do. Using this list, I tried one collection after the other, saw a story with a title that looked promising, found a synopsis of that story and saw that it was indeed exactly the one I was looking for. Had I been able to find the list by myself, I would have self-answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I consider user14111's contribution minor enough to self-answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115682" LastEditorUserId="85712" LastEditDate="2020-08-14T10:45:33.057" LastActivityDate="2020-08-14T10:45:33.057" Title="Am I allowed to answer my question and 2 days later accept it if I received some (minimal) help from someone else?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12810" CreationDate="2019-11-20T08:53:03.243" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I would say self-answering in this case is fine.&lt;/strong&gt; user14111 did not find the &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; to your question (hence why he only posted a comment rather than an answer). He gave you a resource which was vital to you managing to solve your problem, but by itself that resource isn't an answer. The answer is the name of the story, which &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to be sure, you can &lt;strong&gt;ask user14111 in a comment&lt;/strong&gt; whether he's OK with you posting an answer based on a search through the link he gave you. I imagine he will be; for someone as experienced as him at identifying sci-fi short stories, getting that ISFDB was probably a trivial effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you still feel bad about receiving the rep for the answer, you might &lt;strong&gt;give user14111 a bounty&lt;/strong&gt; on some other question. (He has almost 1000 answers, many of them really exemplary story-ID answers; I'm sure you can easily find something bounty-worthy.) But this is &lt;strong&gt;completely optional&lt;/strong&gt; and you should feel no pressure to do so. I mention it only as an option if you really want user14111 to get some reward for helping you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS. Congrats on finding your story :-) Also that was a very good story-ID question: lots and lots of detail about the story. I upvoted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2019-11-20T08:53:03.243" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12813" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12814" CreationDate="2019-11-21T15:21:07.023" Score="3" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently it was announced that question upvotes are now going to be worth +10 reputation rather than +5. When is this change going to have fully taken effect on this sub-site? Because I've seen loads of people say that they have received their additional rep, but I haven't changed yet, and I have a good few highly upvoted questions...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify, I have read the other post, but the answer there says the recalc has finished, but it doesn't appear to have finished for me yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84035" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2019-11-21T15:55:47.870" LastActivityDate="2019-11-21T18:53:06.667" Title="Why haven't I got additional reputation since the question votes recalc?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12813" CreationDate="2019-11-21T15:51:29.747" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your reputation has already been recalculated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a moderator I can see a log in your user history which notes a reputation recalculation at November 13 19:34:47Z from 2,074 to 2,738.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also confirm for yourself that you have received 10 reputation per question upvote by looking at your reputation history, either &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/84035/james-douglas?tab=reputation&amp;amp;sort=post&quot;&gt;in your profile&lt;/a&gt; or by browsing to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/reputation&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt; while logged in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the recalculation took into account the daily reputation cap so you did not necessarily receive twice as much reputation from your question upvotes. Also, the green reputation indicator in the top bar did not notify anyone of a reputation increase due to the recalculation -- your reputation score simply updated when the recalculation was complete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2019-11-21T18:53:06.667" LastActivityDate="2019-11-21T18:53:06.667" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12816" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-11-26T11:26:49.727" Score="7" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/223577/did-darth-vader-ever-operate-a-button-on-the-devices-on-his-belt-or-his-chest#comment611591_223577&quot;&gt;This comment&lt;/a&gt;  on the &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/223577/58193&quot;&gt;Did Darth Vader ever operate a button on the devices on his belt or his chest?&lt;/a&gt; reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If canon isn't an issue for an answer, you should add the star-wars-legends tag&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A couple of hours ago the OP must have seen this comment and added the tag. On seeing the edit, I opened up the question and saw the now obsolete comment and so I flagged it as &quot;No longer needed&quot;. To my surprise this flag was declined with no message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I proceeded to re-flag it with a custom reason assuming it was either a mistake on the mods' behalf or I was completely overlooking something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The question &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; the Legends tag added by the OP therefore a comment saying you should add it is no longer needed. (flagging again with an explanation as the last flag was declined, don't know why).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again to my surprise it was declined and again it was declined with no message leaving me completely in the dark as to &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it was declined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, as far as I can tell a comment about adding a tag becomes obsolete once the tag has already been added so I can't work out why my flags were declined and the comment not deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why were my flags declined?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-11-26T11:59:53.707" LastActivityDate="2019-11-26T11:59:53.707" Title="Why was my flag on an obsolete &quot;add this tag&quot; comment declined?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12816" CreationDate="2019-11-26T11:57:17.330" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because there's an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12815/31394&quot;&gt;ongoing meta discussion&lt;/a&gt; concerning the canonicity expected of answers to that question, and I didn't think it was wise to sweep any pertinent information under the rug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The existence of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars-legends&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-legends&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-legends&lt;/a&gt; tag on a question is highly relevant, as far as I understand, to the expected canon level of answers thereto. And the OP is a new contributor, so just from an edit it might not be clear if they really intended to change the scope of the question or not. &lt;strong&gt;Having the information as to what inspired them to retag the question and why&lt;/strong&gt;, available to everyone and not just mods, may be important for the other meta discussion. And there's &lt;strong&gt;certainly no harm&lt;/strong&gt; in leaving an extra comment on the question.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;Sorry about not giving any reason for the decline. Unfortunately, for comment flags, there's only a &quot;delete&quot; button and a &quot;decline&quot; button, and &lt;strong&gt;no possibility to give extra feedback&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/337731/278659&quot;&gt;I'm hoping that may change&lt;/a&gt;, but for now it's impossible for mods to explain in the flag response &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; a comment flag was declined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2019-11-26T11:57:17.330" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12818" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12819" CreationDate="2019-11-27T00:16:59.383" Score="5" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that at 25,000 rep you get some access to site analytics, but even after reading &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/site-analytics&quot;&gt;the page&lt;/a&gt;, I don't understand exactly what types of things are given. What do Google Analytics entail? Can someone with 25k+ rep please let me know more information about what is given besides what is already there on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/site-analytics&quot;&gt;the page&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user112267" LastActivityDate="2019-11-27T00:26:33.033" Title="What types of site analytics are given at 25,000 rep?" Tags="|support|reputation|privileges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12818" CreationDate="2019-11-27T00:26:33.033" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Post numbers; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PTBQx.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PTBQx.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vote Counts;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AUgpe.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AUgpe.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Site Traffic;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7r1zQ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7r1zQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Site analytic and Traffic Sources;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VRORk.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VRORk.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of which is basically pointless. Apparently SE would prefer that we not share the raw data (huh?) but is happy to share the analysis that results from it (huh?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2019-11-27T00:26:33.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12820" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-11-27T00:44:23.973" Score="15" ViewCount="281" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just learned of the passing last Thursday of cartoonist and author &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gahan_Wilson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gahan Wilson&lt;/a&gt;. Although most of us know of him from his macabre cartoons (the New Yorker  posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-beautifully-macabre-cartoons-of-gahan-wilson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a retrospective&lt;/a&gt; of them in his memory), he was also a published SF author. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wilson's best-known story, from Harlan Ellison's anthology &lt;em&gt;Again, Dangerous Visions&lt;/em&gt;, doesn't even have a &quot;title&quot;: It's just a little ink blob on the page that's also one of the main characters.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63330" LastEditorUserId="63330" LastEditDate="2019-11-27T00:50:43.323" LastActivityDate="2022-10-22T22:04:51.110" Title="RIP Gahan Wilson" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12821" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-11-27T13:36:44.080" Score="5" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over on Meta Stack Exchange, another debate is brewing on the usefulness of non-Stack Overflow sites to the company, specifically bringing up profitability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could this site allow &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/sponsored-tags&quot;&gt;tag sponsorships&lt;/a&gt; a la Stack Overflow? SF&amp;amp;F seems an ideal stomping ground for sponsorships - Disney could have a ball sponsoring &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/frozen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;frozen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;frozen&lt;/a&gt;, WB could sponsor &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/superman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;superman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;superman&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/batman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;batman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;batman&lt;/a&gt;, and Nintendo could sponsor &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pokemon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pokemon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pokemon&lt;/a&gt;. There are dozens of tags directly relevant to some publisher or studio, and sponsorships could be relatively in-obtrusive (compared to banner ads) or even fun, and that could help the site bring in a little more money to justify its existence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70477" LastActivityDate="2019-11-27T13:36:44.080" Title="Could we allow sponsored tags?" Tags="|feature-request|tags|advertising|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10727" CreationDate="2019-11-28T19:27:10.787" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got the same error and &lt;a href=&quot;https://retrocomputing.meta.stackexchange.com/q/114/462&quot;&gt;when I asked about it&lt;/a&gt;, I got this response from SE developer Marc Gravell:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We return that error in a few scenarios where we have decided (for various reasons) that we really don't trust the incoming request - usually protection from botnets, hack attempts, attempts from external sites to hijack your account (XSRF failure), etc. I'm not saying that you did any of these things; I suspect something changed on your connection sufficiently to cause a false-positive. Sorry about that. If it is working now, then we're probably fine. Unfortunately, a small number of false-positives is a side-effect of the hostile internet in which we reside :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my case, the thing that caused this was probably the fact that I switched WiFi connections either right before or during the image upload. I was also logged out of my account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82909" LastActivityDate="2019-11-28T19:27:10.787" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12823" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12828" CreationDate="2019-11-30T10:50:24.573" Score="18" ViewCount="357" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/127430/what-is-kronos-corporation&quot;&gt;What is Kronos Corporation?&lt;/a&gt;, the accepted answer states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the mainstream 616 Marvel universe, &lt;a href=&quot;https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Kronas_Corporation_(Earth-616)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Kronas Corporation&lt;/a&gt; was [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This Kronos/Kronas discrepancy is not further addressed in the answer itself, and perhaps understandably created some confusion, with a user in the comments asking for confirmation (&quot;&lt;em&gt;Kron&lt;strong&gt;a&lt;/strong&gt;s, surely?&lt;/em&gt;&quot;), and the OP insisting that in-game it is definitely &lt;em&gt;Kronos&lt;/em&gt; and not &lt;em&gt;Kronas&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Digging in the linked wiki page, I found out that the subject fictional corporation was later rebranded as &lt;em&gt;Kronos Corporation&lt;/em&gt;, so I suggested the following edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the mainstream 616 Marvel universe, &lt;a href=&quot;https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Kronas_Corporation_(Earth-616)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Kronas Corporation&lt;/a&gt; (later rebranded as &lt;em&gt;Kronos Corporation&lt;/em&gt;) was [...] &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;with the comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;added rebranded name according to the wiki link, after comments&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But my suggested edit was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/156767&quot;&gt;rejected&lt;/a&gt; by both reviewers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This edit does not make the post even a little bit easier to read, easier to find, more accurate or more accessible. Changes are either completely superfluous or actively harm readability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the discrepancy of a question about &lt;em&gt;Kronos&lt;/em&gt; and an answer about &lt;em&gt;Kronas&lt;/em&gt;, and the unresolved confusion and ambiguity expressed in the comments, it is hard to see how my suggested edit did not help to make the answer more accurate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, any ideas as to why it was rejected? And should it be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11423" LastEditorUserId="11423" LastEditDate="2019-11-30T20:01:05.730" LastActivityDate="2019-12-07T00:47:29.050" Title="Suggested edit to explicitly address a naming discrepancy. Why was it rejected?" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edit|specific-answer|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12823" CreationDate="2019-12-02T09:49:05.250" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The short answer for me is that is would have been better as a comment which it also was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The confusion was generated in the comments about a minor aspect of the answer and it already seemed to be cleared up. A quick look at the linked wiki, added over 3 years ago, shows the name change clearly. You don't need to &quot;dig into&quot; the page, it's quite clear both in the body and in the meta information panel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top of that calling it Kron&lt;strong&gt;a&lt;/strong&gt;s in the answer was the initial resolution to the first comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also worth noting that the answer is talking about the Earth-616, main comics continuity, version where it is called Kron&lt;strong&gt;a&lt;/strong&gt;s and the question is talking about &lt;em&gt;Lego Marvel Avengers&lt;/em&gt; which is in a different universe. So them having slightly different names isn't something out of the ordinary. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And whilst it is only a minor point there is no current confusion that needs clearing up, the whole post was last active over 3 years ago. I'm sure if anyone was still confused in that time they would have worked it out by now. A comment to clear it up, which you did, would help anyone confused in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes I know &lt;em&gt;&quot;comments are not first-class citizens of SE&quot;&lt;/em&gt; but in practice they don't really get nuked that frequently around SFF. We are even more lax towards joke and basic commentary comments in general than most of SE. Things just aren't as strict round here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-12-02T09:49:05.250" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12823" CreationDate="2019-12-02T13:56:45.880" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I did not reject the edit, and I probably would have skipped it had I seen it in the review queue, there is a potential argument to be made for rejecting it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edits are usually meant to clarify some ambiguity in the text of the post, fix spelling and grammar issues, or add links. Edits are generally not for correcting technical inaccuracies. If a post contains an inaccuracy the standard procedure would be to leave a comment explaining the inaccuracy and/or downvote the post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The line between a technical inaccuracy and a fleeting mistake can be fuzzy and can sometimes be a judgement call. If a post says Luke Skiwalker we can probably assume that it’s just a typo for Luke Skywalker, and edit it accordingly. In other cases it won’t be as obvious. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this particular case, we can see that it’s not merely a typo or a mistake. The answerer deliberately used Kron&lt;strong&gt;a&lt;/strong&gt;s in response to a comment. The answerer apparently felt that this is the correct name. If the answerer is incorrect, or partially incorrect, that can be debated in the comments rather than changing the answerer’s formulation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, if I was to reject such an edit I would use a different reject reason. Instead of choosing that the edit doesn’t add anything, I would choose that it deviates from the author’s intent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2019-12-02T14:10:45.067" LastActivityDate="2019-12-02T14:10:45.067" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12826" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-12-02T18:18:06.930" Score="7" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're getting a lot of &quot;The Mandalorian&quot; questions which is understandable but at the same time, it seems like one could broadly apply the &quot;future-works&quot; policy to either downvote or close questions that can reasonably be expected to be answered in later episodes at least (if not further seasons). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can / should we at least encourage questions to wait until the initial season is completed and &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; ask questions?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(referencing The Mandalorian specifically, but more broadly looking towards ST: Picard coming next month as well which will likely cause the same phenomenon) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55637" LastActivityDate="2019-12-03T13:56:16.613" Title="What's the policy on questions about TV shows still in progress?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12826" CreationDate="2019-12-02T18:51:04.913" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It may seem like a cliche response, but... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Evaluate each question individually.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can not paint with a brush as broad as &quot;Do not ask questions until the first season is over&quot;, especially since franchises like Star Wars, Star Trek, MCU (I am sure the new Marvel shows on Disney+ will generate questions in their first seasons), and many SFF titles in general have either been adapted, rebooted, or extended from novels, comic books, or previous TV series. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many questions asked in the first season may be completely answered from extended lore or previous installments the OP is unaware of. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/223774/were-anakin-and-the-asset-in-the-mandalorian-born-in-the-same-year&quot;&gt;I learned myself&lt;/a&gt;, asking about theories is going to get closed as Opinion Based per our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5187/should-questions-about-future-works-be-closed-as-primarily-opinion-based&quot;&gt;future works policy&lt;/a&gt;. (I was even to have mine reopened after focusing on something that is fact based).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2019-12-02T18:51:04.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12823" CreationDate="2019-12-03T13:07:17.917" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The starting point for any such discussion is always the community rules and guidelines; everything else comes second, and it must not contradict these written rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to our own &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/editing&quot;&gt;SFF help page on editing&lt;/a&gt; (practically identical to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/editing&quot;&gt;general SE one&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Common reasons for edits include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;To fix grammar and spelling mistakes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;To clarify the meaning of the post (without &lt;em&gt;changing&lt;/em&gt; that meaning)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;To include additional information only found in comments, so all of the information relevant to the post is contained in one place&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;To correct minor mistakes or add updates as the post ages&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;To add related resources or hyperlinks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/21788/how-does-editing-work&quot;&gt;SE FAQ on editing&lt;/a&gt; states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Users can edit the questions and answers submitted to the site. This gives the site a &lt;em&gt;wiki&lt;/em&gt; feel, and allows the information to constantly evolve and remain up to date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/127442/revisions&quot;&gt;revision history&lt;/a&gt; of the subject answer in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/127430/what-is-kronos-corporation/127442#127442&quot;&gt;What is Kronos Corporation?&lt;/a&gt; reveals that the respondent initially posted an answer about Kron&lt;strong&gt;o&lt;/strong&gt;s; challenged by a comment, they edited to Kron&lt;strong&gt;a&lt;/strong&gt;s, and understandably so, since back then (May 2016), there was no mention at all of any Kron&lt;strong&gt;o&lt;/strong&gt;s in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Kronas_Corporation_(Earth-616)?oldid=3518472&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;linked supporting evidence&lt;/a&gt;. This left the thread in a rather awkward situation of a question asked about Kronos and an answer provided about Kronas, without further clarifications, but the asking OP was happy and accepted the answer. So far so good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3.5 years later (November 2019), someone (myself, he/him) stumbles upon the thread and is puzzled and confused with the unresolved discrepancy Kronos/Kronas; looking at the linked evidence &lt;a href=&quot;https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Kronas_Corporation_(Earth-616)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;as is now&lt;/a&gt;, he finds a reference to: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the rebranded &lt;strong&gt;Kronos Corporation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(emphasis in the original). He leaves a comment as a first remedy, and proceeds to suggest an edit, from &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the mainstream 616 Marvel universe, &lt;a href=&quot;https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Kronas_Corporation_(Earth-616)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Kronas Corporation&lt;/a&gt; was [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the mainstream 616 Marvel universe, &lt;a href=&quot;https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Kronas_Corporation_(Earth-616)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Kronas Corporation&lt;/a&gt; (later rebranded as &lt;em&gt;Kronos Corporation&lt;/em&gt;) was [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which (edit) gets rejected, hence the question here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the full context as exposed above, the suggested edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Added updated info, not available at the time of writing the original answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moved the relevant info from the comments to the post itself&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Resolved the discrepancy Kronos/Kronas, and addressed the confusion facing any viewers &lt;em&gt;today&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did not change the meaning of the post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did not conflict with the author's intent; on the contrary, it would seem that it resolved the issue in a manner that would be desirable by the author, and it would be the choice of the author themselves, had the updated information been available back then&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, the suggested edit added value to the post, while being fully compliant with the community rules and guidelines, and without contradicting the author's intent. Hence, its rejection seems unjustified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11423" LastEditorUserId="11423" LastEditDate="2019-12-07T00:47:29.050" LastActivityDate="2019-12-07T00:47:29.050" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12826" CreationDate="2019-12-03T13:56:16.613" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;My general take on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11865/what-are-future-works&quot;&gt;Future Works&lt;/a&gt; in this case is that there's a clear exception: works being published episodically (i.e. a TV series).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/223481/62709&quot;&gt;this question about Mandalorians and helmets&lt;/a&gt; got an accepted answer (derived from other canon works) before episode &lt;s&gt;IV&lt;/s&gt; 4 aired and provided a direct answer. As long as we're not at a season break with questions clearly spanning into some yet-to-be made or published work, they should not be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastActivityDate="2019-12-03T13:56:16.613" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12830" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-12-03T22:15:43.937" Score="19" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;Star Trek wouldn't be Star Trek without her. She wrote many of the best episodes, helped develop the universe and gave us that series that we have loved for decades now. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More information on &lt;a href=&quot;https://intl.startrek.com/news/dc-fontana-1939-2019&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Startrek.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Salutes&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="104840" LastActivityDate="2019-12-03T22:15:43.937" Title="D.C Fontana, famed Star Trek writer, passed away on December 2nd" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12831" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-12-04T21:30:52.473" Score="6" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a little bit confused about the tag policy in case of book series vs adaptations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have currently tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/altered-carbon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;altered-carbon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;altered-carbon&lt;/a&gt; described as &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;For questions about Richard K. Morgan's novel &quot;Altered Carbon&quot; and its adaptations.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All good, we have one tag for the book and the Netflix series. However, Richard Morgan also wrote other books in this series: &lt;em&gt;Broken Angels&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Woken Fury&lt;/em&gt; and recently &lt;em&gt;Altered Carbon: Download Blues&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the same time, Netflix continues to produce the second season of its adaptation (presumably based on the second book), which is &lt;strong&gt;still&lt;/strong&gt; called &lt;em&gt;Altered Carbon&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if I'd like to ask a question about, let's say, 3rd book, should I create &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/woken-fury&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;woken-fury&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;woken-fury&lt;/a&gt; and then &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/broken-angels&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;broken-angels&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;broken-angels&lt;/a&gt; for questions regarding the 2nd one? Or maybe I should make &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/takeshi-kovacs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;takeshi-kovacs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;takeshi-kovacs&lt;/a&gt; encapsulating the whole series in a book form? If the latter, should the questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/altered-carbon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;altered-carbon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;altered-carbon&lt;/a&gt; asking for the book version also be tagged with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/takeshi-kovacs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;takeshi-kovacs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;takeshi-kovacs&lt;/a&gt; while continuing to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/altered-carbon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;altered-carbon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;altered-carbon&lt;/a&gt; for the Netflix series?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50522" LastActivityDate="2019-12-04T22:09:18.177" Title="Altered Carbon/ Takeshi Kovacs tags" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12831" CreationDate="2019-12-04T22:09:18.177" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The pattern I've seen established with other works is to have a series/universe tag and, if required, a work tag.  For example, there's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt; for the series as a whole, and individual tags for the books: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-fellowship-of-the-ring&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-fellowship-of-the-ring&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-fellowship-of-the-ring&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-two-towers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-two-towers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-two-towers&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-return-of-the-king&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-return-of-the-king&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-return-of-the-king&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/takeshi-kovacs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;takeshi-kovacs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;takeshi-kovacs&lt;/a&gt; as a series tag, since a tag should be clear about whether it refers to a work or a character; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/takeshi-kovacs-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;takeshi-kovacs-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;takeshi-kovacs-series&lt;/a&gt; is ugly, but less ambiguous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I would suggest we leave &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/altered-carbon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;altered-carbon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;altered-carbon&lt;/a&gt; as is, and update the usage to say that it applies to either the series of books or Netflix series &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; to the first book.  The advantage to not changing the current usage of the tag is that it doesn't require existing questions to be re-tagged.  Not adding a new series tag also avoids re-tagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Further, if there aren't a lot of questions in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/altered-carbon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;altered-carbon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;altered-carbon&lt;/a&gt; tag, then maybe it's fine to use it for all the books, and just specify in a question if it's about a particular book.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastActivityDate="2019-12-04T22:09:18.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12833" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12834" CreationDate="2019-12-08T00:31:01.787" Score="3" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;What exactly is a &quot;well received question&quot; as far as Curious or Inquisitive badge is concerned ? &#xA;I did see a similar &lt;strong&gt;question&lt;/strong&gt; being asked, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/8087/what-constitutes-a-well-received-question&quot;&gt;What constitutes a &amp;#39;well received question&amp;#39;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but the &lt;strong&gt;answer&lt;/strong&gt; there was not so much about the &quot;well received&quot; character but about the fact that there was another question asked on the same day, so it does not answer my question here, which is just the general definition of &quot;well received&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115682" LastActivityDate="2019-12-08T11:06:40.837" Title="Well received question" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2019-12-08T11:06:21.360" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12833" CreationDate="2019-12-08T00:35:30.017" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The definition from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/234259/asking-days-badges&quot;&gt;main meta&lt;/a&gt; is as follows;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A well-received question is one that's open, not deleted, and has a score &gt; 0&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/234259/asking-days-badges&quot;&gt;Asking days badges&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2019-12-08T00:35:30.017" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12835" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-12-09T00:23:28.423" Score="37" ViewCount="294" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rene Auberjonois has died at the age of 79. He is best known for his role as Constable Odo in Deep Space Nine as well as directing a number of Star Trek episodes including the critically acclaimed &lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath_(episode)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;DS9: Hippocratic Oath&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Env5DPtZylo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2019-12-25T11:28:57.253" Title="RIP Rene Auberjonois - Star Trek DS9 Actor and Director" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12836" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-12-09T00:50:08.003" Score="3" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;A little while back, the Winter Bash icon appeared on the top bar, along with the notifications:  &quot;You earned Glasses With A Number On Top on Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the description for this hat is:  &quot;post a message in chat within ±12 hours of the UTC New Year’s begin that gets starred,&quot; which I obviously haven't done &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; season.  I see my avatar as wearing the hat, but does everyone else?  Moreover, is this a site-wide glitch or is it specific to Science Fiction and Fantasy?  (I am not getting erroneous hats on any other Stack Exchange sites.)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2019-12-09T00:50:08.003" Title="Are the Winter Bash hats drawing data from last year?" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12835" CreationDate="2019-12-12T21:36:23.273" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll always remember him as Clayton Endicott III.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26771" LastActivityDate="2019-12-12T21:36:23.273" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12839" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-12-17T12:45:05.817" Score="0" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been numerous questions popping up asking for an explanation as to what a character meant when he/she said this to someone. Some of them are here (that I know of) asked in the past few days:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/224540/why-did-rocket-say-not-it&quot;&gt;Why did Rocket say, &amp;quot;Not it&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/224502/what-did-harry-mean-when-he-said-well-i-take-it-youre-not-sorry-to-griphook&quot;&gt;What did Harry mean when he said &amp;quot;Well, I take it you&amp;#39;re not sorry?&amp;quot; to Griphook?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/224488/why-did-dr-chiren-ask-dr-ido-that-question&quot;&gt;Why did Dr. Chiren ask Dr. Ido that question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/224391/what-is-meant-by-anything-that-challenges-zalem&quot;&gt;What is meant by &amp;quot;Anything that challenges Zalem&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/223838/why-did-black-widow-say-please&quot;&gt;Why did Black Widow say, &amp;quot;Please&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and a lot more... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, this could go on forever if one starts listing each phrase from every book/movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how can we handle such questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="92306" LastActivityDate="2019-12-17T12:45:05.817" Title="How should we handle the questions: &quot;What did X mean when he said ...&quot; on SF&amp;F?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2019-12-17T12:47:18.467" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12840" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12842" CreationDate="2019-12-18T23:22:54.180" Score="13" ViewCount="261" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got two answers to a story-identification question, pointing to the &lt;strong&gt;same series&lt;/strong&gt;. And the time marked for the two answers is the very same minute.&#xA;I still have to check if it is right series, (at first sight it does look so, but I'll have to do some more checking).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when and if I am convinced both answers are correct, what should I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Form the time marks and the lengths of the answers  it looks like both answers were typed independently. There was no way one could have been typed by copying the other one. Definitely not enough time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should I do? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115682" LastEditorUserId="14850" LastEditDate="2019-12-29T19:35:16.210" LastActivityDate="2019-12-29T19:35:16.210" Title="What to do when a question gets two identical answers that are timed to the very same minute?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12840" CreationDate="2019-12-18T23:39:46.600" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Paulie_D's answer was earlier by 11 seconds (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/224677/timeline&quot;&gt;22:58:11 vs. 22:58:22&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming you feel that the two answers &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;are of otherwise equal quality&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, I'd suggest you reward the one that was sooner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2019-12-19T00:01:20.957" LastActivityDate="2019-12-19T00:01:20.957" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12840" CreationDate="2019-12-18T23:46:37.367" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have several options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do nothing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the questioner you never have an obligation to do anything with answers. When you receive any answer you can choose to comment on it, vote on it, flag it, or accept it, but you don’t have to do any of those. Here too you can do nothing if you so desire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Upvote both and accept the better one&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually two answers won’t be word for word identical even when they’re giving the same answer. Perhaps one answer has more details about the story, or one answer makes a better case for why it is the correct identification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Accept whichever one came first&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is unlikely that both answers will have the same timestamp down to the exact second.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Any other arbitrary/random method of deciding&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let’s see how creative you are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Accept one and bounty the other&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See above for how to decide which to do for which.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, you can do whatever you want as long as you don’t violate any of the site’s rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-12-19T01:13:06.433" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12843" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-12-19T07:42:18.110" Score="1" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Heck, it shouldn't have been closed to begin with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/224484/which-predictions-of-the-rise-of-skywalker-darths-droids-bingo-were-correct&quot;&gt;Which predictions of The Rise of Skywalker: Darths &amp;amp; Droids Bingo were correct?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see any logic in it, sorry. There are two other questions like that which have been well received. There are plenty of questions about identity hundreds of things in a picture which are way broader than this. And anyway it's a finite list of items.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last but not least, it's been posted a day after the movie release. It shouldn't be reminded, but this network is far from being dedicated to USA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43417" LastActivityDate="2019-12-19T10:23:43.227" Title="This question about Rise of Skywalker Bingo should be reopened" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12843" CreationDate="2019-12-19T10:23:43.227" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question is not too broad and no longer about a future work which is why it was closed in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has been reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2019-12-19T10:23:43.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12835" CreationDate="2019-12-19T15:06:47.623" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My first ever exposure to this brilliant actor was not as Odo, the grouchy, yet fair and shrewed Head of Security on DS9.... but as an incredible voice from my childhood. He played &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; voice roles in favored cartoons, including the voice of a Dassad, Darkseid's main aid in the &lt;strong&gt;Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians,&lt;/strong&gt; several voices in &lt;strong&gt;The GoBots&lt;/strong&gt;, several characters in various Marvel productions, and would &lt;em&gt;Again&lt;/em&gt; lend his voice talents to DC, this time as the first animated voice of General Zod in the 1988 &lt;strong&gt;Superman&lt;/strong&gt; cartoon series. He was even the voice of that crazed Chef in &lt;strong&gt;The Little Mermaid.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would later find out he continued doing voices well into the 2000s, such as Talos in &lt;strong&gt;God of War.&lt;/strong&gt; All this, and he would pop up in several non-sci-fi shows; my absolute favorite role outside of Odo was his similar, if more comedic role as Paul, a senior partner on the Dramedy &lt;strong&gt;Boston Legal.&lt;/strong&gt;  The man was a multi-talented actor of stage, screen, television and video game, and his presence is already missed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="114389" LastActivityDate="2019-12-19T15:06:47.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12846" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-12-20T06:13:35.323" Score="1" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I asked a question on here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/224747/why-is-there-such-a-dislike-for-the-alien-prequels/224749#224749&quot;&gt;Why is there such a dislike for the Alien Prequels?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was not well received. What is the issue with it? I mean, most discussions involving films will be opinion-based on some sort of level.  I feel like the magnitude of negativity was not exactly fair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="124227" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2022-08-22T13:08:35.667" LastActivityDate="2022-08-22T13:08:35.667" Title="What is wrong with &quot;Why is there such a dislike for the Alien Prequels?&quot; and why was it closed" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12846" CreationDate="2019-12-20T08:12:02.560" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The close message explains why: you're asking for opinions. Asking for opinions is a bad idea for a question &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;, since there is no way to determine the correct answer — there is none.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't mean you can't ask why a work wasn't received better. Examples of well-received similar questions are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/101948/19561&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t The Thing (1982) fare better at the box office?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/108486/19561&quot;&gt;What was the general critical reaction to Star Trek: The Motion Picture?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you edit your question to focus more on how it was received by critics and the general public, I would vote for it to be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2019-12-20T08:12:02.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12848" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12851" CreationDate="2019-12-20T22:18:49.093" Score="23" ViewCount="278" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggested an edit to an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/224743/doesnt-data-know-the-kobayashi-maru/224754#224754&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; that completely lacked any punctuation marks (save for two commas), with sentences just chained together without any separation whatsoever:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Strategema is not a no win situation to be fair technically neither is the Maru, it is a competitive game of some sort while the game is never explained in depth the visuals make it look a little like go with territory control being key however it also appears to be played in real time and it appears that each finger controls some kind of input Data concludes that he is damaged because as an Android his reflexes, visual acuity and mental acuity should be superior to any biological entity&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically Data has an existential crisis when one of his core beliefs is proven wrong&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The suggested edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Strategema is not a no-win situation and, to be fair, technically neither is the Maru. Strategema is a competitive game of some sort. While the game is never explained in depth, the visuals make it look a little like Go with territory control being key; however it also appears to be played in real time and it appears that each finger controls some kind of input. Data concludes that he is damaged because as an android his reflexes, visual acuity and mental acuity should be superior to any biological entity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically Data has an existential crisis when one of his core beliefs is proven wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;with punctuation marks, sentence separation, and the first letter of the word 'Go' capitalized, to clarify that it is the game (and not the verb).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it happens, both reviewers &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/157534&quot;&gt;rejected&lt;/a&gt; the edit with the same rationale:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This edit does not make the post even a little bit easier to read, easier to find, more accurate or more accessible. Changes are either completely superfluous or actively harm readability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would really like to hear opinions here - isn't the edited text much easier to read than the first one? Or was it a bad suggestion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11423" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-12-23T14:59:39.667" Title="Suggested edit to post without punctuation marks or sentence separation rejected" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edit|specific-answer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="21" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12846" CreationDate="2019-12-22T21:28:39.097" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Specifically to the point:&lt;/em&gt; Stack Exchange is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;not a discussion forum&lt;/a&gt;. Says so right in the Tour: it's a place for getting specific answers to focused questions. Most questions that begin with &quot;why&quot; are asking for opinions and are going to be closed for being opinion based, for being too broad or lacking focus. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt; has lots of resources that show you how to formulate good queries and also address what kinds of queries to avoid asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105423" LastEditorUserId="105423" LastEditDate="2019-12-22T23:18:52.980" LastActivityDate="2019-12-22T23:18:52.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12850" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-12-23T08:47:37.507" Score="2" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7752126/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Brightburn&lt;/a&gt;, a 2019 movie is classified as &lt;strong&gt;Drama, Horror, Mystery&lt;/strong&gt; on IMDb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the summary of the movie is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie basically revolves around a spaceship crash-lands in Brightburn, Kansas on a farm and inside the ship is an infant child. The child is adopted by a couple. He finds out that he sin't of this Earth and has superpowers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To quote &lt;strong&gt;The New York Times&lt;/strong&gt;, the story basically asks the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What if Clark Kent had been a power-hungry sociopath whose motto was&lt;/em&gt; “&lt;strong&gt;take the world&lt;/strong&gt;”?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This story is somewhat of a Horror- Science fiction mix. Therefore, I think we would need a tag &lt;code&gt;Brightburn&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;Brightburn-2019&lt;/code&gt; for the questions related to this movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="92306" LastActivityDate="2019-12-23T11:24:59.840" Title="New tag request for Brightburn (2019 movie)" Tags="|support|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12848" CreationDate="2019-12-23T11:24:44.633" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;The consensus in the discussion seems clear in that the suggested edit improved the post, hence it should have not be rejected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the reviewers was kind enough to offer their explanation for rejecting the edit: they mistakenly thought that the post was a question, and not an answer; given that, their rationale was to reject the edit because it was not complete (i.e. it didn't address an additional tag issue). Nevertheless&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That's not a reason to reject an edit. If someone is making an edit which is &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; (improves the post) but not &lt;em&gt;complete&lt;/em&gt; (doesn't improve every possible thing which could be improved), that's what the &quot;Improve Edit&quot; button is for, not the &quot;Reject&quot; button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as convincingly argued by a moderator in the comments above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11423" LastEditorUserId="11423" LastEditDate="2019-12-23T14:59:39.667" LastActivityDate="2019-12-23T14:59:39.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12850" CreationDate="2019-12-23T11:24:59.840" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tags are only created when they first are used on a question. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=brightburn&quot;&gt;Searching for &lt;code&gt;brightburn&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; yielded 0 results, so we don't have any questions to tag with it and hence don't have that tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges&quot;&gt;this stack's privileges&lt;/a&gt;, you only need 300 points of reputation to create a new tag. You have quite a bit more than that. You already exceed the 5000 rep points threshold to approving tag wiki edits and are on your way to becoming a trusted user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when you ask your questions, just add &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/brightburn&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;brightburn&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;brightburn&lt;/a&gt; and that's all — except please, don't forget to fill in the usage guidance and tag wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2019-12-23T11:24:59.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12835" CreationDate="2019-12-25T11:28:57.253" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;His role as Odo in DS9 is the main role that he played that I'll remember him for. Other than that his role as Hugo Miller in Warehouse 13 and his role as Alar in Stargate Sg-1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;R.I.P. Rene :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111234" LastActivityDate="2019-12-25T11:28:57.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12854" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-12-27T18:39:27.710" Score="1" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently answered this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/225014/is-it-possible-to-skip-the-last-jedi-and-still-make-sense-of-rise-of-skywalker&quot;&gt;Is it possible to skip The Last Jedi and still make sense of Rise of Skywalker?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several of the other answers have details which might be considered spoilers (they give away plot details). However, they're spoilers for a movie that's been out for 2 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we have any sort of guideline for spoilers, specifically in terms of &quot;age&quot; of the content?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could understand not bothering with spoiler tags if you're going to mention that Darth Vader is Luke's father, but discussing things from a movie that's 2 years old seems like it may be spoilers for some people. Of course, as the question ages, the &quot;age&quot; of the movie relative to the point in time at which the question is being read will change. Should ALL spoilers be tagged as such?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108186" LastActivityDate="2019-12-27T18:39:27.710" Title="Do we have a guideline for spoilers in answers, in terms of how old the content is?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2019-12-29T22:04:06.707" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12855" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-12-28T23:35:29.957" Score="0" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want(ed) to post an answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/225180/what-is-the-difference-between-space-opera-and-space-drama-genres&quot;&gt;this recent question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was closed as &quot;opinion-based&quot;, but the &quot;opinion-based&quot; close reason begins &lt;em&gt;Many good questions generate some degree of opinion&lt;/em&gt;, so whether to close or not is a matter of degree. I'm not convinced that opinions would have been so varied or divergent to rate closing the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is of course no difference between the terms except for the writers' expectations for their audiences, and maybe what they think editors will publish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there is an important point to be made because of the term &quot;space opera&quot;'s origin as a dismissive pejorative (coined by a fan) of poorly-written, formulaic space adventures as well as SF's long languishment in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/196411/what-was-the-1920s-1930s-sf-horror-literary-ghetto&quot;&gt;the literary ghetto&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Space opera&quot; has come to mean a specific subgenre in the last couple of decades but it used to mean crap that should be disregarded, and there are still people who remember those days. Some people are just gun-shy with these terms. Just look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/10/speculative-or-science-fiction-as-margaret-atwood-shows-there-isnt-much-distinction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Margaret Atwood's own struggle&lt;/a&gt; to come to terms with her work being classed as &quot;science fiction&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: Well I wanted to post answer like this, but it's moot now because the OP deleted it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63330" LastEditorUserId="63330" LastEditDate="2019-12-29T12:28:51.590" LastActivityDate="2019-12-29T12:28:51.590" Title="Please reopen the Space Opera vs Space Drama question" Tags="|discussion|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12855" CreationDate="2019-12-29T12:08:29.590" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to close it because the question was&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Poorly scoped.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the difference &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;according to whom&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;? Does OP just mean &lt;em&gt;according to random internet people who write articles on wikipedia&lt;/em&gt;?&#xA;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Opinion-based&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is OP anticipating that there's some sort of authority on these matters that we can consult? Are they unaware that &lt;em&gt;anyone can use these terms however they choose&lt;/em&gt; and that I could, if I so chose, go and change the wiki articles myself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since any answer would be the &lt;em&gt;answerer's own opinions&lt;/em&gt; or a copy/paste of &lt;em&gt;someone else's opinions&lt;/em&gt;, this question should have been closed (and was) and should stay closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2019-12-29T12:08:29.590" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12857" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12860" CreationDate="2019-12-31T04:16:36.783" Score="3" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2571/what-to-do-when-a-question-has-been-answered-but-the-asker-forgot-to-accept-it&quot;&gt;What to do when a question has been answered but the asker forgot to &amp;quot;accept it&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;, it's sadly common that new users will fail to actually accept an answers, at best posting a comment that it's the right answer. I've taken to adding a comment with my answers explaining how to accept an answer. I make it pretty simple, along the lines of &quot;If this is your answer, you can accept it by clicking on the checkmark by the voting buttons&quot; since I typically type it in quickly to catch people before they vanish, but I've since had this drawn into question as to whether this might be noise and/or seen as a way to influence querents to accept my answer whether or not it's actually the right one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do people think of as a good policy here? I can desist, if desired, but I also do feel that this is useful, as we get a lot of hit-and-run questions, particularly for things like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2019-12-31T09:15:08.733" LastActivityDate="2019-12-31T17:00:20.390" Title="Is it useful to let querents know how to accept an answer in a comment with the answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12858" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2019-12-31T13:44:34.070" Score="22" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sydmead.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Syd Mead&lt;/a&gt;, legendary futurist and concept artist in &lt;em&gt;Blade Runner&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Tron&lt;/em&gt;, among other works, &lt;a href=&quot;https://kotaku.com/syd-mead-has-died-1840730705&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;has died&lt;/a&gt; at the age of 86.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IRtpB.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IRtpB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/CyberpunkGame/status/1211977622550437888&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;considered by many&lt;/a&gt; as one of the fathers of the cyberpunk genre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;RIP Syd&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11423" LastActivityDate="2020-01-02T03:00:05.793" Title="RIP Syd Mead - concept artist in Blade Runner &amp; Tron" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12857" CreationDate="2019-12-31T14:27:57.953" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suppose I've already covered this in my question, but in my opinion, these comments are useful. Stack Exchange makes is fairly easy for people to join and post a question all at once, and people don't necessarily notice how to accept an answer in the process. Last night, I posted two answers with comments indicating how to accept, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/225268/23243&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/225268/23243&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/225272/58193&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/225272/58193&lt;/a&gt;. Both comments got flagged for deletion. There's one accept by comment and one by answer, but no actual acceptance. Maybe they would not have read the comment on how to accept either, but it's good evidence that people don't know how to accept an answer, and might be helped with a prompt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to experiment with pointing them to the [tour] for how to accept an answer rather than explicitly telling them. Hopefully, that will be a gentle enough hint that no one will flag it as being self-promoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2019-12-31T14:27:57.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12857" CreationDate="2019-12-31T17:00:20.390" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed quite a few of these comments being flagged recently. Not flagged as promotion or anything, just a plain &quot;no longer needed&quot; flag after the answer is accepted. Speaking as one mod (I don't know how the others feel about this), I &lt;strong&gt;don't mind the extra workload&lt;/strong&gt; from such comments. The flags are actually very quick and easy to handle: usually I need to click through to the post and get context before handling a flag, but with these ones I can see on the main mod dashboard that the answer &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; accepted and therefore the comment must be redundant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do those comments actually help? Impossible to say, but probably yes.&lt;/strong&gt; We see so many cases where a hit-and-run story-ID OP posts a comment to confirm the answer and then promptly disappears from the site, never even seeing the comments informing them about the accept button. If there's already a comment to inform them, that must make it more likely that they'll accept before disappearing, even if there's no way we can actually collect data on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does it &lt;em&gt;look&lt;/em&gt; like begging for rep? To some people, yes.&lt;/strong&gt; You've already had an exchange in comments (presumably what sparked this meta post) with another user who said: &quot;&lt;em&gt;it's just spam really, and could be interpreted as manipulating new users to accept your answer just because you ask them to, rather than for the usual reasons to accept an answer.&lt;/em&gt;&quot; That user was willing to assume good intent in your case, but you'll come across others who aren't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Restrictions for when you &lt;em&gt;shouldn't&lt;/em&gt; do it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;IMO, it's OK to do this for story-ID questions, provided you emphasise clearly that the OP should only accept &lt;em&gt;if that story is the one they were looking for&lt;/em&gt;. We don't want them clicking the accept button just out of gratitude that someone tried to answer even if they got it wrong, maybe thinking it's a different kind of upvote button.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Story-ID questions are special, because there's always a single correct answer and everything else is just a good try. This is also the only type of question where our duplication policy depends on acceptance. For other types of question, I think the risk of being seen as manipulating rep out of newbies outweighs the benefit of having a correct answer marked. I deleted one of your comments today on a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2019-12-31T17:00:20.390" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12861" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-01-01T03:26:14.387" Score="11" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's New Year's Day in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulu_Time&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange land&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny slices of effort contributed by regular, everyday users.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -- &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there certainly are &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/11/21/our-theory-of-moderation-re-visited/&quot;&gt;Moderators&lt;/a&gt; here, a significant amount of the &lt;em&gt;moderation&lt;/em&gt; is done by ordinary people, using the privileges &#xA;they've earned by virtue of their contributions to the site. Each of you contributes a little bit of time and effort, and together you accomplish much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we enter a new year, let's pause and reflect, taking a moment to appreciate the work that we do here together. &#xA;And what could be more festive than a big pile of numbers? &#xA;So here is a breakdown of moderation actions performed on Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy over the past 12 months:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;                  Action                  Moderators Community¹&#xA;----------------------------------------- ---------- ----------&#xA;Users suspended²                                  21         28&#xA;Users destroyed³                                 199          0&#xA;Users deleted                                     78          0&#xA;Users contacted                                   30          0&#xA;User banned from review                            2          0&#xA;Tasks reviewed⁴: Suggested Edit queue             83      4,918&#xA;Tasks reviewed⁴: Reopen Vote queue                54      2,604&#xA;Tasks reviewed⁴: Low Quality Posts queue         155      8,434&#xA;Tasks reviewed⁴: Late Answer queue                35      3,025&#xA;Tasks reviewed⁴: First Post queue                165      6,847&#xA;Tasks reviewed⁴: Close Votes queue                79      6,622&#xA;Tags merged                                       29          0&#xA;Tag synonyms proposed                              2          0&#xA;Tag synonyms created                               2          0&#xA;Revisions redacted                                 3          0&#xA;Questions unprotected                              1          4&#xA;Questions reopened                                97        208&#xA;Questions protected                               14        248&#xA;Questions migrated                                17          3&#xA;Questions merged                                   8          0&#xA;Questions flagged⁵                                12      1,375&#xA;Questions closed                                 133      1,740&#xA;Question flags handled⁵                          508        875&#xA;Posts unlocked                                     1          4&#xA;Posts undeleted                                   50         88&#xA;Posts locked                                      10        188&#xA;Posts deleted⁶                                   580      3,560&#xA;Posts bumped                                       0        347&#xA;Escalations to the Community Manager team          8          0&#xA;Comments undeleted                               128          0&#xA;Comments flagged                                  16      3,803&#xA;Comments deleted⁷                              6,060      5,333&#xA;Comment flags handled                          2,922        891&#xA;Bounties canceled                                  1          0&#xA;Answers flagged                                   45      7,655&#xA;Answer flags handled                           1,809      5,891&#xA;All comments on a post moved to chat              49          0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Footnotes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &quot;Community&quot; here refers both to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;the membership of Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;diamonds next to their names&lt;/a&gt;, and to the automated systems otherwise known as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;user #-1&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;² The system will suspend users under three circumstances: when a user is recreated after being previously suspended, when a user is recreated after being destroyed for spam or abuse, and when a network-wide suspension is in effect on an account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;³ A &quot;destroyed&quot; user is deleted along with all that they had posted: questions, answers, comments. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/88994/what-is-the-difference-between-a-deleted-user-and-a-destroyed-user&quot;&gt;Generally used as an expedient way of getting rid of spam.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁴ This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 2 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 2, the goal being to indicate the frequency of moderation actions. This also applies to flags, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁵ Includes close flags (but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; close or reopen votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁶ This ignores numerous deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁷ This includes comments deleted by their own authors (which also account for some number of handled comment flags).   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Further reading:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wanna see how these numbers have changed over time? I posted a similar report here last year: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12259/2018-a-year-in-moderation&quot;&gt;2018: a year in moderation&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can also check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/search?q=title%3A%222019%3A+a+year+in+moderation%22&quot;&gt;this report on other sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or peruse &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/341507/2019-a-year-in-closing&quot;&gt;detailed information on the number of questions closed and reopened across all sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wishing you all a happy new year...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1586" LastEditorUserId="1586" LastEditDate="2020-01-03T02:39:59.897" LastActivityDate="2020-01-03T02:39:59.897" Title="2019: a year in moderation" Tags="|discussion|moderation|site-statistics|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12858" CreationDate="2020-01-02T03:00:05.793" Score="8" Body="&lt;h1&gt;His iconic and stunning visuals are beautiful and will be missed, what an absolute legend!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XYC3Cm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XYC3Cm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LGslpm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LGslpm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HYvNl.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HYvNl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QLEPa.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QLEPa.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.flickr.com/photos/db742/sets/72157626600757436/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.flickr.com/photos/db742/sets/72157626600757436/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2020-01-02T03:00:05.793" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11051" CreationDate="2020-01-03T17:33:50.077" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;2020&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;December&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2020/12/ready-player-two/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ready Player Two&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;October&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2020/10/highlights-from-2020-3rd-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2020 3rd Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;September&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2020/09/tenet-2020-a-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tenet (2020)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;July&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2020/07/space-force/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Space Force&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2020/07/highlights-from-2020-1st-2nd-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2020 1st &amp;amp; 2nd Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;June&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2020/06/westworld/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Westworld&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;March&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2020/03/jacks-bad-movies-doom-annihilation-2019/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies: Doom Annihilation (2019)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;January&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2020/01/loop-the-distress-call-a-science-fiction-game-that-pays-homage-to-science-fiction-and-narrative-games/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Loop – The Distress Call. A science-fiction game that pays homage to science fiction and narrative games&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2020/01/highlights-from-2019-4th-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Highlights from 2019 - 4th Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2020/01/2020-a-year-of-alien-invasions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;2020 – A year of alien invasions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="1148" LastEditDate="2020-12-05T01:57:31.547" LastActivityDate="2020-12-05T01:57:31.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12865" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-01-05T14:15:42.127" Score="-3" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simple question, how &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/225530/how-does-thanos-know-how-to-use-the-infinity-stones&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question able to be closed by just two people?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2020-01-05T14:18:05.977" LastActivityDate="2020-01-05T15:19:56.403" Title="How is a question able to be closed by just two people?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12865" CreationDate="2020-01-05T14:17:56.607" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;User &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/58193/thelethalcarrot&quot;&gt;TheLethalCarrot&lt;/a&gt; has a gold tag badge in that tag. Gold Tag holders can close a duplicate on their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/230865/increase-close-vote-weight-for-gold-tag-badge-holders&quot;&gt;Increase close vote weight for gold tag badge holders&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;You can instantly close as a duplicate any question that was originally asked with a tag you have a gold badge for.&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FKR5J.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FKR5J.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and if you hover over the gold badge, you'll be provided with an explanation of its meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/chCEA.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/chCEA.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2020-01-05T15:19:56.403" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12868" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12869" CreationDate="2020-01-06T16:38:54.073" Score="3" ViewCount="211" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE&lt;/strong&gt; Per &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/843/star-wars-character-tags&quot;&gt;this Meta&lt;/a&gt; only major characters may have tags. This is not about whether or not we need the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Darth Vader is Anakin Skywalker (established ROTJ). &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/darth-vader&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;darth-vader&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;darth-vader&lt;/a&gt; is the better known of the two (248 questions)  vs &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/anakin-skywalker&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;anakin-skywalker&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;anakin-skywalker&lt;/a&gt; (73 questions). A synonym would help users find questions and avoid tag confusion (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/anakin-skywalker+darth-vader&quot;&gt;15 questions use both tags&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastActivityDate="2020-01-06T16:48:18.830" Title="Synonym [anakin-skywalker] to [darth-vader]" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12868" CreationDate="2020-01-06T16:48:18.830" Score="26" Body="&lt;h1&gt;We shouldn't do this&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anakin being Darth Vader is a spoiler and per &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1561/58193&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt; spoilers don't &quot;age away&quot; so we shouldn't be having our tags contain a spoiler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also provides quite a nice distinction between the two sides of the person. Anakin and Vader are not really the same person, from a certain point of view, and so it helps distinguish between which part you are asking about... and also which time period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Obi-Wan:&lt;/strong&gt; Your father was seduced by the dark side of the Force. He ceased to be Anakin Skywalker and became Darth Vader. When that happened, the good man who was your father was destroyed. So what I told you was true, from a certain point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2020-01-06T16:48:18.830" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12870" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12884" CreationDate="2020-01-07T02:59:00.133" Score="4" ViewCount="418" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT: Duplicates are duplicates if and only if the QUESTIONS are the same.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The below link is to close-as-duplicate policy and the most accepted answer.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6952/65457&quot;&gt;Why is the close-as-duplicate policy so aggressive, and should we change it?&#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Duplicates are duplicates if and only if the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;QUESTIONS&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; are the&#xA;  same. (This is how every other SE site does it, by the way.)&#xA;  Otherwise, we're asking users to wade through a bunch of totally&#xA;  irrelevant information to find the one tidbit that's useful to them.&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;Preventing&lt;/em&gt; that sort of exercise in frustration was the reason StackExchange was invented, folks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Outline of the two questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/225530/how-does-thanos-know-how-to-use-the-infinity-stones&quot;&gt;How does Thanos know how to use the Infinity Stones? [duplicate]&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;I asked specifically asked about the &quot;Time Stone&quot; because, after &quot;Dr Strange&quot; we are told by Mordo that it takes more than a photographic memory to use the stone and that it requires training and an affinity for it. With that said in my question, I asked about how Thanos used it because you need training and practice to use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The duplicate question is this: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/99778/how-did-ronan-use-the-power-of-the-infinity-stone-once-it-was-installed-in-his-h&quot;&gt;How did Ronan use the power of the Infinity Stone once it was installed in his hammer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer in the linked question is a good answer and I don't deny that it does have information about ultimately having Thanos wield all six of them with the gauntlet. This is the answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GedY5.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GedY5.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tl;Dr&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The issue&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though the answer to the question could possibly be used to answer my question, I would say that it could only be used to answer my question if I had asked it around the time that that question was asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since that question and answer there have been &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.dailydot.com/parsec/mcu-movies-order-marvel-cinematic-universe-timeline/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;12 MCU movies released&lt;/a&gt; with varying degrees of detailed explanations of the &quot;Time Stones&quot;. Not to mention that &lt;strong&gt;I asked for in or out of universe answers&lt;/strong&gt; and there has been quite a lot more revealed about the how the &quot;Time Stones&quot; work by various directors or writers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://screenrant.com/marvel-reveals-secrets-infinity-stones/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jordan D. White linked by ScreenRant&lt;/a&gt; released a very important thing about the &quot;Time Stones&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yvBf6.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yvBf6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It seems there's a certain synergy between the Infinity Stones. Each&#xA;  Infinity Stone is actually powered by an individual's mastery of&#xA;  another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Soul Stone is powered by the user's mastery of Reality. It can preserve the soul to allow for life after death.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Mind Stone is powered by the user's mastery of Soul. It can grant telepathy, or intelligence.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Power Stone is powered by the user's mastery of Mind. It can make a person more physically powerful.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Space Stone is powered by the user's mastery of Power. It can allow teleportation through space.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Time Stone is powered by the user's mastery of Space. It can allow a person to travel through time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Reality Stone is powered by the user's mastery of Time. It can allow a person access to the Multiverse.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The comics have long since established that Infinity Stones are drawn&#xA;  to one another. An individual who possesses one Infinity Stone can&#xA;  sense the presence of another. But it seems likely this &quot;draw&quot; will&#xA;  follow the same pattern; that the bearer of the Time Stone will be&#xA;  drawn to the Space Stone and to the Reality Stone, for example. In the&#xA;  comics, that means the various bearers of the Infinity Stones will be&#xA;  drawn into conflict with one another. &lt;strong&gt;In the movies, however, it may&#xA;  hint at just how powerful Thanos could become.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/marvelstudios/comments/964ujl/every_time_thanos_used_the_infinity_stones/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Reddit User&lt;/a&gt; who made a list of every time Thanos used an Infinity stone,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[IW SPOILERS] I was seeing all these posts everywhere on how Thanos&#xA;  used the stones in interesting ways. So I went through each and&#xA;  everyone of the scenes in which Thanos is there and came up with the&#xA;  following list. There are still something which I am not sure about,&#xA;  so I have mentioned that as well. It's a list of every time we see him&#xA;  use any of the stones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On the Asgardian Ship&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Power Stone - To torture Thor on the Asgardian Ship&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Space Stone - To stop Loki from Stabbing him&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Power Stone - To destroy the Asgardian Ship&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Space Stone - To leave the Asgardian Ship&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On Knowhere&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Reality Stone - To change the Reality within Knowhere&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Reality Stone - To convert Drax into Bricks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Reality Stone - To convert Mantis into ribbons&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Reality Stone - To convert Star Lords blaster laser into bubbles&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Space Stone - To leave Knowhere&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In Thanos's Ship&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Space and Power Stone - To torture Nebula&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Space and Power Stone - to torture Nebula yet again&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On Vormir&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Space Stone - To get to Vormir&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Reality Stone - To change Gamora's dagger to bubbles so that she can't&#xA;  kill herself&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On Titan&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Space Stone - to get to Titan&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Reality Stone - To make Titan look like the way it was before its&#xA;  downfall&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Power Stone - To destroy the huge space ship part (or whatever it was)&#xA;  which Iron Man crushed him with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Reality Stone - To convert all the broken parts of that space ship&#xA;  part into bats who chase after Iron Man&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Power Stone - To attack Star Lord with energy beams (we dont see&#xA;  Thanos activating the stone, but we see pruple beams being fired&#xA;  towards Star Lord impliing that it was the Power Stone)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Space and Power Stones - To compress all the explosions caused by&#xA;  Stark and to redirect them towards him&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Power Stone - To knock out Star Lord, Drax and Nebula&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Soul Stone - Once he has knocked out the three of them, we see the&#xA;  Soul stone being activated, possibly to protect Nebula's Soul? idk,&#xA;  wasnt clear&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Space and Power Stones - To pull the moon towards titan&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Power Stone - While fighting Dr Strange, to make an energy beam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Power Stone - To destroy Dr Strange's mirror dimension attack&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Space Stone - To compress the debris from the previous usage into a&#xA;  small beam tagetted towards Dr Strange&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Soul and Power Stones - When Dr Strange does the spell to duplicate&#xA;  himself and restrain Thanos, Thanos uses the Soul Stone to figure out&#xA;  which one is the real Dr Strange, and the Power Stone to undo the&#xA;  spell and attack Strange&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Space and Reality Stones - To pull Dr Strange towards him while also&#xA;  rotating the ground below, similar to what we have seen in the Dr&#xA;  Strange movie&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Power Stone - To attack Iron Man with an energy beam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Power Stone - To punch Stark&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Power Stone - To shield the Gauntlet from Stark's energy beam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Power, Space, Reality and Soul Stones - He is about to do something to&#xA;  Stark, before Dr Strange saves him so we never really get to see what&#xA;  was about to happen, but he did activate all 4 of the stones which he&#xA;  had.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Space Stone - To leave Titan&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In Wakanda&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Space Stone - To get to Wakanda&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Space Stone - To make Bruce go right through Thanos and then&#xA;  materialize in a rock&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Power Stone - To throw Captain America away&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Space Stone - To know out Falcon (we don't really see the space stone&#xA;  light up in this scene, but it seems like Thanos's hands are made into&#xA;  a fist, implying that he used a stone and before Falcon got knocked&#xA;  down there was a surge of blue energy)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Space Stone - To deflect the bullets which War Machine was shooting at&#xA;  him and then to cripple him and throw him away&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Power Stone - To knock out Bucky&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Power Stone - To deflect Okoye's spear and to throw her away&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Reality Stone (edited) (or the Space Stone or both) - To knock black&#xA;  widow down and cover her up with rocks from the ground (It could be a&#xA;  combination of reality and space stone. There is a way we can know for&#xA;  sure. When Thanos uses the Reality stone on Drax and Mantis earlier,&#xA;  the affects are temporary. So if the rocks are back to their normal&#xA;  position in the next movie, it could be the reality stone. Else, it&#xA;  could be a combination of the reality and the space stone, or just the&#xA;  space stone)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Space Stone - To push through Wanda's attack&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Time Stone - To reverse visions death and the destruction of the Mind&#xA;  Stone&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All 6 Stones - To attack thor with an energy beam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All 6 Stones - SNAP!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Space, Soul, Time and Reality Stones - To leave Wakanda and pull out&#xA;  Storm Breaker from his chest, and possibly to heal the wound caused by&#xA;  it. He uses the time stone to reverse the injuries caused by&#xA;  Stormbreaker (I am not sure why he used Soul and the Reality stones. I&#xA;  am trying to watch it again and again in slow motion, it seems that he&#xA;  is using the 3 stones together for something, I am not entirely sure&#xA;  whether that is the case, and if it is, then what he is using them&#xA;  for)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hopefully I've got them all, but let me know if I've missed any.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Power - 21 times&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Reality - 13 times&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Soul - 6 times&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Time - 4 times&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mind - 2 times&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Total - 68 times&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;There is so much more information about how Thanos was able to use the stones now, than there was 4 and a half years ago and I only posted two links, I am sure there is more. Bottom line, in the context of things, the fact that 4 and a half years have passed and that the &lt;strong&gt;duplicate question is &quot;actually&quot; asking&lt;/strong&gt; how Ronan was able to use the &quot;Power Stone&quot;, I think that there is no way that it was a duplicate. The question should have been allowed to play out as it could have made for some interesting answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Some food for thought&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know some people are going to say that if I did the research for this and came up with this information now, why did I not do that earlier?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, let's say I did that for every question I have had and every other user did the same and was able to get some good information about what they want to kanow and in the did not need to post a question. Then why have this site at all? If the information is elsewhere why not go elsewhere. When I ask a question here it increases content by two ways: 1. It creates a question that others may have thought about, 2. it then creates answers about the question and therefore increasing the content on this site. And increasing content increases people visiting the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I won't apologize for asking a question and defending it when it will benefit the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: This from the comments, but I am adding it to this question. This issue with posting in the original question is that when people search the web for how Thanos used the stones, the question titled &lt;strong&gt;&quot;How did Ronan control the power stone&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; will not come up. Posting a new question clarifies the title and therefore will make it easier to come up in a search, which means more views for the site. Not mention that none of this will answer the question &lt;strong&gt;&quot;How did Ronan control the power stone&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; as it only applies to how Thanos uses the stones, &lt;strong&gt;hence my insistence that this is a different question with different answers&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="65457" LastEditDate="2020-01-09T17:41:05.663" LastActivityDate="2020-01-09T23:56:33.943" Title="Why was this Infinity Stone question about Thanos closed as duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="42" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12715" CreationDate="2020-01-07T03:29:02.337" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Finally had a bit to get this taken care of. I poked around and noticed that there were 1920 outdated URLs that were redirecting (for most people) from &lt;code&gt;memory-alpha.wikia.com&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;memory-alpha.fandom.com&lt;/code&gt;. While dummy checking this change, I noticed that 390 of these were actually &lt;code&gt;en.memory-alpha.wikia.com&lt;/code&gt; but the new fandom URLs &lt;em&gt;don't indicate English&lt;/em&gt;, it's the default, so if we'd converted these links to &lt;code&gt;en.memory-alpha.fandom.com&lt;/code&gt; we would have broken just under 400 links... so we didn't do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Main (1920) and Meta (44), both sets of URLs have been converted to the same thing, &lt;code&gt;memory-alpha.fandom.com&lt;/code&gt; (without the language indicator). For good measure, we also converted the 44 instances on M&amp;amp;TV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to Shog for actually doing the change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please let me know if there's anything that seems off!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41668" LastActivityDate="2020-01-07T03:29:02.337" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12872" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-01-07T06:35:05.617" Score="-8" ViewCount="227" Body="&lt;p&gt;I stumbled onto this site after answering other Doctor Who questions, elsewhere. I am a writer myself, and don't have time to jump through hoops to response to a question, then learn I cannot comment until I have 10 reps when I have no idea what that means.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Just tell me if you expect me to jump through to give you the answer and I will cancel.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Not all writers are computer geeks, we just use them to create scripts, stories, etc.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="124929" OwnerDisplayName="DL Kirkwood" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2020-01-07T22:46:46.263" LastActivityDate="2020-01-11T22:01:15.720" Title="What is meta? reputation? and other terms" Tags="|support|meta|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12872" CreationDate="2020-01-07T07:29:12.253" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meta&lt;/strong&gt; is the site we're currently on: a second website attached to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy&lt;/a&gt; website which is called &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy meta&lt;/a&gt;, and whose purpose is for &lt;strong&gt;questions and answers &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; the website&lt;/strong&gt;. The main site is for questions and answers about science fiction and fantasy. Since your question was about the workings of the website itself, users migrated it to the meta site, which is where we are now. See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/whats-meta&quot;&gt;What's meta?&lt;/a&gt; from the help centre, which has more details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reputation&lt;/strong&gt; is the &quot;points&quot; a user can earn by participating on the site. If you write a question or answer, every upvote on your post will earn you 10 reputation points, while every downvote will lose you 2 reputation points. See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation&quot;&gt;What's reputation?&lt;/a&gt; from the help centre. (Note that there is no reputation on meta, so the voting on your question here about the website will not earn or lose you any points.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some site activities require a certain amount of reputation to perform: these are called &quot;privileges&quot; and are again &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges&quot;&gt;listed in the help centre&lt;/a&gt;. In particular:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To &lt;strong&gt;ask a question&lt;/strong&gt;, there is no reputation requirement.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To &lt;strong&gt;answer a question&lt;/strong&gt;, there is usually no reputation requirement. Some questions are &lt;strong&gt;&quot;protected&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; because they've had too many low-quality answers, which means you need 10 reputation to answer them. (Let me know if you want to answer one of these &quot;protected&quot; questions, and I can temporarily unprotect it for you.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To &lt;strong&gt;leave a comment&lt;/strong&gt;, you usually need 50 reputation. The exception is for &lt;strong&gt;commenting on your own post, or on answers to your own question&lt;/strong&gt;, which you can always do with  no reputation requirement.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One more thing: this website doesn't work like a typical forum, where responses to a query can be tangential remarks or new questions or anything else. Here, if you post an &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; you need to actually answer the question you're responding to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2020-01-07T07:29:12.253" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12872" CreationDate="2020-01-07T14:15:20.620" Score="9" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I [...] don't have time to jump through hoops [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While you have already received &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12873/19561&quot;&gt;an excellent answer&lt;/a&gt;, I'd like to address the gist of your question, or at least how it came across to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides hosting questions and answers, this site is home to a community. You'll find that most sites that allow for interaction between its users, will see some form of community grow. Sometimes, if the user base is big enough, several communities, interacting and overlapping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you're looking to join a community, be it online or in real life, the community will already have established rules, both written and unwritten, and customs. To become a part of that community, you will have to adhere to its rules and join in its customs. That doesn't mean you have to fall in line and follow the rest of the sheep, but if you violate the rules too much, or go against the customs, you may find yourself ousted from the community you sought to be a part of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That goes for any community, be it a site like this one, or Reddit with its reddiquette, or your place of work, or the neighbourhood or town you live in. While you perceive them as hoops to jump through, you're actually in luck that on this site, the rules have been formalised and written down for your perusal. The question mark in the top bar is your door to several sources of help, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;the tour&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;the help centre&lt;/a&gt;, and even an answer to your first question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/help/whats-meta&quot;&gt;&quot;what is meta?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may not be a computer geek, but you're expected to be computer literate enough to know how to use the help, and savvy enough in general to know what is expected of you if you participate in a community's activities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Welcome to the Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack. I hope you'll stay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2020-01-07T14:15:20.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12875" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12876" CreationDate="2020-01-07T18:45:56.140" Score="7" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/225536/movie-where-a-girl-fought-her-inner-demons-of-conformity-on-the-way-to-the-bathr&quot;&gt;Movie where a girl fought her inner demons of conformity on the way to the bathroom&lt;/a&gt; is completely accurate, and the girl in question zapping laser beams from her fingers that seem to damage the world around her seems fantastical to me. However, since this is essentially a music video turned into a commercial, it's a bit more fuzzy as to whether we're supposed to take the actions at face value, or simply as metaphorical events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To use a slightly different example, a music video by the same people is the famous &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF5cBoAV5Ys&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Weapon of Choice&quot;&lt;/a&gt; featuring a similar situation of someone beginning to dance and transitioning to a more fantastical set of actions (here, flying).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just figured I'd proactively poll the group as to how they feel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2020-01-08T08:29:36.397" Title="Are possibly metaphorical fantastic elements valid to make a work Fantasy?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ClosedDate="2020-01-09T10:18:34.410" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12875" CreationDate="2020-01-08T08:29:36.397" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7344/19561&quot;&gt;Quoting myself&lt;/a&gt; here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An answer should not make a question off-topic, if the question &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; the answer seems on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2020-01-08T08:29:36.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12877" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12879" CreationDate="2020-01-08T16:42:23.247" Score="9" ViewCount="209" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been trying to identify a movie that my dad told me about once. Unfortunately since the movies SE doesn't accept story id questions anymore, I want to know if I can ask my question here. The problem is that it doesn't seem like a sci fi movie at first glance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The plot of the movie is like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The United States and some nondescript Asian country are at war. Both countries decide to determine the outcome of the war by sending their top soldiers to an island in the middle of the ocean to fight each other to the death. The victor of this fight wins the war for their respective nation. However both countries secretly send an assassin to make sure they win. The soldiers find out about the assassin and kill their own country's assassin because they want to make it a fair fight (the American soldier kills the American assassin and the Asian soldier kills the Asian assassin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I don't think it is a sci fi movie is that it doesn't take place in the future, I think it actually takes place in the year the movie was made (60s - 70s probably). However, the idea that two countries will decide their war by a fight to the death between their top soldiers seems absurd, which makes me think it has elements of a sci-fi story. Sci-fi movies try to answer the question of &quot;what if?&quot;, even answers to hypothetical questions about situations which could never happen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46175" LastEditorUserId="46175" LastEditDate="2020-01-08T16:43:42.320" LastActivityDate="2020-01-08T19:03:50.723" Title="Is my story identification question on-topic considering the plot?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12878" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-01-08T18:35:17.533" Score="8" ViewCount="551" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Update&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has now been &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2020/01/highlights-from-2019-4th-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;posted&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Original&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from October 1st 2019 through December 31th 2019.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2019/10/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2019/10/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2019/10/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I will also be linking all blog posts that happened within this quarter. Also the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/550327/most-controversial-posts-on-the-site-by-start-date&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;most controversial question&lt;/a&gt; of the quarter. Also a sum of all the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/618952/past-bounties-by-bounty-date&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;bounties&lt;/a&gt; that were awarded.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also if there was a meta post you feel should be spotlighted those are also acceptable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the previous post: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There were 19 bounty awards for 2625 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8uM0zOBuSw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;sweet sweet rep&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="1148" LastEditDate="2020-01-21T15:48:01.333" LastActivityDate="2020-01-21T15:48:01.333" Title="Favorite Questions and answers from fourth quarter of 2019" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12877" CreationDate="2020-01-08T19:03:50.723" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I'd say that this question is on-topic for SFF:SE.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the description (soldiers don't usually get selected to fight '&lt;em&gt;Battle Royale&lt;/em&gt;' style for their countries against other countries on a kill-or-be-killed island) this sounds like &lt;strong&gt;a dystopia&lt;/strong&gt;, something we've decided is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/are-works-that-arent-sf-per-se-but-have-occasional-sfnal-elements-on-topic-e&quot;&gt;generally on-topic&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depending on the &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt;, further questions may prove to be on- or off-topic.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2020-01-08T19:03:50.723" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12880" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-01-09T04:44:11.487" Score="-4" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seriously, I have the answer to someone's question. But if this takes too long, they won't get it. I don't time to to receive internet blessings. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125010" OwnerDisplayName="Skinnygumbo " LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2020-01-09T07:19:01.500" LastActivityDate="2020-01-09T07:29:39.537" Title="Why do I have to have rep50 to answer someone else's question?" Tags="|support|privileges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2020-01-09T10:19:51.243" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12880" CreationDate="2020-01-09T07:29:39.537" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;You don't need 50 rep to answer someone's question. You can do so right away!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The different levels of reputation needed for certain actions are called &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges&quot;&gt;privileges&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ones relevant to you are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1: create posts&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Ask a question or contribute an answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10: remove new user restrictions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Post more links, answer protected questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;50: comment everywhere&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Leave comments on other people's posts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, you only need 1 point of reputation to participate. This allows you to ask questions, answer them, and comment on your own questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some questions are &lt;em&gt;protected&lt;/em&gt;. They have a notice that reads &quot;highly active question&quot;. To answer those, you need to have earned 10 points of reputation. Since you get those for just one single up vote on a post (question or answer) of yours, that's not that big a hurdle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; need 50 points of reputation for, is commenting on every possible post (not just your own). What I think happened, is that you tried to answer in a comment. That's exactly what the threshold is there for. Scroll down a bit, and you'll find a big text box captioned &quot;Your Answer&quot;. That's where your answer should go. This allows other users to vote on it, which earns you reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information, please see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;the help&lt;/a&gt; or take &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;the tour&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2020-01-09T07:29:39.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12882" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-01-09T11:13:29.647" Score="2" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not a &lt;em&gt;The Witcher&lt;/em&gt; expert, but as I understood there are some differences between the books and the show, also there is a very well-known game, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hexer_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;another TV show&lt;/a&gt; and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the questions could/should be about only one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know we have only one tag even for bigger universes, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; but there are a lot of complementary tags for them (characters, episodes, books, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is: &lt;strong&gt;Should we have some tags for the different works? For example, something like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/netflix-witcher&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;netflix-witcher&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;netflix-witcher&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/geralt&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;geralt&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;geralt&lt;/a&gt; or maybe even both?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66567" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2020-01-09T11:21:22.717" LastActivityDate="2020-01-09T13:31:45.150" Title="Should we have more specific tags for the Witcher works?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12882" CreationDate="2020-01-09T11:24:07.633" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;One tag for the whole franchise: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-witcher&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-witcher&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-witcher&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's fine to define subtags as we've done in other franchises, but there should be one overarching tag so that someone who's interested in the whole franchise, everything Witcher related, can get all of that in a single list or by following a single tag. Also, many questions are going to be about the whole franchise without restricting to books, game, TV show, etc. If someone wants to know something about the Witcher lore, very often they won't care which part of the lore the answer comes from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Media tags ...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our usual approach when a single story or franchise has been adapted for different media is to use media tags, for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt;. In this case, things are complicated by the fact that, as you mention, there are two different TV series which are both in the same franchise but independent of each other. For &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hexer_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the 2002 one&lt;/a&gt; we could create a tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-hexer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-hexer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-hexer&lt;/a&gt; (noting in the tag description that it's a subtag of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-witcher&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-witcher&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-witcher&lt;/a&gt; and should always be used together with that), but for &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witcher_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the 2019 one&lt;/a&gt; it's a bit harder because the name of the TV series is the same as the name of the franchise. But maybe the tags &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-witcher&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-witcher&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-witcher&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt; would be enough in this case (we seem to have had &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=hexer+%5Bthe-witcher%5D&quot;&gt;no questions about &lt;em&gt;The Hexer&lt;/em&gt; anyway&lt;/a&gt;), less confusing than creating a new &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-witcher-netflix&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-witcher-netflix&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-witcher-netflix&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-witcher-2019&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-witcher-2019&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-witcher-2019&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2020-01-09T13:31:45.150" LastActivityDate="2020-01-09T13:31:45.150" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12870" CreationDate="2020-01-09T12:51:24.640" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've given this discussion some time, and examined everything objectively (i.e. without paying attention to &lt;em&gt;who&lt;/em&gt; wrote what). There have been some spurious arguments put forward, and also some arguments that nobody has mentioned yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The fact that new information has appeared since the old Q&amp;amp;A does &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; mean your question isn't a duplicate. New information coming to light is a reason to &lt;strong&gt;update the old thread&lt;/strong&gt; (e.g. editing the existing answer or posting a new one), not to create a new one.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The new information you've mentioned in this meta question could either apply equally well to the old question as the new (how the stones work in general) or don't really answer either question (a list of when Thanos used the stones).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The fact that your question increases searchability for the site, specifically for search terms involving Thanos, again does &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; mean it isn't a duplicate. In fact, the purpose of duplicates is precisely to &lt;strong&gt;increase searchability for the same question with different search terms&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The fact that you've found new information since posting the question doesn't mean your question is poorly researched or unnecessary. Certainly it says nothing about the question being a duplicate or not, so that's a complete red herring.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, nobody has really mentioned how different the questions are from each other, not just in which characters they're talking about, but which aspects of stone usage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The old question asks how Ronan can use the Power Stone &lt;strong&gt;without having physical contact with it&lt;/strong&gt;. The answer duly addresses this aspect, focusing on how other characters have used the stones without touching them, as well as some later-realised speculation about Thanos potentially getting all the stones in the then-future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new question asks how Thanos can use the Time Stone &lt;strong&gt;when he only just acquired it&lt;/strong&gt;. This is a separate issue from being able to use it without touching it, and the old answer doesn't really address that. The only relevant part of the old answer to this question is &quot;&lt;em&gt;We don't really know much at all about &quot;how&quot; the stones work&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, but of course if that was posted as an answer on its own it would be deleted as Very Low Quality. And we do know at least &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; by now about how they work, as the various comments and links have shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may well be some specific information on how Thanos learned about using the stones, which wouldn't really fit as an answer to the old question. Valorum's comments on your question contain some information which, when supported by links/quotes, could provide an answer (which would be Thanos-specific and again wouldn't apply to the old question). So, not only does the existing old answer not really resolve the new question, but the new question might be able to get an answer which wouldn't fit on the old question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;TL;DR: it's not a duplicate, but not for the reasons you say.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2020-01-09T23:56:33.943" LastActivityDate="2020-01-09T23:56:33.943" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12872" CreationDate="2020-01-11T22:01:15.720" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;We always welcome people who are willing to spend some time supplying quality answers, but if you don't have time to read, learn, and then follow the rules, then maybe contributing to the site is not for you. It isn't particularly reasonable to expect those who &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; taken the time to understand the site (which isn't difficult) to spend more of their time turning the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;help centre&lt;/a&gt; pages into a bite-size chunk that you can be bothered to read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105362" LastActivityDate="2020-01-11T22:01:15.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12887" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12889" CreationDate="2020-01-12T10:25:32.110" Score="-9" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;So tried un-downvote a answer the other day, but it was locked in, but a question I asked was un-upvoted which did not have any activity for nearly a year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is a question able to be un up or down voted , but an answer is?&#xA;Why is this possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastActivityDate="2020-01-12T13:39:05.713" Title="Why can you un-upvote/downvote a question but not an answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12887" CreationDate="2020-01-12T10:56:11.620" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Votes are locked in on any post 5 minutes after casting them. An edit on the post unlocks this though so if an edit is made after the vote is cast the voter gets a chance to change the vote or make no vote at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably in this case the question has been edited after your vote but the answer not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2020-01-12T10:56:11.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12887" CreationDate="2020-01-12T13:39:05.713" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There is no difference in behaviour between questions and answers.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reason that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/198503/31394&quot;&gt;your question&lt;/a&gt; could be unupvoted was because you had &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/198503/revisions&quot;&gt;recently edited it&lt;/a&gt; (so &quot;&lt;em&gt;which did not have any activity for nearly a year&lt;/em&gt;&quot; is incorrect).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your vote on any post (question or answer) can be reversed for five minutes; after that they're locked in, but any edit to the post will unlock the vote to be reversed. See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/80762/278659&quot;&gt;Why do votes get locked?&lt;/a&gt; on main meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2020-01-12T13:39:05.713" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12890" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-01-14T21:34:06.557" Score="19" ViewCount="213" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've had &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12715/19561&quot;&gt;the broken &lt;em&gt;Memory Alpha&lt;/em&gt;-links&lt;/a&gt; fixed directly on the database. Thank you, @Shog9 and @Catija.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we do the same for &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; Wikia links, since wikia.com has moved to fandom.com? There's a redirect in place currently, but we don't know for how long. There are far too many links to Wikia to edit them all by hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can we request an update directly on the db to fix these?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if so, can we make change http to https for these links where necessary?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="143562" LastEditDate="2022-06-17T20:18:42.787" LastActivityDate="2022-06-17T20:35:33.357" Title="Can we fix Wikia links before they break?" Tags="|support|editing|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12878" CreationDate="2020-01-15T17:12:38.527" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/224577/21154&quot;&gt;Was Jumanji intended to be a co-op game?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Always bugged me watching the movie. It's always nice to see lesser-asked-about series on the site, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21154" LastActivityDate="2020-01-15T17:12:38.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12892" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-01-16T18:02:36.893" Score="51" ViewCount="643" Body="&lt;p&gt;Christopher Tolkien, son and literary executor of JRR Tolkien, has died at the age of 95.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Christopher was involved in the creation of &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;, notably drawing the maps in the back and also functioning as one of the first early readers through correspondence with his father while stationed in the RAF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Tolkien died, he gave Christopher complete control over his unpublished writings, to destroy or publish any of them in whole or part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Christopher is responsible for bringing most of Tolkien's posthumous publications to light, including &lt;em&gt;The Silmarillion&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Unfinished Tales&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Children of Hurin&lt;/em&gt;, and the 12 volume 5,000 page &lt;em&gt;History of Middle-earth&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was also the last surviving member of the Inklings, the literary group which include C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In what I believe is the last publicly available footage of him, here's a video from last year of him discussing his father painting the &amp;quot;Rivendell&amp;quot; watercolor in &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/rQmh_Sfq88Y?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's passed on west into the Undying Lands but will always be remembered for his part in preserving and safeguarding his father's legacy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt; Some nice quotes from other sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Christopher was born in Leeds, United Kingdom, on 21 November 1924. After a childhood in Oxford, he joined the RAF during the Second World War and was stationed to South Africa. After the war, he finished his studies and became a lecturer in Old and Middle English as well as Old Icelandic at the University of Oxford. After his father’s death in 1973, he became the literary executor of the Tolkien Estate and went on to edit and publish his father’s unpublished material starting with The Silmarillion in 1977 and ending with The Fall of Gondolin in 2018.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.tolkiensociety.org/2020/01/christopher-tolkien-has-died/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Tolkien Society&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Christopher was the third child and youngest son of J.R.R. Tolkien, who became his father’s literary executor in 1973 and during a remarkable period of 47 years edited or oversaw the publication of 24 editions of his father’s works, many of which were international bestsellers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Christopher was an editor from the age of 5, catching inconsistencies in his father’s bedtime tales, and was promised tuppence by his father for every mistake he noticed in The Hobbit. As a young man he was typing up manuscripts and drawing maps of Middle-earth and around the time he was commissioned an officer in the RAF in 1945, his father was already calling him ‘my chief critic and collaborator’. Following Tolkien’s death in 1973 Christopher carried out his father’s wishes by completing The Silmarillion, the book that his father had worked on his entire life. The Silmarillion was an international bestseller, selling more than 1 million copies in the UK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Appointed by his father as literary executor, Christopher Tolkien left Oxford in 1975, moving to France to edit Tolkien’s massive legendarium. Christopher found himself confronted with 70 boxes of unpublished work. Much of the archive concerned the history of Middle-earth, and the notes contained a broader picture of the world only hinted at in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien had intended to bring that picture to light, but he died before completing a final, coherent version. Christopher took it upon himself to edit that book, which was published in 1977 as The Silmarillion. He then turned to another project drawn from his father’s papers, then another – ultimately publishing poetry, academic works, fiction, and the monumental 12-volume History of Middle-earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.harpercollins.co.uk/corporate/press-releases/comment-from-harpercollins-uk-on-the-death-of-christopher-tolkien-editor-author-and-son-of-j-r-r-tolkien/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;HarperCollins&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55866" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2020-01-17T15:22:00.267" Title="RIP Christopher Tolkien" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12892" CreationDate="2020-01-16T19:29:05.517" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;For Tolkien nerds, like us and many on this site, Christopher Tolkien is best known for the editing work he did on his famous father's Middle-earth stories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those who've only read JRR Tolkien's books without knowing about all that, Christopher and his brothers actually &lt;strong&gt;appeared in one of their father's works of fiction&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Anyway, just when Rover was feeling his miserablest, into the shop she walked with a shopping-basket. She had seen Rover through the window, and thought what a nice little dog he would be for her boy. She had three boys, and one was particularly fond of little dogs, especially of little black and white dogs. [...] The father and mother and the three little boys lived close by the sea in a white house that looked right out over the waves to nowhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;little boy Two&quot; who owns Roverandom is not Christopher but his brother Michael. However, reading this story (annotated version) was the first time I came across the name Christopher Tolkien.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2020-01-16T19:29:05.517" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12892" CreationDate="2020-01-16T21:56:23.087" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;már cata ná, i ambar palla&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aezGO.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aezGO.png&quot; alt=&quot;Sindarin translation of &amp;quot;Home is behind, the world ahead&amp;quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2020-01-16T21:56:23.087" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12892" CreationDate="2020-01-17T09:57:12.137" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;A quote from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.councilofelrond.com/litarticle/are-you-on-the-outside-looking-in-or-the-inside-looking-out/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;J. R. R. Tolkien's Letter #66 to Christopher Tolkien, from 6 May 1944&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Keep up your hobbitry in heart, and think that all stories feel like that when you are in them. You are inside a very great story!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The story behind the letter is an interesting one, and the full letter is a worthwhile read - but this is not quite the right context for it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Christopher Tolkien was indeed inside a very great story - his own, as well as a continuation of his father's. He did a great job of carrying out/&quot;completing&quot; his father's legacy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll close with &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_FmqI7QKck&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a quote by Gandalf to Pippin&lt;/a&gt; from Peter Jackson's film adaptation of &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King&lt;/em&gt; (per &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/133767/16845&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, it was adapted from Frodo's dream in the original &lt;em&gt;The Fellowship of the Ring&lt;/em&gt; novel that is also referenced in the third book):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Pippin: I didn't think it would end this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gandalf: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another&#xA;  path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world&#xA;  rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Pippin: What? Gandalf? See what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gandalf: White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift&#xA;  sunrise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Pippin: Well, that isn't so bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gandalf: No. No, it isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16845" LastActivityDate="2020-01-17T09:57:12.137" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12896" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-01-17T18:47:00.787" Score="14" ViewCount="257" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a way to celebrate the New Year and lasting contributions to the site by new users, I am &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11636/and-the-best-new-user-of-2017-is&quot;&gt;continuing&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12261/and-the-best-new-user-of-2018-is&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; honorary post based on a simple premise...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user with the highest rank in the yearly reputation league that was not previously ranked. For the Year 2019 league the winner is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/115696/invisible-trihedron&quot;&gt;Invisible Trihedron&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TcQL0.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TcQL0.png&quot; alt=&quot;Invisible Trihedron User league screen shot&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coming in at a very impressive #19 rank for the year with 8,239 reputation gained in 8 months is certainly an achievement to be recognized. Please join in congratulating this exceptional user!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honorable Mention to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/102999/stormblessed&quot;&gt;Stormblessed&lt;/a&gt; for being very active and coming in at #12 (+553) with 10,379 reputation gained but starting their career just a bit before the 2019 year, thus being ranked in 2018 (which isn't hard to do with only needing to gain 200 rep).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Previous years' winners based on the criteria are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2018: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/98028/jenayah&quot;&gt;Jenayah&lt;/a&gt; - #9 - 14,253 reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2017: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/80602/bellatrix&quot;&gt;Bellatrix&lt;/a&gt; - #6 - 26,201 reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/57310/skooba&quot;&gt;Skooba&lt;/a&gt; - #18 - 15,596 reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2015: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/40294/praxis&quot;&gt;Praxis&lt;/a&gt; -   #4 - 35,709 reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2014: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/21600/royal-canadian-bandit&quot;&gt;Royal Canadian Bandit&lt;/a&gt; - #7 - 14,897 reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2013: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/14111/user14111&quot;&gt;user14111&lt;/a&gt; - #10 - 6,998 reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2012: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4056/dlanod&quot;&gt;dlanod&lt;/a&gt; - #4 - 26,834 reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/656/jeff&quot;&gt;Jeff&lt;/a&gt; - #1 - 21,720 reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2021-01-04T18:03:21.843" LastActivityDate="2021-01-04T18:03:21.843" Title="And the Best New User of 2019 is" Tags="|discussion|users|new-users|contest|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12878" CreationDate="2020-01-17T19:13:19.437" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Favorite Question and Answer Combo: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/221820/how-does-at-at-deploy-troops&quot;&gt;How does AT-AT deploy troops?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because sometimes a premise is actually &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/221820/how-does-at-at-deploy-troops#comment606113_221820&quot;&gt;as silly as we thought it was&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2020-01-17T19:13:19.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12878" CreationDate="2020-01-17T21:04:12.470" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have to mention this answer, to which I awarded a bounty for the first time in a few years:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/224026/31394&quot;&gt;Time travel to the crucifixion of Jesus and changing the past&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The title describes a common enough trope (the question body has more details), but the amount of work that went into the answer is really something else:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, after I spent a couple of hours locating the stored boxes in the attic, unpacking them, and going through the individual issues one by one, I managed to find it (in full compliance with Murphy's law, the sought issues were near the end of my unordered stack)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a Greek translation of a novelette ... originally written in Spanish ... but first published in French translation ... No wonder google searches went unfruitful, as it seems it has never been translated into English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2020-01-17T21:04:12.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12899" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12901" CreationDate="2020-01-21T15:58:18.960" Score="10" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/genre-trope&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;genre-trope&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;genre-trope&lt;/a&gt; has 8 questions.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/trope&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;trope&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;trope&lt;/a&gt; has 45 questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to its description, a genre trope is a trope that's only applicable to a given genre. Of course, having a Stack dedicated to a cluster of overlapping genres, most, if not all tropes that get asked about will be genre tropes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at the questions, there doesn't seem to be any difference in subject between the two tags. Therefore, I propose to &lt;strong&gt;merge [genre-trope] into [trope]&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2020-02-03T15:18:07.467" LastActivityDate="2020-02-03T15:18:16.820" Title="Merge [genre-trope] into [trope]" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|tag-synonyms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12900" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-01-21T17:43:50.373" Score="3" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;I keep getting the following popup on a question I asked recently:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oa62u.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oa62u.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've already edited my question to clarify why it's not a dupe of the suggested question. I've also selected the &quot;No&quot; option and clicked &quot;Submit&quot; several times, yet it keeps coming back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this a bug or intended behavior? If it is intended, what's the purpose of it never going away?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75000" LastEditorUserId="3511" LastEditDate="2020-02-03T14:54:42.613" LastActivityDate="2020-02-03T14:54:51.873" Title="&quot;Possible dupe&quot; popup won't go away" Tags="|support|bug|status-completed|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12899" CreationDate="2020-01-22T15:09:38.183" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, we should. And while we're at it, let's merge &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/recurring-themes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;recurring-themes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;recurring-themes&lt;/a&gt; into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/trope&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;trope&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;trope&lt;/a&gt; (11 questions) too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2020-02-03T15:18:16.820" LastActivityDate="2020-02-03T15:18:16.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12902" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-01-22T18:23:37.603" Score="37" ViewCount="1400" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Jones&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Terry Jones&lt;/a&gt; - actor, writer, comedian, screenwriter, and director - has died just short of his 78th birthday. He was of course most famous for his work as part of Monty Python, starring in roles such as Mr Creosote and the mother of Brian the not-messiah, as well as directing the three films &lt;em&gt;Monty Python and the Holy Grail&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Life of Brian&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;The Meaning of Life&lt;/em&gt;. He's only the second of the Monty Python troupe to depart, after Graham Chapman more than thirty years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/YoBTsMJ4jNk?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2020-01-22T18:23:37.603" Title="RIP Terry Jones" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12903" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-01-25T12:12:23.117" Score="-7" ViewCount="207" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/226416/why-did-mace-windu-and-the-jedi-council-refuse-to-raise-anakin-to-the-rank-of-ma&quot;&gt;Why did Mace Windu and the Jedi Council refuse to raise Anakin to the rank of Master?&#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;But the only way to downvote a comment is to flag it. That seems very counter intuitive, as the comment may be valid to a certain extent , but I just don't agree with it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I downvote a comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastActivityDate="2020-01-25T12:26:41.040" Title="How to downvote a comment?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12903" CreationDate="2020-01-25T12:26:41.040" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no way to downvote a comment, you can only upvote them. Please do not flag a comment to “downvote it”, that is not its purpose. Flagging is if there is something wrong with the comment and it needs deleting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the comment is wrong and would warrant a downvote if you could then just reply to the comment with one of your own explaining as such. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2020-01-25T12:26:41.040" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12905" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12913" CreationDate="2020-02-02T11:45:15.337" Score="4" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to start a tiered bounty on an unanswered question I have open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I understand the bounty assignments, I would first have to assign a bounty with the third place 'prize'. Once that has been resolved in some manner, I can add a second place 'prize' of no less than double the original. Once the second bounty has been awarded, I can add a third bounty that is at least double the awarded points of the second bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I've read and interpreted the rules correctly, I should be able to assign bounties of 100 then 250 and finally 500 magical unicorn points to the responses to my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I on the right track here? I tried this once before on a different StackExchange site a few years ago and was stymied by the algorithms locking up the process. I'd rather not have the same situation reassert itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user62584" LastActivityDate="2020-02-10T14:47:32.573" Title="Bounties for first, second and third place" Tags="|support|bounty|etiquette|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12900" CreationDate="2020-02-03T14:54:51.873" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a bug with this component where it only worked part of the time. It should now work in all cases. I have also added functionality to it to delete the &quot;is this a duplicate&quot; comment that is associated with the rejected flag(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3511" LastActivityDate="2020-02-03T14:54:51.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12907" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-06T20:13:50.037" Score="21" ViewCount="319" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kirk-douglas-dies-spartacus-670526&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kirk Douglas has died&lt;/a&gt;, at the age of 103.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although he was probably best known for conventional dramas such as &lt;em&gt;Spartacus&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Lust For Life&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Paths of Glory&lt;/em&gt;, he also appeared in his share of science fiction, fantasy, and horror films, such Brian DePalma's &lt;em&gt;The Fury&lt;/em&gt; (1978).  As a child, I especially liked Disney's &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046672/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;20,000 Leagues Under The Sea&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (1954), with its early steampunk esthetic.  Although many felt that Douglas (even though he was the top-billed star) was overshadowed by James Mason as Captain Nemo, Douglas definitely did his part in the climactic battle with giant squid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/qMF_G_Jn3zc?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2020-02-07T13:53:10.520" Title="RIP Kirk Douglas" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12907" CreationDate="2020-02-07T13:53:10.520" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;As many have observed, one of the last links to Hollywood's beginnings -- he probably met almost every major founder of the industry including Goldwyn and Zukor. Now Olivia de Havilland remains with us and actually is even more striking for having starred in one of the great movies of the 1930s -- hard to believe this. And Norman Lloyd, senior to them both, also remains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To live an active life and to survive a century is truly an amazing thing. When these people were born, tens of thousands of Civil War veterans were still around and people who had met people who remembered the American revolution also. And people whom they met will see the year 2100.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105042" LastActivityDate="2020-02-07T13:53:10.520" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12909" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-08T08:21:01.057" Score="-10" ViewCount="232" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was going through the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tools/protected-questions?filter=all&amp;amp;sortcolumn=protecteddate&amp;amp;sortdirection=descending&amp;amp;page=1&quot;&gt;protected questions&lt;/a&gt; and I see that the user &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/58193/thelethalcarrot&quot;&gt;TheLethalCarrot&lt;/a&gt; is doing a lot of the protecting which is disproportionate compared to anyone else. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue I have is that there seems to be no one moderating the high end users like this one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Case in point, my question about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12870/why-was-this-infinity-stone-question-about-thanos-closed-as-duplicate&quot;&gt;Why was this Infinity Stone question about Thanos closed as duplicate?&lt;/a&gt; which ultimately seems to be a mistake on this high end user, which used his power to dupe hammer the question closed. If I had not posted a disagreeing opinion the question would have been gone and forgotten (which I think happens more than those who do not complain)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a clear and concise standard that Stack SciFi runs by?&#xA;If so, what is it and how are these uses moderated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The case with the user &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/58193/thelethalcarrot&quot;&gt;TheLethalCarrot&lt;/a&gt; is that he is inflicting a lot a influence that I think is detrimental to this site. So who or what is moderating this individuals actions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2020-02-08T10:54:33.643" LastActivityDate="2020-02-08T10:54:33.643" Title="Who moderates the high end users?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2020-02-08T09:31:44.867" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12909" CreationDate="2020-02-08T08:44:05.800" Score="11" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Users are moderated mostly by each other and ultimately by moderators.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that one user did a lot of protecting of questions is not, by itself, a problem. Many questions need protecting due to attracting too many low-quality answers. As one of the site's most active reviewers currently, TheLethalCarrot probably sees a lot of these low-quality answers, which puts him in a good position to know which questions need protecting. However, all of these actions can be undone if necessary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you see a question which was protected and shouldn't have been, you can unprotect it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If that turns into a protect-unprotect war, or if there's a pattern of bad protections, you can raise a moderator flag and ask us to look into it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above is pretty much a scale model of how Stack Exchange works overall (although question protection is a very minor and less-important aspect of the SE model, not likely to cause much harm either if underused or if overused).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange is &lt;strong&gt;moderated mostly by the users&lt;/strong&gt;. Thanks to reputation-based privileges, someone who's contributed enough content to the site gains the power to close, reopen, delete, undelete, protect, unprotect, etc. This is on a &lt;strong&gt;strictly volunteer basis&lt;/strong&gt;, so a high-rep user who doesn't want to take part in these activities doesn't have to. The natural consequence is that &lt;strong&gt;some users will do more moderation tasks than others&lt;/strong&gt;, by way of being highly active on the site or simply being more interested in this kind of work.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To some extent, the system assumes high-rep users are trustworthy (there's even a privilege level called &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/trusted-user&quot;&gt;Trusted User&lt;/a&gt;). To spot mistakes, the system also relies on &lt;strong&gt;users monitoring each other&lt;/strong&gt;: if someone makes a mistake or acts in a wrong way, it's likely that someone else will notice (see the first bullet point above). Wrongly closed questions can be reopened, and so on. There are various pages which enable high-rep users to review each other's actions: the one you linked about question protections, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts/history&quot;&gt;reviewing reviews&lt;/a&gt; in each review queue, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If things escalate beyond that stage, or if someone has gone completely rogue, then &lt;strong&gt;users who notice the problem can escalate to moderators&lt;/strong&gt; (see the second bullet point above). Some situations can't be dealt with just by user-on-user discussion. If there's a rollback war in edits or a close-reopen or delete-undelete war, a moderator can lock the post pending a final decision. Some situations, such as a user becoming abusive or refusing to desist from destructive behaviour, require extreme action like suspensions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What is the actual problem here?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above is general stuff about how the Stack Exchange model works, which resolves the general &lt;em&gt;&quot;quis custodiet ipsos custodes?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; issue. But you seem to have some specific grievance here; you say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;he/she is inflicting a lot a influence that I think is detrimental to this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What exactly do you think is detrimental? You haven't raised any actual problem here. You've mentioned a user who protects a lot of questions (but you haven't mentioned any cases of a wrongly protected question), and a user who made a mistake in closing a question (mistaken closures happen a fair bit, and usually don't call for further action beyond reopening that question). Is there a problem that needs to be dealt with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that you may not want to air detailed concerns publicly. If there's a real problem with a particular user's behaviour, feel free to raise a moderator flag, or ask me to open a private chatroom if you want to say more than fits in a mod flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2020-02-08T08:44:05.800" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12911" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12912" CreationDate="2020-02-09T03:43:33.323" Score="5" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;While searching through recently active Harry Potter questions I noticed a lot are bumped up because of brand new users who have 'modified' them somehow. However, when I click on modified to see what has changed, it just links me to the question itself, with nothing highlighted. What modifications are being made, and how does this differ from editing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125003" LastActivityDate="2020-02-09T20:54:07.130" Title="What is the difference between modified and edited?" Tags="|support|editing|new-users|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12911" CreationDate="2020-02-09T03:59:34.833" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;When looking at the page of questions, there are only three types of descriptions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Asked&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answered&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Modified&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first two are pretty straightforward. They refer, respectively, to newly asked questions, or newly answered questions. &quot;Modified&quot; covers any other type of activity on a post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the time &quot;modified&quot; will be an edit, as that is simply the most common form of modification to a post. However, there are various other things that it could mean as well. Some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bounty added&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question bumped by Community due to a zero-score answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer that has since been deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question reopened&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this particular instance, it looks like there have been a whole bunch of recent deletions of answers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt; questions. Because you do not have 10,000 reputation you cannot see deleted answers. Therefore, even though the &quot;modified&quot; link technically takes you to the deleted answer, it redirects you to the question because it can't actually show you the deleted answer. Since you can't see the deleted answers it may appear as if nothing has changed, even though something has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference, here are some screenshots:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Kgrx6.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Kgrx6.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot showing recently deleted answer&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ipEyh.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ipEyh.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot showing recently deleted answer&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9YWLi.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9YWLi.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot showing recently deleted answer&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EdAZG.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EdAZG.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot showing recently deleted answer&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, these were all deleted pretty recently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2020-02-09T20:54:07.130" LastActivityDate="2020-02-09T20:54:07.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12905" CreationDate="2020-02-10T14:47:32.573" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/16065/how-does-the-bounty-system-work&quot;&gt;this Stack Exchange Meta topic&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Can I offer a second bounty after the first one has expired? / Can I raise my bounty?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can offer as many bounties on a question as you want. However, only one bounty can be active on a question at a time. Moreover, any user may have &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/54315/why-cant-a-user-have-simultaneous-bounties-any-more/104813#104813&quot;&gt;at most 3 concurrent bounties&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that if you offer several bounties on the same question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/105275/abusing-bounties-for-unlimited-profit/105639#105639&quot;&gt;you will have to double the amount each time (or more)&lt;/a&gt;. That is, if your first bounty was worth 50 reputation, your second bounty on the same question will have to be for at least 100, your third for at least 200 and so on. If you've already offered a bounty for more than 250, you can still offer more bounties for 500 (the maximum amount) as long as you like (or as long as you have the rep). This doubling applies only to bounties by the same user on the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2020-02-10T14:47:32.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12914" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-14T18:39:53.473" Score="-2" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of the comments to this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/227289/124535&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; are conversational, and some are even irrelevant to the post. I don't understand how the first comment even relates to the question (it sounds like a comment to this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/22368/124535&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even other comments regarding opening the question and changing the title are no longer needed. I had flagged all these comments, but all were declined. Please discuss what the reasons behind them being declined were.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="124535" LastEditorUserId="124535" LastEditDate="2020-02-15T01:55:02.787" LastActivityDate="2020-02-15T01:55:02.787" Title="Why were these flags declined?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12914" CreationDate="2020-02-14T18:52:15.350" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;All four comments seem relevant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/227289/didnt-voldemort-also-survive-the-killing-curse#comment622813_227289&quot;&gt;first comment&lt;/a&gt; opens the possibility of there being classes/levels of killing-ness of the killing curse (e.g. that it's not a binary position where it either kills you or it doesn't). In fairness this could probably be posted as an answer, but it's very terse in its current state.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/227289/didnt-voldemort-also-survive-the-killing-curse#comment622828_227289&quot;&gt;second comment&lt;/a&gt; advises you that a user (several in fact) feels that your question is a duplicate of another question. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/227289/didnt-voldemort-also-survive-the-killing-curse#comment622853_227289&quot;&gt;third comment&lt;/a&gt; explains why Alex used his gold-tag privilege to reopen the question and gives a lead to anyone who thinks it might be a duplicate why he thought it wasn't.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/227289/didnt-voldemort-also-survive-the-killing-curse#comment623008_227289&quot;&gt;fourth comment&lt;/a&gt; is probably the least useful since it's addressing the previous comment, but it's still relevant in that it was only posted yesterday (by a moderator) and the recipient might not have read it yet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2020-02-14T18:52:15.350" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12914" CreationDate="2020-02-14T19:40:23.647" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firstly, I’m not sure how familiar you are with the way SE works in terms of moderation but only elected moderators can handle comment flags not the general community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the specific comments, the first doesn’t seem &lt;em&gt;too relevant&lt;/em&gt; but it does have &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; relevance so it’s worth keeping around for that reason. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second (automated on close/flag) and third comments are about the state of the question: whether it should be closed or open. These are relevant to keep around as it gives information for people in the future to read if they are considering changing the questions state. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fourth comment is perhaps the only one that doesn’t really need to stay around as, if I remember correctly, Alex has already replied to it in a now deleted comment. However, along with the moderator’s edit it perhaps gives some information that the mod felt the questions weren’t dupes and should stay open which is somewhat relevant to stay around. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case none of the comments are really black and white as to whether they want deleting or not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s also worth thinking about what flag type did you use to flag the comments? Using the first comment as an example, mods aren’t required to bu subject matter experts. If the comment looks somewhat on topic they’re more likely to leave it around as it does in this case. So if a comment isn’t obviously “no longer needed”, rude or unkind it’s better to use a customs flag to explain why you feel it is no longer needed.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2020-02-14T19:40:23.647" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12914" CreationDate="2020-02-14T21:32:02.517" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your comment flags on that question were handled by two different moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I didn't handle the flag on the first comment and I'm not a subject matter expert on Harry Potter so I have no comment regarding that flag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The second comment contains a link to a possible duplicate question and is worth keeping around so that the questions are linked since they are obviously related. In any case, you did not flag that comment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The third comment, by Alex, explained why the question was re-opened and why the commenter thinks the two questions are not duplicates. You flagged this but it was declined by one of my colleagues. I would have declined it, too, since it is worth keeping such a comment in case some &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; user thinks about closing the question as a duplicate (possibly a long time from now).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The fourth comment, by Rand al'Thor, is about a strategy to help differentiate similar questions in general and explains that the title of the possible duplicate was modified to help differentiate these two particular questions. This is useful to keep for the same reason as Alex's comment. I declined this  flag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The last comment you flagged was Alex's response to Rand al'Thor and simply said &quot;Good point.&quot; This is no longer needed so I marked it helpful and deleted it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't &quot;carelessly&quot; decline your flags (since, after all, I marked one as helpful), and two moderators independently came to the same conclusion that (most of) the comments you flagged were worth keeping around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastActivityDate="2020-02-14T21:32:02.517" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12918" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-19T00:00:17.407" Score="10" ViewCount="448" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/227613/51174&quot;&gt;Is a rocket landing on a ship on an ocean literally “something from Science Fiction”?&lt;/a&gt; received several down votes in rapid succession. Comments suggest that while it may not be off-topic (I just asked for one example) it's not a popular type of question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's likely that there is background and context to this that I'm not aware of, so some guidance as to how to avoid such a negative reaction in future question will be helpful!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51174" LastActivityDate="2020-02-19T11:43:42.897" Title="Is this an unpopular type of question?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="22" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12918" CreationDate="2020-02-19T05:33:21.370" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;“Any” questions generally receive a few downvotes and there certainly is a group of users that don’t like them, myself included. The problem is whilst they were &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1465/58193&quot;&gt;ruled to be on topic&lt;/a&gt; they are essentially a poor loophole to just being a list question which are off topic. These types of questions almost always receive several answers that are “yes, here’s one example” and bar downvoting and commenting there’s not really anything that can be done about that, especially if they hit the HNQ. To be honest it might be worth revisiting that policy at some point...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn’t mean you can’t ask these questions at the moment though of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there is probably a better way forward: use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; tag and ask a “First occurrence of X” question. Whilst these are still somewhat of a loophole list question they will have one correct answer and people are more likely not to post just anything, especially if what they know of is newer than something already posted. And in general these questions are actually quite well received, there was one on the HNQ just yesterday (probably still today) in fact. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2020-02-19T11:43:42.897" LastActivityDate="2020-02-19T11:43:42.897" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12920" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12921" CreationDate="2020-02-19T13:33:55.670" Score="1" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just realized I have at least four different &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions involving the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Color_Computer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer&lt;/a&gt;. Does it make sense to add a tag for it? If so, ought it to be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/color-computer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;color-computer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;color-computer&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tandy-color-computer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tandy-color-computer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tandy-color-computer&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/trs-80&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;trs-80&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;trs-80&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2020-02-19T13:36:40.917" LastActivityDate="2020-02-19T14:41:47.150" Title="Do we need a tag for the Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12920" CreationDate="2020-02-19T13:47:39.533" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it matters either way but without a good case that we do need it I'd err on the side of not creating it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When should I create new tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most common tags already exist on a mature site. You should always favor existing tags; &lt;strong&gt;only create new tags when you feel you can make a strong case that your question does cover a new topic that nobody else has asked about before on this site.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/create-tags&quot;&gt;Help Center &amp;gt; Privileges &amp;gt; Create tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently these questions are covered under &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt;, I'm not sure a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/trs-80-color-computer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;trs-80-color-computer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;trs-80-color-computer&lt;/a&gt; would add much value on top of that. Besides if you're mentioning it in the text you're not really increasing it's &amp;quot;searchability&amp;quot; only the categorisation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2020-02-19T13:47:39.533" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12920" CreationDate="2020-02-19T14:41:47.150" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it could be a useful tag, so I'd err on the side of creating it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like I've said before, a tag is a Bat-signal for experts. And &lt;em&gt;expert&lt;/em&gt; is quite broad here: professional experts, avid fans, creators of content, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, you're trying to identify a work that was published on a given platform, that platform being the Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer. You're likely to get an answer from someone who is an expert — in some fashion — on the Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;How would you attract such an expert? By tagging your question with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tandy-color-computer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tandy-color-computer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tandy-color-computer&lt;/a&gt; or a similar suitable tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2020-02-19T14:41:47.150" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12923" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-19T22:51:41.877" Score="3" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you use the &quot;unanswered&quot;  menu item, you get a page of the first top 20 or so unaswered questions, ordered by votes.  But if you try to advance through the list using the page navigation buttons, the &quot;unanswered&quot; filter appears to go away, and page 2 etc. is just for all questions, including answered ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This appears to happen only on the mobile-responsive site; using the &quot;full site&quot;, paging through &quot;unanswered&quot; appears to work correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63330" LastActivityDate="2020-02-19T22:51:41.877" Title="Paging through unanswered questions removes the unanswered filter" Tags="|bug|mobile|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12924" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-20T22:31:17.327" Score="5" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;The guidance for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For questions about the plot or backstory of a game with science-fiction/fantasy elements....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having answered a couple of game identification questions recently, I thought I would look and see what others &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt; questions were out there.  I discovered that there are a number of questions that are not about video games themselves, but rather about stories about video games.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/113672/short-story-about-a-boys-obsession-with-a-video-game-about-war&quot;&gt;Short-story about a boy&amp;#39;s obsession with a video game about war&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/225915/cartoon-4-kids-transform-into-video-game-characters-to-save-the-world-from-a-ha&quot;&gt;Cartoon: 4 kids transform into video game characters to save the world from a hacker and an evil program&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/216540/what-is-the-movie-show-where-a-boy-and-a-girl-enter-a-video-game&quot;&gt;What is the movie/show where a boy and a girl enter a video game?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/194715/70s-80s-short-story-about-a-mysterious-arcade-game&quot;&gt;70s/80s short story about a mysterious arcade game&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the tag guidance, these questions are improperly tagged.  However, before editing them, I thought it would be useful to get some feedback on what we think the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt; tag should cover:  only fantasy or SF games; or also fantasy/SF stories about video games?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2020-02-21T09:05:42.727" LastActivityDate="2020-02-21T09:16:05.960" Title="What should the [video-games] tag cover?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12924" CreationDate="2020-02-21T09:16:05.960" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my experience there are two main usages of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt;, with a third used improperly but relatively frequently:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Used alongside &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; to find a video game the OP can't remember.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Used as a media tag, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movies&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt;, to specify which media the question is focusing specifically on if the main tag covers more than one.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(Improperly) used when the question is about a video game but the main tag &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; covers the video game and its related media i.e. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/half-life&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;half-life&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;half-life&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think we also want the tag to cover &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions where the work &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; a video game but video games play an important role. The tag &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a media tag in all the cases, even the improper 3rd case, it's mainly used in so adding a &quot;meta tag&quot; functionality to it would go against its purpose. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also doesn't add much value to the questions above by having it on there and because it is mainly a media tag it could confuse matters by having two, very different, media tags on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Therefore, I say the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt; tag &lt;em&gt;shouldn't&lt;/em&gt; cover questions where works are about video games.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose updating the wiki excerpt to the following, or something similar; it's hard to be concise and explain its usages:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use alongside the [story-identification] tag when trying to identify a specific video game. Also use alongside a work tag to specify you are only asking about the game. Do no use when asking about a video game when the main tag is only about the video game. Questions about playing the game or the mechanics are off-topic here, but may be on topic at Arqade (&lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course I also have to say tags on SFF or a bit of a mess and misused all the time. Tag wikis and their excerpts are even more of a mess. A lot are out of date and a lot of the wikis are plagiarised directly from Wikipedia. The only reason most of the new tags have excerpts is because myself, and sometimes SQB, go through the new tags page occasionally and create them. So it's hardly a surprise that a) the excerpt is a bit out of date and b) the tags aren't being used correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2020-02-21T09:16:05.960" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12926" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-21T22:29:05.773" Score="9" ViewCount="264" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/227754/when-would-the-undying-lands-become-over-populated&quot;&gt;When would the Undying Lands become over-populated?&lt;/a&gt; was closed as opinion-based, but it has a definitive answer (never) because of specific things that Tolkien wrote. OP's assumption of &quot;natural increase&quot; in the Undying Lands is unfounded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63330" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2020-02-21T22:53:12.727" LastActivityDate="2020-02-22T07:30:40.630" Title="Can we reopen the question “When would the Undying Lands become over-populated?”" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12926" CreationDate="2020-02-22T07:30:40.630" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was the fifth reopen vote just now. Go ahead and post your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2020-02-22T07:30:40.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12928" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-25T08:25:05.580" Score="-1" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;Within the context of editing posts (questions and/or answers), SF&amp;amp;F regulations &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; state that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some common reasons to edit are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to fix grammatical or spelling mistakes &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to clarify the meaning of a post without changing it &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to correct minor mistakes or add addendums / updates as the post ages&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to add related resources or hyperlinks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;with an emphasis on the fact that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tiny, trivial edits are discouraged&lt;/strong&gt; - try to make the post significantly better when you edit, correcting all problems that you observe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I recently started seeing quite a lot of old posts being edited with no improvement whatsoever. Here are a few examples (&lt;em&gt;not listing all; its close to a hundred within the past fortnight&lt;/em&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/183486/revisions&quot;&gt;Example 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/90290/revisions&quot;&gt;Example 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/193837/revisions&quot;&gt;Example 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/118299/revisions&quot;&gt;Example 4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of these edits are so trivial that the contributor merely deletes the available text then adds the same thing back again!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any sort of action that should be taken by moderators with higher rep (or better knowledge about the SF&amp;amp;F) to avoid such things?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="92306" LastActivityDate="2020-02-25T08:33:41.623" Title="Editing old posts with no improvement whatsoever" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12928" CreationDate="2020-02-25T08:33:41.623" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;These edits are improving the posts so there is no action to be taken except, maybe, saying thank you for taking the time to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wookiee and Wookieepedia are commonly misspelled and I know the editor in this case is going through correcting these typos. In your examples he also corrects old wikia links to the new fandom ones: a useful edit as we don’t know if the redirect will always work and it “upgrades” them to https. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only oddity is in Example 2 but that looks to be a bugged edit summary in my opinion looking at what it renders as. Or the editor could have deleted new lines mid-sentence, that does sometimes show funny in the edit summary. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall if the editor isn’t flooding the homepage with old posts of the same tag, is keeping in with the 5 in 15 policy and is adding value, like here, there isn’t a problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2020-02-25T08:33:41.623" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12930" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-02-26T07:54:33.560" Score="1" ViewCount="734" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am seeking with this meta post for help with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/227560/44517&quot;&gt;this answer to &quot;First account of autism in speculative fiction&quot;&lt;/a&gt; specifically the last sentence being problematic.&#xA;The problem with the answer is, it made me and some other autists feel offended by the way it was being phrased. especially the last sentence as being a footnote to an external source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We tried to clarify in the comments the reasons for our edits. The important part was the &quot;to be said&quot; wording. Granted... what Buzz is writing in their answer is covered by the Wikipedia entry for autism. But what Wikipedia is writing about autism is by the current medical understanding wrong. That matter is not that easy to explain without a length of in-depth details. And I am aware that this is a scifi site, so it is understandable that an answer is not supposed to have an in-depth overview of what autism is about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence the &quot;to be said&quot; wording was a good solution, keeping the answer's content being the same, but emphasizing, that this understanding of autism is for some reason considered not the way one might think(/for some reason outdated). After multiple rollbacks and rollbacks of rollbacks, Buzz seems to have been insistent on not taking on the wording we tried to advise. Whatever the reason might be for this, is probably what only they can answer. With the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/227560/10&quot;&gt;last edit that was made&lt;/a&gt; the idea of the autism spectrum ranging from less autistic to more autistic as asked for and explained in the comments, was not present anymore. But now it is saying&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;*That statistic is for people with classically-defined autism only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now it is very unclear what actually is being meant by &quot;classically-defined autism&quot;? I am an diagnosed autist. If someone would ask me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So is it classically-defined autism?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would answer &quot;Yes.&quot;. And given that, the claim, that 3/4 of those with classically-defined autism being found to have &quot;mental retardation of varying degree&quot; is simply wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I am not sure what this is supposed to mean here. Again, I don't expect a scifi answer to be delving deep into medical up to date understandings. But would appreciate if at least the help of those affected by the matter would be accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So I am either asking for help in finding a way of having this post remain in a state that feels not offensive for an autist, whatever that form would turn out to be. Or if they were willing to, I would appreciate a statement of Buzz here regarding, what is their objection with the &quot;to be said&quot; phrasing, so we could maybe find together a way that would serve the purpose of all who are involved.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, I decided it to be an better idea writing a meta post for that, then engaging into further aggressive edits, or writing further comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Clarification:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could everyone please stop commenting on the matter without having a clue what it is about nor even having the slightest idea what I am here for!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To be honest, I'm not sure what is the point you're trying to make here. It seems more about semantics and Buzz resisting your edits, rather than any real offense made by the latter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I actually didn't do ANY edit! And also I didn't come here to having to justify WHY I feel offended. I came here to find a way i.E. in dialogue with the poster of that answer to resolve the problematic wording. Not to expect anyone &quot;catering to the preference of an offended person on the internet.&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it is nonesense to discredit the offense I am taking by something, due to &quot;it has been ok to use that terminology in the past&quot;. Homosexuality was once a crime, so by that analogy there is also an consent here that no one has to feel offended being called names due to their sexuality, since.... &quot;It was done at one point in the past?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44517" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2020-02-29T20:17:53.120" LastActivityDate="2020-02-29T20:17:53.120" Title="Can we make this answer about autism acceptable to all people with autism?" Tags="|discussion|specific-answer|etiquette|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12930" CreationDate="2020-02-26T15:43:47.453" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;My objection was never to &quot;said to have&quot; terminology, but rather to the absence of any discussion of severity in the edits.  My original wording was&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;classical (that is, fairly severe) autism—not milder forms of autism spectrum disorder&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and I think that mention of severity is quite important for understanding the statistic I mentioned regarding autism and intellectual disability comorbidity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2020-02-26T15:43:47.453" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3450" CreationDate="2020-02-27T12:01:56.927" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The other answers identifying these works as on-topic are good. Another avenue to consider is H. P. Lovecraft's works. Essentially all of them are recognized as inherently on-topic, but some of them (for example, &lt;em&gt;The Festival&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Shadow Out of Time&lt;/em&gt;) are written in such a way as to make the existence of the eldritch abominations less than certain. The stories leave us with an implication that the SF-nal occurrences were real, but &quot;leave the door open&quot; to the possibility that they were solely in the mind and/or dreams of someone with a psychiatric disorder. Some stories (e.g. &lt;em&gt;The Festival&lt;/em&gt;) literally end with the protagonist committed to a mental ward and subject to treatment by skeptical therapists. If these works are well-regarded as on-topic, it doesn't make sense to treat other works as off-topic just based on the possibility that they might be dreams.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70477" LastActivityDate="2020-02-27T12:01:56.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12933" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2020-02-27T14:34:56.517" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="62709" LastEditorUserId="62709" LastEditDate="2020-02-27T14:34:56.517" LastActivityDate="2020-02-27T14:34:56.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12934" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2020-02-27T14:34:56.517" Score="0" Body="Questions about the proper way of doing things in the community (answering, voting, reviewing, etc) where no hard and fast rules exist. Use with a more specific tag related to the issue being discussed." OwnerUserId="62709" LastEditorUserId="62709" LastEditDate="2020-02-27T14:34:56.517" LastActivityDate="2020-02-27T14:34:56.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12936" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-03-03T19:43:45.487" Score="14" ViewCount="426" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Ask a question&quot; wizard is now live network-wide: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/344513/398063&quot;&gt;The new ask page is now live on the network!&lt;/a&gt;. Ours is very plain right now, but parts of it are customisable: &lt;em&gt;(shortened; see the main Meta post for the full version)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The &quot;welcome modal&quot; for new askers&lt;/strong&gt; (seen with the default text in screenshot 1), everything between the title and &quot;Before you post...&quot; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The full contents of &lt;strong&gt;the &quot;Draft your question&quot; sidebar&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The text in the tag popover&lt;/strong&gt;, between &quot;Tags help the right people...&quot; and the bullet points.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The placeholder text in the title field&lt;/strong&gt; (text only).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The warning text shown in the &quot;Review your question&quot; sidebar&lt;/strong&gt;, regex-based&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tag-related error messages&lt;/strong&gt;, regex-based &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first step of changing these is obviously a Meta discussion, so here goes. What should we put there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastEditorUserId="124934" LastEditDate="2020-08-10T19:21:17.237" LastActivityDate="2020-08-10T19:21:17.237" Title="How should SFF's &quot;Ask Question&quot; page be customised?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12936" CreationDate="2020-03-03T19:43:45.487" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;There absolutely &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; to be a link to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9335/98028&quot;&gt;the guidelines on asking story-ID questions&lt;/a&gt; in there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the very least, in the sidebar &quot;Draft your question&quot;; but I think a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; tag message would be the more visible and convenient way to push people into reading and following those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the second option is indeed reserved for tag errors (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/344516/398063&quot;&gt;I asked for confirmation&lt;/a&gt;). A tag-based warning can be thrown in the &quot;Review your question&quot; sidebar, but I fear it would be a bit late if it was only there and not in the &quot;Draft your question&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Redundancy seems sound for this case: &lt;strong&gt;put a link (and a nicely worded explanation) to the story-ID guidelines in &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; the &quot;Draft your question&quot; and the &quot;Review your question&quot; sidebars&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastActivityDate="2020-03-03T19:43:45.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12936" CreationDate="2020-03-04T10:07:21.513" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be honest there's not too much generic stuff we can really state to give some guidelines when asking considering the broadness of topics asked about it. That said, considering the nature of our site there are probably a few wording choices that can be tailored to fit a bit better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The &amp;quot;welcome modal&amp;quot; for new askers&lt;/strong&gt; (seen with the default text in screenshot 1), everything between the title and &amp;quot;Before you post...&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell here we don't really need to add anything as this is an extremely generic and basic set of guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, point 3 isn't really appropriate here, it only really applies to &lt;code&gt;[*-identification]&lt;/code&gt; questions and even then the &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;any research&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; of point 2 already covers it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Point 1 also currently reads &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Summarize the problem&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;. We don't usually face problems, per se, here but people do have questions. Just changing the last word from problem to question should be more appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the below proposed new look:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lXsZ5m.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lXsZ5m.png&quot; alt=&quot;New welcome modal design&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;Click image to enlarge.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be worth adding some points from the &amp;quot;Ask about&amp;quot; and/or &amp;quot;Don't ask about&amp;quot; sections from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;Tour&lt;/a&gt; in here but that might be too much information in this small dialog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually from thinking a bit further on this it might be good to add in a quick link to the Tour here, something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're new to Science Fiction and Fantasy, and you haven't done so already, you may want to check out the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;Tour&lt;/a&gt; for some quick information on how the site works and what is, and isn't, on topic here!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The full contents of &lt;strong&gt;the &amp;quot;Draft your question&amp;quot; sidebar&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a big one and where we're going to want to put some important information, the very least being a link to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9337/58193&quot;&gt;story identification guide&lt;/a&gt;. I'm not sure exactly what to include here but I'm going to throw a few ideas out and see what people think. Here is a proposed text where I've mainly used it to include some helpful links of some common problems we face:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community is here to help you with questions about science fiction or fantasy. Provide details and share research with your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are trying to identify a story you may want to check out our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9337/58193&quot;&gt;helpful guide&lt;/a&gt; on what to include.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question is about a story that isn't science fictional or fantastical you may want to check out these sites instead:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Movies &amp;amp; TV&lt;/a&gt; if your question is about works from the screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Literature&lt;/a&gt; if your question is about written works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Arqade&lt;/a&gt; if your question is about game play elements of a video game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Anime &amp;amp; Manga&lt;/a&gt; if your question is about an anime or manga.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AG60Z.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AG60Zm.png&quot; alt=&quot;Draft your question proposed modal&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;Click image to enlarge.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might even be worth linking to the other sites' tour, help or ask pages instead in the above list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The text in the tag popover&lt;/strong&gt;, between &amp;quot;Tags help the right people...&amp;quot; and the bullet points.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a really helpful tooltip but I wish it popped up the first time a new user entered the tag field else it is likely to just be ignored altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said we can alter it slightly and I actually quite like what they've done with it on Anime &amp;amp; Manga so I'm just going to steal their extra section and add it in. However, I'm only going to add in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; on the second line because I feel others might lead to some off topic questions or tag misuses. I'm also not 100% sure if &amp;quot;concept&amp;quot; is the right word for those tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again though the actual tags used in these examples is open to change, I just included some of the most popular ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Type the name of the science fictional or fantastical work your question is about (Example: &lt;code&gt;star-wars&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For questions not specific to any one work, use concept tags to describe your question (Example: &lt;code&gt;story-identification&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/isaaC.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/isaaCm.png&quot; alt=&quot;New Hot to tag modal&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;Click image to enlarge.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wondered about including a link to a discussion on tag hierarchies in there but it's not always the most easy thing to understand. However, we do get a lot of posts that need these fixing so it might be worth adding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The placeholder text in the title field&lt;/strong&gt; (text only).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think we need any changes here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The warning text shown in the &amp;quot;Review your question&amp;quot; sidebar&lt;/strong&gt;, regex-based&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, the regex is applied on tags individually and as such this limits its usefulness to us. That said I can think of the following uses for it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; &lt;code&gt;^story-identification$&lt;/code&gt; - Add a link to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9335/58193&quot;&gt;story id guide&lt;/a&gt;, similar message to what is included in the &amp;quot;Draft your question&amp;quot; sidebar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/science-fiction-genre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;science-fiction-genre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;science-fiction-genre&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantasy-genre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fantasy-genre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fantasy-genre&lt;/a&gt; &lt;code&gt;^(science-fiction|fantasy)-genre$&lt;/code&gt; - The genre tags are misused a lot, add a message along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've included the {genre} tag, note that it should not be used to classify works into the genre but about the genre itself. Please make sure you are using the tag appropriately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/anime&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;anime&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;anime&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/manga&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;manga&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;manga&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fan-fiction&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fan-fiction&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fan-fiction&lt;/a&gt; etc. &lt;code&gt;^(novel|short-stories|movie|tv|video-games|anime|manga|fan-fiction)$&lt;/code&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Maybe&lt;/em&gt; add guidance in here for how media tags work, when to use them etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've included the {tag} media tag. Media tags should be used alongside the work tag to disambiguate between different media the work tag covers. If the work tag is only used for one media please remove the {tag} tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then also include a link to the specific story id guide if the tag has one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt; &lt;code&gt;^(novel|short-stories|movie|tv)$&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've included the {tag} tag, if you're trying to identify a {tag} please also use the [story-identification] tag and you may want to check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9335/58193&quot;&gt;our guide&lt;/a&gt; on what to include.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt; &lt;code&gt;^video-games$&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've included the [video-games] tag, if you're trying to identify a video game please also use the [story-identification] tag and you may want to check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11995/58193&quot;&gt;our guide&lt;/a&gt; on what to include.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fan-fiction&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fan-fiction&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fan-fiction&lt;/a&gt; &lt;code&gt;^fan-fiction$&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've included the [fan-fiction] tag, if you're trying to identify a work of fan fiction please also use the [story-identification] tag and you may want to check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11922/58193&quot;&gt;our guide&lt;/a&gt; on what to include.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/anime&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;anime&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;anime&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mange&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mange&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mange&lt;/a&gt; &lt;code&gt;^(anime|manga)$&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've included the {tag} tag, if you're trying to identify a/an {tag} please also use the [story-identification] tag and you may want to check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11874/58193&quot;&gt;our guide&lt;/a&gt; on what to include.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt; &lt;code&gt;^comics$&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've included the [comics] tag, if you're trying to identify a comic please also use the [story-identification] tag and you may want to check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12587/58193&quot;&gt;our guide&lt;/a&gt; on what to include.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tag-related error messages&lt;/strong&gt;, regex-based&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only real use for tag-related error messages, which I assume blocks someone from posting, would be to stop blacklisted tags being used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2020-07-07T10:26:01.577" LastActivityDate="2020-07-07T10:26:01.577" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12936" CreationDate="2020-03-05T04:19:13.053" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just looking at the first modal window, I think many people who ask questions on SFF go &quot;research?? That doesn't apply to this site, I'll just ignore it.&quot; So I think rewording it would be helpful:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Summarize your question  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Provide details and relevant background information  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If possible, explain where you've already looked for an answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I keep going back and forth on whether the word &quot;possible&quot; in point 3 should instead be &quot;applicable&quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="348" LastActivityDate="2020-03-05T04:19:13.053" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12940" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-03-05T11:06:58.067" Score="11" ViewCount="357" Body="&lt;p&gt;2020 has come! But… oops, where did the time go? It’s already March! Belated as it is, it’s time for a refresh of &lt;strong&gt;Community Promotion Ads&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;interesting articles or findings for the curious&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cool Science Fiction or Fantasy events/conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else your community would genuinely be interested in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads every year?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers should be in the exact form of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://image-url&#xA;   [2]: http://clickthrough-url &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must always be tagged with the magic &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/community-ads&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;community-ads&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;community-ads&lt;/a&gt; tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be 300 x 250 pixels, or double that if high DPI.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the background of the image is white or partially white, there must be a 1px border (2px if high DPI) surrounding it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score Threshold&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;) before it will be shown on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/12940&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6365" LastActivityDate="2020-04-25T09:36:25.733" Title="Community Promotion Ads — 2020" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2021-06-17T10:05:05.510" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12940" CreationDate="2020-03-05T11:11:49.983" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thesffblog.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EZFka.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;There&amp;#39;s a Blog?&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2020-03-05T11:11:49.983" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12940" CreationDate="2020-03-05T18:21:23.043" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kz3jL.png&quot; alt=&quot;Explore New Worlds&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="112949" LastActivityDate="2020-03-05T18:21:23.043" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12940" CreationDate="2020-03-06T01:39:25.993" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/40lIQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Movies &amp;amp; TV Stack Exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23386" LastActivityDate="2020-03-06T01:39:25.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10746" CreationDate="2020-03-06T15:13:14.707" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The question linked by OP should be closed.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, &lt;em&gt;neither&lt;/em&gt; universe is our own. Both feature FTL travel which is impossible, and in Star Wars there's the Force (which clearly doesn't exist here). Both are fundamentally different, thus, we can't assume what should work in ours, would work for either. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, warp speed in Star Trek is too variable. It was supposed to take Voyager 75 years to go 75,000 ish light years. Once in TOS, Kirk's ship was stated to be able to go 1,000 ly in 8 hours. The math makes Kirk's older ship absurdly faster. There are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/77473/125493&quot;&gt;other examples&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third, the question really doesn't specify which Enterprise, and as I've noted with the inconsistencies, the choice of ship will impact the answer greatly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fourth, trying to come up with a standard rule will, by point 2, exclude some of Star Trek canon. Which parts to exclude is an opinion based judgement call. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, the premise of the question is asking us to compare the impossible to reach top speed of two imaginary ships travelling between imaginary places from &lt;em&gt;two different&lt;/em&gt; imaginary universes. I'm at a loss to see how anyone could think that's objectively answerable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, I think this question remains open because &lt;strong&gt;it's fun to pit Star Wars vs Star Trek&lt;/strong&gt; and it's less fun to close the question because it's off topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125493" LastEditorUserId="125493" LastEditDate="2020-03-06T15:24:21.510" LastActivityDate="2020-03-06T15:24:21.510" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12940" CreationDate="2020-03-08T17:20:18.120" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://writing.codidact.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0U8NL.png&quot; alt=&quot;Get your writing help at Writing Q&amp;amp;A!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21234" LastEditorUserId="21234" LastEditDate="2020-03-09T19:10:34.663" LastActivityDate="2020-03-09T19:10:34.663" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12947" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12948" CreationDate="2020-03-09T17:13:18.027" Score="4" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the past, quotes and spoilers had a yellow background (using the same color as watched tags). They were basically the same, except for whether or not they hid text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of sometime today, they both have a grey bar to the left:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But only spoilers have a background fill:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is clear the style sheet has changed, but is this difference between two previously closer styles deliberate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43815" LastEditorUserId="43815" LastEditDate="2020-03-09T18:45:46.673" LastActivityDate="2020-03-09T18:45:46.673" Title="Quotes vs Spoilers - Style Sheet Change" Tags="|bug|design|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12947" CreationDate="2020-03-09T17:16:08.197" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a deliberate change, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/343919/345161&quot;&gt;this main meta post&lt;/a&gt; where it was initially announced. Though the change appears to have only gone live in the past hour or so and I haven't seen an updated announcement &lt;em&gt;yet&lt;/em&gt; stating it is live.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2020-03-09T17:16:08.197" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12949" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-03-10T20:53:53.800" Score="3" ViewCount="255" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/228430/45032&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was asked and closed today as off-topic due to being a &quot;lists of works or recommendations&quot; question. In the comments, the author asks why his question was labeled off-topic while &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/199013/45032&quot;&gt;this very similar question&lt;/a&gt; was on-topic. I'll go further and ask why today's question was mostly down-voted while the older question was pretty well-received vote-wise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't really tell a difference between the spirit of the two questions. So did the standard for what constitutes a &quot;lists of works or recommendations&quot; question change? Or is it a case of &quot;people were feeling more forgiving that day&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45032" LastActivityDate="2020-03-23T16:42:11.790" Title="Why was this question closed as off-topic while a very similar one was left open?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12949" CreationDate="2020-03-10T21:01:24.103" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may be a bit pedantic but the problem with new question to me is the wording of it: the word &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt;. See whilst &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1465/58193&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; questions are on topic&lt;/a&gt; (grumble grumble, still think we should revisit that) this is a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; question. That slight different wording choice moves this, to me, more into the realms of looking for a list of works rather than “any”. I.e. whilst the answer to the old post is yes, here’s one example, this one is yes, here’s lots of examples. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The wording of the new one also leads itself to several correct answers, more so than “any” questions, which are off topic for SFF. It just lends itself to move more into the off topic list realm than I think is healthy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="82909" LastEditDate="2020-03-12T01:05:19.160" LastActivityDate="2020-03-12T01:05:19.160" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12940" CreationDate="2020-03-11T17:42:51.610" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://literature.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4EBsq.png&quot; alt=&quot;Love reading? Check out Literature SE!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2020-03-11T17:42:51.610" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12952" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12953" CreationDate="2020-03-22T19:03:24.220" Score="12" ViewCount="736" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen several SF&amp;amp;F question comments asking the poster if what they were asking about was really science fiction. Some were (but neededmore detail), some weren't, some were edge cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, as an example, I'd like to ask about one of those edge cases, the &lt;em&gt;original&lt;/em&gt; 1979 movie &lt;em&gt;Mad Max&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the movie's Wikipedia article uses the word &quot;dystopian&quot;, it seems to me this use is offhand and careless with nothing to support it. Nothing in that movie couldn't have happened in 1979. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This use of &quot;dystopian&quot; seems to be a retcon of sorts based on the sequels, whose post-apocalyptic aesthetic puts them squarely in the SF category. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The existence of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://imdb.com/title/tt0045468/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Abbott and Costello Go To Mars&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; doesn't make &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://imdb.com/title/tt0033436/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Buck Privates&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; SF. So why should &lt;em&gt;Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome&lt;/em&gt; do the same to its progenitor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is MM really any different from other crime revenge fantasies of the time, such as &lt;em&gt;Death Wish&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Dirty Harry&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; There have been reponses that &quot;there weren't motorcycle gangs roaming the desert at the time&quot;. Really? Motorcycle gangs roaming the desert randomly terrorizing civilians was certainly &lt;strong&gt;plausible&lt;/strong&gt; for the time, and an expressions of fears about that particular moment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does an expression of people's fears about what was going on &lt;strong&gt;at the time&lt;/strong&gt; necessarily make it &quot;post-apocalyptic&quot;? &quot;The near future&quot; can be a euphemism for &quot;now&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I accepted Valorum's answer because he showed a poster where the original movie was &lt;em&gt;promoted&lt;/em&gt; as a projection into the future).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63330" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2020-04-19T16:51:27.697" LastActivityDate="2020-04-19T16:51:27.697" Title="Is Mad Max (1979) science fiction?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12952" CreationDate="2020-03-22T19:51:55.807" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;The original 1979 &lt;a href=&quot;https://bbfc.co.uk/sites/default/files/attachments/Mad%20Max_0.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BBFC Rating guideline&lt;/a&gt; for this film gives us a pretty good indication of its suitability for this site. In short, it's a dystopia and is set in the future. Either of those would make it a solid match.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A chilling futuristic fantasy set, as the opening caption tells us, &quot;a&#xA;  few years from now,&quot; in an anonymous wasteland of roadways peopled by&#xA;  ruthless, dehumanised gangs hunted relentlessly by the Main Force&#xA;  Patrol of highway police. One such patrol car, driven by Max&#xA;  Rockatansky (Mel Gibson), has the psychotic Niglitrider and his&#xA;  girlfriend down &quot;Anarchy Road&quot; to Their deaths in a spectacular crash&#xA;  into the back of a petrol tanker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and the 1981 'Home Video' VHS box cover&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cf3HNckWsAEt-gw?format=jpg&amp;amp;name=medium&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cf3HNckWsAEt-gw?format=jpg&amp;amp;name=medium&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;A gothic horror story set in Australia - in the near future.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Urban society is in terminal decay. The inter-city highways have become a nightmare arena for a strange death game between nomad bikers and a handful of young cops in souped-up pursuit cars. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2020-03-22T20:46:22.987" LastActivityDate="2020-03-22T20:46:22.987" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12954" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-03-23T01:58:56.680" Score="3" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;The option sounds simple enough. I assume it indicates that the bounty starter wants an answer that draws from or is supported by canon. But the description underneath it seems odd. It reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The question is widely applicable to a large audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does that relate to wanting a canonical answer? The rest of the&#xA;description is also a bit confusing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A detailed canonical answer is required to address all the concerns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I'm reading too much into the word choice here but couldn't &quot;to address all the concerns&quot; simply be &quot;to answer the question&quot;? How does a question having a lot of concerns relate to wanting an answer that is supported by canon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125003" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2020-03-23T07:26:36.537" LastActivityDate="2020-03-23T07:32:05.873" Title="When starting a bounty, what does the description mean for the option 'Canonical answer required'?" Tags="|support|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12954" CreationDate="2020-03-23T07:32:05.873" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bounty “types“ and their descriptions are the same throughout the network. As far as I’m aware there is no way to customise a bounty type/description on a per site basis (though to be fair I’ve never really looked into it). Bounties then originate from the network’s origins: Stack Overflow. Think of the bounty description in the context of SO and it makes total sense with what it’s saying. Take for example the NullPointerException canonical question on SO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; applicable to a large audience &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a detailed answer covers more points than perhaps just the one mentioned in the question and gives information on how to fix them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2020-03-23T07:32:05.873" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12949" CreationDate="2020-03-23T16:42:11.790" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The SE network used to be much more organically community-driven, whereas now, the site descriptions are interpreted much more strictly. Old questions like the one you cite were upvoted because community members recognized their value. Similar new questions are rapidly closed, and the kinds of users who upvoted these questions in the past have been driven off by rule bullying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's best not to draw attention to it. I've seen site moderators go on rampages of question closing when you draw attention to old, highly upvoted questions that do not conform to current interpretations of site descriptions. If these closed questions are eventually purged or hidden from searches (I'm not sure if they are), tremendous value is lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100541" LastActivityDate="2020-03-23T16:42:11.790" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12957" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-03-24T23:34:37.767" Score="41" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read in the news today that at the age of 92, Alberto Uderzo passed away from a heart attack.  He and René Goscinny brought us Astérix and Obélix, those zany and funny Gauls, and a variety of Roman officials like &lt;em&gt;Nebulus Nimbus&lt;/em&gt;: all victims of bad Latin. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xcvpc.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xcvpc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Source = a German magazine, Der Spiegel (and it appears, Charlie Hebdo). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please raise a glass or a smile to the man who drew them all: Alberto Aleandro Uderzo.  A Frenchman of Italian ancestry.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We first read his books in 1969, and I've been laughing at them ever since. And so have my kids.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50789" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2020-03-25T12:19:17.893" LastActivityDate="2020-03-25T12:19:17.893" Title="Alberto Uderzo RIP: fantasy (Getafix and his magic potion) and laughter were his gifts" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12958" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12959" CreationDate="2020-03-30T21:24:38.927" Score="12" ViewCount="295" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Rich_(comics)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Richie Rich&lt;/a&gt;, the star of 50+ comic serials, multiple TV shows (and at least one truly terrible film) is famously the world's richest boy and scion to a vast fortune. But someone merely being &lt;em&gt;grotesquely wealthy despite having no obvious talent&lt;/em&gt; is hardly the stuff of fantasy, so is he on-topic as a result of any other features of his portrayal, such as the casual acceptance of science fiction or fantasy? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the depiction of any SFF content in his properties so infrequent that it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/are-works-that-arent-sf-per-se-but-have-occasional-sfnal-elements-on-topic-e&quot;&gt;only on-topic to ask about those very occasional lapses&lt;/a&gt; or is his entire world sufficiently scifi-y/fantastical that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11519/is-ducktales-on-topic&quot;&gt;all questions about him are generally on topic&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="51379" LastEditDate="2020-04-03T16:50:17.763" LastActivityDate="2020-04-08T20:08:40.467" Title="Is Richie Rich on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12958" CreationDate="2020-03-31T09:13:21.217" Score="15" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Richie Rich is on topic here.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Rich_(comics)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Richie Rich: The Poor Little Rich Boy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (the 1956 Harvey Comics serial) did &lt;em&gt;initially&lt;/em&gt; start out as a semi-realistic depiction for the first few tens of comics, but then rapidly descended into fantasy and science fiction with the regular appearance of a range of fantastical inventions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9j6IL.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9j6IL.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Rich_(comics)#Publication_history&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Richie Rich #25&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/esTtZ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/esTtZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.comics.org/issue/228612/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Richie Rich #28&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the early 1960s, Richie was regularly having adventures with Casper the Friendly Ghost (another of Harvey's stable of comics), culminating in a crossover comic in 1974.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QoqwE.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QoqwE.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By 1977 his comic serials included outright scifi like &lt;a href=&quot;https://richie-rich.fandom.com/wiki/Richie_Rich_Inventions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Richie Rich: Inventions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EqJKM.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EqJKM.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;a href=&quot;https://comicvine.gamespot.com/richie-rich-and-6-irona-the-robot-maid/4000-227046/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Richie Rich Featuring Irona&lt;/a&gt; in which his robotic maid (first introduced in Richie Rich #100) now played a starring role&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fc3Z5.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fc3Z5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 1980s cartoon series was even more overtly scifi/fantasy, featuring a regular segment called &lt;a href=&quot;https://hanna-barbera.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Richie_Rich_Zillion_Dollar_Adventures_segments&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Richie Rich and his Zillion-dollar Adventures&lt;/a&gt;. These largely comprised of Richie fighting monsters and aliens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/qaJOe57IRWA?start=723&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2020-04-08T20:08:40.467" LastActivityDate="2020-04-08T20:08:40.467" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12952" CreationDate="2020-04-01T15:59:25.743" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mad Max is part of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalyptic_and_post-apocalyptic_fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Post-Apocalypse&lt;/a&gt; genre, a sub-genre of Science Fiction. Most other science fiction sub-generes are based on the hypothesis that extrapolation of current technological and societal trends will result in progress. Post-apocalyptic science fiction, on the other hand, is based on the hypothesis that civilization as we know it will collapse and technology will regress, possibly to a lower technology level than the present. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Post-Apocalypse genre is IMO an integral part of the big umbrella of fantastic literature, which we call &quot;SciFi and Fantasy&quot; on this website. Why do we put SciFi and Fantasy under the same umbrella? Because they both deal with stories which take place in fictional worlds. Post-Apocalypse is yet another kind of fictional world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO The real litmus test if something belongs on this website or not is: &lt;em&gt;&quot;Does the story take place in a fictional world which has notable differences from our world?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;&quot;Do these differences affect the story?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. In our world, there are no psychotic motorcycle gangs which rule the desert. So it is a part of fantastic literature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16995" LastEditorUserId="16995" LastEditDate="2020-04-01T16:39:22.887" LastActivityDate="2020-04-01T16:39:22.887" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12961" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12962" CreationDate="2020-04-04T17:00:31.870" Score="7" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/229444/why-didnt-eru-stop-melkor-and-ungoliant-from-destroying-the-two-trees&quot;&gt;a recent question&lt;/a&gt; was closed as a duplicate, however no link to the duplicate question appears. Which question is that?  Is it possible that the question was closed as a duplicate of itself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nXgjt.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nXgjt.png&quot; alt=&quot;WHERE&amp;#39;S WALDO&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63330" LastActivityDate="2020-04-06T14:19:39.017" Title="Where's the duplicate?" Tags="|bug|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12961" CreationDate="2020-04-04T17:07:58.953" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a serious bug, but already reported on main meta and devs are looking at it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/345289/278659&quot;&gt;Closed as a duplicate, but the duplicate list is empty?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's hoping it'll be fixed as soon as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the meantime, you can at least figure out the dupe target by checking the list of Linked questions in the sidebar, which &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; still operational.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; this bug has &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/345859/278659&quot;&gt;now been fixed&lt;/a&gt;. I reopened and re-closed the question that inspired this meta post, and after that Yaakov Ellis (dev) fixed it retroactively too:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have just run a backfill to fix all occurrences of this across all sites on the network (332 instances of it happening on the entire network that needed to be fixed, including 216 on SO). So if this appears for any questions closed after 2020-4-6 14:08 UTC then it means that the issues is still happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Issue with the edit/original screen for mods and gold tag users has also been fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do see any other such questions, feel free to raise a &lt;strong&gt;moderator flag&lt;/strong&gt; asking for a reopen and re-close so that the link will appear properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2020-04-06T14:19:39.017" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12963" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-04-04T17:29:18.320" Score="2" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have some ideas for future moviemaking. Can I discuss about them here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user126665" LastActivityDate="2020-04-23T08:12:33.743" Title="Is asking about imaginary movies considered good questions here?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12963" CreationDate="2020-04-04T17:40:29.000" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, questions on this site should generally be about existing works of science fiction or fantasy. Depending on the question you could try Worldbuilding. However, I think it would need to be a specific question relating to building the world. Asking in general as in: would this film idea work? Wouldn’t be acceptable there or any SE site as far as I know. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2020-04-04T17:40:29.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12963" CreationDate="2020-04-04T18:02:44.940" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a whole Stack devoted to questions like the ones you want to ask called &lt;a href=&quot;https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;worldbuilding:&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Worldbuilding Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for writers, artists and others using science, geography and culture to construct imaginary worlds and settings. It's built and run by you as part of the Stack Exchange network of Q&amp;amp;A sites. With your help, we're working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about worldbuilding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Head on over and knock yourself out!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1253" LastActivityDate="2020-04-04T18:02:44.940" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12963" CreationDate="2020-04-04T18:12:45.707" Score="15" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, not on this site.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy&lt;/a&gt;, is for questions and answers about &lt;em&gt;existing&lt;/em&gt; works of science fiction or fantasy, either specific books/films/etc. or questions about the genre as a whole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maybe somewhere else, depending on the question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your query is very vague, so it's hard to know exactly what you intend to ask. If it's a question about the &lt;em&gt;creation of fantasy worlds&lt;/em&gt;, then &lt;a href=&quot;https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Worldbuilding SE&lt;/a&gt; might be a good bet as other answerers have suggested. If it's a question about the &lt;em&gt;process of movie production&lt;/em&gt;, then you might try &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Movies &amp;amp; TV SE&lt;/a&gt; (possibly - I'm not sure whether such questions are on-topic there, or if they like us apply a policy of &quot;questions about existing works only&quot;) or &lt;a href=&quot;https://video.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Video Production SE&lt;/a&gt; (whose scope I don't know at all).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before asking on any site, though, you should &lt;strong&gt;check their help centre&lt;/strong&gt; to see if your question is likely to be acceptable there or not. Every site has its own help centre page to explain which types of questions are on-topic and which are not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Worldbuilding on-topic page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Movies &amp;amp; TV on-topic page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://video.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Video Production on-topic page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2020-04-23T08:12:33.743" LastActivityDate="2020-04-23T08:12:33.743" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7559" CreationDate="2020-04-04T23:36:10.787" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Three reasons it could be consider either fantasy or sci-fi:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's based in a world/city that &lt;strong&gt;does not exist in real life,&lt;/strong&gt; taken from a character in a &lt;em&gt;recognized&lt;/em&gt; comic book that over the years has covered all elements.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It has human beings who are at least to &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; degree enhanced beyond human capacity, be it by science or genetics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It includes elements of mysticism, and if we want to get meta, even &lt;em&gt;predestination,&lt;/em&gt; considering it showcases Bruce basically having little choice to deviate from the established life path of becoming an iconic vigilante... even meeting many of his enemies &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; he dons the cape and cowl.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Add in the little elements that are at least highly &lt;em&gt;unlikely&lt;/em&gt; to occur in real life, and it seems to still be topic relevant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="114389" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2020-04-06T14:08:47.827" LastActivityDate="2020-04-06T14:08:47.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12968" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12969" CreationDate="2020-04-06T19:33:18.943" Score="-7" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PWS7E.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PWS7E.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been 2 days (going on 3), and it still hasn't been deleted! &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5287/my-account-wont-somehow-be-deleted&quot;&gt;I'm sure the timing system can't be &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; far off!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user112267" LastActivityDate="2020-04-06T19:53:25.567" Title="Why hasn't my account been deleted?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12968" CreationDate="2020-04-06T19:53:25.567" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Account deletion when an account has cast a lot of votes, presumably you have, only takes place “once a week” and has to be done by an employee. Given the team has recently lost a few members and different priorities going on account deletion may take longer than usual. See the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/7979/345161&quot;&gt;relevant meta FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your account has cast a lot of votes, it will not be deleted approximately after the 24-hour timer expires, as above. Deletion will be held up while a Stack Exchange employee checks your account to determine if your votes should be preserved (in most cases, they are, but in some cases, such as your account having a history of voting fraud, they aren't). During this hold-up, you may see a deletion notice that says that your account is scheduled to be deleted for some date in the past; this is confusing, but not a sign of a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The queue of accounts awaiting deletion is generally processed every Friday, or the previous or next business day if Friday is a holiday. This means that if your account falls into this queue, it could take up to five business days for your deletion request to be processed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your account has not been deleted and it's been more than five business days (weekdays, excluding U.S. holidays) since the timer has expired, it's possible that the team simply has not cleared out the queue of accounts awaiting deletion; send a contact request using the contact form to remind them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I would wait until next week before contacting the team if your account has not been deleted by then. Remember on top of everything there is a lot going on in the world right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2020-04-06T19:53:25.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12970" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-04-07T14:51:35.497" Score="1" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question could maybe be applied to &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; SE page, in theory, but I've seen a certain type of situation pop up on SFF several times: Are two questions with the same answer considered duplicates, even if they're very different questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suppose one person asked the question &quot;I found this fan theory and now I'm confused; who's the &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; father of Luke Skywalker in &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;?&quot;  Then suppose another person asked the question &quot;Why could Darth Vader sense Luke Skywalker's presence in &lt;em&gt;Return of the Jedi&lt;/em&gt; when the Emperor could not?&quot;  The answer to both is &quot;Darth Vader is Luke's father&quot;* (I don't think that's a spoiler at this point) but the questions themselves are very different.  Would one be considered a dupe of the other?  If not, could an acceptable answer to the second question be as simple as &quot;See &lt;em&gt;this one&lt;/em&gt;&quot; (especially if someone wanted to give credit to the first answerer's research)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;* Please ignore, for the time being, any quibbles about Vader's and Palpatine's respective sensitivities to Luke's presence; they're irrelevant to my question.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="79277" LastEditorUserId="79277" LastEditDate="2020-04-07T14:57:02.053" LastActivityDate="2020-04-07T15:50:22.747" Title="General Question About Dupes" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2020-04-07T16:40:25.407" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12970" CreationDate="2020-04-07T15:22:04.283" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with that Meta question is that it's a bit broad. Yes, in theory, that should warrant a &quot;Too Broad/Need more Focus&quot; close vote, but this is Meta, and I think &lt;strong&gt;&quot;There can't be a general answer; it's a case-by-case situation&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; is appropriate as an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really... This site covers a far scope, and whatever &quot;dummy&quot; example you may provide, arguments could be found for both sides; especially in the largest tags such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, if you take this list of related discussions, from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11985/&quot;&gt;How can this question be a duplicate of a question that is not at all the same question?&lt;/a&gt;, you'll notice that they're mostly (all?) specific cases. The list's author argued that would imply that &quot;no, unrelated questions imply not dupes&quot;, but I'd personally argue that once again this is too broad a topic to make it a general trend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6427/&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6427/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1832/&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1832/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9748/&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9748/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6953/&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6953/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6952/&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6952/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11824/&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11824/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3209/&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3209/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11476/&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11476/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10603/&quot;&gt;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10603/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastActivityDate="2020-04-07T15:22:04.283" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12970" CreationDate="2020-04-07T15:50:22.747" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to argue that it is not appropriate to close a question as a duplicate based on an &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; to another question. A question should only be closed as a duplicate when the same &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; already exists. There are several reasons for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Link&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a question is closed as a duplicate a link gets added to it which directs you to the other post. However, that link is to the other &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt;, not to any answers to the question. If someone has a question and gets sent to a &lt;em&gt;different&lt;/em&gt; question (where the overlap is not readily apparent) to find the answer, confusion is likely to ensue upon reading the question and finding it to be a different question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Where's the Answer?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closely related to the previous point is the fact that there is no indication &lt;em&gt;where&lt;/em&gt; the answer to your question is to be found on the other question. Even if you get past the question without giving up upon seeing a different question, you now have to search for the answer. Sometimes it will be obvious. The answer to your question will clearly jump out at you right in the top answer post. But sometimes it won't be obvious. What if the answer to your question is only a tangential part of the answer to the other question. You might not be able to easily find the sentence or paragraph in the other answer which answers your question, and the more elaborate the other answer is the harder this becomes. Additionally, what if the answer to your question is not contained in the top answer at all? Now you have to sift through multiple answers to a different question, where the majority of the content might be irrelevant for the purpose of answering your question, just to find an answer to your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the closers could leave comments to the closed question with more specific information (e.g. &quot;the third sentence in the fourth paragraph answers your question). However, as this is not required in order to close a question there is nothing to ensure that it is done. In my experience, I have rarely seen such comments or even general comments explaining why a question is a duplicate (unless specifically challenged by other comments). The one example that I recall where a comment pointed to a specific line that rendered a question a duplicate, it turned out that it did not actually answer the new question (more about that later).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Quality of the Answer&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally when a question is posted and it receives answers there is a pretty good mechanism for determining the quality of the answer. Good answers get upvoted and bad answers get downvoted. This generally ensures (of course it doesn't &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; work) that the most featured answer to a question is a good answer. However, if a question is closed as a duplicate of an answer to a &lt;em&gt;different&lt;/em&gt; question, the quality control mechanism is undermined. Answer X might be a superb answer to Question Y, and have 100 upvotes, but that doesn't mean that the sentence or paragraph contained therein which happens to address Question Z is a good answer to Question Z. The reason why it has 100 upvotes is that it did a good job of addressing Question Y. Even if the part that happens to address Question Z does a bad job of answering Question Z it is unlikely that the answer will get downvoted on that account, since the answer is still a good answer to the question it was posted to answer. Thus, it is possible that by closing the new question we are providing a low quality answer instead of high quality answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An extension of this is the fact that if an answer is posted to address one question, the author was likely not putting much (or any) effort into answering a different question. That means that in the event that an answer to one question happens to address another question it is likely to specifically &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be a good comprehensive answer to the other question. If it was not the main point of the answer it was included in, the author has no motivation to add an extra few paragraphs to make it a better, more comprehensive, answer to a question that it was not posted to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Multiple Answers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leads us to what I think is the most important point. Especially given the nature of the topic of this particular site, many questions do not have a simple objective answer. Many answers involve quite a bit of speculation and extrapolation from vague evidence. There can easily be multiple good answers to a single question, and sometimes even multiple good answers that flat out disagree with each other. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now on a normal question, any answer that addresses the question can be posted and be subjected to the critical eye of the community via upvotes and downvotes. But when a question is closed as a duplicate of an answer to a different question it creates a problem. The answer to the other question likely only contains one possible answer to the new question. What is supposed to happen to other potential answers to the new question that are significantly different from the answer posted as part of the answer to the old question? They can't be posted to the new question because the new question is closed. They often can't be posted to the old question because they don't address the old question since the old question is actually a different question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I discussed this particular issue at length in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11985/how-can-this-question-be-a-duplicate-of-a-question-that-is-not-at-all-the-same-q&quot;&gt;this Meta post&lt;/a&gt;. In particular, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11993/100430&quot;&gt;this answer there&lt;/a&gt; showed that an answer that I posted to a question about the total number of students in Hogwarts did not address a different question of whether Hogwarts houses have quotas, and therefore the closure of the former as a duplicate of the latter (because of an answer to the latter which touched upon the total number of students) prevented my answer from being posted at all (until the question was reopened). That, in my opinion, is a bad thing, especially as I think that my answer to the number of students was a pretty good answer (it currently has a score of +14). This example goes straight to the heart of the matter. The answer to the question about quotas dealt with the total number of students in a non-comprehensive manner, and reached a conclusion that is unsupported by a lot of evidence that this answer didn't even mention. This is not necessarily the fault of the answerer, as her goal wasn't to answer the question of total number of students. But this goes to show why it is a bad idea to close a question because an answer to a different question partially deals with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above example was a case where I happened to have a different answer for the closed question. But even without knowing a specific different answer, you can still know that there &lt;em&gt;could be&lt;/em&gt; a different answer simply by analyzing how the two questions are different. Of course, if the different answer can also address the open question, it could simply be posted to the open question. But in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11994/100430&quot;&gt;another answer&lt;/a&gt; to that Meta post I showed how you can easily conceive of an answer that would only address one question and not the other, even if you don't have a real answer that fits that criterion. As long as it is theoretically possible to address one without addressing the other the question should not be closed as a duplicate since closing it would prevent the theoretical answers from ever being posted. The general rule that can be used to determine this is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Would any good answer to one question also address the other question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That means that as long as it is &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt; to post a good answer to one question without addressing the other, the questions cannot be considered duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;Reductio Ad Absurdum&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another issue with closing questions as duplicates of answers to different questions is that it can result in some... interesting... conclusions. As I noted in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12002/100430&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; to the above mentioned Meta post almost any question can be made a duplicate of any unrelated answer as long as the unrelated answer throws in one line that states an opinion about the new question. I gave several examples where this happened, and even noted that one could deliberately throw in one-liners assuming a conclusion and thereby close earlier questions that actually asked that very question (and even have good answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another strange result is that if you have a set of three different (but somewhat related) questions, an answer to A can address B and an answer to C can also address B yet these two answers can be different and even contradictory and B can be closed as a duplicate of either one. We can illustrate this with the following example. Here are three different (but related) questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/39082/in-deathly-hallows-why-is-cho-chang-still-at-hogwarts&quot;&gt;In Deathly Hallows, why is Cho Chang still at Hogwarts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/175397/how-can-cho-chang-be-afraid-to-fail-her-o-w-l-s-if-shes-a-year-ahead&quot;&gt;How can Cho Chang be afraid to fail her O.W.L.s if she&amp;#39;s a year ahead?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/106361/how-many-hogwarts-students-changed-year-from-book-to-film&quot;&gt;How many Hogwarts students changed year from book to film?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second of these questions asked why a line in the movie indicates that a character is a year younger than what is indicated in the books. This question is closed as a duplicate of the third question which asks in general about age changes from the books to the movies, and one of the answers there lists this character as someone who's age was altered by the movies. This certainly addresses the question posed in the second question, but it is not necessarily the only answer or the correct answer. Consider that the first of these questions raises a different potential discrepancy about the age of the same character. While one of the answers there shows that the discrepancy is based on a mistaken premise, a different answer (full disclosure: it's my answer) argues that there was never a discrepancy in the first place because the age that everyone assumed for this character based on the books might be incorrect. This answer in turn would address the second question — the reason why a line in the movie makes the character appear to be a year younger is that &lt;em&gt;she actually was a year younger&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So now the second question could be closed as a duplicate of the first question or the third question, which have entirely contradictory answers. One of the answers represents a false fact since the character's age is either one or the other. This means that if any closers only found one of the other two questions they would be closing the second question as a duplicate based on an answer which might be entirely incorrect. And since the first question and the third question are sufficiently different from each other, neither answer can be posted to the other question because it wouldn't address the other question. The proper procedure here should be to leave the second question open, and allow both the answer to the first question and the answer to the third question to be posted to it, and once both contradictory answers exist in the same place they can be pitted against each other and voted upon. Even if the votes don't reach a clear consensus at least any reader can have all the information in one place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Who Decides if an Answer is Correct?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One might wish to argue that we would only close questions as duplicates of answers to different questions when we know that the answer to the existing question contains the true answer to the new question. If it's just a throwaway line with no evidence then we won't use it to close other questions. However, this would raise an important point. Who gets to decide whether an answer is correct or not? Anyone with 3,000 reputation can cast a close-vote, even if they know nothing about the work in question. They certainly shouldn't be determining whether an answer is correct or not. Users with Gold Badges in the tag for the work in question will hopefully know &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; about the work but they also should not be determining whether an answer is correct or not. Even &quot;experts&quot; in a given work do not know everything about it; they can easily forget a particular point, or make a mistake. Note that the privileges that come along with increased reputation and Gold Badges are not related to determining the correctness of an answer. The privileges relate to how well you understand the system and how well you can tell whether a question fits into a closeworthy category. No matter how much reputation or privileges a user has he never gets more than one vote on a question or answer itself. That means that when it comes to determining the correctness of an answer, a new user with 125 reputation and a Gold Badge holder with 100,000 reputation are on equal footing. They both get one vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This being the case, there is no methodology to use to determine which answers can be used to close other questions and which answers cannot be used. To put it simply, in order to close a question as a duplicate based on an answer to a different question, we would have to presuppose what the answer to the question is. We have no right to do that; in fact the entire point of posting the question is to arrive at the best answers to the question via the mechanism of people posting answers and people voting on the answers posted. Presupposing the answer to the question undermines the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Answers Change&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An additional issue with closing questions as duplicates based on answers to other questions is that answers can be changed at any time. Usually there won't be such drastic edits, but in many of these cases the part that addresses the new question is not strictly necessary to answer the old question. That makes it much more likely for that part to be removed. If it does get removed the closed question will now link to a question purporting to contain an answer but it will not actually contain an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Better Duplicate&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another potential negative effect of closing questions as duplicates based on answers is that sometimes there is actually another question that makes it a &lt;em&gt;true&lt;/em&gt; duplicate. In such cases, users who are looking for posts to close a question based on might find an answer which addresses the new question, and they might stop searching and just close the new question based on the answer. Had the question not been closed based on an answer, the duplicate search might have continued until an actual duplicate question would be found. It is surely &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt; to have a question linked to and closed as a duplicate of another question which asks the same thing than as a duplicate of a separate question whose answer happens to address the new question as well. I can’t say how often this happens, but here are two recent examples of questions that I found closed as duplicates based on answers to separate questions, and I edited the duplicate list to include questions that actually were asking basically the same thing as the closed question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/209006/why-did-the-school-have-a-series-of-difficult-yet-doable-challenges-instead-of&quot;&gt;Why did the school have a series of difficult, yet doable challenges instead of a spell that keeps people from getting it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/59552/why-could-ronald-weasley-use-charlies-old-wand&quot;&gt;Why could Ronald Weasley use Charlie&amp;#39;s old wand?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/153367/why-didnt-someone-make-lily-and-james-potter-portraits-like-the-dead-hogwarts-h&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t someone make Lily and James Potter portraits like the dead Hogwarts Headmasters?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/58581/why-could-the-pictures-and-paintings-in-hogwarts-talk-and-the-photos-of-harrys&quot;&gt;Why could the pictures and paintings in Hogwarts talk and the photos of Harry&amp;#39;s parents couldn&amp;#39;t?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/149211/why-didnt-malfoy-just-kill-harry-in-the-half-blood-prince&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t Malfoy just kill Harry in the Half Blood Prince?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/80490/why-didnt-the-death-eaters-capture-harry-potter-at-the-end-of-the-half-blood-pr&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t the Death Eaters capture Harry Potter at the end of the Half-Blood Prince?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/85455/why-didnt-the-death-eaters-take-harry-after-dumbledores-death&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t the Death Eaters take Harry after Dumbledore&amp;#39;s death?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/165778/is-it-illegal-to-do-magic-outside-of-hogwarts&quot;&gt;Is it illegal to do magic outside of Hogwarts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastActivityDate="2020-04-07T15:50:22.747" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12974" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-04-14T19:48:28.807" Score="1" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't mean meta questions like defining science fiction vs fantasy, I mean questions about definitions of unfamiliar terms in works of science fiction.  Ordinarily I would think first of the English Language and Usage stack, but sometimes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's not clear if the word is a real word;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's not clear if the word has an invented meaning in-work totally unrelated to normal usage;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone familiar with the work may be able to provide special insights&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The obvious-- perhaps even canonical-- author one might need these questions for is Gene Wolfe, although the term I want to ask about is found in David Zindell's books. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is on topic, is there a tag?  I searched for things like 'vocabulary', 'definition', etc, and came up completely cold.  If it is on topic and no tag yet exists, I would suggest either of those.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57965" LastActivityDate="2020-04-14T19:48:28.807" Title="Are Questions About Vocabulary/Definition On Topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2020-04-15T06:38:04.087" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12975" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12977" CreationDate="2020-04-15T09:24:30.587" Score="4" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came back to the site today for the first time in a while to see that my rep was +1,300 or something. Obviously there's always some residual rep gain from old questions and answers being upvoted. But I thought that was a little on the high side. Apparently &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/216927/revisions&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; from August was given a 500 rep bounty on 19th March and 24th March.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, I'll take it. But I was just a little surprised. Community doesn't award bounties, does it? The timing also seems very random for a question that hasn't had any other activity since September.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of sheer curiosity, why did this happen? Was a human involved?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64888" LastActivityDate="2020-04-15T09:41:44.193" Title="Is there any reason why I was randomly awarded bounty rep by Community?" Tags="|bug|bounty|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12975" CreationDate="2020-04-15T09:30:35.980" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There were 2 500 rep bounties placed on the question and apparently awarded to your answer by the same user, the one who asked the question. However, in between the bounties being awarded and you coming back the user has requested deletion of their account. As there is now no owner of the bounties the Community user takes ownership of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2020-04-15T09:30:35.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12975" CreationDate="2020-04-15T09:31:35.707" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those bounties were awarded by a &lt;strong&gt;user who has since deleted their account&lt;/strong&gt;. You can see from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/216875/revisions&quot;&gt;revision history of the &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that it was the user now known only as user112267 (the question OP). Since that account doesn't exist any more, the ownership of the bounties (like many other things from deleted users) is transferred to the Community bot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, there was a human involved. That human both &lt;em&gt;set&lt;/em&gt; the bounties and &lt;em&gt;awarded&lt;/em&gt; them, although for some reason in the revisions page the awarding of the bounty is attributed to Community while the setting &lt;em&gt;and removing&lt;/em&gt; of the bounty (the latter coinciding with the bounty awarding, of course) is attributed to user112267.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community?tab=topactivity&quot;&gt;Community bot's activity page&lt;/a&gt;, you can see it has voted over 50,000 times and has nearly 3,000 helpful flags and 10,000 edits. That's one busy bot! Those are also activities of deleted users which are now attributed to the Community account. It has also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community?tab=bounties&amp;amp;sort=offered&quot;&gt;offered 113 bounties worth 22,800 reputation&lt;/a&gt; - again, all from various deleted users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2020-04-15T09:41:44.193" LastActivityDate="2020-04-15T09:41:44.193" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12978" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12979" CreationDate="2020-04-15T13:54:58.663" Score="8" ViewCount="257" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems to be a community-run site, but who founded it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127968" LastActivityDate="2020-04-15T14:04:42.160" Title="Who founded Science Fiction and Fantasy?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12978" CreationDate="2020-04-15T14:04:42.160" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Users did in essence. Sites on Stack Exchange are created by going through &lt;a href=&quot;https://area51.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Area 51&lt;/a&gt; (or at least were). If enough users like the proposal and participate on the site that it gets enough content and traffic the site is created. You can see the original proposal for &lt;a href=&quot;https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/4451/science-fiction-fantasy&quot;&gt;Science Fiction and Fantasy on Area 51 here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're interested you may want to look at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/76974/345161&quot;&gt;main meta FAQ for proposing a new site&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://area51.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;Area 51's own FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2020-04-15T14:04:42.160" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12980" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12982" CreationDate="2020-04-15T23:06:31.073" Score="1" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to have my account through Yahoo, but join my Google account to it, because I don't want to lose all my progress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127968" LastActivityDate="2020-04-22T12:46:22.670" Title="When I merge accounts, will I be contacted through email or phone? And how do I decide which account it's going to be through?" Tags="|support|user-accounts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12980" CreationDate="2020-04-22T12:46:22.670" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that they always keep the profile of the account with the lower id (which will be older). It would be smart to save a copy of your desired profile pic and summary just in case. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should get all communication via email, never phone call. I’m not sure which email they will contact but it could be both. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82909" LastActivityDate="2020-04-22T12:46:22.670" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12940" CreationDate="2020-04-25T09:36:25.733" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://robotics.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HDD3r.png&quot; alt=&quot;robotics stack exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2020-04-25T09:36:25.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12984" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2020-04-28T08:51:03.790" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This tag is used by staff when sharing concepts in the Discovery phase relating to product or configuration changes. In most cases a direction and/or goal has been established, and there has likely been some amount of time invested into discovery work and research. The post is being presented to the Community for feedback to be taken into consideration. Where possible, the post includes specific questions to help guide Community feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-04-28T08:51:03.790" LastActivityDate="2020-04-28T08:51:03.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12985" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2020-04-28T08:51:03.790" Score="0" Body="Indicates that the post shares product or configuration change concepts during the Discovery phase. Open to receiving feedback from the Community preceding implementation." OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-04-28T08:51:03.790" LastActivityDate="2020-04-28T08:51:03.790" Title="product-discovery" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12986" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-04-29T07:11:39.063" Score="30" ViewCount="274" Body="&lt;p&gt;Irrfan Khan was an Indian actor who left us today. With no backing, he climbed the success stairs based on raw talent. From a memorable supporting role in the Indian fantasy series &lt;em&gt;Chandrakanta&lt;/em&gt; to a lead in tons of Bollywood films, he left a mark on his fans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also worked in Hollywood and British films such as &lt;em&gt;Life of Pi&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Amazing Spider-Man&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Slumdog Millionaire&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Inferno&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Jurassic World&lt;/em&gt;. His departure is a big loss for Bollywood as well as Hollywood and he will be remembered in the hearts of his fans forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6006" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2020-04-30T08:59:54.050" LastActivityDate="2020-04-30T08:59:54.050" Title="RIP Irrfan Khan" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12987" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-04-30T21:58:34.957" Score="10" ViewCount="235" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/93890/where-is-gormenghast&quot;&gt;Where is Gormenghast?&lt;/a&gt;  has an interesting answer on it. The author of a (paywalled) article that supposedly answers the question has posted to say that their article answers it, but &lt;strong&gt;hasn't posted any part of the article, other than the name of the article and an assertion that their article contains the answer&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where is Gormenghast?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Peake's imagination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an article titled 'Burning the Globe' (Peake Studies, vol.8, #2 (April 2003), pages 12–23), I show how it is possible to situate Gormenghast on the map, but this does not mean that Peake intended his castle to reflect anything but what he imagined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I flagged it as spam and was told&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flag Declined - The article cites a clear and verifiable source; even if not everyone has access to it, providing source is still useful information&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the article itself is paywalled, there's no way to find out whether OP's own article does actually contain any useful information without paying for it. &lt;strong&gt;So why isn't this spam?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the same token, if this &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; spam, does that mean I can start putting my answer references behind a paywall &lt;em&gt;(Valorum Studies, vol.8, #2 (April 2020), pages 12–23)&lt;/em&gt; in order to earn some extra cash? ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2020-05-08T17:37:33.350" Title="Can the author of a paywalled article quote their own paper without explaining how the contents answer the question?" Tags="|discussion|spam|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12987" CreationDate="2020-04-30T22:22:51.990" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It’s not spam because the answerer cites their affiliation to the article. It also answers the question: that it’s in the imagination &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; you can put it on the map; although the latter isn’t expanded upon. It is quite a low quality answer in that no evidence is given anywhere but it is an answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The help page on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/promotion&quot;&gt;How not to be a spammer&lt;/a&gt; says as much:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The community here tends to vote down overt self-promotion and flag it as spam. Post good, relevant answers, and if some (but not all) happen to be about your product or website, that’s okay. However, you must disclose your affiliation in your answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2020-04-30T22:22:51.990" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12987" CreationDate="2020-05-01T00:01:18.320" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure it's spam but it really seems to run up against the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/225370/244695&quot;&gt;link-only rule&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there even one tiny speck of information there? No. Even the title of the page being linked to would have provided something to go on, but that was entirely too much work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So let me be clear: this sort of response is not an answer. If you see this, flag it. Moderators, if you see it flagged, delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer they gave could be condensed down to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He imagined it. I prove that in this paper of mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That he stopped short of a link really doesn't change the reality that he told the OP &lt;em&gt;your answer is in another castle&lt;/em&gt;. Take the paper part out and it just becomes a mere comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2020-05-01T00:01:18.320" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12990" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-05-02T13:22:24.347" Score="3" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://variety.com/2020/tv/obituaries-people-news/gene-dynarski-seinfeld-star-trek-actor-dies-dead-1234589717/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Variety&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; reported on 26th April that Gene Dynarski has died at the age of 86 on February 27 2020.  Although perhaps most closely associated with various non genre TV series from the 1960's/1970's, Gene was also active in Science Fiction in both movies and TV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gene worked on two Steven Spielberg films, “Duel” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” among several television projects, including “Star Trek,” “Batman” and “The X-Files.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Spielberg's “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”, Gene played the supervisor of Richard Dreyfuss' character and starts the investigation into the blackouts.  However, Gene annoyed Spielberg, who had recognised his talent from &quot;Duel&quot;, and had asked Gene to be in the movie and so Gene's scene was cut from the release and only restored in the 30th Anniversary Ultimate Edition.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Gene's friend Earnest Kearney on &lt;a href=&quot;https://variety.com/2020/tv/obituaries-people-news/gene-dynarski-seinfeld-star-trek-actor-dies-dead-1234589717/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Variety&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“He pissed off Spielberg. Pissed him off to the point where, after its 1977 debut, Spielberg cut Dynarski out of all the film’s subsequent releases. It wasn’t until the release of the 30th Anniversary Ultimate Edition that included the 1977 edition that Dynarski’s performance could be seen again,” Kearney wrote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to episodes of ST-TOS (&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708439/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_49&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Mudd's Women&quot;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708470/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_49&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;The Mark of Gideon&quot;&lt;/a&gt;), Gene also appeared in ST-TNG &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708668/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_10&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;11001001&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, Batman (Egghead henceman named Benedict) in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0519557/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_61&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;The Yegg Foes in Gotham&quot;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0519450/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_61&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;An Egg grows Gotham&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, and The X-Files (&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0751176/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Patience&quot;&lt;/a&gt;), Gene also provided the voice of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115141/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_6&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Josef Stalin&quot;&lt;/a&gt; in Command and Conquer: Red Alert.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other series that Gene appeared in are &quot;Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea&quot;, &quot;The Invisible Man&quot; and &quot;Land of the Giants&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74137" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2020-05-02T13:53:07.253" LastActivityDate="2020-05-02T13:53:07.253" Title="RIP Eugene Dynarski - TV and Film actor" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12349" CreationDate="2020-05-05T15:22:54.357" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Null&lt;/strong&gt; - What a great answer on what it's like to moderate at SFF! I somehow missed it when you originally wrote it - so even though it's been a while, I have a couple comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mos Eisley. &lt;em&gt;Sigh&lt;/em&gt;. Seeing as I was one of Mos Eisley's room owners, and I spent a lot of time chatting there, reading what you wrote about Mos was poignant. Coincidentally, just a few days ago I decided I wanted to say something about the Mos debacle to &lt;strong&gt;Shog9&lt;/strong&gt; in the SE Meta post thanking him for his service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/342031/thank-you-shog9&quot;&gt;I thought we had a nice exchange&lt;/a&gt; (Scroll down to the last four comments) - I'm really glad I reached out to him because even our brief discussion was enough to melt away the residual feelings of anger I had on the subject; I was really angry and devastated when &lt;strong&gt;Shog9&lt;/strong&gt; nuked Mos Eisley. For me, it was a community - I had chatted in Mos for many years, starting in 2011, and I personally found good conversation, people with the same interests as me, humor, discussion, movie nights, and some really good people. So, yeah, losing Mos was a real blow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as a former Mos Eisley room owner, after reading everything I could find on why Mos was deleted, I have to say I feel terrible about several things and feel responsible for not always keeping Mos on track. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't know so many people were uncomfortable with the conversations in Mos. I'm sorry Mos had such a bad reputation and was known as an unsafe environment - I did not realize Mos's reputation was as toxic as it apparently was. Sure, of course I knew we had some problematic and/or aggressive users, but I looked at them individually, rather than as a group that was slowly taking over Mos. This was clearly the wrong approach, because those disruptive users' bad behavior snowballed, and overtook the chatroom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I've always subscribed to the school of thought that adults engaged in a disagreement do best when they work out their differences themselves; I would keep an eye on arguments, but typically not intervene. However, it's clear that certain arguments and escalations in Mos needed a third party to help settle things down, and that I didn't always do that. So I apologize to those who needed my help, but didn't get it, whether they actually reached out to me or not. Now I did follow up on flags when they came up, and I did intervene in some controversial conversations, but I realize some users may feel I didn't take action often enough. I did a lot of pinning of messages to the sidebar: &quot;Please do not discuss politics in Mos Eisley&quot;, &quot;Please, no profanity!&quot;, &quot;Take arguments to a private room.&quot; Etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I think back over the time when Mos Eisley was kind of falling apart and we had a lot of negative users in chat, I don't recall &lt;em&gt;constant&lt;/em&gt; negative conversations while I was in chat (although people are often less likely to troll or engage in controversial conversations when the room owners or mods are in chat). A lot of the negativity did happen when &lt;strong&gt;Wad Cheber&lt;/strong&gt; and I weren't in the room - for example, after we had gone to bed for the night. I should have read the transcripts the next day, but I wasn't in the habit of doing that; typically I would read them only if another user pointed me to them and said, &quot;Hey, you ought to take a look at this . . .&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another issue we had toward the end of Mos Eisley was that our chatroom was rather suddenly inundated with mods from other stacks. This was really difficult. We had multiple moderators doling out different levels of discipline, and it became a confusing mess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyhow, I just wanted to extend an apology to those who felt unwelcome in Mos Eisley. I hope the new chatroom - &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/58631/the-restaurant-at-the-end-of-the-universe&quot;&gt;The Restaurant at the End of the Universe&lt;/a&gt; - is fun and enjoyable for you. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS - &lt;strong&gt;Null&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Rand al'Thor&lt;/strong&gt; - you guys are great mods! Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="3500" LastEditDate="2020-05-05T18:09:57.960" LastActivityDate="2020-05-05T18:09:57.960" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12992" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-05-05T17:43:56.263" Score="19" ViewCount="855" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Null&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12350/3500&quot;&gt;What a great answer&lt;/a&gt; on what it's like to moderate at SFF! I somehow missed it when you originally wrote it - so even though it's been a while, I have a couple comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've shared before that I was a moderator for a very large &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; forum-based website for five years, and I only bring it up again because I do feel it gives me credibility and demonstrates I have the experience to make a  valid observation about moderating. Been there, done that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to what you wrote, &lt;strong&gt;Null&lt;/strong&gt;, I want to point out that when you're a moderator, it's super important to recognize when your heart is no longer in the game, &lt;strong&gt;and resign&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my case, I carried out my moderator duties with happy diligence for five years - but then one day I sat down at my computer to start reviewing forum posts, as I did every day, and I found I just didn't want to do it. I was done. So I nervously tendered my resignation, scared that I would be leaving the site in the lurch (which was silly because there were a ton of other mods) and that everyone would be angry with me for leaving. But that's not what happened. Instead, I received an outpouring of gratitude from my fellow mods and the site owner, and thanks for the time I had given the site over five years. So, yeah, it's okay to have limits. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a moderator, you don't want to find that in order to get all your duties done,  you're suddenly spending ten hours a day on the site without a break. You will burn out &lt;em&gt;fast&lt;/em&gt;. It's important for moderators to carve out time where they can just be regular users, and ask and answer questions, or review posts, comment, or even perhaps chat. And if you find that moderating turns out to be something that just isn't for you, step down quickly. &lt;strong&gt;Put the site's needs ahead of your own - always.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I bring this up because, well, it's true -  some of the SFF mods do little to no moderation, yet they won't resign. I have never understood why Stack Exchange doesn't consistently remove inactive moderators, and I don't want to hear about moderators who are mostly inactive but allegedly take on a little &quot;behind-the-scenes action&quot; - that is totally unbelievable. I don't want to hear that a mod who isn't performing their duties is &quot;on strike&quot; over a situation that has long been resolved, or a mod who will only handle the occasional flag because he/she &quot;isn't a people person&quot;, etc. &lt;strong&gt;If you're a moderator, you need to  maintain a visible presence on the site that you manage.&lt;/strong&gt; Period. The site users should know you and be able to approach you if you're a mod.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize this may be considered by some as a foray into opinion, but it's an essential point because inactive moderators who refuse to resign prevent the site from having a full, functioning moderation team. This affects all our users. Four functional moderators are going to get &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; more work done than two active moderators and two moderators who have ghosted the site. One of our inactive mod's last activity was in October 2019. Another mod was last active in April with one action, but prior to that had no action for nine months. Another puts in around an hour or two a week of moderating, which is insufficient for a site as big as SFF. &lt;strong&gt;So, yes, inactive mods, please, &lt;em&gt;please&lt;/em&gt; resign!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JNat&lt;/strong&gt; explains the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337431/what-is-the-process-regarding-moderator-inactivity-removals/338006#338006&quot;&gt;policy for removing inactive moderators&lt;/a&gt; on Meta SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I moved my comments on Mos Eisley &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12991/3500&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS - &lt;strong&gt;Null&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Rand al'Thor&lt;/strong&gt; - you guys are great mods! Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="3500" LastEditDate="2020-05-06T19:20:15.013" LastActivityDate="2020-05-12T09:38:56.753" Title="Inactive Moderators (Again)" Tags="|discussion|moderators|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12992" CreationDate="2020-05-05T19:12:03.350" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;First and foremost, &lt;strong&gt;thank you&lt;/strong&gt; for sharing your thoughts on what is like to be a moderator even if it was not here. I remember in my early days on the site what a pleasure I had reading your answers (that is also when I learned what &quot;irregular voting patterns&quot; were) and interacting with you in chat (and still do). You clearly walk the talk in how you approach the site and your activity on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Regardless of whether or not this is a &quot;problem&quot;, we have been asking for a change.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11848/isnt-it-about-time-we-had-a-chat-about-our-moderation-team&quot;&gt;first time&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11934/a-request-for-more-visible-activity-from-the-moderator-team&quot;&gt;second time&lt;/a&gt; (maybe not even the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12754/what-is-the-status-of-our-moderator-team&quot;&gt;third time&lt;/a&gt;) that this issue has come up &quot;recently&quot;. As much as it pains me to say, &lt;strong&gt;I think we will be met with some of the responses that you call out as &quot;BS&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;. I hope I am wrong. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even with all the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333965/firing-mods-and-forced-relicensing-is-stack-exchange-still-interested-in-cooper&quot;&gt;turmoil that happened across the network&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/343890/the-company-s-commitment-to-rebuilding-the-relationship-with-you-our-community&quot;&gt;promises of making things better&lt;/a&gt; with the users, I believe the company is still interested in maintaining the status quo. What this means for us on SFF is that the company is not going to make a change unless either 1) &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; (except maybe a lone survivor) of the moderators leave or become inactive and/or 2) the current moderator team asks for help. Somehow if we as user group believe a change is needed &lt;strong&gt;we need to find some other avenue to change the company's mind&lt;/strong&gt;. I am not entirely sure what that is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Judging by the past responses from the active moderators, it seems they are fine with handling the work load they are given. However, now our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394/rand-althor&quot;&gt;most active moderator&lt;/a&gt; has taken on a &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1259/2020-community-moderator-election-results&quot;&gt;second moderation role&lt;/a&gt; on the network I. While I know they are awesome at what they do and I am certainly not speaking for them; I still worry about having to split their time and the ripple effect it may have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So these are my questions to the site moderators and community managers: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why is it that users who are clearly no longer vested in the site&#xA;allowed to hold the highest position of trust and privileges? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why are users who barely (if at all) interact with those they are&#xA;moderating?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What example is this setting for the future success of moderation of the site?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why are the moderators we are making claims against not defending their own inaction (except Kevin that one time)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not need direct answers (although feel free if you wish), but at least maybe you can let us know you hear us. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This site has several active users who jump at chance to to help the community grow and flourish and be the next wave of &quot;human exception handlers&quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the event we don't need new moderators (i.e. the site can operate just fine with only two active moderators), that is fine too, but the ones who have given up on the site should be removed. If you quit your job in the real world, you don't get to keep the keys to the office!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2020-05-05T19:12:03.350" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12994" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-05-06T04:16:22.737" Score="-2" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/230773/is-there-any-fan-fiction-about-capn-amerca-meeting-red-skull-to-return-an-infini&quot;&gt;question about fanfic on Captain America&lt;/a&gt; was closed, but no explanation was given. It was closed as &quot;off topic&quot; but there are other questions about Captain America, Marvel Cinematic Universe, and fan fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would you change to make it on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user89104" LastActivityDate="2020-05-07T05:17:44.357" Title="Why was this question about Captain America closed?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12994" CreationDate="2020-05-06T05:20:51.313" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to close as &quot;recommendations&quot;, as noted in the closed banner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite simply, while &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1465/98028&quot;&gt;&quot;is there any&quot; questions are &lt;em&gt;usually&lt;/em&gt; considered OK(ish)&lt;/a&gt;*, I personally draw a line at fanfiction. Anyone can go and put one up, there are dozens if not thousands of fanfics out there, skimming through them to find a plot some user wonders about doesn't fall into what I think this site should be about (story-id questions are another matter).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I don't really see a legitimate way to make it on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*&lt;sub&gt;Though I personally abhor this policy and think it should be revised.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2020-05-07T05:17:44.357" LastActivityDate="2020-05-07T05:17:44.357" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12987" CreationDate="2020-05-08T14:10:48.230" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I have not had the paywall situation, I have had a few cases of items I could not link to due to login requirements, and a screenshot works nicely for conveying the quoted material and showing its authenticity. Admittedly, this potentially falls prey to most modern copyright systems today having a &quot;Fair Use&quot; policy which has no rules, only guidelines, and way too much opportunity for copyright holders to bury the other side in lawsuits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="23243" LastEditDate="2020-05-08T17:37:33.350" LastActivityDate="2020-05-08T17:37:33.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12998" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-05-08T15:18:35.083" Score="11" ViewCount="383" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since 2012, SFF's policy on &quot;Is there any...?&quot; questions is that they are suitable for this site; see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1465/&quot;&gt;How should we handle &amp;quot;any&amp;quot; (list) questions?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in some recent comments, meta posts and chat discussions, I've seen several users voice disagreement with this policy, and few (if not none) express support for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should this policy be revised?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;By design, this question is awfully plain and not sourced. This is because I am personally of the opinion that the policy should be revoked, and will elaborate on why in an answer; I'm trying to keep the question as neutral as I can, so that the votes on it can reflect a &quot;maybe we should revisit the policy&quot; feeling, and not be interpreted as &quot;keep it/trash it&quot; votes. These will be reflected by the votes on answers.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2020-05-08T18:30:56.803" LastActivityDate="2020-05-11T14:57:22.960" Title="How about revisiting our policy about &quot;is there any&quot; questions being OK?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12998" CreationDate="2020-05-08T15:18:35.083" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/strong&gt; I disagree that all &quot;is there any...?&quot; questions are suitable for this site, and propose the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close &quot;is there any work featuring XYZ&quot; questions as recommendations or too broad;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave open &quot;What is the first work featuring X&quot; questions (no change here);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave open &quot;Is there any&quot; questions which are set in a specific universe;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only if the querent can make a very good point, either in comments or on Meta, that their question doesn't have the flaws described below, the question can be reopened.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The reasoning behind the current policy is a bit flawed&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1490/98028&quot;&gt;The 2012 answer&lt;/a&gt; which serves as policy today reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Strictly speaking, the answer to an &lt;em&gt;&quot;are there any...&quot;&lt;/em&gt; question is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a list, but a &quot;yes&quot; or a &quot;no&quot;. To be a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; answer, an answer of &quot;yes&quot; needs to be supported by an example or two, but that does not make it a list answer, nor the question a list question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above is true, but flawed. First, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1465/how-should-we-handle-any-list-questions#comment9933_1490&quot;&gt;a comment&lt;/a&gt; points out, this doesn't make sense as in SFF's case, a &quot;no&quot; answer cannot exist:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How could you possibly answer a question like this with an answer of &quot;no&quot;? Absence of evidence is nothing more than absence of evidence. As a result, some of these types of questions would be fundamentally unanswerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And indeed, go provide evidence that there is no work with such a plot/feature/twist. There is too much SFF material to browse through; ironically, you'd be back to a list answer of &quot;works XYZ do not match&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Just because it's not a list or worded as a recommendation, doesn't make it a good fit for the site&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking, large lists and recommendations have no place on Stack Exchange sites. The fact that answers to &quot;is there any&quot; questions do not fall under that category doesn't magically make them on-topic. Communities have some leeway to determine what is suitable or not for their site; this is why SFF allows identification questions, when Movies.SE does not. Point being, there is no upper-policy dictating those should be left open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;It can be abused way too easily&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, rules can always be tweaked in some way, but compare:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Please suggest medieval fantasy books with knights fighting dinosaurs&quot;&lt;/em&gt;: vote to close&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Is there any medieval fantasy book with knights fighting dinosaurs?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;: leave open&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course there is more to close-voting a question than just its title, but &lt;strong&gt;doesn't the above just look &lt;em&gt;weird&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;? Any recommendation question can be made on-topic by wording it as a &quot;is there any&quot; question and letting people post their favorite works as answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, it can similarly be bypassed by asking for the first appearance of XYZ. But at least rating which work was &quot;the first&quot; is pretty straightforward: sort by date. It also has &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; value as a genre evolution type of information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On &quot;is there any&quot; questions, there's no restraining new one-liners answers, meaning you could have a thread of &quot;title answers&quot; going on for quite a time, depending on how tropey the thing is. That's not, in my opinion, the level of quality I want to see on Stack Exchange sites; this is more suitable for platforms like Reddit or Quora.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;2020 SFF is not 2012 SFF&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply put, some people may have voted on this policy with the 2012 state of SFF in mind, and think differently now. Some of the users who wanted this policy in 2012 may be gone. Some new users may disagree with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting periodically on whether to keep or change something is a good thing. It lets people express their opinion and possible desire for a change; no policy has to be set on stone forever. It's like saying electing a President in 1983 makes them President for life; it's broken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, pretty much all &quot;is there any&quot; questions seem to generate close votes and policy-reminders in comments, sometimes by folks who disagree with said policy but want to abide by site rules (I'm one of them). For instance, check the lengthy comments, revisions and timelines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/227613/&quot;&gt;What was the first story to offer a spaceship landing on an oceangoing vessel?&lt;/a&gt; (2020)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/144214/&quot;&gt;Is there any zombie story where characters heard the term zombie apocalypse before the incident?&lt;/a&gt; (2016)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/209474/&quot;&gt;What was the first monster motivated by the need to replace worn-out or damaged body parts?&lt;/a&gt; (2019)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/197569/&quot;&gt;African superheroes created by African writers?&lt;/a&gt; (2018)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;most of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1465/98028&quot;&gt;the questions used as examples&lt;/a&gt; in the meta policy at stake (irony much?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And many others; the goal isn't to have an exhaustive list, it's to show that people are torn; &lt;strong&gt;I say let's vote again, to see what the current batch of SFF users want for the site.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Some &quot;is there any&quot; questions are fine though&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the examples linked to above have in common that they are asking whether something exists &lt;em&gt;among all the SFF material ever created by humanity&lt;/em&gt;. That's too broad for you. However, I see no problem with &lt;strong&gt;reasonable&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;is there any&quot; questions set in a specific universe, or written by a specific author, etc, keyword here being &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt;. That narrows the question's scope and avoids it being open to the above clutter. In fact, the community already receives those pretty well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/228476/&quot;&gt;Are there any machine or AI civilizations in the Star Trek TV series?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/223686/&quot;&gt;Is there any forbidden technology in the Star Wars universe?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/228710/&quot;&gt;Are there any instances of space marines getting a prolonged life?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/198735/&quot;&gt;Heinlein works where slide rule is used to calculate navigation in space&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2020-05-08T18:31:19.380" LastActivityDate="2020-05-08T18:31:19.380" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12992" CreationDate="2020-05-10T04:22:31.070" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've decided to resume active moderation, effective immediately, under a revised attitude respecting the community's relationship with Stack Exchange, Inc.  We're a community acting mostly independently of SE, and as far as I'm concerned, SE is now just another profit-driven corporation that happens to host our content, not so different from Facebook or Reddit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3267" LastActivityDate="2020-05-10T04:22:31.070" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12998" CreationDate="2020-05-10T19:40:49.987" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It's clobberin' time!&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question wouldn't exist, except for the crazy culture of sophistry that permeates curation on SE sites in general and makes it exasperating for people to interact with them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Early in my own interaction with SE, I got a little exasperated with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; SFF questions, and analogous questions on other SE sites. I was tempted many times to write a sarcastic meta question titled&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;When was the last time a superlative was used to mask a list question?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but thought better of it. It became clear to me that allowing &quot;what was the first&quot; and other superlative request questions was some sort of compromise worked out in the early history of SE and it worked, so I left it alone.  Now there's a proposal that will upset that balance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it comes to fiction, there is never any way to identify the true &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt; appearance of an idea.  There are plenty of early SF publications for which no copies survive.  Some story ideas are list in the mists of prehistory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[digression]In fact, it's too easy to move the goalposts by wording questions to allow mythological or religious works when the focus should be on &lt;em&gt;published fiction&lt;/em&gt;. Of course, citing mythological or religious influences on a particular author would be part of a complete answer).  There is a Mythology SE that is withering for want of questions.[/digression]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A similar thing happens with vaguely worded &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions. A lot of sites have banned identification questions altogether, but SFF still allows them, because the detective work is &lt;em&gt;fun&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that for many questions, there is no objective single answer, no matter how they're worded.  It's disingenuous to suggest there is one, and changing the wording isn't going to change that.  The result is that we allow a list of approximations as answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a Good Thing. It's a big part of what makes SFF fun. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nonetheless, &lt;em&gt;superlative-request questions are list questions in disguise&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does this mean? &lt;strong&gt;It's the &lt;em&gt;entire list question&lt;/em&gt; policy that should be reviewed&lt;/strong&gt; if any policy is to be reviewed at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see nothing wrong with allowing questions along the lines of &quot;What are some good (early) examples of X&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Curation doesn't need to be overthought. Recall how Stack Exchange works: The best questions and answers get voted up to the top.  Bad answers get voted down. If a &quot;list&quot; question gets too many answers, it can be protected. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63330" LastEditorUserId="63330" LastEditDate="2020-05-11T14:57:22.960" LastActivityDate="2020-05-11T14:57:22.960" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12992" CreationDate="2020-05-12T08:52:26.390" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Slytherincess' and Skooba's, especially the questions he puts forth, posts are excellent and make some good points. I just want to add onto those by giving some information from A Theory of Moderation and even some updated thoughts from Catija.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/05/18/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt; is a blog post written by Jeff Atwood on the basic principles of being a moderator on the Stack Exchange network. Whilst this has been reinterpreted and adapted slightly over the years the fundamentals of it holds true to this day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to quote the following important section:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in summary, if you are a community moderator on a Stack Exchange site, here’s what to expect:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a moderator, your actions now represent the community, so you will be held to a higher standard of behavior. You are an ambassador of trust, with the same sorts of rights that the official development team and community coordinators have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your goal is to &lt;strong&gt;guide the community with gentle — but firm — intervention&lt;/strong&gt;. Respect your fellow community members at all times; demonstrate fairness and impartiality in your actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Whenever possible, &lt;strong&gt;try to leave frequent comments on posts where you’ve taken (or considered taking) a moderator action&lt;/strong&gt;, explaining the reasoning. This is important so that community members can learn the norms of the community and the moderation policies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Keep the site reasonably on topic by &lt;strong&gt;closing, migrating, or removing blatantly off-topic questions&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Regularly check for &lt;strong&gt;flagged posts&lt;/strong&gt;, and decide if further action is warranted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the case of serious disputes, &lt;strong&gt;communicate directly with users via email&lt;/strong&gt; to help mediate and resolve those disputes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Relevant to this discussion are points 2, 3 and 4:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst a moderator can guide a community in the background, and does with their handling of flags, this can also be done more in the foreground and this brings us to the following points. A moderator can help guide and keep the site inline with policies by doing the more public user moderator actions such as closing posts. Our community does do a good job of this already but there are times when close votes can be on for the best part of a day and are extremely clear which way they fall (leave open, close). It is times like these I think that moderators could step in and vote one way or the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leads into the most important point from the above relative to this discussion: point 3. Some mods are apparently extremely active with handling flags in the background yet only have 2 or 3 public actions in a year. If one was trying to leave comments to explain actions I would expect there to be more than that. The importance of leaving comments in these cases is explained above and I personally think it would be very important to leave more comments when taking actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact when &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11934/58193&quot;&gt;I last brought this up&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11939/58193&quot;&gt;Shog's answer&lt;/a&gt; flips it around back on me and tells me that when I do user moderation actions (editing, closing, etc.) I could do better by leaving more comments. This only reinforces the fact that more comments explaining actions is good and that mods should really try and abide by this to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the very least I think that commenting on actions is a good way to help guide and teach  the community and also let us know that you are still around and kicking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We believe deeply in community moderation. That’s why we appoint Pro Tempore Moderators and, ideally, democratically elected community moderators for every site in our network. But what do community moderators do? The short answer is, &lt;strong&gt;as little as possible!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with the above moderators should ideally do as little &lt;em&gt;moderation&lt;/em&gt; activity above. However, for what they do, do, they can leave comments as per above and be a little more present.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's also worth noting that &lt;strong&gt;moderators are site users first and foremost&lt;/strong&gt;. It's odd for a moderator, in my opinion, to be a site user yet have no public actions for years on end. But this is more of a side point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's also worth of mentioning &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/347104/345161&quot;&gt;Catija's recent post&lt;/a&gt; on announcing the Moderator Council. Whilst the introduction section of the post describes what some moderators around the network do, it leads with this information in moving towards what they think moderators could become. Of the points made most require visible actions in shaping and building their community. I know moderators aren't required to do this but the CM's vision of moderators is important to my final point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; community leaders whether they like it or not. People see the diamond, they see the position of authority and they look to them for advice and to lead. This is even true in A Theory of Moderation in points 1 and 2, even if it isn't to the same affect here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; lead their communities, they shape them, build them and even, in some cases, promote them. I think our moderators could do some more visible actions in these categories for the health of the site and to help us grow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I'm aware this is controversial to some, and doesn't &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; to be done. In fact I don't even want to have them do this straight away or at all. It's not about forcing anyone to do anything. This, again, is just a side point and an example of something mods &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; do if they wanted with positive impacts and visible actions. The main point of this post is the top section about just asking for more visible actions: mainly explanatory comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2020-05-12T09:38:56.753" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13003" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13004" CreationDate="2020-05-13T05:12:19.313" Score="-4" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see any button that says answer this question. How do I do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="129033" OwnerDisplayName="FlyingSaucer" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2020-05-13T07:44:27.060" LastActivityDate="2020-05-13T12:57:37.460" Title="How do I answer a question on Stack Exchange?" Tags="|support|answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13003" CreationDate="2020-05-13T05:29:25.540" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;By typing into this box and clicking this button&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;vvvvvv&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OMTG1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OMTG1.png&quot; alt=&quot;a screenshot of me editing an answer&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12857" OwnerDisplayName="ApproachingDarknessFish" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2020-05-13T09:38:14.360" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13005" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-05-13T09:14:02.540" Score="18" ViewCount="681" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over the past few months, or almost a year now, since I saw &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13489/128160&quot;&gt;Arqade's call for input&lt;/a&gt; I've been thinking of ways that we can do the same here on SFF. So taking and tailoring the questions from that post we have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In your opinion, what are SFF’s strengths and weaknesses?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What are the day-to-day challenges or issues you face with SFF?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What’s that ‘one thing’ you wish the site had, handled, or did differently?   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do you have any suggestions, feature-requests, or other wishes?  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Got an idea for a tournament, contest, or other community get-together?  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Would you like a followup to an old meta/bug/feature-request?  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Can we look over a reviewed/edited/closed/deleted question for a second opinion? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What can we do to facilitate community events or otherwise help you out?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Can we do more to promote SFF?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These aren't the only points I want to talk about but just some general starting points to get some ideas flowing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the plan for this post is to have a separate answer per idea, the community can then vote them up or down and after so long I, or someone else, can come along and post a specific meta on that point made and we can develop the idea further there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please post your ideas and improvements below!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2020-05-13T09:31:54.570" LastActivityDate="2021-02-22T21:59:44.657" Title="Ways to improve and promote Science Fiction and Fantasy" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13005" CreationDate="2020-05-13T09:14:16.620" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; A topic challenge program has &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13211/31394&quot;&gt;begun in 2021&lt;/a&gt;. Topics for future challenges can be suggested here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;Propose future topics for SFF topic challenges!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Challenges&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Topic Challenges run on some various sites across the network, for example on &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Literature&lt;/a&gt;, and are a good way to bring in traffic, certainly to low traffic tags. They are featured in the side bar in an &amp;quot;Upcoming Events&amp;quot; section and help promote certain things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something I've seen around the network but mostly on &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Movies &amp;amp; TV&lt;/a&gt; are answer challenges. Their ones take the form of &amp;quot;Solve old unanswered questions!&amp;quot; which is a good idea but this can be applied in other areas as well and not just to answers: best question/answer by new user (votes or nomination), best late answer (votes or nomination), best low scored question etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These two can even run in parallel or we can only do one or neither. But they draw traffic and could be a good idea for some events to run. So some things to think of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do we want these? Just one? Both? Neither?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How frequently should they run, at least initially?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What types of Challenges can we run?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How would we award the prizes and what prizes would we award? Someone would likely have to volunteer to give up the bounties so something to think about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2021-02-22T21:59:44.657" LastActivityDate="2021-02-22T21:59:44.657" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13005" CreationDate="2020-05-13T09:15:40.300" Score="-2" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Image of the Week Contest&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something originally from &lt;a href=&quot;https://photo.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Photography&lt;/a&gt; is the photo of the week contest. Following Arqade's call for input they have started a successful &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/14741/screenshot-of-the-week-contest-1&quot;&gt;Screenshot of the Week contest&lt;/a&gt; as well and are in the process of getting the widget in place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This works on those two sites because one can freely take pictures within nature or the game to get what they want. We're more restricted. However, the visual element of a themed image on the side bar on the home page would be quite nice and it would invite some community events and potentially draw in visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So some things to think about here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do we want this?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What would it be restricted to? Movies, comics, cartoons, shows etc.? But also include cosplay, drawings (fan art, concept art)? Obviously all keeping within the Code of Conduct.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How often would it run?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If we do, do this would we want the widget on the home page?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What sorts of themes could we use?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2020-05-13T09:23:57.823" LastActivityDate="2020-05-13T09:23:57.823" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13005" CreationDate="2020-05-13T09:15:56.670" Score="0" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Community Ads&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we can do better Community Ads-wise... in fact I don't even know what ads we have out there. So, we should think about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What Community Ads do we currently have on other sites?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What sites are missing and could be targeted?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some new designs for old ads and new ones: keep them up to date should we need to.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2020-05-13T09:15:56.670" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13005" CreationDate="2020-05-13T09:16:09.683" Score="4" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Movie Nights&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/movie-night&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie-night&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie-night&lt;/a&gt;s used to be quite a frequent run community event around here. It might be worth starting them up again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How often should these run?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What types of movies?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How do we organise them?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is there a common place to watch together?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What times should it be ran?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2020-05-13T09:16:09.683" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13005" CreationDate="2020-05-13T09:16:51.660" Score="2" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Off topic meta&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if this is needed but a detailed meta on where to ask off topic questions might be quite a handy thing to have to point users to. Unfortunately, we get a lot of off topic questions, especially [story-identification] ones. It would be helpful to have a meta we could write up together for where these off topic questions could be asked around the network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking around we already have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/452/58193&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; but it is quite outdated and doesn't include a lot of the newer Stack Exchange sites never mind other platforms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do we want to update the old one or create a new one?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Should we have a separate one dedicated to [story-identification] posts?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What sites should we link to? Movies &amp;amp; TV, Literature, Arqade, Writing, World Building, Physics, Biology, etc.?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2020-05-13T09:16:51.660" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13005" CreationDate="2020-05-13T09:17:46.890" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; This proposal has started with the main page being &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13116/58193&quot;&gt;asked here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Guidelines for Migration&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;When I say migration here I don't necessarily mean formal migration but also for us recommending the OP ask their question elsewhere.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is on a similar idea to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13010/58193&quot;&gt;Off topic meta&lt;/a&gt; but instead reaching out to some of those communities and finding out what specific guidelines they want to give us for migrating off topic questions. This would be beyond the usual don't migrate crap and don't migrate stuff that would be off topic there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We get a lot of people recommend migration to certain communities when their question would just get closed there as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What communities should we ask this of?  Movies &amp;amp; TV, Literature, Arqade, Writing, World Building, Physics, Biology, etc.?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Should we also reach out to them with our guidelines for them migrating stuff to us?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2020-08-25T09:08:54.030" LastActivityDate="2020-08-25T09:08:54.030" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13005" CreationDate="2020-05-13T09:17:58.880" Score="10" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Updating the FAQ&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12998/how-about-revisiting-our-policy-about-is-there-any-questions-being-ok#comment45648_12999&quot;&gt;This recent comment&lt;/a&gt; got me thinking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As a side note, I think that having unwritten rules, undocumented common practices, rules based on some old posts on meta, and generally speaking any rule that is not explicitly explained in the help center, is a problematic practice. There should be a way to have some clear information about these things, both for new members, or even more experienced ones that are not always present on the site and do not partecipate much in chat and meta. – Sekhemty&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now we can't do much outside of meta and I'm not sure what parts of the help centre the mods can customise; and to an extent how much that should be customised. However, the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; seems somewhat out of date and there isn't really a collection of meta policies anywhere. I think it would be helpful to have one main post that links to our policies and we keep that up to date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How do we do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One post linking policies?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keeping the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;faq&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; up to date?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Update the help centre pages?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All/none of the above?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What needs including in the post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What's missing?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What policies should be there?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any helpful guides there too? Story id guides, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2020-05-29T08:17:42.330" LastActivityDate="2020-05-29T08:17:42.330" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13005" CreationDate="2020-05-14T07:24:26.567" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; A meta post about this has been created, discussion about this should be directed there: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13094/58193&quot;&gt;Do we want a custom close reason for the Future Works Policy? Revisited&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;New custom close reason?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a bit more specific than most of your answers, but something I've been thinking about for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Background: we have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5187/31394&quot;&gt;long-standing policy&lt;/a&gt; to close questions about future works (with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11865/31394&quot;&gt;clarifications about what that means&lt;/a&gt;) as Primarily Opinion-Based. In 2016 we &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9585/31394&quot;&gt;proposed a custom close reason&lt;/a&gt; for this, and the consensus was that it shouldn't be a custom &lt;em&gt;off-topic&lt;/em&gt; close reason since these questions aren't off-topic only opinion-based. If &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/210314/278659&quot;&gt;Categories other than &amp;quot;off-topic&amp;quot; should allow custom close reasons&lt;/a&gt; was implemented, we could revisit that decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently, SE made a lot of changes to the question-closing system, one of which was to replace &amp;quot;off-topic&amp;quot; by &amp;quot;community-specific reason&amp;quot; which essentially does implement the above-linked main meta proposal. Now, creating a custom close reason for Future Works would &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; imply that such questions are &lt;em&gt;off-topic&lt;/em&gt;, only that they're unsuitable for our site for some site-specific reason, which is true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe we can revisit the discussion about this proposed custom close reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2020-08-20T16:21:37.123" LastActivityDate="2020-08-20T16:21:37.123" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13005" CreationDate="2020-05-14T10:10:24.337" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Updating custom close reason text(s)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After new changes by SE to the question closing system, we have the ability to write multiple different texts for each close reason, to be displayed in different places according to context. (See &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eKCsD.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this image&lt;/a&gt; for all the text boxes to be filled when creating a new custom close reason.) Other sites such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4710&quot;&gt;Academia SE&lt;/a&gt; have updated all their close reason texts accordingly, showing a different chunk of text to close voters, to the general public, to the OP, and to privileged users in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently each of our close reasons has the same text showing in all contexts, namely:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions seeking &lt;strong&gt;scientific solutions or explanations&lt;/strong&gt; are off-topic unless related directly to a cited work of fiction. There are &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites#science&quot;&gt;several other Stack Exchange sites&lt;/a&gt; dedicated to answering questions on non-fictional sciences. For more information, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7364&quot;&gt;What is our actual policy on science questions?&lt;/a&gt; on meta. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Requests for &lt;strong&gt;lists of works or recommendations&lt;/strong&gt; are off-topic as they do not fit our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/about&quot;&gt;questions and answers format&lt;/a&gt;. Feel free to ask about people's favorites in &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/58631/the-restaurant-at-the-end-of-the-universe&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question does not appear to be about science fiction or fantasy within the scope defined in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's brainstorm it and decide how these texts should be adapted for each of the four different contexts in which they can be shown. After we've reached an agreement, the mod team (liaising with CMs if necessary) can update the close reasons. There are four text boxes, plus the &quot;brief description&quot;, to be filled. Note that each one has a &lt;strong&gt;500 character&lt;/strong&gt; limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2020-05-14T10:10:24.337" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13016" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13018" CreationDate="2020-05-14T16:24:41.057" Score="7" ViewCount="329" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd guess that this user does this kind of edits to gain more points for these very old answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They edit one letter or add one tag to the question and so they come up to the top although they did not really change in the last years. Here is a screenshot how this looks like: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eJzoK.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eJzoK.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of senseless mass edits&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here is a list of some of the posts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/231259/do-magical-pests-only-infest-wizard-houses-and-buildings&quot;&gt;Do magical pests only infest Wizard houses and buildings?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/187002/is-there-any-evidence-that-alastor-moody-taught-the-defense-against-the-dark-art&quot;&gt;Is there any evidence that Alastor Moody taught the Defense Against the Dark Arts (or any other) class?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/172542/what-makes-the-whomping-willow-so-valuable-to-snape&quot;&gt;What makes the Whomping Willow so valuable to Snape?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74943" LastEditorUserId="74943" LastEditDate="2020-05-18T17:16:21.713" LastActivityDate="2020-05-27T19:57:38.263" Title="What to do if a user does mass minor edits to push old questions where user has the accepted answer?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13016" CreationDate="2020-05-14T16:41:32.953" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have a couple of things to think of here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are the edits worthwhile? Correcting typos, adding useful tags etc. Think if you saw that edit on a new post would you think twice about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A quick look at the ones you provided and they do seem to be useful, correcting typos and adding relevant tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is the user abiding by the informal 5 in 15 policy? This is where one user should only really have 5 edits from the top 15 posts on the home page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There’s 7 in the screenshot plus an answer. In this case a small comment to the user reminding them of the policy is in order. If they don’t stop then raise it to the mods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don’t see anything problematic with the behaviour except the 5 in 15 policy. As long as the edits are good then there isn’t a problem. We shouldn’t discourage worthwhile edits just because it’s an old post and that user has an answer on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2020-05-14T16:41:32.953" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13016" CreationDate="2020-05-16T14:08:29.650" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is possibility of a bit of hunting for badges going on here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without checking exactly when the answer was made and when the edit was made...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are three badges (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/136/explainer&quot;&gt;Explainer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/137/refiner&quot;&gt;Refiner&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/138/illuminator&quot;&gt;Illuminator&lt;/a&gt;) that require an answer and an edit withing twelve (12) hours of each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There all are also three badges for editing (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/3/editor&quot;&gt;Editor&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/12/strunk-white&quot;&gt;Strunk &amp;amp; White&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/33/copy-editor&quot;&gt;Copy Editor&lt;/a&gt;) along with two badges for editing older posts (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/70/excavator&quot;&gt;Excavator&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/69/archaeologist&quot;&gt;Archaeologist&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally there are two badges for answering an old question and receiving a certain number of votes (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/59/revival&quot;&gt;Revival&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/44/necromancer&quot;&gt;Necromancer&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;HOWEVER!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is wrong with that? The site is clearly encouraging this behavior! For a network that wants to be a &amp;quot;Q&amp;amp;A repository&amp;quot; it is certainly a good thing to keep questions and answers as up-to-date, free of errors, and tagged properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what do you do about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;DO NOTHING!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As was mentioned in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13017/57310&quot;&gt;other answer&lt;/a&gt; we do have an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12476/mass-editing-still-a-policy-or-not&quot;&gt;informal policy&lt;/a&gt; of only editing 5 of the top 15 posts by the same user. So while in this particular instance our rule was &amp;quot;broken&amp;quot;, it is not against site policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;IF you must do something...&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typically this is just a user getting a little overzealous and/or having ample free time to hone in on a specific set of questions. IF (big if) a pattern emerges that a single user is doing mass edits over and over again, you can do one of three things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;leave a comment gently reminding them of the rule&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ping them in chat gently reminding them of rule&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;flag for moderator attention so they can gently remind them of the rule&lt;br&gt;  &#xA;&lt;sub&gt;notice the emphasis on gently&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2020-05-27T19:57:38.263" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13005" CreationDate="2020-05-20T14:16:37.330" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can think of another important one. One that has been lying dormant for a while. Unfortunately, it does need attention from SE and isn't something we can just do off our own backs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12110/58193&quot;&gt;A re-improved site theme&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2020-05-20T14:16:37.330" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13005" CreationDate="2020-05-30T01:11:21.217" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;What’s that ‘one thing’ you wish the site had, handled, or did differently?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, that's easy: stop closing &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; as duplicates because of similar &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;. Either the questions are asking the same thing, or they're not. If you can't tell until you look at the answers, please consider whether you truly have enough domain knowledge to make a decision. (Not saying there can't be exceptions - for example, English is not everyone's native language, in which case an answer, especially an accepted one, can be a pointer towards the correct interpretation of the question - but that's hardly a majority of cases.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're determined to consider answers as a factor in figuring out whether questions are duplicates, then keep in mind that question A and question B can only be the same if &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; of the good answers to A will also answer B, and vice-versa. If a single good answer to A also mentions something that's an answer to B, but this is not vital to the answer - as demonstrated by the existence of other good answers to A that do not mention anything about B - then question A and question B &lt;em&gt;are not duplicates&lt;/em&gt;. Similarly, if there exist (or there can exist) good answers to B which do not answer A, then question A and question B &lt;em&gt;are not duplicates&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Above all, if you find yourself wishing that your duplicate link could point to a specific answer instead of just the question, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;you're probably doing it wrong&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="348" LastActivityDate="2020-05-30T01:11:21.217" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13022" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13023" CreationDate="2020-05-30T22:30:07.963" Score="1" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is writing a review on SFF:SE? I'm not sure why, but there's a new icon in the top , along with the inbox, reputation, help, and &quot;other sites&quot; icon. It has &quot;queues&quot; for reviews and other things. What are these reviews for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127968" LastActivityDate="2020-06-03T16:52:22.613" Title="What is a review in Science Fiction and Fantasy?" Tags="|support|review-queue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13022" CreationDate="2020-05-30T23:20:45.157" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/161390/278659&quot;&gt;What are the review queues, and how do they work?&lt;/a&gt; on Main Meta (the Stack Exchange network-wide meta site). The review queues work pretty much the same on Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy as on any other site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;With at least &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/access-review-queues&quot;&gt;500 rep&lt;/a&gt;, you can &lt;strong&gt;review new users' posts&lt;/strong&gt; to see if any action is required on them (voting, flagging, editing, commenting, etc.) See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10604/31394&quot;&gt;As a user who is new to the review process, is there a best-practice guide for reviewing first-posts/late-answers?&lt;/a&gt; for advice on reviewing in these queues.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;With at least &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;2000 rep&lt;/a&gt;, you can &lt;strong&gt;review suggested edits from low-rep users&lt;/strong&gt; and also &lt;strong&gt;review flagged low-quality posts for potential deletion&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;With at least &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/close-questions&quot;&gt;3000 rep&lt;/a&gt;, you can take part in &lt;strong&gt;closing inappropriate or off-topic questions&lt;/strong&gt; and also &lt;strong&gt;reopening closed questions&lt;/strong&gt; that were closed wrongly or have been edited and improved.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that you're not &lt;em&gt;obligated&lt;/em&gt; to take part in any of these activities: they are privileges, not responsibilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2020-05-30T23:20:45.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13024" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-06-05T15:58:15.233" Score="14" ViewCount="478" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Update&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2020/07/highlights-from-2020-1st-2nd-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Post is published.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Original&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently I forgot to do the first quarter favorites, I don't know if it was the pandemic or the earthquake, but something threw me off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from January 1st 2020 through June 30th 2020.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2020/01/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2020/01/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2020/01/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I will also be linking all blog posts that happened within this half year. Also the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/550327/most-controversial-posts-on-the-site-by-start-date&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;most controversial question&lt;/a&gt; of the quarter. Also a sum of all the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/618952/past-bounties-by-bounty-date&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;bounties&lt;/a&gt; that were awarded.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also if there was a meta post you feel should be spotlighted those are also acceptable. Also! I really like the word also.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a previous &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2019/12/star-wars-episode-i-the-phantom-menace-1999-re-watch/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For my re-watch, I found Jar Jar to be significantly less annoying than I originally did&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2021-01-01T13:56:03.840" LastActivityDate="2021-01-01T13:56:03.840" Title="Favorite Questions and answers from first and second quarter of 2020" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13024" CreationDate="2020-06-05T16:57:16.330" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Breakout Questions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/1247694/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2013%2F01%2F01&amp;amp;MinimumRep=500&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions by particularly new/low rep users, with good answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/225925/why-did-lando-give-up-his-role-as-administrator-of-cloud-city-just-to-side-with&quot;&gt;Why did Lando give up his role as Administrator of Cloud City just to side with Leia, Chewie and the Rebellion?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/227403/can-harry-potter-swim&quot;&gt;Can Harry Potter swim?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/225993/in-star-trek-are-food-replicators-also-used-by-everyday-people-as-a-household-i&quot;&gt;In Star Trek, are food replicators also used by everyday people as a household item?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/edit/1247697&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions that standout on their own, by new/low rep askers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/226222/short-story-about-distant-future-researchers-who-rediscover-the-forgotten-earth&quot;&gt;Short story about distant-future researchers who rediscover the forgotten Earth shortly before it falls into the sun&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/229003/sci-fi-short-story-about-extra-sense-that-can-be-experienced-by-humans-only-once&quot;&gt;Sci-fi short story about extra sense that can be experienced by humans only once (probably from 1960&amp;#39;s or 70&amp;#39;s)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/228356/short-story-scientists-find-mysterious-alien-man-who-refuses-to-talk-to-them&quot;&gt;Short story; scientists find mysterious alien man who refuses to talk to them&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/227163/why-didnt-the-federation-try-to-replicate-the-experiment-that-sent-them-to-anot&quot;&gt;Why didn&amp;#39;t the Federation try to replicate the experiment that sent them to another galaxy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:30:13.513" LastActivityDate="2020-06-05T17:06:23.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13005" CreationDate="2020-06-08T10:34:17.630" Score="2" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Onboarding of new users&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a complicated problem and as the top reviewer in the First Posts queue one I have quite a bit of experience dealing with. Onboarding new users to learn about the site and for them to want to continue participating is a hard thing to do and I'm sure we could do more. A discussion into what we could do seems like a good idea: after all the more users, the more content (generally).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know we get drive by users and there's not much we can do to stop those but there are those that want to continue participating but might not for whatever reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things to think about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How easy is it to know our rules?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What makes people stay?&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Content&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Interaction i.e. not just canned comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Easy to find guides?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why did &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; stay/join? What made you? What might have made it better initially? Etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2020-06-08T10:34:17.630" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13027" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2020-06-11T21:08:11.990" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7431/what-is-a-movie-night-really&quot;&gt;What is a Movie Night, really?&lt;/a&gt; for details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user89356" LastEditorDisplayName="user89356" LastEditDate="2020-06-12T17:40:49.877" LastActivityDate="2020-06-12T17:40:49.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13028" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2020-06-11T21:08:11.990" Score="0" Body="Questions about a type of community event during which participants agree to watch the same movie." OwnerDisplayName="user89356" LastEditorDisplayName="user89356" LastEditDate="2020-06-12T17:40:44.553" LastActivityDate="2020-06-12T17:40:44.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13029" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-06-13T10:08:12.523" Score="20" ViewCount="249" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_O%27Neil&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dennis O'Neil&lt;/a&gt;, an American comic book writer and editor, principally for Marvel Comics and DC Comics from the 1960s through the 1990s, and Group Editor for the Batman family of titles until his retirement, passed away on Tursday. Time to reread &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_(comics)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LcRiB.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LcRiB.png&quot; alt=&quot;Tweet by DC Comics&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3253" LastActivityDate="2020-06-13T10:08:12.523" Title="RIP Dennis “Denny” O’Neil" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|comics|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13030" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-06-13T23:57:39.727" Score="-6" ViewCount="373" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the context of the recent protests over racial disparities in policing and societal racism, in the US and throughout the world, which have led to consideration and action by many companies, including Stack Exchange, I have been thinking again about our site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that the site has the opportunity to draw attention to more works by or about black people, and people of color more generally. Right now, there are many good works that fall into these categories that could use more exposure. For instance, there are only two questions about the works of Nnedi Okorafor, who is possibly one of the most famous modern black writers of SF. There are only three questions about the works of N.K. Jemisin (all about&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/broken-earth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;broken-earth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;broken-earth&lt;/a&gt;), who is one of the major secondary-work fantasy writers. Kai Ashante Wilson (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kai-ashante-wilson&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kai-ashante-wilson&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kai-ashante-wilson&lt;/a&gt;) is pretty well-known in &quot;literary&quot; fantasy circles, but we have only one question about his work, which is not even one of his better-known ones. And I think Octavia Butler is one of the first black SF authors, or first SF authors of color, &lt;em&gt;period&lt;/em&gt; that many people would name, yet we have about five questions about her work (basically the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/liliths-brood&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;liliths-brood&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;liliths-brood&lt;/a&gt;). Not much compared to Le Guin, to say nothing of Asimov or Heinlein. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By contrast, we have, what, approximately 6000 questions about Harry Potter? There is a lot more to the world than Harry Potter. And I would hazard a guess that if we tallied all the questions about works by black authors or about black characters, it would still fall significantly short of &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; Harry Potter. If we looked at other examples, we might find a similar pattern. &lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of this post is start a meta discussion that will hopefully bring more awareness to the opportunities that we have to bring attention to works that could use more recognition, and to encourage users to ask and answer more questions about works by black authors, works featuring black characters, and works by and about non-white people in general, as well as to encourage community input about potential strategies for making both the site's content and its community more diverse. Please feel free to share ideas, experiences, or disagreements as answers or comments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One initial suggestion would be holding an event (or events) to promote more questions about black characters and authors. I do not know whether it will work or not, but I think it could be effective. We have had events to ask certain types of questions before, such as the ill-fated Futurama extravaganza. In fact, we used to have a Topic of the Week contest. Clearly, I am not advocating for a return to prizes or Futurama chaos, but it illustrates the feasibility of the concept of a Meta post that promotes asking questions themed around a particular topic. It also illustrates that such an event can certainly produce more posts around a given topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1: Clearly, this depends on how loose one's definition is. If one counts the companions and not the Doctor as a principle protagonist, for instance, then some of the companions have been people of color. With &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; there are certainly a handful of rather obscure books or cartoon series, especially in Legends, that would qualify, but given their much lower prominence compared to the movies, I did not include them.&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt; 2: Another possible illustration is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/black-lightning-2018&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;black-lightning-2018&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;black-lightning-2018&lt;/a&gt; versus &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/supergirl-2015&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;supergirl-2015&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;supergirl-2015&lt;/a&gt;, both &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arrowverse&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;arrowverse&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;arrowverse&lt;/a&gt; CW shows. The latter has only 11 questions, whereas the other has around 45, despite having only two more seasons. Both &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jessica-jones-2015&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;jessica-jones-2015&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jessica-jones-2015&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/daredevil-2015&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;daredevil-2015&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;daredevil-2015&lt;/a&gt; have more than 30 questions, compared to only 9 for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/luke-cage-2016&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;luke-cage-2016&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;luke-cage-2016&lt;/a&gt;, even though Luke Cage is arguably more super than both. Even &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/iron-fist-2017&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;iron-fist-2017&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;iron-fist-2017&lt;/a&gt; has more, despite being much less acclaimed (although, his glowing fist &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; pretty cool). &lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&#xA;Although the picture for people of color in general is less clear, I expect the trend is similar. Aside from the perennial favorite &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; and media and subject tags, of our top franchises, only the comics franchises and &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; have had a work with a primary protagonist who was not white.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; I had to go all the way down to either &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cosmere&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cosmere&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cosmere&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avatar-the-last-airbender&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avatar-the-last-airbender&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avatar-the-last-airbender&lt;/a&gt; to find another example. Of (at the very least) the top 10 tags for works by &lt;em&gt;individuals&lt;/em&gt;, I believe all of them are by white creators. &lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2020-06-14T21:15:50.447" LastActivityDate="2020-06-20T00:59:15.390" Title="Increasing representation of black SF characters and authors: Ideas and discussion" Tags="|discussion|community|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12800" CreationDate="2020-06-14T12:34:05.913" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems to have been already settled, but I think that adding specific tags for the original comic book, for the movie and for the new series would help to better categorize the questions, in addition to a broader umbrella tag like the existent generic &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/watchmen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;watchmen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;watchmen&lt;/a&gt;; I would also add something like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/watchmen-comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;watchmen-comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;watchmen-comics&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/watchmen-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;watchmen-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;watchmen-movie&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/watchmen-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;watchmen-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;watchmen-series&lt;/a&gt;; or maybe just &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/watchmen-2019&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;watchmen-2019&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;watchmen-2019&lt;/a&gt; to be consistent with the already present &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/watchmen-2009&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;watchmen-2009&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;watchmen-2009&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to me the same situation as in example &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt;, where one can chose to ask a question that refer to the whole franchise or to limit its scope to, i.e. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tos&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-tng&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tng&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tng&lt;/a&gt;, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new Watchmen series could be a direct continuation of the comic books, adding to its canon and being considered a single narrative universe, but the same thing is also true for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; in example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83101" LastActivityDate="2020-06-14T12:34:05.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13030" CreationDate="2020-06-14T17:39:04.750" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;of our top franchises, only the comics franchises and Star Trek have had a work with a primary protagonist who was not white&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32209/did-heinlein-intentionally-hide-ricos-ethnicity-until-the-very-end-why&quot;&gt;Heinlein&lt;/a&gt; had &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/191879/why-do-readers-of-starship-troopers-think-juan-johnny-is-filipino/191882&quot;&gt;a primary protagonist who was not white&lt;/a&gt; before it was cool with the &quot;I need to feel socially useful&quot; white progressives who now want to seem all cool. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, there are definitely top franchises/authors on our site with primary protagonist who is not white, they just don't tick off some people's preferred ideological boxes in just the right way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Returning back to the originally quoted statement, here's the part you're missing when positing that SFF site has a problem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;of the generally top popular franchieses&lt;/strong&gt;, only the comics franchises and Star Trek have had a work with a primary protagonist who was not white. Or rather, &quot;not very many&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most people in the world like Harry Potter and Star Wars. It's not necessarily a good thing, but it is the way humans are (of any race). If you want people to be into things that aren't &quot;it&quot;, &quot;popular&quot;, etc..., by an overwhelming clustering; good luck changing the &quot;Kardashian&quot; human culture from the way it has been ever since writing was first invented - and probably even pre-witing orals stage, except without as much statistical difference. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, &lt;strong&gt;the popularity of works on the site is broadly in line with popularity of the works in actual real world&lt;/strong&gt;. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the works you mentioned are statistically over-represented on the site when normalizing by popularity - pretty sure Harry Potter is more than 6000 times more popular than any of the works/authors you mention (if for no other reason, because the site simply is too small for decent statistical analysis of the sort). Again, whethere that's a good or desirable thing, is wholly irrelevant, it's simply &lt;strong&gt;true&lt;/strong&gt; in the world. &lt;strong&gt;Most people like what everyone else likes, and very few people like less popular stuff&lt;/strong&gt;. It's a problem faced by most areas in human life that are based on personal taste; entertainment being one of the clearest. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somewhat tangentially but related, your post is influenced by a user self-selection problem: you mentioned an author who is 'pretty well-known in &quot;literary&quot; fantasy circles'. What are the chances that someone from those circles would be interested in participating in &quot;here's 6000 Harry Potter questions&quot; site in the first place? (this problem has nothing to do with race; snobism against SFF works among &quot;real literature&quot; public and &quot;intellectuals&quot; has been prevalent for decades, especially in Western societies). Most of the site users are &lt;em&gt;likely&lt;/em&gt; to be geeks and nerds, or just average pop SFF culture consumers - not literature professors. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More importantly, you - yes you personally - all the people who think like OP does - are the problem&lt;/strong&gt;. You collectively posted hundreds of questions each and close to a thousand answers. Did each of you personally post 100s - or, at least, dozens - of questions that deal with non-white creators or characters? Did each of you post in-depth answers around those questions? Oh, right, it's always about how &lt;strong&gt;other people&lt;/strong&gt; are at fault for not doing enough of what you think should be done, not about what you have/haven't done. Have you invited any of your non-white SFF expert friends to post here? Unless you did both the above, please stop throwing shade on the site and claiming there are some &quot;structural&quot; problems, where there are none; and do what you should have been doing for years, and what this site is uniquely tailored to: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;post Qs and As.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site isn't that big, no matter how important we all think it is. &quot;Harry Potter&quot; tag may have 6000 posts on the site, but &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;MOST&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; works have under 30-50 posts. The fact is, 4-5 of concerned users can &lt;em&gt;easily&lt;/em&gt; take the two authors the post mentioned, and via a bit of personal effort, bring them up to at least the representation levels of any other less popular work, and higher than most less popular works; by posting 30 questions about them. While at it, &lt;strong&gt;it would have a chance to popularize the author/work to a far larger audience&lt;/strong&gt; than whining on Meta or organizing some discussion, since far more people read main site Q&amp;amp;As and nothing else. In other words, (leaving aside the validity of the problem posited in the question); &lt;strong&gt;if the posited problem is as important as you claim it to be, that should be reflected in the actual, demonstrable efforts by the people positing that the problem exists and is worth fixing&lt;/strong&gt;, not by raising complaints on Meta first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lastly, in theory, your idea of meta events/contests could help&lt;/strong&gt;, it tends to work at least a little bit from my experiences in SFF and Lit sites. The problem is, form my experience, it would only help A LITTLE (see my comments under the question for details). And, if it doesn't help &lt;em&gt;enough&lt;/em&gt; to your liking, is your conclusion going to be &quot;See this site is a bunch of racists because we 'encouraged' them but they didn't get encouraged enough&quot; or &quot;OK, let's put in more work/thought/effort since it's a valuable goal to work towards&quot;? Based on this meta question, the suspiction is it will be the former.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="976" LastEditDate="2020-06-15T13:26:31.973" LastActivityDate="2020-06-15T13:26:31.973" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13033" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-06-15T16:12:59.207" Score="12" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/348746/345161&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange is migrating to CommonMark&lt;/a&gt; and moving away from Markdown. Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy has been scheduled for migration tomorrow, 2020-06-16. This is mainly an announcement of this change as there will be several things to look out for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;CommonMark is slightly different to Markdown&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some subtle differences between the two, for example, most things now need a space after them i.e. quotes &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and headers &lt;code&gt;#&lt;/code&gt;. I encourage you to read the full post as it mentions a lot of these changes even if most (code) don't really apply here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Not everything is being migrated&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently only the posts that will look exactly the same upon changing to CommonMark will be migrated. This means some posts will be left in a limbo state of being rendered with Markdown but upon an edit will then be rendered with CommonMark (per my understanding). Please take extra care when editing old posts because of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;There's a small chance for things to go wrong&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far 31 sites have been migrated and many problems fixed. However, there is still a small chance things could go wrong in the migration. If you spot any problems please report them on the main meta post linked above. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to check for problems yourself, though there isn't much need, you can check your own posts that have been edited with the URL: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/current?tab=responses&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/current?tab=responses&lt;/a&gt; Here's a screenshot of what it looks like for me on Movies &amp;amp; TV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jS6aK.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jS6aKm.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of the Profile responses, revisions tab on my M&amp;amp;TV page showing the Community edits marked as Commonmark migration&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also check &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; the migrations by looking at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community?tab=activity&amp;amp;sort=revisions&quot;&gt;Community user's All actions, revisions page&lt;/a&gt; where they are marked as the same above: Commonmark migration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/znXoA.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/znXoAm.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of the Community user&amp;#39;s All actions, revisions page showing the automatic Commonmark migration&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that in case of things going drastically wrong there is a built in rollback so everything will go back to how it was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T09:42:15.670" LastActivityDate="2020-06-16T09:42:15.670" Title="Science Fiction &amp; Fantasy is now using CommonMark" Tags="|discussion|markdown|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13030" CreationDate="2020-06-15T19:04:51.897" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We do have an issue with some over-popular works being, well, over-popular, but I don't see any need to explicitly bring race into it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's definitely true that a few mega popular franchises like &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; largely dominate the bulk of questions on the site. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10218/31394&quot;&gt;Back in 2016&lt;/a&gt;, I was actively working to promote some less popular and more obscure (at least in terms of SFF.SE question count, if not real-life sales) tags and works. Although I admit to having slacked off on that &amp;quot;pledge&amp;quot; in the years since then, promoting underappreciated stuff is still a goal I'm ready to get behind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may have seen the recent meta &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13005/31394&quot;&gt;Ways to improve and promote Science Fiction and Fantasy&lt;/a&gt; in which the highest-voted suggestion was for starting &lt;strong&gt;regular Topic Challenges&lt;/strong&gt;, the suggestion being that this could help to promote some low-traffic tags on the site. Maybe soon we can open a call for suggestions to be voted on, at which point of course you'll be able to propose Jemisin, Okorafor, or any of the other authors you mention here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Explicitly making this about race issues, though, seems (IMHO) like a recipe for disaster. Historically, politicising discussion hasn't tended to go over well on this site. I'd vote for topic challenge suggestions on the basis of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;whether or not they're good SF/F stories;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;how likely they'd be to give rise to interesting questions and supported answers;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;how underrepresented (or unrepresented) those stories or authors are on our site;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;maybe how underrepresented the general &lt;em&gt;cultures&lt;/em&gt; of origin are on our site (e.g. if we don't have many questions about Indian comics, or Latin American fantasy, or whatever);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But certainly not on the skin colour of the authors or characters, which I barely notice or care about when reading fiction (and I'm naturally more of a reader than a watcher). That's my personal voting rationale, but I suspect others will feel similarly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your motivation for proposing a topic challenge is to get particular ethnic groups more represented on the site, all well and good. Perhaps by &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; meta post you'll also encourage others to that cause. But - as you've already seen here in this meta - a lot of people won't be particularly inspired by the suggestion of reading something &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; the characters or authors are black, rather than because it's a good story and the characters or authors happen to be black.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again I agree that stuff like &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; is massively overrepresented here, in terms of quality of the stories compared to others. But that's a consequence of the &lt;strong&gt;general culture&lt;/strong&gt; more than this site. In fact, as others have pointed out, authors like Okorafor and Jemisin are probably overrepresented on this site compared with the general culture. (I'd wager I don't know anyone IRL who's even heard of Okorafor or Jemisin, despite a very diverse set of friends, but I know some big HP fans and almost everyone I know has at least heard of Rowling.) I'd vaguely heard of Okorafor and Jemisin, only through SE, but I had no idea that they're black. &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;, on the other hand, are part of well-known popular knowledge in places like the US and UK. That's why they're so big here, because stuff that everyone's familiar with is more likely to get people (a) asking about it and (b) clicking on questions about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR: yes, having an event to promote underappreciated tags/authors is a good idea, indeed one already on the cards, but let's not make it about race.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="51379" LastEditDate="2020-06-20T00:59:15.390" LastActivityDate="2020-06-20T00:59:15.390" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13036" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13037" CreationDate="2020-06-17T21:37:33.937" Score="4" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to post a question asking about apparent discrepancies in a series of fantasy novels (the &lt;em&gt;Deryni&lt;/em&gt; series by Katherine Kurtz, to be specific).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can not find an appropriate tag, and am not permitted to post the question without a tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would I tag such a question?  Is there a way to post without a matching tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or... is such a question off-topic, and, if so, why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59154" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2020-06-21T08:57:00.197" LastActivityDate="2020-06-23T21:20:18.920" Title="How to post a question if I can't find a matching tag?" Tags="|support|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13036" CreationDate="2020-06-17T22:56:13.027" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have over 300 reputation, so you should be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/create-tags&quot;&gt;able to add new tags&lt;/a&gt;.  Just try typing the text of the tag (I'm guessing &amp;quot;deryni-series&amp;quot;) into the tag area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're getting an error, you might want to ask about that.  Sometimes a tag already exists, but is not spelled or punctuated the way you expect, and the system won't let you create a new tag that's too close to an existing one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that if you're on the mobile site you won't be able to add tags.  (This is a frequent source of frustration for me.)  You can navigate to the regular site using the &amp;quot;full site&amp;quot; link at the right side of the footer, and you'll be able to add a new tag there.  (Thanks to Spencer for reminding me about this.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastEditorUserId="101407" LastEditDate="2020-06-23T21:20:18.920" LastActivityDate="2020-06-23T21:20:18.920" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13039" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-06-19T13:25:36.933" Score="43" ViewCount="373" Body="&lt;p&gt;A legend of an actor has &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jun/19/ian-holm-dies-alien-chariots-of-fire-bilbo-baggins&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;passed on this morning&lt;/a&gt;. Most known in the SFF community as Ash in &lt;em&gt;Alien&lt;/em&gt; and Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; Trilogy but his work spanned decades and genres.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“It is with great sadness that the actor Sir Ian Holm CBE passed away this morning at the age of 88,” they said. “He died peacefully in hospital, with his family and carer,” adding that his illness was Parkinson’s related. “Charming, kind and ferociously talented, we will miss him hugely.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Truly he went there and back again, and will be missed dearly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2020-06-26T06:48:38.123" Title="RIP, Sir Ian Holm" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13039" CreationDate="2020-06-19T16:15:20.237" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just discussing Holm with my kids a couple days ago.  His other fantasy and science fiction roles included Father Vito Cornelius in &lt;em&gt;The Fifth Element&lt;/em&gt; and the voice of Chef Skinner in &lt;em&gt;Ratatouille&lt;/em&gt;.  In other genres, I remember him particularly for his small role in Branagh's &lt;em&gt;Henry V&lt;/em&gt; (where he turned a rather comic role from Shakespeare's script into a round character) and as the protagonish of the British-German spy miniseries &lt;em&gt;Game, Set, and Match&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2020-06-19T16:15:20.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13039" CreationDate="2020-06-19T21:03:33.530" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ian Holm played Frodo in the BBC radio adaptation of the Lord of the Rings, possibly the only link between this and the Peter Jackson adaptation. He also played Napoleon in Time Bandits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3qSNU.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3qSNU.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4935" LastActivityDate="2020-06-19T21:03:33.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13039" CreationDate="2020-06-20T09:01:40.757" Score="22" Body="&lt;h2&gt;He has sailed into the Undying Lands&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EU0vn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastActivityDate="2020-06-20T09:01:40.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13039" CreationDate="2020-06-21T21:48:30.383" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's not forget the creepy homicidal android &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_(Alien)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ash&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;em&gt;Alien&lt;/em&gt;. Truly a multi-talented actor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastActivityDate="2020-06-21T21:48:30.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13039" CreationDate="2020-06-23T15:32:22.267" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;He also played a wonderful role in Terry Gilliam's &amp;quot;Brazil&amp;quot;, in which he plays Mister Kurtzmann, the main character's first boss (and arguably, the origin of all the main character's troubles, when he &amp;quot;subtly&amp;quot; forced him to correct the Buttle/Tuttle thing himself and had him sign the paperwork).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11890" LastEditorUserId="11890" LastEditDate="2020-06-26T06:48:38.123" LastActivityDate="2020-06-26T06:48:38.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13046" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13047" CreationDate="2020-06-27T12:47:18.070" Score="6" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/233530/manga-where-a-guy-drops-his-phone-in-water-after-fixing-it-he-can-buy-items-fr/233532#233532&quot;&gt;Manga where a guy drops his phone in water. After fixing it, he can buy items from another world&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get removing my initial link to the copyright-infringing site, but I genuinely only found the title via a search including &lt;code&gt;site:mangakakalot.com&lt;/code&gt;. Is it best to not even mention such sites by name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2020-06-27T13:43:44.397" LastActivityDate="2020-06-28T13:10:51.507" Title="OK to include a dodgy site in a mention of search results?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13046" CreationDate="2020-06-27T13:43:49.530" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO, as long as you don't actually link to it, it's acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing is that you're describing how you found something. You're not praising it, you're not directly leading traffic to it, you're stating a fact: you found an answer by searching those terms. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12241/98028&quot;&gt;From a story-ID searching point of view, I think this is great!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; After that, it will be up to the querent and future readers to decide whether they want to read it online, buy it, borrow it from the library, etc. This is not the site's responsibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, some users seem to think it is the site's responsibility to not even &lt;em&gt;mention&lt;/em&gt; such copyright-infringing sites. At the same time, Stack Exchange sites are not only about getting your questions answered, they're also about learning how to get better at researching and answering your own questions. Part of the site's responsibility is also to provide you with guidance, the thought process to adopt, and including search results does that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dilemma would be that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you taught somebody how to search&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;but you admitted that the way you did it infringed on some laws.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Personally, I think the benefits of teaching a man to fish outweigh the cons of having to break a public tree's branch to get the fishing stick.&lt;/strong&gt; It's not overly unreasonable to tell someone you used what is, in story-ID searching, a pretty well-documented database. Mentioning the practice isn't praising it, and I'm of the opinion that we should assume people aren't stupid enough to think it's the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; way. Folks (be it querents or other people trying to Google story-ID answers) can think for themselves and adapt their ways of searching to legal-friendly stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to downplay copyright infringement matters, I know it cuts off authors and publishers from loads of money, but &lt;strong&gt;fig-leafing their existence to the detriment of useful information is, IMO, contrary to the mission of Stack Exchange sites.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This edit in particular is, quite frankly, destructive. At the very least, the keywords bit of your search query are info to be kept in the answer, and had I seen this in the Suggested Edits queue, I'd have rejected it, with a custom reason along the lines of my explanation above. I may have rejected and edited it into something along the lines of:&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Found with a search for &lt;s&gt;&lt;code&gt;site:mangakakalot.com magic phone app&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Found with a search for &lt;code&gt;magic phone app&lt;/code&gt;, and filtering results by a particular manga-reading site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;sub&gt;I've told you this already, and will continue to do so: you including your successful queries greatly helped me improve my Google-fu skills, and I'm really grateful for it.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;sub&gt;I won't do it straight away, as we're currently discussing this answer on Meta, but the rollback/edit button is itching me.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA; &#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastEditorUserId="39144" LastEditDate="2020-06-28T13:10:51.507" LastActivityDate="2020-06-28T13:10:51.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13048" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-06-29T13:39:34.600" Score="-9" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/133566/who-sent-ser-barristan-the-pardon-for-jorah-mormont&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; edited after nearly 4 years?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the purpose?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does not seem to serve any purpose what so ever?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastActivityDate="2020-06-29T13:56:22.677" Title="Why was this question edited after 4 years?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13048" CreationDate="2020-06-29T13:56:22.677" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The post was edited to remove noise, such as the &amp;quot;edit&amp;quot; markers, as well as to add alt text for the images contained in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Including &amp;quot;edit:&amp;quot; in posts on Stack Exchange is generally highly discouraged; as posts are supposed to be a repository of information - akin to Wikipedia - including noise like &amp;quot;Edit:&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Thanks!&amp;quot; is discouraged and people are encouraged to edit it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding image descriptions and alt text to images helps make that post accessible to people who either can't see images or are using a screen reader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please don't roll back useful edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2020-06-29T13:56:22.677" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13024" CreationDate="2020-06-30T23:42:42.843" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to spotlight @Slytherincess' meta post; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12992/inactive-moderators-again&quot;&gt;Inactive Moderators (Again)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's fair to say that when someone as as widely respected as her raises this sort of concern, that it's something that many users are expressing in private.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2020-06-30T23:42:42.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13052" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-07-06T20:07:39.083" Score="24" ViewCount="381" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ennio-morricone-dead-prolific-italian-composer-was-91-858358&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Italian composer Ennio Morricone, one of the most prolific writers of motion picture scores, has died at age 91.&lt;/a&gt;  He was perhaps best know for his work on Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns, but he wrote a huge number of film scores, in virtually all genres, including science fiction and fantasy.  His work included music for &lt;em&gt;Nightmare Castle&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Red Sonja&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Exorcist II&lt;/em&gt;, and, of course, &lt;em&gt;The Thing&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/meU2gAU7Xss?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/kccafOf4O6Q?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2020-07-07T01:49:49.373" Title="RIP, Ennio Morricone" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13052" CreationDate="2020-07-06T22:50:44.247" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess the most humans can hope for is people will see our work in centuries to come -- not one in a million people will be remembered 200 years after their deaths but maybe people will still watch (and listen to) The GB&amp;amp;U.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105042" LastEditorUserId="105042" LastEditDate="2020-07-07T01:49:49.373" LastActivityDate="2020-07-07T01:49:49.373" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9972" CreationDate="2020-07-07T11:23:04.360" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think using a standard format for answers to this type of questions would be a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose using&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Year: &lt;em&gt;Title&lt;/em&gt; by A. Author / by D. Director / featuring A. Actor&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Explanation what it is and why it fits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think a leader board is a good idea, though, since it's not a competition. It's up to the querant to decide what the best answer is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2020-07-07T12:30:01.483" LastActivityDate="2020-07-07T12:30:01.483" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13055" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-07-07T21:10:24.300" Score="2" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it ok to ask a 'plot element' question? Something such as, &amp;quot;Are there any sci-fi books where a future Earth uses the gold standard'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130546" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2020-07-08T12:54:34.607" LastActivityDate="2020-07-09T07:51:19.717" Title="Is it OK to ask a question in the form &quot;Are there any sci-fi books featuring this plot element&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13056" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-07-08T14:57:18.940" Score="2" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is the substance of my proposed question (maybe I can ask it in Meta?):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;WARNING - This contains spoilers for the Wheel of Time series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, there are constant references to to the ethnic diversity of his world. Sometimes these are material to the plot. For example Rand Al'Thor himself (perhaps &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; main protagonist) is often mistaken for an Aielman. This is because of his height, the colour of his hair and of his eyes (and, we later discover, his heritage). In his own village he was unique in these respects where the rest of the village had in common the old blood of Manetheren. When he came to fulfil his destiny with his 'people', his racial similarity and heritage were important factors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of other examples, for instance the Sea Folk all have dark complexions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Review question&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The casting of the forthcoming Wheel of Time series ignores this fictional diversity in favour of diversity of real life &lt;em&gt;actors&lt;/em&gt;.  Is this a contradiction of Jordan's descriptions(*) or simply a fact of modern life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this question belong anywhere in this SE (or anywhere at all)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(*) Edited to substitute &amp;quot;descriptions&amp;quot; for &amp;quot;intentions&amp;quot;&#xA;Also edited to add &amp;quot;contradiction&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47764" LastEditorUserId="47764" LastEditDate="2020-07-08T20:34:18.547" LastActivityDate="2020-07-08T20:34:18.547" Title="Request for sandbox-review of possibly controversial question. WoT" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13056" CreationDate="2020-07-08T20:01:43.250" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Elements of this question are definitely answerable but you need to be really careful when throwing around emotive words like &amp;quot;betrayal&amp;quot;, especially in relation to hot-button topics like race and diversity. You'll see your question rapidly downvoted as well as engendering endless comments from users who want to lecture you on the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're interested in what Jordan's views were, you might start out with something like;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;Did Robert Jordan ever express any views about diverse casting?&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're more interested in why &lt;em&gt;the makers of the show&lt;/em&gt; chose a more diverse cast than the books would suggest, you might ask something like;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;Have the makers of Wheel of Time spoken about why they chose a more diverse cast than the books would suggest?&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both of these are directly answerable and less likely to cause controversy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2020-07-08T20:01:43.250" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13055" CreationDate="2020-07-09T07:51:19.717" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, this is still a variant on the '&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2638/are-all-list-questions-off-topic&quot;&gt;open-ended list question&lt;/a&gt;' that the site frowns upon. You're basically inviting people to post examples of a trope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not all questions have a home on Stack Exchange. Please note the following types of questions are off-topic here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions calling for a list of works&lt;/strong&gt;, authors, …: &lt;strong&gt;What are all the books that have X?&lt;/strong&gt; Who wrote about topic Y?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trying to turn it into a mock yes/no question by replacing &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;What are all the&lt;/strong&gt; books that have X?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; with &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;Are there any&lt;/strong&gt; books that have X?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; doesn't stop it being a list question, it just means that you're sneaky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2020-07-09T07:51:19.717" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13060" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13061" CreationDate="2020-07-11T13:51:20.283" Score="11" ViewCount="351" Body="&lt;p&gt;The British comedy writer P. G. Wodehouse wrote a book entitled 'Laughing Gas', in which a upper class British gentleman, and a boy both go into the dentist at the same time and both are given laughing gas. When they both awake they discover that they have switched bodies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Outside of the 'switched bodies' motif, it is a fairly standard British comedy book by this most famous of British comedy writers. My question is, is it sci-fi?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130546" OwnerDisplayName="Vaughn Ohlman" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2020-07-11T22:00:09.933" LastActivityDate="2020-09-10T20:02:23.387" Title="Is Laughing Gas by P.G. Wodehouse science fiction?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13060" CreationDate="2020-07-11T14:08:40.230" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;From your description, it has elements of &amp;quot;sci-fi&amp;quot; but they don't sound like those elements don’t really drive the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good definition of SF is that something is SF to the extent that the story is driven by fictionalized science (in the broadest sense of any rational, objective, experimental or observational body of knowledge) or technology.  Thus a story isn't necessarily &amp;quot;SF&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Not SF&amp;quot;, but to some degree SF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From your description there is an SF element, but it does no more than set up a situation which plays out according to the rules of a mundane 30's British comedy.  So while it would seem to have a touch of SF about it, it's not very stfnal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Obviously if someone who has read the book has details that change my impression from the OP's description, my conclusions might well change.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Added: I'm going to (considerably) expand my previous answer in response to comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking if a story either &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;is not&lt;/em&gt; SF is not very helpful. Some stories not only have stfnl elements, but literally couldn’t be told without them. Others have some stfnl elements, but those elements are more part of the scenery than essential to the story. Another story might be a mainstream novel that happens to have, say, an impossible invention or mentions in passing that there is a moon base. (If any anachronism makes a story SF, the SF canon is a lot bigger than most people think! Shakespeare has clocks in &lt;em&gt;Julius Caesar&lt;/em&gt; and billiards in &lt;em&gt;Antony and Cleopatra&lt;/em&gt;!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the definition of being SF is a story having &lt;em&gt;any SF elements at all&lt;/em&gt;, then there’s a lot that is SF, but I don’t think that definition is particularly helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even less helpful is an attempt to divide the world of the fantastic into two disjoint categories “SF” and “Fantasy”! Never mind that for the first fifty years of SF it was considered to be a subset of fantasy frequently called “science fantasy.” Even today when the definition of fantasy has evolved there are plenty of stories which are ambiguous. (For an old example, consider de Camp and Pratt’s “The Mathematics of Magic.” Is it SF? Is it fantasy? Both answers are clearly “yes”, but this is only possible if they are not disjoint sets.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s easy to come up with any number of similar cases which further shred the idea that there are two categoris, one called “SF’ and one called “Fantasy”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of these problem cases go away if instead of asking if a story is SF, asking &lt;em&gt;to what degree&lt;/em&gt; it is SF and &lt;em&gt;to what degree&lt;/em&gt; is it fantasy. Some stories are very stfnal, some are just a little bit, some are nearly pure fantasies, while others – sometimes claimed for the mainstream as “Magic Realism” – spice up a basically mundane story with some fantastic elements. Some are basically mysteries which are also slightly stfnal. (Look at J. D. Robb’s very successful Mystery/Romance/SF &lt;em&gt;In Death&lt;/em&gt; series!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I suggest that a story is SF &lt;em&gt;to the extent that it depends on fictionalized science or engineering&lt;/em&gt; with both terms extended to include any rational, objective, experimental or observational body of knowledge. A story is fantasy &lt;em&gt;to the extent that it depends on fictionalized magic or the supernatural&lt;/em&gt; with the terms again being inclusive.  Something can be either, neither or both and can be just a bit fantastic or a whole lot fantastic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A story like Hal Clement’s “Uncommon Sense” has science so deeply built into it that it is SF to a very high degree. But something that’s basically a Cowboys and Indians story where they ride hroten, and shoot blasters and are menaced by the Greenies, is hardly SF at all (&lt;em&gt;Planet Stories&lt;/em&gt; was full of this sort of thing!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to properly answer the question, I think you need to ask two things, first is there any explanation for the body switching  beyond “it just happened at the dentists’”.  Secondly, are the consequences – either personal or societal – of the body switching explored, or is it just the setup for normal Wodehousean hijinks?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="92823" OwnerDisplayName="Mark Olson" LastEditorUserId="92823" LastEditDate="2020-09-10T20:02:23.387" LastActivityDate="2020-09-10T20:02:23.387" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13062" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-07-12T20:06:02.553" Score="3" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/233644/why-didnt-the-palantiri-reveal-the-fellowships-true-plan/234186#234186&quot;&gt;following question&lt;/a&gt;, to which an answer was posted by Shamshiel. The answer was detailed and mostly fine, but I &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/165677&quot;&gt;suggested&lt;/a&gt; some changes, adding chapters to all the Lord of the Rings sources and making general formatting improvements to make the answer more easily readable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the justification for rejecting this edit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48814" LastEditorUserId="48814" LastEditDate="2020-07-12T20:12:53.923" LastActivityDate="2020-07-12T21:39:37.500" Title="Why was my edit to this answer rejected?" Tags="|discussion|suggested-edit|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13062" CreationDate="2020-07-12T21:39:37.500" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As one of the &amp;quot;Reject&amp;quot; votes, I can give you my perspective, but bear in mind I speak only for myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, if the edit had consisted solely of the attribution edits, I would have accepted it.  My problem was with the start and end where you changed the OP's text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Sound&amp;quot; in place of &amp;quot;audio&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;images&amp;quot; in place of &amp;quot;video&amp;quot; seemed to be purely personal preference, and IMO made the point less clear.  (&amp;quot;Images,&amp;quot; without qualification, are in my experience always &lt;em&gt;static&lt;/em&gt; images; &amp;quot;video&amp;quot; is &lt;em&gt;moving&lt;/em&gt; pictures.  Similarly, &amp;quot;sound&amp;quot; does not denote the information content of &amp;quot;audio&amp;quot;; sound could just be the hiss of static, and &amp;quot;speech&amp;quot; seems an overly specific type of audio information.)  In any event, the OP's meaning is perfectly clear in the original text; the change does not &lt;em&gt;improve&lt;/em&gt; the clarity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end, changing the structure and emphasis of the closing argument is also (again IMO) taking too much liberty with the OP's words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find the review tools are a bit lacking when it comes to reviewing edits; it would be ideal if the &amp;quot;Improve Edit&amp;quot; workflow allowed stepping through the diff and approving changes line-by-line.  Unfortunately in this case, with the tools available it would have been too difficult to start from your changes and try to roll back the stylistic changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastActivityDate="2020-07-12T21:39:37.500" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13064" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-07-14T19:19:42.360" Score="34" ViewCount="350" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, this is not a myth to be busted, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/grant-imahara-mythbusters-host-dies-035126793.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Grant Imahara has passed away today at 49 years old&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/grant-imahara-dead-mythbusters-host-was-49-1303101&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;reportedly&lt;/a&gt; from a brain aneurysm).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Grant was best known for his role on the Discovery Channel's Mythbusters, however he got his start  working for Lucasfilm’s THX division and Industrial Light and Magic. His contribution to the science fiction and fantasy community include movies like the three &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; prequels, &lt;em&gt;Jurassic Park&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Matrix Reloaded&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Matrix Revolutions&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Galaxy Quest&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably coolest of all, he is &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.starwars.com/news/don-bies-interview&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;one of only three people&lt;/a&gt; to operator R2-D2 for the prequels. He was also &lt;a href=&quot;https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Grant_Imahara&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;inducted into the 501st Legion&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His co-star and friend Adam Savage has captured what all of us who love Grant's work are feeling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’m at a loss. No words. I’ve been part of two big families with Grant Imahara over the last 22 years. Grant was a truly brilliant engineer, artist and performer, but also just such a generous, easygoing, and gentle PERSON. Working with Grant was so much fun. I’ll miss my friend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/donttrythis/status/1282885559816347648&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://twitter.com/donttrythis/status/1282885559816347648&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2020-07-14T19:23:18.413" LastActivityDate="2020-07-14T19:23:18.413" Title="RIP, Grant Imahara" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13060" CreationDate="2020-07-15T14:50:11.367" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt; Note my original opinion was changed thanks to @TheLethalCarrot&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR: On-Topic&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While, I don't see any tags for other body-switching comedies, like Freaky Friday, 13 Going on 30, The Hot Chick, The Swap, or even Big. All of those involve some sort of &amp;quot;magic&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;science&amp;quot; to perform the body swap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now this could just mean there is no interesting questions to ask about them, but &lt;strong&gt;in general I would say it is on-topic&lt;/strong&gt;. The body swap is integral to the story, i.e. the story wouldn't happen without it, and is definitely sci-fi or fantasy (most instances I would say fantasy because the swap is performed by some form of magic). Many of the examples I listed are also marketed as &amp;quot;fantasy-comedy&amp;quot; which would meet our first requirement of being on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's marketed as SF, it's on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if the story is from an &amp;quot;off-topic&amp;quot; work &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/are-works-that-arent-sf-per-se-but-have-occasional-sfnal-elements-on-topic-e&quot;&gt;our policy&lt;/a&gt; would allow you to ask specific questions about the body-swap but not about the general plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is specifically about an sf-nal element, even if it's only a minor part of the work, it's on-topic&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is a minor supernatural element (e.g. a fortune teller's prediction comes true, or someone sees a ghost, or a story for children involving anthropomorphic animals) but it's just a throwaway plot element that's not particularly relevant to the question, it's off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2020-07-15T15:31:57.873" LastActivityDate="2020-07-15T15:31:57.873" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13066" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-07-16T10:24:34.717" Score="9" ViewCount="350" Body="&lt;p&gt;A while back, I asked this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/224608/how-long-is-the-long-bridge-of-volantis&quot;&gt;How long is the Long Bridge of Volantis?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the question is very short and clear, and in what I perceive to be a somewhat fun/jovial spirit of scifi.SE, I added an illustrating image of a not-really long bridge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, obviously there's no &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; for the image of that bridge. But I like the question better that way, and it got two upvotes and many interesting answers (not just mine...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earlier today, someone (with much more reputation than me) edited the question and removed the image of the bridge and the comment below. I rolled back the edit, but - was it legitimate/reasonable for me to do so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16835" LastEditorUserId="16835" LastEditDate="2020-07-16T10:48:00.163" LastActivityDate="2020-07-16T10:48:00.163" Title="Is it ok for me to keep a humorous but non-essential part of a question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13066" CreationDate="2020-07-16T10:35:17.790" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;For this specific case I removed the image because it wasn't relevant at all and to be honest I don't even understand how it was meant to be humorous: it was just a bridge with some buildings on. It didn't add anything to the question and only really, in my opinion, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;detracted&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; from it. I also think your title here is a bit misleading, humorous is subjective, but it wasn't really a part of the question, never mind a non-essential part: it was just a picture of a semi-relevant modern bridge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just want to add a brief side note here, you say (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, obviously there's no &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; for the image of that bridge. But I like the question better that way, and &lt;strong&gt;it got two upvotes and many interesting answers (not just mine...)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now those upvotes and answers may have come because of the image of the bridge but I highly doubt it. Adding that section in the question here makes it read like they are in support of the image when there's no indication of either way and I do doubt that to be the case to be honest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now in the general case of if it's fine to keep humorous but non-essential parts of a question. Sure, of course it is. We don't hate fun here, what would be the point otherwise? But there's a difference between adding a picture of a random bridge/meme and adding some funny commentary that is actually somewhat relevant. I, myself, have done the latter a few times around the site and it's done quite a lot round here. But I think you have to make it apply at least a little bit to make it work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And lastly, it's always worth noting that it is still your post to do with as you please. If you want to keep something as it was, it is always your right to have it that way (excluding Code of Conduct breaking content, spam, etc. of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2020-07-16T10:41:45.490" LastActivityDate="2020-07-16T10:41:45.490" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13060" CreationDate="2020-07-21T15:22:25.517" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer a question of this type it's important to define terms.  What do we mean when we say &amp;quot;science fiction&amp;quot;.  Without definition it remains a &lt;em&gt;de gustibus&lt;/em&gt; question -- &amp;quot;I know it when I see it&amp;quot; -- which lends itself to no easy answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had an interesting teacher way back in grade school who made a distinction that has always stuck with me. H. G. Wells' &amp;quot;The Time Machine&amp;quot; starts with a scene in which the time traveler talks about Time as the fourth dimension -- defining it in relation to the three dimensions of space, and describing it as a parallel along which we can move, as we move through space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This scene (according to the lecture in question) was the difference between the novel being science fiction or fantasy.  If the character had simply time traveled, it would have been fantasy; but by grounding the novel's main conceit in real world science -- or at least plausible theory -- it became scientific speculation. Science fiction. (Either way, it is also allegory, but that's a different discussion.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An interesting aside that just occurred to me is Star Wars -- frequently described as &amp;quot;science fantasy&amp;quot;, because it is essentially a fantasy story with the &lt;em&gt;trappings&lt;/em&gt; of sci fi.  But in the much maligned prequel trilogy, they make a turn toward science fiction when they ground the Force in the &amp;quot;science&amp;quot; of midichlorians.  It goes from being &amp;quot;space magic&amp;quot; to a side effect of microbes/nanotech.  (Still not &lt;em&gt;hard&lt;/em&gt; sci fi by and stretch, but closer than it was before.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this context, I would describe Laughing Gas as fantasy.  The body swap is a &amp;quot;magic&amp;quot; vehicle for moving the story. The specific &amp;quot;why&amp;quot; is unimportant to the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87750" LastEditorUserId="87750" LastEditDate="2020-07-21T15:33:25.750" LastActivityDate="2020-07-21T15:33:25.750" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13069" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13071" CreationDate="2020-07-22T15:36:42.827" Score="1" ViewCount="178" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am just curious - do mods on this site get paid? What's the use if you (a moderator) are not getting paid? If you are indeed getting paid, can you elaborate on what's your salary?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="129237" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2020-07-22T15:47:16.010" LastActivityDate="2020-07-24T11:57:39.347" Title="Do Moderators get paid?" Tags="|discussion|moderators|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13069" CreationDate="2020-07-22T15:50:17.700" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderators do not get paid, they are elected volunteer members of the community trusted with extra powers to help curate the site. I can’t speak for others clearly, and I am not a moderator myself, but people do it to help the site out, because they enjoy it and because they want the site to succeed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only people who get paid are Stack Exchange employees themselves who are not moderators but may have moderator abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2020-07-22T15:50:17.700" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13069" CreationDate="2020-07-22T15:54:50.817" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/169205/278659&quot;&gt;No.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2020-07-22T15:54:50.817" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13072" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13073" CreationDate="2020-07-23T13:51:33.140" Score="4" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/234850/are-there-good-services-for-similar-series-recommendations&quot;&gt;Are there good services for similar series recommendations?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm on the fence. Since it's not restricted to fantasy and sci-fi, it's arguably off-topic anyhow, but is asking for a site that offers a particular sort of recommendation on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2020-07-23T17:28:24.707" LastActivityDate="2020-07-23T17:28:24.707" Title="Is a book recommendation site recommendation question valid?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13072" CreationDate="2020-07-23T14:06:03.863" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say these types of questions are off topic. It's a borderline recommendation question but it also falls somewhat into the following &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;off topic categories&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;every answer is equally valid: “What’s your favorite ______?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst it's not really asking for your favourite recommendation site, it is in a way, again borderline here though. But of course every answer here will be equally valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;your answer is provided along with the question, and you expect more answers: “I use ______ for ______, what do you use?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is this type of question with the caveat of the ones the OP is using aren't quite fulfilling their needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The close reason itself is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Requests for lists of works or recommendations are off-topic as they do not fit our questions and answers format. Feel free to ask about people's favorites in chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a recommendation question just not for lists of works but for a site that recommends books; still asking for recommendations though. The reason for &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; these questions are off topic is the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that for the reasons above even if we didn't have a specific close reason here I would say it is likely to be closed under &amp;quot;Opinion based&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Needs more focus&amp;quot; anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2020-07-23T14:06:03.863" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13069" CreationDate="2020-07-24T11:57:39.347" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/legal/moderator-agreement&quot;&gt;Moderator Agreement&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I acknowledge and agree that &lt;strong&gt;I am an independent volunteer moderator&lt;/strong&gt; for one or more sites operated by Stack Exchange, Inc. and &lt;strong&gt;I am not an employee, agent or representative&lt;/strong&gt; of Stack Exchange, Inc., and I have no authority to bind Stack Exchange, Inc. in any manner and I am solely responsible for my statements and actions. I attest that my statements and posts do not represent the views, opinions or actions of Stack Exchange, Inc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/volunteer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;volunteer&lt;/a&gt; is &amp;quot;A person who works for an organization without being paid&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;strong&gt;NO&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;em&gt;but with sources&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2020-07-24T11:57:39.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13075" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2020-07-26T12:13:34.290" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A feature request or bug report with this tag is neither declined nor destined for implementation/fix. When such a decision has been made, the tag will be changed accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are multiple factors that may leave a report under review. There could be consideration of whether the proposed feature or bugfix is feasible or useful. There could be investigations on the complexity of the necessary solution. There could be insufficient information in the feature or bug report as presented. Site developers may provide additional comments to request more information or to provide status updates as appropriate to the status of the review, until such time as the decision for approval or decline is made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status tags can only be applied by staff and ♦ moderators; the latter will only use this tag as part of the escalation process described here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/348642/295232&quot;&gt;What posts should be escalated to staff using [status-review], and how do I escalate them?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Copied from: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/tags/status-review/info&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/tags/status-review/info&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44520" LastEditorUserId="44520" LastEditDate="2020-07-28T14:39:13.073" LastActivityDate="2020-07-28T14:39:13.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13076" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2020-07-26T12:13:34.290" Score="0" Body="Indicates that a change in functionality is currently under consideration, or needs further investigation." OwnerUserId="44520" LastEditorUserId="44520" LastEditDate="2020-07-28T14:39:09.303" LastActivityDate="2020-07-28T14:39:09.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13079" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-07-29T13:05:03.423" Score="11" ViewCount="246" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would appear that at some point in time the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;Tour&lt;/a&gt; lost its example question: it somehow has become ineligible and so has defaulted to the default unicorn example. Now, whilst the default is actually somewhat on topic for us it isn't a good example of a question we want to show new users so we should probably update it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10108/58193&quot;&gt;Last time&lt;/a&gt; this came up a list of questions was given to pick from. This list comes from &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/92078/possible-about-questions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this SEDE query&lt;/a&gt; of question that should be eligible to pick for the Tour that was shared on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/163948/345161&quot;&gt;main meta post&lt;/a&gt; asking what can be chosen for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So can we decide on a new question to show on the Tour page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2020-08-13T08:00:37.420" Title="Selecting an example for the Tour page's example question" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13081" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-08-05T14:08:16.043" Score="96" ViewCount="1755" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2816/kutulumike&quot;&gt;KutuluMike&lt;/a&gt; (known to some as Michael Edenfield) passed away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2816/kutulumike&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/flair/2816.png&quot; width=&quot;208&quot; height=&quot;58&quot; alt=&quot;profile for KutuluMike at Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange, Q&amp;amp;A for science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts&quot; title=&quot;profile for KutuluMike at Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange, Q&amp;amp;A for science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have a lot of details. A few people noticed he had been MIA from things for over a month. We reached out and learned he had been in the hospital for 45 days with something called CMV virus, which he was at high risk for because of the lung transplant he received last year. The last we officially heard from him was he was recovering and expecting to leave the hospital. He was 43 years old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5Di5G.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5Di5G.png&quot; alt=&quot;A facebook post by one of Mike's relatives, transcribed below&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to thank everyone for their prayers. Please continue to keep my family in your thoughts and prayers as we go through this. My brother Michael passed away last night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2020-08-05T14:20:35.853" LastActivityDate="2020-08-16T02:08:26.513" Title="KutuluMike (Michael Edenfield) has passed away" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13081" CreationDate="2020-08-05T14:18:45.297" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cannot say that I knew Mike well, but I knew him as he was here on the site and in chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All I can say is that his presence will be sorely missed, and I would like to extend this Stack's warm wishes to his family and other loved ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2020-08-05T14:18:45.297" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2020-08-05T16:11:57.937" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13081" CreationDate="2020-08-05T15:45:59.647" Score="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;Too soon. Far, far too soon. 43 years old? Shit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those who aren't familiar with Mike on-site (he became less active in recent years): as well as his Q&amp;amp;A activity getting him to almost 100,000 rep (at the time of writing), he was also one of the most active users in back-end site upkeep stuff, thankless tasks such as ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Organising the great tag cleanup of 2015-16: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7761/31394&quot;&gt;Would we be interested in a concerted tag cleanup effort?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7871/31394&quot;&gt;Tag Wars Episode I: Harry Potter and the Tag Cleanup&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7896/31394&quot;&gt;Tag Wars: The Science Fiction/Fantasy Tag Cleanup Event&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Further work on tagging policies: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7923/31394&quot;&gt;What is the correct usage of individual works tags vs. author tags vs. franchise tags?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7974/31394&quot;&gt;Science Fiction and Fantasy Tagging Guidelines&lt;/a&gt; He became famous on the site for his thankless work on the tagging system.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Drafting or igniting discussion on some of our most important site policies: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2638/31394&quot;&gt;Are *all* list questions off-topic?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7003/31394&quot;&gt;Gorilla vs. Shark - a Longer Explanation&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7364/31394&quot;&gt;What is our actual policy on science questions?&lt;/a&gt; It could be said that all of our site's custom close reasons are thanks to him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Helping to manage the site blog after Stack Exchange stopped supporting blogs: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10267/31394&quot;&gt;What should we call our blog?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10274/31394&quot;&gt;Look and feel of the new blog&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10617/31394&quot;&gt;Official Unofficial Blog Support Post&lt;/a&gt; Jack B. Nimble (the OP of this meta post) has been in charge of the blog for years, and CreationEdge (who deleted his SE account) hosts the new domain, but Mike valiantly volunteered to join the blog team.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let his achievements live on in perpetuity. R.I.P.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2020-08-05T15:45:59.647" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2020-08-05T15:45:59.647" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13081" CreationDate="2020-08-06T00:16:47.120" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got to know Mike best in a slack group he had set up a few years ago for some site members to chat together. I'm sure some of the older users knew him a lot better than me, but all the interactions I can remember having with him were positive. He will be missed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pJQzW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55866" LastActivityDate="2020-08-06T00:16:47.120" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13081" CreationDate="2020-08-06T02:51:12.207" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mike was one of the reasons why I enjoyed posting on this site so much! In my early days (2013), seeing his posts that were so well-written and insightful inspired me to post better and actually put effort into this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We even had a small rivalry to see who could post faster/better as we were both interested in similar works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His hard work and dedication payed off as you can see the difference in our Rep. But it's the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13083/21267&quot;&gt;thankless hard work&lt;/a&gt; that he did that I'm most thankful for him doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was interested in not only providing good content for this community, but also looking after its progress and guiding it to become what it is today! I have no idea how he didn't become &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election/4#post-115427&quot;&gt;moderator&lt;/a&gt;, but it's good to see that he continued to look after this community in whatever capacity he could!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rest In Piece Mike. You fought and battled but now you can rest!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastActivityDate="2020-08-06T02:51:12.207" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13081" CreationDate="2020-08-06T14:08:47.610" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mike was a great supporter of the blog. He &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/author/kutulumike/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;contributed a lot of articles&lt;/a&gt;. The ones I think that stand out are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/05/a-guide-to-the-marvel-cinematic-multiverse/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A Guide to the Marvel Cinematic Multiverse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/11/a-guide-to-the-dc-cinematic-multiverse/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A Guide To The DC Cinematic Multiverse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/06/gorilla-vs-shark-not-so-fast/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gorilla vs. Shark? Not so fast…&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2020-08-06T14:08:47.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13081" CreationDate="2020-08-07T00:33:15.060" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;In reference to his &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cc.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;namesake&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is not dead which can eternal lie,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And with strange aeons even death may die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70477" LastActivityDate="2020-08-07T00:33:15.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13088" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-08-07T16:32:49.803" Score="4" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had asked a movie identification question on the Movies.SE site, but quickly I was told that the tag isn't on-topic there anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I use the story-identification tag on this site, Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy, to ask a movie identification question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user126665" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2020-08-07T16:43:56.127" LastActivityDate="2020-08-07T22:09:06.447" Title="Can the story-identification tag be used for questions asking for movie identification?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13088" CreationDate="2020-08-07T16:42:38.083" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification+movie&quot;&gt;Yes.&lt;/a&gt; Identifying sci-fi or fantasy movies is as on-topic here as identifying sci-fi or fantasy anything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2020-08-07T22:09:06.447" LastActivityDate="2020-08-07T22:09:06.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12543" CreationDate="2020-08-11T21:42:52.680" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have never understood why it should be necessary to become irrational in order to prove that you care. Or indeed why it should be necessary to prove it at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Always shield the top of your gun with your left hand while aiming it. Remember the man who produced the most acerbic remarks in the galaxy, the only man who could take a show named after a charismatic character and keep it going without that character. Always destined to be the last man standing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YOaKA.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YOaKA.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I just now finished watching the incredible finale of &lt;em&gt;Blake's 7&lt;/em&gt;, and came back to post this. Capable, compelling, captivating, and completely unflappable right up to the last instant of the show, Kerr Avon is one of the most memorable characters in sci-fi.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2020-08-11T21:42:52.680" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13093" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-08-12T03:30:38.693" Score="22" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;Veteran character actor Richard Herd &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/26/entertainment/richard-herd-obit/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;passed away in May at the age of 87&lt;/a&gt;.  He played a wide range of roles both in and out of the sci-fi genre.   Some of his more memorable science fiction performances included the Visitor &amp;quot;John&amp;quot; in &lt;em&gt;V&lt;/em&gt;, and Admiral Owen Paris in the &lt;em&gt;Trek&lt;/em&gt; universe.   Perhaps his best known role outside the genre was as George Constanza's boss &amp;quot;Wilhelm&amp;quot; on &lt;em&gt;Seinfeld&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fUPl2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fUPl2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TJPxQ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TJPxQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69621" LastActivityDate="2020-08-12T03:30:38.693" Title="Richard Herd (V mini-series, Star Trek, SeaQuest 2032, etc.)" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13094" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13095" CreationDate="2020-08-12T19:11:42.040" Score="18" ViewCount="403" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Background&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site has a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5187/31394&quot;&gt;long-standing policy&lt;/a&gt; that questions about &lt;strong&gt;future works&lt;/strong&gt; should be closed: if a question is asking specifically about a book/film/episode/comic/etc. that &lt;em&gt;has not yet been released&lt;/em&gt;, the question should be closed at least until the release date, to prevent purely speculative answers. (This policy was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11865/31394&quot;&gt;clarified in 2018&lt;/a&gt;: questions about already-released works, even if the answer is unknown and may be in future works, do not fall under the Future Works Policy.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 2016, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9585/31394&quot;&gt;the community discussed&lt;/a&gt; adding a custom close reason for Future Works. The consensus was &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to create one, but only because, at that time, custom close reason meant custom &lt;strong&gt;off-topic&lt;/strong&gt; close reason. These questions are not off-topic, if they're about sci-fi or fantasy: they may be perfectly good questions a year or a week after being closed. What people really wanted was a custom &lt;strong&gt;opinion-based&lt;/strong&gt; close reason, which didn't exist back then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fast forward to 2020, when Stack Exchange has &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/346638/278659&quot;&gt;made some changes&lt;/a&gt; to the question closure system, including changing the &amp;quot;off-topic&amp;quot; in custom close reasons to &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;a community-specific reason&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot;. Now that a custom close reason wouldn't necessarily imply off-topicness, let's revisit the discussion about creating one for the Future Works Policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Should we create a new custom close reason for Future Works questions?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Currently this site is using the conventional maximum of three custom close reasons. However, one of them is the plain non-descriptive &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7229/31394&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;not about science fiction or fantasy&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; close reason, which would be easy to abolish in favour of custom close comments actually explaining why a question is not about science fiction or fantasy. Alternatively, we can ask SE to increase the number of custom close reasons available for this site (the absolute maximum is five).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To simplify the discussion, let's &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; start drafting the exact wording of a Future Works close reason in this meta post. Let's first get a consensus on whether or not we want to have it at all. (If people are in favour of having it but don't like a particular proposed wording, that could confuse the voting.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't know any way to get statistics on how much this close reason is used. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tools/question-close-stats&quot;&gt;question close stats&lt;/a&gt; page (10k+ link) is no help, because we usually close these questions as opinion-based rather than using a custom close comment. Also, its usage often comes in spikes; it's used more during the release weeks of a popular TV series like &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;, because lots of questions need to be closed as &amp;quot;wait for the next episode&amp;quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2020-08-13T06:28:06.733" Title="Do we want a custom close reason for the Future Works Policy? Revisited" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13094" CreationDate="2020-08-12T19:58:41.930" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, we should create a new close reason for the Future Works Policy. It’s more useful to have a close reason about a specific reason than for something completely generic. It would also mean we would have to do less explaining about the Future Works Policy when closing as Opinion based for it and how it works if it’s qualified as a proper reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top of this the generic close reason should require a comment with it at the moment anyway. So all removing it would do is mean we would combine generic close + comment into “Community specific reason -&amp;gt; Other - add a comment” which explains the closure. And this is arguably more useful than the generic comment as the OP would know exactly why the question is being closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another good reason for having a custom close reason on Future Works questions is that they will eventually need reopening. Close reasons are meant to be a temporary state but some question no matter how much editing will always need to be closed. The FWP is different, they are essentially time based closures; having a custom reason will make it easier to track them down to be reopened when they need to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2020-08-13T06:28:06.733" LastActivityDate="2020-08-13T06:28:06.733" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13094" CreationDate="2020-08-12T23:25:40.900" Score="-8" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.  When a question asks something about future works, we should close them as opinion-based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The exact text of the close reason that appears in the &amp;quot;close&amp;quot; dialog says &amp;quot;This question is likely to be answered with opinions rather than facts and citations. It should be updated so it will lead to fact-based answers.&amp;quot;  This describes exactly &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; we want to close questions about future works.  The text of the post notice that the question author will see says the following.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Closed.&lt;/strong&gt; This question is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/closed-questions&quot;&gt;opinion-based&lt;/a&gt;. It is not currently accepting answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations. This will help others answer the question. You can edit the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is, sadly, not as clear as the text in the close dialog, because the &amp;quot;likely to be answered with opinions&amp;quot; is not present, although the linked help page does clarify.  But at that stage, the question will probably have a comment explaining about future works.  When the future work is likely to appear within a few years, the comments may also say that the question will be reopened when the next episode is available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastActivityDate="2020-08-12T23:25:40.900" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13079" CreationDate="2020-08-13T08:00:37.420" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had another look through the list of questions and I think this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkiens-legendarium&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkiens-legendarium&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkiens-legendarium&lt;/a&gt; one is quite good:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/8284/58193&quot;&gt;Why did the Nazgul start on horseback?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers are pretty decent to say they don't have the supporting quotes in which they can't have. It seems to me to be accurate and well written and if someone was to click through and find the question it does have a good answer with quotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2020-08-13T08:00:37.420" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13081" CreationDate="2020-08-16T02:08:26.513" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am at loss of words. Although we weren't at the same page on this site (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6707/how-can-this-question-be-duplicate-also-please-revoke-diamond-status-of-keen&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6703/why-is-community-being-robot-here&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;), I can feel the loss. No story is complete without enemies. I hope I contributed even a little to make his story (a part of which will always live on this site and in us) complete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;-&lt;/em&gt; George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2020-08-16T02:08:26.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13099" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13100" CreationDate="2020-08-18T15:59:54.313" Score="3" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;On a site on which I have a high rep score, I am able to edit tags easily using the &amp;quot;Edit tags&amp;quot; button:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SwjtS.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SwjtS.png&quot; alt=&quot;With Edit tags&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, on this site (at time of writing), I have &amp;lt; 3000 rep, which is not enough to see the &amp;quot;Edit tags&amp;quot; button:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LRrLo.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LRrLo.png&quot; alt=&quot;Without Edit tags&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been unable to track down any information on what rep score you need to unlock the &amp;quot;Edit tags&amp;quot; button. How much rep do I need before I can see this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85712" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2020-08-18T16:04:50.963" LastActivityDate="2020-08-18T16:05:55.150" Title="How much rep do you need to be able to edit tags more easily?" Tags="|support|editing|retagging|privileges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13099" CreationDate="2020-08-18T16:05:55.150" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges&quot;&gt;Privileges page&lt;/a&gt; you need 10k for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/moderator-tools&quot;&gt;access to moderator tools&lt;/a&gt; privilege.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Inline tag editing&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, you now have the ability to do inline tag edits on questions: a new &amp;quot;Edit tags&amp;quot; link will appear next to the tags on every question; clicking it brings up an inline editor for the tags on that question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2020-08-18T16:05:55.150" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13102" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-08-20T11:21:52.110" Score="10" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Title shamelessly stolen from &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/14979/prioritising-our-bugs-and-requests-for-cm-review&quot;&gt;Arqade&lt;/a&gt;, body cribbed/stolen from same question&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some time ago, a proposal was announced on Meta Stack Exchange to address the growing workload of the CM team, and for them to actually start addressing community requests and feedback again: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/344586/179041&quot;&gt;Our Commitment to Responding to Meta and Moderators.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long story short, if something requires review by a CM, we should tag it &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-review&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-review&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-review&lt;/a&gt; and they will get to it when they can. This new system has already started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought it might be a good idea for us to review some of our old bugs and feature-requests, to see if there's any that we should bring to SE's attention. Note this is not a guarantee that these bugs or requests will be approved, or handled in the way we want (in fact I'm pretty sure some below will be flatly denied) - but bringing them forward for CM input will at least provide a way to get some closure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we need from you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pick an existing question tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/bug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt;. If you find a question that requires this tag, then please do add it to the post before submitting here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;One question per post please&lt;/strong&gt;, votes on these answers will be used to decide what our priorities are. (Of course if the one you want addressed is already posted, upvote it instead). At the end of this process, we will pick the top 5 and add the status-review tag to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;The Arqade meta post lists a bunch of good candidate questions, but I haven't been able to do so myself.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2020-08-20T11:47:16.313" LastActivityDate="2021-01-08T10:58:40.990" Title="Prioritising our bugs and requests for CM review" Tags="|discussion|community|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13102" CreationDate="2020-08-20T11:25:02.660" Score="8" Body="&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12110/58193&quot;&gt;What should the new background/theme look like?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The decision asking &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12092/58193&quot;&gt;if we wanted a new theme&lt;/a&gt; after the update was pretty unanimous and we collected some feedback on potential ideas for a new one. Almost two years later I think it's time we get the ball rolling again on this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2020-08-20T11:25:02.660" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12660" CreationDate="2020-08-20T11:51:36.270" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the introduction of CommonMark this is now even easier to do, just use the following markdown:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;!This is spoiler 1.&#xA;&#xA;&amp;gt;&amp;quot;This is the regular blockquote&amp;quot;.&#xA;&#xA;&amp;gt;!This is spoiler #2. &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the rendered output:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is spoiler 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;This is the regular blockquote&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is spoiler #2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Continous spoilers still don't work, I don't think that has ever really been supported, but you can force it yourself like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;!Spoiler 1&#xA;&amp;gt;! &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;gt;!Spoiler 2&#xA;&amp;gt;! &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;gt;!Spoiler 3&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spoiler 1&#xA; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Spoiler 2&#xA; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Spoiler 3&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2020-08-20T11:51:36.270" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5153" CreationDate="2020-08-21T11:33:04.660" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you're asking for is pretty much implemented by the new SE-wide feature of being able to &amp;quot;follow&amp;quot; posts as well as bookmark them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/345661/278659&quot;&gt;The Follow Questions and Answers feature is now live across the Network&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you've clicked &amp;quot;follow&amp;quot; on a post, then you will get a little red inbox notification for every new interaction (comment, edit, etc.) on the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2020-08-21T11:33:04.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13108" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13109" CreationDate="2020-08-23T15:03:06.577" Score="1" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;I looked around the other SE sites and found maybe one other SE site that this question could fall under (Literature), but the help section from both of these sites don't say whether or not its on or off topic, and what they do say seems to blur the line around where this question falls. I might just be misinterpreting things, but please help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question I'm trying to ask is about a list of references to time travel, whether the reference is in a movie, book, or 20 page report. I'd like to make the question a community wiki, but the problem I'm running into right now is where to put it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What site should it be put on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2020-08-23T15:35:25.523" LastActivityDate="2020-08-23T15:39:22.613" Title="Should this question about list of references go on the main sci-fi and fantasy site?" Tags="|discussion|scope|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13108" CreationDate="2020-08-23T15:39:22.613" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;List of references for time travel? That’s not really what SE sites in general are designed for. It sounds like something that would be better suited for Wikipedia or TV Tropes or...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be specific though if this was to be asked on the main site here it is likely to be closed under “Needs more focus” or “lists of works”. These types of questions just don’t fit with the SE question and answer site format. I wouldn’t even say this is appropriate on meta itself here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I were you I’d manage a Google doc or fandom site or add this onto an existing resource like Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2020-08-23T15:39:22.613" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13102" CreationDate="2020-08-24T11:00:23.020" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; See: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/356997/345161&quot;&gt;New Feature: Table Support&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2637/58193&quot;&gt;Add support for tables&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one seems like it would be quite useful and was popular. We also moved to CommonMark now and so it should be possible there. If not MathJax could be enabled for its usage (I believe it has tables but not entirely sure). Lastly, Arqade mentions support for tables also, so whilst this is a SE level change rather than SFF I think it fits fine within the scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2021-01-08T10:58:40.990" LastActivityDate="2021-01-08T10:58:40.990" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13102" CreationDate="2020-08-24T11:04:09.037" Score="3" Body="&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12204/58193&quot;&gt;Ignored tag still shows up in HNQ?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spoilers, people don't like 'em. HNQ + spoilers, well we're just asking for trouble there. A request was made a while back to make it so ignored tags don't show up in the HNQ. This seems like a good middle ground between blocking the whole HNQ or putting up with spoilers. We're always going to have people complaining about them so it seems sensible to minimise their effects. People can already hide tags on the site itself so extending that to the HNQ just fits in nicely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2020-08-24T11:04:09.037" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13102" CreationDate="2020-08-24T11:13:25.207" Score="4" Body="&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4891/58193&quot;&gt;Can we add a way to allow tags to be marked as dependent upon other tags?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our whole tagging system &lt;s&gt;is a mess&lt;/s&gt; relies heavily on tag hierarchies. Other tags are dependant on each other and so if a question has tag 1 then it should also have tag 2 on it. This would require a major overhaul of the basics of how tags work, however, it would make the system a lot easier to use and save time for everyone else to fix things with it. It could also, depending on implementation, allow space for more tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To give a quick example it would mean a question tagged &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers-endgame&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;avengers-endgame&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;avengers-endgame&lt;/a&gt; would automatically have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt; tags added to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2020-08-24T11:13:25.207" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13102" CreationDate="2020-08-24T11:17:48.953" Score="5" Body="&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9930/58193&quot;&gt;Can we have relevant icons on tags?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm well aware that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12687/58193&quot;&gt;tag icons are due to sponsorship&lt;/a&gt;, however, this older post asks about adding them outside of sponsorship. It would add a little flair to the site, a nice visual aide, on the tags to visually distinguish them better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, and more on a &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discussion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; side if we don't just want them to look pretty, it could be possible for either us, or SE themselves, to actively reach out to various companies/people for sponsorship deals on our site. A big production company might not be fussed, but a small time author might be if it meant generating more content/interest about their works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2020-08-24T11:17:48.953" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13102" CreationDate="2020-08-24T11:21:11.010" Score="3" Body="&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7888/58193&quot;&gt;Can we have a per-tag &amp;quot;Make Spoilers Visible&amp;quot; button?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Allowing users to opt in to automatically uncovering spoilers on posts which have a specific tag seems like it could be useful. If you're not bothered about spoilers on a particular work yourself, spoiler tags are only really a nuisance. Especially so when you get to a popular just released work and a question with lots of answers. This seems like it could be worthwhile and work hand in hand with the Watched/Ignored tags feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the release of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/353446/345161&quot;&gt;new post formatting&lt;/a&gt; spoilers are now no longer going to uncover on hover but require a click. This means the linked feature is likely to be more useful to ease frustration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2020-08-27T10:27:53.960" LastActivityDate="2020-08-27T10:27:53.960" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13115" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-08-24T19:32:52.147" Score="2" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/18177/31393&quot;&gt;Sci-fi book about “the Wall” and a group of schoolchildren who fight the dark forces who roam north of it&lt;/a&gt; was asked in 2012, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/18184/31393&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt; in 2012, and the answer accepted in 2012.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above question was marked as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/236278/31393&quot;&gt;Book with a main character who uses bells to dispel the dead&lt;/a&gt;, which was asked in 2020 (3 hours ago), and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/236280/31393&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt; in 2020, and the answer was accepted in 2020.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't the 'This question already has an answer here' be applied to the 2020 question and accepted answer, and not the 2012 question and accepted answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are we agnostic about duplicates priority? Or is there some other criterion to be used?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31393" LastActivityDate="2020-08-24T19:32:52.147" Title="Priority for duplicate questions and answers?" Tags="|discussion|policy|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2020-08-24T19:55:33.477" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13116" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-08-25T09:07:49.700" Score="7" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen a question on the main site that I believe should be migrated&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; to another site on the network. What are the guidelines for migrating it to another site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13117/58193&quot;&gt;General Guidance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Here migration means anything from formal migration to suggesting in a comment when to migrate content to a different site.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2020-08-26T07:58:22.497" Title="Guidelines for &quot;migration&quot;" Tags="|support|migration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13116" CreationDate="2020-08-25T09:07:49.700" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;General Guidance&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't migrate &lt;s&gt;crap&lt;/s&gt; questions that need work&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is in need of a lot of editing, or should be closed as &amp;quot;Needs detail or clarity&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Needs more focus&amp;quot; and/or &amp;quot;Opinion-based&amp;quot; don't migrate it. It will only end up getting closed on the target site and the migration rejected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Informal migration is still going to cause problems for the OP if they post an identical question on the target site as it'll only end up closed again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If informally migrating, consider linking the Tour or help/on-topic page instead of the homepage&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will make it so the user has a greater chance of finding out if their question is actually on topic there, especially if you're unsure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In general only migrate to sites you're familiar with&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To go with the previous point try and migrate to sites that you, yourself are familiar with. Not only does it create more work if it ends up not being on topic there but it also creates more confusion and annoyance to the OP who is bounced from site to site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're not familiar with the target site at the very least read their Tour page and preferably their help/on-topic page so you have an idea if the question is on topic there. Ideally there will also be a post here about migration to that site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't migrate questions that are on topic here&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is overlap between Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy and several other Stack Exchange sites. A question might be on topic on another site but that doesn't mean it is off topic here. Only migrate a question if it is off topic here &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; on topic on the target site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you're not sure, don't migrate&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't have to suggest migration and if you're not sure if it needs migration or is even on topic on the target site just don't suggest it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2020-08-26T07:58:22.497" LastActivityDate="2020-08-26T07:58:22.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13118" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-08-28T13:41:34.737" Score="20" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/joe-ruby-dies-dead-scooby-doo-1234750948/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Animation writer and executive Joe Ruby, who created cartoon series including “Scooby-Doo” along with his partner Ken Spears, died of natural causes Wednesday in Westlake Village, Calif. He was 87.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me Scooby-Doo is one of those shows I grew up watching and now my own children are watching a different version of, and I think that is rare in today's cartoon world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scooby-Doo was the show that taught me to not be afraid of monsters and the dark as a kid, everything has an explanation in the end (like Old Man Jenkins!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure even if you didn't like Scooby-Doo, Joe Ruby probably touched something you did. Ruby was a lifelong animator  and...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;started out as an inbetweener at Walt Disney Productions. After serving in the Navy and working in television editing, he met Spears while working at Hanna-Barbera Productions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Among the series produced by Ruby-Spears Productions were “Mister T,” “Alvin and the Chipmunks,” “Superman,” “Thundarr the Barbarian,” “Fangface” and “The Plastic Man Comedy-Adventure Hour.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ruby went on to serve as executive producer on animated versions of live-action shows and movies including “Punky Brewster,” the “Rambo” series and “Police Academy: The Animated Series.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lifelong comic book fan and artist and writer, he worked with artist Jack Kirby on numerous characters and stories that they hoped to put into production.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;RIP Joe and thank you for all your contributions to making mine and I'm sure many others Saturday mornings something to remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2020-08-28T13:48:32.403" Title="RIP Joe Ruby, creator of Scooby-Doo" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13118" CreationDate="2020-08-28T13:48:32.403" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/83VwP.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/83VwP.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Scooby and Shaggy hugging and crying&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2020-08-28T13:48:32.403" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13120" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13122" CreationDate="2020-08-29T03:31:04.900" Score="33" ViewCount="374" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chadwick-boseman-died-black-panther-star-dead-at-43-colon-cancer/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chadwick Boseman, &amp;quot;Black Panther&amp;quot; star, has died at 43&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chadwick Boseman, who portrayed King T'Challa in 2018's Marvel Cinematic Universe film &lt;em&gt;Black Panther&lt;/em&gt;, died today of colon cancer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was reported about an hour ago in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/chadwickboseman/status/1299530165463199747&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; on his &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/chadwickboseman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt; feed,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8mUqQ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8mUqQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Death notice for Chadwick Boseman&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is with immeasurable grief that we confirm the passing of Chadwick Boseman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chadwick was diagnosed with stage III colon cancer in 2016, and battled with it these last 4 years as it progressed to stage IV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A true fighter, Chadwick persevered through it all, and brought you so many of the films you have come to love so much. From Marshall to Da 5 Bloods, August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and several more, all were filmed during and between countless surgeries and chemotherapy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was the honor of his career to bring King T'Challa to life in Black Panther.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He died in his home, with his wife and family by his side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The family thanks you for your love and prayers, and asks that you continue to respect their privacy during this difficult time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70477" LastActivityDate="2022-03-17T21:09:51.523" Title="Chadwick Boseman never yielded (RIP Black Panther)" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13120" CreationDate="2020-08-29T12:00:52.883" Score="20" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Wakanda Forever!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/soaaA.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/soaaA.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2020-08-29T12:00:52.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13120" CreationDate="2020-08-30T23:19:27.817" Score="10" Body="&lt;h1&gt;He has entered the Ancestral Plane&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SuSE0.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SuSE0.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hi real life activism was just as inspiring as his on-screen role as the Black Panther&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/SgASaCn8XXs?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long live the King.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="21267" LastEditDate="2022-03-17T21:09:51.523" LastActivityDate="2022-03-17T21:09:51.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13124" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-09-01T01:50:12.800" Score="14" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/norm-spencer-dead-cyclops-x-men-animated-series-actor/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Norm Spencer, Voice of Cyclops in X-Men: The Animated Series, Has Died&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The X-Men community around the globe suffered a sad loss this week, as news broke that actor Norm Spencer had passed away. Spencer provided the voice for Scott Summers, aka Cyclops, in the beloved show X-Men: The Animated Series. He voiced the character, which remains one of the most popular X-Men in the franchise, in 68 episodes of the series, from 1992 to 1997.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="82909" LastEditDate="2020-09-01T12:53:09.870" LastActivityDate="2020-09-01T12:53:09.870" Title="Norm Spencer: voice of Cyclops has passed away" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13125" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13126" CreationDate="2020-09-01T12:53:34.290" Score="9" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently answered a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/234505/short-story-angels-show-their-creations-to-god-in-order-to-populate-the-world/235883#235883&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; on SF.stackexchange; the story which required identification was originally written in Italian and seems to have never been translated to English. However, it was translated to French, and this is the version I had and that the person who asked the question was looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since SF.SE is English-speaking, should I try and translate (even approximately) the quotes, or leave it in French and have people take my word that it is the right story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22712" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2020-09-01T12:55:39.637" LastActivityDate="2020-09-11T04:20:49.170" Title="Should I translate the quotes in my answer?" Tags="|discussion|quotes|language|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13125" CreationDate="2020-09-01T13:05:45.143" Score="11" Body="&lt;h3&gt;General Case&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the general case I would say it is usually preferable to translate the quotes, even if it is just using an online service. However, when doing so (and this is a practice I've seen done around the site) you should leave the quote from the original language and include the translated one too. That way it helps everyone and people can spot mistakes in the translation if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think though generally it should be treated on a case by case basis. A lot of times what makes sense in one question/answer doesn't make sense in another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might want to look up these questions for further reading:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12113/58193&quot;&gt;Should we allow or indicate non-English titles for SFF works along the English title?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4815/58193&quot;&gt;Must questions be asked in English?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2256/58193&quot;&gt;Can we ask questions on books written in other languages?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Specific Case&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this specific case I don't think it is entirely needed. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions are a bit of a special case in that they only really exist to help the user who asked the question whereas most questions and answers on the site are more applicable to the larger audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case as well, as you mention, the OP was looking for the French translation of the work so arguably the French quotes are better here than the English translations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, for a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; question the most important part of an answer is that it includes the work name. Sure, it wouldn't be a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; answer if it only included the work name but it would still be an answer to the question. As such any further effort is mainly secondary, even if pretty much mandatory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, you &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; go to the effort of translating the quotes and including them but I don't think it is entirely necessary in this specific case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2020-09-03T14:44:39.663" LastActivityDate="2020-09-03T14:44:39.663" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13127" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13128" CreationDate="2020-09-04T14:44:01.243" Score="13" ViewCount="256" Body="&lt;p&gt;Occasionally, browsing through old meta posts on SFF, I come across questions about parts of the SE system that no longer exist or no longer function in the way described in those questions. E.g. questions about &amp;quot;flag weight&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;10k flag review tools&amp;quot;, such as the following examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2809/31394&quot;&gt;When does the system show flag review screen?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2519/31394&quot;&gt;What to do with flags which are valid but not for earth-shatteringly bad content?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over on main meta, they have a specific close reason for such questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem described here can no longer be reproduced. Changes to the system or to the circumstances affecting the asker have rendered it obsolete. If you encounter a similar problem, please post a new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we do anything about our meta's questions about SE functionality that no longer exists?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note there's a few different types of questions to be considered, and if we do want to start closing questions we should consider carefully &lt;em&gt;which&lt;/em&gt; ones to close:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discussion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/support&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;support&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;support&lt;/a&gt; questions about what to do with this or that now-non-existent functionality or how it works. These don't serve any purpose any more, except maybe to confuse people.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/bug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;feature-request&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt; questions about something that's since been solved or eliminated. These seem no more useless than any other &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt; requests: technically no longer relevant after having been resolved one way or another, but the tags/comments/answers should make that clear.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about the SE-hosted blog? Questions about old versions of the site design? Should all of these be treated the same?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we instate a close reason for SFF meta similar to the one mentioned above for main meta? If so, what kind of questions should it be used for? If some &amp;quot;now obsolete&amp;quot; questions shouldn't be closed, should they be given &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-something&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-something&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-something&lt;/a&gt; tags instead? Or am I worrying about something that's never been a problem and we should just leave well enough alone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2023-09-12T13:51:13.013" LastActivityDate="2023-09-12T13:51:13.013" Title="What should we do with old meta posts about SE workings that no longer exist?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|closing-questions|meta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13127" CreationDate="2020-09-05T20:21:42.887" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where a problem no longer exists &lt;em&gt;because of a change in the way that the SE platform works&lt;/em&gt; (rendering the original post obsolete), I'm quite happy for a moderator to just mark them as closed with a custom reason like;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem described here can no longer be reproduced. Changes to the system or to the circumstances affecting the asker have rendered it obsolete. If you encounter a similar problem, please post a new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For added clarity, you might consider hyperlinking to the Meta:SE post that renders the problem obsolete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't imagine that this affects anything of any note and in the unlikely event that someone objects, they can obviously raise that as a concern by asking a new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2020-09-05T20:21:42.887" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13129" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13130" CreationDate="2020-09-10T02:26:30.490" Score="4" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have received an notification on scifi Stack Exchange demanding me to &amp;quot;review&amp;quot; what was labelled as a &amp;quot;first post&amp;quot;. What I saw was a question I have found to be mostly incomprehensible with no votes and only one comment. Why exactly am I asked to do that? I never signed up for this, nor am I qualified to do so - my grasp of English is rudimentary at best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't respond to it, unsure of what am I demanded to do, and the review disappeared while the point score on the top that I have appeared to have lowered. Will my point score get gutted into oblivion and my account get locked up if I don't respond? Am I blocking new questions from appearing through inaction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen some long-winded answers, such as here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13022/what-is-a-review-in-science-fiction-and-fantasy&quot;&gt;What is a review in Science Fiction and Fantasy?&lt;/a&gt; (Well, the answer itself is not long-winded, but the first link is) but surely reading ~2k word post with dozens of links for further reading isn't required to use the website?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98038" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2020-09-10T08:16:28.197" LastActivityDate="2020-09-10T08:32:24.457" Title="Why was I asked to review &quot;a first post&quot;? What are the consequences for ignoring the task?" Tags="|support|review-queue|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13129" CreationDate="2020-09-10T06:27:55.337" Score="10" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why exactly am I asked to do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're seeing the queue and being asked to review new questions because you have more the 500 rep. After 500 rep there is an assumption that you would have a firm grasp on how the site operates, and what to do/what not to do, and so be able to review a new users question to see if it fits in with the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the consequences for ignoring the task?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are no consequences. I'm not entirely sure what happens behind the scenes, but if you don't review the item then someone else grabs it from the queue instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will my point score get gutted into oblivion and my account get locked up if I don't respond?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. You don't need to complete any review if you don't want to. There are no negative consequences to not reviewing. You won't lose reputation (points).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I blocking new questions from appearing through inaction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, the question has been asked, and can be viewed by everyone. The review is something that happens only &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the question/answer has been posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't want to review a question, then you don't have to. You are under no obligation to review anything, ask anything, answer anything, reply to anyone, etc etc, if you don't want to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39144" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2020-09-10T08:09:01.583" LastActivityDate="2020-09-10T08:09:01.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13129" CreationDate="2020-09-10T08:32:24.457" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The other answer does a good job of covering this in the basics and I don't want to repeat that information here but it has missed a couple of points that are worth mentioning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The notification that you saw, red or grey dot in the top bar over the review button, only shows up in specific circumstances. These are &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/302226/345161&quot;&gt;explained on this main meta post&lt;/a&gt; (there might have been tweaks to the numbers since then) but the TL;DR is that when a specific review has &amp;gt;N items in it and/or you haven't visited /review in a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To expand a bit further on why you was asked to review as your rep hits certain milestones you unlock different &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges&quot;&gt;privileges&lt;/a&gt;. In this case 500 rep gives &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/access-review-queues&quot;&gt;access review queues&lt;/a&gt; which gives you access to the First Posts and Late Answers queues. The post you linked links to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10604/58193&quot;&gt;good guide&lt;/a&gt; on reviewing in these queues. These are actually quite important queues because they are there to help guide new users first using the site. There is no requirement to read any guides on using the queues of course but it does help to have some idea of what is to be done in them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You also mentioned you appeared to have lost some rep for not reviewing the First Post. This isn't the case and you either misremembered your rep or some other action has lowered it. You can go to your profile page for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/98038/vienla?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;rep changes&lt;/a&gt; and it will show any negative changes recently such as down votes on your posts or cast by you. (Negative changes are only shown to you and moderators).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2020-09-10T08:32:24.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13132" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-09-11T00:57:56.753" Score="19" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;Diana Rigg who played Olenna Tyrell on Game of Thrones &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-11/diana-rigg-game-of-thrones-james-bond-star-dies-olenna-tyrell/12652792&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;has passed away at the age of 82&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A3YGJ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A3YGJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She was also known for her role as Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo in James Bond 007's &lt;em&gt;On Her Majesty's Secret Service&lt;/em&gt;, and a myriad others on stage and screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She was most notably known in the SFF community for her role as Olenna Tyrell and her excellent portrayal of the strong matriarch of House Tyrell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/1cql4_TYZ2A?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;RIP Queen&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastActivityDate="2020-09-12T00:49:12.637" Title="Diana Rigg who played Olenna Tyrell on Game of Thrones has passed away at the age of 82" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13132" CreationDate="2020-09-11T02:26:09.663" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, Diana Rigg's best know role among genre fans was, &lt;strong&gt;by far&lt;/strong&gt;, Emma Peel from &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PSOF9.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PSOF9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Emma Peel&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She also had a wonderful turn in &lt;em&gt;The Great Muppet Caper&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CqYrk.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CqYrk.png&quot; alt=&quot;Miss Piggy and Lady Holiday&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2020-09-11T02:26:09.663" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13125" CreationDate="2020-09-11T04:20:49.170" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should translate. Both for the sake of future non-bilingual readers, AND as another comment noted, for search purposes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should also make it clear the methodology for translation - is it copy from officially translated work? Your personal translation as a biligual person? Google Translate without fixing? This way the reader can gauge the quality of translation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally for Russian stuff I tend to try to do high quality idiomatic translation, when I have the time - you can see examples in [night-watch] tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2020-09-11T04:20:49.170" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13132" CreationDate="2020-09-12T00:49:12.637" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the younger SFF fans out there, let it not be forgotten that Dame Rigg also had a memorable appearance as Mrs. Gillyflower in the modern &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; episode &amp;quot;The Crimson Horror&amp;quot; alongside her daughter, Rachael Stirling. The episode is a delight to watch and a true testament to both mother and daughter's acting abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9NP6F.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9NP6F.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68065" LastActivityDate="2020-09-12T00:49:12.637" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13136" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-09-14T18:36:13.963" Score="9" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/236947/revisions&quot;&gt;Why is this chapter called “The Lightning Struck Tower”?&lt;/a&gt; was chosen as a Hot Network Question. Not very odd, but what &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; odd, as you can see, is that this action was recorded 26 times. I checked the timestamps and they are all showing &lt;code&gt;2020-09-13 01:41:08Z&lt;/code&gt;... so it looks like there is or was an issue with the recording of HNQ entries in associated question's revision history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can staff take a look at what happened here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23886" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2020-09-29T12:49:16.103" LastActivityDate="2020-09-29T12:49:16.103" Title="A question was chosen as a Hot Network Question simultaneously 26 times, according to the revision history" Tags="|bug|status-completed|questions|hot-network-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13136" CreationDate="2020-09-14T18:42:48.103" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a (well-)known bug, see my Meta Stack Exchange question &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/327889/295232&quot;&gt;Very hot network questions found&lt;/a&gt;. Staff is aware of it, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/327889/very-hot-network-questions-found#comment1183753_327889&quot;&gt;the priority is&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very low since it doesn't appear to affect actual functionality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44520" LastActivityDate="2020-09-14T18:42:48.103" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13138" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-09-18T18:46:01.660" Score="20" ViewCount="242" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fantasy author Terry Goodkind, known for his long-running The Sword of Truth series, has died at the age of 72. His agent confirmed his passing to Tor Books and Tor.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.tor.com/2020/09/17/terry-goodkind-sword-of-truth-wizards-first-rule-death-obituary/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Quoted from Tor Books website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Born in 1948, Goodkind first established a career as a woodworker and artist, before eventually writing his first novel, Wizard’s First Rule, in 1994. The novel follows Richard Cypher, a woodland guide in a magical world, who learns that he’s a long-sought-after First Wizard, and that he has a destiny to save the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The novel kicked off Goodkind’s long-running Sword of Truth series, which eventually numbered 21 installments, the most recent of which, Heart of Black Ice, was published in January of this year. In 2019, he launched a series, The Children of D’Hara, also set in the same world, publishing five installments between April 2019 and June 2020.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 2008, Evil Dead and Spider-Man director Sam Raimi and ABC Studios picked up the rights to adapt The Sword of Truth series as a television show, which debuted in November 2008 as Legend of the Seeker. The first season covered the events of the first novel, while a second adapted its sequel, Stone of Tears. The series was canceled in 2010, and efforts to bring the series to another network didn’t pan out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On his official Facebook page, Goodkind’s representatives posted a short remembrance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“It is impossible to put into few words just how amazing of a man, a husband, a writer, a friend, and a human, Terry Goodkind truly was. He is already desperately missed. We are forever grateful for him having shared his life’s work with all of us, as he was always grateful to be held in our hearts.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78225" LastActivityDate="2020-09-18T18:46:01.660" Title="RIP Terry Goodkind" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13139" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13140" CreationDate="2020-09-21T09:54:07.440" Score="11" ViewCount="253" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why was the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/15749/short-story-with-all-odd-numbers-are-prime-joke&quot;&gt;Short Story with “All Odd Numbers Are Prime” Joke&lt;/a&gt; migrated to Literature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question stated it was from Analog, which is an SF magazine, and indeed it was because it's the short &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?51132&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Epicycle&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._J._Plauger&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;P. J. Plauger&lt;/a&gt; who is an SF author and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/235558/he-hesitated-realizing-what-he-was-about-to-say-to-the-worlds-first-human-leve/235561#235561&quot;&gt;whose works have been identified on the site before&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4144" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2023-01-29T13:54:16.550" LastActivityDate="2020-09-21T11:07:49.060" Title="Why was this question migrated?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13139" CreationDate="2020-09-21T11:07:49.060" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;My bad, I guess. I thought the OP just wanted an ID on &lt;strong&gt;the joke about mathematicians and engineers&lt;/strong&gt;, which in itself isn't sci-fi or fantasy at all, although readily identifiable as part of &amp;quot;scientist folk humour&amp;quot; in one form or another. Had I realised that what he was really looking for was &lt;strong&gt;a sci-fi short story featuring this joke&lt;/strong&gt;, I wouldn't have migrated it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for my speed in migrating it was partly because I happened to see it quickly, but mostly because I wanted to spare the OP downvotes for posting an off-topic question here (something which often happens even if the question is of good quality disregarding scope considerations).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2020-09-21T11:07:49.060" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13141" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-09-30T21:01:27.590" Score="8" ViewCount="342" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Update&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is now closed and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2020/10/highlights-from-2020-3rd-quarter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt; has been created.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Original&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from July 1st 2019 through September 30th 2020.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2020/01/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2020/01/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2020/01/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I will also be linking all blog posts that happened within this half year. Also the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/550327/most-controversial-posts-on-the-site-by-start-date&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;most controversial question&lt;/a&gt; of the quarter. Also a sum of all the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/618952/past-bounties-by-bounty-date&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;bounties&lt;/a&gt; that were awarded.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally if there was a meta post you feel should be spotlighted those are also acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pandemic Suggestions?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have you watched, read, or experienced anything amazing over this time as result of quarantine? You may also mention that. For instance, you watched something you hadn't seen before, and that exceeded your expectations. Mention it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="1148" LastEditDate="2020-10-23T01:15:32.173" LastActivityDate="2020-10-23T01:15:32.173" Title="Favorite Question and Answers from Third Quarter 2020" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13141" CreationDate="2020-10-01T19:44:31.443" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I quite liked a few this quarter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one because the complexity of the world created by Lucas means there isn't just one singular answer but &lt;em&gt;several&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/226416/why-did-mace-windu-and-the-jedi-council-refuse-to-raise-anakin-to-the-rank-of-ma&quot;&gt;Why did Mace Windu and the Jedi Council refuse to raise Anakin to the rank of Master?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one because it was &lt;em&gt;surprisingly difficult&lt;/em&gt; to find a canon answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/225993/in-star-trek-are-food-replicators-also-used-by-everyday-people-as-a-household-i&quot;&gt;In Star Trek, are food replicators also used by everyday people as a household item?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this one because @Skooba managed to find me an authorised answer 6 years after I asked it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/72236/was-lucius-malfoy-actually-going-to-kill-harry-potter&quot;&gt;Was Lucius Malfoy actually going to kill Harry Potter?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2020-10-01T19:50:56.963" LastActivityDate="2020-10-01T19:50:56.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13143" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13144" CreationDate="2020-10-08T23:30:22.657" Score="19" ViewCount="254" Body="&lt;p&gt;In comments under &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/237536/51174&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;em&gt;Who is “Nine Lives Man”? (Push Comic) bronze sculpture&lt;/em&gt; I'd originally thought that &lt;em&gt;manhua&lt;/em&gt; was an automatic spelling corrector's interpretation of a word meant to be &lt;em&gt;manga&lt;/em&gt; (also discussed in the post) but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/236171/who-is-nine-lives-man-push-comic-bronze-sculpture#comment651865_237536&quot;&gt;another user took the time to comment and explain&lt;/a&gt; the difference between those two and &lt;em&gt;manhwa&lt;/em&gt; as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While they suggest that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The characteristics, commonalities and differences of each of the three could probably fill several thesis papers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;they did a great job in a long comment. However, comments must be considered temporary and it's hard to find them just searching the site, so I thought I'd provide an opportunity to permanentize a useful discussion of the three terms as they relate to this site, and how to choose between them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll note that there is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/manga&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;manga&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;manga&lt;/a&gt; tag (180+) but I don't know if it applies to &lt;em&gt;manhua&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;manhwa&lt;/em&gt; as well. Hopefully answers were will provide some guidance to there as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Potentially related: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2399/51174&quot;&gt;Is unrealistic anime or manga automatically considered sci-fi/fantasy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related in Anime SE, but brace yourself before reading: &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/7004&quot;&gt;What's the difference between manga, manhwa, and manhua?&lt;/a&gt; (thanks to @AndrewT. for pointing to the link)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51174" LastEditorUserId="51174" LastEditDate="2020-10-10T23:58:49.347" LastActivityDate="2020-10-10T23:58:49.347" Title="What are distinctions between manga, manhua and manhwa as they relate to this site? How to know which to use, and how to tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|terminology|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13143" CreationDate="2020-10-09T11:55:16.667" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;In response to your second question about which to use and how to tag, I think we should keep the current state of affairs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/manga&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;manga&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;manga&lt;/a&gt; tag is mostly (173/183) applied to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions.  Adding &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/manhwa&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;manhwa&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;manhwa&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/manhua&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;manhua&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;manhua&lt;/a&gt; tags wouldn't make it easier to either answer or find those questions, so I think it would be counter-productive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The user posting the question by definition doesn't recall the work, so their memory of which category it belongs to is potentially just as fallible as any other detail in their question;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The user may not even be aware of the terms &amp;quot;manhwa&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;manhua&amp;quot; to use them properly;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A future user trying to find the same answer would need to exactly match the OP's guess as to the type, which makes searching much harder;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The subsequent user must also be aware of the other terms.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As @TheLethalCarrot noted, current practice is to add that kind of detail - assuming the user recalls it - to the question.  It could be considered analogous to having a single &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; tag and not having specific &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/paperback&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;paperback&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;paperback&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/hard-cover&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hard-cover&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hard-cover&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/trade-paper&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;trade-paper&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;trade-paper&lt;/a&gt;, etc. tags.  (Not that it's exactly the same, just that's a level of detail that can easily be added to the question if it's known.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be useful to expand the usage guidance for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/manga&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;manga&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;manga&lt;/a&gt;, which currently says &amp;quot;specific style originating in (but not exclusive to) Japan&amp;quot; to add something like &amp;quot;including the derived styles known as 'manhwa' and 'manhua'&amp;quot;.  (But written by someone who's better at explaining things than I am.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastEditorUserId="101407" LastEditDate="2020-10-10T02:04:08.860" LastActivityDate="2020-10-10T02:04:08.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13145" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-10-10T04:27:15.090" Score="6" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;The show &lt;em&gt;Evil&lt;/em&gt; deals with the adventures of a group of investigators whom the Catholic Church has charged with investigating reports of supposed divine or diabolical activity, and who also occasionally run into such events unprompted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the one hand, pretty much every episode contains some element that could be viewed as supernatural. These are usually debunked partly by the end of the episode, but with some aspect that is left unexplained. A further wrinkle is that most of these elements are investigated as religious phenomena. For instance, a prototypical example would be an executive suspected of being influenced by a demon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the end of the episode, it might be revealed that all the demonic signs have at least plausible mundane explanations, and the demonic voice coming from his speaker is that of a disgruntled ex-employee. However, the employee might insist that he had stopped hacking the executive's device days ago, and the voice might torment a team member with information that it could have almost no way of knowing, and then prompt the executive to cheerily commit suicide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While most of these elements &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be subject to mundane explanations with varying degrees of plausibility, some are not easily amenable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; For instance, while under the effects of a drug, David has a vision of one of his ancestors, complete with her name and specific identifying details, which he had not known before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; We also see &amp;quot;Leland&amp;quot; talking to what appears to be the Devil, although admittedly this could be intended to represent him hallucinating. But then, it is the exact same Devil that appears in Kristen's dreams, and apparently in her daughter's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; Most obviously, a &amp;quot;demonic&amp;quot; message in a YouTube video made any children who listened to it hum a song endlessly, and a substantial proportion tried to kill themselves to make the song go away, apparently following the explicit directives of the message to commit suicide. Even if one believes in largely debunked subliminal messages, i.e. that rock albums really could make teenagers &amp;quot;do it,&amp;quot; the message was completely superliminal for its intended audience. That is, adults could not hear the message about committing suicide, but its intended audience of teenagers could hear it perfectly well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, in the last episode, it is revealed that, to all appearances,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; the 60 have been using the RSM Fertility Clinic to modify the DNA of egg cells to produce psychopathic children, or something along those lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might well qualify as science-fictional, particularly if it is later revealed that this explains some of the more apparently supernatural events of the previous episodes (e.g. modifying DNA to make people susceptible to being mind-controlled by an audio message or develop a congenital condition that would later &amp;quot;miraculously&amp;quot; heal&amp;quot; would certainly fit the bill).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is &lt;em&gt;Evil&lt;/em&gt; on-topic? Or, if it is not, does it have science fiction or fantasy elements that are on-topic in accordance with the site's policy on works with only a small SF&amp;amp;F conceit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="51379" LastEditDate="2020-10-10T04:46:24.610" LastActivityDate="2020-10-10T04:46:24.610" Title="Is Evil on-topic, either partially or completely?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13146" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13147" CreationDate="2020-10-10T07:51:19.850" Score="4" ViewCount="209" Body="&lt;p&gt;For some reason &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/237384/what-is-the-difference-between-the-stealth-tank-in-xxx-state-of-the-union-and-b&quot;&gt;my question&lt;/a&gt; had a struggle, because it got a downvote. Later, I updated the question by doing a comparison, but that just made it worse and it got another downvote without any explanations. I got so upset of how I reacted to those users downvoting my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can somebody help me how to update that question correctly so it gets upvoted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132810" LastEditorUserId="30512" LastEditDate="2020-10-19T13:45:30.917" LastActivityDate="2020-10-19T13:45:30.917" Title="Why is my question getting downvoted?" Tags="|support|down-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13146" CreationDate="2020-10-10T08:09:53.947" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several people didn't understand your question, as evidenced by the comments and comment upvotes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand your question. What would it mean for one fictional tank to &amp;quot;be&amp;quot; another fictional tank?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would imagine that both of the people who upvoted that comment also downvoted your question so it's not true that these downvotes are happening '&lt;em&gt;without explanation'&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;S&gt;As to whether it will &lt;em&gt;continue&lt;/em&gt; to receive downvotes after your edit, I rather suspect that the answer is yes. It's still not particularly clear what you're asking, nor why you accepted the answer that you did and you've also attracted attention to it (via this meta question), which means that there's going to be a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Streisand Effect&lt;/a&gt; happening.&lt;/S&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is now deleted. I think this is probably for the best, for the reasons detailed above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2020-10-10T20:29:23.240" LastActivityDate="2020-10-10T20:29:23.240" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13141" CreationDate="2020-10-14T18:48:09.653" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Big Hero 6: The Series&lt;/em&gt; was a fun series to watch, at least for the first two seasons. I thought I wouldn't really enjoy it because I didn't remember much of the movie, but it definitely served as a good branching point off of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's available on Disney+ and Disney XD On-Demand, if you want to watch it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131076" LastActivityDate="2020-10-14T18:48:09.653" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13149" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-10-20T07:41:17.420" Score="3" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/238223/who-was-the-last-elf-born-in-the-middle-earth&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question as I was curious if elves were still procreating. The question was simple and obvious, it basically asked birth rates of elves near the destruction of the ring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did my research, found two relevant questions and included in my question. I read Silmarillion, Hobbit, LotR but did not read Unfinished Tales and Tolkien's letters. I knew this was not covered in the content that I read but I hoped it might be included in the content that I have not read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have many questions with &amp;quot;we don't know&amp;quot; answer. A few users even use &lt;strong&gt;we don't &lt;strike&gt;sow&lt;/strike&gt; know&lt;/strong&gt; as a humorous way to answer these questions. Yet, even though the question has a definite and provable answer, for some reason, it is deemed unclear by two users, one with 100k reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the close votes started, I decided to remove my guiding questions and replace it with a flat question. Yet, three more users still thought it was unclear as it was, one with half a million reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am giving the reputation values to illustrate on the fact that these users did not receive close vote privileges recently. Some might have been here since this SE is established. If these users close vote in the way they do, this clearly means there is a lack of consensus about what &amp;quot;lacks focus&amp;quot; means for this SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it allowed to have guiding questions in the same question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers usually have layers suggesting what is known, what is conjectured and what is unknown. To help with this layering, I included three sub questions on the exact same topic. All these sub questions asked about births given by Elves in the near vicinity of the events of the destruction of the ring. Is this a valid reason for a question to lack focus?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do image identification questions with cross universe characters/items lack focus?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have questions such as &amp;quot;identify all the easter eggs&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;identify all the characters&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;identify all the items&amp;quot;. These questions have clear subquestions, yet they are sometimes VTCed and sometimes not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there is, or if we can reach a consensus, how is it possible to deter single users with close vote privileges from adhering to his/her own standards?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have noticed some active users adhere to different standards, not just about lack of focus also what constitutes a duplicate. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/190785/why-did-nazgul-spare-the-other-hobbits-at-weathertop&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; of mine is closed because apparently, &amp;quot;Why weren't hobbits finished off by Nazgul&amp;quot; is exactly the same as &amp;quot;Why didn't Nazgul make a second sweep&amp;quot;. Since there is a lack of enforcement of standards, you have to be lucky when a group of people blatantly disagreeing with the general consensus decide that your question needs to be VTCed. Usually users adhering to the consensus are less vocal. I got lucky with my &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/172900/are-there-any-specific-examples-in-lord-of-the-rings-that-are-influenced-by-wwii&quot;&gt;WWII influences in LotR&lt;/a&gt; question (some users adhere to the standards which state WWII is duplicate of WWI), but I didn't get lucky with my Weathertop question, although it was very well received and had a very well crafted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user65648" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2020-10-20T09:10:27.213" LastActivityDate="2020-10-21T14:45:39.343" Title="What does it mean for a question to lack focus?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13149" CreationDate="2020-10-20T08:40:31.293" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a general response, of course people will disagree, that's an inherent given where anyone has to come to a consensus and it is the reason the SE network works. You've got to think as well that when it comes to the various close reasons a lot of them are subjective in there understanding by default and will always be and so you won't get people agreeing on it. Unclear and opinion-based are some of the more obvious ones for this to apply to but it also applies to the others including needs more focus. (I won't touch on duplicates because they have an extensive history on this site and it's tangential to this discussion anyway).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, we have a system that is subjective (and thrives because of it) and users who are subjective (because well we're humans after all) so you're always going to get people who think something should be closed and others who don't. Now onto your questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it allowed to have guiding questions in the same question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course it is, there shouldn't be any rule against it, but anytime you add more that one question mark people will automatically be thinking this is potentially going to be too broad. However, all of the guiding questions can simply only be that guiding questions. As soon as you start leading the questions into requests for more information, i.e. more questions themselves, you're going to start falling into more problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do image identification questions with cross universe characters/items lack focus?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No they don't and we've had extensive discussions on this subject themselves so I won't repeat it here. Here's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12677/58193&quot;&gt;couple&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12334/58193&quot;&gt;related discussions&lt;/a&gt; on the matter. There is some more discussion on the matter but my Google-fu is failing me at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is, or if we can reach a consensus, how is it possible to deter single users with close vote privileges from adhering to his/her own standards?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It isn't possible and if someone wants to follow their own standards we can't stop them. We can say &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; we feel their close vote is wrong or against the rules but if they want to continue using it how they wish they can do so. In the most part the system works correctly because of the amount of users that need to close a question for action to be taken. And in the cases where closure or reopening goes against judgement/rules the mods can step in. As I said before though the system works because each user gets to have their own say (barring reputation thresholds of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another point to focus on is that you've brought up a few examples to prove your point yet every question is different and should be treated as such. Sometimes it is as simple as changing a couple of words for the question to be on topic (any -&amp;gt; first example questions) and sometimes no matter how many edits you make you can never make the question on topic. Each question should always be treated on its own and on a case by case basis for the system to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said as I am one of the users who initially voted to close your question and one of the ones you allude to I'll explain my reasoning in this case. I felt like your guiding questions fell more into the leading questions category. To me, personally, the second/third question whilst I can see the argument for them being incorporated under the first/overall header are leading into more information. Note that in the comments the questions were all answered separately as well supporting my point somewhat. In general where you say &amp;quot;if yes then {question} but if no then {question}&amp;quot; you're likely going down more of a leading questions route than a guiding questions one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your edits helped in this manner though and the current version of the question has been reopened, with one of the votes being mine. Though I actually think the question would be better without the edit section/guiding questions on the bottom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do want to make it clear though, because the start of your post here implies differently. I understood your question and did &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; think it was unclear, it was of course perfectly clear. And I did not vote to close because of it having a potential we don't know answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will also note that your attitude doesn't help matters, whilst I didn't see it until this meta question, it likely put others off from helping you. Ranting in the edits to the question (where it doesn't belong at all and as a long time user I'm sure you know this) then ranting in the comments and to some extent this meta is a rant. And of course there was nothing in my decision (and I'm sure I speak for the others as well) that made any decision to vote to close or reopen it personal or harassment. Saying anything like that will only turn people away, try and work with them constructively instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2020-10-20T11:38:04.780" LastActivityDate="2020-10-20T11:38:04.780" CommentCount="22" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13149" CreationDate="2020-10-21T14:45:39.343" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;On multiple subquestions in the same post&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the major warning signs for a question to be &amp;quot;too broad&amp;quot;, or to use the new name &amp;quot;needs more focus&amp;quot;, is when it is &lt;strong&gt;asking more than one question in the same post&lt;/strong&gt;. It even says that in the close reason itself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question currently includes multiple questions in one. It should focus on one problem only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone asks multiple &lt;em&gt;unrelated&lt;/em&gt; questions in the same post, then that should be closed, and maybe edited or broken up into more than one question post. To stretch the point to an obvious case, I think we can all agree that &amp;quot;why didn't they use the Eagles to fly the Ring to Mordor? and what exactly is Tom Bombadil?&amp;quot; should be closed and split into two questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, &lt;strong&gt;not every post with more than one question-mark in it should be closed&lt;/strong&gt;! Sometimes there are multiple related sub-questions which are all part of the same main query. That should be fine, and that seems to be what you're referring to by &amp;quot;guiding questions&amp;quot; here. I'm not going to try to wordsmith a policy to define when multiple questions should be considered &amp;quot;related&amp;quot; and when not, as such things might need to be decided on a case-by-case basis, but certainly there are cases of both types. Your question counts as a case where the different questions within the post are related enough that it shouldn't be closed, and indeed has been reopened before this meta post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to convince people that multiple questions in one post are indeed related?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Not for your question, which has already been reopened, but as a general principle.) If people are voting to close a multi-question question as &amp;quot;too broad&amp;quot; / &amp;quot;needs more focus&amp;quot; even though the questions are related, consider &lt;strong&gt;editing the question to make that more clear&lt;/strong&gt;. Try to put yourself into the minds of the close-voters, and assume good intent. OK, they think it's too broad because there are three different questions in it; write something to address their concerns and convince them that those questions are closely related enough to fit in one post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That &amp;quot;assume good intent&amp;quot; part is important, by the way. You're much more likely to convince people by trying to see their point of view than by attacking them. Using terms like &amp;quot;close vote mafia&amp;quot; doesn't help your case and won't endear people to you - even if your main point is correct!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What about those multi-image ID questions?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Certain topics and types of questions have their own particular history on this site. People have been posting the occasional multi-image ID question since years back, and it's often more about fun cooperation and community building than a question that the OP really needs answered. They've been &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12677/31394&quot;&gt;discussed on meta before&lt;/a&gt;, and some people do think they should be closed as too broad, but they're generally (if grudgingly) accepted since having them around has never caused any trouble. If you want to make a case for closing them, open a new meta about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;People abusing close votes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some ways this site is indeed quite close-happy, and some users more than others. We do have a number of questions getting wrongly closed, although a good proportion of them do get reopened afterwards. But there are different degrees of what might be considered &amp;quot;abuse&amp;quot; from close voters, with correspondingly different levels of mod action possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a question very clearly shouldn't have been closed, I'm willing to modhammer it open (and take the flak on meta from the close-voters if necessary). But some questions are pretty borderline and I can see both points of view on whether they should be closed or not.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there's a consistent pattern of &lt;em&gt;clearly&lt;/em&gt; inappropriate close (or reopen) votes from a particular user, we can send a moderator message and remind the user about whatever scope policy they're ignoring. I've done that once or twice in the past. But, again, it's harder to justify taking action in more vague situations, where people just have more or less strict interpretations of scope policy rather than acting way out of line.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that &lt;strong&gt;it (usually) takes five users to close a question&lt;/strong&gt;. If there's just one or two overly strict close voters, it's not enough to get lots of stuff closed. You mentioned a &amp;quot;bandwagon effect&amp;quot;, which is sometimes true but IMO &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; (as you suggested) a natural consequence of the Close Votes review queue's existence. That queue has two buttons, and sometimes a question escapes it quickly with unanimous Leave Open votes. If a question gets closed by five people, and doesn't get reopened afterwards, that might be more of an indication of some actual consensus rather than just a few people misinterpreting policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm aware that that's not always the case, and sometimes even valid reopen votes fail to gain traction (e.g. if the same people who closed a question just quickly vote to Leave Closed in the Reopen Votes review queue and nobody else even sees it). I know that this is a problem, but I'm not sure what to do about it, even as a moderator. Part of the problem is more from the nature of the system than any particular bad actors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I do monitor the review queue history and occasionally ban bad reviewers, but review bans are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11892/31394&quot;&gt;more for robo-reviewers who don't think at all than for people with outlying opinions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sometimes I hammer questions open, finding them either from meta discussions or flags or just natural browsing of the site, but only in clear-cut cases.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth, most of the controversial closures on SFF are &lt;em&gt;duplicate&lt;/em&gt; closures. These are the exception to the rule that it needs five users or a mod to close something, since some high-rep users have gold tag badges and therefore dupehammers. Partly due to this, and also a hotly disputed meta policy, a lot of dupe closures are contested and controversial. That's a discussion I'm &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; getting into here, though :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One last point: you've put a lot of emphasis in this meta discussion on a couple of high-rep users, but it's worth noting that they were not the ones who put your question up for closure. It originally entered the review queue due to a close flag from a low-rep user (someone without even the 3k rep required to VTC themselves), and was removed from the queue after &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/close/168967&quot;&gt;three Leave Open votes (as well as three Close votes)&lt;/a&gt;, but then went on to receive two more close votes not from the queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2020-10-21T14:45:39.343" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13152" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-10-31T13:23:36.100" Score="34" ViewCount="381" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54761824&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sean Connery: James Bond actor dies aged 90&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Best known for his role as James Bond, which is not considered Sci-Fi or Fantasy, however he did star in many SFF films such as &lt;em&gt;Zardoz&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Highlander&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Indiana Jones&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;First Knight&lt;/em&gt;, and his last appearance on screen in &lt;em&gt;The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was knighted by the Queen at Holyrood Palace in 2000. In August, he celebrated his 90th birthday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was probably one the most recognizable actors of the 20th century and will be missed by all who loved him and his work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess Goldfinger finally got his wish...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2020-11-06T19:22:21.410" Title="There can only be one, RIP Sir Sean Connery" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13152" CreationDate="2020-10-31T21:34:54.007" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sean Connery played both of England's most legendary characters: King Arthur in First Knight, and Robin Hood in Robin and Marian (little known but well worth watching). I wonder if he was the only film actor to play both of these roles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WljUx.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WljUx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Robin &amp;amp; Marian&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4935" LastActivityDate="2020-10-31T21:34:54.007" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13152" CreationDate="2020-11-03T00:00:14.693" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really enjoyed Connery in the 1981 film Outland.  It's basically High Noon in space, but it's just a great popcorn film with an excellent supporting cast and an Alien-ish look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3HpWs.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3HpWs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69621" LastActivityDate="2020-11-03T00:00:14.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13152" CreationDate="2020-11-03T16:37:06.943" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Connery had his misses as well. In addition to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/02/jacks-bad-movies-highlander-ii-the-quickening/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;horrifying bad Highlander 2&lt;/a&gt;, there was &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zardoz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Zardoz&lt;/a&gt;, a quintessentially cheesy 70's scifi B-movie that had Connery dressed in... well...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UiRIn.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UiRIn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Sean Connery in Zardoz&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can't go on SFF that we talk about him and skip &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt;. Still, James Bond, Capt. Ramius, Indiana Jones' dad and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPZ6eaL3S2E&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Malone in &lt;em&gt;The Untouchables&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. One of the most accomplished actors of the 20th century.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastActivityDate="2020-11-03T16:37:06.943" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13152" CreationDate="2020-11-06T19:22:21.410" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also he had a great role in &lt;em&gt;The Hunt for Red October&lt;/em&gt;, such a shame that he was driven off acting after getting into arguments with Stephen Norrington on the set of &lt;em&gt;LXG&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131953" LastActivityDate="2020-11-06T19:22:21.410" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13157" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-11-08T10:32:44.113" Score="-6" ViewCount="178" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason I say this is that story-id questions seem to frequently make the hot network questions list and closing them rips them back off the HNQ again. If someone has put a lot of effort into identifying a story it seems mean to deny them their place in the sun (and the upvotes that come with it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not suggesting we don't close story-id questions as duplicates, just that we could leave it 24 or 48 hours after the answer is accepted to give it time to get some love.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4144" LastActivityDate="2020-11-17T10:47:52.627" Title="I wonder if we are a bit too quick to close story-id questions with accepted answers as duplicates" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13157" CreationDate="2020-11-08T11:26:41.117" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Story-ID duplicates should be closed (duped) &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;as soon as they're &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7065/closing-story-ident-questions-as-duplicates-where-theres-no-acceptance&quot;&gt;confirmed to be duplicates&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; That is the way the site works across the entire network and is the way it should be here. We certainly shouldn't be creating arbitrary rules to leave them open for x hours before we close them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that people aren't posting Story-ID questions to earn rep, they're posting them to get an answer to their question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2020-11-09T00:42:19.117" LastActivityDate="2020-11-09T00:42:19.117" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13157" CreationDate="2020-11-08T20:30:10.620" Score="-7" Body="&lt;p&gt;We should almost never close a story-id question as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange sites are searchable.  They archive answered questions forever, so that other people who find it can learn from the answers.  We don't delete or close questions just because they're answered.  We leave them open just in case someone can add a different answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This applies to identification questions as well.  If someone posts a good answer to a story-identification question, we don't delete the answer just because the original poster of the question confirms that it's not the work that they're looking for.  We leave the answer visible because it may help someone else find that work by a keyword search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This also applies if someone posts an answer after the original poster accepts an answer to confirm that he found what they were looking for.  There's no reason to distinguish depending on how fast the answer was posted.  Closing the identification question as a duplicate denies the opportunity that someone posts an answer that helps someone other than the original poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the current practice for marking identification questions is arbitrary and harmful.  The main reason why it's happening is because “that's how we were always doing it”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wish we could find a way to break out of that habit.  To do this, we need to gather consensus on meta, then reopen every identification question that was marked duplicate but isn't deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastActivityDate="2020-11-08T20:30:10.620" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13160" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-11-11T20:18:24.660" Score="5" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/238983/theories-about-how-harry-survived-voldemort&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; (not mine) asks, essentially, what witches and wizards thought about how Harry had survived Voldemort in the years between Voldemort's first defeat and Harry's reappearance. It was marked as needs focus, but I'm not sure why. Is it just that the title sounds like it's referring to out of universe theories, and it needs to be clarified and cleaned up? Is it that is sounds a bit like it's asking for a (short) list?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions seem pretty similar in spirit to me, and they were highly voted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/23670/why-didnt-people-think-that-voldemort-died-after-his-attack-on-baby-harry?rq=1&quot;&gt;Why Didn't People Think That Voldemort Died After His Attack on Baby Harry?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/84963/where-did-the-wizarding-world-think-harry-was&quot;&gt;Where did the Wizarding World think Harry was?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both are asking about in-universe theorizing over the same time period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74203" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2020-11-11T23:27:38.363" LastActivityDate="2020-11-12T04:39:55.810" Title="Why was this question closed as 'needs to be more focused'?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13160" CreationDate="2020-11-11T20:41:04.253" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even if it's intended to be posed strictly in-universe, it's still not a great question.  The way it's written, it can't have a definitive answer, and the question seems to be making some major assumptions (&amp;quot;I'm sure other Witches and Wizards would have speculated something.&amp;quot;) which makes it smell a bit of opinion-based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I had reviewed it I'm not sure I would have picked &amp;quot;needs focus&amp;quot; as the close reason; it's pretty clear that the question is &amp;quot;list all competing theories about how Harry survived&amp;quot; even though it's stated slightly differently a few times.  But it really is asking for a list, which is reason to close, and it's asking for what characters &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; have thought, which is opinion-based and also reason to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps if the question were &amp;quot;Does any character explain why they believe Harry was never attacked by Voldemort before coming to Hogwarts?&amp;quot; it might be answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastEditorUserId="101407" LastEditDate="2020-11-11T20:48:22.857" LastActivityDate="2020-11-11T20:48:22.857" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13160" CreationDate="2020-11-12T04:39:55.810" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not think the question should be closed, and indeed I have voted to reopen it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, it could be rephrased somewhat to make the following more obvious, but it seems to be essentially asking what the people in the story thought the explanation of a certain event was. It asks how many such explanations there were and what they were.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is certainly an answerable question. The answer must of necessity be one of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unknown as no such explanations are mentioned in the books or supplementary materials.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are X number of theories recorded in Chapters A, B, and C.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No theories are explicitly mentioned, but analysis of Clues 1, 2, and 3 lends support to Theories 8,9, and 10.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is pretty well focused, even if it allows for the possibility that there might be multiple theories that need to be accounted for. Long answers are no strangers to this site, and in a finitely defined series spanning a few thousand pages it is unlikely that there are more theories than can fit in a 30,000 character answer box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the question is also not Opinion-Based, as there is an objective answer to the question. Again, perhaps it should be edited slightly to make it absolutely clear that it's not asking for you to post your own pet theories, but rather the theories of the characters in the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastActivityDate="2020-11-12T04:39:55.810" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13157" CreationDate="2020-11-17T09:51:41.570" Score="-3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if we are a bit too quick to close story-id questions with accepted answers as duplicates&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, that might be so, but there are some challenges to doing what you propose...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have often thought that to reduce the existential tension between a question that &amp;quot;feels like it needs to be closed&amp;quot; and the need for a community to work together to optimize the outcome, the quality of the answers and their findability in the future, an modification of the close process could be considered in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...just that we could leave it 24 or 48 hours after the answer is accepted to give it time to get some love.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll give a couple of concrete examples of community-based love-giving to questions that probably needed to be closed, but benefited from a delayed closing in order for at least several answers to be posted. They are in a high question-rate site, but one where questions are given not only love but significant respect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://math.stackexchange.com/q/3097867/284619&quot;&gt;Why is Sesame Street's Count von Count's favorite number 34,969&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://math.stackexchange.com/q/2156273/284619&quot;&gt;What does “most of mathematics” mean?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There could be several other reasons why an &lt;em&gt;inevitable, but delayed close&lt;/em&gt; would have some advantages when applied to a question that isn't bad, but for some reason shouldn't be left open forever, and besides allowing for the possibility of a few more answers is of course longevity on the HNQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that sometimes the urgency to insta-close stems from a mistrust of the community. &amp;quot;I know this question must not be answered, so I must make all possible haste to prevent the posting of answers&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a 24 hour or 4 our delayed close could be in Stack Exchange's future. I'm not up to proposing it as a feature request certainly, but in the quieter and/or more evolved communities it could certainly come in handy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51174" LastEditorUserId="51174" LastEditDate="2020-11-17T10:47:52.627" LastActivityDate="2020-11-17T10:47:52.627" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13167" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-11-20T14:29:38.477" Score="9" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/239404/where-did-horace-walpole-get-the-adjective-gothic-to-describe-the-castle-of-ot&quot;&gt;Where did Horace Walpole get the adjective &amp;quot;Gothic&amp;quot; to describe The Castle of Otranto?&lt;/a&gt; which I asked last night has been closed (although I cannot see by whom).  Apart from a complaint in a comment that this might be off topic, since it is about terminology, I cannot see any cognizable reason why it would be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Gothic” fiction is an important genre with major (but not perfect) overlap with fantasy and horror.  &lt;em&gt;The Castle of Otranto&lt;/em&gt;, the subject of the question, is certainly fantasy.  So this is a question about terminology that is closely related to the fantasy genre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, even if “Gothic” fiction in general is considered off topic, this question cannot be, since it is a question about a specific (and influential) work of fantasy fiction.  The thrust of the question is, &lt;em&gt;What did the subtitle of&lt;/em&gt; The Castle of Otranto &lt;em&gt;mean?&lt;/em&gt;  It is well established that &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; aspects of on-topic works are on topic for this site (see here:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6594/how-should-we-handle-questions-that-are-about-non-sf-f-elements-in-a-sf-f-work&quot;&gt;How should we handle questions that are about non-SF/F elements in a SF/F work?&lt;/a&gt;).  Moreover, this meta question:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11626/is-it-reasonable-to-ask-about-the-meaning-of-phrases-in-a-science-fiction-work/11627&quot;&gt;Is it reasonable to ask about the meaning of phrases in a science-fiction work?&lt;/a&gt; shows strong consensus that asking about specific language used in fantasy or science fiction work is on topic.  And that is exactly the nature of my question, asking about what the subtitle means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2020-11-20T15:09:49.467" LastActivityDate="2020-11-20T15:09:49.467" Title="Why has the question &quot;Where did Horace Walpole get the adjective &quot;Gothic&quot; to describe The Castle of Otranto?&quot; been closed as off topic?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13168" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13170" CreationDate="2020-11-20T23:34:50.807" Score="-9" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;A new user asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/239456/would-it-be-legally-possible-to-release-a-new-lord-of-the-rings-the-hobbit-movie&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. The question is a valid question but it contains large amount of ranting. Even worse, it had a &amp;quot;if it were me&amp;quot; part, which is almost always unhelpful in this SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A user removed ~90% of the content. Even though I agree that the edit was helpful, it is very disrespectful, especially considering that the author is a very new user. Because I find it disrespectful, not because I found the edit unhelpful, I rolled back the edit and explained why I rolled back. (I did the second rollback because it was done without discussion.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good new user, would lurk some time before contributing, yet, the lack of many privileges, especially lack of commenting privilege, makes them more eager to post content before necessary amount of lurking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what is the best way to deal with such posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user65648" LastActivityDate="2020-11-21T15:33:08.180" Title="Deleting huge chunks of a content without author's permission" Tags="|discussion|new-users|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13168" CreationDate="2020-11-20T23:41:42.933" Score="-10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Blanket removal of the huge chunks without explaining the new user is not only disrespectful, but also unhelpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SE has the policy of being more tolerant to the newcomers, that is why it prompts the &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;xxx&lt;/em&gt; is a newcomer. Be nice.&amp;quot; message.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet, Scifi.SE is one of the most hostile environments I have ever seen online. There is no compassion, there is no consideration of the future effects of the actions taken. It is as if everyone here is robots, using the same algorithm to every single user every single time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is always unhelpful to downvote without leaving a comment. If you don't feel like commenting, not downvoting new-user posts is better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Authors spend time and effort to create their content. So, whatever edit is to be made, their effort should be taken into consideration. Rather than nuking the content, it is better to try to salvage as much as possible. So, if you don't have the time to salvage, making no edits is a valid option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The worst thing that can happen by leaving a low quality newcomer post unedited is having a low quality post in the front page for two days. But, the worst thing that can happen by deleting 90% of the content is that we might lose a good future contributor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In my opinion, under no circumstances, more than 50% of the content should be removed.&lt;/strong&gt;  Even 50% is a little too much to delete, yet at least it is politer than throwing everything to garbage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user65648" LastActivityDate="2020-11-20T23:41:42.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13168" CreationDate="2020-11-20T23:45:50.333" Score="9" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Edit away rants, especially disrespectful ones.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may say it’s disrespectful to remove large portions of a post but what’s more disrespectful is the amount of bad mouthing and negative content towards in the question. Remember the Code of Conduct, Be Nice policy, whatever, applies to all, not just SE users. So much of that content was just ranting that was disrespectful and should be edited out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, on to removing content without leaving a comment... well, in this case there wasn’t time. Each time it was removed you rolled it back instantly before anyone &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; leave a comment. This led me to leave a comment to &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; and try and get my point across for why the content should be removed but I could not to the OP because you left no time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On your point on not removing X% of content, well any arbitrary percentage isn’t going to be helpful. It’s not something that can or should be enforced. Posts should be treated on a case-by-case basis. Is the post 90% rambling rant, 10% question? Then remove the 90% and you’re left with a good question. Is it 3 questions in one? Well then, removing two so it won’t be closed is removing 66% but that’s a good edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2020-11-21T15:33:08.180" LastActivityDate="2020-11-21T15:33:08.180" CommentCount="24" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13171" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-11-21T23:38:40.813" Score="25" ViewCount="492" Body="&lt;p&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/1/31394&quot;&gt;started&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;strong&gt;11 January 2011&lt;/strong&gt;, which means the site is less than two months away from being &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a decade old!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; That's a pretty big milestone, so do we, as a community, want to mark the occasion with any special events or celebrations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Word from SE is that we can get a special temporary birthday banner, looking something like &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FJAbc.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; (image from Ask Ubuntu, which turned 10 years old a few months ago). I don't know how much more we can get on the design/support side of things, but certainly we're able to organise community events if there's enough interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Links from other sites' metas that recently turned 10, if you need inspiration:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/tagged/10th-anniversary&quot;&gt;Ask Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13049&quot;&gt;Physics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm posting this pretty early, two months ahead of the birthday date, because of the impending holiday period: I guess fewer people will be actively using SE during most of the weeks leading up to 11 January. Also it gives us more time to discuss and brainstorm different ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2021-02-14T14:04:20.513" Title="(How) should we mark the 10th anniversary of SFF.SE?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="31" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13172" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13174" CreationDate="2020-11-24T22:38:59.147" Score="0" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;So in a question, I asked recently on the regular sci-fi fantasy stack exchange site &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/239594/where-did-the-myths-of-dragons-come-from&quot;&gt;Where Did The Myths of Dragons Come From?&lt;/a&gt; The answer I wrote was a heavily researched theory I came up with. And the thing is, the question (which I wrote) was asking for theories. And I presented my theory and people downvoted it.&#xA;No one commented on any problems, and my question and answer were both on-point, and heavily researched. So why the downvotes? I was even told that it looked like I was showing off, which I dont understand because I wasnt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134413" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2020-11-24T22:54:39.380" LastActivityDate="2020-11-24T23:43:03.470" Title="Why was my question asking for theories downvoted? Why was my answer for same question downvoted as well?" Tags="|support|down-votes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13172" CreationDate="2020-11-24T23:07:04.250" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The question&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I downvoted this for a variety of reasons; That it's about mythology rather than science fiction or fantasy, that it's not in the least bit clear that all of the myths about dragons (English, French, Chinese) come from the same derivation and basically that you're fishing for theories without offering a question that can be definitively answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I also voted to close as off-topic for much the same reasons. I could just as easily voted as 'VTC - Lacking focus' and 'VTC - Opinion-based' but I thought it more appropriate to vote as off-topic because it's not a good fit for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The answer&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I downvoted this for the simple reason that it seems to be a collection of half-baked theories and nonsense about dinosaurs surviving in the modern age.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;In conclusion.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While self-answered question are &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/17463/can-i-answer-my-own-questions-even-if-i-knew-the-answer-before-asking&quot;&gt;generally to be encouraged&lt;/a&gt;, when you're self-answering a question that's firmly off-topic (in a variety of ways), you're almost certainly going to see a range of downvotes for a range of reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2020-11-24T23:07:04.250" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13172" CreationDate="2020-11-24T23:43:03.470" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm the one who responded to the OP in the question at hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@TheLethalCarrot:  I'll just state for the record that, while I personally find self-answering to be an annoying habit, though not showing off, I do understand that it is permissible on SE. I don't think the practice should be encouraged, though. As a rule, I don't answer those questions, and generally just ignore them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reason I stopped by here was because this new user was receiving what I'd consider to be a fairly abusive round of downvoting without any kind of explanation or guidance from either the moderators or community leaders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is very disappointing, actually. Even now, as of the time I'm writing this, the question &amp;amp; the answer each have five or more down votes &amp;amp; one up vote each. There are two votes to close. The OP is a new user with less than 100 points. NO ONE has bothered to help him with addressing the issue. And the only response  other than mine is a complaint directed at my complaint regarding self answering. Way to drop the ball, guys!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any event, Firestryke, to answer your question properly and on the record, I think it's just as I addressed in the comments directly to you: &lt;strong&gt;the question is off topic&lt;/strong&gt; in that it has nothing to do with any particular work of science fiction or fantasy.  It is actually a perfectly fine question! And, as I suggested to the moderators, would be a good candidate for migration to Mythology &amp;amp; Folklore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for why your answer was so heavily downvoted, I'd hazard the guess, though could be wrong, that it was some of the same people slamming you for your question. Bad question = downvote = might as well downvote the OP's answer too!  (Though in all honesty, I think your answer needs far more work than your question! Formatting / style edits would help; content edits might help more!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know SE cultures vary, but we've had this very discussion, e.g., on Worldbuilding about the ethics of downvoting an answer that's been given to a bad question. Community there is of the opinion that the answer ought to stand on its own merit; thus regardless of how off topic and how excoriated you were for your question, I think your answer should have just been left alone. Reason being: it actually strives to answer the question! (Though in so far as it may not meet that goal, I think a couple of those down votes are understandable.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing you need to understand about Stack Exchange in general is that it is highly compartmentalised. This forum &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; deals with fantasy &amp;amp; science fiction genre media (novels, stories, comics, movies, radio &amp;amp; television serials, etc.) for example.  Even though dragons make their appearances in many fantasy stories, that's not what you're asking about! It's simply because your material is mythologically oriented that it was, rightfully, understood to be off topic. Had you asked this question in the history or literature forums, your question likewise would have been closed for being off topic. This is why I suggested to you that you look into joining the Mythology &amp;amp; Folklore forum! Your answer might be similarly downvoted in that forum, but at least your question would be entirely on topic there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also for the record: I did not down vote either the query or the response, choosing in stead to hope that the Mods will migrate it before this turns into too much of a disaster for you; I did not vote to close; I did petition the Mods to migrate the question to the forum where it would actually be on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105423" LastActivityDate="2020-11-24T23:43:03.470" CommentCount="23" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13175" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13176" CreationDate="2020-11-27T05:23:35.617" Score="2" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/239642/14850&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; locked? The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/239642/14850&quot;&gt;moderation banner at the top of the page on that question&lt;/a&gt; states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Locked for 7 days. There are disputes about this question’s content being resolved at this time. It is not currently accepting new answers or interactions.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am sure some people will say it is obvious that it is a touchy issue, but I don’t get it. From my viewing of the question right now I see no contention. I do see some great answers on that question and no signs of contention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what exactly is the “dispute” here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14850" LastActivityDate="2020-11-27T06:23:20.533" Title="Why was this Star Trek and slavery question locked?" Tags="|discussion|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13175" CreationDate="2020-11-27T06:23:20.533" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nothing to do with slavery being a touchy issue. If you check the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/239642/revisions&quot;&gt;revision history&lt;/a&gt;, you'll see that the OP was repeatedly editing replies to comments into their post and rolling back attempts to remove them. Situations like this, commonly known as &amp;quot;rollback wars&amp;quot;, usually require a moderator to step in and lock the post at a particular version until the editing/content dispute is resolved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2020-11-27T06:23:20.533" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13177" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13179" CreationDate="2020-11-28T16:44:11.730" Score="-5" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;On a question, I asked there was only one answer posted. It didn't really completely answer my question, so I did some further research and answered my own question. I accepted my answer because it was the only satisfactory answer posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the other answer that was posted was edited by the person who posted it, adding another point to it. That answer was so much better than my answer now that I accepted it instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I noticed I gained 2 rep from that question and then plus 10. Apparently, at the same time that I accepted that dude's answer, someone canceled their downvote on my question, then upvoted it. So the most likely either the guy whose answer I accepted or somebody else who liked their answer better only upvoted my question once I accepted their answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this proper conduct? Should people be doing this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And just to be clear, I'm not accusing anyone of anything. There is no actual evidence that someone did this. I'm only asking here so I can know for myself whether or not I should do this. I DO NOT want to get ANYBODY in trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134413" LastEditorUserId="134413" LastEditDate="2020-11-28T17:55:51.813" LastActivityDate="2020-11-29T02:08:11.183" Title="Someone only upvoted my question once I accepted their answer (probably). Is this proper conduct?" Tags="|discussion|down-votes|up-votes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13177" CreationDate="2020-11-28T17:48:51.503" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absent evidence of intentional &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/126829/what-is-serial-voting-and-how-does-it-affect-me&quot;&gt;abuse&lt;/a&gt;, people can up or downvote a question or answer however they please, for whatever reason they choose or whatever rationale they personally employ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we're on the subject, might I strongly suggest you shouldn't sweat a &lt;em&gt;single&lt;/em&gt; up or downvote as these can often occur as a result of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat-finger_error&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;fat fingers&lt;/a&gt; anyway. Instead, concentrate on writing sensible questions and well-referenced answers that will attract lots of upvotes from your fellow users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2020-11-28T22:26:45.443" LastActivityDate="2020-11-28T22:26:45.443" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13177" CreationDate="2020-11-28T22:28:09.927" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You say this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I noticed I gained 2 rep from that question and then plus 10. Apparently, at the same time that I accepted that dude's answer, someone canceled their downvote on my question, then upvoted it. So the most likely either the guy whose answer I accepted or somebody else who liked their answer better only upvoted my question once I accepted their answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly that whole chunk of your question gave me a headache. Why do you believe some series of events like that has any meaning past what it is: Votes changed based on content changing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this proper conduct? Should people be doing this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone can vote anyway here for any reason. Votes are an indication of personal opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the case of some questions, I only upvote a question if I answer the question and the answer is well received. I don’t do this to be political or to hold reputation hostage, but rather I do it because in &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; cases, a question might be misinterpreted by me, yet I have an answer. I will post an answer and maybe follow up with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“I wasn’t 100% clear with what your question is, but I tried to answer it as best as possible. Let me know if I understood it correctly.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If my interpretation of the question is correct and my answer is valid, I will only upvote that question &lt;em&gt;afterwards&lt;/em&gt; to assure I am not rewarding a question that is too confusing to truly be well understood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in the case of someone coming in &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; you self-answered, that is normal. If you clearly state you know what you know and your answer “Is what it is…” then someone else can come along and go, “Wait! There is more…”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing that happened on your question is problematic but rather you are seeing the side effect of someone getting a better answer than was expected and someone else looking at that question and going, “Oh! That is a good question…”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chances are always equal that when a new answer is posted, a new set of eyes sees the question, then sees the answer and simply they are outside of your internalized dramatic interpretation and simply like it as is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a community of people. Getting upset or concerned about one or two upvotes or downvotes is silly. The reason some people have high reps is not because every single thing they post is amazing, but because they continue to post, participate and be a part of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, sometimes someone posts a question that is sure to always get attention and votes, but even people with amazingly well received questions still get downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Bobby McFerrin once sang, don’t worry… Be happy…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14850" LastEditorUserId="14850" LastEditDate="2020-11-29T02:08:11.183" LastActivityDate="2020-11-29T02:08:11.183" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13180" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-11-29T08:33:28.520" Score="32" ViewCount="247" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been 37 years since Darth Vader died on-screen, and it's with great sadness that actor David Prowse has also passed away at the age of 85. His impressive stature (6 ft 6 in) and bodybuilding history made him a menacing Darth Vader to be remembered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It's with great regret and heart-wrenching sadness for us and million of fans around the world, to announce that our client DAVE PROWSE M.B.E. has passed away at the age of 85,&amp;quot; Bowington Management tweeted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Best known for playing the physical form of Darth Vader from the original &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; trilogy, Prowse had also won the heavyweight lifting championship and appears in &lt;em&gt;A Clockwork Orange&lt;/em&gt; and a documentary concerning his role as Vader, &lt;em&gt;I Am Your Father&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Prowse won the British heavyweight weightlifting championship in 1962 and the following two years. He represented England in the weightlifting event at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before starring as Vader, he has also established himself as a prominent figure in British culture as the first &lt;em&gt;Green Cross Code&lt;/em&gt; man, a character used in British road safety advertising aimed at children.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ojAFP.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ojAFP.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;RIP David Prowse&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82025" LastActivityDate="2020-12-01T18:13:35.757" Title="RIP David Prowse, the original hulking Darth Vader" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13181" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-11-29T08:44:09.360" Score="3" ViewCount="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;David Prowse, actor of Darth Vader in the first Star Wars film, has &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55117704&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;died&lt;/a&gt; today at the age of 85 after a short illness. He was long known as the actor of Darth Vader, but had a different voice actor used over his voice, due to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQFho0_G1VI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;his accent&lt;/a&gt; (a distinctive west country accent that did not make him sound very menacing as &lt;em&gt;a dark Lord of the Sith&lt;/em&gt;). It has been reported that he was close to rival bodybuilder competitors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno (from TV's &lt;em&gt;Incredible Hulk&lt;/em&gt;) He also featured in a number of other films, including:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Horror of Frankenstein&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dr Who (1 episode - &amp;quot;The Time Monster&amp;quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Space: 1999&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The People that Time forgot&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Star Wars: The Empire Strikes back&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Star Wars: Return of the Jedi&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was also known as the Green Code man, a character in British road safety aimed at children, which earned him an MBE. &lt;em&gt;May the force always be with him.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90310" LastActivityDate="2020-11-29T08:44:09.360" Title="RIP, David Prowse" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2020-11-29T08:47:17.417" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13180" CreationDate="2020-11-29T08:59:24.283" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;He was long known as the actor of Darth Vader, but had a different voice actor used over his voice, due to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQFho0_G1VI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;his accent&lt;/a&gt; (a distinctive west country accent that did not make him sound very menacing as &lt;em&gt;a dark Lord of the Sith&lt;/em&gt;). It has been reported that he was close to rival bodybuilder competitors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno (from TV's &lt;em&gt;Incredible Hulk&lt;/em&gt;) He also featured in a number of other films, including:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Horror of Frankenstein&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dr Who (1 episode - &amp;quot;The Time Monster&amp;quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Space: 1999&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The People that Time forgot&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Star Wars: The Empire Strikes back&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Star Wars: Return of the Jedi&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90310" LastActivityDate="2020-11-29T08:59:24.283" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2020-11-29T08:59:24.283" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13183" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13184" CreationDate="2020-11-30T14:10:06.120" Score="0" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basically, I recently stumbled on a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/239822/looking-for-a-cartoon-with-a-girl-with-brown-hair-and-a-red-dress&quot;&gt;story identification question that lacks sci-fi element in the way it's described&lt;/a&gt; (though until OP specifies whether or not it did or didn't have any sci-fi element, we can only guess).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the instant, my reflex was to write an answer, since the story sounded like a cartoon I had watched during my youth. Since it had no sci-fi element at all, I was thinking that if OP confirms it is the right one, then the question would definitely be off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then I started wondering if that was the right thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question by itself doesn't mention anything sci-fi about the work OP is looking for, even if the work could possibly be a sci-fi one, should I assume that it's off-topic until proven otherwise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="103122" LastActivityDate="2020-11-30T14:35:09.260" Title="When should I assume that a question isn't about sci-fi?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2020-11-30T16:49:23.293" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13183" CreationDate="2020-11-30T14:35:09.260" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My understanding is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I don't see any SF or fantasy elements in the question, I'll comment about it (as was already done when I saw the one referenced), but not answer even if I (think I) know the answer -- until there's good confirmation that the question is on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general guideline for all Stack Exchange sites is not to answer questions that ought to be closed.  The one exception is duplicates, because sometimes it takes answers to be sure a question really is a duplicate (or a confirmation from a VTC for dupe).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, however, as I understand it, we're likely to want to delete off topic questions, over time if not immediately, and deleting a question with answers requires more authority (I presume because answers might be good even if the question isn't).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83999" LastActivityDate="2020-11-30T14:35:09.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13185" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13186" CreationDate="2020-11-30T15:39:10.493" Score="5" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm currently reading through &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows&lt;/em&gt;. Chapter 9 has left me with such confusion that I have somewhere in the region of 7 questions worth of content to ask about. They span several topics, such as how certain events could have happened, why characters made certain decisions, and addressing apparent continuity errors, but they all fit neatly in to the topic of chapter 9.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I go about asking this? Do I make one big question to the effect of &amp;quot;What is causing these many strange events in chapter 9&amp;quot;? Or do I ask several smaller questions that may have related answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="112139" LastActivityDate="2020-11-30T15:47:01.697" Title="I have many questions about a specific chapter in a book. Do I ask this as multiple questions or as one?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2020-11-30T17:00:59.883" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13185" CreationDate="2020-11-30T15:47:01.697" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Without knowing the questions I can't tell for sure but this feels like it would certainly be in the realm of being closed as &amp;quot;Needs more focus&amp;quot;. To have multiple questions in one post they generally need some bigger connection than that they all stem from the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me why a character made decision X and is Y a continuity error are almost certainly going to end up being two distinct questions and should likely be asked as such. That doesn't mean you can't group any of them together but you have to try and group them in a way that makes sense and so the questions are logically linked to each other in a way that would be sensible for one answer to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also like to put a note on the bottom here: if you're going to be asking several questions all on a similar topic please try not to spam them all at once. Space them out a bit. That will also give the questions the added benefit of having some time to breathe and get the attention they deserve rather than some getting lost in the mist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2020-11-30T15:47:01.697" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13187" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13188" CreationDate="2020-11-30T23:41:46.183" Score="4" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I answered a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/239838/what-should-i-watch-to-get-the-whole-star-wars-experience&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; and shortly after the question was closed because it was opinion-based. Should I remove my answer? I answered the question neatly and precisely, and I can't find anything wrong with my answer. But should I delete it anyway? I've even gotten votes to delete my answer and I'm wondering if it would be the best course of action to delete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134413" LastActivityDate="2020-11-30T23:57:41.987" Title="Should I delete my answer to a closed question?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|vote-to-delete|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13187" CreationDate="2020-11-30T23:57:41.987" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ordinarily, my advice would be to look through &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bstar-wars%5D+%5Bsuggested-order%5D+closed%3Ano+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;these eleven questions&lt;/a&gt; to find one where your answer would be more appropriate, then go through all of the answers to that question, and make sure none of them are substantially identical to your answer. If you could find such a question, and your answer would contribute something new there, then it might be appropriate to re-post it there. If you could not find such a question, I might advise you to post a new one and self-answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in this case, much of your answer is duplicative of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/112473/36526&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, which goes into significantly greater depth about &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; people recommend watching the films in numerical order rather than release order or some other order. There's also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/225342/36526&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, which discusses the animated series in a fair amount of detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short: Yes, I think you should delete your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastActivityDate="2020-11-30T23:57:41.987" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13189" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-12-01T01:36:00.373" Score="20" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.tor.com/2020/11/30/legendary-science-fiction-author-ben-bova-has-passed-at-the-age-of-88/comment-page-1/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tor.com article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scientist, Hugo Award winner, and prolific science fiction author and editor Ben Bova passed away on Sunday, November 29, 2020 at the age of 88, Tor.com is able to confirm. The author of more than one hundred books, Bova also edited some of the genre’s best-known publications and served as the president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Word of Bova’s passing first came from Kathryn Brusco, who revealed that Bova had passed due to complications from COVID-19 and a stroke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2020-12-01T06:53:50.780" LastActivityDate="2020-12-18T14:09:20.240" Title="Ben Bova, science fiction giant, dead at 88" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13180" CreationDate="2020-12-01T18:13:35.757" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've read back in the day that he was also &lt;em&gt;the spoiler guy&lt;/em&gt; way before the Internet, so they made him say something else to be dubbed later by the Vader's real voice actor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.farfarawaynews.com/2020/05/28/david-prowse-given-a-fake-line-for-the-famous-fatherhood-reveal/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.farfarawaynews.com/2020/05/28/david-prowse-given-a-fake-line-for-the-famous-fatherhood-reveal/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/HamillHimself/status/1264661085459628032&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://twitter.com/HamillHimself/status/1264661085459628032&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;RIP big guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131953" LastActivityDate="2020-12-01T18:13:35.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13191" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-12-02T15:48:08.433" Score="1" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;I write stories. They're pretty bad. Can I ask questions about them on the main sci-fi and fantasy SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would try not to do much advertising, and since I am in no way getting paid for having people view them I shouldn't have much of a problem there. Probably most of the questions would be more 'Why would character X do thing Y?'(which I think is on-topic) or something along the lines of that. Asking for help writing would definitely be off-topic, so it would be more for seeing what other people thought about the character's motivations or something like that, although I think that starts to fall in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;subjective questions&lt;/a&gt; category. Mainly I just want to see what other people are interpreting the story as so I can tell whether or not I am writing in a way that it is easily understandable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2020-12-02T17:06:33.790" Title="Can I ask questions about works not widely known and maybe even by me?" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13191" CreationDate="2020-12-02T15:50:54.877" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you need help/advice &lt;em&gt;writing&lt;/em&gt; a science fiction or fantasy story, you're probably better off at our sister site &lt;a href=&quot;https://writing.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Writing Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;. Check their &lt;a href=&quot;https://writing.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Help Center&lt;/a&gt; before asking a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note: I'm not too familiar with Writing.SE, or even with SciFi.SE for that matter.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44520" LastActivityDate="2020-12-02T15:50:54.877" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13191" CreationDate="2020-12-02T17:04:56.190" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mainly I just want to see what other people are interpreting the story as so I can tell whether or not I am writing in a way that it is easily understandable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leaving aside the spam issue, the very page you linked to contains the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To prevent your question from being flagged and possibly removed, avoid asking subjective questions where … [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;there is no actual problem to be solved: “I’m curious if other people feel like I do.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may be a problem for you as a writer, but this isn't a &amp;quot;problem&amp;quot; like the ones this site solves. You may want to get beta readers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, if you decide to change your story based on the answers you receive on this site, the question becomes moot, which goes against the site's &amp;quot;repository of knowledge for future users&amp;quot; principle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be perfectly okay to try to ask in chat, as long as you're ok with the possibility of no one being interested enough to help you out. (Just like people may very well get thrilled by the idea and want even more)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastActivityDate="2020-12-02T17:04:56.190" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13191" CreationDate="2020-12-02T17:06:33.790" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Why &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;would&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; character X do thing Y?&amp;quot; sounds off-topic as it's asking for help with writing a story.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&amp;quot;Why &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;did&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; character X do thing Y?&amp;quot; is an on-topic type of question as it's asking for analysis of an existing story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site accepts questions about existing works of sci-fi or fantasy, including unpublished ones such as fan-fiction. One key criterion is that the work you're asking about should be &lt;strong&gt;available &lt;em&gt;somewhere&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: either formally published in a book, or online, or at least such that someone other than the author has been able to read it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another very important point is that &lt;strong&gt;you must disclose your affiliation&lt;/strong&gt;. If you're asking about a story you wrote, then you have to be up-front about the fact that you wrote it. Also, don't do this &lt;em&gt;too much&lt;/em&gt; or you risk getting seen as a spammer, just using the site to promote your own stuff. We have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/promotion&quot;&gt;help centre page&lt;/a&gt; about this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community here tends to vote down overt self-promotion and flag it as spam. Post good, relevant answers, and if some (&lt;strong&gt;but not all&lt;/strong&gt;) happen to be about your product or website, that’s okay. However, you &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; disclose your affiliation in your answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That page assumes that people are going to post answers, not questions, about their own stuff. But a lot of it still applies to your situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bear in mind also that the SFF.SE community largely tends to subscribe to a &amp;quot;Word of God&amp;quot; / &amp;quot;authorial intent&amp;quot; approach to reading stories, i.e. taking the author's word about anything as final and &amp;quot;canonical&amp;quot;. So if a question about a story is posted &lt;em&gt;by the author themselves&lt;/em&gt;, then it might get a reaction along the lines of &amp;quot;why are you even asking? you're the author, you tell us!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I ask questions about works not widely known and maybe even by me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR: &amp;quot;not widely known&amp;quot; is fine; &amp;quot;by me&amp;quot; &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; work once or twice but likely won't be well received by voters, and don't overdo it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2020-12-02T17:06:33.790" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13195" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-12-03T04:20:55.250" Score="14" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0117412/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hugh Keays-Byrne&lt;/a&gt;, who played the role of Toecutter &lt;strong&gt;AND&lt;/strong&gt; Immortan Joe from the Mad Max series (36 years apart!) has passed away on the 1st of December, 2020.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oMOKN.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oMOKN.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tributes are flowing in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/edgarwright/status/1334200226236788740&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://twitter.com/edgarwright/status/1334200226236788740&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/CharlizeAfrica/status/1334256856198365184&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://twitter.com/CharlizeAfrica/status/1334256856198365184&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;He will ride eternal, shiny and chrome.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastActivityDate="2020-12-03T04:20:55.250" Title="RIP: Hugh Keays-Byrne (Toecutter + Immortan Joe)" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13196" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13199" CreationDate="2020-12-04T09:12:36.553" Score="5" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to collect statistics on how quickly questions are answered? Without collecting piles of answers back and processing them locally? In an Elastic Search instance you'd do this with the aggregations functionality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've read over the &lt;a href=&quot;https://api.stackexchange.com/docs&quot;&gt;API&lt;/a&gt;, though I haven't studied all of it in detail and could be missing something obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40437" LastActivityDate="2020-12-04T18:25:43.173" Title="Statistics on Answer speeds" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13197" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13198" CreationDate="2020-12-04T15:05:32.707" Score="15" ViewCount="400" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tables will be added to the SE network shortly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/356997/239016&quot;&gt;Feature Preview: Table Support&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we identify any posts on our Stack that would benefit from actual tables? I remember seeing quasi-tables being used here and there, but I'm not sure if it was on this Stack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's compile a list of posts with quasi-tables that we can edit to feature actual tables, and stick it in an answer here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2021-01-15T08:33:03.777" Title="What will we do once the tables have turned?" Tags="|discussion|formatting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13197" CreationDate="2020-12-04T16:16:40.127" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/1340650/posts-in-need-of-table-formatting&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a very basic SEDE query&lt;/a&gt; which is open to improvements; but after excluding the false positives, this draft brings up, at least:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/180248/are-there-any-real-life-parallels-to-the-nights-watch-and-their-fall-from-prest&quot;&gt;Are there any real-life parallels to the Night&amp;#39;s Watch and their fall from prestige?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/58435/what-is-the-average-number-of-deaths-per-episode/212662#212662&quot;&gt;What is the average number of deaths per episode?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/212830/why-did-other-houses-not-demand-this/212863#212863&quot;&gt;Why did other houses not demand this?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32051/how-many-alien-women-has-capt-admiral-kirk-slept-with/32052#32052&quot;&gt;How many alien women has Capt/Admiral Kirk slept with?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8555/symbolic-meanings-of-everyone-losing-their-hands/8564#8564&quot;&gt;Symbolic meanings of everyone losing their hands?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9446/who-was-more-likely-to-die-a-death-eater-or-order-of-the-phoenix-member/9450#9450&quot;&gt;Who was more likely to die, a Death Eater or Order of the Phoenix member?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/155377/what-is-the-name-of-the-track-that-plays-before-the-geth-armature-fight-on-theru&quot;&gt;What is the name of the track that plays before the Geth Armature fight on Therum?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/38153/why-are-there-so-many-times-harry-was-told-about-him-having-his-mothers-eyes/38169#38169&quot;&gt;Why are there so many times Harry was told about him having his mother&amp;#39;s eyes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/11435/are-there-any-important-extraordinary-or-accomplished-hufflepuffs/11476#11476&quot;&gt;Are there any important, extraordinary, or accomplished Hufflepuffs?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/221009/how-are-numbers-written-in-the-languages-of-the-lord-of-the-rings/221401#221401&quot;&gt;How are numbers written in the languages of The Lord of the Rings?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/102709/how-many-deaths-were-there-on-the-enterprise/102710#102710&quot;&gt;How many deaths were there on the Enterprise?&lt;/a&gt; (arguably)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15097/can-a-single-player-whos-been-knocked-back-recover-ground/15129#15129&quot;&gt;Can a single player who&amp;#39;s been knocked back recover ground?&lt;/a&gt; (maybe?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/53848/how-much-does-the-average-adult-male-dwarf-weigh/74319#74319&quot;&gt;How much does the average adult male Dwarf weigh?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/80706/would-aaron-encounter-the-same-time-travelling-abe-later-if-abe-leaves-their-ti&quot;&gt;Would Aaron encounter the same time-travelling Abe later, if Abe leaves their timeline first?&lt;/a&gt; (maybe?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/21704/does-the-fantasy-genre-garner-more-sequels-and-series-if-so-why&quot;&gt;Does the fantasy genre garner more sequels and series? If so, why?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32355/how-did-the-duplicate-voyager-make-it-as-far-as-the-real-voyager/142107#142107&quot;&gt;How did the duplicate Voyager make it as far as the real Voyager?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/112421/how-many-hands-arms-have-been-cut-off-in-star-wars/112423#112423&quot;&gt;How many hands / arms have been cut off in Star Wars?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/39522/how-fast-could-shadowfax-gallop/142271#142271&quot;&gt;How fast could Shadowfax gallop?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/112540/how-many-times-was-obi-wan-less-than-honest-with-luke/112543#112543&quot;&gt;How many times was Obi-Wan less than honest with Luke?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/147352/what-color-is-stormlight/172233#172233&quot;&gt;What color is Stormlight?&lt;/a&gt; (or a bullet list, I don't know) &lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/158981/how-does-one-pronounce-asshai/159025#159025&quot;&gt;How does one pronounce &amp;quot;Asshai&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/134636/what-is-the-kill-score-of-all-dragons-and-dragon-riders-during-the-dance-of-the/134637#134637&quot;&gt;What is the kill score of all dragons and dragon-riders during the Dance of the Dragons?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/138067/what-is-a-trial-of-seven/138088#138088&quot;&gt;What is a Trial of Seven?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/211603/is-there-any-way-to-make-sense-out-of-the-scheduling-for-electives-at-hogwarts/230253#230253&quot;&gt;Is there any way to make sense out of the scheduling for electives at Hogwarts?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/85602/what-is-the-most-widespread-numerous-alien-species-in-star-wars-other-than-huma/86878#86878&quot;&gt;What is the most widespread/numerous alien species in Star Wars (other than Human?)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Meta, based on the same query:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3577/quotes-on-the-site-cover-how-much-of-the-harry-potter-books/3588#3588&quot;&gt;Quotes on the site cover how much of the Harry Potter books?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7131/honorary-rank-for-this-site&quot;&gt;Honorary &amp;#39;Rank&amp;#39; for this site?&lt;/a&gt; (meh)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taken from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2637/add-support-for-tables&quot;&gt;Add support for tables&lt;/a&gt; (I've removed the duplicates):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31610/who-are-all-the-characters-to-have-touched-the-one-ring/31611#31611&quot;&gt;Who are all the characters to have touched The One Ring?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8715/what-is-the-chronology-of-the-gundam-series/8717#8717&quot;&gt;What is the chronology of the Gundam series?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28746/fringe-how-could-september-or-any-other-man-from-the-future-catch-gun-bullets-i/28748#28748&quot;&gt;Fringe: how could September or any other man from the future catch gun bullets in the air?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2646/community-eval-feb-2013&quot;&gt;Community eval — Feb 2013&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally (AKA &amp;quot;random encounters&amp;quot;, fill up the list as you stumble into them!):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28862/how-did-the-cookfire-get-hot-enough-to-melt-gold-in-game-of-thrones/60617#60617&quot;&gt;How did the cookfire get hot enough to melt gold in Game of Thrones?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/239007/90s-pc-game-similar-to-another-world-but-in-3d-dark-purple-locked-inside&quot;&gt;90&amp;#39;s PC game, similar to &amp;quot;Another World&amp;quot; but in 3D, dark, purple, locked inside a prison&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2021-01-15T08:33:03.777" LastActivityDate="2021-01-15T08:33:03.777" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13196" CreationDate="2020-12-04T18:25:43.173" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Data Explorer&lt;/a&gt; is an excellent resource for this type of analysis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, let's have a look at all questions answered within an hour:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0Gbj4.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0Gbj4.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;(&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/1340706/time-to-first-answer-v1#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The value for 0 minutes is a bit skewed because of self-answers. Otherwise, it looks like a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distribution&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Poisson distribution&lt;/a&gt;; most questions are answered within about 10 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an overview for two days:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PImFG.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PImFG.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;(&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/1340707/time-to-first-answer-v2#graph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You see that the vast majority of the (answered) questions is answered within the first two hours after posting. (To compare: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=is%3Aq+answers%3A0&quot;&gt;about 6.5k questions are unanswered&lt;/a&gt; – they don't appear in these graphs.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44520" LastActivityDate="2020-12-04T18:25:43.173" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13200" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13201" CreationDate="2020-12-05T20:35:04.750" Score="4" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per the title, I'd like to ask a question about &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Left_Hand_of_God_(novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Left Hand of God&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've found only &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/64837/help-me-identify-a-fantasy-book-please&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; about it, but it's just a story identification question, so I'm not sure I can take the existence of that question as a positive answer to my question here on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125330" LastActivityDate="2020-12-05T20:56:14.023" Title="Is a question about Paul Hoffman's Left hand of God on topic here?" Tags="|support|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13200" CreationDate="2020-12-05T20:56:14.023" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In short, yes.&lt;/strong&gt; The book itself seems to be a bit of a rag-bag of various medieval fantasy tropes plus a soupçon of dystopia, alternative worlds and a self-insert hero with overt super powers (to whit, the ability to determine how an enemy will attack before they do so).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“I can read what you’re going to do,” said Cale. “The instant you&#xA;start to move. It’s just a fraction faster than before my injury, but&#xA;it’s always enough. No one can read what I’m going to do, no matter&#xA;how quick or experienced they are.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note also that the book is marketed as &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003ZUXX88/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&amp;amp;btkr=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fantasy and Supernatural&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; by the publisher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2020-12-05T20:56:14.023" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13203" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13204" CreationDate="2020-12-08T00:59:14.210" Score="26" ViewCount="249" Body="&lt;p&gt;While searching for questions/answers regarding a particular character, I came across a question that I considered answering. The question is still open, relevant, and doesn't have an accepted answer, but it was first asked over 4 years ago. Since I'm not familiar with the etiquette here on StackExchange, I'm not sure if it'd be appropriate to respond or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be more specific, this is the question I'm referring to: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/114977/is-boba-fett-alive-in-the-new-canon&quot;&gt;Is Boba Fett alive in the new canon?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time, no definitive answer could be provided about the character's status within the current Star Wars canon. However, with the release of the latest episode of Disney's &amp;quot;The Mandalorian,&amp;quot; a definitive answer can be provided. To that end, I would like to respond. However, I don't know if doing so would be frowned upon given the question's age.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82387" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2020-12-08T10:19:38.663" LastActivityDate="2020-12-08T10:19:38.663" Title="What is the proper etiquette for answering old questions?" Tags="|discussion|etiquette|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13203" CreationDate="2020-12-08T01:47:44.807" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;By all means, answer it!  Unanswered questions are a blight that needs to be fixed!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(To more be more specific:  if a question hasn't been closed, then old questions definitely need love.  There are even badges specifically for providing good answers to old questions.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastEditorUserId="101407" LastEditDate="2020-12-08T02:13:43.963" LastActivityDate="2020-12-08T02:13:43.963" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13189" CreationDate="2020-12-10T08:11:49.070" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Orion and the Exiles series were among the start of my science fiction habit.  He was such a compelling story-teller.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user134768" LastActivityDate="2020-12-10T08:11:49.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13206" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13207" CreationDate="2020-12-16T17:54:19.990" Score="4" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a comment on this question yesterday: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/240438/are-self-sealing-stem-bolts-a-star-trek-in-joke&quot;&gt;Are self-sealing stem bolts a Star Trek in-joke?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was meant as a joke, and I don't think it was offensive. The last I looked, it had about 20 upvotes. I think it's been deleted, which I'm a little sad about, as I thought it was fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It wasn't super-informative in terms of the question, although it did mention &lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Heisenberg_compensator&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a fictional Star Trek component&lt;/a&gt; which &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; something of an in-joke, so it wasn't entirely off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are joke comments not wanted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="440" LastActivityDate="2020-12-16T18:14:58.603" Title="Are joke comments not wanted?" Tags="|discussion|comments|deleted-comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13206" CreationDate="2020-12-16T18:14:58.603" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nine comment flags were raised on that question last night. I went through the comments this morning and deleted a bunch of them which were straying into extended only-tangentially-relevant discussion (various IRL examples, continuing on from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/240438/are-self-sealing-stem-bolts-a-star-trek-in-joke#comment660339_240438&quot;&gt;Barmar's comment&lt;/a&gt;). I declined a couple of the comment flags, including the one on Barmar's comment since it gives some useful/interesting information, although the follow-up comments got too many to keep them all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your comment was one of those flagged, and I almost declined that flag too - certainly I wouldn't have deleted that 24-upvoted comment if I'd just happened across it while browsing. But &lt;em&gt;since it was flagged&lt;/em&gt;, and didn't add anything useful except a bit of humour (and I didn't find it funny), I went ahead and deleted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's not doing much harm, I was on the fence about it, and usually I do leave much-upvoted joke comments alone rather than deleting them. Since it was considered worth a whole meta post, I've now undeleted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the general principle on joke comments, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6576/31394&quot;&gt;What should we do about &amp;quot;funny&amp;quot; comments?&lt;/a&gt; Personally I often use the number of comment upvotes as an indicator of humour value in lieu of &amp;quot;usefulness&amp;quot;. If there's several jokes cluttering up a comments section and none of them got upvoted much, I might clear them up, especially if they're flagged. If there's one joke comment with a lot of upvotes, I'll usually assume the community likes it and leave it alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2020-12-16T18:14:58.603" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13208" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-12-17T22:22:15.603" Score="14" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeremy Bulloch, the actor who portrayed Boba Fett in the original trilogy &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; movies, has died at the age of 75.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to his iconic role as the bounty hunter Fett, he also starred in several episodes of &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; and eagle-eyed viewers will have spotted him as Captain Colton in &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith&lt;/em&gt; (2005).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/alCwd.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/alCwd.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="14850" LastEditDate="2020-12-22T16:51:49.760" LastActivityDate="2020-12-22T16:51:49.760" Title="RIP Jeremy Bulloch. Original trilogy Boba Fett actor" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13209" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-12-17T22:38:30.493" Score="14" ViewCount="256" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought this had been discussed before, but I can't seem to find a meta question about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; question today, to which the answer was Lloyd's Alexander's &lt;em&gt;Westmark&lt;/em&gt; series, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/240553/identifying-young-adult-fantasy-trilogy&quot;&gt;Identifying young-adult fantasy trilogy&lt;/a&gt; —while the only previous mention of &lt;em&gt;Westmark&lt;/em&gt; I could find on the site was this question I asked myself, about the similarity of the Westmark novels to one of the author's earlier fantasy novels, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/203427/did-lloyd-alexander-ever-discuss-the-relationship-between-his-novels-the-marvel&quot;&gt;Did Lloyd Alexander ever discuss the relationship between his novels, The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian and Westmark&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had a spirited debate with a librarian at my middle school about whether &lt;em&gt;Westmark&lt;/em&gt; was a fantasy novel, and we did not come to an agreement.  On the one hand, there are no magical or speculative elements in the trilogy.  It is a series of stories about the society, politics, and military ventures characteristic of eighteenth-century or early-nineteenth-century Europe—except that all the countries and personages involved are fictitious.  Is the fictitious setting enough to make this series on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are other settings that have little to no overt magic or science fiction elements that seem (to me) more obviously on topic.  For example, the &lt;em&gt;Gormenghast&lt;/em&gt; books have (aside from some definite science fiction elmenents in &lt;em&gt;Titus Alone&lt;/em&gt;) things that are quite explicitly unlike anything in the real world—to the point of being physically impossible, such as the titular city-sized castle, which is both somehow scores of stories tall, and yet still can be almost completely flooded in a rainstorm).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the &lt;em&gt;Westmark&lt;/em&gt; books are not in this category.  There is nothing about the story that I would call &amp;quot;fantastical.&amp;quot;  There is only the fact that the countries involved happen not to have ever existed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastEditorUserId="48874" LastEditDate="2021-06-08T00:45:14.750" LastActivityDate="2021-06-08T00:45:14.750" Title="Are stories set in settings that do not exist, yet which otherwise have no magical or speculative elements, on topic?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13208" CreationDate="2020-12-17T22:52:43.477" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;He also killed the original Sontaran, Linx from &amp;quot;The Time Warrior.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/WZcMDnNx-QI?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2020-12-17T22:52:43.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13211" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-12-18T09:40:45.057" Score="12" ViewCount="527" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a lot of things coming up to celebrate. It's Christmas! It's Hanukkah! It's Kwanzaa! It's New Year! It's the end of 2020 at last! It's the tenth birthday of SFF.SE! It's ... time to start topic challenges?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What's a topic challenge?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A regular (I suggest monthly), friendly, opt-in competition with a specific theme that changes each time period (month). We can choose each theme on meta, by keeping a curated list of suggested topics and letting the votes send one suggestion to the top each month. The theme might be a specific book, film, TV series, author, etc. - preferably, but not necessarily, something with its own tag, so that we can easily keep track of all the posts made as part of the topic challenge. We can keep a list on meta of all the questions asked and answers posted on that theme during the relevant month. At the end of the month we can assess the statistics and maybe announce some &amp;quot;winners&amp;quot; (top-voted question and answer, most viewed question, and so on).&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why should we do this?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Topic challenges were the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13006/31394&quot;&gt;most popular suggestion&lt;/a&gt; in the &amp;quot;Ways to improve and promote Science Fiction and Fantasy&amp;quot; thread earlier this year. It's something that a few of us have talked about on and off for years but never got done. It &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1138/31394&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; done&lt;/a&gt; back in 2012, run officially by SE with real prizes. (We won't be offering real cash or Amazon vouchers this time, unfortunately.) &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/240634/278659&quot;&gt;A lot of other sites&lt;/a&gt; run regular challenges, including sites with &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1238/17&quot;&gt;topics similar to ours&lt;/a&gt;. (The main meta post says weekly, but I think monthly is better given our site's subject matter. People need some time to read a book or watch a TV series.) We have a big active community but a relatively small spectrum of really popular topics like HP, SW, ST, LotR, Marvel, DC, GoT/aSoIaF, DW. Topic challenges would be a perfect way to encourage some less popular tags and get the community involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How should we choose topics?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technically, by a poll on meta. We'll have a new meta question (this one can be for meta-discussion &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; topic challenges in general) where each answer will be a proposed topic, and people can vote on the answers to send them up or down. Each month we'll choose the highest-voted answer as the next month's topic, and delete that answer to stop it hogging the top of the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, topics should be something &lt;strong&gt;underrepresented&lt;/strong&gt; on the site - something that people wouldn't normally be asking about, otherwise there's not much point. As well as improving the range of topics on our site, this can also help people to broaden their personal range of reading/watching material, so it's a win-win for everyone. (Promoting underappreciated tags is something I &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10218/31394&quot;&gt;tried to do&lt;/a&gt; back in 2016, but my efforts kind of fizzled out - it'll be great to try again as a group effort.)&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;When should we start?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose &lt;strong&gt;January 2021&lt;/strong&gt;. Since it's the start of a new year, and the site's 10th birthday will come on 11 January, it's an auspicious time to kick this off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, it doesn't leave us much time to choose a topic for the first month, since it's now mid-December already. Especially in this particular month: the Christmas holiday period is a terrible time to try to hold a representative meta poll. My proposal is that, for this one and only time, just while the upcoming suggestions thread is finding its feet, we choose the inaugural proposal &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7434/31394&quot;&gt;by royal decree&lt;/a&gt;. Since &lt;strong&gt;Isaac Asimov&lt;/strong&gt; has his 101st birthday on 2 January 2021, he'd be a topical pick for the January 2021 topic challenge. I know he's not exactly an obscure SF/F author, nor unrepresented on this site, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13171/how-should-we-mark-the-10th-anniversary-of-sff-se?noredirect=1#comment46536_13171&quot;&gt;this proposal&lt;/a&gt; was heartfelt and carried weight, and it's an easy topic to get involved with, even for people who never read his stuff before, because he has a lot of short stories so it's not a big time commitment to read a few.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;sub&gt;Remember it's a friendly competition, so don't fight too hard to win :-)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;sub&gt;TL;DR: suggest a Harry Potter topic challenge and it'll be downvoted to the basement.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2021-01-01T11:42:29.370" LastActivityDate="2022-08-02T21:01:42.570" Title="Announcing a Topic Challenge program for SFF.SE" Tags="|discussion|topic-challenge|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13211" CreationDate="2020-12-18T10:03:25.390" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;All sounds good to me, great to hear this is going forward!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing though that I don't want you to rule out, out of hand (which you are doing) is topic challenges on popular works. Take the MCU for example, sure it gets a lot of attention but some of the films hardly have any questions relatively. &lt;em&gt;Spider-Man: Far From Home&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bspider-man-far-from-home%5D+created%3A2019-07+is%3Aq&quot;&gt;only got 21 questions in its release month&lt;/a&gt;. That is quite low and these are the sorts of films that drive questions and traffic into the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those early questions are extremely important in getting traffic into the site. For example, take this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/deadpool-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;deadpool-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;deadpool-2&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/187791/58193&quot;&gt;question of mine&lt;/a&gt; that was asked really early after the release. It was asked before a lot of the news articles had their pages up and no one really had any information up about this particular question. It has gathered ~18k views at the time of writing and I believe most of those were within the first day or so after posting and even before it had an answer. These are the questions that drive traffic and driving traffic means potential for new users and growing the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I feel like it would be good idea to have 2 sets of Topic Challenges, a monthly rolling one on underrepresented works, as you mention here, and one intermittent one for short periods of time (2 weeks?) to correspond with the release dates of popular works, again can be voted on by meta. After all the more content we have, the better and incentivising it with Topic Challenges will surely drive some more content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2020-12-18T10:03:25.390" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13189" CreationDate="2020-12-18T14:09:20.240" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ben Bova was the editor of Analog who oversaw the original publication of Ender's Game.&#xA;Without him that entire series wouldn't have existed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55866" LastActivityDate="2020-12-18T14:09:20.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13209" CreationDate="2020-12-18T21:38:45.983" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In general, Yes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You say, &lt;em&gt;It is a series of stories about the society, politics, and military ventures characteristic of eighteenth-century or early-nineteenth-century Europe—except that all the countries and personages involved are fictitious.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well one could argue that Star Wars is about the society, politics, and military ventures characteristic of mid to late 1900's Europe except that all the countries and personages involved are fictitious. The fictitious local just happens to be space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where do we draw the line about &amp;quot;how made up&amp;quot; something needs to be before it is considered science fiction or fantasy. I think we tend to have loose definition here that we call &amp;quot;speculative fiction&amp;quot;. I came across this nice write up (with a fun Venn diagram) on what &lt;a href=&quot;https://annieneugebauer.com/2014/03/24/what-is-speculative-fiction/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;speculative fiction&lt;/a&gt; is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BcPIh.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BcPIh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Venn diagram showing regions of speculative fiction including fantasy, science fiction, horror, and historical&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For me, when an author has created an entirely new world, no matter how mundane the stories told in that world, it is a form of fantasy.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now of course we are always going to have outliers, which is why we have meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2020-12-18T21:38:45.983" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13209" CreationDate="2020-12-18T22:22:42.150" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is actually an incredibly hard question to answer; I'm not even sure if we'd be able to come up with a good general answer.  After all, what counts as science fiction has been debated many times in the past, with Moorcock including stories in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Worlds_(magazine)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;New Worlds&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that might not otherwise have been considered SF.  (Indeed we've had that exact discussion.)  Ultimately, I think that we largely can't have a useful discussion of the general case, and we'll need to consider contentious works individually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia defines &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;fantasy&lt;/a&gt; as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often inspired by real world myth and folklore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and, for comparison, defines &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;science fiction&lt;/a&gt; as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Science fiction (sometimes shortened to sci-fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both of which essentially hang a definition off of &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;speculative fiction&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;quot; so let's look at that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speculative fiction is a broad category of fiction encompassing genres with certain elements that do not exist in terms of the recorded history and observed phenomena of the current universe, covering various themes in the context of the supernatural, futuristic, and many other imaginative topics. Under this umbrella category, the genres include, but are not limited to, &lt;strong&gt;science fiction, fantasy, horror, superhero fiction, alternate history, utopian and dystopian fiction, and supernatural fiction&lt;/strong&gt;, as well as combinations thereof (e.g. science fantasy).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This list is actually fairly close to what we consider on topic, including superheroes, dystopias and alternate histories.  Note, though, that we explicitly exclude certain sub-genres (such as spy-fi) which doesn't help matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found an &lt;a href=&quot;https://annieneugebauer.com/2014/03/24/what-is-speculative-fiction/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;interesting blog post&lt;/a&gt; about how various genres relate to &amp;quot;speculative fiction,&amp;quot; even discussing how some science fiction is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; speculative fiction, and how what is science fiction today may not be science fiction tomorrow.  (Which, I must note, is &lt;em&gt;another&lt;/em&gt; discussion that we periodically have here!)  Actually, the same might be said of fantasy, if we reach back far enough to a time where a story might include intervention from an angel or a saint - things which were part of the accepted worldview at the time, but which are now purely fantastic elements to us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This post asserts that some stories that don't contain any speculative elements (well, other than the basic &amp;quot;what if?&amp;quot; used to construct the scenario) can still be science fiction.  I'm not sure we can argue with that; for example, what if the crew of the ISS needed to escape a disaster and lost their re-entry vehicle?  Is someone going to argue that &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1454468/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gravity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; isn't science fiction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Editorializing slightly, part of the problem is that we're trying to define the boundaries of a genre that exists, in large part, to challenge bounds.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think an absolutely excellent example of &amp;quot;fictional setting, but essentially historical&amp;quot; is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lions_of_Al-Rassan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Lions of Al-Rassan&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by Guy Gavriel Kay, which is explicitly modeled on Moorish Spain and contains no overtly fantastical elements.  Nevertheless, as it is by a known fantasy author most of whose modern work has very toned-down fantastical elements (basically just some ghosts in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_Heaven_(novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Under Heaven&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;), it would be considered a work of fantasy.  (One might argue that simply applying somewhat modern sensibilities to characters in the 13th century is ahistorical enough to count as fantastical.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the science fiction side, a comparable borderline example might be &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spook_Country&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spook Country&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which is essentially a present-day thriller with no futuristic elements, invented places, etc., but is written by William Gibson in a way that nevertheless makes it feel like science fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't believe it's possible to have a hard-and-fast rule about what is, and what is not, Fantasy.  I think to some extent we have to rely on the author's intent to portray a world that is, or is not, ours - to whatever extent we can discern that.  We can also use the author and/or the publisher as cues.  In some cases it might simply be that we have to defer to a poster's belief that a work is fantasy, or we may need to discuss an individual work here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I've been told by people more widely read than I that there is a distinctive style or pattern to most SF that &amp;quot;feels&amp;quot; different to non-genre writings, but I don't think I'm aware enough of that to use it as a criterion.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastActivityDate="2020-12-18T22:22:42.150" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13208" CreationDate="2020-12-21T21:48:36.197" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;R.I.P.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FWIW, he also played &lt;a href=&quot;https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Sheckil&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lt. Sheckil&lt;/a&gt; — the Imperial creep who was detaining Leia, Chewbacca and no-legs C3P0 — in &lt;em&gt;The Empire Strikes Back&lt;/em&gt; (1980). Two roles in one scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5rc7a.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5rc7a.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14850" LastActivityDate="2020-12-21T21:48:36.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13218" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13227" CreationDate="2020-12-22T00:03:48.600" Score="-3" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://winterbash2020.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Winter Bash 2020&lt;/a&gt; doesn't have a science fiction related hat. The last hat &lt;code&gt;Propel Thyself&lt;/code&gt; looks like a Physics hat unless you consider Doremon science fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we have a Time Lord hat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6Cs72.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6Cs72.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Time Lord hat&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, is this too late for requesting it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2020-12-24T18:38:00.467" Title="Can we have Time Lord hat?" Tags="|feature-request|winterbash|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13219" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13220" CreationDate="2020-12-22T13:31:19.580" Score="10" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the main meta, there is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/358195/swag-is-coming-back?cb=1&quot;&gt;post about swag returning&lt;/a&gt;. Who is getting what swag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2020-12-22T13:33:21.267" LastActivityDate="2020-12-22T16:33:46.017" Title="Who is getting Swag?" Tags="|discussion|swag|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13219" CreationDate="2020-12-22T13:31:19.580" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have no users who have 'recently' gone up to 250k+, but we doe have a handful who have now reached 100k.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those who earned 100K [since march 2019] will receive:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Branded T-shirt (SE or SO)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stickers (either SE or SO)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Branded socks (SE or SO) - two styles available, you’ll get one selected randomly&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This includes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/58193/thelethalcarrot&quot;&gt;TheLethalCarrot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/931/11-01-11&quot;&gt;11.01.11&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/40294/praxis&quot;&gt;Praxis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/51379/adamant&quot;&gt;Adamant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/656/jeff&quot;&gt;Jeff&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1693/tango&quot;&gt;Tango&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2816/kutulumike&quot;&gt;KutuluMike&lt;/a&gt;*&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/23243/fuzzyboots&quot;&gt;FuzzyBoots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394/rand-althor&quot;&gt;Rand al'Thor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1148/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The moderators also get some swag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All moderators will receive:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderator diamond hat&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;T-shirt (SO or SE)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stickers (SO or SE)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Water bottle or tumbler&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people are yet to receive swag from &amp;quot;Stuff-a-way!&amp;quot;, to see if you ever posted on that meta, look &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=inquestion%3A321399+user%3Ame&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a list of those folks and we're ready to send you the&#xA;following items:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SE socks - two styles available, you’ll get one selected randomly&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SE T-shirt&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Branded webcam cover&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SE pop socket&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Branded pen&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When your swag arrives, feel free to post them as answers, or comments below!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;* &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13081/3804&quot;&gt;sadly no longer with us&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2020-12-22T16:33:46.017" LastActivityDate="2020-12-22T16:33:46.017" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13221" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-12-22T14:29:36.590" Score="8" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;A while back, somebody asked a question that actually contained three related, but fairly distinct subquestions. This question was subsequently closed a few days later on account of being too unfocused, but before I discovered that, I'd already typed up a detailed answer addressing all three of the questions raised, with supporting references. As the question had already been closed, I was unable to post my answer/s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be reasonable for me to edit that question to remove one or more of the subquestions (and post it/those separately), so that the thread could potentially be reopened, enabling me to answer all the questions raised? Or would that be going too far, in the sense of fundamentally altering the nature of the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="122024" LastEditorUserId="40711" LastEditDate="2020-12-24T09:41:41.740" LastActivityDate="2020-12-26T15:22:09.203" Title="To what extent can I edit an unfocused question to improve its focus?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13223" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-12-22T16:10:59.737" Score="5" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;Back in 2016, someone asked a story ID question about a novel, which was answered, and in April of 2018 I added an answer mentioning a short story by the same author which I thought fit the description even better (except, of course, for not being a novel.)  I linked to a review of the short story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 2019 a very high-rank member of this community (who I thought was a moderator) made an extensive edit of my answer, adding 8 paragraphs of what I felt were spoilers (Yes, 8 paragraphs of spoilers for a short story.).  I was not at all happy, and added a comment to that effect:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer was extensively edited yesterday by a moderator of this&#xA;stack to add detailed spoilers (basically the entire plot of the&#xA;story) which I would have never included. I'm not going to roll back a&#xA;moderator's edits but I really resent having my name attached to what&#xA;this answer has become. – arp Jan 15 '19 at 0:44&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, I was drawn back to the question by an upvote, and the edit is now credited to &amp;quot;Community&amp;quot;; the spoilers I was so unhappy about turn out to be 8 paragraphs of the linked review, verbatim.  How is this not plagiarism, and worse yet plagiarism attributed to me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other to the answer also shows an edit by 'Community', and is primarily a long uncredited quote from Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, 2 questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is it now site style to include the bulk of a linked source verbatim?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it is not, is there any way to identify and revert other instances of what I see as vandalism? (I remember at the time that the user had a very high reputation, and now wonder how much of it was gained by plagiarism, and if perhaps they were removed for cause.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I doubt my little answer is an isolated case, which is why I'm raising this issue; but it's at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/36949/book-gen-manipulated-intelligent-squids-explore-space-planet/185535#185535&quot;&gt;Book: Gen-manipulated intelligent squids explore space/planet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[added]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone edited the answer to quote a shortened version of the review; I replaced it with this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This theme first came up in Baxter's short story “Sheena 5”; see&#xA;Variety SF for a review, which is much more about the squid and less&#xA;about the humans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A squid is genetically modified to be intelligent enough to pilot and&#xA;land a spacecraft; she manages to proudly complete her mission without&#xA;letting her ground controllers know that she managed to get pregnant&#xA;on Earth. A few of her offspring inherited her intelligence, and the&#xA;end result is a whole colony of intelligent squid in space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that now sufficient to stand on its own?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see a newer answer to the same question where the author was asked to provide more detail; I'm still upset that I wasn't given the same courtesy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49015" LastEditorUserId="49015" LastEditDate="2020-12-22T16:47:14.083" LastActivityDate="2020-12-22T17:43:14.207" Title="How to handle answers edited to add something that appears to infringe copyright" Tags="|discussion|editing|policy|copyright|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13223" CreationDate="2020-12-22T16:28:53.493" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before the edit your answer was basically a single sentence that referred to a link without providing more than the merest hint of the content.  The only thing you said that provided any link to the question was &amp;quot;squid.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did you try to follow the link in your answer?  &lt;em&gt;This&lt;/em&gt; is &lt;em&gt;precisely&lt;/em&gt; the reason to include quotes from the referenced blog post.  Imagine that Carrot had not edited quotes from the blog into your answer; how much use would your answer be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers need to have enough content to stand on their own in the event that the external resources they use go away.  The edit does that.  If you roll the edit back the likelihood is either that your answer will be deleted or the content will be restored since you don't really have an answer anymore without it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to the legal details, well, that's tricky.  SE is governed ultimately by US law, but is an international site and people outside the US may not have the same expectations of what is permissible.  Based on my understanding of US copyright law, the quotes and snippets used in answers would tend to fall into the &amp;quot;fair use&amp;quot; category, especially since they are not being used to simply recapitulate the content but used to inform commentary on the subject.  Quotes directly from works are always a small fraction of the work as a whole, etc.  Besides, copyright is not something that you can enforce on someone else's work; it's not up to &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; to decide if fair use may not apply to quotes from some author's story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I don't see anything wrong with the answer as it stands, but if you still really don't want to be associated with it you can mark it as &amp;quot;community wiki&amp;quot; by editing it and clicking on the &amp;quot;Community wiki&amp;quot; checkbox below the text box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastEditorUserId="101407" LastEditDate="2020-12-22T16:34:05.497" LastActivityDate="2020-12-22T16:34:05.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13223" CreationDate="2020-12-22T16:33:26.640" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I was the user that made the edit let me address your points in this post in order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, the reason I made the edit in the first place is because providing the link on its own isn't great as the link may die at any time, in fact it's actually dead for me at the moment. This means that no one would now be able to read the review to work out if the story is correct or not and would have to go off searching on their own. When linking to a source, especially when you haven't described anything in your own words, it is almost always best to include quotes from the link. In fact this is even called out as something to do in the help centre page on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/referencing&quot;&gt;referencing material&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you find a useful resource that can help answer a question (from another site or in an answer on Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange) make sure you do all of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide a link to the original page or answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Quote only the relevant portion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide the name of the original author&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now to reply to your comment from the time as it flows on here. Firstly, you are always free to rollback/revert edits completely or edit them further. Please don't worry about that (unless you're adding inappropriate content back in and the like). It's been too long so I can't speak for why I added as much as I did but I likely felt it would help the OP understand if this was what they were looking for or not. As I said though you are free to remove some or all of it if you want, though I would caution against you removing it &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, whilst your name is on the answer the edit is attached to my name. You can see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/185535/revisions&quot;&gt;the revision history&lt;/a&gt; of the post here so there is full transparency to who added what. And if you're worried about spoilers, which you don't really need to be in this case as you're answering a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; question so details about the story are expected to be given in the answer, you can hide spoilers using spoiler markdown i.e. adding &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;!&lt;/code&gt; to the start of a paragraph, see below for an example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; an example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per above as well the edit is now not attributed to Community, the Community user was just the last to edit the post. In this case it was due to the markdown migration to CommonMark. This also appears to be why the other answer was edited by the Community user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to note as well that this isn't plagiarism (as far as I'm aware, I'm not a lawyer, I believe this would fall under fair use; obviously though this depends on the license given to the review from that website). You've, or I've, given attribution and formatted it to be a quote so it's clear it isn't your, or my, own words. Also if you're quoting from an external source, as long as it's done in this way, I would imagine it is very much preferable to quote verbatim than to take their work and re-word it into your words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On to your questions at the bottom:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's not necessarily style but rather &lt;em&gt;at least&lt;/em&gt; good practice to include &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; of the content from a link if you're &lt;em&gt;relying&lt;/em&gt; on that link for the description. For example, if you describe the story in your own words you don't really need to quote from a third party, though that might be helpful too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Identifying and reverting what you believe to be vandalism? I'm not aware of any built in tool so that leaves you either trawling through every post or action by a user or developing some complicated third party tool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will note that this isn't vandalism in the SE sense though, which would be destroying a post. And your definition seems to be quite strict. Edits, and edits by other users, are a vital way for how the SE system works. Was this particular edit a little too far? Maybe, maybe not... that's up to the individual to decide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just want to end this saying though that I take offence at your end comment about myself, personally. I haven't plagiarised anything on this site (and if I did would have been caught by now) and you also don't get rep for edits. Just a note to yourself I think your post would be a lot better without the baseless accusation and also without it, would make me at least more willing to help. You'll get a lot further by presuming good intent than assuming bad and getting others riled up from the get go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2020-12-22T16:46:57.230" LastActivityDate="2020-12-22T16:46:57.230" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13223" CreationDate="2020-12-22T17:43:14.207" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firstly, you can still see all edits to your post in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/185535/revisions&quot;&gt;revisions history&lt;/a&gt;. The edit you're talking about isn't now credited to &amp;quot;Community&amp;quot;; that was a more recent edit. The &lt;em&gt;editor&lt;/em&gt; you're talking about was TheLethalCarrot, a high-rep user but not someone who's ever been a moderator on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a few different issues involved here, so let me address them one by one, starting with the most important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Nobody's edits are sacred.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone makes an edit to your post, and you as the OP don't like it, then you're (usually) free to roll back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Most edits on this site are good - correcting misspellings, improving formatting, fixing tags, etc. - and if an edit is an objective improvement it &lt;em&gt;shouldn't&lt;/em&gt; be rolled back. If an OP (not you) rolled back a good edit, it might be re-rolled back, and at some point a moderator might step in to lock the post in a given state until the content dispute could be resolved, e.g. on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;But you're always free to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;ask&lt;/em&gt; why a post was edited&lt;/strong&gt;, and even free to roll back if you have good reasons against that edit. Don't be too scared of anyone to question their edits, even moderators (which TheLethalCarrot isn't, but he and we are as human as anyone else and can make mistakes). Anyone who's edited your post &lt;strong&gt;can be pinged in comments&lt;/strong&gt; by using &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt; followed by their username.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As in most disputes, the best way to reach an agreement is to &lt;strong&gt;understand the other point of view&lt;/strong&gt;. If an edit seems bad to you, why did it seem good to the person who did it? That brings me to the next points ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Link-only answers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers which consist of only a link, without any useful info in the text of the answer, are &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/225370/278659&quot;&gt;discouraged across Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;. Links can go dead, and we're trying to create a &lt;em&gt;lasting&lt;/em&gt; resource here. I suspect that's why TheLethalCarrot edited your post: because without that quote, it was essentially a stub answer with a link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Spoilers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a somewhat flexible &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/968/31394&quot;&gt;spoiler policy&lt;/a&gt;, which - at least in ID answers like this where you're posting about a story which may or may not be what the asker's looking for - leaves a lot up to the answerer's discretion. Spoilertags in ID answers are neither encouraged nor discouraged, I would say; if you think something is too spoilery to include directly, put it in spoiler markup so that it's hidden to casual viewers until they click on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Copyright and plagiarism&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not a lawyer, and know nothing about copyright law, so I've no idea if including 8 out of 10 paragraphs of a book review published on a blog is legally dodgy or not. It's certainly a valid concern, though. Plagiarism is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a concern, since the source is clearly linked and the copied paragraphs are marked in quote formatting to make clear they're not yours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The way forward&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the above points, certainly you have good reason to dislike the edit that was made, but there was a valid reason for making &lt;em&gt;an&lt;/em&gt; edit. I can think of a few ways to resolve the situation and address all issues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cut out the bulk of the quoted text, keeping only the parts most relevant/important. (This is what I attempted to do in my edit.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use spoilertags (&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;!&lt;/code&gt; syntax) as necessary to hide any spoilery parts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Remove all the quoted text and add a summary in your own words. (This is probably the best solution, since you can choose your phrasing to avoid spoilers, and there are no copyright concerns. I couldn't do it though, since I haven't read the story.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2020-12-22T17:43:14.207" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13218" CreationDate="2020-12-24T18:38:00.467" Score="4" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Back in 2014 and 2015, there was one ...&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/245170/278659&quot;&gt;Winter Bash 2014 Secret Hats&lt;/a&gt; Sadly, the Time Lord hat didn't look like an actual Time Lord's hat, as your suggestion, but rather like a Time Lord mode of transport:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uxI5R.png&quot; alt=&quot;picture of hat&quot; /&gt;&#xA;Time Lord was earned by editing five questions that were posted more than a year ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The particular trigger for this hat &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/246018/278659&quot;&gt;was criticised&lt;/a&gt;, as it caused people to make a lot of useless edits just for hats. The same hat trigger was still used in 2015, however, when the hat name was &amp;quot;Timey Wimey&amp;quot; instead: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/271098/278659&quot;&gt;Timey Wimey hat not awarded&lt;/a&gt; This hat &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; didn't look like the Time Lord hats that you're proposing; rather, it was a Fourth Doctor hat, scarf, and hairstyle. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5965&quot;&gt;this meta.RPG post&lt;/a&gt; for illustrations. The hat trigger was &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/272296/278659&quot;&gt;again criticised&lt;/a&gt;, and I think it &lt;em&gt;wasn't&lt;/em&gt; reused in the 2016 Winter Bash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;To propose new hats or hat triggers, go to main meta and propose it for 2021.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The hat list for the 2020 Winter Bash is already decided and won't be changed (beyond SE employees fixing bugs in the triggers and potentially cancelling/reawarding some hats, as has already happened a few times this year).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Making a meta post at the end of one Winter Bash for ideas for the next one is a well established practice on main meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/341367/278659&quot;&gt;Suggestions for Winter Bash 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/321554/278659&quot;&gt;Suggestions for Winter Bash 2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/305500/278659&quot;&gt;Suggestions for Winter Bash 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/289302/278659&quot;&gt;Suggestions for Winter Bash 2017&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/272294/278659&quot;&gt;What should we do for Winter Bash 2016?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/246533/278659&quot;&gt;Winter Bash 2014 closing remarks - ideas for next year&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion is to wait until Winter Bash 2020 is over and then post your suggestion on main meta. If someone's already started a meta post like ^ those, then post an answer there; otherwise, you might open a new meta question yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't bother requesting hats on SFF meta, though. Hats and their triggers are network-wide, and the people in charge of Winter Bash probably won't patrol per-site metas for suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2020-12-24T18:38:00.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13221" CreationDate="2020-12-26T15:22:09.203" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Solution&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the whole point of Stack Exchange, in general, is to provide answers to questions; and since you've got answers to the questions all ready to go; and since the original question is now closed &amp;amp; deleted; I think the obvious solution is for you to immediately open one or more new questions &amp;amp; answer them yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for editing the original query, most SE forums follow a fairly ruthless policy of editing. You could have edited the question for focus (by deleting the &amp;quot;extra but related&amp;quot; questions) and notified the OP what you've done &amp;amp; why. This would allow them to ask their other queries and get credit for them. You could then answer those questions.  If the OP doesn't respond within a reasonable time, then I think you'd be within rights to ask the other questions yourself, link them to the OP's original question and answer them yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hold that if the queries in question were interesting &amp;amp; useful enough for you to write up reasonable &amp;amp; referenced responses, then those questions are still good enough for you ask &amp;amp; answer on your own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105423" LastActivityDate="2020-12-26T15:22:09.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13229" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2020-12-28T17:08:01.970" Score="13" ViewCount="294" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the SE format, and I like the fact that it focuses on clearly defined questions and discourages open-ended discussion. However, sometimes I want to engage in open-ended discussion, like in the old days on Usenet. I qualify for membership in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sfwa.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SFWA&lt;/a&gt;, which has forums, but my impression of SFWA is that it's a dysfunctional organization, so I don't want to pay dues to join.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone recommend an online discussion board for SF?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user2490" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2021-03-19T21:43:35.967" LastActivityDate="2021-07-25T17:35:58.643" Title="Forums for open-ended discussion?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13230" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13231" CreationDate="2020-12-31T22:46:06.980" Score="13" ViewCount="780" Body="&lt;p&gt;Welcome to 2021, a new year with new possibilities for SFF.SE. As the site approaches its tenth birthday this month, I'm happy to announce the first of a brand-new series of &lt;strong&gt;topic challenges&lt;/strong&gt;, encouraging the site's community to take part together in asking and answering questions on a particular topic each month. The first topic challenge is going to be devoted to one of the most famous sci-fi authors of them all, whose 101st birthday is also this month:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;the works of Isaac Asimov.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's a topic challenge and how do I take part?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13211/31394&quot;&gt;Announcing a Topic Challenge program for SFF.SE&lt;/a&gt;, and also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/240634/278659&quot;&gt;this main meta post&lt;/a&gt;. In short, during January 2021 we should all try to: either read some works of Asimov and ask interesting questions about them, or ask questions about Asimov stories we've read before, or help out by &lt;em&gt;answering&lt;/em&gt; other people's Asimov questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Participation is not obligatory in any sense, but those who participate will be forever remembered in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13231/31394&quot;&gt;annals of our history&lt;/a&gt;. We'll keep a list of all Asimov questions asked during January 2021 in an answer to this meta post. At the end of the month, I'll collate some data like highest-scoring question, most-viewed question, highest-scoring answer, etc. There won't be any real-world rewards like in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1138/31394&quot;&gt;the old days&lt;/a&gt; when Stack Exchange was smaller and more generous. There might be bounties though ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Useful Asimov-related resources include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.asimovonline.com/asimov_home_page.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Asimov Online&lt;/a&gt;, &amp;quot;a comprehensive collection of resources pertaining to Isaac Asimov&amp;quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.freesfonline.net/authors/Isaac_Asimov.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Free SF Online&lt;/a&gt;, an (incomplete?) list of Asimov stories freely and legally available online.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;feel free to edit this meta post and add more stuff here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's next?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current Asimov topic was chosen on the suggestion of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13171/how-should-we-mark-the-10th-anniversary-of-sff-se#comment46536_13171&quot;&gt;AyushBhatt&lt;/a&gt;, quite haphazardly at the last minute. I thought Asimov would be an easy &amp;quot;in&amp;quot; for people to get into topic challenges with, and he's arguably underappreciated on SFF.SE with &amp;quot;only&amp;quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/isaac-asimov+-story-identification&quot;&gt;144 non-ID questions&lt;/a&gt;. Future topic challenges will be chosen by community votes, so come over and propose or vote on suggestions at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;Propose future topics for SFF topic challenges!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2021-01-29T18:41:21.480" LastActivityDate="2021-02-01T04:46:07.093" Title="January 2021 Topic Challenge: Isaac Asimov" Tags="|discussion|topic-challenge|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13230" CreationDate="2020-12-31T22:47:29.767" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;List of all questions posted as part of this topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/241435/when-was-the-origin-of-the-nightfall-quotation-found&quot;&gt;When was the origin of the &amp;quot;Nightfall&amp;quot; quotation found?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/125981/clara-diaz-sanchez&quot;&gt;Clara Diaz Sanchez&lt;/a&gt;, 03/01/2021.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/241456/31394&quot;&gt;Is Gregory Laborian a fictionalised version of Isaac Asimov?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394&quot;&gt;Rand al'Thor&lt;/a&gt;, 04/01/2021.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/242223/what-is-the-significance-of-the-olympics-in-the-short-story-profession-by-isaa&quot;&gt;What is the significance of the Olympics in the short story &amp;quot;Profession&amp;quot; by Isaac Asimov?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/136210/therxv&quot;&gt;therxv&lt;/a&gt;, 22/01/2021&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/242320/asimov-embarrassment-over-marooned-off-vesta&quot;&gt;What did Asimov find embarrassing about &amp;quot;Marooned Off Vesta”?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/135790/supercreff&quot;&gt;SuperCreff&lt;/a&gt;, 24/01/2021&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/242620/31394&quot;&gt;What is the significance of the name Azazel for Asimov&amp;#39;s demon?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394&quot;&gt;Rand al'Thor&lt;/a&gt;, 31/01/2021.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;add entries in the form &lt;code&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/&amp;lt;question-ID&amp;gt; by [username](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/&amp;lt;user-ID&amp;gt;), dd/01/2021.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus ID questions which don't mention Asimov but whose answers turned out to be Asimov stories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/241621/31394&quot;&gt;Book about an AI that traps people on a spaceship&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/133784/ayushbhatt&quot;&gt;AyushBhatt&lt;/a&gt;, 08/01/2021.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/241661/31394&quot;&gt;Martians on Everest&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/135790/supercreff&quot;&gt;SuperCreff&lt;/a&gt;, 09/01/2021.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And two new answers, both by DavidW, to an old unanswered Asimov-related story-ID question on which I placed a bounty:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/3862/31394&quot;&gt;A story mentioning Isaac Asimov as a character&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;highest-voted&lt;/strong&gt; of these is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/241435/31394&quot;&gt;When was the origin of the &amp;quot;Nightfall&amp;quot; quotation found?&lt;/a&gt;, with a score of &lt;strong&gt;29&lt;/strong&gt; at the end of January.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;most viewed&lt;/strong&gt; is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/242320/31394&quot;&gt;What did Asimov find embarrassing about &amp;quot;Marooned Off Vesta”?&lt;/a&gt;, with approximately &lt;strong&gt;5000&lt;/strong&gt; views during January.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2021-02-01T04:46:07.093" LastActivityDate="2021-02-01T04:46:07.093" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2020-12-31T22:47:29.767" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13233" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-01-02T18:20:17.497" Score="2" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, there've been a number of answers to accepted story-identification questions with possible matches to the question. In this case, it's one new user who's doing this to a bunch of questions, and not providing corroborating details, but when they started getting flagged for deletion because they &amp;quot;couldn't be the right answer&amp;quot; since one was already accepted, I commented on it, saying that partial and late answers are perfectly fine since our goal is as much to answer future querents as it is to answer that person, and allowing these late &amp;quot;incorrect&amp;quot; answers will help us when the next person searching for a book that matches the question can see other matching answers that might answer their search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, this might just be a matter of changing the reasoning deletion from &amp;quot;you shouldn't provide an answer if there's already an accepted one that's different&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;you should provide sufficient detail to answer the question&amp;quot;, but maybe I misremember our policy for answers and our tolerance for incorrect matching answers that can't be the correct answer for the current question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2021-01-02T18:20:17.497" Title="Story-ID answers after an accepted one? Are they useful?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2021-01-02T18:53:53.757" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3501" CreationDate="2021-01-02T18:30:15.377" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will say, for myself, that I always try to write self-answers to the same level, if not higher, as my other &lt;code&gt;story-identification&lt;/code&gt; answers. I provide evidence, quotes, and if possible, how I found the work (although, often, this is a less-satisfying explanation of &amp;quot;Oh, yeah, I remembered this word I didn't mention in the question, and it took me right there because that's the title&amp;quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="23243" LastEditDate="2021-03-03T01:46:22.883" LastActivityDate="2021-03-03T01:46:22.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="245" CreationDate="2021-01-02T21:42:40.213" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with this other &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/247/28516&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; but wanted to say more than would fit in a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note other meta questions on this topic closed as duplicates:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10124/answering-story-identification-questions-after-op-has-accepted-an-answer&quot;&gt;Answering story-identification questions after OP has accepted an answer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13233/story-id-answers-after-an-accepted-one-are-they-useful&quot;&gt;Story-ID answers after an accepted one? Are they useful?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoting from the accepted answer to the SE meta question &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7656/how-do-i-write-a-good-answer-to-a-question&quot;&gt;How do I write a good answer to a question?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be accurate and correct&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless you think the accepted answer is wrong, an additional answer to a question like this is not &amp;quot;correct&amp;quot;. Hopefully we can agree that story id questions have a correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Actually answer the question. Do not post an answer stating you have the same problem or one which only answers a question different from the one that was asked.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Writing an answer to a question when you know the answer is incorrect violates this principle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28516" LastEditorUserId="28516" LastEditDate="2021-01-02T21:48:03.273" LastActivityDate="2021-01-02T21:48:03.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13229" CreationDate="2021-01-03T12:47:47.153" Score="3" Body="&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;The official chatrooms here&lt;/a&gt; are always an option. The interface has a lot to be desired, and it isn't very active, but you can often find someone there to chat with, especially if it's about Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/chat/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The site's blog has a Discord&lt;/a&gt;, but there's even less activity there than in chat. (For example, there were a total of &lt;em&gt;twelve&lt;/em&gt; messages posted there in the past six months.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://ibid-11962.github.io/slack-invites/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;There's a Slack group&lt;/a&gt; started by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13081/kutulumike-michael-edenfield-has-passed-away/&quot;&gt;the late KutuluMike&lt;/a&gt; that has a number of this site's long-time users (ten of the top thirty rep users are on it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was created a few years ago to give a forum for more open discussion than Stack Exchange chat allows, and has been steadily continuing since, with a good 5-10 users active there on any given day, and I've found it a to be a great community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty much all topics of sci-fi are welcome to be discussed, both related to this website and not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also just head to a subreddit like &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/scifi/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;/r/scifi&lt;/a&gt;. You won't find much overlap in the userbase, but you'll certainly find a lot of activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55866" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2021-07-25T17:35:58.643" LastActivityDate="2021-07-25T17:35:58.643" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-01-03T12:47:47.153" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13237" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-01-04T13:48:17.607" Score="19" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a way to celebrate the New Year and lasting contributions to the site by new users I am &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11636/and-the-best-new-user-of-2017-is&quot;&gt;continuing&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12261/and-the-best-new-user-of-2018-is&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12896/and-the-best-new-user-of-2019-is&quot;&gt;honorary&lt;/a&gt; post based on a simple premise...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user with the highest rank in the yearly reputation league that was not previously ranked. For the Year 2020 league the winner is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/125981/&quot;&gt;Clara Diaz Sanchez&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/t2VA3.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/t2VA3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Clara Diaz Sanchez User league screen shot&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coming in at #12 with 9,252 reputation in 11 months is an accomplishment to be proud of. Please join me in congratulating this exceptional new user!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Previous years winners based on the criteria are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;year&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;user&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;year rank&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;reputation&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2019&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/115696/&quot;&gt;Invisible Trihedron&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;19&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;8,239&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2018&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/98028/&quot;&gt;Jenayah&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;9&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;14,253&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2017&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/80602/&quot;&gt;Bellatrix&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;26,201&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2016&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/57310/&quot;&gt;Skooba&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;18&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;15,596&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2015&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/40294/&quot;&gt;Praxis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;35,709&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2014&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/21600/&quot;&gt;Royal Canadian Bandit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;7&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;14,897&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2013&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/14111/&quot;&gt;user14111&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;10&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;6,998&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2012&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4056/&quot;&gt;dlanod&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;26,834&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2011&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/656/&quot;&gt;Jeff&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;21,720&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2021-01-08T10:52:47.580" LastActivityDate="2021-01-08T10:52:47.580" Title="And the Best New User of 2020 is" Tags="|discussion|users|new-users|contest|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13238" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-01-05T22:21:15.123" Score="16" ViewCount="227" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did you know that between 2016-12-23 and 2017-07-05, Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy SE had more Star Wars questions than Harry Potter questions?  We can thank this to the popularity of the Disney Star Wars films: &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Rogue One&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;em&gt;Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt; was what let Star Wars overtake Star Trek on 2016-01-11 in first place.  I hadn't noticed any of these lead changes at the time, and Meta doesn't seem to mention them either, which is why I want to document them here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QSvPf.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QSvPf.png&quot; alt=&quot;Plot showing cumulative time distribution our number of questions in six popular tags: harry-potter, star-wars, star-trek, marvel, tolkiens-legendarium, dc&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above plot shows the cumulative number of questions as a function of time in our six most popular franchise tags: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkiens-legendarium&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkiens-legendarium&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tolkiens-legendarium&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc&lt;/a&gt;.  I use the current set of tags for each question, not the tags as they existed back then. This should be a more accurate description of the questions, especially for the last three tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastActivityDate="2021-01-05T22:21:15.123" Title="Remember that time when we had more Star Wars questions than Harry Potter questions?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13239" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-01-06T18:51:30.620" Score="7" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Update&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2021/02/favorite-questions-and-answers-from-fourth-quater-2020/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Blog Post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Original&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from October 1st 2020 through December 31st 2020.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2020/10/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2020/10/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2020/10/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I will also be linking all blog posts that happened within this quarter year. Also the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/550327/most-controversial-posts-on-the-site-by-start-date&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;most controversial question&lt;/a&gt; of the quarter. Also a sum of all the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/618952/past-bounties-by-bounty-date&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;bounties&lt;/a&gt; that were awarded.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally if there was a meta post you feel should be spotlighted those are also acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2021-02-05T06:56:36.137" LastActivityDate="2021-02-05T06:56:36.137" Title="Favorite Question and Answers from Fourth Quarter 2020" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13240" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-01-08T12:18:54.390" Score="14" ViewCount="1919" Body="&lt;p&gt;SFF Stack Exchange's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13211/31394&quot;&gt;new topic challenge program&lt;/a&gt; has got off to a good start, celebrating the start of 2021 and the 10th anniversary of the site with an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13230/31394&quot;&gt;Isaac Asimov&lt;/a&gt; topic challenge. This topic was chosen more or less by decree, since we didn't have time to hold a proper discussion with voting on different proposals. For future topics, though, we should use suggestions and votes from the community to decide. Hence, this meta post calling for proposals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How to propose a topic challenge?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post an answer to this question, detailing the book / author / film / TV series / comic / whatever you think would make a good topic for a future month.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One topic per answer, please.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As well as just proposing the topic, you can also include some justification of why it'd make a good challenge.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What makes a good topic challenge?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Preferably something &lt;strong&gt;underappreciated&lt;/strong&gt;. That could be something that's really good but not really popular, or it could be something that &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; popular in the real world but hasn't been asked about much here. Part of the point of this topic challenge program is to &lt;strong&gt;increase the range of topics our site covers&lt;/strong&gt;, make us a bit less dominated by a few mega-popular franchises.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13212/31394&quot;&gt;TheLethalCarrot's suggestion&lt;/a&gt; of topic challenges on popular works in their release months also bears thinking about, but not in &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; meta post.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Another consideration might be &lt;strong&gt;availability&lt;/strong&gt;. Things that are easy to get hold of (e.g. if some stories from an author are available online) might make for more accessible topic challenges.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How will topics be chosen?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When the time comes to choose a new topic, we'll pick the highest-voted answer to this meta post. The answer will then be deleted here, so that newer topics get more eyeballs/voters, and a separate meta post will be created for that month's topic, with a list of posts etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;So please vote on the answers to this question as they appear!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For now, we'll choose topics at the start of the relevant month (the next one will be chosen three weeks from now, at the start of February). In future, when we've had more time, we might announce a topic one month &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; it starts, to give people time to prepare (e.g. to get hold of a book or start watching a show).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2022-11-30T17:02:26.977" LastActivityDate="2023-02-07T18:36:07.037" Title="Vote on future topics for SFF topic challenges!" Tags="|discussion|topic-challenge|" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11051" CreationDate="2021-01-08T22:27:23.787" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;2021&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;December&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2021/12/the-matrix-resurrections-review-100-words-or-fewer-spoiler-free/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Matrix Resurrections Review: 100 Words Or Fewer – Spoiler Free&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2021/12/spider-man-no-way-home-spoiler-free/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Spider-Man: No Way Home - Spoiler Free&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;November&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2021/11/the-wakana-files/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Wakanda Files&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;October&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2021/10/favorite-questions-and-answers-from-third-quarter-2021/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Favorite Question and Answers from Third Quarter 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;August&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2021/08/favorite-question-and-answers-from-second-quarter-2021/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Favorite Question and Answers from Second Quarter 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;July&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2021/07/mark-d-owens-impact/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mark D. Owen’s Impact&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;June&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2021/06/the-death-gate-cycle/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Death Gate Cycle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2021/06/andy-weirs-project-hail-mary-a-novel/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary: A Novel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;May&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2021/05/jacks-bad-movies-the-scorpion-king-4-quest-for-power-2015/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies: The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power (2015)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;April&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2021/04/favorite-question-and-answers-from-first-quarter-2021/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Favorite Question and Answers from First Quarter 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;March&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2021/03/the-alpha-protocol/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Alpha Protocol&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2021/03/rapid-fire-book-reviews/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rapid Fire Book Reviews&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2021/03/giants-series/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Giants Series&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;February&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2021/02/favorite-questions-and-answers-from-fourth-quater-2020/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Favorite Questions and Answers from Fourth Quarter 2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;January&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2021/01/sff-stack-exchange-is-starting-topic-challenges/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SFF Stack Exchange is starting topic challenges&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2021/01/science-fiction-fantasy-stack-exchange-10th-anniversary/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange 10th Anniversary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="1148" LastEditDate="2021-12-24T16:52:25.857" LastActivityDate="2021-12-24T16:52:25.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13171" CreationDate="2021-01-15T13:17:02.250" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the record, what we did in the end amounts to the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A commemorative &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2021/01/science-fiction-fantasy-stack-exchange-10th-anniversary/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt; written by our very own blog admin &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1148/jack-b-nimble&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt;, including one-liners from various site users (currently 10, including moderators, high-rep users, former moderators, and former high-rep users) expressing their views on the site over the years.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13211/31394&quot;&gt;Starting up&lt;/a&gt; a new topic challenge program, kicking it off in the ten-year anniversary month with the topic of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13230/31394&quot;&gt;Isaac Asimov&lt;/a&gt; and his works. In its first week, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;call for proposals for future topic challenges&lt;/a&gt; has already attracted 7 answers from 5 different users.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's pretty much it, I think (I'm writing this on 15 January 2021, four days after the anniversary date). Not a &lt;em&gt;massive&lt;/em&gt; celebration, but a nice recognition for this significant milestone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's to the next ten years!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2021-01-15T13:17:02.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13250" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-01-19T17:36:57.887" Score="10" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22year+in+moderation%22+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on the web:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny slices of effort contributed by regular, everyday users.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;-- &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't eliminate the need for having &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/11/21/our-theory-of-moderation-re-visited/&quot;&gt;moderators&lt;/a&gt; altogether, but it does mean that the bulk of moderation work is carried out by regular folks. Every bit of time and effort y'all contribute to the site gives you access to more privileges you can use to help in this effort, all of which produce a cumulative effect that makes a big difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as we welcome 2021, and in keeping with tradition, let us look back at what we accomplished as a community... by looking at some &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pU1Al.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;exciting&lt;/em&gt; stats&lt;/a&gt;. Below is a breakdown of moderation actions performed on Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy over the past 12 months:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Action&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Moderators&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Community¹&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users suspended²&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;19&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;8&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users destroyed³&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;72&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users deleted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;11&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users contacted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;27&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;User banned from review&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: Suggested Edit queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;40&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2,112&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: Reopen Vote queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;18&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,306&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: Low Quality Posts queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;194&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;5,334&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: Late Answer queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;43&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2,681&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: First Post queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: 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right;&quot;&gt;121&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts deleted⁶&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;613&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3,273&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts bumped&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;383&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Escalations to the Community Manager team&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comments undeleted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;75&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comments flagged&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;14&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3,250&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comments deleted⁷&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4,960&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3,621&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comment flags handled&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2,609&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;661&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Answers flagged&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;24&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;5,334&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Answer flags handled&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,448&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3,913&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;All comments on a post moved to chat&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;28&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Footnotes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &amp;quot;Community&amp;quot; here refers both to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;the membership of Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;diamonds next to their names&lt;/a&gt;, and to the automated systems otherwise known as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;user #-1&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;² The system will suspend users under three circumstances: when a user is recreated after being previously suspended, when a user is recreated after being destroyed for spam or abuse, and when a network-wide suspension is in effect on an account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;³ A &amp;quot;destroyed&amp;quot; user is deleted along with all that they had posted: questions, answers, comments. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/88994/what-is-the-difference-between-a-deleted-user-and-a-destroyed-user&quot;&gt;Generally used as an expedient way of getting rid of spam.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁴ This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 2 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 2, the goal being to indicate the frequency of moderation actions. This also applies to flags, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁵ Includes close flags (but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; close or reopen votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁶ This ignores numerous deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁷ This includes comments deleted by their own authors (which also account for some number of handled comment flags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Further reading:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wanna see how these numbers have changed over time? We posted a similar report here last year: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12861/2019-a-year-in-moderation&quot;&gt;2019: a year in moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can also check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/search?q=title%3A%222020%3A+a+year+in+moderation%22&quot;&gt;this report on other sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or peruse &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/359735/208518&quot;&gt;detailed information on the number of questions closed and reopened across all sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A big thank you to &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/users/620/shog9&quot;&gt;Shog9&lt;/a&gt; for writing the queries and script to facilitate fetching and posting this data to all the sites in the network, and to &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/users/459488/brian-nickel&quot;&gt;Brian&lt;/a&gt; for the subsequent work making the whole thing more user friendly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wishing everyone a happy 2021!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6365" LastEditorUserId="6006" LastEditDate="2021-01-20T05:29:20.587" LastActivityDate="2021-01-28T10:12:29.777" Title="2020: a year in moderation" Tags="|discussion|moderation|site-statistics|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13251" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-01-22T09:04:18.980" Score="25" ViewCount="305" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira_Furlan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mira Furlan&lt;/a&gt;, Croatian-American actress and singer, has just passed away at the age of 65. Her best-known screen role was as the Minbari ambassador in &lt;em&gt;Babylon 5&lt;/em&gt;, a role that she played both boneheadedly and hairily, but always with care and compassion, through five seasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7lh8P.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7lh8P.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;R.I.P.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2021-01-22T19:40:17.657" LastActivityDate="2021-01-24T11:53:45.347" Title="RIP Mira Furlan" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13251" CreationDate="2021-01-24T11:53:45.347" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;R.I.P. Mira, she's gone to the sea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's probably a good few members of this stack who best remember in the role of Delenn in Babylon 5. Looking her up at IMDB, her role as Delenn is the only program/film that I've ever watch with her in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111234" LastActivityDate="2021-01-24T11:53:45.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13250" CreationDate="2021-01-28T10:12:29.777" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've compiled some data on the above comparing the numbers from this year to last year and Community actions to Moderator actions. It's all in one big table so you will likely have to scroll it to the side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a note on the formulas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;% Increase&lt;/strong&gt; is &lt;code&gt;(2020-2019)/2019&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moderator to Community % Difference&lt;/strong&gt; is &lt;code&gt;(Moderator-Community)/Community&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Action&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Moderator 2020&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Moderator 2019&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;% Increase&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Community 2020&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Community 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  <row Id="13256" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13257" CreationDate="2021-01-29T18:47:47.610" Score="6" ViewCount="342" Body="&lt;p&gt;This post is for the second of SFF.SE's brand-new series of &lt;strong&gt;topic challenges&lt;/strong&gt;, encouraging the site's community to take part together in asking and answering questions on a particular topic each month. According to community votes on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;topic challenge proposals thread&lt;/a&gt;, the February 2021 topic challenge is going to be devoted to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Clement&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a 20th-century leader of hard science fiction literature&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;the works of Hal Clement.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's a topic challenge and how do I take part?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13211/31394&quot;&gt;Announcing a Topic Challenge program for SFF.SE&lt;/a&gt;, and also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/240634/278659&quot;&gt;this main meta post&lt;/a&gt;. In short, during February 2021 we should all try to: either read some works of Hal Clement and ask interesting questions about them, or ask questions about some of his stories we've read before, or help out by &lt;em&gt;answering&lt;/em&gt; other people's Hal Clement questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Participation is not obligatory in any sense, but those who participate will be forever remembered in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13257/31394&quot;&gt;annals of our history&lt;/a&gt;. We'll keep a list of all Hal Clement questions asked during February 2021 in an answer to this meta post. At the end of the month, I'll collate some data like highest-scoring question, most-viewed question, highest-scoring answer, etc. There won't be any real-world rewards like in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1138/31394&quot;&gt;the old days&lt;/a&gt; when Stack Exchange was smaller and more generous. There might be bounties though ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4918/b-jonas&quot;&gt;b_jonas&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13247/31394&quot;&gt;original presentation&lt;/a&gt; of this proposal:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The epitome of hard science fiction.  He wrote a series of four books, starting with &lt;em&gt;Mission of Gravity&lt;/em&gt;, about an unusual giant planet and its inhabitants, and about humans contacting them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few of his stories are in public domain and available for free on the internet, due to the quirks of old U.S. copyright law:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61564&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;“Attitude”&lt;/a&gt; (1943)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61509&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;“The Green World”&lt;/a&gt; (1963)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50928&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;“Hot Planet”&lt;/a&gt; (1963)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's next?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Future topic challenges will be chosen by community votes, so come over and propose or vote on suggestions at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;Propose future topics for SFF topic challenges!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The Hal Clement answer will be deleted from that thread at the start of February, since already chosen topics shouldn't stick at the top of the thread and distract people from those still to be voted on.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2021-02-01T04:55:20.927" LastActivityDate="2021-03-01T05:38:03.453" Title="February 2021 Topic Challenge: Hal Clement" Tags="|discussion|topic-challenge|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13256" CreationDate="2021-02-01T04:55:06.720" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;List of all questions posted as part of this topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/242672/31394&quot;&gt;Who are all the characters in Hal Clement&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;Hot Planet&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394&quot;&gt;Rand al'Thor&lt;/a&gt;, 01/02/2021.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/242791/31394&quot;&gt;Why was the ship named Albireo in Hal Clement&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;Hot Planet&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394&quot;&gt;Rand al'Thor&lt;/a&gt;, 03/02/2021.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/242877/which-hal-clement-books-are-in-the-same-universe-as-mission-of-gravity&quot;&gt;Which Hal Clement books are in the same universe as &amp;#39;Mission of Gravity&amp;#39;?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/69965/cometaryorbit&quot;&gt;cometaryorbit&lt;/a&gt;, 05/02/2021&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/243505/what-is-the-significance-of-hal-clements-comment-about-pancake-in-the-sky&quot;&gt;What is the significance of Hal Clement&amp;#39;s comment about &amp;quot;Pancake in the Sky&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/69965/cometaryorbit&quot;&gt;cometaryorbit&lt;/a&gt;, 19/02/2021&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/243849/31394&quot;&gt;Any meaning or significance to the name &amp;quot;Felodon&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394&quot;&gt;Rand al'Thor&lt;/a&gt;, 28/02/2021.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;highest-voted&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;most viewed&lt;/strong&gt; is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/243505/31394&quot;&gt;What is the significance of Hal Clement&amp;#39;s comment about &amp;quot;Pancake in the Sky&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/69965/cometaryorbit&quot;&gt;cometaryorbit&lt;/a&gt;, with a score of &lt;strong&gt;11&lt;/strong&gt; and approximately &lt;strong&gt;490&lt;/strong&gt; views at the end of February.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2021-03-01T05:38:03.453" LastActivityDate="2021-03-01T05:38:03.453" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-02-01T04:55:06.720" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13260" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-02-05T11:19:51.867" Score="2" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question of mine, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/242723/which-sci-fi-book-is-this-quote-from&quot;&gt;Which sci-fi book is this quote from?&lt;/a&gt;, was closed as a duplicate of this other question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/95417/what-is-series-where-there-is-an-ai-born-on-the-solar-system-wide-network&quot;&gt;What is Series Where There is an AI Born on the Solar System-Wide Network&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see why that happened: the answer to the two questions &lt;em&gt;is the same&lt;/em&gt; (book 2 of Ender's Saga, &lt;em&gt;Speaker for the Dead&lt;/em&gt;). But my question &lt;em&gt;is not&lt;/em&gt; a duplicate of the other one. In fact, reading that other question and answer before asking my question would have had no impact, as I would not have realized that it was that book I was looking for. (I didn't even know that the &amp;quot;girl&amp;quot; character in the quote I remembered was an AI!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why was my question considered a duplicate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116679" LastActivityDate="2021-02-05T11:19:51.867" Title="My question was closed as a duplicate but it's not really a duplicate" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ClosedDate="2021-02-05T13:16:45.380" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13261" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-02-06T12:40:24.480" Score="22" ViewCount="279" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actor Christopher Plummer died on February 5 2021 (&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55962062&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BBC article&lt;/a&gt;). He is probably better known for non sci-fi roles, but General Chang was one of the most memorable Star Trek bad guys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sTZco.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sTZco.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;General Chang&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4935" LastEditorUserId="4935" LastEditDate="2021-02-06T13:52:23.587" LastActivityDate="2021-02-07T02:35:56.143" Title="RIP Christopher Plummer" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13262" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13263" CreationDate="2021-02-06T15:27:50.293" Score="1" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we're still following the story-id duplicate policy, then &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/242943/book-where-a-girl-breaks-into-a-spaceship-that-crashes-and-finds-a-boy-that-pull&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; should not have been closed, tempting though it is. Neither the question nor the proposed duplicate has any answers, much less any accetped ones. Did something change recently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10119/was-this-story-id-question-incorrectly-closed-as-duplicate&quot;&gt;This other Meta question&lt;/a&gt; is similar, but in that instance the question was closed by user  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;Community ♦&lt;/a&gt; and the duplicate had an accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63330" LastActivityDate="2021-02-06T15:41:38.593" Title="Story-id duplicate policy" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2021-02-06T16:11:49.467" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13262" CreationDate="2021-02-06T15:41:38.593" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;We make an exception to the usual &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7067/31394&quot;&gt;policy on closing ID questions as dupes&lt;/a&gt; when &lt;strong&gt;both questions were asked by the same person&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Re-posting the same question again if you didn't get any answers at first is a no-no all over the SE network, as an answerless OP should instead use other options such as editing their original question or placing a bounty on it. We don't want people to use our story-ID dupe policy as a loophole to keep re-posting the same question as many times as they like until it's answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I'm not implying the OP of this question had any bad intent. They're not a very active user, and it's reasonable to assume they simply didn't know about any rule against re-posting the same question. Nor am I implying that &lt;em&gt;you're&lt;/em&gt; suggesting we should allow this loophole for re-posters, rather than simply not noticing that both questions were asked by the same user. Actually I'm glad you made this meta post, because this exception to the story-ID dupe rule has been our &lt;em&gt;practice&lt;/em&gt; for quite a while but I don't think it's ever been codified as &lt;em&gt;policy&lt;/em&gt; on meta before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;sub&gt;As a general principle, this also covers cases where an OP has come back on a new account to post a near-identical question (common enough in story-ID where many OPs are one-shot wonders), although those cases may be harder to track down unless one of our story-ID watchers has an eagle eye or an eidetic memory. In this case, though, the OP used the same account for both questions.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2021-02-06T15:41:38.593" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13261" CreationDate="2021-02-07T02:35:56.143" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any actor who had as many film and television appearances as Christopher Plummer would naturally have some science fiction and fantasy appearances mixed in.  Besides Plummer's chilling General Chang (&amp;quot;In space, all warriors are cold warriors&amp;quot;), I remember him particularly for his role as the virologist (and Brad Pitt's father) in &lt;em&gt;Twelve Monkeys&lt;/em&gt;.  Plummer gives a very grounded performance, and serves as a foil for the multiple over-the-top lunatic characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/qG0fVqJBCKM?start=43&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2021-02-07T02:35:56.143" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13265" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13266" CreationDate="2021-02-12T13:51:59.463" Score="10" ViewCount="203" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lately, we've been getting a lot of two line &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/isekai&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;isekai&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;isekai&lt;/a&gt; questions, seemingly hit-and-runs where the question is incredibly barebones and we seldom see the person again. For one of them, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/243173/manga-about-a-male-student-of-magic-who-was-killed-by-a-noble-and-reborn-as-a-n&quot;&gt;Manga about a male student of magic who was killed by a noble, and reborn as a noble child&lt;/a&gt;, I actually do know the answer, but only because I started reading it on my own, and recognized the premise. Is it worthwhile to vote to reopen a question that might never be accepted, that has not been improved, because an answer is known?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2022-02-11T19:20:56.010" LastActivityDate="2022-02-11T19:20:56.010" Title="Should a question lacking detail and clarity be reopened if we have an answer?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|story-identification|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13265" CreationDate="2021-02-12T22:16:41.303" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;In general&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to say no. If a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; question has been closed as lacking focus, the typical reason is that it potentially matches &lt;strong&gt;lots&lt;/strong&gt; of properties. That you've managed to identify &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; of those properties (and presumably would like to post it as an answer) doesn't change the fact that the question is lacking focus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unless...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you post a comment mentioning a property that matches their crappy description and OP confirms that &lt;em&gt;that's precisely what they were looking for all along&lt;/em&gt;, in that case it seems churlish to leave it closed when there's a perfectly good (and correct) answer waiting to be posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;In specific&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That particular question should be reopened. Although it's very terse, the presence of a fairly identifying fact (that the main character has a pet goat) should be sufficient to have it stand out from the crowd of other properties that match the Isekai Reincarnation trope&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2021-02-13T12:10:28.330" LastActivityDate="2021-02-13T12:10:28.330" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13267" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-02-15T03:25:13.727" Score="7" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes inexperienced users flag story identification questions for closing before an answer is confirmed.  Since this is contrary to our policy for such questions, I have recently taken to using my ability as one of the handful of users with a gold &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; badge to close and then reopen such question, purely to flush out any close votes that have accumulated.  However, the last time I did this, I felt a pang of concern that maybe I was misusing the privilege of adjudicating &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; duplicates.  So I thought I would bring the issue up here, in the hopes of getting a decisive community answer as to whether the practice I have developed is acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2021-02-15T07:25:03.363" LastActivityDate="2021-02-15T07:45:42.370" Title="Is it permissible for gold badge users to close and reopen questions to clear out inappropriate close votes?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13267" CreationDate="2021-02-15T07:45:42.370" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, I'd say it isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all you'll note that &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/231212/398063&quot;&gt;the feature announcement for the dupehammer&lt;/a&gt; doesn't mention it as one of one's duties/perks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, what exactly is the harm caused by these pending close votes? At worst the question gets closed, then one can dupehammer into reopening, which is fine and in line with the feature's purposes. More likely, the votes stay there to rot and expire, may they be justified or not, and... Nothing harmful happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, on the very principle, who are we to invalidate folks' voices in such a way? Yes, some of these votes stem from a misunderstanding of the duplicate policy, but then &amp;quot;flushing&amp;quot; them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;deprive their authors of the ability to retract their votes, a feature they might not know of if they haven't been around long enough to know the policy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if some of these votes are for the &amp;quot;Unclear&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Too Broad&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Primarily Opinion-Based&amp;quot; reason, you're flushing them as well with the other votes, and that is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; in the expected scope of the dupehammer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, this whole practice basically equates to &amp;quot;your vote is not one of the authorized ones, so I'll be silencing it away&amp;quot; for no valid reason. I'd be okay with that coming from an &lt;em&gt;elected&lt;/em&gt; moderator, but not from someone who gained that power solely thanks to &amp;quot;content written&amp;quot; score and quantity. Votes are votes, discuss them all you want, educate folks, let them think twice about it if they messed up but don't shut them down this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I go to vote on the presidential election and put a wrong name/no name on my ballot, my vote may not be counted as it's null, but this won't affect the abstention rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastActivityDate="2021-02-15T07:45:42.370" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7681" CreationDate="2021-02-17T09:39:40.420" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;my user name used to be my real-name. When I eventually decided to go at least a LITTLE harder to track down, I changed my avatar...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same story here. I originally had no idea what I should keep my avatar as, and like many other, t was the pre-generated one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;THEN, I had a moment of I-love-retro-games and changed it to - you guessed it - Mario! Sadly, the image that I downloaded vanished from the internet and my Hard Disk mysteriously..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; Okay, maybe I deleted the copy of the image from the Hard Drive. :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, I changed it to something more modern...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/VziHiV9ES4Qaz9X8JhaQYsmTKZTOQ40qjO5QLiPFxvDozDLFXjpPIiGhCMz4dFUxy38K3A=s108&quot; alt=&quot;INFINTY&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My real name is traceable only by my avatar. And only to those who have a good memory. You can try guessing!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133784" LastActivityDate="2021-02-17T09:39:40.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13272" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-02-18T09:46:38.660" Score="14" ViewCount="258" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/243417/31394&quot;&gt;a question was asked&lt;/a&gt; about a website (Baen's Bar) which, as far as I understand, is/was a discussion forum for fans. There was some discussion in comments about whether or not this question should be considered on-topic here, with some people saying yes because it falls under &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9529/31394&quot;&gt;fandom information&lt;/a&gt;, and others saying no because it's not a fandom question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11976/31394&quot;&gt;about SF/F itself&lt;/a&gt; but about a forum. The comments were getting quite lengthy, so I'm bringing the discussion to meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should questions about online SF/F fan forums* be considered on-topic or not?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;* Other than SFF.SE, of course. Questions about &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; particular SF/F fan website belong right here on SFF meta.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2021-02-22T09:17:10.273" Title="Are questions about SF/F fan forums on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13272" CreationDate="2021-02-18T10:45:41.937" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question, in question asks about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently, Baen's Bar, a popular and long-running &amp;quot;virtual convention&amp;quot; for sci-fi aficionados.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Baen's Bar is a forum, calling it a long-running virtual convention is overly generous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, it's only tangentially on-topic. See this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11976/3804&quot;&gt;previous question, (the second linked in the main post)&lt;/a&gt; it also applies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the context of this question, the key phrase is &amp;quot;about science fiction or fantasy&amp;quot;. This means Questions about motivation, influences and writing/acting styles would on topic. Questions about what they do in their personal lives, unless it &lt;em&gt;can be specifically linked to a work of SF&amp;amp;F&lt;/em&gt;, should be off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the question about the forum can be specifically linked to a work of SF&amp;amp;F. If the question had been about the delay of a book being published, or something more closely tied to SF&amp;amp;F, then it may have had a chance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, the question discussed in the first meta post linked:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/126388/into-which-house-was-rowling-sorted&quot;&gt;Into which house was Rowling sorted?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ties directly into the Harry Potter fandom; understanding which house she is sorted into informs you about the work in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But questions about a forum itself, is like asking about the web technology behind Pottermore or the convention building itself.&lt;/strong&gt; It looks like out &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/pottermore&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pottermore&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pottermore&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/convention&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;convention&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;convention&lt;/a&gt; (common co-tags with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fandom&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fandom&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fandom&lt;/a&gt; bear this out, as they're more directly linked to the works in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/115453/why-was-the-old-pottermore-shut-down&quot;&gt;Why was the old Pottermore shut down?&lt;/a&gt;, is on topic as the website directly relates parts of the harry potter franchise. Baen's Bar is just for the discussion of the works in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There will be questions that involve Baen's Bar in the future, but this one is not it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In conclusion, the question isn't directly tied to a sci-fi or fantasy work, so it should not be left open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2021-02-19T11:00:13.333" LastActivityDate="2021-02-19T11:00:13.333" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13272" CreationDate="2021-02-18T12:31:41.150" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would argue that they are, although we should probably apply some sort of '&lt;em&gt;notability test&lt;/em&gt;' in practice if people start asking questions about very small websites or individual chatrooms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this instance the forum in question is directly attached to a publisher's website that specialises in publishing purely science fiction and fantasy, the forum itself has a wide fanbase which included a significant number of the authors they publish and the bulk of the chat is directly related to the books they publish. I would argue that represents a fandom (e.g. &lt;em&gt;'Baen books and the books they publish&lt;/em&gt;') all of its own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Baen's Bar is quite different from the websites of other publishers: Baen, his editors, and many of his authors actually frequent the chatrooms daily, host their own forums, and are quite open and friendly, and &amp;quot;just folks.&amp;quot; Of course, if you are friends with an author, you run out and buy his or her books in hardback right away...and, oh my, Baen's hardback sales have increased tremendously. Baen's Bar has several thousand active members, and averages over 900 posts a day in all of its forums.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;Sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20110930024848/http://www.learningfountain.com/baensbar.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Baen's Bar, A Successful Community&#xA;by Walt Boyes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/Sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2021-02-22T09:17:10.273" LastActivityDate="2021-02-22T09:17:10.273" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13275" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13276" CreationDate="2021-02-22T21:57:27.213" Score="15" ViewCount="288" Body="&lt;p&gt;Last year (2020) saw some &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/346638/278659&quot;&gt;changes to the question closure system&lt;/a&gt; across the SE network. One of the changes was to introduce &lt;strong&gt;audience-specific texts for custom close reasons&lt;/strong&gt;, so that the OP, close voters, privileged users, and the general public can all get slightly different versions of the same essential explanation of why a question is unsuitable for the site. By default, all versions for existing close reasons are set to the same thing, since there didn't use to be any option to have different versions. Some sites &lt;a href=&quot;https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4710/new-audience-specific-texts-for-our-custom-close-reasons&quot;&gt;already&lt;/a&gt; changed their close reasons by creating separate texts as the system now allows. I'm hereby kickstarting an effort to do the same thing here on SFF, but I'll be taking our custom close reasons one at a time and creating a different meta post for each one. (This was also one of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13015/31394&quot;&gt;suggestions&lt;/a&gt; last year for &amp;quot;ways to improve SFF.SE&amp;quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First up is the &lt;strong&gt;scientific solutions or explanations&lt;/strong&gt; close reason, where the current text is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions seeking &lt;strong&gt;scientific solutions or explanations&lt;/strong&gt; are off-topic unless related directly to a cited work of fiction. There are &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites#science&quot;&gt;several other Stack Exchange sites&lt;/a&gt; dedicated to answering questions on non-fictional sciences. For more information, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7364&quot;&gt;What is our actual policy on science questions?&lt;/a&gt; on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following image shows the different boxes that can be filled by mods/CMs with different text. The first two appear in the close/flag dialogue &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the post is closed; the last three appear in post notices &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the post is closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Brief description&lt;/strong&gt; is the bold header for the close reason.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Usage guidance&lt;/strong&gt; is what will appear in the close menu, advising people when to use the close reason.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Close description&lt;/strong&gt; will be shown to everyone in the post notice and should be relatively short.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Post owner guidance&lt;/strong&gt; appears in the post notice and is how the OP should fix the question (if possible).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Privileged user guidance&lt;/strong&gt; is informative for the people with close privilege regarding what the close reason is.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eKCsD.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eKCsD.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Let's get a consensus on what we should put in each box.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We need CM help to edit an existing close reason, so a clear meta consensus is essential, then we can &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-review&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-review&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-review&lt;/a&gt; it and get them to help us making the necessary changes. I'm going to post an answer below with my proposed texts; please vote and give feedback or suggested improvements if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="41668" LastEditDate="2021-05-26T22:08:13.863" LastActivityDate="2021-05-26T22:08:13.863" Title="Audience-specific texts for custom close reasons: Scientific Solutions or Explanations" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|closing-questions|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13275" CreationDate="2021-02-22T21:57:27.213" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Brief description&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The name shown to flaggers/close-voters when seeking an option in the close menu:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Real-world science question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Usage guidance&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The description shown to flaggers/close-voters after choosing this close reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question seeks &lt;strong&gt;scientific solutions or explanations&lt;/strong&gt;. Real-world science is off-topic unless rooted clearly within a cited work of fiction. Note that asking for an answer within the context of a fictional universe, even if that question requires real-world science information, is on-topic. For more details, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7364&quot;&gt;What is our actual policy on science questions?&lt;/a&gt; on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Close description&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The text shown to everybody, even non-users, viewing the closed question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was &lt;strong&gt;closed&lt;/strong&gt; for being about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7364&quot;&gt;real-world science&lt;/a&gt;. It is currently not accepting answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Post owner guidance&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more detailed text shown, under the general close description, to the OP only when viewing their closed question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question appears to be about &lt;strong&gt;real-world scientific&lt;/strong&gt; explanations, solutions, or plausibility, and may be more suited for one of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites#science&quot;&gt;other Stack Exchange sites&lt;/a&gt; dedicated to non-fictional sciences. If you are seeking an answer only within the context of a fictional universe, then please edit to clarify, and your question may be reopened. For more information, please see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7364&quot;&gt;this FAQ post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Privileged user guidance&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more detailed text shown, under the general close description, to any 3k+ rep user viewing the closed question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please consider whether you can edit the question, or guide the asker in how to edit it, to be about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7364&quot;&gt;in-universe explanations rather than real-world science&lt;/a&gt;, and vote to reopen the question if appropriate. If the question would be better suited for one of the Stack Exchange sites on non-fictional sciences, please guide the asker appropriately in comments, including suggesting improvements to the question for that site if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2021-02-23T15:48:38.077" LastActivityDate="2021-02-23T15:48:38.077" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13277" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-02-25T05:21:21.950" Score="12" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;Active question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/243735/12857&quot;&gt;Who is the youngest Starfleet Admiral?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unintended duplicate post, now deleted: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/243734/12857&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/243734/12857&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I typed out my question and clicked the button to post it. The page scrolled to the top and I got the &amp;quot;Our automated system checked for ways to improve your question and found none&amp;quot; message. I clicked again to post the question and closed the tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An hour later I came back to check if I'd gotten any answers and found that my question had been posted twice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At no point did I copy/paste the contents of my question or click the &amp;quot;ask question&amp;quot; button again. I did open a few other SFF tabs to conduct research for my question and check for potential duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12857" LastActivityDate="2021-02-25T05:21:21.950" Title="My question was posted twice" Tags="|bug|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13240" CreationDate="2021-02-26T10:27:25.653" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;J.V. Jones&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This fantasy author has a small number of books, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sword-of-shadows&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;sword-of-shadows&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;sword-of-shadows&lt;/a&gt; (1 question) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/book-of-words&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;book-of-words&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;book-of-words&lt;/a&gt; (0 questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Sword of Shadows is, from what I remember, has an incredibly rich setting and very compelling story featuring many different characters and perspectives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Definitely an underappreciated author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2021-02-26T10:27:25.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13280" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13281" CreationDate="2021-02-28T11:27:36.660" Score="6" ViewCount="551" Body="&lt;p&gt;This post is for the third of SFF.SE's new series of &lt;strong&gt;topic challenges&lt;/strong&gt;, encouraging the site's community to take part together in asking and answering questions on a particular topic each month. According to community votes on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;topic challenge proposals thread&lt;/a&gt;, the March 2021 topic challenge is going to be devoted to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelia_Funke&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a contemporary German writer of children's fantasy&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;the works of Cornelia Funke.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's a topic challenge and how do I take part?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13211/31394&quot;&gt;Announcing a Topic Challenge program for SFF.SE&lt;/a&gt;, and also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/240634/278659&quot;&gt;this main meta post&lt;/a&gt;. In short, during March 2021 we should all try to: either read some works of Cornelia Funke and ask interesting questions about them, or ask questions about some of her stories we've read before, or help out by &lt;em&gt;answering&lt;/em&gt; other people's Cornelia Funke questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Participation is not obligatory in any sense, but those who participate will be forever remembered in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13281/31394&quot;&gt;annals of our history&lt;/a&gt;. We'll keep a list of all Cornelia Funke questions asked during March 2021 in an answer to this meta post. At the end of the month, I'll collate some data like highest-scoring question, most-viewed question, highest-scoring answer, etc. There won't be any real-world rewards like in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1138/31394&quot;&gt;the old days&lt;/a&gt; when Stack Exchange was smaller and more generous. There might be bounties though ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4918/b-jonas&quot;&gt;b_jonas&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13248/31394&quot;&gt;original presentation&lt;/a&gt; of this proposal, with links added by me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A contemporary writer of children's fantasy.  Her most famous books are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Herr der Diebe&lt;/em&gt; (2002, translated to English as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thief_Lord&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Thief Lord&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;), adapted to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thief_Lord_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;film&lt;/a&gt; in 2006;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Drachenreiter&lt;/em&gt; (2004, translated to English as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Rider_(novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dragon Rider&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) and one sequel, adapted to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Rider_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;film&lt;/a&gt; in 2020;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tintenherz&lt;/em&gt; (2003, translated to English as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkheart&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Inkheart&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) and its &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkheart_trilogy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;three sequels&lt;/a&gt;, plus a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkheart_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;film&lt;/a&gt; adaptation for the first book in 2008, there's also a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/ds/data/954949.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;video game&lt;/a&gt; adaptation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about adaptations of Funke books will also be considered as part of the topic challenge, even if they weren't overseen by Funke herself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's next?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Future topic challenges will be chosen by community votes, so come over and propose or vote on suggestions at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;Propose future topics for SFF topic challenges!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The Cornelia Funke answer will be deleted from that thread at the start of March, since already chosen topics shouldn't stick at the top of the thread and distract people from those still to be voted on.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="51379" LastEditDate="2021-03-22T16:47:21.510" LastActivityDate="2021-03-31T21:32:12.503" Title="March 2021 Topic Challenge: Cornelia Funke" Tags="|discussion|topic-challenge|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13280" CreationDate="2021-02-28T12:20:10.250" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;List of all questions posted as part of this topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/244400/57310&quot;&gt;Was there any &amp;quot;official&amp;quot; word on the Inkheart film trilogy?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/57310/skooba&quot;&gt;Skooba&lt;/a&gt;, 10/03/2021&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/244530/33591&quot;&gt;Why is Death &amp;quot;the Great Shape-Changer&amp;quot; in &amp;quot;Inkheart&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/33591&quot;&gt;Mithical&lt;/a&gt;, 13/03/2021&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/244703/31394&quot;&gt;How many copies of Inkheart were printed/sold, in-universe?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394&quot;&gt;Rand al'Thor&lt;/a&gt;, 17/03/2021&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/244770/31394&quot;&gt;Was Fenoglio based on any real author?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394&quot;&gt;Rand al'Thor&lt;/a&gt;, 18/03/2021&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/245073/31394&quot;&gt;Where is the setting of the start of Dragon Rider?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394&quot;&gt;Rand al'Thor&lt;/a&gt;, 26/03/2021&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/245143/31394&quot;&gt;Where do Meggie and Mo (and Elinor) live originally?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394&quot;&gt;Rand al'Thor&lt;/a&gt;, 28/03/2021&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;add entries in the form &lt;code&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/&amp;lt;question-ID&amp;gt; by [username](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/&amp;lt;user-ID&amp;gt;), dd/03/2021.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;highest-voted&lt;/strong&gt; of these is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/244770/31394&quot;&gt;Was Fenoglio based on any real author?&lt;/a&gt;, with a score of &lt;strong&gt;11&lt;/strong&gt; at the end of March.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;most viewed&lt;/strong&gt; is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/245073/31394&quot;&gt;Where is the setting of the start of Dragon Rider?&lt;/a&gt;, with approximately &lt;strong&gt;265&lt;/strong&gt; views during March, followed by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/244530/31394&quot;&gt;Why is Death &amp;quot;the Great Shape-Changer&amp;quot; in &amp;quot;Inkheart&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; with approximately &lt;strong&gt;230&lt;/strong&gt; views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2021-03-31T21:32:12.503" LastActivityDate="2021-03-31T21:32:12.503" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-02-28T12:20:10.250" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13240" CreationDate="2021-02-28T12:31:17.033" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Darren Shan&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This award-winning Irish &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darren_Shan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;author&lt;/a&gt; has written a lot of young-adult books and series, mostly in the horror side of speculative fiction. They include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saga_of_Darren_Shan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Saga of Darren Shan&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a series of 12 short books about vampires.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demonata&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Demonata&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a series of 10 shortish books featuring werewolves and demons. One of my favourite YA series ever; nearly every book has a brilliant ending, especially book 5.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Saga of Larten Crepsley&lt;/em&gt;, a 4-book prequel series to the Saga of Darren Shan.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Zom-B&lt;/em&gt;, a 12-book series focusing on zombies.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of these have ever been asked about on this site except in story-ID questions. Fair warning, they contain a lot of extreme violence, but I still enjoyed both the first two series linked above (haven't read his later work), with many plot twists and interesting characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2021-02-28T12:31:17.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13211" CreationDate="2021-03-01T08:21:35.953" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;List of completed topic challenges&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;January 2021: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13230/31394&quot;&gt;Isaac Asimov&lt;/a&gt;, informally &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13171/how-should-we-mark-the-10th-anniversary-of-sff-se#comment46536_13171&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/133784/infinity-milestone&quot;&gt;Infinity Milestone&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;February 2021: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13256/31394&quot;&gt;Hal Clement&lt;/a&gt;, formally &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13247/31394&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4918/b-jonas&quot;&gt;b_jonas&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;March 2021: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13280/31394&quot;&gt;Cornelia Funke&lt;/a&gt;, formally &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13248/31394&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4918/b-jonas&quot;&gt;b_jonas&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;April 2021: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13310/31394&quot;&gt;David Weber / Honorverse&lt;/a&gt;, formally &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13258/31394&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/5424/donald-mclean&quot;&gt;Donald.McLean&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;May 2021: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13332/31394&quot;&gt;Margaret St. Clair&lt;/a&gt;, formally &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13283/31394&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/125981/clara-diaz-sanchez&quot;&gt;Clara Diaz Sanchez&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;June 2021: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13347&quot;&gt;Thaddeus Howze&lt;/a&gt;, formally &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13243/31394&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/57310/skooba&quot;&gt;Skooba&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;July 2021: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13421/31394&quot;&gt;Rivers of London&lt;/a&gt;, formally &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13246/31394&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/40437/jontia&quot;&gt;Jontia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;August 2021: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13440/31394&quot;&gt;The Elder Scrolls&lt;/a&gt;, formally &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13255/31394&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/36526/kevin&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt;. This inspired Arqade SE to hold a concurrent &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/15955&quot;&gt;topic challenge&lt;/a&gt; over on their site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;September 2021: hiatus.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;October 2021: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13486/october-2021-topic-challenge-gene-wolfe&quot;&gt;Gene Wolfe&lt;/a&gt;, formally &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13315/31394&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/117336/tgdavies&quot;&gt;tgdavies&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;November 2021: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13508/31394&quot;&gt;Samuel R. Delany&lt;/a&gt;, formally &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13449/31394&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/63330/spencer&quot;&gt;Spencer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;December 2021: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13553/31394&quot;&gt;Elizabeth Moon&lt;/a&gt;, formally &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13259/31394&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/5424/donald-mclean&quot;&gt;Donald.McLean&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;January 2022: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13581/31394&quot;&gt;Walter M. Miller Jr.&lt;/a&gt;, formally &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13544/31394&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/145218/silly-but-true&quot;&gt;Silly but True&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;February 2022: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13606/31394&quot;&gt;R. A. Lafferty&lt;/a&gt;, formally &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13564/31394&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394&quot;&gt;Rand al'Thor&lt;/a&gt;. This was inspired by a pre-existing &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1625/17&quot;&gt;Jan-Feb topic challenge&lt;/a&gt; at Literature SE (where it was proposed by &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/users/1152/peter-shor&quot;&gt;Peter Shor&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;March 2022: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13630/31394&quot;&gt;L. E. Modesitt Jr&lt;/a&gt;, formally &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13325/31394&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/5490/bobson&quot;&gt;Bobson&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;April 2022: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13644/31394&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Neverwhere&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, formally &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13241/31394&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394&quot;&gt;Rand al'Thor&lt;/a&gt;. This was the first suggestion posted on the meta thread of topic challenge proposals.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;May 2022: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13665/31394&quot;&gt;Cliff McNish&lt;/a&gt;, formally &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13242/31394&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394&quot;&gt;Rand al'Thor&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;June 2022: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13703/31394&quot;&gt;Naomi Novik&lt;/a&gt;, formally &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13252/31394&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/5424/donald-mclean&quot;&gt;Donald.McLean&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;July 2022: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13733/31394&quot;&gt;Nnedi Okorafor&lt;/a&gt;, formally &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13245/31394&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/51379/adamant&quot;&gt;Adamant&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Currently ongoing topic challenge&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;August 2022: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13742/31394&quot;&gt;the Time Quintet&lt;/a&gt;, formally &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13566/31394&quot;&gt;proposed&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/128845/tuor&quot;&gt;Tuor&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Future topic challenges&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;May 2022: watch this space!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13240/propose-future-topics-for-sff-topic-challenges&quot;&gt;Propose future topics for SFF topic challenges!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2022-08-02T21:01:42.570" LastActivityDate="2022-08-02T21:01:42.570" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-03-01T08:21:35.953" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13285" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-03-02T00:50:58.487" Score="10" ViewCount="180" Body="&lt;p&gt;You may have seen this: a new user asks a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; question, then a second (also new) account gives the answer (or confirms an existing answer, though usually this deleted and transferred to a comment). There is reason to believe that these two accounts are the same person for one or more of the following reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The second account acts like they asked the question, such as by saying “Thanks for helping me find the answer to my question”.&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are varying degrees of this. Sometimes the user even explicitly admits they lost the first account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They have similar/identical usernames&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They have the same profile picture&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When this is an automatically generated Gravatar, this means the same email was used for both accounts, though a mismatch between Gravatars doesn’t necessarily mean the emails are different&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderator-only information matches between the accounts (IP, email, or something else I don’t know about?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of these answers are also upvoted by the community as a good match.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I already ask the user to merge their accounts when I have any reason to suspect they’ve created a second account but it’s rare that any of them stick around or respond. Beyond this, there’s not anything that even a moderator can or should do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What reasons, if any, are strong enough for us to allow questions like this to be closed (or closed against) as a duplicate? The current policy (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7065/82909&quot;&gt;Closing Story-Ident questions as duplicates (where there&amp;#39;s no acceptance)&lt;/a&gt;) doesn’t address this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s pretty rare that this happens &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; a suitable duplicate also exists, but it does happen. For example, a question was recently asked and has an accepted answer but I’m not sure if this is a suitably accepted duplicate: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/203537/82909&quot;&gt;Book series my dad told me about. It involves space travel, clones, and an indigenous people with kangaroo tails&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82909" LastActivityDate="2021-03-03T17:30:29.597" Title="Can we dupe-close Story IDs when confirmation is given by what looks like the OP’s second account?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|story-identification|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13285" CreationDate="2021-03-02T02:05:43.560" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I closed this question:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/243891/&quot;&gt;Sci-fi novel series with older people transferring their minds into younger bodies&lt;/a&gt; as a duplicate of this one:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/203537/&quot;&gt;Book series my dad told me about. It involves space travel, clones, and an indigenous people with kangaroo tails&lt;/a&gt;, I will go ahead and answer this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did notice that in the older question, the question and answer were not posted from the same Stack Exchange account.  However, I adjudged that we could reasonably presume that the two accounts were created by the same person.  If the answer was posted by a trouble-making troll, that would be one of the most profoundly subtle trolls I have ever encountered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most obvious thing is that the two accounts do use the same handle, &amp;quot;Chris L.&amp;quot;  Note also that neither Chris L account has been used to post anything else on SF&amp;amp;F—just the question for one account and the answer for the second.  The question answer were also posted just one day apart, just what you might expect from a new user who posted a question, found the answer quickly on their own, and came back to post the answer.  They just happened to have lost their account credentials in the brief interim.  Ideally, Chris L would merge their accounts; however, it is not uncommon for new users to appear, ask a single question, and then pay no further attention to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, others may disagree.  If people generally feel that the identity of the questioner and answerer is not sufficiently confirmed, then we can reopen the duplicate.  If the question is reopened, that will have the advantage of providing a bright line rule for dealing with cases like this in the future.  If the duplication closure stands, there will have to remain a certain element of best judgement in handling cases like this that arise in the future; however, these instances are sufficiently rare that they can, if needed, be discussed individually here on Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2021-03-03T17:30:29.597" LastActivityDate="2021-03-03T17:30:29.597" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13288" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-03-09T20:20:32.143" Score="22" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;Norton Juster, author of &lt;em&gt;The Phantom Tollbooth&lt;/em&gt;, tragically passed away from a stroke Monday, March 8th, 2021.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Phantom Tollbooth&lt;/em&gt; is a classic example of children's literature, and contributed to my personal love of wordplay - I still make references to the book quite often. The book displayed the humor and love of playing around with words that those who knew him say he loved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;RIP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2021-03-10T01:32:17.013" Title="RIP Norton Juster, author of &quot;The Phantom Tollbooth&quot;" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13288" CreationDate="2021-03-09T20:29:51.137" Score="18" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have now completed your trip, courtesy of the Phantom Tollbooth. We trust that everything has been satisfactory, and hope you understand why we had to come and collect it. You see, there are so many other boys and girls waiting to use it, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's true that there are many lands you've still to visit (some of which are not even on the map) and wonderful things to see (that no one has yet imagined), but we're quite sure that if you really want to, you'll find a way to reach them all by yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you, Mr. Juster, for showing so many boys and girls how big the world of their imaginations can be. Your creations, your inspiration for people to notice and explore the world around us, your countless puns and wordplay, will live on in our memories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rest in Peace, for Peace is the greatest state achieved in Wisdom and ruled by Rhyme and Reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2021-03-09T20:29:51.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13288" CreationDate="2021-03-10T01:32:17.013" Score="13" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yet, even as he thought of all these things, he noticed somehow that the sky was a lovely shade of blue and that one cloud had the shape of a sailing ship.  The tips of the trees held pale, young buds and the leaves were a rich deep green.  Outside the window, there was so much to see, and hear, and touch—walks to take, hills to climb, caterpillars to watch as they strolled through the garden.  There were voices to hear and conversations to listen to in wonder, and the special smell of each day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, in the very room in which he sat, there were books that could take you anywhere, and things to invent, and make, and build, and break, and all the puzzle and excitement of everything he didn't know—music to play, songs to sing, and worlds to imagine and then someday make real.  His thoughts darted eagerly about as everything looked new—and worth trying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Well, I would like to make another trip,&amp;quot; he said, jumping to his feet; &amp;quot;but I really don't know when I'll have the time. There's just so much to do right here.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read &lt;em&gt;The Phantom Tollbooth&lt;/em&gt; to all three of my children, and I just recently bought my youngest son, who loves it particularly, his own copy of the book.  There is also an annotated edition of the book that is really wonderful, with a lot of interesting insights into Juster's (and Feiffer's) work on the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Norman Juster, you will be missed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2021-03-10T01:32:17.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13291" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-03-12T09:59:10.350" Score="4" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/244433/83542&quot;&gt;How heavy is Mj&amp;#246;lnir to Thor? To Capt America?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question was closed as a duplicate.  A commenter had linked the supposed answer, but that has since been removed.  I had clearly stated that the other question did not answer my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was mine closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83542" LastActivityDate="2021-04-11T21:03:10.390" Title="Closed as duplicate but not actually answered" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13292" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-03-12T20:23:45.600" Score="21" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cliff Simon was best known in sci-fi circles as &lt;a href=&quot;https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Ba%27al&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the Goa'uld System Lord Ba'al in Stargate SG1&lt;/a&gt;. He &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56371582&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;died in a kiteboarding accident&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;He was known to most of you on this page as the villain you loved to hate, Ba'al, from Stargate SG-1,&amp;quot; Colette Simon said in a post on Facebook.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But he secured the biggest role of his career after moving to Los Angeles. His portrayal of villain Ba'al on Stargate SG1 was popular with viewers and the character enjoyed a five-year run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastActivityDate="2021-03-12T20:23:45.600" Title="RIP Cliff Simon (Stargate SG1 Ba'al)" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13291" CreationDate="2021-03-12T20:29:17.927" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to closed it as a dupe because the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/244433/83542&quot;&gt;question that you're asking&lt;/a&gt; (which basically boils down to &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;What does the weight of Mjölnir feel like to those who're wielding it&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; is largely a duplicate of another question that is extremely similar (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/18812/how-much-would-thors-hammer-mjolnir-weigh&quot;&gt;How much would Thor&amp;#39;s hammer (Mjolnir) weigh?&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While they do focus on slightly different &lt;em&gt;aspects&lt;/em&gt; of Mjölnir's weight, that is to say, its &lt;em&gt;absolute&lt;/em&gt; weight versus its &lt;em&gt;subjective&lt;/em&gt; weight, I think we can be reasonably certain that if a canonical answer was found to one of the questions (&amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;in comic x, it's stated that Asgardian magic makes Mjölnir feel very light&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot;) it would certainly be copied/pasted to the other question almost immediately. That in itself seems a pretty clear benchmark that the two questions are basically duplicates of each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top of that, the other question already has &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/18818/58193&quot;&gt;answers&lt;/a&gt; that address its absolute weight so unless you can express some reason to assume that the subjective weight is different, there's really no good reason to have a second question about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2021-03-12T20:29:17.927" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13294" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13295" CreationDate="2021-03-13T23:23:56.740" Score="1" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would browse this tag. However, there are only &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?tab=newest&amp;amp;q=%22beam%20piper%22&quot;&gt;18 hits on &amp;quot;Beam Piper&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; on the site, and many refer to story identification &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; (i.e., not people who know they're looking for H. Beam Piper).  What are the general grounds for an acceptable level of notability to warrant a tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35859" LastActivityDate="2021-03-14T00:16:35.823" Title="Should there be an &quot;H. Beam Piper&quot; tag?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13294" CreationDate="2021-03-14T00:11:14.623" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;A cursory glance at the site's 18 uses of &amp;quot;Beam Piper&amp;quot; reveals precisely zero questions about the works of H. (Horace? Herbert? Henry?) Beam Piper. As you've indicated, the majority of mentions are story-ID questions (where re-tagging with the author's name would be inappropriate) and &amp;quot;first example of&amp;quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Noting that we &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7923/what-is-the-correct-usage-of-individual-works-tags-vs-author-tags-vs-franchise&quot;&gt;don't usually create an author tags unless there's a good reason to do so&lt;/a&gt; (for example, someone asking a question &lt;em&gt;about that author&lt;/em&gt;), we certainly won't create a tag until someone asks a question about their works since &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/19753/how-can-we-get-rid-of-misspelled-and-unused-or-zombie-tags&quot;&gt;that tag will just get roomba'd&lt;/a&gt; if there aren't any relevant questions attached to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Tags not associated with any question are automatically destroyed at 03:00 UTC every day.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2021-03-14T00:16:35.823" LastActivityDate="2021-03-14T00:16:35.823" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13296" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-03-15T14:30:19.747" Score="6" ViewCount="477" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question is motivated by this answer by a new user: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/244573/137989&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/244573/137989&lt;/a&gt;. A score of -3 seems like a great way to drive away new users; how did this happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Naturally, we start with the Help Center: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;How do I write a good answer?&lt;/a&gt; Did this answer break any of the rules listed here? No. The post did answer the question. It did a poor job of citing its source, but the Help Center says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Brevity is acceptable, but fuller explanations are better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This help page seems to be a generic Stack Exchange help page. It does not include advice specific to this site, like: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3466/should-we-require-a-quote-and-or-external-link-in-every-answer&quot;&gt;include quotes or links to primary sources&lt;/a&gt;. Now we might be getting somewhere. Indeed, the answer also has &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/244551/how-did-james-potter-get-his-invisibility-cloak?newreg=a7441e1c09954c059527a9903babc9fb#comment671384_244573&quot;&gt;a similar comment&lt;/a&gt; (by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/90310/boolean&quot;&gt;Boolean&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hi Louis Thompson, welcome to the Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy stackexchange! Do you think you could add any quotes to back up what you have said? (This could be a direct extract from the book or a page/chapter reference.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is this indeed the reason for the downvotes? And, if so, why is this information not provided &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the user posts an answer? I had to specifically search for this information after coming across this answer. I typed a bit into the answer box to see if any helpful messages would appear, but none did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137989" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2021-03-16T07:45:48.933" LastActivityDate="2022-10-05T14:42:13.083" Title="Why was this answer downvoted?" Tags="|discussion|help-center|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13296" CreationDate="2021-03-16T08:01:57.987" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In this instance, the answer was likely downvoted because it's extremely poor.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only the first sentence answers the question being asked (e.g. &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How did James get the cloak?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;), and even then it's just a statement without any evidence to back it up, repeating information that's contained in other, better answers above it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, and for the rest of the answer, it veers off into a tangent talking about  statement that OP made in their question about the cloak wearing out over time. Interesting, but not actually relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To summarise: 90% of the answer should have been a comment or not included at all. The bit that is an actual answer is of very low value and adds nothing that wasn't already in existing answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What rules did it fall foul of in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;FAQ Guide&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd argue that it fell foul of &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;Answer the question&lt;/strong&gt; - Read the question carefully. What, specifically, is the question asking for?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OP hasn't answered the question with anything that isn't already there, written in a higher value format. Most of their answer doesn't answer the question at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2021-03-16T08:25:22.153" LastActivityDate="2021-03-16T08:25:22.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12023" CreationDate="2021-03-16T15:11:37.883" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;To add to this -- long block quotes that include extensive spoilers and full plot details should be avoided or spoiler-tagged.  I got hit by this and it completely changed the feel of the answer to the point where I considered deleting it, even though it provided relevant content not in other answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The people downvoting this without an explanation are a fine example of how this stack has become unfriendly and unwelcoming to new or casual users, as was the main point of the question I came to this from, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13296/why-was-this-answer-downvoted&quot;&gt;Why was this answer downvoted?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49015" LastEditorUserId="49015" LastEditDate="2021-03-16T16:33:20.020" LastActivityDate="2021-03-16T16:33:20.020" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13300" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-03-16T18:03:02.107" Score="16" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yaphet Kotto died on March 15, 2021 at the age of 81. A perennial supporting actor, Kotto had multiple prominent sci-fi/genre roles, including Parker in &lt;em&gt;Alien&lt;/em&gt; and the video game spin-off &lt;em&gt;Alien: Isolation&lt;/em&gt;, William Laughlin in &lt;em&gt;The Running Man&lt;/em&gt;, Doc in &lt;em&gt;Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare&lt;/em&gt;, and Mr. Big in the James Bond film &lt;em&gt;Live and Let Die&lt;/em&gt;. An actor who always brought some esteem the films he was in, his presence in the sci-fi community will be missed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DQud9.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DQud9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Yaphet Kotto&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68065" LastActivityDate="2021-03-16T18:03:02.107" Title="RIP Yaphet Kotto (Alien, The Running Man, etc.)" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13301" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-03-22T05:36:14.677" Score="2" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I ask a question, then, for whatever reason, close it, what does it take, after that, for someone to comment on it? My understanding is that once a question is closed, all comments are locked so none can be edited or deleted and none can be added. Can someone with appropriate privileges re-open it, make comments, then close it again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2021-03-22T07:44:53.843" Title="Commenting on a Closed Question" Tags="|discussion|support|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13301" CreationDate="2021-03-22T06:46:09.150" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you close a question (which as the OP you can only do single-handed if it's a duplicate-closure reason), people can still comment on it, regardless of whether they have close/reopen privileges (they only need the comment privilege, which is obtained at 50 rep). Fortunately - otherwise how would we debate whether questions should be reopened or not, ask for clarification etc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only posts that can no longer be commented on are locked posts (which includes deleted posts), and locking a post can only be done by a moderator, or by triggering the spam/rude moderation bots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further reading (copy-pasting the whole thing does not seem relevant):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/locked-posts&quot;&gt;What is a locked post?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/closed-questions&quot;&gt;What does it mean if a question is &amp;quot;closed&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastActivityDate="2021-03-22T06:46:09.150" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13301" CreationDate="2021-03-22T07:44:53.843" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Closed&lt;/strong&gt; questions are blocked from new &lt;strong&gt;answers&lt;/strong&gt;, not from new comments. When your question is closed, it's still visible on the question lists, and nobody can answer it properly, but they can still provide feedback in comments. Closing a question usually takes five users with 3k+ rep, or one diamond moderator (with a couple of special cases around duplicate closure specifically).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Deleted&lt;/strong&gt; questions are blocked from new answers &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; new comments, although they're still not blocked from being edited. When your question is deleted, it's no longer visible in any question lists or linked anywhere on the site, and it can't even be seen except by 10k+ rep users, and nobody except diamond moderators can post new comments on it. Deleting a question takes three or more users with 10k+ rep, or one diamond moderator, or you can do it yourself as long as the question doesn't have any upvoted/accepted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2021-03-22T07:44:53.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12517" CreationDate="2021-03-22T18:42:22.030" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am offering a bounty of 100-200 each for answers to the following questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/205946/short-story-where-earth-was-entirely-paved-over&quot;&gt;Short story where Earth was entirely paved over&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/232297/aliens-have-seeded-a-world-with-needlers-that-inject-a-rna-type-virus-into-their&quot;&gt;Aliens have seeded a world with needlers that inject a RNA-type virus into their users to program them with xenophobia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/237678/aliens-run-a-bbs-to-conduct-anthropological-investigation-of-earth&quot;&gt;Aliens run a BBS to conduct anthropological investigation of Earth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastActivityDate="2021-03-22T18:42:22.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13305" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13306" CreationDate="2021-03-22T19:57:15.753" Score="10" ViewCount="317" Body="&lt;p&gt;Last year (2020) saw some &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/346638/278659&quot;&gt;changes to the question closure system&lt;/a&gt; across the SE network. One of the changes was to introduce &lt;strong&gt;audience-specific texts for custom close reasons&lt;/strong&gt;, so that the OP, close voters, privileged users, and the general public can all get slightly different versions of the same essential explanation of why a question is unsuitable for the site. By default, all versions for existing close reasons are set to the same thing, since there didn't use to be any option to have different versions. Some sites &lt;a href=&quot;https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4710/new-audience-specific-texts-for-our-custom-close-reasons&quot;&gt;already&lt;/a&gt; changed their close reasons by creating separate texts as the system now allows. I've kickstarted an effort to do the same thing here on SFF, but I'm taking our custom close reasons one at a time and creating a different meta post for each one. (This was also one of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13015/31394&quot;&gt;suggestions&lt;/a&gt; last year for &amp;quot;ways to improve SFF.SE&amp;quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next up is the &lt;strong&gt;lists of works or recommendations&lt;/strong&gt; close reason, where the current text is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Requests for lists of works or recommendations are off-topic as they do not fit our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/about&quot;&gt;questions and answers format&lt;/a&gt;. Feel free to ask about people's favorites in &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/58631/the-restaurant-at-the-end-of-the-universe&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following image shows the different boxes that can be filled by mods/CMs with different text. The first two appear in the close/flag dialogue &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the post is closed; the last three appear in post notices &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the post is closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Brief description&lt;/strong&gt; is the bold header for the close reason.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Usage guidance&lt;/strong&gt; is what will appear in the close menu, advising people when to use the close reason.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Close description&lt;/strong&gt; will be shown to everyone in the post notice and should be relatively short.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Post owner guidance&lt;/strong&gt; appears in the post notice and is how the OP should fix the question (if possible).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Privileged user guidance&lt;/strong&gt; is informative for the people with close privilege regarding what the close reason is.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eKCsD.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eKCsD.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Let's get a consensus on what we should put in each box.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We need CM help to edit an existing close reason, so a clear meta consensus is essential, then we can &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-review&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-review&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-review&lt;/a&gt; it and get them to help us making the necessary changes. I'm going to post an answer below with my proposed texts; please vote and give feedback or suggested improvements if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="41668" LastEditDate="2021-05-26T22:07:56.123" LastActivityDate="2021-05-26T22:07:56.123" Title="Audience-specific texts for custom close reasons: Lists of Works or Recommendations" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|closing-questions|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13305" CreationDate="2021-03-22T19:57:15.753" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Brief description&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The name shown to flaggers/close-voters when seeking an option in the close menu:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;List/recommendation question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Usage guidance&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The description shown to flaggers/close-voters after choosing this close reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question seeks &lt;strong&gt;recommendations or an open-ended list of works&lt;/strong&gt;. Recommendation requests are off-topic, as questions should be clearly enough scoped to accept reasonable-length answers for Stack Exchange. Note that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2638&quot;&gt;finite, well-scoped lists are on-topic&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Close description&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The text shown to everybody, even non-users, viewing the closed question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was &lt;strong&gt;closed&lt;/strong&gt; for seeking recommendations or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2638&quot;&gt;open-ended lists&lt;/a&gt;. It is currently not accepting answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Post owner guidance&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more detailed text shown, under the general close description, to the OP only when viewing their closed question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question asks for &lt;strong&gt;recommendations&lt;/strong&gt; or for a &lt;strong&gt;list of works&lt;/strong&gt;. This is too open-ended for our site's format, even if phrased as &amp;quot;are there any works with these criteria&amp;quot;, unless clearly scoped e.g. within a single fictional universe. If you're seeking a specific work, or the earliest work with some criteria, please edit to add the tag [story-identification] or [history-of] respectively. Otherwise, you can ask for recommendations in &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/58631&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Privileged user guidance&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more detailed text shown, under the general close description, to any 3k+ rep user viewing the closed question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please check whether this question is a story-identification question, or a history-of question, in disguise, in which case you can edit and vote to reopen it. If the asker has a chance to make it on-topic, for example by asking about the earliest work satisfying certain criteria rather than asking for any/all such works, then please leave a comment guiding them on how to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2021-04-08T14:26:23.277" LastActivityDate="2021-04-08T14:26:23.277" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13308" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-03-25T13:29:06.003" Score="8" ViewCount="236" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from January 1st 2021 through March 30st 2021 (or Smarch 31st).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2021/01/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2021/01/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2021/01/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I will be linking all blog posts that happened within this quarter year. Also the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/550327/most-controversial-posts-on-the-site-by-start-date&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;most controversial question&lt;/a&gt; of the quarter. Also a sum of all the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/618952/past-bounties-by-bounty-date&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;bounties&lt;/a&gt; that were awarded.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally if there was a meta post you feel should be spotlighted those are also acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2021-04-28T16:27:19.770" LastActivityDate="2021-04-28T16:27:19.770" Title="Favorite Question and Answers from First Quarter 2021" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13308" CreationDate="2021-03-25T14:24:13.767" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I quite liked this one. Like my &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/71566/20774&quot;&gt;Matrix animals&lt;/a&gt; answer, it required a deep dive into the Harry Potter films and a frame-by-frame (if you'll excuse the pun) analysis of the characters who appear in the backgrounds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/241929/is-harry-potter-the-only-student-with-glasses&quot;&gt;Is Harry Potter the only student with glasses?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also had some great answers (from TheLethalCarrot and MBEllis) that focused on the books and the video games.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2021-03-25T14:24:13.767" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13310" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13311" CreationDate="2021-03-27T16:04:16.320" Score="6" ViewCount="522" Body="&lt;p&gt;This post is for the fourth of SFF.SE's new series of &lt;strong&gt;topic challenges&lt;/strong&gt;, encouraging the site's community to take part together in asking and answering questions on a particular topic each month. According to community votes on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;topic challenge proposals thread&lt;/a&gt;, the April 2021 topic challenge is going to be devoted to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Weber&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;an American writer of military sci-fi&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;David Weber and his works, especially the Honorverse.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's a topic challenge and how do I take part?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13211/31394&quot;&gt;Announcing a Topic Challenge program for SFF.SE&lt;/a&gt;, and also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/240634/278659&quot;&gt;this main meta post&lt;/a&gt;. In short, during April 2021 we should all try to: either read some &lt;em&gt;Honorverse&lt;/em&gt; books or other works of David Weber and ask interesting questions about them, or ask questions about some of those stories we've read before, or help out by &lt;em&gt;answering&lt;/em&gt; other people's questions about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Participation is not obligatory in any sense, but those who participate will be forever remembered in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13311/31394&quot;&gt;annals of our history&lt;/a&gt;. We'll keep a list of all David Weber / Honorverse questions asked during April 2021 in an answer to this meta post. At the end of the month, I'll collate some data like highest-scoring question, most-viewed question, highest-scoring answer, etc. There won't be any real-world rewards like in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1138/31394&quot;&gt;the old days&lt;/a&gt; when Stack Exchange was smaller and more generous, but I'll award at least one bounty after the end of the month (assuming there's at least one good answer posted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/5424/donald-mclean&quot;&gt;Donald McLean&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13258/31394&quot;&gt;original presentation&lt;/a&gt; of this proposal:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;David Weber and/or the Honorverse&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the most popular military science fiction authors around, and yet neither he nor his best known series are properly represented on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original proposal didn't exactly specify the scope, so I've decided to err on the broad side. If someone posts about some of David Weber's sci-fi or fantasy books which aren't part of the Honorverse, we'll count that for the topic challenge too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's next?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Future topic challenges will be chosen by community votes, so come over and propose or vote on suggestions at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;Propose future topics for SFF topic challenges!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The David Weber / Honorverse answer will be deleted from that thread at the start of April, since already chosen topics shouldn't stick at the top of the thread and distract people from those still to be voted on.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2021-04-26T09:34:32.357" LastActivityDate="2021-05-01T06:17:12.167" Title="April 2021 Topic Challenge: David Weber (Honorverse)" Tags="|discussion|topic-challenge|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13310" CreationDate="2021-03-27T16:04:16.320" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;List of all questions posted as part of this topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/245421/31394&quot;&gt;Did Weber base People&amp;#39;s Republic of Haven on post-revolution France?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/976/dvk-on-ahch-to&quot;&gt;DVK-on-Ahch-To&lt;/a&gt;, 05/04/2021.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/245438/31394&quot;&gt;Did the Troll intend UK-Argentine war?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/976/dvk-on-ahch-to&quot;&gt;DVK-on-Ahch-To&lt;/a&gt;, 05/04/2021.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/245480/31394&quot;&gt;Is each Hyper layer a discrete and singular space?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/40437/jontia&quot;&gt;Jontia&lt;/a&gt;, 06/04/2021.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/245532/31394&quot;&gt;How does Milla&amp;#39;s blaster get re-charged?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/976/dvk-on-ahch-to&quot;&gt;DVK-on-Ahch-To&lt;/a&gt;, 07/04/2021.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/245533/31394&quot;&gt;Are there efforts to retrieve any future tech from the Atlantic?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/976/dvk-on-ahch-to&quot;&gt;DVK-on-Ahch-To&lt;/a&gt;, 07/04/2021.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/245758/31394&quot;&gt;Did Trolls develop their own technology?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/976/dvk-on-ahch-to&quot;&gt;DVK-on-Ahch-To&lt;/a&gt;, 12/04/2021.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/245761/31394&quot;&gt;Do any of Weber&amp;#39;s other works explain what happened with the Roman Legion?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/976/dvk-on-ahch-to&quot;&gt;DVK-on-Ahch-To&lt;/a&gt;, 12/04/2021.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/245898/fate-of-captain-wu-of-hms-cometary&quot;&gt;Fate of Captain Wu of HMS Cometary&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/40437/jontia&quot;&gt;Jontia&lt;/a&gt;, 16/04/2021.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/246311/31394&quot;&gt;Did the Mesan Alignment plot ever get a conclusion?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/40437/jontia&quot;&gt;Jontia&lt;/a&gt;, 26/04/2021.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/246393/31394&quot;&gt;Why did Weber decide not to kill off Honor Harrington?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394&quot;&gt;Rand al'Thor&lt;/a&gt;, 28/04/2021.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;add entries in the form &lt;code&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/&amp;lt;question-ID&amp;gt; by [username](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/&amp;lt;user-ID&amp;gt;), dd/04/2021.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;highest-voted&lt;/strong&gt; of these are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/245421/31394&quot;&gt;Did Weber base People&amp;#39;s Republic of Haven on post-revolution France?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/245480/31394&quot;&gt;Is each Hyper layer a discrete and singular space?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/246393/31394&quot;&gt;Why did Weber decide not to kill off Honor Harrington?&lt;/a&gt;, each with a score of &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt; at the end of April.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;most viewed&lt;/strong&gt; is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/245421/31394&quot;&gt;Did Weber base People&amp;#39;s Republic of Haven on post-revolution France?&lt;/a&gt;, with approximately &lt;strong&gt;197&lt;/strong&gt; views during April.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2021-05-01T06:17:12.167" LastActivityDate="2021-05-01T06:17:12.167" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-03-27T16:04:16.320" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13312" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-04-02T13:21:44.353" Score="9" ViewCount="427" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/245253/why-did-the-orcs-bother-with-the-elves-at-all&quot;&gt;Why did the Orcs bother with the Elves at all?&lt;/a&gt; was closed as opinion-based. I voted to reopen it, and commented that I believe there is a definite (quote-supported and fact-supported) answer. Edlothiad, it appears, disagrees with me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a number of questions on the site that don't have direct answers in a text or script, but for which pretty firm answers can be deduced based on the materials. A question on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/90657/were-personal-relationships-in-middle-earth-different-from-our-own&quot;&gt;the nature of interpersonal relationships in Middle-earth&lt;/a&gt; is one example. I believe this is another such. The question asks why the Orcs of Middle-earth did, or did not, take a particular military strategy in their dealing with other races. There is enough material in &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; to mount frame challenges to different assumptions made in this question. I'm reasonably sure that a frame challenge is an acceptable answer type here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments made on the question center on whether the Orcs were managing their own strategy or not. Even if this were an issue for an answer (and I believe it isn't), I don't see that the objection is tantamount to there being no factual answer to the question. I don't see any discussion of whether or not different readers might have different interpretations; I don't see anyone mentioning that someone else might have a different answer than theirs. I do see some people hinting that the question might need more focus, but there are clarifications offered in comments by the OP which I think focus the question enough to provide an answer. I mentioned in one comment that I have the framework of an answer (not simply an opinion): a frame challenge, a coherent answer I can support by quotes from the texts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand why the closure reason was &amp;quot;opinion-based&amp;quot;; I don't particularly believe the question should have been closed at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26274" LastActivityDate="2021-04-15T01:00:03.913" Title="Should this Tolkien legendarium question have been closed?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13308" CreationDate="2021-04-04T14:01:24.187" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Topic challenges&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first quarter of 2021 saw the start of SFF.SE's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13211/31394&quot;&gt;topic challenge program&lt;/a&gt;, with three topic challenges completed during this quarter: Isaac Asimov, Hal Clement, and Cornelia Funke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The first one produced five questions from four distinct users (Clara Diaz Sanchez, Rand al'Thor, therxv, SuperCreff). My favourite was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/241435/31394&quot;&gt;When was the origin of the &amp;quot;Nightfall&amp;quot; quotation found?&lt;/a&gt;, where I awarded a bounty to Ubik's answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The second one produced five questions from two distinct users (Rand al'Thor, cometaryorbit). My favourite was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/243505/31394&quot;&gt;What is the significance of Hal Clement&amp;#39;s comment about &amp;quot;Pancake in the Sky&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;, where I awarded a bounty to Clara Diaz Sanchez's answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The third one produced six questions from three distinct users (Skooba, Mithical, Rand al'Thor). I chose to promote &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/245073/31394&quot;&gt;Where is the setting of the start of Dragon Rider?&lt;/a&gt; by offering a bounty for fez's answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Underappreciated posts&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New user &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/137566/ferjsoto42yahoocom&quot;&gt;ferjsoto42yahoocom&lt;/a&gt; posted a number of questions and answers about Lewis Carroll's &lt;em&gt;Alice&lt;/em&gt; books during March 2021. Most of them were heavily downvoted, for some reason, but I enjoyed learning interesting things from some deep Q&amp;amp;A about a classic of fantasy literature which has been under-appreciated on this site. Favourites include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/244260/31394&quot;&gt;Are there linguistic reasons for the Dormouse to be treated like a piece of furniture in ‘Wonderland?’&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/244467/31394&quot;&gt;Are there linguistic reasons for the Dormouse to think himself a bat in A Mad Tea-Party?&lt;/a&gt; (who knew there was so much multilingual and dialectal wordplay about the simple dormouse?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/244635/31394&quot;&gt;Does Pat the gardener correctly identify what he sees in the window as a giant Arum flower in ‘Underground’ (and Wonderland’)?&lt;/a&gt; (seems like a silly question at first glance, but the answer shows a surprising amount of evidence for a double meaning here)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/244306/31394&quot;&gt;Who locked the door to the garden(s) in Underground and Wonderland, after Alice had unlocked it with the golden key?&lt;/a&gt; (seems at first glance to be a minor unimportant point, but the answer shows that Carroll himself considered it important enough to rewrite and clarify in a later version of the story)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/244933/31394&quot;&gt;Is there evidence in Carroll’s text to show the Devil as a character in Wonderland’?&lt;/a&gt; (an unexpected literary/historical connection indicating possible references to an innocuous character as the Devil)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/244245/31394&quot;&gt;Why are there so many references to, or instances of, rotational motion in Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland?&lt;/a&gt; (a question about a recurring motif which is still unanswered)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found it very sad that so many interesting Q&amp;amp;A were so poorly received on this site. The SFF community has historically had something of an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/9821/31394&quot;&gt;aversion to self-answers&lt;/a&gt;, although they're &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/self-answer&quot;&gt;explicitly allowed by policy&lt;/a&gt;, but surely this is an excellent way for an expert in a particular work of sci-fi/fantasy to share their interesting knowledge with us?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2021-04-04T14:06:29.390" LastActivityDate="2021-04-04T14:06:29.390" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13312" CreationDate="2021-04-05T00:15:17.007" Score="-9" Body="&lt;h1&gt;NO&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(As in it should NOT have been closed.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It happened because some people are authoritarian and want to close anything they don't personally like or understand (violating site rules, e.g. Good Subjective/Bad Subjective).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That was one of the reasons I chose to leave SFF.SE, FYI&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. People decided that they are the gatekeepers, and instead of simply ignoring questions that were too deep for them (that require analysis and not just searching a book for a keyword) and letting others enjoy the site they would force that very good content off the site for no good reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2021-04-15T01:00:03.913" LastActivityDate="2021-04-15T01:00:03.913" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13316" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-04-05T17:33:35.953" Score="4" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has a change been made to the default text size on the Sci-fi main site? I can't see any setting that I've changed, but everything is at a smaller size there than any other part of the stack exchange network, including here on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Definitely not the zoom, I've got a default chrome install with no plugins in the way. But, the issue goes away in both Firefox and Chrome incognito, which suggests a personal setting somewhere...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40437" LastEditorUserId="40437" LastEditDate="2021-04-05T19:25:22.443" LastActivityDate="2021-04-05T19:25:22.443" Title="Main page text size change" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13316" CreationDate="2021-04-05T18:14:03.660" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;  For me at least this turns out to be a user (me) error.  The Stylus plugin is enforcing the older SE layout which used a 1.3 line-height instead of 1.5.  In fact &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/55372530#55372530&quot;&gt;I railed against a 1.5 line height&lt;/a&gt; at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tracked down the rogue source of the &lt;code&gt;line-height: 1.3 !important;&lt;/code&gt; to an inline style applied to the page &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; it was fetched, and found the plug-in modifying the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There does in fact appear to be something going on with the &lt;code&gt;line-height&lt;/code&gt; attribute.  Other text sizing attributes appear to be unchanged, but I'm seeing a line-height of 19.5px for SF&amp;amp;F, but 22.5px for meta.scifi and other SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;22.5px appears to be what would be expected based on the CSS:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.s-prose {&#xA;    --s-prose-line-height: 1.5;&#xA;    --s-prose-spacing: 1.1em;&#xA;    --s-prose-spacing-condensed: calc(var(--s-prose-spacing) / 2);&#xA;    font-size: 15px;&#xA;    line-height: var(--s-prose-line-height);&#xA;    word-wrap: break-word&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class=&amp;quot;s-prose js-post-body&amp;quot; itemprop=&amp;quot;text&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;                &#xA;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Has a change been made to the default text size on the Sci-fi main site? I can't see any setting that I've changed, but everything is at a smaller size there than any other part of the stack exchange network, including here on meta.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure where the 19.5 is coming from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastEditorUserId="101407" LastEditDate="2021-04-05T19:01:56.770" LastActivityDate="2021-04-05T19:01:56.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13318" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13326" CreationDate="2021-04-06T08:44:43.973" Score="9" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;So basically, there was this one movie I was remembering from a long time ago. After searching on several search engine, I was able to find it again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right after, I decided to search the title of the movie on Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy to check if it was already asked and answered, and it did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What makes me want to ask my own question is the fact that I seemed to remember many more scenes than the existing question, which could help anyone who know it to recognise it more easily. But since it's not my question, it's just not right to edit in the stuffs &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; remember, into their question (after all, they didn't remember all that stuffs).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, at the same time, I don't think it's a good idea either, because the purpose of Story ID questions isn't to make an octopus of connected question all converging toward the same thing (I mean, we're neither on TvTropes nor Wikipedia).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking it's definitely a &lt;strong&gt;bad idea&lt;/strong&gt;, but I still wanted to ask on Meta to be 100% sure about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="103122" LastActivityDate="2021-04-16T07:39:50.553" Title="Is it bad practice to ask a story ID question for something you managed to find just to mark it as a duplicate of another existing question?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13312" CreationDate="2021-04-07T19:14:21.000" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot this may not matter any longer as the OP seems to have deleted their account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems reasonable to close the question in first go-around, maybe not as &amp;quot;opinion based&amp;quot; but as &amp;quot;needs detail or clarity&amp;quot;. There was definitely confusion in the comments about what was being asked and the OP seemed to be going around in circles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I would argue that once a user (regardless of &amp;quot;status&amp;quot; on the site) claims that have an answer we should reopen the question. I know this benefit has been afforded to me a few times when I was able to dig something up in an obscure interview or context within the work. If the answer ends up being hogwash we still have the opportunity to close the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So at the time I write this answer, &lt;strong&gt;the question is open and should remain so.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2021-04-07T19:14:21.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13312" CreationDate="2021-04-09T22:13:22.037" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;(I am answering this Meta question as someone who knows almost nothing about the work that the main site question is about.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have discussed this general topic in several previous Meta posts (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12069/100430&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12338/100430&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12442/100430&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12449/100430&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). As you can see from those discussions, I think that there is, at times, a fundamental misapplication of the two close reasons that are relevant here — namely “Opinion-based” and “Needs details or clarity”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To my mind, the purpose of these close reasons is to close questions that cannot be properly answered. In the former case this is because the question seeks opinions — the question can thus not be answered objectively, and there is no way to measure the value of the answers. In the latter case this is because we simply do not know what is being asked. Any answer posted may in fact be an answer to the wrong question, and there may not even be a question at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where I think we sometimes run into trouble is in how to define “seeking opinions” and how to define “we don’t know what (if anything) is being asked”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taking the second one first, I think the most obvious level is where the question as written is simply incomprehensible (e.g. significant language or grammar issues, or no logical structure), or the post is simply entirely a statement with no question at all to be found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The less obvious level is where the question is perfectly comprehensible from a linguistic and structural perspective, but makes no sense in the context being discussed. This may be because the questioner has no familiarity with the subject being asked about, or the questioner may be operating under incorrect premises.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this type of situation we often find questions being closed, or at least voted to close, and often the comments indicate that it’s because the question is incorrect. However, I do not think that that is a correct use of a close vote. It’s not unclear what is being asked, the questioner is just wrong about something. A question may be nonsensical, wrong, or silly, but that doesn’t give us license to say “you obviously can’t mean what you wrote, so therefore we don’t know what you actually are trying to ask”. Such questions should be taken at face value, and answers should be posted (rather than just comments) explaining the incorrect foundation of the question. Of course if a question is based on a premise that can be trivially easily determined to be incorrect, the question may deserve downvotes for being uninteresting or for lacking research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Returning to the first category, “seeking opinions” can also be subject to dispute. As I argued in some of the linked posts, a question is not seeking opinions just because it is possible to answer it with an opinion or because there is not enough known information to answer the question. Virtually any question can be answered with an opinion, so that is not a useful metric. A question seeks opinions when it is clear from the question that it is seeking opinions. This can be because it explicitly asks for opinions, or because it is formulated in such a way that it can &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; be answered with opinions (e.g. because it asks something inherently subjective, or uses vaguely defined concepts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Put another way, any question with a tag about a particular work should carry an implicit introduction of “In the context of the factual reality as described in this work and related materials...” unless otherwise specified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To take an example: Imagine someone posts the question “What is Harry Potter’s favorite food?” This can certainly be answered with an opinion by any answerer saying what they want his favorite food to be. But it should be self-understood that the questioner is not asking what &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; want Harry Potter’s favorite food to be; rather the questioner is asking about what Harry Potter’s favorite food factually is in the story in which the character appears. Such a question could be answered without any opinions, such as by finding that the book discusses characters’ favorite foods, or that the author has spoken about this topic.  If there is no information about favorite foods then an answer can either present the argument that there is no information, or attempt to figure it out based on whatever clues/soft evidence there may be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially, then, there should be very few questions closed with this reason, as it is not very common for someone to explicitly ask for opinions or to ask a question that cannot be answered factually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now to apply this to the specific question at hand, let us examine what was asked in the main part if the post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we know the Elves are afflicted with sea-longing, which must have been known to the orc overlords. Why didn't the orcs just bide their time and perhaps even help the elves depart? They could have saved some resources this way and this could allow them to focus on other matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can break this down into several components, and see if any of them run afoul of either of the potential close reasons. We begin with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we know the Elves are afflicted with sea-longing,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a factual claim about characters in the story. As mentioned, I have very little knowledge of this particular story, so I have no idea if this claim is accurate. However, it should make no difference if it is accurate or not. If it is then it is a useful foundation for the rest of the question, and if it is not then an answer should just point out that the question is based on an untrue premise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next snippet is the same:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which must have been known to the orc overlords.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once again this is a mere factual claim, which is either correct and therefore helps lay the foundation of the question, or incorrect and therefore provides a starting point for an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then we have the beginning of the actual question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why didn't the orcs just bide their time and perhaps even help the elves depart?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this may not directly follow from the two earlier premises  (I wouldn’t know since I am not familiar with the work) or may be wholly unjustified in the broader context (again, I wouldn’t know) there is nothing particularly unclear or subjective about what is being asked. Of course, a reader who doesn’t know what an orc is might find the question unclear, but a reader’s lack of basic background knowledge is not a flaw in the question — if you don’t know what an orc is then you probably shouldn’t be posting an answer. Similarly, though the question doesn’t specify how orcs would help elves depart, or why they would want elves  to depart, this doesn’t make it unclear or subjective. It could either be that these details should be basic knowledge to those familiar with the work (once again I wouldn’t know) or it could mean that the question is &lt;em&gt;unjustified&lt;/em&gt;, which is not the same as being &lt;em&gt;unclear&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;unobjective&lt;/em&gt;, and would be the basis of an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then we come to the final part of the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They could have saved some resources this way and this could allow them to focus on other matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This consists of another set of factual claims, and is thus subject to the qualifications described above. Again, the “resources” and the “other matters” are not specified, but this would also be either basic background knowledge or an opening for an answer to refute the claims.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, the question seems to be a straightforward inquiry about character motivation, and can be answered as such. It can be clear what a question is asking even if it is not clear &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; the question is being asked. Questions shouldn’t be closed for not being compelling, but for not being answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2021-04-11T02:46:35.877" LastActivityDate="2021-04-11T02:46:35.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13321" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13322" CreationDate="2021-04-12T18:52:10.937" Score="6" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example, if someone started a bounty, then deleted their account, would the bounty still be active?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user139903" LastActivityDate="2021-04-12T20:08:51.800" Title="Will a bounty still be active even if the user who started it deletes their account?" Tags="|discussion|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13321" CreationDate="2021-04-12T19:13:10.870" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, but the bounty couldn't actually be manually awarded to an answer. The best you could hope for would be half of the bounty getting auto-awarded to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/set-bounties&quot;&gt;the top voted answer posted after the bounty start, provided it has a score of at least 2&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't have a source for this, except experience (I've seen it happen), but &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/57628263#57628263&quot;&gt;bobble&lt;/a&gt; found a main meta source for me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going forward bounties from deleted accounts will be moved to (owned) by Community and will be awarded at the end of the period as they normally would (e.g. when the bounty starter doesn't award and 7 days is up).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-- &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/89614/278659&quot;&gt;Nick Craver&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2021-04-12T20:08:51.800" LastActivityDate="2021-04-12T20:08:51.800" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13323" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13324" CreationDate="2021-04-13T07:48:54.367" Score="10" ViewCount="208" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: &lt;s&gt;The question is closed as off-topic and deleted, and I want it to remain that way.&lt;/s&gt; I just wanted to ask for feedback on why it was closed, so I can avoid doing the same mistakes again (if possible from the close voters, because only they can definitely tell me what I did wrong).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Around 2 months ago, I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/243293/looney-tunes-episode-in-which-a-bird-walks-and-hops-then-disappears-when-passin&quot;&gt;this (deleted) episode identification Looney Tunes question&lt;/a&gt;, in which I was talking about a scene I remember. (I will gladly post a screenshot if you have less than 10k reputation and still want to see it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I can't even remember from what series I saw it in (it could have been from &lt;em&gt;The Sylvester &amp;amp; Tweety Mysteries&lt;/em&gt;, as well as from any other series from the Looney Tunes universe), what I did remember was the fact that the bird I was looking for was described as an &lt;em&gt;almighty bird&lt;/em&gt;. As in, he could perform impossible feat, to some inhuman extent, even for a cartoon world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shortly after, the question was closed as off-topic, and one comment (not from a close voter) mentioned there was no Science Fiction element about it. I must admit, that confused me quite a lot on that instant, because I don't often see a bird that can tear a mountain in half (I'm not being sarcastic; I'm serious).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, after pondering the question for 2 months in my corner, I wanted to better understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember a meta answer mentioning that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12320/103122&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;questions about the SFF-nal nature of the [Looney Tunes] universe are on topic&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;. But... is it Sci-fi to have an almighty bird in a cartoon? I mean, it's not like The Mask which happens in a realistic world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="103122" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2021-04-23T13:56:38.617" LastActivityDate="2021-04-23T13:56:38.617" Title="Looking for feedback on a Looney Tunes episode identification question closed as off-topic" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13323" CreationDate="2021-04-13T08:24:18.707" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was unaware that this had been closed and have voted to undelete it (and will vote to reopen it when that happens).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/12320/98028&quot;&gt;Looney Tunes is on topic.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I can't see that this is 'too broad'. You're asking us to narrow down an episode from less than a few hundred, where a specific character does something. There can't possibly be more than one (or at best a few) instance/s where this occurs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, I believe that Clara Diaz Sanchez, Organic Marble, DavidW, LogicDictates and Invisible Trihedron have erred and voted something closed that's perfectly on-topic (and potentially answerable) and amflare, Shreedhar and Edlothiad have compounded the error by voting to leave it closed when it re-entered the queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2021-04-16T23:31:02.563" LastActivityDate="2021-04-16T23:31:02.563" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13318" CreationDate="2021-04-16T07:39:50.553" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maybe.&lt;/strong&gt; It all depends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scenario A:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You write a question that describes scene #1, then flag it as a dupe of an existing question. You write another question that describes scene #2, and flag it as a dupe. Repeat for every scene in the entire story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't do that. It should be fairly obvious, but this is a straightforward abuse of the system. Having lots of different questions about the same story is simply not very useful, and it may distract people who are looking for other stories that happen to have similar events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scenario B:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You see an already-answered question which is really vague. It describes the story in the simplest terms and barely gives enough information to go on. There are a good half-dozen answers, all pointing to different stories, and all upvoted to some degree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is surprisingly common. Quite a lot of story ID questions, especially older questions, are just not specific enough to uniquely identify a single story. Unfortunately, you can't edit the question to make it more specific, because that would invalidate upvoted answers (which is generally frowned upon). So asking a separate dupe may be the &lt;em&gt;only way&lt;/em&gt; of getting this information into the system. In that case, I'm not sure it should be characterized as abusive &lt;em&gt;per se&lt;/em&gt;, but you should definitely make sure that your question is very well-written and detailed. It's probably also a good idea to provide a high-quality canonical answer at the same time, especially if the original question's answers are basically just a bunch of &amp;quot;Is it &lt;em&gt;[Title]?&lt;/em&gt; How about &lt;em&gt;[Other Title]?&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; one-liners. Then you can dupe the old question against the new question instead, because the new question will be superior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, deliberately asking dupes is not something you should be making a habit of doing. The system doesn't like it when you have a lot of closed questions, and (in general) you can get question banned for it (but I'm not 100% sure if that applies to duplicates in particular). Regardless of particulars, asking and answering new questions is on the whole a more helpful and productive activity, and will likely earn you more rep in the long run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another consideration is how many other people are asking about it. To borrow the words of Isaac Asimov:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, too, it has had the strangest effect on my readers. Frequently someone writes to ask me if I can give them the name of a story, which they think I may have written, and tell them where to find it. They don't remember the title but when they describe the story it is invariably '&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Last Question&lt;/a&gt;'. This has reached the point where I recently received a long-distance phone call from a desperate man who began, &amp;quot;Dr. Asimov, there's a story I think you wrote, whose title I can't remember—&amp;quot; at which point I interrupted to tell him it was 'The Last Question' and when I described the plot it proved to be indeed the story he was after. I left him convinced I could read minds at a distance of a thousand miles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some reason, some stories are just more memorable than others. They stick in our heads, and turn into Story ID questions. If a story is highly memorable, it's likely that other people will have written other Story ID questions about it. &lt;em&gt;You should go looking for those questions&lt;/em&gt;, and if they already have the relevant details, then obviously you should not post another dupe with the same information (but you may be able to post a high-quality answer, if the question doesn't yet have one).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastActivityDate="2021-04-16T07:39:50.553" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13327" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13328" CreationDate="2021-04-23T05:58:31.963" Score="18" ViewCount="212" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/36946/unexplainable-darkness-for-three-days-brazilian-author&quot;&gt;This story-identification question&lt;/a&gt; was asked on June 16, 2013; I answered it on July 1, 2013; and my answer was accepted today, April 23, 2021, almost 8 years later. Is this a record?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastActivityDate="2023-01-04T14:34:28.053" Title="Late acceptances of story-identification answers" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13327" CreationDate="2021-04-23T08:31:58.920" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;As it turns out, these records have been broken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our current overall record is over 10 years:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/9828/19561&quot;&gt;Were there two elves named Glorfindel?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And our current record for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;story-identification-container&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; is over 9 years:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/22206/19561&quot;&gt;Story/movie about Earth broken into pieces and then reformed by the survivors&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;View &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/1400219&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the current Top 15&lt;/a&gt; for yourself over on the Stack Exchange Data Explorer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/1400219&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Looks like it&lt;/a&gt;. The previous record was about 7 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/5192/19561&quot;&gt;Short story about two brothers leading an expedition to the prehistoric past, one (Orren? Owen?) is killed and erased from history&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our overall record of over 8 years hasn't been broken, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/22850/19561&quot;&gt;What evidence supposedly supports Tau as related to the Necrontyr?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the top 15 at the time of answering (yours isn't in SEDE yet).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Question&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Tags&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;AnswerDate&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;AcceptDate&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;DaysBetween&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/22850/19561&quot;&gt;What evidence supposedly supports Tau as related to the Necrontyr?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/warhammer-40k&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;warhammer-40k&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;warhammer-40k&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;warhammer-40k-container&quot;&gt;warhammer-40k&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2012-08-31&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2021-01-08&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3052&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/20827/19561&quot;&gt;Gaiman's Hamnet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;comics-container&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/neil-gaiman&quot; 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class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hogwarts&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hogwarts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;hogwarts-container&quot;&gt;hogwarts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2012-06-17&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2019-01-18&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2406&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/22945/19561&quot;&gt;Why does Bifur have an axe in his head?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkiens-legendarium&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkiens-legendarium&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkiens-legendarium&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tolkiens-legendarium-container&quot;&gt;tolkiens-legendarium&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-hobbit&quot; 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  <row Id="13329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13327" CreationDate="2021-04-23T08:32:51.740" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I created &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/1400223/longest-gap-from-answering-to-accepting&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the following SEDE query&lt;/a&gt; to test this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT a.Id AS [Post Link],&#xA;       a.CreationDate AS [Answer Time],&#xA;       v.CreationDate AS [Accept Time],&#xA;       CONVERT(varchar, DATEDIFF(s, a.CreationDate, v.CreationDate) / 86400)&#xA;     + ':'&#xA;     + CONVERT(varchar, DATEADD(ms, (DATEDIFF(s, a.CreationDate, v.CreationDate) % 86400) * 1000, 0), 114)&#xA;     AS [Difference]&#xA;FROM Posts a&#xA;JOIN Votes v ON a.Id = v.PostId&#xA;WHERE VoteTypeId = 1&#xA;AND DATEDIFF(s, a.CreationDate, v.CreationDate) &amp;gt; 31557600&#xA;ORDER BY DATEDIFF(s, a.CreationDate, v.CreationDate) DESC&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The top 5 results are as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Answer&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Answer Time&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Accept Time&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Answerer&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Questioner&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Difference&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/22852&quot;&gt;What evidence supposedly supports Tau as related to the Necrontyr?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2012-08-31 23:22:28&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2021-01-08 00:00:00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2765&quot;&gt;Thaddeus Howze&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3804&quot;&gt;AncientSwordRage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;3051:00:37:32&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/20843&quot;&gt;Gaiman's Hamnet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2012-07-20 21:56:52&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2020-09-25 00:00:00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4056&quot;&gt;dlanod&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/7823&quot;&gt;Andrés E. Caicedo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2988:02:03:08&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/17541&quot;&gt;Why Was the Burrow Burned Down in Half-Blood Prince?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2012-05-31 07:48:43&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2020-05-06 00:00:00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1693&quot;&gt;Tango&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3500&quot;&gt;Slytherincess&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2896:16:11:17&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/22242&quot;&gt;How does Bruce travel from The Pit to Gotham City?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2012-08-18 18:21:59&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2020-06-11 00:00:00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1148&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2091&quot;&gt;Wipqozn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2853:05:38:01&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/7192&quot;&gt;How do the mutant levels correlate with the mutant classifications?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2011-11-23 02:58:50&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2019-09-10 00:00:00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2765&quot;&gt;Thaddeus Howze&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1148&quot;&gt;Jack B Nimble&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2847:21:01:10&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your difference actually comes in at roughly 2997 days 20:12:45 and so when SEDE updates it will come in second overall but the top one for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;A markdown friendly version of the query can be found &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/1400229/longest-gap-from-answering-to-accepting-markdown-version&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; if anyone ever wants to add to this.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2021-04-23T09:06:19.513" LastActivityDate="2021-04-23T09:06:19.513" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13330" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13331" CreationDate="2021-04-23T15:38:52.227" Score="12" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/246120/did-kelvin-really-prove-his-own-sanity-was-there-even-a-theoretical-possibility?noredirect=1&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; was closed as opinion-based. Yet, one of the comments (provided by a person who has read the book and hence understood what I was talking about) suggested the answer and, after thinking it through, I agree with it. Now I have a dilemma:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On one hand, I have my answer and can as well drop this case.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On the other hand, someone else may be interested in knowing it, now or in the future.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what should I do from the community ethics standpoint? Reopen my question? Reopen and answer it myself? Drop the whole thing? Something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69148" LastActivityDate="2021-04-23T18:00:10.633" Title="Now that I know the answer to my closed question, should I reopen it?" Tags="|discussion|primarily-opinion-based|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13330" CreationDate="2021-04-23T18:00:10.633" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know &lt;em&gt;Solaris&lt;/em&gt;, so I'm going to answer this in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you have an answer which is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; opinion-based, that's grounds for reopening.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions are closed as opinion-based because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and the way to get them reopened is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(quoting some notices, old and new, that have appeared on such questions across SE).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if you or anyone else find an answer which is based on facts and references, rather than just speculation, then that probably means the question is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; opinion-based and shouldn't be closed as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you found an answer which is subjectively correct but satisfies you, that's not enough.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not clear from your meta post whether the answer proposed in comments is something you've realised is &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; correct answer, and can be solidly argued as such, or if it's an opinion which has successfully convinced you to share the same view. In the latter case, it would &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be enough for reopening the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that some subjectivity is allowed. This is mentioned in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;help centre&lt;/a&gt;, distilled down from the old blog post on &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/09/29/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some subjective questions are allowed, but “subjective” does not mean “anything goes”. All subjective questions are expected to be constructive. What does that mean? Constructive subjective questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;inspire answers that explain “why” and “how”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tend to have long, not short, answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;have a constructive, fair, and impartial tone&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;invite sharing experiences over opinions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;insist that opinion be backed up with facts and references&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;are more than just mindless social fun&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if you have a good answer that justifies itself properly with facts and quotes and solid arguments, then the question should be reopened. But if it's just an idea in a comment which was enough to convince you personally, then probably not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2021-04-23T18:00:10.633" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13332" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13333" CreationDate="2021-04-26T09:31:10.097" Score="7" ViewCount="362" Body="&lt;p&gt;This post is for the fifth of SFF.SE's new series of &lt;strong&gt;topic challenges&lt;/strong&gt;, encouraging the site's community to take part together in asking and answering questions on a particular topic each month. According to community votes on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;topic challenge proposals thread&lt;/a&gt;, the May 2021 topic challenge is going to be devoted to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_St._Clair&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;an American female writer of fantasy and sci-fi&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Margaret St. Clair (a.k.a. Idris Seabright or Wilton Hazzard)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's a topic challenge and how do I take part?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13211/31394&quot;&gt;Announcing a Topic Challenge program for SFF.SE&lt;/a&gt;, and also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/240634/278659&quot;&gt;this main meta post&lt;/a&gt;. In short, during May 2021 we should all try to: either read some Margaret St. Clair stories and ask interesting questions about them, or ask questions about some of those stories we've read before, or help out by &lt;em&gt;answering&lt;/em&gt; other people's questions about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Participation is not obligatory in any sense, but those who participate will be forever remembered in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13333/31394&quot;&gt;annals of our history&lt;/a&gt;. We'll keep a list of all Margaret St. Clair questions asked during May 2021 in an answer to this meta post. At the end of the month, I'll collate some data like highest-scoring question, most-viewed question, highest-scoring answer, etc. There won't be any real-world rewards like in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1138/31394&quot;&gt;the old days&lt;/a&gt; when Stack Exchange was smaller and more generous, but I'll be awarding at least one bounty after the end of the month (assuming there's at least one good answer posted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/125981/clara-diaz-sanchez&quot;&gt;Clara Diaz Sanchez&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13283/31394&quot;&gt;original presentation&lt;/a&gt; of this proposal (slightly truncated):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?237&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Margaret St. Clair&lt;/a&gt; (17 February 1911 – 22 November 1995) was an American fantasy and science fiction writer, who also wrote under the pseudonyms Idris Seabright and Wilton Hazzard. She is one of several women science fiction writers from the Golden and Silver Age who have sadly fallen between the cracks of history. From that time, the only women authors who are still widely remembered and reprinted today are Leigh Brackett, C.L. Moore and Andre Norton – almost everybody else is more or less obscure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;St. Clair wrote many short stories and eight novels, including &lt;em&gt;Sign of the Labrys&lt;/em&gt;  featuring an early use of Wicca elements in fiction, and more traditional sci-fi stories like &lt;em&gt;Message from the Eocene&lt;/em&gt; which has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://corabuhlert.com/2019/12/12/the-women-science-fiction-fans-dont-see/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;described&lt;/a&gt; as &amp;quot;at times a Hal Clement style &lt;em&gt;truly alien aliens in an alien environment&lt;/em&gt; story, a Victorian ghost story, a galactic suburbia style science fiction tale, and a mid 1960s space exploration story&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Her short stories available to read online include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/SuperWhost&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Super Whost&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/stream/Galaxy_v19n06_1961-08#page/n17/mode/1up&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Lochinvar&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/stream/Galaxy_v20n02_1961-12_modified#page/n44/mode/1up&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;An Old Fashioned Bird Christmas&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/stream/Galaxy_v21n01_1962-10#page/n79/mode/1up&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Roberta&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gutenberg.org/files/64014/64014-h/64014-h.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;The Vanderlark&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gutenberg.org/files/64745/64745-h/64745-h.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Flowering Evil&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(these links found thanks to Wikipedia and Google; if anyone knows of more, please feel free to edit them in!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's next?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Future topic challenges will be chosen by community votes, so come over and propose or vote on suggestions at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;Vote on future topics for SFF topic challenges!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The Margaret St. Clair answer will be deleted from that thread at the start of May, since already chosen topics shouldn't stick at the top of the thread and distract people from those still to be voted on.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2023-01-29T13:54:16.550" LastActivityDate="2021-06-01T04:40:57.173" Title="May 2021 Topic Challenge: Margaret St. Clair" Tags="|discussion|topic-challenge|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13332" CreationDate="2021-04-26T09:31:48.620" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;List of all questions posted as part of this topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/246526/31394&quot;&gt;What does PE&amp;amp;G stand for, and does it connect with Mazda&amp;#39;s name?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394&quot;&gt;Rand al'Thor&lt;/a&gt;, 02/05/2021.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/246656/31394&quot;&gt;Meaning of acronym UNBI&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/125981/clara-diaz-sanchez&quot;&gt;Clara Diaz Sanchez&lt;/a&gt;, 06/05/2021.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/247657/31394&quot;&gt;What is the relationship between Alice and McFeen in &amp;quot;The Vanderlark&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394&quot;&gt;Rand al'Thor&lt;/a&gt;, 31/05/2021.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;highest-voted&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;most viewed&lt;/strong&gt; of these is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/246526/31394&quot;&gt;What does PE&amp;amp;G stand for, and does it connect with Mazda&amp;#39;s name?&lt;/a&gt;, with a score of &lt;strong&gt;7&lt;/strong&gt; at the end of May and approximately &lt;strong&gt;145&lt;/strong&gt; views during May.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2021-06-01T04:40:57.173" LastActivityDate="2021-06-01T04:40:57.173" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-04-26T09:31:48.620" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13240" CreationDate="2021-04-28T08:20:29.023" Score="2" Body="&lt;h3&gt;&lt;em&gt;Final Space&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/final-space&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;final-space&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;final-space&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taking a bit of a break from the norm here of book suggestions. &lt;em&gt;Final Space&lt;/em&gt; is an excellent science fiction TV series currently with the third season airing. It is available to watch on Netflix. Whilst it initially starts out quite silly and humorous, it does develop a really good story with character development and emotion; it is quite the ride.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The series only has 2 questions on the site, one by myself, and it is relatively underappreciated in general I feel. Lastly, for you &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; lovers David Tennant voices the Lord Commander who is the main baddy in the first season, shows up briefly in the second and I believe has some role in the third (though I've not seen it yet as it's not out in the UK AFAIK).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2021-04-28T08:20:29.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13335" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-05-04T20:20:05.513" Score="25" ViewCount="696" Body="&lt;p&gt;A quick look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&lt;/a&gt; would suggest that we're at four mods rather than the usual complement of five.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3t4dZ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3t4dZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Anything to report?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="137155" LastEditDate="2021-05-05T12:35:59.177" LastActivityDate="2021-05-07T04:57:19.093" Title="Did we just lose a mod?" Tags="|discussion|moderators|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ClosedDate="2021-05-17T17:40:29.673" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13335" CreationDate="2021-05-05T12:35:50.357" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Community Managers reach out to moderators when they have been &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337431/what-is-the-process-regarding-moderator-inactivity-removals/338006#338006&quot;&gt;inactive for more than six months&lt;/a&gt;. Moderators have the option to either resume moderating or let us know that they would like to step away from moderating responsibilities and we then notify the other moderators. In this particular instance I was pulled into something pressing before I had a chance to reach out to the moderators to give them a heads up, which is why there was a delay. I apologize for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When moderators step down, the CMs chat with the remaining moderators around their needs for additional moderators to get an idea of when in the future an election may be held.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137155" LastEditorUserId="21267" LastEditDate="2021-05-07T04:57:19.093" LastActivityDate="2021-05-07T04:57:19.093" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13337" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-05-07T05:40:38.400" Score="15" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;Character actor Mark Peter Richman &lt;a href=&quot;https://people.com/tv/peter-mark-richman-dead/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;passed away January 21, 2021&lt;/a&gt; at the age of 93.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the sci-fi and fantasy genres, he's probably best remembered as the brusque but cagey Ralph Offenhouse in the Star Trek: Next Generation episode &amp;quot;The Neutral Zone.&amp;quot;   Richman, however, appeared in a staggering number of other sci-fi and fantasy shows.   He had memorable roles in episodes of the original The Outer Limits and Twilight Zone, and also notable guest appearances in The Incredible Hulk, Wonder Woman, and Fantasy Island.   He also did a good deal of voice over work for animated superhero shows such as the various Batman and Spider-man cartoons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His work outside of sci-fi and fantasy was no less prolific, with Richman racking up over 500 television appearances in well over 100 different series by the time of his retirement in 2011.  Memorable roles included a stint on the long-running prime-time soap opera &amp;quot;Dynasty&amp;quot;, and a recurring guest role as a kindly reverend on the U.S. sitcom &amp;quot;Three's Company.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TptiN.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TptiN.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69621" LastActivityDate="2021-05-07T05:40:38.400" Title="Peter Mark Richman (Star Trek, Twilight Zone, many, many others), RIP" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13338" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-05-12T14:36:10.443" Score="11" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;We seem to have a bit of a tangled situation with [story-identification] questions involving the Theodore Sturgeon short story “Yesterday was Monday” and the 1986 &lt;em&gt;Twilight Zone&lt;/em&gt; episode “A Matter of Minutes” that was based on the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the moment, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/246796/sf-short-story-about-resetting-the-world-every-day&quot;&gt;SF Short Story about resetting the world every day&lt;/a&gt; (which appears to be about the Sturgeon story) is marked as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9861/looking-for-an-old-sf-tv-short-story-about-blue-men-staging-the-future&quot;&gt;Looking for an old SF tv short story about blue men staging the future&lt;/a&gt; (which somewhat confusingly describes a “SF TV short story,” but includes elements—particularly the blue men—that definitely seem to point to “A Matter of Minutes”), marked in turn as a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/203219/80s-or-90s-tv-episode-where-a-man-trapped-between-two-seconds-sees-world-deconst&quot;&gt;80s or 90s TV episode where a man trapped between two seconds sees world deconstructed and rebuilt&lt;/a&gt; which is definitely about the television episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the first question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/246796/sf-short-story-about-resetting-the-world-every-day&quot;&gt;SF Short Story about resetting the world every day&lt;/a&gt;) should not be a duplicate at all, since it is about the original story, not the episode of &lt;em&gt;The Twilight Zone&lt;/em&gt;.  Part of the reason for the confusion may be that accepted answer to the second question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's Theodore Sturgeon's short story &amp;quot;Yesterday was Monday&amp;quot;, which inspired the New Twilight Zone episode &amp;quot;A Matter of Minutes&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;even though the question is really asking for “A Matter of Minutes,” not “Yesterday Was Monday.”  I would also be inclined to rewrite this answer to correct this confusing point.  What does everyone else think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2021-05-12T20:42:39.257" Title="Duplicates: “Yesterday Was Monday” versus “A Matter of Minutes”" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13338" CreationDate="2021-05-12T20:42:39.257" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're not wrong. This question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/246796/sf-short-story-about-resetting-the-world-every-day&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;) is asking about the short story. The other two questions (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9861/looking-for-an-old-sf-tv-short-story-about-blue-men-staging-the-future&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/203219/80s-or-90s-tv-episode-where-a-man-trapped-between-two-seconds-sees-world-deconst&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;) are asking about the TV episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2 and 3 are clearly duplicates of each other. 1 isn't, so I've un-duped it (and also tidied all of them up because I have some sort of weird compulsive disorder).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2021-05-12T20:42:39.257" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13340" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-05-16T11:55:13.317" Score="11" ViewCount="265" Body="&lt;p&gt;A quick look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&lt;/a&gt; would suggest that we're at three mods rather than the usual complement of &lt;s&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13335/did-we-just-lose-a-mod&quot;&gt;five&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt; four.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iKDKI.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iKDKI.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Anything to report?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2021-05-16T12:24:20.897" Title="Did we just lose *another* moderator?" Tags="|discussion|moderators|moderation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2021-05-17T17:40:13.847" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13340" CreationDate="2021-05-16T12:24:20.897" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the last couple of weeks, Stack Exchange staff reached out to two of our site's moderators who &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/338006/278659&quot;&gt;hadn't done anything on the site for a while&lt;/a&gt;. I don't know exactly what happened in those communications, since they were off-site and private between CMs and those individual moderators, but the end result is the removal of the two inactive moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13335/did-we-just-lose-a-mod#comment46921_13335&quot;&gt;mentioned before&lt;/a&gt;, the remaining mods were caught off-guard the first time this happened, since &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/137155/rosie&quot;&gt;Rosie&lt;/a&gt; was called AFK in the time between removing Kevin's diamond and dropping a message into our mod chat. We &lt;em&gt;were&lt;/em&gt; informed the second time, but we neglected to post anything to inform the community. I apologise on behalf of the remaining mod team for this omission: we &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; keep you informed when things like this happen, and it's not a good look for missing moderators to be announced by &amp;quot;what just happened?&amp;quot; posts from community members. Sorry about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2021-05-16T12:24:20.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13342" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-05-17T12:41:01.083" Score="37" ViewCount="467" Body="&lt;p&gt;As some of you have already noticed, this month our site's moderator team lost two of its members. They hadn't been active for a while, and the Stack Exchange Community Team removed their diamonds under the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/338006/278659&quot;&gt;process for inactive moderators&lt;/a&gt;. Instead of focusing on their inactivity and removal, this meta post is to thank them for their years of service as moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3267&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/flair/3267.png&quot; alt=&quot;Kevin&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2765&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/flair/2765.png&quot; alt=&quot;Thaddeus&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kevin&lt;/strong&gt; joined the mod team in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election/2&quot;&gt;2013 election&lt;/a&gt;, the second election on SFF, in which he received &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.opavote.com/results/947007/0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;45 votes&lt;/a&gt; as first-choice candidate, among 200 votes cast for 7 candidates. Although &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3267/kevin?tab=activity&amp;amp;sort=posts&quot;&gt;rarely posting Q&amp;amp;A&lt;/a&gt; since his election, except on meta where he was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/help/badges/78/support&quot;&gt;the first to get a tag badge in &lt;code&gt;support&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (excluding any now-deleted users), he remained active in mod duties for almost all of his diamond tenure, a total of more than &lt;strong&gt;eight years&lt;/strong&gt; from 2013 to 2021.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thaddeus Howze&lt;/strong&gt; joined the mod team in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election/3&quot;&gt;2015 election&lt;/a&gt;, the third election on SFF, in which he received &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.opavote.com/results/6319710861787136/0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;over 100 votes&lt;/a&gt; as first-choice candidate, among 505 votes cast for 8 candidates. With over 100,000 rep on election and more than double that at the time of this post, he remains the third highest-rep user SFF has ever had, with over 1500 answers to his name. Although he was an infrequent visitor in recent years, he spent over &lt;strong&gt;six years&lt;/strong&gt; as a mod from 2015 to 2021.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't have access to the mod task statistics for &lt;em&gt;former&lt;/em&gt; moderators, but I remember that Kevin and Thaddeus handled &lt;strong&gt;more than 1000 flags each&lt;/strong&gt; during their mod years. They were also the two  longest-tenured &lt;em&gt;users&lt;/em&gt; among the mod team (although Thaddeus was elected after AncientSwordRage, he joined the site earlier, as is evident from user IDs).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's thank them both for their diamond years!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="21267" LastEditDate="2021-05-18T01:40:15.473" LastActivityDate="2021-05-18T01:40:15.473" Title="Thanks to Kevin and Thaddeus for their years of service as moderators" Tags="|discussion|moderators|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13342" CreationDate="2021-05-17T21:07:15.880" Score="21" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Thank you both&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not easy moderating this site, but I'm glad that you've both done so to the best of your abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a shame to see that your interest in this community seems to have dwindled, but I think we can all appreciate your candour in recognising that and stepping down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the best for your future endeavours!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastActivityDate="2021-05-17T21:07:15.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13344" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-05-19T03:39:31.090" Score="15" ViewCount="245" Body="&lt;p&gt;Charles Grodin, who had a long and fruitful film career, died today.  Primarily a comedic actor, he had major roles as the villains in &lt;em&gt;King Kong&lt;/em&gt; (1976) and &lt;em&gt;The Great Muppet Caper&lt;/em&gt;, as well as smaller parts in &lt;em&gt;20,000 Leagues Under the Sea&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Rosemary's Baby&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Heaven Can Wait&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Heart and Souls&lt;/em&gt;; and many other non-genre productions.  His most famous role may have been in the action-comedy &lt;em&gt;Midnight Run&lt;/em&gt;, opposite Robert De Niro.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8Dz9T.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8Dz9T.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Stars of Midnight Run&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here he is, as I will always remember him, singing to Miss Piggy (in the greatest Busby Berkeley parody every produced).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/4UUQTbwqX5Y?start=48&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2024-02-05T15:26:01.400" Title="RIP, Charles Grodin" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13344" CreationDate="2021-05-22T02:56:59.807" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember him well from HB Kid. He was a young man; Cybil S. was just out of her teens and even Eddie Albert was not that old. Time is a heck of a thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105042" LastEditorUserId="105042" LastEditDate="2024-02-05T15:26:01.400" LastActivityDate="2024-02-05T15:26:01.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13346" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-05-24T12:07:30.727" Score="22" ViewCount="349" Body="&lt;p&gt;Normally, we the mods, would wait for the election day for the announcement that the election is live.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However given the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13342/3804&quot;&gt;circumstances&lt;/a&gt;, and the previous meta posts about moderators 'going missing' it seemed prudent to give everyone the heads up, so...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election/5&quot;&gt;Brace yourself, an election is coming!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Important details:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;nomination begins on Jun 7 at 20:00&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;election begins on Jun 14 at 20:00&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;election ends on Jun 22 at 20:00&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There will also be time to ask nominees questions as well, but currently the 2021 election page is referencing the last election (2016) so watch this space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2021-05-24T12:25:17.083" LastActivityDate="2021-05-24T12:25:17.083" Title="Brace yourself, an election is coming!" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="14" ClosedDate="2021-06-07T20:21:31.567" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13347" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13348" CreationDate="2021-05-25T08:31:11.173" Score="8" ViewCount="420" Body="&lt;p&gt;This post is for the sixth of SFF.SE's new series of &lt;strong&gt;topic challenges&lt;/strong&gt;, encouraging the site's community to take part together in asking and answering questions on a particular topic each month. According to community votes on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;topic challenge proposals thread&lt;/a&gt;, the June 2021 topic challenge is going to be devoted to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/2765/thaddeus-howze&quot;&gt;a former moderator of our very own site&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Thaddeus Howze&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/thaddeus-howze&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;thaddeus-howze&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;thaddeus-howze&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's take this as an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of a massive contributor to our site, no longer active for a while but still one of our highest-reputation users by a long way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's a topic challenge and how do I take part?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13211/31394&quot;&gt;Announcing a Topic Challenge program for SFF.SE&lt;/a&gt;, and also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/240634/278659&quot;&gt;this main meta post&lt;/a&gt;. In short, during June 2021 we should all try to: either read some Thaddeus Howze stories and ask interesting questions about them, or ask questions about some of those stories we've read before, or help out by &lt;em&gt;answering&lt;/em&gt; other people's questions about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Participation is not obligatory in any sense, but those who participate will be forever remembered in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13348/31394&quot;&gt;annals of our history&lt;/a&gt;. We'll keep a list of all Thaddeus Howze questions asked during June 2021 in an answer to this meta post. At the end of the month, I'll collate some data like highest-scoring question, most-viewed question, highest-scoring answer, etc. There won't be any real-world rewards like in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1138/31394&quot;&gt;the old days&lt;/a&gt; when Stack Exchange was smaller and more generous, but I'll be awarding at least one bounty after the end of the month (assuming there's at least one good answer posted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thowze.carrd.co/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Thaddeus Howze&lt;/a&gt; has published two books, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18798745-broken-glass&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Broken Glass&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (a 2013 novella) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13254502-hayward-s-reach&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hayward's Reach&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (a 2011 collection of short stories), and many pieces of his speculative-fiction writing are available to read online, such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.operative.net/fiction-task-ogknight-thaddeus-01.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;O.G. Knight&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://medium.com/short-sci-fi-stories/the-black-terror-rides-again-ec23e1651ef3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Black Terror Rides Again&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://medium.com/the-coffeelicious/death-and-life-in-a-place-of-novas-36efe99bea69&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Death and Life - In a Place of Novas&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://ebonstorm.medium.com/belargo-a-tiny-dragon-tale-dfe401c36e19&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Belargo: a Tiny Dragon Tale&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://medium.com/short-sci-fi-stories/barnabus-d8fa684ec4ff&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Barnabus&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and a 3-4 parter &lt;a href=&quot;https://ebonstorm.medium.com/of-old-men-and-bad-dreams-8b873fe7d389&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Of Old Men and Bad Dreams&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href=&quot;https://ebonstorm.medium.com/of-young-men-and-hot-ambition-6d1d27a8ef20&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Of Young Men and Hot Ambition&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href=&quot;https://ebonstorm.medium.com/of-queens-and-chaos-gods-36724f1c5ca9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Of Queens and Chaos Gods&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Many of his short pieces are on &lt;a href=&quot;https://ebonstorm.medium.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;his Medium page&lt;/a&gt;, but you have to scroll down a lot to find them; in recent years it's been postly non-fiction essays about topics like racism and US politics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's next?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Future topic challenges will be chosen by community votes, so come over and propose or vote on suggestions at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;Propose future topics for SFF topic challenges!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The Thaddeus Howze answer will be deleted from that thread at the start of June, since already chosen topics shouldn't stick at the top of the thread and distract people from those still to be voted on.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2021-06-26T08:13:37.090" LastActivityDate="2021-07-01T08:28:21.217" Title="June 2021 Topic Challenge: Thaddeus Howze stories" Tags="|discussion|topic-challenge|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13347" CreationDate="2021-05-25T08:31:59.693" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;List of all questions posted as part of this topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/247698/why-is-the-protagonist-of-shortsighted-named-calvin-hobbes&quot;&gt;Why is the protagonist of &amp;quot;Shortsighted&amp;quot; named Calvin Hobbes?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/19561/sqb&quot;&gt;SQB&lt;/a&gt;, 01/06/2021&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/247729/when-is-an-uncivil-war-in-america-set&quot;&gt;When is &amp;quot;An Uncivil War in America&amp;quot; set?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/19561/sqb&quot;&gt;SQB&lt;/a&gt;, 02/06/2021&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/250731/31394&quot;&gt;Are the Black Terror and Knight-Wing based on any pre-existing fictional superheroes?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394&quot;&gt;Rand al'Thor&lt;/a&gt;, 26/06/2021&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;highest-voted&lt;/strong&gt; of these is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/247729/31394&quot;&gt;When is &amp;quot;An Uncivil War in America&amp;quot; set?&lt;/a&gt;, with a score of &lt;strong&gt;8&lt;/strong&gt; at the end of June.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;most viewed&lt;/strong&gt; is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/247698/31394&quot;&gt;Why is the protagonist of &amp;quot;Shortsighted&amp;quot; named Calvin Hobbes?&lt;/a&gt;, with approximately &lt;strong&gt;179&lt;/strong&gt; views during June.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2021-07-01T08:28:21.217" LastActivityDate="2021-07-01T08:28:21.217" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-05-25T08:31:59.693" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13349" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-05-27T10:43:50.473" Score="15" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;Eric Carle, children's books illustrator, has died. He is best known as the creator of &lt;em&gt;The Very Hungry Caterpillar&lt;/em&gt;, but he has also made some science fiction books such as &lt;em&gt;Watch Out! A Giant!&lt;/em&gt;. And is thus on topic for this site. (See some pictures of &lt;em&gt;Watch Out! A Giant!&lt;/em&gt; below.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Carle&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;According to his wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;, he illustrated over 70 books, during a period of 58 years. Prior to that he was conscripted into both WW2 (digging trenches on the Siegfried line) and the Korean War, and did graphic design and advertising. He was 91.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/H63yV.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/H63yV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qN0wi.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qN0wi.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55866" LastActivityDate="2021-06-08T02:06:27.723" Title="RIP Eric Carle, creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13350" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-05-31T19:59:52.220" Score="17" ViewCount="735" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election/5#questionnaire&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy is scheduled for an election &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election/5&quot;&gt;next week, June 7th&lt;/a&gt;. In connection with that, we will be holding a Q&amp;amp;A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation.  Participation is completely voluntary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's how it'll work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Until the nomination phase, (so, until June 7th at 20:00:00Z UTC, or 4:00 pm EDT on the same day, give or take time to arrive for closure), this question will be open to collect potential questions from the users of the site. Post answers to this question containing any questions you would like to ask the candidates. Please only post &lt;em&gt;one question per answer&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We, the Community Team, will be providing a small selection of generic questions. The first two will be guaranteed to be included, the latter ones are if the community doesn't supply enough questions. They are included at the bottom of this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If your question contains a link, please use the syntax of &lt;code&gt;[text](link)&lt;/code&gt;, as that will make it easier for transcribing for the finished questionnaire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a perfect opportunity to voice questions that are specific to your community and issues that you are running into currently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the start of the nomination phase, the Community Team will select &lt;strong&gt;up to 8 of the top voted questions submitted by the community&lt;/strong&gt; provided in this thread, to use in addition to the aforementioned 2 guaranteed questions. We reserve some editorial control in the selection of the questions and may opt not to select a question that is tangential or irrelevant to moderation or the election.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once questions have been selected, the candidates will be able to answer them as part of their nomination post on the election page as described in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/362933/moderator-elections-new-questionnaire-ui&quot;&gt;announcement on Meta Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;. The full questionnaire is usually around 10 questions total.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is not the only option that users have for gathering information on candidates. As a community, you are still free to, for example, hold a live chat session with your candidates to ask further questions, or perhaps clarifications from what is provided in the Q&amp;amp;A. We'll create a chat room next week when nominations open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have any questions or feedback about this process, feel free to post as a comment here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a set of general questions, gathered as very common questions asked every election. As mentioned in the instructions, the first two questions are guaranteed to show up in the Q&amp;amp;A, while the others are if there aren't enough questions (or, if you like one enough, you may split it off as a separate answer for review within the community's 8).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In your opinion, what do moderators do?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more effective as opposed to simply reaching 10k or 20k rep?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41668" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2021-06-08T15:26:04.823" LastActivityDate="2021-06-08T15:26:04.823" Title="2021 Moderator Election Q&amp;A - Question Collection" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="22" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13350" CreationDate="2021-05-31T20:15:44.603" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given hypothetical absolute authority,&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;strong&gt;what would you want to change about this site?&lt;/strong&gt; What policies would you introduce, abolish, apply more strictly or more laxly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; A real moderator diamond does not confer absolute authority. Terms and conditions apply.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2021-05-31T20:15:44.603" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13350" CreationDate="2021-05-31T20:23:49.667" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do you expect your activity would change if you become a moderator?&lt;/strong&gt; For example, would you be a more active or less active reviewer (or review differently), spend more time or less time in chat and/or meta (or change the style of your activity there), ... ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2021-05-31T20:23:49.667" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13350" CreationDate="2021-05-31T20:53:03.913" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's your opinion on edits that at a first glance don't improve much, but do serve a niche purpose (such as tag edits, or adding image descriptions)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2021-05-31T20:53:03.913" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13350" CreationDate="2021-05-31T20:59:35.837" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;On our site, there's been a lot of controversy surrounding chat. As a moderator, how would you handle complaints about a toxic chat environment; and how would you deal with moderators of other SE sites stepping in to moderate the chat room, and room regulars protest against their presence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2021-05-31T21:03:45.760" LastActivityDate="2021-05-31T21:03:45.760" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13350" CreationDate="2021-05-31T22:14:23.783" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are your expectations for the amount of time you would commit to the site as moderator?  (During the times you are active, that is; it's perfectly appropriate for that to be 0 when you're on vacation.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastActivityDate="2021-05-31T22:14:23.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13350" CreationDate="2021-05-31T22:36:23.287" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do you consider to be the absolute minimum amount of activity a moderator should contribute to their site &lt;em&gt;as a normal user&lt;/em&gt; (e.g. questions/answers/comments/etc), above and beyond their duties as a mod?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2021-06-04T21:49:25.647" LastActivityDate="2021-06-04T21:49:25.647" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13350" CreationDate="2021-05-31T23:04:11.650" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over the last few years there has been a downward trend in the number of questions asked each week. Do you see it as your job (as a moderator) to address this, and if so, what fresh ideas will you bring in promoting our site to others and encouraging question-asking?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NqphF.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NqphF.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2021-05-31T23:04:11.650" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13350" CreationDate="2021-06-01T07:40:17.367" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;SFF.SE has a mixed reputation among neighbouring sites (such as M&amp;amp;TV, Literature, Arqade, RPG, etc.), sometimes getting a bad rap in their chats, with some of their site regulars having a negative view of SFF and not participating here. Among the many roles a moderator might play is that of an &lt;strong&gt;ambassador of the site&lt;/strong&gt;; what is your view on these inter-site issues and how (if at all) would you consider dealing with them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2021-06-01T07:40:17.367" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13350" CreationDate="2021-06-01T08:02:11.243" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;A user makes bump-edits to their posts periodically to bump them back to the top of the homepage. The bump-edits themselves are of a questionable nature and vary on whether or not they have improved the post. How do you handle this situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2021-06-02T13:38:40.107" LastActivityDate="2021-06-02T13:38:40.107" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13350" CreationDate="2021-06-01T08:43:41.643" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more effective as opposed to simply reaching 10k or 20k rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is an interesting question from the general 5 and might not be picked with the number of questions already proposed so putting it up to the vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2021-06-01T08:43:41.643" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13350" CreationDate="2021-06-01T11:41:24.557" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;A user makes a borderline OK answer on a question you've asked or answered. As a moderator you're able to delete posts much more easily than the majority of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do you handle this potential conflict of interest?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2021-06-01T14:55:29.730" LastActivityDate="2021-06-01T14:55:29.730" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13350" CreationDate="2021-06-01T12:54:10.210" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;How will your moderator practices be shaped by the person in question? Will you change the way you moderate for another moderator, high reputation user, or newbie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2021-06-01T12:54:10.210" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13350" CreationDate="2021-06-01T15:27:14.170" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why do you want to be a moderator?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is perhaps related to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more effective as opposed to simply reaching 10k or 20k rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but that question assumes that the candidate wishes to be more &amp;quot;effective&amp;quot; at whatever it is that the candidate believes 10k or 20k rep users are more &amp;quot;effective&amp;quot; at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastActivityDate="2021-06-01T15:27:14.170" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13350" CreationDate="2021-06-01T15:34:39.047" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What, if any, previous moderator (or similar) experience do you have from a different Stack Exchange site, a different website, and/or the real world (e.g. arbitration)?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This question was also proposed for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/6483/31936&quot;&gt;2015 SFF election&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7991/31936&quot;&gt;2016 SFF election&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, previous experience is by no means &lt;em&gt;required&lt;/em&gt; (or even necessarily a good thing) but might be an interesting differentiator between candidates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastActivityDate="2021-06-01T15:34:39.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13350" CreationDate="2021-06-01T15:37:31.537" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do you do now to build the community, rather than your own prestige in the community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2021-06-01T15:37:31.537" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13350" CreationDate="2021-06-01T16:47:40.833" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once in a while, SFF suffers deep disagreements over policy and its usage. For instance, SFF has the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11865/what-are-future-works&quot;&gt;Future Works Policy&lt;/a&gt; (where &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11853/62709&quot;&gt;implementation is not always straight-forward&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a moderator you have tools to resolve these conflicts (post locks, suspension, and a binding delete the community at large cannot undo). How would you resolve conflicts where the community is thrashing a question over a policy dispute?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastActivityDate="2021-06-01T16:47:40.833" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13350" CreationDate="2021-06-01T18:52:56.143" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;You disagree publicly with another active/high-rep user about a point of site policy: for example, whether or not a particular question should be closed. How do you decide what to do - take mod action (such as closing/reopening yourself), start a meta discussion, or continue trying to convince the other person?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This is somewhat similar to &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; but focused on user-mod disagreement rather than mod-mod.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2021-06-01T18:52:56.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13240" CreationDate="2021-06-02T10:12:06.463" Score="-5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Warhammer (fantasy)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhammer_(game)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Warhammer&lt;/a&gt; is a table-top fantasy game, the forerunner of the now popular science fiction tabletop game that goes by a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhammer_40,000&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;similar title&lt;/a&gt;. Age of Sigma is one of the replacement games, and as of typing, there are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/age-of-sigmar&quot;&gt;7/8 questions for AoS&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/warhammer-fantasy&quot;&gt;35 questions&lt;/a&gt; for the original game - somewhat small considering the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Warhammer_Fantasy_novels&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;150&lt;/a&gt; books written and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Games_Workshop_video_games#Warhammer_Fantasy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;numerous&lt;/a&gt; video games created as a result. The game has spanned 30~ years and produced numerous spin-off table-top games, as previously mentioned, but also has a vastly fleshed-out universe - but definitely seems lacking on SFF considering how much material there is, even when compared to it's newer cousin (Warhammer 40k) which has a similar amount of books, games and the like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90310" LastActivityDate="2021-06-02T10:12:06.463" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13350" CreationDate="2021-06-02T23:00:16.603" Score="-5" Body="&lt;h3&gt;How will you keep up-to-date with network-wide and SFF specific policies?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastActivityDate="2021-06-02T23:00:16.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13350" CreationDate="2021-06-02T23:01:16.287" Score="-3" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Is there something (or somethings) that you would specifically like to bring, add or change to the site?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastActivityDate="2021-06-02T23:01:16.287" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13350" CreationDate="2021-06-02T23:04:06.393" Score="-3" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Knowing related data is important in understanding the site and its community, are you familiar (or how do you plan to become familiar) with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SEDE&lt;/a&gt; data that's available for this community?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastActivityDate="2021-06-02T23:04:06.393" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13350" CreationDate="2021-06-02T23:06:32.457" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7989/21267&quot;&gt;From @Tars' 2016 election question&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a moderator, your votes become binding. Actions you used to take like flagging, reviewing, closing, and deleting will take effect immediately without any input from any other users or moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How will you adapt the way you currently flag and vote to deal with this change?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastActivityDate="2021-06-02T23:06:32.457" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13373" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-06-04T08:53:05.367" Score="9" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question in question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/247659/what-to-read-in-history-of-middle-earth&quot;&gt;What to read in History of Middle-earth?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's had a little bit of history to it, originally closed as a dupe to: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15534/in-what-order-should-tolkiens-writings-on-middle-earth-be-read&quot;&gt;In what order should Tolkien&amp;#39;s writings on Middle-earth be read?&lt;/a&gt; where I was one of the close voters. However, after further discussion in the comments I think this one is sufficiently different to that and it was reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has later been closed as &amp;quot;Opinion based&amp;quot;. However, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt; questions, which this is, generally do not fall under &amp;quot;Opinion based&amp;quot; and are the type of good subjective questions we allow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having already voted to reopen it the first time around I now can't do so again and probably shouldn't to stop a close/reopen war.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should this question have been closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2021-06-04T12:23:46.517" Title="Should the question &quot;What to read in History of Middle-earth?&quot; have been closed?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13373" CreationDate="2021-06-04T12:23:46.517" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question could've been worded better, to avoid the trappings of opinion-basedness, but I agree that it should be on topic, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt; questions are in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2021-06-04T12:23:46.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13349" CreationDate="2021-06-04T22:50:12.360" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;His art style was unique, beautiful, and will be remembered by all who read his books as children. RIP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="97227" LastEditorUserId="97227" LastEditDate="2021-06-04T22:57:32.620" LastActivityDate="2021-06-04T22:57:32.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13376" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13377" CreationDate="2021-06-05T01:50:35.363" Score="4" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/249839/2&quot;&gt;this edit&lt;/a&gt;, I added a spoiler and that was the main function of the comment (and therefore would have been the comment has it not been a spoiler).  Should I reveal what the spoiler is in the comment?  I was unsure, so I used &amp;quot;added spoiler, I'm not revealing what it said in the edit comment&amp;quot; as the comment.  Is this correct in how I should handle spoiling edit descriptions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141465" LastActivityDate="2021-06-05T06:09:21.747" Title="Should I reveal spoilers in the edit comment?" Tags="|discussion|support|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13376" CreationDate="2021-06-05T06:09:21.747" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think your approach is fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit descriptions don't matter all &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; much.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you're the OP editing your own post, or if you have over 2k rep and can edit anyone's post, most likely nobody will even look at the edit description; you can (and many people do) just leave the default text of &amp;quot;added 74 characters in body&amp;quot; or whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The only time people are likely to read your edit description is if the edit goes to the Suggested Edits queue for approval (if you're a &amp;lt;2k rep user editing someone else's post). Even then, the most important thing is the actual changes you made to the post, which will be clearly visible to reviewers. I imagine even many reviewers don't bother to check the edit description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The only time I usually bother to include edit descriptions is when I'm making an edit whose purpose might not be immediately clear: to explain to the OP, or to others who might see the revision history, why I'm making that edit and why it improves the post. If you're just editing your own post to clarify a point or add a caveat, I wouldn't say you even need an edit description at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All this being said, if you want to put an edit description, and you're concerned about spoilers, then &lt;strong&gt;better safe than sorry&lt;/strong&gt;: go ahead and write something like &amp;quot;added a spoilery caveat&amp;quot; as you did. It doesn't hurt to have a less descriptive edit description, because people can look and see what you changed anyway. (It &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; won't hurt to have a spoilery one either, since most people won't even bother to see the revision history, but you might as well avert that small possibility if you can.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2021-06-05T06:09:21.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13378" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13379" CreationDate="2021-06-05T20:15:03.897" Score="8" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;On my &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/249871/141465&quot;&gt;latest post&lt;/a&gt;, I still have the &amp;quot;New Contributor&amp;quot; identifier under my user card, even though I have made 8 posts before this including questions.  Why is this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141465" LastEditorUserId="141465" LastEditDate="2021-06-08T01:52:05.153" LastActivityDate="2021-06-08T01:52:05.153" Title="Why do I show up as a &quot;New Contributor&quot; even though I've posted several times?" Tags="|support|new-users|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13378" CreationDate="2021-06-05T20:23:26.660" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the original announcement of the &amp;quot;New Contributor&amp;quot; feature &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/314287/278659&quot;&gt;Come Take a Look at our New Contributor Indicator!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Folks will see an indicator when they go to interact with new contributors (&lt;strong&gt;visible for a week following their first post&lt;/strong&gt;) letting them know that the person is new.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(emphasis mine)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2021-06-05T20:23:26.660" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13380" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-06-07T20:00:02.000" Score="15" ViewCount="216" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 2021 Community Moderator Election is now underway!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community moderator elections have three phases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nomination phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Primary phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Election phase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most elections take between two and three weeks, but this depends on how many candidates there are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please visit the official election page at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for more detail, and to participate!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have general questions about the election process, or questions for moderator candidates, feel free to ask them here on meta -- just make sure your questions are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/election&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;election&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;election&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2021-06-23T07:22:57.813" LastActivityDate="2021-06-23T07:22:57.813" Title="2021 Community Moderator Election" Tags="|discussion|election|moderators|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2021-06-23T07:23:25.050" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-06-07T20:00:02.000" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13381" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-06-07T22:24:09.860" Score="12" ViewCount="1309" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just stumbled upon this well-asked and received &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/249885/book-identification-only-remember-concept-of-book-art&quot;&gt;question about the series of novels of which &lt;em&gt;The Clan of the Cave Bear&lt;/em&gt; is the first book&lt;/a&gt;. While certainly &lt;em&gt;fictional&lt;/em&gt;, and predicated upon imaginative vision of prehistory, what makes this book and series on-topic for SFF:SE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contrast with Harrison's &lt;em&gt;West of Eden&lt;/em&gt; (an alternate history involving a sentient dinosaur-descended civilization), or the &lt;em&gt;Saga of the Pliocene Exile&lt;/em&gt; (a far future/far past science fantasy series).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the linked question have been voted closed as off-topic? Why or why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31393" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2023-09-23T16:56:36.263" LastActivityDate="2023-09-24T19:23:08.580" Title="Is The Clan of the Cave Bear (and related works) on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|specific-question|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13350" CreationDate="2021-06-07T22:40:19.747" Score="3" Body="&lt;h3&gt;If you're a moderator on another community (especially multiple others), how will you balance your time and the quality of moderation on the other site(s) as well as this?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastActivityDate="2021-06-07T22:40:19.747" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13381" CreationDate="2021-06-07T23:03:24.953" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a couple of questions here. We'll unpack them one at a time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should this &lt;em&gt;particular&lt;/em&gt; Story-ID question be closed?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to say no. The book series is certainly &lt;em&gt;arguably&lt;/em&gt; on-topic (see below) which to my mind is sufficient to keep the question alive. It's a well received question and I can't see that there would be any benefit to removing it at this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Should The Clan of the Cave Bear (and related works) be considered on-topic for future questions?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That would be a fairly firm 'no'.&lt;/strong&gt; The book series is largely a work of historical fiction although, as Auel herself notes in various interviews, that while the story could be &lt;em&gt;considered&lt;/em&gt; fantasy, or even science fiction, by its setting (note the total absence of any other fantastical elements), she would ideally prefer that it be categorised as a form of historical fiction which she coins '&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;prehistorical fiction&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;', although if offered the forced choice, she'd probably push toward science fiction rather than fantasy because her work is based on scientific research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, as mentioned in Buzz's answer, in the first couple of books there was some &lt;a href=&quot;https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EarlyInstallmentWeirdness&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;early-installment weirdness&lt;/a&gt; involving the flatheads possessing groupthink telepathy as well as an incident where the main character mentally time travels to the 20th century. Although these would certainly be classed as on-topic &lt;em&gt;incidents&lt;/em&gt;, they were retconned out of future books and never mentioned again. One or two very mild sci-fi elements  in a book series spanning more than 17,000 pages of text would, to my mind, fall under our existing policy (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/337/are-works-that-arent-sf-per-se-but-have-occasional-sfnal-elements-on-topic-e&quot;&gt;Are works that aren't SF per se, but have occasional SFnal elements on-topic?&lt;/a&gt;), in the sense that questions about those elements would be on-topic, but questions about the book series &lt;em&gt;in general&lt;/em&gt; wouldn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q9:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Do you see your work as Fantasy or something else?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A9:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Though my books are written from a historical perspective, &lt;strong&gt;I have gone so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around. I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores. I sometimes call them prehistoric fiction, but there is no category called &amp;quot;Prehistoric Fiction&amp;quot; in most stores.&lt;/strong&gt; I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy. Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, &lt;strong&gt;it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.&lt;/strong&gt; Science Fiction also involves logical speculation, and since I have had to speculate a great deal to create my prehistoric world and the characters that inhabit it, that's another reason I would end to put it in SF if I had to pick one. I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;https://www.donsmaps.com/auel.html&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, the pressers and blurbs for the films and TV shows spawned from her works are effusive in their praise of the precision of her research. This isn't an alternative world or a parallel universe, it's a fictionalised version of our world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(May 27, 2010—New York, NY) Jean M. Auel, whose novels about prehistoric life have won acclaim for their inspired storytelling, &lt;strong&gt;meticulous attention to detail, and historic accuracy,&lt;/strong&gt; has written the highly anticipated sixth and final book in the mega-bestselling Earth’s Children® series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://crownpublishing.com/archives/7157&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;PRESS RELEASE: THE LAND OF PAINTED CAVES BY JEAN M. AUEL TO BE PUBLISHED MARCH 29, 2011&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2023-09-24T19:23:08.580" LastActivityDate="2023-09-24T19:23:08.580" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13381" CreationDate="2021-06-08T00:28:30.410" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was initially unsure whether the Jean M. Auel's &lt;em&gt;Earth's Children&lt;/em&gt; novels would qualify as fantasy or alternate history when I answered the question.  It looks like there is currently only &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3018/what-is-the-origin-of-clear-as-a-primary-colour&quot;&gt;one question &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; the series&lt;/a&gt; on the main site, and the &lt;em&gt;Clan of the Cave Bear&lt;/em&gt; has only been suggested (incorrectly) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/14212/fantasy-story-about-neanderthals-having-moon-magic/14217#14217&quot;&gt;once before as answer&lt;/a&gt; to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; question.  The series is mostly a speculative historical narrative taking place in the upper paleolithic.  Some might feel that the fact that the heroine, Ayla, has a such a strong influence on the future history of humanity (inventing several important early technologies and playing a key role in horse domestication, for example) makes the series &lt;em&gt;alternate&lt;/em&gt; history, which we generally take to be on topic.  However, at the time depth involved I think this is pretty debatable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I do feel that the series is on topic for a Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; question.  The reason is that novels do contain a few fantastical elements.  Most importantly, the nonverbal Neanderthals of the the eponymous Clan have &lt;em&gt;telepathic abilities&lt;/em&gt;.  This plays a minor but significant role in the first books and is mentioned a number of other times later in the series, even after Ayla parts ways with the Neanderthals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I also just remembered that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://mitsfs.mit.edu/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;MIT Science Fiction Society&lt;/a&gt;, which tries to obtain copies of every English-language science fiction or fantasy novel published, eventually decided that, after the third or fourth book, that they were were not going to buy the later books in the &lt;em&gt;Earth's Children&lt;/em&gt;, having ruled that they were no longer part of the SF&amp;amp;F genre.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2021-06-08T00:28:30.410" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13349" CreationDate="2021-06-08T02:06:27.723" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very sad, I'm sure he will be remembered as a great writer with a unique style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141465" LastActivityDate="2021-06-08T02:06:27.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13386" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13387" CreationDate="2021-06-08T21:21:52.490" Score="-5" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that we've decided that &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/in-memoriam&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;in-memoriam&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;in-memoriam&lt;/a&gt; should be on meta, with zero &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/in-memoriam&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;in-memoriam&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;in-memoriam&lt;/a&gt; (links to main site) questions.  In one sense, I get it: it's arguably a question about other questions.  But it's not about the site.  I'll go over all of the points in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/whats-meta&quot;&gt;help center article&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange users to communicate with each other&lt;/strong&gt; about Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange (asking questions about how the websites work, or about policies and community decisions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not exactly, we're communicating with each other, but not about this website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange users to communicate with Stack Overflow the company&lt;/strong&gt; (posting bugs, suggesting improvements, or proposing new features)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Definitely not this for obvious reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stack Overflow the company to communicate with the community&lt;/strong&gt; (soliciting feedback on new ideas or features, or discussing policies that affect the whole network)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I admit it's not quite as on-topic on the main site, it seems more on-topic there then on meta, and definitely should be somewhere.  Why did we choose meta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141465" LastActivityDate="2021-06-08T21:32:46.487" Title="Why are [in-memoriam] questions on meta?" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2021-06-09T05:22:13.480" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13386" CreationDate="2021-06-08T21:32:46.487" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wasn't here when &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10444/should-meta-posts-regarding-the-deaths-of-figures-that-are-important-to-sffse-b&quot;&gt;this was debated&lt;/a&gt;, but the votes of the community are fairly clear that they are accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I agree they are a &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt; fit for meta than the main site and arguably they might squeeze under your first category if you read the parenthetical as examples and not an exhaustive list with no other topics permitted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastActivityDate="2021-06-08T21:32:46.487" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13389" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-06-14T02:03:51.393" Score="11" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ned Beatty has died, aged 83, after a very active forty-year career in movies and television.  Among his many memorable roles, he was known to superhero fans as Lex Luthor's bumbling sidekick Otis in &lt;em&gt;Superman&lt;/em&gt; (with a smaller role in &lt;em&gt;Superman II&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OZfX1.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OZfX1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Otis, Superman, and Lex Luthor&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A generation later, he provided the voice for the murderous Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear in &lt;em&gt;Toy Story 3&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GUbFD.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GUbFD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Beatty and his alter ego&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Outside the fantasy and science fiction genre, he is possibly best known for his roles in &lt;em&gt;Deliverance&lt;/em&gt; (his film debut) and his Oscar-nominated, single-scene performance in &lt;em&gt;Network&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/yuBe93FMiJc?start=20&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2021-06-14T02:03:51.393" Title="RIP, actor Ned Beatty" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13381" CreationDate="2021-06-15T08:40:20.290" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always felt that the implication that non-sapien hominids, such as Neanderthal, Erectus, etc..., had &lt;em&gt;genetic memory&lt;/em&gt; as opposed to modern humans who instead evolved greater cognitive skill to replace that, placed that novel squarely in the realm of science fiction, or atleast speculative fiction based on forensic anthropology. This was a crucial, perhaps the most crucial, element of the story. The study of pre-history is science, and at times a rather remarkable one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I laud Auel's effort at trying to be 'accurate', the fact is that there is a huge amount of inference based on scientific and historical research. No matter how you wish to fill in those blanks, there still many blanks to be filled in, and that's where writers like them come in, along with researchers and scientists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21882" LastEditorUserId="21882" LastEditDate="2021-06-15T18:18:48.697" LastActivityDate="2021-06-15T18:18:48.697" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2021-06-15T13:37:13.213" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jack be nimble,&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Jack be quick,&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Jack jump over&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The candlestick&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Too much Jack is a bad thing. That is why it is &lt;strong&gt;BEST&lt;/strong&gt; to take &lt;strong&gt;JACK&lt;/strong&gt; in &lt;strong&gt;MODERATION&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2021-06-15T13:37:13.213" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13392" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-06-15T21:14:04.293" Score="10" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been a long time lurker. May I say, for all of you answering questions, the amount of SciFi knowledge I have learnt I have a great appreciation for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you know what I appreciate more? How you handle identification questions. If I'm having trouble remembering a video game, I ask you guys. And I'm a very big video game buff. So it doesn't happen often.. but..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At Arqade (our sister site for video games), I can't ask an ID question based off memory. I have to provide a visual artifact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been there for ages. I'm not going to get in to why it's like that, but it really has to be because of past experience. I'm familiar with Stack Exchange, so I'm not troubled. I ask on here if I can't ID the game (assuming its SciFi).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that made me wonder. There has to be a better way for us to handle these sort of questions. There used to be a time when we would just click 'this belongs on another SE'. We could theoretically send these questions your way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But we would do it without thought. Without consideration that this question would be a good addition to your site. Or even actually on topic..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if there was a better way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if I could transfer these ID questions to you.. but only because I also had a 10K rep score on your site, meaning I had an understanding of what was on topic, meaning I was active over here to edit the question into a good question, and actually be willing to put work into getting it answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day, these are just people trying to remember something they were passionate about, across the scifi and video game genres.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm just toying with ideas to put something forward to meta, at the moment; but I want your feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How would you guys feel about the few members at Arqade who were also active members here on SciFi having the ability to migrate game ID questions when they are asking for help identifying Sci-Fi related games, and are able to provide enough detail to make a good quality question, sans the &amp;quot;physical artifact&amp;quot; that is required at arqade?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50447" LastEditorUserId="55866" LastEditDate="2021-06-25T14:11:16.723" LastActivityDate="2021-06-25T14:11:16.723" Title="Game Identification Questions" Tags="|discussion|migration|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13392" CreationDate="2021-06-15T22:55:27.363" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems to be largely addressed on your home site&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13528/228715&quot;&gt;My game identification question was closed as off-topic. Where can I ask for help instead?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In brief, yes, we at SFF:SE are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4776/are-all-questions-about-games-on-topic-as-long-as-they-contain-some-scifi-or-fan&quot;&gt;more than happy to accept video game identification questions&lt;/a&gt;, and have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bvideo-games%5D%20and%20%5Bstory-identification%5D&quot;&gt;done so for many years&lt;/a&gt; (with a pretty good rate of success, I might add).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than making sure that you're not &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/82941/please-dont-migrate-low-quality-questions-to-other-sites/82986#82986&quot;&gt;sending over crap&lt;/a&gt; (e.g. that it's about sci-fi or fantasy and has at least one semi-uniquely identifiable feature), please exercise your best judgement on what to flag for migration here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want a specific migration pathway, you'll need to ask your own meta+mods. I'm pretty sure ours wouldn't mind being on the receiving end, but given the relatively low volume of candidates, a custom flag (&amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;I think this would be a good candidate for SFF&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;) would almost certainly do just as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2021-06-16T06:52:05.153" LastActivityDate="2021-06-16T06:52:05.153" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13392" CreationDate="2021-06-16T08:33:06.903" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This doesn't sound like a bad idea. The migration system is sort of broken at the moment and needs a large overhaul which is mostly why it's not really used. There are few migration pathways open, none out of SFF, for example. That means it's down to either flagging a mod to move the question elsewhere or commenting and pointing a user to re-ask elsewhere. Personally, I'm of the opinion that the latter is the better option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, to talk about your suggested proposal. It's not a bad idea. One of the key problems with the migration system is that people don't know enough about the site they are migrating to and so end up sending something over that's off topic or even because they think it's a better fit elsewhere. That's part of what led me to posting this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12398/58193&quot;&gt;pair&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13298/128160&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; but for suggesting migrating &lt;em&gt;to&lt;/em&gt; Arqade. Your suggested proposal is better in that regard, though the rep threshold may need moving about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen some potential problems in it and it's down to how the migration system currently works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;User accounts: a user only has an account on a site where they have created one. That means if a question is migrated to a site where they don't have an account then they won't get notifications for things on the now migrated question (I believe). This means they could miss it being migrated and so never see answers posted. This is bad for the OP, obviously, but also somewhat annoying for us: we already have a problem with drive by users, don't want to make it worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Migrating &amp;quot;crap&amp;quot;: Whilst the usual rule of don't migrate crap stands I would like a system where something that's not inherently crap can be migrated and if closed &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; returned to its previous site. Currently, if I'm remembering correctly, if a migrated question is closed it is returned to where it came from. This obviously isn't ideal for both sites and the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As this would mean a rather large overhaul to the migration system at present I actually think a comment to the OP is a lot better as it gets around most of this stuff. Something like, cut down for some brevity:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, your question is off topic on Arqade as there is no visual artifact included. However, as the game you're looking for is science fictional/fantastical this is on topic over on [scifi.se]. Please ask it over there and you may also want to check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11995/58193&quot;&gt;their guide to asking a good ID question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is similar to what started me to lead the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13116/58193&quot;&gt;guidelines for &amp;quot;migration&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; effort where I went to other sites, including Arqade, and asked for any guidelines they wanted from us for us to &amp;quot;migrate&amp;quot; questions over to them. Although that effort wasn't as successful as I would have liked so might need some more work put into it in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a simple comment like the above for on topic game id questions as well as making sure the question has at least a decent amount of detail should suffice. Unless a large overhaul comes to the migration system this is going to be your best bet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2021-06-16T08:33:06.903" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13395" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-06-17T10:04:55.140" Score="13" ViewCount="347" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;September update:&lt;/strong&gt; Community Ads are now live network-wide. All ads with a score of 6 or higher, or with a score of 4 or higher &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; no downvotes will be displayed (except for any that have a note from the CM Team explaining why it wasn't selected). Go to &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/364556/208518&quot;&gt;the main post on MSE&lt;/a&gt; for a list of the ads that are being displayed. And stay tuned for 2022's edition for the next opportunity to submit more ad proposals!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AUGUST NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt; This post has now been locked and new submissions are not being accepted. Ad submissions are now undergoing review by the Community Team, and this question will be updated once the ads are live.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're almost halfway through 2021, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/364556/208518&quot;&gt;in case you missed it&lt;/a&gt;, Community Promotion Ads are gonna be a bit different this time! &lt;strong&gt;TL;DR: submit and vote for ad proposals before August 2nd!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are Community Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, or on other sites in the network. They can show up in the right sidebar, or in banners in question pages. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be considered by &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/99341/208518&quot;&gt;the Community Management Team&lt;/a&gt; to be displayed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we have Community Ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. The goal of this initiative is for future visitors to find out about &lt;em&gt;the stuff your community deems important&lt;/em&gt;. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are &lt;em&gt;relevant to your own community's interests&lt;/em&gt;, both for those already in the community and those yet to join. You may want to promote external resources, or Meta guidance for newcomers, for instance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This initiative has an added goal of providing your community with &lt;em&gt;an opportunity to showcase exemplary questions from your main site, as well as frequently-linked-to guides from your Meta site&lt;/em&gt;. While the latter makes sense to be shown solely on this site, the former can be shown all across the network. These should avoid hot button topics, and instead focus more on evergreen questions that show what your community’s all about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why do we reset the ads?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. Historically, we've reset the ads every year — since this is the first run of a new format, we'll run the ads collected in this post through the end of 2021 and reassess the rotation cycle then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a previous exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Are there restrictions to the ads I can post?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All proposed ads need to abide by &lt;a href=&quot;/conduct&quot;&gt;our Code of Conduct&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/advertising/guidelines&quot;&gt;Our ad creative guidelines&lt;/a&gt; also generally apply (note that the first 2 bullet points on the “Tracking” section do not apply, and a lot of the guidelines surrounding claims, comparisons, proof, etc., while still applicable, may not be particularly relevant). Finally, ads can not be promoting products nor soliciting programmer time or resources for: knowledge sharing or collaboration tools for technologists, or for sites where ad buyers are primarily targeting technologists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How does it work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers you post to this question &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Each answer must relate to a single ad submission.&lt;/strong&gt; Please do not post multiple ad submissions in the same answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All answers must be in one of the below formats:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you have an image for the ad you want to display on this site (must be the case for ads to external sources):&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Image name. Example: &amp;quot;community_ad_name_300x250&amp;quot;][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;  [1]: https://image-url&#xA;  [2]: https://clickthrough-url&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you want to create an ad for a question from your main or meta site, to be advertised on this or other sites in the network (staff will generate a frame for the ad with this site's theme, for brand consistency):&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Question title  &#xA;Question URL&#xA;Ad size (right sidebar or banner ads)&#xA;Site(s) to be displayed in. Can be:&#xA;  - &amp;quot;self&amp;quot; for ads to be displayed on this site&#xA;  - &amp;quot;all&amp;quot; for ads to be displayed all over the network&#xA;  - a specific subset of sites&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be 300 x 250 pixels for right sidebar ads or 728 x 90 pixels for banner ads. Images can be double that if high DPI.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF, PNG, or JPG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the background of the image is white or partially white, there must be a 1px border (2px if high DPI) surrounding it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Selection process&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This post will remain open for ad submissions and voting until August 2nd&lt;/strong&gt;. At that point, the question will be closed/locked, and no more ad submissions will be accepted. For ad submissions to be considered for selection by the Community Management Team, they must have &lt;strong&gt;a minimum score of 6 at the time the post was closed/locked for submissions.&lt;/strong&gt; Given this is the first run with this new format, we may adjust the score threshold to be a bit lower if we see ads struggling to get to it (especially if the ads are not getting downvotes) by the time submissions and voting are closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Reporting statistics&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once this cycle is over, at the end of 2021, the Community Management Team will provide you with reporting statistics, as described in the &amp;quot;reporting&amp;quot; section of &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/364556/208518&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to use the question's comment section to ask for any clarifications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6365" LastEditorUserId="6365" LastEditDate="2021-09-09T11:30:52.347" LastActivityDate="2021-09-09T11:30:52.347" Title="Community Ads for 2021" Tags="|discussion|community-ads|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13395" CreationDate="2021-06-17T10:10:50.587" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Need help asking a story identification question?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9335/how-to-ask-a-good-story-id-question?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;How to ask a good story-ID question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;right sidebar&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;self&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2021-06-17T10:10:50.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13395" CreationDate="2021-06-17T11:33:54.603" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EZFka.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;SFF Blog&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="6365" LastEditDate="2021-08-12T11:15:51.587" LastActivityDate="2021-08-12T11:15:51.587" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13395" CreationDate="2021-06-17T11:54:43.833" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4EBsq.png&quot; alt=&quot;Literature Stack Exchange&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="6365" LastEditDate="2021-08-12T11:16:13.467" LastActivityDate="2021-08-12T11:16:13.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13395" CreationDate="2021-06-17T11:57:15.450" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/40lIQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Movies &amp;amp; TV Stack Exchange&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="6365" LastEditDate="2021-08-12T11:16:34.177" LastActivityDate="2021-08-12T11:16:34.177" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13400" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-06-17T12:47:41.227" Score="10" ViewCount="213" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13395/31394&quot;&gt;new Community Ads system&lt;/a&gt; for 2021, we now have the ability to choose &lt;strong&gt;specific questions on SFF.SE&lt;/strong&gt; (no need to make custom images for them) and get them promoted in the sidebar or topbar of other SE sites. Obviously this is a nice opportunity to get some of our best content out there for more eyeballs, but we need to get a good list of stuff to promote. This is hard to coordinate via the above-linked meta posts, since answers there are required to be in a specific format with one proposal per answer, and it was getting messy to discuss via chat. So here's a new meta post specifically to &lt;strong&gt;gather nice SFF questions to promote on other sites.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Near neighbour sites with scope overlap (here we should try to choose SFF questions to promote so that they can't say &amp;quot;eh, that question could be asked on our site, why point to another site for it?&amp;quot;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Movies &amp;amp; TV&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Literature&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Arqade/Gaming&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anime &amp;amp; Manga&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Role-Playing Games&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other sites that might be interested in specific parts of our content:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Artificial Intelligence&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Robotics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Space Exploration&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Arts &amp;amp; Crafts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Worldbuilding&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Astronomy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably many others, these are just a few examples to bear in mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm making this post community wiki, so that it can have just one answer which can also be community wiki, and everyone can edit freely. Let's divide the answer into sections by site, and then in each section we can list/edit/add/remove some questions until we find a nice candidate to promote on one specific SE site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2021-07-06T10:11:32.547" Title="Let's pick some nice SFF questions to promote on other sites" Tags="|discussion|advertising|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-06-17T12:47:48.287" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13400" CreationDate="2021-06-17T13:02:23.340" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Artificial Intelligence&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestions include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/216910/31394&quot;&gt;What was the earliest appearance in SF of a likeable AI character?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/236520/31394&quot;&gt;What is the earliest sci-fi story about humour and AI?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/169699/31394&quot;&gt;Which Sci-Fi work first showed hostile Artificial Intelligence?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Chess&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestions include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/189799/why-does-the-party-allow-playing-chess-in-orwells-1984&quot;&gt;Why does the Party allow playing chess in Orwell&amp;#39;s 1984?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/239682/31394&quot;&gt;How did Kirk regularly beat Spock in 4-Dimensional chess?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Puzzling&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestions include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/81152/who-wrote-tolkiens-riddles&quot;&gt;Who wrote Tolkien&amp;#39;s riddles?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/189246/31394&quot;&gt;What series of hard SF novels is this riddle describing?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posted suggestions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13431/58193&quot;&gt;What was the earliest example of a riddle or puzzle being used as a security system?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Movies &amp;amp; TV&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestions include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Literature&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestions include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Arqade/Gaming&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestions include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/97572/what-happened-to-the-dwemer&quot;&gt;What Happened to the Dwemer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/54795/why-do-thieves-wear-unique-and-highly-recognizable-thieves-guild-armor&quot;&gt;Why do thieves wear unique and highly recognizable Thieves Guild armor?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/161820/is-magic-leaving-tamriel&quot;&gt;Is magic leaving Tamriel?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32284/why-is-the-culture-in-fallout-stuck-in-the-1950s&quot;&gt;Why is the culture in Fallout stuck in the 1950s?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/153206/are-deathclaws-based-on-the-rancor&quot;&gt;Are Deathclaws based on the Rancor?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35891/were-the-assassins-from-the-assassins-creed-series-actual-historical-figures&quot;&gt;Were the Assassins from the Assassin&amp;#39;s Creed series actual historical figures?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/58964/how-exactly-does-the-animus-work&quot;&gt;How exactly does the Animus work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/39494/if-haytham-was-a-templar-then-why-the-marking-of-the-creed-on-his-hand-armor&quot;&gt;If Haytham was a Templar, then why does he have the marking of the Creed on his hand armor?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/47259/how-could-the-luteces-plan-ever-possibly-succeed&quot;&gt;How could the Lutece&amp;#39;s plan ever possibly succeed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/106696/what-did-geralt-of-rivia-ask-for-his-third-wish&quot;&gt;What did Geralt of Rivia ask for his third wish?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/226138/what-is-the-valley-of-plenty-referenced-in-toss-a-coin-to-your-witcher&quot;&gt;What is the &amp;quot;Valley of Plenty&amp;quot; referenced in &amp;quot;Toss a Coin to Your Witcher&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/153081/whats-wrong-with-this-cat-from-witcher-3-wild-hunt&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s wrong with this cat from Witcher 3: Wild Hunt?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/120315/why-cant-player-characters-in-resident-evil-become-infected-with-the-t-virus&quot;&gt;Why can&amp;#39;t player characters in Resident Evil become infected with the T-Virus?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/50407/what-happened-to-all-the-other-alice-clones&quot;&gt;What happened to all the other Alice clones?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Anime &amp;amp; Manga&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestions include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Role-Playing Games&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestions include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Robotics&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestions include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/587/what-was-asimovs-contribution-to-real-world-robotics&quot;&gt;What was Asimov&amp;#39;s contribution to real-world robotics?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/39102/how-does-starfleet-describe-its-laws-of-robotics&quot;&gt;How does Starfleet describe its laws of robotics?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Space Exploration&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestions include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/181761/first-story-to-describe-humans-colonizing-another-planet&quot;&gt;First story to describe humans colonizing another planet?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/122819/what-was-the-first-work-set-in-space-that-featured-multiple-civilizations-but-no&quot;&gt;What was the first work set in space that featured multiple civilizations but no aliens?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/37251/first-story-that-takes-place-outside-the-milky-way&quot;&gt;First story that takes place outside the Milky Way&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posted suggestions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13424/58193&quot;&gt;What was the first Sci-Fi work to feature a spaceship?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Arts &amp;amp; Crafts&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestions include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Worldbuilding&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestions include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22702/what-is-the-shape-of-the-world-of-westeros-and-do-the-westerosi-know&quot;&gt;What is the shape of the world of Westeros and do the Westerosi know?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/63411/what-is-the-geometry-of-the-universe-in-the-wall-of-darkness-by-arthur-c-clark&quot;&gt;What is the geometry of the universe in &amp;quot;The Wall of Darkness&amp;quot; by Arthur C Clarke?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posted suggestions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13423/58193&quot;&gt;How would one navigate on Larry Niven's &amp;quot;Ringworld&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Astronomy&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestions include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/43775/what-was-the-first-scifi-work-that-referred-to-pluto-as-not-a-planet&quot;&gt;What was the first SciFi work that referred to Pluto as NOT a planet?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/215475/earliest-example-of-double-planets-in-science-fiction&quot;&gt;Earliest example of double planets in science fiction?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/100086/earth-green-planet-or-blue-planet&quot;&gt;Earth: Green Planet or Blue Planet?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;SFF&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta suggestions include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5187/should-questions-about-future-works-be-closed-as-primarily-opinion-based&quot;&gt;Should questions about future works be closed as Primarily Opinion Based?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2638/are-all-list-questions-off-topic&quot;&gt;Are *all* list questions off-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7364/what-is-our-actual-policy-on-science-questions&quot;&gt;What is our actual policy on science questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/968/what-is-the-policy-for-spoilers&quot;&gt;What is the policy for spoilers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/452/where-can-i-ask-questions-that-arent-science-fiction-fantasy-stack-exchange-q&quot;&gt;Where can I ask questions that aren&amp;#39;t Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12998/how-about-revisiting-our-policy-about-is-there-any-questions-being-ok&quot;&gt;How about revisiting our policy about &amp;quot;is there any&amp;quot; questions being OK?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unanswered popular questions suggestions include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/27694/looking-for-science-fiction-assassination-story-with-mysterious-girl&quot;&gt;Looking for science fiction assassination story with mysterious girl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/192165/spambot-becomes-self-aware-but-every-attempt-to-contact-gets-filtered&quot;&gt;Spambot becomes self aware but every attempt to contact gets filtered&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/37365/story-about-enemies-in-a-space-battle-sharing-their-last-moments-over-com-as-the&quot;&gt;Story about enemies in a space battle sharing their last moments over com as their ships die&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posted suggestions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13433/58193&quot;&gt;Married couple pretend to like each other due to crystal sculpture&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2021-07-06T10:11:32.547" LastActivityDate="2021-07-06T10:11:32.547" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-06-17T13:02:23.340" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13402" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13403" CreationDate="2021-06-17T13:14:48.343" Score="8" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;The deleted answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/250258/revisions&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; reads like a copyright infringement notice, although I'm confused as to what could be considered infringing. I did not try following the link... was it detected malicious?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2021-06-17T13:25:15.123" Title="Was this copyright claim determined to be bogus?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13402" CreationDate="2021-06-17T13:24:45.647" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's been a whole load of these &amp;quot;answers&amp;quot; posted in recent months. Some links (answers deleted, only visible to 10k+ rep users, I can't be bothered to post screenshots as the content is pretty much the same every time):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/250303/31394&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/250303/31394&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/250258/31394&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/250258/31394&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/247564/31394&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/247564/31394&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/247430/31394&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/247430/31394&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/246884/31394&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/246884/31394&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/246359/31394&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/246359/31394&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially that last one isn't even trying to look genuine: three separate answers under three different names, posted to a Q&amp;amp;A that doesn't even contain an image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, bogus. And even if it wasn't, it's not something that we (users &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; moderators) can handle; copyright violations are a matter for SE the company to deal with. That's why Null has been leaving comments on these posts with the link to contact SE - just in case any legitimate complaint comes through, they get redirected to the right place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2021-06-17T13:24:45.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13402" CreationDate="2021-06-17T13:25:15.123" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes these are spam posts. They've been showing up for at least a month. The format is always the same but the username (usually a &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; name) and link are different each time. Note that someone clicked the link (unfortunately) on one of the early ones and left the below comment which does confirm it pretty much:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, the answer box is not the place for this sort of thing. Secondly, what images are you alleging are being infringed? I see no images on this page that would belong to you, and the linked document is coming up blank for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A discussion in chat about these posts between myself, DavidW and Mithical also led to DavidW posting this main meta poposal: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/363781/345161&quot;&gt;Temporarily block (disable) links in spam-flagged posts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see these posts in the wild, please spam flag them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2021-06-17T13:25:15.123" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13405" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-06-18T18:25:46.940" Score="3" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question was closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/250192/are-androids-sentient-in-the-alien-franchise&quot;&gt;Are Androids sentient in the &amp;quot;Alien&amp;quot; franchise?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've responded by adding some additional detail (in this case a better&#xA;definition of required definition of what I mean) Now what happens?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One reviewer complained that the question is pointless because, according to their point of view, the answer was &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;incontrovertibly Yes. All the androids are sentient as presented on film.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; but they didn't provide their  definition of sentience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why should one person's view be enough to block a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134461" OwnerDisplayName="jim" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2021-06-18T18:57:40.127" LastActivityDate="2021-06-18T19:23:28.613" Title="Why was my question about the sentience of androids in &quot;Alien&quot; closed?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13405" CreationDate="2021-06-18T19:08:08.910" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why was it closed in the first place?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this instance, your question was originally closed as &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;needing details or clarity&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; because it was unclear what you were asking. People have been debating the meaning of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJF-IRbTh0Q&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;sentience&lt;/a&gt; for centuries and asking us to unpick it is problematic at best, especially when it's ill-defined and related to androids that are clearly artificially intelligent (and sufficiently so to pass as human).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What happens now?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since its original closure you've made an edit that improves the &lt;em&gt;clarity&lt;/em&gt;, but in doing so you've pushed it into a different close reason ('&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/closed-questions#:%7E:text=Opinion-based%20-%20discussions%20focused%20on%20diverse%20opinions%20are%20great%2C%20but%20they%20just%20don%27t%20fit%20our%20format%20well.&quot;&gt;opinion-based&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;'), in that you're no longer asking for objective answers but rather wanting people to post their opinions about your theory. Unfortunately that means that it's still arguably off-topic, so even if it was reopened, it would just get closed straight away again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, you're asking a whole bunch of different sub-questions (about the various androids) that makes it very difficult to envision what a good answer would look like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why should one person's view be enough to block a question?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not. Five users voted, one after another, to close your original question and at least two of them (Lexible and myself) are in lockstep agreement about why. Presumably the other three had similar misgivings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After it was edited, a further three  users (only one of whom originally voted to close) voted to leave it closed in the re-open queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2021-06-18T19:23:28.613" LastActivityDate="2021-06-18T19:23:28.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2021-06-21T21:33:21.220" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was trying to think of a random name for use on the SE network, and I decided to pick a fairly common name (on stackoverflow) - a type of variable that has only two values (a &lt;em&gt;Boolean&lt;/em&gt; value.) Of course, when it comes to the sci-fi SE, I'm unique (as I'm the only one on this branch of SE!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90310" LastActivityDate="2021-06-21T21:33:21.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13410" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-06-22T20:08:16.867" Score="35" ViewCount="416" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election/5&quot;&gt;Moderator election #5&lt;/a&gt; on Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/58193&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/flair/58193.png&quot; alt=&quot;TheLethalCarrot&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They will be joining &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;the existing crew&lt;/a&gt; shortly — please thank them for volunteering and share your assistance and advice with them as they learn the ropes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For details on how the voting played out, you can download the election results &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/election/5&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.opavote.com/results/4811493372592128&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;view a summary report online&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41668" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2021-07-24T09:52:01.063" LastActivityDate="2021-07-24T09:52:01.063" Title="2021 Community Moderator Election Results" Tags="|discussion|election|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13410" CreationDate="2021-06-22T20:11:53.650" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Congratulations!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me be first to say I fully support our new moderator and wish him the best in his new role on the site. I know he will be a wonderful addition to the team!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you to all those that voted for me and maybe I can have better luck in the  future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2021-06-22T20:11:53.650" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13410" CreationDate="2021-06-22T20:16:57.647" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations! I think that no one has done more with the user moderation system than TheLethalCarrot, so this is a well-deserved position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wish them luck, and I know they will continue to contribute to the site, and will be able to take their contributions to the next level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastActivityDate="2021-06-22T20:16:57.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13410" CreationDate="2021-06-22T20:26:53.253" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Congratulations TLC!&lt;/strong&gt; Welcome to the madhouse ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Commiserations to all the other nominees. It was a &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; strong field, and very difficult to choose a &amp;quot;best&amp;quot; candidate. I'm not surprised at the result, but we had so many excellent people in this election. Thanks to all of you for everything you have done and continue to do for the site, and (maybe) better luck next time!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As well as having an extra pair of hands to handle flags, I think the number of flags we get per time-period will now decrease quite a bit ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2021-06-22T20:26:53.253" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13410" CreationDate="2021-06-22T20:45:41.523" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks to everyone who voted for me and also for the congratulatory messages. Also well done to the other candidates, it was a good field and the tightness of the main group showed that!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I look forward to the job and hopefully I’m up to the task of handling the void of flags I’ve left behind. For now though it’s party time according to Stella:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/V6kzF.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/V6kzFm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Stella in a party hat surrounded by balloons&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2021-06-22T20:45:41.523" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13410" CreationDate="2021-06-23T02:03:28.817" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've been an excellent contributor and I was surprised that you weren't a moderator.  When I saw that there was an election, I voted for you.  Congratulations and welcome to the moderation team!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141465" LastActivityDate="2021-06-23T02:03:28.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13410" CreationDate="2021-06-23T09:57:40.620" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Congratulations TLC!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm confident you'll do an excellent job, seeing the quality of your contributions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To those who encouraged me to run, and those who voted for me, thank you for the confidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2021-06-23T09:57:40.620" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13418" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13419" CreationDate="2021-06-23T21:45:08.530" Score="8" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the 1995 film &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Apollo 13&lt;/a&gt; on-topic? The primary plot of the film (the crew of a crippled spaceship struggle to survive and stay on course after a disaster) fits a classic SFF mold, but it is not fiction - rather it is pretty much a straight retelling of an actual space mission/disaster with only light dramatic license taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, questions about the historical facts of the real Apollo 13 mission belong on either History Stack Exchange or Space Exploration Stack Exchange, but I can think of two classes of questions I could see asking about this film right here on SFF Stack Exchange:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about the dramatic license taken in the film, such as whether the ship control panels displayed in the film have the same sets of buttons, knobs, and blinkenlights that the real panels did.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Behind-the-scenes questions about the film, such as how the zero-gravity scenes were filmed or whether any of the actors received training from NASA on space mission operations.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are any of these kinds of questions appropriate here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70477" LastActivityDate="2021-06-23T22:12:21.133" Title="Is the film Apollo 13 (1995) on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13418" CreationDate="2021-06-23T22:03:13.197" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, because the film is a retelling of quite real events.  (The only fictional element in the script is a argument among the astronauts over who was responsible for the accident; everything else actually happened—although not necessarily as dramatically as in the movie.)  It is therefore off topic, since there are no science fictional (or fantastic) elements, only actual science.  Asking how a realistic film differs from the actual events that inspired the film is not on topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, if there were a question just about the special space effects in &lt;em&gt;Apollo 13&lt;/em&gt;, that would still not be topical on its own.  However, if there was a question about, say, how zero-gravity effects have been created in Hollywood films and how the use of the effects have developed over time, that could be a bit different.  If we are talking about this kind of special effect—something that is primarily used in science fiction contexts—I think it should be reasonable to include more realistic space films that used the same effect in their scope.  That is, in a question about the evolution of zero-gravity effects through &lt;em&gt;2001:  A Space Odyssey&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Mission to Mars&lt;/em&gt;, etc., it would seem pointless to exclude consideration of &lt;em&gt;Apollo 13&lt;/em&gt; (which may have represented an important technical advance in how the space scenes were filmed) solely because that particular example was not actually part of the science fiction genre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastEditorUserId="48874" LastEditDate="2021-06-23T22:12:21.133" LastActivityDate="2021-06-23T22:12:21.133" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13410" CreationDate="2021-06-23T22:36:12.507" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Time for some &lt;s&gt;Tender Loving Care&lt;/s&gt; The Lethal Carrot!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Congrats my man! We know we're in good hands :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastActivityDate="2021-06-23T22:36:12.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13421" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13422" CreationDate="2021-06-26T07:29:29.573" Score="5" ViewCount="517" Body="&lt;p&gt;This post is for the seventh of SFF.SE's new series of &lt;strong&gt;topic challenges&lt;/strong&gt;, encouraging the site's community to take part together in asking and answering questions on a particular topic each month. According to community votes on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;topic challenge proposals thread&lt;/a&gt;, the July 2021 topic challenge is going to be devoted to an ongoing &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Grant_(book_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;urban fantasy series starting from 2011&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rivers of London&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rivers-of-london&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rivers-of-london&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rivers-of-london&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's a topic challenge and how do I take part?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13211/31394&quot;&gt;Announcing a Topic Challenge program for SFF.SE&lt;/a&gt;, and also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/240634/278659&quot;&gt;this main meta post&lt;/a&gt;. In short, during July 2021 we should all try to: either read &lt;em&gt;Rivers of London&lt;/em&gt; (or not, if you've already read it) and ask interesting questions about it, or help out by &lt;em&gt;answering&lt;/em&gt; other people's questions about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Participation is not obligatory in any sense, but those who participate will be forever remembered in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13422/31394&quot;&gt;annals of our history&lt;/a&gt;. We'll keep a list of all &lt;em&gt;Rivers of London&lt;/em&gt; questions asked during July 2021 in an answer to this meta post. At the end of the month, I'll collate some data like highest-scoring question, most-viewed question, highest-scoring answer, etc. There won't be any real-world rewards like in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1138/31394&quot;&gt;the old days&lt;/a&gt; when Stack Exchange was smaller and more generous, but I'll be awarding at least one bounty after the end of the month (assuming there's at least one good answer posted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's next?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Future topic challenges will be chosen by community votes, so come over and propose or vote on suggestions at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;Propose future topics for SFF topic challenges!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The &lt;em&gt;Rivers of London&lt;/em&gt; answer will be deleted from that thread at the start of July, since already chosen topics shouldn't stick at the top of the thread and distract people from those still to be voted on.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="40437" LastEditDate="2021-06-28T08:58:31.577" LastActivityDate="2021-08-01T11:32:27.373" Title="July 2021 Topic Challenge: Rivers of London" Tags="|discussion|topic-challenge|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13421" CreationDate="2021-06-26T07:30:41.300" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;List of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Brivers-of-london%5D+created%3A2021-07+is%3Aq&quot;&gt;all questions posted&lt;/a&gt; as part of this topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/251055/31394&quot;&gt;How do all the short stories and graphic novels fit into the Rivers of London Timeline&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/40437/jontia&quot;&gt;Jontia&lt;/a&gt;, 04/07/2021.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/251124/58193&quot;&gt;How big is the magical community in Rivers of London&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/40437/jontia&quot;&gt;Jontia&lt;/a&gt;, 06/07/2021.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/252009/31394&quot;&gt;Why was the title of Rivers of London changed to Midnight Riot?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394&quot;&gt;Rand al'Thor&lt;/a&gt;, 28/07/2021.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/252116/&quot;&gt;Could this be why Lesley did it?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/63330&quot;&gt;Spencer&lt;/a&gt;, 31/07/2021.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/252117/&quot;&gt;Is there a particular building on the real Russell Square that we can identify as the Folly?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/63330&quot;&gt;Spencer&lt;/a&gt;, 31/07/2021.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;add entries in the form &lt;code&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/&amp;lt;question-ID&amp;gt; by [username](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/&amp;lt;user-ID&amp;gt;), dd/07/2021.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;highest-voted&lt;/strong&gt; of these, at the exact end of July in UTC, was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/252009/why-was-the-title-of-rivers-of-london-changed-to-midnight-riot&quot;&gt;Why was the title of Rivers of London changed to Midnight Riot?&lt;/a&gt; with a score of &lt;strong&gt;7&lt;/strong&gt;, but it was rapidly overtaken (while it's still July somewhere in the world) by a late winner, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/252117/&quot;&gt;Is there a particular building on the real Russell Square that we can identify as the Folly?&lt;/a&gt;, with a score of &lt;strong&gt;9&lt;/strong&gt; at the time of writing (around noon UTC on 1 August).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;most viewed&lt;/strong&gt; is hard to determine: at the time of writing it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/252116/31394&quot;&gt;Could this be why Lesley did it?&lt;/a&gt; with over &lt;strong&gt;200&lt;/strong&gt; views, but this question went HNQ after the end of UTC July, so at that moment the most viewed might have been &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/252009/&quot;&gt;Why was the title of Rivers of London changed to Midnight Riot?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/251124/&quot;&gt;How big is the magical community in Rivers of London&lt;/a&gt; might have been the winners at that moment, both with around &lt;strong&gt;110&lt;/strong&gt; views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2021-08-01T11:32:27.373" LastActivityDate="2021-08-01T11:32:27.373" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-06-26T07:30:41.300" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13395" CreationDate="2021-06-26T11:54:34.463" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Need some inspiration from already built worlds?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/50194/how-would-one-navigate-on-larry-nivens-ringworld&quot;&gt;How would one navigate on Larry Niven&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;Ringworld&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;right sidebar&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Worldbuilding&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2021-06-26T11:54:34.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13395" CreationDate="2021-06-26T12:11:21.547" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;When was the first spaceship in sci-fi?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/93537/what-was-the-first-sci-fi-work-to-feature-a-spaceship&quot;&gt;What was the first Sci-Fi work to feature a spaceship?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;right sidebar&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://space.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Space Exploration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2021-06-26T12:11:21.547" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13395" CreationDate="2021-06-30T22:04:32.430" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;A list of bounties with no deadlines&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12517/list-of-bounties-with-no-deadlines&quot;&gt;List of bounties with no deadlines&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;right sidebar&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;self&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2021-06-30T23:11:16.657" LastActivityDate="2021-06-30T23:11:16.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13426" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-07-01T10:40:10.170" Score="6" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's say there are two duplicate questions. Each are equally broad, and each have a decent number of good answers. (Meta consensus &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4744/should-we-always-close-the-newer-question-as-the-duplicate&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; says to keep the broader question, and failing that, the one with the better answers.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However one question here has a very good accepted answer, and on the other question the OP accepted an incorrect answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should the incorrect accepted answer be a factor when determining which question to keep open?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55866" LastActivityDate="2021-07-01T23:50:28.467" Title="Should the correctness/quality of the accepted answer be a factor in choosing which of two duplicate questions to close?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|duplicate-questions|incorrect-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13427" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-07-01T10:49:36.950" Score="7" ViewCount="262" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently learnt that there is a special &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.dccomics.com/comics/green-arrow-80th-anniversary-100-page-super-spectacular-2021/green-arrow-80th-anniversary-100&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;100-page, 80th anniversary edition&lt;/a&gt; of the Green Arrow comic!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In celebration I'm going to put a 500 rep bounty on the &lt;strong&gt;highest-scoring question&lt;/strong&gt; (to be given via an unrelated but still good answer or held until such an answer exists) and &lt;strong&gt;highest-scoring answer&lt;/strong&gt;, as well as a &lt;strong&gt;wild card question/answer of my choosing&lt;/strong&gt; on questions tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/green-arrow&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;green-arrow&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;green-arrow&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt; and NOT &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arrow&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;arrow&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;arrow&lt;/a&gt; (the TV-Series) NOR &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/arrowverse&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;arrowverse&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;arrowverse&lt;/a&gt; (that TV-Series' universe) that was posted from today, up until &lt;strike&gt;2 weeks&lt;/strike&gt; 4 weeks from now (so ending 29th July 2021 midnight UTC). Full search for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bgreen-arrow%5D+%5Bcomics%5D+-%5Barrowverse%5D+-%5Barrow%5D+created%3A2021-07-01..2021-07-29+is%3Aq&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt;, and for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bgreen-arrow%5D+%5Bcomics%5D+-%5Barrowverse%5D+-%5Barrow%5D+created%3A2021-07-01..2021-07-29+is%3Aa&quot;&gt;answers&lt;/a&gt; for clarity (this does mean new answers on old questions are valid).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question/answer does not need to be about the the special, but it will factor into my wild card choice!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to post suggestions to the wild card as answers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Offer not affiliated with SE, SO, SFF, SA, SI, or SU or the mods thereof. Non-refundable, no monetary value on exchange. Do not tumbledry, not suitable for children under 13, GMO free and non-animal tested. Does not extend to any other comics, of either the book or stand-up variety.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2021-07-30T18:08:01.770" LastActivityDate="2021-07-30T18:08:01.770" Title="Green Arrow 80th Anniversary 4-week challenge!" Tags="|discussion|topic-challenge|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13427" CreationDate="2021-07-01T10:49:36.950" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;List of all questions posted as part of this topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/251028/58193&quot;&gt;Has the Green Arrow gone on a different planet?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/96769/codeczar&quot;&gt;codeczar&lt;/a&gt;, 03/07/2021&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;add entries in the form &lt;code&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/&amp;lt;question-ID&amp;gt; by [username](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/&amp;lt;user-ID&amp;gt;), dd/07/2021.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;highest-voted&lt;/strong&gt; of these is &lt;em&gt;[question URL]&lt;/em&gt;, with a score of &lt;em&gt;TBD&lt;/em&gt; at the end of the challenge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;most viewed&lt;/strong&gt; is &lt;em&gt;[question URL]&lt;/em&gt;, with approximately &lt;em&gt;TBD&lt;/em&gt; views during the challenge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2021-07-12T14:57:56.080" LastActivityDate="2021-07-12T14:57:56.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12517" CreationDate="2021-07-01T11:39:38.553" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am offering a 250 rep bounty for anyone who finds a JK Rowling quote for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/246417/is-there-an-official-way-to-refer-to-communicating-by-putting-your-head-in-the-f&quot;&gt;Is there an official way to refer to communicating by putting your head in the fire?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am offering a 300 rep bounty to anyone who can find this fake Harry Potter 7 ebook that was going around the internets in 2007.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/251828/where-can-i-find-this-fake-seventh-harry-potter-book&quot;&gt;Where can I find this fake seventh Harry Potter book?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;I am offering a 250 rep bounty for anyone who can find a source of this image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/250043/what-is-the-source-of-this-lighting-bolt-shaped-wand-movement-for-avada-kedavra&quot;&gt;What is the source of this lighting bolt shaped wand movement for Avada Kedavra?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answered and bountied&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;I am offering a 300 rep bounty for a successful retrieval of this JKR content&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/193704/what-was-the-original-version-of-this-faq-answer-on-jk-rowlings-website&quot;&gt;What was the original version of this FAQ answer on JK Rowling&amp;#39;s website?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answered and bountied.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;I am offering a 300 rep bounty for a successful retrieval of this JKR content&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/229836/what-was-the-original-version-of-this-post-on-jk-rowlings-website&quot;&gt;What was the original version of this post on JK Rowling&amp;#39;s website?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bounty has been given to someone who reasonably proved that there was no additional content.&lt;/strong&gt; (But I'll offer a 500 rep bounty if you still find it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55866" LastEditorUserId="55866" LastEditDate="2021-07-23T06:52:21.653" LastActivityDate="2021-07-23T06:52:21.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13426" CreationDate="2021-07-01T23:50:28.467" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer feature comes from Stack Overflow, where it serves a useful purpose. By accepting an answer, the questioner confirms that the answer solved the original problem. This makes sense when the questioner has a programming problem - if implementing the answer allowed the program to work properly then it objectively worked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A site like Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy, though, is very different in this regard. The questions are theoretical, and the answers can not be fed into a computer program to test their efficacy. As such (with the exception of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;) it is a useless, even negative, feature. The person asking the question is in no better position than anyone else to judge the correctness of the answer; on the contrary, the questioner is often in a &lt;em&gt;worse&lt;/em&gt; position, since questions are often asked when someone has a lack of knowledge about the topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Across the Stack Exchange network, the accepted answer is displayed before all other answers (unless it is a self-answer). &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/312597/allow-sites-to-opt-out-of-pinning-accepted-answers-to-the-top&quot;&gt;A question&lt;/a&gt; on the network-wide Meta site three years ago asked if this could be changed per site. There has been no response so far, and it does not seem that this feature will change anytime soon. That leaves us with the possibility that the questioner can accept a bad or wrong answer and cause it to appear before better, correct answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this problem is not engendered by the duplicate process. This is a potential problem on any question, and has to be dealt with accordingly. If an accepted answer is incorrect you should downvote it, post a comment explaining why it is wrong and post a better answer. Beyond that there is not much you can do. Users who visit the page will continue to see the wrong answer first (and perhaps only, if they don't continue scrolling down the page). Hopefully, readers can figure out that an accepted answer does not become better than a higher voted answer, because an individual user awarded it a checkmark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it relates to duplicates, then, an answer's status as accepted should be ignored. Whatever criteria are used to determine the direction of closure should continue to be used regardless of which answers are accepted or not. The acceptance of an answer carries no weight or meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, to whatever extent feasible, it is not the job (or privilege) of close-voters to determine an answer's correctness. When users reach 3,000 reputation and gain the ability to vote to close questions, or earn a Gold Tag Badge and gain the ability to single-handedly close questions, their upvotes and downvotes are still only worth 1 apiece. Those privileges do not necessarily mean that those wielding them have more expertise in any particular question. If the argument falls back to relying on objective post score (to eliminate close-voter subjectivity), we return to the fact that the Stack Exchange network recognizes the right of the individual questioner to supersede that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastActivityDate="2021-07-01T23:50:28.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13395" CreationDate="2021-07-02T15:52:16.160" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oldest puzzle used in sci-fi and fantasy?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/234711/31394&quot;&gt;What was the earliest example of a riddle or puzzle being used as a security system?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;right sidebar&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://puzzling.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Puzzling&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2021-07-02T15:52:16.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13395" CreationDate="2021-07-06T10:11:02.293" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you know a story about a crystal that reflects the state of a married couple's relationship?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83257/married-couple-pretend-to-like-each-other-due-to-crystal-sculpture&quot;&gt;Married couple pretend to like each other due to crystal sculpture&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;right sidebar&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;all&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2021-07-06T10:11:02.293" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13434" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13435" CreationDate="2021-07-14T11:53:09.940" Score="5" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;I happened upon &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/59506/novel-with-humans-travelling-to-a-distant-planet-becoming-super-intelligent&quot;&gt;Novel with humans travelling to a distant planet becoming super-intelligent&lt;/a&gt;, which is at one end of a small duplicate chain. I was going to simply edit &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2697/story-featuring-smart-people-sent-on-a-space-mission-to-nowhere&quot;&gt;the ultimate parent in&lt;/a&gt;, so as to avoid having to reopen, then close, but that option doesn't seem to be present. Is this because it's an older question? Or was the ability to set multiple duplicate targets removed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CykUl.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CykUl.png&quot; alt=&quot;Image of the screen with the duplicate prompt&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry for the lack of hand-drawn arrows. Choosing to edit the question just lets me edit the text and tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2021-07-16T05:18:01.590" LastActivityDate="2021-07-16T05:18:01.590" Title="No longer possible to add multiple duplicate targets?" Tags="|support|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13434" CreationDate="2021-07-14T12:24:47.860" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Editing the duplicate list is only a &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/291824/gold-tag-badge-holders-and-moderators-can-now-edit-duplicate-links&quot;&gt;mod or gold badge holder privilege&lt;/a&gt;. That question doesn’t have the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; tag which it needs, both because it should have the tag and so you can edit the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2021-07-14T12:24:47.860" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13436" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13437" CreationDate="2021-07-20T20:38:36.010" Score="3" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;All text on the site is suddenly orange. Unfortunately, orange on white isn't readable by humans. I don't know if this is a bug or another &amp;quot;brilliant&amp;quot; UI redesign. I can't change theme below &amp;quot;Flair&amp;quot; in settings - they all look the same suddenly - so I'm assuming it's a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only the main scifi site is affected, not meta, nor other SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I turn the site readable again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106769" LastActivityDate="2021-07-20T20:41:56.827" Title="The site turned orange" Tags="|support|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13436" CreationDate="2021-07-20T20:41:56.827" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It’s a bug and is getting fixed now. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/367643/345161&quot;&gt;the main meta post&lt;/a&gt; on it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A fix is getting deployed now. We’ve got a new &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.design/product/guidelines/theming/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;theming API in Stacks&lt;/a&gt; that was leaking a bit. Funnily enough, all the themes we happened to test via smoke tests already had orange buttons so we didn't catch it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And before everyone shouts about visual regression testing, yeah. I agree. We're working on that too &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2021-07-20T20:41:56.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13438" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-07-21T11:13:56.277" Score="4" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's find out...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;My header&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Some public info&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&amp;gt;! Some secret info&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the preview, it looks like spoiler tags &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; work in tables.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So are there any options for hiding a spoiler in a table?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I was trying to reformat &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/117340/58193&quot;&gt;a comparison answer&lt;/a&gt; into a table, but the spoiler tags are tripping me up.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1498" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2021-07-21T13:09:29.440" LastActivityDate="2021-07-21T13:09:29.440" Title="Do spoiler tags work in tables?" Tags="|support|spoilers|markdown|formatting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13438" CreationDate="2021-07-21T11:28:59.753" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-bydesign&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt;, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/357165/345161&quot;&gt;the main meta post here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yep, this is definitely by design. Block-level elements like blockquotes, code blocks or spoilers won't work in Markdown tables. – Ham Vocke♦&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could probably come up with some weird and funky workaround to still include spoilers in the table but it would most likely have more cons than pros for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really for this particular case you're going to need to ask yourself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;does the answer really need to be moved to table markdown?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and do the spoilers really need to stay hidden behind the spoiler markdown?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I'm not sure it really needs to move to table markdown in the first place so you might just be better leaving that answer as is for now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2021-07-21T11:28:59.753" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13440" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13441" CreationDate="2021-07-24T10:12:48.377" Score="13" ViewCount="564" Body="&lt;p&gt;This post is for the eighth of SFF.SE's new series of &lt;strong&gt;topic challenges&lt;/strong&gt;, encouraging the site's community to take part together in asking and answering questions on a particular topic each month. According to community votes on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;topic challenge proposals thread&lt;/a&gt;, the August 2021 topic challenge is going to be devoted to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;series of action role-playing video games&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Elder Scrolls&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-elder-scrolls&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-elder-scrolls&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-elder-scrolls&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this series is on-topic both here on SFF and on our &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-elder-scrolls-*&quot;&gt;sister site devoted to gaming, Arqade SE&lt;/a&gt;, the two sites' mod teams &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/15955/arqade-scifi-cross-site-topic-challenge-the-elder-scrolls&quot;&gt;have agreed&lt;/a&gt; to make this event a &lt;strong&gt;joint cross-site topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt;. This is an exciting new experiment in collaboration between different sites in the SE network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's a topic challenge and how/where do I take part?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13211/31394&quot;&gt;Announcing a Topic Challenge program for SFF.SE&lt;/a&gt;, and also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/240634/278659&quot;&gt;this main meta post&lt;/a&gt;. In short, during August 2021 we should all try to either ask interesting questions about &lt;em&gt;The Elder Scrolls&lt;/em&gt;, or help out by answering other people's questions about it. For this particular topic challenge, you can ask either on SFF or on Arqade, so let's recall &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/319/31394&quot;&gt;our policy&lt;/a&gt; about what to ask where:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lore&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;plot&lt;/strong&gt; questions, related to the fictional setting or storyline of the game, are on-topic here on SFF.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gameplay&lt;/strong&gt; questions, about technical aspects or how the playing works, are better suited for Arqade.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Participation is not obligatory in any sense, but those who participate will be forever remembered in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13441/31394&quot;&gt;annals of our history&lt;/a&gt;. We'll keep a list of all &lt;em&gt;Elder Scrolls&lt;/em&gt; questions asked during August 2021 in an answer to this meta post. At the end of the month, I'll collate some data like highest-scoring question, most-viewed question, highest-scoring answer, etc. There won't be any real-world rewards like in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1138/31394&quot;&gt;the old days&lt;/a&gt; when Stack Exchange was smaller and more generous, but I'll be awarding at least one bounty after the end of the month (assuming there's at least one good answer posted on the SFF side of the challenge).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's next?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Future SFF topic challenges will be chosen by community votes, so come over and propose or vote on suggestions at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;Propose future topics for SFF topic challenges!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The &lt;em&gt;Elder Scrolls&lt;/em&gt; answer will be deleted from that thread at the start of August, since already chosen topics shouldn't stick at the top of the thread and distract people from those still to be voted on.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="125981" LastEditDate="2021-08-02T11:23:41.810" LastActivityDate="2021-08-29T17:52:51.947" Title="Joint SFF/Arqade Topic Challenge: The Elder Scrolls (August 2021)" Tags="|discussion|topic-challenge|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13440" CreationDate="2021-07-24T10:18:01.720" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;List of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bthe-elder-scrolls%5D+created%3A2021-08+is%3Aq&quot;&gt;SFF questions posted&lt;/a&gt; as part of this topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/252871/31394&quot;&gt;What is CHIM, and how does it relate to the ludonarrative aspects of the Elder Scrolls games?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/93785/nick012000&quot;&gt;nick012000&lt;/a&gt;, 21/08/2021.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;add entries in the form &lt;code&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/&amp;lt;question-ID&amp;gt; by [username](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/&amp;lt;user-ID&amp;gt;), dd/08/2021.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;List of &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bthe-elder-scrolls-*%5D+created%3A2021-08+is%3Aq&quot;&gt;Arqade questions posted&lt;/a&gt; as part of this topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/q/389618&quot;&gt;How long do I have to wait before bandits take over Helgen Keep?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/139342/tylla&quot;&gt;Tyll'a&lt;/a&gt;, 09/08/2021.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/q/390010&quot;&gt;Why does Lydia keep saying &amp;quot;Looks like you've already got someone with you&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/278641/prince&quot;&gt;prince&lt;/a&gt;, 22/08/2021.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;add entries in the form &lt;code&gt;[title](https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/&amp;lt;question-ID&amp;gt;) by [username](https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/&amp;lt;user-ID&amp;gt;), dd/08/2021.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;highest-voted&lt;/strong&gt; of these is &lt;em&gt;[question URL]&lt;/em&gt;, with a score of &lt;em&gt;TBD&lt;/em&gt; at the end of August.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;most viewed&lt;/strong&gt; is &lt;em&gt;[question URL]&lt;/em&gt;, with approximately &lt;em&gt;TBD&lt;/em&gt; views during August.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="82909" LastEditDate="2021-08-29T17:52:51.947" LastActivityDate="2021-08-29T17:52:51.947" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-07-24T10:18:01.720" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13442" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-07-24T18:30:16.750" Score="16" ViewCount="363" Body="&lt;p&gt;Earlier today, I answered this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/54001/why-doesnt-worf-use-contractions/251879&quot;&gt;Why doesn&amp;#39;t Worf use contractions?&lt;/a&gt;. I returned to find that my answer had been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am new to this community and terribly confused about why my answer was deleted. I've read the relevant help articles and they shed no light on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One commenter claimed that my answer was “unfounded opinion”, but I don't understand why the other two answers on the question are not considered “unfounded opinion”. Both were speculative answers about why the writers &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; have written the character in such a way. Neither cited verified facts or interview answers from the writers. Both pointed out that this style of speech denotes formality and foreignness. My answer did nothing different to this, as far as I can understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After my answer, I did add a rhetorical question (regarding the symbiosis between language and character development). I believed this was a thought-provoking point, of interest to anyone reading the answers. If that kind of digression is not welcome here I would be happy to remove that. But I don't understand why the answer itself was considered invalid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143678" OwnerDisplayName="L J" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2021-07-24T18:55:00.067" LastActivityDate="2021-07-24T19:04:21.583" Title="Why was my answer deleted?" Tags="|discussion|deleted-answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13442" CreationDate="2021-07-24T19:02:22.597" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The deleted answer has a couple problems. One is that, yes, it's an &amp;quot;unfounded opinion&amp;quot;; it doesn't cite any sources or references to back up its claims. While that, on its own, is generally a reason to downvote and not delete, this answer also didn't &lt;em&gt;add&lt;/em&gt; anything to the existing answers on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer didn't provide any information that wasn't already given in the previous answers. Since it didn't add anything new, and didn't cite any sources, it was eventually deleted by consensus of six users in the review queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You point out that the other answers are also unfounded opinion; that's a fair point. It's worth keeping in mind that those answers were written seven years ago. In the years since, standards have changed a bit and newer answers are often held to a higher standard than those posted several years before. Ideally, though, those other answers should also be improved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2021-07-24T19:02:22.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13442" CreationDate="2021-07-24T19:04:21.583" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you've very correctly highlighted, both existing answers are, in my humble opinion, of a very low quality. They're based almost entirely on  bold statements but with no supporting evidence that their theses (e.g. That using contractions might make Worf sound less fierce/formal (or) That not using contractions makes Worf sound more foreign) have any basis in what the writer/director/actor, etc were thinking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answer also falls into the same trap. A bold statement, but no relevant evidence to back it up. The difference is that the existing answers have sufficient  votes to avoid being dumped into the delete queue. Yours was not so fortunate. Because the vote score took it into a negative territory, I was also able to vote to delete it for essentially replicating the existing answers and being generally of &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/deleted-questions&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;a very low quality&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2021-07-24T19:04:21.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13445" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13446" CreationDate="2021-07-25T23:57:15.043" Score="15" ViewCount="355" Body="&lt;p&gt;Last year (2020) saw some &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/346638/278659&quot;&gt;changes to the question closure system&lt;/a&gt; across the SE network. These included changing the text saying &amp;quot;off-topic&amp;quot; in custom close reasons to &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;a community-specific reason&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot;, which inspired the SFF community to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13094/31394&quot;&gt;reach a consensus&lt;/a&gt; to create a new custom close reason for our well-established &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5187/31394&quot;&gt;Future Works Policy&lt;/a&gt;. Essentially, this policy states that if a question is asking specifically about a book/film/episode/comic/etc. that &lt;em&gt;has not yet been released&lt;/em&gt;, the question should be closed at least until the release date, to prevent purely speculative answers. (A &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11865/31394&quot;&gt;2018 clarification&lt;/a&gt; ensures that questions about already-released works, even if the answer is unknown and may be in future works, do not fall under the Future Works Policy.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather late, but this meta post is to confirm the wording for the new proposed custom close reason. Note that another of SE's 2020 changes to the question closure system was introducing &lt;strong&gt;audience-specific texts for custom close reasons&lt;/strong&gt;, so that the OP, close voters, privileged users, and the general public can all get slightly different versions of the same essential explanation of why a question is unsuitable for the site. That means we need to write up five different texts and include them when the mod team actually creates the new close reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This time, we don't need CM help, as mods can create new close reasons, just not edit existing ones in place. So I'm just going to draft up a set of wordings, get meta feedback and approval, and then we can create the close reason any time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&quot;tldr-please-read-my-answer-below-to-check-the-proposed-wordings&quot;&gt;TL;DR: please read my answer below to check the proposed wordings.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following image shows the different boxes that can be filled by mods/CMs with different text. The first two appear in the close/flag dialogue &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the post is closed; the last three appear in post notices &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the post is closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Brief description&lt;/strong&gt; is the bold header for the close reason.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Usage guidance&lt;/strong&gt; is what will appear in the close menu, advising people when to use the close reason.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Close description&lt;/strong&gt; will be shown to everyone in the post notice and should be relatively short.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Post owner guidance&lt;/strong&gt; appears in the post notice and is how the OP should fix the question (if possible).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Privileged user guidance&lt;/strong&gt; is informative for the people with close privilege regarding what the close reason is.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eKCsD.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eKCsD.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="62709" LastEditDate="2022-04-19T15:34:42.453" LastActivityDate="2022-04-19T15:34:42.453" Title="New custom close reason: Future Works" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|closing-questions|future-works|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13445" CreationDate="2021-07-25T23:57:15.043" Score="12" Body="&lt;h2 id=&quot;brief-description&quot;&gt;Brief description&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The name shown to flaggers/close-voters when seeking an option in the close menu (currently &lt;strong&gt;21&lt;/strong&gt;/100 characters):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Future works question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&quot;usage-guidance&quot;&gt;Usage guidance&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The description shown to flaggers/close-voters after choosing this close reason (currently &lt;strong&gt;485&lt;/strong&gt;/500 characters):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is about &lt;strong&gt;future works&lt;/strong&gt;. Any answers would be purely speculative, since the question concerns some as yet unreleased material and cannot be resolved until its release. Note that this close reason does not apply if an answer can be written based on already released information. For more details, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5187&quot;&gt;Should questions about future works be closed?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11865&quot;&gt;What are future works?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&quot;close-description&quot;&gt;Close description&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The text shown to everybody, even non-users, viewing the closed question (currently &lt;strong&gt;144&lt;/strong&gt;/500 characters):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was &lt;strong&gt;closed&lt;/strong&gt; for being about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5187&quot;&gt;future works&lt;/a&gt;. It is currently not accepting answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&quot;post-owner-guidance&quot;&gt;Post owner guidance&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more detailed text shown, under the general close description, to the OP only when viewing their closed question (currently &lt;strong&gt;496&lt;/strong&gt;/500 characters):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question appears to be about a work of science fiction or fantasy which &lt;strong&gt;hasn't been released&lt;/strong&gt; yet. If you can ask purely within the scope of already released works or existing pre-release information, then please edit to clarify. Otherwise, your question can only be reopened after the release date of the work you're asking about. For more information, please see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5187&quot;&gt;this FAQ&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11865&quot;&gt;its refinement&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2 id=&quot;privileged-user-guidance&quot;&gt;Privileged user guidance&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more detailed text shown, under the general close description, to any 3k+ rep user viewing the closed question (currently &lt;strong&gt;424&lt;/strong&gt;/500 characters):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please check whether the work being asked about &lt;strong&gt;has been released&lt;/strong&gt; since this question's closure, and vote to reopen if so. If the question can be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11865&quot;&gt;phrased specifically so that it can be answered in the context of already released information&lt;/a&gt;, then please consider making an edit or guiding the asker in how to do so, or vote to reopen if it's already phrased in such a way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2021-07-26T12:55:36.803" LastActivityDate="2021-07-26T12:55:36.803" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13447" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-07-27T10:49:25.560" Score="3" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;I realize that it has no impact on anything but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2160/what-work-had-the-humans-reinventing-the-space-flight-during-war-having-the-wor?noredirect=1#comment689714_2160&quot;&gt;my question&lt;/a&gt; was closed as duplicate despite being asked 3 years earlier, having more answers, being higher upvoted and having more views than another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="337" LastActivityDate="2021-07-27T10:49:25.560" Title="Why was my question closed as duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2021-07-27T10:59:39.340" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13448" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13460" CreationDate="2021-07-27T14:45:27.190" Score="8" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oops. A little late, but still good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from April 1st 2021 through June 30th 2021.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2021/04/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2021/04/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2021/04/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I will be linking all blog posts that happened within this quarter year. Also the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/550327/most-controversial-posts-on-the-site-by-start-date&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;most controversial question&lt;/a&gt; of the quarter. Also a sum of all the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/618952/past-bounties-by-bounty-date&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;bounties&lt;/a&gt; that were awarded.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally if there was a meta post you feel should be spotlighted those are also acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2021-08-15T19:08:55.800" LastActivityDate="2021-10-09T08:47:52.327" Title="Favorite Question and Answers from Second Quarter 2021" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9444" CreationDate="2021-08-01T12:19:23.877" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Any&lt;/em&gt; answer should include what and why. &lt;em&gt;What&lt;/em&gt; is the answer? Can you identify the exact work? And &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; is that the answer? Does it match the description given?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;em&gt;What&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of story IDs, the &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; should at least include the name of the work, the name of its creator(s), and the medium (was it a book, a short story, a (web) comic, a film, a television series, a game, and so on).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A rough indication of when it was first published, released, or broadcast is helpful as well, especially in the case where there are several works with that same title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's a part of a series of franchise, naming that and placing it within that would help a lot too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Written works&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a book or story, that means the title and the author, as well as a mention of what kind of work it is — series, book, novel(la), short story, or fan-fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Film and television&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a film or television series, at least the title. Preferably the director and the main actors as well. Year of release or broadcast is a bit more important here than it is for books, since that helps narrow it down considerably, more so than with books that can often have several print runs and can be republished.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indication of whether it was an adaptation or a remake can be very helpful as well — maybe you've seen the remake while the querent has seen the original, for instance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Comics&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a comic, that should include the writer and the artist(s), the name of the series, and the number of the issue. Possibly the publisher as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Video Games&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least the title and the system it was released on. Preferably the company that released it too, as well as the year of release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is as important as &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt;. The querent has described a number of elements that may or may not match. Either give a synopsis, or address them point by point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't forget to address the points that do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; match.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Linking to a source such as Wikipedia, the ISFDb for written works, Goodreads for books, the IMDb for films and television, Rotten Tomatoes for films, is very helpful, but only required if you quote from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;em&gt;How&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;How&lt;/em&gt; is entirely optional, but a lot of people have searched extensively already. Telling them how you've found it might help them understand why they couldn't find it and may even help them searching for another title in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Linking to the work in question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While linking to the exact work can be very tempting, it may be in violation of copyright. A trailer on YouTube or any other video site is probably fine, especially if published there by the (presumed) copyright holder, such as the studio. Full films can be found as well, but should not be linked to unless you can be reasonably sure that it isn't in violation of copyright. Some short and even medium length films have been released on YouTube, by its creator(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same goes for written works and comics. If published online by the author or artist, it's fine. Some writers publish online, some do that for old works that are no longer in print. Web comics are of course published online.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Internet Archive has a very large collection of old magazines, in which stories may have been published before being published in book form. They're a large enough entity to assume they know what they're doing copyright-wise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; link to torrents, rips, scans and such that are clearly in violation of copyright and often hosted on sites of dubious reputation and security as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2021-08-01T12:29:56.243" LastActivityDate="2021-08-01T12:29:56.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9760" CreationDate="2021-08-03T18:19:37.590" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;For some reason I was not aware of this discussion until I got a notice that someone tried to modify a question I asked that's in this list. I'm referring to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/9971/1693&quot;&gt;this question about werewolves&lt;/a&gt;. (Apparently someone tried to edit it to add that they wanted to be a werewolf!) I'm noting the date of this discussion and the date my question was closed and know it was at a time when I was overwhelmed with work dealing with the death of a parent and doing a lot of work on land we had bought to prepare for building on it. (That included a lot of paperwork and similar issues due to wetlands on the property.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was one of the early users of SF on Stack Exchange, but backed off from it dramatically after a while. I'm on other SE sections as well and I know, for many programmers and system admins there are running jokes that all you have to do is find the answer on SE and copy the code. But I find I use SE less and less. At this point I use it mostly for Blender issues, but, even there, I'm using Blender forums more often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot count the number of times I Google for something and the answer is on SE, but is closed. I recently found a question that was close to one I had that was marked as a dupe. The answer to it, on the original question, did not specifically state a clear answer to the closed question. I wasted two hours explaining to a moderator, who knows his stuff well, that many people do NOT know things as well as he does, and that the duplicate is never directly answered. He finally addressed that in a comment - which is all I was asking for from the start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's not about just that two hours. It's about how many people found that question, went to the other one and went away to look elsewhere because their question wasn't answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My point: There are convergent thinkers and divergent thinkers. There are a lot of other ways to describe different ways people think. I'm not even getting into people dealing with reading disabilities or similar issues. What is obvious to one is not obvious to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One reason I use SE less and less and specific forums on topics more and more is because of issues like this: Hasty closing of questions that may not really need closing or marking questions as duplicates and closing when there is a subtle difference between the duplicate and the other question with an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There often seems to be an ego issue connected with these issues. It's something like, &amp;quot;Oh, I can close this and it makes me feel like I have some control. Now that I've voted to close, I don't want to discuss it or change my mind.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think my response here will change anything, but I do think, all across SE, the communities and moderators need to change their focus to understanding what's going on and thinking more carefully about closing. For instance, the &amp;quot;too broad&amp;quot; reason always felt to me to be a pointless reason to close. I don't see that SE gains anything by closing questions like that and it's quite possible that if such questions are left open, someone might, at some point, provide a useful answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm finding, more and more, that the answers I need are on forums other than SE and that the questions I have often closest match SE questions that are closed but could eventually yield helpful answers if they were not closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1693" LastActivityDate="2021-08-03T18:19:37.590" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13452" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-08-11T14:19:46.403" Score="7" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please check the following &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/259914/345161&quot;&gt;main meta question&lt;/a&gt; about what parts of the Tour and Help Centre are editable in detail. For a quick rundown though:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tour: Introduction paragraph&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tour: The &amp;quot;Ask about...&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Don't ask about...&amp;quot; bullets&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Help Centre: Introduction paragraph&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Help Centre: /help/on-topic full page&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These sections are woefully out of date, with the Tour sections not having been edited since 2013 (the first revision) and so don't mention various things they probably should. One of the most notable being the Future Works Policy, especially since it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13445/58193&quot;&gt;now a close reason itself&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we edit these sections? If so, some things to think about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What needs to be mentioned for &amp;quot;Ask about...&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Don't ask about...&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's no real detail about answering in the Tour, do we want to hack something into the Tour intro?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;/help/on-topic is completely editable, we can (ab)use this for mentioning off topic info as well&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do we want to personalise the site more with information in the Help Centre's introduction?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that something similar is being done over on &lt;a href=&quot;https://codereview.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10701/87926&quot;&gt;Code Review&lt;/a&gt; for an idea that we're not really limited markdown-wise that I know of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please use the below community wiki answers to provide changes and the comments there to discuss any changes further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related reading:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12936/58193&quot;&gt;How should SFF&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;Ask Question&amp;quot; page be customised?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13445/58193&quot;&gt;New custom close reason: Future Works&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13305/58193&quot;&gt;Audience-specific texts for custom close reasons: Lists of Works or Recommendations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13275/58193&quot;&gt;Audience-specific texts for custom close reasons: Scientific Solutions or Explanations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2021-08-11T14:45:34.667" LastActivityDate="2021-08-16T08:11:11.037" Title="Editing the Tour and Help Centre" Tags="|discussion|help-center|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13452" CreationDate="2021-08-11T14:19:46.403" Score="0" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Tour: Introduction paragraph&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h4&gt;Current Text:&lt;/h4&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange&lt;/b&gt; is a question and answer site for science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts. It's built and run &lt;i&gt;by you&lt;/i&gt; as part of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; network of Q&amp;amp;A sites. With your help, we're working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about science fiction or fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h4&gt;New Text:&lt;/h4&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;as yet unchanged&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2021-08-11T14:46:09.720" LastActivityDate="2021-08-11T14:46:09.720" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-08-11T14:19:46.403" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13452" CreationDate="2021-08-11T14:21:23.940" Score="0" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Help Centre: Introduction paragraph&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Currently blank&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2021-08-11T14:21:23.940" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-08-11T14:21:23.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13452" CreationDate="2021-08-11T14:23:22.223" Score="2" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Tour: The &amp;quot;Ask about...&amp;quot; bullets&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h4&gt;Current Text:&lt;/h4&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Plot, character, or setting explanations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Historical or societal context of a work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Story identification&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Franchise/series reading or viewing order&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h4&gt;New Text:&lt;/h4&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Plot, character, or setting explanations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Historical or societal context of a work (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/behind-the-scenes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;behind-the-scenes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;behind-the-scenes&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/production&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;production&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;production&lt;/a&gt; etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Identification (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/episode-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;episode-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;episode-identification&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/character-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character-identification&lt;/a&gt; etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Franchise/series reading or viewing order (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/suggested-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;suggested-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;suggested-order&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/chronological-order&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;chronological-order&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;chronological-order&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2021-08-16T08:11:11.037" LastActivityDate="2021-08-16T08:11:11.037" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-08-11T14:23:22.223" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13452" CreationDate="2021-08-11T14:24:27.773" Score="4" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Tour: The &amp;quot;Don't ask about...&amp;quot; bullets&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h4&gt;Current Text:&lt;/h4&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reading or watching recommendations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;or any other question that is primarily opinion-based&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lists of works with a particular plot element&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;or any other question with too many possible answers or that would require an extremely long answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h4&gt;New Text:&lt;/h4&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reading or watching recommendations or any other question that is primarily opinion-based&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions generating discussion (do you think X?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2638/58193&quot;&gt;Open ended lists&lt;/a&gt; or any other question with too many possible answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions that would require an &lt;em&gt;extremely&lt;/em&gt; long essay answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5187/58193&quot;&gt;Future works&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7364/58193&quot;&gt;Scientific solutions or explanations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2021-08-16T08:02:47.193" LastActivityDate="2021-08-16T08:02:47.193" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-08-11T14:24:27.773" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13452" CreationDate="2021-08-11T14:25:34.640" Score="0" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Help Centre: /help/on-topic full page&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h4&gt;Current Text:&lt;/h4&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Science Fiction &amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange is for questions targeted towards science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts. This includes questions about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Plot, character, or setting explanations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Historical or societal context of a work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Behind-the-scenes and fandom information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/story-identification/info&quot;&gt;Story identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Franchise/series reading or viewing order&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What about other Science Fiction and Fantasy related questions?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not all questions have a home on Stack Exchange. Please note the following types of questions are off-topic here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions calling for a list of works, authors, …: &lt;em&gt;What are all the books that have X?&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;em&gt;Who wrote about topic Y?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reading or viewing recommendations: &lt;em&gt;I liked X, what should I watch next?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Genre classification: &lt;em&gt;Is X Science Fiction?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/350/what-questions-are-on-topic-and-what-questions-are-off-topic&quot;&gt;the question where these topics were discussed&lt;/a&gt; on our meta discussion site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question is about...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Writing science fiction or fantasy&lt;/strong&gt;, ask on &lt;a href=&quot;https://writers.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Writers Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Creating a fictional situation or universe of your own or investigating the plausibility of an element of another work of fiction&lt;/strong&gt;, ask on &lt;a href=&quot;https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Worldbuilding Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;My question about the site isn't answered here&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/faq&quot;&gt;community FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, and more generally our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;meta-discussion site&lt;/a&gt; (please do not ask questions about the site on the main site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more help, see &lt;a href=&quot;/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;&quot;What types of questions should I avoid asking?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;/search&quot;&gt;look around&lt;/a&gt; to see if your question has been asked before. It’s also OK to &lt;a href=&quot;/helpcenter/self-answer&quot;&gt;ask and answer your own question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question is not specifically on-topic for Scifi &amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange, it may be on topic for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites&quot;&gt;another Stack Exchange site&lt;/a&gt;. If no site currently exists that will accept your question, you may &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;commit to&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/76974/how-can-i-propose-a-new-site&quot;&gt;propose&lt;/a&gt; a new site at &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Area 51&lt;/a&gt;, the place where new Stack Exchange communities are democratically created.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h4&gt;New Text:&lt;/h4&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;as yet unchanged&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2021-08-11T15:20:26.053" LastActivityDate="2021-08-11T15:20:26.053" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-08-11T14:25:34.640" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13458" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13459" CreationDate="2021-08-11T20:10:21.387" Score="7" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/33333/early-90s-childrens-book-about-a-girl-who-travelled-back-in-time?rq=1&quot;&gt;Early 90&amp;#39;s children&amp;#39;s book about a girl who travelled back in time&lt;/a&gt; has a Community Wiki name which is credited to &amp;quot;Richard&amp;quot;. Clicking through reveals Valorum (who, indeed, once used that other name). Why isn't the name updated here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2021-08-12T19:12:27.327" Title="Why is this Community Wiki answer branded with a deadname?" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13458" CreationDate="2021-08-12T19:12:27.327" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a Community Wiki post is created or edited, a copy of the primary author’s username is stored. Therefore, it won’t be changed by that user updating their name (or deleting their account).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only an edit (even the most trivial) will update the name on these posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also my &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/323637/323179&quot;&gt;MSE answer&lt;/a&gt; saying the same — but with screenshots!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82909" LastActivityDate="2021-08-12T19:12:27.327" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13448" CreationDate="2021-08-15T14:54:23.713" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The post has been made and submissions are now closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2021/08/favorite-question-and-answers-from-second-quarter-2021/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastActivityDate="2021-08-15T14:54:23.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13461" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-08-15T19:43:02.950" Score="24" ViewCount="469" Body="&lt;p&gt;Getting a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13445/new-custom-close-reason-future-works&quot;&gt;new custom close for our Future Works policy&lt;/a&gt; has resulted in one of our &lt;em&gt;existing&lt;/em&gt; close reasons being removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This question does not appear to be about science fiction or fantasy within the scope defined in the help center&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time it was originally added, there was a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7229/3rd-custom-close-reason&quot;&gt;considerable consensus in favour of it as our third custom reason&lt;/a&gt; and I think it would be worthwhile having it back. It's quite often used and fits nicely with our existing policies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can we please ask SE to allow us a fourth close reason so we can restore this?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="41668" LastEditDate="2021-10-12T14:21:28.973" LastActivityDate="2021-10-12T22:11:34.383" Title="Can we please have our close reason (&quot;This question does not appear to be about science fiction or fantasy&quot;) back?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13461" CreationDate="2021-08-15T19:48:27.250" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel that this is the right thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As noted in the question, there was a &lt;em&gt;sizeable&lt;/em&gt; majority (25:5) in favour of making this a standard close reason.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's a close reason that I've seen regularly used, especially in regard to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions and those that are tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I stand to be corrected on this, but I'm pretty sure it's a more common off-topic reason than the close reason that has displaced it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It also aligns closely with our policy about works that are not obviously science-fictional or fantastical, as described in our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2021-08-16T19:07:10.627" LastActivityDate="2021-08-16T19:07:10.627" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13461" CreationDate="2021-08-15T20:39:29.607" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some data from the tools available to users with 10,000 reputation regarding close reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the last 90 days (that's as far as it goes back), the distribution of close reasons has been:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Close Reason&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;# of Questions Closed&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Duplicate&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;146&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Opinion-based&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;44&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Needs details or clarity&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;42&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Not suitable for this site - This question does not appear to be about science fiction or fantasy within the scope defined in the help center.&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;25&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Not suitable for this site - List/recommendation question&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;16&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Not suitable for this site - This question belongs on another site in the Stack Exchange network&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;12&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Needs more focus&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;12&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Not suitable for this site - Real-world science question&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;9&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Not suitable for this site - Other (add a comment explaining what is wrong)&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;9&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of the site-specific close reasons (i.e. those beginning with &amp;quot;Not suitable for this site&amp;quot;) the one for not being about science fiction or fantasy is by far the most common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the list of 17 custom close reasons that were applied during this period, only two of them were about Future Works. By contrast, six of them were some form of &amp;quot;it's not science fiction or fantasy&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there may be some confounding factors here, such as if users are using the &amp;quot;Opinion-based&amp;quot; close reason to cover Future Works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it is not strictly necessary, since you can just use a custom close reason, I see no downside to having an additional close reason for the generic &amp;quot;this is not about science fiction or fantasy&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2021-10-12T22:11:34.383" LastActivityDate="2021-10-12T22:11:34.383" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13461" CreationDate="2021-08-15T20:45:08.920" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't feel like we need the generic reason back. It's incredibly generic that it is used as a catch all reason to cover pretty much everything and that's not great in itself. Instead it's always better to explain why something needs to be closed, especially with newer users who may be unfamiliar with the site and its scope. So of course it will always be used more but that's not necessarily a good thing and in some cases could even be a bad thing!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Previously with the catch all reason closure would go along the lines of: vote to close with the generic reason and then &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;maybe&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; leave a comment. That could leave some users confused if they don't understand the reason it was closed and is not good user experience and so poor for keeping users around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now what should happen is users use the &amp;quot;Other&amp;quot; explainable reason and describe why the question is being closed. This is desirable for two reasons: it forces users to leave a comment and so others are aware of &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it is being closed and it combines the close and comment step into one which is better. There's also a third hidden reason in that it also helps us find any close reason that is used a lot and potentially make that a proper custom close reason in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also worth noting that the generic reason has only been gone for &lt;em&gt;4 days&lt;/em&gt;. Perhaps we should give things a little bit of time without it? If we feel like we're missing the old generic reason then we can see how things go. But we're probably jumping the gun here panicking with having it gone before we even know if we're going to miss it. Who knows the &amp;quot;new&amp;quot; workflow of using the &amp;quot;Other&amp;quot; close reason might even work better and I see no reason why it shouldn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will add that of the last 90 days (as of writing) the generic reason &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tools/question-close-stats?daterange=last90days&quot;&gt;was used the most&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Real-world science question: 9 closures, 0 reopened&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This question does not appear to be about science fiction or fantasy within the scope defined in the help center: 25 closures, 3 reopened&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;List/recommendation question: 16 closures, 2 reopened&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as I lined out above its usefulness to &lt;em&gt;others&lt;/em&gt; is less. I'll say that if we do want to try and get a fourth custom close reason it shouldn't be for some generic catch all reason but rather something a bit more specific. Sure the specific reasons are used less but that's because they cover something more, well, specific and codifying something specific over generic should always be preferred in my mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2021-08-15T20:45:08.920" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13465" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-08-20T06:11:19.027" Score="-7" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/252822/23587&quot;&gt;Who was able to teleport an item into the chest of his loan shark&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/22Bzo.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/22Bzo.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure why I was grilled so harshly when I included all the info I could remember that was relevant.  How do I know he was a loan shark? I believe that's a rather specific detail I remember.  Maybe I don't have half a million points on here, but don't assume I'm a noob.  That was disrespectful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23587" LastEditorUserId="23587" LastEditDate="2021-08-20T11:53:29.090" LastActivityDate="2021-08-26T15:56:29.633" Title="Why was I asked to provide information already included in my question?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|comments|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13465" CreationDate="2021-08-20T07:21:56.410" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;You weren't grilled harshly, you were asked to provide some basic information we generally ask of &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; requests. If you don't believe me, go through that tag and look at the comments on the questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While you painted a very vivid scene that proved to be enough to identify it, we get a lot of questions looking to identify a book, film, and so on, that lack basic information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such as when the querent read or saw the work. Sometimes, it's only a vague reference such as &amp;quot;recently&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;when I was in high school&amp;quot;. We don't know what counts as &amp;quot;recently&amp;quot; and we sure don't know when the querent was in high school.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Other oft missed information include the nature of the work (was it animated?), or where it was encountered (different countries have different TV shows and different books).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This happens so often, that we've compiled &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9335/19561&quot;&gt;a list of these points&lt;/a&gt; and even specific ones for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11874/19561&quot;&gt;anime&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12587/19561&quot;&gt;western comics&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11995/19561&quot;&gt;video games&lt;/a&gt;, and even &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11922/19561&quot;&gt;fan fiction&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These lists are also meant to jog your memory and to encourage to include even the most minute of insignificant-seeming details, such as the colour of the cover. Even questions that provide a lot of details already, often get a link to one of those lists to &lt;em&gt;help and encourage the querent&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you weren't grilled harshly, you were asked the same thing we ask of most requests for identification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2021-08-26T05:27:14.380" LastActivityDate="2021-08-26T05:27:14.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13465" CreationDate="2021-08-26T15:56:29.633" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a side note to SQB's answer, it's not unusual for the comment questions to be kind of leading questions to a suspected answer (or at least I'm very prone to that). Sometimes, I'll read a detail and think &amp;quot;Well, I know something with that detail, but I'm not sure about these other bits...&amp;quot; so I'll ask questions that hint at other details associated with the suspected answer. This is sometimes because I don't feel it's a strong enough match to make an answer, but I don't want to provide an &amp;quot;answer&amp;quot; in the comments (since those don't show up in site searches), sometimes because I don't actually remember the name of the work yet, and sometimes because I just don't have time to write something up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But yeah, outside of that, it's details that weren't stated, or which are unclear, most of the time, or attempting to elicit further information. For example, the question of why you know he's a loan shark might make you think to add &amp;quot;I know he was a loan shark because he was collecting on a debt owed by the protagonist for his mother's hospital bills after she was hit by a car&amp;quot;, which introduces two more plot points that might be relevant. It gets us past &amp;quot;just the facts&amp;quot; and into why people are doing things, which is a major part of the plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2021-08-26T15:56:29.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9496" CreationDate="2021-08-27T08:30:11.130" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Finding images without alt text&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a query to find the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/1442948/top-15k-posts-with-images-that-need-a-description-have-enter-image-description&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;top 15,000 posts that contain images with no alt text&lt;/a&gt;, excluding closed questions (although not answers to closed questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is part of an effort to slowly make the site more accessible by including alt text for images.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/1442961/posts-with-multiple-answers-with-no-alt-text&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This variation&lt;/a&gt; finds questions with multiple answers that have images with no alt text (credit to @AncientSwordRage).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/127297/my-posts-containing-default-alt-text&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This query&lt;/a&gt; allows you to enter your user ID to find your posts that contain inaccessible images.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2021-08-27T08:30:11.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13469" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-08-28T19:36:19.523" Score="13" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;An answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/211741/how-did-shaddam-corrino-iv-die&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; contains the following  comment by the automated &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;Community&lt;/a&gt; &amp;quot;user&amp;quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please add further details to expand on your answer, &lt;strong&gt;such as working code or documentation citations&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This  comes across as quite tone-deaf about the types of posts the SFF site gets. (I guess this was a stock comment, inherited from Stack Overflow, added by some sort of automated review bot).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to customize this comment to something more appropriate to SFF?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good working start would be&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please add further details to expand on your answer, such as citations and quotations from relevant/reputable sources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63330" LastEditorUserId="82909" LastEditDate="2023-10-30T17:59:57.103" LastActivityDate="2023-10-30T17:59:57.103" Title="Can the Community user comment suggesting adding code/documentation be updated to fit SFF?" Tags="|feature-request|comments|community|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13470" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13474" CreationDate="2021-08-31T23:48:52.550" Score="6" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to ask the following question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the dependence between volumes of The History of Middle-earth?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a very similar to a question already asked, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/247659/what-to-read-in-history-of-middle-earth&quot;&gt;What to read in History of Middle-earth?&lt;/a&gt;. However, that question only asks which volumes are important or skippable, whereas I am interested in knowing what the &lt;em&gt;specific dependencies are between each volumes&lt;/em&gt; (and particularly whether volumes 6-9 may be skipped because they don't create dependencies elsewhere).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should I do? It seems to me that the existing question is less broad than mine, so there is no reason why anyone should say what the other dependencies between volumes are (and indeed, no one has). So it seems a bit bizarre to put a bounty on it and ask for an answer which answers a question which is not the one that was asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, judging by other examples, I feel it is likely that if I post my question it would be closed as a dupe. So I am not sure what is the best course of action. To post it, to put a bounty on the old one, or what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70323" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2021-09-01T07:42:12.307" LastActivityDate="2021-09-02T21:26:47.247" Title="How can I pose this question, without it being flagged as a duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13471" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13472" CreationDate="2021-09-01T15:43:11.400" Score="9" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I asked this question (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/253259/polar-dwelling-youth-finds-an-offplanet-bride-but-she-dies-but-he-adopts-exile/253283&quot;&gt;Polar-dwelling youth finds an offplanet bride, but she dies, but he adopts exiles as his tribe&lt;/a&gt;) and today I found out the answer and answered it myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have found that some of the details in my question were misremembered. I've added a comment with the correction. Should I:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;leave the correction in a comment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;edit the question to add the correction&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;mention the correction in my answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;none of the above&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16171" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2021-09-01T16:39:45.807" LastActivityDate="2021-09-02T12:49:12.900" Title="Should I correct misremembered details in my question?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13471" CreationDate="2021-09-01T16:13:30.997" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say no.  Were it not your question, you wouldn't go and &amp;quot;correct&amp;quot; OP's memories of the book, so you shouldn't in your case either.  You posted the question as you remembered the book, and that was what you remembered, so the question really can't be &amp;quot;incorrect.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I've usually seen in any case where the suggested (presumably correct) work disagrees with details of the question is to call out the points of disagreement.  If OP accepts that answer then it is a tacit acknowledgement of their mis-recollections, and even then we tend to discourage people from &amp;quot;correcting&amp;quot; their question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Valorum notes below, the same details you mis-remembered in your question might also be details that potential future searchers might get wrong too.  (Especially if you've conflated the work you're searching for with a sequel, another book by the same author around the same time, a different book with a similar premise, etc.)  In that case the &amp;quot;incorrect&amp;quot; question could actually be &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; useful than one that is strictly correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastEditorUserId="101407" LastEditDate="2021-09-01T17:23:35.853" LastActivityDate="2021-09-01T17:23:35.853" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13471" CreationDate="2021-09-02T12:49:12.900" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, I will not remove anything in a question that will invalidate current answers. If I come to realize later that there are incorrect details, I may apply the strikeout formatting as per &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/84078/1990s-film-knockoff-of-alien-and-predator-franchises-included-a-jetpack-and-a&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; where someone mentioned a detail matched with another film, and that made me realize that I was remembering two different works. If someone had already posted an answer, that gets a bit more fraught, but I think that the strikeout formatting will still work there, probably with a note indicating why that bit was removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As user14111 indicated in their comment, adding discrepancies in the answer is excellent practice. For one, it informs further querents. Second, it provides some honesty that the answer is not perfect (and may not be right). Third, the querent contemplating whether their memory is correct on that non-matching detail can sometimes get them to realize even more about the item they are looking for (&amp;quot;Wait... did the bank manager &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; run off with the mermaid? But no, I distinctly remember that the closing shots of the film was of family pictures of them and their kid... which is something I don't have in the question&amp;quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2021-09-02T12:49:12.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13470" CreationDate="2021-09-02T21:26:47.247" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a question like this is sufficiently distinct enough from existing questions as to stand on its own, and can be answered. As you have described it here I would vote to leave it open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest you just go ahead and post it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55866" LastActivityDate="2021-09-02T21:26:47.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13475" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-09-06T20:04:48.893" Score="3" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that since August 13th, there have been &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/wall-e&quot;&gt;ten Wall-e questions&lt;/a&gt; with an average score of 0.1 each. Two have been closed. These are supposedly from seven different users but 6/7 are from now-deleted accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's happening here? Is a single person continually milling through accounts to ask questions that are mostly low/negative scoring?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything we should do about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastActivityDate="2021-09-08T13:25:32.073" Title="What's with all of the low-quality Wall-e questions?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13475" CreationDate="2021-09-07T11:07:43.077" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not going to go into specifics here about what is or isn't happening with these questions and accounts. The general rule of thumb is that we don't discuss other users or air dirty laundry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said if you find a pattern of behaviour or think something looks amiss you can report that behaviour to us mods for investigation. The general steps are &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/66444/345161&quot;&gt;laid out here on main meta&lt;/a&gt;. I will say though that in cases like this, if you think there's something that needs further investigation please flag a relevant post and explain in the flag message what you want looking into. The mod team will investigate and hopefully nothing untoward is occurring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2021-09-07T11:07:43.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13475" CreationDate="2021-09-07T18:59:22.650" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As @TheLethalCarrot has already pointed out, asking about the &lt;em&gt;person&lt;/em&gt; behind the questions is a bit of a no-no. We can, however, address the questions themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ten questions were asked. A couple were dupes and can be largely disregarded because it's possible that OP didn't see the notifications. Of those that remain, four are actually pretty good and will probably attract more upvotes if they prove to be answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/252596/how-did-wall-e-keep-his-memory-of-eve-when-he-was-rebuilt&quot;&gt;How did Wall-E keep his memory of Eve when he was rebuilt?&lt;/a&gt; - +8*&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/252736/when-eve-shut-down-how-did-wall-es-electronics-turn-off&quot;&gt;When EVE shut down, how did Wall-E&amp;#39;s electronics turn off?&lt;/a&gt; +2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/252608/how-will-each-of-axioms-robots-in-wall-e-besides-auto-eve-and-wall-e-be-use&quot;&gt;How will each of Axiom&amp;#39;s robots in Wall•E (besides AUTO, EVE, and WALL•E) be used on Earth?&lt;/a&gt; +1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/253268/when-eve-is-flying-why-does-her-blue-trails-only-appear-in-space&quot;&gt;When EVE is flying, why does her blue trails only appear in space?&lt;/a&gt; +1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two I feel were unfairly downvoted and are now heading into positive territory, having been edited into better shape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/253341/how-did-the-wall-as-exit-the-axiom-after-landing&quot;&gt;How did the Wall-As exit the Axiom after landing?&lt;/a&gt; - +2*&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/253367/why-cant-eve-get-out-of-uncompressed-garbage&quot;&gt;Why can&amp;#39;t EVE get out of uncompressed garbage?&lt;/a&gt; +2*&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, a couple of them were a bit crap, but that's to be expected from a brand new user asking a bunch of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*&lt;sub&gt;&lt;Sup&gt;ignoring downvotes&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/Sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2021-09-08T13:25:32.073" LastActivityDate="2021-09-08T13:25:32.073" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13478" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-09-08T16:43:46.860" Score="24" ViewCount="872" Body="&lt;p&gt;Context: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/369568/278659&quot;&gt;Unpinning the accepted answer from the top of the list of answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow has just stopped pinning the accepted answer to the top of the list of answers, instead ordering answers purely by score. Company staff are now calling on all individual sites to let them know whether we want to (a) follow Stack Overflow in unpinning accepted answers or (b) keep the old/current system of pinning accepted answers to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Would you like to have the accepted answer unpinned on your site?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can change the way the engine sorts answers in site settings. We would like to hear from you all if it is something you want to see on your site. (Please let me acknowledge in advance that we will not be able to run a test on each site.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SFF has one of the most active meta communities on the network (I think), and this is a rare opportunity for us to decide ourselves what to do about a built-in site tooling feature, so let's get our discussion juices flowing! Do we want the accepted answer pinned or not? Why or why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Outcome&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on voting as of October 12, 2021, we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/369914/299342&quot;&gt;asked to unpin the accepted answer&lt;/a&gt;. We have been told by a CM that we can ask to pin the accepted answer again if we don't like it, so the plan is to have the accepted answer unpinned for a month and then re-open the discussion for a final vote. The new discussion will be open for a month to collect votes, so the accepted answer will be unpinned for at least two months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/1457903/questions-where-accepted-answers-dont-have-the-highest-score&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;list of affected questions using this SEDE query&lt;/a&gt;. Since many users are specifically concerned about this change for story identification questions, you can see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/1458380/questions-with-accepted-answers-not-highest-scoring&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;list of affected story ID questions using this SEDE query&lt;/a&gt; and may choose to vote for the accepted answer in order to ensure it is at the top whether or not the pinned option is chosen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="124934" LastEditDate="2021-11-24T15:24:55.763" LastActivityDate="2021-11-24T15:24:55.763" Title="Does SFF want to keep accepted answers pinned to the top or not?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="24" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13478" CreationDate="2021-09-09T16:51:58.493" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this site should continue with the established practice of showing accepted answers first, if only for the sake of the story identification questions.  For those kinds of questions, only the user who asks the question can really know whether an answer is correct or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastEditorUserId="48874" LastEditDate="2021-09-09T18:31:46.560" LastActivityDate="2021-09-09T18:31:46.560" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13478" CreationDate="2021-09-10T10:40:06.360" Score="11" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I think this would be a neutral-to-positive change for us.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(answer format and a lot of content taken from doppelgreener, &lt;a href=&quot;https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11726/what-is-our-stance-on-unpinning-the-accepted-answer-from-the-top-of-the-list-of#comment40130_11726&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and reworded to be specific to this site)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer exists to signal something specific: “this is the solution that I went with, that worked for me.” It originated on Stack Overflow because only one person is in the position to confirm that the code they were given compiled &amp;amp; fixed their issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SFF.SE inherited that behaviour simply because we inherited the same Q&amp;amp;A code, regardless of whether that feature solves specific issues for us or not. We don't have code to compile; we have questions about characters and plot, stories to identify, etc. This meta gives us an opportunity to consider from a blank slate: which option actually makes sense in the scope of Sci-Fi and Fantasy Q&amp;amp;A?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On SFF.SE specifically, I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; the most helpful thing is to &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; pin the accepted solution, and just let the highest voted answer float to the top always.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though we have some exception (more of that later), it's often the case that our most popular answers are the best fit for the rest of the community. It's all too easy for the answer to be accepted, but have a much better answer appear later on, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/164018/why-do-castle-gates-in-got-open-inwards&quot;&gt;rise in popularity later on&lt;/a&gt;. That's not to say there aren't &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/159521/what-is-the-reference-captain-america-understood&quot;&gt;exceptions&lt;/a&gt;, in that case people seemed to like the Gif, but it wasn't enough to sway the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/1457903/questions-where-accepted-answers-dont-have-the-highest-score&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;2455&lt;/a&gt; (as of Sept 5th( affected answer, out of the total of 37,398 accepted answers. Thats some 6%.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without going through the whole list, it's hard to know how many exceptions there are, but I'd wager the lowest quality yet highly upvoted answers are some of the shortest/easiest to skip as you scroll though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Stack Overflow's arguments against pinning the first answer generally apply to us too.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/326095/254830&quot;&gt;Please unpin the accepted answer from the top&lt;/a&gt; (on Meta SO) made a case against several commonly provided reasons for pinning the accepted answer under the heading “The argument against unpinning”. They generally apply here too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll mainly compare against rules &amp;amp; social questions, which are the biggest two categories we see on our site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[Reason to keep it pinned:] The accepted answer actually works for one person&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Counter-argument:] But the Stack Overflow answers are not ultimately there for that one person. They are there for the countless visitors who come later. Ninety-nine percent of the time that I upvote a non-accepted answer, I am also signifying that it solved my problem or at least helped me get one step closer to solving it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The counter-argument, which is in favour of &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; pinning, &lt;em&gt;mostly&lt;/em&gt; applies here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions, the highest-scored answer will be whichever the community recommends as the most correct answer with the most effective explanation as to why that correctly identified the story. While whatever the querent &lt;em&gt;accepted&lt;/em&gt; is what they remember being correct. There're only &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/1458742/questions-where-accepted-answers-dont-have-the-highest-score?Tag=story-identification&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;174&lt;/a&gt;, and in the top few most of the more highly upvoted answers are still good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt;, they are often a bit of a mixed bag/mess. Thankfully only &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/1458742/questions-where-accepted-answers-dont-have-the-highest-score?Tag=history-of&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;62&lt;/a&gt; questions will be affected. I'd strongly suggest we should address the nature of these question at a later date to figure out the best way to curate these.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[Reason to keep it pinned:] The accepted answer is tested (*)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Counter-argument:] It is true that many people will upvote answers without testing them. However, if a highly voted answer contains a mistake, it will start collecting comments saying so. If that mistake is not corrected, other people start adding answers that are correct. The voting system starts moving those correct answers to the top. This seems fair to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The counter-argument, which is in favour of &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; pinning, applies here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, all answers are expected to be backed up by citations whether they be from the work being asked about or supplementary information. Meanwhile, the highest voted is the one filtered through community knowledge and experience that gets vetted as effective. (In bad cases, as merely &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;an answer that seems to have truthiness&lt;/a&gt;, but that's when we'll start nagging someone to back their answer up.) The accepted answer status doesn't really add anything to this—we should always present what the community's vetting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe an answer found one specific approach solved their specific situation, but again, what we're upvoting is what we'd recommend generally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[Reason to keep it pinned:] The accepted answer solves the actual problem described in the question (*)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Counter-argument:] Fine, but when I use Stack Overflow I don't care if my problem is exactly the same in every detail as the OP. Sometimes the OP uses a title that leads search engines and thousands of future visitors to expect a different answer than the one that solved the OP's problem (example). There is no need to keep those kind of answers on top anymore. If I want to find them I can scroll down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The counter-argument, which is in favour of &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; pinning, applies here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, we're recommending that the most upvoted answer will solve peoples' problems, an we can filter that through our own knowledge or experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm beginning to repeat myself already and I'm only three points in, so I'll move on from this section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Summary: not pinning the accepted answer means we present the one the community recommends, and that's good.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pinning the accepted answer isn't a value-add. We don't have code to compile. It's valuable to indicate what worked for the querent personally, but anytime the accepted answer and the highest-voted answer are out of sync, it's almost certainly more worthwhile to present the community's overall recommended solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way, readers are given, as a priority, the general case the community would recommend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In cases the highest voted answer and accepted answer are different, The specific case that worked for the querent is not necessarily the most helpful to present to readers—it's just the specific case that worked for one person. We should prefer presenting the option the community generally preferred overall first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Tangentially: Pinning a non-top answer is sometimes a valuable feature, but the accepted answer serves that purpose poorly&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the things the accepted answer does for us is resolve situations where the top answer is, somehow, actually not the most advisable one: maybe HNQ caused us trouble; maybe that answer's obsolete and a new or better one has arisen. There's value in being able to pin an answer that isn't the top-rated one. However, I'd raise the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why do we provide the power to pin that answer to exclusively one user (where even the mods can't override it) on a site where the userbase curates everything? That one user might not even be here anymore.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why do we conflate a “this is the answer you should look at” pin with the “this is the answer the OP went with” marker? Why should that user be expected to switch the marker with answers they didn't go with? Isn't this overloading the pin to do multiple jobs?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When this situation occurs, doesn't that mean the Stack should be rethinking the way it handles votes (especially in light of obsolescence)? Isn't this a prompt to the Stack to rethink how it handles the impact of HNQ, or Fastest Gun in the West, or other related voting problems?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that in a world the accepted answer is no longer being pinned by default, we're either unaffected &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; better off in the majority of cases, and in the rest, the Stack should finally look to implementing a feature for pinning a recommended answer that's finally controlled by the community, not just by the post author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of the overlap, much of the text above is verbatim from DG's answer, but they provide &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; of wisdom here. My initial concerns about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; have been put to rest, except where it's highlighted separate issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me know if there are any comments, criticisms or corrections from the community - this is not policy, and I'd like to know how people react to the above knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2021-09-10T10:40:06.360" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13481" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-09-10T11:46:35.293" Score="5" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apologies that this has only come to light after the September topic challenge post should have been made, but it seems as though this has slipped through the cracks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The moderation team plans to restart the topic challenge in October, so watch this space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the current voting on Topic Challenges &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13240/propose-future-topics-for-sff-topic-challenges&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="98028" LastEditDate="2021-09-10T13:34:10.763" LastActivityDate="2021-09-10T13:34:10.763" Title="Topic challenge is taking a break in September, returning in October" Tags="|discussion|topic-challenge|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2021-11-01T19:45:47.487" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13482" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2021-09-10T11:50:29.030" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is currently only one on-going topic challenge, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13240/propose-future-topics-for-sff-topic-challenges&quot;&gt;Propose future topics for SFF topic challenges!&lt;/a&gt; however stand alone challenges can also use this tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2021-09-10T11:50:29.030" LastActivityDate="2021-09-10T11:50:29.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13483" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2021-09-10T11:50:29.030" Score="0" Body="Use this tag for onsite challenges themed around a topic." OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2021-09-10T11:50:29.030" LastActivityDate="2021-09-10T11:50:29.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13478" CreationDate="2021-09-13T18:57:29.690" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Unpinning the accepted answer empowers the community to bring the best answer to the top&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My initial thought was that unpinning the accepted answer would be a good thing for all tags &lt;em&gt;except&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;. In general, the community is often better at picking the best answer since a single user (often a relatively new one and/or not particularly invested in the curation of the site) can easily choose to accept an answer that is not the best. This may be due to a variety of reasons, including but not limited to cases where the accepted answer is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;out of date&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;objectively wrong but accepted because it fits the querent's &amp;quot;head-canon&amp;quot; better than the objectively correct answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not up to the community's standards, especially when compared to another answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In such cases the community's only hope to change the top answer is to convince the querent (who may not even be around anymore) to change the accepted answer -- the querent essentially has a supervote to override the community's vote for any reason, and the community is powerless if the querent chooses poorly. The only case where the querent &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; have a supervote is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; since in that case only the querent can really know the correct answer even if other stories fit just as well as described.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to an &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/1458380/questions-with-accepted-answers-not-highest-scoring&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SEDE query for story ID questions with an accepted answer that is not the highest scoring&lt;/a&gt;, there are 174 questions on the site that would theoretically be negatively affected by this change. This is only 0.9% of all story ID questions, so it's not as significant a problem as I'd initially feared. The community is able to (and should) correct the scores for the affected questions by upvoting the accepted answer -- the vast majority of the affected questions could be fixed by only a couple dozen users upvoting the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, it turns out that many of the 174 &amp;quot;affected&amp;quot; questions are not really affected by the change. The past few days I've been going through the list and upvoting the accepted answers on these questions, but in many cases the accepted answer and the highest scoring answer cite the same work (e.g., &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/235606/31936&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/242590/31936&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/56794/31936&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/175391/31936&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/72751/31936&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;) or the accepted answer was posted by the querent (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/accepted-answer&quot;&gt;in which case the accepted answer is &lt;em&gt;already&lt;/em&gt; not pinned to the top&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;strong&gt;The number of questions that would be affected by the change is even smaller than estimated, and the community has the power to reduce that number to 0.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastActivityDate="2021-09-13T18:57:29.690" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13485" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-09-19T21:44:22.950" Score="12" ViewCount="225" Body="&lt;p&gt;The meta question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12113/should-we-allow-or-indicate-non-english-titles-for-sff-works-along-the-english-t&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; gives good reasons why tags should be in English, but the discussion does not cover works that were in a foreign language to begin with. I think this is an edge case that needs to be clarified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone wants to ask a question about such a work, should the corresponding tag be the original title, or an English translation of that title? What if it's  a &lt;strong&gt;bad&lt;/strong&gt; translation into English? What if there are several? Which one should be used?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was triggered by my attempt to tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/253996/are-there-two-brizans&quot;&gt;my latest question&lt;/a&gt; about a French TV show with its original title.  I needed to vent a little on chat when the grave accent &lt;strong&gt;è&lt;/strong&gt; in the tag name was converted to a plain &lt;strong&gt;e&lt;/strong&gt;. @Jenayah referred me to the meta question linked at the top. I wasn't really sure that covered this case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An extreme case would be the weird 1991 Soviet adaptation of &lt;em&gt;The Lord of The Rings&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khraniteli&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Хранители&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (transliterates as &lt;strong&gt;Khraniteli&lt;/strong&gt;). Google Translate renders it as &amp;quot;Keepers&amp;quot;, Wikipedia as &amp;quot;Keepers of the Ring&amp;quot;, but I was told it translated directly to &amp;quot;Guardians&amp;quot;. I can't imagine any other tag than &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/khraniteli&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;khraniteli&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;khraniteli&lt;/a&gt;. Anything else would detract from its &amp;quot;specialness&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that rather than a &amp;quot;tag in English&amp;quot;, we might have to go for &amp;quot;tag the best-known title&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63330" LastEditorUserId="63330" LastEditDate="2021-09-19T22:09:17.837" LastActivityDate="2021-09-27T02:39:18.270" Title="Non English tags, redux" Tags="|discussion|tags|language|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13486" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13487" CreationDate="2021-09-25T22:18:32.687" Score="7" ViewCount="354" Body="&lt;p&gt;This post is for the ninth of SFF.SE's new series of &lt;strong&gt;topic challenges&lt;/strong&gt;, encouraging the site's community to take part together in asking and answering questions on a particular topic each month. According to community votes on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;topic challenge proposals thread&lt;/a&gt;, the October 2021 topic challenge is going to be devoted to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Wolfe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;prolific American writer of sci-fi and fantasy&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Gene Wolfe&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/gene-wolfe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;gene-wolfe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gene-wolfe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's a topic challenge and how do I take part?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13211/31394&quot;&gt;Announcing a Topic Challenge program for SFF.SE&lt;/a&gt;, and also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/240634/278659&quot;&gt;this main meta post&lt;/a&gt;. In short, during October 2021 we should all try to: either read some Gene Wolfe stories and ask interesting questions about them, or help out by &lt;em&gt;answering&lt;/em&gt; other people's questions about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Participation is not obligatory in any sense, but those who participate will be forever remembered in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13487/31394&quot;&gt;annals of our history&lt;/a&gt;. We'll keep a list of all Gene Wolfe questions asked during October 2021 in an answer to this meta post. At the end of the month, I'll collate some data like highest-scoring question, most-viewed question, highest-scoring answer, etc. There won't be any real-world rewards like in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1138/31394&quot;&gt;the old days&lt;/a&gt; when Stack Exchange was smaller and more generous, but I'll be awarding at least one bounty after the end of the month (assuming there's at least one good answer posted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's next?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Future topic challenges will be chosen by community votes, so come over and propose or vote on suggestions at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;Propose future topics for SFF topic challenges!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The Gene Wolfe answer will be deleted from that thread at the start of October, since already chosen topics shouldn't stick at the top of the thread and distract people from those still to be voted on.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2022-12-25T12:39:57.123" Title="October 2021 Topic Challenge: Gene Wolfe" Tags="|discussion|topic-challenge|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13486" CreationDate="2021-09-25T22:19:51.693" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;List of all questions posted as part of this topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/254573/31394&quot;&gt;Is the Sante Croix officer actually Number Five&amp;#39;s brother?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394/rand-althor&quot;&gt;Rand al'Thor&lt;/a&gt;, 03/10/2021.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/254809/31394&quot;&gt;How clear is the geographical setting of the Book of the New Sun from the text?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394/rand-althor&quot;&gt;Rand al'Thor&lt;/a&gt;, 09/10/2021.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/254853/what-evidence-is-there-that-severian-encounters-evidence-of-himself-from-the-pas&quot;&gt;What evidence is there that Severian encounters evidence of himself from the past?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/48874/buzz&quot;&gt;Buzz&lt;/a&gt;, 11/10/2021.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/254855/was-the-backward-running-time-stream-of-the-cacogens-intended-as-an-allusion-to&quot;&gt;Was the backward-running time stream of the cacogens intended as an allusion to T. H. White&amp;#39;s Merlyn?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/48874/buzz&quot;&gt;Buzz&lt;/a&gt;, 11/10/2021.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/255487/31394&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;The Hero as Werwolf&amp;quot;: why that spelling for werewolf?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394/rand-althor&quot;&gt;Rand al'Thor&lt;/a&gt;, 30/10/2021.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;highest-voted&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;most viewed&lt;/strong&gt; of these is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/255487/31394&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;The Hero as Werwolf&amp;quot;: why that spelling for werewolf?&lt;/a&gt;, with a score of &lt;strong&gt;18&lt;/strong&gt; and approximately &lt;strong&gt;1000&lt;/strong&gt; views at the end of October.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2022-12-25T12:39:57.123" LastActivityDate="2022-12-25T12:39:57.123" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-09-25T22:19:51.693" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13485" CreationDate="2021-09-27T02:29:30.223" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You can't just take a foreign word and respell it to &amp;quot;look English.&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's get the specific example out of the way first: &amp;quot;la-derniere-vague&amp;quot; is neither English nor French. French considers the grave accent on è to be mandatory, so &amp;quot;derniere&amp;quot; is a misspelling according to French orthography (and there's no such word at all in English). There are only two strings that could &lt;em&gt;possibly&lt;/em&gt; be valid tag names here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;la-dernière-vague&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the-last-wave&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is, which of those two names should we use?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, &lt;strong&gt;tag names should favor English where it is reasonable to do so,&lt;/strong&gt; because we are an English-speaking site and tags can only have one true (displayed) name. This issue has been discussed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12113/36526&quot;&gt;at length&lt;/a&gt; and I don't think it would be appropriate to re-litigate it here. Tag synonyms can take care of people typing a different name, so this should not be too much of an inconvenience, anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, there may be some cases where the English name is problematic, for example because it is ambiguous (many adaptations under the same name) or poorly-recognized. It might be appropriate, on a case by case basis, to make exceptions in recognition of these problems. I am not going to attempt to set out specific rules for determining when those exceptions should be made, except to say that &lt;strong&gt;the tag should actually be an official name of the work (or an official translation thereof).&lt;/strong&gt; If a work was never translated into English, then use its non-English title, because that is the only title which is unambiguously correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for transliteration of non-Latin alphabets... I have no idea. That's a more complicated topic and it would probably be better to address it separately. Certainly, tag synonyms should exist between the Romanized and original spellings, assuming the tag is popular enough for anyone to bother with setting them up. As for which one should be primary (assuming there's no reasonable English name), I would suggest picking the name which is more likely to be recognized by a larger group of people, and take it to meta in cases of disagreement on specific works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36526" LastEditorUserId="36526" LastEditDate="2021-09-27T02:39:18.270" LastActivityDate="2021-09-27T02:39:18.270" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13489" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13490" CreationDate="2021-09-28T06:44:45.167" Score="2" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/254283/why-is-luna-lovegood-reading-this-book-upside-down&quot;&gt;last question&lt;/a&gt; hit HNQ, but now Scifi not allowing me to post a question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lm35F.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lm35F.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144935" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2021-09-28T10:22:01.287" LastActivityDate="2021-09-28T10:22:01.287" Title="Why Scifi not allowing me to post a question?" Tags="|support|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13489" CreationDate="2021-09-28T08:05:23.490" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rate limit here is put in place by the system based on a number of factors, mostly though how well &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; your recent questions have been received, not just your latest one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How is the length of  time that I'm limited actually calculated?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's based on your average question score, how long you tend to wait between asking questions, how well you participate in other ways on the site, and how often you tend to revisit and improve your posts, even the positively scored ones. We don't provide the actual formula and details, only because we want folks to focus on what the system is trying to tell them, rather than trying to find ways around it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rate limits vary from 1 to 7 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/271542/4631427&quot;&gt;Why won't the system allow me to ask questions for several days?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The linked meta post above from SO meta has some good details about this case for you to look over, as does the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/asking-rate-limited&quot;&gt;relevant help page&lt;/a&gt;. I suggest you read over some of the more general suggestions there and then see if you can improve your questions going forward. This might just be a false positive as your last question was well received but it's worth taking a step back and seeing if there is anything you need to do moving forward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2021-09-28T08:05:23.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13491" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13492" CreationDate="2021-09-28T08:51:45.367" Score="4" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today there's a banner up top that says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We changed our privacy policy. Read more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The link goes to meta.stackexchange.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For...reasons, I don't read meta.stackexchange.com.  I even have it blocked on my PC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there another location where we can read about these privacy changes?  Can the post be duplicated here somewhere, for instance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1498" LastActivityDate="2021-09-28T10:06:39.630" Title="Can we read about the privacy policy changes somewhere besides meta.se?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13491" CreationDate="2021-09-28T10:06:39.630" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is the post by Phillipe:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you know, periodically we update our privacy policy. Today is one of those days: we've made a few changes to the privacy policy. The policy covers how we collect and use data on the entire network, including Stack Overflow for Teams and the public Q&amp;amp;A site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Changes include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The privacy notice was completely redrafted and updated to ensure it remains accurate, up to date, and effective.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The International Data transfer section was updated to reflect that we no longer rely on the Privacy Shield to transfer data across borders.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The structure of the sections and layout of the privacy notice was simplified to make it clearer and easier to navigate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We previously had three separate notices for Teams; one each for Free, Basic, and Business - these were merged into a single privacy notice covering Free, Basic, and Business together.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Enterprise Privacy Notice was updated.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A new policy was created for Collectives on Stack Overflow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The policy now covers employer branding, which is an ad product.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The policy has been updated to reflect changes to privacy laws and the privacy landscape.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/legal/privacy-policy&quot;&gt;Privacy Policy&lt;/a&gt; can be found in the footer of every page on the network, and - for visibility - we are using the site banner to direct users to this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; not covered in his post that is being hashed out by various other community members, but this is all I can copy here due to the length of each answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2021-09-28T10:06:39.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13493" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-09-28T20:38:54.377" Score="8" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Update&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the data has been submitted to the post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2021/10/favorite-questions-and-answers-from-third-quarter-2021/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Favorite Question and Answers from Third Quarter 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Origin&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from July 1st 2021 through September 30th 2021.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2021/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2021/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2021/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I will be linking all blog posts that happened within this quarter year. Also the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/revision/1483709/1819138/most-controversial-posts-on-the-site-by-start-date&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;most controversial question&lt;/a&gt; of the quarter. Also a sum of all the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/revision/1483710/1819137/past-bounties-by-bounty-date&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;bounties&lt;/a&gt; that were awarded.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally if there was a meta post you feel should be spotlighted those are also acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2021-10-13T11:59:00.037" LastActivityDate="2021-10-13T11:59:00.037" Title="Favorite Question and Answers from Third Quarter 2021" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13494" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-10-01T15:55:27.963" Score="4" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was in the process of asking a question on the main Sci-Fi stack when the Similar Questions section started glitching out, rendering it an almost illegible mess. Can you please fix this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/B4Ssv.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/B4Ssv.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="109276" LastEditorUserId="109276" LastEditDate="2021-10-01T16:14:06.957" LastActivityDate="2021-10-01T16:14:06.957" Title="Similar Questions Glitch" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13496" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13497" CreationDate="2021-10-07T13:36:47.593" Score="9" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was going to post the following question about Dragons in Temeraire, but looking for appropriate tags started to think it might be off topic as science based. Could I get a feeling in the room?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Naomi Novik's Temeraire series Dragons are seen to mature very quickly and then live a very long time. From the information in the books Dragons seem to reach adult size in around a year, sexual maturity in at most 2 years, but can then live for up to two centuries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a real animal that this sort of growth cycle is based on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40437" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2021-10-08T15:25:12.727" LastActivityDate="2021-10-08T15:25:12.727" Title="Would this Dragons question be on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13496" CreationDate="2021-10-07T17:03:09.963" Score="11" Body="&lt;h2&gt;It depends.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As written, it's not entirely clear what your specific question is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're wanting to know whether the growth cycles of this author's fictional dragons were based directly on a real world animal, then that would be very firmly on topic e.g. &lt;em&gt;what inspired her to make her dragons like this?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're simply wanting to know whether there are any real world animals that share a similar growth pattern to those seen in the book, then that would be firmly off-topic. Stripped of the fantasy content, it's just a question about the growth patterns of mundane animals and that would be better asked elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2021-10-07T17:03:09.963" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13498" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-10-08T11:49:20.347" Score="5" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;Added &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cultivation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cultivation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cultivation&lt;/a&gt; after running into yet another &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; query regarding it. Went ahead and tagged a number of older questions on the topic, although I halted around 5 or so so as to avoid spamming the site. I'll admit that it's not really my genre of fiction, but it seems to come up often enough, generally as part of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/manga&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;manga&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;manga&lt;/a&gt; query, although it's more often an &lt;em&gt;manhua&lt;/em&gt; from China.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2021-10-08T11:49:20.347" Title="Cultivated a new tag, Cultivation" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13448" CreationDate="2021-10-09T08:47:52.327" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know it's too late for the blog post, but wanted to have this recorded at least on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Topic challenges&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second quarter of 2021 saw the continuation of SFF.SE's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13211/31394&quot;&gt;topic challenge program&lt;/a&gt;, with three topic challenges completed during this quarter: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13310/31394&quot;&gt;David Weber / Honorverse&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13332/31394&quot;&gt;Margaret St. Clair&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13347/31394&quot;&gt;Thaddeus Howze&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The April challenge was our most successful so far by question count, producing ten questions from three distinct users (DVK-on-Ahch-To, Jontia, Rand al'Thor). It was a hard choice, but my favourite was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/245421/31394&quot;&gt;Did Weber base People&amp;#39;s Republic of Haven on post-revolution France?&lt;/a&gt;, where I awarded a bounty to Clara Diaz Sanchez's answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The May challenge produced three questions from two distinct users (Rand al'Thor, Clara Diaz Sanchez). My favourite was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/246656/31394&quot;&gt;Meaning of acronym UNBI&lt;/a&gt;, where I'll award a bounty to Buzz's answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The June challenge, our first inspired by an SFF.SE user who is also a writer, produced three questions from two distinct users (SQB, Rand al'Thor). Only one answer was posted to any of these questions, and I didn't award any bounty that month.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2021-10-09T08:47:52.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13493" CreationDate="2021-10-09T11:25:51.817" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Topic challenges&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The third quarter of 2021 saw a bit of a low point (in its second half) in SFF.SE's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13211/31394&quot;&gt;topic challenge program&lt;/a&gt;, with only two topic challenges completed during this quarter: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13421/31394&quot;&gt;Rivers of London&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13440/31394&quot;&gt;The Elder Scrolls&lt;/a&gt; (the latter run jointly with Arqade SE).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The July challenge produced five questions from three distinct users (Jontia, Rand al'Thor, Spencer). My favourite &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/252117/31394&quot;&gt;Is there a particular building on the real Russell Square that we can identify as the Folly?&lt;/a&gt; (I love a good &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/real-location&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;real-location&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;real-location&lt;/a&gt; question), but it remains unanswered, so instead I'm promoting &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/251055/31394&quot;&gt;How do all the short stories and graphic novels fit into the Rivers of London Timeline&lt;/a&gt;, where I'll award a bounty to Jontia's answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The August challenge was our first experiment at a joint topic challenge with a sister site, in this case &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/q/15955&quot;&gt;Arqade aka Gaming SE&lt;/a&gt;. This event produced only one SFF question (asked by nick012000) and two Arqade questions from two distinct users (Tyll'a, prince). The SFF question remains unanswered, so I didn't award any bounty in that topic challenge.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There was no September challenge, because I was busy IRL and forgot to post one, and nobody else picked up the slack. Topic challenges will continue in the last quarter of 2021.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2021-10-09T11:25:51.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13493" CreationDate="2021-10-11T09:58:07.497" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;These are my favorites that I've found today (a couple of months ago I might have had other favorites, which I've forgotten about since :-) ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/252756/short-story-about-someone-who-is-exiled-on-a-prison-planet-where-some-people-bur/252764#comment693728_252764&quot;&gt;A planet called Shayol/Treason&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/251485/how-many-books-did-isaac-asimov-write/251489#comment689397_251489&quot;&gt;This brilliant answer compiling and counting Asimov books, etc.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I particularly like the two recent answers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/81769/help-identifying-a-story-where-kids-discover-some-kind-of-wormhole-in-a-garden#comment687861_81769&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; older question (what can I do if one of those two answers is mine :-)  ).  I hope the OP will look and respond...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another great late answer - the accepted answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/198169/movie-like-body-snatchers-with-bus-and-cielito-lindo/251188#comment687395_251188&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question was a great find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/250989/how-intelligent-is-the-doctor-compared-to-other-galifreyans/251040#251040&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; was one of the most fun.  The really correct answer would be a combination of the accepted answer and Pete's, but I guess neither of us wanted to poach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59154" LastEditorUserId="59154" LastEditDate="2021-10-11T10:06:10.440" LastActivityDate="2021-10-11T10:06:10.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13502" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-10-12T14:40:44.563" Score="11" ViewCount="314" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13461/can-we-please-have-our-close-reason-this-question-does-not-appear-to-be-about&quot;&gt;consensus on adding a fourth custom-close reason&lt;/a&gt; (and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13461/can-we-please-have-our-close-reason-this-question-does-not-appear-to-be-about?noredirect=1#comment47486_13461&quot;&gt;confirmation from Community Manager @Catija that she's happy to do so&lt;/a&gt;), we now need to agree on the wording.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7229/3rd-custom-close-reason&quot;&gt;original phrasing&lt;/a&gt; was...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This question does not appear to be about science fiction or fantasy within the scope defined in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/help&quot;&gt;the help center&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which I felt (at the time and now) is perfectly clear, but there's evidently concern that this is '&lt;em&gt;too generic and not helpful&lt;/em&gt;' and there's too much scope for it to be used to generically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas on how to improve it? Suggestion from @Catija was&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The media this question is about is not considered Sci-fi or Fantasy by our scope [link to meta post]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2022-03-15T18:19:11.107" LastActivityDate="2022-03-16T14:38:17.283" Title="Wording for fourth (custom) close reason - &quot;Not about science fiction or fantasy&quot;" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13502" CreationDate="2021-10-12T16:48:54.893" Score="7" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brief Description&lt;/strong&gt; is the bold header for the close reason.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of Scope&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Usage Guidance&lt;/strong&gt; is what will appear in the close menu, advising people when to use the close reason.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The work or story element being referenced in this question is not considered to be Science Fiction or Fantasy within this community's scope. For more details about what is considered in-scope, please  (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;follow this link&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Close Description&lt;/strong&gt; will be shown to everyone in the post notice and should be relatively short.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was closed for not being about a work or element of Science Fiction or Fantasy (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;described here&lt;/a&gt;). It is currently not accepting answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Post Owner Guidance&lt;/strong&gt; appears in the post notice and is how the OP should fix the question (if possible).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was closed for not being about a work or element of Science Fiction or Fantasy (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;described here&lt;/a&gt;).  Please edit your question to show clear elements of Science Fiction or Fantasy. After that, you can post a request on our meta site for the question to be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Privileged User Guidance&lt;/strong&gt; is informative for the people with close privilege regarding what the close reason is.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site is about Science Fiction and Fantasy, and questions should clearly ask about works or elements from this genre. An asker may or may not actually have such a subject in mind, but even then, we can't be sure when the question doesn't contain clear details within the site's scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="63330" LastEditDate="2022-03-16T14:38:17.283" LastActivityDate="2022-03-16T14:38:17.283" CommentCount="12" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-10-12T16:48:54.893" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13502" CreationDate="2021-10-16T14:20:43.320" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am going to suggest a slight modification to @Catija's wording:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question does not refer to a work or story element that is considered Sci-fi or Fantasy within our scope [link to meta post]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this wording covers all of the bases without going too far into the weeds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I dislike the word &amp;quot;media&amp;quot; here because a story's substrate should be irrelevant.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sometimes tropes in general are the subjects of questions, especially history-of ones&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some story-id questions don't have enough details to determine if a specific work is meant or not.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sometimes there are mixtures of elements from different stories that OP conflated.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Finally, there have been several questions about works that OP thinks is SF or fantasy, but just can't provide any elements that fit the bill.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;work or story element&amp;quot; could be lengthened to &amp;quot;work, story element, or cultural phenomenon&amp;quot; or just shortened to &amp;quot;anything&amp;quot; (but the latter might come across as too nasty).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63330" LastEditorUserId="14111" LastEditDate="2021-10-17T05:39:31.653" LastActivityDate="2021-10-17T05:39:31.653" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13505" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13511" CreationDate="2021-10-22T13:50:43.813" Score="18" ViewCount="399" Body="&lt;p&gt;We now have a third movie for &lt;em&gt;Dune&lt;/em&gt; (ostensibly a movie series... if they ever get the latter parts made). There are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/255230&quot;&gt;questions now being asked specific to this movie&lt;/a&gt;. Normally we'd do &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-2021&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-2021&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-2021&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-dune-2021-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;dune-2021&lt;/a&gt; or such, but this is supposed to be a movie series. Do we want fragmentation into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-2021&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-2021&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-2021&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-dune-2021-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;dune-2021&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-2024&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-2024&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-2024&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-dune-2024-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;dune-2024&lt;/a&gt;, etc? And do we need separate tags for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/253642/what-did-herbert-think-of-david-lynchs-dune&quot;&gt;questions about the Lynch movie&lt;/a&gt;? What about the SyFy channel mini-series?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is it all just &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-dune-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;dune&lt;/a&gt;? Because... &lt;em&gt;Dune&lt;/em&gt;, 'nuff said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastEditorUserId="7957" LastEditDate="2024-04-03T15:55:29.137" LastActivityDate="2024-04-03T15:55:29.137" Title="How should we tag the Dune movies?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13505" CreationDate="2021-10-22T16:29:24.547" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Franchise&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-dune-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;dune&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Books&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-1965&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-1965&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-1965&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-dune-1965-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;dune-1965&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-novel&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-dune-novel-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;dune-novel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-messiah&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-messiah&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-messiah&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-dune-messiah-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;dune-messiah&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/children-of-dune&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;children-of-dune&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;children-of-dune&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-children-of-dune-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;children-of-dune&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and so on&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Adaptations&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-1984&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-1984&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-1984&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-dune-1984-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;dune-1984&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-2000&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-2000&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-2000&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-dune-2000-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;dune-2000&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-2021&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-2021&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-2021&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-dune-2021-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;dune-2021&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-part-one&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-part-one&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-part-one&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-dune-part-one-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;dune-part-one&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-2024&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-2024&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-2024&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-dune-2024-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;dune-2024&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-part-two&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-part-two&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-part-two&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-dune-part-two-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;dune-part-two&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="7957" LastEditDate="2024-04-03T15:51:00.890" LastActivityDate="2024-04-03T15:51:00.890" CommentCount="13" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-10-22T16:29:24.547" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13240" CreationDate="2021-10-22T16:41:56.667" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Patricia McKillip&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;McKillip is &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1022&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;not a prolific writer&lt;/a&gt; - only 25 novels and 4 collections over a career of nearly 50 years (so far) - but a very good one.  Many people have heard of &lt;em&gt;The Riddle-Master of Hed&lt;/em&gt; and its sequels, but she has written a lot of other stories worth reading.  (In my opinion, of course.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She writes fantasy, but a fantasy that is about as far as one can get from Tolkien and still be in the same genre.  Some of it is modern fantasy, but the majority is written in unique worlds of her own.  One of the things I really appreciate about her works is that in most of them there is rarely any violence, and the heroes are heroic while still being almost normal people (given the milieu), which make them excellent books to recommend to advanced younger readers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe she merits consideration as an &amp;quot;underappreciated&amp;quot; author, and since she uses a lot of metaphor I think there are probably a lot of potential questions.  (For instance, in &lt;em&gt;The Alphabet of Thorn&lt;/em&gt; Bourne of Seale claims that all magic is illusion, but then it seems that he does &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; drop the Floating School; which view is correct?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2023-01-29T13:54:16.550" LastActivityDate="2021-10-22T16:41:56.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13508" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13509" CreationDate="2021-10-22T22:14:02.310" Score="6" ViewCount="421" Body="&lt;p&gt;This post is for the tenth of SFF.SE's new series of &lt;strong&gt;topic challenges&lt;/strong&gt;, encouraging the site's community to take part together in asking and answering questions on a particular topic each month. According to community votes on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;topic challenge proposals thread&lt;/a&gt;, the November 2021 topic challenge is going to be devoted to an &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_R._Delany&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;American sci-fi author&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Samuel R. Delany&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/samuel-r-delany&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;samuel-r-delany&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;samuel-r-delany&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's a topic challenge and how do I take part?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13211/31394&quot;&gt;Announcing a Topic Challenge program for SFF.SE&lt;/a&gt;, and also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/240634/278659&quot;&gt;this main meta post&lt;/a&gt;. In short, during November 2021 we should all try to: either read some Delany stories and ask interesting questions about them, or help out by &lt;em&gt;answering&lt;/em&gt; other people's questions about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Participation is not obligatory in any sense, but those who participate will be forever remembered in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13509/31394&quot;&gt;annals of our history&lt;/a&gt;. We'll keep a list of all Delany questions asked during November 2021 in an answer to this meta post. At the end of the month, I'll collate some data like highest-scoring question, most-viewed question, highest-scoring answer, etc. There won't be any real-world rewards like in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1138/31394&quot;&gt;the old days&lt;/a&gt; when Stack Exchange was smaller and more generous, but I'll be awarding at least one bounty after the end of the month (assuming there's at least one good answer posted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's next?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Future topic challenges will be chosen by community votes, so come over and propose or vote on suggestions at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;Propose future topics for SFF topic challenges!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The Samuel R. Delany answer will be deleted from that thread at the start of November, since already chosen topics shouldn't stick at the top of the thread and distract people from those still to be voted on.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2021-12-01T06:06:22.580" Title="November 2021 topic challenge: Samuel R. Delany" Tags="|discussion|topic-challenge|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13508" CreationDate="2021-10-22T22:16:07.567" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;List of all questions posted as part of this topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/255579/31394&quot;&gt;In Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren, what catastrophe befell the city of Bellona?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/145218/silly-but-true&quot;&gt;Silly but True&lt;/a&gt;, 01/11/2021.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/255552/is-samuel-r-delaney-s-wonder-woman-an-official-part-of-leiber-estate-s-fafhrd&quot;&gt;Is Samuel R. Delany’s Wonder Woman an official part of Leiber Estate’s Fafhrd &amp;amp; the Gray Mouser continuity?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/145218/silly-but-true&quot;&gt;Silly but True&lt;/a&gt;, 01/11/2021.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An unserious train wreck joke: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/255564/in-samuel-r-delaney-s-hogg-does-xxx-question-censored-for-profanity&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/255564/in-samuel-r-delaney-s-hogg-does-xxx-question-censored-for-profanity&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/145218/silly-but-true&quot;&gt;Silly but True&lt;/a&gt;, 01/11/2021.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/255621/31394&quot;&gt;In Samuel R. Delany’s Flight from Nev&amp;#232;r&amp;#255;on, is its NYC intended to be a fictionalized version of the city?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/145218/silly-but-true&quot;&gt;Silly but True&lt;/a&gt;, 02/11/2021.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/255657/why-does-the-kid-wear-one-sandal&quot;&gt;Why does the Kid wear only one sandal?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/125981/clara-diaz-sanchez&quot;&gt;Clara Diaz Sanchez&lt;/a&gt;, 03/11/2021.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/256342/31394&quot;&gt;Are the Poems of Rydra Wong in Babel-17 based on the real works of Marilyn Hacker?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/112520/david-siegel&quot;&gt;David Siegel&lt;/a&gt;, 22/11/2021.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/256359/are-there-reliable-sources-for-the-influence-of-babel-17-on-other-sf-using-stron&quot;&gt;Are there reliable sources for the influence of Babel-17 on other SF using strong Sapir–Whorf?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/112520/david-siegel&quot;&gt;David Siegel&lt;/a&gt;, 22/11/2021.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/256490/was-there-any-special-reason-why-samuel-delany-s-the-star-pit-radio-play-adaptat&quot;&gt;Was there any special reason why Samuel Delany’s The Star-Pit Radio Play Adaptation was played on radio at Thanksgiving for more than a decade?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/145218/silly-but-true&quot;&gt;Silly but True&lt;/a&gt;, 25/11/2021.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/256512/authorship-of-the-dying-castles&quot;&gt;Authorship of &amp;quot;The Dying Castles&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/125981/clara-diaz-sanchez&quot;&gt;Clara Diaz Sanchez&lt;/a&gt;, 26/11/2021.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/256650/do-the-events-in-empire-star-happen-only-once-the-same-way-over-and-over-or-sl&quot;&gt;Do the events in Empire Star happen only once, the same way over and over, or slightly differently in different iterations?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/63330/spencer&quot;&gt;Spencer&lt;/a&gt;, 30/11/2021.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;highest-voted&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;most viewed&lt;/strong&gt; of these is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/255657/31394&quot;&gt;Why does the Kid wear only one sandal?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/125981/clara-diaz-sanchez&quot;&gt;Clara Diaz Sanchez&lt;/a&gt;, with a score of &lt;strong&gt;13&lt;/strong&gt; and approximately &lt;strong&gt;850&lt;/strong&gt; views at the end of November.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2021-12-01T06:06:22.580" LastActivityDate="2021-12-01T06:06:22.580" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-10-22T22:16:07.567" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13510" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13513" CreationDate="2021-10-28T09:39:09.913" Score="1" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of the tags in the system use the &amp;quot;For questions about...&amp;quot; boilerplate to start the tag, is it worth getting rid of these and/or discouraging the format for new tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40437" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2021-10-28T09:41:46.053" LastActivityDate="2021-11-05T10:47:18.853" Title="Tag wiki excerpts starting with &quot;For questions about&quot;" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13505" CreationDate="2021-10-28T12:29:19.277" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In principle, all our Dune tags should start with &lt;code&gt;dune&lt;/code&gt; so we can use wildcard searches (I think you can use a leading wildcards, but sticking to one pattern is more consistent)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the following token in the tag should either be, presented in order of least ambiguity:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Books: Title, subtitle, or date (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-1965&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-1965&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dune-1965&lt;/a&gt;: no title, no subtitle, date added to avoid confusion with the franchise tag; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-messiah&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-messiah&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dune-messiah&lt;/a&gt;: subtitle taken as 'messiah', as using the full title gives &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-dune-messiah&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-dune-messiah&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dune-dune-messiah&lt;/a&gt; is excessively redundant; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-children-of-dune&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-children-of-dune&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dune-children-of-dune&lt;/a&gt; full title used as there is no sensible subtitle to use, and doesn't introduce excessive redundancy)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Film: The director, the Production company, or the Distribution company. (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-lynch&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-lynch&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dune-lynch&lt;/a&gt;: there is only one Lynch film in the franchise; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-villeneuve&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-villeneuve&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dune-villeneuve&lt;/a&gt;: there will be multiple films, however if it's expected there to be one director across the series, we can switch to production company, etc..&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Board/Card/Video Games: Title, Subtitle, Type of game (plus Production company or Year) ( e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-card-game&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-card-game&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dune-card-game&lt;/a&gt;:  no title, no subtitle and the type of game (card game) is unambiguous enough; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-board-game-avalon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-board-game-avalon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dune-board-game-avalon&lt;/a&gt;:  no title, no subtitle and the type of game (boardgame) is ambiguous, so add the production company; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-imperium&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-imperium&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dune-imperium&lt;/a&gt;: use subtitle; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-2000&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-2000&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dune-2000&lt;/a&gt; use subtitle (2000); &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-video-game&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-video-game&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dune-video-game&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-video-game-ii&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-video-game-ii&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dune-video-game-ii&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally if needed, the last token should by used to disambiguate between related media:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-villeneuve-part-one&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-villeneuve-part-one&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dune-villeneuve-part-one&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-villeneuve-2021&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-villeneuve-2021&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dune-villeneuve-2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Franchise&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dune&lt;/a&gt; - Only for questions about the franchise as a whole, or media-agnostic questions, and not a meta tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good usage:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/253467/where-is-food-found-on-arrakis&quot;&gt;Where is food found on Arrakis?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dune&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/food&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;food&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;food&lt;/a&gt; (media-agnostic question)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/242218/in-the-original-six-dune-books-when-was-the-first-mention-of-the-golden-path-a&quot;&gt;In the original six Dune books, when was the first mention of the Golden path, and did it mean the same thing as it did by the end?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dune&lt;/a&gt; (franchise as a whole)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bad usage:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/255230/where-is-house-ordos-in-the-2021-movie-dune&quot;&gt;Where is House Ordos in the 2021 movie Dune?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dune&lt;/a&gt; (should be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-villeneuve-2021&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-villeneuve-2021&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dune-villeneuve-2021&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Books&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should be of the form &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/franchise-title&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;franchise-title&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;franchise-title&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/franchise-subtitle&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;franchise-subtitle&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;franchise-subtitle&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/franchise-year&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;franchise-year&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;franchise-year&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-1965&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-1965&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dune-1965&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dune-novel&lt;/a&gt; (should be the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; one with a date, as there is no subtitle)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-messiah&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-messiah&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dune-messiah&lt;/a&gt; for the book 'Dune: Messiah' (title already starts with 'dune', so we include subtitle)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-children-of-dune&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-children-of-dune&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dune-children-of-dune&lt;/a&gt; for the book 'Children of Dune' (title does not start with 'dune', so must prefix with 'dune' if there is space (this introduces redundancy, except where we meet length limitations. Reason being that 'dune-children-of...' should autocomplete 99.99% of the time.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and so on&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Adaptations&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-lynch&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-lynch&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dune-lynch&lt;/a&gt; for use with the 1984 film only (if there had been multiple Lynch films, then we could add a date/subtitle)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-miniseries-2000&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-miniseries-2000&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dune-miniseries-2000&lt;/a&gt; for use with the 2000 syfy miniseries&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-miniseries-2003&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-miniseries-2003&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dune-miniseries-2003&lt;/a&gt; for use with the 2003 syfy miniseries&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-villeneuve&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-villeneuve&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dune-villeneuve&lt;/a&gt; for use with the ongoing film series (only hitch is if we change directors) and not individual films&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-villeneuve-2021&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-villeneuve-2021&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dune-villeneuve-2021&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-villeneuve-part-one&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-villeneuve-part-one&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dune-villeneuve-part-one&lt;/a&gt; film only tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-villeneuve-2023&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-villeneuve-2023&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dune-villeneuve-2023&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dune-villeneuve-part-two&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dune-villeneuve-part-two&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dune-villeneuve-part-two&lt;/a&gt; film only tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Others&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other entries in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(disambiguation)#Science_fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;franchise&lt;/a&gt; should follow the scheme outlined above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="31029" LastEditDate="2021-11-05T13:41:46.223" LastActivityDate="2021-11-05T13:41:46.223" CommentCount="15" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-10-28T12:29:19.277" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13510" CreationDate="2021-11-05T10:47:18.853" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/58193/thelethalcarrot&quot;&gt;&#xA;TheLethalCarrot&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point of wiki excerpts is to give a brief overview of what the tag is used for and how to, or how not to, use it in relation to other tags and asking questions. The tag wiki is really where information about the work/author should go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the part you are referencing that say &amp;quot;For questions about...&amp;quot; that's really there to say &lt;em&gt;use this tag&lt;/em&gt; (&amp;quot;For questions about...&amp;quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anything more tag excerpt should start that way or a similar way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2021-11-05T10:47:18.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13514" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13515" CreationDate="2021-11-05T10:54:17.017" Score="10" ViewCount="257" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/255704/3804&quot;&gt;Why do vampires hiss?&lt;/a&gt; asks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any thought process for [hissing], or any evidence for the choice, or did Bram Stoker just decide that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's tagged as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/trope&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;trope&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;trope&lt;/a&gt;, and although it gives some ideas, it looks like the asker wants a canonical first use (along with an explanation) of the trope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The close reason given also says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update the question so it focuses on one problem only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'm struggling to see where there is more than one problem presented?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also collected some 'Needs details or clarity' and 'Opinion-based' and again, I'm not sure what the argument there is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could well be I've missed something, but I'd like to find out the communities opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2021-11-05T14:53:08.213" Title="Why was &quot;Why do vampires hiss?&quot; considered to not be focused enough?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13514" CreationDate="2021-11-05T12:17:35.443" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question was likely closed due to &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; of the community generally &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9760/57310&quot;&gt;closing questions that do not relate to a single on-topic work&lt;/a&gt;.  This was based on the old definition of the &amp;quot;Too Broad&amp;quot; close reason which was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are either too many possible answers, or good answers would be too long for this format. Please add details to narrow the answer set or to isolate an issue that can be answered in a few paragraphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the &amp;quot;Too Broad&amp;quot; close reason was updated into the &amp;quot;Needs More Focus&amp;quot; which now reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question currently includes multiple questions in one. It should focus on one problem only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you stated this is incorrect as there is not more than one questions being asked. My personal opinion we be that the proper close reason would have been &amp;quot;Needs Detail or Clarity&amp;quot;, those details being which on-topic work the question is related to. Again I agree with you that this is incorrect as the question mentions wanting to know the origin of the trope and even specifies Bram Stoker's version of the creature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I feel &lt;strong&gt;the question should be reopened&lt;/strong&gt;, and I have cast a vote as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2021-11-05T14:53:08.213" LastActivityDate="2021-11-05T14:53:08.213" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13514" CreationDate="2021-11-05T14:09:32.113" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to close because the question seems confused.  As far as I can tell (I grepped the text of &lt;em&gt;Dracula&lt;/em&gt;) Stoker never &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; describe the titular vampire as hissing.  So the question is founded on a mistaken premise, and since most of it appears to be about &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; Stoker portrayed vampires that way, it seems unanswerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(FWIW, I think I chose needs clarity as a close reason because I feel the question doesn't really make sense.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastActivityDate="2021-11-05T14:09:32.113" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13517" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13518" CreationDate="2021-11-05T16:24:51.487" Score="9" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've found that some Stack Exchange sites quickly recommend moving a comment stream to chat after only 5 or 6 comments.  But on SFF I've never actually seen this, even when comment streams have a dozen or more comments.  What is the setting used by SFF?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63330" LastActivityDate="2021-11-06T23:22:14.680" Title="Does SFF have a high threshold for moving comment streams to chat?" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13517" CreationDate="2021-11-05T20:59:36.380" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two types of &amp;quot;threshold&amp;quot;, and neither of them &lt;em&gt;forces&lt;/em&gt; a comment stream to be moved to chat, only creates notifications (in two different possible places) that it &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; want to be moved to chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Users moving their own comments to chat.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When two users (just two) have a sufficiently long conversation in comments (&lt;a href=&quot;https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11748&quot;&gt;three&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/300466/278659&quot;&gt;four&lt;/a&gt; from each user back and forth in a row), the system will give an automatic notification &lt;em&gt;asking&lt;/em&gt; the users whether they want to automatically move the comments to chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this happens, by one of the two users pressing a button, then a chatroom will automatically be created, with a room name of the form &amp;quot;Discussion between User1 and User2&amp;quot;, and an automatic comment will appear, attributed to the person who pressed that button, to say &amp;quot;Let us continue this discussion in chat&amp;quot; with a link to the room. The newly created room will contain all comments on the given post (question or answer) from &lt;strong&gt;those two users only&lt;/strong&gt;. It doesn't work if one of the two users is suspended from chat.SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently the threshold is: that the number of comments from each of the two users must be at least 3 on main sites, 4 on meta sites, all within a 4-hour period and with no 3rd user &amp;quot;interrupting&amp;quot;. (This is information I got from an authoritative source, but it's not publicly documented anywhere yet.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moderators moving comments to chat.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the comment chain on a single post, from any number of users, reaches more than 20 comments within a 3-day period, an automatic moderator flag will be raised, informing diamond moderators that the post had more than 20 comments in the last 3 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any moderator can then press a button to migrate all comments on the post to chat. There is an option to simultaneously delete all comments on the post, but I personally (as a mod) usually don't do that, instead selectively deleting the least useful comments. Again a chatroom will automatically be created, but this time the room name will be of the form &amp;quot;Discussion on [question/answer] by User1: [title]&amp;quot;, and &lt;strong&gt;all comments on the post&lt;/strong&gt;, from any involved users (even those who are suspended from chat.SE, as long as they're still users i.e. their accounts haven't been deleted), will be copied over to the chatroom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both of these thresholds are the same on all sites (except for the main/meta difference). Maybe the comment chains you happen to have seen on SFF have involved more than two users whereas on other sites you've more often seen two-person conversations in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2021-11-05T21:14:04.363" LastActivityDate="2021-11-05T21:14:04.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13517" CreationDate="2021-11-06T23:22:14.680" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The official settings are the same on every site, but there are major cultural differences between sites with regard to what kinds of comments are considered constructive and appropriate.  Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy is very lenient toward &amp;quot;chatty&amp;quot; comments on questions and answers—things that are not really aimed at improving the main posts (which is supposed to be the main reason for leaving comments).  Comments on Science Fiction and Fantasy often involve tangential observations or even just jokes, which would not be appreciated on some other sites.  I often leave comments on this site that I would probably delete as unhelpful natter if I saw them on the Physics Stack Exchange site (where I'm a mod).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The cultural of this site means that it is not especially common for discussions to develop in comment threads, without a strong impetus (from either the commenting users themselves or from modes) to move the threads to chat.  So it's not surprising to see longer comment threads here than on other sites, where comments are policed more closely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2021-11-06T23:22:14.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13520" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-11-08T10:33:49.670" Score="28" ViewCount="461" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was saddened to learn of the recent death of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_Berry&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kit Berry&lt;/a&gt; (Kirsten Espensen), author of the wonderful fantasy series of &lt;a href=&quot;https://stonewylde.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stonewylde&lt;/a&gt;. Gollancz publishers noted her passing in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gollancz.co.uk/news/2021/11/01/rip-kit-berry/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;post dated 1 November 2021&lt;/a&gt;, and her Wikipedia page has been updated to list her date of death as 29 October 2021.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 2016, I wrote a &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2016/09/a-review-of-the-stonewylde-series/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;review&lt;/a&gt; of her Stonewylde series for the SFF blog, and was surprised and honoured to receive a reply from the author herself in a blog comment. We also communicated a bit by email back in 2016, and I always meant to email her again, and to post a question about Stonewylde here on SE in the hope of encouraging her to sign up for an account and answer it herself. Now that chance has been lost forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps not the best known of fantasy authors, but the only one that I had the privilege to communicate with directly after reading and loving her books. Rest in peace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She wasn’t burned at the Yew of Death, and nor was her presence at Stonewylde marked by a simple pebble. Her presence became Stonewylde, for this had always been her destiny.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[She] looked serene and at peace in the resting place that had always been here, had always called to her, had always waited for her. Stonewylde had at last taken her back, into the womb, into the place of dancing feet and moonlight, the place of hares and eternity, the place of moon magic and coiled spirals deep in the earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[She] lived on forever in the landscape – she was the landscape. Many years ago she had come hoping to be healed, and now she would give healing. Her love and her magic were in this place for all time, to be shared by her people and her beloved. [She] and Stonewylde were one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2021-11-08T10:33:49.670" Title="RIP - Kit Berry" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13521" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13524" CreationDate="2021-11-09T04:40:46.750" Score="5" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked a question about the Sherlock Holmes movie from 2008 on the site. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/255850/what-is-the-point-of-sherlocks-internal-plotting-in-the-2008-film/&quot;&gt;It can be found here.&lt;/a&gt; However, I was told (look in the comments of it) that it wasn't appropriate for the site. &lt;strong&gt;Are the Sherlock Holmes cinematic works - as well as the books - appropriate to ask about on the Science Fiction and Fantasy Stack Exchange?&lt;/strong&gt; Another user answered the question as if it was normal, everyday question or answer you'd find here, so I'm wondering if it's been discussed or not? Is it a difference of opinion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137615" LastActivityDate="2021-11-09T20:32:52.770" Title="Are we allowed to have questions about Sherlock Holmes (movies, books, BBC tv show, etc)?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13521" CreationDate="2021-11-09T14:05:41.140" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Turning my comments into an answer.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In general, no, but if you have a specific example it may be okay.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Referring back to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4979/can-i-ask-about-sherlock-holmes-books&quot;&gt;original question&lt;/a&gt; of whether the Doyle Holmes stories were on topic the consensus was that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;pretty much none of the Sherlock Holmes have any science fiction or fantasy elements whatsoever, making them firmly off-topic for this site. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10720/57310&quot;&gt;(source)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now as far as any film or television adaptations go there are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://bakerstreet.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Sherlock_Holmes_Adaptations:_Films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Films&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;9 silent films from 1900-1929&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5 film series in the UK from 1931-1937&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;14 film series (Rathbone as Holmes) from 1939-1946&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 film series (Downey Jr. as Holmes) from 2009-2011 with possibly more coming&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;18 miscellaneous/one-off films&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://bakerstreet.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Sherlock_Holmes_Adaptations:_Television&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Television&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;23 English language series&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4 Russian language series&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;6 Japanese language series&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I have only seen a select few of the modern adaptations and I would say those do not fall into SFF territory. However, if any of these other adaptations do, it would be perfectly acceptable to ask about them here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2021-11-09T14:05:41.140" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13523" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-11-09T17:38:07.710" Score="20" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://ew.com/tv/dean-stockwell-dead-quantum-leap-battlestar-galactica/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dean Stockwell is dead at 85&lt;/a&gt; from natural causes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dean Stockwell, the award-winning actor who was best known for playing Admiral &amp;quot;Al&amp;quot; Calavicci on the popular sci-fi series Quantum Leap, died on Sunday from natural causes. He was 85. The actor's representatives confirmed the news to Variety and other outlets on Monday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Representatives for Stockwell didn't immediately respond to EW's request for confirmation of his death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Born Robert Dean Stockwell in 1936, the actor had a long and prominent career that spanned both film and television, with roles in features like Air Force One and David Lynch's Dune. He began his career as a child actor in the 1940s, performing on Broadway and working under Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in films alongside Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, and Gregory Peck. In 1948, he achieved fame in the form of a cult star with the sleeper hit The Boy With the Green Hair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stockwell continued to act in television, Broadway, and film until he decided to make a career change and leave Hollywood. He was famously drawn back in by a phone call from Harry Dean Stanton, who convinced him to return and join him on the film Paris, Texas. The role reignited his career leading to memorable appearances in films like Blue Velvet, Dune, The Rainmaker, and Married to the Mob which earned Stockell a 1989 supporting actor Oscar nomination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 1989, he became a household name when he starred opposite Scott Bakula as Admiral &amp;quot;Al&amp;quot; Calavicci on the quirky NBC series Quantum Leap. The show ran for five seasons, earning Stockwell multiple Emmy and Golden Globe nominations as well as a Golden Globe win in 1990. In 1992, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his achievements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Multiple television projects followed, including shows like Battlestar Galactica; JAG, The Tony Danza Show and NCIS: New Orleans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stockwell officially retired from acting in 2015 and spent the last few years creating and exhibiting art under his full name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="4918" LastEditDate="2021-11-09T20:24:24.930" LastActivityDate="2021-11-09T20:24:24.930" Title="RIP - Dean Stockwell" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13521" CreationDate="2021-11-09T20:32:52.770" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No*.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been literally dozens of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sherlock_Holmes_films_based_on_works_by_Arthur_Conan_Doyle&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;adaptations of the &lt;em&gt;original&lt;/em&gt; works of Arthur Conan Doyle&lt;/a&gt; but none of these, as far as I am aware, have been set in a &lt;em&gt;science fictional&lt;/em&gt; setting, and hence none of them would be appropriate for the site or on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*That being said, the character of Sherlock Holmes, and elements of the Conan Doyle stories have been adapted into other works that are on-topic, for example,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_in_the_22nd_Century&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Elementary,_Dear_Data_(episode)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TNG: Elementary, Dear Data&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093850/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Return of Sherlock Holmes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108117/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sherlock Holmes Returns&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://bravestarr.fandom.com/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_in_the_23rd_Century_-_Part_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sherlock Holmes in the 23rd Century&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;, etc. Feel free to ask about those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2021-11-09T20:32:52.770" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13525" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-11-12T10:29:18.443" Score="11" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently noticed a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; question with a lot of other tags, and I remember instinctively trimmed them down, as they seemed tangential to the I'd question. I can no longer find that question though. Nothing seemed amiss until I noticed others, and realising it might be more common than I thought started to look for prior meta discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QcWPAm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QcWPAm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The &amp;quot;Am I Out Of Touch?&amp;quot; Meme, showing principal Skinner looking thoughtful, which is originally captioned &amp;quot;Am I out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong.&amp;quot; This version is captioned &amp;quot;Am I out of touch with tagging practice? No, it's the users who are wrong.&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/am-i-out-of-touch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Am I Out Of Touch&amp;quot; meme&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's when I came across this four and half year old post:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9180/3804&quot;&gt;What should we do about tags on story-id questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q: Should we only tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions with tags that are specifically for story-id (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/young-adult&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;young-adult&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;young-adult&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/short-stories&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;short-stories&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;short-stories&lt;/a&gt;, etc), or have other tags as well (such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aliens&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aliens&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aliens&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/computers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;computers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;computers&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time-travel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time-travel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time-travel&lt;/a&gt; etc)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A: I think that it comes down to one of the purposes for tags, namely expertise. Someone who's an expert in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/werewolf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;werewolf&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;werewolf&lt;/a&gt; is likely to have the background to answer story-identification questions about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think this is bad necessarily, but there's probably a limit to what's useful. Adding &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; of tags like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aliens&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aliens&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aliens&lt;/a&gt; which are also used outside of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions might end up making searching for non-id  questions less user friendly some how? I think this might be especially true for some tags where being an expert in that topic doesn't necessarily mean you'd be good at identifying stories about them, say &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magic&lt;/a&gt;, which covers a wide range of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'm not sure if our users &lt;em&gt;actual experience&lt;/em&gt;. I'm also conscious that our site has changed a lot in the last almost 5 years, so add some recency to the discussion would be good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is your reaction when you see an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/*-identification&quot;&gt;identification question&lt;/a&gt; posted with &lt;em&gt;lots&lt;/em&gt; of other tags? Trim them to the bare essentials (e.g. the id tag, relevant media-tags and 1-2 others), strip all but the id tag and media-tag? Leave it be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference, here are some SEDE queries that show how tags are used with our identification tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;identification tag&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;top media-tags&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;top non-media-tag&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/1510677/tags-that-are-used-together-manual-edition?TagName=Story-identification&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/books&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;books&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aliens&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aliens&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aliens&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/time-travel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;time-travel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;time-travel&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/1510677/tags-that-are-used-together-manual-edition?TagName=character-identification&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;character-identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/1510677/tags-that-are-used-together-manual-edition?TagName=episode-identification&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;episode-identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/comics&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;comics&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Addendum:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm at least partly asking, as I noticed we don't have any advice on our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9335/how-to-ask-a-good-story-id-question&quot;&gt;How to ask a good story id question?&lt;/a&gt; meta-post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2021-11-12T10:41:24.407" LastActivityDate="2021-11-15T20:41:29.933" Title="What tags should be used alongside story-identification, and similar questions?" Tags="|discussion|tags|story-identification|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13525" CreationDate="2021-11-12T19:50:08.420" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's how I search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finding possible duplicates:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I search for the name of the work. If that's too many results I make it more specific with some of the following: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;code&gt;is:a&lt;/code&gt;, the author's name or year published. No other tags are used consistently enough to be helpful here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Media tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I use media tags sometimes when searching for ID questions to answer (because there are specialized tools to help find certain types of media, such as anidb for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/anime&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;anime&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;anime&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I feel like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fan-fiction&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fan-fiction&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fan-fiction&lt;/a&gt; is a solid, helpful tag. I don't use it much when searching though because we don't get many fanfic questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't ever use media tags otherwise&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generic tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I rarely search for them. When I do, it's with a franchise tag. Generic tags are applied too inconsistently to be helpful. (However, having these tags on the post may help the post show up even when the words don't appear in the post. That can be helpful.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82909" LastEditorUserId="82909" LastEditDate="2021-11-13T04:17:46.310" LastActivityDate="2021-11-13T04:17:46.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13527" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-11-14T11:38:07.280" Score="5" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;The two questions that inspired this post (primarily this one &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/255932/3804&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, but also &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/255705/3804&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;) are both &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-id&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-id&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-id&lt;/a&gt; questions, and although that's a type of question that &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/1511259/breakdown-of-close-reasons-for-a-tag?TagName=story-id&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;does get closed for being unclear&lt;/a&gt;, my question to the community extends beyond that tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question gets &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/closed-questions&quot;&gt;closed&lt;/a&gt; with 'unclear/needs detail', the post notice currently says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please clarify your specific problem or add additional details to highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it’s hard to tell exactly what you're asking. See the How to Ask page for help clarifying this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By this point it's usually attracted comments asking for clarification (and I'll be assuming this for my future points), usually posted by the community members who voted to close it initially.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happens in the &lt;em&gt;best case scenario&lt;/em&gt; is that the question is edited to add at least some of those details (with the option to push the question back into the review queue), and/or the original poster then also comments (or sometimes edits) explaining that they can't remember extra details requested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, it can be completely valid to re-open these questions without any extra details or comments, regardless of whether it was closed in error or something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when there are unanswered comments asking for clarification, it feels &lt;em&gt;weird&lt;/em&gt; to me to re-open the question, when none of the above is addressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me closing questions come in two main flavours, and serve two separate purposes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chocolate&lt;/strong&gt;: This post will probably never be productively answerable (it's completely out of scope, like a non-SFF question, or it's a duplicate question, and some opinion-based questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vanilla&lt;/strong&gt;: The question might be answerable in the future. Like it &amp;quot;Needs more focus&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Needs details or clarity&amp;quot;, and  some opinion based questions live here too, but if so they tend to change a lot to make them answerable.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purposes are mainly to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Prevent 'bad' answers&lt;/strong&gt;; answers that don't benefit the asker or the community. These can be answering things out of scope, 'polluting' the scope of the site's content. Or an unclear question collecting a lot of noise that doesn't address what the asker intended to ask about. Or even splitting up good answers to the same fundamental question spread across multiple posts. Users are free to vote on these, and may even really like the content despite being off-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leveraging the user to improve their question&lt;/strong&gt;; perhaps it makes them clarify or narrow down what they're asking, so as to get it opened and be able to be answered again. Whether that means the question now has more details, it only asks one thing, or the users has specified how it's not a duplicate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, by my understanding, closing an unclear question (story-id or otherwise) serves BOTH these purposes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Prevents 'guesses' based on not having enough detail, which increases noise and potential for false positives&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Encourages the user to add the detail required by the previous point&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, as I said previously:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it can be completely valid to re-open these questions without any extra details or comments, perhaps it was closed in error or something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And although it's not mandatory to leave comments, for any actions, it seems unhelpful to not address the issues raised when closing the question? It says to me, the re-open voters disagree that it's unclear or needs more details, but unlike the close voters, don't want to explain why, or refute the arguments already posted? Maybe I'm reading these votes wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Explaining your actions can be a really good way to build the community towards a common understanding of self-moderation, or indicate where a meta discussion is needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Separately, I'm also not clear on the 'rush' to re-open question. Sure there might be a limit on how long the original poster will hang around and be bothered to accept any answers, but if we're not ready to answer (the hypothetical question is unedited and still lacking in details) there's no benefit in opening it 'early', right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd really like to elicit some discussion on the points raised above, and gauge whether our community has different opinions on unclear questions to myself, or each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me know your thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2021-11-14T23:02:09.660" Title="Should questions closed for lacking details be voted for re-opening even if the original issue hasn't been addressed?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13527" CreationDate="2021-11-14T15:27:10.547" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;For my money, an on-topic &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-id&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-id&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-id&lt;/a&gt; question hangs on one element, and one element alone. Does the question have some sort of identifiable characteristic that can be used to narrow it down, ideally to a single property or at the very least a vanishingly small range of potential properties?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;Sci-fi film about a man&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are three identifiable pieces of info here (scifi/film/man) but none of them, either singly, or in combination with each other, narrow this down. We're still looking for a piece of straw in very big haystack&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;Sci-fi film about a man who uses a laser sword&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding this additional piece of info allows us to &lt;em&gt;limit&lt;/em&gt; our search, but because it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LaserBlade&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a trope&lt;/a&gt;, this only brings the limit down to a few &lt;em&gt;dozen&lt;/em&gt; films and probably is still too broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;Scifi film about a man who uses a laser sword called a lightsaber&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now we're talking. Although this question lacks info about some specifics that could narrow it down, we're probably at the point where we could take a stab (no pun intended) at an answer, at least by identifying the film series that this belongs to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of which brings me back to my opening paragraph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I won't vote to close something that contains enough info to drill down to a small handful of properties&lt;/strong&gt; (although I will probably ask OP in a comment if they can come up with any more info).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'll vote to reopen any question that meets that criterion, regardless of whether other users have already voted to close.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="14111" LastEditDate="2021-11-14T23:02:09.660" LastActivityDate="2021-11-14T23:02:09.660" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13527" CreationDate="2021-11-14T16:30:43.680" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not having voted, or even looked at, the particular questions that inspired this, I will only address the general idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are very few actions on the Stack Exchange network that require comments, and that is by design. For various reasons people often can't, or don't want to, leave comments when they take action. Of course, comments explaining actions can often be useful, but they are not a necessary component of these processes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be easier to have a productive debate about reopening a question if the reopeners explained their views. Yet this is not limited to reopening. The same is often true in reverse, where the users voting to close don't properly explain their actions (something that I have mentioned on this site before).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing to keep in mind, though, is that many such comments would not actually add much. I have often voted to reopen questions and left a comment such as &amp;quot;How is this opinion based?&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;What is unclear about this question?&amp;quot; That is essentially just a restatement of my vote &amp;quot;I think this question is not unclear/opinion based&amp;quot;. While such a comment does give close voters the opportunity to explain why they feel a the question should be closed, it doesn't actually address why it should be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One could argue, though, that the threshold for reopening is lower than for closing. A question can be presumed valid unless there is a specific reason that it is not; the burden of articulating this should be on close voters rather than reopen voters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, close voters would explain exactly why they feel a question does not meet the threshold of a valid question, and reopen voters would explain why it does. I personally try to leave such comments, especially when closing/reopening a duplicate question with a gold tag badge which is a unilateral action, but one can certainly choose to vote without commenting (e.g. you are in a rush, you don't want to get bogged down in a debate, or any other reason).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if users reopen a question without any explanation, other users are free to close it again. If this goes back and forth enough times, though, the post should be locked until the various sides can have a proper debate about it on Meta. But one round of reopening should not be an issue that requires moderator intervention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100430" LastActivityDate="2021-11-14T16:30:43.680" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13530" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13531" CreationDate="2021-11-15T00:52:43.220" Score="6" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've recently gained the privilege of accessing a few review queues, but they never have any questions in them. Is this due to lack of moderators/the time that moderators have? Or is somebody sitting on the queue reviewing questions as soon as they pop up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137615" LastEditorUserId="39144" LastEditDate="2021-11-15T06:05:50.540" LastActivityDate="2021-11-15T07:13:21.820" Title="Why are the review queues always empty?" Tags="|support|review-queue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13530" CreationDate="2021-11-15T07:13:21.820" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Review queues aren't necessarily involved with (diamond) moderators at all: the whole review process can pass by without needing diamond moderator involvement. The review queues are all about normal community members doing moderation tasks like monitoring first posts and suggested edits, voting to close or reopen questions, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the last few years, SFF has had a small group of people who are &lt;em&gt;extremely&lt;/em&gt; keen on reviewing, to the point where almost everything gets reviewed by one of a very few users. The makeup of this group has changed over time, but you can pretty much see who the current people are by looking at the stats of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/first-questions/stats&quot;&gt;First Questions&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/first-answers/stats&quot;&gt;First Answers&lt;/a&gt; queues, which are brand-new, having been first created on 26 August this year during the network-wide review queue updates. Between them, these two queues have had a little over 1000 items so far (in the last two and a half months), with over 400 reviewed by one person and nearly 300 by another one person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So basically your second option: somebod[ies] are sitting on the queue reviewing questions as soon as they pop up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2021-11-15T07:13:21.820" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13525" CreationDate="2021-11-15T13:31:06.427" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, as someone who posts &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; fairly often (curse my failing memory...), I habitually add media tags and often do add some of the non-media tags if I feel they're a major part of the story I'm looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of why I do this is simply because they're there. Part of it is that, especially for the media tags, this serves as a failsafe for me in case I was so excited about getting to explaining the fragments of plot I remember that I forget to mention it was a comic book. Some of it is that I'm never entirely certain how much of the &amp;quot;Related Questions&amp;quot; is based on text and how much on tags, so I figure the tagging makes it more likely that, if someone starts posting a question about their vampire story (or researching a query), they're more likely to see the extant vampire story question on the sidebar of related questions if it's tagged. I know it's worked for me before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the key point for me in using the non-media tags is whether it's integral. If I'm asking a question about a warrior in a fantasy world, adding the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/magic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;magic&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;magic&lt;/a&gt; tag usually doesn't help because sure, there's magic, but it's not an integral part of the plot. Now if I were posting, looking for a book that involves a unique magical system that's important to the plot, that tag makes sense. Ditto that it doesn't necessarily make sense to add &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/aliens&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;aliens&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;aliens&lt;/a&gt; for every science fiction story that has aliens somewhere in it, but a book about a particular race and how they're so alien to humanity does deserve the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I do occasionally use the media tags explicitly for searches, although it's usually for a &amp;quot;let's get a dozen specific results to see if I can get an easy answer here&amp;quot; situation before I start paring down the query to be more general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="23243" LastEditDate="2021-11-15T20:41:29.933" LastActivityDate="2021-11-15T20:41:29.933" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13240" CreationDate="2021-11-15T20:23:15.247" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._C._Hodgell&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;P.C. Hodgell&lt;/a&gt; and her &lt;a href=&quot;https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kencyrath&lt;/a&gt; books. We've had a few questions on the books (and it's come up a few times for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt;), but I'm sure there's more, and Pat is friendly to people asking questions on her mailing list (although she doesn't always answer them, and she's a bit fuzzy on details of past work in part because she can't read the past books without losing time because she wants to start fixing them).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="23243" LastEditDate="2021-11-15T22:01:05.313" LastActivityDate="2021-11-15T22:01:05.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13534" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13536" CreationDate="2021-11-16T01:54:43.887" Score="3" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basically what the title says. Is it possible to see your own posts in a review queue? Of course it's bad practice at the very least to review your own posts or whatever. However I'm trying to figure out if an edit went through and I can't tell if it did or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137615" LastActivityDate="2021-11-16T05:31:10.783" Title="Can you see your own questions or answers in a review queue?" Tags="|discussion|support|review-queue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13535" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13537" CreationDate="2021-11-16T02:54:46.667" Score="-4" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you edit and your edits are accepted, you get (to my knowledge) &lt;strong&gt;2 reputation&lt;/strong&gt;. That's not a whole lot. Now, obviously, the most reputation comes from bounties, answers, and questions, &lt;strong&gt;but shouldn't the bonus for an approved edit be higher?&lt;/strong&gt; This would encourage people to edit more often, improving the quality of the posts on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137615" LastActivityDate="2021-11-16T09:18:41.640" Title="Should there be a higher reputation bonus for editing?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13534" CreationDate="2021-11-16T05:31:10.783" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't &lt;em&gt;review&lt;/em&gt; your own posts/actions, and they won't appear for you as you browse the review queue. But you can check their status if you have a direct link to the review item.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Null mentioned, links to your own suggested edits can be found from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/current?tab=activity&amp;amp;sort=suggestions&quot;&gt;your profile&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Links to review items for a post (if it went to the First Questions/Answers or Late Answers or Low Quality Posts or Close/Reopen Votes queues) can be found in the post history page &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the review is completed: for example, you can see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/244024/timeline&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; who reviewed your first post on the site. However, there's no easy guaranteed way for non-mods to get those links while the review is still active. One possibility is going to the main /review page, where you can see who's reviewed most recently in each queue, and check the most recent reviews of those people (review actions are also visible in profile activity pages), but that's time-consuming and not guaranteed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2021-11-16T05:31:10.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13535" CreationDate="2021-11-16T08:56:27.610" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll start off by echoing what Null has said in that this would be a network wide change and so whilst it's perfectly fine to suggest it here, suggesting it over on main meta would get more eyes on it so would be preferable there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;That said I'll say that this change shouldn't be made.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having to suggest edits is a temporary &amp;quot;lock&amp;quot; on someone's account. You only need to suggest edits when you have &amp;lt;2k rep, at 2k you earn the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;edit questions and answers&lt;/a&gt; where you can submit edits instantly without the need for approval. You also then gain the ability to review other users' suggested edits in the review queue. Most importantly though you no longer earn reputation from edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/85229/not-getting-edits-2-rep-after-reaching-2k-rep&quot;&gt;this main meta post&lt;/a&gt; you'll also learn that you can only earn a maximum of 1000 rep from suggested edits as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other way to gain reputation is by &lt;strong&gt;suggesting edits&lt;/strong&gt; to existing posts as a &lt;strong&gt;new&lt;/strong&gt; registered user. Each edit will be peer reviewed, and if it is accepted, you will earn +2 reputation. You can only earn a maximum of +1000 total reputation through suggested edits, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially this restriction is in place to avoid users from gaining too many privileges through suggested edits only. The system wants users to &lt;em&gt;use&lt;/em&gt; the site (questions and answers) to be able to learn more about how it works. Theoretically with no restrictions you could suggest edits only and know nothing of how the site works but have max privileges which means you could vote to close/reopen questions and vote to delete posts. That doesn't sound great to me. (Of course users who use the site don't necessarily understand it but that's another argument and they are more likely to in my experience).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should also reiterate what AncientSwordRage has said in the comments in that it's a system that's more open for abuse to earn rep. Sock puppets and the like are easier to track down than someone abusing suggested edits to earn rep, especially if doing so in tandem with other users. There needs to be some restrictions on these just to narrow the avenue for abuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, I'll say that moderation of any kind on the site, be it comments asking for clarification, edits, reviews, etc. should be done to help improve the site &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; for any other reason*. Giving a rep reward initially is there to push users to help improve the site and so they can learn the basics that this is a community driven endeavour. After that it's down to the particular users whether they want to continue help the site out or not through those moderation actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;* SE already has problem with robo reviewers who review just to get badges, imagine if there was a rep reward for reviews too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="103122" LastEditDate="2021-11-16T09:18:41.640" LastActivityDate="2021-11-16T09:18:41.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13538" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13539" CreationDate="2021-11-16T12:28:55.373" Score="14" ViewCount="211" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I've accepted the option &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mobile-armored-strike-kommand&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mobile-armored-strike-kommand&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mobile-armored-strike-kommand&lt;/a&gt; as that has currently the highest score (+14/-1). Adding a synonym for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mask-mobile-armored-strike-kommand&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mask-mobile-armored-strike-kommand&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mask-mobile-armored-strike-kommand&lt;/a&gt; (so prefixed with &lt;code&gt;mask&lt;/code&gt;) should improve the chances of the correct tag being found.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, this question was posted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/256026/19561&quot;&gt;Is there a canon source from the 1980s covering the death of Matt Tracker&amp;#39;s brother from the MASK franchise&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We didn't have a tag for the franchise, so I added &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mobile-armored-strike-kommand&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mobile-armored-strike-kommand&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mobile-armored-strike-kommand&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this tag the best tag for this franchise?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Considerations&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The name of the franchise is &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.A.S.K.&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;M.A.S.K&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, which stands for Mobile Armored Strike Kommand. While not an actual backronym, since all characters wear helmets with special powers, it's likely that they came up with the acronym first, then made up something to fit it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It consists of a toy line, an animated TV series that ran for two seasons (1985–1986), a short comics run, and three video games.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, we don't have enough questions to warrant a subdivision for the different franchises. We went years without a single one. After the first one, we quickly received three other questions about the franchise (one of which was mine).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Suggestions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following suggestions were made in chat:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mobile-armored-strike-kommand&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mobile-armored-strike-kommand&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mobile-armored-strike-kommand&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Current tag. Unambiguous, but not easily recognisable for people who only remember the acronym and not easily discoverable either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/m-a-s-k&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;m-a-s-k&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;m-a-s-k&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As close as we can get to the acronym. Pretty unambiguous, but still not easily discoverable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mask&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mask&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mask&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very ambiguous, will need disambiguation in its usage guidance to differentiate between &lt;em&gt;M.A.S.K.&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Mask&lt;/em&gt; (green-headed Jim Carrey), the DC villain, the general idea of masks, and possibly other characters or works with the same name. Easily discoverable, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mask-franchise&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mask-franchise&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mask-franchise&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May still need disambiguation to clarify &lt;em&gt;which&lt;/em&gt; Mask franchise. Still easily discoverable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mask-1985&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mask-1985&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mask-1985&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We usually don't use tags with the year in it for an entire franchise, although in this case both the TV series and the toy line are from that same year. Still easily discoverable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2021-11-23T12:31:40.710" LastActivityDate="2021-11-23T12:31:40.710" Title="How should we tag M.A.S.K?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13538" CreationDate="2021-11-16T12:28:55.373" Score="16" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mobile-armored-strike-kommand&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mobile-armored-strike-kommand&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mobile-armored-strike-kommand&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Current tag. Unambiguous, but not easily recognised for people who only remember the acronym and not easily discoverable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2021-11-16T12:28:55.373" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13538" CreationDate="2021-11-16T12:30:29.203" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/m-a-s-k&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;m-a-s-k&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;m-a-s-k&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As close as we can get to the acronym. Pretty unambiguous, but not easily discoverable unless the querent guesses how we turned the acronym into a tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2021-11-16T12:30:29.203" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13538" CreationDate="2021-11-16T12:32:15.313" Score="-4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mask&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mask&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mask&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very ambiguous, will need disambiguation in its usage guidance to differentiate between &lt;em&gt;M.A.S.K.&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Mask&lt;/em&gt; (green-headed Jim Carrey), the DC villain, the general idea of masks, and possibly other characters or works with the same name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Easily discoverable, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2021-11-16T12:32:15.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13538" CreationDate="2021-11-16T12:33:43.873" Score="-3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mask-franchise&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mask-franchise&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mask-franchise&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May still need disambiguation to clarify &lt;em&gt;which&lt;/em&gt; Mask franchise. Easily discoverable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2021-11-16T12:33:43.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13538" CreationDate="2021-11-16T12:35:05.493" Score="-1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mask-1985&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mask-1985&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mask-1985&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We usually don't use tags with the year in it for an entire franchise, although in this case both the TV series and the toy line are from that same year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Easily discoverable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2021-11-16T12:35:05.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13545" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-11-17T19:31:53.197" Score="2" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/256139/how-have-attitudes-change-towards-closed-time-loops-in-science-fiction&quot;&gt;This question about closed time loops&lt;/a&gt; is, I think, at least the third time the author has posted on SF&amp;amp;F (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/255495/within-20th-century-european-science-fiction-literature-what-is-considered-to-b&quot;&gt;this deleted question&lt;/a&gt; being noted as the second one, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/19878/attitudes-among-literary-critics-to-literary-fiction-featuring-closed-time-loops&quot;&gt;an attempt on the Literature SE&lt;/a&gt;, also closed). The author &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/256139/how-have-attitudes-change-towards-closed-time-loops-in-science-fiction#comment705331_256139&quot;&gt;makes reference to someone previously pointing him to a very similar analysis of themes in Romance&lt;/a&gt;, which seems like &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/5388/why-did-attitudes-change-towards-tragedy&quot;&gt;it's actually this question about Tragedy&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm still trying to find a way of wording this question that won't get deleted. I almost word for word copied a question that I was told was an example of an excellent question, and just substituted science fiction for romance, and the STILL deleted it. I'm beginning to think that this is just plain old gatekeeping. I've made every change that I've been asked to make and still they delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the question currently stands, it feels very much like it's asking a very general question over a large corpus of literature, which makes it either of massive scope, or inviting a lot of little answers regarding closed time loops in a particular piece of media. Overall, it just feels like it's inviting discussion rather than seeking an answer, even if the querent feels there's a distinct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe, since they state that there is a distinct change that can be analyzed, we could suggest that they post a self-answer that shows their own research?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="23243" LastEditDate="2021-11-17T20:09:20.647" LastActivityDate="2021-11-20T08:33:16.940" Title="How can we improve this question about critical analysis of closed time loops?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13545" CreationDate="2021-11-17T21:30:34.357" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't. OP is trying to ask a question that is &lt;strong&gt;fundamentally antithetical to our policy against questions that require opinion-based answers&lt;/strong&gt;, hence why they keep getting closed as opinion-based, both here and when asked on Lit:SE, even despite their more generous view on these sorts of open-ended essay style questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/review-close&quot;&gt;FAQ:&lt;/a&gt; [...] This [questions being closed] generally happens when a question [...] needs to be more focused, as the existing question is too broad [or] is an opinion-based question that doesn’t have an objectively correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So what's going wrong here?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They wish us to explore every property ever constructed that contains time loops (noting in passing that they've also failed to explain what counts as a time loop). When they've been persuaded that their question is too broad, they've tried to limit it to '&lt;em&gt;only the opinion of professional critics&lt;/em&gt;' or '&lt;em&gt;only books written in the 20th century&lt;/em&gt;' or 'only major films and TV series' which isn't much of an improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They wish us to compare and contrast this trope in a thematic and conceptual manner. This is going to be problematic, because my opinion about these trends is going to be different from your opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They would like us to draw a summative conclusion about these themes that are common and dissimilar in modern fiction and screenwriting. Again, this is going to be wholly subjective (and not the good kind).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any one of the above is good reason to close. OP would clearly like us to write competing essays that pick examples of this trope and analyse them, but &lt;strong&gt;that's just not what we do here&lt;/strong&gt;. Good questions lead to pithy and (hopefully definitive) answers, not counterpointed and argumentative essays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;FAQ:&lt;/a&gt; Your questions should be reasonably scoped. If you can imagine an entire book that answers your question, you’re asking too much.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OP can continue to refine their question with slightly different wording, but you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, nor can you 'outhink' the fact that this simply isn't answerable in a SE format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2021-11-20T08:33:16.940" LastActivityDate="2021-11-20T08:33:16.940" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13547" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-11-18T20:00:36.460" Score="-3" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could somebody please explain what &amp;quot;Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations. This will help others answer the question&amp;quot; means?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand what the individual words mean, but not how they would apply to a question asked on this forum about how the contents of a TV show reflect events in the real world at the time of writing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surely any answer that included an example from an episode or a quote form a writer would count?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The existence of a storyline is a fact that can be cited, as is a comment made by a writer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm getting a little fed up with people closing questions without providing usable information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest that comments should not be allowed to be closed under these circumstances without an example of good practice being cited to guide the person asking the question on how to improve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user144665" LastEditorUserId="23243" LastEditDate="2021-11-19T13:48:16.457" LastActivityDate="2021-11-19T13:48:16.457" Title="What does &quot;Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations. This will help others answer the question&quot; mean?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13547" CreationDate="2021-11-18T20:11:10.290" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could somebody please explain what &amp;quot;Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations. This will help others answer the question&amp;quot; means?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a standard piece of text which appears on any question closed under the &lt;strong&gt;opinion-based&lt;/strong&gt; close reason. Another standard piece of text used to explain this close reason is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than on facts, references, or specific expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;/help/dont-ask&lt;/a&gt; page in the help centre provides some more information about what types of questions count as too opinion-based to work well in the SE system, largely based on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/09/29/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&lt;/a&gt; SE blog post from eleven years ago which laid out which types of subjective questions can work well on SE and which can't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2021-11-18T20:11:10.290" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13549" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-11-18T20:13:23.307" Score="-2" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of questions on the main site have the form of &amp;quot;Why didn't character X do Y at juncture Z?&amp;quot; Or &amp;quot;At juncture X, Why did Y happen?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me such questions would merit a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rationale&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rationale&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rationale&lt;/a&gt; tag; but - no such tag seems to exist. Is this intentional?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16835" LastActivityDate="2021-11-18T20:17:33.140" Title="How come there's no &quot;rationale&quot; tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|questions|policy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13549" CreationDate="2021-11-18T20:17:33.140" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be a &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/08/07/the-death-of-meta-tags/&quot;&gt;meta-tag&lt;/a&gt; like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3563/31936&quot;&gt;the old &amp;quot;plot-explanation&amp;quot; tag that was deleted&lt;/a&gt; so we don't need it. It would apply to so many questions that it wouldn't help in a search and no one would want to watch the tag. Additionally, no one is an expert at &amp;quot;rationale&amp;quot; in general, though a user can be an expert in characters' rationales for a given work or franchise (but then you'd just use the tag for that work or franchise).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastActivityDate="2021-11-18T20:17:33.140" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13547" CreationDate="2021-11-18T21:21:35.123" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if you saw my edit on your original question before you deleted it, but after I made the edit, the question garnered 3 re-open votes and likely would have been re-opened and quite probably answered if it had stayed un-deleted*.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm getting a little fed up with people closing questions without&#xA;providing usable information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This statement is demonstrably false. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that perhaps you didn't understand the commenters intent. However, several users made comments as to how to edit the question to make it more appropriate to the intent of the site, but those comments went unheeded and instead, (not trying to be rude here...) you argued with those users via comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I went ahead and made the edit to the original question after the second (duplicate) was asked and closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To re-state my comment in the edit, I think the germ of the question was a good one, but the question needed some editing to narrow the focus and remove any doubt of it being open to opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*&lt;em&gt;I myself may have taken a crack at answering, but to answer it well, it would take, me at least, a few hours to compile everything across the various series' and companion behind the scenes materials&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55637" LastActivityDate="2021-11-18T21:21:35.123" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13538" CreationDate="2021-11-19T20:35:21.393" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would suggest an option not mentioned: synonyms. Mods can create them and when you type in the term, they show up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The primary tag really is best for the SE system as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/mobile-armored-strike-kommand&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mobile-armored-strike-kommand&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mobile-armored-strike-kommand&lt;/a&gt;. I propose adding these synonyms to it so you can find it if trying to tag &amp;quot;mask&amp;quot; (i.e. [mask-tv]). Not ideal, but we have some tags like that already (i.e. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/powerless-tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;powerless-tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;powerless-tv&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastActivityDate="2021-11-19T20:35:21.393" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13553" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13554" CreationDate="2021-11-20T15:04:52.813" Score="7" ViewCount="402" Body="&lt;p&gt;This post is for the last SFF.SE &lt;strong&gt;topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt; of 2021, in which the site's community is encouraged to take part together in asking and answering questions on a particular topic each month. According to community votes on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;topic challenge proposals thread&lt;/a&gt;, the December 2021 topic challenge is going to be devoted to an &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Moon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;American author of sci-fi and fantasy&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Elizabeth Moon&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/elizabeth-moon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;elizabeth-moon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;elizabeth-moon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's a topic challenge and how do I take part?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13211/31394&quot;&gt;Announcing a Topic Challenge program for SFF.SE&lt;/a&gt;, and also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/240634/278659&quot;&gt;this main meta post&lt;/a&gt;. In short, during December 2021 we should all try to: either read some Elizabeth Moon stories and ask interesting questions about them, or help out by &lt;em&gt;answering&lt;/em&gt; other people's questions about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Participation is not obligatory in any sense, but those who participate will be forever remembered in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13554/31394&quot;&gt;annals of our history&lt;/a&gt;. We'll keep a list of all Moon questions asked during December 2021 in an answer to this meta post. At the end of the month, I'll collate some data like highest-scoring question, most-viewed question, highest-scoring answer, etc. There won't be any real-world rewards like in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1138/31394&quot;&gt;the old days&lt;/a&gt; when Stack Exchange was smaller and more generous, but I'll be awarding at least one bounty after the end of the month (assuming there's at least one good answer posted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's next?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Future topic challenges will be chosen by community votes, so come over and propose or vote on suggestions at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;Propose future topics for SFF topic challenges!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The Elizabeth Moon answer will be deleted from that thread at the start of December, since already chosen topics shouldn't stick at the top of the thread and distract people from those still to be voted on.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2022-01-06T09:20:12.013" Title="December 2021 topic challenge: Elizabeth Moon" Tags="|discussion|topic-challenge|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13553" CreationDate="2021-11-20T15:05:46.740" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;List of all questions posted as part of this topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/258258/31394&quot;&gt;In &amp;quot;The Deed of Paksenarrion&amp;quot;, what race is the Kuakgan?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/59154/basya&quot;&gt;Basya&lt;/a&gt;, 16/12/2021.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/258355/why-is-killing-a-snowcat-considered-to-be-wrong&quot;&gt;Why is killing a snowcat considered to be &amp;quot;wrong&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/148142/just-me&quot;&gt;just me&lt;/a&gt;, 18/12/2021.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;highest-voted&lt;/strong&gt; of these is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/258258/31394&quot;&gt;In &amp;quot;The Deed of Paksenarrion&amp;quot;, what race is the Kuakgan?&lt;/a&gt;, with a score of &lt;strong&gt;10&lt;/strong&gt; at the end of December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;most viewed&lt;/strong&gt; is probably &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/258355/31394&quot;&gt;Why is killing a snowcat considered to be &amp;quot;wrong&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;, with approximately &lt;strong&gt;140&lt;/strong&gt; views during December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2022-01-06T09:20:12.013" LastActivityDate="2022-01-06T09:20:12.013" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-11-20T15:05:46.740" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13555" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-11-20T17:52:27.777" Score="10" ViewCount="255" Body="&lt;p&gt;Working our way around the edges of the &amp;quot;real-world science&amp;quot; category, there doesn't seem to be a discussion about crackpot and pseudoscientific ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of near misses on Meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1755/are-speculative-science-questions-on-topic&quot;&gt;Are speculative science questions on-topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11587/are-stories-that-only-appear-to-contain-fantastical-elements-on-topic&quot;&gt;Are stories that only appear to contain fantastical elements on topic?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would certainly agree that writings about crackpot theories &lt;em&gt;presented as scientific truth&lt;/em&gt; are decidedly off-topic.  But if a writing which hinged on the same elements &lt;em&gt;was presented as fiction&lt;/em&gt;, we'd probably consider it as fantasy, science fiction, or some blending of the two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rudy Rucker's 1990 novel &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/274051.The_Hollow_Earth&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Hollow Earth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; would be on topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Philip K. Dick frequently trod the line between SF and non-SF. His novel &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://theworlddickmade.com/the-man-whose-teeth-were-all-exactly-alike/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; involves a semi-hoax involving &amp;quot;recent Neanderthal fossils&amp;quot; and is probably off topic since it only appears to contain SF elements  (but doesn't really).  But what if he had instead written them as real?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A peculiar case is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zecharia_Sitchin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Zecharia Sitchin&lt;/a&gt; whose writings promoted &amp;quot;ancient aliens&amp;quot; theories.  Eventually, however, he (or his publisher) decided to present them as fiction (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://mythology.stackexchange.com/questions/7799/are-there-any-translations-of-the-14-books-of-enki/7800#7800&quot;&gt;this answer of mine on Mythology SE&lt;/a&gt;).  Is it SF if the publisher overrules the author?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I think of more edge cases, I'll add them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63330" LastEditorUserId="63330" LastEditDate="2021-11-27T18:22:44.407" LastActivityDate="2021-11-28T10:16:23.633" Title="Are stories that contain crackpot science and/or pseudoscience on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13538" CreationDate="2021-11-20T20:05:50.767" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The-Mask(Jim-Carrey-Movie)&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MASK(Mobile-Armored-Strike-Kommand)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The-Mask(Cartoon-TV-series)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A little long winded but it makes it clear which franchise a question will be about. I don't recall ever seeing any questions about The Mask TV series (the one based on the Jim Carrey film)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111234" LastActivityDate="2021-11-20T20:05:50.767" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13558" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13559" CreationDate="2021-11-24T17:45:04.437" Score="-3" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;This meta-question is similar to one already asked. But the older meta-question mentions the case of an answer only found in &lt;em&gt;comments&lt;/em&gt;. I'm asking in the case of an answer actually &lt;em&gt;posted&lt;/em&gt;, and when the OP clearly states in a comment that this answer is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But just as &lt;em&gt;almost&lt;/em&gt; happened to me recently, the OP forgets to check the correct place (or does not know how). And disappears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it be a good idea to consider the answer as accepted ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am referring, in particular, to this question :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/202283/31394&quot;&gt;Children&amp;#39;s sci-fi collection - Alien orthodontist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which has been considered as a duplicate since yesterday, because I did accept the answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/256254/31394&quot;&gt;my own question&lt;/a&gt; about one book of the same series. But the OP commented &lt;em&gt;years ago&lt;/em&gt; that the answer (namely, the Dr Dillingham's series by Piers Anthony) was correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115682" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2021-11-24T22:14:53.330" LastActivityDate="2021-11-25T11:02:31.383" Title="Shouldn't a comment-only accept be considered equally much confirmation of an answer's correctness as a formal acceptance?" Tags="|discussion|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13558" CreationDate="2021-11-24T22:32:57.420" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a bit unclear what you're trying to ask, but I think your query here is resolved by a combination of previous meta discussions and their conclusions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1236/31394&quot;&gt;Is it desirable to have the community award &amp;quot;acceptance&amp;quot; to answers on abandoned questions?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5266/31394&quot;&gt;Petition for acceptance of answer to question by vanished querent&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12140/31394&quot;&gt;Is there a policy about what to do if there&amp;#39;s a user who refuses to accept answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Result: &lt;strong&gt;community/moderators cannot &amp;quot;enforce&amp;quot; acceptance of an answer&lt;/strong&gt;. That choice is only up to the original querent, by design, and if the OP doesn't accept an answer (even if they &amp;quot;should&amp;quot; and don't know how) then it won't be accepted. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13478/31394&quot;&gt;Since today&lt;/a&gt;, though, accepted answers aren't pinned to the top in answer order, so acceptance sort of became worth a bit less.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7065/31394&quot;&gt;Closing Story-Ident questions as duplicates (where there&amp;#39;s no acceptance)&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10278/31394&quot;&gt;When should comments be used to determine a dupe story-id?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Result: &lt;strong&gt;two story-ID questions are considered as duplicates when both answers are &amp;quot;accepted&amp;quot;, either by green tick or by comment&lt;/strong&gt;. When it comes to story-ID specifically (not in other tags), duplication is determined by OP confirmation of the correct answer. This confirmation could come either formally with a green checkmark or informally in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11880/31394&quot;&gt;Should we prefer questions with accepted answers when closing identification requests as duplicate?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12499/31394&quot;&gt;Should the presence of a formally-accepted answer count as one factor among many when determining &amp;quot;quality&amp;quot; for purposes of duplicate closure?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Result: &lt;strong&gt;comment acceptances are equally valuable as green tick acceptances, for determining duplicate direction&lt;/strong&gt;. We don't consider the question with a &amp;quot;formal&amp;quot; green-tick acceptance to be automatically a better duplicate target than the question with a comment confirmation of the correct answer. That seems to support your argument (if I'm understanding your point correctly) that you think the duplication went the wrong way and your question should have been closed as a duplicate of the older one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4744/31394&quot;&gt;Should we always close the newer question as the duplicate?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Result: &lt;strong&gt;age doesn't matter for duplication direction&lt;/strong&gt;. You said in a comment that &amp;quot;The order of duplication would ensue naturally&amp;quot;, and I'm not sure what you meant by this, but I guess you might be assuming that the newer question should naturally be a duplicate of the older one. It's not like that. As you can also see in the two meta discussions linked in point 3 above, duplication is determined by Q&amp;amp;A quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coming back to your specific case, and applying the above general policies: both the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/256254/31394&quot;&gt;newer&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/202283/31394&quot;&gt;older&lt;/a&gt; questions have &amp;quot;accepted&amp;quot; (formally or informally) answers, so they're ready to be linked as duplicates. The newer question (yours) is longer and more detailed, and so is its answer, so that one becomes the duplicate target and the other one gets closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2021-11-24T22:32:57.420" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13558" CreationDate="2021-11-25T11:02:31.383" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The old question (which I answered) should NOT have been closed as a duplicate. The OP was not looking for Piers Anthony's Dr. Dillingham series; he was looking for a certain collection of sci-fi stories, ONE of which was about a space dentist, and we agreed that that was a Dr. Dillingham story. I suggested the anthology &lt;em&gt;Young Extraterrestrials&lt;/em&gt; but the OP never commented on that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The old question should not have been closed because (a) it has no accepted answer and (b) the anthology &lt;em&gt;Young Extraterrestrials&lt;/em&gt; is not &amp;quot;Monarch&amp;quot;, does not even contain the story &amp;quot;monarch&amp;quot;, it has a different Dr. Dillingham story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastActivityDate="2021-11-25T11:02:31.383" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13240" CreationDate="2021-11-26T16:16:09.487" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Nathan Lowell&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lowell has written a 6-book SF series that focuses on space trading rather than wars or space navies. This is the &amp;quot;Share&amp;quot; series: &lt;em&gt;Quarter Share&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Half Share&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Full Share&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Double Share&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Captain's Share&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Owner's Share&lt;/em&gt;. (The author calls these the 'Trader Tales from the Golden Age of Solar Clippers&amp;quot;.) These follow the fist-person protagonist, Ishmael Horatio Wang (&amp;quot;Call me Ishmael.&amp;quot;), over a period of about 22 years, starting with his becoming a novice spacer at age 18. There are no space battles or cosmic consequences, only day-to-day life and character development.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The author has also written three further novels about Ishmael (with three more planned or in progress); a series of three &amp;quot;Smuggler's Tales&amp;quot; set in the same universe; a series of three &amp;quot;Shaman Tales&amp;quot; set in the same universe, but on-planet, not in space; and at least three Fantasy novels (&amp;quot;Tales from the Lammas Wood&amp;quot;).  All of these are available in Ebook, most or all from Kindle, purchasing links and some background info is available from the author's web site, &lt;a href=&quot;https://nathanlowell.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://nathanlowell.com/&lt;/a&gt; where there is also the author's blog. Trade paper editions are also available. Several of these were first published as audio podcasts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lowell's works are not too well-known, but have received quite a few positive reactions, and there are a number of potential questions to be asked about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="112520" LastActivityDate="2021-11-26T16:16:09.487" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10051" CreationDate="2021-11-27T00:01:24.160" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that an answer that specifies a series, and a different answer that specifies a work in that series are &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;quot;the same&amp;quot; answer, and normally do &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; justify closing one as a duplicate. When the series consists of a single novel and a few short works, and the series title is the same as or quite similar to the novel title, then calling it &amp;quot;the same&amp;quot; answer may be justified, but not otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="112520" LastEditorUserId="82909" LastEditDate="2021-11-27T03:45:52.190" LastActivityDate="2021-11-27T03:45:52.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13555" CreationDate="2021-11-28T08:46:06.063" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the pseudoscience is presented as factual &lt;em&gt;in the reality of the story&lt;/em&gt;, there's no good reason to exclude it, just because it's pseudoscience in our reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good example of this would be '&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Earth_creationism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Young Earth Creationism&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are numerous books &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.christianbook.com/page/homeschool/master-books/mb-young-earth-creation-evolution-books&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;purporting that it's factual&lt;/a&gt; and all of these are off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are, however, numerous stories that present this theory as absolute fact, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EarthIsYoung&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;within a fantasy or scifi setting&lt;/a&gt;. These would be firmly on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any &lt;em&gt;genuine edge cases&lt;/em&gt; (such as an author that refuses to confirm if their stories are intended to be fiction or non-fiction) would need to be asked on Meta on a case-by-case basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;q.v. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Earth&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hollow Earth&lt;/a&gt; vs &lt;a href=&quot;https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HollowWorld&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hollow Earth&lt;/a&gt; /  &lt;a href=&quot;https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/1892062135&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tesla Tech&lt;/a&gt; vs. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TeslaTechTimeline&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tesla Tech&lt;/a&gt;, etc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2021-11-28T10:16:23.633" LastActivityDate="2021-11-28T10:16:23.633" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13240" CreationDate="2021-11-29T00:42:44.367" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long title, I know. It's a 6-book series by Michael Scott, already has a tag that only has two questions. It's a very good series - complex plot, well-thought-out world and magic system, good writing. I don't know anyone who read it and didn't like it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user128845" LastActivityDate="2021-11-29T00:42:44.367" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13568" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2021-12-07T12:06:06.057" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2021-12-07T12:06:06.057" LastActivityDate="2021-12-07T12:06:06.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13569" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2021-12-07T12:06:06.057" Score="0" Body="For questions about the yellow tag tip boxes that appear when attempting to add a tag to a question which is commonly used wrong or is blacklisted." OwnerUserId="39144" LastEditorUserId="39144" LastEditDate="2021-12-12T04:16:32.527" LastActivityDate="2021-12-12T04:16:32.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13570" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13571" CreationDate="2021-12-12T09:25:25.263" Score="2" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked a question&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/257088/a-short-story-about-not-reading-shakespeare-in-class&quot;&gt;about (not) reading Shakespeare in class&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;Two correct answers arrived within a few seconds of each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also rapidly appeared that the question was a dupe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wanted to follow user14111's advice to &amp;quot;green check&amp;quot; one answer and give a bonus to the other one. But it seems the only way is to start a bounty. Which needs 48 hours delay. So I &lt;strong&gt;carefully did not&lt;/strong&gt; accept either answer, to wait till I could start the bounty. I wanted to start it, wait for another 24 hours to grant it to one answer and finally &amp;quot;green check&amp;quot; the other one. At which point the question would be closed a dupe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But since I made clear in my comments that the answers were correct, my question was closed before I could create the bounty. Even though I had &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;quot;green check&amp;quot; either answer.  Curiously, I was still able to &amp;quot;green check&amp;quot; one answer after the question was closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I give the bonus to the other one ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115682" LastActivityDate="2021-12-12T09:30:06.827" Title="How to give a bonus to an answer that was not accepted after the question was closed" Tags="|discussion|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13570" CreationDate="2021-12-12T09:30:06.827" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can accept answers after a question is closed - acceptance and closure are independent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;strong&gt;you can't start bounties on a closed question&lt;/strong&gt;. In fact, it goes the other way too: you can't vote to close a question that has an open bounty on it. Bounties and closure block each other. Probably this is because most bounty reasons are to &lt;em&gt;attract&lt;/em&gt; new answers rather than reward existing ones, and closure blocks new answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, if your goal is simply to give some extra reputation award to the person whose answer you didn't accept, you could find another worthy answer from that user and set a bounty there instead. (Bounties can be set on any open question, not only your own. There's even a badge for bountying someone else's question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2021-12-12T09:30:06.827" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13572" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-12-12T21:30:48.110" Score="11" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anne Rice has passed away at 80. I loved the &lt;em&gt;Interview with the Vampire&lt;/em&gt; series when I was a teen, and I loved the movie back when Tom Cruise wasn't nutty and Brad Pitt was new to Hollywood. Anyhow, the series was formative for me, and tons of other girls too. As a newbie to any fandom, I didn't realize the &lt;em&gt;Vampire&lt;/em&gt; series was problematic to girls - I just saw it as entertainment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DWrp4.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DWrp4.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Image of Claudia with the caption, &amp;quot;Who will take care of me, my love, my dark angel, when you are gone?&amp;quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notorious for being one of the authors who forbade, and tried to legally bar, fan fiction of her work, &lt;a href=&quot;https://metro.co.uk/2012/11/11/how-fan-fiction-is-conquering-the-internet-and-shooting-up-book-charts-617396/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Anne Rice softened her position in later years&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I got upset about 20 years ago because I thought it would block me,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;However, it’s been very easy to avoid reading any, so live and let live. If I were a young writer, I’d want to own my own ideas. But maybe fan fiction is a transitional phase: whatever gets you there, gets you there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="23243" LastEditDate="2021-12-15T23:27:25.167" LastActivityDate="2021-12-15T23:27:25.167" Title="RIP Anne Rice - Interview with the Vampire" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13574" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-12-14T01:40:53.243" Score="2" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;Marvel titles are coming out quite frequently these days; between movies and shows, content is moving very quickly. How far back should we mark spoilers on content? Is there a standard of &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; movies/shows back&amp;quot;? Or is it entirely up to asker and editor discretion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137615" LastActivityDate="2021-12-14T08:51:12.393" Title="How far back should spoilers be marked for the Marvel Cinematic Universe?" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2021-12-14T08:51:02.467" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13575" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13577" CreationDate="2021-12-14T03:22:19.843" Score="5" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/doctor-octopus&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;doctor-octopus&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;doctor-octopus&lt;/a&gt; tag wiki says it is supposed to be used to refer to the character of Doctor Octopus (Doc Ock for short). However, in various Marvel titles, Doctor Octopus has been both Otto Octavius &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; Olivia Octavius, and possibly other people in alternate universes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the tag be used to refer to both of them or just Otto?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137615" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2021-12-14T20:43:11.937" LastActivityDate="2021-12-14T20:43:11.937" Title="Should the doctor-octopus tag refer to both Otto and Olivia Octavius?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13576" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-12-14T03:26:24.137" Score="3" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;When going to the new tags page (a common place for me to look for tags to edit), lots of tags are vague and have been created on questions. &lt;strong&gt;Is it considered okay to edit these questions for the purpose of deleting those tags, so that unneeded or blank tags that have no real reference do not clutter up the site?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137615" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2021-12-14T07:55:13.293" LastActivityDate="2021-12-14T07:55:13.293" Title="Is it okay to delete tags off of questions that the tags were created for if the tags will likely not become relevant?" Tags="|discussion|tags|retagging|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13575" CreationDate="2021-12-14T13:32:48.300" Score="13" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Every version of Doctor Octopus is still Doctor Octopus&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marvel, and &lt;em&gt;especially&lt;/em&gt; Spider-Man have a history of &lt;a href=&quot;https://spiderman.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Spider-Man_Variations&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;different versions themselves&lt;/a&gt;, even before &lt;a href=&quot;https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Peter_Parker_(Earth-616)#Spider-Verse&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Spider-Verse&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the tags for characters with alternate dimensions versions should share that tag with the 'main' version (in the case of Marvel, that's Earth-616)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only exception I can think of, where we have where the multiverse counterpart is tagged differently is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/miles-morales&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;miles-morales&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;miles-morales&lt;/a&gt;, which only has one question. It's not clear if we want to keep that tag, but I'm not opposed to it in principle. Miles Morales is a much more written about character though, and probably deserves his own tag, separate from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spider-man&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;spider-man&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;spider-man&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, until there's a significant need we should keep just the one tag for all Doc Ocks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2021-12-14T14:22:30.577" LastActivityDate="2021-12-14T14:22:30.577" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13578" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-12-16T12:27:28.077" Score="3" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question, and received some answers that had completely misinterpreted the question I was asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could edit the question to be more clear, but seeing as it already has answers that seems unfair to make edits that (further) invalidate them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it okay to edit my question the other way, so that the existing invalid answers become valid?&lt;/strong&gt; (And then later, I can always reask the original, in a hopefully less ambiguous way.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be clear, I'm asking about editing &lt;em&gt;my own&lt;/em&gt; question, and I'm asking about a situation where none of the existing answers answered the question as it was asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tl;dr. I asked X. People answered as if I had asked Y. Can I just switch the question to Y?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55866" LastActivityDate="2021-12-16T14:55:41.547" Title="Is it okay to edit a question to match the answers given?" Tags="|discussion|editing|questions|incorrect-answers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13578" CreationDate="2021-12-16T13:48:01.000" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7418/best-policy-when-edit-to-question-invalidates-the-answer&quot;&gt;existing policy on SFF:SE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...we dislike edits that invalidate answers...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/what-to-do-instead-of-deleting-question&quot;&gt;policy described in the Help Centre&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't invalidate existing answers and don't make it so vague as to be unanswerable,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;specifically refers to &lt;strong&gt;question edits that &lt;em&gt;invalidate&lt;/em&gt; the existing answers&lt;/strong&gt;. In this instance you're not invalidating them, you're simply making an edit to your question that makes it more general, which is explicitly allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If your question is unnecessarily specific, edit to generalize it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, making this &lt;em&gt;perfectly valid&lt;/em&gt; edit then makes the question untenable in a different way (e.g. it turns it into a dupe), which means that you're stuck between a rock and a hard place, since we don't generally allow edits that make a question closeable where there are existing answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2021-12-16T14:55:41.547" LastActivityDate="2021-12-16T14:55:41.547" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13240" CreationDate="2021-12-22T14:45:03.877" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Carl Sagan&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nytimes.com/1978/05/28/archives/growing-up-with.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;From his 1978 New York Times essay, “Growing up with Science-Fiction”:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;‘Science fiction has led me to science,’ says Cornell University astronomer Sagan, who writes about the impact of sci‐fi on his life and on our society.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sagan is a famous astronomer, known the world over — perhaps becoming the best known of all scientific populizers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is also a sci-if author, having written &lt;em&gt;Contact&lt;/em&gt;, which was adapted to the film &lt;em&gt;Contact&lt;/em&gt;, directed by Roger Zemekis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His relevance to sf had been evident much earlier than that, however, through his speculations about life on other worlds; he was one of the comparatively few scientists to have given serious thought to this question. His first book was an updating of a translated 1963 book by the Russian astronomer I S Shklovskii; the collaboration, published under both their names, was &lt;em&gt;Intelligent Life in the Universe (1966)&lt;/em&gt;. Sagan's next books in this area were &lt;em&gt;The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective (1973)&lt;/em&gt;, &amp;quot;produced&amp;quot; by Jerome Agel – winner of a special John W Campbell Memorial Award, the only one ever presented for nonfiction – and &lt;em&gt;Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CETI) (anth 1973)&lt;/em&gt;, which he edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He wrote on evolution in &lt;em&gt;The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (1977)&lt;/em&gt; – this won a Pulitzer Prize – and published a collection of speculative essays (some dealing with pseudoscience, such as a vigorous assault on the planetary theories of Immanuel Velikovsky) in &lt;em&gt;Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science (coll 1979)&lt;/em&gt;, including &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Science Fiction: A Personal View&amp;quot; (in Teaching Science Fiction: Education for Tomorrow, anth 1980, ed Jack Williamson)&lt;/em&gt;. There followed the Hugo-winning book of the television series, Cosmos (1980) – it was on the best-seller lists for over a year – and a book about Comets, particularly Halley's comet, &lt;em&gt;Comet (1985)&lt;/em&gt; with Ann Druyan, his wife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sagan's final nonfiction works of note are &lt;em&gt;Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)&lt;/em&gt;, emphasizing the smallness and arguable non-uniqueness of humanity's place in the universe at large; and &lt;em&gt;The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1996)&lt;/em&gt;,  which expounds scientific method and renews the author's previous assaults on pseudoscience and allied forms of irrational thinking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having been influenced by the traditional sci-fi “classics,” and whose works inspired countless generations of aspiring sci-fi authors throughout the world, &lt;em&gt;Contact&lt;/em&gt; would be his only work of fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145218" LastActivityDate="2021-12-22T14:45:03.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13581" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13582" CreationDate="2021-12-22T16:10:34.263" Score="6" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;This post is for the first SFF.SE &lt;strong&gt;topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt; of 2022, in which the site's community is encouraged to take part together in asking and answering questions on a particular topic each month. According to community votes on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;topic challenge proposals thread&lt;/a&gt;, the January 2022 topic challenge is going to be devoted to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_M._Miller_Jr.&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;US sci-fi author&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Walter M. Miller Jr.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/walter-m-miller-jr&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;walter-m-miller-jr&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;walter-m-miller-jr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's a topic challenge and how do I take part?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13211/31394&quot;&gt;Announcing a Topic Challenge program for SFF.SE&lt;/a&gt;, and also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/240634/278659&quot;&gt;this main meta post&lt;/a&gt;. In short, during January 2022 we should all try to either read some Miller stories and ask interesting questions about them, or help out by &lt;em&gt;answering&lt;/em&gt; other people's questions about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Participation is not obligatory in any sense, but those who participate will be forever remembered in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13582/31394&quot;&gt;annals of our history&lt;/a&gt;. We'll keep a list of all Miller questions asked during January 2022 in an answer to this meta post. At the end of the month, I'll collate some data like highest-scoring question, most-viewed question, highest-scoring answer, etc. There won't be any real-world rewards like in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1138/31394&quot;&gt;the old days&lt;/a&gt; when Stack Exchange was smaller and more generous, but I'll be awarding at least one bounty after the end of the month (assuming there's at least one good answer posted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's next?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Future topic challenges will be chosen by community votes, so come over and propose or vote on suggestions at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;Propose future topics for SFF topic challenges!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The Miller answer will be deleted from that thread at the start of January, since already chosen topics shouldn't stick at the top of the thread and distract people from those still to be voted on.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="14111" LastEditDate="2021-12-25T02:52:59.173" LastActivityDate="2022-02-01T06:02:56.187" Title="January 2022 topic challenge: Walter M. Miller Jr" Tags="|discussion|topic-challenge|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13581" CreationDate="2021-12-22T16:11:53.050" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;List of all questions posted as part of this topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/258840/fiat-voluntas-tua-are-mrs-grales-rachel-allegorical-characters-for-mary-and&quot;&gt;Fiat Voluntas Tua — Are Mrs. Grales &amp;amp; Rachel allegorical characters for Mary and Jesus?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/145218&quot;&gt;Silly but True&lt;/a&gt;, 01/01/2022&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/258854/what-is-the-significance-of-the-title-fiat-voluntas-tua-a-quote-from-the-lati&quot;&gt;What is the significance of the title &amp;quot;Fiat Voluntas Tua&amp;quot; (a quote from the Latin &amp;quot;Our Father&amp;quot;) as a section title in A Canticle for Leibowitz?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/48874&quot;&gt;Buzz&lt;/a&gt;, 01/01/2022&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/258874/is-there-a-listing-of-all-the-changes-to-a-canticle-for-leibowitz-between-the-ma&quot;&gt;Is there a listing of all the changes to A Canticle for Leibowitz between the magazine and novel versions?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/48874&quot;&gt;Buzz&lt;/a&gt;, 02/01/2022&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/258891/is-the-original-incomplete-manuscript-of-saint-leibowitz-and-the-wild-horse-wom&quot;&gt;Is the original, incomplete manuscript of Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman available anywhere?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/48874&quot;&gt;Buzz&lt;/a&gt;, 03/01/2022&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/258992/what-fasting-laws-was-br-francis-subjct-to&quot;&gt;What fasting laws was Br. Francis subject to?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/48874&quot;&gt;Buzz&lt;/a&gt;, 04/01/2022&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/259010/the-electron-portion-or-torsion-in-fiat-homo&quot;&gt;The electron: &amp;quot;portion&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;torsion&amp;quot; in &amp;quot;Fiat Homo&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/115682/alfred&quot;&gt;Alfred&lt;/a&gt;, 05/01/2022&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honourable mention:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/259869/31394&quot;&gt;Old SF short story where Solarians have evolved into a separate species who eat humans&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/43538/m-a-golding&quot;&gt;M. A. Golding&lt;/a&gt;, 28/01/2022 - an ID question which turned out to be about a Walter M. Miller story.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;highest voted&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;most viewed&lt;/strong&gt; of these is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/259010/the-electron-portion-or-torsion-in-fiat-homo&quot;&gt;The electron: &amp;quot;portion&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;torsion&amp;quot; in &amp;quot;Fiat Homo&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;, with a score of &lt;strong&gt;12&lt;/strong&gt; and approximately &lt;strong&gt;430&lt;/strong&gt; views during January.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2022-02-01T06:02:56.187" LastActivityDate="2022-02-01T06:02:56.187" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2021-12-22T16:11:53.050" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13583" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-12-28T04:54:29.700" Score="8" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just posted a second answer to my game identification question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/223367/48874&quot;&gt;Searching for video game like Xevious but with more interesting bosses&lt;/a&gt; —the reason being that I discovered that I had combined elements of two completely different games in my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am adding a second, separate answer here, because I have located a different source for one part of what I was asking about in the original question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is how I explained what I was doing.  However, I realized that I did not really have a clear picture of how we should handle questions like this—particularly with respect to closing duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This Meta question:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10223/48874&quot;&gt;How to deal with abandoned potential multiple story identifications?&lt;/a&gt; tries to address a specific issue (involving what to do &amp;quot;if the question is abandoned&amp;quot;) that could arise when somebody conflates material from two or more stories in a single question.  That is not an entirely uncommon occurrence.  Here is another question where I identified both stories: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/149580/48874&quot;&gt;1970&amp;#39;s sci-fi short story in 4th grade reading anthology&lt;/a&gt; and which was not closed as a duplicate of &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/84621/48874&quot;&gt;The Fun They Had&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; but has, in fact, been used as a dupe target for &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/177713/48874&quot;&gt;The Forgotten Door&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.  The duplicate issue is where I am concerned about a lack of clarity in how to handle things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like when the querent is asking mainly about a single work, with some details from another work sprinkled in there, we can reasonably treat the question as being answered by the main work.  Hence we handle the above question about two different stories that appeared in two volumes of Holt Basic Reading System as essentially a question about &lt;em&gt;The Forgotten Door&lt;/em&gt;.  Likewise, my video game question is much more about Terra Cresta than Alpha Mission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it is easy to envisage situations where a question is really closer to an equal mixture of two works, which may both be identified in a single accepted answer.  How should we adjudicate duplicate status in that case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2021-12-28T09:13:16.520" LastActivityDate="2021-12-29T07:58:37.417" Title="How do we deal with a situation where a Story-ID question is a duplicate of more than one work?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13583" CreationDate="2021-12-28T09:07:19.587" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;These cases are very rare indeed. I'd probably mark it as a duplicate of the conflated question, then leave a comment explaining to future readers which of the properties mention is the actual dupe&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Hi, I've marked this as a dupe of &lt;a href=&quot;http://1970%27s%20sci-fi%20short%20story%20in%204th%20grade%20reading%20anthology&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Duplicate Target&lt;/a&gt; which mentions two novels, Foo and Bar. This one is Foo.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that OP must have already indicated which property was the right answer before it gets duped off anyway, since we don't dupe &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-id&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-id&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-id&lt;/a&gt; questions that aren't solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2021-12-29T07:58:37.417" LastActivityDate="2021-12-29T07:58:37.417" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13585" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2021-12-29T19:06:44.547" Score="6" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Update&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The post is now live. &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2022/01/favorite-questions-and-answers-from-fourth-quarter-2021/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Favorite Questions and Answers from Fourth Quarter 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Origin&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from October 1st 2021 through December 31th 2021.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2021/10/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2021/10/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2021/10/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I will be linking all blog posts that happened within this quarter year. Also the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/revision/1483709/1819138/most-controversial-posts-on-the-site-by-start-date&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;most controversial question&lt;/a&gt; of the quarter. Also a sum of all the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/revision/1483710/1819137/past-bounties-by-bounty-date&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;bounties&lt;/a&gt; that were awarded.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally if there was a meta post you feel should be spotlighted those are also acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="1148" LastEditDate="2022-01-13T15:37:37.700" LastActivityDate="2022-01-13T15:37:37.700" Title="Favorite Question and Answers from Fourth Quarter 2021" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13585" CreationDate="2021-12-29T20:00:20.937" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I liked this question. It was inspired by a &lt;a href=&quot;https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/27977/how-realistic-is-a-ceiling-crawl-cling-can-it-actually-be-done&quot;&gt;Q&lt;/a&gt; on Climbing:SE and created some nice cross-site chatter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/257047/how-was-this-shot-of-river-tam-on-the-ceiling-managed-in-serenity&quot;&gt;How was this shot of River Tam on the ceiling managed in Serenity?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I spent quite a lot of time researching this one and I really want to find an answer that goes beyond &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;it's something weird that Villeneuve shoved in because he thought it was cool&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;. Hopefully the director will be a little more forthcoming in future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/255273/what-was-the-black-spider-creature-in-villenueves-dune-part-one&quot;&gt;What was the black spider creature in Villenueve&amp;#39;s Dune, Part One?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And who doesn't love an answer that comes straight from the horse's mouth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/255741/how-to-pronounce-fritz-leibers-name&quot;&gt;How to pronounce Fritz Leiber&amp;#39;s name?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2021-12-29T20:00:20.937" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13587" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-01-03T01:05:29.470" Score="2" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may seem a trivially obvious, but I wasn't quite sure.  I was writing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/258891/is-the-original-incomplete-manuscript-of-saint-leibowitz-and-the-wild-horse-wom&quot;&gt;another Walter M. Miller, Jr. question&lt;/a&gt; for the monthly theme just know, but the question was actually about &lt;em&gt;Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman&lt;/em&gt;, rather than &lt;em&gt;A Canticle for Leibowitz&lt;/em&gt;.  The current tag guidance for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-canticle-for-leibowitz&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-canticle-for-leibowitz&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-canticle-for-leibowitz&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Published in 1960, A Canticle for Leibowitz is a post-apocalyptic novel from Walter M. Miller. It is widely considered one of the &amp;quot;classics&amp;quot; of science-fiction. The tag should be used for questions about the story, background, or adaptations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long version:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Set in the Earth's future, following a nuclear conflict that left the surface of the planet devastated, and our cultures, societies, and technology scattered, Walter M. Miller's &lt;em&gt;A Canticle for Leibowitz&lt;/em&gt; is told in three parts, covering three separate time periods and sets of characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Miller paints a grim depiction of mankind and our cyclical relationship with technology and conflict, interwoven with elements of issues of religion and morality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Parts of the story have been adapted for radio or as dramatizations, and a lesser-known sequel, &lt;em&gt;Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman&lt;/em&gt;, was written by Miller many years later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the sequel is mentioned in the long description, but the short tag guidance only says to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-canticle-for-leibowitz&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-canticle-for-leibowitz&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-canticle-for-leibowitz&lt;/a&gt; for &amp;quot;story, background, or adaptations.&amp;quot;  It seems like we can add mention of the sequel there, or make a new tag, treating &lt;em&gt;A Canticle for Leibowitz&lt;/em&gt; as essentially the name of the two-book series.  What do people think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2022-01-03T01:32:46.603" Title="Should Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman get its own tag?" Tags="|discussion|tags|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13587" CreationDate="2022-01-03T01:32:46.603" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Use the existing tag to cover &lt;em&gt;Saint Leibowitz&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have there ever been any prior questions about &lt;em&gt;Saint Leibowitz&lt;/em&gt;? Probably not many if that answer is even yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like since it takes place in same universe, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-canticle-for-leibowitz&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-canticle-for-leibowitz&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-canticle-for-leibowitz&lt;/a&gt; adhering to its long form description may be the best solution; but in this case because it is a recognized and intended sequel / derivative work to &lt;em&gt;Canticle&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145218" LastActivityDate="2022-01-03T01:32:46.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13589" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-01-03T22:35:55.077" Score="4" ViewCount="258" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked about &amp;quot;HP Lovecraft&amp;quot;, with no stops in the initials.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen that style in many another post here but I've also seen &amp;quot;H.P.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of my post, I think someone trying to be helpful edited my &amp;quot;HP&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;H.P.&amp;quot;… which I see as vandalism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the time, that matters not a &amp;quot;.&amp;quot; but when searching previous posts, it seems to matter a lot…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm interested only in whether there is a general SE, or a more specific SF&amp;amp;F house style, or such things are solely at the discretion of members.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="128885" OwnerDisplayName="Robbie Goodwin" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2022-01-09T21:55:07.477" LastActivityDate="2022-01-09T21:55:07.477" Title="What's supposed to be the style for initials, as for instance HP Lovecraft?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="21" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13589" CreationDate="2022-01-04T08:36:52.483" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The correct (as in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_stop#After_initials&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;'&lt;em&gt;widely accepted to be grammatically correct&lt;/em&gt;'&lt;/a&gt;) form for initials is &lt;strong&gt;with punctuation&lt;/strong&gt;, e.g. with a full stop after each initialised letter (so, J.K. Rowling, George R.R. Martin, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's noted in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/STELLA/LILT/fullstop.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;grammar guides&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/450802/punctuation-of-initials-in-name&quot;&gt;elsewhere&lt;/a&gt; that forms of punctuation for initials are rapidly changing, led at the charge by certain newspapers and journals like The Guardian, but usually with the caveat that this is, at least for the time being, &lt;strong&gt;incorrect&lt;/strong&gt; usage, even if it's becoming more popular over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some British writers also omit the full stop after initials for names (‘open punctuation’, as in J Smith), but it is still expected in American usage and is also fairly widely advocated in Britain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, anyone amending them is in fact correcting them, that is to say, &lt;em&gt;making them right where they were previously wrong&lt;/em&gt; and hence not vandalism, merely editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Merely as an aside, I would note that H.P. Lovecraft initialised his own name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ImZdSm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ImZdSm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of the above being said, I can certainly see a solid argument to be made that where authors have themselves expressed a preference for &lt;em&gt;non-standard&lt;/em&gt; punctuation for their own names, that these should generally be preserved (e.g. e e cummings).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2022-01-04T14:32:25.993" LastActivityDate="2022-01-04T14:32:25.993" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13591" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13592" CreationDate="2022-01-05T01:32:11.007" Score="4" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;This old question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/137606/story-where-the-hero-ends-up-having-his-eyelids-removed-and-being-hooked-up-to-s&quot;&gt;Story where the hero ends up having his eyelids removed and being hooked up to some kind of virtual reality machine&lt;/a&gt; has a good answer but it was only accepted via a comment under the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This new question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/258987/1950s-short-story-about-a-man-awakening-from-suspended-animation-in-the-near-fut&quot;&gt;1950s short story about a man awakening from suspended animation in the near future roughly the same and gets lobotomized, then gets a VR future&lt;/a&gt; also has a good answer and actually got accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Just for completeness, there is a third even older one &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/52371/short-story-about-addictive-games-and-virtual-realities/52826#52826&quot;&gt;Short story about addictive games and virtual realities&lt;/a&gt; which has no sort of acceptance at all - it may not be the correct answer in this case). Just to be clear, this one can't be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does the community have a preference of which one of the accepted answers to close as a duplicate? I was about to close the older one (good, but not formally accepted) but realized it might be good to ask in meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28516" LastEditorUserId="28516" LastEditDate="2022-01-05T02:27:03.270" LastActivityDate="2022-01-06T05:54:59.473" Title="Which story ID question should we close as a duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13591" CreationDate="2022-01-06T05:54:59.473" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this instance it doesn't really seem to matter. Both are fine questions with fine answers. Our general policy is to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4744/should-we-always-close-the-newer-question-as-the-duplicate?rq=1&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;dupe the worse to the better&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; with no reference to the age of the answers. That being said, where one is very new  and all other things being broadly equal, I'd personally dupe the newer to the older since the newer one was only a few hours old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As regards your third example, note that we &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7067/20774&quot;&gt;don't close unconfirmed questions as dupes&lt;/a&gt;. By extension, we also don't dupe confirmed questions with unconfirmed ones&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2022-01-06T05:54:59.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13585" CreationDate="2022-01-06T10:13:24.690" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Topic challenges&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fourth quarter of 2021 saw the continuation of SFF.SE's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13211/31394&quot;&gt;topic challenge program&lt;/a&gt;, with three topic challenges completed during this quarter: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13486/31394&quot;&gt;Gene Wolfe&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13508/31394&quot;&gt;Samuel R. Delany&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13553/31394&quot;&gt;Elizabeth Moon&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The October challenge produced five questions from two distinct users (Buzz, Rand al'Thor). Only two of them were answered (Wolfe's enigmatic work is known for giving rise to many questions and few answers), and I chose to reward friggle's answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/254573/31394&quot;&gt;Is the Sante Croix officer actually Number Five&amp;#39;s brother?&lt;/a&gt; as it was based on an in-depth analysis of hints and clues in the text rather than just an easy search for a quote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The November challenge produced nine questions (plus one closed and deleted) from four distinct users (Silly but True, Clara Diaz Sanchez, David Siegel, Spencer) and eleven answers. My favourites, based largely on answer quality, were &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/255579/31394&quot;&gt;In Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren, what catastrophe befell the city of Bellona?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/256650/31394&quot;&gt;Do the events in Empire Star happen only once, the same way over and over, or slightly differently in different iterations?&lt;/a&gt; Again, these posts saw a lot of in-depth knowledge and analysis of the works in question, rather than simple find-a-quote answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The December challenge produced two questions from two distinct users (Basya, just me). They were both good questions with good answers, but I decided to promote &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/258258/31394&quot;&gt;In &amp;quot;The Deed of Paksenarrion&amp;quot;, what race is the Kuakgan?&lt;/a&gt; with a bounty for just me (a new user whose first participation in the site was for this topic challenge).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2022-01-06T10:13:24.690" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13594" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-01-07T22:16:39.803" Score="17" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a way to celebrate the New Year and lasting contributions to the site by new users I am &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11636/and-the-best-new-user-of-2017-is&quot;&gt;continuing&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12261/and-the-best-new-user-of-2018-is&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12896/and-the-best-new-user-of-2019-is&quot;&gt;honorary&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13237/and-the-best-new-user-of-2020-is&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; based on a simple premise...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user with the highest rank in the yearly reputation league that was not previously ranked. For the Year 2021 league the winner is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/145218/silly-but-true&quot;&gt;Silly but True&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3BCo7.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3BCo7.png&quot; alt=&quot;Silly but True place in user league screen shot&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coming in at #11 with 8,981 reputation in just 3 months is an excellent way to start contributing to the site. Please join me in congratulating this exceptional new user!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Previous years winners based on the criteria are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;year&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;user&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;year rank&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;reputation&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13237/and-the-best-new-user-of-2020-is&quot;&gt;2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/125981/clara-diaz-sanchez&quot;&gt;Clara Diaz Sanchez&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;12&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;9,252&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12896/and-the-best-new-user-of-2019-is&quot;&gt;2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/115696/&quot;&gt;Invisible Trihedron&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;19&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;8,239&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12261/and-the-best-new-user-of-2018-is&quot;&gt;2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/98028/&quot;&gt;Jenayah&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;9&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;14,253&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11636/and-the-best-new-user-of-2017-is&quot;&gt;2017&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/80602/&quot;&gt;Bellatrix&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;26,201&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2016&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/57310/&quot;&gt;Skooba&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;18&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;15,596&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2015&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/40294/&quot;&gt;Praxis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;35,709&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2014*&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/21600/&quot;&gt;Royal Canadian Bandit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;7&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;14,897&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2013&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/14111/&quot;&gt;user14111&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;10&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;6,998&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2012&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4056/&quot;&gt;dlanod&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;26,834&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2011&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/656/&quot;&gt;Jeff&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;21,720&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*Honorary mention to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/20774/valorum&quot;&gt;Valorum&lt;/a&gt; in 2014 as he came in first with 77,625 points, but joined and reached the leagues in December of 2013 therefore technically not qualifying for this contest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2022-01-07T22:29:23.963" LastActivityDate="2022-01-07T22:29:23.963" Title="And the Best New User of 2021 is" Tags="|discussion|new-users|users|contest|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13589" CreationDate="2022-01-08T21:47:06.883" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd really rather not Answer my own Question… else, why would I have&#xA;asked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, most Answers and even Comments here show first that many Users care nothing about style, order or harmony.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I stress again, I am not advocating any particular style; merely that a standard style would be helpful. Does anyone doubt that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no faint idea why SE's search mechanism returns different results for &amp;quot;AB&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;A.B.&amp;quot; and two facts remain:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The results are sometimes different: try it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;That is not, nor could ever be helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see how - and how strongly - Valorum, et al, hold clear views about what style might be right and I stress again, those views have no place in considering whether there should be a prescribed style. Please, Valorum et al, stop flogging your horse. It died too long ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I happen to have worked for around 100 newspaper or magazine publishers, over a period of 30-odd years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not suggest any of them had the right, nor even the best style, but I insist all their publications would have been less respected had they not used a common style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="128885" LastActivityDate="2022-01-08T21:47:06.883" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13596" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-01-12T15:13:32.613" Score="12" ViewCount="68" Body="&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22year+in+moderation%22+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on the web:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny slices of effort contributed by regular, everyday users.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;-- &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't eliminate the need for having &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/11/21/our-theory-of-moderation-re-visited/&quot;&gt;moderators&lt;/a&gt; altogether, but it does mean that the bulk of moderation work is carried out by regular folks. Every bit of time and effort y'all contribute to the site gives you access to more privileges you can use to help in this effort, all of which produce a cumulative effect that makes a big difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as we say goodbye to 2021, let us look back at what we accomplished as a community... by looking at some &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KZntT.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;exciting&lt;/em&gt; stats&lt;/a&gt;. Below is a breakdown of moderation actions performed on Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy over the past 12 months:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Action&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Moderators&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Community¹&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users suspended²&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;24&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;30&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users destroyed³&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;179&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users deleted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;40&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users contacted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;35&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;User banned from review&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: Suggested Edit queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;156&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2,155&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: Reopen Vote queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;58&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,196&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: Low Quality Posts queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;246&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4,029&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: Late Answer queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;65&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,872&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: First questions queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;80&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;539&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: First Post queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;64&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3,441&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: First answers queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;95&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;894&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tasks reviewed⁴: Close Votes queue&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;149&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4,208&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tags merged&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;17&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tag synonyms proposed&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;5&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Tag synonyms created&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Revisions redacted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions unprotected&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;87&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions reopened&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;70&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;124&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions protected&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;30&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;198&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions migrated&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;19&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions flagged⁵&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;22&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;723&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Questions closed&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;221&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,083&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Question flags handled⁵&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;288&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;424&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts unlocked&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;7&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts undeleted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;29&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;102&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts locked&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;11&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;141&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts deleted⁶&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;732&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2,363&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts bumped&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;352&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Escalations to the Community Manager team&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comments undeleted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;81&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comments flagged&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;17&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,929&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comments deleted⁷&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4,334&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3,327&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comment flags handled&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,478&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;468&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Answers flagged&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;58&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4,121&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Answer flags handled&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,857&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2,319&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;All comments on a post moved to chat&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;28&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Footnotes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &amp;quot;Community&amp;quot; here refers both to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;the membership of Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;diamonds next to their names&lt;/a&gt;, and to the automated systems otherwise known as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;user #-1&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;² The system will suspend users under three circumstances: when a user is recreated after being previously suspended, when a user is recreated after being destroyed for spam or abuse, and when a network-wide suspension is in effect on an account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;³ A &amp;quot;destroyed&amp;quot; user is deleted along with all that they had posted: questions, answers, comments. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/88994/what-is-the-difference-between-a-deleted-user-and-a-destroyed-user&quot;&gt;Generally used as an expedient way of getting rid of spam.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁴ This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 2 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 2, the goal being to indicate the frequency of moderation actions. This also applies to flags, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁵ Includes close flags (but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; close or reopen votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁶ This ignores numerous deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁷ This includes comments deleted by their own authors (which also account for some number of handled comment flags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Further reading:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wanna see how these numbers have changed over time? We posted a similar report here last year: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13250/2020-a-year-in-moderation&quot;&gt;2020: a year in moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can also check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/search?q=title%3A%222021%3A+a+year+in+moderation%22&quot;&gt;this report on other sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or peruse &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/374784/208518&quot;&gt;detailed information on the number of questions closed and reopened across all sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wishing everyone a happy 2022! ^_^&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6365" LastActivityDate="2022-01-12T15:13:32.613" Title="2021: a year in moderation" Tags="|discussion|moderation|site-statistics|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11051" CreationDate="2022-01-13T15:40:15.837" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;2022&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;November&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2022/11/firefly-episodes-ranked-best-to-worst/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Firefly episodes ranked best to worst&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2022/11/favorite-questions-and-answers-from-third-quarter-2022/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Favorite Questions and Answers from Third Quarter 2022&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;August&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2022/08/prey-2022-in-100-words-or-less-spoiler-free/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Prey (2022) – In 100 words or less Spoiler Free&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2022/08/jacks-bad-movies-johnny-mnemonic-1995/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies: Johnny Mnemonic (1995)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;July&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2022/07/favorite-questions-and-answers-from-second-quarter-2022/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Favorite Questions and Answers from Second Quarter 2022&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2022/07/its-time-to-give-star-trek-the-motion-picture-another-look/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;It’s Time to Give Star Trek: The Motion Picture Another Look&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;June&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2022/06/jacks-bad-movies-godzilla-vs-kong-2021/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies: Godzilla vs Kong (2021)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2022/06/sonic-the-hedgehog-2-2022/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;April&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2022/04/favorite-questions-and-answers-from-first-quarter-2022/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Favorite Questions and Answers from First Quarter 2022&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2022/04/jacks-bad-movies-blade-runner-1982/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies: Blade Runner (1982)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;March&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2022/03/netflixs-space-force-season-2/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Netflix’s Space Force: Season 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2022/03/the-batman-in-100-words-or-less-spoiler-free/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Batman in 100 words or less – Spoiler Free&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;February&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2022/02/jacks-bad-movies-ai-love-you/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies: Ai Love You&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;January&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2022/01/orson-scott-cards-the-last-shadow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Orson Scott Card’s The Last Shadow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2022/01/favorite-questions-and-answers-from-fourth-quarter-2021/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Favorite Questions and Answers from Fourth Quarter 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="1148" LastEditDate="2022-11-21T18:18:41.937" LastActivityDate="2022-11-21T18:18:41.937" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13598" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13599" CreationDate="2022-01-14T05:25:39.523" Score="1" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand the value of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/20/peer-pressure&quot;&gt;Peer Pressure&lt;/a&gt; badge. If a post has a negative score, it means it is not a valuable one and deleting it by oneself cleans up the forum. But why give a badge for deleting one's post with a &lt;strong&gt;positive&lt;/strong&gt; score? Or do I miss something about the working of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/19/disciplined&quot;&gt;Disciplined&lt;/a&gt; badge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115682" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2022-01-14T07:21:35.883" LastActivityDate="2022-01-14T07:21:35.883" Title="Why is there a Disciplined badge as well as Peer Pressure?" Tags="|discussion|badges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13598" CreationDate="2022-01-14T07:20:08.167" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, score doesn't reflect actual post quality. Maybe an answer got upvoted and then you realised it was wrong. Deleting poor content &lt;em&gt;even if it loses you some rep points&lt;/em&gt; is perhaps even more praiseworthy and community-minded than deleting poor content that's downvoted, which could be just to avoid losing the rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Peer Pressure and Disciplined, they both have good motivation. One teaches that you can remove bad content; the other is to encourage removing bad content even though you'll lose some precious Official Reputation Points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-- &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/107633/278659&quot;&gt;from main meta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2022-01-14T07:20:08.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13600" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13601" CreationDate="2022-01-14T14:05:34.560" Score="2" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, frankly, the title stands for itself, but in short, can speculations supplied with enough evidence hinting at the speculation be accepted as an answer?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Examples:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/259358/120309&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;USA&amp;quot; in the address sent to Malcom Reed (Star Trek: ENT)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/256991/on-what-basis-do-the-borg-number-the-species&quot;&gt;On what basis do the Borg number the species?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/237317/why-was-zsaji-not-given-the-knowledge-of-english&quot;&gt;Why was Zsaji not given the knowledge of English?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120309" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2022-01-14T19:59:10.337" LastActivityDate="2022-01-14T19:59:10.337" Title="Can speculations be accepted as answer?" Tags="|discussion|answer-quality|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13600" CreationDate="2022-01-14T14:21:54.390" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Acceptance of an answer means practically nothing, other than the fact that the person who asked the question decided that this answer worked for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as an answer constitutes an answer - as in, doesn't qualify for deletion as &amp;quot;not an answer&amp;quot; - there aren't any rules deciding what kind of answer the OP should accept. It's purely up to the original asker to accept as they please, or not to accept an answer at all. (We encourage acceptance in certain cases, such as for story-ID questions, but we have no way of &lt;em&gt;forcing&lt;/em&gt; anyone to accept.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also worth noting that nobody except for the OP can &lt;em&gt;un&lt;/em&gt;accept an answer, just like nobody besides for the OP can accept it in the first place. It's not like mods can unaccept an answer on behalf of the OP. Even if we were to make rules about what answers can be accepted, we'd have no way of enforcing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And, as TLC notes in the comments, accepted answers are currently &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13478/33591&quot;&gt;not even pinned to the top&lt;/a&gt;, lessening the impact of acceptance even further.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="33591" LastEditDate="2022-01-14T14:27:47.867" LastActivityDate="2022-01-14T14:27:47.867" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13600" CreationDate="2022-01-14T15:33:22.030" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good answers should be backed up with some form of &lt;em&gt;evidence&lt;/em&gt;, but that might be partly speculative.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wild guesses posted as answers are likely to be heavily downvoted if not outright deleted by the community. But speculation can make for a good answer if it's well argued and based on clear evidence or reasoning. So it really depends on what you mean by &amp;quot;speculation&amp;quot;; I note that two of the answers you linked to actually contain quoted passages from the works in question, although I don't know those works well enough to know how good the evidence provided by said passages is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This all relates to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/09/29/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;Good Subjective&lt;/a&gt; mantra which is still reproduced in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;help centre&lt;/a&gt; to this day:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some subjective questions are allowed, but “subjective” does not mean “anything goes”. All subjective questions are expected to be constructive. What does that mean? Constructive subjective questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;inspire answers that explain “why” and “how”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tend to have long, not short, answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;have a constructive, fair, and impartial tone&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;invite sharing experiences over opinions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;insist that opinion be backed up with facts and references&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;are more than just mindless social fun&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll notice that most of these points determining what makes an &amp;quot;acceptable&amp;quot; subjective question are actually about the &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; - an answer can be somewhat opinion-based (speculative) and still be good, as long as it explains why and how, in a constructive, fair, and impartial way, and is based on experience rather than opinion, or backs up any opinions with facts and references.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here on SFF (the above guidance is network-wide), we expect a good answer to be based on &lt;strong&gt;evidence&lt;/strong&gt;, which might be conclusive, like a screenshot or quote establishing a fact definitively, or indicative, like a solid argument supporting a thesis. Speculation can be OK as long as it's properly backed up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2022-01-14T15:33:22.030" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2022-01-14T18:34:32.353" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tuor from Tolkien's Legendarium is my favorite fictional character&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user128845" LastActivityDate="2022-01-14T18:34:32.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13605" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-01-15T21:48:04.560" Score="7" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've started noticing too many questions in SciFi Stack Exchange about the meaning of adverbs/prepositions, mainly in Harry Potter tag. With a simple search with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot;&gt;relevant tag&lt;/a&gt;, someone would always see 3-5 questions in recents (e.g., &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;what does 'there' refer to&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although someone might argue that these are legit questions (I don't imply that these people are trolling, they honestly seek for advice to understand the meaning, most probably because English is not their first language), SciFi Stack Exchange is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; there to answer to linguistic questions. There is &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;English Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of having these questions there all the time, that usually receive a high number of downvotes, should the questions start being purged from the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28542" OwnerDisplayName="Lefteris008" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2022-01-17T19:45:19.713" LastActivityDate="2022-01-17T19:45:19.713" Title="Should questions in SciFi Stack Exchange about the meaning/use of Adverbs/Prepositions in Harry Potter start being deleted?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="13" ClosedDate="2022-01-15T22:04:21.603" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13606" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13607" CreationDate="2022-01-16T00:37:19.603" Score="8" ViewCount="271" Body="&lt;p&gt;This post is for the second SFF.SE &lt;strong&gt;topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt; of 2022, in which the site's community is encouraged to take part together in asking and answering questions on a particular topic each month. According to community votes on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;topic challenge proposals thread&lt;/a&gt;, the February 2022 topic challenge is going to be devoted to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._A._Lafferty&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;US sci-fi author&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;R. A. Lafferty&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/r-a-lafferty&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;r-a-lafferty&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;r-a-lafferty&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This author and his works of written sci-fi are on-topic both here and at our &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/r-a-lafferty&quot;&gt;sister site Literature SE&lt;/a&gt;, which is currently running a two-month topic challenge on the same author: &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1625/17&quot;&gt;January–February 2022 topic challenge: R. A. Lafferty&lt;/a&gt;. Therefore, this will be our second &lt;strong&gt;joint topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt; run on two sites simultaneously: during February, questions about Lafferty stories can be asked either on SFF or on Literature, and it's pretty much the OP's choice where to ask (see below for more detail on this scope overlap).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's a topic challenge and how do I take part?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13211/31394&quot;&gt;Announcing a Topic Challenge program for SFF.SE&lt;/a&gt;, and also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/240634/278659&quot;&gt;this main meta post&lt;/a&gt;. In short, during February 2022 we should all try to either read some Lafferty stories and ask interesting questions about them, or help out by &lt;em&gt;answering&lt;/em&gt; other people's questions about them. If you're wondering where to find Lafferty stories, our very own user14111 has &lt;a href=&quot;https://literature.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1639/17&quot;&gt;collected a list&lt;/a&gt; of his stories which are freely and legally available online (e.g. from Project Gutenberg or the Internet Archive).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it comes to written sci-fi stories, &lt;strong&gt;the site scopes of SFF and Literature&lt;/strong&gt; don't differ that much, so askers can basically feel free to post their questions on either site. Bearing in mind the different communities and audiences, it might be &lt;em&gt;recommended&lt;/em&gt;, for example, to ask about science-fictional aspects on SFF and to ask about deeper literary analysis on Literature, but either type of questions should still be on-topic for both sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Participation is not obligatory in any sense, but those who participate will be forever remembered in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13606/31394&quot;&gt;annals of our history&lt;/a&gt;. We'll keep a list of all Lafferty questions asked during February 2022, either on SFF or on Literature, in an answer to this meta post. At the end of the month, I'll collate some data like highest-scoring question, most-viewed question, highest-scoring answer, etc. There won't be any real-world rewards like in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1138/31394&quot;&gt;the old days&lt;/a&gt; when Stack Exchange was smaller and more generous, but I'll be awarding at least one bounty after the end of the month (assuming there's at least one good answer posted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's next?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Future topic challenges will be chosen by community votes, so come over and propose or vote on suggestions at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;Propose future topics for SFF topic challenges!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The Lafferty answer will be deleted from that thread at the start of February, since already chosen topics shouldn't stick at the top of the thread and distract people from those still to be voted on.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2022-12-24T06:42:52.100" Title="February 2022 topic challenge: R. A. Lafferty (held jointly with Literature SE)" Tags="|discussion|topic-challenge|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13606" CreationDate="2022-01-16T00:38:40.937" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;List of all questions posted as part of this topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/260081/cover-art-on-laffertys-collection-nine-hundred-grandmothers&quot;&gt;Cover art on Lafferty&amp;#39;s collection Nine Hundred Grandmothers&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/14111/user14111&quot;&gt;user14111&lt;/a&gt;, 02/02/2022.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It had a score of &lt;strong&gt;7&lt;/strong&gt; at the end of February, and less than &lt;strong&gt;114&lt;/strong&gt; views during February. (This note added in December, so it's impossible to be precise about the views.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2022-12-24T06:42:52.100" LastActivityDate="2022-12-24T06:42:52.100" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2022-01-16T00:38:40.937" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13608" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13610" CreationDate="2022-01-21T01:31:53.350" Score="11" ViewCount="320" Body="&lt;p&gt;On various poorly written questions, I've edited to make clearer and better which can end up producing a better and well-written question. However, if the original question was poorly written, should you downvote because of that, or should you upvote because the question &lt;em&gt;you have just edited to make better&lt;/em&gt; is better at that point?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137615" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2022-01-21T08:59:26.757" LastActivityDate="2022-02-03T21:21:19.910" Title="Seeing as downvotes are used to signal that a question is not well written, should you upvote or downvote a poorly written question you've edited?" Tags="|discussion|down-votes|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13608" CreationDate="2022-01-21T13:01:22.783" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since your downvotes are (within reason) yours to use however you see fit, I can only really base an answer on my own experiences. Generally, I would downvote a question or answer where I perceive that &lt;strong&gt;the user has made insufficient effort to ensure that what they have written is in good or comprehensible English, even if I've since edited it into shape because I think it's worth salvaging.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This certainly doesn't mean penalising users for occasional spelling or grammar lapses but it does mean that those who really haven't bothered to use even the most simple of tools like spell-check or have decided to load their answers with stream-of-consciousness nonsense or l33tspeak should get some sort of warning that they're doing it wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/why-vote&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; advises us that...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;...upvotes are a great way to thank the author of a good post for the time and effort put into writing it!&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd argue that the converse is also true, that downvotes are a great way to advise the author that they've put in &lt;em&gt;insufficient&lt;/em&gt; time and effort. On SE that means trying to make a reasonable effort with your posts (in terms of spelling, punctuation and grammar) and not treating other users with casual disrespect by expecting them to clean up your mess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2022-01-21T13:06:41.003" LastActivityDate="2022-01-21T13:06:41.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13608" CreationDate="2022-01-21T21:13:48.307" Score="27" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Vote on the final product&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nobody can stop you from voting how you want but the system has a number of features designed around people changing their votes in reaction to edits. This is why your vote unlocks after an edit and also one of the major driving forces behind the development of the follow feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, the vote arrows are always next to the current post, and the older revisions are hidden away. Everyone else (or at least the overwhelming majority) is voting on what they see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't matter that you were the one to make the edit. After you edit, vote on what you think the current post deserves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82909" LastActivityDate="2022-01-21T21:13:48.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13608" CreationDate="2022-01-22T10:14:44.137" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The purpose of voting is to indicate the quality of a post, not as a reward/punishment for a user.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with Laurel's answer, but the above maxim pretty much answers your question by itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the purpose of Stack Exchange is to be a repository of information, then the purpose of vote scores is to &lt;strong&gt;indicate the quality and reliability of said information&lt;/strong&gt;. An answer languishing on a negative score should be an answer that's wrong or not properly justified or otherwise considered low-quality; a question with a high positive score should be a question that's&#xA;useful or interesting or otherwise considered valuable. From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/why-vote&quot;&gt;help centre&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting up a question or answer signals to the rest of the community that a post is interesting, well-researched, and useful, while voting down a post signals the opposite: that the post contains wrong information, is poorly researched, or fails to communicate information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It makes no sense, then, to vote on a post according to what the OP had originally written before edits. &lt;strong&gt;Voting sends a signal about the quality of a post&lt;/strong&gt;, and if you downvote a post after editing it from bad to good, then you're sending the wrong signal about the now-good post. The only purpose of downvoting it would be as a way of &amp;quot;punishing&amp;quot; the OP for writing a bad post in the first place, but that's not what votes are for. The best way to deal with an OP who writes bad posts is to educate them on how to write good ones (e.g. by commenting or editing); if that fails, there are other tools available, up to and including suspensions for consistently low-quality contributions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2022-01-22T10:43:23.057" LastActivityDate="2022-01-22T10:43:23.057" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2022-01-23T21:15:55.300" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was playing a retro-futuristic/cyberpunk game. At some point, two Non-Player Characters (NPC) were interacting on a forum with a play of word. I liked the nickname so much that it stuck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z27eD.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z27eD.png&quot; alt=&quot;The game is Shadowrun: Dragonfall. Two characters are talking over the Shadowland BBS, some kind of online underworld forum for mercenaries. One of them, named &amp;quot;The Smiling Bandit&amp;quot;, is asking someone else: &amp;quot;Always running, eh CW?&amp;quot;. The other one, named Clockwork, replies: &amp;quot;Like clockwork!&amp;quot;. There is a pun, because in the shadowrun universe, when a &amp;quot;shadowrunner&amp;quot;/mercenary is &amp;quot;running&amp;quot;, it means they're working. Clockwork's reply on the other hand is more a reference on actual kinetic clockwork mechanism which are always running, and the idiom that goes with it.&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="103122" LastActivityDate="2022-01-23T21:15:55.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13613" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-01-28T00:37:19.523" Score="7" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over the last couple of days, the layout of the site has changed drastically and in small ways after that. What's happening? Was there an announcement? They are convenient changes, anyway, but was this supposed to be announced?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137615" LastActivityDate="2022-01-28T03:13:51.030" Title="What's going on with the view layout?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13613" CreationDate="2022-01-28T03:13:51.030" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are ongoing changes, as documented in &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/375081/new-post-summary-designs-on-site-home-pages-and-greatest-hits-now-everywhere-el&quot;&gt;New post summary designs on site home pages and greatest hits now; everywhere else eventually&lt;/a&gt; to make all sites on the network more mobile-friendly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it was not well received, the community over there has requested many changes, which have been rapidly deployed. Hopefully things will settle soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2022-01-28T03:13:51.030" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2022-01-28T03:13:51.030" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13615" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-01-29T14:35:35.143" Score="6" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was taking a stroll through some site analytics today and something caught my eye in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/site-analytics/traffic-sources&quot;&gt;traffic sources&lt;/a&gt;, that many (11 exactly) SE referring sites have exactly 776 visits. This seems to continue when after 776 the number drops to 388 which is exactly half of 776, however only 2 sites are shown with that number so I cannot be sure how long the trend continues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I find this beyond coincidence so I suspect there is something going on in the system/code/programming/what-have-you. Can it be explained?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OP6vv.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OP6vv.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="57310" LastEditDate="2022-02-02T14:29:01.547" LastActivityDate="2022-02-02T14:29:01.547" Title="Is there a reason why so many sites have the same number of referrals?" Tags="|support|site-statistics|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9460" CreationDate="2022-01-31T20:17:50.593" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just quickly glomming onto this after following &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4751/25920&quot;&gt;a link from the Movies &amp;amp; TV SE&lt;/a&gt;, I feel that currently this gets handled reasonably well by people using the &amp;quot;Needs more detail or clarity&amp;quot; Close reason. I think it occasionally gets used by &amp;quot;OK, so that's a bunch of unique details, but I can't find it based on those and I don't think anyone else can&amp;quot; people, but overall, I think it works for us. In the case where someone does find a well-matching answers, those questions often get re-opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2022-01-31T20:17:50.593" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13608" CreationDate="2022-02-03T21:21:19.910" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've long thought that folks downvoting either questions or answers owed the author an explanation of what their objection was, and if appropriate a suggested fix. The system should at least &lt;em&gt;encourage&lt;/em&gt; more useful feedback than blowing a raspberry. But I believe we've discussed that before and it got shot down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not My Problem, just my two cents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22175" LastActivityDate="2022-02-03T21:21:19.910" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13619" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-02-08T06:07:59.263" Score="9" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Williams&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Composer John Williams&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; rules the music cinematic world for his unique and catchy music compositions. Tomorrow (2-8-22) he will be 90 years old - congratulations to Mr. Williams! I'll list some of his compositions here for fun. &lt;strong&gt;All links lead to YouTube clips featuring John Williams himself conducting his own music.&lt;/strong&gt; Please share your own favorite John Williams composition(s)/soundtracks. You can also include any quips/quotes you especially like from any of the movies he's composed for. I'll start with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/E-sX2Y0W8l0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jaws&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Brody: &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;You're gonna need a bigger boat.&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quint: &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Farewell and adieu to you, fair Spanish ladies. Farewell and adieu, you ladies of Spain. For we've received orders for to sail back to Boston. And so nevermore shall we see you again.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I grew up in southern California and, despite having had a previously positive relationship with the ocean while growing up, when I saw &lt;em&gt;Jaws&lt;/em&gt;, I was absolutely terrified. I rarely went into the ocean again after watching &lt;em&gt;Jaws&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had a hard time choosing between &lt;em&gt;Jaws&lt;/em&gt; and this next one for first place. John Williams conducts the Wiener Philharmonic for these clips (Note the amazing HD on the Wiener Philharmonic):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/54hoKbTWon4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Star Wars IV - A New Hope (Main Theme)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/vsMWVW4xtwI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Empire Strikes Back: Imperial March&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ben Kenobi: &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Mos Eisley spaceport: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; Indeed!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Han Solo, exasperated, to Princess Leia: &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;No reward is worth this&lt;/em&gt;.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ben Kenobi: &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;The Force will be with you, always.&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Wars IV&lt;/em&gt; is definitely one of my top five favorite movies of all time. My parents were hesitant about allowing me to see &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; (but let me see &lt;em&gt;Jaws&lt;/em&gt; as a kid? WTH?!), but ultimately gave in to my incessant begging and wheedling, and let me see &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;. I loved it more than anything at the time. As a kid I used to listen to it at night while nodding off to sleep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next up is &lt;em&gt;Jurassic Park&lt;/em&gt; - this is my daughter's favorite John Williams composition and she wanted me to include it in my list. I threw this in for her. John Williams conducting the Vienna Philharmonic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/-NqaupGcCpw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jurassic Park&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (T-Rex bellows like whoa)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/J55Q9cA-DK4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Close Encounters of the Third Kind&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; with John Williams conducting the Wiener Philharmonic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Roy Neary: &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Who are you people&lt;/em&gt;?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll leave it at that for my choices, but would love to know what John Williams compositions are your favorites? Just a bit of fun!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3500" LastEditorUserId="3500" LastEditDate="2022-02-09T00:02:23.657" LastActivityDate="2022-02-09T13:26:33.370" Title="Happy 90th Birthday to Our Favorite Ubiquitous Movie Music Composer: John Williams" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13619" CreationDate="2022-02-09T13:26:33.370" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;His earliest science fiction theme music was probably &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQzk09j2lZ8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lost in Space.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4167" LastActivityDate="2022-02-09T13:26:33.370" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13621" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-02-10T00:50:11.083" Score="12" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Trumbull&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Douglas Trumbull&lt;/a&gt; died on Monday.  He was a legendary special effects creator, who worked on  &lt;em&gt;2001: A Space Odyssey&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Close Encounters of the Third Kind&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Blade Runner&lt;/em&gt;, among other films—mostly from the 1960s through 1980s.  He was also a director later in his career, having directed &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067756/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Silent Running&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/oR_e9y-bka0?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/p69lEMn0I8k?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2022-02-10T00:50:11.083" Title="RIP Douglas Trumbull, special effects wizard for 2001, Blade Runner, and more" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13622" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-02-17T09:32:22.667" Score="12" ViewCount="300" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've created &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/1554501/misspelled-silmarillion&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a query&lt;/a&gt; to find posts that misspell &lt;em&gt;Silmarillion&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Silmaril&lt;/em&gt;. It seems we've corrected most of them now. &lt;em&gt;(I think DavidW deserves a mention here, who has done a lot of these corrections.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll add the query to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9496/19561&quot;&gt;our compendium of useful queries&lt;/a&gt; to keep an eye on any future misspellings, but I would like to expand it a little to include other common misspellings as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What other names from &lt;em&gt;Tolkien's Legendarium&lt;/em&gt; are often misspelled?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, do we want to include missed accents? &lt;em&gt;As wë all know, Tolkíen úses a lot.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2022-02-17T11:55:11.837" LastActivityDate="2022-04-20T18:29:33.467" Title="What other names from Tolkien's Legendarium are often misspelled?" Tags="|discussion|editing|data-explorer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13623" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-02-17T09:44:07.270" Score="6" ViewCount="245" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've created &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13622/19561&quot;&gt;a query to search for commonly misspelled names from &lt;em&gt;Tolkien's Legendarium&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/60449123#60449123&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Millennium Falcon&lt;/em&gt; seems prone to being misspelled as well&lt;/a&gt;, as well as &amp;quot;Wookiee&amp;quot;, we may want to have a similar query for the &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What names from &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; are often misspelled?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could add the query to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9496/19561&quot;&gt;our compendium of useful queries&lt;/a&gt; to keep an eye on any future misspellings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2022-02-17T11:56:51.150" LastActivityDate="2022-02-25T11:22:47.260" Title="What names from Star Wars are often misspelled?" Tags="|discussion|data-explorer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13623" CreationDate="2022-02-17T10:02:14.377" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Candidates so far:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ahsoka (often misspelled &amp;quot;Ashoka&amp;quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;C-3PO (I've found C3-PO, C-3P0 and even C3-P0)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13626/20774&quot;&gt;Coruscant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Exegol&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Force with a lower-case 'f'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kashyyyk&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11134/is-it-lightsabre-or-lightsaber-or-both&quot;&gt;Lightsaber&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Millennium Falcon&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tatooine (doubled &amp;quot;t&amp;quot;, single &amp;quot;o&amp;quot;; it looks like I've fixed all but a few cases of &amp;quot;Tattoine&amp;quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wookiee&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wookieepedia (single &amp;quot;e&amp;quot;, no &amp;quot;ee&amp;quot;, various misspellings of &amp;quot;pedia&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;y&amp;quot; instead of &amp;quot;i&amp;quot;...  Most of these were fixed relatively recently)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2022-02-25T11:22:47.260" LastActivityDate="2022-02-25T11:22:47.260" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2022-02-17T10:02:14.377" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13622" CreationDate="2022-02-17T10:54:10.880" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Candidates so far (other then &lt;em&gt;Silmaril&lt;/em&gt; / &lt;em&gt;Silmarillion&lt;/em&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Barad-dûr (found: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=baradur&quot;&gt;Baradur&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22barad%20ur%22&quot;&gt;Barad Ur&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dol Guldur (found: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22dol%20guldor%22&quot;&gt;Dol Guldor&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;dwarf (found: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22dwarve%22&quot;&gt;dwarve&lt;/a&gt;, wearer of scarve)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Eärendil (found: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=erendil&quot;&gt;Erendil&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ilúvatar (found: &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=illuvatar&quot;&gt;Illuvatar&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Khuzdul (found: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=khudzul&quot;&gt;Khudzul&lt;/a&gt;, vine of the Khazâd)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lothlórien (found: Lothorien)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maedhros (found: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=maedros&quot;&gt;Maedros&lt;/a&gt;, but note that &amp;quot;Maidros&amp;quot; was the spelling in &lt;em&gt;Lost Tales&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Númenórean (found: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=numenorian&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Numenorian&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Saruman (found: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Btolkiens-legendarium%5D+sauruman&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Sauruman&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;, the Green, the Lizard-tamer)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sauron (found: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=suaron&quot;&gt;Suaron&lt;/a&gt;, lord of Nimesulide)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tolkien (found: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=tolkein&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Tolkein&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;; thanks &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/60449625#60449625&quot;&gt;Loong&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Galadriel (found: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=Galadrial&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Galadrial&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="4918" LastEditDate="2022-04-20T18:29:33.467" LastActivityDate="2022-04-20T18:29:33.467" CommentCount="9" CommunityOwnedDate="2022-02-17T10:54:10.880" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13623" CreationDate="2022-02-17T14:50:23.820" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Valorum asks for examples of &lt;strong&gt;Coruscant&lt;/strong&gt; being misspelled.  I added that word because I know I can't spell it.  But now I searched a dump for examples.  (This is from an old dump from 2020, that's what I had already downloaded on my disk.)  Some of these have since been edited to the correct spelling, but I think they still count as evidence that the name is often misspelled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/188463/1&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/188463/1&lt;/a&gt; Corescant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/95009&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/95009&lt;/a&gt; Coriscant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/28344/1&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/28344/1&lt;/a&gt; Coroscant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/68903/&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/68903/&lt;/a&gt; Corrasant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/197341/1&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/197341/1&lt;/a&gt; Corrusant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/117390/&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/117390/&lt;/a&gt; Corruscant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/10315/2&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/10315/2&lt;/a&gt; Corscant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/134384/1&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/134384/1&lt;/a&gt; Corusant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/172498/&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/172498/&lt;/a&gt; Corusant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/68480/1&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/68480/1&lt;/a&gt; Corusant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/112008/&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/112008/&lt;/a&gt; Courascant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/123848/&quot;&gt;How is time measured in the galaxy far far away?&lt;/a&gt; Courescant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/125659/1&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/125659/1&lt;/a&gt; Coursicant, Couriscant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/51456/1&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/51456/1&lt;/a&gt; Couriscant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/144131/&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/144131/&lt;/a&gt; Courscant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/173034/1&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/173034/1&lt;/a&gt; Courscant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/178735/1&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/178735/1&lt;/a&gt; Courscant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/103570/1&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/103570/1&lt;/a&gt; Crouscant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/129623/1&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/129623/1&lt;/a&gt; Curoscant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/228106/1&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/228106/1&lt;/a&gt; corasant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/53413/1&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/53413/1&lt;/a&gt; corruscant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/131784/1&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/131784/1&lt;/a&gt; corusant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/76227/&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/76227/&lt;/a&gt; corusant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/117460/1&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/117460/1&lt;/a&gt; courascant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastActivityDate="2022-02-17T14:50:23.820" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13627" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-02-19T23:41:37.510" Score="13" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fairly often, I'll see a comment (or line in question or answer) that is unabashedly critical of the work in question in a way that I would not consider constructive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some examples of how these interactions usually go:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Q: Why does [event] happen in [work]?&amp;quot;&#xA;&amp;quot;Commenter: Because [work] is awful and no thought went into it.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Q: How did [character] learn to [do thing]?&amp;quot;&#xA;&amp;quot;Commenter: [Character] is just a Mary Sue.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I generally flag these comments as either unfriendly or not needed, depending on the specifics of the statement. These flags are accepted about 50% of the time, indicating that there is not a consensus on how they should be handled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not advocating banning all criticism of works in all contexts. For example, if a work's objectively troubled production has been noted to affect plot details, those could be relevant details. However, overly frequent &amp;quot;this story sucks!&amp;quot; responses seem like they could scare off new users who are excited to learn more about their favorite work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51226" LastActivityDate="2022-02-20T20:50:07.763" Title="Do negative comments towards a work follow our guidelines?" Tags="|discussion|comments|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13627" CreationDate="2022-02-20T20:50:07.763" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would argue for a light touch. On the one hand comments are less important - and more ephemeral - than answers and receive less protection; but on the other hand we keep relatively low-value answers as long as they try to be answers, and comments are frequently used as signposts and clues to potential answers, so they don't even need to be as complete or fully-formed as answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since comments are on a continuum (with multiple axes); there are going to be some comments that are obviously not appropriate (&amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;The movie is crap, and you're crap for liking it.&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;), some that provide insightful clarification of the question and some that essentially answer the question, but lack proper attribution or sources.  (And some are just outright funny, which is still, in my opinion, &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt; because it can be a healthy reminder not to take ourselves so seriously.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is about the murky subset deep in the middle, and my feeling is that it suggests going too far in policing the tone of the comments.  Under the guidelines presented, &amp;quot;JKR is bad at maths&amp;quot; would be removed, even though it is (apparently) sometimes actually true and even &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/143313/why-is-jk-rowling-considered-bad-at-math&quot;&gt;acknowledged by the author&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To address the question specifically, there are cases where &amp;quot;no thought went into it&amp;quot; is &lt;em&gt;canonically&lt;/em&gt; true, as some authors have &lt;em&gt;admitted&lt;/em&gt; they rushed a work so much that glaring errors slipped in.  It may not be flattering, but it may still be &lt;em&gt;true&lt;/em&gt;; to insist it's &amp;quot;not constructive&amp;quot; is at least as much of a statement of opinion as the question accuses the commenter of making.  (Similarly, &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sue&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mary Sue&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; is a well-known &lt;a href=&quot;https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MarySue&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;trope&lt;/a&gt; because it really does happen, and it's a useful shorthand for &amp;quot;overly idealized author avatar;&amp;quot; such a comment may be posted simply to reference an argument that has been hashed out elsewhere.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously any comment that makes what might be a contentious claim would be &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt; if it included support, but that's a standard we don't even hold answers to.  (Of course it's not great form to post answers as comments either, but if one lacks the time, or inclination, to chase down the necessary references, I'd argue that it belongs as a comment.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, in the SE system comments are expendable.  I'm always a bit flattered if I revisit a question from months prior and find that a comment of mine has been deemed worthy of keeping around.  But comments are also non-recoverable once deleted, so to the extent that a comment has potential value as a breadcrumb on the trail to a possible answer (even if it's an answer that you might not like) I would argue in favour of keeping it around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastActivityDate="2022-02-20T20:50:07.763" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13622" CreationDate="2022-02-27T02:27:45.943" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just corrected, twice, (in comments; there aren't enough extra letters for the software to accept an edit) the misspelling &lt;em&gt;entlings&lt;/em&gt;. Of course there's no letter &amp;quot;L&amp;quot;. Their name is &lt;em&gt;entings&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144448" LastEditorUserId="144448" LastEditDate="2022-02-27T02:38:21.163" LastActivityDate="2022-02-27T02:38:21.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13630" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13631" CreationDate="2022-02-27T22:38:13.570" Score="5" ViewCount="338" Body="&lt;p&gt;This post is for the third SFF.SE &lt;strong&gt;topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt; of 2022, in which the site's community is encouraged to take part together in asking and answering questions on a particular topic each month. According to community votes on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;topic challenge proposals thread&lt;/a&gt;, the March 2022 topic challenge is going to be devoted to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._E._Modesitt_Jr.&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;US sci-fi and fantasy author&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;L. E. Modesitt Jr.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/l-e-modesitt-jr&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;l-e-modesitt-jr&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;l-e-modesitt-jr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's a topic challenge and how do I take part?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13211/31394&quot;&gt;Announcing a Topic Challenge program for SFF.SE&lt;/a&gt;, and also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/240634/278659&quot;&gt;this main meta post&lt;/a&gt;. In short, during March 2022 we should all try to either read some Modesitt stories and ask interesting questions about them, or help out by &lt;em&gt;answering&lt;/em&gt; other people's questions about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Participation is not obligatory in any sense, but those who participate will be forever remembered in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13631/31394&quot;&gt;annals of our history&lt;/a&gt;. We'll keep a list of all Modesitt questions asked during March 2022 in an answer to this meta post. At the end of the month, I'll collate some data like highest-scoring question, most-viewed question, highest-scoring answer, etc. There won't be any real-world rewards like in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1138/31394&quot;&gt;the old days&lt;/a&gt; when Stack Exchange was smaller and more generous, but I'll be awarding at least one bounty after the end of the month (assuming there's at least one good answer posted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's next?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Future topic challenges will be chosen by community votes, so come over and propose or vote on suggestions at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;Propose future topics for SFF topic challenges!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The Modesitt answer will be deleted from that thread at the start of March, since already chosen topics shouldn't stick at the top of the thread and distract people from those still to be voted on.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2022-04-01T19:39:13.660" Title="March 2022 topic challenge: L. E. Modesitt Jr" Tags="|discussion|topic-challenge|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13630" CreationDate="2022-02-27T22:39:10.400" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;List of all questions posted as part of this topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/261214/do-any-of-l-e-modesitts-worlds-cross-over&quot;&gt;Do any of L.E. Modesitt's worlds cross over?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/5490/bobson&quot;&gt;Bobson&lt;/a&gt;, 14/03/2022.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/261458&quot;&gt;Is there a definitive Recluce timeline?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/5490/bobson&quot;&gt;Bobson&lt;/a&gt;, 21/03/2022.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both of them had a score of &lt;strong&gt;3&lt;/strong&gt; at the end of March, and almost the same number of views too, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/261214/31394&quot;&gt;Do any of L.E. Modesitt&amp;#39;s worlds cross over?&lt;/a&gt; just edged it out as the &lt;strong&gt;most viewed&lt;/strong&gt; with approximately &lt;strong&gt;68&lt;/strong&gt; views during March.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2022-04-01T19:39:13.660" LastActivityDate="2022-04-01T19:39:13.660" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2022-02-27T22:39:10.400" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13632" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-03-02T05:00:25.727" Score="25" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;Priscilla Tolkien, last surviving child of JRR Tolkien, has died at the age of 92.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The news comes from &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.lmh.ox.ac.uk/news/memory-priscilla-tolkien&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lady Margaret Hall college in Oxford&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The college announces with regret the death of Priscilla Tolkien on 28 February 2022, at the age of 92, after a short illness. Priscilla entered LMH in 1948 to read English and afterwards enjoyed a varied career in social work, studying social sciences at the LSE in the late 1950s, then serving as a probation officer and later as a tutor at High Wycombe College. She was one of the generation of women who, after the Second World War, pioneered the entry of women into the professions, along with so many of her LMH contemporaries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She valued her time at LMH above all for the opportunities it gave her to meet and make friends with women from many very different walks of life. Her friendships from those days were and remained forever special to her. Her portrait, commissioned by Michael Gabriel, and given by her to LMH, hangs in Talbot Hall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Priscilla Tolkien was the coauthor of &lt;em&gt;The Tolkien Family Album&lt;/em&gt;, which remains one of the best published memoirs on her father's life. She also authored numerous articles for various Tolkien journals and fanzines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;JRR Tolkien's last known piece of writing was a letter to Priscilla, four days before he died.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She became the honorary vice president of The Tolkien Society in 1986 and for many years represented the Tolkien family at public events. She was also a director of The Tolkien Estate. Prior to retirement, she was a social worker, lecturer, and tutor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hammond and Scull note that her childhood fondness for toy bears and other soft toys inspired parts of &lt;em&gt;The Father Christmas Letters&lt;/em&gt;, and Humphrey Carpenter supposes that Tolkien's original name for Frodo (&amp;quot;Bingo&amp;quot;) was taken from Priscilla's toy koala bear. (Though Christopher notes in &lt;em&gt;The History of Middle-earth&lt;/em&gt; vol 6 that he finds this part hard to believe as him and his sister remember the Bingos as being &amp;quot;composed of monomaniac religious despotism and a lust for destruction through high explosive&amp;quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55866" LastActivityDate="2022-03-02T05:00:25.727" Title="RIP Priscilla Tolkien" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1665" CreationDate="2022-03-05T09:58:25.843" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Somehow, I always thought of her as the &lt;strong&gt;Angel of Death&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3OtIP.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3OtIP.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Angel of Death awaits&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hov'ring over blasted ground,&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Waiting for her soldiers firm;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Hov'ring over roiling seas,&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Waiting for her sailors sweet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How the Angel stares around,&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Longing for her prey to squirm:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Every dying soul she sees&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Can be seized in manner meet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Runes of summons can be found:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Hieroglyphics will affirm,&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Those who seek to Death appease,&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Questions ask, for her a treat!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2022-03-05T09:58:25.843" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13240" CreationDate="2022-03-07T09:08:32.473" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;John G. Hemry a.k.a. Jack Campbell&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An american author of military science fiction novels. Drawing on his experience as a retired United States Navy officer, he has written the Stark's War and Paul Sinclair series. Under the name Jack Campbell, he has written six volumes of The Lost Fleet series and the Steampunk/Fantasy The Pillars of Reality series. He has also written over a dozen short stories, many published in Analog magazine, and a number of non-fiction works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hemry has continued the Lost Fleet series with a spin-off: Beyond the Frontier, focusing on the main characters from the Lost Fleet. A second series, called The Lost Stars, focuses on the collapse of the Syndicate Worlds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15632" LastActivityDate="2022-03-07T09:08:32.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13635" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13636" CreationDate="2022-03-08T12:38:14.047" Score="11" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the tag excerpt (added by TheLethalCarrot):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Always use in conjunction with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/warhammer-40k&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;warhammer-40k&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;warhammer-40k&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Age of Sigmar is a sequel (but completely different cosmology) to Warhammer Fantasy. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/34166/13024&quot;&gt;It is no more related to 40k than Fantasy is.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless a question is specifically asking about both properties, it should never have both tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought I'd better check why that was added before I removed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13024" LastEditorUserId="13024" LastEditDate="2022-03-09T09:36:35.307" LastActivityDate="2022-03-09T09:36:35.307" Title="Why does [age-of-sigmar] say to always add [warhammer-40k]?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13635" CreationDate="2022-03-08T12:45:25.200" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our tag usage guidance and information in tag wiki excerpts (and tag wikis if we have them) generally sucks, to be frank. Over the past few years I've slowly been going back through old tags and fixing a few things up and standardising a format in some places. I've also tried to make sure all new tags at least have a tag wiki excerpt (though I haven't had time in a while to keep these up to date).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As part of this process I guess I came across &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/age-of-sigmar&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;age-of-sigmar&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;age-of-sigmar&lt;/a&gt; at some point. I'm not a Warhammer expert and I really don't know that much about it. I must have naively assumed that W40K was the main work with the others being spin offs so keeping &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/warhammer-40k&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;warhammer-40k&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;warhammer-40k&lt;/a&gt; as the main franchise tag (as well as for the specific work) made sense to me at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it turns out my information was wrong here. You can safely edit the tag wiki excerpt to be more correct as you see fit here!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2022-03-08T12:45:25.200" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13637" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2022-03-11T18:49:53.540" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Area 51&lt;/a&gt; is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Exchange_Network&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Network&lt;/a&gt; staging zone. It's where groups of experts come together to build new Q&amp;amp;A sites that work just like &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/stackoverflow/info&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Area 51 has &lt;a href=&quot;http://discuss.area51.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;its own discussion site&lt;/a&gt; which acts as its own meta site – but for some discussions about proposals related to sci-fi or fantasy, this site might be a more appropriate place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16845" LastEditorUserId="16845" LastEditDate="2022-03-11T18:49:53.540" LastActivityDate="2022-03-11T18:49:53.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13638" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2022-03-11T18:49:53.540" Score="0" Body="For questions concerning proposals for other sites on Area 51, the Stack Exchange Network staging zone where experts come together to build new Q&amp;A sites. Area 51 has its own discussion site which acts as its own meta site – but for some discussions about proposals related to sci-fi or fantasy, this site might be a more appropriate place." OwnerUserId="16845" LastEditorUserId="16845" LastEditDate="2022-03-11T18:49:53.540" LastActivityDate="2022-03-11T18:49:53.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13639" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-03-13T23:17:01.713" Score="5" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;The OP of a recent question misspelled their new tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kate-and-leopald&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kate-and-leopald&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kate-and-leopald&lt;/a&gt; but of course it should be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/kate-and-leopold&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;kate-and-leopold&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;kate-and-leopold&lt;/a&gt;. I nearly retagged it but at the last minute realized a mod might be able to rename it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63330" LastEditorUserId="63330" LastEditDate="2022-03-14T00:08:44.717" LastActivityDate="2022-03-16T05:02:42.680" Title="I spotted a misspelled tag. Can it be edited or does it have to be burninated?" Tags="|support|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13640" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-03-14T15:44:12.373" Score="11" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;A relatively popular story ID subject (with six confirmed answers and several additional probable answers) has something of a mess with respect to duplicate management.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first time that this was asked about was in Feb 2013, and it was answered and accepted then:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/31916/80s-animated-movie-an-old-man-joins-mission-to-save-a-boy-stranded-on-a-hostil&quot;&gt;80&amp;#39;s Animated movie: An old man joins mission to save a boy stranded on a hostile world&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some duplicates were later closed against it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/142585/trying-to-identify-sf-anime-film-shown-on-british-tv-in-1980s-or-90s&quot;&gt;trying to identify SF anime film shown on British TV in 1980s or &amp;#39;90s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/163072/please-help-to-identify-an-animated-movie-a-boy-lost-on-a-jungle-planet-80-90&quot;&gt;Please help to identify an animated movie: a boy lost on a jungle planet (80-90-s)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some years later in May 2018, this movie was asked about and got an accepted answer for a fourth time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/188278/animation-movie-80s-90s-with-brain-sucking-insects&quot;&gt;Animation movie (80&amp;#39;s-90&amp;#39;s) with brain-sucking insects&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At that time, #1 was closed as a duplicate of #2, despite the fact that #1 was already a duplicate hub. This created a duplicate chain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some later duplicates have also been closed against #2:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/246918/space-themed-cartoon-film-seen-on-tv-in-the-mid-80s-with-a-pair-of-blobby-telep&quot;&gt;Space-themed cartoon film seen on TV in the mid-80&amp;#39;s with a pair of blobby telepathic aliens and relativistic aging&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/250725/animation-possibly-anime-with-space-station-made-of-two-hemispheres&quot;&gt;Animation (possibly anime) with space station made of two hemispheres&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to a new question today that will be a duplicate if its answer is accepted (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/261205/1980s-sci-fi-anime-film-with-a-scene-where-a-human-boy-and-an-alien-are-walking&quot;&gt;1980s sci-fi anime film with a scene where a human boy and an alien are walking through a swamp, and the alien is caught and killed by living vines&lt;/a&gt;), there is also an old question with an accepted answer that should be closed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/163070/fantasy-animation-from-the-80s-companion-pulled-into-ceiling-by-tentacles-oth&quot;&gt;Fantasy Animation from the 80&amp;#39;s. Companion pulled into ceiling by tentacles. Other turns around and companion is just &amp;#39;gone&amp;#39;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the best way to resolve this tangle and establish a proper hub question for current and future duplicates?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42769" LastEditorUserId="23243" LastEditDate="2022-03-15T12:05:39.730" LastActivityDate="2022-03-15T12:05:39.730" Title="Contending duplicate hubs for &quot;Les maîtres du temps&quot; aka &quot;The Masters of Time&quot;" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13640" CreationDate="2022-03-15T01:52:59.717" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I pointed all the confirmed duplicates (new and old) to question 2:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/188278/animation-movie-80s-90s-with-brain-sucking-insects&quot;&gt;Animation movie (80&amp;#39;s-90&amp;#39;s) with brain-sucking insects&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I think this was the first time I had changed dupe targets without actually reopening any questions.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2022-03-15T01:52:59.717" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13639" CreationDate="2022-03-16T05:02:42.680" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is already fixed, but for completeness and posterity, here are the options to rename a misspelled tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit each post manually&lt;/strong&gt;. Hopefully a misspelled tag wouldn't survive long enough to be used on many questions, so this should be a feasible task. However, if the correct spelling is very close to the existing one, the system may not let you create a tag that's &amp;quot;too similar&amp;quot;, and you may need mod assistance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mod-merge the tag.&lt;/strong&gt; This automatically renames the tag and replaces it on all posts having that tag, but it can only be done by a diamond mod. (The process is the same as for merging a tag into another one: as a mod, you go to the page for the existing tag, click on the &amp;quot;Merge&amp;quot; button next to &amp;quot;Synonyms&amp;quot;, and type in the new desired name for the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;strong&gt;no need to burninate&lt;/strong&gt; a tag that's been removed from all questions; it will automatically disappear from the system within 24 hours anyway. (If desired, the mod-merge process mentioned above can also add a synonym so that anyone typing the misspelled tag name will automatically get the new tag name. This is a checkbox option on the mod merge page, and it may be desirable for very common misspellings.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2022-03-16T05:02:42.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13643" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-03-16T14:46:22.263" Score="5" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;A proposed wording for our &amp;quot;out of scope&amp;quot; close reason is being constructed at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13502/wording-for-fourth-custom-close-reason-not-about-science-fiction-or-fantasy/13503&quot;&gt;this other meta question&lt;/a&gt; but it needs some links to be considered ready to go.   I've simply linked to the help page &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;What questions can I ask about here?&lt;/a&gt; but some of you may know of some meta articles to link to for even more in-depth detail. Or this may be all we need.  The wording was started by Skooba and is now a community wiki, so you can edit it yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63330" LastActivityDate="2023-10-03T11:59:14.950" Title="Review links for fourth custom close reason" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|help-center|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13644" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13645" CreationDate="2022-03-21T19:18:47.817" Score="4" ViewCount="745" Body="&lt;p&gt;This post is for the fourth SFF.SE &lt;strong&gt;topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt; of 2022, in which the site's community is encouraged to take part together in asking and answering questions on a particular topic each month. According to community votes on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;topic challenge proposals thread&lt;/a&gt;, the April 2022 topic challenge is going to be devoted to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverwhere_(disambiguation)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;work of fantasy writer Neil Gaiman&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;Neverwhere&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/neverwhere&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;neverwhere&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;neverwhere&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's a topic challenge and how do I take part?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13211/31394&quot;&gt;Announcing a Topic Challenge program for SFF.SE&lt;/a&gt;, and also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/240634/278659&quot;&gt;this main meta post&lt;/a&gt;. In short, during April 2022 we should all try to either read/watch/consume (in whatever medium) &lt;em&gt;Neverwhere&lt;/em&gt; and ask interesting questions about it, or help out by &lt;em&gt;answering&lt;/em&gt; other people's questions about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Participation is not obligatory in any sense, but those who participate will be forever remembered in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13645/31394&quot;&gt;annals of our history&lt;/a&gt;. We'll keep a list of all &lt;em&gt;Neverwhere&lt;/em&gt; questions asked during April 2022 in an answer to this meta post. At the end of the month, I'll collate some data like highest-scoring question, most-viewed question, highest-scoring answer, etc. There won't be any real-world rewards like in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1138/31394&quot;&gt;the old days&lt;/a&gt; when Stack Exchange was smaller and more generous, but I'll be awarding at least one bounty after the end of the month (assuming there's at least one good answer posted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's next?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Future topic challenges will be chosen by community votes, so come over and propose or vote on suggestions at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;Propose future topics for SFF topic challenges!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The Neverwhere answer will be deleted from that thread at the start of April, since already chosen topics shouldn't stick at the top of the thread and distract people from those still to be voted on.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2022-12-24T06:55:13.437" Title="April 2022 topic challenge: Neverwhere" Tags="|discussion|topic-challenge|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13644" CreationDate="2022-03-21T19:20:46.807" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;List of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bneverwhere%5D+created%3A2022-04-01..2022-04-30+is%3Aq&quot;&gt;all questions posted&lt;/a&gt; as part of this topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/261851/31394&quot;&gt;Differences between BBC TV serial and novel of Neverwhere&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/125981/clara-diaz-sanchez&quot;&gt;Clara Diaz Sanchez&lt;/a&gt;, 01/04/2022.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/262223/31394&quot;&gt;How did Hunter save Richard&amp;#39;s life three times crossing Knightsbridge?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/550/%e6%9d%9c%e8%88%88%e6%80%a1&quot;&gt;杜興怡&lt;/a&gt;, 14/04/2022.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/262241/31394&quot;&gt;The German translation of Neverwhere, or something else?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394&quot;&gt;Rand al'Thor&lt;/a&gt;, 14/04/2022.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/262276/31394&quot;&gt;What are the names of the Seven Sisters?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/125981/clara-diaz-sanchez&quot;&gt;Clara Diaz Sanchez&lt;/a&gt;, 16/04/2022.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/262332/31394&quot;&gt;Which tube station did Varney die in?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/125981/clara-diaz-sanchez&quot;&gt;Clara Diaz Sanchez&lt;/a&gt;, 19/04/2022.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;highest-voted&lt;/strong&gt; of these is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/262241/31394&quot;&gt;The German translation of Neverwhere, or something else?&lt;/a&gt;, with a score of &lt;strong&gt;15&lt;/strong&gt; at the end of April.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;most viewed&lt;/strong&gt; is probably &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/262276/31394&quot;&gt;What are the names of the Seven Sisters?&lt;/a&gt;, which had over 1600 views by the end of the year. (I forgot to update this post at the end of April.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2022-12-24T06:55:13.437" LastActivityDate="2022-12-24T06:55:13.437" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2022-03-21T19:20:46.807" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13647" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-03-27T18:10:09.097" Score="2" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked a story ID question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/261673/story-id-oil-well-fire-techniques-used-against-space-warp?noredirect=1#comment721002_261673&quot;&gt;Story ID: Oil well fire techniques used against space warp&lt;/a&gt;, got a prompt and correct answer with a link to the story, read the story, and i am now curious as to whether events as depicted in the story are in fact scientifically plausible, in-universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically I want to ask if the wind effects caused by the space warp (or &amp;quot;congruence&amp;quot; as it is called in the story) are realistic.  A good answer would require combining specific in-universe details from the story with real-world physics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/261673/story-id-oil-well-fire-techniques-used-against-space-warp?noredirect=1#comment721002_261673&quot;&gt;this comment&lt;/a&gt; moderator Rand al'Thor advised that such questions are &amp;quot;usually off-topic&amp;quot; and linked to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7364/what-is-our-actual-policy-on-science-questions&quot;&gt;What is our actual policy on science questions?&lt;/a&gt; for this site's policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But after reading the linked thread, the question I have in mind seems near the rather fuzzy boundary between on-and off-topic questions established by the linked policy post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, in the story &amp;quot;The Permanent Implosion&amp;quot; a small spherical locus on Earth is somehow made &amp;quot;congruent&amp;quot; with an unknown position somewhere in space, so that air within the locus spreads out into the adjacent vacuum of space, and air on Earth outside the locus rushes in to replace it and spreads into vacuum in turn. The story describes in vivid detail the effects of the resulting strong winds, and gives several measurements of the wind-speed and reduced air-pressure.  There appears to be no fictional physics at work &lt;strong&gt;outside&lt;/strong&gt; of the volume of the congruency. Aside from the existence of the congruency at the specified locus, this is the real world as understood in 1964, when the story was published.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I question whether air would flow in through the limited surface area of the locus in sufficient volume per unit time to produce the effects as described. That is, in my view, an in-universe question, and so would be off-topic on physics.se. I am asking if it would be on-topic here. Obviously I think and hope it would be, but I have no wish to violate community standards of what is off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that this proposed question would clearly &amp;quot;relate directly to a specific cited work of fiction&amp;quot; and a work that is clearly SF. That would seem to me to make it on-topic by the policy as stated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="112520" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2022-03-27T21:02:28.463" LastActivityDate="2022-03-27T21:02:28.463" Title="Would a question about wind effects in &quot;The Permanent Implosion&quot; be on-topic here?" Tags="|discussion|scope|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13647" CreationDate="2022-03-27T19:28:33.133" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question (as posed in your meta question above) would be &lt;strong&gt;entirely off-topic.&lt;/strong&gt; You're not interested in how it works in the story, you're interested in how such a phenomenon would work if it was translated into a real world setting, which means that it falls foul of our standard close for being &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7364/what-is-our-actual-policy-on-science-questions?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;science-based&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Questions seeking scientific solutions or explanations are off-topic unless they relate directly to a cited work of fiction.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you're actually asking is some variant of &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;What would be the wind effects of a localised spherical vaccuum (e.g. a black hole but without the gravity effects) that doesn't dissipate?&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. You'll note that no part of that is reliant on knowing anything about the story to be answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2022-03-27T19:28:33.133" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13649" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13650" CreationDate="2022-03-27T21:33:00.877" Score="12" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to request that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/33204/adventure-book-possibly-published-around-25-years-ago&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; be reopened, and to respond to the reasons given for its closure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The blue box states that the question &amp;quot;needs details or clarity&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I would say that it doesn't have a clarity problem, although I accept that's just my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As for details, I believe that it does have enough to be answerable. The OP for that question states that it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Was a gamebook, with at the very least the &amp;quot;If you do X, turn to page Z&amp;quot; CYOA mechanic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Featured a sword that needed to be reforged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Involved dwarves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, a lot of gamebooks would involve a magical sword which was either necessary to obtain as part of the plot, or at least necessary to give yourself a power boost for the Big Bad boss fight at the end. But in most of these cases, the sword would be ready to use as soon as you found it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in this question, the fact that something needed to be done to make the sword usable eliminates a lot of possibilities straight away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, the question even states &lt;em&gt;what this thing was!&lt;/em&gt; The sword had to be &lt;strong&gt;reforged&lt;/strong&gt;.  This rules out, for instance, &lt;em&gt;Tower of Destruction&lt;/em&gt;, where you just needed Tassaskil the elf spirit to touch it. Or &lt;em&gt;Vault of the Vampire&lt;/em&gt;, in which you had to shed some of your own blood into a chalice. In fact, that one condition ruled out every &lt;em&gt;Fighting Fantasy&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Lone Wolf&lt;/em&gt; book I remembered reading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The only one that came close was &lt;em&gt;Night Dragon&lt;/em&gt;, in which you needed to help revive a group of ancient dwarves who had been turned to stone so that they could repair a suit of magical chainmail armour. Although the book also involved a magical sword which you would use alongside the armour, this didn't &lt;em&gt;quite&lt;/em&gt; seem a close enough match.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have posted an answer on that question - it was the ONLY search result on Google Books I could find that matched all of the criteria, and I believe pretty strongly that it is the correct one. However, if it isn't, the question closure prevents other users from posting the real solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="114314" LastActivityDate="2022-03-28T08:06:07.423" Title="Reopen request for the &quot;Adventure book, possibly published around 25 years ago&quot; question" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13649" CreationDate="2022-03-28T08:06:07.423" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this case, I think it probably &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be reopened, and I've voted accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For my money, it meets the smell-test of being just about answerable, due to the presence of a few different tropes (dwarfs/sword being reforged/noticeable LOTR feel) and a fair description of the level of the book (young-reader) and its age (pre-1990), which rules out a considerable number of books written for an older teen audience and newer books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if it inspires a list of answers, the list is likely to be very short.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2022-03-28T08:06:07.423" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13651" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13652" CreationDate="2022-03-28T18:32:30.890" Score="1" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ran into &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83557/story-about-students-stuck-in-a-black-and-white-universe?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;Story about students stuck in a black and white universe&lt;/a&gt; as a result of following some breadcrumbs from the Literature SE, and I noticed that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/177556/what-is-this-story-im-trying-to-remember-set-in-an-alternate-black-and-white-d?noredirect=1&amp;amp;lq=1&quot;&gt;What is this story I&amp;#39;m trying to remember, set in an alternate black and white dimension?&lt;/a&gt; was closed by its querent as a duplicate of the former even though the duplicate target has no accepted answer. Should we allow that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="100430" LastEditDate="2022-03-29T00:36:17.787" LastActivityDate="2022-03-29T00:36:17.787" Title="Should a querent be able to identify their question as the dupe of a question that has a matching unaccepted answer?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|story-identification|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13651" CreationDate="2022-03-28T19:04:45.790" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a word, no. The duplicate target doesn't have an accepted answer which means that it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7065/closing-story-ident-questions-as-duplicates-where-theres-no-acceptance&quot;&gt;not a suitable dupe target&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OP should write up a self-answer and then accept it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2022-03-28T19:49:12.583" LastActivityDate="2022-03-28T19:49:12.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13653" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-04-01T14:02:04.357" Score="7" ViewCount="237" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2022/04/favorite-questions-and-answers-from-first-quarter-2022/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;posted&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Original&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from January 1st 2022 through March 31th 2022.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beep Boop Beep beep I am not a duplicate, or a &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2022/04/jacks-bad-movies-blade-runner-1982/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;replicant&lt;/a&gt;, or a copy cat!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2022/01/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2022/01/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2022/01/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I will be linking all blog posts that happened within this quarter year. Also the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/revision/1483709/1819138/most-controversial-posts-on-the-site-by-start-date&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;most controversial question&lt;/a&gt; of the quarter. Also a sum of all the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/revision/1483710/1819137/past-bounties-by-bounty-date&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;bounties&lt;/a&gt; that were awarded.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally if there was a meta post you feel should be spotlighted those are also acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="1148" LastEditDate="2022-04-22T05:08:40.477" LastActivityDate="2022-04-22T05:08:40.477" Title="Favorite Questions and Answers from First Quarter 2022" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13654" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13655" CreationDate="2022-04-12T23:11:20.160" Score="2" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's easy to find information that will tell site users that &lt;strong&gt;questions&lt;/strong&gt; that attract opinion-based answers are bad (&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/09/29/good-subjective-bad-subjective/&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;good subjective bad subjective&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;tour&lt;/a&gt; (&amp;quot;Avoid questions that are primarily opinion-based, or that are likely to generate discussion rather than answers.&amp;quot;), &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5148/where-do-we-draw-the-line-on-opinion-based-questions&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;where do we draw the line on opinion based questions&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like an obvious corollary to me that &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; should be objective and provide supporting evidence, but (getting meta-meta for a minute here) I don't see anywhere I can point to for a reference to back up that opinion. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;tour&lt;/a&gt; says you should answer well-asked questions, should provide context for links, etc., but nowhere does it say &lt;em&gt;explicitly&lt;/em&gt; that you should back up your answer with concrete evidence, or what kinds of evidence are allowed/preferred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The closest I can find is this, from &amp;quot;Good Subjective, Bad Subjective&amp;quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back It Up! means that your answers must be based on either: [1] Something that happened to you personally [2] Something you can back up with a reference&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which seems reasonable, but is in the middle of a long post about opinion-based questions (and refers to a FAQ from another site, although the implication is that this principle applies broadly across SE); I was looking for some kind of brief restatement of this principle in the user documentation for SFF (e.g., Skeptics.SE has a detailed description of their referencing policy &lt;a href=&quot;https://skeptics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1505/faq-welcome-to-new-users&quot;&gt;in a meta FAQ&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone has posted (IMO) a subjective answer about the significance of a scene in the LoTR movies and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/262152/35859&quot;&gt;is arguing in the comments&lt;/a&gt; that they don't know what kind of references are required/should be required to support a statement, saying &amp;quot;Literary interpretation is inherently opinion, not factual&amp;quot;. (The other answer to the question provides quotations from Peter Jackson, so the question is not &lt;em&gt;intrinsically&lt;/em&gt; &amp;quot;opinion-based&amp;quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/262133/what-is-the-significance-of-denethor-eating-the-tomato#comment722430_262152&quot;&gt;A commenter says&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;your answer looks like a fact (&amp;quot;it represents blood as Peter Jackson couldn't make the battle as bloody as he wanted because of censorship&amp;quot;) and as such it has to/should be backed by something other than &amp;quot;I think so&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and I agree with them, but I'm wondering whether there is anywhere in the site documentation &lt;strong&gt;that actually states this guideline&lt;/strong&gt; ... ? If not, then I guess this is a feature request (maybe a section under &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-answer&quot;&gt;How to Answer&lt;/a&gt; ? ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35859" LastEditorUserId="35859" LastEditDate="2022-04-12T23:19:27.447" LastActivityDate="2022-04-13T10:40:48.620" Title="(where) does the tour/help pages state that opinion-based *answers* are deprecated?" Tags="|discussion|primarily-opinion-based|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13654" CreationDate="2022-04-13T08:58:15.733" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;To explain why answers should be backed up and not just based on opinion, I generally use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt; from the help centre. Technically it's about questions rather than answers (the title is &amp;quot;What types of questions should I avoid asking?&amp;quot;), but a good chunk of what it says is about what makes a good &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Constructive subjective questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;inspire answers that explain “why” and “how”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tend to have long, not short, answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;have a constructive, fair, and impartial tone&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;invite sharing experiences over opinions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;insist that opinion be backed up with facts and references&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;are more than just mindless social fun&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Almost all of these bullet points can be applied to explain why opinion-based answers are bad. Good answers should &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;explain why and how&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot;, should &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;tend to [be] long not short&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot;, should &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;have a constructive, fair, and impartial tone&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot;, should &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;share[e] experiences over opinions&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot;, and should &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;[back up] opinion with facts and references&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like this page because it shows the difference between a good subjective question/answer (some degree of subjectivity is allowed!) and a bad one. In fact, much of this help centre page is copied from the Good Subjective, Bad Subjective blog post that you already found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;bad&lt;/strong&gt; subjective answer might be a one-liner (without explaining why or how), a rant or fun theory (just how you feel about a story), or an unsubstantiated opinion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;good&lt;/strong&gt; subjective answer would provide &lt;strong&gt;evidence&lt;/strong&gt; (explaining why and how), &lt;strong&gt;at length&lt;/strong&gt; (long not short), be &lt;strong&gt;impartial&lt;/strong&gt; (evidence based, not just what a random internet person feels), and based on &lt;strong&gt;facts, references, sources, or possibly experience&lt;/strong&gt; (the &amp;quot;experience&amp;quot; thing is less relevant on this site, but does occasionally come up, e.g. &amp;quot;I served in the military and they always do XYZ, so that's why this work of military sci-fi includes XYZ&amp;quot;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that &amp;quot;evidence&amp;quot; &lt;strong&gt;doesn't have to mean a direct canon quote&lt;/strong&gt; confirming an answer. Not every question &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; a clear canon answer, but that doesn't mean they're unanswerable. A good subjective answer could be backed up by a solid argument based on good reasoning, or on general knowledge of what a particular author/director tends to do in their stories, or on a collection of small pieces of evidence scattered across a book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I may slightly self-promote, some of my own proudest answers are not based on direct canon quotes but on knowledge or reasoning: for example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/135537/31394&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; (one quote) or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/121923/31394&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; (no quotes) or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/138725/31394&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; (two quotes) or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/115676/31394&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; (three quotes). You'll note that none of them are short, but none of them rely only on a single definitive quote: the quotes are used (if at all) just to illustrate tangentially relevant points, and the main thrust of the answer is a logical argument.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, you may think an answer is so &amp;quot;obvious&amp;quot; that it doesn't require any explanation. &lt;strong&gt;It's still worth explaining or justifying.&lt;/strong&gt; If it was obvious to everyone, there wouldn't have been a question to begin with!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2022-04-13T10:40:48.620" LastActivityDate="2022-04-13T10:40:48.620" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2474" CreationDate="2022-04-15T07:03:47.660" Score="5" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/204107/&quot;&gt;Which of the flora (and fauna) on Pax came from Earth?&lt;/a&gt; got an answer by Sue Burke, the author of &lt;em&gt;Semiosis&lt;/em&gt; herself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/83257/&quot;&gt;Married couple pretend to like each other due to crystal sculpture&lt;/a&gt;, one of our highest-voted, longest-unanswered story-id questions got an answer after seven years, and the story's author Terry Brown pitched in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/261726/98028&quot;&gt;an answer&lt;/a&gt; a couple of days later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98028" LastActivityDate="2022-04-15T07:03:47.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13657" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13658" CreationDate="2022-04-19T15:12:26.937" Score="15" ViewCount="491" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just had &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/262324/who-is-this-woman-wielding-mj%c3%b6lnir&quot;&gt;my question about the &lt;em&gt;Thor: Love and Thunder&lt;/em&gt; trailer&lt;/a&gt; downvoted into oblivion and closed. What's baffling is that it was closed as a &amp;quot;future work&amp;quot;. From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5187/62709&quot;&gt;original meta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BAD workflow - today:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Question asked&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question generates (likely) several bad opinion based answers. Some are upvoted&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Months/years later, correct canon answer is published&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Someone answers with correct answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I fully get that and support it. My general sense here is that &lt;strong&gt;asking about key plot points before the work is release isn't useful&lt;/strong&gt;. In other words, you would need to &lt;strong&gt;consume the story&lt;/strong&gt; to learn the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question isn't based on anything necessarily in the forthcoming movie itself. The character I wanted identified &lt;em&gt;has already been announced&lt;/em&gt; and already exists elsewhere in Marvel canon (as evidenced by the highly objective answer). The fact that she's in the trailer at all was meant to tease her but I didn't recognize her. Similar questions have not faced this same treatment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/109452/who-is-this-character-in-the-second-batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice-trailer&quot;&gt;Who is this character in the second Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice trailer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/203507/who-is-this-half-thor-half-iron-man-dude-in-the-spider-man-far-from-home-trail&quot;&gt;Who is this half Thor, half Iron Man dude in the Spider-Man: Far From Home trailer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/158555/what-was-that-big-toothy-inter-dimensional-creature-in-guardians-of-the-galaxy-v&quot;&gt;What was that big toothy inter-dimensional creature in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're not consistent here &lt;em&gt;at all&lt;/em&gt;. Some questions get closed, some do not. And even if the question has an objective answer it still gets closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What exactly is the standard here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastEditorUserId="82909" LastEditDate="2022-04-19T15:27:05.453" LastActivityDate="2022-04-23T15:34:59.160" Title="When are questions about characters in trailers Future Works?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|future-works|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13657" CreationDate="2022-04-19T15:18:16.137" Score="13" Body="&lt;h2&gt;This question was wrongly closed&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I almost closed it too&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I literally clicked on the title expecting to need to close it, saw the answer and realised &lt;strong&gt;it wasn't future works.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question could have done with an indication why you thought it wasn't future works, but honestly it doesn't seem closeworthy to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's open now, happy to discuss here or chat if people disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2022-04-19T15:18:16.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13659" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2022-04-19T15:31:57.590" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Future Works was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11865/what-are-future-works&quot;&gt;first described in this Meta post&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any works that aren't available to pull canon from are [future works]. Every single variant listed in the question (Is it works that we know for sure will exist/be released? Things we assume will exist/be released? Things that just maybe will exist/be released?) are [future works].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general goal is to prevent people from asking questions and getting endless speculative answers, such as this generic question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does [this character] get [this &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;MacGuffin&lt;/a&gt;] in this scene from the trailer/excerpt?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general standard here is this: Can we find the answer in some existing canon work? For instance, is the character a superhero from a comic book and the question about a movie featuring said superhero? That might be answerable. If not, you will clearly have to wait until the work is published to get your answer by consuming the story (i.e. watching or reading it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13445/new-custom-close-reason-future-works&quot;&gt;custom closure reason&lt;/a&gt; for this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is about &lt;strong&gt;future works&lt;/strong&gt;. Any answers would be purely speculative, since the question concerns some as yet unreleased material and cannot be resolved until its release. Note that this close reason does not apply if an answer can be written based on already released information. For more details, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5187&quot;&gt;Should questions about future works be closed?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11865&quot;&gt;What are future works?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag is for discussing the reasoning about both community uses to close questions and what qualifies. Use this tag with &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/closing-questions&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;closing-questions&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;closing-questions&lt;/a&gt; for questions about when to close, and with &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/closed-questions&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;closed-questions&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;closed-questions&lt;/a&gt; for when a question has been closed with this reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastEditorUserId="16845" LastEditDate="2022-04-19T17:26:16.190" LastActivityDate="2022-04-19T17:26:16.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13660" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2022-04-19T15:31:57.590" Score="0" Body="Future Works is a community closure reason aimed at preventing speculative answers to pending releases. Use with [closing-questions] for questions about when to close and [closed-questions] for when a question has been closed with this reason." OwnerUserId="62709" LastEditorUserId="16845" LastEditDate="2022-04-19T17:26:16.190" LastActivityDate="2022-04-19T17:26:16.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13661" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-04-19T21:33:19.013" Score="10" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question was actually provoked by the treatment of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/262282/first-vampire-story-to-show-them-using-animal-blood-and-or-blood-not-directly-fr&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; but let me make up a fictitious example to sharpen and clarify the issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suppose someone posts a question asking for the first story in which Earth is invaded from outer space. Somebody posts an answer with a 1995 story arout an invasion from Rigel, and then somebody else posts an answer with an 1898 story about an invasion from Mars, which is accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometime later someone posts a question asking for the first story in which Earth is invaded by beings from Rigel. The new question is immediately closed as a duplicate of the old question, since it is &amp;quot;answered&amp;quot; by the 1995 story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Subsequently, more invasion-from-Rigel stories are found, earlier than 1995 but later than 1898. These are better answers to the newer question, but they can't be posted anywhere, since the newer question is closed, and the older question already has a better answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course the newer question could be reopened, but should it have been closed in the first place? By what right did we assume that an answer to a different question was the correct (i.e. the earliest) answer to the new question? And didn't closing the question lower the chances of a better answer being found?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastActivityDate="2022-04-20T10:19:38.887" Title="About closing &quot;first example&quot; questions as duplicates" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13661" CreationDate="2022-04-20T10:19:38.887" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of course, you're right. &lt;strong&gt;Requests for the first example of X can't be duplicates of each other when the two X are different, even if one of them is a particular type of the other.&lt;/strong&gt; The only case when they might be duplicates is if one question asks for two different first examples and the other one asks for just one of those - although, in that case, the first question might be arguably too broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the first example of Earth being invaded by aliens from another planet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the first example of Earth being invaded by aliens from Mars?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NOT DUPLICATES. Yes, any invasion from Mars will be an invasion from another planet, but the earliest invasion from Mars is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; necessarily the earliest invasion from another planet, and vice versa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the first examples of (a) Earth being invaded by aliens from Mars and (b) Earth being invaded by aliens from Venus?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the first example of Earth being invaded by aliens from Mars?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;COULD BE DUPLICATES. If that first question was posted today, we'd probably suggest the OP break it up into two separate posts. But if we have a legacy question like this which is well answered, it could make sense to close other things as duplicates of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The arguments generally used in favour of closing questions as duplicates based on answers ... don't really apply in this case. If the answer to a question is based on finding a particular quote or piece of information in a story, then another question might be answerable by copy-pasting the same quote. But for &amp;quot;first example&amp;quot; questions, &lt;strong&gt;the correctness of an answer depends also on other answers&lt;/strong&gt;. Yes, that 1995 Rigel story would be &lt;em&gt;a&lt;/em&gt; valid example of Earth being invaded from outer space, but that answer by itself wouldn't confirm it as the first invasion from outer space, &lt;em&gt;nor even the first invasion from Rigel&lt;/em&gt;. So we should let &amp;quot;first example&amp;quot; questions remain separate unless they're really asking exactly the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2022-04-20T10:19:38.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13663" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-04-21T08:36:42.597" Score="10" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question was migrated from Movies:SE to our site. It appears perfectly on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/262394/can-anybody-identify-these-marvel-characters&quot;&gt;Can anybody identify these Marvel characters?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was subsequently answered and was seemingly on its way to attracting other higher quality answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The migration was then rejected (due to a binding moderator vote due to it &amp;quot;needing details or clarity&amp;quot; despite the question being perfectly clear) which has resulted in it being pushed back to Movies:SE where it will get deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was this migrated question accepted and then subsequently rejected?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2022-04-21T09:00:15.020" LastActivityDate="2022-04-21T09:00:15.020" Title="Why was this migration blocked?" Tags="|discussion|migration|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13657" CreationDate="2022-04-21T15:40:26.183" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Case-by-Case Basis&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Note: while AncientSwordRage has addressed the single question the, I am answering in the broader sense as I think was the OP's intent.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with trailers is, like you said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that she's in the trailer at all was meant to tease her...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are tons of teases in every trailer, and sometimes that doesn't make it into the final product. Films may go through reshoots, recasting, etc. They may also be intentionally misleading. This creates quite a flux state of what we can determine from a trailer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In-line with the general &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11865/57310&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;future-works policy&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; questions about a trailer would need to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis and ask ourselves:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there established canon that would be able to answer this question without any information from the future work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If yes, then the question is not future works. If no, then the question is future works. If the trailer pulled a fast one the answer can always be updated later...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2022-04-23T15:34:59.160" LastActivityDate="2022-04-23T15:34:59.160" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13665" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13666" CreationDate="2022-04-24T13:22:10.977" Score="4" ViewCount="254" Body="&lt;p&gt;This post is for the fifth SFF.SE &lt;strong&gt;topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt; of 2022, in which the site's community is encouraged to take part together in asking and answering questions on a particular topic each month. According to community votes on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;topic challenge proposals thread&lt;/a&gt;, the May 2022 topic challenge is going to be devoted to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_McNish&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;an English fantasy writer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Cliff McNish&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/cliff-mcnish&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cliff-mcnish&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cliff-mcnish&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's a topic challenge and how do I take part?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13211/31394&quot;&gt;Announcing a Topic Challenge program for SFF.SE&lt;/a&gt;, and also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/240634/278659&quot;&gt;this main meta post&lt;/a&gt;. In short, during May 2022 we should all try to either read some Cliff McNish stories and ask interesting questions about them, or help out by &lt;em&gt;answering&lt;/em&gt; other people's questions about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Participation is not obligatory in any sense, but those who participate will be forever remembered in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13666/31394&quot;&gt;annals of our history&lt;/a&gt;. We'll keep a list of all Cliff McNish questions asked during May 2022 in an answer to this meta post. At the end of the month, I'll collate some data like highest-scoring question, most-viewed question, highest-scoring answer, etc. There won't be any real-world rewards like in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1138/31394&quot;&gt;the old days&lt;/a&gt; when Stack Exchange was smaller and more generous, but I'll be awarding at least one bounty after the end of the month (assuming there's at least one good answer posted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's next?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Future topic challenges will be chosen by community votes, so come over and propose or vote on suggestions at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;Propose future topics for SFF topic challenges!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The Cliff McNish answer will be deleted from that thread at the start of May, since already chosen topics shouldn't stick at the top of the thread and distract people from those still to be voted on.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2022-12-24T06:56:51.290" Title="May 2022 topic challenge: Cliff McNish" Tags="|discussion|topic-challenge|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13665" CreationDate="2022-04-24T13:23:10.060" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;List of all questions posted as part of this topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/263436/to-what-extent-is-rachel-in-the-doomspell-based-on-the-authors-real-life-daught&quot;&gt;To what extent Is Rachel in The Doomspell based on the author&amp;#39;s real life daughter?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/118557/showsni&quot;&gt;Showsni&lt;/a&gt;, 20/05/2022.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It had a score of &lt;strong&gt;4&lt;/strong&gt; at the end of May, and at most &lt;strong&gt;50&lt;/strong&gt; views during May. (These stats added in December, so an exact view count for May is impossible to get now.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2022-12-24T06:56:51.290" LastActivityDate="2022-12-24T06:56:51.290" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2022-04-24T13:23:10.060" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13240" CreationDate="2022-04-26T23:46:19.893" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Ambergris&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff VanderMeer's &lt;em&gt;weird&lt;/em&gt; saga of the &lt;em&gt;really weird&lt;/em&gt; city Ambergris, a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/230852.City_of_Saints_and_Madmen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;city of saints and madmen&lt;/a&gt;, as depicted in the novella &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1701597.Dradin_In_Love&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dradin, in Love&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, the novels &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shriek:_An_Afterword&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Shriek: An Afterword&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6582496-finch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Finch: A Novel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, and several short stories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's got it all: tyrannical squid, terrifying small people, opera star politicians, warring publishing houses, living saints, mendacious art dealers, people turning into fungus, plus a murder mystery (actually several). It seems like a goldmine for questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63330" LastEditorUserId="63330" LastEditDate="2022-06-07T22:10:19.917" LastActivityDate="2022-06-07T22:10:19.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13668" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-05-05T21:45:10.273" Score="11" ViewCount="394" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thomas is a talking tank engine. He lives on an island called Sodor and basically drives around having minor adventures with his friends and moving passengers and freight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are the Thomas stories on-topic for any other reason than the trains talk (in which case, these seem to fall foul of our rules about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5119/20774&quot;&gt;talking animals&lt;/a&gt;), or can we identify anything else that would bring these back in line?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2022-05-17T17:04:26.663" Title="Is Thomas the Tank Engine on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13668" CreationDate="2022-05-05T21:48:35.697" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; tales about Ghost Trains, wizards, like in one magazine story where Boco tells a story to Skarloey of a wizard turning a fast, arrogant shiny engine named Silver into the slow and dirty Tramp, and everything about &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_and_the_Magic_Railroad&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thomas and the Magic Railroad&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="129103" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2022-05-05T23:53:18.200" LastActivityDate="2022-05-05T23:53:18.200" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13240" CreationDate="2022-05-05T22:52:07.650" Score="-6" Body="&lt;h1&gt;The Metaverse&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given how much Facebook wants to push their metaverse onto people and how much of our lives are going digital, it would be great to explore universes where the entire world (or at least most of it) is digital. For example, Ready Player One, Belle, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the prevalence of Deepfake technologies, how can you know if you're in reality or in a Matrix? What happens when the techno-overlords ban you from reality?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are so many interesting questions brought up by this concept and so many depictions of this world in stories that I believe it would be worth being a topic. Even if it doesn't refer to a specific topic or genre, I think this could be a compelling and relevant topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105550" LastActivityDate="2022-05-05T22:52:07.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13668" CreationDate="2022-05-09T14:22:39.670" Score="12" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Only where SFFnal elements are concerned.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we allow the basic conceit of sentient trains and other machines, the stories themselves are quite mundane. The same stories could be told with Thomas' role, and those of the other engines, replaced by their drivers, without it making much of a difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, questions about the uplifting of the engines and the consequences of that, &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; on topic. Examples of this type of question can be found in this video by Tomska.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/9W5Sopc2JxE?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2022-05-09T14:22:39.670" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13672" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-05-12T05:06:41.097" Score="11" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;American actor James Olson passed away at age 91 on April 7, 2022.  On the big screen, he played prominent roles in the cult sci-fi films &lt;em&gt;The Andromeda Strain&lt;/em&gt; (1971) and &lt;em&gt;Moon Zero Two&lt;/em&gt; (1969).  He also had guest appearances on shows such as the original &lt;em&gt;Battlestar Galactica&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Wonder Woman&lt;/em&gt;, and had supporting roles in several made-for-tv science fiction and occult-themed movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4q9VS.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4q9VS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;From The Andromeda Strain&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EJZ7t.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EJZ7t.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Signed photo of Olson from Moon Zero Two&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69621" LastActivityDate="2022-05-12T05:06:41.097" Title="James Olson, RIP (Andromeda Strain, Moon Zero Two, several tv scifi movies/series)" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13668" CreationDate="2022-05-17T17:04:26.663" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If fantastical elements beyond &amp;quot;in this universe vehicles and rolling stock are sapient and can talk&amp;quot; are required then I'd say no, the Railway Series would generally not be on topic. The one area I'd say you might consider it on topic is as to how the stories themselves affect the universe, if fourth wall breaking in that way can be considered fantastical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The stories are mostly grounded in reality; in fact, many of them are factual events, transposed onto the Isle of Sodor.  The engines are throughout treated as engines; the fact they can talk is not extraordinary in universe. This does sometimes bring up odd dissonances; people generally have no qualms scrapping engines, despite their sentience, just as people might have no qualms scrapping engines in our universe. (Though the books do claim it is &amp;quot;natural for an engine&amp;quot; to feel sad at the idea.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sodor itself of course does not exist in our regular universe; the series is set in a universe where there is a large island in between the Isle of Man and the British mainland. But other than this the history of the railway series follows our history exactly, and features visits from real life engines (such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.bluebell-railway.co.uk/bluebell/pics/stepney.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stepney&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWR_3700_Class_3440_City_of_Truro&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;City of Truro&lt;/a&gt;) and people (such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Queen Elizabeth II&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One slightly fantastical thing is that the Railway Series itself exists within the world of the Railway Series. As the real life series became popular, the series also became just as popular within the world of the books; but, despite being in the same universe as the book series, the people of that universe also didn't believe the engines were real, just as the people in the real world don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The people of England,&amp;quot; he said, &amp;quot;read about Us in the Books; but they do not think we are real...&amp;quot;&#xA;&amp;quot;Shame!&amp;quot; squeaked Percy. The Fat Controller glared. Percy subsided.&#xA;&amp;quot;...so,&amp;quot; he continued, &amp;quot;I am taking My Engines to England to show them.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The forewords by the author also generally keep up this melding of the alternate history with real world history, talking about how the engines might get conceited they have a book named after them, and similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118557" LastActivityDate="2022-05-17T17:04:26.663" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13674" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-05-18T00:57:12.827" Score="12" ViewCount="235" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oregonlive.com/books/2022/05/oregon-fantasy-author-patricia-mckillip-dies-at-74.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;She died May 6 at the age of 74&lt;/a&gt;, after a long career of fantasy novels, being nominated for both the Hugo and the Nebula, and has her own tag:  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/patricia-mckillip&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;patricia-mckillip&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;patricia-mckillip-container&quot;&gt;patricia-mckillip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="128892" LastEditorUserId="128892" LastEditDate="2022-09-11T00:44:08.007" LastActivityDate="2022-09-11T00:44:08.007" Title="RIP Patricia McKillip" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13675" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-05-19T17:50:30.443" Score="2" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/263410/how-is-fission-drive-possible&quot;&gt;How is fission drive possible?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;was closed for being about real-world science, because it seemed to ask about how fission drives worked in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it become answerable if it were formulated to ask what, if anything, the text of the work said about how&#xA;the fission drives &lt;em&gt;in the story&lt;/em&gt; worked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63330" LastActivityDate="2022-05-20T08:52:22.987" Title="Would this specific modification to this question make it answerable on this site?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13675" CreationDate="2022-05-19T18:06:43.643" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. The major problem with this question is that it asks...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Putting obvious problems with that approach aside, are there other possibilities or interpretations of a &amp;quot;fission drive&amp;quot;?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...which is obviously asking about real-world science (which we've decided is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7364/what-is-our-actual-policy-on-science-questions&quot;&gt;off-topic&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If they restricted the question to explanations of the workings &lt;em&gt;in the novel&lt;/em&gt;, that would immediately bring it back on-topic.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2022-05-20T08:52:22.987" LastActivityDate="2022-05-20T08:52:22.987" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13677" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-05-23T12:14:15.200" Score="15" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;Concept artist &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Cantwell&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Colin Cantwell&lt;/a&gt; has passed away at the age of 90. Cantwell contributed to films including &lt;em&gt;2001: A Space Odyssey&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Close Encounters of the Third Kind&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;WarGames&lt;/em&gt;, and also wrote two sci-fi novels, but his biggest and most famous contribution to sci-fi was to &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cantwell provided the initial designs for many of the film's most iconic vehicles, including the Death Star, the Imperial Star Destroyer, the X-Wing and Y-Wing, the TIE fighter, the &lt;em&gt;Tantive IV&lt;/em&gt;, the landspeeder, and the Jawa's sandcrawlers. He also helped to devise the iconic opening scene of the &lt;em&gt;Tantive IV&lt;/em&gt; being pursued by a Star Destroyer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/tRX4JFWffkM?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The beginning of the film after the scroll, the ship coming by was like one giant dart. It kept coming and it kept coming. Then it had a hatch on the bottom and things kept coming out of the hatch, but this was only halfway. Then the stern came up and it had the same exaggeration. This is what had to compound itself in the first ½ hour of the film. It had to be all so absurd and different and insanely joyous and perilous that the audience wouldn't leave. They would want to be in it. The first half hour had to be extraordinarily successful and beyond reason.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;~&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cantwellcollection.com/interviews.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Colin Cantwell, on the opening scene of Star Wars (1977)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cantwell was also a real-world scientist who worked at NASA during the Apollo program, and assisted Walter Cronkite during his broadcast of the Apollo 11 moon landing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76048" LastActivityDate="2022-05-23T12:14:15.200" Title="RIP Colin Cantwell" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12820" CreationDate="2022-05-25T19:24:36.140" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember his dark cartoons from National Lampoon 50 years ago. And when I say dark, I mean, probably not something that would not be censored in most places. One was entitled Hide and Seek -- I wonder if anyone remembers the one I am referring to? I don't want to give it away but if u did see it in 1972 or so, I bet u remember it too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105042" LastActivityDate="2022-05-25T19:24:36.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11139" CreationDate="2022-05-25T19:46:21.763" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is interesting how he and Leonard Nimoy had similar careers -- similar-looking, sounding actors with roles on similar shows. I think in one case they played the same character -- Mission Impossible, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105042" LastActivityDate="2022-05-25T19:46:21.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10546" CreationDate="2022-05-25T19:58:46.793" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think he was the perfect choice for Kane in Alien -- his screen time was limited by his early death in the film, but he did such a good job of playing someone who, in my opinion, knew he was trouble even after he emerged from the medical  bay -- even though the audience knew for sure he was in for it, his character also sensed that such a crazy thing can't have happened for no reason -- the facehugger was not just hanging out. I forget why they could not see the embryo inside of him, but he did not know it. But all the same, I think he knew he was doomed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105042" LastActivityDate="2022-05-25T19:58:46.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6648" CreationDate="2022-05-25T20:04:07.080" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't think of an actor who death affected me more. I remembered him well from first-run episodes of Star Trek, the few times I was up late enough to watch and of course from watching countless reruns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was easily 50 percent of why ST was such a standout -- an alien (or half-alien) who had really depth of character, whose people and culture were thought out in exquisite detail. Spock was easily in the top ten of all television characters, perhaps top 100 or even higher of all characters in fiction -- there, I said it. And it is hard to imagine someone else in the role -- Nimoy was brilliant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105042" LastActivityDate="2022-05-25T20:04:07.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11894" CreationDate="2022-05-25T20:08:12.667" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember her from Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx (with Gene Wilder who I am sure we all miss). Her sad end I take as a warning -- we must all be careful -- we are all one serious illness away from dire straits no matter how successful or beautiful or talented we are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105042" LastEditorUserId="105042" LastEditDate="2022-05-26T02:04:58.140" LastActivityDate="2022-05-26T02:04:58.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13683" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-05-28T00:54:03.163" Score="2" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/263668/931&quot;&gt;Which Sci-Fi work first showed this Black Hole graphics for FTL travel?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this question, what exactly is not clear? There are FTL drives which use black holes, but I am looking for its subset in which a particular graphics is used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What more clarification do you need?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2022-05-28T03:05:51.673" Title="What exactly is not clear with this question?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13683" CreationDate="2022-05-28T03:05:51.673" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You start your question with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Large number of Sci-Fi works make use of black holes for FTL travel&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know about &amp;quot;large number;&amp;quot; it's possible there are a few, but the only one I can think of is the KK drive from Foster's &lt;em&gt;Humanx&lt;/em&gt; novels.  There are a bunch of cases where small black holes are used as power sources (e.g. &lt;em&gt;Imperial Earth&lt;/em&gt;, Sheffield's &amp;quot;kernels&amp;quot;) but most works hard enough to use a black hole as a power source are also usually hard enough not to permit FTL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you're asking about a visual, so presumably we must restrict ourselves to TV and movies, as well as comics or illustrated works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately you then confuse things with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;first used this Black Hole graphics created by FTL drive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So now you're no longer just asking about naturally-occurring black holes, you're asking specifically about artificial black holes generated by an FTL drive.  &lt;em&gt;And&lt;/em&gt; which must be depicted in the way pioneered in &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you give us some examples.  &lt;em&gt;Foundation&lt;/em&gt;'s jump drive, while FTL and gravitic, and having the correct effect, isn't obviously described as creating a black hole.  It's also not clear in the &lt;em&gt;Eternals&lt;/em&gt; clip that it's FTL travel, as opposed to just a &amp;quot;leave the universe&amp;quot; effect, &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; that it's a black hole.  Even in &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; the black hole (which is natural) wasn't the means of travel, it was the wormhole in orbit that they used to travel between the Solar system and Gargantua's system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you're asking about the first occurrence of something that is so over-specified that you probably need to establish that there definitely is at least one instance in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastActivityDate="2022-05-28T03:05:51.673" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13685" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2022-05-29T13:25:51.917" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A feature request or bug with this tag is something that has been evaluated as positive on potential,&#xA;but it is not present in the current work timeline. It is also not guaranteed to be implemented - when&#xA;it resurfaces the proposal may be re-evaluated and declined depending on how the situation has changed since then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contrast &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-planned&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-planned&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-planned&lt;/a&gt;, in which a feature is something that the site developers have&#xA;definitively approved for implementation but the timing is unknown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status tags can only be applied by moderators and site developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19784" LastEditorUserId="19784" LastEditDate="2022-05-29T21:00:39.327" LastActivityDate="2022-05-29T21:00:39.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13686" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2022-05-29T13:25:51.917" Score="0" Body="Indicates that the feature request or bug is something that is intended to be implemented or fixed, but not in the near term." OwnerUserId="19784" LastEditorUserId="19784" LastEditDate="2022-05-29T21:00:14.683" LastActivityDate="2022-05-29T21:00:14.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13687" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2022-05-29T13:26:39.473" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A feature request or bug with this tag is something that has been evaluated as definitive to implementation.&#xA;However, either there is ongoing investigation on the methods to implement the proposal, or there are other&#xA;active projects that are ahead of it in priority for the site developers. Ideally, this tag indicates that&#xA;the proposal is intended to be implemented in the near term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contrast &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-deferred&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-deferred&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-deferred&lt;/a&gt;, in which the feature is of lower priority and may be re-evaluated&#xA;on feasibility at a later date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status tags can only be applied by moderators and site developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19784" LastEditorUserId="19784" LastEditDate="2022-05-29T21:00:33.977" LastActivityDate="2022-05-29T21:00:33.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13688" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2022-05-29T13:26:39.473" Score="0" Body="Indicates that the feature request or bug is something that is intended to be implemented or fixed, ideally in the near term." OwnerUserId="19784" LastEditorUserId="19784" LastEditDate="2022-05-29T21:00:24.990" LastActivityDate="2022-05-29T21:00:24.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13689" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13696" CreationDate="2022-05-29T15:35:31.137" Score="9" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am somewhat confused by the duplicate flag.  If one tries to flag a question as a duplicate, a comment is automatically added (in the flagger's name) &lt;em&gt;asking&lt;/em&gt; the OP whether the proposed duplicate answers the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when this is done, other users will usually chime in that we only close a question as a duplicate &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the OP has indicated that the proposed duplicate answers the question (implying that the flagger &lt;em&gt;should not&lt;/em&gt; have flagged the question as a duplicate).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it incorrect to flag a question as a duplicate, as a &lt;em&gt;proposed&lt;/em&gt; answer, or should we only flag when we &lt;em&gt;already know&lt;/em&gt; that it is a duplicate?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the latter, why does flagging as a duplicate automatically add the comment asking the OP whether it answers the question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/263495/young-adult-novel-about-a-boy-and-girl-who-could-see-through-each-others-eyes&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; for examples of the comments described here.  Note the comment, &amp;quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/263495/young-adult-novel-about-a-boy-and-girl-who-could-see-through-each-others-eyes&amp;quot;, in my name, which &lt;em&gt;I did not add&lt;/em&gt;; it was added by the system when I tried to flag it as a duplicate.  You can see the response to my flag, as well, in the comments on the question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to the system adding the comment with the question to the OP, I would think the process would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag it. The comment will be added automatically.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wait and see whether the OP answers &amp;quot;yes&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;no&amp;quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the OP answers, &amp;quot;yes&amp;quot;, then close it as a duplicate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59154" LastEditorUserId="59154" LastEditDate="2022-05-29T18:26:23.793" LastActivityDate="2022-06-12T19:03:30.383" Title="When to flag a potential duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|flagging|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13689" CreationDate="2022-05-29T16:11:47.187" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a couple of questions here;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Is it incorrect to flag a question as a duplicate, as a proposed answer, or should we only flag when we already know that it is a duplicate?&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes.&lt;/strong&gt; That's our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7065/closing-story-ident-questions-as-duplicates-where-theres-no-acceptance/7067#7067&quot;&gt;agreed policy regarding&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-id&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-id&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-id&lt;/a&gt; questions  and you should not have flagged it as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Why does flagging as a duplicate automatically add the comment asking the OP whether it answers the question[?]&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_powers_that_be&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;PTB&lt;/a&gt; thought that this was friendlier than the old text and &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/339563/the-auto-comment-does-this-answer-your-question-generated-when-voting-to-clos&quot;&gt;haven't seen fit to change it, despite a lukewarm user response&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a personal note, I typically amend the duplicate auto-comment from &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does this answer your question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; (which prompts people to address me personally with some variation of &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;no it doesn't&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;) to &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is a duplicate of&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;, which has a more discouraging effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2022-05-29T18:53:09.700" LastActivityDate="2022-05-29T18:53:09.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13691" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2022-05-30T04:31:25.537" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A bug report is considered not reproducible if it is a bug that the site developers&#xA;would fix, but cannot due to an inability to recreate the problematic behavior in&#xA;spite of attempts to do so. Reports that are not reproducible typically represent&#xA;bugs that come from using unsupported browsers and tools, or because of sunspots&#xA;and other activity entirely unrelated to the site creating a momentary issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a bug can’t be reproduced due to being immediately presented as being through&#xA;an unsupported browser, thus bypassing the need of the site developers to even&#xA;attempt to reproduce the bug, then &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt; should be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are the reporter of a bug that receives this tag, it may indicate&#xA;that the bug was intermittent, or merely that you didn't thoroughly explain&#xA;the circumstances under which you encountered it. First, verify that &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;can still cause the bug to appear, and (if you can) then:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Describe in detail what you were doing when it happened. Include links to any relevant pages / posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;List the steps you took to encounter the bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Describe your environment: browser make and version, OS, add-ons, userscripts (if applicable).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Include screenshots if applicable. Use hand-drawn circles to highlight key portions&#xA;of the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status tags can only be applied by moderators and site developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19784" LastEditorUserId="19784" LastEditDate="2022-05-30T06:25:29.533" LastActivityDate="2022-05-30T06:25:29.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13692" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2022-05-30T04:31:25.537" Score="0" Body="Indicates that the site developers were not able to replicate the behavior reported." OwnerUserId="19784" LastEditorUserId="19784" LastEditDate="2022-05-30T06:25:15.217" LastActivityDate="2022-05-30T06:25:15.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13693" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2022-05-30T04:32:53.757" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A bug report is considered reproduced only if the site developers have successfully reproduced the bug.&#xA;This tag should only be applied if the site developers cannot immediately address the bug, such as if&#xA;it requires further investigation into solutions or if the implementation of a fix would be stalled&#xA;for other reasons. When a fix is eventually implemented, the tag should become &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-completed&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status tags can only be applied by moderators and site developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19784" LastEditorUserId="19784" LastEditDate="2022-05-30T06:25:20.633" LastActivityDate="2022-05-30T06:25:20.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13694" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2022-05-30T04:32:53.757" Score="0" Body="Indicates that the site developers were able to replicate the behavior reported, but cannot address its cause at this time." OwnerUserId="19784" LastEditorUserId="19784" LastEditDate="2022-05-30T06:25:08.270" LastActivityDate="2022-05-30T06:25:08.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13689" CreationDate="2022-05-30T06:41:13.827" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two separate ways to draw attention to the fact a question might be a duplicate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;vote to close as a duplicate (available only if you rep is &amp;gt; 3k)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;flag as a duplicate&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that if your rep is 3k or greater the &lt;em&gt;flag as duplicate&lt;/em&gt; option is the same as a vote to close. If your rep is &amp;lt; 3k flagging adds a comment but does not vote to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with &lt;em&gt;voting to close&lt;/em&gt; is that if five people vote to close the question is closed whether or not the OP agrees¹. The first VTC automatically adds the &amp;quot;Does this answer your question&amp;quot; comment, but regardless of what the OP does the fifth VTC will close the question. This means story identification questions could be closed as duplicates when they aren't a duplicate. There could be many books matching a description, and only the OP knows for certain which book is the correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To avoid this we have an agreement that we don't VTC a story identification question unless the OP has confirmed it is a duplicate. This isn't an SE wide rule, it's a convention we have adopted specifically for story identification questions as a courtesy to the person asking the question. Note that this only applies to story identification questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comment the SE adds when you VTC is not ideal, but that's out of our power to change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have less than 3k rep and you flag as a duplicate this should be benign because you are just drawing attention to the duplicate and not voting to close it. However the comment it adds is that same as a vote to close comment, and this is likely to make other users assume you have voted to close. This is what happened in the case you mention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest the best option is not to flag and just to post a comment saying something like &amp;quot;I think this might be the same as ...&amp;quot;. That's what I usually do if I suspect a question is a duplicate. Then if the OP confirms it's a duplicate you can flag or vote to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ If you have a gold badge for the story identification tag your VTC will close the question immediately, so those of us with the badge use our VTCs with some care!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4144" LastEditorUserId="4144" LastEditDate="2022-05-30T09:23:00.870" LastActivityDate="2022-05-30T09:23:00.870" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13689" CreationDate="2022-05-30T09:37:20.693" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;To clear up some confusion here flagging to close and voting to close are essentially the same thing except that flagging to close does not add a close vote. Both of these, for &amp;lt;3k and &amp;gt;3k users respectively, add the auto dupe comment (in case of flagging/voting to close as a duplicate) and send the question to the close vote review queue if it is not there already. A close flag will also be marked helpful on a close vote being applied to the post not necessarily when the question is closed though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All this means that you should be flagging to close only in situations where as a &amp;gt;3k users you would be voting to close. The flag to close is saying &amp;quot;I think this post should be closed, please review it&amp;quot;. Unlike your workflow which seems to be &amp;quot;this might be a duplicate, OP please review it and respond&amp;quot;. Note that whilst duplicate flags/close votes add the comment they also alert the wider community through sending the post to the review queue and so the whole process could actually never involve the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead if you are unsure if something is a duplicate it is best to leave a normal comment asking if this other post answers the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the specific case of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; duplicate closing note that we have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7067/58193&quot;&gt;policy&lt;/a&gt; of only closing as duplicates when both questions have the same confirmed work, no matter how it is confirmed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions should only be closed as duplicates where both answers are accepted, regardless of the similarity between them. (If the OP posts a &amp;quot;yes this is it&amp;quot; comment, that's as good as an acceptance.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the one you're wanting to close doesn't have a confirmed work the usual workflow I've seen users do is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;add an answer with the work and how it matches if there isn't already&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;link the potential duplicate in the comments on that answer stating it has been asked about before&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In regards to the comment about why the auto comment is added on flagging/voting to close as a duplicate: that's just a system thing. It's network wide with the same text everywhere and not something we can change. Even if the post doesn't end up closed as a duplicate it keeps the posts linked together through the comment and also the &amp;quot;Linked&amp;quot; section on the sidebar of both questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2022-05-30T09:37:20.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13697" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-05-31T08:14:19.223" Score="2" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm specifically thinking of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/discworld&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;discworld&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discworld&lt;/a&gt; series, where the character of Death always speaks using small caps. It may come up in other works too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posts seeking to accurately quote a passage of Death's dialogue, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/133140/13024&quot;&gt;such as this one&lt;/a&gt;, resort to using small-caps Unicode characters, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10039/13024&quot;&gt;which is frowned upon&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dᴀᴍɴ. I ᴡɪsʜ ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴅɪᴅɴ'ᴛ ʟᴇᴀᴠᴇ ᴍᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴅᴇᴀʟ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴛʜɪs sᴏʀᴛ ᴏғ ᴛʜɪɴɢ. Death sighed. Yᴏᴜ ʙᴇʟɪᴇᴠᴇ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏᴜ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ʙᴇʟɪᴇᴠᴇ ɪɴ ᴀɴʏᴛʜɪɴɢ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technically I'm not sure how best to do this. The relevant CSS would be &lt;code&gt;font-variant: small-caps&lt;/code&gt;. Whether this would work best as a markdown extension, or an HTML whitelist I don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13024" LastEditorUserId="13024" LastEditDate="2022-05-31T08:23:02.903" LastActivityDate="2022-05-31T16:19:26.543" Title="Allow text formatting as small caps" Tags="|feature-request|markdown|formatting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13697" CreationDate="2022-05-31T08:27:32.643" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; together to approximate something correctly-aligned:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;D&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;AMN.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt; I &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;WISH THEY DIDN'T LEAVE ME TO DEAL WITH THIS SORT OF THING.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt; Death sighed. Y&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;OU BELIEVE, BUT YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN ANYTHING.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does come out very small though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13024" LastActivityDate="2022-05-31T08:27:32.643" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13697" CreationDate="2022-05-31T16:19:26.543" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would simply suggest writing it with normal markdown, avoiding even HTML.  It won't capture the &lt;em&gt;exact&lt;/em&gt; appearance, but we're already sacrificing that for a lot of things, like layout and poetry.  We already accept that we get paragraphs that don't indent, we can't make a line or word 20% larger, we can only do three levels of bullets (in markdown), etc. and we simply adapt to the layout and formatting that's available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case I would suggest either adopting the normal all-caps appearance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DAMN. I WISH THEY DIDN'T LEAVE ME TO DEAL WITH THIS SORT OF THING, Death sighed. YOU BELIEVE, BUT YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN ANYTHING.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which is a bit more visually intrusive, but in mixed text not so much, or use bolding:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Damn. I wish they didn't leave me to deal with this sort of thing,&lt;/strong&gt; Death sighed. &lt;strong&gt;You believe, but you don't believe in anything.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which I believe preserves the sense that this speech is more weighty while preserving the ease of readability of mixed-case text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastActivityDate="2022-05-31T16:19:26.543" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13700" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13701" CreationDate="2022-05-31T19:44:53.710" Score="8" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/263817/101407&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; about the real-world value of a collectible item.  It relates to an on-topic work, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7665/101407&quot;&gt;questions about memorabilia&lt;/a&gt; are at least sometimes on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It currently appears to be on its way to being closed, and I am one of the close-voters; I just want to check with the community if this impulse is sensible and (secondarily, if so) what is the best justification for it.  (The close reason so far is &amp;quot;opinion-based&amp;quot; which makes sense to me since I would say the value of an item of memorabilia is only whatever someone is willing to buy it for.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I may be influenced in my feeling on this by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://bicycles.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1128/43557&quot;&gt;bicycles policy&lt;/a&gt; which rules questions like this explicitly off-topic, since the &amp;quot;value&amp;quot; of any particular object may vary at any time, or even drop to zero.  (In &lt;em&gt;Tatja Grimm's World&lt;/em&gt; the regent of Crownesse attempts to increase the value of his collection of rare magazines by destroying &lt;em&gt;every other&lt;/em&gt; copy.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastActivityDate="2022-06-01T19:16:18.537" Title="Are questions asking about the value of an object on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13700" CreationDate="2022-05-31T20:57:53.457" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;These questions &lt;em&gt;shouldn't&lt;/em&gt; be on topic for a few different reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Object valuations can fluctuate over time and as objects move in an out of fashion. An answer that's broadly correct today might be wildly inaccurate tomorrow. There are also issues of location and legality that are well outside of the site's scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Any answer would likely be based on historical sales values on auction sites like eBay or Sotherbys. These values can fluctuate based on a number of highly speculative items such as the other items sold alongside, whether the auction was marketed in advance, whether the item had a CoA or exciting provenance, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To be frank, I just don't think we want these, period. Valuing, buying and selling props and objects is a very murky business and seems prone to causing arguments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2022-05-31T20:57:53.457" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13700" CreationDate="2022-06-01T09:07:06.550" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13701/19561&quot;&gt;Valorum's answer&lt;/a&gt; that we do not want these questions and that they should be off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I feel could be &lt;em&gt;on&lt;/em&gt; topic, though, is asking how to find out the value of such an object.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;A number of answers will be generic (&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Just look it up on Craig's List / eBay / Sotheby's.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;), but there may be specialised sellers or appraisers for a specific item. So I feel we should allow questions of that kind, even though a lot of them may prove duplicates of a canonical answer (&amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Look here, here, and here, and ask there, there, and there.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2022-06-01T09:07:06.550" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13703" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13704" CreationDate="2022-06-01T12:46:02.900" Score="4" ViewCount="386" Body="&lt;p&gt;This post is for the sixth SFF.SE &lt;strong&gt;topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt; of 2022, in which the site's community is encouraged to take part together in asking and answering questions on a particular topic each month. According to community votes on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;topic challenge proposals thread&lt;/a&gt;, the June 2022 topic challenge is going to be devoted to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Novik&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;an American speculative fiction writer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Naomi Novik&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/naomi-novik&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;naomi-novik&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;naomi-novik&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's a topic challenge and how do I take part?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13211/31394&quot;&gt;Announcing a Topic Challenge program for SFF.SE&lt;/a&gt;, and also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/240634/278659&quot;&gt;this main meta post&lt;/a&gt;. In short, during June 2022 we should all try to either read some Naomi Novik stories and ask interesting questions about them, or help out by &lt;em&gt;answering&lt;/em&gt; other people's questions about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Participation is not obligatory in any sense, but those who participate will be forever remembered in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13704/58193&quot;&gt;annals of our history&lt;/a&gt;. We'll keep a list of all Naomi Novik questions asked during June 2022 in an answer to this meta post. At the end of the month, I'll collate some data like highest-scoring question, most-viewed question, highest-scoring answer, etc. There won't be any real-world rewards like in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1138/31394&quot;&gt;the old days&lt;/a&gt; when Stack Exchange was smaller and more generous, but I'll be awarding at least one bounty after the end of the month (assuming there's at least one good answer posted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's next?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Future topic challenges will be chosen by community votes, so come over and propose or vote on suggestions at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;Propose future topics for SFF topic challenges!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The Naomi Novik answer will be deleted from that thread at the start of June, since already chosen topics shouldn't stick at the top of the thread and distract people from those still to be voted on.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2022-12-30T12:52:55.743" Title="June 2022 topic challenge: Naomi Novik" Tags="|discussion|topic-challenge|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13703" CreationDate="2022-06-01T12:46:02.900" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;List of all questions posted as part of this topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/264034/why-is-agnieszka-so-untidy&quot;&gt;Why is Agnieszka so untidy?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/125981/clara-diaz-sanchez&quot;&gt;Clara Diaz Sanchez&lt;/a&gt;, 06/06/2022.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/264159/temeraire-series-and-colonisation-of-north-america&quot;&gt;Temeraire Series and colonisation of North America&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/40437/jontia&quot;&gt;Jontia&lt;/a&gt;, 09/06/2022.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;highest-voted&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;most viewed&lt;/strong&gt; of these is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/264034/why-is-agnieszka-so-untidy&quot;&gt;Why is Agnieszka so untidy?&lt;/a&gt;, with a score of &lt;strong&gt;12&lt;/strong&gt; at the end of June and at most 328 views during June (impossible to get an exact view count figure as this info added in December).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2022-12-30T12:52:55.743" LastActivityDate="2022-12-30T12:52:55.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13705" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-06-01T13:36:52.367" Score="-5" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/262859/alien-and-aliens-plot-hole-and-science-fiction-conventions&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question there was some ill informed views that cast it in bad light, namely suggesting the basic question was wrong and I should perhaps review the film and, also, that it was a possible duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This led to the question receiving down votes and it was closed. When I noted that my question was both correct and it was the &lt;strong&gt;detractor&lt;/strong&gt; who was actually in error and also that it was &lt;strong&gt;obviously&lt;/strong&gt; not a duplicate, it was re-opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However the down votes still remained on the re-opened question. Is this fair?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134461" LastActivityDate="2022-06-01T17:56:25.510" Title="removal of down votes from reopened questions?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13705" CreationDate="2022-06-01T13:58:02.940" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Down votes seem to be given for three reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question does not show any research effort.&#xA;Clearly some effort was put in, source were reviewed, other questions noted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is unclear.&#xA;The argument that reading the question would have shown it was not a duplicate was presented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is not useful.&#xA;This is rather subjective. For example I can appreciate that some would not regard Professor Frinks questions to Lucy Lawless in the Simpson's &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0701283/characters/nm0005128&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Treehouse of Horror X&lt;/a&gt; as useful but others would not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the following &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1395/should-a-down-vote-require-a-comment&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; it really would be useful for people to give some feedback when down voting so that the question can be improved and it should be the case that down votes are removed when the question has either taken the comments into account or the comments have been shown to be erroneous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, yes, I believe it is unfair that down votes remain for reopened questions (though I am rather biased).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134461" LastActivityDate="2022-06-01T13:58:02.940" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13705" CreationDate="2022-06-01T17:56:25.510" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downvotes are given for any reason the downvoter wishes (as long as not abusive, which AFAIK is defined as targeting a specific &lt;em&gt;user&lt;/em&gt;, regardless of the quality of the question or answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9981/is-it-ok-to-downvote-a-question-for-being-uninteresting&quot;&gt;this meta question&lt;/a&gt; -- the consensus is clearly that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Users Should Downvote However They Want&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, after a user downvotes, if the question is modified, the user may or may not notice, and may or may not change their vote.  Period.  The system does not force them to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a post has been improved, generally there will be more upvotes at that point, whether or not the downvoters change their vote.   If the total remains low, or there are more downvotes, the consensus is that the post is not high-quality,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;regardless of the opinion of the poster&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is how the system works.  A posts quality is judged by consensus.  Is the system perfect?  No.  Does it have to be perfect?  Also no.  Can it be perfect?  Most likely not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if a member finds that one or more posts highly downvoted, this is an indication that the posts do not find favor in the eyes of the community.  It is not personal, please do not take it that way.  Either learn to write posts that the community favors, or find a different community which appreciates that style of post.  No community appreciates everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Up and downvotes are not payment and debit.  Don't take them to heart too much; they are just a guide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59154" LastActivityDate="2022-06-01T17:56:25.510" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13700" CreationDate="2022-06-01T19:16:18.537" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;While a direct valuation does feel like its out of scope for the site, identification of a collectible is valid, which seemed to be part of their question. They had a general description of what they had (possibly in error since the closest match I found had a distribution of 750 rather than 250), but I think part of the question of value was basically &amp;quot;Is this a collectible and which one?&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2022-06-01T19:16:18.537" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13709" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-06-02T19:38:14.950" Score="-7" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where would questions about What-If scenarios go?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="129103" LastActivityDate="2022-06-05T02:49:42.310" Title="Should there be a what-if separate Stack Exchange from the main Sci-fi and fantasy Stack Exchange?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1395" CreationDate="2022-06-03T10:08:43.490" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the concept of the &amp;quot;down vote&amp;quot; (that it seems to be according to this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/why-vote&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;) is to improve the site then I agree with Xantec that it should require some justification that would allow the person asking the question to learn how to improve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to an answer from this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13705/removal-of-down-votes-from-reopened-questions/13707?noredirect=1#comment48197_13707&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;, down votes can be for any reason whatsoever. Nothing at all about improving the site for users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I  don't particularly like stuff about Manga. Would this make it OK for all people not to like Manga to down vote them, ensuring these questions go to another site? Of course not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134461" LastActivityDate="2022-06-03T10:08:43.490" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13709" CreationDate="2022-06-03T17:59:48.393" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;StackExchange in general is not the place for these question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I love these questions and, when done well, can  be really interesting views into a character or franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, they're too open ended and too subjective to fit the way our site works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;What is on-topic&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/how-to-ask&quot;&gt;How do I ask a good question&lt;/a&gt;. In general we want one best answer either accepted by the original poster or if objective enough highly upvoted by the community †.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But with no objective criteria &amp;quot;What If...&amp;quot; scenario questions can't have a single best answer because everyone's answer will be too subjective and only differ in popularity. Then what is 'correct' isn't reflected in either the votes or the acceptance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside †: Wisdom of the Crowd is why we put any weight behind highly upvoted answers, but it falls apart when popularity is involved. The more subjective a question the more swayed by popularity an answer will be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; I post?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides the explanation in the links above, questions that either request a run down of a character's abilities in general (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/14299/what-does-storm-really-bring-to-the-table&quot;&gt;What does Storm really bring to the table?&lt;/a&gt;) or specific (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/100721/how-strong-is-she-hulk&quot;&gt;How strong is She-Hulk?&lt;/a&gt;) are allowed. You can objectively assess both types by completeness and accuracy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, &amp;quot;Has X ever happened...&amp;quot; are sometimes okay when well scoped (restricted to likely scenarios) and well written (some explanation as to why the poster thinks it's likely), e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/96494/has-spider-man-ever-wielded-mjolnir&quot;&gt;Has Spider-Man ever wielded Mjolnir?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, don't fall into the trap of asking &amp;quot;Gorilla vs Shark&amp;quot; type questions, which we have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7003/gorilla-vs-shark-a-longer-explanation&quot;&gt;specific post about explaining how it applies here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Where else can I post?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The specific fandom might have its own forums, or you can look on Reddit for the equivalent. Alternatively &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/whowouldwin/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Who Would Win&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/WhatIfFiction/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;What If Fiction&lt;/a&gt; and even &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/AskScienceFiction/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;AskScienceFiction&lt;/a&gt; might scratch your itch. I can't vouch for the quality or speed at which you'll get an answer though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you have enough reputation on the site (which you do), you can come and ask in &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/?tab=site&amp;amp;host=scifi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;chat&lt;/a&gt; but try not to take over conversations when posing your What If scenarios.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Share and Enjoy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="82909" LastEditDate="2022-06-05T02:49:42.310" LastActivityDate="2022-06-05T02:49:42.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13712" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2022-06-05T10:59:33.773" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A bug report is considered bydesign if, after review of the detailed erroneous behavior,&#xA;it is determined that the behavior is desirable to keep in place rather than fix. This&#xA;is independent of whether or not the behavior was formerly known to the site developers&#xA;prior to the time of the report - the important thing is that the behavior will not be&#xA;altered because its current behavior is preferred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag should only be used on questions reporting what is purported as erroneous behavior&#xA;and suggests them being fixed / reversed. For when a question that is requesting a new&#xA;feature that addresses a behavior that the asker believes to be erroneous,&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-declined&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt; should be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status tags can only be applied by moderators and site developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19784" LastEditorUserId="19784" LastEditDate="2022-06-12T03:11:22.780" LastActivityDate="2022-06-12T03:11:22.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13713" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2022-06-05T10:59:33.773" Score="0" Body="Indicates that the reported behavior is intentional and not subject to change" OwnerUserId="19784" LastEditorUserId="19784" LastEditDate="2022-06-12T03:11:30.850" LastActivityDate="2022-06-12T03:11:30.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13689" CreationDate="2022-06-12T19:03:30.383" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd just like to state the heart of the matter, and an actionable alternative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the unfortunate intersection of the way that SE sites work in general and &lt;strong&gt;a specific SFF.SE policy&lt;/strong&gt; regarding story identification questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flagging anything on an SE site puts an entry in a review queue. Someone has to go through the queue and act on that entry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But SFF.SE's policy of not closing questions as duplicates until both have an identical accepted answer makes duplicate close flags for story-id &lt;strong&gt;unactionable&lt;/strong&gt; until the criterion is met.  They're just hanging around, making each peson who goes through the review queue spend time recognizing and ignoring the flag. Plus (as described in the other answers) there's a risk that the question will be accidentally closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nevertheless, the &amp;quot;Does this answer your question?&amp;quot; comment is actually useful information for OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you do then? &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Just leave the comment&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; instead of flagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63330" LastActivityDate="2022-06-12T19:03:30.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13715" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-06-13T00:59:28.090" Score="3" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why can't I add the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/origins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;origins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;origins&lt;/a&gt; tag to my question? Is it because I already used an edit to add &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/264285/is-tomboy-of-sterling-comics-from-1954-the-first-independent-comicbook-superhe&quot;&gt;Is Tomboy of Sterling Comics, from 1954, the first independent comicbook superheroine?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42059" LastActivityDate="2022-06-13T01:20:43.803" Title="Why can't I add the Origins tag to my question?" Tags="|bug|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13715" CreationDate="2022-06-13T01:15:24.357" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/origins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;origins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;origins&lt;/a&gt; is a &lt;em&gt;synonym&lt;/em&gt; for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt;.  So if you tag a question with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/origins&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;origins&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;origins&lt;/a&gt; it will be automatically converted to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you view the page for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/history-of&quot;&gt; questions tagged history-of&lt;/a&gt; and click on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/history-of/synonyms&quot;&gt;synonyms link&lt;/a&gt; it tells you that &amp;quot;origins&amp;quot; is a synonym.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastEditorUserId="101407" LastEditDate="2022-06-13T01:20:43.803" LastActivityDate="2022-06-13T01:20:43.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13717" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-06-15T18:24:00.277" Score="18" ViewCount="416" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/264368/revisions&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; was marked as 'spam or rude or abusive and is therefore not shown'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the first song you ever learned? Was it like mine, the top movie kind? What kind of dream did you have last night? Why can't you answer me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Voight-Kampff test referenced in this song by Sandii and Ryuichi Sakamoto&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/FZr-b11Ob4c?t=84&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;RACHAEL / SANDII &amp;amp; THE SUNSETZ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll happily admit that I didn't think it was very good, but I'm not seeing any justification for it being marked as spam (the user was brand new and a cursory search suggests that they aren't connected to the video in the link), nor is there any abusive content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I missing something here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2022-06-15T18:42:56.750" LastActivityDate="2024-03-20T10:30:48.350" Title="What was spammy, rude or abusive about this answer?" Tags="|discussion|flagging|spam|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13717" CreationDate="2022-06-15T20:05:37.787" Score="26" Body="&lt;h2&gt;It was flagged in error&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I flagged it, because I mistook it for trying to advertise the song.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should have taken a second look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But by the power of mod magic the spam flag has been removed and the answer undeleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've also made some edits to the answer, to make it clearer that it's actually an answer and not just a post about a song.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="82909" LastEditDate="2022-06-16T16:28:56.340" LastActivityDate="2022-06-16T16:28:56.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13719" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13720" CreationDate="2022-06-16T16:17:33.470" Score="6" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a constant stream of story identification threads, and inevitably answers appear with paragraphs from the text to verify the story that's been looked for. Yet, when I click the link to the ISFDB page, the only publication is a magazine in 1982 and there doesn't seem to be any link to a scan/transcription of said physical media. I'd love a chance to read some of these myself...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question is, &lt;em&gt;where exactly are all of these found&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="152988" OwnerDisplayName="Daniel Carver" LastActivityDate="2022-06-16T17:20:12.910" Title="Where, Exactly, can the Works Searched for by This Exchange be Found?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13719" CreationDate="2022-06-16T16:51:33.423" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of us find copies of the old magazines on archive.org, books.google.com, or random sites on the internet once we have a phrase to go off of (although, of course, we try to avoid posting links to copyright-infringing sites, although excerpted quotes are pretty OK). And, in some cases, people are transcribing from the paper copies they own. Oh, and Gutenberg.org is good for items in the public domain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="20490" LastEditDate="2022-06-16T17:20:12.910" LastActivityDate="2022-06-16T17:20:12.910" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12890" CreationDate="2022-06-17T20:18:38.560" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, while I recognize the importance of the change, there is not currently quite enough information here to proceed. This change affects ~28,000 links across the network. I am able to locate &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; official documentation about wikia.com's move to fandom.com, so I'm not worried about the majority of these cases. However, as TheLethalCarrot notes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As was mentioned on the linked post apparently some moved to wikia.org not fandom.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few open questions in my mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does a mass link edit risk breaking any historical links?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does a mass link edit risk pointing at the wrong target for some subset of links? (If so, how will they be identified?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Will a mass link edit make it harder to manage other issues like possible link rot in the future?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this change necessary to do &lt;em&gt;right now&lt;/em&gt;, given that the redirects still work?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In part, I have these questions because the distribution of Wikia links is quite long-tailed. If there are problems migrating some subset of these Wikia links, that could be a problem. Just on scifi, this is the cumulative distribution of which wikis are referenced (click through for detailed chart):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DJLr5.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UaOo0.png&quot; alt=&quot;Distribution of Wikia links&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a quick and dirty query so there are a couple spurious entries, but still, it takes the top 93 wikis to cover ~90% of posts. 95% coverage raises that to 211 wikis. 99% coverage raises that further to 542 wikis. So it's not as though we're dealing with a tightly-clustered number of wikis... it's quite varied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though it's not strictly necessary for us to run the update network-wide, it's also worth noting it's quite long-tailed in the sites it could affect, and if run network wide it will change links on some sites folks might not otherwise expect:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Arqade: 7041 matches&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anime: 2840 matches&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stack Overflow (yes, actually): 2307 matches&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Movies &amp;amp; TV: 1739 matches&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Worldbuilding: 747&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;RPG: 669&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Super User: 367&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Board &amp;amp; Card Games: 273&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vi and Vim: 261&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;... ELU, Photography, Unix &amp;amp; Linux, Ask Ubuntu, Puzzling, Mathematics, Physical Fitness, Game Development, Writing, Travel, Bricks, ELL, and Japanese Language all have &amp;gt;50 links affected.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to proceed with this change, we need to know:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That the scope of the change is well-characterized and understood.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That places the change &lt;em&gt;breaks&lt;/em&gt; (or could break) posts have been assessed and are well-documented.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That the community has, very broadly, acknowledged and accepted any &lt;em&gt;cleanup work&lt;/em&gt; that is going to need to take place &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the replacement network-wide, or confirmed no such cleanup work is needed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason we need this information is &lt;strong&gt;because there's simply no going back.&lt;/strong&gt; I mean it. After we hit that button, any reversion constitutes either a &lt;em&gt;ton&lt;/em&gt; of developer work, or the collective work of the network to clean up all affected posts. And it may become very difficult to separate posts needing cleanup from posts that are OK as-is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For smaller changes, this kind of post would be generally fine to proceed on and touch up later as needed. For a change affecting ~28,000 links across a half dozen sites, there simply is no reasonable way to reverse or correct this change if it is a mistake for any nontrivial number of links. So, we'll need to be sure that work was done to verify the change is non-breaking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once y'all have double checked and are &lt;em&gt;sure&lt;/em&gt; this doesn't pose serious risks, mods: feel free to kick this back into &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-review&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-review&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-review&lt;/a&gt; and we can take a look at it again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143562" LastEditorUserId="143562" LastEditDate="2022-06-17T20:35:33.357" LastActivityDate="2022-06-17T20:35:33.357" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13722" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13727" CreationDate="2022-06-19T04:11:28.157" Score="-12" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tags on this site are related with the SFF works mentioned in the question. I propose meta tags which aren’t related with the material, but serves the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can have &lt;code&gt;18+&lt;/code&gt; tag to restrict access to questions if safe/NSFW browsing is enabled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can have &lt;code&gt;Recently Released&lt;/code&gt; tag (which automatically gets removed from questions after 3 months) to give spoiler warnings before showing question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can have &lt;code&gt;India&lt;/code&gt; tag to promote certain questions to Indian visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="931" LastActivityDate="2022-06-22T16:47:37.680" Title="Can we have meta tags?" Tags="|feature-request|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13723" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13726" CreationDate="2022-06-21T09:29:40.043" Score="8" ViewCount="394" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are the rules for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/04/06/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&quot;&gt;Penalty Box&lt;/a&gt;? Specifically, what is not written in the rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What determines the ban time span?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are you assigned strikes that determine your ban time?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there a way to reduce these strikes if they exist?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I ask is because when I get a ban lately, each one is one year but, in the beginning it was a day, then a few days, then a week, then a month, etc, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2022-06-21T17:16:44.330" LastActivityDate="2022-06-21T17:16:44.330" Title="Back from another year ban. What are the rules for the penalty box?" Tags="|discussion|suspension|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1395" CreationDate="2022-06-21T09:35:50.670" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of coarse it would be a good idea to require a user to comment as to why they leave a down vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Constructive criticism is the base of improvement, without it we are all just flailing about with no direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65457" LastActivityDate="2022-06-21T09:35:50.670" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13723" CreationDate="2022-06-21T12:50:53.733" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The general escalation of suspensions goes one day &amp;gt; one week &amp;gt; one month &amp;gt; one year. Continued infractions will earn another one-year suspension, or, in some cases, a ten- or twenty-year suspension, issued by staff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The length is determined at the discretion of the moderator team and is based on your current behavior, taking into account your past history and previous suspensions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way to prevent further suspensions is to not repeat the behavior that earned you the suspension, detailed in the private moderator message that you received when the suspension was issued.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2022-06-21T12:50:53.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13723" CreationDate="2022-06-21T14:12:25.520" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mithical's answer is a good general overview, but let me give some &lt;em&gt;slightly&lt;/em&gt; more specific comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There's no strict algorithm for determining ban length&lt;/strong&gt;; it's at the discretion of the suspending moderator, or of the moderator team in complicated cases that require some discussion before suspending.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One aspect that goes into the decision is &lt;strong&gt;how likely we believe a person is to improve&lt;/strong&gt;. That's one reason for the escalating-length rule of thumb that Mithical mentioned - someone who keeps getting banned many times is &lt;em&gt;generally&lt;/em&gt; less likely to improve - but it can also be a factor in changing ban lengths away from that rule of thumb.&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If someone has been generally a model user for years, but gets drunk one night and takes a comment argument too far, we might consider giving a short suspension even if they had longer ones in the past.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If someone just keeps doing the same type of bad behaviour again and again, without showing any evidence that they've learned from their mistakes and will improve when unbanned, then there's no reason to give them a less-than-maximal ban if they continue to demonstrate themselves unfit for the site/community.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is &lt;strong&gt;possible, but very rare, to get a ban reduced&lt;/strong&gt; after it is applied. Every time you receive a moderator message, you have one (and only one) chance to reply to it. That means people who reply with insults immediately close off any chance to make a case for themselves, but people who make a strong and serious case for giving them another chance may warrant a further reply from moderators, which will then allow them to reply again. Again, it's very rare that people actually succeed in getting a ban reduced, but it has been known to happen.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm still keeping this answer as general as possible, because meta is public and some future readers may want to apply these principles to their own situation.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2022-06-21T14:12:25.520" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13722" CreationDate="2022-06-22T16:42:30.657" Score="7" Body="&lt;h3&gt;NO&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What qualifies as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/18%2b&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;18+&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;18+&lt;/a&gt; &amp;quot;adult&amp;quot; content is neither the call of the moderators nor the community. Some people believe that &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/education/virginia-beach-chesapeake-school-divisions-remove-gender-queer-school-libraries/291-eab299c8-5e98-471b-90e0-703b6742dafc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LGBTQ content is &amp;quot;Adult&amp;quot; and should be restricted from access by children&lt;/a&gt;. Some parents are going to discourage their children from reading &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/twilight&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;twilight&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;twilight&lt;/a&gt;, others could care less and are much more interested in seeing their children reading &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt;. We aren't going to get involved in any of that debate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding a tag for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/recently-released&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;recently-released&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;recently-released&lt;/a&gt; content is just going to result in a lot of questions being bumped when the tag is removed. Bumping questions is generally discouraged here. It is also likely that there will be disagreements on how long something remains a &amp;quot;recent&amp;quot; release and this could lead to edit wars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's absolutely no need for region-specific appeal tags like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/india&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;india&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;india&lt;/a&gt;. Questions and tags should be self-explanatory and readers should decide which questions to open based on their own interests, not on an editor's decision on what questions certain people &amp;quot;should&amp;quot; read. If someone wants to read about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stanislaw-lem&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stanislaw-lem&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stanislaw-lem&lt;/a&gt;, they should know (or can easily learn) that he was Polish. Adding a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/poland&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;poland&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;poland&lt;/a&gt; tag is just noise at this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information on why meta tags are generally considered harmful, read &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/08/07/the-death-of-meta-tags/&quot;&gt;The Death of Meta Tags&lt;/a&gt; on the Stack Overflow blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70477" LastEditorUserId="70477" LastEditDate="2022-06-22T16:47:37.680" LastActivityDate="2022-06-22T16:47:37.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13728" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-06-22T18:34:50.420" Score="3" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ms-marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ms-marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ms-marvel&lt;/a&gt; tag is written for the comic. I created a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ms-marvel-2022&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ms-marvel-2022&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ms-marvel-2022&lt;/a&gt; tag for my question about the show. Did I jump the gun in doing that? Is invoking the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt; tag alongside &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ms-marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ms-marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ms-marvel&lt;/a&gt; sufficient? Or should there be a tag for the comic, and one for the overall mythos? I'm kind of a splitter in general on this sort of a topic, favoring specialized tags, but I know that's not always what is right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2022-06-22T18:34:50.420" Title="Should [ms-marvel] be split since there's now a tag for the TV show?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13729" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-06-25T07:42:18.557" Score="3" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;When people ask to help them identify the story, they might not need any of that. But people who never read the story or remember it too vaguely usually find it difficult to understand the thought process on how those (usually mismatched ) brief descriptions could correspond to the actual show. And during those times, it's way better to show it once, rather than try to explain. And then the question arises: is it legal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="153232" LastActivityDate="2022-06-25T07:42:18.557" Title="Can I post pictures from the artwork (manga, manhua etc), when answering questions with #story-identification tag?" Tags="|discussion|spoilers|policy|copyright|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2022-07-01T12:20:39.263" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13730" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-06-27T14:17:31.180" Score="5" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Update&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2022/07/favorite-questions-and-answers-from-second-quarter-2022/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Blog Post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Original&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from April 1st 2022 through June 30th 2022.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;enter the following capatcha to prove you aren't a robot. &amp;quot;I am a robot&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2022/04/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2022/04/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2022/04/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I will be linking all blog posts that happened within this quarter year. Also the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/revision/1483709/1819138/most-controversial-posts-on-the-site-by-start-date&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;most controversial question&lt;/a&gt; of the quarter. Also a sum of all the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/revision/1483710/1819137/past-bounties-by-bounty-date&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;bounties&lt;/a&gt; that were awarded.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally if there was a meta post you feel should be spotlighted those are also acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="1148" LastEditDate="2022-07-12T16:10:47.840" LastActivityDate="2022-07-12T16:10:47.840" Title="Favorite Question and Answers from Second Quarter 2022" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13730" CreationDate="2022-06-27T21:01:30.970" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I enjoyed answering this one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/263050/what-changes-were-made-for-the-second-edition-of-the-martian&quot;&gt;What changes were made for the second edition of &amp;#39;The Martian&amp;#39;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's the sort of question I like, where deep research will produce something comprehensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2022-06-27T21:01:30.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13732" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-07-03T19:31:08.570" Score="2" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title is my entire question. I couldn't find it explicitly listed in either what's on-topic or in what questions should be avoided. If the decision were mine, I'd consider it off-topic, but nevertheless, I have such a question. If it's on-topic, I may decide to ask it, though it may by some also be considered inappropriate in polite company, so I may decide not to ask it anyway, and try to find the information elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150380" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2022-07-03T20:39:01.877" LastActivityDate="2022-07-03T20:39:01.877" Title="Are questions about the personal lives of authors, actors, directors and other staff off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="10" ClosedDate="2022-07-04T08:02:10.813" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13733" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13734" CreationDate="2022-07-05T13:01:06.383" Score="9" ViewCount="394" Body="&lt;p&gt;This post is for the seventh SFF.SE &lt;strong&gt;topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt; of 2022, in which the site's community is encouraged to take part together in asking and answering questions on a particular topic each month. According to community votes on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;topic challenge proposals thread&lt;/a&gt;, the July 2022 topic challenge is going to be devoted to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nnedi_Okorafor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a Nigerian-American science fiction and fantasy writer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Nnedi Okorafor&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nnedi-okorafor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;nnedi-okorafor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;nnedi-okorafor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's a topic challenge and how do I take part?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13211/31394&quot;&gt;Announcing a Topic Challenge program for SFF.SE&lt;/a&gt;, and also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/240634/278659&quot;&gt;this main meta post&lt;/a&gt;. In short, during July 2022 we should all try to either read some Nnedi Okorafor stories and ask interesting questions about them, or help out by &lt;em&gt;answering&lt;/em&gt; other people's questions about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Participation is not obligatory in any sense, but those who participate will be forever remembered in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13734/58193&quot;&gt;annals of our history&lt;/a&gt;. We'll keep a list of all Nnedi Okorafor questions asked during July 2022 in an answer to this meta post. At the end of the month, I'll collate some data like highest-scoring question, most-viewed question, highest-scoring answer, etc. There won't be any real-world rewards like in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1138/31394&quot;&gt;the old days&lt;/a&gt; when Stack Exchange was smaller and more generous, but I'll be awarding at least one bounty after the end of the month (assuming there's at least one good answer posted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's next?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Future topic challenges will be chosen by community votes, so come over and propose or vote on suggestions at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;Propose future topics for SFF topic challenges!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The Nnedi Okorafor answer will be deleted from that thread at the start of July, since already chosen topics shouldn't stick at the top of the thread and distract people from those still to be voted on.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2022-08-02T20:45:16.880" LastActivityDate="2022-12-30T12:56:04.850" Title="July 2022 Topic Challenge: Nnedi Okorafor" Tags="|discussion|topic-challenge|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13733" CreationDate="2022-07-05T13:01:06.383" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;List of all questions posted as part of this topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/265268/what-is-the-source-of-the-chittim/&quot;&gt;What is the source of the chittim?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/51379/adamant&quot;&gt;Adamant&lt;/a&gt;, 09/07/2022&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/265269/how-is-remote-control-connected-to-ginen&quot;&gt;How is Remote Control connected to Ginen?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/51379/adamant&quot;&gt;Adamant&lt;/a&gt;, 09/07/2022&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/265279/what-were-the-objects-in-the-house-of-power&quot;&gt;What were the objects in the House of Power?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/51379/adamant&quot;&gt;Adamant&lt;/a&gt;, 09/07/2022&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/265329/were-aos-abilities-intended-or-not&quot;&gt;Were AO's abilities intended or not?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/51379/adamant&quot;&gt;Adamant&lt;/a&gt;,  10/07/2022&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/265331/has-okorafor-commented-on-the-meaning-of-the-protagonists-names&quot;&gt;Has Okorafor commented on the meaning of the protagonists' names?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/51379/adamant&quot;&gt;Adamant&lt;/a&gt;, 10/07/2022&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/265339/what-did-people-believe-to-be-the-cause-of-the-red-eye&quot;&gt;What did people believe to be the cause of the Red Eye?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/51379/adamant&quot;&gt;Adamant&lt;/a&gt;, 10/07/2022&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/266173/what-is-loppa-hair/&quot;&gt;What is Loppa hair?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3804/ancientswordrage&quot;&gt;AncientSwordRage&lt;/a&gt;, 01/08/2022.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/266303/who-is-baba-sola&quot;&gt;Who is Baba Sola?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/51379/adamant&quot;&gt;Adamant&lt;/a&gt;, 04/08/2022&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;highest-voted&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;most viewed&lt;/strong&gt; of these is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/265268/what-is-the-source-of-the-chittim/&quot;&gt;What is the source of the chittim?&lt;/a&gt;, with a score of &lt;strong&gt;5&lt;/strong&gt; at the end of July and at most 162 views during July (view figure not exact as this info added in December).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2022-12-30T12:56:04.850" LastActivityDate="2022-12-30T12:56:04.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="683" CreationDate="2022-07-13T13:53:31.713" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many &amp;quot;children's&amp;quot; stories are inherently SF-nal and would qualify on their own if they were re-marketed as adult stories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/harry-potter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;harry-potter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;harry-potter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-chronicles-of-narnia&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-chronicles-of-narnia&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-chronicles-of-narnia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-wizard-of-oz&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-wizard-of-oz&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-wizard-of-oz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/redwall&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;redwall&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;redwall&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ducktales&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;ducktales&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ducktales&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/11519/70477&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that these stories are, or were, marketed toward children is an unimportant detail in determining whether they are SFF. All of the works above are fully on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have also been many parodies or pastiches of older adult stories retold with anthropomorphic animals and marketed toward children. Whether these are on-topic depends on the content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/count-duckula&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;count-duckula&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;count-duckula&lt;/a&gt; is a parody of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dracula&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dracula&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dracula&lt;/a&gt;, which is itself on-topic. Count Duckula has vampires, reincarnation, and teleportation - it is fully on-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/underdog&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;underdog&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;underdog&lt;/a&gt; is a parody of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/superman&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;superman&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;superman&lt;/a&gt; and is on-topic as a &amp;quot;superhero&amp;quot; story.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Dodgers_in_the_24%C2%BDth_Century&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century&lt;/a&gt; is an anthropomorphic parody of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/buck-rogers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;buck-rogers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;buck-rogers&lt;/a&gt;, which is on-topic. The parody is on-topic too.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hood_(1973_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Robin Hood&lt;/em&gt; (1973)&lt;/a&gt; is an anthropomorphic re-retelling of the English legend of Robin Hood, itself of medieval origin. Robin Hood is not inherently SFF and neither is the anthropomorphic retelling. This is off-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70477" LastEditorUserId="70477" LastEditDate="2022-07-13T14:00:11.770" LastActivityDate="2022-07-13T14:00:11.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13240" CreationDate="2022-07-19T19:19:31.550" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Garth Nix's Keys to the Kingdom and Old Kingdom series. I currently have asked all the questions with the Keys To The Kingdom tag, and I believe Adamant has answered them all. Other works of his as well, especially Old Kingdom, are rich in lore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would propose&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Garth Nix&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a whole for a topic of the month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89771" LastEditorUserId="89771" LastEditDate="2022-08-22T18:35:02.687" LastActivityDate="2022-08-22T18:35:02.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13737" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-07-26T00:32:11.777" Score="17" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;David Warner passed away on July 24th, 2022 after losing his fight with cancer.  A prolific actor, Warner had many memorable roles both in and out of the sci-fi genres.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trek fans will know Warner from roles such as Chancellor Gorkon in &lt;em&gt;Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country&lt;/em&gt; and the sadistic Cardassian interrogator Gul Madred in the two-part &lt;em&gt;TNG&lt;/em&gt; episode “Chain of Command.”    Warner also had classic performances as the villainous Sark/Master Control Program/Ed Dillinger in &lt;em&gt;Tron&lt;/em&gt;, Jack the Ripper in the 1979 sci-fi film &lt;em&gt;Time after Time&lt;/em&gt;, “Evil” in &lt;em&gt;Time Bandits&lt;/em&gt;, and as Lord Downey in the 2007 adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s &lt;em&gt;Hogfather&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Warner’s work outside of the genre was no less memorable.  Perhaps best known to American audiences as Spicer Lovejoy in &lt;em&gt;Titanic&lt;/em&gt;, Warner appeared in a wide range of films and television shows.   These ranged from light-hearted fare such as the 1983 Steve Martin comedy &lt;em&gt;The Man with Two Brains&lt;/em&gt; to dark, edgy material such as &lt;em&gt;The Omen&lt;/em&gt; and an uncredited (but sublime) appearance as the emotionally challenged Henry Niles in the Sam Peckinpah's harrowing film &lt;em&gt;Straw Dogs&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Along with his on-screen work, Warner had a long career as a voice actor work.  Notable roles were as the Batman villain Ra’s al-Ghul and the maddened wizard Irenicus in the popular video game &lt;em&gt;Baldur’s Gate 2&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/actor-david-warner-seen-in-star-trek-titanic-and-tron-dies-aged-80/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CNET Obituary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ej3xc.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ej3xc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Warner&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zO5oG.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zO5oG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Warner as Gul Madred from ST:TNG&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1WoCv.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1WoCv.png&quot; alt=&quot;Warner as Jack the Ripper in Time after Time&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69621" LastEditorUserId="48874" LastEditDate="2022-07-29T02:16:15.567" LastActivityDate="2022-07-29T02:16:15.567" Title="David Warner (Star Trek, Tron, The Omen, many more), RIP" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13737" CreationDate="2022-07-26T09:12:18.223" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;To my mind, David Warner's voice was the most memorable aspect of his acting. He could always come across as believable, calm and serious; that's what made him so good in Star Trek VI, playing Gorkon, a Klingon who wasn't a violent psychopath. I saw his obituary &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/jul/25/david-warner-obituary&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;in the Guardian yesterday&lt;/a&gt; and felt certain I'd seen him in Babylon 5, but with only a picture to go by I had to consult wikipedia. With the voice it's a bit more obvious: Aldus Gajic, a man looking for the Holy Grail in space who is not a raving lunatic. Very few actors could have pulled this off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nODez.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nODez.png&quot; alt=&quot;Aldus Gajic&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, in universe, it's quite possible that Gajic was right. Given what we later discovered about the Vorlons, it's conceivable that they may have removed an item from Earth in the Middle Ages; maybe they put it there in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4935" LastEditorUserId="4935" LastEditDate="2022-07-26T09:21:58.427" LastActivityDate="2022-07-26T09:21:58.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13739" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-07-28T09:32:44.337" Score="17" ViewCount="196" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bernard Cribbins has died aged 93, according to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62330478&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the BBC&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/jul/28/bernard-cribbins-star-of-doctor-who-and-jackanory-dies-aged-93&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Guardian&lt;/a&gt;. Probably best remembered for his role in The Railway Children, Cribbins also appeared in two formats of Dr Who: alongside Peter Cushing in Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. and alongside David Tenant in the relaunched series as Wilfred Mott. Here he is, in character, stargazing with Donna Noble in Partners in Crime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JyQ1F.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JyQ1F.png&quot; alt=&quot;Still from Doctor Who, as described above&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also memorable (though not SFF) was his role as Mr Hutchinson in Fawlty Towers. Here he is, about to receive a parting gift from Mr Fawlty himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yuxnR.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yuxnR.png&quot; alt=&quot;Still from Fawlty Towers, showing Bernard Cribbins acting alongside John Cleese and Andrew Sachs&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4935" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2022-07-28T13:06:30.247" LastActivityDate="2022-08-02T20:13:23.727" Title="RIP Bernard Cribbins" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13740" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-07-31T19:35:52.687" Score="32" ViewCount="208" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Nichelle_Nichols&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Nichelle Nichols&lt;/a&gt;, best known for playing &lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Nyota_Uhura&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Nyota Uhura&lt;/a&gt; (most commonly just &amp;quot;Uhura&amp;quot;) on &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: The Original Series&lt;/em&gt;, has passed away at age 89.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a message posted to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/OfficialNichelleNichols/posts/592351055595751?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZVbsajMdzBXU_Fy5mNpi04XdKsOQLs_HNI6mr2V8If2_BTYs8lNNcfU9T5BhUq8xqjiA5ucYmYL4KwMA88Jy-oNmPlULSo5l8WkL-ontFBA0gIsqu8PgiWMj4AYEz6C7404JTMs7TZn05GUBXsVB0C1wLsghz8ycLCXyVf0eg22LxLfMz0Jbwo48Gv__yJWBbTvN4xJSWPiGoMDeECknzMd&amp;amp;__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;, her son posted this note:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sunday, 31 July 2022&#xA;Friends, Fans, Colleagues, World&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I regret to inform you that a great light in the firmament no longer shines for us as it has for so many years.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Last night, my mother, Nichelle Nichols, succumbed to natural causes and passed away.  Her light however, like the ancient galaxies now being seen for the first time, will remain for us and future generations to enjoy, learn from, and draw inspiration.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Hers was a life well lived and as such a model for us all.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I, and the rest of our family, would appreciate your patience and forbearance as we grieve her loss until we can recover sufficiently to speak further.  Her services will be for family members and the closest of her friends and we request that her and our privacy be respected.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Live Long and Prosper,&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Kyle Johnson&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nichelle was known for being one of the first Black women on TV as her own person, and had the first interracial kiss on television. At one point, after deciding to resign from her &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; role, she stayed at after the urging of Martin Luther King Jr., who convinced her that it was important to the world to stay on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To contrast Kyle's &amp;quot;Live Long and Prosper&amp;quot;, I would say &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/82688/33591&quot;&gt;We grieve with thee&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastEditorUserId="62709" LastEditDate="2022-08-02T12:45:56.647" LastActivityDate="2022-08-02T12:45:56.647" Title="Hailing frequencies closed: RIP Nichelle Nichols (Star Trek's Uhura)" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13739" CreationDate="2022-08-02T20:13:23.727" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's only one possible reaction to this news:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fRKVt.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fRKVt.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a lesser known, non SFF, appearance of Bernard Cribbins. It's much older than the others, from 1962, before Doctor Who was created and before John Cleese had made his name in comedy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/r5XX9LX2es4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2022-08-02T20:13:23.727" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13742" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13743" CreationDate="2022-08-02T20:50:51.983" Score="4" ViewCount="439" Body="&lt;p&gt;This post is for the eighth SFF.SE &lt;strong&gt;topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt; of 2022, in which the site's community is encouraged to take part together in asking and answering questions on a particular topic each month. According to community votes on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;topic challenge proposals thread&lt;/a&gt;, the August 2022 topic challenge is going to be devoted to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Quintet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a series of &amp;quot;science fantasy&amp;quot; novels&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Time Quintet (&lt;em&gt;A Wrinkle in Time&lt;/em&gt; and sequels)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(so far the tag is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-wrinkle-in-time&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-wrinkle-in-time&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-wrinkle-in-time&lt;/a&gt;, not sure if that needs to be changed or not)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's a topic challenge and how do I take part?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13211/31394&quot;&gt;Announcing a Topic Challenge program for SFF.SE&lt;/a&gt;, and also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/240634/278659&quot;&gt;this main meta post&lt;/a&gt;. In short, during August 2022 we should all try to either read one or more of the Time Quintet stories and ask interesting questions about them, or help out by &lt;em&gt;answering&lt;/em&gt; other people's questions about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Participation is not obligatory in any sense, but those who participate will be forever remembered in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13743/31394&quot;&gt;annals of our history&lt;/a&gt;. We'll keep a list of all Time Quintet questions asked during August 2022 in an answer to this meta post. At the end of the month, I'll collate some data like highest-scoring question, most-viewed question, highest-scoring answer, etc. There won't be any real-world rewards like in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1138/31394&quot;&gt;the old days&lt;/a&gt; when Stack Exchange was smaller and more generous, but I'll be awarding at least one bounty after the end of the month (assuming there's at least one good answer posted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's next?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Future topic challenges will be chosen by community votes, so come over and propose or vote on suggestions at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;Propose future topics for SFF topic challenges!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The Time Quintet answer has been deleted from that thread at the start of August, since already chosen topics shouldn't stick at the top of the thread and distract people from those still to be voted on.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2022-08-02T20:53:59.843" LastActivityDate="2023-01-02T11:38:20.963" Title="August 2022 topic challenge: Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet" Tags="|discussion|topic-challenge|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13742" CreationDate="2022-08-02T20:53:37.583" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;List of all questions posted as part of this topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/266424&quot;&gt;What in what collections have the books of the Time Quintet been released?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/48874&quot;&gt;Buzz&lt;/a&gt;, 07/08/2022.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/266641/what-is-the-origin-of-the-name-megatron&quot;&gt;What is the origin of the name &amp;quot;Megatron&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/48874&quot;&gt;Buzz&lt;/a&gt;, 13/08/2022.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/266965/31394&quot;&gt;Why have later books in the Wrinkle in Time series never got much attention or been adapted?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394&quot;&gt;Rand al'Thor&lt;/a&gt;, 23/08/2022.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;highest-voted&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;most viewed&lt;/strong&gt; of these is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/266965/31394&quot;&gt;Why have later books in the Wrinkle in Time series never got much attention or been adapted?&lt;/a&gt;, with a score of &lt;strong&gt;12&lt;/strong&gt; at the end of August and approximately &lt;strong&gt;3000&lt;/strong&gt; views during August (between 2500, as the Notable Question badge was awarded on 25 August, and 3100, its view count in January).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;List of all answers to existing questions posted as part of this topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/267128/59154&quot;&gt;Answer to &amp;quot;Tessering by what means in 'Wrinkle'?&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/59154/basya&quot;&gt;Basya&lt;/a&gt;, 29/08/2022.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2023-01-02T11:38:20.963" LastActivityDate="2023-01-02T11:38:20.963" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2022-08-02T20:53:37.583" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13744" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-08-03T16:35:09.413" Score="5" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions for Elamor Cameron's  &amp;quot;Mushroom  Planet&amp;quot; series of books. More than one of these has an accepted answer, and none of them are closed as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should one be picked as the &amp;quot;canonical&amp;quot; story-id question, and the rest be closed as duplicates of that one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/70827/and-now-for-something-completely-different-the-mushrooms-are-among-us&quot;&gt;And now, for something completely different: The mushrooms are among us&lt;/a&gt; is the oldest one with an accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63330" LastActivityDate="2022-08-07T23:02:12.590" Title="Canonical duplicate for Mushroom Planet books" Tags="|discussion|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13744" CreationDate="2022-08-03T21:14:14.733" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mushroom Planet has been used as the answer in ten &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-id&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-id&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-id&lt;/a&gt; questions, however it is already marked as a duplicates of&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/70827/and-now-for-something-completely-different-the-mushrooms-are-among-us&quot;&gt;And now, for something completely different: The mushrooms are among us&lt;/a&gt; in all five of the questions where it has been accepted as the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/185793/kids-space-travel-series-featuring-the-great-ta/185794#185794&quot;&gt;Kids space travel series featuring &amp;#39;The Great Ta&amp;#39;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/93072/space-travel-with-spores-or-mushrooms/93076#93076&quot;&gt;Space travel with spores or mushrooms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/182715/i-am-looking-for-title-of-book-about-a-kid-or-kids-who-build-a-rocket-or-space-s/182717#182717&quot;&gt;I am looking for title of Book about a kid or kids who build a rocket or space ship&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/246386/looking-for-the-title-of-a-ya-youth-sci-fi-novel-about-kids-traveling-to-alien-p/246392#246392&quot;&gt;Looking for the title of a YA/Youth sci-fi novel about kids traveling to alien planet where the aliens need sulphur to survive?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/216081/science-fiction-story-about-two-kids-that-build-a-spaceship-pre-1994&quot;&gt;Science Fiction Story About Two Kids That Build A Spaceship Pre-1994&lt;/a&gt; (acceptance via comment)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The remaining &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-id&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-id&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;story-id&lt;/a&gt; questions with Mushroom Planet as an answer don't have an acceptance, and &lt;strong&gt;are hence ineligible to be marked as duplicates&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/266224/book-about-two-kids-going-to-the-moon-with-an-old-scientist/266262#266262&quot;&gt;Book about two kids going to the moon with an old scientist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/191166/lost-title-of-a-book-with-an-old-man-advertising-for-a-seat-available-on-his-roc/191171#191171&quot;&gt;Lost title of a book with an old man advertising for a seat available on his rocket ship&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/117336/book-series-for-mg-children-about-kind-gentle-alien-professor-engineer-working/117714#117714&quot;&gt;Book Series for MG/Children - About Kind/Gentle Alien Professor/Engineer Working in Basement Laboratory&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/66578/childrens-novel-three-children-plus-dog-travel-to-the-moon-in-pretend-space/117667#117667&quot;&gt;Children&amp;#39;s novel: three children (plus dog?) travel to the Moon in pretend spaceship turned real&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/155589/book-search-kid-travels-to-another-world-adapts-by-collecting-soil/172611#172611&quot;&gt;Book Search: Kid travels to another world; adapts by collecting soil?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have also searched for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/series/69821-the-mushroom-planet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;other books in this series&lt;/a&gt; by their titles, and none are found as answers on any of our existing questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="28516" LastEditDate="2022-08-07T23:02:12.590" LastActivityDate="2022-08-07T23:02:12.590" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2022-08-07T19:16:57.493" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EXTERMINAAAAAATE!!!!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="126765" LastActivityDate="2022-08-07T19:16:57.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13748" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-08-10T20:57:24.177" Score="-9" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;I signed up to contribute to a conversation about a movie but this merit system is absolutely ridiculous and I'd like to immediately disconnect myself from this website because I get nothing from it if I have to establish a reputation just to comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user156800" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2022-08-13T06:31:38.750" LastActivityDate="2022-08-13T06:31:38.750" Title="How do I delete myself from this site?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13748" CreationDate="2022-08-10T21:20:16.560" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please note that &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;reputation&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; doesn't mean you have to spend ages here, get known to the regular users, or anything like that - you don't need a &amp;quot;reputation&amp;quot; in the ordinary sense of the word. The only thing you need to do to get Stack Exchange reputation is to &lt;strong&gt;post questions or answers&lt;/strong&gt; which get upvoted. Just 5 upvotes on a post of yours is enough to give you 51 reputation, which is enough to leave comments everywhere. There's no reputation requirement for posting answers (although they must actually answer the question asked), nor for posting comments on your &lt;em&gt;own&lt;/em&gt; posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may seem like needless jumping through hoops, but the purpose is to avoid having the site flooded with random commentary by anyone who feels like expressing an opinion. If you have an answer to a question, that's useful content for the Q&amp;amp;A site and you can always provide that even as a brand-new user. But if anyone could post comments, it would be much harder to filter out the really useful information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mention this in case you misunderstood what's meant by &amp;quot;you need reputation to comment&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To your actual question of &lt;strong&gt;how to delete your Stack Exchange account&lt;/strong&gt;, you'll find the relevant info in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/deleting-account&quot;&gt;help centre&lt;/a&gt; or on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/5999/278659&quot;&gt;the main meta site&lt;/a&gt; as commenters already mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2022-08-10T21:20:16.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13750" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-08-13T05:03:34.350" Score="3" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of the World Wrestling Entertainment characters (such as The Undertaker and Kane) are clearly supernatural. There are probably more if we dig around enough into the earlier days of the WWF (World Wrestling Federation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They have enough viewers that there probably are people who are well versed in their lore. Is the WWE on topic here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13716" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2022-08-13T20:56:24.757" LastActivityDate="2022-08-13T21:08:09.183" Title="Is WWE on topic here?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13750" CreationDate="2022-08-13T21:02:26.500" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absolutely. A spokesman for WWF &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/10/nyregion/now-it-can-be-told-those-pro-wrestlers-are-just-having-fun.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;admitted under oath&lt;/a&gt; that the 'sport' was nothing of the sort. It was merely an entertainment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The World Wrestling Federation asks in the legislation that&#xA;professional wrestling be defined as &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;an activity in which&#xA;participants struggle hand-in-hand primarily for the purpose of&#xA;providing entertainment to spectators rather than conducting a bona&#xA;fide athletic contest.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayfabe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;plotlines&lt;/a&gt; and &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://second.wiki/wiki/won_best_gimmick&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;gimmicks&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; used in the ring can be considered a form of theatre and would be as much on-topic here as questions about the Harry Potter stage show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2022-08-13T21:08:09.183" LastActivityDate="2022-08-13T21:08:09.183" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13752" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-08-17T18:17:20.970" Score="-2" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is the question &amp;quot;what character is unbeatable or most powerful&amp;quot; not objective? Why is it &amp;quot;opinion based?&amp;quot; What is it about it that makes it subjective?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157025" OwnerDisplayName="Pawn" LastActivityDate="2022-08-18T12:50:58.120" Title="Why is the question &quot;what character is unbeatable or most powerful&quot; not objective?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13752" CreationDate="2022-08-18T09:15:33.653" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Different universes, different rules, different definitions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, characters exist in different fictional universes with different rules, so a straight comparison is hard. A good story should have some consistent internal logic, so transplanting a character doesn't work - a Merlin-like wizard might be powerless in the Star Trek universe where magic doesn't exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You also run into a challenge in defining 'powerful'. For a simple metric, like strength, you can probably compare (e.g. what is the most they can lift - with the different rules caveat, is that native, with a magic spell, with enhancing armour?) Power is poorly defined though - what speed compares to what strength? Is a genius strategist more powerful than a single skilled warrior? Do you look at achievements or potential? Is ruling a medieval country a greater achievement than a sci-fi planet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Done in good humour they can be interesting discussions, but without a true answer - so fine on discussion forums, but not SE which looks to provide definitive answers to questions. The site-wide description for these questions is 'gorilla vs. shark'; the consensus application of the rule on SFF is posted &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2015/06/gorilla-vs-shark-not-so-fast/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118276" LastEditorUserId="118276" LastEditDate="2022-08-18T12:50:58.120" LastActivityDate="2022-08-18T12:50:58.120" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13755" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-08-28T06:15:43.603" Score="2" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/267103/153074&quot;&gt;Cosmetic surgery and crime in Star Trek&lt;/a&gt; which has been closed as not focused and a comment stating that it's asking two questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm slightly confused as I'm only asking one question which is mutually exclusive as far as I can tell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are their any other known crimes undertaken by individuals who have had cosmetic surgery, or are there any in universe explanations on why this has not or could not happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is mutually exclusive. I can only see the following example answers being provided:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If an answer can provide multiple examples of crimes being committed by individuals then there cannot be reasons why it cannot happen (as it has happened).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If an answer can provide reasons why it cannot happen, then they cannot provide examples of crimes being committed (as crimes cannot happen).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An answer could provide examples of crimes being initiated but then being stopped by something. This then enters a Minority Report situation, as if a crime has been stopped before it has been committed is it still a crime, and would it then be a valid answer for the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot see an answer being provided that states that multiple crimes have been committed and here is why the cannot happen as either the crimes happen or they cannot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can split the question into two separate questions but then I come across a chicken and egg situation about what question to ask first as they are interdependent on each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could change the or in the middle of the original question to an and, which then technically makes it one question, but I feel that that is a very small semantic difference to close a question on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="153074" LastEditorUserId="153074" LastEditDate="2022-08-28T06:22:49.580" LastActivityDate="2022-08-28T13:46:36.067" Title="My question was closed as asking two questions but I'm only asking one" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13755" CreationDate="2022-08-28T13:46:36.067" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/267103/revisions&quot;&gt;originally written&lt;/a&gt;, asked two questions;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are there any instances of crimes being committed by people who've had plastic surgery?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are their any other known crimes undertaken by individuals who have had cosmetic surgery, or are there any in universe explanations on why this has not or could not happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why isn't plastic surgery used more extensively?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With such a powerful procedure, is there any in universe explanation of why these procedures are not more widely undertaken than for the mission critical, save the Federation instances that seems to be it's normal use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that ask multiple things typically get closed as lacking focus. The latest edit (removing the latter question) has brought it back on-topic and it will likely be reopened shortly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2022-08-28T13:46:36.067" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13757" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13759" CreationDate="2022-08-29T08:07:49.323" Score="5" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;The topic challenge is described as follows (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13742/august-2022-topic-challenge-madeleine-lengles-time-quintet&quot;&gt;this month's topic challenge&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;we should all try to either read one or more of the Time Quintet&#xA;stories and ask interesting questions about them, or help out by&#xA;answering other people's questions about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later in the description it says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'll keep a list of all Time Quintet questions asked during August&#xA;2022 in an answer to this meta post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; to preexisting questions, on the topic, which were added in answer to the topic challenge?  For example, I added &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/267128/59154&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; as I was looking at questions with the a-wrinkle-in-time tag, hoping to find something to answer on the topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59154" LastActivityDate="2022-08-30T06:37:11.133" Title="Are new answers to existing questions included in the topic challenge?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13757" CreationDate="2022-08-29T17:13:04.680" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The lawyer in me says 'no'. We have a rule and your answer clearly falls outside the bounds. It's not a new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In reality, this is an internal competition with no actual prizes. I'm sure if you ask @Randal'Thor, he'll pencil in an '&lt;em&gt;honourable mention'&lt;/em&gt; for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2022-08-29T17:13:04.680" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13757" CreationDate="2022-08-30T06:37:11.133" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't something we need to have very strict rules about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It wouldn't make sense to include such an answer in the list of &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; asked during the topic challenge, but would be fine to add another section below that to list new answers posted to old questions. Feel free to edit the topic challenge collection answers on meta; they're all CW to make them easier for anyone to edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2022-08-30T06:37:11.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13760" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13761" CreationDate="2022-08-30T06:41:16.093" Score="4" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;This post is for the ninth SFF.SE &lt;strong&gt;topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt; of 2022, in which the site's community is encouraged to take part together in asking and answering questions on a particular topic each month. According to community votes on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;topic challenge proposals thread&lt;/a&gt;, the September 2022 topic challenge is going to be devoted to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deryni_novels&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a historical fantasy series&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Deryni series&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/deryni-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;deryni-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;deryni-series-container&quot;&gt;deryni-series&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's a topic challenge and how do I take part?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13211/31394&quot;&gt;Announcing a Topic Challenge program for SFF.SE&lt;/a&gt;, and also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/240634/278659&quot;&gt;this main meta post&lt;/a&gt;. In short, during September 2022 we should all try to either read one or more of the Deryni books and ask interesting questions about them, or help out by &lt;em&gt;answering&lt;/em&gt; other people's questions about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Participation is not obligatory in any sense, but those who participate will be forever remembered in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13761/31394&quot;&gt;annals of our history&lt;/a&gt;. We'll keep a list of all Deryni questions asked during September 2022 in an answer to this meta post. At the end of the month, I'll collate some data like highest-scoring question, most-viewed question, highest-scoring answer, etc. There won't be any real-world rewards like in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1138/31394&quot;&gt;the old days&lt;/a&gt; when Stack Exchange was smaller and more generous, but I'll be awarding at least one bounty after the end of the month (assuming there's at least one good answer posted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's next?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Future topic challenges will be chosen by community votes, so come over and propose or vote on suggestions at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;Vote on future topics for SFF topic challenges!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The Deryni answer will be deleted from that thread at the start of September, since already chosen topics shouldn't stick at the top of the thread and distract people from those still to be voted on.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2023-01-02T12:11:34.540" Title="September 2022 topic challenge: the Deryni series" Tags="|discussion|topic-challenge|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13760" CreationDate="2022-08-30T06:42:53.420" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;List of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bderyni-series%5D+is%3Aq+created%3A2022-09-01..2022-09-30&quot;&gt;all questions posted&lt;/a&gt; as part of this topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/267274/59154&quot;&gt;Who is the Supreme of Howicce, from &amp;quot;Deryni Rising?&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/59154/basya&quot;&gt;Basya&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/267430/who-is-the-nearest-neighbor-of-corwyn&quot;&gt;Who is the nearest neighbor of Corwyn?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/59154/basya&quot;&gt;Basya&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/267515/how-does-it-come-about-that-jehana-acquires-such-deryni-hatred-in-bremagne&quot;&gt;How does it come about that Jehana acquires such Deryni hatred in Bremagne?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/59154/basya&quot;&gt;Basya&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/267525/59154&quot;&gt;How was Kevin's death connected to the Deryni issue?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/59154/basya&quot;&gt;Basya&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;highest-voted&lt;/strong&gt; of these is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/267274/59154&quot;&gt;Who is the Supreme of Howicce, from &amp;quot;Deryni Rising?&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;, with a score of &lt;strong&gt;4&lt;/strong&gt; at the end of September.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;most viewed&lt;/strong&gt; is probably &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/267525/31394&quot;&gt;How was Kevin&amp;#39;s death connected to the Deryni issue?&lt;/a&gt;, with at most 102 views during September. (These figures added in January, so it's impossible now to get exact view counts for the month of September.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2023-01-02T12:11:34.540" LastActivityDate="2023-01-02T12:11:34.540" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2022-08-30T06:42:53.420" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13762" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-08-31T04:55:56.967" Score="11" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a recent &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/267153/short-film-home-robbery-with-reversed-gender-roles&quot;&gt;story identification&lt;/a&gt; question a user was looking for a movie that, based on their description, was standard fiction with the exception that all the characters were opposite genders from what is typically encountered in real life (women more aggressive and authoritative, men more subdued and conservative).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this fantastical enough to be considered on topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1234" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2022-08-31T07:42:25.697" LastActivityDate="2022-08-31T17:06:35.627" Title="Is this story-ID question (featuring traditional roles with opposite genders) on topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13762" CreationDate="2022-08-31T07:47:04.817" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absolutely yes. The question makes it clear that the schtick here is that the gender-roles are &lt;em&gt;reversed&lt;/em&gt;, yet treated as normalised, which places it firmly into the same category as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/35/are-questions-about-alternate-history-on-or-off-topic&quot;&gt;our policy on alternate worlds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie entirely reverses the gender roles: The men perform the stereotypical female household roles and wear aprons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same would just as easily apply (and be more obviously fantastical) if age roles were inverted, with children going to work and adults playing in the street.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also learn (based on OPs self-answer) that there are clear alternate history worldbuilding elements in this story such as the replacement of the NFL with a parodical IWFL (Independent Women's Football League)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the opening credits roll on black we hear the sound of a football game on TV and when the TV screen fades in we see it’s not the NFL but the IWFL – Independent WOMEN's Football League.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2022-08-31T17:04:05.930" LastActivityDate="2022-08-31T17:04:05.930" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13762" CreationDate="2022-08-31T08:36:26.977" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, it would be off-topic, per the talking animals rule.&lt;/strong&gt; We have agreed that if a fairy tale tells about a story that would not count as fantasy if it happened to humans, but the story has talking bipedal foxes taking the place of humans, and everyone in the world considers the talking foxes normal, then that alone doesn't make this a fantasy story on-topic for our site.  If you tell an ordinary non-fantasy story with the gender roles reversed, if everyone in universe considers that normal, rather than, say, a story about rebels fighting to turn the gender roles back to what we know in our world, that is essentially the same shtick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastActivityDate="2022-08-31T08:36:26.977" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13762" CreationDate="2022-08-31T17:01:17.323" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Probably&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My reasoning is similar to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13763/51379&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, but distinct. In line with that answer, any story that is set in an implied alternate history or alternate universe is on-topic, regardless of its lack of science fictional or fantastical elements. However, there are male homemakers and female gang leaders in the real world, so those plot elements by themselves are insufficient. Similarly, the Women's Football Alliance &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Football_Alliance?wprov=sfla1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;actually exists&lt;/a&gt;, so a poster for them cannot be taken as strong evidence of an alternate universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/hail-mary-country#/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;statement by the filmmaker&lt;/a&gt; on her Indiegogo page offers strong evidence of an alternate society:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the opening credits roll on black we hear the sound of a football&#xA;game on TV and when the TV screen fades in we see it’s not the NFL but&#xA;the IWFL – Independent WOMEN's Football League. We’re in the crappy home of the Dandy family, where the three sisters are die-hard football fans drinking beer on the couch and gambling on the upcoming championship game. In the kitchen their husbands cook and take care of the children, their eldest daughter Darla steps out to wash the family car, and all is well in the household - except for a little intruder...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though the IWFL &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Women%27s_Football_League?wprov=sfla1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; existed&lt;/a&gt;, the quote clearly seems to imply that the IWFL has the place of prominence that the NFL does in the real world—indeed, I am not sure whether any IWFL games were ever televised. Further, the description indicates a strong intention of building an alternate society with different traditional gender roles, not simply a description of one non-traditional family in a society otherwise identical to the real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="51379" LastEditDate="2022-08-31T17:06:35.627" LastActivityDate="2022-08-31T17:06:35.627" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13766" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13767" CreationDate="2022-09-01T07:14:50.667" Score="8" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've recently asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/267114/7957&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; about the TV show, &lt;em&gt;House of the Dragon&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/267121/revisions#rev-body-24cadafa-517c-4d57-8ed7-1157cfc9ab00&quot;&gt;suggested a tag wiki&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/house-of-the-dragon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;house-of-the-dragon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;house-of-the-dragon-container&quot;&gt;house-of-the-dragon&lt;/a&gt;. User DavidW  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/267114/revisions#rev-body-7027ce0f-95a6-46bb-a861-80b0e76afb4d&quot;&gt;edited my question to also have&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;game-of-thrones-container&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt; and has &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/267121/revisions#rev-body-24cadafa-517c-4d57-8ed7-1157cfc9ab00&quot;&gt;added a tag usage guidance&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/house-of-the-dragon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;house-of-the-dragon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;house-of-the-dragon-container&quot;&gt;house-of-the-dragon&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use with the [game-of-thrones] tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/267114/7957&quot;&gt;My question&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; about &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;, and in fact, has nothing to do with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the suggested edit review queue pre-defined rejection reasons is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This edit introduces tags that do not help to define the topic of the question. Tags should help to describe what the question is &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt;, not just what it &lt;em&gt;contains&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would've reverted that tag edit to my question since it doesn't describe what the question is &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt;, but then I would go against the tag usage guidance written in the tag wiki. In other SE sites I'm more familiar with, like Arqade, and Movies &amp;amp; TV SE, questions about a sequel or prequel work aren't tagged with the tag of the work it is a sequel or prequel to (unless the question's topic overlaps both works). I'm wondering if it's different in SF&amp;amp;F SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the same topic of the &lt;em&gt;House of the Dragon&lt;/em&gt; TV show tagging, if a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/house-of-the-dragon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;house-of-the-dragon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;house-of-the-dragon-container&quot;&gt;house-of-the-dragon&lt;/a&gt; question topic overlaps the books (the question I linked above doesn't), should it also be tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fire-and-blood&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fire-and-blood&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;fire-and-blood-container&quot;&gt;fire-and-blood&lt;/a&gt; (book the show is based on) and/or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;a-song-of-ice-and-fire-container&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt; (the book series)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h5&gt;How should we tag questions about the TV show, House of the Dragon?&lt;/h5&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7957" LastActivityDate="2022-09-01T08:08:14.220" Title="How should we tag questions about the TV show, House of the Dragon?" Tags="|discussion|tags|tag-wiki|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13766" CreationDate="2022-09-01T08:08:14.220" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;House of the Dragon&lt;/em&gt; is a spinoff of the TV series &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;; the marketing material even mentions &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;. For example, see the below poster:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SrRsv.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SrRsvm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;House of the Dragon poster showing Rhaenerys on the Iron Throne&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's fine if we treat our tags the same and use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/game-of-thrones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;game-of-thrones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;game-of-thrones-container&quot;&gt;game-of-thrones&lt;/a&gt; as a universe tag for the show world &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; for the specific show itself. In that case the tag wiki edit and post edit by DavidW make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This also aligns with how we're treating &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/a-song-of-ice-and-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;a-song-of-ice-and-fire-container&quot;&gt;a-song-of-ice-and-fire&lt;/a&gt; as the universe tag for the book world. You will see that it is used for questions about the main series and the spin offs such as &lt;em&gt;Fire and Blood&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The World of Ice and Fire&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question is overlapping in scope with the books and TV world you are fine to tag with both the universe tags as well as any more specific tags as necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2022-09-01T08:08:14.220" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13768" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-09-04T08:44:12.960" Score="6" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;Amazon Prime just released a new major show called &lt;strong&gt;The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rings-of-power&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rings-of-power&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;rings-of-power-container&quot;&gt;rings-of-power&lt;/a&gt; as a tag, referring to the in-universe objects of the same name, with over 100 questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What tag should we use for questions about the new show? Should we remove the tag on the existing questions and only use it for the show? Can we use the same tag for both? Or should we perhaps make a new tag like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rings-of-power-2022&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rings-of-power-2022&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;rings-of-power-2022-container&quot;&gt;rings-of-power-2022&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55866" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2022-09-12T07:58:03.693" LastActivityDate="2022-09-12T07:58:03.693" Title="Should we use the [rings-of-power]?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13768" CreationDate="2022-09-04T10:49:52.253" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Taking into account the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a new TV show called &lt;em&gt;Rings of Power&lt;/em&gt;, which people are probably going to ask a lot of questions about.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is an existing tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rings-of-power&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rings-of-power&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;rings-of-power-container&quot;&gt;rings-of-power&lt;/a&gt;, which is going to show up in the tag box when people start typing the name of the show.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A specific group of magical objects in a specific universe don't really &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; a tag - we do have some such tags, but they're not vital to correct tagging.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should &lt;strong&gt;repurpose the existing tag name &lt;code&gt;rings-of-power&lt;/code&gt; to be about the TV show&lt;/strong&gt;, otherwise we're going to be constantly retagging questions about it from new users. Even if we do create a new tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rings-of-power-2022&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rings-of-power-2022&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;rings-of-power-2022-container&quot;&gt;rings-of-power-2022&lt;/a&gt;, people won't consistently use it. We're likely to get a lot of questions from people who aren't necessarily either hardcore Tolkien addicts or experienced SE users, but they just watched a new TV show and found a good site to ask about it. Let's make it easy for them to find the right tag. The magical objects don't need to have their own tag in future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, I hear you say, the existing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rings-of-power&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rings-of-power&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;rings-of-power-container&quot;&gt;rings-of-power&lt;/a&gt; tag has over 100 questions! Is this going to be a long process or require another big retag event? &lt;strong&gt;No, manual retagging won't be necessary!&lt;/strong&gt; We can kill the existing tag by a single mod action, since it is (or should be!) always used together with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkiens-legendarium&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkiens-legendarium&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tolkiens-legendarium-container&quot;&gt;tolkiens-legendarium&lt;/a&gt; tag. So I propose the following course of action:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Merge the current &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rings-of-power&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rings-of-power&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;rings-of-power-container&quot;&gt;rings-of-power&lt;/a&gt; into the universe tag, which eliminates it from all questions without any manual editing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Create a new &lt;code&gt;rings-of-power&lt;/code&gt; tag for the TV show, and edit a few questions if necessary.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should act quickly, though, before we start getting lots of questions about the new TV show. Thanks for bringing this to meta now rather than later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2022-09-04T10:49:52.253" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13770" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-09-05T13:10:40.030" Score="4" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/267414/was-there-a-snake-with-voldemort-when-he-killed-the-potters/267417#comment737027_267414&quot;&gt;this comment&lt;/a&gt;, it is proposed that that because &amp;quot;this is technically three different questions&amp;quot; the question should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that the question is about the interpretation of a few lines of text; it just happens to present three separate bits of confusion about the meaning. Is this really enough to render the question unfocussed or too broad?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;(Perhaps the close-voters were just not familiar enough with the material to recognize that these were tightly related questions that could be answered fairly simply, but in response, I would suggest to be a little patient to see whether people more familiar with the source material are able to provide a simple answer.)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7074/when-are-we-okay-with-multiple-questions-in-one&quot;&gt;this meta question&lt;/a&gt; my takeaway from the highest voted answer is that the problem is when &amp;quot;they're obviously completely separate questions&amp;quot; and the concern is that one will &amp;quot;end up writing a list of answers in one post.&amp;quot; I just don't see those issues arising in this case. I see them highly intertwined and that source of the confusion about those few lines of text is because of the implicit switching of perspective when the vision starts and stops. It's all connected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user152192" LastEditorDisplayName="user152192" LastEditDate="2022-09-05T19:58:20.910" LastActivityDate="2022-09-07T17:47:03.257" Title="Why is this question too broad?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closing-questions|closed-questions|questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13768" CreationDate="2022-09-06T03:07:47.887" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;We should use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-rings-of-power&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-rings-of-power&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;the-rings-of-power-container&quot;&gt;the-rings-of-power&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Rings_of_Power&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;full and official name of the TV show&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings: &lt;strong&gt;The&lt;/strong&gt; Rings of Power&lt;/em&gt;, the tag should also have a &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;the&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; before &amp;quot;rings-of-power&amp;quot;, just like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-lord-of-the-rings&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-lord-of-the-rings&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;the-lord-of-the-rings-container&quot;&gt;the-lord-of-the-rings&lt;/a&gt; also has a &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;the&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot; before &amp;quot;lord-of-the-rings&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rings-of-power&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rings-of-power&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;rings-of-power-container&quot;&gt;rings-of-power&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13769/7957&quot;&gt;I agree with Rand al'Thor&lt;/a&gt;, that it should be merged with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tolkiens-legendarium&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tolkiens-legendarium&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tolkiens-legendarium-container&quot;&gt;tolkiens-legendarium&lt;/a&gt;, removing the tag from questions not about the TV show, burninating its usage for questions about the magical objects. After merging, it should be repurposed and be made a synonym to the TV show tag, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-rings-of-power&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-rings-of-power&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;the-rings-of-power-container&quot;&gt;the-rings-of-power&lt;/a&gt;, for better tag searchability and to prevent users from using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/rings-of-power&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rings-of-power&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;rings-of-power-container&quot;&gt;rings-of-power&lt;/a&gt; for questions not about the TV show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7957" LastEditorUserId="7957" LastEditDate="2022-09-07T01:11:49.090" LastActivityDate="2022-09-07T01:11:49.090" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13770" CreationDate="2022-09-07T17:30:23.530" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this instance, I think F1Krazy is being a little harsh. There are, to my mind, &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; distinct questions here rather than three;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The title and body of the main question (e.g. &lt;em&gt;'...there appears to be a snake slithering in the room. Where did [it] come from?'&lt;/em&gt; / &lt;em&gt;'Did Voldemort become a snake?'&lt;/em&gt;) basically a boil down to a single question (e.g. &lt;em&gt;'Where did this snake come from?'&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OP has then appended a second question about the meaning of a phrase (e.g. &lt;em&gt;'What does &amp;quot;he had killed the boy, and yet he was the boy...&amp;quot; mean?'&lt;/em&gt;), and while they're admittedly very close to each other in the book, that doesn't mean that they're necessarily closely-related enough to be considered a single question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My advice is that removing the second question would immediately bring this back on topic. This question might be reserved for later (if answers to the first question don't end up touching on this to their satisfaction) or simply &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt; as a second new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2022-09-07T17:47:03.257" LastActivityDate="2022-09-07T17:47:03.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13773" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-09-07T23:43:41.813" Score="2" ViewCount="214" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked this question at the Movies &amp;amp; TV stackexchange: &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/118433/how-did-voyager-know-the-pilot-was-a-he&quot;&gt;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/118433/how-did-voyager-know-the-pilot-was-a-he&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It got an okay answer, but it seems more speculative than I was hoping for and it isn't really theorizing from a solid basis that can be found in the source material. Do you think SciFi stackexchange would have better expertise for this question? If so, how do I get it over here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user152192" LastEditorDisplayName="user152192" LastEditDate="2022-09-08T04:42:36.763" LastActivityDate="2022-09-08T17:00:09.583" Title="Would this site have better expertise for this question about Voyager than Movies &amp; TV stackexchange does?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|migration|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13773" CreationDate="2022-09-08T16:33:39.417" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know about us having &amp;quot;more expertise&amp;quot;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sup&gt;TM&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;, but I've certainly noticed over the years that answers on SFF:SE tend to have a stronger emphasis on &lt;em&gt;in-universe-evidence&lt;/em&gt; compared to Movies:SE where there's often a stronger emphasis on &lt;em&gt;real-world-evidence&lt;/em&gt;. Based on the comments you've made under the answers you got, it sounds like you were much more keen on the former than the latter, which means that SFF:SE might have been a stronger choice for your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I was answering this one, I would probably have focused on identifying any episode examples where the sensors are used to identify individuals by gender (e.g. demonstrating that trek sensors can or cannot readily distinguish male from female), examples of crewmen referring to a sensor-detected person by their gender (e.g. demonstrating that the crew typically assume someone is male until positively advised otherwise) and evidence from the various factbooks that make reference to how the sensors work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm reasonably sure there are in-universe examples of each that would have allowed me to craft an answer that satisfied my own curiosity on the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to how to ask it over here, you simply need to avoid it being a cross-site duplicate. Merely ask the question in a slightly different way (for example &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;Can Trek sensors tell the difference between male and female lifesigns?&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;) and you'll get another set of answers, hopefully to your own satisfaction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2022-09-08T17:00:09.583" LastActivityDate="2022-09-08T17:00:09.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13775" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-09-12T10:20:42.110" Score="1" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, we have two questions asking about a comparison of the TV show, &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power&lt;/em&gt;, to its source material:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/267475/7957&quot;&gt;How close is Amazon&amp;#39;s &amp;#39;The Rings of Power&amp;#39; to anything that existed in prior Tolkien works?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/267577/7957&quot;&gt;What has appeared in Rings of Power that is outside Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, but still in Tolkien&amp;#39;s writings?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first question is currently open (has been closed and was reopened) while the second question is currently closed for being about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5187&quot;&gt;future works&lt;/a&gt;. Currently, only three episodes out of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.empireonline.com/tv/news/lord-of-the-rings-power-five-seasons-fully-planned-out-exclusive/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;five-season&lt;/a&gt; TV show have been released so far, so I understand why the second question was closed for being about future works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't get why the first question is open, though. It seems inconsistent with the treatment that the second question got. (When the first question was asked, only &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; episodes have been released.) They're both asking for a comparison of an in-progress TV show (which hasn't even reached &lt;em&gt;half&lt;/em&gt; the episodes of its first season yet) to the source material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7957" LastActivityDate="2022-09-12T10:20:42.110" Title="Future Works policy on The Rings of Power, a TV show that has not yet finished its first season" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|closed-questions|future-works|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13781" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13782" CreationDate="2022-09-25T17:24:05.370" Score="2" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/268021/what-is-the-true-nature-of-shields-in-star-trek&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; very recently. It seems that people are confused as to whether I'm asking about science fiction or real life--but even before anyone answered the question, I had two close votes. Only one person gave a vague explanation as to why the question was being closed. Now my question was just closed for &amp;quot;being about real-world science&amp;quot; when I explicitly asked about the fictional technology in a sci-fi franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I improve this question to avoid it being shut down almost immediately?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127968" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2022-09-28T19:59:09.787" LastActivityDate="2022-09-28T22:07:36.277" Title="How should I phrase this question to avoid getting it closed immediately?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13781" CreationDate="2022-09-25T23:34:24.033" Score="7" Body="&lt;h3&gt;You have to make it clear in your question's actual text that you're looking for an in-universe answer.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You say here, and in one of your comments, that you want an in-universe explanation.&#xA;But that's not the place for relevant information for answering the question--&lt;strong&gt;the actual text of the question is&lt;/strong&gt;. The text of your question doesn't make that clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the reasons why real-world science questions are closed is that a scientific explanation of an impossible thing just doesn't exist. If they were possible, or even plausible, then one of the real science SE's (such as Physics SE) would be a better place to ask the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most people get around this by asking &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Is there any canon explanation of how X works?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Where does A describe how X works?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63330" LastActivityDate="2022-09-25T23:34:24.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13781" CreationDate="2022-09-28T22:07:36.277" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Additional answer, since you don't seem to have changed your question, and the problems (that I see) are still present.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me the red flag is that you state the canonical answer as the first line of your question and then proceed to argue with it.  If the question has an in-universe answer, and you're not willing to accept that for some reason, it can only be because you're trying to apply some real-world science to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be specific, you say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if shields are based on gravitons, shouldn't light be distorted when it passes through a ship's shields?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, no.  In-universe the shields &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; based on gravitons, and &lt;strong&gt;in-universe&lt;/strong&gt; the shields obviously do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; distort light passing through them.  Even if you don't like that, the portrayal of shields in &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; is consistent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only basis on which you can argue with the canonical in-universe explanation for how shields work is because of real-world science, no matter how you disclaim it.  And that's off-topic, so the question should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastActivityDate="2022-09-28T22:07:36.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13784" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-09-30T14:49:49.170" Score="1" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/268046/which-actor-has-played-the-same-sci-fi-character-for-the-longest-time&quot;&gt;A recent question&lt;/a&gt; was of the form &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;Is &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt; the &lt;em&gt;superlative&lt;/em&gt;?&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to suggest we change such questions to ask &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;What is the &lt;em&gt;superlative&lt;/em&gt;?&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; as a matter of policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question attracted a lot of answers, but since it was phrased as a yes/no question, every answer amounted to &amp;quot;no&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, OP accepted the answer that described the superlative from among the answers posted up until then, indicating they were really asking &amp;quot;What is the &lt;em&gt;superlative&lt;/em&gt;?&amp;quot; in the first place. So I changed the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking &amp;quot;What is the &lt;em&gt;superlative&lt;/em&gt;?&amp;quot; is a common tactic of asking a potential list question so that it can have a single answer. SE's purpose is met, and we learn things and have fun along the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's OK if OP suggests a candidate the way it happened in this instance, and does indicate some initial research effort. But it's an XY problem to ask, as a yes/no question, whether the candidate is the superlative. The mere act of asking means OP isn't sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, should we discourage questions that ask for a superlative that way, and prefer that people just ask for the superlative?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(I had originally thought of the stronger proposition of discouraging all yes/no questions on main, but decided to narrow it)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Valorum asked for some more examples.  Searching SFF:SE for questions with &amp;quot;First&amp;quot; yielded:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/235381/is-treebeard-the-first-ent-if-not-who-was-the-first-ent&quot;&gt;Is Treebeard the first Ent? If not, who was the first Ent?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/65927/how-do-we-know-that-the-first-doctor-was-indeed-the-first&quot;&gt;How do we know that the First Doctor was indeed the first?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/98939/was-the-first-wizarding-war-with-voldemort-really-the-first-ever-wizarding-war&quot;&gt;Was the &amp;#39;first&amp;#39; wizarding war with Voldemort really the first ever wizarding war?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/194822/is-p-o-e-m-indias-first-superhero-team&quot;&gt;Is P.O.E.M. India&amp;#39;s first superhero team?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63330" LastEditorUserId="63330" LastEditDate="2022-09-30T17:00:51.753" LastActivityDate="2022-10-03T23:07:38.847" Title="Discourage questions of the form &quot;Is X the superlative?&quot;" Tags="|discussion|asking-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13784" CreationDate="2022-10-03T23:07:38.847" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The old wording was fine&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You understood that it wasn't really a yes/no question. Everyone who answered the question understood. I understood. The commenters understood. Even on other, similarly phrased questions across the network, most people just seem to understand. It's very rare to see an answer that just says yes or no with no explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's perfectly natural to ask questions indirectly, with the intention of getting answers that address the &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/ling001/pragmatics.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;speech act meaning, not the literal meaning&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; of the question. The old title is not even the most indirect phrasing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do you know if…?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can you tell me if…?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tell me if…&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I really want to know if…&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'll (metaphorically) die if nobody tells me if…&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Half of those aren't even questions! Now, with the examples I gave, I do edit since it's needlessly wordy and casual, but it's definitely not unclear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original wording of the question was neither excessively wordy nor casual, so I don't think your edit was necessary (but I don't care enough to roll it back). Mentioning JEJ was a fun fact that may have piqued the interest of Star Wars fans, in addition to giving a baseline for potential answerers before they even look at the question. (Several people have commented on another part of the title, so &amp;quot;the longest time&amp;quot; could afford to be reworded if someone can find a better wording for &amp;quot;not necessary consecutively but across the largest range of years&amp;quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at the four other example questions you listed, I don't think any of them would be improved by editing in the way you suggest. (At least two of them have edit histories or comments that suggest the titles could be improved in other ways.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;This should fall under existing policy&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is, avoid making edits that replace perfectly good wording with different perfectly good wording.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I think this applies to all yes/no questions, not just the ones you asked about.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82909" LastActivityDate="2022-10-03T23:07:38.847" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13296" CreationDate="2022-10-05T14:42:13.083" Score="-9" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a Harry Potter forum, the readers might be expected to have their own copies of the books, and not require spoonfeeding with specific text quotes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137970" LastActivityDate="2022-10-05T14:42:13.083" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13787" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-10-08T14:21:33.333" Score="7" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not a duplicate, I just look a lot like many posts that came before me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from July 1st 2022 through September 30th 2022.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2022/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2022/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2022/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I will be linking all blog posts that happened within this quarter year. Also the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/550327/most-controversial-posts-on-the-site-by-start-date&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;most controversial question&lt;/a&gt; of the quarter. Also a sum of all the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/618952/past-bounties-by-bounty-date&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;bounties&lt;/a&gt; that were awarded.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally if there was a meta post you feel should be spotlighted those are also acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2022-10-08T15:29:51.707" LastActivityDate="2022-10-08T15:29:51.707" Title="Favorite Question and Answers from Third Quarter 2022" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13788" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13854" CreationDate="2022-10-10T12:43:43.833" Score="16" ViewCount="458" Body="&lt;p&gt;Way back in September of last year we posted a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13478/58193&quot;&gt;meta asking if the community wanted the accepted answer to be unpinned from the top of posts&lt;/a&gt;. The vote was very close but an answer suggesting unpinning won and we've been running an experiment to see how people feel on the matter. Admittedly this experiment lasted longer than we wanted to so sorry for taking so long on getting back on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As this is a check in on how people feel we would like to know mainly if you would like the accepted answer pinning to the top again or leaving as is: unpinned. Why, or why not, should the accepted answer be pinned?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/1457903/questions-where-accepted-answers-dont-have-the-highest-score&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;list of affected questions using this SEDE query&lt;/a&gt;. Since many users are specifically concerned about this change for story identification questions, you can see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/1458380/questions-with-accepted-answers-not-highest-scoring&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;list of affected story ID questions using this SEDE query&lt;/a&gt; and may choose to vote for the accepted answer in order to ensure it is at the top whether or not the pinned option is chosen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Outcome&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The voting as of 09/12/2022 is 26 in favour of going back to pinning the accepted answer and -8 in favour of leaving it as is, unpinned. In light of this I have added the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-review&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-review&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-review&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;status-review-container&quot;&gt;status-review&lt;/a&gt; to this post for the CM team to look into repinning the accepted answer for us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="16845" LastEditDate="2023-02-07T22:13:13.897" LastActivityDate="2023-02-07T22:13:13.897" Title="Check in on the accepted answer being unpinned; do we want to leave it as is or re-pin it to the top?" Tags="|discussion|status-completed|answers|accepted-answer|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13788" CreationDate="2022-10-13T21:54:14.633" Score="-7" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Don't go back to pinning accepted answers.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The good reasons for removing the pinned behaviour still suffice to justify the current position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of ranking answers is to make them easier to find. Rank by score is intended to make the best answer as determined by the community be the most visible; rank by changes is intended to make recent changes more obvious for voting and commenting to be updated as well. In neither case does the opinion of a single user help this, much less because they happened to be author of the original text of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Acceptances are inconsistently used, including in their frequency. Acceptance can be applied for any reason, or for none, and there is no formal systematic way of changing it. Also importantly, there is nothing that makes them choose, even when they have explicitly noted that the answer is most helpful to them. This should be enough to remove any positional emphasis from acceptance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;User confusion over the meaning of acceptance stems from both these things, as well as their own expectations. The checkmark does not indicate accuracy  reliability, consensus, or even meta-quality. Emphasising an answer in this way has caused confusion across the network, including on SFF. (Yes, users have been confused by the lack of pinning as well, bit this only because they were following a habit created by the use of a bad system) (and this is a result of rare coincidence, to the extent that it is remarkable when it does occur, rather than so regular that it can be read into discussion by default)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the rare cases where pinning a specific answer to the top (regardless of score or timing or other properties) could be beneficial, this is an orthogonal consideration to what the original question author likes most. Tying the two actions together means both must carry the downsides of the other, without adding any further upsides. Even if pinning is needed and brought back, it should not be connected to acceptance at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63834" LastActivityDate="2022-10-13T21:54:14.633" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13788" CreationDate="2022-10-14T14:21:48.117" Score="28" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Let's go back to pinning accepted answers.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Usual disclaimer that this is my personal opinion, mod hat off, and I do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; represent the view of the whole mod team here.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anecdotally, in every case I've seen on this site over the last year where the accepted answer is not the highest-voted answer, it's been a &lt;em&gt;bad thing&lt;/em&gt; to not have the accepted answer pinned to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let's get the elephant in the room out of the way: &lt;strong&gt;story-ID questions&lt;/strong&gt;. We have a whole site policy on question closure in our biggest tag which is based on acceptance. That policy hasn't changed, but it gets a little more confusing to apply when the accepted answer isn't at the top. You click through to what you think is a dupe target, the top answer is one story, but no, wait, that wasn't correct and the accepted answer is a completely different story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another common occurrence on SFF is when new canon is released that &lt;strong&gt;makes a previously correct answer outdated&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/48/31394&quot;&gt;Example.&lt;/a&gt; If the poster of the old answer is no longer active, the only way to get a correct answer is for someone to post a new one. And right now, the only way to get that correct answer to the top is to wait however many years necessary for it to get enough upvotes to pass the old, perhaps 100+ scoring, top answer. Back when accepted answers were pinned, the new correct answer could reach the top much faster, if the question poster was still active. (That's not always the case, of course - askers can go inactive just like answerers can - but at least &lt;em&gt;sometimes&lt;/em&gt; there's a quick fix from an OP, rather than waiting for dozens of votes to tip the balance.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A single user choosing the answer they want is not a reliable metric for correctness, true. But neither is the lottery of HNQ upvotes. Either with or without pinning accepted answers, &lt;strong&gt;we'll sometimes have wrong answers at the top&lt;/strong&gt;. That's unavoidable. It is an imperfect universe. But:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a bad/wrong answer is accepted, the active community will normally react to that mistake by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=isaccepted%3A1+score%3A..-2&quot;&gt;downvoting it&lt;/a&gt;, which provides a &lt;strong&gt;visible indication, on the answer itself&lt;/strong&gt;, that it's not a good answer. Even if it's pinned to the top, the negative score sends a useful message to readers. A misguided OP only has a single vote, which is easy to counteract by just a few other voters among the active community members.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If accepted answers aren't pinned to the top, and a wrong answer gets a lot of upvotes (usually from HNQ drive-by upvoters), it's very hard to counteract that positive score with the relatively few votes of active curators. Without pinning accepted answers, we can have &lt;strong&gt;wrong answers at the top with no indication that they're wrong&lt;/strong&gt; (except comments). The only indication would be when you scroll down and find another answer accepted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also need to accept (pun unintended) the limitations of the system here. As far as I know, SE has no plans in the foreseeable future to make accepted-answer-pinning adjustable per tag (e.g. pin them to the top for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;story-identification-container&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; and not for anything else), nor to create a different kind of pinning to the top that doesn't depend on the OP alone. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13789/31394&quot;&gt;Nij mentions&lt;/a&gt; the possibility of some kind of pinning that's orthogonal to OP preference, which could be a great &lt;em&gt;idea&lt;/em&gt;, but in practice, we have only two choices - rank answers by score, or pin the OP's choice to the top - and other may-never-be possibilities are a distraction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2022-10-15T06:51:23.283" LastActivityDate="2022-10-15T06:51:23.283" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13791" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-10-14T17:43:33.217" Score="22" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;Robbie Coltrane, probably best known for his performance as Rubeus Hagrid in the &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; film series, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63261204&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;has passed away.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actor Robbie Coltrane, who played Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, has died aged 72.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a statement, his agent Belinda Wright confirmed the actor died in hospital near Falkirk in Scotland.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Robbie was J.K. Rowling's first and only choice to play Hagrid, and what (in my opinion) a wonderful casting it was. I constantly am walking around putting on my best Hagrid (or Robbie I suppose) voice saying &amp;quot;I shouldn'ta said that&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;I shouldn'ta told you that&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am sure Robbie will be missed by his family, friends, and colleagues. I speak for myself, but I also feel many in the community will agree his smile and larger than life personality will be missed... But let us take the wisdom of Hagrid's closest confidant's advice and say, &amp;quot;To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2022-10-14T17:50:15.830" LastActivityDate="2022-10-14T17:50:15.830" Title="Rest in peace, Robbie Coltrane, you were magical for us!" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13792" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-10-26T08:39:36.140" Score="5" ViewCount="435" Body="&lt;p&gt;This post is for the tenth SFF.SE &lt;strong&gt;topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt; of 2022, in which the site's community is encouraged to take part together in asking and answering questions on a particular topic each month. This topic challenge is going to be slightly different in that it isn't coming from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;topic challenge proposals thread&lt;/a&gt; but rather than for a recently finished TV series:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;House of the Dragon&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/house-of-the-dragon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;house-of-the-dragon&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;house-of-the-dragon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;house-of-the-dragon-container&quot;&gt;house-of-the-dragon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For such a large and popular show it is criminal we only have 3 questions in the tag at the time of writing. As such I am personally going to award several bounties to content posted within the topic challenge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about &lt;em&gt;Fire &amp;amp; Blood&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/em&gt; as it relates to the period in &lt;em&gt;House of the Dragon&lt;/em&gt; are also accepted within this challenge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's a topic challenge and how do I take part?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13211/31394&quot;&gt;Announcing a Topic Challenge program for SFF.SE&lt;/a&gt;, and also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/240634/278659&quot;&gt;this main meta post&lt;/a&gt;. In short, during the challenge we should all try to either watch the series and ask interesting questions about it, or help out by &lt;em&gt;answering&lt;/em&gt; other people's questions about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Participation is not obligatory in any sense, but those who participate will be forever remembered in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13793/58193&quot;&gt;annals of our history&lt;/a&gt;. We'll keep a list of all House of the Dragon questions asked during the challenge in an answer to this meta post. At the end of the challenge, I'll collate some data like highest-scoring question, most-viewed question, highest-scoring answer, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This challenge is going to run through to the end of November.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's next?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Future topic challenges will be chosen by community votes, so come over and propose or vote on suggestions at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;Vote on future topics for SFF topic challenges!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2022-11-21T21:54:34.947" Title="Topic Challenge: House of the Dragon" Tags="|discussion|topic-challenge|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13792" CreationDate="2022-10-26T08:39:36.140" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;List of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Bhouse-of-the-dragon%5D+is%3Aq+created%3A2022-10-26..2022-11-30&quot;&gt;all questions posted&lt;/a&gt; as part of this topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/268906/58193&quot;&gt;What could cause the bond between a dragon and its rider to be broken, other than death?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/7957/galacticninja&quot;&gt;galacticninja&lt;/a&gt;, 26/10/2022.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/269103/58193&quot;&gt;Who was Prince Viserys Targaryen (brother of Daenerys) named after?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/7957/galacticninja&quot;&gt;galacticninja&lt;/a&gt;, 02/11/2022.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;add entries in the form &lt;code&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/&amp;lt;question-ID&amp;gt; by [username](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/&amp;lt;user-ID&amp;gt;), dd/mm/2022.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;highest-voted&lt;/strong&gt; of these is &lt;em&gt;[question URL]&lt;/em&gt;, with a score of &lt;em&gt;TBD&lt;/em&gt; at the end of November.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;most viewed&lt;/strong&gt; is &lt;em&gt;[question URL]&lt;/em&gt;, with approximately &lt;em&gt;TBD&lt;/em&gt; views during November.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="39144" LastEditDate="2022-11-21T21:54:34.947" LastActivityDate="2022-11-21T21:54:34.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13794" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-11-07T15:17:00.083" Score="2" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that almost every single question asked by anyone has fewer votes than its subsequent answers. For example, in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/269220/to-what-extent-do-crewmembers-have-privacy-when-cleaning-themselves-on-federatio?noredirect=1#comment742821_269220&quot;&gt;my recent question&lt;/a&gt;, my question has 6 upvotes and the highest-upvoted answer has 12, exactly twice as many.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the cause of this phenomenon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127968" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2022-11-07T18:35:09.420" LastActivityDate="2022-11-07T18:35:09.420" Title="Why is it that answers almost always get more upvotes than questions?" Tags="|discussion|voting|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13795" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-11-11T20:46:22.480" Score="21" ViewCount="292" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://decider.com/2022/11/11/kevin-conroy-batman-voice-actor-dead-66/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;News article by Decider&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kevin Conroy, who voiced Batman in multiple shows over the years, has died. He was 66.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conroy’s death was announced by Diane Pershing, the voice of the DC character Poison Ivy, and confirmed by publicist Gary Miereanu, who said the actor had died Thursday (Nov. 10) after a “short battle with cancer.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Very sad news: our beloved voice of Batman, Kevin Conroy, died yesterday. He’s been ill for a while but he really put in a lot of time at the cons, to the joy of all of his fans. He will be sorely missed not just by the cast of the series but by his legion of fans all over the world,” Pershing shared on Facebook today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="69621" LastEditDate="2022-11-12T00:59:53.437" LastActivityDate="2022-11-15T17:08:22.993" Title="Kevin Conroy, the voice of the animated Batman, has passed away at 66" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13795" CreationDate="2022-11-14T10:21:34.170" Score="7" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clark Kent: Good to see you Bruce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bruce Wayne: It's been a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clark Kent: You seem to be holding up pretty well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bruce Wayne: I could use some of that Kryptonian DNA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clark Kent: You'll outlive us all, Bruce. You're too stubborn to die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bruce Wayne: [Looks at Terry] What are you smiling at?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Terry McGinnis: Nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Batman Beyond, episode &lt;a href=&quot;https://dcau.fandom.com/wiki/The_Call&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Call, Part I&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jokes aside, I feel like a huge part of my childhood just died. May he rest in peace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="103122" LastActivityDate="2022-11-14T10:21:34.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13795" CreationDate="2022-11-14T19:34:10.560" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found this to be a bittersweet tribute to Conroy's journey to becoming the caped crusader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Finding Batman, by Kevin Conroy:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FpY3u.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FpY3u.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Finding Batman page 1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7hCws.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7hCws.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Finding Batman page 2&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/P7DUl.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/P7DUl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Finding Batman page 3&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tqfUY.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tqfUY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Finding Batman page 4&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5xaCe.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5xaCe.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Finding Batman page 5&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kebSS.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kebSS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Finding Batman page 6&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pFcqF.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pFcqF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Finding Batman page 7&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hb2UW.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hb2UW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Finding Batman page 8&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8Jzi0.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8Jzi0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Finding Batman page 9&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52902" LastActivityDate="2022-11-14T19:34:10.560" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10351" CreationDate="2022-11-14T22:44:44.673" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I vote &amp;quot;any reference at all to TOS includes the movies unless very specifically specified otherwise&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe to reframe it, does &amp;quot;TNG&amp;quot; include &amp;quot;Star Trek: First Contact&amp;quot;? I would have to think most people would say yes. It is The Next Generation cast, crew, ship and setting. TNG does not differentiate series from movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TOS as a term was not meant to restrict it to the actual airing of the series, either. It was meant to separate it from TNG. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is a TOS movie. (Yeah yeah, &amp;quot;the original series movie&amp;quot; makes less sense but again TOS designates the cast, crew, ship and setting, not the format or air date.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to pile on here, there is no acronym of &amp;quot;TOM&amp;quot; for The Original Movies. Or &amp;quot;TOSM&amp;quot;. Nor is there a separate designation for TNGS vs TNGM. It's just TOS and TNG.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TOS means the original cast, crew, ship, and setting. If William Shatner is on the screen starring as Captain Kirk flying the star ship Enterprise with McCoy and Spock then it's TOS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(For specifically the origin of this question, you could even ding the asker for not specifying why he was asking: was he wondering if the original series had blue alcohol as a prop, or was he asking if blue alcohol existed in the era of Kirk according to Star Trek canon. The first can only be answered by checking the series. The second includes the movies, as they are set in the same time period.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35363" LastEditorUserId="35363" LastEditDate="2022-11-14T22:49:59.130" LastActivityDate="2022-11-14T22:49:59.130" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13795" CreationDate="2022-11-15T17:08:22.993" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QKzVg.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;worthwhile homage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nRWud.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nRWud.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Batman loses his voice&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastActivityDate="2022-11-15T17:08:22.993" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13800" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-11-20T13:52:07.667" Score="19" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;The death of Greg Bear on November 19th was announced on his &lt;a href=&quot;https://gregbear.com/news.php#420&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rest In Peace&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;11/20/2022&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Greg passed away peacefully yesterday, surrounded by his loving&#xA;family. He will be greatly missed by those who were fortunate enough&#xA;to know him personally, as well as by countless readers around the&#xA;world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Greg Bear 8/20/1951–11/19/2022&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118276" LastActivityDate="2022-11-29T13:51:01.713" Title="RIP author Greg Bear" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13801" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-11-21T08:07:34.093" Score="12" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;The actor Jason David Frank, who was probably best known for portraying the Green Ranger in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers has passed away at the age of 49.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;R.I.P. Jason :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;Sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11449999/Green-Power-Ranger-dead-49-actor-Jason-David-Frank-played-super-hero-dies-suicide.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Daily Mail Newspaper Article: Green Power Ranger is dead at 49&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/Sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111234" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2022-11-21T17:20:34.857" LastActivityDate="2022-11-21T17:20:34.857" Title="R.I.P. Jason David Frank AKA The Green, later the White Power Ranger" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13800" CreationDate="2022-11-21T12:24:19.223" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bear was author of more than 50 books, including the Forge of God series, The Way series, and the Darwin series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was nominated for multiple awards, including the Arthur C Clarke award for Eon and Darwin's Children, the Hugo for Darwin's Radio and the Forge of God, and the Nebula for the Forge of God.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He won the Nebula for Moving Mars, and both Nebula and Hugo awards for shorter works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition Bear was one of the founders of the San Diego Comic Con.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118276" LastActivityDate="2022-11-21T12:24:19.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13803" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13804" CreationDate="2022-11-22T06:58:05.347" Score="13" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pretty much the title: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/269631/manga-where-the-female-lead-is-reborn-years-later&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; is closed for needing more details, but I am very sure I know the manga/webtoon that is being asked for.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;What do I do now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comment the answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comment that I know the answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit the question with additional information (seems wrong to me)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something else?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90765" LastActivityDate="2022-11-22T18:51:39.077" Title="What to do when you know the answer to a question closed for needing more details" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13803" CreationDate="2022-11-22T08:18:18.270" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've pretty much hit the nail on the head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Commenting that you think you know the answer is fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Commenting &lt;em&gt;with the answer&lt;/em&gt; is even better as you might get a response from OP to confirm it (in which case it's almost certainly going to get reopened and then you can convert your comment into an answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/36415/how-do-you-reopen-a-closed-question#:%7E:text=Voting%20to%20reopen,question%2C%20not%20only%20their%20own.&quot;&gt;Voting to reopen&lt;/a&gt; is a key here (if you've got sufficient rep to earn that privilege) as it will then enter the reopen queue, to be reviewed by other users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Editing &amp;quot;correct&amp;quot; information into the question is a big no-no because you might be thinking of a different, but highly similar property.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could also, as you've done, raise a meta question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2022-11-22T18:51:39.077" LastActivityDate="2022-11-22T18:51:39.077" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13805" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-11-24T09:21:25.960" Score="6" ViewCount="290" Body="&lt;p&gt;This post is for the eleventh SFF.SE &lt;strong&gt;topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt; of 2022, in which the site's community is encouraged to take part together in asking and answering questions on a particular topic each month. According to community votes on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;topic challenge proposals thread&lt;/a&gt;, the December 2022 topic challenge is going to be devoted to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trudi_Canavan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;an Australian fantasy author&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Trudi Canavan&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/trudi-canavan&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;trudi-canavan&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;trudi-canavan&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;trudi-canavan-container&quot;&gt;trudi-canavan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's a topic challenge and how do I take part?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13211/31394&quot;&gt;Announcing a Topic Challenge program for SFF.SE&lt;/a&gt;, and also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/240634/278659&quot;&gt;this main meta post&lt;/a&gt;. In short, during December 2022 we should all try to either read one or more of Trudi's books and ask interesting questions about them, or help out by &lt;em&gt;answering&lt;/em&gt; other people's questions about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Participation is not obligatory in any sense, but those who participate will be forever remembered in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13806/58193&quot;&gt;annals of our history&lt;/a&gt;. We'll keep a list of all Trudi Canavan questions asked during December 2022 in an answer to this meta post. At the end of the month, I'll collate some data like highest-scoring question, most-viewed question, highest-scoring answer, etc. There won't be any real-world rewards like in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1138/31394&quot;&gt;the old days&lt;/a&gt; when Stack Exchange was smaller and more generous, but I'll be awarding at least one bounty after the end of the month (assuming there's at least one good answer posted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's next?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Future topic challenges will be chosen by community votes, so come over and propose or vote on suggestions at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;Vote on future topics for SFF topic challenges!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The Trudi Canavan answer will be deleted from that thread at the start of December, since already chosen topics shouldn't stick at the top of the thread and distract people from those still to be voted on.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2023-01-08T13:39:08.290" Title="December 2022 Topic Challenge: Trudi Canavan" Tags="|discussion|topic-challenge|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13805" CreationDate="2022-11-24T09:21:25.960" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;List of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=%5Btrudi-canavan%5D+is%3Aq+created%3A2022-12-01..2022-12-30&quot;&gt;all questions posted&lt;/a&gt; as part of this topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/270181/how-old-long-is-the-age-of-five&quot;&gt;How old (long) is the Age of Five&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/40437/jontia&quot;&gt;Jontia&lt;/a&gt;, 12/12/2022.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/270551/31394&quot;&gt;Creation of Siyee and Elai&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/40437/jontia&quot;&gt;Jontia&lt;/a&gt;, 24/12/2022.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/270568/31394&quot;&gt;Any real-world inspiration for the countries in the Black Magician series?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31394&quot;&gt;Rand al'Thor&lt;/a&gt;, 25/12/2022.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;highest-voted&lt;/strong&gt; of these is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/270181/how-old-long-is-the-age-of-five&quot;&gt;How old (long) is the Age of Five&lt;/a&gt;, with a score of &lt;strong&gt;5&lt;/strong&gt; at the end of December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;most viewed&lt;/strong&gt; is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/270568/31394&quot;&gt;Any real-world inspiration for the countries in the Black Magician series?&lt;/a&gt;, with approximately &lt;strong&gt;85&lt;/strong&gt; views during December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2023-01-08T13:39:08.290" LastActivityDate="2023-01-08T13:39:08.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13800" CreationDate="2022-11-29T13:51:01.713" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also fondly remember his two novel fantasy series, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Infinity_Concerto&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Infinity Concerto&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpent_Mage_(Greg_Bear)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Serpent Mage&lt;/a&gt;. They were centered on the coming of age of a young man into the leading mage of modern-day Earth. They come from early in Greg Bear's career but already show his promise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you enjoy modern takes on fantasy, they are quite readable if a bit slow at the start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user90961" LastActivityDate="2022-11-29T13:51:01.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13808" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13850" CreationDate="2022-12-05T15:51:51.433" Score="19" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;ISFDB, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the Internet Speculative Fiction Database&lt;/a&gt;, is used in a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of answers on this stack. It was notorious for not facilitating https. That has now been fixed, if I interpret &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/ISFDB:FAQ#What_do_I_do_if_I_have_problems_logging_in.3F&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this related FAQ&lt;/a&gt; correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, we would now like all links to the ISFDB to use https instead of http as well. But there are a lot of links. &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/1683416/number-of-posts-with-links-to-isfdb&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A lot of links&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Could this be handled by updating the db directly, as has been done in the past for similar situations?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="144325" LastEditDate="2023-01-30T14:25:45.787" LastActivityDate="2023-01-30T14:25:45.787" Title="Now that ISFDB has (finally) turned on https, can we edit all relevant links in one fell swoop?" Tags="|feature-request|status-completed|hyperlinks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13809" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-12-06T10:41:47.410" Score="14" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kirstie Alley, known for many roles including Saavik in &lt;em&gt;Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan&lt;/em&gt;, has passed away from cancer. She was 71.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alley's children, True and Lillie Parker, announced the actress had died from cancer. In a statement to PEOPLE, True and Lillie confirmed that Alley died on Monday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We are sad to inform you that our incredible, fierce and loving mother has passed away after a battle with cancer, only recently discovered,&amp;quot; they said in a statement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://people.com/tv/kirstie-alley-dead/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Kirstie Alley Dead: Star of 'Cheers' Dies at 71 After Short Battle with Cancer&amp;quot; — &lt;em&gt;People&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73478" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2022-12-06T11:11:17.253" LastActivityDate="2022-12-06T11:11:17.253" Title="RIP actress Kirstie Alley" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13811" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13812" CreationDate="2022-12-12T04:47:15.120" Score="9" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my recent question about Stephen King's recent book, &lt;em&gt;Fairy Tale&lt;/em&gt;, it seems that I can't create the necessary tag to represent the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KkOF8.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KkOF8.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fairy-tale&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fairy-tale&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fairy-tale&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;fairy-tale-container&quot;&gt;fairy-tale&lt;/a&gt; is very similar to the existing tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fairy-tales&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fairy-tales&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fairy-tales&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;fairy-tales-container&quot;&gt;fairy-tales&lt;/a&gt; but is distinct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The error message told me to discuss this on Meta. I am here on Meta now to discuss it. How do I go about creating the new tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="70477" LastEditDate="2022-12-17T21:02:42.770" LastActivityDate="2022-12-17T21:02:42.770" Title="New tag 'fairy-tale' is too similar to existing tag 'fairy-tales' but is distinct, can we create it please?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13811" CreationDate="2022-12-12T07:45:10.693" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should be named &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fairy-tale-2022&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fairy-tale-2022&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fairy-tale-2022&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;fairy-tale-2022-container&quot;&gt;fairy-tale-2022&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2022-12-12T07:45:10.693" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13813" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-12-12T15:31:55.077" Score="2" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/191879/why-do-readers-of-starship-troopers-think-juan-johnny-is-filipino&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; unambiguously refers to the novel that a movie is based on. Should the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/novel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;novel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;novel-container&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; tag be added to underscore this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, if the novel is based on a short story, should a tag be added to specify which one of the three is being discussed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63330" LastActivityDate="2022-12-12T15:31:55.077" Title="Should the novel tag be used in a non-story ID question?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13814" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13816" CreationDate="2022-12-15T18:03:14.670" Score="8" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;A friend of mine wants to get the “You Got Splunk!” hat from Winter Bash 2022 on Sci Fi &amp;amp; Fantasy SE.  This requires that they ask or answer a question with “data” in the name of a tag.  What on topic works should they read or watch in the three weeks to make this possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastActivityDate="2022-12-15T20:10:44.473" Title="What on-topic works have “data” in their title?" Tags="|discussion|tags|winterbash|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13814" CreationDate="2022-12-15T18:03:14.670" Score="6" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Android at Arms&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (1971), book by Andre Norton&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cold Hearted: A Tale of the Wicked Stepmother&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (2021), book by Serena Valentino based on Disney's &lt;em&gt;Cinderella&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek: the New Generation&lt;/em&gt; TV series, or the movies in that sub-franchise, because the character &lt;strong&gt;Data&lt;/strong&gt; has his own tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/star-trek-data&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-data&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-data&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;star-trek-data-container&quot;&gt;star-trek-data&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternately, if your friend is technical-minded, they may post on the site Meta about &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/data-explorer&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;data-explorer&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;data-explorer&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;data-explorer-container&quot;&gt;data-explorer&lt;/a&gt; or the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/data-dumps&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;data-dumps&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;data-dumps&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;data-dumps-container&quot;&gt;data-dumps&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="4918" LastEditDate="2022-12-15T18:19:06.600" LastActivityDate="2022-12-15T18:19:06.600" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13814" CreationDate="2022-12-15T20:10:44.473" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/adv_search_results.cgi?USE_1=title_title&amp;amp;O_1=contains&amp;amp;TERM_1=data&amp;amp;C=AND&amp;amp;USE_2=title_language_free&amp;amp;O_2=exact&amp;amp;TERM_2=english&amp;amp;USE_3=title_ttype&amp;amp;O_3=exact&amp;amp;TERM_3=NOVEL&amp;amp;ORDERBY=title_copyright&amp;amp;ACTION=query&amp;amp;START=0&amp;amp;TYPE=Title&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This query&lt;/a&gt; finds 6 novels with &amp;quot;data&amp;quot; in the title, including &lt;em&gt;The Terra Data&lt;/em&gt; by Tubb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Publication Date&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Title&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Author&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1908-00-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;em&gt;Geyserland: Empricisms in Social Reform. Being Data and Observations recorded by the late Mark Stubble, M.D., Ph.D.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Richard Hatfield&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1967-00-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Golden Boats of Taradata Affair&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;E. C. Eliott&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1971-08-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;em&gt;Data for Death&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Johannes Allen&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1980-04-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Terra Data&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;E. C. Tubb&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2006-10-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Fistful of Data&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Stephen Dedman&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2020-10-21&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Data Riot&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;D. L. Young&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/adv_search_results.cgi?USE_1=title_title&amp;amp;O_1=contains&amp;amp;TERM_1=data&amp;amp;C=AND&amp;amp;USE_2=title_language_free&amp;amp;O_2=exact&amp;amp;TERM_2=english&amp;amp;USE_3=title_ttype&amp;amp;O_3=exact&amp;amp;TERM_3=SHORTFICTION&amp;amp;ORDERBY=title_copyright&amp;amp;ACTION=query&amp;amp;START=0&amp;amp;TYPE=Title&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The second query&lt;/a&gt; finds dozens of shorter works including &amp;quot;Preliminary Data&amp;quot; by Moorcock and &amp;quot;Datableed&amp;quot; by Cadigan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Publication Date&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Title&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Author&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1824-00-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Maredata&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;N. G.&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1952-03-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Incomplete Data&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;H. B. Fyfe&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1952-09-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Zero Data&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Charles Saphro&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1953-09-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;The Available Data on the Worp Reaction&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Lion Miller&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1959-09-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;On Handling the Data&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;M. I. Mayfield&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1965-07-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;In the Light of Further Data&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Christopher Anvil&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1965-08-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Preliminary Data&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Michael Moorcock&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1971-00-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Second Run at the Data&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Douglas R. Mason&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1972-00-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Maredata and Giulio, or The Ocean Spirit&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Anonymous&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1981-00-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Dialect of the Data Disk&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Celeste Newbrough&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1984-11-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;According to Scientific Data&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Vladen Bakhnov&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1989-04-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Mission Report: 'Datalore'&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Robert Greenberger&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1989-04-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Mission Report: 'Elementary, Dear Data'&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Patrick Daniel O'Neill&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1990-10-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Data-Link&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Kay Fortunato&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1991-06-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Mission Report: 'Data's Day'&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Patrick Daniel O'Neill&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1992-04-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Preliminary Data&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;F. Alexander Brejcha&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1993-08-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Mission Report: 'A Fistful of Datas'&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;John Sayers&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1994-02-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;The Data Class&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Ben Jeapes&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1998-00-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;A Clockwork Data: Not by Anthony Burgess    Steven R. Boyett&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1998-00-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Less Than Data: Not by Bret Easton Ellis&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Steven R. Boyett&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1998-03-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Datableed&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Pat Cadigan&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;1998-07-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;What Went Through Data's Mind 0.68 Seconds Before the Satellite Hit&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Dylan Otto Krider&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2000-00-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Kamikaze Motives of the Immaculate Deconstruction in the Data-Sucking Rust-Age of Insectile Hackers&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Lance Olsen&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2001-04-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Kandata in Hell's Eye&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Daniel E. Blackston&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2002-05-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Starfleet Technical Database: Intrepid Class Design Lineage&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Rick Sternbach&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2002-11-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Starfleet Technical Database: Klingon Personal Weapons&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Rick Sternbach&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2003-00-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Biographical Data (The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric &amp;amp; Discredited Diseases)&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;uncredited&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2003-01-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Starfleet Technical Database: U.S.S. Stargazer&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Rick Sternbach&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2003-02-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Starfleet Technical Database: Romulan Propulsion&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Rick Sternbach&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2003-04-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Starfleet Technical Database: Aeroshuttle Technology&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Rick Sternbach&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2003-06-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Protecting Data's Friends&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Scott William Carter&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2005-11-14&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Through the Data Storm&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;David Lawrence&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2006-04-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Datacide&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Steve Bein&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2010-04-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Data Crabs&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Deborah Walker&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2012-06-12&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;The Art of Data Tri-So&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Vincent Morgan&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2012-08-05&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Datafall&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Rich Larson&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2012-08-14&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Top Secret - Swipe data recovered - Group A - Subject: Teresa&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;James Dashner&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2013-01-24&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Corrupted Data Found on a Fire Damaged Hard Drive&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Anonymous&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2013-07-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;The Data Runners Above Our Heads: A Documentary&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Stephen Gaskell&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2013-10-11&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Data Dogs&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Eric V. Hardenbrook&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2013-12-08&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Data Suck&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Benjamin Kane Ethridge&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2014-04-07&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Data Dump&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Trisha L. Senbastian&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2014-07-22&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;A Perfectly Stable Dataglobule&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;K. J. Russell&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2014-08-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Undermarket Data&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;An Owomoyela&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2014-09-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Patterns of a Murmuration, in Billions of Data Points&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;JY Yang&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2014-09-10&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Data Feed&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Natsuya Uesugi&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2014-11-17&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Targeted Strike 2: Judgement Database&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Adam Rothstein&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2015-06-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Her Data Like Fingerprints&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Ashley M. 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Charles Ramirez&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2022-06-07&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Uncovered Data&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;David Drake&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2022-07-00&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Sorceress Datale's Apprentice&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;B. T. Petro&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastActivityDate="2022-12-15T20:10:44.473" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13817" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-12-17T21:12:36.193" Score="22" ViewCount="306" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you may be aware, the artificial intelligence chatbot &lt;a href=&quot;https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ChatGPT&lt;/a&gt; has been getting some negative attention on Stack Exchange as of late, its usage notably &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/421831&quot;&gt;being completely banned on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other sites are now discussing whether to either ban ChatGPT-generated answers or allow them on the condition that they meet quality standards. Two big concerns that have been raised is the issue of plagiarism and citation with respect to chatbot-generated content as well as the potential for a chatbot-generated answer to sound reasonable but contain factual inaccuracies that most honest, knowledgeable human posters would not make. For example, I posed the following question to ChatGPT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the original, prime timeline of Star Trek, how does Captain Kirk die?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many of us know the answer to this question. He dies in the film Star Trek: Generations (1994) while disabling a weapon of mass destruction on the planet Veridian III in the (in-universe) year 2371. Jean-Luc Picard buries him in a makeshift, shallow grave marked with his Starfleet uniform insignia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ChatGPT's answer was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the Star Trek universe, Captain James T. Kirk, played by William Shatner, does not die in the prime timeline. He is a central character in the original Star Trek television series and appears in several Star Trek films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the Star Trek films, Kirk is shown to be an aging captain who eventually retires from Starfleet. In the film &amp;quot;Star Trek Generations,&amp;quot; which takes place in the prime timeline, Kirk is shown to have died at some point before the events of the film. However, the circumstances of his death are not depicted in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is worth noting that there are several alternate timelines and continuities in the Star Trek franchise, and in some of these, Kirk's fate may be different. However, in the prime timeline of the original Star Trek series and films, Kirk does not die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first this looks like a half-decent middle school essay, but at second glance (more than given to many answers), it is a self-contradictory, factually incorrect piece of garbage. It first claims that Kirk does not die in the prime timeline (factually incorrect). It then mentions the prime timeline film in which the character does, in fact, die, and claims that he died &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the film! It claims that the circumstances of Kirk's death &amp;quot;are not depicted in the film&amp;quot;, while in fact the film's depiction of Kirk's death is arguably its climax. For its last paragraph, it doubles back and re-establishes its original claim that Kirk does not die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70477" LastEditorUserId="70477" LastEditDate="2022-12-17T21:30:18.183" LastActivityDate="2022-12-20T15:36:52.157" Title="Should AI-generated posts be allowed?" Tags="|discussion|answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13817" CreationDate="2022-12-17T21:28:01.410" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;I propose that we follow other network sites in &lt;strong&gt;banning AI-generated copy-pasted content&lt;/strong&gt;. This stuff is (to use a technical term) dangerous &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;bullshit&lt;/a&gt;. As you've noted, it looks plausible and well-written, but to an expert eye (sometimes even a non-expert but humanly intelligent eye) it's clearly nonsense. It's one of the facts of SE that people sometimes upvote incorrect answers that look plausible - not every voter has the expertise necessary to judge whether an answer is true or false. So if we allowed this stuff, we'd run the risk of getting upvoted answers that are not only incorrect but &lt;em&gt;were never even written by anyone thinking they were correct&lt;/em&gt; - the computer-generated equivalent of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shitposting&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;shitposting&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I already &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/58631?m=62508922#62508922&quot;&gt;posted about this in chat&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see something that &lt;strong&gt;looks at first glance like an answer but to a knowledgeable eye is clearly nonsense&lt;/strong&gt;, feel free to mod-flag it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, sadly, AI-generated answers &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/270024/31394&quot;&gt;have already been spotted recently on SFF&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, let's have none of this nonsense, and please be proactive in flagging apparently AI-generated posts. (I have very little experience with AI-generated text or how to tell if a post is AI-generated or not, but there are mod-only spaces where I can get advice from people smarter than me at this kind of thing. Let's &lt;strong&gt;not discuss publicly how to detect these posts&lt;/strong&gt;, beyond the very simple criterion mentioned above, otherwise the people posting them might make them less easily detectable.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using AI as a tool to &lt;em&gt;assist&lt;/em&gt; generating good quality content &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be reasonable, in some cases. I'm not proposing (yet) an outright ban on any answers where any kind of help from AI was used. But using AI, or other tools, to generate a large quantity of answers, without regard to whether those answers are correct and actually answer the question on which they are posted, is not acceptable. Content copy-pasted directly from ChatGPT output must be attributed to its source, or risk falling afoul of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/referencing&quot;&gt;existing rules against plagiarism&lt;/a&gt; as well as new policies against ChatGPT specifically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2022-12-17T21:28:01.410" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13819" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13820" CreationDate="2022-12-19T17:31:00.787" Score="2" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question was closed as a duplicate by &amp;quot;community bot&amp;quot; without concurrence by the author that it actually is a duplicate. At least, there is no evidence of concurrence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a reason why? And how does &amp;quot;Community Bot&amp;quot; get to do this against site policy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/270378/28516&quot;&gt;Book where a boy finds out he&amp;#39;s the new king of an icy kingdom and can turn into a dragon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28516" LastActivityDate="2022-12-19T18:23:14.093" Title="Why was this story id question closed as a duplicate? No evidence of concurrence from the author is present" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13819" CreationDate="2022-12-19T18:23:14.093" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Being closed by the Community bot is, itself, concurrence from the author.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way that the Community bot can close a question as a duplicate is if the author themselves agrees that it is a duplicate. When any question is flagged as a duplicate, there's a special banner, only visible to the OP, which gives them the option to either agree that it's a duplicate (which automatically closes the question) or not. This has been a feature since 2015: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/250981/278659&quot;&gt;New UI encourages askers to confirm or dispute duplicate votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2022-12-19T18:23:14.093" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13817" CreationDate="2022-12-20T15:36:52.157" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I decided to get some input from the offending party itself, so I've created an account on OpenAI and asked ChatGPT the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should AI-generated posts be allowed on the Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To which it answered:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is ultimately up to the moderators and community of the Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange to decide whether AI-generated posts should be allowed on the platform. However, it is important to consider the potential impacts of allowing AI-generated content on the quality and integrity of the discussions on the platform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some potential considerations might include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The quality and accuracy of the content: AI-generated content may not always be of high quality or accurate. It is important to ensure that any content that is allowed on the platform meets the standards of the community and contributes to meaningful and useful discussions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The transparency of the source: It may be important for users to know the source of the content they are interacting with, particularly if it is an AI. This can help users to better understand the context and limitations of the content and make informed decisions about how to engage with it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The potential for misuse or abuse: Allowing AI-generated content on the platform could also present potential risks for misuse or abuse, such as spamming or impersonation. It may be necessary to put safeguards in place to mitigate these risks.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, the decision about whether to allow AI-generated content on the Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange should be based on a careful consideration of these and other relevant factors, and should be guided by the goals and values of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make of that what you will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2022-12-20T15:36:52.157" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13822" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-12-21T01:07:07.983" Score="2" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you have people whose skin is indestructible, or who can poke holes in walls with just their fingers, or who can run up walls and seemingly float or fly, would that be considered SciFi/Fantasy? (and, thus, appropriate for the SciFi/Fantasy forum?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was trying to connect and old-school Hong Kong movie to Kill Bill, over in the movie forum, but they seem to consider it a simple movie identification question and shot it down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/119202/kill-bill-reference-question-what-movie-is-the-basis-of-the-chopstick-wall-att&quot;&gt;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/119202/kill-bill-reference-question-what-movie-is-the-basis-of-the-chopstick-wall-att&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I asked on Scfi/Fantasy, and was told that this is probably the better location&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/270432/are-old-school-martial-arts-films-considered-scifi-fantasy&quot;&gt;Are old school Martial arts films considered SciFi/Fantasy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I am asking here . . .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="160031" LastActivityDate="2022-12-21T01:21:53.110" Title="Are old school Martial arts films considered SciFi/Fantasy?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2022-12-21T05:27:20.350" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13824" CreationDate="2022-12-21T01:21:53.110" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;My own opinion, yes. Magical martial art moves, impossible in real world, are fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kill Bill, specifically, has some SF elements, including a martial arts master who is several hundred years old.  I think that is just about enough to make it valid for discussion on this SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130462" LastActivityDate="2022-12-21T01:21:53.110" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13824" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-12-21T00:20:08.497" Score="10" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you have people whose skin is indestructible, or who can poke holes in walls with just their fingers, or who can run up walls and seemingly float or fly, would that be considered SciFi/Fantasy?  (and, thus, appropriate for this forum?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was trying to connect and old-school Hong Kong movie to Kill Bill, over in the movie forum, but they seem to consider it a simple movie identification question and shot it down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/119202/kill-bill-reference-question-what-movie-is-the-basis-of-the-chopstick-wall-att&quot;&gt;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/119202/kill-bill-reference-question-what-movie-is-the-basis-of-the-chopstick-wall-att&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I am asking ahead of time, this time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="160031" OwnerDisplayName="Charles Bertrand" LastActivityDate="2022-12-21T05:02:51.807" Title="Are old school Martial arts films considered SciFi/Fantasy?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13824" CreationDate="2022-12-21T04:57:05.013" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The answer is a qualified yes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, there are martial arts that are completely mundane, such as those that are actually practiced in the real world. Some films make use of these, and they are not fantasy. For instance, &lt;em&gt;The Karate Kid&lt;/em&gt; is just a sports movie in the style of &lt;em&gt;Rocky&lt;/em&gt;, and nothing occurs that is flatly impossible in the real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the type of cases that you mention, there are elements that are completely fantastical: super strength, super speed, flight, immortality and so forth. Since our site criteria are primarily based on plot elements, not on the vocabulary used to describe them, these certainly qualify, and they tend to be pervasive enough that the work is not just &amp;quot;realistic fiction where someone sees a ghost at the end.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, these elements are likely intended as fantastical in most of these films, too: most real life martial artists do not claim that martial arts will grant the power of flight or immortality. So the writers' intention is usually to tell a cool story more than one that they think is actually a realistic portrayal of martial arts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, in some cases, the dividing line is less clear. Some cases are more a &lt;em&gt;mistaken understanding of human capabilities&lt;/em&gt; in what is intended to be a realistic story than someone actually trying to write a fantastic story. For instance, a martial artist might effortlessly fight off twelve trained soldiers at once, be able to break people's necks with their bare hands, and knock projectiles out of the air with their sword in pitched combat, all talents which would require essentially superhuman abilities in real life, but such a movie may not count because these are just common misunderstandings of what humans are capable of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="51379" LastEditDate="2022-12-21T05:02:51.807" LastActivityDate="2022-12-21T05:02:51.807" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13826" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-12-25T07:19:51.010" Score="4" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;This post is for the first SFF.SE &lt;strong&gt;topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt; of 2023, in which the site's community is encouraged to take part together in asking and answering questions on a particular topic each month. According to community votes on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;topic challenge proposals thread&lt;/a&gt;, the January 2023 topic challenge is going to be devoted to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janni_Lee_Simner&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;US fantasy author&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Janni Lee Simner&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/janni-lee-simner&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;janni-lee-simner&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;janni-lee-simner&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;janni-lee-simner-container&quot;&gt;janni-lee-simner&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's a topic challenge and how do I take part?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13211/31394&quot;&gt;Announcing a Topic Challenge program for SFF.SE&lt;/a&gt;, and also &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/240634/278659&quot;&gt;this main meta post&lt;/a&gt;. In short, during January 2023 we should all try to either read some Simner stories and ask interesting questions about them, or help out by &lt;em&gt;answering&lt;/em&gt; other people's questions about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Participation is not obligatory in any sense, but those who participate will be forever remembered in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13827/31394&quot;&gt;annals of our history&lt;/a&gt;. We'll keep a list of all Simner questions asked during January 2023 in an answer to this meta post. At the end of the month, I'll collate some data like highest-scoring question, most-viewed question, highest-scoring answer, etc. There won't be any real-world rewards like in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1138/31394&quot;&gt;the old days&lt;/a&gt; when Stack Exchange was smaller and more generous, but I'll be awarding at least one bounty after the end of the month (assuming there's at least one good answer posted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that Simner has published a lot of short stories as well as novels, some of which are &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.freesfonline.net/authors/Janni%20Lee_Simner.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;freely available online&lt;/a&gt;, which makes this a relatively approachable topic challenge - you don't need to invest money in buying books or time in reading long ones; it's possible to dip in and read a few short stories before deciding if she's an author you like or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's next?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Future topic challenges will be chosen by community votes, so come over and propose or vote on suggestions at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13240/31394&quot;&gt;Vote on future topics for SFF topic challenges!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The Simner answer will be deleted from that thread at the start of January, since already chosen topics shouldn't stick at the top of the thread and distract people from those still to be voted on.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="125981" LastEditDate="2023-01-02T20:03:15.760" LastActivityDate="2023-01-31T21:08:04.523" Title="January 2023 topic challenge: Janni Lee Simner" Tags="|discussion|topic-challenge|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13826" CreationDate="2022-12-25T07:21:29.153" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;List of all questions posted as part of this topic challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/271750/59154&quot;&gt;In &amp;quot;Faerie After&amp;quot;, why was Karin (before her mother's death) less able to function than Toby&lt;/a&gt;, by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/59154/basya&quot;&gt;Basya&lt;/a&gt;, 1/31/2023&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/271749/59154&quot;&gt;In &amp;quot;Faerie After&amp;quot;, why did Karin make the final decision she did?&lt;/a&gt;, by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/59154/basya&quot;&gt;Basya&lt;/a&gt;, 1/31/2023&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/271096/59154&quot;&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Bones of Faerie&lt;/em&gt;, what happened with Rebecca's shadow and her mother, Tara?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/59154/basya&quot;&gt;Basya&lt;/a&gt;, 1/11/2023&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/270790/in-invasive-species-why-are-the-trees-angry&quot;&gt;In &amp;quot;Invasive Species&amp;quot;, why are the trees angry?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/59154/basya&quot;&gt;Basya&lt;/a&gt;, 01/01/2023&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;add entries in the form &lt;code&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/&amp;lt;question-ID&amp;gt; by [username](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/&amp;lt;user-ID&amp;gt;), dd/01/2023.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;highest-voted&lt;/strong&gt; of these is &lt;em&gt;[question URL]&lt;/em&gt;, with a score of &lt;em&gt;TBD&lt;/em&gt; at the end of January.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;most viewed&lt;/strong&gt; is &lt;em&gt;[question URL]&lt;/em&gt;, with approximately &lt;em&gt;TBD&lt;/em&gt; views during January.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="59154" LastEditDate="2023-01-31T21:08:04.523" LastActivityDate="2023-01-31T21:08:04.523" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2022-12-25T07:21:29.153" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13828" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2022-12-29T01:27:17.697" Score="12" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tineye.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tineye&lt;/a&gt; reveals that this image is from before 2009 and a reddit thread somewhere said it looked like from a manga drawing book, like &amp;quot;Super Manga Matrix&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Maestesized.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Cute Monster Girl&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would asking where this girl came from, be on-topic? Or no, because it's not a story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42059" LastActivityDate="2022-12-29T13:25:27.230" Title="Would asking to identify a Manga Drawing Guide, be off-topic?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13828" CreationDate="2022-12-29T09:09:40.523" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Asking us to identify the origin of a picture of a clearly non-human girl (one with dragon wings, blue skin, red eyes, horns and a tail) would be entirely on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's pretty clear that she's intended to be a 'fantasy' character of some sort, and hence well within our scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2022-12-29T13:25:27.230" LastActivityDate="2022-12-29T13:25:27.230" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13830" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13832" CreationDate="2023-01-02T15:04:21.943" Score="20" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/270809/revisions&quot;&gt;My recent answer&lt;/a&gt; included a photo for illustration.  I had done like I always (try do) do and added a citation under the photo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, an edit was made that moved the citation into the photo's alt-text. This made the citation invisible to a casual viewer, although if you were scraping the page it would be in the output.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the preferred way to cite the source of a photo?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63330" LastActivityDate="2023-01-03T12:34:08.697" Title="What's the best way to cite the source of a photo?" Tags="|discussion|citations|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13830" CreationDate="2023-01-02T16:04:57.517" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;The alt text, or formally &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_attribute&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;Wikipedia: alt attribute&quot;&gt;alt attribute&lt;/a&gt;, is meant for a short description of the image, to be used when the image cannot be displayed, typically used by screen readers for visually impaired users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A source citation is not an adequate description of the image and as such should not be put in the alt text, but rather as a separate line underneath the image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2023-01-03T12:34:08.697" LastActivityDate="2023-01-03T12:34:08.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13833" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13835" CreationDate="2023-01-03T15:55:39.483" Score="19" ViewCount="246" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a way to celebrate the New Year and lasting contributions to the site by new users I am continuing this honorary post based on a simple premise...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user with the highest rank in the yearly reputation league that was not previously ranked. For the Year 2022 league the winner is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/149495/andrew&quot;&gt;Andrew&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/B8Rdj.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/B8Rdj.png&quot; alt=&quot;Andrew leaderboard ranking&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finishing in #6 with 20,553 reputation is certainly impressive (fifth all time for new users). Please join me in congratulating this exceptional new user!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Previous years winners based on the criteria are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;year&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;user&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;year rank&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;reputation&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13594/and-the-best-new-user-of-2021-is&quot;&gt;2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/145218/silly-but-true&quot;&gt;Silly But True&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;11&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;8,981&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13237/and-the-best-new-user-of-2020-is&quot;&gt;2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/125981/clara-diaz-sanchez&quot;&gt;Clara Diaz Sanchez&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;12&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;9,252&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12896/and-the-best-new-user-of-2019-is&quot;&gt;2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/115696/&quot;&gt;Invisible Trihedron&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;19&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;8,239&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12261/and-the-best-new-user-of-2018-is&quot;&gt;2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/98028/&quot;&gt;Jenayah&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;9&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;14,253&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11636/and-the-best-new-user-of-2017-is&quot;&gt;2017&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/80602/&quot;&gt;Bellatrix&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;26,201&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2016&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/57310/&quot;&gt;Skooba&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;18&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;15,596&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2015&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/40294/&quot;&gt;Praxis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;35,709&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2014&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/21600/&quot;&gt;Royal Canadian Bandit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;7&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;14,897&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2013&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/14111/&quot;&gt;user14111&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;10&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;6,998&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2012&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4056/&quot;&gt;dlanod&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;26,834&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2011&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/656/&quot;&gt;Jeff&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;21,720&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2023-01-06T20:36:26.130" Title="And the Best New User of 2022 is" Tags="|discussion|new-users|users|contest|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13833" CreationDate="2023-01-03T17:12:08.133" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very well done. A worthy contribution!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oeu8W.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oeu8W.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2023-01-03T17:12:08.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13833" CreationDate="2023-01-06T20:36:26.130" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you all! I hope to keep up the good work!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149495" LastActivityDate="2023-01-06T20:36:26.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13836" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13837" CreationDate="2023-01-09T16:25:31.610" Score="1" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/270540/why-do-they-swap-hats-in-andor&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;, and it was received negatively, but there is as a 500 bounty on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So will I despite the negative 4 downvotes receive the bounty at the end of the grace period??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149431" LastActivityDate="2023-01-09T16:30:44.140" Title="Will I get the bounty?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13836" CreationDate="2023-01-09T16:30:44.140" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, your answer must be the highest scoring since the bounty was posted with at least a score of 2, from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/bounty&quot;&gt;the help centre&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do not award your bounty within 7 days (plus the grace period), &lt;strong&gt;the highest voted answer created after the bounty started with a minimum score of 2 will be awarded half the bounty amount&lt;/strong&gt; (or the full amount, if the answer is also accepted). If two or more eligible answers have the same score (their scores are tied), the oldest answer is chosen. If there's no answer meeting those criteria, no bounty is awarded to anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless of course the user who set the bounty decides to manually award it to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2023-01-09T16:30:44.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2474" CreationDate="2023-01-12T10:23:42.713" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Science fiction writer Greg Egan &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/134804/4918&quot;&gt;answered two questions about their own books here&lt;/a&gt;.  At least we believe it's Greg Egan because of the username, I don't know if we have it confirmed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastActivityDate="2023-01-12T10:23:42.713" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13839" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13840" CreationDate="2023-01-17T23:07:28.360" Score="0" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently bountied a question of mine and got the answer to the question, so I answered my own question. Basically, I asked the question on two sites and bountied both of them. One person on another site answered my question, so I gave them the bounty. I then answered the question on the other site to tell the users I knew the answer and whatnot. I never go the bounty back (even though I never expected to).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the reasons behind this? I can't find anything in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/bounty&quot;&gt;bounty&lt;/a&gt; info page that SE has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="159501" LastActivityDate="2023-01-18T08:46:43.660" Title="If I bountied a question and then answered it myself, why does my account not get the bounty back?" Tags="|discussion|bounty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13839" CreationDate="2023-01-18T01:40:54.777" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of what you're &amp;quot;paying for&amp;quot; with a bounty is for higher question&#xA;visibility and increased answerer motivation. A bounty does &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;guarantee a response and is &lt;strong&gt;not refunded&lt;/strong&gt; if none are received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Can I award a bounty to my own answer?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. This used to be possible, &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/97802/162827&quot;&gt;but it has been&#xA;disabled&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;- Meta SE FAQ post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/16067/162827&quot;&gt;How does the bounty system work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7957" LastEditorUserId="7957" LastEditDate="2023-01-18T08:46:43.660" LastActivityDate="2023-01-18T08:46:43.660" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13841" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13842" CreationDate="2023-01-24T02:22:57.683" Score="15" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sure there's a Data Explorer query for this, but it's been many years so I'm hoping someone more proficient has one handy. I'm looking for two stats:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Total SFF.SE users&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Total SFF.SE users who ever cast at least one vote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="976" LastActivityDate="2023-02-06T21:42:37.587" Title="How many total users and total &quot;voting&quot; users does SFF have?" Tags="|discussion|users|site-statistics|data-explorer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13841" CreationDate="2023-01-24T09:36:59.860" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe SEDE exposes who has or hasn't voted as votes themselves are hidden within it. However, we can check if a user has the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/6/supporter&quot;&gt;Supporter&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/7/critic&quot;&gt;Critic&lt;/a&gt; badges for first up and down vote respectively. Using &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/1700257/percentage-of-users-who-have-voted?minRepuation=0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this query&lt;/a&gt; we see that we get the following values:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;TotalUsers&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Users Who Have Voted&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;% Of Users Who Have Voted&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Users Who Have Upvoted&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;% Of Users Who Have Upvoted&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Users Who Have Downvoted&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;% Of Users Who Have Downvoted&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;125490&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;27935&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;22.26&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;27887&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;22.22&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;4008&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;3.19&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously these results come with the usual constraints where unregistered users don't show up (I believe), deleted users won't show up etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to tweak the results based on reputation just alter &lt;code&gt;minReputation&lt;/code&gt; to whatever you need it to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastEditorUserId="23886" LastEditDate="2023-02-06T21:42:37.587" LastActivityDate="2023-02-06T21:42:37.587" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13843" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-01-24T10:01:51.900" Score="2" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been wondering for a long time what the picture on the top right corner of Sci-Fi SE site is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jBqd9.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jBqd9.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is this taken from a famous movie, book or is it something original made for the site itself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149431" OwnerDisplayName="shanu" LastActivityDate="2023-01-24T10:04:46.337" Title="Where is this taken from?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2023-01-24T10:05:10.987" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11051" CreationDate="2023-01-24T19:23:45.757" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;2023&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;September&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2023/09/salt-lake-fanx-comic-convention-fall-2023/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Salt Lake FanX Comic Convention Fall 2023&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;July&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2023/07/jacks-bad-movies-snake-2018/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies: Snake (2018)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2023/07/favorite-question-and-answers-from-second-quarter-2023/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Favorite Question and Answers from Second Quarter 2023&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;June&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2023/06/this-first-officer-the-alpha-protocol-book-2/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The First Officer Alpha Protocol Book 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;April&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2023/04/favorite-question-and-answers-from-first-quarter-2023/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Favorite Question and Answers from First Quarter 2023&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2023/04/jacks-bad-movies-indiana-jones-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-1981/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies: Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;March&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2023/03/jacks-bad-movies-black-adam-2022/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies: Black Adam (2022)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;February&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2023/02/the-angry-birds/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Angry Birds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;January&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2023/01/jacks-bad-movies-morbius-2022/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack’s Bad Movies – Morbius (2022)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2023/01/favorite-questions-and-answers-from-fourth-quarter-2022/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Favorite Questions and Answers from Fourth Quarter 2022&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="1148" LastEditDate="2023-09-25T16:46:09.700" LastActivityDate="2023-09-25T16:46:09.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13846" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-01-26T15:23:32.747" Score="10" ViewCount="73" Body="&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22year+in+moderation%22+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on the web:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny slices of effort contributed by regular, everyday users.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;-- &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't eliminate the need for having &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/11/21/our-theory-of-moderation-re-visited/&quot;&gt;moderators&lt;/a&gt; altogether, but it does mean that the bulk of moderation work is carried out by regular folks. Every bit of time and effort y'all contribute to the site gives you access to more privileges you can use to help in this effort, all of which produce a cumulative effect that makes a big difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as we say goodbye to 2022 (and where did January go, right?) and dive head first into 2023, let us look back at what we accomplished as a community... by looking at some &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/V0TPg.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;exciting&lt;/em&gt; stats&lt;/a&gt;. Below is a breakdown of moderation actions performed on Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy over the past 12 months:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Action&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Moderators&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Community¹&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;All comments on a post moved to chat&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;16&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Answer flags handled&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,278&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;966&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Answers flagged&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;50&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2,191&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comment flags handled&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,081&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;332&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comments deleted⁷&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;3,241&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;2,864&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comments flagged&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;18&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1,395&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Comments undeleted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;67&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Escalations to the Community Manager team&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts bumped&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;158&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Posts deleted⁶&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;601&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: 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right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users contacted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;18&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users deleted&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;14&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users destroyed³&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;41&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Users suspended²&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;15&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;33&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Footnotes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &amp;quot;Community&amp;quot; here refers both to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;the membership of Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;diamonds next to their names&lt;/a&gt;, and to the automated systems otherwise known as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;user #-1&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;² The system will suspend users under three circumstances: when a user is recreated after being previously suspended, when a user is recreated after being destroyed for spam or abuse, and when a network-wide suspension is in effect on an account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;³ A &amp;quot;destroyed&amp;quot; user is deleted along with all that they had posted: questions, answers, comments. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/88994/what-is-the-difference-between-a-deleted-user-and-a-destroyed-user&quot;&gt;Generally used as an expedient way of getting rid of spam.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁴ This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 2 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 2, the goal being to indicate the frequency of moderation actions. This also applies to flags, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁵ Includes close flags (but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; close or reopen votes). Community can handle these flags by at least one person voting to close a question that has a close flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁶ This ignores numerous deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁷ This includes comments deleted by their own authors (which also account for some number of handled comment flags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Further reading:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wanna see how these numbers have changed over time? We posted a similar report here last year: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13596/2021-a-year-in-moderation&quot;&gt;2021: a year in moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can also check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/search?q=title%3A%222022%3A+a+year+in+moderation%22&quot;&gt;this report on other sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or peruse &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/386090/208518&quot;&gt;detailed information on the number of questions closed and reopened across all sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wishing everyone a happy 2023! ^_^&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6365" LastEditorUserId="6365" LastEditDate="2023-01-26T18:22:55.363" LastActivityDate="2023-01-26T18:22:55.363" Title="2022: a year in moderation" Tags="|discussion|moderation|site-statistics|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13848" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-01-30T05:10:05.877" Score="2" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been on this site for 11 months now and have deducted that vulgar language has been generally looked down upon here. But there have been instances where I have come across people(not naming them) using words like :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; Shit, bullshit and more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I ask - Till what extent is abusive language tolerated here?  Now don't get me wrong I certainly don't mean racially abusive language but is the usage of words like -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; Fuck&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149431" LastEditorUserId="82909" LastEditDate="2023-01-30T22:32:18.470" LastActivityDate="2023-01-30T22:32:18.470" Title="How much vulgarity is too much?" Tags="|discussion|profanity|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2023-01-30T08:42:57.160" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13848" CreationDate="2023-01-30T08:19:02.533" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, coarse language should not be used gratuitously. Sometimes it can't be avoided, because of the existence of such unfortunate titles as &amp;quot;The Big Space Fuck&amp;quot; by one of our more overrated writers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastEditorUserId="14111" LastEditDate="2023-01-30T10:23:50.763" LastActivityDate="2023-01-30T10:23:50.763" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13808" CreationDate="2023-01-30T14:25:28.290" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for flagging this. All of these links have now been updated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144325" LastActivityDate="2023-01-30T14:25:28.290" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13851" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13852" CreationDate="2023-01-31T07:59:45.420" Score="6" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;How should questions about the HBO TV show &lt;em&gt;The Last of Us&lt;/em&gt; (2023) and the video game it is based on, &lt;em&gt;The Last of Us&lt;/em&gt; (2013) be tagged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should a franchise tag and a separate game / TV show tag with the year appended be used? (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-last-of-us&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-last-of-us&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-last-of-us&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;the-last-of-us-container&quot;&gt;the-last-of-us&lt;/a&gt; + &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-last-of-us-2023&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-last-of-us-2023&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-last-of-us-2023&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;the-last-of-us-2023-container&quot;&gt;the-last-of-us-2023&lt;/a&gt; for the TV show or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-last-of-us-2013&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-last-of-us-2013&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-last-of-us-2013&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;the-last-of-us-2013-container&quot;&gt;the-last-of-us-2013&lt;/a&gt; for the video game) Or should we tag in a different way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7957" LastActivityDate="2023-01-31T09:14:50.273" Title="How should we tag questions about &quot;The Last of Us&quot; (TV show and video game)?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13851" CreationDate="2023-01-31T09:14:50.273" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've not played the games and I haven't watched the series yet but I doubt they'll differ so drastically that they'd be considered 100% separate. We also don't have any &lt;em&gt;The Last of Us&lt;/em&gt; questions yet that I can tell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said just use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-last-of-us&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-last-of-us&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-last-of-us&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;the-last-of-us-container&quot;&gt;the-last-of-us&lt;/a&gt; for both and, if you need to, distinguish with media tags. For example &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-last-of-us&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-last-of-us&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-last-of-us&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;the-last-of-us-container&quot;&gt;the-last-of-us&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/video-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;video-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;video-games-container&quot;&gt;video-games&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-last-of-us&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-last-of-us&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-last-of-us&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;the-last-of-us-container&quot;&gt;the-last-of-us&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tv-container&quot;&gt;tv&lt;/a&gt;, similar to how we do with some major franchises.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2023-01-31T09:14:50.273" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13240" CreationDate="2023-02-07T18:36:07.037" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Doris Lessing's &lt;em&gt;Canopus in Argos&lt;/em&gt; series&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nobel laureate author Doris Lessing wrote a science fiction series &lt;em&gt;Canopus in Argos&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Sirian Experiments&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Making of the Representative for Planet 8&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Canopus in Argos: Archives&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are very original and unusual, and leave a lot to the imagination --  I think there are many questions that could be asked about them.  As far as I can see there is no tag for the series and none for the author, and I have found &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; questions about any of these works.  As far as I can tell, the only mention of them is in answers to story-id questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59154" LastActivityDate="2023-02-07T18:36:07.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13788" CreationDate="2023-02-07T22:13:00.747" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for your patience in getting this change enacted here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've now changed this site setting back for the main Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange site, so that the accepted answer will once again be pinned to the top of the answers list for a question. This community's consensus seemed pretty firmly in favor of making this change, so it was pretty straightforward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Accepted answers were already pinned on this Meta site; that has not changed.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me know if you have any questions!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16845" LastActivityDate="2023-02-07T22:13:00.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13855" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-02-08T09:02:32.943" Score="5" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came across &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/272002/looking-for-id-of-softcore-sci-fi-porn-movie-on-cinemax-or-showtime-or-something&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question on review tasks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So are such type of questions allowed on the site? I mean technically the OP does say that it has sci-fi elements such as the presence of a cyborg and aliens but then again there exist hardcore porn parodies of major sci-fi franchises.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So anybody could ask questions about such movies and get away with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So are such questions on topic here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149431" LastEditorUserId="62709" LastEditDate="2023-02-08T14:21:43.987" LastActivityDate="2023-02-08T14:24:00.307" Title="Are questions about pornographic material allowed?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2023-02-08T18:33:49.750" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13855" CreationDate="2023-02-08T09:48:55.300" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see why they shouldn't be, as long as they are on topic by being sf or fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do need to make sure to keep &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/legal/terms-of-service/public#age&quot;&gt;the minimum age as specified in the TOS&lt;/a&gt; in mind when writing posts, but while the &lt;em&gt;subject&lt;/em&gt; of a post may be adult material, there's no need to describe it using such explicit terms that it's not appropriate for minors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That even goes for porn parodies of sf/f works, as long the parodies are sufficiently sf/f-nal themselves and the questions are sufficiently about the sf/f-nal aspects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also note that while your example is explicitly asking for identification of a soft porn movie, a lot of books that are considered on topic contain material of a similar level of explicitness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2023-02-08T10:15:13.993" LastActivityDate="2023-02-08T10:15:13.993" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13855" CreationDate="2023-02-08T14:24:00.307" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a story-id question I believe we &lt;em&gt;can't&lt;/em&gt;, by precedent, rule it off-topic.  While whether or not a particular work is on-topic or not largely comes down to cases, one of the unique things about story-id questions is that we don't &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; the applicable work.  In general we are very lenient with story-id questions as long as the asker makes a good-faith assertion that they believe the work is on-topic and can point to at least some SFnal trope or detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, there are obviously a number of &lt;em&gt;written&lt;/em&gt; SF works that are quite sexually graphic, some beyond even what would be possible to film.  (I'm not recommending reading it, quite the contrary, but if you've read Farmer's &lt;em&gt;Image of the Beast&lt;/em&gt; you know what I'm talking about.)  These are obviously on-topic, especially those where the space-phlebotinum requires sex to work.  If someone were to film those works, they would likely be pornographic, but still definitely on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even beyond that, consider that the genre includes works that are basically serial-numbers-filed-off westerns transposed into a &amp;quot;space&amp;quot; milieu.  Wooden ships and iron men &lt;em&gt;in space&lt;/em&gt; is also an accepted part of the genre, along with space-pirates...&#xA;I don't think we can be less accommodating of SFnal transformations of any other base style.  In other words if a space-western is on-topic, then space-porn pretty much has to be too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastActivityDate="2023-02-08T14:24:00.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13858" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13859" CreationDate="2023-02-13T05:25:08.293" Score="2" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suggestion - Some story ID questions get asked over and over again.  Maybe we should have a sticky listing the most frequent ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The list would include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Gold at the Starbow's End&lt;/em&gt;/ aka Starburst by Pohl&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Last Question&lt;/em&gt; by Asimov&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;All Summer in a Day&lt;/em&gt; by Bradbury.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What other stories do you think should go on the list?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130462" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2023-02-13T10:38:53.053" LastActivityDate="2023-02-13T14:18:18.063" Title="Should we have a sticky listing FAQ-ID questions?" Tags="|discussion|feature-request|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13858" CreationDate="2023-02-13T10:46:13.613" Score="9" Body="&lt;h3&gt;No, we should not&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea, I presume, is to have people look at the most commonly asked ID requests before asking their own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First off, Stack Exchange already gives a list of possibly related questions, although that may not be of much use here as it seems to be mostly tag based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most importantly, we should encourage people to search. But if searching doesn't yield an answer while a duplicate &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; exist, it means the current querent has a different view of the story. Having them ask it in their own way, thus creating a duplicate, gives a new entry point for future querents looking for the same story to find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2023-02-13T10:46:13.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13858" CreationDate="2023-02-13T14:18:18.063" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's already a list of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification?tab=Frequent&quot;&gt;frequent questions that exists for the tag&lt;/a&gt;. It is automatically generated based off what questions get linked to the most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not very easy to find, but I'd expect most people to be searching for the unique characteristics of the story they're looking for and not just lists of popular stories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And really, as long as they're getting answers, there's no problem with having duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82909" LastActivityDate="2023-02-13T14:18:18.063" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13861" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13862" CreationDate="2023-02-15T16:17:21.193" Score="-1" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/272130/why-does-the-joker-have-such-high-pain-tolerance&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; question has answers on the Movies and TV stack exchange, So can I and should I copy the answer from there and post it to this question here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Link to mentioned &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/9219/in-the-dark-knight-why-does-the-joker-not-appear-to-feel-any-pain&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149431" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2023-02-15T21:47:08.493" LastActivityDate="2023-02-16T09:47:07.173" Title="Can (and should) I copy the answers from this similar question on another stack?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13861" CreationDate="2023-02-15T16:24:21.467" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can take any content from anywhere on the internet for use in your own answer. However, the normal rules for plagiarism and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/referencing&quot;&gt;how to properly reference content&lt;/a&gt; apply:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you copy (or closely rephrase/reword) content that you did not create into something you post on Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange (e.g., from another site or elsewhere on Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange), make sure you do all of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide a link to the original page or answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Quote only the relevant portion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide the name of the original author&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This ensures that the original creator gets credit for their work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it is worth noting that if all you're going to do is copy an answer word for word as a quote and that's it then it will be liable for deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; copy the complete text of sources; instead, use their words and ideas to support your own. In particular, answers comprised entirely of a quote (sourced or not) will often be deleted since they do not contain any original content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the help article says the best best is to phrase something in your own words and use quotes from the source to back up your ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will say that quoting someone else's opinion on something isn't really a good source though. Ideally you should use the primary source (in this case the comics, films, shows, etc.) as evidence instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2023-02-15T16:24:21.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13861" CreationDate="2023-02-15T21:59:42.027" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;TheLethalCarrot's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13862/20774&quot;&gt;excellent answer&lt;/a&gt; addresses the question of whether you &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; copy answers from this question, so I'll focus on whether you &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; (spoiler, no you shouldn't).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To my mind, none of the answers &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/9219/in-the-dark-knight-why-does-the-joker-not-appear-to-feel-any-pain&quot;&gt;posted on the other site&lt;/a&gt; seem especially authoritative:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The top answer is simply an assertion that his pain threshold is due to his insanity. No evidence (whatsoever) is offered to back this up.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The second answer has information copied and pasted from a fan-written wiki page, but again no primary sources&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The third answer is a total guess&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't speak for other users, but if they were posted here, I would immediately downvote them for the reasons above. Historically we've shown more keenness for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1342/primary-sources-vs-wikis/1346#1346&quot;&gt;answers with primary sources&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2023-02-15T22:17:19.380" LastActivityDate="2023-02-15T22:17:19.380" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13861" CreationDate="2023-02-16T09:47:07.173" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/113219/9382&quot;&gt;the occasion I did&lt;/a&gt;, I quoted the entire answer, linked to the original, and marked it community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is acceptable as well, since it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a community effort: the original answerer provided the answer, and you found it and reposted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2023-02-16T09:47:07.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13866" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-02-18T09:14:19.987" Score="15" ViewCount="259" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed that we have a tag &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/authors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;authors&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;authors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;authors-container&quot;&gt;authors&lt;/a&gt;. This seems fairly useless: it's impossible for someone to be an expert in &amp;quot;authors&amp;quot; generally; we already allow tags for specific authors, and what does it even mean for a question to be &amp;quot;about authors&amp;quot; in general?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are currently &lt;strong&gt;38 questions&lt;/strong&gt; with this tag, which can be categorised as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;About a specific author&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/260827/&quot;&gt;Is there a backup of Ray Aldridge&amp;#39;s site with his stories?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/215226/&quot;&gt;Was there really an author called Allen Sharp?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/197006/&quot;&gt;Any details on Dannie Plachta&amp;#39;s bio and name pronunciation?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/43690/&quot;&gt;Did Paul Richards (author of &amp;quot;The Unblessed&amp;quot;) write anything else?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/45808/&quot;&gt;Is there a way to get in touch with Barry Hughart?&lt;/a&gt; [closed]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/237618/&quot;&gt;Who was Gavin Hyde and what happened to him?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/49602/&quot;&gt;Pronunciation of Van Vogt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/13229/&quot;&gt;Looking for any biographical info on Terence Haile, author of Space Train&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/195152/&quot;&gt;Why did Gene Roddenberry write a letter together with three Harvard-Smithsonian astronomers about the planet Vulcan?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/97650/&quot;&gt;Has Max Brooks ever discussed the possibility of writing more zombie books?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/14650/&quot;&gt;Has anyone else written about Terry Pratchett&amp;#39;s other worlds?&lt;/a&gt; [closed]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/103327/&quot;&gt;Bio of Donald A. Wollheim&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/259237/&quot;&gt;Why did Iain M. Banks use his middle initial for his science fiction writing, but go by &amp;#39;Iain Banks&amp;#39; in other works?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/268/&quot;&gt;What influence did H.P. Lovecraft have on science fiction?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/271391/&quot;&gt;Doc Savage’s fighting style&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Author identification&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/245682/&quot;&gt;Author of &amp;quot;military squad&amp;quot; SF podcast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/171702/&quot;&gt;Successful author who began writing while completely disabled&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/258709/&quot;&gt;Who said, &amp;quot;The only way to model an infinitely complex system is with the system, itself&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/178214/31394&quot;&gt;Who is the author &amp;quot;DT in Oakland&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/233435/&quot;&gt;What author joked that his writing skill came from a magical amulet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Basically bog-standard story-ID&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/262876/&quot;&gt;What book(s) reference dates A.S. (After Shannon) and what is the in-universe explanation for its origin?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/161805/&quot;&gt;Author of a short story in a compilation or high school textbook for a Sci-Fi extra credit course&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/79305/&quot;&gt;Looking for a novel (or author of it) where the world is a seemlingly endless vertical cliff&lt;/a&gt; [duplicate]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/266701/&quot;&gt;Vintage short story of school kids studying a lethal alien design&lt;/a&gt; [duplicate]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/221980/&quot;&gt;Looking for an author&amp;#39;s anthology of short surreal/absurdist fiction (80s-90s)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/223293/&quot;&gt;A paperback collection of letters between Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/255165/&quot;&gt;Identify the author of an anthology, which included a story about an alien working in City Lights bookshop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Other&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6908/&quot;&gt;Best way to stay informed on an author without much of a web presence?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/180386/&quot;&gt;Can the creator of a fictional universe get their own lore wrong?&lt;/a&gt; [closed]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/230755/31394&quot;&gt;Authorship of Forgotten Realms novels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/117600/31394&quot;&gt;Who wrote &amp;quot;The Monsters&amp;quot; short story published by Purnell?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/118387/&quot;&gt;What is the &amp;quot;About the Author&amp;quot; blurb in Shadows of the Empire supposed to say?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/60385/&quot;&gt;Who was the first Science Fiction author to have a celestial body named after them?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/259991/&quot;&gt;Old site with the religious affiliations of most science fiction writers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/260437/&quot;&gt;Parody names of SF writers in Damon Knight story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1685/&quot;&gt;Who *really* wrote the Rama sequels?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/198302/31394&quot;&gt;How closely did When Worlds Collide authors pursue the physics of the catastrophic damage and planet trajectories?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/40934/&quot;&gt;Do authors ever create conflicting canon to irk fussy fans?&lt;/a&gt; [closed]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Certainly some of these don't need to have an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/authors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;authors&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;authors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;authors-container&quot;&gt;authors&lt;/a&gt; tag, but do any of them? &lt;strong&gt;Should we keep the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/authors&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;authors&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;authors&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;authors-container&quot;&gt;authors&lt;/a&gt; tag - and, if so, what usage guidance should it have - or is it too vague to be useful?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Relevant reading: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10282/31394&quot;&gt;What to do with the [author-identification] tag?&lt;/a&gt; Apparently we had an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/author-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;author-identification&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;author-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;author-identification-container&quot;&gt;author-identification&lt;/a&gt; tag before and got rid of it (and apparently I was part of that process, but I don't remember it). My feeling now is to reintroduce it, as a useful way of identifying a half-remembered author without reference to a single specific story, but let's see what other people think.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2023-02-18T13:52:49.613" LastActivityDate="2023-02-21T14:57:52.963" Title="Should we kill all the [authors]?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13866" CreationDate="2023-02-21T14:57:52.963" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's what I'd propose we do with these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;About a specific author - create a tag for that author&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Author identification - create/use &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/author-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;author-identification&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;author-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;author-identification-container&quot;&gt;author-identification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Basically bog-standard story-ID - delete the tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other ... various tag suggestions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6908/&quot;&gt;Best way to stay informed on an author without much of a web presence?&lt;/a&gt; - not an exact fit but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fandom&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fandom&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fandom&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;fandom-container&quot;&gt;fandom&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/behind-the-scenes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;behind-the-scenes&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;behind-the-scenes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;behind-the-scenes-container&quot;&gt;behind-the-scenes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/180386/&quot;&gt;Can the creator of a fictional universe get their own lore wrong?&lt;/a&gt; [closed] - Unclear, but could be re-asked as a 'first of' so &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;history-of-container&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/230755/31394&quot;&gt;Authorship of Forgotten Realms novels&lt;/a&gt; -??? &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;history-of-container&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/117600/31394&quot;&gt;Who wrote &amp;quot;The Monsters&amp;quot; short story published by Purnell?&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/author-id&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;author-id&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;author-id&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;author-id-container&quot;&gt;author-id&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/118387/&quot;&gt;What is the &amp;quot;About the Author&amp;quot; blurb in Shadows of the Empire supposed to say?&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/behind-the-scenes&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;behind-the-scenes&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;behind-the-scenes&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;behind-the-scenes-container&quot;&gt;behind-the-scenes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/60385/&quot;&gt;Who was the first Science Fiction author to have a celestial body named after them?&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;history-of-container&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/259991/&quot;&gt;Old site with the religious affiliations of most science fiction writers&lt;/a&gt; - ??? &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fandom&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fandom&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fandom&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;fandom-container&quot;&gt;fandom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/260437/&quot;&gt;Parody names of SF writers in Damon Knight story&lt;/a&gt; - delete tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1685/&quot;&gt;Who *really* wrote the Rama sequels?&lt;/a&gt; - delete tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/198302/31394&quot;&gt;How closely did When Worlds Collide authors pursue the physics of the catastrophic damage and planet trajectories?&lt;/a&gt; - delete tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/40934/&quot;&gt;Do authors ever create conflicting canon to irk fussy fans?&lt;/a&gt; [closed] - could be re-asked as a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/history-of&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;history-of&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;history-of-container&quot;&gt;history-of&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2023-02-21T14:57:52.963" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2023-02-21T14:57:52.963" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13868" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13869" CreationDate="2023-02-23T05:10:30.327" Score="7" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/272436/futuristic-novel-where-war-is-unconstitutional-and-people-have-limbs-amputated-b&quot;&gt;This recent story-ID question&lt;/a&gt; is a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/144951/looking-for-sci-fi-book-name&quot;&gt;this old question&lt;/a&gt; with the same answer accepted in a comment by the OP. Unfortunately, that old question was closed by the site police for allegedly needing &amp;quot;more focus&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I close the new question as a duplicate of a closed question? Or do we just let the two questions and answers remain as they are, without being marked as duplicates?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastActivityDate="2023-02-23T10:40:48.367" Title="Duplicate of a closed question" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|duplicate-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13868" CreationDate="2023-02-23T10:40:48.367" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've reopened the closed older question and subsequently closed it as a duplicate of the newer one. The newer question and answer pair are better quality so it makes sense to have that as the duplicate &amp;quot;hub&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general it's best not to close questions as duplicates to closed questions (if the system lets you). As this was a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;story-identification-container&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; question the best bet is to reopen and duplicate close to the better question and answer pair. In non-Id cases I would probably recommend treating the question as if the closed duplicate doesn't exist in most cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2023-02-23T10:40:48.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13870" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-02-25T03:41:18.397" Score="5" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was reading &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/225513/when-where-the-first-links-between-cain-and-vampirism-made-in-literature&quot;&gt;When where the first links between Cain and vampirism made in literature?&lt;/a&gt;, where &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/272498/23243&quot;&gt;an answer&lt;/a&gt; stated that versions of Genesis before the 1800s included an additional line alluding to the vampirism, and it got me to thinking that, with all of the apocryphal texts out there, I wouldn't be surprised if there was one that matches. I came upon an apocryphal text from about 100 AD, &lt;em&gt;Life of Adam and Eve&lt;/em&gt;, which has Cain drinking Abel's blood, referenced &lt;a href=&quot;https://sites.nd.edu/manuscript-studies/2015/04/09/the-slaying-of-abel-in-apocryphal-tradition/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, but I'm not certain if including a religious text that's not considered canon (and is pretty obscure) is OK or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2023-02-25T03:41:18.397" Title="Are apocryphal religious texts fair game?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13872" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-03-02T05:21:41.327" Score="8" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are these two &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-story-identification-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions that seem to be asking to identify the same thing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/251299/7957&quot;&gt;Anime with boy who can grow crystals on his body&lt;/a&gt;, posted in July 2021 and currently unanswered&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/270696/7957&quot;&gt;Anime where the MC is a boy who can grow green crystals/gems on his body&lt;/a&gt;, posted in December 2022 and currently has one answer with two upvotes but has not been accepted by the OP&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The similarities between the questions indicate that they are both asking to identify the same anime. (I've commented about this on the later question.) Another user pointed out that the later question &amp;quot;is word-for-word the same as the previous question.&amp;quot; (The OP of the later question has slightly reworded their question and added a screenshot of the anime.) This means that either both questions were posted by the same person or the second question was copied from the first (is a duplicate).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we close one of these questions as a duplicate or should we leave them open?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7957" LastActivityDate="2023-03-02T05:21:41.327" Title="How should we handle [story-identification] questions that are word-for-word duplicates (or slightly reworded versions) of a prior question?" Tags="|discussion|closing-questions|closed-questions|duplicate-questions|story-identification|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13873" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-03-03T08:25:05.903" Score="4" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;I responded to a story-id question with a comment suggesting that it's a duplicate. Several years went by with no word from the OP, and the question was still unanswered, so I decided to post an answer rather than leave it dangling as another unanswered question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In such a case, should I duplicate the information (plot summaries, excerpts, etc.) from an old answer, or is it enough to just name the story and link to an old answer for further information? The reasons given for deprecating link-only answers don't seem applicable when the links are to this very site, but what do I know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastActivityDate="2023-03-08T02:47:36.077" Title="Answering duplicate story-identification questions" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|duplicate-answers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13873" CreationDate="2023-03-03T12:38:27.733" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm in favour of posting a proper answer, with full details, and not just a link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's a question without an accepted answer it can't be marked duplicate, and thus someone searching might land on it; it seems pointless to force them to search further when the answer could be right there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also permits the answer to be tailored to the current question, which may recollect a different set of details from the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we can distinguish the case where a comment answer is quickly accepted by the asker, since that question can be closed as a duplicate.  It's open questions with no answers we want to avoid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastActivityDate="2023-03-03T12:38:27.733" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13873" CreationDate="2023-03-08T02:47:36.077" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having all the information on one page (i.e., the text of both the question and the answer) is helpful for how most people find answers: Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I post an answer to a question I think is a duplicate, I often find that the quotes and images used in the duplicate's answer give enough context, so I copy them into my answer, linking back to the other Q&amp;amp;A. If more is needed (e.g. OP asks for clarification on some detail), it's easy enough to build on that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82909" LastActivityDate="2023-03-08T02:47:36.077" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13876" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-03-10T15:34:21.237" Score="-1" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/266147/why-didnt-the-folks-at-marvel-studios-include-the-character-death-in-the-infini&quot;&gt;highest&lt;/a&gt; upvoted post has 8k views to it, but has 24 upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now some might say that the questions's not so interesting but the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/48180/would-the-one-ring-even-work-for-anyone-but-sauron&quot;&gt;highest&lt;/a&gt; upvoted question on this site has some 400+ upvotes and 82k views, so surely that question must be interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now regarding my question, it can also be said that not everybody upvotes, but the ratio of views to upvotes is 1000:3 that is per 1k views there were 3 upvotes, which I find weird.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I know it isn't about the upvotes and more about the knowledge we share, but I just find this extremely confusing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So tell me why is the upvote to views ratio so odd??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149431" LastEditorUserId="149431" LastEditDate="2023-03-11T13:16:34.533" LastActivityDate="2023-03-11T13:16:34.533" Title="Why is the upvote to views ratio so weird?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ClosedDate="2023-03-13T10:21:07.477" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13876" CreationDate="2023-03-11T09:19:24.763" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Newly registered users can't vote straight away&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not that the ratio is weird, it's that this is a different website with a different purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You need 15 rep to vote up on something, which is almost nothing, unless you're brand new to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tools/post-feedback?filter=year&quot;&gt;10k user site tools&lt;/a&gt; make that really clear. In the last year the ratio of upvotes vs. positive feedback was about 1:1000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're right about the views:upvotes ratio being 1000:3, then on average 1/3 of the people viewing the question would have upvoted this if they had the privilege.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastActivityDate="2023-03-11T09:19:24.763" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13878" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13879" CreationDate="2023-03-13T07:28:58.963" Score="3" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question, and I found out that the same question was asked, and there is a perfectly suitable answer there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I am looking for a different answer (I am 100% sure that it exists). Should I ask a different question, or just beg for a different answer in a comment to the first question? How would I decide the correct answer for my question / answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: It is not about what I like or not. I am looking to find another film with the &amp;quot;exact&amp;quot; same story (or, at least, very similar). Possibly a re-make, or the original of a re-make.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="122822" LastEditorUserId="122822" LastEditDate="2023-03-13T09:03:07.693" LastActivityDate="2023-03-13T09:15:20.430" Title="Same question, I expect a different answer" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13878" CreationDate="2023-03-13T09:15:20.430" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;After your edit it seems you are looking to ask a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-story-identification-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; question. In this case the question you have found has an answer but it is not the work you are looking for. With &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-story-identification-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions being somewhat of a special case on the site then this means that by definition this question is not a duplicate because you are looking for a different work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I would recommend you do is write up your own question in your own words and also link to the other question saying you saw that and it's similar but the answer given is not what you're looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2023-03-13T09:15:20.430" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13880" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-03-14T01:26:42.553" Score="14" ViewCount="247" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been reviewing a spate of tag wiki additions in the Suggested Edits queue, and I noticed that a couple of authors I'm quite familiar with (Walter Jon Williams and H. Beam Piper) had descriptions that didn't match my recollection. (Which recollection I verified against reliable sources like the &lt;em&gt;SF Encyclopedia&lt;/em&gt;.)  Running those texts through a chat-bot detector gives a &amp;gt;90% likelihood that the text is machine-generated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know we've agreed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13817/101407&quot;&gt;we don't want chat-bot generated answers&lt;/a&gt;; what about chat-bot generated wiki text?  Is this acceptable?  I don't know what to do about this, since there's no way to flag it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following examples are all more than 90% likely to be bot-generated, but this is not an exhaustive list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/198968&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/198968&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/198974&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/198974&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/198976&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/198976&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/198978&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/198978&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/198961&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/198961&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/198957&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/198957&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note that this is problematic for the same reason that bot-generated answers are; for the wikis I have sufficient expertise to judge they have inaccuracies.&lt;/strong&gt;  (Emphasis added because it seems a couple of readers have somehow managed to miss the point.  If 100% of chatbot descriptions for topics I know well enough to review for content contain errors, then they likely &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; do.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastEditorUserId="101407" LastEditDate="2023-03-15T01:53:22.050" LastActivityDate="2023-03-15T01:53:22.050" Title="Is chat-bot generated text acceptable for tag wikis?" Tags="|discussion|tag-wiki|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13880" CreationDate="2023-03-14T09:26:37.180" Score="14" Body="&lt;h3&gt;We should ban AI generated content in tag wikis&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be honest I think the reasoning given in the linked post about banning AI generated posts holds true for tag wikis as well. It's not quite as important in the sense that tag wikis are more hidden but they should be implicitly a more trust worthy source than someone's handwavy answer. The information within a tag wiki should be 100% accurate and trustworthy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, for the same reasons that the content is not accurate but looks like it is it should not be allowed in a tag wiki. Lets not also forget that copying without attribution from a source is also plagiarism and that is one of the default reasons to reject a tag wiki edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again similar to the other answer, tag wikis which use an AI tool to assist in generating content should, for the time being, be fine. But not content that is 100% copy pasted from an AI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ona  side note I've spent a lot of time creating and editing tag wikis and one of the things I've done in the past is clear out those that were just copy and pasted content from Wikipedia. We should not have copy pasted content and certainly so if the content isn't even correct because it's been created by an AI chatbot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2023-03-14T09:26:37.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13882" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-03-14T22:12:11.517" Score="9" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to ask a story identification question about a book I read in the 1980s - one of the main features of the book was the highly advanced multifunction wrist watches involved.  These watches were advanced for the day, but I feel more in a &amp;quot;James Bond&amp;quot; way rather than a &amp;quot;futuristic version of a smartphone&amp;quot; way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what are the limits to the requirement for a scifi aspect here?  The watches could definitely have not existed in the 1980s, and indeed would struggle to build them today with the same miniaturisation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that enough to satisfy a scifi requirement?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30807" LastActivityDate="2023-03-15T03:48:40.257" Title="What are the limits on &quot;scifi&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13880" CreationDate="2023-03-15T01:16:15.413" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We should not ban content just on the grounds that it was generated by AI&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the general policy on any content here is &amp;quot;moderate based on content quality and nothing else&amp;quot; (eg, you're not supposed to upvote any random posts from a user as a reward just because you liked one of their posts, as is mentioned on the help page for serial voting, upvotes should be based on post not the user), I think the same standard should be upheld for posts based on AI. Even OP says he found out it was AI generated because he ran it through a detector tool, and in the end it didn't matter anyway because OP knew the posted information was false. This, I think, should ultimately be the standard we accept or reject posts on; quality of the content, not the (assumed) source. AI is just a tool, I am sure we will not be banning posts just because someone used a sentence completion tool or a grammar/spell checker or a thesaurus. I think we should consider this the same or at least a similar situation. These types of AI based text generators are going to become more common place whether we like it or not, its better to start learning how to deal with them rather than ignoring their existence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone is consistently posting AI generated carp that is blatantly wrong then sure, delete the post or ban the user. I think this how we currently deal with spam anyway. But again the moderation should be based on the harmful actions, not because the poster used an AI or any other tool they like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13716" LastActivityDate="2023-03-15T01:16:15.413" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13880" CreationDate="2023-03-15T01:37:02.003" Score="-9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several arguments for allowing chatbot-based tag wiki descriptions in SciFi Stack Exchange:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Efficiency: Chatbots can provide quick and efficient responses to&#xA;user queries, which can save time for both users and moderators.&#xA;Instead of waiting for a human to write a tag wiki, a chatbot can&#xA;provide a preliminary description that can be edited and improved&#xA;upon by human moderators as needed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Consistency: Chatbots can ensure consistency in the tag wiki&#xA;descriptions across the site, avoiding discrepancies in formatting&#xA;or information provided. This can help users find what they're&#xA;looking for and understand the content of the site more easily.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Accessibility: Chatbots can make tag wiki descriptions more&#xA;accessible to users who may not be familiar with the site or the&#xA;content, by providing clear and concise explanations that are easy&#xA;to understand. This can also be helpful for non-native speakers of&#xA;the language used on the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Scalability: As the site grows and the number of tags increases, it&#xA;may become increasingly difficult for human moderators to keep up&#xA;with the demand for tag wiki descriptions. Chatbots can help fill&#xA;this gap by providing initial descriptions that can be refined over&#xA;time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Innovation: Chatbots can be programmed to use natural language&#xA;processing techniques and machine learning algorithms to provide&#xA;more personalized and accurate tag wiki descriptions based on user&#xA;input and behavior. This can help enhance the user experience and&#xA;make the site more engaging for users.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13716" LastActivityDate="2023-03-15T01:37:02.003" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13885" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13887" CreationDate="2023-03-15T03:26:13.713" Score="12" ViewCount="319" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've recently been going around the Harry Potter questions and looking at the answers. There are a lot of good answers, but I'm a bit worried that I'm upvoting a little too much for some users that have answered a lot of questions well . . . they would be getting over 5 votes in one day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is: &lt;strong&gt;When should I stop upvoting?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that I have not started upvoting yet out of worry of getting in trouble for spam votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="159501" LastActivityDate="2023-03-23T00:46:15.227" Title="How many upvotes is too much?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13882" CreationDate="2023-03-15T03:48:40.257" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would argue it's very simple; if the story was &lt;em&gt;written&lt;/em&gt; as SF, then it's on-topic.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4955/101407&quot;&gt;This older meta question&lt;/a&gt; suggests that just because smart watches exist today doesn't mean that they can't still appear as science fictional elements of a story.  My search-fu is weak and I can't find a more relevant meta right now, but note that it's possible to have a science fiction story without &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; advanced technology; consider &lt;em&gt;The Gate to Women's Country&lt;/em&gt; for instance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My caveat to the above is that the discussion of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/337/101407&quot;&gt;spy fiction and thrillers&lt;/a&gt; suggests that they would largely be considered off-topic.  But this is not a hard-and-fast rule; Gibson's &lt;em&gt;Spook Country&lt;/em&gt; is listed as a genre work by ISFDb, was sold as SF, and would almost definitely be considered on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically if you have a sufficiently strong belief that it was intended as, or marketed and sold as, a work of science fiction, then an ID question about it would be on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastActivityDate="2023-03-15T03:48:40.257" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13885" CreationDate="2023-03-15T03:54:57.433" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are finding useful answers in older questions, then there's no reason not to upvote them.  If that question/answer were posted today, and you would have upvoted it, then there's no reason &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to upvote it just because it's more than a week/month/year old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a way it's a bit of a bonus reward for people who have written a good enough answer that it's still useful and relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastActivityDate="2023-03-15T03:54:57.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13885" CreationDate="2023-03-15T10:48:13.687" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no such thing as too many upvotes, but I think there is a daily maximum number of upvotes you can give. After that the website does not allow you to give any more upvotes for 24 hours (or may be until midnight, not so sure about that). I think the daily maximum might be 40. Also, an account is only allowed to earn 200 rep (I think) in a day. After this they don't earn any rep even if you do upvote. At 10 reps per vote that amounts to 20 posts. So if you want to help someone gain rep, 20 posts per day is the maximum you can do (for one particular user). Keep in mind this is in addition to any other rep they might have earned previously that day. For example, if someone has earned 100 rep already, you can only give him 100 more reps worth of upvote &lt;strong&gt;on that day&lt;/strong&gt;. You can still upvote them if &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; haven't reached the daily limit of 40 upvotes, but &lt;em&gt;they won't earn&lt;/em&gt; any more reps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the general guideline is that you should always vote for the post, not the person. If you like a few posts from a user, it might be tempting to go upvote a bunch of posts from that user regardless of whether you actually like all of them or not. However, this is not recommended, and you should instead vote for the post you actually found useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also keep in mind that if you quickly upvote too many posts by the same user, the stackexchange websites considers it a form of vandalism called &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/serial-voting-reversed&quot;&gt;serial-voting&lt;/a&gt;. The logic being may be two users are colluding to farm for reps, or maybe both accounts are the same user, where he uses one account to farm for rep in the other. In this case, all the votes you did will automatically get reverted after certain period of time, and the vote recepient will not earn any reps. However, I don't think there is any penalty to you or the recipient if this does happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the plus side, if someone downvotes a bunch of your posts in the same manner just to reduce your reps, they will get reverted too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep these in mind and happy scifi stackexchanging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13716" LastEditorUserId="13716" LastEditDate="2023-03-23T00:46:15.227" LastActivityDate="2023-03-23T00:46:15.227" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11441" CreationDate="2023-03-16T02:28:14.267" Score="0" Body="&lt;h2&gt;They should be allowed (but....)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer is primarily intended as a supplement to the current &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/11443/51379&quot;&gt;top answer&lt;/a&gt;. Erotica (including pornography) with speculative fiction themes should be allowed for all the reasons laid out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;However&lt;/em&gt;, certain very narrow categories of story identification questions should be disallowed on ethical and legal grounds (not topical ones):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Explicit pornographic works involving unwilling participants. With this, I am primarily thinking of works involving images of celebrities or ordinary people that are used without their approval to make pornography. These do exist, and some of these works may have speculative themes, but we should not direct people to them on both ethical grounds—it's dubious to help people find works that were produced in such an unethical manner—and legal grounds—such works may run afoul of laws against revenge pornography or misappropriation of image in many jurisdictions around the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pornographic works involving explicit depictions of sex involving children (or characters that appear to be children but are really 1000-year-old immortals or whatnot), particularly visual works, &lt;em&gt;particularly&lt;/em&gt; non-cartoon works. Again, such works may constitute child pornography in many countries and run the risk of exposing SE to legal action. Ethically, such works may in some cases be produced by the exploitation of actual children, or if not, foster communities where such exploitation is justified or normalize such depictions. In any case, the possibilities here are much too dubious to allow such questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should be reasonably strict when deleting such questions: if people are asking to find, for instance, a cartoon with sex between &amp;quot;little kids&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;a fan video with Angelina Jolie and an alien having sex,&amp;quot; we should require them to explain how their work does not fall afoul of these requirements, rather than giving them too much of the benefit of the doubt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51379" LastEditorUserId="51379" LastEditDate="2023-03-16T02:42:42.630" LastActivityDate="2023-03-16T02:42:42.630" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13891" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13898" CreationDate="2023-03-24T06:57:18.157" Score="4" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently posted a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/274208/why-does-superman-wear-a-cape-in-universe&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; and it was received quite positively. But I check my stack account once everyday and today when I saw my reputation timeline of upvotes I saw this -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nC3C2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nC3C2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thats (250+70+20) - 6 which is equal to +334, but in the total rep of the day it shows +124.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has actually happened with me quite a few times , is this a glitch??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149431" LastActivityDate="2023-04-18T19:20:15.540" Title="Why does my reputation not add up?" Tags="|support|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13892" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-04-10T15:53:08.030" Score="9" ViewCount="389" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do we have any idea or way to track the worst age estimate for Story ID questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/187943/movie-about-space-pirates-that-have-bodies-tied-to-their-ships/187947#187947&quot;&gt;Movie about Space Pirates that have bodies tied to their ships&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;80s or 90s is pretty wild for the 2005 film Serenity, but I am pretty sure I have seen worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40437" LastActivityDate="2023-04-13T08:36:45.050" Title="Worst age estimate for story ID" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13893" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-04-12T17:15:31.593" Score="20" ViewCount="361" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mentioned in a comment &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/274739/hard-sci-fi-novel-that-ends-with-vast-civilization-ships-all-cruising-in-a-line#comment757503_274741&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.archive.org/2023/03/25/the-fight-continues/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the Internet Archive lost a decision regarding the hosting of digital copies of books&lt;/a&gt;. I know that I will often link to one of their books for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-story-identification-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; answers for the power of &amp;quot;you can check out a free copy of it here to verify that this is the right answer&amp;quot; and I will also often use it to source quotes from books I don't own. I do also recognize that the typical library model does assume a limited lifetime for a book (natural wear and tear and all that), necessitating occasionally buying a new copy. I think that some of these companies enact draconian policies regarding how many times a licensed digital work can be loaned out. On the gripping hand, sadly, the Internet Archive is also a bit of a hotbed of digital piracy since it's hard to track everything coming in, although they also don't make the reporting process easy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyhow, posting this as a discussion point, and also to note that we might wind up with some broken links in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="48874" LastEditDate="2023-04-12T18:58:45.967" LastActivityDate="2023-04-12T18:58:45.967" Title="Archive.org may be forced to take down the Open Library" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13894" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-04-13T03:55:55.400" Score="7" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a consensus on how to handle questions that might have multiple valid answers when the question author is looking for a specific story?   I ran into this on retro computing SE also that some people think there is only one 'right' answer that the original poster is looking for.   An example is the second comment on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/274739/hard-sci-fi-novel-that-ends-with-vast-civilization-ships-all-cruising-in-a-line/274741#274741&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; by user14111 who asks that people stop upvoting an answer to the question because it might not be the right story if OP posts further information.  I answered a question about finding a video game after there was already an accepted answer because the question made me think of that when I came across it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My thoughts are that all the sites in the SE network are more for people reading the site, and not only to find only the precise answer that OP is expecting, but any valid answer to the question posted.  The 'Accepted' mark along with user votes should drive the scoring.  The answer in this case is well-written with good references, quotes, facts to help identify it, and a few other possibilities if the main result isn't correct.  If I ran across this question then the answer seems to fit the bill and I would like to upvote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In another case a question already had an accepted answer verified by OP, but there was another answer posted that provided a viable alternative answer to the question.   If I ran across the question, I would have been thinking about the second answer and was glad it was there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm asking if it's bad form to provide multiple answers, or upvote answers that are technically not what OP was looking for.  In the extreme case I would think all answers should be deleted that are incorrect after a 'correct' answer was found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the particular linked case since there is an answer with so many upvotes, I don't know if the question should even be edited with new information.  A lot of people found the answer to the question helpful that they upvoted it.  If new information is provided in comments and someone posts a different answer that OP accepts, won't that appear at the top with the highest voted answer, which is valid for the original question appear second?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7854" LastActivityDate="2023-04-15T11:25:57.627" Title="story-identification questions with multiple answers" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13892" CreationDate="2023-04-13T08:36:45.050" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be honest I think this is the sort of question that is best answered from remembering a rather extreme case. However, I did decide to knock up a monster of a SEDE query to investigate this a bit further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This query will most likely return false positives and will miss a lot of examples out but it is a decent starting point if you have the time to sift through the results or parse them further. At the moment it is returning 2870 rows!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The query is &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/1737246/worst-age-estimate-for-story-id&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; if anyone wants to take a look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a couple of decent examples we have that I spotted before losing the will to live:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/206863/58193&quot;&gt;New invention compresses matter to produce energy? or other items? (Short Story)&lt;/a&gt; - Read in 70s/80s but first published 1940: a difference of 30 - 40 years (but I guess examples like this aren't really what you're looking for)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/211897/58193&quot;&gt;SciFi novel concerning future (this year) and music broadcast from star system&lt;/a&gt; - Guessed from around 1970 but actually 1996: a difference of 26 years&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2023-04-13T08:36:45.050" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13894" CreationDate="2023-04-13T16:38:11.933" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answering a question that already has an accepted answer for a Story ID feels a bit strange. But prior to acceptance multiple answers are not only valuable possibilities; they also enhance the quality of the site generally, both by SE's general metrics which expect questions to have multiple answers but also as a general browsing experience. To a newcomer to the site/question the timing of answers and acceptance is not necessarily obvious and having additional answers present would not seem unusual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I would personally like to see a high bar for post acceptance answers on ID questions. One liners, terse or link answers that might get a grudging pass as the origianl answer would be highly unwelcome late comers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A post-acceptance alternative would need to very carefully note all the points that match, acknowledge discrepancies and potentially reference specific points of confluence between the accepted answer and the new alternative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40437" LastEditorUserId="2865" LastEditDate="2023-04-15T11:25:57.627" LastActivityDate="2023-04-15T11:25:57.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13894" CreationDate="2023-04-13T19:42:15.180" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have occasionally (e. g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/202251/short-story-about-humans-on-a-hostile-planet-genetically-engineering-their-offs/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) posted answers to identification questions that already have accepted answers—not because I think an accepted answer is wrong, but because it might help somebody else with a very similar question in the future.  If the description in a question might plausibly refer to a different work, then someone else visiting the site looking for something similar can benefit from seeing both the correct answer and the plausible yet wrong answer (which might be the work they are looking for).  However, I try to state explicitly when I do this that I am not questioning the correctness of the existing identification, just pointing out that, based on the question, it might have been a different work.  (Sometimes, I take this approach even before an answer is accepted.  For example, for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/190591/playstation-1-game-about-a-boy-who-gets-amnesia/&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, I posted an alternative answer even though I figured that the existing answer was almost certainly correct—which it turned out it was.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastEditorUserId="48874" LastEditDate="2023-04-13T19:50:21.083" LastActivityDate="2023-04-13T19:50:21.083" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13891" CreationDate="2023-04-18T19:20:15.540" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;FWIW, this is a bug that has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/377620/ghost-nonexistent-votes-in-reputation-tab&quot;&gt;reported on main meta&lt;/a&gt;.  There are &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/378170/reputation-gain-history-incorrect&quot;&gt;several&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/385531/reputation-gain-from-the-last-answer-displays-the-daily-reputation&quot;&gt;other&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/378391/why-was-this-upvote-marked-as-50-in-the-profile-page&quot;&gt;reported&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/378469/incorrect-stats-sometimes-showing-up-is-this-a-bug&quot;&gt;occurrences&lt;/a&gt; that are all marked as duplicates of the first one, but there is no actual (official) acknowledgement of the bug, nor an explanation for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It happened to me too today, with one answer reporting +570 in upvotes, and the total reported summing to +980 (but of course it wasn't).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastActivityDate="2023-04-18T19:20:15.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2474" CreationDate="2023-04-19T17:29:36.203" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Professional SF illustrator &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thehumanreach.net/about_the_illustrator.shtm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Winchell Chung&lt;/a&gt; and curator of the amazing &lt;a href=&quot;http://projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Atomic Rockets website&lt;/a&gt; is a participating &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/62437/winchell-chung&quot;&gt;member&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I ran across it on the site, I immediately recognized his name as the original illustrator of the sf warfare game &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogre_(board_game)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ogre&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28516" LastActivityDate="2023-04-19T17:29:36.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13900" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-04-21T15:53:37.170" Score="17" ViewCount="518" Body="&lt;p&gt;Imgur has published new &lt;a href=&quot;https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/14415587638029-Imgur-Terms-of-Service-Update-April-19-2023-&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Terms of Service&lt;/a&gt; to take effect on May 15th.  Of specific note for us is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Historically it was fairly easy to upload content to Imgur as an anonymous user and link to it from a post here.  It's not clear that these links will &lt;em&gt;necessarily&lt;/em&gt; disappear, but it's easy to imagine a post that hasn't been visited in a year having its image(s) removed, so the safest thing to do is to re-host all Imgur pictures (at least those not belonging to a user's gallery) to Stack Exchange's Imgur instance.  (That is, images with a URL of &lt;em&gt;i.imgur.com&lt;/em&gt; need to be moved to &lt;em&gt;i.stack.imgur.com&lt;/em&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/1742595/top-posts-with-non-stack-imgur-images-order-by-of-views&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a query&lt;/a&gt; that can be run to find posts potentially needing fixes.  Note that not all of these need to be changed; some links are to user gallery images that presumably are safe, and they should especially be left if the link is given in the post as attribution.  If an image is larger than the SE 2MB size limit for images, I would suggest uploading a downscaled image to be hosted locally while preserving the link to the original as a click-through, at least until someone comes up with a better plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Background: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/388556/imgur-tos-change-on-may-15th-could-cause-the-loss-of-thousands-of-stackexchange&quot;&gt;This Meta post about the change&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I've found the easiest approach is to use the &amp;quot;insert image&amp;quot; tool at the same location in the post and supply the old Imgur link as the source.  Make sure you copy the alt text to the new link, and delete the old one.  (If there &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; alt text, you could even add it.  Hint, prod.)  Note that if the old image link isn't &amp;quot;https&amp;quot; then the editor won't accept it; just rewrite &amp;quot;http&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;https&amp;quot; and it should work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastEditorUserId="101407" LastEditDate="2023-04-22T13:47:27.467" LastActivityDate="2023-05-08T02:28:14.543" Title="Rehosting anonymous pictures hosted on Imgur because of Terms of Service changes" Tags="|discussion|images|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13900" CreationDate="2023-04-23T00:56:22.017" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;We can save all these images ASAP — &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; swamping the front page&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One post bumped. We can extract all the old Imgur links (which can be automated) and put them in an answer here, under this meta post. Then we upload each image and put that URL next to the original link (again on Meta).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surely this is less disruptive than editing each individual post on main before the deadline. It's also both faster and easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we all know any image with naked elbows will surely get deleted (in what is now irony, I saw someone on Imgur a few months ago complaining about some other system's automated detection), we don't know if any other images will be affected. If any images did break we would easily be able to check (since they're all in one place) and replace them. It'll hopefully not be too many that go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've already done this entire process twice, once on &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/q/15595/191178&quot;&gt;ELU&lt;/a&gt;, and again on &lt;a href=&quot;https://ell.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5890/41273&quot;&gt;ELL&lt;/a&gt;; see either post for an example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82909" LastEditorUserId="82909" LastEditDate="2023-04-23T16:50:58.203" LastActivityDate="2023-04-23T16:50:58.203" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12591" CreationDate="2023-04-25T06:52:25.560" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Following the Meta SE post “&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/298887/162827&quot;&gt;What’s the protocol for requesting a tag warning?&lt;/a&gt;” and &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/63436526#63436526&quot;&gt;TheLethalCarrot’s advice&lt;/a&gt;, I am suggesting a tag warning for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-story-identification-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; tag. This is based on the OP’s suggestion, the comments on their post, and our story ID guide: &lt;a href=&quot;//scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9335/7957&quot;&gt;How to ask a good story-ID question?&lt;/a&gt; Please let me know if you have any feedback, and feel free to suggest improvements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To get a helpful answer, include as much detail as possible in your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When did you see it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What kind of media was it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What plot, tone, setting, characters, and other &lt;em&gt;unique&lt;/em&gt; details do you recall?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How did it look? Describe the book cover, scenes, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What works have you already checked and ruled out?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more tips on how to improve your question, see our &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9335&quot;&gt;guide on asking a story identification question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7957" LastEditorUserId="16845" LastEditDate="2023-06-30T22:03:07.990" LastActivityDate="2023-06-30T22:03:07.990" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12591" CreationDate="2023-04-25T12:10:28.607" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My suggestion, based on &lt;a href=&quot;//scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13902/19561&quot;&gt;Galactig Ninja's&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To improve your chances of getting an answer, please provide as much information as possible:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When did you read or see it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What was it?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;A book, film, comic, TV series, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What details do you recall?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;No detail is too insignificant.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What did it look like?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Describe the book cover, scenes, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What works have you already checked and ruled out?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more tips on how to improve your question, see our &lt;a href=&quot;//scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9335&quot;&gt;guide&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2023-04-25T12:23:16.680" LastActivityDate="2023-04-25T12:23:16.680" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13900" CreationDate="2023-05-01T08:22:52.490" Score="7" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Good news! &lt;em&gt;Most&lt;/em&gt; of these images have been successfully reuploaded to SE Imgur.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is thanks to Glorfindel’s efforts — you can read more details on their Meta SE post at: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/388726/162827&quot;&gt;Imgur TOS change on May 15th 2023 could cause the loss of thousands of Stack Exchange images!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that Glorfindel’s script &lt;em&gt;has not fixed any posts yet; it has only reuploaded images&lt;/em&gt;. Follow their answer on the relevant Meta SE post for updates on whether it will fix the posts. Based on what Glorfindel wrote, it seems that it would need the help of SE staff to mass edit all the affected posts in the SE network. The Meta SE post has been marked &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-review&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-review&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;status-review&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-status-review-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;status-review&lt;/a&gt;, so the affected posts are likely to be fixed soon. &lt;em&gt;Therefore, there’s no need to manually fix posts or reupload the associated images that have already been uploaded by Glorfindel’s script.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Some media could not be reuploaded to SE Imgur by Glorfindel's script&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;…because they exceeded the 2 MiB file size limit, were in unsupported formats (GIFV, MP4, WEBP), or have been deleted from Imgur. For SF&amp;amp;F SE, there are only 30 failed reuploads to SE Imgur (2 in the child meta), so we should focus our efforts on editing those images (or looking for copies/alternatives if they've been deleted) to fit SE Imgur's requirements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;List of failed reuploads&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are the failed reuploads at the time Glorfindel's script ran in SF&amp;amp;F SE (Image URLs and failure info are from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Glorfindel83/SE-Userscripts/master/upload-imgur-images.md&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;results of Glorfindel’s script&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;em&gt;The list excludes fixed media&lt;/em&gt; — media that have been converted to 2 MiB or less, converted to an SE Imgur–compatible format, or for which a replacement has been found (if deleted), and then reuploaded and edited into their associated posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h4&gt;As of 2023-05-08, 29 out of the 32 media have been fixed. (Good work, everyone!)&lt;/h4&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have fixed the media and their associated posts, please remove their respective entries in the table. If there's an issue preventing the fixing of the associated posts, please note it in the &amp;quot;Notes&amp;quot; column of the table. (This post has been made a Community wiki post, so anyone can edit it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Media&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Post&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Failure&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Notes&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.imgur.com/64pkj4n.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://i.imgur.com/64pkj4n.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/265974/7957&quot;&gt;In Primer, how do you physically get in the box?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;FatalException: Wayback Machine can't be reached.&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/265974/7957&quot;&gt;can't find an archive copy of the image&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.imgur.com/FZxb1mj.mp4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://i.imgur.com/FZxb1mj.mp4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/274755/7957&quot;&gt;Sheet music shown in Picard S3 end credits: what song is this?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;FatalException: Wayback Machine can't be reached.&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;video with audio; unsupported by SE Imgur&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.imgur.com/jBwJzeu.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://i.imgur.com/jBwJzeu.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;unknown&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;APIException: Image uploads are limited to 2 MiB; please use a smaller image&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;can't find associated post&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Some notes on converting:&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt; • For quick conversion, you can use &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.xnview.com/en/xnshell/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;XnShell&lt;/a&gt; (Windows only): it adds a few neat Shell Extension (right-click file menu) options.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt; • JPGs &amp;gt; 2 MiB can be made ≤ 2 MiB by saving them at a lower quality. Some image editing software, such as Irfanview, have a 'set file size' functionality. Setting it at 2048 KiB (= 2 MiB) should work.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt; • PNGs &amp;gt; 2 MiB can usually be made ≤ 2 MiB by saving them to JPG. Setting quality = 95 usually works.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt; • Imgur GIFV videos also have a GIF version in a similar URL pattern. E.g., &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.imgur.com/example.gifv&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://i.imgur.com/example.gifv&lt;/a&gt; → &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.imgur.com/example.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://i.imgur.com/example.gif&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt; • GIFs &amp;gt; 2 MiB are a bit trickier to edit. Using a GIF optimizer such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://ezgif.com/optimize&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;, it may be possible to lessen its filesize to ≤ 2 MiB by doing one or more of the following: resizing it to have lower resolution (SE only shows 650px max width on embedded images), color reduction to reduce colors to 128, lossy GIF compression, cutting its frames in half by removing every 2nd frame then slowing it down to 50% to get back to previous speed.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt; • Another alternative is to archive the post using services such as: &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Internet Archive Wayback Machine&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.is/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;archive.today&lt;/a&gt;, so that the images in it can be edited back later. Note that this will only archive the image if it is embedded into the post. If it is linked but not embedded into the post you will need to archive the original Imgur URL, e.g., &lt;code&gt;https://i.imgur.com/example.gif&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7957" LastEditorUserId="7957" LastEditDate="2023-05-08T02:28:14.543" LastActivityDate="2023-05-08T02:28:14.543" CommentCount="8" CommunityOwnedDate="2023-05-03T00:19:50.457" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12767" CreationDate="2023-05-01T13:58:16.797" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since we're roughly 4 years removed from the Monica debacle that was raging during the original post, I thought I would make explicit why this was trolling and not a serious post. There were some folks arguing this was a good faith question and those who did not agree couldn't articulate why it wasn't. The big tell is in their list of pronouns&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Zir/zhey&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As with any good troll, they don't want to give away the farm just yet. Zir and zhey(more commonly spelled zey) are probably the best-known non-standard pronouns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fret/from&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem here is that these are regular words. While there are some exotic pronouns, if you want people to actually use them you try to make them familiar but distinct (i.e. &lt;a href=&quot;https://intercultural.uncg.edu/wp-content/uploads/Neopronouns-Explained-UNCG-Intercultural-Engagement.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the most used ones look relatively similar to the familiar &amp;quot;he&amp;quot;/&amp;quot;her&amp;quot; pronouns&lt;/a&gt;). These would be incredibly hard to use as pronouns in any normal context&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Var/let&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's the troll. These words make even less sense than the previous set. These aren't pronouns at all. How do I know? The relationship between the two words. The only place where these two words are used together in any meaningful context is &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/q/762011/2370483&quot;&gt;the programming language JavaScript&lt;/a&gt;. In other words, these are keywords for variable declarations, not neo-pronouns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Grimble/gromble (these are my pronouns)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This almost certainly a reference to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gnome&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pink Floyd song called &amp;quot;The Gnome&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;, which is told from the perspective of a gnome named Grimble Grumble. The second word was spelled slightly differently so it would be slightly less recognizable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastActivityDate="2023-05-01T13:58:16.797" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12591" CreationDate="2023-05-09T13:31:02.400" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few caveats on tag warnings&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't assume anyone will read them (&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/334713/2370483&quot;&gt;they don't on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They don't show on mobile. Try adding the tag &amp;quot;seo&amp;quot; on Stack Overflow and notice there's no guidance shown.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would propose something a bit more compact and conversational than a bullet list&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Story Identification answers depend a great deal on how many details of the story you can provide in your question. Details can include where you encountered the work, a time frame when you encountered the work, and what similar works you have ruled out. Even small details can matter! We have a complete guide to asking, which may help you find more details to add. Please read &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9335&quot;&gt;Tips for asking Story Identification questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastActivityDate="2023-05-09T13:31:02.400" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13907" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-05-11T15:44:13.850" Score="-8" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to make a question invisible so that it cannot be closed or deleted, or edited by anyone, without actually closing or deleting it myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to come back to it later on and edit it so that it's a better question, but I've previously had problems where questions become almost impossible to return to because because bots automatically close them again if you leave them for too long, or people voting to close them for other reasons, such as contents of the original question rather than the edited version, or because of personal disputes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150677" LastEditorUserId="150677" LastEditDate="2023-05-20T13:16:26.927" LastActivityDate="2023-05-20T13:16:26.927" Title="How do I hide a question without closing or deleting it?" Tags="|support|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13907" CreationDate="2023-05-11T16:03:35.060" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't do this.  While you have certain privileges as the poster of the question, you don't technically &lt;em&gt;own&lt;/em&gt; it to that degree.  Even if you delete the question, a sufficient quorum of high-reputation users could in theory choose to undelete it. (Though I can't see any case when that would actually happen in practice.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on what you describe, though, it sounds like deleting the question is probably what you want.  Only high-rep users will be able to see it (assuming they go looking) or be able to edit it; since nobody will see unless they undelete it, they won't bother. In practice only you will undelete and edit it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if calling the high-rep users who care enough about the site to act as community moderators &amp;quot;griefers&amp;quot; is really very constructive though.  They're not &amp;quot;just spamming&amp;quot; the question; they have individually made the decision that the question, as it appears, does not meet one or more of the standards of the community.  It's a multi-step process. One does not simply point to a bunch of questions, say &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;I don't like them&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; and start closing them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2023-05-12T21:02:25.613" LastActivityDate="2023-05-12T21:02:25.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13909" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13911" CreationDate="2023-05-15T11:16:15.083" Score="3" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is regarding the question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/275515/7957&quot;&gt;What is the significance of Ruby Rhod appearing on the menu screen of &amp;quot;The Fifth Element&amp;quot; video game?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/close/200249&quot;&gt;closed as &amp;quot;needs more focus&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/reopen/200254&quot;&gt;left closed&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/review/reopen/200267&quot;&gt;twice&lt;/a&gt; in the reopen review queue. I'm assuming it was closed because there are multiple questions in it. The gist of the question is that it's asking what's the deal with or what's the significance of Ruby Rhod's appearance on the menu screen. All the other questions are sub-questions that are relevant to answering the main question and are not asking for something completely unrelated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have edited the sub-questions to clarify their connection to the main question. If it still needs more focus in its present state,  &lt;strong&gt;what about it makes it not focused? And how can it be improved to get it reopened?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7957" LastEditorUserId="7957" LastEditDate="2023-05-15T13:47:30.913" LastActivityDate="2023-05-16T22:52:54.360" Title="What part of the &quot;Ruby Rhod appearing on the menu screen of The Fifth Element&quot; question needs more focus?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closing-questions|closed-questions|vote-to-reopen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13907" CreationDate="2023-05-15T17:15:31.287" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I'd advise copying the contents of the question to your computer, or a trusted online personal storage, and then deleting it. That way, no one can mess with it, and when you've figured out how to revise it, you can repost it. It will effectively be invisible, and unable to be edited, closed, or deleted by anyone but yourself until you choose to post it again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternately, you can always copy the contents (and the URL of the question) to one of those locations and then let it stand. When you decide to return to improve the question, if it still exists, you edit it (and possibly campaign for undeletion and/or re-opening if it's in that state) and life moves forward. If it's been entirely expunged, you post the new and improved question to the site, and all is well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2023-05-15T17:15:31.287" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13909" CreationDate="2023-05-16T22:52:54.360" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;In its &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/revisions/275515/1&quot;&gt;original form&lt;/a&gt; this question was ghastly. It was poorly written and barely coherent. Several close votes occurred before I got a chance to edit it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fifth element ps2 question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 3:00&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why the menu choice is with the character Rugby? Why Rugby runs&#xA;away,where is he going?where is this place he is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does the player character enters inside him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can’t understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even after my edit it carried on attracting close votes and eventually got closed. GalacticNinja then tweaked the title and made a few cosmetic changes and it's since been reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's a great question, but the fact that it's answerable goes a long way to improving the chances of it being reopened. They can't all be winners, but at least we were able to salvage it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2023-05-16T22:52:54.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13912" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2023-05-22T12:56:51.490" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff Atwood (Stack Overflow co-founder) once blogged about the scope of questions. He entitled it &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/08/16/gorilla-vs-shark/&quot;&gt;Gorilla vs Shark&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What serious, expert animal trainer would give Gorilla vs. Shark the time of day? This kind of question attracts the opposite of experts: people who aren’t serious animal trainers, but are willing to engage in idle speculation and discussiony generalities — rather than focusing on the real world, specific, honest-to-goodness questions they face in their day to day work. Any true expert who came to animaltrainers.stackexchange.com would be appalled to see a question like Gorilla vs. Shark appear on the homepage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A prime example on Sci-Fi &amp;amp; Fantasy would be &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6723/could-the-enterprise-beam-a-vampire-into-a-house-she-didn-t-have-permission-to-e&quot;&gt;Could the Enterprise beam a vampire into a house she didn’t have permission to enter?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a serious question that has been bothering me. We all know that in most vampire lore, a vampire cannot enter a house without an invitation. It's like an unbreakable barrier. But what would happen if you used a transporter, like on the U.S.S. Enterprise, to beam a vampire inside a house, uninvited?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This fits the description of Gorilla vs Shark to a tee. There aren't any vampires in the Star Trek universe, and transporter rules are often malleable to what the given writers of an episode need. There's no objective way to answer this. Answers would be based entirely upon supposition, and thus opinion based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastEditorUserId="62709" LastEditDate="2023-05-22T13:07:43.097" LastActivityDate="2023-05-22T13:07:43.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13913" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2023-05-22T12:56:51.490" Score="0" Body="&quot;Gorilla vs Shark&quot; was an analogy Jeff Atwood made to describe questions where the subject is too broad to provide a proper answer. See tag info for blog link. Use to discuss the scope of SFF questions that appear to have no definite answers." OwnerUserId="62709" LastEditorUserId="62709" LastEditDate="2023-05-22T12:56:51.490" LastActivityDate="2023-05-22T12:56:51.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13914" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13915" CreationDate="2023-05-22T21:07:06.927" Score="1" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't spent much time on the Meta side of things so I'm a little confused on how it works. Obviously it's the same in the sense that users have access to both and all my rep carries over, but what about privileges? I don't see them listed on my user profile on the meta side. Is it just the same as SFF? Or are they separate for each, like the badges?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry if this is said somewhere in the Help pages. I tried looking around but didn't see anything for it. If it exists a link to the page would be much appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157793" LastEditorUserId="82909" LastEditDate="2023-05-23T01:15:56.253" LastActivityDate="2023-05-23T01:18:12.447" Title="Are the Privilege levels in Meta the same as SFF?" Tags="|support|privileges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13914" CreationDate="2023-05-23T01:18:12.447" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only privilege that's different is that it takes 5 rep to create posts on this meta site (with one &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/274518/323179&quot;&gt;exception&lt;/a&gt;). Other than that, your main site rep is synced to meta hourly so you have the same reputation-based privileges you have on the main site. But no bounties, since you have no way to gain or lose reputation on meta sites like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta Stack Exchange, the meta for the entire network, does have differences, however (listed here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/58587/323179&quot;&gt;What are the reputation requirements for privileges on sites, and how do they differ per site?&lt;/a&gt;). It works more like a main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82909" LastActivityDate="2023-05-23T01:18:12.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13916" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-05-24T21:18:02.890" Score="21" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rock and Roll/Rhythm and Blues icon &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Turner&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tina Turner&lt;/a&gt; passed away at her home in Switzerland today, at age 83.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although most knew the &amp;quot;Queen of Rock'n'Roll&amp;quot; for her music career, Science Fiction fans remember Tina for her role as the ruthless &lt;a href=&quot;https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Aunty_Entity&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Auntie Entity&lt;/a&gt; in the 1985 blockbuster &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max_Beyond_Thunderdome&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and the hit song &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/Gcm-tOGiva0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;We Don't Need Another Hero&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; she recorded for that movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63330" LastEditorUserId="63330" LastEditDate="2023-05-24T21:34:48.743" LastActivityDate="2023-05-24T21:34:48.743" Title="RIP Tina Turner" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13917" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-05-25T23:28:05.443" Score="10" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actor Ray Stevenson passed away recently at the tragically young age of 58. Since his breakout role in 2004's &lt;em&gt;King Arthur&lt;/em&gt;, Stevenson had been a genre mainstay, playing supporting roles in &lt;em&gt;G.I. Joe: Retaliation&lt;/em&gt;, the &lt;em&gt;Thor&lt;/em&gt; series, the &lt;em&gt;Divergent&lt;/em&gt; series, and &lt;em&gt;The Book of Eli&lt;/em&gt;. He also lent his voice to &lt;em&gt;Star Wars Rebels&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: The Clone Wars&lt;/em&gt; and will play a pivotal role in the upcoming series &lt;em&gt;Ahsoka&lt;/em&gt;. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of the Punisher in the criminally underrated &lt;em&gt;Punisher: War Zone&lt;/em&gt; and Titus Pollo in the HBO series &lt;em&gt;Rome&lt;/em&gt;. He was a reliably stoic presence in genre films and his artistry will be missed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68065" LastEditorUserId="118276" LastEditDate="2023-05-26T06:31:56.910" LastActivityDate="2023-05-26T06:31:56.910" Title="RIP Ray Stevenson, actor in Thor, Rome, Punisher: War Zone" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6712" CreationDate="2023-05-26T22:55:44.587" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I quote his line about cats not having forgotten that they were once worshipped as gods. Anyone with a beautiful female cat sees how apt this is -- I never met a creature who clearly thought she was the center of the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105042" LastActivityDate="2023-05-26T22:55:44.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7003" CreationDate="2023-05-28T20:33:50.950" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I only know about this because it cropped up in the active queue due to @Machavity's link repair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that in the 6 years since this was posted, SFF's attitude towards topicality has evolved to the point where &lt;strong&gt;no such questions should be on topic&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order for SFF to stay on mission, in the spirit of Stack Exchange&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions must be answerable&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;answers must be based on facts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the only pertinent facts are the things that appear in the works themselves.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we can never ask &amp;quot;Who would win?&amp;quot; &lt;strong&gt;We have to ask &amp;quot;Who &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; win?&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone released a SFF movie where a gorilla character fought a shark character, it would be perfectly OK to ask about that gorilla versus that shark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OP's blog gave a couple of examples (Hulk versus Superman and Hulk versus Spiderman) that could be on topic because they &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; have fought. &lt;strong&gt;We have to ask &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Did&lt;/em&gt; they fight?&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; before can can ask &amp;quot;who won?&amp;quot;. Typically by OP citing the fight in their question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How to properly ask &amp;quot;Was there a fight?&amp;quot; is trickier (because some property crossovers are more likely than others) and is probably best left for a separate question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63330" LastActivityDate="2023-05-28T20:33:50.950" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13921" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13922" CreationDate="2023-05-30T15:52:03.713" Score="14" ViewCount="231" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, I was looking at a question, and these are the voting buttons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/euooF.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/euooF.png&quot; alt=&quot;Image of current voting buttons&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a page, opened earlier today, which shows different formatting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9yon4.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9yon4.png&quot; alt=&quot;Image of voting buttons this morning&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was there an intentional change?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2023-05-30T15:54:11.823" Title="Did we change the voting button formatting?" Tags="|discussion|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13921" CreationDate="2023-05-30T15:54:11.823" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was an intentional change by SE to &amp;quot;graduate&amp;quot; the voting button styles across the network. You can see the main meta post for it here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/389359/345161&quot;&gt;We are graduating the updated button styling for vote arrows&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Update&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This experiment has been graduated. The new styling for vote arrows is now live across the Stack Exchange network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2023-05-30T15:54:11.823" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13923" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-06-04T03:48:56.470" Score="1" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have also seen the questions. So I'm not going to directly link to them here. But what is the consensus on how we should deal with questions that ask for explanations of English language words used in a sci-fi setting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example question would be -&amp;quot;What does left turn mean in this scene in the Matrix?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions seem to follow a similar pattern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Created by a new/low level user.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not a lot of information in the question other than a direct quote and maybe an image.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The user raises a number of questions about the same sci-fi film/series/book in a short time period.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions can generally be answered by anyone with a good understanding of the English language.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The questions are not directly related to the sci-fi property but are more questions about the English language itself.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should them questions be flagged to close, should the user be directed to another stack overflow or what do people think should be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="153074" LastActivityDate="2023-06-04T03:48:56.470" Title="How should we deal with questions asking about the meaning of words in a sci-fi setting?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="9" ClosedDate="2023-06-11T14:07:18.190" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13924" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13925" CreationDate="2023-06-04T18:23:33.160" Score="11" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure if this is the place to ask, but could not anywhere else I could think to use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Logged on today to check the stack and posted a comment and saw that it was from &amp;quot;user92109&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wait, What?!? Thought someone else posted the same comment, but reading it, saw it was the one I posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Checked my profile and I see that I am &amp;quot;user92109&amp;quot; now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been on here for 5+ years, I set my profile name a long time ago. How did it suddenly disappear?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it deleted for inappropriate content? (Don't think so)  [NJohnny]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was there a data loss that reverted it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="92109" LastActivityDate="2023-06-04T18:48:02.603" Title="Profile name has changed unexpectedly?" Tags="|bug|user-accounts|profile-page|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13924" CreationDate="2023-06-04T18:48:02.603" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I checked your user history page (visible only to moderators) and it shows an &amp;quot;edit displayname&amp;quot; event on &lt;code&gt;2023-05-20 04:09:35Z&lt;/code&gt; where your username was changed from NJohnny to user92109.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally, when a user changes their own display name, there is an IP address associated with that change. When a moderator edits a user's display name, if I recall correctly (this doesn't happen often), the moderator's name appears next to the history event. Here, the IP address is &lt;code&gt;0.0.0.0&lt;/code&gt; and no moderator's name appears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm as puzzled as you about what happened. It doesn't seem to have been either you or a moderator changing your display name. Let's put it down to the gremlins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2023-06-04T18:48:02.603" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13926" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-06-06T11:41:57.553" Score="35" ViewCount="661" Body="&lt;p&gt;As some of you may be aware a new policy came into effect recently, whereby moderators network wide were told to not moderate new content on the site solely on the basis of it being AI generated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, here is &lt;a href=&quot;https://devclass.com/2023/06/05/stack-overflow-volunteer-moderators-down-tools-over-secret-new-policy-that-obstructs-removal-of-ai-generated-content/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;an article&lt;/a&gt; about the situation to catch you up to speed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And while this is more of a Stack Overflow problem, I'm both striking in solidarity with moderators across the network and because we have a problem with what are considered low quality posts but not &lt;strong&gt;very&lt;/strong&gt; low quality posts generated by AI tools like ChatGPT, mainly on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-id&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-id&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-id&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-story-id-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;story-id&lt;/a&gt; posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason this is a particular issue is, that to the untrained eye these are simply &lt;em&gt;technically&lt;/em&gt; wrong answers, which we get plenty of but don't deserve deletion simply by being wrong, at least not if they're well intentioned and have put some effort in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new policy essentially tells us to leave their moderation to non-diamond moderators, who don't have the same tools to detect patterns of abuse that mark these out as different from regular users trying (and sometimes failing) to answer questions earnestly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I've signed (with my SE oauth login) &lt;a href=&quot;https://openletter.mousetail.nl/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this list of moderators on strike&lt;/a&gt;, and I'm downing moderator tools until we come to a better agreement with the company running the network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Caveats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be the first to admit, I'm not the most active mod on the site, but I am still striking out if principle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, please hold me to this! If I slip into moderating habits on autopilot please call me out!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="3804" LastEditDate="2023-06-08T23:28:10.910" LastActivityDate="2023-06-08T23:28:10.910" Title="Sci-Fi moderator on AI content strike" Tags="|discussion|moderation|stackexchange|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13939" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-06-22T14:30:00.650" Score="11" ViewCount="272" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Updated&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/2023/07/favorite-question-and-answers-from-second-quarter-2023/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Blog has been posted.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Original&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like, you know, whatever!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from April 1st 2023 through June 30th 2023.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2023/04/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2023/04/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2023/04/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I will be linking all blog posts that happened within this quarter year. Also the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/550327/most-controversial-posts-on-the-site-by-start-date&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;most controversial question&lt;/a&gt; of the quarter. Also a sum of all the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/618952/past-bounties-by-bounty-date&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;bounties&lt;/a&gt; that were awarded.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally if there was a meta post you feel should be spotlighted those are also acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="1148" LastEditDate="2023-07-30T01:20:56.317" LastActivityDate="2023-07-30T01:20:56.317" Title="Favorite Question and Answers from Second Quarter 2023" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13939" CreationDate="2023-06-22T22:42:52.720" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I enjoyed answering this one;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/275931/who-is-mario-trying-to-rescue-in-donkey-kong&quot;&gt;Who is Mario trying to rescue in Donkey Kong?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've never really dug into early Nintendo lore before and it was fun reading about all the characters that never made it to the big-time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2023-06-22T22:42:52.720" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13939" CreationDate="2023-07-03T18:00:52.253" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was a weird one, but I really enjoyed that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/276331/a-film-where-a-guy-has-to-convince-the-robot-she-s-okay&quot;&gt;A film where a guy has to convince the robot she’s okay&lt;/a&gt; resulted in so many valid answers on what I thought was a fairly unique premise, counseling a dead wife in a non-humanoid robot body in a garden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2023-07-03T18:00:52.253" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13945" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-07-04T15:41:20.157" Score="15" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per a notice on their &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gfycat.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;main page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Gfycat service is being discontinued. Please save or delete your Gfycat content by visiting &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gfycat.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.gfycat.com&lt;/a&gt; and logging in to your account. After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will be deleted from gfycat.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are only &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=url%3A%22gfycat.com%22&quot;&gt;a few (6) posts&lt;/a&gt; that have links to gfycat, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/15396/how-powerful-is-twilight-sparkle/148551&quot;&gt;one of them&lt;/a&gt; has a crazy number (&lt;em&gt;29&lt;/em&gt;) of them, and I'm not going to touch it.  Note that some of the links are already broken, and will likely simply have to be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastActivityDate="2023-07-15T06:24:32.957" Title="The Gfycat animated image hosting platform is shutting down" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13946" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-07-05T04:52:25.683" Score="14" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;As stated, I asked a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/158482/looking-for-the-title-of-a-tad-williams-style-book&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; over 5 years ago that was closed due to &amp;quot;Needs to be more focused&amp;quot;. Now, the irony is that I was recently in a Half Priced Bookstore, and found the book I was asking about. As I was purchasing it, I was telling the person that I'd asked on here YEARS ago about it. Now that I've found it, I was wondering the rules on posting an update. For reference, here's the book:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2c2wN.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2c2wN.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11159" LastActivityDate="2023-07-05T15:14:42.497" Title="Am I allowed to edit an old question I posted that has been closed?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13946" CreationDate="2023-07-05T15:14:42.497" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should post a comment on the question that you've discovered the answer, and flag the question to be reopened.  Once the question is reopened, you can answer it and accept your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that &amp;quot;needs focus&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;needs clarity&amp;quot; are frequently judgment calls anyway, and the community in general is open to revisiting these statuses if the circumstances change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastActivityDate="2023-07-05T15:14:42.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13945" CreationDate="2023-07-05T15:18:45.190" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only post with Gfycat links that still needs fixing is this one: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/148551/7957&quot;&gt;How powerful is Twilight Sparkle?&lt;/a&gt; The rest have been fixed as of 2023-07-15.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been reuploading some of the Gfycat GIFs to SE Imgur on SF&amp;amp;F, Arqade, and Anime &amp;amp; Manga.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's what I found out:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those Gfycat links that are GIFs (URLs that end with &lt;code&gt;.gif&lt;/code&gt;) and for &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; Gfycat MP4 video links, even if the original Gfycat link is broken, there are “size restricted” GIF versions available at these URL formats:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;https://thumbs.gfycat.com/AdjectiveAdjectiveAnimal-size_restricted.gif&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;https://thumbs.gfycat.com/AdjectiveAdjectiveAnimal-max-1mb.gif&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: Pay attention to the letter case in the URLs. (This is important for the GIF URLs but not for MP4 video URLs.) The first letters of the two adjectives and the animal name in the GIF identifier in the URL &lt;em&gt;must be capitalized,&lt;/em&gt; e.g., &amp;quot;AdjectiveAdjectiveAnimal&amp;quot;, or else the link will not work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/117015/revisions#rev-body-d6bfd1f3-6e15-46cd-b908-b6af28280d6a&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://giant.gfycat.com/ImpureBrokenBobolink.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://giant.gfycat.com/ImpureBrokenBobolink.gif&lt;/a&gt; is broken, but there is still a GIF at &lt;a href=&quot;https://thumbs.gfycat.com/ImpureBrokenBobolink-size_restricted.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://thumbs.gfycat.com/ImpureBrokenBobolink-size_restricted.gif&lt;/a&gt;, which I reuploaded to SE Imgur. It also has another GIF version at &lt;a href=&quot;https://thumbs.gfycat.com/ImpureBrokenBobolink-max-1mb.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://thumbs.gfycat.com/ImpureBrokenBobolink-max-1mb.gif&lt;/a&gt;, which is of a much lower resolution than the &amp;quot;size_restricted&amp;quot; version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check if a broken Gfycat link is available as a GIF in the above URL formats first. Note that many Gfycat links in SF&amp;amp;F are MP4 videos that don’t have GIF versions; most are in this post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/148551/7957&quot;&gt;How powerful is Twilight Sparkle?&lt;/a&gt; For videos, you’ll need to use a &lt;a href=&quot;https://ezgif.com/video-to-gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;tool&lt;/a&gt; to convert them to GIF format before uploading them to SE Imgur, which doesn’t support videos. You can download Gfycat videos using &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;yt-dlp&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that SE Imgur has a 2 MiB file size limit. If the GIF is larger than 2 MiB, you need to reduce its file size by doing one or more of the following before uploading to SE Imgur: lossy GIF compression, resizing it to have a lower resolution, reducing its color depth to 128 or even 64, etc. You can use &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gifsicle&lt;/a&gt; or a &lt;a href=&quot;https://ezgif.com/optimize&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;similar online tool&lt;/a&gt; for this purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7957" LastEditorUserId="7957" LastEditDate="2023-07-15T06:24:32.957" LastActivityDate="2023-07-15T06:24:32.957" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13949" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13950" CreationDate="2023-07-10T09:48:31.970" Score="14" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, the usage guidance for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-little-mermaid&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-little-mermaid&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-little-mermaid&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-the-little-mermaid-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;the-little-mermaid&lt;/a&gt; does not even acknowledge the existence of the original story, reading:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For questions regarding Walt Disney's The Little Mermaid. Always use in conjunction with the [disney] tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the original story by Hans Christian Andersen is on topic as well. We currently have two questions about it that are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; about the Disney adaptation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/270898/19561&quot;&gt;Marionette version of &amp;quot;The Little Mermaid&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/270876/19561&quot;&gt;ID an adaptation of The Little Mermaid with dark scary atmosphere&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we edit the usage guidance to include the original?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastEditorUserId="19561" LastEditDate="2023-07-10T11:19:43.147" LastActivityDate="2023-07-10T11:19:43.147" Title="Shouldn't [the-little-mermaid] include the original as well instead of just the Disney adaptation?" Tags="|discussion|tags|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13949" CreationDate="2023-07-10T09:48:31.970" Score="20" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag should include the original and all adaptations. The usage guidance should reflect this, possibly mentioning the Disney adaptation since this is the one that's most well known. Neither of the Disney adaptations has enough questions to warrant their own tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The usage guidance could read:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For questions regarding Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, including adaptations. Use in conjunction with [disney] when asking about any of the Disney versions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19561" LastActivityDate="2023-07-10T09:48:31.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12591" CreationDate="2023-07-24T19:49:31.113" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I set up the tag warning using the copy in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13902&quot;&gt;galacticninja's answer&lt;/a&gt;. Please let me know if you see any issues or need to make any further tweaks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4257" LastActivityDate="2023-07-24T19:49:31.113" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13952" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13956" CreationDate="2023-07-25T02:17:55.830" Score="18" ViewCount="392" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tons of people across the site lost reputation yesterday (UTC 7/23/23). I lost a measly 20 rep, but some people lost tons more. After losing 11k+ rep, poor Valorum's back down to 660k (&lt;em&gt;oh, the ignominy!&lt;/em&gt;), and a lot of other users have seen similar plummets in their rep-score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's confusing me is why this vote-reversal has been attributed to '&lt;em&gt;Serial Voting Reversed&lt;/em&gt;'. Though I'm familiar with the general idea of what that means, I can't see how anything that's evidently affected so many users can be considered targeted voting. (In my experience, it's generally account deletion that results in such widespread repercussions.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that the specifics of voter fraud and when votes are thrown out are guarded information, but I do wonder whether a general picture of what happened could be provided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="163094" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2023-07-26T08:40:22.743" LastActivityDate="2023-07-26T08:40:22.743" Title="Why the massive rep-drop yesterday?" Tags="|support|reputation|voting|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13952" CreationDate="2023-07-25T03:50:28.670" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a bit of a guess, but I'm posting it because I suspect there won't be any official comment about this.  (There normally isn't about this kind of thing.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I sometimes noodle around the subtabs of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;Users page&lt;/a&gt;, one of which is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=voters&quot;&gt;Voters tab&lt;/a&gt;.  Every time (before now) I have visited that tab this year, the top voter, sometimes by a factor of two, was the same user.  On one occasion I noticed they had voted over a thousand times that month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That user no longer appears on the list; I strongly suspect that user is the one that was removed.  What specifically triggered the removal (and why now) is obviously something that won't be shared with the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastActivityDate="2023-07-25T03:50:28.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13952" CreationDate="2023-07-25T07:03:04.253" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's confusing me is why it says 'Serial Voting Reversed'. Though I'm familiar with the general idea of what that means, I can't see how anything that's evidently affected so many users can be considered targeted voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My understanding is that sometimes, voting rings will provide large numbers of upvotes to people outside of the ring, to disguise their activities and make their targeted votes look legit. If and when a voting ring is discovered, those &amp;quot;disguise upvotes&amp;quot; are reversed along with the targeted votes, and the users who received them will lose large amounts of rep (330, in my case) through no fault of their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you said, it's unlikely the mods are going to confirm this, but I &lt;em&gt;believe&lt;/em&gt; that's what's happened here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76048" LastActivityDate="2023-07-25T07:03:04.253" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13952" CreationDate="2023-07-25T10:12:59.177" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;While originally this message always meant that you had personally received a suspicious number of votes from a certain user (or several!), it now is used for at least three different types of voting fraud, as I explain on &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/379864/323179&quot;&gt;Meta SE&lt;/a&gt; (reproduced below under &amp;quot;Types of serial voting reversal&amp;quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going by DavidW's observation, I would assume it was some type of scripted voting. If so, it was reversed by staff after manual review. However, if that's true, the voter must have been at it for over a year, voting above and beyond what's needed to get badges. The votes for Valorium alone would have taken the better part of a year to cast, since the maximum per day is 40.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Types of serial voting reversal&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/serial-voting-reversed&quot;&gt;Classic serial voting reversal&lt;/a&gt;, where one user voted too much on a single user's posts within a short time frame. This can be pretty distinctive since there may be a lot of votes being reversed at once (though I believe that in some circumstances it's not so many, maybe even as few as three).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/362059/323179&quot;&gt;Scripted voting reversal&lt;/a&gt;. This happens when staff decides that someone was gaming the system (usually to get badges), using what has to be automated voting, but they've posted enough that their account shouldn't be deleted outright. It's rare, but this type of reversal has been done on multiple occasions. Usually this is a single vote that's being reversed. Sometimes it's more than one, depending on how active you were during the period the voting was taking place.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/379788/323179&quot;&gt;Double voting reversal&lt;/a&gt;. In some cases, it is possible for the same user to vote more than once on the same post. Generally, this happens when two profiles who've both voted on the same post are merged, but this can also happen if the user exploits a race condition. As of June 2022, there is a script to reverse these votes. This means that if a user voted more than once the same post, all those votes except one would be reversed. More details at &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/418080&quot;&gt;A post so nice, I upvoted it twice (actually, 10 times)!&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82909" LastActivityDate="2023-07-25T10:12:59.177" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13952" CreationDate="2023-07-25T15:16:23.253" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't get super deep into detail here, but it deserves some explanation. I know this question touches a... whole hell of a lot of users on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be brief, we released a new tool to help mods find suspicious voting on sites, and sure enough, moderators of SFF found a user who was potentially voting without regard for the content on the site. They did a good job of diagnosing the problem, too (you've got a good team here). I looked through the voting record and found that the user in question indeed appeared to be voting on as much content as possible, essentially irrespective of quality. What I saw definitely qualifies as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/conduct/disruptive-use&quot;&gt;disruptive use&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I wiped the votes from this user. Unfortunately they numbered in the tens of thousands, across a wide range of users. &lt;em&gt;Fun fact! A couple users lost over 10k rep from this.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143562" LastActivityDate="2023-07-25T15:16:23.253" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13957" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-07-26T13:31:01.647" Score="13" ViewCount="230" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/48578/what-can-cause-a-question-to-be-bumped&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; about reasons for Community to bump questions notes that it's possible to impose a limit on how fast/often Community can bump posts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some sites prevent additional questions from being auto-bumped while an auto-bumped question is near the top of the front page (i.e. the most recently active posts). If one of the top N posts, sorted by activity date, has been bumped, no questions will be auto-bumped by the Community user that hour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me we might consider asking for that.  As I post this, Community is once again at 9/15 on the homepage.  (Not counting the recently-bumped question that collected a relatively poor-quality answer.)  9/15 is a lot; it's too much, and it's wiping out current activity.  And even once this flood abates, it's only going to re-occur in 120 days as the clock on all the currently-bumped posts times out and they become simultaneously eligible to bump again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastActivityDate="2023-08-09T11:31:14.803" Title="Should we ask to limit the number of Community bumped posts on the front page?" Tags="|discussion|community|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13957" CreationDate="2023-07-26T17:07:38.640" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Note: this answer expresses a personal opinion and not a mod decree. Feel free to downvote or post opposing answers if you disagree.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't think this is necessary.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current situation is exceptional - it's not going to be every day, or even every year, that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13956/31394&quot;&gt;tens of thousands of votes disappear due to a new suspicious vote detection tool being rolled out&lt;/a&gt;. We need to weather the wave of Community bumps right now just as we need to weather the wave of lost reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know which sites have enabled limits on numbers of Community bumped posts, but I imagine most of them are very small sites. I've seen some sites on the SE network which have &lt;strong&gt;so little activity&lt;/strong&gt; that the front page is always dominated by Community bumps, because nobody else is actually doing anything. That's not our case at all: SFF is a pretty active site, with many new questions and answers every day and many people editing posts all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, outside of exceptional circumstances like what's going on this week, I doubt we'll ever have a problem with Community bumping more than a few posts on the same day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2023-07-26T17:07:38.640" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13957" CreationDate="2023-07-30T16:20:26.413" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should do this.  As I type up this answer Community is 13/15 on the home page and the site &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; looks dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/v5lfB.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/v5lfB.png&quot; alt=&quot;Top half of home page&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HlNut.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HlNut.png&quot; alt=&quot;Bottom half of home page&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastActivityDate="2023-07-30T16:20:26.413" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13960" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13961" CreationDate="2023-08-01T20:44:08.370" Score="2" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know there is a loss of one reputation when you down-vote a post but the reputation change takes time to show up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we accidentally down-vote a post and undo it a few seconds later does the reputation loss undo as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="165782" LastActivityDate="2023-08-01T20:48:13.040" Title="Do we gain our reputation back if we undo an accidental down-vote?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|down-votes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13960" CreationDate="2023-08-01T20:48:13.040" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, but again the reputation change may take time to show up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2023-08-01T20:48:13.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13957" CreationDate="2023-08-09T11:31:14.803" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Why not ask?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally think it wouldn't hurt to ask (The question is about asking).   The worst that could happen would be that SE agrees with @Randal'Thor and says &amp;quot;no&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But even in that case, we might also learn more about how the bumping algorithm works and be better prepared for the next time this happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63330" LastActivityDate="2023-08-09T11:31:14.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13963" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-08-09T17:26:44.113" Score="-1" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a comment to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/277985/87710&quot;&gt;Are the knife/sword fights too fast in Dune (2021)?&lt;/a&gt;. @AndresF. responded to the comment with a request to post the comment as an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have nothing at all against @AndresF.'s response. This isn't personal at all and I appreciate @AndresF. for responding. No matter my reasons for leaving a comment, it's perfectly reasonable to point out that something that walks like an answer and quacks like an answer should be posted as an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The response led me to ask if asking about the artistic license of any director of any film adaptation of a story is on-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;An exclusion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Occasionally I see questions posted on this Stack asking why a particular movie expressed a particular idea in a particular way. Or, worse, asking for more details about some aspect of the movie. My question in this post is broad enough that it &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be interpreted as wanting to deal with these kinds of questions, too. Maybe. Not really. There's a difference between a story adaptation and an original film presentation. The adaptation has source material that a director may or may not choose to address. An original film is another animal altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This post is not addressing policy in regard to questions about original films. It is only asking about policy in regard to film adaptations.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why is my issue important?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When adapting a story there is, for lack of a better phrase, a certain amount of &amp;quot;conversion error.&amp;quot; Frank Herbert's &lt;em&gt;Dune&lt;/em&gt; is a pretty good example. It's complex with a rich backstory that fires the imagination. Consequently, to do the entire book justice would probably take 10+ hours of film (minimum!) and that film might actually be a bit boring because it's natural for the human mind to skip over things when reading that aren't of interest and to latch onto things that are and try to bring them to life in our minds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In real life, the limits of a film adaptation are frequently due to economics and nothing at all about the source material. Yes, there have been some stories that have waited decades for film technology to catch up to the author's creativity, but in the end (and simplifying a LOT), what limits the director is cash. Few (if any) directors are given carte blanche to bring an entire book to life. So...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dune (1984) was 2h 17m.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dune (2000) was 4h 25m.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dune: Part 1 (2021) was 2h 35m and &amp;quot;part 2&amp;quot; will likely be similar, so &amp;quot;Dune (2021,2023)&amp;quot; will be approx. 5h 10m.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of them did or will represent the source material fully. Directors (who I'm using to represent the entire production team) can only present so much in so little time and so they must pick and choose what they will present and how they present it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My issue&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason any director chooses to represent or not represent anything about the source material for a film adaptation appears to me to be, at best, &lt;em&gt;opinion-based.&lt;/em&gt; With exceptions&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;citation needed&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, the reasons for those choices will be dependent on production limitations or (worse) the creative interpretation of the director. Not canon.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That led to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/277985/are-the-knife-sword-fights-too-fast-in-dune-2021#comment766735_277985&quot;&gt;my comment&lt;/a&gt;, which was basically, &lt;em&gt;you're asking why a director's artistic license was used in a way that may or may not reflect canon. We can't read his mind and director's do this all the time.&lt;/em&gt; I left the comment because, honestly, I was expecting the question to be closed as opinion-based. What any of us thinks is or is not right about a film adaptation of a book seems, at best, to be an off-topic discussion and the idea that there may be a quote from the director at some convention or something that might create a definitive and objective answer seems unlikely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;But it has happened.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But does that rare and happy event mean the site should be cluttered with questions about interpreting the intent of the director of a film adaptation? I'm not so sure. Perhaps worst of all, I'm not sure what the OP was expecting as an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which leads to my question here on Meta: are questions about the artistic license of any director of any film adaptation of a story on-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;em&gt;Herbert's Dune happens to have the good fortune of being the poster child for this issue. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodorowsky%27s_Dune&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jodorowsky's Dune&lt;/a&gt; is a prime example of a director using the source material for no better reason than to bring the director's own desires to life. And Jodorowsky is famous for having some, shall we say, odd proclivities when it comes to film making. That his effort led to some incredibly famous stuff (i.e., Star Wars) doesn't change the fact that Jodorowsky's vision of Dune had almost nothing at all to do with Herbert's vision of Dune. Consequently, asking why Jodorowsky did anything not in keeping with the canon of the story is a patent waste of time. The answer will always be, &amp;quot;because he's Jodorowsky....&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87710" LastActivityDate="2023-08-10T11:22:41.797" Title="Clarification request: does this stack host questions about artistic license for film adaptations?" Tags="|discussion|scope|policy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13963" CreationDate="2023-08-10T11:22:41.797" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First off, the question referenced didn't specify that they were looking for justification of the artistic decision; it was (at least to me) a question about reconciling the book description with what was seen on screen - which could (potentially) have an in or out of universe answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there was an in universe answer, it would definitely fall within scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An out of universe answer (including it being an artistic choice) would still fit within guidance as 'Behind-the-scenes' information, as per &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;help center&lt;/a&gt;. If we exclude these, it would also rule out any question where 'J K Rowling is bad at maths' as an answer, along with anything where a stylistic choice was the reason for a setting or action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking specifically about an artistic decision would be borderline and might fit better on other sites, but I think would still just about be within scope. Asking a question where 'artistic decision' is a possible answer, but where there is uncertainty as to whether there is an in-universe explanation would be solidly in scope for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118276" LastActivityDate="2023-08-10T11:22:41.797" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13965" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-08-21T18:32:26.807" Score="1" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question was closed for &amp;quot;seeking recommendations or open-ended lists&amp;quot;, neither of which are true. There is definitely a limit to the depictions asked for, and no recommendation was asked for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/278309/which-species-did-tolkien-show-to-laugh-or-cry&quot;&gt;Which species did Tolkien show to laugh or cry?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/V3UuB.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/V3UuB.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I understand that some didn't like the question, that doesn't mean it's off-topic. It was even commented that it was interesting to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I note that there was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/278240/which-species-dance-in-tolkiens-works&quot;&gt;a similar question&lt;/a&gt; recently on which species danced, which was upvoted and kept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user166942" LastEditorUserId="39144" LastEditDate="2023-08-23T19:53:48.810" LastActivityDate="2023-08-23T19:53:48.810" Title="Why was this question closed as off-topic for &quot;seeking recommendations or open-ended lists&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13965" CreationDate="2023-08-21T20:13:18.353" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question should not have been closed for seeking recommendations or open-ended lists. As you've said, there are only a limited number of works that can be consulted (approx 15, depending on what you consider to be part of &amp;quot;Tolkien's Legendarium&amp;quot;) and you're certainly not looking for recommendations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, your question (as asked) was very widely scoped and basically unanswerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I'm wondering about the emotional range shown for each species&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is a very messy title and your subsequent edits didn't really get to the bottom of what you were actually asking. &lt;strong&gt;This question should rightly have been closed for &lt;em&gt;lacking focus&lt;/em&gt;, not being a list question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2023-08-21T20:32:12.643" LastActivityDate="2023-08-21T20:32:12.643" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7371" CreationDate="2023-08-24T11:57:42.807" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just played with the phrase Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="165782" LastActivityDate="2023-08-24T11:57:42.807" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13968" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-08-26T23:49:31.783" Score="13" ViewCount="214" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.superherohype.com/news/545532-arleen-sorkin-passes-away-harley-quinn/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.superherohype.com/news/545532-arleen-sorkin-passes-away-harley-quinn/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Harley Quinn voice actress Arleen Sorkin has passed away at the age of 67.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The news was broken by fellow veteran voice actor Neil Kaplan on Twitter. “It broke my heart to hear… the original voice of Harley Quinn, [Arleen] Sorkin has passed away,” said Kaplan. “I adored her work as HQ &amp;amp; as Calliope in Days of Our Lives.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ih6YA.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ih6YA.png&quot; alt=&quot;Tweet from Neil Kaplan&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="62709" LastEditDate="2023-08-30T14:45:58.000" LastActivityDate="2023-08-30T14:45:58.000" Title="RIP Arleen Sorkin, voice of Harley Quinn" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13969" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13970" CreationDate="2023-08-29T08:33:26.737" Score="2" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there something unexpected going on here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7147/why-do-time-travel-stories-often-have-the-characters-returning-to-the-future&quot;&gt;Why do time-travel stories often have the characters &amp;quot;returning&amp;quot; to the future?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The linked question was closed three years ago and yet it has jumped onto the front page today?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Superficially I can see the reason it shows up is an edit in one of the answers, but I was surprised to see the promotion effect didn't care that the question was closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40437" LastActivityDate="2023-08-29T15:38:38.640" Title="Should closed questions return to the front page?" Tags="|bug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13969" CreationDate="2023-08-29T15:38:38.640" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only questions filtered from the home page are either historically locked, heavily downvoted (less than -3 on main or -7 on metas), or deleted. All other questions will show up on the home page when bumped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of closed questions, this is a great way to ensure that wrongful closures are reversed. It also allows other users to double check on any edits, in case further edits or a rollback is needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82909" LastActivityDate="2023-08-29T15:38:38.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13972" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13973" CreationDate="2023-09-05T09:14:29.300" Score="11" ViewCount="253" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am wondering if the 2023 film &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1517268/reference/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Barbie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; is considered on-topic. The film depicts a fantasy world called Barbie Land, where various Barbies, Kens, and other characters such as Allan live. A significant portion of the film takes place in this world, while the rest follows Barbie and Ken as they visit the “Real World”. Is this film on-topic for this site? If so, how should we tag questions about it? The question I have in mind is about the meaning or humor behind a line said by one of the Barbies in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7957" LastActivityDate="2023-09-05T09:20:55.373" Title="Is Barbie (2023 film) on-topic? If so, how should we tag questions about it?" Tags="|discussion|tags|scope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13972" CreationDate="2023-09-05T09:20:55.373" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes the &lt;em&gt;Barbie&lt;/em&gt; film should be considered on topic. I'm unsure why it wouldn't be as the whole premise is literally that toys are alive living in a different world but also existing as toys in the human world. On top of that the toys and humans can travel between the two worlds. The ending is also probably even more fantastical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we need more evidence though note that &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; describes the film as &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;a 2023 American fantasy comedy film&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; and on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1517268/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; it is tagged as Fantasy in the genres.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About tagging the film I would suggest going with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/barbie-2023&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;barbie-2023&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;barbie-2023&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-barbie-2023-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;barbie-2023&lt;/a&gt; so we don't confuse anyone thinking all of Barbie would be on topic here which I don't think it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58193" LastActivityDate="2023-09-05T09:20:55.373" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13974" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13975" CreationDate="2023-09-28T15:56:07.533" Score="21" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;Michael Gambon, most remembered in the SFF community for his portrayal of Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter film franchise, has &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39408742&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;passed away this morning at age 82.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Michael may have been loud once when he should spoken softly, my favorite line from Dumbledore has always been&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So with great sadness I wish Michael the best of times on his next great adventure, for surely he did indeed have a well-organized mind. I know he will be missed by myself, members of the Wizarding World community, and our prayers are with his family and friends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2023-10-02T07:45:11.930" Title="Here's to the next great adventure, Michael Gambon" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13974" CreationDate="2023-10-02T00:09:41.147" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I imagine he has boarded a train and gone &amp;quot;on&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gi1gA.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gi1gA.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2023-10-02T07:45:11.930" LastActivityDate="2023-10-02T07:45:11.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13976" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13977" CreationDate="2023-10-02T21:01:29.610" Score="14" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have at least four &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-story-identification-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; questions with accepted answers on these books, one with the overall series as the answer, two for &lt;em&gt;The Name of the Wind&lt;/em&gt;, and one for &lt;em&gt;The Wise Man's Fear&lt;/em&gt;. They ask about different aspects of the books, but all are fairly good answers. I have a gold badge, so my vote would auto-close it, making me uncomfortable making that call.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/78848/23243&quot;&gt;Story identification: Fantasy novel with a faun named Benji&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/83756/23243&quot;&gt;Story Identification: Fantasy, magic system involves holding contradictory thoughts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/279044/23243&quot;&gt;Book about a famous wizard before he was famous&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/279498/23243&quot;&gt;Assassin/Fantasy Novel with Tree of Blades test&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="23243" LastEditDate="2023-10-02T21:29:33.480" LastActivityDate="2023-10-02T22:29:53.217" Title="How to dupe-close these questions about The Kingkiller Chronicles" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13976" CreationDate="2023-10-02T22:24:17.410" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;This all seems very straightforward and I'm not at all uncomfortable about swinging the dupe stick here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I've edited the title of &lt;em&gt;the book series&lt;/em&gt; into all four accepted answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I've duped them off to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/279045/20774&quot;&gt;this question and answer&lt;/a&gt; as it seems to be the most highly regarded and also contains the largest amount of relevant info about the book series.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I've taken the liberty of cleaning up all the links&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I've corrected a bunch of grammar and spelling mistakes and removed a bunch of chatter from the questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I've slung upvotes on everything because they're all pretty decently written.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2023-10-02T22:29:53.217" LastActivityDate="2023-10-02T22:29:53.217" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13643" CreationDate="2023-10-03T11:59:14.950" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nearly two years on from the initial discussion and we still don't have our third 'custom close' reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to fret though, because out of the last 55 questions that were closed '&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tools/question-close-stats?daterange=last90days&quot;&gt;with community-specific reasons&lt;/a&gt;', a huge proportion of them (more than 80%) were closed with the reason...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This question does not appear to be about Science Fiction or Fantasy, as defined in the [FAQ] and Help Centre&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...or some variation thereof.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So it seems that we don't need to bother creating a new custom reason since the community has just gone ahead and done it all on its own.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/e42pK.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/e42pK.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2023-10-03T11:59:14.950" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13979" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-10-03T14:31:16.913" Score="8" ViewCount="205" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ain't no duplicate!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please link to your favorite questions and answers which were either asked or answered from July 1st 2023 through September 30th 2023.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answers will be compiled into a blog post like previous &lt;a href=&quot;https://thesffblog.com/category/qotw/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quarterly posts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be using DavRob60's queries for a baseline, but I really appreciate people voicing the ones they really enjoyed. Maybe you feel like you answered one really well, even if it didn't receive a lot of votes. Let me know about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106579/questions-with-most-votes-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2023/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106705/questions-with-most-view-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2023/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with most &lt;strong&gt;View&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/science%20fiction%20and%20fantasy/query/106709/questions-with-best-answer-created-within-3-month-range?StartDate=2023/07/01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Questions with &lt;strong&gt;best answer&lt;/strong&gt; created within 3 month range&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I will be linking all blog posts that happened within this quarter year. Also the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/550327/most-controversial-posts-on-the-site-by-start-date&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;most controversial question&lt;/a&gt; of the quarter. Also a sum of all the &lt;a href=&quot;https://data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/618952/past-bounties-by-bounty-date&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;bounties&lt;/a&gt; that were awarded.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally if there was a meta post you feel should be spotlighted those are also acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1148" LastEditorUserId="58193" LastEditDate="2023-10-03T14:51:13.797" LastActivityDate="2023-10-04T08:25:19.870" Title="Favorite Question and Answers from Third Quarter 2023" Tags="|discussion|blog|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13979" CreationDate="2023-10-04T08:25:19.870" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I liked this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/277409/discworlds-death-letting-granny-weatherwax-win-in-a-card-game-over-a-childs-li&quot;&gt;Discworld&amp;#39;s Death letting Granny Weatherwax win in a card game over a child&amp;#39;s life&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've read the Discworld books a dozen times and yet I'm still having things I missed brought to my attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2023-10-04T08:25:19.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13981" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13982" CreationDate="2023-10-13T22:50:46.623" Score="4" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two days ago, I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/279789/do-starfleet-officers-get-to-go-on-leave-during-times-of-war?noredirect=1#comment771962_279789&quot;&gt;a question.&lt;/a&gt; Specifically, my question was: &amp;quot;Do Starfleet officers get to go on leave during times of war?&amp;quot; I soon received two responses, both of which were clear and direct. However, upon reading both of them, I realized that one of the respondents had partially misinterpreted my post (justifiably, considering the wording of the title). I had intended to ask about &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;voluntary&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; shore leave for rest, recuperation, vacation or other reasons--all that mattered was that it was whether or not the decision was made of free will, and not by requirement (such as being required to rest due to an injury). In fact, the first part of the respondent's answer quoted a case in which a character took voluntary time off for self-reflection, which did answer my question--but the second part had also included a case involving medical leave. I already knew that &lt;em&gt;medical leave&lt;/em&gt; would be necessary, and that it was not the same as &lt;em&gt;shore leave.&lt;/em&gt; In essence, although this question was partially acceptable, it was also answering a question that &lt;em&gt;I did not intend to ask.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to clarify my question, I changed the title to &amp;quot;Do Starfleet officers get to go on &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;shore&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; leave during times of war?&amp;quot; I also edited the body slightly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any known scenarios of Starfleet officers going on &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;shore&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; leave during war?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, I inserted a piece explaining my corrections.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I just wanted to clarify that I'm talking about taking a vacation, not resting due to health-related events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was to make it abundantly clear that I was talking about voluntary shore leave for R&amp;amp;R, vacation, recreation, or self-discovery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A day later, I discovered that the respondent had rolled back every single one of my edits because they believed I shouldn't have changed my question to invalidate their answer. This started a debate: was it appropriate for the respondent to roll back all of my edits so my question fit their answer, or was it wrong for me to change my question to invalidate their answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was disappointed for multiple reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;First, the respondent already &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; provide a strong, clear answer, so I had considered accepting it. I knew that editing my question would require the answer to change some because the second part &lt;em&gt;did not respond to the question I truly intended to ask.&lt;/em&gt; Despite this, I would have been willing to accept it even after the edits because the first part was &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; invalid and answered my question perfectly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Second, the respondent seemed to believe that when I made the edits, I did so with the intention of invalidating their answer. My true goal was to ask clarify my question to eliminate confusion and wrong answers. I had not received any wrong answers (or at least none that were entirely incorrect), so I did not believe the edits would have a significant impact on the responses.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The respondent neglected to consult with me for potential options so we could both be satisfied. Instead, they blatantly told me to write a new question with the edits I made. Of course, the new question would have been at high risk for being a duplicate. It would have been nearly identical to the previous question, and I had already gotten questions. What would be the point of asking a new one if it's just going to get closed?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today, TheLethalCarrot cleaned up the chat and wrote, like the respondent, &amp;quot;I would [like] everyone to note that edits to the question that invalidate existing answers should not be made&amp;quot; while leaving &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/179215/edited-question-makes-answers-incorrect/179216#179216&quot;&gt;a link&lt;/a&gt; to a question on Meta Stack Exchange addressing this particular problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This post starts, &amp;quot;Here's the situation- someone asks a question, accepts an answer, and then un-accepts the answer, and edits the question, making that answer and other existing answers incorrect...&amp;quot; This situation is already different from mine because I never accepted any of their answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At any rate, one user answers, &amp;quot;If you have a brand new question, don't edit your existing question to ask it. Ask a new question instead, or ask for clarification using comments.&amp;quot; They go on to say, &amp;quot;Users are encouraged to clarify and improve existing questions, if they are under-specified or otherwise incomplete. That's not the same thing as asking a new question that renders the existing answers invalid.&amp;quot; I was &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; asking a brand new question. My edited question would have covered the exact same subject, while only eliminating a &lt;strong&gt;single&lt;/strong&gt; irrelevant scenario and thus clarifying an under-specified question. Plus, an edit of &lt;strong&gt;one&lt;/strong&gt; word in the title and body of the question, respectively, can hardly be called a &amp;quot;brand new question.&amp;quot; If I really did write a new question with those edits, I have no doubt that it would have been closed, given that &lt;strong&gt;a number of users&lt;/strong&gt; have trended towards strict or even harsh close votes these days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a somewhat nuanced and complicated issue, but in this case, was it right for the respondent to roll back all my edits?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127968" LastActivityDate="2023-10-14T10:02:26.500" Title="In this situation, is it appropriate for a respondent to roll back all the edits the OP made to their post?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13981" CreationDate="2023-10-14T10:02:26.500" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;A fundamental principle of the Stack Exchange network is that you can't edit a question to invalidate existing answers, no matter how much you might want to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How does editing work?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some common reasons to edit a post are:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;To clarify the meaning of the post &lt;strong&gt;(without changing that meaning)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/editing&quot;&gt;https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/editing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been discussed in detail here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/179215/edited-question-makes-answers-incorrect/&quot;&gt;Edited question makes answers incorrect&lt;/a&gt; (Network-wide)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7418/best-policy-when-edit-to-question-invalidates-the-answer&quot;&gt;Best policy when edit to question invalidates the answer&lt;/a&gt; (SFF:Meta)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The appropriate courses of action if you realise you've asked a question that's too broad or poorly scoped are to;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wait and see if additional answers address your specific case&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Prod the respondents with &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;friendly&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post a bounty asking for answers that address the specific case.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Do I need to ask a new question?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. In this instance the question asked encompasses a wide variety of possible responses &lt;em&gt;including&lt;/em&gt; the one you realised that you're after. It would appear that you were unaware that the term &amp;quot;on leave&amp;quot; means a range of things (e.g. rather than the more explicit &amp;quot;on shore leave&amp;quot;), but if an example of shore leave came up, it would still make a perfectly good answer to your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no need for a new question that only asks about shore leave, since that would be a direct duplicate, as would a question about any of the other types of leave mentioned below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/g6xbr.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/g6xbr.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2023-10-14T10:02:26.500" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13983" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13984" CreationDate="2023-10-17T15:06:32.080" Score="4" ViewCount="493" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many of the questions asked on Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange have to do with story identification. But if you just need to identify a story, couldn't you just ask ChatGPT or just Google it? These questions are not exactly the kind of questions that need to be answered by a human, like on Math or Biology Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="166759" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2023-10-17T18:19:18.717" LastActivityDate="2023-10-18T16:46:20.937" Title="Can ChatGPT Answer Story Identification Questions?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13983" CreationDate="2023-10-17T15:17:41.823" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've had scenarios where people used AI tools like ChatGPT to answer story-ID questions, and the results were... not good. AI likes to invent things that don't necessarily exist in order to provide the perfect answer to the question, which isn't very helpful when trying to identify an existing story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone wants to try asking an AI, they're more than welcome to do that. If someone is asking here, though, presumably they're looking for a human to figure out the nswer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Google, searching is a skill, and searching for story-IDs isn't easy. I've been able to identify some story-ID questions here on the site using search engines in the past, and it takes time, effort, and a certain amount of familiarity with search tools and tricks. Not everyone has those search skills and we don't expect everyone to have them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are currently &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification?tab=Unanswered&quot;&gt;4,100+ unanswered story-identification questions&lt;/a&gt; on SFF. If it was as simple as Googling or asking ChatGPT, that wouldn't be the case. You're not going to be able to replace &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?q=user:14111+%5Bstory-identification%5D&quot;&gt;user14111&lt;/a&gt; with AI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33591" LastActivityDate="2023-10-17T15:17:41.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13983" CreationDate="2023-10-17T18:56:11.830" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm. The best way to work something out is by conducting an experiment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since ChatGPT is limited (at present) to data generated before September 2021 we can happily work with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-id&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-id&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-id&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-story-id-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;story-id&lt;/a&gt; questions posted &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; this date without accidentally contaminating them with solved answers from our own site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Methodology:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I've grabbed the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/search?tab=newest&amp;amp;q=%5Bstory-identification%5D%20duplicate%3A1&amp;amp;searchOn=3&quot;&gt;20 most recent Story-ID duplicates&lt;/a&gt; (since I presume those are going to be the ones that are easiest to answer and there's no sense making things hard for our AI friend, after all he's only a couple of years old) and keyed them in word-for-word into the &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.openai.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ChatGPT box&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Results:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;ChatGPT only correctly solved one in twenty of the most recent Story-ID questions, although it identified the correct &lt;em&gt;author&lt;/em&gt; on two other occasions. So, no. &lt;strong&gt;ChatGPT can't answer story-ID questions with any degree of accuracy, and is twenty times more likely to be wrong than right&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a much more positive note, however, in each case it successfully identified that this was a Story-ID question. &lt;strong&gt;We should use it to categorise and tag Story-ID questions, not answer them.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Results table:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/279962/story-about-a-man-whos-exploring-an-alien-construction-on-the-moon-he-must-die&quot;&gt;Story about a man who&amp;#39;s exploring an alien construction on the moon. He must die repeatedly before he gets to the end&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Correct answer = &lt;em&gt;Rogue Moon&lt;/em&gt;  by Algis Budrysis&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ChatGPT = &lt;em&gt;The Hole Man&lt;/em&gt; by Larry Niven&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Result = &lt;strong&gt;Incorrect&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/279941/book-involving-a-war-with-aliens-space-travel-and-time-dilation&quot;&gt;Book involving a war with aliens, space travel, and time dilation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Correct answer = &lt;em&gt;The Forever War&lt;/em&gt; by Joe Haldeman&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ChatGPT = &lt;em&gt;The Forever War&lt;/em&gt; by Joe Haldeman&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Result = &lt;strong&gt;Correct&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/279939/searching-for-novel-about-space-exploration&quot;&gt;Searching for novel about space exploration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Correct answer = &lt;em&gt;Russian Spring&lt;/em&gt; by Norman Spinrad&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ChatGPT = &lt;em&gt;The Grand Tour&lt;/em&gt; by Ben Bova&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Result = &lt;strong&gt;Incorrect&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/279894/anime-where-the-main-character-finds-a-card-with-a-red-aura-in-a-box-inside-a-sh&quot;&gt;Anime where the main character finds a card with a red aura in a box inside a shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Correct answer = &lt;em&gt;Tai Chi Chasers!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ChatGPT = &lt;em&gt;Cardfight!! Vanguard&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Result = &lt;strong&gt;Incorrect&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/279875/book-about-a-banker-businessman-going-into-a-fantasy-world-where-he-meets-and-f&quot;&gt;Book about a banker/businessman going into a fantasy world, where he meets and falls in love with a plant girl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Correct answer = &lt;em&gt;Magic Kingdom for Sale-SOLD&lt;/em&gt; by Terry Brooks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ChatGPT = &lt;em&gt;The Unhandsome Prince&lt;/em&gt; by John Moore&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Result = &lt;strong&gt;Incorrect&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/279840/a-sentient-war-machine-damaged-to-the-point-it-cant-tell-friend-from-foe&quot;&gt;A sentient war machine damaged to the point it can&amp;#39;t tell friend from foe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Correct answer = &lt;em&gt;I Made You&lt;/em&gt; by Walter Miller Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ChatGPT = &lt;em&gt;Second Variety&lt;/em&gt; by Philip K. Dick&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Result = &lt;strong&gt;Incorrect&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/279767/sci-fi-about-colonizing-planet-with-dumb-humans&quot;&gt;Sci-Fi About Colonizing Planet With Dumb Humans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Correct answer = &lt;em&gt;The Worthing Saga&lt;/em&gt; by Orson Scott Card&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ChatGPT = &lt;em&gt;Hothouse&lt;/em&gt; by Brian Aldiss&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Result = &lt;strong&gt;Incorrect&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/279600/sci-fi-novel-where-a-student-temporarily-transports-the-school-director-to-hell&quot;&gt;Sci-fi novel where a student temporarily transports the school director to hell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Correct answer = &lt;em&gt;The Godmakers&lt;/em&gt; by Frank Herbert&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ChatGPT = &lt;em&gt;The Demolished Man&lt;/em&gt; by Alfred Bester&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Result = &lt;strong&gt;Incorrect&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/279498/assassin-fantasy-novel-with-tree-of-blades-test&quot;&gt;Assassin/Fantasy Novel with Tree of Blades test&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Correct answer = &lt;em&gt;The Wise Man's Fear&lt;/em&gt; by Patrick Rothfuss&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ChatGPT = &lt;em&gt;The Blade Itself&lt;/em&gt; by Joe Abercrombie&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Result = &lt;strong&gt;Incorrect&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/233352/man-creates-ai-copy-of-himself-gets-dementia-commits-murder-suicide-while-wife&quot;&gt;Man creates AI copy of himself, gets dementia, commits murder-suicide while wife is out&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Correct answer = &lt;em&gt;Living Will&lt;/em&gt; by Alexander Jablokov&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ChatGPT = &lt;em&gt;The Veldt&lt;/em&gt; by Ray Bradbury&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Result = &lt;strong&gt;Incorrect&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/279458/bradbury-story-about-immortal-kid&quot;&gt;Bradbury story about immortal kid?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Correct answer = &lt;em&gt;Hail and Farewell&lt;/em&gt; by Ray Bradbury&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ChatGPT = &lt;em&gt;The Immortal&lt;/em&gt; by Ray Bradbury&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Result = &lt;strong&gt;Incorrect&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/279364/book-written-early-80s-or-before-about-a-2m-tall-student-on-a-school-spaceship&quot;&gt;Book written early 80s or before about a 2m tall student on a school spaceship&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Correct answer = &lt;em&gt;There Is No Darkness&lt;/em&gt; by Joe Haldeman&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ChatGPT = &lt;em&gt;Space Cadet&lt;/em&gt; by Robert A. Heinlein&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Result = &lt;strong&gt;Incorrect&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/279352/70s-80s-tv-show-where-an-alien-entity-shaped-as-a-small-luminous-pyramid-gets-in&quot;&gt;70s-80s TV Show where an alien entity shaped as a small luminous pyramid gets in contact with a teenager&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Correct answer = &lt;em&gt;Chocky&lt;/em&gt; (1984)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ChatGPT = &lt;em&gt;The Triangle&lt;/em&gt; (1982)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Result = &lt;strong&gt;Incorrect&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/279316/horror-movie-involving-a-mirror-and-someone-cutting-themselves-with-scissors&quot;&gt;Horror movie involving a mirror and someone cutting themselves with scissors&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Correct answer = &lt;em&gt;The Boogey Man&lt;/em&gt; (1980)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ChatGPT = &lt;em&gt;Candyman&lt;/em&gt; (1992)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Result = &lt;strong&gt;Incorrect&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/279247/novel-about-a-planet-that-relies-on-one-soldier-the-last-soldier-in-history&quot;&gt;Novel about a planet that relies on one soldier - the last soldier in history - to defend it&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Correct answer = &lt;em&gt;The Golden Age&lt;/em&gt; by John C. Wright&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ChatGPT = &lt;em&gt;The Forever War&lt;/em&gt; by Joe Haldeman&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Result = &lt;strong&gt;Incorrect&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/279177/short-story-in-which-earth-is-invaded-by-humanoids-who-are-a-bit-dim&quot;&gt;Short story in which Earth is invaded by humanoids who are a bit dim&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Correct answer = &lt;em&gt;Pandora's Planet&lt;/em&gt; by Christopher Anvil&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ChatGPT = &lt;em&gt;The Trouble with Humans&lt;/em&gt; by Christopher Anvil&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Result = &lt;strong&gt;Incorrect&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/279162/fantasy-series-where-magic-is-performed-by-connecting-tattoos&quot;&gt;Fantasy series where magic is performed by connecting tattoos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Correct answer = &lt;em&gt;Dragon Wing&lt;/em&gt; by Margaret Weis&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ChatGPT = &lt;em&gt;Kingkiller Chronicle&lt;/em&gt; series by Patrick Rothfuss&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Result = &lt;strong&gt;Incorrect&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/279142/novel-i-read-more-than-50-years-ago-about-a-man-with-three-brains-that-will-wake&quot;&gt;Novel I read more than 50 years ago about a man with three brains that will wake up successively&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Correct answer = &lt;em&gt;One Against Time&lt;/em&gt; by Astron del Martia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ChatGPT = &lt;em&gt;The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch&lt;/em&gt; by Philip K. Dick&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Result = &lt;strong&gt;Incorrect&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/279061/book-series-about-a-group-of-teenagers-that-have-powers-and-one-boy-is-a-dragon&quot;&gt;Book series about a group of teenagers that have powers and one boy is a dragon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Correct answer = &lt;em&gt;The Unwanteds&lt;/em&gt; by Lisa McMann&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ChatGPT = &lt;em&gt;The Drake Chronicles&lt;/em&gt; by Alyxandra Harvey&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Result = &lt;strong&gt;Incorrect&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/279001/short-story-told-by-a-shop-owner-involving-different-customers-who-find-and-go&quot;&gt;Short story told by a shop owner, involving different customers who find and go through a time-travelling mirror&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Correct answer = &lt;em&gt;The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate&lt;/em&gt; by Ted Chiang&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ChatGPT = &lt;em&gt;The Terrible Plop&lt;/em&gt; by Ursula Vernon&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Result = &lt;strong&gt;Incorrect&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2023-10-18T16:46:20.937" LastActivityDate="2023-10-18T16:46:20.937" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13469" CreationDate="2023-10-22T20:13:13.780" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The standard comment &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/369111/8&quot;&gt;has been updated&lt;/a&gt; and is now more generic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it’s currently written, your answer is unclear. Please edit to add additional details that will help others understand how this addresses the question asked. You can find more information on how to write good answers in the help center.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answer could be improved with additional supporting information. Please edit to add further details, such as citations or documentation, so that others can confirm that your answer is correct. You can find more information on how to write good answers in the help center.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="163094" LastActivityDate="2023-10-22T20:13:13.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13987" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13988" CreationDate="2023-10-23T12:55:31.607" Score="-9" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you may know, &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4855/should-movies-tv-meta-have-obituary-posts-for-deaths-of-famous-cineasts-simil&quot;&gt;obituary posts aren't allowed on Movies and TV Meta SE&lt;/a&gt;, and here, the scope is about Sci-Fi &amp;amp; Fantasy works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is it allowed to post obituaries for well-known filmmakers, actors/actresses, scriptwriters, etc. who have passed away recently &lt;em&gt;but&lt;/em&gt; weren't part of any Sci-Fi or Fantasy work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="165782" LastEditorUserId="165782" LastEditDate="2023-10-24T09:53:26.947" LastActivityDate="2024-04-02T00:21:33.307" Title="Is it okay to post obituary posts on meta for those who never were on a Sci-Fi or Fantasy work?" Tags="|discussion|scope|closing-questions|in-memoriam|meta|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13987" CreationDate="2023-10-23T18:25:58.970" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a word, no. Per page zero of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;Tour&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange is a question and answer site&#xA;for science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts. It's built and run by you&#xA;as part of the Stack Exchange network of Q&amp;amp;A sites. With your help,&#xA;we're working together to build a library of detailed answers to every&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;question about science fiction or fantasy&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question doesn't even tangentially touch on the subject of sci-fi or fantasy, we're not really here for you, even if there's nowhere else in the network. And that goes for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10444/20774&quot;&gt;Meta-RIP posts&lt;/a&gt; too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That all being said, if you can find &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; relevant connection, that's entirely fine. They don't need to be a 'sci-fi-or-fantasy actor' exclusively, just someone who's been in something that meets the site topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2023-10-23T18:25:58.970" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13989" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13991" CreationDate="2023-11-03T18:59:42.207" Score="12" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/280489/4318&quot;&gt;What was the plagiarised story published by Asimov’s?&lt;/a&gt; refers to an essay published in &lt;em&gt;Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine&lt;/em&gt;, after the magazine apparently published a story which was later determined to be plagiarized. The question specifically asks to identify the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asimov apparently took pains in the essay to avoid identifying the specific story. Assuming there's no other authoritative information about the event on the Internet, what other kind of answer would be acceptable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the comments suggest searching previous issues of the magazine for possible stories. But any answer that identifies a story based on circumstantial evidence would be speculative, with the added problem of possibly libeling an innocent author as a plagiarist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4318" LastEditorUserId="82909" LastEditDate="2023-11-03T23:47:17.470" LastActivityDate="2023-11-03T23:47:17.470" Title="What is the standard for answering &quot;What was the plagiarised story published by Asimov’s?&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13989" CreationDate="2023-11-03T19:31:22.060" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the libel concern isn't really very large.  An answer (that isn't rapidly downvoted and probably deleted) will have to meet all the criteria of the question and the comments (published January 1983 to April 1985, male author, no further stories in &lt;em&gt;Asimov's&lt;/em&gt;) &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; will only really answer the question if the story that is &lt;em&gt;plagiarized&lt;/em&gt; can be identified as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that we're mostly reasonable people here, and angry, trolling, or other unpleasant posts will either get cleaned up or rapidly deleted.  There won't be a string of posts randomly accusing members of the SF community of rampant plagiarism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That an answer should identify the original story also creates a sufficiently high bar that there are unlikely to be any misidentifications, and would also (in the U.S., where SE is headquartered) fail to reach the bar of ill intent and blatant falsehood that is required for a charge of libel against an individual.  (I am not a lawyer, but I read Popehat and, according to Ken White, the First Amendment to the Constitution of the U.S. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.popehat.com/2013/12/02/quasi-literate-racist-asshole-jim-deberry-of-definitive-television-threatens-to-sue-above-the-law-for-calling-his-video-racist/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;permits the expression of opinions formed from the available facts&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the very worst a cease-and-desist order will be entered and the post taken down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastActivityDate="2023-11-03T19:31:22.060" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13989" CreationDate="2023-11-03T19:31:31.060" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as you can reasonably back up your assertion it's not libel, it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_comment&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;fair comment&lt;/a&gt; and there are a number of ways you could answer this question in a high quality fashion;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Locate an authoritative source that outright identifies the plagiarising author.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Identify the story in question and which story it's a copy of.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You also have the option of going for option #3&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide a &lt;em&gt;partial answer&lt;/em&gt; (they need love too), by identifying which author/s meet the criteria described in the essay (e.g. male, never published in that magazine again, etc., etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2023-11-03T19:55:54.747" LastActivityDate="2023-11-03T19:55:54.747" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13992" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-11-04T13:28:15.387" Score="16" ViewCount="213" Body="&lt;p&gt;Author &lt;a href=&quot;https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/flynn_michael_f&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Michael F. Flynn&lt;/a&gt;, most notable for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?13361&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Firestar&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; sequence of novels, passed away at the very end of September.  Flynn got his start publishing short works mostly in &lt;em&gt;Analog&lt;/em&gt; in the mid-1980s, working up to the serialized novel &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1724&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;In the Country of the Blind&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (serialized 1987, novel 1990) in which Babbage's Difference Engine worked and is used by a secret organization to manipulate the course of history.  (Scooping the 1990 Sterling/Gibson collaboration &lt;em&gt;The Difference Engine&lt;/em&gt; by several years.)  His early novella &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?48638&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Eifelheim&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; (1986) was nominated for a Hugo Award, placing 5th.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nZCGp.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nZCGp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Cover of Analog, August 1987 showing a bespectacled Victorian gentleman, in a Victorian-appearing streetscape, holding a stick from which modern inventions like jet airplanes, cars, and computers dangle from strings like a marionette&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastActivityDate="2023-11-04T13:28:15.387" Title="RIP Michael F. Flynn" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13993" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13998" CreationDate="2023-11-05T07:25:07.967" Score="25" ViewCount="464" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question was asked yesterday: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/280563/very-old-novel-about-a-planet-with-a-living-ocean&quot;&gt;Very old novel about a planet with a living ocean&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A comment was posted asking whether the answer was &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Solaris&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;. OP replied to say that it was, so I closed the question as a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/231908/old-sci-fi-story-about-alien-planet-with-psychic-ocean&quot;&gt;duplicate&lt;/a&gt;, in line with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7067/20774&quot;&gt;our policy on dupes&lt;/a&gt; (e.g. where OP accepts &lt;em&gt;in a comment&lt;/em&gt; that it's a dupe, it can be closed as a dupe regardless of whether it's been answered)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was quite surprised to see that it now has an accepted answer. When I &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/280563/timeline&quot;&gt;checked the timeline&lt;/a&gt; I found that a user, the same commenter from earlier had used their gold tag badge authority to reopen the question, &lt;em&gt;post an answer&lt;/em&gt;, then reclose it a few seconds later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Was this an appropriate course of action, and more generally, should we be reopening closed duplicate questions to answer them?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2023-11-05T07:39:18.853" LastActivityDate="2023-11-07T21:48:00.613" Title="Reopening a duplicate so you can add an answer, then reclosing it?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="34" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13993" CreationDate="2023-11-05T09:30:58.760" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unilaterally reopening a question to answer it and then unilaterally closing it again is not an appropriate use of one's &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/230865/increase-close-vote-weight-for-gold-tag-badge-holders&quot;&gt;unilateral closing and reopening privileges&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The privilege is not meant to give one a free pass to answer questions that should stay closed. This applies to both moderators and gold tag badge holders. A question should stay closed if it’s a duplicate, or stay open if it's not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, the question &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a duplicate and already has an answer in the duplicate target, so it was inappropriate and unnecessary to reopen it, answer it, and then re-close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7957" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2023-11-05T09:32:48.540" LastActivityDate="2023-11-05T09:32:48.540" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13993" CreationDate="2023-11-05T11:00:15.840" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, this action had been at the suggestion of the OP of the question (that is, myself) who in a comment (that I have erased afterwards) wrote that I found it unfair for the user who had found the book in a comment rather than as a proper answer. I was checking the question for the case where it were reopened and was very happy to accept (and in addition upvote) the answer. In fact I felt guilty: since the title sounded familiar I checked on Wikipedia and from the summary there I recognised it was correct. I did not realise  before that just telling in a &lt;strong&gt;comment&lt;/strong&gt; that it was right made it instantly a dupe. Next time this happens I'll write a comment &amp;quot;This sounds familiar, please write a formal answer adding some details so I can be sure and accept it if it is indeed correct.&amp;quot; My bad, apologies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115682" LastActivityDate="2023-11-05T11:00:15.840" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13993" CreationDate="2023-11-06T08:18:05.343" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is an issue with story ID questions that has caused some argument in the past and that has, as far as I know, never been definitively addressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a decade of story ID questions all the well known works have been asked about - many times for the most popular stories. So if someone asks a question about e.g. a well know Asimov short story it's going to be a duplicate and all the more experienced members of the site will know it's a duplicate. That means writing an answer is a deliberate choice to write an answer to a question known to be a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is whether we should post an answer anyway? In a way that I cannot frame in any logical way this feels like rep-hunting behavior and particularly deplorable when done by experienced users who don't need to scrabble for reputation. But then I have posted answers to questions that I should have known were duplicates so I have no moral high ground to stand on. My experience is that there is a burst of excitement on realising that I recognise a story (without recourse to Google) and this often leads me to post first and think second.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in any case, who says it's wrong to post an answer to a question you know is a duplicate? The OP didn't know it was a duplicate, and it's probably annoying to have your question closed without an answer when it was asked in good faith. And there will be special cases such as when the OP has remembered an obscure aspect of the story that is not mentioned in any of the answers to the duplicate(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I suspect there is no answer. The sensible course is to point that rep is an irrelevant measure of anything and the subjective feelings referred to in my third paragraph are irrational and probably a bit childish. But story identification inevitably becomes competitive and it's only human to regard your rep as a mark of your status in the community as an uber-nerd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said all this, the reason we close a question is because we believe that it should not be answered. I'm not sure if the &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/closed-questions&quot;&gt;SE guidelines on closed questions&lt;/a&gt; explicitly say they should not be answered but it seems to me that this is implied. You may feel that a question should not have been closed, so you may wish to reopen it, post an answer, then leave it open. But to reopen it, post an answer, then close it again does seems like a step too far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4144" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2023-11-06T18:29:12.180" LastActivityDate="2023-11-06T18:29:12.180" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13993" CreationDate="2023-11-06T13:20:16.527" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a mixed opinion. In cases where the duplicate answer is sufficient, I think it's alright to leave it as a comment, particularly if the alternative is copying and pasting the other answer verbatim. If it is not equivalent (they're asking about different parts of the work, or remember different details, I think it's appropriate to have an original answer posted. And overall, I'm mildly opposed to a comment-only answer, since comments are not guaranteed to be permanent, and mildly opposed to there just being a link to another answer, since the content at links can change, and we have a general policy against link-only answers, that they should stand on their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I attach no moral judgment to opening the question, answering it, and closing it. To me, that's more of a personal choice than a moral one. I suppose that, as one of the top three, I might be a bit biased, but past the first few thousand points (where you accumulate privileges), the point system really doesn't mean all that much. I think that I personally would not re-open a question to post an answer based on a comment accepted by another comment, but I might be inclined to if it were not accepted since, again, comments are ephemeral, and answers should stand on their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2023-11-06T13:20:16.527" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13993" CreationDate="2023-11-07T18:20:38.117" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/posts/280563/timeline&quot;&gt;question's timeline&lt;/a&gt; shows that it was re-opened on 2023-11-04 at 23:14:10Z, answered at 23:15:25Z, and re-closed with the same duplicate target at 23:18:17Z by the same user -- a span of just over 4 minutes. No other events are recorded on the timeline between the re-opening and closing. It may be permissible in rare cases for a user to do this (e.g., if the user is only made aware of new information that convinces him the question should be closed after he has re-opened it and posted an answer, or to change the close reason), but this is not one of them. No new information was made available between the re-opening and closing, so this user clearly knew the question should be closed at the time of re-opening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of the re-open privilege is to re-open questions that &lt;em&gt;should not&lt;/em&gt; be closed; &lt;strong&gt;the act of re-opening a question that one knows &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be closed is contrary to the purpose of the re-open privilege so it is an abuse of that privilege.&lt;/strong&gt; In this case, the user who abused this privilege had earned a gold badge in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;story-identification&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-story-identification-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;story-identification&lt;/a&gt; and was therefore entrusted by the system to unilaterally re-open and close such a question for the duplicate close reason -- this is a &lt;strong&gt;further abuse&lt;/strong&gt; of the re-open privilege and the trust given to this user. The user also benefitted from this abuse of the re-open privilege and trust by posting an answer in order to gain reputation&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; from upvotes and answer acceptance, which &lt;strong&gt;further compounds the abuse of the re-open privilege&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has been argued that the help center does not explicitly say users are not permitted to re-open a question just to answer it and close it. This is because the help center is not designed to explicitly state every obvious fact about the network. Nonetheless, there are several not-so-subtle clues that this behavior is not permitted. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/review-reopen&quot;&gt;help center article on the reopen review queue&lt;/a&gt; instructs users to &amp;quot;evaluate the question as it is now&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;leave [it] closed if any close reason(s) still apply&amp;quot;. Since the question did not change nor was the re-opening user made aware of any new information, the correct choice is clearly to leave it closed. The same instructions apply both within and outside of the actual review queue -- another fact that is not explicitly stated but obvious.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The system does not allow new answers to be posted on closed questions. The fact that the user needed to circumvent the system's rules is an unmistakable sign that such a question should not be re-opened simply to answer it and re-close it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has also been argued that duplicate questions may somehow benefit from posting duplicate answer(s) on them. That may be the reader's personal opinion, but it is not the well-established philosophy of the Stack Exchange system -- which is that duplicate questions should be closed and linked to the original question so that, ideally, &lt;em&gt;all answers are posted on one, canonical question&lt;/em&gt;. This avoids the need to post duplicate answers and reduces the likelihood that users will need to browse to all the duplicate questions in search for a sufficiently good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The duplicate answer posted in abuse of the re-open privilege is not obviously better than the answer to the original question, and contravenes the Stack Exchange philosophy on duplicate questions. Therefore, I have deleted it. The user is free to post an answer with any additional details &lt;em&gt;on the original question&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;In the form of useless Stack Exchange Internet points, but likely not in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.dictionary.com/browse/reputation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;usual sense of the word&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31936" LastEditorUserId="31936" LastEditDate="2023-11-07T21:48:00.613" LastActivityDate="2023-11-07T21:48:00.613" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13999" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14000" CreationDate="2023-11-09T09:12:14.330" Score="3" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, I stumble across a question which involves the Dragon Ball Z anime universe, and more often than not, I'm reading information that I have never heard before (and sometimes information which don't seem to make sense), despite having watched the entire show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, after watching some videos on Youtube, it came to my realisation: the problem comes from the fact that some (if not many) of the questions and answers are based on the English dubbed version of the anime. If you compare it with a Japanese version (with subtitles), you realise how much the conversations are different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notwithstanding the inconsistencies of the show as the story goes, and the fact that information is always lost in translation, the English dub not only changes some parts of the story into something completely different, but it goes as far as adding lines to characters when they aren't supposed to say anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To give two examples which I remember:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;During the Freeza saga, when Tenshinhan, Yamcha and Chaozu are training on Kaio/King Kai's planet and are fighting against Piccolo, the latter slams Chaozu's head into the ground. At first, the others are afraid he got killed, but a few seconds later he pops out fine. In the original version, Kaio explains that they are already dead, so it's fine (although it was retconned during the Majin Buu saga). In the English dub, I was told Kaio simply reverted time to revive Chaozu, even though it's not a power he possesses.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;During the Majin Buu saga, there's a point when Goku and Vegeta rescue their friends from inside Buu's body, and when they leave through a vent hole, they all start popping back to their original size. In the original version, they watch silently as the event unfold. In the English dub, Goku says &amp;quot;People popcorn!&amp;quot;, to which Vegeta mutters &amp;quot;What is he on?&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, I can't help but wonder: which version is considered as canon to ask/answer questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="103122" LastEditorUserId="82909" LastEditDate="2023-11-09T13:10:00.457" LastActivityDate="2023-11-09T13:10:45.680" Title="Which versions of Dragon Ball Z count as canon?" Tags="|discussion|canon|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13999" CreationDate="2023-11-09T13:10:45.680" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There may not be any official designation of canon, and it doesn't really matter. All versions are on-topic. Give an answer for the version that's being asked about or (even better) give an answer that covers both versions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, people asking questions might not have the insight to specify what version they're watching. This just means that anyone who wants to answer may need to either ask for clarification or just know both versions that well that it doesn't matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82909" LastActivityDate="2023-11-09T13:10:45.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14001" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14003" CreationDate="2023-11-14T00:49:53.113" Score="4" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bodies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bodies&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bodies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-bodies-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;bodies&lt;/a&gt; tag name could be improved: perhaps &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bodies-tvseries&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bodies-tvseries&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bodies-tvseries&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-bodies-tvseries-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;bodies-tvseries&lt;/a&gt;, but when I try to suggest that I can suggest a change to the tag description, not the tag name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do I need an additional privilege to do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I on the right track about a tag name that is too ambiguous?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149495" LastEditorUserId="101407" LastEditDate="2023-11-14T04:50:15.333" LastActivityDate="2023-11-14T08:11:21.133" Title="How does one suggest a change to a tag name?" Tags="|support|tags|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14001" CreationDate="2023-11-14T04:42:16.177" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You might want to get consensus here first, before making the change, though I  agree that's probably a useful improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as to actually performing the change, you don't &lt;em&gt;change&lt;/em&gt; the existing tag, you replace it.  You have enough reputation to create new tags, so just type &amp;quot;bodies-tv-series&amp;quot; in the tag box and remove the existing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bodies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bodies&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bodies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-bodies-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;bodies&lt;/a&gt;.  This will create the tag, and then you can copy over the tag description from the old tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The existing &amp;quot;bodies&amp;quot; tag will be removed after a certain period of time in which it is no longer applied to any questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I do feel that &amp;quot;bodies-tv-series&amp;quot; with a break between &amp;quot;tv&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;series&amp;quot; reads better than &amp;quot;bodies-tvseries&amp;quot; with them run together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastActivityDate="2023-11-14T04:42:16.177" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14001" CreationDate="2023-11-14T08:11:21.133" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You can't change a tag name directly, but diamond mods can.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;moderators&lt;/a&gt; have a tool for &lt;em&gt;merging&lt;/em&gt; tags, which allows us to automatically change tag-A to tag-B on every question tagged with tag-A without needing to edit them. If tag-B doesn't already exist in the system, this is essentially renaming a tag from one name to another. It's quite a dangerous tool, as it silently changes a lot of posts and it's not reversible, so its use is restricted to moderators only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How can you get a tag renamed?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ask on meta.&lt;/strong&gt; This is the best option if there's &lt;em&gt;any possible doubt&lt;/em&gt; or room for argument, but not really necessary if it's a very obvious thing like an actual typo in a tag name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flag for mods.&lt;/strong&gt; If it's an obvious case involving a lot of posts, we'll be happy to do the merge/rename and avoid bumping all those posts with edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Just edit the posts.&lt;/strong&gt; This is fine if it's an obvious case involving very few posts (like 5 or less): you can simply edit out the old tag and edit in the new tag on every post yourself. But this won't work if the tag names are too similar, like just a single character difference: the system will assume you mean the old tag and diamond mods will be needed to change the name in that case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;In this particular case ...&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with you that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bodies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bodies&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bodies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-bodies-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;bodies&lt;/a&gt; isn't a great name for a tag applying to a single TV series: we'll have people misusing it for any question about bodies. But I also agree with DavidW that mashing &lt;code&gt;tvseries&lt;/code&gt; as a single word doesn't look great. You could either call it &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bodies-tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bodies-tv&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bodies-tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-bodies-tv-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;bodies-tv&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bodies-tv-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bodies-tv-series&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bodies-tv-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-bodies-tv-series-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;bodies-tv-series&lt;/a&gt;. (Looking at the tags list and typing &lt;code&gt;tv&lt;/code&gt; into the search box, you can see that both of these options have been used before for other tags.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31394" LastActivityDate="2023-11-14T08:11:21.133" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14004" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-11-17T05:12:44.670" Score="10" ViewCount="291" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've had several questions about copyright law, specifically when certain properties and concepts will be outside of copyright.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/87320/when-will-copyright-restrictions-expire-on-tolkiens-works&quot;&gt;When will copyright restrictions expire on Tolkien&amp;#39;s works?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/197287/when-does-the-copyright-on-isaac-asimovs-works-expire&quot;&gt;When does the copyright on Isaac Asimov&amp;#39;s works expire?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/180592/when-will-harry-potter-enter-the-public-domain&quot;&gt;When will Harry Potter enter the public domain?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And most recently&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/280873/when-will-copyright-on-rick-riordans-percy-jackson-book-series-expire&quot;&gt;When will copyright on Rick Riordan&amp;#39;s Percy Jackson book series expire?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions seem well-received by the community but I'm struggling to see why they're on-topic when they essentially boil down to &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;When is a book written in xxxx out of copyright?&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, which doesn't really having any bearing on Sci-fi or Fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we just continue to allow these questions willy-nilly or should we put a stop to them entirely, perhaps by historically-locking the questions above and declaring future questions of this sort to be off-topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2023-11-17T08:44:14.333" LastActivityDate="2023-11-30T08:57:55.130" Title="Are questions about copyright law on-topic?" Tags="|discussion|scope|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14004" CreationDate="2023-11-17T08:49:11.117" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;One possibility: host a single, generic &amp;quot;how can I figure out when a given work passes out of copyright?&amp;quot; question which covers the standard cases. Then VTC as duplicate any question about a specific author/work which is already satisfactorily covered by taking that generic question and plugging in easily-available author/publication dates etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some questions will not be covered by a generic answer. For instance, for a book published between [95 years before the present] and 1978, its current US copyright status will depend on whether its copyright was registered and maintained. It seems reasonable to allow that kind of question, where it pertains to a SF/F work and isn't easily searchable, and those cases seem unlikely to come up often enough to be annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98312" LastActivityDate="2023-11-17T08:49:11.117" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14004" CreationDate="2023-11-17T09:58:20.580" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes, they're on-topic because sometimes copyright is very specific to the work or country&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, see how complicated the answer is for &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/87321/3804&quot;&gt;When will copyright restrictions expire on Tolkien's works?&lt;/a&gt;? A legal expert would need to know the ins and outs of the Tolkien Estate and who owns what.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no guarantee that there won't be some other work that's similar in this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I feel like these questions can stay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="82909" LastEditDate="2023-11-19T23:31:06.900" LastActivityDate="2023-11-19T23:31:06.900" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14004" CreationDate="2023-11-24T06:19:34.397" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No, they are not on-topic&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'm not 100% convinced myself they should be considered off-topic, but it seems to me that a more critical point of view should be available related to this question&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;While these questions are not science questions, they are real-world.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They are not relevant to how fantasy or science fiction stories are told or interpreted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They don't add anything valuable to the understanding or appreciation of science fiction or fantasy as genres or works of literature.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They are somewhere between difficult and impossible to answer accurately or confidently, and it's possible the actual answer is &amp;quot;never&amp;quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No answers of such questions from this site should be used by any askers in any meaningful way, because this is not an appropriate place or way to obtain information that a person will act on with legal consequences.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only one of the askers of the four example questions is an active contributing member of the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Similarly to how questions about creating science fiction or fantasy stories are a better fit at World Building or Writing, these questions are clearly a better fit at Law.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All four example questions are arguably too broad, and it seems likely that most questions of this nature could be described as too broad (i.e., there is not a clear, verifiable answer available).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More nebulously, it's hard to see how such questions add value to the site. These questions stand apart from the other questions and are really about law and/or business, not science fiction or fantasy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, per page zero of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tour&quot;&gt;Tour&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange is a question and answer site&#xA;for science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts. It's built and run by you&#xA;as part of the Stack Exchange network of Q&amp;amp;A sites. With your help,&#xA;we're working together to build a library of detailed answers to every&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;question about science fiction or fantasy&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This link and quote copied from another meta post by Valorum)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46607" LastEditorUserId="46607" LastEditDate="2023-11-24T16:52:52.123" LastActivityDate="2023-11-24T16:52:52.123" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14008" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-11-28T19:04:44.700" Score="4" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question about &lt;em&gt;Fallout 3&lt;/em&gt; and I don't know if I should ask it on SF&amp;amp;F or &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Arqade&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does Moira insists on you getting a mine from Minefield?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should this question be on SF&amp;amp;F or Arqade? Is it okay to post to both? Also is there a general guideline for which to ask where?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136287" LastEditorUserId="39144" LastEditDate="2023-11-28T19:23:32.987" LastActivityDate="2023-11-29T08:06:30.413" Title="When to ask on SF&amp;F and when to ask on Arqade?" Tags="|discussion|scope|specific-question|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ClosedDate="2023-11-29T10:08:24.033" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14008" CreationDate="2023-11-29T08:06:30.413" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best site to ask your question depends on what kind of answer you are seeking. If you want to know how the game mechanics work, then Arqade is the place to go since &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/319/7957&quot;&gt;gameplay questions are off-topic in SF&amp;amp;F SE&lt;/a&gt;. If you are curious about lore or narrative, then you can ask on either SF&amp;amp;F SE or Arqade, since both sites accept questions about the lore and narrative of the game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you should choose only one site to post your question, as cross-posting is against Stack Exchange policy: &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/64068/162827&quot;&gt;Is cross-posting a question on multiple Stack Exchange sites permitted if the question is on-topic for each site?&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To help you decide, you might want to browse the existing questions about the &lt;em&gt;Fallout&lt;/em&gt; games on both sites and see what kind of answers they have received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7957" LastActivityDate="2023-11-29T08:06:30.413" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14010" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2023-11-29T12:14:18.590" Score="13" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/281304/scifi-series-about-a-single-alien-and-space-travel-portals&quot;&gt;this new question&lt;/a&gt; which happens to be about a book from my favourite author. I immediately recognised it and knew exactly what OP's remembered details referred to within the context of the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, OP managed to find the book on their own and posted a two line answer - simply the title of the book (Pandora's star) and a link to it on goodreads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that I have the knowledge to write an &lt;em&gt;improved&lt;/em&gt; answer (by relating the details OP remembered to the events/details of the book), is it good practice to add a better and more detailed answer - when the existing answer is brief but entirely correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to clarify that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/281304/scifi-series-about-a-single-alien-and-space-travel-portals&quot;&gt;the question&lt;/a&gt; has since been closed as a duplicate, but this should have no standing on what the &lt;strong&gt;general&lt;/strong&gt; best practice is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71979" LastEditorUserId="71979" LastEditDate="2023-11-29T16:59:40.313" LastActivityDate="2023-12-02T15:50:02.413" Title="Is it good practice to add a better answer to a story-identification question that already has a correct (although brief/lacking) answer" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14010" CreationDate="2023-11-29T16:40:51.337" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this instance there doesn't seem to be a need to post a competing answer. The question has been answered by OP and is definitely a dupe. Best thing to do would be to &lt;strong&gt;flag it as a duplicate&lt;/strong&gt; and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you still feel the overwhelming desire to contribute, you might consider editing a short quote into the stub answer with a brief explanation (in a comment) like;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I've taken the liberty of adding in a quote. Hope that's ok&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've never seen anyone raise an objection to that as long you don't obliterate their answer with a huge wall of text and commentary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2023-11-29T16:48:05.503" LastActivityDate="2023-11-29T16:48:05.503" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14010" CreationDate="2023-11-30T03:13:54.083" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, if the question is a duplicate, and if the original question has an adequate answer, no action is needed. After all, the new question could have been closed as a duplicate without posting any answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, if the question is not a duplicate, or if it's a duplicate but the answer to the old question is of low quality, or if a new answer is needed because the old question &amp;amp; answer address completely different aspects of the story from the new one, then I think it's best to post a good answer rather than rewrite the asker's terse answer. The OP in such cases is likely a new users, and new users may not understand and may take offense at our custom of improving other people's posts. I remember a user a few years ago who angrily unaccepted an answer because someone edited his question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14111" LastActivityDate="2023-11-30T03:13:54.083" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14004" CreationDate="2023-11-30T08:57:55.130" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might seem a bit ruthless, but it's trivial to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&amp;amp;q=how+to+determine+if+a+book+is+public+domain%3F&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;search Google for how to determine if a book is in the public domain&lt;/a&gt;. Even if the question is about &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+determine+if+a+book+is+public+domain+in+italy%3F&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;copyright in a country other than the U.S.&lt;/a&gt;, it's a question that's been asked a thousand times and answered almost as many times on the Internet. For the question to be valid here, IMO, it would need to demonstrate that a satisfactory search had been made to answer the question (downvote rollover: &amp;quot;this question does not show any research effort...&amp;quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without some evidence of an attempt to answer the question themselves, the OP is simply using Stack Exchange as a free research service, which might be the practical truth but really isn't what SE intended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If that seems too ruthless...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I would propose a question with a community wiki answer that lists each book queried on the Stack and the date it entered or will enter the public domain in each country, with the original question not just closed as a duplicate but deleted after directing the OP to the answer on the community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the size of that wiki makes you queasy (it does me... worst case, eventually &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; SciFi/Fantasy book in &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; country...) it's a bit of evidence that the question should be off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87710" LastActivityDate="2023-11-30T08:57:55.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14010" CreationDate="2023-12-01T17:31:31.023" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;My general policy is that if all I'm doing is searching for the title and posting in a link and summary from Goodreads or Wikipedia, I just edit the original post. If I'm sourcing quotes, tying together multiple entries/reviews, or it otherwise gets more involved than me just copying and pasting someone else's words, I make my own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Duplicates... it varies. If I can edit the additional details into the &amp;quot;sun source&amp;quot; of the duplicate chain, I will. If not (the details are particular to that duplicate question, and adding those to the base question will change it too much), then I will write my own answer so that that additional information is available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2023-12-01T17:31:31.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14010" CreationDate="2023-12-02T15:50:02.413" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Normal etiquette on this site is that the first person to provide a correct answer to the question should have their answer accepted—but, of course, that is just custom, not binding on the person who asked the question.  Even a very terse initial correct answer (especially from a relatively new user) usually gets an upvote from me.  However, if someone else can provide a more detailed answer, pointing out how it matches the details given in the question, that can also be quite valuable (sometimes even worthy of a bounty).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer may become a little trickier with a duplicate, for a couple of different reasons.  With a duplicate, there are two possible places where one could post a more detailed answer (the new question and the dupe target; I really like FuzzyBoots' calling it &amp;quot;the 'sun source' of the duplicate chain,&amp;quot; in spite of the mixed metaphor).  There is a further complication for gold-badge users (and everyone who has answered this meta question so far has a gold badge in the [story-identification] tag).  I am adding my thoughts on this, since a closely related issue has &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13993/reopening-a-duplicate-so-you-can-add-an-answer-then-reclosing-it&quot;&gt;recently been discussed on scifi.meta&lt;/a&gt;.  If I know or locate the answer to a question, and a short answer or comment is posted and identified as correct by the OP before I have posted my own answer, I will sometimes go ahead and post my answer if it is completely or mostly finished; then I close the question as a dupe.  My thinking is that I prepared an informative answer in good faithe, before I knew the question was definitely a duplicate, and if my detailed answer is more useful, then it is probably good to have.  On the other hand, even if the first correct answer is terse, if someone else posts a detailed answer before I do or if the answers to the dupe target cover all the relevant ground, I will just delete my incipient answer and move on, since posting the answer would not really contribute anything of value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2023-12-02T15:50:02.413" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10538" CreationDate="2023-12-03T02:02:06.923" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Don't close (usually)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new question should link to the old question so that it can easily be found in the Linked Questions section. It's also often good to leave a link to the new question on the old question in case it triggers some more memories for that asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are only a few situations where the new question should be closed as a duplicate instead:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The new question doesn't provide any new details.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OR when both questions probably were asked by the same person by mistake. (This happens with unregistered users who get locked out of their old account. Edit the new details into the old question.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is how things have worked in practice for a few years now, namely for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/10544/82909&quot;&gt;reasons outlined by FuzzyBoots&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82909" LastActivityDate="2023-12-03T02:02:06.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14017" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14018" CreationDate="2023-12-04T18:53:36.910" Score="3" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/281408/what-are-these-classic-80s-action-movies&quot;&gt;What are these classic 80&amp;#39;s action movies?&lt;/a&gt; was closed as &amp;quot;Needs more focus&amp;quot; and then subsequently reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was surprising to me. It's demonstrably asking to identify more than one work. There are two answers, each identifying a completely different movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More complications arise when thinking of our story-id policy on duplicates. Would this question serve as a good dupe target for the movie Akira (the accepted answer)? And it can't be closed as a dupe of this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/65222/child-goes-on-an-adventure-and-comes-back-with-a-black-rock-of-pure-evil/65227#65227&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;, even though (one of) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/281426&quot;&gt;the answer(s)&lt;/a&gt; correctly identifies Time Bandits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I am curious. Why was this question reopened and why does it remain open?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39144" LastActivityDate="2023-12-06T18:43:41.050" Title="Why was this question reopened when it is clearly asking to identify more than one work?" Tags="|discussion|specific-question|closing-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14017" CreationDate="2023-12-04T19:00:08.443" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why was this question reopened[?]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@lfurini's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/281408/what-are-these-classic-80s-action-movies#comment776152_281408&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt; is instructive as to his (and my) thinking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm voting to reopen this, as I think it does not contain a bunch of unrelated questions but rather asks to identify several sci-fi scenes from a definite source, not unlike &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/171218/40711&quot;&gt;other&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/220860/40711&quot;&gt;character&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/253083/40711&quot;&gt;identification&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/267719/40711&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; that were well received (having screenshots would definitely improve the question, though)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking it as a series of separate questions would be less &lt;em&gt;messy&lt;/em&gt;, but so would all of the other examples given in his comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;It's demonstrably asking to identify more than one work.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time of asking OP had no idea that these were two distinct properties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2023-12-06T18:43:41.050" LastActivityDate="2023-12-06T18:43:41.050" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14019" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14020" CreationDate="2023-12-05T13:41:31.087" Score="7" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;This originally came up in association with &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/281371/sci-fi-book-where-humanoid-aliens-murder-a-researcher-by-killing-him-and-cutting/&quot;&gt;Sci fi book where humanoid aliens murder a researcher by killing him and cutting him open&lt;/a&gt;, where the answer was determined to be &lt;em&gt;Speaker For The Dead&lt;/em&gt;. My belief has been that if the same work (in the same medium) is the answer, then &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10051/what-constitutes-the-same-answer-for-story-identification-questions&quot;&gt;the policy is that they are duplicates&lt;/a&gt; even if the questions hold little to no common points, which would make it a dupe of  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/95417/what-is-series-where-there-is-an-ai-born-on-the-solar-system-wide-network&quot;&gt;What is Series Where There is an AI Born on the Solar System-Wide Network&lt;/a&gt;. Leaving aside the interpretation of whether the answers are the &amp;quot;same&amp;quot; if they're the same work, but on different points (apparently, that's more debated than I thought), a search through the questions also brought up questions for &lt;em&gt;Xenocide&lt;/em&gt;, and I suspect there are probably other story-identification questions for books in the &lt;em&gt;Ender&lt;/em&gt; series. I had thought that it was settled that questions about books in a series were meant to be brought together, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10051/what-constitutes-the-same-answer-for-story-identification-questions&quot;&gt;it looks like there wasn't much consensus&lt;/a&gt;. Also, the more I researched for the &amp;quot;it's the same work, so it's the same&amp;quot;, I see upvoted dissenting opinions, so I'm not certain if it actually is policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TL;DR, should we mark this specific case as a Duplicate? Should we craft a question/answer that covers all of the &lt;em&gt;Ender&lt;/em&gt; books such that we can bring these other ID questions into it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2023-12-06T22:48:44.597" Title="Resolution of Duplicates in the Enderverse" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14019" CreationDate="2023-12-06T22:48:44.597" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If questions are identifiably about different works that are part of a single series, then they are not duplicates.  Some series are extraordinarily expansive, and it would be no use to make every question about identifying a particular &lt;em&gt;Spider-Man&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Fantastic Four&lt;/em&gt; storyline as a dupe of a general question about the Marvel Universe;  or duping questions about &lt;em&gt;Rogue One&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Return of the Jedi&lt;/em&gt;; or, for a single-author example, it makes no sense for an identification question about &lt;em&gt;Pebble in the Sky&lt;/em&gt; to be a dupe of one that is (primarily) about &lt;em&gt;Second Foundation&lt;/em&gt;.  You get the idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, things get trickier when things are less clear cut.  It becomes a judgement call, and I think that questions should be considered duplicates when they are mostly about the same work in a series, even if there are allusions to other works in the series as well.  Unfortunately, people's memories about how many books* in a given series they read are not going to be perfect, so it's not uncommon to muddle up elements from a sequel with ones from the first volume.  For example of this policy in action, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/196761/story-about-aliens-nicknamed-eechees-who-have-created-a-network-of-tunnels-on/&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; that I answered is most about &lt;em&gt;Gateway&lt;/em&gt; by Frederik Pohl, even though it also mentions elements drawn from the next book the &lt;em&gt;Heechee Saga&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Beyond the Blue Event Horizon&lt;/em&gt; (and maybe the earlier short work, &amp;quot;The Merchants of Venus&amp;quot; as well).  That question was marked as a duplicate of another one about &lt;em&gt;Gateway&lt;/em&gt;, although the accepted answer to the old question specifically mentioned that it was the first book in the series.  In contrast, if questions are clearly principally about different works in the same series, even if there are minor references to other works in one or both questions, in such a way that there is a small amount of overlap, I don't think they qualify as duplicates.  (If there is really a lot of overlap in a question between different books in a series, then the series as a whole may be a better answer than any individual book, even if the querent misremembers only reading a single work.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where things get trickiest—and where I have never figured out a coherent answer, even for what to do myself—is when one question is clearly asking about an entire series (or, at least, multiple books in a single series), while another question is quite specific to a single book in the series.  If the first (series) question doesn't mention anything about the specific book the second (book) question is interested in, I would definitely not consider them duplicates.  However, when the specific book is mentioned as just one among many, I don't see a clear answer for what to do, and I suspect that it may not be desirable (or even necessarily possible) to devise a blanket policy to cover these cases.  In these kinds of edge cases, it may just be best to open a specific meta question about the posts involved and let the wisdom of the crowd (even if, in cases like this, the crowd that responds is probably going to be limited to at most fifteen well-known users) decide what to do in that case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*I will refer to books for the sake of concreteness, but obviously the same reasoning applies to films and other media as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2023-12-06T22:48:44.597" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14021" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14022" CreationDate="2023-12-23T14:45:13.117" Score="13" ViewCount="248" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few months ago, I had written an identification question, to which someone gave a very possible answer in the comments, so I asked them if they could write an actual answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To this day, they haven't written an answer, despite being a very active user on the Stack Exchange community as a whole (I actually checked their activity to make sure they weren't inactive).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the correct course of action in this case? The question is technically answered but still appears as unanswered. A part of me wants to self-answer and be done with it, but at the same time it's not my answer either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="103122" LastActivityDate="2024-01-02T17:21:28.973" Title="Should I answer my own question if someone answered in the comments several months ago and still haven't responded to the request to post an answer?" Tags="|discussion|story-identification|answers|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14021" CreationDate="2023-12-23T15:12:35.103" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;A self answer is fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point of the site is for correctly answered questions that might prove useful to others in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;An acknowledgement of the commenter's assistance would be nice but is not mandatory.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57069" LastActivityDate="2023-12-23T15:12:35.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14021" CreationDate="2023-12-23T15:49:48.377" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd probably do one of two things;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Prodding them with a comment saying something like &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Are you planning to turn that into an answer?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Self-answering the question and acknowledging them, either in the answer itself if they've given me everything I need, or in the comments below if I had to do any level of research to turn it into an answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;em&gt;'The Shining'&lt;/em&gt; (1980) starring Jack Nicholson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;em&gt;Blah blah blah&lt;/em&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to @User for identifying this in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/14023/20774&quot;&gt;a comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2024-01-02T17:21:28.973" LastActivityDate="2024-01-02T17:21:28.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14021" CreationDate="2023-12-24T23:33:54.757" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Post your own answer and mark it as Accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Optionally flag comment as &amp;quot;no longer needed&amp;quot; and a moderator may delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every time the annual Moderator survey comes around, there's a box asking &amp;quot;what would make your job easier?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I request &amp;quot;convert comment to answer&amp;quot; as a natural inverse to the existing &amp;quot;convert answer to comment&amp;quot; function.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once a comment is made into an answer it can be edited and improved by the community at large.  Comments cannot be edited by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if the comment is deleted without being transcribed as an answer, then that information is lost and the post becomes worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the comment were transmogrified to an answer, then the poster will earn reputation.  Comment upvotes do not translate to Rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57406" LastActivityDate="2023-12-24T23:33:54.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14026" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-01-02T13:47:25.770" Score="16" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a way to celebrate the New Year and lasting contributions to the site by new users I am continuing this honorary post based on a simple premise...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user with the highest rank in the yearly reputation league that was not previously ranked. For the Year 2023 league the winner is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/160834/alexg&quot;&gt;alexg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7vjYk.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7vjYk.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finishing #14 with 4,154 reputation is a great way to start off on the site. Please join me in congratulating this exceptional new user!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Previous years winners based on the criteria are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;year&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;user&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;year rank&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;reputation&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13833/57310&quot;&gt;2022&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/users/149495/andrew&quot;&gt;Andrew&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;20,533&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13594/and-the-best-new-user-of-2021-is&quot;&gt;2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/145218/silly-but-true&quot;&gt;Silly But True&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;11&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;8,981&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13237/and-the-best-new-user-of-2020-is&quot;&gt;2020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/125981/clara-diaz-sanchez&quot;&gt;Clara Diaz Sanchez&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;12&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;9,252&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12896/and-the-best-new-user-of-2019-is&quot;&gt;2019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/115696/&quot;&gt;Invisible Trihedron&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;19&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;8,239&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12261/and-the-best-new-user-of-2018-is&quot;&gt;2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/98028/&quot;&gt;Jenayah&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;9&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;14,253&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/11636/and-the-best-new-user-of-2017-is&quot;&gt;2017&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/80602/&quot;&gt;Bellatrix&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;26,201&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2016&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/57310/&quot;&gt;Skooba&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;18&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;15,596&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2015&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/40294/&quot;&gt;Praxis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;35,709&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2014&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/21600/&quot;&gt;Royal Canadian Bandit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;7&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;14,897&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2013&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/14111/&quot;&gt;user14111&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;10&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;6,998&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2012&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/4056/&quot;&gt;dlanod&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;4&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;26,834&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;2011&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/656/&quot;&gt;Jeff&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;21,720&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2024-01-02T13:57:30.837" Title="And the Best New User of 2023 is" Tags="|discussion|users|new-users|contest|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14026" CreationDate="2024-01-02T13:57:30.837" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very well done. A fine contribution :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/stu6X.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/stu6X.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2024-01-02T13:57:30.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1877" CreationDate="2024-01-05T13:52:55.960" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can get the bronze badges Student and Scholar on the new site for a migrated question.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/help/badges/10/scholar?userid=16327&quot;&gt;I got the badges on Chemistry SE this way, for question migrated from Physics SE&lt;/a&gt;.  Similarly &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/37/famous-question?userid=53977&quot;&gt;user “guest” got not only the Student but even the gold Famous Question badge on Sci Fi SE for a question migrated from Movies SE&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/41/good-question?userid=1739&quot;&gt;User “Jolly” got the Good Question silver badge on Sci Fi SE for a question that got highly upvoted after it got migrated from English SE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternately if your question gets migrated to the Meta site, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/badges/62/quorum?userid=71&quot;&gt;you can get the Quorum bronze badge on the main site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="4918" LastEditDate="2024-01-05T14:10:10.157" LastActivityDate="2024-01-05T14:10:10.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14029" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14030" CreationDate="2024-01-05T15:35:39.753" Score="19" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;A post on main meta is stating &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/395881/310650&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Sites can now request to enable a banner to warn about their policy on AI-generated content&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;, so given that it seems to be general consensus on SFF that we should &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13817/57310&quot;&gt;not allow AI content&lt;/a&gt;, should we request to enable this feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WCuSO.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WCuSO.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand the ultimate decision will probably have to be initiated by our &amp;quot;diamond moderators&amp;quot;, but I feel it worthy for the community to discuss the issue or for the moderators to let us know what they might be planning already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastEditorUserId="31394" LastEditDate="2024-01-13T22:25:58.930" LastActivityDate="2024-01-13T22:25:58.930" Title="Should we &quot;enable a banner to warn about [our] policy on AI-generated content&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|status-review|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14029" CreationDate="2024-01-05T18:16:18.383" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, absolutely we should ask for this to be implemented with immediate effect.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was an overwhelming consensus in favour of banning AI-generated content (26:1) with no dissenting posts in favour. The vast majority of ChatGPT and Bard copied answers we've seen on this site are of a very low quality, typically filled with 'hallucinations' and generally misleading content, always without sourcing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In short, having a big banner saying &amp;quot;Don't do that&amp;quot; would be a useful addition.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2024-01-05T18:16:18.383" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14031" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14033" CreationDate="2024-01-07T19:50:29.677" Score="8" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a best practice for obvious duplicate story ID questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically is it better to link the duplicate in a comment or provide an answer with that link and the corroborating details?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The duplicate close &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7065/closing-story-ident-questions-as-duplicates-where-theres-no-acceptance?rq=1&quot;&gt;policy&lt;/a&gt; asks for both questions to have accepted answers, suggesting providing an answer is the preferred choice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40437" LastActivityDate="2024-01-09T08:56:12.670" Title="Should Duplicate Story ID questions be answered or commented?" Tags="|discussion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14031" CreationDate="2024-01-07T23:18:06.613" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I can provide information that specifically addresses things in the duplicate question, I prefer to post a new answer.  People remember, and ask about, different aspects of stories, and it can be helpful to have an answer that points out how the elements mentioned in the duplicate question match the work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2024-01-07T23:18:06.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14031" CreationDate="2024-01-09T08:56:12.670" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the 'obvious dupe' target (Q1) doesn't have an accepted answer, then the best practice for the new question (Q2) would be to;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Write an answer (allowing the author of Q2 to accept the answer)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Prod the author of (Q1) to accept the answer so that we can dupe one to the other.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has the benefit of allowing the new question to be used as the closure target for future dupe questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the dupe target has an accepted answer, then it's up to you. Personally if it's really obvious and the question was asked very recently I'll take a chance that the asker is still on the site and just post a comment asking them if x is a dupe. If they answer in the affirmative, then I'll close it on the strength of their comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2024-01-09T08:56:12.670" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14035" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-01-18T14:14:01.740" Score="11" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Schickele&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Peter Schickele&lt;/a&gt; died at home at the age of 88. While most people were familiar with him as the ostensible chronicler of P.D.Q. Bach's compositions, he also composed the score for science fiction film &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Running&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Silent Running&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, among other professional musical work that was overshadowed by his parodies/pastiches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLys18dU1NHZPwt8Cq7JV1hnZ6TkVkVbA7&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLys18dU1NHZPwt8Cq7JV1hnZ6TkVkVbA7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="23243" LastEditDate="2024-01-18T15:30:57.810" LastActivityDate="2024-01-19T21:53:37.070" Title="In Memoriam: Peter Schickele" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14036" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-01-18T15:31:21.983" Score="12" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://david-drake.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;David Drake&lt;/a&gt;, one of the most prominent mil-sf authors, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.donaldsonfunerals.com/obituary/David-Drake&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;died December 10th, 2023&lt;/a&gt;.  His rise to prominence came with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?11500&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hammer's Slammers&lt;/a&gt; series of futuristic war stories, mostly short stories variously collected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will always remember his gritty, visceral, and unflinching take, not just on the horrors of war, but on the harrowing and dehumanizing effect it had on his protagonists.  Especially back in the day it stood in stark contrast to the kind of story where the hero would go off and slaughter aliens and mooks all morning, then come home for a hearty meal and some light romance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastActivityDate="2024-01-18T15:31:21.983" Title="In Memoriam: David Drake" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14035" CreationDate="2024-01-18T17:00:39.630" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got his music (so long ago it must have been vinyl) as a birthday gift.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105042" LastActivityDate="2024-01-18T17:00:39.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14035" CreationDate="2024-01-19T15:54:10.040" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a child, I attended many P. D. Q. Bach concerts, whenever his tour came to town.  As a teen, I also saw went to one of his much more serious concerts, where he presented a much more balanced mix of his compositions, jokes, and other material, which was also fun to attend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond his excellent score for &lt;em&gt;Silent Running&lt;/em&gt; (which he discussed in detail several times on his public radio show), I remember his connection to fantasy and science fiction as the narrator for the original short film reading of &lt;em&gt;Where the Wild Things Are&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2024-01-19T15:54:10.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14035" CreationDate="2024-01-19T21:53:37.070" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry to hear that. I met him once--we have the same alma mater, and he played a concert there while I was a current student, some 25 years ago. I presented him with a homemade instrument which he very graciously accepted. He must have already been in his 60s then!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19193" LastActivityDate="2024-01-19T21:53:37.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14040" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-01-24T19:05:12.483" Score="11" ViewCount="74" Body="&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=%22year+in+moderation%22+is%3Aquestion&quot;&gt;a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As most of you here might be aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on the web:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny slices of effort contributed by regular, everyday users.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;-- &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;A Theory of Moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't eliminate the need for having &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/11/21/our-theory-of-moderation-re-visited/&quot;&gt;moderators&lt;/a&gt; altogether, but it does mean that the bulk of moderation work is carried out by regular folks — folks like you. Every bit of time and effort y'all contribute to the site gives you access to more privileges you can use to help in this effort, all of which produce a cumulative effect that makes a big difference in ensuring Stack Exchange sites remain a valuable source of high-quality content on the web.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as we say goodbye to 2023 (and January 2024… ahem) and move into 2024, let us look back at what we accomplished as a community... by looking at some &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pmN7M.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;exciting&lt;/em&gt; stats&lt;/a&gt;. Below is a breakdown of moderation actions performed on Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy over the past 12 months:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Action&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Moderators&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Community User¹&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;Community²&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;All comments on a post moved to chat&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;6&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Answer flags 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right;&quot;&gt;0&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Footnotes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ This refers to the automated systems otherwise known as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;user #-1&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;² This refers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users&quot;&gt;the membership of Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators&quot;&gt;diamonds next to their names&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;³ The system will suspend users under three circumstances: when a user is recreated after being previously suspended, when a user is recreated after being destroyed for spam or abuse, and when a network-wide suspension is in effect on an account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁴ A &amp;quot;destroyed&amp;quot; user is deleted along with all that they had posted: questions, answers, comments. &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/88994/what-is-the-difference-between-a-deleted-user-and-a-destroyed-user&quot;&gt;Generally used as an expedient way of getting rid of spam.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁵ This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 2 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 2, the goal being to indicate the frequency of moderation actions. This also applies to flags, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁶ Includes close flags (but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; close or reopen votes). The community² can handle these flags by at least one person voting to close a question that has a close flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁷ This ignores numerous deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;⁸ This includes comments deleted by their own authors (which also account for some number of handled comment flags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Further reading:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wanna see how these numbers have changed over time? We posted a similar report here last year: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13846/2022-a-year-in-moderation&quot;&gt;2022: a year in moderation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can also check out &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com/search?q=title%3A%222023%3A+a+year+in+moderation%22&quot;&gt;this report on other sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or peruse &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/396299/208518&quot;&gt;detailed information on the number of questions closed and reopened across all sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wishing everyone a happy 2024! ^_^&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6365" LastActivityDate="2024-01-24T19:05:12.483" Title="2023: a year in moderation" Tags="|discussion|moderation|site-statistics|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14041" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14042" CreationDate="2024-01-25T09:18:10.913" Score="5" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm French.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I consider myself fully bilingual in comprehension (reading/listening), I'm less good with production (writing/speaking), especially with grammar (due to bad learning process).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I see edits on my questions, I'm frequently appalled at what I wrote, and feel like a kid with a bad grade. I frequently would like to thank the editor for taking the time to improve my message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it 'allowed', and what is the correct process for it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78133" LastEditorUserId="82909" LastEditDate="2024-01-25T21:36:56.843" LastActivityDate="2024-01-25T21:42:32.947" Title="What is the correct way to thank an editor?" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14041" CreationDate="2024-01-25T09:22:50.860" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Post a comment under your (edited) question that says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you @Whoever for your kind edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that 'thank you' comments are considered low-value, so don't be too alarmed if they eventually get washed away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2024-01-25T09:34:24.567" LastActivityDate="2024-01-25T09:34:24.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14043" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-01-25T14:10:04.303" Score="11" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Graham&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gary Graham&lt;/a&gt; has died at the age of 73 on Monday 22 January 2024 of a cardiac arrest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Know for his roles as &lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Soval&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Soval&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://hero.fandom.com/wiki/Matthew_Sikes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Detective Matthew &amp;quot;Matt&amp;quot; Sikes&lt;/a&gt; in the &lt;em&gt;Alien Nation&lt;/em&gt; TV series and several subsequent TV movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="153074" LastEditorUserId="14850" LastEditDate="2024-02-06T01:06:09.320" LastActivityDate="2024-02-06T01:06:09.320" Title="In Memoriam: Gary Graham" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14041" CreationDate="2024-01-25T21:42:32.947" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could always stop by chat. The editor may be active in a room where pretty much any discussion is allowed (and therefore can be pinged), or you could just drop by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/58631&quot;&gt;main SFF chat&lt;/a&gt; and say that you think they did a good job without notifying them (I've done that when I see new users who really take the time to improve their own questions, for example).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I don't know how I would feel about being tracked down in chat for &lt;em&gt;other matters&lt;/em&gt;, but I think most users would welcome some positivity like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82909" LastActivityDate="2024-01-25T21:42:32.947" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14045" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14046" CreationDate="2024-01-31T12:59:07.450" Score="-2" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;This closed question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/284023/153074&quot;&gt;Val&amp;#233;rios itching cutscene Evil Within&lt;/a&gt;, appears to be a duplicate of this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/252280/153074&quot;&gt;What is happening during this flashback scene from The Evil Within?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both questions are using the same YouTube clip and are both asking why the character is itching when this wouldn't be expected in the timeline that the question asker believes is happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also appears to be the same user, using a different account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first question was correctly closed as needing detail or clarity, but it appears to be a duplicate of the second.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the first question be reopened, marked as a duplicate and then closed, or should it be left?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="153074" LastActivityDate="2024-01-31T13:28:26.780" Title="How should a closed question that is a duplicate be updated to point at the duplicate?" Tags="|discussion|closed-questions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14045" CreationDate="2024-01-31T13:28:26.780" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general if you notice a question that is a duplicate of another (especially by the same poster) it's probably best to flag it for moderator attention.  Mods can close a question as duplicate even if it doesn't have an answer, and have additional tools at their disposal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a case like this it's probably not a big issue, since the second (duplicate) question is already closed, negatively-scored and unanswered, which means it will get cleaned up by the system in a month or so.  (That it has a negative score, as contrasted to the original, suggests that other users have also noticed the duplication.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastActivityDate="2024-01-31T13:28:26.780" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14047" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-02-02T20:29:14.783" Score="24" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.cbssports.com/boxing/news/carl-weathers-dead-at-76-beloved-actor-for-his-role-as-apollo-creed-in-the-rocky-franchise-passes-away/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dead at 76&lt;/a&gt;, peacefully in his sleep on February 1st, 2024.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps best known for his breakout role of Apollo Creed in the &lt;em&gt;Rocky&lt;/em&gt; films, he was of course also Dillon in &lt;em&gt;Predator&lt;/em&gt; and Greef Karga in &lt;em&gt;The Mandalorian&lt;/em&gt;, among many other acting and voice roles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2024-02-03T00:35:10.010" Title="In Memoriam: Carl Weathers" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14047" CreationDate="2024-02-03T00:35:10.010" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May you be in good hands, maybe even magic ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PLaBF.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PLaBF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57310" LastActivityDate="2024-02-03T00:35:10.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14049" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-02-04T04:45:16.533" Score="16" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ninaallan.co.uk/?p=6855&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Christopher Priest has died&lt;/a&gt;. Among other things, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Priest_(novelist)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;he was the author&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;em&gt;The Prestige&lt;/em&gt;. He actually wrote back to me about &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/177956/within-the-novel-the-prestige-was-were-the-prestige-materials-always-inert&quot;&gt;my question about whether the body was always dead after the transfer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastActivityDate="2024-02-04T04:45:16.533" Title="In Memoriam: Christopher Priest" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14050" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-02-06T20:20:13.417" Score="1" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;What counts as a “minor mistake” for the entry&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To correct minor mistakes or add updates as the post ages&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;editing guidelines&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’ve been trying to improve &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/213797/&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, which is in general good enough that I don’t see the need to write my own answer, by correcting a detail of a plot point that the author misremembered. (By the author’s own admission at the beginning of the answer, the the author hadn’t read the book recently and had refreshed their memory via Wikipedia; at the time of answering the Wikipedia article had the plot detail wrong, and this incorrect detail made its way into the main body of the answer.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Correcting this detail* in no way changes the point that the author of the answer was making,† and improves the overall content of the site by cutting off the propagation of misunderstandings,** but I’ve had the edit rejected three times now for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This edit deviates from the original intent of the post. Even edits that must make drastic changes should strive to preserve the goals of the post's owner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;despite explaining as much of the context as I can in the edit summary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I misunderstanding what a “minor mistake” means?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;——&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*The book takes place on a planet that long ago hosted an advanced civilization; the current population evolved to sapience from minor life forms with no direct connection to the ancients; the answer (and then-Wikipedia) states that the population is members of the ancient civilization who have “rebuilt” from their fall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;†In the context of the answer, either version is sufficient for the idea that “there used to be a high-tech civilization here, but the current population is at 1940s tech”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;**The idea that we’re not just dealing with a fallen-and-rebuilt society, but  instead enough time has elapsed since the fall to have run through evolution from minor insects to full sapience, is important for themes in the book outside of the scope of the question-and-answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100693" LastActivityDate="2024-02-07T12:56:47.443" Title="“Minor mistakes” rule for editing" Tags="|discussion|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14050" CreationDate="2024-02-07T12:56:47.443" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm no expert in this particular novel series so I can't speak to the rights and wrongs of your argument, but I would say that it appears that you've become very fixated on making changes to this user's answer, to the point that your edits have been rolled back multiple times, incurring an automated penalty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of continuing to fix what you perceive as the things wrong with &lt;em&gt;their answer&lt;/em&gt;, the better course of action would be to &lt;strong&gt;write your own answer&lt;/strong&gt;. If it's better, it will receive upvotes and overtake the existing answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2024-02-07T12:56:47.443" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14053" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-02-22T17:23:23.960" Score="2" ViewCount="285" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Feb 14 20:01:40Z, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/284461/movie-about-a-robot-restoring-the-human-population-with-a-machine-that-can-creat/284463#284463&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; was asked.  At Feb 14 20:08:11Z someone posted a comment asking when the OP saw it.  During those 6-7 minutes, I happened to be looking and found a possible answer which I posted around 20:10:00Z or so, after checking comments and answers to make sure it wasn't a duplicate.  I can't tell you exactly when or what it said, because someone deleted it, but it was something like &amp;quot;if it was recent, it might possibly be &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Mother&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;I Am Mother (2019)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;?&amp;quot;.  I didn't post it as an answer because I was at work and didn't have time to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About 15 minutes later (20:25:17Z), the same person who wrote the first comment posted an answer asking &amp;quot;Is this &lt;em&gt;I Am Mother&lt;/em&gt; (2019)...&amp;quot;?  I noticed this sometime later and graciously (ok, maybe a little sarcastically) commented that he was welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;my comments were getting upvotes throughout the day (for what its worth), but when i looked the next day, &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; comments were removed.  Why in the world would my first answer suggestion be removed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I let it go.  I realize there are people who value rep points to an extreme degree (and it turned out to be right has got him 21 pts so far), though I think for most people, this isn't the case.  But then today I happened to notice I got a -1 pt rep for that question.  How is this possible for a question I didn't answer officially AND had the first correct answer in a comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="123672" LastActivityDate="2024-02-22T18:01:16.003" Title="How did I lose a point of rep in this situation?" Tags="|discussion|reputation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14053" CreationDate="2024-02-22T17:55:46.020" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since you don't have an answer posted, the obvious conclusion is that you downvoted LogicDictates' answer. Downvoting answers &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/15863/why-do-you-lose-reputation-for-downvoting-answers&quot;&gt;incurs a small rep cost&lt;/a&gt; to prevent frivolous use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question also has a downvote, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/90324/should-downvotes-on-questions-be-free&quot;&gt;downvotes on questions are free&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why your answer-as-a-comment was deleted, it's likely this happened because it was no longer needed given there is now an answer to the question that says the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're sour (or salty) about somebody taking your comment and turning it into an answer, then you should have posted it as an answer in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2024-02-22T18:01:16.003" LastActivityDate="2024-02-22T18:01:16.003" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14055" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-03-08T05:23:55.347" Score="24" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;Akira Toriyama, creator of &lt;em&gt;Dragon Ball&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68444060&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;died on March 1st, 2024&lt;/a&gt;, from an acute subdural hematoma. I can't say that I ever got terribly into &lt;em&gt;Dragon Ball&lt;/em&gt;, but he had a huge impact on &lt;em&gt;shonen&lt;/em&gt; anime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="2865" LastEditDate="2024-03-08T15:47:31.413" LastActivityDate="2024-03-13T22:35:17.117" Title="In Memoriam: Akira Toriyama" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14056" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-03-09T02:43:37.647" Score="14" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?556&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Brian Stableford&lt;/a&gt;, prolific author of over 70 novels (per &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Stableford&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;) recently passed away on February 25th.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I first discovered him with his 1982 novel &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?6704&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Journey to the Center&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  (In the trademark DAW yellow and inimitable cover.)  Other novels of mixed quality followed over the years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction has an &lt;a href=&quot;https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/stableford_brian_m&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;extensive article on him&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101407" LastActivityDate="2024-03-20T22:30:44.073" Title="In Memoriam: Brian Stableford" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14057" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14058" CreationDate="2024-03-11T13:11:31.727" Score="18" ViewCount="354" Body="&lt;p&gt;I ran across &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/286069/62709&quot;&gt;this Hot Network Question&lt;/a&gt; about Dune, and why the Dune universe folks don't use guns. As someone who never read the books, and has seen the Lynch movie (which also apparently never read the books), as well as Dune Part 1, I found the answer to be very useful. The dynamics at play there from the book didn't translate well into the movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is +15/-8 as of this writing. This comment under the question has 22 upvotes (now removed)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvoted because you haven't read the books, watched the movie, or done any minimal googling first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wow, that's a lot of work just to ask a basic question here. Moreover, it seems to fly in the face of numerous Meta discussions &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/7427/62709&quot;&gt;like this&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Originally, we closed such questions as &amp;quot;General Reference&amp;quot;, but we had a problem where we could never totally agree on what constituted &amp;quot;General Reference&amp;quot;. Almost any question can be answered via Google in just one search of the correct keywords. Closing every question that could be &amp;quot;easily&amp;quot; Googled would close more questions than we wanted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should note &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/116090/75435&quot;&gt;Movies.SE has the same question, without the community rejection&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site has been a go-to for me in asking less-than-common knowledge about the books. Punishing simple, but answerable questions doesn't make any sense here. As noted elsewhere, some of &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/25182/why-could-quirrell-tolerate-harrys-touch-at-the-beginning-of-philosophers-ston&quot;&gt;the best SFF questions&lt;/a&gt; could have been answered by reading the book or Googling, yet they got excellent answers that lots of people found helpful. Why set the bar so high?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62709" LastEditorUserId="82909" LastEditDate="2024-03-11T15:18:50.080" LastActivityDate="2024-03-15T20:24:54.017" Title="Why are we punishing simple questions for &quot;not doing research&quot;?" Tags="|discussion|scope|question-quality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14057" CreationDate="2024-03-12T00:30:14.223" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6YoHim.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;tool-tip for downvoting&lt;/a&gt; states that people can (nay, should) downvote when they feel that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;This question does not show any research effort;&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that Googling the question title would have immediately led them to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=Why%20do%20they%20fight%20with%20knives%20and%20not%20with%20assault%20rifles%20in%20Dune%3F&amp;amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a range of perfectly acceptable answers&lt;/a&gt;, a downvote would seem well merited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OP has clearly put zero effort into researching their own question before posting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note also that (in line with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3071/20774&quot;&gt;accepted policy&lt;/a&gt;) nobody is trying to &lt;em&gt;close&lt;/em&gt; this question, they are merely downvoting it, which is their absolute prerogative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditDate="2024-03-15T20:24:54.017" LastActivityDate="2024-03-15T20:24:54.017" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14055" CreationDate="2024-03-13T22:35:17.117" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;He's now moved onto the &lt;a href=&quot;https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/Other_World&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Other World&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/X998P.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/X998P.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21267" LastActivityDate="2024-03-13T22:35:17.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14062" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-03-21T15:51:13.903" Score="32" ViewCount="178" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/03/vernor-vinge-father-of-the-tech-singularity-has-died-at-age-79/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Vernor Vinge, father of the tech singularity, has died at age 79&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Wednesday, author David Brin announced that Vernor Vinge, sci-fi author, former professor, and father of the technological singularity concept, died from Parkinson's disease at age 79 on March 20, 2024, in La Jolla, California. The announcement came in a Facebook tribute where Brin wrote about Vinge's deep love for science and writing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;A titan in the literary genre that explores a limitless range of potential destinies, Vernor enthralled millions with tales of plausible tomorrows, made all the more vivid by his polymath masteries of language, drama, characters, and the implications of science,&amp;quot; wrote Brin in his post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a sci-fi author, Vinge won Hugo Awards for his novels A Fire Upon the Deep (1993), A Deepness in the Sky (2000), and Rainbows End (2007). He also won Hugos for novellas Fast Times at Fairmont High (2002) and The Cookie Monster (2004). As Mike Glyer's File 770 blog notes, Vinge's novella True Names (1981) is frequency cited as the first presentation of an in-depth look at the concept of &amp;quot;cyberspace.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vinge first coined the term &amp;quot;singularity&amp;quot; as related to technology in 1983, borrowed from the concept of a singularity in spacetime in physics. When discussing the creation of intelligences far greater than our own in an 1983 op-ed in OMNI magazine, Vinge wrote, &amp;quot;When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 1993, he expanded on the idea in an essay titled &amp;quot;The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23243" LastEditorUserId="125981" LastEditDate="2024-03-21T16:18:57.317" LastActivityDate="2024-03-21T16:18:57.317" Title="In Memoriam: Vernor Vinge" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14063" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2024-03-29T17:53:34.927" Score="12" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001283/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;One of the great character actors&lt;/a&gt; of the past half century has passes away.  While he had many memorable roles, my favorite was as one of the three main characters in &lt;em&gt;Enemy Mine&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/K6iKELaJ1ZQ?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I was composing this, trying to find the right clip, my boss heard the video playing in his office next door and came over to ask what I was watching.  I told him, and we reminisced about the film, which he had first seen (dubbed) as a student in the Soviet Union.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although it's not my favorite film, Gossett's performance in &lt;em&gt;An Officer and a Gentleman&lt;/em&gt; was impressive and universally acclaimed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/B2qfFSUaMrA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48874" LastActivityDate="2024-03-29T17:53:34.927" Title="In Memoriam: Louis Gossett Jr" Tags="|discussion|in-memoriam|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
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